Thank you the support on this story! I am so sorry for the wait on an update! Life came up and I had some writers block, so I hope you enjoy!

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02| FANGS

It didn't take long for Lucy to actually figure out there was more than something a little off about the brothers, but a huge thing off about them. They were faster, had better hearing and always had the eyes of a predator. After the night before with Karlheinz had shaken Lucy to the core, her whole body just telling her that she needed to get away, but she couldn't.

After everything she had been through with Fairy Tail, a guild that stood no more, you'd think she be smarter. Of course, she would walk right into something that couldn't comprehend- she was just having terrible luck.

"Oi, melons!" Ayato called for her, causing Lucy to grow visibly irritated.

"I told you I have a name!" Lucy snapped at the vampire. "It's Lucy!"

"Like that matters," Ayato muttered under his breath.

Lucy's hand twitched, itching to call out one of her spirits to take care of the pest named Ayato Sakamaki. She had yet had the chance to actually try to figure out an escape plan, seeing how the brother's never fully attended to leave her alone for a single second. Karlheinz had already taken off, leaving his six sons plus Yui here with her at the old Heartfilia Estate.

If Lucy was honest, the six Sakamaki's did not even act like brothers. They didn't act like how a family should. Just watching how coldly they spoke to one another, throwing insults here and there, Lucy couldn't help but think of the reasons why she left this lifestyle in the first place.

It was obvious that the Sakamaki family came from a name that held money and some type power, being noticeable in the way they held themselves with air like they were better than anyone else they came into contact with. They were, in ever sense, egotistical assholes that had nothing better to do than hurt others.

Which led to Yui, the other female Lucy had observed from afar. The platinum blonde girl was silent, obeying every little thing she was told. How the Sakakami's treated her was less than humane, often pulling her away into another room and she'd come back with a bandage on her neck. Lucy may have been blonde, but she not stupid.

Yet the way Yui held herself reminded Lucy of Wendy when she first met them all before stopping Nirvana, timid and unsure how to go about things. If Yui tried to stick up for herself, these brothers would not be able to walk over her. Then for a brief Lucy wondered how the blue haired dragon slayer was doing when thinking of her.

"I'm curious as to how this world works," Reiji said as he came into the parlor with a kettle of tea, successfully breaking Lucy from her train of thoughts. Where he got the tea kettle, she had no clue.

It had shocked her momentarily that these people weren't from this world, but she knew that there were other worlds. She'd been to one after all, which had been one crazy adventure with Natsu and Happy. Natsu and Happy. Lucy's heart fluttered and broke with the emptiness that she just couldn't shake no matter how much she tried.

"Well, as of now you are in the kingdom of Fiore." Lucy started as the rest of the brother's filed into the parlor- Laito pulling a tired looking Yui in, which was strange to Lucy. "You're standing in my childhood home, The Heartfilia Estate."

"We don't really care about that," Laito stated as he giggled, wrapping his arms around Lucy's waist. "What we care about the magic."

Lucy made a noise from the back of her throat, one mixed of discomfort and surprise by Laito's sudden close proximity. Her heartbeat picked up in speed, and she hated it. She didn't understand how they moved so fast and without a single sound because they didn't use magic but there was something clearly different about the six of them. Yui, on the other hand, was completely human, even Loki said so- but he had no clue about the brothers.

"Rude," Lucy muttered, earning a tighter squeeze from Laito. "Let go of me, please."

"At least this one has manners," Reiji muttered, glancing at Yui, who shrunk under his gaze. "Though, I expected nothing less of an heiress."

Lucy frowned at that, the reminder that she was an heiress. It was the reason her father always tried to sell her off into some arranged marriage in order to gain more wealth for himself, and it was the reason she left to Fairy Tail. Without another word, Lucy forced Laito to let her go by stepping on his foot hard, seeing as when she tried to gently push him off he wouldn't budge. Laito growled lowly, but Lucy was already on the other side of the room by taking a few long strides.

"This bitch," Laito muttered under his breath, pissed off that a human would treat him like nothing. "You need to know your place."

Lucy's body tensed at the tone of voice Laito had taken. It reminded her of the moment Future Rouge had tried to kill her, how he announced it. The low rumble mixed with aggressiveness and dictatorship. She could hear Ayato muttering about how the secret was out, or how the fact it was about time because he wanted to taste her. Grimincing, Lucy gripped Loke's key and pulled it out.

What secret Ayato was referring to was beyond Lucy's knowledge, only proving and confirming that there was indeed something they were keeping a secret. "Open, Gate of the Lion- Leo!" Lucy yelled out, key in the air and twisting as she pushed her magic energy into the summoning as Laito took a step towards her.

Not even a moment later was Loke there, glaring at Laito as the fedora-wearing vampire who dared step up to his master. The sensation itself was new to the six brothers, the rush of energy and light that emerged from Lucy- the magic. It was something they only knew in fairytales, but here in this world, it was all real.

"You called, Princess?" Loke asked despite knowing that Lucy felt threatened, otherwise she wouldn't have summoned him.

He could feel the darkness around the six males, and it unnerved the Celestial Spirit. There was something off about them, how they moved and how they looked. Before Loke could even comprehend, Laito was suddenly in front of him smirking mockingly. The way Laito eyes him, then Lucy, reminded him of a calculating predator- how they should go about an attack.

"Princess here deserves punishment." Laito purred, satisfaction growing as he saw Loke's body grow tense with anger and protectiveness. Yet the green eyed vampire knew how dangerous the magical being was in front of him, not because he possessed magical capabilities, but because of the look in his eyes that told the vampire, the spirit would do anything to keep Lucy safe. Even if it meant his life.

Lucy frowned, taking a step forward to call her star dress, but a look over the shoulder from Loke stopped her. The Celestial mage watched as her companion refocused on the other male, his expression dark, protective. The same way Natsu used to get when someone would threaten her, just like when Future Rogue killed her future self.

Natsu.

Lucy felt that dullness creep up in her chest, the numbness that reminded her of the void in her heart. She missed her best friend, but now was not the time to think of him. Not when Loke was about to defend her. From what, she wasn't exactly sure yet, but she didn't like how the other brothers seemed to circle them.

"Loke," Lucy called, gripping her whip and getting ready to jump into the fray.

"I know," Loke grunted, his first lighting up. "No one is going to touch Lucy! Regulus impact!"

Laito saw the move when it was coming for him, quick to move out of the blinding lights way. On the other hand, Ayato had already grabbed Lucy from around her waist and pulled her back rather rough with a hand clamped over her mouth. She made a noise of protest, thrashing wildly. After everything she has been through these past years, it wouldn't be this easy to just live normally.

"Oi!" Ayato yelled, releasing Lucy slightly. "You bit me!"

Lucy didn't answer, but instead reused a move from before and threw her head back to collide into Ayato's, causing her full release. The redhead growled lowly, glaring at the blonde who now faced him with defiance in her eyes.

It severely pissed Ayato off how this damn girl was defiant. She just didn't understand how much easier her life would be if she would just submit to them, to learn her rightful place of being below them. She was not a higher rank, maybe she was on par with status and higher than Yui because of her magic capabilities and known family name in this world. Yet she was still human, she was their pray.

"You and your damn brothers are attacking me!" Lucy yelled back, now back to back with Loke, whose attacks had all been avoided. Much to both of their surprise. Laito would disappear in literal thin air. "You didn't even hit one of them?"

"They aren't human." Loke finally conducted, because it was the only explanation he could come up with, otherwise, he would have landed a punch once or twice. "If they were, they couldn't move as fast as the way they are now unless they had air magic or something, but they don't possess magic abilities. At least none that I can detect."

Chuckles sounded from around them as the six brothers surrounded the Celestial mage and spirit. Lucy wasn't liking this at all, not one bit. All the hairs stood on her arm and the back of her neck, warning her of the dangers she was surrounded by. She felt at a loss, not exactly sure what she was up against. If they weren't human, didn't possess magic abilities, weren't demons and were from another world- then what the hell were they?

Loke grabbed Lucy in the nick of time to just barely dodge the fedora wearing vampire, the one Loke most defiantly did not want to touch his beloved master. Yet it hadn't mattered, because just as he dodged one, another lunged and grabbed Lucy's ankle, yanking her roughly towards the said person.

"Lucy!" Loke yelled, tackled by Laito who had taken advantaged of the spirit's distraction.

"You seem to forget you belong to us." Shuu's lazy reminder drifted in the air as Lucy looked up into the purple eyes of Kanato, who smiled at her just like Jackal.

Lucy was frozen, watching that smile that was the same crazed smile that took Aquarius away from her. Aquarius. Lucy closed her eyes, trying to suppress that memory. She might have defeated Jackal, but that didn't mean that she was perfectly okay. The memories still haunted her in her sleep, and the ache in her heart would never fully go away.

It didn't help that now she was in this predicament because of her father. Despite their past from before, after her mother died and Jude Heartfilia deciding to throw himself away in work and trying to marry Lucy off, and then in the end she forgave him when it was too late. Somehow the blonde celestial mage knew her father wouldn't want her in the arrangement as the man he had become in the end.

"Belong to you?" Lucy interjected, her eyebrows furrowing. "I understand that my father signed a contract that I had to marry one of you-"

"You signed the contract as well, Lucy Heartfilia." Reiji took a turn to cut her off, holding a stapled packet of paper out to Lucy, who knew all too well what it was.

Without uttering another word, Lucy took the thick contract into her hands and allowed her eyes to scan the words scarcely. Within a minute, Lucy flipped to the end to find what she was looking for. And there it was, her name scribbled in her five-year-old self-handwriting. It was handwriting she easily recognized as her own from re-reading all the birthday cards for years after her mother's death.

"You're really holding me against this?" Lucy softly asked with disbelief. "Surely we can disccuss this arrangement and come to different terms on how this shall end with everyone happy or atleast satisfied."

There was soft snickers from the brothers around the room. Yui, who stood away from everyone at a good distance, had watched the whole interaction. As relieved she was that she didn't have to burden these vampires alone anymore, she wouldn't wish it upon anyone else. Yet, somehow, Yui knew that Lucy was another sacrifical bride that was stuck and bound by a contracrt her father had made with a literal devil. There was no way the brothers would let Lucy go, not until she was dead.

"You may not be a normal human, but you still belong to us." Reiji continued, walking close enough to Lucy to grip her chin. "Didn't you say something about a Celestial Mage never breaking their promises or contracts?"

Lucy stared Reiji down saying nothing to confirm nor deny his words. It was true, every word he spoke. She was bound not only by her word and promise she signed away at the age of five but by her father's. How could she run when they could literally pop out of nowhere in thin air?

"Lucy," Loke called, gaining the blonde's attention. His eyes were rueful, full of dread and his body tense from both the fear and anxiety of safety for his master. "If you're bound by contract-"

"You're bound as well," Lucy confirmed, looking away. This was a pickle she never thought she would end up in. Hell, half the situations she ended up in where situations she never foresaw herself in. "You can go now, Loke."

"Lucy, are you sure?" Loke asked with uncertainty. He didn't want to leave her alone with these men who were more than capable of hurting the blonde stellar mage, yet there was also very little he could do to even help her at the moment.

Lucy's brown eyes met his, the uncertainty in them clear as day. She wasn't sure what to do herself, but they couldn't fight their way out of this one. Not when Lucy was bound by contract, and as much as she hated the circumstances, Lucy's word would be the death of her since she vowed herself never to break a promise.

If she felt alone before, this is what hell must feel like. That was what Lucy concluded at least because she did not want to risk her spirits in this. "Force gate close," Lucy whispered, watching ruefully as Loke disappeared with a golden glow.

A soft sigh left her lips, eyes closing for a single moment. She really didn't have anyone on her side anymore, just her celestial keys. Not that it mattered if Fairy Tail, or Erza, or Grey, Wendy, Carla, Happy, or even Natsu were here because it was signed in pen, a bound contract. There was no way out of this, she was more than sure because her father back then would have made sure to seal any loopholes she would find as she got older, and the Sakamaki's father was a man who would make sure this was seen through.

"I have a question Reiji-san." Lucy softly announced, opening her eyes to meet the cold crimson eyes of the second eldest brother. It bothered her, no matter how much she tried to ignore it. Lucy knew these brothers came from a world without magic, that they possessed none themselves- but then why could they move so fast?

"You may ask, Lucy," Reiji answered, having a good hunch what this question would be.

Lucy stood straight, holding herself confidently as she stared Reiji down. She kept reminding herself she had nothing to fear, she could hold her own if she really needed to like she did with Jackal. Yet the haunting voice at the back of her head would remind her that she hadn't fully held her own, she sacrificed Aquarius for the greater good- yet was it the greater good? She saved her family, yet they all left her in the end. Oh the irony.

"What are you?" Lucy inquired finally, trying to shake those dark thoughts from her mind.

"Are you sure you really want to know that, bitch-chan?" Laito dark purred, lips curling into a taunting smirk.

Lucy's brown eyes shifted to look at Laito with no amusement. "All my senses tell me you're not human, yet you aren't demons either."

"You've met demons in this world?" Reiji inquired, intrigued.

Lucy glanced at Reiji. "Yes, and my guild has defeated them." Yet they all lost so much in doing so, some more than others. Yet Lucy didn't want to dwell on that too much right now. Not when she had her own situation going on.

Only this time Lucy wouldn't have the help of her guildmates, her nakama had all gone their separate ways and the Fairy Tail guild was disbanded for reasons the blonde still couldn't quite grasp. Nothing less she was alone in this with her spirits, bound by contract from so many years ago to haunt her now.

Ayato suddenly appeared in front of her, Laito moving behind her grasping her neck in a firm hold while Ayato grabbed her chin to tilt her head up to stare down at her with predatory green eyes.

"We're worse than demons, melons." Ayato darkly purred in her ear, his warm breath sending shivers down her spine.

Lucy flinched when she felt something warm and wet sliding up her neck, freezing in her spot when she felt teeth graze against her skin. Instinctively she wanted to moan and to run away as far as she could. These men were in her personal space, honestly believing they owned her and could do whatever they could please with her.

"We're vampires." Laito giggled in her ear at the same moment Lucy's brown eyes found Yui's ruby orbs, in time sync with a sharp piercing pain in both sides of her neck.

"What?" Lucy whispered, looking down to see what was going on. Yet she couldn't when Laito's large hand wrapped around her long blonde ponytail, yanking it back. She yelled feeling a second sharp price, grunting and trying to squirm around.

"You both are highly disregarding everything." Reiji reprimanded. "Such activities are to be kept in the room."

Ayato pulled away, ignoring his elder brother with Laito, and starring Lucy in her confused brown eyes. She could see the red crimson dripping down his mouth, the sharp incisors protruding slightly over his bottom lips. His tongue darted out to lick up the remainder of her blood from his lips, smirking at her while she could literal heat Laito gulping.

"Your taste is something I could get addicted too, melons." His green eyes widen slightly. "Oi, Laito-"

Was the last thing Lucy heard as everything went black, distantly feeling Laito being ripped away from her and someone catching her.

"Na-tsu."

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I feel like this chapter was slow, but the next one will have more character interaction. I just had a difficult time with this one, but I hope you enjoyed.

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