"Laxus, I think it's hunting you!" Evergreen shouted from her spot by the creak, over a hundred yards away.

"Oh, yeah? What makes you say that?!" The blonde would normally scowl and roll his eyes at the declaration of something so obvious, but he was very focused on running away from the thing that chased him around at the moment, so there really wasn't enough time for that.

"Freed will you trap that thing already?!" The green haired mage tried his best to think of a way to trap the creature without trapping with it his beloved leader, but it was a bit difficult concentrating on that when he could see Laxus being chased by the Thing, which was being chased by Bickslow.

"Laxus, this way!"

He ran this way, and the Thing was trapped in a Rune cage, thrashing inside of it.

Now that they had time to look at it, the creature appeared to be partly humanoid. It had the figure of a woman and blonde hair, but that was about the end of it; the creature had silted pupils in blood red eyes, spike-like teeth that looked somewhat like those of a piranha, spikes sticking out of its arms, and very sharp looking claws.

"Damn… ever seen anything like it?" Bickslow's whisper was the first thing to break the silence as the group of mages observed the creature. It indeed followed the blonde with its eyes; when Laxus moved around the Rune cage, the creature moved with him to face him.

It made Laxus' skin crawl.

"What are we supposed to do with it now? It's obviously too dangerous to let loose, and we know nothing about it," Evergreen glanced at Freed, "Unless you read something about it in some book and can explain whatever it is."

Freed sighed and shook his head, "I'm afraid I know nothing of this creature, perhaps it would be best if we just... put it down. For the best interest of everyone, of course."

And so the hunter becomes the prey, Laxus thought before striking the creature with lightning. It wailed in agony and crumbled to the ground, but Laxus did not pause in his merciless attack.

Once the creature stopped moving, Laxus hit him one last time (just to be sure), but his lightning seemed to affect the creature differently this time, in a way it hasn't before.

The immobilized creature started glowing brightly, making the four mages to shift their gaze elsewhere. When they finally felt the light fade and looked back into the Rune cage, the creature was not there. Instead, a blonde female laid face down on the dirt, her limbs bruised badly, but there was no sign of the creature from earlier.

"Is this some kind of trick?"

Evergreen's eyes bulged out at the sight of the injured blonde. "Who cares? We need to get her out of the cage!" the brunette sprinted to her and rolled the blonde female onto her back.

She was dirty and bloody, but other than that one could think she was simply sleeping. Of course, once the three males broke out of their trance they rushed to help the Fairy mage.

Freed dispelled his Runes and kneeled next to the two girls, "She needs medical attention, now."

Laxus came closer as well, taking a better look of the blonde in his team mate's arms. "This feels like a trap, I don't like this; what happened to the creature?"

Shockingly enough, Bikslow supported him as the voice of reason this time, "I agree with Laxus, what if the creature is trying to deceive us?"

"And what if this is just an injured girl that needs medical attention?" Evergreen asked them, and by the defiance showing on her face he knew she would just help the girl, not caring what his opinion about that was.

"Well I'm not going to risk an entire town because we brought something we can't control for help," he told her.

Freed perked up then, "I can find out if the girl is human or not."

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Laxus wasn't sure how, but he managed to teleport all five of them in one go to the closest village, and he wasn't going to tell anyone about that obviously.

They were lucky enough that one of the villagers was a healer because Laxus didn't think he could teleport even himself to any distance longer than a mile.

What he was really confused about though, was why they had to stay and wait for the blonde to wake up?

The zodiac keys they found on her implied that she was a mage herself and could therefore take care of herself, and if she wasn't a mage, she was either strong enough to take the keys from the mage they originally belonged to, or she was friends with someone that trusted her enough to give her their magic items, which meant someone would come and look for her.

But his team didn't listen to a word he said, so now he had a sore neck from trying to nap in one of those stiff chairs, but even his nap was interrupted now; the blonde girl woke up.

She groaned and Evergreen rushed to her side. Her eyes were unfocused and her breath was shallow, the blonde girl looked around in confusion.

Lucy's return to the land of the living was an unpleasant one, to say the least. Everything hurt; even her eyelids, and she had no idea where she was, or who were the people in the room with her.

It hurt to breath, her throat felt like sandpaper. Everything was still a bit blurry, but then Lucy felt something pressing to her chapped lips and then cool water were flowing into her mouth and her throat felt much better.

She had no recollection of what happened or how she got to what was apparently an infirmary, but she didn't really care. Lucy needed to get back on her feet and cover her tracks.

Actually, when Lucy's mind finally got into gear again, she realized what she really needed were her keys and clothes, although maybe not in that order.

A quick scan of the room showed her that three of the four people present in the room looked at her with matching concerned expressions, but the fourth guy, a muscular, blonde guy with a scar over his right eye, he looked bored and irritated; unfortunately, her keys and clothes were nowhere in sight.

Well, time to work on getting out of here she thought. "Where are my keys?" Lucy croaked, her voice raspy and she grimaced; she sounded like a pedophile.

The big blonde smirked. His hands were both in the pockets of his fur lined white coat, but when he pulled his right hand out; his long fingers were wrapped around her key ring.

Lucy's mouth opened and she had a very bad feeling about how this whole mess was going to end. "Do you know what they are?" She asked him in a whisper.

He smirked down at her, "Yes, I do. Now here's what is going to happen now; you are going to tell us everything we want to know, namely who you are, what you were doing in the forest, what you know about the creature we saw there that chased after me, what happened to you, and only after you tell us all of that, you'll get the keys back."

Lucy glared at the blonde, his condescending smirk made her want to punch him so bad, but she had a feeling his friends won't approve; and besides, she wasn't in a good enough condition to start punching people randomly.

"I'm not telling you shit. Where's the rest of my stuff? I want them back."

Laxus wanted to strangle the tiny blonde. He knew how much Holder Mages depended on their magical items, how could she act so nonchalantly when her keys were?

Nevertheless, he nodded to Freed, whom pulled her clothes from a bedside table and handed the worn clothes to the blonde in the hospital gown. All four guild mages averted their gaze when she changed right there in front of them.

She still didn't have a lot of strength, and her condition wasn't of importance to her, because she just hopped off the bed, and after wobbling for thirty seconds or so, she walked straight up to Laxus with determination written on her face.

"I want my keys back… please," she gritted her teeth over the last word.

"I think I'm going to keep them for a bit until you decide to cooperate." He dangled the key ring high above her head tauntingly.

"The creature is called Kinpamus, it preys on blondes." She snapped, "Are you going to be a fucking asshole forever or are you going to be considerate of an injured girl and give me back my fucking keys?!"

"I already told you I'm holding on to them until you tell me everything I want to know," Laxus' eyes swept over her once more, "Will you sit the fuck down already? You're going to collapse any minute now!"

She ignored him, but took another sip of water. "The creature in the forest is called Kinpamus, it's a spirit with a… well, there isn't a nice way to say it - it has a blonde fetish." The girl looked somewhat embarrassed to say it, and truthfully, Laxus felt slightly self-conscious at that moment as well.

"… A blonde fetish?"

Now Lucy was really blushing. "Yep; the Kinpamus feeds on the flesh of blonde men, but it takes the bodies of blonde females as host until the host's body dies, or until they are separated; in the case of separation between the host and the spirit, the Kinpamus dies." She looked at the four of them as she considered her own words, "I guess I should thank you then."

"Answer the rest of my questions," Laxus instructed her.

Lucy was absolutely furious; first, she ran into twenty fucking Vulcans, then she was possessed by a stupid spirit with a blonde fetish only seconds after she dealt with all the damned Vulcans, now she wakes up injured to a bossy blonde and his silly groupies, and to top it all off the retarded blonde has her keys and refuses to give them back!

"Listen you moronic jerkoff, I am not in the mood for your stupid questions, nor will I ever be for that matter, so if you would just be a good boy and give me my keys back before you drop them like the idiot you appear to be." She threw the water from her glass at him in anger. Most of the water didn't even hit his face, most of it ended up on the floor so now he was standing in a puddle of water.

The Celestial mage thought in her head that if the scarred blonde was a cartoon, steam would shoot out of his ears, his face red, and all the water that stayed on him would vaporize because he would be 'fuming'.

Honestly he reminded her of Aquarius in that moment; oh, how she wished she had her keys with her at that moment, not that they would have helped her much at that moment, but still.

Speaking of Aquarius… the injured blonde smirked internally. "Seriously though, be a douche all you want, but don't drop my keys, okay?"

Laxus would be the first one to say that he had problems with authority – he just couldn't handle being told what to do. He would do exactly the opposite of what he was told, especially when it came from people he deemed inferior to him, like the girl before him.

"Oh, and what will happen if I will? As long as you don't hold them, they're just keys."

Lucy glared at his taunting expression; just push him a little bit more… "They're important to me! We went over it already, these keys are not just keys, so don't you dare to disrespect my spirits by dropping their keys!" she raised her voice. C'mon you arrogant fuck, take the bait…!

"Laxus…" the green haired man looked at the two blondes in a calculating manner, his hand on his sheathed sword.

Lucy snorted, "Are you going to let your boyfriend protect you now? Pathetic." The dangerous looks she got from all four strangers put her on edge, maybe she went too far?

"Listen here girly, if I were you, I'll watch my mouth." Laxus' patience was about to run out, and he didn't have much to begin with. "It would be a shame if I accidentally squashed your little keys." He sneered with an evil smirk.

Lucy's fists clenched, "Like hell you will!" the younger blonde's patience wasn't much better. Actually, hers was much worse, and she needed to vent – and if she could use that for Plan B who'd blame her?

She kicked his balls.

And it hurt a lot. Laxus tensed completely for a moment before his whole body seemed to shrink into itself, his hand letting go of the key ring to grab his crotch.

With a triumphant smile she snatched the keys before they touched the ground (it would be a shame if Aquarius killed her after all of this), and called out Taurus. "Get us out of here!"

"Anything for your hooooot body~!"

And then she was gone.

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OMFG I CAN'T BELIEVE I FINISHED IT!

I mean, I'm planning this chapter for months now, but I finally posted it! Between winter finals, endless chemistry reports, Literature and Bible Studies (mandatory), I didn't get the chance to finish this chapter, and unlike the rest of the prompts, I didn't write this one in my notebook in class so it took me even longer...

But that's all irrelevant, the important part is that this is only the first chapter of a Lalu multi chapter! I'm posting these two at the same time so go check it out please :) the reason I'm doing it like this is that only the first chapter is focused on the last prompt Prey, and also because there won't be Lalu for quite a while but it'll be special alright XD

I want to thank anyone that reviewed and followed and favorited, you were my motivation to finish this, and you made me feel better about my writing than I ever did before (which is why I never posted anything before). I also want to thank Maiokoe (she's amazing, read her fics) for helping me with titles, moral support, lack of inspiration, and advice every now and then.

Thanks for everything, thanks to all of you this was a lot of fun!

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