Solomon's Child (Fairy Tail Fanfic)

Solomon's Child Part 15

The first thing that Lucy noticed when she regained consciousness was the fact that she was lying in some kind of fluid, her skin cold against the water while she could hear ripples gently rolling against her body.

The very next thing she noticed was that she regained consciousness at all, something that most wouldn't consider strange but most didn't try to consume an entire tower of Ethernano at one time while said tower was seconds away from exploding.

"Wha...what happened?" Lucy groaned as she rose from the water and tried to open her eyes, her eyesight feeling much more sensitive than normal. But as her mind started working again she noticed a few peculiarities. One was that she was able to sit up at all considering she should be in the middle of the ocean. Another was the fact that she could only feel slight ripples in the water where there should be massive waves crashing in to her body.

But all her questions were wiped from her mind the moment her eyesight returned and instead of finding herself in the middle of the ocean she instead was in the middle of a massive city. standing up Lucy couldn't help but feel like she was losing her mind with what she was seeing.

But the city was completely different from anything Lucy had ever seen before, even when comparing it to Crocus. All around her were towers that seemed to stretch into the sky farther than even the clouds that seemed to be constructed out of nothing but gold. Even the smaller buildings that were constructed in between them were impressive pieces of work, the way they were constructed completely eluding Lucy.

Is even the road made out of gold...oh wait...there isn't one. Lucy noticed as she looked at her feet to see that instead of the paved path she expected to see instead there appeared to be nothing but blue sky and a few white clouds blowing across it. Even stranger was that when Lucy tried to test the ground the moment her foot came into contact with the strange surface it rippled like waves on a calm pond. Something that even Lucy could tell was strange.

"Where exactly am I?...did I die? This most certainly isn't the Tower of Heaven so where..." Lucy thought out loud as she continued to examine her surroundings, the pit of her stomach growing colder with each passing second. Not only was the city strange in its construction but Lucy had yet to see another living creature anywhere, not even a bird in the sky.

It was...like she was standing in the frozen but charred land that had once been both her home and her prison all over again.

"E-Erza? Simon...Natsu? Is anyone there?" Lucy shouted out, but other than her own echo received no answer. "Well it looks like I'm the only person here...but I should probably summon an Elemental just to be safe." She decided as she held out her silver bracer. "Oh ever flowing water, manifest your champion before me. Come forth Nyneve." She chanted, fully expecting her blue haired Elemental to all but pounce on her the moment she appeared.

But contrary to her wishes the water Elemental never showed up and in fact Lucy couldn't even feel her connection to the elemental plane anymore.

She was truly alone for the first time since she was forced to stand alone in her cell.

With fear slowly creeping through her mind Lucy once again surveyed her surroundings with a much more critical eye. It shouldn't be possible for Lucy to completely lose her connection to the Elemental plane. Even if she was dead, something that was starting to seem more and more plausible, Loke would still be able to show up...or more than likely Anzu would be the one to pick her up but an Elemental would still be able to find her. So if not even the beings that had existed since time began were able to reach her then where exactly had she ended up?

"Well...I guess I should start exploring then. I have to find a way back and let everyone know that I'm still alive." Lucy murmured sadly as she stared down at the place where her left arm had once been. "Although I can't exactly claim to be in once piece anymore."