Lucy Reborn Chapter 4

Even as Lucy sucked in a breath, the Spirit Seeds pour out nearly 20 sparkles . Each! Lucy froze, as two beats later, the Seeds do it again . I'm breaking through? Lucy rubbed her chin . I haven't done anything that should prompt this, right? Lucy chooses to leave her inner sky . Her inner sky and the Spirit Seeds were saturated with Primal essence . Even if she shoved, the Seeds wouldn't absorb any more . Once she was done breaking through, the Seed would stop throwing out sparkles . Then she could bind the sparkles together, and move them into her Mental Sea . Poor Lucy never noticed her third Spirit Seed was tossing out sparkles as well, or that her inner sky wasn't expanding as it should when she broke through .

AdvertisementIn the end, it was the sharp pain that woke her . Lucy shifts, her body aching . Quickly, Lucy trances, and enters her inner sky . Lucy is forced to stop on the edge . Her inner sky was full to the brim, the sparkles so packed together that she couldn't even enter . Lucy watches with disbelief as her Spirit Seeds spit out another handful of sparkles, and the pain increases sharply . Her inner sky stretching, and a thin crack running through it . Why isn't it stopping? Lucy panics . It should stop when my inner sky is full!

Seeing the Seeds glow brighter, Lucy quickly grabs the closest sparkles and binds them . Since it was yellow, Lucy simply grabbed as many yellow sparkles as she could reach twisting them together, creating room in her inner sky for her to slip in . Grab . Twist . Grab . Twist . Grab . Twist . Grab . Twist .

Lucy runs out of yellow sparkles, the silver ones were crowded around, blocking her from reaching the loose yellow sparkles . Letting go of her giant yellow sparkle . Lucy grabs the nearest silver sparkles and twists them together . Grab . Twist . Grab . Twist . Grab . Twist .

In such a fashion, Lucy alternated between silver, and yellow sparkles binding all the lone sparkles of each color together . Lucy didn't notice the poor black sparkles . If Lucy paused, she might have . As it would happen, her luck was strong . A case of a blind cat stumbling over a dead mouse? As Lucy fused her silver, and yellow sparkles together . The neglected black sparkles bumped into each other, and as the pressure increased they began to bind together . Not as perfectly as if Lucy had done it, but enough to prevent her inner sky from cracking . Truly Lucy had unnatural luck!

If only Lucy had noticed, maybe she would have been able to rid herself of the sharp pain . As it was, the combined yellow, and silver sparkles grew so big, that they ran out of space in her inner sky . All three Spirit Seeds toss out more, and Lucy whimpers, as blood escapes from her mouth . What if this never stops?

No! Lucy shakes her head sharply . No! Lucy attempts to open her mental sea . Halfway through, Lucy lost focus and was shoved out abruptly . Lucy clenches her fist . If she let this continue her inner sky would split . No ifs, whats, about it . That way lay certain death .

Fiercely, Lucy squeezes the large yellow sparkle . Shrink damn it! Lucy is happily surprised as it compresses, the energy becoming denser and purer . Lucy sweatdropped as she used every bit of strength to make it as dense as possible . By the time, Lucy stops the yellow sparkle was 1/10 of the size it had been . In contrast, the silver sparkle looked unwieldily big and murky . Lucy begins to squeeze the silver sparkle, enjoying the way it became smaller and brighter . As the pain faded, Lucy calmed . Done compressing both sparkles, Lucy opens her mental sea, guiding the energy into their respective streams . Lucy frowns, noticing how murky, and dim the energy in her sparkle streams seemed in comparison to the compressed sparkles .

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