(1st Person POV)

"Hah! We're finally here! Now let's get this done quick!" Lucy said in glee.

"This is too boring...why couldn't we pick something else?" Natsu whined.

"Because the reward on here is too good to ignore! We're lucky that we were the first one to contact the client, otherwise other guilds would already have this!" Lucy lectured. She shook her fist in determination, stars gleaming in her eyes. "With this, I'll be able to pay my rent for the rest of the year, and even have left over for myself to use!"

"I think I'll be able to buy lots of fish once we get this done!" Happy cheered.

"I'd rather pummel some things with my hands! Ain't that right, New Guy?!" Natsu asked, looking back at me.

"Sure...though it'll be too easy for me." I said with a smirk.

We'd been travelling for quite some time after getting off the train station this morning. It was a bit past noon at the moment, and we'd just arrive at a temple in the middle of a forest.

Reason why Lucy was so hellbent on taking this mission was finding some kind of lost treasure. She showed the flyer of the job, and someone was actually willing to pay ten million Jewels for it. It said an artifact that was supposedly deep underground a temple built by the people that were present in Fiore way back then.

Erza looked at it, and figured we should all go help out...despite my pleas on not taking it, thinking it was too casual.

A punch in the face from Erza shut me up. How did she find the strength…?

So Gray, Wendy and Carla was informed and agreed nonetheless, though there was a bit of convincing towards Gray's part as well, and after seeing the reward, he anxiously accepted.

"I do agree with Lucy, we were lucky to be the first ones to take it." Erza said.

"Clam it flame-brain...you might not appreciate the money, but some of us do. Might as well take your cut from it." Gray chided as he crossed his arms.

"Ah! You can't, Gray! Then how will I get my fish?!" Happy exasperatedly whined.

"Always with you on fish…" Carla sighed.

"I'm still surprised the client is going to pay us this much." Wendy commented.

"I say we shouldn't think about it too much. Instead, we should focus on finding it as soon as possible!" Lucy said as she went ahead inside the temple, and the rest of us followed.

When we entered the ruined, mossy building, the first thing that caught our eyes were the texts that were inscribed on the wall at the far end of the room we arrived in. Natsu thought ahead and lit his hand on fire, lighting up the area around us.

I looked around the bare room, seeing nothing else but the walls and pillars.

"Are you sure this is the right place?" Gray asked.

"It should be…" Lucy said while she paced around, sweating a bit.

"Maybe that has some significance…" Carla said, pointing towards the written wall.

Upon taking a closer inspection, I saw that the text were outlined and brought out from the wall, feeling bumpy when I traced a hand over them.

"If I didn't know any better, we might be in for some kind of puzzle." I said.

"Great...I knew it might have been too easy…" Lucy said, sulking.

"Can't you just break the wall or something so we can get through?" Natsu asked behind me.

"Absolutely not!" Lucy screeched. "Do you even see how fragile this entire thing is?! Do you want us to cave in?!"

"She's right Natsu, one punch from me and this whole thing can come collapsing. I wouldn't want to risk it if what the description on the flyer said is true, that our goal is under us." I said as I turned to look around some more.

I took to the air, going to the far left corner of the wall with the text, roaming my hands over it.

"What are you doing?" Happy asked, flying up to me.

"I'm gonna see if there's some kind of button...maybe then something might happen." I said, feeling each of the foreign words. "Maybe you can help."

"Aye! That, I can do!" Happy said with a salute, and flew back down to the others, probably telling them what I was currently doing.

I was right in my assumption when Erza flew up next after to me after a few minutes and saw that the others were doing the same down below.

"What made you think this might be the case?" Erza asked as she started to feel the wall just how I was doing.

"Back on Earth I read books from Chronoa's library on a lot of things, including something like this. If there's some kind of system the people back then put in this, then we might get somewhere." I explained, floating down a bit as I finished a section of a wall.

"I see, better than nothing I suppose." Erza said with a nod.

I glanced to the side to see Happy and Carla at the same height in the air as Erza and I, doing the same thing we were at the other far side of the text-filled wall. When I looked down, Natsu, Gray, Lucy and Wendy were also trying there best to find anything unusual on the wall. Though Lucy was doing it much more quicker than the rest of us.

After some time of observing the upper part of the wall, I relented and dropped back down on the ground with a sigh after feeling my fingertips being chastised a bit from the rough wall. I still watched the others who were still trying to figure out if there was anything to discover on the wall.

"Maybe it doesn't work here…" I muttered as continued to look at the wall.

"Maybe we should have brought Levy here…" Lucy said with a sigh.

"Well we wouldn't know that there'd be this type of thing blocking our way." Gray said, standing back to take a look at the wall.

"That's it! I'm punching my way through!" Natsu exclaimed, lighting his hands on fire.

"Natsu, wait!" Lucy shouted at him, but was too late as he shouted, and his fist collided against the rock.

There was rumbling inside the room with bits of rocks falling on the floor from the ceiling. Nothing unusual happened when Natsu attacked.

"Alright, let's try one more! With even more force!" Natsu grinned as he cracked his knuckles again. He hooked back an arm before Lucy ran up to him, desperately holding onto him.

"You're not pulling that stunt again!"

"Look!" Wendy's voice reach their ears as they looked at her for a second to see her pointing up, and they followed her eyes to see an opening in the wall.

"Did I do that?" Natsu questioned.

"Aye! You probably did!" Happy said, flying over to him.

I flew up to the hole in the wall and met up with Erza who was already observing the damage.

"There's a breeze coming from the other side…" Erza said.

"Huh, how bout that. Natsu, good work." I said, praising him from above.

"Thanks!" I heard him say down below.

I looked closer to only see darkness from the other side of the wall. Looking around, I hummed in curiosity, seeing that there's a slight opening between the wall and the ceiling.

"I guess this Was a door...either we're not looking hard enough or there's something else to opening it." I said.

"How are we supposed to go to the other side then?" Erza asked.

"Well…" I grabbed onto part of the edge of the wall from the hole that was made, and I pulled my hand back, easily breaking apart some of the stone. "I could just keep doing this."

"Then…" I saw Erza grab onto the edge on her side, and she pulled...not budging.

I gave a sheepish expression at her. "Erza, you can just leave this to me…"

"Don't underestimate me...Yusuke…" Erza said with gritted teeth as she kept pulling.

All of a sudden, a large chunk of the wall cracked, and broke apart, and she started to fall down with it. Erza comically gasped, realizing what was going on halfway through falling to the ground.

I sighed and instantly went down, grabbing ahold of the large piece of rock. Erza was still holding onto it for dear life...I guess suddenly falling kind of shocked her that she stopped flying.

I slowly flew back down while still having the piece of the wall in my grip still, and when i reached the floor, I gently set the piece of rock down on the ground, and I looked over to Erza, who was dusting off her skirt.

"You uh...alright?" I asked with a small grin.

"Of course." She replied, crossing her arms. I grinned sheepishly at until I looked over at the wall. The entrance was considerably larger, meeting just at the midpoint of the wall.

"I'll keep on chipping it away so we can all get through." I said, flying back up to the wall, and I continued to break apart the path so that the others can get through without having to climb over.

That is, until an idea struck me.

With a smirk, I outstretched and arm and aimed my index and middle finger towards the wall while my other fingers were closed in. I let out my Ki, and a bright blade came out of my fingertips and pierced the wall. I lowered my hand, easily cutting the stone like butter. When my attack reached the ground, I relaxed my Ki as the blade disappeared, then moved my hand next to the cut I made, and my Ki shot out again, cutting another part of the wall.

When I finished with that side, I went to cut the other side of the wall as well, and when I did, I saw the pieces wobble just the slightest.

Flying back over, I pulled the walls down easily, away from the rest of it still standing, and gently setting it down nearby so that the temple wouldn't risk shaking anymore. When I looked back, a large entrance was now made for everyone to walk through.

"Alright, done." I announced.

"Great! Now let's go find that treasure!" Lucy suddenly said as she went sprinting in.

"Wait, Lucy!" Happy called, flying after her, and he glanced back at the group. "Natsu, c'mon!"

"Right behind ya buddy!" Natsu ran in after his friend.

"There they go…" I commented as I looked into the entrance.

"We shouldn't lose them...we still don't know what traps this temple might hold." Erza said as she went further inside at a brisk pace, and the rest of us followed right behind her.

"It's dark…" Wendy timidly said.

"Just like Natsu to not be with us when we need him…" Gray said with a sigh.

"I guess that's where I come in." I said as I brought up a hand, and a glowing ball of Ki floated above my palm, illuminating the area around us.

"Now this is much better than that hooligan's flames." Carla commented.

It wasn't long until we made a few steps more that we heard screaming.

"AAAAHH!"

"That was Lucy!" Erza shouted, and started running.

"Erza, wait up!" I shouted behind her.

We all arrived in front of a large hole... that didn't seem to have a bottom from our perspective.

"Natsu! Lucy! Happy!" Gray called out.

"They're all the way down there…" Erza muttered.

"Great…" I sighed, who knew how deep this hole was. Luckily, I could sense the three of them below. "Let me go down first and see how they are. Erza, when you feel my power rise, then the rest of you can come, alright?"

"Right." Erza nodded.

The ball of Ki in my hands disappeared, and I jumped down, releasing my Ki so that it glowed brightly around me. I continued traveling down...and down...and down-My god how far does this reach? I'm surprised I'm still able to sense them down here. They must've had a soft landing.

I saw the way below me curving in a direction, so I turned my body to maneuver myself through the tunnel, twisting and turning in several directions...I noted that it might be confusing for the others to reach us, but it should just be one way down, so I let it slide.

I managed to see dim light ahead, and reached out of it a second later with my speed. I gasped to myself, looking around at a spacious area of a small field with little cracks of light coming from above, and had a stone hill in the far end of the cave with a shrine embedded into a wall. There I saw Lucy with her back turned, standing atop of the hill where I could vaguely spot a stone pedestal in front of her.

I landed on the slope of the hill and walked up to her.

"Lucy." I called out, and she turned around to face me.

"Yusuke. Hey, look! This must be it!" Lucy exclaimed, holding the artifact. I squinted my eyes up a bit to see it was a rusty metallic and moss covered tutan mask.

"Are you sure that's it? Also, wasn't Natsu and Happy with you?" I asked as I stepped onto a stone. However, the moment I did, the surrounding area around both of us lit up in a bright light.

I snapped my body around to see the wall of light getting brighter and brighter, and I had no choice but to close my eyes to protect it.

I fluttered my eyes open, and shook my head, feeling it throb. My vision blurred and I rubbed my eyes with both of my hands. Though the moment I did, I felt weight drop, and pain shot up from my foot.

"Ow!" I winced, bringing my foot up to rub the pain out of it...and saw the tutan mask on the ground. I blinked...wasn't the mask over with Lucy?

I looked at my leg...where the hell were my pants? And I know for a fact that I wasn't wearing sandals before…

In fact, why is my leg this smooth?!

"What the…" I instantly brought a hand to my throat...what the hell happened to my voice?!

"I guess nothing happened..."

What...

I looked up...hearing my own voice.

...What the hell?

I saw myself, looking around confusingly. I looked around this time...and I looked at myself.

Oh hell no.

This can't be happening.

Not again...!

"Lucy!" I shouted, and I saw my own body reacted, instantly turned around. I saw my body's eyes widening.

"Huh…? What's going on?" 'Lucy' asked.

"I'll tell you what's going on!" I screamed. "We've switched bodies!"

There was a moment of silence.

"Eh?!"

All of a sudden, we heard sounds coming from out of the ground, and the both of us saw multiple skeletal arms protruding from below.

"Eek!" 'Lucy' yelped, taking a step back. I heavily sweatdropped...seeing myself like that...god I'm pathetic.

I gritted my teeth and growled, extending an arm out, wanting to shoot out a Ki wave. I silently gasp, not feeling anything at all...the moment that I was in a different body left my mind for a second.

"Damn it, I can't use my energy!" I balled my hands in frustration.

"Pass me my keys!" Lucy shouted. I looked over to her then at my hips, seeing a pouch. I unhooked it from the shorts I currently wore and threw it at my body.

I saw Lucy opening it up and pulling out a golden key.

"Open, Gate of the Golden Bull, Taurus!" Lucy chanted.

But nothing happened, and she looked at it confusingly.

"W-What?"

"My body doesn't have magic, that's why it isn't working…" I said, walking up to her and grabbing the key out of my body's hands.

OPEN! GATE OF THE GOLDEN BULL: TAURUS!

I felt a pull within me, and there was a shine on the key. After a bright light appeared, Taurus appeared in front of us, and came charging at me.

"Moo! Lucy, looking fine as always!" Taurus announced, crushing me into a hug.

"G-Get the hell off me you damn cow!" I screamed through teeth.

"Your breasts feels so nice!" The spirit commented, and I felt my anger rising.

"T-Taurus, now isn't the time! Go take care of them!" 'Lucy' said as she pointed my body down at the coming skeletons. I managed to peek over the cow's shoulder...did they always have those swords?

"Moo! Who are you telling me what to do?" Taurus said as he turned his head to face my body.

"Long story short, Lucy and I switched bodies! If you're not gonna listen to her then listen to me! Let me go right now, and go on a rampage down there!" I screeched to the top of my lungs.

"Moo! As you wish!" Taurus announced, dropping me and he went down the hill, swinging his large axe around.

"S-Sorry!" Lucy said as she came up to me.

"Let's not worry about this whole thing now. Let me see your keys." I asked, and she handed me her pouch. I looked inside, not sure which one is which. "What key is Loke's? I think it's better to have him out here than him…" I said, glancing down at Taurus who kept attacking at the skeletons...who wasn't doing a bad job at all actually.

"You can't! My magic will only be able to keep up with one spirit at a time out here!" Lucy lightly scolded.

"Tch...great. Well I don't want to stand here doing nothing."

"I do have a whip…" Lucy said, pointing down at my waist and I saw her weapon on the right side of her body was the handle of her whip. I remember seeing her using it briefly. but I got no experience in that whatsoever though!

"You know how to release your magic, right?" I asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Try doing the same, despite my body having no magic. It should power you up, and it'll alert Erza above us to come help."

"O-Oh, well, I...can try…?" Lucy unsurely said.

"It should be easy...I think." I said, and I went and gripped the whip's handle. Having the mindset of knowing how to use Ki, I tried doing the same in Lucy's body, and felt power within me well up as I concentrated. Bright, solid water came sprouting out of of the handle with orange light wrapping itself entirely on the watery rope.

"Wow, you actually got it!" Lucy said with praise and surprise in her voice.

"When you train in Ki for so long, it's a familiar feeling." I said as I looked to the side. There were more skeletons climbing up the hill from either sides where Taurus was engaging them at. "Keep trying to power up so that the others will get here quickly. If I could use magic with your body then you should be able to bring out Ki in my body."

"R-Right..." Lucy stammered as my body took a step back, and I saw her look down with furrowed eyebrows in concentration.

I looked back towards the oncoming skeletons, and narrowed my eyes. It sucked, I don't want to risk damaging Lucy's body by just going in there punching away...it really wasn't her style…

When I saw the skeletons coming close enough, I threw the whip behind me and back down in front of me, breaking one of them.

"Oh, c'mon...that's it?" I uttered irritatingly.

I felt large winds behind me, and glanced over to see my body emitting a bright aura. I could see the concentrated and strained look on Lucy's face. I was kind of impressed, she did it. Now it was only a matter of time to hold out before the others come.

"Whoa! I feel awesome!" I heard Lucy exclaimed.

"I don't…" I muttered with a sweatdrop. I growled and swung the whip sideways, knocking down several more skeletons that had made their way up. "If you can try and figure out how to fire off all of that energy, now's a good time!"

A few moments later as I kept observing the climbing skeletons, I large bright Ki wave rushed past me, and down towards the skeletons as the whole group of them were destroyed. I stood my ground as the cave shook violently.

"Too much power!" I shouted at Lucy.

"S-Sorry!"

I looked back in front of me only to hear more rubble, and more of the floor shaking beneath me.

"What are you doing?!" I shouted back at her.

"That wasn't me!" She retorted.

FIRE DRAGON'S WING SLASH!

I saw ropes of fire just up ahead, and ran to see Natsu on a rampage, similar to how Taurus was doing, only more destructive.

"Natsu!" Lucy said in glee.

"Anymore tremors and this whole cave might come falling apart…!"

"Lucy! Yusuke! You're alright!" I looked up to see Happy flying over to us, and coming towards me...hugging me where Lucy's breasts were. I grew irritated and yanked him off.

"Happy, right now, I am not who you think I am." I slowly said through my teeth.

"Eh? Lucy, what are you talking about?"

"Because I'm not Lucy right now!" I shoved Happy in front of my body's face, and Lucy gave a sheepish chuckle. "This! Is Lucy at the moment!"

"But that's Yusuke." Happy commented.

"No Happy...it's me…" Lucy said with a sigh.

"Because this damn mask probably had something to do with it…" I said as I looked at the artifact just laying on the ground.

"Eh?! What happened?!" Happy cried out as he looked at me.

"I don't know, I went to go find the three of you after Lucy ran inside, and I saw her here. Then this whole thing happened!" I explained.

We all heard Natsu scream again as a widespread of his flames covered a majority of the cave, taking in almost all of the skeletons and destroying them. A moment later, his flames disappeared, and he was seen in the middle.

With all of the skeletons gone on his end, he came running up the hill, meeting with us. At the same time, Taurus came walking up, and I glanced over to see that all of the skeletons were gone at his side.

"Taurus, you can go back." I instructed.

"Moo! Not even a thanks, Lucy?" Taurus whined.

"I told you, I'm not Lucy at the moment! Now go back!" I yelled. Waving me off, the celestial spirit vanished in a sparkling light, making me buckle my knees for a moment, feeling power wear off within me.

"What are you talking about Lucy?" Natsu asked, suddenly next to me and I jumped.

"Geez, a warning next time when you're that close…" I said, scowling at him.

"Natsu, Lucy says that she's inside Yusuke's body now!" Happy said, pointing a finger at my body.

"Huh? What do you mean? She's right there." Natsu asked confusingly, pointing at me.

"Natsu, I'm in Lucy's body right now…" This time, I pointed finger at my body. "Lucy is in my body...it's like our minds switched with each other right now."

I saw Natsu tilt his head, and he crossed his arms, eyes squinting in thought.

"Hmm…" The dragonslayer hummed.

"Forget it. When Erza and the others come we're getting the hell out of here with that mask. It's probably what the client asked for…" I gritted my teeth in irritation. "And you're sure as hell I'm getting answers from him."

"Everyone!"

We all turned our heads to the voice of Wendy and saw her being supported by Carla, making their way towards us with Erza next to her holding Gray under his arms, though he dropped down at the base of the hill we were on when close enough, and they all made their way up towards us.

"You found them." Erza said, going over to my body.

"Huh? Me?" Lucy asked.

"Erza." I called out, and she looked over at me, and I pointed a finger at myself. "I'm over here…"

"Lucy? What is it?" Erza questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Erza, that isn't Lucy! It's Yusuke!" Happy said as he landed on top of my head...I simply just let out a deadpanned groan.

"What?"

"It's because of this thing…" I said, lifting up the tutan mask. "The moment I found Lucy and came up to her is when this whole thing happened…"

"So...you two switched bodies?" Gray slowly asked.

"Yeah, we did."

"Is it temporary?" Erza asked.

"How should I know, Lucy was the one tinkering with this thing." I said, holding up the mask.

"Maybe something over here can help." Wendy said as she walked over to the shrine that was nearby. I walked over to her and saw a chest behind a small stone wall.

"What is this…" I muttered as I reached over to grab the chest. Blowing any dust away and wiping the top of it with a hand. It was old, and a bit moldy on the wooden body with a silver trim on the edges and corners of it.

I laid the chest on top of the stone platform in the shrine and opened the two golden locks. Raising the lid, I saw several scrolls all rolled up in a bunch inside the small space.

"Maybe we can solve yours and Lucy's problem with this." Wendy said as she peered over my arm to look inside, and I saw shadows move in front of me, knowing that the others are looking over my shoulders.

"Really?! What is it?!" Lucy eagerly asked.

"It's just a bunch of scrolls...maybe Levy can take a look at these back at the guild and try to fix everything." I answered while I stood up, carrying the box. I looked inside the shrine one last time to see nothing else but piles of leaves and sticks scattered. Knowing there was nothing else, I turned around to pick up the mask.

"So...what about the mission?" Gray asked.

"Forget the mission...if that client was looking for this then we're sure as hell not letting him take it." I said with a scowl.

"I agree...we cannot allow anything if this sort of power to go into public...we'll need to make sure as to why the client wishes to find this as well...if it is what he was looking for." Erza explained in thought as I saw her crossing her arms.

"We outta here then?" Natsu asked.

"That should be an obvious answer with our current situation...the sooner the better I say." Carla said.

"Aye! Carla you're so smart!" Happy complimented.

"Alright Let's go everyone!" Natsu shouted as he started running...though Erza stopped him by his scarf as he fell down on his back with an irritated look.

"You will stay close by...we do not want to be separated again…" Erza sighed.

"How are we going to get back up?" I asked.

"That's easy isn't it? We fly back up. There's eight of us, and half of us can do that." Gray said as a matter of fact.

"I mean, yeah but…" I looked over towards my body that Lucy was residing in. "Dunno if she has the mindset to be able to fly."

"I was able to sense you...was it Lucy who did it instead?" Erza asked.

"Yeah, she was. I was pretty surprised too…"

"Hey! I can do it no problem!" Lucy retorted.

"Okay...try it then." I challenged, feeling a small smirk coming up to my mouth.

Lucy said nothing, and shut her eyes hard in concentration...it pained me seeing myself like that...why did this have to happen?

I widened my eyes slightly to see Lucy easily floating up in the air with a surprised look on her face.

"Oh my god I'm flying! I'm really flying!" She exclaimed.

"How can I expect any less with my body?" I said as I rolled my eyes.

"Then let us get out of this temple right now." Erza stated.

Erza went ahead and took flight while carrying Gray, and the Exceeds went with their respectful partners, following after Erza. Just leaving with me and Lucy left, she went ahead and grabbed me by the waist as I carried the chest and mask in both of my arms, making sure they wouldn't fall off, and followed behind everyone else.

"U-Uhm...I...just wanted to say that I'm sorry…" Lucy said after a while.

"It's fine...not the first time it happened to me." I said with a sigh as I closed my eyes exasperatedly.

"Eh? What do you mean by that?"

"Don't worry about it...c'mon, you're losing speed."

"O-Oh...right."

Eventually after some traveling through some tunnels all the way back up to the surface we were familiar with, we all left back to the client.

Hey-oh, spinoff is launched! I had this idea from one of my reviewers suggesting it might have been fun seeing Yusuke and Lucy switch bodies for a day, but why not do it for a majority of this story! Thanks Alex!

Important thing to note, for those who is reading this by chance and is COMPLETELY NEW to me, then yes there WILL be confusion for those who have NOT read my story Fairy Tail Xenoverse (FTXV).

Really isn't much to say but once again as those who are familiar with back in Chapter 36 in FTXV, I'll be on this story for a while and then going back into FTXV to get the canon going. I wanted to take a break for a bit from that for awhile so that I wanna have fun with this. It won't be too long, at most, maybe around 30K-50K words total. Who knows, so it'll be relatively short. In my perspective at least.

Leave me a review on what you guys think so far!

Until Then.

Timestamp: July 12, 2016.