Lucy was chatting with Mira at the Fairy Tail guild hall when Natsu came over with a new job request. It was his turn to pick and she knew he would choose the most dangerous job or the one that would force her to cosplay as a maid. But with that unpredictable dragon slayer, you never really know what kind of a mess he could get you into.

"Hey Luce!" he yelled, "how about this one, it should be able to keep up your rent for a while!" he walked over to her and showed her the request. The blondes eyes nearly popped out of her skull when she saw the reward for the job

"8,000,000 jewel?!" she screamed, if she had even 1/4 of that (which she would get when they brought Erza and Gray with them) it would be able to pay for her rent for over a year! then she looked at the actual job, knowing that if the client was willing to pay that much it was probably incredibly dangerous. But it turned out to just be a mission of taking down an S-Class mage, those jobs are usually tough, but no problem for Fairy Tail's strongest team! The next day they set out on the journey Erza trailed along behind with her usual wagon full of luggage. Happy was upset that Wendy and his crush Carla couldn't come, but Wendy was already on a job that included sweets, so she wasn't able to make it. They hoped on the train and of course, Natsu immediately got motion sick, and Erza socked him in the stomach to make him go to sleep. It took a few hours but they eventually made it to the forest. Natsu (Immediately better) jumped out of the train.

"His name was Zekiel right?" he said bouncing up and down, "Well I'm all fired up, lets get him!"

"I don't know where he gets all his energy from" Lucy said, exhausted.

"Hey Natsu!" jeered Gray, "Quit being such an idiot!" Natsu marched over to gray and pressed his forehead against Grays,

"You wanna go, Perverted Popsicle" he said angrily,

"Gladly, Hothead" he replied hate was fuming off both of them and they were about to start fighting when Erza shouted

"QUIT FIGHTING, YOU FOOLS!" and the fire and ice mage both made an "aye" imitation of happy and ran off, scared out of their wits. Lucy just sighed and followed them in irritation.

The group had been trekking through the woods for hours before they saw some foot prints, probably Zekiel's. they followed them until they came across a cave in which they saw a black haired man with a scar down his face and a staff with a blue crystal, along with a brown haired woman with a gun and blond man with a sword the moment the two sidekicks saw the wizards, they dashed off into the woods. Gray and Erza went after them. Erza after the blond man and gray after the woman. That left Natsu And Lucy to fight the last man who must be Zekiel.

"So these are the weaklings he sent after me this time" Zekiel murmured "pathetic." Even though the man seemed incredibly sickly and almost frail-looking Natsu and Lucy could both sense incredible magic power coming from him "Don't worry I'm a nice guy so ill make your deaths quick" he said darkly, grabbing the staff that was next to him and pointed it at him " lets see how long you can entertain me" he said smugly "Let the fun begin!"

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Meanwhile, deeper in the woods a certain scarlet-haired requip mage was chasing a blond man through the trees.

"Come back here!" she demanded angrily "Only a coward would dare turn his back on his enemy!" at these words the man skidded to a stop, reeled around on his heels, and looked at her murderously.

"what did you just call me" he spat

"a coward" Erza replied smugly, "because you are one."

at this the man lunged at the mage, she doged easily

"My name is Rin Karna and I'm no coward!" he cried lunging at her again, this time she needed to requip into her lightning empress armor to block the attack with her spear

"and I'm Tintania, pleasure to meet you" she said sarcastically, but then her spear cracked. she wasn't angry though, in fact she smiled. This might just be a worthy opponent!

xxx

On the other side of the woods gray was busy fighting the Burnett. She shot 6 bullets at him, but he was able to freeze them all

"Come on!" gray said agitated "You have to be better than that! I cant let the Flame-Brain have all the fun!"

the Burnett's green eyes flashed with anger, and then she began chanting

"weapons god i worship you

bring forth the power to,

INFINITE BULLETS"

Her gun began glowing green and gray was thoroughly confused, seeing the idiotic look on his face the girl smirked

"now your in trouble" she said, obviously pleased with herself

and he was.

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Natsu and Lucy were beginning to run low on magic power and they still had yet to make a scratch Zekiel. He used erase magic so every time they used an attack on him he just 'erased' the magic with his staff. So Lucy couldn't use her celestial spirits at all or they would be sent back to the spirit world immediately, then Natsu just started punching him, though the flames on his hands were erased he was still finally doing damage

"kick his butt Natsu!" Lucy cried out to him. then Natsu did one of the most idiotic things in the history of Natsu's idiotic things. He literally kicked his butt. Zekiel went flying through the air and landed face-first in the mud he looked up face covered and opened his eyes they were bright red and his veins were popping out

"NOW YOU'VE MADE ME MAD!" he roared slowly transforming into a beast with scales looking much like the crystal on his staff

"This is a take down spell if you didn't know" he snarled He knew the spell would take his own life and that he may or may not have been able to kill the brats in some other way but he didn't want to take that risk, he knew that they weren't unleashing their full power yet and that they'd be hard to beat "I could easily take you both to the afterlife with me, but i think ill leave one of you to suffer from the loss of a comrade" he said darkly as he looked at Natsu. but instead of charging at him, he turned around and grabbed Lucy by the shoulders, her eyes widened in fear.

"BEGONE!" He shouted and a white light began to envelope them.

"Lucy!" Natsu cried out tears forming in his eyes. Lucy just looked at him, confused and scared.

"N-Natsu?" was the last thing she said before the light completely swallowed her up

"LUCYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Natsu howeld, but all that remained was a crater along with the gate keys where the young celestial mage once was. Natsu grabbed at the nothingness that was once Lucy "how could i have been so stupid" Natsu thought tears streaming down his face "now shes gone and its all my fault"

"shes gone..." Natsu manged to choke out "Lucy..."

Authors Corner:

Fairytailfinatic: so what do you think (^3^)

Team Natsu: ...

Team Natsu: Wut

Fairytailfinatic: You don't like it (T_T)?

Natsu: What do you think?! you killed my Luce!

Erza/Gray: (0/0)

Lucy: (0/0) y-your Luce?

Natsu: N-Nothing

Happy: You liiiiiiiiiiike her

Natsu: DO NOT

Happy: do toooooooo...

Fairytaifinatic: you know this gives me an idea for the next chapter... (devilish grin)

Natsu/Lucy: HECK NO

Fairytailfinatic: heck yes... (grins even wider)

Anyway thanks for reading ill try to upload soon, please remember to rate and review!

-fairytailfinatic