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Natsu and Lucy headed back to the latter's home. Happy was sleeping soundly in Lucy's arms. She cradled him like a baby. They reached the house.

Natsu started climbing up. "Come on, Lucy! Keep up with me!"

"I'm sure as hell not climbing up to my room!" Lucy yelled incredulously. "Can't you use the door like a normal person?"

But he had already reached and was inside her house. Lucy sighed and walked into her house. She opened the door and found Natsu sprawled on all fours on her couch.

Suddenly, she felt a change in the air. It hit her like a powerful wave. Happy woke up with a jerk, feeling the same thing Lucy did. Natsu jumped out of the couch and was aware of an eerie power all of a sudden. But they didn't see anything.

And then the room was covered in darkness in an instant.

Lucy couldn't see a thing.

"Lucy!" Happy shouted. "Stay close!"

"Who are you?" Lucy heard Natsu growl. She reached out with her arms, and thankfully felt Happy's soft fur. Natsu appeared beside her as he raised his flaming fist.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu yelled, charging at nothing but darkness. Lucy could feel the heat of his flames on her skin. "Show yourself if you're a man!"

"But I'm not a man," a quiet voice hissed from the darkness, making Lucy's skin crawl.

Natsu was getting irritated and was itching for a fight. He grinned. "I can see you."

Yelling "Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame", Natsu again charged at nothing.

Lucy brought out a golden key. "Open! Gate of the maiden! Virgo!"

The summoned maid appeared. "Is it time for punishment, Princess?"

"Can you get us out of here?"

"I shall do my best." And with that Virgo started to dig through the ground, but for some reason, she couldn't.

"I am unable to dig our way out of the shadows," Virgo mused.

"What?" Lucy asked, shocked. "But how?"

"This is some kind of a magical trap," Natsu replied. "But there's something else."

"Yes," Virgo agreed. "It seems that the trap is closing in on us from all sides."

"Thanks, Virgo, you can go now," Lucy told her, and she disappeared. Lucy got her magical whip, River of Stars, ready in her hands.

Finally, they saw a dark being materialize in front of them. She was a petite girl with long black hair. Her dark bangs covered her eyes.

"A little girl?" Lucy exclaimed.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!" Fire shot out from Natsu's mouth towards the girl at full speed, but she disappeared and reappeared behind them.

"Dark God's Bellow!" the girl yelled as a huge ball of shadows came out of her mouth. This little girl was a God Slayer!

Lucy quickly summoned Loke while Natsu countered the bellow with his roar. Loke helped Natsu by using Regulus Impact, one of his most powerful attacks.

The girl smiled as her bellow died out. "You are strong, but I'm not here for you."

Arms of shadows came forth and caught Lucy's legs and hands. Natsu, Loke and Happy shouted her name and rushed towards her, but it was too late. She was already engulfed by the shadows no matter how much she struggled to shake them away from herself. She felt her consciousness fade away.

When she opened her eyes, she found herself lying on the floor in her room, and Happy and Loke next to her. The girl and the darkness was gone. The sunlight coming from the window lit up her room. Everything around them was either charred or broken, or completely destroyed. But she didn't care about that.

Because she couldn't see Natsu anywhere.


The girl appeared from the shadows with someone lying unconscious next to her. She knelt down on one knee.

"I have brought him, my Lord," she said, bowing her head.

"Didn't he give you a hard time when you travelled through the shadows?" a deep, authoritative voice asked.

The girl looked at the unconscious boy next to her. "Not at all. He suffers from motion sickness."

The dark voice laughed, and then said, "Take him away."