"The witch?!" Lucy asks anxiously. No, it couldn't be. They just got here! Her grip tightens on Natsu's shoulders. "Pheh. Don't worry, Lucy. She won't go after you, not as long as I'm here." Natsu boasts. Lucy, feeling oddly comforted by this strange Dragon Slayer's words, relaxes her hold slightly. She leans her head forward and rests it briefly against Natsu's upper back with a silent prayer of 'Please don't let this be my end.' Before lifting her head to see a field with two figures standing not far away. But something isn't right...

"Hey you! Are you the evil witch who's been harming the villagers?" Natsu yells to the two apparent women. One of them, the older, turns and glares at the group as the stop a few feet from the two. Lucy's eyes go wide, for they have been stopped by a horrible thing.

An upside down pentacle. Made from blood with dark versions of the elements in the four general directions and middle where the witch and her captive stand. Lucy trembles slightly with anger. How dare she twist a beautiful art into something so dark and twisted?! Smoky- almost black- quartz, bloodstone, nightshade, burning sweetgrass (no sage?!), dark and muddy water, and in the middle, a large onyx statue of a raven atop a pile of skulls. Tears of rage well up in Lucy's eyes as Natsu lets her down and she stays behind him. Natsu walks forward. "Hey, why don't-"

A large flash of black lightning zaps Natsu, sending him flying backwards. "Natsu!" Lucy cries, but Happy stops her from running to him. "Lucy!" Lucy turns around at the call of her name. Gray and Erza are trying vainly to break the barrier. The witch on the inside, however, merely shrugs and turns back to her rite. Lucy closes her eyes. 'I can't keep it a secret any longer.' She looks to the frightened young woman, to whom the witch has put a wickedly curved, jagged knife back to the throat of. 'She'll die if I don't do something.'

"Power of the Heavens and Stars,

Grant me the powers of

Cleansing and Justice."

Lucy can feel the power within the words, the movement of the universe against her skin, and her commanding voice voice as the spell she'd kept up for years burns away quickly in a short fit of golden fire. No doubt she's now glowing a pure white. The witch stops short of slicing the poor, frightened girls throat and turns back to stare at Lucy. "A Celestial Maiden? I thought you were all extinct." she hisses, her voice soft like a snakes, but dry and withered, like a bouquet of flowers left out for days without water. "You will make a greater sacrifice than this girl!" The witch flies towards Lucy, but she's not there. The witch turns back to see Lucy standing in the middle of her circle, now turned a holy gold. The poor girl is gone, Erza holds her sleeping form outside of the circle as Lucy continues.

"Let this land be cleansed of the Darkness,

And let my dominion over this sacred world

Bring peace to it's creatures and life.

Let the Evil be purged."

Lucy felt like she could change the very fabric of the universe, and if she was strong enough, she very well could. Bright white and yellow bolts of power swirl around her, creating a wall around the line of the circle, changing the energies from foul and demonic to a pure sense of power and tranquility. Her words, which are used to draw power, have the purest of intentions fathomable; to destroy the wrongdoer of the world.

"Yr wyf Golau, yr wyf Da.

Yr wyf yn creu, ac rwy'n dragwyddol Benywdod.

Power nefol, galwaf i ti;

Dinistrio y Tywyllwch ger fy mron."

('I am Light, I am Good.

I create, and am eternal Womanhood.

Celestial Power, I call to thee;

Destroy the Darkness before me.'

[Rough Welsh translation from Google])

Lucy's POV

"Lucy? What's going on?" I hear Natsu call from somewhere outside my tornado of power. They can't see me, but I can see them. The witch still tries to break my magic with petty black shards. I can see the remains of her blackened, tortured soul that she's sold- piece by piece- to whatever dark creature promised her power. "You cannot escape me forever! You will become my sacrifice and I shall become the most powerful mage ever known!" she tries to break the barrier again. But I only continue the chant, sort of singing it.

"Yr wyf Golau, yr wyf Da.

Yr wyf yn creu, ac rwy'n dragwyddol Benywdod.

Power nefol, galwaf i ti;

Dinistrio y Tywyllwch ger fy mron!"

Lucy flings out her hands, and the power swirls around the witch. Her face changes to pure horror. Quickly, she begins a curse, but Lucy continues the song. "I call upon the powers of damnation and Hell to help me cast this vexing spell! Spirit of Deliora! Hear and be called!" A resounding 'crack!' is heard and another bolts of black lightning flashes through. Lucy notices Natsu, Gray, Happy, and Erza fall to the ground, but thinks nothing of it as she grits her teeth, still chanting, and makes the power close around the witch as fast as she can, but even power needs time to move.

The witch smiles cruelly. "You have one year from your eighteenth birthday to have a child. You will always be fertile. Your first child shall be Deliora incarnated. And if you do not bed someone by the end of your given time, you will die; exploding in a supernova, and destroying the world." The witch lifts her hands over her head as Lucy's power closes in on her. "THIS I COMMAND AND THIS THAT SHALL BE DONE! MY DEATH WILL NOT HINDER IT IN ANY WAY!" the witch screeches as she hurls a large ball of black, static-like magic at Lucy as Lucy's power envelopes her, destroying her into oblivion.

Lucy moves to dodge the magic as soon as she feels she can move, but she's too late. The black static hits her abdomen with full force and she is delivered to darkness before she hits the ground.