DISCLAIMER : I don't own Fairy Tail (although I wish I did ;-;)

Lucy's POV

Cana and I had managed to escape the other teams' battle, which started as soon as the exam had begun. The brawl had been started by Natsu, since he wanted to get a head start on the others. I had noticed how master wanted to stop it, seeing how this was an exam and not a guild brawl, but didn't due to it being forbidden for someone to interfere with the exams, unless it were an emergency.

Master informed us that there were five tunnels. Two of them would lead to battle one of Fairy Tail's current S-class wizards, whereas the other two would lead to a room where the two teams that entered them would have to battle each other. There was also one that would involve no fighting whatsoever.

We weren't given the exact location of the tunnels but we were told that they weren't too far from the docks. We found them using Cana's tracking cards seeing how none of my spirits had the ability to find them.

After a long walk we arrived to the tunnels and realized we were the first ones there, so we took some time to think about which tunnel we should choose. We decided to take the second tunnel seeing how we were two people, but personally I chose it because I noticed a bunch of flowers that were similar to the ones in my dreams in front of it.

After having entered the tunnel, we found ourselves in a room with three Xs on them. We then realized that we were gonna have to battle one of the S-class wizards. We looked to where the third X was and, as if to guarantee our failure, Gildarts was the one standing on it. Gildarts, THE most powerful wizard in Fairy Tail, was our opponent.

My jaw dropped to the floor in complete disbelief and I stared at my teammate, who seemed to have the same sadness she had the day she was nominated for the exams. When she caught me staring, she immediately shook her head as to say 'it's nothing'. So I didn't insist, as I knew from experience that sometimes we want to face our problems on our own.

Gildarts seemed to scan us, almost as if he was seeing how strong we could be. After a few minutes, he seemed to be done with his scan and started talking to us.

"So, seems as though you two girls will be facing me today" Gildarts said with an almost apologetic smile

"Yeah and don't think we'll be going easy on you, right Cana?!" I said with too much confidence

"Yeah, sure" Cana said in a 'i'm-not-at-all-motivated-but-whatever' voice

"Well then, let's get this started." The S-class wizard said

"It's about time!" I said in a motivated voice as I reached for my keys and decided to call upon Loke, my strongest spirit.

"Open, gate of the Lion, Loke!" I chant

Loke appeared by my side in his usual suit,figured out what was happening and started heading towards the ginger haired wizard. Cana used one of her cards to augment Loke's defense and attack skills. As if to tell us that he knew about the upgrade, Loke jumped in the air and started charging up magic energy to his fists. When he was about to land his first blow on him, he was suddenly stopped by Gildarts' crash magic and was defeated instantly.

'We're no match for him' I thought as I was processing what had just happened, 'He just defeated Loke in a single attack,without even flinching, even with an upgrade but I shouldn't give up until i've tried every spirit!'. So I did just that. I called upon every single spirit I had and every single one of them failed to land a single hit on him. Even with Cana's magic!

'This can't be happening' I was thinking as my last spirit's gate was being closed. 'I can't go down like this'. My legs started getting very heavy and I found myself on my knees looking to the ground, slowly blacking out until everything went black again. Except this time, it wasn't in my dreams and I was worried about what could happen while i'd be so vulnerable.

Cana's POV

I found myself looking at Lucy, who was at this point looking to the ground in utter disbelief. She seemed to be in the middle of some deep thinking so I didn't interrupt her and instead went to take a glance towards Gildarts.

He seemed bored as he was cutting up rocks into multiple cubes. This bothered me very much. 'We're here having lost a shit ton of magic and he's there acting as if were nothing!'. I wanted to confront him and tell him how this annoyed me but I didn't, fearing that I might accidentally mention to him that he's my father.

I went to look back to Lucy who, much to my surprise, was standing and seemed to scan Gildarts the same way he did before our battle. There was something off about Lucy, she had this strong bad vibe that normally i'd stay away from, but in this situation I had no choice but to stay put. After a while she finally spoke but her words completely shocked me.

"Are we gonna start now?" Lucy said in a bored voice

"What, are you crazy?! We just fought him and we clearly don't stand a chance against him!" I yelled

"Well, then I guess it's time for round 2" She said and started to charge her magic

"Seems like this will get interesting" Gildarts mumbled hard enough for me to hear.

"Oh, and Cana?" Lucy said to me "Wait here, wouldn't want you to get in my way" She added

"O-okay, sure" I replied hesitantly not sure wether or not it was a good idea to let her fight him alone.

Instead of running towards him, she was walking while continuing to charge her magic onto her hands. Her magic felt completely different. It felt dark and evil. I didn't have any time to really stop her as when I looked at Lucy, I saw the most horrifying battle i'd ever seen.

I saw Gildarts landing the first hit on Lucy, she was pushed backwards by the force but ,other than that, didn't have any sign of wounds on her body. Much to my surprise, instead of being disappointed, Lucy was smiling as if she was expecting it.

She then ran towards the crash magic user in such speed that it could rival the speed of light. She was going straight for him and didn't seem to mind about all of the boulders or rocks in her way as she destroyed them instantly. He didn't have any time to realize what was happening as she was directly in front of him and landed her first blow on him.

"Frigus!" Lucy yelled and instantly a big amount of solid black smoke came out of her hand,while taking the form of a sword, and hit Gildarts on his arm. I heard him scream in agony as I saw the area where the smoke sword had hit him becoming so pale that it was almost transparent. I could also see the blood in his veins slowly becoming ice crystals and piercing his skin from the inside. I was about to vomit but then I saw the blood ice slowly piercing his skin, ripping it up in multiple pieces and throwing them all over the tunnel. The surface of his formerly healthy skin was now either fully covered in blood crystals, bruises, shattered bones or tiny rocks, that fell from the ceiling and made themselves into the open wounds.

The sight was completely sickening but Gildarts, bearing the pain, continued using his crash magic and didn't seem to hold back on Lucy. She somehow was able to avoid every single one of his attacks and continued landing the same attack on him. After a while, his body was fully covered in immense blood crystals and he was no longer able to move.

Lucy walked towards him and with a sadistic smile yelled to me "Here's daddy-dearest!". I didn't question her how she knew about him being my father, at this point nothing could surprise me anymore. She let out a big amount of black smoke onto her hand. It solidified into a sword form and with a swift movement she hit the S-classe wizard's arm, which was now almost completely blood and/or ice. I heard a cracking sound only to realize it was his arm cracking. Gildarts was screaming in pain and tried his best to lessen it, but since it was dark magic there was nothing he could do.

I ran to help him but, before I managed to reach him, she gave it one more hit. The arm broke into hundreds of small pieces and blood was splattered everywhere. I heard my father scream in agony as his arm had just been amputated. I looked up to Lucy ,who was laughing like a maniac, only to find her playing with the S-class wizard's former arm and kept on licking some of the blood on it.

I was gonna go and attack Lucy for what she'd just done to my dad but stopped as I saw someone behind her. I noticed he was wearing a black robe with a white toga and he seemed to have onyx coloured hair. I didn't know the boy but he seemed to have the same kind of vibe Lucy currently had, so I figured he must be with her. I decided to talk to him just to make sure that I wasn't misjudging him but, before I could do that I heard him mumble a few words. Then I blacked out along with Lucy and my father.

Lucy's POV

I regained consciousness and the first thing I saw was horrifying. I saw an unconscious Gildarts in, what seemed to be, a huge red crystal but with a missing arm and blood splattered everywhere. I wanted to talk to Cana but she also seemed to be unconscious.

After everyone woke up, we all couldn't remember what had happened to the S-class wizard so he decided that if people were to ask him about it, he would say Acnologia did it to him on his recent mission. He allowed to let us continue our exams as he felt we both had great potential and that he wished us good luck. We were both surprised by his decision but didn't complain as we were happy and yet confused as to why he let us pass.

As Cana and I were walking out of the tunnel, I couldn't help but talk to her about what had just happened. It felt so odd that none of us remembered about what happened back there. She said that she couldn't remember anything about how Gildarts lost his arm but that she remembered that there was a boy with black hair, who was wearing a black robe with a white toga.

'Was that the boy in my dreams?And if it was, why would he erase our memories?' I asked myself as I was hoping he could maybe read my mind and answer me but sadly that hasn't happened yet. What would he do on this island? Then I remembered the note. I reached in my pocket for the note that I had put there in my dreams and found it there with the same words written on it as before. 'Is he here for me?' I thought, slightly scared but also exited at the thought of him being on the island for me.

We made it out of the tunnels only to face the other two teams that made it out. Apparently Natsu and Happy had taken the tunnel with no fighting, whereas Gray and Juvia took the tunnel where they had to fight Freed and Levy. Wendy and Carla seemed to have lost against Erza and joined Mirajane along with the rune wizards in the camp, where the wizards that have been defeated go until the end of the exams.

After waiting for an hour, we heard the sound of footsteps coming our way. We realized it was mater Makarov along with Erza who were here to announce to us the next part of the exams.

"Congratulations for having survived the first part of the exams." Erza said to us.

"The next part will be to find the first master's grave in less than two days." Master added.

"Those that will come to the grave after forty-eight hours, will be disqualified."He stared at Gray, much to Juvia's protest.

"So with that said…" They both said in union "Let the search begin!"

A/N When Gildarts said "let's get this started" I kept on thinking about Nerdy Nummies XD ALSO This is my first time writing something a bit more murder-y/death/battle/you know what i mean so yeah sorry if it's not good I TRIED MKAY. SIDENOTE after having practiced for 2 months, I won 1st place in my category in a music competition :P