Jason and Lewis were standing a few metres away from Erza, sword in hand. Natsu, Gray, Happy and Lucy were sitting by a campfire provided by Natsu waiting for the sparring match to begin.

"Are you ready for this Jason?" Lewis asked, taking out his spell tome and opening it to the ice arrow spell.

"I hope so." Jason said, taking out an orange and a blue potion before drinking down both of them, orange and blue magic circles appearing in front of him before being absorbed into his torso.

"Let's go." Erza said, shifting into a fighting stance.

Erza was the first to attack and charged directly at Lewis, sword swinging. Jason calmly stepped in front of Lewis before raising his arm to block the sword strike, sending it bouncing off with a resounding clang.

"What the…" Erza gasped.

"Whoa! What kind of magic is that?" Natsu asked.

"Beats me, I've never seen anything like it." Lucy said.

"Good thing my toughness potion works so well!" Jason laughed. "Now my skin's pretty much as resilient as stone!"

"Show off." Lewis snorted before snapping his palm towards Erza. "Ice Make: Arrow!"

The crystal arrow sailed towards Erza who leaned out the arrow's path, sending the arrow into a snow drift.

"Pfft. I've seen way better." Gray scoffed.

Jason went on the offensive, swinging wildly at Erza. While he managed to land a few punches, Erza simply grunted and shrugged it off.

"Man, S-Class mages are strong!" Jason remarked as he swung at Erza again, who in turn caught his punch before flipping Jason over her back and into a pile of snow.

"You are strong with that potion of yours, but your strikes will never break through my armour on their own." Erza said before turning to Lewis, who had a bright yellow magic circle hovering before his gloved hand.

"Sparkstream!"

Multiple arcs of lightning raced towards Erza, but she was already covered in a shell of light as she started to requip. As soon as the lightning hit, Erza was already wearing her Lightning Empress armour.

"You however appear to have a different problem." Erza remarked. "Your magic is varied yet weak. You'll have to combine your magic if you want to deal any real damage!"

"Ah hell." Lewis gulped as Erza raised her spear.

Erza thrust her spear towards Lewis, a beam of blue lightning arcing directly towards him. Lewis quickly flipped the page as a light green magic circle burst from both the book and his back and he felt himself lifted into the air just in time to avoid the lightning. A gasp went up from the gathered crowd of onlookers as well as from the rest of their group. Lewis breathed a deep sigh of relief to know that he wasn't about to become a charred wizard. It was then that Happy glided up beside Lewis.

"I didn't know you were a cat!" Happy remarked.

"What the hell makes you think I'm a cat?!" Lewis shouted.

"But you can fly, just like a normal cat!" Happy reasoned.

"Name one thing about you that's normal."

Jason groaned as he dug himself out of the snowdrift before running towards Erza. Hearing Jason's footsteps crunching through the snow, Erza whipped around with spear at the ready for hand to hand combat. Erza thrust the spear at Jason who caught the blade with his bare hands before pushing it to the side and aiming a precise strike at Erza's shoulder.

Erza leaned out of the way of the punch before kneeing Jason in the gut causing him to double over but not gasp or even feel any pain. Erza seemed to notice this and hooked her leg around Jason's leg, tripping him over and sending him toppling to the ground.

"Ah, damn it!" Jason shouted before he looked up in the sky and saw Lewis hurtling to the ground at alarming speed. Erza saw Jason's surprised face and also turned and raised her spear sideways to defend herself.

"Aera Drop Kick!" Lewis screamed, swinging down with his leg at Erza. Lewis' boot heel connected with the spear shaft with a loud crack and Jason took this opportunity to kick out with both his legs into the back of Erza's knees, sending her toppling to the ground along with Lewis.

Lewis scrambled to his feet and leapt backwards as Erza and Jason did the same before clutching at his chest. He was getting really tired, both from muscle fatigue and rapidly draining magic energy. He was also worried that Jason's potions could run out at any minute.

"I have to say, you two are proving to be much more of a challenge than I expected." Erza said before requipping again, this time back into her regular armour, but now she wielded two swords.

Lewis groaned before steeling himself and flipping to his requip spell, the silver magic circle appearing in the book with the green wrapped sword handle jutting out from the pages. Grasping the handle, Lewis unsheathed the blade and held it out, ready for battle before he flipped to his ice arrow spell. He saw the icy blue magic circle appear in front of the pages before the blade of the sword started to coat itself in magical frost.

"Now you seem to be grasping the basic principles of combining magic. Let's see if it works!" Erza shouted, charging towards Lewis. As their blades clashed, Erza noticed her blades getting heavier as they were coated with ice crystals.

As Lewis attempted to block Erza's precise strikes he felt his guard slipping. When Erza unexpectedly swung horizontally with her sword Lewis ducked to avoid it but Erza kicked him in the chest into another snow drift. Jason leapt towards Erza to grapple her, but Erza ducked and Jason went sailing into Lewis.

"Jason! Get off me!" Lewis groaned, trying to push his friend off.

"I'd love to, but I'm out of magic energy again." Jason slurred, face embedded in the powdery snow.

Lewis sighed and flopped his head back into the snow. "Well, we got our butts kicked again."

"I wouldn't say that." Erza said. "You two put up a decent fight for your skill level. You may make great wizards someday given the right training and discipline."

"I don't think Jason is one for discipline." Lewis said. "Now could you please get him off me? I think he's crushing my lungs…"

*v*v*v*

*v*v*v*

Erza, Lucy, Natsu, Happy, Gray, Lewis and Jason were staying in several rooms the innkeeper had allowed them to use when they said they were here to remove the Dark Guild presence in Pierta. Lewis and Jason were resting up, recovering after their strenuous sparring with Erza.

"Okay, let's not have any more fights with main characters." Lewis said, lying on his bed.

"Why? You still need to get your ass handed to you by Happy." Jason snickered. Lewis responded in an entirely mature and professional manner by chucking a pillow at Jason.

"Hey! Have your damn pillow back ya bastard!" Jason said, tossing the pillow back at Lewis.

Lewis leaned back on his bed and recently reclaimed pillow and stared at the ceiling. "Hey Jason, I'm feeling a bit daunted by our upcoming task."

"Smaller words, fewer syllables." Jason said, carefully dropping a sliver of a gnarled black root into a rounded flask, the liquid inside turning to a vibrant pink colour. "That wasn't what it was supposed to do…"

"What I mean is we're going to fight a bunch of Dark Guild wizards. We, who didn't even believe magic's existence until a few days ago, are going up against trained and evil mages who have probably been doing this for who knows how long! We're probably going to die." Lewis said solemnly.

Jason leaned over and hit Lewis' stomach with an open hand, causing him to leap up and his breath to rush from his lungs.

"What the hell was that for?!" Lewis yelled.

"We're not going to die." Jason said calmly. "For someone so grounded in reality, you forget to take in a lot of facts. We've got Natsu, Erza, Gray and Lucy with us, the entire cast of main characters. It's doubtful that we'll be hurt, let alone killed."

"I get what you're saying, but we're not main characters! Something is going to happen to us, I can feel it!" Lewis argued.

"If that happens, the others are just going to rescue us at the last moment. It's how these things work." Jason said before turning and grinning. "Besides, I'm not about to let myself get captured by one of those Dark Guild dickheads."

Lewis realised the truth in Jason's words and nodded. "In that case, it's probably best if we get some sleep. I have a feeling we're in for a hell of a fight tomorrow."

"You have a lot of feelings don't you?" Jason snorted.

*v*v*v*

*v*v*v*

The team of Fairy Tail guild members stood proudly outside the entrance to the Dark Guild hideout, the mines of Pierta.

"Alright, stay close! Let's go!" Erza shouted before summoning a large two handed axe and breaking the wooden door in half.

As the team ran Lewis took out his tome and opened it, a silver magic circle appearing above the pages with the green sword handle jutting from the centre of the circle. Lewis whipped it out before snapping the book shut, but keeping it in his left hand.

"It's Fairy Tail!" Shouted a dark wizard.

"Take 'em out!" roared another before a volley of fire spells were lobbed their way.

"Get down!" Erza commanded, but when everybody else ducked Natsu sucked the fire into his mouth.

"Oh yeah, now I've got some fire in my belly!" Natsu grinned.

"They have the Salamander AND Erza with them?!"

"Get the others, we need to stop 'em!"

"I told you mines were a terrible hideout!"

Jason swigged from his red potion before blurring with speed, dealing punishing strikes to any that tried to attack or flee. After dealing with their attackers Jason stopped, adjusted his sleek top hat and pushed open another wooden door.

"After you."

As the others rushed through the door, Lewis ran closer to Erza.

"What guild do these guys belong to?" he asked.

"It wasn't specified since the villagers themselves didn't know." Erza said. "Perhaps we should investigate once we drive them out!"

"Yeah, less talking, more smashing!" Natsu roared before charging ahead of the group, breaking and burning anything he could get his hands on.

"That's Natsu for ya, always rushing ahead." Gray sighed.

"Someone had better catch up to that fool." Erza said as they approached a fork in the tunnels, Natsu's laughter echoing down from one of them. "Lewis, Jason. I need you to after Natsu and make sure he doesn't get himself killed. Happy, you go with them too."

"Aye!" Shouted the two mages and the magical cat before Jason disappeared in a flash of speed with Lewis and Happy in close pursuit.

When Jason caught up to Natsu, he was standing before a giant crack in the earth. On the opposite side of the gaping chasm, a wooden bridge was being withdrawn.

"Sorry Fairy Tail, but there's no way you're getting over here!" called a dark wizard.

"I'll show 'em! Happy, where are you?" Natsu growled.

Lewis and Happy soon joined them and when Lewis saw the chasm, he immediately dispelled his sword and started flipping through his book.

"How are we gonna get across there?" Jason complained.

"With Happy of course! Duh." Natsu said.

"Yeah, but I can't carry all of you!" Happy protested.

"You won't have to." Lewis grinned, a vibrant green magic circle appearing on his back and a light blue one over the pages of his tome. Two giant angelic wings sprouted from Lewis' back and he gave them an experimental flap.

"Oh yeah, I'd forgotten you could do that." Natsu said.

"Same here." Jason nodded.

"I did it just yesterday!" Lewis yelled before sighing. "Alright, I'm not sure how long these wings will last, so let's do this. Happy, you take Natsu and I'll carry Jason."

"Aye!" cheered Happy.

Lewis and Happy hovered into the air, Jason grabbing Lewis' free arm and Happy wrapping his tail around Natsu's waist. The four then flew over the chasm and straight towards the dark wizards.

"Here we come you bozos!" Natsu shouted before Happy dropped him over the wizards. "Wing Slash of the Fire Dragon!"

"Holy crap here he comes!" Screamed a dark wizard.

When Lewis was also over the chasm he dropped Jason and himself to the ground before shutting the tome, causing the gossamer wings on his back to vanish.

"Are you alright?" Jason asked.

"I'm feeling a little drained, but not enough to keep me out of the fight. How long is that potion lasting for you?" Lewis breathed as he sat down, watching the battle unfold.

"I think I'm building up my tolerance, I think the potion's worn off but I'm not feeling the side effects." Jason said, testing his muscles.

"Well don't overdo it. The last thing we need is for something to go wrong while we're out of energy and forcing Natsu and Happy have to focus on saving our behinds." Lewis said before standing up. "Now, let's get back in action."

"Oh yeah! C'mere you!" Jason shouted before throwing himself into the fray. Lewis was about to join him when he heard somebody shouting across the ravine. Lewis peered into the distance and saw it was Erza and the others!

"I'll get the bridge for you!" Lewis shouted before running to the bridge controls, where he was blocked by three separate dark wizards.

"Sorry kid, but we're not gonna let you do that." One of them sneered.

"There's no way you'll get past us!" another jeered.

Lewis grinned and dipped his pointed hat lower. "And like that you've doomed yourselves to failure."

With a flourish, Lewis threw back his dark brown coat and opened his tome, the silver shortsword jutting from the pages and he drew it out before flipping over to the Sparkstream spell and casting it, the silver blade of the sword now crackling with yellow electricity.

"You don't scare us! Come on boys!" Shouted a burly wizard.

The three charged and Lewis ducked low before forcing the pommel of his sword into the first wizard's gut before whipping around and slashing at another, yellow sparks of electricity arcing over his body when the blade struck. As the two wizards fell to the ground, the burly one gritted his teeth and charged. Lewis braced himself for an impact that never arrived. Instead, Natsu had punched him in the gut with a flaming fist. The man doubled over and staggered backwards, clutching a wooden scaffold for balance.

"Hey, I couldn't let you have all the fun." Natsu grinned.

"What are you talking about, you got most of them!" Lewis laughed.

"That's it, I'm taking both of you out!" roared the big wizard, raising his arms as a large purple magic circle appeared.

A large dark purple stream raced towards Natsu and Lewis, but they were yanked out of the way just in time by something. When Lewis looked as to what had saved them both, it was two simple wooden arrows. Lewis looked over to the other side of the chasm and saw that it was Sagittarius who had fired the arrows.

"Yeah, way to go Sagittarius!" Lucy cheered.

"A pleasure my lady." Saluted the horse man.

The giant of a wizard looked between the two with annoyance before grinning. "At least you two can't get away from me now."

"Aren't you forgetting someone?" Jason shouted before running straight at him before leaping up and punching the man square in the jaw, sending him sprawling into the bridge controls, activating the lever to lower the bridge.

"Thanks Jason!" Lewis called. "Now help us get off this rock wall."

Soon the rest of the group had joined up with them, Erza called them into a meeting.

"What did you find?" Natsu asked.

"We found some seriously creepy stuff." Lucy said. "A lot of forbidden magic tools, a ton of mined lacrima crystals and a couple of guys powering them up."

"It was like some kind of production line in there." Gray said. "The lacrima crystals seemed to be designed to store magic energy that could be absorbed into anyone who touched them, essentially recharging their magic energy."

"Whatever these mages are trying to do here, it certainly isn't for the good of mankind. But I have also determined their identities which may provide a clue as to why they're here. These wizards are all members of a sister guild of sorts to Oni Swords known as Vile Masque."

"But the town below is untouched, the two can't be related." Lewis said.

"That's because Vile Masque specialises in the things that Oni Swords do not. Espionage, subtlety, assassinations, theft and more specifically, smuggling and producing illegal magic tools." Erza explained. "These two dark guilds work together, where Oni Swords take on jobs that require only brute force while Vile Masque seek to advance themselves discreetly while supplying Oni Swords with the goods and weapons they require."

"Meaning we're right in the middle of an entire mineshaft full of assassins." Jason gulped. "Fantastic."

"Trust me, I know the feeling." Lucy shivered.

"This job is far more dangerous than I once thought." Erza said. "However we cannot abandon it now. We must keep advancing until we find out what's really going on here, and as to why they're charging so much energy into these Storage Lacrimas."

"We snagged two for you guys since we thought you might be running low on energy." Gray said, tossing two perfectly round purple glowing lacrima crystals to Jason and Lewis, who caught them and immediately started feeling more energised.

"Let's move." Erza said before running into the tunnels, armour clanking as she ran. The others followed closely behind Erza, but Lewis was studying his lacrima, looking at the white marking of a triangular mask with hollow eyes, a slit for a mouth and two curved horns.

"This is the symbol of Vile Masque?" Lewis asked. "Creepy."

When the group burst through another door, they found themselves in a gigantic area cluttered with titanic wooden columns supporting the stone roof above them. Inside the massive cave was not only a giant production line of lacrima crystals but another row of people putting things into storage containers. Many of the wizards there looked up and gasped at the intruders before readying their various weapons and spells.

"Jason, now may be a good time to go balls out bananas." Lewis said quietly.

"Like I needed a reason." Jason said, taking the cork out of a red, blue and orange potion before drinking it all down, the three coloured magic circles absorbing into his body. "Break Limit Elixir!"

"Jason's got the right idea!" Natsu shouted, bashing his knuckles together before charging into the fray.

"Ice Make: Ice Cannon!" Gray shouted, creating a massive bazooka out of ice before firing blasts of cold into the advancing mages.

"Requip!" Erza shouted as her body was encased in golden light before dissipating, revealing a silvery armour with four giant metal wings.

"Man, I don't have anything like these guys." Lewis said, staring at the wide scale destruction his guildmates were causing.

"We've got a lot more in common than I first thought." Lucy sighed.

"Wait, you've got your Celestial Spirits don't you? Can't you summon another one?" Lewis asked.

"Sagittarius said he was the only one free today, and I can't summon him again since I already did." Lucy said.

"Isn't Leo free? What's he doing?" Lewis asked.

"I dunno. He said he had something really important to do today. Apparently there was this big celebration in the Celestial World and Sagittarius was the only one who could spare a few minutes today." Lucy said before catching onto what Lewis said. "Hold on, how do you know Leo?"

Lewis froze up but tried to remain calm. "Uh… Erza told me about that whole fiasco that happened when Loke was revealed to be a spirit. I don't know all the details since Erza was a little vague about the topic, but she did tell me about how Leo's crazily in love with you."

"He is not!" Lucy huffed.

"Alright, alright. I believe you." Lewis said before he mentally breathed a sigh of relief. 'Dodged a bullet there.'

Back in the fight, Jason was zipping around, breaking through tables, pillars and delivering brutal physical strikes to all foes while Natsu blazed with fire, scorching any who dared approach him. Gray stood a distance away from the combat, firing blasts of ice into the battle while Erza soared above the fray and around the giant pillars, dropping innumerable blades onto her foes. Happy stood back with Lewis and Lucy, cheering on the others before Lewis had an idea. Opening his tome the book began to float on its own and a series of blue magic circles appeared above the rapidly flipping pages.

"What are you doing?" Lucy asked as a holding both his arms out in front of him, first a crystalline blue magic circle, then a vibrant yellow and a scorching red magic circle.

"Experimenting." Lewis grinned before he felt the lacrima sphere edge its way out of his pocket before hovering between his two slightly clawed hands, glowing with radiant blue red and yellow lights. "Hope this works. United Element!"

An unexpectedly large blue crystal ice sphere covered in jagged spikes burst from the series of magic circles, a blazing red fire burning within the ball while the outside streamed with yellow bolts of lightning. The crystal bullet crashed through several wooden pillars before impacting with the ground where it exploded, coating the floor with ice and sending sparking balls of flame into the now confused and slipping dark wizards. As soon as Jason stepped on the ice, he immediately went flying through a wooden column before he crashed into a stone wall.

"God damn it Lewis, what the hell was that?!" he shouted as he got up.

"Sorry, I didn't know it would do that much damage!" Lewis called as the storage lacrima dropped to the ground, completely spent. Lewis himself was feeling pretty drained after that attack, but that was going to be more than a minor inconvenience. As Lewis bent down to pick up the lacrima a great rumbling was heard and drops of rock began to fall from the ceiling.

"It's a cave in! Run for your lives!" Screamed the dark wizards.

"Everyone out!" Erza commanded as the entire dark guild began running for a secret exit. "Follow them!"

As the Fairy Tail team sprinted for the exit, huge boulders started dropping from the collapsing ceiling and breaking open on the ground. Lewis, Lucy and Happy had to dodge the boulders as they raced to catch up to the others, but a gigantic slab of rock fell from the roof, threatening to crush all three of them.

"Waah! Hold me Lucy!" cried Happy.

In a flash of movement, Jason had smashed through the boulder with his fist in a majestic mid air leap before falling limply on top of Lewis.

"All gone… Good night…" a dazed and pain wracked Jason said woozily before falling unconscious.

"Damn it Jason, not now! Any time but now!" Lewis groaned, trying to heave his friend off him.

"Here, let me help!" Lucy said, grabbing his legs as Lewis grabbed Jason's arms and slid himself out from underneath Jason.

"Okay, let's get outta here!" Lewis screamed as more and more rubble started falling.

From below in the village, many looked up at the mountain and saw a great cloud of grey dust fly up from a cavern mouth into the air.

In said cavern in question Natsu, Happy, Gray, Lucy, Erza and Lewis were gasping for air after running such a distance while Jason lay on the ground unconscious.

"Is everyone here?" Erza asked.

"Looks like it." Lucy sighed. "Man, that was a close one."

"Tell me about it." Lewis gulped. "Did all the Vile Masque guys get out okay? I hope they're not dead."

Erza spotted one of the dark wizards who wasn't unconscious and grabbed him by the scruff of his scrawny neck.

"You. Do a head count of your entire guild and report back to me if there are any missing. If there are you are to go back into the rubble and retrieve their bodies. Do I make myself clear?" She instructed.

"Eep! Y-yes ma'am!"

"Whooie, that was some fight!" Natsu laughed.

Lewis looked back on the destruction they caused and gulped loudly. "I wonder how Master Makarov is going to react once he hears we destroyed an entire lacrima mine."

Immediately the mood of the entire party dampened.

"Oh crap." Natsu concluded.

*v*v*v*

*v*v*v*

"You seven did WHAT?!" Makarov gasped, spewing out his ale. "Darn it, that's the last time I drink whenever you walk in! You fools collapsed an entire lacrima mine! The Magic Council is going to have my head for this!"

Lewis visibly shrank before Makarov, despite Lewis being roughly three times Makarov's height, for the moment at least. It really scared him whenever anyone was angry, especially when that anger was directed at him. Jason however was less affected by Makarov's ear bashing.

"I have half a mind to throw you all out of Fairy Tail right this very minute!" Makarov screamed, attracting the attention of most of the guild members.

"Master, please. You know we can't afford to throw them all out of this guild!" Mirajane pleaded. "They're one of our best teams, and who knows what might happen to them if they're not with Fairy Tail!"

Makarov sighed heavily. "You're right Mira. But darn it, could you at least tone down the destruction whenever you take a job?! It seems like the more people you take along with you the more havoc you're likely to cause!"

"We're deeply sorry Master Makarov." Erza apologised profusely. "I hope that destruction of this magnitude won't happen again."

"Darn right it won't! That's because I'm going to lay down a few laws right now!" Makarov said. "First, you two!"

"Huh? Us?" Jason asked, looking at Lewis.

"Yes, you two boys. From now on, you two are not allowed to take any quests involving Natsu, Erza, Gray or Lucy. Do I make myself clear?"

"Y-yes sir!" Lewis said quickly.

"What? Why?" Natsu objected.

"Because I have a terrible feeling that if they hang around you three then they'll pick up bad habits that could lead to the destruction of a civilization or two!" Makarov steamed. "As for the rest of you, you're going back to Pierta to help rebuild the mines you destroyed. Without pay! Dismissed."

As Erza and the others trudged out of the guild hall back to the train station, Lewis sat down heavily on a bench.

"I need a drink…" Lewis mumbled.

"Friggin' Makarov. Now way I'm going to get bossed around." Jason grumbled.

"It's probably a life threateningly bad idea to go against the wishes of one of the Ten Wizard Saints." Lewis said. "Besides, we got off lightly. I think once Natsu and the others get back we should thank them for taking most of the blame."

Just as Lewis calmed down, he saw Makarov walking towards him and Jason.

"Ah, Lewis. Now as I understand it you've picked up a little souvenir from the Pierta lacrima mines." Makarov said.

"Oh, yes I did. In fact I've still got it with me." Lewis said, reaching into his coat pocket and taking out the purple lacrima.

Makarov held out his hand expectantly and Lewis passed the lacrima to him and he studied it closely.

"So this is the work of Vile Masque? Their craftsmanship hasn't faded with the passing of time I see." He remarked. "It just appears to be an energy storage lacrima, used for mages in the military when they need to keep fighting. However these don't appear to be simple rebranding."

"Gray said that Vile Masque were mass producing these in the mines they had taken over. They could have been shipping them to Oni Swords." Jason said.

"Impossible. That Dark Guild was broken up years ago." Makarov snorted.

"Actually, on the very first quest we went on we encountered three members of Oni Swords that claimed to be part of an outpost near Clover that got raided. I think the Magic Council might be trying to keep this under their hat for some reason." Lewis said.

"Wouldn't be the first time they tried something like this." Jason nodded.

"There could be many reasons for that." Makarov agreed. "In any case, I will have a word with the Magic Council. In the meantime, I suggest that you stop using this lacrima."

"Huh? Why?" Lewis asked.

"Well for starters, it's the property of a Dark Guild. Secondly and perhaps more importantly…" Makarov said before unveiling a shelf of blue lacrima crystals. "We have exactly the same kinds of lacrimas with the Fairy Tail guild mark for only ten thousand Jewels! Don't delay, buy three and get one free!"

"Were they there all that time?" Jason wondered.

"But of course, there is one thing that I still must ask you." Makarov said, turning to Jason. "You said you knew of other times the Magic Council has kept things secret. How is that?"

Jason gulped as he tried to think up a convincing lie. "A lot of rumours get leaked out. All we've really heard is hearsay from pubs across Fiore before we arrived in Magnolia but we've heard plenty of instances where this sort of thing happened."

"I see. I won't say it's not true as the Magic Council can be awfully unscrupulous at times." Makarov harrumphed before nodding. "But it may do you boys well not to talk about things you don't know all that much about. Well, carry on you two. And don't get into any more trouble."

"We'll try." Lewis said. When Makarov left, both friends breathed a heavy sigh.

"That was too close."

"Tell me about it."

*v*v*v*

*v*v*v*

A few days later, Jason and Lewis were sitting in the crowded Fairy Tail guild hall. Lewis was pumping magic energy into his Storage Lacrima and Jason was mixing potions when Jason asked a question.

"Hey Lewis, what point on the timeline do you think we're at?"

"I dunno. This is definitely the rebuilt guild hall, so it's after the Phantom Lord attack." Lewis said. "So that means Gajeel should be here, but I haven't seen him anywhere."

"Come to think of it, I haven't seen Laxus either." Jason said.

"Yeah, good. That guy's a complete tool." Lewis snorted.

"You say that now, but you haven't watched the whole of the anime have you?" Jason asked. "You'll see. If we get back home anyways."

"Yeah. Home…" Lewis trailed off and the two sat in silence for a few minutes, thinking about their families. Then without warning Jason groaned and thumped his fist on the table.

"Damn it, how do I keep making this potion?!" he shouted, holding up an alarmingly bright pink potion up to the light. "I don't even know what it does!"

"Then why don't you test it?" Lewis asked, storing the fully charged lacrima back in his coat pocket.

"Like hell if I'm going to test this freaky pink potion on myself. Why don't you drink it?" Jason asked, holding the potion below Lewis' nose.

"Because it stinks." Lewis said, screwing up his nose. "Besides, your reason was good enough on its own."

"What if I paid you to drink it?" Jason asked, opening his wallet. "Five hundred Jewels?"

"That's like five bucks dude." Lewis said.

"Twenty five thousand?" Jason asked, waving the notes of currency in his hand.

Lewis looked between the money and the potion on the table, a debate raging in his head. "I'm not too sure…"

"Alright, forty thousand. But that's my final offer!" Jason shouted. By this time, a small crowd of curious guild members had gathered around the two as Lewis grabbed the conical flask by the glass neck.

"Alright, fine. But you're paying for my medical bill if I wind up in hospital because of this." Lewis said before standing up and walking into a circle the crowd had made before drinking down the potion which despite its foul smell, had an overpowering artificial strawberry flavour. When Lewis finished, the crowd looked with baited breath while Lewis looked at his body.

"Anything?" Jason asked intently.

Lewis shrugged and passed the vial back to Jason. "I don't feel any different. Guess it was a dud."

Then a bright pink magic circle appeared in front of Lewis' body and he felt his body begin to change. A cloud of bright pink smoke sprang up from nowhere and everyone coughed, swiping at the air in front of them to get the smoke out of their eyes.

"What happened?" coughed Jet.

"Is everyone alright?" Mirajane called.

"Yeah, but what happened to Lewis?" asked Jason.

As the smoke cleared, that question was answered. Lewis was otherwise fine, but there were a few major changes that had happened to him.

"Uh, why is everyone looking at me like that?" Lewis asked, noticing his voice had become much higher pitched. "What the hell?"

Lewis had also noticed the fact that he now was the unwilling owner of two large breasts. Lewis' long blonde hair fell down from underneath her wizard hat to below shoulder height and her features had become much softer, but Jason could still tell that it was Lewis which only served to make it funnier to him.

Jason started giggling uncontrollably. He'd accidentally turned Lewis into a girl! "I need to get a picture of this." He grinned.

Lewis' eyes immediately started burning. "Jason. Fifty thousand Jewels. Now." She growled, holding out her gloved hand.

"Just as soon as I take a photo." Jason said before Lewis punched him in the face.

"Like hell you will!"

"Hey! I'll punch ya right back ya bastard bitch!" Jason shouted back before punching Lewis, sending Lewis flying into the crowd.

"It's not very manly of you to hit a girl like that!" Elfman shouted before leaping into the fray.

"I'm not a girl!" Lewis shouted before slugging Elfman across the jaw.

Soon the entire guild was embroiled in a fistfight. Mira sighed and ducked behind the counter just as an unlucky Troy went sailing over the counter.

"This is pretty bad. I hope Lewis changes back." She said worriedly.

"At least it isn't as bad as that Changeling spell from a while back." Cana said before returning to a flagon of frothing ale.

"Yeah, that was a real doozie. I was really glad that someone found out that we'd return to normal after a few days." Mira sighed.

"Tell me about it. Elfman's a real lightweight when it comes to alcohol." Cana remarked.