Just a short chapter, but the next one will be longer, I promise. Thanks for all the supports and faves, everyone. Wondering how long to make it... I guess I'll see once I've planned out the next few chapters. Thanks again for supporting me!

As they clambered back over the creature, they looked across a cave, dimly lit with badly crafter torches that flickered lazily. Natsu rubbed his hands together, grinning, before taking a few of the torches and eating them. Erza rolled her eyes, before she beckoned everyone to follow. They did so, and they walked around the underground labyrinth, calling Lucy's name. Every so often one of them would stop, hushing the rest as they listened out. But nothing would reply to them yet again. It was another hour before they heard a voice calling. A girl's voice. "LUCY!" Natsu and Happy yelled, running towards the source.

"Hey!" Erza called after them. "Don't be so reckless!"

"But it might be Lucy!" Gray cried, following Natsu and Happy as they ran towards the east of the labyrinth.

"Good grief," Erza sighed, before requipping a sword and sprinting after them. Wendy give a small giggle before following, hoping they had finally found their friend. As Wendy approached, however, she saw a pink haired woman, dressed as a maid and her wrists clad in chains. She blinked, before realising, she's one of Lucy's friends from the spirit world.

"V-Virgo?" Natsu asked, his voice full of confusion. "What are you doing here? Where's Lucy?"

"I shall tell you, sir. Then you must punish me."

Lucy's eyes rested onto Virgo's before she beamed. Tortura looked around, taken aback at the sudden voice.

"They found me so quickly?" She said, her voice full of disbelief.

"No," Lucy began, smiling. "This is Virgo, one of my celestial spirits that I have a contract with! Virgo! She needs punishing!"

"Yes, princess!" Virgo called, swinging her chains viciously as they caught Tortura off guard. They struck her jaw, making her fly back before Lucy addressed Virgo.

"Find Natsu and the others, Virgo!" She said, her voice becoming ever more desperate as Tortura began to sit up.

"Yes, mistress! Would you like me to direct them here?"

"Yes," Lucy said, her voice quickening. "Fetch them here, but tell them of the situation first."

"I will, princess!" Virgo cried, starting to drill her way through the ground. "I will return for my punishment!"

Tortura raced to grab Virgo, but was too late. Virgo has dissappeared under the ground. Tortura's wild eyes locked on to Lucy's, which were wide and frightened.

"You're going to pay for this, Miss Heartfilia."

Natsu's fists tightened as Virgo finished her story. Wendy was chalk white, her knees shaking as Gray had his arms folded across his chest, restraining his anger. "Will you punish me now?" Virgo asked, as if wanting to be punished, as per usual. Natsu shook his head, before turning to her fully, "take us to her. Quickly."

Virgo nodded, "ofcourse." She stood in the middle of the path, before looking to each of them. "I can only take two. And even then I'd struggle."

"Natsu and Wendy. You both go," Erza instructed, before looking at Wendy's puzzled face. "If Lucy is hurt, Wendy, then you may need to heal her."

Wendy nodded, finally understanding, "right! Let's go, Natsu!"

"Yeah!"

Virgo nodded, extending a hand out to each of them, "quickly. Before the princess herself is punished."

Lucy finally gave up, slumping to the ground. My magic is so weak, Lucy thought, gritting her teeth, she hasn't even inflicted any magic upon me, but I can feel my power being drained away. What is causing this?

As she finished the thought, Tortura's foot connected with Lucy's cheek powerfully, and Lucy cried out before slamming into the wall. She then felt the chains shock into her again, more screams escaping her lips. It was then she figured it out, the chains! The chains are the reason for my power being taken!

Tortura laughed manically as she saw Lucy's flicker of recognition at the chains. Tortura bent down to her eye level, before smkirking cruelly. "I'm not getting any younger here. Yet," she laughed, before standing back up and extending her left palm towards Lucy.

"I want that power. I'm going to get it before those brats come in my way."

Lucy felt the course of the magic through the chains before she felt herself being drained away, being unable to move, she whispered one thing, "Natsu. Gray. Erza. Wendy. Happy. Carla. Hurry,

Please."

Natsu's palms became sweaty as he followed Virgo, who was sprinting faster than he's seen a spirit sprint before. It was in an instant that Virgo began to flicker. She stopped, her eyes widening in alarm before turning to Natsu. "The princess!" She gasped, looking at her hands as they began to fade. "She doesn't have enough power left to keep me in your world!"

"What?" Natsu cried, before Virgo began to fully dissappear. "No, get back here! You need to take us back to Lucy!"

"With the last of the power available, I shall show you the way!" Virgo shouted, extending her hand as she faded fully away.

A trail of light flickered on the ground in the direction Virgo's palm had been, and then began to burn brightly as it trailed it's way through the tunnels. Natsu gave a sigh of relief, nodding to Wendy before they both began to run the way shown by Virgo.

Gray gave a small sigh, sitting down cross-legged on the floor.

Just then Erza turned to him, before shrieking, "Gray! Where are your clothes?"

Gray gave a small cry of alarm, looking down to see only his underwear. "Sorry!" He shouted, pulling back on his t-shirt and trousers, before turning to Erza. "I'm just worried about Lucy. That mage woman is a real bitch."

"I know," Erza said, her voice quiet and full of concern. "I think, though, once Natsu finds her, she'll learn the errors of her ways."

"Probably not," Gray corrected. "She'll just have a huge hole of what used to be her hideout. Oh, and she'd also probably not walk right for a week, too."

Erza grinned, "I suppose you're right. It's how everything seems to turn out in the end, huh?"

"Yeah," Gray said, now laying down on the ground, his head in rested in his hands that were behind him. He then frowned, turning his head to Erza's direction. "But what if something terrible happens to Lucy? What about the team then?"

Erza quickly replied, "nothing bad will have happened to Lucy, don't think like that!" She snapped, before calming down. "There wouldn't be a team without Lucy. Before she came along, all we did was argue and destroy stuff. And now, because we're a team, we've done so much and become much stronger."

"Yeah," Gray said, sitting up, his expression dark. "If that bitch has seriously hurt Lucy..."

"...then our team will have to retaliate!" Erza finished.