Reading The Fox Scroll

by redlox2

This is a reading version of SpiritSage124 story "The Fox Scroll". I have the permission of the writer. This will be Fairy Tail Characters reading. this is my first story so please be kind.

4. You're what? (read)chp4

Reading The Fox Scroll Chapter 4 "You're What?"

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Fairy Tail. I have the permission SpiritSage124 to a reading of their story.

Naruto is owned by Masashi Kishimoto and Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima respectively.

AN: Once again all the original works are in bold. I am slowing down my update speed abit especially since I will slowly adding more characters to read.

For people who guessed it. I will bring in Fox Scroll Juvia in chapter 6(since the love drama starts)

**I changed one part of the original where it is mistakenly said that wizards are S-rank and ninjas are S-class.

Everyone… I know people want quicker updates but honestly I am doing my best. (twice per week is my best)

I didn't really do editing as I finished half the chapter today(Saturday) but I hope people still enjoy it!.

Gray gets more talking scene as this is an important arc for him.

Reader-mystery spirit

"Um Mavis-Sama can I ask for a favour?" Lucy asked making Mavis smile warmly as she was happy her alternate self guild mates were getting more comfortable and less formal around her.

"Yes Lucy? What is it?" Mavis asked as Lucy grabbed her keys from her skirt pocket.

"I would like to summon one of my spirits to read with us for a couple of chapters." Lucy asked with Mavis nodding her head in agreement. 'Now who should I summon first?' Lucy though to herself. 'Aquarius is sill out as I haven't found her key, Leo will prob spend all his time flirting with Mira and Erza, Oh I know!" Lucy finished thinking to herself.

Spinning a golden key in her hand she chanted out "Open, Gate of Maiden Virgo!" as her golden key glowed opening the gate. A beautiful young looking pink haired spirit appeared wearing a maid outfit.

"Yes Hime. Is it time for punishment?" Virgo asked ion her monotone tone of voice.

As Lucy quickly got Virgo caught up with the book events and why she was summoned Natsu was getting impatient waiting to hear about his other self promised fight with Naruto.

"Virgo would you like to read this chapter?" Lucy asked deciding since was summoned she might as get some fun out of her time here.

"If that is what Hime asked of me thast is what I shall do." Virgo replied grabbing the book from Erza.

Naruto and Natsu stood in front of the guild, face to face. A rather large crowd had gathered around them, news of their fight had spread like wildfire upon their returned from their battle with Lullaby.

"Natsu is going to fight Naruto?" One of the onlookers murmured.

"I wonder how this fight will turn out? Natsu prob would've lost against Erza when it was this time in our world but Naruto doesn't appear to S-class yet." Happy declared getting an annohed snort from Natsu who believed he could've taken Erza back then.

"Lets get some bets going! When we get back to Fairy Tail we can settle the scores! Who are you betting on? Our Salamander Natsu or our alternate guild member Naruto?" Cana declared getting sweatdrops as even in a alternate space she still loved to drink and gamble.

Some wizards like Laxus and Gajeel refused to bet while most of the guild bet on Natsu. Despite Naruto showing some impressive skills in previous chapters they still didn't know the actual limits of his powers so they chose the safe bet Natsu. Gray bet on Naruto simply because it was Natsu (with Juvia going along with Gray) while Wendy and Lucy chose Natsu because they were his teammates. Mira choose to stay out of it while her siblings choose Natsu. Mavis was about to place a bet but she relented when it was brought up how unfair it would be since she knew what was going to happen. Shockingly both Makarov and Erza decided to bet on Naruto (despite the odds against him) making everyone get shocked. They merely stated that Naruto still hasn't shown his full powers or abilities yet.

"This should be a good fight!" Another exclaimed.

Lucy pushed her way to the front of the crowd. "Are they really going to fight?"

"Yes, and we should expect a good fight between these two." Erza said as she watched the two combatants stare each other down. She was looking forward to seeing how the ninja fought.

"I'm curious to see what happens myself." Lucy looked down to find Makarov walking towards the duo. "Okay brats! I don't want to see the town get destroyed, so keep the magic toned down a bit will ya?"

"Geez Gramps is being stingy in this story. He never bothers telling us to tone down our magic." Natsu remarked while Lucy gave him a dry look.

"Maybe it because nobody here listens to that particular rule." Lucy relied back thinking of how much property damage the guild did on an almost daily routine.

The two nodded and started doing some light stretching. A little warm up before a sparring match never hurt anyone.

Natsu got into a fighting stance. "I'm getting fired up!"

"Ready when you are." Naruto said as he tightened his headband.

At the indication, Natsu ran straight at him with his burning fist reared back.

Naruto sidestepped and stuck his leg out, tripping Natsu in the process. "Charging head on with no plan?"

Rolling back onto his feet, the pink haired mage smirked. "I have a plan alright… To kick your ass!" He reared back his arm and launched himself at the shinobi once more. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

Naruto jumped straight up as the attack hit the ground, causing a minor explosion. He could feel the heated dust from the attack rush past him as he began to fall. 'His hits are heavy, but hasty. Sorta reminds me of my old fighting style.'

Erza was quick to store this piece of information in her mind. "Seems like Naruto is a straight forward fighter but has unexplained bursts of power that cant be logically explained." Erza noted with liucy in particular agreeing with Narutos assessment of Natsus fighting style.

Looking up, the dragon slayer found ten Naruto's falling right at him. "You can't dodge if you're in the air!" Taking a deep breath, he roared. "Fire Dragon's Roar!"

The flame consumed the descending clones, destroying all of them in an instant. Natsu laughed victoriously. "Hah! Serves you right for being cocky! Huh?" Feeling someone tap his shoulder, he turned to see the real Naruto holding a kunai to his back.

The ninja waved casually. "Yo."

"Dammit that's a cheap shot!" Natsu exclaimed annoyed his other was taken out from behind.

"No I disagree. This was merely a spar with you both trying to avoid colleratel damge. I am pretty sure if you both went full out the fight would've been much more destructive." Erza said with Makaov nodding along.

Natsu widened his eyes in surprise. He could have sworn the real one was in the air with the clones, how did Naruto get behind him so fast without him noticing?

"Alright that settles it! Naruto is the winner!" Makarov sighed, relieved to see the match end with no damage done to the town. He then looked over at Naruto with a slight grin as the crowd began to cheer. "Crafty kid…"

"How unmanly! We all lost!" Elfman whined realizing that he lost placing his bets on Natsu. Most of the rest of the guild grumbled as well while Lucy and Wendy shrugged at their lost.

"Not Quite Elfman. Both Erza and Makarov picked the right horse for this fight." Cana pointed to the winners who smirked in amusement.

Erza nodded in agreement. Naruto had used one of his clones to throw him out of sight, she had almost missed it due to the dust. He clearly knew what Natsu would do after seeing so many targets, and took advantage of the distraction. Natsu was outsmarted. It's no wonder Naruto had been able to defeat Erigor. "He is unpredictable with those clones."

Wendy was astonished that other Erza was capable of analyzing all this from such a quick fight. While Makarov and Mavis gave a nod of approval to Erza knowing she would have come a similar conclusion.

As the crowd continued to chant Naruto's name, Natsu growled in frustration. "Aw come on! We were just getting started!" He whined fruitlessly. "If we were fighting for real, I would have won for sure!"

"Come on Natsu. Your other lost simple as that. Although I am sure my other wouldn't have fallen for such an obvious trick." Gray said smugly while Lucy and Happy sweatdropped at how childish Gray was being. Natsu was going to start a fight until Erza started cracking her knuckles making both wizards apologize hastily.

Gray walked over to the raging teen and shook his head. "With a knife at your back? Face it hot-head, you were beat."

"Oh yeah? Wanna fight me next, pervert?" Natsu challenged as they butted heads.

"I don't see why I'd bother with a weakling like you." The ice mage retorted.

"Natsu-san and Gray-san really like to fight each other in that other world just like ours dodont you think Lucy-san?" Wendy asked while Lucy pretended to ignore both wizards.

"Don't worry about it Wendy. Either they will tire each out or the other Erza will merely beat them up." Lucy replied non-chalently.

Their little feud was cut short by a loud clap. "There will be no more fighting. I am a messenger from the magic council."

Naruto looked at the messenger with a raised eyebrow. 'A frog?'

"Not the magic council again?!" Makarov started to whimper hating that the magic council was still around in some alternate dimension causing trouble for Fairy Tail. Mavis herself was not super pleased about the magic council, herself believing they were too corrupt to handle affairs across Fiore.

Seeing as he got their full attention, the messenger spoke. "The one named Naruto Uzumaki has been placed under arrest." The amphibian declared, getting a gasp from the crowd.

"Ehh!? What did I do?" The accused ninja stepped back, confused on why they would want to arrest him. He didn't do anything wrong...

Oh wait, he destroyed the building where all the guild masters met up.

"Oh my they didn't arrest Erza like they did for us." Mira remarked while Erza glared at Natsu ruining her fake trial. Natsu looked down shamefully remembering how he made Erza pretend trial into a real one and making them both send a night in jail.

Makarov walked next to him. "It's best just to do what the council say boy, it'll make things easier."

Naruto nodded hesitantly, but left with the frog. If the old man thought it was okay to go without question, then who was he to argue?

Makarov sighed in relief as he believed that Naruto would make a big deal and start something with the magic council like Natsu would've.

Naruto followed the messenger down a rather long hallway. They stopped suddenly when a man with blue hair walked into view. The guy must be important because his escort bowed with the most respect the blonde had ever seen.

"Naruto Uzumaki I presume?" The man asked.

Naruto nodded. "Yeah, who are you?"

"I'm a council member, Siegrain." He answered, laughing a little at the teen's straightforward question.

Erza clenched her fist with a look on her face that was both mad and sad. She was disappointed in the man Jellal was at this point but remembered that Ultear was controlling him the shadows. Shockingly the person who gave comfort to the redheaded knight was Natsu. Who put a hand on her shoulder getting a soft smile in return.

Most of the guild had a hard time remembering anybody from the original council especially since the current magic council was just the 10 Wizard Saints. Makarov remembered how Yajima revealed that Siegrain was just a thought projection used by Jellal to manipulate the original magic council for his personal gain.

"What does a council member want with me?" The ninja honestly just wanted to leave this place as soon as he could. What if that Mystogan guy showed up at the guild while he wasn't there?

Siegrain grinned ever so slightly. "I find you interesting. I can't find anything to prove you existed until a couple of weeks ago. For someone who is powerful enough to defeat a demon from the book of Zeref in a single attack to go unknown until now… I find that intriguing."

Makarov narrowed his eyes knowing that if the magic council found out Naruto was a different dimension they would use every method possible to get all information from Naruto in the name of 'self defence'. Lucy and Erza were both worried that the other Fairy Tail newest guild member would not be able to talk his way out of this with he after especially worried knowing how much a smooth tongue Jellal had.

"I'm not exactly from around here..." Naruto answered nervously. Did this man know he wasn't from this dimension? That couldn't be. The only people here that knew were Lucy, Natsu, Happy, and the old man.

Levy thought "Maybe Siegrain is bluffing? I mean we have travellers to Fiore all the time. There is no reason to believe that somebody from a different dimension could suddenly pop in without proof." Most of the guild nodded their head with some in relief however Erza was still worried that her alternate self old friend was up to no good.

If the council member knew, he didn't show any signs of proving so. "And where might that be?"

The blonde kept silent, thinking of a way to either fib his way out or maybe change the subject. He was pulled out of his thoughts though when Siegrain laughed.

"You don't have to answer. I was just curious."

"Man this guy pisses me off! Trying to act all cool and mysterious!" Natsu exclaimed with Gray also having similar thoughts. Even Carla who didn't particular like Naruto didn't get any sense of joy watching him interrogated with no proof.

"Hime should I punish him?" Virgo decided to ask her partner.

"Of course Not!" Lucy screamed back with Virgo nodding her head in submission. "And I am not going to punish you either so don't look at me like that!" she whispered with Virgo somewhat disappointed.

Naruto raised an eyebrow when the man started to fade out of existence.

"I look forward to the next time we meet, Naruto Uzumaki."

Something about those words made the shinobi uncomfortable. He didn't like this Siegrain person.

The Entire guild cheered agreeing with Naruto's sediment. Even Erza could not find much to try defend Je

After about an hour, the trial ended and Naruto was on a carriage back to Fairy Tail. No one had gotten hurt when the building was destroyed, but he was charged with property damage. Though the payment had been covered by his slaying of the demon Lullaby.

Makarov cheered seeing one of his children (alternate or not he considered Naruto a fairy a heart) get off basically scot free. Lucy and Mira smiled happily while Erza turned to Natsu.

"See Natsu my trial could've turned out like this if you listened to the master and stayed at the guild." Erza lectured.

"Geez Erza I apologized like 100 times already. How was I suppose to know it was a show trial." Natsu whined as Wendy giggled at her older brother fugure.

"Was there even a point to all that? That was such a waste of time..." Naruto said with a sigh.

Poof!

A messenger toad appeared next to him in a puff of smoke. What was with all these amphibians and messages today?

"The Leaf has received your letter." It said before holding out a scroll. "The Hokage asked me to give you this."

Naruto's face brightened at the news. "Oh, they got my letter? Thanks!" He took the scroll and began to read it.

The guild got interested and drew closer to Virgo wanting to hear about Naruto's friends for the first time.

With its task now done, the messenger toad disappeared.

Dear Naruto,

It's good to know that you are safe. Why do you keep getting involved in all this nonsense? A different dimension? This would only happen to you. These Fairy Tail mages sound like very good people. Konoha is doing fine by the way. We were all relieved to find out that you were okay. Now let's get down to business. Naruto Uzumaki. You have been given an S-Ranked mission to stay with this Fairy Tail guild and try to find a way back home! We will do our best to look for a solution as well. Stay safe and try not to cause them any trouble!

-Tsunade Senju

Naruto laughed and sealed the scroll away. "Well, I guess that settles it."

Lucy had a big warm smile when she realized that Naruto could officially stay in Fairy Tail officially without him worrying about an exact deadline. Cana saw the look and grinned already telling that Lucy was getting really into the story.

Natsu grinned thinking that Naruto joining the guild would make his other have another fun sparring partner while Mira turned to Erza and started chatting with her about what kind of food she thought Naruto would like now that he could an official member.

"What!? You're going to join the guild!?" Lucy asked in excitement.

Everyone cheered.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah, I found a way to contact my home and I was told to stay here for the time being, so I thought why not?"

Elfman pat him on the pack, knocking the smaller boy over. "What a manly decision!"

Most of the guild cheered happy for a new member. Getting to know Naruto through the story they did not care he was from a different dimension and could tell he already would be a good fit for their guild. Mavis smiled happily knowing this Fairy Tail had the same heart and spirit as the Fairy Tail in her dimension.

Naruto laughed and got up. "So, what do I gotta do?"

Makarov pointed to Mirajane. "Mira-Chan, if you would?"

She smiled and nodded happily. "Of course, master! Naruto if you would... follow..." Mirajane's voice trailed off as she fell to the ground, asleep.

"Mystogan!" Makarov shouted as the guild excluding Lissanna, Juvia, Kinanna and Gajeel smiled remembering their other S-class wizard who stayed in Edolias. Even Laxus could not help a small smile since he respected Mystogan strength especially when it was learned that Mystogan did not have natural magical abilities.

Makarov looked at Gildarts who smiled back knowing that their missing member was surely happy in his permanent home in Edolias and knew he would still be a fairy at heart.

In fact, every member of the guild started to fall asleep.

Naruto was also starting to lose consciousness. "Kai!"

With a flare of chakra, the drowsiness faded.

Erza remarked quite impressed "It seems that rick can cancel out any kind of magic that influences a target internally. Not just low-level spells like charm even something like Mystogan sleep magic." Makarov was particularly impressed as he knew only high S-class wizards like himself, Laxus and Gildarts were capable of staying awake back then. Although he noticed with the guilds increased strength possibly more wizards could stay awake if Mystogan was still here,

Makarov grinned, impressed to see that Naruto could resist Mystogan's sleeping magic.

The front doors of the guild opened to reveal a man covered head to toe in clothing and bandages, with only a portion of his face visible.

"Hey! Was it you who put everyone to sleep!? What was that for?" Naruto steamed.

"You tell him! Geez thatguy! I mean I get he didn't want it to get around that he looked like Jellal or anything but still he should've trusted us." Natsu vented getting several grumbles in agreement. However Erza silently disagreed remembering how she lost her composure at the battle of Fairy Tail just seeing his face.

"A new member?" The cloaked man wondered aloud.

"Mystogan." The master greeted.

Naruto's eyes widened. 'That's Mystogan?'

The bandaged man walked to the request board and picked out a mission. He then placed it in front of Makarov. "I'll be leaving."

"Mystogan, I'd like you to meet our newest member, Naruto Uzumaki." The master gestured to Naruto.

The quiet man sent Naruto a nod and turned to leave the guild.

"H-hey! Wait a second!" Naruto yelled and followed the mysterious mage outside.

As soon as they left, everyone in the guild began to awaken.

"geez I always hate that feeling!" Natsu and Gray vented while Mira and Erza also were a bit annoyed their magic power at that time wasn't powerful enough tostay awake.

"You know what I have the power to make you experience what your counterparts are feeling in real life if you want?" Mavis asked innocently while the guild looked at her in horror. They did not want to experience the pain or sleepiness especially since they weren't even there! "Just kidding! Teehee." Mavis giggled at the expressions of the fairy tail guild.

"Gramps could she really do something like that?" Natsu asked horrified of feeling motion sickness again every time it was mentioned in the book.

"To be honest Natsu I have no idea were her limits are. Master Mavis never discover the limits of what Fairy heart can do before the war with Zeref and this Master Mavis seemed fully aware of her own abilities." Makarov admitted as the guild turned to look at Mavis who merely winked swinging her feet back and forth like a child would.

"Was it Mystogan again?"

"His sleep magic is powerful."

Lucy looked around and noticed that Naruto was gone. "Where did Naruto go?"

"He left to follow Mystogan." Makarov said, pointing to the doors.

"He left before getting his stamp." Mirajane said with a frown.

"So, the new guy can resist Mystogan's sleep magic huh?" A voice came from the second floor.

"Laxus that's you!" Natsu said excitedly as Laxus looked down in shame. He knew he was a brat back then who had hurt the guild, threatened it members and even the entire town in a bid for power. The Thnder legion quickly comforted him as well as Makarov who silently gave him a look saying 'I Have forgiven you for this.' Making Laxus smile again.

Everyone looked up to find Laxus leaning on the railing with a smirk on his face.

"Fight me Laxus!" Natsu challenged the moment he saw the older boy.

Ignoring the ranting teen, the lightning scarred mage looked at the guild's doors, his smirk growing to a malicious grin. 'Naruto Uzumaki huh? Interesting...'

Laxus was both interested and even abit worried for the new member of other Fairy Tail. He knew back then he only cared about new people for 2 reasons- their strength and if he could use those people for his own ambitions.

"Why are you following me?" Mystogan asked without looking back.

"The old man said you might know something about dimensional travel. Is that true?" Naruto asked.

The mage turned and seemed to study the blonde. "Another dimension? Are you from Edolas?"

"I wonder if the other Edolias is any different with Naruto in that dimension? I mean if our histories are the same till Naruto showed up in Fairy Tail it means I still ended up in Edolias." Getting small sad smiles from Mira, Elfman and Natsu which quickly disappeared when Lissanna smiled back at her family.

Naruto shook his head. "Never heard of it. I'm from the Elemental Nations."

Mystogan continued down the road again. "Then I'm afraid I can't help you. I've never heard of such a place."

"Do you know anything at all about dimension hopping?"

Mystogan stopped, his patience wearing thin. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I do not have information that could be any use to you. Now if you'll excuses me, I have a job to do."

Naruto stopped, disappointment growing on his face. With a heavy sigh, he turned around and began to walk towards his shared apartment. "How am I going to get back now?"

Lucy honestly felt both glad and guilty at this piece of news. She could tell that her other really cared for Naruto already and would be happy that he wouldn't need to leave any time soon. However she felt guilty feeling happy that the longer Naruto would be away from his original home. As she pondered these feelings Mavis gave her a tiny look that said 'don't worry Lucy it will work out in the end for Naruto and everyone in Fairy Tail.' Making her confused but less conflicted.

Lissanna actually felt rather connected with this scene. She knew what It like to be ripped away from you home and develop a new home with nice people. Despite her eventually losing the choice whether to stay in Edolias or Earthland she couldn't say at that moment if she could've picked one home over the other. She was sure Naruto was feeling something similar.

"There sure are a lot of strong people in Fairy Tail." She said to a tiny white dog thing, she was on her way home for the night.

"Puu..." It responded as if to agree with her statement.

"Hime I remember a message I am suppose to pass on to you." Virgo interrupted her own reading looking up at Lucy.

"What is it Virgo?" Lucy asked abit worried.

"Plu would like to be summoned in more non-combat situations. He would like to remind you that he is strictly a non-combat spirit." Virgo stated in her normal dry tone of voice ignoring how Lucy's guild mates started teasing Lucy.

"Geez Lucy that doggie isn't something you are suppose to be using to fight. I thought you had like at least 6 spirits meant for combat not a little doggy." Cana teased Lucy much to her annoyance.

"Actually, I disagree." Mira stated getting Lucy attention.

"You do Mira?!" Lucy asked the model hopeful to have one ally.

"Yup! Plu is Lucy's strongest celestial spirit so summoning him into combat is perfectly fine!" Mira chirped making the guild look at the seemingly oblivious waitress oddly.

"Thanks Mira." Lucy replied sarcastically.

Walking up to her apartment building, she climbed the stairs and opened the door to her shared room to find Natsu and Naruto working out.

"Hey Lucy, hope you don't mind Natsu being here." Naruto said between crunches.

"Geez Natsu I have an actual roommate in that dimension and you still barging into my home." Lucy said grumpily while Happy snickered.

"Its not my fault you place has such nice stuff!" Natsu justified whole Mira smiled since she gave spare keys to all of Team Natsu.

"Yeah nice stuff for me! It wont stay nice if you and Happy wreck it!" Lucy retorted annoyed that people kept breaking and entering her home.

"Why are you working out in here!?"

"Natsu showed up and wanted to work out, so I joined him."

Natsu offered her a pair of dumbbells. "Wanna join us?"

"No, you wreak! Natsu, get out!"

"Why does Naruto get to stay?" Natsu whined.

The Guild gave Natsu a dumbfounded look making Natsu shout "I Get it ok! It was a dumb question! If I knew that living with Lucy would have her not yell at me for entering her home al the time I would have totally did it." Natsu murmured the last part but sadly Lucy still heard.

"Listen if I had a roommate t would be somebody like Wendy or Cana! They would at least respect my privacy and not lounge around uninvited!" Lucy screamed.

"Lucy your other let Naruto who is a lot like Natsu live with you so I don't know what the big deal is." Gray said while Juvia just had hearts in her eyes.

"The difference Gray is that Natsu has a home and Naruto got stuck in Earthland partially because of other me!" Lucy declared while Mavis just smiled knowing that reason would soon change for other Lucy.

"Because he lives here!" Wearing herself out from all the yelling, Lucy slumped onto the couch.

Happy pat her on the head. "It's okay Lucy, we'll leave so you and Naruto can be alone."

"Don't you say anything cat or you Cana!" Lucy whined knowing that they would both use any opportunity to tease her about other Lucy living with a boy while they were both single.

Swiping at the laughing cat, Lucy noticed he was holding a flier. "What's that paper?"

Naruto and Natsu both smirked. "We're going on an S-class mission!"

Lucy gasped. "But none of us are S-class mages!"

"Speak for yourself. Back at home, I'm ranked S-rank in the bingo book: Run on site." Naruto boasted.

This got an interested look from both Mira and Erza hearing that Naruto appeared to be a relatively similar ranking system as themselves and Laxus.

Mavis quickly clarified "Like I said before S-class and S-rank are not exactly equal on a ranking system but I will safely say that Naruto is more powerful then he appears."

This got a general thought in peoples head "Just how much more powerful can Naruto be?"

'I don't think that applies here...' Lucy thought with a sweatdrop. "Why are you even in on this Naruto? I can understand Natsu, but you?"

Naruto shrugged. "Because all the other mission requests are either too easy or too boring. Besides, Mystogan was a dead end to getting back home, so I wanna blow off some steam."

Lucy sighed in defeat. "Whatever, do what you want. But I'm not going."

"You end up going." Natsu, Gray and Happy all said at the same time.

"Shut up! If it wasn't for Sagittarius' key I wouldn't have gone!" Lucy exclaimed while Erza sighed that her teammates had broken one of the guilds rules.

"Oh yeah, I never looked at what the mission request was. What do we gotta do?" Naruto asked Happy.

"To save a cursed island!" Natsu and Happy both said with spooky faces.

Naruto gulped nervously. "C-cursed... you say?"

The dragon slayer gained an excited grin. "Yeah, I bet there'll be ghosts and stuff!"

"Um... maybe we should listen to Lucy and not go? Yeah? I don't want to get you guys in trouble with the old man." Naruto asked a bit hopefully.

"Seriously super ninja is afraid of ghosts? What a wimp." Natsu said gleefully to Happy.

"Says the guy afraid of trains or anything that moves more then 1 mile per hour." Gray taunted snidely,

"Shut up! Its not my fault that my body hates transportation!" Natsu retorted back.

Natsu snorted. "You scared of some haunted island? What are you, a chicken?"

Happy started making chicken noises and Naruto fumed.

"I'm not scared! In fact, we're leaving first thing in the morning!" He turned to Lucy. "You're coming too!"

"What? No way!"

"Look, we get a golden key for doing this job. If you come with us, you can have it." Naruto said and handed her the flier.

Lucy looked at the paper to see if he was telling the truth. "Well, I guess someone has to babysit you three." She said with an innocent smile.

"You were in it for the key." Most of guild said with a dead face Lucy blush in embarrassment at the truth.

The three boys grinned and began to prepare for their trip.

Hargeon Port...

"So, what's the plan?" Naruto asked while looking around the harbor.

"We find a boat to take us to the island." Lucy said simply.

Natsu shook his head. "No way! We'll swim there!"

They asked around to see if any of the sailors would help them, but the sailors all denied them passage the moment they mentioned the name of the island.

"No luck huh?" Naruto asked, and Lucy shook her head sadly.

"I guess we're swimming!" Natsu said happily, and he would have jumped into the water had Lucy not grabbed onto the back of his collar.

"I can probably run us there if the island isn't too far out." Naruto suggested and the other three looked at him incredulously. "What?"

"He's bluffing. Not even us dragon slayer can stand on water and our magic work on dragons." Gajeel piped up while Erza was less sure remembering he could walk upside on walls.

"The island is across the ocean! You can't run there."

"Of course I can, watch this!" Naruto said and jumped off the dock, landing on the surface of the water as if it were solid land.

As Gajeel just quietly moped there, the guild was impressed at another useful ability. The Dragon Slayers were a bit jealous as having such a skill could limit their need to use boats to travel.

Natsu and Lucy watched in awe as Naruto showed off his ability.

"Found ya."

They turned around and found Gray standing behind them, and he did not look happy.

Erza turned to glare at Gray who notably weltered at the look. "You were supposed to bring them back" Erza hissed although everybody could still sense the worried tone in her voice.

"I was! I mean before Lyon and Deliora happened…." Gray stuttered quietly. "After seeing what happened on that island you are still mad about us breaking a rule to save those people?!" Gray asked defiantly making people gasp at Gray utter disrespect towards Erza.

"These rules aren't there to prove that S-class wizards are better then normal wizards! S-class missions can have dangers you cannot imagine! Honestly you, Natsu, Happy and Lucy could've died on that mission then what was I going to do… Your my teammates and I was so worried…"Erza whispered the last part smiling as the entire Team Natsu embraced her in a group hug.

Lucy raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing here?"

Naruto jumped back onto the port. "Hey Gray. Wanna go on the job too?"

He sent Naruto a flat look. "No, I came to bring you guys back. If you come back now, maybe you can avoid being expelled from the guild."

Lucy's eyes widened. "Expelled!?" She had only been thinking about was the golden key, but they were breaking the rules of the guild. Of course they might get expelled for this!

"No way! We're going to do this S-class mission!" Natsu yelled in defiance.

"I guess I'm going to have to use force!" Gray said as his fists began to glow.

The flame wielder ignited his fists on fire. "You wanna go!?"

A nearby sailor noticed their magic and called to them. "Are you mages? Are you here to stop the curse?"

They stopped their respective magics and looked at the guy.

"We're from Fairy Tail." Naruto answered with a grin.

"Here, hop in." He motioned for them to get on his boat.

Lucy beamed. "Really? You're a life saver!"

Natsu turned his attention back to his rival. "Now all that's left is... Eh?" He was surprised to see Naruto holding an unconscious Gray over his shoulder.

"That was a cheap shot Natsu!" Gray shouted angrily in Natsus face.

"Naruto was the one who hit other you Gray!" Natsu shouted back.

"Yeah but you actually sucker punched me when we did the mission here!" Gray retorted even madder.

"You were going to tell on us to Erza so we had to knock you out Gray!" Natsu retorted.

"You idiot! Erza ended up showing up anyways!" Gray shouted back. A fight was likely to occour until Erza clapped her hands.

"Natsu, Gray please stop this shouting now. We are reading and don't need your disruptive behaviours now." Erza stated calmly making both wizards quickly back down.

Seeing their stares, the shinobi raised an eyebrow. "What? He wasn't looking so I knocked him out." He said and did a chopping mission with his open arm. "Let's go on our S-class mission!"

"Ugh… Plesae…! No more… Blurgh! Transportation…!" Natsu groaned.

Every dragon Slayer shuddered while Natsu face turned face just remembering the sensation of transportation.

"To think the deadliest magic is done in by something so common…." Lucy remarked drily not all impressed with the weakness.

'I wonder if you knew about this flaw if this was any way to have fixed it when you created this magic….?" Erza thought thinking of her mother Irene Belserion.

"Is he okay?" The man looked at Natsu worriedly.

Lucy laughed sheepishly. "Don't worry about him. He's just really bad with transportation."

Gray, who was tied up and couldn't move, was laying right next to Natsu. "…Why was I forced to come?"

"I'm gonna die~"

"And stop complaining you wimp!" Gray yelled and headbutt Natsu in the face.

"So why did you change your mind?" Naruto asked the sailor, ignoring the ice mage's rambling.

"My name is Bobo. I used to live on that cursed island. But I escaped." He responded.

Happy raised his hand to get their attention. "What kind of curse is it?"

"Those who step foot on that island are cursed…" He began and removed his cloak to reveal his demonic looking arm. "The demon's curse."

They gasped at the man's arm.

"There it is, Garuna Island."

Off in the distance, they could see an eerie looking island.

Naruto shivered. "The island isn't really haunted, is it?" He asked and turned to see that Bobo was no longer on the boat. "…Eh?"

Lucy gasped. "Where did he go!?"

A deep rumble started rocking their boat.

"What's that noise?" Natsu mumbled.

"A tidal wave!" The giant wave was rapidly making its way towards them. Their tiny boat didn't stand a chance.

Lucy and Happy shuddered remembering how lucky they actually escaped that tidal wave with minimal injuries.

Thinking fast, Naruto crossed his fingers. "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!"

Each clone grabbed a person on board before jumping onto the water, easily outrunning the wave towards the shore of the island.

After making it to the beach, he put everyone down and dispelled his technique. "Phew! That was close!"

"Yay! That is such a useful skill!" Lucy shouted happy her other didn't nearly drown like she did.

"Indeed, that was very impressive and kind for him to carry all of you through his clones. He is a true fairy at heart thinking about his comrades first." Erza said with a smile. Mavis nodded her head knowing to Naruto comrades was the most important thing to him especially with the way his childhood was.

"We're saved~!" Natsu said and while crying anime tears.

"Aye!"

Lucy smiled thankfully. "Thanks for saving us, Naruto."

Naruto gave them a thumbs up and took a look around. The sun was beginning to set, making the beach look rather ominous.

Resisting the urge to shiver, Naruto turned back to his resting group. "It's getting late. We should set up camp for tonight and look for the client in the morning." He then walked over to Gray and untied him. "Still gonna try and stop us?"

Gray rubbed his hands stared at the ninja hard, but eventually sighed in defeat. "Well, I guess I might as well tag along. It'd be annoying if you guys got to the second floor before me."

"Gray that's not a very good reason to join an illegal mission…" Cana said with a sweatdrop much to Gray's embarrassment at how selfish he sounded.

The Next Day...

"So, this is the village?"

They walked up to the gates and saw a sign that said: "Keep Out".

"Hello? Is there anyone there? Could you open the gate?" Lucy called out in an attempt to get someone's attention.

Two people looked over the top of the gate. "Who are you?"

"We're mages from Fairy Tail. We saw your request."

The guards looked at each other in confusion. "We haven't heard of anyone accepting our request."

She was about to say more when Gray stopped her. "There must have been a mistake."

"Show us your guild symbols." They demanded.

Naruto gulped. 'Whoops. Looks like I forgot to get my mark.'

"Woops silly me!~~ Oh well I am sure Naruto wont hold it against other me." Mira sang in her casual cheerful tone of voice.

"Naruto seems like a real man and holding grudges is unmanly!" Elfman added.

The others all showed their marks, but when Naruto didn't the guards looked at him expectedly. "What about you?"

He scratched his cheek. "I haven't gotten my mark yet, but I am a guild member... Technically."

The guards talked to one another.

"Are you gonna let us in or not? We could just leave." Gray asked coolly.

"Ooh! Gray-sama is acting so cool I just want to burst into water!" Juvia screamed happily.

"Please don't Juvia, besides I am an Ice-Make Wizard so basically everything I do is 'cool'." Gray remarked coolly.

"Hime, should I stop reading so Juvia-san and Gray-san can sort out their issues?" Virgo asked politely,

"Don't worry about it. Juvia and Gray lovers quarrel is not something we can understand. Please continue reading Virgo." Lucy replied getting a nod from Virgo.

The gate started to open. "Come in. We'll get the mayor."

Walking into the village, they waited for the mayor to appear. After a few minutes, he showed up and greeted them. "Welcome to Garuna Island, please heed our troubles..."

He then proceeded to explain the village's problems.

"Which is why I had to kill my son..." He said sadly and showed them a picture of Bobo.

Naruto stiffened. 'That's that sailor guy! He was a g-ghost!?'

"Why didn't any of us notice that?" Lucy asked stumped why such a major detail eluded them.

"Dunno, It all worked out in the end anyways right?" Natsu replied in his carefree tone of voice with both happy and Gray nodding along.

"I guess you're right.." Lucy conceded signalling Virgo to continue reading.

The mayor continued. "If this goes on, we will all become engulfed in darkness and become demons."

"We won't let that happen!" Natsu yelled and the others nodded in agreement.

The old man pointed up. "Then please, destroy the moon."

"Nani?! That was your mission?!" Everybody screamed except for Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Erza, Makarov and Mavis. "the moons still there! So did you finish the mission?" they asked. Lucy was too stunned at such a reaction to reply back but luckily Erza came to the rescue.

"Look everybody. Calm down the book will reveal what really happen." Erza sighed making the guild calm down knowing that if Erza said it worked t it must've worked out.

Later In The Forest...

"We're not really going to destroy the moon, are we?" Naruto asked. Not even knowing if his techniques could reach, he doubted any of them had the power to destroy something as big as the moon.

Gray snorted. "Of course not, there's gotta be a reason behind the moon turning purple."

"Guys, you have to be careful. Who knows what's in this forest. So she says." Horologium said.

"Hey Virgo?" Lucy asked making the celestial spirit stop reading.

"Yes Hime?" Virgo replied back interested in what her master needed.

"Why does Horologium have such a short time limit for summonings? I mean I could use his protection much more often and longer periods!" Lucy complained.

"My apologies Hime. Horologium simply cannot change his time limits no matter how much you ask. His powers are simply limited outside the celestial world no matter the case." Virgo explained getting Lucy to grumble about all the times she needed help but he couldn't be there.

Naruto sweatdropped, the girl had concealed herself within the clock spirit. "Lucy, what are you doing?"

"This forest is scary! So she says."

Naruto laughed. "Don't worry, I'll make sure nothing bad happens!"

MAvus smiled knowing despite saying in a joking way that Naruto was serious. He already considered Lucy one of his 'precious people' despite never of them having any true kind of romantic feelings at this point.

"Wah!"

Naruto and Lucy/Horologium turned to see Natsu and Gray running from a giant rat.

"What the!?"

"Run!" They screamed and took off running.

Naruto, flashing into Sage Mode, jumped towards the giant animal and punched it right in the face, which knocked it out instantly.

"Take that you stupid rat! Go Naruto!" Lucy cheered happy that ugly rat (no matter why Sherry said otherwise) got pummelled.

The rat groaned and fell back, causing a minor tremor as it hit the ground.

Naruto landed on the ground and deactivated Sage Mode before walking back to the group.

"See? Nothing to worry about."

Gray looked at Naruto as the ninja passed him, completely baffled. 'This guy might actually be as strong as Erza…!'

Gray started sweating anxiously due to worrying on how Erza would react to his other thoughts. Lucy meanwhile remembered Erza doing a similar feat using a single sword without requiping any armours to take down that giant rat.

"Hmm… Honestly I am not sure about whether that statement would be true without actually fighting him directly or asking Master Mavis but I will admit his strength is very impressive." Erza admitted while looking at the innocent looking Erza.

Lucy was snapped out of her amazement when Horologium disappeared. 'Must have run out of time… Oh?' Having noticed something, Lucy pointed out in the distance. "Hey, there's an old building over there. Let's check it out."

They walked into the ruins and looked around. There was a variety of weird looking symbols scattered across the wall, most likely the language of a past civilization.

The stellar spirit mage traced one of the symbols with a finger. "I wonder what they mean?"

Natsu looked at the ground and started stomping. "Is this floor even sturdy?"

"Stop! If you do that-"

Crack!

The floor beneath them caved in and they all fell with it.

"Wahhh!" They all screamed as they fell.

"Natsu you idiot!"

Naruto caught Lucy mid-air and landed gracefully while the others landed in a heap.

"that's so sweet he caught you in mid air! Just like a knight in shining armour!" Mira beamed sure that other Lucy and Naruto would be such a cute couple. Mavis winked at the take over wizard while Lucy was fighting off teasing from Cana and Happy.

"T-thanks." Lucy said while he put her down.

"Geez why would something like that make other me stutter. I am sure its nothing…" Lucy thought to herself trying to convince herself that an alternate her wouldn't like any guy like that.

"Don't mention it." Naruto said absentmindedly before walking off. Something down here seemed to be calling at him, and it felt… familiar.

"Naruto?" She watched the ninja walk off on his own down the cave.

"Hey! Why did you only save Lucy!?" Natsu steamed before noticing Happy landing softly on the ground with his wings. "And why didn't you catch me!?"

Natus that is an easy one. Its cause he LUVS Lucy!" Happy explained getting a snicker from Natsu and an annoyed groan from Lucy.

Happy shrugged. "I was too surprised."

As Natsu began to chase Happy around the cave, Gray picked himself up and noticed Naruto walking away. "Where's he going?"

"Hey guys! Get over here!" Naruto called out to them.

They ran down the tunnel too where Naruto was.

When the group reached him, they gasped at the sight that beheld them.

Concealed in what looked to be ice, was a giant demonic looking monster.

Gray started panting and having trouble keeping his cool as memories of that demon entered his mind. Natsu gave him a comforting pat on his back while Lucy and Erza both gave their teammate a concerned look. Juvia never knowing what that demon meant to Gray merely wrapped her arms around hi letting him know she had his back.

"W-what is that?"

Gray stared at the massive being with wide eyes. 'Deliora!?'

Naruto looked at the creature intensely. 'It's giving off the same feeling as that giant squirrel and Lullaby... What could this mean?'

"Wait does that mean that those other demons Naruto fought were created by Zeref like the Tartarous dark guild?" Gray demanded looking at Mavis.

"It also means it is the same as me…." Natsu thought to himself since he was E.N.D revived by his older brother Zeref. Lucy sensing where his thoughts were going gave Natsu a comforting hug.

Meanwhile the rest of the guild's attention was on Gray who looked almost ready to use force on the stone faced Mavis.

"Dammit Mavis-Sama answer me! Are there more of those demons in your world created by Zeref for whatever twisted plans he has?" Gray demanded.

Mavis eyes grew cool making everyone shudder at seeing their beloved master look so cold. She said in a determined voice with a trace of sadness "I know why you are reacting this way Gray. However, there are certain matters I will NOT discuss unless it is in the book and this is one of them. I you think you can force me to tell you let e remind you of one thing. I am fairy Heart and I don't know what other Mavis could do with it but you do not want to test me young man. Understand?" Gray backed down seeing that the usually cheerful Master was dead serious and not afraid to show it.

Natsu remembered Zeref using Mavis Fairy Heart power and reversing time and space itself making him shudder to think what Mavis could do with such power.

"Naruto? What's wrong?" Lucy asked.

Naruto snapped out of his thoughts and laughed. "It's nothing. Don't worry about it."

Gray was shaking uncontrollably. "How can Deliora be here!? It's not possible!"

"Hey, calm down! What's wrong?" Lucy tried calming him.

Natsu's ears twitched when heard footsteps coming from the other side of the cavern. "Someone's coming!"

"It's the Lamis Scale guys." Happy said trying to liven up the tense mood which seemed to work.

"Yeah poor old Lyon is going to get his butt whooped by us!" Natsu exclaimed getting a grin from Gray.

They all hid behind some boulders.

"I thought I heard someone." A man with huge eyebrows said.

"Ooon." His dog-faced companion replied.

"Toby, did you get moon drip in your ears?"

"NO I DIDN'T YUUKA!"

The now named Yuuka cleared his ear. "Calm down I was only teasing."

'What the heck is moon drip?' Naruto thought with a raised eyebrow.

"Yuuka-San, Toby-San, I have bad news. Angelica was harassed by some intruders." A girl with long pink hair said while walking up to her comrades.

"Elfman I swear if you are thinking about her appearance after our 7-year nap you are going to sleeping on the couch for the next month!" Evergreen threatened.

"Of course, I wasn't thinking about that! Its unmanly to think about other girls like that when you are in a relationship!" Elfman defended himself.

"Save the married couple routine till we finish the book." Carla said drily.

"We are not married yet!" both of them shouted back in response.

"IT'S JUST A MOUSE!"

"She's not just a mouse, she is a knight that gallops the darkness, and..." She looked off to the distance dreamily. "Love."

Hearing the word 'love' made Wendy blush thinking about Cherria and her definition of 'love'. "At least she isn't so bad about love as her older cousin…" Wendy thought to herself.

Naruto sweatdropped. 'What?'

"Let's get rid of these intruders before Reitei-Sama finds out about them."

After the three people left, Natsu stepped out and punched his fists together. "We should have caught them and questioned them."

Lucy shook her head. "Not yet, we don't know enough about what's going on." She turned over to Naruto. "What do you think we should next?"

Naruto scratched his cheek sheepishly. "Getting more information sounds good… haha."

'He wanted to catch them too.' Lucy and Happy thought in unison.

Naruto walked over to Gray, who was staring at the frozen demon intensely. "Hey Gray, just what is this demon to you anyways?"

Gray clenched his fists. "This demon attacked my home village when I was little, I'm the only one that survived. My teacher Ur, sealed it away at the risk of her own life."

"Ur…." Gray thought as her presence was still fresh to him especially after recently fighting a clone generated of her created by one of the Spriggan 12.

Naruto's eyes softened. So Gray had lost everything because of this demon, seeing it here was probably very painful.

"At the risk of your teacher's life?" Lucy asked. The way Gray had said that made her feel uneasy.

Gray nodded. "Yeah, and it's just sealed up. It's still alive."

Lucy gasped. "No way…"

"So we just have to destroy it right?" Natsu said and started walking towards the ice while cracking his knuckles.

Naruto put a hand out. "Wait, there's gotta be more to the story. Right Gray?"

Gray glared up at Deliora. "Ur used a magic called "Iced Shell" to seal it. It's an unmeltable ice."

"If it's unmeltable, then why did these people bring it here?" Naruto wondered aloud. He knew close to nothing about seals, and magical seals were beyond that to him. But didn't seem like he was exaggerating how powerful the ice seal was.

"Maybe they found out how to melt the ice." Lucy suggested.

Gray kicked a wall. "Damn it! Who would want to unseal Deliora?"

"Let's follow those guys and find out." Naruto said. Lucy was right. They clearly needed more information, and following those people would surly lead them to that information.

Gray shook his head. "No. We should wait until the moon rises."

Naruto nodded in agreement. "I think that's smart. This island's mystery seems to be surrounded by the moon. So we might find something out if we look around at night."

Natsu groaned. "But it won't be night for a couple hours!"

A Few Hours Later...

Natsu was snoring peacefully on the ground, with Happy nestled up on his stomach.

"Same old Natsu. All he does is eat, sleep and fight." Lucy commented with Lissanna giggling and agreeing.

"Whats wrong with that?! Natsu asked indignantly but everyone ignored the fuming dragon slayer.

Naruto cracked an eye open and looked at him. 'And he was just complaining about waiting too.' He too was laying on the ground getting some rest.

Lucy sighed. 'Even though we agreed to wait, this is still boring.' She then smiled as an idea came to her. "Open, Gate of the Lyre! Lyra!"

In a bright flash of light, Lyra appeared.

"Oh Lucy! You haven't summoned me in ages!" Lyra chimed.

"That's because I can only summon you in very certain times…" Lucy said with a sweatdrop.

"Lyra would like you to know she is still mad she is only summoned bvery rarely." Virgo informed Lucy.

"tell her to extend our contract to more then 3 times a month then!" Lucy argued back while Virgo took a notebook to write this information down.

"Oh, I haven't seen this spirit before." Naruto said and sat up to greet the spirit. In the time he had come to know Lucy, he found out that she really loved her spirits and treated them like friends. It was just like he was with the toads. So far, he had only met a couple of Lucy's spirits: Horologium, Virgo, the little white dog thing, and Aquarius. Naruto shuddered remembering his first meeting with the mermaid.

Upon seeing Naruto, a sly smile grew on Lyra's face. "Oh~? Is this the rumored Naruto I've been hearing so much about in the Celestial Spirit World?"

"Rumours?m What rumours?!" Lucy started freaking out especially when everybody gave her amused grins at the implications/

Lucy's face heated up. Just what were they talking about in the spirit world?

Naruto, not noticing the hidden tease aimed at Lucy and himself, grinned a foxlike grin. "That's me! Nice any friend of Lucy's is a friend of mine!"

Lyra blinked at the boy's denseness before cooing and hugging the ninja in a full embrace. "Aw~ You're so adorable! I'm Lyra, nice to finally meet you Naruto!"

"See Lucy. Even your spirits can see it. Your other just has to accept her feelings and the teasing will disappear." Mira said wisely to a blushing Lucy.

" I am sure other me just gets weird rumors about her! I mean I am older then her now and I still haven't got a boyfriend yet…" Lucy mumbled the last part while both Erza and Wendy give her sympathetic pats on the back.

"N-nice to meet you too…" Naruto said a bit awkwardly as the girl let him go.

Lucy sighed. She wondered how the other spirits were going to react to Naruto. "Hey, do you mind playing a song, your choice."

The spirit nodded happily and began to sing, strumming her harp to compliment her beautiful voice.

'Not bad.' Naruto thought and leaned back onto his spot. The song was a bit sad, but it very calming and pleasant to listen too. It almost made him feel a little homesick.

On the other side of the cavern, Gray began to shiver.

"G-gray? Are you okay? Lyra! Play something more cheerful!" The celestial spirit mage stuttered.

"You told me to play anything!"

Naruto got up and sat near Gray. He had a good idea what Gray was thinking of. "My parents died protecting my home village from a demon. So I sorta know what you're going through."

Gray everyone looked at Mavis eager to learn more about this piece of information. Only to see Mavis' face sadder then they thought possible. 'Naruto….' Mavis thought trying desperately not to cry in front of everyone. To spare her feelings everyone looked back at Virgo who took this as the cue to start reading.

Gray didn't look at him, but even so, Naruto grinned. "I don't know much about this Ur person, but she died protecting someone important to her. So she's okay in my book!"

The ice mage grinned, if not a little.

Lucy smiled at the scene, a smile that wasn't missed by her spirit.

'Hoho~ The rumors are so true!' Lyra thought with a mischievous smile. She couldn't wait to tell the other spirits back in the spirit world.

"I am sure the other versions of us Celestial spirits will enjoy this piece of gossip." Virgo said in her usual emotionless tone of voice while Cana grin grew bigger.

A bright eerie light suddenly shined through the ceiling and onto Deliora.

Having woken up from Lyra's song, Natsu jumped up with a sleepy Happy in his arms. "What is that?"

"Let's go find out! It could be the people behind everything!" Lucy said and everyone nodded.

They ran up to the top of the ruins and found what looked to be a ritual being performed. Several cloaked people stood in a circle around the hole that they assumed was where Deliora was.

"Are they gathering the moonlight?" Lucy wondered aloud, and was startled when Lyra popped up right next to her.

"Yes. It's most likely to make moon drip."

"Its still amazing that Lyra knew about moon drip before we did." Gray commented while Virgo turned to him.

"We Spirits have been around for man years and had many different summoners, interesting pieces of magic like moon drip is considered gossip to us." Vigo explained getting an understanding look from Gray and Lucy.

"What is that moon drip stuff?" Naruto asked.

"It's a magic that has the power to break any spell. They must be collecting it to unseal that demon." Lyra explained.

Gray's eyes widened. "They don't know what they're dealing with here!"

Lucy frowned. "This is probably what's causing the curse on this island."

A man wearing a cloak and a helmet came into view.

"Reitei-Sama, there are intruders on the island. We couldn't find them."

"Intruders?" The masked man said.

"Lyon…" Gray whispered both sad and annoyed that his childhood friend would go to such lengths at this point in time. Juvia was interested to learn more about Gray's childhood friend despite not having an interest in him.

'That must be the leader…' Naruto thought and turned to look at the others, but frowned when he saw Gray's eyes wide like saucers. "Gray?"

"The villagers of the island are the only other people here. Destroy them. I don't want anyone to interfere, not when I'm this close."

"As you wish Reitei-Sama."

Lucy gasped. "Destroy the village!?"

Natsu growled and jumped up. "I'm tired of sneaking around! That's Naruto's job!"

Naruto sweatdropped.

"We're the ones your looking for!" He yelled while breathing fire into the sky.

Naruto got up and started to run towards the cloaked man. If he could take out the leader, his followers would surely stop the ritual.

"Nice thought but if even one of them was able they would continue the ritual no matter what." Erza remarked remembering how devoted these cult members were at destroying Delora at all costs.

"Wait Naruto!" Gray called out and the ninja stopped and looked back. "What? Why?"

Gray ran at Reitei charging a magic attack. "He's mine!" The ice mage attacked with stream of ice.

Reitei smirked and countered it with his own ice stream.

Gray sucked his teeth, he knew this person. "Leon! Do you know what you're doing?"

"Gray, do you know this guy?"

"Yeah, he's also a disciple of Ur." Gray glowered at his fellow ice mage.

Leon took his helmet off to reveal his face, he had sharp eyes and bluish-silver hair. "It's been a while, Gray." He said then turned to his followers. "Hurry and go, I can take care of things here."

"Yes sir!" The trio said and ran in the direction of the village.

Natsu charged at them and roared. "Like I'd let you!"

Leon simply lifted a hand and Natsu's body was encased in ice, minus his head and limbs.

"Dammit that sucked!" Natsu raged remembering walking like a dwarf encased in case. Happy gave him sympathetic pats.

"Happy take Lucy to protect the village!" Naruto yelled out to Happy.

"Aye sir!"

"What about you?" Lucy yelled as the cat picked her up.

"Don't worry, I'll be meet you guys there!" Naruto said then looked at Natsu, whose torso was covered in ice.

"W-what's with this ice?" Natsu was having a hard time keeping balance.

Gray walked over to the dragon slayer and pushed him down the hill.

"Wah~!"

Naruto watched the tumbling boy. "You obviously have some beef with this guy, and I'm sure Natsu will be fine, so I'll be going back to the village to help Lucy." He said before taking off towards the village.

Lucy as touched that Naruto was looking out for her more then sticking around to fught which seemed like more of his style.

"Geez Naruto seems like the complete package. Do I and him ever you know?" Cana whispered to Mavis though mimed zipping her mouth shut and tossing out the key. "Geez thatsno fun." Cana whined as Mavis giggled.

Gray never took his eyes off Leon. "Thanks."

Naruto hopped over the village gate and landed on the ground. "Hey Lucy! I'm her-ack!" The ground beneath him crumbled and the blonde fell into a pit. "Ouch... what the heck?"

Lucy and Virgo poked their head's over the edge and peered down. "Naruto! Sorry, I thought you were an enemy or I would have warned you!"

Lucy looked fearfully at Erza who only looked confused. "Do I have something on my face Lucy?" Erza asked tilting her head in confusion.

"Of course, not Erza…." Lucy said nervously. 'She doesn't remember' Lucy thought relieved.

Naruto pulled himself out of the hole and dusted himself off. "You made pitfall traps? Do you really think the enemy would fall for this?"

Lucy tried to conceal her laughter. "You did."

Happy walked over to Naruto. "I take back what I said about you being smart."

Naruto turned bright red. "W-well I just wasn't really paying attention."

Virgo popped out of the ground next to the pouting blonde, having just made another pitfall trap. "Is it punishment time, Naruto-Sama?"

"I do not believe Naruto-sama is right.. I shall call him Naruto-Ouji." Virgo interrupted herself getting a gasp from Lucy and a snocker from everyone else.

"hy would you call Naruto Prince?" Lucy demanded of Virgo.

"Since Lucy-hime clearly has feelings for Naruto-sama it is only right for her love interest to be "Ouji'". Virgo replied calmly. Lucy kept shking her head in denial while most of the guild got a laugh at ucy's emberassent.

He gave the maid a blank stare. "What's with you and punishment?"

"What happened with Gray and Natsu?" Lucy asked.

"I left that Leon guy to Gray, and Natsu's somewhere in the forest."

She gave him a questioning look.

Naruto shrugged. "I'm sure he's fine."

"It's them!" The gate guards yelled, Naruto watched as the gate started to open. "I still don't think they'll fall for it."

"Oh? Is little Naruto still mad about falling for such a "stupid" plan?" Lucy teased.

Hearing this made Lucy calm down and smirk. She was proud she managed to get one over such a powerful ninja.

Naruto grumbled to himself and watched the gates open to reveal Natsu holding a bruised-up Gray.

"What are you guys doing here!?"

'So, Gray lost?' Naruto thought with a frown. That Leon guy must be strong if Gray couldn't beat him. He knew Gray was about equal in strength to Natsu, and Natsu was no pushover when fighting seriously.

"He's not my equal!" "I am not his equal!" Natsu and Gray screamed at he same time.

"You basically are." Lucy and Wendy said with a straight face.

"what do you know?!" they both screamed.

"natsu and gray behave." Erza said quietly as she started eating starberry cake from who knows where.

"Yes Erza." They both deflated and went back to their seats.

Lucy noticed Natsu was about to walk over a trap. "No wait! Don't come any closer!"

Crack!

Natsu looked down. "Huh?"

He poked the trap with his foot and he and Gray went crashing down.

"Ack!"

Naruto sweatdropped. 'At least I'm not the only one.'

"Haha only I haven't fallen for the traps!" Happy gloated happily to an annoyed Gray and Natsu.

"its because you can fly not because you're are strong!" Gray replied while Natsu merely looked annoyed.

"Huh why does the word 'rival' pop into my head?" Gray asked getting some confused looks from some of the guild.

"No reason at all! Lets keep reading shall we?" Warrren said while Max nodded along abit too eagerly. Juvia meanwhile remembering that incident chose to stay quiet.

"Who's pulling pranks at a time like this?" Natsu fumed from the bottom of the pit.

Happy flew down into the hole. "It was Lucy."

"How did you get here before the enemy Natsu? They left before you did, right?" Lucy asked quickly to change the subject.

"Yeah, they must be planning something." Naruto agreed as Happy helped the two out of the hole.

The villagers began to panic as the pointed at the sky.

"What is that thing!?" Someone pointed.

"It's carrying something!" Another screamed.

"What the…" Naruto said as he looked up and saw the giant mouse he had defeated in the forest flying towards the village.

Yes, it was flying.

Its tail was spinning at an impossible rate to keep it airborne.

"That doesn't make sense!" Happy and Lucy shouted.

"Who cares?" Natsu replied while Erza and Gray shrugged their shoulders. The rest of the guild looked indifferent to the rat,

"Hey, it's holding something…" Lucy said and pointed at the giant bucket in the rat's hands.

A drop of the substance splashed out of the bucket and fell on the ceiling of a house, melting right through it.

Lucy's eyes widened. "Acid!?"

"They're going to dump it on us!" Naruto said when the rat began to spin the bucket. Thinking fast, he bit his thumb and did a few hand signs. "Everyone, clear a space!"

He ran to a large enough spot and slammed his hand on the ground.

"Kuchiose no Jutsu!"

In a huge puff of smoke a giant toad appeared under the ninja.

'Huge!' Everyone thought.

"Hm? What do you want brat?" Gamabunta's voice boomed.

"Quick! Shoot some toad oil at that acid!" Naruto ordered quickly.

The chief toad grumbled but did what he was told. He shot a stream of toad oil straight at the acid.

Since Naruto didn't know any fire style jutsu, he threw a kunai with a paper bomb attached to it.

BOOM!

Everyone covered their heads as the explosion went off, and he acid was completely wiped out by the toad fire.

'That was way too close.' Naruto thought and sighed in relief. That acid would have wiped out the entire village, and he didn't want that to happen to these good people.

Natsu ran up to Naruto as he hopped off Gamabunta. "Naruto, that was so cool!"

Natsu shouted "nice one!" remerging how his attack only made the acid disperse around the village.

"It's not over yet."

The people that were riding the giant mouse jump off and landed in the village.

"What is that? A giant frog?" Yuuka asked.

"IT'S A TOAD!" Toby yelled.

"Angelica, can you take care of that?" The girl asked.

With a hiss, the giant rat flew down towards Gamabunta.

"You think I'd lose to an overgrown rodent? Huh!?" He met the beast head on and they both crashed through one of the village walls.

"That's pretty weird." Cana remarked as they saw two giant animals duke it out on Mavis illusion magic screen.

"that's quite a manly fight!" Elfman shouted as Evergreen merely shook her head.

Everyone watched in awe as the two giants duked it out. After all, it wasn't every day you got to see a giant toad brawl with a giant rat.

Taking advantage of the distraction, Naruto Shushined in front of Yuuka and punched him in the face. "Natsu! Lucy!"

"Fast!" Laxus thought as Mavis decided to explain.

"Basically, its a technique to allow a ninja to use chakra for a very quick burst of speed. It is mainly to get in close to an opponent but can also be used for emergency retreats." Mavis lectured as the guild nodded their heads (Levy wrote it down in her trusty notebook)/

"Yeah!" The dragon slayer yelled and charged at the dog guy.

"I'll get the girl!" Lucy called out.

Naruto ran towards his fallen opponent and threw a couple kunai at him.

"How do you expect to beat a mage by throwing daggers?" Yuuka asked dryly while blocking them with a wave of magic.

"You haven't seen anything yet!" Naruto said and charged a Rasengan.

"Magic doesn't work against me, the vibrations I make render it useless." The mage stated while putting up a field of vibrations.

Naruto smirked and ran straight at his opponent. "Then it's a good thing I don't use magic!"

"What!? Gah!"

Naruto's Rasengan went right through the guy's magic and hit the ground, throwing Yuuka into a wall.

"That's so cool!" Natsu announced already jealous as such an ability would help against anti-magic wizards.

"I am willing to bet such an ability could be used if Face was activated just like those Tartarous guys curse power was not magic based either." Erza reasoned out while Makarov was still fascinated that such abilities could exist in a different dimension.

Naruto flinched when the now unconscious mage hit the ground. 'Good thing I didn't hit him with it directly…'

"The guy I fought was dumb, I just tricked him into paralyzing himself." Natsu said while barking with laughter.

Naruto pointed in the direction Gamabunta went. "I'm going to check up on the chief toad, you go check on Gray."

Natsu nodded and they went their own separate ways. The blonde noticed Lucy was no longer in the village. 'Her fight must have gone into the forest, better check on her later.'

Lucy bent over to catch her breath. "I beat my opponent! I'm getting stronger! I'm a member of Fairy Tail after all!"

"That is unless the master banishes you all as punishment."

"I guess that big toad did finish off the rat so its not here to attack me." Lucy murmured remembering how overdramatic Sheery was in her defeat.

The Celestial spirit mage yelped in surprise and turned around to find a familiar red head glaring daggers at her. "E-Erza!"

"You have some explaining to do..."

Naruto ran through the forest, following a path of destruction. At the end, he found Gamabunta smoking his pipe while sitting on the giant mouse. "Hey chief, you're done already?"

The toad grunted. "Of course, this thing wasn't even a warm up."

Naruto laughed. "Okay, thanks for the help, you can go now."

His response was another grunt and the giant toad disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"I better look for Lucy"

Nearing the beach, he heard the girl's voice. "But we can't just leave the villagers!"

'There she is.' He was about to walk out when he saw Erza. 'W-what's she doing here?' He thought as he hid behind a tree.

"That's none of my concern." Erza responded.

"Then let us finish the job and-"

She was cut off when Erza pointed a sword at her.

"Seeing Lucy flinch Erza decided to say seething "Look Lucy it wasn't like I was going to harm you or anybody. I just need to bring you in for your own safety. Like I told Gray before these missions can be really tough. If you asked me I would've gone with you guys and there would be no problem." This got a warm hug from Lucy (ignoring the armour chestplate) making most of the guild smile at this act of comrades.

"No. We're leaving."

'S-scary!' Lucy thought as her legs began to shake.

Erza looked at the tree Naruto was hiding behind. "Naruto, I know you're there. Come out."

Naruto flinched. 'How did she know I was here?' Naruto inched out into their view. "H-hey Erza. How ya doin?"

She just stared at him for a second then began walking. "Let's go get Natsu and Gray."

The two just looked at each other and followed her. Their heads lowered in silent defeat.

A Couple Hours Later...

Naruto sat tied up next to Lucy and Happy, who were also tied up. He sighed. "After all that hard work, too."

"Silence." Erza commanded.

"Seeing the image on the screen even Gajeel shuddered. "Geez no wonder Salmander never disobeys Titania. She is pretty Hardcore."

Naruto zipped his lips.

After few minutes passed, Gray showed up. "Erza!?" He gawked.

She lowered her gaze at him. "I got the whole story from them." She gestured to the tied-up trio. "Where's Natsu?" Erza asked and looked at her prisoners.

Lucy and Happy shook their heads negative.

Erza then focused on Naruto who shrugged. "Last time I saw him, he was here in the village."

Erza stood up. "Then we must go look for him. He must be lost and doesn't know where to go."

Naruto sweat dropped. 'What is he, a lost puppy?'

Natsu glared daring anyone to agree while the guild wisely chose to look away from him.

"After we find Natsu, we're leaving."

Gray looked at her in shock. "What are you talking about Erza? If you heard the story from them, you should know what's going on here."

Erza's face stayed neutral. "So, what?"

Gray looked down. His hair shadowing his features. "I'm going to finish this mission."

Erza narrowed her eyes. "What was that?" She said and pointed a sword at him.

Gray grabbed the sword by the blade, surprising everyone in the room. "I made my decision. Sometimes I just gotta do what I gotta do." He said as blood trickled through his fingers.

Erza sighed making Gray quake in anticipation. "gray you're an idiot." Making everyone head drop. "But you were right to continue the mission but only since I was there got it?" Gray quickly nodded his head but in his head, he was smirking about getting Erza to admit he was right.

Erza just continued to stare at him.

Gray stared back, his determination not wavering in the slightest. "So if you want to stop me then go ahead." Gray turned to leave and saw Naruto standing right behind him.

"Well said Gray."

Everyone looked at the constricted Naruto only for it to stick out his tongue and explode in a puff of smoke.

"Woah he swapped out with a clone so quick!" Lucy exclaimed.

"That is a rather useful ability to multitask and confuse enemy and foe." Erza remarked as she could see no fault with the shadow clone until it revealed itself.

"My thoughts are the same. It wouldn't sit right with me to leave these people to their doom." Naruto said and looked Erza right in the eye. "Any objections, Erza?"

After a couple of seconds, Erza freed Lucy and Happy and walked passed Gray and Naruto. "I can't believe this. You'll receive punishment after we finish the mission."

"So where do you think he could have gone?" Erza asked.

Naruto pointed to the ancient ruins. "My guess is there."

On their way to the ruins, they were shaken by an explosion going off in the direction of the ruins.

"What was that!?"

"It must have been Natsu!"

"Let's hurry!"

Naruto pulled up next to Gray. "What does that Leon guy hope to gain unsealing that demon?"

"He wants to defeat it because Ur couldn't. His goal was to surpass her."

Naruto grit his teeth. "He'd sacrifice the villagers for something like that?"

Once they got closer they noticed the building was slanted. The entire place was literally tilted to the side, as if it were on an unbalanced scale.

"Natsu most likely did this." Gray said.

The bushes around them began to rustle and cultists started pouring out in great numbers. When they were almost upon the group, Erza pointed to the ruins. "Go. I'll take care of them."

Gray didn't hesitate and left.

Lucy was about to go to, but Naruto put a hand out and stopped her. "Naruto?"

"You and Happy stay with Erza." Naruto said, not taking his eyes off the ruins. "I'm gonna finish this."

The guild tensed up and thought one thing. "was Naruto going to face the demon by himself?"

Gray was particular surprised as despite learning that the demon was basically already dead it's revival was still one of the scariest things in his lie.

Lucy however had the tiniest blush on her face which Mavis caught seeing Naruto with such a serious face was quite… different for her.

"Guh!" Gray grunted as he blocked a barrage of ice projectiles. 'This isn't going anywhere!'

"What's the matter, Gray? Weren't you going to stop me from "killing Ur"?" Leon asked mockingly. "Whatever, I've already wasted enough time and magic on you as it is. Deliora should be revived any minute now."

Gray clenched his teeth and got up to chase after his senior pupil, but the wound on his side stung with pain and he was forced to his knees again.

Leon smirked and turned to leave when a shuriken flashed right passed his face, cutting his cheek deep enough to draw blood. The ice mage touch his cheek and growled with anger. "Who's there!?"

"I heard you're doing all of this… because you think it's the only way to surpass your teacher." Naruto said as he walked into the ice filled room. He looked over to Gray and frowned at the teen's state.

"What are you doing here!? I told you this was my fight!" Gray said as he formed ice over the gushing wound on his side.

Ignoring his fellow pupil's outburst, Leon kept his gaze on the newcomer. He didn't notice it before, but this person had a powerful aura to them. "Of course it's the only way I can surpass Ur. She's dead. How else am I supposed to surpass her than to defeat the monster she could not?"

"Lyon…" gray sighed in annoyance while Juvia frowned not at all impressed with Lyons attitude back then.

Naruto began to walk forward. "You say you want to surpass your teacher, but what you're doing now won't give you that satisfaction."

"What do you know!?" Leon snarled and formed a dozen ice birds around him, before pointing at the ninja accusingly. "Ur was my goal! My dream! I'm willing to sacrifice anything to surpass her!"

Naruto picked up his pace and danced around the ice projectiles.

Growing frustrated, Leon formed another icicle projectile. "Ice Make: Snow Dragon!"

The giant ice creation roared as it homed onto Naruto, and the shinobi slid underneath it just before it could clamp onto him with its jaws. But its assault wasn't over when the dragon circled back and flew towards him again.

"The way he moves is a lot like Kagura, it is simple and quick allowing him to avoid attacks with efficient movements." Erza noted with Gray nodding along as they both remembered during the GMG Kagura making similar movements against Lyon.

Naruto jumped into the air and stuck to the top of the room.

Leon smirked. "You're fast, I'll give you that." As he said that, the dragon circled around for a third time, but this time aimed itself at Gray. "So I think I'll just take out the trash instead!"

"Gray-sama!" Juvia screamed worried about her love while Gray didn't not what would happen as the fight was quite different already then his fight with Lyon.

Naruto grit his teeth and disappeared in an orange flash.

Gray put his arms up in a last-ditch attempt to defend himself, but his eyes widened when Naruto appeared right in front of him. "What are you doing!? Get out of here!"

"Naruto!" Lucy thought worried as she was willingly to admit that she could see Naruto easily as one of her guildmates if he was in their world.

Forming a single shadow clone, Naruto created a Rasengan. "Your teacher was someone who was willing to sacrifice her own life for the sake of her comrades!" He yelled and met the dragon head on, using the chakra orb in his hand to drill through the icicle beast. "Someone like you could never surpass that!"

When the dragon dispersed, he rammed the Rasengan into Leon's gut.

"That was so epic!" Natsu shoted as Happy quickly agreed.

"Yeah I gotta admit it was better then my fight with Lyon. He didn't even use the Snow Dragon fighting me and I finished him off using an Ice Cannon." Gray admitted out loud.

"Indeed that fight was quite fascinating." Erza merely said with a smile.

"Grah!" Leon screamed as the chakra burned his stomach. Then the Rasengan sent him spiraling into a wall.

Gray stared at Naruto's back as he landed on the ground, complete at a loss of words.

Naruto sighed in relief before flinching in pain. He looked at his now bleeding hand and chuckled. "Hehehe… That was probably a little too reckless, huh?"

Gray was at loss of words. Not only had Naruto protected him from what was probably Leon's most powerful technique, but also defeat said make by overpowering the attack. Even if it meant putting himself at risk.

"Huh that guy has only been at Fairy Tail for a few months and it already seems like he is one of the fairies since forever ago." Gray remarked softly as Juvia seemed pleased that other Gray had such a good friend to protect him while she wasn't there. Lucy looked at Mavis and thought 'was this the power Mavis-sama was talking about?'

"Sorry for butting in your fight, Gray." Naruto said sheepishly as he helped the ice mage up. "I was just a little fed up with this gu-"

Raaawwwwrrrr!

An earsplitting roar shook the room, surprising both boys.

"Was that Deliora?" Naruto said and Gray nodded grimly.

"You go on ahead. I'll watch over Leon." He said and limped over to the fallen mage. Gray now knew that if anyone could stop Deliora, it was Naruto.

"Wow other you must really trust Naruto huh. I remember you were going to use ice shell to seal way Deliora. It was as stupid plan anyways." Natsu remarked while Juvia gasped remembering that Iced Shell cost the user their life.

"Shut up Natsu and I guess you're right." Gray shouted without any real heat.

Not wasting anytime arguing, Naruto nodded and took off running.

"Raaawwwwrrrr!"

After a couple minutes, Naruto entered the cavern and saw that the monster had just broken out of the ice completely. It was roaring and smashing the surrounding boulders like a mindless beast.

Naruto noticed Natsu standing with a cackling masked person down below. "Natsu! Is that an enemy?"

Natsu looked up and cheered, relieved to see the ninja. "Naruto? Man, am I glad to see you! They had a single person continuing the ritual up there and it was enough for Deliora to break free!"

Naruto clenched his fists. "So we were too late?"

"Haha! Of course you were! Deliora is here!"

Naruto looked down and was surprised to see Leon crawling next to him. "How did he get here so fast!?"

"Fool! I've spent the last three years on this island! I know this place like the back of my hand!" Leon said and grinned maliciously as the demon continued its rampage.

Naruto sweatdropped. 'I guess that's true… But then what happened to Gray?' He was probably okay, but Naruto was still worried about his friend.

"Now I shall defeat this monster and surpass my teacher, Ur! Ahaha-Oompf!" Leon wheezed when Naruto kicked him in the side.

"He deserved that one. What a whiny kid. He should just grow up already." Laxus snorted making almost everyone surprised since he was so quote most people almost forgot he was even there,

"Did you not listen to a single word I said back there?" Naruto said before closing his eyes. "You want someone to surpass so bad…"

By now, Deliora had taken notice of them and slowly began to make its way towards them.

"Ugh… Damn you! Don't ruin this moment for me!" Leon yelled before going pale.

When Naruto opened his eyes again, he saw Deliora's massive fist homing towards him. "I'll give you someone to surpass!"

"Wait what?!" Gray shouted as he remembered Deliora almost unable to move due to Urs ice shell. "Is it possible this Deliora was more alive then theirs?" Gray thought to himself.

"I can't believe I let that idiot out of my sight!" Gray said as he hobbled his way into the cave where Deliora was kept. But the moment he entered the cave, Gray's eyes shot wide open when he was forced to jump out of the way to avoid being crushed.

Crash!

Gray quickly recovered and looked the now gaping entryway to find Deliora flat on its back in the forest. "What the…!" He then heard a familiar screeching sound and he turned just in time to see Naruto run passed him with the same technique he had used against Lullaby.

"…Eh?" Had Naruto just… thrown Deliora?

"Futon: Rasenshuriken!"

Naruto jumped into the air and threw his most powerful jutsu at the demon.

Gray watched in awe as the technique hit the demon responsible for destroying his home village. He watched as the millions upon millions of tiny wind blades tore the beast apart, leaving nothing behind.

"Mavis-Sama!" Gray said getting the guild master to turn around at him.

"What is it Gray?" Mavis asked although she had an idea what he was going to ask,

"If Deliora wasn't frozen by Iced Shell could Naruto defeat it at full power?" Gray asked seriously much to the shock of his guildmates. Mavis didn't say anything but did look Gray directly in the eyes. The message was clear 'maybe.'

"That ninja… What is his name?"

Gray looked to his left and saw Leon leaning against a boulder, but something seemed different about him. Leon no longer had a lost look in his eyes, like he had found a new purpose. Gray grinned as Natsu ran passed them and jumped onto the shinobi's back, cheering about the completion of their first S-class mission.

"Naruto Uzumaki."

"Hey maybe in this other world you and Lyon can be friends instead of rivals?" Natsu pointed out.

"hmm. Maybe you're right." Gray admitted since it appeared that Lyon would be focused on Naruto instead of him and Juvia.

When the group had returned to the village, they had found that the villagers were still the same. But after doing a little questioning, Erza had found out that it wasn't the moon that was changing, but a shell-like forcefield covering the island due to the effects of the moon drip extraction.

In fact, the villagers ended up being demons all along. To group's relief, they were still friendly and they celebrated.

Then, after a night of dancing and feasting, morning came and everyone was on board a pirate ship Erza "borrowed" back to Magnolia.

"I wonder if we make up with Sherry and the others?" Lucy wondered noticing it didnt say in the book.

"I am sure we did it just wasn't said in the book directly." Erza said confidently getting a smile from Lucy.

Naruto whistled at the redhead's handiwork. "I'm impressed."

"You all better get comfortable. Once we get back it's punishment time." Erza said darkly, causing them all to shiver in fear.

"The end." Virgo said.

"Wait here is a short omake that happens during this chapter!" Mavis chirped making everyone look in her direction as she pulled out the small book again.

Omake…

Everyone stood before Erza as she questioned them about the "curse".

Naruto nudged Lucy. "You made sure to get rid of all of the pitfall traps, right?"

Lucy gulped. "Crap! I forgot to do that!" She said and began to sweat bullets when Erza started pacing back and forth. 'I should be fine, right? I mean… What are the odds of her stepping on one of the traps?'

"…en you should have seen the bright lights at the ancient ruins-kyah!" Erza screamed as she fell into one of the pitfall traps.

"Man I never knew Titania could sound like an actual girl." Gajeel said quietly to Laxus who merely scoffed.

"Hmm I feel like I was just insulted!" Erza thought looking around the guild. She passed by a suspicious looking Gajeel who whistled innocently and decided it must have been her imagination.

Lucy was frantically shaking her head. "I didn't do it! It wasn't me!"

Naruto pat her on the back. "You reap what you sow."

The look on her face was priceless.

"The end." Mavis said cheerfully as everyone looked at the fearful looking Lucy and the thoughtful looking Erza.

"Please don't be mad Erza!" Lucy begged getting on her knees.

"Why would I be mad?" Erza asked baffled.

"Eh?" Everyone asked at the same time.

"If I am falling for such simple pit fall traps (getting a huff from Virgo) I simply need more training." Erza declared getting sweat drops from everyone.

"Same old Erza." Happy said.

"Who wants to read next?" Mavis asked.

"I Will Mavis-sama" Natsu said as Virgo passed him the book. "Ok next chapter is called 'You Messed With The Wrong Guild' with Juvia and Gajeel both having guilty looks knowing it would be about phantom Lord.

AN: Ok like I said this isn't edited or anything since I finished half of it today and posted right away for my 2 updates per week promise.

Once again NO EDITING! I finshed and posted for everyone!

Sorry for the late-night update (depending onwhere you live). I finished and uploaded before Saturday was over for me simple as that.

I added the part with Virgo calling Naruto "Ouji"(prince) since Lucy is "Hime" (princess) her love interest would be a prince. It is a fun bit I am going to use for Virgo (and possibly other spirits maybe).

I want to try something new: after each chapter I will tell you the readers my fave scene (my reactions) from the last chapter in the AN for each chapter.

Here it is: from chapter 3-I found the Carla, Happy and Mavis scene hilarious to write! Carla giving Naruto a backhanded compliment with Mavis knowing she will NOT be happy with Naruto when she and Cara show up.

What was yours? Please put them in the reviews! (you can also put your fave reaction from this chapter too)

I will respond to all reviews an PM but for something like "great job" or "update quicker" I will leave it implicit that I know and I appreciate the support!

I will unlikely to write again till Monday so earliest new chapter will be TURESDAY btw! See ya next chapter!