Hola Minions! I have the next chapter for you, and it is quite the doozy. I didn't mean for it to be so long, it kind of just happened. Once I started Typing I couldn't stop. But I guess it kind of makes up for taking so long to update; I just finished watching this awesome series on Netflix. It's called heartless, and I loved it. Anyways Enjoy the story.

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DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN FAIRY TAIL!


Lucy woke up with a start, shaking off the remains of the weird dream she had last night. It wasn't scary, but it wasn't pleasant either. Silver and Golden eyes had haunted her dreams, staring and wanting. Only she didn't know what they wanted, or why were they staring at her. The eyes weren't menacing, nor were they threatening, but it felt like they knew something she didn't, like they held the key to all of her troubles. Which was odd because she had never met anyone with silver or golden eyes before… not unless you counted that Jackass from the street debacle, but why would he know anything? Besides Lucy doubted she would ever see him again, she wasn't planning on taking any trips back to the town, and she'd rather die before seeing his ugly face again.

Shaking her head, Lucy cleared her thoughts and headed to the bathroom, she had a lot to do today and couldn't risk dilly dallying over some silly dream. The blonde already had too many problems on her plate, and a strange dream just couldn't be one of them. Running water into the bathtub, The Celestial Mage mulled over her thoughts, trying to sort out the mess of troubles in her head.

With a threat so close to home, Lisanna had to be the main focus for right now, so Lucy would have to put the rest of her problems on the back burner. And as much as she loathed it, the situation with the celestial key would just have to wait. For now, the offending item remained on her key ring with the rest of them, for safekeeping and as a reminder not to forget. The matter of her mission would have to wait as well, she had been putting the thought off for the past week and a day, but she couldn't anymore. Something strange went on while she was battling that guild. Though she received a bit of a beating, the guild was relatively easy to dismantle, which was odd because the townspeople said that they were cunning and ruthless, and the guild she encountered was nothing at all like they described. Either she was getting better at her job… or there was something else going on that she didn't know about, as much as she wanted the former to be true, her gut told her it was the latter.

Lucy sighed as she entered the bathtub, Trying to figure out when Lisanna started acting so weird. When she first came back from Edolas, the take over mage spent her first weeks with her siblings, hanging out at the guild hall. Lucy would occasionally talk to Lisanna at the bar when she wasn't on missions with Team Natsu, and the girl had seemed pretty nice. The blonde had thought that the two of them could've been friends.

It wasn't until a few days after Lisanna's first mission with Natsu and Happy that she started acting strangely. Natsu had a special Mission, one specifically requesting a fire Dragon slayer, and he had been pretty excited about it. Only, Lucy had a cold, and couldn't go on the mission with him. No one on team Natsu could, Gray was out with Juvia (she had agreed to stop stalking him for a whole week if he would go on one mission with her), and Erza was still on her S class mission at the time. Lucy didn't want Happy and Natsu to go on the mission alone, because it seemed like a relatively dangerous one, so she had asked Lisanna to go in her place. The white haired mage was hesitant at first, but Lucy cajoled her into going, saying that she was the only one Lucy trusted enough to keep Natsu safe.

Lucy had thought that the mission would take about a week or so to do, but the two made it back in one piece in three days flat. Natsu had seemed fine, but Lisanna was acting very jittery, and skittish following the days after the mission. Lucy had asked if the girl was okay, but she had snapped at her, so the blonde decided to drop the matter, and has avoided Lisanna ever since. Days after the incident at the guild hall, Lisanna's obsession with Natsu started up, and her toleration of Lucy went down.

Lucy needed to figure out what happened on that mission.

After washing up, Lucy quickly dressed and made her way to the kitchen. Natsu wasn't lying when he said her fridge was empty; there was nothing in there, not even ketchup. It looks like we're just going to have to eat breakfast at the guild hall. Lucy thought as she shrugged on her jacket. Grabbing her keys Lucy made her way to the door, though she was surprised to see Natsu standing outside, getting ready to knock on it, he never knocks. If Lucy thought this was strange, she didn't show it, as she gestured for him to come in.

"Hey, Luce!" Natsu said with a slight blush on his cheeks as he nervously scratched his neck

"What do you need Natsu?" Apparently, he wanted something if he knocked on her door rather than climbing through her window

"N-Nothing" he stammered "It's just…"

Lucy raised an eyebrow and gestured for him to continue

Natsu took a deep breath and surged forward a step "I'm so glad you and Lisanna are getting along Luce." he looked her in the eyes, "and It means a lot that you're still making an effort, even after we ditched you these past few days." To anyone else, the tension between Lucy and Lisanna would have been non-existent. They were both great at pretending, their voices had been pleasant and kind, they knew what words needed the right emotions to sound sincere and faking a smile seemed to be their MO for the past month. Tension would have drawn attention, and neither girl wanted that.

"A few days?" Lucy Joked

"Okay, maybe more than a few days." Natsu apologized

"Try a month," she said softly, her mask falling away. Lucy didn't want Natsu getting off the hook just yet. His abandonment hurt, and she wanted him to understand that. The blonde knew that he had missed Lisanna, and wanted to catch up with her, reminiscing about old times. But Lucy was his friend too; she wanted to hang out with him too. "You haven't been here for a whole month Natsu." she said softly "I felt ignored and alone, and every time I tried to tell you, you just up and disappeared, it hurt. You. Hurt. Me. I felt like you were taking me for granted. The only reason I even saw you, was when you raided my refrigerator, or when you were telling me that you were going on another trip with Lisanna and Happy, sometimes you didn't even do that. This is the first time we've gotten to talk since Lisanna came back, and it's only, after I've been gone for a week; after you had thought I was in danger, that you've finally decided I was worth your presence. " Lucy decided not to broach the topic of him not coming to save her, not unless he brought it up himself

Natsu rubbed the back of his neck; he was a shitty best friend. Everything Lucy was saying was true. He had abandoned her for a whole month, and he even left her to pay her rent by herself, when he used that apartment just as much as she did. Natsu felt like he had failed Lucy; he had disappointed her, and it took everything in him, to keep looking her in the eye after the waves of shame rolled through him, he owed her that much. His whole chest hurt at the idea of Lucy sad and alone, it was like someone punched him in the gut. "Words can't even explain how sorry I am Luce. I feel awful that I put you through that, and then I took team Natsu with Lisanna on that mission..." he closed his eyes and took a deep breath "How can I make this up to you?" he questioned needing to do something right. The Pinkett needed to earn Lucy's forgiveness "How can you ever forgive me?"

"I've already forgiven you Natsu." Lucy gazed at him with understanding in her eyes "I get why you did what you did. Still, doesn't make it hurt any less, but I understand why you did it."

Those words were like a punch to the gut; Lucy didn't make them that way that's just how he took it. Lucy was fantastic, he had been a horrible friend and yet here she was so ready to forgive, he didn't deserve it, but he would do his best to earn it. "Thank you." He let out a breath "How about I take you grocery shopping? All food is on me." Filling up Lucy's fridge was the least he could do, and he would clean up her apartment too, he and Happy left it a mess.

The blonde contemplated for a minute, she wasn't sure she was ready to start hanging out with Natsu again, not when it was just so easy for him to abandon her, but she needed information on his mission with Lisanna "Sure." Lucy replied hesitantly, as she grabbed her purse. "I have nothing better to do, but we're stopping for breakfast first, I'm starving."

"Deal," Natsu said with a mega watt smile as he led the way out of her apartment.


The twins watched as the blonde walked out of her apartment with a pink haired boy. They could tell that the two had known each other for a while, with the way they just seemed to relax around each other. Blondie seemed at ease around him, she laughed and joked with him, it was evident that she adored him. An odd sensation went through Ty at the sight of them; he didn't quite know what that sensation was, all he knew was that he didn't like it.

"Did that pink haired guy seem a bit off to you?" he asked as his brother tried to pick the lock to Lucy's front door

Cam snickered "Don't tell me you're jealous."

"I don't get jealous." Ty's brow furrowed "There was something odd about that boy."

"Oh yeah, and what's that?" Cam pushed open the door and sauntered into Lucy's home

"I don't know, but it was like I sensed a darkness inside of him; Like he had been touched. When he walked by, an odd prickly sensation went through me, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end."

As much as Cam wanted to dismiss his brother's suspicions, he couldn't. Ty had the best instincts out of the two, and when it came down to it, the redhead has learned to trust his brother's instincts. "And you're sure about this?" He questioned with raised eyebrows "This isn't just misplaced jealousy?"

Ty rolled his eyes, what was there to be jealous about? " Of course I'm not jealous, I'm telling you, there is something strange with that boy… he doesn't seem human."

"Well if he's not human, then what is he?" Cam searched through Lucy's living room, for anything of importance, something that would either brand her an enemy or an ally

"I don't know, but That's what we need to find out." The silver eyed boy decided as he made his way to her bedroom.

"You don't think he could be related to them do you?" The last thing they needed was blondie exposed to them. If they found out about blondies existence then, the three of them were doomed, because they would try to kill her first chance they got. And if Blondie died then, they would never complete the circle, and their salvation would be lost.

The raven haired boy shuddered "I hope not."

Ty and Cam spent most of their time searching through Lucy's apartment in silence. They were looking for anything, that linked her to them. Looking for anything that spoke of the prophecy.

"Hey, Ty." Cam called as he read a paper "Come look at this."

"What?" Ty walked over to his brother and tried reading over his shoulder

"Turns out blondie has a name, Lucy Heartfilia."

"Heartfilia?" Ty mulled over the name "As in Layla Heartfilia?"

"Yup, apparently The Last Guardian was this girl's mother."

"We need more information on Lucy," Ty decided as he sifted through some more papers on her desk "...Hey what are these?" he questioned coming across a bunch of papers

"They look like letters." Cam concluded "Letters to Layla."

"Isn't she dead."

"Yeah."

"Then why is blondie writing letters to her?"

"Look at the dates Ty; she never mailed them. I think this is like a diary of sorts." Cam picked up a letter and handed one to his twin.

Dear Mom,

This week has been all kinds of weird. For the first time in forever, Natsu broke a promise, and I feel like I'm losing my best friend, I can't help but blame Lisanna for it. You remember her right? The girl that everyone had thought died years ago, but it turned out she got sucked into a parallel world called Edolas. Well, she's back now, and I can't help but feel like she's trying to replace me, or was I just a substitute for her? Anyways, Lately Natsu has been spending all his time with her, I'm trying to be understanding, but it hurts so much. And it's not only that; now my own teammates are excluding me as well, Today I found out that they all left on a mission without me, a foreign feeling took over me when I heard this news, was it jealousy?

I had to take a mission today as well, my rents due soon and I'll need a lot of jewel. It seems like it's going to be difficult though, I wish I had paid attention when I chose it. Well, I have to go now. Bye, mom.

Your loving daughter

-Lucy

"Damn, Blondie's got some shitty friends," Ty stated after his brother finished reading the letter to him

"You're telling me." Cam said, "Do you think that Natsu guy is the one from earlier?"

"Yeah, it seems like it. From what Lucy was saying in her letter and how she was acting around him earlier."

"What do you mean?"

"To the untrained eye, Lucy was at ease and happy around Natsu, she was smiling and joking, but she also seemed guarded, Her smile seemed practiced and she kept a physical distance from him like she didn't want to get too close. it was like she forgave him, but doesn't quite trust him not to abandon her again."

"Huh, you picked all of that up from body language, where did you learn to do that?"

"We can't all be Father's golden boy Cameron." a bitter smile stretched across Ty's face. Cam went to say something, but his brother started reading the next letter

Dear Mom,

How can your life go from orderly to chaotic in a matter of seven days? Remember when my only problem was My friends Ignoring me? Well, that's not the case anymore. Yesterday a man at a magic shop gave me a strange key; there are only three of them in existence. You know what I'm talking about right mom? You used to tell me stories about the platinum key before I went to bed. I had always thought they were a tall tale, told by old celestial mages; they're not. I've decided to do more research before doing anything with the key, but recent events have put those plans on pause.

There is something wrong with one of my guild mates, Lisanna. She's not acting right; I should've noticed it before. Today I found out that she convinced my friends not to come and aid me during my mission, against a dark guild when they thought I was in danger. And while I was gone she took it upon herself to move into my apartment. They left it a mess.

Not only that but I felt like she was challenging me in the guild hall today, she's lying to everyone, and I don't know why, but she has this strange obsession with Natsu. Sometimes I'll catch her mumbling things under her breath, and these odd looks will pass across her face. But Ever since I brought it up, she's been out for my blood. She needs help mom, and since I'm the only one who notices it, it has to be me to save her, or else she'll doom us all.

Though I made it out alive, I've noticed that there was something off with my mission as well, You know the one I was talking about last week? Well, now I can't shake the feeling that I'm being followed. And I've also been having these weird dreams about gold and silver eyes, they stare wanting and watching, pleading with me, only I don't know what they want, or why they seem so tortured.

I wish you were here mom; you're always so wise, and You'd know what to do. Please send some wisdom from above.

Your loving daughter

-Lucy

"Ty?" Cam said as the letter he was holding fluttered to the floor "Blondies in danger, and I think they might be involved."

"You don't know that for a fact." Ty shrugged it off, not wanting to believe

"For her sake, I hope not, but if they are then her friend is gone."

"Shit." Ty swore under his breath "What are we gonna do?"

"Figure out what that girl, wants with this Natsu character."