AN: Hello, my favorite readers! So unfortunately, I started a new school year, which cuts my writing time from a few hours to…an hour at most. This is so sad. I love my writing (homework…is evil). Anyways, I need your help! I have a general storyline planned out, but all the small moments in between are UNDECIDED! Which means tell me what you want, anything! Ships, deaths, events, towns, battles, etc. whatever you want included, please include in a review. Also, please keep telling me what you want fixed/changed in the future. I really want to make this a good fic, so keep the feedback/criticism coming in. Shout out to Iceprinceryuu and Johnny Valentine for your great feedback. Love you readers out there! R&R! If you haven't caught on, I update weekly, except for special circumstances.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN FAIRY TAIL (This also applies for the chapters that I forgot to disclaim)


"Natsu…" came a voice. "Natsu…don't..." it whispered again. "Lucy…you know..." another voice whispered back. "Luc—mph. Mmmm" The other voice was abruptly cut off by something. Is Natsu in trouble? Thought Gray as his eyes shot open. What he saw was very different from what he was expecting.

Natsu and Lucy. Kissing. No, making out. Passionately. Natsu had Lucy pressed up against a wall, and their hands were gliding all over each other. Wanting to keep his eyes from falling out from his head, Gray loudly cleared his throat. The two mages jumped apart. "G-gray! Didn't see you in here…hahahaha…" Lucy said, a sea of red spreading over her and Natsu's faces. Natsu immediately collapsed on the floor and started moaning about how sick he was.

"What's going on? Why are Lucy and Natsu in my room, Gray?" asked Alexei, sitting up next to the ice mage. Puzzled she looked at Lucy's embarrassed expressions. "Oh my god. You did not use my room as a make out hide out. You did not just defile everything in this room. Oh gross, guys! Seriously, use your own room!"

"Oh really. Then why are you and Gray in the same bed?" countered Lucy, arching one eyebrow. Now it was Gray and Alexei's turn to flush red.

"It's not what it looks like…" Gray hopelessly said, wringing his hands in embarrassment.

"Oh really? 'Cause it sure looks like that to me," accused Lucy.

"Really Lucy! You're thinking about that! I know him, but not that well! I mean I only met you guys about a week ago!" Alexei protested. "Seriously Lucy. It's not that. I had a nightmare, and went out on deck to calm down. I bumped into Gray there, and then…I collapsed…so he brought me back to my room. Then I asked him to stay so I wouldn't be scared to go to sleep. Got it?" Alexei quickly explained the situation.

"Oh. Um…are you feeling better Alexei?" Lucy asked, unsure of how to take in the situation.

"I'll explain later. But please, can you two get out of my room?"

"Sure Alexei! Sorry about that," replied Lucy, dragging her boyfriend out of Alexei's room.

After the door slammed shut, Alexei groaned and fell back on the pillow. "That was horrible."

"Yeah. That was just…you know what? Let's not think about that." Replied Gray.

"How bad was their little episode?"

"I'll spare you the details. Let's just say my eyes are still burning."


At breakfast, there was an awkward mood in the air. Gray and Alexei couldn't stop flushing red whenever they looked at the fire dragon slayer or celestial spirit mage. And the same went for Natsu and Lucy (but mostly Lucy, because the fire mage was still motion sick) when they looked at the ice mage or the elemental mage.

"So…Alexei…do you want to explain what happened last night?" Lucy tentatively asked.

After blushing pink Alexei nodded. "Well, I forgot to tell you a few things about what my father did to me. I left them out, mostly because they were just too horrible to retell, or because they just weren't really important.

"Well, when my father was training, one of the ways my father tortured me was by magnifying the moon's rays into magic power, and firing it at me. Element Aurae mages are weaker under moonlight, but we can train to resist it. Eventually he stopped, when he realized that this kind of punishment would cause a weakness in my magic, but it was already too late. Whenever there's a full moon out, I have to be really careful. It's very painful for me to be exposed to it. I have not idea why. Either way, if I'm exposed to the moon for too long…"

Alexei shuddered. "…I become a very different person, it's like I'm possessed. I become very…destructive, and for that entire night, I destroy everything around me. Once I woke up from a night like that, and the entire forest around me was leveled to the ground. Last night, I didn't realize it was the full moon, because I hadn't been keeping track of time. I had a nightmare, so I thought some fresh air might help."

Glancing at the ice mage sitting across the table from her, she said, "Thankfully it was cloudy when I was first on deck. But then later, when I was talking to Gray, the clouds dissipated, leaving me exposed. When I realized what was happening, I couldn't move, because there was so much pain. When I began to gain consciousness, I could see that Gray had carried me into my room, saving you and your ship. So I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't be a danger to anyone, so I asked Gray to stay. I was also scared to go to sleep, because I was scared of that nightmare. That's why we were sharing a bed. I felt bad that he couldn't sleep because of Natsu's motion sickness. That's all that happened."

The other's, shocked by Alexei's honesty, simply nodded and accepted her explanation. "Well," said Erza, breaking the silence, "we have a mission to start." Saying that, all the crew, including Natsu (who was now levitated, thanks to Alexei), went on deck, ready to start a new day.


"Oh my goodness, that palace is huge!" Alexei said, staring up at the beautiful spires and towers.

"Oh dry land! I am never, ever going on that dreadful ship again! I'm all fired up! I'll swim back from this mission!" Natsu was evidently happy to be off transportation.

"Natsu, you can't swim that far," Lucy muttered, face palming.

"Are you the mages from Fairy Tail?" asked a stranger. He was dressed in a green uniform.

"Yes. I assume you're from the palace?" replied Erza.

"Of course. Thank you for coming so quickly!"

"You're welcome."

"If you follow me this way, we'll be taking a shortcut to the palace."

The gang followed the strange valet, handing their luggage over to a cart driver. Walking into an alley, they stopped on a circular shaped stone. "Is everyone standing on the circle?" asked the man.

"Yup," came the reply.

"Please brace yourselves," saying this, the man bent down and tapped the stone twice. Markings appeared on the side of the stone, and it began to levitate. Flying over the city, Alexei couldn't believe her eyes. Gasps from the others told her that they were all thinking that too. The city was beautiful from above. "I'm not feeling so good," groaned Natsu, who was lying down, hanging off the stone.

"Motion sick already?" asked Alexei, clearly shocked by the otherwise energetic dragon slayer's weakness. Sighing, she shook her head and looked away.

A few minutes later, they landed in the courtyard of the palace.

"Wow…this place is amazing," said Alexei. The spires were all different colors and shapes, and the castle itself seemed to be one graceful line extending into the heavens.

"Welcome to the Palace of the Heavens." Said the man. "I am Frederick, the palace butler. I'm in charge of coordinating your accommodations here. Please follow me, the king would like to see you."

Following the butler through the winding halls of the palace, the team stopped to admire a portrait of a beautiful lady, demurely standing in a meadow of flowers. "Who is that?" Alexei asked without thinking.

"That was our wonderful queen, Her Majesty, Queen Reyna," replied Frederick. "She passed away a couple years ago."

"I'm sorry for your loss," Alexei replied.

"Please hurry, the king is waiting." Increasing his pace, the butler gestured to the team to follow.

Hustling towards the throne room, the Fairy Tail mages stopped at the grand double doors that marked the entrance to the throne room. "Please, wait for a moment," said Frederick, before disappearing down another hall.

A few minutes later, the wide double doors were opened, and a servant announced, "His Majesty will now see you." Gulping, the team entered the broad double doors.


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