Did you miss me?

Probably because I left you all in so much suspense.

Or maybe not. I mean you guys could just have amazing guessing skills. So…this is the part where I explain why I took so long.

Well as you all probably know (or maybe not if your winter break is longer) that winter break is coming to an end. *Cries and sulks in a corner* And like the idiot I am, I didn't do my homework. Anyway on to the chapter!

All credits towards Hiro Mashima!

XOXOXO

Snow is a beautiful thing.

It's a pure white colour.

"Lucy, what are you thinking about~?" a soft voice sung behind her. Lies. She knew that this voice wasn't soft at all. It was dark and covered with the tiniest bit of regret. "Why was mommy all bloody?" She said in a dull tone.

Lucy shifted her head on to her left hand as she kept her gaze on the light snow falling on to the ground. The man behind her narrowed his eyes for a moment before sighing deeply.

"You should mind your own business Lucy,"

She glanced behind her as the man's brown eyes flashed, a dark and dangerous colour.

"Or else you might be bloody too…"

Lucy snapped her eyes open in shock. What the fuck was that? W-was that man…my dad? Impossible. She shook her head to shake the whole experience off. Lucy sighed and looked around.

Nothing.

No one was there.

She was just stuck in the artificial dragon's core.

She sighed and pouted in thought. Oh yeah I'm inside this stupid dragon. "How did I get here again," She thought out loud, "Oh yeah," She deadpanned.

"Gray put me here,"

XOXOXO

About 1 hour ago…

Lucy was scared of two things.

First was the creepy lizard things holding her, and second, Natsu's heated glare towards the dark purple haired lady. Even though her head was down, and her hair was covering her face, she could sense the heat radiating off of Natsu.

She was pretty sure Juvia and Sting were nocked out. Lucy shifted slightly to see Sting's head down loosely. His blonde spiky hair was covering his face completely, but from Lucy's side, she could see his eyes closed and his lips formed into a frown.

Lucy felt the claws on her arm tighten. In response she kept her head low. She felt so weak as her eyes slowly closed. What the hell was in those cupcakes? She asked her self as she glanced over to Juvia. Her hair was covering her entire face.

Lucy tried to listen to what Natsu and that other lady were talking about. But man was it hard. She felt as if she was about to sleep. And to make it worse it was late at night. So you could imagine how tired she was.

"-You can't just use your own sister li-"

She could hear Natsu's voice slightly and perked up a bit as she was able to hear his voice. Weird huh? She liked hearing the voice of her teammate. She quietly laughed.

"-Are you planning on killing her-!?"

Are they talking about me? She thought as she slightly lifted her head to see clearly. Her vision was slightly blurred, but she could make out Natsu's pink hair, a woman with dark purple hair and Gray's raven hair-

GRAY!? HE'S HERE!? She thought as her eyes widened slightly in her weak state. She felt so happy that her older brother was here. The person who protected her from all those bullies.

She smiled softly at those memories.

"-I don't really care if Lucy dies or not I ju-"

Lucy felt like she couldn't breathe.

It was Gray's voice for sure, and his voice was so casual.

He really doesn't care does he?

Lucy stared blankly at the floor as her tears began to sting the ends of her eyes. Her head started to hang low. She didn't want to believe it. She didn't. Her brown eyes began to zero in on the floor as her tears flowed freely down her cheeks.

She couldn't even see her tears fall on the floor.

Natsu could hear it.

He could hear Lucy's tears fall on the floor.

It was hunting him.

"What is wrong with you!?" He yelled walking Gray and grabbing his shirt in a fist. "Your sister loves you and you just go and say that casually!?"

Drip

He glared into Gray's emotionless eyes. Pain and guilt were inside of them. Natsu's eyes widened for a few seconds before he fixed his posture.

Drip

Another of Lucy's tears fell and Gray felt his heart squeeze. Mavis, did he hate that sound. 'It's for her own good,' he would repeatedly say into his head. His fist began to shake uncontrollably as he tried to keep his posture.

Drip

'Me and my big mouth,' Gray thought.

Gray wanted to hit himself- worse then that, he would let fire breath come and kill him on the spot. With Lucy watching with popcorn.

Or he would even let Lucy and Natsu get married. (Gray was visibly turning green at the thought of them getting married)

Drip

Daphne grinned.

To her this was going extremely well. And soon she would be able to see that gorgeous sight again. It is going to be wonderful. And for Lucy, she would be a beautiful dragon.

Drip

Natsu was right.

The sound did haunt him.

Natsu and Gray weren't the only ones who could hear Lucy's tears. So could Sting. It was torture towards him.

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Lucy's P.O.V

Oh yeah.

I forgot about Gray…

Ugh! I just can't let that bring me down!

I need to stay awake!

"Nah we should just give up,"

My eyes snapped open. "Who's there?!" I yelled out into the empty space.

"Why should we do that!?"

I looked in front of me to see two mini Lucy's. I might've been close to Natsu so much. "NO FUCKING WAY!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

One of the mini me (Mini Lucy 1) had a long white dress that covered her legs. It honestly looked more like a wedding dress. She also had a bright aura and small white wings on her back. She also had a golden halo floating on top of her head.

As for mini Lucy 2, she had two red devil horns coming out of her head. And she had a red outfit that looked similarly to Erza's flame empress armor. She also had a dark aura and around her eyes were pretty dark.

"…"

I couldn't believe this.

"AM I LOSING MY FUCKING MIND!?"

XOXOXO

Outside of the dragon…

"I can't believe Gray would do that to his own sister," Erza gasped as she sent a glance towards the Artificial dragon. Juvia gawked, "There is no way Gray-sama would do that to Lucy-san!" Mira nodded in agreement. "Why would he be so protective of her," Wendy let out a shaky breath, "J-just to betray h-her?"

"Got no clue," Natsu said as he ran a hand through his pink locks, "All I know is that he's getting a pounding." Erza hit the back of his head, "That's a second priority, we need to get Lucy out of that dragon first." Natsu sighed, "But-"

"I agree with Erza," Bixlow said as his eyes went green as he examined the dragon, "I say she either has 2-3 hours until her souls gone." Mira, Erza and Juvia stared at Natsu for a moment, "See, Lucy first."

Natsu gawked, "Hey! I always like of Lucy first!" Mira nodded with that oh so sweet smile of hers. "You do~?" Natsu raise an eyebrow towards her tone and slowly nodded warily. "Interesting," She mumbled as she brought a finger up to her bottom lip.

Erza sighed, "As much I would love to tease Natsu about how dense he is, Lucy is the first priority." Natsu and Mira sent her a determined look and nodded.

"Ok, we know where Lucy is located," Sting said as he popped out of nowhere with Rogue just close behind. "Good," Erza praised, "Where is her location?" She asked sending another glance towards the dragon. Sting walked over and pointed over to the dragon. "In the heart," He said as he pointed at the red sphere that was on the dragon.

"What?" Natsu asked as he walked closer.

Everyone sighed.

"In that red thingy."

"Oh."

"Hey Lucy!? Can you hear me!?" Natsu yelled out as the others stared at him. "What are you doing?" Erza asked while she walked forward. "Well we have to make sure Lucy's awake, I mean, we don't want her to give her soul away," He answered as everyone stared at him with wide eyes.

"What?"

"YOU JUST SAID SOMETHING SMART!"

"HEY! I CAN BE SMART!"

They ignored Natsu and they all began calling out to Lucy. "Y-yeah I can hear ya," Lucy replied in a pained voice. They all cheered and jumped in the air. "Don't worry Lucy we'll get you out!" Natsu screamed towards her. "I think I'm partiality losing my mind," Lucy grumbled.

"Is that supposed to be new?" Happy questioned with a slight chuckle.

"SHUT IT CAT!" Lucy yelled as ice began to shoot out of the dragon's mouth.

"…"

"WAS THAT ME!?"

Everyone nodded with a blank face as they heard Lucy groan. "I'll never make you mad again Lucy!" Happy exclaimed and shivered behind Natsu. "Happy!" Erza roared as she smacked the back of his head. "How are we going to get Lucy out of there?!" Sting yelled.

"Just take down the dragon and me!" Lucy said with her strained voice.

"WHAT!?"

"There isn't any other choice you guys!"

"BUT-"

"I got word from Master," Levy said grabbing their attention, "H-he wants us to take the dragon d-down." She deflated immediately as everyone stared at her with disbelief. "See!" Lucy yelled, "T-there's no other choice!" Natsu growled as he clenched his hand.

Erza let out a shaky sigh, "If it's t-the will of our master, it's the will of the fairy tail guild!" She yelled as she changed into her Heaven's wheel armor. "Erza," Levy whispered. "Look up!" Sting and Rogue yelled.

They all looked up to see the creepy lizard men jump down on to the street and begin to break the town's houses. "I think I got a better idea," Mira said as she looked towards Erza, "We should deal with those lizards first, then the dragon."

Erza nodded. "I agree, alright guys! Get to the streets and take out those lizards!"

"Hai!" They yelled as they jumped down on to the streets.

The redhead was about to jump down too before she felt a hand on her shoulder. Turning around she meet the blue eyes of Sting. "We aren't in the fairy tail guild, so we're going to figure out away to get Lucy out," He said as Rogue nodded.

"Good idea," She said, flashing a smirk, before jumping on to the streets. "Oi Rogue, you said you've met Lucy before right?" Sting questioned as he looked towards the dragon's 'heart'. Rogue nodded slowly as Sting continues. "Well, do you know any of her weaknesses?"

Before Rogue could even answer, a fire ball came rushing towards Sting's head. "Ow! Ow! Ow!" Sting exclaimed as he clutched is head, "NATSU-SAN!?"

There Natsu stood with a huge frown plastered on his face. And boy did he look mad. Rogue turned towards him and gawked as he was about to throw a fire ball at him as well. "We're tryin to save her not kill her!"

"I wasn't trying to kill her, Natsu-san~!" Sting wailed as he clutches on to his right leg. "Then why would you even want to find out her weakness huh!?" Natsu mocked in his voice. Sting's anime tears began to stream down his face as he kept his tight grip on his leg.

Rogue sighed and face palmed as he watched the two fight. "I'm beginning to feel that I'm going to have to save Lu." Boy did he regret saying that. "WHO SAID YOU COULD CALL HER THAT!?" Sting and Natsu roared as they glared towards him.

"L-Lucy did?" He said slightly surprised at they're outburst.

"I was right," They all stopped and looked up to see Daphne at the controls of the dragon, "Lucy is a beautiful dragon,"

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"So you mind explaining why you did that to your own sister?" Master questioned as he sent the raven-haired boy a hard glare. They we're currently sitting in Mokarov's office. And Gray had his face in his hands as he looked down.

"Because I owe someone…"

"So you use your own sister?"

"…No…but I thought that Lucy- or at least Natsu- would be able to take that lady before she took her,"

"How do you expect her to do that when her brother doesn't believe in her? I mean you're her own brother, you should know that!"

"I'm not actually her brother, so don't call me that,"

XOXOXO

OMG OMG OMG GUYS!

THE DRAMA!

Oh yeah sorry for the short chapter. I just wanted to give you guys something before my exams started.

Also for the next chapter I might put a bit of RoLu because I slightly ship it and I love Rogue.

Man, Natsu's going to be sooo~ jealous.