I'm back! It's been a few months but its been a few stressful months for me to the point i packed up my computer because I had to move out of my house. But now that everything has settled down I can type once again. This chapter might not be the best because I'm a bit rusty but I'll get back in the swing of it fast. Hope to hear more reviews from you all!
Chapter 8
The fun starts.
Lucy, Lucinas, Happy, Lector and the Gemini copy of Sting walked down the road towards the guild. Lucy sighed to herself because she had just wanted Lucinas, Gemini and her too go but the exceeds had bugged till she had yelled at them she didn't care. Happy sat happily in Lucinas's arms and Lector walked next to Gemini to keep the normal act going. As they got to the guild doors, Gemini pushed them open and walked inside.
"Ah! Lucy, Sting! Good morning!" Loria called out as she waved them over. "I was worried when you all didn't come to the guild yesterday."
Lucy smiled a little as she scratched her chin. "Sorry, we took the day to rest after the last mission. Oh but I was wondering if Lucinas could join and become part of our team?" She pushed Lucinas forwards with a smile on her face.
"H-hello." She held up her hand with a nervous smile.
Loria laughed at her nervousness but held the guild stamp up. "Where would you like it?"
She pointed to her arm exactly where Lucy and Sting had theirs. "Since I'm going to be part of their team, then I guess I should have it in the same spot."
That made both girls smile a little and placed the guild stamp in the same spot along with the same color. "Welcome to Blood Rose Lucinas. Well for now I have things I must do, so please make yourself at home." She gave a small smile as she walked back into a room that didn't look like a kitchen.
Lucy glanced at Gemini Sting and nodded. "Alright Lucinas, you go pick out a request and I'll be right back. I need to ask Sting something." She grabbed his wrist before she drug Gemini Sting towards the back.
"Alright." She gave her a thumbs up, this was all part of the plan.
When Lucy and Gemini Sting got to a safe place, she turned towards him. "Alright, were you close enough to gather her information?" Lucy asked quietly so no one would hear them.
Gemini Sting's eyes went blank for a minute before they transformed into Loria. "Yes, we were able to gather enough data from her to know the location of the secret door."
"Alright, so I need you to head there as Loria. But be on the lookout, if you see her then transform back into Sting alright." With a nod of approval, the two went off their separate ways. Lucy went back to Lucinas and told her Sting would join them later, he had a few things he had to do first. And the two of them left the guild with the accepted request. 'Be careful Gemini.' She thought to her faithful spirit.
Gemini walked through the hallway silently, her eyes scanning the walls for the hidden door that was in Loria's memories. When she came upon a picture, Gemini stopped and smirked a bit. "Here we go." She walked straight through the wall to find a passage to another door. She carefully advoided all the traps and made it to the door, putting in the password she walked in. Gemini's eyes widened when she saw what was behind the doors. It was frightening. There stood among the room mages that had disappeared throughout the years all in coma states floating in huge tubes. "What in the hell is going on here?" Gemini mumbled under her breath as she looked around all the room, this was crazy but suddenly their transformation wore off and the two reappeared in their mini forms.
They nodded as they went their separate ways to gather data for their master. When they heard the gears move on the door though they hid not to be found, knowing it'd be bad for everyone.
Loria came through the door; her usual smile had disappeared as she looked around as if looking for something. When she didn't see anything, she sighed and went over to a machine; it was hooked up to a lacrima. "We need to find a faster way to drain these mages of their powers. The alliance won't be pleased with this little amount." She unhooked the lacrima before she walked back out of the room.
Gemini looked at each other before they nodded and disappeared into the spirit world. They reappeared in front of Lucy, whom by that time had made it back to her apartment with Lucinas and the exceeds. "We found something!" They had reappeared in the form of Loria to make it easier to talk to them.
"Oh, well please do tell." Sting was lounging on the couch bored because he had been house bound by the two girls. Lector sat on his lap with Happy as they munched on fish.
Gemini nodded before she sat down and looked up at Lucy. "They are holding mages in that room… mages that have been said to have gone missing for the past decade. They have been harnessing their power for the Dark Guild Alliance for a while. But it seems they are having a hard time to completely drain the mages of their powers… and if nothing is done soon, most of them will probably die. We saw Loria enter, and she didn't have the guard she normally held, we were able to gather more information." Gemini looked worried, "They plan to capture the two of you because they don't completely trust you both. They plan on using you in the same way."
"Do you have idea when they plan on striking?" Sting smirked a bit, this was getting fun now.
Gemini nodded a bit, "they plan on waiting till after Lucy has her child. They want the child's power too… The offspring of the most power celestial mage and a dragon slayer. Who knows what powers the child will hold."
"Wait, Lucinas… didn't you say that the war will start when I have my child?" Lucy thought of something as she turned to look at her.
The black haired girl nodded a bit, "Yes, that is true… that's what is written in the stars at least. Maybe that is the start of everything. Well since we know that maybe we can change it." Lucinas liked these people a lot and she didn't want the future that this planet was heading for happen. She didn't want her planet to die out, to let magic itself die out.
"Alright, we will defiantly change the future!" Lucy raised her arm in the air with a smirk on her face. "I am a fairy tail mage, and taking risks is what we do!"
"I'm a sabertooth and normally I could care less, but I personally don't want to have to fight in this war more than I have too." Sting raised an eyebrow at the glare he received from Lucy before he moved the two exceed off his lap and stood up. "Alright, so shouldn't we contact Sherry with this information?"
Lucy blinked as she looked at him, "You actually said something smart for once." She ignored the growl from him as she turned around to go to her room to get the lacrima. When she returned, Lucy put it on the table as she turned it on. It was blank for a minute before Sherry appeared on the other end, but something didn't look right on her face. "Sherry? Is everything alright?"
"It's fine." She laughed a bit nervously that everyone picked up on. "So what is up?"
Lucy sat there on the couch debating if she should tell because of the way she was acting. "First, I want an update on the man we sent there."
"He are perfectly f…fine. He has… made himself at home." Sherry smiled. "If that is all you called for then I must go Lucy."
Before Lucy could get another word in, the lacrima shut off, this alarmed her. "There is something wrong at the council. There has to be or else Sherry wouldn't be acting like this."
"What about pretty boy though, wouldn't he have contacted us?" Sting pointed to his head to make his point. "He hasn't checked in any way for a while."
Lucinas listened to them talk amongst themselves as she sat down at the table. There was something wrong she felt it, but getting those mages out would be the first thing before they went back to the so called council. "Alright that's great you two, but we have to free those mages first."
"Aye!" Happy floated in the air a bit as he landed on Lucy's head. "I feel bad for them."
"But how are we going to do it?" Lector asked which made them all fall silent before they turned towards Gemini who hadn't moved from its spot.
Gemini pointed to itself as it shook its head. "oh no, I can't do this."
"But if you can get us in we can do the rest." Sting smirked as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"But still, Loria is always there." Gemini recalled most of the owner's memories.
Lucinas smiled as she clapped to get their attention. "Oh don't worry about that, I can take care of that part."
"Then we'll set them free within a couple days." Lucy smiled to herself but a sudden knock on their door caught everyone off guard. "Who is that?" Gemini disappeared back to the spirit world at that point.
Sting moved towards the door before anyone and looked out the peep hole, what he saw he didn't like. Loria and about six goons stood behind her. He silently moved towards them as he pointed towards the balcony window, but before they could open the door a goon appeared to block their way.
"This is too early." Lucinas muttered under her breath as suddenly the door was busted down and in walked Loria, who had dropped her happy mask.
She stopped a few feet in front of them as she glared at all of them, "Under the oath of our guild, I hereby place you all under arrest for being traitors!" She pointed at Lucy and Sting.
"Wait what?" They both answered confused, where was this coming from.
Loria narrowed her eyes, "You heard me, we didn't trust you to begin with and yet I found out about your little stunt with that spirit of yours. You know too much, and must be contained."
"Well sorry, but there is no way you're going to catch any of us." Lucy smiled brightly at her as she held out her hand. "Open the door of the Maiden and Golden Bull! Virgo! Taurus!" Two puffs of smoke appeared between the two of them.
"Punishment princess?" Virgo bowed a bit to Lucy.
"Lucy! Your body is so perfect still!" Taurus had hearts in his eyes.
Everyone in the room sweat dropped at the two of them but Lucy just rolled her eyes. "No Virgo! You and Taurus need to make a path for us."
Loria got in a battle stance when she saw the two spirits turn towards them. She didn't like the look they were giving her but when they suddenly charged she knew she had to fight.
Sting instantly took the one out that had been blocking their way on the balcony before he picked up Lucy and jumped out onto the ground. Happy was carrying Lucinas and Lector as he dropped them a few inches from the ground and the five of them ran towards the guild.
"Lucy will your spirits be alright?" Lucinas asked through her pants to keep up with Sting.
"They'll be fine, they are strong." Lucy gave her a thumbs up, though she would have preferred to run she knew that she wasn't in the shape to run without a chance of losing the baby. She'd had to rely on Sting a bit much during this if they had to make a quick getaway.
The five of them made it to the guild as they had to hide because the guild stood in their way in front of the doors. "Well this is a nice welcoming party." Sting smirked as he set down Lucy. "I'll take care of them, if you four go rescue them."
"Alright." Lucy said with a slight nod.
Sting smirked even more as he charged from around the corner towards the surprised guild members. None of them had really stood out to Sting in their time there so he knew he'd be alright. "White Dragon Roar!" A beam of white light shot out from his mouth aimed straight at the guild members.
The others went in the side entrance as they avoided the rest of the guild members that were rushing to the front doors to help their other members. When the guild was mostly empty they raced forwards towards the hallway. "Open the gate of the Twin! Gemini!" Lucy held out the key as Loria reappeared. "Open it please."
"Alright." Gemini nodded as she led them to the door. Punching in the numbers, the door opened. "I'll stand on guard out here." Gemini's eyes went blank as suddenly Sting stood there again. "This should help out more than the other."
Lucy rushed in without a second to spare; she gasped a bit at the mages but had to tell herself to keep going because she knew that they had to get them out of there no matter what. A roar behind them caught their attention as they turned around to see Gemini and Loria fighting. "Gemini!"
"I'm fine!" Gemini slammed its fist on the button and the door slammed shut nearly breaking it off its hinges. But it did dent the door so it'd be harder for it to reopen.
"Lucy, let's figure out how to do this!" Lucinas turned back to the machine that was lacrimaless this time before she looked back at the tubes. She was clueless on this technology.
Happy flew over to the table and landed on it but when it suddenly busted in half from the extra weight, the machine fell to the ground and busted into quite a few pieces. "Oh no." Happy had caught himself in time so now he floated over it with wide eyes.
Lucy had been at one of the tubes trying to figure out how but when she heard the noise she shot up to see the machine. Her eyes widened. "Happy! What did you do?"
"I didn't do nothing." He tried to play it off.
"He landed on the table and it broke." Lector raised a paw in the air. "It wasn't his fault entirely."
Lucy brought a hand up to her head as she sighed, she didn't have time to deal with this. She could feel Gemini getting worn down so they didn't have much longer.
A sudden noise caught everyone's attention as they twirled around to see the liquid within the tubes beginning to drain. The four of them watched as slowly the tubes became empty with only the mages lying on the ground.
"See if they are alright." Lucy rushed to the closest one as she pushed the tube over now that it wasn't as heavy. It shattered everywhere, cutting Lucy a bit but she didn't care. The young mage in front of her took preference. "Hey are you alright?" She tapped his check.
A soft groan passed his lips as he slowly opened his eyes. "Where am I?" His voice was raspy as if he hadn't used it for a long time.
"Um, well… you were captured and… uh… we freed you… and now we need to get out of here…" Lucy laughed nervously as she scratched her chin. She helped him sit up as he looked at the others.
"Yes, let's get out of here." He nodded as he slowly stood with a bit of help by Lucy and walked to the window. He held out his hand as suddenly the wall blasted out. Lucy's eyes widened, that was crash magic. The same as Guildarts, that was a rare magic indeed. He nodded as he glanced back at the others whom where now beginning to stand up. "Come on let's get out of here."
The group of ten free mages, and the four guild mages stood on the outskirts of the town. They were waiting for Sting to show up because Lucy had insisted that they do before they moved on. When the Holy dragon slayer finally showed up, he looked a bit beat up but alright.
"I see you were able to rescue them." He sighed to himself as he looked at Lucy. "Are you alright? You didn't overwork yourself right?"
Lucy nodded, "I'm fine. Just a bit tired, but that is to be expected because of all the magic I used."
"Ok." He understood that before he turned towards the freed mages. "Alright, so who can and cannot use any magic?" He wanted to know who could fight, and who couldn't, in case they were ambushed.
"Well right now, most of us are useless because most of the magic was drained from us." The young man from earlier spoke up a bit worried. "So for us, a town where we could be safe while we recovered would be nice."
There was a silence over them before Happy raised his paw in the air. "Take them to Magonlia. Fairy Tail will keep them safe."
"Happy, I do not want to go back to the guild right now." Lucy shook her head. "And anyway they have the little girl that they are already watching remember." She held up a finger as if to scold the poor exceed.
Sting thought about it, "Well that is the safest and closest town around here though. We don't have to go back to the guild though, they will be fine in the city though right?" he glanced at the mages to see them nod in response. "Then we take them as far as your town and then leave for the magic council after that."
Lucy knew that they had already decided what they would do and no matter what she would argue it wouldn't matter. "Fine. I'm glad I didn't buy or bring much with me." She sighed as they began to head towards the train station. Their guild marks on their arms disappeared within the mist of the commotion. Though none of them had noticed yet.
