Lucy took sight of her surroundings and began to notice how beautiful the land of Edolas was, far from normal and crawling with many mystical creatures, she knew they had the same things back on Earth land but this place had a certain beauty to it. Her sight watching was interrupted when she yet again heard bickering come from the obnoxious wizards in the back.

"Hey Gray, that creature over there looks just like you!" Natsu snickered as he pointed to a small dark blue fur like animal with claws almost as long as its nose. "What did you just say flame brain?!" Gray shouted as he balled his fist ready to punch the dragon slayer. "You heard me popsicle prick!" Natsu was almost in tears now from laughing, he held his stomach. "You listen here dragon-"Lucy cut in, "Stop bickering now! Or we will never complete this mission you here me?!" Lucy shouted at them as she raised her fist, Happy hovered behind her so he couldn't see her yell in fury.

Gray and Natsu straightened themselves out after that, they weren't so keen on seeing Lucy's scary side. The celestial wizard turned around and kept walking forward, hoping she could continue this journey in peace. "Pssst Gray..." Natsu whispered with a hand blocking his mouth from Lucy, Gray's eyebrow twitched in annoyance. "What." He whispered through gritted teeth. "Who's scarier...Lucy or Erza?" Gray crossed his arms and whispered back, "Hard to tell."

Erza walked straight ahead in silence, listening and paying close attention of the area around her. Jellal walked by her side, doing the same. Erza stopped dead in her tracks when she heard the loud foot step in the distance. She glanced over at Jellal who was already looking at her, he heard the same. The scarlet haired mage turned to face her group who were several feet behind, Wendy could already tell that something was wrong. Before Erza could get a word out she heard it again, and so did the rest of the group. "What was that?" Wendy asked, "What's going on?" Meredy spoke up seconds after. The requip mage turned around, letting Meredy and Wendy figure it out for themselves. She prepared herself for whatever was to come.

Through the trees the creature revealed itself, bigger than the one they last faced. Anyone wizard could defeat the beast on there own no doubt, but no magic and limited supplies is what Erza worried about. "Lucy..." She called without looking black at the blonde, the celestial mage was already at Erza's side. "I think I'm gonna need to borrow that whip again." She requested, Lucy unlatched it from her belt and handed it over.

Jellal stepped in front of Erza, prepared to take the beast on himself but she objected. "Step aside, I'll take of this." Jellal nodded once and did as told, he never questioned the red haired woman's strength and he certainly wasn't going to start now. After all she was still labeled as 'Titania' and fairytail's strongest woman.

Erza took a deep breath and lunged at the creature with no sense of hesitation, the large white beast swung its arm at her and she swiftly flipped over it. She whipped the creature's chest and it swung again, she use it's shoulder to jump up and dodge the attack. The rest of grouped watched the fight carefully, waiting for a chance to jump in if Erza got hurt.

The requip mage aimed for the monster's chest, but didn't notice the attack coming for her from behind. Meredy acted on instinct and rushed over to the fight, "Meredy no!" Ultear shouted in attempt to warn her friend. "ERZA BEHIND YOU!" Shouted the pink haired girl, Erza glanced over her shoulder and noticed the punch coming straight towards her, she ducked under it and landed on the ground with her two feet. The scarlet haired woman turned and looked at Meredy who was at her side, "Go back with the group and keep away from here, I can take care of this." Erza instructed, Meredy noticed what the red haired wizard didn't.

The white furry monster was aiming straight for Erza's blind spot, there wasn't enough time for the requip mage to turn around so Meredy acted fast. The pink haired wizard tackled Erza to get her out of harm's way. Meredy yelped in pain as the blow made contact with the side of her rib cage. "Meredy!" Erza cried as the injured girl landed on top of her.

A small amount of blood escaped the pink haired girl's lips as she coughed, Erza quickly picked up Meredy and raced her over to the rest of the group. "I'm sorry Erza." The girl said. Erza looked down on her quickly, "Its alright Meredy, I should be thanking you. You saved me from serious injury and I apologize that you got hurt in the process." The scarlet haired woman replied before she released Meredy to Ultear. "Meredy..." The dark haired mage said before placing Meredy's arm over her shoulder to support her while she walked. "I'm fine Ultear, for the most part." She replied.

Lucy and Gray watched as Erza immediately went back to taking on the monster on her own. "Should we go in there?" Lucy said as she held a fist up to her chest as she began walking forward, Gray put his arm out to stop her. "No, we'll only be in her way and we'll probably end up like Meredy." He said firmly. Natsu crossed his arms and watched the battle intently, if he saw Erza struggle in any way he would jump in regardless on what the other's thought about it.

Erza kept dodging the monster's attacks swiftly, the beast hasn't touched her yet. I need to end this quickly, it's delaying the whole mission. She quickly devised a plan, she aimed for the creature's feet and began dodging its attacks from that point. She gripped the whip tightly and as she dodged she wrapped it around its feet, when she completed the whole circle twice she stopped and pulled. "There we go." She said proudly, the monster fell completely backwards. Erza jumped up and used her monster strength and popped a punch to its face. That should have him down for a while...

The scarlet haired woman began to walk back to her companions, Meredy was sitting up against a tree with Ultear at her side. "She can't walk on her own, the left side of her rib cage is badly broken." Ultear said, Erza sighed she wished Meredy never jumped into that fight. Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, Gray, and the exceeds began to crowed around behind Erza and Jellal. "She won't be able to go on will she?" Jellal asked, Ultear sighed. "Without healing magic I'm afraid not." She responded as she stroked Meredy's hair. "I'll stay with her and you guys go on." Jellal volunteered. "No." Ultear objected. "I'll stay with her, you go on." Jellal shook his head, "No-" He was cut off, "I'm staying with her, you go on. You're strongest out of all three of us even without magic and plus I want to stay with Meredy, so please just go on. We'll catch up with you when she's feeling better, that monster will be dazed for a while and I'm sure when it wakes up it won't even notice us if we hide good enough." She reasoned, Jellal's facial expression softened up he knew that Meredy had a stronger connection with Ultear.

"Are you sure?" Jellal asked finally, Ultear looked down at Meredy. "I'm positive."

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I am so sorry, I honestly didn't mean to abandon this story for so long. I had a bad case of writer's block on this fanfic and every time I wrote a new chapter it just didn't sound right, I hope you like this new part and I apologize if there were any spelling or grammar mistakes. I have no beta reader but I'm currently looking for one! (: