A/N I'm sorry for the wait but here is a chapter! So this chapter is more of another intro but I promise the real action is coming up! Also I know there is a lot of dialogue but to be fair if your guild and possibly you were about to be blown up you would be talking a lot too! I don't own Fairy Tail.
Birds were chirping and a crisp breeze swept across Magnolia. The morning would have been perfect if not for the frantic Fairy Tail members evacuating all citizens of Magnolia. Team Shadow Gear, the exceeds, and Cana were in charge of making sure that Magnolia was empty for the big war coming in a few hours. With the town evacuated the only residents left were the Fairy Tail members.
"There are five paces that a large guild like Phantom Lord could attack us from without it being a constraint to them. If we take away the two that are abandoned places only Magnolia residents would ever know about then that leaves three. Out of those the one closest to the guild hall is the beach by the Sakura Ocean (A/N made up work with me)." Lucy said gruffly as she poured over a map. Gray and Erza examined the location intently from their paces beside her.
"The only way to get to land from there is through the ocean." Gray frowned at the azure colored splotch on the paper.
"Well they might have a way to do that. We know next to nothing about this guild and it's better to play it safe." Erza reasoned. From beside her, Lucy nodded.
"It's the most logical way to enter." Lucy said. The team managed to roll the map up before they were stopped by Mira.
"How's it going?" Lucy asked the Satan Soul Mage. She shook her head with a sigh.
"Laxus won't listen to me. We just lost help." Mira frowned at the pink lacrima in her hand. On it was Laxus' smirking face.
"Ah Laxus hello. No reunion?" Lucy remarked sarcastically.
"It's Blondie. Your training ended?" Laxus asked with a slight tilt of his head.
"No but Mira called and I had to come. Because it's my guild." Lucy narrowed her eyes. If he wouldn't listen to Mira's sweet coaxing then he'd be getting some tough love.
"Forget it Blondie. Now I've got to go." Laxus smirked once more before the lacrima vision went spiraling to the ground and we heard the faint sound of breaking glass. Mira looked at the lacrima with betrayal in her eyes but before I could comfort her the ground began to shake.
"An earthquake right now?" Mira said dubiously.
"It must be Phantom Lord. Quick everyone who's ready for combat go outside now!" Lucy yelled at the startled guild members. Many rushed outside and were shocked by what they saw. In front of them was the Phantom Lord main guild on legs and walking towards them through the ocean.
"Looks like you were right Lucy." Gray managed to get out as the ground shook once more.
"Sadly I was." Lucy grit her teeth as she walked towards the machine. Some members let out noises of protest but Lucy ignored them all.
"Luce come back here where it's safe!" Natsu's voice rang out as he ran through the crowd.
"I came back so I could be strong enough to defend my family! That's what I'm doing now." Lucy yelled at her brother while he tried to pull her back. At her words his hand dropped immediately.
"How sweet." A mocking voice drawled and everyone spun towards the moving Phantom Lord guild hall. Lucy knew that voice was Master Jose's. The one meeting had been enough for her to hate him.
"State your reasoning for being here." Erza asked authoritatively as she stared down the machine. Suddenly Jose's face showed up on a giant monitor.
"I think you already know. I want the Heartfillia Heirs." Jose smirked as everyone turned to Natsu and Lucy.
"That is not my name and you'd do well to remember that. I have no last name!" Lucy yelled furiously at the image. Only four people knew that she was actually a Heartfillia and two of them were dead. Another was Natsu and the last was trying to get her to go to the Kozern. Well now most of Fairy Tail did too but still.
"I'm Natsu Dragneel. Nothing more and nothing less." Natsu snarled in agreement.
"How cute. For that little act of defiance I'm firing Jupiter in one minute." Jose narrowed his eyes. At the confusion that flickered across Fairy Tail's faces he smirked.
"Oh yes Jupiter. You see this isn't just our guild hall. It's a war machine with one of the deadliest cannons in all of Fiore as its main artillery." Jose smirked as a countdown appeared where his face was.
"I have an armor that may be able to block this." Erza said as she requipped. Lucy stepped toward her and shook her head.
"Don't strain yourself. They will need your help later because of your S-Class status. I can block it." Lucy assured Erza.
"Are you sure Lucy? I don't want you getting hurt. I now about Jupiter and it's strong." Erza had concern in her eyes. All Lucy did was grin before stepping right in front of where Jupiter would fire at. The tier was now at thirty seconds and everyone was nervous. Except for Lucy. She was making a small golden orb directly in front of her. The timer reached ten seconds.
"Alright everyone behind me!" Lucy ordered through gritted teeth as the golden orb started to glow brighter. Finally at two seconds she slammed her fist into the orb and it shattered. For a second there was nothing but silence until the golden orb suddenly pieced itself back together and covered the entirety of Fairy Tail just as Jupiter went off. Since her magic still had to fuel the shield, Lucy was touching the golden barrier with her magic left her body. After a few seconds Jupiter stopped and Lucy dismissed the shield.
"Are you okay Lucy?" Mira asked as she went up to the panting blonde.
"I'm fine. Is everyone okay?" Lucy replied back while her magic replenished itself. Right now all the energy from the golden orb was still in the air so the energy would come back to its owner.
"No one was hurt." Mira assured with a smile.
"Good. Can't have any weirdos getting injured." Lucy joked before a shadowy figure ran through her. Her eyes opened wide as blood spilled out of her stomach and mouth. Master Jose's chuckles were heard from overhead.
"I've seen you've meet the shades."
