( Not much to say, don't forget to heart, follow and comment! ) Grace woke up for a second time trying to scream. As usual nothing came out and she soon realized where they all were. Piled on top of each other the team was sleeping soundly in the middle of the jungle. Grace rolled her eyes and shoved Natsu and Gray off of her. They snorted but continued to sleep wrapped in each other's arms. Smirking Grace quickly snapped a picture to show Mira back at home, then tried to wake up Erza. Grace shook Erza gently, but when that didn't work she decided to take desperate measures. Grace slapped Erza full force across the face then jumped back sword in hand. Erza woken up staggered to her feet a dark aura protruding from her. " Who dare slap me?! " Grace hid behind a tree, coming out after a few minutes. Erza was back to her old self and was currently scratching her head. " Grace did we fall asleep? " Grace nodded making Erza's gaze darken. " Then I do believe we are extremely close to the spirit monster. Come help me wake the others. " The two of them went around the small camp and soon the whole team was awake, but confused. " I can't believe we fell asleep like that! " Lucy groaned making Gray nod his head. " Well we can't stand here groaning about it! LET'S GO KICK SOME ASS! " Natsu yelled throwing his fist into the air. " I think it's time we meet this spirit monster. " The team smiled to each other then threw their fists into the air. " Let's go find this monster. " **** The team followed Erza closely and when she stopped they all almost tumbled over. Raising her hand, Erza flicked her wrist making Gray and Lucy go left and Natsu and Grace go right. They had come to the resting place of the monster and were going thru the plans they had made the night before. Gray and Lucy would make the monster appear from out of the dark water below them and then proceed into giving Erza the full force of it, letting Natsu come in as a surprise attack. Then regrouping together Grace, Lucy and Gray would come in and finish it off. But of course nothing ever happens the way they want it to. At first everything was fine, Lucy making a huge racket and Gray shooting ice lance after ice lance into the murky water. Then the monster showed up and that's were everything went down hill. It was a huge snake rising higher and higher out of the water. Dark red with fangs the size of god knows what. Piercing black eyes that stared straight into your soul and as if that wasn't bad enough, large scaly black wings stretched out from behind the monster. It seemed to pinpoint it's hatred on Lucy and Gray first and let loose a stream of boiling water their way. Turning it into ice last second, Gray managed to get him and Lucy out of the way. But the monster followed their movements and sent torrents of fire, water, ice, and air from it's mouth after them. " ERZA GOOO! " Lucy screamed out after barely dodging a ball of fire. Nodding Erza was lifted up by Happy and dropped off onto the monster's back. Reequipping into her Tatania suit, Erza took her sword and drove it into the monster's neck. Blood squirted onto Erza, but the monster healed. Frowning Erza drove her sword again and again into the monster's neck but it only healed and got annoyed. The monster slammed itself against the rocky cliff behind it crushing Erza time and time again and soon Happy went in to grab her. Natsu watched all of this growing more and more angry. Especially when he saw Lucy and Gray still dodging attacks and trying to attack back. He grew furious however when he saw Erza's limp body being carried by Happy. Natsu finally fired up turned and grabbed Grace by the shoulders. Staring straight into her furious eyes all Grace could do was nod before Natsu was off towards the monster. Watching Natsu battle was the most helpless feeling Grace had felt in awhile. Laying Erza's head in her lap, Grace brushed the hair out of her eyes and felt hot tears fall. She had never expected something like this to happen and hearing the sounds of battle and pain her tears soon turned into tears of rage. This was HER family that the monster was hurting and the idea of that made her so mad she saw red. Nothing compared to the feeling of family and Grace refused to lose anyone she loved. Placing Erza's head to the side, Grace stood up and cracked her whip. Even if her magic didn't show, she still would make some serious damage. But before Grace could take 2 steps, Lucy flew behind her and landed on her back unconscious. Grace's first instinct was to go check if she was ok, but when Gray's body fell as well, Grace decided she was more useful in battle. Jumping on the monster's back, Grace whipped her whip (lol sorry) around the neck and pulled with all her strength. The monster shrieked and fell back against the rocks. Feeling broken bones and blood, Grace grimaced but continued to pull. However, her whip snapped against the monster's steel like skin forcing Grace to pull out her sword. Seeing Natsu blowtorch the monster time and time again added to Grace's motivation and soon she was running up the side of the monster slashing everywhere. " GRACE WATCH OUT! " Natsu threw Grace out of the way making her hit the rocks and forcing her to watch him being sucked up by a tornado of air and water. " NATSU NOOO! " Grace's voice was rusty from not using it but it's fear and despair could be heard plainly. Natsu turned to look at Grace a smile on his lips, but he was soon flung down into the abyss beside Grace his fire sucked out of him. ( So I like rewrote this chapter no joke 5 times. Sorry if it's not what you expected. )