I am sorry for the long wait and that this is a rather short Chapter compared to all the other ones in this story but I thought that was the perfect place to stop.
So have fun reading and thanks to all of you who waited so patiently for me to update again.
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Lucy and Cer were wandering through the forest in hopes to find the source of the howling, from the Night before. They are going to the direction the Mayor send them, telling them that most Night the howling came from this direction. Thinking about it the Mayor remembered that in this area are some caves, perfect for making some sort of camp.

Cer is in his normal three-headed form, always running in different directions from Lucy and tries to find a scent they could follow. But he found nothing, it seems as if there hadn't been anyone or anything in a very long time now.

A few hour later they stumbled a cross a little clearing directly in front of a cave and Cer immediately tenses up. "I can hear something inside of the cave, we should be careful. Even though it sounds more like whimpering then really threatening, but you never know... For all we know this could be a trap." "Alright, we will be careful."

Upon entering the cave Lucy is finally able to hear the noises Cer spoke about. And he was right, it sound like a whimper. A whimper so full of pain and sorrow that Lucy can't stop herself from speeding up and is now practically running in the direction she can her the whimpers come from.

And there before her eyes is a sight she hoped she had to never see. There lays a wolf chained to the ground, if you look closely you can make out the beautiful golden fur. Golden fur that is now completely filthy with blood on too many spots.

Lucy can't even imagine what happened to this poor wolf, something so bad that the wolf is whimpering even in its sleep. She looks carefully through the cave, hoping to find a clue or if someone could came back any moment for this wolf. And while her search she finds it, the Silver Key, displayed on a stone not to far from the wold but still just out of reach. That is when she realizes who this wolf is, this is Lupus.

Realizing this she can't stop the tears that are now freely flowing down her cheeks, quickly she grabs the Key and then slowly approaches the sleeping wolf, not wanting to scare him or her.

During all this Cer is just standing at the side, waiting for any indication that this wolf means any harm to Lucy but seeing how she reacts he too slowly comes closer, but not after chaining in his puppy form. He too didn't want to scare the poor creature.

The still sleeping wolf wakes up at Lucy speaks up softly and reaches out with her hands. Seeing the open eyes directed at her, with so much pain and caution in them, she smiles reassuringly and stops.

"Hey my name is Lucy Heartfilia and that is Cerberus. You must be Lupus the Wolf or am I wrong?", a nod is the only answer she gets. "Could you tell me what happened to you? The village nearby send someone to investigate the howling at Night they could hear since a while now. And if it is alright with you I would love to free you of these chains, but I believe therefore you need to let me come closer to you. Would that be alright? I promise I won't hurt you! I love all Celestial Spirits, I myself am a Celestial Mage and my Spirits are my family. If it would make you feel better I can call one of them out?"

While speaking she looks the wolf directly in the eyes, hoping that he or she can see her honesty in them. "You don't need to call one of your Spirits, I have heard of your kindness in the Spirit World before I ended up here, so it is okay for me if you come closer to me. But I am not so sure if you can make something against these chains..."

So Lucy crouches down next to the wolf and crouches down next to the chains to find out way to remove them. "Lupus could you please tell me what happened and how it comes that you are not back in the Spirit World?"

"Please call me Luna, that is my real name. It was my former Master... He was once a villager in the town nearby and at first he was a very kind Master. But over time he grew somewhat crazy, he became a Dark Mage. And when the villagers found out they banned him from town after he threatened some of the children. So he came to this cave and started to make a plan to take revenge against them. He wanted me to attack the village at Night and kill some of the kids. But back in his good times he often called me out so I could play with these kids, so I refused to kill any of them. I don't like to kill someone, especially when I was friends with them, they were all always so kind to me... But this made him so angry and he sent me back and didn't call me for a long time. I thought maybe he had giving up his plan but he searched for a way to punish me. And he found these chains, chains that would hinder me from going back to the Spirit World on my own. So that I would slowly perish. To make it even more horrible he layed a curse on my Key. Every full moon would give me little of my strength back so it would make me suffer a longer time, but at the same time this also leads to me having immense pain. He chained me as soon as I stepped out of my Gate and then beat me up, after he was finished with the beating he left and came never back. I tried so many times to go back but to no avail. And I have no idea if there is a way for you to break these chains.", during her explanation tears started to stream from her eyes and Cer came closer to nuzzle, offering some comfort along with Lucy who grew angrier and sadder the more she heard.

She won't let something like this happen! No she will break these chains and then help Luna to be happy again!

In her anger she grabs the chains and pushes her magic in them. More and more magic is pushed into these chains and slowly they began to glow golden. And with one last push of her magic and thought about her love for all Spirits the chains break and Luna immediately goes back to the Spirit World, not having enough magic left to stay any longer.

Lucy falls back, breathless and exhausted. She didn't realize how much magic she just used until now.

Cer comes up to her and nuzzles her, feeling that Lucy herself needs some comfort after seeing and hearing this story. She rolls over on her side and curls into a balls with Cer pulled to her chest and then she breaks down. Crying for the way Luna was treated, such a nice and gentle Spirit.

They lay there a little while longer until there are no more tears to cry.

Lucy stands up with Cer in her arms and makes her way back to the town. On her way she contemplates about her next actions regarding Luna, she knows that she can't call her too soon, she needs to heal and regain her strength first.

Arriving back in the village, Lucy goes straight to her room and falls into her bed, even though it's still afternoon and she should eat something.

After a short nap Lucy calls Loke to asks him for advice regarding Luna.

And as soon as Loke appears he brings Lucy in for a big hug and thanks her for saving the wolf. She hugs him back just as strongly and mumbles something of her own, during this she realizes that Loke has shed some tears of his own. After several attempts of calming down they finally are able to speak normally again and Lucy asks him what she should do now.

Loke tells her that Luna was welcome back with open arms and that Phoenix is now taking care of her to speed her healing up. He furthermore told her that Luna would like Lucy to call her tomorrow to make a contract and to speak with the villagers. Lucy agrees and sends Loke back, still not very recovered from the chain breaking earlier.


Having eaten something Lucy calls Master to tell him about her missions. During their talk they both shed a few tears because of the things Luna had to endure.

"Master!", there talk was interrupted as someone bursts in his office. Lucy couldn't see who it was but it sounded like a girl.

"Mira? Did something happen?!", Lucy can clearly see the worry in his eyes, she herself thinks the about the possibilities there are for someone to just burst into Masters office screaming for him. The only conclusion she came to was that something happened to Laxus and his Team and it seems that Master came to the same conclusion as he let the Lacrima fall on this desk and stands up, ready to run down.

"Evergreen has woken up!", at this Master sighs in relieve and slumps back down in his chair. A smile slowly forming on his face, he quickly says goodbye to Lucy and ends the connection before following Mira down to the infirmary. There he is greeted with he sobbing Elfman beside Evergreen who smiles softly at the man beside her.

Evergreen's waking up brings back hope to all of them that the rest will soon wake up as well.

This Night Lucy sleeps just the tiniest bit lighter, happy that at least one of her Guild Mates is awake again.