Laxus's POV

I glanced over at blondie, making sure she was within all of our sights. After we'd arrived at the town and had spoken to the Mayor about our request, blondie told us that because of some trouble in the spirit world, she could only summon two spirits, and even then, she was unwilling to do so as they were needed there.

I was going to pressure her into telling us what was up, but a rare angry glare from Freed was directed at me, and I shut up, walking off fuming as lightning started to spark out of my control.

It was the next day, and early afternoon. We'd already taken out most of the Vulcans, using Ever and blondie as bait. I had to admit, blondie was holding up really well without calling a single spirit once.

I'd heard a lot of mages scoff at celestial mages, complaining that their spirits did all the work and they never actually did anything, only using them as shields.

I knew blondie hated people saying crap like that, I'd seen her blow her top at people insulting her spirits, but seeing her fight by herself I saw the extent of her skills.

That weird whip she has moves in impossible directions, and she has complete control over the shining length as it extended and shortened at a flick of her wrist.

I raised a hand, causing everyone to halt as I heard a noise ahead of us.

We had to be especially careful now, as there were only Wyverns left, and they were pretty tough to crack if you ran into one, let alone a pack of them.

I walked up wind, silently advancing and looking through the trees and undergrowth, to see the entire pack lounging in a large clearing, either sleeping or tearing chunks of meat from smaller forest animals.

I crept back to my team and explained the situation.

'What do you want to do Laxus-sama?' Freed asked, waiting for me to come up with a plan.

'I've got an idea.' Blondie whispered eagerly. I nodded at her to carry on, and felt it was a sound plan, before we put it into action, I asked Ever to stick with her as back up.

She looked at me as though I was an idiot as if to say "What did you think I was going to do?" I chuckled to myself, and watched as she followed blondie.

Freed had already gone ahead, writing runes around our side of the clearing, making an invisible wall, and me and Bix crept to the sides of the clearing, waiting for Freed's signal.

Freed's POV

I finally completed the runes and mumbled the spell beneath my breath:

'Dark Ecriture: Wings!' The black magic wings appeared on my back and I shot into the sky, signalling to the others that I was ready.

Instantly, I heard Laxus and Bickslows shouts from opposite sides of the clearing.

"Baryon Formation!"

"Lightning Dragons Roar!"

The wyverns on either side were taken out by the attacks immediately, leaving less than half of the pack, all now awake and enraged. I quickly landed and ran to meet with Lucy and Ever.

I could already hear Lucy casting her spell and hoped that she would be able to pull it off without Gemini's help.

Evergreen's POV

I watched Lucy as she took a deep breath, and a giant golden magic circle formed beneath her as she began to chant, her hair raising and blowing around her face due to the pure magical energy she exuded.

"Survey the heavens, Open the heavens

All the stars, far and wide

Show me thy appearance

With such shine

Oh Tetrabiblos

I am the ruler of the stars

Aspect become complete

Open thy malevolent gate

Oh 88 stars of the heaven

Shine!

Urano Metria!"

My mouth was open in shock at the immense amount of magical energy that was pouring from her body, as orbs of light showered from the darkened sky, slamming into the wyverns behind the barrier Freed had placed, quickly illuminating them in a matter of seconds.

I looked at Lucy to see her breathing heavily, and blood was dripping from her nose.

I shouted at her, and tried to grab her to shake her out of the spell, but an invisible barrier of energy had formed around her, shoving me back.

'FREED!' I screamed, hearing him running towards us. He burst through the trees, taking in the situation and quickly pulling out his rapier to write his runes.

However, before he could do so, the final ball of light from the spell smashed into the last wyvern, and Lucy collapsed to the ground, spent of energy and panting heavily.

I rushed forwards and grabbed her head, laying it on my lap and stroking back her sweat soaked hair.

'You idiot! You told us you could handle it alone!' I felt tears streaming down my face, and saw her smile up at me.

'Hey, I'm alive aren't I?' She grinned, winking up at me before concentrating on breathing again. I looked up at Freed who was as shocked as I was at her words.

'I'm kidding, okay? If I couldn't do it by myself, the circle wouldn't even of appeared. I just need a couple minutes to catch my breath.' She gasped out smiling up at me as I used my handkerchief to wipe her blood from her face.

'Lucy you shouldn't have done it. If we'd known it would cause your body so much strain we'd have not let you-' She cut Freed off with a glare.

'No, I would have done it anyway. A week ago I wouldn't have been able to get half as far as getting to the chant. I've been meditating a lot, so I'm better than I would have been a week ago.' She smiled at us.

'Lucy!' We heard a voice appear right next to use, and saw Loke standing there staring at his master with shock and anger.

'Hey Loke, I'm fine, just sleepy.' He knelt down beside her and grabbed her hand, squeezing it tightly.

'You should have summoned me, I could have helped! Why didn't you?'

'You're needed to run the spirit world at the moment, so get your stupid kitten ass back there and do your damned job, you hear me? I'm fine!' Loke frowned, and disappeared before reappearing seconds later with a small vial of a shining liquid.

Gently he opened her mouth and allowed a single drop to fall between her lips.

'Leave that to work for five minutes and she should be walking, but don't let her use any magic for a week. And that includes this.' Loke told me, picking up her celestial whip and placing it in my hands. I nodded as Lucy glared at him.

Suddenly, I heard Laxus and Bix smashing through the trees.

'Lucy!' They both shouted, causing everyone to look up in surprise.

'Well, at least now we know that they do actually know my name huh?' She joked, laughing at the two panicking mages.

Bickslow's POV

I watched as her spell destroyed the last wyvern and waited for the barrier to be dispelled to see the rest of the team walk into the clearing fill with defeated wyverns, but it remained in place.

After two minutes of waiting, I knew something was up, and started to jog over to where cosplayer and Ever would be, speeding up as my heart raced for no reason other than worry.

I burst through the trees, seeing cosplayer lying on the ground, her head resting in Ever's lap and Loke clutching at her hand with a small vial of golden liquid in the other.

'Lucy!' I shouted without thinking, and noticed that myself and Laxus had arrived at the same time, calling out her name simultaneously.

'Well, at least now we know that they do actually know my name huh?' I scowled at her words as I walked over to Freed, standing behind Loke's kneeling form.

'She'll be fine. Just give her five minutes.' Loke said, standing up and pocketing the vial.

'Loke, go home, they need you.' Lucy told him, grinning up at the spirit. I watched on as he nodded, before disappearing in a shower of golden light.

'Damn it Blondie! You said you could handle it!' Laxus shouted at her, sparks of lightning snapping off his body in his rage.

'Yeah yeah, calm down Sparky. I'm fine.' I felt my lips twitch at the name, and noticed Freed and Ever also trying to hide their smiles. I glanced at Laxus to see his face contorted in shock and disbelief, and couldn't help but burst out laughing. As soon as I went, so did everyone else, and our laughs filled the area as Laxus watched, confused.

'Did you just call me sparky?' He asked, frowning. Cosplayer gasped for breath between laughter and nodded, giggling. Me and Freed both sat down on the floor, wiping the tears from our eyes as Laxus crossed his arms and sulked.

Finally, we'd calmed down enough to notice cosplayer was forcing herself to sit up, Ever helping buy supporting her back as she winced.

'Guess I need to meditate some more.' She mumbled, stretching out her arms and smiling at Ever.

'You should be more careful cosplayer. I don't want to deal with Makarov if anything happens to you.' I muttered, my babies agreeing with me "Careful! Careful!", as I pictured the Masters rage if we allowed one of his children of the guild to come to harm. Though he didn't have favourites, we all knew the cheery blonde held a special place in his heart.

'Sorry guys, but I'm fine. Whatever that was that Loke gave me, its working. My legs feel like they can move in a couple more minutes.' She grinned and I shook my head.

'Seriously cosplayer. Don't do that again, at least not until you have your spirits approval.' Her face went serious and she nodded in agreement.

Freed's POV

I frowned as we walked back to the town, Lucy leaning on Ever slightly.

Something that she'd said had bothered me greatly, and I wanted to read up on one of the books she'd let me read, just to be sure.

'Hey guys, now that we've done this mission, do you think we could make a detour before going home? I've got to get something from my old home.' Ever and Bix looked towards me, and I nodded, looking to Laxus to see if he agreed. He grunted his agreement and Lucy grinned back at us, before turning to talk to Ever again.

'How do they even talk about make-up and clothes for so long?' Laxus muttered under his breath beside me.

'I believe they've moved on to shoes and shopping.' Bix and Laxus groaned simultaneously at the mention of shopping and I chuckled at their reaction.

'I had no idea Ever liked to shop.' Laxus mumbled, his sound pod resting around his neck.

'Dude, she's a girl. It's part of their DNA. They can't help it.' "DNA! DNA!" Bix said, sticking his tongue out as his babies circled his head, repeating his words.

'Come on guys! If we want to get there before nightfall we'd better hurry! I can't wait to sleep on a mattress again!' Lucy moaned at Ever, now walking more independently than before.

'Better hurry, can't deal with that whinney voice much longer.' Laxus grumbled, pulling his sound pod over his ears and upping the volume as he sped up, his cloak hooked over his finger as he threw it over his shoulder.

Me and Bix exchanged a smirk, before catching up to the others and following Lucy to the fallen Heartfilia Konzern.