"Is this interesting..."

Suddenly, the mist around the silhouette cleared completely, revealing a man on the platform. The albino grinned a smile which would rival even that of a Cheshire cat's. True to his appearance, his eyes were a scalding iron red, and his hair, as white as death.

Natsu was confused. When did he get here?

"Who the hell are you?!" Natsu demanded. The dragon slayer looked around, but apart from himself and the man, all he could see was black fog. He faced the albino stranger.

"Where are my guild mates?!"

"Here they're," he replied coolly.

"Whoa, what's up with your grammar?"

"Natsu, is there someone there?" Shouted out a voice from within the fog. He turned his head around. "Erza!" Said Natsu as he looked towards the direction in which her voice came from.

"Wait... That voice..." Started another voice, in which Natsu identified as Lucy's

"Lucy?"

"Isn't... He..."

The man chuckled.

"Name the is Calartemis."

He then clicked his fingers. "Boreas Twister."

"Huh?"

Suddenly, as by the command of Calartemis, there was an immediate whirl of wind that began to circle the area.

The wind spun with so much power, Natsu's feet was immediately lifted off the ground without hesitation.

"Whoa!"

Natsu felt like he was going down the drain as he was tossed from left to right, except instead of going down, he was going upwards.

He looked down, and saw the albino was still standing firmly on the platform, completely unaffected by the wind.

Then he was whisked away completely and into the sky.

The tornado also swept up some of the black fog, so it was hard to see, and forget about smelling when the wind continued to spin nonstop, but through the roaring wind, he could still hear some of his guild mates.

Without warning, Natsu's head got hit by a hard surface before he fainted from the impact.

"Natsu?"

A voice called from the darkness.

He opened his eyes, his vision slightly blurry.

"Ugh..."

"He's fine now!" said Happy.

Natsu sat up.

"Ugh... What happened...?" Wondered Natsu out loud as he rubbed his head.

"Because of that albino person, we are now apparently in the middle of nowhere," said Gray.

Natsu looked around.

From as far as the eye could see, there was an infinite ocean of rounded grass.

"True... This is just great," said a voice.

Natsu recognised it as Loke's- no, in this case, the eclipsed Leo's voice.

He turned around and stood up, before walking towards eclipse Leo, who was sitting down while rubbing his head.

"Hey, eclipse Loke!"

He glanced at him.

"My name is Leo! And what do you mean by 'eclipse'?"

"Yeah, whatever, where the hell are we?"

"I... don't have the slightest clue either..." He replied.

"Huh?"

"I had no control over that tornado. He did."

"He? Who do you mean he?"

"Calartemis," he replied.

"Wait, that albino guy? Why did he want to bring us here?" Why does he want to do that, anyway?

"It's to stop us from going to Iris Hill," said a voice behind him.

He turned around.

"Eclipse Virgo? Wait, Iris Hill?"

"Why would you want to go there?" Asked Happy.

"Iris hill... Oh, wait!" Said Leo.

He stood up and walked towards Lucy, who was sitting on the ground while rubbing her head.

"I think I need an answer for a question," he said sternly, almost demandingly. Lucy looked at Leo, slightly confused.

"Huh? Oh, right! The question before the tornado sent us here!" Exclaimed Lucy.

"So tell me. What did you mean when you said you and those other people are from the future?"

"Well... We... Are..."

Leo looked at her, surprised. "... What?"

"Yeah, some chick we were supposed to capture would be the reason," said Natsu.

"It was a person? Nonsense. A person doesn't have that much magic power to have the ability to send people back through time. Fine. If you all are actually from the future, then prove it."

Lucy reached her belt for her key ring, only to find nothing.

"Hey, wait- oh... Right..." Realised Lucy. Calartemis took them...

"Huh?"

"Calartemis took my keys," she replied.

Leo raised an eyebrow. "Your keys?"

The celestial Mage faced him. "Yes, my celestial gate keys."

Leo thought. Even though there can only be twelve celestial spirit mages in the whole world, the blonde claims she and her companions are from the future. So does that mean...

"Are you our owner in the future?"

"Owner? Well... I don't really like to use that term... Friend is more appropriate," replied Lucy truthfully.

Leo was confused.

Friend? Why would a human see celestial spirits as equals?

"Well... That could explain how you knew our names."

"That's right-"

Suddenly, without warning, the ground beneath them collapsed, and they fell down into the pitch darkness.

"Wait, why did the ground collapse?!" Realised Lucy.

"I don't think it's ground..." Started Erza.

They looked above and saw the 'ground' they were standing on is actually the foliage of trees bunched up to look like ground, explaining why the grass was rounded.

"it's not ground at all! It's tree!" She said, while looking at the side. With the light from above, they saw long, skinny tree trunks and vines near the top.

And then suddenly, they all landed with a squelch. Whatever light there was above disappeared as the trees joined together and patched up the gap within the treetops.

"Eww... We landed into a swamp," said Charlés as she stood up.

With the sun being blocked, only pitch darkness can be seen. Natsu tried to light his fist to try and see in the dark, but it instantly got extinguished.

"Damn... It must be the humidity in here," said Natsu.

He sniffed the air, but he could only smell salt and swamp water.

"And I can't smell anything, either." Suddenly, a sound rushed towards behind him. The dragon slayer turned around.

"Huh? Ow!" Natsu felt a sharp pain across his arm, and felt a burning, fizzing sensation as an acid like thing melted into the tissue.

He heard Gray behind him also shout out in pain. But then Natsu heard another similar sound rushing behind him.

"Oh, not this time! Iron fist of the fire dragon!" He yelled while turning around and igniting his fist on fire.

Natsu striked a branch with his fire clad fist, but a thick slime covering the branch quickly reduced the glowing fire into mere smoke. The smoke drifted upwards towards Natsu's nose, and Natsu felt sleepy. Being a dragon slayer, his sense of smell is more sensitive, and he instantly fainted from the sickly smell.

"Natsu?" Yelled out Gray.

No response.

"Everyone, be careful! The branches are dangerous! Ice make spear!"

"Right then! Guess I will fight against those branches too!" Replied Lucy's voice.

"Fleuve d'etoile!"

Suddenly, Lucy's whip was taken by the branch. It was hard to see in the darkness, but Leo suddenly heard a sound rushing towards Lucy.

"That must be a branch!" He thought.

He quickly ran in front of Lucy, between her and the branch.

Mustering all his power, he said:

"Oh regulus, grant me your power... Regulus Punch!"

A beam of light hit the tree branch, shredding it to pieces. The claw like branch retracted, making a sound as if almost sounding in pain while some parts of it turned into soggy ash. Leo's light illuminated some parts of the branch, allowing the people to see what is going on.

Leo panted.

"Ugh... That took a lot of my magic power..."

"Light harms the trees..." Thought Gray as he looked over to the illuminated area.

"That's it!" He realised.

"Hey! Eclipse Loke! Over here!"

"Huh?"

"Strike this!"

With his ice magic glowing, Gray created a large, hexagonal prism above him.

"The trees are sensitive to light! Strike the ice to illuminate this whole forest! Quick, do it now when you could still see it!"

"Right! Lion brilliance!" Light rushed towards the ice object. As it hit, bright, shining light illuminated the whole forest, reducing the trees all to ash and uncovering the sunlight.

Shortly afterwards, Leo felt dizzy and fainted from the loss of magic.

So... It took a month... Again...

And this chapter was probably pretty bad and stuff. This chapter is probably the suckiest thing ever. I know. It's probably a really stupid chapter, and you're probably expecting more. I'm sorry. I suck at fight scenes.

Homework and school is also a major problem, since there is more homework this year than last year, and I also have exams coming up.

Finishing this fanfic before 2017 is looking pretty uncertain...

Question Time!

DKILAM: Aww, thank you for our support!

sen whitefox mako red demon: Well, in chapter 2 'Former Foes & New Nemesis', Calartemis took Lucy's keys. Why? Well, we'll probably find out later.

awesomegirl3362: Wow, thank you! And I'll try add LoLu fluff soon!

kawaiineko796: Boom, updated.

general zargon: Well, don't worry if you don't want to follow this story. Thank you for the advice, I'll try make the sentence structures less spaced out next time!