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Lullaby

Lucy POV

Flashback:

"Luce, let's form a team. You, me, and Happy."

"Me? You want me on your team?"

"Yeah! Why not? We've already worked together to get Macao back and we made a great team."

"I'll be glad to join your team."

"Good! Now let's go on a mission!"

(Flashback end)

And that's how I got to join Natsu's team. Now, Erza and Gray are a part of this team. We are investigating a dark guild, Eisenwald.

As usual, Natsu got motion sickness as soon as we got on the train. Erza knocked him out.

"Erza? You don't particularly need to knock him out. If you lay him down on your lap, he'll fall asleep on his own."

"Believe me, I've tried that. He threw up on me though."

"But it worked before..."

I took Natsu from Erza and placed his head on my lap. His face changed to look calm. Happy slept on my head. Gray stared out the window as Erza and I continued our conversation.

"He seems calm now. Looks like it only works with you."

"Well yeah, I have known him for a long-"

I cut myself off realizing what I had said.

"You guys knew each other for a long time?"

I hesitated on telling her the truth, but told her little information anyway.

"Yeah... We met when we were younger, but he doesn't remember me because he lost his memories."

"Ah, have you told him?"

"No... It's not important. Even if he's forgotten the past, I can create more and better memories with him."

"Does that mean your memories with him weren't pleasant?"

"They were... Things happened... That's all. I don't think he wants to remember anyways. My mom once told me that even if someone loses their memory, as long as they want to remember, it'll come back. However, if even a part of them doesn't want to remember, then their memories won't come back. So, because he hasn't remembered yet, I'm taking it as he doesn't want to remember me."

"I see. I know he'll remember for sure. If you were someone important to him, he'll remember."

"Sure..."

"Anyways, Lucy, Gray. I overheard some men in a bar talking about a sealed magic item called Lullaby. At first, I thought they were just regular mages, but then I heard 'Erigor.' He's the shinigami of the dark guild I told you about. He only takes assassination requests. I plan on going straight to the guild after getting off the train, so you guys come along as well."

We nodded. As we were getting to our stop, we got up to get ready. I set Natsu on the chair as I had to get my package from the top. Then, we got off the train. As the train took off, it clicked in my head that we forgot Natsu on the train.

"Minna... We left Natsu on the train."

Natsu POV

Ugh... My head hurts... I feel sick.

I opened my eyes to see that Lucy, Erza, Happy, and ice princess was gone. But that was all I can process until I felt motion sick again. That was until a man walked toward me and said his name was Kageyama. We chatted for a while, but he suddenly kicked me. I was going to punch him back, but I couldn't due to my motion sickness. I only managed to hit him 5 times as he hit me about 10 times. Then, the train stopped, and I felt my energy flow into me as my motion sickness stopped. Kageyama suddenly dropped a strange looking flute. I caught a glimpse of it and attacked Kageyama with my "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist." Suddenly, the train started to move again so I jumped out of the window and crashed into Gray.

"Watch out, fire brain!"

"You were in my way, ice princess!"

That was all I managed to say until I got motion sickness again. However, I realized that I had to tell them about Kageyama. I slowly explained to them about him being from the guild Eisenwald. Erza punched me in return.

"Baka, why didn't you stop him?"

"Nani? Why?"

"He's from the dark guild I was talking about before."

"Huh? Anyways, he was carrying around some strange flute with skull."

Lucy POV

Flute with skull? That can only mean one thing. I've read about it before. That flute... It's Lullaby!

"That flute is Lullaby! It can suck out souls of anyone who hears it's tune! That's not good. We have to hurry!"

We arrived at Oshibana station only to see that it is in bad shape. We rush in to see the army beat up and hurt. I realized what they were planning to do in no time and rushed in immediately trying to prevent what was going to happen. We stopped when Erigor blocked our way. Erza asked, "what are you trying I do?"

I answered her instead, "He plans on using the broadcast system to play Lullaby's tunes throughout the whole town...but something doesn't make sense. Why these citizens? It just doesn't make sense." Then I thought, 'if I didn't know any better, I would've went for the higher ups... That's it! They're just trying to trap us here! Their true motive is for the guild masters!' I was about to tell everyone, but Erigor cut me off.

He said, "sugoi! You know my plan. That saves my breath. Those people that are going to die are merely being punished for their sins."

That made me mad. Even though he's not really taking their souls, no lives should be punished for their sins this way. They are punished as they go on with life. Things happen according to fate and that is their punishment. No one should take lives too early.

"Tch. If it isn't Natsu Dragneel."

Natsu knew who it was immediately from the voice, "Kageyama!"

Kageyama blasted snake- shaped magic at me. I won't be able to dodge in time!

"Don't you dare bring Lucy into this! Your opponent is me!" Natsu yelled as he jumped in front of me releasing fire at the snakes.

"Arigatou, Natsu."

Soon, Erigor ran out with the flute and Erza commanded, "Natsu, Gray! Go after him and don't you dare lose sight on him! Leave the rest here to Lucy and me!"

Natsu looked at Kageyama and then took off with Gray. Now, it was just Erza and me against the rest of Eisenwald.

"Leave Kageyama to me," I said as I punched Kageyama out the door. Kageyama took off for now. I closed the door behind me as Erza fought. I followed Kageyama's scent and found him in a room. He smirked, "yo, fairy. You fell for my trap." Soon, everything around me turned black and I was engulfed in darkness. He laughed, "no one can beat me in shadows. I use shadow magic after all." Immediately, my instincts took over and I took out my katana. I sliced the shadow and I returned to the room.

"Nani?! How were you able to do that!? There's no way anyone can just cut through my shadow!"

"I just did."

"Tch. Well then cut through this!" He called the shadow snakes once more. I easily cut them down. Then, he called forth a whole bunch of the shadow snakes. I cut the ones that I could, but one of them bit my hand causing me to drop my katana. Then, he engulfed me in darkness again.

"Keh! You're not much after all."

"You must be an idiot. There are two ways I can win you. I can take the lights out, because shadows exist because there is light. Or I can destroy your shadow with light. Well, technically, since I'm in this shadow already I can't do this first choice, so I'll destroy our darkness with light. I repeated a magic spell I read about and soon, a golden light shone brightly, dispelling the shadow.

"That's crazy! How were you able to do that?! There's no way light can beat the dark!"

"You really are an idiot. Light is stronger than dark because light is used for the good things. The dark is used for the bad things. I'm glad that magic spell worked though. It was my first time using it so I wasn't sure it would work."

I quickly ran up to him and punched his nose. He held his bleeding nose and said, "impossible... I, Kageyama, couldn't possibly have been defeated... Especially by a fairy!"

"Well, I hate to break it to you, but you got beat by a Fairy. Don't underestimate us."

I tied his wrists together at the back of him and walked him to where Erza would be. There, I saw Gray, Erza, Natsu, Happy, and a member from the dark guild. There was a huge wind surrounding the station too.

"Hey, what's going on here? How come Natsu and Gray aren't following after Erigor? What is this wind?"

"Natsu and I split up, but I got into a bit of trouble and lost Erigor," Gray claimed.

"I was following after Erigor, but when he got out of the station, this wind blocked me from going any further," Natsu explained.

"I just got here," Erza said.

"Anyways, their true motive is to get to the guild masters! They were just trapping us here so we couldn't stop them," Gray exclaimed.

"How do we get through the wind?" Erza questioned the dark guild member.

"It's impossible. Only Erigor and Kageyama can do it!"

"Well it's a good thing I brought Kageyama along," I said as I tugged at him to the front.

"Whoa, looks like you did a good number on him, huh Luce?" Natsu laughed.

"I only hit him twice."

"Twice? He looks so beat up!"

"Let's just focus on getting out of here."

I asked Kageyama to dispel the wind barrier, but just as he was about to, he got stabbed by one of his guild mate. Kageyama went unconscious after that. Natsu and Erza then punched the guild mate to a pulp as I tried to stop the bleeding. I got him patched up, but he was still unconscious.

"Luce, can't we just teleport outside by going through the spirit realm?"

"Impossible, there are no celestial spirits outside the wind barrier."

"Ah! Now I remember," Happy shouted as he reached into his bag. He pulled out a golden key.

"This is Virgo's key! Happy, did you steal this?"

"No! Virgo asked me to give her key to you because her master was taken to prison after the Daybreak incident."

"Arigatou, Happy!"

I took the key and called Virgo out.

"Virgo, forget the contract for now, I need you to get us out of here using your Diver Magic."

"Hai, Hime."

She drilled underground and I jumped in with Kageyama. I don't want anyone dying. The rest followed. When we got outside the wind barrier, Natsu and Happy were gone in an instant.

"Let's go. We can't have Natsu taking all the glory."

We got on the magic four wheeler. Erza took the front seat and was about to go, but she fainted. I took her and put her in the car.

"She must've used up too much magic for his thing before. I'll use mine now."

The magic four-wheeler was faster than ever and got to Natsu, Happy, and Erigor. Natsu and Erigor were fighting and Natsu looked determined even though he was in a bad shape. Then, Natsu was thrown off the bridge. I could sense his magic getting stronger as my fire magic was being drawn out. I accidentally swerved the vehicle almost throwing us off the bridge. I breathed slowly and concentrated on my fire magic. When I felt that it wasn't being sucked out anymore, Natsu was on the bridge again fighting Erigor. He managed to block and overpower Erigor's attacks. Then Erigor used a technique called Storm Mail. This made Natsu's attacks useless right now. Then, I noticed the way the wind was moving and how it was benign sucked up by Natsu's fire. Looks like Happy noticed it as well because he started taunting Natsu that Gray should've been the one fighting Erigor. This angered Natsu so he increased his flames, which once again, sucked the fire magic out of me. I struggled to keep it within me. However, as Natsu's flames increased and nullified Erigor's wind. The magic flowed back into me slowly. With a finishing attack, Natsu slammed into Erigor with "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn."

I ran to him and hugged him, "Thank goodness... I was scared. I thought you were going to die."

"I will not die to the likes of him. Plus, I felt a surge of magic before. It happened twice. It felt like my magic was increasing."

"Natsu, congratulations on saving the guild masters," Erza said.

"Keh! I would've beaten him way faster," Gray claimed.

"What was that, ice freak? Then you should've gotten out of the vehicle faster."

"You picking a fight, flame for brains?!"

"Will you two quit it?!" Erza and I yelled.

"Aye!" Gray and Natsu yelled in unison.

Next thing we knew, Kageyama stole the magic four wheeler and the lullaby flute dashing towards Clover Town. We quickly ran after him. When we caught up to him, he was with Master Makarov. We were going to intervene, but Master Bob stopped us and told us to watch.

"Nothing will change by doing this. You'll still be weaklings. Did you know that guilds are places for people to gain friends and help each other through tough times? In these places will you be able to gain strength to live strong by pushing yourself everyday," was what Master Makarov said to Kageyama.

Kageyama dropped to the ground and admitted defeat. Everyone surrounded Makarov and congratulated him as my eyes were still on the flute. I can sense something dangerous coming. As my senses were right, the flute transformed into it's true demonic form. Team Natsu joined efforts and easily defeated it, earning surprised looks from the guild masters. However, we accidentally knocked the Lullaby monster on the meeting site and made a ran for it, except for Natsu. What an idiot. He just joined the angry mob and chased after us.

We managed to escape the mob along with Natsu, but now, we're lost. We ended up in a place with numerous canyons. Not only are we lost, but we're also hungry. Then, we saw some winged fishes. We attempted to catch them, but only caught one. Because Happy was the one to see it first, we let him eat it. We watched hungrily as he devoured the fish, only to find out it was gross. We decided to just keep looking around. Then, we stumbled upon a deserted village. The village was soulless but there was fresh food everywhere. Natsu jumped towards the food, but Erza said not to eat anything because the village seemed suspicious. Then, Erza and Master head off to investigate while I was left with the idiots.

Natsu, Gray, and Happy collected some mushrooms, but when I noticed what they were doing, I was too late. They had already consumed the mushrooms. In just a second, mushrooms grew on top of their heads and I couldn't help but laugh. I took my camera out and snapped pictures of them.

"Luce, don't take pictures! Stop!"

"But look at yourself! It's too funny. I have to capture the moment before they fall off of your heads."

Soon enough, the mushrooms fell off their heads and we went back to the village.

"Get to higher ground!" Master yelled.

We obliged and got to higher grounds right away.

"Master, what's happening?"

"These monsters are the result of the forbidden magic, Alive, which turns inanimate objects into living things. Also, because they're alive, it means they can be eaten."

Everyone started to fight the monsters and cook them to their liking, except me. No matter how hungry I am, I will not eat this! It will be bad to our tongues. Everyone realizes that too, but then a magic circle appears under us. However, master dispelled the magic circle and reverses the take over spell that let the monsters take over the villagers. Master said he wouldn't tell the magic council if they promise to never do this again, which they agreed. It looks like only Erza and I noticed that it was Master who dispelled the magic circle. But how? That left our minds as our stomach growled and we walked back home upset.

Well that's the chapter for now. Until next time!