A/N: Lollipop lollipop oh lolli lolli lollipop! ba-dum dum dum dum

Chapter 10...

Neferti paced back and forth, muttering a string of curse words occasionally under her breath. She tripped on the red, oriental rug which sat under a large dining table made of hand-carved cherry wood. Sitting on the burgandy colored chairs, were the Fairy Tail wizards, Wendy, Juvia, and Gajeel. Carla sat near Wendy on the table. A large chandelier gently shook as Neferti fell on her face. The three remained quiet and watched her little episode. Instead of picking herself off the floor, Neferti raised her head and propped it up on the palms of her hands. She silently fumed at the ground.

"Those stupid fools!" She muttered. "THEY are the real UGLY ones!" She yelled and pounded her fist into the stone floor.

Wendy, Gajeel and Juvia all looked at each other in confusion.

"Uhhh Neferti-san? Are you ok?" Wendy asked quietly. She didn't want to be the victim of Neferti's wrath.

Neferti shot up from her position on the floor and slammed her hands on the table, glaring at Wendy. "I'm fan-fucking-tastic!" She growled. Her tail swished about angrily.

Wendy leaned back, scared of Neferti. Gajeel glared back at her. "Calm down. You'll get wrinkles." He said, obviously mocking the fact that she was upset that someone had called her ugly. Unlike Juvia and Wendy, Gajeel didn't want to work with Neferti.

Neferti, as expected by Gajeel, glared daggers. "I would watch your tongue, dragon boy." She hissed. "You are currently at my mercy!"

At this, Gajeel stood up and slammed his own hands on the table leaning forward. "We are at your mercy?!" He scoffed. "If I remember correctly, you offered us your help and now you have this insane idea that we're going to help you take down this Death-guy!"

"Gajeel-sama is right! We are only looking for our friends!" Juvia piped in.

Neferti suddenly smirked, then laughed a very dark laugh. She stood back up and looked at them. "You don't have much of a choice. To get your friends back involves taking down Lord Death."

Confusion passed across the Fairy Tail wizards.

"What are you talking about?" Gajeel asked.

Neferti chuckled and folded her arms across her chest. Her cat tail twitched in a very relaxed manner and her eyes shut. "Your friends are aligned with Lord Death and his school- the very people who aim to kill magic users of any kind."

Wendy gasped and Juvia covered her mouth with a hand. Gajeel's eyes widened with rage and he slammed an iron-enhanced fist into the table, effectively breaking off a large portion of it.

"I don't believe a word you say." Gajeel hissed.

Neferti laughed lightly and turned as the door to the dining hall opened. In walked three people; One woman, one man, and five little kids. The man was tall and a rather muscular looking, appearing to seemingly be in his mid-thirties with some unkept facial hair. On his right shoulder he bears a tatoo of unknown shape that closely resembles an eye. Above the left eye, instead of an eyebrow the words "NOFUTURE" are tatooed. This eye also doesn't feature any pupil or iris, instead having magical symbols in their place. He's almost always seen in a prison outfit, complete with the ball and chain on his left leg and black and white stripes from the bottom to top. The top half of his outfit is tied around his waist, and he has a simple white T-shirt in its place.

The one woman, of rather modest build, with long straight silvery hair and a narrow mouth, accentuated by a prominent black circle at each end, resembling the air sacs on a frog's mouth. Her attire consisted of a thigh length black dress with a white polka dot pattern over what appears to be a dark gray blouse, black pants and knee-high white boots. On top of her silvery hair is an orange hat with a frog-like face.

The five 'kids' were all dressed in th same chin-to floor pencil cloak of sorts. It was black and white in vertical stripes and they all had short pink hair and wore little black hats that resembled mice. They looked like kids crossed with mice in a sort of adorable way.

"Fairy Tail Wizards. Meet the people you will be working with." Neferti said. "This is Free. He is immortal and was put in witch prison because he stole that eye there." She pointed to the weird eye underneath the "NOFUTURE" words. "This is Eruka Frog. She's an amphibian witch, if you couldn't tell." She motioned to the frog hat and frog-like marks on her mouth. "And those are the Mizune sisters. Mice witches. These people worked with my little sister, Medusa and proved to have some worth."

"Now, Mizune, Eruka, Free. Meet Gajeel, Wendy, Juvia and Charla. They will be helping us in annahilating the DWMA." Neferti smirked malisciously.

The Fairy Tail wizards looked confusion, some fear, a little angst and, from one member in particular, overwhelming amounts of disdain.

"What do you think that cat witch meant by what she said?" Grey asked.

Once again, they were back in the apartment. Grey was sitting in an armchair, feet propped on the coffee table. Lucy was at the kitchen table, head in her palm. Erza was once again attempting to cook and Natsu was sprawled out on the sofa.

"She said keep your friends close and your enemies closer..." Lucy said.

Happy was sitting on the table munching on a fish. "Maybe she means to befriend us...in a weird way..." Erza suggested, as she put out table settings. Lucy stood up to help her.

"Or maybe she thinks us as friends but we're really her enemies!" Happy yelled with smile.

"Happy, that's sort of what's going on right now..." Lucy deadpanned.

He stared at her for a long moment, the went wailing to Natsu. "Natsu! Lucy's making sense!" He yelled.

Natsu sat up. "What?! Lucy?! Making sense?!" He joked.

"Hey!" Lucy yelled.

Grey rolled his eyes. "Stop making such a racket."

Natsu did something odd then. He fell back to his sprawled out position and ignored Grey.

Happy looked to Lucy who looked to Grey. Lucy then walked up to Natsu and put her hand on his forhead.

"Huh? What're you doing, Lucy?" He asked.

"Are you sick?"

"No..."

"Are you injured in any way?"

"No?"

"Are you hungry?"

"Well-"

"Don't answer that."

"Where's his going?"

Lucy sighed and stood back up. "Grey told you to be quiet and you didn't start a fight with him."

Natsu looked up at the white ceiling. "Neferti said keep your friends close and your enemies closer." He said.

"We've established that, Natsu!" Grey yelled.

Natsu narrowed his eyes. "I think more Fairy Tail wizards might be here..." He said suddenly.

A/N: I am a Steg-o-saurus!