Lucys eyes widened as she looked to the thin man who stood before her.
"Why are you here?!" she screamed, quite alarmed.
"Well thats easy to explai-"
"Leave Lucy alone!" screamed a voice, which was followed by a blur which kicked Kain square in the head.
Coco landed on her feet after kicking Kain down from jumping through the second story window. She looked to Lucy, who was blinking and processing what just happened. The door behind her opened and Mary stormed in followed by Sugarboy and Dan.
"What the hell is going on here!?" Mary asked, looking down at Kain who was on his knees, recoiled and holding his head, groaning.
"This guy was gonna hurt Lucy!" Coco said matter of factly.
"No I was not!" Kain said, getting to his feet and rubbing where Cocos blow landed.
"Then what are you doing here?" Sugarboy asked, reaching for his microphone staff.
"I came to help you!" Kain said.
The group looked at the man quizzically.
"How?" Lucy asked, helping him up.
Taking her hand Kain stood and looked to the Celestial Mage.
"I heard the plans of a group called Pekopania. And they mentioned your name." he replied
"How long ago was this?" Dan quipped.
"Three days ago." Kain replied
"And once you heard this you just decided to come and help her? Sounds awfully suspicious to me." Coco said
Kain sighed and sat on the edge of the bed, looking down.
"Lucy, I know what I did in the past to you was awful and not a day goes by that I want to take that back. I was foolish back then. After Tenoru island I turned my life around." He said "I even joined a light guild. The guildmaster knew who Grimoire Heart was and was willing to give me a chance. I've done alot of good since then. But I knew I had to make it up to you somehow, someway."
He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see Lucy smiling down at him with her big brown eyes.
"It's alright Kain. I forgive you." she said.
Before anything else was said Mary spoke.
"Alright. Now that all of that is dealt with, we should get to your guild hall and talk to your master. Gajeel is already on the way there now. I think this Kain guy should go with us." she said.
Everyone agreed with this idea, and after a moment the group walked down the path to the large estate that was the Guildhall.
"So how did you lose all that weight?" Lucy asked as she walked next to Kain, getting directly to the point.
"Well, after we boarded the ship with Hades, Zeref appeared. He damned us for what we had done. He killed Master Hades but spared my life and Rustyrose'. The ship started to crash down and Rusty was out of power so he couldn't imagine up a boat. So we swam to shore. And I guess all that exercise cut down my weight." he replied, hands in his pockets.
"So is Rusty in the same Guild as you?" Lucy asked.
"No. He is actually working for the Magic Counsel." Kain said.
"Eh!?" Lucy squealed, almost falling backwards from flailing in surprise.
"Yeah. He made a deal that if he works for them, they wont give him any hard time behind a lacrima cell. He's in Bosco right now as a matter of fact." he said.
By this time the group had reached the large guild hall. Lucy opened the door and walked inside.
After she entered Lucy was bombarded with a hug by the flame dragon slayer.
"Luce! I'm so glad youre safe!" Natsu said
Erza walked up, followed by Gray and Wendy with Happy and Carla floating close behind.
"We were really worried about you." Wendy said.
"No kidding." Gray said, now shirtless.
Natsu paused and sniffed the air.
"I recognize that smell." he said
At this point the Legion Corps and Kain had entered and Natsu had pointed his finger at the Lost Magic Mage.
"You're the one who tried to hurt Lucy on Tenoru Island!" Natsu roared as he started to charge at Kain "Lemme at him!"
But Erza had beaten Natsu in speed and took ahold of the hot headed dragon slayer by the scarf.
"Now calm down Natsu!" Lucy said, holding her hands up defensively.
After sitting Natsu down, Lucy had explained to him the events of what had happened in her apartment. After she was finished, the fire dragon slayer stood up, looking Kain up and down.
"You look different. You change your hair or something?" Natsu said.
Everyone flailed.
"Kain!?" a voice cried out.
Everyone turned to see Ultear standing near a table with Meredy looking at the group from behind the time Arc Mage.
"You're alive!" Meredy exclaimed.
Kain nodded sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head "Yeah." he said
"I thought Zeref killed you!" Ultear said.
"No. He showed mercy upon Rusty and I." Kain replied.
"Where is he? Rusty, I mean." Meredy asked
"He's doing a mission in Bosco for the Magic Counsel." he replied
Ultear folded her arms "Well it seems the remaining four of the previous kin of Purgatory are pushing on towards bigger and better things now."
Kain nodded and looked around. "We need to have a meeting. Right now."
The whole guild was packed with the members of Fairy Tail. The twin dragons, Sting and Rogue, sat with thier backs to the bar while Markrov asked everyone to be quiet. Yukino sat with Lucy, Mary, and Coco. Sugarboy stood there fawning over Grays stripping habit as did Juvia, who did not notice her new male love rival perpetrating the same actions as she was. Those that werent Fairy Tail members were given a special armband which, with the fairy tail guild mark on it, enabled them to see the Astral projection of the First Guild Master, Mavis Vermillion. She sat there with her arms folded and with slight malice in her eyes over the fact someone tried to harm her Nakama.
"Alright everyone!" Markrov started as the guildhall went quiet. "This group called Pekopania, are after our Nakama, Lucy and Gajeel! We need to keep them safe at all costs, for if they get ahold of them, they will try to ressurect lost magic originally forged by Zeref 400 years ago."
Mumurs were slowly spread across the guild hall.
"Should we ask other guilds to help us? We could get Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale to help." Droy said, eating a chicken wing.
"Nah, we got Sabertooths three strongest mages on our side along with Crime Sorciere and the Legion Corps." Max replied.
"We can't afford to take time to ask other guilds to help us and wait for them to come to our aid!" Erza said. "We need to come up with a plan to use against Pekopania!"
Markrov nodded to Kain, indicating him to come to the center of the room to talk.
"Then it's best that I explain what I heard from what seems to be the main Leader. A man by the name of Fujimoto. It seems that they require two souls to merge together. These souls must be that of a powerful celestial mage, and that of a dragon. Now since dragons have since left earthland fifteen years ago, he said the best alternative is the soul of a Dragon Slayer. They have apparently tried this before, as Master Markrov has told me. And that the two individuals were Layla Heartfillia, Lucys mother. And an Iron Dragon named Metallicana, who was Gajeels superior. So logic would suggest that Lucy and Gajeel are the key to Pekopania getting what they desire." Kain said.
Gajeel leaned against a pillar with his eyes set on Lucy, who looked down at the mention of her mother. He felt a strong tug on his heart. On his way to the guild he could not get Lucy out of his mind. He figured out the truth. He loved her and he was going to prove it by protecting her.
BOOM!
A crash erupted from the ceiling as debris fell down upon the guild hall. Everyone shielded thier heads from being hit. Gajeel saw a large piece of concrete fall and, knowing it would have hit Lucy, he sprinted towards her with lightning fast speed and shielded her with his body, taking the full impact of the fallen rubble on his back.
Lucy held onto him, slightly in shock from what had just happened.
Natsu and Mary ran to the guildhall door to open it and see what looked like an army of 200 people in dark crimson capes and thier faces covered with black masks. At the center in the front was Fujimoto and standing with him was a woman with glossy black hair and a wicked smile forming across her lips. Evil was shown in her green eyes.
"Are you ready to take on the world by storm Minerva?" Fujimoto asked, looking forward.
"Of course." she said, sneering.
Thank goodness I got a new chapter up sooner than I expected. This is turning out to be a good story so far in my books :3. I will be putting up the first chapter to a new story later on. It includes Lyon finding love after coming to terms with Juvia not returning his affection. Now I'm going to give you peoples a choice for the next chapter. It will be in a poll form so go to my page and I will look at the poll results at the end of the week. Reviews are always appreciated so yea. . . TALLY HO!