In the past chapters…

Lucy was left all alone to deal with herself as she was replaced in the strongest team aka team Natsu by Lisanna. But, it was weird why Natsu himself asked her to do that since it was not like him. Continuing on, on one of Lucy's mission, she failed to save a village except for a single child. Thanks to Gajeel and Levy, they were able to take her back to the guild for recovery. During her confinement and being banned on missions, she watches as team Natsu lives on their lives as if she didn't even exists.

Suddenly, a request came up involving a dark guild Lucy handled in her past mission. Here, Makarov decides to assign Team Natsu and Lucy. During their journey, they discover much of what Lucy had been up to without them. Somehow, they slowly come to their senses. During the evacuation, they fought Shima and Asehi. Unfortunately, due to Natsu's carelessness, Zairen was kidnapped and Draco was sucked into a world where no spirit has escaped.

The team fought and Lucy walked out but something happened after she transformed into Ezell and Mini was kicked out of Lucy's body during the fusion. Lisanna was abducted.

'Chapter 10'

A kid suddenly appeared and trained what was left of Team Natsu. Then, they made a negotiation with the dark guild. During the conversations, they found out that the little boy was in fact, Draco using Mini's power to create a body. They exchanged Lisanna with Natsu. Then, with the help of Oro's magic power, they found out about whom they were fighting and where they were hiding.

Upon their attack, Gray decided to kick Shima's butt, Erza wanted to fight and destroy Asehi and lastly, Draco met up with some spirits.

On the other hand, Natsu met up with many Lucys.

It seems that to extract the hateful Lucy, Ezell decided to divide Lucy. But since, they were all still Lucy; each one can affect the emotion of the other, which is why the non-evil Lucys decided to run away.

Lucy's explanation on what was done to them:

Main Lucy

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Divided and turned to:

Weak Lucy- (weak; took all the pain and suffering Lucy had felt through her whole life)

Cheerful Lucy- the Lucy that Natsu met in Hargeon;(has no magic power; took all the emotions of joy and wonder)

Hateful Lucy- the Lucy that tortured Natsu and is now working for Ezell (took all the anger and resentment; has the magic power and most of the intelligence)

Pirate Lucy- the Lucy that became a pirate, amazon, monster princess, village savior, etc. (no magic power; got all the strength; feels no emotion)

Chapter 11

"What do you mean left her alone?!" he was furious for being blamed "I just asked her to… to…" then suddenly his head was full of things he couldn't understand… why had he really wanted her out? Lisanna? Yeah… he remembered it all. "But… I just wanted Lisanna-"

But he was cut off by Pirate Lucy "You're the closest nakama she had you selfish pink urchin. You're the one who knew her more than anyone. She felt like a replacement since you left her for Lisanna ya jerk."

No one spoke after that. Natsu seemed troubled and guilty. The two girls just looked away not daring to care for what he felt. Just as Cheerful Lucy said, the emotion of one Lucy affects the other bodies.

"Enough…" Cheerful Lucy sighed "Let's just handle the matter at hand."

Natsu was finally able to swallow the lump in his throat "Wait…" he thought then spoke "If there are 2 of you here with me and 1 is rampaging out their somewhere… …then where is the other Lucy? And where is the main body?"

The 2 Lucys looked at each other.

"No one knows where the main body is. The other Lucy…" Cheerful Lucy aka Lucy 2 frowned "She… became an outlet for Lucy 3's anger. So when she felt like killing someone or torturing them, she'd go to Lucy 1 and well… vent every known kind of torture on her. We didn't know where she was taken that's why we couldn't escape with her."

The pirate Lucy aka Lucy 4 snorted "We have to find the main body fast. It won't be long till they'll kill Lucy 1."

"Why?" the dragon slayer questioned further.

"Unfortunately, when you kill the main body, we all become independent bodies and if we do become independent bodies, there will be no hope of uniting us into one Lucy ever again." Lucy 4 answered "But, killing one Lucy… let say, for example me, if anyone kills me and they are able to unite all the bodies after that, Lucy will lose all memory of becoming a pirate and all those other adventures. She'll even lose her strength. Her Lucy kick won't be painful and strong anymore."

"So… if any of you gets killed and Lucy gets back into only one Lucy, she'll lose the qualities divided to all of you." Finally, he understood something. Suddenly, he smiled as if getting an idea that would save the world from poverty "Then… wouldn't lose Lucy 1 be an advantage for Lucy since that Lucy took all the pain and regret Lucy had in her whole life?"

Lucy 2 just frowned "Natsu… if Lucy lost all memory of pain and regret, she'll also forget what she learned from all of it. There's also a possibility that if the 1st most painful memory that she had be erased, all including of what came after it will also be erased. And, I strongly believed that it was the time she lost her mother. Now, imagine if she still believed mama was alive. She would forget about everything that came after mama's death… including Fairy tail. Natsu, it's hard to live a life of not knowing how people suddenly disappeared in your life when the last thing you knew was that they were alive."

Natsu was starting to blame himself for asking such stupid questions.

He breathed then asked "Then, what happened to your eyes? And why did Ezell divide you again? And who is he anyway?"

"We don't know what happened to Lucy's eyes. Ezell divided us to gain the wrathful Lucy who hated. I'll repeat Natsu, okay? One way to release your magic power is by the emotion you feel. Anger and wrath are emotions that can allow a mage to give off all of his magic power… sometimes, over the limit. That is if… that anger and wrath isn't affected by memories and the other emotions it may trigger. Ezell needs only magic power, that's why the only solution to extract the Lucy that can feel only resentment and fury from Lucy, that's why he separated us." Lucy 2 answered.

Lucy 4 continued staying alert on their surrounding area "But, he needed only Lucy 3; the one who took all the wrath and anger. The only solution now then, is either killing the other 3 Lucys or kill the main body. Ezell is the leader of a dark guild who is bent on doing evil. That's all we can say."

-Gray and Shima-

"ICE MAKE! LANCE!"

"FIRE MAKE! SHIELD! SECRET ART! FIRE SWORD!"

"ICE MAKE! SWORD!"

And with that, they clashed swords of opposite elements. Ice and water.

"Fire make magic… is it?" Gray grinned at him.

The mage simply smirked back "Got a problem with it. You have to… since I'm melting your so-called unmeltable ice." As he said, Gray's sword did start to melt.

"What the-?!" he backed out and when Gray looked, all that was left of his sword was the handle.

Without noticing it, Shima attacked and kicked him. He crashed to a wall and went through it.

Gray coughed blood and tried to stand up "Just-… what are you trying-… to achieve?" he asked in between uneven breaths.

"Something that does not concern you!" Shima replied.

He tried hitting Gray yet the ice mage kept dodging it. That was when he noticed that a few miles away from him was an opening. From what he heard outside, it was a cliff.

They fought and fought. Fire clashing with ice and ice clashing with fire.

Then they separated. Suddenly, Shima vomited blood. "Shit…" he cursed.

Gray saw all of it with wide eyes.

Shima slowly regained posture and lifted his sword. Gray saw something change in the mage. He looked like as if he was going to lose something important anytime soon.

"I… need…" he wheezed "…more… time!" with that, he screamed and out came a thousand flaming blades that went straight to Gray.

Yet the ice mage lifted both arms and opened his palms. "Ice make! SHIELD!" and layers of eyes was released which took the every blade.

But that wasn't enough to stop every single flaming blade… but it was enough to give Gray the chance to jump up and land a heavy punch on Shima's face.

"Just what the hell is your reason for doing all of this?!" Gray screamed at him. He couldn't create ice anymore, his magic's almost exhausted.

Shima was able to capture Gray's wrists as the ice mage continuously landed blows at him. "You don't understand us! Me! Asehi! Or Lucy!" he kicked Gray but the mage jumped away.

Soon as Gray landed on two feet, Shima got up and tried to kick Gray in the face. It hit him and he almost fell on the cliff.

Shima's eyes shone bright red and he choked more blood. "You don't know! You don't know what we feel! I just wanted her… to live again." He was crying blood now.

Gray tried to stand up and felt the dislocated bone he had on his knee.

Shima forced himself to walk to Gray "I wanted Hesper to be with me again." But he fell even before he could reach the mage.

Gray noticed it. Shima had given up the fight with him ever since he choked blood. When the mage looked at the raven-haired boy, he saw the expression… Lucy made… when they went here. As though he had a resolve… a resolve Gray didn't like it.

"Before I die, I want you to know person-I-do-not-know-the-name…"

"It's Gray."

"Gray. Asehi and I are mages who live alone. Not a single soul in this world knows us except you Fairy tail mages and Ezell. We do have any relatives or friends but we made an exchange with the devil. We gave our existence in exchange that Ezell would revive the only thing we couldn't live without. When he did, we were both overjoyed. We didn't care about being Ezell's puppets till one day… there was Lucy."

Gray looked at him.

"She was offered the same thing. Her existence in exchange that Ezell will return one thing that she lost. Tempting as it sounds, she declined. She said 'What's lost and gone are lost and gone. You can never revive them. But in your memories, they will always live. This mere existence of mine, this is the cause of my loss. I lost that important thing and this is what I have become. I know my important thing won't want me to lose my existence just to revive them. You should know it too'"

He sighed "Those were the words that opened our eyes."

Gray saw him vomit more blood and yet he continued. "Gray? Was it?"

The ice mage nodded.

He smiled "I know that we've just met but before I let you go, do me one favor." When Gray didn't reply he just coughed and stated his request "Remember this existence please. Asehi and I wanted to leave with someone knowing our existences as Asehi and Shima. Not as Ezell's puppets. When you Fairytail wizards came, it gave us both a sense of peace that we could finally end living the hell we threw ourselves in."

Shima stood up and leaned on the wall for support. He walked towards Gray. The limp mage was surprised when the fire mage managed to lift him up his collar.

"I am more powerful than you think I am. But I don't want to display it with the knowledge that I am used as a puppet by a puppeteer named Ezell. That's why…" With eyes downcast, Shima said "Kill me before I kill you…" he lifted his face and showed the eyes that said no regrets of his request "Please"

Suddenly, everything muted and Gray felt his hold on his collar loose, Shima staggered, and there was an ice sword on Gray's hand that pierced its way through Shima's stomach.

The fire mage staggered back almost falling off the cliff.

He looked at Gray "Remember us Gray. The only thing we have kept after giving Ezell our existence is our names. Please remember them… at least some of Terra and Hesper's sacrifice aren't wasted." And right before the end of the cliff, Shima slowly fell and yet he smiled peacefully saying his last words "Thank you for giving me peace at last."

"N-no! I didn't do it!" Gray was able to force all his energy into standing up and running towards the falling mage.

Then, what Gray last remembered was that he tried to grab his hand and the peaceful smile Shima had as his figure clashed with the furious waves.

"Thank you…"

-Erza and Asehi-

Swords clashed with swords. Glares met with glares. Fist met with fist. And, one re-equipping mage, clashed with one re-equipping mage.

"How dare you copy my armor!" Erza growled at him.

For currently, Asehi was wearing her heaven's wheel armor and which seemed to have been converted into a male's armor.

The mage laughed "Copied? I call it stealing. I have pride in that word you know."

The red head could only hate him and try to think of any torturous ways to murder him.

This fight had been going on cycles, soon as Erza would re-equip, Asehi would do the same and wear the same armor. Yet for some reason, she couldn't outdo him and defeat him.

"Tsk. And here I expected more of a challenge. Sometimes I wonder how Lucy can ever tolerate this kind of weak comrades surrounding her." He mocked, but it wasn't enough "Oh wait! I'm sorry, did I say comrades? I don't think you even deserve to be called one!"

She had enough of his mockery, Erza charged and she changed… into her black bikini expecting that he would do the same. But he didn't, this ticked Erza.

But before she could reach him with a punch even though he looked like he was expecting it, a flash of emotion made its way into his eyes and his foe successfully landed a hard metal fist on his face.

He flew some meters away and she glared furiously "What do you know about Lucy? You haven't been there with her? How could you know anything regarding her?!"

The foe she faced looked as if he was in pain before regaining his composition. He chuckled darkly as he just sat there. His eyes went to her "And you know? You know of the hardship she had endured? The pain she always kept inside her?! THE VERY REASON SHE DOESN'T FUCKIN' TRUST YOU?!"

And yet again, Erza appeared right before him landing a fist on his already bruised up face. "SHUT THE HELL UP! AND HOW ABOUT YOU?! What do you know?!"

Again, he chuckled "Everything. I know you abandoned her. I know the loneliness it caused her after the very persons she trusted left her. I know that she smiled these past few days only because of that little boy. And I know… that I can defeat you." He swung his hand at her and she wasn't expecting it.

"SHUT UP!" titania was now furious "You don't know Lucy! You know only her pain and suffering! I know of her laughter! Her smiles! Every tear she shed for someone important!" as she said this words something inside her was nagging that somehow something was now making sense. It was as if, she was able to find a closet, hiding many things from her mind "She's stronger than you think she is because she's a Fairytail mage and she is our nakama!"

*click*

Something snapped, she was finally able to unlock the closet. And what was inside it sunk in her brain. Realization… a big realization sunk in her. The reason why she had felt that as if everything was wrong… misplaced. Lucy wasn't a part of them anymore. They kicked her out and never noticed her again… that's right… they did abandon her…

"Awake now little fairy?" Asehi kicked her in the head but she caught it. Still, Asehi pushed it.

Erza glared him with the most intensified one she had done yet. She let out a growl "What spell did you cast on us?"

Asehi only forced his foot more and it dragged her some meters away from her original location. Erza twisted the feet she had on her arm. Asehi flinched and withdrew it.

"Don't ask me." He glared "Ezell was the one who did it. We were nothing but mere puppets."

"DON'T FUCK WITH ME!" she screamed "Why?! What made us forget her?! What made us abandon her?!"

"Spell? We didn't even raise a finger…" he mocked. Yet suddenly, he felt the gravity pull him harder than usual.

The mage screamed startling Erza. He convulsed and when it stopped, he was panting hard.

Erza could only stand and watch for she herself was trying to realize what was happening to him.

When he stood up, she could not believe her eyes.

From his right arm… up to his neck and his stomach… the flesh was decaying. It was also spreading fast. Even the smell seemed to have diffused everywhere. The scent of death was suffocating.

As he panted, Asehi grinned "Looks like I'm done." He sat on the ground "Shima and I made one deal that if we were about to meet death, we will confess everything as to make even just one good thing in what's left of our miserable lives."

Erza changed to her usual armor yet still stayed where she stood.

"it seemed that you were able to break the spell through those emotions. I guess you really have to fight fire with fire." He looked at her and seeing as she didn't react to his words, he continued "the spell that was cast on all of you was something that controlled emotions, tampered with some or have probably removed some. But, we can never tell…"

This made Erza's mouth clench.

"Added to that, Ezell put on another that would make you ignore Lucy's presence. When Lisanna came into the scene, he altered some parts of your mind making you think that Lisanna had always been the one in your team and that Lucy was just another mage that came into Fairytail. Your team only needed to be distracted away from thinking about Lucy and look how effective it was." There was a proud tone on those last words with a bit of bitterness and accusation.

Asehi coughed and suddenly… his arm fell off. "Shit…"

"How do I help you?!" the redhead demanded soon as she saw it.

"There's nothing anyone can do now. I knew that this was going to happen, what do you think the reason was when I agreed to Shima's deal?" the rotting flesh slowly devoured his right feet. "You need to get out of here. Leave it to that pink-haired idiot. He's the only thing that can save Lucy right now."

"Why?"

"Sometimes, the very person who broke an object is the only one who can fix it. He'll be the only one desperate enough to try… and keep trying until it's all patched up even with cracks still visible. At least, it's all in one piece. Since his conscience will haunt him forever if he didn't. And sometimes, it's good to know… for a while… you lived."

Those where his last words until the infestation eating his body reached his heart. Erza went to him and laid him down carefully on the cold floor.

Right after every inch of his flesh decayed, Gray came in the scene leaning on the wall with a frozen knee.

-spirit vs. spirit-

"Draco… please defeat us." Loke's solemn words reached the dragon spirit's ears. Capricorn stood beside him looking as if he was already regretting every action he was about to take.

"Where is she?" Draco merely asked.

Loke shook his head "We cannot tell anything that may harm our master."

What happened next was that Loke was on the ground with a furious Draco above him "She is not our master!" he growled "My master is not a sadist! She would never dare hurt anyone let alone force her spirits to do the unrighteous!"

Yet Loke's grave face did not waver. "But she is still … Lucy."

"Bullshit…"

And with a mighty roar, he conquered them. Loke and Capricorn didn't even put up a fight for they wanted to be defeated. No matter what Lucy 3 ordered, they will continue to stand beside Lucy as her spirits and try everything to save her. For today… she was in grave danger of losing her whole existence.

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Author:

Yoh! Sorry I haven't been active these past months… school kept getting in the way. I know there are a lot of confusion that I put up but here in this chapter and the past once too but I tried explaining almost all of what's happening and why. I hope you understand some.

So yeah… I got kinda worn out and decided to just rush everything into one chapter. That's why every fight scene's so short. Please forgive my laziness… -_- I'm only part human. My sis calls me a dog for some reason.

Starting from here, it might only become mostly Natsu and Lucy and probably Draco if I can squish him in.

Thanks for your continuous support!