Chapter 11: Final Shot

Disclainmer: I don't own Fairy Tail...

Normal POV In the Sphere

As tears streaked down her face, Sting picked up Lucy by her head to come face-to-face with her. His words were slurred as they came out, "Little girl, am I that precious to you?" Lucy stared at Sting, her hands covering her mouth from the sobs.

"Sting. NOOO!" she screamed with agony, she pounded at his chest and didn't hear a heartbeat, not even a faint sound.

"You can't be dead?!" Lucy's eyes widen with fear and tears overwhelmed them again.

"No, no, no. NOOO!" and a light took over her body, surrounding the whole place. From the outside, rays of light were shone on the ground. The others stared at the sphere in awe at what was happening in there. When Lucy opened her eyes, she was surprised to see Sting's holy light on here. Remembering that once Sting has given Lucy a necklace filled with his light, holiness. She was never able to open the bottle since Sting said that if it was opened, she would be able to see something, Beautiful. This is what he meant by beautiful, Lucy looked like a angel that descended from Heaven to heal all the cruelty in this world. Sting was pushed back by the light, the dark blob had never witness sunlight before. Blinding it, Lucy ran to Sting and hugged him, crying warm tears on his shirt.

~In Sting's body... (Soul.) Sting's POV~

I saw Lucy run to me, she was so beautiful. She must've opened the bottle somehow, now she looked like the perfect angel I had imaged after placing my holiness in it. The oozy thing in me was weakening to the light, it should be its weakness since it was crying in agony. Perfect, that stupid thing is going to die in me. Great.

"ARGG! This can't be happening to me, how can there be light in here?" he screamed.

"Well too bad buddy. You just got owned by my girlfriend bad." I snickered at it. The size of it was shrinking fast and I felt the pull of my soul going to back to my body. Woah, was it strong. In a flash, I saw Lucy crying on me I lifted my hand and patted her head.

"Lucy. I'm back." I said softly in her ear, her head pulled back too fast and it smacked my head.

"Ow..." we said in harmony and started laughing to each other. Her arms were still tight around me, like she would lose me again. I placed my arms around her waist and picked her up, bridal-style. She let out a 'yep' and her face was a deep shade of red, she was nervous in my arms even though I've been holding her like this for the last 5 hours.

"Now that the thing is gone, this sphere should break apart anytime now." Sting said, searching for any cracks in the sphere. When something smashed hard into the wall, causing a crack, this could probably be our only chance out of here. I made a run for the crack and jumped right through with Lucy's arms around my neck tight. Her head dug between my neck and shoulder, her breathing was shallow but warm.

We landed back on the ground to where we first went in... *BOOM!* Turning our heads, the others were still trying to take down Yukino. Erza noticed our presence first, "Hurry! We need to combine our powers to take her down!" she ordered. I looked at Lucy who was staring into my eyes, it seemed like our thoughts connected and we stood by Erza.

"Ready?!" she shouted by our ears, I'm sure that you would lose your hearing if you were by her all the time. *Sigh*

Lucy's POV

Natsu, Gray and Rouge pulled back to a line with us, Sting and I were the centre since the holiness of our powers could probably purify Yukino from the demon in her. She seemed ready for anything that we were going to blow at her.

"Yukino..." I whispered sadly and on Erza's mark, we began.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!"

"Ice-Make Freeze Arrows!"

"Heaven Wheels Armor! Go, my swords!"

"Shadow Dragon's Slash!"

. . .

"UNISON RAID: Tenshi no Shinsei (Angel's Holiness)!" the attacks twirled together, Yukino had no time and room to escape the attack. Tenshi no Shinsei came last and all we could hear was her scream. I covered my ears but it still slipped in, I didn't want to hear Yukino suffer like that ever. Sting wrapped his arms around me, making me feel a bit better.

Lucy! Lucy! Look. I looked up to see Yukino, her soul was slowly turning into beautiful lights.

Thanks. I'm finally free now. I'm so glad to see you again and all that was left was a trail of lights leading to Heaven. Yukino had finally found peace and will become a angel in Heaven... Everyone stared in amazement of the light there, when the tree spoke up.

"You brats! You've come to steal my powers, didn't you?!" he asked furiously.

"What powers do you even have?" Natsu replied jokingly and a branch came down, smacking him on the head. Hard. I laughed with everyone as Natsu and the tree were yelling at each other. But I was curious about what this tree could do, since it was hidden so well in the mountains that needs to taken away from the humans and mages... I guess it must have something important.

"So... What are your powers?" I asked curiously.

"Hm... Now that you ask..." the tree paused for a minute and we were all suspecting that it didn't even remember its 'great' powers... Is it stupid or what?!

"Ahh! Right, now I remember! I tend the plants that can only grow in magical places, such as this mountain. That is why no one can enter, since its protected by magic. But then you idiots had to burn them to death. Stupid!" he cursed at us.

"Why would people even want your power?" Gray questioned.

"Well... There was this one time where a tree accidently gave his powers to a dark guild and they planted up something... Monstrous. That's why our security is now... HIGH-TECH! With plants! Ho ho ho ho! " he laughed.

"Then why the freaking' ball! You're damn thing tried to kill me!" Sting shouted, his eyes were twitching with annoyance.

"That was for you people. This could kill all the magic user within a 10 mile radius." he said. We were shocked at what he was going to do to us.

"Are you crazy man? Isn't that going to kill you too?!" Lector asked, his forehead covered in sweat. If we were arrived anymore later, than we would've DIED?! This is one crazy tree...

"Nope. Plants can't be harmed with the extra spell that I placed on it. But that would mean I needed powers from plants. Sometimes sacrifice equals success." he said casually. He was crazy! That was one thing that I know from it for sure... I turned to everyone and took in a breathe of air, "First off! Thanks for saving me guys!" I said with a goofy smile.

"Frosh is happy that Lucy is smiling again!" the cute Exceed said looking at me.

"Aww.. Thanks Frosh. I missed seeing you." I patted Frosh's head. Lector walked up to us with teary eyes and ran into my arms, sobbing. Embracing the two of them, Sting and Natsu walked up and joined the group hug. Silent warm tears fell from their eyes, Erza and Gray were crying tears of joy with each other. While Rouge stook by the side, his back leaned on the wall with a calm smile on his face.

"Wow. Heart touching." the tree said with a shakie voice. We looked up to the tree, guess he does have a heart for things.

"Well, I guess we should head back to the guild." I said, "Everyone's probably worried about us right now." Erza nodded and we headed out through a hole in the wall.

"Um... Why are there a holes in the walls?" confused at the trail of holes that we were walking through.

"Ah! Use this portal for returning to the entrance." the tree spoke up. A flash of light and a magic circle was placed over a part of the land, turning into blue portal. I held Sting's hand and we all walked through the portal, in seconds we were standing in the middle of a ... BLIZZARD?! Where the heck were we? When Minerva stepped out of the cave, dressed in a fur outfit from head to toe. Anyone could mistake her for a bear...

"Well. Well. Well. What are we going to do with you guys now?" she smirked, staring at Sting and Rouge. I got a bad feeling about what Minerva was planning.

Continuing on with the adventure! Sting and Rouge are most likely...? Opinions! :) Thanks