I'm on a roll with the story and i love the reviews i have received! I wanted to get a roll on the next few chapters and also to make the two characters i brought in have a bit of a back story to help you all get a feel for them. Because they will play a part in the later chapters as well... not sure which side i will have then on yet, but they'll be there. :) Now onward to enjoy the goodness!

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Chapter 11

Enemies that we must defeat...

Sting walked down the hallway of the headquarters for what had seemed forever, towards the room that they had stayed at before Lucy and he had left. As he came upon a junction of the hallways, his eyes narrowed because he couldn't see down any of the hallways. Everything was pitch black. He held up his hand as it began to glow brightly. He glanced around at the hallways trying to get his bearings but even with the light the darkness didn't disappear, but it was like it was even darker than before. "This isn't normal…" He mumbled under his breath as he heard some thumping sound from behind him. He glanced over his shoulder to see a set of red eyes watching him carefully. "Come out."

Slowly the thumping got louder and out of the darkness walked another version of himself just with red eyes instead of his own blue. "Well hello my original." A smirk played onto the copy's face. "I've come to play with you."

Sting stood there with wide eyes because he had never thought in his life he'd have to fight himself. This could become tricky if he held all his powers too… "You aren't me… who are you really?"

"I am you." The copy grinned as he took a deep breath. "Let's test it shall we… White Dragon's Roar!" A white swirling energy blast flew flying at Sting.

His eyes widened as he hadn't expected to have his own power thrown at him ever. He jumped to the left barely missing the deadly roar. "So you have the same powers…" His eyes narrowed dangerously. "How?" He stood ready to dodge or attack depending on the answer.

A laugh came from the copies mouth, "We borrowed the goddess's power… and her knowledge on you." He crossed his arms over his chest as he held a smug look upon his face. "She wasn't willing to cooperate at first but my master quickly made her change her mind, not sure if she's still screaming in pain either…"

"You bastard!" Sting screamed as he shot forwards using his Dragon Slaying magic to give him a boost, the very thought of Lucinas in pain made him pissed. "How dare you touch her! White Dragon's Punch!" He decked the copy right in the face, which in turn sent the copy through the wall into an unused room. "Where is she?!" Sting demanded as he began to charge up another spell. He held his hands together as he slowly separated them, his tips still touching though.

The copy snorted as he didn't move for a minute before he sat up shaking the rubble out of his hair. "I really don't feel like telling you. Maybe if you beat me… but can you?" He slowly stood up as he walked out of the hole in the wall, but didn't expect to be bombarded with a barrage of beams.

"Holy Ray!" Sting yelled as he watched the beams bombard his copy and kept it going for a few minutes. As it ended he watched his copy fall to his knees, and he had a feeling that it was too easy. There would be no way that he would give up that easy…

A grin played its way upon his copies face as suddenly a white aura began to surround him and markings began to appear all over his body. "Think I would give up like that…" His red eyes glowed through the white aura of power. "Oh no, the fun is just starting." The copy suddenly wasn't in the same spot but in front of Sting, a grin on his face. "Holy Nova!" The copy was copying his very moves and Sting didn't have time to react fast enough to block it. The copy slammed his right fist straight into Sting's stomach.

Sting gritted his teeth, even if the power was of his own… it still hurt. He screamed as the hallway around them exploded out from the shockwave nearly collapsing the whole area in on itself. Sting flew up into the ceiling hard cracking it even more than it was already was before he fell back down to the floor in pain. "Sh…it…" He muttered low, looking up at the copy of him. He was from Sabertooth! He shouldn't be in this position! He should be the one that was beating everyone up! What the hell is wrong with him? If he doesn't beat them, then he won't be able to see Lucy…and…Lector and…..Lucinas. His eyes widened at his own thoughts. He wanted to see Lucinas more than Lector! "Damn it… I'll never hear the end of it if I give up now…" He whispered to himself as he slowly began to stand.

"Oh you have the will to stand?"

"Heh, yeah. And I will use it too beat you." He grinned because he had a trick up his sleeve. It was something that he didn't show a lot because of his Dragon Slaying element, and because he was always with Rogue so there was never a need too… but his copy was beginning to piss him off. "I'll show you something that I promised Rogue I wouldn't do unless I needed too." He smirked as a white aura of power began to surround him also. The white marks began to spread among his body also.

The copy sighed because it was just the same as him. "This doesn't make it any more interesting you know…" But suddenly he spotted something black appear in Sting's aura and in addition to the white marks upon his body, some dark marks began to appear also. "What?" The copies eyes widened because he hadn't been imbued with this.

"This is from years of being with my opposite element…" Sting grinned as he looked at his left arm to see all the marks. "I don't like this form too much." His eyes slid over to his copy as he took in a deep breath, the light and darkness began to swirl around him, "Holy Shadow Dragon Roar!" He yelled as a huge blast of light with darkness swirling around it erupted from his mouth aiming straight at the copy.

"NO!" He yelled as he was hit and screamed in pain. He held his head because of the pain that it was giving. "I won't die!"

"Then I'll make you." Sting's voice came from in front of him and had his right arm bent backwards with his left frontwards bent left arm. "HOLY NOVA!" He screamed slamming his fist into his copies stomach. The light surrounded the two of them and blew all the walls out around them demolishing that section of the headquarters. It took out a good chunk of it too… maybe about five to six rooms each way. Good thing they were on the ground floor…

When the light subsided the copy wasn't anywhere in sight and Sting sighed as he returned to normal but fell to his knees exhausted. "Ugh, that always takes a lot out of me." He glanced around at the damage but didn't seem to mind, but the daytime sun rays did feel good and seemed to almost reenergize him slowly. Though when a sound to his right came had glanced that way not in the mood to get up, but growled when he smelt the same smell from earlier.

"Oh how rude of you to growl at me." Sophia smiled at him as she walked through all the rubble. "I see that you made a mess of this place… tsk tsk Holy Dragon Slayer. You should know better, you're better than that."

His eyes narrowed at her, she knew too much about him. "Who are you?"

"Who do you want me to be?" She held up a finger in front of her as she winked at him. "I can be whomever you wish."

That answer annoyed him, "Just tell me, and don't give me this guessing game shit."

She just smiled more as she shook her head, "I gave you my name didn't I Holy Dragon Slayer."

"I do have a name, use it. It's Sting."

"I like Holy Dragon Slayer better… it gets me pumped." Her fingers twitched as if she was itching for a fight. Her eyes glowed a bit as her eyes turned into almost dragon like eyes. "Your life and death belong to me… and I am going to proceed to get my revenge."

He stood up and faced her fully now. "What revenge?"

"Come find me and find out boy." She grinned at him that was when he noticed that she had canines also. "I'll be waiting for you… oh just to tell you your friends aren't here but if you don't believe me… just go on ahead." She pointed down a hallway to tell him that was the right way.

He watched her for a minute before he looked down the hallway she had pointed. "As if I'd do any…" He fell silent when he turned back to see her gone. "What?" He said to himself with wide eyes, how did she do that? He looked down the hallway again before he began to slowly walk keeping his senses on high alert because he wasn't sure what was going to be waiting for him.

As he made it to the room they had been assigned when the group had first been formed, his nose didn't pick up any scents from within. He slowly opened the door as he glanced around; it looked like a fight had happened. Furniture broken or thrown over, glass shattered everywhere, pictures knocked off the wall. It seriously looked like a hard core battle had happened… a nasty one. "Sherry? Pretty boy?" He called out as he glanced around once more and tried to listen for any movement. He growled low when he heard nothing and went towards Hibiki's room. When he opened the door, it was like nothing had been touched in days. "Well this isn't good." He went to Sherry's room to see about the same thing. "If I can't smell them then that means that they haven't been here for at least a few days… They must have left right after Lucy had called them." Lucy had told him on the train what had happened during that call too.

"I see you made it here finally… I was growing bored." Sophia's voice rang out as she sat in one of the only unturned up chairs in the room. She had her chin resting on her hand as she watched him carefully.

He sighed low as he ran a hand through her hair, "Just tell me what you have against me."

"Weisslogia." She simply stated as she watched Sting tense at the mere word.

His eyes widened as he stood there but then twirled towards her. "How do you know that name?!"

Sophia grinned as her canines appeared again in plain sight in the light, "Because you killed my foster parent's best friend… And I have been searching for you for a very long time." She slowly stood up, her eyes going back to a dragon like appearance. "And it's time I took my revenge…"

"You're a dragon slayer too…" This was unbelievable. He had only heard of the ones that where in Fairy Tail and Rogue. "What element are you?"

Water began to extend from her hands in the form of a whip and he instantly guessed what element she was. "I shouldn't have to tell you. But I do feel bad killing only a kid." She cracked the water whip which sounded and acted just like a real one.

"What do you mean only a kid? You are the same age." He light up one of his hands ready to attack in response.

She grinned even more as her eyes flashed in anger. "I'm 25 years old brat. So be considerate of your senior and just die."

Lucy watched the floating orb with a bit of interest, there was some sort of familiarity with the power that the woman possessed. She wasn't sure what it was yet, but Lucy knew that she'd have to fight regardless. "Who are you?" She asked again to see if she'd get an answer from this woman. She almost felt herself captivated almost by just the sight of her but had to force herself to look away to keep herself sane. She glanced down at Happy to see him just fine, nothing wrong.

"Like I said before… I'm called Theia." The woman bounced the light into the air as it exploded and across the ceiling it was almost like the night sky. "And who I really am I don't feel like telling a weak Celestial Mage like you."

Lucy's eyes narrowed as she turned her angry stare back at the woman, not feeling like she had earlier either. "What did you say! How dare you call my spirits weak!"

"I didn't call your spirits weak, just you… just your mortal body." She shrugged as her hand began to glow but this time her whole hand. "I'm just going to be taking back what belongs to the stars." She charged forwards suddenly.

Happy's eyes widened as he grew his wings and wrapped his tail around Lucy before he was able to dodge the attack, when the dust settled both their eyes went widen even more when they saw the crater where they just had been. "Lucy… She really wants to hurt us." Happy whined low as he set Lucy down a ways away for their safety but never let her go.

Lucy reached for her keys and pulled out one, "Open the Gate of the Goat! Capricorn!" She watched as the puff of smoke came before Capricorn appeared.

"Yes Lucy-sama." He stood in front of his master but then glanced at his opponent, his eyes widened seeing Theia. "What are you doing here?" His voice changed tones which Lucy noted.

Theia grinned as she tapped her chin a few times, "I thought that you of all people would be serving a stronger master Capricorn." She held a menacing tone also.

"Capricorn do you know her?" Lucy wanted to know.

He nodded, "Yes, just like Loke she was banished from the Celestial World for committing a crime to cruel to even repeat… though she'd been down here a lot longer than of us ever thought she'd survive."

"400 years in fact." Theia smiled when she saw Lucy's eyes widened. "How I survived that long… its quiet simple. I am the embodied spirit of the heavens…" She laughed now as she raised her hands up to the make shift night sky on the ceiling. "So when the stars come out, I am always recharged of my power! The old man didn't think of stripping me of my powers when he banished me… He really is a stupid husband."

Lucy nearly fell over when she said the last thing but shook her head, "Wait! You're the old man's wife? What did you do to make him banish his own wife?" She wasn't sure she wanted to know but at the same time she had a feeling she needed to know.

A smile came upon her face, it wasn't a crazy one but one of pure enjoyment for what she was about to say. "I killed my master in cold blood when she disobeyed an order I gave her to leave. She didn't listen and as a result I had to end her life, which was my only rule. Obey me while I am summoned."

A chill ran down Lucy's spine as she listened to the tale that she was being told but then gripped Capricorns sleeve to tell him he has to stop her no matter what.

"Alright." He said understanding before he charged forwards towards her. He threw a punch and socked her right in the face which sent her flying back into the wall a ways away. He skidded to a stop before he charged again not giving her time to adjust to this.

She groaned low as she opened her eyes to see him coming after her again. "I'm not going to go easy on you." She whispered under breath as her hands began to shine, "Heavenly Rule!" She stepped out of the imprint in the wall as she brought her hands together, her eyes began to shine brightly also. "Dismiss!" A bright light suddenly came making all three, Lucy, Happy, and Capricorn shield their eyes so they wouldn't go blind.

When Lucy opened her eyes, she saw spots but no Capricorn. "What?" She looked around for her spirit but felt her keys to feel his key back where it had been. "What did you do?!" She yelled as she grabbed another key. "Open the gate of the loin! Loke!" But when nothing happened she stood there dumb founded for a second. "I said! Open the gate of the Loin! Loke!"

"Sorry sweetie… nothing is going to happen. I've blocked their path." Theia smiled sweetly at Lucy as she began to walk towards her again. "So you're pretty much helplessly on your own. Remember I ruled over them all at one time."

Lucy stood her ground, her eyes narrowed because this wasn't going to be good. She couldn't use her spirits for the time being and she knew that she didn't have the same fighting abilities as her guild mates. 'Natsu…' she thought to herself as she felt tears prick at the corner of her eyes, but she refused to give up. "Even if I can't use magic I will still beat you!" She pointed to Theia though Happy could feel her shaking a bit.

"Oh? I'd love to see that blondie." She continued to smile, "I might reconsider if you show me how a Celestial mage should fight if she can't summon her spirits." With that she charged forwards towards the duo.

"HAPPY!" Lucy yelled as they dodged the strike before she grabbed her Fleuve d'étoiles and swung it towards her.

That seemed to generally surprise Theia as her left arm was bound by the whip, she looked at it as if angry. "They gave you that… they must really love you." She reeled her arm back but brought them towards her. "I'll finish this off with one hit." She grinned but didn't expect a foot in her face.

Lucy had used her Lucy kick with the moment that brought her towards Theia and she sent Theia back a few feet before she was stopped by the whips length. "As if I'd let it end with my defeat!" She yelled, she knew she couldn't drag this out much longer without the risk of her losing her child or something dangerous happening to both of them. Lucy knew that she had a disadvantage of not being able to summon her spirits but she'd try her damn hardest before she finished.

Holding her face, Theia began to laugh as she rubbed her sore nose. "You are really annoying… has anyone told you that before." Her arm that was bound began to glow, along with the ceiling. "But you can't stop me." Theia yanked her arm free easily as she jumped back out of the range of the whip.

"Happy, leave me… I need you to do something." She reeled in the whip as she stood her ground. She grabbed Happy's ear and began to whisper something in it. He seemed to argue for a moment but when she patted his head with a small smile he nodded and flew off down the hall leaving her alone.

"It's not smart to let your kitty go." Theia seemed amused at the little action.

"What we do is none of your concern." Lucy had noticed something during the fight, she had noticed Theia had almost hesitated before she had thrown that first punch. The look within her eyes was totally different from what her face was saying. So Lucy came up with a logical explanation, something had to of happened back in the past that infected her. "I'll have to figure out a way to cleanse your soul… I did it with Loke with his guilt…" She felt a bead of sweat roll down her face because this was a lot trickier than just his guilt. This was an unknown magic power that she wasn't sure of. She'd have to tread carefully for her and her baby's safety until Happy came back… which she hoped wouldn't be long. "Theia… tell me one thing. What is the only way to purge an unknown magic power?" She smirked a bit to see if she even gave an answer.

"Oh you are trying to rid me of my magic…" Theia laughed a bit before she had small glowing orbs all around her. "The only way to purge a power is to have a flame that is designed to do that… but I don't see you holding such power so it is impossible." She crossed her arms over her chest. "But for now I'll let my pets play with you." The orbs shot forward towards Lucy.

She swung her whip again to protect herself but dodged a few that made small holes when they hit the ground. She narrowed her eyes but didn't notice when one hit her in the arm. She screamed as she was knocked back into the wall. Her left shoulder bleeding badly from that one hit. "What the hell are those things?" she slid to the ground in pain, it wasn't just coming from her shoulder but it now felt like it spread through her entire body.

"My babies have a special property… if they hit a living being then they slowly are absorbed within them… they then begin to suck all the magical power out of their host until there is nothing left, then… they begin to drain the host of its life." Theia watched Lucy in pain, "But I made these ones concentrated so the time is like tripled because I don't want to watch you die slowly." She held out her hand as more went flying towards Lucy. Theia grinned when she heard the screams of Lucy echo through the hallway and it was music to her ears, but she felt an unknown power radiate from Lucy for a second expelling all her pets from within Lucy's body. "What?" she whispered to herself as she watched her toys just wither and die as it they had been attacked by something. "How the hell did you do that?!"

Lucy laid on the ground, she hurt too much to move but she felt tears beginning to fall. Her baby had protected her; it should have been the other way around. But she wouldn't tell that to her. She ignored the pain of her body and slowly began to get up. Lucy watched as blood flowed from the wounds she had received but she couldn't give up now. "Am I really that weak?" She said as the tears fell from her eyes onto the ground. "I'm actually wishing for Natsu to save me… and our baby…" She stood up but had to lean again something to keep her balance.

"You… little…" Theia sounded pissed as she watched Lucy stand up, no one had ever been able to do that. How the hell did this little mage, who was so weak without her spirits. "I'm done playing!" Her arm began to glow as she walked over to her knowing that Lucy couldn't run.

A sudden puff of smoke happened and there stood another Lucy. "Don't touch our master!" Gemini yelled as she held out a key. "Open the gate of the Lion! Loke!" In another puff of smoke Loke appeared very pissed off.

"How?" Theia wasn't sure what was going on, they had summoned themselves? How is that even possible? She knew Gemini could copy people's magic, but she had never heard of Gemini being able to summon itself before.

"How dare you hurt our master!" suddenly she was surrounded by all of Lucy's spirits. Each and every one of them didn't look happy with Theia either.

Theia clenched her fists as she turned to look at all of them. "How dare you face your queen like this! You all should be bowing down to me!"

"Lucy is our master ebi." Cancer snapped his scissors a few times as he nodded to himself, "If she can't summon us, we will summon ourselves to protect her."

Aquarius smirked as she got ready to attack also, "I may complain a lot of Lucy, but I respect her as my master… and having it you of all people just makes us all the more angrier."

"We all respect you very much too, but hurting our master trumps over that." Aries looked worried a bit about attacking their queen.

"Guys…" Lucy smiled a bit at all her spirits. She wasn't sure how they had been able to do this but she was really glad because she couldn't stand up anymore. She felt arms catch her and glanced up to see Loke. "Thank you…" She whispered low as she closed her eyes.

Loke turned towards Theia, his eyes narrowed dangerously as he held Lucy bridal style now. "You better hope that the old man stops me before I end up killing you for doing this to my master."

Theia narrowed her eyes as she watched Loke carefully, she had faced a few of them throughout the years but never all at once. The last time it had been three of them... her eyes widened when she realized something. Lucy was that woman's child! Why couldn't she see it before, was the anger to great to see it but she brought a hand over her face to hide the look of pain that passed over her face. "I have... to kill her..." She said strained, "She's that annoying woman's child..." She seemed to be talking to herself but her voice almost sounded different. A strange aura began to surround her as she began to laugh to herself. "Yes! I'll kill that child! Then all my shame will go away!" Her eyes locked onto Loke's with a huge grin on her face. "And just you all try to stop me."