Chapter 14: Tower of Heaven!

: Lucy:

After Lucy and Lacy got free of Millianna's kitten tubes with the help of civilian and his knife, The Spirit Twins met up with the others and Juvia. Lucy had picked up the ball of paper that Mizuki had dropped and it revealed to be a map to the Tower of Heaven. Now they were all stuffed in a small boat with Sting and Natsu hanging over the side suffering from motion sickness.

"You sure we can trust this Mizuki chick?" Gray asked.

"Well she did leave us this map. That was kind." Lacy said while petting Natsu's hair.

"And… She looks… kinda familiar…" Sting groaned.

"Familiar how?" Lucy asked.

Sting grunted as Lucy rubbed his back. "Don't know… Just… does…"

Lacy spotted something in the distance. "Look! Look! A tower!"

"That must be the Tower of Heaven" Gray growled.

: Happy:

Happy opened his eyes looked around. Lector was asleep next to him.

"Cats! Lector wake up! There's cats everywhere!"

Lector opened his eyes and started freaking out. "What is this place?! Where's Sting-kun and Lucy-san?!"

Millianna landed in front of them without a sound. "Nya? How's it going?"

"How's it going?" Lector and Happy copied.

"Nya! They're talking cats!" Millianna mewled.

"Millia… Make it dandier." Wally said from behind her.

"Nya?"

"You!" Happy growled.

"They're not talking cats. They're talking, so that makes them cats." Wally said coolly.

"Now I get it!" Millianna purred.

"That makes absolutely no sense at all!" Happy and Lector gaped.

Lector growled as the hooded girl walked in. "Hey! Where's Sting-kun?!"

"And Natsu?!" Happy whined.

"The blonde lizard should high on cloud nine." The hooded girl droned.

"The pinky should be kissing asphalt right about now." Wally smirked.

"That won't be enough to kill the Dragon Duo!" Happy and Lector sneered.

"Wally! Millianna! Mizuki! Erza's escaped!" A big hulking man ran up to the three humans.

"Erza's here?" Happy

"Escape. That sure brings back memories, nya~" Millianna grinned.

"Simon, you gotta be dandier. There's no way she can escape from this tower." Wally said.

"Doesn't look like she's running away. She's going for Jellal." Simon explained.

Simon, Millianna, and Wally ran off leaving Happy and Lector with Mizuki.

"What's going on?" Happy asked watching the girl.

Mizuki's eyes seemed to dull underneath her hood and she went the opposite way that the others went.

"Should we follow her?" Happy asked.

"Well we can't stay here." Lector said flying after Mizuki.

"Aye sir!" Happy cheered following Lector.

: Lucy:

Lucy surfaced from the water into the basement of the tower. Looking around her, she saw her comrades do the same and they then climbed out of the water.

"So this is the basement." Gray mused.

"Erza, Happy, and Lector are here somewhere." Lucy

"Who the hell are you guys?!" said an angry voice and a bunch of guards appeared above them.

"Aw crap!" Lacy said getting out her keys in sync with Lucy.

"We've come this far… We'll just have to fight them" Gray said.

"Right!" Juvia

"Who the hell are we?!" Natsu growled attacking with fiery fists.

"Don't ya know good fighters when you see them?!" Sting yelled knocking out some guards swiftly.

"We're from Fairy Tail, morons!" The Dragon Duo roared as the destroyed anything in their way.

"Open! Gate of the Crab! Cancer!" Lucy said flipping away from some guards.

Cancer, a tall dark skinned man with his red hair in cornrows whose ends were shaped like a crab's pincers, barreled through some of the guards leaving their heads shining from a freshly cut haircut. "Ebi~"

Lacy growled as a guard knocked her down with his shield. "You wanna play rough? Let's play rough!" Lacy bounced back up and kicked off of the guard's shield jumping high into the air. "Open! Gate of the Hellhound! Cerberus!" Lacy landed on the back of a huge 3-headed dog with razor sharp fangs and claws, flawing paws, and a long whip-like tail. "See the guys in metal with pointy things! Take'em down boy!"

Cerberus barked in response and roared charging and trampling the guards.

Juvia used Water Slicer on her enemies and Gray used his ice magic.

When all the guards were defeated, Lacy was cuddling one of Cerberus' heads. "Time to go boy" she grinned as he went back to the Spirit world.

A ladder came down.

"The door opened." Natsu

"They're telling us to come up?" Gray asked.

"What're we waiting for then?" Lacy climbed up the ladder with Lucy and the rest following her.

"Lace, you can't just charge in like that. You're starting to become like Natsu." Lucy grumbled hearing an "Oi!" from the pink haired dragon slayer.

"Party pooper." Lacy pouted.

"Someone opened this door remotely." Juvia observed.

"They're watching us…" Gray huffed.

"Well that's not creepy" Lucy sighed.

Gray looked over at Lucy and Lacy. "Where'd you get those clothes?!"

"From the Spirit World, obviously." Lacy giggled wearing a light yellow version of Lucy's green dress.

"We don't need men ogling at us in bikinis." Lucy shooting a pointed glare at Sting and Natsu so they knew her statement was for them. Sting and Natsu looked away embarrassed to be caught and pouted.

"There they are! The intruders"

"Man, these guys just don't know when to quit." Natsu growled

Before they could do anything, Erza appeared and slashed them down.

"Erza!" Gray grinned.

"Thank goodness you're safe!" Lucy and Lacy squealed.

"Wh-What're you guys doing here?" Erza asked.

"What do you mean? We'd be disgracing Fairy Tail if we just backed off and let them walk all over us!" Sting growled.

"And there's no way we're letting that square bastard and lightning bitch off easy!" Natsu hissed.

Erza observed them "Go back. You guys shouldn't be here"

"But Erza…" Lacy whimpered.

"They've got Happy and Lector here somewhere. We can't just go back!" Natsu yelled.

"Millianna…"

"Where are they?" Natsu and Sting asked.

"I… have no idea…" Erza sighed.

"Okay… got it!" Natsu grinned.

"What do you mean you got it?!" Gray gaped.

"Wait for me, Happy!" Natsu ran off quickly.

"Natsu!" Sting yelled.

"Baka! Running off on his own" Gray grumbled.

Sting made to follow him but Erza stopped him.

"Millianna won't hurt Happy and Lector. I'll bring Happy, Natsu, and Lector back." Erza said, "You guys, get away from here right now"

"We can't do that! We're not leaving without you!" Lucy retorted.

"This is my problem. I don't want you guys getting involved!"

"We're already involved." Gray

"The minute they attacked us, attacked Fairy Tail, we were involved." Lacy pouted.

"Erza, what the heck is going on?" Sting questioned his dark blue eyes filled with concern.

"It's fine if you don't want to tell us." Lucy sighed putting her hand on Sting's arm to calm him down.

"You said those guys were your friends before but we're your friends now. Erza-nee" Lacy smiled solemnly.

"We'll always be here for you" Lucy mused.

"You are our Nee-chan, our nakama" The twins said.

"G-go…" Erza choked out.

"Erza…" Lucy and Lacy whimpered tears forming in their eyes.

"This isn't like you, Erza. Why can't you just stop saying all this useless stuff and tell us 'follow me' like you always do?" Gray groaned.

"We'll help you out. Even you're allowed to be scared sometimes, you know." Sting said smirking.

Erza looked back at them with a tear shimmering in her left eye. "Sorry…" She wiped the tear away. "In this fight whether I win or lose… I'll disappear from this world no matter what"

"Wh-what?!" Lacy and Lucy cried out shocked.

"What are you saying?!" Gray

"This is an unavoidable future so… So while I'm still here, I'll tell you everything I know." And then Erza began her tale of her past. "I am going to fight Jellal" She bit her lip as the tears flowed down.

"Hold on Erza. That 'Zeref' you just mentioned is…" Gray faltered.

"Ah… he's called the most brutal and cruel dark mage I the history of magic." Erza explained.

"Like Lullaby" Lucy whispered.

"And I believe Deliora as well… " Erza "Zeref has the power to create these terrifying monsters with little effort."

"That's the Zeref Jellal plans to revive?" Lucy

"He sounds scary" Lacy mewled.

"I'm not sure what his motive is. According to Jel- my old nakama, when Zeref is revived, they would become rulers of 'Paradise'"

"When you put it that way, I really can't understand the actions of your old friends." Lacy said downtrodden.

"They said that you were a traitor. But the real traitor seems to be Jellal, right?" Lucy inquired.

"I don't know what Jellal has been filling their heads with since I escaped the Tower of Heaven. But I did abandon them for 8 whole years. I guess that's kind of a betrayal." Erza said sadly.

"But that was because Jellal threatened you with your friends' lives! You couldn't get close! How could those guys blame-"

"That's enough Lucy. If I can just take care of Jellal, it'll be over." Erza said determination filling her eyes.

They heard footsteps and turned to see Sho.

"Nee-san, those words... what did you mean by them?"

"Sho…"

"All that nonsense you just said, are you just trying to pry sympathy from your friends? Don't joke around! The truth is nothing like that! 8 years ago, weren't you the one who bombed the ship everyone was on and then ran off by yourself?! If Jellal hadn't discovered your betrayal we would have been blown to bits! Jellal told everyone! This is the fate of those who cannot handle the proper form of 'magic'. You went mad with your new power and gave up everything to do with us!" Sho yelled.

Slap!

Everyone watched wide eyed as Lacy slapped Sho with fury and sadness in her dark eyes. "You're a baka! Does that sound like Erza-nee?! I refuse to ever believe that she could ever betray her nakama!"

"Jellal told you she went mad? Does she look crazy to you?" Gray smirked.

"You, you fools don't understand anything! You don't know a thing about us! I was saved thanks to Jellal! We built this tower for the last 8 years! For Jellal!" Sho panted, "All this has been a lie? If nee-san is right, then everything Jellal said was a lie?"

Simon walked up to them gaining their attention. "That's right, Sho"

"Teme." Gray growled.

"Hold on, Gray-sama." Juvia said holding Gray back. "That time before, he knew that was only an ice dummy, but he attacked it anyway."

"What!" Gray

"No way, a dark mage wouldn't have detected something like that. Confirming this is one of the reason's Juvia came along."

"No wonder you're one of Phantom's Element 4." Simon said, "I didn't plan on killing you then. In order to fool Sho and the others I was just going to knock you out. With the ice I was able to make your death seem a little more realistic."

"You were just trying to trick us?" Sho asked.

"You, Wally, Millianna, everyone had been played by Jellal." Simon sighed, "Mizuki and I waited for the right time, and pretended to believe him."

"Simon, you..." Erza faltered not finding the right words to say.

"Wait so the girl who practically raped and shocked me is actually on our side?!" Sting twitched.

Lucy looked at the White Dragon Slayer with a raised eyebrow, "Stingy-bee say what now?"

"Ooh Sting's in trouble~" Lacy crooned giggling darkly.

"But why would Mizuki help out all this time? She always saw Jellal as her older brother…" Erza asked confused and with pain laced into her voice.

Simon chuckled, "Don't you remember the saying she used to rant about non-stop? She and Rob-jii-san did say it a lot."

Erza frowned as she started thinking.

"Mizu used to say 'Do what you think is right. That's the way Fairy Tail does it!' Remember? She'd say her Jii-chan's guild followed their hearts. And well we did. And now we can put an end to all this with you guys on our side." Simon grinned hugging Erza.

"So Mizuki is or was from Fairy Tail?" Lacy asked.

"We can discuss it later. With our combined strength we can fight Jellal but first we have to stop the Salamander and Raijin's impending clash. We'll need their help. Salamander Natsu and Raijin Mizuki."

"Can't you use your thought transmission magic?" Sho

"It's being blocked." Simon

"You're being thought-blocked? Does it hurt?" Lacy commented.

"Lacy!" Lucy gasped. "I swear you have no filter."

"I can lead the way to my brother" Sting smirked calming Lucy down.

Soon after they started moving, mouths appeared on all the surfaces a man's voice sounded throughout the tower.

"Welcome everyone. Welcome to the Tower of Paradise."

~Chapter 14 End~

Life: hello everyone here's your update as promised. Chapter 15: Trinity Raven! will be up maybe tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed this so please read and review!

March 5th, 2016: edited and revised. Enjoy!