"Do you feel this strongly about all your companions?"

"Of course I do!" I smiled proudly "And I know they feel the same way about me. Look, Devin, I need your help. I need you to take me to Jellal."

"What? Are you out of your mind?!"

"If I beat the crap out of this guy Erza will be safe and we can all go home!"

"Home? This is my home."

"No this is a prison."

Devin sighed, "Call it what you want Ellie but this is home to me. It's been that way for many years now."

"I don't have time for this! Where the hell is Jellal?!"

"I'm afraid I can't tell you that."

I could feel myself becoming angrier and angrier with each passing minute. "Why not?!"

"..."

"Don't want to tell me huh? Fine! I'll find him my damn self!" I turned to leave but in a blink of the eye Devin was in front of me. His face was devoid of emotion and he stood with his arms out. "I can't let you do that Noell. If you leave I will have no way of keeping you safe."

"Oh great this is again. Look, it's not really your choice."

"I'm sorry, you may not care about your life but I do."

"Who said I don't care about my life?" I glared

"You made it quite obvious when you were speaking of your friends."

"And your point? That doesn't mean I don't care about my life. I appreciate the life I've been given but without my friends my life is meaningless."

"I don't understand."

"Sure I'd be alive but what would I be living for? Everyone I care about would be gone, I'd be alone and miserable. What kind of person wants to live a life like that?"

"I've grown used to it."

"Oh yea? Then let me go."

"I already told you I can't. As long as you're here I can protect you."

"Bullshit! You're keeping me here because you don't want to be alone anymore."

"W-what?"

"You're lonely, and that's nothing to be ashamed of. You were robbed of everything and forced into slavery! And from what I can piece together about you, you were never a social person, so you probably didn't make any friends. Do you honestly expect me to believe that didn't drive you insane?"

"..."

"There's no point in arguing with me because you know I'm right."

"I welcome you to the Tower of Heaven. My name is Jellal, and I'm the ruler of this tower. I see the players have been arranged."

"Players? What the hell is he talking about?"

"I'm delighted you've come all this way to see me. Shall we play a round of heavens game?"

"So this is one big game to him huh? More reason for me to knock his block off."

"The rules are really quite simple. I wish to Erza in my ceremony as a sacrifice to resurrect Lord Zeref."

"I won't let them happen..Erza's coming home!"

"If I succeed the gates of Heaven will open, crowning my victory. However if you can manage to find a way to stop me you will be the winners of the game. To make things a little more interesting I've enlisted four knights to battle on my behalf ."

"Knights huh? Like that's going to stop me."

"The only way you'll be able to get to me is if you can defeat them. In other words a four on ten battle royal. and there's one more surprise."

"This guy.."

"The Magic Council has the sattle light square focused directly on this tower and it's highly likely they will attack. At this very moment there in the midst of voting on whether or not they should fire an Etherion blast."

"E-Etherion?! Is he crazy? That will kill every one!"

"There's no telling how much time is left. Should the Etherion strike; Complete annihilation is eminent. No players left to win. Game over."

"Bastard!"

"Now then, let the game begin."

"I'll kill him!"

"He lied to us.."

"What?"

"Jellal said he was going to get us into heaven, it was there that we'd find the freedom we desired."

I scoffed, "And you believed that crap? He used you. You guys were nothing more than pawns in this sick little game of his."

"It would seem could I be so foolish?"

"Don't get discouraged on me, we still haven't lost the game yet."

"What do you suppose we do?"

"We fight back! It's time you guys take a stand and take back what you lost! It's time Jellal gets a reality check."

"We don't have a have a chance against someone like Jellal."

"So you're giving up before you even try?!"

"What's the point of fighting Noell? We will all fall to Etherion in the end."

"That's not true! We're are all going to walk out of here alive."

Devin stared at the white headed girl incredulously "You're serious about this aren't you?"

"Yea, I am. Now are you going to let me out of here?"

Devin and I raced trough the halls in search of anyone from Fairy Tail and Jellal. I was seething at the thought of Jellal using Erza as his sacrifice. I would never let that happen; Not to Erza or anyone else for that matter.

"These knights Jellal was talking about, there probably going to be really strong and chances are, we'll run into one."

"I'm not even a tiny bit scared!"

"Big talk coming from such a little girl. Do you really think you have a chance against me?"

"Heh," I smirked taking in the man; He was a burly man who wore an open dark green vest with brown fur, dark brown pants, and black boots. He was tan skinned and had lazy looking black eyes and tattoo's made up a large percentage of his body. "You don't scare me one bit buddy. You're just a typical brute."

"Is that so?"

"Yea."

"Then I'll just show you how powerful i can be."

"Bring it on!"

Devin sighed watching Noell rush in and clashed fists with the burly man. The nameless man smirked catching Noell's wrist and throwing a punch to her gut. The snowette let out a struggled gasped as she staggered backward; Devin fists tightened and his teeth grinded against each other. Why did she have to be so stubborn? She's always been this way.

"I'll admit.. you know how to pack a punch...but I'm still going to walk away the winner!"

"We'll see about that. Earth Hammer!"

Devin's eyes widened as a dark green magic circle appeared beside the man, from it he pulled out a heavy duty stone hammer. He charged forward at pace that alarmed Devin, for being such a big guy he was quick on his feet "Noell move!"

"I'll be fine! Ice-make Hammer!" Seemingly from thin air Noell created a hammer of ice and charged forward. As there weapons clashed the nameless man could only grin seeing a narrow crack appear in Noell's weapon. She grunted pushing against him, as there weapons raised and clashed once more Noell's shattered and she was hit with the full blast. Noell screamed and staggered to her feet, blood trickled from her mouth but even so, she maintained a cocky grin on her face and a look of victory in her eyes.

"You're pretty tough."

"I am Gage the great! My power is unmatchable."

"Gage the great? How lame."

"Enough talking!"

"Right, right, silly me." Noell grinned wiping the blood from her face "It seem like my ice-make magic isn't going to be enough here. Guess I better bring out the big guns."

"Big guns? What is she talking about?"

"Give me everything you've got little girl."

Noell grinned wickedly, "You wanna know why it's a bad idea to mess with my friends?"

"Enlighten me."

"It's because my inner dragon comes out!" She grinned, "Ice Dragon Blizzard Fists!"

"She's a Dragon Slayer?!"

"I'm getting closer! I can smell her. Don't worry Noell I'm coming to save you!"

"So, you're a Dragon Slayer? Interesting. I'm no fool to underestimate the power your kind possesses, so I to will be stepping up my game, it would be wise to give up now."

"Like hell!" Noell yelled running forward; her fists had become gauntlets of ice and she had a look to kill in her eyes.

"Mud Gauntlets!" Gage yelled, his fits also became gauntlets encased in mud and rock. The two rushed at each other and there fists clashed at blinding speeds. Devin could tell from the look on Noell's face she was struggle and yet, Gage had hardly breaking a sweat. A final blow from Gage crushed Noell's gauntlets into thousands of little pieces. She hissed jumping backward and throwing a glare to the earth wizard.

"Damn it," she panted, "Don't get too cocky! I'm not losing to you!"

"You say that and yet you're a complete mess while I haven't even broken a sweat."

"I'm just getting warmed up." Shakily Noell stood and faced off against Gage, "Ice Dragon-"

"Grand Rockslide!"

"W-what? KYAAAAH!"

Gage slammed his mighty fists into the ground, splitting the terrain in half and shooting chunks of rock and ground into the air. Noell was caught in the attack, jagged rock violently assaulting her. She cried out and fell to her knees. Her clothing was torn, her face and body bloodied and bruised, but her determination never once wavered.

"I'm impressed you're still conscious."

"Shut up."

"Give up. It was clear from the minute we faced off I would come out the winner."

Devin shook with anger, "Noell stay down you can't beat this guy!"

"I have to!" She yelled in frustration "I don't have any other choice! Erza's life depends on it. I'm not going to let her be you freaks sacrificial goat! She's coming back home to Fairy Tail where she belongs! You hear me?!"

"Your barks bigger than your bite little girl."

"Yea? Well-"

"Noell!"

"Marlow?"

"You're okay!" The tabby sobbed flying into the snowette's arms. He sniffled looking up at her with watering eyes "This weird cat lady took me hostage! It was horrible! I was trapped in there with the blue idiot and I was worried about you! Did they hurt you?"

"Calm down Marlow, everything's alright now. Though, I'm kinda in the middle of a fight."

"Oh, sorry."

"Rock Assault!"

Noell gasped quickly pushing Marlow out of the way and throwing up her arms in a means to protect herself. Dust kicked up all around her and Marlow watched in fear of his friends safety. As the dust settled and Marlow was able to see he could only stare dumb founded. Devin stood in front of Noell, his clothes ripped and torn, and his body wrecked in cuts and bruises. Noell gasped, "Devin.."

"I couldn't stand by any longer. Forgive me, I'll be taking over this fight."

"But-"

"Erza needs you. She won't be able to defeat Jellal by herself. Now go, I can handle him."

"Be careful.."

Devin nodded to the snowette and sighed in relief when she was gone. He turned his anger to the earth mage, "For hurting my friend I will make you suffer."

"I ain't scared of you either."

"You should be."

So I got my first negative review recently. I'm not upset about it, I respect everyone's opinions and I knew when writing this story not everyone was going to like it. They said that Noell was basically a Mary Sue and that all my Oc's were girls. Personally, I don't think Noell is a Mary Sue, but that's just me. I like Noell, she's a fun character to write and I always make my characters so boring and uninteresting, I like that Noell is different. I know the stories kinda cheesy but I like it! When i started writing this story I did it as a sort of stress reliever and never intended for it to be anything too serious but look at it now! It makes me happy knowing so many people enjoy this story that it trumps any negativity.

Oh and by the way the new story picture is supposed to what Noell looks like, kinda.

Special Shout Out: xMisaka is an amazing person whose giving me a lot of positive feedback on the story. Go check her out!

Fun Fact: There is a(pardon my french) fucking squirrel in my attic! All it does all day is roll around acorns and scratch at the floorboards and annoy the ever living crap out of me.