I'm back once again! How was your Halloween? Good, good. I've gotten some votes on the Oracion Seis arc, but I'd like more. I want to make sure that a good bunch of you guys get your vote in. I only have one review to answer, so I'll do it now.

BasFUl (guest): Do you really want to get me started? Oh, what are the ways in which I hate Lucy...?

The master is not here with us," Erza thought in the shower. Neither are Mystogan and Laxus. We have Natsu, but he's been drained from teleporting to save Lucy. And so many of us are wounded. Is it possible for us to continue fighting? Images from the carnage of their previous battle flooded her mind. Erza placed her hands against the wall. She remembered Makarov walking up to face Jose. She angrily punched the wall.

What was I thinking?! Why didn't I go with him?! This is all my fault. I'm a disgrace! A rumble roused her from her thoughts. The guild gathered out in the backyard.

"What in blazes?" Natsu shouted. A walking guild hall… I had no idea Phantom had something something like this…

"It's a guild hall with enormous legs!" Happy shouted.

"Is it Phantom?" Loke asked.

"Unless you know of any other guild that has it out for Fairy Tail," Natsu said.

"I never anticipated this!" Erza said, wearing nothing but a fluffy pink towel. If they weren't so focused on their imminent destruction, all the guys would be drooling. "I never believe that they would go to such extremes to attack us!" One of the front walls went down, and a giant cannon came out. A Jupiter cannon?! The shot began to power up. Natsu's eyes widened.

"Everybody get back!" he roared as Erza shouted, "Run! Get out of here, now!" Erza started running, her towel falling of. She quickly requiped into her Adamantine armor. "I won't let you destroy the guild!" The cannon fired. The blast was so powerful that the water was pushed from the ocean bed. Erza slammed the two sides of the shield together, creating a large magic circle. Can her armor stand up against that? Cracks in her armor began to appear. Natsu ran forward, catching her when it broke and sent her flying back. She seemed to be alive, though he couldn't tell for sure with his gauntlets. But she successfully stopped the blast from the Jupiter cannon.

"Makarov has fallen, and now Erza cannot stand," Jose said over the speakers. "Any chance of victory has slipped through your grasp. Surrender Lucy Heartfillia immediately. You have no choice."

"That's not gonna happen!" Alzack shouted.

"Like any guild would hand over one of their own to a monster like you!" Bisca added.

"You hear that!" Macao shouted. "Lucy's staying put!" The rest of the guild cheered and agreed.

"I won't ask again!" Jose snapped. Lucy began to cry in fear of what was going to happen to her guild.

"Maybe I should just go with them," she whispered. "Give myself up."

"We would never betray her like that!" Erza roared, pushing herself up. "You'd have to kill us first!"

"In that case, I'll give you an even bigger taste of the Jupiter!" Jose snarled. "You have fifteen minutes until it recharges! Tremble in fear!"

"No way!" Elfman said.

"What will we do?" Cana asked.

"They're going to fire at us again?" Loke gasped. Natsu looked around before crouching and drawing runes. This is bad… Erza can't even stand anymore, Makarov, Mystogan, and Laxus are also out. I'm the only one powerful enough to stop it, but I used a lot of energy teleporting to save Lucy. I don't think I could stand a blast from that thing without using that magic… but I can't. Memory spells are freakishly hard and don't work that well unless you know exactly what you're doing. Shades began to pour out of the building. Crap!

"Prepare to witness hell, Fairy Tail," a hologram of Jose said. "You've only two choices left. Be destroyed by my soldiers, or be eradicated by the Jupiter!"

"Are you kidding me?" Macao shouted. "He'd kill his own men with the Jupiter too?!"

"Surely he's bluffing," Wakaba chuckled nervously. "Who'd do something like that?"

"No, he's gonna do it," Cana said. Both men stared at her in shock. "Those Phantom soldiers are Jose's Shades. They're not human. They're phantom soldiers of his own creation. We've got to do something to take out that Jupiter!" Natsu stood.

"I drew some runes," he explained. "It'll hold off at least half of another shot. Meanwhile, I'll destroy the cannon. I've only got fifteen minutes to wreak it, right?" Cana nodded. "Come on, Happy, I need a lift!" Natsu took a running leap off the cliff. Happy caught him and bore Natsu to the cannon.

"Come on, Elfman!" Gray shouted. "We're going to storm the place too!"

"And we're going to stay here and protect the guild hall!" Cana grinned, pulling out cards. "You with me?"

"Yeah!"

"Lucy," Mira said. "Come with me." She pulled Lucy away from the battle. "We have a hideout. I want you to stay there until this is all over.

"No!" Lucy cried, pulling away. "It's all my fault that we're in this mess. I can't just abandon everyone while they're out there fighting for me."

"It's not your fault, Lucy. I don't see it that way and neither does anyone else." Mira's firm tone was a far cry from the sweet voice she usually used. "We're not just fighting for you. It's for all of us. It's for the honor of our guild. We're proud to fight this battle. Each and every one of us. Please, just do as I say." Mira reached out and put Lucy to sleep, the second time today she had been magically put to sleep. Mira caught her as she fell. "Reedus! Take her to the hideout!"

"Oui!" he said while painting a wagon.

"I'm counting on you to take care of her."

"Oui!" The wagon took off. I may not be strong enough to join the others in battle… but Natsu was right; there are other ways I can protect my friends. She used her transformation magic to turn into Lucy. The Jupiter will fire in fourteen minutes. Don't let us down, Natsu.

Well, here's one way that I hate Lucy. Nope, everything is about her. Sorry sweetheart, but this thing isn't about you. Man, I expect to lose some followers one of these days. Also, for you NaLi fans out there, or anyone that doesn't really like Lucy... well, you'll see when I publish it.

Review, please! They give me the initiative to write, because I am insanely lazy sometimes.