Here's another long chapter for you all. And with some light swearing, I think it's on its way to earning its current T rating. After all, dragon slayers aren't exactly known for their clean language and soft temperaments.

A piercing roar echoes through the temple, so I get focused while covering my ears to protect myself from the sheer volume and terrible pitch of the roar. Dragon slayers have very sensitive ears to go along with our noses. So a sounds that should be able to be heard all across an island is definitely more than my poor ears can handle. "Gray, you can take your time getting downstairs. I'm going to go help Natsu!" I race down with the wind at my heels, following my nose and poor ears straight to my big brother, and a monstrosity of a freed demon. "Holy shit, that's bad!" And as I glance towards Natsu, I notice the aftermath of a battle. "You won, then?"

Natsu yells over at me, a little annoyed. "Of course I won! And of course this is bad, Deliora is awake!"

The shockwaves coming from Deliora are impressive, so I start carving magic circles into the ground with wind blades to stabilize the ground. "I'll reinforce this place, so get ready to fight that thing! We're going to have to deal with this ourselves!"

"Got it!" Natsu stands between me and the demon, watching over me protectively. "Do what you gotta do!" Then he notices a figure standing behind us. "Hey! What are you doing here?"

"Natsu?" I glance back to see Gray, and he catches my eyes as well. "Ciara…"

Natsu nods at me, then turns back to Gray. "There's only one thing we can do, we gotta take that thing down."

It would seem that there is an idiot who agrees, sort of. Lyon comes crawling in like an invalid. "Neither one of you are strong enough. But I am, I will defeat it. I'm going to surpass Ur, finally."

His arrogance and stupidity really pisses me off. "Hey idiot, keep quiet and watch, you're going to see something that will blow your mind."

Natsu scoffs and rolls his eyes. "Yeah, you can't fight. You can't even get up off the floor."

"I've waited so long for this moment. She was strong, but still not strong enough to kill that demon." Lyon actually defies our expectations and stands up, his body battered and broken. "I'm going to do the one thing Ur never could. Finally, my dream will be fulfilled."

But as easily as Lyon got up, Gray puts him right back on the ground. "You've caused enough trouble. I'll clean up the mess you've made." Gray goes and does something stupid, he prepares the Iced Shell again. "I'll seal the demon myself." This has to be the stupidest and most pointless thing I've ever seen Gray do, and I've been there for almost all of his stupid moments.

Upon seeing Gray activating the spell, Lyon comes around and lifts his head. "Don't do it, Gray! Do you have any idea how long it took me to melt that ice? Sealing it again isn't going to stop me. I will not rest until I've finally defeated Deliora!"

"I can't worry about the future!" Gray's body starts cracking from the power once again. "I have to do this to keep it from killing us all right now!" But since we're not about to let Gray go and kill himself just to put down a demon, Natsu and I stand I front of him, forcing him to end the spell. "Natsu, Ciara!"

"Why don't you let us handle this?" Natsu grins at me, then at Gray. "Just leave this to Fairy Tail's Dragonslayer Twins."

"Don't be stupid! Just get out of my way!"

"If I didn't let you do it before, why would I let you do it now?" Natsu's determination spills out of him, flowing into me as well. "We're not letting you go out like that!"

We've forced his hand, and he knows it. I turn to him and smile. "Don't worry, now. We can handle this, so believe in us." The demon roars again, so I huff impatiently and start us off. "Natsu, get ready to go, I'm starting us off!" I concentrate power in my mouth, releasing it in short bursts. "Wind Dragon's Piercing Bullets!" Small projectiles shoot out of my mouth at impossible speeds, hurtling towards Deliora and slamming into its thick hide, causing quite visible signs of impact that make it stagger backwards. That's weird…shouldn't it be stronger than this? I expected it to have a much more powerful life force.

Regardless of Deliora's condition, it's Natsu's turn. He lights his hand on fire and charges the demon. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" And by performing our two attacks in quick succession, when the demon goes fist to fist with my brother, Deliora starts to crack.

"More!" I yell at Natsu as I take to the air, wind swirling frantically around me as I float in the underground sky. "Let's hit this thing with an inferno! No holding back!"

Natsu grins. "You got it! Fire Dragon's-"

"Wind Dragon's-" I smirk as much as I can as my cheeks puff up, full of magic power.

We release it all at once. "ROAR!"

The torrent of wind and fire that hurtles towards Deliora is one of our most dangerous combinations, something that we actually restrict ourselves from using, since we could easily level a castle with it.

Bathed in our inferno, Deliora shatters into billions of tiny pieces as Natsu touches back down. "Huh? What the…? We're that strong? I thought it would take us at least a few more attacks…" Natsu is baffled and bewildered by the sudden turn of events.

"No, I sensed it, the demon's life force was already pretty weak, it must have been drained over time. That was nothing more than it's dying roar. By the time we smacked that thing with Dragon Slayer Magic, it was already at death's door." I shake my head, and start sinking towards the ground. "Well, either way, it was a bit anti-climactic."

Natsu grins up at me and holds out his arms. "Come on, I'll catch you!"

I roll my eyes as my silly brother and gradually let the wind around me disappear, allowing me to fall out of the air. "You better catch me, idiot!"

And despite goading him by calling him an idiot, Natsu catches me perfectly in his arms. "See, caught you." Then he turns to Gray, a smile all over his face. "Man, your teacher was pretty awesome."

I nod, smiling as well. "It takes a certain kind of wizard to pull off what she did. You should be proud to be her student."

I'm not sure if it's because of our praise, the defeat of the demon, or just old memories, but Gray starts to cry in memory of his teacher. Natsu grins brightly in satisfaction and his smile makes me smile even brighter as well. Ur can now rest in peace and become one with the ocean, becoming an integral part of nature, to watch over her students forever.

Now that all of the fun is over, Lucy and Happy come running down into the cave, trailing Erza behind them. Oh great, I should have known that Gramps would send her after them. I wonder if she's been told that I'm on this job or not…

After our group reunion, all that remains is to finish the request that brought me here, chasing my stupid brother. Breaking the spell that has befallen the villagers. To do that, we head outside into the open air.

"Oh yeah! That's right! We won!" Natsu bounces around, celebrating our victory.

"Aye Sir!" Happy joins him in the celebrations, floating up and down on the breeze.

Lucy seems quite relaxed after this crazy battle. "You know, I was kinda worried for a while there, but it all worked out thanks to your amazing teacher." She smiles at Gray, before hopping up to her feet to celebrate with Natsu.

"We totally finished an S-Class quest!" I shake my head at Natsu. We haven't…all we did was beat Deliora.

Lucy practically has stars in her eyes. "You think Master Makarov will let us on the second floor now?"

But the mood goes quiet instantly as Erza catches everyone's eye. "Isn't there something you're all forgetting about?"

I roll my eyes. "We defeated Deliora, sure, but the request of the villagers still stands. Bringing down one demon isn't going to deal with a spell affecting people. So unless you're all planning on leaving me to deal with this curse on my own, we're not leaving yet. We've dealt with the dangerous part, now we have to clean up the environmental contamination from the Moon Drip."

"What?" Lucy looks sad and shocked. "Oh no…"

That announcement doesn't phase Natsu one bit, in fact, it makes him even cheerier. "Well, then we had better go and change them back!"

"Yeah, but we don't know how!" Gray turns to Lyon, who is sitting back against a rock. "Lyon, do you know?"

He eyes us with a bored expression. "To be quite honest, I don't have a clue."

"You don't know?" My brother expresses his skepticism well with his face. He's never been one for hiding his emotions.

Lucy tries to reason it out. "But they told us that the curse started about the same time you guys got here."

"When we first arrived three years ago, we were away that there was a village somewhere on this island. But we had absolutely no reason to communicate with the villagers, so we left them alone. And they never came to the temple to see what we were up to." I scrutinize Lyon carefully, looking for any hint of a lie. But his heart rate is steady, and there is no fresh sweat on his body, he also lacks the scent of fear.

Something still rings false to me. Luckily, Erza picks up on my suspicions. "In three years, you've never once met?"

Lucy's rational mind goes t work again. "I don't understand. The light from the Moon Drip is so bright you can see it from practically anywhere on the island. It's kinda weird that they saw it every night and never went to investigate."

Lyon shakes his head, understanding our assumptions. "The villagers weren't transformed by the Moon Drip. It doesn't affect the human body."

"Yeah right." Natsu calls out Lyon's bullshit. "You're just saying that so you ad your lackeys will be off the hook."

"Think about it. I've been exposed to it as long as they have, and my appearance hasn't changed one bit." That's another clue for me to work with, and slowly a few of the pieces start to come together.

I address Lyon myself, much more professionally now. "Logic dictates that unless you have a particular spell that can offset the effects of the Moon Drip, which I highly doubt, then you should not only factor in the length of time you've been exposed, but also proximity to the contamination. If it were really so simple, you would be in a much more advanced stage of this 'curse'."

He nods. "Exactly. I wouldn't trust them. Those villagers are hiding something. But…" He turns away sourly. "I'm sure you guild wizards can handle it."

"We're not done with you!" Natsu steps up, ready to vent some of his anger. "You destroyed the village-"

Erza cuts Natsu off by squeezing his cheeks together. "That's quite enough, Natsu. They were simply doing what they believed to be right, so there's no need to criticize them for it. Now, let's go."

"But, what are we gonna do to lift the curse?" Natsu turns to me. "You're good with curses, right? How do we change the villagers back to normal?"

I grit my teeth and try not to snap at my brother. "I'm working on it. So keep quiet and let me think. There's a lot of information to go over, and even the smallest detail might be what we need to fix everything."

Walking off with Erza, Lucy, Natsu, and Happy in tow, we head back towards the storage area while Gray catches up with us. But when we get there, the place is totally deserted.

"That's weird, where is everybody?" Happy takes the words right out of my mouth.

I sniff the air, searching for the strange scents of the villagers. "They left only a little while ago, an hour, tops. Their scents are still all over this place."

While Gray grabs bandages and the rest of us look around, one of the villagers arrives and approaches us. "You finally made it back!" He grins at us, entirely in demon form. "There's something you need to see! Please, follow me to the village!"

The village? I glance at Natsu. But wasn't the village…

Destroyed? Yeah, thats what I thought.

But then how…? You know what, never mind, let's just go.

We follow the villager along the path that leads back to where the village once stood. Except that as we approach it, it's clearly still standing. Even though I'm pretty sure that it was destroyed in our earlier right with Lyon's lackeys.

"Whoa!" Happy looks around incredulously. "Yesterday, it was a total mess. But now it looks perfect!"

Natsu knocks on the wall of one of the houses. "What's going on here? Everything's back to how it was! It's like the village went back in time!"

Back in time…? I start to get caught up in my own thoughts again. But that's impossible…isn't it? I thought that time magic was Lost Magic. Okay, maybe now I'm the pot calling the kettle black, but it's not as though there are a lot of us around who still practice the ancient arts…

So we've got an ancient dead demon, a spell that concentrates moonlight for seal-breaking purposes, and a village full of strange people who are supposedly turning into demons under the moon, and have never bothered the people up at the temple. Coincidence? Yeah right. And I suppose that it's a coincidence that they all smell like they're not human.

With an forming idea in my head, I find myself turning to Erza as she passes by me on a walk. "I have some thoughts on this so-called curse, but first, I need to know what's really going on."

She nods. "I have noticed a few things that seem out of place myself. Let us take a walk, and we can discuss the rest with the villagers in due time." That course of action is definitely one that I can agree to.

When we finish with our walk a half hour later, Erza and I sit down for a couple of minutes to discuss the mission a little. Erza looks at me carefully. "So, what exactly do you think is going on here?"

I take a second to organize my words. "I think that what is going on here is not a transformative spell as they believe, but a cognition altering spell. I've been sensing a memory spell floating around the island, but nothing that resembles a curse. I remember what it felt like the last time I dealt with a curse, and it felt much more sinister than this atmosphere. Especially now that Deliora has been destroyed, and Deliora felt more like Lullaby than a normal curse. Not only that, but there are no inanimate objects being thrown at me, which curses seem to enjoy doing. So, I think that the villagers are confused about something, and that's why they've been hiding things. There are several things that don't add up, but from their smell, and the sense of their magic, I think that they're not actually human at all. I haven't seen any of them getting near the temple, and Lyon claimed to have never even seen any of them. So if they haven't gotten onto sacred ground. Then maybe…"

Her eyes widen. "They're actually demons with memory loss instead of humans turning into demons. You suspect a memory-altering spell? Caused by the side-effects of the Moon Drip spell used on Deliora? That would explain why Lyon and his human followers remained unaffected by the Moon Drip. There is no way to accurately predict how demons would be affected by the concentrated power of the moon's pure light."

I nod. "The Moon Drip might have been strong enough to produce the spell, but I can't be sure. That's still my most convincing theory, though, especially if they're demons being affected by the pure power of the moon. I'm not certain, yet, but I'm convinced that it's a good theory. And the atmospheric currents here are also strange like there is a dome over the island. And if that dome is a result of the purple moon drip, then maybe it's hovering over the island and turning the moon purple, as well as causing the memory loss. Like the lens of a magnifying glass with color in it."

"Hmm…in that case, I may be able to help clear up a few things when we meet with the villagers." Erza smiles at me. "Shall we go and see if two S-Class wizards can lift the curse of Galuna Island?"

I grin. "Let's."

We approach the chief confidently, and Erza does the talking when we hear him rage about destroying the moon. "Destroying the moon is a simple task, sir." Then she glances at me and I nod. "But before I do that, I need to ask you all a few questions. Would you be so kind as to call everyone together for a meeting?"

And so, the chief calls together all of his people, and Erza starts asking them questions in order to confirm my suspicions. "Let me make sure we have the facts straight. The first time everyone in the village began to take on these demonic forms is when the moon began to turn purple. Is that correct?"

The chief nods. "Yes. During the day, we're fine, but when the moon comes out, we transform into what you see now." Okay, so it only happens as a result of the contaminated moonlight. That makes sense.

"And the moon first turned purple about three years ago, right?" The exclamations confirm Erza's timeline. "We've learned that the Moon Drip ceremony has been performed on this island every night for the last three years. And each night, it produced a beam of light so brilliant that you couldn't possibly have missed it."

But in the middle of her speech, Erza interrupts herself by falling into Lucy's newly repaired pitfall trap and screaming like a little girl. Then she gets out of the trap without being fazed at all. "Seriously. Didn't you ever wonder where that light was coming from? I don't understand, why didn't anyone investigate?"

The villagers look at each other guiltily as the chief pipes up. "Well, we would have looked into it, but according to village lore, our people must never go near that temple." Okay, suspicious village lore about a temple. Another coincidence? I think not…

That doesn't sit well with Lucy. "Who cares about village lore when your own people are dying? You obviously knew there was a problem cause you contacted the magic guilds."

I've had just about enough of all the beating around the bush. "Alright, what's really going on? There are too many intersecting factors for all of this to be a coincidence. So what is it that you're not telling us?" If I can get them to confirm what I think is going on, then I know what I'll have to do. I look up at the sky, bothered by the air currents that seem to bounce right back down at us. There's a dome up there…a magic dome. Made by the Moon Drip? I wonder…

The chief coughs in response to my question. "To be honest, we don't even know that ourselves. Allow me to explain. We've tried to investigate the light many times, we'd take up weapons we've never had to use, I'd trim and style my sideburns, and then we'd venture into the jungle towards the temple. But we could never get near it!" And there we go! "We'd get close enough to see it through the trees, and then we'd be back at the village gates."

Lucy just doesn't get it. "But, how is that possible, it doesn't make any sense."

"We got into the temple without any problem at all." Yeah, Natsu, that's because we're human. I stifle a laugh at my brother's confusion. Oh well, he'll find out soon enough.

"We didn't say anything to you earlier because we were afriad you wouldn't believe us."

"We're telling you the truth. We've tried to go back to the temple many times."

"But not a single villager has ever been ale to get inside."

I glance at Erza, and she returns my smile. Bingo, we've got ourselves what we need. I look to the sky, ready to break the spell over the villagers.

So to join me in preparation, Erza requips into her Giant armor. "Natsu, come with me. Ciara and I are going to need your help to destroy the moon. It's the only way we can change the villagers back to their human form." And hearing that, the villager start cheering. So I start getting into position.

The crowd starts cheering, but it's all a ruse. The point is to shatter the membrane in the sky. I would do it alone, but for my wind magic to be most effective, there has to be a hole poked in it first. Once there's a hole, I can shatter the whole thing no problem.

Natsu is excited as well. "Where do you think we should go? To the top of the temple? It's a lot higher up there."

Erza shakes her head. "We'll do it here. The villagers can't go near the temple, and they need to witness this. I can count on Ciara to make up for any of the shortfall with her wind magic." Next, she addresses the villagers. "This is Giant armor, it increases my strength and allows me to throw farther." The air around her shimmers and a giant spear appears in her hand. "And this is the Spear of Haja. It repels darkness."

"Whoa! I see what you're planning now! You're gonna use that spear to knock the moon out of the sky." Leave it to Natsu to come up with the most outlandish theories…

She turns confidently towards the moon. "That's right. But I'm afraid that I will need more strength than this armor can give me."

"That's where we come in." I grin at Natsu. "You use your fire as a booster to send it up like a rocket, and I'll give it a roar as soon as it passes me. That should give it the power it needs to get up high enough."

Erza nods in agreement. "When I begin to throw the spear, I want you to hit the back of it with your flames. It will take perfect timing, understood?"

Pumping his fist in the air, Natsu jumps up excitedly. "Sounds like a killer plan to me! Me and Ciara rock at timing!"

"The let's do it." Erza turns her back to the crowd and heads for one of the village watchtowers with my brother in tow.

I'm sure that skeptical Lucy and Gray are going to get seriously shocked by what we're going to pull off. But as I fly into the air, gaining altitude quickly, I find that I really don't care.

I zoom through the air and make a channel of alternating low and high pressure that essentially creates an acceleration tunnel. I need to guide the spear up, before I roar and give it enough acceleration to force it higher into the sky. If I fail, this whole plan fails as well. And then we'll have to go with plan B, which is me pounding the dome with dragon slayer magic until the thing shatters.

Everyone is excited and cheering, except our friends, who are rather apprehensive. So I take the opportunity to gather magic into my mouth, ready to release it at any moment. And with perfect coordination between Erza and Natsu, the spear shoots into the sky, made faster and faster by my wind tunnel.

It zooms past my face, and when the angle is just right, I open my mouth. "Wind Dragon's ROAR!" The ensuing tornado plows into the back of the spear, accelerating it to the speed of one of Bisca's magic bullet.

It hits what looks like the moon, and causes cracks in it. Then the cracks spread beyond the outline of the moon, shattering a hole into the noxious purple dome over the island.

The shattering stops, which means that all there is left to do is dispense with the rest of it. I rise higher and higher into the air, approaching the cracked dome, and leaving the ground behind. "Now…Wind Dragon's Wing Attack!" Wind explodes outward from my arms as I twirl through the air.

Every place that my magic touches shatters, the cracks spreading further and further, until they reach the very edges of the gigantic dome, shattering the entire thing into a billion tiny particles of magic. I breathe hard, feeling the effects of flying so high so fast. Well…that was fun…my brain feels like it's going to explode…

Slowly, carefully, I make my descent back towards the island. Even with my excellent eyes, the people still look like tiny little ants. But from what I can tell, there's a lot of confusion, but a lot less fear down there.

As I finally touch down, I notice that the villagers stay in their demonic forms and their memories start coming back. The finally remember that they are actually demons with the ability to take on a human form. Thankfully, Erza does all of the explaining while I catch my breath.

As I walk back over, Erza greets me warmly. "So, is it all done?"

I nod. "Yep, one magic moonlight dome blasted into oblivion. I take it that some of the confusion is starting to wear off? I can't sense the memory spell anymore, but their memories might still be a bit jumbled for a little while, seeing as they were under the spell for a whole three years."

"Sounds like you two are quite the detectives." A voice comes floating from the crowd, one that I don't recognize. And the purple demon it belongs to approaches us, holding up a hand in greeting. "I knew I could trust you and your friends. Thanks wizards, I owe you one."

Gray points at him in utter terror. "You're the guy from the boat!"

"Bobo…" The chief starts trembling. Seems like this guy was supposed to be dead. As if it's really so easy to kill a demon.

And this Bobo backs that assumption up. "Getting stabbed in the chest hurt pretty bad, but you gotta do more than that to kill a demon."

Gray looks so confused, the poor guy. "But, on that boat…you just disappeared into thin air."

Bobo smiles and disappears once again, reappearing in the air with a pair of wings on his back. "I really hope you kids can forgive me for not telling you the truth sooner. I was the only one who didn't have any memory loss. I had to leave cause everyone went nuts. I knew I was a demon, but everybody else, suddenly, they thought they were cursed humans."

That little speech gets the chief bawling his eyes out as he flies up for a tearful reunion with his not so dead son. And quickly, all of the other demons fly up into the air as well.

"Yeah, they're definitely demons." Erza's smile is a nice change, considering how serious she's looked lately.

But Natsu just grins up at them. "I don't know. If you look at their faces, they kinda look…more like angels to me." My brother has an uncanny ability to see the truth and innocence in the hearts of others. And it's times like this when he puts it to good use.

Well angels or demons, we helped the people, right Natsu?

Yeah!

To celebrate, the chief declares that there is to be a huge feast to celebrate. And so, we start to party with the demons. It's almost as rowdy as the parties at Fairy Tail, which means that I find myself a nice cozy spot on a roof in order to watch the chaos unfold. And all the village girls go crazy over poor Gray, though I don't feel like going to save him from getting tugged al over the place. He can get himself out of his own girl problems.

On another note, the chief decides to open the island to humans and stop spreading around the rumors of a curse on the island. But right after that happy decision, some uninvited guests crash the party, inspiring a rather fast and unpleasant reaction from my friends, they're all ready for a fight.

I sail down from the roof I've perched on as Erza gets to her feet to confront this foe. "How can I help you?" The foe that is Yuka and Sherry, two of Lyon's lackeys.

Yuka leers eerily. "You Fairy Tailers are tough. The Cold Emperor's so banged up he couldn't even make it down here."

"That's why we've come to pay you a visit in his place." Sherry looks far more serious now that she's not going on about love.

Lucy springs to her feet. "Wait just a minute, I thought we were cool! Didn't Lyon tell you guys what happened?"

"Yes, but that doesn't matter to us." Yuka's words are bordering on being fighting words.

Sherry nods. "We wanted to settle things with you ourselves."

Natsu is more than happy to take up the challenge. "All right, why don't you show me what you've got!"

"Wait, Natsu!" Bobo steps forward. "Thanks for the help, but we can't keep relying on you. So let us fight them."

"He's right, we got these clowns."

"If we wanna keep our village safe, we've gotta protect it."

Erza diffuses the situation before a fight can break out. "Normally I would agree with you, gentlemen. But I think it's best that I handle this one." She approaches the two wizards, and I can already see exactly how this is going to end. Erza's appearance is somewhat deceiving. Despite the calm outward temperament she tries to maintain, she actually has little to no patience when it comes to idiots picking fights.

With a no magic restriction, courtesy of Yuka's anti-wizard magic, Erza just knocks each of them down with one well-placed kick, and another well-placed elbow. She really holds nothing back when she goes on the attack. Jeez, try not to kill them. I don't want to have to clean up the mess.

Natsu stares at the two who have just had their asses easily handed to them by Erza. "Holy…" I detect a faint measure of sympathy for them in his voice. Though that's probably because he knows first hand what it's like to be beaten up by Erza.

Lucy is just as shocked. "She didn't even have to use any magic." But that's only to be expected, seeing as Erza's magic focuses around summoning items to be used in close quarters combat. Really, all her magic actually does is store all of her weapons and armor for easy use, instead of her having to lug all of them around and spend time changing. Her actual skills involve the use of those summoned items. It would make no sense for her not to be able to take on an enemy barehanded.

Sherry starts leaning herself up first, smiling weakly at Erza. "You're truly and amazing warrior."

"No kidding." Yuka struggles to his own feet, looking mildly ashamed of himself. "We're no match for you."

"Uh…wait-" Lucy interrupts their little exchange. "So you're not here to attack us?"

Yuka nods. "I doubt this is going to make up for all the trouble we've caused you, but we wanted to apologize in person."

"Oh, so you guys wanted to settle things in a good way." Happy smiles as he floats up into the air and settles himself in my arms. The little ball of fluff must be tired after all the crazy stuff that's gone down in the last few days.

"The Cold Emperor told us everything." Sherry's smile wavers a little, probably from painful memories. "Thanks to you, we can finally let go of the pain Deliora caused us so many years ago."

Unlike me, Gray seems surprised to hear it. "You mean you were victims of Deliora too?"

Yuka closes his eyes and sighs. "When we were children, the monster ravaged our village. We watched it murder all of our friends and family."

"The Cold Emperor had a plan to kill the demon once and for all. That's why we joined him."

"You see, we wanted revenge. And we were so focused on getting it that we never realized we were hurting innocent people." It seems that Yuka now realizes, at least in part, how much of a poison revenge is said to be.

"We were so blinded by our hatred that we ended up acting no better than the demon itself." Well yeah, if you consider that you were willing to resort to murder as a first course of action. "From now on we'll treat others with respect, and love." I don't think I'll ever understand her obsession with love, but I guess there are worse things to be obsessed with. After all, that's what started this whole mess in the first place.

All of this apologizing just hypes Natsu right up. "All righty then!" He always was one to forgive and forget as long as his friends aren't hurt. He pops up behind the two and wraps his arms around them. "You guys should stick around and join in on the feast!"

Yuka recoils a little. "But we were enemies a second ago."

Sherry sweatdrops a little. "I don't think it's a good idea, because I'm trying to watch my figure and-"

"Enough with the excuses!" Natsu drags them in for a tight hug. "Live a little, would ya!"

I roll my eyes. "One night of partying with my brother won't kill you. Well, it shouldn't…" I sigh a little myself as I watch Natsu drag the two of them off towards the tables. "But they're probably all going to be hung over in the morning…"

"Aye…"

I look down at Happy, still snuggled in my arms. "So, do you want to get back to the party, or come stargazing with me?"

"Stars!" Happy points up at the sky. "The sky isn't purple anymore, so let's look at the sky!"

"Stars it is…" I jump into the wind and it carries the two of us to the top of one of the nearby houses, high enough that we can get a great view of the entire sky. "It's finally over…"

"Aye."