Lucy's P.O.V.
"Erza do you want me to ask Virgo to store your stuff in the celestial spirit world?" I asked her.
"Sure Lu, that would be great." Erza answered.
"Open Gate of the Maiden, Virgo." I chanted.
"Hello princess how can I help you?" Virgo asked as she appeared.
I thanked the lord she did not say anything about punishment.
"Can you store all of Erza's stuff in the celestial spirit world please and once you are done don't worry about returning to me, just tell me through the link." I asked her.
"Yes princess I will do that." Virgo said as she disappeared with Erza's things.
"Can we go now." Natsu moaned.
"Yes now take two of these, they will stop motion sickness for six hours. Three hours per tablet." I said, throwing him the medicine.
"Thanks Luce." Natsu said after he took the tablets and threw them back to me.
"But Lu the train is only a two-hour ride why does he need six hours?" Erza asked me, confused.
"So I can drag him on the rides with me of course." I said like it was obvious then I took two of the tablets and put them back in my bag.
"Okay let's go and relax!" Erza yelled as we went to the train station.
At the resort Erza's P.O.V
Watching Lucy and Natsu have this much fun almost feels like I am a parent watching their children.
"Erza, Stella and Happy come join us!" Lucy yelled from the pool.
"Sure why not, come on you two it's only water." I said to the small exceeds.
"No I hate getting wet, I refuse to get in the water." Stella said stubbornly.
"Aye I agree with Stella." Happy added.
"Erza will you do the honors." Lucy said, smirking.
I knew what she meant and grabbed the two cats, then went over to the pool and dropped them into it.
"Hey Erza that wasn't nice!" Stella shouted but everyone else was too busy laughing.
"I am sorry Stella and Happy, I will buy two fish tonight to make up for it." Lucy apologized to the exceeds as I requipped into my swim suit.
"Hey why don't we go and do some surfing." Lucy suggested.
"That is an excellent idea Lucy." I agreed and the boys just nodded their heads oh how it is great when Natsu is not sick all the time.
A few hours later
Flashback no one's P.O.V.
"Work slaves or face punishment." A fat man wearing a mask yelled at some people.
"What have we done to deserve this I want to know." A small little red-head asked.
"Erza rest why we have time, someday we will break free of this place." A blue-haired boy smiled at the girl beside him.
End of flashback
Erza's P.O.V.
I woke up sweating, god I haven't had those nightmares in a long time. I walked over to the mirror and looked at my reflection then I requipped into my armor I always feel safer with my armor on.
"Hey Erza, you in here." Lucy said through the door.
"Yeah, what is the matter?" I asked her.
"Nothing me, the cats and the boys are going to the casino downstairs and I was wondering if you wanted to come." Lucy said as she walked through the door. She had on a red dress that had a slit at the leg with some gold heels her hair was in an updo no doubt Cancer helped her with that.
"Sure." I said, requipping into a dress and heading to the casino with Lucy.
As we walked in, we saw the boys already playing games.
"Hey Erza, let's play a few rounds of poker." Lucy suggested.
We both smirked as we are really good at poker.
"They do not know what's coming." I whispered to Lucy.
She just nodded her head as we walked over to the poker table and started playing.
A few games later
"Another win Lu, we are good at this." I said to Lucy behind me as she finished another game. We have been changing in between games so we both get to play and Lucy and I have amazing poker faces oh my lord this is so easy.
"Your turn Erza." Lucy told me and we swapped places.
"Card dealer change." A man said and I recognized his voice.
"We are going to win for sure." Lucy said wearily ignorant of the new dealer.
"Then let's play a different game, shall we sister?" This man said, dealing cards that spelled death, then all the lights went out. I could only see Lucy using her magic for light then her light began to flicker like she was fighting someone before it went out and the lights turned back on.
What I amazed me I saw my childhood friends, no one else was there apart from me, them and Lucy.
"Millianna what have you done to Lucy?" I asked Millianna, concerned.
"Oh Erzy I simply tied her up with some of my magic that's all." She answered me, smiling.
"Erza, who are these people?" Lucy asked, confused and angry but not at her, at the people who tied her up.
"Erza you didn't tell your new friends about us." Sho said, feigning hurt while touching Lucy's face.
"You don't want to do that Sho. Lucy, these are my old friends Sho, Millianna, Wally and Simon." I said as tears threatened to fall.
"Sorry Erza, but this is for the best." Wally said, then everything went dark.
Gray's P.O.V. (a few moments earlier)
As I entered the casino I went straight to the slot machines while Natsu, Happy and Stella played a casino version of bingo.
"Come on seventeen, we want you seventeen." Natsu yelled.
"He is right come on lucky seventeen." Happy soon followed.
"You boys are so loud the whole casino can hear you two." Stella scolded them.
"Natsu and Happy can be utter idiots." I said out loud to myself.
"Juvia agrees with Gray-sama." Someone said behind me.
I turned around and saw that Phantom girl I fought, she looked really sorry for what she had done and I saw the Fairy Tail insignia on a button on her jacket. We walked over to the bar and talked.
"I heard Phantom was disbanded." I said cautiously in case I was stepping on thin ice.
"Yes it was and Juvia is an independent mage again. Juvia was thinking of joining another guild and hoping Fairy Tail will accept Juvia." Juvia said sincerely.
"I am sure master will accept you, he accepts everyone." I answered.
Her eyes lit up and I smiled, I felt a warm sensation in my chest dismissing it immediately, then I felt someone behind me.
"Where is Erza Scarlet?" The big man asked.
"Why, who is asking." I said, ready to attack.
"None of your business, where is Erza Scarlet?" He asked again.
"I want to know why you are after someone who is like an older sister to me, so back down before this gets ugly." I answered him, very angry.
"Have you found her, good." He spoke to himself, must be telepathy.
"Who have you got?" I asked, starting to get pissed.
"Instant Darkness." He chanted and all the lights went out as Juvia tried to protect me.
When they turned back on, they had found Erza and somehow tied Lucy up.
Natsu's P.O.V
This block head guy walked up to me, Happy and Stella and pointed a gun at us.
"Where is Erza?" He asked.
"I would rather burn in hell than tell you." Stella shouted, but before she could transform he knocked her and Happy out.
"You just messed with my and my girlfriend's exceed prepare to die." After I said that, the light turned off and the guy shot me in the mouth.
Lucy's P.O.V.
"When I get out of these ropes and I will, you are going to pay big time." I yelled as they walk off with Happy and Stella they are dead meat for taking our exceeds.
As they teleported out of the casino, I felt something sharp poke my arm. It felt like the tip of a knife.
"Who poked me?" I asked.
"Sorry did you feel that, I am trying to get out." A man said.
If objects in the cards can affect the outside that means he might be able to cut the rope.
"Hey can you use your knife to cut the rope." I asked nicely.
"Sure." Was all he said as he began to cut the rope it worked.
"Thanks a lot for that." I told him.
"Can you free us?" He asked as other people cheered and agreed with him.
"Sure." I said as I focus on the spell and my hands glow a light gold. I waved them over the cards and they turned back into people.
"Thanks, are you a mage?"
"Yes I am a mage, a celestial dragon slayer in fact I'm from Fairy Tail and it would be wise to go home." I told them as they thanked me and left.
"Gray and person who is protecting him get out now we need to find Natsu." I yelled, knowing the Gray in front of me is just a mere ice decoy.
"I told you she would guess it quick." Gray said to the long blue-haired girl.
"Do I know you...wait you were a part of Phantom Lord." I stated.
"Yes Juvia was a part of Phantom Lord and is very sorry for what she did to you and everyone in Fairy Tail." Juvia said, apologizing.
"Don't be I forgive you, I could see in your eyes that you were unsure about doing that I knew you walked past me on purpose before Sol appeared." I explained kindly.
"Can I ask where flame brain is." Gray asked, smirking.
"3, 2, 1..." I smirked and a pillar of fire burst through the bingo game.
"Where is that blocky freak I am going to kill him!" Natsu yelled.
"I knew as soon as you called him that, he would wake up and you did nicely." I said to Gray, fist bumping him.
"Love rival." Juvia said darkly.
"Hell no I am dating Natsu, Gray is like the big brother I never had." I explained, punching Gray's shoulder.
"Yep, and that hurt Lucy." Gray moaned.
"Natsu nose time, we need to find Erza and our cats." I said with a serious expression.
"Come on Juvia follow the dragon slayer's nose and only trust Lucy's it is better."
"Heard that." Natsu and I said in unison, that made us both blush.
"Juvia thinks Lucy is telling the truth about her and Natsu." I heard Juvia mutter.
Let's find Erza.