Cana felt the fear in her mind melt and she stood there, eyes fixated on Cristoff, who was so close to her, Cana could smell his cologne. She tried not to be obvious when she took a whiff of his fragrance and bit her lips at the sudden emotions that filled her.

Her mind was clogged and all she could look at was this handsome hulk who was so close his nose touched hers. She could feel the heat radiate off his body, the rumble of his growls went through her as he placed his hand on his cheek and she felt her breath being sucked out off her lungs as the feeling of warmth flooded her.

But the beautiful moment was short-lived when he used his hand that was grabbing her cheek to turn her head away and a snarl and godly roar ripped off him and his white eyes turned black, the scales on his body that were noticeable became prominent and he suddenly stood to his full height, canine baring and looking every part of the beast that was out for blood.

"Who?" was all he spat and Cana was too mesmerized and in fear to speak. She opened her mouth but no word came out.

Cristoff, his name was Cristoff. She thought. And suddenly reality dawned on her and she stagged, her back hitting Laxus which caused her to hiss out of pain, something she should not have done.

"Laxus get her out of here." she heard and her breath was coming out to fast to realize what was happening, all knows is, she saw his eyes which looked in pain, in anger, in desire. For her.

Cristoff lunged forward when Laxus put his hand on his mate and he roared in anger, his beast taking over when his hazy eyes met Kaleb's.

"Contol your dragon Cristoff. Your mate needs your help and you need to calm down to help her." Kaleb spoke slowly as he walked towards him and put his hand on his cheek. "Come to your senses brother," he mumbled and the angry, raging dragon in him suddenly became quiet but the pain, oh the pain he felt when he saw her leave right in front of his eyes, the anger that was coursing through him when he saw the wounds, the handprint on her neck, he saw red.

He didn't even know his mate but all he wanted to do was hunt that bastard down who hurt her, tear them limb by limb.

Angry snarls still rumbled out of him and he felt a much smaller hand on his cheek and looked to see Lucy in front of him with a concerned expression on her face.

"Cana needs help, Cris. Cana needs you right now and if you don't control yourself right now, she will be in pain longer."

Cana, her name was Cana. He thought and then he stopped still. His mate was hurting, he needs to heal her, heal her pain before he puts someone else in that pain. He growled again, this time softly and steps back.

His vision becomes clear and he sees the surprise and stunned faces near him and then looks at Lucy and Kaleb who were both looking at him with concern.

"Where is she?" Cristoff asked and Lucy took his hand and pulled him with her. They walked to her apartment, and once outside her door, he took a good whiff and his dragon purred inside him. She smelled edible. It was something he could not describe, cognacs and amber were what came to his mind and he felt intoxicated.

Cana on the other hand was having a mini freak out. She was hyperventilating in Lucy's apartment and Laxus tried to calm her down but nothing was helping at this moment.

She, Cana, was mates with a handsome man, who happened to be a very strong mage from a very strong family. He did not deserve someone like her.

Who...who spent her evenings drinking her loveliness away and having sex to get that physical attention she craved for. She who came with no accomplishments, no family and just burden and Cana suddenly felt it was too much.

She was not deserving of this man but Gods, her heart ached at the mere thought of him not liking her and she hated it. she didn't even know him.

"He's here." Laxus whispers and Cana suddenly felt like she needed to might save the mn heartbreak if she left now.

Her eyes went to the door as it opened and once again, her eyes went straight towards his and she felt herself become breathless looking at him because Gods he was beautiful. His blue eyes, his broad shoulders, his black silky hair and all she wanted to do was grab him and ride him until her insides melted.

She saw him take a deep breath and walk towards her slowly. Cana was sitting on Lucy's couch and Cristoff kneeled on the floor in front of her and smiled nervously and she could not help but think how cute he looked. The door closed and the only people in the room were Ever, Lucy Kaleb, and Cristoff, and Lucy stood behind Cana.

"Let him look at your injuries." She coxed her softly but Cana noticed the way his hands were closed in a fist and how he tried to seem like he was okay. She felt this connection with him, like she knew him, understood him and when Lucy prompted again, Cana grabbed the shirt and pulled it over her head, letting her hair cover her eyes, fear, and shame swimming in them.

She was a mage, and she was weak she could not stop Bacchus. She felt violated, broken and tears pooled in her eyes when she remembered what happened.

DISCLAIMER: SEXUAL ASSAULT AND VIOLENCE SCENE AHEAD

It was a normal day at her apartment, where she took solitude away from her "boyfriend" and was relaxing in her bed after nursing the bruises on her arm and stomach.

Bacchus lost a bet yesterday at the guild and lost his temper when he came over. With a sigh, she flopped backward and numbness fell over her. She had wanted to go with Gildarts, She wanted to stay with him, get to know him, maybe form a father-daughter relationship with him but he left her.

He left her after he promised he would be there for her. He left her in those ruins, broken and alone and Cana felt like a child again, running and running to catch him and she was tired.

She was tired of watching people fall in love, tired of people assuming the worst of her character because she drank and liked to have sex, she was tired of being labeled bad influences, tired of feeling worthless. Her dream to have a happy family seemed like a joke now and she felt bitterness build inside her. At this point, sitting in this shitty apartment when her friends were getting their lives together, she was being treated as a punching bag by a person she always considered more than a friend.

Her thought process broke when she heard loud banging at her door and her heartbeat speeds up. Fear crept in every cell of her body when she heard his slurring voice."Cana baby...open up the door." Others would assume he was just a drunk boyfriend coming home but Cana heard it, the rage in his voice and she tried to think and out of this situation. Maybe she could run away, maybe she could...could do something.

Bacchus kept banging at the door, his hits became impatient and Cana stood up from ber bed shaking, disgusted by her self that she let herself become so weak. She walked to the door and opened it, slowly and peeked out. Bacchus was leaning against the frame and grinning down at her with malice. He forced his way in the apartment and locked the door behind him, proceeding to walk on unsteady feet towards the couch.

Her stomach dropped when he pulled his belt out and opened his pants, letting his member out and pointed at the ground like she was a dog. "Hurry up. I have a mission after this." He growled and Cana walked towards him, her body shivered like a leaf when he pushed her down on the ground and forced the dick on her face. The pungent smell repulsed her and her muscles stiffened when his hand grabbed her cheeks and forced her to open her mouth before ramming his dick inside her mouth with a groan.

Bacchus grabbed her hair and forced her to move her head and Cana had no options but to suck and swirl her tongue around, knowing if she didn't, it would be more bruises. She peeked at him and her stomach lurched looked at the pleasure on his face. Suddenly he forced her backward and stood up before grabbing her hair and thrust his cock inside her mouth once again, fucking her warm hole, grunting and groaning as his balls slapped her face.

He pulled her hair and forced her to stand up, hands roughly pushing her on the couch and forcibly pulled her shorts down and slapped her ass, hard, using his magic and Cana cried out in pain, tears in her eyes she choked back a sob when he struck her again before taking his dick in his hand and sliding inside her.

He bucked his hips, thrusting and panting in pleasures, the grip on her hips was bruising but Bacchus enjoyed it. He enjoyed her pain and picked up his belt from beside her and despite her desperate please and stuck her back with force enough to draw blood and moaning as he forced her hips to reach deeper inside her. Cana has no idea until how long he fucked her and hit her and at that moment all she wanted was to stop breathing, to stop existing, and maybe Gods heard her because suddenly Bacchus forced her on her bleeding back making her cry out of burning pain and slide inside her again.

He smiled at her, with evil in his eyes and grabbed her breast, and palmed them roughly before tearing the top off of her body and smiled at the bruises that litter her skin and then picked up his belt again. His thurst picked up the pace and he grunted and moaned before striking her chest and moaning when she cried out. Then struck her again and again until she started sobbing and clawing his chest.

"Shut up." he spat out in anger and grabbed her neck, squeezing and moaning as he continued to fuck her.

Cana remembers little after that, just his face when he emptied inside her before she passed out but when she got up she had more injuries on her body, semen all over her face and body and blood on her legs, her stomach and she broke down.

She layed on the floor, crying her heart out in pain and in disbelief. When she cried her eyes out she managed to get up, wanting to clean herself up and took a bath, the water stinging ever cut on her body and every injured but even after she bandaged herself she wondered how she will bandage her broken heart.

Eventually, she realized she had to leave quickly and packed a small bag and went to the one person who would help her. She traveled to where she knew Lucy was and even after everything she did not have to courage to share with her friend what happened with her.

So when his hand touched her cheek, Cana realized tears were streaming down her face and she looked up, into his eyes and wondered, why he deserved a woman like her. Her heart broke, even more, when all she saw was concern and pain on his face.

"Please my love, don't cry," he whispered and that made more tears leak, which Cristoff was quick to wipe.

He looked at her, at the pain in her eyes, and his heart broke. His little mate was hurting and he was unsure how to help her. His eyes sought to his older brother who had a stoic expression on his face. 'Kaleb...what do I...She is hurting Kaleb.' he felt like a child and Kaleb's expression melted and he calmed him down,

'Heal her first, brother. Help her first' Cris could only nod and laid his hand over her neck and slowly began to heal her, the coolness of his magic had her closing her eyes in relief. He moved slowly and healed her chest and stomach, her arms and leg and with each scratch, his anger grew and so did the pain in his chest, But the moment she turned around to show her back, Christoff whimpered as the pain struck his dragon, His own eyes burned with tears and fury and he gently healed her back, those scars, the smell of blood, the smell of her tears and Cristoff was on the edge.

It was when he healed the final wound when his tears fell from his eyes and when Cana turned to look at him. Her own eyes were red and all he wanted to do was kiss her, to kiss her pain away but he felt it would be too soon.

His cheek tingled when she moved to wipe his tears and he nuzzled into the touch. "Why are you crying?" she whispered and Cris looked at her and said, with regret and hurt in his voice.

"Who hurt you like that..." he started, vaguely aware of the door closing, "So beautiful..." he whispered and caressed her face, "I should have been there." He exclaimed, "To protect you. You are my mate and I should have been there." His voice showed the torture he was putting himself in and Cana felt choked up,

"Cristoff..." She began and heard him take a sharp intake of breath before he was eye level with her. "You are here now," she remembers saying before pulling him towards her, her lips on his and electricity went through them and suddenly, there was too much distance between them. Cris growled and picked her up gently even in the heat of the moment and sat down on the couch placing her on his lap.

He ran his hand all over her body and pulled her closer when she deepened the kiss, her tongue swirling around his and he growled, before pulling away, and both of them stared at each other, both of them wanted nothing but to continue bu Cristoff spoke first.

"I want nothing more than to mark you and make you mine for the rest of our lives, but you are healing and I don't want you to feel you had no say in this." he nuzzeled her cheek and Cana felt her inside turn into mush.

She really wanted nothing but to strip him down and let him take har but he was right. Cana did need time, She needed to figure herself out, to get to know him.

She placed a kiss on his cheek and whispered,

"Thank you. "

Inside Kaleb's office, the ex-Fairytail members stood with various expressions on their faces but Kaleb heard the same name.

Bacchus.

He has seen memories of how they destroyed people and guilds for messing with their own. One good thing out of all the bad ones was how they protected one another. There was this fighting spirit in all of them and he admired that.

"I realize that there is revenge in your mind at this moment but I cannot allow you to act on it. Not yet." Kaleb started and received angry and irritated looks from all of them.

"He hurt Cana, Kaleb, we can let that fucker be." Bickslow gritted out and everyone nodded, the anger in the room increased.

"I understand Bix, I do. I am not telling you to forget about it but you cannot act on it at this moment. You are new to this country and part of my guild now. If you are caught committing any crime in your country you won't be allowed back." Kaleb explained and understanding the resistance in their mind.

"Not only that, but you will also be under observation for a very long time remember that. You were in a war in Fiore and have changed countries, you must understand that the people in your country and councilmen will try to bring you back. They can't have powerhouses as you leave and there will be situations where they will leverage your birthplace to bring you back." He further added and Laxus growled.

But Lucy sighed and rubbed her forehead and said,

"Kaleb is right and Bacchus will know Cana is in Bosco because of the reporters, he will know that we will be out for him." she chewed her lips thinking and turned to look at Laxus.

"We don't have to go there and do the deed you know. We can sit here and play it out and lure him to us." her mind started forming a plan and Kaleb chuckled.

"Alright, enough for now." he gave them a look and all of them frowned at him but let it go for the moment. "You all may leave." He said and went sit on his chair and then smiled at Lucy, "Except you." Laxus threw him a look but the other three grinned and walked out, closing the door after themselves and Lucy looked at Kaleb, biting her lip with a smile and tried not to look flustered when Kaleb motioned her to come towards him with his finger.

Lucy walked towards him and giggled when he grabbed her hand and pulled her to sit on his lap, his arms around her waist, and with a smile leaned in to kiss her. Lucy presses herself closer to him and casually put her arms around his neck and returned his kiss. Kaleb smiled again and kissed her cheek, trailing his lips to her neck and barely kissing her making her squirm in his hold. Lucy whines and grab his hair and make him look at her 'Stop Teasing' she mentally growled and kissed him with a small moan and Kaleb let her lead. He ran his hands on her back lazily and groaned when Lucy bucked her hips on his very obvious hard-on.

"Lucy...Sunshine." he groaned when Lucy trailed her lips to his neck and sucked, surely leaving a mark and Kaleb bit his lip when she hummed, the vibration going straight to his groin. 'I stopped you for work, Love.' he prompted and heard her mentally groan. She pulled back, lips slightly red and hair messy, giving him a pouty look and Kaleb found it really hard to not let her have her way with him.

She got off his lap and he made a noise in protest but she walked and sat on the chair in front of him. 'No touching then.' She said and Kaleb sighed in disappointment. Tease.

"There are a few things I have to discuss with you. Firstly about the recent development, I would like that you go on group missions for a while." He spoke in a way like he was testing the waters and Lucy nodded her head, 'I get that. The reporters will be everywhere, and I have a feeling a lot of guilds will target me again.' She added nonchalantly and Kaleb tried not to show his worry thinking about people wanting to use her for God knows which evil ritual or plan of theirs.

"Thank you for understanding love."He smiled and then pulled out a file from his drawer and pushed it towards her and Lucy picked them up and started reading. "Your guild ranking is next weekend so we will be traveling to Academe Celestine." He smiled seeing her eyes brighten at the thought of going to going to her dream Academy and Lucy smiled brightly and asked.

"What is my evaluation process?" she placed the file in her lap and Kaleb casually shrugged his shoulders. "It's difficult to say, the academy has different ways of evaluation for different people. They might send you on a quest, they might take a stage process test, it totally depends on them." He explained and Lucy nodded her head.

Kaleb paused for a second before he looked at her and said with a smirk, "You will easily be SS rank mage though, since you are the Siderum Custos, of course."

Lucy's eyes widened and she stared at him in disbelief but then closed her eyes and thought, 'Stupid Mindbender, Stupid mind-reading ability!' Making Kaleb laugh and he smiled at her fondly.

"You opened your mind to me Sunshine, you let me in." He added with a smile and Lucy chewed her lips and sighed. "I know...It's just..." She looked at her lap and Kaleb waited for her to speak even though he knew what the trouble was.

"I still need to find the keys and my spirits keep telling me the answer is right in front of me but I just can't for the life of me figure it out." She huffed and then leaned back in her chair. Kaleb hummed and asked to satisfy his curiosity.

"Why can't you tell others about your abilities?" He leaned forward and Lucy smiled sadly at him,

"Because if the word got out a holder mage has the chance to become Caster mage and that the spirits have the ability to train their users, it will create chaos for the spirits." She began.

"It's not only the zodiac keys that have the power to help a mage, there are so many keys out there. Ancient keys like Palladium keys were the first in existence, even before the zodiac and they have always been powerful, but it's the spirit king who helps to grant this power. The abuse will keep hurting the spirits who have no power in this situation." She spoke, resentment, and anger in her voice, and Kaleb nodded.

"But the thing is, the word will get out." Lucy spoke and it pained her greatly, "People will notice a change in my magic but they will not understand how I did that. There will be questions, and greedy mages will do anything to find the answers and power."

"Don't worry about that love." Kaleb tried to soothe her, "We will handle things as they go."

They both went silent when suddenly thought, 'Will I have to change my bedsheets?' and Kaleb laughed out loud and shook his head. Before his mind went to what he heard go through Cana's mind.

He wondered if he should tell Lucy but he knew that this was Cana's private matter to handle, he was impressed by how strong that girl was, impressed she was handling herself so well but the pain, the wound was new, the feeling would cause damage if she didn't all about it.

He also wondered what would happen if the ex-fairies got to know the extent of the trauma. He hears their thoughts, he hears their demand for blood, for revenge for the hurt that excuse of a man put their friend through.

He heard the plan Lucy was still plotting against him and he, did not feel bad, for the pain they would put him through, he was just concerned they might not land themselves into trouble.

"Cristoff will not mate with her right now," Kaleb spoke and Lucy gave him a questioning look.

"He wants to, but he wants her to feel comfortable with him first. He does not want to make your friend think she has no say in their relationship." Kaleb said and Lucy smiled and nodded and then her eyes widened and she asked,

"Wait! if they mate, won't this be considered marriage, according to Bosco laws?" She looked giddy and Kaleb smiled at her, "Technically yes, but they will have to still get married to tradition," he grinned when Lucy clapped her hands and squealed happily.

"Oh, that is amazing!"

There was a knock on his door and Kaleb sighed and said "come in."

The door opened and a man with a silver hair entered the room and smiled at Kaleb coyly and purred, "You called for me, Master Kaleb?"

Lucy stared at the man, suddenly feeling very negative vibes come from him and closed her doors so Kaleb would not be able to hear her thoughts. Kaleb threw her a questioning look and she stood up, facing the new man who was looking at her with no expression on his face.

"Hestor, meet Lucy, she is the new celestial mage in our guild. Lucy, meet Hestor, a commendable guild member, he is also a celestial mage." Kaleb stood up and stood in between them and Lucy smiled at him, but Kaleb felt it was off like the smile was one she had on her face when she meant business.

"I have heard a lot about you...Ms. Heartfilia." Hestor spoke and Kaleb felt like he was in between a silent war.

Both the celestial mages started at each other, very obvious to the electricity crackling in the room.