The atmosphere in the room was quiet for such rowdy team members. Now that they had found out what exactly had happened to their comrades, they were working even harder to figure out how to save them. However, unlike Erza, Loke, and Edo-Lucy who were discussing their next course of action, Lucy merely napped, while Wendy laid against Lucy's slumbering body in thought. Natsu was busy glaring at the wall to notice that Charle, had at least taken the liberty of sketching plans of the city layout she could recall from her memories.
"UH! I've had enough of this waiting around! Natsu growled suddenly. "We're getting into that castle!"
"Chillax Nats, we don't even got a plan for what to do when we get inside", Lucy yawned.
"The buffoon is right for once", Charle told him. "Before you go charging in, you need a good plan first. After all, we don't even know how to return them to their original forms yet either."
"Eh, whaddya mean for once? I got good plans all the time" Lucy mumbled, insulted they didn't consider her plans from previous missions as good.
"Din't complain when I saved your butts all those times when we were together" Lucy mumbled.
"But they're all trapped in that crystal, right? How do we help them if we can't reverse it?" Wendy asked aloud, ignoring Lucy's complaints.
"We break the crystal! Luce always said if you can't fix it, break it!" Lucy unhelpfully supplied.
"Dear Mavis, shut up" Erza sighed.
"Only for you mate" Lucy winked.
Getting back on topic, Erza and the others went back to coming up with ways to try and break their friends out of the lacrima.
Natsu frowned in thought. "There's only one person in the whole kingdom who knows the answer to how we break our friends out, and I don't think the dude is just gonna reveal it to us even if we ask nicely."
"Eh? You talking about the king?" Lucy spoke up suddenly. "We don't needa actually talk to that bastard since I'm here."
Natsu, for once, was confused by what his partner meant. How were they supposed to save their friends from that giant Lacrima without talking to the king? Their guildmates were doomed if they didn't find a way to release them from the lacrima soon.
"Dumb demon, how are we going to free our guild mates if we don't speak to that lunatic king?" Erza groaned.
"Yeah Luce, pretty sure the king is the only way we're breaking out Fairy Tail" Natsu explained.
Lucy smirked at her mate and best friend, while waving her keys. "Did ya guys forget bout my friends?"
Natsu and the others continued to stare at Lucy confused, they didn't forget about her keys, they just had no idea what good they would be in this situation.
"Luuuuce, come on, just tell us why we don't gotta question the king?!" Natsu yelled impatiently.
"Tch, you guys don't listen when I explain my spirits powers huh?" Lucy sighed.
"Not really" Happy chuckled.
"I'll eat you" Lucy growled.
"Eeep!"
"Look, we don't gotta worry because I got Gemini. Not only do the little rascals copy their target's a-peer-ance, but they copy the stuff in that person's head." Lucy said happily. "They'll learn how to bring everyone back, no problem!"
"You make it sound so simple, the only problem with that though is getting close to the king." Edo-Lucy sighed. "There's gonna be a lot of guards in the way."
"There is a way to get near him." Charle said as she held up her drawing, showing them a hidden passage into the castle. "This tunnel was intended to be an escape route out of the castle. It should connect with the castle's basement."
"That's amazing!" Wendy exclaimed. "How did you know that?"
Lucy stared at the white cat, skeptical of the information they were just given. "Yeah...how did you know that?"
"Fragments of it has been resurfacing in my consciousness. Also, since coming to Edolas, I've been given flashes of information about the geography of the area" Charle sighed, knowing how suspicious her actions seemed.
It was at that moment Natsu felt a chill run down his back, it seemed quite convenient that Charle would suddenly receive all this information right when they needed it. However, the thought of him being even a smidge closer to being reunited with his friends made him completely drop all suspicion on Charle, and the fact it may all be a trap. Of course, had Natsu taken a moment to see how his partner was feeling, he would've seen that Lucy felt the opposite of him and was not dropping her guard around Charle. In fact, she was planning on keeping a closer eye on the white cat.
"What a drag" Lucy yawned, "This is totally gonna be harder than that dumb cat says it'll be" Lucy mumbled.
"Ya think brat?" Aquarius sighed.
"Oh yeah, this is sooo a trap" Loke agreed.
"Then why am I following the crummy cats plan?" Lucy asked.
"You need to get into the castle, Lucy-sama." Capricorn explained.
"Nah, cause if this is a trap-" Lucy sighed, "Doesn't matter whether we get in the castle or not because they'll probs just turn the rest of us into lacrimas too."
"Hmm, you have a point. Then do you have another plan, Lucy-sama." Capricorn asked.
"Yeah, but I actually gotta do work for it to go good" Lucy whined.
"Shut up and get to saving your friends already!" Aquarius shouted.
"What a drag" Lucy yawned.
Natsu sighed. "Are we almost there yet Charle?"
"For the nth time it's just a little further and we'll be there." Charle hissed.
Happy groaned at Charles' words. "You said that two hours ago!"
Charle ignored the blue cats' words and looked around the tunnel they were in.
"It's here." She announced, motioning to a sealed-off passageway.
Erza nodded, swinging her sword down and breaking the barrier.
"Wow, Charle!" Wendy grinned. "There really is a path here!"
"Let's just hope it leads to the basement." Charle muttered.
Despite following the cats' orders, Erza couldn't help but shake the feeling something was about to go horribly wrong as she walked deeper into the underground tunnel. Thankfully, they at least had the dumb demon with them for extra protection.
Little did they know it was really Gemi-Lucy who was now with them for extra protection. Not as though it was much of a difference, but the real Lucy had decided to run off and form her own plan.
Natsu knew that if his best friend and Erza were with the group, they could withstand anything, however that was no longer the case with Lucy deciding to run off on her own. Unbeknownst to everyone else, Natsu was the only one to have noticed Lucy had run off on her own. She, too, had a hunch this was all a trap and instead of them all getting captured she wanted to have a backup plan if that was the case. Natsu was a little hurt he wasn't involved in her plan but then again, he trusted Lucy to come back to them if anything got too out of hand.
Well at least if this is a trap, they had Gemi-Lucy to protect them.
Wanting to get his mind off the worst-case scenario he turned to his little buddy, who also looked deep in thought right then.
"Hey bud! What's wrong?" Natsu asked.
"Well, it's just I can't help but find it a little weird that Charle is the only one who has all these memories of Edolas" Happy mused. "We're the same type of cat species thingy right? And it seems like we were both sent to Earthland with the same mission, so why is it Charle is the only one who knows about all this underground stuff?"
Natsu had to agree, it did seem kinda fishy the white cat had all this knowledge while Happy knew nothing.
Charle scowled. "Didn't you promise not to bring that up again?"
"Aye..."
"Oi, cat! The fuzz ball has a point though" Edo-Lucy retorted; eyebrow raised in suspicion.
"Piri-piri, Whys' it seems like you're hidin' something big from us? Swear to Lucy, if you're leading princess's friends to a trap we promise to skin you and turn you into a nice lil' coat for Wendy, ya dumb cat." Gemi-Lucy smirked.
"Luc-wait what did you just say?" Wendy asked, confused, more than usual, by what her idol had just said.
The others, while also disturbed by their friends' threat, were also more confused by the way it was phrased, they immediately knew something was up when Lucy looked away whistling. The dumb demon admitted to not knowing how to whistle when they first met.
"Ge-Gemi-Lucy?" Erza asked.
"…Piri-piri?"
"That dumb demon!" Erza growled." Of all the times she decides to run off on her own she chooses now!"
"Oh relax, we got her spirit right, and it's the copycat one, so what's the difference if she left? I'm sure it was for good reason" Edo-Lucy drawled.
"Besides I gotta agree with my blonde compatriot, I ain't gonna be so happy if this is turning into a trap."
Charle couldn't help but sigh. "Look, even I'm not too sure as to why only I am remembering all this information, but I am. Perhaps something is just stopping you from remembering." Charle told him. "Can we just drop this and get moving."
Not at all satisfied by her answer, the group begrudgingly continued with their journey.
"Fine" Natsu grumbled.
"I guess" Edo-Lucy replied.
"I'm so going to kill Lucy when I find her." Erza growled.
Elsewhere
"Brr, dang Loke, I just got a shiver down my spine. Wonder waz that's bout" Lucy wondered.
Loke ruffled his master's hair fondly, "Who knows, Princess".
Loke knew why, he just didn't feel like telling his princess.
As they ventured further into the tunnel, they began noticing how old it looked.
"Whoa, this place looks like it could collapse at any moment!" Natsu observed.
"This is a really old tunnel." Wendy agreed.
"I wonder if there are any monsters here." Happy mused.
"I don't believe so; this tunnel actually looks deserted" Erza answered.
Edo-lucy looked to the small cat, rubbing her chin in thought. "I don't think there are monsters, but we shouldn't rule out other things" she mumbled, only loud enough for Gemi-Lucy to hear.
"Piri-piri, what do ya mean other Lucy?" Gemi-Lucy asked.
"I mean, this cat having all this knowledge about this underground tunnel is way too good to be true. No matter what we or anyone else thinks, at the end of this tunnel is most definitely a trap waiting for us."
Gemi-Lucy watched as Charle concentrated on their path, their master had already explained to them that she thought this was all a trap, their other self-had just reinforced the fact that at the end of this tunnel fighting would occur. There was no way the she-cat would remember all this information randomly. It came back to her for a reason and that reason was as obvious as Luce was a demon.
They were all walking into a trap.
They rounded another bend and their eyes widened at the large cavern spreading before them.
"Woah!" Natsu gasped. "We ended up in a really big place!"
"Looks like this tunnel really does connect to the palace." Charle observed.
Happy was in awe. "I'm not sure how you know all this, but you were a big help, Charle!"
"I don't know either." Charle scowled. "Information just comes to me piece by piece."
Gemi-Lucy and Edo-Lucy stared at eachother, frowning. After their talk they knew this was all a ploy to get them down here.
"Thank you, Charle, we appreciate this very much" Wendy thanked, grateful for the help from her usually grumpy cat.
"We mustn't let our guard down so easily just because we've made it this far. It's only going to get harder from here." Erza cautioned. "We're going to have to enter and leave the king's chambers without getting noticed. We don't want to get discovered by the soldiers, lest we wish to delay our plan of saving our guild mates."
"Hey! Remember what you promised bout keeping Knightwalker away from me when we fight. I ain't having no crazy woman after me." Edo-lucy shivered.
Gemi-Lucy tapped their chin in thought, "Interesting, from what we've gathered of princess's thoughts, it seems in her opinion you're crazy for rejecting a hot knight who is throwing herself at you. In the words of princess, "Have you seen her naked? 10/10 would bang".
Edo-Lucy tsked, "Dude, chick's crazy with a capital K, ain't no way I'm letting her in my pants".
"Crazy starts with a C." Wendy corrected.
Edo Lucy turned to mini-Wendy, a confused look on her face. "No shit? Well, both ways Knightwalker is bat shit crazy and I ain't screwing her."
Gemi-Lucy stared at their counterpart before speaking. "Your lost. According to our master her boobies are-"
"STOP RIGHT THERE!" A familiar voice ordered, interrupting Gemi-Lucy.
"Who's that?" Natsu asked.
"It's her" Edo-Lucy whispered, scared.
Moments later hundreds of soldiers barged into the tunnel where the fairy tail members were.
"Woah, what the hell just happened?" Natsu asked. "I thought we were in the clear!"
"It's like we said, Dumb cat led us into a trap, princess is going to be very disappointed" Gemi-Lucy sighed.
Natsu and the others turned to Charle who, at least had the decency to look ashamed of herself for leading them into this trap. Their faces then changed to horror when they saw Gemi-Lucy holding Charle in its hand by her neck.
"Gemini!" Wendy cried, "What are you doing?"
"Ridding us of a traitor."
Happy paled in fear, looking around frantically at the large amounts of armored men that came out of nowhere and at Gemini who was about to kill his almost girlfriend. Everything was happening to fast for him. "I can't believe all these soldiers are here. How could you do this Charle!"
"Didn't...mean...too" Charle rasped, barely able to breath while in the clutches of the angry spirit.
I'm going to die, Charle thought.
"Idiots! We're in the middle of something!" Erza yelled, trying to stop Lucy's copy spirit from killing Charle, no matter how much she wanted to hurt the cat for betraying them.
"So, these are the other magic users from Earthland." Edo-Erza mused, stepping into view. "You look exactly like the other one, Natsu Dragion" Edo-Erza, observed.
"Really, I feel like I look hotter" Natsu bragged.
"Piri, piri you look the same to Lucy" Gemini giggled.
"What! Seriously I thought my partner would at least notice a difference between me and- "
"Shut up already!" Edo-Erza shouted.
"Jeez fine cranky" Natsu grumbled.
"That's better. Now, I finally found my Lucy." Edo-Erza sighed dreamily, watching the Earthland Gemi-Lucy begin to sweat at the sight of her mate's evil but extremely hot and seductive counterpart.
Before she could say anything Edo-Lucy stepped up to Knightwalker in defiance of her capturing.
"Hell nah! I don't want anything to do with you!" Edo-Lucy yelled."
"I wasn't talking to you!" Edo-Erza snapped. "I'm talking about the better-looking Lucy."
Edo-Lucy was taken aback by the fact she was being called the ugly Lucy.
"Piri, piri. Princess was right, you are crazy. You have an insanely hot chick throwing herself at you and you're throwing the chance at getting with her away? You truly are crazy" Gemi-Lucy confessed.
"Man, you're the crazy one! She's a freakin lunatic who's probably like into S&M by the way she dresses, and I ain't into that stuff." Edo-Lucy explained.
"Piri, piri you're probably into cheesy vanilla stuff huh." Gemi-Lucy giggled, ignoring the unsure looks from everyone on what to do while these two were fighting.
Erza Knightwalker on the other hand couldn't help but admire how strong and rugged her new lucy looked, she was going to claim her by the end of this fight. That is until she heard something her old Lucy said that had caught her attention.
"Hold on now, what's wrong with being into bdsm?" Edo-Erza thought.
"Ain't nothing wrong with liking it vanilla style! Besides if you think she's so hot then you get with her!" Edo-lucy yelled back.
"Sorry, but we can't, princess already has a crazy Erza" Gemi-Lucy argued, "She's spoken for see."
It was in that moment that everyone's danger senses went off in the cave. A dangerous presence had begun to surround them, slowly suffocating them by their overpowering presence.
"Did you just call ME a crazy Erza, dumb demon?" Erza chuckled darkly.
"And I oop" Gemi-Lucy giggled.
"Hmm, so you're the discount version of me" Edo-Erza scoffed, interrupting Erza about to stomp Gemi-Lucy. "I'm not that impressed."
"WHA-if anything YOU are the discount version of me, whore!" Erza yelled, momentarily forgetting about Gemi-Lucy's comment about her being crazy.
"Who are you calling a whore, slut!" Edo-Erza growled.
"You, miss barely even concealing her breast! No wonder Edo-Lucy doesn't want you; she already sees what you're offering which isn't much." Erza scoffed.
"How dare you! I have a lot to offer" Edo-Erza argued, shoving her chest out to display all that she had, which was, in Edo-Lucy's and Gemi-Lucy's opinion, quite a lot.
"I doubt that, seeing as you allow everyone to basically see you naked." Erza snickered.
"I mean, she's def packing if you know what I mean, she's just crazy as fuck" Edo-Lucy whispered to her spirits counterpart.
"Oh yeah, I get yah, ten outta ten princess would bang, piri piri" Gemi-Lucy whispered back, while discreetly fist bumping Edo-Lucy.
"For sure" Edo-Lucy replied.
"Cahnt brea-th" Charle gasped.
"Shut up" Edo-Lucy and Gemi-Lucy said simultaneously.
Meanwhile with Lucy and Loke a little way outside of the Kings Castle
"And so, I said, Wanna bang? And they were like okay! But then I saw their friends and asked if we could invite them, and they were like heck yeah! So, then we ended up doing a foursome!"
Loke looked at his master in disbelief, he didn't even know she knew what a foursome was. "I... I thought you didn't have that much human contact before Fairy Tail?"
"Hmm, banging wise yeah I had plenty of that, but like communication and friends wise, I hardly had any."
Loke stared at his master dumbfounded. "What?"
"Oh, look a bunch of guards surrounding the entrance to the castle Loke! We finally get to fight people" Lucy declared happily.
Loke sighed, "Only you would be happy about this princess".
"I've had enough of this. guards! Take discount Erza and her friends and prepare her for the king."
All at once the hundreds of soldiers that had flooded the underground tunnel began their advance.
"Ha as if we'd just let you take us without a fight!" Natsu declared. "Right Gemini."
"Piri, piri sorry but Princess said we'd be fighting strong people, but we've judged the power levels of everyone in this room and no one has our interest, so we'll be leaving."
"Uh...are you serious?" Erza asked.
"No, piri piri" Gemi-Lucy giggled. "But that woulda been funny huh."
"NOT AT ALL!" The four Fairy Tail members yelled.
"Piri, piri says you" Gemi-Lucy pouted. "Oh wells, not everyone has princess's humor."
"Not everyone is suicidal" Erza grunted, slicing down a soldier who went to attack her.
"Ready everyone, and FIRE DEMONS' WRATH!"
In seconds the underground tunnel was engulfed in flames, screams of agony were heard by the unfortunate souls who hadn't taken cover by the surprise attack.
"A LITTLE WARNING NEXT TIME GEMINI!" Erza wheezed barely jumping out of the way of the scorching flames, along with Wendy in her arms.
"We did. We said, "ready everyone" What more did you want?" Gemi-Lucy asked.
"A head start, you almost took out Happy and I!" Natsu laughed.
"Oh, sorry Natsu. Anyways, what's next cause this fight was boring, piri, piri" Gemi-Lucy whined.
"We need to get out of this tunnel before anymore soldiers come back" Erza warned. "Just because you rid of these ones and Knightwalker doesn't mean she doesn't have any on standby."
"Ughh, so laaaame, piri, piri. We wanna fight stronger people" Gemini whined.
"What in the hell just happened?" Edo-Lucy asked looking around at the devastation before her.
"Lucy's spirit happened" Happy whispered.
"Charle!" Wendy wailed, unable to find the white cat.
"I'm right here, Gemini tossed me away before it attacked" Charle said while rubbing her neck.
"Piri, piri, you deserved it" Gemini yawned.
"What amazing power you have; my future girlfriend is truly the one for me" Edo-Erza coughed as she dug her way out from the rubble she was buried under.
The others couldn't stop their jaw from dropping at the sight of the fairy hunter casually appearing after being buried underneath rocks.
"She's a damn monster" Edo-Lucy whispered.
"Piri, piri…she survived our blast? That means she's strong… We wanna fight her!" Gemi-Lucy cheered.
"Can you be serious?!" Erza yelled.
"We could leave" Gemini said.
"Please don't" Wendy requested politely.
"Piri piri, we'll stay but only because princess said to listen to everything lil dragon says" Gemini saluted.
"Wha, why not me too?" Erza asked, surprised her so called mate would not tell her spirits to listen to her.
"…Anyways, let's fight sexy Erza!" Gemini cheered.
"You didn't answer my question!" Erza yelled.
"Very well, I suppose it's a good thing I had back up soldiers waiting outside" Edo-Erza smirked, ignoring the two
"You what?" Natsu yelled.
"GUARDS!" Within seconds over a thousand soldiers were rushing in as well as what seemed to be two mages who had some sort of unique magic that liquified the ground and caused everything around them to attack.
"Hughes, Sugar boy capture those four immediately." Knightwalker ordered.
"No problem captain!" Hughes replied.
"Piece of cake" Sugar boy says.
"Piri, piri, I wanna fight sexy Erza so outta my way!" Gemi-Lucy yelled, alighting her entire body on fire as she stared at both newly introduced mages.
"Eh?"
"Well, I'll be Luce, Loke this is one helluva fight!" Lucy laughed, dodging the weird cat looking soldier's spear jab. "Too bad this ain't as fun ass the scarlet haired chick in Alvarez, she was tricky as hell! Ey, Aquarius."
"Tch, that chick was a monster an also a fashion disaster." Aquarius answered as she washed away the oncoming soldiers.
"Really, I thought it was kinda hot" Lucy whispered under her breath.
"Yeah, yeah of course you did, look will you stop playing with the cat so we can move on" Aquarius sighed.
"Hmm, five more minutes." Lucy smiled.
"Fine" Aquarius said rolling her eyes at the idiotic blonde.
"Damn it! How was Knightwalker able to catch this woman?" Panther lily growled, trying, and failing to stab Lucy for the tenth time. He only grew more frustrated while fighting once he heard he was just being played with.
"She had boobies" Lucy smirked.
"What?!" Panther Lily shouter appalled at the blonde's answer.
"Layla, grant me strength not to kill your daughter" Aquarius prayed on the side, while still washing away numerous soldiers.
authors note: hopefully this chapter satisfies everyone who wanted another chapter. I tried my best to edit it and make it as interesting as I could hopefully you guys like it. Please feel free to leave comments and likes. Until the next update
