Sup guys! Your chapter 8 is ready, hope you like it. Thanks to my readers who voted last time! I really appreciate it. Anyway.. I will announce the harem members later.. but for now read this one. Enjoy!

CHAPTER 8: A Submarine?

Erza Scarlet -Fairy tail's S-class requip mage- is standing with arms crossed while wearing her pink pajamas, and was looking sternly at Natsu's group.

Natsu looked at Erza nervously. Small sweats are starting to appear at the side of his head. He gulped and tried his best to greet the red head.

"h-hey Erza! Lovely night we're h-having.. right?"

Erza glared at him, that made the pyro to shut up and step back a little -fearing that he might have done something wrong again to pissed of the scary Titania-.

Erza then turned to the three girls. "it's almost midnight, what are you guys up to at this hour? And why are you discussing about a place that doesn't exist anymore?"

Laki stepped on front. "my father left Natsu a note this morning, saying that Natsu must go to Sandersonna. And I was planning to go with him and hoped that my father was there waiting for Natsu."

Erza closed her eyes. "I see." She then opened her eyes again and look at Laki with an apologetic expression. "I'm sorry but.. that cant be possible."

Laki widen her eyes a little. "w-what do you mean?"

Erza sighed and looked at the night sky. "finding the missing island of Sandersonna… was the first S-class mission that I failed to accomplished."

The four mages was shocked at the red head's statement. To think that even Erza -known as the most capable and strongest woman in Fairy tail- would fail on taking a job.

Lucy turned to Natsu. "Natsu.. what are we gonna do now?"

The pink haired pyro cant find a word to answer her blond celestial friend. He eyed the ground and clenched his fists. 'damn it! Now what? If even Erza cant find that place, then how am I gonna make a difference?' he looked at Laki and saw her downed face. 'there's gotta be another way!'

"wait!"

Natsu snapped out from his thoughts as Levy caught all of their attention.

"I think there's a possible way in finding Sandersonna." Levy said as she looked at the note.

Erza sighed at the bookworm's statement. "Levy.. Sandersonna has been missing for 37 years. A lot of S-class mages like me, failed in finding that place. Even the kingdom had already given up and stopped sending request about searching for that place and decided to just removed it from the map."

Levy looked at Erza. "I know but.." she showed her the translated paper. "this note was telling us a way of how we can get there."

Erza quickly took the note from Levy. Laki, Lucy, and Natsu perked up and dashed in front of the bookworm.

"really?!" they asked excitedly in unison.

"mm." Levy nods her head. Lucy and Laki tightly hugged the bookworm in joy, while Natsu patted her head from her back.

"good job Levy!" Natsu praised while grinning.

Levy blushed and smiled. "alright guys.. can you let go of me now?" She shyly asked. Lucy and Laki broke their hug to give her some space.

"ride the ocean star?" Erza suddenly asked as she examined the paper. She eyed Levy for confirmation. "is this the way that you were talking about?"

Levy nodded. "I don't know what that is but.. I think it was some sort of a vehicle that can transport us to Sandersonna."

Natsu's face became paled a little. "v-vehicle? You mean a t-transportation?"

Levy nodded again. "though we don't know yet, where we can find this ocean star.. but at least we got ourselves a little hope in finding Sandersonna, Right?"

"if it's a vehicle then it must be a boat right? Since Erza said that Sandersonna was an island." Lucy commented.

Erza sighed. "though I never heard about a boat that was named ocean star. A lot of people had already sailed the sea with their finest boats and expert navigators, just so they can find that island. But they still failed."

"how did the island disappeared in the first place anyway?" Laki asked.

"I don't know how. The report said that it just suddenly disappeared 3 decades ago but.. a lot of old folks says that Sandersonna was swallowed by the giant legendary sea monster called Rajan." Levy and Lucy gulped in fear at Erza's statement.

"but.. none of them had tried using the ocean star right? So there's still hope in finding Sandersonna." Said Laki, as she really wanted to go to Sandersonna for a chance of meeting her father.

"maybe your right.. but do you even know where you can find this boat called ocean star that you are speaking of?" Erza asked. Laki eyed the ground as she has no response to give for the red head's question.

Lucy sighed in disappointment. "this is so hard.."

Natsu saw how frustrated his friends are, so he came up with a decision. "alright.. how about we all go home for now and call it a night. Sound good?"

Levy nodded in agreement. "yeah, we can just think of a solution tomorrow."

Lucy stretched her arms. "I'm sure once we all had our sleep we could come up with something."

"since you are all done with your discussion, you two should come inside now so I can locked the door." Erza ordered before walking back to the dorm's building.

Levy and Laki nodded and turned to Natsu and Lucy.

"let's discuss about this again tomorrow." Natsu suggested.

The three girls agreed and waved each other good byes.

"good night Lu-chan! You too Natsu." Levy said before following Erza to the dorm.

"night Levy!" Lucy and Natsu waved back.

"I'll see you guys tomorrow then." Laki said her good bye to the two and was about to walk back but Natsu halted her.

"wait Laki!"

Laki turned around and saw Natsu looking at her seriously.

"we'll get there, I promise."

Laki smiled warmly at the pyro and just nods her head and walk back to the dorm.

"idiot" she smilingly muttered.

As they were gone. Natsu heard someone calling him from a distance.

"Natshuuuuuu!"

The blond and the pyro looked back and saw Happy approaching them. The blue exceed flew down at Natsu's head.

"what's taking you so long Natshu? I've been waiting for you at the guild but you didn't come back for me."

Natsu looked up to his best friend. "sorry buddy! We'll go home now."

"aye!"

*stomach growl*

Natsu held his gut. "man.. I forgot that I haven't had dinner yet."

Lucy giggled at him. "how about we head home and eat at my apartment?" she advised.

Natsu and Happy looked at her with a shocking expression.

"what?" Lucy asked.

"you just invited us to your house.." Natsu answered.

"which never happened.." Happy added. The cat then suddenly gasped. "who are you?! And what have you done to our Lushy?!" he accusingly pointed his paw at the blond.

"I'm not an imposter you damned cat!" Lucy loudly retorted, She then saw Natsu looking at her suspiciously. Lucy quickly look to the side to avoid eye contact. "I'm just h-hungry also so… there's nothing wrong about that." She reasoned while blushing.

Natsu eyed Lucy. "you alright?"

"h-huh?"

Natsu pointed at her face. "your getting kinda red."

Lucy quickly placed her hands to cover her red cheeks. "a-am I? No I wasn't!."

Happy covered his mouth with his paw. "pfft! Tomato Lushy." Lucy glared at the cat to shut him up.

Natsu sighed. "alright that's enough.. let's just go home."

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~morning at the guild~

Natsu and Lucy was brainstorming at their table while Happy was just taking a nap without a care in the world.

"how about if we ask around to all the fisherman and ship owners on every port and piers." Lucy suggested.

Natsu shakes his head. "that would take us too much time cause we don't even know where is that island located to. Laki's dad would be long gone by the time we finished."

"guys!" Levy called them as she just got out of the Library room.

"Levy! You found something?"

Levy shakes her head. "I'm sorry Natsu.. but there's no book that could tell us about a boat named: ocean star."

Lucy sighed in disappointment. "why didn't Laki's dad wrote on his note about where we could get this ocean star thing?"

"I didn't found any information about ocean star but.." Levy showed them a book that has a page of an old map of Fiore. "I at least found us a map that can tell us where the previous location of Sandersonna is." Lucy took the book as she inspected it, while Natsu grinned at the bookworm.

"good work Levy!"

Levy smiled back at him. 'I don't know why but.. every time that I got praised by him, it makes me so happy.' She thought with pinkish cheeks.

"hmm.. so it was located 90 miles away from the port of Cedar town." Lucy said as she inspected the book.

Natsu stood up from his seat. "ok! We'll go to Cedar town and see if we could get any information that can help us."

Levy nods. "mm! I was about to suggest the same thing." She then looked around. "where's Laki?"

"she went out with Cana and Kinana. Since we are not going to Sandersonna today, she decided to continue her bar hunting plan instead." Lucy informed her bookworm friend.

"oh.. so she's not coming with us then."

"it's alright.. that's a good thing actually."

The two girls looked at Natsu confusingly. Natsu just grinned at them. "if we gather information in separate ways then our chance in finding Sandersonna will go high, right?"

Levy sat down in front of Natsu and rested her head on her right hand as she smilingly looked at him. Natsu got a little confused from the way she looked at him.

"um.. what's with that look Levy?"

"nothing.. its just that I'm not used to you, saying something smart." Levy playfully teased him.

Lucy giggled. "I know right? It's like the end is coming." The two book lovers laughed at their teasing remarks.

"hey! I'm right here you know. If your gonna-"

*hmp!*

"huh?" Natsu stopped his retort as He suddenly heard something.

"what's wrong?" Lucy asked.

Natsu looked around. "I just heard something, I think someone was watching us."

Levy gasped. "is it a threat?" she asked in a low tone.

Natsu stood up from his seat. "nah I don't think so." He walked towards the direction of a wooden post not too far from their table.

"I knew it, it's you." Natsu said as he looked at the back of the wooden post. Lucy and Levy got some curious look on their faces as they cant see who he was talking to.

"why are you hiding here? If you wanna join us then come to our table." Natsu said as he grabbed someone out from the wooden post.

Lucy and Levy widen their eyes a little as they saw who was the person that Natsu found behind the wooden post.

"Juvia?!" Lucy and Levy exclaimed in unison.

"Natsu-kun wait! Juvia was just-"

"I heard you.. and I know that you had something to say." Natsu interrupted her as he kept on dragging her to their table.

"hello Juvia." Levy greeted the rain woman.

"hi Juvia." Lucy waved at her.

Juvia bowed politely at them. "good morning Levy-san and love riva- Lucy-san."

Lucy deadpanned. "I'm gonna pretend that I didn't heard that."

"umm Juvia.. why are you watching us? If your looking for Gray then he's right over there." Levy asked before pointing at Gray who was sharing a table with Gajeel and Elfman from the far side of the guild.

Juvia lowered her head a little. "Juvia knows that."

Lucy blinked twice. "then do you need something from us?"

Juvia looked at Natsu who just turned his head in gesture for her to talk to them. Juvia blushed before looking back to Levy and Lucy.

"Juvia heard you talking about the ocean star."

Levy and Lucy immediately perked up from their seat. "you knew about it?!" they excitedly asked. Natsu just stared at them, waiting for Juvia to continue.

Juvia nods her head. "Juvia went on a mission before, and its about helping an inventor in fixing his invention which is named ocean star."

After hearing what she said, Lucy and Levy jumped in joy while hugging each other.

"yehey! Now we can go to Sandersonna!"

"your right Lu-chan! And we should tell Laki about this good news."

Juvia watched them in confusion for a moment, then Natsu appeared in front of her. Juvia instantly blushed as Natsu suddenly grabbed her by the waist to lift her up. "thank you Juvia!" Natsu loudly thanked her while twirling her around.

"N-N-N-Natsu-kun! P-Please put Juvia down!" the rain woman cried in embarrassment as her face was steaming red.

The four mages was so busy with their celebration that they forgot that their still in the middle of the guild hall.

The other members was observing them curiously.

"what's with them?" Macao asked.

"I don't know but.. looks like Natsu was having fun." Wakaba answered before blowing a smoke.

"looks like their having their own manly party in there." Elfman stated, he then look at his two companions. Gray and Gajeel was looking at Natsu with an irritated frown.

"ugh.. what's with that look? It's not manly." Elfman asked.

"tch! Shut up!" Gajeel grunted before looking away.

"hmp! You wont be saying that to us if it's your sisters were the ones that's in there." Gray irritatingly commented.

Elfman grew a thick mark at their response. "huh?!! You wanna fight you unmanly assholes!"

Gajeel and Gray stood up from their seats.

"bring it on big guy!" Gray taunted.

Gajeel cracked his knuckles. "since salamander was pissing me off! I think that I'll blow off some steam by beating the shit out of you two!"

"RAGHHHH!!! MAN!!!" Elfman roared before charging at the two.

The three brawled around the guild that got the attention of the other members that was looking at Natsu's group.

"now what happen to those three?" Macao asked but Wakaba just shrugged.

The guild doors suddenly opened as Erza enters the hall. Gray, Gajeel, and Elfman immediately stopped their fight and quickly dashed under the empty tables to hide themselves. Macao and Wakaba sweatdropped at their quick retreat.

Erza walked straight to Natsu's group. Levy quickly noticed as the red head was approaching them.

"good morning Erza."

Erza bowed a little to the bookworm. "good morning to you too Levy." She then turned her attention to Natsu and Juvia. "you two seemed so happy."

Natsu puts the blushing Juvia down and grinned at Erza. "guess what!" Erza raised him an eyebrow. "Juvia knows about the ocean star! So our plan in going to Sandersonna will start soon." Natsu declared.

Erza sighed. "your still going on about that I see."

"what's wrong Erza?" Lucy asked.

Erza looked at them seriously. "let's say that you had this special boat that you called ocean star. How do you plan on finding Sandersonna, when its not even at its location anymore."

Natsu crossed his arms and looked up. "hmm.. we'll get the ocean star first then we'll think about that later."

Erza face palmed. "Natsu.. that's not even a plan, what I'm saying is that-"

"don't worry Erza." Lucy interrupted the red head. "this will work out." She added with complete determination.

"Lu-chan's right! I also had a feeling that this would work itself out too." Levy agreed.

Erza looked at them for a moment then sighed in defeat. "fine.. do what you want." Lucy and Levy high fived each other. "however!" both mages looked at her. "I'm going along with you."

Natsu grinned. "that would be great! Since you already had some experience from searching that place, I'm sure that you can share some information with us."

Erza nodded her head. "fine, it's settled then. Now lets go get this ocean star boat."

Lucy, Levy, and Natsu raised their fists in the air. "YEAH!"

"umm.. Juvia would like to say something."

The four mages turned to her. "what is it Juvia?" Erza asked.

"well.. Juvia just wanted to say that ocean star wasn't a boat."

The four tilted their heads to the side. "huh?"

"it wasn't a boat?" Levy asked.

Juvia shakes her head. "it's a submarine."

Natsu's eyes widen. "A SUBMARINE?!" he asked so loud that shocked everyone. "what is that?" he followed an innocent question.

*THUD!*

Everyone comically fell on the ground.

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~southern part of Magnolia~

Laki, Kinana, and Cana spend their morning in asking around on every bar at Magnolia about Laki's father. Eventually they've decided to split up to make it easier for them.

"a guy who had a messy black hair that wears a pair of glasses? Sorry miss but I don't know any guy like that." A bartender said.

Laki looked at the ground sadly. "oh.. thank you for your cooperation sir, and I'm sorry for the bother." She bowed politely.

"your welcome and its no problem."

Laki left the bar with a downed face. 'another failure.' She thought as she sighed.

"Laki!" Laki turned and saw Kinana running towards her.

"you found anything?" Kinana asked while panting.

Laki shakes her head. "how about you?"

Kinana shakes her head too. "I'm sorry.."

Laki sighed heavily before sitting on a bench. Kinana sat beside her.

"hey.. Don't give up yet! Maybe Cana will get us something." Kinana tried to comfort her wood mage friend.

Laki smiled a little. "yeah.. speaking of which, where is she?" She asked.

Kinana shrugged. "don't know."

"heeeyyy! *hiccup* guuys!"

The two turned their heads and found Cana walking in a wobbly way towards them.

The two sighed in disappointment. 'I knew that this would happen.' They thought in unison.

"I'm sooowy *hiccup* I didn't *hiccup* get anything in there." *thud* She said before passing out.

"looks like she's out." Kinana pointed out. She then looked at her friend. "now what do we do?"

Laki looked up at the cloudy sky. "I don't know."

"Lakiii!!!"

Laki perked up from the bench as she heard someone calling her name. The two looked to their left and saw Natsu with Lucy, Erza, Levy, and Juvia.

Natsu grinned widely at her. "we got some good news for you!"

~a few minutes of explanation~

Laki beamed brightly at them. "Realy?!" they nodded happily at her.

Kinana hugged Laki tightly. "I'm happy for you Laki! Now you can go see him." Laki nods before wiping a small tear from the corner of her left eye. She then turned her head to Natsu and the others.

"thank you guys! You don't know how much this means to me."

They smiled at her telling her that it was no problem. Erza then noticed a passed out Cana on the ground.

"what happen to her?"

Kinana smiled awkwardly. "long story short.. we split up in searching for a small bar."

Lucy sweatdropped. "its only past morning and she's already dead drunk. Anyway what's the plan now?"

Natsu turned to Juvia. "can you take us to where that submarine is?"

Juvia nods. "mm. Juvia would be glad to help out."

Natsu grinned. "great! Now I'll be just going home for a bit and get some of my stuffs. What about you guys?"

"I think I'll do the same." Lucy answered.

Levy nodded. "how about we meet up at the guild in 2 hours. Sound good?" she advised. All of them agreed to her plan.

"what are we gonna do about this drunkard?" Erza pointed at the passed out Cana.

Kinana smiled at them. "don't worry about her guys. I can take care of her."

"you sure?"

"mm. I'm used to it."

Kinana effortlessly carried Cana to her right shoulder. "I'll be taking her back now. Have fun on your trip guys!" she waved at them before leaving with Cana.

Natsu sweatdroped. 'that chick has some serious brute strength'

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~two hours later at the guild~

"everybody ready?!" Erza asked.

Levy and Lucy nodded. "mm. All set!"

"I'm all fired up now!"

Laki fixed up her glasses. "I'm ready too."

"Juvia is also ready now."

Erza smiled. "all right then.. let us go."

Happy tugged on Natsu's pants. "Natshu.. where are we going?"

"you will see it soon buddy." Natsu picked Happy up and placed him on top his head.

The group was about to leave but..

"where you guys going?" Gray asked.

Natsu look back at him and smirked. "none of your damn business snow flakes."

Gray grew a thick mark. "what did you say?!"

Lucy sighed. "Natsu.. we don't have time for this."

Mira placed her hand on her mouth. "ara.. looks like you guys are going on a fun trip I see."

Natsu scratched the back of his head. "you could say that.. oh! And please tell Lisanna that I will be busy for a few days but I will still go with our plan on Sunday."

Mira tilted her head to the side. "hmm.. you guys have a date or something?"

Lucy, Levy, and Juvia jolted a little at Mira's question.

Natsu made a thinking pose. "hmm.. I don't know if that was a-" he didn't get to finish his sentence as Juvia suddenly pulled him by his scarf.

"Natsu-kun. Juvia thinks that we should hurry." Lucy and Levy sagely nodded their heads.

Natsu sweatdropped at them. "right.. sorry Mira. I'll see you around." Natsu waved before getting dragged out of the guild.

Mira happily wave them their goodbyes before going back to the bar counter. Gray stood still at his spot and eyed the closed guild doors. "tch!" he then turned around to go back to his seat.

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The six mages are now heading their way to the train station.

"so Juvia.. where are we heading?" Erza asked the water mage.

"we are going to Sakuramori."

"that's quite far." Levy commented.

Juvia nodded. "Juvia spent the whole day in riding a train just for her to get there."

Natsu gulped. 'this is bad'

Lucy noticed his uneasiness. "are you gonna be ok?"

Natsu made a forced and awkward grin. "yeah…. No problem."

Lucy looked at him with concern. She knows that he's not gonna be ok.

"hey."

"hmm?"

Lucy played with her fingers. "about earlier.. what are you and Lisanna planning to do on Sunday?"

"well I was-"

"Natshu did something that got Lisanna mad, so He tried to bargain. Lisanna then requested for a date and Natshu agrees, then it was decided that they will go out this Sunday." Happy interrupted by answering for Natsu.

"hey it wasn't a date. She just wanted to hang out with us." Natsu countered.

Happy sighed. "Natshu.. I'm not coming along with you."

Natsu raised an eyebrow. "and why is that?"

"because she told me not to."

Natsu pulled Happy away from his head to confront him directly. "and what did you get?"

Happy covered his mouth with his paw and made a fake teary expression. "Natshu.. how could you think of me so lowly? This is Lisanna we're talking about. the woman who I saw as my mother, and I would never-"

"What. Did. You. Get?"

Happy gulped. "she offered me 10 fishes. Hehe…"

Natsu grew a thick mark. "Lucy. Help me burry this traitor will ya."

"Waah! No!! Please, I'm sowyy!!" Happy comically cried.

Natsu made an evil smile. "you shouldn't have sold me out for just a bunch of fishes."

"will you two quit it!" Erza ordered from the front.

Natsu and Happy quickly saluted. "yes ma'am/Aye!"

Natsu and Happy ended their quarrel. Unknown to Natsu.. there are three girls that are quite unhappy on what they just heard.

Small sweats are starting to appear at the side of Lucy's forehead. 'this is bad! I thought Lisanna had already moved on. But looks like she's starting to make her move.'

Juvia frustratingly bit her lip. 'why does it bother Juvia so much? Juvia doesn't like what she's feeling right now!'

Levy eyed the ground as she walks. 'a date huh?' Levy looked at Natsu who was walking on her front. She started to imagine a scenario in which she was asked out by Natsu. Levy blushed and rapidly shakes her head. 'what's happening to me? I'm starting to act like Juvia!'

Laki looked back and saw the three girls who were acting kinda weird. "you girls ok?"

Levy, Lucy, and Juvia jolted in shock as they snapped out of their thoughts.

"e-everything's fine here n-no need to worry."

"y-yeah! Lu-chan's right."

"J-J-Juvia's fine too."

"We're here!" Erza announced As they had arrived at the train station.

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The six mages of Fairy tail ride the train that will take them to Sakuramori. The trip lasted for about 20 hours and Natsu was having his most hellish experience, adding to his bad luck.. Erza puts him to sleep by knocking him out so he would stop whining. They arrived at Sakuramori the next day at early morning.

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"I'm not riding that thing again on our way back home." Natsu commented as he and his group exited the station.

Erza sighed. "stop whining! If you walk back home then it will take you a weak or two just to go back to Magnolia."

"I'd rather do that" Natsu muttered.

"so.. where are we going now Juvia?" Lucy asked.

"we're gonna have to ride a carriage next." Juvia answered.

*thud*

"Natshuuu!!" Happy screamed as Natsu suddenly fell on the ground.

"a-are you ok?" Levy asked in concern.

"kill me now.." Natsu weakly muttered.

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The carriage ride took them for about 2 hours before they reached their destination. As they got out of the carriage, Erza spotted a large house.

"is that the place Juvia?"

Juvia nods. "the person who lives there was an inventor named Julius-san."

"alright lets do this!" Natsu was about to run but Lucy pulled him back.

"wait a minute!"

"what is it Lucy?"

"I was just wondering of how are we gonna borrow the submarine."

Laki, Levy, and Erza gasped at Lucy's question they then looked at Natsu for his answer.

Natsi just scratched the back of his head. "I was planning to just rent it. You know.. pay him for it."

Erza sighed. "Natsu.. submarines are very rare types of vehicles. It would cost a fortune for just renting one."

"what do we do? We don't have that much money on us." Laki asked.

"don't worry."

All of them turned their attention to the rain woman.

"a part of Juvia's reward for the job was a permit that allows her to use the ocean star for a day." Juvia shows them the permit.

Erza inspected the permit. "would it still be valid? I mean.. this permit was made 7 years ago."

Juvia nodded. "Juvia thinks so.. cause Julius-san said that the permit has no expiration."

"HAHA! And here I thought that I was gonna have to sell Happy so we could rent that submarine." Natsu teases.

"you wouldn't dare!" Happy cried.

Lucy deadpanned at the two. 'who would wanna buy an annoying cat anyway?'

Laki quickly hugged Juvia out of joy. "thanks you so much Juvia!"

"it's no problem Laki-san." Juvia replied to the wood mage.

Levy turned to Erza and smiled. "told you it will work itself out."

Erza smirked. "you girls spend too much time with Natsu that his way of thinking was now rubbing on you." Levy just giggled at her.

As they reached the house, Erza rang the doorbell. Moments later.. the door opened and the mages was greeted by an old man who looks like in his 60's and was wearing a pair of high graded glasses.

"h-hello Julius-san." Juvia greeted the old man.

Julius looked at Juvia closely. "hmm… Juvia? Is that you?"

Juvia nods. "yes."

"my god its been a long time my child! Its like you didn't even change in these past years. Aside from your hair.. you still look so young."

Juvia made an awkward laugh. "um.. Juvia will explain about that some other time, because Juvia has a favor to ask Julius-san."

Julius blinked twice. "hmm?" he then looked past at Juvia. "are they your friends?"

Natsu raised his hand. "yo! My name is Natsu! Nice to meet you old man!"

Erza punched Natsu at his head. "be polite when you greet someone." She then turned to Julius and bowed politely at the old man. "I'm sorry about him mister Julius. I am Erza and we are Juvia's friends and guild mates."

Lucy waved. "hello, my name is Lucy."

"nice to meet you sir. I'm Levy." She bowed.

Laki bowed also. "pleasure to meet you sir. You can call me Laki."

"and I'm Happy!"

Julius looked down at the exceed. "hoh! A talking cat."

"aye!" Happy saluted.

Julius looked back at the mages. "its nice to know that Juvia has such good friends. Please come in."

The mages thanked the old man before following him inside. As they got inside.. Erza explained to the old man about their objective, and Julius seemed to understand them.

"I see.. so you want to borrow my ocean star." The six mages nodded their heads.

"yes! Pleas sir!" Laki pleaded.

Julius smiled at them. "I understand young ones. Since Juvia helped me fixed it before. You can use it for your trip, just bring it back to me when your done ok? And please try not to break it."

Natsu jumped in joy from his seat. "alright! You're the best old man!"

"aye!"

Erza bowed in gratitude. "thank you so much sir. We really appreciated it."

Lucy hugged Laki. "isn't it great Laki?!"

Laki nods. "mm. Thank you very much sir Julius."

Julius waved them off. "its fine.. it makes me happy, that my creation can help you young ones."

"there's just one problem."

All of them look at the bookworm. "what do you mean Levy?" Lucy asked.

"yeah.. what's the problem?" Natsu added a question.

Levy looked at them seriously. "I've been thinking about this since we arrived here." She took a deep breath and said.. "how are we gonna move the submarine from here to Cedar town?"

Erza, Lucy, Laki, Juvia, and Natsu jaw dropped as the question hits their heads.

Happy sweatdropped at them. 'they didn't even thought about that before coming here?'

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that's it guys for chapter 8! Now about the harem.. these are the list of the girls:

1. Lucy (crush level)

2. Lisanna (crush level)

3. Levy (almost crush level)

4. Juvia (crush level -in denial-)

5. Laki (friends level)

6. Erza (close friend)

7. Mirajane (soon)

8. You can vote for this one

That's the list guys. If you want to vote a girl for the 8th spot then comment: name of the girl: yes the first girl that can reached 10 votes will get the spot. I only planned for Natsu's harem to be 8 but I tell you what…. If my story reached 300 hearts then I will add 2 more on your choice. That's it then, see you next chapter.