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Thank you again Senpai Ki-Chan! ^_^ I dedicate this chapter to you!

Chapter 24

"Change of plans." Laxus growled, his muscles bugling and lighting sparking across his body.

"What's the new plan, Laxus?" Evergreen asked.

"We are going to their hideout now and plan a surprise for them."

The others nodded. They took off toward the hideout. They headed through the dense forest, towards the cave. When they got close to the cave, it opened up into a meadow with a pond. From what they could tell outside of the cave there were no traps.

"Want me and my babies to go take down the wyvern?"

"Take down wyvern-"

"Take down wyvern-"

"We will take it out together. Freed, while we deal with the wyvern put up a barrier around the hideout. Make it to where they can enter, but not leave. Also make it to where they can't detect it."

Freed nodded. When they got to the meadow, Freed pulled out his sword and started writing runes. He worked as quickly as possible, staking them up and pushing them to the side. He made it go a hundred feet up, went around the pond and stopped at the mouth of the cave. When he was done it looked like a dome, and he was slightly worn out and sweaty from making the barrier.

Laxus listened to locate the wyvern. He could hear it snoring by the cave entrance.

"Bickslow you attack from above; Evergreen and I will attack from the ground. Hit it with as many bombs as you can at once." She nodded. He started to charge up his magic to do one massive attack on the wyvern. The hair on everyone's arms was standing up due from the lightning coming off Laxus.

Freed joined the battle against the wyvern, even though he was worn out from putting up the barrier. The wyvern put up a decent fight against them, part of the meadow, some trees and the pond where it was iced over. It had already been weakened by Laxus and Bickslow's attacks and the bombs Evergreen threw.

"Evergreen, turn it to stone." She took off her glasses and turned the wyvern to stone. Laxus hit it with his lightning, turning the wyvern into rubble. They were all a little worn out from the fight. None of them were hurt badly, a few scraps. They didn't have very long to relax since Laxus heard the dark guild heading there way.

"Get ready guys, the guild is coming."

-With Lucy-

She kept pacing back and forth with her arms around her stomach, lip quivering, as she waited to hear from Laxus. The baby was moving around as if to reassure her that Laxus was okay. She silently thanked her baby, lovingly rubbing her hand over her stomach. Erik kept trying to get her to sit down. Her eyes were shining with tears due to the pain she felt in her back.

"Lucy, you need to sit and relax. This isn't good for the baby, you know Laxus will contact you when he can. They maybe fighting the guild right now." Erik guided Lucy to the couch and made her sit down. He was wearing sweats and a tshirt since they had decided to spend the day at the house. His hair looked messy, going every which way.

"I know, I just hate not knowing how he is or the others." She smiled as the baby moved putting her hand over where the baby was kicking.

Erik told Lucy to relax and watch tv and he would make her some dinner. He decided to make her favorite, sesame chicken with broccoli and fried rice. She decided to put on her favorite movie, Howl's Moving Castle. She hoped it would help calm her down and take her mind off things. Her mouth was watering smelling the sesame chicken, it always had a sweet smell to her. It made her happy that she could have it while she was pregnant. She couldn't help but laugh when Erik brought her dinner, he was wearing her pink frilly apron that said 'Sexy Cook' on it. He just glared at her.

"This was the only apron in there and I wasn't going to get my clothes dirty! Now stop laughing or no dinner for you!" He smirked when her eyes got big as plates and stuck out her bottom lip.

After dinner she went to take a shower and read. She hoped that she would hear from Laxus before she fell asleep. She was having trouble getting comfortable, even with using the body pillow. Normally Laxus was there and she cuddled with him instead of the body pillow. Sighing she got up for the fifth time to go to the bathroom.

-With the Thunder Legion-

They were standing at the mouth of the cave waiting for them. The entrance into the cave was just wide and high enough for Laxus to fit in with no room to spare. Laxus's magic was rolling over his skin and dragon scales were starting to appear. The others stood as close as they could without getting shocked.

"Well, well if it isn't the famous Thunder Legion. I see you made fast work of that pathetic excuse for a wyvern." Ikaruga glared at them.

"Boss, I told you he was too young still!" Ban said.

"Enough! None of your excuses!" He looked down, hands balled into fists, arms shaking. Bickslow snickered as Ban got yelled at.

"Ikaruga, I heard you were dead."

Smirking she said, "Yes, everyone thinking I was dead worked wonderfully." Standing with her hand on her hip, eyes glowing with hatred. Her hair no longer pink, was now blue and in pig tail braids, laying over her shoulders. She had on black leggings that stopped below her belly button with knee high, high heel boots and a low-cut red kimono top. Hips swaying sensually as she walked closer to them.

Grinning and tongue lolling out, Bickslow snickers and says, "Some guild, four people. Bossman can we please take them out and go home now?"

"Isn't he an eager one. Not even curious as to why we are here?" Ikaruga laughed, picking at her manicured nails, not giving any thought to Bickslow. Bickslow's eyes started to glow, as his muscles tensed up and mouth pulled into a sneer.

"As long as we stop you, I don't care." While Bickslow was having a go at Ikaruga, he was silently having his babies move into place for an attack. His hands balling into fists. She gave a small smirk. Evergreen crossed her arms over her chest and rolled her eyes. Freed drew his sword.

"I want to know is where is the mayor's family? What do you get by holding them hostage?" Laxus asked.

She smirked, "I took them because I could. The mayor is hiding some big treasure, he says it's gone but we don't believe him. It seems he would rather protect it than save his own family." Laughing

"What would you do with that treasure? All you dark guilds are the same, no originality." Freed said.

"Bickslow now!" Laxus yelled. Bickslow had his babies attack the mage that controlled animals. He wasn't expecting the beams that hit around him and through him 10 feet into the air, while in the air the babies kept flying into him. When he hit the ground he was unconscious, bruised and had a few broken bones.

Ikaruga attacked Laxus, while the other two mages tried to run.

"Fairy bombs!-"

"Dark Ecriture, wings.-"

The two mages didn't pay attention to where they were going and ran into Freed's barrier. Evergreen and Freed caught up with the two mages and made quick work of them. Freed wrote despair and pain runes on both, making the two scream. Evergreen turned them to stone, tired of hearing them scream.

"Let's head back and assist Laxus if necessary."

"Good idea Freed." She put her glasses back on and made her wings appear, taking off towards the others.

When they got back Laxus was still fighting Ikaruga. Ikaruga had her sword and cast immense speed on herself. Slashing her sword through the air sent, she yelled "Garuda Flame!" A huge flame headed towards Laxus, burning the grass and catching a couple trees on fire. Laxus teleported before he was hit with the attack, appearing behind her. The flame getting extinguished by the pond.

"Dragon Lightning Roar!" A huge lightning bolt went barreling at her, she dodged the attack thanks to her speed spell. Eyes glaring and a feral grin on her face, she launched her second most powerful attack.

"Double Wind Slash!"

"Lightning barrier!" Her attacked bounced off the barrier and went straight towards her. Lightning was swirling around the attacks, this time she couldn't dodge both. She was thrown into the air and electrocuted. She hit the ground making a three-foot hole shaped like her. Slowly pulling herself out, her clothes were singed, and burns were visible on her arms and stomach.

She ran after him screaming sword ready to plunge into Laxus. He crouched and quickly swept his leg out knocking her down and sending the sword flying. Freed quickly wrote runes to make her immobile.

"Now, tell me where the mayor's family is." Laxus snarled.

"Never."

"Freed, use your runes on her. Maybe she will talk then." He nodded and drew his sword. He quickly wrote runes to bind her arms and legs.

"Pain. Despair. Fear." She screamed at the top of her lungs in utter terror and thrashed about. She was gasping for air, finding it hard to catch her breath from screaming. Freed stopped the ruins after a minute. Her body trembled from the intense pain, felt as if she was being stabbed repeatedly.

Laxus growled, "Tell us!"

She let out a weak laugh, "No."

Laxus looked at Freed, and he wrote the runes again making them each stronger than the first time. The pain felt as if she was being burned alive. Tears unwillingly falling from her eyes. After three minutes he stopped.

"Talk or next time the runes will be stronger, and I won't have him stop them all." Laxus's muscles were bulging as his lightning flowed over them. She just glared.

"Despair. Fear. Suffering. Pain."

"Bickslow, you and Evergreen start searching through the cave. See if the mayor's family is in there somewhere. Freed and I got this."

They nodded and took off. Once they entered, they had to walk fifty feet until the cave opened up. There were torches lit, one on each side of the entrance, and six more spread out on the walls of the cave.

Over the next thirty minutes Freed would cancel one or two of the runes, they would ask where the family was. Every time she refused to answer, he put them all back on her. Bickslow and Evergreen came back with no luck on finding the family.

Screaming she said, "Okay, I'll tell you just please stop!" Freed cancelled the runes. "They are in town, in the basement of the magic shop we damaged." She gave not wanting to feel the pain or to keep reliving a part of her past. It's something she had tried her hardest to forget and never told anyone about and never would.

"Bickslow and Evergreen, take the three mages with you and turn them in to the knights. We will be along shortly." Laxus growled. He wanted to know more about the treasure, he had a feeling it wasn't an ordinary treasure if she was seeking it.

"What is this treasure you were after. It has to be some magical item if you were willing to be seen after all this time."

She smirked, "Why not ask the mayor? Though he probably won't tell you anything either." Laxus punched her, knocking her out.

"Laxus! Enemy or not, you shouldn't have hit a woman." Freed scolded. Laxus just glared, picked her up and started to head back to town.

When they got back, Laxus dumped her in front of the knights who quickly put her in magic cancelling handcuffs. The mayor had been reunited with his family.

"Thank you, Thunder Legion, for returning my family to me safely and defeating these mages. They were adamant that some great treasure was here and that I had it."

"Is there some kind of treasure?"

"The only thing I had that could possibly be worth something is this." He pulls a red key out of his pocket.

"Laxus, it's a celestial key." Freed said.

"You know what it is? It's been in my family for years. All I know it's some magical key that contains a strong power." He hands the key to Laxus. "Here, please take it. It seems you all know what it is. I'd rather that it goes with you, rather than fall into the hands of dark mages."

The mayor gave them their reward money, and then headed back to the hotel. As much as Laxus wanted to get back to his mate, they were all wore out from the fight and it was getting to late to catch a train back.

Laxus called Lucy once they got back to the hotel. "Hey babe, how are you and the baby?"

"Hey love, we are both fine. But are you okay? Are you coming home soon? I miss you."

"We are heading back tomorrow. I miss you too. I have something for you, the mayor gave it to us. Freed says it's a celestial key." Lucy squealed, bouncing on the bed excited about getting a new friend.

"Which key is it?"

"I have no idea, it's a red key." Lucy went completely still. "Babe are you okay? What's wrong?"

Lucy was still too shocked to answer him, after a couple minutes of trying to get her attention Loki appeared on the lacrima.

"Loki? Is Lucy okay? What's wrong with my mate?"

"She is fine, just in shock. The red celestial key disappeared over one thousand years ago. It's a powerful spirit. Most celestial mages didn't have the magical strength to summon it, or the spirit found the celestial mage unworthy and wouldn't come through his gate when summoned to make a contract. He had even disappeared from the spirit realm, with only the king knowing where he went."

"Thank you, Loki. Sorry babe, I didn't mean to worry you. My mother had told me about that key. I had thought it to only be a legend."

"If anyone is worthy and strong enough, it's you mate. You should get some sleep and I will be back tomorrow."

"Okay love. I love you. Good night." She smiled, feeling better now that she knew he was okay.

"I love you too. Good night." He ended the call.

"Bossman, did you find out which key it is?"

"All I learned is it's a powerful spirit whose key disappeared over a thousand years ago. We will know more tomorrow. Let's all get some sleep so we can leave early." They all went to sleep.

Author's Note: To all my followers and readers! I am putting a hold on the story. I am currently working on revising it, I want to expand it and make it better for all of you! Thank you for your continued support and I hope you will enjoy the story even more when I revise it! :)