"You failed another mission? You're a disgrace, Elfman, are you sure you're even a man?" Jet yelled in disbelief at his guildmate.

"Seriously? You can't just keep running away from a job every time it gets a little challenging!" Droy lectured him.

Elfman teared up and shrunk upon himself, trying to shield himself from their disappointed looks.

"Jet, Droy! Stop bullying my brother! If you're strong you should help others, not belittle them," Lisanna scolded the two strongest members of Fairy Tail, while her sister tried her best to console the sniffling Elfman.

Turning to the white-haired girl, the two men instantly forgot about their disappointment in Elfman. Lisanna was dressed in a spaghetti strap tank top that exposed her midriff, and a sarong skirt with a slit on the left that showed her pale, smooth legs. She had a hand on her hip, waist cocked to the side putting her supple curves on show as she pouted disapprovingly.

"We'll gladly take him under our wing if you'd just go on a date with me, Lisanna!" Droy pitched with hearts in his eyes while trying to keep his gaze from falling too low.

"Hey, what about me? Why don't you sit back while she goes on a date with me!" Jet argued, butting heads with his teammate. Soon the conversation devolved into petty arguments and insults.

Lisanna only glared at them, a look that none of them could take seriously when compared to her overall kind and gentle demeanor. Despite being the two strongest members, Jet and Droy also happened to be the most flirtatious, harassing all the girls of the guild to no success. Even Wendy, who was known for being a little loose and easy, never entertained their advances. Still, it did nothing to discourage them from trying again and again, in hopes that they could one day land one of the bombshells in the guild.

Shaking her head, she walked to a table that flagged her down and served them their drinks. Many others openly stared at her round behind swaying as she made her way around the guild. She was one of the most attractive females in the Edolas Fairy Tail guild after all, along with her sister and Wendy. She had long become used to the attention showered upon her. However, she had never openly acknowledged any of their affections to2ward her, holding onto hope that one day she'd be able to get back to Earthland to the people she knew.

Walking back behind the counter, she fanned herself with her empty tray, wiping away the sweat beading on her forehead and shoulders with a handkerchief. It was an especially hot day, and she couldn't wait to be done with her work for the day. Seeing that nobody was approaching, she slid a hand under her tank top, adjusting her bra so it wasn't chafing her nipples. She decided that she needed to go shopping to buy new underwear, seeing as her growing breasts no longer fit in her old ones. As she did so, beads of sweat slid down her pale chest, running rivulets into her cleavage. Her nipples, hardened from the light chafing, poked through the thin fabric of her bra, forming visible peaks through her top. Unknown to her, the males who had been eyeing her discreetly gulped at the mildly arousing sight.

Having been classified as a dark guild, Fairy Tail had mostly been isolated from the rest of the world, unable to interact with society. For the most part this meant that they had to be independent when it came to daily necessities, or approach black market vendors. However, it also meant that the men couldn't go entertain themselves as they used to, and couldn't enter a strip club without being recognized and reported to the authorities. This caused everyone to have a lot of pent up stress and sexual frustration that threatened to burst at the slightest provocation, much like the show Lisanna was unknowingly putting on.

Max walked up to the counter and quickly browsed through the items, looking for something in particular.

"Hey, Lisanna. Can I have some popping candy?" he asked, smiling and trying to appear normal but failing. The white-haired barmaid eyed him suspiciously, figuring out that something was off.

"You don't even like popping candy, Max. What gives?"

He merely shrugged, opting not to answer. After a moment's hesitation, Lisanna turned around and bent over to grab the candy that was on the shelf behind her at waist level. Max's intentions were made clear when her round, sarong-covered behind stuck out. The cloth draped neatly over her shapely rump, forming a heart-shaped outline.

Jet and Droy leaned over their tables, trying to hide the bulges in their pants from vision while some of the girls judged them openly for their lecherous ways. Max, meanwhile, was having a mental overload from arousal, watching the innocent barmaid unwittingly flaunt her gifts. In his sex-deprived and aroused state, he decided that he had to cop a feel to help curb his urges. Climbing over the counter, he lay stomach-down on the flat surface as he reached a hand towards her full butt. While she was still bent over to grab the item he'd requested for, Max sank his fingers into her soft, doughy ass cheek, pressing his palm against her full buns. Unable to control himself, he began groping her tender rump roughly, making her soft assflesh spill out from between his fingers.

Gasping in shock, Lisanna realized that she'd been duped. Straightening out, she turned around to slap him and give him an earful when she was interrupted by a loud rumbling sound. The ground shook underneath her, throwing everyone off balance and sending them tumbling to the ground. Lucy, who had been on watch, slid down from her post in the watchtower in a panic.

"Everyone, it's the Fairy Hunters! The army is coming, Levy get to work!"

"I know you skank, no need to tell me twice," Levy snarled, started up the Transfer Square.

"Everyone, stay in the guild at all times, firing up the Transfer Square in three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

With a blinding flash that left everyone disorientated, they were relocated to another location in Edolas, leaving naught but dust for the Fairy Hunters in their last location.

"Okay we're safe for now, but we should check our surroundings nonetheless to make sure we're not near any highly-populated areas or Royal Army barracks. Who wants to volunteer to go scouting?" Lucy Ashley called out, quietening the guild down following the transfer.

"Jet? Droy?" the two being addressed didn't respond, knocked out cold from having been slammed against a table during the Edo-quakes from before.

"Shit, anyone else?"

"I'll go, I need a break anyways," Lisanna stepped up, glaring at Max as she did so.

"I'll go too," Gray offered, barely able to raise his arms due to being swaddled in multiple jackets and blankets.

The two scouted in an awkward silence, having only had limited interactions with each other before.

"H-hey Lisanna," Gray called out.

"Yeah?"

"You're Juvia's best friend right? Do you know what kind of tea she likes?"

"Juvia doesn't even like tea, she likes smoothies and cold drinks," Lisanna answered, relieved that the walk wasn't going to be as quiet, but also annoyed that Gray was asking the stupidest questions about Juvia that anyone in the guild would know the answer to.

"O-Oh. Cold drinks?" Gray shivered, hugging himself. He dropped his head in slight disappointment, his eyes falling on Lisanna's rump before him that jiggled with every step that she took. In his mind, nobody in the guild was prettier than Juvia but in that very moment, he decided that if anyone deserved second place, it was Lisanna. He watched as her sweat ran down her pale back, along her pelvic bone and into the crack between her generous cheeks. The lacy waistband of her panties peeked out from above her skirt, following the curve of her wide hips.

"Hn, look who it is," the two of them heard a deep growl from above them.

A hulking black exceed leapt off from the branches of the tree he was sitting in, landing with a loud thump on the ground.

"Y-you, you're from the Royal Army aren't you?" Gray stammered, frozen up in fear.

"Correct. I am Captain Panther Lily of the Edolas Royal Army. You criminals have been evading the hand of the law for way too long," he squared himself up, drawing his sword.

"Bustermarm, transform!" his sword grew to a monstrous size, but he wielded it as though it were weightless. In response, Lisanna pulled out a pair of coins and slapped them onto her wrists, the coins extending to form clawed gauntlets.

"Gray, run! Go and warn the rest, I'll buy time!" she yelled, spurring him into action.

"If you think I'm going to let you all escape this time, you're wrong," Pantherlily lunged, bringing his sword down on her.

"Don't underestimate me just because I'm a GIRL!" Lisanna crossed her arms in a defensive posture, defiantly holding her ground. She blocked his strike with a metallic 'clunk' and pushed the giant sword aside with great effort. The blade slid off the metallic surface of her gauntlets, causing sparks to fly. Seeing his guard open, she leapt at him and swiped, but the battle-hardened exceed smacked her aside with his arms, only suffering shallow scratches as a result.

Recovering quickly, the silver-haired mage transformed her gauntlets into a handheld crossbow, firing off bolts in quick succession. The captain blocked them all by simply raising his massive sword up and facing the flat side towards her. Using the opening created by his defensive move, Lisanna kicked at his legs to try and knock him to the ground, but he merely took the hit with a grunt.

Thinking quickly, she darted behind him and launched another flurry of kicks at the back of his knees, trying to weaken his posture while he was already recovering from her previous onslaught. The large soldier dropped to a knee, twisting his upper body and ramming his shoulder into her petite frame with enough force to send her tumbling away from him. He took the opportunity to slowly stand back up, regaining his posture as the silver-haired Strauss herself gathered her bearings.

Turning a dial, she imbued her gauntlets with magic before barreling at her adversary once more, hoping to catch him off guard before he had the chance to recover completely. Reverting his sword back to its smaller form, the captain swiftly countered her first strike and swung his knee up. To his surprise, she chose to endure the hit just to land a blow squarely on his chest, knocking them both backwards and off their feet.

Lisanna lay on the ground, clutching her stomach from pain as her opponent groaned, letting her know that her attempts weren't completely futile.

"You're strong and fast, but you forget that I've trained with the best officers in the Royal Army. Your strength is not comparable to the likes of Captain Knightwalker and Captain Sugarboy," the exceed complimented her grudgingly. Deciding that a swift victory was better than a drawn-out but enjoyable fight, he shot towards her while making Bustermarm grow once more and bringing it down in an arc.

Still not having recovered, Lisanna panicked and brought her arms up in a last-ditch attempt to shield herself. The gigantic sword struck the gauntlets hard, shattering them into small shards, while the mage herself was mostly unscathed. Her senses going into overdrive, she shot out from under him and darted off into the trees.

'I don't think I can fight him head-on…I'll have to think of something else or even better, try and escape without a fight. He is pretty slow due to his size so I doubt he can catch up to me that easily,' Lisanna thought to herself desperately.

The captain, however, took a guess at her plans and came to the same conclusion that she did.

"I don't need to catch you, I just need to keep my eyes on the bigger prize," he taunted, walking away from her. Lisanna stared in confusion, before she realized that he was walking down the path that he had seen Gray set off on earlier. If he reached Fairy Tail, they were done for, especially since they had already used the Transfer Square once today and were sitting ducks until it recharged.

'This is probably a really stupid idea and something Natsu would do, but I guess now's as good a time as any,' she pulled out a vial of purified ethernano, suppressing a dry chuckle at the thought. She'd only be able to use her magic for a few minutes with this volume of ethernano, but she hoped it would be enough to buy the guild enough time to prepare for a fight or devise an escape plan. Unscrewing the cover, she emptied the contents of her vial into her open mouth, swallowing the burning essence down without a second thought.

Instantly, she felt her magic flare up as the animal souls that had laid dormant within her began to awaken in response to it.

A short distance away from her, Pantherlily felt her sudden spike in magic and raised his eyebrows.

'Another magic weapon?' he turned around, prepared to counter anything she threw at him but was caught unaware by what he saw.

"Animal Soul: Cat!" Lisanna shouted, taking on the aspects of a cat. When the glow around her body receded, she was dressed in a skimpy grey and black striped two-piece. Her hands had transformed into clawed paws and fluffy cat ears poked out from between her hair. A long striped tail extended from her rear, and her neck was adorned by a bell and collar, completing the look.

Taking advantage of his momentary lapse, she planted her right foot on the ground and twisted around to deliver a roundhouse kick square to his chest that sent him flying into a tree, his back slamming against it painfully. Enraged, Pantherlily shot back to his feet and prepared to counterattack, but was caught off guard once again by a scent that made him freeze in his spot. Something smelled awfully pleasing to him and made his head all fuzzy.

'Is this caused by her magical item? No…this isn't even an item. It's some sort of magic itself, but as far as I know, only people from Earthland are capable of this! The King must know of this at once!' he thought to himself, but his gut told him that even she was unaware of the scent she was giving off. As he continued to broil in his thoughts, the take-over mage continued to unleash a flurry of kicks, punches and scratches on his vulnerable form. He merely shrugged off her attacks for the most part, but the fact that he had yet to strike back made her think that she might be doing something right.

The thought of counterattacking was wiped off the soldier's mind when he caught sight of her soft, sweat-covered form panting in exertion while attacking him. Her smooth, creamy stomach glistened with a thin sheen of sweat, some of which was beginning to pool in the button of her navel. Her soft breasts jiggled and shook, barely restrained by her undersized top. He was mesmerized, drawn to the sight of her heaving mammaries shaking up and down, side to side as she gracefully danced through the air with her attacks. His senses barely registered the pain from her strikes, hazed by the pheromones she was releasing into the air. He surmised that it must have something to do with her magic – she did yell something about an animal soul earlier. It must have made her start to ooze pheromones, her body and soul's primal urge to find a mate taking over.

While he mused to himself, his eyes were glued to her shapely form. He noticed the way the fabric of her panties had begun to bunch and wedge themselves between her tight, full asscheeks. Her flexibility and attacks had caused her to give herself a wedgie, the thin fabric lodged within her ass crack, leaving her perfect rump fully on display for his perusal. When her left leg shot up high and made contact with his forehead, his gaze was still stubbornly stuck to her groin, the cloth there forming a sweat-soaked cameltoe. His mind briefly wondered what she'd look like completely uncovered, nothing to hide her privates from his sight, and his animal instincts roared in approval. He had chosen not to take a mate for every mating season up until now, but his inner animal seemed intent on releasing its urges this time.

For her part, Lisanna was growing increasingly confused by his lack of retaliation, when his hand suddenly shot out to grab her foot that was about to make contact with his face. She gasped in surprised, unable to react in time as he dashed her against a nearby tree. She thought she'd been doing something right – but now things seemed futile once more, as he seemed to snap out of his haze, attacking ferociously.

Soon, she lay on the ground, bruised and exhausted, curled up into herself from pain. The hulking exceed towered above her, prepared to beat her down if she dared to stand up against him once more.

"W-why?"

"Why what?" he queried back.

"You could've easily killed me, but you didn't use your sword this time, why is that?" she gasped out between painful breaths.

He debated whether to tell her the real reason, knowing that his image as the most steadfast captain of the Royal Army would be ruined if anyone else knew of his urges.

"You know that you can't beat me. I can easily kill or imprison you, then locate your guild, raid it with my forces that are garrisoned nearby and capture them too, once and for all," he chose to ignore her question.

"A-and? What's your point?" Lisanna gulped in fear before steeling herself and spitting out in defiance.

"I want to make a deal. I will not report this incident to the King, and will even look the other way to let you and your friends escape, but…"

This caught her off guard, finding out that the Royal Army had other priorities than hunting her guild down and putting every last one of them in jail. She wasn't sure that any alternative to that would be much better, but it wouldn't hurt to hear him out, right?

"What's the catch?"

"I want you."

"H-huh? Me? Like, as a prisoner? As a slave?" she sputtered out in confusion. His answer had been so unexpected that she had no idea what to think of it.

"No. Not quite as a slave. You will be my bedmate this time and perhaps in future, if we meet again. In return I will let you go back to your guild, as a free woman. What do you say?"

Lisanna was dumbfounded by his offer. On one hand, she was relieved that her guild would be able to get away and live freely until they were caught by the other captains in the army, but on the other…she wasn't quite sure she wanted to have sex with someone from the Royal Army. Much less an exceed, seeing as the thought had never crossed her mind.

"I…I d-don't know…," she trailed off, shocked that she was actually considering his offer. Internally, she lamented the fact that this was what her fate had come down to – either being incarcerated for the rest of her life or letting some morally ambiguous army captain use her as stress relief. She heaved a sigh of despair at the injustice, looking up at Pantherlily who had already begun walking away from her.

"Since you seem to have such a hard time deciding, perhaps I should make the decision for you."

"NO! NO! I'll…I'll do it. I'll have sex with you," she gritted out, squeezing her eyes tightly shut as though it would make the harsh reality of her situation disappear.

"Very well, meet me at the Goat's Hoof Lodge in the nearby village. We should go there separately so as not to raise suspicion," he told her, padding off first and leaving her behind to wait until her aching body recovered enough for her to walk normally.