Episode 6: Lucy Heartfilia
Soron had to admit, that while he had been through very dangerous and big battles before… this was on another level. However, just like then… he had a team to watch his back. A team he actually cared about more than the mission. He was never a great leader, and that's why he lost a lot of men. However, each failure and loss of life taught him one thing. Always look after your people, and if someone attacks them without provocation… fight back with a vengeance. That is what he was doing right now.
"Oh my god!" cried one of the PL members as he watched a black blur take down a lot of his cohorts, "What the hell is that thing?!"
His eyes then widened further as the black blur stopped right in front of him and he was staring a man dressed in a black long coat over a black t-shirt, wearing black pants and boots. On his chest was the golden megatrix symbol, and on his head was black curly-looking hair. He had green eyes and a chiseled jawline as well.
"I'm that 'thing' that was knocking out your friends," Krypto-man said before he grabbed the man and threw him into some more. If you were to see it first hand, you would see similarities to bowling, and would imagine the sounds of the pins going down when you look at the men that Krypto-man had thrown the guy to.
"He's so fast!" exclaimed a PL wizard.
"He's strong too!" exclaimed another one.
"On his chest," said a third in realization, "It bears the same symbol as the one that was in flames… oh my god! He's the Fairy Tail guild's newest takeover wizard!"
As the PL wizards gaped in awed horror at Krypto-man, a figure was ignored as he fell down into the fray from the darkness above. His presence was only recognized when his landing caused a loud crashing sound and the noise of wood shattering in places and just breaking in others. Every one of the Fairy Tail wizards looked up to see a figure in the dust. The figure laughed menacingly as he stood up to his full height.
"It's the Iron Dragon Slayer," Erza said now in her Heart Kreuz armor, "Blacksteel Gajeel."
"Ya know," Igrao remarked dryly, "His name doesn't really fit. If anything it should by Blackiron Gajeel."
"Shut up!" Gajeel shouted angrily as he has gotten that quite a lot, and the fact that it's not stopping pisses him off.
Suddenly, Krypto-man leapt into the air with his right fist cocked back and an enraged expression on his face.
"You attacked my guildmates!" Krypto-man yelled as he fell towards Gajeel with his punch launching. However, Gajeel was quick and turned his forearm into an iron pillar and extended it at Krypto-man which sent him into the ground. The iron pillar kept extending which caused Krypto-man skidding along the ground. The attack even knocked out some Phantom Lord members
The entire guild watched with angry expressions knowing they couldn't do anything at that moment.
"What the-" exclaimed one Fairy Tailer.
"He just knocked out his own guildmates with that attack!" Grey exclaimed. He then returned his attention to Gajeel as he jumped down to the ground laughing.
"Show me what ya got," Gajeel smirked as his forearm returned to normal, "Unless you scum are too scared to face the great Iron Dragon Slayer."
"Too scared!" Elfman yelled as he did the same thing Soron did and transforming his arm to a metal or stone one from his scaly looking monster arm, "Real men have no fear!"
Gajeel smiled as he turned his left arm into an iron pillar and used it to block Elfman's attack.
"You're Elfman right?" Gajeel smirked before swiping at Elfman a few times who dodged. He then jumped back and used his right foot to do to Elfman what he did to Soron a little earlier. However, Elfman was able to stop the attack by grabbing the iron pillar and holding it.
"Ah," Gajeel said a little impressed, "Not bad big guy."
"Well," Elfman said sternly, "that's because I'm a real man."
"Yeah?" Gajeel smirked as his iron pillar leg began to morph, "then let's see how a real man handles…"
"This!" Gajeel finished as he extended pillars everywhere. Elfman widened his eyes in shock at the act.
"Echo Echo!" yelled a mechanical voice. Elfman and Gajeel turned to see a small white dwarf-ish looking character with gold eyes, a gold mouth, and what looked like headphones reaching down to his back. He also had the golden megatrix symbol on his chest.
"The hell you going to do with that small form?" smirked Gajeel.
"Watch and see," Echo said before several others that looked just like him phased out of his body and repeated the process themselves. It only stopped till there was enough to deal with the iron pillars.
"You know what to do," Echo Echo-1 said to his clones. At that they stared at each of the pillars. They then launched off of each other and headed to intercept the iron pillars. Without a second to lose they opened their mouths revealing lines giving the inside of his mouth the appearance of an amplifier.
The Echo Echos each released a powerful scream at the iron pillars stopping them in their place. However, as he did so he ended up saving the PL members who were targeted. Even though he didn't want to, there was no way he was going to disrespect Ben's memory by letting them get attacked.
"Impressive," Gajeel snarled as the pillars he extended popped out of his iron pillar leg, "but that doesn't save your-"
"Friend!" Gajeel finished as he punched Elfman hard with an iron pillar fist which sent him flying. However, what he didn't expect was for Natsu to suddenly appear and jump off of Elfman's airborne body towards Gajeel. Gajeel's expression turned from irritation to surprise as he stared at Natsu's furious expression. He punched Gajeel hard with a flaming left fist which sent him flying. Just before he reached the bar, he was punched hard in the back and felt a freezing sensation when he was punched. He then fell forward onto his face somewhere in between Natsu and Shuzy.
"Whoa," remarked a PL member, "Those kids sent him flying."
"Nobody's ever done that before!" exclaimed another.
Gajeel quickly pulled himself into a sitting position and stared at the pink-haired wizard and then at the girl with long blue hair and no glasses.
"Allow me to introduce myself," Natsu said angrily with his hands enveloped in flames, "I'm Fairy Tail's first Dragon Slayer!"
"And I am it's second," Shuzy said with her fists enveloped in an icey aura with an equally angry expression on her face.
"Elfman," Natsu said as Gajeel stood up with a grin, "Leave this guy to us. You too Soron."
"Come on!" Elfman exclaimed, "first you use me as a springboard, and now you want to steal my man to man fight?"
Gajeel gave Natsu absolutely no time to respond as he took a step with excitement in his eyes.
"Iron Dragon: Club!" Gajeel shouted as he extended an iron pillar from his forearm again at Natsu. The attack send Natsu skidding backwards, but he managed to hold onto the club.
"Natsu!" Erza shouted in concern as she turned towards him.
"Are you alright?" Echo Echo asked now with all his clones back inside of him.
"You destroyed our guild hall," Natsu said angrily without looking at Gajeel, "and you attacked Levy and her team!"
"I'LL MAKE YOU," Natsu yelled with his fists in flames once again as he threw Gajeel into the air by grabbing onto the iron pillar, "PAY!"
Gajeel managed to place his feet onto a wooden beam and leap off of that towards Natsu, and Natsu prepared to punch with a flaming fist. Gajeel tried a normal punch, but Natsu blocked it before delivering a flaming right hook into Gajeel's face. The force of the punch sent Gajeel flying back, and Shuzy also joined in on the attack. She delivering a spinning kick with an icey aura surrounding her left foot. Her kick sent him flying into a wall where he made a dent outlining his body.
"Whoo," Makabe smiled, "They're fired up now."
"Yeah," Macao agreed with a smile, "I'd hate to be that other guy."
Elfman just grunted once.
"He's quite a wizard," Erza said with a smile, "and so is Shuzy."
"Alright," Elfman said unhappily, "you're manlier than I thought. I'll let you have this one, but you gotta promise me that you're gonna-"
"You bet!" Natsu interrupted as he turned to look at Elfman, "I'll beat him to a pulp!"
At that moment, Gajeel had freed himself from the crater he made in the wall and made a thud as he fell out onto the floor. That had regained Natsu's attention.
"Nice try," Gajeel said as he stood up, "but I'm still standing."
"True," Natsu smiled.
"You won't be for much longer though," Shuzy added as she walked up to Natsu and stood next to him.
"Oh yeah?" Gajeel said before he ran at them.
"Uh oh," Natsu and Shuzy said in unison right before Gajeel delivered an iron pillar kick at Natsu and an iron pillar punch at Shuzy. Both attacks sent both FT dragon slayers flying backwards. One towards a wall, and the other towards the roof.
"Ouch," Echo Echo remarked as he watched them both land on the ground.
"Aw," Gajeel said with his face shrouded in darkness and his eyes glowing red, "What's the matter? You can dish it out, but you can't take it?"
Suddenly, a burst of flame jumped out of the crater made by Natsu and a figure could be seen inside of the flames. It was Natsu Dragneel, and he happened to have glowing red eyes as well. However, his eyes returned to normal at the same time as the flames extinguished themselves.
"It's gonna take more than that to keep me down!" Natsu said grinning in excitement. Gajeel just laughed at that.
"You seriously think you can beat me yah pyro!" Gajeel returned as a glowing green mystical circle could be seen in his right fist.
"What do you mean think?" Natsu said as his right fist engulfed in flames and a fiery orange mystical circle hovered over it, "I know I can!"
"We'll see about that!" Gajeel yelled before he launched his now iron fist at Natsu using his usual pillar extending method. Much to Gajeel's surprise, Natsu was able to hold it back with one flaming fist. However, he was still forced back a few steps.
"Your steel beams can't even touch me!" Natsu yelled as he looked at Gajeel, "You oughta start steppin up your game!"
As he said that, the steel beams began to liquify due to the flames growing as the effect of Natsu's growing rage.
"The rumors are true," Gajeel said impressed, "You're way more powerful than you look."
He then retracted the steel pillar allowing his hand and forearm to return to normal. He glanced at it once to see that smoke or steam or whatever it was was wafting off of his arm. Natsu's fist was still engulfed in flames.
"That actually burns a little," Gajeel smirked, "So, is that all you got, Salamander?"
"That was my warm-up," replied Natsu with an unhappy expression, "I'm just gettin' started."
"You ain't seen nothing yet you metal freak!" Natsu added. They then stood their for about a minute staring at each other before Natsu suddenly leapt at Gajeel. Gajeel also leapt at Natsu as his fist and forearm morphed into a steel pillar again. Fortunately for Gajeel, Natsu was too slow to block the attack and was sent flying into a wall. Gajeel sneered as Natsu's flame was extinguished. Apparently, Natsu was punched so hard he was rendered unconscious.
"Your guy put up a good fight," Gajeel said as he looked at the standing Fairy Tailers, "but even he's no match for me!"
Suddenly, he was sent flying into a wall from a punch that was given by a fist surrounded in an icey aura. She stared as Gajeel fell to the floor after crashing into the wall.
"You may be able to stand the heat!" Shuzy yelled angrily at Gajeel, "but can you survive the cold?!"
Gajeel's expression soured as he stood up from the floor and looked at the blue haired Ice Dragon Slayer.
"Damn," Gajeel said berating himself, "I forgot about you. I won't make that mistake again."
All of a sudden, he launched at Shuzy with his forearm and fist morphing into a metal pillar again. Shuzy wasn't prepared, but fortunately she was quick enough to dodge the pillar. She proceeded to grab it, and throw him over her towards the wall behind her.
"Way to go Shuzy," Igrao smiled.
However, the battle was not yet done as Gajeel stood up again with an enraged expression.
"Okay you little bitch," Gajeel snarled, "I've had enough of you!"
"Chill out dude," Shuzy said, "Your attitude is making the room way too heated."
"Iron Dragon: Sword!" Gajeel yelled as his arm suddenly became a giant chainsaw as he leapt up into the air and slashed down.
Shuzy widened her eyes in surprise, but that didn't stop her from rolling out of the way. However, Gajeel had planned for that as he swung his other arm which had also transformed into a chainsaw at her. Shuzy looked up too late to be able to dodge and froze in fear.
"Shuzy!" Igrao yelled in fear as he began running forward. Unfortunately, Gajeel's attack was too fast and when the attacks struck a crater formed underneath shuzy which tossed wooden dust into the air. Gajeel sneered in victory and began to laugh. However, when the dust settled they could see a giant figure with two spike hands crossed stopping the chainsaw blade. The green figure had green crystalline spikes protruding from the backs of his shoulders, two out of his chest on either side of the golden megatrix symbol. His outfit was like a skintight onesie, and was blue-ish, but didn't cover his arms and involved skintight headgear that didn't cover his face. The back of his head had a spike as well, but that was also covered by the headgear. He had golden eyes as well.
"Have you no sense of honor?!" the figure said angrily before his spike arms changed form and morphed over the chainsaw. Gajeel watched in horror as the figure shattered his chainsaw by using his morphing crystalline arms to twist and squeeze on the chainsaw.
"Nothing has ever destroyed by chainsaws!" Gajeel snarled as he jumped backwards as soon as he touched down on the ground, "Just what are you?!"
"I'm Diamondhead," Diamondhead replied as his arms morphed into crystalline hands allowing the chainsaw shards to fall to the ground, "and I'm the one to beat."
"Diamond or not," Gajeel said with a deadly expression as his forearms and fists returned to normal, "I'm going to kill you!"
He then leapt at Diamondhead turning his arm into a metal pillar again. However, as soon as he made contact with Diamondhead the metal pillar bent like a tin can. However, Diamondhead was forced back a step.
"That actually stung," Diamondhead said as he forced the bent pillar backwards forcing Gajeel to go flying back. However, Gajeel immediately backflipped as he turned his arm to normal before landing feet first on the ground.
"Now then," Diamondhead said as he morphed his arms one more time making them look like a jagged bouquet of crystals, "Let's party."
However, as soon as he said that his Megatrix began flashing silver giving off a few beeps.
"Ah shit," Diamondhead said before he was enveloped in a silver light and returned to normal. He was back to being Soron MacLeod, normal human, and all around master of brooding.
"Looks like you're out of magical energy," Gajeel sneered victoriously. He then leapt at Soron with his arm turning into metal pillars once more. Shuzy quickly tackled into him as a way to return the favor for when Soron saved her life. Her tackle took them out of the line of fire, however Gajeel still made contact with someone.
Natsu was that someone and he stood with a fist in flames. Also, Gajeel was sent flying through the air into the beams above. The contact Gajeel made was with Natsu's flaming fist hitting his chin.
"How do you like that?" Natsu asked angrily, "Punk!"
Gajeel quickly protruded some foot blades from the bottoms of each of his feet and stuck to the bottom of a wooden beam. With a grin he looked down at Natsu.
"You shouldn't be so cocky," Gajeel replied, "I already knocked you out once after all. Heh heh."
"I was holding back," Natsu countered as some beams fell to the ground nearby, "From here on out, I'm going all in!"
The Fairy Tailers were amazed at Natsu's fiery comeback and resolve, but their attention was diverted from Natsu for a bit. Mostly because the building began shaking.
"Everything's shaking," Igrao said as he looked around.
"I guess they're going at it," Macao remarked.
"Who?" Shuzy asked confused.
"Master Makarov and the Phantom Lord's leader," Erza replied, "Jose."
"This is what happens when Master Makarov's angry," Cana said as she stood holding a card.
"It's called the giant's wrath," Loke explained as he looked upwards.
"Nobody will be able to stop him now," Nab said. Nab was a guy that wears shaman-esque looking apparel. For all Soron knew, the guy was a native of the country they're in.
"If he gets angry," Elfman remarked with a smile, "He gets even manlier."
Erza had her main sword raised and then slashed down once with a stern expression on her face.
"Prepare to fight!" Erza commanded, "We cannot lose as long as Master Makarov is with us!"
"She's right people!" Soron yelled as he stood tall even though his Megatrix's hourglass was still silver, "Fairy Tail shall prevail this day!"
Soron had just punched a Phantom Lord member in the face knocking him down even though he was still in his main form when he heard a cry coming from above. He watched in horror as he recognized Makarov falling to the ground from the very top of the castle. He immediately ran towards where his brilliant mind deduced Makarov would fall due to mathematical equations involving the speed of Makarov's fall and how high up he was. He quickly leapt through the air and caught the old man before he could land on the ground.
While there wasn't a thud, everyone heard the scream and looked to see what caused it. They all widened their eyes in shock and a little horror as they saw how green Makarov was.
"What happened to me?" Makarov asked weakly as Soron laid him on the ground gently, "My magic, it's gone."
Everyone left their battles immediately and ran to Makarov's location and knelt next to him. Erza on the other hand picked him up gently and laid him on her legs as she knelt.
Soron flashed back to the loss of another old man he considered a friend, and clenched his fists in rage. He clenched his fists so hard they became white and blood leaked out of his hands due to his nails piercing the skin and blood vessels.
"What happened to him?" Cana asked as she looked at Soron who was there first.
"I don't know," Soron snapped with an angry expression. She recoiled at his anger, but she knew it wasn't directed at her. Still, she has never seen anyone this angry before. Well, until today. Soron didn't hear anything else as he focused on controlling his rage. Above them, Gajeel watched from the rafters where he hung from a beam upside down with a victorious grin on his face. However, his glee faded when a thought entered his mind.
"Hmph," Gajeel grumbled, "guess the fun's over, and just when things were starting to get good."
Down on the ground…
They were still confused as to how Makarov was weakened so, and Grey was voicing his own confusion.
"I don't understand," Gray said, "Gramps is so powerful, how'd they beat 'em?"
Soron then looked upwards and then at his megatrix which was now charged once more. He looked back up and came to a decision.
"I'm going to find out," Soron said darkly as he brought up his megatrix and began the process to change his form. However, when he heard the jeering of the Phantom Lord members he focused his attention on them.
"On second thought," Soron said as he gave them murderous glares, "You guys handle that. I'll handle these assholes."
Suddenly, the Phantom Lord members charged at them with renewed vigor and belief in victory. Suddenly, Soron was enveloped in golden light once again. As soon as it had ebbed, Soron was standing in a form none of them had seen before.
It was an extremely buff figure that glowed like the Gods did in the Disney Hercules movie. The man happened to look a like a buffer Laxus which made the Fairy Tailers widen their eyes. The man also wore greek-looking armor, but much more similar to the outfit worn by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Hercules movie. On his head was a golden laurel wreath. On his chest was the golden megatrix symbol and he had golden eyes.
"All of your Phantom Lord flies will fry!" the man declared before he raised his hand and zapped lightning out of his fingers sith-style, "None can withstand the might of Jupiter! All are below me, for I am King of the Gods!"
"This guy's off his nuts," remarked one of the Phantom Lord members that had dodged the lightning blasts.
Jupiter looked at him and glared making the PL member terrified beyond belief. The PL member immediately bolted away. Jupiter immediately vanished with a lightning-esque style and appeared in front of the PL member much the same way. The PL member was too slow to stop and ended up getting caught in Jupiter's hand. Jupiter had held out a hand and grabbed the PL member as soon as the guy was close enough. Where he grabbed the PL member was by the neck.
"None who insult me shall go unpunished," Jupiter said with a calm expression as he began squeezing on the man's throat hard enough to make his face go purple and inflate like a balloon.
"Soron!" Erza said becoming horrified at what Jupiter was doing, "Phantom Lord may deserve to die, but we don't get to choose who lives or dies!"
"Shut up you insignificant worm!" Jupiter spat unknowingly transferring electricity into his unfortunate opponent, "Nobody tells the King of the Gods what to do! I am above all! I have every right to decide who lives and who dies!"
"LET HIM GO!" Erza yelled sternly as she looked into Jupiter's eyes. Suddenly, Jupiter dropped the guy and stumbled clutching his head as he did so.
"No!" Jupiter yelled, "This is my body! I won't let you have it!"
He then looked down at the megatrix symbol and grinned insanely.
"I know!" Jupiter laughed crazily, "I'll zap this thing on my chest! After that happens I'll have this body forever! Hahahahaha!"
He then prepared a bolt of lightning and aimed it at his chest, but before he could zap himself he was struck by something. That something knocked his hand away causing him to accidentally blast a PL member. He looked up to see a sword with golden blood oozing onto the floor. That sword belonged to Titania Erza, the Queen of the Fairies.
"I will not let you kill my friend!" Erza stated as she had realized that Soron and Jupiter were two different entities, "He saved my life, and now I shall repay the debt I owe him!"
"You can't stop me," Jupiter sneered, "I am a god and therefore unkillable! Besides, we share the same body even if our forms are different. If you were even capable of killing me, you would also kill him."
"Ice Make: Cage!" yelled Gray causing Jupiter to be trapped in an ice cage.
"Ice…" Jupiter said raising an eye, "Pathetic. Ice is like paper to me. Easily destroyed. It can't hold me!"
"It doesn't have to!" Erza said as she leapt at Jupiter shattering the cage and then pressing the Megatrix symbol as her momentum caused them to fall down with her on tip.
"What the-" Jupiter exclaimed as he began vanishing, "How?"
"Soron told me of the one form he couldn't control and how to stop it," Erza whispered in Jupiter's ear, "He knew I'd do anything to stop it from destroying Fairy Tail. Next time you take control, I will kill you without a second thought."
"Noooooooooo-" Jupiter cried anime-style before vanishing entirely. In Jupiter's place was Soron, and he was confused.
"Um," Soron said reddening a bit, "What happened, and why are you on top of me?"
Erza quickly reddened too and quickly got to her feet and practically flew back to Makarov out of embarrassment.
Above them, Gajeel stared at Soron's watch. He watched the entire thing, and now he knew that Soron didn't have magic. In actuality, he had a device that gave him takeover abilities. There was also a way of disarming him, and that would indeed come in handy… especially against the lightning-based form. That one was a wild card. It could either help Fairy Tail, help Phantom Lord, or destroy both sides. Gajeel grinned evilly as he came up with a plan as to how to defeat the shapeshifter.
"We must retreat!" Erza yelled as she watched the fighting resume, "Everyone, back to the guild at once!"
"No way!" Gray said in disagreement, "We can't just give up!"
"A real man never retreats!" Elfman agreed.
"We can't!" Erza reasoned, "We don't stand a chance against Jose! Now retreat! That's an order!"
"Don't forget!" Soron added, "We have to take care of our wounded!"
"We're going to have a talk later," Erza said sternly to Soron.
Up in the rafters, Gajeel hung upside down as he watched the Fairy Tailers make their retreat. He sneered at how victorious Phantom Lord was this day.
"There they go," Gajeel said, "I knew it wouldn't be long before those gutless cowards gave up and started running for their lives."
"They're retreating with sorrow in their hearts," said a man standing on top of the wooden beam Gajeel was hanging from.
He was a tall, tan skinned man wearing a long green coat over a yellow shirt, and a pair of loose pants. His eyes were covered in bandages and wore a hat that was the same color as his coat. He also had a purple-looking scarf that had white stripes on it.
"Aria," Gajeel said as he flipped over and up onto the beam to crouch next to the other guy, "Nice to see you're just as creepy as ever. I gotta commend you on taking down that Fairy Tail geezer."
"I just followed Master Jose's orders," Aria said dismissively.
"But," Aria added with tears spraying from under the bandages due to him crying, "thank you!"
"Why are you always crying?" Gajeel said a little annoyed, "Geez, cut it out."
"So," Gajeel asked smiling again, "What happened with that Lucy girl?"
Down on the ground, Natsu turned to look up at the two.
"She's been captured," Aria replied once again calm, "the poor wretch is being held in a gloomy cell at headquarters."
"So much for giving her a warm welcome huh," Gajeel joked smugly.
Back on the ground…
Natsu stared with a stunned expression as he tried to comprehend what he heard.
"No way," Natsu said.
"Is there something wrong?" Happy asked concerned when he noticed his expression.
"Gajeel!" Natsu roared.
"We'll finish this someday," Gajeel smirked, "Salamander."
As soon as he finished speaking, Aria raised an arm behind him and they shimmered away.
"Those jerks," Natsu said angrily, "kidnapped Lucy."
"Wha?!" Happy exclaimed.
"Everybody out!" Erza said as she stood waving her arms urging for the Fairy Tailers to leave, "Let's go!"
"I'm not going back yet!" Gray said, "I'm not leaving till I get revenge! They gotta pay for what they did to us!"
"They will," Soron said darkly as he walked up to Gray, "believe me, I know how you feel. However, we still have to regroup. We need to recover our energy, heal our wounded, and above all take care of Makarov. We can't afford to be stupid about this! Being smart is the only way we survive and win the war!"
Gray looked at Soron, and while he was a bit angry at him and a little afraid of him cause of Jupiter… he saw that Soron was being deadly honest. He knew about the war, and now saw why he was the leader in that war of his. Soron was doing everything he can to keep all of Fairy Tail alive since he failed time and time again in his own reality. Soron would never allow himself to make the same mistakes twice. He also realized that Makarov was more important than getting revenge. At that, he agreed to retreat.
The Phantom Lord members chased the Fairy Tailers out of their castle, but unknown to them one stayed behind. Natsu grabbed the PL member at the very back causing him to fall down. He looked up and stared with fear as Natsu stared at him with his head covered in shadow and red eyes glowing.
"No, the Salamander," the guy panicked, "and that cat!"
"That's right," Natsu said darkly, "and we need to chat!"
Later, at the Phantom Lord HQ…
Lucy had been unconscious on the cold stone floor of a castle's cell for quite a while, but now she was awake. She slowly opened her eyes and then bolted up into a sitting position and stared around confused and scared.
"What the?" Lucy asked nobody in general, "How did I get here?"
Outside of the cell door which had a window with iron bars in it, a man shimmered into existence. Said man wore a cliche witch's hat that was colored purple, had a mustache that reaches past his mouth and had a permanent smile. He also had red hair, a purple colored coat-like-thing that had spiky parts to it which lay over a yellow-ish shirt. The shirt had a red odd-looking bowtie. He also wore red knee-length pants, white knee-high socks, and had shoes on his feet as well as bat-like wings on his back which appeared to be just for decoration. The wings were permanently extended after all. That man was Jose, the Master of the Phantom Lord guild.
"So you're finally awake," Jose remarked, "I was getting worried about you Lucy."
"Who are you?" Lucy asked as she looked over her shoulder towards the door. Said door was being unlocked and opened.
"I am Master Jose Porla of the Phantom Lord guild," Jose replied.
At that, Lucy became angry because she hates Phantom Lord for what they did to her guild-mates/friends.
"You're with Phantom?!" Lucy asked angrily.
That's right. I was captured by two of the Element Four, Lucy thought to herself as she flashed back to when that Juvia woman and the strange guy with the stranger accent had rendered her unconscious with Juvia's water-based magic.
"I'd like to apologize for this dingy cell," Jose said as he took a few steps forward, "and being tied up must be degrading."
"But I'm afraid I had no choice my dear," Jose continued, "That is how you treat a prisoner after all."
"You're the jerks who attacked my friend Levy!" Lucy yelled angrily.
"You better let me go," Lucy added, "My friends are gonna come looking for me."
At that, Jose turned around and proceeded to stroke his chin as if in thought.
"Depending on your willingness to cooperate," Jose said, "I'm fully prepared to treat you as Phantom Lord's esteemed guest rather than a lowly prisoner."
"What do you mean by that?" Lucy asked unaware of a centipede crawling up onto her left thigh. However, as soon as she finished her question she noticed the bug and shrieked.
"Ahh!" Lucy exclaimed, "Yuck! A bug crawled on me!"
"See," Jose said trying to push her to agree, "You don't want to stay in here, do you?"
"I have a beautifully decorated suite waiting for you if you promise to behave," Jose continued.
"Why does your guild keep attacking us?!" Lucy demanded now that she had recovered from the experience of a centipede having crawled on her.
"Who is us?" Jose asked confused for a second.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Jose said in realization, "Are you talking about Fairy Tail?"
"It was a means to an end," Jose said with an evil grin, "and that's all."
"What?" Lucy asked confused.
"You see," Jose explained as he faced his palms towards her, "We were working towards out main objective of acquiring a certain someone."
"They happened to be a member of Fairy Tail," Jose continued, "so if we have to destroy a guild to get ahold of it?"
"So be it," Jose finished as he turned his palms away from her.
"Who are you talking about?" Lucy asked confused.
"Oh my my," Jose said amused, "You're such a naive young lady. Not at all what I'd expect from a debutante."
Lucy forgot about her anger for a second as she was shocked that he knew who she was.
"I'm talking about you of course," Jose continued, "Lady Lucy. The privileged daughter of the wealthy Heartfilia family."
"But," Lucy asked not nearly as bravely as she wanted to be, "How did you find out about that?"
"Ya know," Jose admitted, "I'm surprised you never told your fellow guild members the truth. And I don't understand why the daughter of a wealthy tycoon would stoop to such cheap and dangerous work as wizarding for such a low class guild. Do you?"
"I've been…" Lucy said trying to understand, "kidnapped?"
"No my dear," Jose assured her, "I promise it's not like that. We're not looking for ransom money. We're just doing our job."
"We were hired by your father to bring you home to him," Jose finished.
Lucy widened her eyes at that in confusion, surprise, and shock because it just didn't make sense. Why would her father want her back home? It's not as if he really cared about her wellbeing or her in general.
"No," Lucy said in disbelief, "I-I-I-I don't understand. Why would he want me back?"
"Why do you seem so confused," Jose said a little confused himself, "Any father would go looking for a daughter that ran away from home."
"Not him," Lucy said angrily with her eyes shut and head lowered, "honestly I'm shocked that he even noticed I was gone."
"I'm not ever going back to that house!" Lucy declared as she suddenly opened her eyes and looked up at Jose, "I don't want anything to do with him!"
"Oh dear," Jose sighed, "I should've known that you'd be problematic."
"Well," Lucy said, "you might as well just let me go."
"I'm sorry," Jose apologized insincerely, "but I can't do that."
Back at the guild hall…
Master Makarov was now laying on a table and Mirajane was tending to him as best as she could. However, there was nothing she could do except let him rest and allow the spell that was cast on him to wear off. Everyone that had attacked Phantom Lord had returned except for Natsu and Happy. However, they weren't surprised. It was just a Natsu thing to do. The wounded were laying down on soft items that were drawn into creation by the painting wizard. While he's not that powerful, he is indeed very useful in some cases. While everyone tended to their friends and looked in on Makarov from time to time, Soron just sat at a table away from everyone absentmindedly drawing on the table with a knife he had found laying around.
He was furious with himself for transforming into Jupiter, because that form is just too uncontrollable. That is what one gets for asking for an alien transformation based off of the greek gods after all. It would've been better if he went for someone like Balder or Thor if he was being honest with himself. Well, the past is the past. He just has to focus on the present and the future. Speaking of the present, it wasn't looking very good because one of the scariest women he ever met was on her way to him. She didn't have a very happy expression.
"Now that I'm done checking on everyone," Erza said with a stern tone, "Tell me why you turned into that insane takeover."
"Ha," Soron said miserably, "You say that as if turning into Jupiter was my choice."
"Wasn't it?" Erza asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Hell no," Soron snorted, "As a matter of fact, I was going for Krypto-man or Rath. The damned watch malfunctioned again. That's all it was."
"I still can't believe that your wrist item is the source of your power," Erza said as she finally sat down.
"Give it time," Soron said, "Or don't. Whichever floats your boat. Doesn't matter to me one way or the other."
"Why do you wear something that is so faulty?" Erza asked.
"It was the only way to take on the worst evil in my reality," Soron replied, "and I've been using this damned thing for so long, I don't know what I would be without it. Just like you and your armor, my watch is a part of me… if that makes any sense."
"It does," Erza said as she massaged her head.
"Headache?" Soron asked with a raised eyebrow.
"A little bit," Erza admitted. She then looked away and stared at seemingly the rest of her guildmates before she looked back at Soron.
"Can any of your takeovers help the Master?" Erza asked with an expression of hope.
"I'm sorry," Soron sighed as he shook his head, "No. I have a form that can reverse time and look backwards or forwards into time. Unfortunately, none of my forms can heal. Also, reversing time is risky. Sure, he has had a long life and I could possibly do it successfully. However…"
"However what?" Erza asked.
"While it may reverse the physical damages," Soron explained, "It won't return his magical energy, mana, or whatever its called to him. The only thing that can be done is us taking the fight to Phantom Lord again and find the one responsible for his condition."
"Oh," Erza said disappointed even though she suspected this to be the answer anyway.
"Don't worry," Soron said as he leaned forward, "The old man is very strong. He'll pull through. He wouldn't be a Wizard Saint if he couldn't, right?"
Erza just nodded once as she gave him a rare small smile before standing up again. Without another word, she turned around and walked off.
I didn't include the scene of Lucy's abduction because I honestly didn't understand much of the french guy's dialogues. i didn't want to put something inaccurate and so decided to leave that bit out. In anycase, I know that the scene involving Jupiter was a bit too... evil-like. however, in some myths the greek gods(especially Zeus) were jerkwads that believed themselves to be superior to all. also the bit where Jupiter clenched his head was because Soron began to fight back and try to take control of the form. i hope that answered all your questions. if not, then please ask and i'll answer as best as i can.