Team Natsu frowned at the papers scattered around the floor. They all took Crux's advice and decided to draw out each letter in "To My Daughter" and try to rearrange it. So far they came up with nothing. Erza frowned and banged her hand on the ground, startling everyone.

"Dammit! We've been at this for an hour." Lucy nodded and rubbed her temples. Natsu had been left with happy do to a bit more searching, but came back empty handed. They slammed open the door. Unfortunately, this broke Erza's concentration.

"Yo! We couldn't find-"

"I was just on to something you fool!" Natsu squeaked from fear and hid behind Lucy's form. Lucy slapped her forehead and slid the hand down her face. She was exhausted from frustration of trying to figure out what the letters rearranged were. Just then, she heard Natsu suck in a breath. She turned and looked over at him. His mouth was wide open and he had an exaggerated expression crossing his face.

Lucy's eyes widened and she ducked just in time for him to sneeze so intense that it blew the letters all around, landing the team back at the beginning. Erza's eyes darkened and she clutched her fist so tight her knuckles turned paper white. Natsu was about to run when Lucy noticed something about the papers.

"Look! Some of the letters spell out myth!" Everyones attention turned to the word. Erza then smiled so wide it scared almost everyone in the room. She pat Natsu's head and brought him to her chest plate and smashed his head to it. He groaned.

"Good work Natsu. It would be nice if you helped like this more often."

"But I didn't do anything..." Gray and Lucy ignored the two and grabbed letters to start piecing together the rest of the title. They came to the conclusion "Duo Great Myth." Gray looked at it and scratched his head.

"Is this supposed to be right?" Michelle asked Lucy. Lucy placed a hand on her chin in thought and closed her eyes. Momentarily, she frowned but then grinned when finding the answer. It was as if a light bulb went off in her head.

"Ah! There were two books written by Will Neville known as the two great myths. One called 'Life of the Clockwork', which is coincidentally where the strange inscription was." Lucy told everyone. She decided to search with Levy and Michelle one day on the inscription since Levy couldn't find it herself. They had came across a passage in that book that was the exact copy of the inscription.

"Don't you have that book in your apartment?" Michelle asked. Lucy nodded.

"Yep! And for the other book 'Key of the Starry Heavens' is right here," she held up the book she found a while ago for everyone to see. "I couldn't think of the title right for the life of me, but when I stepped in this library, it was like something clicked and I remembered it." She dusted off the cover.

"That looks like just a plain old picture book." Natsu deadpanned. Lucy made a sour face and scoffed at Natsu's words.

"It's not just a picture book- it's a work of art!"

"Well whatever it is, it has something to do with those guys we met back at the guild. And for some strange reason...I feel like they might be after something in this book..." Marie trailed off. Lucy shrugged and pointed the book in front of her.

"You guys think it could be another anagram? Nah, probably not but I do think you're right Marie. Something in this book could be important." Carla looked up at the book cover and furrowed her brows. She studied the book and found it moving, her abilities must be kicking in. She watched the girl in the book get closer and closer until she turned around, the girls expression was horrifying and full of despair.

Carla gasped. It seemed only Wendy had noticed her inner turmoil. "Are you okay Carla. You don't look so good." She bent down and soothed Carla's growing headache while Lucy kept talking about what the book could mean.

"This must be the sign jude is trying to tell me. I just wish I could figure this out much quicker...he must be surprised by how slow I'm going." Lucy smiled sadly and flipped through the book, skimming over the pictures and words. That's when she felt an annoying presence behind her.

"Uh is there something you wanted to show us all happy?" Happy, from the ground, held up his win book. Tortoise and the Hare.

"This is one of my favorite stories! I believe the 'Tortoise and the Hare' is an amazing work of art as well!" That's when a different voice filled the large library. Marie was the only one who laughed and smiled at his silly antics.

"I think it would be wise to give us that book." Everyone froze and looked around for the voice. Just then, the doors looked like they grew so large that they exploded. From in the doorway, there were two bodies. One was a cat, another exceed, and a man with a wide oblivious grin. Lucy unconsciously held the book tighter to her chest and turned her expression to angry. She just decided that she was going to buy back the mansion and they are destroying it!

"You can't have my book!" Happy called, protecting his own book as well as he could. Lucy would of laughed if they weren't in such a situation. The newcomers only ignored him and looked at Lucy expectantly. The man stayed silent and looked around the large library while the cat flipped through a book and only gave her a sideways glance.

"Such a simple equation. The handle grew twice in size and in turn, made the door explode." Everyone looked shocked upon looking this cat.

"He's an exceed!" Happy yelled out. Marie was just as shocked as the two others, choosing to sand closely behind Lucy just in case.

"He must of been from Extalia like us and decented to Earthland when he was born." Carla concluded.

"Who are you?" Gray asked.

"The brains of the Legion Platoon." The lighter blue cat retorted, fixing his glasses that rested on his face. He closed the book and held it under his small arm. At this time, anger radiated from Lucy as she gazed at the two intruders.

"You two made a big mistake coming on this property and destroying my home no less. You'll both pay..." Magic swirled around Lucy as she was about to attack the two. Fortunately Erza transformed into her lightning armor and stood in front of Lucy.

"I'll take care of them. Just make sure you get away. You have the book they want." Lucy bit her lip, wanting to fight but ended up just agreeing with Erza. Gray and Natsu stood with Erza

"I knew you all would come here to look for the book and it seems my calculation was correct. All we had to do was follow you and wait for you to figure it out. Honestly, I thought you'd be much quicker. It was almost painful to watch you struggle at something so easy."

"Oh you're just picking a fight now! Is it okay if I freeze this kitty into a block of ice?" Gray yelled to no one in particular.

"Only if I can fry him into a kabob after you're finished!" Natsu answered back in anger. Natsu slammed his fist into his other hand and projected a fire dragon roar his way. Gray chose to use ice lance to shoot them towards the exceed.

"You will get nothing from us!" Erza said as she used her wand like staff and shoot lightning. The exceed only looked emotionless as their attacks got closer. A body then appeared in front of the cat and he used his shield against their attacks. Everyone gasped as their powers shot back at them.

"Cool ain't it? It's a reflection shield. It's called ricochet. Shoots any attack back at the attacker. I am Dan Striaght of the Legion Platoon!" The man from before laughed.

"And I am Samual. Now give us the book little girl and we'll leave you all alone. No one has to get hurt. To be frank, i find violence appalling but sometimes drastic measures must be taken to get it through some heads." Natsu growled and clenched his fist. Luckily everyone was able to dodge their own attacks, but it broke all the windows instead.

"Stop! I was going to buy this place back but you guys are ruining my home!" Lucy screamed to the group. She was too scared to even look at the damage they caused.

"Let's not ruin Lucy's childhood home guys." Gray suggested.

"Ugh why must you guys be a pain in the ass!" Natsu screamed and directed another fire attack against Dan but he only used his shield once again to bounce fire balls all over the library, completely ruining it. Lucy screamed, feeling the need to punch something...or someone.

"How annoying." Dan sighed.

"Alright I can't take this anymore. I'm going to lead them out so this place doesn't go and collapse on us."

"Her! The blonde has the book Dan." Samual announced. Lucy smirked and held the book up for the man to see it. She even waved it around a little to catch his attention quicker.

"Is this what you want? Come and get it!" She yelled to him. Dan only froze and watched the blonde haired woman with awe. This confused her for a split second but she didn't dwell on it and turned to run out of the room and out of the mansion. He suddenly shot his sword and it landed right in front of Lucy, scaring her.

"Kyaa!"

"Such beauty! Those lips, that hair, that chest, that waist, those legs!" Lucy stood there with a shocked expression and watched as he slammed his fist into the floor. Everyone else had the same reaction as she did, just staring blankly at the man. "What do they call a goddess like you?" He grabbed her hand and kissed it.

"Uh Lucy." She slipped out of his hold and blinked as Dan got excited from just hearing her name. Not only was she embarrassed, but she was irritated by this guy's weird behavior.

"Lucy! Can I call you loopy? Lucy-kins? Loopy pie maybe?" He leaned up against his own sword and called out different nicknames. They were all either weird or made her feel super uncomfortable. She just scratched her neck.

"I don't know." Erza then jumped out and tried attacking him again.

"Lucy run!" Lucy nodded and sprint to where Natsu was and watched Erza shoot more lightning towards him. This only angered Dan as he used his shield once more.

"How dare you come between me and my love." Lucy fanned a hand in front of her face, the temperature was spiking. She looked beside her to see Natsu. He crossed his arm and glared daggers at the weird enemy. Dan reflected Erza's magic, this propelled Erza to land right in front of the rest of the group. She transformed her armor into her cheetah outfit.

"I'll distract them both while you two make a getaway." Erza announced to both Lucy and Michelle.

"Right!"

"And as for you other, make sure Lucy gets out safely" she directed to the rest of Team Natsu. Natsu only twitched his eye.

"I want to fight this jerk myself."

"Your only job is to make sure Lucy is safe."

"I see your ego is swelled pretty large." Samual noted with a condescending smile. He shook his head in pity. Dan smirked as well.

"It wouldn't be wise to underestimate the power in the Legion Platoon." Team Natsu only ignored this warning and waited for Erza to give the go. Erza adjusted her footing and planted them deep onto the floor. She internally counted to three before shouting;

"Now!"