Pradesh Week has finally come and I have been emersed in the story I have been writing for that. However, inspiration struck for this chapter tonight so here I am writing it all out so I am not put on a hit list for leaving everyone waiting after the last cliffhanger *snickers to herself*

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Laxus looked around the table, still utterly perplexed, as to why the entire Pradesh family was suddenly out for the count. He could feel Cristoff's magic gathering so it was only a matter of time before he would wake up. Even knowing this it didn't make a lick of sense. He had Freed checking the enchantments around the estate, Evergreen was flying around the outside to see if anything looked out of place, and Cobra was listening to the souls of everyone that was left that night.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing was wrong with the estate, the people within it, or the outside surrounding area. WHAT THE FUCK! This made no fucking sense and the four mages were starting too slightly panic. Cobra's soul magic couldn't read what was going on either, just kept getting blurs of darkness every time he went to look them. Laxus' head whipped to the left as he heard Cristoff groan and began to sit up.

"That was un-fucking-pleasant," muttered the lunar slayer as he let his eyes re-focus on his surroundings. He looked at the wide-eyed looks from the four Fairy Tail mages, slightly confused until he looked at the rest of his passed out family.

"What happened to you?" Evergreen gently asked, hoping to not make the slayer freak out more than they were.

"Something happened to Vander." Cristoff began to walk around the room to wake his family up from their current situation. "When we were younger Dad had all of us, excluding Zen since he was supposedly dead, do a Familial Bonding Ceremony. The gist of it is that we all shared a very teeny tiny portion of each others soul so that if any of us were in mortal harm someone would know. However there are only nine people who know about this, seven are in this room, one with Lucy, and the last is Uncle Tesso."

"How can you tell it was Vander and why did it knock all of you out?" Freed had heard of something like this being performed once but the spell was complicated as it was to be replicated like a slayers mating bond. Being able to feel another's emotions, know when they are in danger, and help track them if necessary.

"Vander's magic is out of control and I was swimming in a sea of darkness," Cristoff moved to his father, who was the last to be woken up, "The only way any of us would be temporarily knocked out would be if their life was in mortal danger. The magic will act up and show us glimpses of who it is, supposedly. This was the first time it has ever happened."

"Do we know where Vander is yet?" Arman asked standing up and pushed his chair back with his arms braced on the table.

"No, we haven't he . . . " Freed started to say before a puff of smoke caught everyone's attention. "Loke, what brings you here?"

"Lucy's with Vander and something is seriously wrong with the shadowquip mage," Loke paled slightly when he heard several growls and put his hands up in his defense. "Don't shoot the messenger. Lucy asked me to bring Cristoff with me so that he could try to heal Vander after he was shot with a rather nasty ass dart of some kind." Cristoff went to stand beside the lion spirit with a serious look on his face.

"I'll bring him back and find the fucker who dared to hurt our family!" Golden lights floated around the room before they disappeared leaving several very tense mages to wait.

Hestor was watching everything unfold with Vander and the busty blonde from his L-tablet, cackling in amusement. Stage one of his plan had been flawless and was executed perfectly. He'd only been able to see the last few minutes on his L-tablet due to some interference, but watching her cry over the seizing shadowquip brat made him so happy. He'd weaken all of Kaleb's family members one-by-one until it was only him left, then strike a deal to release his siblings if Kaleb married him. Hestor would have the White Sea guild at his beck and call, the Pradesh family would kneel before him, and Kaleb would be all his.

The water mage was his next target and his mages were crafting something special for her as well, just like they had done for Vander. He had some talented mages who knew how to work with plants, animals, and magic in varying degrees. What they had concocted for Vander was a very deadly, extremely potent nightmare shade, one that fed off the shadows and voids that Vander's magic was immersed in. The cocky brat would be immediately cast into his own shadows while the void demons chased and ate the last of his white soul, corrupting him until he set them free. Then Vander would have to be killed since he was a threat to the innocent people of Bosco. Vander dying wasn't a slight to him at all, as long as the other members of the family were kept alive Kaleb would surrender to him. Xally would be drinking an odorless, tasteless, colorless water toxin that once was in her system would put her in a catatonic state physically and magically.

Nothing could interfere with his plans and he would finally win!

Loke pulled Cristoff into a street of a random small town, shushing the large dragon slayer who as growling at him. He was listening to Lucy as she was instructing him on what was happening right now. Loke's brows furrowed as he began to tell her not do anything stupid, but she cut off their mental connection.

"What's going on Leo!"

"Lucy said that there's someone still watching her. She has discretely sent Virgo and Gemini, dressed as Jet from Fairy Tail, to patrol the perimeter. I am going to drop you off in the forest, but I need you to make it look like you're moon jumping."

"Three gates open, Leo that's quite taxing."

"My Princess is stronger than you think. Oh and pretend like you don't know her. It's part of her plan." Loke quickly moved them to the forest, dropping Cristoff off before heading back to the celestial world to watch from the viewing pool.

"Vander!" Cristoff yelled as he ran from the forest to the beach in record time, completely ignoring Lucy. Lucy moved away from the lunar slayer as his hands began to glow, assessing his brother. "Lucy," he whispered to the blonde. "I am taking him back to the estate. What do I do about you?"

"Go!" He looked into her confident, warm eyes and knew that she was telling him to take Vander and go. He scooped the man into his arms and let the moonlight fill him up before he shifted. It took one lunar shift to get them back to the estate and into the medical area where Xally was waiting for them.

"What do we have?"

"I don't know! My magic can't heal whatever is going on with him, it's like the darkness is overpowering everything." Cristoff was pissed beyond belief, barely holding it together as his brother started to seize again. They were lasting five seconds but his body was thrashing around so much that he knocked a vase over with his arm. Xally put a cooling hand over Vander's forehead and the seizing stopped. Cristoff watched as she pushed her magic through him, biting her lip as she went back and forth with her hands. Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked up at Cristoff.

"Cris I can't . . . I can't figure out what's wrong either," Xally collapsed into her brother's arms as the rest of the mages piled into the room. Arman looked at Cristoff who shook his head no. Kaleb and Cobra walked up to Vander, both trying to use their brand of magic on the man to figure out why he was in such a state.

"Nothing. I can't hear any of his thoughts. Its . . . its like he's not even there." Kaleb looked to Cobra wishing, hoping, praying that he had something more.

"His soul is quiet, eerily quiet. Bicklsow what can you see?" The seith mage's eyes glowed green as he took a look into Vander's soul.

"Vander's soul is slowly darkening. I don't know why . . . I can't see what's going on it's too muddled up. Fuck!" Bickslow fell into a chair behind him eyes wide and full of unshed tears. "Where's Lucy?"

"She told me to leave her behind. She has a plan and Leo said not to worry." Cristoff answered still holding a weeping Xally and looking at the rest of his family who were barely holding back their own tears of despair.

"Dad," Emzadi hugged the man from the side. "What do we do now?"

"I don't know Emzadi. I don't know."

Lucy was had rushed off into the woods to where Gemini Jet and Virgo were patiently waiting for her. She knew that they were still being watched after Vander had been shot with Mavis knows what, years of being spied on and parts of evil plots had honed that instinctual gut feeling. This time she was going to act on it and do everything she could to help her new guild, or soon to be new guild. Lucy had made up her mind while talking with Vander that night and he had made some great points. 1 - Laxus and the Thunder Legion were here so she knew that someone from her old life, 2 - White Sea guild had been around for more than four hundred years, 3 - there were over four thousand mages in multiple branches so she could literally live anywhere in Bosco, 4 - was his family adored her already, and 5 - because he was there. Lucy had laughed at the shadowquip mage.

Gemini Jet went through the forest to find the mages responsible for hurting Vander in the first place and Virgo was going to set up the trap while Lucy used herself as bait. They'd been watching her so they knew she had one spirit for sure and most people underestimated celestial mages. Gemini turned into Lucy and began their trek towards the two men that had been found earlier. Virgo had dug a well placed twenty-foot hole and was waiting with magic canceling handcuffs while Lucy waited from behind a tree to act if necessary. Gemini Lucy 'tripped' and landed in front of Virgo's trap screaming as she fell and landed in the dirt.

"Rakeshi, think we should help this woman back to town or take her with us back to the boss?" A lime green haired man asked his partner.

"She has a low level of celestial magic, so I think Master Hestor would be interested in her to some degree. I think we should take her back Cain," Rakeshi looked over the voluptuous blonde, fully knowing what his master would do to her body before having his team experiment on her. It was a shame too, she was such an attractive little thing. He turned on the L-tablet that was broadcasting back to his master, knowing that he'd heard about the blonde being a celestial mage. The two unsuspecting mages walked over to Gemini Lucy who was sitting on the ground with tears in her eyes.

"Are you here to help me?" her voice cracked as she turned her watery eyes to the two men. "Van . . . Vander brought me here but something happened to him before some man took him away and left me all alone." She wailed placing her face in her hands.

"Don't worry gorgeous. Rakeshi and I will help you to a safer place," the black-eyed mage said as they drew closer to the blonde.

"Oh thank you! I was so worried I'd be out here for days," she shyly smiled back up at them.

"Cain and I will ensure that your safety is our first priority." Which wasn't a lie, they would make sure she was made it safely back to the guild, but from there on out it was anyone's guess. The men were directly in front of Gemini Lucy when Virgo pulled the trigger to her trap and the men went tumbling down, hitting their heads on the way knocking themselves out. Virgo easily slapped on the cuffs and waited for her keyholder to show up.

"Awesome work you two! Gemini I want you to copy both of them, just in case something happens and we lose them. Virgo take them to the celestial world dungeons until I contact you. Great work as always!" Lucy beamed at her two spirits who reciprocated her thanks and Gemi and Mini headed back home. "Virgo?"

"Open gate of the winged horse, Pegasus," the chiming of her spirit coming through the gate was a welcoming sound. The spirit in front of her was a gorgeous white stallion with a large feathered wingspan that was twice as long as his body. His hooves were golden which were the same color as his eyes with an aquamarine mane and tail that was swishing from side to side. This silver key was by far her most normal looking spirit she had in her collection, granted he could transform himself into the size of a small dog and tended to act like a puppy in that form.

"Think you can take me all the way back to Pelerno tonight?" Princess has used a fair bit of her power already tonight with three spirits being out, but I think we should be alright. "Thank you, Pegasus." As Lucy was getting ready to climb onto her spirit's back she noticed a brief flash of something in the moonlight and walked over to where it was coming from. It turned out to be the one man's L-tablet who must have dropped it when he had taken his lovely trip into the dirt. Lucy put it into her bag that was holding Vander and her clothes from earlier and hopped onto Pegasus' back. Fisting her hands in his mane they took off into the night sky and with any luck, they'd be back by the time the sun rose to a happy, cocky Vander.