I know I've been neglecting some of my stories. I'm sorry. For anyone who doesn't know I'm on Ao3 now, writing under the same name. The story I have going over there isn't on here.

Hiro Mashima owns all rights to Fairy Tail. You already know that though.

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"Our boyfriends are gone."

"What!"

"Not yours, Ever. Mine, and Levy's, and Lisanna's, and Meredy's, and Kinana's, and Juvia's."

"They will be back, Lu. They are big boys."

"Erza too."

"Oh... That might be bad."

"Jellal, if your girlfriend kills my boyfriend I'm sacrificing you to balance the equasion."

"She isn't my girlfriend."

"Good, because I totally saw her kissing another guy." Jellal slammed his pen onto the table hard enough to crack it.

"What!"

"Not really. I just wanted to check something." He turned red and wilted into his seat as the girls giggled at him. "Guess I'd better do find them before somebody gets hurt." She was halfway to tge door when two figures entered, the man from the toy store and a little girl with the cutest curly purple pigtails ever. "Dave? Dave! And this must be Sybil."

"Sybil you remember the wizards I told you about last night. This is Lucy. Her magic summons friends from another world." The girl stared at Lucy with big green eyes.

"Would you like to meet one of my spirits?" The girl nodded and Lucy pulled out Plue's key. She didn't need the incantation of even to touch his key anymore, but she wasn't going to instill bad habits in this little potential wizard. "Open, gate of the little dog, Nikora."

"Pun puuunnn!"

"Plue, this is Sybil. She wants to be a wizard someday and has come to the guild to learn about magic. Sybil, this is Plue. He is a companion spirit. He's really sweet and likes to play."

"H-hi, Plue."

"Oh, my goodness! Aren't you just the cutest thing!"

"Mira, this is Dave and his daughter Sybil. They have come up from town for a visit."

"Isn't that precious! Come on up to the bar and it'll make you a smoothie, Sweetie." The promise of sweet food had the little girl scampering after the barmaid.

"I'm afraid my daughter's heart is in her stomachs." Lucy giggled.

"We've got a couple wizards around here like that. Erza will do anything for strawberry cake."

"Erza Scarlet? The Titania eats sweets?"

"It's more of an obsession. She has Strawberry armor. You will find that most wizards have one or two very odd quirks. Our work is very stressful for one and we need coping mechanisms, and a lot of magics affect the wizards that use them to some extent or other."

"Magic... Changes who you are?"

"Not exactly. Take me for example. My magic uses contracts, binding agreements, between me and my spirits. My word is so important I have to be careful what I say, because I can't break a promise. Breaking promises harms my magic. Most of us choose magic that suits our personality anyway, so it just paints us in bolder colors. Levy and Freed are intellectuals and their magic has to do with words and knowledge. Magic becomes a part of who you are, it doesn't change who you already were."

"I see. That makes sense. Where is your boyfriend and his cute little friends? Sybil was so looking forward to meeting them."

"Honestly I'm not sure. Some of us were doing paperwork upstairs behind a sound barrier and when we weren't looking Bix, Erza, Gray, and all our slayers took off somewhere. I'm sure they will be back soon."

"Your dragon slayers?"

"Yep. Well, actually our Sky Dragon Slayer is still here. Wendy is a healer. The ones that took off are Fire, Lightning, Iron, and Poison."

"Wow. There are so many kinds of magic."

"Yep. Just here in Fairy Tail we have dragon slayers, take over magic, fortune telling, elemental wizards, speed magic, plant magic, script magic, weopons magic, flying magic, crafting magic, and a bunch of others. Does Sybil know what kind of magic she wants to learn?"

"Not that she has told me."

"Well, lets see what all we can show her during today's visit."

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"Who made Luce cry!" Natsu's question was about what Bickslow had expected from him.

"You did." The shock on their faces would have been funny if he wasn't so serious about it. "Cosplayer feels like she is weak and useless because you keep treating her like she is. It's crippling her inside. I've got it handled for now, but something's gotta give or she will fall right back into that frame of mind." *greys and yellows, so sad, alone, nightmares, Cosplayer cry.

"Bunny's a badass. Everybody knows that, why doesn't she?"

"Let's see..." Cobra was oozing sarcasm. "Rescued by Smoke for brains, rescued again, only won a fight because the Pussycat summoned himself, bailed out by the blue pony, rescued again, totally powerless to escape from the fish clock on her own, got the shit beat out of her in fron of the whole damn country twice, got rescued again-"

"That's not the way any of that happened!"

"Yeah, Luce has pulled my ass out of trouble just as many times as I have hers! Maybe more!"

"Lucy only needs rescued because her magic makes her a prime target for dark guilds."

"And when was the last time any of you told her that? Or trained with her as if she was an equal? Asked her how she was feeling? Or how about letting her choose a mission that suits her strengths?" *talk to her, Cosplayer strong, listen, yeah listen.

"Blondie isn't like you three. She isn't a brawler and none of you respect that. Fucking pay attention and learn about your fucking team mate before you get her killed with your stupidity."

"We keep Luce safe!"

"You shouldn't bloody have to! She is a Fairy Tail wizard! She's strong enough to kick ass all on her own, and fucking brilliant as shit! If you would just open yiur damn eyes you would see that!" *shouldn't have to, Lucy Kick, so bad ass, so awesome, bright like a star.

"He's right. Bunny's a bad ass. Learn to work with her. If I can learn to work with Minute Man and the Big Guy you shitheads can actually work as a team."

"Swan Whore never took damage like Tits does because she fucking trained in hand to hand. You don't let Tits breath let alone train worth shit. We all know it's not a power issue, cuz she totally kicked her ass the first time my guild tried to fuck humanity with a steel wool dildo."

"There's something seriously fucking wrong with you, Chicken.

"Yeah. And?"

"Despite Cobra's... Crass and vulgar speach I will acknowledge his point. Bickslow," It really made him nervous when Erza focused on him like that. "You are training Lucy, correct?"

"Yes." He repressed the urge to 'maam' her.

"And what is the focus of this training?"

"Acrobatics and evasive maneuvers." Erza scowled at him. "Cosplayer is a mid to long range holder wizard. The brute force that is so important for brawler types like you guys is next to useless for her. Hand to hand is only for when she is backed into a corner." *jump, run, jump, Lucy Kick.

"You are teaching her to run from a fight? How is that supposed to help her see herself as a capable wizard?"

"Actually, Erza, Bickslow might be right about this. He handed me my ass during Fantasia because he could out move me. Natsu and I can neither one catch him, trust me we tried when we were training as a group this morning. All someone with Bix or Lucy's magic needs is a few feet of distance to give them a huge strategic advantage."

"Group training?"

"Yeah. Us, the Thunder Legion, Meredy, and Cobra. We just did what Bix was having Lucy do. It sucked, but I think it will be good for her."

"Runnin ain't always a bad idea. If Bunny could do the shit Disco Princess does I never could have caught her back when I was with Phantom.

"Very well. I will reserve judgment until I see results or evidence that this training is nothing but a waste of time."

"Gee. Thanks." *yeah thanks, so much support. Erza's confidence in his ability to teach his girlfriend how to Not get kidnapped was astoundingly low.

"You seriously think my team got to be as strong as they are by wasting time, Titania?" Laxus seemed a whole lot more upset by her low opinion of his training methods than he was. "Unlike you and your little pack of toddlers they don't sit around with their thumbs up their asses and just hope they accidently blow up the right shit next time they go up against somebody trying to sacrifice children to Zeref and summon a fucking demon. Stop being so fucking narrow minded. Some of us weren't born superhuman like you were."

"I had to fight to be strong. My magic wasn't just given to me like yours was."

Woah. This was getting out of hand. And again there was no Cosplayer or Freed to break it up. That left him as the voice of reason. What was wrong with this world?

"Stop! Just fucking stop, both of you." *yeah, cut it out, don't be babies, be nice. The glares he got from both S-class wizards were absolutely terrifying.

"Awe, but it was about to get bloody. Don't ruin my fun, Echo."

"We are not out here to bad mouth about each other. This is about Lucy." *about Cosplayer, help her, be friends.

"Yeah. Focus on talking about Tits behind her back."

"We all grew up shitty." Gajeel surprised them all by speaking up. "Poking at the shit piles after we climbed the fuck out of them is just stupid. You two have been around the longest and fucking grew up together. You should know that." Erza and Laxus both looked their own brand of sheepish at Gajeel's speech. Bickslow was impressed. He hadn't thought the iron slayer had the ability to spout wise shit like that. Pun intended.

"Luce is gunna think we are out here doing something stupid if we don't go back soon."

"Maybe because you always are?"

"What did you just say to me, Ice Princess?!"

"I said you're a fucking moron!" The rest of them just watched as Natsu and Gray rolled around in the dirt like a couple preschoolers. At least until the magic came out and Natsu caught Erza's hair in fire. Her retaliating ment Gray missed hitting Natsu with his ice attack and, well, everyone knows what happened next.

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Crazy happened in the Fairy Tail guildhall all the time, but Bix was having a hard time wrapping his mind around what he was seeing right now. He and the wizards who had left with him stood in the doorway and gaped at the circus before them. The Straus siblings were on stage performing some sort of music in their takeover forms. At least the younger two were. Mira had her head transformed into Happy while she sang. There was a Solid Script Disco Ball hanging in the guild and Solid Script Butterflies everywhere. Epsilon, Plue, and Virgo were there dancing in completely different, but equally terrifying ways. There were cards and runes, sand and water, plants growing where they shouldn't, purple fire and smoke, and just chaos everywhere.

"What the fuck is going on and wgere the hell is Gramps?" Bix was sure that if Laxus were a lesser man he would be twitching right now. As it was he was sparking a bit. The babies started squeaking about games and playing ant took off into the chaos.

"Who is that?" Erza pointed to the sparkling rainbow dancing with Virgo and Plue.

"Epsilon. Cosplayer's new dolphin spirit."

"Oh."

"Yeah! A dance competition! I'm all fired up!"

"You idiot! It's not... To late." Gray threw his hands in the air and tried to weave through the madness to get to the bar. He lost most of his clothes on the way.

"A competition? Then I must participate!" Nobody was going to tell Erza she was an idiot.

"Babies! Where's your daddy? Does he still have all his parts? Bixy!" Lucy threw herself out of the madness and into his arms like he had been gone a month instead of an hour. "Guess what! We have a visitor! You remember Dave? He brought his little girl to visit us! Come on!" She had a death grip on his arm and Cobra's too. The slayer tried to escape and gave Bickslow a dumbfounded look when he couldn't. "Sybil, Bickslow is finally here! Say hi, Bixy." Bickslow suddenly found himself shoved into a seat and looking into a pair of bright green eyes topped with purple curls.

"Umm... Hi, Sybil." The little girl giggled.

"You have a man on your face. That's silly. Papa, can I have a man on my face too?" Bickslow was horrified, but Dave just laughed.

"No honey. Bickslow has that mark because of his special magic." Lucy slapped her hand over her face and made a choking noise and Cobra rolled his eye.

"For real man? That's just stupid."

"Hey! Wanna talk about your thought process when you did your perminant make up?"

"F- er, funny. Real funny, Echo." Lucy collapsed in a fit of laughter. Kinana eyed Lucy warily as she came by to refresh the table's drinks.

"Sybil came by to learn about the different types of magic. That's why... 's why that." She pointed at the sand castle making contest Max was obviously winning, though Laki was cheeting her way into second place by shoring her castle up with wood.

"Lucy!"

"Erza! Great timing! You just have to show Sybil your Strawberry Armor!" Erza had strawberry... Armor. Wow. Erza grinned and reequipped into something that looked not a lot like armor, but a whole lot like a strawberry."

"Wow! That's so cool! Can you eat it?"

"Sadly no. However it does smell devine." The little girl started sniffing Erza and Bickslow could hear Cobra muttering to himself.

"Fucking nuts and crazy too."

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To be continued.