The Fox and the Devil

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all. -ARTHUR BYRON COVER, Night of the Living Rerun

"Zosie is there anyway Sam will let you come visit me? I miss my favorite poison mage." Piper laughed as she mockingly whined on the phone.

"Oh sweetie I wish I could come see you in person. I miss our little chats. Tell me about these Fiorian men. Are they as hot as the men here in Sin?" Zosia asked with a throaty laugh. Piper laughed with her friend. She knew her friend was a lusty woman. She was a former Joyan succubus. She grew up with a tribe that served a Joyan War Queen. They performed rituals and ceremonies that called forth succubi from the depths of the underworld to bestow chosen members of the tribes the sacred duties as a tribal succubus. Zosia wouldn't talk about to Piper but something had happened that had gotten her excommunicated from her tribe and her country when she was 20 years old.

Piper was able to skirt around her friend's question about the men in Fiore and focus on other things like her brother when she heard a sound she was getting familiar with on normal sunshiny days, a loud crack of thunder near where Fairy Tail was located. "Is it raining there, sweetie?" Zosia asked.

"No it's actually a nice bright sunny day for the start of summer. That, Zosia, was the local guilds master Laxus Dreyar arriving at the guildhall. He's a lightening dragon slayer. Annnd before you ask you horny woman, he's married to the guild master of the White Seas out of Bosco. They have the cutest little girl, too." Piper eased her friend's anxiety and sensuality.

"She must be one lucky woman…" Zosia started to ramble before Piper interrupted her because she heard frantic knocking on her door.

"One sec Zosie. Someone is at my door." Piper told her friend.

Wendy reached the Hatchet-Pascale residence in no time using her dragon force. It gave her that boost to her speed making her a fuchsia haired rocket. She normally kept her cool when her teammates or guild mates were injured. Gray's physical wound would have been nothing for her to heal, but he had a succubus's poison in him that she had no experience with to combat it. Cobra was gone on a month long mission and if he didn't want found; he wasn't found. Wendy's emotions were running a bit high at the moment. She knew that Piper worked with poison and toxins. She was Wendy's ace in the hole. She knocked on the door in a frenzied manner because she was still in her dragon force.

Piper opened the door to a wild-eyed pink haired woman. It didn't dawn on her for a second who she was looking at. "Wendy? What's going on, chica?"

Without missing a beat, "Piper! We need you at the guild! Gray's been injured. I've healed his physical wounds but he's been poisoned by a succubus and I can't treat that. I figured you could help me…" Wendy spilled it all out in one breath.

Piper got the jest of the situation. Gray injured and poisoned by a succubus. "Zosie how fast can you get here? There is a guild mage poisoned by a succubus and they can't treat it."

"Uhh…honestly sweetie probably twelve hours that's pushing myself. You are practically on the other side of the world from Sin. Let me talk to Sam...Remember the basic first aid I taught you that will give you until I get there." Zosia hung up.

Piper put her sneakers on and followed Wendy to the guildhall. Wendy's dragon force had subsided the young woman's hair was back to the deep blue that Piper was used to seeing. Wendy filled her in on what had happened to Natsu Lucy and Gray. "Wendy that sounds terrifying. And all of you mages just go on these dangerous jobs like this? Your guild fought in the Alvarez War. I'm grateful that you had the courage to stand up to the evil forces that had happened here in Fiore. Helping you all in any way will be my honor to do so. I have a Joyan succubus she is going to try to get here but it's going to take her about twelve hours of travel time as a teleport mage. Is there any way someone can gather dandelions nettle and green tea."

"I'm grateful that you're able to help us Piper. I've never encountered a succubus before. I've been training with another dragon slayer out of Bosco to improve my healing but Cris hasn't talk about poisons or at least succubus poisons yet. Usually Cobra takes care of it since he's a poison dragon slayer." Wendy explained.

The two continued to talk as they quickly walked to the guildhall. Once inside many faces turned to both women, looking at them with hope. Hope that they could save the devil slayer upstairs. Wendy saw Droy sitting next to Jet as usual, she barked out orders for the herbs that Piper required. The two mages took off out of the guild in search of them. Piper went behind the bar that was curiously absent one platinum haired bar tender. It didn't matter to Piper she knew where Mira kept the green tea. Wendy went on ahead of her upstairs while she prepared a metal carafe of water and one insulated cup. She waited for the two mages that ran off to return. She knew it would take them long. Droy was a green mage would probably grow the herbs she needed and send them to her via the speed mage. She pulled out a mortar and pestle.

Piper waited maybe ten minutes before Jet showed up with an abundance of the herbs she needed. She thanked the speed mage with a genuine smile. She carefully placed the herb on the tray she had made. Metal carafe, mortar and pestle, herbs, then made her way upstairs to the infirmary.

The scene that she witnessed when she entered the infirmary was overwhelming. The emotions hit her like a tidal wave. The anxiety was the worst. The dragon slayers that were present were the first to notice her arrival. Laxus was with his mate the furthest away. She heard him growl at her. She just ignored him. She had gotten used to his gruff and grumpy mannerisms. Kaleb smiled at her and put her at ease. She did feel a slight brush to her mind when she was around the mindbender. Bix had told her about his magic and not to worry about it. Natsu stood at the foot of the bed running his hands through his hair nervously, Lucy and Mira on one side of the bed. Mira comforting the blonde while Wendy was on the other pushing her magic into Gray. He stole her breath as she seen the blackness that was almost fully covering his body. She didn't feel fear. She felt the overwhelming need to save him. She navigated her way to the side of the bed the blondes were on. She asked Lucy to find her a stand to put her tray on while handing Natsu the metal carafe to boil the water in it. When he had the water steaming hot, he placed it back on the tray. Piper handed him the nettles and dandelions, and instructed him to dry the herbs to a dry brittleness. He handed them back to her. She placed them into the mortar and pestle and created the crushed leaves to make tea with.

Piper was letting the tea steep when she heard another familiar growl from the corner. "Is there a problem, Master Laxus?" was the only thing she could say.

"Yeah, I have a mage dying and you're making fucking tea! Care to explain why you did bring crumpets?" Laxus growled.

Piper's yellow eyes met the steel blue of the guild masters. She took a deep breath and put on her biggest smile, "Master Dreyar, how many succubi do you know? Do you know the basic first aid treatment for a succubus's bite? If you know all of this then I'll take my 'tea' and go find my crumpets and finished what's left of my evening with my papas. I don't have any obligations to this guild as you have pointed out to me several times over the past few weeks. In the meanwhile, I'll call my best friend who is a Joyan succubus and can reverse this, to tell her she can stay in Sin." Piper finished in a cheery voice. She poured a cup of tea and handed it to Mirajane to help Gray sip it.

Piper walked over to the enraged lightening dragon slayer. She felt this calmness to her. She felt an inner guide telling her to go to him and comfort him. She had never felt this before. She walked right up to the huge man who towered over her. She only came up to his chest. She felt no fear no panic, only the desire to calm him. She placed a hand on his forearm, looked at the mindbender and got a silent nod. She pulled Laxus's face down to her face level so she could look him in the eyes, "I would never harm him, or anyone else in this guild." She stretched up on her tippy toes and placed a small kiss on the bulging vein that was pulsing there. She held him like that until she felt the giant blond relax and she let him go and he resumed his normal stature. Piper then turned and returned back to Gray's bedside. No one said a word at what just happened.

Laxus, I told you kitsune magic is at work here. I've never seen you go from an almost murderous rage to calm that quick. I'm putting some calls in. I have someone that needs to meet her.

Whatever Kaleb. I'm just confused by everything. Do what you think is necessary. I just don't want one of my mages hurt. She's not either of our responsibilities.

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West Nitespring's upper class neighbor sat a beautiful villa style 2-story style home with brown stucco siding with traditional tiled roofing. It had the rote iron railing and fencing. Flagstone walkways up to the home and native plants with red and orange blooms lined it. The door was a massive solid oak door with glass panels in the middle. The Sinclair's called this place home for the past 25 years. Opal and Frank Sinclair moved here before the seith banned in Bosco. They moved to Pelerno before their clan was destroyed by Strauss Dresdan. They had raised their late in life son Nick Sinclair here in West Nitespring as a Boscan. He may have never enjoyed the Grass Sea but he did enjoy the ocean that was 200 feet from the back deck of their gorgeous home.

Opal and Frank Sinclair were in their 60's now, and they laid in there long time bed in West Nitespring. Opal normal slept well, but not this night. Opal tossed and turned in the big bed she shared with her long time husband. Frank was awoken because he took and elbow to his ribs. He sat up and saw his lovely wife's silver locks sweat soaked. She was wrapped up in the sheets. Her face twisted up in a frightful expression. He saw this exact expression twice. Both times, they had to move. Both times, they avoided tragedy. "Opal…Opal, my love wake up. Tell me what you see." He gently prodded her to reality.

"Nooo…mmm…Fraaank…Frank!" Opal mumbled til she realized she was fully awake. She dove into her husband's arms and buried her face in his chest. She trembled when she got these dreams.

He held her until she collected her thoughts and calmed herself. He waited. He never pushed her to talk. She would talk when she was ready. "Frank we need to leave, soon. West Nitespring is about to be engulfed in a war that we will not survive if we stay, especially, Nicky." She tried to hold a sob in as her son's name passed her lips. "I need to talk to Sylvia." She said abruptly. She hurriedly got out of their bed, gathered her robe, and moved like a ghost to her sister's room.

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Cat tracked her prey like her nickname's namesake. She watched her purple mohawked mouse from a distance, listened to Tito tell her important details about what he was doing from a closer vantage point. She'd done this surveillance many times before when she was working for the Steel Council, before they made her a Bloodhunter. She hadn't seen him for about a week since their bloody meeting in the warehouse district when he pull a gun on her and threatened to end her there just for being a seith mage. She looked at his soul now. It was very dull and dim. She worried. Souls that dimmed and faded like that were hard to get back. Momma he's just sorta eating some fries. The basket is still mostly full. He needs a friend. Would you come over here and talk to him. Her little soul asked. Tito had been with her since she was about six years old. She's had a few others here and there throughout her life but they always moved on. He always remained with her. Grammie told her he was her guardian and that's why he never moved on. This was the first time he worried about someone he watched up close for her and asked to join them.

She got up from the table she always sat at in the corner and walked over the gunner mage. She plopped herself down across from him, stole a fry with some ketchup and asked, "What's got you so down, Charlie Brown?" then popped the fry in her mouth with a warm smile on her face.

Riko was deep in his thoughts. He was normally aware of his surroundings and knew when anyone approached him, but again this blonde woman moved with the gracefulness and silence of a cat that stalked its prey on the savannahs in the north near Pergrande. He never heard her or sensed her, but then again he wasn't really there in West Nitespring mentally. The loop of what happened with Serenity was playing. So when she joined him he barely noticed. He looked up at the blonde and just grunted at her. He didn't have the energy to deal with her. He didn't want to talk to her. Her magic was disgusting to him. He just hung his head and toyed with a fry.

Cat watched the man pull further into his shell. She also smelled the alcohol on him, the lack of personal hygiene. He has a few days growth of beard, the strip of purple on his head was greasy looking. Cat knew depression and PTSD when she saw it. She dealt with it personally. Her friends and herself suffered from it because of what happened to them while Grendace was Captain of the Bloodhunter. She let out a huge sigh, "Dude, shit won't get better if you keep whatever it is to yourself. Go talk to someone about whatever it is eating you alive, k. Before you do something stupid." She got up and went to go talk to Zosia about him. She knew what the stupid was.

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Strauss was furious. He was just given news that his most trusted shadow mage was dead, killed by his own fucking daughter. Catrina was here in West Nitespring. His daisy working against him. They were supposed to be a team. She was going to be in shadow wielding seith mage hybrid, but his bitch of a mother in law Sylvia Sinclair had somehow removed the shade possessing his daughter. They went into hiding and he was unable to find them until now. He was done with this little game that he was playing with the Red Foxes. He knew where that little bitch was being hidden in Magnolia. He could get her anytime. Right now, he needed to show those Foxes the might of the Crows. He had one loyal seith mage left. The others were either cowardly and bailed, in jail, or dead. His shadows stirred to life in his large office space. He summoned the deadliest he could manage and sent them to the Foxes guildhall and anywhere that harbored that emblem. He was going to watch that fucking guild burn to the ground. He picked up his com and called his remaining seith and gave her an order and the com when dead.

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Zosia popped into Sam's office unannounced just liked he hated she did, but it kept him on his toes. "Sam, Piper needs me in Magnolia. She's fine but someone in the guild there is poisoned with Succubus poison. She has started the first aid for it but I need to go. I need your…" Zosia rambled off.

"You can go Zosia. Astrid here will take you. She can travel through the voids and get you there faster than your teleport while conserving your magic." Sam ordered. The women didn't question and nodded in acknowledgement.

Astrid walked over to Sam and gave him a kiss before leaving with the tall greenette. She knew where Magnolia was. She had been there many times following the shadows and the ebbs and flows of powerful mages. She turned her red eyes to pale blues, "Ready?" The tall woman nodded as they disappeared into the shadows. Astrid was used to travelling in the voids; she knew they were cold and the dangers of the voices and tugs that occurred there. It was the nature of her magic. She wielded her magic confidently. She only knew of one other being that could move through the voids like her and she hadn't seen him in years. She spoke to her green haired passenger, "Ignore the voices and do not let go of me. It easier to keep your eyes closed. This is different from teleport magic. I'm pulling us through the voids between the worlds where the shadow creatures lurk. We are almost there."

Zosia had been with demons of the Underworld in order to be granted her succubus power and fangs, she was never afraid. She faced some dark dark guild mages, never faltered. She even had to kill, didn't faze her. This, traveling through the voids, scared the ever-living shit out of her. She felt hands pull at her hair, clothes, arms. She heard whispers of desires, power, and nightmares in her ears. Her skin was cold, colder than being in Iceberg in the middle of winter in a bikini. Astrid was right this was not like teleporting. This was the true shadow realm. She tightened her grip on the shadow mage.

Piper sat on the edge of Gray's bed and helped him sip the green tea. Everyone had been shooed out by Mira. Porlyusica has come and stitched up the part of the wound that Wendy could get to mend together. The women had bitched out everyone in the room and threatened them with a broom except her and Wendy. Piper noticed that when the old woman noticed her she calmed down almost instantly like Laxus did when she touched his arm earlier. "Child what are you giving him?" She asked with a curious look in her eyes.

"Uh…it's a first aid mixture of nettle dandelion and green tea for succubus poison. This is to help boost his liver to help cleanse his body until my friend can get here from Sin." Piper explained with confidence to the pink haired old woman. Gray had fallen asleep quickly with Piper running her fingers through his dark locks.

"I see. So are you from there, Sin?" Porlyusica continued to question her. "You've never came to bother me at my house like the rest of the brats at Fairy Tail."

"Si, I'm from West Nitespring, Sin. I'm part of the Red Fox mage guild there even though I'm not a mage myself. I'm a professor in biochemistry at the local university. My friend is a Joyan succubus that how I know how to treat him until she gets here." Piper explained and looked at Gray like a woman in love.

Porlyusica didn't miss the look and asked, "How much do you know about the mage your pining over my dear? Has he told you anything about himself?"

Piper nervously laughed, "I know his name and that he's an ice make mage. He's in Fairy Tail. We've never been out on a date. So I know very little about him, but I want to. I'm not bashful about how I feel about him. I've grown up and have a few Boscan friends. Life has just gotten in our way."

"Hmmm…well that's his tale to tell then" The old woman said.

"Can you tell me one thing that has me confused, please?" Piper begged.

"What is it child?"

"These black markings, I've seen them before like when he fights or he gets upset. It just I've never seen it almost completely cover his body like this. I know this isn't because of the poison…" Piper was sincerely confused by the blackness.

"That blackness is part of his magic and that's all I'm going to say about it. It's nothing to worry about. It's helping him."

Piper adjusted herself on the bed and that earned a growl Gray. She moved again but stretched out next to him. She curled around his good shoulder and his head so she could continue carding her fingers through his hair. The women fell silence. Piper hummed as she watched Gray rest. His face relaxed. She noticed the on his left arm the blackness was started to retreat little by little. She hoped the meant the tea was helping. She prayed to the Gods that Zosia would hurry up.

As if the Gods had heard those prayers, her friend and another woman she vaguely knew from Sin appeared out of the shadowed corner of the room. Zosia was wide-eyed and looked a little frazzled. Not an expression Piper was used to on the tall greenette. Piper carefully untangled herself from Gray who had somehow wound himself around her in the past 30-minutes. Piper quietly hugged her friend and thanked the other woman for bringing her friend here so quickly. Zosia took one look at the man on the cot and moved quickly to him. Her fangs elongated in her mouth and started dripping a clear fluid. Her eyes turned white and pupiless. She raised his left arm to her mouth and bit it. She released the anti-venom into Gray's body. After a minute, she was finished and licked his wrist and placed it back in a comfortable position.

"There sweetie. He has the antidote in him give him a few hours and he should be back to normal." Zosia smiled. Porlyusica took notes as to what was happening but stayed aloof. Zosia's smile changed to an expression of fear and standing on her tiptoes. Gray was still covered in that blackness was behind her holding her up with one. A voice that Piper didn't recognize as Gray's emitted from the man, "Succubus whore tell me why I shouldn't pull your spine out through your back right now and leave you on the floor for that fox's shadows to consume?"

Piper's mind kick started from the shock over what she was seeing and hearing. "Gray! Put her down! She just saved your life you jackass!" Red eyes turned and met her yellow ones. It felt like minutes passed. Gray considered what Piper had said to him. He released Zosia. She felt to her knees. Piper went straight to her friend to help her. Astrid moved quickly to get between them. She was growling at the man. Her red eyes glowing and her shadows were ready to answer her calls if needed.

"My fight isn't with you shadow fox. The succubus whore startled me when I woke up, that's all." Gray said with his eyes still red.

Piper was furious as she stood. Zosia was her friend and dropped everything to come here and save the man she was developing feeling for then he in turn pays her back by threating to kill her. This was so not happening. "Gray! You will apologize to Zosia! You will NOT call her a whore! She is my best friend! You should be thanking her for saving you not trying to kill her!" She was shaking with anger. She had a pointer finger wagging at him.

Gray who was still under the control of Astaroth, watched the purple haired vixen admonish him for what he did. Her yellow eyes lit with anger. Her stance enraged as she trembled. He was turned on by the fact that a mortal dared to stand up to him. Her back ridged with a slight forward lean, her eyes glowing in fury. Her voice was music to his ears. He slowly sauntered to her. He'd had be wanting her for weeks but his roomy was not making his moves fast enough. He didn't care that there were others in the room. He could crush them all but he didn't want to make enemies. He needed to taste her, feel her. He wanted to have her. He reached her she was still going on and on about something, she did relent until he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into him. She quieted and stilled in his arms. She looked up into his eyes. The rage gone only to be replaced with something else. He bent down to claim her lips. She rose to meet him half way. Her hands were bunched up on his chest. He felt her breath on his lips then he felt their softness. If he wasn't a demon of the Underworld, he would have sworn he was in Heaven. He wanted more but knew he couldn't go any further. He pulled back from the tender kiss.

Zosia just gawked at her friend. She was wrapped up in the arms of the man that promised to kill her. She had no idea what to do. She was conflicted by the scene happening in front of her. Astrid growled at the man. She knew that Piper was Sam's godchild. She would not let this demon enslave her. She called her magic forth, gathered a black inky ball of fire into her hands and threw it at the demon. It hit him square in the back. With Astaroth distracted, Zosia grabbed Piper pulled her back from him and let Astrid squared off with him. The raven hair woman snarled and growled her canines long and menacing.

Laxus and Kaleb were in his office that was in the same floor as the infirmary. He was leaned back in his chair. He moaned in ecstasy as he buried his hands in his husband's platinum blond locks that were bobbing up and down between his legs. He needed this release. He had been so fucking tense this past few days and getting anytime alone with Kaleb was difficult. Ila was outside playing with Asuka and Bisca. This was a rare moment for them both. He felt his mates hand slide up and grasp his sack as he hummed. He was so close. He moaned louder and his hips started to thrust in rhythm with Kaleb's head movements. Just as he was about to release into his partner's mouth, there was a long loud growl with a snarled and snap. That killed his mojo and he knew he and Kaleb were going to have the worst case of blue balls. Laxus stood up and jerked his pants back into place. He roared in frustration and stormed out of his office to just outside his office. Kaleb was already on his heels. His attire straightened and his hair pulled back in a low ponytail.

Both large blonds pull up short just outside the office. The scene was confused chaos. All Laxus's dragon slayers were outside the infirmary door in dragon force being fended off by Mirajane in her Sitri soul takeover. No one wanted to hurt either party, but the snarls and howls that Laxus heard weren't coming from any of the slayers. He couldn't place the high pitch yips and yelps but he couldn't deal with that right now. "Stand down all of you! Would someone like to explain what the fuck is going on! Why are all of you slayers up here with your claws out looking like you want Mira's head on a plate? And what the hell Mira? Sitri? Really? Someone better start talking and now!"

Kaleb had already started pushing into the minds of the slayers. All he could tell is that they were reacting to the strange magic that was thick in the air. Kaleb could get past the mental shields of Mirajane. She stood in front of the infirmary door arms cross her large chest covered in the blue and white outfit that covered her body, her white hair blown out with golden horns on either side of her head. Her eyes burned red. She made no move on anyone. She made eye contact with Kaleb and shook her head 'no'. He moved his mind-bending magic to the people inside the room. He was able to brush Piper's mind but it was fuzzy because of the magic hanging heavy in the air.

Piper, it's Kaleb. Can you show me what's happening? There is able to be a war outside the door between Mira and the dragon slayers and we have no idea why.

Kaleb? Uh…hang on… She let Kaleb see what she could see. What he saw didn't help his confusion, but he was quickly putting things together. He saw Gray just standing there taking hit after hit of black fireball from a woman with long black hair and red eyes. She was the source of the growling and snarling. Her magic was something Kaleb had never felt before. Gray was just laughing. He was just looking through Piper's eyes. He seen she was moving towards the door. He cut the mental link.

Piper felt a slight snap in her head. She ignored it. She got to the door and swung it open with an urgency it bounced off the wall a little. She looked at what was going on. Guild mate against guild mates. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" to no one in particular that was all she could get out before Mira pushed past her and snatched the raven haired woman and held her in the air watching her struggle. Calmly Mira looked at Gray, "My lord Astaroth, what would you have me do with this little fox? Shall I kill it?" Mira smiled cruelly.

"No you won't Mira! Put Astrid down. She's my guild master's wife. You kill her…you will start a war!" Piper screamed. Astrid was struggling to keep her façade up and ears appeared on her head and her long black silky tail hung limp. She was trying to drag air into her lungs.

"Release Sitri. I do not wish to start another war in the mortal realm." Gray stated. "And return back into the mortal. I don't require your aid. I've tasted what I wanted." He looked at heatedly at Piper.

"Very well, my lord." Mira said and Sitri vanished leaving Mirajane exhausted and bewildered about what happened. She never lost her memory when she did a takeover. Wendy rushed over to help the white hair mage up. She helped Mira back down stairs and filled her in on what happened.

Gray's blackness too receded back into the triple chevron tattoo on his right arm. His eyes returned to midnight blue. His last memory was being back on the mountain freezing. He was very baffled. Piper rushed over to him and helped him back to the cot. He held his shoulder it was aching and his back felt like it was on fire. "Piper…" He was trying to figure out at lot of things but first he wanted to sleep. He just let her lay him back and he was asleep in seconds.

Zosia stood and went over to Astrid. "Astrid are you ok, dearie? And when did you get so cute and fluffy?" She teased.

Laxus pushed his way into the infirmary. He was furious. "Start talkin…I know it has something to with you." He pointed at Piper.

Porlyusica cleared her throat. She was clearly not in the least fazed but what just happened. "Oh stuff it you brat. There are clearly ancient magicks at work here. I don't think I could explain it simple enough for your thick skull to understand." She growled at him and waved her hand at her.

Kaleb looked at the old woman, "I would understand, madam." He offered.

Porlyusica sized him up. Her gaze went up and down. "Fine, there is ancient magic being awakened here. This guild has what, five, of the seven dragon slayer in Fiore housed here. Also this guild has demons in its midst. Your bar mistress has how many demon souls in her now four, five, boy?" she sneered at Laxus, "then your ice mage has apparently a pretty power demon in himself. Who knows what your rune mage has in him. Now this beautiful creature shows up. A vixen of the shadows and married too." She snapped her eyes to Astrid who was being helped up by Zosia. She didn't bother transforming back to her complete human form. She left her ears and tail in place. "Fairy Tail needs to prepare. Ancient magic is pooling here and may the Gods and Goddess help you, boy." Porlyusica laughed as she got up with her book and shooed people out of her way to leave the guild.

"Where are you going old woman?" Laxus said.

"Home brat. I have better things to do that get caught up in this mess." She grumbled without even turning around.