"One fucking Week to confess love to her. Are fucking kidding me?! There's no way that she would be able to do that." Bickslow paced his apartment as he looked at his team.

"You have to do it. You love her, this is why you are the best one." Evergreen pointed out.

"I can't! There isn't enough to get to feel the same way," Bickslow shouted. "I just can't tell her, 'I love you' and expect her to feel the same way!"

"There has to be something we can do to help pull her from the darkness." Laxus chimed in as he wanted to help Lucy as much as possible. There had to be something that Freed can search up to help her. This was going to be a very eventful one week.

"I'm trying my best, but there has never been anything recording on restoring a broken dark soul." Freed sighed. The group tried their best with the resources they had without traveling as they didn't want to leave Lucy alone.

"Besides the love aspect, could there be something else?" Ever suggested to Bickslow.

"Not that I know of, and it has to be like a true love thing." Bickslow slumped down on the couch. "We have no time to figure out stuff, I have to make a move soon if we want to try and reverse it the best we could."

"What if we aren't in time?" Laxus questioned.

"She could turn into darkness, I guess it's like a dark wizard." Freed answered as he looked up from the history book he was reading.

"Darkness - " Ever muttered. "That stupid guild! That stupid ex team of hers!"

"We are also to blame. We also left her." Laxus muttered as he covered his face with his hands.


Inside her apartment, Lucy was on her couch crying her eyes out. She couldn't believe what was happening and what was going to happen. Her life was changing before her eyes and this was something that was going to change her. As of now - Lucy couldn't feel the difference that was going on. On the other hand, her spirits could tell what was going on. Since she had created a stronger bond with her spirits, they were able to feel what was going on - and since the Spirit King had dubbed Lucy - the Princess of the Celestial World, he could also sense what was going on.

It wasn't fair.

It wasn't Fair.

It wasn't FAIR.

Everyone got to go off and get stronger. Everyone was able to still be together and yet here was Lucy - alone in the world as her best friend - or someone she thought was her friend disappearing on her and somehow he manged to get stronger and then come back all of a sudden. No one seemed to care that Lucy got stronger. No one seemed to care that she had feelings and that she was hurting on the inside.

When they got back together - Laxus was there for her. He made that Kin bond with her and he was able to be there for her - even if she didn't need it. Lucy was grateful for that. She was also grateful that he would put her on his team - even though she didn't have any of the abilities like the rest of his teammates. The one thing that the other three had is eye magic. Lucy doesn't have that type of magic and yet - Laxus still wanted her to be on his team. She was happy when he said that but now - how was she feeling?

Useless?

Useless?

Useless.

She was feeling useless at that moment.

How could someone like her be able to be on the strongest team on Fairy Tail - and be able to stay and not drag them down like she did with Team Natsu.


Laxus was praying that they had enough time to help her. But soon enough - there was bright light. From that light it Loke.

"Loke..." Bickslow looked over at the Lion Spirit.

"What are you doing here?" Freed asked.

"I came here, to let you know that we - her spirits - will help you guys as much as we can from the Spirit World. Is there anything you need? We can feel her changing.." Loke took off his sun glasses to look at them.

"You all can feel her from the Spirit World?" Ever asked. "I didn't know that was possible."

"With the bond that Lucy has with the World - it is possible. We don't like how she is feeling and some of us have a feeling that she is going to run. And we can't let that happen." Loke admitted.

"What do you know about changing a soul back?" Freed asked.

It was a good question - as the Spirits have been alive more than they have. They were bound to know more about this stuff - espically stuff that wasn't written down.

"Not much to be honest. I personally never had been in contract with when it happened. But I can see what I can find out from the Spirit King and Crux." Loke looked at them. "I will return when I have something."


In the Spirit World, all of her spirits were around a table. Books scattered across the table as they looked for something that would help them. There had to be something in these books.

"I FOUND IT!" Grandeeney shouted as she picked up the book.

"What does it say?" Loke asked.


Pure Souls turn Dark?

There is something out there that makes Pure Souls like Celestial Wizards soul that turns them dark. Though there has only ever been one case of this - Anna Heartfilia. The reason for the soul changing was because of the Ecplise Gate.


"That can't be possible - there has been no change to Lucy during that time though..." Virgo frown.

"That's true. She was fine." Aries nodded as she was worried about Lucy. She was the one who saved Aries and was the only one who was kind to her.

"What if it was late reaction?" Scorpio questioned, "Like, what if it was just there and when she broke...her key...that it just grew?"

"It could be possible..But how did we not know about Anna?" Loke looked at Grandeeney, waiting for her to finish reading it so they could find out what to do.


There a few ways to change the soul back.

If caught in time - the first stage, the waters from Aquarius Urn would be able to wash and refresh the Soul of the darkness.

Though the stage that would be hardest to reverse, if the soul has already turn all black - the Hardest Stage. The only way to turn this back is if a Seith Mage is able to attach to the Wizard who has the dark soul and take a deep dive into the soul to reverse the damage. But the only way to get close to the person is to confess their undying love. With this declaration of love - within the week of the Pure Soul during dark.

The Way for the person to deep dive into the soul can be explored in:

Seith Mage Soul Dive by Trixie Melo.


"Do we have a copy of the book?" Virgo asked.

"I'm sure we do." Crux responded as he went to look for the book.

"What do you think it's going to say?" Gemi asked.

"I hope that Seith Mage is going to be able to help," Mini said.

"Bickslow...that's him right?" Taurus questioned.

"That is him. He...He is also trying to find a way. Though they don't have much luck over there. That's why I said I would look here." Loke spoke as Crux came back with the book.

"This should have the answers for him." Crux returned handing the book to Loke.

"You better tell him and fast. There is only a week for them to fix Lucy - or we'll lose her forever." Gradndeeney said.


Loke returned back to the apartment and handed the book to Bickslow. "Here. You need to read this. You need to confess your love in a week, get close to her and deep dive into the soul to fix it. That's the only way to fix Lucy." Loke said as he looked at Bickslow. "We are all counting on you help her, Bickslow. She doesn't know it yet - but she needs you."

"Thank you." Bickslow took the book from Loke. "Seith Mage Soul Dive? This book will tell me how to do it right?"

"Yeah. It's the only copy in the world. We need it back when you are done." Loke sternly told him.

"You got it - Freed will be reading it, cause I'm guessing Runes will be needed." Bickslow handed the book to Freed - and soon enough, Freed started to read it. "Thank you for your help."


Somewhere at the Sabertooth Guild

Yukino was busy preparing for travel on a job with Rouge and Sting, when Libra opened her gate to let her know that she was needed at Lucy's place. It was confusing why she was needed when Lucy didn't call for her to come.

"What are you talking about Libra?" Yukino asked.

"The whole spirit world, felt the shift with Lucy ever sine The Spirit King had dubbed her Princess of The Celestial World. Lucy needs you, her soul turned dark and she'll need someone close to her." Libra mentioned.

"How did her soul go dark?!" Yukino was shocked over the news of she was being told.

"I am not sure. But she's hurting and soon those emotions will change into anger. You will need to be the one to keep her in apartment until someone confesses their love to Lucy and a Deep Dive is done on her soul." Libra explained.

"I'll let Sting and Rouge that I won't be going on the job anymore." Yukino quickly left her room at the guild hall and ran to the Master's office where Sting and Rogue were sitting. She opened the door. "Change of plans. I can't go on the job with you anymore. I have to go see Lucy - it's on Celestial Wizard business. Sorry. I'm leaving now!" Yukino rushed out.

"Slow down. What's going on with Blondie?" Sting asked.

"I-..." Yukino took a deep breath. "Celestial Wizards have the pursest of Souls. We are very rare. It's been told once our Souls go dark, it's hard to turn them back. Lucy's soul ended up going Dark and I'm needed to be with her until someone can help change her soul back through a deep dive."

"If you are needed that bad, we'll go with you." Rogue stood up.

"What about the job?" Yukino asked.

"We'll get someone else to do it, and Minerva will be in charge." Sting stood up, "Let's go see Lucy - are we seeing anyone else?"

"No. Libra doesn't know the reason, but she said that Lucy needs us more." Yukino shook her head.

The three of them left the guild and headed towards Magnolia where they would be seeing Lucy to make sure everything will be okay with her - so that when it's time for the Soul Dive.


Something's pulling me
It's so magnetic
My body is moving
Unsure where I'm headed
All of my senses have left me defenseless
This darkness around me
Is promising vengeance
The price that I'm willing to pay is expensive
There's nothing to lose
When you're lonely and friendless
So my only interest is showing this princess
That I am the queen
And my reign will be endless (endless)

I want what I deserve
I want to rule the world
Sit back and watch them learn
It's finally my turn


(A/N: Long awaited chapter.

Song used in this - Queen of Mean from Descents 3. I like the portion of the son and thought it would fit.