Hello my fellow readers, writers, and people who have been enjoying this story so far, I'm back with yet another new chapter. In this chapter we'll be going over the events of episode 22 of Fairy tail titled Lucy heartfilia which if this is the episode, I think it is then there will be a change but not much of one.

I don't have anything else to add so without further ado let's get this show on the road.

"Talking"

"Thought"

"Yelling/spell name"

(author's input, location change, time change)

Ben's P.O.V.

Just as we were about to do another move another member jumped down from the rafters and from the look on his face I could tell this guy was another matter altogether. I was proven right when Erza muttered that it was the iron dragon slayer that this guild had recruited. One of our guys who always stands by the board I think his name was nab tried to attack Gajeel only to receive a metal pillar in the stomach that extended from his arm.

The good thing for us was that Gajeel's attack also hit some of his guildmates and he jumped down from the heavily damaged sign that he had landed on and said "come on show me what you scum can do that is unless you're too scared." As I was about to accept the challenge Elfman had just heard too scared and charged at Gajeel and in the middle of his attack changed his arm to some sort of rock covering.

Gajeel blocked the attack with a metal pillar before pushing him away a little bit and then shot one of his arm pillars at Elfman only for Elfman to dodge it. Gajeel then shot a leg pillar at Elfman which he caught and Gajeel actually complimented him "not bad big guy." Elfman in his usual way said "well it's because I'm a real man" and Gajeel said "yeah then let's see how a real man handles this" and he shot smaller pillars out of the leg pillar that Elfman was holding and each one instead of striking one of our guildmates struck more of his own.

Elfman seemed surprised by that as well as he stated "they're phantom you attacked your own men" and Gajeel said "Because I knew it would distract you." He then shot another arm pillar at Gajeel which hit him square in the face and Natsu used Elfman's flying body as a springboard and launched himself at Gajeel and hit him back hard enough to wreck their bar counter.

As the dust settled and some of the phantom members were shocked that Gajeel was sent flying Natsu said to Gajeel "allow me to introduce myself I'm Fairy tai's dragon slayer." He then said to Elfman "Elfman leave this fight to me" and Elfman complained a little bit "come on man first you use me as a springboard and then you want to steal my man to man fight."

Gajeel then called out "Iron Dragon Club" and that shot a pillar out of his arm so I figured he along with Natsu some times used attacks without calling out their name. Natsu caught the attack but it still sent him skidding back and he said "you destroyed our guild hall, hurt Levy and her team I'll make you pay" and he threw Gajeel toward the ceiling which Gajeel then tried to kick himself off of to attack Natsu.

However, Natsu block Gajeel's punch and threw a flame coated fist of his own at Gajeel which sent him flying again and caused some stone and wood to fall on top of Gajeel. He punched his way through a board and stood up and said "nice try but I'm still standing" and Natsu said "true you won't be for much longer though."

Gajeel then ran at Natsu and kicked him without any sort of magic which was strong enough to send Natsu flying through the air. Gajeel then, like every other bad guy, started gloating before seeing it wasn't over "what's wrong you can dish it out but you can't take it" and the pile of rubble that Natsu was in exploded in flames and Natsu emerged from it and said "it's going to take more than that to keep me down."

Gajeel then said "you seriously think you can beat me ya pyro" and Natsu said "what do you mean think I know I can." Gajeel then said "We'll see about that" and shot another pillar at Natsu who stopped it with a flaming fist and started crushing it and Natsu said "your steel beams can't even touch me you're going to have to step up your game if you want to beat me."

Gajeel then said "the rumors are true you're way more powerful than you look that actually burns a little" and he reverted the metal pillar back into his arm which had smoke rising from it. He then said "so was that all you got salamander" and Natsu said "that was my warm up I'm just getting started you ain't seen nothing yet you metal freak."

They each charged at each other and exchanged blows and dodges before Gajeel then sent Natsu back with a kick. As Gajeel was trying to do a dive bomb maneuver on Natsu, Natsu responded by trying to hit him in the face with a flaming fist. Gajeel however, managed to avoid the flaming fist by kicking himself off of Natsu's unextended arm and stuck himself into the ceiling support most likely with metal claws that came out of his boots or something.

Natsu then went up toward him and knocked him through a support or two before landing on one himself and they exchanged some dialogue I couldn't hear because they were too far away from me. The building then started shaking and I looked to Erza and said "is this because of Natsu and Gajeel destroying the supports" and she said "no this is Makarov when he's angry his magic power has the strength to bring a building down."

She then addressed the rest of our guild "prepare to fight we cannot lose this as long as Master Makarov is with us." As we were still fighting the members in phantom lord something fell to the ground from up above close to where Natsu and Gajeel were fighting was where it fell from. As the dust cleared it was revealed that it was Makarov and he looked green and Erza realized what was going on while we were taking a break while the rest of the guild were fighting to check on Makarov.

Makarov was trying to say something about his power but Erza said "master calm down" and Cana, our resident drunk who was desensitized to the effects of alcohol apparently said "what happened to him." Grey stated "I don't know but I don't sense any magic power coming from him at all." Elfman said "Grey are you saying he's just a regular old man now" and Happy in shock and a little bit of despair said "no it can't be" while Natsu added on "Gramps you got pull through this."

Grey said "Gramps is so strong how did they beat him" and Elfman said "I don't know but the only way to find out is to go up there" and I said "how about we don't fall for an obvious trap." Erza said "what do you mean" and I said "Well the person who did this to Makarov is most likely waiting up there for us so they can do the same to us and we need to be in tip top shape for the fight so let's not walk into a trap."

As Phantom lord decided to start up the fight again Natsu punched several of them away while saying "don't get cocky." Erza then called out "everyone we must retreat return to the guild at once" and I said "you sensed how low our morale is didn't you" and she simply nodded. While everyone else was wanting to stay and fight Erza said "we can't do that we don't stand a chance against José now retreat."

I then noticed Natsu staying behind for a moment and he grabbed the back of one of the phantom lord member's shirts and I said "what's up" and he responded "these jerks kidnapped Lucy." All the phantom lord member could say out of shock was "the salamander and the take over wizard don't hurt me." We went outside the city where no one could see us torture this guy for information into rocky mountains area.

As Natsu was dragging the guy along Happy said "so what are we going to do now" and Natsu said "isn't it obvious we're going to save Lucy." Natsu the addressed our informant "okay pal where is she tell me" and he said in strangled voice most like from Natsu dragging him by the back of his shirt "how should I know I don't know a Lucy."

Natsu the ignited him on fire and said to the guy "start talking" and the guy said "I already told you dude I don't know nothing now put out the fire." Natsu then said "you phantom guys hurt another one of my friends I swear I'll burn every single one of you into ashes." The guy said "I'm serious man I don't know anything if I knew anything about this Lucy chick I would have told you everything by now."

I then stopped and Natsu looked back at me with a puzzled look on his face and said "What's up man" and I said "did you hear anything about where they were keeping her." Natsu responded "someone who was talking to Gajeel said they were keeping her at headquarters but I don't know how that will help us."

I said "put the fire out for a moment" and he did so and I knelt down so I was right in the face of the phantom guy and said "okay so you don't know anything about Lucy but what about where your headquarters is located." He then said "our headquarters is up ahead I don't know for sure but if you heard one of us say she's being held at headquarters then she'd be there."

Natsu said to him in agrivation "why didn't you say that in the first place" and I punched the guy in the face hard enough to knock him out and said "he didn't say that because we were asking the wrong question." We were charging because we heard Lucy call out Natsu's name with urgency and then saw her falling from a good distance up.

I then transformed into Goop and went ahead and then Natsu jumped up and caught her from the air and I adjusted myself so that I would catch them so they wouldn't land face first in Natsu's case and back first in Lucy's case into the remains of a stone wall. As I transformed back Natsu had already started working on untying the ropes holding Lucy's arms behind her back although I didn't know why he didn't just burn them off.

He said "there ya go are you okay" and she just nodded and said "I think so" in a low voice and Happy then said "that's good news okay we better head back to the guild." Natsu then said to Happy "what this is their headquarters let's get them" and Happy said "we can't Erza told us to retreat" and Natsu said "because she's a wimp I'll face those guys by myself if I have to."

I then said to Natsu "actually you can't in fact from what I saw you were having a tough time with Gajeel and what if whoever got rid of Makarov's power is in there, they would do the same thing to you." He then said "that's why I have you as back up" and I said "I've got maybe two more transformations left so I wouldn't be of much use to you so let's just go back to the guild hall and regroup."

In a quivering voice Lucy said "I'm sorry I'm so sorry" and I saw tears start falling from her eyes and she continued "all of this everything it's my fault but I don't want to leave. I want to stay with you guys because I love being in fairy tail" and Natsu said "you're crying why are you upset" and Happy said "you can tell us."

Natsu said "you're one of us you don't have to leave" and Happy said mainly to Natsu I think "let's go back to the guild" and Natsu said "okay I guess we ought to." I then activated the Omnitrix and transformed into Astrodactyl and said "I'll take Lucy, Happy you think you can carry Natsu all the way back to Magnolia" and Happy responded with his normal "aye sir" and I took off after grabbing Lucy by the shoulders and Happy picked up Natsu and flew after me actually surprising me that he was able to keep pace with Astrodactyl.

Yet another chapter done in the next chapter we'll be going over the events of episode 23 of Fairy tail titled 15 minutes. I know there wasn't much action in this chapter but one of my plans for this arc will be taking effect in the next episode. Anyway I don't have anything else to add so until next time this is Diamondholder signing off.