Being dragged across the rough ground, I had no idea where they were taking us. I felt the course earth scrape against my bare legs and feet. Sure, it hurt. But at the moment, I couldn't care less. Honestly, I was just glad to be let out of the cell. I was starting to get tired of seeing the same walls and bars enclosing me in... Eventually, we reached a large chamber with 7 stones - all in a row. Each one was carved with an identical pattern that seamed to form... a dragon. I thought back to what Edolas Aki had said: 'I've heard all of you are dragon slayers - did you know that your magic can do wonders for our world.' I looked back towards the dragons carved into the stone. Then I noticed that both Wendy and Natsu were here as well... what exactly was the edolas royal kingdom planning?

Before I knew it, I found myself chained to one of the stones. I had a feeling that the chains we were now in were also magic cancelling. I noticed a small man at the front of the room. He was holding... A strange contraption. I couldn't think straight. I wasn't able to get any rest on the ground of our prison cell. I was tired. Plus the information on the exceeds... I could hear the small man speaking. Was I listening to what he was saying? Nope. Though I probably should have been really... The next thing I knew I heard screams. That perked me to me senses. I looked straight across the room to see the small man using his strange machine on Wendy. I could tell that it was extracting her magic power. "Stop it!" I heard Miriza call out. She had recently been helping Wendy with her magic. They seemed to be rather close now. I think they saw one another as sisters more than friends. Of course she would want to protect her! "Please, don't hurt her!" She called out again. "Stop!" I heard Natsu call, "Do whatever you want to me but don't just hurt her!" The next few hours or so of my life were filled with shouting, screaming and calling. Not to mention unimaginable pain...

Scraping my legs across the ground was nothing compared to this. This feeling... I felt like all my energy was being drained - like I was slowly being torn apart from the inside out. I could feel my strength, my will and my breath slipping away from me. Before long... My consciousness was too...

Slowly, I opened my eyes to see a pair of familiar dark eyes staring from a blue face straight at me. I got up immediately. "Bluebell," I spoke, "How did it go with the exceeds?" Exceeds? At that moment I remembered everything that had just happened. The news about the exceeds mission... Not to mention what I had just heard from the small man - just before my consciousness had slipped... That was our top priority right now. "The edolas royal army plan to use our dragon slayer magic to crash the lacrima containing our friends into Extalia so everlasting magic power will rain down from the sky over the royal kingdom of Edolas for forever!"

"Wendy already told us that," Bluebell spoke. I looked around the now empty chamber.

"Where are the others?" I asked.

"Lilias, Lokni, Candy and Altair are waiting for you outside. Happy went off to find Gajeel to tell him where the lacrima is. Erza is fighting Erza. Natsu, Lucy and Gray went to try and stop the king. Miriza, Melody, Wendy and Carla went off to warn Extalia. Finally, Xavier and Viper... just ran off..." I sighed. Those two would never stop being idiots. I got up. Bluebell flew beside me.

"What are we going to do now?" Lokni spoke as soon as he saw us. I frowned.

"That's no way to say hello!"

"Hello then Faya, Hello Belle. OK - so what are we going to do?"

"No clue," I answered back. Lokni gave me an irritated expression. I sighed, "Well I guess we should also try to stop the king."

"But the others are already really far ahead!" Lilias stated. I nodded.

"That's why we're going to try and do it our own way!" The others just stared at me blankly.

"What goes on in your mind Faya?" Lokni exhaled, "But I guess it's the best plan we have right now..." The others nodded as we headed forwards down a dark hallway, hoping it would lead us out of here...

We eventually found ourselves near the top of a tower. From there we could see exactly where the royal palace itself was - and headed in that direction. We arrived there soon enough, only to find more corridors to run down. I looked outside towards one of the courtyards... only to see what looked like a giant lacrima in the shape of a cat? What was going on here? As if reading my mind, Bluebell answered my question. "When we were flying here we were attacked by the Edolas royal army. At the same time we were being chased by the Extalia royal army. The Edolas royal army ended up turning the Extalia royal army soldiers all into that giant lacrima. We were able to escape in the confusion."

"What happened in Extalia by the way?" I asked Bluebell.

"Now's not the time to ask - we have to save our friends!" I nodded. That was to top priority right now. They were all counting on us. We couldn't let them down!

We turned the next corner and carried on running. Very soon after that, we found ourselves in what looked like a large room. We thought it would be a short cut or something to where the dragon slayer magic was going to be launched at the lacrima. It was dark, so I couldn't see anything beyond the large polished wooden doorway. "So I've found you," we all heard a voice say. Standing in the dark I spotted a faint silhouette. "LIGHTS ON!" They spoke. Suddenly, the room before us was now filled with light. I could see rows upon rows of seats. At the very back of the room were a pair of red velvet curtains tied back revealing a large stage. Was this a theater? In a royal palace? What sort of crazy king did Edolas have!? I looked towards the figure in front of us. "Ever since we first met... I've been wanting to fight you." I gritted my teeth. This wasn't someone I would ever want to fight, even if they were from another world...