*UPDATED VERSION 8/3/2018*

Lucy POV

When I closed my eyes, I instantly felt a pull coming from the center of my chest. My first instinct was to fight it, but soon realized that it was my soul being summoned to the spirit realm. Fighting the survival instinct to fight the pulling sensation in my chest, I let go and was instantly transported to a bridge. I felt a pull and followed it across the bridge to a tunnel that led to many other tunnels. Continuing to follow the pulling sensation, it led me down another path. The farther I went down, the deeper the pull felt and I finally came upon a door. At that point it felt like something was going to burst out of my chest.

I looked at the door with intricate and beautiful designs. What the hell, might as well try and enter and I pushed the doors open into a wonderland of stars. Everywhere I looked, it practically sparkled. I could see endless stars and planets in the sky that surrounded me like a comforting hug.

I was so lost and occupied in my surroundings, I didn't hear the person beside me till they decided to speak up, and let their presence known.

"Beautiful right?"

I screeched in surprise, whipping my face around to face the voice. Loke. Of course. Stupid lion.

"Geesh, break my eardrums already!" he said rubbing his ears.

"Sorry! You surprised me. Wait. Why are you here? I thought you were watching over my body in Earthland,"

"I am! Well, I was. I am going to be! I just wanted to make sure you got here okay. Don't need you lost in the tunnels,"

"Well it seems that I made it here okay. Where do I go now?"

"The Palace,"

"Aaaaaannnnddddd, I have no clue where that it,"

"I'll take you Princess," another voice said behind them.

"Virgo! You are a lifesaver! Well you are in capable hands. Now I must go make sure that those buffoons that you call teammates and friends don't do anything reckless and wake you up before you are ready," and with that, he was gone. Back to watch over me in Earthland.

"Come Princess. We must hurry. Time is precious for us,"

"I could not agree more. I must get back as soon as possible. I have a feeling that Erza's past is about to cause some real trouble,"

"And that, I can agree with very much,"

They swiftly walked to the palace, chatting along the way about different things. They were greeted by the King himself.

"Hello my dears," he said in his booming voice, full of comforting warmth.

"Hello your majesty," Virgo said with a bow.

"Hey Stache Face! What's up?" I said with a smile.

"Hello my old friend. Hello Virgo. I am doing well. Are you ready for your training to begin, old friend?"

"Yes. I am ready to begin,"


Earthland

Natsu POV

"When can we goooooooo?" I whined.

"Do you want to leave Lucy here?" Ice freak said.

"What! No!" I replied, shocked he would say that.

"Then we just will have to wait for Loke to return since he has more knowledge on Lucy's situation then we do," Erza said.

"Well wait no longer, since I have returned," Loke said coming back in a flash of light.

"Good. So can we go now? Who knows what they are doing to Happy!" I said.


Happy POV

"I am surrounded by cats!" I said looking around the room I woke up in.

"The kitty talks!" a voice says.

"Of course I can!"

"Come here kitty witty!"

"What! Why! Sto- ooohhh this is nice…. purrr,"


Casino

Natsu POV

"How are we finding Happy in the first place?" Ice Freak said.

"Duh, I'm going to track him by his scent," I replied.

"Then start tracking Dragneel," and off they ran all the way to the pier where they … borrowed … a boat that fit all 6 mages. Each took turns powering the lacrima engine getting them across the body of water to the 'Tower of Heaven'.

Who is navigating this fine vessel? Captain Dragneel is navigating the group of mages to the best of his ability across the ocean while on transportation. Let us go and see their progress…

"Hey Flamehead, are we going the right way?" Ice Freak asked me.

My response was "Gurg… maybe?"

"Seriously?! How could we forget about his motion sickness! Lavabreath, suck it up and navigate! I don't wish to be stuck out in the middle of nowhere!"

"Shut up Ice Princess! Ugh…" focus on the scent, focus on the scent Natsu. Happy is in trouble…

HAPPY - "This is the life… purrrrr…"

"Apologize to my Gray-sama! Or Juvia won't try and help you,"

"...Ugh...what?"

"Juvia might be able to stabilize the fluids in your inner eardrums,"

"Really… please…."

"Apologize to Gray-sama!"

"I could never apologize to Icecone! Gurg…."

"Juvia, could you please fix flamehead… I don't want to deal with him like this and we really need to get to the 'Tower of Heaven',"

"Of course Gray-sama!" and I felt a weird feeling in my ears and then I felt better. I could easily find Happy's scent again.

"That should do it. Feeling better Natsu?"

"I'm all fired up! Thanks...what was your name again?"

"Really Natsu?!"

"Anyways, thanks! We need to head that direction. I think we are getting close," thanks to that girl's' healing, I'm all fired up to bring back Happy!

Erza's POV

I never thought I would have to see this again. Just seeing them again brings back memories. Awful memories.

"So. Let's go and get him!" Natsu said. I caught him by his scarf before he ran off and destroyed something.

"No. We must be smart about this. We cannot allow them to know we are here if we can help it,"

"Juvia has found a secret underground entrance. It is about 10 minutes from here while swimming," Juvia said popping up out of the water. How did I miss her going into the water? I must stay focused! I cannot be distracted by the past right now!

"Alright! We can hold our breath for 10 minutes right?" Natsu said.

"No, we cannot hold our breath for that long Natsu. Even you," I said.

"Juvia could create air bubbles around you like a water lock and allow you to breath underwater,"

"Thank you Juvia. Now we all need to change into something to swim in,"

"I think I can help with that," another voice said coming from a flash of light and sparkles.

"Virgo! Thanks. I was going to call for you anyways since I have a feeling Princess wouldn't appreciate me changing her…" Loke said.

"I have outfits for all of you and can hold your clothes in the Spirit Realm to keep them dry,"

"Thank you… Virgo was it?" I asked the spirit.

"Yes. Here you go," and she handed out swimsuits for everyone.

"How is Princess doing?" Loke asked Virgo while turned around away from Lucy so that he didn't see her being changed. At least he knows when to be a gentleman I thought to myself before moving around a rock to change while still in earshot of the spirits

"Princess is doing very well. She is learning a spell and seems to understand how it should be used and how to activate it," Virgo said.

"Which spell?" Loke asked.

"Star Ring. She is also learning Star Shower,"

"Those are good ones to start off with. I thought that she was first to learn Celestial History?"

"She was but due to the current situation, his majesty wanted to give her a spell or two for some more offensive power,"

"Makes sense,"

"Is everyone done?" I asked everyone as I came out from behind the rock.

"Yeah," I heard from everyone in some shape or form.

"Okay. Virgo? Could you hold our clothes?" I asked.

"Anything for Princess's friends," she said before disappearing with our clothes.

"Lead the way Juvia," and we dove into the water to swim to the secluded entrance of the 'Tower of Heaven'.

Noone's POV

All of the mages entered the underwater entrance with the help of Juvia's waterlock air bubbles. They entered into a cave and were greeted by hundreds of mage soldiers, mostly of the male. Each mage took a group of wizards to face off and destroy.

Natsu torched his, Gray froze his, Erza sliced hers, Juvia forced hers to go into unconsciousness by using a mass waterlock and suffocating and Virgo made the earth collapse under hers. She had the least resistance by far due to her outfit being revealing and most of the soldiers were testosterone filled males. If Lucy was conscious, she would have given them a dose of hell due to them disrespecting her spirit. Virgo came back to help protect Lucy as well as return their dry clothing to them as redress Lucy into day clothing.

All mages grouped back to where the unresponsive Lucy was lying. All looked at her with sorrow and hopefulness that their celestial mage would awaken soon.

"How long will Lucy be like this? I don't wish to walk into another battle with her like this if I can help it," Erza said to the two spirits.

"Princess will be here within the hour," Virgo responded and then left in a flash back to the spirit realm.

"Okay. So we - "Erza started to say.

"Erza!" voice called from one of the entrances in the cave.

"Simon?!" Erza replied.

"What in Earthland are you doing here?! This is exactly what Jellal wants!" the mage named Simon said walking over to the group of Fairy Tail mages.

"We came to save a comrade. I know that he is currently fine since he will be with Millianna but we do need him back before we leave,"

"Who are you looking for? I don't recall taking anyone…"

"Where is Happy!" Natsu asked already starting to lose control. His mouth was starting to spew fire.

"Chill Natsu! Happy will be fine. Millianna would never hurt a cat. She loves them,"

"Oh you are looking for the blue cat that Wally took for Millianna. She is up those stairs if you go through that entrance. That would be where he is most likely," Simon said pointing to an entrance.

"I'm coming for you buddy!" Natsu said before racing off to 'save' Happy.

"Natsu! Don't just race off!" Erza yelled at the retreating figure of Natsu, but it fell deaf to the ears of a dragon slayer hell bent on saving his friend and family.

"Well that's Flamebrain for you," Gray said then turned to Simon, "What do you mean that this is what Jellal wanted? And why are you helping us, you work for him,"

"The objective for yesterday was to obtain Erza. To activate the R-system, he needs a sacrifice and has decided to use Erza,"

"What? And Shô, Wally, and Millianna just agreed to this? YOU agreed to this?" Erza said, shocked her former family would just throw her away like this.

"When you left, he brainwashed them into thinking that you betrayed them. I saw though the lies but knew that I could do nothing to stop him. So I decided to stay and figure out what Jellal was planning and stop it,"

"And that would be?" Gray asked.

"He is going to bring a new era to this world and get us to heaven! Jellal would never lie to us! Erza left us and now you have too Simon!" a new but familiar voice said.

"Shô! I never betrayed you. I thought that you all had left already! I didn't realize that you didn't get off this nightmare till it was too late," Erza said with sorrow and guilt lacing her words and face.

"Look. Erza has been a Fairy Tail mage for years now. I've known her since she arrived at the guild battered and bruised barely wearing anything to cover her. And she is one of the most loyal mages I know. She would never willingly leave anyone behind or betray them especially if she considered them as a friend or family member," Gray said, "and she has no reason to lie either! Your buddy Jellal though has plenty. He needed someone to create this monstrosity since he knew he couldn't alone. He used you to create this for his own use,"

"But. But…" Sho said, shock and confusion planted on his face.

"It's true Shô. Jellal hasn't been the same since that day. You were hurting and Jellal took advantage of that," Simon said to Shô.

Shô's lips quivered for a moment, processing what has been said, before launching himself at Erza with tears streaming down his face. He clutched onto Erza like his life depended on it while letting out the hurt, sorrow, anger he felt over the years. Erza also held on with equal or more force to Shô and started to cry as well. Both ended up on their knees then onto the floor in a heap due to the emotions running high that they cannot support their weight any longer. They both let out emotions that had been tightly sealed for so long.

The mages all had different emotions running on their face from happiness to confusion to outright shock but all felt like they were intruding and turned around or looked away for them to collect themselves.

After a few minutes of crying out their pent up feeling towards each other, they gathered themselves for what was to come.


With Natsu and Happy

Natsu's POV

I'm coming for you buddy! I race up the staircase on the side of this crazy contraption. I finally reached a door and entered into a room. Well a better word would by entering another realm. It was filled with cats! Hanging on the walls, the chairs, everything is cat related or was a cat!

I call out for Happy since I know I won't be able to find him here by myself. Maybe I should have asked for help….Nah! Though I wish Luce was here. She would be able to find him here faster than me.

"Happy! Where are you little buddy!" I called out again.

I keep looking around the cat room for Happy when I spotted it. The ultimate cat mask. I've got to put this on!

It's roomy once I got it on and over my head. Oh my gosh! I look like a cat now! This is AWESOME!

"Happy! Buddy, you gotta come see! I'm a cat now too! Meow!" I say with a signature cat paw movement with my hands.

"Natsu? Where are yo- What the heck! You look like a larger me!"

"Aye sir!

"This is so funny!"

"We should head back and see if I can scare anyone! You think I would freak Erza out?"

"Totally. Though you have the risk of a sword flying your way… Let's do this! Totally worth the risk!"

"I'll totally scare Luce when she wakes up,"

"Yeah wait what? Why is Lushi asleep?"

"Something with her spirits and the celestial realm I think?"

"Is she okay?"

"Yeah. Loke has been staying out to watch her and make sure nothing happens. He also didn't want any of us to accidentally wake her up or something,"

"That's weird,"

"Yeah, Lucy is a weirdo,"

"Aye sir!"

"Let's go and head down now. Don't want to deal with an angry Erza," and both mages shivered at the thought. We then headed to the entrance to get back to their nakama. As we were about to leave, we ran into the weird blockhead.

"Leaving so soon just isn't dandy,"


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