Iron in the Stars

AN: Story is my idea, but I do not own anything Fairy Tail.

Chapter 19: Slumber Party

"Natsu!" I screamed at him as he splashed me jumping into the pool. What the hell? He laughed at me as Happy flew around making me extremely nervous. I didn't trust the two of them. I swore if he annoyed me I was going to punch him so hard Igneel was going to feel it. "Gajeel, I thought you were supposed to be my personal body guard?" Him and Pantherlily were chatting away about fighting technique and completely ignoring my cries of rescue. So damn rude. Maybe he wouldn't be getting any after all tonight. No I couldn't do that, it would be a punishment for myself if that were the case. I looked up to grab at Happy and jump in with him so he had to go under the water, but he was no longer overhead. I looked around to try and find him, but realized too late that I was ambushed. Happy grabbed my arm from behind and threw me in.

"Lushy, you are so heavy! I nearly broke a wing." I sweat dropped at the stupid cat and ran up the stairs out of the pool to kill him.

"Natsu, so help me, if that damn cat calls me fat one more time I am going to stuff him and feed him to the damn birds!" Happy flew into Natsu's waiting arms as if he were scared of the threat.

"Natsu! She is going to eat me! I can see the food lust in her eyes. Save me!" I growled out of anger and frustration and leapt back into the pool right on the pair. Apparently they weren't expecting me to do it because I felt them go under the water. I laughed like a mad lady and grabbed onto Happy to torture him some more. Natsu was laughing not even attempting to protect his feline friend. "Natsu! Natsu! Save me!" I started to twirl around in the pool to make Happy feel dizzy.

"Lucy," I paused thinking that Lisanna was going to try and save him for a moment and then the glint her eyes clearly showed otherwise. "Don't you think Happy would love to give Carla and Pantherlily his fish?" I saw his face completely drop like he was going to cry.

"No, Lushy you wouldn't! I caught that fish for me. You can't give it away. I'm sorry Lushy." I pulled his little backpack off and threw it to Lisanna. "Natsu, my fishes, they're going to steal them!"

"I'm sorry little buddy, these are the consequences of picking on Luigi. Maybe you shouldn't call her fat anymore." I smiled at Natsu for actually acting like an adult. It didn't happen too often and when it did I was very shocked. I looked over at Pantherlily and Gajeel who were watching the exchange.

"Do you want the fish Panterlily?" I called out winking at him to play along. I wasn't actually going to give his fish away, but I did want to see how far I could push it.

"I would love them Lucy, why thank you. Carla, would you like to have a date with me and eat these fish together?" At this point I could hear Happy balling and I kind of felt a little bad.

"I thought you'd never ask Pantherlily. I would love to." Happy looked heartbroken.

"You wouldn't Carla! You want to eat the fish with me, not him." Carla smiled at Happy and walked over to Lisanna taking the backpack over to where Pantherlily was.

"Lushy, I'm sorry I called you fat. I really am, I wont do it again I promise." I didn't think that promise would hold for more than an hour, but I would accept it.

"That is very mature of you Happy, I'm proud of you." Carla was the one to respond to him. "I will make sure that your fish stays safe and sound over here by us." Happy was so thrilled that he flew out of my arms to give Carla a big wet hug, which didn't seem to make her very happy.

"What's this about a fish?" Lector walked over to the pool followed closely by Frosch. "I want some fish."

"Frosch want's some too." Frosch bumped into Lector as they made their way to the pool.

"Hey guys! Does this mean Rogue is here?" We all started to get out of the pool to go back into the guild to meet up with our guests.

"Yeah him and Yukino just got here. They said that they wanted to talk to the master, see Sting, and then come see you guys." I walked over to Gajeel to grab my towel and realized that he wasn't even wet. How lame was that.

"Alright, we will come inside so when he is ready we will be waiting for him." As I said this I jumped onto Gajeel's back.

"Bunny! What the hell?" We were all laughing as Gajeel growled maybe in annoyance, but I wasn't concerned.

"It didn't seem like you got wet enough, so I wanted to help. Did I help sufficiently? I can ask Juvia for more assistance if I didn't." He glared at me for a moment before wrapping my legs around his waist and throwing a towel behind my back to try and wrap around me the best I could.

"Sorry Love Rival, I have more important things to do. I can not assist you currently." I sweat dropped as her and Erza were above a sleeping Gray drawing on him with permanent marker. I had to giggle when I saw 'I love Juvia' all over his chest with a bunch of hearts. I was wondering why they were being so quiet.

"He is going to be furious when he wakes up." I nuzzled my face into Gajeel's hair as we made our way to the Guild Hall. There was no real point in changing right now. We may come back to the pool anyway. "Lector, want to bring us over to them? I can't wait to see Yukino. I'm sad it's not great circumstances, but I want to show her my new spirits."

"Luce, she'd love to spend time with you! We should have a girls and guys night tonight." I liked Natsu's idea. We can go to the bathhouse and relax in the water. Plus I wanted to do that with Levy and Cana soon anyway.

"Maybe we can have a sleepover. Erza, you think we can pull it off this late?" Erza looked up from her art project and nodded.

"I will get us sweets, Cana can get us alcohol, Lisanna and yourself can bring the entertainment. We will have it at Fairy Hills. Make sure to invite everyone." I couldn't wait for later now. I heard a groan come from Gajeel though. He didn't seem very happy with the turn of events.

"Do you not want to have a guys night?" I whispered where I knew that Natsu could maybe hear me, but I knew that Gaj could. "I think it would be fun. We can see each other again tomorrow." I heard him slightly sigh and turn his head so he was looking at me.

"It's fine Bunny. I just don't want to be around some of these idiots all night. Your best friend included." I saw Natsu look over with a look of determination.

"What was that Metal Bits? Fight me, I'll show you an idiot." Gajeel laughed at him as if Natsu didn't even realize what he said.

"You already show me Flame Brain. Every day damn you show me." We just followed Lector and Frosch to the Guild. "I will see you guys later. Figure out where we are going to meet."

I jumped off of Gajeel's back and ran over to Yukino as soon as she was in sight. "Yukino!" I hugged her tightly making her laugh at my actions. "I've missed you! How are you doing? How are your Spirits?"

"Hey Lucy. I'm okay, considering everything that is going on. I miss Sting a lot. Thank you for considering me to come visit. I felt like I was going to lose my mind if I didn't see him soon. My Spirits are doing well. They haven't come out in a while. Maybe with us being here we can let them spar with each other." I smiled brightly at her excited to do just that. I know my friends would love the exercise and friendly challenge.

"Have you seen him yet?" Rogue walked over to her gently grabbing her elbow to show comfort. She smiled softly at him and then shook her head at me.

"No, we were about to go now. Master said that you guys had to talk to us about his condition though so we were about to get you and go in together." Oh shit. Talking to Cana would be nothing compared to telling them what had happened. I looked at Gajeel and he had a grimace on his face.

"Let me grab Laxus, it was the two of us so it's only right that we tell you." Thank Mavis. I didn't want to have that talk. Let them deal with it. I grabbed Yukino's hand we started to walk to the infirmary.

"He looks much better than when I saw him. Lucy, do you know how the mind control is doing?" He walked over to the sleeping slayer on the bed cautiously. I followed slower, but didn't pass the barrier to allow his mate and best friend plenty of space near him.

"Honestly, I'm not so sure. Last I checked his mind control has diminished a good chunk, but I'm not positive on how far Porlyusica and Wendy have gotten. Wendy is currently downstairs resting and Porlyusica had to go back home to get more supplies." He walked around the bed inspecting every detail of the other slayer. Almost like he was memorizing every detail he could.

"How did you guys get through the barrier? Last I knew you weren't able to heal him at all." How was I going to answer this one without telling him myself what happened? Gajeel wasn't back yet with Laxus. Damn men. They were taking too long and I was going to get hit with the truth telling.

"That is one of the reasons Gajeel wanted to get Laxus." I said sheepishly. Yukino looked over at me because I knew she couldn't hear me. Before she even had a chance to ask me to repeat myself Rogue looked me dead in the eyes.

"What happened Lucy? I want to know the truth. What are you hiding?" Damnit.

"Well you see," I took a deep breath and told him what had happened. He started to growl in anger and I watched as Yukino sat down and started to cry. "I know it was wrong and trust me when I say that the guys have been reprimanded, but if they didn't take the extreme measure we would still be no where. I swear to you that they meant well and it did work out in their favor." He was still growling, but he closed his eyes to try and calm himself. It was Frosch who calmed him down.

"Frosch wants to help too." His face became soft as he looked down and the Exceed that was nuzzling his leg trying to show comfort. Lector smiled at the display as he sat on the bed at his adopted father and best friend.

"Listen, I know we did wrong, but it was for the best. He would still be suffering if we hadn't. The whole time we had Wendy healing him. I swear to you Rogue that we were doing everything to try and keep the action controlled. The circumstances were horrible, but honestly, I'm not sorry that we were able to improve his situation." Laxus said walking into the room with Gajeel. They must have heard me talking. I heard a threatening growl come from Rogue and knew that we were going to have a problem. He knew that I wasn't involved in the situation so he wasn't royally pissed at me, but they were a completely different story. He automatically went to attack the men. I saw Yukino go to stop him and made the quick decision to keep her safe.

I silently called Scutum, grabbed Yukino, and jumped in the middle. Rogue hit my shield and bounced off of it, his ass landing on the floor near us. He looked up confused for a moment and then realized that his actions almost hurt his close friend and kin. I watched as he started taking deep breaths.

"That was reckless Bunny." I looked over at Gajeel. He had his angry face on and was still in a defensive stance. "You shouldn't put yourself in danger like that."

"I wasn't going to let Yukino get hurt because you slayers can't think straight. You three talk this out. I'm going to let Sting rest Porlyusica has him on meds that keeps his mind on ease. He isn't going to wake up anytime soon. If I hear any ounce of fighting I'm going to kick all of your ass'. Is that understood?" I heard Laxus and Gajeel gulp and heard Rogue laugh a little.

"Damn Lucy, when did you get badass?" I winked over at him and just told him I always was. I pulled Yukino out with me to go over to the guild.

"Are you interested in joining the women in a slumber party. I promise a great night. We will relax and have a great night." I wrapped my arm around her shoulders talking happily about what we would do at Fairy Hills.

"Erza, do we have everything ready to go?" Cana was behind the bar trying to secretly grab alcohol without Mira noticing. Mira was silently laughing and winked at me letting Cana get away with it.

"I'm ditching the bar to come too Luce!" Mira clearly was excited to have a girl's night out. "It's been way too long since we did this. Lisanna went home to make some junk food besides desserts. No offense Erza." Erza had a blank look on her face not understanding what she meant by besides desserts. What else would anyone want? We all laughed at her.

"I'm excited to see all of you! I am going to go back to my apartment to get my stuff and I will meet you guys there. Yukino, do you want to come with me or meet me there?" She thought about it for a moment looking at the stairs. "I wont be upset sweetie. If you want to stay here, I will see you later. I'll understand if you want to stay by Sting longer."

"Thank you for understanding Lucy. I do look forward to tonight though. I will see you in a little while. Should you go home by yourself though?" She did have a point. I probably shouldn't.

"I'll walk you home Luigi!" Natsu jumped up kissing Lisanna on the head and grabbing my hand running out of the door with Happy behind him. "I miss you Luce!"

"I miss you too Natsu. I wish we could go on a mission again. I hate now knowing when we can go again!" He sighed.

"I feel the same way. Is Gajeel treating you properly Luce?" Of course he was. I always loved how much Natsu cared about me. He was the best friend I could ever have.

"He's treating me like a princess Natsu. Except when he forces me to train. I swear the training is going to kill me." Natsu laughed.

"But look how far you've come Luce! You're kickass for sure! I hope you guys have fun tonight. I think we are going to stick at the guild and just drink tonight. It'll be great. I think we all need this time together. I hope we get Sting back to normal soon. I want to fight him!" Natsu was such a lovable idiot. I kissed his cheek as we walked up to my apartment.

"Thank you for walking me home. Make sure Gajeel has fun tonight okay?" He promised that everyone would have fun and ran back to the guild.

It was about an hour later when Gajeel came with Pantherlily to walk me to Fairy Hills. Everyone was already there when I got there and I could see the alcohol being passed around. "We made Daiquiris Lucy!" Mira was clearly affected already by the alcohol which made Cana smirk not even near her point which was impressive because she's been day drinking at the guild before coming here.

"Mira, tell us about you and Freed!" Cana was not shy to make anything feel uncomfortable.

"I don't know what you are talking about!" Her face turned the same shade as Erza's hair and she tried hiding herself.

"Don't give me that shit! I know you both are clearly in love with each other. Just think of all the proper green haired, blue eyed babies." We were all laughing at the embarrassed face of the guild's matchmaker using her own words against her. This went on with the entire group of woman asking about relationships and crushes. It wasn't until much later that we started to settle down and lay down. Most of the girls were sleeping when I heard a noise outside. I got up to look outside the window, but couldn't see anything.

"What time is it?" It was Lisanna who spoke in a whisper.

"It's like two in the morning." Cana answered her. "Do you know what that was?"

"It sounded like people talking. I bet it was the guys. Trying to get themselves into trouble." I answered Cana.

"Should we go out there and teach them a lesson?" I didn't think it was a good idea, but because I was drunk I couldn't think of a good enough reason not to.

"Yeah, we should. We can teach them who wears the pants in this guild!" I giggled as the three of us made it down the stairs to go outside.

"What direction do you think they went?" Cana looked around the building. I pointed to the left and we started to quietly walk over there. I abruptly stopped once I saw a couple in cloaks. There were only two of them, but one of them had a mist surrounding them. I grabbed the two other girls with me and pushed them out of sight. This was not good. Did they hear us? Did they see us? Lisanna went to say something and I covered her mouth with my hand. I'm sure my eyes looked desperate because Cana gave me a terrified look. I grabbed my keys and silently called Pavo out.

"Hide us!" It was an urgent almost silent whisper and he did it instantly. Only one man turned around to look around. We stayed absolutely still hoping to Mavis that we were hidden under Pavo's illusion. I put my hand over my mouth as I took the man in. It had to be the same man that got a hold of Sting. He had dark blue, almost black hair that was sleeked back. It was shoulder length and matched his eyes perfectly. His cold dark blue eyes. It was the stone around his neck that clued me in. It was a dark blue crystal and it seemed as if it almost glowed with power.

"I can smell the slayers on all three of you. I applaud you my Lady, your illusion is very well done. You are a very strong summoner. I could use you in my collection for sure. I closed Pavo's gate and called out Leo and Leo Minor. We should have never came outside. The two men automatically went on the attack.

"Now now, I'm not going to hurt you. Come with me willingly and I won't do anything to the others. You are very strong if your keys are any indication. I can give you more darling. I can give you power you've only dreamed of." His words were sweet and I could feel the pull of the crystal that was now in his hands and not around his neck.

"Cana, call for help!" I whispered to her hoping that the men in front of us didn't hear. "I will never go with you!" Leo and Levin were holding a defensive stance when the other man turned around. It was Leo who growled in anger that caught my attention. It took me a moment to understand why, but as soon as I saw his face I wanted to cry. It was Mizu. I had thought, hoped, and prayed to Mavis that I would never have to see him again. It didn't seem like he recognized me at all, but he had a blue glow coming from his eyes so I wasn't shocked.

"Do you know him my Lady?"

"Leo, Levin, don't hold back. Kill him if you must." This wasn't going to be a fair fight. The only one of us that was not slightly drunk was Cana. She pulled out her cards and went on the defense. Lisanna called out her animal soul magic transforming parts of her into a cat.

"Water Dragon's Water Prison!" Three water bubbles came flying towards us as Leo and Levin went for the man with the crystal. My whip hit the bubble breaking it and I heard the other girls call out their own attacks. I couldn't see if they were okay because I knew we needed to end this fast. I heard their gurgled screams and knew they were engulfed into the water prison. Damnit. I ran up punching Mizu with everything I had allowing the Regulas blast to slam him into the tree. This broke his spell. However I was so busy watching Mizu that I wasn't paying much attention to the crystal bearer. I did however feel it when their gates closed. I looked over in a panic.

Lisanna jumped to attack with her claws as Cana threw a volley of cards at him. He stopped them in mid air as if he controlled time and space and forced Lisanna and the cards to fall in front of him. He kicked Lisanna hard making her cry out and clutch her left side. Cana pulled out her Prayer's Fountain card and started to attack with the water. None of them hit and he did the same thing. "You are weak." I was about to hit him with my Regulas blast, but Mizu grabbed me and slammed me into a tree.

"Water Dragon Water Slicer!" I felt his water hit slicing my skin open. I felt the warm blood start to make it's way down my sides and started to be very scared that we wouldn't be able to see our slayers again. He went to punch me again, but I moved dodging his hit. I heard Cana scream out, but couldn't go over to help her. I had to focus completely on Mizu. As he went to punch me again I went low and swung my leg out swiping him on his back. I knew it was going to be a bad decision, but I had to end this fight if I had a chance of getting us out of here. I hit him in the stomach with my Regulas blast knowing it would only keep him down for a moment, but I knew it would be enough.

"Survey the heavens, open the heavens all the stars, far and wide show me thy appearance with such shine. Oh Tetrabiblos I am the ruler of the stars aspect become complete open thy malevolent gate. Oh eighty-eight stars of the heavens Shine! Urano Metria!" I felt my magic almost completely drain out of me as my attack hit him. He was done for. There wouldn't be getting up anytime soon after that.

"Congratulations my Lady, you are indeed impressive. You don't see a young woman have the strength and will to take down a Dragon Slayer. That must mean you have pretty intensive training from Slayers. Tell me, how important are you to them? I may be able to use you to my advantage." I growled in warning, but truth be told I didn't have much magic left in me. I wanted to cry seeing both of my friends on the floor. We were never able to call for help. I silently told my friends that I loved them and hoped for the best in my next move.

"Capricorn!" I called out Capricorn hoping that he would help even with the little magic I had. He automatically started throwing punches, but none hit. It was almost as if he was punching a wall. He hit against his own barrier slamming a pressure into Capricorn knocking him out completely. A light wrapped around him and pulled him back into the Spirit World. I heard a whisper of an apology. I was pissed.

"Four spirits, a very rare spell, and yet you still have a fire in you to fight. I am beyond impressed. It's a shame you won't join my army. You would be an amazing asset. Is there any way I can convince you otherwise?" I came rushing at him pushing all of my energy and will into my fists. I felt his pressure build almost as if it built a thick cement wall and pushed back as hard as I could with my Regulas blast. I felt his wall break and my fist made contact with his chest. He went flying. His eyes were wide and full of away. He sat up and started to laugh. "You are the first to land a hit in a very long time child. You will be coming with me." I watched as he gripped his crystal. A purple mist wrapped around me warming me. It was soothing. I fought against it, but I had no energy left in me. My eyes were starting to feel heavy and my breaths came in short bursts. Please don't let me die. The last thing I saw was Lisanna and Cana's unconscious body and I prayed to Mavis that they wouldn't be harmed further once I passed out.

A/N: Thank you to all of the new follows and favorites. I appreciate it. I swear I have ADHD this whole week every time I went to go type I would get distracted with Facebook, YouTube, or Reddit…. Lol life. Next chapter is gajeel POV