IMPORTANT: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE FAIRY TAIL CHARACTERS/PLOT: ALL CREDIT GOES TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS!


~3rd person P.O.V~

"Celestial Dragon Wing Attack!" Lucy yelled out before she was thrown back by Erigor's Wind Barrier for what felt the hundredth time. "Damn it!" The girl gritted her teeth as she wrapped an arm around her side, gently cradling her previously healed ribs that were now broken again. "Oi! Lucy! You're just gonna hurt yourself more if you keep doing that!" Gray, who had entered the station several minutes before, exclaimed as he watched the already injured girl hit the ground again. "I'm fine!" Said slayer insisted as she rose from a pile of debris. "Not even Lucy's Dragon Slaying Magic can break through the barrier, as you can see." Erza sighed in anger at the predicament she and her friends had suddenly found themselves in. "And from what Rayule said to you means the Guild Masters are in danger as well." Her eyes darkened, as well as Gray and Lucy, at the very thought of the old wizards being threatened in such a way. "Celestial Fusion: Tarus!" In a flash of blinding light, Lucy's appearance changed to that of what she'd worn several moments before, a tight vest and a pair of combat shorts while a large golden axe materialized in her hands. "Hey! I thought I told you to quit it!" Gray chided as he watched the blond turn the weapon in her hands. "Sorry, but I don't exactly fancy the idea of all these innocent lives being in danger." She sarcastically apologized before launching herself at the barrier once more.

Sparks flew out in all directions once the axe made contact with the barrier and gradually pushed the blond back a few inches as she fought against the gravity trying to send her flying. Grinding her teeh, Lucy pushed on the weapon with more force than before and began to squint as the proximity of the sparks to her body grew close. At the very last second, just before she could be thrown backward again, an arm yanked the girl back and protected herself from injuring herself further. "While I admire your drive, getting hurt even more isn't going to help anyone. So calm down and save your breath while Erza and I think up a plan; you've done enough." Gray exclaimed as he looked down on Lucy's injured self in concern. Scratches and cuts marred her previously flawless skin, riddled with dirt and dry sweat, while dark purple and blue bruises covered other large portions of her body; not to mention how bad her ribs actually looked. "Do you want some ice for your-?" "No." Lucy cut the boy off before he could finish speaking, quickly stepping away from his body in order to create space between them. "Thank you, though." She stiffly added before returning to her normal clothes. "Are you blushing?" The raven haired ice mage snickered as he spotted the pink hue to her cheeks. "Its nothing personal, Gray. Lucy just doesn't like showing much skin." Erza explained with a small laugh.

"Now the real question is how we'll ever get out of here?" Gray coughed as the previous tension from before returned. "Well," Lucy began as she ran a hand through her hair that had fallen out sometime in the midst of her attempts to escape. "I'm sure that one of Eisenwald's Wizards is a dispeller, someone had to undo the Magic Seal on the Lullaby Flute, and Erigor wouldn't risk not bringing them here. We just have to find out who it is and where they are." The blond explained as she lazily examined the cuts on her hands, unaware to the surprised expressions sent her way from Erza and Gray. "Got any clue on who it could be though Lucy?" "No." She shook her head. "Wait! Back at the bar when I'd first encountered Eisenwald they mentioned someone named Kage! If we find him I'm sure we can get out of here and past the barrier." Erza gasped as the memory reached her brain. "Lets start looking! Lucy, can you try and trace a scent that doesn't belong to any of the exceeds or Natsu and Gray?" Erza questioned causing the girl to slightly scrunch up her nose. "Its a complicated job... but I can try." Lucy nodded her head.


If she was being completely honest with herself, Lucy felt like a complete idiot as she trudged through the station halls with Erza and Gray practically down her throat. they were so close. With her nose turned up in the air, accompanied by the constant silence otherwise disturbed by her sniffing, she felt like an animal. Erza and Gray had it easy, she would remind herself. They didn't have to sort through the different mixtures of scents and determine which belonged to everyday people, Fairy Tail, or Eisenwald. They didn't have to smell the other putrid things either, something rotting inside the walls or other disgusting smells from some of the rooms they'd passed. So while Lucy had to suffer like a dog and trace the smell of a mage that she didn't know, while the duo behind her had to follow her lead? Yeah, they certainly did have it easy. But just as she'd felt that all hope was lost; that her sense of smell would forever be numb from the horrors she'd traced, the building began to shake and the familiar voice of an obnoxious slayer met her ears. Picking up her pace the blond and her two comrades turned down the corner of a hallway revealing two new smells. One she immediately recognized as the pinkette's; cinnamon and firewood, while the other what she could only assume was Kage's which was more of that of a rainy day.

"Snake Shadow!" Gray, Erza and Lucy heard a male voice yell followed by Natsu's voice; "Fire Dragon Wing Attack!" Which, of course, was followed by the sound of something breaking.

"Natsu! Don't hurt him! We need him!" Lucy exclaimed as she came barreling into the room. But it didn't come as much of a surprise when the boy followed through with his second attack and sent Kageyama crashing into the wall by a fire covered fist. A sheepish grin crossed the slayers face as he rubbed the back of his head knowing he'd done something he wasn't supposed to; his face turned stark white and his eyes grew to the size of dinner plates as a certain redhead jumped into the air with gleaming red eyes and a shadow cast across her face, one magical sword in hand, only to completely disregard his existence and target the shadow mage instead. "You will dispell the wind barrier outside at once without hesitation the second I ask you! Got it?!" Erza demanded with a venomous hiss, her eyes like daggers. "D-do it man!" Natsu stuttered in fear. "F-fine! I'll do it!"

And while it seemed like things had finally taken a brighter turn for the Fairy Tail mages, the same rotting scent Lucy had detected from before filled the tiny room and sent both slayers slapping hands over their noses in an attempt to block the putrid smell. "Damn Gray! If you had to fart that bad you should've left the room!" Natsu groaned. A bright red tickmark formed on the boys face before he replied; "I didn't far you idiot matchstick!" The raven haired ice mage barked in anger. "You smell that too, don't you Luce? Tell him!" The pinkette yelled as he turned to face the girl only to freeze as he'd noticed the look on her face. Her eyes were wide in surprise and her mouth parted slightly in disbelief while her arm had fallen limp by her side as she'd looked at what he could only assume was Kageyama. In a split second her expression morphed into something more dangerous with her lips pulled back in a small snarl, enough so you could see her sharp canines, and her eyes more like slits as she looked at a new figure in fury. "Kage!" Erza yelled in surprise as the deadly injured mage slumped forward and hit the ground due to the severe injury Karacka, his guildmate, had given him. The green haired wizard pulled his arm out of Kageyama's body and held it closer to his chest as he'd looked out at all the Fairy Tail members in surprise at his own actions.

"He was your guildmate!" Lucy stated as she clenched her fists by her sides.

"And you!..." She paused in fury.

"You tried to kill him!"

Karacka quickly began to tremble in fear at the terrifying behavior Lucy began to emit as well as from how much power her glare alone seemed to hold. He retreated back into the walls in fear, hoping that the rocky earth material would protect him from the slayer's anger; a bad choice on his part as it only served to fuel the blond on even further.

"Celestial Dragon Iron Fist!"

The fat mage was sent spiraling into the next room over and onto the hard wall, nothing more than a bruised and slightly charred mess from the power of the girls attack. "Kage! Kage wake up! We need you!" Erza yelled as she violently shook at his unconscious body in an attempt to wake him up. She was suddenly brushed aside as Lucy bent down to examine the wounds on his chest before she extended her arms outward until her palms were directly over his injuries. "Celestial Dragon Ejecta*." A white light began to emit from her hands and engulfed Kageyama's body in a gentle-like embrace. Within moments color had returned to his previously pale complexion and the gash on his stomach looked less deadly and life threatening. "He's not entirely healed, I've just stopped his injuries from worsening for a small duration of time. He'll stille have to see a hospital and be bandaged up." Lucy simply explained as she straightened out her legs and stood upright. "Lu?" Saiya murmured as she flew closer to the blond. "Are you alright? You've been using a lot of magic today.." She trailed off in worry. "Mm. Just a bit tired." The girl offered her silver exceed a small smile and brushed her hand over her head as she walked by. "I'll be fine though." She added.


The first thing Natsu had done when Erza had informed him of what exactly Erigor had planned to do was run at the barrier with a fire covered fist and try to break out. Much like Lucy, he continued to try again each time he was sent back into the ground. "That's what happens when you try and get through the barrier. And now that Kage's been knocked out, there's no way we'll get through." Gray said with a conflicted expression. "I have to keep trying! I can't just stand around while those old geezers lives are on the line!" Natsu roared as he moved to launch at the barrier again, only to get a hard fist to the face which promptly sent him into the ground as well. "Reason doesn't work with people like you so I'll give it to you straight. Right now all of us are utterly useless. We're trapped and there's nothing we can do about it." Lucy coldly snapped. "But-!" "There is no but's! Our magic doesn't work against this! Trust me, I've tried!" It was in that moment that he suddenly took notice of the tattered state she stood in, eyes growing wide in realization. "M-Maybe you can summon one of those weird spirits of yours! I can hop on one and get to the other side!" The boy wagered with high hopes. "I would have to be on the other side of the barrier for that to work. I told you already, I've tried everything."

"I'll just bust us out of here then! You haven't seen nothin' yet!"

And just like that, he was at it again. Natsu jumped at the barrier and dug his shoulder into the wind in an attempt to push through the 'wall', only to be forced back again. "I told you to stop already! You're gonna kill yourself idiot!" Though it was narcissistic of her to say it, since she had done the same things he had only minutes before, Lucy wrapped her arms around his body and held him back so he couldn't blindly rush at the barrier again. At the very contact of her body against his, Natsu's heart began to pound against his chest. The pinkette turned his head to look down at the blond with wide eyes, who's were squeezed shut as she tightened her grip on his vest (very well due to the fact that she was experiencing the same reaction as Natsu was) before Happy cried out;

"Lucy I remembered what I was trying to tell you in the car! Look!"

Small blue paws reached into his knapsack to reveal a familiar golden key that belonged to one of the spirits of the Zodiac. "What the hell?!" Lucy screeched as she quickly snatched the item up from his fingers. "Woah Happy! Where'd you get that?!" Saiya gaped as she sat on the blonds shoulder and admired the key alongside her master. "After we destroyed Everlue's mansion, Virgo came to me and asked if I'd give you the key Lucy!" The exceed explained. "We're wasting time talking about some stupid spirit. What we need to be talking about is how we'll get out of-" Gray choked on his words as he felt the icy glare Lucy sent directly toward his body, shivering as it was far colder than anything he'd ever felt before. "Oh yeah?" Lucy hissed as her glare darkened. "What if I told you that this 'stupid spirit' could get us out of here?" She smugly exclaimed before swiping said key through the air.

"I call upon thee in the world of the Celestial Spirits, and now I beckon you to my side at once! Pass through the gate! Open! Gate of the Maiden: Virgo!"

Springing out from the ground and high into the air came the pink haired maid equipped with a full dress and chains around her wrists. "You summoned me, Mistress?" Before Lucy had the chance to respond, however, Natsu Dragneel had to come and cut her off. "Huh?! But I thought you were bigger!" Natsu bluntly yelled as he slung an arm around the blonds shoulder. "You mean like this?" The spirits voice dropped on octave as she suddenly grew in size causing Gray to suddenly shiver in fear. "Yeah!" "I must apologize then, for I know my mistress prefers me in my smaller form." Virgo bowed as she returned to her smaller version. "Virgo, I'm sorry we don't have enough time to work out a contract yet, but can you dig a hole under this wind barrier for me?" "Anything you desire Mistress." The pink haired spirit responded as she eyed the whip on her belt. "Ah, don't call me Mistress either. Anything but that, please." Lucy sighed.

"Princess it is!"

"W-what?!" For the second time that day the blonds face turned bright pink. "You said anything I liked, Princess is only a fitting title for you, Lucy-san." "I-I see.." "I shall get straight to work then, Hime*." Virgo bowed before diving into the ground. "Look at how quick she is!" "Fantastic Job Lucy!" While Gray got prepared to jump into the newly dug hole, he turned around to watch Natsu and Lucy as they both lifted Kageyama up from the ground. "And just what are you two doing?" "Leaving him here to die would mean that we're heartless. I wouldn't dirty the guilds name like that." Natsu grunted. "It would also mean that we're no different than them. He's only walking this path because of something that happened to him. The past doesn't define the future after all." Lucy added in response to the slayers comment.


"Fear not Hime! I'll hold your boobs down!" Virgo yelled out-loud with no hint of shame as she openly groped the girl. "O-Oi! Don't touch me there!" The blond squeaked in embarrassment while Gray had a nosebleed in the background. "It's no use, you know." Kageyama weakly murmured. "You'll never catch up with Erigor. We've already won!" He smirked. "Saiya! Lets go! We need to catch up with Natsu and Happy-!" Before she could get far, an iron like fist met her stomach and sent her mind crashing into darkness. "E-Erza?" Was all she could muster before passing out. "Erza?! What'd you do that for?!" Gray asked with wide eyes. "I've known Lucy the longest so there's no way any of you would've realized it, but she's extremely low on her magic reserves. She'd only be a threat to herself by going after Natsu, wherever that is."

"What'd you guys do to me?" Kageyama questioned as he looked down at his bandaged wounds. "We didn't do anything. It was Lucy. She apparently cast this spell and used up the last of her magic just so she could heal you." Gray responded as he looked out the window. "Why'd you take me with you?" "Again, it was Lucy. Something about how you'd have to see a doctor." "If you think you can use me as leverage against Erigor you're dead wrong. He could care less about anything other than himself and his plans-" "Listen. If you wanna go off and die I can specifically make that happen, but try and show some appreciation to the fact that someone is actually looking out for you. There's a whole lot more to this world than life and death, you know. You should try to look for the positive*." Out of nowhere the car hit a bump and sent all three mage's in the back flying. Before Lucy could smother Kageyama with her lower half, Gray caught her body and pushed her safely back into the chair. This was gonna be a long ride, he could tell.

"Erza I'm gonna kill you!"

Lucy screamed as she bolted upright, startling both males in the seat across from her as they rolled up on Natsu and Happy's location. She quickly bolted out of the car only to freeze as she'd saw how drained the redhead actually was, choosing to instead help her down onto the tracks rather than punch her back. "Now who's the exhibitionist?" Gray sneered at he spotted the half dressed slayer. "Shut up Gray. Hey Luce, gimme your clothes-" "As if you pervert!" In the midst of Erza's congratulations, Kageyama went speeding by in their car with the Lullaby Flute in his hands. "The flute's mine now, suckers!" His laugh echoing down the canyon as he sped down the train tracks. "Correction," Lucy exclaimed as her bangs fell over her eyes. "I'm gonna kill him!"


"Look there he is!"

"Master!"

"I'm gonna kill that idiot!"

"He'll pay for targeting-"

"Shhh!"

All four mages jumped in fear as Master Bob had suddenly come up from behind them, Natsu and Gray falling to nothing more than a shivering mess as he'd quickly come to flirt with them both. "Keep it down would ya'? I'm trying to watch the show here." Goldmine sighed as he looked at the group of four with a slight smirk. "Man, you both are just as annoying as I remember you to be." Lucy surprisingly sighed as she tilted her head upward so she could watch the sky. "The weak will always be the weak, nothing can ever change that." Makarov explained with his back turned to Kageyama. "But that is also the reason why guilds are formed," He tilted his head backward to meet the mage's gaze. "And why we have friends." He'd dropped the flute to the floor with a clatter and dropped to his knees in defeat. "I surrender." "Yeah! Good job Master!" Natsu cheered as he'd jumped down from the small cliff, Erza Graya nd Lucy following close behind. "W-wha?! How did you get here- Lucy you're hurt, again!"

Everyone froze as a giant purple seal suddenly burst into the air as the Lullaby Flute began to emit sparks, Team Natsu's eyes snapping upward in disbelief as it suddenly began to take a new form. There Lullaby stood in all of its glory, high above the mountains, as it loomed over Fairy Tail and the guild-masters. "Now, which one of you shall I eat first?" A warped voice echoed through the land as Lucy stepped forward with Saiya by her side. Turning its head to the right, the demon let off a string of its magic from its mouth, and destroyed an entire mountain from a magic explosion. "Lets do this!" Saiya cheered as she scooped Lucy up and went flying into the air. "Max Speed!" The unsuspecting demon flute was caught by surprise when the blond was suddenly in front of its face, a large smirk pulling at her lips before she confidently called out; "Celestial Dragon Wing Attack!" The attack hit its eye sockets with incredible force and sent the demon stumbling back a few steps, giving Lucy the opportunity to look back at her four friends. "We doing this or what?!"

"Requip: Heavens Wheel Armor!"

"Ice Make: Lance!"

"Fire Dragon Iron Fist!"

"Celestial Dragon Roar!"

The demon flute threw its head back and got prepared to play its song, only to have something surprising to happen; no sound came out. The power of the four mage's attacks had formed so many holes in its body that no notes could be played. This of course made the demon even angrier.

"Ice Make: Shield!"

"Requip: Black Winged Armor!"

"Ice Make: Saucer!"

"Unison Raid: Celestial Fire Dragon Roar!"

"While I'm glad you four defeated the Lullaby Flute," Makarov began with his eyes shut. "Did you have to go so overboard!?" He screeched, gesturing to the gaping hole in the center of the field where the conference hall had once stood. "On a more serious note, Lucy," His expression turned serious rather than dumbfounded. "We need to get you to Porlyusica." Too bad for him the blond was already sleeping on her pink haired partner.


A/N: I'm tired and don't really have much to say, haha.

Practice tomorrow and Friday, Comp. Saturday = No updates

*Ejecta: Material from beneath the surface of a body such as a moon or planet that is ejected by an impact such as a meteor and distributed around the surface. Usually appears as a lighter color than the surrounding surface.

^I don't know why I choose to use this word in relation to healing, I just thought it sounded cool and went with it..

*Hime: Japanese word for Princess. I'll normally refer to Lucy as Hime when Virgo is speaking rather than Princess, I just think it sounds better.

*This is an actual quote from the anime/manga; I don't own it.

And to the guest that asked me if I went to Clements High School, no I'm sorry I don't.

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