Chapter 5- Seven Years, Seven Days

July 7, X785. After seven months of grieving, Fairy Tail was finally beginning to return to normal. Well, as normal as a guild could be with most of its members most likely dead and being in extreme debt with no way to pay. Though certain members from other guilds would come to help out, Fairy Tail was still in a bad state and would most likely remain that way until they gained new members.

At 11:30 on the dot, Yukino, Sting, and Rogue walked through the door as they did every Thursday and headed to the infirmary. Once inside, they closed the door and went to the positions they always did. Yukino and Sting sat in the chairs to her right while Rogue would sit to her left. While Rogue took up the position of sitting and holding her hand, Yukino would take out a book and begin reading it out aloud to the comatose girl. Sting would sit by Yukino waiting to take over the position of reader when Yukino broke down and could no longer pronounce the words. That day everything seemed to have been going as the new normal had been: boring, sad, and lonely. That is until the hand holding Rogue's began to squeeze harder and Lucy sat bolt upright in her bed.

"What happened? Is everyone alright? Were they saved?" The three Sabertooth mages looked at her shell-shocked and couldn't muster an answer for the hysterical girl. "Please tell me they slayed Acnologia." The girl looked around. "Wait… Wasn't I in the Guild Hall just now? And what was that pain I was feeling? Are my spirits alright? Have the release forms been filled out for Cobra? Did-?" Suddenly a hand gripped her mouth and her brows furrowed in frustration.

"Stop talking so we can answer some of your questions."

Lucy nodded and wacked Rogue's hand away from her face with a slight scowl.

"I need you to be calm and let me get through telling you before you interject." Lucy nodded in response to Rogue's statement and he continued. "Tenrou island has disappeared and everyone who was on it has been ruled dead by the Magic Council despite the lack in bones, blood, or any other evidence to prove it. Though this does seem bad, it means that if they do come back, Cobra will not have to go back. Sting taped Lahar saying this fact and so that ruling cannot be voided." Lucy had a somber smile on her face, but nodded for Rogue to continue. "This may be hard to process, but I beg you to remain calm. You have been in a coma for the last seven months because Loke and Aries have disappeared along with the island. Your coma is the only reason the Magic Council hasn't arrested you yet. This is why you have to stay calm. We don't want to alert anyone that you are awake."

Lucy shook her head at this. Though her eyes were full of tears, she would not let one drop fall. "I have to turn myself in. What I did was against the law and I have to serve my time."

Rogue growled at this and stalked towards the door knowing that arguing with the stubborn girl would be useless.

"If you want to give your life away, I won't fight you. However," He sneered turning to face the girl, "remember who's been grieving for the last seven months; remember who has been watching the person they love possibly dying in front of their eyes."

Lucy was agast as Rogue turned back around and slammed the door behind him. She had no idea that the three Sabertooth mages had come to love her as part of their small, broken family, but she had to do the right thing. After sending the slightly distraught Sting and Yukino out, Lucy began to get dressed into a pair of sweats and a large sweatshirt. If she was going to be imprisoned, she'd at least be comfortable. She strutted out of the guild with her head held high, ignoring the surprised looks from the remaining Fairy Tail members. She boarded the first train to Era and marched herself into the Magic Council Headquarters with her hands held out for her handcuffs.

"I'd like to be arrested please. I'm turning myself in for freeing Cobra before he-" The 13 year old gulped, "died…" Suddenly she was put into handcuffs by some rune knights and brought into an office where a man who looked to be about 19 sat behind neat stacks of paper piled about 2 feet high each. He was looking down at some papers and reaching for his glasses.

"I'm very busy, make it quick." He looked up at the girl and sat back in his chair. "I see… Knights," They all stiffened, "at ease and out. I'll take care of Ms. Heartfilia."

The knights filed out and Commander Lahar got up out of his chair. He went around the desk and took off the handcuffs that were chafing Lucy's small wrists.

"I see you have turned yourself in, but there is no use for handcuffs when there is no real threat. I'm putting you in the cell with Sorano. She used to be a celestial spirit mage as well so you two should get along fine. She was also an associate of Cobra's, so she shouldn't hurt you as long as you tell her what you did for him. Leave out the fact that he's dead though. She could be quite… bitter about that." He chuckled a little at this unfortunate event and gestured for the girl to follow him. She did easily even without handcuffs hindering her possible escape. "For lunch and dinner, prisoners are let out into a common area outside where food and water is provided. Here is your cell." He opened it and pushed the girl in, closing the door behind her. "Behave yourself." He called out as a final dismissal before walking away.

Lucy observed her surroundings and was surprised by what she saw. She was expecting something more violent and magical? But all she saw was a normal cell. A concrete floor with concrete walls and a bunk bed in the corner was laid out in front of the girl. The only difference she could see was the door on the other side of the room that had a small window that showed a courtyard on the other side of it. She noticed a large mass below the blanket on the bottom bunk and made the connection that it must be the 'Sorano' girl Lahar had been referring to. Lucy didn't want to bother the female who was sleeping well into the afternoon, so she climbed up to the top bunk in order to figure out how she would be living for the rest of her stay; however long that would be. The mattress was springy and bumpy but it wasn't uncomfortable enough to not be able to sleep. There was a light pink uniform on the bed that she put on quickly before looking at the position of the camera that was in the corner of the room. As soon as it wasn't looking directly at where the bed was, Lucy silently ripped a small hole in the side of her mattress. She took her keys that she had placed in her trainer's bra and slid them in between the springs. She decided against leaving them at the guild earlier and instead had to smuggle them into the prison discretely. Just after she had hidden her keys, the rusty squeal of a door being opened reverberated around the room. She looked to the source and saw that the door to the courtyard had been cracked open.

A grumble sounded from beneath her and a thump followed as the mass of blankets from the bottom bunk came tumbling to the floor. The blankets then fell away and a teenager of about 16 years with dark blue eyes and long white hair styled with bangs and a blue ribbon headband appeared. Her hair and headband were mussed and her eyelids were barely open as she made her way groggily to the door. She opened it and turned her head to where she sensed another presence.

"I'm Sorano. You're my new roommate. You coming out for lunch or not?" Sorano sighed as she held the door for the blonde girl in the top bunk and waited for a response.

Lucy wasted no time in jumping down to the floor and hurrying out. She waited for Sorano to lead her to where she needed to go. Sorano was wearing a white prisoner's uniform that stood in stark contrast to the concrete wall behind her as she closed the door and led out to the courtyard. The yard was in the shape of a hexagon with multiple doors on all sides except for one that had a window on it and multiple slots where the food for the prisoners was slid out. Sorano led Lucy over to the window to get food and then gestured for the girl to sit at a table where three other people were sitting. Lucy sat down hesitantly next to a teenage boy in dark gray scrubs with black and white hair who seemed to only be a couple of years older than her. He stared her down with red eyes and a small smirk masking his face.

"Who's the new girl?" The dark teen aimed his question towards Sorano, but knowing Sorano couldn't answer for her Lucy took over her own introduction.

"I'm Lucy."

A new person who was about 18 was sitting with both of his knees up to his chest. He had a blonde mohawk, scrubs the color of lightening, and sunglasses. "What're ya' in for, shorty?"

"I broke the dragon slayer, Cobra, out of jail and made arrangements so that I would take his place here."

The group's jaws dropped and a large man with red hair, white scrubs, and geometrically shaped features spoke up. "How'd you get him out of solitary?"

"I'll only tell you if you tell me your names and ages." Lucy stated with a smile towards the shocked people in front of her.

The black and white haired man next to her started. "Macbeth. 15. Call me Midnight."

The male with the mohawk followed. "Sawyer. 18. Call me Racer."

Then the oddly shaped man said, "Richard. 25. I prefer to be referred to as Hoteye."

Finally Sorano said, "My name is Sorano. 16. Call me Angel. Now how'd you get Cobra out?"

"I'm a Celestial Spirit mage and my spirit Virgo can dig holes long distances. I had her make a hole from where I was to Cobra's solitary cell and then another hole from there to where he needed to be. That was seven months ago though and I've been in a coma ever since. I'm supposed to only be awake for short spurts of time until my spirits… Come back. You see two of my spirits were forcefully ripped from me and until I'm connected with them again I'm basically sleeping beauty." She made sure not to go into too much detail but still all the prisoners listening looked pretty shocked, but Angel was on a whole different level than the rest. Her mouth hung wide open and her eyes looked to be bulging out of her head.

"How could they possibly be separated from you? That should be impossible." Angel was extremely confused as to how this could have happened. She used to read up on Celestial spirit magic constantly hoping to find some way to become even stronger than she already was and in everything she read there was nothing about having keys ripped from a person.

"I'd rather not say. It's a bit traumatic for me." Lucy gulped. "I just hope that they're okay, wherever they are…"

Angel nodded, knowing the pain of having keys being taken. Though she hadn't had her keys ripped from her as Lucy had, she instead had them taken from her by the magic council after that takeover mage from Fairy Tail, Lisanna, had beaten her. Though her treatment of the spirits could have been better, she still loved her beautiful lamb, childish twins, and cool scorpion and hoped that they were in better hands now and weren't being used as they were before.

"WRAP IT UP! TIME TO GET BACK INTO YOUR CELLS!" A large Rune Knight came out and started ushering the prisoners back where they came from. The Oracion Seis's table got up with a collective groan and threw out their trash heading to their separate cells. Before Lucy could get to her shared cell with Angel however, she got a wave of nausea and promptly passed out.

Angel widened her eyes at this, but soon remembered what the blonde had said about her sleeping spells. Angel called out for one of the Rune knights.

"She might be out for a few months due to her condition. Do you mind getting her on life support so that she doesn't die? That'd be great. Bye!" Angel was very flippant with her request, but did make her point as shown by the knight having picked up the 13 year old and taking her away.

"Bye, Sleeping Beauty…" Angel believed that everyone associated with the Oracion Seis should be known as something other than what their name had been originally. She quickly rethought the nickname of 'Sleeping Beauty' It doesn't quite fit. Maybe… Aurora? Perfect.


July 7, X786.

It was just another day for Angel. Up at 1 pm for lunch, talking with the Oracion Seis, and then back to bed until dinner. Nothing seemed to be wrong until she was woken from her second slumber by a knock on the door that led to the rest of the prison. It was soon opened and a familiar blonde walked through the door with a smile on her face. When she saw the white haired girl with her eyes open in her bed she quickly greeted her with a, "Hello Angel," and walked over to her. "It's been awhile hasn't it? I heard it's been a year."

Angel barely recognized the now 14 year old girl in front of her. Though Lucy had been asleep for the year, her body had not stopped growing. She looked to be about 5' 2' and was curvier than most girls would be at her age. She looked to have needed a 'C' cup bra and had a small waist that got wider at the bottom curving to form a nice, round butt. It almost made Angel wish she was lesbian… and younger. She smirked and got out of bed. "My! Look how Aurora's grown. Such a curvy girl! I bet Midnight will love this."

Lucy blushed at Angel's complement and went completely red at the comment about Midnight. "You really think so?'

Angel laughed. "Of course. That doors going to open any second for dinner and we're going to sit where we were last year. Don't even try to get out of sitting next to Midnight. That antisocial twit's face is going to be so red. I can see it now!" She clasped her hands in a trance before looking towards the door that had opened during her brief daydream. "Let's go."

Angel took Lucy's hand in hers and rushed to get the food from the window and sat down at the table where the three males were sitting.

Lucy hesitated before taking a seat next to Midnight, but when she finally did, their arms accidentally brushed causing the 16 year old boy to look at where the touch had come from. His heavily blackened eyes grew wide in shock as he looked at the blonde haired beauty to the side of him. Though only able to see Lucy's profile, Midnight felt as if he had laid eyes on the most beautiful creature in the universe. He thought upon what he thought of her as and realized that he'd never actually seen many girls other than Angel, who seemed disgusting to him as she was practically his sister, and Cubellios, who was a snake… and dead…

Midnight came out of his thought process when he realized Lucy was questioning him.

"Is there something on my face?" Lucy's voice held nothing but innocence and she tilted her head at Midnight's obvious staring.

Midnight growled at the low chuckles he heard coming from his team mates. He looked at her face once again and searched desperately for something wrong and he smirked when he saw a bit of sauce on the corner of Lucy's lips.

"Yes, allow me to take care of that for you." Midnight then leaned closer and gently licked the sauce from Lucy's mouth.

"Talk about sex appeal, Aurora." Angel guffawed and began to roll around laughing on the ground next to the table.

Lucy's face drained of all color as she muttered out, "Sex appeal," and passed out.

"Good going, Midnight. You killed her."


July 7, X787

As a 15 year old newly awoken girl, Lucy had one thing on her mind and that was revenge. She observed herself in the mirror. Trim waste, triple Ds, cute face. Perfect. Lucy strutted out of the prison's infirmary and into the courtyard where everyone was eating lunch. She pushed up her breasts and leaned in front of Midnight nonchalantly.

"You don't mind if I sit here do you?" She asked with a saucy voice and a flick of the tongue.

Midnight shook his head quickly from side to side with a red face. Lucy sat down next to him and put a finger under his chin. "Do you want to apologize for licking my face last year?"

He laughed slightly, still with a dusting of pink on his cheeks. "Nope."

Lucy's saucy grin transformed into the face of a monster as she slid out of her seat. "LUCY KICK!" Thus Midnight was out cold against the wall on the other side of the courtyard and Lucy fell peacefully asleep.


For the next four years, Lucy would always wake up on the seventh of July at varying times. Each day she woke, the closer she would get to the Oracion Seis members. They began to accept her into their small family and she began to think of them as part of her family as well, though when she thought of the feeling of family she'd usually feel nausea and a pain in her heart that wouldn't stop until she fell asleep again.

The first of these four years, Midnight responded to Lucy's powerful kick with an equally as powerful kiss which startled Lucy into sleeping once again. The second year, Lucy retaliated with a punch to the face and a soft kiss to 'make the boo boo better'. The third year, the two began a full on fight that ended in the 18 year old woman and 20 year old man making out only to be separated by a disgusted Angel who told them to 'get a room'. The fourth year, Lucy sat next to Midnight with her head on his shoulder until she once again fell asleep.

Eight months later, Lucy was woken up in April by a magical force and let out of the prison with news that Tenrou was back and with it came her family from Fairy Tail. The brown-eyed girl got her keys from her mattress and gave Midnight a sweet goodbye kiss and a promise to get him out along with Angel, Hoteye, and Racer. The prison allowed her to keep the prison scrubs on as her old clothes would have never fit the curvy woman she had become. She set out to the Fairy Tail guild as a brand new woman who had experienced many new things in the last seven years and seven days.

I might be posting a little late next week as I only have 600 words typed out for the next chapter. No worries though! I will finish the chapter and post it ASAP. Please leave a comment as it always makes my day to read what you have to say and follow/favorite if you enjoy this story.