Damn this story was left for a long time but that was due to me losing the flow of the story and my whole way of writing changing but there have been stories that have taken longer to update on this sight. Just want to let some of you guys know there is someone on this website who has a couple of crossover challenges up on their profile if you're interested and want to try your hand at them take a look, the profile name is joe63129. Anyway without further ado let's restart this story

Our group of wizards made their way to the cave Carla had described in her vision, along the way Natsu barely spoke as his thoughts continuously revolved around a certain white haired Strauss. His thoughts lingered on the girl so much that the Azure slayer hadn't noticed they had finally arrived at the cage.

"Um Natsu are you okay you've been quiet for quite some time now?" Wendy asked in a worried manner, "Don't worry Wendy I'm fine. So is this the place?" the older slayer reassured the younger mage who smiled and nodded in response. "This is the place alright, everything looks as it did in my vision" Carla confirmed taking a few steps forward stopping at the entrance of the mouth of the cave. Natsu then entered the cave but not before covering his hand in a light icy blue flame that illuminated the cave allowing them to see exactly what was in front of them.

As they followed the Natsu both him and Wendy noticed the current of air felt stale in the cave and that they could pick up one another's scents. "Careful guys something feels wrong, I can't smell any of your scents so that makes this the perfect place to ambush a dragonslayer" Natsu said in a serious tone setting the others on edge and as if on que "Sylfereon!" before he was able to react Natsu had a pair of magic restraining cuffs on him and he felt his magic drain away causing his leg to go shaky. Turning his head he saw that both Lucy and Wendy also had sealing cuffs on and Carla and Happy were being left alone.

"Well done both of you, mighty exceeds" Knightwalker said kneeling in front of the feline duo confusing them "What's going on this wasn't in my vision?" Carla asked frantically looking for answers seeing the look of horror on Wendy's face. (A/N: I don't remember much about this episode and what happened here so I'm just going to wing it) "Forgive us but your vision was tampered with, this was foreseen by the exceed queen who tampered with your ability to make you think this was a safe way to the capital. When in truth it was part of your true goal to hand over the dragonslayer's to the kingdom and eliminate their threat" Knightwalker explained as a look of horror and disbelief made its way onto the exceed's faces now.

"No that can't be true, I would never betray Natsu and Fairytail, they're my home and family" Happy tried to say in as determined a voice as he could but the shock of the situation was too much for the little guy. "You may not want to believe it but it is as I say, now as per the agreement with Extalia's queen you shall return to Extalia and the dragonslayer's will be disposed of by our own means Knightwalker said in a dismissive tone before the two feline's world went black and they fell to the ground unconscious while Natsu, Wendy and Lucy were dragged away but Knightwalker's faction of the Edolas royal army but not without protests from the two dragonslayers.

Hours later in the Royal hall of King Faust

"Your majesty, King Faust I bring good news the dragonslayers from Earthland have been captured and preparations to extract their magic for the dragon chain canon have gone underway" Knightwalker said in a respectful voice as she knelt before an aged man with wild grey hair and a long just as grey beard that went past his waist. A cruel smirk made its way across his face as this man King Faust stood up from his throne. "The time shall soon be upon us my children, everlasting magic power is within our grasp and soon the exceeds shall fall and become nothing more than a source of power to further our Kingdoms strength!" he declared which was followed by a massive uproar of cheers and applause from all the soldiers.

"Byro, on an estimation how long before you are able to completely drain the dragonslayers magic?" Faust asked his chief scientific officer as well as one of his high ranking captains. "I'm afraid even an estimation is uncertain, these dragonslayers have shown they have incredible amounts of magic power and I haven't quite finished preparations for the draining process yet" Byro answered honestly causing Faust to nod in acceptance.

"Very well but we need to start draining the dragonslayers as soon as possible, Extalia will be close enough tomorrow to proceed with our plans an if we miss this opportunity we could be waiting an unknown amount of time, time that Edolas doesn't have" Faust reminded his scientific officer who bowed to the King "Of course your majesty I shall double my efforts, now please excuse me" Byro said before he hobbled away to his lab or dungeon whatever you wanted to call the latter seemed to suit better seeing as an unconscious Natsu and Wendy were hanging by chains against what looked to be stone tablets with hieroglyphs on them.

"Let's see join the doda to the thingamajig, put the magic converter in to override. Okay now let's see ah yes and finally join I don't even know what this is but let's see what happens" the old man said as he fiddled around with whatever he could find because truth be told he wasn't much of a techno kind of scientific officer more so the crazy made scientist kind that brewed up the most insane concoctions known to man.

"And begin" as soon as he flipped the switched Natsu and Wendy began roaring in pain "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!" the roared in unison, the pain was unfathomable although if Natsu could compare it to anything it was like the time he got stuck in that stupid dragonoid thing that siphoned of his magic which hurt like a bitch. However, for Wendy this was far worse, she was young and hadn't much experience in battle so she hadn't strengthened her body much and her general resistant to damaging attacks was quite low. Seeing that the tears were brimming it in her eyes Natsu felt unimaginable rage well up inside him, he wanted to rip the guy's throat out for causing Wendy this pain.

"Hang tough Wendy" Natsu encouraged through Gritted teeth but apparently the pain was too much and Wendy had passed out prompting Byro to stop. "Dear oh dear this might prove problematic, I may as well continue the process while she's out although even if she survives there will be long lasting damage to her neural system" Byro said in a fed up tone causing Natsu to clench his fists.

"Let her go!" "Excuse me?" Byro asked with a raised eyebrow at the boy's threatening tone, "I said let her go you old shit bag, she doesn't have much magical power so take all of mine in her place, just don't hurt her anymore" Natsu replied although his tone was a mixture of sad and pain as he looked at Wendy's pained expression. "Take it all, please just let her go" Natsu was practically begging the crazed an in front of him, even if this was worse than the pain he felt with the dragonoid Natsu would still never ever want Wendy to have to feel that kind of pain so he definitely didn't want her experiencing this pain.

"Is this the will of a dragonslayer, what you're asking me is essentially the equivalent of taking your life?" Byro said as he stared emotionlessly at the pink haired dragonslayer, "I don't care, as long as Wendy is fine I don't care no get on with it!" Natsu shouted in anger with slitted eyes causing the old man to smirk, "very well let's begin" upon saying this Natsu was surrounded in a purple glow and he slowly as well as painfully felt his body being drained of magic power causing him to scream and yell in pain, however this was only the beginning as this torturous pain was going to continue for hours to come.

With Lucy and Knightwalker

"Don't say something like that with Erza's face, Erza wold never talk about killing someone so casually!" a tied up Lucy shouted at Erza Knightwalker infuriating the fairy hunter. "Well in case you've forgotten I'm not your Erza and I've certainly more than a life or two of those stupid fairies!" Knightwalker growled out as she held Lucy out of the castle wall with her spear. "Please don't do this, I know you're a good person deep down" the celestial spirit mage begged further irking the scarlet haired knight "Wrong answer" was her simple reply before Knightwalker's spear cut through the ropes upon which the stellar spirit mage was being held.

Lucy closed her eyes and screamed as she waited for her body to meet concrete in horrible splatting end, thankfully that never happened as she was saved by Happy and Carla "Mighty exceeds what are you doing? Your queen ordered the dragonslayer's death and as an accomplice of the dragonslayers she is to suffer the same fa…" "Silence how dare you talk to the princess and future queen of Extalia in such a way!" Carla interrupted in a her usual high and mighty tone making Knightwalker fall to her knees with her head facing the floor "Please forgive my insolence your Highness" Knightwalker begged without looking Carla in the eye out of fear that either the exceed queen or the future queen would have her life taken.

"There been a change of plans, the dragonslayer's weren't the threat we identified them as so we will be leaving with them and this one and you will return the other Earthland mages back to their original forms" Carla said in a demanding tone shocking Knightwalker, "But your highness if we do that then everything we've done will have been for nothing" "Your point? Now tell me where are the dragonslayers?" was Carla sharp reply "Of course, there down three floors below us, down the hall to the right" Knightwalker said again without looking at the exceed before Carla, Happy and Lucy began following her directions.

As soon as they had rounded the corner Knightwalker heard something that made her blood boil "STOP THE FALLEN EXCEEDS!" "They played me for fools" anger coursed through her veins as she looked in the direction the trio fled in.

Back with Carla and the others

"Hurry before she figures out it was a lie" Carla said in a panicked voice as the trio quickly made their way down a dimly lit brick corridor. "How did you come up with something like that so fast?" Happy asked curiously as he flew by his not so secret crushes' side, "It was just a bit of logic on my part, I look like the exceed queen is all" was her reply "Well at least it was enough to fool Erzahhhh!" Lucy started but then Carla, Happy and she were blown into a wall by an explosion caused by Knightwalker.

"I always was told that playing with my food was a bad habit, so this time you will die!" Knightwalker shouted in anger as she prepared to thrust her spear through the blonde, "MAX SPEED!" Happy however had different plans and rammed into the side of the scarlet haired knight toppling her over while angering her further. "You pathetic fallen!" Knightwalker shouted in rage having been denied her kill yet again as she swatted Happy away while more and more of the royal army filtered into the corridor "KILI THEM!" Knightwalker ordered causing the guards to lunge towards the group.

Just as the soldiers neared them the temperature in the room dropped and the clang of metal could be heard followed by the groaning of soldiers. The trio looked on in amazement and relief at who stood between them and Knightwalker, "Gray! Erza! How did you guys get here?" Lucy said in disbelief before Gray gave a short summary of how Gajeel helped free them from the Lacrima in the town centre and that they were the only ones in it. "HAPPY!" "AYE SIR!" the blue feline saluted the scarlet haired mage "Go find Gajeel, he'll fill you in on what needs to be done, now go!" Erza shouted scaring the poor exceed causing him to flee using his max speed.

"I don't think so" Knightwalker said as she attempted to stop Happy but ended up being stopped by her Earthland counterpart causing her to snarl. "Gray go find Natsu and Wendy, I'll handle things here" Erza said in a calm tone as she fended off Knightwalker. The maker wizard didn't seem to like the idea of leaving Erza by herself, "Erza I don't…" "JUST DO IT!" she barked causing the ice mage to shrink before he grabbed both Lucy and Carla and ran for it.

"I don't get how someone with my face could ever side with those despicable fairies" Knightwalker spat out as she jumped back and narrowing her eyes on her target while Erza crossed her sword diagonally over her chest in a protective guarded stance.

With Gray, Lucy and Carla

The trio had gone as far as they could going deeper and deeper, with the castle getting more dungeon like as they went until finally they came to Byro's lab and what they saw shocked them. While Wendy was, like Natsu was hanging from a stone tablet she had significantly less injuries than Natsu who also appeared to be breathing very shallowly.

"NATSU!"
"WENDY!"

The group ran over to the two unconscious dragonslayers in order to get them down and lay them on the ground to tend to their injuries, Wendy shortly came to after she was given an X-ball by Gray but the same couldn't be said about Natsu. His breathing became even shallower and his mind had drifted off to someplace else despite the others desperate attempts to bring him back even with Wendy's healing.

"Hey if I disappeared would you come find me?"

Chapter end

Okay what did you think, yeah I know short chapter but I'm trying to get back into my rhythm for this story so hopefully for the next update whenever that'll be the chapter will be around 3k. I also want to finish up this arc in a few chapters and move onto the s-class trial and I have a good idea for that which I'm sure a lot of you have already figured as it pertains to Natsu's powers. Anyways hope you enjoyed this chapter until next time.