This was such a difficult chapter to write. There was so much to say and so much going on I hope it all makes sense :D Thanks so much for reading!

Lucy's POV:

I opened my eyes to the sun shinning down on me. The rays felt so warm against my skin as I laid in the grass…. wait grass?

I couldn't remember what I was doing in the grass like this, was I sleeping here? I sat up and saw my blonde hair was down and I was wearing the blue outfit that Virgo had given to me from the spirit world…. wait, who was Virgo? I couldn't remember who this Virgo was so instead of stressing on it I put it out of my mind.

I looked around noticing I was sitting in a grass meadow that was next to a golden castle. It was a huge castle bigger than any building that I could remember seeing. The sky was blue and there wasn't a cloud in site. I decided to venture towards the golden castle, it seemed pretty inviting. I was about halfway through the meadow when I saw two familiar faces standing feet away from me.

"Mother! Father!" I said as I ran towards them, my father, though, put his hand up to stop me from getting any closer. I stopped looking confused at them, I was so happy to see them both together here with me, but something wasn't right I could see it in their eyes.

"Lucy, my dear!" My mother said with delight, but I could hear the worry in her voice. "You have grown so much since we both last saw you." She said smiling at me. I felt sorrow in my heart but my mind was so happy I was feeling a ton of mixed emotions.

"What's going on?" I said swallowing my fear and sorrow.

"my dear" my father said "You do not belong here with us. It isn't your time yet. You must stay strong and do not attach your emotions with us. We love you so much but you need to let us go now." my father said holding my mother's side, I could hear the pain in his voice.

"What do you mean I don't belong here? Is this Hea…." I started to say.

"Don't say it! Don't even think of it or you will be stuck here." I stopped my thoughts and voice as my mother cut me off. "You've grown in much strength, power and will. Your heart is pure and strong and you have so many wonderful friends who are waiting for you in Earthland. You must release all your power and strength when the time is right and go to your own world, Lucy." I wanted to hug my mother and father so bad I could feel tears coming out of the corner of my eyes.

"Mother…. Father" I said choking back as many tears as I could.

"We love you Lucy dear. We'll be waiting for your return and we hope to hear lots of stories of your adventures in your life." My mother and father said, they started fading into a golden light and disappeared right before my eyes.

"WAIT! MOTHER! FATHER! Please don't leave me! Please! What am I supposed to do! I miss you! Please!" I said falling to my knees watching there smiling faces fade, I cried into my hands as the world around me faded as well. The golden castle and the grass were all gone, the mountains and lake near the castle were also gone. My vision was a bit blurry and I could feel all of my muscles tremble as the world disappeared around my, but I managed to wipe away the last of my tears and think clearly about what they said I had to stay strong.

Natsu's POV:

I hugged her cold body not wanting to let her go, all I could think about was revenge. I kissed the top of her forehead and slowly laid her body down on the ground. "I will avenge you Lucy. I promise you that much." I said as I got up, turned and walked towards the battle.

I could feel the passion of revenge swell within my heart. I walked towards Zenith as I let my arms and legs become enveloped in flames. "I'm all fired up, now." I said as I passed Gray who laid on the floor looking up at me. I then passed Gajeel and Erza who held onto their knees breathing.

"A new opponent, fantastic!" Zenith said as he stood there with a cocky evil smile across his face. He didn't move as I got closer to him I raised my left arm like I was going to punch him in the face. He went to grab the punch and that's when I stuck my right hand out and punched him right in the chin sending him flying into the ceiling. He hit the roof and came back down hard making a small crater where he had landed. I went down and grabbed his collar lifting him off the ground and closer to my face.

"You hurt my friends, my nakama. You will suffer." I said an evil smile crossed his face and that's when I punched his gut sending him crashing into his throne making it crumble. I felt my fire dragon power being released through my heart. "I'm so sorry Lucy" I said to myself as I walked up the small steps towards his once throne. I got down and punched the guy again in the face giving him a good black eye.

"Why don't you just kill me already." He said looking up at me with those evil black eyes as I raised my hand for another punch.

"Because it would be too easy to kill you and it would bring you no justice to what you put Lucy and everyone through. Killing you wont make you suffer. Living with the pain will." I said punching him again. Why was he giving up so easily after everything he had done to try to take us down? I got up and walked away from where he laid knowing he was mentally defeated.

"You know." He started to say I stopped and looked at him. "I used to look up to fairy tail, to my sister, to my parents. Until all of them gave up on me, no one even cared. So I vowed to kill them all. I already killed my parents and sister long ago, I have a vow to keep." He said a purple dark aura engulfed his entire body as he stood up, I felt his power emanate all over the room. I tried to light my hand on fire but his aura wind kept blowing it out every time.

"Fire Dragon Roar!" I yelled as I aimed right at him but my fire attack wouldn't hit him. I could feel my power slowly but surely deplete as his grew stronger and stronger.

"DIE FAIRY TAIL!" He yelled as he put his hands up in front of him sending a wave of magic energy my way. I went flying through the throne room and out into the hallway landing on my back. I heard Gajeel, Erza and Gray start fighting him again but it sounded like they were making no progress. I sat up breathing trying to regain my strength and bringing out my inner dragon slayer magic. Erza had taught me that trick a few months back when we went out to train, yet I still couldn't beat her. I could feel the fire within me stream through my veins, the magic power pulsed through every muscle in my body.

I got up as I felt my magic aura take over my body as I started walking towards the battle grounds again. I walked through the door and faced Zenith with my team mates on the sides. "Get Lucy and get out of here, now. This is my battle." I said without looking at them.

"NO way we…" Gajeel started to say but I looked at him and gave him a scowl, he knew then I was serious and he started walking away. Gray grabbed Lucy and ran out the hallway with her and Erza following. That's when I knew I was able to let all hell break loose and I didn't have to protect anyone. I ran flying straight at Zenith throwing every last punch at him that I could. He tried to dodge as many as he could, sending some punches back my way too. It went back and forth me hitting him and him hitting me yet our power was pretty evenly matched.

When I finally got the chance I dodged a punch and grabbed his arm as it went past me, then I started pulling his arm and body over mine as I sent him flying right behind me. He regained his sense of balance mid-air and landed on his feet on a stone pillar, he pushed off the pillar and straight towards me. I got on my knees and bent my back backwards as he passed over me. I got up and turned as he started running towards me again this time with a sword in his hand.

I didn't know how he got the sword but he was quick. As he lunged the sword straight at me I grabbed it with my hand only making a minor cut through my palm. I released my fire, melting the iron as it dripped onto the floor. I smiled up at him as his glare got even more evil and crazy.

"You will die tonight." He said as he let go of the sword and tried to grab my neck. I dodged his hand as he stumbled forward a bit and grabbed his neck instead.

"You want to know what I think?" I said as I got closer to his face. "I think your just some punk ass kid who thinks he can just control everything and everyone with the flick of his finger. Bringing everyone pain and misery around him. But when someone tries to stop you, you break down and become weak." He looked at me in the eyes this time I could tell I hit a soft spot, he knew I figured out what was going on, he was loosing it he knew he wasn't stronger than me. I took my left hand and punched him in the face again sending him flying down the hallway and into the dark guild hall, knocking into some tables and chairs.

I followed after him and saw him try to stumble onto his feet, "You don't know anything, the pain, the suffering I went through because of people like my father." He said leaning most of his weight on a chair.

"No. I don't but that doesn't give you the right to do that to other people, especially my family." I said I kicked the chair out from under him making him fall to the ground. When I went to step closer I heard the ceiling starting to rumble as parts of it started falling to the ground.

"What's going on?!" I said as grabbed his shirt.

"The self-destruction spell, Kunzi knew what he had to do." Zenith said looking up at the ceiling a huge piece of it was heading straight for us, I went to dodge it taking him with me. I threw Zenith over my shoulder and started to run out of the guild knowing that if we both tried to stay we would be crushed by it caving in.

"Just leave me here to die…" Zenith mumbled out.

"Can't do that. I told you if I let you die you wouldn't suffer properly and pay for what you did to us if you died, your coming with me." I said running a bit faster out the front doors. I saw most of the fairy tail guild members gathered around in a bunch less than half a mile away from the crumbling guild. Some people were wrapped in bandages while others tended to the captured.

As I got closer I started looking around for Gray and Erza who, I hoped, hadn't left Lucy's side. I dropped Zenith in front of gramps "Where is she?" I asked He just looked up at me and then down at Zenith who had seemed to of passed out.

"Natsu…." He started to say but I cut him off.

"Where, Is, She." I asked again a little more desperate.

"Natsu over here!" Levy yelled over at me, her Gajeel, Gray and Erza were standing over Lucy while Wendy tried to heal her.

Wendy looked up at me with her tear filled eyes. "I'm sooor… sorrrry Natsu I tried everything I really did… I'm ..sorry." Wendy choked out as she tried not to cry. I went over and hugged her as I looked at Lucy's scarred up body. They had stuck some bandages on most of her wounds but it was more internal damage than external.

"Wendy will you come here for a second." Gramps asked Wendy I released her from our hug as she walked over to gramps. I wouldn't give up, not yet.

This is it guys! The finale is coming up very soon! Will it take a turn for better? Or for worse? Why did makarov want with Wendy? So many question yet to be answered! Hope you enjoyed reading that long chapter! Thanks again for reading!