"Why are all four of you here?" Lucy asked as Laxus came and stood beside her. Igneel opened his mouth to answer but was unable to say anything for at that time three people yelled at the same time.

"Igneel!"

"Metalicana!"

"Grandeeney!"

The three first generation dragon slayers ran to stand with their dragons. Lucy watched as they laughed and cried, then she noticed that the fourth dragon was all alone.

"Laxus?" Lucy leaned over to whisper in his ear. "Will you go and stand with Alexia?" Laxus looked over at Lucy so she decided to explain. "I want you over there not only to keep an eye on her.. at least I think it's a her... but because all the other dragons have a wizard with them." Laxus just stared at Lucy until she squirmed then he grinned at her. Laxus took off around Acnologia and as he stepped into place with Alexia, a feeling came over Lucy. Igneel looked over at Lucy and nodded, there were two ways that Acnologia could be handled and the dragons were leaving the decision in her hands. Lucy sighed but she knew that there was only one way as a Fairy Tail mage that this could be handled.

"If you take his form I will take his magic," Lucy said to Igneel and Acnologia started to struggle fiercely. Igneel grinned then lifted his head and roared. Soon the other three dragons joined in and the dragon slayers stood facing Acnologia in a square, in front of their respective dragons. When Acnologia started glowing, Lucy reached out magically to the four dragon slayers and waited. As soon as Lucy saw Acnologia's shape start to change she woved the four magics into a net and pulled it through the evil dragon. The magical net grabbed all of his magic, at the same time sealing something inside so that he could never use magic again, so all Lucy had to do was reach out and pull the magic inside of herself. She felt it resonate with the dragon slaying abilities that had been placed inside of her but she knew that the magic would not be safe running freely inside of herself. So using her body as a medium Lucy channeled the magic into an old golden key she had found. Well sorta anyways, what she really did was seal it so deep inside of her body that she could not access it without the key.

As his body changed and his magic was stripped away Acnologia lifted his head and cried soundless. After the smoke had cleared a man stood in the center. He was shorter than Lucy with long black hair that had blue streaks in it. He glared at all the dragons and dragon slayers with his dark eyes. Lucy released that hold she had over his mouth and all Acnologia said was.

"I will return to finish what I started." Then he turned and left. Lucy looked down at the key in her hand to find that it was now black with blue streaks and she sighed.

"It's a shame it had to come to this," she said and watched as the four dragon slayers staggered towards her.

"Whoa, what a rush," Natsu said and Lucy smiled.

"I am sorry I didn't warn you but I didn't know myself that I would use your magics," Lucy explained.

"Its ok, Lucy" Wendy said.

"Yeah, Bunny Girl, no worries. At least we were able to help," Gajeel shrugged. Laxus put his hand on Lucy's shoulder and squeezed.

"ahem" Igneel interrupted. "I am sorry to say this but we must leave." He bowed his great head in sorrow.

"What! No!" Natsu yelled and took a step towards his father again. Lucy blocked Natsu and faced the dragons, she had known that when she called them they would only be able to stay for a short time.

"I understand. Right now that world is not ready to live in peace with you. But it will be soon," Lucy said then bowed to them. "Thank you very much for your help and I can not wait to see you again." Igneel nodded and four dragons bowed to the members of Fairy Tail standing there then took off and left. They disappeared into the deep sky.

A tear, just a single one, fell from four people eyes right then. The four dragon slayers who had stood with the dragons wiped it away. Lucy looked at Laxus, because he was not a first generation, and he just shrugged. Maybe it was the leaving, of someone who is so similar to them and to some because it was a parent.

Lucy put an arm around Wendy and for the first time since she had returned she felt like Fairy Tail was home again.

"Lets go back," she said and then they went to find the rest of Fairy Tail.

(It's not over yet after all now that Natsu is back to normal Lucy could still want to rejoin her old team. Plus there is the whole who is Lucy going to end up with drama.)