A/N: Ah… Well… Uhm… Sorry? It's been a while. I'm sorry it's taken me this long to update. I just got a bunch of other ideas in my head (thus Stars are Calling-completed two-shot, and Fairy Shorts-on-going collection of one-shots and possibly two-shots). I tried my best on this chapter. Enjoy!

LOTS OF TIME PASSED BECAUSE I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SPEND THE FEW MONTHS UNTIL LOKE GOES BACK TO THE CELESTIALS!

All rights to Hiro Mashima and Disney, hopefully I get the Happy footy-pajamas for the holidays that I really want.

Chapter 4: Hearts Separate

Celestials Headquarters

"Welcome back, Himi," Virgo said as soon as Lucy re-entered the house.

"I'm home Virgo," Lucy responded flopping down on the couch, "any news come in while I was gone?"

"Hai," Virgo reported dutifully, "Leo destroyed the Naked Mummy gang on the outskirts of town. He left his brand in answer to your key."

"Good," Lucy smirked, the unusual look of complete and utter loathing crossing her features as she spoke, "soon we'll be able to get on with our plans."

"Hai, himi," Virgo bowed, her expression echoing Lucy's. The Keys within hearing also bore similar expressions for a long minute before resuming their duties.

Fairy Tail Headquarters

A pale-faced, low level mobster burst into the main hall of the Fairy Tail mafia on the first day of October. He was stammering something unintelligible and looked as though he was about to faint. Everyone in the hall quieted and turned to look at him. He whispered something under his breath. The people nearest to him paled as they heard what he had said?

"What is it?" Erza finally asked the young man.

"D-d-d-door," the man stammered out, "s-s-silver k-k-key on the d-d-door." Then he fainted.

Erza jumped to her feet, followed by nearly every person in the hall and led the charge out of the guild to look at the main doors. Indeed, painted across the whole thing in astonishing detail was an extremely large silver key. It was a strange shape with a hexagonal shape at the top with a little blue shape inside.

"Well, well, well," someone drawled from the pathway that led to the dojo and training areas.

Everyone in the mafia spun simultaneously. There stood Loke in an unfamiliar outfit. He wore a black suit with a red tie and white dress shirt. He casually tugged on his cuff, odd gold rings sparkled on his fingers.

"Loke," Gray asked stepping forwards, "why are you dressed like that?"

"Hm?" Loke asked almost absentmindedly, but a cunning and cruelty not seen before shone in the depths of his eyes, "I'm finally going home. I gotta look my best don't I?"

"I-I guess," Gray's voice was unsure as he caught a glimpse at the terrifying and unfamiliar emotions crossing through his friend's eyes.

"I guess she wanted to go out with a bang," Loke continued blithely, "though it's just like my mistress to do something like this rather than endangering one of her favorites by sending him to enemy territory."

"M-mistress?" Gray choked out. The rest of Fairy Tail seemed speechless.

"Shall I spell it out for you?" Loke asked, lazily twirling a finger through the air, "my mistress ordered that that symbol be painted on your doors."

"Huh?" Gray asked stupidly, "you mean-"

"YES," Loke cut him off, exasperated, "I meaan that I am a member of the Celestials."

"You," Gray was aghast, "but you can't even best Natsu in a fight and the Celestial's are supposed to be the strongest gang. I mean we saw what only six of them did to Oración Seis."

Loke simply smirked. "Seven actually," he corrected, "my Lady was also there. As for me not being so good, I was holding back. A lot."

"How much?" Gray queried.

"I could take down Erza, easy," Loke replied confidently.

"No fricken way," Gray breathed staring at Loke, "who in the seven hells are you?"

"Thought you'd never ask," Loke teased. He swept a perfect bow and tilted his head up to meet Gray's eyes. "Leo the Lion, Her Lady Summoner's right-hand man and most capable member," Loke introduced himself, gifting the guild a smile so cold and malicious that even Master, who had joined the group outside, felt shivers race down his spine.

"W-WHAT?!" Fairy Tail roared as one in utter disbelief.

"My report," Loke, now Leo, straightened, "you are not worth our time."

"Not.. worth… your time?" Gray asked.

"Nope," Leo replied cheerfully, his madness lurking in the deepest depths of his eyes, "not in the least. Most people would be jumping for joy you know."

"Even after all the time we shared together?" Gray asked, "all the memories we created?"

"I was here on a mission," Leo's eyes and tone were colder than ice, "I was not here to have fun or make friends. Besides you all know nothing of suffering, no matter how terrible your past it will never compare with that of any of the Keys' and will never be even remotely close to the suffering of my Lady."

"How can you say that," Natsu roared, suddenly furious, he would not stand for anyone belittling the suffering of his family, "you don't even know what we have suffered!"
"Oh," Leo turned on him, eyes narrowing, "what isn't there to know, Natsu Dragneel, self-proclaimed Fire Dragon Slayer and son of Igneel Dragneel, deceased member of the former mafia Dragon Stars?"

Natsu gaped at him. Gray cut in. "That's not exactly common knowledge. How do you know all that?" he asked rather rudely.

"The same way I know about how that serial killer Deliora killed your parents in front of you when you were only four and that later he also killed you mentor and adoptive mother Ur while she was protecting you when tried to hunt him down five years later."

It was Gray's turn to be rendered speechless. Erza stepped up to bat this time. "If you know all this surely you must know about the rest of us," she stated.

"But of course," Leo smirked at her, "would you like me to spill your secrets, my fair Titania?"

"N-no," she replied, eyes wide.

"That's too bad," Leo pouted, "I wanted to tell them how you were a slave from age four to ten in the infamous Tower of Heaven and that your childhood friend is the lunatic and meglomaniac Jellal Fernandes, or more commonly known as the extremist and Zeref-fanatic Siegrain."

Erza stared at him in horror. "Whoops," Leo giggled madly, a wicked smile gracing his lips.

"Why are you so cruel?" Mira cried out.

"I'm telling the truth," Leo said, "I don't see how that's cruel. It shows my trust and love after all."

"But no one said you had to tell the truth," Mira argued.

"My Lady did," Leo countered, "I always do what she tells me to because it's always the best thing to do."

"Of course she did," Mira sighed, "she is a cruel and uncaring person after all."

Leo's eyes burned with fury as he turned to face Mira. "Never, do not ever," he hissed in a terrifyingly cold voice as he stalked towards her, "call our Mistress cruel, or uncaring, or hateful, or any other despicable word like that within our hearing. She is kind, and loving, and she cares for us. The misfits and cretins on living on the streets."

Mira gulped nervously and took a step back as Leo got closer. She saw a terrible, terrible fury the likes of which she had never seen before burning in his hazel eyes, making them almost glow. Mira could not get out a word until Leo passed her by. He walked down the path that the members of the guild made for him unconsciously.

"Well then," Leo said once he reached the end of Fairy Tail property, "I hope I never have to see any of you ever again, it would be a shame to spill the blood of such good people." With that Leo swept a bow, his figure vibrated slightly, and he disappeared.

"What," Levy, a small blue-haired girl asked, "just happened?"

"We've been had," Master Makarov said faintly, "there was a spy in our midst and I did not notice. How fearsome the Celestials are."

Gildarts nodded in agreement, staring open-mouthed at the place Leo had been standing only moments before. Never before in his life had Gildarts ever seen anyone move so fast that they left behind an image of themselves. He was, scared.

Celestials Headquarters

"I'm home my Lady," he knelt before his mistress as soon as he entered the building.

"Welcome home my loyal lion," she answered, as she raised him to his feet, "and just in time. The last necessary piece of intel has come in. Our plan can be set in motion at last."

"Very good my lady," he bowed again, his eyes glowing with cruel satisfaction, "it was time those demons were brought down."

"Right," her voice and aura were so murderous that even her loyal lion had shivers running up and down his back, "now, come Leo, we have much planning to do." She turned around to walk away.

"Right away mistress," Leo hurried to his usual spot just behind her right shoulder.

Immediately her aura darkened with murderous intent and she turned to glare at him. "How many times," she ground out, "have I told you, NOT TO CALL ME MISTRESS!"

Leo smirked at her, not afraid of this side of his mistress. "My apologies my Lady," he teased further, "but I was raised to have good manners in front of any lady of any station."

"Manners my ass," she shot back, smiling despite her words, "you act like a pig all the time, or have you finally be civilized?"

"You wound me, my lady," Leo said in mock pain, hand upon his heart, "however will I recover from such a blow?!"

"Oh, go sleep with the pigs Leo," she said turning back to face the hall, her mood happy and aura light.

"Maybe I will," Leo sniffed indignantly, "especially if you're going to keep being such an ice queen. I ought to call Elsa and Anna down from their vacation and warn them that another eternal winter is setting in."

"Why not call up Hades instead?" she suggested turning down a small, dark hallway, "that way you might get to go home."

"Ouch," Leo cried, "you're killing me with your words!"

"Drama queen," she scoffed.

"Ice princess," Leo pouted.

"Kitty-cat."

"Chipmunk cheeks."

"Pighead."

"Onion breath."

"Sofa scratcher."

"Apple butt."

"Donkey hat."

"Monkey pits."

"Unicorn crap."

"I am NOT gay!"

"Coulda fooled me," she laughed opening a door, "I win this time."

"No fair," Leo called as he followed her, "that wasn't fair. You called my sexuality into question when I'm engaged to a female."

"How was I supposed to know that you weren't having an affair with Cancer when I heard those noises?" she called to him, entering the room.

"THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!" Leo cried turning pink.

"What has nothing to do with what?" a softly, feminine voice called from the shadows.

"NOTHING!" Leo shrieked in embarrassment as his fiance, Aries, emerged from the shadows, "Lucy's just being rude."

"Leo had an affair with Cancer," Lucy explained sitting on a sofa positioned at the back of the room, half in shadows, "I walked in on him and Cancer getting down and dirty."

"Poor thing," Aries cooed, setting an ottoman in front of the couch where her mistress lounged.

"Right," Lucy sighed, propping up her feet, "I'm scarred for life. My innocence was ruined."

"Dear me," a voice interrupted sarcastically, "this sounds like a serious conversation."

"It is," Lucy moaned to the newcomer, "Leo and Cancer ruined my innocence with their amorous meeting in the bathing room."

"How utterly terrible," the woman drawled, sashaying into the light, revealing her stunning blue hair and outfit.

"Oh yes," Lucy spun her finger in the air, "that reminds me, do we have any new recruits."

"No," a deep voice reported, "but Taurus and I took about a dozen younglings off the street and put them in the orphanage last week."

"The violence is going up again," a familiar monotone added, "five more found dead this week, hime."

"Thanks, Virgo, Sagittarius," Lucy said.

"There is yet more news," yet another voice added his baritone to the mix, "Kyoka is looking for new members of her squad and systematically going through every gang under their protection."

"We will need help with this fight I'm afraid," a male voice said.

"We can-"

"-handle it-"

"ourselves," two people spoke in an indignant tone.
"No," Lucy said, "this enemy will require the help of one mafia. I know exactly who thanks to the new data I've received from our spies."

Nine figures joined Lucy, Leo, Aquarius, and Aries in the the room. They looked at one another, coming to a conclusion.

"Fairy Tail," they chorused, eyes glowing like the devil's, with impatience and a cold cruelty and murderous intent.

A/N: DUN DUN DUN! I've decided on the ending of my story! But I'm not telling! I can promise it is going to be something that none of you expect. I hope anyways.

Sorry to end on such a cliffy. Sort of. But I'm hoping that this will push me to update faster.

Thanks for reading!

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