Oh man, this is a personal best for me. Three chapter's in one month, i don't think i will be able to do something like that again. Anyway it's time now for the next part of this story.

But before I do, i would like to reveal the reason why I did this story.

About one year ago, I began working on Chapter one for this story but got nowhere in the beginning, I had so many ideas on what to do with my OC that I didn't work on my story. I had almost given up until I heard the news about a man named Monty Oum. I had seen his work in Haloid, Red Vs Blue with the CGI effects, and his own original series RWBY. But back in February, this year, I heard that he passed away from an allergic reaction from a routine doctor visit after being in a coma for 10 days. He inspired so many people to do what they love to do, he inspired me to get off my ass and create this story. Monty is a great man and a great inspiration to strive for something big.

That is the reason why I am doing this, he inspired so many. I will never forget the things he has done for our entertainment.

*Hargeon*

Ryu and Gray had just arrived in Hargeon, the place that Natsu's team would be found. It was Lucky that Mirajane gave them some information about this mission like where they could go to get a boat to get to the island. As Ryu and Gray were searching around the town they couldn't find them anywhere. Ryu was surprised how the town returned to normal after his last visit here.

"Oh man, where the hell could they be?" Gray asked out loud wondering if they got here before them or if they were too late.

"I hope we didn't miss them." Ryu responded to Gray as they continued looking.

"Hey I just thought of something," Gray just said to Ryu. "Don't dragons have a good sense of smell?"

"Yeah dragons do have a great sense of smell. Speaking of which, Gray you need to cool it down with the cologne, it stinks." Ryu said to him as he waved his hand in front of his nose.

"First of all, Loke was spraying this stuff on himself when I was sitting next to him." Gray told him trying to defend himself. "And second of all, can't you just sniff them out?"

"Oh yeah I can. *sniff* *sniff* I got Lucy's and Lisanna's scent. There this way." Ryu told Gray as he pointed in the direction of the harbor area.

"Hey I just got to ask, how do you know what Lucy and Lisanna's scent is?" Gray asked his friend.

"Oh well I remember that Lisanna still where's that kind of perfume I gave her for her birthday. And as for Lucy, I may have got a good whiff of her scent when I helped her out when I was last in Hargeon." Ryu told Gray who couldn't see a slight blush on his face. As they reached the port area, Gray tapped his shoulder pointing at Natsu's group talking to one guy on a small boat.

Ryu noticed that Lucy was wearing the same thing when they went after Eisenwald. He even notice that Lisanna was dressed a bit differently than she normally is when she's helping Mira in the bar area. She was currently wearing a blue stripped shirt where the sleeves ended at her elbow, a pair of green short shorts with a small trim of fur around the leg holes, and a normal pair of everyday sneakers. Ryu remembered that she was the kind of girl that preferred casual clothes over fancy dress for normal daily things. He even saw her white Fairy Tail mark on her upper left thigh.

They were about to approach them when Ryu remembered what happened the last time he snuck up on them. So, he turned to Gray and asked him, "Hey why don't you go get their attention."

"Okay." Gray said as he snuck up on them. When he caught them off guard, Lucy and Lisanna both gave him an elbow to the face.

"I so knew that would happen." Ryu said out loud for all of them, even the boat captain, to hear.

"Then if you knew, why did you let me get hit by them?" Gray asked as he wanted to know why he was used as a distraction.

"Well I didn't want an elbow to the face by them." Ryu responded to Gray's question.

"Gray, Ryu. What are you guys doing here?" Lisanna asked being curious about why they're here.

"Well when Mira went upstairs to do some dusting, she found one of the S-class missions gone. We then found out that it was your group that stole the S-class mission." Ryu began to explain. "So me and Gray…"

"Gray and I," Lisanna corrected him.

"Really? Now is so not the time for a grammar lesson. Anyway, we told gramps that we would bring you guys back to the guild. Lisanna I am really disappointed in you. Why on Earthland would you even agree to do an S-class mission?" Ryu asked after explaining himself.

Lisanna looked down in sadness, she felt really bad that he was disappointed in her for agreeing to do this. Natsu replied back to him, "It's so we can prove to them that we are tough enough to be considered the strongest."

"Natsu you really are a moron." Gray said as they started to trade insults again.

"Lucy, why did you agree to this anyway?" Ryu turned to Lucy and asked her.

"Well I thought I could help out Natsu in and maybe grab some experience from this mission." Lucy began to explain her situation to him, not telling him about how they snuck into her apartment last night before she came home. "And I saw that part of the reward was a Golden Celestial Key-"

"Got it. Say no more." Ryu told her as he turned to the others and said to them, "You guys are really lucky that Master Makarov sent us, if he sent Erza you guys would be so dead." They all began to quake in fear hearing that they almost came close to having Erza to deal with.

Happy tried to play it off by saying that he was forced into taking this job. "Happy, we know you were the one who took the mission on your own." Ryu told him as he was caught off guard by the fact that he got caught.

Gray and Natsu began to argue and start to charge up their magical attacks at each other. The boat captain noticed that they were wizards and decided to say, "Excuse me but are you all wizards?" Have you come to lift the curse on the island?"

"Yeah we are." Natsu said as he became oblivious of Gray and Ryu.

"I am so sorry to say this, but I'm afraid that's not going to be happening sir." Ryu said to the captain.

The captain became more determined and told them all to get in. This caused most of them all to be curious as to why he was serious. Gray and Ryu tried to object but Natsu kicked Gray in the face. He tried the same with Ryu and missed him.

"Ha nice try Natsu but there is nothing you can say or do to get me on that boat." Ryu told them all. Lisanna saw that as a challenge.

"Oh really, is that so?" Lisanna said as she looked around the area, noticing that they were the only ones to be seen and that her back was to the group.

"Yeah so why don't we all just calm down and…" that was all Ryu could say before Lisanna did something that no one saw coming. She lifted her shirt and bra up to flash Ryu her bare chest. He got a nosebleed from this visual sensation and fainted backwards, crashing into a crate filled with frying pans.

"L-Lisanna?!" Lucy said in shock as she pulled her shirt and bra back down. "Why did you do that?"

"It's the only way I could think of on the spot. Cana told me that trick works on him a lot." Lisanna said, explaining herself. "But don't let that make you think that I'm that kind of girl." She approached Lucy and whispered into her ear, "Besides I would only do that for him, just so you know."

Ryu and Gray were thrown over Natsu's shoulder and asked the captain if he had room for two more. "Are you sure this is a good idea?" Lucy asked him.

"Yeah I do. Because if we don't bring them, they'll send Erza after us." Natsu said afraid of what Erza might do to them.

*Boat, middle of the night*

During the boat ride to the location of Galuna Island, Natsu was draped over the side of the boat feeling sick to his stomach. Lucy and Lisanna were sitting across from him looking at him with slight sympathy. Ryu and Gray were tied up as the captain used a magic powered motor to propel the boat along the water.

"And now I am starting to get scared here." Lucy said as Lisanna was trying to calm her down.

"Well, look at the bright side. At least you're not tied up like us here. I'm just happy that I took that Healing Lacrima before I left." Ryu said to them.

"This is your entire fault you know Natsu. And why the hell are we tied up here?" Gray asked Natsu.

"It was the only way to make sure you wouldn't leave." Natsu said trying to hold in his food.

"Natsu, there is just one problem with that idea." Ryu began to explain this to him. "We're on a small boat in the middle of the ocean. Where…the hell… could we possibly go?!" Ryu yelled at Natsu for this.

"Hey why did you decide to let us on anyway?" Gray asked the captain.

The captain decided to tell his story. "My name is Bobo. I used to be a citizen on Galuna Island, but I had to flee. I just couldn't take it anymore." The captain, now named Bobo, told them all. "Tragedy befalls anyone who dares to step on that island. Not even the most feared pirates dare to even step on that island. The only way to avoid it is to lift the curse."

"What is this curse?" Lisanna asked as they needed to know what they got themselves into. The captain moved the cloak he wore and revealed that his entire left arm had a demonic look to it.

"This vile demons curse," Bobo told them all as they weren't expecting anything like that. "Were almost to our destination." Everyone looked to the front of the boat and saw an island in the distance with a single light source at the top of the peak of the land mass.

"Hey um, why is the peak of the island glowing like that?" Ryu asked as the others started to notice it as well. What the others weren't aware of, except for Ryu and maybe Natsu, there was a weird chant heard in the distance on the island. Ryu marked this as thanks to his dragon hearing.

"Wait, where's Bobo?" Lucy asked noticing that he just vanished.

"Um guys I think we have bigger things to worry about." Lisanna told them as she looked behind them.

"What?" Lucy asked until they all turned around and saw a giant wave coming right at them. "Everyone hold on!" Lucy yelled as most of them held onto a part of the boat.

"Wait, were still tied up." Gray told them as Ryu began to freak out and turned his arms into dragon arms and ripped the ropes off of him. He was about to get Gray's restrains, the boat was caught in the wave crashing on the water. Everyone went into the ocean as Ryu tried his best to catch most of them. He was only able to get a hold on Gray and Lucy before he ran out of air and blacked out.

*Galuna Island*

The island of Galuna was filled with vegetation, trees, and one lone mountain in the northern part of the island. The island was in the shape of a crescent moon, causing it to have a very beautiful beach shore. Lucy started to wake up on the shores of the island. As she tried to sit up, she noticed that Ryuma was lying next to her, asleep, with his arm draped over her stomach.

"Hey Ryu, wake up." She said to him as she shook him awake. He finally opened his eyes and saw Lucy worriedly trying to wake him up.

"Hey Lucy, wait where are the others?" Ryu asked as they all saw the others near them lying on the beach. Gray was lying face down on the sand, as was Natsu, and Happy had his head stuck in the sand. They tried to find Lisanna as Ryu was starting to worry. "Oh man, oh man, oh man. Where's Lisanna? LISANNA!" Ryu yelled starting to fear the worst.

"Calm down guys," both Ryu and Lucy heard say by the water. "I'm alright." They turned and saw Lisanna sitting by the water with a pink mermaid tail in the water. Ryu went over and hugged her.

"Oh thank god you're okay. I was afraid you were injured or worse." Ryu said to her. "Don't you ever scare me like that again. If something happened to you, I would have to deal with your older siblings and I could never forgive myself."

"Wait, why does she have a mermaid tail?" Lucy asked wondering why she had one.

"Well Lucy, it's my magic. I use a form of Take-over magic but with animals. This is my mermaid form." Lisanna explained to her as her tail glowed as she started to stand up and her legs went back to normal, all dry with no drop of water on her legs.

"What happened?" Ryu asked both girls.

"Well while we were underwater, I used my Mermaid soul spell to grab onto Happy and Natsu. When I placed them on some floating debris, I went looking for you guys and Gray. I saw that you were holding onto them so it was easy for me to grab a hold of you guys." Lisanna told them as they now understood who to thank for them being alive. "I had to pull you guys close to shore just in time too because another wave came by and knocked some of you guys on shore."

"Thank you Lisanna. If it wasn't for you, then we may not have survived." Ryu complimented her as she felt happy that she was back on his good side once more. "So how long have we been out for?" he asked wondering how much time passed.

"Well judging from the position of the sun. I would say that we slept through the morning and it's the middle of the afternoon." Lucy told them as Ryu and Lisanna looked at her in confusion. "What? I learned how to tell time by judging the position of the sun from one of my spirits." She explained to them.

"Alright," Natsu yelled as he stood up, spooking the others. He even inadvertently woke up Gray and Happy. "We finally made it to Galuna."

"I wonder what happened to Bobo." Lucy began to wonder as well as Lisanna.

"Forget about that stuff. Let's go exploring." Natsu said in excitement as Happy was agreeing with him.

"Man Lisanna, you were right about Natsu." Ryu said as he turned to her. "Natsu really is juvenile."

"Hey, stop picking on me." Natsu said to Ryu. Lisanna would tease him all the time during their childhood calling him juvenile a lot. It was one of Natsu's biggest pet peeves.

"According to this," Lucy said as she began to look over the request sheet. "There's only one village on this entire island. Turns out the Village chief is the one who originally put in the request."

"Not so fast guys." Gray said finally standing up. "I'm coming with you guys."

"Eh, since were already here and we will get in trouble either way, so why not." Ryu said agreeing with Gray. "Besides, our only mode of transport is already wrecked. Also if we do pull this off, we may be in less trouble."

"Alright then, let's go." Gray said as they all went off to find the village. It took them well into the night with clouds scattered all over the sky, not showing the starry night out. They finally found the village and saw it was surrounded by a large wooden fence as tall as the guild hall made out of very thick logs. As they stood in front of the gate, Ryu couldn't help but chuckle at what he saw.

"Really, a 'Keep Out' sign." Ryu said in a sarcastic tone.

"Well, it looks like we found the village." Gray said to them.

"Hello, anyone home?" Lucy started to yell at them to try and get their attention. "We came here to help you guys." All they got was no response.

"Let's bust in." Natsu suggested.

"No Natsu, we are not busting in. That's how we got banned from that bar." Ryu replied. It was a few months ago when they found their target hiding out in a bar. They were too young to enter so Natsu, in his infinite wisdom, thought of the idea of busting in. They were able to get their target but half the bar was destroyed and they got banned for life to never come back.

"Who goes there?" One of the village guards asked as he looked over the top of the wall.

"We're wizards from Fairy Tail responding to your request." Lucy said, responding to their question.

"Why weren't we notified about this?" the guard next to him asked.

"Um well uh," Lucy said, trying to think up a response.

"Sorry about that sir. It seems that there must have been some sort of mishap with the paperwork." Lisanna told the guards.

"Nice save." Ryu whispered to her.

"Show us your emblems to prove who you are." The other guard said to them all. Everyone showed their Fairy Tail emblems; even Happy revealed that he had a green one on his back. It was hidden behind his backpack he always carries. Gray had one as well, but in blue on his chest.

"Oh they're here. They are really here." One of the guards said.

"Open the Gate." They both repeatedly said to someone who was down by the gate control mechanism.

"I heard you the first time." The person, who was opening the gate, told them. As the gates were fully opened, the group then went into the village to find the residents all wearing cloaks. The cloaks were covering them all from head to toes. The only thing that revealed some skin were the eye holes and some people's hands and feet were shown as well.

"Thank you all for coming. I am Moka, the village chief." One of the shorter cloaked villagers who was holding a crescent moon staff, said to the group, introducing himself as the chief. "On behalf of everyone of this village, I thank you for accepting our plea for help. There is something that you all need to see." Moka then turned to his people and just nodded. Once they all got the nod, they all removed their cloaks. The Fairy Tail mages became shocked at what they saw, everyone in the village had a demon arm, leg, or horns coming out of their bodies.

"Whoa, it's just like the boat guy." Gray said. Lucy and Lisanna looked at all of the villagers with sad looks.

"Holy crap, look at those sideburns." Natsu said looking at the chief's long sideburns.

"Natsu," Ryu said to Natsu. "You don't say something like that out loud, even if it's true. I think he's referring to the fact that they had some demonic limbs or horns on them."

"Thank you for that, I get that a bit. And yes it's our limbs we are referring to." Moka said to Ryu, ignoring the fact that he made a slight remark about his sideburns. "Everyone on this island has suffered some form of disfigurement due to the curse. We cannot live like this anymore." Moka said explaining the situation to them.

"Wait, what makes you think that it's a curse? Maybe it's some kind of disease." Gray told them as it could be something else.

"We have thought of that. We checked with many doctors and they all agreed that what we are suffering from does not exist in their medical books or journals." Moka responded to them as they have checked that possibility. "We have been like this ever since the moon has been put under a curse."

"If you don't mind me asking, what makes you think that the moon is the reason behind the curse?" Ryu asked wondering how they came to that conclusion.

"Well since ancient times, this island has bathed in the moon's light, causing the island to glow like the moon itself. However, several years ago, the moon began to take on an eerie purple glow." Moka told them all of it.

"So the moon turned purple?" Natsu asked out loud. But the clouds in the sky started to part and show the moon in a purple glow.

"Whoa, it really is purple." Lucy said as she began to worry about their safety.

"Okay now that's just plain creepy." Gray commented.

"Stand back everyone, the change is about to happen." Moka told them. The Fairy Tail group looked on as they saw the painful metamorphosis they were going through. They revealed that everyone had their own different kind of demon form. Some of them had fur, scales, beaks, horns, or a combination of them. "I would like to apologize if our appearance frightens you."

"Oh man. You poor people." Lucy said as Lisanna agreed with her.

"Oh man, you guys look amazing." Natsu said to the villagers. The villagers were taken by surprise by what he said. No one has ever told them before that they looked amazing or complimented them on their appearance.

"Natsu you idiot," Ryu said to his face. "You're being rude. Even if they do look kind of cool, they have to go through a painful change to turn into this form."

"Anyway. As you have just witnessed, whenever the purple moon shows up in the sky, we turn into these horrific demon forms." Moka told them as some of the villagers started to cry. "If it's not a curse, then what else could it be then? We turn back into humans during the day; however some poor souls can't change back. We had no choice but to let them rest in the afterlife."

"What, they could have changed back someday." Natsu told the chief.

"If we waited until them then we could have been killed by the monsters they have become. We tried to capture them but it never worked out. I should know how tough it is; I even had to kill my own son." Moka said as he cried as he held a picture of his son in his hands.

"Uh guys, his son was the boat guy." Ryu whispered to his friends. Lisanna and Lucy were spooked by hearing that they came across a ghost.

"Please lift the evil curse. If this continues much longer, we may all fall victim to it, and die." Moka pleaded to them.

"No one is going to die." Natsu said as Ryu agreed with him entirely.

"Look we can fix this." Ryu told them all.

"There is only one way we can think of that can lift this wretched curse," Moka told them all. "The moon, it must be wiped out of the sky."

"What?" That was what everyone was thinking.

*One of the Huts*

"Wow, who knew the moon could be so creepy." Happy said as he looked out one of the windows and saw the moon. Everyone was getting ready for bed. Natsu and Gray were going to sleep in their current attire, while Ryu was in a plain white shirt with blue and emerald swirl gym shorts. Lucy was wearing a white shirt with pink sleeping pants and Lisanna was wearing a purple tank top with dark blue gym short shorts. Luckily for the girls, they get to sleep and change in another hut that was connected to the one they are in now.

"Happy close the window. You heard what the chief said we have to stay out of the moon light." Lucy said as she finally got ready for some rest. "I do not want to risk turning into some demon."

"What if you got turned into a dragon?" Ryu asked her wondering if she was freaked out by either turning into a demon or a monster of any kind.

"W-well, I guess I would be okay if I had a choice in what I would look like." Lucy told her Draconian friend. She didn't want to offend him at all. She knew he felt a bit sensitive on that subject and decided to make him feel better.

"That's fair." Ryu replied to her response.

"I'm not so sure about this job." Natsu told them as he sat off to the side.

"Yeah, they want us to destroy the moon. That is the craziest idea I have ever heard." Gray said as he agreed with Natsu.

"I wonder how many punches it will take for that to happen?" Natsu asked as he held up a fist. Ryu however, felt differently.

"Natsu you can't even reach the moon. Besides, even if we somehow did destroy the moon, a lot of the Eco-system and wildlife depend on the moon. We would be throwing off everything that needs the moon, even couples who like to take moonlit walks on the beach." Ryu told Natsu as he brought up some very good points.

"But that's the job we were hired to do right, we can't back down from it." Natsu said to him.

"Natsu, the mission is to lift the curse, not the destruction of the moon. What they are asking cannot be done." Lisanna told Natsu. "Besides I think there is a way to lift the curse without destroying the moon."

"She's right guys," Ryu said to them all. "When we were on the boat yesterday before the wave hit us, I saw a light coming from the highest peak on this island and could hear a group of people chanting. There are more people on this island than the villagers think there is. We find the chanting people, we find out why they cursed this island."

"Wait?" Lucy began to wonder something, as well as everyone else. "How did you hear chanting when we were too far from the island?"

"Well I guess I can chalk that up as a positive for being half dragon." Ryu told them. "Dragons are known for having impressive sense of smell, eyesight, and hearing."

"Dare I ask what a negative would be for being half dragon?" Gray asked wondering if it was too much to ask for at that moment. Lucy and Lisanna were looking at him with an evil eye stare.

"Well I guess a negative would be being afraid of how others see you." Ryu said with a sad look on his face. "But I am glad that you guys are okay with my nature." He told them with a happy expression.

"Well after the day we just had, I need some sleep." Gray said as he stripped down into his boxers.

"I swear if you lose anymore clothes, I will throw your ass outside." Ryu said to him making sure that Gray knew what would happen.

"Alright let's hit the sack then guys." Natsu said as him, Happy, and Gray fell into their respected beds and dosed off to sleep.

"Well, good night girls, try to get a good night's sleep." Ryu told Lucy and Lisanna as they went over to the next hut to get some private girls only sleep.

Lucy and Lisanna went into their own hut, which is good for them because they heard Natsu and Gray snoring like wild animals. They both knew that Ryu was a light sleeper so they knew that they can relax a bit before going to bed. "Hey Lisanna, the other day when Ryu was scolding us for taking this job, why did you look sad?" Lucy asked wanting to have some alone time with her.

Lisanna looked worried before she decided to tell her, "Well it happened two years ago, I was on an S-class mission with my sister and brother."

"Wait you three went on S-class missions?" Lucy asked, surprised to hear this.

"Yeah, Mira was and still is S-class. Anyway, we took this job to take care of a giant beast terrorizing the town. We had done missions like that many times before, but that day was different." Lisanna said as she began to hug her legs close to her chest. "Elfman had a hard time trying to do a full-body takeover so after the beast was down for the count, he tried to perform one on it."

"What happened next?" Lucy asked her.

"He was able to takeover it but, the beast began to fight Elfman for control. We tried to help him but Mira suffered a broken arm and I tried to reason with him. The beast tried to kill me but Ryu had appeared from just finishing a job and went full dragon on it." Lisanna said in a sad tone remembering the incident like it was just yesterday. "We were able to get Elfman back to normal but Ryu was shocked. He saw that he almost hurt Elfman and became afraid as to how we would see him. We didn't see him any different than we do on a daily basis, but that was the last time he ever went full dragon before the Lullaby incident."

Lucy was shocked by what she had just heard, she had no idea that Lisanna went through something a bad as that. The only thing that she could do at the moment was to just hug Lisanna to help her feel better. "Thanks Lucy, I needed to let it out." Lisanna told her as she kissed Lucy on the cheek.

Lucy was shocked at Lisanna for that out of the blue cheek kiss. "W-why did you just kiss my cheek?" she asked blushing a shade of pink.

"Well that was my way of thanking you for making me feel better. Also, remember that accidental kiss we had back in the guild. Well after you guys left Mira took me into the back and talked to me about it. As it turns out, I'm bisexual meaning that I love women as much as men." Lisanna confessed to Lucy. "You're not, bothered by this are you?"

Lucy, snapped out of her dazed moment told Lisanna, "No, I'm not bothered at all. As long as one of my friends is happy, I'm okay with it. Besides, Cana already fondled and kissed my cheek in one of Ryu's bathtubs when I told her that I wouldn't tell anyone of his secret."

Lisanna was happy to hear that and was surprised to hear what Cana did. "Would it make you feel any better if I kissed you while we were naked?"Lisanna asked her with a smile on her face and pretended to remove her top. Lucy was blushing red now until Lisanna burst into a giggle. "Lucy I was just kidding. We can talk about this later if you want, after the mission of course."

"So do you like any guys? Like, like-like." Lucy asked Lisanna.

Lisanna was blushing before she told Lucy, "W-well, I have this thing for Ryu. He's just a nice guy and has helped us out with so many problems. I felt that I liked him, but after he saved my life two years ago, I think I have come to love him." Lisanna said with a small smile. "Do you like someone at the guild Lucy?"

It was now Lucy's turn to look embarrassed. "Well, I kind of like Ryuma, too. He let me stay at his place on my first night in Fairy Tail. He helped me move some of my stuff into my apartment, and he even entrusted me with his scaly secret. Something I feel is a big thing for him to reveal."

"So we both like the same guy." Lisanna said with realization.

"Does that mean we have to compete for his affection?" Lucy asked worried that this could ruin her friendship with Lisanna.

"I don't think so," Lisanna began to tell her. "He seems to be a bit dense when it comes to if a girl likes him. I mean we could both be in a relationship with him. I don't want our friendship to be ruined over a guy. Plus you're just too cute to be in a rivalry with."

After that moment passed, the girls decided it was time to get some rest before the trip into the forest to find out the cause of the curse affecting this island. As Lisanna began to drift to sleep, she thought to herself, 'Maybe I should have a word with Cana. I can tell that she seems to have a thing for Ryu, kind of like me and Lucy. I hope things don't get too awkward between all four of us.'

*The Next Morning*

It was a bright and beautiful morning when they woke up and went out on their search around the island. Ryuma, Lisanna, and Lucy were well rested and ready. While Natsu, Happy, and Gray were still feeling tired. "It's too early." Natsu complained as he still felt tired.

"Well you were turning a lot in your sleep and snoring as loud as a mower." Ryu told Natsu as that was the main reason why most of them were feeling tired.

"Well if that's true, then why are you not tired like us?" Gray asked him wondering why he looked well rested.

"That's easy really, he's a heavy sleeper." Lisanna explained to them. She knew about that when at times he would be too tired/drunk in the guild to be able to make it back home. Either Cana or she would bring him back to his house. When she brought him home after walking though Magnolia, she found out two things about him while tired. One was that he was a heavy sleeper; he was able to stay asleep even after going through a busy area in town. The other was that while he was really drunk, he would unconsciously grope her butt, she actually liked it.

"Come on guys let's go." Lucy said as she wore a white skirt with a blue and white stripped belt with a matching sweat band on her right hand. She also wore a green tank top and a pink strapless tube top under shirt.

As they were walking, Lucy summoned Horologium and stayed inside of him. Natsu was wondering if they would be able to find another way into lifting the curse. "Well yeah there has to be another way Natsu. And my best guess would have to be at the highest point on this island where I heard the chanting." Ryuma explained to him.

"'Will you guys keep it down, we have no idea what's out here so we shouldn't be drawing anyone's attention to us,' the lady demands impatiently." Horologium tells them.

"You should walk on your own." Natsu told Lucy. Gray even agreed with him.

"Ah, you guys are just jealous of her for thinking smart like this." Ryu told them as he made Lucy and Lisanna smile at hearing this. Ryu would always find a positive to his friends when they feel down.

"I agree with Ryuma here," Lisanna said backing him up. "We have no idea what this curse can do so I cannot blame Lucy for thinking smart like this." She said as she turned to Lucy and winked to her. She wanted to let her know that she was on her side.

"Man this mission is easy I bet we can complete this mission while the sun is still out." Natsu said out loud. Before anyone could say something else, all of them felt a huge shake in the ground, then another, and then another. As the shaking got closer, everyone looked behind them to see what appeared to be a giant rat wearing a black and pink maid outfit.

"Um guys, please tell me if I am wrong, but is that a giant rat in a maid outfit?" Ryu asked wondering if he was seeing things.

"Yup," Gray told him, confirming his suspicions.

"Let's take this thing on then." Lisanna told them as they were ready for anything.

The giant rat was about to unleash a nasty breath attack but Gray blocked it with his Ice Make: Shield. Unfortunately, the breath attack covered around the shield, making everyone cover their noses to prevent smelling the awful aroma. It was so bad that even Horologium had to go back to the celestial spirit world just to avoid the stink.

As the rat was getting closer to them, Gray tried to get Ryuma and Natsu back up on their feet. The stench of the breath really did a number on their heightened sense of smell and they were all forced to run from the rat. The rat kept on using its stink breath on them as they all ran from the creature. Gray, having enough of this, decided to retaliate. "Ice Make: Floor." Gray made the ground behind them turn into ice and caused the rat to slip and slide towards them.

"Animal Soul: Rabbit." Lisanna said as she transformed into a giant purple rabbit. She jumped up towards the rat and used her strong legs to kick the creature away from them. She turned back to normal as the rat was far enough away from them.

"How about next time we just lead with that." Natsu said as Gray got angry at him for saying something like that.

Lucy then noticed something off to the side of where they were. "Hey guys look. I see an entrance to a temple, let's go in there and maybe we can find some clues or something." Lucy told them. Everyone agreed with that idea and approached the temple.

"Holy crap this place is huge," Lucy said out loud. They were not expecting the room they just entered to be so gigantic.

"Man this place looks like no one has been here in years. It's in ruins." Ryu said as he looked at all of the debris and ruins left. "It looks like this place was a sacred temple that people used to worship the moon or something." He said as he saw several crescent moons on the walls.

"Man this floor doesn't even look good enough to walk on." Natsu said as he then went on to stomping hard on the floor.

"Uh Natsu, I don't really think that's a-" Lisanna was saying before the floor beneath all of them went out and they all fell down the hole.

"Natsu you idiot," Gray shouted as they all fell. Ryuma tried to use his wings to help catch them, but some of the falling rocks damaged his wings a bit. He couldn't use them to try and catch them all and land safely. Once they all reached the ground, the girls landed right by each other, Gray to the far right, and Natsu and Happy were to the left. Gray asked out loud, "Is everyone okay?" He got a response from everyone, except for Ryuma.

"Hey, where's Ryu?" Lucy asked wondering why they can't find him anywhere. They heard a pain-filled groan underneath her and Lisanna. The both of them looked down and saw that not only did they land on top of Ryuma, but Lucy landed on his gut as Lisanna landed on his face. The girls jumped off of him.

"Ryu, are you okay?" Lisanna asked him as Lucy lifted him up.

"Cana," Ryu was saying with dizzy eyes, indicating that he doesn't know what he is saying. "Stop trying to sneak me into the women's hot springs."

"He's fine." Lisanna said to her. She actually knew what Ryu was saying. Cana actually tried that once before Mira and Erza both beat him up for misunderstanding the situation. She felt really bad for him after that because she knew that he didn't want to do that.

"Is everyone okay?" Natsu asked just now regaining conscious. It was thanks to that comment that Ryu got his barring and glared at him.

"Here's a thought Natsu. If put some thought into your actions, maybe you wouldn't cause so much destruction." Ryu said to him.

"Hey can you guys fly us out of here?" Lucy asked wondering if Ryu and Happy could fly them out of the hole.

"I can't, I tried to use my wings to catch everyone, but the falling rocks injured them." Ryu told Lucy. Happy responded by saying no as well do to him not having enough magic and strength to do such a thing.

"So we're under the temple huh? Why is there a tunnel down here?" Gray asked wondering why such a cave was down here.

"Let's go exploring." Natsu said as he went down the tunnel.

"Would you stop running like a crazy person!" Gray yelled at him. The others went to follow until they noticed Ryu stayed behind a bit, sniffed the air and felt something off.

"Hey Ryu, you okay?" Gray asked him.

"I'm not sure," Ryu replied in a concerned tone. "Something feels off, I smell *sniff* a lot of ice and *sniff* for some reason, something I cannot put my finger on. But I have smelt something similar to it before, I just can't remember where."

"Hey guys," Natsu shouted down the cave. "I found something."

"It better be a way out." Lucy said as they reached where Natsu was standing. It was a huge open cavern not far from where they landed, and had a giant block of ice in the center. Inside the Ice it appeared to be an enormous creature frozen inside the ice.

"What the hell is that?" Ryu asked as they all had a shocked look on their faces. He saw that for some reason, Gray was shaking like a leaf. "Gray, you okay man?"

"Th-that's impossible," Gray said as he got closer to the ice block. "It's Deliora."

"Deliora," The group asked at once. They wanted to say something but Gray just kept talking out loud.

"How? How can this be? Why is it here on this island? What the hell is this thing doing here?!" Gray asked as he became quite enraged.

"Gray, how do you know of this thing?" Lisanna asked, concerned for her friend.

"Gray, take some deep breathes and calm down." Ryu said as he held onto Gray's shoulder. He began to take deep breathes and calmed down a bit. "Now please tell us, what is Deliora?"

"Its full name is Deliora, the Demon of Destruction." Gray told them as they looked towards the demon.

They would ask more but, "Guys someone's coming." Lisanna whispered to them as she heard foot prints getting closer to where they are. They quickly hid behind a large rock that hid their location with ease. They then saw the things that were making those foot print sounds.

It was two people, one taller than the other. The shorter one wore a green trench coat all zipped up and spiky blue hair. The taller one was a shirtless man with blue jeans, tattoos on his right arm and a studded collar. What stood out for him was that he had a dog face, literally.

"The voices seemed to have come from down here." The shorter one said to his comrade. "I hate being up during the day." He got no response from his comrade. "So Toby, did you expose yourself to the Moon Drip again? It would explain your look."

His comrade became agitated by his comment and yelled at him, "I already told you, it's a fashion statement!"

"I was kidding."

"Well you didn't have to be mean about it."

Lucy overheard them say something about Moon Drip. 'Moon Drip, is that what's causing the curse?' she thought to herself. They heard another set of feet coming towards the open area. Everyone looked and saw it was just a pink haired girl wearing a black and pink gothic style of clothing.

"Yuka, Toby. Something bad has happened." The pink haired girl said to Toby and the now named Yuka.

"Well Sheri, what happened this time?" Yuka asked as Toby waved to her.

"Angelica has been attacked." Sheri told them both with sadness.

"You're moping around because someone beat up your stupid pet rat?" Toby asked in angered shock.

"Maybe a Tyrant got to her." Yuka said jokingly. Sheri gasped in fear.

"Dude, not cool Yuka. You know that Tyrants aren't something to joke about. They are considered Double S-class monsters for a reason. They can even strike fear in dragons." Toby said scolding his friend. Tyrants were one of the most dangerous creatures known to man, they can adapt to any environment and are the hardest to kill.

"She's a brave hunter protecting us. And she is, Love." Sheri told them both.

"Who are these guys?" Lisanna whispered her question to their group.

"Well they aren't from around here that's for sure." Natsu told them as he could tell from their scent, that they are not native to Galuna.

"Intruders?" Yuka asked. They don't get many intruders around these parts.

"It is almost time to collect moon light. This news will displease the Cold Emperor." Sheri told her comrades. "We should eliminate them before he finds out. If they have seen Deliora, we will give them the gift of eternal rest. We'll give them, Love."

"Are we still talking about death?" Toby asked confused by the way Sheri talks at times. Happy acting quickly grabbed a nearby rock and threw it down the tunnel they were just in.

"What was that? Let's go find out." Yuka said as they all went down the tunnel to investigate.

"Nice one Happy." Lucy complimented the cat.

"We should have beaten them up and get some answers." Natsu said wanting to do that.

"Now wasn't the time for it. Lets investigate first." Lisanna told him.

"Man this just got more complicated. Who is this Cold Emperor guy, what is Moon Drip, and why is there a frozen demon on a tropical island like Galuna?" Ryu asked as Gray got their attention once more.

"Deliora, how were they able to find it let alone bringing it down here?" Gray asked wondering what is really going on here. "It was sealed away on the northern continent, in a glacier. Over a decade ago, this demon ravaged a village. Many people lost their lives." Gray began to explain to them why he knew about this demon.

"My master, the woman who taught me about Ice Magic, Ur sacrificed everything to seal this demon. I don't know if this has something to do with the curse, but I do know that it doesn't belong here." Gray said as he began to get emotional.

"So I say we take care of this Cold Emperor before they so much as even unseal this thing." Ryu told him as he began to understand Gray's pain.

"Let's do that. If they tarnish my master's legacy, they will regret the day they were born." Gray told them as he was enraged by the thought of someone doing something stupid as release Deliora, the Demon of Destruction, one of Zeref's monsters.

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