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Revolution
Chapter 5; Crashing Waves

"Gray..." A voice whispered softly. "Gray...Gray!" It got louder and louder. "ICE PRINCESS!" It snapped.

"WHAT MATCHSTICK!" Gray exclaimed, turning around and grabbing the screaming person by the edge of the collar. Brown eyes stared at him with hands raised in surrender. His onyx eyes wandered down from the eyes to the blonde hair and pale skin. Even the pink mark was on the back of their hand.

"LUCY!" Gray exclaimed.

"SH!" Lucy snapped, catching on the back of the head.

"Definitely, Lucy." Gray grumbled. As he held the aching back of his head, he suddenly noticed the full extent of his realization.

"Wait, you're supposed to be captured!" Gray jumped.

"I am captured and so are you, idiot!" Lucy grumbled, sitting back against the stone wall. Gray look away from his face, up and around him. There were two stone walls and a metal fence. He had been so taken by her face; he hadn't realized the metal bars separating the pair. "Welcome to the cell. Notice its luxury walls and exquisite bars. There's also the fantastic, all inclusive bathroom." Lucy raised her arms sarcastically, pointing finally to the metal toilet with no privacy what so ever.

"Where's Natsu?" Gray returned, looking about.

"He's on this side." Lucy gestured to the other side of her. "Can't seem to wake him up yet though."

"Oh, so he's alright. We'll alright enough." Gray corrected himself.

"Yeah, you know, I'm glad I managed to save him...wait- he got captured anyway." Lucy continued to remark bitterly. "At least he's healthy I suppose." She couldn't hide the relieved smile pulling up onto her face.

"Where are we?" Gray tried looking through the other end of the cell. From what he could tell, he was at the end and there was metal fences separating everyone else for another ten cells down with an opposite row of the other side.

"Some kind of holding cell, in this 'Red Church's' hideout or whatever." Lucy shrugged. Gray looked over to her as she leant next to the wall. "After I handed myself over to buy time for Happy to escape, I got shot with some kind of knock out drug. It wasn't the same as the one they got Natsu with I don't think. I've been kept in holding ever since."

"But, what about what happened at the cathedral?" Gray thought allowed.

"What happened at the cathedral?" Lucy exclaimed, feeling a sick sense of dread as she moved closer to the bars at Gray's cage.

"Well during our search for you, Wakabe, Macao and Romeo said they'd found you. When we arrived at the cathedral we found you, or what seemed to be you, hanging from the cross." Gray told her. Lucy's face slowly dropped as she continued to tell him what happened, about Natsu and the doors, Gildarts arriving and everything else. Small tears seemed to roll down Lucy's cheeks as she told him about Natsu when he thought she had shattered to pieces. She dried her cheeks and listen on as told her about falling into the pit and the wall collapsing and their pursuit. He even went back and told her the beginning of what happened after she had gone missing.

"You guys have had a tough time." Lucy nodded softly, feeling a hot churn of guilt inside of her. "I can't believe Happy thought it was his fault."

"Yeah, I think everyone felt a little guilty for what happened." Gray reluctantly agreed.

"Maybe it was stupid of me to get captured in the first place. My self-sacrifice didn't go as planned. I seemed to have got everyone wrapped up in it. I did try escaping multiple times on the way here but I never quite managed it. Even in here I tried." Lucy mused, looking down at the marks etched into her skin. They were barrier burns where she'd obviously tried braking free.

"I could tell you that I thought what you did were stupid and selfish." Gray commented, catching Lucy's attention. "But, I would have done the same thing myself."

"Thanks, Gray." Lucy smiled softly.

"Don't thank me yet, we've got to get out of here first." Gray said calculative. A soft grumble cut him off with the rustling of movement. Lucy looked over her shoulder, and saw the dragon slayer wriggling around on the floor. "I think he's waking up."

"Natsu!" Lucy called, scrambling over to the closest part of the cage she could get to him. "Natsu wake up!"

"Five more minutes." He grumbled. Lucy snapped, throwing something as hard as she could at his head.

"OUCH!" Natsu exclaimed, shooting up. He looked down at the thick soled shoe by his head.

"Natsu!" A feminine voice snapped. Natsu looked up with anger at the blonde haired girl staring him down. Brown eyes narrowed on him as the irritation in her face boiled down, and turned into a relieved smile. Slowly, everything dawned on him.

"LUCY!" Natsu wailed running forwards with his arms out wide.

"Natsu, wait!" Lucy tried to stop him, but it was too late. He went head first into the rails and fell straight back. "Natsu you idiot!" Lucy exclaimed, slapping his forehead through the bars with two red lines down over each eye.

Gray was rolling around on the floor in absolute hysterics.

"Gray, this isn't that funny." Lucy growled.

"Oh, but it is. It really is." Gray wheezed through gasps of air.

"Natsu wake your dumbass up!" Lucy groaned, ignoring the ice mage.

"Here, let me try something," Gray spoke, lifting his arm up to his bandaged one, opening up one of his palms.

"I wouldn't try that." Lucy tried to warn him, but the ice mage continue anyway.

"Ice mage: ha- OUCH!" Gray cried out as the shock leapt through his body. He laid almost burnt to a crisp out on his back. He wanted to complain about the throbbing of his head or the pain in his arm, but all his muscles went lax and limp.

"Great." Lucy sarcastically shrugged. "I'm stuck in the middle of two idiots. And I thought one was bad enough."

"Lucy? Is that you?" A voice called out. Lucy quickly scrambled up to the gate looking out to the other row. Exactly opposite her, was a blue haired water mage sitting on the other side.

"Juvia!" Lucy exclaimed. "You're here too?"

"Lucy!" Juvia wailed in relief, small tears rolled down her cheeks. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Lucy smiled. "How did you get captured?"

"She was in a team with us." Gray groaned, dragging himself across the cold stone floor.

"I'm so happy you're okay." Lucy smiled. "Can you spot anyone else in here?"

"No Juvia thinks the rest is empty, it must have been just us that were captured." Juvia explained.

"I see." Lucy said thoughtfully, stroking the bottom of her chin.

"Lu...Lucy?" Natsu grumbled behind her.

"Oh, you're awake." Lucy turned around, moving back over to the cage.

"LUCY!" Natsu wailed, take two. Except, the second time he stopped before he hit the cage, just reaching his arms through. They wrapped around Lucy's back and pulled her into an awkward hug. "Lucy, you're okay!" Natsu cried in joy.

"Natsu, I'm alright." Lucy whispered softly, but couldn't help the small tear that escaped down her cheeks. She wrapped her arms around him, relieved to see him okay again, giving him a hug.

"Gray!" Juvia cried, desperately trying to reach across the wide gap between the bars. Gray sat watching awkwardly.

"So..." Gray turned, as Lucy managed to peel herself free despite Natsu's flailing arms to pull her back. "What do we do now?"

"I'm not sure," Lucy replied, slapping Natsu's hands away. "What I'm most worried about is the fact they know where you all are. It's likely that they planned for the collapse of the Cathedral but I don't think they want to kill us."

"Why not?" Gray asked curiously, seeming to think differently to Lucy's opinion.

"Well, think about what it said on the doors beneath me- I mean fake me." Lucy corrected herself, pausing to figure out her bafflement of how to refer to her glass copy that smashed.

"Something about devil's poison or something?" Juvia tried to think back. All she could seem to remember was the shock of seeing the fake Lucy up there, and it showed on her face. Lucy felt a sick twinge of guilt again looking at her face.

"One has been purged from the Devil's poison. The others will be next.'" Gray recited for her.

"Yeah, that. Assuming 'Devil's poison' means our magic it must mean that one of us has already been 'purged'. Since it wasn't me, it must be someone else in the guild."

"'purged', what do they mean by 'purged'?" Juvia thought aloud.

"Could it mean the poison I got shot with?" Natsu inputted, seeming to slowly get over the shock of seeing Lucy who sat just out of reach so Natsu couldn't grab her and hug her more. Instead of continuing to sulk on the other side of the bars it seemed he was actually willing to input.

"No, I don't think so. 'Purge' sounds like something more...permanent." Lucy suggested.

"You think they've found a way to permanently stop our magic?" Gray exclaimed.

"It's just a theory." Lucy added quickly, before she made anyone panic.

"If that's true, and that there is really someone within the guild who has been 'purged' then?" Gray thought. "Wait. Before you answer that, if there is someone whose been 'purged' why don't we know about it yet?"

"Gray, think what the government officials said before." Juvia exclaimed. "Everyone who was captured had been converted..."

"Wait. Wait. Wait." Gray held out his hands. "Let me get this straight before we go any further. You're trying to tell me, that not only did one of our own get captured, and had their magic stolen but actually became some kind of spy, for us?"

"Someone...turned against us?" Natsu echoed. "Wait a minute. No one in Fairy Tail would have betrayed us!" Natsu exclaimed in anger.

"Natsu calm down." Lucy stood up.

"No. What you're saying is wrong. No one in Fairy Tail would have betrayed us. We're family." Natsu protested.

"I know, calm down." Lucy tried to coax him, but it failed a second later.

Gray stood up with frustration on his face. "You don't think we know that Natsu!" Gray snapped. "But how else do you explain it?"

"No one would have betrayed us! There's got to be some other way!"

"Na-" Lucy tried to speak.

"DAMMIT!" Natsu roared, throwing his fist aside, his flames bursting angrily from him. The rock crackled and fizzed as his flame dissolved against the stone, sending cracks skating all across the wall.

"Natsu..." Lucy spoke, but the dragon slayer ignored her. "Natsu..."

"What is it?" The dragon slayer turned out. Lucy sat staring at the wall, slowly reaching up her hand. She pressed it against the wall.

Suddenly the whole wall just crumbled falling to the ground below. Bright midday sunlight cut through the whole, illuminating warmth across Lucy's face from the dark clouded sky. "The wall broke." Lucy commented expressionless. Gray just quietly walked over and looked down at the floor, almost thirty stories down there was an ocean crashing against the sides of white stone cliff face.

"What is it with the cliffs?" Lucy mildly added.

"What is it?" Juvia exclaimed.

"Um...we found a way out...sort of." Gray grumbled.

"Wait, Natsu how did you use your magic?" Lucy exclaimed, turning towards him. The dragon slayer shrugged. Slowly, Lucy managed to slip to where the gate between Natsu and Lucy fell off into a what-seemed-like thousand foot drop, and edge herself around it. A moment later, she was stood inside Natsu's cage. He went in for a hug and she ducked out of it, moving towards his gate. Lucy gave it a little push, and it swung open.

"Of course his gate was open." Gray grumbled.

Lucy stepped out, moving over to Juvia's gate. "I think the barrier only affects the inside. Natsu try breaking this one open. Juvia, I would step back if I were you." Lucy warned.

"You think?" Natsu repeated wearily. Lucy just shrugged and Natsu sighed.

Juvia stepped backwards and the dragon slayer lit his fist, shooting it forwards at the gate. "Iron fist of the fire dragon!" He yelled. The gate jolted forwards, leaping straight off its hinges, hitting the ground with a clatter. As soon as it fell, alarms burst out like an annoying siren.

"Dammit." Gray hissed. "We've gotta go." The ice mage had already made it passed two gates, into the dragon slayer's broken cell and out into the hallway. The sound of people running up the corridors towards then sent panic riding down Lucy's spine.

"The wizards are escaping, quickly to the cells!" A voice bellowed, and almost a thousand other one cheered. The locked gate at the other end of the hallway gave Lucy a very bad feeling.

"Juvia's guessing that gates out of the question." Juvia muttered.

"Why? We can just go beat them to a pulp!" Natsu exclaimed marching towards the gate.

"Are you an idiot or what?" Lucy growled, hitting Natsu on the back of the head, for a second time. "What if they hit you with that poison again?"

"Oh yeah!" Natsu exclaimed. Lucy's hand fell into her palm, wondering how on earth she had managed to stay sane and be around him for the past few years.

"So, I guess that only means one way." Gray spoke, his head slowly looking out the hole in the wall. They slowly moved up to the edge, each looking down over the terrifying fall.

The crash of the gate creaking open startled the mages. "No choice now, let's go!" Gray exclaimed, pushing them all out the hole.

Lucy let out a terrified scream as she clutched to the dragon slayer, cutting through the air. The stone walled building disappeared in an instant and the white stone face met here gaze.

"LUCY!" Natsu yelled.

"WHAT?" Lucy shouted back.

"HOLD YOUR BREATH!" Natsu yelled.

"WHA- AH!" Lucy squealed, seconds before she gathered a breath. They hit the water with a crash, dropping into the salty abyss. The storming waves crashed and crashed on top of them with no way of reaching the surface. Tides swirled and tossed them about beneath the ocean rocks until their lungs were starved of oxygen. Their consciousness fought to get to the surface. But in their last seconds, another tide hit and they were swept into the darkness.

"Lucy...Lucy..." A soft feminine voice called. "You'll do that for me won't you?" It asked. Do what? Who was it? What did she want her to do?

"LUCY!" Another voice roared in her ear. Lucy leapt up wards in surprise. A heavy weight pressed on her chest and she gasped for air. A series of coughs sent her keeling over, water spewing out of her mouth. When she finally got it all out, she looked up. The dragon slayer sat beside her, pink hair was fattened against his face, and his entire body was drenched. She looked down at herself, and realized that she too was drenched. That was right; they escaped from that prison cell into the ocean.

"Natsu?" Lucy grumbled, her throat rubbing together like sandpaper, feeling desperately thirsty. "Where are we?"

"We're on a beach just off the coast of Magnolia." Gray interrupted. Lucy looked up and saw the mid-afternoon beating down behind him. Her eyes squinted as the light cut into her pupils like daggers until her eyes adjusted. "Luckily, Juvia managed to wrap around us and bring us to the surface and this beach before we all drowned." Juvia lay unconscious with her head resting on Gray's lap where he sat on the high slope of the beech.

"I see." Natsu helped Lucy sit up and sat beside her, radiating his bodily heat across her.

"We need to find our way back to the guild somehow." Gray noted.

"But how?" Lucy asked.

"I'm not sure." Gray shrugged, looking about the barren beach that seemed to stretch on for miles behind them.

"We should just go back in there and beat those people up once and for all. We'll give them the war they want!" Natsu growled threateningly. Lucy set a hand on his raised fist, settling it down.

"We can't fight these people with violence Natsu." Lucy shook her head slowly.

"Why not?" Natsu exclaimed defiantly.

"Natsu, you're thinking about fighting with people who think mage's are violent devils. If you do, you'll just be solidifying your point. They'll use our retaliation to get more people to join up. You would just aggravate the situation." Gray explained.

"But, I mean...they hurt us already!" Natsu whined.

"I know, but this isn't the right way to deal with it." Lucy gave Natsu a reassuring smile, and despite wanting to be stubborn about it, he gave up and just sulked instead. Gray thought back to when he was thinking about their little team that was able to break through his stubborn barrier, and realized how pathetic they all were in comparison to the blonde mage who could settle him with a few soothing words.

"We'll wait to Juvia wakes up and then head back." Gray decided, and Lucy agreed which left Natsu to sulk on his own.

It wasn't long before the water mage woke up, and the sun was slowly setting on the horizon. They began their long trek home down a winding path cutting through the long fields to the east of Magnolia. If they followed their path right, they should come straight out at the guild. Lucy looked out at the horizon and realized that it had only been one day since her and Natsu opened the wooden door and set the whole situation in play. Lucy shouldn't accept to do any favors again, since this is the one she accepted for Mirajane, had leaded her to. For some reason, thinking of that made her chuckle a little. And then she thought back to that voice in her again before she woke up. She wondered who that was.

Three hours later the sun was almost swallowed up by the horizon as the group closed in on the group. In the distance, Natsu was listening to sound of city life. Until, he became aware of the sound of mutterings and people being busy on the street was strange for that time of day, which meant something was up. "I think something's wrong." He relayed to the rest of them. The look on the dragon slayer's face made him jog as fast as he could to the clearing. Siren began to screech through the air the closer they got. The loud roar of crowds and clanging metal grew and grew.

When they finally got to the clearing, they were shocked to see what was going on. The entire guild must have managed to escape from the pit. Except, something else much worse was happening. Almost twenty government prison carriages parked outside the guild building. Silver armored army men were pushing back the raging crowd, throwing all sorts at them in an attempt to shoo away the government. At least that's what they thought until they saw the signs. 'Magic is a sin', 'Wizards are Devils', 'Be purged dark mages' the signs all read. Lucy gasped, plastering a hand over her mouth as they watched from their cover. Each mage was slowly being escorted into the back of the vans with shackles clasped around their backs.

"What do they think they're doing?" Natsu growled. His body was just about to launch up, before a sharp gaze cut his way. Makarov's eyes tore through the entire crowd, pointing straight at them. Natsu stayed crouched in his place, watching in horror as his friends were being arrested, but knowing not to go over. Makarov's eyes held the message of hope the entire guild wanted to convey. And then he looked away, leaving the four mages feeling so lost as their guild mates were rolled away in a carriage.

"What's going on?" Lucy uttered quietly.

"I'm not sure, but we need to get out of here before we're spotted." Gray advised, leading Juvia by the arm into the shrubbery behind them. Lucy grabbed Natsu and pulled him away, not matter how much he felt anchored to that spot. They managed to escape luckily before they were spotted, and flee out to a forest behind Magnolia to safety.

Next Monday; Uncovered Hideout
The team escape to refuge with some old friends, trying to keep out of the hands of the Red Church. But will their pursuit really end so easily?

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