At the island after the big wave crashed into their boat Lucy, Natsu, Happy and Gray woke up on the sandy beach.
"Looks like we made it, you guys!" Natsu yelled to his comrades excitedly with a big grin playing on his lips.

"We're lucky that wave washed us to shore," Lucy said, still a bit worried that she would get kicked out of the guild if they continued the quest.

"I don't know if I would call it lucky…" Gray deadpanned.

"But I can't help but wonder what happened to the guy that brought us here…" Lucy wondered. "Right after he told us about the curse he vanished…"

"Forget about that stuff right now! Let's go exploring!" Natsu exclaimed with just as big of a grin as before, if not even bigger.

"Aye!" Happy agreed.

"We've been here like thirty seconds and you guys have already forgotten about the mission?!" Lucy sweat-dropped as she watched the two idiots bounce up and down in excitement.

Soon enough, after Gray said he'd help with the quest, they found the village. There they got the situation explained further and they even got a chance to see the result of the curse. Also, the villagers believed that the moon was at fault for the curse since it had started to glow a different color since a few years back. Because of their beliefs of it being the problem, the chief of the village wanted the moon destroyed, which the team thought was ridiculous…

The next day the mages went to search through the jungle for something else that might've been the cause for the curse. They walked for a while, or rather the boys walked while Lucy was slacking off in one of her spirits Horologium… Suddenly the ground started shaking, which had the team stopping. Natsu and Gray turned around, wondering what caused the ruckus.

"What's that?" Natsu asked. Then when a big, dark creature emerged from above the trees both boys got shocked. "Woah! What the-"

"It's huge!" Gray yelled in midst panic.

"'What are you waiting for? Beat it up, you guys!' she yells frantically," Lucy/Horologium said to the others as Lucy observed the creature, but couldn't quite see what it was. Soon enough, as the creature took a deep breath, Gray started up his Ice-Make Magic and conjured up a shield to protect him and his friend from the gas the thing breathed out, but it didn't save them from the horrible stench of the gas. "Oh no, what's wrong?" Lucy asked her friends as they reacted badly to the gas outside. She then looked down beside her to see the blue cat next to her. "Did you seriously just sneak inside here?" she asked him.

"'Aye!' answers the little blue cat," Happy/Horologium said before the spirit vanished, leaving Lucy and Happy on the ground reacting just as badly to the gas as the boys did.

When the cloud disappeared and Lucy could actually see what attacked them, she screamed. "A rat?!" she yelled as she stared at it. Then she panicked and ran further into the jungle. "Fend for yourselves!" she yelled to her team over her shoulder. Just as she had done that she tripped over a branch and rolled down a hill as she screamed bloody murder. When she finally stopped she was in a clearing surrounded by the trees. "Natsu?!" she called as she stood up from the ground. "Happy?! Gray?!" No answer. "Great job, Lucy. Just classy…" she muttered to herself as she brushed the dirt off of her and started walking the way she came from, but stopped when she saw a figure on the ground seemingly sleeping. "What the…?" Lucy asked herself as she went closer. She slightly gasped when she saw that it was a blue haired girl having similar features as a fellow guild mate of hers. "She looks just like Levy…" Lucy whispered. "Well, except for the longer hair and few scars," she concluded. She tried poking the girl with a stick to wake her up but she seemed to be knocked out cold. Lucy then looked for mortal wounds and bruises but found none. Only a healed scar on her cheek and another one under her collarbone. She was however surprised by what was over the girl's left breast. She took a closer look at the mark and gasped. "Fairy Tail?" she asked.

"Lucy!" she heard the boys and Happy calling for her before they stepped into the clearing.

"Hey, you guys. I found this girl laying here and she has the guild mark and all," Lucy said to her friends and they stepped forwards, curious of what the blonde was talking about.

To say that they were surprised was an understatement. Since the girl that laid in front of them was in fact- "Kallen?!" the boys and Happy asked with shocked and dumbfounded expressions.

"Kallen? As in Levy's sister?" Lucy recalled one of her talks with the bluenette in her guild.

"McGarden?" Lucy had asked the blue haired girl who had come up to her and introduced herself out of the blue. "Where have I heard that before…?" she asked herself as she put her finger to her chin in deep thought.

"You might have heard of my sister," Levy calmly stated as she took a seat next to the blonde. "She's Kallen McGarden."

Lucy stared at the script mage with wide eyes for the longest time before she burst out. "No way?!" she exclaimed. "Your sister is the famous S-Class mage Kallen McGarden?! One of the models for Sorcier Weekly?!"

"Yeah… I think that was just a onetime thing, though…" Levy sweat-dropped as she watched the blonde fangirl.

"Could I maybe meet her?" Lucy then asked after she had calmed down.

The constant smile on Levy's face faltered. "Actually…" she began, which had Lucy worried. "She took an S-Class mission two years ago and hasn't come back since…" she said with a frown. Lucy was just about to put a supporting hand on her shoulder when she suddenly sat up straight again with her usual smile. "But I'm not worried! My sister's tough, and I have faith in her!"

Could it really be her? Lucy thought as she watched the girl squirm and started breathing heavy like she was having some kind of nightmare. Her eyes then fluttered open to show an olive green color as she gasped. Her eyes seemed to try and focus on the people surrounding her. Without warning she jolted up and enveloped Gray into a huge hug.

"Gray! Oh my god, what you've grown, man. What happened to ya?" she asked with a big smile. Lucy sweat-dropped as she watched the girl acting like she hadn't just been gone for two years.

"Uhm… Kallen?" Natsu asked with a still shocked expression.

"Huh? Natsu and Happy's here too?" Kallen asked before pulling them both into a hug.

"What's up with this girl?!" Lucy asked loudly, which got Kallen's attention.

"What'd you mean?" she asked the blonde she was sure she had never seen before. The team exchanged looks and took deep breaths before they started explaining.

"So, I've been gone for two years?" Kallen asked solemnly as she stared down at the ground. "Man, I must've missed a lot." The group sighed as they saw the sad expression on their guild mate. "How's Levy doing?" she asked, looking up at the group. "Jet and Droy haven't tried anything, right?" she asked in a more joking matter. The boys smirked and Natsu even chuckled knowing of Kallen's protective manner towards her little sister.

"Well, let's save it for when we get you back to the guild, shall we?" Gray suggested and helped his friend up from the ground.

"Yeah, you're right, sorry," she said as she scratched the back of her head. She then turned to Lucy with a friendly smile. "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch your name. You're new to the guild, right?" Kallen asked the blonde.

"Oh, yeah. My name's Lucy," she introduced herself with just an equal friendly smile as Kallen's.

"Lucy, huh? Well, it's nice meeting ya, Luce. I'm Kallen McGarden, but I'm sure you caught that," she smiled as she scratched the back of her head again.

"Sorry, Kal. But, do you have any idea how you could be sleepin' for two years?" Natsu asked his old friend.

"Actually, no, I don't…"

"Doesn't it have something to do with the moon?" Grays asked, which had the rest questioning what he was talking about. "Like the villagers said, there's something up with the moon, and the moon is an element in a way, right?" he directed the question towards Kallen.

"Yeah, technically you're right," she said.

"What do you mean?" Lucy asked, not really knowing much of the older McGarden sister.

"Kallen's the famous Elemental and Weather Girl!" Happy explained as he raised his right paw. "Being an Elemental Wizard means you take energy from the different elements. So if the moon, who has the strongest energy, is under a spell it must've weakened her, making her napping for two years," the cat continued.

"Happy's right," Kallen said. "Most of my magic and energy comes from the moon, especially at night. So something must be blocking its powers," she explained. Lucy nodded, as if to say that she understood. Before the group could speak further the ground started to shake again and the trees rustled. "What the hell's that?" Kallen asked her friends with a confused tone as she pointed to above the trees. The group looked up and saw that the rat was back.

"I thought you took care of that thing!" Lucy yelled at the boys. They however didn't have too much time to answer since the rat charged at them. The group screamed and started running.

"Let's go!" Natsu yelled as he held his nose, ready for another one of the rat's gas attacks.
Kallen, still being weak, had trouble and stumbled once in awhile. This Gray saw, so he figured a way to get the rat off their backs. He conjured up his Ice-Make Floor and the rat slipped on it, knocking itself out.

"Nice done, man," Kallen panted.

"You should've done that in the first place," Natsu told him, which had Gray snapping.

"Shut up, Natsu!"

While Kallen laughed at her two friends, saying they haven't changed, Lucy looked around them to search for anything really. She turned and saw some kind of temple behind some trees.

"Look," she told her guild mates. "There's some kind of building over there," she said. "We should go hide while we have the chance," she suggested and turned back to her friends, only to see the boys beating the rat's face while it was still unconscious.

"We should kick its butt while we still have the chance!" Natsu retorted as he kept kicking and punching the rat.

"Give me a break…" Lucy sweat-dropped but turned to look at Kallen. She seemed dizzy and eventually she almost fainted, so she ended up leaning against Lucy to not fall to the ground. "Kallen? You okay?" the blonde asked worriedly.

"Still pretty weak," Kallen heaved a breath. "Being asleep for two years took a toll on my magic…" she explained and just felt even more exhausted.

The group went inside the temple in hope of finding something that could help them with the quest, but also to give Kallen a chance to restore her energy so she could be of help.

"This place is massive!" Lucy, who was still holding up Kallen from falling, gasped as she looked around herself.

"Yeah, and it's falling apart," Natsu observed.

"I wonder how old it is…" Gray asked.

"I'll tell you one thing, it's gotta be older than Makarov," Kallen said and tried standing on her own. She still had a bit trouble walking, but her energy had gone up as soon as they stepped inside the temple, which had her wonder… "Something's up with this place. It's gotta hold some kinda magic…" she told the others.

"How come?" Gray asked.

"My energy was almost restored the second we walked in. And if it's called The Temple of the Moon it wouldn't surprise me why. This is where the energy from the moon's gotta come to," she said and walked further into the temple with the group soon following her. They got to a far wall where they stopped to look at the forms on it.

"What are those?" Natsu asked while staring at the weird symbols.

"They're moons," Kallen answered and went to examine it further.

"Hmm, it makes sense. Galuna used to be called The Island of the Moon," Gray told them.

"Moon island, a moon curse and weird moon symbols. You really gotta wonder what it all means," Lucy said as she scratched her chin as she thought about it.

"Man, this place is a wreck," Natsu said. "This floor doesn't even look safe to walk on," he said as he stomped his foot repeatedly at the floor as if to test his theory.

"Then don't go stomping on it," both Lucy and Kallen told him at the same time, or more like Lucy yelled while Kallen muttered as her eyebrow twitched. As they predicted, the floor collapsed beneath them and they all went falling down.

"Natsu, you idiot! Look what you did!" Gray yelled as they fell. When they got down they all landed in a pile of ruins. All except Kallen, who landed gracefully in a crouched position two feet away from the pile.

"Hey, you guys okay?" she asked her comrades,

"I'd be better if Natsu hadn't knocked out the floor!" Lucy loudly complained and glared daggers at the dragon slayer.

"Here's a thought; if you think before you act, maybe you wouldn't cause so much destruction!" Gray joined in on the arguing.

"Well, at least you're alive," Kallen sighed.

"A-aye," Happy agreed weakly as he lay on the big pile. Kallen smiled at the cat before taking in her surroundings as the rest of the group looked up the way they came from.

"So can you fly us out of here, Happy?" Lucy asked the blue cat.

"No, sorry…" he said.

"It seems we're under the temple," Kallen observed as she kept looking around.

"Wow! It's a secret cave!" Natsu yelled excitedly before moving to get further into the cave. "This is so cool, let's go exploring!"

"Don't just run off like that, Natsu!" Kallen called after her friend before running after him.

"Yeah! Stop running around like a crazy person!" Gray snapped and ran after them as well. They followed the dragon slayer until they got to a larger part of the cave with a big ice-block in the middle of it.

"Woah!" Natsu gasped at the big ice as he stared with wide eyes.

"What? Something wrong?" Gray asked, not seeing the ice and what's inside it just yet. Kallen stepped closer to Natsu and gasped as well when she saw the big thing.

"Hey guys, what's that?" Natsu asked the rest.

They stepped forward as well and Gray's eyes grew wide at the sight in front of them. He stared intensely at it, which didn't go unnoticed by Kallen. "Gray? You okay, man?" she asked, but Gray seemed to not have heard his concerned friend.

"That's impossible," his trembling voice finally said, making everyone stare at him.

Kallen turned back to the great ice-block and saw with a closer look that what was inside resembled a lot like a monster. She thought she knew what this was somehow, but couldn't remember it. Instead she looked again closely and it finally hit her.

"Is… Is that…?" her own voice trembled the slightest.

Gray gave her a curt nod, not once taking his eyes off the thing. "It's Deliora." Kallen had heard about the destructive demon from Levy. They had both searched some information about it when one day Gray had trusted them with the information of his childhood, at least the part about the demon destroying his home village and killed his parents. "But how?" Gray asked himself as he stepped closer to the ice. "How could this happen? Why is it here? What the hell is it doing on Galuna Island?!" he yelled and Kallen stepped up to give her friend a pat on the shoulder.

"Calm down, Gray," she said softly. "We'll figure this out. And besides, it can't do anything while being trapped in ice…" she continued and her eyes shifted back to the demon.

"You've seen this thing before?" Natsu asked the ice mage.

"There's no way…" Gray started shaking and sweating as he recalled his memories of the destructive demon.

"Gray, please. Try and calm down," Lucy said to her friend as she tried to comfort him the same way Kallen did.

Gray took a shaky breath before speaking. "It's Deliora," he said again, but this time much calmer. "The Demon of Destruction…"

"Demon of Construction?" Natsu asked.

"DE-struction," Happy and Kallen corrected.

"But why is it here? It doesn't make any sense!" Gray yelled, glaring daggers at the demon trapped in ice.

"We got company…" Kallen muttered. The team looked at her in confusion before hearing the coming footsteps themselves. Quickly the group hid behind a couple of rocks while listening in on the coming people's conversation. Kallen didn't watch them as the others did since she concentrated on her hearing them. There were two of them, both male and they spoke about a spell called Moon Drip. "Moon Drip, huh?" Kallen asked herself. That must've been why I lost my energy and slept for two years. They were taking power and energy from the moon using the spell and so blocked the way of it getting to her as well.

Shortly after she heard the spell's name, a girl also walked in, talking about the giant rat whose name seemed to be Angelica and LOVE~. Then they started talking about some Cold Emperor which had the Fairy Tail mages confused, and then about finding the intruders which meant said hiding mages. Happy thought fast and picked up a rock that he tossed to the other side of the cave room. The weird trio got distracted and went towards the noise, thinking it was the intruders.

"Nice job, cat," Lucy whispered a praise to Happy.

"Aye."

"C'mon," Natsu whined. "We should've grabbed them and beat some answers out of them," he said.

"Not yet," Kallen told the pink haired man in a whisper.

"She's right, we gotta do some investigation," Lucy agreed with the Elemental Weather mage.

"Man, this job just keeps getting more and more complicated," Natsu complained as he crossed his arms. Happy agreed with another one of his 'aye!' and asked himself about the Cold Emperor guy.

"Deliora…" Gray mumbled. "I still don't understand what anyone would want with it," he wondered.

"Destruction, hell on earth, pick one," Kallen suggested as she eyed the demon. "But I'm guessing this Cold Emperor guy is behind it and that he's gone mental for wanting to bring a demon such as Deliora back to life…" she concluded and the others agreed.

"Yeah. My question is just how the hell were they even able to find it?" Gray asked as if his friends would know the answer.

"Was it hidden somewhere?" Lucy asked him.

"It was sealed away," he answered. "Inside a glacier on the northern continent. A decade ago, this immortal demon ravaged Isvan…" Gray explained and didn't seem to be able to continue as he hung his head, so Kallen stepped in.

"That will say Gray's hometown." Lucy and Natsu gasped at the discovery. "Countless people lost their lives, including Gray's parents," Kallen continued.

Gray looked up again as he spoke. "The woman who taught me how to use my magic, my master Ur, sacrificed everything to seal it away. I don't know if it has anything to do with the curse on this island, but I do know that it doesn't belong here!" he said determinedly and his magic burst out the slightest. "This Cold Emperor, we have to find out who it is! If they tarnish my master's legacy, they're gonna regret the day they were born!" Gray finished with a growl that scared Lucy a bit, but she was too concerned to think about it then.

Kallen stepped up to the ice mage and put a firm grip on his shoulder. "Then let's kick this guy's ass!" she determined which got the rest agreeing as they smiled reassuringly at Gray.