Kallen was sleeping on the ground, something she thought she had done way too much lately. For God's sake she had been sleeping for two years! In her sleeping state she scolded herself for have gotten knocked out so easily, so she forced herself to wake up.

Her eyes slowly fluttered open to stare up at the dark sky and the purple moon. "Still night, huh?" Kallen sighed and sat up, noticing that Lyon's ice was gone from her. "Guess I better get back to the village," she said to herself as she rubbed her sore neck. The ice had made her stiff so at least half of her body ached, but her neck hurt the most. Slowly she stood up from the ground and took in her surroundings. Before she could take another step she felt the tip of a sword on her back.

"Hold it right there," a familiar stern voice commanded her. It was a deep voice, yet it was female. Kallen knew exactly who held the sword to her back and couldn't help the tiny smile to break out on her face.

Kallen scoffed. "I can recognize that sword's tip from anywhere," she said calmly. "Long time no see, Erza," she kept calm with a smile until she had turned her head to be met by Erza's dark look on her face. "Woah…" Kallen trembled with wide eyes as she didn't dare to look away from the requip mage.

"KALLEN!" Erza growled at the Elemental Weather girl.

"Erza, darling, how's it going?" Kallen asked in panic of the redhead's rage while waving her hands in front of her in surrender. Although she didn't know what she did wrong (since she had pretty much been asleep for two years) she couldn't help but to feel frightened by Erza's wrath. She was all about the rules while Kallen… Well, she just wasn't really that into rules…

"Kallen! How dare you let non-fledged S-Class members go on a mission such as this?!" the redhead snapped while the bluenette panicked even further and even whimpered under the hard gaze.

"Eh?! I-I didn't let anyone go on anything! I was sleeping, I swear!" she squealed, but then registered what Erza had said. "Wait… What'd you mean 'not S-Class members'?" she asked confusingly. She had believed that Natsu and/or Gray had actually become S-Class members by now. They were both very strong, though not very smart in certain situations. "Natsu and Gray aren't S-Class yet?" Kallen just had to ask to be sure.

Thus began the explanation of how Happy and Natsu had stole the request form the upstairs board, without either of them being even S-Class ready. Let's just say that Kallen wasn't really happy of hearing this either…

On a different part of the island Lucy was pummeling the pink haired girl, Sherry, after Aquarious had washed them both away.

"This is what you get for messing with a wizard from Fairy Tail!" Lucy squealed as she laid a punch in Sherry's face.

"I can't believe I ended up with a stiffly!" Sherry yelled and laid a punch herself on Lucy's shoulder.

"What do you mean 'stiffly'?! I'm obviously the winner here!"

"You can't just declare yourself as the winner of a fight! If that's the case, I'm the winner!"

"I don't think so!" Lucy finally screamed as she had had enough and elbowed Sherry hard enough for her to fall to the ground in defeat.

As Sherry fell to the ground, completely exhausted and defeated, so did her Rock Puppet which saddened Sherry. She laid on the ground, head spinning from the fight and she didn't have the energy or spirit to move, she called out on her pet rat to avenge her.

"Huh?" Lucy asked. "But I thought that rat was one of her puppets!" she began to panic as she saw the trees in the woods rustle and soon enough the giant rat jumped out of its hiding behind the trees, ready to attack Lucy. She found herself not being able to move and screamed bloody murder when she saw the rat coming closer and closer, but it never struck. Lucy turned just in time to see a blue lightning strike hit the rat and then a figure attacking it with a sword. The figure jumped to the side and was soon joined by another one. Surely enough Lucy recognised them as Erza and Kallen. As the rat fell to the ground next to its master, Lucy felt relief and she exhaled a breath she didn't know she was holding. She then turned to the other two Fairy Tail mages in excitement. "Erza! Kallen!" she beamed, but that vanished when she saw the dark looks the women held. "Woah…" I forgot! Erza's mad at us because we broke the guild rules and took an S-Class request without permission. She's no doubt told Kallen as well… Lucy thought as she stood frozen in place in front of the other women.

"Lucy," Erza spoke in a monotone, stern voice. "I assume you know why I'm here. You do, don't you?" she asked the blonde.

"To take us back?" Lucy asked hesitantly in a hopeful tone, praying that's all that's going to happen to her and her friends. "Promise you won't hurt me?" she squealed, making it echo through the rocks surrounding them.

"Hey, I've been looking all over for you!" the sudden voice of Happy could be heard. The women looked up to see him flying towards them. "I'm glad you're okay. I was wor-" Happy stopped mid-sentence as he saw Erza standing there. He tried to fly away from them, but Kallen caught him by his tail and stopped him from going anywhere.

"Now, where is Natsu?" Erza asked the others as she stared them down.

"And Gray for that matter," Kallen added with the same tone as Erza as she released the grip on Happy's tail, just so she could hold him to her chest in a more friendly way instead. She hated hurting her friends or making them uncomfortable, so when she felt Happy relaxing the slightest of the change of position she smiled.

"Listen, I'm sorry we came here without permission, but some really awful things have been happening on this Island," Lucy tried explaining to Erza, since Kallen had been there for most of it. That did not however mean that the two S-Class mages suddenly dropped it, so Lucy continued. "There's this guy, he and his minions were trying to revive a frozen demon and the island's villagers are suffering because of this magic spell they're using. They've turned into monsters. We just thought that if we worked together we might be able to help them."

"None of that is my concern," Erza said so coldly that even Kallen reacted to it by turning to her with slightly wide eyes.

"Please, Erza, let us finish the job!" Lucy begged. "We can't leave things this way-" She cut herself off since she got interrupted by the sudden sword to her throat. A sword that belonged to Erza herself.

"Erza…" Kallen warned from next to her redheaded friend. "Don't do anything you're gonna regret."

"I don't think you understand," Erza said to the both of them. "The three of you have betrayed master Makarov and tricked Kallen into this as well," she said in a dangerously serious tone. "You'll be lucky if you walked away with your lives…"

After the fight with Lyon and then getting punched in the gut by Natsu, the villagers brought Gray into the storage area of the island where they were now stationed in because of the destruction of their village. They had patched him up neatly and left him in a bed to let him rest. When Gray woke up he was of course confused by his surroundings. He was in a tent full with boxes and barrels.

"Where am I?" he asked himself as he sat up on the bed, wincing a bit as he moved. Even though it hurt even more standing up he did it anyway and walked out, noticing the big size of the tent he had been in.

"Oh, thank goodness," a girl's voice said, coming up beside him. "I'm glad you're awake," the village girl told him as she held a small smile on her face. Gray noticed that her leg was blue and monster like. Yeah, she was definitely a villager.

"What is this place?" Gray asked her, still a bit confused over his surroundings.

"It's the storage area that's not too far from the village," the girl explained. "Everything was destroyed by the attack last night, so we decided to come here for shelter," said the girl with a soft voice.

"The whole village? That's horrible," Gray said in sympathy. His eyes then grew wide as he remembered something Lyon had said to his minions the night before. I can't believe it, Gray thought. They actually went and did it… As he thought about it he finally started to realize the pain he was in, and especially in the shoulder. He groaned as he felt the pain and raised his hand to his wound.

"You know, it was a miracle that Natsu and Lucy was here," the girl told him, not seeming to realize his pain, or maybe to get him on other thoughts. "Thanks to their bravery everybody was able to get away alive," she said, but Gray noticed someone she didn't mention.

"There was just two of them? No girl with blue hair and a scar on her collarbone?" he asked her as he grew worried. He remembered Kallen getting hit by the same spell as Natsu and then her rolling down the hill. Gray would've thought that she would race to the village to protect it as soon as she got on her feet, but unfortunately that didn't seem to be the case.

"No, sorry. I have no idea who you're talking about, but they weren't here last night…" the village girl apologized. Gray sighed sadly as he looked down at the ground. "Unless… You mean Miss Kallen. However she wasn't here last night, but she's here now," she said and Gray quickly picked his head up to stare at her. "She and the rest actually wanted me to show you to their tent now that you've woken up."

"Which tent?"

"They're waiting for you in the big one right over there," she told him as she pointed at the direction of the tent.

Gray quickly thanked the girl and strode over to where his friends were. As soon as he entered he was met by a dark glare belonging to no other than Erza. Next to her were Lucy and Happy on the floor, tied up in ropes.

"You made me wait," Erza said to the Ice Mage. "Not smart."

"Erza?!" Gray panicked by the sight and her dark tone and tried turning around to flee the tent, but all of a sudden Kallen stood there with an equally dark glare as Erza. "Kallen?!" Gray gulped. Kallen rarely had a dark look on her, it was mostly when someone tried to flirt with her little sister or when someone threatened her and her friends, or when she was seriously pissed. He didn't want to know what had gotten her so mad. Instead he turned back to look at Erza, since he was more used to her pissy mood than Kallen's. He then turned his attention to the two tied up next to her that seemed to be just as scared as he was at the moment. "Why are they tied up?" he couldn't help but to ask the women.

"Lucy's got me up to speed with everything that's happened," Erza said, not answering the question. "I thought you were sent to stop Natsu and these two fools. Needless to say, I'm disappointed," she stood up and placed her hands on her hip in a judging way.

"Where is he, anyway?" Gray asked them all as his gazed travelled over everyone's faces, except Kallen since he was still scared over her mood at the moment.

"That's the million jewel question," said the Elemental Weather Mage behind him, not sounding very angry but still irritated.

"The last time I saw him, he was fighting against the Cold Emperor's lackeys," Lucy piped up. "But, when we went back to where the village was there wasn't any sign of him. Wherever he is I hope he's okay…" she trailed off and Kallen couldn't help but let out a teeny tiny smile at her concern. It was clear that the blonde cared for the Dragon Slayer. "Anyway, since we couldn't find him, Erza demanded we'd take her to you but I had no idea where you ended up," Lucy explained to the Ice Mage.

"So I made some scouting in the air and from up there I could see that the villagers had moved into the storage area," Happy explained further.

Erza started to pace around the tent and went past Gray while she spoke. "Okay, we're going to search for Natsu and then we're going back to the guild," she said.

"But we can't!" Gray protested which made Erza stop walking. "We can't leave the island just yet! If Lucy filled you in, then you know exactly what these villagers are going through right now," he said, which had a valid point to Kallen, but she also knew how hard Erza was with the rules.

"And what would be your point?" Erza asked the Ice Mage and it had Gray surprised.

Right now Erza seemed heartless to the younger guild members, while Kallen knew this was her way of protecting the rest while also following the rules. Those goddamn rules…

"Erza," Kallen called on her attention with a low tone. None of the women was scared of the other normally since they were pretty much equal in strength and magic, but Kallen was older and therefore held more authority than Erza. However, at the time the Requip Mage didn't seem to care about that since she was solidly there for her mission to bring the others back to the guild.

"I came here solely to apprehend these fools for breaking the rules of the guild," she reminded Kallen, but made sure the rest heard her as well. "I'm not interested in anything other than that," she said. Kallen sighed as she crossed her arms over her chest and looked down in irritation.

"Rules?!" Gray snapped at the redhead. "Have you seen what's happened to the people living on this island?!"

"I have," Erza answered flatly.

"And you're still just gonna turn your back on them?" Gray asked, calming down his voice a bit so he didn't yell anymore.

"The request is posted on the board in every guild hall," Erza dismissed the Ice Mage. "Besides, this was Kallen's mission to begin with. And seeing that she's here unharmed, I am sure we could leave this to her to finish," she said emotionless. Kallen sighed again. Although it was her mission, she didn't know if she wanted to finish it, not without the others at least. They were there already, so why not finish it together? She was of course still mad at them for not telling her the truth about stealing the request, but the harm was already done. The eggs were already cracked, so why not make an omelette?

"Did you miss the reason to why she's been gone for two years?!" Gray started to yell again. "It's because of that damn Moon Drip spell!" he continued to yell as he pointed at the direction he thought the temple were.

"Even so, the villagers will be better served by wizards who are clear for S-Class, and you're not qualified," Erza told him with another glare.

"How can you be so heartless?!" Gray asked bewildered which silenced everyone else with a gulp. They all had their own ideas of what would happen next. Kallen abandoned her leaning position to stand up straight if so needed to separate the two if anything were to happen between them.

Slowly Erza turned to Gray with a deadly glare. "What did you say?" she asked the Ice Wizard with a low tone.

"THAT'S NO WAY TO SPEAK TO THE GREAT ERZA!" Happy panicked and cried out.

"You suck up…" Lucy mumbled to the cat while Kallen sighed at everyone.

"You've done it now, Ice Boy…"

Erza held out her hand towards Gray and a red magic circle appeared around it. Out of it came a sword that the redhead gripped tight. She raised the tip of the sword at Gray's throat as she spoke. "Have you chosen to defy the guild's rules as well?" she asked him with a dangerous tone. Kallen scowled as she observed the two, ready to step in any second if so needed. She knew Erza wouldn't kill her guildmates, but she could sure as hell hurt them and they all knew that. "You'll face the same punishment," Erza told Gray.

To everyone's surprise, Gray grabbed the sword by its blade and moved the tip over his chest instead, right above his Fairy Tail mark. He then looked up at the Requip Mage with a glare of his own.

They both just stared for a while before Gray spoke with a firm voice. "Do what you must," he said. "For me, there's no other choice to be made. I can't walk away from what I know is right," he continued and Kallen couldn't help but to smile proudly at her friend. She knew he was serious, so she also knew that Erza saw it too. Not long after Gray's words, Erza lowered her sword to her side, which gave Gray the chance to leave the tent while both Lucy and Happy looked on in shock. Gray was about to walk out when he suddenly came to a stop by the opening. "I'm seeing this through to the end," he said, then he turned his head to look back at Erza. "And you can't stop me," he told her before he completely walked out of the tent.

After he had left Kallen laughed softly at her confident friend. He sure hadn't changed much. She turned her attention to Erza who had started to shake in anger. Kallen chuckled before she walked up to the Requip Mage and put a hand to her shoulder. "Just forget about the rules for a second, Erza," she told her softly with a small smile on her face. "I think I could use some help with this request. Besides, they've already cracked the eggs, let's make sure to make a great omelette," she joked and slapped the redhead on the shoulder, but she remained tense. Kallen sighed before she started to move towards the exit of the tent as well. "It's the right thing, Red," she said softly before she walked out.

Red… Erza hadn't heard that nickname in a while. Not since Kallen disappeared. She was the only one who used it. She always gave nicknames to people since she was terrible at names. Erza couldn't help but to smile a bit as she recalled many memories with the Elemental Weather mage. But then she remembered why she was on the island and remembered the two that were tied up behind her. She was glad that they hadn't seen her smile, since she wanted to stay serious with the mission. She turned to the two with another glare that made them both shake.

"Please don't get mad at us! We don't have any control over Gray and certainly not Kallen!" Lucy shrieked as she saw the dark look had returned on Erza's face.

"Yeah! Gray's just not feeling like himself right now 'cause he lost a fight to his old friend!" Happy shrieked as well.

Suddenly Erza raised her sword to the blonde and the cat who started screaming with their eyes closed shut. They heard the woosh of the sword, but didn't feel any pain or the sharpness of it. They opened their eyes to see that Erza had cut through the ropes that tied them.

"These events are intolerable… We'll deal with the immediate problems for now," Erza declared with an angry look, not liking that both Gray and Kallen had talked back to her.

"Thank you!" Lucy and Happy both squealed with beaming smiles.

"This doesn't change anything," Erza firmly stated. "You're still going face punishment."

"Yes, ma'am…"

A few moments after that slightly uncomfortable encounter, the group had started to run towards the temple together to stop Lyon and his minions. While running Gray explained what he had found out from his fight with Lyon to his friends.

"Are you kidding me? He seriously wants to fight a demon?" Lucy asked in disbelief. Just who in their right mind would ever want to fight a freaking demon?!

"Like I said earlier, he's gone mental," Kallen commented as she ran by Lucy's side.

Gray suddenly came to a stop in the middle of the jungle, which urged the rest to stop with him as well. He sighed before he spoke, hoping to finally come with some more explanations. "Even back when we were kids, Lyon's always dreamed of surpassing Ur's magid ability. But since she's gone he can't challenge her directly. He's decided that it's up to him to kill Deliora…" Gray told them and looked down as memories flooded through his mind. "'Cause it's the one thing she couldn't do."

"Well, yeah…" Lucy said in thought. "I guess that'd be the only way to challenge someone who's dead…" she looked down to the ground, as if feeling Gray's grief for his master.

"Aye," Happy agreed with the blonde.

Gray sighed again, needing to get something off his chest. "Listen… There's something… Something I never got to tell him."

"Don't say it like that, it sound like you're dying," Kallen sighed and leaned against a tree, listen intently on her friend.

"I kept it secret," he continued, choosing to ignore the bluenette. "Ur made me promise to never let him know. But I have to…" he said in determination and glanced up at the sky as he continued to speak. "Ur may not be with us, but she's still alive!" he stated and everyone gasped in surprise.

Kallen was especially surprised. She had read and heard so much about the Iced Shell spell, and everyone who's used it sacrificed their lives to become the ice itself! No one survived that, or even been resurrected from it, so how the hell was it possible for her to still be alive?!

Heyo! Sorry for the very, incredibly delayed chapter! Like I wrote in the last one I've had some computer problems. And then I've done so much shit with my friends and then I've gotten addicted to Pokemon GO (I was already addicted to regular Pokemon and then this fucker comes out...) so I'm sorry for this being so late, but it's up! Also, it's summer you guys, so I haven't been sitting with a computer all day like I do normally, so there's also that. But it's up so no more worrying about this at least. Ha ha!

Yeah, imma go now...