A/N: Oh my geebers, thank you to everyone who read this story, and thank you even MOREEE to the people who reviewed. :') All of it really means a lot to me! Since I'm planning on making this a full-fledged fanfiction, I'm going to make sure I spell all of these names right. So, I'll have to go back and fix the names in the two other chapters I've already written. ^^;

Anyway, I hope you like this chapter, for Natsu's evil(ish) plan has begun!

Edited on October 9, 2011. :)

Natsu frowned as he observed all the people that walked into the bar. "Whoa. I didn't think news would catch this fast…"

Though he, Gray, and Lucy had each only told a few people of their choice to come to this meeting, it looked as though the whole Fairy Tail had shown up.

Natsu had a plan, but he didn't have a plan for everyone in Fairy Tail to take part of!

Worried, he turned to look at Gray and Lucy. "I thought we all agreed to only tell a few people!"

A small frown full of nervousness and doubt was on her features as she reasoned, "Well, the more the merrier, right? Anyway, I only told Levy. And you did say that Levy might be an important person in your plan, so don't look at me!"

Natsu forced himself to think. Right. And if Levy came, then that explains why Jet and Droy are here too.

Gray, on the other hand, simply sighed. "I only told Gajeel, and you wanted him to come right? Even if you didn't, he'll be pretty useful. And it sorta slipped when I was on my… er… assignment from Master Makarov, so Cana's in on it too. Her magic is powerful though, so she's also a good person to have on our team."

"So why is Juvia here! ? Was she invited?"

Lucy and Gray looked at their rosy-haired teammate as though he was stupid. When it still looked as though Natsu hadn't figured it out, Lucy sighed dramatically, and Gray blushed and looked away.

"Natsu, Juvia practically stalks Gray."

The rosy-haired dragonslayer stared at her blankly, before it finally clicked. He grinned, letting out a short chuckle, "Oh, riiiight."

Gray turned to look at Natsu. "Whatever. Does it really matter why there's so many people here? Just dismiss the ones you don't need."

"Gray, that's mean!"

"Shut up, Lucy, he has a point."

Lucy's frown seemed to deepen, and she shot an exasperated look at her two friends. "You guys! It's not our fault that everyone wants to help Erza."

Gray cleared his throat. "As said by that famous old guy, 'Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.'"

Lucy rolled her eyes at his words. "That was Benjamin Franklin, smartass." Though she would never admit it aloud, she could understand his point.

But it seemed that Natsu didn't, for his eyes had widened considerably, "Holy crap! I think we have way more than just three people. . . Does that mean we have to kill them all! ?"

Both Gray and Lucy slowly turned their heads to look at Natsu, eyes twitching slightly, but out of the two, it was Gray who spoke. "No. . .It means that you can't trust too many people with the same thing, genius. Especially for this, since it's technically illegal."

Natsu stared at Gray in awe. "But I trust everyone in Fairy Tail! They're my nakama!"

Lucy sighed. Natsu obviously wasn't going to be able to understand the quote properly, and it didn't matter since he wanted to get rid of some of the "extra" people that showed up to. "Just forget it, Natsu."

Natsu gave her a peculiar look, and for a moment, Lucy feared that he would actually start arguing with her, but eventually, he just shrugged, and turned to his fellow Fairy Tail members. I'll just have to trick them out of staying here!

"Hey you guys look! It's uhh," the dragonslayer was never the best when it game to being clever, so he just blurt out the first thing that came to mind, ". . .Whatever your heart desires!"

Gray and Lucy couldn't help but facepalm themselves.

Still, for some reason, it kind of worked. The members that were gathered before them blinked in shock, and a majority of them ran towards the direction Natsu had pointed at.

"Cana, now!" Gray shouted. She looked confused at first but eventually grasped his meaning.

Throwing down one of her cards, she created an effective barrier around the remaining members that would be staying to hear the meeting.

And as Lucy silently surveyed the crowd that had been smart enough to ignore Natsu's ridiculous attempt of distraction, she found herself smiling at the gathered bunch.

Levy. Gajeel. Cana. Juvia (whom Gray did not seem gladdened to see). Mirajane. Lisanna. Wendy. And even Loke was there since Natsu insisted that he needed to attend the meeting.

But eleven people was still a lot for the plan. And now that they were all ready and waiting for him to begin, Natsu had no idea how to start. This was made obvious when he opened his mouth to say something, but then hesitantly closed it, and turned his eyes towards Lucy, begging for her help.

Lucy shot him an encouraging smile and a nod, before taking the reins herself. "Well, we all know why we're here right?"

It was silent for a moment before Gajeel spoke up, "Isn't this some kind of meeting to do something that was illegal? Not sure what it was, but it sounded pretty fun to me!" The iron dragonslayer had a merry grin plastered onto his face.

At his words, Lucy turned to look at Gray with a single eyebrow raised. "You didn't tell him what this is about?" She whispered. Gray simply shrugged, as if he didn't know that he was supposed to, and turned his attention away from his blonde-haired friend.

"This is a meeting to break Jellal out of jail. Right, Lucy?"

Lucy grinned and nodded at Levy. At least someone seems to remember what they were told… if they were told anything at all. She couldn't help but shoot another look at Gray.

But when the words left Levy's mouth, Lisanna's expression changed into one full of surprise. "Wait a second. . . Natsu told me that this was a meeting to discuss Erza's birthday present!"

Many people in the room frowned, their gazes moving to stare at the flame-headed "leader" of the entire operation. The dragonslayer couldn't stop a blush from appearing onto his features, and he looked away from them all as he said, "Well, that's sorta the truth."

Several people in the room raised eyebrows at his words. "What do you mean?"

"Well, if this does work out in the next few months or so, don't you think that Jellal's return would be a great present for Erza?"

The silence returned, but a few people eventually nodded in agreement. Erza's birthday was a while off, but they were sure that she would definitely enjoy that present.

"This being her birthday present isn't really important right now. The important part is deciding how we're going to get Jellal out of jail first. That should be our focal point since it's the most difficult part of this whole operation." Gray pointed out. As he said this, his eyes scanned the crowd, meeting everyone's gaze for added emphasis. However, when his eyes landed on Juvia, he could see a trail of drool beginning to leak out of the side of his mouth. He felt his eye twitching, and hastily looked away.

"Right, and I think I have a plan for that!" Natsu exclaimed, getting back on track.

"Well, one would hope so. Can we get this over with? Some of us have better things to do, Natsu," Gajeel said grumpily. His previous smile had faded when he realized that Natsu was the leader of the illegal operation and had thought of doing something such as this before he had.

At his bitter tone, Natsu simply rolled his eyes. "Well, the first thing that we would need is to know Jellal's surroundings. Like what's in the jail cell." He picked up a magic marker that Reedus had left on the table, and began to write in the air to his right.

"Now, it'll be difficult to even get in there. And so for this first part we're not going to get in there."

His words were responded by blank, confused stares from his fellow nakama.

"Well, I mean we aren't going to get in there, but Loke is."

Loke blinked. How the hell was he supposed to get into Jellal's jail cell?

"And he's going to do that with the help of Lucy!" Lucy guffawed at him. She was pretty sure that he had said she wouldn't have to do anything too risky. And she was pretty sure that illegally breaking into a jail cell was risky.

"Lucy is going to get herself arrested!"

At these words, Lucy's eyes widened to the size of saucers as she managed to get out, "WHAT! ?"

Gray also looked mortified, "Natsu, do you even know how risky that is! ?"

There were numerous yells of agreement from the crowd, and Natsu couldn't help but be thankful that Cana's barrier not only made the group invisible and made sure that no one would even come close to them, but that it was also soundproof.

"SHUT UP!"

It took a while, but eventually everyone shut up.

"We need someone to scale the area and figure out the jail's system. And Lucy's always talking about how she's the most 'normal' of us all, right?" Several people nodded, and Lucy could feel herself blushing. It sounded mean now, but she was pretty sure that it was the truth. "Well, since normal people are smart, Lucy should be able to comprehend what the jail cell is like. It's features, it's weak points. How strong the bars are, if there are any windows. When she gets to eat, and the rest of a prisoner's schedule."

"Natsu, that's a great idea and all, but Jellal has been sentenced to stay in jail his whole lifetime. He'll probably have a completely different jail cell from whatever Lucy gets, and his schedule will probably be different too." Gray pointed out. Even though Natsu had convinced him that getting Jellal out of jail was a pretty good idea, there was no way that Gray was going to get Lucy in jail too for the sake of this plan. It was just ridiculous!

"And that's why we have Loke. He can pop out while they're sentencing Lucy to her trial, hide, then sneak over to where they're keeping Jellal!"

Lucy could feel that previous blush and all her former color drain from her face. Was Natsu so serious about getting Jellal out of jail that he wouldn't mind getting her in it! ?

Gray and many of the others shook his head, but since Gray and Lucy seemed to be Natsu's right hand men/women, most of them just remained calm and let Gray do the talking. "Natsu, don't be stupid. The only thing that I can think of to get Lucy in jail for just one night is to create some major destruction. Now one, Lucy isn't really the destructive type, and though her spirits may be, I'm pretty sure Lucy wouldn't want them to destroy an entire city just for this. Remember that people actually live in those places we destroy. I already feel bad enough ruining their town on accident, but ruining their town on purpose! ? That's just a whole new low, even for the members of Fairy Tail. And two, the Council said that they were cracking down on us. Remember that? They said if we destroy anymore towns, then that would be the end of Fairy Tail. And I know that we're all here for a good cause, but is that cause enough for us to risk the end of Fairy Tail? I don't think so."

Many people nodded in agreement, and while Lucy let out a sigh of relief, Natsu's face fell dramatically. Feeling bad for her friend since he seemed to really be excited about his idea, Levy suggested, "Maybe there's another way we can survey the place?"

It was silent for a moment as everyone in the room pondered this.

"I think I have something, Natsu!" Mirajane exclaimed gleefully. All heads turned towards her to see what she had to say, and so she continued. "Well, even though Jellal is going to be under huge restrictions, they have to still give him bathes and water. Right?

There were several confused and hesitant nods, but Juvia knew what was coming, and she couldn't help but let her eyes widen at the thought.

"I think that this means that we should send Juvia in instead of Lucy. She has the power to turn her body into water, so she could easily infiltrate the jail as water."

Juvia stared in awe as her fellow Fairy Tail members nodded eagerly in agreement. She looked at Gray, slightly hoping that he would think of something to say to make everyone change their minds so she wouldn't have to go in, but he seemed to be in an avid discussion with Lucy.

The fire burning strongly in her soul, she slowly nodded. "Juvia agrees to do it."

Natsu grinned widely at her, glad that they had still managed to think of a plan. "Alright then, we have the first part of our plan. This meeting is adjourned until Juvia arrives back with some news."

"Hold on, I say that we pick a mission first as a cover-up. An easy one. That way no one will wonder where Juvia is, and that way, Juvia can have a backup squad in case she needs one without anyone being suspicious," Mirajane added.

"Ah, good point Mira!" Lisanna said grinning. "Well, who should we send to go with Juvia?"

Gray-sama. Gray-sama. Gray-sama. Gray-sama. Gray-sama!

As if reading Juvia's thoughts, Gray spoke up. "I don't think that Natsu, Lucy or I should go. Since we always go on missions with Erza, she might feel kind of dejected if we go on a mission without her."

"I'll go!" Wendy spoke up. Many eyes turned to her in wonder because they forgot she was there since she was so quiet. Natsu nodded in approval.

"And I will too!" Lisanna said grinning. "I haven't been on a mission in so long!" Everyone turned to Natsu, waiting for him to approve or disapprove of Lisanna going.

"Um… isn't it kind of dangerous Lisanna?" Natsu muttered shyly.

Everyone blinked. She would be with Wendy most of the time completing that fake mission and the rest of the time she would probably be planning things out with Juvia who had the only semi-dangerous job. The task didn't seem risky at all.

I wonder why Natsu let Wendy, who's the youngest of us all, go, but not Lisanna… Lucy couldn't help but wonder. Maybe he doesn't want to lose her again. . . ?

"I'll go then." Cana offered half-heartedly. She seemed to have realized that she would be the only other person that would be able to fill the role well.

Loke couldn't go since he was a Stellar Spirit now and had to stay with Lucy to avoid suspicion.

Levy couldn't go because Jet and Droy would each become annoyed and suspicious.

Mirajane couldn't go because she hadn't gone in a mission in years and that would cause major suspicions. Especially when it came to Makarov.

And Gajeel? Well, she wasn't sure why Gajeel couldn't go, but since he hadn't volunteered himself, it meant that he probably just didn't want to.

Natsu nodded slowly, his eyes downcast and his cheeks a bright pink. Obviously he felt pretty… was shy the word? About seeming so overprotective about Lisanna.

People stared at him waiting for him to dismiss them all, but Natsu remained silent.

It was Lucy who decided to speak up, "Alright, this meeting is adjourned. Cana?"

She nodded, and released the barrier surrounding them. Casually, the group drifted apart and set off on their normal tasks for the day. Luckily, everyone else seemed to have forgotten about the meeting that was supposed to have taken place earlier.