To everyone that gave their hopes in this little fanfic, I can only say thank you. This, apart to let me grow my creative side it will also help me with how to talk better with people. I hope you like this new chapter. Sorry if you see it a little bit rushed. I want to do one chapter a week, but sometimes my mind isn't very good. Well, let's get going

A headache. That's the first thing she felt when she woke up. 'What happened?' she asked to herself. For some reason, it was hard to remember but at least she could notice to important things:

1) This wasn't her bedroom at Fairy Hills. This place looked like an old and abandoned warehouse but something was off. Although it contains instruments you usually use in a farm to harvest vegetables or fruits, they were strangely small. Not small like the Exceeds to use it but for a child to use it. Maybe they appeared near the farm the Exceeds that let them hide from the Extalia Army used to live. But that doesn't explain the size.

2) Happy was in a corner lying asleep. For a moment she thought that usually Wendy was the first person she saw when she wok-

"WENDY!" She screamed. That's right, something happened to her. And then, the memories started repeating in her brain trying to analyze what is going on. She started remembering the job, the trap and the Anima and suddenly, she started panicking. 'She was cuffed with Natsu and Gajeel. That monster fooled us and now she is her hostage.' Tears of impotence start flowing through her face. 'I couldn't do anything to protect her and she's on Earthland with him'. Before she could do or think something else, a familiar voice took her attention.

"So, it looks like you are awake now." said Lily. For some reason he have cuts but fine nonetheless

"Lily, you are awake! What happened? Where are we? You brought us here?" said impatiently the poor Exceed still with tears in her eyes

Standing his hand to let him talk, he stated: "First of all, you need to thank Happy. He's the reason we're still alive and somehow he managed to find a place we could rest appropriately. It appears that he also guard us because when I woke up he was checking if someone was close. He's probably exhausted so I don't recommend awaking him for an hour or two"

Impressed by this revelation, she start watching her blue friend with happiness. 'Despite being clumsy most of the time, he always help his friends'. Without realizing, she started blushing. But that doesn't mean that Lily didn't notice that.

He started clearing his throat loud enough to make her jump a little. Recomposing herself she asked "And how did he save us? Last time I remember, you were suffering for Magic Deficiency Disease and unless Edolas somehow has gained Ethernano, we would be dead by now"

"Yes we would, but somehow he manage to snatch this" he said while holding a bottle with brown pellets in it. She immediately recognized it

"Those are the X-balls the lunatic snatched from here. But I thought that only worked with humans"

"It works with any being that requires magic. Also, he didn't steal it from here because we're not in Edolas"

If her worries weren't bad enough, what Lily told him shatter something inside her brain. She started to tremble and crying again and started talking with a broken voice. "Not in Edolas? Bu.. but that means I won't se.. see he..". She couldn't finish her sentence and her crying was becoming louder and louder until someone tap her shoulder.

"You need to calm Carla, please. I now how you feel about this but we need to avoid make loud noises" said Happy while stroking her back. Sadly, the response wasn't what the blue Exceed expected.

"CALM DOWN?! HOW CAN I CALM DOWN WHEN THERE'S A CHANCE WE COULD NEVER RETURN TO EARTHLAND. AREN'T YOU WORRIED FOR NATSU AND THE OTHERS? WHY ARE YOU SO CALM ABOUT THIS?" she started screaming while punching him. She knew that the poor cat only tried to avoid problems but she didn't care. She need to express all her emotions and, unfortunately for him, she made her target.

Despite being tired, he received all the punches knowing that her outburst would calm her. But, he also knew that the noise she was making would alert whatever were close to them so he did the only thing that came to his mind: he hugged her and said calmly:

"I know that you are worried about Wendy because I also feel worried for Natsu. Lily already told me that we aren't in Edolas or Earthland and when I heard that I was so sad I almost cried. But then I started to think that if that thing brought us here, then we only need to wait for them to rescue us. And until that moment, we need to be safe for them." His voice start breaking and tears began emanating from his eyes. "We need to be safe because I also want to see him again!" he said while holding her tighter.

She suddenly stop crying. His words resounding in her brain. "We need to be safe because I also want to see him again." 'He's right. If that thing brought us here, then it can return us to Earthland'. A light of hope suddenly shine on her (metaphorically of course). "You're right Happy. They would find a way to get us out of here and, until then, we need to be safe".

"Aye" said while smiling. "I'm happy that you feel better now"

She could only nodded happily while wiping her tears

'You truly are a symbol of happiness, Happy' thought Lily, who was watching the whole scene from the entrance of the warehouse. But before he could think something else, some voices alerted him

"Are you sure that you heard voices? It's still only 5 in the morning and despite not being too early, it's still early." said a feminine voice

"I'm sure I heard someone shouting. They could be thieves hiding from the police" said a masculine voice

Analyzing that they have a couple of minutes, he said quietly "We need to go, now. Don't worry, we can use Aera so we can get out flying". After nodding, they use their wings to escape from the window and, using the black sky in their favor, they flew towards the farthest warehouse they could find.

At the warehouse

In front of the door, two bunnies appear with a lantern while checking if something was unusual. The male one is a chubby bunny with brown fur that wears a white T-shirt, a cream-red-and-green plaid shirt, blue overalls, and a green hat with a carrot design. The female one was a smaller bunny compared with her partner and wears a pink, sleeveless dress. These were Stu and Bonnie Hopps, owners of this farm and also this particular warehouse whom the former one heard strange noises coming from there.

"Well, it looks like I was right. Now, let's go back home; that breakfast isn't going to prepare itself and neither I would do it alone" she said rolling her eyes a bit tired. She knew that her husband was very nervous bunny and sometimes he exaggerated things, but that doesn't make him a coward. When the situation requires it, he displayed a lot of bravery.

"I'm sure that I heard something. Maybe it was a bad dream" said the defeated bunny. He knew someone was there. The big ears wasn't only for showing, but he couldn't prove his point so he decided to return to his house. After all, today will be a very busy day. Not only the Great Harvest Festival is starting today, but also his family will reunite again, like tradition demanded. And that includes certain cop daughter and his troublesome partner that only visited them twice a year. Everything needs to be perfect.

At the catacombs

Gone. In just a second his best friend of all life was gone. With all the strength he has, he couldn't do a damn thing to help him. He could only stay cuffed there without doing nothing.

"You're supposed to protect the mom and the kid, right?"

Those words start running through his head, making him remember that talk with Lisanna so many years ago, furthering the pain.

"After all, Happy is our kid, right?"

'It's like that time. I couldn't protect Lisanna that time.' thought Natsu while clenching his fist in both fury and regret

'I always thought that because I wasn't there.' He was so lost in his own thoughts that he didn't realized that the portal became too unstable and exploded while emanating a pulse of energy, pushing all of them away. He even didn't notice at first that the explosion damaged parts of the cuffs.

"YOU IMBECILS! I don't know how but you manage to destroy my precious Anima!" Shouted the maniac professor. "But that doesn't matter" said while laughing. "Most of the staves are intact and this time I'll check better the portal"

'But now I was here...' thought the dragon slayer. What he did notice was the little flame that started growing in his guts, feeding by his anger and the Ethernano that was slowly entering his body.

'...and still...'. The heat around him began rising.

"Even thought those pathetic cats manage to travel to Edolas without transforming into lacrimas, they won't be a problem with my plans..."

'...AND STILL...'. Fire began emanating from his wrist, weakening the cuffs in the process.

"… and when I find them, I'll make sure to torture them torture before killing those pest. AND THEN MY PLAN WILL BE-"

"I COULDN'T PROTECT HIM" shouted Natsu while breaking his cuffs. His body started covering in flames and lightning, product of all the fury and anger that was inside him. He didn't lose time as his fists started punching the man everywhere making him bleed continuously.

"Stop it Salamander before you kill him" said Gajeel. He also was angry at the man but he knew that only him could resolve this.

"HE DOESN'T DESERVE TO LIVE. HE TOOK HAPPY FROM ME." answer the enraged mage. The flames started growing even more and bolts of lightning began hitting the walls of the catacombs

"But if you kill him, we won't know how to bring them back! Do you think you are the only one worried about their partner. What do you think both of us feel about this?" said de Iron Dragon Slayer while pointing Wendy

At that moment he realized that Wendy was also crying making impossible for her to say a single word. 'She's suffering too.' Then he noticed Gajeel or, more specific, his expressions. 'Even he is furious about this'. Then he focused in the professor. 'All because of this bastard'. He wanted to finish this and avenge Happy, but he also knew that what Gajeel said was correct: He's the only one that knows how to bring them back. So, he returned to normal but not before knocking the mad being.

While freeing his friends he said: "He probably have a communication lacrima. There's no other way the guild would confirm him that we were coming."

"I'm on it" said Gajeel before going to the tent in search of the lacrima

Then, he headed to Wendy, trying to comfort her: "We will find them and bring them back from Edolas. I promise on my life that they're going to return to us"

At a new warehouse

After the three Exceeds managed to escape from the people that was coming to the previous warehouse, both Happy an Carla started asking about how Lily knew that this place wasn't Edolas

"How did you were so sure about this?" asked Happy with a bit of skepticism, hoping that his friend was wrong about this.

"Because I lived here" answer Lily. "The environment isn't the same as before". And then, while pointing at the sunrise, he said: "The color of the sky is wrong. It looks more like Earthland, with a blue tone instead of a green one."

"But maybe it's because there's no more magic here, like the reason why there isn't floating islands or rivers that defies logic" pointed Carla.

"At first, that possibility also started going through my head. But what convinced me that here is not Edolas was the sudden change of vegetation and lack of big creatures like the Legions."

After hearing what Lily said they started to realize that, even with the disappearance of magic from Edolas, both the vegetation and the fauna shouldn't have changed that much; but now, it looks like all of that went completely extinct. Curiously enough, the vegetation was also very similar to Earthland, like grass, fruit trees and other kind of plants.

At that moment, Carla remember something while escaping.

"Also both the objects in both the warehouses and the houses that I spotted while flying were very different that the one in Edolas" said with a serious expression.

"What do you mean by that? What could the objects or the houses could tell you about this?" Asked Happy. Even though he tried to think, he couldn't see anything important about that.

Before starting his explanation, the white Exceed grabbed an sprinkler to explain herself better. "Do you think that someone like Natsu or Gray or Lucy could use this?"

After checking the object in question, he concluded: "No. It's size is too small for a person to use it. But maybe this is for children or for Exceeds. I still remember those two farmers that take care of us after being exiled from Extalia". The image of the white and blue Exceeds start appearing in his mind while explaining.

Carla, however, refused his theory. "But for us is still too big. When we were in the previous building I thought that maybe it was for kids, but now it looks like it was for everyone in this dimension to use it"

"Aye". Happy could only look down and defeated.

"I still cannot understand how the X-Balls worked with us? How did you know that it would work with us?" asked Carla

"I didn't know it would work at that moment. I only knew that those pellets gave their magic back at the guys and I supposed that they could've give us magic too if we were going to a place without magic" answer Happy

"But in Edolas we could use or Aera but not them. Why is that?"

"Maybe I can explain all this mess better" said Lily while enforcing his voice. "For starters, the magic in Edolas and in Earthland were always very different. Even thought people from Edolas could harness your magic, mages from Earthland couldn't. That's because they didn't need to retain the Ethernano inside their bodies, but in specials converted lacrimas that were created after the Anima Project"

"Now, about explaining how did Exceeds use magic in both Edolas and Earthland. The principal reason is because our bodies assimilated both of them."

"What do you mean by that?" interrupted Happy.

"Let's put like this. Imagine that the magic particles from Earthland is goat milk but the magic particles from Edolas were cow milk. In essence, both are milks so our bodies could still use it to let us perform our magic. The problem is that, albeit being similar, they're not the same. Our bodies could use those magic particles but we couldn't use our magic at its peak. That's the main reason I couldn't stay always in battle form even thought I had more access to more magic in Earthland than in Edolas"

"But that doesn't explain how sis the X-Balls manage to save us from Magic Deficiency Disease" interrupted Carla

"I'm getting into that. Stop interrupting please!" said Lily with a strong voice, but not so much to be heard by others. "Like I was saying, we can use both Earthland and Edolas magic particles. Now, about the X-Balls. Prince Jellal told me that those things were concentrated Ethernano combined with other things, like a pseudo-lacrima. His principal function was to provide magic to the Earthland mages if they somehow landed in Edolas and make them capable of absorbing the magic from Edolas for a short period of time to let them survive long enough until another X-Ball was required"

"So, what you tried to mean is that we have temporal magic inside us, but eventually we need to replenish?" asked Carla

"Exactly. Which I recommend to use or magic only in cases of great danger or need of urgent escape" suggested Lily

"So, for now not flying or anything. Got it" said Happy

For a moment there was absolute silence, which was cut out from Happy's snores. It seems that the little Exceed was still tired from being awake nearly all night while trying to process all the info he was told the last hour; so, to avoid wasting more energy, Carla and Lily imitated him and gave themselves into Morpheus' arms.

Meanwhile, in the big city (or, more specifically, in an apartment located in the big city) two animals were having its own serious problems. Problems that their lives will depend on it

"Why can't I go with my favorite shirt Carrots? I even cleaned them for this occasion." said a fox with a trim build, covered in red fur with a cream underbelly up to his muzzle, dark auburn fur on his feet, his hands, the tips of his ears, and at the tip of his tail, and green eyes and a dark purple nose. He was wearing green pajama pants and an old shirt of his times at the Police Academy. This was Nick Wilde, first fox officer of the Zootopia Police Department which was arguing with her roommate and partner in the force, Judy Hopps

"Because you always wear those. You need to expand your wardrobe, or at least try new things" said Judy Hopps, a young rabbit with a lithe build and round face. She is covered in gray fur with a lighter shade on her underbelly up to her muzzle and on her paws. She has large purple eyes, a pink nose, long ears with black tips, and a teardrop-like tail with gray fur on the top and a lighter shade on the bottom. She's wearing dark blue pants and a blue blouse.

"But I like it. Besides, it's not like it's the only shirt I'll use during the whole trip. I'm still packing like 10 more" answer the fox

"Ughh, fine. Wear whatever you want. It's not my problem" said the bunny with a defeated tone

"I still don't know why is that important. It's only clothes. Besides, you love my look." said with his usual smirk

"Whatever you say Slick" said while covering a little blush. "By the way, our train goes in 30 minutes and I'm not planning missing my train because of you. So, if you are not ready in 15 minutes, I'll go out with you"

"It's only taking a shower and put my clothes. That's not so time consuming" answer him. "Besides, you aren't ready too, so why leave the blame to me?"

"Because it's only a little make-up and brushing. It won't tale a lot of time" said the bunny

"Yeah sure, but for some reason I don't believe you" said sarcastically

"Just shut up and get ready fast, Nick" shouted her

"On my way, on my way. Calm down" replied Nick 'Besides, it's not like something impressive will happen in this little trip' he thought.

Well, there it is. Hope you liked it and if you want me to improve something I will make my best effort to do it. Good day to all of you