Sorry about being 2 days late with this chapter. Time hasn't quite been on my side, but I do hope you enjoy it!

Thanks to Lucy's quick thinking Leo had been able to tell them about the cave not far from where the three fairy women had overheard/found the initial plans. Presca had joined the group and with his brand of magic he easily scoped out the barrier masking the cave's entrance. Levy's plan had been simple but brilliant. They were entering unknown territory with very little information and while Vander was ridiculously sneaky it wouldn't hurt to have a second shadow mage scoping the scene out. It just so happened that they were going to be getting two shadow mages plus the destructive duo of fire and ice to add to the hunt. Rogue and Sting were passing through after finishing a mission to stop and hang with the fairies when they overheard the conversation. Sting was grounded since he used light dragon slaying magic and would more than likely draw unwanted attention, not that he didn't voice his thoughts on how it was a crock of shit he had to stay back. Thane had volunteered to retrieve the four mages from Fairy Tail and bring them to the rendezvous point. Laxus was taking the Thunder Legion, Levy, and Erza while Vander took Emzadi, Presca, and Beck which put at their total group number at fourteen.

Freed had set up runes around their camp while waiting for everyone to meet up and was working on plans for when they entered the cave. Stealth would be key and with such a large group they would be breaking out in teams of two after the shadow trio gathered information. Levy was assisting Freed with cloaking their presence in the forest, casting protection spells of her own so that they layered the area. She also put up a spell to mute the mages to the outside world, no need to have the bad guys alerted to their location because Natsu and Gray can't stop fighting for more than three seconds. Levy looked over her shoulder to see Beck helping Evergreen unpack some supplies that Kaleb had sent them with, smiling when she saw the brunette blush heavily. Kaleb ensured that every single one of them would have a teleportation lacrima, in case things became dicey, as well as food, water, and medical supplies. Thane would be dropping Xally off once Laxus reported to him and Cristoff that they were heading out, that way Xally would treat them if they were seriously injured and teleported back to the safe zone. If things were grim then Cristoff would moon jump to her and assist where he could.

"Now that we're all here we'll get this rescue started," Laxus stated across the small clearing they were in. "Van, Gajeel, and Rogue will head into the cave using the shadows to give us a general idea of the layout, how many people are there, what kinds of mages we may be dealing with, where Lucy is located, and where this stupid ass resurrection is going to try and take place. The moon will be at its highest point in six hours, so you three have two hours at the absolute most to gather as much intel as you can. We'll discuss everything once you're back and go from there, good luck."

"Luck is for pussies!" Vander laughed before leading the other two into the cave. The remaining mages pulled out some cards to pass the time, each all on edge and showing it in a different manner. Gray and Natsu were unusually quiet, neither were picking a fight with one another or anyone else in the vicinity. Freed, Levy, Erza, Beck, and Bickslow were playing old maid while Emzadi, Presca, and Laxus were discussing potential battle strategies against the Master of Black Lady's Sight. After determining that the seith mage had escaped the purge they had been trying to figure out reasons why she'd want to attack White Sea because there had to be a logical explanation. Why try to bring the Queen of the Dead to this plane only to have her pissed off that she's been trapped here by mortals in the first place? It'd be so much easier to just build their dark guild up and kill whoever they were after before they were stopped. Either way, this was going to end badly for the dark guild, especially since Bosco had a kill order on all dark mages posing a national threat.

Bickslow was keeping to himself, too worried to try and put on a brave face yet angry enough that he couldn't talk about the upcoming battle. He knew that he'd be the one to face the seith master and was anxious about that fight. This woman obviously had many more years to hone her and had grown up surrounded by others who could do so also. She had to have at least fifteen years of experience on him, actually twenty-two since he was asleep for seven years, and that in itself made a world of a difference. He'd learned all of his magic through trial and error, more so on the error side of things mind you. His babies hovered closely trying to reassure that Bickslow had more heart than any one of them knew and not defeating her wasn't an option with Lucy's life on the line.

"Bix," Laxus called out to the tall man, "the three stooges are back." Bickslow made his way over to the group to hear what his brother and two friends managed to gather. By the looks on their faces, it wasn't any that bode well for the group. "Who wants to start?"

"The cave quickly separates into three corridors," Rogue pipped up first, not really wanting to talk about what they had all stumbled upon. "I took the tunnel to the right which led me to a locked chamber where they're storing there. . . items for the black market. I honestly have no idea what we're going to do with all the jars that were in that room. There had to be damn near five hundred."

"Five hundred what?" Evergreen asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Souls. They're trafficking souls. Some were clearly marked to go to Pergrnade, Sin, and Seven but it was only about a hundred or so ready for shipment a week before the new moon. The other four hundred were only marked with different coloured stickers of sorts, lots of greens, blues, and reds."

"Well shit," Bickslow uttered under his breath, "They're going to offer Gethsemoni souls in order for her to do their bidding. Were they darker in colour or lighter?"

"Darker."

"The darker the soul the more magical abilities they have, even white souls are different shades of purity. Bodies can only survive three weeks, max, without having a soul to house. They'll eventually start to turn to dust and with that many souls trapped we are going to have a lot of spirits to try and cross over. That in itself will have to be dealt with afterwards since it'll take a solid month to go through so many." Bickslow ran a hand through his wild hair knowing he'd be staying in Bosco longer than he originally anticipated with this new development. "What happened after you left the storage room?"

"I met up with Vander and Gajeel in the grand hall, so I think Gajeel should explain his tunnel now." Rogue had turned red when he mentioned the grand hall which had everyone mentally questioning why.

"I took the middle path which led me to two different paths to take, one went straight the other went down. I opted for going down first," Gajeel stated while his arms were crossed across his chest. "I came upon their dungeon, which is empty, and followed Bunny's smell to where they had her holed up. She wasn't in her cell, probably hadn't been in there for a couple hours. I went back to the main floor where I bumped into Rogue and Vander. We stumbled upon quite the scene." The iron dragon's cheeks were tinted pink too.

"You Fiorians are too funny," Vander laughed while slapping Gajeel on the back. "I took the left tunnel and found their medical bay, housing units, and bathing facilities. Wasn't anything of interest there so I continued my exploring when I bumped into Bashful one and two. Turns out that this specific guild likes to have a huge fucking orgy before summoning someone from a different world. The entire main hall smelled like the potion that was over He-Man and She-Ra after they had come back from their mating."

"Mating!" There were several surprised fairies shouting all at once.

"Shut the fuck up you idiots. Erza's my mate and has been claimed, end of story."

"You claimed her in the middle of a forest while trying to search for Lucy," Vander couldn't help the lecherous smile adorned his tanned face. "I would say that was anything but the end of the story."

"You will all stop at once," Erza demanded in a no-nonsense tone. "We can discuss this after we have rescued Lucy and defeated the enemy." Yes ma'ams and sorry's could be heard from the four men who had joined the mission late. "Did you find Lucy?"

"Ah yea, we found her," Vander said, his smile instantly dropping. "They have her chained to a stone table in the middle of the erotic sea that's currently happening. Magic cancelling chains and cuffs with the Master watching all of her mages get off below."

"There was a second table next to hers, which I will assume is to summon the Queen of the Dead," Rogue mentioned to the team. "There are a lot of mages in there but I would only put a handful on par with Rufus or Orga. My assumption would be that she has some higher ranked mages hiding, waiting for us to rescue Lucy."

"Then logically we need to follow Vander, Gajeel, and Rogue through the three tunnels to lead us to the main hall and at that time they'll separate to look for our mystery mages," Levy began to speak while formulating some ideas on a course of action. "The Master won't stray far from Lucy since she is the lure, so with a three-pronged attack, we'll be able to incapacitate the majority while they are otherwise engaged. It'll be up to Bickslow to defeat the Master, by any means necessary."

"You heard bluebird," Vander rubbed his hands together in anticipation, "let's get this show in the damn road."

The only thing Lucy was thankful for at this moment was that she was on her back while strapped to the stone table. She wouldn't have to burn the sight of a hundred or so mages fucking, stroking, and rubbing against one another. The sounds were a different story and she was damn sure she'd be able to hear the moaning and groaning of random people for the rest of her life. The purple mist that had spread around the hall had affected everyone in the vicinity, her included, but she was helpless to do anything about it. The Master had forbidden anyone from touching her which was currently a blessing and a curse since her head was warring with her body over that fact. Good thing she was in Bosco because she might need some serious help depending on how long the potion lasted for, which Lucy was praying to Mavis wasn't very long.

Lucy was quite certain she had felt three familiar magic signatures at one point but couldn't be certain in her lust induced haze. Her mind was muddled up between wanting someone to touch her and wanting to come up with a plan. Her brain decided that conjuring up an image of Fairy Tail's resident seith mage stripping in front of her would be the best option. She had literally seen everything except what he kept hidden behind his swim trunks but as a writer, she had a very vivid imagination as to how big she hoped he was. The blonde squirmed against the rough stone unable to do anything in the starfish formation she was currently chained in. She'd do just about anything to run her hands along his chiselled chest and toned abs.

"You, my sweet celestial mage, will eventually become so overrun with lust that you will not be able to form a coherent thought," a rich female voice floated above Lucy. "You see my dear I need you to lure your seith mage to you, soulmates really can't resist a yearning like what you're going through."

"Why . . . me?"

"I saw Bickslow right before he boarded the plane to Bosco, so his beautifully white soul but it held a faint yellow in its center. He'd found his soulmate but he hadn't registered who it was, so imagine my surprise when I come across you sitting on the beach. It really was too perfect for me."

"You're going to . . . use Bickslow's soul?"

"Correct! A seith mage cannot see the colour of their own soul and because he practices his magic in the light his soul is as bright as can be. Gold souls are so far and few between but white souls are about one in every hundred thousand. It just so happens that there are three of them in the Pradesh family and once your seith comes after me he will see you and be drawn into the haze. I wonder how your dragon slayer friends will fair against the potent smell?"

"They'll defeat . . . you." Lucy tried to sound more confident but it just came out breathily.

"Imagine being able to pull some of the most powerful souls in Ishgar and placing them into lacrimas. Do you have any idea how much rare magic souls go for on the black market?"

"What about Geth . . . semoni?"

"A tall tale that I used to lay my trap. My grandfather used to tell me stories about summoning a spirit from the other side but no-one has ever done it in recorded history. The list of items that was lifted off one of my dead mages IS a spell though, one that changes a light soul into a dark one. If I can't collect the souls of your friends then I will use them to create the most powerful dark guild of all time!"

"So Bix's soul . . . what are you doing with it?"

"Two dark seith mages will be a hell of a lot more fun to rule the world, don't you think? Plus a corrupted celestial mage as his soulmate, it really can't get much better than that. A veil of darkness will surround him so completely that it'll be all consuming." Lucy felt tears run down her cheeks as she tried to do anything to prevent what the woman from succeeding.

"Why?"

"Turning another seith dark has always been my goal, however, the man I was engaged too had other ideas. Arranged marriages, am I right?" She smiled sweetly at the writhing blonde woman. "I wanted seith domination of the black markets and my husband wanted to consume seith souls so that become more powerful and he's the one who ended up six feet under."

"You were . . . to be married . . . to the man who . . . almost murdered . . . Bix?"

"Yes. Imagine my surprise, some twenty years later, to find out he's the brother of the kid who murdered my husband and the son of the man who helped us to not be exiled anymore. If he didn't have such a light soul I might actually say thank you."

"No fucking way?" The two women's heads snapped to the side to see the rescue teams all gathered, listening in on the conversation thanks to Freed and Levy amplifying their words. "My bad guys. Didn't mean to use my outside voice."

"Van...der?"

"In the flesh Starshine. How about we get you off that piece of rock?" Lucy giggled against her will, her mind being reduced to school girl giggles. She heard some strange grinding noises, tipping her head back she saw Gajeel eating the metal and complaining about the taste. Once all four cuffs were gone she felt a rush of magic flow into her and immediately summoned her trusty shield, Scutum. Her friends needed to defeat the vile woman and Bickslow wouldn't be able to do it if he was distracted by her, so she would hide away from everyone.

"Attack!" A shrill voice yelled into the now quiet hall. "What? Why is nothing happening?"

"Well you see," Bickslow's eyes were glowing green as he addressed the guild master, "While you were busy chatting with Lucy my brother and friends were busy tossing your high-end mages into the voids. Also, have a mage here who can suppress energy of any living creature, so your orgy of mages are just a pile of naked bodies. I still have nightmares from that day, of having my soul almost ripped from my body. Maybe I should thank you for bringing me the family I have now, to the best guild I could have ever found. Being a seith hasn't been easy but I have always known my path." Her eyes started glowing green as she sent a pulse of magic out to the crowd, freezing everyone except Bickslow.

"You have so much to learn, my dear boy, if you ever hope to defeat in a battle of magic." Black tattoos appeared up her bare arms, up her neck, and across her forehead. "I willingly gave myself to the darkness ages ago. Spent years learning everything there was to learn about soul manipulation and control, what souls were better for certain projects, and how to cast them into lacrima. You," she brought her right hand in front of her and spread the fingers outward before turning it palm up and lifting Bickslow off the ground, "will help me plunge this world into the inky blackness it really is."

"Ne...ver," Bickslow struggled to speak against her magic.

"You will agree or you will watch as I rip the soul out of every single person you hold dear to you. There will be nowhere to hind from me," her hair raised off her shoulders and back, floating as she increased her magical power. "You cannot hope to stop me now. Your soul and magic are strong, but mine is stronger." She spun Bickslow around so he could face his frozen friends, eyes returning to red. She started whispering in his ear, "You will watch as I slowly kill them all, then you will follow me into the darkness. Not even you can stand to see these thirteen men and women become nothing but dust between your fingers. The cocky shadowquip mage will be the first."

Scutum's began to glow yellow before floating into the air, sparks starting to float off of the shield spirit. "You cannot have him. You cannot have any of them." Lucy's voice rang out clear before the shield broke in two and disappeared back to the celestial world. Lucy stood in a gold strapless one-piece bathing suit with her entire left arm and legs were covered in luscious navy blue material and white knee-high boots. Her hair fell in loose waves around her waist and upon her neck was a gold collar with a sapphire in the middle and black sunglasses completed her look. She floated down to the floor, brown eyes blazing as she stared down the woman who was trying to hurt her family.

"How? How the hell did you manage to hide your golden soul from me!"

"My spirits protect me above all else. I was young when my mother died and Aquarius became my first friend and spirit," Lucy's eyes softened at the memory, "she was the one who shielded me when the Spirit King first heard the rumblings of seith's being on the loose. As I got older, added more gold keys to my family, became more powerful, they all shared in the protection of my soul over the years. Ten zodiac spirits muting one girl's soul doesn't take much energy from them. You will release them all, right now!" Lucy summoned Capricorn and Leo to the field, both wearing shades as well.

"What are you going to do about it?" the woman's eyes glowed green as she grinned, knowing she would be able to control the puny celestial mage. Loke sent a Regulus Impact towards the dark mage, who released Bickslow from her control. "How are you not under my control!"

"Golden souls are not only rare but hold some immunity to seith magic, plus the glasses Capricorn whipped up for us negates all control magic. Comes in handy when you have someone trying to control you." Lucy smiled as she remembered her battle for the dragon cry staff and how Zash Caine had succeeded in doing so once. She walked over to Bickslow, grasped his hand as she pulled him up, a serene smile on her face. "I cannot defeat her, but I can keep her busy. She is NOT more powerful than you, she doesn't know the man behind the knight suit or how much he truly loves his friends and family." She gave him a chaste kiss on the lips then lept into battle alongside her two spirits.

Bickslow was stunned. She had kissed him like actually kissed him! The babies were giggling and chirping as they danced around his head, active again since Lucy had freed him. "Should we end this babies?" "Kill the evil lady!" "Save Cosplayer." "Take her home." " Save our friends." "Make her our new Mommy!" Bickslow tripped as his youngest totem, Pipi, yelled the last comment. Apparently, he wasn't the only one who was affected by the blonde beauty who was currently kicking ass. "Line Formation." All five dolls gathered in midair, standing on top of one another. The linear formation of dolls, a large, vertical crescent-shaped beam, roughly taller than a human, was released upon the woman and unlike normal beams, this attack possesses enough cutting power to slice through stone walls. She managed to dodge Bickslow's attack only to meet Loke's shining first.

"Baryon Formation." The babies positioned themselves in a pentagonal pattern, a large whirlwind was produced around the formation, and from the latter's hollow center a massive and powerful magical beam was generated. The concentration of magic hit the dark seith in the chest, sending her flying into the opposing wall, screaming when she collided against it. "Figure Eyes!" Green eyes meet green eyes as the two seith mages battle it out to control one another. Bickslow could feel her magic gaining the upper hand as he struggled to push back against her.

"You can do this Bix," Lucy weaved her hands into his one, leaning against his side. He heard her words, felt warmth blossom in his chest as he fought back with all he was worth. She would not win, not today. Not ever! Bickslow normally light green magic turned white as he dipped into the strength of his soul, overpowering the woman who slumped forward. Capricorn and Leo slapped cuffs around her ankles and wrists to nullify her magic until was quarantined.

"What the hell did we miss?" Laxus voiced as he came out of his trance.

"Sorry Bix," Lucy's eyes rolled to the back of her head as she fainted but he easily caught her in one hand.

"Damn. Why does Bunny smell like she's been doused in a lust bath?" Erza and Laxus exchanged looks, slightly blushing at the implications of what Gajeel was inquiring about. Levy started to check up on everyone, besides being stiff they were all a hundred percent okay.

"Is this how people feel when I turn them to stone?" Evergreen asked as she cracked her back from the awkward position she had been forced into.

"Damn straight Medusa," Bickslow yelled back, the group breaking into fits of laughter, the first in several days.

"I feel like we missed something? Like all the action," Vander pouted at his realization. "Couldn't leave any for us Bix?"

"You can take all the orgy folks to the royal prison?"

"Sure, leave me with the grunt work." The shadowquip grabbed all hundred, or so, bodies and headed to the capital with a rather large surprise.

"Well," Emzadi said with her clasped behind her back. "Soulmates eh?" Bickslow sweatdropped knowing he was about to get a million questions thrown his way, but wasn't too concerned since his Cosplayer was resting peacefully in his arms.