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Okay so I have the next chapter up - it took a little while, because I just travelled to america. Yay! I'm going to live here for 10 mouth, so that's pretty big for me. :)

So if the chapters won't come as quickly it's because I'm settling in here - but I'll find time to write. ;)

Chapter 14

Alica groaned tiredly and opened her eyes. She felt an unbelievable pain in her shoulder and tried to reach to it, but her hands were bound behind her back, which also made it impossible to use her magic.

"What the …" she mumbled and struggled a little, but the ropes were bound too tightly. She sighed and looked around the room. She was in a warehouse or something, maybe a basement. The room was dark, with only a single light bulb hanging from the ceiling. The room smelled like alcohol, which explained the large barrels around her.

She was about to yell, when the door suddenly opened.

"And she shoved it in his face! Everyone almost died of laugher!" a deep voice joked and few peopled laughed behind him. His steps sounded loudly while he ran down the stairs.

"Hey!" Alica tried to scream, but her voice trailed off and ended in a whisper.

The man grabbed a barrel and hurried up the stairs again before Alica had a chance to get her voice back.

She sighed loudly when she heard the door slam, leaving the room in the dull light again. She lowered her head and tried to remember what had happened, but her mind was blank.

'Tick tock. Tick tock.'

Alica turned her head and looked for the source of the sound.

'Tick tock. Tick tock.'

She found the source to the noise. Behind her chair stood a large black box, she tried to jump the chair around and check it out, but the chair was made of some kind of metal and it cost a lot of effort.

When she finally came around she studied the box further. It was just a black square, but it was definitely the source to the ticking. When she looked closer she could see that the top sat loosely and could be taken off. She tried, but since she only had her feet to work with, and it was heavier then it looked, it took a while.

Finally the corner slipped up and a green light shone out from the box and lit the room. Alica exclaimed in a surprised gasp. "A bomb?"

"A BOMB?" Mako and Lucy yelled at in unison.

"Not a normal bomb," Lucy father said, rolling his eyes. "It will only delete every memory they have ever had about you and Makoto."

"B-but that's horrible!" Lucy said and her fists clench together in fury "They'll all forget me! Erza, Levy, Mirajane…Gra-" She stopped herself as she remembered that Natsu and Gray weren't in the bar. That meant that they wouldn't forget.

"You can't do that!" Mako suddenly yelled and Lucy jumped a little in surprise. Mako had clenched his teeth in anger and Lucy had never seen him so angry. His eyes almost looked insane.

"Watch your tone," his father hissed, but Mako just looked even more furious.

"Why are you suddenly cooperating?" Mako asked and got to his feet. "If you already have the companies combined, there's no reason to continue this stupid marriage!"

"This has nothing to do with the companies!" Lucy's father said and looked at the two teenagers, who suddenly looked very confused.

"Then why?" Lucy asked carefully.

"This is discipline!" Mako's father took over speaking. "Both myself and Mr. Heartphilia are sick and tired of your lack of discipline. One of you runs away from home, and joins a guild of destructive mages," he gestured toward Lucy, who pressed her lips together, "and the other one runs away with a girl from a dark guild, and expects to marry her!" he finished angrily, meeting Mako's thundering eyes with his own fiery ones.

Lucy looked at Mako, completely taken off guard. Alica was from a dark guild? She didn't know that, but this wasn't the best place to ask further.

"We want our children to marry respectful men and women," Lucy's father said, "and until you understand that, you'll be cut off from your friends, and this time they won't come running to save you because they won't remember you."

"You can't hold Fairy Tail inside if they just get even the least suspicious!" Lucy suddenly yelled, her eyes were serious and strong again. "They'll find a way!"

"I don't think they will," her father said, a smug smile tugging at his lips. "You see, we have put sensors and cameras up everywhere in the bar – and they're still there. We haven't even needed our shadow mages that we stationed outside the doors. Plus we have made sure that the bar had several hundred barrels of alcohol. That'll hold them."

"How do I know you're telling the truth?" Lucy said.

Her father smirked and turned toward the shadows. He moved his hand in an unknown gesture and the mages stepped forward. Lucy and Mako hadn't even noticed them. Lucy's father said something in a whisper and the mages laughed their well-known laughter and both reached their hands forward.

"What are they doing?" Mako asked flustered.

"Showing," a dead voice echoed against the walls, and both Mako and Lucy shivered at the shadow mages' voices. A black smoke was starting to twirl around the mages hands and a picture formed slowly inside it.

Both Lucy and Mako raised surprised eyebrows when they saw all the familiar mages sitting in the picture, laughing at a bar. A young man in the bar, unfamiliar to them, made wild hand movements, which made the mages laugh even more.

"T-they're really there," Lucy said sadly.

"What about Alica?" Mako demanded, and the picture quickly shifted to a darker place. Mako moaned in shock. Alica sat in a metal chair, her hands bound to it behind her. In front of her stood a large box, and she was staring down at the green light in horror.

Mako widened his eyes. ´Was she really so close to the bomb?´ he thought anxiously. "Why is she there?" Mako said angrily, watching Alica sit in the dark basement, so close to the thing that may take her away forever. "Why isn't she upstairs with the others?"

"She was more suspicious, so we wanted to put her closer to the bomb," Mr. Kaito said and smirked. Mako was beginning to grow paler and paler.

"Y-you bastard," he whispered silently and his knuckles turned white. Lucy had had enough; she couldn't let this go on. She reached down toward her keys and found the shape she was looking for. She raised it with a quick movement and everyone turned their heads in surprise.

"Gate of the crab! I open you!" She raised the key over her head. "Cancer!"

Her vision suddenly began to spin and she felt loudly to the floor. Her head ached terribly and she had to gasp a little.

"L-Lucy? What's wrong?" Mako hurried to say and knelt beside her. He laid his hands on her shoulder for comfort and looked up at the two men, but they seemed just as surprised.

"I-I can't summon two spirits at a time," Lucy mumbled and raised her head. "I'm not strong enough yet. I guess Loki's still out, and using all my magic to stay in the human world," she explained, looking at him with apologizing eyes.

"I see," Mako said and helped her back to her feet. He turned to his father while he still supported Lucy. "How long do we have?"

His father's lips spread in a smirk. "Twenty minutes."

"Where are we going, precisely?" Gray asked while they followed the worried spirit down the streets.

"You are going to the bar, and tell everyone from Fairy Tail to come to the duke's mansion. It's just outside town, toward the forest and…" Loki began, but Gray cut him off.

"Why should we involve the whole guild? Can't we just get Lucy, you and me?"

"Hey! I'm going too!" Natsu said, provoked, and sent Gray a deadly glare.

"You're not needed," Gray snapped.

"Don't get cocky," Natsu growled.

"Shut up!" Loki interrupted and stopped instantly. Gray and Natsu ran a few more steps before they stopped too and looked back at the spirit. He looked absolutely furious.

"How can you two keep fighting when your friend is in danger?" Loki said angrily and clenched his fists. "Your fighting like this was a normal mission, but it's your friend, your team mate! It's Lucy, god dammit!" Loki stiffened and his face darkened. He expected to see guilt from the two mages, but when he raised his eyes, he was met by disappointed smiles.

"What's so funny?" Loki asked with a flustered expression.

"Have some confidence in her," Gray said, sticking his fist in his pocket.

"Yeah, she's not as weak as she looks," Natsu agreed and a grin spread on his face.

Alica's eyes shone with horror. Inside the box was a clock, combined to some kind of explosive material. It counted down.

'17 minutes,' the glowing numbers told her while the seconds quickly changed and only gave her less time.

"Well Mako," Alica said hopelessly. "I guess we'll always end up in the weirdest situations."

There you go. :) Hope you liked and please review. :D