That double shift I worked last night is kicking my ass, but I promise to update soon!

I don't own Fairy Tail.

Natsu's POV

"AHHHH! I need Lucy! Let me go!" I bellowed, spouting fire out of my mouth like a maniac. They all thought I was crazy, but I could see it in their eyes. They were hungry for vengeance just as I was. Gray and Gajeel were tasked with keeping my arms restrained, but I was all too prepared to fight them if they wouldn't let go. They picked the wrong two bastards. "I need her!"

"Will you fucking stop?" Gajeel seethed, pissing me off even more. If I wasn't being restrained, I'd kick his ass, and Gray's too just for being here.

"No!" I shouted, setting myself on fire. Gajeel drove an iron fist into one cheek, and my head whipped around only to meet Gray's icy blast. My fire cooled instantly, but my temper only got hotter. Shit! I needed to save her! She could be out there be tortured or anything! And if anything were to happen to her…if she was to die—No! She's alive! I can feel it. I still have a chance. It's a small one, but I'll take it. I needed her…I needed to tell her that I was sorry for never telling her every day of my life how much I loved her. "Let me go!"

"NATSU!" Erza roared more frightening than any dragon I'd met. Her eyes pierced through me colder than Gray's ice. "We all want to find her, but you fuming and causing a racket is not helping anyone! It's only making us more anxious. We have no idea where she could have been taken, and unless you can offer any helpful information than keep your mouth shut before I force it together permanently. Am I understood?"

Gray and Gajeel trembled from her wrath, but I looked away from her, keeping my thoughts to myself for once. She was right, but I wasn't going to give her the satisfaction of her knowing that. Aside from a few minor scratches, Wendy had been able to heal her back into perfect health. The little dragon slayer had taken her time on helping all of us, and even though she was tired, she insisted on working on me until I was back to normal. Of course it took about a day for her to finish, and she was now resting in one of the beds in the infirmary. As soon as I could walk again, I was running around the guild hall until Erza caught me and made Gray and Gajeel hold me down.

We were sitting in the middle of the guild, me tied to a chair with Gajeel and Gray resting their hands on my shoulders in case I tried anything funny. Which happened as often as I could. I managed to escape them once, but Gramps used his freakishly giant hand to crush me and threw me back into the chair. Fucking Laxus almost keeled over, and Cana and Cane choked on their beers. Everyone thought it was hilarious that I couldn't move, but it was sick. They should be out finding Lucy, not restraining me!

I yelled in frustration again, but an iron fist knocked me against jaw. The chair I was sitting in wobbled and fell back and landed hard against the ground. I barked a curse and slung it at Gajeel, but that was when I found out that it wasn't him that hit me.

Two shadows stood over me with sardonic grins spreading across their face. "Maybe instead of being a stupid lizard, you can shut up for five seconds and ask who around who could actually help you," Leevi said, holding up an iron fist that resembled a small version of Gajeel's.

Gale started rubbing his chin. "Hmm," he pondered. "I wonder if we can make him scream one more time before we tell him where his precious girls are."

"What?" I gasped. My fighting spirit renewed, I started fighting against the restraints again with doubled effort. "How did you…? Where are they then?"

Ever reached down and lifted the chair back up. It was a little curious how such a small girl had enough strength to do that, but I'd have to fight her another time to find out. Her body shimmered and changed into the hag of an old woman—Lilith. I screamed in fear and started jumping away with the chair. She gripped my shoulder hard and winked flirtatiously. "Aww, my love…don't you want a nice sweet kiss?" She started coming closer with puckered lips, and my scream reached another octave.

Those around me started laughing, and Ever changed back to normal. "I infiltrated the mansion just before you were all attacked. I saw men running outside, taking positions in the bushes, and then Thomas led Lucy towards them. I hadn't figured it out yet, but I watched all of you fight and almost joined in when you were taken down with tranquilizers. I would have helped, but I had to follow Thomas when he took Lucy and Nashi. I couldn't follow them, but I placed a tracking devise on a few of the guards and one on Lucy before she got away."

"But…how?" I asked, dumbstruck.

"If you would have been quiet, we would have explained it to you a few minutes ago," Scarlet growled. "Evidently, the twins were up to their normal antics again…"

They chuckled and high fived. Gale explained, "We figured that there were some things that would happen—"

"Let's be honest, this is Fairy Tail. Misfortune follows us around wherever we go," Leevi inputted.

"So, just after everyone left for the ball in their separate carriages, Leevi and I devised a plan to use Ever to infiltrate the estate and make sure everything did go according to plan."

"Her magic she have been able to work though," Elfman argued, joining in on the conversation.

"Well of course not!" Leevi agreed. "But since we know our mother's script magic, it's not difficult to rewrite the spell that's on the land."

"We made sure that no one could use magic except for those with takeover magic," Gale continued. "We followed her to the ball, rewrote it and then came back with a transportation spell."

They both made a green face, and my stomach became nauseous at the idea of transportation. Leevi ran a hand through his hair when he recovered. "Anyways, before we left, we gave Ever devices that would track anyone that it was placed on. We had heard from Nashi about how a random guild had wanted the Heartfilia family to pay for her father's debts once, so we looked into it. At the festival when they first met, there was a rare artifact that would sell for a high price in the black market, and no one would know that expect for treasure hunters."

"At the time, we didn't think anything of it," Gale said. "But when we found out that the guild hunting down these keys were indeed treasure hunters, we looked up what the artifact was—a key hidden inside the Ferris wheel. They must have retrieved it before or after the attack, but it wasn't a coincidence that the same guild that knew Lucy was also seeking the three keys we were."

"So, as a precaution that they might show up and attack Lucy, we sent Ever," Leevi concluded. Him and his twin exchanged a knowing look and nodded. "Looks like it was the right call."

"You know where Lucy is then?" I shouted, amazed at their skills they obviously inherited from their mother. They were still freaks of nature though.

They shook their heads. "The tracking spell dropped somewhere in the desert. Some spell interfered with it, so it's obvious that the place where it stopped working is close to where they were taking her."

"I thought treasure hunters can't use magic?" Evergreen asked, brushing her hand against Elfman's arm. He smiled down at her, and Ever bounced towards her, curling into her arms. "Then how were they able to interfere?"

"Morgania…" A deep booming voice reverberated off the walls. The guild members looked around in fear as the lights started to flicker and eventually blew in their sockets. In the total darkness, we could see nothing except a shape of bright white peeking through the cracks of the walls outside the guild. A smile started forming on my face, just as the light etched out a shape in the wall and exploded. Dust and debris filled the air, and someone shouted about the guild being destroyed again.

I laughed uncontrollably, and somehow found myself on the ground, staring up at the man as he approached. Most feared and trembled in his wake, but I was the only one that stood tall against him, or tried. He was the only member of the guild—besides master—I could never win against no matter how much I tried. I always looked up to him. Well, except now since I was tied to a chair and unable to right myself.

His expression showed his obvious rage, but when a voice broke out from the back of the guild, his face melted into pure delight. I wanted to vomit. "Shit," Cana grumbled. "My old man is back."

"Cannnaaaa!" Gildarts sang as he jumped over everyone and landed beside her and wrapping her into a hug all in one movement. "I've missed you! Have you missed me? When are we going to explore the world together as father and daughter."

She pushed him away, cursing and spilling beer everywhere. "Get off me you creepy old man!"

Gildarts started crying happily, but then his eyes landed on the boy beside him. Cane, being about eighteen years old, probably sent the wrong impression to Gildarts. The boy stared at him in wonder, but Gildarts began to glower. His magic started to vibrate across the guild in his anger, and he approached him, ready to kill. "Who are you? My little girl's boyfriend? Well, if you think you are ever going to be able to date her, you're wrong. You have to defeat me to be with her, and I have never lost…"

Cane finally snapped out of his stupor and barked a loud laugh. His eyes narrowed like Gildart's, and he pressed his forehead against his in challenge. "Then, let's go old man."

Gildart's swung a fist, quickly and accurately at Cane. I've never been able to hold my own against him, and I knew from experience that this fight was over with just that one punch. When Gildart's knuckles collided with Cane's jaw, a sudden burst of powerful magic exploded, and Gildarts was flung backwards. He landed on me, crushing the chair I was in. I couldn't even release a shout before he was squishing me. I couldn't breathe anymore!

He grunted painfully and sat up, rubbing the back of his head. "Thanks for breaking my fall, Natsu," he said.

I started wheezing.

Cane stumbled down from the bar, laughing victoriously even though he'd only accomplished pushing back Gildarts. He lifted his hands into the air. "C'mon! You're never going to be able to hurt me with a weak punch like that."

Gildarts glared at him, and he started raising his magic around him, creating a barrier of white light that pulsed powerfully around his feet. Cane smirked and copied the action with the same blinding light. Scarlet helped me to my feet, and I thanked her.

"What kind of monster is he?" Jellal asked, watching them in awe.

Scarlet shrugged. "He never uses his magic. Even at the mansion, he was using only his fists or a bare minimum. His magic is too powerful, and he could easily destroy anything and anyone around him if he even lost control for a moment."

"He's a monster!" I cackled, suddenly excited that there were now two Gildarts."I want to fight—"

"That's enough!" Gramps voice thundered loudly. He was now in his giant form, and he was shaking in rage. Gildarts's and Cane's magic dispersed, but they wouldn't stop glaring at each other. Seeing that they weren't going to fight any more, he shrunk back down. "You will destroy the hall, and I will punish you both severely later. However, we have more important matters."

Gildarts sighed and crossed his arms unhappily. He looked at Gramps and said, "I found the location you asked me to seek. They should be in the east corner of the Sahr desert, but we need Natsu's nose to find them both."

I punched the air, shooting flames bouncing everywhere. "All right! We get to find Lucy!"

I started for the door, but Gildarts grabbed me by the scruff of my neck. "No, not yet."

"Why?" I complained. "She's out there somewhere, and we have to save her."

"We need a plan first," he stated simply and released me. I huffed angrily. "The magic I sensed back there didn't belong to any mage I knew, but it was something I sensed a long time ago when I first joined the guild…it was dark and was undeniably hers. If she's there somehow, then we need a plan of action to stop her."

"I have one," I shot back. "We crush her—"

"Natsu, that's not—" Erza started, but I interrupted.

"I don't care how we stop her!" I shouted. "But I'm not going to let her have Lucy or Nashi."

I tore away from the guild. Several tried to stop me, but I managed to wriggle past them. Happy lifted me into the air, and I directed him past everyone. I don't care what they do, but this had to stop now. I couldn't waste another second if that witch was there with Luce. I lost someone very dear to me once, and I wasn't about to let someone else I love be taken from me again!

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