The still young beautiful blonde woman wearing a deep golden coloured gown stood in front of the crowd of wizards, all of them shocked beyond words at this revelation.


"I'm sorry Lucy... I'm..." Citrine started to say before being interrupted by Lucy who couldn't take it anymore as she lunging towards her in happiness. She wrapped her arms around the mother she lost all those years ago and continued to cry.

Citrine stroked Lucy's head reassuringly as she embraced her daughter from another life.

"YOUR MOM'S A DRAGON?!" Those that knew Citrine exclaimed.

"DRAGON?!" the rest of the crowd exclaimed freaking out.


Mavis floated over next to Makarov who had his old friend Yajima next to him, she beamed a large smile at the reunion as she had been able to see Layla's female form despite the illusion she clad herself in.

"You knew about this First?" Makarov asked

"Oh Maky, who is your young friend?" Yajima asked noticing Mavis

Makarov froze "Ahhh whaa, hahah no... I was just mumbling to myself... *cough*" He quickly responded in a panic.

"But who is that young lady next to you then?" Yajima asked again thinking that Makarov may have missed the question.

"You can see her?!" Makarov said in shock.

"Teehee, I'm Mavis, Nice to meet you!" Mavis responded as she radiated innocence.

"What... what is the meaning of this first?" Makarov said in confusion snapping out of his stunned pose

"Oh, Citrine helped me for a bit so I could have the yummy cakes" Mavis responded as carefree as ever, Makarov felt years of his life slipping away again.

"Pleasure to meet you young miss. You take care of Maky for me won't you" Yajima calmly said ignoring his friend's reaction to the situation.

Mavis smiled and nodded as her corporeal form faded away; it seemed time was up.


"Your half Dragon Lucy!?" Natsu staring at Lucy exclaimed as he searched her for physical evidence.

"What? No!" Lucy responded pushing Natsu away from her personal space.

Layla let out a small giggle before saying "No Lucy is human but she is gifted in a sense"

"Gifted?" Lucy said staring at her mother.

"I'll explain everything, but it is a story for only a select few..." Layla said as she stared at all the wizards surrounding them, all eavesdropping.

"Ok shows over people!" Arcadios interjected sensing the mood.

"Lucy, Natsu, Wendy..." Layla said turning to the 3 as they were already nearby.

"Could you please gather Gajeel and Kori, this also concerns them. I'm going to go talk to the King and organise a room upstairs for us to talk I have something you all need to hear."

"Ok we'll get them!" Natsu responded.

Layla walked off towards the staircase leading to the second floor where the King currently resided.

"Who's Kori?" Wendy asked

"Huh oh, I dunno" Natsu responded scratching his head

"You idiot, how are we meant to find someone we don't even know?" Lucy responded.

"Well let's get Gajeel first" Wendy said as the three of them split up to search the room.


Layla had just finished talking to the King who could still remember her from the Heartfilia group all those years ago, so he was a bit taken back by her un-aged beauty.

"Thank you Toma" Layla said after having acquired a key to one of the second floor rooms, turning back towards the stairs from where she came.

"No Layla, Thank you. I had no idea..." The King Replied with humility.

Layla continued to walk down the second floor hallway without looking back at the King she simply raised her hand and waved in response to his words.

Half way down the hall just before reaching the stairs, Citrine stopped for a moment and smiled before saying "It's been a long time... Grandine"

The shadowy figure of a woman stepped forward into the light in front of Citrine. The woman stared at her for a few seconds as if verifying her identity before smiling and saying "An age, Empress" with a small curtsey.

"Does Wendy know you're here?" Citrine asked wondering how the relationship was between the two, having been out of the loop for so long.

"No, she doesn't know, but I've been keeping an eye on her until she is ready" Grandine responded with some regret.

"I see... I know you're more than capable of making the right choices." Citrine said with respect before adding "But just so you know, I plan to personally aid in there development... The time will soon be upon us, I have no choice but to interfere"

"I understand... I'll be waiting 'there'" Grandine said this as she walked back into the shadows from where she had originated, Citrine continued down the stairs returning to the large hall.

"Over here Momma" Lucy said with a wave towards Layla who just had just re-entered the ballroom's first floor.

Layla approached the group looking at Gajeel the newest arrival; however she noticed that Kori was not among them.

"You couldn't find Kori?" She said confused by her absence.

"I'm sorry; we didn't know who Kori was. We asked all the other guilds here but no one knew of someone with that name" Wendy said apologetically.

"I guess it can't be helped, we'll find her soon." Layla said before turning around to face the stairs "Could you all please come with me".

Lucy and the 3 Dragon Slayers followed Citrine to an upstairs room; Citrine closed the door behind them ensuring it was locked so that no one could interrupt.

"I'd like the 4 of you to follow me" As she said this she raised her hand creating a rift in space. The air in the room rushed around like a weak tornado knocking over various decorative items.

"You want us to what?" the 4 of them exclaimed.

"It's perfectly safe, it's just it can't be done here. This rift leads to a small pocket dimension, think of it like the Celestial Plain." Citrine said hoping to alleviate their stress.

"But the time flow of the Celestial World is 1 day to 3 months, we found this out the hard way when Moustache tricked us into going there." Lucy said but couldn't help but look back fondly on that despite the problems it caused.

"Oh if you're worried about time, this dimension of mine is actually the opposite 3 months in there is only 1 day here." Citrine responded proudly.

The 4 looked at each other and gave a little shrug before they each entered the rift Citrine following immediately behind them. Shortly after all 5 of them had entered the rift closed.