Hello! How is everyone doing? I'll tell you how I am...I AM STRESS! All my assignments are due in next week/this week and I had a really hard time. But, I've done it and I really wanted to update too! I love this story and I am DETERMINED to finish it. It has been a very long time now and I know its bad to update this late...But I'm telling you, I love this story and I'm not going to give up. Hopefully, the next update should be in two weeks or three. Now, this chapter is interesting and also has some big reveals ahead! So, just lay back and relax! Grab some tea! And on with the show!

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Fairy Tail but Scarlet Destiny is all mine :D


Kuro flung both of his arms forwards causing the million shadow tentacles to shoot down on Blue and Slave. He was determined to finish them as soon as possible so he could join the search for Sarah.

'He's strong...' Gray thought in his mind, as he took a slight step back, and watched both Blue and Slave get blocked from his view by the shadows. A part of him wanted to challenge Kuro into a spar but that had to be done at a later time.

'Is Kuro trying to impress my Gray-Sama?' Juvia thought as she watched Gray's face closely. Although, she wasn't going to ignore what was happening around her. She could tell from the beginning that Kuro was a worthy and strong mage. As well as a Love Rival it seemed.

The shadows that were shrouding both Blue and Slave seemed to diminish slightly. Kuro, at once noticed this, and his eyebrow creased in confusion. In a matter of seconds, the shadows seemed to vanished; sucked up by an unknown force.

Blue and Slave were revealed. Slave was staring wide-eyed at the ceiling from where the shadows had sprung from. Blue, on the other hand, was standing straight, his right-arm raised high in the air.

"What the hell...My shadows?!" Kuro spoke flabbergasted.

"Well, well, well, that was a big surprise...I apologise I didn't catch your names." Blue spoke politely as he brought his hand down to his side.

"What did you do to my shadows?" Kuro yelled out loud wondering where the hell they want.

"Nothing much, I assure you," Blue started "I just used my magic. A simple manipulation magic. I can absorb physical matter around me and then..." Blue raised his left arm, aimed at Kuro, Gray, and Juvia "I can use the physical matter I absorb to my will."

Before the trio could even ask what that meant, dark black tentacles with sharp ends shot of Blue's hand in a lightning speed. Gray was the first to act as he smashed a fisted hand into an open palm,

"Ice make: Shield!"

A huge shield that resembles a flower appeared in front of Gray, Kuro, and Juvia. The shadows hit the shield but they were unable to break it, causing them to shatter into a million pieces.

The shield then burst itself having done its job, leaving all five to stare at each other. Gray, Juvia and Kuro had caught on to what Blue had meant. They knew they were at a disadvantage. All of them used some type of physical matter to fight their opponents. Gray's ice. Kuro's shadows. Juvia's water. Could Blue used it against them?

Blue's mind was quick to take in information as well. It seemed the man without a T-Shirt on was also strong and a threat. As for the girl, while he had seen nothing yet, he wasn't going to underestimate her. Also, revealing his magic this early wasn't in his plan. But, it's not like they could beat him even if they did know his magic.

"Please, if I may," Blue started before suddenly bowing at Kuro, Gray, and Juvia "I am a humble man. I fight with honour. So, if you would, may I please have your names before I destroy you."

All three of them couldn't help but sweat-drop at Blue's words. They knew he was dangerous and that sentence was meant to be threatening but the tone and stance he had made it seemed like he was pulling a joke.

"Fine, I'm Kurosu Yami."

"Gray Fullbuster"

"Juvia Lockser."

"I give you my most appreciated thank you." Blue replied before straightening himself up and grabbing the tie of his suit, trying to put it back in its place even though it was never misplaced in the beginning "You seem strong Mr Yami, Mr Fullbuster and Ms Lockser. But if you fight on the level you just did, you won't be able to put a single scratch on me."

Both Kuro and Gray gritted their teeth. Juvia got into her fighting stance, ready for anything. Blue turned to Slave who seemed to be staring at him, hanging on Blue's every word.

"Slave-" Blue started only to be interrupted,

"Yes best friend!" Slave replied earnestly.

"...Do not call me that."

"But, you saved my life Blue from all those shadows~ That means you care about me!"

"I saved my own life. You just happened to be near me at the time. I wouldn't care even if you were speared by all those shadows."

"Oh~! Blue your amazing! You don't have to act so bashful around me~ I love you too!" Slave squealed.

Kuro, Gray and Juvia heard her the conversation with huge sweat drops and weird looks.

"I don't know why, but Slave is suddenly reminding me of someone I know." Gray spoke up to Kuro who was at his side.

Almost like his spoken words triggered his memory and Kuro figured out who that person was, they both turned to look at the bluenette on their side. Juvia. Gray grimaced when he realized that Slave seemed to have the a similar obsession with Blue as Juvia had on him.

"Enough." Blue spoke up loudly interrupting Slave's fangirling "We are in the presence of an enemy. Act professional."

"For you, Blue, anything!" Slave said loudly before turning to the 'enemy' "I'll finish them off quickly."

"Don't underestimate us!" Kuro yelled out in a reply.

The words seemed to fall on death ears as Slave merely brought a hand forward. It instantly started glowing a bright blue.

Juvia was the one that stepped forward, hands raised and feet spread far apart in a fighting stance.

"I've got this, Gray-Sama." Juvia announced.

"You sure about that?" Slave laughed as he brought his spare hand up to join the other glowing hand.

Juvia nodded her head, "Juvia's body is made of water. You cannot hurt Juvia."

"Who said anything about hurting Juvia?" Slave said with a sicking smile as he threw his hand, multiple gigantic blue ball flying off it towards Juvia at an incredible speed.

Juvia having prior knowledge of Slave's sticky substance, instantly reacted, her own hand ready,

"Water Slicer!"

Multiple blades of water headed directly for the blue balls. They hit the ball blues slicing them into two then went towards Slave. A small smile appeared on Juvia face as she watched the blue balls get damaged. The smile disappeared in the next second as the blue substance, which she thought would have disappeared after being sliced in two parts, reattached in mid-air back to the previous form of the blue balls.

"This is-" Juvia started but instantly stopped as she quickly side-stepped trying to avoid the sticky balls trying to hit her.

She wasn't very lucky. One ball hit her instantly on her shoulder, winding around her arm instantly sticking her left arm to her side. Juvia stumbled a bit back at the force but did not drop on the floor, gaining her balance, she tugged her arm trying to free it to no avail.

"Juvia!" Gray shouted and was about to reach towards her to help her, when suddenly Blue appeared between them out-of-nowhere.

Blue quickly lashed out a leg, hitting Gray directly on his stomach causing the man to fly back. Luckily for Gray, Kuro was directly behind him and managed to catch Gray before he could get injured any worse.

"Please, I am your opponent. I will not you pass to help your teammate. If you wish too, then you must defeat me." Blue announced, his stance perfectly straight and accurate.

Gray gritted his teeth in anger.

"Gray, calm down a bit. We both know that Juvia can take care of herself. Right now, we need to defeat this guy." Kuro spoke to Gray.

Gray nodded his head in understanding, "Yeah."

He raised his fisted palm to his hind.

"Ice Make Lance!"

Large lances shot out of Gray's palm and tried to pierce through Blue. Blue smiled under his mask, and let them come near me. He raised his right arm and the Ice instantly got absorb in his palm and disappeared from sight.

"Shit" Kuro thought in his mind as he too raised his arm,

"Shadow Bind!"

Shadows slithered across the floor and circled around Blue. Blue just stood there watching. He simply raised his right arm again as the shadows shot upwards and near him, trying to bind him. Blue absorbed them too.

"Mr Yami, Mr Fullbuster. You must have not heard my magic correctly. These attacks you send my way are only helping me." Blue spoke calmly, as he raised his left arm.

A myriad on shadow and ice flew out his palm in the shapes of lances and spears towards Gray and Kuro. Both instantly dodge the attacks, Gray making Ice shields while Kuro twisted and turned dodging anything flying his way. Once the attack was over, both were breathing heavily looking at the untouched masked man.

"Dammit," Gray swore "He's right. We can't use our magic. It's just helping him."

"Hand-to-hand combat?" Kuro asked as he raised both his arms.

Gray smirked at Kuro, nodding his head, and raising his arms in a fighting stance.

Blue simply sighed as he watched the two boys.

"Hand-to-hand combat now? Excuse my language, but this fight is becoming more boring then I thought it would be. I will just finish you two off quickly and just find a more worthy opponent, I suppose." Blue said simply, like a fact, as he watched the two boys race towards him, getting ready to fight.

On the other side of the room, Juvia and Slave stared at one other. Juvia eyes zoomed down to her hand which was firmly stuck to her side. She should have expected this. Maybe she went in a bit too confident. Her opponent was strong.

"You won't be getting out of that! Once my blue substance sticks to something, its stuck for as long as I like!" Slave yelled out, as he looked at Juvia's arm.

"This arm does not matter to Juvia. Juvia will win regardless of this arm." Juvia spoke.

"Even if you managed to defeat me, then you have to face Blue. And there's no way someone like you could beat him! I mean, look at what he's doing to those two guys!"

Juvia spun around at those words, eyes widening slightly as she watched the flight. Gray and Kuro flanked either side of Blue, sending out deadly punches and kicks to the Blue man.

They did nothing.

Blue just dodged all the attacks with ease, almost like he was dancing with the way he was smoothly ducking and jumping over the limbs. He also fought back, lashing out an arm or leg, landing the hit on Kuro and Gray each time, causing to fly back and wince at the damage they got handed to them. It was easy to tell who was winning this fight since it looked like Gray and Kuro were exhausting themselves.

"See!" Slave started, his hands glowing a light blue, "They won't win. Nether will you. All your lives will end here and now."


Gajeel, Nyx and Red.

"Iron's Dragon Roar!"

The spiral of deadly blue flew out of Gajeel's mouth and spun towards the enemy. Red grinned underneath his mask, and easily dodged the attack, two metal swords in his hands. He raced forwards to Gajeel, both his swords raised high ready to slice Gajeel.

However, Nyx suddenly appeared between Red and Gajeel a grin of her own on her face. Red pushed forwards, couldn't care less about the smile. The sword hit Nyx on the top of her shoulder, however instead of slicing through it, the sword just bounced right off. Nyx smile widened since she had changed the material of her shirt into hard steel.

She spun a 360, and kicked out her booted leg which she made into the material of hard diamonds. The hit landed on his stomach causing him to yell out in pain as he flew into the air. Gajeel jumped over Nyx, and opened his mouth,

"Iron's Dragon Roar!"

This time the hit landed on Red while he was in mid-air causing him to fly even higher and crash into the pipes hanging from the ceiling. He crashed on the floor and few seconds later, multiple pipes smashing on top of him. Nyx and Gajeel, tensed, waiting.

The pipes rustled. Red stood up, a painful sounding laugh escaping from his lips.

"Tch, this guy is one stubborn bastard. He just won't stay down." Gajeel swore as he looked over Nyx.

Their fighting dynamic wasn't actually to bad. Both use brute force and their attacks seemed to follow one another fluidly. However, it just didn't seem to be enough to keep Red down.

"You said he uses a bracelet to create those weapons right?" Nyx asked.

"Yeah, a really girly one." Gajeel answered with a smirk.

"I'm going to try to distract him. I need you to try to grab his bracelet and take it away from him."

"And? What would that do? The asshole can still manipulate the metal all around the room." Gajeel reminded her.

"I know that," Nyx started "But, I have a plan for that. I just need you to do this one thing. Can you trust me?"

Gajeel stared at her for a moment before answering,

"Got no choice do I, Girly?"

Nyx smiled slightly, "Suppose not."

Red stared at Nyx and Gajeel whispering to each other. This all was starting to piss him off. He was only meant to be fighting Gajeel. The fight would have been over in a few seconds, and then he was meant to go to his brother to team-up with him to destroy another group. This new girl, Nyx, wasn't even suppose to be here.

Oh well. It wasn't like he could complain. He should start being really serious and try to kill them with one big attack. Red grinned beneath his mask, knowing exactly what to do. But, before he could put his own little plan into motion, a voice spoke in to his head.

"What?" Red bursted out loudly suddenly causing both Nyx and Gajeel to stare at him, "The She-devil lost?!"

Nyx and Gajeel stared at Red strangely, wondering who he was talking to.

"How much of a loser could the She-devil get? How did she lose to that midget and blonde-haired girl! Their both weaklings!" Red talked out loud to someone.

Both of Gajeel and Nyx eyes widened at that information, knowing that their was only one girl who would be called a midget.

"Book worm?!" Gajeel said at the same time Nyx said "Levy!?"

Nyx turned to Gajeel, "The blonde haired one must be Veruna. They must have won against one of the Lacus Animairum members!"

"Don't get so excited. I always knew the She-Devil was weak. I have no idea why Master Kyron and the Lord wanted to keep her anyway. She deserved to lose." Red replied back to them.

"Face it, you Bastard. We defeated one of you and the rest will go down as well. You guys aren't gods!" Gajeel taunted.

"The She-Devil may have lost but that doesn't mean that she didn't give any injuries to the ones she was fighting. The midget and the blonde haired girl have been heavily poisoned. If it stays in their system for too long then it could kill them. Hell, I doubt they have long left now anyway." Red spoke out, laughing.

Gajeel hands tightened into tight fist. His teeth gritted hard. There was no way in hell he was letting bookworm die! He was going to get the cure from Red even if he had to pull every single teeth out of the masked mouth to get the answer. And after, he was going to kill the red-masked bastard. No one hurts bookworm! No one! The guilt he felt when he first hurt Levy and was always fresh on his mind and was the only thing in his life that he ever truly regret. Not that she ever would know that.

Suddenly, Nyx moved, racing forwards towards Red, a fisted hand raised high in air, a battle roar escaping from her lips. A look of furious anger was across of face, one that Gajeel had just before when he thought of Levy getting hurt. Nyx was beyond furious as the thought of her teammate being poisoned, left to die.

Veruna was important to her. She was the first friend she made when she arrived at Scarlet Destiny. She was her best friend. The one she could always talk to about anything...The one who could know what she was thinking before she even said the words. Veruna was the first person she ever told her past too, the first person that she cried on when she ever thought or talked about her lost...brothers.

And, this masked men's teammate had hurt her. And he was mocking and laughing about it.

Red's eyes widened behind his mask at the pure anger directed towards him. He quickly made his mouth, changing the two swords into a large shield and held it over his head. The clang between Nyx's steel glove and the shield was loud, deafening. Red could feel the vibration all the way to his teeth as the two metals hit again with another.

Nyx seeing the shield got even angrier. She focused all her magic on her glove, making into the hardest steel she could.

Then she hit the shield again. Again. And again.

Red slid back and back at each hit, gritting his teeth as the vibrations shook through him. This girl was way stronger than before! How? Because she was now angry and trying even harder to defeat him? Suddenly, Red heard a crack.

He looked up at his shield seeing the small crack. His eyes widened even more at the crack in disbelief.

No way-

The shield broke as Nyx's glove hand shattered through it. Her hand flew forwards smashing right onto the middle of Red's mask. Red flew backwards away from Nyx at the force of the attacks. He landed roughly on the floor.

Nyx breathed heavily, one of her arms still stretched out in the attack.

She waited. Red stood up slowly. Pieces of his mask fell from his face.

Nyx gasped loudly. Gajeel's eyes widened into the size of bowling balls.

"What the hell?!" Gajeel yelled loudly as his eyes flew between the unmasked Red man and Nyx.


Ren, Lucy, Natsu and Happy.

"Sarah's really close. I can smell it. Cannot be even a minute away" Ren announced as he slowed to a stop.

Natsu, Lucy and Happy followed suite, stopping and grouping up near Ren into a small circle.

"Are you guys ready? We have no idea what we will find. It might not just be Sarah. The Lord might be here too and he's going to be the most dangerous out of all the Lacus Animairum members." Lucy asked.

"I'm all fired up." Natsu said with his signature grin, sounding like his old self.

"I'm ready too!" Happy yelled out after.

"Let's go! I have to kick Lord's ass and make sure Sarah is safe and sound!" Ren announced sounding determined.

Lucy looked down the hallway which they were heading towards. She bit her lip softly,

"I just hope Jared's not there yet." Lucy mumbled.

"I can't smell Jared so he's not which is good. We have to find Sarah. There's no telling why they took her or what Jared will do when he finds her." Ren replied to Lucy.

Lucy nodded her head. Her heart raced slightly. This was probably going to be one of the biggest fights she would ever be in. She had to be brave. She was ready. She was ready to save someone who was close to her heart with her own two hands.

"Lucy, maybe you should call out Keahi and do the power transfer first. We need to be really prepared and you might not have time too when we go into battle." Ren suggested.

Lucy nodded her head at the idea. She reached towards her skirt for the black key. Natsu eyebrows raised trying to remember who that was. It ping into his mind. The man with the fire hair. A small grin came on his face as his stomach rumbled. The fire did look really delicious.

"Open! Gate of the fire demon! Keahi!"

A burst of fire shot through the key and Natsu had to fight the temptation to breath it in. And, there stood Keahi. His fire hair as bright as usual. A small drop of drool appeared on Natsu's mouth.

"You called me, Lucy?" Keahi asked as he turned to Lucy.

Lucy nodded her head, "You know what's happening?"

Keahi nodded his head back as reply, "Of course I do. That bastard going to pay for hurting Sarah."

"He sure is!" Ren agreed while Natsu shook his head out of his hungry food thoughts, and nodded roughly with Ren.

"We need to make the power transform. We should be prepared." Lucy announced.

"I agree. This is not going to an easy battle."

Keahi raised both his hands up to Lucy's head and placed it on to her temples. Lucy noticed it instantly but didn't say a single word. But her eyes, kept and glimpsing to it in slight confusion. The power transfer commence and Lucy's hair and eyes colour changed.

She was ready.

"There done." Keahi announced as he lowered his hands from Lucy's temple "We're both ready to fight now."

Lucy nodded her head, and stared at Keahi. She could not keep it in anymore.

"Keahi?"

"What?"

"Why do you have bandages on your hand?"

Everyone around Keahi looked down at his right hand which was covered in bandages. They were neatly tied on his hand.

"Oh this?" Keahi laughed as he raised the bandaged hand near to his fire hair but not touching it "I just hurt myself a little."

"But, I thought you couldn't gain any physical wounds since you're not in your real body?" Happy asked confusingly, knowing a lot about Keahi from their mission together.

"Yeah...But! I did it while I was in my own world. By accident when practicing my techniques. I guess if I hurt myself in my own world it stays," Keahi said with a slight chuckle.

Happy nodded his head believing Keahi.

Ren, however, frowned. He could hear Keahi's heart elevate slightly due to his acute hearing. He glanced at Natsu who also had a similar frown on his face. He heard it too. The only reason a heart would suddenly elevate was that was if a person was...lying.

Was Keahi lying?

Lucy stared at Keahi's eyes and he stared back directly at hers. They stayed like that for a few moments before she forced a smile on her face,

"Okay! At least you didn't get hurt that badly!"

"Yeah, your right. Well, we should go now. We have to save Sarah."

Everyone nodded their heads and started to walk again. Lucy eyes trained over Keahi back to the bandages. She didn't know why, but she felt something off about them. Nothing bad, just...familiar. That's it! Lucy felt a familiar, almost warm feeling from the bandages which didn't make sense. How could she feel something like that from a couple of simple bandages?

Keahi sighed in his mind. That was a very close call. He was almost caught then. He glanced at Lucy and the rest of them. They couldn't find out...

He stole Lucy's keys.


And done! Oh my god! That ending! But, you do get a few fights before that. How were they?

Yup, you find out who stole Lucy's keys! No one even guessed it was Keahi! Oh well. Why did Keahi do it? Is he suddenly bad? Still good? Or does he know something that no one else does? Well, you'll find out.

I don't know about the whole Ren and Natsu could tell if a person is lying but if they have really good hearing, I kind of just added that they can hear if a person could lie...I don't know for sure...But eh? I don't think its a big think or anything.

Anyway, like I said, next update should be 2/3 weeks. A month at max.

Till next time...See yh!