Uninvited
The Thunder Legion stood in front of Lucy's apartment building. "This should be the place," Freed, Laxus' best man said. He stepped forward and opened up the doors. The group entered the building and headed up the steps where they saw Erza, Juvia, Levy, Wendy, and Carla, standing in front of Lucy's apartment's door.
There heads were down and depress.
"So it's as I thought your Lucy's bridesmaids," Freed said.
"Why are you all just standing here?" Evergreen asked. "Don't tell me Lucy is still getting dress?"
"No," Erza answered in sadness. "As we were about to leave Juvia trapped Lucy in her water lock spell to knock her unconscious. We're keeping her bond inside her own apartment so she can't make it to the church."
"That wasn't a bad idea," Freed said. "However, Laxus will be searching for her within the next thirty minutes if we can't find her. We need to hide her where Laxus won't be able to find her."
"Yes, I understand." The pain and guilt Erza felt for betraying her friends like this was clear in her eyes. The Fairy Queen turned around and unlocked the bride's door. She grabbed the handle and twisted it, opening the door.
The group entered the main room to discover the ropes were cut and Lucy was gone. The window had been slid open. Sitting on the bed was Loke with his arms crossed over his chest. He looked up at the group.
"Loke, what are you doing here and where's Lucy?" Erza questioned.
"I like to ask you a question," the lion spirit said. "Why did you tie up Lucy and trying to stop her wedding?" He stood up. "I don't like the fact that she's marrying Laxus either, but it doesn't give you a right to ruin her happiness."
Erza shifted her eyes back toward the others. "Go after her, she couldn't have gotten that far since the Thunder Legion didn't see her when they came here."
"Right." Juvia had held one fist up to her chest. The group then headed out, leaving Erza alone with Loke.
"Hold on." Loke tried to go after the group, but Erza blocked his path. "Why are you guys doing this? I thought you were friends?"
"I'm sorry, but I can't explain," Erza responded. "Just know this wedding cannot happen. At least not today."
"I'm sorry, but I promise Lucy I wouldn't let you guys ruin this day for her," Loke said. He grabbed his bicep as his fist glowed.
"Then we both have to fight for what we believe is right." Erza instantly requiped into her Heaven's Wheel armor.
The group had just finished running out of Lucy's apartment building when an explosion came from Lucy's apartment. Loke came flying back out of the smoke, landing on the ground and sliding back on his feet and hand.
Erza then came flying out of the destroyed room they were just in, holding two swords. "You've gotten stronger since the last time I've seen you."
"Erza, Loke," Wendy called.
Erza looked down at the others. "I'll handle this, just go and stop Lucy."
"Right." Freed and his teammates took flight and headed for the church. Wendy grabbed a ride with Carla while Juvia and Levy simply ran.
"Stop," Loke said.
"Your opponent is me," Erza screamed. She came at Loke.
Loke got up on his feet as he pulled back his fist that glowed in pure light. Please Virgo, get Lucy there fast, he thought.
Virgo speeded through the streets with Lucy in her hands. "Don't worry, Princess I'll get you to the church so you can marry your prince. Then you can both punish me."
"Would you stop with the punishment stuff," Lucy said. "Just get me there I'm already late thanks to Juvia."
"Right."
Energy blast hit the ground in front of them, forcing Virgo to stop. The two girls looked back to see the Thunder Legion coming toward them. "The Thunder Legion, but why are they trying to stop us?"
"What do you want me to do, Princess?" Virgo asked.
Lucy jumped out of Virgo's arms. "Well, I'm not missing my own wedding. Hold them off, while I get to the church."
"As you wish." The spirit's eyes glowed for a moment. She threw chains upward, wrapping the three wizards inside of them and pulled them down to the ground. The group then broke out of the chains as they stood back up.
"This will be as far as you go." Virgo used her magic to dig through the ground.
Freed looked around. "Where did she go?"
A hole appeared underneath Bickslow, dropping him down. "Bickslow!" his teammates said in concern.
Virgo then appeared behind Evergreen. Evergreen quickly spun around to shot off an attack, but Virgo quickly went underground. Virgo kept popping up in various places around the group as Bickslow pulled himself out of the hole he fell in.
Whenever they tried to move forward she would attack and then quickly disappear underground again.
Wendy flew by with Carla. "You guys!"
Freed looked up at the small dragon slayer. "Keep going, Virgo is trying to keep us here."
"You got it," she called down. Carla and Wendy continued forward as the Thunder Legion dealt with Lucy's maid.
Erza stabbed through Loke's chest. Loke bit down on his teeth as he started to return back to the spirit world. He stared at the female wizard. "Please don't do this to Lucy, Erza. She's been waiting for this for a long time. Don't ruin her chance at happiness." Loke finally disappeared.
Erza shut her eyes that trembled. "It's not like I want to do this. I have no choice." Erza looked in the direction everyone else went. She flew off in that direction, changing into her Black Wing Armor.
"Lucy, stop!" Wendy called.
Lucy looked back as she ran, seeing Wendy and Carla coming. "Why won't you guys leave me alone?" She grabbed one of the keys that were on the belt she strapped to her wedding dress. "Open gate of the scorpion, Scorpio."
Scorpio appeared behind her. "We are…"
Lucy pointed back toward the flying Wendy. "Shot them out of the sky and keep them occupy while I go to my wedding."
"Got yeah." He shot his twisting sand at the two. Carla moved out of the way, but Scorpio moved his sand to follow them and blew them back and they crashed to the ground.
"How rude," Carla said.
Wendy managed to stand up with all the sand in her hair and over dress. "I've got to defeat him so I can stop Lucy. Everyone is counting on me."
Scorpio held up a hand sign. "Wicked."
Holes surrounded the Thunder Legion. "Would you stop playing around and fight us?" Evergreen said.
Virgo came out of the ground in front of them. "My job is to keep you here not to fight you."
"We don't have time for this," a voice called from behind them. Erza swooped by them and struck down Virgo. She landed on the ground in front of them and looked back. "Let's go."
"Erza," Freed said.
Erza moved out and the Thunder Legion followed her lead.
"Roar of the Sky Dragon!" Wendy blew a twisted wind to counter Scorpio's sand.
"Wicked," Scorpio said.
"Move aside."
Both Wendy and Scorpio looked up in the sky to see a twinkling star. Erza flew down and cut down Scorpio.
"Erza, that was amazing," Wendy said.
The thunder Legion came up behind her. Erza looked back at the young dragon slayer and her cat. "We have to catch up with Lucy. Let's keep moving."
Lucy continued to run down the streets of Magnolia while she was sweating through her wedding dress. "I'm just ten minutes away. I can do this."
"Lucy, you must stop right now," Erza called.
Lucy looked back to see the group chasing after her. "I don't know what's gotten into you guys, but I'm marrying Laxus and I'm not going to let any of you stop me." She pulled three more keys off of her belt. "Open gate of the sea goat, Capricorn. Open gate of the Ram, Aries. Open gate of the twins, Gemini."
"At your service, milady."
"I'm sorry, is there something I can do for you, ma'am?"
Gemi and Mini simply moved their limbs around in the air.
"These guys are trying to ruin my wedding day," Lucy said. "Hold them off while I get to the church."
"Understood," Capricon said.
"Thanks you, guys," Lucy said. She started running off again while her spirits fought on her behalf against Erza, the Thunder Legion, and Wendy. "Please be safe, alright?" Lucy felt her magical strength draining as she had already had Loke, Virgo, and Scorpio's gates all open just a short time ago for over twenty minutes. The added stress of having three more gates open had her breathing heavy, but she push through it to run to the church.
Laxus lifted his head and opened his eyes. A serious gaze was inside them. "Times up."
"Fairy Canon." Evergreen shot off several energy needles at the three spirits. Aries created soft wool of puff that blocked the attack. Gemini as Freed came out and struck Evergreen to the ground.
Capricorn came out from behind the cloud to strike down both Bickslow and Wendy.
Freed took a few steps back. "We have to think of something."
"Each time we try to attack them Aries protects them with her wool attack," Erza stated. She landed beside Freed. "We have to take her out first then we can take on the other two." Erza flew around the swooped down at Aries from behind.
Lucy stopped in the middle of the street she was on. She looked down at her keys. "No way, they defeated all of them that quickly." She didn't want her spirit friends hurt, she just wanted them to stall her other 'friends' as she made it to the church and then return them back to their own world.
She breathed heavily as she turned around. Sweat poured down her body and over her cleavage. She saw Erza and the rest coming toward her. Juvia and Levy had finally caught up with the rest of the group. They stopped a few feet in front of her. "What's your problem?" She brought her fist to her chest. "Why are you doing this to me? What have I ever done to you all?"
Evergreen stepped forward with her hand on her hip and the other one on her glasses. "I'm sorry, Lucy, but there won't be a wedding today. So just settle down." She brought down her glasses and made contact with Lucy's eyes before she could react.
Lucy instantly turned into stone.
"Nice work, Evergreen," Erza said. She stepped toward the statue. "Now we just need a place to hide her before Laxus comes looking for her."
Just as Erza was only a few feet away from grabbing Lucy, a lightning bolt stuck her. Erza screamed in pain, dropping to the ground from the pain. Her body twitched and there were burn marks on her body.
A foot stepped forward.
Everyone looked to see who came before them. "So this is why she hadn't shown up, huh?" Laxus stood there with each of them staring in fear. Lightning danced around him so intense it looked like it could scatter Lucy without even trying. His glare looked like he was ready to kill.
"Laxus," Evergreen said for the first time in her life in fear.
"Explain yourself, Evergreen," Laxus ordered her.
Erza struggled to stand, but was greatly weaken by the surprise attack and could only manage to look at the lightning wizard. "Laxus."
No one was explaining their actions and Laxus was all out of patients. Without thinking he thrust his hands forward and shot out a blast of lightning, striking Evergreen. The fairy woman screamed in a blood curdling way.
"Evergreen," Freed said.
The woman dropped to the ground unconscious with lightning sparking out of her. Her spell wore off of Lucy and she started to move. She looked over at her groom. "Laxus."
Laxus instantly started to calm down from his rage when he saw Lucy was alright. "Lucy." He smiled warmly at his bride. He didn't even notice the sweat or her messed up hair. She still looked like a complete vision to him.
He then remembered what the others had done. He faced them. "I don't know what has gotten into you guys today and I don't care. Show up at our wedding and I'll do even worst to you than what I did to both Evergreen and Erza combine. Stay away from us."
He grabbed Lucy's hand and dragged her away. Lucy gazed back at the people who were supposed to be their groomsmen and bridesmaids. They all appeared frighten to death after Laxus threaten and uninvited them from their wedding.
Lucy then faced forward with her eyes full of determination. She was with Laxus. She wouldn't let them ruin the day she had dreamed about for so long.