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Chapter 9

Same Day, At Fairy Tail...

Makarov's POV

"Good, I see everyone is here and you even managed to drag those four in as well. Well done Mira, Laxus," I said as I looked over at my four very dejected children sitting in the corner. "Natsu, Erza, Gray, Lisanna, I know this is a difficult time for you four, but we need to get past what happened and move forward. It's for your own sake as well as everyone else."

"That's easy for you to say Gramps, but not for us. You didn't kill your best friend. Did you?" Natsu said as he hung his head in shame as tears flowed from his eyes. Erza placed a hand on his shoulder to comfort him but it had no effect.

"I understand how you feel my children, we are all to blame for this tragedy..." I said as Erza interrupted.

"NO! No you don't know how we feel," Erza said as tears started to roll down her cheeks as well. She was moments away from crying again. "You never hurt your sister like we did. She was our dear friend and we messed up. W-We tr-ied to d-do som-ethi-ng n-i-ce fo-rrr h-e-r an-d a-and weeeee," she said as she fell to her knees and broke down crying like a child. She looked up at me with such a sad expression on her face. It broke my heart to see my children in so much pain. Lisanna also fell to her knees and pulled Erza in to a tight embrace, comforting her.

"Master, we never wanted Lucy to leave, she's like my little sister. We had a plan to throw her a private party because we know how she's not a big party lover. Natsu came up with the idea to ignore her for a little while and with Lisanna around we may have gotten carried away, but we never meant for her to feel alone and leave. So that's why we say you don't know how we feel, we loved her and we feel horrible about what happened..." Gray said as he looked at his friends who were all crying and he began to cry as well.

"Mira-nee, I don''t understand. You knew what we were planning so why didn't you say something to Master or Lucy. You knew we were only faking it when we took that job. The plan was to leave after Lucy got here and then you were supposed to keep her busy for a few hours while we prepared her party. How did it end up like that... why did you two let her leave. M-master sh-e was o-ne of yo-ur c-chi-ld-ren, whyy? Lisanna said as she cryied on Erza's shoulder.

"I'm sorry Lisanna-chan. When Lucy showed up that morning, I honestly never recognized her and when I did recognize her everything slipped my mind and that day went down hill from there." Mira said as she hung her head.

"Like I said I understand how you feel, It's partly my fault for letting her leave so easily, but that's in the past and we can't change what happened. We need to look to the future and fix our mistakes. That's why I call all of you here," I said as I looked around the guild at all my sad children.

Our guild has been through a lot over the last three months and it was gonna be another long six days, but I believe we can get through it if we do this as a family.

"Now listen up my little brats. I spoke with the Magic Council last night and they decided to dissolve our guild. Now before you all get upset, they did give us one final chance to save our guild," I said as there was mumbling through out the guild.

"What do we have to do, Master," the little blue haired dragon slayer Wendy said.

"I'm glad you asked my child. We have two tasks that we must complete in six days in order to save our guild. The first thing is, Lucy must recover her memories from that night and secondly she must forgive us, especially you four," I said as I looked over at Team Natsu. "I plan to go and see Lucy tomorrow and determine where we stand. Wendy, Carla, Happy and Levy, I would like you four to come with me," I said as I looked at them with a smile.

"Aye! Sir!" Happy said.

"Yes, Master. I'd be happy to," said Wendy.

"Yes," said Carla.

"Master! I want to, but I'm kind of scared to face Lucy. I feel ashamed that I forgot about my friend," Levy nervously said.

"I believe you will be fine my child. So please help me!" I said.

"Very well Master," Levy said as she looked up at Gajeel, who nodded his approval.

"Thank you. We leave in the morning..." I said as Team Natsu jumped to their feet and ran over to me.

"Gramps, please let us go. I beg you, let us see Lucy. We need to make this right and we want to bring her home," Natsu said as the rest of his team nodded in agreement.

"Sorry Natsu, but I can't allow that right now. You are all to emotional right now and you may cause more damage. Right now I need to see where we stand, besides there is also one other little problem right now... Lucy is at Sabertooth. The last thing we need is for you four to cause problems over there," I said as I looked at their confused faces.

"WHAT!" most of the guild shouted in disbelief.

"That large man that took Lucy that night was Master Jiemma from Sabertooth. So we need to be careful with this situation. Do you all understand. We need to help Lucy and we need to help ourselves, so I'll go with my original plan," I said.

"You four will get your chance to see Lucy. Just give me some time. Use this time to reflect upon what Lucy means to you and how you will get her to forgive you," I said as I looked at the disappointment in their faces.

"We understand Master," Erza said as her team all nodded in agreement.

"Good. Now that that's resolved, I have one other piece on news from the council. For the next six days our mission ban has been lifted. As of today Fairy Tail is open for business. Remember my children, don't cause any trouble and be back here in six days. That applies to all of you... no exception," I sternly warned them. "Now get going." I said as everyone flocked to the job board. Even Team Natsu took a job. 'I hope we can get through the next week without and incidents,' I thought to myself as I walked into my office.

At Sabertooth's Training Grounds...

Lucy's POV

'Wow,' I thought to myself, what a nice place Sabertooth has here. The training area is on the outskirts of town in a large wooded clearing with a grassy field at its center. To the west you can see the whole town, to the East and South a large mountain range can be seen and to the North, trees as far as the eye can see. 'HAHAHA! I liked the magic barrier that surrounds the training area. It's supposed to keep out anyone who doesn't have a Sabertooth mark... never stopped Mom and Dad,' I laughed to myself.

"It's a nice place here. Very relaxing Onee-chan. Are you sure this is where you want to spend the next day, Mom," I said with a smile.

"Yes. I just want to spend some time with my two girls without any interruptions. Besides we have so much to talk about and I also want to show you some things. So this place is perfect... we just need a few necessities," Mom said as she looked around rubbing her chin and smiled. She waved her hand towards the North end of the field and a large tent and camp ground appeared. "That should do," she said as Virgo appeared.

"Punishment Princess," said the pink haired girl.

"Huh! No of course not," I said with confusion. "Virgo, I never called you here. Why are you here?"

"Well Princess, as no one outside of the magic barrier can see or hear us, we all wanted to be here, especially her," Virgo said as Aquarius appeared and ran and jumped into Minerva's arms.

"Get off me you dumb fish," Minerva said as she teleported Aquarius behind me and laughed.

With that my spirits appeared one by one, until they were all standing around the field. Aquarius ran over to Scorpio and wrapped her arms around him, "Minerva's being mean again," she smiled. Loke and Ares appeared together and as Loki looked at me he held up a finger to his lips, as if to ask me to keep quiet. I laughed at him.

Mother and Father were now at the camp site and motioned for us all to come up there. When we got there she looked at us all and asked us to have a seat.

Morgana's POV

'I thought I would never see this day, both of my darling babies are here. They are really here,' I thought to myself as I started to cry.

"Mom!" Lucy and Minerva said as they quickly jumped up and ran over to me. They hugged me and we all cried for a while.

"Mom, I thought I would never see you and Dad again. I m-missed y-you so m-much these past few months, no all these y-years," Lucy said as she cried. I held her tight and kissed her on the cheek and then I kissed Layla's cheek.

"I'm sorry I had to abandon you sweetheart, but that night took a toll on us. We had to leave quickly before we attracted to much attention. We can't be around others when we are weak... it's to dangerous. Besides we wanted to give you a chance to meet your sister. We were confident that you two would have a bond that no one could disrupt, even if you didn't know each other. The bond was always there, it's in your blood," I said as I tried to smile for her.

"Layla, my sweet sweet Layla," I said as I held her even tighter in my arm. I could smell her familiar fragrance, this was my precious child and no one would take her from me again. "Layla, I'm so sorry for your ordeal, we tried so hard to find you after you showed up that weekend, but nothing went right. I remember how happy I was when you and Lucy finally met that day. Then you disappeared, but my happy and strong young girl grew into a beautiful woman with a wonderful heart," I said as I kissed her cheek. "No matter how bad you may appear on the outside, we knew what was in your heart after watching you and Lucy together all those years ago."

"Thank you Mom," they said in unison as they each kissed my cheek and rested their heads on my shoulders.

"Capricorn, Cancer, Aquarius... It's so good to see you three. You three are the only ones I have ever trusted outside of my wonderfull husband. Thank you for everything. I will now set things right, if that is alright with you," I said with a smile and they nodded in agreement.

"Lucy, sweetheart, I hope you will forgive me for what I'm about to do," I said as I released my children and stood up.

"What are you gonna do Mom," Lucy said.

"Lucy! Capricorn, Cancer and Aquarius, they are supposed to be with Layla, I mean Minerva. I'm sorry for this, but I'm altering your contract so theat Layla will be their new Master," I said.

"I understand Mom, but that's not necessary. We already altered our contract. Both Minerva and I are now equally contracted to our spirits," Lucy said with a smile.

"Is this true?" I said in amazement as I looked at Lucy, Layle and all of the Spirits, as they all nodded their heads. "You truly are a smart girl, with a kind heart."

"Well if that's the case, Minerva... AH! I just can't call you that you are my baby, Layla, sorry sweetheart," I said.

"That's alright Mom, I will only allow you and Dad to call me that. To everyone else it will be Minerva," Layla said as she turned to Lucy. "Please call me sister, okay Lucy."

"Okay Sister, you have to call me Sister as well," Lucy said as she playfully stuck out tongue.

"Sounds fair," Layla laughed, as we all did.

"Now, Layla, please pass me your pearl necklace," I said as Layla removed it and placed it in my hand. "Lucy, please pass me your staff, as well."

Lucy removed her pick pendant necklace and commanded it to grow. She then handed me her staff. Emrys please pass me the spear. He did as I requested. As I looked out over the spirits standing before us I asked, "do you all agree to this," and they all nodded. "Very well," I said.

I released the three objects I held and they all floated before me. "Disassemble," I commanded and Lucy's staff glowed a bright golden color and when the light dimmed her staff was no more. Floating in front of me, were all of the gold and silver keys, Excalibur, Spear of Destiny, Layla's red pearls and Lucy's Pink pendant, both of which are gifts from my Mother for her Grandchildren. 'Must be fate that they received their gifts. They found their way to their rightful owners without my help,' I though as I looked up to the sky and smiled.

"Emrys I think it's time we pass them on. It's time someone else became their caretakers. Besides we can no longer hold back fate. It's time," I said as Emrys sighed.

"Are you sure Morgana. This is a lot for them to handle," Emrys said as he reached into his cloak and pulled out a small white dragon figure. He looked at it and the looked up to Morgana and with some hesitance, handed it to her. "I trust you and I believe in our daughters," he said with a smile.

"Thank you Emrys," I said with a smile. I pulled out my staff and cast a spell on it. It glowed and a small red dragon figure appeared before me. My staff now reverted back to it's original form which held a golden orb at it's top. 'I missed you my old friend,' I thought to myself as I looked at my staff with a smile. I then returned my staff to it's hiding place within my cloak and added the two dragon figures to all the other items floating in front of me.

I reached out to all that was around me. The trees, the sky, the earth, the wind and even those standing before me and I pulled in magic from everything. I kept pulling it in until I felt I had enough and when it was enough I released it into the objects floating in front of me. Every object began to glow. The intensity of the light grew and grew until it was blinding. I then cast an ancient spell of creation, one that my Mother had taught me. When the spell was finished and the light dissipated, floating before me were two new six foot staffs.

Both were a combination of metal and wood. One staff was red. It had a leather look and feel to it. There was ancient writing that wrapped around the shaft and extended all the way to to the top where a circle of red pearls framed a small dragons head, which had glowing red eyes. I handed this staff to Layla. "Layla the name of this staff is Longinus," it will protect you and amplify your powers.

"Thank you," Layla said.

The second staff was black. Although it wasn't metal, it had a more metallic feel to it. Ancient writing also wrapped around it's shaft and extended all the way to to the top where a white dragon grasped a pink gem. This dragons also had glowing red eyes. I handed this staff to Lucy and said, "Lucy this staff is named Excalibur," It will also protect you and amplify your powers, just like Layla's staff.

"Mom, thank you, I'll cherish it," Lucy said as she held it close to her chest.

"Now, have a seat and I'll tell you about your staffs," I said as my babies sat down and looked up at me with anticipation. Your staffs have no power, same as your old staff Lucy, but these staffs are different.. they're so much more than your old staff. Each staff is infused with our families blood, so no other being can hold it or control it, other than someone with our bloodline. They cannot be destroyed, nor can they be hidden from you. No matter where you are, your staff will come to you when you call it's name. They give you both the ability to summon your spirits. Yes Layla, you may call them as well, as you seem to have a contract with them. If you get new keys, you can add them as well. I think you will figure that one out. I believe that is where what's common between your staffs ends.

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the gems that your Grandmother left for you. They give you the ability to communicate with each other. Over time that power will grow. You and your staffs can also shape shift now. Your Father and I have a gem as well and trust me, being able to shape shift can come in handy," I smiled as I looked at Emrys who was blushing. "HAHAHA! you Pervert," I said as I laughed.

"EWW! gross Mom," Layla said with a laugh.

"Hey we might be old... but we're not dead yet," laughed Dad as he leaned in and kissed me. "I love you."

"Hmmm! You're quite right my dear," I said as I pulled his face towards mine and gently kissed him on the lips. "I love you too dear."

"Now where was I, oh yeah... Lucy your staff, Excalibur, is named after an ancient sword from our world. It has the power to lead people. It can also cut threw anything, but it's greatest feature is it's ability to keep it's user injury free during battle," I said with a smile, besides I want to protect your beautiful smile. "That reminds me, Cancer please return Lucy's hair back to normal. I'm tired of looking at it like that."

"Mom..." Lucy said as I interrupted her. "No you have your father's hair. I want to see it again."

"Fine, If you wish," Lucy reluctantly said as she nodded to Cancer, who quickly changed her hair back to blonde.

"Pretty-ebi," Cancer said with a perverted smile.

"Looks wonderful," everyone said in unison.

"It looks so much better Lucy," I said as I turned to Layla. "Layla your staff Longinus will also cut through anything, but it has a very special feature. All damage you take in battle can be passed on to another," I said to Layla when it dawned on me. "You do realize that if you both fought one another with your staffs you would be at an endless stalemate. So no fighting... hear me."

"Yes Mom," they both said as they looked at each other and smiled.

"This will come in hand when we train," Lucy said to Layla with a smirk.

"Don't get to cocky little Sister," Layla smiled back.

"Oh my and I just got through saying, no fighting," I said as I shook my head. "Anyway the ancient script on your staffs indicate who you are and also binds you and your staffs to one another. There is also an incantation on both staffs, but I'll leave that as a surprise for you both to figure out," I said as I winked at them.

"One final thing and this is important and not to be trifled with. Both staffs can call upon the twin dragons... they are the first dragons of creation. They fight when they see one another so you will be wise to research them first before summoning them..." I started to say as I looked down and both Lucy and Layla were gone.

I turned around to see both of my children with their staffs in hand, crossing them and chanting a spell I had never heard before... "STOP!" I yelled, but it was to late as smoke filled the training area.

"STOP... Please stop, don't do it..."

I'm pretty sure, Sting will be Lucy's love interest, but I'm still not sure about Minerva. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

If all goes well, I will have another chapter ready for tomorrow night.

Till next time. Enjoy.