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Chapter 16

At Sabertooth's Training Grounds... Cont.

Lucy's POV

As I looked around, I noticed a quiet and somewhat subdued Angel sitting near Yukino, who was happily chatting with Wendy and Minerva about party plans. The more I stared at Angel the more frustrated I became until I could contain it no more.

"Sorry everyone but before we party, there's something that we need to clear up first," I said as everyone's attention turned to me. "If we don't deal with it now it will become a problem down the road."

"Lucy! You need to sit down and relax!" Minerva said with conviction. "As the oldest here, it's my responsibility to look after everyone."

"Yes Sister that maybe true... but I think you'll agree that when we are out on a job I will be in charge," I said as Minerva quickly nodded yes. "Thank yo..."

"Just a second... why would I follow you. You're nothing but a weak fairy... well ex-fairy, who only got lucky when you beat me!" Angel said as she stood up and grabbed her necklace and her wand appeared.

"Sorano-nee please sit down... this is a bad idea!" Yukino said as she pulled on Angel's cloak but Angel quickly pulled away.

"And there it is... that is the problem I'm referring too!" I said as I laughed. "You still have that rotten attitude."

"Call it what you will, but I won't be apart of any team with you. I don't really want you as a sister and I certainly don't lik..." Angel said as she growled and was quickly put down to the ground by Minerva.

"DON'T YOU EVER SAY THAT AGAIN!" Minerva shouted. "I'll make you wish you were never born."

"Stop sister... I'll deal with this. Please let her up!" I calmly said as Minerva released Angel and stepped a side. "Thank You!"

"Are you sure Little Sister?" Minerva said as she looked around, her eyes moving to everyone, "You all may be my family but I will not tolerate anyone who threatens Lucy, even family... UNDERSTOOD!" They all nodded except for Angel.

"So Angel, tell me, what is the real problem here... Why do you hate me so much? It can't be because I beat you... so what is the problem?" I said as I walked over to her and stood inches from her face. "We'll what is it?"

"It is because you beat me. I lost my guild, my keys, my freedom and my self respect because of you and now I have to live with you and take orders from you... It pisses me off!" Angel snapped back.

"FINE! You attacked my friends and hurt them, you tried to kill me and you hurt my spirit friends... all so you and your power hungry guild mates could obtain a power to hurt even more people. You also went around killing mages and taking their keys... you should be ashamed of yourself. But no... it's all my fault and now you hate me," I growled. "I tell you what we will do... you and I will fight. If I loose I will leave and never return... if I win you change your attitude and do as I say without question until I feel you have changed!"

"Sounds good to me!" Angel said as she looked down at Yukino and winked. 'What was that about?' I wondered.

"Don't anyone interfere, this is between her and I!" I said as I placed my staff in front of me. "Come at me Angel."

Angel's POV

"How did I get myself into this mess," I mumbled to myself as I jumped back twenty feet and raised my wand. "Wind Vortex!" I shouted as a column of fast moving air bent around objects and struck Lucy full on, in the chest sending her flying fifteen feet in the air landing on her back. 'That should keep her down for a little bit,' I thought as I watched her get right back up and yell, "Dragon's Breath!" as I jumped out of the way at the last moment... as shards of ice whizzed pass my body.

As I caught my footing, I looked up to see Lucy was no longer standing where she just was. As I looked around I heard an evil voice from behind me, "Looking for me!" as she drove her fist into the small of my back. It momentarily knocked the wind out of me, but I managed to quickly turn around and pull her staff out of her hand and jumped back a few feet.

She laughed and said, "so what do you plan on doing with that, now that you have it!" I smirked and drove it into the ground a few inches and smiled back at her. She let out a loud laugh as she stretched out her hand and slowly closed it... "All yours!" she laughed again.

I Grabbed her staff and the pain I felt was something I hadn't felt in a long time... not since my Tower of Heaven days. I screamed as my knees went weak, I felt like I was about to pass out but I had to remain standing as I needed to do this... "I-I S-Sum-mo-on A-Aries and Gemi-niiii!" I screamed as I hoped they would appear and they did as Lucy was now upon me with a an evil look that I had never seen before. I let go of her staff and dropped to my knees...

"Aries... Gemimi... I'm so sorry for the way I treated you... Please forgive me!" I said as tears streamed down my face... causing Lucy so stop dead in her tracks.

"What's the meaning of this Angel?" Lucy said as she slowly moved forward and picked up her staff.

"I'm sorry Lucy, I had to do that. It's been eating me up inside for months now. When you beat me that day you showed me mercy, something I never showed my opponents. Yea! I was mad at you for a few minutes but that disappeared pretty quickly. I realized at that moment what I fool I was and I've been sorry for my actions ever since then," I said with a little smile as Yukino stood up and walked over to us.

"I'm sorry Lucy-sama, Angel had planned that before we even got here... I apologize on her behalf," Yukino said as she bowed to me.

"STOP THAT! Please don't do that... we're sisters!" Lucy said as she knelled down and pulled Yukino up. "Please call me Lucy or Sister... leave off the honorifics," She said with a smile.

"Angel! Why didn't you just tell me you changed and wanted to apologize to my friends. Please get up!" I said as Angel winced in pain as she tried to get up. "AH! Sorry about the ribs... Wendy can you heal our sister," Lucy said as Wendy quickly came over and started to heal my wounds.

"I wanted to Lucy but when I came in you went nuts and I figured you needed this fight to let your frustrations out. It was a painfull way to help you but I had to do it... I hope you can forgive me for what I did back then, I wasn't myself as Brain had control over me... Forgive me!" I said as I started to cry. "T-Thank y-you Wendy."

"Aries... Gemini... I'm sorry for how I treated you... Please forgive me!" Angel said with a smile as tears still flowed down her cheek.

"Yes! Of course... we understand and forgive you," said Gemini as they smiled and disappeared.

"UMMM! Well! I guess so," said Aries as she looked to Lucy for conformation and Lucy nodded with a big smile. "Okay your forgiven," Aries said as she disappeared. Lucy extended her hand and pulled me up and then pulled me into a big hug.

"I'm sorry for everything Lucy... let's start over!" I said as I held her tight. "Me too, I'm sorry for how I acted and thank you for letting me vent my anger... I feel so much better now! Thank you Sister and welcome to the family," she said in a low whisper. "As for the bet, lets forget that... Okay!" I nodded.

As we let each other go I had to ask... "What happened with your staff? Why did it hurt so much, I thought it was coded to our bloodline!" I said softly.

"Well! I changed it's polarity so that it would only hurt us... cleaver huh! Mom may have created my staff... but it's still my staff. I control it!" I said with a grin.

"I guess I'll have to go out later and get my other keys... I feel naked without them!" I smiled.

"I thought you lost all of your keys when you went to prison?" Lucy said as she scratched her head.

"I did... but I have several silvers, two blacks and three reds hidden. I never had enough power before to use them. Now I feel I can use them... I feel a lot stronger now!" I said with pride.

"I can't wait to me our new friends... I bet they're strong... I hope they get along with everyone," she said.

"Me too!" I said as I held Lucy's hand. Lets go party sister.

Carla's POV

'This has been one of the best days of my life,' I thought as I saw my new family all laughing and smiling at one another... but somewhere deep down something was nagging at me. A feeling that just wouldn't go away and I just don't know what it means but I feel that if I don't act soon something bad will happen. 'I have to speak up or this may haunt me!' I thought.

Lucy-san! Minerva-san! I..." I started to say as Lucy interrupted me.

"Carla! Please don't be formal with us where sisters. You heard Mom! Right!" Lucy said with a wink and a smile.

"AHHH! Okay! Lucy-nee! Minerva-nee!" I said as they both smiled and nodded. "I hate to put the damper on our party but I have a bad feeling... a really bad feeling that something bad is going to happen and very soon at that!" I said as I felt my body trembled a little.

"Did you have a premonition Carla?" Wendy said.

"What is it Carla?" Yukino asked as she also seemed worried.

"No it wasn't a premonition, it's just a gut feeling I guess!" I said as everyone now hung on every word I spoke. "I think we may have some trouble in a few days... I don't know what it is though!"

"Maybe it's your S-Class test Little Sister... maybe that's what Carla-chan is referring to!" Minerva said as she smiled at me.

"Have any of you thought about what will happen when all five of you leave here? Mom said for us to protect Lucy-nee. So she's obviously worried about something. Three days is not enough for us to train properly and only Minerva-nee and Angel-nee are safe. It got me thinking that we need to prepare for what may come more than partying right now. Sorry to ruin your fun!" I said as I hung my head feeling horrible for ruining the happy mood.

"Carla-chan is right... we need to plan our next move. While we are within this barrier we are safe but that will change once we leave. Also the six of us running around town is bound to attract attention and right now we may not be able to protect ourselves!" Angel winced as I raised my head.

"Yes! That's it exactly... we need a plan. We can't hide for the next ten or twelve years, that it will take for Wendy to grow up. We will always be looking over our shoulders... wondering if Zeref or someone else is coming. Perhaps a dumb accident will happen like the one that happened to Lucy-nee a few months back... Sisters what do you think? Perhaps I'm worring for nothing!?" I said as I looked around as everyone had the same worried looks on their faces as I did.

"Carla-chan I think you're right to be worried... Mom was... So we should be worried as well," Yukino said while everyone seemed to nod their agreement.

"Well! Does anyone have any ideas? Because we can't gain much from three days worth of training... maybe if it was three years it would help us, but we still have to worry about Wendy as she grows up," Minerva said as she and everyone looked to Lucy for answers.

"HUH! Why are you all looking at me?" Lucy said as she looked embarrassed.

"Because you are our leader... this is supposed to be your area of expertise," Wendy said with a smile. "Lucy you were always the smart one... the one who could always see the solution when others couldn't."

"Thank you Wendy but I..." Lucy stopped mid-sentence and started to laugh. "I have a really crazy idea... laugh if you like!" Lucy paused as everyone remained quiet with serious expressions on our faces. "Okay! I know a spell that will allow us to travel back in time. If we go back far enough, to a point before we were born then no one will know us so we should be safe there," Lucy said.

"That's it!" We all said as we all smiled.

"There is a small problem with this plan... we need a lot of magic power for this spell. Once we have enough power we will channel it into a stone that will transport us to our desired location in the past. We will be stuck in the past until the stone is drained of it's power. I'm not even sure if we have enough power to power the spell, let alone activate it" Lucy said as she rubbed her head and scrunched up her face as she was deep in thought. "Any ideas?" She asked.

"I never thought I'd ever say this... but after the past few days with so many changes around us, we need to swallow our pride and ask for help!" Minerva said with a heavy sigh. "We'll have to ask... I can't believe I'm saying this... We'll have to ask Master Sting for help!" She paused and wiped her tongue as if to remove a bad taste from her mouth. "That just sounds wrong!"

"How much magic would we need Lucy-nee?" I said as I smiled at Minerva trying to get the bad taste out of her mouth.

"Between all of us I think we can maybe go back three perhaps four years. So we need another four or five powerful mages. Back at Sabertooth only Rogue, Orga, Rufus and Sting would have the amount of magic we need. With them we should be able to go back eight years... that's the best we can hope for!" Lucy said as she softly smiled and rubbed her head.

"That will have to do! I'll go and get them!" Minerva said as she started to walk away.

"Sister please stop for a moment! I'd rather Yukino-chan and Wendy-chan did that. I need you to take Angel-san to retrieve her keys. Does everyone agree?" Lucy asked as everyone said "YES!" in agreement. "I'll stay here and prepare everything and I'll have Virgo and Loki pack our things and bring them to the Spirit World." Lucy smiled and then it struck her, "Ah! Have them pack some things to take along as well."

Everyone smiled and went on their merry little way... excited to complete their task and hurry back, leaving me and Lucy-nee alone to set up everything. I watched as everyone left and then I noticed Lucy standing in the center of the field with a bright green glow all around her. As I walked up to her she turned around and smiled at me as she stepped to the side revealing a large rock pillar that appeared to have grown out of the ground. It was nothing special, just an ordinary rock. 'How will that get us to where we need to go?' I wondered and then shrugged it off, after all this is Lucy we're talking about... She knows what she's doing.

Lucy called Virgo and Loki. She explained the situation to them and they both smiled and left to complete their tasks.

Lucy's POV

"Well that's all I can do until they all get back... Carla-chan we might as well relax until they get back," I said as we walked back to the campground and sat down and started to talk. We talked about everything and anything. I found that Carla-chan is sweet on Happy but she won't admit it.

"So you do like Happy!" I said with a smile as Carla blushed.

"Please! Lucy-nee don't tell him... he'll drive me nuts if he knows!" Carla said as she knelled in front of me... begging me for my cooperation. I gave her an evil smirk and laughed.

"Carla's got a boyfriend!" I teased as I felt happy to be sharing some time with Carla.

"FINE! Nee-chan... If that's how you want it I'll tell everyone you kissed Master," Carla laughed as she spoke.

"Oh! Is that how it's going to be!" I said as I leaned down and hugged Carla and whispered into her ear, "Carla... sweety I'm glad you're starting to relax around me... I'm also glad you're apart of our family... Thank you!" I said as I started to get teary eyed.

"Me too Nee-chan! I'm glad Wendy and I found a family... NO!... Our family and a new home... so thank you for everything!" Carla said as she buried her head in my chest and laughed, "I'm still gonna tell everyone you kissed Sting-kun!"

"WHY YOU LITTLE..." I started to say as a crowd of people came through the barrier. "I'm not done with you yet!" I stuck out my tongue and we both laughed as we stood up and started to walk over to the stone pillar.

As everyone approached I could see that everyone was there. 'This might just work,' I sighed and then I spotted two very familiar faces. A little blue face flew straight into my chest.

"Luushi! I missed you so much!" He said as he cried on my chest.

"Happy!" I said as I was totally surprised to see him. I hugged him so tightly I thought I would hurt him. "I missed you so much! But what are you doing he..." I tried to say as I was knocked over by a pink haired Dragon slayer, who's toothy grin I so fondly remember.

"N-Natsu!" I tried to speak but it was difficult with Natsu lying on top of me. I was about to push him off when he thrown of me by a blonde Dragon slayer.

"What the hell light boy!" Natsu said as he got to his feet with his hands engulfed in flames.

"Wanna go Fairy!" Yelled Sting as he postured for a fight.

"IF YOU TWO MOVE ONE MORE INCH I'LL SHORTEN YOUR LIFESPANS!" Yelled Minerva as she gave them an evil stare.

"We're good... no problems here!" They both said as I laughed as thoughts of Erza popped into my head.

"Good!" Minerva said with a smirk. "Sorry Little Sister for bringing them here but they just wouldn't take no for an answer. Angel-chan and I ran into them on our way back from getting Angel-chan's keys. We didn't have much time and we didn't want to waste our magic fighting them so we let them follow us here," she sighed. "Please send them away so we can go!"

"Okay!" I smiled and turned to Natsu, "Natsu why are you here? We're busy and we're in a hurry to leave!" I said as I put my hands on my hips and stared at him.

"Luce! Master told us to stay away but we just couldn't do it. So we disobeyed him and came here. I wanted to tell you... I'm so sorry for what happened! I didn't mean to hurt you. You're my best friend... I would never hurt you and it's killing me inside... please talk to me!" Natsu said as he looked so sad and lost my heart just dropped at the thought of the pain he must have went through. I couldn't help myself and I hugged him.

"It's alright Natsu! Please don't feel bad. Mom and Dad explained everything to me and I don't blame you in the least. As a matter of fact I want to thank you, because of what happened I got to meet my sisters. So dry your eyes... Okay! I forgive you and we'll always be best friends," I said as I smiled and hugged him tighter. When I realized we were crushing Happy I released my hug on Natsu.

"Thank you Luce! I..." Natsu started to say as Happy interrupted him.

"Luushi, why did you leave on your birthday? We had a party ready for you at your house. I even had a fish for you," Happy said with a frown.

"Natsu! What's Happy talking about? What party? You guys were ignoring me, did I miss something?" I said as I was stunned by what Happy said.

"Well Luce! We wanted to have a big party for you but Erza said you probably wouldn't like anything with a lot of drinking or a big crowd. So we decided to have a small party at your house instead. Lisanna suggested that we make it a surprise party and we thought that was a great idea. We kind of ignored you for a while so the surprise would work. Lisanna said it would make the surprise better so we all agreed to it. Over the next few weeks we got caught up in the plan that we really ignored you... It was a stupid plan! By the way, you looked beautiful that day, I mean the day of your birthday. The black clothes and black hair was very sexy and I had a hard time concentrating. After we left the guild and set up for the party everything went wrong... I'm sorry about everything. It was a dumb plan!" Natsu said as he lowered his head.

"You're right that was a stupid plan... but what was even stupider... was me thinking my friends hated me. I feel kind of stupid now!" I said as I reached over and placed my hand under his chin and lifted his head up. "Thank you for the party and for always being my friend."

"I'm glad I came!" Natsu said with a smile as Happy flew over and landed on his head.

"Me too Natsu... I'm really glad you came. I feel like a large weight has just been lifted of my chest," I said with a big smile.

"Yukino-chan can you show Natsu and Happy out... we need to leave now!" I said as I smiled at Natsu and Happy.

"Luce we're coming too!" Natsu said with a big toothy grin.

"Aye! Sir!" Happy said as he fist pumped the air.

"What! Sister what's going on here?" I said as I placed my hands on my hips and stared her down.

"I did say, he wouldn't take no for an answer. Besides I was there when Mom and dad explained everything to us so I knew he was a good guy. He always protected you, so I couldn't say no. On our way here we told him everything about us and what we were doing and they want to help us train... What was I supposed to do?" Minerva said with a smirk.

"Natsu you understand..." I paused and looked at everyone standing here and addressed them all. "Everyone you do understand we will be gone for at least eight years, maybe even more. You will all age accordingly and once we leave here, there is no way back until that stone looses the last of it's power. There is no turning back once we start this, so if anyone wants to leave... then now is the time!" I said as I looked at everyone who smiled back at me.

"Okay... I guess we're doing this then!" I said as we all walked over to the stone pillar. "As I call out your name please place your hands on the stone and focus all of your energy into the stone. Do not remove your hands... NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS... do not let it go! Is that understood?" I said as everyone nodded. 'Well let's do this!' I thought.

"Happy your first sweety!" I said with a warm smile.

"Lucy I don't have any magic!" Happy said as I walked over to him, knelled down and patted his head.

"Of couse you do sweety... go ahead and try! But don't let go... Okay!" He smiled and placed his hands on the pillar and closed his eyes and he gave it his all. His wings appeared and the stone had a very very faint white glow.

"See I told you had magic... look at the stone... it's glowing!" I smiled and rubbed his head. "Well done Happy!" I said as he was proudly smiling.

"Natsu I made it work!" He said as he puffed out his chest.

"Well done Happy!" Natsu said as he pumped his fist in the air.

"Carla-chan... you're next!" I said as she also extended her wings and the piller glowed a little bit more.

"Well done little sister!" I said as she smiled up at me. We continued this process...

"Wendy-chan!"

"Yukino-chan!"

"Angel-nee!"

"Sister!" As Minerva placed her hands on the pillar the pillar's glow doubled in intensity. From here on out the pillar should get a serious power boost.

"Everyone... protect your eyes. Keep them closed if you can," I said as the glow was getting pretty intense.

"Rufus-kun!"

"Orga-san!"

"Rogue- kun!" At this point the light was nearly blinding and the rest of us moved to our positions. In a few moments it may be impossible to see anything at all.

"Sting-kun!" I said as Carla-chan started to laugh. "Not another word from you Carla-chan!" I laughed as I then heard Carla chuckle as well.

"Natsu! You're next!" I said as he placed his hands on the pillar and the light's intensity went from bearable to unbearable. "Where in the hell did that come from Natsu... That's just nuts the amount of power you put into that. We may just get what we need!" I smiled. 'That's the Natsu we all loved and admired,' I thought.

"Okay is everyone ready?" I loudly said as everyone shouted back at me.

"YES!" They screamed as I slowly pulled magic in from all around me and focused it... When I felt I had enough I pictured a time and a place... one that I had decided upon earlier and I reached in with both of my hands and placed them on the stone pillar... releasing all of my magic in one final and glorious burst. As the pillar absorbed the last of our powers the light and energy radiating from it was not only blinding, it also felt hot against my body. As I felt my spell engage... a massive amount of energy was released from the pillar, sending several shock waves across the field till they hit the barrier and bounced back upon itself cancelling each other out.

I felt my body pulsate and glow. As the moments passed I slowly felt like I was being ripped apart. I screamed, as did my family and friends and with a flash of light it was over... we were gone!

At Sabertooth Four Days Later...

"Makarov's POV

"How much longer do we have to wait her..." I said as I noticed a group of mages walking down the street towards us... It was Sabertooth's strongest mages and they looked totally different... Not what I remembered at all! 'And what is that... do I see children with them!' I thought as my jaw hit the floor.

"Oh my! I think this is gonna get very interesting!" Jura said with a smile.

Well there you have it... big changes are coming, along with a few surprises.

I hope you've enjoyed it and if you want to make any suggestions now is the time. I welcome your reviews.

Thank you and I'll see you next week with a new chapter or two.