Chapter 7-

Lucy opened her eyes, she forgot all the pain, she only felt the determination and fire boiling in her blood through her entire body, her friends were her fire and her strength. Lucy stood strong despite the blood seeping from her stomach. She forced close the gate of the Lion who was smashed against the cave wall, a single tear rolled down her cheek seeing Loke like that, she truly did love her spirits from the bottom of her heart. She pulled three golden keys from her leather pouch and raised them ready to summon, the goblin shifted his gaze from where Loke was smashed against the wall to Lucy.

"Taurus! Scorpio! Gemini!" Lucy cried, she would win at all costs. All costs except her life because she knew just as much as Erza that living for your friends was more important than dying for them.

"Taurus! Scorpio! Combine attacks and work together! Please! Do your best and keep him busy!" Lucy commanded.

"I will do anything to protect Miss Lucy!" Taurus held his axe high and swung it through Scorpio's sand sending it flying at the goblin.

"Gemini! Turn into me! Unison Raid time! It's time for that!" Lucy was replicated and she stood back to back with herself."

Meanwhile Taurus's attack hit the goblin straight on, he was only knocked back a metre. Scorpio used sand blast numerous times in a row as Taurus combined this with his axe attack. But there was no affect.

"Oh Spirit King of the celestial world, lend me the power of the celestial world god!-" Lucy starting reciting her most powerful spell. "I don't know how much longer I can hold them off Miss Lucy! And I don't know how much longer you can keep all of our gates open for!" Taurus cut in. Lucy completely ignored Taurus and continued her spell beside Gemini. "Let the eighty-eight stars and the power of the spirits rain down upon thy opponent and judge for their sins!-" Loke then appeared on his hands and knees at Lucy's side with his own magic, "Lucy stop! If you use anymore magic you'll kill yourself! You can't do this! You have three of the most powerful celestial spirits summoned, you've been stabbed and now your attempting one of the most powerful spells in the history of celestial spirit mages! Lucy please stop! I can't let the same thing happen to you like Karen! Please I'm begging you!" Lucy ignored his plea and, "Gate to the heavens of the celestial world, I open thee!" Lucy and Gemini-Lucy shouted clasping hands above their heads. Leo grabbed Lucy's other hand and held it tight Lucy felt a warm tear on her hand. "I will at least lend you my power! I won't let you go Lucy!"

Taurus and Scorpio were slammed against the walls. Loke screamed at them to force close themselves and they disappeared. The Demon-souled Goblin began to merge with merge with its minion like puppets, it gained mass rapidly and began to form scales across its chest which was covered in scars from Lucy's 's spell began to work its magic. The air shuddered above the goblin who was approaching Lucy. Like Urano Metoeria the light began to escape from Lucy in multiple beams and like missiles, went for the goblin. The beams hit him all at once, he was injured but it wasn't enough, But the beams didn't stop there, waves and waves of them kept coming and pounding the goblin's body from all directions. He was slowly beated down to the ground but Lucy couldn't keep it up she was being beated down to the ground in exhaustion. Every one of her spirits were behind her flowing their magic into her, even Aquarius.

"Lucy stop now!" Cried Loke, the tears streamed down his face, he couldn't bear it if another Master died under his watch, he couldn't carry that burden, but more importantly, Lucy had so much more to live for. The goblin hit the ground, its bat-like wings sprawled across the cave tunnel floor dripping with black blood. Lucy's eyes started to close and she fell backwards. All of her spirits were gone, except Loke who was still using his own magic, he held the unconscious Lucy in his arms,

"Sting! Rogue! Help!" Loke yelled out as loud as he could. Loke was injured badly to, he needed to go back to the celestial world to heal quicker.

Virgo appeared out of the blue. "I'll take of Princess, you go back and get better, I'm sure that's what Princess would want." said Virgo.

"No, I want to stay with her." Loke responded,

"Don't worry, Princess will still be here when you get back." Virgo said.

"You can't guarantee that." Loke said,

"Fine, you can stay, in fact if you have that much life in you, you can go get someone else for help or contact a hospital in town." Virgo replied.

Blood was oozing out of Lucy as she lay. It was strange that such a wound would bleed so slowly but it was probably a good thing that she didn't lose too much blood or she would already have been dead. Loke couldn't even fathom how she had three zodiac gates upon and performed an advanced spell at once. Did it have something to do with that insane fire in her eyes? There was something different about her… She stronger in a way… But she was stupid taking such a huge risk. Loke stood up and began to walk back,

"I'll find Sting and Rogue." He announced and he left silently, turning away from Virgo as wore a worried expression. That was close, he thought.

About ten minutes later, Sting and Rogue had come running down the tunnel at full speed to Lucy's side. Virgo had cleaned up the wound across Lucy's stomach from earlier, and the more recent cuts across her face. Virgo asked the twin dragons to stay by her side while she researched the seriousness of the green residue that intoxicated her wounds. Sting knelt by Lucy's side as Rogue supported her back.

"We should've gone together. I was an idiot to let her go on her own like that. Even so we should have been there sooner." Sting said angrily at himself.

"Couldn't you tell she wanted it this way, she wanted to do this on her own, like she needed to prove something. And we couldn't help being held up the way we were… Those little goblin freaks were a pain, how were we supposed to know that there was going to be a hundred down each path. Don't blame yourself for this." Rogue assured Sting.

"How the hell did she even defeat it? Look at the state this bitch is in!" said Sting.

Sting got up and walked over to the Demon-Souled Goblin that lay breathless smashed to the ground.

"Holy shit! What type of magic did she even use to cut through those scales? This is insane… She killed it…. Princess, slayed a demon…. A monster from the book of Zeref… How the fu-" Sting was shocked.

"Get a hold of yourself, her and Yukino don't differ that much." Rogue responded.

"No, Yukino couldn't have done this… If you could properly see that damage done on this thing…" Sting said…

"I suppose it must be impressive if Sting Eucliffe is in awe." Rogue said.

Virgo returned. "The green residue is a type of poison that will take affect twenty-four hours after intoxication. If we cannot get Princess to someone quickly, Princess will die, slowly and painfully. Also, Princess probably has less than twenty-four hours because she used all her magic in battle. Princess is lucky she is a strong mage with second origin or Princess would already be dead. Princess's first injury occurred at 11.07am and it is now been twelve hours and thirty-six minutes. So that being said, Princess needs to be healed within eleven hours and four minutes. Did Leo find you both?" Virgo said,

"Yeah, and then he just disappeared." said Sting.

"We can take care of her now, Thank you ummm…" said Rogue.

"Virgo." said Virgo who returned to the celestial spirit world as well.

Sting picked Lucy up in his arms bridal style and began walking to the nearest village where they could take a train to Magnolia. They assumed someone at Fairy Tail could heal her… They were sure that sky dragon could use healing magic…