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Chapter Ten - The Captive Fairies

The crew of the Phantom Lord waited for a good while as their Seis allies made their way over to their ship, the Abyss Break.

The Nirvana, property of the Oración Seis, also appeared to be towing an empty Fairy ship (we know it as the Magnolia) behind its stern as it sailed through the sea.

As the crew cheered for the new company, Jose stood in the center of his deck, with his first mate Lily behind him, and his captive Levy McGarden waited with chains around her hands as she stood in fear.

"Please tell me he isn't aboard this ship…" Levy tried comforting herself as the two ships connected, and once the bridge planks were established a trail of Seis pirates made their way a crossed.

Jose grinned with their entrance. "Well, well. The fabled pirates of the Oración Seis have actually agreed to join our ranks. You all were the last of the strong forces to hold out from our reign, but now you've come to join the party. How splendid."

As the Seis crew scurried one by one, a very tall man with white hair and dark skin walked over to Jose. He had black lines panted over his face, and also held a brown staff with an ornate skull attached to the top.

The man looked right at Jose. "Yes well, we really have no business to be at each other's throats. After all my crew managed to come a crossed some enemies of yours."

"Oh?" Jose sound intrigued. "Well I always love presents. Show me who you found Captain Brain."

The man nodded and gestured for his five commanders to bring the Fairies forward. Even faces like Wakaba, Cana, and Gray managed to get captured during the hard-fought battle.

As they finished walking the lower crew over, Erik led Macao and Erza over himself and forced them to kneel to Jose.

The Phantom Lord's eye brow rose. "Hmm…so you must me Captain Macao Conbolt…and I am almost certain that makes you the lovely Miss Titania."

Erza kept her eyes low as she never enjoyed suffering through defeat and capture, but Macao spat on Jose's boots.

"Look pal, take my life if you want, but leave my crew out of this…"

Jose interrupted him. "I'm sorry Brain, these Fairies are very valuable to me, but I'm afraid now's not the time. I'm looking for someone else. A missing crew out of Hargeon."

Gray and Cana's eyes widened as they looked at one another. Brain on the other hand turned to his commanders.

"Well…it would appear that one of the captives was from Hargeon. But we felt it would be best to dispose of her at once."

"LUCY!" Levy shouted out, but Lily grabbed her by the arm and tugged her back in place.

Jose rolled his eyes and grinned. "No I don't care about a woman…though I must ask, what kind of heartless men kills a woman out on the open sea?"

Brain liked his sarcasm. "Now now, you wouldn't take me for a total monster would you? I let her walk the plank near a small island on our way here. Truth be told the girl actually hid from us for a long while, but then she tried to play the part of a hero. I was told she's the missing daughter of a governor and almost kept her for a ransom…but my colleagues here said she would only provide us with more of a burden."

Then, a slender man with long black hair and red eyes walked forward. "It's true. We suggested that none of us had any use for the girl, and since she is the reason the royal navy is swarming the sea, we figured she would get them off our tail."

Jose began to clap. "Well, I must say that is a rather clever plan. Was she the only one you left?"

Cobra began to grin. "Nah, I stuck some fool with a poisoned blade and threw him over board. Though he's probably dead by now, that stuff was pretty strong."

Jose's other right hand man, Aria frowned. "Yes, what a sad story indeed. Though I must say Fairies are the weakest of all pirates."

Cobra scratched his head. "Nah this guy came with the Heartfilia girl. He was some blacksmith in Hargeon."

That was the last thing Levy needed to hear. She would have fallen over, but Lily was holding her rather firmly. As a result she simply let the tears roll down her face in pure shock and confusion.

The Seis pirates tried to laugh, but stopped as the Phantom side of the ship fell very silent.

Then, Jose's eyes twitched. "You fools wish to join my ranks…yet you seem to have forgot the one message I've left for all my ships…I NEEDED THAT BLACKSMITH ALIVE!"

Jose drew his shadowed blade and held it right in Erik's face. Sorano ran forward, but Sawyer held her back.

Erik took a large gulp but kept his face calm. "Look pal…we weren't told anything. Hell I'm sure there are more than one blacksmith in Hargeon."

Jose held his blade high until he let a though pass over his head. "Agh…very well then. Why don't we just go check Hargeon for ourselves? I'll let you fools lead the sail."

Sawyer yelled out in anger. "Are you mad!? That's askin us to commit suicide!"

One of Jose's other commanders, Totomaru, stood tall in defense. "Is that so? Well I bet it'll be a hell of a lot cleaner than any death we'd give you."

Sornao pulled out two daggers and stepped up to Totomaru. "You morons can't even fight. You just hire other pirates to do all your work for you."

Then, Juvia, the pirate maiden in blue drew a long, blackpowder pistol and aimed it right at Sorano's face. "No, we just ask the weaker crews to do our work…just like we're doing now."

Richard and the Seis Captain's son Macbeth drew their weapons, and after that Sol and Aria on the Phantom side did the same. As the two crews stood face to face, Brain slammed his staff on the deck.

"SILENCE! …Jose you have a very interesting strategy, but I'll oblige. You allow us to keep the Fairy Crew and their ship for compensation. Let us follow you back to Oaktown, prepare our men and then we set sail for Hargeon in a fortnight."

Jose looked to the tense crews ready to fight and then grinned. "I must say it takes some form of courage to threaten Phantom pirates aboard the Abyss Break…Captain Brain I'll accept your suggestion. We'll sail for Oaktown immediately."

Now, we cut back to a random island back along the Seis's sailing route. Judging by the trajectory of the objects in the night sky, this island was well far off of the Phantom/Seis meeting from before, and it appeared to be slightly vegetated but still very small.

Here, we find Lucy Heartfilia barely swimming to shore as she tries to collect her breath.

"I…I can't…believe they did that. I thought I was a goner…" She collected her thoughts and laid in the sand as she remembered the horrible scene from moments ago.

~Flashback

"Sir here's the girl we caught sneakin around the ship!" Yelled a Seis guard as he held Lucy's arm tightly in his hand.

"AGH! Let go of me!" Her hands were tied in front of her as she tried to rip herself free from his grip, but failed as a second guard came to help.

As she slowed her struggle, she noticed a large amount of her friends were all being shackled up and taken down below, but the Seis crew stopped to see what Brain's plan was for the rebel aboard the ship.

The sinister captain walked over and placed his hand under her chin. "…You're the Heartfilia girl aren't you? The governor's daughter everyone's been searching for? You match the description perfectly."

Lucy bit her tongue and continued to glare back to the evil man in silence.

Brain laughed. "Well, if you don't wish to confirm it I could just kill you know…"

"STOP! THAT'S HER!" Erza yelled from the lower staircase. A Seis guard hit her in the stomach for blurting out, but Brain appreciated the honesty.

"Well I'm glad we got that out of the way…now, what should I do with a captive like you. These fairies are nobodies, but your name is worth an awful lot of Jewel."

Richard snapped his fingers. "Oh forget the slave markets, I'm sure the Royal Navy will pay us all a pretty penny to deliver her back in one piece! OH YEA!"

Sornao raised an eyebrow. "True, but your first idea wasn't that bad…after all she is very pretty, and young too."

Lucy tried to stop visualizing all the horrible things they could do with her, but then one man stepped forward.

"Neither will do." Said the son of the captain, Macbeth. "If you all have been paying attention, the seas have been crawling with Royal Navy ships all week. It's obvious they're all out looking for her."

Richard smiled. "Oh yea! Like I said we should just take her to them and sell her for…"

Macbeth rolled his eyes. "No you idiot. We can't get away with that. How on earth do you expect us to set up a meeting with the Navy? However…we do know one thing."

He walked up and looked her in the eye. "We know that we have no extra value in keeping her, and we are certain the Phantoms do not want her. They were just in Hargeon the other day. If they wished to capture her they would have done it with ease."

Brain looked confused. "So what is it you're suggesting?"

Macbeth pondered his though before he finally saw Erik standing with a very sickly Gajeel. "Say, what was your plan with that one?"

Erik shrugged. "Eh, this fool will die soon, so I wanted to have a little fun with him before then."

Macbeth nodded and then spotted a tiny island in the distance. "Hmm…I think I have a suitable arrangement in mind."

Now, Lucy stood behind a long plank with her hands bound together in front of her, and an entire crew of Seis pirates and captive fairies standing behind her.

However, before she was made to walk, Erik stepped up first, dragging Gajeel's limp body with him. "See this girlie? He's gonna be your new company on that island...assuming either of you live to make it all the way over there."

He laughed as he stepped up and knocked Gajeel overboard, causing Lucy to gasp with fear and hold her hands over her frightened mouth.

The Seis laughed and Erik then pulled out a vial of blue liquid. "Hey? Here's the antidote for his little sickness. He might actually need this." He smiled and tossed it over his shoulder and down into the deep blue below

Lucy freed herself from the guard and ran forward onto the plank, she had to run fast and make sure to grab the vial before she lost it forever. However as she stepped foot outside Erik stomped on his end of the board.

"OOPS!"

The board flipped up and sent Lucy tumbling off in an awkward fall. The Fairy crew all tried to stand up in anger, but the Seis guards made sure to keep them down.

Finally, As Erik and Macbeth looked out to see a drowning Gajeel and struggling Lucy, Brain snapped them back to reality.

"Alright you fools. I want to see the Abyss Break by nightfall. Set sail immediately!"

~Back to Lucy

"I can't believe I survived the swim over here all shackled like this…man I really hope Natsu stays hidden."

Truth be told when Lucy got captured she did so on her own lousy decision making. Realizing the Magnolia had been taken she left Natsu back on the empty Fairy ship and climbed over to the Seis's Nirvana, which housed her captive friends after the battle.

Natsu was sleeping when she left him, band hopefully he remained quiet. For now though she had her own life to worry about.

"I just hope…wait…GAJEEL!" She sat up quickly to look around the open beach. Then, she saw a black dot farther down the coast line and immediately stood up.

She darted in a full sprint with the tiny vial of antidote in her hand as she finally made it over to Gajeel.

Now completely sobbing, Lucy noticed his very ugly scar on his arm and as a result tore one of the legs from her pants to give him a tourniquet. She then quickly opened the tiny glass bottle, held up his head, and put the top to his unresponsive lips.

Try her best to force feed the dying blacksmith, it took a few seconds to react. Then, Gajeel began coughing up sea water and rolled over on his stomach.

Lucy finally found time to wipe away her tears and sit back in comfort.

As Gajeel finally collected a breath he looked around. "Ah great…where the hell are we now?"

So Gajeel almost died, Lucy saved him, they're both stranded, the Fairies are captives, and Natsu is hiding...interesting set up!

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