Some of you are surprised that there was actually a mission behind all the hormone infected craziness! Well, I'm insulted, I do know what I'm doing. Sometimes… Sort of… Kind of… Yeah, not really XD

Oh, ahem. Before I forget the winner of the cover competition is Madeline-chan09! Congratulations Ma-chan! (You will need to PM me later!) So, without further ado, let the next chapter begin!

-Lucy-

"Acnologia's been breeding."

The room was absolute madness. Questions being fired at random, shrieks and terrified looks. Declarations of war and minds spinning at ten-thousand kilometers an hour, so loud I couldn't block it out.

"SHUT IT!" I scream. It gradually falls silent and I put two fingers to my temple, massaging the newly formed migraine.

"I can only answer one question at a time. Wendy first."

Wendy's face is pale and she's shaking, she opens her mouth a few times but nothing comes out. Eventually she shakes her head and buries her face in her hands. Cobra goes over to her and puts an arm awkwardly around her shoulders.

"How?" Sting says suddenly. "How is this happening?"

"Sting," Says Natsu seriously. "When mating season rolls around. Dragons tend to get very horny."

"Natsu!"

He slides me into his lap so he can cover my mouth properly. "And when Dragons get horny they need to have sex so they don't go on a sex-crazed rampage and rape every dragon they see. To have sex, the male Dragon puts his-"

"MNPFU!" (Natsu)

"Into the female Dragon's-"

"MNPFU DMAFNEPU!" (Natsu Dragneel)

"This causes-"

I bite down on his hand. "Ow! Lucy! What was that for?" Gently, he head-butts me in the back of my neck. "I was telling Sting how you-"
"Did you forget Wendy was in the room?"

"Not that kind of how!" Sting shrieks.

Laxus, Gajeel and Happy are now rolling around laughing. Fro, Carla and Wendy are horrified while Lector and Cobra are smirking. Natsu's laughter vibrates in his chest and I realise what he's done. Just a few seconds ago, the room was tense and one wrong word could erupt into disaster. He tried to make this easier for us by joking around a little. But… I swivel around to face him.

"How do you even know that?"

He winks at me. "That's not all I know."

I elbow him in the ribs. "Let's get back on topic shall we?" The room become serious again, but this time it's not as heavy.

"All I meant was how is it possible? There are no dragons left."

I nod. "Acnologia is the dragon of death, apocalypse if you like, and typically dragons have to find a mate before they can breed."

Everyone looks at me.

"You know this how?" Sting says raising an eyebrow. I reach into my bag and pull out the Dragonology book and flip it open to the 'mating' chapter. I hold it out so they can see.

"I read." Sting flushes.

"You know about what's going on then?"

I shrug and continue. "No more interruptions. Anyway, dragons need a mate before they can do the deed-"

"You mean have sex and make baby dragons." Natsu clarified. I whack him on the arm.

"Yes, but don't interrupt."
"Why ob-ob-obscure that fact? It's the deal, Wendy knows it."

I roll my eyes and decide to ignore him. "Dragons have to find a mate so they can reproduce and in normal circumstances this wouldn't be a problem." I take a deep breath. "However, Acnologia isn't supposed to exist, it's not a normal Dragon. It was… mutated by Zeref to annihilate every other dragon. Originally Acnologia was a human, but its hatred for dragon kind caused him to spill dragon blood. Eventually, he transformed into a dragon, turning into the beast we know today. Once in dragon form Acnologia decided that shedding dragon blood was a one way ticket to getting himself killed. So he didn't do it anymore. But Zeref had been watching him and thought that now it was a dragon, Acnologia would make a good companion. So he… I'm not exactly sure of what he did to Acnologia but I know it erased Acnologia's memories of being a human completely and turned him into a crazed killing machine."

"This doesn't-"

I glare at Sting. "Shut up! I'm getting there! Now I forgot what I was saying."

"Acnologia is now a killing machine." Natsu says helpfully from behind me. I blush a little. I'd forgotten I was in his lap. Focus Lucy!

"Thank you. So, Acnologia is now a ruthless killing machine and Zeref was going to create an army of Acnologias. I think one would have been enough, but he's a mad-man so whatever. But, creating Acnologia had use a lot of his magic, so instead of using magic to go through that lengthy process again, he decided to… Modify, his creation. He used his magic to change Acnologia into a female."

"He could do that?" Laxus blurts before biting his tongue regretting his outburst and waiting for me to rebuke him. I roll my eyes and ignore him

"Apparently. And he, I mean she doesn't need a male to reproduce. And her gestational period was shortened to a month."

"Her what?" Natsu asks.

"She can have a baby every month." I explain.

"WHAT THE FUCK?" Sting stamps his foot. "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS GODDAMNED WORLD? THIS SHOULDN'T BE FUCKING POSSIBLE!"

"Laxus, please." Laxus obligingly walks over to Sting and whacks him on the side of the head.

"Any other questions?"

"How many?" Asks Cobra. Wendy's still cowering in his arms.

"At this point? Maybe about fourteen. It was only recently that the Magic Council discovered what was going on."

"Recently? They must be seriously stupid. How can you not notice gigantic black dragons flying around for more than a year? Are they that dumb?"

"They were supposedly hiding out on Tenroujima."

"So?" Rogue says almost angrily. "How does that-"

I stand and match his tone. "Tenroujima is a sacred place for the people of Fairy Tail. Mavis Vermillion's grave is there and it's the only place in Fiore, where the Magic Council cannot interfere. They're not even supposed to go there."

"Lucy-nyan, Fro is confused. Fro still does not understand exactly what the mission is."

I sit down in Natsu's lap again, his arm creeps around my waist and give me a gentle squeeze. I relax a little and lean into him, borrowing a little of his courage. This was harder to talk about than it seemed and I really couldn't do it for much longer. I realised a few hours ago, that if I wanted to live through this, I'd have to do some serious training.

"There are a few parts to the mission Fro. One; Train. Two; Find the Dragon's Nest and report back to the Council. Three; Kill the minor Dragons. Four; Kill Acnologia. Five; Kill Zeref if possible."

"Are you kidding me? They called us here to do something like that? Without any information to go on at all? Are they trying to kill us all? Or did they seriously not think, 'Oh, hey, we're gonna send a couple of Dragon Slayers out to kill off a bunch of Dragons. Let's not give them any information about where to look." I can see he's trying not to shout. "Did they not think this through?"

"They're scared Sting!" I snap. "There's a bunch of Death Dragons, Mini Acnologia's flying around out there. The only people with a remote possibility of defeating them are in this room right now. Dragon Slayers. You are supposed to fight Dragons! It's the whole reason your magic exists! And you're telling me you don't feel like it?"

"I didn't say that. I'm just saying it's a tall order. We have next-to-no information and have less than half a year to kill off an army of Dragons. The three of them," He points to Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy. "couldn't take Acnologia on his own. How do you think we'll match up against fifteen of them?"

"It's not like I can do anything about it."

"Where do we start looking?" Gajeel interrupts.

"You? You don't. You train."

"Then-" Natsu tries to speak but I cut him off.

"Cana and Guildarts are on it. They've been reporting to me regularly so don't worry. All you guys need to focus on is training."

-Lucy-

I cough into my hand and feel my body shake. Damn it.

"Come on Chickie!" Calls Sting. I glare up at him.

"Go… To… Hell!" I growl. He just laughs, Fro stands dutifully beside me and pats my leg with her hand.

"There, there Lu-nyan! We are nearly there!" Fro giggles at what I don't know and I stand up straighter and put one foot in front of the other. Why did I get stuck with this… MORON for training? I don't need to train! I'm not going to be partaking in the actual mission so why? I stumble and let out a small scream. Sting whips around and puts his hand under my head so it doesn't hit the ground.

"Hey! Are you okay Lucy?" I open my eyes and see his face inches from mine.

"Kyaa!" In one movement I'm standing up and he's away from me.

"Sorry." He says, not looking at me. He turns and I follow him grumbling and rubbing my lower back.

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"Lucy! You're going to do training too today!"

"Sure Natsu, whatever you say." I stick my tongue out from between my teeth and continue writing. I'd just gotten to the hard part where I had to write the battle between the hero and the possessed heroine.

"I'm training with Laxus today." He continues. "Rogue and Cobra are paired up and the Gajeel and Wendy… Wait! Cobra! I don't want her to go with Sting! That perverted guy will rape her or something!"

"I will not!"

"Yes, you will! I'm not letting her go with you!"

"What if Fro went with her?" I turn and look at Rogue.

"That's not good enough!" Natsu yells.

"What if Fro and Lily went?" Rogue stares at the raging Natsu, unfazed.

Natsu stops to consider. "Lily could kick Sting's ass right?"

"If he tries anything I'll beat him up for you." Lily says smirking.
"Just don't kill him. I want to do that myself."

"Natsu!" I say, turning and glaring at him. "There will be no killing of anyone. And anyway, you don't need to worry, do you really think that Loke or Sirius will let anything happen to me?"

"I guess not…" He slumps down at my feet and watches me write. "Fine. But only this once."

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"Lucy-charma! Will you summon the pretty lady?"

I glance at Fro's hopeful face and smile. Fro adored Navi, she was quite pretty and very timid. She almost died of a heart attack when Laxus had entered the house after his… 'Happy Time' with Cana, radiating contentment and thinking things that will give me nightmares for years. No-one missed the brown scales dotting his neck and for some reason he smelt different. I confronted Cobra and he said because I had been spending so much time with Dragon Slayers, he wouldn't be surprised if small amounts of magic wore off on me. Nothing too major, I won't be able to use Dragon Slayer magic or anything like that, but I should be able to hear and smell better. Not as good as the mate of a Dragon Slayer, but well enough.

"Maybe. If I don't die from exhaustion first." I smile, but this was seriously killing me. My legs screamed in protest and my lungs burned fire. I am so unfit. Sting was in front of me by a few meters and stopped every minute or so to check if I was still behind him.

"Sting!" I call. He turns but doesn't stop, instead he walks backwards. "Can we take a break?"

"Can you last five minutes? There's a better place to rest up a bit further."

I shake my head and wheeze.

"Jeez, you're hopeless." He walks over to me. "I'm going to pick you up okay? I'll carry you there." He waited for my answer, after a while I nodded. He was being a lot nicer around me lately. Asking permission before he did something, apologising when he did something stupid. Not touching me, or flinching away when he did by accident.

"Piggy back or bridal style?" He asks. In answer I step into his arms unwillingly.

"So." He says trying to keep a straight face. "This whole Acnologia thing…"

"What about it?" I curl my hands against his chest and shut my eyes. I hadn't wanted to get my new cloak dirty so I had left it behind. I regretted it now though. It was freezing and occasional coughing spasms wracked my body, leaving me weaker than before. Sting was warm though, not as warm as Natsu, but warm enough. Unthinkingly, I snuggled into him and he tenses before relaxing and pulling me closer.

"Fro wants to be carried too!" Fro squeaks. She leaps up and lands on Stings shoulder. She then slides down and lands in the curve of my body. I pull her closer and she sighs happily.

"Want to join in the hug fest Lily?" I ask. Lily was in battle mode, trying to prolong the amount of time he could spend in that form. It was harder for him when doing physical exercise, but he was getting better. He shakes his head and continues to glare at the back of Sting's head.

"He's not doing anything bad, don't worry."

We walk in silence for the next few minutes, and when we reach the top of the 'hill' as Sting called it or 'mountain' which is what I called it, Sting put me on the ground and waited for 10 minutes before announcing that training was about to begin.

Hi to Sa-nee! I got lazy towards the end, I think you can tell… I think I'm losing my momentum. This was originally around 1, 000 words but I felt it was too short so I took some of the next chapter and put it in here. And who likes Natsu's um… Explanation? XD

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