A/N: This chapter is a lot longer, but It was desperately needed. Hope you guys enjoy. Please read and review. Me and Erin worked hard on this.

-Gray-

We got off the tram at the station and it took a while for Natsu to get used to solid ground again. Erza pulled the wagon with our bags while Erin went to get us a ride. Liz walked next to Wendy with Happy and Carla walking behind them.

"I can't believe it, Erin and I are going to be S-Class wizards."

She said smiling and it made me happy to see her so excited about this, but I was worried a bit too.

'What if she gets hurt?'

I thought. I knew she was strong enough to protect herself, but I couldn't help it.

'She couldn't get hurt anyways, we wouldn't allow it.'

"I found a wagon driver who will take us."

Erin said as she came up and fell in step with Erza.

"NO!"

Natsu complained from beside me, but he was ignored.

Erin led us to the wagon that was being pulled by two large mares. One of them was a shade of brown and had a black mane, the other was chestnut colored with a matching mane. When the bags were set and everyone got in, the wagon pulled off. Liz was looking out the window and I almost missed something. Natsu was hanging out the other window, Wendy and the cats were beside Liz, and Erza was beside me.

"Where are Lucy and Erin?"

-Erin-

'Come on Lucy! I swear, if we get left behind I'm gonna kick her ass.'

I thought as I waited for Lucy to finish her business.

'I can't believe I let her talk me into coming with her.'

I thought as I saw Lucy running towards me.

"Damn Luce, I know when nature calls you gotta answer, but really?"

I asked as we headed in the direction the others had gone.

"I'm sorry."

She said as we got to where the wagon had been. The only problem was that the wagon was gone.

"Dammit!"

I yelled and saw Lucy flinch.

"I'm sure they'll come back once they realize we're not with them."

Lucy said and I sighed.

"Come on Lucy."

I said, grabbing her hand and pulling her along after me as I headed in the direction the wagon and our friends had gone.

"No, we should wait for them. If we move they won't be able to find us."

Lucy said and I turned to look at her.

"Come on Lucy, you're a S-Class wizard, where's your sense of adventure?"

I asked my blonde haired friend.

"Back that way, not in the middle of a really dark forest crawling with bugs."

She said and I rolled my eyes before heading farther into the woods, pulling a complaining blonde Celestial Mage behind me.

-Liz-

I looked at Gray in shock. He was right, Erin and Lucy both were missing.

"We have to go back and get them."

Wendy said, but Erza shook her head.

"Erin knows where she needs to go and they are both Celestial Mages. They'll be fine."

She said and Wendy nodded.

"Okay."

Wendy said and I sighed as I looked back out the window. Erin could take care of herself, it was Lucy I was worried about.

"They may be fine, but you all won't be."

A voice from outside the wagon said before we suddenly came to an abrupt halt.

We all lurched forward and I wound up landing ontop of Gray.

"What was that?"

Erza asked standing up.

"Why'd we stop?"

Wendy asked as she sat up.

"Yes! We stopped!"

Natsu yelled then froze when he saw me lying ontop of Gray.

"Eww guys, get a room before you start doing stuff like that!"

He said and Gray and I looked at each other before blushing and scrambling apart.

"Come out slowly."

The voice form before said as the door to the wagon opened.

I looked at Erza for what to do next and she nodded. She went out first, followed bye Gray. Happy took Carla's hand before getting out. Natsu took Wendy's hand and followed shortly after. I sighed before following after them. My eyes widened when I saw we were completely surrounded by the very mages we'd come out here looking for.

One of them stepped forward. It was a man with short brown hair cut to just below his chin, small build, slim, scars all over his body. He was wearing a gray sleeveless t-shirt and a pair of jeans. I saw a dark red serpent wrapped around a sword and staff stamped onto his forearm. I noticed that the other mages surrounding us had the same marking.

'Guess we found the rogue mages, now all we have to do is wipe them out. Fun.'

I thought sarcastically to myself as I counted the mages surrounding us. We were easily outnumbered ten to one.

-Lucy-

Erin continued to drag me deeper and deeper into the forest. We stopped when we came upon a house in the middle of a clearing. It was huge, but was simply built.

"Who do you think lives all the way out here?"

I asked as we walked up the steps.

"I don't know, but I have a feeling like this is where we need to be."

Erin said and I groaned.

'Why did I know she was going to say that?'

"You check the left side, I'll check the right."

She said and disappeared before I could say anything.

I looked around cautiously as I walked through the empty halls of the house. As far as I could tell this house was abandoned. I froze when I heard a door creak open.

"Erin? Is that you?"

I asked, but screamed and ran when I saw a man with shoulder length black hair and a blue snake wrapped around a sword and staff stamped onto his leg. He was wearing shorts and a blue shirt. Miraculously, I managed to lose him and make it out of the house, but I froze when I saw all the mages outside waiting for me.

"It looks like this place is deserted. Did you find anything Lu…."

Erin said but stopped as she saw all the mages.

"…cy…"

She finished as she got to me.

"These the members of the Serpent Mages Guild?"

She asked as she cracked her knuckles. I turned and looked at my friend in shock.

'She's got to be kidding.'

I thought before I saw her jump off the porch of the house and attack one of the mages. That started a chain reaction and the mages all charged at Erin while some came after me.

'I guess she's not.'

I thought with a sigh as I grabbed my whip from my side.

"Let's have some fun then."

I said before jumping out of the way of one of the mages' attacks and charging at the others.

-Natsu-

I looked around at all of the mages surrounding us. They didn't look all that tough. They took Wendy and Liz towards the woods and gray froze them all. He got kicked to the ground and more mages surrounded Liz and Wendy. They tried taking Wendy away from her and she bit the hell out of a mage's hand. He howled in pain and Liz crouched in front of Wendy protectively.

"Nobody touches her or they'll have to deal with me. Ya got that?"

She said and the surrounding mages laughed, taking her threat as a joke. I couldn't help but smile at their stupidity. I learned the hard way that Liz didn't make idle threats.

I turned to look at Erza and she nodded. I burned through the ropes tying my hands behind my back and attacked the mage closest to me as Erza requipped and attacked the mages closest to her with her fists. I looked over towards Gray and saw him knocking out mages left and right.

'If the mages in this guild are this weak then this mission will be a piece of cake.'

I thought as I knocked out yet another mage.

-Lucy-

"Erin!"

I yelled. She was fighting a group of mages, but no matter how many she knocked down, more would show up. They just kept coming form the house we'd thought was empty. When she cleared a path to me she looked up at me.

"Lucy, come on."

She said as she ran up to me and pulled me across the clearing.

We ran towards the other side, but were stopped by a larger mage who stepped in front of us.

'He's huge!'

I thought. The mage looking down at us seemed like a perfect fight for Elfman. His golden-brown short cropped hair seemed to go in every direction and his deep set green eyes darted back and forth between me and Erin.

"Where do you think you two are going? The party is just gettin' started."

He said, his voice was deep and it reminded me a bit of Laxus.

"Oh really? I was wonderin' why it was so boring around here."

Erin said with a smile.

'Of course she would say that.'

I thought as the mage smiled as well before taking a swing at Erin, but that smile quickly disappeared when she caught his fist. Erin's foot was the next thing I saw, but when it connected with the side of the mage's face I saw him hit the ground faster than he'd appeared. She turned to me and her smile faded too.

"You've got to be kiddin' me."

She said. I turned to see mages spread out all over the clearing, seeming to be coming out of the house nonstop.

-Gray-

'Damn. It seems like these guys are endless.'

I thought as I blocked an attack from one mage while freezing another. I'd noticed how we dealt with the weaker ones at first, but now they were getting stronger. I looked over to see Natsu and Erza were fighting together against the mages and Natsu looked over at me. I nodded to him and he nodded back before knocking out a couple of mages with his fire punches.

I turned to see how Happy and Carla were doing. They'd managed to get away from the mages and were hiding in the trees.

"Liz!"

I heard Wendy yell and turned to see Liz surrounded by about ten mages. I started to run towards her, but got cut off.

"Get out of my way."

I said, but the mage smirked at me before attacking.

"Ice make sheild!"

I yelled and blocked his attack. I rounded on him and knocked him into the woods. I turned back to Liz to see her fighting off the remaining three of the ten mages.

She looked up at me once she'd knocked them all to the ground. She smiled at me before turning and nodding to Wendy who turned and released her Wind Dragon Roar. It pushed a couple of the mages back, but that was it. They laughed and advanced on them. I saw Liz smirking at them before my view of her got cut off by more mages.

'This is gonna get old quick.'

I thought before charging at the mages surrounding me.

-Erin-

'This is crazy. It's like we're playin' chess or something'.'

I thought as I punched a tall mage into a younger one.

"Lucy, we need help!"

She wasn't far from me, but with all these mages surrounding us I'm surprised she heard me. She nodded and curled her whip up at her side. She picked up her keys from her side and grabbed one. She smiled at me and I heard her say,

"I am connected to the Spirit World."

She said as she swung her key across the air then shouted,

"Open, Gate of the Golden Bull. Taurus!"

A circle of yellow light appeared at her side and an extremely tall, heavily muscular and athletic humanoid looking bull appeared. His body was covered in a black and white pattern similar to those of a cow's. The upper part of it, from the waist up, was more massive than the lower half. He had a pair of small, elongated ears jutting out from the sides of his head, and a pair of horns, showing he was a bull. He had dark eyes, and his flat nose had a large golden ring in it. He was wearing a pair of swim briefs that, thankfully, were covering his groin. They were held up by a red, studded belt, with a circular, thin, golden metal buckle, with a pair of curved protrusions jutting outwards from it in its upper part. His feet were covered in simple dark boots. His forearms were wrapped in bandages, and he wore brown fingerless gloves on his hands. Crossing his chest diagonally and passing over his right shoulder was a large, plain dark belt which held a giant axe.

"Well hey there Miss Lucy. Takin' care of that nice body?"

Taurus asked. He was perverted as hell, but very powerful.

'Well, I might as well summon too.'

I thought with a sigh. I knew exactly who to choose. I picked her key off my ring and held it to the sky.

"Open, gate of Yin and Yang. Pisces!"

I shouted and a blue circle appeared in front of me and the wind circled around the area where a small girl stood. She was easily 4'3" and had her blue-green hair pulled up in pigtails on either side of her head. She looked ten, but I knew she was much older than that. She wore a white dress that ended at her thighs and a dark blue, bell-sleeved shirt covered the top half. Her black stocking went up to meet the end of her dress. She turned to me and her emerald green eyes shinned.

"Hello Erin."

She said in her usual soft, bell-like voice.

"Pisces, want to help out?"

I asked, she loved it when I let her decide. I never asked why, but we just ton into the habit of doing it. When she nodded and smiled I did the same.

"Ready Lucy?"

I asked. She was looking at Pisces then turned to me and nodded.

"Taurus?"

She asked turning to her spirit.

"Born ready Miss Lucy."

He said, I could tell he was smiling by the sound of his voice.

Lucy turned back to me and said,

"Let's do this."

Again, I nodded to my fellow Celestial Mage and got ready to fight.

-Liz-

I growled as I knocked down more of the mages from the guild we'd come to get rid of.

'I know this is a S-Class mission, but what the hell is with all these mages? It's like there's an endless supply of them or something.'

I thought as I threw one away from Wendy. Some snuck up behind me and I rounded on them only to have them get frozen. I looked up in shock to see Gray looking at me. I nodded my thanks before turning back to the other mages. They smirked at me and I cracked my knuckles before charging at them. I pulled back and was about to punch the one closest to me when he was frozen in his spot. I narrowed my eyes and turned to glare at Gray.

'What the fuck is up with him freezing all my opponents?'

I wondered before I heard Wendy scream.

"Liz!"

I turned to see a big man with mid-back blonde hair holding her by the throat. She was struggling to get free.

"Let. Her. Go."

I said, trying to keep my temper. I'd lost it only once and Erin suffered for it. She has a nice little scar across her lower back because of me.

The mage just smiled at me and tightened his grip around Wendy's neck.

"Why don't you make me girlie?"

He asked and I growled before charging at him, using my enhanced speed to disappear from his sight and appear behind him. Then, I kicked him in the back of the head sending him stumbling forward. I grabbed Wendy and pulled her behind me before running up to the mage about to finish the job. My fist was inches away from his face when he was suddenly encased in ice just like the others had been. I was about to scream, but didn't get the chance when I heard Wendy scream again. I turned to see about five mages closing in on us from all directions. I smirked at all of them as they ran towards us.

'Piece of cake.'

I thought as I ran towards them. Mentally preparing my first attack, but before I could even get close enough to the first mage to knock him out they were all frozen on the spot and I lost it.

"Dammit all to fucking hell Gray! Stop taking all my opponents!"

I screamed and the few non-frozen mages closest to us froze and looked at me in shock before laughing and charging at me. I turned and glared at Gray who I saw was in position to freeze them all. I growled at him, daring him to freeze them again and he looked at me confused and froze the mage that was closest to me despite my warning and my anger went through the roof.

I clenched my fists at my sides trying to calm down, but it wasn't working. Wendy looked at me worriedly when I didn't move for a while despite the oncoming enemies.

"Liz? Are you o-"

She started to ask and I just shook my head before raising it and looking at the oncoming mass of rogue mages.

"Water…Dragon….."
I started and saw Wendy's eyes widen before she scrambled behind me. I saw Gray move closer and get ready to freeze more of the mages coming after me and released my pent up rage.

"ROAR!"

I screamed and the water vapor in the air solidified and turned into a massive wave that enveloped all the rogue mages and blew them away. The entire clearing was covered in water, though I was careful enough to make sure my water went around my friends, keeping them safe. When my attack finally finished, not a single mage from the rogue guild was left standing. They were all knocked out cold. Natsu, Erza, Wendy, Happy, Carla, and Gray all looked at me in shock, but I just closed my eyes to keep from killing my boyfriend. There are very few things that piss me off, taking my opponents during a fight is one of them. And I don't give a damn who you are, you don't do that.

"L-Liz? Are you okay?"

Erza asked and I took a calming breath before opening my eyes to look at my scarlet haired friend.

"Let's find Erin and Lucy before Gray winds up six feet under."

I said before walking past them all and heading towards the direction I felt Erin's power coming from, ignoring the confused looks on all of their faces.

-Erin-

My side started to hurt after a hooded mage sent vine magic at me. I couldn't move fast enough and it punched my left set of ribs. Lucy and Taurus were working their way up to the house and I told Lucy I would take care of the ones outside with Pisces. Pisces was no longer the happy, bright girl I'd summoned. Her split personality had come through. She's sensitive to the emotions around her and since the mages around us were rogue, she's flipped her lid.

"All you mofos are gonna get hurt!"

She yelled.

The mages who laughed or challenged her got hit with her magic and hit the ground with a loud thud. She looked over to me and her face softened. She came to my side and put her hand on my ribs.

"Hold on. Are you okay?"

She asked.

"My side hurts a little, but I'm okay."

I said. It was mostly the truth. When she removed her hand, the pain stopped.

'She used her magic.'

I thought.

"Thank you. We need to find Lucy and Taurus."

I said to her. She nodded to me and we ran to the house.

The mages that were all around seemed to not care about us anymore. They were looking at a man on the stairs of the house. He was about 5'8" and was covered in the same cloak the others were wearing.

'He has to be the leader or guild master.'

I thought. I saw Lucy standing not too far away from me, Taurus by her side.

"You should not be here."

The hooded man said. His voice was rough and when he raised his hand it was parallel to the ground. Lucy looked to me and ran over. When she got to my side she looked worried, and she had a right to be.

"We need to get out of here. That's Jeremiah Todd."

She whispered.

"So?"

I asked. Even with the cloak I could tell he wasn't that big.

"He's the reason this is a S-Class job."

She whispered.

'I already knew that, thanks for the new info Lucy.'

I thought sarcastically.

"He has Summon Magic."

She said and my eyes widened in shock. I didn't know that.

The hooded mage, Jeremiah, held his hand up to where the palm was facing Lucy and me.

"Summon: Mountain Giant."

He didn't yell, but his voice seemed to carry across the entire clearing. Then, a very large green circle appeared in front of the house and the ground shook.

"Miss Lucy, I think you need to summon him."

Taurus said to Lucy and she nodded.

"Forced gate closure, Taurus."

She said and Taurus disappeared, then she grabbed a different key from her ring and held it to the sky.

"Open, gate of the Lion. Leo!"

She yelled, Beside her a golden-yellow circle appeared around a blinding light. When the light faded a serious looking spirit stood. I looked him over and my heart skipped a beat and my breath caught in my throat.