Emotionless

Chapter 59, Loopholes

A/N: Everyone makes mistakes the first time around, and so if you see any errors of spelling or of grammar, that's the reason why.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

Lucy's Pov...

"Water?" Kenzou asked, his curiosity leaking into our bond.

At my nod a glint flew into his six eyes and he nodded in understanding. Most likely figuring the connection through my thoughts.

"It's a good plan, and intelligent to call me out to do so. We never did discuss my capabilities have we? Well, as the three headed dog I am called many things. Cerebus is the official name for myself, however there are other names, and Hydra is one of those..." He trailed to see if I knew what a Hydra was exactly.

I did not.

"A hydra is essentially a being of snake species and regrows two more heads when one is cut off. Technically the same would go to us, if we weren't immortal already so to speak. However, we do take on the abilities a Hydra possesses which in other words are it's three elements. Fire, Ice, and Lightning. Unlike your friend's ice which cannot melt, mine can, and fire melts ice... so there's water." Kenzou finishes.

I nod understanding it, and smile slightly. I don't think I'll regret buying Kenzou's key at that store, seeing he does more than just battles.

"Indeed." Kenzou replies, clearly hearing my thoughts causing me to scratch my neck sheepishly.

I have a hunch the others are looking us confused, hearing only parts of our conversation.

The glint off of Kenzou's sharp teeth revealing a grin tells me he agrees with me.

Guess you cover the fire part then, correct Kenzou? At his nod I pull out Evilyn's key and pour more of my magic into it before slitting my thumb open with my teeth to drop a few blood droplets on her key then chant.

""I am the mortal who connects the road to the depths of Hell... Thou, shalt respond to the calling and pass through the gate. Open a door to the Nightlock, Evilyn!"

Evilyn appeared before me once again out of her silver portal looking just as magnificent and deadly as she had before.

Internally I heard Kenzou snort.

Shut up. I reply teasingly back.

"What do you need, Commander?" She asks me, bringing on of her fans up to her cheek with a raised eye-brow of why we're not currently at battle. It was a look that said you-better-have-a-good-reason-or-I'll-kill-you-look.

I distantly heard Kei and Kenzou snort in the back of my mind.

"You control wind, do you not Nightlock?" I ask her, using her last name for formality.

"I do, and call me by my name not my title." She replied, flicking her fans open.

"Then you shall call me Lucy, Evilyn." I reply.

"So be it, now what is it you need?" She asked, her eyes analyzing the area before landing on the wind barrier, as though knowing it assesses an answer to her question.

"I need to create a tunnel to the other side, and with the combination of your wind, because it is powerful enough to break through earth when combined with fire and water at large levels of magic power it will create a large deep hole, where we will continue to create a tunnel manually until we make it to the other side of this barrier." I tell her, informing the others on my plan as well this way.

Evilyn nods in acknowledgement before smirking. "It's a good thing I didn't just get a wielder of strength but also one of intellect. May I ask who will deliver the fire and water attacks?" She asked, her eyes settling on Kenzou who stared right back, as if daring her to try something before averting her eyes back on me.

"Aquarius the Celestial spirit will handle the water since she has the strongest water attack while I figured Natsu, the pink-head, would make the fire attack since he is a fire-dragon slayer." I reply, hearing Natsu let out a cheer for finally being able to use his magic, having no battles to have fought in on the mission as of yet where he could use his magic.

Evilyn sneered at the mention of the former. "A Celestial Spirit, hmp? It's about time one of us showed them up by now anyways. Alright, so be it." Evilyn agreed to my what would be relief if I had emotions.

Though now I'm curious how Aquarius will react to Evilyn and having the usion raid with her considering they're literally complete opposites.

"Alright Kenzou, you take the lead." I tell him to which he nods before his right head lifts up facing the ceiling and roars out a blast of frost which hardens into ice in mere seconds forming a crescent shaped ice-sculpture. The left of his head lifts up before roaring out a steam of fire, which immediately began to melt the crescent moon until it had literally turned to rain, forming a large puddle below.

Nice.

I pull out Aquarius's key and then dip it into the water before chanting, "Open Gate of the Water Bearer, Aquarius."

In a flash of gold she appeared with the usual tick mark on her brow and angry frown on her face when her eyes landed on me, completely ignoring my appearance unlike the last time in the other dimension.

"You did not just summon me in. a. puddle." She dared me to say yes, and in a way I did.

"Technically it's a puddle made from a hydra, more impressive than just an ordinary puddle."

She stared at me, before swiftly turning around to be face to face with the two other spiritual beings; Kenzou and Evilyn.

"I see... what do you want?" She asked me, surprising me for actually asking for once. Probably to put up a show for the Mythical and Hell Gate Keys. Tsk, so Aquarius-like.

"I want you to use your strongest water attack in usion with Evilyn's wind attack and Natsu's fire attack, are you prepared?" To cooperate? Was at the tip of my sharp tongue, but bit that last part back knowing I need her water attack in order for this to work.

Dependability sucks, but necessary none the less.

"Ch, fine you damn brat." She replies, not giving up her entire personality for my act, but at her clenched jaw I knew she wanted to throttle me with her water into the wind barrier for a painful punishment.

Shame I can't feel pain... for her.

I smile back, putting up an act as well, but knew everyone but my teammates could see through it.

"Alright, let's get this done already then. We don't have eternity to catch up with Erigor." I turn around a wave Natsu over, "Natsu! get your ass over here and use your strongest fire attack in usion with the others, alright?!" I tell him.

"Err, yeah sure!" He replies, "I'm all fire up!"

I roll my eyes at his antics and give Kenzou a nod before he returns back inside his gate to his, what I assume, Mythical world.

I walk over to what remains of a statue before looking back to my three attackers. "You'll have to create a hole as close to the wind barrier as possible, so this doesn't take forever to make a tunnel." I tell them before stepping to the side near Erza, Gray, Mirajane, and Lisanna who have been gaping in surprise at the current situation.

"I'll leave it to you three, then." I say, giving them the signal with the go-ahead motion of my hands.

Evilyn pulls her fans back whilst opening them, pulling a large portion of the winds from the wind barrier and rears it back as her magic forms the gathering winds into the shape of a nightlock. Aquarius rears her urn back while a humongous wave falls back as well, releasing the roars of the ocean behind her. Natsu lets out a toothy grin before summoning his magic together creating a huge fireball of flames behind him.

Being the furthest away behind the two spiritual beings his magic merged with the closest magical energy nearest to him - the nightlock winds.

The nightlock set aflame but did not burn and instead roared with power and magical energy as it grew in size. The water then merged next, creating a flaming blue nightlock which swiftly transformed into a serpent with the head of a dragon before it reared back like an ocean's wave and rushed forward toward my marked area.

The collision was harsh and powerful, causing the building to shake itself. The flaming heat of Natsu's flames decayed the stone that made of the floor while the water turned the dirt below soft and as a finality the wind tore through, and together the three elements rushed further downwards. Natsu let out a loud cheer and jumped back while Evilyn and Aquarius controlled the flow of the wind and water rush below, creating the blueprints of the tunnel inside their minds, and somehow together their strength created a tunnel that went down, before curving upwards.

With a final rush of power the usion of the three elements blasted outward, creating a visible wave on the other side of the barrier, showing everyone the plan had worked.

The others cheered while I internally made a comment to Kenzou. Aquarius and Evilyn met each others gaze as though daring the other to say their attack beat the others but when none came they both rolled their eyes before returning to their worlds.

Internally they reminded me of sisters from another universe, oh the irony of similar personalities to those who hate each other.

"Good job Lucy, that was a clever stragedy." I hear her voice, as Erza comes to stand beside me while we looked down the tunnel.

"Took forever though." Mirajane grumbled, before sliding down the hole into the tunnel. I roll my eyes, internally biting back a response that said faster than doing nothing at all.

"She doesn't mean it, nii-san just lacks the ability to say thank you and be done with it." I look over my shoulder to see Lisanna who was teasing her sister, but at the same apologizing for her actions.

Hold on, who was the older sister? I think to myself sarcastically.

"Believe me, I know." I say, before leaping in to the tunnel, followed by everyone else.

Normal Pov...

The six mages stood in the clearing outside of the wind barrier, further enough to not be blown away but close enough to still have their hair flying everywhere and in every direction.

Lucy found herself in thought on being very happy she was not wearing a skirt... remembering the incident that happened here when that had.

Yeesh.

However, it was then she realized how wrong this picture felt, the five people in front of her felt like one of them shouldn't be there... she just couldn't pinpoint who.

She vaguely wondered where Happy had gone, he hadn't appeared at all in this dimension and it has been bugging her from time to time not seeing the annoying blue exceed.

Maybe it was a cost that allowed Lisanna to stay in this world? Lucy did not know, but she had a feeling that Happy had been a key to this... event.

The question for Lucy was exactly why?

What was it about Happy gone that made this picture so wrong? They didn't have much time now as they didn't have much time in the past for her in her original dimension.

They probably wouldn't have even been able to stop Erigor from killing the Guild masters if it wasn't for...

Oh, shit.

Lucy almost face-palmed but remembered where she was and who was around her from stopping the action.

Damnit! She cursed herself for having such of a lack for this particular event even if it was something she would rather forget because of the past... the past! The past where Happy, Natsu's exceed, had flown Natsu full speed to Erigor where he fought and defeated him giving them extra time to catch up, allowed Kageyama to steal the Lullaby and try to kill the Guild Masters but stopped because he didn't have the heart - thank Mavis!

But now, with Happy gone and Kageyama frozen Lucy had no predicament to what would occur, she just knew that someone had to find Erigor to make time for the others to catch up for backup!

Mirajane and Erza and winged armors but wouldn't know where to look for Erigor since he could have taken various routes to Clover Town. Natsu was able to track him down because of his enhanced smell and hearing, it was because of that he caught up to him and defeated him.

Now though, Natsu has no exceed to fly him there, leaving them stuck...

At this rate, they wouldn't make it to Clover Town unless someone flew there themselves with the ability of tracking Erigor down immediately.

Wait a moment, Lucy realized, she had the ability of enhanced senses do to her Lost Soul magic and her latest magic given by the Dragon King. She also could fly there...

"We won't make it." Lucy voiced suddenly, startling everyone and drawing their attention to her.

"What do you mean we won't make it, we have to at least try!" Natsu shouted angrily, thinking of "Gramps" his Guild Master.

"No... she's right." Mirajane conceded.

"We have to try!" Erza shouted, trying to gift spirit to her comrades.

"No." Lucy said, gathering the others attention. "No- I mean one of us has to go ahead to give the rest of us time to catch up. At this rate, Erigor will get there no matter how fast we drive there. But... if one of us goes ahead and hold Erigor back for a bit, the rest of us can catch up giving us a better chance to stop him from using Lullaby." She finished, surprising her teammates, reliving Gray from his worry, and sparking their spirits back into them.

"You're right, but who would be able to catch up to them?"

Lucy faced the others, almost appearing like a leader. "Erza, you and Mirajane have flight armor. Thing is, you can't pick up a trail like Natsu can. Since Natsu can't fly and neither can Gray or Lisanna, only one of us can who has both the ability to fly and pick of trails." Lucy told them.

"You." Gray answered the rhetorical statement.

Lucy nodded. "The rest of you need to take a magic-mobile, Erza your not driving it. You've already depleted most of your magic, I recommend that Mirajane and Gray switch off half and half so you two still have a good portion of your magic when you reach Clover Town."

"You said you could fly there, how?" Mirajane demanded, not liking the idea of putting her faith into a stranger.

Lucy smiled, before gathering her black aura around her, and then formed the familiar black surf board beneath her feet lifting her two feet off the ground.

"Magic." Lucy replied, her smile becoming a smirk as her black eyes met Mirajane's.

Erza stepped up to her. "You'll be able to hold Erigor back then?" She asked the blond mage.

"Of course." Lucy started with a determined voice. "I've faced far worse before." Lucy finished before giving her comrades a salute before lifting higher into the air, her eyes meeting Gray's for a split second as he nodded to her before she flew away over the town.

"Soulless Eyes." She whispered, pouring her magic into her eyes giving them their enhanced sight that surpassed the dragon slayers.

Lucy sniffed the air, searching as a dragon would, as she learned 4000 years ago. Dragons sniffed the air to taste what type of their kin were or had been in the area, as in friend or foe types.

In this case, it was dragon or man. Knowing that there hasn't been a dragon around in legends she doubted she would smell out a dragon's scent. The air should be clean of man's scent, and a bird's scent won't be picked up since it's barely anything.

And a human scent is what she received. Erigor's she was positive. Her eyes focused in the direction of his scent's trail before zooming forward at an incredible speed, it wasn't Mirajane speed but it certainly wasn't average.

All she could do now was be patient, and figure out a plan on how she should exactly take this situation, knowing it was all in her hands now.

Ten Minutes Later...

Erigor came to a stop in the air as he set his eyes on the target ahead of him.

Clover Town.

Right as he was about to fly forward over the bridge of train tracks he came to a sudden stop as a chill crept up his spine.

Looking behind him, his eyes widened at the sight behind him. "It's You..."

"Yeah." A feminine voice sounded, the blonde mage flying toward him on her black surf that suddenly filled his vision away from her.

"You're worst nightmare." She said, before spinning her black surf sharply around, knocking Erigor right out of the air sending him plummeting to the ground of the train tracks below.

Erigor raised to his feet, the veins in his eyes visible in anger and something else... "Why are you here?" He shouted at her, picking up his scythe that had plummeted to the ground with him.

Lucy flew down to the train tracks, her black surf dissipating beneath her, allowing her to step firmly on her the ground once again, ready to face Erigor on even grounds.

"Why do you think, Erigor? To defeat you."

I would've made this longer, but instead will make the rest unto the next chapter since the manga chapter ends here as well.

Emotionless has now been planned out, so if I stop for a time it won't be for writer's block, or at least it shouldn't be.

Until next chapter!

-Queen