Aftermath

Laxus' body trembled for a moment. He opened his right eye, looking over to his right from his hospital bed. "Would you stop looking at me with that pathetic face, it's annoying."

"I just want to make sure you're alright," Lucy said. She sat in the chair beside him with her hands in her lap and her head down filled with sadness and guilt. She clenched her fists with both her hands and pupils trembling.

Laxus had been bandaged up and the doctors had managed to stop his bleeding, but left him bedridden for the time being. His hand had also been broken in the fight that left him in even more of a sorry position.

"It's not your fault, Lucy." Laxus looked straight up at the ceiling. "We're facing a powerful enemy it can't be helped that some of us are going to be hurt."

"Yeah, but I couldn't do anything for you," Lucy said. "If I was faster maybe I could have stopped the bullet." Laxus shot up in his bed, sitting up. "Easy, Laxus you're break open your stitches."

Laxus latched his hands on top of Lucy's shoulders. "Don't say crap like that. I'll be fine so don't you think of being stupid like that idiot Natsu. This is a strong enemy and we have to think with our heads and not our hearts you got me." Laxus' eyes locked intensely on Lucy's.

Lucy slowly nodded.

"Good," Laxus said. Laxus then grabbed his bandaged stomach, clenching his teeth and shutting his eyes. He fell back in bed, feeling the pain set in. "I guess we're have to postpone the rest of this mission. You better tell the photographer in the morning."

Lucy just nodded. She was more concerned with Laxus' health than some reward money she could use for rent. She still had a little money left over from when Bolt helped her out last month. The A Class were without a doubt ruthless and Damien had almost took both of them out and she figured with seven more of them still running around they would be in constant danger especially considering how much Crime Spree seemed to hate their children.

Back at Fairy Hills in Wendy's room, Juvia lied on the young dragon slayer's bed. Wendy sat beside the water woman and had her hands hovered over the woman's injured side, using her healing magic to aid the woman.

Gray stood behind Juvia with his arms folded across his chest. "So will she be alright?"

Wendy finished her treatment and looked back at the boy. "I think so. She just needs to rest now." The young dragon slayer wiped her brow. "Did you guys really meet up with a B Class wizard from Crime Spree?"

"Yeah, we barely won too," Gray said. "They really are a powerful group and based on what Bolt and Layla told us there are still ten B Class left not to mention all the A and S class wizards."

Wendy looked down. "I wonder how we're going to send them all back when they have so many powerful wizards."

Gray putted his hand on the young girl's shoulder. "Don't worry, Wendy. We've never run away from a challenge before and besides all we really have to do is break their bracelets. We'll leave it to our future selves to take care of the rest."

"Right." Wendy filled herself with determination.

Rain came down on the grass field. The third and second degree burns on Bolt's skin cleared away. Layla walked over to her brother and kneeled down to his level. "How are you feeling?"

"Better, what did that big turtle of yours do?" Bolt questioned.

"He's a king," Layla corrected him. "He used his healing water magic. Its most affect against fire style magic or normal burns."

"Lucky for me," Bolt said. "But we have a problem. Our magic is too weak in this world if we are going to keep fighting."

"There's nothing we can do about it," Layla said. "We just have to do our best the master and everyone else is counting on us."

"Yeah, you're right." Bolt stood up. "Let's keep going. We still have a few more places to hit before we head back to Fairy Tail to report." Layla got back up on her feet.

Erza stepped off the train now back in Magnolia. She placed her hands on her hips. "Ah, it's good to be home after a mission well done."

"Yeah, great," Lucy sighed. She stood behind the red haired woman.

"We told you we didn't need all of you," Laxus said with his hands in his pocket. "So why did all of you come?"

Their two teams turned around to face them. "We weren't going to let something happen to you again, Laxus," Bickslow said.

"That's right as your personal bodyguards we can't let anything happen to you," Freed responded.

Natsu pointed at Laxus. "Besides you couldn't even protect Lucy, you big jerk."

Laxus stepped forward. "What you say?"

"Natsu, Laxus protected me just fine," Lucy shot back at him. "And I only called for Wendy to come heal Laxus. The rest of you just invited yourselves along." When Lucy had called Wendy so she could come heal Laxus, she ended up spilling the information to her team and the Thunder Legion.

Both teams being worried about their teammates came along with Wendy to find out what had happened. With Wendy's help, Laxus was able to heal up in just a couple of days while Lucy explained what had happen with the A class wizard.

Their teams had decided to act as their bodyguards for the rest the mission despite their objections. Lucy was plain tire from having to keep everyone in line while also finishing the rest of the photos. She was just glad her team wasn't there for the wedding shots.

Natsu kept ranting and almost burned down three sets to which Laxus and Erza had to keep knocking the idiot out. Also with the others constantly around them the new couple never actually got to spend another minute alone since they arrived.

"We had to make sure you guys were alright," Gray said. "You two seemed to be Crime Spree's main target."

"Who knew having such talented kids could be such much trouble," Bickslow said. 'Trouble, trouble, trouble,' his babies responded.

Lucy looked over at Laxus. "Speaking of Layla and Bolt do you think they're back yet?"

Laxus looked down at his girlfriend. "I don't think so. Unless something happened they shouldn't be back at the house or the guild hall until tomorrow."

"Oh, are you two looking to have some fun before they get back," Bickslow teased.

Both blondes blushed.

"No way!" Natsu shouted.

"Isn't it a bit too earlier for that?" Gray questioned.

Erza nodded in agreement. "They did only just start dating I think they have a lot of time before that."

"Yes, getting to know one another is most important right now," Freed agreed.

Laxus wrapped his arm around Lucy's shoulder, pulling her against him. "Then why don't you guys get lost so we can do just that." Laxus' hand laid right on the side of Lucy's left breast.

Natsu pointed at Laxus with his eyes turned right. "No way am I leaving you with Lucy. You might try something and there is no way-"

"Come on, Natsu," Erza said. She grabbed Natsu by the back of his scarf dragging him along. "We need to report the mission's success to master."

"As much as I would like to simply leave you two be, Laxus I gotten a call from the Master early this morning," Freed responded. "He wants us all to report to the guild hall. Your future children did indeed come back. Master wants an update from all of us."

The two blondes looked over at the green haired wizard.

All of the Fairy Tail wizards were gathered in the guild hall and looking up at Makarov who stood on the wooden railing of the second floor of the guild hall. He had his arms behind his back. "According to the reports we have gotten from our own members and the members of the other guilds, three more A class wizards have been dealt with along with a single B Class dropping Crime Spree's strongest ranks down to 21, 10 B Class, 5 A class, and 6 S class also about five bases have been located and taken out by our own, Saber Tooth, and Blue Pegasus."

"So no one has even seen an S class yet?" Elfman questioned.

Natsu looked over at Bolt and Layla. "Are you sure these S class guys even exist?" Natsu questioned.

"Would you shut up, loser?" Bolt rubbed his hand through the side of his hair. "You're giving me a headache. They exist, the only problem is-"

Layla looked up at her great grandfather. "They only choose to fight very rarely we don't know the reason why their master only sends them on so little missions, but we've found documents on their movements in our time."

Bolt crossed his arms over his chest and lowered his head to think. "But given the fact that half their A class are now gone their tactics will probably become more aggressive."

Natsu held up his fist, resting his other hand on his forearm. "I say bring it on."

Bolt punched Natsu right in the face. "Didn't I tell you to shut up? You're annoying." Natsu dropped to the ground.

"So what is our next move, Master?" Mirajane asked.

The building shook from the shock of an explosion outside. Everyone looked toward the doors. "What's going on?"