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The spirits, arriving at the Palace of Darkness, found rubble. So much rubble. Knowing their princess was inside there somewhere, Virgo dug a large hole, creating a huge tunnel and using her magic to sense where Lucy lay. Coming up onto the surface, she was greeted with the sight of Lucy, her eyes closed and skimpy nightrobe on. Tears streaming out her eyes, she screamed, a gut wrenching sound that caught the spirits off guard. What could be causing her to make such a sound?
Then, they noticed the people lying on the ground around her bed. Loke was the first to connect the dots. "She's still asleep and is fighting enemies in her dreams." He said, voice dark. "However, someone wants the new Queen of Darkness dead. So in some ways, the nightmares saved her. But judging by that scream, they also destroy her."
The spirits surrounding him nodded and began to gather up the badly injured spirits. But as Loke, made his way towards Lucy, he saw something that made him freeze, horror written clearly on his face.
Aquarius, the first to notice Loke's behaviour glanced over to where his gaze was directed and dropped the spirits she was gathering. Together, the two of them walked towards the figure lying on the ground. How could this happen. After all, only the King could allow someone like this into the celestial plane.
Sharing a look, the two spirits covered up the body of this person and Aquarius enveloped it in water, sending it to King's palace. Then Loke went over to Lucy once more and this time succeeded in awakening her.
Lucy woke with a start, surprise and fright in her eyes. Then, seeing it was just her spirits, she smiled. But there was a sadness to her smile. Once again, she felt as though there were things she simply couldn't remember. Shaking off the feeling for now, she looked around and saw the amount of bodies being moved from her room.
"What's going on, Loke?" she inquired, still slightly sleepy. Loke, helping her to her feet and filled her in on what they thought must have been going on while she was sleeping.
Suddenly though, a hand appeared from behind the bed and grabbed Lucy. Before Loke could do anything though, some magic limiting handcuffs were snapped onto her hands and she disappeared.
Loke screamed in frustration. Why do bad things always happen to the good people? Ophiuchus, awoken by the clattering and magical bursts entered the room. Seeing the twelve but no Lucy, he immediately gathered something was wrong.
"They've taken her haven't they?" He said, already knowing the answer to the question. Loke nodded. Then his brain seemed to catch up with what Ophiuchus had just said. "Wait, who have taken her?"
Ophiuchus shook his head. "Isn't it obvious?" He said, wondering how Loke didn't already realise what had happened. "Lucy got someone requesting permission to attack Fairy Tail a couple of days ago. This was before she recovered some of her memory. She accepted it." At this Loke gasped.
"Then, the spirit told her the new guild had recently acquired some new golden keys…" All twelve of the golden spirits surrounding Ophiuchus swore. "I'm betting that they didn't want a previous owner of these keys running around with dark celestial magic. So it was simpler to kidnap her and kill her off. Of course while, she is still wearing the bracelet, she can't be killed. But they will realise this soon. Also, King can track down the bracelet if that helps you."
Loke was already out the door, thanking Ophiuchus as he ran towards the Castle of Light. All the other golden spirits ran after him. Well, all but one. Capricorn stayed behind, thinking about what Ophiuchus had just done. He could definitely be evil, but the act of kindness he had just committed showed he had balance.
Balance. It was needed for anything to function. It was needed in the new leader of evil.
At Fairy Tail….
Laxus came back through the guild doors and went straight to the request board, intent on picking out another long S-class request. He had already accepted and completed three supposedly month long S-class missions this week and the board, while usually completely full was becoming empty. Laxux's bank account however, was quickly filling up.
But it wasn't like he was doing this for the money. No, just the brief distraction it offered, along with the chance to bash up a few monsters. He wasn't even taking his usual team with him. Freed had completely broken down, as he expected him to do. After all, Mira wasn't the only one who was observant in this guild.
The other two were okay but completely occupied with trying to help Freed's depressing mood. So Laxus went alone. It seemed many of the guild members were realising just how much they truly loved the celestial mage. It had after all been ten months since she disappeared and everyone was fearing the worst at this point.
Laxus reached the board and went to grab a random request when his grandfather stopped him. "Laxus, my office." He said, before hopping off the stool he had used to be tall enough to stop Laxus getting the request and walked towards his office.
Sighing, Laxus followed him, expecting to get a whole stop being so stupid talk. But instead, his gramps began to beam. "You and Lucy huh?" He asked, looking expectantly at Laxus, who began choking on air.
Once he had recovered enough to talk, Laxus shook his head vigorously. "What the heck Gramps?" He yelled. "When have Lucy and I even so much as talked to each other properly?" Master, shrugging, laughed in his face. It was somewhat of a new experience for Laxus. After all, a man of his height and with his reputation didn't get laughed at often.
"Then why on earth have you reacted like this to her disappearance then? You weren't even this disconnected when Ever, a member of your own group went missing for two years when you guys were young. Tell me then, Laxus, what's going on?"
Laxus began spluttering, trying to think of another reason for his admittedly odd behaviour. Master smirked, seeing Laxus stop fighting the inevitable and accept the fact that he did like Lucy.
Master let out an incredibly high pitched squeal and grinned at Laxus. "Thank the gods this finally happened. I was getting worried about those grandkids you promised me." Laxus looked at him indignantly. "I've never promised you any grandkids." He said.
Master pulled out a lacrima screen and showed him a short video of himself when he was four years old. Laxus facepalmed as Master once again smirked, knowing he had won the battle!
Please tell me if you find any errors in my work! I was a bit rushed today so I haven't edited it too well! Please review! Thanks for reading and tell me if you liked the romance coming into the story so far! It gets better!