Hey guys! I hope you liked that last chapter! It was apparently really confusing, so yeah, I'm sorry. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter!

Disclaimer ~ I do not own Fairy Tail.

"Now Malthus, fight for me!" Nabirus yells as the cavern starts shaking again.

"Sorry Crystal," Malthus says, his hand covered in some sort of black magic.

I can't fight Malthus. Not in my current condition.

"Are you such a coward that you hide behind your son as a shield?" I yell at Nabirus. "Such a coward that you can't even give back my magic to fight? Is that how scared you are that I'm going to win?"

"I fear nothing!" Nabirus bellows. "You can have your powers back."

He changes back to how he was before and I feel dark energy surge through me as I face Malthus. "Sorry about this," I smile apologetically.

Malthus smiles back at me. "I'm just happy I got to see you see once more. Do what you need to."

I take a deep breathe and point at him. "Induce: Dea-" Before I can finish, I feel something hit me below the rib cage. I look up and Malthus looks horrified at his hand cutting through my stomach.

I stumble back as I hear Nabirus cackle: "Did you think it was going to be that easy?"

I resist the urge to "Yeah, kind of."

I fall down, but somehow manage to get to the healing potion in my front pocket. I gulp it down, sitting up and checking my stomach, which hasn't been healed completely, but is bleeding less.

I take off my jacket, throwing it to the side, and stand up again. "Induce: Dea-" I begin again, but I'm once again hit in the stomach. It's doesn't reopen my wound, but the impact sends me flying.

I struggle to my feet and look at Malthus. "Can't you hold back just a little?"

He laughs and says "I have no control over my body. This is your spell, Crystal, you should know that."

That's right. It's my spell.

I close my eyes for a second, trying to undo the spell, but apparently since I was not the caster I can't undo it. I open my eyes and Malthus is slowly approaching me, his hand turning into a spear. I jump out of the way and Malthus swings at me, barely missing me but cutting a good few inches off my hair.

"Induce: Death!" I yell, pointing at Malthus. It hits him squarely in the head and he falls over, beginning to disappear.

After Malthus completely disappears the cave begins to shake. The roof looks like it's going to fall and after one look at me, Nabirus disappears. I teleport out as well and collapse under a tree, and pass out from exhaustion.

When I wake up, I'm where I collapsed, but I have a warm cloth on my head. I sit up and see that there's a small bowl with water in it. Someone must've tried to help me get better, but they've probably gone to go get something. They'll probably be back soon, so I need to go.

I stand up and try to teleport back to Fairy Tail, but I can only teleport half the way there. I end up walking the rest of the way back. When I make it to the guild, I take a deep breathe and push open the doors.

"Crystal!" I hear from literally every direction, except of course, behind me.

"Hey guys," I say, waving to my guildmates as they attempt to suffocate me by hugging me.

"Why didn't you tell us you were going?!" Alex exclaims as everyone lets go.

"Er… You weren't in the guild?" I ask, pretending that I told the others I left.

"No, we weren't and apparently you didn't tell anyone when you left," Erza says sternly.

"Sorry, I had some business to take care of," I mutter, apologetically.

"We could've helped," Mai says.

"Didn't you cover for me?" I ask. "You could have blown my cover and come with me then."

"When?" Mai asks, looking extremely confused.

"When you guys were coming back from your mission and Natsu said he could smell me," I say, kind of bewildered because she's as confused as I am.

"That was you in the bush? I thought it was a stray cat or something," Mai says, trying to remember exactly what happened.

"So why'd you tell everyone to leave without me?" I ask. Since when did I have cat eyes.

"I was tired and I wanted to go to sleep," Mai says completely poker-faced.

"Wow, great." I say, rolling my eyes.

"Anyway, it's time we go out and get you something other than pants," Mai says, looking at my outfit in distaste.

"What's wrong with my pants?" I ask defensively.

"No female in their right mind would wear pants like that. Girls only wear dresses and skirts." Erza chimes in.

I huff but don't argue.

Ten minutes later, we're outside at some sort of store or something looking at different skirts.

"Why do I need a skirt?" I groan, as I'm forced into yet another skirt.

"Just be glad it's not a dress," Mai mumbles to me, as she looks at other skirts.

"This is your punishment for leaving without telling anyone," Erza says, examining the skirt I have on.

"Maybe a little longer," Lucy says, looking at other skirts.

At least it's black…

Around an hour later, I have three new skirts and a bunch of differently patterned t-shirts.

"Why did we get the shirts?" I ask, holding one up a pink one and hoping it would burn.

"Because you've been wearing the same white shirt for over 3 years," Lucy says, taking the pink one from me. "I don't think this suits her."

"Change your outfit, they said. It would be fun, they said," I mutter, shoving the other shirts and skirts into a bag.

"What was that?" Lucy says, absent mindedly.

"Nothing," I say.

"Well I think it's about time we head back, don't you think?" Erza says, looking at the sunset.

I don't know what I expected to see when we got back, but it certainly wasn't this…

And we're going to end it there. Sorry for the short chapter. I've barely finished editing the first chapter of this story and that's taken way more time than it should have. Also I wanna write another story, but it's not going to be a crossover or like a branch off of anything. I wanna write it from scratch, but I need to finish this story first. I highly doubt I'll even make the story, but we'll see. Anyways, I'll see you all next time! Bye!