The Vanish brothers lay on the floor unconscious and completely unable to move smoke coming from their mouths.

"Were we...were we just beaten by a fire wizard." The smaller one said, dazed.

"Hey, bro tell me when the room stops spinning k." The taller one replied.

"That'll teach you." Natsu tells them. "Now then better find Lucy; these merchant fairies are toast."

"We're mercenaries." They groan in pain.

As Natsu walks off, Virgo's eyes glow as she starts to move.

Back in the sewers, Everlue continues to hold onto Lucy. "Enemy of literature; my massive book collection proves I'm culture's greatest friend." He snorts

"But that ugly maid collection of yours shows you know nothing about beauty." Lucy shoots back.

"How dare you mock them they're the very definition of beauty." Everlue says, angered. "What secret does it hold? Let me guess he buried his fortune, and there's a treasure map inside."

Lucy sticks her tongue out at the man making him even madder. "Listen, I recommended this book's very creation, so any secret it holds is rightfully my property." Everlue says as he pushes Lucy onto the ground.

Happy then flies and pinches Everlue right in his cheek, causing him to let go of Lucy. He flies away Laughing, but his area magic where's off, and he falls into the sewer water.

"What's this?" Everlue asks, standing up. "A flying cat."

"The names Happy," Happy says as he swims in the water.

"I wouldn't stay in there if I were you." Lucy says

"But the water feels so good." Happy remarks as he floats away.

"that's sewer water, Happy." Lucy says as she deadpans

Dear Kaby

"Looks like the tables have turned." Lucy states as she pulls out one of her keys. "Ket me keep the book, and I'll go easy on you, but I'm tempted to give you a good smack."

"Ah, so you're a celestial wizard." Everlue states. "but for a reader, your temps seem to be a bit definitions," Everlue states as Happy floats back to where they are, "The tables have turned implies that the weaker party has rallied to claim victory."

"But there's no way you and that cat can stop me and my diver magic yoyoyoyoyoyo." Everlue uses Diver to sink into the ground. Happy says, amazed.

"he does that using magic. I had no idea that Everlue was a wizard."

Everlue then repeatedly attacks Lucy, but she dodges all of his attacks. "Look, I read the whole story; know it's a trashy story about a character named Duke Everlue."

"Well, I wouldn't call the protagonist trash, but yes." Duke Everlue then dives back into the ground. "The story itself is crap, and to think it was written by the great Kemu Zaleon." Everlue states as he flies through the sewers.

His attacks forced Lucy to back down until she reaches some steel bars, which he breaks through. "Inexcusable."

"I can't believe your arrogance; you forced him to write it!" Lucy shouts.

"Arrogant, the word doesn't even begin to comply. Telling my story is an honor." Everlue proclaims.

"Oh yeah, then why'd you have to blackmail him into it?" Lucy asked him.

"Blackmail." Happy inquires.

"What's the big deal?" Everlue asks as he pops out of a wall. "He just needed some extra encouragement to take the job."

"Oh really." Lucy said.

"Anyone would have jumped at the chance to have me as their muse, but he had the audacity to say no." Everlue told Lucy as he same through the Earth and went back in. "So I gave him some inspiration in the form of an ultimatum write the book or his family would be stripped of their citizenship."

"But then they wouldn't be able to become a wizard or even make a living." Happy said. "You really have the power to do that."

"I have the power to do anything." He said as he jumped from the ground beneath Lucy and Happy, "I got him to right it didn't I." He said as he went back into the ground. "But I didn't like his attitude, so I thought he'd better righting a prison cell boyoyoyo."

"I can't believe you'd go that far to boost your own stupid ego." Lucy said as she continued to dodge Everlue attacks. "He was in solitary confinement for three years. Don't you know how hard that must have been?"

"Three years." Happy said, amazed.

Everlue then appeared from the rubble, making Lucy jump back. "Maybe it took him that long to appreciate me."

Lucy landed on one knee "more like who couldn't stand to spread your lies." Lucy staring at the man, "But he had to satisfy your vanity." Lucy kept talking, "he knew if he didn't write your character as a heroic champion of justice, his family would suffer,"

"Tell me," Everlue asked, confused, "how is it? Do you know about all this?"

"It's all right here in black and white." Lucy said, holding up the book.

"What." Everlue said, shocked. "I've read that book from cover to cover, and Kemu Zaleon isn't in it."

"Yeah, that's true." Lucy answered, "But I know something you don't know; long before he was an author, he was a wizard."

"He was," Happy asked.

"What did he do?" Everlue asked, infuriated.

"After he finished the book, he gathered all of his remaining strength and cast a spell on the book." Lucy explained.

"I don't believe it!" Everlue shouted. "What a dirty trick. He turned a book about a great man like me into a hack job. The nerve of that fool." he then began attacking Lucy again, who continued to explain.

"OH, get over it; he indeed wrote about the pain you put him through, but that's only a fraction of the book." Lucy said as Everlue stopped his assault. "In fact, it's secret has nothing to do with you at all."

"What the devil do you mean?" Everlue asked.

"Tell us, Lucy?" Happy asked.

"It means I'm taking the book because it was never yours, to begin with." Lucy said, putting the book away and pulling out one of her keys. "Open Gate of the Giant Crab Cancer." A giant crab then appeared from the key with two pairs of scissors in his hands.

"A giant crab!" Happy shouted excitedly.

"Aw yeah, nothing says I'm going to beat you, but Like a crab man with razor-sharp claws and tough guy sunglasses." Happy said, laughing.

"Let me concentrate, or he'll pinch your lips off." Lucy said, scolding the cat.

"Hey Lucy, how would you like your hair done today, baby?" Cancer asked.

"I don't need my hair done. I need help." Lucy told him, groaning, "It's that guy take care of baldy over there."

"Whatever you say, baby." Cancer said, getting ready for battle.

"Ah, so he just makes the bad guys look cooler before they kill us." Happy said. "You, Lucy, you should send this one back."

"I should send you back!" Lucy shot back.

'What could the secret be.' Everlue thought to himself. 'It must be a expose on all my illegal business deals; if the Magic Council got wind on how I made my fortune, my goose would be cooked.'

Everlue then pulled out a key and smirked.

"Open, Gate of the Maiden Virgo."

"What!" Lucy screamed.

"He's using your trick, Lucy." Happy said, shocked.

Virgo then burst out off the ground. "Did I hear my master summon me."

"Hold up. She's a celestial spirit?" Lucy asks, confused.

"Baby."

Lucy, Happy and Everlue looked up, shocked as Natsu appeared on Virgo's shoulder. "Natsu."

"Yeah." He answered, utterly confused about how he got there.

"What is the meaning of this!" Everlue shouted

"What are you doing up there?" Lucy asked the dragon slayer.

"Well, I saw her getting up, and I jumped on her, and all of a sudden, I ended up here." Natsu explained.

"So you jumped on her inside the house?" Lucy asked, shocked. "But that means, you would have to pass through the spirit world. that's impossible."

Virgo then attempted to get Natsu off her shoulder. "Lucy, what do I do now?" Natsu asked.

"Finish what you started!" Lucy shouted at the boy.

"Virgo clean up this rubbish!" Everlue shouted.

"As you wish, master." Virgo attempted to punch Natsu, who quickly dodged.

"Now I'm fired up. Fire Dragon Roar." A blaze of fire shot from Natsu's mouth, causing Virgo to fall over.

Lucy then took out her whip and tied it around Everlue.

"Can't dig your way out of this." She then threw him behind her. "You make me sick." Cancer then jumped from behind and slide at Everlue, causing him to fall over.

"Alright, I'm finished; this look good or what, baby." Cancer decreed as Everlue landed on the ground entirely without hair.

"Oh, yea, way to go, crab man." Natsu froze. "Baby."

The ground around them began to shake as all the holes made the foundation unstable, causing it to fall Natsu, Lucy, and happy all made it outside and looked at the crumbling mansion. "I like your style, Lucy, out with a bang."

"But aren't we not suppose to destroy stuff?" Happy asked, confused.

In the mansion, Virgo stared at Lucy with a dark look in her eye.

Natsu and Lucy give the book to Kaby melon at the melon residence, who is shocked by this "I thought I requested this book be destroyed, why are you handing it to me completely unscathed."

"If you want to burn it, then I much rather you do it yourself." Lucy explained.

"I most certainly will." Kaby replies.

"I never wanted to see this trash again." He said

"I understand." Lucy spoke up, "You want to protect his legacy because you're Zaleon's son, aren't you."

Kaby looked at the book "yes, that's true."

"did you ever read it?" Lucy asked

"I could never bring myself too." Kaby answered. "My father told me it was trash."

"So you were just going to burn it?" Natsu asked, slightly angered.

"Yes, I was," Kaby answered.

"But that's the last thing your father ever wrote," Natsu yelled, grabbing Kaby by the shirt "some of us would kill for that kind of memory."

"Natsu, stop," Lucy said, pulling him back, "let Kaby explain himself."

"Please listen," Kaby started, "that book caused my family great heartache and shame" he looked down at the book one more time "it was thirty-one years ago."

Flashback

A door is heard opening; we see a younger Kaby gaze at an elderly man. "Father!" He shouts.

Kemu walks in, his head held low. "Forgive me, son."

"We haven't heard anything from you in 3 years!" Kaby shouts as the man loots through a chest; where have you been."

"Somewhere I'll never return; it's all over now." He said as he tied a rope around his arm. "I'll never write again."

"No, father!" Kaby shouted as his father proceed to cut his arm off.

"You should have listened to me." Kaby told him as his father lies in a hospital bed. "I told you you'd regret working for that horrible duke Everlue." Kaby finished. "why."

"Cause it was good money," his father answered.

"But look at where it got you," Kaby shouted back.

"I'm so glad I finished that rubbish," Kemu said, smiling.

"What are you smiling about!" Kaby shouted. "You think it's funny to leave your family for three years to write a novel you're not even proud of."

"Son." Kemu said weakly. "I thought about you the entire time I was gone."

"Then you should have written something quickly for him and came back to us!" Kaby shouted, looking away from his father. "Instead, you abandon your pride and your family along with it."

"You're a sad excuse for a writer!" Kaby shouted before walking away. "Selling yourself out to the highest bidder. You're not much of a father either!" Kaby shouted before slamming the door leaving behind a smiling kemu.

End flashback

"Not long after that, my father passed away," Kabey finished his story, "but the anger and betrayal I felt towards him Lived on"

"But as the years passed by me, that anger slowly turned into remorse." Kaby told them, "And now it's too late to ask for his forgiveness."

"So I decided to destroy the final work that caused him so much pain." Kaby said as he lit a match. "I'm sure that this is what he'd want."

"You're wrong." Lucy told him. "Kaby, look."

The flame on the match suddenly went out, and the book began to glow.

"What is happening!" Kaby shouted as the book flew from his hands.

"A spell was cast on the book." Lucy explained. "it was the work of Kemu Zaleon, or should I say zequa melan."

The word on the front of the book then began to rearrange. "Dear Kaby."

"That's right disguised as a spell that rearranged all the words so no one else could read it." Lucy explains as the words fly off the page.

"Wow." Natsu said, shocked.

"Pretty." Happy said, mesmerized by what he was seeing.

"he didn't stop writing because he was ashamed." Lucy told him. "He stopped cause he finished his masterpiece." Lucy explained. "And when you read it, the intended it's easily his best work yet."

'I thought about you the entire time I was gone.' Kaby thought about his father's last words to him as tears began to fill his eye's as the book finished and landed in his lap.

"And now that the spell has been broken, you can read for yourself." Lucy finished.

"Thank you, father." Kaby said aloud. "I swear I will not let any harm come to his book."

"Well, I guess we won't be collecting that reward." Natsu said as he turned away.

"Aye."

Lucy looked at him, confused at he just said.

"We failed our assignment." Natsu explained. "So we can't accept the reward."

"Even so." Kaby pleaded. "Let me do something."

"Yeah, it's not our fault; he decided not to burn it." Lucy told him.

"Lucy, don't sound so greedy." Happy told her. "You're ruining what a touching moment was."

"But I need the cash!" Lucy shouted at the blue cat.

"Thanks for offering, but we don't want it." Natsu told him.

"Um, yes, we do. I need to pay for a hotel tonight!" Lucy shouted.

"I think it's time we all went home." Natsu said calmly, leaving the house. "You too, Mr Melon, go home."

"Unbelievable." Lucy exclaimed as she and Natsu walk back to magnolia under the night sky. "Who in their right mind would ever turn down 2 million jewels."

"As I told you before, Mavis sends people on certain jobs for a reason." Natsu answered. "And I think I've figured this one out." Natsu told the blond.

"But we made him happy." Lucy said, sulking. "We got the job done and now we're walking home." Lucy said, "And then to find out they're not even wealthy."

"I don't see what the point was." Lucy said

"You'll find out soon enough." Natsu told her as they continued to walk home.

"Oh, and the house." Lucy asked as they stopped to eat. "How'd you know it wasn't there's."

"Oh, that was easy." Natsu said as he munched on his food. "It smelled like some other house. Seemed pretty obvious."

"Aye."

Lucy groaned. "To you two animals, maybe" Lucy then looked up, smiling. "Not me. I was still lost in that book."

"I think I've got you figured out too." Natsu said with a sinister smile, "Your love of books." he said as he swallowed another piece of his food. "I bet you're trying to write a novel, aren't you."

Lucy's entire face turned red. "How'd you figure that out."

"Call it a lucky guess." Natsu declared

"Just promise you won't tell anyone." Lucy said, turning away from him.

Natsu smiled. "Don't worry, Lucy. no one is going to read it."

"Yea, that doesn't make me feel better." Lucy states

"I don't know about these guys. Are you sure we're going the right way? She asks." Horologium tells Natsu.

"Happy says this is the way home, so this is the way we're going is what I answer." Natsu tells the clock.

"Don't worry. I'm a cat, and cats have a great sense of smell." Happy says

"It's dogs that have a good sense of smell, and what does smell have to do with the direction? She asks, quite hard." Horologium tells them.

"Why don't you do your walking for a while." Natsu tells the celestial wizard.

"Because I'm tired, she groans excitedly." Horologium tells him.

The bushes in front of them rustle causing Natsu to jump in.

"Who's there!" He shouts as he starts to fight the person inside the bush.

"Do you always have to fight? She inquired worriedly?" Holorgium says.

"You can take em Natsu!" Happy shouts.

Natsu and another boy jump out of the bush. The boy had spiky black-colored hair and no shirt. "Who's that?"

"And what is he doing in his underwear? The lady questions." Horologium says.

"Trying to find a bathroom!" The boy shouts.

"Why would you strip before you found one?" Natsu asks, sweat dropping. "And who the hell ever heard of a bathroom in the middle of the forest."

"I wanted some privacy." He shouts back. "I didn't expect an idiot to barge in." The two began arguing as Lucy stood on the sidelines.

"I can't believe this."

"she says to the cat."

"So you had a job too," Lucy asks the group sat on a rock.

"Yea," the boy answers now in a white button-up jacket answered, "I heard that there was a shortcut to a town called magnolia through these woods" he pauses and looks over to the pair, "the names Gray by the way.

"Well, nice to meet ya, Gray; I'm Lucy," Lucy tells him, "and this is my partner Natsu."

"See, I told you." Happy said as he was fishing.

"Oh, yea, then how come you didn't notice Gray?" Lucy asked. "Smart guy."

"Cause there some things you don't wanna smell." Happy said

"What'd you say." Gray said, irritated.

"That's right." Natsu said, smirking. "So head on home, and we'll smell you later."

Gray groaned and stood up. "Fine, I will, and unless you want trouble, you should too." Gray told the pair. "Cause she's been seen around."

Natsu looks up, confused. "Who?"

Gray looked at him, surprised. "Really, you haven't heard; she was seen in Onibus a few days ago." Gray said to the fire wizard. "The wizard in armor Erza Scarlet."

"Erza?" Lucy asked, shocked. "The Erza, I don't believe it." Lucy said, shocked.

Natsu just shook his head, confused. "Who's Erza."

Both Gray and Lucy looked at Natsu, very confused.

"Oh come on, man, what kind of rock have you been under for the past few years!" Gray shouted. "She's the strongest solo wizard to date."

"Nope never heard of her." Natsu said to the boy.

"You're joking, right, Natsu?" Lucy asked, shocked at Natsu's reaction.

"Yeah, I've never heard off this Erza person." Natsu told them.

Lucy then stood up. "Well in that case-" Just then, their surroundings explode, half-burying Natsu, Gray, and Lucy in the sand.

"What now!" Gray shouts angered

"Happy!" Natsu shouts as he pops out of the sand.

"Help me." Happy is captured and bound by a group of Wizards who are preparing to cook him over a fire. "Help me."

"I don't believe it." One of them says. "We're finally going to get some protein."

"No berries for us tonight."

"Meat." A big chicken-like man said.

"Our future holds a feast."

The big chicken-like man uses his staff to create a fire and prepares to light a flame under Happy. "I'll take mine medium, please."

"Hold it right there." Natsu, Gray, and Lucy arrive and see Happy.

"Happy!" Lucy shouts.

"That's our friend you're trying to roast." Natsu says, cracking his knuckles.

The Wizards smile. "Well, come get 'em. "The chicken-like man and his twin comrades charge at the group, the chicken man aiming for Gray while the twins charge at Natsu. Natsu and Gray easily dodge the group.

"Sand bomb go." Natsu is caught by a Sand Bomb, trapping him in a sphere made of sand.

"Natsu!" Lucy shouts.

"Damn it!" gray shouts, "I'll take these guys on you go get happy."

Lucy goes to free Happy. "Help Lucy going to eat me!" Happy screams. However, the chicken man arrives and prepares to hit the two with his staff. "Please don't kill me, mister chicken!" Lucy shouts but is saved when Gray knocks the chicken over.

"Next." Gray then turns his attention to one of the two remaining Wizards. "You see someone special, but the stars point to great trouble with water and women.

"You are telling my fortune." Annoyed, Gray shoulders him in the face, defeating him.

"Wow, he's not using magic." Lucy said, amazed. "Put some clothes on."

"Crap." Gray said, angered.

"Where did these kids come from and what guild are they with." The last wizard asked as he watches Gray defeat his comrades

Natsu then breaks free of his sand prison with his Magic. "You jerk now I got a mouthful of sand, and it's all your fault." Fire began swirling around him. "Here I go Fire Dragon Iron Fist." He punches the wizard causing a big explosion.

Natsu and Gray then bound the group of wizards to a tree. Natsu then turned to Gray.

"Thanks for the help." He muttered.

Gray then gave off a smirk. "no problem, flame-brain."

The smaller member having the most bruises begins to mutter something. "Lulla...lullaby is."

Suddenly, a big handmade shadow appears and grabs the tree's roots, surprising everyone. "Look out!" Happy screams. The hand pulls the tree down and vanishes, along with the team of wizards.

"What was that?" Lucy asks, confused.

"Who was that." Natsu says, trying to get up.

"Whoever it was they're fast." Gray comments. "I can't even sense her presence anymore."

"But what could that mean?" Natsu asks.

"Lullaby." Lucy whispers to herself.

Back in Magnolia, people look on shocked as a figure appears carrying a large object, her armor clanking together as she walks her scarlet red hair flowing down her back.