To The Observer: Thank you so much for that review! :3 That was one of the sweetest things I have ever read. I felt my heart just melt with pride. ^-^ So, because of that, I made a long chapter this week! XD I hope you enjoy.

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Recap: He sighed again. "Well, no turning back now. You might as well perch yourself on the side of the boat or my shoulder, Fawkes," requested Harry. Fawkes decided he was going to land on the rim of the boat. So, now they wait out the ride to the Island that the S-class quest is located. Harry heard another groan from Natsu. "This is going to be a long ride."

Harry has been sitting on the boat for a while now, wondering when Gray will wake up. He turns his green gaze to the trouble makers.

"You guys do know that Erza is who they're going to send next, right?" he asked.

Lucy's face paled, and Natsu looked sicker than he already was. Happy was with them, but then an idea hit him. "That may be true, but it'll be hard for her to get a ride to the island, because everyone we asked was too afraid to even get close," he said.

"They may be scared, but what do you think they'll be more afraid of: Erza or that island?" Harry questioned, making Happy rejoin the other two in their fear.

{And the realization kicks in!} Fawkes exclaimed happily. {Knowing Erza, she'll even convince pirates to take her there.} Harry smirked evilly at the thought, knowing it is true.

"What did he say?" Lucy asked Harry nervously. He can tell that she knows that Fawkes is reveling in their fear along with him.

Harry shrugged his shoulders. "He said that Erza could even scare pirates to get her to the island," he said. Lucy showed no signs that she doubts him.

A groan was heard again, but Harry thought that is was just Natsu again, but then he saw that is was Gray waking up. "Gray, you're awake!" Lucy said.

Gray got up into a sitting position with little difficulty thanks to the ropes. Once he was sitting, he glared down at Natsu. "When I get the chance, Natsu, I'm going to beat you up so bad that all that comes out of your mouth is smoke," he growled in anger.

{Hey Harry, repeat after me!} Fawkes trilled.

"Morning, sleeping beauty!" Harry repeated what his familiar told him to with a wide, happy grin.

"Oh, shut up, Harry!" Gray snapped at him. "Or is it supposed to be Fawkes that I need to say shut up to?" he asked after seeing the phoenix trilling happily. He shook his head, and then turned to the man rowing the boat. "Why did you agree on taking us to Galuna Island, old man?"

"My name is Bobo," The man introduced. "I use to live on that island, but I was lucky enough to escape. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get away on time."

"What do you mean?" Harry asked.

"The island is cursed," Bobo answered.

"What kind of curse is it?" Happy asked next in a scared tone.

The man didn't answer with words. He brought his arm out from under his cloak, which is all the answer they needed. The Fairy Tail mages, animals, and wizard all gapped at the purple arm. "This demon curse," Bobo finally replied.

"Y-your arm…" Gray couldn't finish what he was saying.

{Something doesn't feel right,} Fawkes muttered.

Harry turned to his feathery friend. "No, what gave that away?" he asked sarcastically.

Fawkes shook his head. {I don't mean the arm.} Harry tilts his head in question. {I'm not sure what it is though. This man feels like he was never human to begin with,} he said.

Harry leaned in closer to the phoenix. "You think he's lying?" he whispered.

{No, there's something about the island that is affecting the people there, but Bobo makes it sound like that they are being turned into demons.}

"Are you saying that you think they are demons?" Fawkes nodded his head to confirm. "Are you sure it isn't because of the arm? His energy would make him feel demonic with it."

{That could be it, but I also feel like there is more to this island than humans turning into demons,} Fawkes said.

"Like what?" Harry asked softly.

{It feels weak – like it's dying – but I get the feeling that it has something to do with the curse.}

Harry wondered what it could be, but he couldn't think more on it, because he heard Bobo speak again. "We're almost there."

Everyone turned their gaze to the island that is now in view. "That's Galuna Island?" Lucy asked in awe while turning back to face the man, but he was no longer there.

"Huh?" Lucy, Gray, and Harry all sounded in unison.

Harry whipped his head to face Fawkes. "Did you see where he went?" he asked. Fawkes shook his head in the negative.

"Did he fall into the water?!" Gray asked worriedly.

{I think we have more important things to worry about,} Fawkes said.

"What could be more important than a man probably drowning?!" Harry demanded.

{The storm,} the phoenix answered like it was the most obvious thing in the world. {Along with that giant wave that is about to swallow us whole.}

Harry turned to look where Fawkes' beak was pointing and saw the scariest thing in his life. "TIDLE WAVE!" Harry, Happy, Gray, Lucy, and Natsu all said as one.

Fawkes tried to grab Harry, but the wizard was thrown out of the boat and into the water already thanks to the powerful wave. Fawkes had no choice but to teleport out of the way, or else he will be having another burning day way too soon. The phoenix was looking around the surface of the water in search of Harry and the others, but couldn't see anyone. He heard what sounded like wing flaps and spun to take in his surroundings, and thought he saw something go into the clouds, but he wasn't sure. Fawkes shook his head to clear his mind and feel for Harry's life force. He found it and followed it to the island.

Harry groaned and coughed after taking a deep breath. He was trying to remember what happened to make him feel like a drowned dog only for the memory to hit him when he thought of the drown dog comparison. He opened his eyes only to snap them closed again, because of the bright sun. He rolled over onto his side and then opened his eyes again slowly. He looked around and realized that he couldn't see. He reached up to his face and found that his glasses are missing. He panicked and started to pat around the sand to find them, but he's not very hopeful.

Not long after starting his search, Harry heard a trill from a phoenix. He looked up and saw a red blur flying toward him. When the bird was right in front of him is when he realized that it was just Fawkes and not some other phoenix.

"Hey Fawkes," he greeted. "Can you help me find my glasses?"

Fawkes tilted his head. {Have you tried to summon them?} he asked.

Harry stopped and mused for a bit, 'Wasn't there a summoning charm in the book I got from my last job?' He thought some more, trying to remember the spell that he read, only for a memory of a graveyard, Voldemort getting a body, a dead body, and a goblet. He heard the name of the spell that summoned the cup that got him and the body out of there. Harry shivered at the memory, knowing that he had nightmares of it. He couldn't remember what happened before or after the graveyard, so he doesn't know anything about as to why there was a body. All he knows is that the boy was with him and they knew each other. 'Maybe he was a friend?' he thought, but he felt like he didn't know him all that well in the first place.

Shoving the memory to the back of his mind for later, Harry grabbed his wand and called out, "Accio, glasses!" He held up a hand and felt a thin frame land in it. He looks down and sees his round glasses, but when he puts them on, he finds out that they were broken.

Harry throws his hands in the air. "Great! Now what do I do?" he shouted in frustration. He tries to think of any other spells that was in the book that could help him repair his… wait repair… Harry took his glasses off his face again and pointed the death stick at them. "Reparo," he cast. After the flicking sound, he put his only means of sight on the bridge of his nose and in front of his eyes again and was able to see perfectly. "Good thing I remembered that just by thinking of the word: repair," he said with a relived chuckle. "No bad memories came with that one."

{The first spell did?} Fawkes asked, and Harry told him the memory that he had. {Oh yes, I remember that day. Humans were becoming fools after you told them Tom came back. They didn't want to believe you.} Harry doesn't know why, but he's not surprised. Tom… Fawkes told him of Voldemort's real name. So when they talk about him, they call him by that name; they didn't want to deal with calling him dark lord, you-know-who, or he-who-must-not-be-named. It was really annoying, and they couldn't say Voldemort or else they might risk him finding them.

Harry gets up from the ground, and dusts his clothes off as best he could. "Let's go find the others," he said. Fawkes bobbed his head in agreement, and flew up to land on his shoulder. "Oh yeah, before I forget, you're staying on my shoulder from now on if we're on a boat. That way you can lift me up into the sky with you." Fawkes trilled, but Harry knew that he was being laughed at.

It didn't take long for Harry and Fawkes to find Lucy, Happy, Natsu, and Gray. Like Harry, Gray's bindings must have come off at some point during their swim. He saw Gray get up and told them to wait, which made Natsu complain and ready to fight, but the ice mage told him to shut up.

"I'm coming with you guys," Harry heard Gray say clearly.

"What made you decide that?" Harry asked, making everyone jump almost out of their skin. "What, you didn't forget about me, did you?" he asked with a sneer.

"I didn't see it fair that they get to go onto the second floor first, and if they get expelled, well the guild would be boring," Gray explained.

"Where were you?!" Natsu demanded. Harry can hear the concern in his voice.

"That sounds just like you, Gray," Harry said, and then turned to Natsu. "I found myself washed up farther away, with my glasses gone. I was able to summon and fix them before I came to find you guys," he reported to his over protective friend. "Since we don't have a boat to get off this island, I might as well help you with this quest as well. The more of us there is, the better chance of success we have of completing this mission." Fawkes nodded his head, agreeing with him.

Lucy, Natsu, Gray, and Happy all grinned. "S-Class quest, here we come!" Natsu shouted loudly.

"Aye sir!" added Happy.

"So…does anyone know where the village is?" Lucy asked.

"This is the first time any of us has been here, so I don't think so," Gray answered.

Fawkes turns his head to Harry. {I have been here not that long ago, so I can lead you there,} he said.

Harry turned to glare at him. "Why did you wait this long to tell me that, Fawkes? I'm sure by now we're lost."

"Does he know where the village is?" Happy asked while pointing to the phoenix. Harry nodded in answer.

"Like Harry said," Gray started to say. "WHY DID IT TAKE YOU THIS LONG TO TELL US YOU KNOW THE WAY THERE?!" Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and the ice mage shouted in unison.

Fawkes tilted his head to the side like a dog. {You didn't ask until now,} he answered, making Harry having to repeat grudgingly for the others to understand.

"You could have just come out and said it instead of us wandering around and almost getting ourselves lost," Harry said. "Anyway, lead the way, Fawkes."

Fawkes showed them the way to the village. When they got there, they were in front of a giant, wooden gate with a keep out sign on it.

"Why is there a keep out sign?" Harry asked uneasily.

"I don't know, but it does make you wonder what kind of village this place is," Gray said in the same manner.

"Hello, are you there? We're here to help you!" Lucy called out.

"I'd say we break it down," Natsu suggested.

"No!"

"Who goes there?" A voice from the top of the gate called down to them.

Lucy decided to be the one to do the talking here. "We're from the mage guild Fairy Tail. We saw your request."

"I don't remember hearing anyone excepting our request," the man pointed out, making Lucy become nervous.

"Well, uh…"

"There must have been some kind of mistake back at the guild," Gray replied. "If you don't want our help, we can just leave."

"I'm not leaving!" Natsu yelled, making the rest of them to tell him to shut up.

"Let me see you symbols," the gate keeper demanded. Lucy held up her hand, Natsu showed his shoulder, Gray lifted up his shirt, Happy and Fawkes showed their backs, and Harry showed his arm. "They look real. I guess you can come in, I'll send someone to get the chief."

"Thank you!" Lucy called up.

When the gate opened up for them, they walked in. They waited for a few moments for the chief, but they got the whole village instead, and they were all covered in cloaks so the only thing they could see was their eyes.

"Thank you for coming to our village," the small male in the front of the group greeted.

"Are you the chief?" Harry asked him.

"Yes, I am," the man said, and Harry guessed he is old just by the sound of his voice. "I'm sorry if this is sudden, but for you to understand our dilemma you must take a look at this." The man and the rest of the villagers took off their cloaks, showing what they were hiding.

The Fairy Tail mages, animals, and wizard all gasped at the sight. "It's just like that guy from the boat," Gray pointed out.

"Oh, wow… AWSOME SIDE-BURNS!" Natsu exclaimed.

"He's talking about his arm," Harry muttered to the dragon slayer.

"The villagers aren't the only ones affected by this cure," the chief stated. "Even the animals have demonic parts on their bodies."

"Not to question you or anything, but what makes you think it's a cures?" Gray asked. "You sure it's not just some disease?"

"We went to many doctors, and not one said that there is such a disease," the chief replied. "Not only that, but the moon has something to do with how we look."

"The moon?" Lucy and Harry asked.

"Since time long forgotten, this island has been collecting moon light. This made the island shine beautifully, just like the moon. However, a few years ago, the moon light turned purple," explained the chief.

"The moon is purple? How is that possible?" Harry asked. "Where we're from, the moon looks perfectly normal."

"Anyone from the mainland would agree with Harry on this one," Gray said.

"That may be; however, the reality is that the moon did turn purple here. Ever since then, our body turned into this," the chief stated.

"Guys, look up. The moon is out," Happy said.

Harry, Fawkes, Lucy, Natsu, and Gray all looked up and saw the moon, but like the elder man said, it was purple.

"That's a little eerie," Harry commented.

"I can't believe the moon is really purple," Lucy said softly.

"This is the curse of the moon," the chief's voice brought their gazes back down, and when they did, they saw that he and the rest of the villagers looked to be in pain.

"What's happening to them?" Lucy questioned horrified.

They didn't have to wait long to find out, because before their eyes, they saw the villagers turn into demons.

"Is…this part of the curse?" Harry asked.

"Yes, and sorry if we scared you," the chief replied. "When the purple moon comes out, our bodies change into the forms you see before you. If this isn't a curse then I don't know what is."

Harry, and the others looked around at everyone in the village. They saw kids and some adults crying, and the mothers of the children trying to comfort them as best they could.

"Once the sun returns, we'll turn back to how we were when you first saw us, but not long ago, some of us didn't change back and they began to lose their minds. We had no choice but to kill them. They were turning into real demons, even my son wasn't speared." The chief held a picture of what the mages and wizard could only guess was his son. Wait…

"That man!" Harry gasped in shock.

"But… we just saw him…" Lucy couldn't finish, because Gray shushed her.

"Now we know why he vanished. He couldn't rest in peace with the way things are," he said.

"A ghost?!" Lucy softly said with horrified eyes.

"If this keeps going, I fear that everyone will turn into real demons. If that happens…" The chief was cut off by Natsu.

"We won't let that happen!"

The chief's eyes sparked with some hope at the vow that Natsu made. "There is only one way to lift the curse," he said, and then pointed at the moon. "The moon must be destroyed."

Everyone in Fairy Tail had their jaws on the ground in disbelief.

"How are we supposed to destroy the moon? That not possible, is it?" Lucy asked while the rest got ready for bed.

"I don't know, but I still can't believe the moon is purple," Happy said.

"Happy, get away from the window! You heard what they said. Not even the animals were speared by the curse."

"I wonder how many punches it would take to smash it." Natsu asked with a bit of excitement.

"You're thinking of trying to destroy the moon?!" Gray cried out in shock.

Fawkes and Harry shook their head. "It's not possible. I'm sure there are other, logical ways on lifting the curse," the wizard said.

{Even if you did destroy the moon, it'll be too dark to see. Not to mention all the other negatives that could happen to the planet if it's gone,} Fawkes said.

"That's true, I didn't think about that," Harry muttered, but the others heard him, so he told them what his familiar said. "Anyway, we should get some sleep. We have to wake up early so we can start searching the island for what caused the moon to turn a different color then the one on the mainland."

The rest agreed, got into bed, and went to sleep. Well all but Harry and Lucy.

"How are we supposed to sleep with this animal and pervert snoring so loudly?!" Lucy demanded.

Harry sat there and tried to remember all the other spells in the Book of Spells to see if there is a way to shut them up. He couldn't think of anything, but he did think of something. 'If the spell to repair things is just the word repair in a different language, then can't I do that with the word silence?' He turned to Lucy. "Do you know how to say silence in a different language?" he asked.

Lucy lifted her brown eyes up in thought, and then said, "In Spanish, the word silence is silencio. Why do you ask?"

Harry grinned, feeling like he heard the word before. "You'll see if this works." He turned to the loud, sleeping mages with his wand pointed at them. "Silencio," he said quietly, and the room became even quieter than he was. Harry's grin got even bigger. "Thank you, Lucy. Now we can get some sleep."

Lucy also grinned happily. "You have to remember that for any other time we get stuck with these two," she said.

"Agreed; now, goodnight." Lucy said goodnight back to him, and they fell asleep.

Harry woke up to being shaken. He opened his eyes to see Natsu and Gray shouting at him, but no words came out. He was confused at first, but then he remembered what he did last night. He smiled sheepishly at the two of them. "Sorry about that. I'll have to ask Fawkes how to fix it," he reassured. They gave him a look that said, you better.

Harry asked his familiar how to lift the silencing spell off the ice and fire mages. When he got the answer, he lifted the charm off them, but they were still glaring at him.

"Sorry guys, but we couldn't sleep with how loud you were being. How did you know it was me anyway?" he asked.

"Lucy told us, after he glared at her," they said together. Harry turned his green eyes to Lucy with a look of betrayal.

"Sorry Harry, but they had fire and ice around their hands, and had the scariest expression on their faces," she told him.

Harry sighed in defeat. "Let's just go search the island." He walked out the door with the others following.

"Anything yet?" Harry asked to the rest of his teammates.

"No, nothing," they all replied.

Harry looked up to the sky, where Fawkes and Happy are. "What about you two," he called out louder for them to hear.

{There's a building not that far from here. I can feel life forces coming from it,} Fawkes replied, and Happy said the same thing, just not the life force part.

Harry turned to the Natsu, Gray, and Lucy. "Looks like we're going to some building. There might be something there," he said, and they nodded their heads in agreement.

{Um…Harry…There's a rat, at least I think it's a rat, not far from where you guys are.} Harry heard Fawkes say, and then he heard Natsu sniffing the air and turn around with his fists up.

What came out from behind some trees was indeed a rat, but Harry can see why Fawkes was questioning it. This rat was the biggest one he has ever seen, it was even bigger than a house! A thought struck his mind and the name Wormtail popped up, and for some reason this made Harry very angry. So, he lifted his wand up and pointed at the giant rat and called out, "Columna Ignis!" The fire spell hit the rat and sent it packing through the air far away from them.

Lucy turned to him. "Why did I hear anger in your voice when you cast that spell?" she asked.

"I'm…not really sure. That rat reminded me of someone named Wormtail, and that name alone made me want to destroy something," he admitted, confusing everyone else.

"Why would a rat remind you of that?" Lucy asked.

"And why would anyone be named Wormtail? That sounds stupid," Natsu said.

"A rat's tail looks like a worm," Gray said. "So maybe that's why the rat reminded you of this person," he suggested to Harry.

Harry shrugged. "Maybe."

{Let's keep moving. The building is only a few yards away,} Fawkes said. Harry and the others started walking again, and they were able to make it to the building without anymore incidences. The first thing they all noticed was that the building is a temple and that there are a lot of moon symbols on its walls.

"Well, if there is anyplace that might have something to do with the moon curse, it would be here," Harry stated with the others voicing their agreement.

TBC

Hey guys! So I was going to download Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery on my tablet, because I don't have the phone for it - it's one of those old phones that don't even have a camera. So, I was going to use my tablet, since it is an Android, only for it to not be compatible. :( This makes me very sad, because I've been counting down the days since the first trailer! D'X

Anyway, besides all of that, I'm thinking of taking next week off of writing - not fanfic, and no book - I feel like I'm trying to make the stories continue to sound good a little too much. I felt like there was something wrong with the chapters, and they kept bugging me. So, I'm going to skip next week, and come back with more fanfic chapters. Next month is an all fanfic month. :)

Harry: I do believe you need a break. You sound like you're going a little crazy right now.

Enj/Dark: I feel like it. :(

Zeref: Then take that break.

Natsu: What's our team name going to be?

Enj/Dark: The poll is still open. I'll close it at the end of next Friday, and when I update again I'll say what the team name is going to be.

Harry: Well, enjoy you break! :)

Enj/Dark: Please review! ^-^