:::Important:::

Okay, there were some people not fully okay with the whole 'Lucy has dragon slayer magic' thing. First of all, I would like to point out that a lot of people have done that sort of thing already, and no one complained. Also, it was not my idea. The only difference between the other slayer Lucy(s) is that I didn't give her stellar dragon slayer magic, but winter. That has never happened before, and it's not just ice. I do know how to explain it – for the most part. Again, this was not my idea. But next time, I'll ask what you guys think about the idea before I put it in. Would this make you happier? I do want to make all this fair for both I and my viewers after all.

Now that that is out of the way, let's get on with the story. :)

23

Harry woke up to the sun's rays piercing through his eyelids. He turned on his side, so he could open his startling green orbs, but he had to do it slowly or else they will be in pain. He got into a sitting position while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, and then look down at the place he remembered Natsu falling asleep in; it would appear that he's still in dreamland.

Harry looked around to see if he could find Fawkes, but the phoenix is nowhere to be found at the moment. He decided that his familiar is just looking for food, which isn't a bad idea, now that he thought about it; it would also make it easier to wake up his friend. Unfortunately, there was no food Harry could cook, let alone to cook the food with.

Sighing, Harry pulls out his wand and cast Jet Aquae upward and slightly toward Natsu. When the water came back down, it slashed right on top of the fire mage, who jumped up with a manly yelp.

Harry was smirking with mischief when he heard a laughing trill from a tree branch above him. He looks up to find Fawkes, and within his talons is a boar.

He hears Natsu growl, so Harry looks back to his friend to see him glare at the phoenix. "What are you laughing at?!" the dragon slayer shouted.

Fawkes chuckles. {It would appear that he's learning what my trills and chirps mean.}

Harry rolled his eyes, and got up from the ground, making Natsu turn his glare to him. "And you!" he shouted with a point of his finger, but then his expression changed to that of a kicked puppy. "Why did you splash water on me? I was having such a good dream," he whined.

Harry tilted his head. "What were you dreaming about?" he asked.

"A dream where you can eat all the meat you want, and there was also fire just waiting for me to munch on!" Natsu said with one of the biggest smiles Harry has ever seen.

He questions himself as to why he didn't see that coming; after all, all that Natsu thinks about is food.

{That's not true,} Fawkes says, {he's not just thinking about food, he's also thinking about fighting half the time.}

'Now isn't that an understatement?' Harry thought. Natsu does think about fighting half the time, because the other half is about food! 'I rest my case.' He focuses back on his friend. "Speaking of meat, it would seem that Fawkes brought breakfast."

Natsu happily cooked the boar, with Harry's guidance of course; the wizard didn't want to eat burnt food after all. After they ate, the three of them left for the moon temple.

Once in front of the old building, Natsu turned to Harry. "You remember the plan?"

In response, Harry holds up his wand with a smirk. "There are a few pillars that have Bombarda written all over them," he said. Natsu grinned in return, and they both walked in.

They move to one side of the temple and stare at the pillars with an evil shine to their eyes. Natsu lit his hands with flames. "Let's do this!" He was the first to destroy a column, but before he could hit another, Harry followed him up by destroying two pillars at once with a well placed explosion spell.

Fawkes, who is hovering above the two, says, {Why are you doing this again?}

Harry answers, "We're going to tilt the temple on its side so the moonlight will no longer hit Deliora."

Fawkes sweat dropped. {There is no way that that's going to work.}

Harry ignored his familiar in favor of destroying more pillars with Natsu. Once they wiped out the whole left side of the temple of its pillars, they were panting and catching their breath. "Man, that was a lot harder than I thought," Natsu said. "It's a lot easier when you destroy something by accident, but when you do it on purpose…"

Natsu didn't need to finish the sentence for Harry to understand where he was going with it. "Isn't that how it always is?" He got a chuckle as a reply.

{I can't believe that it actually worked.} Harry was able to hear the jaw… err… beak drop to the floor in Fawkes' tone.

"It would seem your plan worked, Natsu. The temple tilted," Harry snickered.

{By the way, Lyon, Toby, and someone new, that smells like a girl, are above you,} Fawkes tells them.

"HEY, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" Harry and Natsu look up to see that Fawkes was right. Lyon and Toby are a few floors above them; they can tell this because there are holes where the floors/ceilings were meant to be.

"Messing up your plans!" Natsu called back up to Lyon in reply. Harry couldn't help but snigger when he heard it. The next thing he knows is Natsu's feet are on fire, then jumping into the air, and through the holes above them. Once through, Harry sees Natsu head-butting Lyon in the gut, sending him flying through the air.

Harry tells Fawkes to bring him up there, and when they reach their desired location, they had to go a little higher or else they – or rather Harry – would be turned into BBQ. The wizard looks down from his place in Fawkes' talons and watches Natsu get on his hands and spins with his legs in a split and feet on fire, burning everything around him. Lyon was able to dodge it by jumping over the flames, and the little man ducked, and created a hole below where Natsu was, making him fall through. Toby wasn't so lucky, because his face and torso were burned.

Harry wondered what magic caused the hole Natsu just fell through, but it would seem that Lyon wanted to know too. "What did you just do, Zalty?"

{I don't think they noticed you,} Fawkes guessed.

Zalty tilted his head. "Pardon?"

"Don't take me for a fool. I know that was your doing that caved the floor in," the ice mage said with a slight growl.

"Ah, I see you saw right through me, but you must understand that I can't lose you until we revived Deliora," Zalty explained.

'Wow, what a nice guy,' Harry thought, and Fawkes nodded in agreement, but he didn't see it.

"You think that weak flames like those are enough to kill me?" Harry was able to hear the anger in Lyon's voice. To prove his point, Lyon covered the floor and walls in ice, but the ice that was more raised on the ground was in a star shape. "Get out of my sight. I'll take care of the fire mage. I'm the one who will defeat Deliora. It would be a disgrace if I lost to a brat."

Harry has heard enough, and was about to go collect Natsu from out of the hole, but it would seem that he got himself out, and heard the last bit from the ice mage. "You want to defeat Deliora? But isn't he already defeated?" Natsu asked. "I would be surprised if he's even alive in that block of ice."

Harry made up his mind and said, "Fawkes mentioned that Deliora's life force is so weak that he's hanging by a thread," he informed. "He might just be taking his last breath when he comes out of the seal."

Lyon gritted his teeth. "Whoever this Fawkes is, he doesn't know what he's talking about!" he snapped, not knowing that Fawkes heard him.

{Oh, and you know better than a millennia old phoenix? I'll laugh when you find out that I'm right,} the phoenix said, but Harry can hear an impish tone to his voice.

"Why do you want to unseal a demon when it's better off sealed away, just to have a match with it?" Natsu asked.

"I'm doing it so I can finally surpass my master Ur." After that, Lyon sent ice eagles at him.

Natsu dodged them, but when Harry was about to come down from his place in the air, he said, "No, stay out of this! This is my fight!"

Harry made a face, but allowed Natsu to have his fun. He still came down and landed by the far wall; out of the way of the fighting. But just in case Natsu forgot about him, he put a protective shield up in front of him. Once that was down, Harry leaned back against the wall to watch the fight with Fawkes on his shoulder.

"Good thinking by telling your friend to not help you. It'll make it easier to kill you," Lyon said, sending more eagles after the fire mage. "Did you know that Ur is already dead? That's why I need to unseal that demon to exceed her."

Both Harry and Natsu remember Gray mentioning that Ur sealed Deliora at the cause of her own life. "So, she really is dead…" Natsu muttered, but Lyon still heard him.

"BECAUSE OF GRAY!" he shouted, sending one more eagle at him.

Harry's body tensed up, wanting to help his friend, but knows that Natsu wouldn't be happy about that. He saw that Natsu lifted his arm to block the attack, but the green-eyed wizard can see that his arm is bleeding from the sharp beak.

Natsu glared at the ice mage. "I don't care what happened in the pass. What you're doing now is making a lot of people suffer, because of your selfish goal!" he glowered.

Harry can understand where Natsu was coming from, but he can't help but wonder what it was that makes Lyon think that it was Gray's fault that their teacher died. From what he remembers of his time back at the guild, Gray was there since he was a child. So, what did he do to cause such a death that it could be his fault? Knowing Lyon, which is very little, it wasn't Gray's fault and it was a willing sacrifice and accident.

Harry was snapped out of his musing when he heard Natsu exclaim, "I think it's time someone gave you your long awaited punishment with fire!" He and Lyon start their fight back up with Natsu throwing a fire dragon's iron fist, and Lyon just standing there, taking the hit. Harry thought that his friend got him, but then the ice mage's body shattered to pieces, showing that it wasn't the real him but an ice dummy.

While watching the fight, Harry heard Toby try to sneak up on him, but he cast a Prohibere on him, freezing him in place. Harry then turned to face the other guy, Zalty, who was not far from him, and raised an eyebrow, as if daring him to attack him.

Zalty grinned sheepishly. "I'm not going to attack you, I'm enjoying this fight too much to stop and miss it," he told him, allowing Harry to turn back to the fight, but still not trusting the little mage. Fawkes nipped his ear gently, making him turn his attention to his familiar, but his eyes stayed on the battle.

{I sense Lucy, Gray, Happy, and Erza on their way here, but it would seem that they have stopped moving,} Fawkes reported.

'I wander what's up. Wait…did you say Erza?' Harry questioned, and saw the phoenix nod in answer. 'Great…' He face-palmed. 'I never wanted to find out just why Gray and Natsu were so scared of her, but it seems that I'm going to when she drags us back to the guild. We're so dead,' he mused more to himself than Fawkes.

{Are you really getting scared of her now? Come on, you're never scared of her.}

'That's because I didn't have a reason last time,' Harry sighed, and then turned his eyes to his familiar. 'Go to them. I want to know why they stopped.' Fawkes nodded his head before leaving in a burst of flames.

After Fawkes nodded his head, Harry turned back to watch the fight before him. He saw Natsu breath fire at his enemy, who got out of the way and sent an ice lion after him.

{I made it. It seems Gray is telling Lucy, Happy, and Erza what happened with his master and Deliora,} Fawkes' voice sounded in his head.

'What is he saying?' Harry asked, while seeing Natsu dragon clawed the lion, smashing it to bits.

{Well right now he's telling them about how Lyon always wanted to surpass Ur, but couldn't. That is why he's trying to unseal the demon, so he can kill it where she couldn't. Stuff that we were already told by Lyon himself so far.}

'Wait till they talk about things we don't know,' Harry requested and flinched when a bird made of ice slammed into his shield.

{Sure thing.} Harry could have sworn that Fawkes saluted him when he replied.

He kept his eyes on the fight. Lyon really must like his eagles, because they are the ones that he sends out at Natsu. Natsu breathed fire, melting the birds, and then jumped into the air while shouting, "Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!" The flames in his hands turned into whips, which the dragon slayer brought down on Lyon, hitting his target.

{WHAT THE HECK!} Harry jumped when Fawkes shouted in absolute shock.

Zalty turned to him and asked, "Are you okay?" He didn't sound concern.

Harry nodded in reply. "Yeah, it's just that my familiar just shouted in my head when I wasn't expecting it."

Zalty tilted his head like a confused dog. "The red and gold bird?" The wizard nodded. "What is it anyway? It looks like a phoenix, but they haven't been seen in over 500 years."

"He is a phoenix," Harry told him, but didn't say anymore. 'Why did you shout?' he asked his feathery friend.

{Gray just said the Ur is alive. Her body turned into the ice that keeps Deliora from escaping,} Fawkes explains. {I thought I felt something else! It felt like there was another life force, but more like a spirit of one.}

'What does that mean?'

{It means a human or animal who is alive in spirit, but not in body.}

Harry made an O shape with his mouth in understanding. 'Continue, please. What else are they saying?'

{Gray said that 10 years ago, Deliora attack his hometown, and it took less than a day to destroy it. I really don't think he needed to say that last bit, because just look at that thing; IT'S HUGE!}

'Yes, I know that the demon is big enough to destroy Magnolia in less than a day as well, but we wouldn't allow it. Now, tell me what else!" Harry demanded while Natsu sent a giant fire ball at the ice mage, who sent an ice dragon after him.

{It would seem that he was the only one to survive the attack, and was found by Ur and Lyon,} Fawkes continued. {They started their training after Gray was healed. Oh, now I know where his striping habit came from.} Harry waited for him to tell him. {Ur taught them how to deal with the cold by taking their clothes off in the snow.}

Harry shivered at just the thought, while also getting goosebumps on his arms. 'Darn it, Fawkes! It's already cold where I'm at.'

{Sorry, I'm just telling you what they're saying. Don't shoot the messenger,} Fawkes said. {Thanks to all the training, Gray got into the habit of taking his clothes off, even while in public. He blamed Ur for it.}

'It's not completely her fault since it sounds like she didn't do that where everyone can see her, and Lyon hasn't taken on piece of clothing off his body this entire fight,' Harry told his familiar, while continuing to watch said fight.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

"Ice-Make, Tiger!" Natsu, instead of punching Lyon, punched the ice tiger.

Fawkes moves on with the story. {While out shopping one day, Gray overheard some locals saying where Deliora was currently. That night he packed his bags.} Harry does not like where this is going. {Ur tried to stop him, telling him he wasn't strong enough, but he told her that she didn't know anything, and that he was going to avenge his parents. Leaving, and not turning back, he said more to himself than Ur that if he died, he was going to blame her for not teaching him more powerful magic.}

'It's not how powerful the brand of magic is. It's how strong your magical core is. He was young, and didn't know that the more you train, the more your magic grows. He must know this now, but I think he wishes he knew that much sooner,' Harry thought sadly.

{Even though you don't have all your memories, it would seem that you remembered how magic grows,} Fawkes said, sounding like a proud father. {Oh, it would seem they noticed the temple. Lucy and Happy are tilting their bodies with it, and Gray knows that it was Natsu's doing.}

'I helped.'

{Yeah, he just said, and I quote, "Since Harry isn't with us, he must be with charcoal brain. I don't know how Natsu talked him into this, but he must have helped tilt this place."}

'I wish I could tell him that I don't know how Natsu talked me into it. I just helped in hopes his plan worked.'

Natsu brought a flamed covered foot down on Lyon, who blocked it, and the impact created a dent in the floor.

'Are they going back to the story?' Harry asked.

{No, it would seem that those people in weird outfits from last night have shown up and attacked them. Erza just told them to go on ahead, but Lucy and Happy are staying while Gray moves on to fight Lyon.}

'Natsu's not going to be happy about that,' Harry thought quietly to himself. He really didn't need to hear the rest of the story to figure out what happened. Ur and Lyon went after Gray, Gray almost got killed, and Ur saves her students by using… 'What did Gray call it? Oh yeah, Ice Shell' Harry couldn't remember for a moment what the spell's name was. 'She used that spell to seal the demon in and only Gray knows that she's alive, if Lyon saying she's dead is anything to go by.'

Harry couldn't muse anymore, because his shield broke thanks to Natsu's fire and Lyon's ice, so he and Zalty had to move out of the way. Once at a safer spot in the room, Harry was going to put up another protective shield, but the wall where he was before was smashed inward, revealing that it was Gray that did it.

'That was fast,' Harry thought, but then saw Fawkes come in through the hole as well.

Gray turned to him. "Did you really send Fawkes to check on us?" he asked.

Harry laughed sheepishly while rubbing the back of his head. "Yeah, he said you, Lucy, Happy, and Erza stopped for no reason, so I had him check on you. I will admit that I'm dreading to meet up with Erza though."

"You should have seen her face when I found her with Lucy and Happy tied up. She looked ready to kill," Gray said, making Harry shiver in slight fear. "Good thing is that she's agreed to help us finish this mission." Harry breathed a sigh of relief. Gray then turned to Lyon and Natsu. "Natsu, let me take care of him."

"What! No way, you lost to him last time! Besides, I'm fighting him," Natsu said.

"That may be true, but I don't plan on losing to him again," Gray said with a face of determination.

TBC

The first time I spelled Lyon's name, which was Leon. I was going off of the manga. "Lyon" is the spelling everyone uses, so I change it to that. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! ^-^

PS. Next week, I'm working on my book again. So, updates every other week starting now.

Natsu: Ah man…! I still don't get to finish my fight with him? :(

Enj/Dark: Maybe someone will allow you to finish it, but not in this fanfiction.

Harry: Trying to pay attention to the fight and listen to Fawkes at the same time is harder than it looks. :(

Enj/Dark&Zeref: We're with you on that one. *sigh*

Natsu: Please review! :D

Voldy: *growls* And vote…*glaring at Enjali*