Lucy felt like she didn't know what to do anyone. Anna seemed to overcome this darkness - right? But Lucy didn't know where Anna was at the moment and who knew how much time Lucy had before she was completely gone. How was Anna saved? That's what the thing - the Darkness said.

"I-I have to go..." Lucy said as she got up from her spot on the floor and walked towards the door before it opened and it revealed Sting and Rogue.

"Where are you going?" Sting asked looking at her.

"Away...I have to go away..." She muttered.

Loke opened his gate and looked at her. "Stop. You don't have to go away. WE are here to help you." Loke said as he looked at everyone in the room.

"I..I have to Loke.." Lucy said as was trying to keep the Darkness from coming to the surface. "I have to find Anna."

"Who is Anna?" Yukino asked.

"She's Lucy's ancestor. She was the one who helped the Dragon Slayers cross over from the year they were originally from to the current one with the Eclipse Gate." Loke answered. "She's the original person who fought the Darkness that Lucy is dealing with but...according to Bickslow, it's already taken over and there's a strict time limit."

"Lucy, you have no idea where she could be, we don't have the time to find where she is." Yukino grabbed Lucy's shoulders. "WE are here to help you. We don't know how you are feeling, but WE will save you."


The group has disbanded from the apartment, as they wanted to get back to their own place. This was something that would help Bickslow - being alone and being able to speak out loud without anyone looking at him funny. Bickslow was trying to understand the book. He was confused as no one alive that could walk him on how to do Soul Dive to save Lucy. He ran a hand through his hair.

"What's wrong?" Pippi asked as it hovered near Bickslow.

"This book. I don't get it." Bickslow closed the book.

"You are good Seith Mage, you have to read book carefully!" Another Doll - Peppe said.

"I don't think I am a good Seith Mage, if I was I would've noticed Cheerleader's soul getting worse before she snapped." Bickslow growled.

"You have to believe!" Pappa floated down onto the table.

"Bicks you good. You believe!" Puppu chanted.

"I know, I know. But I don't know HOW to do this Soul Dive! I don't think I can." Bickslow spoke to them.

"We don't know how, but you read book to end, read book to end" Poppo chimed.

"Why should I even bother, I don't think I'll be good enough to save her." Bickslow was giving up - he didn't think he was going to be able to save her.

Lucy was his soulmate. Lucy NEEDED him to save her. Who else was going to save her, there was no one else who could Soul Dive because no one else was Seith Mage who knew human possession. There was another who knew Animal Possession but they weren't going to be able to save Lucy. he was worried that he wasn't the one who could save her. Bickslow got up from his spot at the table and walked to the window, looking out the window - picturing the time he saw her on the beach below.


Flashback

She was on the beach training with Loke. "Come on Loke!" She smiled as she got into a fighting stance.

"You ready?" He smirked.

"I am!"

The two of them went at. Fighting. Loke was throwing Regulus Punch after Regulus Punch to try and land one, but Lucy was dodging each one. Soon enough up at the apartments - Bickslow watched as she was training with Loke. He wondered if she was getting stronger for herself or for the fact that she wanted to be on Par with the rest of her team. He watched as the outfit she was wearing changed to a black dress, and she was threw a punch at him

"Take this! Leo Stardress!" Her outfit changed and she made a fist. "Regulus Lucy Punch!" She said as she tried to land a punch on Loke, but he dodged it. "Regulus Lucy Kick!" She said as she used the power of Regulus into her kick and aimed to kick Loke into the side.

"Wow..." Bickslow said as he watched her land a hit on him.


In Lucy's apartment, Sting and Rogue decided to leave Yukino to help calm down Lucy as they went to grab some food for them to bring back to the apartment. Yukino looked at the Celestial Princess. She knew that's what she was called. Lucy was powerful - holding as many keys like that. She even remembered her trying to close the Eclipse Gate herself. Virgo opened her gate to see if there was anything that needed to be done.

"Princess..." Virgo started to say but saw that Lucy had fallen asleep with her head on Yukino's lap. "Miss Yukino is there anything that you two need?"

"Virgo, no thank you. Sting and Rogue went to go get us something to eat. Lucy just recently closed her eyes a little bit ago." Yukino said as she looked at the Blonde Celestial Wizard.

"Of course. Let me know if there is anything you need." Virgo nodded and disappeared back into the Celestial Wizard.


Sting and Rogue were out in the town trying to get something quick to eat. Sting sighed as he looked around the town. "I have no idea what she would want anyways.."

"I get it Sting but we have to figure it out before someone from Fairy Tail spots us." Rogue said as he looked at Sting.

"I think it's too late for that!" Lector said as he pointed to Carla, Happy and Lily walking the town by themselves.

"Frosch is happy to see the others!" Frosch smiled.

"Shit!" Sting hissed.

"Hey Frosch! Hey Lector!" Happy smiled as he ran over. "What are you guys here?"

"We came to see everyone!" Lector lied. "Sting here missed Natsu sooooooooo much!"

"LECTOR!" Sting whined.

"It's a good lie..." Sting thought as he looked him.

"It's true! Rogue also missed Gajeel!" Lector added.

"What-" Rogue was about to say but Sting elbowed him. "Ouch. That's right. We came to see everyone and see how you all are doing."

"Sting, I swear to fucking god. Don't do that again." Rogue thought as he looked at Sting.

"Welll, everyone is at the guildhall! Why don't you guys come on!" Happy said.

"Happy, we were supposed to go see Lucy.." Carla looked at him.

"Lushy is fine! We can check up on her another time." Happy nodded his head.

"She didn't look fine..." Lily rolled his eyes.

"What's going on with Lucy?" Sting asked - trying to make it seem like he didn't know anything.

"Well, it turns out that she broke one of her Celestial Keys to summon the Spirit King to save the guild and she blew up at everyone. Which I would assume would have something to do with Natsu and his team yelling at her." Carla said.

"Wait, what key did she break?" Rogue asked.

"Her Fishy key!" Happy sighed.

"Her fishy key?" Lector questioned him.

"Happy means Aquarius. She broke her mother's key to save everyone.." Lily sighed.

"Oh damn. We should go check on her too." Sting looked around. "So where does she live?"

"We checked by her old place but her landlady said that she hasn't moved back in after leaving. So we have no idea where she is." Carla shook her head.

"We'll figure it out! Let's go back to the guild instead and see everyone." Rogue tried to get the cats back towards the guild.

Sting and Rogue had to figure out how to tell the girls that they were found out. This was not going to go well with Yukino. Sting looked at Lector.

"Lector, I totally forgot to grab my wallet! It has the cutest picture that I want to show to Natsu, can you go back to the hotel and go get it?" Sting asked.

"Oh, yes yes Sting. I can go back and get it for you!" Lector nodded, and ran back towards Lucy's apartment while no one else was looking.


Once Lector made it back, Yukino sensed something was wrong. Lucy was awake and she was just staring out the window. Yukino walked over and picked up Lector.

"Lector, what is it?" Yukino asked.

"We're in big trouble Yukino! Big trouble!" Lector whined.

"What do you mean?"

"We were just going out to get some food and then we were spotted by Happy, Carla and Lily! It's bad, so so bad!"

"Oh no...this is bad, but why are you back here?"

"Sting asked me to get his wallet, since there's something in it that he wanted to show Natsu, but really he was telling me come back here to tell you that they are headed to the Fairy Tail guild!"

"Great. Fucking Great, what are we supposed to do now! I can't leave Lucy here alone...Not right now and I can't ask her spirits to babysit her while I go and bring back the two boys."

"I - the great Lector will think of something, but I wonder what it is that Sting wanted to show Natsu."

"Lector, here." Yukino said as she pulled out a photo and put it into Sting's wallet. "Take this to Sting." She said.

Lector took the wallet and headed back towards the Fairy Tail guild. This was something that really worried Yukino, if they ever found out about what was happening to Lucy, things could get south and pretty quickly. Yukino looked over at the blonde and smiled slightly. She was happy to see that she was sleeping peacefully, but she also knew that the longer she was in the dark, the harder it was going to turn her back.


Lector made his way back to the Fairy Tail guild and handed Sting his wallet. "STING here you go!" Lector panted a bit as he needed to seem like the track to the hotel was far away from the guild.

"Thanks buddy!" Sting said. "NATSU! COME LOOK!" Sting smirked as he pulled out a picture of Yukino's sonogram.

"HOLY SHIT YOU GONNA BE A DAD!" Natsu shouted as he looked at the sonogram.

"Actually, both Rogue and I are gonna be dads. Yukino is both of our mates." Sting said.

"Sharing a mate? How is that going to work?" Natsu tilted his head.

"It's easy." Rogue said. "We don't hold anything back from each other. We also spend alone time with her. Usually Sting is busy being the Master of Sabertooth to be with Yukino all the time, so that's where I come in."

"How do you know the kid is yours?" Gajeel asked Sting.

"I don't know that, but it doesn't matter. This kid is going to have two dads and a mother who love it very much." Sting told Gajeel.

"Is Yukino with you?" Lisanna asked walking over.

"She's resting." Rogue answered.

"Wonder where they are staying...Maybe I can go see Yukino and tell her how to tell Natsu I'm having a baby too." Lisanna thought.

"What hotel are you guys staying at?" Mirajane asked as she walked. "It would be good to see Yukino and maybe she can come over and we can have Lucy come and those two can talk."

"Ugh, Mira, I don't want Lucy to know that Yukino is here! I wanna spend time with her since we're both Dragon Mates." Lisanna looked at her sister.

"Big sis! That's such a great idea!" Lisanna faked - but no one could tell.

"Ah, We'll talk to her about it but maybe. Where is Blondie?" Sting asked.

"Did someone say Blondie?!" Laxus yelled.

"NOT YOU THE OTHER BLONDIE!" Sting yelled back.

"WELL YOU SHOULD LOOK IN A MIRROR!" Laxus shouted back.

"WELL MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T ASSUME THAT SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT YOU!"

"SHUT UP YOU TWOO!" Rouge said as he smaked Sting upside the head.

"Natsu, we couldn't find out where she's living now. Her land-lady said that she hasn't seen Lucy and that her apartment has been rented out to someone else." Happy chimed in.

"Does anyone know where Lucy lives now?" Natsu asked.

Of course, no one knew - except those who did stayed quite. Laxus had a feeling that Natsu was up to something if he was having the cats look for her. Evergreen rolled her eyes as she spoke up.

"No one knows where she is. For all we know she could be living outside of the town and only comes to visit. Probably moved away so her EX team didn't destroy her new place." Ever chimed.

"Her ex team?" Rogue questioned.

"Oh that's a good one! You didn't even tell them that Lucy left your pathetic team and joined mine?" Laxus laughed.

"What did you guys do to her that she left your team?" Sting was pissed now. Lucy was such a sweetheart - hell she was also strong as she stood against Minvera so long ago. She even surpassed Yukino in the Celestial Magic.

"WE didn't do anything!" Lisanna hissed.

"We did though..." Gray said. "We would always destroy something and they would take part of the reward money - to the point where she started taking solo jobs because she couldn't make her rent."

"Oh that's great. You guys destroyed everything you touch!" Sting laughed. "No wonder she left your team."

"Hey! We aren't here to talk about her, she lied to us!" Natsu growled.

"What did she possibly lie about?" Rogue tilted his head.

Sting and Rogue didn't know what Lucy did - of course that was something that she should tell them, but right now they were at Fairy Tail and they were going to tell them. Of course Happy, Carla, and Lily already told them the jist of what Lucy did - breaking Aquarius Key, but Sting didn't want them to know that they knew because the cats told them.

"Remember when you two came to help with Mard Geer and Tartaros?" Mira asked.

"Yeah, that guy was pretty strong." Sting remembered.

"Well, it turns out that Blondie broke a Celestial Key -" Laxus started saying then was cut off -

"WAIT SHE DID WHAT?" Sting was shocked. "Yukino told us once that breaking a Celestial Key is like taboo - it's never to be done, unless..."

"Unless she broke it to bring forth something..." Rogue finished.

"She broke Fishy Lady key to summon the King!" Happy said. "Remember we told you guys when we met up with you?"

"Wait, so you guys are mad that she broke a key and didn't tell you after all this time?" Rogue was confused - also ignoring the rest of what Happy was saying.

"Well...when you say it..." Gray muttered

"SHE BROKE A KEY TO SUMMON THE CELESTIAL KING AND YOU GUYS ARE MAD BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T TELL YOU? FUCK YOU GUYS!" Sting was beyond pissed. How dare they! "HOW DARE YOU PISSED AT HER BECAUSE SHE SAVED YOUR LIFE!" Sting glared at her team.

"Sting, calm down." Rogue said as he put his hand on Sting's shoulder. "They don't need you to beat them up."

"You guys are the worst team. Hell, probably the worst guild if you all feel the same way. Maybe I should just have her join Sabertooth." Sting narrowed his eyes at them.

"You wouldn't dare!" Evergreen was shocked.

"Hell, I'll take Blondie and his team as well since they seem pissed at all of you too." Sting smirked.

"I'll think about it." Laxus looked at Sting.

"LAXUS!" Mira was shocked over what he was saying.

"What? I'm just saying maybe my team should join Sabertooth for Lucy's sake." Laxus looked Mira.

"Whatever!" Mira rolled her eyes at him.


Bickslow was still pacing his apartment. When a new Celestial Spirit opened their gate to speak to Bickslow. He stopped and he looked at the spirit - he looked like an older version of Natsu.

"Uh...Who are you?" Bickslow - who was actually wanting alone time to think.

"I'm Igneel - but that's besides the point. I've come to tell you that you should seek Anna Heartfilia. I have a feeling that I know where she is and I can lead you there." The spirit said.

"Aren't you supposed to be...like a Dragon?" Bickslow questioned.

"Ugh, yes. But come on, we don't have much time and Lucy needs Anna's help. You need her help too." Igneel growled.

"Alright Alright I'm coming." Bickslow grabbed his jacket and left the apartment with Igneel. "Where are we going?"

"We are going to a small town away, but not too far away. We better go now before she gets worse."

So the two started their journey to find Anna - who could help both Lucy and Bickslow.


Lucy woke up to the pain inside her - the Thing was alive and was trying to kill her. Her magic didn't feel as strong as before. Though at this point Lucy has given up - there was no one to save her. Her ex team hates her - probably most of Fairy Tail hates her. She tried her best to keep the secret but now she didn't. Everyone knew. It was better that way.

Yukino looked up from her book to see Lucy awake. "Hey, did you want me to get some water?"

"..." Lucy nodded her head she sat up more and rubbed her eyes.

Yukino got up and went to the Kitchen to get a drink for Lucy. She kept looking back at her to make sure nothing happened. She knew what to watch out for - thanks to Libra bringing her the book. If the strange magic inside Lucy started to change the way she looked - she knew it was over. There was also one song that the Darkness liked to have the Victim's sing. If that song started then it was going to be impossible to change her back. Yukino knew that Bickslow and a spirit of Lucy's was going to be going to look for Anna and that they should be back within a day.

"Here you go," Yukino smiled as she gave Lucy the cup with the straw. "Slow sips, okay?"

Lucy took the cup Yukino and took the slow sips like she suggested. "Are you pregnant?"

"I am. How did you know?"

"You have that glow to your skin. Who is the father?"

"Either Sting or Rogue."

"You don't know?"

"Well, the thing is, I'm the mate to the both of them so it's hard to really know until the baby is born. But Sting said it didn't matter because he wants to be Dad and Rogue wants to be Papa."

"That's cute."

Yukino put a hand to Lucy's forehead. "How are you feeling? You slept for a two hours."

"I'm fine." Lucy nodded her head.

"You don't have to lie to me." Yukino said as she sighed.

"I...i can't help it as I always said to everyone - and it's always the first thing to my mind."

"Lucy...Everything will be okay. We will help you the best we can."

"There's nothing left...I'm just going to-"

"Don't say it! I need you Lucy. Who is going to be the godmother to all my kids!"

"You...you want me to be the godmother to your kids?"

"I do."


It's been a day and Bickslow was getting antsy as they arrived in the town that Anna was in. Sting and Rogue were calming down, they were over at Bickslows apartment with Laxus, Evergreen and Freed. They were talking about transferring over to Sabertooth. Lucy was getting worse as the Darkness was getting stronger as Lucy was getting weaker. For some reason Bickslow could feel her getting weaker.

"We have to hurry. She's getting weaker." Bickslow said.

"There she is!" Igneel pointed out an older version of Lucy.

"Holy fuck. She looks just like Lucy but hella older."

"ANNA!" Igneel shouted.

Anna heard her name and looked over to see two people walking over to her. She sensed that it was Igneel - due to still being a Celestial Wizard she can sense Spirits from a mile away. She didn't know who the other person but that didn't matter.

"Igneel? What's going on?" Anna asked.

"How did you know who he was?" Bickslow asked.

"He looks like an older version of Natsu, and I'm still a Celestial Wizard, I know a spirit when I see one. But that's besides the point." Anna brushed him off.

"It's Lucy.." Igneel sighed.

"What's wrong with her?" Anna was shocked to hear something going on with Lucy.

"Bickslow tell her." Igneel looked at him.

"Her...Her soul turned black. The effect of the Eclipse Gate hit her hard and fast after...after told the guild about breaking Aquarius Key to summon the Celestial Spirit King, and books said that you faced the Darkness from the Gate when you opened it and I need your help to do a Soul Dive..." Bickslow said.

"We have to go now. How long as it been?" Anna said as she looked at him.

"We took a day to travel here. A day back...It's been two days since her soul turned completely black." Bickslow said.

"Fuck..." Anna cursed. "Let's go. Igneel, go back to the Celestial World and tell the others to stand by."

Igneel left and Bickslow quickly followed Anna back to the train station. The two of them needed to get to Lucy and soon before something happened.

"So, I'm guessing you are her soulmate. You do know, once you do the Soul Dive, and you find that last light, that you have to tell her how you feel and hope that she accepts your feelings to bring her back, right?"

"I am her soulmate, and I know that. I'm worried she won't accept them back."

"Don't think about that now. Right now you have to focus on bringing her Soul back to bright white before it's too late."


"How are you going to tell Makarov that you'll be leaving Fairy Tail?" Rogue asked.

"I don't know - yet. But I know that maybe he'll be better off to know that Lucy isn't around the negativity of the rest of the guild." Laxus sighed.

"I think he would miss us, we are one of the top teams." Freed mentioned.

"It's not like it's going to be permanent, right?" Ever asked.

"No, it doesn't have to be. Just for a while Lucy recovers from the Soul Dive and get her strength back." Sting said.

They all read up how the person who had to get a Soul Dive feels when they return back to normal. They were worried how weak she'll be after her soul has been turned black and how it almost consumed her.

"I hope Bickslow will be back soon." Yukino said as she was over as Lucy was being watched by the Celestial Spirits. They told Yukino that she needed a small break from watching her.

Just then there was light - it was Loke who stepped through the gate. "He has Anna, they are on their way back right now. They should be back tomorrow, right now we are in a critical stage. This is the part where we will need all of your help and Anna will need our help. I don't know how they are going to do because this the worst stage, worse than the Stage Anna was in."


Right now, Virgo had some music playing to help drown out the possible sounds that the Darkness was making inside. Lucy tried her best to focus on the sounds of the music and Virgo was worried that this plan wasn't going to work that they had lost Lucy forever to the Darkness.

"Lucy..." Aries said as she looked at the Blonde Celestial Wizard.

"You are strong Lucy!" Gemi said.

"Yeah! Remember who took down Angel!" Mini said.

"Who took that beatings that Flare and Minvera did to you during the grand magic games!" Virgo chimed in.

"You are strong! You can beat the Darkness." Aries said as she looked at their friend.

Friend. Lucy didn't use them as Weapons like Angel and Karen. She didn't have them fight their battles for them like Everlue. She was their Savior. She saved Loke, by making the Spirit King change his ruling. She was strong enough to stand up against the Demons. She was their Princess. She can make it. Lucy saved the Dragon souls by begging to the Spirit King to let them have another chance at life.

Lucy put her hands to her head as the Darkness was laughing at her and showing her images of the times that she was weak and how other members of Fairy Tail had to save her - even the part where Happy had to rescue her and fly her up on top of the building to be saved from Bickslow babies attack.

Weak. You are WEAK. I will make you STRONGER if you just give in.

No...leave me alone

The more you struggle the stronger I will be to OVERPOWER your weak mind

Go away

I'm YOU! I will always be here.

Just then the door opened and Yukino ran over with Laxus behind her. "Lucy! I'm here! Please look at me." Yukino's pained voice said as she was on the verge of tears as she thought she was going to loose Lucy.

"Come on Blondie. You can fight this." Laxus agreed.

"What the hell are we going to do?" Evergreen whispered as they were watching Lucy get worse. "He's not back yet with Anna."

"Anna...Anna..." Lucy muttered.

"Yes! She's on her way. Bickslow went to go find her for you." Freed nodded his head.

"Bickslow..." Lucy muttered.

Yukino saw it - her eyes were changing color - they were going from the bright brown to black. It was a slow change, but it was there. It was not a good sign. Did they even have time to save her? This was something that no one knew about.

"Evergreen...Sing..." Loke said. "Here." He handed Evergreen a book of songs that Lucy had written down. "These songs are her favorite. Pick one and sing it."

Evergreen flipped through the book until she landed on a song that she knew very well. She knew that it would be better if Yukino joined it. So she showed the song to Yukino and she nodded her head as she too knew the song. It was one that Lucy hummed all the time when they were together.


{Evergreen}

I can make flowers bloom
And change their colors too
This pink looks better blue
How amazing
I think of butterflies
Suddenly here they are

{Yukino}

I simply flick my wrist
And that turns into this
I think I've got the gist
Who'd believe it?
It's like a crazy dream
And somehow I'm the star

{Evergreen and Yukino}

'Cause I've got magic
Magic, magic
I've got magic
Magic, magic

{Yukino}

I can change what you wear
And even style your hair
Float teacups through the air
One lump or two?
And for the final touch
A chocolate fudge souffle - hey-hey-ey

{Evergreen}

I think I like this world
Feel like a different girl
You want a sting of pearls
I can do that
Oh, this is so much fun
It's like a brand new day - hey-hey-ey

{Evergreen and Yukino}

'Cause I've got magic (a-a-oh-oh-a-oh)
Magic, magic (a-a-oh-oh-a-oh)
I've got magic (a-a-oh-oh-a-oh)
Magic, magic (a-a-oh-oh-a-oh)

{Evergreen}

And I can do anything
Suddenly I can be

{Yukino}

Anything that I dream
I can be

{Evergreen and Yukino}

'Cause I've got magic (a-a-oh-oh-a-oh)
Magic, magic (a-a-oh-oh-a-oh)
I've got magic (a-a-oh-oh-a-oh)
Magic, magic (a-a-oh-oh-a-oh)
Magic, magic
I've got magic


Anna looked out the window on the train. "I hope we can make it...This is going to happen fast so I'm going to tell you right now how to do it so that once we get there, you will run to where ever she is and start it."

Bickslow looked at Anna like she had five heads. "What? I thought you were going to be there when I start?!"

"We are already going to be doing this too late! So listen to me carefully Seith Mage. You have the power inside of you to do this. Only you can change her soul back. Only YOU can proclaim your love. Any other love that someone says - will only hold back the darkness for a little bit. This is something that you have to know. The Darkness is not found of love songs. If you happen to know one, it would be great - since that can help bring forth her soul. As a Celestial Wizard, we strive on love from others around and fro our spirits. It's why I'm going to summon all of Lucy's spirits to help you." Anna said.

"What if I can't do it?" Bickslow was worried that him confessing his love was not going to be enough.

"You CAN do it. You are just psyching yourself out before it happens."

With that statement Anna explained exactly how he was going to Soul Dive. He had to sit next her, facing each other. He had to gather her hands into his as he focused hard to bring forth the dormant magic inside his body that allowed Seith Mages to soul dive. This was the part that Bickslow was worried about but he knew that somewhere he can do it - as long as he knew that he can do it then it would happen. Once he brought forth the magic inside him - he just had to stare into her eyes and then he had to search for her soul. It would be the Darkness that he needed to defeat it to rescue her soul and make Lucy, the shinning the star that she used to be. As he did that, he had to confess is love with a song. A song!

"I don't think I know any love songs!" Bickslow thought as he had to search his brain for one. Maybe there was one that Lucy once sang that he could sing back to her.