Mama Mirajane-6
Lucy's eyes opened slowly, her head throbbing as if she had just gotten the worst hangover of her life. Just instantly got up on her knees, her arms tied behind her back, as she realized she wasn't anywhere she recognized.
"What the…? How did I get here?" Lucy questioned
"So you're finally awake. I was getting worried about you Lucy." Jose exclaimed appearing at the other side of the door.
"Who are you?" Lucy asked, turning to him.
"I'm Master Jose Porla of the Phantom Lord Guild." Jose explained.
"You're with Phantom?" Lucy shouted before flashes of what had happened came to her.
~Flashback~
"Ugh!" Lucy groaned as she was walking down the street with a bag of food in her hand. "I can't believe everyone just took off without me. But Levy and the boys need someone to look after them, so I guess it's up to me." Lucy sighed as it began to rain. "It's raining while the sun's still out?" She looks up before she looks forward, gasping as she saw someone coming through the rainy mist. "Who are you?"
"Drip-drip-drop. Juvia is the rain woman. It's always with me." The woman exclaimed.
"Uh…"
"And what sort of woman are you pray tell?" Juvia inquired.
"I'm just the regular kind." Lucy responded as Juvia walked by.
"Drip-drip-drop." Juvia repeated.
"What's with all the drip-dropping?" Lucy inquired.
"Pleasure to meet you, I'll be going now." Juvia stated opening an umbrella.
"Well take the rain with ya." Lucy exclaimed.
"No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no." A man said, forming out of the street's walkway. "I bid you bonjour, Mademoiselle."
"Great, another weirdo?" Lucy groaned.
"Juvia, me petite Amie, you mustn't shy away from the task at hand."
"No, Monsieur Sol." Juvia exclaimed.
"My monocle whispers to me many things, Mon Cheri. It tells me this belle dame before us, is our sought after cible." Sol exclaimed.
"Does it?" Juvia inquired. "So she is the one."
"Cible? That means target." Lucy exclaimed getting a worried look.
"Ah, pardonnez-moi. I have not told you my name." Sol exclaimed bending impossibly to the right. "I am Sol, of the Element4. Also known as 'Sol of the Earth.' But it'd behoove you to call me Monsieur Sol."
"I've heard of the Element4. You're with Phantom!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Très bien, correct. We've been sent here to collect you and bring you back to the guild with us ate once." Sol exclaimed, only to receive a glare from Lucy. Me belle compagne is a rain woman, who's also part of the Element4. She's known as 'Juvia of the Great Sea.'
Lucy dropped the bag of groceries, and reached for her keys.
"You're the ones who attacked my friends and kidnapped Scythe." Lucy growled. "Aren't you?" Lucy gave them a glare before she became covered in water, floating in Juvia's Water Lock.
"Au contraire Mademoiselle. A reasonable guess, but we are not the ones to blame. Well, Juvia is the one who kidnapped the boy yes. The honor of your friend's beating, and the renovation of your guild hall was the work of Monsieur Gajeel. Although, to be fair, we were with him in spirit as the saying goes." Sol exclaimed as Lucy tried to break free of the Water Lock.
"Why are you doing this?" Lucy shouted. "Let me out of here now."
"Don't waste your energy. My Water Lock spell cannot be broken." Juvia exclaimed.
Lucy's vision began to go dark as she was out of breath and couldn't hold it in any longer.
~End Flashback~
'That's right. I was captured by two of the Element4.' Lucy mentally groaned.
"I'd like to apologize for this dingy cell, and being tied up must be degrading. But I'm afraid I had no choice my dear. That is how you treat a prisoner after all." Jose apologized.
"You're the jerks who attacked my friend Levy and kidnapped Scythe." Lucy shouted. "You'd better let me go. My friends are gonna come looking for me."
"I know. I just got the most spine shaking threat from that pesky brat S-c507. It takes a lot to shake my spine the way he did. Hades didn't call him the ultimate weapon for nothing." Jose growled.
"Wait, Grimoire Heart hired you to kidnap Scythe?" Lucy questioned.
"Oh my dear they did more than that. They allowed us to keep him, and use him however we see fit. But he wouldn't cooperate after Hades had aged him by about nine years." Jose exclaimed turning around. "So I thought locking him up without any food or water would in a magic canceling cage would make him see things our way, and he would be released once he agreed to join Phantom Lord and destroy Fairy Tail. Unfortunately S-c507 escaped when a brawl broke out between Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord in our guildhall."
"His name is Scythe, and he's nobody's weapon." Lucy stated.
"Well, so be it. But I have an offer for you. Depending on your cooperation, I could treat you as our esteemed guest rather than a lowly prisoner." Jose smiled turning back to her.
"What do you mean?" Lucy asked before a centipede crawled on her. "Ew, yuck it crawled on me."
"See, you don't want to stay in here do you? I have a lovely penthouse suite waiting for you if you promise to behave." Jose exclaimed.
"Why does your guild keep attacking us?" Lucy questioned.
"Who is 'us'? Oh I'm sorry, are you talking about Fairy Tail? It was a means to an end… and that's all." Jose exclaimed.
"What?" Lucy questioned.
"You see, we were working towards our main objective of acquiring a certain someone. They happen to be a member of Fairy Tail, so if we have to destroy the guild to get ahold of them, so be it." Jose stated.
"Who are you talking about?" Lucy asked.
"Oh, my, my, you're such a naïve young lady. Not at all what I'd expect from a debutante. I'm talking about you of course. Lady Lucy, the privileged daughter of the wealthy Heartfilia family." Jose explained.
"But… how did you find out about that?" Lucy asked.
"You know, I'm surprised you never told your fellow guild members the truth, and I don't understand why the daughter of a wealthy tycoon would stoop to such cheap and dangerous work, as wizarding for such a low-class guild, do you?" Jose inquired.
"I've been… kidnapped?" Lucy asked, fearing the worst.
"No my dear, I promise it's not like that. We're not looking for ransom money, we're just doing our job. We were hired by your father to bring you home to him."
Lucy gasped at this knowledge. "No. I don't understand. Why would he want me back?"
"Why do you seem so confused? Any father would go looking for a daughter who ran away from home." Jose smiled.
"Not him. Honestly I'm shocked he even noticed I was gone. I'm not ever gonna go back to that house! I don't want anything to do with him." Lucy shouted.
"Oh dear. I should have known you'd be problematic." Jose sighed.
"Well, you might as well just let me go."
"I'm sorry, but I can't do that. Even with S-c507's threat being as menacing as it was, your father is already paying us more than a king's ransom for this job." Jose exclaimed.
"Please? I need to go to the bathroom." Lucy sighed, her cheeks flushing a bit.
"Give me a break. You don't think I'd fall for the oldest trick in the book do you?" Jose asked.
"No. For real. I'm dying here." Lucy said squirming a bit.
"Fine then." Jose said pulling a bucket from nowhere.
"Uh…"
"Go ahead."
"A bucket?"
"I'm ready for any old trick you might throw my way." Jose laughed.
"Guess it'll have to work." Lucy sighed.
"You're gonna use it?" Jose questioned. "Well… I have never met such a vulgar young lady. I'll turn away because I'm a gentleman."
"Hm. Aah!" Lucy shouted as she took a page from Scythe's book and kicked Jose in the family jewels, and from behind, the most painful angle.
Jose grunted in pain as his head hit the ceiling before he fell back, holding his mashed jewels in pain.
"You know, there's a reason old tricks are still around. 'Cause they work." Lucy exclaimed. "Bye, take care, 'kay?"
Lucy ran to the open door, stopping as she saw she was nearly a mile above the ground below.
"Oops, I forgot to mention…" Jose groaned, painfully standing up. "This cell is several stories high. I must admit, you really did a number on me young lady."
Lucy turned to Jose who was standing there, before looking back to the ground below. She closed her eyes, and an image of her father appeared in her mind.
"But you're not going to get away with it." Jose exclaimed reaching out to grab Lucy by the hair. "You will be punished. I'll show you just how terrifying Phantom Lord can be."
Lucy closed her eyes, before allowing herself to fall backwards, in doing so, had caused Jose more pain in his already mashed jewels.
'I heard him in the distance. I know he's here.' Lucy mentally cried. "Natsu."
"Lucy."
As on que, the pink haired Dragonslayer came running at her, catching her and turning around, allowing his back to hit the rubble, allowing him to take ninety percent of the impact force, while Lucy lay atop of him with his head in her cleavage.
"Natsu, you came for me." Lucy smiled.
A few minutes later, Natsu and Lucy were on their knees with Natsu untying the ropes around her wrists.
"There you go." Natsu smiled. "Are you okay?"
"I think so." Lucy said, nodding her head a bit.
"That's good news." Happy said as Natsu stood up. "Okay, we'd better head back to the guild."
"What? That's their headquarters. Let's get 'em." Natsu complained.
"We can't, Erza told us to retreat." Happy exclaimed.
"Cause she's a wimp. I'll take those guys by myself if I have to." Natsu argued.
"But you saw what they did to the master." Happy stated.
"Exactly. That's why I wanna get revenge!" Natsu exclaimed.
"You're not strong enough to fight them on your own." Happy stated.
"What did you say?" Natsu asked, sounding irritated.
"I said, you can't." Happy repeated.
"I heard you the first time."
"Everybody's hurt."
"I'm not hurt."
"No but Nab's got a broken arm." Happy argued.
"So what? I'm stronger than him anyway." Natsu growled.
"Macao's beat up too." Happy exclaimed.
"Yeah? He's an old man." Natsu groaned.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Lucy exclaimed, as she began to cry, images of what had happened the past couple days, flashing through her mind. "All of this, everything… it's my fault. But I don't wanna leave. I wanna stay with you guys. 'Cause I love being in Fairy Tail."
"Hey what's wrong?" Natsu asked. "You're crying. Why are you upset?"
"You can tell us." Happy added as Lucy was still crying.
"You're one of us. You don't have to leave."
"C'mon let's go back to the guild." Happy stated.
"Yeah okay, I guess we oughta." Natsu sighed, knowing Happy was right. "Tim to get up. Let's go Lucy."
"Don't be so rough with her. Remember, girls are delicate." Happy exclaimed.
"How about I carry you on my back? Is that okay with you?" Natsu questioned as Lucy began crying more.
"Aw, look what you did. You made the poor girl cry again." Happy stated.
"I was just trying to help."
Meanwhile, Jose was still in the cell, slowly recovering from the double hit he took to his family jewels. Before he released his magical energy, causing his hat to fly away.
"She's made me angry!" Jose shouted. "Her fate is sealed."
~Elsewhere~
Hidden away in Magnolia's East Forest, you'll find a tree house where an old friend of Master Makarov Lives. Porlyusica is a highly skilled healer, but she lives a life of seclusion because of her hatred of mankind. Her specialty is in the treatment of ailments that were caused by magic. Which is why the Master has been brought to her.
Over in the corner, Bisca, Alzack and Scythe were standing in silence, waiting for Porlyusica to finish her diagnosis. When she suddenly smacked Makarov.
"What'd you do that for?" Alzack asked stepping forward, only for Scythe to stick his arm out and stop him.
"Hey, we wanted you to cure our Master, not make him worse." Bisca exclaimed her advancement forward stopped by Scythe's other arm.
"Enough." Scythe exclaimed. "She knows what she's doing. She's been friends with gramps for as long as she can remember."
"It's what he deserves for pushing himself so hard at his age." Porlyusica stated. "Honestly you're such an old fool. Don't you think you should be leaving now? I'm sick of looking at you."
Bisca and Alzack flinched back while Scythe remained steadfast.
"I need your help with somethin." Scythe exclaimed.
"What is it?" Porlyusica exclaimed.
"I want you to see what Hades did to me." Scythe stated.
"Hades? The Master of the Dark Guild Grimoire Heart?"
"Yes."
Porlyusica looked at him with hesitant eyes, before she grabbed a syringe and motioned him forward.
"What is your name?"
"Scythe."
"The young boy I checked up after the Galuna Island incident?" Porlyusica questioned.
Scythe simply nodded his head as Porlyusica drew some blood. His attention was drawn by something on the counter, a book filled with protection and shield spells.
"Would you mind if I borrowed this?" Scythe asked holding up the book.
"You can keep it for all I care. I have no use for it." Porlyusica exclaimed before turning her attention back to Makarov. "I should have the results of your bloodwork in a day or so."
"Before we leave, can you at least tell us what his condition is?" Alzack asked.
"We want to help you take care of him." Bisca exclaimed.
"Just go home." Porlyusica stated. "Those ridiculously worried faces of yours will only aggravate his condition. These symptoms suggest a powerful wind spell was used. My guess the spell known as 'Drain.' This terrible spell drains its victim of all their magic abilities. Their powers then drift along the winds until they have dissipated completely. If only you'd gathered Makarov's powers when they were initially drained, he could have recovered quickly. But as things stand now, it'll take quite a bit longer."
"How long do you think?" Alzack asked.
"I'm sure the others will want to know." Bisca stated.
"Why are you still here? Scythe left five minutes ago." Porlyusica shouted.
"I'm sorry but I thought you were talking to us all this time, ma'am." Alzack exclaimed as both he and Bisca flinched back.
"Of course I wasn't I can't stand the stink of you. Get out of here, already. Go on, move it. Shoo, shoo." Porlyusica shouted swinging her broom around.
"Real nice talking to you." Bisca called as they ran out of there.
"Wait for me." Alzack exclaimed following close behind.
Once they were gone, Porlyusica went back to Makarov's side with a long face.
'You've always been quite the troublemaker, haven't you? A wizard's magic is intertwined with the very essence of his life. The greater his power the more devastating the drain spell will be.' Porlyusica monologued mentally. 'You're going to have to fight with all you've got or this may very well be your deathbed. You really are such a pig-headed old fool.'
~A Little While Later at the Fairy Tail Guildhall~
"Man this stinks." One of the members said as they were all treating their wounds.
"I can't believe we had to retreat."
"It's just not fair."
"We should go back. We have to get revenge for what they did to Levy and the others."
"We'll make them pay."
Meanwhile, a group was surrounding a corner of the basement, where Lucy was sitting on a barrel with both Scythe and Natsu on either side of her, Scythe reading the spell book Porlyusica gave him. Having used his lightning magic to run back to the guild in record time.
"Okay so their headquarters is here. So I'm thinking we should try and hit them, with some long range spells from the Southeast hill." Macao exclaimed.
"I'm bringing all my explosive Lacrimas next time." Wakaba said, a cigarette in his mouth.
"Hey guys I'm gonna need some spell books from the archives." Macao shouted.
"What about the one Scythe has?" Elfman asked.
"It's filled with shield and protection spells, most of them aren't very powerful, but there's one that seems to need slayer magic to work." Scythe exclaimed ignoring how Mirajane was looking over him. "What are you doing mom?" Scythe asked after she continued for another five minutes.
"I'm just trying to understand what's going on with you." Mira exclaimed. "Hades did this to you?"
"Working with Phantom Lord yes." Scythe sighed closing the book and pushing himself off the wall. "I'm going out back to practice this shield spell that requires Slayer Magic."
Grey looked to Lucy, seeing how depressed she was and how she must have been feeling at the moment.
"Don't worry, we'll get them back for this." Grey exclaimed.
"I know. I'm not worried about that." Lucy exclaimed. "It's just… all my fault."
"Being targeted by dangerous people is just one of the downsides of being rich." Elfman exclaimed. "At least you're protected by a real man like me."
"Hey would you give it a rest already?" Grey exclaimed.
"I gotta say, I was shocked when I heard the news. Why'd you hide the truth from us Lucy?" Happy asked.
"I wasn't trying to hide anything. I mean there's no way to bring up the fact that I'm a runaway in casual conversation. I've been gone for a year, and my father hasn't cared. Now all of a sudden he wants to force me to come home? He's done all those horrible things just to get me to go back. I hate his guts." Lucy cried, a hint of anger in her voice. "Still if I hadn't run away in the first place, none of this would have ever happened."
"C'mon don't be ridiculous, your dad's the one to blame." Elfman exclaimed.
"Idiot." Grey stated.
"Uh, ha, I mean it is Phantom's fault." Elfman stated trying to correct himself.
"No. I'm the one who brought trouble to the guild, and it's all because of my own selfish choices." Lucy sighed. "I'm so very sorry. I'm just gonna go back home, and hopefully all this will be over with."
"I don't know about that." Natsu said to Lucy's surprise. "I can't see you playing the part of the pretty princess sitting around in your mansion. Laughing with us in this filthy guild hall, going on adventures, even though you freak out all the time, that's who you really are. You said you wanted to stay with us right? Why would you ever go back to the place you ran away from? Come on. Who are you trying to kid? You're Lucy of Fairy Tail. No more running 'cause you belong here with us."
"Ah, don't cry. It's just not like you." Grey exclaimed.
"Yeah, please. Real men are weak to womanly tears." Elfman exclaimed.
"Sorry." Lucy said still sobbing.
~Meanwhile outside in the back~
Scythe was taking a fighting stance, with his left arm high in the air above him, and his right arm stretched out in front of him. He was dressed in a pair of steel toed military boots, blue jeans, and a tank-top with the Fairy Tail emblem in red stitched in the center. He wore a pair of fingerless leather gloves on his hands, and some fabric elbow guards, with two plates of metal in each to protect both the upper arms and forearms, while still giving easy maneuverability to the joints of his elbows. The falchion blades on the small of his back.
The current stance he's now in, is the starting position of the spell he is practicing. Breathing in deeply, Scythe brought his left arm forward, as he breathed out, putting his left hand on his right arm at the bicep, and released the magic he had been holding there.
"Lotus Barrier." Scythe shouted.
A dark obsidian shield made out of magical energy, shaped like a fully bloomed lotus, appeared in front of Scythe.
"Damn it." Scythe cursed.
"Language young man."
Scythe turned around to see Velvet walking towards him, with a couple of drinks in her hands. Scythe turned away, with a slight blush, as her outfit didn't do much to keep her chest from bouncing.
"What seems to be the problem with this spell?" Velvet asked.
"Nothing, it's just I thought I could nail it on the first try, I spent five minutes building up the magical energy to create the shield, but it came out the size of a coffee table." Scythe groaned.
"Well, maybe there's a problem with the spell, instead of you." Velvet exclaimed taking the book and flipping to the page the spell was on, her brow forwarding when she read it. "Scythe, did you read the entire entry about the Lotus Barrier?"
"Yeah. I did."
"Then you know that any damaged done to the barrier is reflected on the caster right?" Velvet inquired.
"Yes, I know that. If the barrier is destroyed I get seriously hurt." Scythe shouted.
"Then why do this?"
"Because I can't do anything." Scythe shouted again, stopping Velvet from what she was going to say next.
"What?" Was all Velvet could ask.
"It's my fault Master is in the condition he's in. The attack was meant for me, but he took my place." Scythe exclaimed.
"Scythe. Is that why you've been so moody lately?"
"Well, that and all the new teenage hormones running through me. I'm just glad I might have skipped my EMO phase." Scythe sighed with a chuckle before he frowned again.
"Scythe what happened to the Master wasn't your fault. I mean yeah sure it's heart breaking to see him like this. But he'd do it all over again for any of us." Velvet explained putting the book down. "I'm not gonna try and stop you from mastering this spell. I'm just gonna tell you to watch where you use it."
Scythe smiled and turned to her, only to see her face horrified and scared, at something that was behind him. Scythe turned to the cliff and his eyes widened just as the ground began to rumble. There in the water, heading towards the Fairy Tail Guildhall, stood the Phantom Lord Guild Main Hall. On eight robotic legs.
"What the hell is that thing?" Velvet screamed as the rest of the guild came out at the commotion.
"It's the Phantom Lord Main Hall." Scythe exclaimed, as the mobile Guildhall stabilized itself.
"How do we fight that thing?" Wakaba asked.
"I never anticipated this. I never thought they'd go to such extremes to attack us." Erza exclaimed shaking as she wore only a towel.
'Please put some clothes on.' Scythe mentally groaned seeing Erza in a simple towel.
One of the walls on the guildhall opened up, as a collapsible cannon barrel came out of the building.
The cannon's head was aimed right for Fairy Tail, as a black ball of energy began to form on at the head, as it prepared to fire.
"Run, get out of here now." Erza shouted before running for the cliff, reequipping into her Adamantine Armor.
'Damn it, what should I do? I'm useless.' Scythe mentally cursed as Mira put her hands on his shoulders and brought him in for a hug. 'Wait, the barrier spell. I did it wrong.'
"Erza get out of there, you'll die." Natsu shouted.
"Here goes nothing." Scythe exclaimed taking the starting stance once more.
As the cannon fired, Erza put her two halves of the shield together, creating a magic circle.
"Lotus Barrier…" Scythe shouted performing the ending stance rapidly.
A large black lotus shaped barrier, the size of the Guildhall formed in front of Erza, taking the hit milliseconds before it made contact with Erza's shields.
"What the?" Erza questioned as the barrier seemed to hold, gaining some cracks in it.
Velvet look in shock at the barrier then to Scythe, seeing the damage effecting Scythe, as cracks began to form along his right arm, blood dripping from the appendage as he received the damage.
"I can't hold it much longer." Scythe shouted.
Mirajane put her hands on his back, and began focusing some of her magical energy to him, helping to empower the barrier, which unfortunately involved gaining some of the damage to it.
Right as Scythe was about to give, the attack from the Jupiter Cannon ended, and the barrier disappeared into thin air.
"Scythe." Mira shouted as he fell to his knees.
"I'm okay, I'm fine." Scythe exclaimed standing up, with a cast of black wind encircling his injured arm. "None of my bones are broke, only the skin."
"That was risky." Velvet exclaimed.
"But hey, I figured out what I did wrong on my first try." Scythe smiled.
"Makarov has fallen." Jose's voice rang out. "Any chance of victory has slipped through your fingers. Surrender Lucy Heartfilia immediately. You have no choice."
"That's not gonna happen." Alzack shouted.
"Like any guild would hand over one of their own, to a monster like you." Bisca added.
"You hear that? Lucy's staying put." Macao said causing everyone there to cheer, while Lucy still looked discouraged.
"I won't ask again." Jose said angrily.
"Maybe I should just go with them." Lucy whimpered as all the guild members continued to shout and deny Jose's request. "Give myself up."
"We would never betray her like that!" Erza shouted reequipping into her Heaven's Wheel armor. "You'd have to kill us first."
Lucy was shocked at hearing that, even more so when the entire guild agreed with her on that.
"The thing you will never understand Jose. Is we are a family, a family who doesn't know the meaning of betraying one of their own, or giving up on them." Scythe growled stepping up to the cliff. "Families protect each other, and they will do anything to make sure their loved ones are safe until the very end."
Scythe stomped his right foot on the edge of the cliff and held up his arm dissipating the funnel of air magic revealing all the fresh scars that had formed.
"If you want big-sis-Lucy, then you're gonna have to kill me." Scythe shouted, a blazing wildfire in his soul.
"You cheeky little brat. If you think you're so strong than try to destroy my Jupiter Cannon before it goes off in fifteen minutes." Jose shouted as shadowy creatures of darkness began pouring out of the castle.
"What the hell are those things?" Bisca questioned.
"They're Jose Phantom Soldiers. Rumor has it, every Phantom Lord Guild Master has to learn this spell if they want to be seen fit to inherit the title." Mira exclaimed.
"Uncle Natsu, Uncle Grey, Uncle Elfman. You up for a little Castle destroying?" Scythe asked with a smile.
"You know it." Natsu smirked punching his fists together.
"Ice Make Bridge." Grey exclaimed creating an ice-bridge leading to the giant mobile castle. "Do you even have to ask?"
"Let's do this like real men." Elfman shouted as he and Grey began running across the ice bridge.
"Hold up Uncle Natsu." Scythe exclaimed holding his arm out.
Natsu paused as Scythe put his hands to either side of his head, and black air haloed around his head only for a second.
"There, you shouldn't get motion sick if the castle starts to move." Scythe exclaimed.
"That's bud." Natsu smiled before happy took him from behind, and flew him through the cannon's barrel.
"Velvet?"
"You got it." The cat smiled doing the same as Happy.
"Be careful." Mira called.
"Don't worry mom, I will." Scythe smirked as they flew through the air entering the castle just as Elfman and Grey made it.
"So where to first?" Elfman asked.
"I'll go with Uncle-Grey to see if we can find any of the Element4. There are a couple members who I'd like to give payback to." Scythe exclaimed. "Velvet you go with Elfman, come get me if there's anything that I can help in."
"Right." Velvet exclaimed before the entire building began to shake.
The four held on to one another as parts of the castle began to shift, and turn into a large robot.
"This can't be good." Grey exclaimed.
~Out at the front of the Guildhall~
"We have a hideout. I want you to stay there until this is all over." Mira exclaimed dragging Lucy to Reedus.
"No." Lucy exclaimed pulling her hand away. "It's all my fault that we're in this mess, I can't just abandon everyone while they're out there fighting for me."
"It's not your fault Lucy. I don't see it that way, and neither does anyone else. We're not just fighting for you. It's for all of us. It's for the honor of our guild. We're proud to fight this battle, each and every one of us. Even Scythe, and he's not even a full member yet." Mira exclaimed raising her hand a bit. "Please just do as I say." Lucy gasped as Mira cast a sleep spell on her, before she passed out. "Reedus, take her to the hideout."
"Oui." Reedus said quickly drawing a cart and bore before bringing it to life with his magic.
"I'm counting on you to take care of her." Mira exclaimed.
"Oui." Reedus stated before taking Lucy into the cart and driving away to the hideout.
"I may not be strong enough to join the others in battle, but there are other ways I can help my friends." Mira exclaimed transforming her upper half to look like Lucy. "The Jupiter's gonna fire again in fourteen minutes. Don't let us down you four."
~At the same time~
"Definitely not good." Scythe exclaimed.
After the castle had finished turning into a robot, its right arm was drawing a magic circle, one he had seen a spell to protect one's self from, and one that was forbidden dark magic.
"No. Not good. Definitely not good." Scythe exclaimed. "That's the magic circle for the forbidden spell Abyss Break. At that size, it could wipe out the entire city."
"How do we stop it?" Grey questioned. "Do we look for its power source or something?"
"That would be the smart thing to do yes. Let's get going, with the speed it's drawing that circle at, we've got barely ten minutes until the spell is complete." Scythe exclaimed.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's get to it." Elfman cried out.
"Change of strategy, Velvet, you go with Grey, I'll go with Uncle Elfman."
"Got it." Velvet exclaimed as the two groups went their separate ways.
~Down below in the battle~
Mirajane had been worried about Elfman going in to fight. She knew his limitations, and knew that he couldn't handle himself if he went up against one of Phantom's best. She stepped forward into the fray of the battle, still looking like Lucy, before she called out to Jose using Lucy's voice.
"Leave them alone, I'm the one that you're after. I'll surrender if you swear to stop attacking our guild." Mira shouted. 'Hopefully this'll buy us a little more time.'
"Be gone imposter." Jose's voice rang from the giant robot.
'How'd he know?' Mira questioned.
"Nice transformation, but you can't fool me young lady." Jose said with a laugh as Mirajane took on her original form. "I knew from the start that Lucy Heartfilia wasn't here."
'I'm useless. I can't do anything right. I can't even protect my friends.' Mira mentally scolded herself.
~Inside the Castle with Elfman and Scythe~
"As real men it's our duty to protect Fairy Tail, even if it costs us our lives." Elfman roared out.
"Oui?" A French accented voice sounded.
Scythe and Elfman turned around, finding Monsieur Sol standing there with a dark look on his face.
"Salut."
"One of the Element4." Elfman stated removing his coat.
"Psst, Uncle Elfman." Scythe exclaimed. "I'm sensing a magical connection connecting him to the castle. Do you think the Element4 could be the power source?"
"Maybe. It's a possibility with Life-Link magic." Elfman exclaimed.
~Back with Mirajane~
'Elfman?' Mira questioned.
A magic circle opened up under Mira's feet. She disappeared without a trace, before reappearing between the fingers of the giant robot's other hand.
"Did you really think your little parlor trick would fool me? As punishment I'll crush you to death as you watch your friends perish." Jose's voice echoed outside.
~Back with Elfman and Scythe~
"Comment ca va? My name is Sol. Monsieur Sol." One of the Element4 exclaimed waving around like a reed in the wind.
"Like I care. All I want to know is how to stop this thing." Elfman exclaimed. "Beast Arm! Black Bull."
"What's this? Only your right arm can transform?" Sol exclaimed. "It appears the rumors floating around about you are true."
"If you don't shut your trap I'll make you." Elfman shouted throwing a punch.
"You have a little sister, n' est-ce pas?" Sol questioned.
"What's he talking about Uncle Elfman?" Scythe asked as Elfman's eyes went wide.
"Non, non, non." Sol exclaimed wrapping himself around Elfman's arm. "With three 'non' you don't stand a chance."
"Get off me Man-Sewer Sol." Elfman growled.
"It's Monsieur, idiot." Sol shouted kicking Elfman in the face, knocking him back.
"Mind if I cut in?" Scythe questioned appearing behind Sol.
"Ah-ah-ah." Sol exclaimed acrobating through the air before kicking Scythe in the back, knocking him into the windowed wall with the force of the impact destroying it. "I believe you have more pressing matters to attend to." Sol smiled as he restrained Elfman in the ground, making it nearly impossible to escape.
(Que Music… Castle of glass: Linkin Park)
"Scythe." Mira's voice called out.
"Big-sis?" Elfman shouted having heard the voice.
Scythe opened his eyes as he was in a bit of pain. He was still low on magical energy, and it was taking everything he had just to keep his eyes open. His eyes widened in fear, seeing Mira being crushed between two of the robot's giant fingers.
"Mom." Scythe shouted.
"Aw, poor little boy, you're going to lose your mother all over again." Sol smiled evilly. "Just like when you destroyed your home town."
"No, that's not true. I didn't destroy it." Scythe shouted turning around to throw a punch, only for a familiar face to stop him. "Dad?"
"Many months ago, you helped an injured man and paid the price for it no? You led a worshiper of Zeref right into your home town, and he signaled for back up the moment he could." Sol smirked. "Your father and mother were slaughtered in front of your very eyes young man, and you did nothing to save them."
"N-No I did what mother told me, I hid in the closet and didn't show myself like she told me to." Scythe cried, backing away, tears in his eyes. "Why is my dad here?"
"I apologize, but I took the liberty of scanning your memories when you and that big idiot so rudely stepped on me earlier." Sol smiled creating a statue figure of Scythe's mother.
"You scumbag." Elfman shouted.
"My, what a beautiful woman. To be raised by such a beauty would be criminal to betray her like you did." Sol smirked. "How could you do something so cruel as to lead a cult to your very front door, and it was Grimoire Heart no less."
"Shut up." Scythe shouted as he became surrounded by talking moving figures of his dead parents. "No. It wasn't my fault. I didn't know."
"Scythe, hang in there little buddy." Elfman cried out trying to bring himself up out of the ground, literally.
"You claim like your supposed uncle that you're a real man." Sol exclaimed as a magic circle enveloped Scythe from below.
"No." Elfman shouted breaking free and punching Sol in the face.
Scythe slumped over the edge of the broken wall, where Mira kept calling his name, and for him to run.
"Mom." Scythe cried. "I can't leave you. I can't let more of my family die. Not again."
"Please spare me the dramatics." Sol exclaimed as Elfman was restrained once again. "You're not a man, you're a monster who murdered everyone and everything he ever cared about."
The circle reappeared behind Scythe, shaking him to his core as he went traveling back to the past through his memories.
~Mindscape~
Scythe opened his eyes, finding himself standing in a dark mist with barely any vision in front of him.
"Hmm, where am I?" Scythe asked looking around, before the sound of a dogs bark caught his attention.
He turned to his right to see a small husky, looking nearly a year old, running in his direction. Scythe smiled and knelt down to meet him.
"Thunder? It's you, I thought you had…"
Scythe stopped when Thunder phased through him. He turned around to see Thunder jumping on a smaller version of him, licking his face and barking lovingly to the small Scythe.
"Thunder stop that tickles." Memory-Scythe smiled and laughed as he tried to get Thunder to stop.
"Connor. Could you go out and pick some flowers for your mother's vase?" A man's voice asked.
"Okay daddy." Memory-Scythe smiled as he got up and ran to the fields.
"That's right. My name was Connor before I experienced what had happened to me." Scythe exclaimed looking down at his hands.
The scene changed, to seeing his younger self walking beside his father, who was carrying an injured man with long blonde wild hair.
"Is he going to be okay daddy?" Memory-Scythe asked.
"He'll be fine my boy, he's just dehydrated and hungry." His father exclaimed setting the stranger down on a bed in their spare room. "You did the right thing by coming to me for help."
"Thanks daddy." Memory-Scythe smiled hugging him, with Thunder nuzzling his leg.
"I felt such pride for my dad giving me praise by doing the right thing, I didn't even think something bad could happen." Scythe said, tears falling down his face.
The scene faded again, and reappeared to see his house on fire, he was standing in the closet with his past self, shivering in fear, holding Thunder in his arms as the young husky pup remained quiet.
"It's okay boy, mommy and daddy will protect us." Memory-Scythe exclaimed keeping his pet from whining.
Scythe looked out the windows, and his blood ran cold, as he witnessed the blonde man he and his father had helped, burning his parents to ashes with his black flames.
"NO." He and his younger self shouted in unison.
(End Song…)
~Outside in the real world~
"Scythe, pull yourself together. You gotta snap out of it please, you have to break free." Mira shouted. "Elfman help him."
"You monster." Elfman growled, his right arm returning to normal. "First you play with Scythe's emotions, then you force him to relive his most traumatic memories. I'll never forgive you for this."
Elfman looked over to Mira, seeing her reaching for Scythe, tears in her eyes as he was now mostly turned to stone.
"She's crying." Elfman exclaimed.
"Ugh, what now?" Sol asked in annoyance.
"I swore I would never let anyone make you cry again." Elfman said direction his attention to Mira as his whole body began to glow brightly. "Tell me. Why are you crying?" Elfman shouted.
"That light. No don't do it Elfman! It's too dangerous!" Mira shouted.
"Who made you cry Mira?" Elfman shouted.
"Imbecile, you're not strong enough to perform a full-body Takeover." Sol exclaimed before two bright magic circles, appeared from both Scythe and Elfman.
"Mother is crying?" Scythe asked, his eyes glowing a deep blood red. "Who made mother cry?"
"What?" Sol asked as the rocks covering Scythe began to fall away.
Two big flashes of light erupted from the two Strauss men, blinding both Mira and Sol momentarily before they were able to see again. Standing there in the two men's places, were two demonic looking beasts.
"Mon dieu!"
Elfman stood there, with red fur along his torso, arms, and legs. Shrub green skin was visible along his pectorals, abs, neck and face, with a full white beard and hair traveling down his back. Two golden horns sticking out of his shoulders, one on each side, with horns protruding from his forehead. His legs were curved like an animals, with talons replacing his feet. His eyes were shinning purple with the scar under his right eye stretched wide, with a row of razor sharp teeth aligning his jaws.
Scythe stood there, looking beefed up, with a red one piece suit and a pair of black pants, covering the lower half of it, with the scars on his right arm having traveled up all the way to his pectoral. His dual colored hair spiked back with his ears pointed out even further, and his fingers looking like silver clad armored claws, while his feet were like dragon talons, he took in a deep breath, and released smoke from his lips, revealing all his teeth were sharp and curved like a set of dragon's teeth. His eyes were still glowing their deep blood red hue.
"Beast Soul and Satan Soul." Mira gasped.