On the next day's morning, the team of Fairy Tail along with Natsu and Kama heads off from the village as they are leaving to go look for clues regarding the job's request which is to dispel the curse of the island.

"so then, what should we do first again?" Gray asks after yawning. "where do we go first to check out this so called curse?"

"the temple." Erza stated while pointing at their destination that is near the mountains. "that place is screaming with mystery and that place is probably our best place to start looking for clues."

"yeah, not to mention that it's where I saw that mysterious glow from the other night." Lucy spoke out while cupping her chin. "just what made that glow?"

"glow? What do you mean by that?" Natsu asks, curious.

"We couldn't tell exactly what it is from but when we were on our way to the island on boat, we saw something causing a glow to radiate from the top of the temple." Erza replied. "it could either just be from some sort of reflection of a mirror of some kind that was left on the temple or it is possible the works of something unknown. We don't have definite proof and everything."

"so this temple might hold all the answers to the questions, is it?" Kama said while having his arms crossed. "there might be more to this curse than meets the eye."

"you're telling me." Natsu said as he took out a cigar that he pops into his mouth and lit with a spark of fire from his right hand's fingertip. He inhaled some smoke and gulped it down before he checks the sky. "the one question I want answered is why the moon turned people and the rest can follow after that."

The group continues their approach to the temple but as they were walking, they felt the ground just shaking and thumping from something large and heavy that was coming from behind them.

"hey, what is making…" Lucy spoke as she turns to look at what could be making the tremors and everything, but when she turned and see, her jaw dropped. "what in the world?!"

Everyone turns and to their surprise; a large blueish white furred rat wearing a maid outfit, appears out of nowhere.

"w-what the heck is that thing!?" Gray screamed. "a rat wearing a maid outfit?! Is it its kink or something?"

"let's not ask something that we won't get an answer at all!" Kama said while wielding both of his scythes in his grasps. "prepare yourself! We don't know if it's friendly or not!"

"yeah, I definitely don't like the looks in its eyes." Natsu added in as he sees the giant rat looking like it is smirking.

"here it comes!" Erza shouted before the large rat suddenly breathes out a smelly gas attack.

"it stinks!" Lucy and Gray screams while Erza and the others shielded themselves.

"talk about bad breath!" Natsu exclaimed as he pinched his nose shut. "did this thing eat rotten cheese or what!?"

"less talking, more fighting!" Kama shouted as the Captain of the Garou Knights proceeds to spin his scythes and create a turbulence that blew away the smelly gas.

"chuuuu!" the large rat squeals loudly as it proceeds to swing down its front claws down upon the group who jumped away to dodge the attack.

"haaa!" Erza jumps towards the attack with a sword drawn as the scarlet knight went pass the giant rat and cuts the sharp points of its claws off.

"c-chu?!" the large rat looks in shock and panics to see its claws cut, unaware that Kama is making his way to it while spinning his scythes around very fast.

"Justice Shredder!" Kama shouted as he jumped and lunged down at the giant rat who had all of its fur shaved off.

"c-chuuu~!" the giant rat squeals in shock before embarrassedly tried to cover itself.

"hey! Rodent!" Natsu shouted out before he begins to sunk in all the smoke of his cigar till only the bud is left to fall to the ground. "get a load of this!" he puffs his cheek and then unleashes a gusting breath of smoke straight at the large rat. "Smokey Breath!"

"c-chu chuu~!" the large rat gets blasted with the smoke as it continued for a minute before it ended with the large rodent passing out with its entire body turned black from the smoke. "chuuuu~…."

"it passed out…" Lucy said in seeing how the large rat was twitching while passed out.

"He's way better of using smoke than Wakaba and possibly an even heavy smoker." Gray added in.

"They didn't even use magic.." Erza mumbled before she looks at Natsu who puffs out some smoke before he takes out a new cigar that he lit before he begins to smoke with it, the man is joined by Kama who placed away his scythes to his back. "teaming up with them was the right choice."


After facing and taking out the large rat, the group proceeds to the temple which they arrived to in an hour.

The group seeing that the building is ancient and nearly about a few centuries old. It had markings and drawn scriptures of many kind as it is all over the place.

"talk about ancient." Lucy said as everyone entered the temple and spread around to see the ancient scriptures on the walls. "how old is this temple?"

"Give or take a century or two?" Gray guessed as he went and caresses a hand to the nearby wall. "Maybe they're way older than that."

As the group checks around, Natsu and Kama got to a wall nearby as they see the scriptures written and drawn on it.

"you think you can make a word out of this stuff?" Natsu asks Kama. "you learned ancient scriptures and stuff back in our rookie days, remember?"

"I know Old Ishgarian, Belrian, Isvanian, and Stellanian, these scriptures aren't anything alike with those ancient scriptures." Kama said while crossing his arms on his chest. "but I know one word on them."

"and that word is?" Natsu asks and Kama pointed to one symbol of the ancient scripture that is accompanied with a drawn symbol of the moon. "that one?"

"Its shape is different but it's the Old Ishgarian word for The Moon." Kama stated as he looks at the other symbols near the moon. He sees a drawing of humans praying to the moon and then drawings of monsters on the other side fearing the moon. "I can't fully translate the other words, but I can tell that the civilization that built this temple is somewhat of a religion that prays to some god of the moon and their god scares away monsters for them."

"God of the moon? Their god scares away the monsters for them?" Natsu said as he looks at the drawn scriptures. "this is getting weirder by the second."

"you're telling me." Kama replied.

As the two were conversing, they suddenly hear a rumble and a few screams as they turned and see a large hole where Lucy and the others were, but they are now gone.

"what the heck?" Kama and Natsu went to check and they see how deep the hole is. "did they fall into here?"

"the damn flooring must be weak and not able to support anything anymore." Natsu said as he went and checked the floor's rocks and see how easily it gets crushed in his grasp. "one of them must've accidently stepped on a weak point and completely got them all fall into it."

"Should we go after them?" Kama said as he picked up a small rock and threw it into the hole to see how deep it fell into the hole with there being no thud sound or anything. "I doubt they could come out unscathed from falling a hole that is very deep like this one."

"We should, but we don't know if this hole got any exit tunnels or anything." Natsu replied as he looks around the area. "This temple might got an underground ruins or tunnel under it, so our best bet is to find another path and get down."

"Question is on where that path is." Kama said while looking side to side. "I don't see a tunnel path or anything here."

"The one thing about tunnel paths we all should know is.…" Natsu inhaled some of his cigar's smoke and then blew it around the area. The Salamander's captain seeing the smoke flying around before he sees some following a small wind draft. "they always make a draft for wind to follow."

The two Captains followed where the smoke gets blown to as they find an entrance way with stairs going downwards.

"Bingo." Natsu said before he grabs and breaks off two thick branches which he lits on fire to make as torches as he gave one to Kama. "ready for this?" the man got a reply with a head nod before both begin going down the stairs. "We don't know what might be here, so let's get ready to bust heads." He reaches behind and wields Ver in his left hand while his friend pulls out one of his scythes.

Both descended upon the stairs, not knowing that they were spotted by a masked individual who made an appearance by the top of the stairs.

"my, this is quite a strange development." The masked individual said while grinning. "not only wizards but the Kingdom's Magic Knights as well?" the person then leaves. "Reitei would definitely want to hear about this."


Meanwhile back at Crocus and in the candy shop.

The door was pushed open as children came out carrying bags of candy.

"thank you for coming~! Come again~!" Cosmos hollered out as the pink haired executioner waves goodbye to the kids who waved back before leaving. Natsu's girlfriend tending to the store while being off duty from her job.

After bidding goodbye to the customers, Cosmos went around to the cashier and then sits down on a wooden rocking chair as she sighs a bit before she sees Puru who came by and jumps onto her lap which made her giggle.

"What's wrong, Puru?" Cosmos asks her little furry friend whose head she scratches and caresses. "are you hungry?"

"Puruu~!" Puru let out a single cry as the pink fur ball pointed a paw to the jars of candies placed near the cashier.

"come on, Puru. Remember that those candy are for the customers and not for you." Cosmos said while scratching the furball's head. "if you want candy, it has to be the jawbreakers that Natsu made for you."

"Purururu~!" Puru made a disgruntled noise before the pink haired furball jumps off her lap and then goes away.

"Puru~. Come on, don't be like that." Cosmos called out to the little guy who just ignored her and went straight into a little wooden hut that was made to be its sleeping place. "Puru. Come on."

"Puru~!" Puru made a huffing cry before going inside his hut and settled on the fluffy bed inside.

"Mou~. What am I going to do with you?" Cosmos said after sighing.

As Cosmos was about to get off the chair, the door to the candy store was opened with the bell ringing. The pink haired executioner turned and greeted the customers but she smiles when she finds that it's her teammates and friends; Kamika who is with Clay and Rookie.

"morning, Cosmos." Kamika greeted her friend/teammate.

"ah, Kamika. What brings you here with Clay-san and Rookie-kun?" Cosmos greeted the group.

"we were in the neighborhood and met up before deciding to stop by here." Clay said before adjusting his glasses. "though me and Rookie were planning to buy some sweets for our friends and family."

"ah, right. For the upcoming holiday, isn't it?" Cosmos said with a smile before she reaches down the counter and then picks up a jar filled with an assortment of gumball candies. "then how about these gumballs? Natsu made them about a week ago and they taste quite good if you got the right one."

"what do you mean by that?" Rookie asks while Clay checks out the sweet and picks up a blue gumball which he plops into his mouth and chews a few times before his face went blue then he quickly runs to the bathroom where he made sounds of himself vomiting. "C-Clay-san? Why did he just?"

"Natsu said that these gumballs can be really sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and just right accordingly if you picked the right one." Cosmos said as she picks up a yellow gumball that she plops into her mouth before she puckered her lips and moans in delight. "Yum~! So sour~!"

"so basically he made them for people with certain tastes like yourself, did he?" Kamika said while sweatdropping, the paper magic knight remembering how her pink haired friend has an addiction to extremely sour things. She then sighs while shaking her head. "you must be happy to get candies like these daily, don't you?"

"I am~!" Cosmos replied all happy before she finds Puru who had made a sneaky appearance and is trying to steal the jar of candy from her but she catches her little friend. "ah! I don't think so, Puru! These gumballs aren't for you!"

"Pururu~!" Puru cried out while looking annoyed from being caught.

Kamika sighs with a smile while Rookie awkwardly chuckles to see how Cosmos picks up the pink furball and then place him down to the floor where she patted his back to make him go back to his little hut.

"Okay, with that aside." Kamika said before coughing into her fist once and then looks at Cosmos while Rookie went side to pick out some candies and sweets that he is choosing to send for his friends and family. "Besides how Clay and Rookie-kun here are for the candy, I'm actually here to talk to you."

"Talk to me? about what?" Cosmos asks and Kamika reaches into her outfit's shirt and pulls out a letter that she gives to her. "This is?"

"a letter from Captain Arcadios regarding the whole plan for us magic knights to take on requests from the people of Fiore." Kamika said. "you do know how our Captain along with Captain Natsu are away on that S-class quest, right? Now with them accomplishing several requests before this one, Captain Arcadios believes that it may be time to expand our numbers in taking the jobs to get more trust from the people."

"so this letter is a recommendation for me to take the job, isn't it?" Cosmos said while reading the content of the letter before she sighs with a smile and looks back at her friend. "I would love to take the position, but I might want to wait for Natsu to come back from his mission first."

"Why?" Kamika asks.

"well…" Cosmos looks to the side to see Rookie picking out the candies in the jars while Clay had come out of the bathroom, looking all pale and sick, the pink haired executioner smiles and then looks at Kamika who she motions to come close. "the thing is…"

"the thing is?" Kamika leans close and Cosmos leans forward then held a hand near her ear to whisper.

"before Natsu left for the S-class mission with Captain Kama, I saw it." Cosmos said before she glance to the side and then continued. "I saw the engagement ring he had with him."

"w-wait what!?" Kamika nearly gasps or screams but she kept quiet and then asks. "really? An engagement ring? How did you find it if it was on him?"

"well when we were sleeping the night before he left, I went out to the bathroom and found his pants hanging near the door." Cosmos said while having a quick flashback of her drowsy-self going to the bathroom and finds Natsu's pants hanging near the door. She picks it up and was about to place it to the laundry basket but she finds the ring box in the right pocket which made her nearly gasp in surprise. "that engagement ring I accidently found is the same ring I was eying when me and Natsu went out for our tenth date last month~!"

"no way~! He was watching and he knew you wanted it? Captain Natsu got my respect!" Kamika said with a surprised face before she smiles. "well, I guess this means you'll be getting married soon."

"yeah, I guess so." Cosmos said with a giggling smile. "I'm now just waiting for the time for him to propose and how he'll might do it."

"you think he might ask you out during a romantic dinner or something?" Kamika asks, interested. "or possibly propose after taking you to a resort or something?"

"I don't know where he might propose, but I know he'll make it very romantic." Cosmos said with a giggle. The pink haired girl being all happy that she didn't notice Puru stealing a bunch of chocolate balls that Rookie took out of the glass jars, the young magic knight panicked as the furball at them all. "I just know it."


Back at Galuna Island, Natsu and Kama are still going down within the temple's underground stairs in silence before the Fire Dragon Slayer mage did a quick sneeze.

"hey, be quiet." Kama shushes Natsu who apologized after sniffing once and wiped his nose with his right shoulder. "you're going to alert anyone who might be here!"

"sorry, I think Cosmos was talking about me." Natsu said as he and Kama continue to go down the stairs. "she must be talking about me back at the candy store."

"hey, that's just some superstition." Kama replied. "and if it wasn't, why would she be talking about you while you're away?"

"She might be talking about me proposing to her soon." Natsu said. "the night before I left, I left my pants by the bathroom door and the ring box was in it. I guessed she must've found it before I could surprise her."

"hey, that'll definitely ruin the surprise for sure." Kama said after sighing. "you should've kept that ring somewhere more safer than in your pants."

"give me a break. I bought it after a mission and I was damn tired." Natsu replied as they arrived to the bottom of the stairs and now enter a tunnel path. "you try being discreet when you're extremely tired."

"even when I'm tired, I still do my best to work hard, fool." Kama said as he soon stops near the edge of the tunnel's path as he and Natsu checks things out to see if there's any sight of Team Fairy Tail or anyone else. "anyway, let's talk about this later. Can you smell where the mages are?"

"yeah, I can." Natsu said as he sniffed the air before focusing his hearing. "and I can hear them just down the right tunnel here."

The two then followed the tunnel path as they are following the distant chatter of voices.

"You'd think that they would keep their voices down when finding themselves in an unknown location." Kama said as he and Natsu are nearing the source of the voices and could hear them being in such a racket.

"Think that they found something?" Natsu asks. "I hear that Gray guy just sounding so disbelieved of something."

"Disbelieved of something?" Kama said while sounding curious and confused.

Natsu and Kama walks in the tunnel as they are reaching the end which they find a source of glowing blue light.

"I'm telling you, we should find the culprits now!" Gray's voice is heard as Natsu and Kama reaches the exit and then finds team Fairy Tail in the middle of an argument. "this thing can't be allowed to be freed! No matter what!"

"Gray! Calm down!" Lucy cried out while stopping Gray from yelling louder. "we still don't know who brought it here and we have to be careful!"

"hey, what's going on here?" Natsu called out as he and Kama went to Erza while Lucy tries to calm Gray down. "what's with him?"

"he's a bit shocked at it." Erza said.

"shocked at what?" Kama replied and Erza pointed at a direction.

"at that." Erza stated as Natsu and Kama followed to where she is pointing and they soon made surprised noises when their eyes landed upon something large and frozen in ice.

A form that is ten times taller and larger than a normal human being, a built that is humanoid yet looks monstrous, and fully encased in solid ice is a large monster that looks like it is from a fairy tale.

"what in the world is that thing?" Natsu said as he and Kama had no words to describe what they are looking at.

"That's Deliora." Gray spoke out as Natsu and Kama turns to look at the ice maker wizard who looks incredibly hateful at the being frozen in ice. "the Demon of Destruction!"


That's a warp!

Bye bye