I'm back! XD

Sorry it took so long; I kind of stopped at a bad spot. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this chapter.

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Recap: "I saw Natsu outside talking with Yukino. I'm going to see how she's doing."

"Don't be too long," said Laxus. "You might fight again tomorrow, and you'll need your strength."

"I'll be quick." Harry left his friend and girlfriend and headed downstairs where he found Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and Yukino making their way toward him.

Natsu looked up and saw him. "Harry, if you want to know how she is, then come with us to Lucy's room," he said, but Harry heard the grim tone in his voice, and saw the dull eyes of Yukino. His heart clenched with dread, but he followed them nonetheless.

Harry couldn't believe what he learned a few minutes ago. He, Natsu, Fawkes, Happy, and Lucy listened to Yukino as she told them that she had been banned from her guild for losing the match with Voldemort, but before she could leave, the guild master of Sabertooth had her stripped completely of her clothes in front of all her former guildmates. Harry's teeth were so tightly clenched that he thought they were going to break. His hands weren't so lucky. He balled them too hard and his nails pierced through the skin. He didn't even notice until Natsu pointed it out. A quick spell later and his hands were healed.

Right now, Harry and Fawkes were following Natsu and Happy to where Sabertooth was staying. He knew what the dragon slayer was planning on doing, but was he going to stop him? No.

The young Master of Death debated if he should join the dragon mage or just make sure he didn't go overboard. He wanted to make Sabertooth pay, but there were other ways of going about it. Like making sure they didn't win this year's Grand Magic Games.

The hotel was in sight, and Harry knew he didn't have much longer to make a decision. When they were in front of the building, Natsu didn't pause in his advance inside. He didn't even bother opening the double doors normally. Harry flinched unwillingly as Natsu blasted the doors off their hinges. Not even a second later, he heard another explosion come from inside.

Harry and Fawkes met each other's eyes. "Should we help or just watch?" Harry asked.

{I think it will be best if we just watch. Natsu is going to cause enough damage as it is. Darn, I wish we bought popcorn,} replied Fawkes with a small, soft trill that sounded like a sigh.

They heard a few more explosions in rapid succession followed by screams of shock and pain. Harry nodded his head in agreement with his familiar. "Yeah, we'll just watch. He's already going too far as it is," he said, and then walked into the once perfect, beautiful, white marble hotel.

'This place is way too fancy,' thought Harry as he looked around at the damage Natsu had already caused in less than a minute.

He finally found the dragon slayer in all the chaos and watched as he destroyed the guild solo. Harry was both impressed and a little underwhelmed. Sabertooth claimed to be the strongest guild to date, but they were getting their butts handed to them on golden platters by one angry dragon slayer. This guild had two of those, and they were still losing. Sabertooth was not going to take this loss well.

A few minutes go by and Harry knew he was right about Sabertooth being sore losers. They captured Happy while none of them were looking. They tried to get him too, but he paralyzed them before they could. After being snuck up on by the Weasley twins, Harry made sure to practice more at sensing the life force of others.

Harry saw Natsu frozen when he spotted Happy in the hands of a woman who had dark, cold eyes that shone with evil. He decided to end this before it got worse.

"Accio Happy!" Harry flicked his wand at the blue cat and caught him as he flew out of the woman's hand and into his. He then flicked his wand at Natsu to bound him, so he could drag the dragon slayer out of the hotel with him. But first, Harry needed to say his part.

"You people are no better than a dark guild. For that, we at Fairy Tail refuse to lose to the likes of you, but it will be in the arena, not here." He then grabbed the tail end of the rope that trapped Natsu and began to pull him out of the destroyed hotel.

Harry waited until they were halfway back to their inn before untying Natsu. He had already freed Happy, but the black-haired wizard didn't want to risk Natsu going back to finish what he started.

"You didn't have to do that," said Natsu, sounding annoyed.

"Maybe not, but I wasn't taking a chance," said Harry.

"You're right, though - what you said back there - you are right."

Harry paused in his stride. Did Natsu really just say that?

"What? You're looking at me like I grew a second head or something," said Natsu. "I'm just saying that beating them where no one can see it will not be proving my point. So you are right about beating them in the games."

{That sounds more like him. Always thinking with his fists,} said Fawkes.

"Alright, but you'll have to wait a little longer. We need to get back and sleep. You don't want to fight while tired, do you?"

Natsu shrugged. "It wouldn't be the first time I did," he admitted.

"True," Harry said softly, and the two continued to walk back to their inn.

They were a few minutes away from their inn when Harry paused. Natsu stopped in front of him with a questioning expression.

"I feel three life forces at our inn that don't belong to the employees or our guildmate," Harry explained.

"Are they near anyone?" Natsu asked in concern.

"They're moving now, but why is Lucy going with them...?"

"Lucy wouldn't just go with strange people," said Natsu firmly and with narrowed eyes. Harry checked on Lucy to see the state she was in and felt that her life force was calm - like she was asleep.

"You're right, Natsu. She isn't going with them willingly!"

"Then let's go save her!" Natsu took off running, but Harry had a better idea. "Fawkes, bring us to Lucy!" he requested. Fawkes trilled gleefully and grabbed Harry and flashed close to where Lucy was before going back to get Natsu.

Harry saw the kidnappers running away with Lucy over one shoulder. "Locomotor Mortis!" The spell hit the one carrying Lucy, making him trip over his locked-up legs and face-plant hard on the cold, rough ground. Harry cast the spell two more times on the other two kidnappers and they too fell.

Harry was just walking up to them, seeing Lucy waking up, when Natsu appeared in a flash of fire.

Harry turned his head to look at him. "What took you so long?"

"I left Happy at the inn before coming here," said Natsu, reminding Harry that the little, blue cat had fallen asleep on their way back to the inn from Sabertooth.

"What is going on!?" The two males heard Lucy shout in both panic and anger.

Natsu reacted first by running up to her and asking if she was okay. She told him that she was fine, but didn't understand how she got outside. Harry stepped in this time.

"You were in the process of being kidnapped," he said as he walked past her and grabbed one of the groaning kidnappers. "Alright, why were you kidnapping Lucy?" he demanded.

"Please don't hurt me! I was just following orders!" said the man in a panic.

"Who sent you then?"

"I-it was R-Raven Tail! Raven Tail!"

{Is it just me, or did it look like he had to think about that? I bet he's lying,} said Fawkes.

"Are you sure?" Harry demanded more calmly.

"W-well, that's who they claimed to be…?"

"Was that a question?"

"NO!"

"Then are you going to answer me truthfully, or do I need to have my friend Natsu here light your pants on fire?" As if on cue, Natsu lit his hand on fire with a wide smirk covering his face.

"Look I don't know who it was! I had never seen them before! They said they were from Raven Tail, but they didn't show a guild mark. They told me to grab the girl with blond hair, and they would pay me 10,000 jewels," the kidnapper said pleadingly.

Harry still wasn't sure if the man was telling the truth or not, but he knew he wasn't going to get more out of him. "Stunpefy," Harry cast at the three kidnappers and then tied them up. He took out a piece of paper and wrote a quick note before using the sticking charm to keep it on the man's head. "Fawkes, send them to the palace where the knights can find them."

{Sure thing!} Fawkes flashed each captive one by one to the palace before returning to bring Harry, Lucy, and Natsu back to the inn.

TBC

I need to read all of my notes so I can remind myself of everything I wrote for this story. I forgot a lot of it. :( Anyway, we are finally at the new house, and still unpacking, but I have all my fanfiction stuff ready so I can get back to this. Hope you all enjoyed the chapter! ^-^

Natsu: Well, moving doesn't sound all that fun.

Enj/Dark: It's not. -_-

Harry: So… What's next in this fanfic?

Enj/Dark: Laxus beating the heck out of Raven Tail.

Natsu: YES! XD

Zeref: Please review!