So, I found an animal outside and it looked like a beaver. Now I'm not 100% sure if it is one, but it looks like it has a beaver tail, and I do live a few blocks from a river. I thought I'd tell you guys about it. :) Onto the story! XD


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Recap: Magic started up around all the villagers, and the Fairy Tail mages except Harry, Fawkes and Erza thought that they were going to turn back into humans, but they didn't. The villagers are still very much demons. Gray, Natsu, Lucy, and Happy are all confused, until Erza told them that only their memories were affected by the evil layer, and that they were demons from the start.

The demons were still very confused, but after everything calmed down, they remember everything.

"Wow, I'm glad I left everything up to you!" a voice said from behind everyone. They turned around, and Harry, Gray, Happy, Lucy, and Natsu were all in shock. Fawkes wasn't at all surprised, because he knew that the man wasn't dead due to still feeling life from him when they met, and Erza didn't react at all, because she didn't know the story behind why everyone else is. The man standing in front of them is none other than Bobo. Bobo smiled gratefully. "You have my thanks, mages."

"EHHH?!" Every villager, mage, wizard, and animal all sounded. "But…you're… What?!" One of the villagers said in shock, looking between Bobo, his supposed grave, and back again.

Bobo laughed at all their faces. "It takes a lot more than a stab to the chest to kill a demon! Though it still hurt a bit! Hahahahahaha!" He continued to laugh, making the rest sweat drop, if they weren't on the verge to cry.

"But…If you aren't a ghost, then how did you disappear from the boat?" Harry asked, beating Gray to it.

The next thing they know, Bobo is gone again. Fawkes had to point up with his beak for Harry to look up as well to see the purple demon hovering above them in the sky with wings. "I got away from the island because I was the only one to get his memories back. I got scared because everyone else was going crazy believing they were human!" Bobo laughed again.

The chief of the village, with tears in his eyes, called out his son's name, sprouted wing of his own, and flew up to join his son in a teary, happy, family reunion. He grabbed Bobo is a bone crushing hug while crying happily in his son's arms, who is smiling just as big and brightly as his father.

"I'm glad you're back to your senses, dad!" Bobo exclaimed in pure joy.

The rest of the villagers all grew wings, and joined father and son in the sky. They were shouting in joy and cheering for the happy reunion of lost son and father.

Erza chuckles. "Demon island indeed..."

Natsu grinned. "I don't know… If you look at their faces, they look more like angels than demons," he said.

Harry shook his head with a quite laugh. "Only you, Natsu, would say demons look like angels." He looks back up to see the happy demons. "But…you wouldn't be wrong… just look at how happy they are. The demons you read about are evil, but these guys look far from it."

The rest of his team nodded their heads in agreement, all the while smiling on up at the happy demons.


The villagers wanted to give the Fairy Tail mages the reward money, but Erza denied it, because they weren't there on official business. They weren't supposed to be there in the first place, but they still finished the job because it was the right thing to do.

Erza told the villagers that they would like the key that they were giving out as a reward, which made Lucy a very happy celestial mage. Natsu, Happy, and Gray were very disappointed that they weren't getting the money, and Harry was a little down about it himself, but he understood why.

The demons invited them to a party in their honor, and they accepted. The party lasted all night, and even some of the mages they fought, Toby, Yuka, and Sherry all join in with them. No one noticed the little man with a mask sitting in a tree watching them, and take the mask off, turning him into a woman, and then disappearing from sight.

The next morning, Erza shows her friends how they were going to leave the island. What they saw didn't surprise Harry and Fawkes in the slightest, but they were surprised that everyone else was in shock of it. In front of them is a pirate ship. The pirates on board all greeted Erza like she is some kind of goddess.

Natsu was not happy at all with the idea that he would have to get on a boat to get home, so he tried to swim, but before he could even get to the water, Harry stunned him, and then they all got on board the ship, all the while waving and saying their goodbyes to the townspeople.

They get home to the guild with Erza dragging Gray and Natsu behind her. They were shouted in protest, not at all wanting to meet their punishment, which is that. Harry has no idea what that punishment is, and Lucy is just as confused, and he's scared to find out; however, he gets the feeling that they're going to get a different punishment due to doing something stupid, because it would be his luck mixed with Natsu's stupidity.

So far, when they got back to the guild, Makarov wasn't there, meaning they won't get punished quite yet. This only gives time for Harry's prediction to come true. As much as he hates the thought of meeting a punishment that could scare the living day lights out of Gray and Natsu, he rather the master to hurry up and return before something bad happens.

"Hey, welcome back, Harry, Fawkes!" Harry turns around to see his adopted son, Castor, running up to him with a big, happy grin on his face.

He smiled warmly in return. "Hey Castor, it's so good to see you again!" A moment after Harry said this his arms were full with a 6(?) year old child.

"I missed you, Harry!" Castor said. "So how was your trip? I heard that you didn't come back right away, so I got a bit worried. The master sent Erza to get you guys, thinking that Natsu somehow talked you into doing the job with him."

Harry sheepishly smiled. "Well…I didn't agree to it right away. I only did, because Natsu kidnapped me, and by the time I got away, I was on the island with no boat to get me off," he said, and Erza heard him.

"Oh, so you didn't think to get Fawkes to teleport you back, Harry?" Harry heard her behind him, and slowly turned to face her. He paled the moment he got a good look at her face. Her eyes and face showed a dark look, so dark that he doesn't think he has ever seen something so scary.

He gulped nervously. "I didn't think about it…?" he replied, but it sounded more like a question. Yes, he didn't think about it, but he also didn't think about trying to escape in the first place. The moment he realized he was on the island he agreed to help them with the job.

Erza's eyes narrowed farther in suspicion. "Really…?" Harry starts to sweat bullets. He has never been afraid of Erza before, but that was because he never got her angry with him before. He tried his hardest to not give her a reason, because he saw how scared Natsu and Gray were, so he knew not to find out why they were by not angering her!

"…" Harry stayed silent, fearing to say anything. He and Erza stared eye to eye, willing the other to back down. It lasted for about two minutes before Harry caved. "Alright!" he shouted, "I did agree to help do the job in the end when I noticed we were already on the island. I didn't bother to think of escaping; it didn't even cross my mind. I was doing as ordered, but that changed when there was no way on getting them to come with me. Fawkes can't carry everyone when he teleports. At least I don't think so…" Harry turned to face Fawkes, who has been on his shoulder this whole time.

{I can only carry one at a time. If I could teleport more than one, then I would have done so in the Chamber of Secrets,} Fawkes explained.

Harry tilted his head to the side. "Chamber of what?" It sounds familiar, but he can't place it.

{Heir of Slytherin, basilisk, parseltongue, are these ringing any bells?} Fawkes named off, trying to awake a new memory for him.

It seems to be working, because Harry saw behind his mind eye a dark, damp, huge chamber with snakes everywhere, him telling a door to open with a hiss to his words, and a giant snake trying to eat him due to being ordered to by a teenage boy to kill him. Harry wasn't sure, but he thought there might have been someone else there, but he doesn't remember. He turns to Fawkes, nodding his head to tell him that he remembered.

Harry told Erza what Fawkes told him, and told her that he regained a new memory. She didn't show it outwardly, but that is because she is still angry with him, she was happy that he gained a new memory.

Before more could be said, Harry heard Natsu saying something about a job. He watched Erza go over to Natsu and the others that were there for the S-class quest, and told them that they are not allowed to do a job till they have been punished. They were all scared still, but Natsu still read what the job wanted him to, and Harry's feeling of dread started to get stronger.

After Natsu finished reading, light appeared around them. At first nothing seemed to have happened, but when Harry tried to talk, all that came out was a trill that sounded like Fawkes. He turned to face his familiar, only to not see him. He turned the other way, but then froze at what he saw. To his other side, Harry saw himself.

"What just happened?" Harry heard and saw his own lips say, but he himself wasn't the one that asked the question. "Wait a minute…did I just talk?" Harry asked.

Harry squawked loudly in shock and horrified realization. He started shouting, or whatever it's called for a bird, at who he knows is Fawkes within his body. Harry(Fawkes) turned to face the frantic phoenix on his shoulder, only to stop and realize that he has a frantic phoenix on his very human shoulder.

The former fire bird screams in shock, resulting in everyone turning to see them in a panic. "I guess they got it too," Macao said, gaining Fawkes and Harry's attention.

"What are you talking about?" Fawkes asked, and Harry tried to ask as well, but only a chirp came out.

Macao pointed to the rest of Harry's team. "Natsu and Loki switched, so did Lucy and Gray, and Erza and Happy."

Harry and Fawkes flinched at hearing that Erza switched with Happy. That had to suck going from someone really strong to someone that is really weak.

"Natsu…" Fawkes said slowly and softly, making Loki(Natsu) turn to face him. "If Harry gets my feathers dirty, I'm going to kill you. Do you understand me?"

Natsu gulped nervously and nodded his head in understanding. Fawkes made sure to make it sound like that even if he didn't know how to be a human, he will make sure to kill Natsu one way or another.

"Now then…" Fawkes began, "does anyone know how to fix the mess Natsu got us into?" he demanded. "What spell did he even say?"

Happy(Erza) held up the job request up for him to read, but before he could, they heard Makarov come in saying the kind of spell that has been activated, but Fawkes was too busy trying to find out where he has seen this spell before.

Fawkes(Harry) flaps his new wings while the real Fawkes held the paper with the strange words on it. He almost fell to the ground thanks to not knowing how to fly with wings, but Fawkes was able to catch him and place him on the table that is closest to the master, and glared at him.

"If you mess up my feather, I'll kill you myself," he said.

Harry shivered in fear. Since he's a phoenix right now, he knows that Fawkes can kill him and he will just come back. He nodded to his familiar in pure understanding, and turned to listen to what Makarov is saying.

"Not only did you switch bodies, but your magic has also been switched. Meaning you have the magic as the person you switched with," the master told them.

"WHAT!?" Harry, Fawkes – who caught that little bit – Gray, Lucy, Erza, and Happy all shouted in shock and horror.

"That's not all. There is a time limit. If you don't fix what has happened to you in 30 minutes, then you will be stuck like that for the rest of your lives," Makarov added, making everyone stare at him with even more horror.

"What?!" they all shouted again, and then Natsu turned to face Mira. "How long has it been since we switched so far?!" he demanded.

"About 16 minutes, which mean you have 14 minutes left," Mira replied with a warm smile. If this was her way of trying to comfort them, it wasn't working – at least that is what Harry thought.

Happy decided to equip one of Erza's armors, but got a swimsuit instead. Erza tried to stop him, but just bounced off, and is now depressed about being in a weak body.

"Nice job Happy – I mean Erza. You failed at being a cat," Fawkes said with a smirk. Harry looked at him in shock, and tried to tell him to shut up, but only a loud, song-like trill came out. Fawkes turned to him and saw that his feathers have puffed up. The former phoenix started to panic. "My feathers!" He ran over to Harry, who is in even more shock and frightened. Fawkes grabbed hold of him, and orders Mira to get him a soft brush for him to fix the feathers.

Harry just sits there in shock. He knew that Fawkes is crazy when it comes to his feathers – just look at how much he preens himself. He would sit on his perch of hours preening those feathers of his before he stops for about five minutes, only to go back to preening.

Harry decides he was going to watch what is going on around him while Fawkes brushes him, and seen Natsu(Loki) come charging back into the guild with flames coming out of his mouth like drool. That is when he remembered about Castor. He looks around franticly for his son, and spotted him not too far away. He trills to get Castor's attention, making the small boy come closer.

Fawkes seems to have realized what Harry was worried about, and so asked for him, "Are you alright?" Castor nodded his head.

"Unlike you guys, I didn't switch with anyone," he told them.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, but Fawkes pouted. "Lucky, I wish I didn't switch. Why couldn't it have been you and Harry? Why did it have to be me?" Fawkes whined like a 3 year old, and Harry bit his finger that was closest to his beak for wishing Castor got involved.

'What the heck is wrong with him? Is he that worried about his feathers that he's saying what's on his mind without thinking it through?' After a bit of musing, Harry came to a conclusion. 'I'll take that as a yes.'

Not long after finishing this thought, Levi from Team Shadow Gear returns and tells Lucy that she'll help them with their situation.

"Thank you so much, Levi!" Lucy cried out in happiness, and Levi got to work. Fawkes moved over to the blue haired mage, and tried to figure out how to fix the spell as well. He took Harry with him so he can continue brushing his feathers.

Harry looked up at Fawkes and tried to ask what was on his mind, but it seems that Fawkes can still read the thoughts of others. "I know I've seen this spell before. It was a long time ago, so I don't remember much…" Fawkes answered. "What I need to remember the most though is just how old this spell is."

Harry nodded in understanding, and hoped that they got their bodies back before the time was up. Speaking of the time… How much time do they have left? It would seem that someone thought of this too, because they asked for it.

"You have about 10 minutes left, give or take," Macao reported.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Natsu demanded in anger.

From there everything was starting to become loud. Levi's team mates were cheering her on, and when Harry heard that they now have 8 minutes, Gray, who is in Lucy's body, tried to take his shirt off. Lucy quickly stopped him from going through with it, but all the men in the guild are a little sad about it.

"Let's look alive guys!" Harry turned to Happy, or Erza rather, and saw that she has a fish in her mouth. "We may have 6 minutes left now, but at least we have two people working on the spell. Fawkes is really old, so he would have the best chance to find out how to fix this mess," Erza said, but then she finally noticed the fish. She was shocked and then disappointed in herself for not being able to control the cat instinct that is now within her, never noticing the glare from Fawkes. "Why did I have a fish in my mouth?!"

Happy smiled with a fish in his mouth. "Because they're yummy!" he answered.

"You all have 3 minutes left! I suggest that you all start preparing for the worst," Macao voiced out to everyone. By this time, Elfman joined in the cheering.

"Work it Levi, yeah! You're on FIRE!" he said with a childish smile on his face.

Happy tried to cheer Erza up, for being stuck as a weak cat, but after their little pep talk, he gave her a fish, which Erza didn't won't, making her fly away. Lucy scolded Happy for being clueless.

After a little bit more time, Erza said another mean thing about Happy being weak, making Happy try to fly away, only to body slam Erza, almost breaking her back. But only Harry seemed to understand what the former cat was trying to do.

"Happy, what are you doing?" Macao asked.

"She's been saying some mean things to me, so I tried to fly away! But I couldn't fly away, because I don't have my wings anymore," Happy said sadly.

"I…I'm s…sorry that I've b…been mean…to…you…" Erza passed out.

"I've got it!" Levi exclaimed, making everyone else who have been switched move to surround her.

"Really?!" Lucy said hopefully.

"Come on, do it!" Gray demanded.

Levi smiled. "This is what it says: may this internal exchange provide you with internal happiness. Kinda cute, isn't it?" she said.

"You right, that is sweet," Lucy said, but Natsu is the one to snap first.

"That's not what we wanted!"

"You were supposed to revert the spell, not tell us what is says!" Gray added and reminded her.

"Oh! Sorry, I forgot," Levi said in surprised disappointment.

Lucy walks over to her friend's side. "You can do this. You just have to work a little bit faster," she told her.

"40 seconds left, I think, starting now!" Macao called out, making Harry squawk in shock, which messed up the feather again. Fawkes bobbed him on the head, having to brush the red and gold feathers all over again.

"Will you hold still?" Fawkes said.

"I just remembered something about the spell!" Makarov said.

"What is it? Please tell us!" Erza asked.

"While the spell can be lifted, it'll have to be done one at a time. Meaning it's impossible to change you all back at once," their master told them.

"What?!" Natsu yelled in anger.

"30 seconds left!"

"Which of us is going first?" Gray asked, looking at everyone that had been switched.

"It should be me!" Natsu shouted. This only caused a chain reaction, because now everyone was shouting, including Fawkes.

"Hey! Harry and I should go first! For crying out loud, Harry can't even talk! And he keeps messing up my beautiful feathers that I work day in and day out perfect!" he shouted, and as to prove his familiar's point of not being able to talk, Harry trilled loudly. This only resulted in a full out argument between everyone. Harry is just happy that they can't use their magic on each other.

"15 seconds!"

"Hold on you guys, I've got it!" Levi called out.

"12…11…"

Harry and Fawkes were already close to the blue-haired mage, and everyone else came up to her. "Really?" Loki asked.

Levi placed the job request down. "Okay, I'll try to explain this really quick."

"9…8…" Natsu knocked Macao out when he told them how much time they had left.

"There's no time, just do it!" he ordered.

"Okay, here goes!" Levi started chanting the spell, once for each of them. When she was done, everyone check to see if they're in their right bodies.

"Hey, I'm me again!" Lucy, now in her own body, declared.

"You're right!" Gray said while smiling happily.

Lucy grabbed hold of Levi's hands and smile widely. "Thank you so much, Levi," she said.

"Neh, it was no big deal," Levi replied.

Harry trilled, and Fawkes, Natsu, and Loki all said, "We're still in the wrong body!"

"WHAT?!" Levi cried out is shock.

Harry watched the chaos in front of him, and it just got worse when they found out that not only did some of them not switch back, more people have been switched.

Elfman and Cana are now in each other's body, so are Makarov and Mira, which for some reason made Harry really angry, and Romeo and Castor have switched. Heck, even Levi's two team mates have switched as well.

"Well, that does it…we're out of time," Macao said.

"Not quite," Fawkes said, making everyone look at him. "Since more people have switched, and one pair is back to normal, the time limit has gone back to being 30 minutes. Just in time too, because I remembered how to do this right." Fawkes said the chant while patting himself and Harry on the head, and when he finished, they have went back to their own bodies. Fawkes looked up to Harry, and saw the brush in his hand. After grabbing that and throwing it as far away as he could, so Harry can't brush him and mess up his feathers more than he already has today, he said, {Do you remember what I just did to fix us?}

Harry nodded in reply. He got up and went around to everyone. He did Mira and Makarov first, which allowed him to calm down from wanting to kill the master. He still doesn't understand why he got so angry over that. He then fixed Castor and Romeo, Natsu and Loki, Erza and Happy, Cana and Elfman, and Jet and Droy.

Once everyone was now in their own bodies, Harry translates what Fawkes says. "Let this be a lesson to all of you. If anyone…" Harry stopped and faced his familiar with little to no amusement. "Really…?" he sighed when Fawkes nods his head. "If anyone messes with my feathers again, I'm not helping you if something like this happens again. I only did it this time, because you all didn't know any better. You do know, Fawkes, that it was Natsu's fault only, right?" The last sentence was Harry's own words to the fire bird.

Fawkes just snorted in reply, not caring who's fault in was.

"Well, since that's over will. I think I'll allow that to have been you're punishment for taking the S-class quest," Makarov said. "I am a little disappointed that I wasn't able to punish you kid myself," he said softly to himself.

Harry sighed. "Good, then that means I can go get some money since Erza wouldn't take the reward from the last job. But this has been a long day, so I'm going to eat dinner, and then take Castor home, and get us ready for bed."

"But Harry, I don't want to go to bed yet," Castor whined.

"You can take a shower first, and then go to bed," Harry said, which seemed to have worked. Castor only says he didn't want to go to bed when he feels like he's dirty. It reminded him of Draco Malfoy.

After dinner, Harry, Fawkes, and Castor left the guild.

TBC


I don't know if I did this chapter justice or not. *sigh* Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed it still! :)

Harry: For a moment I thought you were going to switch me with Castor.

Enj/Dark: I did think about it, but I thought that you in Fawkes would be funnier. :)

Natsu: So who's turn is it to say it?

Zeref: Voldemort's.

Voldy: *whispers* I really wish I could kill her.

Enj/Dark: What was that? -_-

Voldy: P-please review!

Harry: Wow, he sounded like Quirrell just now. O_O