"WENDY!" Carla flew in from above, her eyes as big as dinner plates as she laid them on Wendy.
"W-What are you doing here?!" Cynthia asked; she then shook her head, picking up the motionless Wendy. "W-We have to get her back to Fairy Tail! Something's wrong!"
"W-What happened!?" Happy asked, covering his mouth with his hands.
"I-I I don't know!" Cynthia cried. "She just...she just collapsed! I'm worried!"
"Enough talk," Lily said rather calmly, though on the inside he was quite worried. "We'll get her back to Fairy Tail and see what's wrong with her. "Come on." Lily went behind Cynthia, picking her up into the air, while Carla lifted the unconscious Wendy from Cynthia's hands. "Max speed!" The three Exceeds nodded before bursting in the air back to Fairy Tail. Back at the guild, it filled up with a few more people, such as Romeo and his father, Macao Conbolt, and finally, the family of Bisca, Alzack, and Asuka Connel. Cynthia kicked the doors open, holding Wendy in her arms.
"H-HELP! SOMEONE HELP!" Cynthia cried, catching everyone's attention.
"What's wrong?!" Lucy rushed over to Cynthia, gasping at Wendy. "W-What happened?!"
"She just collapsed!" Cynthia replied, holding the unconscious Dragon Slayer in her arms bridal style.
"Get her to the infirmary right away!" Macao shouted. Cynthia nodded, rushing over to the infirmary and placed Wendy on her back on the bed, breathing a little heavy. Everyone inside rushed into the infirmary after Cynthia placed the young girl down, crowding around Wendy's bed as the examined her.
"She just collapsed, you say?" Erza raised an eyebrow at the black-haired Cynthia.
"Yes, she did!" Cynthia nodded, realizing that she wasn't exactly trusted in this place.
"H-How do we find out what's wrong?!" Roemo asked, obviously panicking for Wendy's well being.
"Take off her jacket first," Gray replied, shirtless as usual, with Juvia gazing at his bare back with hearts in her eyes.
"You would be the one to say that," Lucy muttered. She then leaned forward, unzipping Wendy's jacket and threw it off. When she looked over at Wendy, she, and everyone else gasped from shock. Wendy's entire left arm and a part of her upper body was covered in a purple poison.
"W-WHAT THE!?" Natsu was taken aback, nearly falling back.
"What is that!?" Cynthia gasped, covering her mouth with both of her hands as her eyes widened.
"Poison..." Even Erza was unable to keep a calm composure as she glanced at the poison spreading through the young girl's body, remembering when she herself was poisoned.
"C-Can't you get rid of it?!" Cynthia exclaimed.
"I think I can try something!" Levy stepped forward with a determined look on her face.
"What are you going to try?" Bisca asked, looking over at the short Solid Script mage.
"This!" Levy wrote the world HEAL in giant letters, "Solid Script: Heal!" The words then emitted a soft sea green light that shone over the poisoned Wendy. A few minutes passed, and absolutely nothing changed. Levy gasped loudly from surprise. "I-It didn't work!?"
"How did this even happen!?" Carla couldn't stand to see Wendy in such a condition. As she looked away, she remembered something. "No..."
"What's wrong, Carla?" Natsu asked, keeping his gaze on Wendy.
Carla didn't answer just yet. Instead, she examined Wendy's poisoned arm, noticing the tiniest of graze marks on her arm, causing her to gasp softy. "I-I was hoping it wasn't that...!"
"Carla, what's wrong!?" Natsu asked, even louder than the last time.
"Natsu, calm down," Markarov said calmly. As the Master, he had to be the calm one. He knew if he didn't the guild would turn upside down, and now wasn't the time for such a thing.
"I remember, when we went on that job the other day to take down those mages..." Carla started. "One of those mages used poison along with telekinesis...Wendy must've been barely grazed on her arm by the poison, and it started to spread through her body..." Carla's eyes widened after she spoke, it all making sense now. She remembered after Wendy healed Cynthia how Wendy said her arm was "falling asleep." "I...I also think she might've caught a fever from the snowy climate as well..."
"So when she said her arm fell asleep earlier..." Lucy thought back to earlier in the day where she and Erza stepped into the infirmary. "She was poisoned!?"
"How do we fix this?!" Happy shouted, nervously devouring a fish.
"Wendy can't heal herself..." Alzack started, "And if Levy can't heal her...we're really low on options..."
"Is Wendy gunna be okay, Papa?" The young Asuka Connel asked, tugging up on her father's pant leg and looking up at him sadly.
"O-Of course she will!" Alzack nodded, picking up his daughter into his arms, "There's something we can do, I know it."
"F-Fairy Tail...please...I beg of you, help Wendy!" Cynthia cried, nodding. Wendy was super nice to her, and she wanted to repay that favor somehow.
"We were going to help her even if you didn't ask," Gajeel stated bluntly. "She's part of the guild, after all. We ain't just leavin' her like this. Would leave a bad taste in my mouth if we did."
"I-I..." Cynthia stopped, realizing that what the Iron Dragon Slayer said was true.
"What are we going to do though?" Gray asked, rubbing the back of his head.
"I don't know..." Carla sighed, averting her gaze from Wendy as the poison slowly crept farther along her body. Between the fever and this magic, it was no surprise that Wendy was suffering like this. "B-But we better think of something FAST!"
Lucy sighed, thinking back to anything that might be able to help. She then remembered something from hanging around a certain brown-haired mage.
[FLASHBACK]
Luke visited Lucy's house every so often while the two were friends. On day, the mage decided to bring Lucy a present. "Oi, that reminds me, I got'cha something, Lucy," Luke said, holding a hand behind his back as he sat on Lucy's couch.
"Hm?" Lucy say on a chair across from Luke, looking over at him. "What is it?" She asked, surprised that he would even think to get her something.
Luke pulled his arm from out behind him, revealing a flower with golden petals, "Surprise!" He said, grinning. Lucy's cheeks turned a fade shade of pink as she took the flower from Luke's hands.
"I-It's beautiful..." Lucy said quietly.
Luke's grin widened, knowing that the Celestial Mage liked the flower, "Glad you like it, it wasn't the easiest thing in the world to get..."
"Where did you find it...?" Lucy asked, unable to keep her eyes off the golden flower's sparkles.
"I know a place that has all kinds of flowers," Luke responded, "There are all kinds of flowers. Flowers that heal burns, heal all kinds of poison, it's just amazing what you find when you just walk around."
[End Flashback]
"I know where we have to go..." Lucy said suddenly.
"Huh?" Natsu looked over at Lucy, noticing the odd tone in her voice. "Where? And what's wrong?"
"If you're going somewhere, take me with you!" Cynthia blurted out.
"Huh?!" The guild members looked at Cynthia with a confused looked.
"Why do you want to go?" Erza asked, still not trusting the girl.
"Wendy's the first person who's ever been so nice to me...I want to help her...please let me go..." Cynthia begged. Erza stayed silent, unsure on what to say.
"Let her go," Markarov insisted. "I can tell she wants to help Wendy, so we shouldn't get in her way. Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Erza. Go to wherever you need to. We'll stay here and do our best to keep the poison from spreading."
"Aye, sir!" Happy nodded, flying over to Natsu.
"So, Lucy," Gray started. "Where are we going...?"
Lucy sighed, leading the way out of the guild, "To get some help..."
.
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The group of six slowly made their way up the snowy mountain trail. Natsu grit his teeth as he knew exactly where they were going. He didn't like it, but if it was to help Wendy, he would have to put his grudge aside. A few moments later, the group made it to the building known as White Eclipse. Lucy took a step forward and subconsciously knocked on the door lightly at first. "You'll have to knock harder..." Cynthia muttered.
"I know, I know..." Lucy sighed, knocking loudly on the front door, taking a step back. The door opened slowly, a brown haired made with red glasses peeking his head out.
"Yes...?" He looked over at who was at the door and tilted his head slightly, "What do you want?"
"...I'm here to see..." Lucy gulped, hating the words she was about to say, "I-...we're here to see Luke."
"Luke...?" The brown haired male snickered lightly. "Would you like to come in, or wait outside? I'm okay with either."
"Inside please..." Cynthia said. The male nodded, opening the door as the five stepped inside. Natsu, Gray, Erza, and Lucy's guards went up as they went inside.
"Luke, you have visitors!" The male shouted.
"I have what Zalen!?" Luke shouted from atop the stairs, his voice a bit muffled because he was inside a room.
"You have guest!" Zalen shouted even louder.
"G-Gah! Gimme a few minutes!" Luke shouted. "You won't win this time...!"
"Did we come at a bad time...?" Cynthia asked.
"Oh no, he's just...busy...with something..." Zalen snicked lightly. Zalen's shouting attracted the attention of a few other members inside the rivaling guild. A silver haired Male walked in from the kitchen, eating a meatball sub. The male was wearing a long sleeved gray shirt and pants, walking around barefoot because he was a member and was home, technically.
"Oi, is that Fairy Tail?!" The male said, taking a bite from his meatball sub.
"Yes it is, Cygnus," Zalen replied, nodding.
"What are they doing here?" Cygnus asked, downing the rest of the meatball sub. "Did Natsu, Gray, and Lucy come here to get bodied again?"
Natsu clenched his fist at Cygnus's comment. Cygnus was the one who defeated the mighty Salamander in battle, and it didn't sit well with Natsu at all. He REALLY wanted to punch Cygnus in the face, but he couldn't. He needed to help Wendy, and it seemed that Lucy was putting a lot of faith in Luke being the one to help them. "N-No..."
"How's that scar on your stomach, Gray?" Cygnus asked with a cocky smirk. Gray nearly jumped at Cygnus, but he was held back by Happy.
"GRAY, NO!" Happy shouted, using his strength to hold the Ice Make mage back.
"We would appreciate it if you didn't mock us over your victories tonight," Erza said with a scowl.
"oooh, or what? Is Titania gonna get mad?" Cygnus said in a mocking tone.
"I just might..." Erza said in a low tone.
"Oh, cut it out, Cyg," Zalen said, laughing a bit. "They obviously want something, so what kind of host would we be if we turned them away?
"If they wanna get bodied I'm sure Reve, Luke and I could handle it," Cygnus replied, the cocky smirk not having left his face.
"I'm getting really tired of you..." Natsu growled lowly, his body temperature slowly rising along with his anger.
Luke ran down the stairs, panting slightly as he turned around to smirk at Selene. "I win!" He said with a victorious grin.
"Oh yeah yeah..." Selene waved a dismissive hand as she rested her elbows on the railing, looking down at the Fairy Tail mages and Cynthia. "Huh?"
Luke raised an eyebrow at the group, "Huh? What do you want, Lucy?" He asked, ignoring the other mages completely.
Lucy sighed, averting her gaze from Luke as she spoke slowly, "I...we...we need your help with something..."
Luke blinked a few times, making sure he heard what Lucy just said correctly. "I'm sorry, what did you say?"
"Don't make me say it again..." Lucy groaned, realizing how much Luke was enjoying this. "We need your help...! Wendy's been poisoned and I remembered you telling me about a place with flowers that can heal poison!"
"Oh?" Luke raised an eyebrow, "So you came to me?"
"We don't know where you found those flowers," Erza commented, "So we ask that you lead us to them."
Luke looked back at Zalen and Cygnus, who merely shrugged. Luke then turned back to the group, shrugging himself. "Well...I don't really have to help..."
"You little!" Natsu nearly swung a fist at Luke, but Lucy held him back, despite the urge to slap him rising.
"You're joking, right?" Gray asked, irritated with the mage's attitude.
"PLEASE!" Cynthia blurted out, catching everyone's attention. "Wendy could die...! Please help her, Luke...!"
Luke stared at Cynthia before sighing, "Fine, fine, I'll help YOU. I'm not doing this for you Fairy Tail mages however." He shook his head and smirked, "And if you said please like this little girl, I would've said yes right away."
"I hate you..." Lucy scowled.
"Hate you too," Luke smirked before walking out of the building, "Follow me." Natsu, Happy, Gray, Lucy, Cynthia, and Erza followed Luke outside. Before Erza walked out the door, a bullet hit the wall just inches away from her head, causing her to turn around with a glare. Reve was standing in the kitchen with a simple pistol, smirking at Titania. He gave her a wink before turning around and walking off.