On the next day's morning, the team of Fairy Tail 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?"

"whatever made it, we can guess that it's on the temple, right?" Natsu asks before he pointed at the temple. "don't you guys think that it gives off the weird vibe for weird things to happen to it?"

"now that you mention it…" everyone else spoke in unison as they agreed with Natsu's words.

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 that 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?"

"I don't think it wears it for a kink~!" Happy cried out.

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

"it stinks!" everyone minus Erza screamed out while pinching their noses shut.

"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. It then made a surprised noise when it sees Natsu flying straight for its head with a burning red flaming fist.

"Karyu no~!" Natsu roared as he then delivered a powerful flaming punch straight at the giant rat's face and sends it flying. "Tekken~!"

"chuuuu~!" the giant rat squeaks out in pain as it flew into the air before it fell into another part of the island with a big dust explosion.

Natsu lands with the others as they got a bit relieved that the rat was disposed.

"thank goodness that we dealt with it." Lucy said with a sigh.

"even though you just screamed?" Happy asks.

"you're the same too~!" Lucy snapped at the blue cat.

"damn island and it's damn rats." Natsu growls in annoyance as he sniffs his clothes and irks a bit. "it's damn breath made my clothes stink! And these are the ones that Cana bought for me a month back!"

"if you want to complain, do it on the rat." Gray said, the man already stripped to his jeans.

"alright, that's enough complaining from everyone." Erza said as her current armor glows before she changed it to another set. "I don't know if that rat was an indigenous species of the island, but the fact doesn't change that we have to get going to the temple to find clues about the so called curse."

"got it." "yeah." "fine." Everyone responded in unison while Natsu is spraying himself with anti-smell lacrima spray.

Sometime later, after facing and taking out the large rat, the group proceeds to the temple which they arrived to in an hour of walking.

The group seeing that the building is ancient and nearly about a few centuries old. It had markings and drawn scriptures of many kinds 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."

"there are carvings of the island and the moon everywhere." Erza noted as she checks one wall and finds the carving of the island that has the moon above it. "they say that Galuna Island is the island of the moon, but I believe it to be the island blessed by the moon considering these drawings and such."

"you sure?" Natsu asks. "considering the state of the villagers, we can't actually think of the island being blessed by the moon, right?"

"he's right." Happy agreed. "cursed by the moon is more precise."

"yeah, that's true." Gray nodded in agreement before everyone checks to one carving on the wall that showed the moon, the island, and the sea all together. "but still, just what is up with this place and having the moon stuff all around?"

Lucy hums a bit loudly as she looks at all the carved writings on the wall one by one, the blonde scratching her chin a bit while reading them all.

"you got something, Lucy?" Erza asks, seeing how the blonde was thinking hard.

"I think so?" Lucy replied, in an unsure voice as she went and pointed to one carved symbol. "this symbol is ancient but it appears in many other ancient ruins around Fiore, it also means Moon." She then pointed to another symbol. "and this one is also something that has a reference cause it means sun."

"moon and sun?" everyone spoke in unison while thinking.

"what does the two got to do with the place?" Happy asks.

"I don't know exactly the entire translation, but I think this temple was built by an ancient civilization that worshipped the moon and sun as gods or what not." Lucy said as she gently caresses her hand on the writings while trying to translate the readings. "the moon gives the blessing of life and the sun gives the blessing of warmth, the two are a cycle of life that has to be kept in balance, if not darkness will consume all."

"maybe this darkness thing is the curse that plagues the villagers?" Gray asks while raising a hand and waving it to the side. "something must've happened to the moon that made it purple and this darkness is the curse."

"that would make sense in a way…" Erza said as she cups her chin before she looks at Lucy who is still reading. "are there any more to the writings, Lucy?"

"hmmm…the darkness is inevitable and…" Lucy spoke as she reads the writing before she sighs and looks back to her friends while shaking her head once. "no good. The writings on the wall are so worn out, I can barely translate them."

"Guess this means we got to find out more clues." Natsu said while scratching the back of his head. "but if we can't find clues here, where should we go?"

"we could try checking out the inside of the temple?" Happy suggested. "this place is big, right? It might have an underground cave or something that got more writings and drawings and stuff."

"Happy may be on to something." Erza said after nodding. "let's go and check any routes that could lead us further deeper into the ruins or above it. Let's survey all area and see what we may find together."

"alright." Everyone nodded in agreement as they began to move in one direction together, unknowingly stepping upon a worn down floor area that cracks the moment they stepped on it. "eh?"

Everyone looks at the cracking floor before it breaks and they all fell down into a tunnel cave while screaming.

"aaahhhhh~~!" everyone's scream is heard echoing in the tunnel.

As the floor caved in, it began to restore itself as Zalty appears into the scene. The mysterious masked man is snickering while holding a crystal glass orb in his right hand that was glowing for a minute.


In an underground cave tunnel, the fairy tail team's screams echoed in the tunnel above the ceiling before they all fell down one by one on top of the other in a pile.

Soon, everyone slowly got up as they are a bit shook after the little falling trip.

"is everyone okay?" Erza asks while standing up straight and looks at her team.

"I'm starting to hate this island." Lucy said as she got up while rubbing a hand to her butt as she fell on it. "my butt hurts."

"just where are we now?" Gray asks as he looks around while patting his back a few times.

"I think we're below the temple." Happy said as he looks at the hole that they fell from. "my guess, that tunnel must've been connected from the temple's top to where we are right now."

"that was quite the fall too." Natsu added in.

"hey, is it just me or does this place feel a bit cold?" Lucy asks before shivering as she rubs her hands on her arms up and down.

"yeah…it is." Erza said as she could nearly see the white puff of her breath coming out. "this is strange."

"yeah, this place is in the tropical zone and we shouldn't feel any cold." Gray said as he kneels and picked up some dirt that felt a bit cold. "even if we are in a cave, it shouldn't be this cold."

As everyone was thinking about why does the area that they are in feels cold, Happy sees Natsu sniffing the air multiple times.

"what's wrong, Natsu?" Happy asks his partner.

"I smell something weird in this place." Natsu said as he keeps on sniffing. "it smells cold and somehow rotten."

"think you can follow the scent?" Erza asks and Natsu nodded before he leads the group while following the scent.

It took about 5 minutes of walking as everyone followed Natsu's nose that leads them all straight to an opening that has cold air everywhere.

"w-what is this place!?" Lucy asks as she was shivering with Happy who she hugged close. "it's like the artic in here!"

"just why is this place so cold?" Erza asks as she looks around and sees sea water that is half frozen with chunks of ice that floats around it. "just what is this place?"

"this place is just damn creepy." Gray added in as he looks around before he sees more ice at the end of the opening and it is something that is covered in cold air. "what is that?" he looks a bit closer and when the cold air slowly eases up, his eyes widen and he gasps in shock to see what he was actually seeing. "w-what!? why is i-it here!?"

"Gray? What's wrong?" Lucy called out to the ice make wizard as everyone comes to him. "what's wrong?"

"w-why? Why is it here!?" Gray exclaimed as he sounded very shocked beyond words. "why!?"

"just what is wrong, Gray?!" Erza asks her friend, the knight looking a bit worried to see his current state. "just what is wrong!?"

Gray could only point a finger forward as everyone followed to where he was pointing and they all soon gasps and became surprised to what they were seeing.

"w-w-w-what is that thing!?" Lucy asks as she and Happy looks completely baffled beyond words.

Everyone gazes into the air as they set their sights upon a large demonic monster of a being that is encased in solid ice.

"is that….some sort of monster?" Natsu asks as he had no words to describe the creature that he is seeing.

"it's not just any monster." Gray spoke out as everyone looks at the ice make wizard who looks very enraged now. "it's the damn devil itself!" he clenches his hands into hard fists and glared at the creature with all the hate he could ever have in his heart. "THAT THING IS THE DAMN DEVIL THAT TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME!"


That's a wrap!

Bye bye