Laxus and Taranis stood chest to chest, both glaring into each other's eyes. Laxus looked down at Taranis with a disgusted expression, a low growl emitting from his throat as he bared his teeth to the demon slayer. "Listen here..."

"No, you listen," Taranis said while cutting off Laxus. "I'm not afraid of you, lightning lizard. And I think you need to know your place; demons have been, and will always be stronger than dragons."

"I don't care what race you are..." Laxus started, now more annoyed than ever that Taranis has the audacity to cut him off. Sparks started to dance around his body, forgetting the fact magic was cut off after 10 seconds. "I'll kick still your ass."

As a response, Taranis' body also began to release sparks of electricity, and though he was shorter than Laxus, he proceeded to get up in his face, his demonic eyes showing. "You wanna bet?!"

"I-I think it's time to calm down...!" Lisanna waved her hands frantically, hoping the two slayers of lightning would calm down.

"I don't like this game we're playing..." Melanie mumbled in the corner.

"That's because this ain't a game." Laxus replied to Melanie, both her and Taranis backing off each other at the same time to avoid a scene. "It may be to them, but to us, this is serious, get it? They're after our lives, and if we don't find a way out of this hell hole, we may as well hand 'em over."

"There's gotta be some way to get out of here..!" Lisanna started. "There's just gotta be! We can still use our magic, so maybe...!"

"There just playin' with us," Taranis replied to Lisanna, a scowl still on his expression from his encounter with Laxus. "Raising hopes high just to crush them in the end. Something you humans tend to do quite often."

"Don't lump us with them..!" Lisanna protested to Taranis' words, a pout forming on her face. "Not all humans are this terrible!"

"Oh, I know you guys aren't /all/ bad, but you're still bad," Taranis scoffed before turning his back.

"I just wanna go home..." Melanie whimpered.

"Don't worry...it'll be okay..." Lisanna said in a reassuring tone as she softly placed a hand on the water dragon slayer's back.

"Aw, isn't that cute...?" Spade asked in a sarcastic tone as the wall turned transparent, revealing him to be standing there.

"Tch, back again, you multi colored freak?" Laxus asked with an irritated voice.

"Of course!" Spade replied with a grin. "How could I pass up the opportunity to see the second strongest and third strongest lightning mages alive?"

"Second?! Third?!" Laxus and Taranis shouted in unison, both immediately feeling a similar feeling of distaste from Spade's words.

"I don't know what you think you're talking about, freak," Laxus began as his tone grew more violent. "But when I get out of here, I'll be sure to show you a taste of Fairy Tail's power."

"And I'll show you the taste of the Lightning Demon's power," Taranis growled while placing down his top hat to reveal his expression.

"Yeah, yeah, I'd love to see that," Spade waved a hand, completely dismissing Laxus and Taranis' comments. "I'm sure you'll "crush" your families enemies, Laxus..." Spade then let out a laugh, turning around to walk off. "I'll be back later to sap you of your magic, so enjoy your time off."

"Tch...I'll get that bastard..." Laxus grumbled as Spade walked off.

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"I don't even know why you're in here..." Takeru smirked slightly as he spoke to the shirtless Gray Fullbuster (who of course had Juvia fawning over him as usual). "Last time I checked, you were much weaker than Salamander."

"What?!" Gray took immediate offense to the comment, his expression turning into a scowl as he stepped forward to Takeru. "I'm just as strong as Natsu, if not stronger!"

Takeru smirked, enjoying the fact he was getting a rise out of Gray. "Is that so? Because you couldn't even keep up with Luke, and he didn't even have his transformation!"

"Gray-sama is not weak!" Juvia shouted as she flailed her arms in an angry, yet comical fashion.

"Tak!" Aira intervened before the confrontation could escalate. "Now isn't the time for this...!"

Takeru blew out air through his teeth, crossing his arms as Aira sucked away the fun he was having. "Hmph...Can't have some fun while we're stuck in here?"

"Juvia says we should be looking for another way out!" Juvia nodded.

"There IS no other way out," Takeru retorted with a sigh. "No matter what we do, it fails." Takeru then turned his head over to Ceaser, who seemed to be in deep thought. "...Eh? He's thinking?"

"There's a way out," Gray stated bluntly, almost as though he knew what he was talking about.

"Is that so?" Takeru raised a brow. "Then tell us, Ice Mage. What's the way out?"

"Eh..." Gray paused to think for a second, but his thought process was interrupted by an elated Ceaser who seemed to have came to a conclusion.

"I GOT IT!" Ceaser exclaimed with a large grin on his face.

"What do you have?!" Aira's hopes raised high as she looked to Ceaser, expecting an elaborate plan.

"Clouds must taste like cotton candy!" Ceaser yelled, and right after he did, everyone fell over onto their sides in a comical fashion, their legs twitching as they laid there.

"That's not a plan!" Takeru groaned whilst standing up, grunting in frustration. "Surrounded by 3 idiots, just great..."

"Sucks, huh?" Asked Club Strong as he stood in front of the now transparent wall.

"Make that 4..." Takeru sighed heavily.

"Hey, it's not nice to call your guild mage an idiot!" Strong shouted, glaring at Takeru.

Takeru blinked a few times as he stared at Strong, feeling his IQ dropping every time Strong uttered a word. "...I wasn't talking about-"

"I don't think there's any getting through to this blockhead..." Gray said while crossing his arms.

"You should let us out!" Aira said, aiming to appeal to Strong's unintelligence, but subtlety.

"I should?" Strong blinked a few times cluelessly before letting out a laugh. "Oh, that's a good one!"

"Darn it..." Aira sighed.

"He caught on that quickly...?" Juvia raised a brow. "Juvia heard Club Strong was the stupid one though..."

"Even if I wanted to!" Strong started, requipping his platinum club. "I couldn't! This stuff is virtually indestructible! See, watch!" Drawing his club back, Strong mustered all of his brute strength and slammed the club into the transparent wall...and even to his superior strength, the wall did not give. "See!? My pure brute strength is close to Joker's, and not even that could cause a scratch! You're stuck here unless you find another way out!" Strong then gave a laugh, completely forgetting why he even bothered to come down to visit the five captured mages and ended up leaving.

"Man...he's got a good arm..." Ceaser said in a slightly more serious tone. "If someone of his caliber can't break it, then we're in trouble..."

"Whoa did he just have a serious train of thought?" Takeru asked the others.

"But...in all seriousness..." Ceaser's attention wandered off to something completely unrelated. "I could really go for some Wheat Thins right now..."

"Aaaaand it's gone..." Gray sighed.

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"WHAT?!" Makarov spit out his beer as he was informed on what the other members believed to have happened. "They've been kidnapped?!"

"That's what we think has happened..." Freed said as he have a slight "Tch". "It happened too quickly for us to really do anything. Lucy opened the door and the last thing I remember was pink smoke filling the room."

"How long ago was this?!" Makarov asked, his tone changing from shocked to angered.

"Well..." Levy started as she began to make mental calculations. "It was the afternoon when the pink smoke filled the guild...I was the first one to wake up, and when I did, it was already about noon...the next day..."

"So they knocked ya out for a good while..." Gildarts let out a sigh. "We leave for one day and this happens..."

"There's no need to worry...!" Romeo shouted optimistically. "Natsu's there, and Erza, Mirajane, and Laxus! There's no way they'll go down without a fight!"

"I hope that's the case..." Evergreen sighed while rubbing her head, muttering "I hope that idiot is okay..."

"Worried about Elfman...?!" Bickslow asked with a reading laugh, causing Evergreen to retract her statement.

"N-No! Of course not!" Evergreen replied.

"Is there any way to track them down?" Makarov asked.

"Sadly, no..." Levy replied with a frown. "If we had Happy, Lily, or Carla, then maybe, but they were taken too...and since we were unconscious, there's no way to tell where they went to..."

"There must be something..." Gildarts pondered.

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"Agh...!" Waiston shouted out in frustration, slamming his fist the snowy ground just outside White Eclipse. "I can't believe this...! I can't pick up a scent no matter what I do!"

"Whatever they used really throws off the trail..." Adam commented while crossing his arms. "They knew what they were doing. Even my nose isn't working."

"Gah! I can't believe they caught us napping like that...literally!" Kuro grunted, letting out a heavy sigh.

"If Sidney were here maybe things would've gone differently..." Marlene sighed heavily as she looked up into the sky. "I hope everyone is okay..."

"It'll be okay...!" Skye said in a cheery voice. "Nii-san and Nee-chan are there...they'll be okay, I know they'll be..."

"And Taya's there!" Nami chimed in. "They've probably made her angry, and an angry Taya is a violent Taya..."

"It's been over a day...who knows where they are right now..." Zalen adjusted his glasses after he spoke. "We followed the foot prints left in the snow, but after a certain point they just vanish, not even before the snow leads to the rocky trail..."

"The stars say it'll be rough..." Saeko nodded. "But...they say it'll be relatively okay in the end..."

"Relatively?" Shizuka raised a brow after asking.

"Some will be different upon returning..." Saeko replied.

"I think we're worrying too much!" Almaz said with a large grin. "They're gonna make it all out safe and sound!"

"Better hope your right, kid," Adam responded.

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Tartaros; the evilest Dark Guild in all of Fiore, perhaps even Earthland. Comprised of nothing but demons (barring one or two people), this guild's reputation is well kept. Maggie brought Cynthia to this place, and the little girl was rightfully terrified, as she didn't know what could happen. But, to her surprise, the last 24 hours in the literal hell hole had actually been quite fun for her. Maggie had given Cynthia to Sora (the pink haired little girl about Cynthia's age, if not a year older, and the Shadow Manipulation mage for those who don't remember). The two were in Sora's room, playing around with a variety of dresses. "How does this one look?" Cynthia asked while twirling around in a purple dress with jewels attached to the bottom.

"Oh, Cynthia looks pretty in that one!" Sora replied with a gleeful grin.

Outside of Sora's room, a few of the other members were somewhat debating the issue. Tobias groaned somewhat, rubbing his head. "Ugh...did you really have to bring her here?"

"Shut up, Tobias," Maggie immediately replied. "I brought her here for a reason, and so far, things are going rather swimmingly."

Jackal, who was leaning on a wall not too far off from the others decided to give his two cents in the topic. "Looks like Lava Girl might have finally done something right for once. We should write this down a moment in Tartaros history"

"Oh, zip it, ya mangy mutt." Maggie did her best to ignore Jackal; the two never really got along, so it was usually something like this between them.

"What's the point of bringing that child here?" Ur, the revived teacher of Gray and Lyon asked. "Last time I checked, she couldn't even control herself..."

"I thought Sora could use a friend," Maggie replied with a shrug.

"I feel like there's some ulterior motive to this..." Tobias sighed before shrugging.

In the throne room, Hades and Daityas were having a conversation about the same thing, though it was a little more private since they were in a separate area. "Daityas, I've noticed that the little girl has been growing rather fond of Sora..."

"Yes, I've noticed that as well," Daityas replied while toying with what seemed to he a lacrima in between his fingers.

"Didn't you have plans to use her for something?" Hades asked, his arms crossed.

"I did, but now isn't the time for those plans to come to fruition yet," Daityas responded with a nod.

"Not time yet?" Hades as a tad confused. "Isn't now just as good a time as any?"

"Oh, no," Daityas smirked somewhat as he looked to the confused Grimoire Heart leader. "You see...there will be a time when she's alone, that is the time to strike. It may not make too much sense now, but trust me, it will work."

Hades merely nodded. "Mm..."

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The Exceeds sat in small cages, separated from one another, but they could still talk. Jack was tasked to keep an eye on the creatures, much to his dislike. Happy's stomach grumbled, causing him to whimper. "I'm hungry...do you guys have any fish around?"

"Wha...?" Jack turned around, an irritated expression on his face. "No, we don't have any fish, that's a stupid question!"

"Anything fish related is NOT stupid!" Happy shouted.

"Happy, calm down!" Carla pleaded the riled up exceed.

"Oh, no, let him rage!" Jack gave a near sadistic smile as he opened his hand, creating a purple flame in the palm of it. "It'll give me all the more reason to fry him..."

"Fire magic..." Patherlily thought to himself, though something seemed odd about Jack's fire, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"Why did you have to take us, too?" Carla inquired, crossing her arms as she glanced at Jack, aiming to take the subject away from Happy.

"Heartless' orders, furball," Jack responded with his grin slowly fading because he was bored now. "She said she knew you furballs would lead your friends here if you ween't taken, so she told us to take them."

"And here we thought you and your sister were nice..." Carla sighed.

"I don't do nice, the word makes me sick," Jack gagged as he uttered the word "nice" groaning after. "I can't believe I'm stuck on furball duty, this is ridiculous...You don't have any magic worth stealing anyway!"

"Just you wait!" Happy said, gripping the bars of the cage with a large, confident smirk etched onto his features. "Once Natsu gets out of here..."

"Pfft, Salamander?" Jack didn't even try to hold back the boisterous laugh that was building up inside him. "HA! He couldn't even stand up to Sis, what makes you think he'll stand any chance against me!?"

"When Natsu's serious...you'll see for yourself..." Happy merely replied. "You made a mistake in attacking Fairy Tail like that..."

"Yeah, yeah..." Jack waved a dismissive hand. "You're gonna preach on about some nakama bull shit and how you'll all band together and defeat us. Yeah, let's take a step into reality here, eh? It doesn't matter how many of you gather up here, you stand no chance against us. We don't rely on the strength of others, we use our own strength to move forward. It's pathetic how you have to use some stupid fucking excuse to win battles you have no business winning."

"...Quite a mouth for a 13 year old..." Lily commented.

"And a hard head..." Carla mumbled.

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"Ugh!" Cana slammed her fist against the wall in frustration. "Is there really no way to get out of this hell hole!?"

"We've been stuck in here for over a day now..." Wendy sighed. "I really hope the others are okay..."

"There's a way out..." Lucy kept saying, attempting to keep Cana and Wendy's spirits high. "There always is! We just have to find it!"

"They won't let us out, and the walls are so hard none of our onslaughts are working..." Cana let out a heavy sigh, now sitting cross legged on the ground. "And the worst part is that I haven't had a drink since this happened!"

While the three females continued their debate on how to escape, a pair of heels clicked down the hallway. Loudly. This caught their attention as it seemed the noise was moving closer to them. After a few seconds, the noise stopped, yet the wall didn't turn transparent to reveal who it was. "You Fairies are so predictable..." The voice said in a disappointing tone.

"E-Eh?" Cana stood up, glaring at the wall as she expected it to change. "And who the hell are you?"

Ignoring the question, the person behind the wall continued. "Always attacking what's in front of you, that's how you deal with your problems right? If you see it, attack it."

"She's not wrong..." Lucy mumbled before raising her voice to question this person. "But who are you to talk to us like that?!"

"Instead of attacking what's in front of you, why don't you keep an eye on your surroundings sometimes? Sometimes the thing you're looking for isn't in front of you, but below you." As the statement was made, the voice trailed off, noted by the sound of heels clicking against the floor.

"H-Hey! Come back!" Wendy pleaded, but it was too late.

"What was that all about...?" Cana groaned as she placed a hand on her hip. "The thing below us...?"

"Below us...?" Lucy thought for a few moments before she got an idea. "I got it!" She then reached for her keys, pulling out a silver one. "Only ten seconds...Gate of the Maiden, I open thee! Virgo!" A chime rang out before revealing the masochist spirit.

"Yes, princess?" Virgo asked with a humble expression.

"No time for talk!" Lucy then pointed down to the ground. "Drill a hole through the ground to the other side of that wall! Hurry!"

"As you wish," Virgo nodded, and began to use her magic to bore through the floor, which was no where as sturdy as the wall.

"She dug through it!" Wendy's eyes widened with delight as a ray of hope showed itself.

"Come on..." Lucy bit her bottom lip, nervously waiting the result. 6 seconds had passed. If this failed, it wouldn't be pretty. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1...

Virgo's voice came from the other side of the wall. "It has been done, princess."

"YES!" Lucy threw a fist into the air, grinning widely. "Let's go!" Without delay, Lucy, Wendy, and Cana hopped into the hole Virgo created, appearing on the other side of the wall.

"It really worked...!" Cana grinned, drawing her deck of cards once again. "Now, we get to start paying these guys back double!"

"Not double!" Lucy started as she gripped her keys again. "As Natsu would say, they're going to get payback, 100x over..."