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Harry had a hard time sleeping last night. Everything he learned that night had been circling around in his head without pause. Knowing that the royal family wanted to use the gate to kill Zeref, only to bring dragons was very worrisome. What was also concerning was that Jellal almost got busted yesterday. Harry didn't even know the man was here in Clover, but he was.

Kagura had seen Jellal yesterday as he was looking for the same person as Harry was, at least, Harry guessed that was what he was doing.

Simon and Kagura had come into Harry's room last night, asking where everyone was. Harry had informed them that the guild had gone to the water park and then asked them why Kagura looked pale. They had told him about seeing Jellal.

Harry had no choice but to save Jellal from being stabbed. He told the long-lost siblings about the Edo Jellal. He didn't mention going to Edo, but he did tell them what Jellal/Mystogan had told him.

When just telling them about Edo Jellal wasn't enough, he told them a little bit about what happened to the real Jellal. He told them how Earthland Jellal was controlled by a woman who was a member of Grimoire Heart, not Zeref. That was when Simon questioned the dark guild, wondering what they were after. Harry told them that they thought Zeref was on the island, which he was, and that they wanted to 'awaken' him, but Zeref didn't like that since he just wanted to be left alone.

"How did you know what Zeref wanted?" Simon had asked, and Harry told him that he had a run-in with Zeref while on the island. First thing the man said was to 'leave him alone'. Obviously, Harry wasn't telling them everything because he didn't need them thinking he was working with Zeref. It was already a gamble telling Makarov, Ron, and Hermione about who he was working with, and he trusted them the most.

Soon after that, the siblings had left his room so he could sleep. Yeah, that didn't happen. Harry had woken up only two hours later and couldn't go back to sleep to save him. He found out that Makarov was still awake and so they talked for almost the rest of the night. Makarov told him about a letter he got earlier about how they needed to merge their two teams together to even out the rest of the guilds thanks to Raven Tail no longer participating. Harry had asked if he should join the new team or if he could stay out of it. Makarov asked him if he wanted to stay out of the matches, and Harry had said yes. The old man told him it was fine, but wanted to know what was wrong, so Harry told him to ask Hermione for the book he gave her to read sometime tomorrow. Makarov had fallen asleep shortly afterward, leaving Harry to put him into bed and then try to go back to sleep, but only got an hour more.

Harry was snapped out of his thoughts and looked around to see that he was in the stands with the rest of his guild as the first game was about to start. Simon, Kagura, Ron, and Hermione were all standing around him, and Castor stood in front of him with Fawkes on his blond head.

"You okay, Harry?" asked Ron. "What were you thinking about?"

Harry shook his head. "Just some things we talked about last night. Oh, Hermione, I told Master Makarov that he could borrow the book I gave you."

"Oh, so he knows too?" she asked, and Harry nodded.

"What are you guys talking about?" asked Simon. Harry turned to face him.

"I found this book that spoke about events that are said to happen. It could have belonged to a seer, but the events are bad. I'll explain further with the whole guild later, hopefully tonight," said Harry.

"You already told the master at least, though, right?" asked Kagura.

"Don't worry, I did. Now, let's cheer Lucy on." Harry returned his gaze down to the arena to see Lucy in a swimsuit, along with the other participants. He looked for the Sabertooth member she would have to deal with, and when he found her he frowned. It was that young woman that held Happy hostage. She gave Harry a very bad feeling. In some way, she reminded him of Bellatrix, but not as crazy. 'I least I hope not,' he thought nervously.

The woman had black hair that was done up in a braid, green, sharp eyes, and small eyebrows. She wore a blue swimsuit and blue gloves.

Harry decided to ignore the woman for the time being and listened to what they had to do. There was a giant water ball floating in the air that everyone would have to go in and then start to push each other out. Harry was glad he didn't have to do this because he wasn't that big of a fan of water.

No one lasted long, especially after Lucy summoned Aquarius, who sent all but herself and Minerva of Sabertooth out of the water sphere. Harry wondered how in the world that woman was still in there, but clearly, Lucy needed to try something else to kick the Sabertooth mage out.

Lucy pulled out her celestial whip and swung it out at Minerva, who was able to block it with some dark sphere. More of these formed around Lucy and exploded, causing Lucy to scream. Due to the water, no one was able to hear her too well.

Minerva kept this up mercilessly, and Harry was pretty sure he had torture banded not long ago. But then Lucy's eyes opened after being tightly shut with a look of anger and determination. The next time she screamed, the water sphere froze, stopping both her and Minerva in their tracks.

'Is she…?' Harry thought, but didn't finish. It was clear to him what Lucy was doing.

Starting from Lucy's back and around the ice from top to bottom were cracks slitting the sphere in two. When they reached the other side of the sphere the ice spread open like angel wings attached to Lucy's back and around the much smaller ice sphere coating around her, but Minerva fell out of the clear air and onto the hard ground.

TBC

After I'm done with this story and taking a long break, I'll start working on the spin-off for edo. I have the base plan written down already. ;)

Since I merged the two teams already, Juvia wasn't in the water sphere.

Next chapter might show Lucy's POV on that fight. I wasn't really in a writing mood, I think, when I wrote this chapter, but we'll be moving on.

Natsu: What did Lucy just do?

Enj/Dark: *Hands him my facts and plans.*

Natsu: Oh… she has dragon slayer magic in this fanfic too.

Harry: There were others?

Zeref: Yeah, people have given Lucy powerups before. Enjali did it in this fic because she doesn't plan to do it again. She likes to keep characters true to their personality and powers.

Harry: I'm not really…

Enj/Dark: You kind of are. Maybe not in the beginning - but I like to think that anyone would panic if they woke to a warzone, ground zero with no memories - but the rest is just more like a smarter version of you.

Voldy: She's got a point. You do sound smarter in this fanfiction.

Zeref: You do show that you have that one flaw that makes you want to keep those you care about away from what you believe to be your own problem, though.

Enj/Dark: Which he started growing out of. Harry, it's your turn.

Harry: Is it? :/

Enj/Dark: I lost track, so I don't really know.

Harry: Okay, please review! :)