Chapter 4

A/N Okay, so first of all, I set a poll for who Lucy should end up with. I'll even let her be polyamorous, I am open to everything. You're allowed two votes each chapter, and if there are any other opinions, please tell me so I can add them to the poll. The options are Lisanna, Laxus, Rogue and Natsu as of right now. Go ahead and pick.

Now, to the story!

In Magnolia, the town was quiet. This on it's own was strange, seeing as they held the loudest and wildest guild in the land of Fiore. So, what was happening? Let's go in and take a peek!

Inside the Guild Hall of the infamous Fairy Tail, all the members were present for once. And they all seemed to be staring at… The second level. I saw a bunch of people staring at the two people staring back at them in shock. Well, maybe staring back at them was wrong. To be honest, they were laughing their asses off on the balcony, glancing at the people beneath them briefly, before laughing raucously again. Then there was a stroke of lightning and there was another man, taller than the other two and he started chuckling too.

"Hahaha, you should see yourselves right now!" A busty blonde yelled between her laughter. She was holding her stomach before leaning back into the man who appeared in lightning. He wrapped her in his arms and held her to his body.

"They do look pretty stupid," the man told her, "Flame Brain looks like he's going to faint." He smirked.

"Well, children, tell them the other thing." The little old man that was standing beside them told them. He looked at them expectantly.

"Well, first thing's first, I don't know if I am going to continue as a member of Fairy Tail. I just don't feel safe here anymore." Lucy, the busty blonde told them before letting a glow appear around her eyes before they turned a beautiful, vibrant violet colour. "Second, my mother was married to Laxus' father briefly before they divorced and Laxus' father met his mother and had him. Layla joined the Love and Lucky merchant guild and met Jude, and the rest is history. That still technically makes Laxus and I step-siblings, even if we have no blood relation." Lucy smiled as she finished summarising why they were step siblings.

"And, Lucy will be living together with the rest of the Raijinshuu and I from now on." Laxus, the taller man announced, smirking. "So don't think that you and your stupid team will be able to get to Lucy ever again." He glared, full on GLARED at Team Natsu. Then Rogue walked onto the balcony from the shadows, Sting following close behind. The other Guilds all seemed to have representatives go up as well and they all stood behind Lucy.

"And one more thing, Lucy, we of Sabertooth offer you a place in our Guild." Sting announced, clasping her shoulder. Rogue stood as a silent guard, glaring at the Strauss siblings (not including Lisanna) and Team Natsu.

"Mermaid Heel as well." Kagura stated, "We could use a powerful celestial mage like you." Then she started looking angrily at the Guild before zeroing in on Erza. "I was wondering why you never sent me any messages, but this? This is low." She looked away, sniffing in distaste.

"And Lamia Scale." Jura said serenely. "We would love to have someone with your talents join us. I hope you take our offer into serious consideration." He said calmly before he turned towards the rest of the Guild. "The Magic Counsel and I had had so much hope for this Guild." He sighed, shaking his head.

"Men! We would also like to extend an offer to join Blue Pegasus! Men!" Ichiya said.

"Yes, you should join us and bring Loki back." Hibiki said, popping up behind Lucy and putting an arm around her shoulders.

"You would make a great addition, Onee-chan!" Eve said cutely. He looked so cute! He was hopping slightly before bouncing into Lucy's arms so that she was hugging him to her chest.

"I wouldn't mind if you came to join us," Ren said, hiding his smile behind his hand and looking away from her, blushing slightly.

"Cool! You should join us!" Rocker, Bacchus and Semmes yelled from the first floor, Bacchus had started drinking with Cana again. "You know, you should have probably at least said 'Hi' to her," Bacchus told Cana.

"I did! But I never found her when I was sober enough to go on a mission…" Cana trailed off, slightly intoxicated at the moment. She started leaning on Bacchus. "I'm sleepy, goodnight~" She sang before conking out on Bacchus. He blushed a bit, though that might have been from all the alcohol, and left her there.

"You don't deserve to be anyone's role model." Sting spat at Natsu. "You bring shame to the title 'Dragon Slayer,' Natsu Dragneel." He sneered.

"You're right, Igneel is pretty pissed that you acted like that." Lucy said quietly, suddenly somber. "He heard what you all said." She looked like a valkyrie now, standing above them all with poise and confidence, ready for battle. She had a hand on her whip, ready for Natsu to be irrational and furious like everyone knew him for.

"What do you mean?" Natsu asked, taking a threatening step towards the group. "What do you know about where Igneel is?" He asked in a low and dark tone. Mira and Lisanna saw what was going to happen and rushed to stop him before he jumped up from his position on the first floor trying to tackle Lucy. He was knocked down by Sting's Strong Fist of the Light Dragon and locked in a lightning cage by Laxus.

"If you had listened to me a few weeks ago, you would know that I had acquired a few mysterious keys, ones that I discovered myself on a job. A job I did solo." She told the Guild, and Mira ran over to the mission book she kept.

She poured over the book before flipping page after page as she looked at all the jobs that I've done recently. I was eventually able to do quite a few high-levelled jobs recently, and I guess that surprised her. She got tears in her eyes, and I saw that she was honestly guilty over what she had done and was trying her best for me. "It's true," she said softly. "She has done plenty of solo jobs recently, and quite a few people have requested her to personally do jobs. Hard jobs, one where she had to- had to…" Mira's tears escaped her eyes and she took a deep breath. Levy took the book from her and continued reading. Soon she was near tears as well.

"She had to stand against a monster they thought was nearly on par with one of the demons from the Book of Zeref." Levy finished. Silence reigned as they all processed this. Then someone started laughing and when they turned to look, it was… Natsu.

"Her? She took on a monster they thought was from the Book of Zeref? Yeah right, she isn't strong enough to do that without Erza, Gray and I's help. She didn't even help when we faced the last one!" Natsu roared.

"She did." Laxus stated calmly. "We saw her limp in after it, and you can't just fake injuries like that." Laxus told them, the Raijinshuu and the Dragon Slayers nodding, agreeing that they did in fact see that.

"It wasn't alone, I had my spirits to help me…" Lucy said, her cheeks flushing in embarrassment. "Anyways, I don't need you guys anymore, and you've already proven you don't like me. I tried to tell you a few weeks ago, when I found them. But you didn't listen, and spoke over me like I wasn't there. So yeah, you didn't know." Lucy walked down the stairs and out of the Guild Hall. Those that remembered her, The Raijinshuu, Laxus, the dragonslayers, and all her true friends from the various Guilds followed her, which prompted the rest of Fairy Tail to follow as well.

They walked to the forest near the outskirts of Magnolia. Lucy just kept walking but pulled a clear and red key from her belt. She didn't look at anyone before she held the key to the left of her and called out in a clear voice, "Open, Ferocious Gate of the King of the Fire Dragons!" There was a chime heard as the gate opened, and slowly, a dark shape started to appear at the opening. "I am the gateway between Earthland and the worlds beyond! Here my call, Oh Fire Lord Igneel!" She called over the sound of the air moving towards the gate. The air was being sucked into the gateway now, as the dark figure moved out of the gateway and into the open field. Once it was fully outside the gate, it landed on the ground and roared.

"Hello, Lucy-chan." Igneel smiled a toothy smile as he looked down at her. Then he spotted everyone else around her and wrapped his tail around her. "What is wrong? Why are they here? Are they trying to hurt you again?" Igneel asked as he glared at each of the people he knew to have hurt her earlier.

"Igneel, it's me! Natsu!" Natsu yelled at him. There was a flash and suddenly a man with crimson red hair, a red open vest with gold trimmings and loose black slacks holding Lucy in his arms while she stands with her arms hanging by her sides.

"Yes, I know who you are, you imbecile." The man man had a deep voice as he spoke. He was a handsome man, with bright red eyes and high cheekbones, and full lips, curled into a sneer as he snarled at Natsu. "You nearly killed Lady Lucy, I am ashamed to say that I raised you. You should have been able to smell the foreign scents and taken the full situation in before jumping to conclusions." He was glaring at Natsu like the disappointed father he was, while also appearing like a ferocious creature ready for the first threat to protect his pack-mate. How he managed this? They blamed it on him being a dragon. Laxus, Rogue, Lisanna and everyone that remembered seem to think that the way he was holding her was perfect while the rest of the Guild looked prepared to start attacking at a moment's notice from how Igneel was holding Lucy.

"But Igneel-" Natsu started, not realising how much of a mistake that was, or how pissed Igneel was at him.

"But NOTHING! I distinctly remember telling you about these kinds of situations, how did you turn into such a brat? You should ALWAYS find the whole situation before you run into them-" He stopped himself and took a calming breath as Lucy lay her head on his shoulder. She still hadn't looked back at them. "I will be taking back my magic now." Igneel said before unravelling one of his arms from around Lucy and holding it out, towards Natsu. A reddish orange beam of light came out of Natsu's chest and moved towards Igneel to form a ball. "I see that I made the wrong choice of who I should make my dragon slayer." Igneel said before looking at Lucy. "Maybe you should call the others, we have all been terribly worried since Felicita returned." Igneel softly told her. She nodded before stepping out of his embrace. She stepped back a few paces before grabbing a few of her keys.

The first one was clear and a pale blue, with scale designs on the blue parts. "Open Serene Gate of the Queen of the Air Dragons!" She called and a similar chime was heard. "I am the Gateway between Earthland and the Worlds beyond! Come forth, Mistress of the Winds, Grandine!" Lucy called out clearly as another giant creature made it's way out of the portal. She continued, summoning a few other creatures as well. The King of Lightning, the Honourable Thor, then the King of Metals, the Mighty Metalicana, after was Queen of Water, the Vengeful Korra, and finally the Queen of Holy Realms, Felicita the Phoenix Guardian. Lucy was sweating by now and Felicita was immediately by her side, with Virgo in tow.

"You shouldn't summon them all at once, let yourself rest every once in awhile, princess." Virgo told Lucy, Felicita nodding in agreement with Virgo. Grandine was a kind looking woman wearing a pale blue crown on her head, smiling slightly as she helped Felicita and Virgo to support Lucy and heal some of the magic exhaustion she was feeling. She wore a flowing dark blue dress with scale designs on it, a stark contrast to the paleness of her skin and pale blue hair. Her hair was tied in a braided bun with strands hanging by the sides of her head, and her eyes were a kind, glowing blue.

Metalicana looked similar to Gajeel, with long, spiky black hair and muscles rippling every time he moved, showing the tight cords of muscle that his skin covered. Unlike Igneel, he decided to forgo a shirt and simply stand by Lucy's side and kissing her on the forehead. He was wearing a pair of dark, skintight leather pants with scales designs on the bottoms of the legs. He had a deep tan, and narrow eyes, looking naturally threatening and dangerous. His eyes were obsidian black and he wore a necklace of metal around his neck. All in all, his presence terrified nearly the entire Guild here.

Thor, a blonde man wearing silver armour with navy blue clothes underneath and a red cape, was quite a threatening appearing man as well. He had a bit of a beard and wore his hair out midlength. He had piercing blue ice-chips for eyes as he analyzed the people with, pardon the pun, lightning quick glances in all directions. He was also quite muscled compared to Igneel's wiry muscles, but thinner than the muscled monster that was Metalicana. He stood taller than most of the males in the Guild as he deemed none of them threatening enough to register on his radar.

Korra wore a black band around her head with a blue teardrop charm on the center of her forehead. She had light brown hair and a dark tan, standing tall in her loose pastel blue shirt with bell sleeves that covered her hands and tan pants with a belt and two skins of what they assumed to be water at her sides. She was a kind looking woman although she was frowning and holding her hand out in front of her, her legs spread in a wide stance, slightly crouched.

Felicita was probably the most shocking. She wore a small white pouch around her neck, her white hair tipped with all the colours of the rainbow, her eyes furrowed as she focused entirely on Lucy. She wore a red dress this time, flowing and light as she fussed, though she didn't make a sound. She was quite tall, standing at over five and a half feet her hair hanging around her making her look heavenly. She had large blue eyes and skin as pale as a sheet of paper, and pouty pink lips.

She was so focused, she hadn't noticed that a certain pink haired mage was getting pissed at being ignored, nor did she realize in time that the others had pulled Lucy away from her position quickly, where she was. She started turning just in time to see a fist of black flames with electricity flowing around it coming straight at her face, and her face pulled into one of shock before something terrifying happened…

Cliffhanger. Want to know what Felicita did? Wait for the next chapter. Sorry I was late this time, I kinda got a bit of writer's block writing this... SO I made it that much longer! And made a poll! You get two votes every chapter, so tell me who (or a number of who -s) that Lucy should end up with! I am totally open to literally anything! ;D