HI! Sorry for the wait! Please don't kill me!

No one's P.O.V

Lucy and co made it to Gamma in good time, though the thought that Fairy Tail, Team Natsu no less, was following them was not very helpful. As they made their way towards the museum, Team Natsu became louder and obviously more anxious. It was almost as if they wanted to be heard.

"Can we at least yell at them to shut up and do their job correctly?" Sora whined to Jake, wanting nothing more than to have an excuse to pummel them.

"No. Just bear with it for a few more minutes and then you can do whatever the hell you want while we're heading back. Just make sure to be with us when we collect the reward." Jake told him, giving him permission to use his magic after we dropped the box.

Sora smirked, letting his mood lighten at the thought of sweet revenge. Lucy smiled at their plotting, though it wasn't her usual smile. She found it quite hard to smile with the very guild and people who betrayed her at their back. The two boys frowned at this, slowly plotting a way to get back at them for what they had do to Lucy. Sora dropped back and stated walking with Lucy. She looked up at him with a look of confusion.

"Play along." Sora whispered to her, making sure she heard. She looked at him, a lot more confused.

"You know Dove, I bet those wizards that were assigned to watch us are a bunch of chumps. If they were even close to our level, they would have already confronted us." Sora commented to Lucy a little too loudly, making sure they had heard.

They both felt the spike of temperature, Lucy glaring at Sora like he was an idiot.

"I have to agree with you for once Sora. I can't feel any magical presence at all." Jake said, joining in.

Lucy then caught on, starting to like the completely insane idea after feeling another spike in temperature with a bit of cold.

"Maybe there's no one at all. The one who gave us the job probably gave us that piece of info to just scare us. Either that or their slacking off on their job and are off eating cake somewhere." Lucy commented, knowing just how much Erza hated being told she was slacking for cake.

Jake and Sora looked at her quizzically, but then felt a huge spike in magic energy coming from the red head of the group following them.

"Oi! Who the hell do you think you are?!" Lucy heard the pink haired mage yell at their back, causing the three White Shadow mages smirk.

"Who? Us?" Lucy asked, turning to face the pinkette with a seemingly innocent smile.

"Yes you! Who do you think you are to talk about us like that? Do you even know who we are?" He yelled in Lucy's face, getting into her personal space.

Sora and Jake instantly reacted, both shoving a hand against the pinkette and pushing him back.

"Watch who you get close to pinky." Jake said, letting some of his anger slip out.

"To answer your questions, we know you're Fairy Tail and we can say whatever we want, no matter who we are." Lucy told him, sneering at him though on the inside she was panicking.

Natsu growled, not liking how they were talking to him.

"At least take back the comment about slacking off. We're right here aren't we." The red head commented, stepping in front of Natsu.

"No. Because you technically were slacking off. We knew who you were and knew you were following us from the start because you were being too loud." Sora told them, standing by Lucy protectively, not liking just how close the pinkette had gotten to her.

Erza glared at him, but did not comment against it for he was right. Instead, her attention was drawn to the golden keys attached to the blond mage.

"Where did you get those?" She questioned, pointing to the keys. The other Fairy Tail mages' eyes widened in surprise at their presence.

"Hm… oh these?" Lucy said, faking ignorance to think of an excuse. "I found them near a cliff in Magnolia. It's kind of sad really. All their contracts had been cancelled and none of them knew where their master was. Though they did say it had something to do with Fairy Tail."

Lucy looked up to find all of their faces had paled. Lucy just shrugged, hiding the pain the lie had caused her, and motioned for Jake and Sora to go. They walked away heading to the museum.

Lisanna watched them go from the back, feeling terrible. It was her fault everything was like this. If only she had approached Lucy after she heard a scream and saw Lucy with a bloody figure, instead she ran like a coward and told the guild something that she was unsure of herself. If only she had gone with them instead of staying at the guild, too scared to face the blond. If only she had been brave.

'I'm so sorry Lucy. If only I hadn't been a coward you would probably still be alive and well.' She thought, feeling her eyes begin to sting with unshed tears.

Lucy's P.O.V

"So where'd that story come from?" Jake asked me, a little surprised at the story I had made for having the keys.

I just shrugged and said, "I couldn't just tell them I was Lucy, so I made up a believable lie."

Sora and Jake nodded in understanding. We finally made it to the museum and watched impatiently as they opened the small box. Only to be filled with disappointment when they got a look of what was inside. It was a piece of cheese. Fucking cheese. The group left then and there, suddenly glad Raven wasn't there or else she would have pitched a fit.

"So now we just go to the old guy with this note and get the reward money." Sora said, pocketing the note the museum director had given them to bring back as proof that the package was delivered safely.

"Yep." I answered, glad they were finally going back to their guild house.

She was starting to feel home sick after their encounter with Team Natsu. The trip back seemed faster than the trip to the museum, though that was most likely because they had Team Natsu breathing down their necks. As we finally reached the requestor's house, we stopped. The door was lying on the ground, ripped off its hinges. Jake grabbed the sword that was on his back and unsheathed it, taking point. Sora secured his satchel, reaching his hand into it for one of his weapons. I grabbed Leo's key and got ready to open his gate.

Jake slowly enter the house, with Sora and I following after. As we got inside, we found the place was a mess. Furniture was turned over and torn, papers littered the floor, and the wall were filled with holes.

"It looks like tornado ripped through this place. Someone must have really been wanting to find something." Sora muttered, slightly amazed at the amount of damage.

A groan from under the flipped over couch caused us all to jump. Jake flipped it back over to find the requestor, bloody and beaten.

"Oi! What happened here?!" Jake questioned him.

"They wanted the box… you must… stop them! If they… get ahold of it… we're all doomed." He rasped, finding it hard to breathe.

Pushing Jake out of the way, I laid my hands upon his chest and tapped into my magic.

"What the hell happened here?" A familiarly annoying voice questioned from behind us.

Ignoring it, I set to work on healing the injured man in front of me.

"What is she doing?" Another voice questioned as the new group of people came up behind me.

"She's healing him. Turns out some group attacked him and they wanted the box we just delivered. Don't know why though. They opened it when we got to that museum and all it was a piece of aged cheese." Jake told them and continued to heal.

"I thought she was a celestial mage, how can she heal?" I heard one of them ask.

"There's more to celestial magic than just keys, Erza Scarlet." I told her after finishing my healing.

Standing, I turned to find them uncomfortably close.

"Could you please, um, back up? I kind of fell a little uncomfortable at your closeness." I asked, looking at them with a slightly pleading look.

Erza looked at me softly before she to a couple of steps back. Seeing Erza back off, Natsu and Gray backed off as well, not wanting to get in trouble. Lisanna and Happy were already at a nice distance so they didn't have to move.

"Your name was Dove, correct?" Erza asked, trying to show no harm as if trying to apologize for earlier.

Smiling at her attempt, I answered, "Yes, and the two boys beside me are Jake and Sora. And it's alright, everyone was just tired and annoyed from the long trip."

Erza looked at me in surprise, before smiling much more calmly.

"A perceptive one. Though I think introductions should start later. Right now we need to go after the ones who did this. They're most likely heading for the museum." She said, taking charge.

I smiled sadly. It seems that nothing has really changed since my 'departure.'

"Sora, I need you to go and tell Amy what has happened and that we'll be a bit late. Jake and I will head over to the museum with Fairy Tail. Once you're done, have Chaos bring you back." I added on. The guild members had decided to call Raven 'Chaos' when out on requests, so as to make sure those she crossed on the wrong road didn't use it as a lead back to the guild.

Sora nodded and braced himself. He had never been a fan of teleportation. Taking a breath, I quietly chanted the spell Raven taught me and sent Sora to the guild. I then turned my attention to Jake and my old guild-mates.

"Ready?" I asked, insinuating that we were going to travel by my magic.

They nodded. Closing my eyes, I once again began to chant the spell.

Erza's P.O.V

'This spell… it's the same spell Raven used to teleport us to Phantom Lord! How does she know this spell? I must question her once this is over.' I thought to myself as light surrounded me and we were once again in Gamma.

Sorry for the wait, warning, I will be slow to update from now on. R&R