Hello my dear readers, welcome to the second chapter of this... Thing...

Anyway! Thanks for reading, it really means a lot to me!

Also I am so sorry I was going to post all these chapters days ago but my writing software bugged out but I FIXED IT SO HERE IT IS oh no it happened again

Chapter 2- Accidents and Red Rain

"Alone, in the middle of nothing..."

Screams echoed throughout the caves, cells filling up the room, lining the walls. Only two passages led out of the room, one leading to a room just like this one and the other leading to light. Covered only in rags, most of the captives in the cells waited silently for their fate.

The small boy huddled in the corner of one of these cells gazed around the room again, trying to memorize every face. His friends, 52, 64, and 49, were huddled in the cage to the right of him, whispering to themselves. A small girl with bright blue eyes sat in the cell on the left. His father and brother talking in whispers, completely stopping their conversation any time a guard passed by. His mother, singing a soft melody as the boy struggled to fall asleep.

"Waiting for something..."

The calm voice of his mother eventually made him close his eyes, curling up in the corner of the place they called home.

"To take me home…"

The day began when he slipped through bars into the cage next door.

This was not a design flaw; the bars between each cage was carefully spaced to allow just enough room for a small person to slip though. The idea was to let the captives form bonds, meaning more ways to torture emotionally and of course, more chances for love to bloom and more captives to be produced. Thus, the boy with the number of 47 was able to slip into his friend's cage. The friends of his lit up at the sight of him, and of course, they began to play. Simple games that kids these days ignore, simple games that require no pieces, and simple games that are the most fun.

"Alone, in the middle of nothing,"

Of course, their game was interrupted by 47's brother Syther's cry of surprise. 47 instantly turned to face what made him cry, and he froze in shock.

A man hidden in a dark cloak was holding two swords, one sword in each parent's chest. His mother's eyes were wide and unblinking, as she slid off the sword and onto the ground. His father's eyes had closed, and the man shoved him off the sword to thump onto the ground.

"Except for the grass by my feet,"

Tears clouded his vision. Everyone was talking around him, screaming around him, but he didn't notice. He was frozen in his place, unable to do anything but listen to the words the murderer had spoken.

"S-Sir, why... They were our most important experiments! Why did you..."

"They were not our most important experiments, the boy and cursed girl is. Besides, their joy is annoying. Maybe we'll be able to get some nice peace and silence?"

"B-But sir-"

"Cover the bodies."

"Y-Yes sir."

"Waiting for you."

"Of course we can! We're the Fantastic Group of Good Looking Boys, we can do anything!" A boy with bright blond hair and piercing green eyes chirped happily, wrapping his arms around his friends. The friend to his far left chuckled and shook his head.

"We never agreed to that, 52." The speaker was the boy from earlier, a few years older with dirty blonde hair and strange orange eyes, with the number of 47. He was the oldest of the bunch, even though he was the smallest. "When did you come up with that name, anyway?" 52's smile faded and he pulled away from his friends.

"What do you mean? That's always been our name!" The second oldest, 49, with dark brown hair and bland gray eyes, just shook his head and smiled.

"We don't have a name, 52." The youngest mentioned, with long black hair that hid his eyes from his friends. "B-But that sounds like a cool name..."

"See? 64 likes it!" 52 said, hugging the small boy tightly. "He's my favorite now."

"But I don't wanna be your favorite!"

"Too bad!"

"Since he obviously doesn't want to be your favorite, then he's my favorite!" 49 suddenly added to the conversation.

"I don't want to be anyone's favorites!"

"Will you just all shut up?!" The group turned back to the girl that started the whole ordeal. She was in the cage to the right of them, her friends giggling behind them, one even winking at 49. 49 mistook this for a blink, and 52 thought it was for him. So of course, 52 smirked and winked back, causing even more confusion than required.

"Sorry…" They all muttered.

"One of those girls totally digs me!" 52 said cheerfully once they left, posing a few times to an invisible camera.

"They were into 49..."

"DONT RUIN MY HOPEFUL FANTASIES!"

"DONT CALL IT FANTASIES THATS WEIRD YOU-"

"Shh!" One of them hissed, pointing out a guard passing by. The guard had noticed the shouting.

They all shrunk away. They had made a mistake. "QUIET DOWN YOU BRATS!"

When they returned it was hard for 47 to explain to his brother what the bruises were from.

"Thank you for letting me come." The owner to salmon-colored hair, Natsu cracked a grin to a girl with bright blue eyes, a girl that had spoken the statement.

"no problem, Sina! If anything, I should be saying sorry. It must be terrible for your teammates to go on a job without you! I could beat them up if you wanted?" Natsu responds, earning a blush and a quick shake of the head from the nervous teen beside him. Natsu, Lucy,(the blond giggling behind them) Happy, (the cat gagging behind them) and the blue eyed girl, Sierra, were on a retrieval mission to find a rare herb only found on the east outskirts of Fiore. The risks, including disappearing and returning with no memories of the last few days, were well worth the reward, a whopping 20,000,000 jewels. Natsu never thought someone could have that much money!

"I-Its not Sina, it's Sierra." Lucy said from behind them. She was thinking of summoning Horologium, not because she was cold or anything, but because it was the only way to keep Happy off her shoulder. Or would that not work either? Anyway, Natsu ignored Lucy's comment and started thinking for once about the job.

"What's this stupid herb do anyway? Why is it worth 20,000,000 fucking jewels?!" Natsu kicked a rock to the side while talking. Lucy fished her plant guide she borrowed from Levy out of her bag.

"Well, this herb, called an eastern Lisitline, can supposedly heal better than some mages. Of mixed with the right ingredients, it speeds up recovery so much broken bones heal by the end of the day. It's the only herb that can actually help a person near-death live to see another day. Its basically a plant that would benefit anyone, especially hospitals! Think of all the people they could save!" Lucy rambled on, smiling happily. Sierra and Natsu were shell-shocked. They never knew a plant could do that!

"Maybe we should grab a few of those herbs for us... They could be useful." Sierra added after being quiet for a while, Happy nodding in agreement.

"Yeah, I could use them to help my arms heal after carrying heavy Lushy..." Happy chimed happily getting a glare and a growl from Lucy.

"H-Hey, is that the herb you were talking about…?" Sierra mentioned, pointing to a small gathering of Lisitline herbs. The group cheered and began to gather the herbs, Matsu scanning for danger.

After a minute of gathering, the girls (and Happy) stopped and peered over at Matsu, who was wincing and pulling something out of his neck.

"Wh-What is this…?" He mumbled, Happy suddenly crying out in pain and collapsing, Sierra wincing as something hit her shoulder.

"N-Natsu…?" the whisper came from Sierra, her eyes glazing over, Happy and Lucy already unconscious. Soon, Sierra was the only one able to stay awake, but soon, she had to close her eyes…

Sierra weakly opened her eyes to fuzzy darkness, confused on where she was. After a few second of blinking, realization dawns on her, causing her to jolt up into a sitting position. She soon regretted this as a migraine began to form. "N-Natsu…? L-Lucy…?" The two owners of the names glanced over at Sierra, Lucy with Happy in her lap, and Matsu trying desperately to open the cell door.

They were in a cell.

Sierra struggled to hide her panic. The situation seemed a bit too familiar. Taking a deep breath, Sierra asked,

"Wh-Where… Where are we?" Natsu glanced at her and shrugged.

"No idea!" he said as he slams fire-covered fist against the cell door. It doesn't budge. Lucy rolled her eyes, stood up, placing the now awake Happy on the ground, and pulled Natsu away from the door.

"Natsu, stop. I need you quiet so I can think."

" Why think when we can just bust this door open?!"

"What will we do after that? We don't even know where we-" Lucy was silenced as Sierra's hand covered both hers and Natsu's mouths. Natsu's ears started to twitch, and whatever he heard caused him to narrow his eyes. Slowly, this sound he heard got close enough for Lucy and Sierra to hear it; a conversation, with the second voice being extremely familiar…

"There was more visitors to the Lisitline patches near the border to Files. This time, near the castle gardens, your highness. They're getting closer, we must maximize securities." Lucy and the others were a bit confused, but only Natsu couldn't figure out they were clearly not in Fiore anymore.

"Visitors? Goddesses, General Tolin, I told you to let them be."

"B-But Your Highness-"

"It was most likely just a few mages gathering the herbs for a job request. Harmless." Natsu narrowed his eyes as the second voice talked. The owner of the speaker's voice was on the tip of his tongue.

"Your highness… Wh-What about the policy?"

"That stupid policy your advisor friends created is idiotic and pointless. We have no need to hide from neighboring kingdoms!" The last comment seemed to slap them all and instantly they finally recognized the voice. Shoving Sierra's hand away and poked his head through the bars.

"DAMNIT, MIST! GET US OUT OF HERE!" a quiet curse was heard before lo and behold, Mist wearing golden garments covered in jewels ran up in front of them. The owner of the first voice turned out to be a tall man wearing chainmail and a sword strapped to his side.

"Oh, goddesses…" Mist muttered before she hurried to unlock them. "I told you not to cage anyone from Fairy Tail, you idiot!" She glanced at the three people (and cat) stuck in the cage. "Sorry, guys, I promise I'll explain…." The cell door clicked open, the once captives staring at Mist in shock, because when they woke up they were not expecting this.

"A-Are you…. An alien?! I knew it! You were way too weird to be from Earthland! Even weirder than Lucy, and that's pretty weird…" Natsu shouted, pointing an accusing finger at Mist. Sierra just shoved him away to be able to face Mist, yelling,

"Why didn't you tell us before?!" the girl being questioned didn't respond, waving the general beside her away. He bit his lip and bowed before scurrying away, Mist then turning to the group again, eyes sad, mumbling,

"Let's discuss this in a more private place." She turned to the direction of the stairs and strode with more confidence than you would think anyone in her situation would. The strangely quiet group of four all glanced at each other before following the elegantly dressed woman who they thought they knew into another world.

Natsu, Lucy, and Happy all found the building they were in strikingly familiar to Mercurius. The long, ornate hallways with simple but elegant decorations looked just like the castle the king of Files resided in. Which made sense, since after seeming countless maids and servants walk pass.

They followed Mist silently until she led them to a door guarded by a guard who was holding his helmet in his right hand. His hair was silver, with a similar length to Freed's, his ears pointed like Mist's and with silver-gray eyes. He bowed politely when the group walked up, Mist smiling fondly and opening the door. Lucy scanned the man for a few more seconds then the others did before following Mist inside.

Something was different about him… Hasn't she seen him before?

Inside the room was a bit more simpler than anyone would of expected of a princess, but Mist always seemed a bit different, so it wasn't a big surprise. What was a surprise was the fact Liz was casually reclining in a chair near the bed.

"Oh, you finally told them? Great! I've always wanted to show them the gardens!" Natsu was a bit confused.

"Wait, she knew you were an alien? What?! That's not fair!" mist rolled her eyes and gestured them to sit down on the last two chairs, her herself sitting down on her bed.

"I'm not an alien, Natsu." She sighed and rubbed her forehead, looking a bit nervous. "I'm… Well, it should be obvious…" Liz giggled and stood, saying,

"She's a princess! But don't worry she's not a brat she does a lot of the paper work, and surprisingly gardening, and oh did you know she's you know I've never understood it you said you were blessed with cool fighting pow pow powers right? I mean that makes sense cause you-"

"Alright, Liz. That's enough." At this point Mist was bright red, Sierra furious, Lucy and Happy confused and of course Natsu ready to laugh his ass off.

"You're good at gardening?! Out of all the things, you're good at fucking gardening?! That's priceless! I cant even imagine it-" his speech was no longer able to be understood from how much he was giggling like a little five year old child.

"A-Alright, Natsu, that's enough… A-Anyway, Liz seems to have covered the base of it." Mist commented, trying to calm him down from his senseless giggling. Sierra then choose that the moment to speak.

"So… you're a princess for a neighboring Kingdom that's hidden from everyone else that stays hidden by capturing any people getting close to the border? That's a pretty large thing to of been hiding… why didn't you tell us?!" Mist saddened and turned her head to look away.

"Because you wouldn't of believed me. You've never heard of this place before you were accidently captured…"

"That's not a valid excuse!"

"Well, how about my many enemies who are smart enough to realize that they could use you to manipulate me. They've done it before." Mist visibly winced as she said this line, but Sierra wouldn't back down, shouting back,

"So?! Fairy Tail can deal with enemies! You're part of the family, you shouldn't get all protective about us! We don't need your protection…" Mist sighed and stayed silent for a while, Happy still staying silent from confusion in the whole situation, staying behind Lucy for protection, Natsu a bit hurt, finally realizing what was going on, and Lucy's reaction a bit more thoughtful.

"… Against them, Fairy Tail does."

"How do you know that?! We're the strongest mages in Fiore!" Natsu's finally added to the conversation this time, but all he had gotten in response was a weak smile and her saying,

"I know, Natsu… But some things cant be handled by pure friendship alone…" The whole room when silent after that, no one looking anyone in the eye.

"I'll… show Natsu, Lucy, and Happy around… Maybe you and Sierra should talk a bit more?" Liz mumbled in the middle of the silence, grabbing Natsu's hand and pulling him out of the chair, leading him and the two others mentioned out of the room and down the hall.

"Just how much were you hiding?" Mist looked up to the girl sitting near her, the girl refusing to look back at Mist.

"You know most of it…" She bit her lip, "I am the third princess of this kingdom you are currently residing in, a kingdom that's been hiding itself from nearby kingdoms for centuries…" Sierra sighed and glanced over at Mist, before smiling a bit.

"That's a lot to take in… but I forgive you, for now. You better show me around though. I'm super curious, I've never seen a castle before." Mist softens and nods, standing up and helping Sierra up. "Oh, can I see the gardens that Liz mentioned? They seem nice." Mist chuckled and nodded, leading her into the hallway, nodding at the guard still next to her door, and leading Sierra toward the garden she wanted to see.

Although, of course, life doesn't work out that way. Somewhere in the kingdom, a boy was dangerously near…

And finally, finished! That took a long time… Sorry it took so freaking long, but I transferred everything to Microsoft Word so it should run a bit more smoothly.

This is the last chapter of the 3 chapter bulk update, and guys, would you rather bulk updates or just chapters? I really don't care so I want you guys to decide.

A lot of things have happened (besides just a lack of motivation… sorry…) especially me finding out about a lot of things and one thing let to another and…. Here I am!

Also, to explain the herb, in this story I made it the core ingredient to a red potion… I tried researching but Nintendo hasn't made herbs (or at least not that many) for their games, but MAYBE THEY WILL IN BREATH OF THE WILD WHO KNOWS I KINDA WANNA KKNOW

So bare with my made up herb names and if anyone has good ideas for herbs that go in different potions I'd love to know cause that would help a lot

And I swear there is three weeks of summer left and I haven't done anything welp guess I'm making a schedule for writing during school

Anyway, hope you enjoyed! Don't worry about reviewing, but you know, it would be nice...