Author's note (actually important-to some extent) Okay, so I am half Japanese half American, and while I do watch/read Fairy tail in English and in Japanese, I made the mistake of reading both versions of the Tartaros arc (Japanese and English) right after eachother, so I'm still trying to grasp the concept of any of the nine demon gates' deaths… So for now, in this story, all of the demons (including Mard Geer, excluding Silver) are alive, but stuck in their books (?), they are going to die, and Lucy want's to make sure that they don't. I won't give any spoilers, but you should know, this obviously takes place after the Tartaros arc, while Lucy has a job working for Sorcerer Weekly with Jason. Another thing, English is the easiest to type, but I do speak Japanese most of the time, so please bear with my punctuation/spelling errors and mistakes. Sorry for any OOCness with characters (Specifically the main ones -_-) but I imagined this story being about Lucy being afraid that her heart wouldn't heal after her one true family finally left her, and the demons of Tartaros are surprised, because she's acting way different.

(Most likely later in the story) I'll be considering shipping Lucy with either Jackal or Mard Geer. As for final facts, yes Seliah is going to be part of this, there will be an explanation later in this chapter, and yes, I will not mention END (most likely) once in this entire story, finally, yes, I am making Lamy part of the nine demon gates… someone needs to take Silver's place!

Now, without further ado, I present to you, a Fairy Tail fanfic, Tartaros' new master.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy tail, it belongs to Hiro Mashima… if I did own it, LaLu/BixLu would be a cannon love triangle.

Lucy was done. She had read every book in the Crocus library, and there was absolutely no other choice. She couldn't just let them die, even though they brought her and her family so much pain, they didn't deserve such a gruesome fate. Lucy wouldn't -no, couldn't- stand for it. Even if she had to break a few laws, or hell, even all of them, she would do it. She had the power, it was only her, Yukino, and possibly Angel who could do this, and she didn't think any of them, especially the latter, would be interested in such a rebellious act. So it was now up to Lucy. She tried to hate them, she really did, but she just couldn't, because in the end, they could've been manipulated by him.

Lucy slowly got up, the chair squeaking from the sudden weight loss. She firmly propped herself up with her elbows on the table, attempting to read two books -in her hands- and two more on the rectangular dinner table at the same time, and she most definitely wasn't succeeding. Her brow was furrowed in worry, she just couldn't believe what she was reading. They couldn't just die, even if her now disbanded guild had beaten them, they weren't truly dead, right?

'Well, that doesn't matter right now.' she thought to herself, her brain's gears constantly turning, in hope that she could develop a plan on how to save them without doing anything illegally. 'I still haven't managed to find a single plausible explanation though!' she thought angrily, throwing the book which she had purchased the night before on the floor.

"I wish Freed and Levy were here. They'd know exactly what to do," she sighed, unpleased with the result of her staying up for nearly 48 hours, "Geez, I really am pathetic, talking to myself like this," she scolded herself, shaking her head in disappointment.

Lucy got up slowly from her arched position, wincing in pain as she realized she may have overworked herself last night, 'Maybe going to half the book stores in Crocus, wasn't a good idea. Oh well," she thought, silently waving off the pain in her feet and back.

She walked up to her room, carrying the three books that she hadn't thrown on the floor, with her. She entered through the simple opening, with the light brown frame, and glanced around the room.

'Oh dear Mavis, I really need to clean up." she thought with disgust, not looking forward to cleaning under her bed especially. She slowly walked in, each floorboard creaking with the her footsteps.

She stopped at one wall, where a giant bulletin board, clustered with papers on every spot hung. Pictures of her friends fell as she dropped the books she was holding on the ground. She sadly gazed up at the picture on the very top. Natsu and Happy, a single note underneath their picture saying just one thing: Whereabouts, unknown.

Lucy sighed at that cold fact, they were gone, to hell knows where, and there was no way to find out where they were, seeing as she exhausted every possible way to find them, until she herself was to exhausted to carry on.

'That doesn't matter right now." she told herself firmly, shaking her head and trying to get the sad thought out of her mind. She kneeled down, picked up the fallen pictures and notes, and stuck them all back on the board with just one pin.

She kneeled down once more, grabbed the fallen books, and decided to clean her room another time. She exited the room, it's light pink walls seemingly peeling even more as she walked out of the doorway.

Before she completely walked out, she whispered, looking at the pictures of her friends, "Bye guys, I'll see you later." Her voice hoarse and sad, she left the room, and went back to her kitchen table, and grabbed the book next to it that she had thrown in her small fit of anger.

She entered the main room, where it was perfectly clean, not a single book was out of place, especially, those books. She went to her bookshelf, and put the books in her arms in an empty spot, where dust was starting to gather.

She grabbed nine books off the top of the bookshelf, nine books that would change her life forever. The nine books that held the demons of Tartaros, the demons who were dying at this very moment.

Lucy laid them all out on her coffee table, and started pushing away all the furniture in the living room. She moved to the first chair, and pushed it back, closer towards the entrance to her kitchen. Next, she went to her only other piece of furniture that she could move, the small table that was next to her chair. She lifted it up, and put it next to the chair.

She went back to her kitchen, and opened up the cabinet above the stove, and grabbed a lacrima. She lightly touched it, and it started glowing, "Call, Jason." she said with a monotone voice.

"Hey Lucy, lookin' cool as ever!" Jason greeted her with a smile, and emphasis on 'cool'.

"Hi, Jason, listen, I won't be coming in to work for the next week or so, something's come up, and I'll be really busy," Lucy said, trying to give him a little show of cleavage, hoping it would help her leave work.

"Well," Jason started, his eyes bugging out slightly as she gave him a better view of her tits, "The Grand Magic Games are starting this week, but if you can still write a report about them, yeah, you don't have to come to work! Thought I wish you didn't have to miss them, they're just so cool!" He said, his eyes sparkling at the excitement of the Grand Magic Games.

"Alright, thanks, Jason, I wish I could come see them with you too," she lied, "Oh, and if you get to speak with Mato, tell him I say hello to him and his daughter," Lucy said, as she wouldn't be able to see Princess Hisui, and Mato's identity remained secret.

"'Kay, see 'ya later Lucy!" he said, and with that goodbye, the lacrima went dark. 'Well, that went better than I thought it would.' Lucy thought brightly, thinking a nice thing for the first time in months.

She put the lacrima back in the cabinet, and walked back to her living room, her mood down once again. She opened all the books to a certain page, following the instructions she read in a book last night by memory, how to summon demons.

While Lucy did have permission to summon them, she would be put to death if they did any illegal action, seeing as they were under her 'command'. 'Yeah right, they won't want anything to do with me, I'll just let 'em live, and leave them alone otherwise.' she thought bitterly. Even though she had already forgiven Jackal for being a somewhat reason for Aquarius' death, she was sure that Jackal would hate her to the depths of hell and back for defeating him.

She opened Mard Geer's right after she finished getting the first book to the right page (Jackal's), and soon realized after getting the Underworld King's on the correct page, then getting Kyouka's, that the page she needed to be on always had a giant, red 'X'.

Lucy finally got all the books to the right page (though with great difficulty, she got Lamy's page, considering the girl did want Jackal to blow up her tits), and grabbed the book she had thrown earlier that morning from the bookshelf next to the table.

She opened the book, and immediately found what she was looking for, How to summon demons. She glanced at the page, and knew what to do right away, as she closed the book, and tossed it to the side.

"Open, the nine demon gates," she began, reciting a 'chant' of sorts much like the summoning of her celestial spirits, "May you enter this world, using your own power and mine, may you crossover from your books of Hell, into Earthland, may you become existent, and may your brilliance shine!

"Open, gate of the demon king, Mard Geer," she started, her magic power already feeling a massive drain as a flowing form appeared across from her, slowly fading to become the underworld king, "Open, gates of the nine demon gates, Jackal, Ezel, Lamy, Tempester, Keyes, Torafuzar, Seliah, and Franmalth!" she finished, her magic power dangerously low as each of the mentioned figures entered the room, one by one.

As Lucy finished the chant, each of the ten demons looked at her differently, Mard Geer looking as arrogant as ever, Kyouka somewhat surprised, but managing to keep her cool, Jackal was laughing as Lucy knees gave out on her and feel on her butt.

Lucy shrugged, and continued looking at the other demons, Ezel was looking at her as if she was insane, Torafuzar just looked at her expressionless, Seliah looked utterly surprised to be out in the open, Tempester was glancing around at his surroundings, finally stopping at his summoner, Keyes gave her a stare that felt like it went through her soul, Lamy merely gave her usual, insane smile, and Franmalth was muttering something Lucy couldn't catch.

"Hello," Lucy began, unsure how to greet the demons.

"Hello, Lucy Heartfilia." Mard Geer said, more of a statement than an actual 'hello'.

"So, why the hell did'ya summon us, Blondie?" Jackal asked abruptly, breaking the short period of silence that had gathered after the Underworld King greeted the 'lowly' human mage.

"Well, I was reading some books, and found out that you could die, so I summoned you so you wouldn't." Lucy answered, all emotion gone yet again from her voice, her eyes glazing over, the sparkle of surprise no longer there.

The demons looked at her oddly, even Mard Geer, as they remembered this girl being one they brought much suffering upon, they remembered destroying her key, and trying to kill her.

Mard was the first to recover from the small amount of shock, and simply said, "Well, don't expect anything from us in return, while we are obviously -regrettably- thankful, we don't plan on working for you like those disgusting spirits you have."

"I didn't plan on anything like that." she said, getting up from her awkward position so she could stand eye to eye with the demon, "But I've never been one to let people -or demons- die when I could've saved them. I'm aware that you won't want anything to do with me, so as long as you don't do anything that would get me in prison, you'll be free to do whatever you want."

She had no emotion, and the demons were surprised that the human who had been doing anything to protect her guildmates during their battle, became another being that seemed to only be an outline of their former selves.

"What happened to you?" Jackal asked, his arrogance completely gone.

"You happened to me. You guys can go do whatever you want within reason now. Goodbye," Lucy said, and she left the room, leaving the ten demons completely dumbstruck.

"We happened to her." Jackal muttered, almost as a question.

Everyone looked at Mard expectantly, only to find him too, completely lost.

So, how was that? I think I'm giving up on that other story I started… At least until I can stop coming up with like 10 ideas at a time… So for now, this is it. Sorry for the few of you who actually liked The Raijinshuu's new recruit, but I also lost a few documents holding possible chapters for that story, and I'm still trying to recover them ~... Wish me luck!

-Bickslowchan