Wendy looked up at Lucy who seemed a bit too excited at the name said.

"Who's Gildarts, Lucy?"

"Hmm, well I'll be honest I only ever met him once while in a pub, but as soon as I saw him, I could sense he was super strong. I really wanted to fight him but at that time was when I got injured on my back so 'stead we settled for a drink together and a debate on who was the hottest girl in the pub." Lucy explained, much to Erza's ire.

"Oh...that sounds-"

"like something you should not be mentioning to Wendy!" Charle yelled. Lucy rolled her eyes at the white cat lecturing her but agreed once Aquarius came out and yelled at her for the same thing.

"Don't teach that little angel to be a dumbass like you, got it!" Aquarius yelled, smacking Lucy on the back of her head.

"Yeah, M'sorry." Lucy mumbled.

Wendy on the other hand had forgotten all about what Lucy had mentioned and looked excited. "Wow, it looks like a festival, right, Charle?"

"Hmm, indeed. And all for one person?" Charle muttered.

"There is a reason for celebration." Mira smiled, walking up to them. "After all, it has been three years since he left."

"Three years? What was he doing?" Wendy asked curiously.

"If I remember right, he was looking for a girl to have a fun night wi-." Lucy began to say but immediately shut up at the demonic look she began receiving from Mira, Erza, Aquarius and for some reason even Cana.

"Wendy ignore anything Lucy says from now on." Levy explained.

"Uh, okay."

"As I was saying, Gildarts was gone because of a job he was on. The guild has S-rank jobs, and then there are SS-rank jobs, even harder than those are the ten-year jobs, named those because nobody has succeeded in completing them in ten years."

"I besh me and Natshu coulds do ish!" Lucy mumbled through her fire meat that Mira had shoved at her to keep quiet.

"Hell yeah, we could!" Natsu cheered. The girls looked at Lucy and Natsu before turning around uninterested in the slobs. Going back to her speech Mira continued explaining the guilds mission ranks.

"Anyways, the truly incredible thing is... Gildarts is returning from a hundred-year quest."

Wendy's jaw dropped. "You mean... he went on a job no one could finish during the last century?"

"Whoa! Natsu, Gray let's go on a hundred-year quest right now!" Lucy yelled.

"Hell yeah, let's go!" Natsu yelled.

"No way I'm letting flame brain show me up! I'm in!" Gray cheered smirking.

Lucy immediately went to run up the second floor to grab a hundred-year quest when a giant fist slammed onto her head. However instead of slamming Lucy into the ground, the blonde stood firmly in place with the fist on her head confused as to why Makarov would hit her. Makarov looked at Lucy surprised when she continued to stand tall, completely unaffected by his giant hand, instead looking annoyed.

"Yo old man, what's the big idea?" Lucy tsked. "I wanna go on one of those cool quests with Gray and Natsu, oh and Windy if she wants to come."

Makarov sighed, feeling an oncoming headache. "Lucy, you aren't s-class you can't go up to the second floor for one of these quests."

Lucy stared at her master then the rest of the guild members to see if he was indeed telling the truth. "Tch, what's the point of being a god if I can't even go on cool quests. Sorry guys, we can't go." She sighed.

Meanwhile Natsu and Gray were stopped from getting over excited by Erza's metal fists to the face. Their excitement was reignited when alarms began to ring.

"Come outside with us Wendy. There's something you should see."

Wendy stepped outside and watched in awe as buildings rose and shifted around the city, leaving a wide straight path leading from the edge of the city all the way to the Fairy Tail guild hall. "N-no way!"

"That's Magnolia's Gildarts Shift." Mira giggled. "Gildarts uses magic that can smash anything he touches into pieces. Since his mind drifts a lot, there's been cases of him walking through people's houses without noticing. That's why they restructured the town."

"Hahaha, I thought when he said he can smash anything he touches he meant...you know." Lucy chuckled to Levy, who immediately turned bright red.

"Wow!" Wendy said wide-eyed, just missing Lucy's lewd comment. However, it did not seem to go unnoticed by Cana and the others who were taking turns using their magic on the girl to beat her up. "Isn't it amazing, Charle?"

"Yeah... amazingly stupid."

"Why's everyone...att-attacking me!" Lucy yelled as she ran from the girls.

Natsu grinned when a figure became visible, making its' way down the road. "There he is Lucy! Luce?" Natsu called, face dropping when he saw his best friend getting beat up by the guild's woman.

"Uh do I wanna ask?"

"Not if you wanna live." Loke chuckled.

"Don't worry those attacks are like tickles for the brat, she's just playing along for the girls." Aquarius sighed.

A tall, scruffy-looking man in a tattered cloak finally came into view. As the gathered mages watched, he yawned and gave a grumpy sigh.

"Gildarts!" Natsu shouted as the man approached them. "Fight me!"

"Nah that bastards gonna fight me!'" Lucy said from her spot on the ground where she was hog tied.

Mira smiled. "Welcome back!"

"Mh." The man grunted, missing out Lucy's name calling. "Miss, I'm pretty sure a guild called Fairy Tail was somewhere around here..."

"This is it!" Mira laughed. "And I'm Mirajane!"

"Mira?" Gildarts tilted his head, before his eyes widened and he looked around excitedly. "You look so different! And our guild has been completely renewed!"

"Gildarts!" Natsu charged forward.

"Oh, Natsu!" The man smirked. "Long time no see!"

"I said fight with me!"

"Maybe next time." Gildarts laughed, casually swinging an arm and knocking Natsu into the ceiling.

"Yo! Arts-fight me!" Lucy yelled, smirking.

Gildarts turned to the blonde on the ground still hog tied. "…Holy shit, it's my drinking buddy! Ishgar freaking demon! You actually joined a guild, I thought you were planning on staying in the west for a while?"

"Eh, Loke changed my mind and look now I'm Natsu's partner!" Lucy said smiling, freeing herself from her ties, much to the girls' surprise. "So, we gonna fight or not?"

Gildarts' eyes widened, before bellowing a laugh. "Well, I did promise you the next time we meet I'd give you a proper fight. That injury ever heal up?"

"Sure did!" Lucy said grinning dopily.

"Alright then let's meet up in say an hour, so I can rest, oh and congrats Natsu you got yourself one strong mage for a partner."

"Don't I know it!" Natsu bragged, before frowning. "Aww man, why does Lucy get to fight you but not me!"

"Because flame brain, you're still leagues behind the two. Lucy's the third wizard saint and Gildarts is Gildarts." Gray explained.

Natsu frowned at his frenemy's words, begrudgingly accepting them. Even he had to agree Lucy was freakishly strong, and Gildarts, well Gildarts was as Gray said Gildarts.

"One hour it is!" Lucy chuckled.

"Hold up Gildarts! How did your mission go?" Gray shouted, wanting to hear about his friends' adventure.

Gildarts burst into loud laughter. "Sorry everyone, but you're not gonna hear anything cool from me. It was too difficult."

Jaws dropped. Everyone was shocked at Gildarts, possibly the strongest mage of Fairy Tail, after Lucy that is, admit that he was unable to complete the quest. Lucy meanwhile took advantage of everyone's shock to steal a kiss from Erza.

"What?"

"No way!"

"Dumb demon!" Erza growled, punching the blonde into the ground.

"Even Gildarts couldn't do it."

"Wow, everyone said you were super strong but if you can't finish it maybe you won't be much of a challenge for me?" Lucy sighed in disappointment from her spot on the ground.

Gildarts chuckled at the blonde's bluntness, having already encountered her before he knew that this was just how she was.

"Cool your jets now Ishgar Demon, don't go writing me off yet." Gildarts chuckled.

Wendy was shocked. "If he couldn't handle a hundred-year mission... what on Earth is that quest?"

"I see, even you could not handle this quest. " Makarov sighed.

"Yeah..." Gildarts said, "You trusted me to handle it. Sorry for staining Fairy Tail's name, old man."

"No sweat Gildarts! Just give that quest to me and I'll handle it." Lucy said with her signature toothy smile.

"Lucy, please stop." Erza begged.

"The toll is one kiss."

"Go away."

"Two kisses now."

"I will give you no kisses and that is final." Erza said.

"Five kisses and I touch your boob!" Lucy said, smiling.

"What-No!" Erza said flustered. "One kiss and that's it!"

"Heh, gotcha." Lucy snickered. "Deal!"

Erza sighed happy to be done with the bargaining, before her eyes widened in realization at what just happened. "Damn it!"

"No take backs!" Lucy laughed.

"Oooh, Lucy's good." Gray nodded impressed.

"Yeah, didn't see that coming." Alzack said.

As the rest of the guild watched Erza and Lucy negotiate the toll for Lucy to be quiet, Makarov went back to talking with Gildarts about his quest.

"No... it's good enough that you came back alive." Makarov told him. "As far as I know, you're the only person who even survived coming back from it."

"Yeah, well I'm going home. I need a rest before my fight with Ishgar Demon here." Gildarts said, looking up at the wooden ceiling. "Yo Natsu. Come by my place later, I've got something for you."

"'Arts, wait, mind if I come down too?" Lucy asked. "I got a couple of questions for you about this quest you were on."

"Huh...yeah sure." Gildarts shrugged.

Natsu turned to look at Lucy in surprise. Mostly because he wanted to know what type of questions she had to ask him.

"Well then..." He turned heading for a wall, breaking it down as he passed through. "Later."

"Use the door!"

"Oh wait!" He spoke, turning around breaking down another wall. "I almost forgot."

"What?" Makarov cried, at all the destruction caused.

"When did that happen?" Gildarts asked, pointing to the couple in the back kissing."

"Who Lucy and Erza?" Natsu asked. "That's been going on awhile."

"Shut up, no it hasn't!" Erza yelled, finally breaking away from Lucy's kiss. The latter who was smiling goofily.

"Hahaha finally found your mate have ya Ishgar Demon. Niiice." Gildarts winked, "Anyways I'm out." He waved breaking down another wall.

"Enough already!" Makarov cried.

"What do you think he got me?" Natsu asked Happy and Lucy. "Maybe it's some rare flame from a foreign country?"

"That'd be awesome! You know in Bosco they sell rocks that taste like certain elements. Maybe he got you one of those!" Lucy said excitedly.

"No way, I hope he did."

"Yo, Gildarts." He swung the door to Gildarts' shack open. "We're here. Thanks for inviting us!"

"Oh." Gildarts turned to them. "Welcome, Natsu, Happy and Ishgar Demon."

"Call me Lucy."

"Lucy it is." Gildarts said nodding. "Hey Natsu, so tell me..." His tone turned teasing. "How's your relationship with Lisanna going?"

"Huh?"

"Don't be shy just because Lucy is here!" Gildarts laughed. "If anything, she can give you some advice on with the romance front, right Lucy?"

"Got that right 'Arts." Lucy said winking.

"So, come on, you can tell me."

Natsu scowled at his friends' words. "Lisanna died, two years ago in fact."

Gildarts paled. "S-seriously? I see..." He sounded shocked. "Damn. That's why Mira... Whoa. I'm sorry, Natsu."

"Oh man Natsu, I'm sorry I didn't know!" Lucy said bowing.

Natsu turned to leave. "If that's all you wanted from me, I'll be going."

"Natsu..." Gildarts motioned for him to wait. "You'll want to hear this. During the mission, I met a dragon."

Natsu broke out in a cold sweat. "What?"

"WHAT!" Lucy screamed, excited for her friend. "Was it Igneel?"

"Nah, I don't think it's the one Natsu told me about..." Gildarts sighed. "This one was black."

"Wait…black?" Lucy said, tone changing to a more serious one.

"Where?" Natsu choked out.

"At the sacred mountain Zonia." Gildarts told him. "It's the reason I failed this mission, dammit."

Natsu grit his teeth and rushed towards the door.

"What do you think you'll accomplish by going there?" Gildarts asked.

"I'll ask where Igneel is, of course!" Natsu snarled.

"That black dragon won't be there." Gildarts observed. "It's flying around the continent, maybe even the entire world..."

"I knew it." Lucy said, her expression darkening. "The scent on you, it's the same."

"What, Luce what are you talking about?" Natsu yelled. "Look I need to go, there might still be some clue there!"

"Natsu, look at this." Gildarts unclasped his cloak and swept it sideways. Natsu gaped in fear at Gildarts' bandaged stomach and prosthetic arm and leg.

"Everything happened in a mere moment." Gildarts scowled. "It got my arm and leg, and a kidney too. I don't know about Igneel, but that black one... it is surely an enemy of humanity. And a human can't beat it."

"T-that's..." Natsu grit his teeth. "That's what Dragon Slayers are there for! With my magic, a black dragon is..."

"No Natsu, what Gildarts is saying is true. Which reminds me of why I came here. Now that I've heard the full story, tell me was there blue markings surrounding this dragon?" Lucy asked surprisingly serious.

"Uh yeah, why?" Gildarts replied.

"Because I can smell the scent of that dragon on you and it's the same scent of the man I encountered who attacked me and gave me the injury I told you about back when we first met." Lucy explained, unabashedly stripping off her shirt to reveal the gashes on her back. Gildarts jaw dropped, not at the half nakedness, but the three slashes on the girls back.

"Wait…that dragon was the thing you went up against and you still survived!" Gildarts said in awe. Despite seeing the gruesome scars on the younger girls back he knew she got off extremely lucky compared to him.

"No, I went up against his human half and survived. I thank my spirits every day I had them there with me," Lucy said before turning to Natsu. "Gildarts is right, you don't stand a chance against that dragon Natsu, and it's not because your weak, it's because that dragon is a monster on an entirely different level from you, Gildarts and even I." Lucy finished.

"Lucy's right, Natsu. Look at me. I lost significant parts of my body. The Third wouldn't stand a chance, I didn't stand a chance, and Lucy barely made it out. But if you insist on going, I won't stop you."

"I will, though!" Lucy yelled as Natsu made for the door.

"Dammit!" Natsu cursed, running out the door.

"Natsu!" Happy shouted, racing after him.

"Lucy." Gildarts smiled at the blonde partner of Natsu. "You're Natsu's partner, right? A human can't go up against that thing, but a demon and a dragon combined might make it. Perhaps one day, you and Natsu could."

Lucy turned to Gildarts and nodded. She only hoped the two of them would make it out.

"I don't know but having so many slayers in the guild seems a little too good to be true don't ya think?" Gray said.

"Nah, you're just paranoid." Cana chuckled.

Makarov couldn't help but agree with his child's sentiment.

"I believe fate is about to make its' move." Makarov said more to himself than anyone else.

"Shit!" Natsu sped along the riverbank. "Dammit!"

He cried out when he tripped and rolled down into the river. Sighing weakly, he looked up at the clear sky.

"Igneel." He muttered. "Give me a sign that you're still out there."

When no sign was forthcoming Natsu couldn't help but cry.

Alright then the fight today is between Gildarts Clive and Lucy "Ishgar Demon Heartfilia!"

"Rules are no killing, no permanent damage, body shots are fine, no head shots, keep the damage to a minimum." Makarov explained.

Lucy and Gildarts nodded, turning to one another with a smirk on their face. This fight was definitely gonna be one to remember.

" !"

Lucy gave a devilish grin to the s-class mage in front of her. For the first time in a while she felt like she would finally fight someone fun.

"Loke…this is gonna be one fun fight."

"Calm down princess."

"I don't like the look on Gildarts and Lucy's faces right now." Levy said. Lucy and Gildarts were both smirking at each other, releasing immense waves of magic. It scared even the master.

"Crush!"

"Crush!"

"What the hell?" Gildarts eyes widened as a copy of him yelled the exact same spell.

Lucy smirked at the s-class mages shocked face. She knew using Gemini to attack him with his own magic would throw him off. She took advantage of Gildarts surprise and did her own attack.

"Celestial Hellfire punch!"

"Guess taking it easy was never an option." Gildarts chuckled as he broke Lucy's magic up much to the wizard saints dismay.

"Yup, we're going all out 'arts." Lucy grinned devilishly.

"Aright then let's go! All Crush!"

"Hahahahaha, alright this is fun!" Lucy yelled, using her flames to counteract Gildarts magic.

"Now, Scorpio!" Lucy yelled.

"We are! Sand blast!"

Gildarts quickly shut his eyes blocking the oncoming sand, however that proved to be his downfall as a powerful punch sent him flying back.

"Nice one Loke!"

"Anytime princess." Loke smiled, appearing beside Scorpio.

"Damn, I guess it's true what they say about your spirits being just as powerful as you." Gildarts chuckled. "But how about we make this fight just between the two of us."

Lucy grinned at the mage before her, releasing an immense amount of magic pressure that instantly made Gildarts regret his words.

"Heh, well if that's how you feel then, sorry guys guess I'll be continuing this without you." Lucy chuckled.

Loke smirked at the blonde before disappearing, Scorpio fist pumped his master following Loke close by.

"We are! Take em' down Lucy!"

"Damn, even Gildarts is having a hard time against Lucy." Gray said, shocked.

"Of course he is, Lucy didn't earn her title for nothing." Levy explained. "Her strength outweighs all of ours."

"Woo, go Lucy!" Natsu cheered, alongside Happy.

"Oh my, these two sure are making a mess." Mira tsked.

"Lightning Celestial Demon Fire Rage!" Scorching flames slowly engulfed her body with lightning imbued. Once she felt charged up enough, she then slammed her arms together releasing a swirl of golden flames, a giant heat wave shooting across those watching, straight towards Gildarts, combined with her flames was a flurry of lightning. The speed at which it was released was almost too fast for the S-class mage. Almost.

"Crushing Evil, Empyrean!" Gildarts yelled, eyes widening when he got pushed back by the force of the spell. He had countered it, and yet still felt the aftershock of that amount of power. This girl was truly a demon.

Lucy smiled widely at the sight of her spell getting negated. Only getting happier as she got tossed back through the guild and landing roughly atop the bar counter.

"That actually hurt. THAT ACTUALLY HURT!" Lucy cheered.

"Is Lucy actually happy that she got hurt from Gildarts attack?" Cana asked.

"Yes?" Mira answered hesitantly.

"I SAID DAMAGE TO A MINIMUM YOU BRATS!" Master yelled.

"Princess has only ever been truly challenged by the other Gods of Ishgar and that dragon man. She enjoys fighting strong people because then it helps her become stronger." Virgo said after popping up and scaring everyone.

"But…didn't she face like crazy strong guilds in Alvarez?" Gray asked.

"Yes, and she did struggle, but those struggles helped her grow and become stronger. Eventually she never felt as if she was being truly challenged." Loke sighed. "Not even with Jellal did she ever think of him as a challenge. Gildarts though, his magic is interesting." Loke explained.

Erza couldn't help but interrupt Loke, "Wait...Lucy didn't see Jellal as a struggle? But she had to use her second origin just to beat him."

"Oh, that was only because she had to use her celestial shield to protect the tower from getting hit by the Etherion." Loke said nonchalantly. "Lucy has been through far worse than Jellal, in all honesty."

"Dumb brat likes to drag out fights when she doesn't need too." Aquarius growls.

"Indeed, but it makes sense Gildarts being able to somewhat keep up with Miss Lucy. His magic levels may even surpass your guild master." Capricorn said smiling at his master look so happy while fighting.

Those listening in, faces dropped at the spirits words.

By now Lucy was feeling a rush from how fun this fight was, despite numerous hits being made neither side seemed to want to give up and that only made Lucy even happier about asking for this fight. No one ever lasted this long in a fight against her.

However, Gildarts was another story, keeping up with the Ishgar Demon was quite tiresome. He had to admit this girl was proving to be a challenge.

"This has been fun 'Arts but I'm hungry now so let's finish this." Lucy grinned.

"I agree, I wanna beer so let's end it and see who's really the strongest one." Gildarts chuckled.

"Heavens Celestial-

"Crushing Evil-"

"Flaming Purgatory!" Lucy roared.

"Absolute Heaven!" Gildarts yelled.

"Boom!" The guild members looked around at the devastation that was supposed to be the training grounds but was now just a giant hole made by Gildarts and Lucy.

"Lucy! Gildarts, damnit!" Master yelled. "Where are you?!"

Lucy popped up from the hole she was in smiling, the only sign she was injured was the soot on her face. She had to admit that fight was extremely fun.

"Over here old man! But I got no idea where's Arts is."

"He's over here!" Cana yelled trying to wake up the unconscious man hanging upside down from a nearby tree.

"He's still alive so that's good." Wendy smiled, as she slowly healed him.

"Woo, that was a fun fight! He almost had me there!" Lucy cheered, high fiving her spirits who could only chuckle at their idiot master.

Erza, Gray and a few others turned to see Lucy smiling, shock seen on their face at the fact Gildarts was close to taking Lucy down. Then again, she wasn't utilizing her spirits.

The rest of the guild could only gawk at their ruined training grounds and new window in the back of the guild.

"Alright then, food time!" Lucy yelled, heading for the now ruined bar. "Oh, and Loke make a note we gotta train more."

"You got it princess." Loke said before disappearing to write up a new training regime with Capricorn.

Mira felt a tick mark appear on her forehead as the dense blonde sat on a broken seat awaiting her food.

Everyone bravely backed up as Mira transformed to her demon form and within seconds was shooting a black sphere at Lucy.

"Soul Extinctor."

Lucy, dense as she was could still sense the demonic energy heading her way at a high rate of speed and to stop it, she simply turned around sucking it all up. Once she had finished eating the entire beam coming at her she turned to Mira smiling at the take-over mage.

"Man, thanks a lot for that Mira! That was delicious! I don't even need anything else to eat now. Yeah, ya know what I'm just take a nap." Lucy said yawning. She then headed for the back of the guild where she plopped her body on a table to sleep.

"What, what just happened?" Mira asked.

"You forgot Lucy was a demon slayer and eats your type of magic for breakfast. Literally." Gray deadpanned.

"And now Lucy is taking a nap", Levy sighed, doing a double take when she sees Erza trying to escape the blondes grasp.

"How the hell did I end up in her arms?!" Erza yelled.

A few hours later, and Gemi-Ultear offering up their assistance to fix the guild, everything had pretty much gone back to normal. Lucy had even woken up from her nap and released Erza, who had given up trying to escape and was instead sitting on Lucy's lap while eating her tenth slice of cheesecake, on the dumb demon's tab.

Erza as usual had told Lucy not to look to into it, before going back to eating.

"Man isn't it a crazy coindent that Windy's dragon and Natsu's dragon disappeared on The 7th of July, year X777?" Lucy said.

"Oi, don't forget my dragon disappeared then too!" Gajeel growled.

"Who are you again?" Lucy asked.

"I hate you."

"Getting back on track- "

"When were we off, mate?" Lucy asked, tightening her hold on Erza. "Wait no, when were we on a track?"

"I will allow one sleep over if you stay quiet for more than five minutes and release me from your grasp" Erza bargained.

"Done!" Lucy smiled, zipping her mouth closed, leaving her mate to get something to eat. In a flash Mira was serving the girl a huge plate of fire meat alongside a beer.

"Anyways, it truly does seem like a coindent that everyone's' drag-damn it Lucy now you have me saying coindent!"

Lucy turned to Erza with a goofy smile on her face, and greasy meat smothered all over her face. She shot her a quick thumbs up in approval at her mate's vocabulary use before going back to eating so as not to break her silent vow.

"You see, she just used another word which she still doesn't understand isn't real, so if you'd please teach her it's coincidence and not coindent." Aquarius explained, while offering up a wad of jewels to Levy. "We'd be in your debt."

The smaller girl was excited/hesitant to take on the burden.

"Look, it just seems a bit weird that everyone's dragons disappeared on that day, and year. Not to mention Lucy met a demon around the same time. Somethings not adding up?" Gray said.

Wendy nodded shyly. "Things, um, things do seem to be a little weird when you say it like that I guess."

"What are you talking about? Me and Luce meeting up was just random. Facts, he even said he was passing through to go destroy some messed up guild tryna revive demons from paper or was it a pamphlet?" Lucy tried remembering.

Gray, Erza and Wendy stared at the blonde in shock to hear of such news. A guild trying to revive demons overall was scary.

"Did you know about the pamphlet?" Loke asked.

"Oh my god, it was a book, not a pamphlet!" Aquarius screamed, rubbing her temples to rid herself of her oncoming headache. "And yeah, but the damn demon put that quest on hold when he found the brat over there." Pointing to Lucy who was challenging Cana to a drinking contest.

"To be honest when I asked when we were gonna go after that guild since that seemed like something up his and Lucy's alley, all he said was "in due time"." Aquarius said cryptically. She still didn't understand what he meant by those words and wasn't sure if she ever would.

In time, as Lucifer said, she would.

"Charle!" Happy ran over with a fish wrapped in a ribbon. "This is a fish I caught. I thought I could give it to you, Charle."

Charle turned her nose up at him. "I don't want it. I don't like fish."

"Oh?" Happy kept trying. "Then what do you like? Next time I'll-"

"Shut up!" Charle shouted. "Just stay away from me!" She ordered Happy, jumping off the table and walking away.

"Charle!" Wendy shouted after her. "Don't you think you're being too mean?"

Happy... yeah, right. Charle grit her teeth. He's completely clueless...

"Charle!" Happy ran after her. "Wait!"

"Damn, see that's why Charles's still single. She's so eh." Lucy bragged. "Me, on the other hand, I accept anyone because I don't dis-descry-I like everyone." Lucy smiled.

Erza rubbed her face tiredly. "Dumb demon."

"Mate!" Lucy saluted.

Wendy sighed. "I wonder why Charles's so cold to him..."

"Charle!" Happy wailed. "Charle!"

"What do you want?" Charle scowled. "I told you to stay away from me, didn't I?"

"Did..." Happy looked down. "Did I do something wrong?"

"That's not it at all." Charle told him. "You can't protect Natsu."

"Eh?"

"I protect Wendy." Charle turned away from him. "I will protect her no matter what."

"I... I can protect Natsu too!" Happy shouted after her. "Natsu said I'm his ally!"

"You can't." Charle countered, as clouds began to gather over Magnolia. "You don't even know what you are, cat."

Know what... I am? Puzzled, Happy turned away and noticed Gajeel walking out of an alleyway, covered in thought, he couldn't understand what Charle was trying to say.

"I finally found you, Charle!" Wendy sounded relieved.

"Wendy..." Charle sighed. "It's pouring. You'll catch a cold if you don't use an umbrella."

"Same goes for you, Charle." Wendy shot back, crouching down in front of the Exceed. "We just entered this guild, Charle. I really think you should try to get along better with everyone."

"No need for that." Charle declared. "As long as you're here, I don't need anyone else."

"Lucy wouldn't like you saying that ya know." Loke smirked, appearing next to Wendy. He had promised his princess that he would keep an eye on the little bluenette while she tried and failed to flirt with her mate.

Wendy puffed up her cheeks in indignation. "See! We have Lucy now! And everyone else, you don't have to keep saying that."

Both girls and Loke turned when they sensed someone approaching. Wendy looked up at the cloaked and masked staff-carrying man apprehensively. "Who are you?"

"Wendy." The man muttered.

"Mystogan?" Loke mumbled.

"Eh?" Wendy frowned. "That voice..."

"To think you'd come to this guild..." The man pulled off the cloth covering his hair and face.

"Jellal?" Wendy sounded confused. "I thought you left for your journey two days ago."

Jellal's eyes widened in shock. "The other me was here? In Fairy Tail? I never saw that coming. Especially with his connections with Lucy's mate."

"Other you?" Charle repeated incredulously. "I know you aren't really Jellal, so why do you look like him? Does he really have a twin brother?"

"I am Fairy Tail's Mystogan." The man announced. "Seven years ago, knowing little of this world, I introduced myself to you as Jellal."

"Eh?"

"T-this world?"

Wendy gasped. "Y-you mean... you're the Jellal from seven years ago? I've been waiting so long... to see you again."

"I'm sorry I couldn't have shown myself to you sooner." Mystogan sighed. "However, this is not the time to be rejoicing... we must leave this town at once."

He grunted, falling to one knee in pain. "I failed my mission... the Anima has grown too big..."

Loke jumped to Mystogan's side, "Mystogan what the hell are you going on about?! Why do we need to leave the town?"

Clouds above them began to swirl.

"I can no longer suppress it with my power..." Mystogan added. "Magnolia will shortly disappear."

"W-what do you mean?" Wendy paled. "I don't understand..."

"Princess!" Loke shouted, unsure whether he should go to the guild and check on her or stay with Wendy.

"It's going to end..." Mystogan grit his teeth. "That has already been decided. At the very least I'd like to save you..."

"What about Fairy Tail?" Wendy shouted. "What about Lucy and the rest of the guild?"

Mystogan sighed. "Unfortunately, they're all going to die."

Wendy and Loke stared at him for a moment, before running off. Or at least one of them did. Wendy was scooped into Loke's arms as he ran to the guild to make sure his master was alright. He knew he could just summon himself there, but Lucy would never forgive him if he left Wendy behind.

"Wait Loke! Where are you taking Wendy?!"

"Back to the guild! We have to tell everyone!" Loke yelled.

"You cannot go!" Mystogan shouted after them. "At the very least, I can take Wendy out of the town with me!"

"Me surviving alone?" Wendy repeated in disbelief. "Not happening. I am a part of Fairy Tail now!"

Loke only pushed faster towards the guild, Mystogan's words causing worry about his master's fate.

Cana grinned. "There's nothing better than a date with a boyfriend on rainy days like this one." She observed happily, hugging a large barrel of beer.

"Nothing better than a date with your mate!" Lucy bragged, tossing an arm around Erza. The knight rolled her eyes at the blondes' words, but otherwise did nothing else.

"Aww a double date, how sweet." Mira laughed.

"Don't encourage the fool." Erza sighed.

"Huh?" Cana turned to the other woman, who was putting on a jacket. "Where are you off to in this weather, Mira?"

"Just to the church." Mira told her. "Elfman, I'll be off now!"

"If you're real men, you have to get stronger! You think you can protect Levy the way you are now?" Elfman scolded Jet and Droy. "You ended up wasting so much time that Levy had to clean things up by herself! C'mon, you tell them too, Nee-chan. These guys just keep screwing up!"

Mira smiled. "Don't worry, guys, I think you're doing your best!"

"Mira-chan!" Jet and Droy burst into happy tears.

Gray sighed. "Can't you eat it any better?"

"Sorry..." Juvia muttered, trying to unstick her hands. "This is Juvia's first time eating this..."

"This is how you eat caramel franks." Gray told her, opening his mouth wide and taking a big bite of his sandwich.

"Like this?" Juvia asked thickly, trying to copy him.

"It's not something that's meant to be eaten politely." Gray explained.

"But..." Juvia blushed. "Juvia doesn't think it's a good idea to take her clothes off..."

"Nah Gray's got the right idea." Lucy said shocking the guild at the sight of her half naked. The only thing covering her breast being wraps.

"Dumb demon, stop making a mess everywhere and put a shirt on!" Erza shouted, while blushing a deep red.

"But this food is messy!" Lucy shouted back, not at all ashamed of how she was presenting herself.

Alzack and Bisca watched the scene in shock. Erza was trying to shove a shirt on Lucy while the latter tried shoving her off.

How can I get him to be more proactive like that?

Someday, I'll get Bisca to...

They made eye contact and promptly stiffened.

"You two should just mate already. If Lucifer were here, he'd say you two are being dumb waiting." Lucy said popping up away from Erza, caramel dripping down her face and hands. The two mages turned two each other bright red turning back away.

"Cla-classic Lucy. Am I right?"

"Y... yeah..."

"You two seem to be getting along well." Erza observed, going back to trying to shove a shirt on Lucy and failing. "Treasure those moments. It'll help you avoid regret and lost chances." She advised them.

"You should take your own advice." Gray snorted, watching the hilarious scene before him.

Erza turned her head to Gray glaring, who quickly went back to eating his food alongside Juvia. "What was that Gray?"

Before he could answer Lucy was tossing her sticky body atop Erza whining.

"I'm bored babe..." Lucy whined. "let's go mate to pass the time."

"For the last time, no." Erza sighed, trying to adjust how the hot mage was lying atop her. "And clean yourself up, you're all sticky!"

"Ion wanna get up mate." Lucy whined.

"For mavis sake." Erza sighed, requipping a rag she began the tedious task of washing Lucy's face free of caramel. She then continued to her arms and toned stomach and-

"Mate…I'm clean now." Lucy said, confused to why Erza had been rubbing the wet rag on her stomach for the past five minutes.

Erza jumped back once she zoned back in, face dark red. "Err, yes apologies. Um, stay clean now!"

Loke pushed himself to his limits, his grasp on Wendy tightening so as not to drop the smaller girl. They were near the guild hall now, both breathing a sigh of relief when they saw the building was still intact, however Loke refused to slow down and continued to sprint to the hall doors. Both mages eyes widened when at closer glance they noticed the clouds above them forming a vortex above the city.

"Shit! Wendy stay here!" Loke yelled, before disappearing. He could wait no longer on warning his master of what was to come. However, little did he know his arrival time would be too late.

Wendy continued to run from where Loke left her, in hopes of reaching her friends.

"Everyone!" She cried out as she approached the guild building's gate. "We're in big trouble! The sky-"

She froze in shock when the guild hall and the surrounding buildings warped and dissipated into light, vanishing right before her eyes.

"W-what is this?" She screamed. "Everyone!"

Loke appeared right before his master ready to alert her of the impending danger before he was suddenly whisked away back to the spirit world.

"Princess!"

Lucy turned to where she heard her name being called before she as well as the rest of the guild disappeared into thin air.

The light cleared and the vortex faded, revealing Wendy surrounded by a flat, barren landscape.

"N-no way..." She looked around in fear. "I-it's all gone. The guild, the town... everything." She glanced at the shimmering ground in disbelief. "What happened?" She shouted out. "Is anyone here?"

"Someone, anyone... Lucy!" She fell to the ground and burst into tears. "The town and the guild, everything disappeared... why am I the only one left behind again?"

Natsu burst out of the soil nearby. "W-what the... what happened?"

"Natsu!" Wendy ran over to him.

"Wendy..." Natsu looked around. "Where are we?"

I'm not the only one left. But where's Lucy? Wendy trembled. "You don't remember anything?"

"Well, I was asleep..." The boy mused.

"We... this is... where the guild was." Wendy choked out.

"What?"

"A hole in the sky opened and swallowed up everyone, including the town and the guild." Wendy sobbed. "We're the only ones left."

Natsu frowned and examined her closely. "Did you hit your head somewhere, Wendy?"

"I'm serious!" Wendy protested, before realizing something. "Wait... could it be that only Dragon Slayers were left behind?"

"Then where's Luce?! She's a slayer too, even if she's not a dragon one." Natsu asked.

"I... I don't know?" Wendy stuttered, on the verge of tears at not seeing her best friend.

"I'm surprised the dense fool didn't survive." Charle cut in, hovering about a meter off the ground.

"Charle!" Wendy smiled. "You're all right!"

"I suppose." The Exceed mused. "It seems the inherent magic of Dragon Slayers helped you two out. But that doesn't explain why Lucy isn't hear, nor Gajeel."

"That's unforgivable! What about the others... wait..." Natsu's jaw dropped? "You mean they really did disappear?"

"They did." Charle nodded. "To be accurate, they were swallowed up and erased by the Anima."

"Anima?" Wendy whispered, confused.

"That hole in the sky was the gate to the world on the other side, Edolas." Charle clarified.

"What are you going on about?" Natsu roared. "Where is everyone?"

"Natsu!" Wendy held him back. "Do you know something about this, Charle?"

"Natsu!" Happy interrupted, flying up to them. "What is this? Where's the town?"

"I came from Edolas, the world on the other side." Charle revealed to them. "So did the he-cat."

"W-what do you mean?" Wendy stammered.

"He and I..." Charle sighed and lowered her head. "Are the reason this town disappeared."

"Edolas is a world separate from this one." She explained. "Right now, it's starting to lose its' magic."

Wendy frowned. "Losing its' magic?"

"Unlike in this world, in Edolas, magic is limited." Charle told them. "If it keeps being used, the world itself will someday disappear. In order to save the limited magic supply, the king of Edolas developed a spell to absorb magic from another world, namely this one." Charle pointed up. "That spell is the hyper-dimensional space magic, Anima. It's that hole that just appeared in the sky."

"This plan, which started six years ago, involved opening Anima in various places around the world. However, it didn't yield the results they were hoping for." Charle continued. "Someone with knowledge of this went around closing the Anima from this side."

"However, the Anima this time was simply too large." Charle sighed. "Without any sort of defense, Fairy Tail was swallowed easily."

"Why did they absorb Fairy Tail?" Natsu asked angrily.

"I already told you, didn't I?" Charle glanced at him in exasperation. "To provide Edolas with more magic."

"There are tons of powerful mages in Fairy Tail!" Wendy shouted in realization. "Is that why they targeted us?"

Charle nodded. "Exactly."

"How selfish can you bastards be?" Natsu shook his fist at the Anima. "Give everyone back, dammit!"

"And..." Happy looked confused. "That's mine and Charles's fault?"

"In a way." Charle told him. "We received a different mission from the kingdom of Edolas and were sent to this world..."

"That can't be!" Wendy protested. "You were born from an egg! In this world, not there!"

"Happy was too!" Natsu added. "I found him myself!"

"I've never been to Edolas. Like Wendy said, I was born and raised in this world." Charle sighed. "However, the knowledge about Edolas and our mission was placed in our brains. We should have both been aware of everything from the moment we were born!" Charle pointed at Happy furiously. "And yet, how can you somehow know nothing?"

"Uh..."

Charle spun away from his in disgust. "Anyway, that's how things are. Since we're beings from Edolas, this situation is our fault."

"Didn't you mention something about a different mission, Charle?" Wendy recalled.

"I can't say what it is." Charle announced.

"Tell me, Charle." Happy pleaded. "I want to know what I am."

"I just said I can't tell you anything about that!" Charle shouted at him. "Remember your place!"

"Alright, Alright. Look, now that we've talked about this, what say we head out to this Edolas place already?" Natsu grinned in anticipation. "Everyone's over there, right? Then we've gotta go save them."

"I guess." Charle crossed her arms. "I think they're there, but I don't know if they can be saved, or if we'll even be able to come back here."

Natsu had a counter for that. "If Lucy and the rest of my friends aren't here, then there's nothing tying me to this place, is there?"

"Yeah, I don't want to be where Lucy isn't!" Wendy nodded.

Happy teared up. "We can save everyone, right?"

"I'm also technically a member of Fairy Tail..." Charle sighed. "I'll feel guilty knowing this happened because of my homeland. Besides, it's not like I can't take you there..." She looked them over thoughtfully. "Fine. But let's lay down some rules before we go.

Natsu saluted. "Gotcha."

Wendy nodded. "Understood."

After explaining what was to be done and how things were to be followed the exceeds and dragon slayers were on their way.

"Alright then, Let's go." Charle commanded, sprouting wings and grabbing Wendy. "He-cat, grab Natsu and hold on tightly!"

"Are we gonna fly?"

"Our wings are meant to let us return to Edolas." Charle explained.

"Let's go, Happy!" Natsu grinned. "This is your homeland!"

"We're going to enter Edolas through the Anima!" Charle shouted. "Our wings will help us break through!"

"Khaaah!" Erza gasped, bursting out of Horologium with Lucy following her. "What just happened?!"

"Yo Horologium, why'd you pack me and ma mate in ya? Oh, did you want to help speed up our mating process so you were trying to get us in the same place so we would-

"I felt a disturbance in the balance of space-time." The clock explained, cutting off his dense but adorable master. "I decided that shielding you two from it was the best course of action. It helped that you were already holding onto Miss Scarlet."

"Oh…disturbance?" Lucy asked.

Erza looked around, immediately gasping at the sight before her. "What in the Earthland happened to the guild?"

Lucy narrowed her eyes and rubbed her chin. "I wonder if-."

"Don't speak if you wanna keep courting me dumb demon."

"Roger!" A shirtless Lucy said smiling.

Within seconds a bright light appeared before Lucy hugging the mage tightly. "Princess!" Loke cried. "I-I thought I lost you."

"Loke…you know it'll take more than a weird dimensional thingy to take me out." Lucy said sincerely.

"I know, I know but still I would never forgive myself if anything happened to you princess." He whispered, then looking at her state, gave her his jacket to put on underneath her cloak. Erza all the while watched on in silence. Slightly shocked at how much Lucy's spirits cared for her.

"Lucy. Erza, allow me to explain what has happened." Mystogan walked up to them and pointed up. "Magnolia and Fairy Tail have been absorbed by the Anima you see above us."

"Yo! Mystogan where'd you come from?" Lucy said oblivious to the matter at hand.

Erza scowled. "That swirling vortex is the Anima?"

"I don't see an animal?" Lucy said confused, trying to see in the sky what animal the two were talking about.

"No Lucy, anima." Mystogan explained. "On the other side of that is my home world and the place responsible for this mess, the world of Edolas."

Lucy's eyes lit up. "No shit!?"

"Err, yes...shit." Mystogan sighed, handing both girls a medicine-like pill. "Eat those. They will allow you to use magic freely there. You would be helpless otherwise."

Lucy grabbed the pill and swallowed it without hesitation. Erza seeing that nothing was happening to the blonde did the same.

"And now, I'll send you through the Anima to Edolas." Mystogan reached for a staff and the two girls began to hover and glow slightly. "Expect a few fellow members to help you out over there."

"You got it man." Lucy smiled toothily to him. "You can count on me and my mate."

"Not your, oh whatever." Erza sighed. "What the dumb demon said."

"I know." Mystogan smiled. "If anyone can do this, it's the Ishgar Demon."

"I'll meet you over there, princess." Loke said smiling, vanishing back to the spirit world, happy to relay to the other spirits their master was alright.

The Anima closed a few minutes after they shot through. Unnoticed by them a fellow metal eating dragon slayer had barely made it through the hole just behind them, courtesy of Mystogan.

Authors note: Look at that another update so soon. Hopefully you guys like this. Alot of people wanted a gildarts vs Lucy fight and I hope I satisfied them. Next chapter won't be up for awhile bc I need to work on Power: Origin story. However please remember to like comment and follow. Thanks everyone.