SoI want to apologize first for how long this is taken so originally I actually when I watched the first two episodes I was thinking like easy, then aw f*** this is going to be a lot harder to rewrite it with Laxus being here.

so I rewrote this episode so many f****** times before I finally got somewhere where I actually liked it and I actually approved of it. I hope you enjoy it!

My beta seemed to like it. I proof read it myself so if it's fucked Grammar wise I'm sorry XD

Now question. Would y'all like the deleted parts I didn't use maybe uploaded to Fun LaLu shots?

Another thing. I should probably change the description on this story shouldn't I? This is no longer a drabble and has more than just hints of LaLu now xD also will be going back and updating with chapter names! They will follow the episodes names!

So many things I want to say! So first with the favorites and follows!

BluFaia, nyx-seshi, Chat'r Box, Mixie18,

germanfangirl, RavenAthos, Dance2704,

cherrilocks, DarkAndromeda06, laelalu,

smexyducky (by the way LOVE that name! It makes me giggle when I see your notifications on my phone!) issydragonheart, mimililla, Jaz-147,

Serenity1985, dewt, bananen, xDollfie

For the favorites and follows!

And finally! I have one more special thank you, I'm blasting this person first.. But in a good way!

SugrSkulzAndCurlz: I saw this made it on your favorite list! So thank you. I'm freak who pays attention to these things, thank you. As for your review! I'm so glad you liked the chapter! I'm sorry I made your heart hurt:( it was necessary but I didn't want Lucy being a bitch so the fact that most of y'all took it well was a relief! We gotta pull Laxus's head out of his ass slowly and this arc will start it off!

Smexyducky: your name makes me laugh! Love it! Thank you! I'm glad you love it!

Tory72: I wish I could make Laxus a knight in shining Armor but he's a grumpy dragon that needs to be molded a bit like a lump of clay. Which is why I like him so much. I didn't feel right making them be a couple right off the bat I felt like really realistically laxus needs to mature a bit and so does Lucy she is 17 even if she is mature for 17 year old. I did not have my bills together at 17 and wasn't ready to live on my own at that age. So I'm going to give her maturity points there. Lol the dragon is sad, and Laxus is sad, Lucy is sad. Everyone tell Laxus to get his shit together so they all can be happy am I right? Lol thank you for your reviews!

Starless Knights: when I got your view I had to keep myself from PMing you! Lol did you break into my Google docs did you see my six different drafts. You read that right! Six different drafts! He is going to question this. If this is not obvious I made it a mating story lol but he's going to go through it. As for the rest of your review….stop hacking into my Google docs!

Germanfangirl: okay first off I saw your review for fun lalu shots over the deleted chapter and I had to die. It was so perfect! I'm glad you found the story! I'm glad you love it! Thank you. I was in tears over your review!

DarkRain4Eternity: thank you for all your reviews! You always catch my Easter eggs or references! Lol your review helped me feel better about the chapter. I do plan on Laxus mellowing out! Just be patient with me!

Nr1NickiferTrash: lmao is it bad your username makes me smile and chuckle? Lol your review made me smile! I knew I had some silent stalkers! Y'all come out now! Jk your first comment? I feel honored! So, I actually agonized over how I wanted Lucy to respond to Laxus when she turned him down because I was trying to leave it open-ended in a way that Lucy likes him but she's just not sure again. I really wanted it to be perfect! Lol so I'm glad it went over well. You'll have to let me know how I did with episode 1 of the Phantom Lord Arc! I'm changing things up slightly. While hopefully staying in character with a cocky Laxus and sassy but sweet Lucy.

Alicia: review left me confused it was midnight my time when I got your email and I was trying to figure out if your review was a good thing or not! Get some sleep girl!

AyumuMatsuoXIII: his innner dragon told him but will he listen? Lol If the inner dragon could smack him he would lol we'll have to whip Laxus. Y'all get the whips ready! I'm sorry if I kept you waiting! And I'm glad I could melt your heart❤️

Lauradreyar03: lmao you were my only hate mail so I guess I did good! I'm going to have to up my game on these things! Don't hit me on this ending!

LullabyLovely: thank you! I'm glad you didn't hate me or this chapter! I got your review after I got three nasty reviews from a guest account that called me nasty things...I don't think I need to go any further you probably know who that person was… Your review that day made me feel better so thank you ❤️

Now speaking of which I think now is a good time to bring up another point. I get you might not like my story or my writing. I'm not the most popular writer on here. It's ok. But I got some nasty reviews I was virgin, a troll, a dumb ass, and other things.

These guest reviews said three things (now this could be different people, but I think it was one person just spamming) I'll give benefit of the doubt.

I don't mind constructive criticism first of all. Don't make me cry and call me a dumb hoe lol like honestly not necessary.

This person said Im so glad this abusive ship will never be canon.

Let me address this: my intentions aren't to make this couple or story abusive. Will they both have toxic moments probably. Laxus needs to grow up and so does Lucy. Laxus being the main one. in a relationship you can't force someone to change. I'm not going to be making Lucy trying to change Laxus nor will I have laxus trying to change her. Will they both have this drive to be better for one another yes and I hope that comes across to y'all. My beta will be checking me too. Abuse is no and I'm not writing that. It's going to be like Gajeel changing and Levy type thing. But I'm not making everyone wait that long! So yeah I hope this makes sense.

Secondly, the next review said Lucy is not Gray and Natsu's baby sitter. She needs the baby sitter.

No, no, and no. They are 17 years old all of them they don't need to have babysitters. If anyone has doubts or questions about this. I hope it makes sense when I say this then, I will be writing Gray, Natsu, and Erza to be punch first ask questions later. While Lucy being question first punch later. I plan on making her grow. While I will be following the episodes I'm not going to have Gray and Natsu be her baby sitters. And I'm not going to have her be their baby sitters. Mira even said it in one episode that she wanted Lucy to go along with them so that they didn't destroy things too much, it was Fairys in the Wind I believe, and so she can gain experience. I'm following that too to a point but again they're not babysitters of one another. I hope this makes sense. Cause I don't feel like I am.

Third, this was over who was more powerful, now this was on my deleted chapter. But I'll address it here too, laxus and Natsu whose more powerful. And who was more destructive.

Natsu is powerful. I get it. We love Natsu. I love Natsu. I'm a total Laxus fan girl. At this stage though, yeah I'm going to make Laxus more powerful will I change that down the line. Idk. But right now Laxus will be more powerful but I'm not making Natsu a slouch either.

Finally, as controversial as he is, Dr. Phil has some times good advice. And in particular he had good advice on haters. Don't engage them.

I'm not engaging haters. I'll review criticism and look at it from all sides. But if it's deemed hateful I'm not answering it and I'll be moderating guest reviews from now on and I've blocked this particular person who has been known to just be hateful on my fics. I don't write for the haters I write and share my stuff and my zany ideas for the people who actually want to read my stuff. I hope that makes sense.

I hate that I had to say this.

Now another thing, I want cover image for the story! If you have ideas for it send it to me! Maybe?

My Instagram is graystripemkc let me know you follow the story or something? You know. Or you can PM on here IDC maybe leave a comment on ideas of what you think would be a cool image to cover this story?

Before I get on with the chapter I was blown away by the reviews! One particular reviewer who was a guest known as Lea your review will be answered at the bottom! Don't cheat! Read the chapter first if you came back! :D

I need validations they help me get through my 10 hour work day!

Part one of Madaleine's Zany Phantom Lord arc is about to start!

Action!

In the distance bells could be heard in Magnolia. Natsu was laughing, "that was a great job!"

"Well the client was really nice! And generous!" Happy said dollar signs in his eyes.

Lucy chuckled silently as Gray and Erza followed behind her. She was holding Plue close.

"And you have me to thank for making such quick work of it too." Gray said, hands in his pockets. "You're lucky I decided to come along."

Natsu stiffened. "We're lucky?" He said hands on his hips. "Lucky what? Lucky you begged to come along? How do you figure?"

Gray scoffed. "You were as helpful as one of Erza's suitcases!"

Gray and Natsu butted heads. "YOU BETTER WATCH IT PAL OR I'LL PACK YOU LIKE A SUITCASE!"

Gray glared. "That doesn't even make any sense!" He said slowly.

Erza wedged herself between them. "That's enough boys! Now please get dressed Gray." She said, noticing he was just in his underwear again.

Gray screamed. Natsu covered his ears. "For crying out loud! Why does this always happen to me!" He looked down at his forgotten clothes.

"You know Gray, just some advice! Never get into a fight in your underwear!"

Lucy bit her lip. She was thinking about everything. "Hey. I'm sorry to interrupt, but.."

Natsu looked at Lucy. "What's up?"

"Well it's just that... I had originally planned to do this job by myself…"

She had planned to get more experience, not be a weakling depending on her team….and to get away from...well he had already gotten away. She sighed. She thought about Laxus. He stormed out when she said no…. apparently he had taken a mission that asked for him specifically, that paperwork training would have to wait….

She hung her head, she wanted to talk to the mage, explain how she felt. But how did she really feel? The mission was supposed to allow her to think about that and get some experience but Natsu and the others just kinda butted in….

"Why did you all have to come along?" She asked nervously.

Natsu looked at her like she was dumb. "Isn't it obvious?"

"No...not really." She said.

He smiled brightly at the celestial mage. "It's cause we're the strongest team in Fairy Tail! So we gotta stick together!"

"Aye sir!" Happy said smiling, he liked Lucy. He made fun of her, but he liked her.

"Yeah! And don't you forget it!" Gray said with a gentle smile.

Erza made what sounded like a laugh and a confirmation noise.

Lucy blushed, "hell yeah we are!" She laughed. "But just for future reference, I wanna take SOME solo missions!"

"We'll consider that," Erza dismissed. Lucy sighed at the woman's antics.

"Besides! No job is too tough between me, Happy, Erza, and Underwear, we can pull off any job!"

Gray glared at Natsu, "don't call me that!"

Erza smiled. "We are a capable bunch aren't we?"

"Aye!" Happy said.

Lucy looked distressed. "Do I count? Did you forget about me? Look I know I'm behind in maging experience!"

Natsu laughed. "Lupey calm down! I was joking and what do you mean you're behind?"

Lucy blushed. "My name isn't Lupey! It's just I didn't get you were joking sorry-"

"Please forgive me! I let myself get carried away! I truly didn't mean to upset you. I will never feel at ease until we make amends. It won't happen AGAIN! If you would like, you may strike me."

"Wow. You're intense. Besides I don't think it's in my best interest to hit you."

"Smart move." Natsu and Gray said.

"I guess I'm just going to have to get used to teasing. I'm not used to it where I'm from."

"Really?" Gray asked, surprised.

Lucy looked down."No." She thought about it, Monte and Lori were probably the only people who "teased" her. As an heiress, no one ever teased her.

"Well you're going to have to get used to us teasing you!" Gray smiled.

Lucy laughed. "Sounds good. Maybe just don't dead pan anything so I'll catch on?"

Gray smiled putting an arm around her. "You got it."

Happy was about to say something when he saw everyone staring at them. The town's people were whispering.

"Are those Fairy Tail Wizards?"

"They must not know yet."

"I feel bad for them."

Gray looked disturbed. "Why is everyone staring at us for some reason?"

"It's not the good kind of staring." Happy said flying in the air.

"It seems like pity." Erza said, confused.

That's when they looked up and they saw their Guild Hall. Their Guild Hall was pierced with iron rods, thick and bold as they jutted angrily into the sky.

"What?" Natsu said.

"The guildhall doesn't look right."

"No way." Gray said..

"What happened to it!" Erza demanded..

"Oh no-" Lucy said looking upwards. "I don't understand." She said hand over her mouth. She had chills.. deep to her bones. The wood chunks and splinters, she felt numb. She opened and closed her mouth. What had happened to her beloved new home?

The sun shined brilliantly down upon the iron that stuck out of the wooden structure. It made her sick to her stomach. Natsu in front of Lucy was losing it. "Our guild! Someone did this to our guild!" Natsu was shaking, he was filled with anger.

"But who would do such a thing." Erza asked, shocked.

"It was Phantom." Mira said from behind crying into her hand.

"Are you serious?" Gray asked, turning to look at the bar maid.

Natsu turned around angrily. "You mean Phantom Lord!?"

"It's frustrating to admit, but they got us good. There was nothing we could do to stop them, they got us after we had locked up for the night, they did it while we were sleeping."

Mira and the rest of Team Natsu walked down the steps leading to the guild's basement. The bright sunny blue skies betraying how the guild members felt. Team Natsu had grim faces as they walked down the stairs steps they looked at their Guild Mates who looked equally as sullen. While the basement is normally used as a storage room, it is now being used as a temporary pub. A safe haven for the mages to nurse their broken spirits.

"We've never been on the best terms with Phantom," Jet said. "But come on!"

Droy sat reclined in a chair, his hands behind his head. "Wanna go crush them?"

Levy looked grim, she shook her head. "Back off you guys, we're talking about Phantom here. We'll get in trouble if we go after Phantom and we definitely don't need that."

Lucy whined overhearing their conversation. She was alarmed when she saw Master drunk. "Yo!" He said waving his hand, his cheeks red. "Welcome back!"

"Uh hi Master." Lucy said, holding her hand to her face.

"Lucy! You'll be upset with me! The budget you balance it all went capuy!" He said swaying.

"Well Master, under these circumstances...I can understand why. I'm not upset…"

Natsu butted in pushing Lucy gently aside.

"Sorry we weren't here sooner!" Erza said crestfallen.

"Gramps! How can you be so carefree!" Natsu said, shaking his fist.

"How was it, Lucy? Did the job go well? You know….I haven't heard from Laxus. Have you?"

Lucy blinked. She hadn't heard from Laxus 'how was he handling all of this?'

"Lucy," Makarov slurred, "did you finish the job like a good girl?"

Lucy took a step back. "Yeah I did. Master-"

"You should contact Laxus. I hate the kid but I wonder how he's handling all this right now. This place is the only home he-" Master burped, "knows."

Lucy looked down. She doubted he wanted to talk to her.

"Master! Do you understand the current situation?" Erza asked, concerned by her Masters appearance and actions. His orange coat was rumpled. And his hat was barely on his head.

"The Guild Hall has been destroyed. Demolished. What are other adjectives that I can use to describe our Guild Hall at this point to make my point even clearer!" Natsu demanded.

Gray was at a loss. This wasn't like Makarov at all.

Makarov closed his eyes, his cheeks still a rosy pink, Mira shook her head from the side lines. "Now, now. Calm down. It's hardly worth fussing over."

He took a sip of his drink.

"What?" Gray was astonished.

"Just goes to show you how cowardly those mages are. Phantom, huh? Is that the best those fools can do?" He said not taking the cup from his lips. "Don't know what they're so happy about attacking an empty Guild like that."

"No one was here?" Erza's mind lept nimbly at that fact.

Mira was sullen, "they attacked after I closed up."

"I suppose that was good then, no one was hurt? I guess that's one thing to be thankful for."

"There's no point in fretting about people who can only do sneak attacks!" Makarov screamed. "Forget about them!"

The guild looked at the scene.

Natsu was fuming as he heard Makarov speak, he slammed his fist into a wall crushing it. "I can't agree with that! I won't feel satisfied until we've destroyed them!" Natsu's canines glittered in the low dimmed basement lights.

"I won't be discussing this anymore!" Makarov slurred. "We'll handle our job requests down here until things are fixed." He said gesturing to the board behind them that now held the job requests. The rest of the guildmates looked at Makarov disappointed.

"This is no time for work!" Natsu argued.

"Natsu! That's enough out of you!" Makarov stretched out his hand smacking Lucy's ass hard with a resounding pop! Mira and Lucy were annoyed as she held her butt. "And why did you slap my butt Master?"

Mira's cheeks were puffed in annoyance, "hands to yourself Master! Don't make me get angry, Master!" Her hands on her hips. Makarov laughed nervously as he jumped down from the table, his hands behind his back.

"GRAMPS!" NATSU FUMED! "Where are you going old man?"

"Keep your dress on I'm going to go take a leak!"

Team Natsu sighed deeply. "I don't understand how Gramps can be so calm about this!" Natsu complained.

"Natsu. The Master feels just as frustrated as you do. But the council forbids physical conflict between the guilds. So just because Phantom Lord started something we can't actually finish it." Mira said holding her hand close to her heart her blue eyes were filled with loss.

"But it's not fair! They started it! We should have every right to retaliate and in whichever way we want to and destroy their guild, eye-for-an-eye isn't that how the saying goes?"

Many Guild members nodded in silent approval.

Mira felt lost for words. "I know but that doesn't mean anything to the council!" Natsu was throwing a fit waving fists in the air. Happy, Gray and Lucy looked grim. "Just let me go after them!" Natsu screamed.

"If that is what the Master wants, then we must respect it." Erza replied.

Lucy was walking along the canal, her bag being rolled behind her. Plue walking silently behind her shaking. "Things are really getting intense around here."

"Pun."

A boat passed by, the two men in the boat smiled. "Hey! Girl! It's your fault if you fall in!"

Lucy smiled at the men they always chastised her about walking along the canal. "I'll be fine, thank you for your concern as always!" The men smiled and laughed. It was now nighttime, she looked up at the moon and the stars giving her some solace. "Phantom Lord is infamous for being on bad terms with Fairy Tail, huh?"

"Pun, pun."

Lucy laughed. "To be honest, I wasn't sure which one I wanted to join!"

Plue, made a surprise sounding pun.

"Yeah! I thought about joining them until I met up with Natsu. They're known for being just as crazy, after all!"

"Pun!"

"Right I don't regret our decision at all. I'm glad we joined this guild. Meeting Erza, Natsu, Gray," she laughed, "even Happy! But don't tell him that!" Her smile went away when a face popped into her head, she thought about Laxus. Her stomach flipped ever-so-slightly. "I'm even glad I met him." She mumbled silently. They now arrived at her place, she took out her keys ready to unlock her apartment.

"After all Fairy Tail is," she broke off as she opened the door. Her jaw dropped and she saw Erza, and Gray waving at her. Natsu looked sullen at the table.. to her surprise there was food laid out. They were also drinking her wine which she had saved for a special occasion. Happy was chewing on his fish getting scales all over her floor.

"Welcome back!" Gray said.

"Very nice place you have here." Erza said drinking from her cup.

"WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE!" She threw her suitcase at Natsu. It hit him straight in the face.

"Concerning Phantom, with the guild being attacked we can assume the fact they've come all the way to this city, we probably have several Phantom Lord members in this town." Erza explained.

"Probably means they know all our addresses too." Gray added.

Lucy's eyes widened. "Would they really do that? Wasn't destroying the guild enough?"

Grey shook his head. "Mira said it will be safer if we all stick together. You're one of the few girls who actually does not reside at the Fairy Hill's dormitory. So we offered to stick with you tonight. Strength in numbers idea."

"I guess she's right." Lucy mumbled.

Happy was excited. "Everyone is having a bunch of sleepovers now!"

Erza grabbed her cup, "you're a very attractive young woman, we were worried that some mage from Phantom Lord would break into your house and rape you or worse."

Lucy felt her brain panic at that. Her skin broke out in a cold sweat, her head hurt, she felt her heart racing, and she could smell of a very fine cognac and expensive cologne. Trying to calm herself down mentally, she took deep breaths.

"Hey Lucy, are you okay?" Gray asked, concerned noticing her sudden change. "Nothing like that is going to happen with me around." He said gently..

Erza nodded, "besides I would feel comfortable letting Natsu and Gray sleep here unattended. So, I decided to stay here as well. So you have me to protect you as well." Gray glared, that wasn't cool of her to say that but whatever.

Natsu was in a sour mood. "It's not time to relax," he whined.

"So," she said panicking. "So Natsu and Gray we're going to stay here and nobody asked me?" She felt helpless, it was always like this whenever she had-she shook her head. "I'm sorry guys. But just next time let me know so that I could be a part of this decision process."

She screamed when she saw Happy raiding her clothes. "Wow Lucy you sure do have a lot of clothes!"

"Happy get out of there!" She looked over and saw Plue stealing her stash of candy. "You let go of that too buddy!" Plue looked sheepish.

"Happy if you don't stop that right now you're going to be a dead kitty!"

"Whoa, Plue! Where'd you get that food? Let me have some!" Natsu said excitedly. Natsu dove at Lucy's candy stash. Lucy punched him. "Stay away from my candy! Damn it! Ask first!"

She looked over at Happy ready to skin him alive. "Oh, look, Erza! I found some sexy underwear!"

Lucy picked up Happy strangling him. "That's none of your business!" She looked over and saw Erza looking through her clothes. She was beyond livid. Erza was the color of a tomato, her eyes were wide, her jaw was practically on the floor.

"I can't believe you would actually wear something like this Lucy!"

Lucy went over and grabbed Erza's shoulder. Erza turned around and saw her face. "You're crossing a boundary. I probably wouldn't mind actually showing this to you in private without Natsu and Gray here but the fact that you are going through my stuff without me asking is pissing me off."

Erza looked embarrassed.

"If you guys are staying here we need to set some boundaries." She growled.

"Can we do it tomorrow? I wasn't even looking! I wanna go to sleep!" Gray said climbing into Lucy's bed.

Lucy screamed. "You guys are taking this to make yourself at home thing a little too much."

"I'm sorry Lucy. Forgive me." Erza said.

Lucy glared. "Just don't do it again."

Erza nodded. "We have a more serious problem." Erza said, turning to face Gray. He was now in his underwear, his bandages from their last job crossing his torso and shoulders were on display. "You guys reek of sweat. If we are sleeping in the same room. You can at least get bathed."

Natsu rolled his eyes. "I don't wanna take a bath right now."

"I'm tired." Gray said crawling into Lucy's bed.

Erza crossed over to where Natsu and Gray sat. "Fine? I guess I could bathe with you just like in the old days."

Grey felt himself painfully become hard as Natsu was sweating buckets. She grabbed them harshly by the shoulders. Lucy was deeply disturbed. "What kind of relationship do you guys have?" Her imagination running just a tad bit wild.

Happy sniggered. "They are the strongest team in Fairy Tail!"

"More like strange."

Lucy watched Erza drag Natsu and Gray to the bathroom. Lucy looked around, she wondered for a brief moment how Laxus was taking all of this….

Laxus sneezed randomly. Laxus was pounding back drink after drink at the moment. He was muttering to himself. He had heard about his guild being destroyed. He was beyond pissed. His inner dragon hadn't stopped whining over Blondie, and thinking about her. And then he found out his guild, his childhood home, was now destroyed. And his grandfather was not going to do a damn thing about it. What a bunch of pathetic weaklings. What pissed him off the most was that people were taunting him. They didn't do it for long though. A punch to the face and 10,000 volts of electricity did the trick..he wasn't sure if he accidently killed a man earlier...

"Someone thinking about you boss?" His team mate Bickslow smiled. His tongue hanging out.

Bickslow was Laxus's wingman, and best friend. Tall man with a mildly muscular build and broad shoulders. Bickslow was wearing his usual mildly tight fitting clothing covered in vertical white stripes, which extended up to his head to be covered in a tight hood, exposing only his hands and face. The upper part of his face was obscured by a metal visor reminiscent of a Medieval sallet, which was covered with eight small, elongated holes, with four of them in front of each of his eyes, allowing him to see, but preventing others from being affected by his Figure Eyes. He was wearing large armbands, and large shoulder pads each with skulls on its center. The rest of his body was covered by the table. He was drinking a beer along with Laxus.

"What's wrong boss?"

"Nothing."

"Don't pull that shit with me. I can see your soul."

Laxus sighed. "Is it too much to ask that I don't want to talk about this?" He demanded snarling.

"Just indulge me for five minutes."

"No."

Bickslow sighed, "they're worried about you." Was all he said.

"Evergreen and Freed can-"

"They have a right to worry." Bickslow said. "And Freed will always be the most protective."

Laxus cringed at that. "That's not creepy."

"It's the truth though."

Laxus sighed, ignoring his friend.

"Ok. So if you won't tell me about the guild. Tell me what was bothering you before this-" Bickslow could tell something was bothering his friend the past few days. Bickslow wasn't sure what was going on. He knew his buddy had convinced his grandfather to teach him the paperwork, but he had to go retrieve the kiddies that stole the S-Class quest. That went fine apparently, but then all of a sudden, his boss was in a foul mood.

Laxus was about to lie when he saw his friend's face and changed his mind. "I'm not answering that."

"Don't do that."

"Don't do what?"

"I'll be annoying."

"You will not!"

"Tell me. Tell me. Tell me. Tell me!"

"Bickslow!" He said frying the man.

"Tell….me…." He said twitching on the ground. Laxus sighed at his idiot of a friend. People around the bar stared at the mages. "MIND YOUR DAMN BUSINESS!" Laxus yelled. Everyone turned around. Laxus took a deep breath. Pinching the bridge of his nose.

"I met a girl."

"And?" Bickslow said, trying to get up.

"She rejected me?"

"Screw her. Next." Bickslow said drinking from his cup. Laxus snorted. Bickslow was shocked. "What do you want me to say? We're too old for shit like that. You want me to possess her?"

"No." Laxus said drinking. "It's just- Something isn't sitting right with," he said pointing at his head.

"Interesting. What do you think it means?"

Laxus sighed. "I don't know." He looked at the hazy golden liquid of his beer.

"Well I don't know about that chick. But I do know there's a couple of ladies checking us out over there…." Bickslow said looking over Laxus's shoulder. Laxus looked behind him sure enough two girls, a green haired and a blue haired girl were checking them out.

"Shall we try?"

Laxus sighed. "Why not."

Team Shadow Gear were walking down a narrow alleyway. Levy was holding out her arms putting one foot In front of another like she was walking on a tightrope.

"You sure about this Levy?" Jet asked.

"Don't you think you'd be better off with the other girls at the girls dorm?"

"It's fine, okay! We're a team, you know! And besides it's not like we haven't shared hotel rooms whenever we're out on missions! I don't want to split up our team!"

Jet and Droy swooned. "There's nothing to worry about with the three of us together!"

A figure in the night watched them. His red eyes contained a cold look. His long black hair gently blowing in the night breeze. His sharp canines glittered in the moonlight.

"Yeah! I'll protect you, Levy!"

"No! I will!"

The figure jumped down from the building rooftop. Levy turned around and screamed as she saw a large iron beam come at her face. That was the last thing she saw before it all went black….

Lucy sighed, she sat in her tub. Thinking about everything. Plue was with her. She finally was sitting down and thinking about Laxus. After Laxus left Lucy had spent two weeks getting the guild's finances in order and spending time with Master Makarov. The Master had told Lucy about stories from when he was young to the fact that apparently his father had helped establish Fairy Tail itself. Throughout those two weeks Lucy had discovered the richness of her Master's life. But she often caught herself staring at the portrait Reedus painted of Laxus…..

Why did she have reservations?

He was a player. She had heard of his reputation from inner circles from her former life. He slept with a woman, left them. She blushed at one woman she met at a party describing his ahem as the Great White….

He wasn't exactly nice. She heard that too before she met him. He had an attitude. And when she met him in the guild before Galuna, he was a jerk.

He hadn't exactly disproven any of those rumors….

She dried off, biting her lip. Ok so maybe she was being too harsh? Like one date to see if he was what people claimed him to be, which everyone in the guild seemed to hate him, except Natsu.

But it was too late now, right?

She walked out. She saw Natsu passed out on the table. "Jeez, you could have at least pulled out your sleeping bag Natsu."

Erza was sitting on her bed in a towel. Her hair was wrapped in a towel. "I must say that bath was relaxing."

"Don't you want to put some clothes on Erza?" Lucy said annoyed. Really, the only half naked person she wanted to see was herself. And even then that was pushing it.

"I suppose I should change." She sighed. A soft wind blew in the room, a burst of colorful light, like a galaxy exploding happened around Erza. Lucy's eyes widened.

Erza was standing up in purple PJs when she was done. "Is this more tasteful?"

Lucy made weird noises. "Is that how you change your clothes? Gosh that must be handy!"

Erza laughed. "For the most part yes. And yes it's very handy."

Lucy smiled, she sat at her table. "So, why did Phantom suddenly attack, anyways?"

Erza sat on the bed, arms folded. "No I'm afraid not. We've had many brushes with them in the past, but there's never been such a direct attack like this before."

Natsu had woken up, he was glaring. "If Gramps would quit being such a wimp, we could kick their butts!"

Lucy looked down at Natsu, "since when did you wake up? By the way, go drool on your sleeping bag. Not my table."

Gray was reading Lucy's novel. He looked up briefly to argue with Natsu. "You know he's not afraid of them. He's one of the Ten Wizard Saints, you know."

Lucy looked over to see Gray reading her novel. She was shocked, then furious. "Wait! Why are you reading that so nonchalantly! I thought we discussed boundaries!"

She took it out of Gray's hands. "Gimme!"

"Hey, you can't take something I was reading out of my hands! I wanna know what happens next!"

Lucy puffed her cheeks. "It's not even done yet though! and I'm not really quite sure I want it to go this way! Besides, Levy's going to be the first person to read my novel! And then I have to fight off Laxus who also wants to read it-"

"How Laxus gets to read it before I do is weird-"

Erza watched the exchange, and held out her hand.

Lucy took a step back, and huffed. "GURL! YOU AIN'T GETTING IT EITHER!"

Erza shrugged. "How Gray, Laxus and Levy get to read it before I do. Is dumb."

"When did you become friends with Laxus?" Happy asked, perplexed. "He hates everyone." He had been playing with a brown paper bag filled with catnip. He was on his side. His back feet looked like rabbits feet scratching at the bag. He was using his teeth to rip it apart. Lucy didn't answer that.

Lucy sighed. "What are the Ten Wizard Saints?"

"More like a who. It's a title given to the 10 most skilled wizards on the continent as determined by the head of the Magic Council."

Lucy was shocked. "Really? I always figured Master was powerful, but not enough to be considered one of the most powerful on the continent."

Happy stopped chewing on the bag. "Phantom's Master is one too." He then went back to bunny footing the bag, digging his claws in. Erza frowned at the moment. Lucy wondered what she was thinking about it. Natsu distracted her by slamming his hand down on her table. "He is afraid! The one thing Phantom has on us is that it has lots of members! He's afraid we couldn't handle them!"

"Calm down Natsu! I have neighbors!"

Gray leaned over. His elbows on his knees. "That's not true! It's like Master and Mira said, we're trying to avoid a fight. Cause they know what will happen if our two good guilds clash."

Erza nodded, she was silent though. Lucy again was chewing on her nails. Natsu was frowning. "They're trying to uphold order in the entire magic world." Gray said.

"Phantom is that powerful?" Lucy thought about it. She shivered, "I don't understand why-"

"Those guys ain't got nothing on us!" Natsu interrupted. He had a smug look on his face. "We could take those clowns."

"No, if it came down to an actual battle, mutual destruction would be inevitable. Our offensive strength equals theirs. Their Master Jose is the Saint Wizard himself. Said to be just on par with Master Makarov. They also have a group called the Element 4, they are the equivalent of our S-Class wizards. The one deemed the most dangerous though of all is Black Steel Gajeel. We believe he is the one responsible for the attack on our Guild. He is known as the Iron Dragon Slayer.

"Oh my God! He's a dragon slayer too?" Lucy asked shocked.

Natsu's face was unreadable, disgust or in disbelief she wasn't quite sure.

"I thought Natsu was the only one!"

Natsu tched.

"So if he's the Iron Dragonslayer does that mean he eats iron and stuff?" Lucy asked.

In a dark lit castle like room Hall, where a bunch of tables that were lit by candlelight, at one of these tables there was a mountain of iron at it and it was being munched upon by Gajeel. His teeth and the sound of the metal grinding could be heard throughout the entire guild Hall. There was a sulfurous feeling in the air.

"I heard you attacked Fairy Tail, Gajeel! I heard you made a big mess!" A hooded figure said. "Aww man! I bet they're feeling mighty blue as we speak!" He was laughing.

Gajeel was annoyed as he continued to eat his iron.

"I bet they're crying to their mommy's right now. Oh wait they're just a bunch of orphans hahaha serves them right though! Oh boo hoo someone destroyed my playhouse!"

Gajeel growled as a large iron rod extended from his hand hitting the guy in the face and pushing him into the wall. Members surrounding them laughed as they drank their beers. "How many times have they had to tell you don't talk to me when I'm eating, how many times do I have to say it?" Gajeels hand retracted slowly becoming more human-like. "And besides those Fairy Clowns can't challenge us. They are scum. Who cares about those assholes anyway? We're way more powerful than they could ever hope to be."

"The dye has been cast. That was splendid work, Gajeel." A man said from a balcony. It was Jose Porla. He was a tall, slim man with long, straight, dark red hair reaching down to his shoulders and a thin mustache. He had a long and sharp face, vaguely pointed ears, prominent eyelashes and dark-colored lips.

Gajeel smiled. "You're too soft, Master. We weren't hard enough on them. That wasn't enough to stir up those low lives. So I decided to leave them a little something else." His smile sent shivers down even some of the most ruthless members of the guild. "A present that's sure to get those Fairy Tail clowns panties in a twist."

"Well, I'll be... Very good Gajeel." He stepped more into the light. His guild could see more of his flamboyant coat with the high collar that sported a jagged mantle and jagged lower edges, with intricately decorated borders and inners, two prominent wings similar to a bat's, with a matching witch-like hat bearing Phantom Lord's symbol, complete with an extremely long, bent top hanging down on Jose's left; a plain shirt which sported his Wizard Saint's medallion around the neck, with two light ribbons falling down from it, loose striped culottes. Paired with long socks, and a pair of pointed shoes each bearing two furry balls, one on the front and one on the back of the foot. His left hand was adorned by a pair of rings, with one of them sporting a spherical gem.

"Just be sure to leave you-know-who alive." He said smiling.

Gajeel laughed maniacally. His red eyes looked crazed in the dim candlelight.

South Magnolia Gate Park

In the center of Magnolia's southern district, is a park. Like a giant crater in the ground, multiple stairways surrounded by thick green bushes, and trees cover the bowl like sides. In the middle is a circular dirt path, in the middle of the circle stands a large oak tree. The sun is shining brightly down upon this oak tree as butterflies and birds sing sweet songs betraying the ominous mood in the air.

On this oak tree, three Fairy Tail mages are nailed to it. Many have gathered to marvel in horror at the fact that they have been nailed 16 feet above the ground.

At this moment Team Natsu is making its way to the giant tree, after learning the fates of Team Shadowgear.

Gray, Natsu and Erza were forcing their way through the crowd. "Pardon us. Please let us through. We're from their guild." Erza demanded.

Lucy was still in her PJs, she was running ahead of everyone. She screamed when she saw Levy's lifeless body nailed to the tree. Happy flew in low to comfort her. Natsu screamed in anger. His fists lighting up.

"Why are they still up there?"

"Someone get them down!" Another citizen cried.

Lucy looked in horror at the dried blood gleaming in the sunlight of her friend's blue hair. In thick angry lines the Phantom Lord guilds symbol was painted on her torso.

"Whoa do you see that mark?" A citizen whispered.

Lucy knew it was stupid but she tried to jump up and get them down. She was crying, "who would do this!" She cried.

She saw Jet's swollen face, his hat was on the ground. He didn't look like his normal self. She picked up the hat, Happy came over and squeezed the material. She looked over at Droy, his suspenders hung limply on his shoulders. His hair was also dry and crusty from blood.

She could vaguely hear citizens whispering that they shouldn't get involved in what was happening.

"Phantom is going to pay!" Natsu screamed.

Makarov slowly walked forward, his walking stick softly thudding against the ground. The citizens parted like the sea did for Moses, making room for him to come forward.

Erza was filled with barely contained rage. "Master-"

The Master looked up at his children, they were battered and bruised. Anguish filled him, he could do nothing to have stopped it. "My guild hall I can handle being destroyed and reduced to rubble. But I will not remain quiet after seeing my children's blood spilt. Not without taking revenge!" He screamed, breaking his staff. Lucy flinched when she saw Master glowing. "We have no choice but to go to war!"

Magnolia Hospital

Magnolia hospital. This hospital also includes an inpatient facility specifically for wizards. Here Lucy is sitting with Jet, Droy, and Levy. Who are currently knocked out at the moment from their altercation with the Iron Dragon Slayer. Droy had bandages crossing his entire face. As did Jet and Levy. Here, Lucy is trying to get a hold of Laxus…..

"Come on pick up!" She said eyes watering. She held the communications lacrima in her hand. She was shaking as she tried to reach out to the one person she knew who could help.

In a dark lit hotel room, the lightning dragon slayer picked up. "Hello-oh it's you." Laxus said. He took on a defensive posture. He was slightly relieved, his little pick up last night went well. He had taken the bluenette back to his room. He was glad he kicked her out now so Lucy could not see that …

But why would he care about that?

"Laxus! Thank God! You gotta come home!"

Laxus scoffed, "and why should I do that?"

Lucy was taken aback. "Have you not heard?"

Laxus rolled his eyes. "About our guild hall being destroyed? Yeah I heard. Pathetic. I have had to beat every-"

"Laxus!"

Laxus stopped. The emotion in her voice caught him off guard. Lucy was crying, the voice in his head whined. It was pushing him to comfort the blonde. He was annoyed. All night that thing had wailed in his head. When he tried to touch the girl from last night, it was like his skin felt gross. It felt wrong. It got to the point where he couldn't look at her and banged her from behind. Even then he found it hard to still make it feel right….He shook his head, and now, it wanted him to comfort the very same person who caused it to be distressed over? It was stupid. And he was having none of it.

"Lucy-"

"Laxus we need you-"

"We?"

"The guild-"

"Lucy I'm on a mission to save an entire town of 6 million people from a monster that's causing hurricane-like damage and a dark guild that's controlling it. The guild hall being destroyed, as much as I'm pissed about it, can wait!"

"But Laxus-"

"But nothing! There's other things going on-"

"PHANTOM LORD IS ATTACKING GUILD MEMBERS!"

"What?" Laxus was stunned. Phantom mages were asses. His grandfather and Jose had had a rivalry that was older than him. But that never… They never attacked people. Laxus's eyes narrowed.

"Phantom Lord, they're heartless. They really do do horrible things." She cried, gripping her knees.

Laxus listened.

"How could they do this!?" She cried. "Have you seen it?" She said looking out the window. A clear view of the guild hall.

"I can't help but think about the time I met Levy Laxus! She was so nice! Jet and Droy were nice! Even if Droy creeped me out by drooling and calling me cute." She wiped her red eyes. Laxus scowled. He shouldn't have been surprised boys found her attractive. "They were so sweet and weird! Even though they said writing a book was like showing my butt to the world-"

Laxus sat back, his arms folded. "Who are you showing your butt for?"

Lucy's eyes looked red, and watery. "No one." She sniffed. "She asked to read my novel first!" Lucy cried making fists. Her nails went into her skin. "Just the other day, she worked so hard to help you and I!"

Laxus swallowed, he remembered that. He had nothing against the little mage. She wasn't the strongest, but clever. "Laxus what they've done! It's unforgivable! They have to pay!" She said crying.

"Where are you?" Laxus asked.

Lucy blinked, she shifted uncomfortably. "Magnolia Hospital."

The inner dragon in his head roared. Lightning was cracking around him. Laxus's eyes showed his fury. "Are you one of those-"

"No! Levy, Jet, Droy-"

'That explains why she was talking about those three'...Laxus took a deep breath, the dragon in his head barely calming down. 'Why am I that angry over this?'

His inner dragon just growled in response. 'This growling thing you do, doesn't make the answer anymore obvious.'

The inner dragon just growled. If it could slap him it would.

"Why are you in the hospital?" Bony hands gripped the desk hard.

"The guild took off to fight-"

"Oh finally! The geezer is doing-"

"Laxus please don't!"

"Lucy-"

"Laxus please come home. We need you. I need you!" Lucy gasped realizing what she said. Laxus was annoyed. "Now you need me? You turn me down but now you need me?"

"Laxus I have to tell you how I feel-it's not entirely what you think-" a knock on the door stopped her. Laxus was annoyed. "What!" He screamed. He wanted to know what she was going to say.

"It's Freed, Laxus-sama. Can I come in or do you have that woman still in there."

Lucy stopped. She looked away, 'there was a woman in there….'

"Freed!" Laxus wanted to kill him.

"I just wanted to let you know, we have that raid-"

"Free-"

"Laxus go."

Laxus turned to look at the lacrima. "What-"

"Go. 6 million people need you. I was being selfish. I guess we can handle it here without you."

"Lucy."

Lucy felt tears stinging her eyes. "You should go. We can talk later?" Lucy wanted to cry, but had no business crying at this point. She had made her bed right?

Lucy felt dumb. Laxus swallowed.

"Yeah later." He said.

Oaktown

Oaktown, in the Northeast region of the Fiore kingdom. In the center of this historic castle town, it is home to many historic buildings, but towering above them all stands a branch of the Phantom Lord wizard guild. Shouting could be heard outside the giant castle-like building.

"Oh that's good!"

"Those fairy's asses got whooped good!"

"They had what was coming to them, huh?"

"Gajeel gave three of the mages a real thrashing, too!"

The members were all cheering and having a good time.

"Aww we can't let him have all the fun?" A mage said to his companions as they walked to the front of the guild.

"Alright, let's get to work!"

"We can pluck some fairy wings of our own on our way back!"

They laughed, as the door exploded on them. The explosion from fire had the three mages colliding into a stone-built balcony on the third floor. The Phantom Lord mages were all alert at this point. Natsu stood in front of the burning wreckage. He was breathing heavily. The sound of stone tumbling against stone was heard.

The Phantom mages all stared at the Fairy Tail mages. Makarov came forward, "Fairy Tail has come calling!" He screamed.

The Phantom Lord mages rushed at them. Natsu glared at them. He normally didn't look down upon people. But these mages, well they might as well have been roaches to the young man at this point. Roaches he was going to broil and char…

He ran at them, his fists covered in flames. Nearby mages could feel the heat coming off of him. Fire was shooting out at different directions at this point, acting as battering rams, knocking mages flat on their asses. The smell of burnt flesh and various clothing materials filled the hall. The Phantom mages watched their comrades fall against his wrath. "Alright! Who wants to play with fire!" He screamed. He looked around, "anyone will do! Just bring it on!"

More mages rushed at the young teen. Off in another part of the guild, Cana was using her card magic to take down enemies. Alternating between different attacks. "Shuriken Cards!" Her cards acted as projectiles towards her enemies. Like Shurikens, it cut many mages faces. Slicing their bodies head to toe. "Cards Volley!" This attack had more enhanced range, Cana threw several cards at once at her targets in an arched formation. The strength of the spell knocked mages to the ground around her, shattering the floor, and lifting up a cloud of debris. Cana smirked as she saw Loke touch his ring, kicking a mage to him as Loke summoned Twister. His green Magic Seal appeared as a powerful storm struck the area around him, lifting the surrounding mages and objects upwards with a great force and sending them flying in a circular motion.

In another part of the guild, Vijeeter and Elfman were working together in synchronized attacks to take out as many mages as they could. Vijeeter's dancing allowed him to be able to increase the fighting capacity of Elfman's Beast Arm and to decrease the power of neighboring foes.

Macao casted Purple Net, trapping several mage's. His purple seal appeared in mid air as several tentacle like beams of magic attacked, and ensnared several people. "Now Wakaba!"

"On it!" Wakaba smirked as he puffed on his pipe. "Here comes smoke rush!" His green summoning seal flashed quickly sizzling out into a light purple smoke. It hissed as it soared into the air. It branched out, creating tiny fists that punched the mages trapped by Macao.

Alzack smirked when he saw the mages coming at him. He drawed out his guns quickly, they spun in his hands as he quickly shot at the mages. "Guns magic." Several blue summoning seals appeared in front of multiple mages where he aimed. Large amounts of electricity shot from them, paralyzing them. "That ones my Spark Shot." He gasped when he realized someone snuck up on him. "Die!" A mage screamed. A bright yellow summoning seal in his hand. A green shot came at him from the side, taking him down. Alzack felt his heart skip. "Nice shooting their Bisca," he said smiling at his partner. "Getting a little rusty there Al." She winked. Alzack chuckled. "Your claws are gonna need a little sharpening." She smiled impishly. She looked around quickly reloading. She aimed at a group of mages, her rifle ready for more action. "Locked on target." Her green summoning seal appearing through her lens, she was careful in making sure they only hit her foes. "Homing Shot!"

A large blast of green light exploded from her gun annihilating Phantoms mages. Other mages looked in fear, there was gotta be one weak mage right? They looked at the guild master, they charged at him. Makarov was calm, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He opened his eyes, yellow light shot from them. He grew into his titan form. The Phantom mages looked up in fear, as a giant fist descended down on top of them smashing the guild halls floors even further. One mage was pinned against his thumb. "He's a monster," he croaked, unable to breath.

His voice echoed throughout the room, sending shivers down their spines. "And you dared to mess with this monsters' children! Did you think, for one moment, that human laws would protect you from my wrath!"

Many mages backed up scared.

"He's strong!"

"Their fighters mean business too!"

"Yeah they are totally nuts!"

"I didn't know Fairy Tail was like this!"

Erza seemed to be frozen in mid air. She glared at her opponents. Two swords in hand, she wielded her weapons with precision. Taking down enemies, but not severely injuring them. Wood chunks exploded around her as a mage dodged the attack. Her sword shattering the wooden table it collided with.

Reedus calmly hummed as he mixed colors on his pallet. Mages lunged at him, he smiled. "Picto Magic: Wild Stampede!" He was finishing up the razorbacks on his pallet. He smiled as they came to life. Jumping off the pallet the colorful pigs trampled the mages near him.

Laki put one fist in her other hand. "Wood Make Magic: Dam of Bashful Love!" She put her hands on the ground, as her yellow seal appeared. Various wood making tools popped out of the ground. One mage eyed the wooden saw and chisel, "what the heck is that supposed to mean!?"

Finally a group of mages gave up and attacked Happy.

"Here's a cat!"

Happy looked up at them. 14 men total.

"Piece of cake!"

Happy smiled. "Oh yeah! Well guess what this kitty has more than just claws! I'm a wizard too!" He smiled as he flew out of the way, as 7 men head butted one another. Happy pulled out two fish from his bag, he smacked people with their slimy scales. A pile of mages lied on the ground, with food stuffed in their mouths. Happy walked over, smiling. His eyes glowed. "You gotta problem with cats buddy?" He said stalking up on a guy. "Nope. Not at all." He said through a mouthful.

Makarov was still smashing and clobbering people. "Jose! Show yourself!" His eyes glowed, as he took out support beams that held the roof up.

Erza switched into her Flame Empress Armor. Phantom's mages marveled at the dark red predominantly red, orange and black armor, with the first ones being shaped like flames and the second resembling Dragon's limbs. The revealing breastplate with Dragon-like wings attached to it glowed in the sunlight, orange gauntlets and the Dragon claw shaped greaves clawed at mages faces. Erza's hair was tied into a pair of high, long pigtails. She looked attractive and scary.

Her sword on fire, burning down her enemies. She screamed: "TELL ME WHERE CAN I FIND GAJEEL AND THE ELEMENT 4?"

On a support beam high above the fight, stood a tall and muscular young man with long, spiky black hair that was swept back revealing his forehead. His red eyes were slitted as he watched the battle from below. His eyebrows were shaved off, and covered by studs, were furrowed, the two below his mouth below were jutting out. Gajeel played with one ear which was adorned by a set of five earrings, his other ear matched.

He folded his arms, the four studs on each of his forearms shined in the sun, with his right one being covered in scars. His guild mark at the top of his right shoulder was visible.

His shabby, black, sleeveless tunic with studded edges fit him tightly, his studded belt around his waist hung loosly around his waist, loose, beige pants tucked inside studded black boots stood securely on the beam, and a pair of studded brown gloves paired with similarly studded wristbands were tucked into his huge biceps. He had a wing-like ornament, seemingly made of feathers, that jutting upwards blowing slightly in the draft above the guild.

"So, that's Titania herself." He said. "I guess Laxus and Mystogan are sitting this fight out, huh?" He folded his arms. "Or do they not care? Either way," he said looking down. He saw magic seals pop up and go. "Still, I can't believe how well everything is following Master Jose's plan. He knew exactly how this would go down." He smiled. "Rampage to your hearts' content, you lowly scum."

Lucy was walking holding the comm in her hand as best as she could. She had gone grocery shopping. She was scared, shadows had been seemingly following her, it scared her.

She called Laxus one last time. "Hey Laxus, I know you're not picking up. You left because of that raid you had to do-" she laughed nervously. "Probably really dumb to call you but-" she stopped, when she saw a woman in blue come walking down the alley.

Rain started to come down. "What? Rain? When it's sunny out?" She asked, distracted.

The woman was slender, with azure blue hair, midnight blue eyes, snow skin complexion and a curvaceous figure. Her long hair, tightly curled at the base, wearing a sapphire blue coat, a cream colored fur trimmed navy blue shawl with a pure white teru teru bōzu attached to it, as well as a matching Russian Cossack hat.

"Who-who are you?" She asked, scared.

"Drip, drip, drop.. Juvia is the rain woman. It's always with me."

Lucy panicked, squeezing the comm.

"And what sort of woman would you be?" This Juvia asked.

"Just the regular kind!"

"Drip, drip, drop." Juvia said walking past her.

"Uh... What's with all the drip dropping?" Lucy said, grabbing her head. She watched this Juvia pull out a bright pink umbrella.

"That was enjoyable. Take care."

"Well jeez take the rain with ya!" She screamed. Lucy sighed looking at the comm.."guess I'm being foolish aren't I Laxus?"

"Non, non, non! Non, non, non!" A male voice was heard. Lucy and Juvia stopped. Lucy stared at the comm scared. "Laxus I-" she broke off..she saw someone come up from the ground. The stone coming up with him..

"I bid you a bonjour!" A slim man of average height with a tiny, pointy, mustache and green hair pointing upwards said. His right eye was hidden by a monocle, attached to a slim chain; under it, the eye itself seemed small and round, in contrast to his other, larger eye. Clad in a formal attire consisting of a brown suit with a ragged collar bearing six prominent protrusions jutting outwards (three on each side) over a white shirt. He had what appeared to be a short cape attached to both of his elbows, linking them Lucy noticed.

His bizarre stance scared her. Standing with his head tilted while he oddly swung his body back and forth. Also, his feet were melded to the ground.

"Another weirdo!" Lucy screamed.

"Lady Juvia. You know better than to neglect your work!" He said his feet still melted into the ground.

"No Monsieur Sol." Juvia said.

This Monsieur Sol messed with his monocle. "My monocle is whispering to me."

"That's not creepy!" Lucy muttered.

"That this mademoiselle before us is our lovely cible."

"Oh my, it was her?"

"Cible? Target?" Lucy said, scared.

"Pardon my late introduction." Monsieur Sol said with some forgein accent. "My name is Sol. I am of the Element 4. Also known as 'Sol of the Great Earth'. But it would behoove you to call me Monsieur Sol." His body bent into a perfect 90 degree angle scaring Lucy. "What?"

She took a step back. "I've heard of Element 4! You're a part of Phantom!"

"That's right! The great Phantom Lord has sent us to collect you."

Lucy wiped the rain from her eyes.

"This is the Rain Woman, another number of the Element 4." Sol gestured to Juvia. "She is known as "Juvia of the Great Sea." Lucy dropped everything in her hands but the comm. She held onto it. Hopefully it was recording everything. Laxus would get this she hoped. She grabbed her keys.

"You're the ones who attacked my friends and Levy! How dare you!" Lucy couldn't breath. As she was engulfed in a bubble of water. She dropped the comm it bounced on the ground, the light barely glowing.

She struggled in the water bubble.

"No, no, no!" Sol said tweaking his mustache. "I wish to clear up a misunderstanding with you. A reasonable guess but we are not the ones to blame." He chuckled darkly.."That was Black Steel Gajeel. Who did that. It was Sir Gajeel who destroyed the guild and attacked Miss Levy. Though I guess that doesn't change the fact that this was the entire guilds decision."

Lucy pounded her hands against the bubble. "Why are you doing this! Let me out!"

Juvia was holding up her hand. "Don't waste your breath, Juvia's Water Lock cannot be broken." She said in a monotone voice.

Lucy looked at the comm one more time before closing her eyes succumbing to the fact she had no air left….

Monsieur Sol was laughing. Juvia shook her head at her companion. She looked at Lucy. "Do not be afraid. Juvia will not kill you. Juvia has explicit orders to bring you back alive. You are nothing more than the target for our retrieval mission...Lady Lucy Heartfilia."

Lucy's keys were glowing and shining in the summer rain that was coming down upon them as the comms light slowly faded out into blackness.

"Capture complete. Drip, drip, drop."

Back at Phantom Lord guildhall….

Outside the Phantom guild hall, citizens gasped at the destruction that they could see. Phantom mages were attacking the Fairy Tail members, three mages made a unified attack causing a firey explosion. Laki ducked to get out of the way. The firey explosion exploded in the middle of the guildhall slowly being sucked into the powerful lungs of Natsu. His stomach slowly expanded and then returned to its normal size. "OH YEAH! NOW I'VE GOT A FIRE IN MY BELLY!"

THE PHANTOM LORD MAGES WERE PANICKING.

"Did that guy just eat fire!"

"It's ironic we're all freaking out right now when we have a mage that literally eats iron but holy crap!"

"Who is that guy!"

"Don't tell me he's one of those!"

"I'm going to blow you all away!" He smacked his fists together. His red magic seal flashed quickly turning into fire. "Fire Dragon Roar!" He held his hands to his face blowing through them. Streams of fire came out of Natsu's mouth destroying a part of the guild.

"Ice Make: Lance!" Gray said freezing some mages.

Erza tore apart a group of mages with her sword, requiping into a new armor.

"Wood Make: the Distance Between the Two is Forever!" Laki screamed.

A mage screamed. "That still doesn't make any sense!"

"Gun Magic! Mud Shot!" Alzack said spraying mud.

"Requip! Magic Shotgun!" Bisca said requiping her gun under a green light. "Wide Shot!"

Fire, ice, bullet's, wood, and metal were thrown around the room. It was chaos in motion. Gray and Natsu backed into one another. Protecting each other's backs.

"Not too shabby droopy eyes."

Gray smirked, "same to you, slanty eyes." They geared up, ice and fire coming from them.

Cana, Erza, Wakaba, Loke, and Macao circled one another. Their backs facing one another. Erza was now in her Black Wing Armor. This armor black with silver trimming had silver crosses in several places gleaming in the sunlight. The revealing silver-edged breastplate and plates flanking her hips that reach down to her waist-guard distracted the mages around her. The waist-guard left the front of Erza's body exposed, with her groin being covered by a dark imbuement. She had large plates guarding her legs. The two wings that looked like black metal "arms" and membrane like structure were flapping. Her hair was tied in a ponytail.

"What do you say? We give them all a good thrashing?" Wakaba smiled.

"Right where we want them." Macao said as several mages surrounded them.

Erza looked off in the distance. She saw Master walking up a staircase. He was beating Phantoms mages senseless if they got in his way. His magic radiated around him. "Erza! I leave things down here to you!"

"Yes sir!" She answered.

Makarov walked up the stairs. "Jose is most likely on the top floor. I will go and put an end to him." He said punching another mage. His white coat billowing behind him.

Erza sighed as she watched him go. "Please be careful." She whispered. She watched him explode a door, the debris swirling around him like a dust storm. Gajeel smiled. 'Guess it's time to wreak some havoc now that the main threat's gone!'

He prepared himself to jump, ready to throw himself into the fight.

Laxus stormed into his hotel room pissed. He was covered head to toe in mud. The monster he was fighting, decided to burrow in the ground underneath the town. He couldn't find it. He was worried and pissed it would hurt someone. His team had gone and raided the dark guilds home base, but the leader had left and taken the spell used to control the monster with it. He growled in frustration, he caught a wiff in the air. He sniffed again, it was some artificial smell... vanilla and strawberries. An image of Lucy popped in his head. He glared at the bed. 'Bull shit.'

The dragon in his head growled. The primal need to see her was growing. He shook his head. The soft glow of the communications lacrima caught his attention. He walked over to it, he rolled his eyes. 'Who called me?'

He listened to the message…..

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Outside the hotel room, a large bolt of lightning came down from the sky. The force of the blast took out the town's power grid. The scream that accompanied it sent shivers down the hotel residents spines…..

AN:

Dear Lea:

I'm accusing you of breaking into my Google Docs like Starless Knight's seems to have!

Your review: LEA:Loveing your story so far. I feel that Laxus deserved what Lucy said. I'll admit that I want then to get together, but how you're going about it makes it realistic.

Personally, I think Laxus would need something big (and a bit drastic) to come to terms with his feelings, and to get with the program (meaning: pull his head out of his butt). My suggestion would be Lucy gets attacked or is injured in some form in front of Laxus.

Me: you're good. Lol I love your review! I'm glad you were also good with her response again guys I thought y'all would hate me for it! I love stories where their off the bat with sexy times but originally I started the story with just being a realistic take on what Laxus would have done on Galuna and that clearly changed! I couldn't help it... LaLu! Maybe one day I'll do an off the bat sexy times story, full disclosure I want to do a cliche Lucy gets kicked out of Team Natsu it sounds fun. I wanted this story to be realistic. I know some of them have rushed certain episodes and arcs and I felt this story should be different.

So next question, did I do something drastic enough?

Love you all! Hope this was worth the wait!