Hi guys! So this story is my friend's baby, and I was asked to be a co-author. YAY! So excited about this! So, we will be alternating the writing of the chapters. This first installation is from Sin of the Fallen.

A/N: For you Lady. A kick-ass Lucy and Mystogan pairing. This is what could have happened if the Mystogan introduction was after the Laguna Island and Phantom Lord. And Edolas was just NOT going to happen.

CHAPTER 1 - I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD

Lucy sipped happily on her delicious strawberry-lemonade concoction. Mirajane had made it for her, and Lucy just could not get enough. It was that good.

As she suckled it, with loud slurping that would have horrified her father, she idly listened to her loud guild. All the sound they made just by going about their normal routines covered up her slurping, so Lucy did not really care about the noise she was making.

She opened her eyes, after they had been closed in delight for a while, and smiled around her straw at Mirajane. The bartending mage giggled at her before Lucy returned to sucking in all that yummy cold slush.

All of a sudden she felt unbearably sleepy. Almost as if she had needed sleep weeks ago but forgot to lay down for a nap. It was pretty odd, but a quick ruffling and shaking of her magic dispersed the unnatural feeling. Someone was probably experimenting and a spell got loose. Lucy shrugged to herself. These things tended to happen, since Fairy Tail was a magic guild.

As she was about to return to finishing off her smoothie, Lucy finally noticed it. The guild was silent. Startled, she swiveled about on her stool to see what was going on. What she saw stunned her. Everyone was on the floor asleep!

But that sleep looked highly unnatural. Everyone was too calm, too still, too silent. She knew Natsu sleep-fought and Gray sleep-talked, just a few for example.

However, there was one person still awake and standing. She had no idea who the stranger was, but they had a man's build. He was covered from head to toe, only a thin slit for his dark eyes to peer out of. And he was armed.

Lucy counted at least three staves on his back, each one quite different from its fellows. She looked into his eyes and could tell he was badly startled by how wide they were. Obviously he had expected everyone to fall asleep.

Well, too bad for him she knew a trick or two to prevent this kind magic from affecting her. Thankfully his spell was all blunt force with no subtlety, so she had figured it out in time. Lucy's eyes turned flinty as she reached for Gemini and Loki's Keys. She would defend her guild and buy time for everyone to wake up. Even if this attempt might cost her everything.

She nearly turned about in shock when Makarov's voice rang out "Lucy! Mystogan! How-?!" But her father had taught her well in some regards. His words grated within her ears, overriding Makarov's ranting.

"Everything is an ambiguous battlefield Lucy. Never turn your back on an enemy until they're dead, and use everything at your disposal to usher them into that state."

She had only left her previous foes breathing out of respect to Fairy Tail's rules. Not even Laxus had dared to kill his opponents, that was proof of how much everyone respected Fairy Tail; and she had heard just how cruel he could be. But this man was not going to lie down and die, unfortunately. Grimly she concluded it looked like she was her father's daughter after all.

Lucy Called Loki and Gemini silently, watching as the Lion and a Gray doppelganger leapt through golden pools of light. As soon as Gemini was out she brushed her hand against theirs, letting them know to follow her lead. Without a word she sprang forward, whip snaking out to snatch at the fan staff while Gemini quickly iced the floor under the stranger's feet.

By the time he could react, her whip had caught and yanked the fan staff away to crash behind the bar. The pull of the staff forcibly dislodging knocked him off balance and the ice sent him crashing down. A sickening crack from his skull hitting the ice echoed in the silent guild.

With a gesture from Gemini the ice grew over his hands and feet, along with restraining the rest of his body, that made bands about two inches thick. Another gesture had the ice forming an awkward makeshift gag. But Lucy did not kid herself about her foe. If he had not been so utterly shocked it would be her on the floor. She quickly stepped over to Gemini and brushed hands again.

Gemini nodded their head and made an ice dagger in their left hand before coaxing the ice away from the staves. They reached for the staves with their right hand and jerked it back with a pained hiss. They then covered the hand in ice to remove the four staves they found. Once they were away from the intruder Gemini encased them in a thick ice block before returning the right hand to normal.

Lucy nodded approvingly to Gemini and grinned as she walked over to them again and gave them a high-five. "You two were great! Thanks for the help Gemi, Mini!" They blushed a bit in embarrassed pleasure before asking Lucy,

"Should we touch him?" Lucy was about to reply an affirmative, internally praising the usefulness of their skill, but Loki and Makarov roared out "NO!"

Both Lucy and Gemini were visibly taken aback and shot each other surprised looks. Why should Gemini not transform into the intruder? They turned around to face a pole axed Lion, and a gaping Makarov and Laxus. "Master?" queried in confusion before rounding on Loki.

"And you Mr. King-of-the-Zodiac! Why the hell didn't you help me out? Thank God Gemi and Mini did or who knows what would have happened!" Loki was still looking pretty out of it when he half muttered, half shouted, "Lucy! You just took down Mystogan! No one's ever stayed awake before, much less beaten him!"

Lucy frowned at him. If he was acting like this maybe she should have called Cancer instead. Just as she was about to switch out the two spirits she heard Makarov start shouting again, even as he could not stop laughing through his order.

"Lucy! Let him go! He's one of ours!" Lucy wanted to hit the diminutive man on the balcony for not saying so earlier, but she refrained. Master could be under a spell…

"Master, I wish to ask Gemini to scan this man and make sure this really is 'Mystogan'." Makarov looked down at his impudent child, both pleased and irritated by her caution. Then he wondered if she was the reason Team Natsu had stuck to destroying parts of a location instead of the whole area.

"Lucy, you've done well child. Defending your nakama while they are defenseless is a most noble action, but I do not want Mystogan copied Lucy. He has excellent reasons for his method of reporting to me."

Lucy hesitated. Was this really a wise course of action? I guess I'll just have to trust Master on this. She sent Loki and Gemini back with a smile and Called Taurus to come and carry Mystogan and his weapons to Makarov's office. With the perverted bull following her loyally with a still confused Mystogan slung over his shoulder, Lucy missed her nakama beginning to stir along with Laxus' belated reaction.

"What the fuck?!"