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3 years ago

'Luna Amissa?'

"Yes!" Lucy exclaimed excitedly. "It's an ancient celestial spell I discovered the other day in the guild's library."

"Is that the day by any chance the one when master punished us?" Wendy asked, walking alongside her.

Lucy nervously rubbed the back of her neck, smiling guiltily. "Uh yeah..sorry for bailing out on you guys like that. But it was just too amazing to miss out on."

The sky maiden sighed, shaking her head slightly. "Well it was mostly a punishment for Natsu-san though. We were merely 'caught along the way'."

The mention of his name sent shivers down her spine, and Lucy froze.

"Hm? Something wrong?" Wendy asked, stopping back to look at her frozen in place.

"Huh?" Lucy exclaimed, taking two long strides to catch up with Wendy and Carla. "Oh it's nothing! I just remembered something."

"Speaking of remembering.." Carla began. "What was the important thing that Natsu wanted to talk about with you yesterday?"

"Yeah." Wendy giggled. "He was so anxious and jumpy the entire day. The only person he talked to the most was Mira-san."

"That was so unlike him. Even the tomcat was clueless."

"I-uh..I don't know. We didn't talk." Lucy replied, looking anywhere but them, playing with her blonde locks.

"I find that hard to believe." Wendy said looking back. "He practically bugged you the entire day-AH Lucy-san are you okay?! You're all red!"

"Am-Am I?" the blonde mage stuttered, covering her face with her hands in a frenzy.

"Lucy-san? What exactly did happen yesterday?" Wendy asked, carefully looking at the blushing mess that was Lucy Heartfilia.

"I-He uh..He uh..Oh look there's Erza!"

She practically ran past Wendy, eager to escape the awkward conversation. But then, she suddenly stopped. 

Because he was there with her.

Natsu Dragneel.

Lucy looked down, clutching her shirt in panic. 'What am I gonna do?' she thought, feeling her face heat up even more. 'How do I face him? After he..'

"Lucy!"

Erza's voice stopped her train of thoughts and she looked up to face the scarlet haired mage looking curiously at her.

"What're you doing?"

It was then she remembered that she was standing in the middle of the platform, looking down and lost in her own thoughts. She quickly waved her hand, dismissing her weird behavior.

"Oh nothing. Nothing. Where's Gray?"

"He'll be here any moment. What's wrong? Are you alright? You're all red in the face."

"I'm-I'm okay.." Lucy mumbled, stealing a glance at Natsu. Her heart nearly stopped when she saw him already looking at her, giving her a playful wink when they locked eyes.

"Yo Lucy!"

'This guy.' she thought furiously. 'He'll be the death of me I swear.'

Clearing her throat, Lucy looked him in the eye, determined not to falter. "Morning Natsu! And Happy!"

'If he's going to act nonchalant, then I'm too!'

Focusing on the exceed instead, Lucy found it easier to cope up with his presence. However from her peripheral vision, she could see him looking at her with an amused expression.

'Oh is that how it's going to be? Whatever, just a reminder, I'm not giving up.'

'You mean that don't you?' was Lucy's reply with a sigh.

"What's with the atmosphere?"

Gray walked closer to the group, his bag slung across his shoulder.

"What'd you mean ice boy?"

"You wanna pick a fight right now flame for brains?!"

"Boys."

Erza's booming voice was enough to shut both of them up and the group made their way inside the train.

"Ugh." Natsu grumbled, already looking green. "Do we have to?"

"Yes you idiot." Gray retorted. "It's a three day trip otherwise."

"I'll keep him company." Wendy mumbled, looking slightly sick herself.

"C'mon guys! It's only 5 hours!" Lucy said brightly, trying to lighten up the mood.

"5 hours?!" both the dragon slayers exclaimed in shock, looking white.

"Happy! Why'd you pick out a job like that?!" Natsu asked in a panic.

"Don't look at me buddy. It was you who was so fired up to beat up some good ol' villans and this one offered the most reward."

The train stared moving slowly, and immediately both the dragon slayers were down. Natsu fell on Lucy's lap, while the latter tried to control her growing blush.

"What's the matter Carla?" Gray asked.

Lucy looked up to find the white exceed reading the job flyer, her eyebrows scrunched up in uncertainty.

"It's just that..I have a bad feeling about this."

"Why's that?"

"It isn't the job. It's the reward."

"What do you mean?" Happy asked, leaning forward.

"The job is easy enough. We have to defeat some bandits terrorizing this city. But it's such an easy task for us mages, then why is the reward set so high?"

"Maybe they're tough to beat? Remember Sylph Labyrinth?" Lucy thought out loud.

"Yeah..maybe it's just that.." Carla mumbled, still uncertain.

"Relax. If something does happen, we'll overcome it. We are together after all." Erza reassured.

"Yeah." Carla sighed, keeping the flyer down and revealing a small smile herself. "Of course we will."

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"What the hell?!"

From what she'd heard, the town of Tuscan had always been painted as lively and full of colour. But this, this was new.

"Guys, I don't know about you but I feel like this job is going to be a lot harder than the flyer revealed it to be."

The streets were dead, a dull, dark aura enveloping the environment. Wendy visibly shivered, and Erza, Natsu and Gray wore stoic expressions. It was like the entire town was empty.

"Let's look around." Erza began. "We'll-"

"Uhm..excuse me?"

A timid voice cut her off, a young woman emerging from one of the houses. "Are you by any chance the guild mages?"

"We are." Erza affirmed, showing the woman her guild mark. The woman visibly relaxed, letting out a heavy sigh. "Then please-"

"The guild mages are here!" a booming voice interrupted the exchange. "Fairy Tail wizards are here finally!"

Two well dressed men approached the group and from her peripheral vision, Lucy saw the woman disappearing back in the house.

'That's odd.' Lucy thought. 'Why is she doing that?' 

"I'm Mayor Wilfred." the man said, shaking Erza's hand. "And this is my secretary Winston. We are so grateful that you all decided to show up. We all really need your help."

"Yeah. We'll be glad to help."

"Let's go over to my house. I'll summarise you on the way."

The rest of the team followed him, but Lucy still glanced back every now and then, until the house was finally out of sight.

"So what is wrong here?"

The Mayor sighed, before answering her question. "If I'm being honest. Everything. Everything is wrong here."

"What do you mean?"

"You must've heard this about Tuscan. How it was such a lively and wealthy town."

"Of course. It's one of the most important ones."

"That's precisely why it has always been a centre of attack for dark guilds and bandits."

"Hm. Speaking of guilds, what happened to the magic guild that was here? Blue Moon?" Wendy asked.

"Destroyed. Completely." the mayor answered bluntly. "The mages ran for their lives."

Expressions of shock were on every member's face. A magic guild, completely destroyed?!

"That is why we need help more than ever. This is the strongest foe we've ever faced."

"We know the flyer didn't say it at all." Winston revealed. "But Tuscan is in a much dire situation that it let on."

"It was just the money first." the mayor continued. "But then people started disappearing too. Children, women, men. Everyone."

"We tried searching but found nothing. It was almost as if they disappeared."

"That's horrible.." Wendy gasped, covering her mouth in horror. Even Erza looked disturbed. 

"You can leave it all to us!" Natsu announced, punching his fists together. "We'd make sure everyone is safe!"

"What he said." Gray smiled, nodding his head.

"Uh Mayor Wilfred?" Lucy questioned, looking around. "Where are we? Are you sure it's the right place?"

They were a long ways ahead from the centre of the town, instead heading on towards what looked like the outskirts.

He didn't reply, instead increasing his pace. Lucy looked over to Winston, who just stared on straight ahead.

An uneasy feeling surrounded her, and Lucy was hesitant to continue on any further.

"Mr Wilfred." she demanded, stopping dead in her tracks. "You didn't answer my question. Where are you taking us?"

The mayor finally stopped, letting out an irritated sigh.

"You're the smart one, aren't you?"

"Wha-"

"That's too bad. And we were almost at the centre too."

"What do you mean?!" Erza demanded, taking a fighting stance.

The 'mayor' snapped his fingers and the ground began to shake. Immediately, Natsu and Wendy went green, looking sick and trying to hold on to anything for support.

The surroundings began to disperse, instead changing to something that looked an awful lot like a hall. A huge hall.

They were inside a building!

Wilfred smiled evilly, his clothes changing to that of a long, dark robe.

"Well, well, Fairy Tail." he began, his voice cold. "Looks like you're trapped."

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