A/N: A major rewrite, new and more juicy details had been added.

PROPHECY:
Into the future, doom shall befall
It is up to the chosen 5 to help the wizard of light to stop it
The stars of 88 must combine
Revelation of the stars and knight shall collide
A new relationship must not occur for it will usher forth of doom for all
When myth becomes truth, a naked star shall sacrifice the one its love the most
Once friends, now enemies, the wizard of light and darkness shall meet

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With a loud gasp, Lucy bolted straight up into a sitting position with alert present in her eyes. Realizing that she had fallen unconscious after the battle against Lupus, the blonde started to look around. She noted the similar lighting and wood structure, and soon concluded that she was in the infirmary of her guild.

Lucy sat in her bed for a moment, recollecting and laminating over her battle with Lupus, the spirit. Having enough of staying in bed longer than she had to, Lucy pulled away the covers and moved to dangle her legs over the edge of the bed. With movements of her body, the blonde then registered the pain-filled scream of her injuries that lacerated her entire body.

That move that Lucy had performed had left a bigger consequence than Lucy realized, and she needed to be careful next time. She begun to use her celestial magic and used it properties and started to heal her most painful injuries.

Five minutes later, Lucy was free from the injuries and stood to her feet. She turned to the door and approached it. Opening and closing the door behind her, she failed to register a body clashing into her with a slight yelp of joy.

"Lucy!" The body cried as it wrapped it body around Lucy.

Returning to Earth from the sudden embrace of the unknown entity, Lucy turned to see the source, only to find a tear-eyed Mira hugging her tightly.

"I'm so glad you're awake! You almost gave me a heart attack when they had came back with you unconscious! I though you were going to die!" Mira cried.

Lucy returned the hug for a moment before pulling away. "Sorry to worry you guys. How long had I been out?"

"For couple of hours."

Lucy sighed with a slight sweat rolling down her head. "I think you are too dramatic sometimes."

Mira smiled and clasped Lucy's hand into hers. "Please don't do that again."

"Do what?"

For one minute, Mira was smiling, then the next minute, a dark aura surrounded her, making Lucy shrink back again. "Don't scare me like that again."

Lucy nervously smiled and tried her hardest to not shrink back from the sudden change in Mira's personality. "O-Of course."

Then the atmosphere around Mira changed to an aura that Lucy was used to. Lucy noted to herself to never anger Mira, she didn't want to find out what would happen .

"Anyway, where are Erza and the others?" Lucy asked, trying to change the subject, also wondered where they were.

"Erza's eating her cake, and the boys are fighting."

"I see. I'll go and meet with them. Thank you, Mira." Lucy smiled as she walked with Mira down the stairs, into the room where most of the members were. Mira and Lucy split ways as soon as they reached the base of the stairs, Mira preparing to serve the customers, and Lucy heading to greet her redhead friend.

Gray and Natsu was a table away from the bar, glaring at each other menacingly. Gray was in the process of stripping out of his clothes, and Natsu alighted his fist on fire as he threw insults toward to stripping mage.

Lucy ignored them and made her way to Erza and sat on a stool next to her. "Hey Erza."

Erza looked up from the sudden movement and the register of a voice that she didn't expect to hear for a couple more hours, surprised to see Lucy already up. "Lucy? Is it okay for you to be up already? You had all of those injuries."

Lucy nervously chuckled. "True, but I used my healing magic to heal all of my injuries. And the magic that I had used had left an enormous strain on my body, plus I was really struggling when I had faced him.

"I almost forgot that you can heal yourself. And I've been wondering on why they called you 'Princess'." Erza raised an eyebrow toward the blonde, wanting an explanation.

Lucy sighed and placed her head on the table. "I really can't talk about it to anyone. Only to someone I can really trust with my life."

"Well, you can trust us, can you?" Erza said as she plucked a forkful of cake into her mouth, already reveling in the sweet taste that the cake offered.

Lucy sat back up, looking at Erza. "It's really sensitive information. I really can't risk it. Plus there are some things that I really don't understand."

Erza stared at Lucy for a moment. "If I let you have a slice of my cake, will you tell me?" Erza said, before hovering a forkful of cake in front of Lucy's mouth.

"Eh?" Lucy blinked, staring at the cake, then at Erza with narrowed eyes. "Bribing me will not work."

Erza did not speak. She merely moved the cake closer to Lucy's mouth. Lucy sighed and moved the cake away. "Just give me awhile. I promise."

Erza pouted for a moment before eating the cake herself. "Fine. I will ask you later. Anyway, I have something for you." Erza said, digging into one of her pockets.

"What is it?" Lucy inquired, watching Erza digging into one of her pockets. Erza took out something in her hand and handed it to Lucy. "This was next to you when we found you unconscious."

Lucy eyes widened as she took the object from the Erza's hand and observed it. The key of Lupus. It was riddled with markings that was on Lupus when she had fought him. Additionally, Lucy couldn't feel any magical powers coming from the key. That was not a good sign.

Lucy stood up with haste and looked around the guild to find someone that would be the only people that could figure out what had happened to this key. Spotting her, Lucy made her way to Levy and sat in front of her and, forcibly closing the book that she was reading.

Levy looked up with annoyance. "Hey! What was that for!?" The bookworm was not fond of being roughly interrupted like that, unless there was some important issues...

Lucy handed her the key. "Sorry. But I need you to see what's wrong with this. Also what these symbols mean."

Levy takes the key from Lucy and scanned it for a moment. "I need to go to the library and see what these means." Levy looked up, already forgiving the blonde for interrupting her reading. "I'll find what this is." Levy stood up and went to the library, with Jet and Droy not too far behind, following her into the library.

Lucy sighed, hopeful that Levy would figure something out. She sat on the chair, and rested her head on her hands, frustrated about the things that had happened.

Lupus. Of the Great Wolf. One of the Transcendents. There would be no way for him to-

"Lucy?"

Lucy turned around to see Erza and the boys standing behind her, looking at her curiously.

"Are you okay?" Natsu asked.

"You look pale." Gray observed.

"Did something happen?" Erza crossed her arms.

Lucy stayed silent, staring each of the mage that expressed their concern for the blonde. She didn't know then for long, but it felt like she knew them for a long time, and these mages trusted Lucy with all of their might, almost making Lucy guilty of not telling Erza about her whole mission. Lucy studied them one more time, boring into the deep pools of their eyes, searching for a resolute truth that the can be trusted, because Lucy needed help. As much as she denies it, she needed it. Only one question remained: Can they be trusted?

With a silent deep escaping her mouth, Lucy stood and faced the mages with a small smile. She's going to risk it and tell these people, these mages, her friends that she had grown fond of.

"Follow me. I'll tell you everything." Lucy spoke before walking forward, toward the stairs where Makarov's office where. She could register the footsteps of her friends silently following her.

Erza knew what Lucy was about to reveal, and was anxious to what the blonde may say. Natsu and Gray was curious and unsure of what Lucy was talking about, but they still wanted to know, so they followed the footsteps of the blonde.

After going through the process of knocking, opening, and closing the door, Lucy walked deeper into the room Makarov's office, secretly creating a force field around them. The last thing that the blonde needed was someone eavesdropping on her, leaking the sensitive information that Lucy couldn't afford to reveal.

Makarov looked up from his sack of papers to see Lucy and the rest of the team standing in his office with a serious look on their face. He was more surprised to see that Lucy was already up from her injuries after Erza had ran into the guild with her in her arms. Nonetheless, he was glad to see that Lucy was back on her feet.

"Glad to see that you are okay. How may I help you? Was the mission a success?" Makarov asked with a smile to dissipate the rising tension that he could feel.

"The mission went well. But, there had been complications."

"The mission was successful. But there had been some complications." Lucy responded as she stepped forward.

"Yeah. They said something about this Princess." Natsu muttered, crossing his arms.

"Plus, we didn't get to fight." Gray frowned in disappointment.

"That because you iced that entire place!' Natsu glared at Gray.

"Wasn't my fault!" Gray retorted, raising his fists, ready to fight the dragon slayer.

"Enough!" Erza bashed their heads together to quiet them.

Makarov sighed and turned to Lucy. "What happened?"

"The mission went fine. But as the letter had stated, there was a mage with celestial magic. It turned out to be a celestial spirit." Lucy explained.

"Is that so?"

"It was a fallen spirit. It also had been cursed."

"Cursed?" Erza wondered, her eyes wondering to the blonde questioningly.

"But what bothered me the most was that it was one of the Transcendents. And it seemed that the spirit had told the enemy about everything." Lucy crossed her arms.

"Everything... Even the prophecy?" Makarov mumbled

"Yes. The spirit had revealed everything. Weaknesses, strengths, everything."

"And who was this spirit?" Erza cut in.

Lucy turned to Erza. "Lupus the Great Wolf. One of the Transcendents." She turned back to Makarov. "Lupus told them everything. The enemy will soon act."

Makarov stared at Lucy for a moment before sighing. "I'm too old to deal with this." Makarov stood up and walked toward the door. "I will be visiting some old friends and speak to them about this, hopefully to find some additional answers for you. I'll be gone for a few days. Mira will be in charge for the time being." The Makarov left the room.

There was silence for a few moments before the mages started to bombard Lucy with countless questions. Erza remained silent, with questions in her mind that made her question on some things.

"Prophecy?"

"Enemy? Do we get to fight!?"

"What's happening?"

"Tell us!"

"ENOUGH!" Erza shouted, quieting the boys. She then turned to Lucy with a stern look. "Lucy. Tell us. What's happening?"

"A war of destruction will soon be upon us. More than 400 years ago, a prophecy was foretold about a wizard of darkness bring about destruction in which this world will be no more." Lucy explained.

"What was the prophecy?" Gray asked, rubbing his bump on his head.

Lucy complied and spoke the first line. "Into the future, doom shall befall."

"'Into the future'?" Natsu enquired, liking the idea of futures and the like.

"It is up to the chosen 5 to help the wizard of light to stop it." Lucy continued.

"The chosen 5? Who are they? And who is this wizard of light?" Gray asked.

"I am the wizard of light, and as for the chosen 5...I do not know." Lucy answered.

"I see. Is there more?"

"The stars of 88 must combine." Lucy spoke the next line.

"What does that mean?" Natsu rubbed his head confusingly.

"I must collect all 88 celestial keys." Lucy responded.

"Why?"

"I was told that I would be able to have the ability to summon the Celestial King when I have all 88 keys in my possessions."

"That's so cool!" Natsu grinned. "Do I get to fight him?"

"Quiet!" Erza turned to Natsu with a glare. She turned back to Lucy. "Continue."

"Revelation of the stars and knight shall collide." Lucy spoke the next line.

"...The knight is obviously Erza. But what is the revelation of the stars?" Gray queried

Lucy shook her head. "It may not be Erza. There are other plenty of Knights out there." Lucy glared at Erza for a moment. "The revelation of the stars might be me. With the possession of all 88 keys, I become the guidance of the stars. But I can't really imagine Erza and I fighting."

"But we had clashed." Erza pointed out.

"Perhaps. But that's the thing. I really don't think that was part of the prophecy."

"So you are saying that we may fight again?" Erza crossed her arms.

Lucy sighed. "Like I said, I do not know."

"Just get on with the next prophecy!" Natsu interrupted, wanting to know more.

"A new relationship must not occur for it will usher forth of doom for all." Lucy complied and recited the next line.

"A relationship? With who?" Gray asked.

Lucy shook her head shook her head again. "I do not know."

"What's the next line?" Natsu asked, picking his nose, not entirely interested in romances and shit.

"When myth becomes truth, a naked star shall sacrifice the one it's love the most." Lucy recited.

"A naked star? Sounds dirty." Natsu snickered.

"Shut up flame breath!" Gray shouted.

Erza was quick to punch both of them before a fight escalated to a physical fight. She turned back to Lucy and gestured her to continue.

"The last line is: Once friends, now enemies, the wizard of light and darkness shall meet."

"Sounds...interesting." Erza commented. "The wizard of light and darkness...who are they?"

"The wizard of darkness may be Zeref. Maybe. As for the wizard of light...I do not know."

"I know it's not you. Zeref was from 400 years ago. There would be no way for you to know him." Erza said.

Lucy nervously smiled. "I actually had met Zeref before."

Erza blinked, and the boys shot up their feet, "What!?"

"I...well...I had come from the past. Zeref's time. Before I had left this world, I had spoken to Zeref, even though I was really little. You could say that we were accomplice of some sort."

"Wait...where did you disappeared into?" Natsu asked.

"I had been in the Celestial Realm for only 5 years. But in this world, more than 400 years had already passed.

"That's...so COOL!" Natsu beamed, grinning widely. "Take me there sometimes!"

"Shut up flame breath." Gray growled at Natsu before turning back to Lucy. "But that does sounds cool." Gray smiled, crossing his arms.

"What about your family?" Erza inquired.

"Ah...well, my mother did join me in the Realm, but left after 3 years. She was one of the founders of Fairy Tail. That's why I'm here. As for my father, I really don't know where he is, but I know he's has to do something with prophecy."

"I see. So this war, when is it?" Erza asked.

"I really don't know. I could be days. Weeks. Months. Years until the war starts." Lucy confessed.

"Well, when the war do start, we'll give them a good beating." Natsu grinned, pumping his fists together.

"I'll freeze their brains in process!" Gray added.

"Heh. Thanks guys. Can you keep this a secret?"

Natsu and Gray grinned. "Of course!"

"I'm hungry." Natsu muttered before heading for the door. He turned around a bit, "Imma leave for some food. See ya'll later, Luigi, scary knight, ice princess."

Then Natsu left, leaving Gray, Lucy, and Erza alone in the room. But it wasn't long till gray grumbled and stalked out of the room, mumbling something about revenge.

Now silence filled the air as Lucy stayed unmoving, noticing that Erza had yet to move a muscle. Curiously, she turned to face the redhead, see that her eyes were boring into her very being with a blank expression.

"Is there something wrong?" Lucy spoke up, snapping Erza out of her dead state.

"One of the lines in the prophecy bothers me." The redhead confessed.

"Really? Which one?"

"The one where a new relationship must not occur. It had never stated who was not allowed to be a relationship with."

"Hmm. Yes, you're right." Lucy muttered before looking into Erza's eyes. "Is there anyone you like?"

"Huh? Why would you say that?"

"Well, you said that you were bothered by it. So it must mean that you wanted a relationship with someone...only to be bothered by it because of the prophecy."

Erza sighed and looked away. "You got me. I sort of...fallen in love with someone."

"What will you do about it?" Lucy asked.

Erza turned to Lucy. "I do not know. I was about to confess soon, but your prophecy made me...hesitant on doing it."

"I see. Well, the prophecy never said that it had to be a romantic one, it may be a different type of relationship. So, I think you can take the risk." Lucy smiled reassuringly.

"I see. Thank you." Erza smiled.

Lucy started for the door. "I need to talk to Levy to see if she knows anything about that key. Talk to you later." Lucy smiled as she disabled to force field and stumbled out of the room, and sauntered her way to where the library was. Walking into the library, Lucy started to look around until she spotted Levy, surrounded by many books scattered around her..

Levy was wearing the wind glasses that allowed her to read through a single book within minutes. Lucy stood at the door way for a view minutes as she watched Levy finishing up a book and putting it aside, picking up a new book, reading it almost instantly. The blonde then moved to sit  in the chair across Levy, the latter not fully registering the presence of a new occupant in the library.  

"Find anything?" Lucy spoke up after a view more moments of silence, causing Levy to jump a little in fright.

"L-Lu-chan!? Don't scare me like that." Levy looked up with slightly wide eyes as she eyed the blonde that sat across her.

Lucy chuckled a little. "Sorry about that. How's the research going?"

Levy sighed as she looked at the book she was currently reading. "Well...this marking on this key is definitely a curse. And it seemed to be restricting any magic to be released."

"Think you can get rid of it?" Lucy asked, hoping that it can be broken.

Levy read through her book some more before looking back at Lucy. "I need to read and research some more."

Lucy groaned a little. "Is there anything I can help with?"

"Hmm..." Levy hummed as she looked back down and begun to read through her book.

Lucy waited for a moment before deciding that levy was already in her little world. She turned to see Jet and Droy sleeping at one of the tables. With a deep sigh, Lucy got to her feet and left the room, opting to go home and rest.

...

It had been couple of days since that battle. Lucy and her team had received their fat reward from the council for completing the mission. Lucy was still waiting for Levy to find some other information about that key and the weird marks on it. Natsu, Happy, and Gray was nowhere to be found. Lucy assumed them to be spending their new-found hardcore money and buy something epic. In Natsu's and Happy's case, it was food. Erza had been distant recently. Lucy figured it was the crush she had mentioned. She wondered who it was.

Lucy sat at the bar, enjoying a cup of milkshake that Mira gave her for free. She was tensed for many things as she sipped on her milkshake. The cursed key. Lupus's words. The prophecy. The forbidden relationship. The unknown myth, and a sacrifice. The battle between the wizard of light and darkness. None of them makes any sense. Then there's this unknown power that Mavis had stated that Lucy has.

An inevitable war of doom. Can Lucy really stop it? She couldn't even fight Lupus properly because she didn't want to hurt him. Spirits feel pain...Lupus doesn't deserve pain. None of the spirits deserve them.

"Lu-Chan!" A loud feminine shout called out.

Lucy paused in her reverie and turned to see Levy running to her with the key in one hand and a sack of paper in the other.

"Levy? Did you figure something out?" Lucy asked as Levy sat next to Lucy with glint in her eyes.

Levy handed her the key to Lucy. "Yes."

"What are they?" Lucy asked as she took the key from Levy.

Levy turned to the sack of paper that was in her hand and begun to read from it. Lucy listened with intensity of not wanting to miss any important details that she needed to know.

"Well, the markings on that key is a very special and rare curse that can only be broken when combined by the other three cursed item."

"Huh? What does that mean?" Lucy scrunched her eyebrows in confusion.

"Basically, there are four cursed items. You had already...more or less, defeated one cursed key. If that key was cursed by a more common curse, then it would already been lifted already. But that key had been cursed by a very rare one."

Lucy took a deep breath. "So I need to find three more cursed keys in order to break the curse completely? Is it like a body link magic?

Levy nodded. "Yes. Other than that, there is no other way to break them completely."

"Okay. But why does it have to be four keys that are connected and not...like three or five keys that are cursed or connected?" Lucy asked, seeing how it was a little...too descriptive.

Levy read through her notes again for a moment before looking back at Lucy. "It what the book says. It may or may not be true."

Lucy deeply sighed. "Anything else?"

Levy shook her head. "No. But I can go back and see if I can find anything else for you." Levy offered.

Lucy sighed and begun to think for a moment before turning back to Levy. "Levy...can you do a quick research on the Transcendents of the Celestial Spirits?"

"Transcendents?" Levy inquired.

"Yes. There are four of them. I think that there is a chance that the other three cursed keys are the other three Transcendents. I want to know what the world know about them." Lucy explained.

Levy smiled and nodded. "Will do, Lu-Chan!" Levy stood up and ran back to the library with much more intensity and joy of being helpful. Lucy was about to get up and follow her to ask her if she needed any help until she heard a voice behind her.

"Who are the Transcendents?"

Lucy turned to see a curious girl, clad in armor.

"Huh? Oh...well...where can I begin?" Lucy was surprised to see Erza, considering how distant see had been, not that she minded.

Erza stared at Lucy for a moment before sitting in a chair next to her, beckoning Lucy to sit as well. Lucy silently complied and sat down, staring at the redhead that seemed stiff for some reason. 

"You can start from the beginning."

"Um...Okay. But why do you want to know?" Lucy asked.

Erza was silent for a moment before speaking. "I...It seemed interesting to know?"

Lucy stared at Erza for a moment before a deep sigh escaped her breath, and begun to explain. "Well...the Transcendents are the four silver-keyed spirits that are powerful, almost to the level of the golden-keyed spirits. They are powerful, but for some reason, they do not receive much recognition. They are known for being spirits that brought peace to this world after the war with the dragons 400 years ago. I heard they had went missing when I came back. I didn't think much of it at the time, knowing that I would come across them eventually."

"...Who are these spirits?" Erza asked.

"The one I had fought is Lupus the Great Wolf. The other three missing celestial spirits are Draco, Pegasus, and Phoenix. As powerful as they are, they had went missing. And I want to know why." Lucy murmured the last part.

"And Lupus gave you a hard time?"

Lucy sighed. "I was afraid. I was confused. I was unsure of what to do." She looked up to stare at Erza in the eyes. "I didn't want to hurt Lupus."

Erza smiled. "That makes sense. So you were pulling your punches while fighting him?"

Lucy nodded. "Yes."

"In the end, you managed to get his key."

Lucy nodded with a frown. "Yes. But at the same time, I haven't. For the prophecy to come true, I need all working keys to be at my disposal. But for some reason, I cannot summon Lupus. I cannot use his power."

"So what will you do about it?" Erza inquired.

Lucy was silent for a moment, trying to fill in the pieces, and thinking about the mission. The mission...the mission...the other man...Lucy turned back to Erza with a questioningly look. "Erza...what happened to that man you fought?"

Erza sighed and looked away with a guilty look. "He escaped."

Lucy took a deep breath. "Alright. Thanks." Lucy stood up and started to walk out of the guild, making her way to her place, but was suddenly stopped in her track by a pull on her arm.

She turned to see Erza with guilt painted on her face. "I know you asked me to take care of the man. And I'm sorry for that."

Lucy smiled and touched that Erza was apologizing for something that wasn't important. "It's okay Erza."

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to visit the council."

A/N: Hope you like this!

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Toodles!~~