A/N: *This is a major rewrite!*

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

Please enjoy? 😢

"I'll come with you."

Lucy stared at the girl cad in armor that claimed such declaration, questioning her skeptically. "Just because I had told you some sensitive information doesn't mean you can follow me everywhere."

"...Well...I want to help with this quest of yours." Erza murmured with a slight tint of pink painted on her cheeks, to which Lucy failed to notice.

"All I am doing I just visiting the council." Lucy flat toned.

Erza pouted a little. "I can be your escort, and help you." She wanted to spend more time with her...and probably understand what these feelings of hers were.

Lucy sighed inwardly. "You're not going to take a 'no' for an answer, are you?"

Erza merely stared back at the blonde with a blank face that already answered for Lucy's question.

"Fine." Lucy gave up. "But you need to change your clothes."

"Why? What's wrong with my clothing?" Erza frowned as she looked down at her attire, finding nothing wrong with it.

"When I I travel, I use magic, it's called a void and it allows me to go through them and travel anywhere I want. But I need to have celestial clothes to be able to do that, I cannot survive in it without the celestial clothes. You're no exception."

Erza nodded in understanding. "Makes sense. But where can I get the clothes?"

"I'll summon them for you."

...

After Erza was situated in the celestial clothes provided by Lucy, the blonde then proceeded to open the void, letting Erza go through first.

Erza was immediately fascinated when she had stepped through the void. The void, in Erza's opinion was breath-taking and beautiful. It was as if she was in space riddled with galaxies, surrounded by the numerous shinning stars.

"Come on." A stern voice snapped Erza out of her ogling.

Erza turned around to see a familiar cloaked figure that she recognized. Lucy stood, wearing the cloak top to bottom and stared at Erza through the hood, wanting to get this meeting with the council over with.

"Why wear the cloak now?" Erza asked with curiosity as she made her way toward the cloaked girl.

Lucy turned to one particular direction and begun to walk forward, expecting Erza to follow.  "The council does not know what I look like and I intend on keeping it that way."

"Ah, that would make sense." Erza mumbled as she walked in step with the cloaked girl beside her. "How can you travel though this?"

"It's complicated. It takes time to get used to where you can open a void. It's all about mathematics and memorization."

"Oh. I see..." Erza felt a little awkward she continued to walk next to Lucy, unsure of what else to talk about.

Couple minutes later, Lucy suddenly stopped. "We're here." She motioned her hand sideways and reopened the void, revealing a greenery scene of grass and trees. She allowed Erza to exit first before stepping back into the human world and close the void.

"Follow me." Lucy called out to Erza as she started to walk in the direction of a large building that rested in the distance. Erza eagerly complied, following her cloaked companion through the scenery to where the council lies.

Weaving through the grassland of their surroundings, and making their way into the council building, Lucy guided Erza to where all of the councilmen usually hang out. In the corner of her eyes, she noticed the tension and the grave look that she radiated. As concerned as she was, she ignored it and continued to approach the room of the councilmen.

Now standing in front of the councilmen, and having their attention on both the Fairy Tail mages, Lucy again, observed the rising tension that sent chills down her spine, the tension coming from the redhead. Curiously, she turned to face the armored girl only to see hatred and anger in the pools of chocolate.

"What's wrong?" Lucy whispered.

Erza didn't say anything at first, until she turned to face the cloaked girl with a soft, yet grim expression. "I just don't trust one of these councilmen."

Lucy didn't respond to that, silently agreeing with her. She didn't trust the council, as sincere as they were, she noted how corrupted it was. Lucy quickly eyed one councilman in particular, questioning his reason for being here.

"Gamma Ibis, It's good to see you. We must thank you for the mission you had completed." One of the councilmen spoke up, eliminating any silence that rested between the councilmen and the Fairy Tail mages.

"What do we owe the pleasure for you being here?" Another councilmen added.

"The letter that you had sent, it had spoken of a mage that knows celestial magic. I request you to notify me if there are any other requests or rumors of anyone possessing celestial magic."

"I see. Very well. You will be the first person to know when we find a mage possessing celestial magic. May we ask why?" One of the councilmen asked.

"The mission you requested me to do, there had been complications, and the mages we had fought had ties to the knowledge of celestial magic and something more...dangerous." Lucy explained, trying to be careful in not revealing too much.

"Dangerous? What kind of dangers?"

Lucy shook her head. "I'm afraid that I do not know the full extent of the danger. But it will cause casualty."

"Hmm...I see. We'll do our best to find some information about mages possessing celestial magic."

Lucy nodded "Thank you. I must be going now." She then turned on her heels and started to walk out, hearing the footsteps of her companion following her.

Lucy remained quiet as she exited the building, out in the greenery landscape that surrounded the council. Erza followed behind the cloaked girl, with many grave thoughts raging in her mind. She absently followed Lucy in the void and glanced at the blonde everyone once in a while.

As soon as Lucy discarded the cloak, Erza spoke up. "Why did you ask them for information on celestial magic?"

"There is a high chance that I may find the missing keys, and that man that had escaped. He may lead us to the missing keys...and I will have him tell us what and how he knows about the prophecy and such." Lucy explained as she walked to the direction of where their guild should be.

"I see, is that why you weren't mad that I had let the man escape?"

Lucy stopped and turned to Erza with a frown. "Even if I didn't need the man to locate the missing keys, I wouldn't be mad at you. I think it's better for him to escape than having you die on me." Lucy turned and started walking forward again, missing the tint blush that had formed on Erza's cheek.

"By the way, you said that you didn't trust one of the councilmen. Who were are they?" Lucy looked over her shoulder to glance Erza.

Erza was silent for a moment, conforming an answer that made her so conflicted. "Siegrian...I don't trust him."

"Siegrain? The hologram?" Lucy perked up.

Erza stared at the back of Lucy's figure with questioningly look. "Hologram? Seigrain is the twin brother of Jellal."

"Jellal?"

"I-I...Jellal and I...had a past...something happened..." Erza stuttered.

Lucy suddenly stopped and turned around to face Erza, sensing the hesitant tone in her voice. "What happened?"

"Jellal and I used to be friends. We were taken as slaves for the revival of Zeref. Then we managed a riot. Somewhere amidst the riot, Jellal had turned evil. I was the only one to escape as a slave."

Lucy narrowed her eyes as she turned around and started to walk away with these new information sinking in. "Siegrain is not real. My best guess is that this Jellal person had used a hologram to infiltrate the council."

"What?" Erza's eyes widened at the new revelation that the blonde had revealed.

"And reviving Zeref...that will not be possible." Lucy added as she continued walked forward.

Erza ran forward and harshly grabbed Lucy's arm to stop her in her tracks, demanding more answers. "What are you talking about!? How do you know that Seigrain is a hologram!?"

Lucy turned her head to glance at Erza who had an angry, yet conflicted look painted on her face. "I have the ability to sense magical energy from every mages I see, even normal people. However, I cannot sense any magical energy coming from Seigrain."

Erza loosened her grip on Lucy as she let in the information sink in, not entirely wanting to believe in the accommodations that Lucy had claimed.

"I consider the councilmen fools to not realize the corruption that they allowed to hold the position of power." Lucy intoned with a grave tone of distaste.

"And Zeref? Why you say that reviving him will not be possible?" Erza inquired.

"Because he had never been asleep, or dead for all that matter." Lucy answered as she watched Erza's eyes widened. The blonde couldn't tell it if was from fear or from something else.

"What do you know!?" Erza was becoming hysterical. She was filled with uncertainty and guilt...If Lucy was telling the truth, then all of that effort that Jellal had done to her friends, for the claimed 'ceremony' of he had promised to finish...Then all was for nothing.

Lucy closed her eyes as she turned around and took couple of steps forward before stopping, retaining some distance between her and Erza. "You are free to believe me or not. I have my own matters to attend to." She turned around to look at Erza dead in the eyes, "I do not know who Jellal is to you, but you need to understand; if he is connected to Zeref, I will not hesitate to kill him if I have no choice."

Erza flinched at Lucy's declaration. She gritted her teeth and clenched her fists for a moment before walking up to Lucy with a serious look. "If you are going to face him. I want to come too."

"Is there a reason why?" Lucy raised an eyebrow at the redhead.

Erza hung her head, and kept silent for a moment before confessing. "I had lost...I betrayed my friends. I left them behind. I turned my back on them...all for the sake of my freedom. I needed to do it, I had to do it...or my friends would've been in danger. I had been waiting for a time to come back and try and save them...but I could never gather the courage to do so. I need to face Jellal and finish this once and for all."

Lucy kept silent as Erza rambled about her guilt with her old friends and her relationship with them. "When you do face Jellal, what will you expect?"

Erza looked up to see Lucy looking at her expectantly. "What do you mean?"

"Are you hoping to save him and make him go back to our side?" Lucy knew that what Erza was thinking, she knew that Erza cared for her friends. And hearing Erza talk about her old friends, Lucy could make out some old feelings...especially toward Jellal. And she wondered if Erza was hoping to go back and save Jellal as well, along with her other old friends.

"If I could...I would." Erza confessed.

Lucy silently chuckled at the confession of her redhead companion. Erza, a soft and kindhearted woman that only cares for her comrades. But she needs to know that those feelings are vulnerable and lethal, as it can be used against her.

"Erza. I will warn you. Things will not go as you plan. Things will always go south. You may come, but come at your own risks." Lucy warned, allowing for Erza to come with her.

Erza nodded, understanding and accepting any consequences that may come her way. Lucy gave her a small smile before turning to the side and motioned her hands to the side, opening the void in the process.

After both of the mages were back into the human world, into the town of magnolia, Lucy immediately made her way toward the direction of the guild.

"What will you do now?" Erza called out after her as she walked in step with the blonde.

"I need to take care of something before I go after Jellal, I need to recollect the information that you had given me." Lucy answered as she continued to walk to the guild.

She was having a bad feeling about Jellal and Erza's story about him is...disturbing. There's no doubt that he was brainwashed. But there's something else that made her uneasy. Zeref...does he have something to do with Jellal? Did he brainwash him?

The missing Transcendents. Seigrain and Jellal. Zeref and Jellal. Are they connected?

With the guild in view, Lucy sped up, leaving Erza behind, and stormed inside the building. Immediately, she started to look around, looking for a particular mage that she could always count on. Not seeing her in the common room, she proceeded to the library, hoping that she could find her there.. Spotting the girl behind piles of books, the blonde sauntered to the girl to find out if she had found any more information that she had asked her to find.

"Levy, any luck on the Transcendents?" Lucy asked, approaching the bookworm from behind.

Levy jolted a little from the sudden sound of a voice and turned around to see Lucy behind her with a blank expression. "L-Lu-Chan!? I told you stop sneaking up on me like that!"

Lucy chuckled a little and sat down next to Levy. "Sorry. Did you find anything on the Transcendents?"

Levy narrowed her eyes a little at Lucy before turning back to her book that she was reading. "Well, the Transcendents are basically the Four Legendary mages. Lu-Chan, you said that they were celestial spirits, right?"

Lucy nodded.

"Well, according to records, the Transcendents are the legendary mages. It is said that each of them are capable of taking down a single dragon on their own. They were last seen after the battle of the dragons. Their identities remains unknown, and their power is unknown. Some people even say that they are immortal and invincible."

Lucy sweatdropped more and more as she continued to hear more one what is known about the Transcendents. "O-Okay...That sounds...too off."

Levy looked up to Lucy. "Is that so?"

Lucy sighed and crossed her arms. "The Transcendents are known for their power. Almost to the level of the zodiacs. They are celestial spirits. They needed to be summoned in order to fight. There is no way the Transcendents could be able to fight the dragons alone, they need owners in order to do that. Unless...they had become the fallen. But that wouldn't make sense. If they had become a fallen, then why would they fight the dragons?" Lucy rambled under her breath.

Levy stared at Lucy unknowingly and unsure of what she was talking about. "U-Um..."

Lucy sighed deeply as she stood back to her feet. "I'm too young to be dealing with this." She grumbled as walked out of the library hastily, making her way to the bar, ordering some milkshake from Mira in the process.

Lucy sat silently in her seat, trying to clear mind as she waited for her order.

The mystery revolving around the Transcendents and the cursed keys. Lucy wondered if it had to do anything with the prophecy. Will it play the part as a sacrifice? Or is it a myth that becomes a truth?

"Lu-Chan!" A loud shrieking voice reached Lucy.

A with a tired sigh, the blonde turned to the side to see Levy running to her with a thick book in her hands. "What is it?"

"I had something else to tell you. But you just walked off." Levy pouted as she sat next to Lucy.

"Sorry. I'm just stressed about all of this." Lucy said as her order came. She immediately took a sip of her milkshake, already loving the taste of it.

"Anyway. I did some more research on that cursed key." Levy begun, opening her book to a page she had bookmarked.

Lucy perked up at the mention of what Levy had said and gave her her undivided attention. "Go on."

"First, can I see that cursed key?" Levy asked, extending her hand, waiting for the key to placed on her hand.

Lucy blinked once before complying and handed her the key from the void. Levy takes it and hovered it next to a picture that Lucy couldn't really make out.

"There's no doubt. This marking on this key is the curse of Zeref." Levy concluded after a moment of comparing the key to a picture in the book.

Lucy was silent as her eyes widened. "Zeref?" She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Zeref and her keys...they had to be connected now.

But one question remained: Jellal. Where did Jellal stand? Erza had said that he will try to revive Zeref and rule the world. But what did not make sense to Lucy was that Jellal was a victim and led the riot...only to turn evil and go to the other side. Unless...someone did brainwash him...

Lucy reopen her eyes and turned to Levy. "Thank you." Without waiting for her reply, Lucy stood up from the bar and looked around to search for Erza. Immediately, she sees the armored girl at a table, eating a strawberry cake with a glint of joy in her eyes, and made her way toward the redhead.

In the corner of her eyes, Erza noticed movement of a mage approaching her. Turning to see the entity of the mage approaching her, she sees Lucy with a stern look painted on her face. Concern and anxious, the redhead dropped her fork on the plate and fully faced the blonde.

"Lucy? Is everything alright?" Erza queried.

"We leave now. Are you still willing to come?" Lucy asked

Erza was silent, unsure of what she was talking about, until the realization came to her. Her surprised expression quickly turned to that of determination. "Yes."

"We need to bring the boys as well."

"Why?" Erza wondered as she scrunched her face in confusion.

"We are a team. You guys had taught me that. We will go in as a team, and leave as a team." Lucy slightly smiled.

Erza was silent for a moment before sighing with a small smile. "Alright. When do we leave?"

"As soon as we gather everyone."

Erza nodded. "I'll go get Gray."

Lucy watched as Erza left to go and fetch Gray. She turned around to search for the other member of her team, only to find Natsu and Happy at a table, snoozing their life away.

She walked up to them and shook them awake. "Natsu. Happy. Wake up. We have a job to go to."

At those words, Natsu and Happy bolted straight up with glint in their eyes. "A job? Let's do it Luigi!"

Lucy sighed and bonked him on the head, but not hard, but enough to get the message across. "Please get my name right."

...

Once the team was assembled outside of the guild, Lucy turned to Erza with a question in mind. "Do you know where Jellal is?"

"Who's Jellal?" Natsu questioned, cocking his head to the side.

"Far east, past Shirotsume town. It's a desert wasteland over there." Erza answered, ignoring Natsu's question.

Lucy nodded and opened a void in front of them to which Natsu, Happy, and Gray exclaimed excitedly.

"Whoa!"

"This is cool!"

"Aye!"

Lucy blocked their path before they tried to enter the void. She quickly summon a pile of celestial clothes for them to wear. "Put these on."

"Even me?" Happy asked.

Lucy nodded.

Couple minutes later, after everyone was situated in their celestial clothes, Lucy allowed the mages to enter and closed the void once they were all in the void.

Natsu, Gray, and Happy were making eye-ogling expression as they scanned their surroundings. Lucy and Erza remained quiet as they walked forward. Lucy was tensed about the missing spirits and Zeref's connection to them. Erza was tensed about meeting her old friends, but was mostly concerned for Lucy.

A young girl being burdened with the weight of the world on her shoulders, especially from such a young age. Erza could not imagine how it felt like, to know that the world depended on you.

"We are here." Lucy spoke, interrupting the eye-ogling of the boys and Erza's reverie and opened a void and let them out first.

"Where are we?" Natsu asked as soon as everyone was out of the void.

"We are in the middle of nowhere. In the far-east, past Shirotsume. The place where Erza had said Jellal would be should be around here." Lucy explained, scanning past the horizon of the wasteland they were in.

"We were in that void for only a minute. That was fast." Gray commented as he looked around.

"Aye!" Happy cheered, sprouting wings to fly instead of walking.

Lucy silently called upon the power of Aquila for the power of vision. The power of the equal, now enchanting Lucy's vision, allowed the blonde to search beyond the horizon. She started to search on all sides that the blonde could access to, hoping to catch a glimpse of what Erza had described.

Not a second later, Lucy spotted something north of their position. She used her magical senses to determine if it had some...suspicious magical levels.

Darkness.

Hatred.

Agony.

Fear.

That was all Lucy could sense. She pointed in the direction of which she could feel the agonizing entities of depression and evil. "It's this way."

"Alright! Let's go!" Natsu roared, running straight toward the place, already smelling them. Happy soon followed behind.

"Hey! Wait up!" Gay yelled, running after him.

Lucy sighed as she and Erza ran after them in annoyance.

10 minutes later, the mages stood in front of the gigantic building that looked so much like a castle. Natsu, Happy, and Gray was staring at it, muttering how cool it looked. Erza remained silent as she stared at the building before her, filled with nostalgia.

Lucy was about to say something about making a plan until there was a deep voice resonating in the air.

"So glad you mages could join the party. Especially you, Erza. And it is a pleasure to finally meet you, Princess."

"Who's there!?" Natsu roared, looking around with alighted flames in his hands.

"Show yourself so I can ice your face!" Gray shouted, getting into his fighting stance.

Lucy stayed mute and unmoving as she tried to sense where the mysterious voice was. Only to sense it deep in the castle.

Erza remained quiet, trusting Lucy's decision to remain quiet and still, but she was restless and afraid. And she was unsure of what to do...now that she was here. Where was her old friends?

"Erza. You had grown prettier by the years. But I must confess that I will be taking the Princess from you pathetic mages. Princess. I have a surprise for you." The voice continued with a low tone.

"You're not taking anyone from us!" Gray shouted.

"Aye!"

"And who is this Princess everybody keep talking about!?" Natsu exclaimed with a tick on his forehead.

Lucy turned to Erza, "I'm guessing this is Jellal?"

Erza nodded and turned to her. "What will you do?"

Lucy smirked. "Before I joined this guild, I would go straight in for some answers. But now, I rather for us to go in as a team."

Erza smiled at that. "Then what are we waiting for?"

Then there was a loud explosion and a loud ominous laugh was heard from behind. The mages turned around to face three mages.

Erza immediately narrowed her eyes when she knew who she was facing. Lucy could feel and sense enormous magical energy...but they lacked something else. Lucy did not have time to really think on what they lacked when Erza shoved her back.

"Lucy. You have a job to do, correct? Go. We'll keep them at bay." Erza volunteered, summoning two swords in her hands and faced the enemy.

Lucy paused to see the Natsu and Gray was itching for a fight, and Erza ready to fight for her. And Happy was hiding behind a rock. She smiled as she turned and ran into the building, intent on finding Jellal for some answers...and if he is connected to Zeref or not.

Following the ominous magic, it did not take Lucy long to locate the man. But she also sensed another man. It felt familiar...too familiar. Uncertainty and anxious, Lucy walked into the room and paled.

Why was her father here?

A/N: Can you guess why?

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