A/N: Another chapter :D Hope you like

BUT! Before you read this, I have important information to tell you. If you hadn't already realized, I had completely rewritten, revised this entire book, from chapter 1 to chapter 19. And I had changed many things (and it was hard work lol)

Lucy is no longer the wizard saint. (Chapter 5)
Lucy name is no longer Golden Phantom. It is Gamma Ibis
I extended the fight between Lucy and Erza (Chapter 7)
Please read the rest of the book to look for deep and juicy details, especially in the first part of the book.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

PROPHECY:
Into the future, doom shall befall
It is up to the chose 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 ones its love the most
Once friends, now enemy, the wizard of light and darkness shall meet

Please enjoy? 😢

Two weeks passed and the guild remains disturbed, yet settled. The whereabouts of Lucy and her condition remains anonymous while members continue to reconcile and investigate on their missing friend. 

As Makarov had stated before, there is nothing that the mages of Fairy Tail could do now as they are now. The only lead known to them was Mystogan, who was the last person to have seen Lucy, according to Mavis. The ghost remained silent and refused to reveal anything else, so the guild was left to find the clues themselves.

Some Fairy Tail members sat at their tables in silence as they continue to find a plausible location that their blonde mage may be, while the other members of Fairy Tail chose to use their time by going on missions.

"I got it!" Natsu howled as he jumped on top a table. "Lucy's must be fighting someone." He grinned widely, as if he had come up with the great plausible explanation ever.

Gray groaned while face-palming. "Of course Lucy would be fighting. That much is easy for us to tell, idiot."

"What you say!" Natsu jumped back on the ground and faced Gray with a scowl.

"I said you're a stupid idiot!" Gray retorted, glaring at the pink haired mage.

"Ice princess!"

"Flam-"

"Enough!" Erza yelled, suddenly getting in between them with a tick on her forehead, pushing their faces apart. "We have no time to be fighting like this."

"Come on, Erza! This idiot isn't even thinking." Gray yelled, gesturing to Natsu as the idiot.

"At least I thought of something!" Natsu retorted.

"SHUT YER MOUTH!" Erza shouted with anger, punching them in the guts, sending them across the room with a loud crash, her patient wearing thin.

Erza sighed deeply and sat in her chair to recollect herself. For two weeks, she had been attempting on finding any possible leads on her blonde friend. Even with or without the help of the other members, there was nothing to call a solid lead.

Amidst the contemplation of the known materials of her goals, the guild's front door opened with a loud boom. Many heads turned to the source to see a heavy-panting Levy as she ran further in the room with a sack of paper in her hands. "I have found some leads on Mystogan and Lucy!"

Upon the revelation of words that was spoken, all of the concerning mages begun to circle around Levy with questioning looks, and threw numerous questions that gave the bookworm a mild migraine.

"Tell us!"

"What is it!?"

"Is he dead!?"

"Did someone kidnap Lucy!?"

"Did they run off to the sunset together?!"

"QUIET!" Erza boomed with tints of annoyance to force down the prattling of questions and murmurs of concern, in order to hear what Levy has to say about the lead that she had finally found.

After chattering into silent from the fear of a certain redhead, Levy chose this moment to start reciting from the sack of paper in her hands to reveal what she had learned.

"'Mystogan, an infamous candidacy of power, had been revealed to be a prince of a nearby kingdom. A fallen kingdom that was known as Edolas. With the help of another mage, Lucy Heartfilia, the Kingdom was able to be restored to its natural state and blossom to what had it been before it had fallen.'"

"Edolas? Never heard of it." Natsu frowned.

"Apparently it had been destroyed by Zeref." Levy added after reading some more.

"Zeref? That would explain why Lucy would help Mystogan. But what happened afterwards?" Erza crossed her arms, frowning with a questioningly look.

"Zeref that bastard..." Natsu growled, remembering his encounter with the black wizard back on the island.

Levy took a moment to read through some of the passage. Couple seconds later, she look up with a frown. "No...all it says that they managed to successfully retake the kingdom and restore the lost balance. It never told us of what happened to Lucy, but it is telling us that Mystogan now leads the kingdom as a renowned King."

Everybody was silence, deep in thought. Couple of seconds later, Erza decided to speak up again. "How old is this information?"

"6 years ago. It's old, but it is still a lead." Levy answered.

"Edolas...that is our next destination. That is where we need to go." Erza declared with a new plan in mind. She stood up and approached to where Makarov was so she could explain her plan of action.

Levy stayed still as she continued to read through the sack of papers in hope of find any more plausible and solid information regarding her missing friend, but nothing else was worth mentioning.

After couple minutes of silence, Natsu jumped on a table with fire in his eyes. "Let's find Mystogan! We need to find Lucy!" He howled as he jumped off of the table and darted toward the guild's entrance to begin his search. Before Natsu even made a step toward the entrance, a hard metal grip grabbed onto his scarf, keeping him in place as the dragon slayer tried to run forward.

"We will go as a team. Lucy is part of our team, and we will go and find her as a team. No objections!" Erza glared daggers at the young mage in her grip. After reveling in the plans with Makarov, Erza wanted to start with the search immediately.

"A-Aye..." Natsu sweatdropped as the iron grip of his scarf was released.

"We leave now." Erza ordered, slightly pushing Natsu toward the door. She turned to Gray, "Let's go. We go to Edolas."

Gray nodded and followed Erza out of the door.

...

After reading a map of Fiore and the neighboring countries that surrounded it, Erza estimated that it would take 3 days by train to arrive at the kingdom of Edolas.

She would've pitied Natsu because of his motion sickness, but decided not to because she could knock him out to prevent any possible puke forming on the floor, or complains that she came to be annoyed with.

She made sure to be stocked with a least 50 strawberry cakes for the trip. One can never be too safe than sorry, and Erza will not complain. Though Gray may beg to differ, as he has to deal with the towering landmass of strawberry cakes in boxes, sacked and sacked upon each other, threatening to tip over and cover the ice mage in a delicious treat of dessert.

"Hmm... Have you ever been on a picnic? I would love to go on one..." Erza murmured with delight while eating a delicious strawberry cake.

"...What about Lucy? Don't we need to find her?" Gray sweatdropped as he crossed his arms, hoping that Erza won't unleash all hell on him.

"That's right! How could I forget! I need to invite her on one, maybe we could have a sleepover this, and maybe-" Erza stopped herself before she could really reveal anything about her liking the blonde.

After seeing and hearing the redhead abruptly stopping, and opting to look out of the window, with tints of red painted on her cheeks, Gray slightly smiled. "We all know your little obsession with her. I understand why you want to find her."

Erza silently gulped and turned back to Gray, only to see a smirk on his face. With a sigh, "Was it really that obvious?"

"Hmm...Mira may had told the rest of us...So it became common knowledge."

"That damn woman." Erza muttered angrily. "I should've never talked to her..."

"But don't worry. I actually think that you two would look great together. All that needs to be done is Lucy returning your feelings." Gray smiled, trying to reassure the redhead.

"That would be nice." Erza grazed out of her window absently, daydreaming of possible outcomes with her and Lucy. Sitting at a park, holding hands, and occasionally showering kisses upon each other. Or just cuddling with each other tightly, not wanting to let go. Making promises together, making memories together, doing new things together. And –

"Okay, I heard enough." Gray interrupted.

Erza turned to Gray questioningly. "Huh?"

"You were saying all of that out loud. I didn't need to hear those..." Gray blushed a little.

Erza because 50 shades of red as she realized that she had been voicing her thoughts, unbeknownst to her conscious mind. "P-Pretend you didn't hear anything...."

Gray chuckled a little. "You're secret is safe with me."

Erza forced her mind to stop working, with fear that her unconscious state of mind may betray her again. She looked down at her half-eaten strawberry, reveling in the possible chance that she could share it with Lucy.

Why is her thoughts always filled with Lucy? Is she cursed or something?

...

During the three days of train ride to the destination of their goals, their time had been constantly conveyanced with Erza knocking Natsu into a state of unconsciousness to prevent an inevitable occurrence of complaints, and idly situating themselves in askance conversation with Gray that had nothing to do with the mission. But often, very often, Lucy's name was mentioned.  

On the last, intended day on the train ride to their destination, the train finally rolled to a stop. As if sensing that they had finally reached their destination, Natsu immediately got to his feet, and fire spewed out of his mouth. "I'm alive!"

Gray groaned in annoyance as the silence and peace that he had enjoyed for the past three days are now over. "Let me check your pulse then." He muttered under his breath as he walked out of the train behind Erza.

"So we are in a town right next to Edolas. Since there isn't no trains to goes through Edolas, we need to walk from here." Erza stated as she looked at a map that was situated in her hand.

"Alright! I'm all fired up! Let's find Lucy!" Natsu grinned as he started to walk in one direction.

"The path to Edolas is over here, flame-brain." Gray scowled, pointing to the direction to where Erza was already walking, flouting all aspects that did not concern her.

"Hmph. I knew that." Natsu muttered in annoyance.

...

The walk in general was quiet, as the aura emitted from Erza was overwhelming with the opposition of unfamiliarity and anxiety. Natsu and Gray was enormously affected and did not, for once, bother to argue with one another. They didn't want to anger the redhead anymore then she already is.

Silence, with the exception of clacking noises of their footsteps, was the only thing that accompanied the mages as they made their way to the castle of Edolas, closer to finding any leads or clues to where Lucy may be,

Closer and closer to any possible revelation that they may find, the tension of their anxiety only continued to rise and they neared the front gate of the castle stood gracefully.

Erza stopped meters away from the front gate, where there were two guards standing watch. The redhead turned around to face Natsu and Gray with a slight scowl.

"We are about enter the castle. All I am asking is for you two to keep your rivalry to a minimum and I don't want to hear any complaints or any of the like. Am. I. Clear?" Erza gave a hard, cold glare toward to the mages.

"A-Aye..." Natsu and Gray muttered, shaking a little from the hostility of their redhead companion.

"Let's go." Erza then turned back around to start walking to the castle.

Upon arriving at the giant door, the two guards situated at the entrance became aware and suspicious as they slightly tightened their grip on their weapons.

Erza ignored their tension as she neared them. "May I see the King? I need to speak to him."

"Hmm? Is the King willing to speak to anyone?" One of the guard turned to other guard next to him.

"How am I supposed to know? This is the worst possible position to be in." The other guard muttered back annoyingly.

"We need to speak to the king, He is an old friend of ours. We have important matters that we need to discuss with him." Erza cut in with haste.

"Hmm...Stay here and I'll grab the King." The guard replied before turning to the other guard. "Keep an eye out these three."

With a hesitating affirmation from the fellow guardsman, the guard disappeared behind the set of doors.

Erza, Natsu and Gray remained outside with the other guard, patiently waiting for an audience with their old friend. Erza momentarily closed her eyes to keep an incoming migraine away. Gray had his arms crossed and looked to the side. And Natsu just stood there, an expression of boredom clearly painted across his face, until a silent idea suddenly came to mind. And the guard continued to watch the mages with ounces of concern for his own safety.

"This castle is huge though." Gray decided to break the silence after a few minutes of silence, turning to face Erza.

"Hmm...I suppose." Erza responded, her eyes still close.

Not another second of silence, the mages started to look around, an sudden realization of that something was entirely wrong, extremely wrong.

Where's Natsu?

"Where the hell did he go?!" Gray exclaimed, scanning his surroundings to search for the fire dragon slayer, only to see him absent.

"That idiot...How did he even..." Erza stared at the open door and an unconscious guard laying against the it. "Idiot..." She mumbled angrily.

Gray turned to Erza, before glancing to where she was glaring at. "We need to go after him!" He cried, restraining himself from running into the castle, not entirely keen on making the redhead more angry as she was now.

"Just this once..." Erza mumbled. "Let's find him before he cause any more damage."

On that note, Erza and Gray dashed their way inside of the castle, finding numerous hallways that could lead to different locations.

"Erza." Gray motioned Erza to look at where he was glancing at.

Both mages could see trails of dropped objects and burnt marks, an obvious realization of clues that they could use to follow their friend. Erza and Gray glanced at each other for a second before following the trails.

They made many left and right turns as they relied on the broken objects that rested gracefully on the ground, and angry burnt marks on the ground as well on the walls. After making another right turn, they spotted Natsu standing still, with his head held up high, sniffing the air with concentration.

"Natsu!" Erza yelled after the mage before he could run off again.

Natsu turned around to see Erza and Gray not too far behind. He was frowning for a moment, but it quickly turned into a grin. "Took you guys forever! I'm getting close to the guy. He smells different though."

When Erza neared the dragon slayer, she mercilessly punched him in the stomach as hard as she could and allowed him to fall ungracefully to the ground. "Do not do that again, idiot." She turned to Gray with a scowl. "Carry him. We are going to find Mystogan, now that we are here."

Gray immediately submitted to the order of his companion and grabbed Natsu's scarf, opting to drag him. He started to follow Erza, according to her institution, and walked to where ever the redhead reckoned was the correct direction.

Five minutes later of debating on which path was the reoccurrence of destiny, a sudden appearance of soldiers appeared out of nowhere and surrounded the three mages, with their weapons charged and raised. The three mages halted in their strides, and started to look at each of the mages with alert in their eyes, but made no sudden movements, as to not let their chance to speak to the king go out of the window.

"Hold it right there, intruders!" One of the soldiers yelled.

Erza glanced at the spoken soldier and took a step toward him cautiously. "I request an audience with...your King. I am an old friend of him. I need to speak with him, and it's urgent."

"Yes....please...I don't want to touch this idiot any longer." Gray complained, gesturing to Natsu that still laid unconscious on the ground, hanging by his scarf, still held by the ice mage.

"The King?" The soldier murmured.

"We'll have the King visit you in the cells." Another soldier cut in.

"Whatever way will let us see the King." Erza complied, seeing that the compromise was fitting and fair enough.

"Can I get a different cell so I won't be next to this idiot?" Gray asked, gesturing to Natsu, hoping that he would at least get his wish granted.

...

Erza now stood, leaning against a stoned wall, and waited patiently in her cell. Gray was in a different cell, and must to his distaste, Natsu was also thrown in with him.

The mages sat in their cell in silent, waiting for their old friend to come and deliver some information that they needed to hear. Around ten minutes later, a faint clapping of footstep was registered in Erza's ears.

She turned to the source, to the entrance to where the footsteps was growing louder and louder. Then a figure entered the room.

All thoughts of opposition, unfamiliarity, uncertainty, and the apprehension that she hadn't felt for the longest time since the arrival of Lucy, it all came crashing down on her, with the weight of her anger and guilt more painful and present as she stared at the man that stood in front of the two mages, plus an unconscious Natsu on the ground.

She had never thought she would be seeing this man more sooner than she had thought. Not after what he had done to Lucy, and what he had done to her in the past of her dark childhood.

"Jellal!?" Erza narrowed her eyes at the man, wondering how the man had escaped prison.

The man before her merely shook his head. "No, that is my brother. I am Mystogan."

"Mystogan? Of Fairy Tail?" Gray crossed his arms as he approached the bar to take a better look at the 'King'.

Mystogan nodded.

Erza took a deep silent breath as she eyed the man before her, trying to let the information sink in. "So you are the King of this kingdom?" She asked, trying to act coherently as she could possibly try, trying to not her anger rise.

"That is correct." Mystogan replied, already sensing why they are here.

"Then tell us where Lucy is!" Gray cut in.

"Lucy? Why?" Mystogan turned to the ice mage.

"I heard that she had helped you reclaim this kingdom. What happened to her afterward?" Erza cut in.

Mystogan turned back to face Erza, studying her expression of all seriousness.

When he had heard the reports of intruders, and the descriptions of the intruders, he was skeptical. He didn't really believe in the words that his soldiers had delivered. So he took his chance to see these intruders.

When he had laid eyes on Erza and Gray, as well as the unconscious Natsu on the ground, he believed that a miracle had played a part in this act of their sudden appearance. His friends had returned. If only he could find a way to contact a certain person for this news.

After staying mute for a few minutes of reforming appropriate responses for the mages, she spoke up, facing Erza. "You need to know that Lucy had given up you."

"What you mean by that?" Erza frowned.

"She...believed that you had been dead. I, of course, saw through her lies as she gave that speech to the guild."

Erza looked to the ground as she clutched onto the bar with frustration. "I can see that."

"If you are asking where she is, I do not know."

"Can you elaborate on what had happened here?" Gray asked as he leaned again the bar.

Mystogan took a few minutes to recollect and conform an appropriate response, these mages deserved that much. "I had Lucy to help me to take back my kingdom that had been taken over by Zeref."

"Zeref was here?" Erza perked up.

Mystogan nodded. "Yes, my father was taken hostage by Zeref. Lucy offered to fight Zeref, whilst I fought my father. In my opinion, it was almost one-sided on Lucy's part."

"What you mean by that?" Gray intoned.

"I could tell that Zeref was pulling his punches. I may be wrong, but it was a child's play between Zeref and Lucy." Mystogan said as he recalled from the distant fight of his past.

"Why would you think that?" Erza cut in, narrowing his eyes at Mystogan.

"I honestly do not know. Maybe because the prophecy was not yet nearing its climax. So maybe Zeref was holding himself back until the time was right."

"How did you know of the prophecy?"

"I don't, Lucy wouldn't tell me. Call it an intuition on my part. This is what I figured as the battled ended between Zeref and Lucy."

"Ok, then tell me what happened to Lucy. We need to find her." Erza was growing impatient with each upcoming seconds that passed.

"All I know about her is that she was gravely injured, and she seemed extremely conflicted as Zeref fled the kingdom."

"What? Zeref fled? Why?" Gray scrunched his eyebrow in confusion.

"That's all I know. I tried talking to her, to make sure that she was okay, but she ignored me. She was pretty shaken up, and I doubt that it was from fear."

"Sounds like she had learned something important." Erza concluded, crossing her arms.

Mystogan nodded in agreement. "Yes. Then she disappeared, without telling me anything, or giving me an eye contact. That was the last I saw her. And I assumed that she had went back to Fairy Tail, so I stayed here to fix this kingdom."

After a minute of silence settled on the troubled mages, trying to let the information sink in. "And I assume that Lucy had never returned back to the kingdom?" Mystogan added questioningly.

"Why do you think that we are here?" Gray remarked.

"I see." Mystogan frowned at the ice mage with sadness.

"Okay, so let me recap." Erza spoke up with tint of frustration and annoyance in her voice. "You and Lucy went to reclaim your kingdom. You fought your father, and Lucy fought Zeref. Zeref ended up fleeing the area after injuring Lucy, and possibly revealing some information to her. And Lucy suddenly leaves without any other word. And that was the last you saw of her, correct?"

Mystogan nodded. "Yes, I'm sorry."

"What do you think Zeref had told Lucy?" Erza asked.

Mystogan remained silent for a minute, recalling the ancient battle, trying to reform an answer for his old friend, only to come up with nothing. "I'm sorry. I do not know."

Erza let out a deep frustrating sigh as she took a step backward, turning her gaze to the ground in defeat. "May we go now? I heard enough."

Mystogan gave a look of pity toward the redhead before fishing the key to the cells in his pockets. He unlocked the cell that contained Erza and then proceeded to free both Gray and Natsu. "I'm sorry for not offering any leads. I am now concerned for her as well, so please find her for me."

Erza grumbled under her breath as she stepped out of the cell. Gray started to carry Natsu and stared at Mystogan, silently gesturing him to lead them back outside.

Mystogan silently complied and started to walk out, letting Erza and follow them. The walk was silent, with Erza staring that the ground as they walked, and Gray grumbling out of annoyance as he carried Natsu.

Once outside of the castle, standing in front of the entrance of the castle, Mystogan stayed planted on the ground as he continued to watch as Erza and gray as they did not stop in their tracks.

After walking a mile away from the castle, Erza stopped dead in her tracks, her gaze still focused on the ground. Gray stopped just behind her with a questioningly, yet concerned look. "Erza?"

"Lucy may be suffering, no...she had been suffering since we've been gone." Erza muttered sadly, trembling slightly from her self-anger.

"We'll find her, and we'll make this right. Lucy's a strong girl, and I'm sure that she pulled through many tough situations." Gray gave a small smile when Erza glanced over her shoulder to look at Gray.

"I hope so."

A/N: What you think? Hope you liked this. Had to rewrite this couple of times (numerous times)

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