A/N: Now...Before you read this, please take into account that this had all been planned, and please don't hate me for this.

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 ones it loved the most
Once friends, now enemy, the wizard of light and darkness shall meet

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During the three months of retribution of training for the competition, Erza only focused on two things: Lucy and her whereabouts, and the competition of which the guild is whole-heartedly excited for. She was looking forward to the seeing and being drowned in the presence of the blonde that she had so long fell in love in with.

After almost a three months of training, the participating members rewarded themselves with a day off of fun at the beach or in the town to have some fun before the competition starts.

Gray opted to remain at the beach and soak in the sunlight of the warm day, unconsciously striping in the process. Natsu ran straight into town with shouts of food, as he had not had a decent meal since the training begun, followed by his blue companion, Happy. Juvia remained at the beach, ogling the man that she admired. Gajeel continued to train, as a free day does not suit his needs. Levy went to a bookstore to find more and new books that may had been released during the 7 year time span. All of the others participating mages did what they wanted, that wouldn't bring any consequences and the like.

Erza wanted some peace and quiet after her training and went to a cliff that overlooked the sea. She stood with her head held up high, looking at the blue sky that seemed so beautiful. The wind blew past her, her hair floating in the hair for a slight moment before settling back to whence it originally was.

Times like these was the only salvation that Erza could deal with, to deal with the fact that Lucy may need her help or not, for disappearing for seven years. And she wanted to see that girl that she loved, and give her the help that she had neglected while she was gone.

"You haven't change a bit, Erza."

The sudden registration of a voice caused Erza to jump, as she was not expecting anyone to interrupt her. The redhead mage turned around and almost immediately, her shock turned to rage and anger.

"What are you doing here, how did you escape?" Erza growled as she positioned herself in defensive mode.

Jellal stood before Erza with a look of shame and guilt. "I am here to tell you couple of important things that you need to know."

"I don't care about that! How did you escape!?" Erza growled.

Jellal stared at the redhead knight for a moment before speaking. "I have matters that concerns Lucy herself, and she was also responsible for breaking me out of prison.

"What? Lucy would never break you out. I know for a fact that she hates you." Erza leered angrily.

"That is true. Lucy hates him, but we managed to persuade her." Another presence made itself known as two more figures arose from the bushes that surrounded the mages.

Erza turned to the source to find two familiar mages that she had once fought on the island. "What's you mean?"

"Ultear and I managed to track down Lucy and told her everything that had happened on the island, as well as our plan for why we need to break Jellal out of the prison." The pink haired woman, Meredy spoke with a smile.

"It went quite easy with Lucy's magic and was able to free Jellal...though he is still wanted." Ultear added.

"Lucy would never do this. What did you say to her to make her agree?" Erza frowned with doubt as she stared down at the mages before her.

"To make a long story short, after our fight with Fairy Tail, and having them beating some sense into us, we realized the errors of our ways. And we wanted to fix the things that we had done." Ultear explained.

"After couple of months that you and the others had disappeared, we had been brainstorming on what to do to fix what we had done. Then almost a year had passed, and we found a solution. But we needed Lucy and Jellal for this plan." Meredy added.

"Lucy?" Erza crossed her arms and stared at the three mages before her with narrowed eyes.

"I had long knew of the role that Lucy plays in her prophecy, and what she must do. And I know for a fact that she is looking for Zeref." Ultear said

"How do you know about the prophecy?" Erza started to grow suspicious.

"Apparently, one of our men, along with a companion that was a cursed spirit faced ya'll. It took placed in Wass forest 8 years ago. The Dark Guilds are extremely aware of what Lucy had been going after, and been keeping their eye out." Meredy answered.

"Back on topic, first we needed to talk Lucy into freeing Jellal. It took us couple of days to have her cooperate. After freeing Jellal, Lucy told us to form a guild called Crime Sorciere, and start wiping out all of the dark guilds out there, while Lucy focuses on her main goal." Ultear added.

"And the last time we seen or contacted Lucy was 3 years ago." Jellal cut in on the conservation.

"3 years? Have you tried to look for her?" Erza was growing more concerned at the mention of Lucy being missing.

"We have. But we couldn't even find a clue concerning her. But we had learned something else." Jellal spoke with an uneasiness of sorts.

Erza remained silent to hear what Jellal had to say.

"As of now, the major dark guilds are not doing anything, but they will be making their big moves. So I advise you to keep your distance from them. Worst case scenario, you could lose your life."

"I don't need you to tell me that. And why should I trust you? After everything that you had done? To Lucy? To her father?" Erza growled deeper with each word said.

"As I had said, Jellal is not to blame, I had Jellal under my control, and had him to control Jude Heartfilia and have him fight Lucy. The blame is all on me." Ultear cut in.

"Then, can you tell me what Lucy's main goal was, while you been wiping out the dark guilds?" Erza asked.

"Lucy wouldn't really tell us. Lucy kept her distance from us, and we don't blame her. But we had tracked down her past actions, to where she had been ransacking each dark guilds that we had obliterated. It seems that she had been searching for something." Jellal assumed.

"It seems that Lucy still hadn't found all of the keys...but that was years ago. I don't know if she has them all or not..." Erza muttered to herself as the information sink in.

"There are many other things that you need to know, but right now, it is not in our place to tell you." Jellal added with sadness embedded in his tone, to which Erza noticed.

"What you mean?" Erza demanded.

"Princess Hisui will be the one to tell you. We had told you everything that we had been told to tell you. We must go now." Jellal then turned and started to walk away, leaving a confused yet enrage redhead behind, not giving her time to come up with a retort.

"I wish you luck in the competition." Ultear smiled before walked away, to where Jellal had disappeared to.

"Bye Erza-san! Tell Juvia I said hi!" Meredy smiled as she ran to catch up with Ultear and Jellal.

Erza remained silent, a thousands of conflicting emotions brewing within her soul, and many more questions of doubt of the many situations. She hates it when her answers had not been answered right away.

But one questioned remained: How does Jellal fit with Princess Hisui?

...

Natsu walked through the streets with Happy as they continued to look for a restaurant to eat, eager to fill their hungry stomachs.

Ignoring the clambering noises of excitement and joy nearby, the dragon slayer and the exceed continued to make his way to where he believed the restaurants of delicious foods was located. Amongst the crowding population around him, Natsu suddenly froze upon smelling a familiar scent, or a scent that he had long sensed from his childhood days.

With much eagerness, the dragon slayer changed direction and made his way to where he had smelled the familiar scent, followed by a curious exceed who was trying to get the attention of the dragon slayer.

Soon, he pinpointed the scent toward a hoard of crowds in the center of the square. Wanting to get to the bottom of this familiar scent, Natsu opted to crawl underneath the onlookers and made his way into the inner circle.

Once he was within the inner circle of the hoard of onlookers, he spotted two young man. A young blonde man and a young black haired-man that seemed a bit suspicious to him. But he didn't care about that, he was more interested in the fact that they had the familiar scent of his father, Igneel.

Then the blonde man turned to see the new face of onlookers that surrounded him and grinned widely after realizing Natsu was.

"About time! I was getting a little worried about this!" The blonde mage exclaimed as he spread his arms.

"Huh?" Natsu cocked his head to the side as he rose to his full height to give the mages a better look of who they are.

"Sting, you know it isn't time yet." The black haired mage spoke in a monotone voice, indicated that he didn't want a fight.

"Nonsense, Rogue. I heard that Natsu was extremely powerful, and I wanted to check out my power on him. I want to see how powerful I had gotten." The blonde mage, Sting then turned and eyed Natsu with criticisms of doubt.

The black haired mage, Rogue only sighed at the attitude of Sting's. "It would be wiser to wait. We wouldn't want to anger our Milady."

Sting turned to face Rogue for a moment with a margin frown before turning back to Natsu. "Oh well. Anyway, I'm Sting. Nice to finally meet you Natsu. I must say, it's a great pleasure to meet you. I had always looked up to you."

Natsu blinked before smiling. "You too. Are you dragon slayers? You have the smell of a dragon scent on you."

"Yep!" Sting grinned

"Really? Do you know what happened to them?" Natsu perked up, his heart racing for the impending answer of his question.

"We killed them." Sting answered with a small smirk.

"What? How would you do that to them!? They taught you magic and raised you. Why would you kill them!?" Natsu was enraged with the thought of eliminating a parent that had looked over another and even taught them magic.

Sting didn't answer right away, only to look at his friend, Rogue first before turning back to Natsu. After another second of debating of his answer, Sting wrapped his arm around Natsu and started to whisper in his ear.

"Our dragons were sick, so they told us to kill them for couple of reasons. Rouge and I really didn't want to do it, but we had to. Otherwise out dragons would've suffer more."

Natsu turned his head to look at Sting in the eyes to look for any lies that the blonde may had allocated. Couple seconds later, he understood and his rage was diminishing. "Sorry to hear that."

Sting grinned and stepped away. "It's a thing in the past. I was told by one of my good friends to always honor them by moving forward. She even saved us from the tyranny of our past guild master."

"Really? That's good." Natsu smiled. "So what dragon slayer magic do ya'll use?"

"I'm a Light Dragon Slayer." Sting pumped his chest with a bump, bearing a proud look on his face.

"Shadow Dragon Slayer." Rouge spoke up after Sting's introduction of his magic.

"That's sounds cool! We should totally fight and see who's stronger." Natsu grinned, pumping his fist.

Sting rubbed the back of his neck. "I would love to do that, but I'm afraid that our Milady won't like this. If we get the chance, we'll totally fight during the competition!"

Natsu was a little disappointed for a moment before grinning. "I'll be looking forward for the fight then!"

"Oh! I got a great idea, Natsu!" Sting exclaimed with a playful look on his face.

"What is it?!" Natsu was already excited.

"We should do an eating competition!"

"Count me in. I will totally win this!" Natsu grinned with elated joy that he had not felt in a long time since returning from the island, also since he would be eating food.

Before Rouge could cut in and interrupt them, Sting and Natsu had already ran off to where they believed a restaurant would be. With a deep sigh, Rouge opted to stay still and watched at the figure of his fellow friend and Natsu disappearing from sight.

Rouge was in a little debate of whether to go after them and stop their ridiculous contest, or just let them be and go back to his assigned building.

...

After her little encounter with Jellal and the others, Erza decided to go the kingdom and talk to the Princess for what she may learn from her. And maybe she'll learn from where's Lucy is. She can only hope.

Seeing Jellal again only made her angry and unsettled more than ever. If it wasn't for what happened between him and Lucy, Erza would've taken this more easily and rationally. But she can only focus on the fact that he had hurt the girl that she loved, whether he was controlled or not.

Seeing Lucy weak and vulnerable after the whole incident made Erza guilty of not taking care of Jellal before this had all started. And she could sense how much anger and hatred that blonde had for Jellal. So she questioned on the sole reason for Lucy helping him break out of prison and working with him. She feels like there's more to this than she had been told.

Now in front of the castle of which this Princess Hisui lives, she spots two guards in front, taking duty on guarding the front. Erza made her way to them in attempt on getting to talk to the Princess.

Before she could say anything, the guards beat her to the punch by yelling and pointing their spears at her. "Halt!"

Erza complied unwillingly and stayed rigid and she glared at the men. "I have a letter stating that the Princess wishes to talk to me."

"Letter? We received no such notice. Begone, intruder!" The guard yelled.

Erza took out her letter, and waved it in front of her, becoming impatient all the while. "I need to speak to her. I have proof here. Now I suggest that you let me through or I will use force."

"We had been given orders to not let anyone through! Now leave!" The guard warned.

Several unimaginable ticks formed on Erza's forehead as her patience ran thin. She silently tucked the letter back in her pocket and was about to summon a sword to force her way through.

Before she could summon a sword, there was authorative booming sound as the door behind the guards opened. "Let her through."

The guards turned around to face the new presence as Erza slacken her movements.

At the now opened door stood a tall man in white armor.

"Arcadios!" The guards whimpered and stood to the side and bowed in respect.

The said man paid them no mind and focused on the armored girl. "Erza Scarlet. Princess has been waiting for you. Let's go."

Eagerly complying, Erza began to follow Arcadios through the many halls to where this Princess should be. The walk was silent, to which words wasn't needed to be spoken.

Couple minutes later, the armored man stopped at a giant door and turned to the armored redhead. "Please don't do anything rash. And remember that you are in the presence of the Princess."

Erza nodded as if she understood. But she honestly didn't really care. "Alright, can I go in?"

Arcadios turned to the door and knocked on the door three times, and waited until he heard an affirmative sound. Once hearing it, he opened the door and allowed Erza to walk in. "Good luck."

Erza paid him no mind and walked straight in and immediately spotted the Princess at the far end of the room. She sported a long green hair and elegant white dress.

Erza approached the Princess and stopped couple meters away to examine the Princess. The aforementioned Princess turned to the armored girl and smiled.

"Erza, it's a pleasure to finally meet you." Hisui smiled.

"Likewise." Erza crossed her arms, not wanting to chitchat.

"So, I can guess that you're here for the note about Lucy, correct?" Hisui looked at Erza for confirmation.

"Yes, where's Lucy?" Erza wanted to get straight to business, no casual talking or the like.

"First...let me start from the beginning. It would make more sense to how I know her."

Erza silently sighed and gave the Princess her undivided attention.

"She came up to me around 5-6 years ago, wanting my celestial keys. She demanded that I give her my keys or we would fight for it. Of course, the whole kingdom got involved and tried to defend me. Then Lucy dragged me to a secluded area and told me some things.  She told me everything concerning the prophecy and the forces of dark magic and Zeref."

"So, did you give her the keys?" Erza questioned.

"The keys were inherited by my parents, and I refused to give it away, so Lucy then promised me that she would give the keys back once this was all over."

Erza shifted her weight to her other foot and continued to stare at the green haired Princess.

"Then she decided to create an alliance, STAR Alliance. And its purpose was for the other members of the STAR Alliance to focus on stopping the smaller forces of dark guilds and subdue them while Lucy goes and focuses on her main goal."

"Who were part of the Alliance?" Erza asked.

"The majority of them are members that used to be villains." Hisui frowned, still not liking the idea of having villains in the alliance.

"Villains? Who?"

"Hmm...There's Jellal...Ultear...Cobra was it? There bunch others, but the majority of the villains are led by Jellal."

Erza stared at the Princess with doubtable expression. "Is there a reason for why Lucy allowed Jellal to work with her?"

"Yes, she told me that she needed strong opponents to fight with her. And she needed someone that she wasn't particularly friends with. I trusted her, and so I trusted the other villains for her sake."

"Make sense."

"Everything was going well and all, but couple years after the formation of the alliance, Lucy never returned from a mission."

"...What?" Erza paled and stared at the Princess in shock, already hoping that her unformed conviction was not real.

"I've sent Jellal and the others to investigate on what happened. They returned with Lucy's limp and bleeding body, and as well as her keys. I'm sorry to tell you this, but...Lucy is...dead." Hisui was now having a hard time to keep her tears away.

"What? Lucy is...Is this a joke? Because I'm not a big fan of jokes." Erza choked on air as she forced herself to remain calm.

Hisui sniffled while shaking her head. "I'm sorry but it's true. I made a grave to honor her, and we, of the STAR Alliance, will finished what she started."

"This doesn't make any sense. First Master told me that she was still alive, that she could still feel her presence." Erza intoned, trying to get to the bottom of this.

"First Master?" Hisui looked at the knight curiously. "Well, if you mean by sensing magical powers, then Lucy definitely still has some magic powers inside of her, even in death."

"Then she is still alive!"

"She is not, I'm afraid. I had the best doctors to come to the castle to save her and hope to keep her from going through the door of death. But we were too late. I'm sorry." Hisui gave the redhead a look of pity and sadness.

Erza took deep breath to calm her anxiety and rage, studying the eyes of the Princess, and the words spoken. So far, she couldn't find any lies.

"H-Her keys...where are they?" Erza finally spoken after a few minutes of silence.

"I had distributed four of the keys to Yukino, and another four the one of the Villains. So far, they had been extraordinary in our fight against the forces of darkness and Zeref."

"Give them back." Erza demanded with a low tone of anger and sorrow.

"I'm sorry, but I cannot do that." Hisui replied with a straight tone.

"They belong to Lucy! Give them back!" Erza shouted, glaring at the green haired Princess.

The Princess was not fazed by the glare that she was receiving from the redhead, and shook her head all the while. "I'm sorry, but we need them to stop Zeref.

"Then let me join this alliance. I will help finish what Lucy started." Erza stared at the Princess with determination.

Hisui gulped silently. "I'm sorry, but Lucy plainly made it clear while she was still alive. That she wanted anyone from Fairy Tail, or anyone that had been associated with Fairy Tail to keep their distance from the object of the battles that Lucy must fight. Only a few chosen by Lucy herself can be part of the alliance.

"She's no longer here. So let me be part of it." Erza persisted.

"True, but my answer remains the same. I order you and the rest of Fairy Tail to stay out of trouble and do not get mixed up in their battles. Fairy Tail have no rights to meddle in our affairs." Hisui begun to tremble slightly.

Erza sank to her knees and tears begun to freely flow out of her eyes, down her cheeks, and falling ungracefully onto the floor. "Lucy didn't deserve this. She didn't need to be alone...Lucy..."

Hisui covered her mouth, realizing the view that she was seeing, tears forming out of her own eyes. Guilt and sadness was all that the Princess could feel. "I'm sorry Erza. She was my friend too...If...I could fight, I would...I'm so sorry Erza."

A/N: Angsty huh? Sorry about that. Please don't kill me

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