*Chapter 9*

A/N: *Rewrite* Major changes concerning the identity of Lucy, and made changed some details here and there.

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? 😢

Makarov stood in his office, overlooking his papers that concerned the guild, and assimilating apologies for the council for the unintended damaged caused by the members of Fairy Tail. Mostly by a certain dragon slayer that holds no amount of regret or apologies for the damage that he had done.

But Lucy's presence and her mission invaded his mind on too many occasion to properly do his work.

"Porlyusica...looks like you were right." Makarov mumbled, holding a pen to a paper halfheartedly. "The prophecy is coming true. With the arrival of three dragon slayers and a celestial wizard from the past, there is no doubt that things will become more...hectic."

He closed his eyes, thinking back on the memory when Porlyusica had warned him about the upcoming danger:

****Flashback****

Makarov just became the master of Fairy Tail and Porlyusica demanded to speak to him alone for private and important matters.

"Makarov. As a master of Fairy Tail, there is something that you need to know." Porlyusica started as she glared at the tiny old man.

Makarov perked up and listened to the old man. "Hmm? What is it?"

Porlyusica sighed and turned to look at the never ending horizon. "I spoke to the ghost of the First."

"Mavis?"

"Yes. She told me something. Something about a prophecy. She would not tell me what is was, as I am not the right person to know them."

"Prophecy? About what?"

Porlyusica shook her head. "I do not know. But from the tone of her voice, it's important and is viable for me to tell to the next master of Fairy Tail to wait."

"Wait for what?"

"Everything will be unraveled when three dragon slayers come together as a mage of Fairy Tail. Not soon after that, a celestial wizard from the past will join for mission purposes, as well for personal reasons."

Makarov stared at the pink old lady for a second before speaking. "And First Master Mavis spoke to you?"

Porlyusica sighed as she nodded. "Yes. I do not know why she came to me."

"Did Purehito knows about this?" Makarov asked.

"I would assume so." Porlyusica answered, and not a second later, she exploded. "Bah! Stupid ghost and humans! Why am I stuck in doing this?!" The old woman turned to the tiny old man with a scowl. "I'll be leaving. I had already done my job. I'm leaving this nasty smelling place!"

Makarov remained unvocal and silent as Porlyusica left and disappeared from sight, retreating to her isolation in the woods.

****End of Flashback****

At first, Makarov didn't really want to believe that Lucy came from the past. He wanted to believe that three dragon slayers coming together was all a coincidence, not destiny.

Makarov hated prophecies and the mysteries that surrounded it. Sometimes it meant that somebody could die, that doom will be imminent and inevitable and nothing could stop it.

Makarov also noted how much trust the First had put in Lucy for being here, for her mission, and for personal reasons.

Makarov stood up and went to look through his window that overlooked his guild and spotted Lucy talking with a smile, conversing with other members. Natsu and Gray came up to her, started to talk to her with curious smiles, not too soon after that, Natsu and Gray started to fight each other.

Makarov smiled silently to himself. He hoped that whatever the prophecy had foretold, it won't be for a while, hopefully.

...

Lucy sat at the bar with Mira, enjoying having talks with her and catching up.

"Lucy. My siblings are itching to meet you. I had been telling them about you. I'm sure they would be happy to see you!" Mira squealed, handing her a milkshake.

Lucy laughed as she took the drink. "I would like to see them. Where are they?"

"On a mission. They'll be back in a few weeks."

"I see." Lucy smiled.

"Oi!"

Lucy and Mira turned to see two boys heading their way with a grin.

"Hi! I'm Natsu! You look strong. Fight me!" The pink-haired boy exclaimed, pumping his fists together with a wide grin.

"Oi! Flame breath! That's not why we're here! That can wait till later!" The raven haired boy, who was bare-chested, glared at Natsu.

"What you say, ice princess!?" Natsu glared back.

Lucy sat in her stool as she watched Natsu and the naked man retorted to a physical fight. She turned to Mira with a questioningly look. "Does this happen all the time?"

Mira smiled and nodded. "This is perfectly normal."

"I...see." Lucy frowned before turning back to the fighting mages who had started to fight physically and begun to get into their stance of using their magic.

With a sigh, Lucy stood up and approached them. She stood in between them and gave them a look that caused them to falter in their attempt to fight any further. Thankfully, for Lucy, they paused and gave a Lucy a look that she had their undivided attention..

"So. You wanted something from me?" Lucy smiled innocently.

Natsu and the naked man blinked, looking at each other before turning back to Lucy with a grin.

"Join our team!" They yelled in unison.

"Huh?" Lucy coked her head to the side.

"We could use another mage in our team. Another girl that isn't scary." Natsu shivered at the last sentence. Gray shivered as well.

"...Another? Who is this other girl?" Lucy asked.

They were about to answer her until there was another registration of voice that Lucy recognized.

"That would be me."

Lucy turned around to see Erza standing behind her with a smile. Lucy swore that she saw Erza faltering for a moment before returning to her stoic posture.

"You must be Lucy, our new guild member. Nice to meet you. I'm Erza." Erza introduced herself, extending her had to Lucy.

Lucy smiled and shook Erza's hand. "Thank you, Erza. Though we had already met."

"Really? Where?"

Lucy nervously chuckled. "Well...To put it simply, you did tried to kill me for a job on your last mission."

Erza blinked and retracted her hand slowly. "You were that hooded woman?"

"Yep." Lucy nervously smiled.

"I see." Erza frowned for a second before suddenly bowing in front of her. "I'm sorry. Please hit me!"

Lucy blinked from the sudden action. "I'm sorry?"

"I tried to kill you. And you are now a member. So please forgive me for the past actions."

"I thought I already forgave you. You're fine, nothing personal." Lucy smiled.

Erza straightened herself and smiled back at Lucy. "I see. I appreciate that."

"So, Natsu and the other boy is on your team?" Lucy gestured to the boys behind her, who were just arguing with each other.

"Natsu and Gray are on my team, yes. I do not understand why they say I am scary." Erza frowned, crossing her arms.

Lucy laughed. "Anyway, they wanted me on their team. So, I can assume you are the leader?"

Erza nodded. "Yes. I think it would be an honor to have you on our team."

Natsu came as if on cue in and wrapped his arm around Lucy's neck with a big grin. "Awesome!" Natsu turned to face Lucy, "Let's have a fight. I want to know how strong you are."

"Huh?"

"Lucy's stronger than you. Forget it Natsu." Erza cut in with a straight face as she crossed her arms.

Natsu turned to Erza with a frowned, wondering why she would give him the revelation that he was weaker than Lucy. "But Lucy should decide!" He turned back to Lucy with a grin. "Come one. Let's do it!"

"I rather not. My magic isn't for fighting my friends." Lucy smiled apologetically.

Natsu frowned as he retracted his arm from around Lucy's neck. "Fine. Then let's do a job!"

"Later, Natsu. I just came back." Erza said, walking away to the bar and took a seat, not leaving any room for objections or whining.

Natsu sulked for a moment before going back the man he was fighting with earlier. Gray, as Lucy recalled. It didn't take long for them to be engaged in a physical fight, and other members had joined in as well, creating a bigger brawl.

Lucy went and sat at one of the tables and watched the scenery before her. It wasn't the environment that she was used to, but she already enjoyed it. It felt like she had been a part of the guild for a long time.

Mother really had created a great guild. Lucy mused as one of the members had mamaged wedged himself in a wall. This guild, as Lucy, observed, was very careless and free. Definitely a fun guild to be at.

All of the happy thoughts that roamed through her mind was soon invaded by the possibility that this will all end, and despair might soon by all that's left.

Lucy wanted to prevent that. The world is a beautiful place to be ruined by a darkness that should not exist, or be interfering in any way with the way of life.

It had been couple of weeks since Lucy had went and joined Fairy Tail. Her new team seemed extremely...reckless and dangerous, even with Erza around. But Lucy enjoyed it nonetheless.

It had been couple of weeks, and Lucy was becoming restless. She had this feeling of uncertainty that something was going to happen. She used her magical senses to sense if there was any spirits nearby, but there was nothing.

...

Lucy sat at the bar with her team, and talking to Mira about the everyday life. As concerned she still was about her intuition that something bad might happen, she kept smiling and focused on the conservation with the barmaid.

Then the guild's door opened with a loud thud, gaining the attention of the entire guild. Lucy turned around to find a man with an attire that belonged to the council

The man was looking around as if he was looking for someone. It didn't take long for Erza to be annoyed and approached the man

"May I ask what your business is?" Erza asked with a frown.

The man turned to Erza with a blank look. "I'm looking for Gamma Ibis."

Lucy quietly gasped as she turned to fully face the scene. She remembers that specially told the council that they shouldn't contact her anymore, unless it has to do with anything concerning celestial magic, the keys, anything related to Zeref and dark magic.

There were murmurs of confusion and uncertainty throughout the guild. They didn't know who Gamma Ibis was, as Lucy never found it necessary to really reveal the revelation of who Gamma Ibis really was. because it really wasn't that important.

"Why would Gamma Ibis be in this guild!?" One of the members shouted from a distance.

"Are we in trouble?" Another member shouted with worry.

The man ignored the murmurs of the members and handed Erza an envelope. "Give this to Master Makarov. Tell him to give this to Gamma Ibis, It is important."

Erza takes the envelope and observed it, which was neatly folded and 'Gamma Ibis' was written neatly on the front. She looked back up at the man questioningly, only to see that the man had disappeared.

"What is all this ruckus!?" A deep grumpy voice echoed into the silence of the guild.

The mages turned around to see Makarov standing on a table with a stern, yet questioningly look.

Erza walked up to Master and handed him the piece of paper. "A man from the council had told me to give this to you, and give it to Gamma Ibis."

"Gamma Ibis? Why would he be here?" Makarov muttered, looking at the piece of paper.

"I'm pretty sure it's a woman." One of the members shouted off in the distance.

Makarov sighed and walked back into his office after resolving the case of silence that was unnaturally present.

Lucy sat still in her chair, waiting patiently until Makarov disappeared from sight, assumingly walking back into his office. After a few more minutes, she stood up to her feet and quickly made her way toward Makarov's office. She needed to know what was in that letter that was addressed to her as 'Gamma Ibis'.

After walking up to the door of Makarov's office, Lucy quietly knocked on the door couple of times and opened the door without waiting for Makarov to respond. After closing the door, Lucy stood in front of the tiny old man that sitting in his chair, still holding the envelope from the council.

"How can I help you, Lucy?" Makarov asked as she placed the envelope neatly on his desk, unsure of what to do with it, as he had never met Gamma Ibis, or came into contact with the masked figure.

Lucy takes couple of steps toward Makarov, eliminating the distance between her and the master, and intentionally creating a distance between her and the door to insure that their wouldn't be any leaks of what she would about to reveal.

"I believe that letter is for me."

Makarov narrowed his eyes at the blonde, and glazed at the letter that rest on his desk for a few seconds before turning back to Lucy. "So, you're Gamma Ibis? The special wizard of the council?"

Lucy sighed. "Yes. I really don't like those titles. So please don't address me as those. Just Lucy is fine."

Makarov chuckled. "I see." He picks up the letter and extending it to Lucy. "Then I believe this belongs to you."

Lucy smiled at how understanding and trusting Makarov was before taking the letter. She wanted to know what was in the letter and why the council had gone through the trouble of sending her the letter.

Gamma Ibis,

I know we, the councilmen, had promised not to drag you onto any more missions. But this is important. There had been a disturbance with a group of mages, rouge mages in  particular. Their origins or former guild is unknown at the time and their identity remains unknown. But their magic is extremely dangerous.

Originally, we had sent other mages to do the job. But they all failed. One mage in particular had reported that one of the rouge mages uses a celestial magic of some sort. This may perk your interest in taking this job to take down these mages, and perhaps find what their purposes are.

The reward for you and whoever you had decided to take with you, will be a reward of several million jewels. These mages had caused causality of several hundreds.

So please, on behalf of the councilmen and the future of the innocents, please stop these mages.

The Councilmen.

Lucy deeply sighed as she folded the piece of paper and sat in a nearby chair, resting her head on her hands.

"What did it say?" Makarov curiously asked

"Another mission." Lucy mourned.

"May I read it?"

Lucy complied and gave Makarov the piece of paper. Makarov took and read it carefully. After a few more moment, he spoke up.

"Will you do it?"

Lucy nodded. "Yes. According to that letter, there was a report of celestial magic. I need to do this."

"Does this has to do anything with the prophecy?"

"Yes."

"Will you bring anyone with you?"

Lucy chuckled. "My team will suffice. They trusted me to be on their team, even when we had only met. It will only fair if I trusted them with this mission."

Makarov smiled. "Then I assume you know what to do?"

"Yes." Lucy takes the piece of paper back from Makarov and walked out of the room, but stopped to turn back to the old man. "We'll be back."

Makarov smiled as Lucy closed the door, leaving him with only silence.

Lucy walked back down and met with her team with a smile as she approached them.

Natsu was the first to notice her and approached her with a grin. "Hey. I was wondering where you had gone. I was thinking that we should do a job."

Lucy chuckled. "I have a job for all of us. The reward is several million jewels."

Lucy's team froze with she had said 'several million'. Natsu and Happy started muttering something about plenty of food for an entire year. Gray was smirking at the amount of money. And Erza was daydreaming about the unlimited cake she could have at her disposal.

"Let's do it!" They all yelled in unison.

Lucy couldn't help but laugh. "We'll leave tomorrow. You'll need your rest."

Natsu, Happy, and Gray ran out of the guild with an elated aura surrounding them as they went to their house to 'rest'. Erza stayed behind and eyed Lucy a little suspiciously.

"Yes?" Lucy asked, noting that Erza was staring at her suspiciously.

"The request board doesn't have any job that offer rewards that high. There's no way you could take the S-Class missions. What kind of job is it?"

Lucy nervously chuckled. "Well...Um..."

Sensing the hesitation from the blonde, Erza decided to drop it. "Nonetheless, we have a job with a high pay."

Lucy smiled at her understanding.

"But I will ask you next time for where the job had come from." Erza persisted with a small smile.

"In time, you'll know." Lucy grinned.

...

The next day, the team had embarked on their 'mysterious' mission, as Lucy wouldn't reveal too much of it. Natsu, Happy, and Gray didn't particular mind. But Erza was still suspicious and will want answers, she will fish out the answers, one way or another.

"So, we just need to find these mages, right? Where can we find them?" Natsu asked as they begun to walk toward the train station.

Lucy takes out a piece of paper to look at the last known location of the rogue mages' whereabouts. She quickly scanned it, before answering Natsu. "It's near Waas Forest."

"That far!?" Natsu whined. "No. We can walk." He started to begged, not wanting to take the train for hours.

The constant begging of the dragon slayer did not heed him well, as he was violently punched in the stomach by an annoyed redhead. Erza forced Gray carry Natsu on their way to the train station.

Couple hours later, they had now arrived at their destination, and Natsu, fortunately and unfortunately, woke up, sprouting fire, and ran out of the train to escape the metal monster.

"So where do we go?" Erza asked as she stepped out of the train with Lucy and Gray.

"We check the forest. We need find traces of those mages and put them down or arrest them if possible." Lucy explained as she walked toward to where to forest was.

Walking into the forest, the mages were on high alert and ready to pounce on anything that may be hostile. Lucy in particular was growing more restless as she walked deeper into the forest. Call it an intuition as Lucy was having a bad feeling, that something bad may happen. Hopefully she was being delusional and was thinking too much on the matter.

Couple minutes later, a sudden peak of magical energy caused Lucy to halt her movement. The sudden peak of magic was everywhere, as Lucy could tell. It was surrounding them as if it lived in the air. There could be no way for her to locate the sudden peak of magic.

When Erza noticed Lucy had stopped walking, she slowed down and turned to her with a questioningly look. "Lucy?"

Before Lucy could even respond to Erza, there was a booming voice that echoed in the silence, alerting the mages. "Looks like fairies had stumbled into our trap."

"Who's there!" Erza demanded as she started to look around, and summoned a set of swords in her hands in the process.

"Whether you know who I am does not matter. For it will not matter when the prophecy comes true. So, what is the point of following these rules?" The voice responded with a cocky attitude.

Lucy narrowed her eyes as she continued to search her surroundings. Her thoughts were plague on if the revelation of her prophecy had been leaked. And if that was the case, they how did they know?

"Prophecy?" Natsu muttered, not even interested in what the voice was talking about, alighting his fist on fire.

"What load of crap." Gray took fighting stance.

"I can feel it. The prophecy is coming. It's real, and he was right. And the Princess is here as well. I will enjoy killing you, Princess."

"Princess?" Erza muttered confusingly.

Lucy silently gulped as she looked around again. She wondered who these guys were, and what they planned on doing. These people claimed to know the revelation and the opposition of the consequences of the prophecy, and this made Lucy more anxious. Just who are these people?

A/N: Hope this is better than the original version

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Toodles!~~

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