Hey guys! So I know you probably hate me. Can't blame you. I kinda hate myself too. But I', very excited because I have been waiting forever for this chapter and the next few after this as well!!! You should take that as a good sign! It's going to get better from here!!! Sorta. Maybe. I don't know yet. But I'll get there. And for those of you that are wondering how I got this almost 3000 word chapter done so soon. I've been working on this since like the second chapter. That's how excited I've been for this! So I guess I'll shut up now. I would like to dedicate this chapter to Kuroi_Yukine! She's a new follower!!! Yeah! Sorry I don't got much to say. . . . . at least I have an excuse, I don't know you! But you know what? I love you Kuroi_Yukine! Love you guys! Enjoy the chapter!

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POV: Lucy

All week I've been sitting with Levy, Gajeel, Gray, Juvia, Mira, and Erza, while Natsu sat at his in the corner. It's been almost a week since I interacted with Natsu. And that was when he found out about what my dad does for fun. But the day after that happened he left on a business trip for a week or two. So I get a break from hell.

'Maybe he'll forget about what happened before he comes back . . . . . . . I doubt it. And when he gets back I'm going to pay for it, big time.'

Then all of a sudden my thoughts were interrupted by a loud explosion and I was flown out of my seat and in the center of the room. I sat up rubbing the back of my head as it started to throb. I looked towards where the explosion took place to see a large group of people, standing in the large opening where the door used to be. I stood up and so did everyone else.

"What the hell do you want Jose?" Gajeel yelled at the group leader, who was in the front. He was a tall thin man and had blackish red hair and a mustache.

"I want to finish a job that was given to the academy to fulfill. For a very pretty penny to." The leader known as Jose said. Erza was a few feet away from me so I leaned towards her a bit.

"Hey Erza, who is this guy?" I asked.

"Jose Porla, the principle of Phantom Lord Academy." She said staring at Jose.

"Phantom Lord?" I asked and Erza nodded. "Why does Gajeel look so angry?"

"Juvia too." Levy said pointing out Juvia to me. Juvia looked like she was ready to commit murder. "Gajeel and Juvia both went to Phantom Lord Academy before they started going to Fairy Tail."

"Why'd they change school?" I asked. Levy looked away.

"They both got caught up in some bad stuff and Phantom Lord Academy wasn't getting in trouble for any of it." Mira said.

"One of those things was hurting members of Fairy Tail." Gray said. "Levy, being one of them."

"Gajeel and Juvia were part of it?" I asked.

"Yeah." Levy said, speaking up. "And they have been forgiven many times, but they still regret everything that they did under the influence of Phantom Lord."

"They still dwell on it to this day." Mira said. "Even though they have nothing to be sorry for anymore. They've both made up for it."

"And what is this job that you speak of, Jose?" Master Makarov asked as he jumped from the second floor balcony.

"Now that information is none of your business, Makarov." Jose said. Then he look over in my direction, and when his eyes landed on me he smirked. "But it's got something to do with that little blonde haired beauty."

'What? Why me?'

"If this has anything to do with my children, then damn right it's my business!" Master Makarov said bluntly, as Erza, Mira, Levy, Gajeel, Gray, and Juvia all stepped in front of me.

"Well he didn't say I couldn't say anything." Jose said. "So, Miss Lucy Heartfilia. Your father has sent us to retrieve you." I flinched and started to silently freak out.

"She's not going with you!" Gray yelled at Jose.

"Well Lucy, know this. You either come willingly, and nobody here gets hurt. Or your father said that if you resisted he wouldn't mind if we, dealt with your friends in a . . . . . gruesome way." Jose said smirking and my eyes widened in fear.

'Either I go with them, and I deal with my father. Or I resist, and there's a chance Fairy Tail members will be hurt because of me.'

I then looked down realizing that I had absolutely no choice.

"So Lucy, I will say this one time, and one time only. Come with us." Jose said, and I knew that he was wearing a smile knowing what I was going to do. I slowly took a step forwards. And another. And another. And another. Until I was slowly passing Gray, Juvia, Erza, Mira, Levy, and Gajeel.

"Lucy, don't!" Erza said grabbing a hold of my elbow.

"You don't have to do this." Gray said.

"We can protect you." Juvia said. I shook my head no.

"There's nothing left, to protect me from." I said, and slowly pulled my arm free from Erza's grip. With my hair still covering my eyes, I walked over to Jose and he patted my head.

"Good, girl." Jose said. "Maybe if I tell your father you cooperated, he'll go easy on you." He teased, knowing there was no way in hell he was going easy on me now. I looked up, looking him straight in the eye.

"Go fuck yourself!" I told him and the next thing I knew was that he backhanded me, and I fell to the ground.

"How dare you disrespect me!" He yelled. He quickly reached forwards, and grabbed a hold of my hair and held me up above the ground, making me face him. I bit my lip to keep myself from crying out in pain.

'There's no way I'm going to let him hear me cry!'

I grabbed a hold of his hand that held tightly to the back of my head, trying to get him to let go.

"You disrespect me, I disrespect you!" He said and then grabbed my boob. My eyes widened and I thrusted my right foot up to his crotch, as fast and as hard as I could. And when he doubled over in pain he dropped me and I landed on my back, hitting the back of my head on the floor. He started getting up, still holding his crotch, and he glared at me. I then backed up.

'Someone help!'

Jose grabbed my ankle and started to drag me towards him he went to punch me, but he never made it that far. Because someone jumped in front of me, holding onto Jose's fist and punched him, sending him flying back and knocking over a few of Phantom Lord's members.

"Natsu." I whispered more to myself. He held his hand out to me and I took a hold of it, and he pulled me up to my feet. Jose then started to get up and Natsu backed himself onto me, with one arm around my body. And he spread his wings out in a defensive position.

"Well look at what we have here." Jose said looking at Natsu. "Looks like we have a discrete."

"A discrete? What's that?" I asked.

"Someone who has different characteristics, that fit with their magic." Erza said.

"In other words, Natsu." Gray said summing up what Erza said. I looked in front of me and Natsu held onto me a bit tighter. I placed my hand on the back of his vest and stood a little closer to him.

"You know, Phantom Lord accepts discretes like you." Jose said.

"What the hell are you talking about Jose?" Gajeel demanded.

"Juvia doesn't recall any discretes in Phantom Lord!" Juvia yelled.

"Well things have changed since you left, for instance, Ryder! Come on up here!" After a moment everyone cleared out of the way, and a boy that looked the same age as us, walked towards Jose. But he wasn't a regular looking teenager. He looked exactly like Natsu, except that his hair was white, his facial features were very different, and his wings and scales were white that faded into a light blue with dark blue edges.

'Another discrete Dragon Slayer!'

"Natsu this is Ryder, he is an Ice Dragon Slayer." Jose said. "He is a discrete and has been with Phantom Lord for quite awhile."

"I bet you're treated like a freak here." Ryder said. And at these words Natsu was surprised, and his wings pulled in a little. "I bet nobody hangs around you because you look different. Because your a discrete. I know how you feel."

'Don't Natsu, please don't fall for his bullshit!'

"I was treated the same way, up until I joined Phantom Lord. They took me in, and they cared for me. They showed me what family means." Ryder said. His face was playing his words to the fullest, but his tongue was dancing with nothing but lies.

"The same thing can happen for you too." Jose said stepping forwards a little. "You just have to step forwards." After multiple moments Natsu's grip on me disappeared and he started to walk forwards.

"Natsu." I whispered as my hand slid from his back. He walked all the way to Jose, Ryder, and all the other Phantom Lord members. And as he slowly became a traitor I felt tears fall from my eyes. Someone, who was the first person that I could talk to about the things that go on at home, someone who had a better perspective of understanding my pain, someone who knows what's happening to me, was slipping away. He turned around and faced us with his hair covering his eyes.

"That a boy!" Jose said as he wrapped an arm around Natsu's shoulders. "Welcome to the family. And now Lucy, come here and we will take you to your daddy. And I know for a fact that he can show you a thing or two about hurting the opposite gender." I flinched at his words.

'He knows?'

But before Jose had the pleasure of putting a smirk on his face, his arm got grabbed and he got swung towards the large group of mages. Natsu then backed up until his back was against me.

"Natsu." I said smiling as I placed my hands on his shoulders. He looked over his shoulder at me, and he smiled at me.

"You little bastard!" Jose yelled at Natsu, as he stood up from the ground. "I've had enough of Fairy Tail! Get her!" Everyone in Phantom Lord then ran forwards, straight for me. But the next thing I knew, Erza, Levy, Gajeel, Gray, Juvia, and Mira jumped in front of me and Natsu.

"Ice Make: Lance!"

"Water: Slicer!"

"Slide Script: Bomb!"

"Iron Dragon: Roar!"

"Requip: Black Wing Armor!"

"Take-Over: Satan Soul!"

They all yelled. Gray fired his ice and hit multiple people causing them to go down. Juvia's water hit some people making them go flying in one direction. Levy's Magic went to the back of the group causing most of them to go flying all sorts of directions. Gajeel's Roar went all the way through the group making many people go as far as the trees. Erza swung her sword down and it struck the ground and made a path to quite a few Mages, causing them to be thrown backwards. And then Mira spoke a spell and shot 'Satanic Blast' at a large group of people causing them to be taken down. And the combination of all the force that was used in their spells caused Fairy Tail members to be thrown back a bit, and I landed on my back, Natsu a few feet away.

'I can't believe it! Six Mages just took down practically a whole school!'

"Remind me to never get on any of their bad sides." I said aloud more to Natsu as I sat up and he nodded. But then before I got up I got a bad feeling.

'Something's wrong.'

I looked at the people that were left, and noticed one in particular was missing.

"Wait a minute." I said and everyone turned to me. "Where's Ryder?" And as soon as those words left my mouth, we realized what was about to happen. Natsu lunged for me, but it was too late. Ryder grabbed a hold of my arm, and yanked me upwards off the floor and high into the air, about one hundred feet into the air towards the ceiling. I looked down and started to hyperventilate. I couldn't take my eyes off the floor that looked like it was a mile away.

"You!" Erza roared pointing her sword at Ryder. "Let Lucy go!" I heard Ryder smirk, knowing what he was going to do, but I couldn't say or do anything.

"Oh? You want me to drop her?" He asked, and Erza then realized her mistake, and everyone that knew I was very afraid of heights realized it as well. Ryder let go of me and I dropped a good ten feet. But then he caught me. And let me just say that I was glad I wore pants today, because this time he was holding onto my ankle. I looked towards the ground to see that Natsu was underneath us and he was ready to catch me.

"Bastard! Give her back!" Gray yelled.

"You want her?" Ryder asked smiling about his evil plan. "Then come and get her." He told them and next thing I knew was Ryder being punched in the jaw, by Gajeel's iron club as his fist. I gasped as Ryder dropped me and I fell, but before Natsu could catch me Ryder got a hold of me again, this time around the waist. "You're not getting her that easy." And then Natsu lunged at him and Ryder dodged, him going to the wall and used that as a boost to push him to another wall with Natsu hot on our heels. And I felt like I was getting flipped around like an almost dead fish, who was trying to get air.

"Get them!" I heard Jose yell, and I semi looked to see that most of Phantom Lord had recoverer, which easily outnumbered Fairy Tail, were now charging at each other and started fighting. Then Ryder decided to use the floor as a boost. I looked behind us to see Natsu was reaching out for me and I tried to reach out for him as well, and our fingers just brushed each other but was unable to get a grip.

"Now!" Ryder yelled as soon as his feet were coming off the ground, and most of Phantom Lord tackled Natsu to the ground. "Try getting me now, freak!" He said as he raced outside up high into the air. And I started screaming and hyperventilating again. "Would you shut up?" Ryder yelled punched me in the face, hard, making me see spots and then darkness.

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POV: Natsu

Ryder had grabbed Lucy and was juggling her around like a rag doll.

'God I'm going to kick his ass.'

"Bastard! Give her back!" Gray yelled at Ryder.

"You want her?" Ryder asked smiling at his evil plan. "Then come and get her." He told us.

"Fine." Gajeel whispered and brought his arm back and threw a punch made of iron flying towards Ryder's face and he didn't know till it was too late. Lucy's eyes went wide as she fell towards me, but Ryder grabbed her before I could catch her.

"You're not getting her that easy." Ryder said smiling down at me, and that evil smile of his made me snap. I lunged at him but he dodged, going to the wall, and started bouncing wall to wall. I could hear Lucy having a hard time breathing from being up off the ground, and the sight of her being scared made my chest hurt. And it only fueled my anger.

"Get them!" Jose yelled, and most of Phantom Lord were now charging at each other and started their battle. Ryder bounced from the wall to the floor and as he was bouncing off the floor I was landing and was reaching for Lucy's hand as she reached out to me. But I failed to get a hold of her

"Now!" Ryder yelled, and most of Phantom Lord members tackled me to the ground. "Try getting me now, freak!" He said as he raced outside up high into the air. I heard Lucy start screaming and I tried to shove the evil mages off of me but it wasn't working to well since I was on my stomach, with my arms pinned down, and there was so many. Then, all of a sudden, Lucy was silent, I tried to listen for her but I couldn't hear her. And I struggled even more to get up.

"Guys!" Erza yelled and started dragging the mages off of me.

"Get them off of him!" Levy yelled, punching a girl in the face. Soon enough, with everyone's help there wasn't as many mages and I used my head to push most of my body off the floor, getting on my knees and threw my wings open roaring, because now I was pissed off. Ryder had done something to Lucy, because I couldn't hear her at all.

"Natsu! Go get her!" Gray yelled at me, and he didn't have to tell me twice.

'Lucy! I'm coming!'