Hello everyone! I'm so sorry that it's so long, I had a lot of things on my mind these last few weeks, that everything is just jumbled together. But hopefully it will start calming down soon, I sure hope so! But I don't have much to say, other than who I am dedicating this chapter to. And the person I would like to dedicate this chapter to is BookwormSid1015! She just recently started reading this story, and let me just say . . . . . I don't think you can tell that she likes it. ;) And I got to say I'm glad she is enjoying it, I hope the rest of you are too. Especially since how close we are to the end! Although I won't tell you how close, but get ready. Since the end, won't actually be the end. So I know you guys have been waiting a while for this chapter, so I'll shut up and let you get to it. Love you BookwormSid1015! Love you guys! Enjoy the chapter!

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POV: Lucy

I opened my eyes and looked around at my surroundings. I was in a cell laying on a stone floor that made me groan as I sat up. The walls were made of stone and it smelled of dried blood.

'This isn't right.'

I tell myself as I try to recollect my thoughts. The last thing I could remember was opening the back door of the Guild and was greeted by a man with a carriage waiting for me. Then once I sat down and he shut the door, and I passed out.

"Well, well, well." A voice says, disturbing my thoughts. I look up to see Ethan walk out of the shadows. "Looks like someone is finally awake. Sleep well?" I gritted my teeth and scrambled to my feet, lunging at him, in anger. Ethan flicked his wrist in my direction and a chain wrapped around my throat and attached to the wall behind me. I clawed at the chain until two more chains wrapped around my wrists and clung to the wall next to my head.

"Where am I?" I ask, in a stern demanding voice.

"Where do you think?" Ethan asked back. "Did I not say that your dream would come true?" I felt my eyes widen as I realized exactly where I was. I was in the Natives Guild. "These you go." Ethan cooed. I stared at him in fear at the thought of my nightmare coming true. But then I realized something, and I relaxed.

"What's with that look?" Ethan asked, probably confused that I was smiling.

"There's only one thing wrong with your plan." I said. "My friends aren't here for you to torture." Ethan looked at me for a few moments, with nothing but a blank expression. Then finally breaking the silence, he laughs.

"Yes, well that might be true. For the moment anyway." Ethan says. "But I assure you, it is going to happen. I'm sure it'll only be a few more hours before their here."

"Quit with the bullshit Ethan." I snap. Being tired of his and everyone else's crap I gathered my bravery. "They're not here, or anywhere near here. They probably just figured out that I'm gone, and they're going straight for the Magic Council. Not here, hell they don't even know where "here" is. So cut the crap, and shut the fuck up." Then there was a tapping noise and Max appeared at the bottom of a staircase that lead upwards.

"Ethan the Fairy Tail Mages were spotted coming from the east. It seems their coming from the mountain trail." She speaks, calmly and coldly. Ethan turns to me and smiles.

"You were saying?" Ethan said and I felt every ounce of bravery that I had leave my body, and was replaced by fear. And Ethan could see it. "You should rest, you're going to need it." Ethan said, as he followed Max up the stairs. "If you don't want your friends to die right away."

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POV: Nobody (Focusing on the Natsu & Company)

Natsu and the group were running through the forest, following the path of the claw marks on the trees.

"To the right!" Juvia said as she spotted claw marks making a turn in a different direction. And everyone followed their path, to save Lucy. Their Lucy. Their friend. Their family.

They ran for a few more minutes before they reached an opening in the trees and they walked out into a small meadow. They stopped to catch their breath for a moment, before looking around the small clearing. Though there wasn't much to look at, everything seemed peaceful. There were small flowers all about in the grass. Small birds were chirping in the trees one last time before they snuggled down in their nests for the night. And the sun was low and bright, trying to peek out behind the clouds one last time, in order to say goodbye. Even the big building in the middle of the meadow seemed quiet.

"Is this their Guild?" Erza asked, as she and everyone walked towards the building slowly.

"No doubt about it." Gajeel said.

"How can you tell?" Levy asked.

"They marked their territory." Gajeel said as he walked away from Levy. Levy looked down at her feet and saw that some mud had made it's way over the sides of her sandals. Levy made a discussed face and followed her friends to the building. They walked around to the main door to find it wide open.

"Oh no, there's no way that this is a trap." Gray said sarcastically. "I sure they just want to throw us a party. And that they're all in there waiting for us to come in so that they can yell 'surprise'!"

"They will if, you don't shut up." Erza said.

"Do we have a plan?" Juvia asked.

"Yeah, go get Lucy." Natsu said and walked into the Natives Guild.

"Typical Natsu." Happy said, and flew in after him. The others followed them in and looked around the place, being as careful as possible. They looked around the large room, only to see nothing and no one. There was a door open next to the stage and they slowly made their way towards it. When they got to it they saw that it lead downwards.

"Totally not suspicious at all." Gray said, as they descended downwards into the basement. But when they got to the bottom it was more like a dungeon. They walked down the hallway and passed an open cell. Then all of a sudden a green Magic Circle appeared underneath all of them and they floated into the air.

"What the-?" Natsu started ask but was cut short when a chain wrapped around his neck, and two more wrapped around his wrists and ankles along with everyone else. Then they flew to the side and their backs smacked agansit the wall.

"What's going on?" Happy asked as he pushed on the chain around his belly keeping him on the wall.

"You're all idiots, is what is going on." A voice said, they looked and saw Ethan and Ella standing outside the cell. "You all fell straight into my trap."

"Told you." Gray said quietly.

"Where's Lucy?" Natsu demanded.

"She's right there." Ethan said pointing to another cell. Everyone looked at the cell beside them and gasped.

"Lucy!" They said. Lucy was in the same position as they were except that she was sitting on the ground and her eyes were closed.

"What did you do to her?" Erza asked.

"We haven't done anything to her." Ethan answered. "She's resting, in hopes to save you all."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Gajeel questioned.

"Oh you'll find out soon enough." Ethan said with a small smile. "But I am currious, how did you manage to find this place?"

"We followed your trail of claw marks on the trees." Levy said. And at the mention of the marks Ella's eyes widened, and she looked down.

"Claw marks?" Ethan said, confused. Then he eyed Ella. "Ella, did you lead them here, on purpose?" Ella didn't look at him and didn't answer either. "Ella!" Ethan said raising his voice. She looked up at him and her look told him everything he needed to know. He backhanded her and she fell to the ground with a small yelp. "Go up to the others, and send Vallorie and Kyler down. I'll deal with you later." Ella stood up with tears in her eyes and held her cheek.

"Yes, sir." She said and ran up the stairs. For a minute it was quiet, until there was a light taping noise and the wolves that Ethan asked for walked into the basement.

"You called." Vallorie said as she twirled a small strand of white hair around her finger.

"Yes, I need you to take their magic away." Ethan said nodding towards the Fairy Tail members. "Wouldn't want them getting any ideas."

"Of course." She said and held up her hand. A white Magic Circle appeared in front of her palm and a white ball of light shot out of it one at a time hitting each of the Fairy Tail members. The small white lights hit each of them in the chest and rippled out over the surface of their skin.

"That was different then any other Dispel Magic I've ever felt." Erza said, looking up at Vallorie. "What did you do?"

"Instead of draining your energy so that you could just get it back later." Vallorie said pausing a moment. "I blocked your Magic Energy."

"What?" They all asked.

"That's right. But only for an hour." Vallorie said, putting her hands on her hips, proud that she had just surprised the Fairy Tail Mages. "I could have done longer, but you'll probably be dead by then anyway."

"That's true." Ethan said, and was quiet for a moment as he looked at the ground and smiled. "Lucy, won't you join the party?" Ethan said looking over at Lucy. After a moment she lifted her head and stared at Ethan.

"What do you want Ethan?" She demanded.

"You to suffer." Ethan answered, smirking to himself. "Kyler." Ethan said turning to his Beta. "Have fun." Ethan said, and Kyler put both his hands up and a large Magic Circle appeared in front of him. Then hundreds of bullets shot at the Fairy Tail Mages strapped to the wall.

"No!" Lucy screamed as tears flowed down her cheeks as her friends screamed out in pain.