~Magnolia East Forest~
Deep within a treehouse inside of the East Forest, Stark was seen sitting beside the bedridden Makarov. When he heard the sound of footsteps, he turned around and saw the woman in charge of treating him. Her bright, pink hair shining brightly as her eyes held a cold gaze within.

"It seems like you carried him all the way here."

[Fairy Tail Medical Advisor:Porlyusica]

"Porlyusica....."

"Go home already! You already know I can't stand humans!"

As she said this, Porlyusica was swinging her broom at the young man. However, Stark was effortlessly dodging each swing as his worried gaze never left from Makarov. With a sigh escaping from her lips, Porlyusica stood beside Stark as she looked at her bedridden acquaintance.

"This all happened because he rushed into things without considering his age. You should go home, Stark. Fretting faces is the worst type of poison for a sick man."

"I will, but can you at least tell me the cause of this?"

"You said the man who did this possessed wind magic, correct? This is the work of a spell known as Drain. It's a fearful magic that forces the target's magical power to flow out of them. The drained magical power drifts off into the air and soon dissipates. If we could gather Makarov's magical power, that would speed up recovery. However, it is far too late and his recovery is prolonged."

As Porlyusica finished her explanation, she was ready to use her broom to shoo Stark away. However, she stopped herself the moment she saw the look on Stark's face. It was a look of horrific realization. Soon the dark magic user stood up and began to walk out of Porlyusica's home as he spoke in a low tone.

"Please treat Gramps well."

Porlyusica, despite her disdain for humans, couldn't help but have look of worry on her face. She could tell what was going through Stark's mind given what she just explained. Makarov was in this state because he got hit with Drain, but he also used the last bit of his strength to get Stark out of it's range. She had no doubt the young man was blaming himself. As she looked over at Makarov, Porlyusica could only shake her head.

"You caused so much trouble since the old days. For mages, magic power is like their source of life. The greater the magic power you possess, the more unimaginable pain that Drain does to you. If you don't try your best, you may die like this. Knowing you, that is the least of your worries. Since that young man has even more magic power than you.....the thought of losing him outweighed the thought of losing your own life, didn't it? You.....really are.....a fool."

~At Fairy Tail~
While everyone waited for Stark's return, the members of Fairy Tail were treating their own injuries as well as trying to plan an attack on Phantom Lord's actual headquarters. As she was now sitting down inside of the guild after being rescued by Natsu and Happy, Lucy still couldn't believe why this was all happening.

"Kidnap you, why, you misunderstand. It was your own father that hired us to bring you back."

Jose's words still echoed inside of her head. It was true, she was the daughter of one of the richest men out there but she didn't want to go back to that home. She loved it here in Fairy Tail and wanted to stay with them, yet she could only blame herself for this. As Natsu, Gray, Happy and Elfman were around her, she could only say one thing.

"I'm sorry, everyone."

"But i'm surprised, why were you hiding it, Lucy?"

"I wasn't so much hiding it, I ran away from home so I didn't felt like talking about it, Happy. He didn't care about the daughter who ran away for a year and NOW he wants me back. My father did all this just to take me back...he's the worst! Though all of this started because I ran away. I can't believe my selfish actions caused so much trouble for everyone. I'm so sorry, everyone. Everything will be back to normal if I just go home, right?"

Silence filled the air for a few seconds. However, before Lucy could say anything else, Natsu placed his right hand on top of the girl's head. He remembered whenever he felt down, Stark would do this to him to help him cheer up. As soon as he did this, Natsu grinned at Lucy.

"I don't think the title of "lady" suits you at all."

"Huh?"

"You fit better in this dirty bar, laughing and merrily going out on adventurers. You said you want to stay here, so what good is it going back to a place you hate. You're Lucy from Fairy Tail, right? This is your home."

As Lucy couldn't control herself and felt tears running down her face, Mira only nodded her head as she turned her head back to the communication lacrima. As for Cana, she was trying to find Mystogan's location, but had zero results. As Mira looked at the lacrima, she began to explain the situation. Since they knew Lucy was Phantom Lord's target, they'll definitely attack again.

"Master is seriously injured and it will take Stark a while to come back from Porlyusica's. Mystogan isn't able to be found either. You're our only hope, Laxus."

"Hahahaha. Serves that geezer right! Now you're saying that little monster of ours is nowhere to be seen."

"Please come back, it's an emergency."

"It doesn't concern me, go ahead and take care of it yourself. Isn't this how it is, that shitty geezer and that monster started this all on their own. Why should we clean up their mess?"

"Because they're targeting Lucy, one of us."

"Who is that? Oh, you mean the newbie! Tell her i'll be happy to save her if she becomes my woman. Tell that geezer to hurry up and retire so I can get the master position. Once that's done, i'm kicking that monster out of he-"

Before Laxus' sentence was finished, the communication lacrima shattered into pieces. As Cana looked at the commotion, she merely saw Mira clenching her fists as the young woman was seen crying in frustration. Wiping her tears away, Mira looked at her fellow comrade.

"I can't believe it. Is such a person really a member of Fairy Tail?"

"It's okay, Mira. Everyone knows Laxus has it out for Stark. With how badly he lost to the guy, he really can't stand the sight of him."

"If he won't help, then i'll fight! I was here, yet Lucy got kidnapped! I-"

"Mira, you'll do more harm than good in your current situation. Even if you're a former S-Class mage."

~With Erza~
The sound of a shower running could be heard as Erza was lost in her thoughts. She was thinking back on when Stark and Makarov went up to confront Jose only to see the Master of Fairy Tail in critical condition. Not only that, the look of pain on Stark's when he carried Makarov out was still fresh in her mind.

"Everyone retreat. I'll take Master to Porlyusica."

"If only I went with them. Pathetic....it's my fault."

The young woman was brought out of her thoughts as she felt the guild shaking with each passing moment. After wrapping a towel around herself, Erza rushed to the other members of Fairy Tail as they all looked outside. What they saw next left them speechless. Currently heading towards their direction was none other than the headquarters of Phantom Lord as it had six legs attached to it as it made its way forward.

~Phantom Lord Headquarters~
As soon as the guild got close enough, it began to sat itself down as Jose looked at the Fairy Tail guild. A look of rage was present on his face as he was tired of people getting in the way of his job. Just as the Wizard Saint sat down, he looked at the mages that he had on standby that were awaiting his orders.

"Prepare the magical convergent cannon: Jupiter."