A/N: Enjoy the story. Major changes compared to the original if you're still interested in this shitty book lol. 

Laxus was still pissed after losing his leverage when Evergreen surrendered. He was still pissed when he had kidnapped Lucy. But enraging the redhead as he did so, was worth it. But it still doesn't change the fact that his plans was draining one by one, thanks to these 'pesky members' of Fairy Tail.

Couple minutes later, that was when Lucy decided to open her eyes again. She was expecting to see Erza by her side, but she was no where to be found. Instead, she was bound by a tight rope and a gag over her mouth.

The only thing that was going through Lucy mind was terror and the very sense of being afraid. She tried to move, but was reminded of her injuries with a very painful scream from her wounds. With no options left, she started scanning her surroundings to see that she was in a big empty area. It seemed deserted.

But she was not alone.

Laxus was leaning against a column in front of her, with an evil grin. Seeing that Lucy was finally awake, Laxus bolted next to her with his lightning powers, and knelt before her. "Erza will surely come. Before she comes, I want to hear you scream."

Was this really the Laxus she knew? Lucy struggled against the binds, proving it to be useless. Then a bolt of lightning made it way to Lucy's stomach.  Lucy screamed bloody murder through the cloth, as being electrocuted was agonizing.

"Scream!" Laxus laughed. Lucy deserved this. Being the sole reason that his guild was destroyed so easily. The destruction that would've never happened if Lucy never came to join the guild.

The Freed stepped into view with a frown and approach Laxus with caution. "I think that is enough. You should be saving your magic for your fight with the master."

Laxus only just laughed and turned to Freed. "That old geezer will be easy. Plus, I have plans for this little blonde. But first I was to hear her scream." Laxus grinned, before frowning at Freed. "And why are you still here? You should be out there, hunting the Fairies."

"Most of them are unable to fight." Freed pointed out. As much as he was loyal with Laxus, he also felt bad for the other members. They didn't really deserve this pain that they are going through.

"If you are not going to finish this, then leave. I don't need you in my Fairy Tail." Laxus muttered disapprovingly at Freed, and sent a bolt near Freed as to intimidate him.

Feeling the wind move next him, with electrity flying, Freed only sighed and did what any sane person would do. "I have more Fairies to hunt then." He glanced at the blonde once more and felt pity for her. Laxus really knew no bounds.

Once Freed was gone, Laxus turned her attention back to the blonde and smiled with a playful evil grin. He sent another bolt to Lucy's sides, enjoying the scream that was muffled by the cloth in Lucy's mouth.

"Now, what else shall I do? Lightning bolt seems too repetitive and boring. You need some punishment for making my guild look utterly weak." Laxus seemed to be in deep thought.

"How about getting burned?"

At those words, Lucy panicked and squirmed some more.

"I should burn that mark off of your hand. I don't want you in my guild you weak bitch." Laxus muttered angrily.

Lucy squirmed some more, and by luck, she managed to get the cloth out of her mouth. "Laxus! Why are you doing this!?"

Laxus only smirked and stared at the blonde.

"Laxus! When this is all over, master will not go easy on you!"

"Master? You mean the old man?" Laxus chuckled. "When this is all over, I'll be the next master, and there will be no one to stop me!"

"You are a fucking coward!" Lucy muttered, feeling afraid and angry at the same time.

Laxus only responded by sending another bolt of lightning to Lucy's side, followed by a bloody scream.

Lucy lost count on how many times Laxus has sent a bolt of lightning to her. She braced for another attack, but it never came. She looked up too see that Laxus was looking at the words in the air. 'Freed verses Mirajane: Both had lost the will to fight'

Laxus probably popped a vein as he glared at those words. "They are weak. When did ya'll get so weak?!"

In his frustration and anger, Laxus sends another lightning bolt to Lucy, who was weakly squirming away. Laxus laughed manically, hearing the frantic scream from the blonde, it was music to his ears, and he wanted to hear more. Better than thinking about how utterly weak his members were.

Then he felt another presence, a familiar one.

Laxus turned and smirked when he saw Mystogan. "So you decided to play, huh?" As if testing the mystery man, he sent another bolt of lightning toward Lucy. In a split second, Lucy was gone, and so was Mystogan.

"Laxus, cease this. Take down the Thunder Palace and say that it all for an entertainment." Mystogan said, appearing behind Laxus, while carrying Lucy bridal style.

Lucy was no longer bounded by a rope, but her pain was still there. Because of all of the lightning bolts, her clothes were smoking and the wounds was visible.

Of all people Lucy expected to save her, she least expected Mystogan to be the one. Not that she wasn't thankful, she was just surprised, and extremely thankful to the mysterious mega shy man.

The blonde then found herself leaning against a column, far away from the mean ol Laxus. And Mystogan stood in front of her, protecting her and daring Laxus to anything stupid.

"Laxus. I will not repeat myself again. Take down the Thunder Palace."

Laxus sneered at the maxed man. "How simpleminded. People had been saying that the title of the strongest Fairy Tail member is either one of us."

Lucy laud still, trying to ignore the thumping roaring pain in her sides, as she watched the drama unfold between Laxus and Mystogan.

"It makes no difference to me, but you are forgetting Erza and Gildarts."

"I'm not. Erza shows promise, but she's still too weak. Gildarts is a lazy ass who cares for nothing." Laxus smirked.

"You're wrong Laxus! Erza is strong. Don't you dare look down own on her!" Lucy clutched hr stomach as she yelled out at the crazy man. She won't take kindly for anyone that insults her friends.

Laxus stared at the blonde is disgust before quickly sending a bolt of lightning toward the blonde. Faster than Mystogan could sense it or deflect it, the bolt collided against the skin of the blonde, and was resulted with a painful scream.

"Weaklings needs to shut up." Laxus could care less for weaklings, he needed stronger mages.

"Laxus." Mystogan growled with anger. "Erza will not forgive you. I won't either." Mystogan took fighting stance, prepared to fight Laxus to the death. For Lucy, for Erza, and for his guild.

Laxus grinned. "Just what I needed."

...

Erza ran around the city like a madman, with its head cut off of his body. She was hysterical as she was trying to look for Lucy and that damn Laxus. She can only hope that Lucy wasn't in a worst condition in before. Anxiety grew as her concern for Lucy grew, and the concern for what's happening in the sky. One or the other, Erza thought. But Lucy was her main priority...

Then she heard a loud explosion. And she hoped it was the location where Lucy was at. Erza's mind was overloaded with bunch of what ifs and whatnot. Was Lucy fighting? Putting up a fight with Laxus? She hoped that Lucy wasn't. She sustained enough injuries, and she didn't need anymore. Erza silently prayed that she was safe as she ran in the direction of the explosion.

Halfway to the location, she ran into Natsu, who was also running in the same direction. And he looked fired up and angry for missing out most of the fun. Soon, the two mages arrived at the building where the explosion was, and found two mages that were currently in combat.

"Who's that guy?" Natsu enquired with a straight face, looking at Mystogan questioningly.

"Mystogan." Erza answered, actually surprised that he's fighting in this battle.

"Where's Lucy!?" Erza yelled, after getting over being surprised at Mystogan's presence.

Laxus turned to the redhead and smirked, deciding not to be vocal.

Seeing that Laxus was being difficult with her, Erza started scanning her surroundings. She quickly spotted a certain blonde leaning against a column, unconscious. She ran toward her to make sure that she's still breathing.

With some miracle, Lucy's still breathing. But her wounds were much more worst than they were before. Erza was angry at herself for not arriving any sooner. But she's here now.

Laxus!! She wanted to run a sword through that goddamned man. Erza stepped forward, closer to Mystogan, intent on helping him fight Laxus and end this ridiculous fight.

But Mystogan only receded in cowardice when Erza inched near him, lowering his guard in the process. Laxus immediately saw this as a chance to uncover the masked man with his lightning bolt, smoke spewing everywhere.

Erza turned to Mystogan, curiosity overtaking her, as she was curious to who was under the mask. As the smoke cleared, the redhead asked herself if she was dreaming. There was no way for the dead to be walking. The person who had laid destruction in almost everything he had came across, now stood before her. It's definitely a cruel twist of fate.

Natsu had the same expression and shock painted on his face. Anger was also evident along with uncertainty.

"I am not Jellal. I know who he is, but he is not me." Mystogan said, filling the silence that was in the room, with Laxus standing there with amusement.

Erza was filled with all kind of emotions. The prominent emotion was anger, anger for the torture Jellal had put Lucy through. The man that stood before her right now, Erza was unsure on how she should deal with him.

Mystogan looked ashamedly at Erza and Natsu before turning away. He looked in the direction where Lucy laid unconscious.  "Take Lucy to a safe distance. I leave the rest to you." He then disappeared in thin air, leaving the two young mages to fight Laxus.

Laxus was really amused as he watched the drama with Mystogan and the mix-up with the person named Jellal. It was worth waiting, and letting them recover from their shock. He should've brought a snack, or video taped the whole thing.

When Mystogan disappeared, Erza quickly turned and ran back to where Lucy laid silently.

...

Pain was all she could feel as she was basked in darkness. The noises around her, as far as she could understand, was all muffled. She felt like she was floating, all senses failing her as she tried to focus. She has gone through this enough times to know, she just needed to be stronger.

She tried moving her arm, but it was too painful. She tried shifting her body, but it was even more painful. So she just settled to just opening her eyes, and thankfully it wasn't as painful as moving her arms.

It was all but a blur at first. But she knew a certain redhead stood in front of her. But she was facing elsewhere. Her movements was that of a drunkard throwing their hands in the air in a drunken rage (blame the blurry vision, that or her brain is playing tricks on her and she may be seeing an red alien from mars🤷🏼‍♀️).

As her visions was returning, her hearing was coming back to normal as well, but it still felt muffled. Someone was definitely yelling.

Shutting her eyes tightly and reopening them, she can see Erza standing there clearly, and Natsu with flames surrounding his body. And Laxus stood in front of the two mages with an amused look.

Lucy opened her mouth and tried to speak, but her chest only screamed in pain, eliciting a painful moan. Thankfully, Erza had trained ears and heard it. She turned her head to see the blonde awake and in pain. Erza stared at the blonde for a split second before making a quick decision.

"Natsu. I'll leave Laxus to you. I'll take Lucy out of here."

Natsu didn't complain. In fact, he'll gladly do it. His only response and lighting his fists on fire.

Erza then proceeded to turn to the blonde who was dazed and not completely conscious, and picked her up carefully. Once she had the blonde secured in her arms, she quickly dashed out of he building before Laxus decided to interfere.

Luckily he didn't.

...

The redhead placed the small girl on the ground, against a wall and made sure she was comfortable. She stared at the blonde who struggled to focus, most likely due to the countless tortures she had gained.

Some of her senses were returning, emphasize on some. Lucy's vision is almost back to normal. But her hearing is a bit muffled. It sounded like a huge bomb went off near her head. The blonde struggled to move her head, but once she did, she noticed someone familiar.

"E-Erza."

The latter responded with a gentle smile. "You're safe now."

Of course Lucy couldn't hear what she was saying. The blonde kept her eyes on the redhead, seeing that she was moving her mouth. Occasionally looking up to the sky with something floating in the air.

"I lo-  -u" Erza said before placing a small and quick kiss on Lucy's forehead before dashing off.

Lucy stayed still, replaying what Erza has said. Or thought she had said. She was only focused on two things. Thunder palace and that same phrase she had said numerous times.

Then it clicked. Seeing Bisca and her SO. Leo being flirty. And Erza...

Why did it feel like Erza dashed off to her death and won't be returning? Panic setting in, Lucy felt restless. She needed to do something. How long had the time passed since she left. Felt like an eternity.

Lucy slowly sat up, fighting back the urge to wince in pain, and tried to get on her feet. Probably took her a couple minutes to get up, using the wall next to her as crutches.

Faintly remembering that the redhead ran down the alley, Lucy slowly sauntered down the same path.

Not too longer after, she heard a voice in her head. A sense of familiarity as the voice continued to ring in her head.

"Hey! Can you hear me, everyone!?" Lucy immediately recognized the owner to be Warren.

"Things are bad! Look at the sky!" His voice seemed desperate and scared.

Lucy did as he asked and saw numerous balls floating in the sky and she realized what it was. And what Erza has meant when she had dashed off.  And what she had intended to do.

"Everyone who's down for the count, get up now! Everyone's who's still fighting, put it on hold for now! Listen up! Use all your magic to destroy the things floating in the sky! Laxus is going to use them to attack the city! There's no time! We all got to do it together!"

Lucy never thought that Laxus would bring innocent normal people into this. How low had he sunk?! Anger boiled under her skin at how cowardly Laxus was acting.

Her head was then exploded with countless arguments from the other members. How it was unfair. Impossible to defeat the Thunder Palace.

Lucy leaned against the wall in mild disappointment. Was arguing all they can do when the whole town was in danger? She expected the members to work together. This is was she get for being hopeful.

She was angry and disappointed. And she was tired of it all. She was done complaining.

She had enough of it.

"Shut up everyone!" The blonde yelled, tone of rage implemented into her voice.

All of the voices that was arguing in her head went quiet at the sudden outburst of the shy blonde. Lucy took their silence as her cue to keep talking.

"We shouldn't be fighting like this. The townspeople will be danger if we don't do something. We can't do this alone. We have to do this together. Erza is trying to do it by herself, at least help her!" Lucy yelled into her telepathy.

No one said anything and remained quiet.

"We have to help. We need to work together! If we do, we can do anything, and nothing will be impossible for us! Fairy Tail should not fight alone! This is what Fairy Tail had taught me...we are never alone, and we should never fight alone. So please stop fighting and being kids and help us!"

The blonde lost her strength as she yelled into the telepathy, and fell to her knees and leaned on the wall.

If they don't understand, then by the Mavis, help us. 

Couple seconds later, she received words of agreements. They were ready to fight with renowned spirit.

Lucy forced herself back to her feet again and took a step forward. She needed to find Erza.

A minute or two later, she could see the floating lacrimas being simultaneously demolished one by one. Not too longer afterwards, an agonizing scream was heard throughout town. And that scared Lucy.

Erza!

Lucy forced another step, and then another. By luck she managed to walk a block or two before seeing a blob of red on the ground, smoke shrouding the young girl.

She picked up her pace and made her way to Erza has fast as we could.

Was she okay? Will she live? Please don't be dead.

"Honestly...I can't believe how reckless you people are..." Erza stared at the sky and left a small almost invisible smile, not noticing a certain blonde approaching her.

Hearing those words, Lucy could only be angry. Reckless?! Knowing Erza, she probably took on as many as she could. She could've died! She...She...!

"You're the reckless one, Erza!" Lucy yelled with anger, making the redhead jump with surprise.

"Lucy? Should you be resting?" Erza sat up and looked at the blonde with worry. Not even caring about her own injuries.

Lucy frowned a little and carefully sat next to the redhead.  "Ask me that when you're fine. You took on the most lacrimas than the guild combined. You should be worried about yourself."

Erza chuckled at the blonde's worriness. "I'm fine."

Lucy didn't believe her and glared at the redhead. "I was worried about you." Lucy murmured.

Erza smiled and felt grateful for how caring the blonde was. She vowed that no one else will receive this beautiful kindness. It was hers and only hers. "I'm fine."

"No you don't understand. I was worried about you, you takes things to far. You should be thinking logically, for your sake."

Erza could only stare at the young beauty. And all she wanted to do was just kiss her. Just a single kiss would make all of her injuries disappear. 

"I don't want you to leave..."

Erza blinked, not expecting that particular line. "What you mean?"

"Your recklessness will get you in big trouble. I don't want anything to happen to you." Lucy was too frustrated to say anything else.

Erza leaned toward the blonde with gentle eyes gleaming with love. "Lucy. I was reckless so I could protect you."

"Then make sure that you'll survive before trying to help other people. You have a habit of putting yourself in danger. You need to care for yourself as well."

Erza could understand what she was trying to say. Though it was cute to see the blonde being so worried about her. It was adorable. "I'll try."

"No." 

Lucy is just stubborn isn't she? "Lucy, I-"

"No."

"No what?"

"You won't try. You'll do it. You need to take care of yourself before trying to help others."

"...Lucy, the least I can do is try to protect myself before protecting others. But it's not guaranteed that the both of us can be unscathed by the end of the day." Erza speculated with her famous gentle tone that is only reserved for the blonde.

Lucy sighed, knowing that Erza was right. The least she could do was hope that Erza won't put herself in any life threatening situations. "... Alright."

She leaned into the redhead and wrapped her arms around her. Erza really does gives the best hugs. Erza hugged back, always eager to have some skin-on-skin contact with the blonde, and a hug is the best way to go. 

Lucy remained in Erza's warm embrace a little too long than she usually does, which alerted the redhead with concern. 

"Lucy...is everything alright?" 

Lucy didn't respond, instead she hugged Erza tighter

"Lucy?" 

"I think I understand now."

"Hmm?"

"You make me worry about you. You're so reckless."

Erza figured that there was more to Lucy's state, making her more concerned about the young girl.

"I-I like you too."

Erza felt her heart stopped, her chest tightened with elastic happiness. Her fucking patience finally paid off. Fucking finally!

She hugged the blonde closer to her, smiling with joy. "Me too."

God she wanted to kiss the blonde so bad. She wanted to embrace the blonde with thousands of kisses. Keep her close and safe, and keeping her all to herself. Lucy's bright smile, her brilliant gleaming eyes that shines.

Unable to hold her temptations anchored, she pushed the blonde back a little, enough for Erza to lean in and kiss the blonde's soft lips. It was even better than Erza had imagined.

Lucy on the other hand, was wondering what's going on, but she enjoyed it.

Not wanting to push her luck any further than she had, Erza reluctantly pulled back. Her smile was bigger and she felt like the happiest person on the planet. 

Before either of the girls could respond, there was a blinding light that was originating from where Laxus and Natsu was at. And before they could say or do anything, the golden like engulfed them completely.

Moments later, the light was gone, and Erza felt confused. She knew what that light was, and she knew that only Makarov could use that particular spell. Everyone seems to be fine, and unharmed. So whatever happened, it must've been a fluke. Maybe.

Soon after, loud explosions could be heard from the building, the battle between Natsu and Laxus becoming even more fiercer. Erza wanted to go back and help Natsu, but she didn't want to leave the blonde by herself again.

"Can you move?" Erza asked as she motioned herself to get up. But Lucy placed her hand on the redhead's shoulder, keeping her on the ground.

"Erza, you need to relax and stop pushing yourself. Have trust in Natsu." Lucy frowned.

Erza frowned and turned to the blonde, and then she got an idea. An mischievous one. "If you give me another kiss, I'll stay right here." She said with a playful smirk.

Lucy wasn't expecting Erza to ask her that. But since she enjoyed the previous kiss... and since she promised she wouldn't go anywhere...

"Alright...." Lucy badgered.

Erza smiled before cupping Lucy's cheek and bringer close once again, until they were centimeter apart before pressing her lips against Lucy's. It felt more pleasant than the first one. She wanted more, but she didn't want to push her luck, so once again, she reluctantly pulled away.

She really loved this girl. 

A/N: I've been obsessed with LWA for the second time, and diakko and cute asf. Tempted to write a story about them but I already have too many stories that I need to finish ... oh well. 

Diakko is adorable and you cannot change my mind! Bitches
Erlu is adorable too hehe