Another long chapter from my account. Plz enjoy

Couple hours later, Natsu bolted straight up, spitting fire, "All right! I'm all fired up! Let's go!"

Gray woke up as well, yawning. Happy scratched him for no apparent reason...

Lucy stared at them murderously...as they readied themselves... Go die bastards.

"Oi! Lucy! Ready to go?" Natsu asked, after putting his shoes on, oblivious to the look Lucy was giving him.

"Did you even sleep?" Gray asked, noticing the bags under Lucy's eyes, while putting his clothes on.

Lucy glared at the boys... "I want to go back. Take me back. Take me back now!"

"It's too late now. Plus, you can get stronger this way." Natsu said, obviously too lazy to even try and go back...and is really set on doing the job.

"Yeah, we can always protect you." Gray agreed.

"That's not-" Lucy gave up. "Fine! When we get back, I'll have Erza kill you." Lucy declared.

"Fine by me. Can we get on with this mission now?" Natsu said, not even registering the fact that Erza might actually kill him.

"I say we try to find another way to break the curse...instead of destroying the moon." Gray thought...thinking that destroying the moon is impossible. "What do you think Lucy?" Gray asked, looking at Lucy, while the mages walked along the dirt path.

"The hell are you looking at me for? I'm a damn hostage! Why are you asking me this?" Lucy spat back with venom in her voice. She is really hating these boys right now.

"Why say that? We're a team, remember?" Natsu smiled, not intimidated by Lucy's tone.

Lucy glared at the airhead...and the pervert... 'So, they have no idea that they literally dragged me to this mission? By tricking me and all?'

The mages walked along the dirt path in silence...with Lucy trailing behind, glaring at the boys murderously.

Couple seconds later, heavy footsteps could be heard, and the ground was shaking, and it was coming from behind. The mages turned around to see what it was...Lucy was the first to scream and run away.

"Wh-What the...!" Natsu exclaimed, looking the sheer size of the monster.

"It's huge!" Gray yelled.

It was a giant rat in a dress...or a maid dress...whatever it was.

Gray and Natsu did not hesitate to beat the crap out of the rat in a dress. The rat fell unconscious in less than 30 seconds...talk about weak...

"Where's Lucy?" Gray asked, noticing that the blonde was gone...

"Did you kill it yet?" Lucy yelled, couple meters away and hiding behind a tree.

"Why didn't you help!?" Natsu complained.

"It scared me!" Lucy retorted.

"Ok, it doesn't matter anymore. Anyway, there's a building over there. Let check it out." Gray said, pointing to what looked like a temple.

"Do I have to?" Lucy muttered to herself.

Gray, Natsu, and Happy ignored Lucy and entered the temple, and Lucy cursed under her breath as she aversely followed, not wanting to be alone on a cursed island.

"Wow! This place is big!" Natsu exclaimed.

"It's all busted up." Gray said, looking at all the cracks and rubbles scattered across the room.

"Just how old is this?" Lucy muttered while looking around.

"Man, this place is falling apart. Is the floor even safe?" Natsu said, while stomping the floor to test its strength.

Lucy turned to the flame idiot to see what he was doing... "Stop that!" Lucy cried. The last thing she wanted was the floor caving in.

...Yep...The floor caved in, swallowing the mages the blue cat down to the bottom of the pit.

"Natsu! You idiot!" Gray cursed as he fell. Lucy shrieked bloody murder. Happy allowed himself to fall...since he could fly...lucky bastard...

After the dust settled, Natsu popped out of a pile of rocks. "Hey! You guys okay?" He asked, looking around.

"No! This is your fault!" Lucy angrily spat back, throwing a pebble at Natsu's face... "Remind me to personally kill you when we get back." Lucy gritted her teeth angrily.

"Why don't you ever think about the consequences!?" Gray glared at Natsu.

Natsu ignored their comment and the pebble that had hit him in the face. "Happy. Can you fly us up?" He asked, while looking up at the hole they fell through.

"Nope." Happy said, munching on a fish.

"We're beneath the temple." Gray observed, looking at his surroundings.

"It's a secret cave!" Natsu threw his hands in the air and started skipping through a random tunnel like a girl. "Since we're here, let's go exploring!"

"Hey! Quit running around like crazy!" Gray yelled at Natsu, who ignored him. Lucy sighed at how childish Natsu can be.

Gray sighed in frustration, "Come on Lucy, and let's follow him."

"Who said I'll follow you?" Lucy glared at Gray.

Gray ignored her and started to run after Natsu, leaving Lucy by herself, with Happy on her shoulder munching on a fish. Lucy had no choice but to run after Gray.

After catching up to Natsu, the mages was speechless, looking at a huge block of ice that stood in the middle of the cave.

"Wh-What the?! Deliora!? That can't be! What is Deliora doing here? It's impossible! He can't be here!" Gray was trembling. He seemed angry and confused.

"You know this thing?" Natsu asked.

"It's...It's..." Gray tried to find the word...but couldn't...he was too traumatized...

"Deliora, the demon of destruction." Gray finally said after a few moment of collecting his thoughts.

"Demon of construction?" Natsu said

"Destruction." Happy corrected Natsu.

"He looks exactly the same as back then. What's going on?" Gray wondered.

Suddenly, footsteps was heard, as it made their way to where Deliora laid. The mages quickly hid from sight.

"This is where the voices were coming from." A man with large eyebrows said, while looking sideways.

"It's daytime, I'm sleepy." A doggy man complained, that was walking with the eyebrows man.

"Toby, have you been soaking in the Moon Drip? You have ears and stuff." The eyebrows man jokingly said.

Lucy watched and listened half-heartily until she heard the word 'Moon Drip.' Moon Drip...Lucy had definitely read something about it...and the fact that the moon was purple...concentrated moon energy...it all made sense now.

Lucy picked up a pebble and instructed Happy to lure the enemy away. After successfully luring them away, Lucy moved to look at the scary monster in ice.

"We should of caught them and interrogate them." Natsu complained.

"No...I don't even want to be here. But I figured why they are being transformed against their will." Lucy said after sending a murderous look at Natsu, who was the cause of her misfortune. "And also the reason why this demon is here."

"Really? Tell us!" Gray exclaimed.

"Why should I tell you?" Lucy challenged.

"I don't have time for this. Tell me!" Gray was desperate.

Lucy took a moment to search Gray's eyes. He was desperate, angry, confused, lost. But Lucy felt like she shouldn't tell him. He didn't deserve it.

"No." Lucy deadpanned.

"Fine! Then I'll find out myself!" Gray yelled angrily.

"Yeah! I can't sit here! I'm going after them!" Natsu declared...before falling asleep.

Lucy stared at Natsu with a disgusted look on her face. "I don't know how this guy can live..."

"Aye." Happy agreed.

"Are we going to drag him back?" Lucy wondered how heavy the flame boy was.

"We are going to stay here till night...when the moon comes out." Gray said, sitting down and stared at the frozen demon.

Lucy froze. "You're not serious...are you?" Lucy hoped that Gray joking.

No...he wasn't and Lucy swore that she would also kill him when they get back...alive if that is.

The three mages and the talking blue cat waited in the cave, standing in front of the frozen Deliora while Natsu slept, while Happy slept on Natu's face, while Gray brooded about his last Master, while Lucy sulked about how awful these boys were, and how badly she wanted to go home.

Then the ground started shaking, waking Natsu and Happy up, and grabbing the attention of Gray and Lucy.

"What's that sound?" Lucy muttered softly, already terrified.

"It is night!?" Natsu shouted, already excited.

Then a light appeared from the ceiling, shocking the mages, and purple light seemed to be traveling straight to the frozen Deliora.

"Purple light...is it the moonlight?" Gray trembled angrily.

"What is this? What is going on?" Happy was shocked as well.

"As you can see, it's shining on Deliora. Do you have eyes?" Lucy sarcastically retorted.

"This is no coincidence. Let's go! Find the source of the light." Gray ordered, opting to ignore Lucy's harsh comment.

Natsu eagerly followed, Happy flew along with him, and Lucy stood in place, still shocked. Lucy was terrified...how many times must Lucy remind herself how terrified she was? Reluctantly and murderously, she followed the boys to the top, finding them crouching behind a rubble, watching a ritual...

Lucy immediately knew what it was. A ritual to gather Moon Drip...moonlight straight from the moon...and the concentrated moon energy...

"The moon." Gray muttered curiously.

"These guys really are collecting the moon's light?" Natsu questioned, looking at Lucy.

Lucy ignored him, and continued to watch the ritual.

"Lucy...tell me now..." Gray said...he really wanted to know...

Lucy sighed. "Ask that mask guy, I'm not telling you anything." Lucy said, pointing to the mask guy, she had a sneaking suspicion that this guy was in charge.

"I've come too far to be interfered with now. The only people on this island are the village in the outskirts...I don't need any more intruders. Eradicate the village!" The man in the mask ordered.

His three henchman disappeared, assumingly preparing to eradicate the village.

"What!?" Natsu gritted his teeth. "Got no choice then." Natsu grinned and stepped onto the ledge. "All right! I'm sick of sneaking around. We're the ones sneaking around!" Natsu yelled as he sprouted flames from his mouth.

Lucy yelped, crawling away from the fire and Natsu. Nonetheless, that got their attention.

Gray turned to Happy, "Happy, take Lucy to the village to stop the enemy. Natsu and I will stay here."

Lucy complained as she was being swept away, carried by the blue cat. "Hold on!? Gray wants me to go after them?!"

The last thing Lucy saw was Natsu being encased in ice, expect for his arm and legs and head. And Gray never looked so angry.

"Gray asked me to." Happy said, while flying to the village.

"I thought you only follow Natsu's orders." Lucy complained, flailing around.

Happy ignored that comment and continued to go to the village. After arriving, Lucy was a little skeptical to facing the demon-like villagers.

It did not take long for Lucy to be surrounded by the demon-like villagers. They bombarded her with questions like what happened, or what happened to Natsu or Gray...and bunch of other questions.

Lucy ran behind a building and held Happy as a shield. "The people that are responsible for your transformation are about to attack this village..."

"They're coming here?" One of the villagers asked, also wondering why the girl was behind a building.

"Yeah...But I think this is also a chance to capture them and have them tell us how to change ya'll back."

The villagers talked amongst themselves, muttering if it was really impossible. Lucy thought how it was three wizards against the non-wizards villagers....she does know if they can succeed winning against the enemy.

"What is all the ruckus here?" Moka approached, wondering what all the commotion was.

"Chief...The enemy will be raiding this village very soon." Lucy said, still hiding behind a building, with Happy as a shield...in case they wanted to bite her head off...the world may never know.

Moka blinked...wondering why Lucy was behind a building. "Enemy?"

"They've taken up residence in the ruins in the forest and are responsible for transforming everyone."

"I don't care about that! Why haven't you destroyed the moon yet!?" Moka snapped.

"Ah...the moon...there is no reason to destroy it anymore..." Lucy nervously sweatdropped, hoping the demon chief would not actually bite her head off.

"The moon! Destroy the moon!" Moka screamed.

Lucy watched as the village chief was taken away while he was struggling.

"Please don't take it personally. He did lose his son Bobo and all." One of the villager said, approaching them, but stopped when Lucy held up a hand to keep their distance.

"Don't worry, I understand. Anyway...we have to capture the enemy."

"But how?"

Lucy thought about it...but couldn't come up with anything...maybe...Lucy had one idea...she moved to the entrance of the village and summoned Virgo and ordered her to dig a pitfall.

"Are you going to punish me now, princess?" Virgo asked, after completing her tasks.

"... No...you can go back." Lucy frowned.

"Lucy, I don't think anyone would fall for such a childish trap." Happy said, trying to be honest.

"I know, but this was all I could come up with..." Lucy tried...

"Can't you just fight with your celestial spirits?" Happy asked.

Lucy looked at the blue cat with a frown. Happy does not know about her past, only Erza....but Lucy agreed with him...she could use her spirits...but...how? She's too scared...afraid...

"Lucy! Something's coming this way!" One of the villagers from the top of the wall called.

"Ok...why are you telling me this?" Lucy muttered softly, so nobody could hear her. "Well? Open the gate then."

When the gate opened, Natsu, who was still encased in ice and carried Gray, was running toward them. Lucy made no movement to try and stop Natsu from running through the pitfall...if fact, she wanted to see it happen...

It happened...and it made Lucy feel a lot better. Like revenge...but it wasn't enough.

The villagers helped Natsu and a knocked out Gray out of the pitfall. Gray was beaten up, and Natsu was no longer encased in ice.

"What's that?" One of the villagers pointed to the giant rat that was flying toward the village with a large bucket. Then a drop of the substance slipped out of the bucket and fell to the ground in front of Lucy. It was acid and made a large hole in the ground.

"What is that? It smells like trouble." Natsu said, looking at the newly made hole.

Lucy trembled...If it had touched me...

"Is that bucket filled with this stuff!?" One of the villagers cried.

"Don't tell me they're going to dump it on us!" Another villager trembled.

Then the rat dumped the acid and Natsu yelled, "Everyone! Get in the center of the village! Happy can you fly!?"

"Aye, Sir!" Happy said as he grabbed Natsu and flew to the acid was still falling.

Everyone moved to the village, they had to carry Gray who was still knocked out. Lucy mustered enough courage and went to the middle with everyone. She wanted to live, not be dissolved to nothing.

Somehow, Natsu dispersed the acid and directed it with his flame. After couple of moments, there was a large hole, and the center, where the villagers were, were the only one unaffected. All in all, everybody was uninjured.

The villagers were left speechless. Their village disappeared...and the chief seemed angry...

"The Cold Emperor's enemies must be all expelled." A man with large eyebrows said, walking toward the crowd of survivors.

"We were trying to show some mercy by making your death quick...but it seem there's going to be much bloodshed after all." A girl with pink hair frowned.

"Approximately 50 villagers. Two wizards. About 15 minutes I say." The eyebrows man calculated.

The villagers took Gray and an angry chief away to a safe distance. Natsu stayed and Happy had to keep Lucy in place...so she won't run away.

"Let me go you cat creature!" Lucy tried grabbing for Happy.

"Lucy! If you can fight, then fight!" Natsu said, looking angry at the three enemies.

Lucy muttered something Natsu or Happy could not understand. Lucy swore that she would beat them senseless...or have Erza do it.

"Angelica." The pink haired girl said, while climbing on the rat.

The giant rat responded by jumping and flying head on toward Natsu and Lucy. Somehow in the chaos, Lucy had grabbed onto the rat's foot, thus, being swept away.

When Lucy realized what had happened, and where she was, she shrieked, afraid of falling.

"Let me down. Stop!" Lucy yelled, holding onto the rat like her life depended on it. Lucy wanted to be on the ground...she tried tickling...for some reason...and surprisingly it worked, and the rat uncontrollably squirmed, and stopped flying, causing them to fall straight to the ground.

Lucy shrieked bloody murder as she saw the ground coming closer and closer. After colliding with the ground, and when the dust settled, Lucy made sure she had no broken bones. No broken bones...just couple of scratches.

"Oww..." Lucy rubbed her head as she pushed herself off the ground. "Where's that girl?" Lucy looked around to find the pink haired girl.

"How dare you do this, Miss!" The pink haired girl cried, while tears were flowing down her cheeks. "Now the Cold Emperor's trust in me will plummet! He won't love me anymore!"

"...Love?" Lucy muttered, dumbfounded.

"And then there's Angelica. You will pay for this!" The girl cried, clearly angry.

Lucy gulped. "Is there another way...rather...than fighting?"

The girl responded by controlling a tree, directing it to attack Lucy.

Lucy dodged it in time. She had no choice but to summon him...she didn't want to... She summon Taurus. Thankfully, Taurus was not distracted and immediately cut the moving tree in half.

"Thanks, Taurus." Lucy smiled half-heartily.

"Your body's udderly the best, Ms. Lucy!" Taurus declared. Lucy facepalmed.

Lucy sighed. "Taurus get her!"

Taurus mooed and ran toward the pink haired girl...then stopped. In a split second, Taurus brought his axe on Lucy.

"Taurus! What are you doing!?" Lucy cried as she dodged it...this is why Lucy did not want to fight.

"M-Ms. Lucy...I can't control my body..." Taurus muttered.

"I can control non-human beings." The girl said, being cocky.

"Close, Gate of the Golden Bull!" Lucy shouted.

Nothing happened.

Taurus responded by bringing a fist toward Lucy's head, but missed. He tried couple more times, but missed each times.

"Celestial magic gates open and closes if both partners agrees to it! Come to your sense, Taurus!"

Before Taurus's fist connected to Lucy's fist, Taurus begun to shimmer, go back to his celestial home. Lucy was safe, she was able to force close the gate of her zodiac spirit...

"I-I...did...it....I've...gotten stronger...?" Lucy murmured...panting heavily from thinking that she almost died.

The pink haired girl was surprised...so she used her magic and summoned a giant rock puppet. Lucy paled as the girl attacked Lucy with her rock doll.

Lucy shrieked as she ran away while the rock doll was chasing her. "Which celestial spirit should I use?" Lucy murmured while looking through her keys...Aquarius...Virgo...Sagittarius...Cancer...Capricorn....Taurus...

Before Lucy could make her decision, she was at a dead end. She found herself at a cliff...and the rock doll was right behind her, attempting to stomp her flat.

Lucy dodged it in time...but the ground...the cliff broke and it brought Lucy down with it. Mercifully, Lucy was uninjured from the fall, and the rock doll jumped down to try and finish Lucy.

Staggering to her feet, Lucy ran to where ever she could...before she noticed the sea. Aquarius. Lucy liked her...but was afraid of her...Aquarius can be a big bully...but Lucy needed her...

Lucy ran to the water while dodging the rock doll and summoned Aquarius. Almost immediately Aquarius summoned a giant killer wave and swept Lucy along with the pink haired girl and the rock doll.

The pink haired was knocked out cold...and Lucy was struggling to get up...from the dizziness of the wave Aquarius had bestowed upon them.

Then a giant rat, Angelica appeared, attempted to crush her.

Lucy shrieked. "What!? It wasn't a puppet!?" Lucy tried to move...instead fell to her knees. She had used up too much magic. She felt weak in the knees.

Lucy closed her eyes and brought her hands to her head and braced for the impact. Erza...

Lucy had been bracing for impact for couple more seconds...but felt nothing...no pain...and Lucy was not yet crushed...why? Then she felt a familiar warmth embracing Lucy.

"Thanks goodness you're okay!" Erza cried while holding Lucy.

"Erza!?" Lucy opened her eyes and saw the redhead hugging her.

Erza pulled back to bring her hands to cup Lucy's cheeks. "You ok? No broken bones? Did you hit your head? Did you lose your innocence!?" Erza was scared. She did not know what she would do if Lucy was hurt.

Lucy stared at the redhead. "Ah...no...I'm fine..."

Erza smiled gently before standing and helping Lucy up.

"Lucy...Tell me where Natsu and Gray is." Erza was not happy. She wanted to kill them for dragging Lucy into this.

"Lucy! What a relief! Are you alright!?" Happy shouted as he came flying towards them, not noticing Erza.

Happy noticed too late as Erza held him by his tail.

"Happy, if you don't want to be grilled alive, I suggest you tell me where Natsu and Gray is." Erza darkly said to the cat creature with venom in her voice.

Lucy was a little scared from Erza's sudden change of personality as she continued to watch them.

Happy was crying from fear, "I-I don't know..." Happy lied, caring for his dragon slayer's safety.

Erza paused for a second before looking at Lucy. "Where's Natsu and Gray?" Erza could tell that Happy was lying.

Lucy gulped silently. "Last time I remembered, Natsu was at the place where the village was destroyed...as for Gray...he's with the villagers."

"Natsu didn't try anything on you did he?" Erza asked, being the protective friend she always been.

"Eh...well besides all the fire magic he used which scared me...and being reckless....he's been okay...in a sense..." Lucy murmured...

"And Gray?"

"Instead of taking us back...he decided to do the job with Natsu and Happy..."

Erza snapped...but did not let Lucy see, seeing how terrified she was.

"I see. Come on. We have some pick up some rules-breakers." Erza said while tying Happy so he won't get away. Erza will rain hell on them, she swore that they will think twice before dragging Lucy into this.

A/N: That's another chapter up!....

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