(Hey guys! I might not be able to update tomorrow, but if I do have time then I will do Chapter six! Until then thank you for reading so far and please enjoy The Passing of the Border!)

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(Erza's P.O.V) Holy Cow someone else!

The rays of the sun hit my sleeping eyes. I found myself waking from my peaceful sleep that has been much better than the other nights. I slowly pulled myself into a sitting position from my sleeping bag. The sun was high in the sky making it look like the afternoon. How did I sleep in so late?

Before getting up, I looked around seeing everyone else asleep still being shaded with the tree that stood over us. A smile crept to my face seeing all of my nakamas having the peace they've been needing ever since of finding out about Lucy and her condition. Wait one moment! Where is Lucy?

Panic came, waking me out of my relaxed state. "EVERYONE! GET UP RIGHT NOW! LUCY IS GONE!" Heads shot out of the sleeping bags, unpleasantly no longer having a nice morning. So much for the peace they have been needing. "LUCE! LUCE WHERE ARE YOU!" Natsu shot up about to run to find his partner. I grabbed his collar before he could bust out of the campsite. "Lucy-San~!" Wendy cupped her hands into her mouth to make her cries louder for her to hear. "Erza, let me go! I need to find Lucy!" Before I replied, Natsu was hit in the head by our Ice-make Mage. "OI! What was that for?" Natsu turned to Gray holding his hand on his head with an irritated expression. "I just had to calm you done. You were going to blow my eardrums with your loud voice." Gray replied while taking his shirt off. "Can't you see we're trying to find Lucy Ice Princess? She could be in trouble or lost or-"

Gray again hit him in the head. "Jeez Flame Brain no need to worry! We'll find her before you pop a vein!" Gray turned around inspecting the surroundings with only boxers on. I had enough of this nonsense. "YOU TWO WILL NOT FIGHT! There is something more important than arguing! Now we have to find Lucy before-"

"Before she gets back to the campsite?" A voice out of nowhere spoke. "...Am I the only one who heard that?" Natsu asked looking around in the air. "No Natsu. I heard it as well. It sounded like a child..." Wendy came back to the center of the camp, but was still looking around trying to find Lucy.

The child giggled.

"Oops! I'm sorry, but Lucy-nee isn't here right now because she went with Happy and Carla to find food!" The child's voice spoke again, sounding like it was in the tree branches. "Do you know Lucy?" I asked looking up at the tree while everyone was looking for the voice as well. "I do know Lucy-nee! In fact I should properly greet myself!" Before I could questioned what it meant, a cat jumped down landing in the middle of our small circle surrounding the fire place. Everyone including myself looked down to meet a brown with white spots cat. "Hello Fairy Tail mages! My name is Teral, Lucy's exceed!" The big eyes looked up to see our faces which might be showing shock by the look of Natsu, Wendy and Gray. "When did Lucy get an exceed?" Gray crouched down to examine the cat named Teral. "It's quite a long story, but to make it short I was sent to become her exceed!" Teral walked closer to Gray to also examine him as well.

"You must be Gray Fullbuster, an Ice-make wizard that lost his parents at an young by a demon named Deliroa. Was taken in by Ur, also your teacher of how you became the wizard you are today. Sadly was killed by using Iced Shell to protect you and her second student named Lyon after you went to find Deliroa. A very powerful Mage you are Gray Fullbuster. I am quite impressed." Teral exclaimed without hesitation in his innocent voice at all. Everyone one of us was taken back by how he knew Gray, especially about his past. "H-how do you know-" Gray started but couldn't finish his question.

"I am more than just an exceed. By looking at the person's soul I can see your past memories and emotion. I can also grow my wings twice the size of a normal exceed. I have many more abilities, but they will only work if I have my master's permission. For a moment we were all stun to even speak until we heard footsteps. Teral's eyes lit up. "Lucy-nee! Your finally back!" Teral grew his wings flying over us to meet Lucy. I turned to see Lucy, Carla and Happy carrying types of fruit. "Hi Teral! Did you watch over them like I asked?" Teral nodded his head blushing a tint of pink. Lucy looked in our direction with a genuine smile. "I'm sorry I left you guys, but I was hoping you would still be asleep before I got back. The Exceeds and I wanted to surprise you a breakfast, but I guess you can call it lunch since it's almost the afternoon..."

The shock of hearing what Teral informed us was still in the air around the four of us. "...By the looks of it I guess Teral already told you about his abilities?" Great now I'm even more shocked and confused. Lucy sighed and walked over to us. "I'll explain while we eat." Lucy sat down and began putting the fruit on Wendy's sleeping bag. The exceeds brought over their fruit and began eating with Lucy. Lucy looked up at us. "Well? Come here, sit down and eat." Moments later all of were sitting down and eating while Lucy began explains about Teral.
"Teral came to me last night. I don't know how why he came to me and neither does Teral, but the only thing he does know is that he was sent for me. Teral and I have a connection that can actually share each other's magic. So now Teral and I can show our memories, talk in telepathy, and if we are in need of magic we can give magic to each other." So far The only question was asked by Natsu to see if he can fight Teral which ended him being hit with a Lucy Kick. "That doesn't explain how he knew Gray's past. How did he do that?" Wendy asked looking up from her fruit. "Believe it or not...Carla could actually do that as well."

"What! I didn't know an exceed could do that!" Wendy turned her head towards Carla. "Is that true Clara? The power of having Premonition can do that?" Carla nodded at her question. "But it only works if touched by..." Teral trailed off by his statement. "How can you retrieve that it Teral?" Teral looked away. "It doesn't matter. The point is we need to go through the borders." My head shot up. "Absolutely not! The curse in that forest will be the end of us. We need to find a town to find a-" Teral shook his head. "Even if you find a town, no matter how much jewels you bargain, no one will help you. Lucy-nee and I are the only people that can guide you through the Forbidden Woods."

Natsu held a questioning look. "How come you and Luce know the way? I'm not saying it's bad but did you guys go through it or something?" Lucy looked over to Natsu. "Teral gave me a vision of the trail to Aria. Teral is also part of the forest so he is immune from the curse. Since Teral and I have this connection I have also grown immune to the curse as well." Lucy concluded getting up and dusting herself off. "Alright guys. Let's pack up and begin into the Woods." Lucy pulled Teral to her, holding him like Wendy does to Carla. "Well... Let's get our things and leave!" I yelled for them to move. Everyone one parted ways to roll up their sleeping bags and to clear off the fire place.

We all met up at the border of the Forbidden Woods. "Alright now listen up. No matter what happens in there none of you will go to sleep! If I can do it for five days then you guys can do it for three hours! Let's move!"

Let Mavis be with us...

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(I think I could've done better... I'm sorry for this horrible chapter but I will make it up to you guys on the next update so please hang in there. Thank you for reading and I will hopefully see you in the next chapter! Love you all❤️)