A/N: Minor rewrite on this chapter. Nothing major.

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Erza had never ran so fast in her life as she bolted out of Lucy's apartment. She slammed the guild door opened, causing most members to jump out of their seats. She stalked up to Mira with murderous glare.

"Mira, where is master?" Erza ordered.

Mira nervously gulped. It had been a long time since Mira had seen Erza speak angrily with her, and she looked even angrier.

"Upstairs" Mira said.

Without another word, Erza angrily made her way to master's office. Without knocking, she opened it and closed it behind her.

Makarov still had not register Erza coming in the room.

"Master." Erza said, with a slightly louder tone.

Master jumped and looked up, seeing Erza looking angry.

"Erza? What brings you here?" Makarov asked, if she was here because of Lucy...

"Did Lucy talk to you?" Erza asked.

Makarov studied the girl before him.

"Why did she leave!?" Erza shouted, sensing that Lucy did talk to him before leaving.

Makarov was angry now. "Lucy told me you and the boys threatened her, that you would kill her if she did not leave the guild." He was standing on the desk.

Erza was taken aback. She does not remember any of this. She doesn't remember threatening Lucy. She would never hurt her...she loved Lucy...she would never...

"Master...the last thing I remembered was returning from the guild and we went our separate ways. Then the next day, today, I went to find her...but..." Erza was trembling. She did not remember a single thing. "I would never hurt Lucy or threatened her."

"That's not Lucy had told me." Makarov said, trying to find what was going on now.

"Yesterday, I was at Fairy Hills. And I know Natsu and Gray was battling somewhere. I can promise you that I'd never threaten Lucy." Erza clenched her fist.

Makarov stared at her. "So you are saying..."

"I think...is was somebody else." Erza guessed.

"Think somebody is after Lucy?" Makarov asked.

"It's a possibility."

Makarov loved his family. Lucy is no exception. He wants her back...but...if she was being targeted...then...

"Erza, bring the boys here."

"Natsu and Gray?"

"Yes. Now."

Erza responded by leaving the office and coming back in, dragging a pale Gray and a scared Natsu.

Makarov gained their attention by speaking first, before a fight should escalate. "Natsu, Gray. Had you threatened Lucy yesterday?"

Gray and Natsu looked at each other at the random question. "Lucy is family, why would we threaten her?"

"Because you threatened her yesterday, and because of that, Lucy had left the guild."

Natsu and Gray was shocked, as they were confused.

"We would...I don't even remember threatening her!" Gray exclaimed.

"Lucy is my friend. I would never hurt her!" Natsu shouted.

"But something happened, and it caused Lucy to leave." Erza spoke, with her arms crossed.

"Master, let us go and find her!" Natsu yelled.

"We can tell her the truth, that we don't even remember telling her to leave." Gray yelled.

"That's not the problem though." Makarov said.

"Then what's the problem?" Natsu questioned, closed to snapping.

"Erza and I think that Lucy is being targeted." Makarov guessed.

"Targeted? Then she's in trouble! We have to find her!" Natsu yelled, running out of the office, in order to try and find her blonde friend.

"Hold on, Flame-brain!" Gray exclaimed, running after Natsu.

"Master. We will be back with Lucy, and tell her the truth." Erza reassured before leaving.

Makarov stayed in place. Wondering it if it was the right call to let them go after Lucy...when Lucy asked for no one to go after her.

...

"Well, your celestial magic is good, but...you need to build more magical reserve so you can summon more spirits at the same time. Plus I will be teaching you a lost magic." Raven explained, standing in a clearing of a forest.

"Lost magic? Can you really teach me?" Lucy was skeptical about this.

"It will be hard, but it's not impossible. But first, you need to boost your physical strength. Your mind is fine, so we need to just focus on your body."

"Eh?"

"In short...run 20 laps around this clearing. Then 50 push-ups and sit-ups."

Lucy groaned.

"Where are we staying anyway?" Lucy asked.

"Ah..." Raven looked like she had forgotten about that. "My home is underground."

"Under...ground?" Lucy repeated questionably.

"Yes. Let me show first."

Raven went to a specific tree and placed her hand on the trunk. Lucy watched as Raven transferred her magic to the tree, and symbols started to show. Then the tree moved...or more specifically, a door appeared.

Raven turned to Lucy. "After you." Raven said, gesturing to the door that had appeared.

Lucy was surprised and in awe. She made her way to the door and opened it. There was stairs that lead down underground...She walked down the stairs in curiosity and found another door at the end of the stairs.

She opened it and found a large room. Lucy could tell it was a living room. There was a couch and a T.V. A bookshelf with bunch of books and items. The room in general looked fancy and the floor and ceilings and floor was also made of wood...it looked like the house was transported underground.

Lucy toured the underground house, seeing that it had a kitchen big as the living room, couple bedrooms, and other rooms.

Lucy still found it odd...how Raven would offer to train her for free...and an underground house...underground bases are usually bad news for Lucy...in her opinion...she never liked underground bases.

"Lucy. You can stay in this room." Raven called out, pointing to one of the bedroom door.

"Ah. Thanks." Lucy stepped through the door and scanned her new room. It was pretty decent. A queen sized bed, a desk, a bookshelf, a closet, nightstands, T.V., bathroom. It all was pretty nice for an underground house.

"Now that you all set up and finished with touring the place. It is time for your training." Raven said.

"Ah...training...what exactly will I be training for?" Lucy asked skeptically.

"First, we need to expand your magic reserve in your body. That will help with your celestial magic. Then I will be teaching you lost magic. I call it Exaltation Reaper."

"Exaltation Reaper?"

"Magic that allows the castor to give any object a magical property."

"Hmm?" Lucy tilted her head a bit in confusion.

"I'll show you then." Raven smirked.

Raven picked up a remote from the table and muttered, "Upgrade: Levitate." Almost instantly, the remote was floating in the air without Raven holding it. Lucy's mouth fell to the ground. She had never seen magic like it.

"It's very similar to runes. But this is more ancient and powerful. There is no limits. Endless possibilities, but it drains a lot of magic, and relies on imagination."

"That's so cool." Lucy was in awe.

Raven smirked. She had her now. "Now. First, we need to boost and raise your magical reserve."

Lucy was becoming excited. "I'm all fired up!" When Lucy realized what she had said, she winced. She needed to find another catch phrase instead of Natsu's...why is she even thinking about them?

...

Erza and the boys was at the train station, wondering where Lucy might've taken off.

"Natsu. Can you sniff her out?" Gray asked.

Natsu sniffed the air for a few seconds. "It's faint. But I smell her." Natsu said.

"Well? Lead us." Erza ordered.

Natsu froze and paled. "The train...no..." Natsu cried.

Erza sighed and dragged Natsu onto the train, followed by Gray and Happy.

"Natsu. At every stop, I want you to sniff her out, and see if she got out of the train at a particular town." Erza said.

"Aye." Natsu muttered, face green, and close to puke.

3 hours later, Erza shook Natsu to his senses to sniff again, once the train had stopped at another stop. Erza watched as Natsu sniffed the air, and almost immediately, his hair stood up.

"Here!" Natsu cried and breaking through the window in a frenzy. Gray, Erza and Happy yelled back at him to slow down.

Once Gray and Erza caught up to Natsu, Natsu was in a restaurant, gobbling up all the food from the customer's plate. Gray and Erza facepalmed. Happy snickered.

"Natsu!" Erza glared at Natsu, who had a chicken leg sticking out of his mouth.

Natsu looked back at Erza who was glaring murderously back at him. Then he remembered what he was doing. He was trying to find Lucy. How could he forgotten about it? He cursed himself and left the building, ignoring complaints from the customers.

He sniffed the air to try and find the scent of Lucy.

"It's pretty faint." Natsu concluded.

"Very well. Lead us then." Erza ordered.

"Let's go already." Gray was getting fed with Natsu's childish actions.

"Aye!" Happy agreed.

As the mages walked through the streets, they were ambushed by 5 people.

Shit! I do not have the time for this shit! Erza cursed. She wanted to be looking for Lucy and not fight other mages. Gray and Natsu was thinking the same. Happy was worried as well.

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