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“Ummm, what are you doing out in the open like that?”, Minora asked.

“It’s dangerous for you to walk without an escort. What do you think you’re doing, Elizabeth?”, Arthur scolded.

“I didn’t do it on purpose, but Father doesn’t permit me to go to Magnolia. I had to do what I can to go there. Now that I heard that Lucy is doing something dangerous, I have to at least help Fairy Tail to atone for my sins”, Elizabeth replied.

“Didn’t they already forgive you? Surely you know that they wouldn’t like the idea of risking your own life for them”, Arthur said.

“What about you, Arthur?”, Elizabeth pouted. “Aren’t you doing the same? We’re both Lucy’s friends so why can’t we join forces in helping her out?”

“Well they do say that birds of the same feather flocks together”, Celesta joked.

“Not to mention they both have the same experiences when it comes to love”, Minora seconded. Both Arthur and Elizabeth felt an arrow strike their hearts with their words.

“Both of you.....”, Sarina whispered.

“I’m sorry”, Celesta and Minora apologized.

“I-It’s alright”, Elizabeth said.

“Well it’s kind of true”, Arthur seconded.

“Anyway, how did you heard the news about Lucy?”, Sarina asked.

“Ten of my escorts went missing three days ago. My new personal retainer, Shun, told me that he saw what happened to one of them. He said that he was abducted, more like kidnapped by some group of people who has terrifying amount of magic”, Elizabeth explained. “He was able to escape them though”

“So you’re a victim too”, Arthur said.

“Also, Shun said that my sister went to Fiore because she heard a report about a malicious intent of the Council towards Celestial wizards; asking them to be bait in order to fully corner the so-called Galion Alliance”

“Galion Alliance? That’s what those people are called?”, Minora asked.

“Yes, my uncle told me about them. He told us to stay away as far as possible because the Galion Alliance has made their move”, Elizabeth said.

“So your uncle was one of them”, Arthur asked. Elizabeth only nodded softly.

“I can understand why he wants you to stay away but what you did is exactly the opposite. Really when will you do as your told?”, Arthur face palmed.

“I told you, I want to help Lucy. Also, my sister seems to be aiding the representatives asked by the Council as well. I won’t let my sister do all the hard work. She’s in danger too”, Elizabeth countered.

“But Reina has Tetsuya with her and a lot of escorts too!”, Arthur barked back.

“Well I knew that you’ll be heading there so I waited in the forest path! You saw me and now I’m here with you guys aren’t I?”, Elizabeth stubbornly replied.

“I’m going to be beheaded by Lord Maru with this”, Arthur was worried for his own protection.

“Don’t worry Lord Arthur, he won’t ask for your head. He would probably be delighted that Lady Elizabeth is here with you”, Celesta comforted.

“Should I really be glad about that?”, Arthur asked tiredly.

“Arthur!”, Tidus shouted out.

“What is it?”, Arthur asked.

Tidus just pointed ahead of them. When they all looked at the direction, they saw Wendy and the others fighting.

“Wendy-chan!”, Celesta went out and ran towards her.

“Celesta be careful!”, Kurogane went after her.

“Sarina, Minora, take care of Arthur and Lady Elizabeth!”, Tidus jumped off the carriage and readied himself.

“Let’s go out”, Sarina instructed.

All of them got out of the carriage.

“Minora, track Natsu down please”, Arthur ordered.

“This will take a minute. Crucis!”, Minora threw Crucis upward and the cross-shaped metal grew in size and made a portal.

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“Kyaaahh!”, Lucy shrieked out.

“You damn girl!”, a man grabbed her by her foot.

“Put me down!’, Lucy demanded.

“Stop being so troublesome and do as we asked!”, the man glared at her.

“Who would?”, Lucy grinned.

“You asked for it!”, the man was about to slice her throat when something interrupted the contact. Blood splashed across Lucy’s face as she saw what just happened.

“Stop it! If you kill her everything’s going to waste”, Helga held a scythe in her hands. The man’s hand was cut and blood is dripping out of it.

“What a nasty way of interrupting my fun”, the man glared at her.

“If you don’t stop, I’ll tell Master Akito about this”, Helga threatened. Upon hearing the name, the man let go of Lucy’s foot. Lucy fell to the ground hard.

“Be sure not to let that mouse go. There are too many cats in here such as myself. We can turn into raging lions sometimes”, he grinned with a disgusting look at Lucy.

“No!”, Lucy was frightened. She knows how dangerous the place where she is.

“I said stop it”, Helga stopped his cut his other hand.

“You’re really having fun cutting my hands like that, aren’t you, Helga?”, the man asked.

“It’s not like you’ll die from it. You can grow it back a hundred times, Shinji”, Helga scowled.

“Tch”, Shinji recreated his hands back. Blood stopped from spilling the floor.

“Clean this up”, Helga ordered.

“Before I forgot. Will you at least let me do something?”, Shinji asked, looking back at Lucy menacingly.

“What is it?”, Helga asked.

“Just.....a little”, he chuckled like a maniac going for his prey.

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“Once we reach a 5 kilometre radius we should expect that there’ll be even more wizards trying to stop us. When that happens, Hibiki, Max, Ren, Cherry, Kagura and Beth will be left behind to handle them”, Erza planned.

“What about the other distance? We’re not too sure if it’ll only be that far. The signal is still going further as we speak”, Hibiki asked.

“And we don’t know where Lucy might be once we reached their cavern”, Natsu said.

“Alright, Rogue will be left behind with them”, Erza said.

“No, I will”, Bacchus said.

“Rogue and I will be on the remaining three. We can handle no matter how many bastards come out of there”, Gajeel smirked.

“Yes, we’ll handle them”, Rogue seconded.

“Fro thinks so too”, Frosche cheered.

“I will stay behind with them”, Yukino said.

“Me too”, Milliana said.

“Better not die in there”, Lector smirked.

“Yeah!”, Frosche replied.

Hibiki suddenly stopped causing them all to bump at each other.

“Hibiki?”, Erza asked.

“What’s wrong?”, Sting asked.

“Do you want to say something about the plan?”, Kagura asked.

“The signal....”, Hibiki was sweating hard. “It stopped”

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“Wendy-chan!, Celesta ran her way to Wendy.

“Celesta?”, Wendy acknowledge.

“A friend of yours?”, Cheria asked.

“Yeah. What are you doing here?”, Wendy asked between attacks.

“We’re here to help. Arthur-sama is here too”, Celesta pointed out.

“WHAT?! HIM TOO?”, Wendy was surprised.

“Wendy!”, Charles shouted out. Romeo took her and leaped away.

“Celesta!”, Kurogane shoved her out of the way as he punched a wizard who was about to land an attack on her.

“Romeo-kun”, Wendy sat straight.

“Don’t let your guard down. It’s a war in here”, Romeo stood protectively in front of her.

“You kids, stay out of the way!”, Jura and Laxus warned as they shove wizards near them. All of them did their best to get away on time to avoid getting hit.

“Nii-sama/Big Brother”, Celesta cried out.

“If you’re going to help, FOCUS”, Kurogane scolded.

“Right”, Celesta stood up and seriously focused her magic.

“Here we go!”, Celesta made a multiple clone of herself.

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“Found them!”, Minora shouted out. “Arthur-sama, we can use this portal to go where they are!”

“Good, let’s head there”, Sarina said.

“Kurogane, we found them!”, Tidus shouted out.

“You head first, we’ll stay here!”, Kurogane shouted back.

“Be careful!”, Arthur shouted.

Kurogane showed him a thumb up.

“Get in!”, Tidus announced.

“Hold my hand and don’t let go, alright?”, Arthur took Elizabeth’s hand which the latter gripped tightly. Both of them jumped inside the portal with Sarina trailing behind.

“Minora, let’s go!”, Tidus took Minora’s hand and took her inside as Crucis’ portal closed and disappeared.