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Lucy's P.O.V

      I felt my hair harshly yanked as I was thrown to the cold cement floor. I wouldn't exactly sure of my surroundings, only briefly remembering the fight I had before getting captured. I wince at the pain of the brutal force and how harshly I was treated, although it didn't take long for me to look up and see the feet of an unknown mage. He seemed like the ringleader of this whole operation, a cocky smirk spread across his face, his tan skin littered with various scars and the mans dark blue hair up in a single loop.

     My first instinct was to glare at him with all my might, thinking of what he and his guild had put Yukino and my son through, never mind me. How I would love to beat the ever loving shit of him.

  However my loathing was cut short when the man finally decided to speak up, his voice less threatening than expected.

"Good evening Ms.Heartfilia." He teasingly grits through his teeth, reaching for something in his jacket pocket.

"I wouldn't have known the time otherwise, as your goons inhumanly left me in a fucking cell." I spit back at him, earning a frown from this guy.

  He doesn't respond, instead he pulls out a key ring,golden zodiac keys to be exact, nine. My eyes widen at the realization that Luke had the last three, that meant...

"Aquarius." I whisper to myself. He has Aquarius, after all my years searching for her, it ends up in the hands of some corrupted guild master.

"Those keys don't belong to you!!" I yell, pulling myself up from the floor with all my might despite my hands being bound behind my back with magic cuffs. I begin tearing up as I continue shouting, "LEAVE THEM ALONE!"

'These keys were more than just objects, these were my friends.'

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No one's P.O.V

    Serpents wing's guild master wasn't one to hesitate. Before Lucy could continue on her rampage, he kicks her in the stomach, bringing her back on the floor, coughing.

"I demand to know where the last of the three keys are." He threatens, looking down on her with uncontrollable anger and greed, taunting her with the nine zodiac keys he took possession of.

  The blonde turns away from the man before spitting out crimson blood. "I have no idea what you're talking about. I've only ever had seven." She lies.

  The guild master begins wandering around, a slight spring in his step. He plays around with the keys once more. "What about that young boy...the one who was with you when my men ambushed you? I wonder..." He stops moving and turns back of face her, a deadliness in his eyes. "Maybe the rest...are with him."

  This changes the celestial mages demeanour going from fearless, to very afraid. "Please, I beg you! Leave him alone! He's innocent! My son doesn't have them!!"

  This causes the man to chuckle had her useless pleading, basking in the enjoyment of hearing her so frightened all of a sudden, yet his moment is cut short.

"Master Zaire, we have some news."

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No one's P.O.V

  Back in Magnolia is the Fairytail guild, already formulating a plan to save their former member. In the corner of the main hall sits the blue headed bookworm, her nose in a book containing records of all the dark guilds across Fiore, hoping that that could point them to any leads.

  She flips through several pages before landing on the Serpents Wing guild, their location was unlisted, damn. It seemed as if this was all planned beforehand, as if it would be impossible to find
Lucy.

The rest of the guild gathers around Levy, discussing the situation.

"How did they know that Lucy had zodiac keys in the first place?" Gray questions, each of them were all wracking their brains for any answers.

"The last we all encountered the dark guild as a group was on that mission several years ago, Lucy could've been added on their radar all the way back then." Erza theorizes. The rest all nodded in agreement, although it seemed so cruel that that one mission put her life in danger.

"That means we should check back at that exact town we first met them. At least we can start someone where." Natsu adds.

"I hope this doesn't lead to a dead end." Loke states, his hands firmly gripped on the table he was leaning against. The lion spirit took a quick glance towards Luke, he was sitting on a chair in the corner, looking at his small dangling feet. He won't admit it, but the blond boy is missing his mother dearly. It was just the boys luck that his Uncle Loke has the ability to hold open his gate for so long.

"It's our only lead." Levy says, closing the book with a loud thuds. "I'll try to do more research while the team heads out to find her...maybe ask around, anything. Someone has to know where Serpents Guild is."

  Master Makorov bangs his wooden cane on the ground a couples times for the attention to turn towards him.

*THUD*

*THUD*

"Team Natsu, I'll task you with finding our Lucy. You were the closest to her, and you are most familiar with the town of Taro. Loke is coming along with you as he was close to the scene."

"I...I wanna go too!" Luke suddenly speaks up, getting up from his seat, everyone turns toward him.

"You'll get yourself hurt, kid." Gray crosses his arm, the rest of the team nods in agreement.

"Aye."

Loke walks towards Luke and kneels down to his levels, he's obviously known him the longest, and cares for him more than anyone.

"Look...Luke, it's not safe where we're going...what guild we're looking for."

Luke begins to tear up, it didn't seem fair that he wouldn't be given the chance to help.

"B-but I miss mom. I wanna bring her back too. I'm capable, I made it all the way here..."

Loke sighs, the kid sure was content on coming
along for Lucy's sake. And why not? Loke thought.
It might give him the chance to bond with his dad.

"Oh, alright. Since I'm your guardian, I gotta babysit you. I'll bring you along."

  A giant grin was plastered on the Heartfilia's face, he was practically jumping up in joy. Loke turned toward Makorov who gave him a sigh and a short nod.

"No fair he gets to go on a mission..." Metallica quietly complains, her father being quick to elbow her in the head. "Ow!"

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Little did anyone know what danger would await them with Luke along side them. Without even knowing it, Team Natsu was falling right into Serpents Wings Trap.

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Oh yikes it's been a hot min since I've updated (ok like a long time) I'm sorry. I like writing but sometimes it's hard to write especially when I started this as a summer project...and now I got school again. But I still love this story and won't give up on it!! I apologize if this chapter may be considered short or uninteresting~