The Lullaby Arc

List of Story Arcs

The Lullaby Arc is the fifth story arc of *The Lost Thirteen Arcane Witches*.

This arc includes the first appearance of Lucy Heartfillia's first actions as a main character. The story follows Team Touya as they attempt to stop a Dark Guild, Eisenwald, from using the Lullaby to assassinate the Guild Masters.

## Summary

### Enter The Black Cloak

Touya begins to search for his next job but has a hard time on deciding which one. Meghan tells him that she'd contact him if she finds one he wants due to the Master being off at the annual Guild Master meeting. She then explains to Touya about the structure of the Magic World government and how the peace is maintained. She also informs him about the Dark Guilds which don't follow the rules of the council. Shortly after, a stranger in a black cloak comes bursting out from the door and as the cloaked stranger walks through, everyone is clueless to who this mysterious person is until they stop in front of Touya who's still talking with Meghan starts to cry before shortly fainting. Waking up, the mysterious hooded stranger reveals to be a girl with blonde hair and brown eyes, she wakes up being focused at first but when she shortly adjusts her attitude she introduces herself as Lucy Heartfillia. It is then when Touya asked Lucy why she came in and if she was okay seeing that she did cry when she saw her. Lucy, still unsure, tells Touya that she is quite unsure herself. Added to her confusion was a long pause before Zera enters into the room and when she looks at Lucy she almost has a weird feeling as if they were somehow familiar but breaks out of her trance as she begins to question who Lucy was. Realizing where she was, she then gets up and begins to beg Touya and Zera for their help as she then begins to explain her situation.

Lucy begins with how she had encountered a group which was later affiliated with the dark guild, Eisenwald. Her encounter leads her to hear abut the Lullaby flute which she believed to be just a myth people talk about but through her research she had actually came across Zeref's works and the Lullaby flute being one of them and according to the book, with just one play it an cause everyone in the vicinity that hears it to instantly die or "be in an eternal slumber". This note alone motivated Lucy to take charge and so for weeks she had been spying on the group and even playing small parts as a bandit and when she had finally go enough intel, she followed them to their operation to Oshibana but when she had gone through one of the train stations towards there when she heard a sort of calling coming from the Fairy Tail guild and when she got closer the calling got stronger until she found what was calling out to her which turned out to be Touya. Though it took some consideration, Zera, Touya, and Happy decide to team up with Lucy to stop the Lullaby flute from being played and stopping the Eisenwald guild.

### Encounter with Eisenwald: Erigor's Evil Plot

The next day, everyone arrives at Magnolia Station, waiting for the train's departure. Once there, Zera and Lucy had already arrived as Touya can tell of the almost tense atmosphere but nevertheless he sits with Zera who wait for the incoming train. On the train, Zera gets motion sick and as she struggles to keep it in she couldn't and begins feeling nauseous, luckily Lucy was able to relieve Zeera of it with a wave of her hand. Lucy explains her Arcanium that is Synergy which allows her to transfer her energy to other giving them any sorts of boost and healing.

After some small talk about Magic, Lucy proceeds to explain their mission, proceeds to explain their mission. Lucy adds on that she initially thought they were Mages on an unsealing job, but that thought was erased when she heard the name Erigor, the Shinigami of the Dark Guild Eisenwald, who only takes on assassination requests. She then reveals that she plans to head straight to the guild with them. Getting off, Lucy and Team Touya proceed to Oshibana station as they know it's one of the bigger placed and has quite the loud broadcasting system as Lucy thinks that they plan to test out the flute through the broadcasting system.

Back in the train, we get a glimpse of Erigor, who enters with his interrogee, later meets up with Kageyama at Kunugi Station who gives him the flute. Meanwhile, Team Natsu is still searching for Eisenwald. Realizing their shortage of time Lucy uses her Arcanium to boost their relative speed but with her using a lot of her mana pool, Lucy is relatively weakened which worries Touya but Lucy pushes it away proceeding that she'll be fine. When the group gets there, they get to the Oshibana Station, only to see the damage done to it. As they rush in, they find the army pulverized by Eisenwald. They soon meet the entire Eisenwald Guild in the innermost parts of the station. Lucy asks what Erigor is planning to do, with the latter replying that he plans to use the broadcasting system of the station to play the Lullaby's melody throughout the town. Erigor claims that those people who will die are simply being punished for their sin of not knowing that there are those who have been revoked of the rights they revel in. After hearing Kageyama's voice, Touya manages to recover and ends up saving Lucy from Kageyama's attack. As Erigor flies away, he leaves the rest of Eisenwald to fight Team Touya. With her staying to fight, Lucy orders Zera and Touya to chase after Erigor. They quickly comply while Rayule, Kageyama, and Bora follow the two.

### The Summoner

Lucy engages with the lesser members of Eisenwald, with Lucy displaying her mastery of Celestial Spirit magic by summoning a dual spirit from a golden key which holds the spirit of the Two Fish, Pisces. Pisces take easy work of the crowd but realizing how she's losing magic to all this she retrieves Pisces and begins to ask them if they wish to continue. And while it wasn't seen by Lucy, the mage with the crystal orb also leaves as she had observed Lucy's moves long enough to understand her magic as she goes to catch up to Erigor. Through the crowd of the feared comes out a man who goes by the name of Keahi who the others boast about as he was a notorious fire mage before being kicked out of the guild Titans Nose for running an illegal female slave trading ring.

Keahi begins to congratulate on how Lucy was able to make easy work of their men as she begins being arrogant and boasting about his skills as a mage but this was just a way to give Erigor to place up the Wind Wall but to not make it obvious, Keahi soon blasts Lucy with a blast of pink fire which Lucy was easily able to dodge. As Keahi continues to blast streams of fire he orders the men to attack her with all they've got as Lucy continues to dodge Keahi's attacks. But when a wave of magical attacks became increasing Lucy pulls out a last minute summon as she calls forth a spirit with a platinum key the Lady of Ages, Ultear, who sucks in all the magical attacks into her body as she open her mouth to let out a powerful scream which blasts all the men away leaving Keahi the only one as Ultear is returned. Keahi scared for his life continues to just say how powerful he was to be able to survive that attack but is then kicked squared in the face knocking himself out. Shortly after, Lucy collapses due to fatigue from using up too much power from using her Arcanium.

### Caged Fairies: The Wind Wall Trap

Touya and Zera continue their search. However, the both of them realize they aren't going to be able to cover much ground so they decide to part ways when they reach a split path. Zera searches for the broadcasting room, only to find no one there. As she looks around, however, Rayule attacks her but Zera manages to evade the attack.

Meanwhile, at the Guild Masters' Regular Meeting, Makarov is conversing with the others Guild Masters about Fairy Tail. A bird suddenly arrives with a letter to Makarov from Meghan informing him of the formation of Team Touya as well as the appearance of Lucy. After hearing these news, Makarov panics, knowing full well the damage they're, but more Zera is, capable of doing.

Back at the station, Lucy goes out to the balcony to confront the growing crowd so she yells for them to leave, revealing the Eisenwald's true motives. Upon hearing the news, the crowd immediately disperses. Soon after that, a very strong wind starts blowing all around the station.

In the midst of the fight, Rayule destroys the broadcasting equipment, much to Zera's confusion. Rayule then reveals that they never intended to play the Lullaby at the station in the first place, as they simply used it as a trap for them. He adds that Erigor's Wind Wall has probably been already set up, preventing them from leaving the station. Rayule continues to attack Zera while gloating that they'll kill the Guild Masters who are at Clover Town where Erigor's heading. However, this only proves to anger Zera who promptly sprouts her demon arms of Ferafur to her arms and legs as she electrocutes Rayule until he passed out.

Luckily Zera was able to catch up Erigor who is almost done placing up the Wind Wall tries to stop him but when she tried to attack him he only flew in the opposite direction as he finishes with the Wind Wall. Erigor then appears before her and pushes her into the barrier. She attempts to exit but fails because of the strength of the wind. Erigor then bids her farewell and flies off.

Zera with a plan in mind tris to rip open the barrier using the her demon arms of Ferafur, a demon who controls the winds and lightning but when she attempted to touch the barrier she only ended up hurting herself but is then hit hard in the back by Bora, another one of the men who went after Zera and Touya. Bora slams himself in a ball of sorts and pushes Zera harder into the barrier injuring her badly and as she screams in agony this allows Lucy to locate her. Zera shortly after the incoming attack tries to get up but is then continuously pummeled back and forth by Bora until she releases Ferafur's full demon arms allowing her to increase her speed and knock Bora out.

Meanwhile, Touya and Happy continues to look for Erigor until he gets ambushed by Kageyama and his Shadow Arcanium. The two have a brief fight, with Touya struggling on how to produce his newly discovered black flames which he calls Hellblaze, and with no other option Touya takes continuous strikes of Kageyama's shadow until he built up enough charge to enchant his sword with Hellblaze which he used to strike through all of Kageyama's shadow creation. Touya was able to overcome and defeat Kageyama with him shortly fainting afterwards. Happy, only learning how to fly properly, lifts up Touya to the main area where he then meets up with Lucy who helps restore his mana pool.

The group heads back to the lobby of the station where they see Zera trying to get through the wind wall but fails. As Zera timelessly tries over and over to overcome the barrier and hopefully be able to rip a hole into it. Realizing that Zera was lacking the power to counteract Erigor's high leveled Wind Wall she uses her Arcanium to give Zera a boost allowing her to rip open that hole allowing the 4 of them to escape. When the team gets outside of the wind barrier Zera, along with Kageyama who was able to escape the wind barrier in his shadow form, realizes that with Erigor's abilities he's probably miles away from them and in a last attempt to save the Guild Masters, Touya and Happy chase after him with Happy carrying Touya there. This leaves Zera and Lucy who resort to using a Magic Four-Wheeler which Zera insists she rives since Lucy had already used a ton of her mana pool and so they take off in hopes of intercepting Erigor in Clover Town in Touya fails to stop Erigor.

### Bring the Storm: Erigor vs Touya

Concurrently, Erigor is using his Arcanium, Hurricane to fly over a canyon leading to Clover where the Guild Masters are. Just as he sees the town on the horizon, Touya, flying with Happy's help, slams into him with a kick and knocks him onto the railroad bridge below. Erigor recovers and the two Mages prepare for a showdown while Happy faints, having used up his power to catch up to Erigor.

The others use the Magic Four-Wheeler to cross the bridge and nearly swerves off the road due to Zera's low stamina, used up from her own fatigue. She prays for Touya's success in stopping Erigor.

Touya and Erigor begin their fight. Erigor knocks Touya off the bridge with his Hurricane but Touya manages to change the properties of his flames so they can help him pull himself back onto the bridge by molding it into the shape of an arm with a hand. Touya recalls that this type of flame had been taught to him by Macao Conbolt, a mage who shares the same magic element as him. Touya then rams into Erigor and kicks him before the latter takes the fight to the air and attempts to hit Touya with multiple attacks. However, when Touya manages to block and overpower most of Erigor's follow-up attacks, Tetsu, another member of Eisenwald sees the overwhelming powers of Touya's black flames and proceeds to bind his powers, disallowing his usage of magic which allows Erigor to knock Touya out along with a conscious Happy who tries to wake Touya up.

### Sword Cross: Touya and Erigor's Rematch

The rest of the team soon arrives to the front of the town who then spot Erigor who Zera and Lucy try to stop but with the help of Tetsu, was able to bind their magic allowing Erigor to blast them away with a jet stream of water which Erigor freezes, trapping them. But shortly after is once again stopped by Touya who kicks Erigor down when dropped by Happy from the sky. But with the effect of Tetsu's binding still active, Touya decides to fight with just his sword and though it was quite the fool's attempt, Erigor quickly uses his scythe to fight Touya who quickly overpowers him but is then blasted away when Erigor activates his Storm Mail which blocks and prevents any sort of damage to be done by him. Touya struggles but can soon feel mana being retrieved towards his body and tries to produce is black flame but is then explained by Erigor that his Storm Mail can stop any kinds of fire from being lit. And soon had enough as blasts an Emera Beam which wipes out a small portion of Clover Town along with parts of the forest nearby. This devastation causes Touya to really put his flames into a single attack and when he produces flames so big, that he was able to wipe out Erigor's Storm Mail but also leave Erigor with permanent scars on his face. But this attack causes a huge wildfire in the forest which Touya can't control and tries to stop it but with the help of Lucy, was able to extinguish the flames.

### Monsters vs Monster: Fairies vs Lullaby

Kageyama, who is following them, is shocked that their leader has been defeated and in a last attempt, Kageyama suddenly steals the Magic Four-Wheeler, and with the help of Tetsu, the Lullaby flute and dashes onward to where the Guild Masters were in Clover. Nevertheless, Team Touya quickly move out to follow him. Night soon falls and by the time Kageyama reaches Clover, he finds that their meeting is still going and proceeds to play the flute. Before he can do such thing, though, Makarov interrupts him as he is leaving from the meeting. Realizing who he is, Kageyama asks Makarov if he'd like to hear him play a song on his flute. Makarov is initially suspicious but agrees do so. Kageyama grins, thinking that he wins, but then after he remembers the words of Team Touya through the whole ordeal, he finds himself becoming increasingly hesitant. Team Touya soon arrives on the scene and is about to intervene only to be stopped by Master Bob as well as the other guild masters who insist to just watch.

Kageyama tries to force himself to play, thinking everything will change once the Guild Masters are gone. However, Makarov retorts that nothing will change and that they'll still be weaklings. Moreover, Makarov points out the importance of the guilds, places to gain friends that help each other in tough times. Ultimately, Makarov tells the latter that one can gain true strength to live strong, by striving and pushing himself every day. These words touch Kageyama so he drops to his knees, admitting his defeat. The rest of the team comes out and congratulates Makarov and everything seems to go well once again.

However, Tetsu who seemed to be growing rather impatient releases Lullaby from its flute form and it suddenly comes to life on its own and transforms into its true, demonic form. The Lullaby proceeds to attack and tries to draw everyone's souls. However, Zera, Lucy, and Touya easily defeat the Demon by combining their powers, much to the surprise of the Guild Masters. Unfortunately, they accidentally end up knocking the Lullaby monster onto the meeting site, destroying it in the process. This, of course, angers the other Guild Masters. Makarov and the rest then make a run for it, except for Natsu who misunderstands and unsuccessfully joins the angry mob.

### The Thirteen's Rejoice

During the aftermath of the attack, we see Lucy in an apartment room writing a letter to her mother about the recent events concerning Eisenwald and joining Fairy Tail and being part of Fairy Tail's strongest team as described by Meghan. Lucy continues to write on how happy she was that she was able to finally find a home after 3 years of being all alone she finally found people she could really connect with. Lucy then stamps and places the letter inside of a box where we see her witch's mark in between her collar bones. Getting dressed into her new look, Lucy meets up with the others who of course are being lectured on the damage they caused but soon meet up to discuss Lucy's own discovery as she now realizes why she felt so drawn to them and that's when she reveals her mark. This of course surprises both Touya and Zera and when he asks what all of this means, Zera says that the world is in of the 13 once again.