Defending Lucy

Levy Jet and Droy are still unconscious in the hospital bed where Lucy hadn't arrived. Lucy's keys were still on the street as well.

In Oak Town, Natsu and his team had started a raid on the Phantom Lord guild, shocking all the members with their intense strength and teamwork, quickly overwhelming the branch of the Phantom Lord guild.

**Lucy Heartfilia**

The wizards continued their assault on Phantom Lord, beating wizards left and right.

**"Ring Magic."** Loke called out. **"Twister."** A large tornado swept a group away as Elfman took on most of the members.

**"Beast Arm."** Elfman then attacked a group knocking them out. "Come on, man up!" He shouted. "Don't want to be like me."

"That guy is intense." Someone said. "What kind of magic is that?"

"It's take-over magic." Someone informed him.

"People who use that magic can take over the power of an entity and use it to fight." He said as Elfman turned to face them, smiling. "I've never seen in it action before."

"Why would someone let a beast take over their arm?" He asked.

Gajeel then jumped off his standing and landed on the sigh with a loud boom. All the combatants looked over to see Phantom's top man, a dark shadow cast over him. Only red eyes were visible.

"It can't be." Macao called out.

"It's Black Steel Gajeel." Laki said.

"He's the one who hurt Levy!" She screamed.

"Aw, these punks are in for it now!" A member shouted.

"Come to show me what you got." Gajeel called out as he came to the ground.

"Unless you punks are too scared." Gajeel boasted as everyone backed up.

"Scared!" Elfman shouted. "Real men have no fear." Elfman attacked Gajeel with his beast's arm only for Gajeel to block with his Iron club. He smirked and struck him with his foot, only for Elfman to catch it.

"You're good." Gajeel commented.

"I'm impressed you could block my attack." He told him.

"That's 'cause I'm a real man." Elfman told him, causing Gajeel to smirk a metal beam then shot from his leg, knocking some of the Phantom members. "They're Phantom; you'll attack your men."

"Cause I'd knew it distracts ya." Gajeel told him before punching Elfman in the jaw, knocking him back; Natsu then appeared and launched himself off Elfman and punched Gajeel into the wall, shocking most of the Phantom members.

"That's never happened before." Someone shouted. "Who is that kid."

Gajeel stood up from the wreckage a cracked his neck. He grew a smile at Natsu, who glared daggers at him. "Elfman, stay back. This son of a bitch is mine."

"First, you use me a springboard and steal my man-to-man fight." Elfman told him. Before he could finish, Gajeel ran up and attacked Natsu. **"Iron Dragon Club."** A massive metal beam shot at Natsu, who caught it.

"You attacked my home." Natsu muttered, his flames now covering his body. "And attacked Levy and her team; I'll make you pay." Natsu threw Gajeel at the roof Gajeel caught balance and lunged at Natsu again. The two traded blows before Nasu knocked him into a wall.

"The kids fired up now." Wakaba said.

"I wouldn't want to be that other guy." Macao stated.

"Fine, I'll let you have him, but you gotta promise." Elfman started.

"I know to give him a thrashing." Natsu finished for his old friend.

Gajeel busted out of the rubble and smiled. "Nice try, but I'm still standing."

**[##Fist of Flame ost##]**

"True, but not for long." Natsu told him as he let his magic energy slip out Gajeel did the same people looked from the sidelines as the two intense magical power filled the room, scaring some of the wizards as it felt like dragons were standing behind both.

"Take this." Gajeel then used his Iron Dragon Club, which Natsu countered with his Fire Dragon Iron Fist with the two collided; the shock wave knocked almost everyone off their feet Gajeel then raised his hand and hit Natsu back with his club.

As Gray regained his composure, he looked to see Natsu fly back. "This is getting intense."

"Aw, so you can dish it out but can't take it." Gajeel commented as he walked over to Natsu, who burst into flames and smirked. "Is that all you got?"

The two then jumped at each other again, only for Gajeel to jump on the beams above again; he looked back to see Natsu flying at him and punching him back. Natsu landed below him as Gajeel stood upside down.

"You're better than the rumors give you credit for, Salamander."

Before the two could continue, the building began shaking; everyone looked around.

"What's going on."

Erza drew her sword as she faced off with more men. "Come, we have to end this." Before she could move, the building shaking grew worse; the building slowly started to collapse around them.

"Laki, lookout!" Macao shouts as he pushes the girl out of the way, only for the debris to hit him, knocking him down.

"What's going on?" Gray asked beside Erza.

"Attention wizards of Magnolia." A voice called. "I commend you on your excellent work but now your time has come." Soon, the building started to fall apart as the Phantom wizards began to panic. "I'd like to say you all put up an excellent fight." Jose, who was currently at the main guild, smiled as Lucy was in front of him, but now we must put you to an end; the building shake grew worse. Still, the Phantom members started to become unaffected and attack the wizards again, injuring most of them.

"Damn it." Erza shouted as she tried to regain balance. Someone shot a blast at her Natsu jumped down and grabbed her before an attack could hit her.

"We need to get out of here." Erza called out.

"What?" Gray and Loke asked.

"She's right." Natsu called out. "Get everyone out of here. I'll buy you some time." Natsu then started to attack the Phantom members.

"Come on, let's go." Erza said as everyone fled the building.

"Erza, we can't go yet. We must make them pay!" Gray shouted; she tried to attack again but failed due to the buildings shaking. Erza gripped him by the arm.

"Gray, I know how you feel, but we can't win here." Erza told him, tears nearly falling out of her eyes; seeing how she was, Gray calmed down and started to follow him out of the building.

Gajeel smirked.

"Looks like the fun's over." He said as Aria, a member of Element Four, appeared beside him.

"Sadly, we must attack such amazing wizards." Aria said as tears started coming from his face. "But soon they will have no choice but to work for the glorious Phantom Lord or get a new profession."

"Man, why are you always crying?" Gajeel asked. "So I take it you captured the Lucy girl."

This caught Natsu's attention as he stopped attacking and looked back at Gajeel. "What."

"What's wrong, Natsu?" Happy asked.

Aria stopped crying and smiled.

"Yes, she is being held in a cold cell." Aria said.

"Gajeel!" Natsu shouted, catching Gajeel's attention.

"We'll finish this another time Salamander." Gajeel told him as Aria teleported both away. "Until we meet again."

"Those jerks kidnapped Lucy." Natsu told Happy, shocking him.

As Erza and the others ran from the guild, the members gave chase until Natsu caught one of the "Oh no, it's that fire wizard and that cat."

"You got it, buddy."

Natsu dragged the man down a dirt path. The look on his face could have killed the man as he struggled to break free as Natsu pulled him.

"What are we going to do now?" Happy asked.

"You're going to save Lucy." Natsu told his friend as he looked back at the person he grabbed. "All right, buddy, where is she."

"I don't know, man." he told him. "I don't know, no Lucy chi-" he stopped when Natsu set him on fire, causing the man to scream in pain as Natsu continued forward.

"If you Phantom jerks hurt one of my friends again." Natsu said as his face darkened.

"I'll burn everyone of you to a crisp!" He shouted as the man tried to calm down the fire.

"I'm serious. I don't know." He pleaded. "If I knew who Lucy was, I would have told you by now."

"And I thought I should have burnt you to a crisp by now." Natsu screamed.

"Aye."

"Our headquarters is up ahead." The man pleaded.

"If I gotta make a guess, the girl looking for is there." He told Natsu.

"Then why didn't you say that!" Natsu shouted at them, and as they approached the Phantom Lord guildhall, a massive building with four towers on each side inside, Lucy lay on the hard ground floor as she came too. She woke up with a start and looked around.

"Where am I?" She asked as she sat up, shaking her head.

"You're awake." Jose said as he appeared outside of the cell Lucy was in.

"Who are you?" Lucy asked as the man stepped inside.

"I'm Master Jose Porla of the Phantom Lord Guild." Jose told her.

"And venerated member of the Ten Wizard Saints." He gave a dark smile.

"It's an honor to meet you, Miss." He said. "I apologize for the trouble."

"You're with Phantom?" Lucy asked, surprised.

*'That's right. I was captured by two of the Element Four.'* Lucy thought to herself as she shot daggers at Jose.

"I also apologize for the dingy cell." Jose started.

"And being tied up must be degrading." He said, ignoring Lucy's question.

"You attacked my friend, Levy!" Lucy shouted. "You better let me go; my friends will come looking for me."

"I'm fully prepared to treat you as phantom's esteemed guest instead of a lowly prisoner."

"What do you mean?" Lucy asked. A bug crawled up her leg, shocking her.

"Ah, the bug crawled on me!" Lucy shouted as she jumped up.

"See, you don't want this." Jose said as he stepped towards the girl.

"I have a beautiful decorated suite waiting for you if you promise to behave." Jose said, hoping the girl would cooperate with him.

"Why does your guild keep attacking us." Lucy said, ignoring his offer; she was more concerned about the war they started; she wanted to know why.

"Us?" Jose asked, confused.

"Oh, you mean your little wizard friends." Jose laughed before getting an evil grin on his face. "It was a means to an end, my dear, that's all."

"What?" Lucy asked.

"You see, we were working towards our main objective of acquiring a certain someone." Jose told her with a smile on her face. "And she happened to be living in the guild less town of Magnolia." Jose explained.

"So we had an excuse to take over one of the last remaining guild free areas in all of Fiore." Jose cracked a grin. "And that was just the bonus of the job."

"Who are you talking about?" Lucy asked.

"You're such a naive girl." Jose told her.

"Nothing I would expect from a debutante." Jose told her as Lucy realized what he was talking about.

"I'm talking about you, lady Lucy, the privileged daughter of the Heartfilia family." Jose said.

"How'd you find out about that?" Lucy asked.

"You know, I'm surprised you never told your so-called friends the truth." Jose told her. "And I don't understand why the daughter of a wealthy tycoon would stoop so low to dangerous work as wizarding."

"I've been kidnapped?" Lucy asked.

"No, my dear." Jose informed her.

"We were hired by your father to take you home." Jose elaborated.

"What!" Lucy asked, shocked. "You're lying!"

"Why the surprise?" Jose asked. "Any father would go looking for a daughter that ran away from home."

"Not him." Lucy said, holding back tears.

"Honestly, I'm surprised he even noticed I was gone." Lucy told him. "I'm never going back to that house again."

"I should have guessed you'd be problematic." Jose moaned.

"Then you might as well let me go." Lucy told him.

"Sorry, but that's not happening." Jose informed her.

"Please?" Lucy asked as she started to squirm.

"I need to go to the bathroom." She stated, getting a laugh from Jose.

"Do you think I'd fall for the oldest trick in the book?" He asked her as she squirmed.

"No, I'm serious." Lucy said, still squirming.

"I have to go." Jose laughed as he pulled out a bucket and handed it to Lucy.

"There you go." He told her.

"A bucket!" Lucy exclaimed, shocked.

"I'm ready for any trick you throw my way." He laughed as Lucy sighed and stood up.

"I guess this will have to do." She then wiggled out of her underwear, shocking Jose.

"Well, I've never met such a bold young lady." Jose asked, blushing.

"I'll turn away because I'm a gentleman." He said, averting his eyes away from Lucy; she smirked and kicked him in his balls, causing the old man to fall over.

"You know why old tricks are still around." Lucy told him.

"Cause they work." She then turned to leave.

"Bye." She said, winking as she stopped at the window seeing she was several stories high.

"I forgot to mention." Jose moaned, holding on to his private parts.

"We were several stories high." He managed to walk up to Lucy, who couldn't back up any further. "You did a number on me, young lady."

**[##fairy tail main theme piano ver.##]**

Lucy looked back, remembering her father's grasp.

"But you won't get away with it." Jose told her as she closed her eyes; a warm feeling washed over her. She's felt it before. "I'll show you just how terrifying Phantom Lord can be." Lucy then jumped off the tower, shocking Jose, who couldn't move to catch her in time.

As Lucy fell, she calmed down.

*'I heard him in the distance.'* She thought to herself. *'I know he's here.'*

"Natsu!" She shouted as Natsu appeared.

**[##Fairy tail main theme##]**

"Lucy!" He shouted as he ran over to catch her; he turned their bodies as the pair landed into a wall.

"Woah." Happy said. "It's raining Lucy's."

Lucy opened her eyes to see Nasu lying under her, trying to catch his breath; she smiled.

"I made it just in time." He muttered from under her.

"Yeah, I knew you'd save me." Lucy said as they got up, and Natsu untied the knock on her hands.

"All right, let's take these jerks down." Natsu said.

"What?" Happy asked, shocked. "You can't be serious, Natsu."

"Yeah, I am." Natsu told his best friend. "They've hurt too many of my friends."

"So, you're just going to rush in without a plan." Happy told him, clearly irritated as the two argued. Lucy thought of what Jose had said, tears finally formed in her eyes.

"I'm sorry." Lucy said, catching the two's attention.

"It's all my fault." She said as she looked at Natsu with tears. "I'm so sorry for causing all this."

Natsu was confused about the situation and calmed down.

"Why are you crying?" Natsu asked.

"Nothing's your fault." He said as he walked over to her.

"come on, Natsu, we need to get back." Happy told him.

"I guess you're right." He looked toward Lucy, who was still crying.

"Come on, let's get moving," he said, but she couldn't stand.

"I want to carry you on my back." This caused Lucy to burst into tears.

"Oh look, you made her cry again." Happy called out as Natsu picked Lucy up and put her on his back; he started walking off as Jose regained his composure.

"She's made me angry!" He shouted as magic power exploded from him. "Their fate is sealed."