Lucy Fullbuster - (Jellal love story)

Chapter 74

The group of Fairy Tail Mages arrives near the Sun Village, with Natsu still being motion sick soon upon landing on the ground. The group sees that the rocks are frozen, meaning that the village must be close to them. Soon after, the Mages arrive at the Sun Village, everything being completely frozen, including a group of giants who terrify the group in the process. Looking at the frozen giant, Gray recollects when Ur sacrificed herself to freeze Deliora. Lucy was also have a same feeling as Gray knowing that they have same experience about Deliora upon seeing someone gigantic frozen in ice. Erza, however, is surprised that the giants actually exist, with Wendy also being surprised by the existence of a giant frozen dog. Thinking he can melt the ice, Natsu uses his Magic in an attempt to do so, only to fail, disappointed. Gray then points out to him that Warrod told them that the ice isn't ordinary. Now he being the one touching the ice, Gray starts feeling the presence of Magic and after an unsuccessful attempt to melt it, Gray mentions that this Magic is similar to someone else's.

Suddenly, three shadowy figures appear who turn out to be Hunters of Sylph Labyrinth, a treasure hunting guild. While the Mages are surprised that such guilds exist, Drake, one of the Hunters, tells the group that they are looking for the buried treasure, specifically Eternal Flame. Not looking for such a thing, the Mages state that their objective is to melt the ice and save the residents, shocking the Hunters, who don't want that to happen. They then state their reason, that being to easily take the Eternal Flame while the residents are frozen. Even though Wendy warns them about the Flame's importance to the village, the Hunters rather blame the giants as residents for letting it be taken away. Before the Hunters rush to steal the frozen Eternal Flame, they show the Mages a liquefied version of Moon Drip in a bottle, with Lucy remembering it being used back in the Galuna Island and describing its dispelling properties. As the Hunters run away, the Mages follow, thinking they can melt the entire village with it.

(Let's just say that Minerva was pretending to be evil because of Kyoka)

Meanwhile, there is another threat approaching, that being a Dark Guild, Succubus Eye, with Minerva revealed to be one of its new recruits. At the same time, the Hunters express their disagreement with the Mages' help request due to the difficulty to obtain the Moon Drip if the village is unfrozen. While running, Lucy wonders where Erza is, with Wendy telling her she stayed behind to look for clues. After a while of running, the Hunters finally decide to fight against the persistent Mages. Rala initiates by using his Stronger on Natsu, with the latter dodging the attack and then using his Fire Dragon's Iron Fist as a counterattack, but the fire gets extinguished easily by the good physical properties of Stronger. Rala then uses his weapon to throw Natsu in the ice and Gray is next to attack with his Ice-Make: Freeze Lancer. Standing against Hiroshi, Wendy and Lucy dodge the attack of his Chain Blade, which cuts a frozen tree instead. Concurrently, Drake, hiding from the sight of his enemies, uses his sniper to shoot Happyand Carla, who evade the initial shot. Finding out where Drake is hiding, Lucy summons Sagittarius, who uses his arrow to shoot the gunner but the latter breaks it with a precise bullet shot, impressing Lucy. But then she had a vision make her clenched her fist trying to holding her anger. Having a tough time beating them, Natsu concludes that their opponents are much tougher than they look.

Concurrently, back at the Sun Village, Erza inspects the place, soon figuring out that all the giants are facing the same direction with their drawn weapons. Such observation leads her to believe they were in battle in order to protect something important, that being the Eternal Flame so she figures out that the location of the Eternal Flame is in the opposite direction of the one the giants are facing. Meanwhile, Natsu continues his assault on Rala but to no effect, while Gray uses his Ice-Make but stands no chance against Hiroshi's Chain Blade, all the while Drake starts shooting with his sniper, with Sagittariuscounterattacking with his arrows. At the same time Erza sees her reflection in the ice and is confused when she sees herself younger in the reflection. Suddenly, Erza starts becoming younger, with most of her armor falling off, as if she is under an influence of Magic of some sort. Lucy was sigh worry of Erza and Gray.

"Gray-nii, Erza, I hope you guys will take care of yourself." - Lucy