Acnologia's Child.

Chapter 40

Luna POV:

I stare at the place where Arcadios once was, his soft smile as he helped us to safety...

"No..." I say over and over again.

"Colonel Arcadios!" Yukino yells with tears dripping down her face.

"That's what I thought was supposed to happen, lava kills people." Uosuke says wiping sweat from his own head. "What a relief, I thought I was killing him wrong."

I push myself up still keeping my eyes on where Arcadios was a minute ago, I turn my head to look at my legs and notice how badly burnt they are. Pieces of my feet are blistered and the skin is a deep red colour, the pain is unbearable but I know that I have to stand because Lucy and Yukino don't have their keys so they can't fight. I use my arms to heave my body so I'm able to stand up, my legs feel like they won't work so I summon my dragon wings. Even though they are damaged they still work, I flap them slightly to relieve the pressure of my legs when I hear something coming from the lava.

"It's a photo finish..." Someone says. "Though perhaps not...one that I would want anyone to see."

The lava moves and then a large clock thing appears, as my eyes adjust to the shape I recognise it as one of Lucy's spirits but I can't remember which one.

"Horologium?!" Lucy yells looking at the spirit as I notice something, inside his body is Colonel Arcadios!

"With this large male I seemed to have gained some weight." Horologium says and begins to climb out of the lava.

"How can you even be here?" Lucy asked.

"Because I can pass through my gate at will, sorry it took so long." Another voice says, I pivot my body and see another one of Lucy's spirits but this one I recognise.

"Loke!" I yell smiling at him, I look at the bracelet that's still on my wrist and smile. They really care about Lucy.

"Now we're back Lucy your spirits are with you again." Loke tosses a brown pouch which I recognise as Lucy's key holder, he also tosses some keys at Yukino too. "We didn't forget about your spirits Yukino."

Yukino holds the keys in her hand, she smiles softly and then pulls the keys to her face holding them close.

"Thank you so much, I'm so sorry Pisces, Libra..." Yukino says holding the keys.

"Now you can use your magic!" Carla cries happily.

I smile but then feel my magic energy fading quickly, my wings give out and I fall. Luckily Happy comes over and grabs me before I hit the ground too hard, he then lowers me down slowly so I don't hurt my feet and legs anymore.

"Thanks Happy." I say smiling as I take deep breaths.

"Rest up Luna, we'll take care of this." Lucy says smiling at me.

"Lucy." Loke says turning to face her.

"Yeah!" Lucy replies making her hand into a fist.

"Now that we have all twelve zodiac keys together, it's time for our counter attack!" Loke says and Lucy and Yukino stand by his side.

I lean back against the stone wall with Happy and Carla next to me, Uosuke looks at them and tilts his head to the side.

"Tai?..." He says, what's up with that? Horologium vanishes and leaves Arcadios with me and the exceeds, he's worse off than me but he's still breathing which is a very good sign.

"He's breathing, thanks to Horologium he survived which I'm surprised he did." I say to them.

"Let's start the counter attack!" Loke yells.