Fairy Tail: Shining Embers Of Destiny

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Ever.

Important Announcement!

If you readers are familiar with my updating schedule, you guys would know that I always update a chapter once a month. The fact that I haven't updated a new chapter for the past month implies that I have not been committed to my updating schedule and doing other stuff.

That is not true, at least partially. The real reason is that I have RL issues that I have to attend to and because of that, I don't have enough time to write for the next chapter. When I first started writing this fic, it was meant to be stress-relieving activity where I can let out my imagination be written into a story. Unfortunately and ironically, it has now became a major cause of stress as I have to find time to write a chapter while juggling RL priorities.

For this reason, I have to put this story on hiatus.

Do not worry. I am not giving up on this story as I have planned so many plot points and original events to fit in with canon that it seems like a waste of a good story to not be written. In fact, the first three chapters barely scratched the surface of this story that I wanted to introduce to the fanfiction community of Fairy Tail. My passion for this magnificent anime might have dwindled a little but I still have plenty of interest in it, especially while investing said interest on this story.

Hopefully, given enough time; I predict that the hiatus will be over in three months or so starting from today (7th Of August, in my time zone) once I finished solving my RL problems. I know that this is might be very disappointing but I hope that you guys will understand why I am facing such issues right now. All of you wonderful readers have been giving my story positive reviews so far and I am so grateful for that. To make up for the impending hiatus, I will treat you guys a special preview of a chapter that takes place around 30-40 chapters deep in the story. It may not make sense but it's a glimpse of what is to become.

Without further ado, let's dive in!

"You'll pay for this!" Lucy gritted through her teeth as her captors tied her up on top the sparkling altar of gold and light.

The leader of the terrorist group, a woman with platinum hair and cold grey eyes dressed in what seems to be a yellow and white garb fit for a priestess, laughed harshly at the celestial mage as she wrote down runes with a chalk on the glittering, stone wall of the altar.

"Pay?" Lucy glared in response as the leader cackled mockingly, "Can't you see my dear? The reason why we're doing this?"

The woman waved her arms around, emphasising the fact that they were in some sacred temple that held reverence for the stars above.

"This world has too much demons! Too much suffering! Too much villains with evil deep in their hearts! Their only goal in life is to achieve their selfish desires no matter what happens to others!" The leader ranted and spat, her eyes alight with madness as her followers nodded fervently in agreement.

Lucy felt a shudder through her spine as she stared at raving woman in disbelief and disgust. Not only did the poor blonde get kidnapped by a group of terrorists that burn down towns and killed innocents with their magic for no reason other than to 'cleanse the evil within those corrupted' but she has to listen to their leader/priestess, who is a psychotic hypocrite plus absolutely insane witch who also possessed the magic power of the Earth. Not quite the same level of Jura but she's very efficient at utilising Earth magic.

"Then what do you want to achieve then, huh?!" Lucy shouted back.

The woman smirked back.

"To summon the angel who can free us all." She replied with passion.

"LUCCCCCYYYYYYY!"

An explosion of fire erupted throughout the temple room, smoke enveloping the current occupants. Lucy could then feel the wind shifting, clearing the smoke as it did so. Lucy could sense Wendy's magic in said wind and immediately knew that her beloved guild mates are rescuing her.

As soon as the smoke cleared, the scene reveals 6 of Lucy's closest friends of Fairy Tail.

Gray Fullbuster, her cold but well-meaning older brother figure who often strips unconsciously and a Ice-Make mage.

Erza Scarlet, her scary yet good-hearted older sister figure who loves eating strawberry-cheese cake and a Requip mage.

Wendy Marvell, her kind plus brave younger sister figure with the ability to heal others and a Sky Dragon Slayer.

Happy and Charla, the two exceed companions of the dragon slayers and possibly the most colourful bunch in Lucy's life.

Last but not least, Natsu Dragneel; her pink-haired best friend of a fire dragon slayer who always sticks to her side no matter how annoying he is.

Most of them held a stern expression on their faces but none of them has anger comparable to that of Natsu's as his onyx eyes smouldered in rage and relief at the sight of his best friend's state.

Before anyone could react however, the leader instantly jumped up on the top altar and landed next to Lucy. She then conjured an Earth Wall surrounding the altar, isolating the two women from the outside as muffled sounds of the leader's followers clash with the Fairy Tail mages are heard.

Lucy could almost hear Natsu screaming her name, though his voice was muffled behind the earth the wall and the blonde wanted nothing more than to punch the crazy bitch in front of her. The burning desire intensified when Lucy saw her holding her celestial spirit keys, dangling them in front of her face as if to mock the stellar mage before setting them down before her.

The gold keys started to emit a bright, luminous light as though they could sense their master/best friend in trouble.

Lucy glared hatefully at the priestess who was assembling her ten gold keys along with the extra two keys of Pisces and Libra in a strange pattern. Lucy was certain that it was the terrorist group that ambushed Yukino and stole her keys. Members of Sabertooth have been in quite a pissy mood since that happened, especially Sting.

"What are you trying to do?" Lucy asked, her brows furrowed. Since she was kidnapped with no context of why other than the fact that the priestess and her terrorist group targeted her specifically for being a celestial mage, she might as well demand for an answer.

The important question being, why didn't they capture Yukino? Not that Lucy wanted anything bad happen to her friend/fellow celestial mage but why her?

The leader frowned briefly, contemplating her decisions before smirking that horrid smile on her face, "Our goal is to summon the Stellar Seraph, the Angel of the Stars."

Lucy's eyes widened in shock. Is the 'Stellar Seraph' some sort of celestial spirit that she never heard before? From what the leader was implying, this 'Angel' as she called him/her could be some kind of powerful entity that might be on par of the Celestial Spirit King. But Lucy has never heard of a summoning key that relates to said 'angel'.

Then again, the Spirit King didn't have his own key. In order to summon him, a sacrificial ritual must be made and her own spirits were extreme on discouraging her from even attempting the ritual unless absolutely necessary.

Wait a minute…

"Are you going to sacrifice me!?" Lucy squeaked in horror, her mind turning to worst case scenarios.

"No, you silly girl. The Angel wouldn't accept sacrifices. All she needs is the blood of a Heartfillia…" The priestess smiled sadistically as she raised her a knife threateningly while ominously chanting a foreign language.

Lucy screamed.

A golden light burst out of the altar.

The Earth walls created by the mad priestess disintegrated on their own and so does Lucy's bonds, leaving her to push the psycho lady out of way who happens to be in awe of the sight while Lucy clutched her slashed arm.

"Guys!" She cried out to her best friends.

"Lucy!" Natsu managed to reply back to her.

The blonde crashed headlong into the pinkette, wincing as she did so as pain from her blood-soaked arm flared up. She really needs medical attention from Wendy.

"Lucy, are you oka-"He stopped talking suddenly and Lucy realised that his onyx eyes was staring at something behind her in awe. The celestial summoner looked back and froze, finally understanding why the fire dragon slayer was gawking in wonder.

There she was, an indescribable beauty floating in the air; bathing in golden light as wings of sparkling stardust stretched on her back.

It's her, the Stellar Seraph.

The entire temple was brought to a silence but Lucy paid no attention to that. She was flabbergasted, yes but it's not because she standing in front of a literal angel that she, against her own will, summon with her own blood and the celestial magic of all 12 of the Zodiac Keys.

No, that's not why she was shocked. She have seen much weirder paranormal creatures that she encountered with her friends during their quests.

It's the Angel's appearance that baffles her.

The Stellar Seraph has hair of sunshine, beautiful auburn orbs and an unmistakable mark of Fairy Tail on the top of her right hand.

In fact, she bears a striking resemblance to…

"Lucy!?" Natsu exclaimed incredulously.

Confusing, yes? I can only say this…

Which Lucy is from canon while the other is my version of the story?

Well, here's my treat for you guys. I am sincerely sorry that this has to be on hiatus but I hope you guys would understand why. May we see other again when the story hiatus has finished.

See yah!