I hope that all of you are fine and having a good time throughout this summer! Sorry about the late update again. Well, your shipper hearts might need to wait a little while for more Bixanna romance, since this chapter is mostly filled with action.

OH WAIT I WAS GONNA FORGET- Did you see the latest episode?! It was so awesome! Raijinshuu is my love, seriously and I can't wait to see Bixlow's partnership with Wendy!

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It's time for some serious Bixlow character development guys! HELLLL YEAAA- ( I am so glad that he wasn't paired up with Cana but I am also sad that Lisanna wasn't even there D:) My baby's gonna get some more screen time ;3; Oh, how he wanted Wendy to get along with his babies was sooo cute ;e; I wonder how Bixy gets along with children :D

Go give it a watch this Saturday guys if you weren't planning to/didn't know. I love how this anime's Producer loves Bixlow xD He is always there somewhere in the fillers with some nice lines.

Anyways, have a good read you all, and thank you so so so so much for all your support!

To Forget to Remember

Chapter 11:

All about the Lies and the Truth

There walked a pensive figure in front of Bixlow. Brooded by her own confusion, Lisanna was watching her feet with an empty stare as they took her forward. It couldn't have been this far away. The scent she got back there was fresh and intensified with Queen's odor. It was so strong and close.

They should have found the Queen a long time ago.

Their pace was slowing down as they were forcing themselves to walk in between the craggy walls of the huge nest. Hours they didn't care to count had passed since they last saw the sun bleached valley.

Bixlow, on the other hand, didn't think about anything much. Yes, he was as concentrated as Lisanna to their appointment but, he didn't mess his mind with some unfathomable causes for why it was taking them so long. One way or another, they'd find that blasted bug and take care of the problem. Unlike Lisanna, his head was straight, and looking out as he stepped.

If Lisanna said this was the way they should follow, he would allow her guidance to walk him until she'd say otherwise.

What he saw a bit further away of Lisanna put that crooked smile on his face, and he stopped.

Aware of Bixlow's sudden break, Lisanna hesitated to go any further.

"Ma-maybe I am mistaken…" Lisanna muttered, still her head bowed down to her feet.

"About the path? Why don't you look up and try to see where you were takin' us then? "

When she looked up, she was quiet wonderstruck to see something else than a cluster of rocks. But still, it was a cluster, of something she couldn't figure out yet.

"So, that's the Queen?"

"Do you think it is?"

Bixlow had rubbed his chin and thought for a while before putting on a sour face.

"Nah. I don't suppose it's the Queen,"

The two were standing in front of a huge heap covered in a mucosal membrane. There was something in the core blurred by the dark yellow cell around.

"I'll try to get to that thing stuck inside." Bixlow raised his hands in command. Behest of their master, babies generated their usual magic and blasted the membrane until it melt down.

It was a device.

"It must be one of the devices that the previous guild used to fight with the deganors." She touched it as her eyes searched for anything else.

"Uhm. Care to remind me of the previous incident's reports?" he asked with a sheepish smile.

"You didn't even read them, did you? And I should have been the one who didn't like to study in the team." Lisanna huffed but she didn't turn down his request.

"Dejakmara's local guild tried to reduce the insect population by elimination of the nests, just like the way we did. They managed to successfully kill many deganors and the Queen with the device that we see here. The victory was not won easily though. In the end, many of the guild's mages didn't get to see the sunlight again. It is reported that they were either lost in the complex tunnel systems or killed. Unfortunately, this caused the guild to be disbanded."

"…Wait, if they've already killed the Queen, then why are we goin' after the Queen?"

"Because, when a queen dies, a new queen is chosen with some sort of modification," She signed.

"Like in the bees, you know?"

"Yea yea, I know a thing or two 'bout the bees." Bixlow shook it off.

"So, those bugs broke the device with this disgustin' thing…?"

"Hmmm… I'm quite sure deganors are not geared up with such matter or any sort of liquid for offense." Lisanna said thoughtfully.

"Considerin' the fact that the device was operative during the fight, the device must have taken damage after the genocide. It can only be the re spawned bugs that did this right? Maybe there's information you're missin' Zoo…"

Lisanna didn't respond. The ambiguity of the task they bare was questioning her mind even more now. Bixlow might have been right. Maybe there was another type of soldier deganor deep down somewhere they didn't get to meet yet, like the ones that attacked them. Such encounter would absolutely not be pleasant for their safety and success. Or was it possible that there was a greater danger they had to face? Then what could it be? Lisanna tried to think her way out of the unanswered questions. The unknown was bringing the dread to her.

"Hey," Bixlow approached at her side and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Let things progress themselves and don't think a lot. It's gonna be fine. Sooner, Fried and others will join us as well."

"Yea, that'd be the best,"

Bixlow and Lisanna heard footsteps approaching to them. Their faces lit up with hope and turned to face with the darkness of the deep path that a group walked. It must have been Fried and his crew.

Fried watched as his coat buttons tingled with a strange sensation. He grabbed one of them with his right hand, still looking down to it, then the tingling faded away.

"Bixlow and Lisanna... They are fine." Fried said to his newly awakened comrades.

"Great" one of them said. His name was Rure and as Laxus, he was the lightning mage of his own guild.

"I suppose if we smack those boulders out, we'll have our way clean to the Queen's nest right?" He put his hand on Fried's shoulder and looked up at all those boulders they were under.

"Precisely," Fried nodded.

"Let's get to it," Rure said with a smirk on his face. As he patted the green haired mage's shoulder, a bolt of lightning sprawled out of his hand and took over Fried's body. Trembling with electrocution, Fried's unconscious form fell onto the ground.

"Thanks Fried. You and your team had been of wonderful guidance. We can take things up from here, "

"Don't spare me lies! Where is Fried? What have you done to him?" Bixlow snarled.

"Chill dude. He is going to be fine, but won't be active for a while," Rure said, smirking a lazy smirk.

"What are you aiming for?"

"Business. Ordu, Hallenia… Let's finish this quick," Rure said to his friends and the battle between Jeanmarinies and Fairies began.

Knowing the abilities their opponents possessed, Bixlow and Lisanna separated from each other immediately. When Rure's hands aimed for Lisanna, Lisanna transformed into a hummingbird and flew away swiftly. Ordu's Air Punch sent Bixlow away some meters. Bixlow managed to safely land on his feet with balance and aimed back at his opponent with Line Formation. Bixlow understood he needed to find a better plan when his opponent simply blocked the attack with his bare fists. Lisanna and Bixlow were pulling back defensively. Their opponents' strikes were quiet powerful, probably more powerful than before at the nests.

For a while, Lisanna and Bixlow were so occupied with Ordu and Rure that they didn't realize the absence of Hallenia in the battle.

Bixlow was sent back at the wall again with the intensity of the crushing wave Ordu's fists generated. Panting rapidly, Bixlow stood up from the ground. Nothing seemed working. His magical energy level was running low because of the many battles he fought. The dizziness he felt because of being thrown at the ground for a couple of times wasn't making the situation better.

How the heck his opponent could be so full of power?

Lisanna could only land harmless blows onto Rure's body. Knowing that one lightning getting through her body would be the end of her battle, once again, she escaped from Rure's attack in her humming bird form and transformed into a tiny spider high on the wall. It was when she saw Hallenia.

Behind a huge rock, she was kneeling as she touched the ground with both of her hands. Hallenia was a user of Voice Magic, but Lisanna had never seen her using some sort of magic linked to the earth before.

Spell, Ground touch, not participating, powerful comrades…

Lisanna wanted to try out her theory.

"Where are you, little birdy? Come out and play now, will you?" Rure taunted Lisanna, but she hardly listened.

She transformed into her bird form and dived through the air towards where Hallenia was standing. With a cool breeze of air on her neck, she didn't get a chance to act when the bird ascended her with a tight grab on her shoulders. Wasting no time, Lisanna flew towards where Bixlow and Ordu were.

"Rure! Help!" Hallenia shouted desperately but there was nothing the lightning mage could do.

Realizing his shots were getting the better out of Ordu now, Bixlow kept up and his rapid offenses eventually put Ordu down to the ground lying defeated. Lisanna flew nearby Bixlow and released the girl in her clenches just upon her comrade.

"Enchantment magic huh? You've been plannin' to cheat us all along." Bixlow murmured.

"Bixlow, I'll take care of these two, you got to defeat-"

It was barely a moment when a blinding light shone and hit the ground with intense electricity. If it hadn't been for Bixlow pushing them out of the way like that, that crack would have finished both of them.

"Nice reflexes for a tall guy," Rure commented.

Bixlow got in front of Lisanna protectively and didn't lose much more time.

"When your team mate is the best lightnin' mage around to train with, you learn some moves," he grinned cheekily.

"Baryon formation!"

Clenching drastically to extinguish each other, the green met yellow in the midair. Seeing there wasn't going to be an outcome, Bixlow groaned and broke out to his side and ran towards to his enemy inside of a shield that his babies created as they flew around him fast.

Lisanna's giant snake form watched the battle as her two prisoners struggled within her tight grasp. Ordu tried again, but he couldn't move his arms, while Hallenia's magic didn't work properly because of the lack of air to her lungs.

"You think you can stop me with a bunch of wooden dolls? TAKE THIS! "Lightning spawned above Bixlow's head within a blink of an eye and fell to the ground at that instant. Lisanna closed her eyes and turned her head away to avoid the blinding light. When she opened her eyes to the grounds, she saw Bixlow's babies were all scattered around.

She shivered with worry as her heart skipped a beat.

"Bixlow!"

She couldn't see him inside the dust cloud.

"Wasn't that quiet the pathetic of you? But, I don't suppose your particles can hear me..." Rure insultingly questioned.

"Raijinshuu, one of the best teams in Fairy Tail huh? I defeated your friend Fried first, and now you. There is no doubt that you are as pathetic as your leader-"

Suddenly, a hand reached out of the dust cloud and covered Rure's mouth with a tight grip on the jaws.

"Shut the fuck up, will you?"

"H-how-" Rure muffled.

"If your flashy light show has ended, I can finally open my eyes for you to see," With his other hand, Bixlow took off his mask. Lisanna saw Rure being sent and pinned to the wall by that unseen force Bixlow was controlling. Rure groaned as his back harshly tossed to the spiky wall. Lisanna guessed that the manipulation that Bixlow was enforcing was way more than to merely control his opponent's movements. Rure's hands were clenched into fist as he kept trembling in pain.

"Now you're gonna be a good boy and tell me about all your plans, but firstly, where is Fried?" Bixlow asked as he walked closer to Rure.

"W-we left him back under the boulders," Rure answered honestly, but that undefinable pain he felt in his very being got even tenser at that moment Bixlow frowned angrily.

"What about your plan?"

"We h-heard that some sort of matter, a- liquid the Queen produces is very valuable…" he gasped.

"The c-cell of her eggs also contain high amount of this matter. The specialty of this matter is that i-it can fertilize even deserted lands-"

"So, you were plannin' to somehow capture the Queen and have that matter or whatever it is for the market? You guys are quiet brave thinkin' you'll be able to actually receive what you want. We're a huge group, after all,"

"Do you r-really think everyone got into this hell hole only to terminate some bugs? Maybe not you and the town's folk know about this but, that Mayor, too, certainly understands how precious that matter is,"

"Tell me more," Bixlow commanded and loosened the magical grip over Rure's body. He sighed with a little relief but kept on explaining.

"Mayor somehow got the information, and had paid the local guild of Dejakmara to travel underground to get that matter from the Queen of the bugs. That's what actually started the attack of bugs to the town. But, when the whole guild was sacrificed during the process, Mayor wouldn't dare to disturb the nest ever again. After all, his own brother was killed here."

"He was a mage?"

"Yes, but above that, he was the master of the guild. After that terrible incident, the Mayor sunk into grief and didn't dare to send anyone down here again up until today. T-that's all I now, please, release me now."

"Sorry kid. Trust is a big issue to handle, and mine's in you lacks a lot," he said .

"It'll hurt a little but you'll be fine" then his eyes grew a brighter green and Lisanna heard Rure cry in pain.

-üöü-

They had been walking back in the tunnel in silence for twenty minutes now.

Bixlow was carrying the bodies of their opponents whom he fainted. Rure and Ordu was laying on his shoulders while his babies flew with Hallenia upon them.

"Wish you didn't see that," Bixlow murmured after another while.

Understanding what he wanted to imply, Lisanna smiled a small smile.

"It's ok. You had to do it to ensure our safety."

Bixlow smiled back at her, but it was a smile she had never seen him wearing often. It was a humble smile and it was of something…hearty. She remembered him giving the same smile back at the fire place as they talked.

He turned his head back quickly to where they were heading. On the other hand, Lisanna kept looking at him and with that smile on her face.

"That was quiet a move back there. How could you manage to escape of that lightning unharmed?"

"Well, I was expecting you to ask that…" he chuckled.

"It's actually a technique I have come up with from our duals with Laxus. I generated a force field around myself as he stroke and my babies absorbed the energy and guided to the ground beneath. It was a single serving technique though. Fortunately that fella was sort of a rookie and he couldn't even move to strike back again. "

"Clever,"

"Nah, experience,"

-üöü-

"Fried! "

"Bixlow! Lisanna! I'm down here!"

Lisanna's deganor form dug a larger hole into the fallen boulder and the two finally got back to their friend. Bixlow rested the bodies onto the ground and reached back at his friend with concern.

"How do you feel, buddy?"

"I was paralyzed for a while, but I'm getting better." Fried stood up with their help and shook off the dust on his coat.

"Caught off guard huh?"

Fried gave a nod.

"But I see you have avenged me,"

"You can say that. We also learned some …interesting information."

Bixlow summarized everything he got from Rure to Fried.

"Good job you two. However, the problem is still vital, therefore let's proceed."

"What about those three?"

Fried unsheathed his sword and wrote down ruins around the fainted trio.

"Here, this will keep them until we get back,"

"Bixlow, Fried… There is something I have just realized while I was in my deganor form."

Fried's and Bixlow's attentions turned to her as she also looked back at them with concerned eyes.

"When one of the members of the nest or the nest itself takes damage, some sort of pheromone releases from the fallen insect or the insect which is aware of the harm to the nest. This 'attack' pheromone can alarm the whole nest to attack to the danger…"

"And your point is?"

"All this time I thought it was the pheromone release of the fallen bugs which triggered their fellows to attack but, now that I see, it's actually Queen's pheromones which caused all the attacks to the town for the second time. What I want to say is that Queen is not alone out there. Something bothers her. She is not good, or maybe have been under attack for the past week and apparently, these deganors can't reach out to her to protect. So instead, they attack to everything they aren't familiar with. "

-üöü-

Fried, Bixlow and Lisanna walked back to the way that had to lead to where the Queen resided. It was quiet bit of a hope breaker when they found themselves in front of a steep, craggy wall.

"No, there got to be an opening, a soft spot which allows the pheromone to pass through!" Lisanna's hands travelled across the rocks as she searched for anything. She knocked onto the rocks several times, then she tried to hear anything from inside.

Suddenly, the rocky walls beneath her hands quivered. They all stepped back quickly.

"Something's coming out of it!"

The trio hid behind a huge rock and kept their gaze upon the opening wall.

Something did really come out of it, or actually it was two people in dark clowns. The shorter was pushing a long carrier of jars filled with something they couldn't identify.

"Sir. What about the other shipments? These won't be enough."

"It is ok. These jars of matter will earn us money, more than enough for now. "He reassured his assistant.

"Seeing that they indeed are sold on high amounts, wish I had a chance to thank my foolish brother for his idea. Very sad…"

As the two men walked further as they were talking about the shipment with a deeper sense, Bixlow turned back at Lisanna.

"Do you think?-"

"Yes." She gasped.

"I think that he is the mayor's 'brother."

Dun dun dun dun, didn't expect it I suppose? I had a hard time writing it but it pretty much worked out when I asked for some advice from my family.

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