A/N: This is another one of my OC fics. So if you hate OC's, this story isn't for you. I revised part of this first chapter as it was pointed out to me that Damien's back story was overly tragic. I hope you all enjoy this revision.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Fairy Tail is the property of Hiro Mashima.

The Fiore Kingdom. A particularly peaceful nation with about 17 million residents. It is a place where the use of magic has become a mainstay in everyone's lives. Some use it merely as a tool for everyday things such as, traveling from place to place and reading books on a short amount of time. Others, however, dedicate their entire lives to the practice of magic. These people are known as "Mages." They come together in places known as "guilds" to hone their skills in the pursuit of fame and fortune. Many of these guilds can be found all along Fiore's mainland. But in the town of Magnolia, there is a guild that is a cut above the rest. This guild has produced many different legends over the years and it has the potential to create many more for years to come. It is known as "Fairy Tail."

"So, are you ready to go in, Lucy?" Natsu asked as he, Happy and Lucy stood outside the Fairy Tail guild's doors.

"I-I don't know. I'm a little nervous." Lucy said.

"What's there to be nervous about?"

"I just…This is my first time joining a guild and I'm worried that the others in the guild won't like me."

"Nonsense. They're gonna love you."

"Really?"

"Aye!" Happy chimed in. "I don't see why they wouldn't."

"Well, if you're so sure that they'll really like me, I guess that kinda puts my mind at ease. Alright, I guess I'm ready to go then."

"Alrighty then. Let's Go!" Natsu yelled as he started to open the door to the guild.

*Meanwhile. Inside the guild hall*

"Oi, Damien! Do you know when Flame-Breath's supposed to come back from Hargeon?" asked Grey Fullbuster, Fairy Tail's resident Ice Wizard who always has the strangest urge to strip down to his boxers at any given moment.

"How the hell am I supposed to know? Do I look like his damn keeper or something?" Yelled back Damien Sakurov, a tall, muscular wizard, who stood about 5'10" with long, dark brown hair that covered the left side of his face. He was wearing his normal outfit composed of a red Hawaiian shirt that he liked to leave opened up, a Celtic cross around his neck, a pair of baggy blue jeans and black steel-toed boots.

"Well, I figured that since you two are such good friends and all, you would know that!"

"Why the fuck do you wanna know so badly anyway, Grey?"

"We were in the middle of a fight before he headed off to Hargion to look for that 'Salamander'! I'm just waiting to finish it! Now when the hell is he coming back?!"

"Alright fine! If you must know, Natsu should be coming back sometime today!"

Almost as if on cue, Natsu busted down the door to the hall.

"We're Back!"

"Didja miss us?" Happy yelled out as the two were met by a mixture of greetings.

"Well, speak of the dragon and he appears." Damien said.

"So Natsu, word has it that you went crazy and destroyed the Hargion port." Krov, a little rat-faced man, commented. "You just have to start trouble everywhere you…" was all he could make out before Natsu connected with a kick that sent Krov through a couple of the tables that were behind him.

"What the hell did you do that for?" Lucy asked with a shocked look on her face.

"Krov, You Bastard! That 'Salamander' you told me about was a bunch of bullshit! I'm gonna kick your ass for lying to me!"

"Hey, I heard the rumor about that 'Salamander' from someone else, so don't go getting pissed at me!" Krov shot back.

"It Was Just A Fucking Rumor?"

"Yeah it was! I even said it was a rumor when I told you! But if you wanna fight so damn bad, why don't you just bring it!"

"Let's go then!" Natsu yelled as the clash between him and Krov took out several of the other guild members that were around them.

"You had better calm down Natsu, before something bad hap…" Happy started before another guild mate got knocked back into him, sending him bouncing off of other members like a pinball. Immediately afterwards, a huge free-for-all brawl broke out in the guild hall. Amidst all of this, Lucy stood in awe over the fact that she was actually standing in the Fairy Tail guild hall.

"Alright, Natsu," Grey yelled heading towards the scuffle that Natsu was currently involved in. "It's about time we finished what we started!"

"Where the hell are your clothes, Grey?" asked Cana Alberona, a beautiful young lady who, as well as being a powerful wizard, holds the title of the heaviest drinker in all of Fairy Tail.

"Damn it, Cana! I don't have time for any clothes right now!"

"And that's why I don't go out with any of the men here. You guys don't have any class whatsoever." Cana said as she began chugging booze from a huge barrel.

"Man, Natsu. You're not even back 5 minutes and already you've created a ruckus." Damien said.

"Shut up, Damien!" Natsu shot back while bending Krov's arm back behind his head. "Besides, it's Krov's fault that all this is going on! He lied to me about where Igneel was supposed to be!"

Before Damien could respond, Grey interrupted their conversation.

"Alright, Natsu! You and me, right now! Let's Finish Our Fight!"

"Put some fucking clothes on first!"

"At the very least put some pants on." Damien said shielding his eyes.

"You stay outta this, Wind-Breath!" Grey shot back.

"Oh, very original, you exhibitionist!"

"It's barely even noon and you three are already bickering back and forth like spoiled brats." Said Elfman, a hulking brute of a man, who believes that two strong fists are the answer to any problem. "If you wanna see what a real man is like, come and face me!"

"Butt outta this, Elfman!" The three yelled as they knocked Elfman to the other side of the guild.

"Holy crap! He lost that easily to them?" Lucy exclaimed.

"Man, it's so loud in here when they all fight, isn't it?" Asked Loke, who was with two of his "girlfriends." Loke is a real lady killer who is near the top of the list for the most eligible wizard bachelors. Immediately after, a glass came flying seemingly out of nowhere and beaned Loke right between the eyes.

"Are you alright?" One of his "girlfriends" asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm gonna go join in the fight to make sure nothing happens to you two."

"Good luck, Loke." They said as he headed towards the melee.

"Ok, he's off my list now." Lucy said marking Loke's name off of her list of "Perfect Boyfriend" candidates. "These people are all crazy! There's not a sane person to be found here!"

"Oh, hi. Are you a new recruit?" Asked Mirajane, a very beautiful wizard who has adorned the centerfold portion of "Sorcerer's Weekly Magazine" with her bikini-clad photo-spreads. She currently works as one of Fairy Tail's employees.

"Oh, wow," Lucy said a little star struck. "I can't believe I'm finally getting to meet the famous Mirajane. But, that aside for the time being, don't you think we should stop them before the totally wreck the guild?"

"No, they do this kinda thing all the time, so it's best to leave them to it. Plus, it's probably not the best of ideas to try and stop them."

"I suppose you're right."

"Besides," Mirajane managed to make out before an unconscious Elfman came flying into her and sandwiched her between his body and a table. "It kinda looks like fun, doesn't it?" She said before passing out.

"No, Mirajane! Please Don't Die!" Lucy yelled as Grey fell backward into her after getting his last article of clothing removed by Natsu.

"Oh God, My Eyes! They Burn!" Damien yelled covering his eyes. "Did you really have to take off his boxers?"

"Well, yeah. I figured that it would embarrass the hell out of him."

"Look at who you are talking about! That's not embarrassing for an exhibitionist like him!"

"How many times do I have to keep telling you guys, I am NOT an exhibitionist!" Grey shot back. "And give me back my boxers, you assholes!" He then noticed Lucy staring at him through her fingers. "Pardon me, miss, but can I borrow your underwear?"

"Not a chance!" She yelled knocking him away with a giant folding fan she seemingly pulled out of thin air.

"These guys don't know how to treat a woman." Loke said scooping Lucy up. "You gotta be more respectful."

"Speak more with your fists if you wanna be a real man, Loke!" Elfman yelled sending Loke flying with an uppercut.

"Damn it Elfman, I thought we told you to butt out!" Damien yelled kicking Elfman halfway across the guild again.

"Goddamnit, I can never enjoy a peaceful drink here anymore!" Cana yelled exasperatedly. "If you guys don't stop screwing around, I'm gonna have to get involved!" She yelled as she activated her Card Magic.

"Well bring it on then!" Grey, who finally got his boxers back, yelled preparing an Ice-Make attack.

"Alright, let's do this! Beast Arm: Stone Bull!" Elfman yelled as stone plates covered his entire right arm.

"Man, you guys are annoying." Loke said activating his Ring Magic.

"Alright, I'm fired up! Let's go!" Natsu yelled as flames formed around his fists.

"I'm not gonna stand by and let you guys have all the fun!" Damien yelled as he formed small cyclones around his fists.

"Do they always use Magic like this?" Lucy asked Happy while utilizing him as a shield.

"Yep."

"Why do you not seem worried in the least?" She asked with a frightened look on her face.

Suddenly, the foot of a giant, who was shrouded in darkness, came crashing down onto the guild floor.

"Will you idiots stop fighting like little kids?" yelled the giant man.

Everyone who was fighting stopped in mid-attack at the sound of the booming voice.

"I apologize, master. I didn't realize that you were still here." Mirajane said.

"D-did you just call him 'Master'?" Lucy asked with a twinge of fright in her voice.

"Ahahahaha! You guys are a buncha fucking pussies! I guess this battle belongs to me!" Natsu yelled triumphantly.

"Eh, I wouldn't be so sure about that, Natsu." Damien, who was standing beside Natsu, said pointing upwards.

"What are you...?" Natsu started as he looked up and saw a giant foot starting to come towards him. "Oh, shit."

"Yeaaaaah, you're on your own, man." Damien said as he quickly stepped out of the giant foot's shadow.

"You bas…" Was all Natsu made out before the giant foot of the master squashed him like a bug.

"Mmmm, that looked painful. Does anyone have a spatula?"

"Fuck….you….Damien." Natsu weakly made out.

"Nah, I believe I'll pass."

"Well, well, we have a new recruit in our midst, eh?" The master asked looking towards Lucy's direction.

"*Gulp* Yes, sir." She managed to make out as she was scared out of her mind.

Suddenly, the master transformed from a hulking giant to a small, old man holding a rolled up stack of papers.

"Hey there, how ya doing?" He asked.

"Is this tiny man really this guild's master?" Lucy asked still in shock at his transformation.

"Uh-huh. Lucy, may I introduce our guild master here at Fairy Tail: Master Makarov." Mirajane said.

Immediately after being introduced to Lucy, Makarov leapt from the ground floor, flipping like an acrobat, to the second floor balcony. Unfortunately for him, he misjudged his rotation speed and smacked the back of his head on the balcony railing. He then proceeded to get up as if nothing happened. Everyone in the hall watched in anticipation as if they knew that Makarov was about to scold them.

"You damned idiots have done it again! The Magic Council sent me even more paperwork than last time!" He yelled waving the stack of complaints in his hand.

For those of you who don't know, the Magic Council, located in the city of Era, monitors every magical guild in Fiore.

"Have all of you gone completely crazy?" Makarov yelled. "The most successful thing, it seems, that you kids have done is anger the higher-ups!"

At that last remark, everyone had a look on their faces that seemed to say, "We're sorry."

"But, you know what? The Magic Council can go to hell for all I care." He said setting the stack of complaints on fire and threw them out for Natsu to snack on. "Listen up, everyone! Any kind of strength or power that goes beyond reason still comes from that same reason doesn't it? Magic isn't a miraculous gift bestowed upon certain people. It is a talent that is only able to work when the energy that flows throughout our bodies and the energy that flows throughout the entire world come together in perfect harmony. To be able to perform Magic, a Mage must be strong mentally and have the ability to completely focus on the task at hand. It should become second nature to you and you should feel the power in the depths of your very soul. If we stop and worry about every little rule and regulation, we will never realize our true potential as Mages. So don't let those big-shots on the Council frighten you away from the path you believe in. If you wish to be truly great, you must follow that path. That is what makes us Number 1. That is what makes us Fairy Tail!" Makarov concluded as he held up his right hand and extended his thumb and index finger. Every guild member cheered and proceeded to make the same gesture.

*Later That Day*

Lucy, with Mirajane, was busy deciding on what color to make her guild mark and where to place it. Natsu and Damien were gazing at the request board, looking for a job. The jobs on the request board ranged from tracking down criminals to fighting monsters and anything and everything in between with varying rewards.

"Hey Natsu, check it out! I got my Fairy Tail guild mark!" Lucy said showing off her mark which was pink and located on her right hand.

"Yeah, yeah, that's great to hear, Luigi." Natsu said flatly.

"I told you my name is Lucy!"

"Right, right."

"You're gonna have to forgive him. Sometimes whenever he's looking through the job requests, he doesn't really care about anything else that's going on around him." Damien explained.

"Th-that's understandable, I guess." Lucy said slightly enamored by Damien.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I haven't introduced myself, have I? My name is Damien Sakurov. Nice to meet you, Lucy." He said extending his hand.

"It's n-nice to meet you, too Damien." She said shaking his hand. "But, how did you know my name?"

"Well, you did kinda scream it at Natsu just now."

"Oh, right. Well, again, it was nice meeting you, Damien." She said almost running towards the bar area for whatever reason Damien wasn't sure of.

"So, have you found a good job for us yet, Natsu?" He said turning his attention back to the request board.

"I think so. I found one here that says that they'll pay 160,000 Jewels to take care of a group of thieves."

"Damn, that's good pay just to take out a bunch of thieves."

"Aye!" Happy chimed in. "Sounds pretty good to me. Looks like Team Natsu finally has a job!"

"Can you please tell me why my dad hasn't made it back yet?" Damien and Natsu heard young Romeo Conbolt ask Makarov.

"You again, Romeo? I've told you to have faith in your old man. You are the son of a Mage, are you not?"

"Yes sir, I am. But, he told me that this mission would take him, at most, 3 days to complete, and that was over a week ago!"

"Hmm, if my memory serves me right, Macao took the job on Mt. Hakobe."

"Yeah, he did. It's not far from Magnolia, so why hasn't someone gone up there to look for him?"

I told you Romeo, your dad is a Fairy Tail Mage. And like all of the Mages here, he is able to take care of himself! Now please, just go home, drink your milk, and wait for him."

"You damn jerk!" Romeo yelled as he punched Makarov right between the eyes. "You All Suck!" He yelled running out of the guild.

"Wow. That was pretty harsh." Lucy said.

"It may have seemed that way, but Master Makarov is concerned about Macao as well." Mirajane said.

"We going to Mt. Hakobe, Natsu?" Damien asked in a serious tone.

Natsu responded by placing the request back on the board with a punch that nearly broke the board in two.

"Figured as much. Alright, let's head out then." Damien said as he walked over to the table he was previously sitting at and picked up his bag and jacket. Then, once they had grabbed their gear, Natsu, Damien, and Happy headed out of the guild hall and headed in the direction of Mt. Hakobe.

"This isn't good, Master." Nab said. "I mean you know those two can get. I'll just be that they're gonna go try and help Macao."

"When are those two gonna grow up?" Krov asked.

"No telling. But the only thing that they'll accomplish by going up to Mt. Hakobe is hurting Macao's pride."

"Know this, Nab; we do not hold others' fates in our hands. Just let them go." Makarov said.

"What made those two get so angry all of a sudden?" Lucy asked Mirajane.

"My guess is that they see themselves in Romeo. Those two and Romeo have a lot in common right now. Even though we may be Fairy Tail Mages, that doesn't mean that we all haven't experienced some kind of pain in our lives. Everyone here has lost loved ones or suffered in some way. In Natsu's case, his father left him about 7 years ago and never returned. Well actually, it wasn't his real father but the one that found and raised him. In reality, he was a dragon." Mirajane explained.

"Eh, he was an actual d-d-d-dragon?" Lucy asked in shock.

"Mmhmm, the dragon found Natsu wandering through the forest, took him under his wing and taught him how to talk, how to read and write, taught him about human cultures and taught him the magic that he uses now. But unfortunately, the dragon disappeared one day without warning and never came back."

"Wait, so that means that the "Salamander" that Natsu told me he was searching for was Igneel?"

"Yep. He is anxiously waiting for the day when he and Igneel will be reunited."

"What about Damien? What's his story?"

"Damien…" Mirajane silently started. "Damien has felt the pain of losing loved ones twice."

"What do you mean 'twice'?"

"When he was about 5 years old, a group of rouge Mages terrorized his hometown and kidnapped every person there."

"Where did they take them?"

"I don't know. Damien said he escaped before they got to their destination."

"How did they find him in the first place?"

"From what he told me, his parents saw them heading for their home and hid him and his older brother and younger sister down in their basement and told them to not come out no matter what. When his sister heard all of the commotion upstairs, she started crying out of fear and the Wizards found them down in their hiding spot. They took the three and everyone else from the town a long ways away from there. Eventually, when the wagons stopped for a rest stop, his brother shoved him out of the wagon and into some bushes nearby. That was the last thing he remembered as, I assume, he hit his head on a rock. When he woke up, the wagons were long gone."

"Wow, that must have been rough. I almost hate to ask but, what was the second loss he suffered?"

"He also suffered the same loss as Natsu."

"Wait, he was raised by a dragon after that? Was it Igneel that raised him as well?"

"No. The dragon that raised Damien was a Sky Dragon called Taevas and, like Igneel found Natsu, Taevas found Damien in the woods near where he landed, raised him for almost three years, and taught him magic as well. From what I've gathered, around the same time that Igneel left Natsu, Taevas disappeared, leaving Damien alone."

"Wow. That must have been rough on Damien. I mean, your family and friends getting taken away is one thing. But to then lose the one who had been your foster parent for so long, I just can't imagine the pain he, or even Natsu for that matter, went through. And yet, from what I've seen so far, they act almost normal as if nothing happened to them. I mean, at least until today."

"They have a strong resolve. Stronger than anyone else here."

"I guess you'd have to have a strong resolve if you're going to survive in this world. Well, thanks for the info Mira." Lucy said getting up and heading towards the exit.

"Wait, where are you going, Lucy?"

"I'm gonna go try and catch up with those two and see if I can help them out in some way."

"Ok. Be safe then."

"I will!" Lucy called back as she ran out of the hall.

*Meanwhile, at the same time as Mirajane and Lucy's conversation*

Natsu, Happy, and Damien walked past a still sobbing Romeo. As they passed him, Natsu and Damien gave Romeo a reassuring pat on the head, letting him know everything would be alright.