Chapter 1: Eternal Reap

Year X791...

It was just just a normal boring day in the guild hall at Fairy Tail. Jobs weren't really in yet and if they were it was the ones that just sucked.

"Arghhhh why is today such a slow day? There's like nothing to do here." complained a pink haired boy. He's been complaining like this for the last 10 minutes and a certain blonde was getting annoyed.

"Shut it Natsu, you know full well Master hasn't put up the new job requests for the day so stop complaining!" Lucy scolded him. Honestly she was tired of his bitching and griping over nothing.

"Lucy's right flamebrain get over it." came from the voice Gray. He had to admit it was quite boring, but he wouldn't admit that outloud. "Oiiii what you called me popsicle?!" came from Natsu as he got in Gray's face with his forehead against his. "You heard me Torch, stop complaining!" Gray retorted as he pushed Natsu back. "Sound like you want me to kick your ass bastard!" Natsu yelled as he punched Grey, this started a brawl within Fairytail.

"They never learn do they Mira-san?" sighed Lucy as she and Mira watch their guildmates fight. At least it will shut Natsu up about no jobs at the moment. That's when she seen Natsu fly right past her into Erza… and her cake. "Well this is when the natural disaster happens…" said Mira as she giggled at the fuming redhead.

"Natsu…" said Erza as she dropped her fork. Her hair covered her eyes, "What have i told you and Gray about fighting.. and in FRONT OF ME!?" she yelled at the top of her lungs. Natsu felt the air grow cold around him, and Gray hid behind Juvia. "Gray-sama I'll PROTECT YOU!~" she said with hearts in her eyes as she held him. "Dammit let me go!" he yelled as he was bear hugged by her.

"Natsu you know what it means, when you ruin my cake… and DON'T THINK you're safe either GRAY!" she yelled as she pulled out a giant sword ready to end them both. Natsu closed his eyes as he knew Erza was gonna beat him for ruining her cake, but that beating never came.

"Huh?" Natsu slowly opened his eyes to see a head full of blue and small arms spread in front of him protectively. 'WENDY!' he thought wide eyed. "E-Erza-san i know Natsu-nii ruined your cake, but let him off the hook this time p-please?" with her soft sweet voice everyone knew. Everyone was shocked to their eyes, even Laxus had a look of surprise at her bold action. Natsu was lost at words he never would've thought Wendy would be standing up for him in front of Erza!

"Why should I Wendy?" said Erza as she looked down at the young dragon slayer. She never seen someone stand up to her like this, and she sure in the hell wasn't expecting Wendy of all people. Wendy didn't think of a reason why Erza shouldn't beat Natsu. He caused a fight and ruined her food, but she didn't want to see her older brother figure hurt. She didn't get to reply as a cheerful voice smaller than hers spoke up.

"Yeah Auntie Erza! Dont hurt Uncle Natsu this time!" came the voice of little Asuka as she came and wrapped her tiny arms around Natsu's neck. This made everyone become even more shocked. What an adorable scene that happened before everyone, Fairy Tail's fire dragon slayer Natsu was being protected by two little girls from a severe ass kicking. Natsu smiled his toothy grin as he apologized to Erza. This made the redhead look away with a tint of pink on her cheeks. That smile always got her. "Fine." Erza said as she put her sword away. "You lucky that these two saved your ass Dragneel otherwise you and Gray would've gotten it." she said as she went to Mira to see if there was more cake.

Natsu breathed a sigh of relief, who wouldn't though? He narrowly gotten away from one of Erza's beatings. He got to do something special for Wendy and Asuka for saving him. As everything went back to normal, Makarov came in with all the new jobs and posted them on job board. "Sorry for the wait kids but here goes the jobs you wanted. Now please don't cause destruction so i don't have more paperwork." he said with a glance towards Natsu. Natsu only smiled in response.

"WOOOOO! ALRIGHT TEAM NATSU, JOB TIME!" Natsu yelled at the top of his voice as he scouted the board for the job with the most action.

"Natsu calm down, we'll go but stop yelling sheesh." Lucy said scolding him once again. 'So immature' she thought as she waited for him to pick the job. "Capture a team of wizards dead or alive 300,000,000 jewels." said Natsu as he read the job. "HAH! Easy as ever." he said as finished loudly.

"We got to take a train to that town." Lucy said as she looked at the location. "About 85 miles outside Magnolia, Logatown" she read. Once she said that she seen the color drain from Natsu's face. "Nooooo that thing is satan! I refuse!" Natsu yelled in protest. "I'm not a train Natsu!" came the voice of Mira from the bar. Everyone sweatdropped at her sudden outburst.

"Anyway, you wanted this job, so you will be on that train. Plus rent not going to pay itself you know." she said as she walked towards the door. "Come on Natsu" Happy said as he and Carla flew past him.

"You can stay here if you like flame-brain, but I'll come back to tell you how much ass i kicked" Gray said with a smug grin that pissed Natsu off like no tomorrow. "What was that you ice princess?!" he said getting in his face again, ready to fight. "You heard me Ashtray" Gray retorted with a glare to rival Natsu's.

"Boys, no fighting" Erza said as she smashed their face together and walked out the guild as well. After recovering from their punishment they both got up. "Damn Erza and her scariness." they said in unison. "Gray your clothes" came a random voice from the guild. "CRAP!" Gray shouted; searching for his clothes.

Natsu soon felt something jump on his back, which startled him. His first reflex was to throw them over his shoulder into Gray to start another brawl since Erza wasn't in sight, but the smell he recognized told him not to. As he looked to see a bluenette with a innocent smile on her face, he couldn't do nothing but smile. "Let's go Natsu-nii it'll be fun" Wendy said while she rested her head on his shoulder.

"Alrighty let's go!" Natsu said with a smile as he ran out the guild hall. Wendy always made him smile when she called him her older brother. Even though she calls Gajeel that too, she seem to be more closer to Natsu than him.

On the train…

"Ughhhhhh, this thing is evil." Natsu said as he was seated near the window trying his best not to empty his stomach.

"You'll be fine Natsu just a few more hours." Lucy said as she was trying her best to make Natsu feel at ease. 'I just don't get it, what about transportation gets them sick, but when they fly with their exceeds they are fine?' Lucy thought to herself. She was brought out her thoughts as she looked at her team for this mission. She seen that Happy was bugging Carla to no end about fish, she seen Natsu trying to not puke, Gray was in his own seat looking out the window, Erza was next to her reading some book, and she seen Wendy asleep with her head on Natsu's shoulder…. wait WHAT?!

"Wendy?" Lucy asked as she was shocked to see that Wendy was fast asleep. Erza had a small smile on her face when she seen the scene in front of her too. Lucy looked to Natsu to see him have his finger to his lips to shush her. Natsu smiled as he put his arm around Wendy so she can be more comfortable. Lucy was just sitting there jaw-dropped. She never seen a side of Natsu like this and it was actually very cute to see him this way. She smiled as she closed her eyes to wait out the rest of this ride.

3 hours later… Logatown

"Ground! You just don't know how much i missed you!" Natsu yelled while rolling on the ground. Everyone just looked at him with a sweatdrop. Wendy yawned as she felt refreshed from that wonderful nap she had. Lucy looked away to not see how much of a fool the pink haired idiot was making himself out to be.

"Get up flamebrain, we got work to do" Gray said all cool. "I'm so tired of your mouth you icepick." Natsu said getting in Gray's face once again. "Your presence just pisses me off jackass." he retorted. "Boys…" was all they heard as the air grew colder. In an instant they were buddies with their arms wrapped around each other. "Let's get ready to work well buddy!" Gray said. "AYE SIR" Natsu agreed. Everyone else deadpanned at this.

"Anyway, we should go check in and then we go to the location our client ordered." Erza said as she walked off in the direction to a nearby hotel. Everyone followed suit. On the way, coming up to the hotel Natsu suddenly stopped which caused Lucy to bump into him.

"Hey why yo-" she was about to ask as Natsu put a hand up. He started sniffing the air, he looked around to find the source of this smell; but couldn't pinpoint it.

"Wendy do you smell dragons?" Natsu asked the younger slayer. Wendy started smelling the air and indeed it did smell like a dragon was somewhere close.

"Yeah i do Natsu-nii, it seems close, but i don't know from where though." she replied.

"It feels as if we are being watched" Gray said. Lucy nodded her head in agreement.

"Come to think of it, I do feel like eyes are piercing into me." she said. Erza hmmm for a second as she thought about the strange smell of a dragon nearby from the two dragon slayers and the feeling of being watch. After a minute of thinking she came to conclusion. "I don't know who it is, but if they want to leave in one piece they should leave while they can." She said loudly as she looked up to a building where she felt the presence. 'They left.' she thought as she turned back to her team.

"Alright let's check in and go find our client." she said as she went into the hotel. After a few more sniffs Natsu and the rest went in as well.

On top of a nearby roof…

"Damn you and your stupid reason to use your fire, almost got us caught." a hooded male voice came in a scolding manner.

"Sorry sheesh, but it looks like the old fool has called for help and looks like Fairy Tail sent some strong members and some fellow dragons" a hooded female said with a grin.

" Natsu "Salamander Dragneel, and Wendy Marvell, dragon slayers of the flame dragon Igneel and sky dragon Grandeeney." the man said with a smile. "Looks like i get to put out the fire for the Salamander." He said as his grin grew more maliciously.

"I wanted to fight Salamander to see if his regular flames are better than my blaze flames." she said as her hand got covered in blue flames.

"Hmmm fire vs fire would be boring Hatsuya, only a bigger fire. Now a water dragon slayer is better against that torch." he said as water started to form in his hand.

"I guess you're right Tato, but i don't want to fight a little girl. She would be too easy, and with her using wind it will only make my fire bigger and just make things go faster." Hatsuya said.

"You right on that, but how about this then. if you beat the little girl within 10 minutes of fighting i'll let you finish off Salamander?" he offered.

"Why 10 minutes?" she asked with her head tilted in curiosity.

"So i can get my fun of kicking his butt" he simply shrugged his shoulder. "We'll let Meteryu handle Titania as his sword skills should be on par with hers. Boomi and Susanoo will handle the ice maker and the celestial mage." he said

"Alright then sounds like a plan, let's go warn the team about our little friends here and punish that old man later for his little betrayal." she said evilly.

"AHAHAHA that old man gonna be begging later." Tato said as he disappeared in water and Hatsuya disappeared in blue flames.

1 hour later in a nearby ally…

"Why send us to an empty alley, that's not suspicious at all." Lucy scoffed as her and team Natsu walked through the alley. "Ew it stinks here." Wendy whined as she covered her sensitive nose.

"Smells like flame-brain to me" Gray said, gaining a push from Natsu. "Hey watch where you shoving idiot" Gray said as he shoved Natsu back. Before Natsu could do anything Erza was glaring at them, which made them sweat bullets.

"We're here, looks like it was a bar, this whole time." Erza said as she eye rolled. 'Always bars that we get sent to with these clients.' As she opened the door, everyone walked in she seen that the bar was empty. All was seen until they seen a hooded cloak person.

"Over here Fairy Tail." came the voice of a elderly man. As everyone came over to him, he removed his hood and everyone gasped. Here was a old man as he was covered in bruises and seem to have fear in his eyes.

"Sir are you alright?!" said Erza, everyone crowded around him and Wendy immediately started to healing him with her magic.

"Yes I'm fine youngsters, i'm glad you responded to the request." he said with a small smile.

"Could you tell us what happened to you?" asked Lucy with a worried face.

"They happened..." he trailed off as she looked down with a sad glaze. "Who are they?" asked Gray.

"They call themselves E-Eternal R-Reap" the man stuttered the name out. "Eternal Reap? Are they a guild? I never heard of them." Erza asked while trying to think of a guild with that name.

"N-no they don't consider themselves as a guild. They are a team that has been terrorizing this town to where no one really comes out no more, out of fear of being hurt… or even killed." he said in a depressed tone.

"Old man who are these people? I'll go kick their ass!" Natsu said as he slammed his hand down on the table. Erza smacked him on the head. "Idiot we don't want to be loud." Erza scolded. Natsu rubbed his head as he grumbled something about redheads, which earned him a glare from Erza.

"Haha young love huh?" he asked which caused them two to blush. They tried to deny it, but he seem unfazed by their excuses. "It's ok, good to see youth having great lives, remind me of my own. Anyway. Their team name is Eternal Reap. They appeared as common visitors as we all thought. This town gets tons of tourist since Magnolia is the big city near here. When they got here it was a nice day until… they attacked.

"Attacked? What do you mean?" Erza asked as everyone eyes got wide.

"Yes attacked, they started targeting the mages here, the guilds, the citizens and even the town mayor. They wiped out the two guilds here, they weren't major guilds, but the deaths is what matters." he said as he looked down with a sad tone. "One of the guilds… my son was in and he was brutally murdered in front of me…" he trailed off as tears started to form in his eyes.

None of Team Natsu couldn't say much as it was a sad story. They never thought someone would be this cruel. Natsu was shaking in rage. He could only imagine how painful that is watching a family member die in front of you. If he lost Lucy or any guildmates in front of him especially Erza and Wendy, he felt bad for whoever killed them as there wouldn't be a trace of their existence left. Natsu was brought out of his thoughts when Erza spoke up.

"Mr…?" Erza said as she didn't know his name. "Han" he replied. "Ok Mr. Han, do you know their name or what kind of abilities they can use?"

"I never was a mage as my son got that magic gift from his mom, but from what i remember it's three i know their names and i only know two of those three abilities." he said.

"We can make do with that, tell us as much as you know." Grey said finally breaking his silence.

"Well one is a girl she has black hair, blue eyes and has a blue ribbon in a ponytail, her name is Hatsuya and she uses blue flames. I heard something about a blaze dragon slayer." he said as everyone was shocked. "Blaze dragon slayer, never heard of that, but must be another fire dragon dad never spoke about." Natsu said.

"Anyway the other is another dragon slayer." he said which even added more uplifted eyebrows. "Hmmm two dragon slayers. Do you know what kind of power this one use?" Happy asked.

"Seem he could use water, his name is Tato or something like that. My mind is old so i don't remember his name. The other three i don't know their abilities as the two dragons was the ones who wiped out the guilds. My son was quite strong i would say as he could probably be a rune knight" Han said. "Even the rune knights that got sent here got overpowered and never went home…" he said as his voice trailed off.

"Even rune knights? Hmmm we got a real problem on our hand." Erza said. She had to think about this, so they had two dragon slayers and the enemies had two dragon slayers, so that fight was planned Natsu vs Hatsuya and Wendy vs Tato. The rest of team Natsu will fight whatever else is left. "Would you like them dead or alive Mr. Han?" Erza asked as she thought about the job details.

"Doesn't matter long as my people are safe. I got a town to run you know." he smiled as he shocked everyone in there. "So you're the mayor!?" everyone said in unison except Erza.

"Yes sorry about not saying that earlier. Anyway you should get going. I know they have been watching me, and I'm sure they seen you, so they're going to target me." he said as he started to get fearful.

"No worries old man! We won't let nothing happen to you. I promise by tomorrow, they won't even be here!" Natsu yelled as he gave his toothy grin. Lucy smiled "That's right no need to fear anymore." she responded. "I agree with flame brain we got you covered man" Grey said. "Like Natsu-nii said, by tomorrow everything will be back to normal." a confident Wendy said.

"Fairy Tail won't disappoint you Mr. Han" Erza said with a smile. "Ok team back to the hotel room and let's start planning." Erza said as they started walking to the door of the alley.

"Thank you Fairy Tail wizards, I'm so in your debt. I rest assure yo-" He never got to finish as the whole side of the building was destroyed by a blue explosion of fire.

"Seem's we were wrong about you old man, guess you going to suffer the fate of your son" came the voice of a man.

"You can never be trusted." said the voice of a woman.

Erza glared as she recognized the mayor's description. "Eternal Reap." she said in a cold voice as she looked at them with a glare.

"Fairy Tail." the man said with a smirk. "Wha-" he never got to finish as he was punched by a flaming fist of a angry Natsu. "I don't give a damn who you are. You people going to pay." Natsu said as he looked at the rest of the members.

"WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT SALAMANDER!" came the voice of the black haired woman Hatsuya as she had a flaming blue fist aimed at Natsu's head, only to be sent in the air and onto a roof.

Natsu looked back to see Wendy with her hands out. "I'll handle this one Natsu-nii as she ran and glided onto the roof using her wind. 'Good luck Wendy.' Natsu thought as he focused onto the dragon slayer who got up from his punch.

"Cheap shot Salamander, Cheap shot" said Tato as he wiped his mouth from the little trickle of blood. "Now let our fun begin." he said with a smirk as his fist became covered with water and charged Natsu.

Erza requipped into her Black Wing armor, Just to block a sword attack that she didn't even seen coming. It shot her back a distance into the middle of the town. 'Whoa he can send long distance sword attacks?' she thought then she felt herself get hit with sand. "What the-" she didn't finish as she seen a man with a sheathed katana with sand orbiting around him.

"My name is Meteryu and I will be your opponent Titania." he said with a emotionless face. 'Careful Natsu, i can't back you or anyone up until i get past him.' she thought as she requipped into her japanese cloth armor. "I shall be your opponent Meteryu, come!" she said and Meteryu charged with sword and sand in tow.

With Gray...

Gray was fighting some thunder using mage. 'Shit wouldn't it be nice if we had Laxus'

he thought as he moved around to avoid getting struck by lightning.

"YOOOOO stop moving so i can tag your ass." the thunder mage said. "What's your name kid? so i know who I'm destroying." he asked as he sent more thunder at Gray.

"It's Gray and your's is?" he asked as he kept dodging ' I can't make ice if i have to keep dodging his fast ass attacks.' he thought.

"It's Boomi you dig?" he said for a moment which caused him to stop attacking. 'NOW!" Gray thought as he attacked.

"ICE MAKE: LANCE!" Grey shouted as ice shot at Boomi at incredible speeds, Boomi dodged via thunder and was behind Gray.

"Nice try kid." he smirked as he kicked Gray in the back sending him into a wall. Gray stumbled to get up. This guy is like Laxus but not a dragon slayer. 'This gonna be tough.' he thought as he got ready to dodge another thunder attack.

Faraway somewhere else…

"ACHOOO" Laxus sneezed. 'someone must be talking about me' he thought.

"Bless you Laxus." Freed said kindly.

"The mighty Laxus isn't getting sick is he?" Evergreen said with a smirk. "It's impossible for him to get sick!" Bickslow said as he stuck his tongue as always. His little puppets agreeing with his statement.

"Let's keep moving." Laxus said ignoring them all.

Back in Logatown…

Fairytail is in battle with Eternal Reap and it seems all the members got separated in different areas of the town. Lucy was forced to move as she was getting attacked by the last guy of the terrorist team.

With Lucy…

"You move quite well pretty lady" the man said as he grinned at her. "How about we stop fighting and let's go on a date." he said as he started to flirt with her.

"No thanks sir, but i will be happy to give you a good ass kicking! I OPEN THE GATE OF THE GOAT! CAPRICORN!" Lucy shouted as she summoned Capricorn.

"You called Lucy-sama?" Capricorn asked as he looked at her, "Yes i need you to handle him." she pointed to the man.

"Hmmm a celestial spirit huh? Oh Lucy is a cute name by the way" he smiled at Lucy again. Only for her to get creeped out more. "If i win you gotta date me." he said as he started to use his magic. He was interrupted by a kick to the face from Capricorn. Lucy-sama don't need unwanted men in her life." he said.

"Hahaha ok goat! Time to get serious" he said as the area started to grow cold and dark around them. 'I don't know what magic this is, but it's foul like.' Lucy thought as she stood there not knowing what to expect.

With Wendy…

Wendy dodged a flaming punch from her opponent. 'She strong, i never seen blue flames before.' Wendy thought while trying to catch her breath. This person was strong, but she couldn't give up.

"Wendy are you ok?" asked Carla as she flew up to see Wendy in combat.

"OH, a exceed! I'm jealous because i don't have one. So you shouldn't EITHER!" Hatsuya yelled as she sent a torrent of blue flames at Carla which made Wendy sit there shocked. Carla was knocked out of the air. Wendy felt tears in her eyes she seen Carla was hurt and she was afraid that blast killed her.

She gasped when she heard Carla cough. "I-It...We-Wendy...beat her" Carla mustered up to say before succumbing to complete darkness.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA how pathetic, that was so funny watching that cat fall like a bird during hunting season." Hatsuya laughed. She noticed Wendy's tears. "Awww is the little dragon gonna cry? You make me sick, grow up kid." she said as she was ready to finish Wendy off so she can go fight Natsu. "Here i come Salamander." she said as she walked to Wendy with a flaming fist.

What she saw next actually caught her off guard as the look Wendy gave her made her tense up. "You'll pay… I'll make you pay for what you done, and you won't lay a hand on my brother." Wendy said in a low voice as the wind started to gather around her.

"Oh, and who's gonna make me?" Hatsuya said with a smug grin as she look at the intensity in her eyes. 'Her eyes are slitted, she's pissed. Let's see what this little dragon can do.' she thought as a bigger smile came onto her face. "Come little dragon, make this interesting, so i can warm-up to go kick your 'brother' ass" she said with a smile.

The wind intensified; Wendy stood up and started a hole into a Hatsuya. "Over my dead body." she said coldly.

Hatsuya smiled. "Sounds fine with me" she said, gesturing Wendy to come at her. Wendy charged her with a newly awakened fury.