Location - Harbour town of Hargeon

Ever since the encounter with the Devon Bandit Clan that left the harbour in shambles the residence have been more wary to the fact that wizards travel from the rest of the land to end up there. In desperation for protection they hired a mercenary guild to protect the town for a large reward, this mercenary guild is known as the 'Crescent Hydra' guild.

Location - Outskirts of Hargeon, Crescent Hydra Guild House

Crescent Hydra was lively today as they watched another one of their fellow teams stroll on into the guild building. Intrigued filled the guildies' faces as they stared upon the three battered mercenaries.

"So how was the bodyguard job, Gwen?" one questioned out of curiosity.

"Yeah it was another bust. Bruno, you tell them. I'm going home." Gwen responded as she signed herself out of the guild for the night.

"So basically me and Gwen only got half the pay, sure we got the intruders but apparently we beat the crap out of the prince's bodyguards too." some of the guild members were giggling to themselves. "Hey come on guys, stop laughing, I just barely got the money to pay off my rent for the month." Bruno retorted back in annoyance.

"You should be happy that you got jewel at all. Totally unfair." the third one interrupted.

"Well Terrag, you did nearly crush the dancers in the ball room with the balconies." Bruno explained, Terrag turned away in angst.

"Shut up." more of the guildies laughed to themselves. Staring down from the second floor balcony the guild master and his vice were conversing with each other.

"I can't believe that they messed up again, when will those idiots learn that they should take their jobs more seriously?" the vice exclaimed in disgust. The guild master glared at him angrily.

"You should remember that they're only beginners in this whole job spiel." the vice didn't respond "Besides they have more on their minds at the moment, Gwen and Bruno are having their marriage in a week y'know." the master finished. The vice still didn't respond but smirked, he began to walk to the stairs that led to the ground floor until he felt a sudden sense of dread. The world around him seemed to slow down and silence, as if no one was there, as if he was in a bubble of his own thought. He didn't know why he felt this way but this overwhelming feeling made him sick to his stomach, what could have been causing him to feel this way? The vice turned back to look at the master, he wasn't any different from before, he seemed too fixated on the commotion down stairs to really feel anything.

"I've only felt this way once, a long time ago..." the vice thought to himself "... could it be that... it's going to happen again?" a loud creaking noise ran through his head silencing all thought he had. The vice had seen that some of his fellow guildies had noticed this sound as well, they blankly stared at the entrance along with him. A teenager came through the now open door closely inspecting everyone, he was unfamiliar to the guild. He opened his mouth to speak, the guild members watched and listened for what he had to say.

"Is this..." he spoke slowly for some reason "the Crescent Hydra Guild?" the guild was still silent. "I asked a girl back there and she said that Crescent Hydra was here." the guild started to chat among themselves until a voice rose above the others. It was the bartender of Crescent Hydra. A tall, suave man with a strong English accent.

"Yes, we are. If you have no business other than trespassing then I recommend you use the door." he remarked in a hostile nature. The guild master leapt from the balcony and onto the ground floor, he pointed his bladed staff toward the bartender's head who did not flinch.

"Rugo! There is no need to be so impolite to this young man! He has barely even been here and already you're so cold!" he lowered the staff and strolled to the teenage. "I apologize for Rugo's hostility, he tends to do this a lot."

"It's alright, it won't matter too much in the long run!" the young man replied. "Say, you aren't master Shen are you?" he asked. The vice was anxiously watching everything unveil.

"Why yes I am! What business do you have with us?" it was as if time had completely stopped for the vice, until the teenager smirked and struck Shen with a blazing fist of might. Shen fell to his knees clenching his painful stomach, he slowly raised his head to look at the boy only to find that he had struck the ground with a powerful flaming fist this time. The floorboards were quickly set a light and everyone was a victim to the smog. The vice quickly rushed to everyone's aid and had activated his weapon. A magic circle formed around his whip and it transformed into a water whip in which he lashed at the floorboards extinguishing some of the fire, but it was spreading fast. The bar area of the building had exploded into fire, the boy was there bow. The vice was again overwhelmed by the smoke, he could see nothing but his friends and family being incinerated by the teenager and his fire. The vice tried to retaliate against him but to no prevail as he was too fast for him, again the vice heard no voices but only the crackling of the fire and the haunting screams of the guild membersbbeing quickly silenced. He had no choice but to get out, none of his friends were in there anymore, dead or alive. As he dashed for the exit he could see the boy standing in the deepest parts of the fire and his shining eyes piercing into his soul. He saw a mark on his shoulder, a mark he was familiar with.

He viciously coughed when he burst out of the door as his lungs were filling up with smoke, tears of agony were trailing down his face while staring back into the hellish abyss that was the Crescent Hydra guild. He couldn't do anything, his weapon wasn't strong enough to douse all of the flames and he wasn't tough enough to go back in and save anyone who may have survived to this point. He felt useless. Then he realized that there was someone he could still save. The girl who gave that boy directions, Gwen.

The vice ran, and ran, and ran and didn't stop to catch his breath. At this point he could hear voices surrounding him endlessly. Though he was fatigued and burned he kept telling himself to keep moving otherwise another one of his friends would be dead and there was nothing left for him, but no matter how far around or into Hargeon he went he couldn't find Gwen anywhere. It was hopeless, he fell to the ground in some old dark alley and passed out

The vice's breath was slow and dry and his eyes felt heavy, he could feel the comfort of the bed he was lying on. It was relieving for him, it was just a horrible nightmare. He moved to sit up straight, but suddenly he felt a jolt of pain shoot right through his body, a burning sensation. He threw the bed sheets off of himself to find his torso had been singed. Distraught and desperate he cried out in agony which had brought someone toward the entrance to the room, he glared at her and looked away, Gwen.

"Gwen? Where am I? What happened?"

"Oh Garret, you're awake. We're in the hospital some people found you lying down in the dust so they brought you here." she had remarked.

"I see. You saw it, didn't you?"

"The fire?"

"Yeah, you know what happened?" Gwen was silent. She didn't know what to say. She was obviously distressed.

"I'm sorry, I'm... I'm so sorry." Gwen was reduced to tears "It was just so sudden. I didn't know he would..." she was getting hysterical "... If only I was there." seeing as she was breaking down, Garret interrupted.

"It's ok, it's not your fault. You didn't know. If you were there you would have died too." he blankly stated. Gwen looked up to him wiping the tears from her eyes with her arm. "Besides I know who did it..." Gwen was surprised at what she had heard. "... I saw their guild mark... Gwen?" she was paying close attention to him now. "Send a job request out for guilds to destroy this guild... Immediately."

"But which guild is it?"

"Send a job request... to destroy Fairy Tail" as Gwen left to so as he asked Garret laid back down onto the bed and stared at the ceiling, trying to keep himself awake from the nightmares.

Author's Note - AANNNDDD that's the prologue chapter, hope you guys enjoyed the first part of the story and don't forget to give any advice or criticism! Anyway i have reviewed the new entry on the sign up (yes just the one) and have received replies from the previous winners, so without further ado here are the winners and their characters.

Kayatsu Kiyoteru by Cocomint

Alistair McClellan by I Stand in Fire for the Buffs

Tomkito by Reikar

Artem Savika by GhostOfOnyx

Eron Hall by OPFan37

And last but not least, the newest winner...

Razi Bharx by Martyn

And with that I must say good day to you and again, don't forget to give criticism! See ya next time!