Hey, people! Thank you for reading this. It's my first fan fiction, so please excuse me if I got something wrong and please remind me of it if you review.

Unfortunately I will have to present a disclaimer, since I do not own these two wonderful Mangas, just this story line.

So, enjoy, enjoy and please review!

(Plus, I updated this chapter to make it less... grammer-fying? well, horrifying, anyway. Thanks for reading!)

Chapter 1

"Remind me why we're on a boat, again?" Natsu asked, getting sick over the side.

Gray made a miniature ice figure with his magic. "Only because someone chose this stupid request." He glared at the blond sitting a few meters away.

"I said I was sorry!" Lucy muttered. It had been like this during all of the on this boat the way back. Natsu puking and Gray glowering. Just great.

And exhausting.

Sitting next to Lucy, Wendy spoke up nervously, Carla hovering at her elbow. "Don't worry, Lucy-san! Everyone is just a bit on the edge because he request was so hard when everyone thought it was so simple. And it turns out that because of it, someone might be after us!"

Lucy smiled weakly at Wendy. 'Not that it really makes me feel better', she thought sadistically.

Just then, Erza spun around, her face red - in fact, the same scarlet as her hair - with rage (It might've been funny if it hadn't been so terrifying). "Shut Up!" She shouted. It was one of the few times when people saw her rage. Including when people messed with her cake.

Instantly, everyone zipped their mouths. No one wanted to cross Erza. Especially when she was in such a foul mood.

Suddenly, they heard noise from the ship's interior behind them. Noise of destruction.

Which could only mean one thing. "Everyone, move out!" Erza ordered.

"Aye!" Both Happy and Natsu cried out, fighting obviously taking precedence over motion sickness. Gray and Wendy followed the other two, Lucy picking up the rear.

Inside the ship, they saw amidst the destruction a tall, well-built man with a scar across his left eye. "Well, well, well..." he said, smirking at the five-man team (Not counting the cats). "Fairy tail. I was looking for you." In his hand, he held a huge war hammer, big enough to crush Happy with one swing.

Fairy tail's so called 'strongest team' glared at him.

Regardless, he continued. "Erza Scarlet. Titania. I've heard about you, you know? In the underworld, they say you're not all you're cranked up to be. Then there's you, Natsu Dragneel. What can I say...? An idiot." Fire, far brighter than any before, burned in Natsu's eyes.

The man turned to Gray. "Gray Fullbuster. Ul would really be ashamed to know that her prized pupil almost lost to memory magic." Gray gritted his teeth at the sore reminder of the grand magic games a few months ago.

"Then only weaklings and exceeds left." The enemy turned to Erza. "Couldn't you do better?"

Gray turned to Natsu. "Wanna beat the crap out of this guy?"

Natsu cracked his knuckles. "Let's teach him what happens to bastards who mess with fairy tail!"

"Don't do it!" Erza cried out from behind them, strangely apprehensive of the enemy.

Not listening to her, the two launched a volley of attacks.

"Ice make lance!"

"Fire dragon's roar!"

The beautiful, yet surprisingly united attack rushed at the man, its power magnified from when it started. However, before the attacks reached him, he vanished from his position.

The seven looked around in surprise. Then the man's voice came from behind them. "It would've hit me, you know. If it hadn't been so slow. Drunk with power, it seems!" The man gave a short laugh. The fairy tail members spun around, save Lucy, whose head was bent as far back as it could go, a shining knife at her throat.

"Hey! Let go of Lucy!" Natsu yelled.

"You try to protect others when you can't even protect yourselves?! At this rate, my clockwork soldiers won't even suffer a scratch by your hands!"

"Never heard of them," Natsu scowled- no, growled.

The man raised an eyebrow. "No? Well, you better remember it. Soon it will be one of the most famous guilds in the world!" He grinned manically.

Erza stepped forward, clad in fairy armor. No one even knew when she had requipped, but no one was surprised. "Who are you?" She asked, sending glares to the boys.

"Hmmm... you can call me 'Ram'. Cool code-name, don't you think?"

"Why are you targeting us, Mr. Ram?" Erza continued.

Ram looked thoughtful. "I'm not really targeting you fairies specifically. You're just one of the good guys, aren't you? But I guess I'll let you go this time. I mean, considering some of you - And I don't just mean the exceeds - haven't even discovered their whole potential yet." Smiling confidently, the man disappeared in a poof of smoke. Or rather, a flash of lightening, then a poof of smoke.

Then suddenly the boat lurched, and Natsu ran out. Lucy's watery eyes dried too, as she saw the rest walk to the deck with faces of barely controlled anger.

Lucy sighed. The day had gone just so well.

It took them almost half an hour to reach the shore after they calmed down the people riding on the ship. When the ship stopped, Natsu leapt out... straight towards the sea.

"Natsu!" His partner yelled, his back sprouting wings as he ran after him.

Before help could reach him, Natsu crashed into an unsuspecting black haired boy with a scar under his eye. Both of them fell into the water, rocking the boat on which the stranger's orange haired female companion was sitting. Thankfully, because of a convenient wind, it stayed happily afloat.

Not that anyone from fairy tail - on the ship - cared, with Natsu's predicament and all.

After all, Natsu was fire, the total opposite of water. For one.

Add motion sickness, and you get the whole package deal.

A drowning Natsu.

"HEY!" Suddenly, the orange haired girl's shout broke through their thoughts. Everyone looked at her (Except the drowning ones, obviously. But who can blame them?). "Can someone at least help me with them? I can only drag one of them!"

Gray moved first. "I'll go. As much as I hate to say it, I'll miss fighting with the flame-brain if he dies." He leapt into the water after the girl, once again showing his miraculous instant stripping techniques.

Beneath the water, Gray grabbed the black haired boy, who was closer to him and the girl dove after the pinkette.

It took seconds for the two to reach the sand, carrying the heavy 'baggage'.

As the rest of the fairy tail members crowded around, Virgo appeared with a stack of towels. "As you asked for, princess."

Lucy smiled warmly. "Thank you, Virgo."

"Punishment time, Princess?"

A vague look of irritation and endearment crossed her owner's face. "Not today. I've got people to help." She gestured to the sputtering-after-almost-drowning pair. And the rescuers.

Bowing, Virgo disappeared.

Walking over to the wet people, Lucy gave a dry towel to Gray, then headed over to the mysterious girl who sat next to her companion, her back to Lucy.

The latter tapped on her shoulder. "Here." She said, offering her a fluffy white towel."

The girl looked gratefully at her. "Thanks."

"No problem. Here's one for your friend." She handed her another towel.

"For Luffy? Thanks again!" the girl carefully draped the towel over Luffy's body. "By the way, I'm Nami."

"I'm Lucy. Nice to meet you."

"Same here." Then she saw that pink haired Natsu was still dripping. "Aren't you going to give your friend a towel?"

Lucy looked meaningfully at Natsu. "Nah. He doesn't need it." Just as she said that, Natsu's body burst into flames.

Nami almost scrambled back in surprise. "D… did he eat the Mera Mera No Mi?!" She asked frantically.

Lucy raised an eyebrow. "The Mera Mera No Mi? What's that?"

Before Nami could answer, though, the black-haired boy, Luffy, sprang to life. "Hey! Where's the guy who pushed me?! I wanna give him a good beating up!"

Lucy bit her lip. "I… uh… don't think you can…," she stuttered.

Regardless, from a few meters away, Natsu perked up, having heard what was going on. "Fine with me!" he said, running over. "I was in the mood for a fight anyway!"

Both Lucy and Nami groaned in unison. "Boys…," They said simultaneously. Then they looked at each other, surprised.

And burst out laughing.

"You too?" Lucy asked incredulously.

"What can I say? Boys will be boys where ever they are! But thankfully, I've got Robin back at the ship. Lucky for you, seems like you've got a lot of girl-friends."

"I wouldn't be so sure to call them girls yet. Though they are progressing!"

"Heh!" Nami giggled.

In front of them, the fight started with a barrage of attacks. From both sides. The loud noise, and they weren't the only one's watching.

In a few seconds, when both the parties' attacks had proved useless, Luffy decided to get a little serious. As did Natsu.

"Gear second! Gomu Gomu no red Hawk!"

"Fire dragon's king demolition fist!"

Nami and Lucy sighed and turned their gazes to look at the increasing number of people in the crowd.

"Guess we better stop them." Lucy said.

Nami smirked. "Yeah. Don't want the beach destroyed."

Looking around at the Hargeon port, Lucy smiled as her first memory with Natsu popped up. "Trust me. I've seen it in rubble before."

However, they didn't have to move at all.

The attacks clashed in the middle. As the attackers staggered back, everyone saw Erza standing in the middle, fully defended by the adamantine armor with not a single scratch on it (though that wasn't a surprise). Her glare sent shivers down the fairy tail group, plus Luffy and Nami.

And it sent the crowd running in all directions away from her.

"Now," she said, requipping into her normal armor. "Why don't we start to introduce ourselves, as a sign of good faith?" everyone gulped, than nodded. "Good. I am Erza Scarlet, an S-class mage from Fairy tail, currently Fiore's strongest guild. My magic is requipping."

Luffy and Nami looked confused, but then, Gray spoke up. "Gray Fullbuster. An ice mage from the same guild."

Next was Wendy. "I… I am Wendy Marvel. I am a sky dragon slayer and I also belong to fairy tail. Pleased to meet you…"

Before Carla could introduce herself, Natsu butted in. "I'm Natsu Dragneel, Fairy tail's fire dragon slayer." He showed off his guild mark. "That was a great fight you put up!" he added, looking at Luffy.

"Shishishihshi! I could say the same for you!" Luffy answered, laughing.

"Ahem." Everyone turned to look at the white exceed. "There are still introductions left."

Luffy's eyes bulged, while Nami merely looked a bit surprised.

"Woah! A talking cat!" He cried out.

Sighing, Carla continued. "I am Carla, an exceed. Like Wendy here," she said haughtily, "I also belong to Fairy tail. I must say, though I hold many of its aspects in high regards, others… not so much."

Nami chuckled as the next one stepped forward. "I'm Happy, Natsu's partner. I belong to Fairy tail, too, and I can fly!" To prove it, he leapt up into the air, taking help from his cat-sized wings. "I also looove fish!" He added.

Only Lucy was left from the Fairy tail group after that. "I am Lucy Heartfilia and I'm a celestial mage of Fairy tail."

Nami spoke up after that. "I'm Nami, also known widely as the cat-burglar. I'm the navigator of the straw-hat's crew."

Luffy grinned his signature goofy smile. "And I'm Luffy. Monkey D. Luffy, the man who will become the Pirate king!"

Gray's eyes widened slightly. "Pirates…? So you pillage, raid and spread terror?"

"Nah." Nami replied, shrugging it off. "Our pirate crew is mostly about adventure and following our dreams."

Erza smiled tightly. "Well, then, you may mingle, since I have an urgent matter to talk about to Gray and Natsu."

Natsu looked confused. "You do?"

Gray rolled his eyes. "Just come on, Squinty eyes!"

When they were a safe distance away, Lucy folded her hands and remarked, "Well, that was weird."

"True…"Nami said, examining her finger nails.

"So…" Lucy said in an attempt to ward off the awkwardness. "What kind of magic do you use?"

On a safer topic once again, Nami smiled. "What I use isn't magic. It's science, with which I can manipulate weather."

Lucy was impressed. "Cool."

"So tell me about your magic. You said you were a celestial wizard, but I'm quite sure I don't know who they are."

"Well…" Lucy fiddled with her key ring on which all her keys hung. Then she showed it to the other girl. "Celestial spirit magic is utilized by having these keys. Each key corresponds to a specific spirit from another dimension, and the celestial wizards call them here and form a contract with them which allows them to use their powers. The gold ones," she continued, fingering the zodiac keys. "Are called the zodiac keys, and are the most powerful, as far as we know. They are twelve and I possess ten of them. Well, actually, there is a thirteenth, which another celestial wizard I know possesses, along with the last two."

Nami looked awed. "What do the silver ones do?" She asked after a moment.

Lucy looked at her keys and smiled. "They are less powerful than the gold keys, but the amount of power a key has depends on the spirit power of its owner, so I don't think they are less than gold keys in ways that matter. Ah! Do you want to see one?" She added excitedly.

Nami's eyes brightened. "Why would you think no?"

Lucy laughed. "Then I'll call out one of the silver keys. I've been wanting to try it out for a while."

Smiling, she pulled out a key with a symbol of a bat. "This one has several abilities, ranging from sneak attacks to eavesdropping." She got a sinister look on her face. "Which I mean to do."

Nami smirked. "You really are cool."

"Thanks." Lucy answered, and pushed the key into the air, a light enveloping it. "Open, gate of the Night Hunter, the Bat!"

When the light cleared a little, the spectators saw a bat which hadn't been there before. It was the same as every other bat… yet different at the same time.

"What may I do for you, princess?" It asked in its scratchy, gravelly voice.

"I would like you to relay the conversation of my friends who just walked off." Lucy said with certainty.

Wendy looked horrified. "Lucy-san! We shouldn't spy on them! It's rude."

"Come on, Wendy!" Nami spoke up. "I'm bored, and I want to listen too. What else would you have us do? Follow those buffoons?!" She asked, gesturing to Luffy chasing Happy, who was flying for his life.

Just then the bat nodded. "As you wish, princess. I have already tapped in to their conversation."

It took less than a second for the voices to be transmitted through the bat to the odd group – now that Luffy and Happy had stopped chasing and being chased (respectively).

The first voice they heard was Erza's. "This team is weak. I vote for this team from now on to be disbanded."