A/N.

Um. Okay. First Fanfic. OHMYGOD LOL. WELL HOPE YOU ENJOY. I guess. Ohyeah. If you don't enjoy random OCs then screw outta here. Ok maybe that was a little harsh but.. just.. never mind I won't babble anymore. Onto the story!

"Lucy."

Lucy looked up at the scarlet haired requip mage.

"Let's go on a job. You really need to turn in your rent soon, correct?"

Fidgeting, she nodded in agreement. 1 year ago she started doing jobs at the last moment to turn in her rent, spending the other days thinking and hoping that he would come back like nothing had happened. Her best friend and partner had disappeared, thanks to the Magic Council as Mirajane had told her the tragic events that happened while she was at her apartment. The guild had grown different, it wasn't as rowdy as before, and there were rarely any fights. Erza then slammed down the request she and Gray had decided on, and Lucy blinked at it.

"Hunt a group called the Secret Dragons... bring back alive. Reward is 1 million jewel?!"

Her jaw dropped. How was a normal class mission like this holding such a huge reward? She scanned the paper some more.

"They are a group of only as little as 4 mages, but there have been recent rumors of a 5th mage. Please be aware of anything."

Looking at it some more, Lucy just barely missed that one line at the very bottom, as this was quite an unusual request. She read it out loud, incase Erza and Gray didn't read it at all.

"Warning: They may be only 4 mages, but they are extremely powerful and definitely shouldn't be underestimated."

Natsu would love this one for sure. Lucy sighed as her thoughts drifted to him again. Gray, noticing her thoughts suddenly drifting to a different topic elsewhere, he could guess who easily, decided to break the tension in her mind.

"Well, we will go accept the request. You go pack and be at the train station by 10 AM tomorrow alright? It will take about an hour to reach the town. An extra hour in case the location is far away."

"Okay. See you tomorrow guys."

"See ya."

"Bye Lucy."

Lucy then realized Happy wasn't here at all. Well, it was probably because since it was near that 1 year mark Happy would start not appearing at the guild at all and sulking in a similar way as hers. She, for once, hoped this was going to be a good and tough challenge, she really needed some time away from thinking about him, even if in the end she never told him her feelings, as they went unnoticed by her too until he got banished from Fairy Tail.

"Dude wake up."

A girl with jet black hair poked a pink haired man consistently with persistance. Her hair reached 3 inches past her hips, and she frowned in her ice blue flannel pajamas. He muttered a few words along with a few curses back and tucked his head into his pillow. Able to hear him word for word, her eyebrow twitched. She stood up and sighed.

"Alright, you asked for it boy!"

WHACK!

...

Thud.

"C...C...Crap..." he rubbed his head, flinching from the impact. Steam was even coming out of his head from how hard she hit him with only a pillow! The jet black haired girl frowned, worried she hit him too hard and leaned down close to the back of his head to see if she accidentily left a mark or even worse, have to send him to the hospital. He smirked mentally and turned to her, then...

"Roar of the Fire Dragon!"

The girl gasped in shock, and quickly casted her own counterattack, getting over it swiftly.

"Ice Dragon's Shield!"

She smirked back at his half surprised expression.

"Na uh. It will take you alot more to surprise me, Dragneel. I'll give you credit this time, though. Had me fooled for a moment."

He snorted amusingly. Regardless of him being a fire dragon slayer and her being the exact opposite, an ice dragon slayer, they got along well as close friends, but every now and then rivalry would erupt between them. This happened on a daily basis, him trying to get her off her guard in many ways.

"I'll get it eventually, Snowskarre."

He pushed himself up as she moved away from him, walking to the dining room until she glanced behind her and saw that he was checking the date. His coal black eyes scanned the date, then his face morphed into a look of sadness before treading behind her. The woman had to do everything in her ability to not frown. It wasn't July 7 or anything, right? She was pretty sure it was just March 18th. Then she nearly tripped herself. March 18th, around the day Natsu had come to them right? Her own personal unoffical guild, Secret Dragons. She had taken him in while he was travelling through the woods as an unofficial member. Maybe he had history behind why he was travelling. Of course, all of them were all sad and boo hoo at July 7th, cause they were a small guild of all dragon slayers, even though they all personally preferred a 1st generation one. One who was taught from an actual dragon and didn't have stupid dragon lacrima placed in them. Well there was the 3rd generation, but those two guys, ah who was it... String and Roke or something like that, but they didn't qualify in the girl's book. She didn't like those 2 especially if they really killed their parents. Quickly making a note to make sure to figure things out about her fellow friend and unofficial guildmate, Natsu Dragneel, she, Icis Snowskarre, was going to figure out why in the name of Ikria was he acting like this. Then, a crash was heard, and they both stopped in their tracks.

"THAT WAS ALL YOUR FAULT!"

CRASH!

"NO, THAT WAS SO ALL YOU!"

BANG!

"NA UH, THAT WAS YOU!"

BOOM!

"YOU WERE THE ONE THAT BROKE IT!"

WHACK!

"LIES. YOU'RE THE ONE WHO BROKE THE HUGE WYVERN TOOTH!"

Natsu and Icis both blinked in unison, then the latter slowly backed away, laughing nervously as a fiery, enraged aura began to emenate around the master of Secret Dragons, slowly and dangerously. It was like she was glowing in rage, she was the biggest hoarder out of all of them when it came to souvenirs. Yes, all of them liked to collect souvenirs. And she was the one who got the most enraged when a souvenir was broken. Icis muttered some very nice words to herself before storming off to stop the people fighting. Of course, Natsu obviously knew the two fighting were Kaitlin and Terrance, the water and earth dragon slayer. After hearing some more crashes and shouts, footsteps scurried over and rushed past Natsu's own room, before the figure walked backwards to the doorframe. It was Ceren, the celestial dragon slayer, and the known subconscious seducer to them all. They were really starting to believe he was seducing on purpose, instead of his usual excuse of not knowing why they were suddenly acting like that when he did something to them. Sure, would be the usual counter now.

"Hi."

Just a simple word came from Ceren. He waved politely at Natsu before scurrying back downstairs to make it look like he was awake the whole time, so he could avoid the wrath of Icis, whom was scarier than Erza. Sometimes, it worked, but sometimes it didn't. A 50 / 50 chance on her knowing he just came down or thinking he was awake the entire time. Coming back to his senses, Natsu realized he had yet to join in on the brawl, and leapt up, charging out so that he could enter the brawl with the others, still in his sleepwear, a black T-Shirt and red boxers, but they weren't one to care about clothing around eachother. Heck, he'd experienced stuff like seeing Lucy in nothing but a bath towel! Natsu froze, thinking about her for a while, then he paused too long in mid run, resulting him in falling over, snapping him out of his daze and continued running to join in the battle.

"So... do you know why Natsu is all... you know emoish?"

Icis pouted to her friend. The other woman turned and frowned. Finally, the brawl was over, and everyone had went and changed into some normal attire after realizing every single one of them were dressed in their pajamas. They were all cleaning the mess that was made, Icis using her ice magic to piece back shattered items, spending the most time on the broken wyvern tooth, trying to get it back into tip top condition. A girl with short black hair that covered her left eye was busy cleaning anything that got dirty by spraying hot water on the stains until it came off. Terrance was using his earth dragon slayer magic to fix some holes in the walls, ceiling, and floors, but walls especially. Natsu was smelting some chipped items to make it look like nothing happened to it, or make it look better. They were all cleaning, as this was a daily routine, seeing that the whole guild often got into brawls every day. Being almost done, the water dragon slayer slowed down her pace a little to reply to Icis.

"Eh? He is? Maybe if I..."

"I don't think whacking him upside the head with those blades are gonna help."

"Um.. fine. I honestly have no idea."

"Psh. Fineee~~~"

"Shove that aside for now, Icis. There's a matter that needs attention. Well all of us but you decided it needed attention."

Icis raised an eyebrow. What was it that was so important to everyone? She always slept early because she needed to get up early and make breakfast for everyone then wake up the sleeping people. They always stayed up about 30 minutes later than her before going to sleep. The other girl with the blades scratched her hair nervously, and sighed before explaining the situation, putting a vase down and picking up a plate with dirt all over it from Terrance. She sprayed hot water over it steadily as she explained the situation.

"We discovered that a request has been put up to track all of us down, and bring us to the client. A group of mages has accepted it, and are on their way here as we speak..."

Rolling her eyes, Icis plopped down on a couch and crossed her arms while overlapping her leg over her other leg. This was way too common, so why was it so important now? She'll admit the first time they discovered this they were all nervous and panicky, but the challenges were hardly anything. So what's the problem here?

"Knowing you, your probably thinking that this isn't important at all, as we beat all our challenges. Sure, sure, but that's not exactly the case. You see, this time the challengers are from the number 1 guild Fairy Tail. You know, the former guild Natsu was in."

"We beat Sabertooth's String and Roke easily, didn't we? And- wait what Fairy Tail, former guild, Natsu?!"

Now it was her friend's turn to roll her eyes as she face palmed herself. Sometimes, really Icis can be as dense as Natsu, but she was still an amazing leader. If she even complained about Icis's leadership, she knew well that they couldn't do a better job than her.

"Okay, one, it's Sting and Rogue, not String and Roke. And two, yes Fairy Tail was Natsu's former guild. You forgot about that fact right?"

"Um... yeah... sorry."

"No no, it's cool."

"Well back to my question. What's wrong with Stri- I mean Natsu?"

"Let's think about Natsu. So he came 4 days from now, March 18th to March 22nd. We need to think about how he got here before that date, and why he ended up here. You recognized the faint mark on his right shoulder right? I knew that symbol was awfully familiar, but now that I think back to it now I'm sure its the insignia of Fairy Tail. So it's likely related to that very guild."

Icis nodded in agreement. Now that she thought of it, she always wondered about that faint mark on his right shoulder. Fairy Tail eh? She remembered when she went solo she wanted to join Fairy Tail quite badly after leaving Blue Pegasus as she didn't want to be a threat to everyone, seeing she dominated every single quest there was and was practically beyond S Class Mage level. However, the ice dragon slayer couldn't find Fairy Tail, she expected it to be a large building of some sort, but then later heard it dropped down so low it was the weakest mage guild when she started her own guild Secret Dragons and just recruited a friend that was formerly in Mermaid Heel. And that person, of course, was the same friend before her helping her with this same issue, Kaitlin. Even though this was pretty off topic in her mind, the guild mark looked pretty nice.

"Huh. I remember him telling me about these friends of his. Was it like Lushy, Erla, and Gey?"

"Your almost as horrible at remembering names as Natsu. Lucy, Erza, and Gray, yes."

"Whatever, whatever~. Anyway, we should hope that the challengers aren't those 3. It's not very probable, but I'll still hope."

"Yeah, I suppose we should-"

The sentence was interrupted when a loud bang was heard outside. The 2 simutaneously muttered a few curses under their breath rapidly, except Icis spoke a bunch of really bad profanities in the dragon language her dragon Ikria taught her swiftly in one breath. It was so fast the only words her friend could understand were common insulting profanities about time passing too fast, the other small amount she understood she wasn't going to bother to speak up about. Everyone in the Secret Dragons were well aware that when Icis was peeved she rapidly spoke many profanities in dragon language under her breath, she'd have a hard time saying profanities out loud due to her mother whacking her head with her icy cold tail when Icis cursed out loud. It was quite... intriguing. Sometimes whenever someone spoke way too many profanities out loud, Icis would do similar and hit whoever over the head, as adapted from her mother. She let them curse whenever, but she drew her line when it was literally 4 profanities at a time in one sentence. They rushed out the door together and saw 3 people. A blonde, a scarlet haired woman clad in armor, and a guy who apparently was stripping off his shirt. Icis frowned. That was new. A male stripper. Bursing out the doors came the other 2 official members, ready for battle as they stood next to her prepared. Suddenly Icis remembered how Natsu described the people to her one day, when he told her about the guild he was formerly in.

FLASHBACK

"Hey Natsu what's that?"

Icis pointed at a mark on his right shoulder. It looked like a red fairy with a tail to her. Thinking about it a little, she figured that it was probably a guild mark or something, like their own. Icis's own guild mark of her guild was in the middle between her left thigh and knee. Natsu opened his mouth, then firmly shut it as he covered it with his hand, standing up as he began to walk away.

"It's nothing."

He spoke, as if he forced himself to say it without his voice cracking in sorrow. Icis could smell salty tears that threatened to fall. What was it that made him crack up so easily? Having no choice but to press him even further on the topic, Icis pushed on.

"That sure doesn't look like nothing to me. Tell me, Natsu. What is that?"

Natsu stopped in his tracks, his back turned to Icis, who sat on the couch, leaning forward in curiosity and worry for her fire breathing friend. Her icey blue eyes radiated her determination to get to the bottom of this, looking at his turned back even if he wasn't even facing her. Sighing, Natsu turned around to face the master of Secret Dragons, and Icis was shocked at the sight. His eyes were filled with hopelessness and sadness, and the usual expressions of carefree happiness he wore was wiped right off the face of the Natsu. Now it was seriously bringing Icis down in the dumps. It was tempting to pass off the topic as nothing, but she had to know what was that.

"My former guild. Fairy Tail."

Icis took the information in and nodded, understanding the pain of leaving a guild. They all had. Ceren, however, was unknown. Her, the ice dragon slayer, had left from Blue Pegasus after being discriminated by other members due to her being out of place, hating flirting, not being one of those chicks with the huge bust, etc. She just stood out too much and was too out of place that she began being discriminated against. Master Bob was one of the few who treated her like a real human being. Even though it was the most unlikely, the Trimen and Ichiya were the only other people who had treated her like how Master Bob did. The Water Dragon Slayer. She left Mermaid Heel, being degraded by her guild members aswell, for being overly destructive and never really had any ties with any of the guild members. From what she had told Icis, no one went on jobs with her because she'd always destroy the pay for every mission, and being an S Class Mage didn't help. As for the earth dragon slayer, he left Lamia Scale and was infamous for being extreme and not sharing the same tastes as everyone else. Preferring to take things the extreme way, recklessly jumping out to the front lines even when told not to, heck 8 years ago when he was only 10 he had nearly charged off to follow Jura, Lyon, and Sherry to fight Oracion Seis. For a 10 year old he was powerful anyway, but he got caught and sent back before he could get in the carriage. Again, no one knew about Ceren, what guild he came from, or whatever. They just found him fighting off an ambush without a guild mark on him at all while the team was travelling. So Natsu was from Fairy Tail eh? She foolishly never thought about 8 years ago of the rumors of the "Salamander" in Fairy Tail, who used a rare type of fire magic and blew everything up and bla bla bla. Now thinking about those rumors, she was only 10 when she found a Weekly Sorcerer magazine and found out a Salamander dude. Icis vividly remembered that he became her idol fast after hearing all the stories about him. Her intention was to become like Salamander, but 5 years later when she started to become known as the Ice Maiden or something she had decided to follow her own path. He was still her idol though. Until 3 years later, she actually got THE Salamander himself to join her own guild, well unofficially when she started to get suspicious of the guild mark that she never bugged him about until now. When she got him to travel with her guild then, they became close friends instead of having him as her idol. Before creating Secret Dragons she had always wanted to join Fairy Tail, but after hearing how low the guild had dropped... yeah.

"How was the guild?"

His sad frown turned into a smile of reminiscing and sorrow, one of lost happiness whom's memories would always remain in his heart.

"It was fun. Always like a party."

Then he went to describing what Fairy Tail was like to Icis, as she listened intently, every now and then making a comment to help him keep up his strength of explaining everything to her. Eventually, he started describing his friends at Fairy Tail, before coming to 3 certain people.

"And I was also friends with a raven haired stripper. He uses Ice Make magic, and strips. Plus he's a little ice princess. He had this scar above his eyebrow after we did an S Class Mission without permission, I think it was from battling this silver haired dude named Lyon. Then there was a woman with scarlet hair. She wears armor alot and is always in freaking charge, and I don't get how I keep LOSING against her..! Well she uses requip magic too.."

Icis giggled at his statement of losing against this person.

"The last one is... a blonde. She uses these key guys or whatever to fight and also uses this whip thingy. Her clothes are usually... very... what's the word for like, short or whatever?"

"...I believe it's skimpy."

"Yeah skimpy, I don't really mean to say anything offensive and all, but I can't find another word to describe it. For some reason I always felt weird around her anyway. Weird feeling in my stomach all the time. And she ties her hair like this!"

He took a hairband from the glass table, then gathered up part of his hair on the right and tied it, showing her what it looked like for a moment, in which Icis laughed at how silly he looked. After she got a good idea of what the blonde's hair looked like, he took it off.

"What were their names?"

She asked politely. He slightly stood up straighter, and Icis assumed that these people were really close to him, seeing that he was happy when they talked about these 3 people.

"Ah, Gray,Erza, and Lucy."

"I see..."

She looked at her friend with a wide eyed expression. They matched the description he gave her months ago just perfectly. Marvelous. Just MARVELOUS. The people they least hoped to see come popping out like nothing was wrong with that. Natsu then came barging out, kicking the door open, flames burning with passion in his hands. All the other members of the Secret Dragons cringed. The fire dragon slayer froze, staring wide eyed at the next set of opponents. There they were, against 3 of Natsu's closest friends, about to battle them. How would this play out, as Natsu is here right now?

That's all kthxbai. LOL NO. So yeah. Ahem. That was so short, seriously. In my opinion. - Shame on self - Now. I... don't know what to say here? Like, dislike? ANY HELPFUL CRITICISM WILL BE GREAT THOUGH!