A/N: Hey guys! How are you? I hope you enjoy this first chapter! This is a collaboration with my good friend For Which There Is Reason; check her out! She also has this story on her profile, If you all have not read my other fanfic, Ice Make Sibling, then you don't know that Crystal belongs to me. This first chapter might seem a bit short and quite un-plotty, but don't worry, things will speed up and lengthen out soon!

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Chapter One

The guild hall of Fairy Tail was unusually quiet today, the lack of a certain pink haired Dragon Slayer taking away some of the guild's normal spunk.

Crystal Fullbuster walked into the guild, excited for a new day. She quickly noticed it was calmer than normal and took a look around. Spotting familiar spiky, raven hair, she immediately walked across the guild hall. "Gray!"

Looking up from the magazine before him, Gray smiled warmly. "Hey, Crys." He said as his adopted sister took the seat across from him and leaned back into it comfortably.

"So, what's up? It's quieter then normal. I know something's missing, but I can't quite put my finger on it." She said in return.

Gray chuckled slightly, "The Flamebrain isn't here, if that's what you mean." He said warmly, having seen Natsu leave for a mission that very morning.

Crystal blinked, then looked around again, not seeing any sign of the pinkette. She laughed and turned back to Gray, "Yeah that definitely explains it. So got any plans for today?"

Gray shrugged, trying to hide a smile as he replied. "I was thinking about taking a mission, other then that not really." He said, turning his smile into his shirt sleeve.

As expected,

Crystal's dark blue eyes sparkled at the word 'mission', "Ooo! Can I come? I've been extra bored these past few days." she said as she looked expectantly at the older raven.

Gray made a considering face. "I dunno. None of them really NEED two people..." Crystsl's face immediately became a pout. "Oh come on! There has to be at least one." She whined, "Pleeeeeaaaaaase?"

Gray's face broke into a grin as he reached across the table to ruffle her raven hair. "I was just pulling your leg. Here." He chuckled, sliding a small slip of paper out from under the magazine ad pushing it to her.

Crystal sent a small glare at Gray before she smiled and read the flyer.

(A) Witch Hunters

7,000,000 j

Our town has been brought down by the ever present Witch plague. These creatures have been attacking families all over the town, even in broad daylight! And kidnappping children. My people are grieving and we need some strong mages to find these witches and return the children to use; alive.

-Tarkota Maruhma. Mayor of Mina Town

"Wow, 7,000,000 jewel. Sounds pretty good to me, I wonder how many witches they've got. Shall I run this by Mira?" Crystal said.

Gray smiled and shook his head, "Already have. We can go whenever your majesty is ready."

Crystal crossed her arms and smirked. "Well. Looks like you ha this all planned out. But what if I didn't want to go? You would have been all by yourself." Gray shrugged in mock-nonchalence. "I guess I would have just found someone else, or gone by myself."

"It's so sad how easily you replaced me." Crystal said, feigning sadness as she smiled at her elder brother. "Alright. I'll going to go home and pack. We should be going in a day or so, yeah?"

Gray nodded, "I was planning to leave tomorrow. The noon train." He supplied, still smiling from his success in teasing her.

"Noon sounds good since I hate early mornings." Crystal placed her elbow on the table and placed her chin in her hand. She looked around and saw that the guild hall was now more empty than before. "I think this is the emptiest I've seen the guild, its kinda depressing."

Gray nodded, "I know, kinda the reason I picked that train." he said with a smile before glancing around the guild. "Yeah. It feels kinda empty, doesn't it?"

"Yeah. Time to make it emptier." She replied as she stood and stretched, "You staying here?" He shook his head, "Nah, I need to pack, train, shower..." he trailed off as a yawn forced itself onto his lips, "...sleep."

Crystal giggled,"Yeah that"s probably a good idea. We need energy to fight, and you need to be awake on the train ride so we can strategize." she said poking his arm.

Gray smiled slightly, "Yeah yeah, I know." he said, standing and stretching his arms above his head. Crystal smiled back, "Come on, let's boot it."

The very next afternoon, Gray walked into the train station with his pack slung over one shoulder. Stopping on the platform, he shielded his eyes against the sun as he started looking for his sister.

A shout drew his attention, making him turn to see a familiar raven walking towards him. Smiling, Gray walked to meet his sister. "Hey, you ready to go?" He asked warmly, reaching out a hand to ruffle her long hair.

Crystal nodded, "Yeah, I'm ready." She grinned before ducking away from his hand. "Why do you insist on doing that?" She asked, smoothing her hair back down.

Gray grinned, "Because you don't like it, and that's what brothers are for." He said before turning and beginning to walk towards the train.

Crystal pouted and crossed her arms, "Maybe I should wear my hair up like yours, then you wouldn't be able to mess it up."

Gray simply chuckled as he stepped onto the train. "Nah. I'd still mess it up." Crystal raised an eyebrow, "How? If you ruffled it it would make any difference." She said as she placed her bag in the overhead compartment and took the outside seat.

Gray simply smiled, flicking his wrist with a shower of frost flakes. Crystal frowned at him before smirking, "So, back to the mission. How many witches do you think there are in the town?"

Gray shrugged, "They normally move in a pack, so if say five or six. Not too many but enough that we'll still need to be careful." He said as the train slowly started moving.

"Right. The mayor will probably know the pattern they've been attacking in, so we should go see him first. Any ideas on how we capture them?" Crystal said as she read the mission flyer again.

"If the mayor knows where they're coming from we might be able to track them down and corner them, they normally hole up in a cave or something like that. Depends what the mayor says." Gray replied, leaning an arm on the small armrest beside him.

"Yeah. But there's always the chance they could find out about our presence and try and ambush us, or rampage the town while we're there, so we should keep our guard up at all times." Crystal nodded.

Gray smiled, "Always." He said simply before a wide yawn broke free of his lips and he smiled slightly sheepishly. Crystal narrowed her eyes at him suspiciously, "How much sleep did you get?"

Gray rubbed his eyes with the palms of his hands, shifting away from her sheepishly as he made a "so-so" gesture with his hand. Crystal sighed. "You were already tired yesterday and you were supposed to sleep. What happened?"

Gray shrugged, smothering another yawn with his hand, "Nothing. I just...couldn't sleep." He said, wincing at his own lame excuse.

Crystal sighed, "Whatever, you do what you want. Since we still have some time before we arrive, you could take a nap. Just do you." She said as she crossed her arms, leaned back, and closed her eyes.

Gray was already dozing off, one arm propped up on the arm of his seat to hold his chin while his eyes fluttered shut and his breathing evened out into sleep. Crystal cracked open an eye to see her brother asleep, she smiled then closed her eye again, starting to doze off herself.

~Chapter End~