I re-did the prologue, hope it's better now.

Prologue

(Re-written Prologue)

Mavis Vermillion was a famous thief and she was known as the Elder of thieving because she would rescue fellow thieves when they got caught, provided a hide out for them, and was called the best thief of the century. She was well known not just to thieves but to bounty hunters, mercenaries, guards and civilians. In fact, she had friends that were bounty hunters and mercenaries, they were called Precht, Warrod Sequen, and Yuri Dreyar, Yuri was a bounty hunter while Precht and Warrod Sequen were mercenaries.

Yuri, Precht, and Warrod had met and become friends before they encountered Mavis. They met Mavis when she was trying to steal a jewel that was a heirloom for a family. Yuri was trying to catch her because she had one of the biggest bounty on her head and Precht and Warrod were hired as guards for the heirloom. Mavis never kept it a secret of what she going to steal, because she wanted it to be a challenge so she always left a card giving a hint of where she was going to strike next.

The three of them caught her or as much as she was going to allow herself to be caught, and Yuri challenged her to a game confident he was going to win because he was going against a mere child. She was young when she started being a thief. As it turned out, Yuri lost and so Mavis left with the jewel, Yuri got shouted at but then Mavis was waiting at the place they had been staying at and proposed a plan to get money. The plan was that the people she would be stealing from would hire Precht and Warrod by saying they had caught her once already. Yuri would help out by pretending to go after her. They reluctantly accepted the proposal and formed Fairy Tail, the safe haven for thieves.

Zeref was a guard who had caught several notorious thieves and was determined to catch Mavis in particular. He was the first guards to catch on to Mavis's scheme with the three new friends she had made and so he started going after them as well but Mavis made sure they didn't caught. After all they were her nakuma, she wasn't going to allow them to get caught on watch. Zeref wasn't very social so he didn't have many friends but he did have a younger brother who he cared for dearly.

Zeref had met Mavis before she became a thief and they had been the best of friends or at least Zeref had thought so. Now he wasn't sure, she had backstabbed him when she became a thief because she had known that he was a guard. And it was a guard's duty to catch criminals which included thieves. So he chased her out of revenge and out of his guards duty and he finally caught her.

He caught her when she ran out of Fairy Tail crying saying that it was her fault Rita died, she had wanted to take the job even though Rita pregnant. Zeref followed her curious about what she was talking about, however she knew he was there and so she asked him to come out. He does asking why she was crying. She responds by saying that Yuri's wife died because of the stress of the job that Mavis had wanted to do and so when she gave birth afterwards she died. And it was all her fault.

Zeref didn't like her crying and blaming herself for something that wasn't her fault so he kissed her, and since he was obliged to capture her or kill her, he picked the one that would stop her pain and her crying, the latter. He killed her with his sword that had killed many criminals just like her, he thought as he cried over the loss of his best friend, lover, and the first person who understood him for who he was. When Zeref realized he was crying, he wondered why he was crying, all while a part of him was still grieving her death.

Zeref grew a hatred for Elders and their villages where it was perfect. The guards he worked with became worried and afraid of him because he would have moments where it was like his sanity was no longer there. Soon after they appeared, there were scarcely any days where he didn't have an episode.

Guards eventually tried to arrest him when he murdered an Elder right in front of several other guards. (Keyword) tried, they did not succeed, and instead he escaped and killed two of the seven guards. After that he vanished and Elders began die out…

Thieves and guards

The house was quiet except for an occasional creak of a loose floorboard. A grandfather clock dinged for midnight and, as it had been planned yesterday, a small slimmed shaped human slipped in the house. The human slipped in by a window right next to the the clock that way the person could here when it was time to start the robbery.

That person was named Levy McGarden. She was a notorious thief who was well known to steal the most expensive jewelry and for some reason unknown to people books. Only her closest friends knew why she stole them and they weren't about to betray her so it would stay that way.

As she was walking down the hall to the safe, her foot stepped on a loose floorboard.

Creak.

Luckily, as she was told by friends several times a day, she was short and did not weigh much so the creak wasn't loud enough to wake the people in the house. But she knew it was no reason to get careless so she stayed sharp for the remainder of the heist. That was the only incident that happened that night.

"Hey, levy! Let me guess it went smoothly." Said Lucy as she walked up to me with a grin on her face. She was my best friend and we trusted each other so much we had done a couple of the best robberies known in this world.

" If it hadn't, I wouldn't be here would I, Lucy." I responded with a smirk.

" Guess so" she replies with a sigh, "not everyone's as good as you are, Levy."

I frowned we had gotten over the jealous stage a while back so what had brought it back.

" I know but what brought this back up, Lucy?" I ask hoping to get a straight answer.

"Nothing much" replied Lucy. I narrow my eyes ,but I let it go she'll tell me what's bothering her eventually. "So tell me what did you steal and who were the lucky people?" She said with a mischievous glint in her eyes and the wide grin was back on her pretty face. I can't help but smile back. " When we get to a safer place" I promise. We were in the middle of town and they were a couple of guards standing guard the market stalls around us.

When we finally arrive to the 'safe place' it was midday and I was starving. Our safe place was called Fairy tail because nobody knows if fairy's have tails. So it worked for us nobody knows where our safe place is or if it even exists. The legendary thief Mavis had created it as a safe haven and nobody ever found out that is where the thieves like me hung out. It was a decent sized building that had a faded sign and some of the wood was rotting but it wouldn't collapse very easily considering all the fights we have inside.

Lucy walks off to meet her partner Nastu who was the most ridiculous thief ever but he has only been caught a couple of times. But since he's so dense the guards always think he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Which works out for him and us because then they don't think of interrogating him for information. I sigh, I don't know how Lucy can handle him, I know I couldn't.

While Lucy walks off, I go to our makeshift bar/diner and sit down on one of the stools.

"Hey, Mira!" I greet the white haired barmaid," could I get some lemonade and some bread."

" Coming right to see you, levy, did you pull a difficult one? Meet anyone I should know about?" She asks with a scary glint in her eyes. I shrink back.

"No there's no one" once she smiles a normal smile I respond to her first question.

"It was a mediocre one, you know how it is."

"That's good" she says with a knowing smile handing me my lemonade and bread.

"Hey can I have some too, Mira?" Says Lucy who had come back after telling Natsu to stop fighting Gray. Mira nods and turns around to go get the lemonade and bread.

"So tell me the details of the job you did, Levy," she asks once Mira's gone.

"I stole the first edition copy of the last Harry Potter which was held at the Duke's house. It was surprisingly easy but then not a lot of people protect their books as much as there jewelry. Thought there was one close call..." I drag it out to make it more dramatic and it works Lucy is leaning in to make sure hears what happen. "When I stepped on a loose floorboard but I was light enough for it not to creak to loud."

"Your way to lucky for your own good, one day you're going to to get careless so be careful," Mira says bringing the lemonade and bread for Lucy making both me and Lucy jump in surprise. That's the thing, Mira was one of the best thieves at Fairy tail but after her younger sister Lisanna got caught on a heist they did together, she stopped. However, she still walked very lightly so most of the time you couldn't hear her.

" I have to agree with Mira on this one Levy," Lucy says sympathetically and then all of a sudden her face is stern and worried, "Also Levy there's a new guard commander and he dead set on catching you. I asked around and people say he's caught some of grimore hearts thieves and a tartaros thief. " Mira's face had become worried too while listening to Lucy talk.

" What's his name?" I ask.

" Gajeel," this time it's Mira who answers.

In the guards building, the new commander sneezes while looking over a list of a stolen property stolen by a certain thief.

"Sir, the thief has struck again." A breathless guard said, it was obvious he had run all the way here to say that.

The commander cursed under his breath but still asked," what was stolen and what time did it occur at?"

" The stolen object was a first edition of the last book in the series of Harry Potter and it occurred somewhere around midnight,sir."

"You are dismissed." Replied Gajeel who once the guard had left added the book to the list he had been staring at.

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