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"Are you sure she wasn't there?" Natsu asked as he slammed his beer mug on the counter.
"Positive," Macao said, "We searched and searched all over Tenroujima and we found all of you, the only we couldn't find was Lucy."
Natsu wiped his mouth with his hand, "Well, then I'm going in after her!"
Natsu stood up and was about to run, but someone pulled him by his scarf back to his seat, momentarily cutting off his air supply.
"What the hell was that fo-, oh hey, Erza!" Natsu coughed out.
"Relax Natsu, just because we didn't find her doesn't mean any clues weren't found." Erza reported, "The second search party just came back and near the east side of the island they detected a fading magic footprint. Levi is analyzing it as we speak. So far, she believes it to be either Time, Teleportation, or Dimensional Magic, or a combination of the three, we're not sure."
"Great!" Natsu exclaimed and jumped over to see Levi. Erza sighed as Natsu got into a fight with Gajeel, who had also been looking over Levi's shoulders. But before Erza could deliver one of her infamous punishments, Levi squealed, "I got it! I figured it out!"
All eyes on her, she proceeded to explain, "It's some type of dimensional rift that is closed right now. It opens up at intervals, but right now we don't know when the next one is so we can't rely on that. But with the information Freed gathered and studied, I think I can open it up again."
"Seriously? Awesome!" Natsu yelled.
"Aye!" shouted his ever-excited Exceed.
"Wait a minute. What if this dimensional rift thing was just a conincidence? What Lucy isn't in some other dimension? Then what?" asked Gray.
"The boy makes a good point," agreed Wakaba.
"Well that's just a chance we'll have to take. Plus, if Freed and I work together, we might be able to make runes that bring whoever goes, back." Levi said, frowning.
"Okay Levi, you get started on those runes." Makarov said, "Now we just need volunteers for our search party. Natsu, I'm not even going to ask if you want to go, I know the answer's a 'yes'."
Natsu nodded happily.
"I will also assume that your entire team wants to go also?" Makarov said.
Erza and Happy ecstatically nodded, Gray wasn't so keen, but after a quick punch from Erza, he was whooping all over the place.
"Anymore volunteers?" Makarov asked.
Gajeel raised his hand, but no one else did.
"Pfft, Gajeel actually wants to save someone?" Natsu laughed, "I couldn't even imagine how I would react if someone like Gajeel came to my rescue."
"Shut up hothead," yelled Gajeel.
Makarov facepalmed at as the idiocy spread like wildfire.
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(4 Days Later)
"Are you all ready?" Levi asked. As everyone nodded, she gestured to the portal contraption standing next to her, "When I say so, you must walk through here, got it. Once you find Lucy, say these enchantments that Freed wrote out and all of you will be transported back here. But make sure you are all together at that ime, though, otherwise people will get left behind, understood."
Everyone nodded and Erza accpted the piece of paper.
"This is gonna be awesome!" Natsu exclaimed.
"Aye!" agreed Happy.
"I wonder what's on the other side?" Gray mused, hand on his chin.
"Ready, everyone? Ok. Ready, set, walk through now!" Levi commanded.
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The first thing Gray noticed when he woke up was that he was lying on the ground and bottom of a boot pressed up against the left side of his face. As the grogginess dissipated, he also noticed the boot belonged to an extremely tall woman, with her jacket nearly opened all the way, who was currently pointing a what appeared to be a gun at him.
"I'm only going to say this one more time. Who. Are. You." She enunciated.
"Maybe, if you didn't step on my face, I could actually talk," Gray snapped as he pushed the woman's foot off his face. He stood up and dusted off his...chest? "Crap, where's my shirt?"
"Here," the woman threw his shirt at him, "It was lying on the ground."
Gray nodded in thanks. As he put on his shirt, he actually began to take notie of the woman. She was definitely tall, much taller than himself at least. Gray didn't know if that was normal in this area or if it was just her. She looked to be in her 30s, possibly early 40s.
"I'm Gray, by the way," he extemded his hand.
The woman took it, "I'm Adelheid Suzuki. Tell me, what were-"
"Gray's being attacked by an enemy!" Natsu shouted as he burst through the wall of a building across the street, fists aflame. The woman immediately took defensive stance and, to Gray's surprise, grabbed Gray's neck, twirled behind him and pressed the gun to his head.
"Don't move," she called back, "Or I''ll blow his brains out."
At around the same time, Enma burst through the same wall and landed at Gray's feet. Adelheid's eyes widened in worry, but she calmed down as Enma picked himself up. But this gave Gray just enough time to break free of Adelheid's control and backflip to Natsu's side.
"Who are these guys? What do you want with us?" Enma asked, Dying Will Flames ablaze, the second question directed towards the Fairy Tail group. The rest of the Fiary Tail group made their way thorugh the hole in the wall created by Natsu.
"We're from Fiary Tail, the greatest Mage Guild around. We're here to take back Lucy." Natsu huffed proudly.
"L-Lucy?" Enma whispered. Enma felt his will skyrocket, "We're never giving up Lucy. Not to anyone!"
All the members of Team Natsu+Gajeel just stared at him. Natsu cracked his knuckles in anticipation, "Well, then, we're just going to have to take here from you, Jiisan!"
Enma took offense to that comment, he was still 39, he wasn't that old. But he had more important matters to worry about. His Dying Will Flames roaring to life, he used his grabity powers to lift an unsuspecting Team Fairy Tail in the air, and harshly bring them down to the ground with a resounding SMACK!
"That all you got?" Gajeel laughed as he stood up, "Tetsuryu no Hokou!"
Shards of metal mxied in wind blasted it's way towards Enma who easily dodged. natsu jumped up and was about to release a roar of him own, when he felt simething pierce him causing an extreme stinging sensation. Knocked to his butt, he looked at his left shoulder, "What the hell? Did you just shoot me, old lady?"
A tick mark appeared on Adelheid's forehead, and intent on having revenge, released a barrage of bullets on Natsu. Seeing the danger come at him, Natsu jumped just as Erza stepped in and blocked the bullets with her armor.
"I'm going to kill you!" Adelheid roared, but was stopped by a hand placed on her shulder, "Enma?"
Enma threw her a scrap of paper, "Hibird just dropped this off, read it."
Adelheid looked down at the paper and her eyes dilated, "Then these guys are..."
"Yep." Enma nodded. He then turned his attention to Team Fairy Tail, "As cliche as this sounds, you've won this round. Seeya around."
Enma then gave a salute, deavtivated his Flames and literally walked away with Adelheid in tow.
"What was that all about?" Happy asked. Natsu shrugged, "He probably jsut recognized our awesome talent and left because he knew we would win."
Erza picked up a second piece of paper dropped by Enma.
"What's that Erza?" Happy asked.
"I don't know, but it looks like some kind of map. There's this place called Namimori adn there's this address circled there. I think that Enma guy dropped this purpose." Erza said.
"I think we should go there kick their asses." Gajeel 'proposed'. Gray and Natsu nodded.
"I'd rather find out what we're up against first," Erza suggested/commanded, "I think we should also find out where we are."
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As fate would have it, Team Fairy Tail wandered up to a map near instantaneously. They found out that they were in some weird country known as Italy and after asking around they found out Namimori was in another country named Japan.
"Excuse me mister, but you could please sell us tickets for a train to Japan." Erza placed some jewels on the counter.
The man looked up from his desk, "Che cosa hai detto, non ho potuto capire."
"Excuse me?" Erza asked, utterly confused.
"I believe he said, ''Che cosa hai detto, non ho potuto capire'." Natsu recited, earning confused glances from everyone present. However, the clerk understood and switched languages.
"Parlez-vous français?" the clerk asked, only to recieve more confused looks. The clerk cleared his throat one more time, went to an online translator, and asked, "Do you speak English?"
"I'm not sure what English is, but I do understand the other words in that sentence," Natsu said excitedly.
"Sembra che fare. Avrei dovuto capire che dalla prima frase." The clerk typed away for a few moments before resurfacing from his digital world, "Can you please tell me what you want again?"
Wiping away imaginary sweat, Erza went back to business, "Can you please sell us some train tickets to Japan?"
""To Japan?" the clerk was flabbergasted, never had he heard such a ridiculous request in all his 30 years of working, "I'm sorry that's not possible."
"Well, why not?" Erza asked, growing scarier by the moment.
The man gulped and stammered, "Y-Y-You see, J-Japan is an i-i-island."
As her realeased some of her invisible pressure, the man relaxed, "You'd need a boat to get there. Even then, it could take some time to get there. Your best bet would be to fly there which would take about a half a day to an entire day. I could get you either."
"Gray, does that paper say any time on it?" Erza asked.
Gray fumbled in and out of his pockets searching for the paper, eventually presenting a piece of crumpled up paer to a sighing Erza. Erza checked the location, but she couldn't see any date or time on the slip of paper. She massaged her temples and said, "Please give us the flight tickets."
It was the clerks turn to sigh, "Ma'am, this a train station. We do not sell any flight tickets here."
"Well, you should! It would make things easier for everyone. Now can you please tell me where we can purchase flight tickets." Erza harumphed.
"There's a travel agency down the road, go talk them," then the clerk whispered under his breath, "if they can deal with idiot like you," only to recieve the blunt end of a sword to the face.
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As soon as they exited the train station, a large rumbling eupted. Instantly on guard, Erza, Gray, and Gajeel looked around for a threat until their eyes landed on starvingg Natsu who was hungrily chasing around some pigeons.
"Maybe we should get some food first. Hothead over there will only slow us down when he's starving." Gray suggested, recieving approving nods from the other two + Happy.
With Happy dragging Natsu along, the team made its way to what seemed to be a diner. Gray opened the door allowing everyone in but shut it in Natsu's face as he attempted to walk in. The ensuing brawl was quickly put down by a now-ravenous Erza. The diner wasn't so packed, so it didn't take long until a perky blonde waittress came to take their order, "Welcome to Rome's Little merica, where everything here is so much like the USA, you won't notice a diffrence. May I take your order? Wait a minute. Um, mister, are you forgetting a little something." She took the pen cap out of her mouth and pointed at Gray.
Looking down, Gray cursed, "Shit, and here I was on a role, keeping my clothes on for nearly the whole day."
His attention focused back on the wattress(whose nametag said 'Cornelia', mind you), who was now pointing her pen towards a sign on the display window, her gaze never leaving him.
No Shoes, No Shirt
NO SERVICE!
Gray stalked off from the red booth, obviously in a foul mood, but witha purpose.
Natsu ordered literally everything on the menu, wanting to taste the new food. Gajeel settled for eating the silver ware which was frowned upon by the waittress, but surprisingly tolerated. Gray ordered a submarine sandwich, footlong, while Erza opted for dessert first, taking the supersized strawberry cake. Happy took a different approach, rdering the most expensive fish on there thinking it would taste the best.
They all ate in silence, save for Natsu, who was eating pretty damn loud.
Just as Erza took the last bite of the cake that seemed to be as tall as her, the waittress appeared, "How're you guys doing?"
"Perfect timing actually, they just finished eating." Gajeel lazily waved his hand in a gesturing manner towards the other 4 including Happy.
"Great, that'll be $457.39, or 348.06 Euros, if you prefer," Cornelia said with her signature (forced) smile placing a bill on their table.
"Euros? Dollars? What the hell is that?" gajeel asked.
Cornelia's smile dropped, "The currency of course."
"Do you accept Jewels?" Gray asked.
"Jewels? As in the precious stones?" Cornelia's smile didn't return.
"No, the money." Gray said, slamming a few notes down on the table, making it vibrate a little.
"I'm sorry sir, but I don't think there is such a currency in this entire world. I could go check with my manager if you would like." Cornelia's bubbly personality was now completely lost without a chacne of ever returning.
"Yeah, do that." Gajeel said, picking at his teeth.
Cornelia picked up the notes off the table and walked away, returning about 15 minutes later, "I'm sorry, but there is no currency called 'Jewels' in the entire world. We tried to check the currency of every country and cross checked internet databases for a previous historical currency called 'Jewels', but it doesn't exist. I'm sorry, but if you don't pay with American Dollars or Euros I'm afraid I will have to call the po-"
"Cornelia, wait!" a man shouted from the other side of the restaurant, "Their good to go. Some guy just came in and paid for them."
"Huh, what guy?" Team Fairy Tail said simultaneously.
Cornelia shrugged, "Chi è venuto a?"
"Solo un tizio con un cappotto e cappello. Non ho visto il suo volto." The man shouted.
Cornelia shurgged again, "It was just some guy in a coat and hat. Carlo didn't get a good look at him. But apparently he just came in a paid for you. So I guess you guys can leave whenever you want."
"Thank you for the meal," Erza said quickly, dragging everyone out behind her. As soon as they exited the building and the chimes died down, she dragged everyone into what seemed to be a deserted alley, complete with a dumpster and trash can on fire. She sat everyone down and made sure no one else was around before speaking.
"Don't you think it's weird? Weird that nobody has made a comment on Happy. every other cat in this walks on four legs and does not talk, from what I've seen. That no ones made a comment on our appearances. Everyone around here is dressed entirely different from us. Not only that, but some random guy comes in and pays for us. I noticed a guy dressed exactly like him folowing us around earlier. Even though I can't see him right now, he's probably watching us at this very moment. I think it's an illusion. An illusion placed on everyone around us that makes us seem normal."
"Of course I noticed that. But things seemed to going our way so I didn't wanna make a comment and jinx it." Gajeel answered.
"I didn't know you were so superstitious Gajeel" Natsu teased, only to get a cry of "Shut up!"
"But I never thought about it. It never occurred to me. I thought Exceed were normal wherever we went." Natsu said.
"Hang on a second, I thought you could see through illusions, Erza. Your fake eye, remember?" Gray said.
"Yeah, but the illusions not being placed on us, it's being placed on people around us, so obviously can't see through it." Erza responded.
"HEY! Get out of my alley, you hooligans!" A man who was dressed llike a chef shouted. The man threw what appeared to be a butchers knife at Team Fiary Tail, who hightailed it out of there as fast as possible. However, Happy got left behind and was kicked by the chef, "And take your stupid cat with you!"
"Happy!" Natsu shouted in concren. Natsu dived and caught Happy before he landed in the street. As sson as he made sure Happy was okay, Natsu stood and faced the man and threatened, "If you eer touch Happy again, I'll kill you."
The man stepped back as Natsu unconsciously leaked his power.
"Wait Natsu. Save your energy for the guys who took Lucy. Don't snap at civilians, no matter how big assholes they are." Gray advised, placing his hadn on Natsu's shoulder. Natsu didn't level his glare, but seemed to take Gray's advice as he turned away and started wlking down the street with Happy in his arms.
The other members of the team left no word as they followed Natsu down the road.
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"Possiamo...per...f-f-favore...avere...i...biglietti..per Namimori?" Gajeel struggled out, looking this way and that through his English-Italian dictionary.
"Parli italiano?" The woman behind the flight tickets desk asked.
"What'd she say?" Natsu asked, tugging on Gajeel's sleeve.
"Well, how am I supposed to know?" Gajeel snapped at Natsu.
"You have the dictionary!" Natsu retorted, butting heads with Gajeel.
"Do I look like a natural born Italian speaker?" Gajeel fired back, "Honestly, why did Erza send you with me to get tickets. Even Happy would be a better partner than you. And he's a freaking dumbass cat!"
"You're the best Italian speaker out of all of us!" Natsu now on the verge of shouting, "And Happy isn't just any dumbass cat, he's my dumbass cat!"
"My point exactly!" Gajeel said, withrawing his head.
The flight's woman felt uncomfortable with her two customars battling it out; Natsu yelling about Gajeel not bringing Pantherlily and Gajeel yelling back that Pantherlily was recovering. Seeing no other option, she called an Enlish translator down while the two men drew some very confused stares.
"Exuse me, but may I help you?" a rather round man asked after he over dramatically erupted from the flight of stairs.
"Huh? Hey Gajeel, this guy speaks our language." Natsu said. Gajeel looked on with mild interest as the fat man cowered under the glare of the two men.
"Can we pleasehave tow tickets to Namimori, Japan?" Gajeel asked, making sure to emphasize the 'please', "We need 5 tickets, 4 humans and 1 cat."
"Is that all?" The man asked, "Okay, but the cat needs to stay...Wait a minute? Your name is Gajeel?"
"Yeah. What of it?" Gajeel questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"And your name, mister?"
"I'm Natsu."
"What are the names of your companions?"
"Erza, Gray, and Happy the cat."
The man was sweating bullets as he pulled his phone out and checked the email from his boss, "You neeed to cmoe with me. All of you."
The woman at the desk was about question the man but the man waved her off.
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"What's going on?" Erza asked the question on everyone's mind as they walked the airport runway
"Boss Dino has sent a private jet, just for you. That's all I'm allowed to say." The man said, "If you would like to sleep on the flight, there are blankets on board. Nights get chilly in the sky."
He ushered them up the stairs onto the plane and them seated and took his leave.
Before they knew it they were in the sky.
The others were getting restless, not knowing what was going on, but Erza quickly quieted them, not wanting cause trouble in someone else's territory.
As they had nothing else to do, they admired the fine decorations al throughout the aircraft, all their eyes eventually resting on the family crest in the front, reading "Chiavarone Famiglia" in ornate letters.
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Thanks for reading this. I don't know if I should continue thi or not, so please tell me.
Honestly, I've been really losing interest in Fairy Tail, for the last 10 or so chapters of the GMG arc it has been pretty boring. But I figured that I at least owed it one story.
Please leave contructive criticism.
Don't just say "It sucked", tell me what sucked so I can make it better.
Thanks.