Chapter 1 From Meeting a Stranger to going to a Stranger Place

(With Yoichi)

This was just going great for the marshmallowy sniper of Shinoa squad, wasn't it? First, he gets cut off from his friends by a building collapsing suddenly and now he was on the run from a few vampires that had caught sight of him after retreating into an apartment. Yoichi sighed as he heard Gekkoin growl out "Your boring me to all hell at least shoot them while running." Yoichi responded while ducking into a room off to his after leaping around a corner "As much as I want to Gekkoin that would draw us more attention."

Gekkoin decided to respond with an annoyed tone and for Yoichi appeared to be leaning against the wall next to the door. "Really? who cares about that if you let me have control over the body I could handle all of those bastards myself." Yoichi rolled his eyes figuring it would probably be good for him to lay low in the building for a good while...

(ten minutes pass)

"It should be clear now," he thought as he headed out of the room casually only to look to his left to see the vampires from before also being as relaxed as he was. There was a moment of staring between them as if the imminent chase was actually worth it. "Oh come on why me!?" Yoichi yelled out while the vampires dashed after him drawing their swords and after a few more minutes of cat and mouse finally he was caught.

A single vampire lunged forward taking the boy down to the floor, face slamming against it hard enough to cause him to become disorientated. "Finally caught you, you damn brat haha." the vampire actually seemed a bit tired of the chase though this didn't last long. As the other vampire soldiers caught up a voice came out with such malice it made Yoichi's spine shiver. "Is this how nobles handle things in this world? How disgusting."

Yoichi hazily watched as a purple glow appeared just above his eye-line and, the vampire on top of him was vaporized in a snap. He tried to pick himself up as Gekkoin yelled out suddenly "Kid give me the body!" the demon's call was enough to knock sense back into Yoichi quickly tried to push himself up and draw Gekkoin, only for a purple circle that bathed him in red electricity. "I..I can't move?" he thought his body shaking as Gekkoin demanded again "Dammit hurry up and hand me the body!"

He looked at the shadow in front of him red eyes gleaming out at him, whatever this guy was it was making Gekkoin nervous which never happened. The shadow regarded him saying "A child who's made friends with a demon, how curious." Yoichi wanted to retort but, couldn't even move his mouth as the vampires that had been in the chase moved to dogpile the shadow along with him.

"Haaa no matter your numbers I'm stronger." the shadow raised his arm another strange insignia covered circle appeared except this one was was red. A wave of fire decimated the vampires and the shadow sighed remorsefully at the scorched remains after the flames died down.

The shadow then turned to look at Yoichi his red eyes glowing, yet there was no merciless gleam like the brown-haired sniper had figured there would be. "I'll be borrowing you for a short while, I'm interested in how you will affect his development." Another circle appeared that was a pitch black and the shadow muttered something with Yoichi only catching " To Fiore."

(In Fiore)

Yoichi coughed there was a bright flash and suddenly he felt his face hit the grass. Yoichi muttered out "What the..?!" from an apartment he was now in a beautiful looking forest. "Enamored? I'm not surprised your world was in a broken state." the shadow spoke out to Yoichi in a pitiful tone while he, in reaction twisted around quickly pulling up his bow focusing completely on the strange shadow and its red eyes.

"How unique I haven't posed a threat and yet you give a call to battle? Your almost worth shedding a tear for." That made Yoichi go to drop Gekkoin before asking with a look of curiosity "Can you tell me why you brought me here..where ever here is?" The shadow seemed to think for a moment before closing its eyes telling Yoichi "I may be able to spare the time for a small explanation if that is you can touch me." that made the sniper go wide-eyed.

Yoichi suddenly had a bad feeling before asking "What do you mean by tou.." before he could fully answer, he had to quickly roll out of the way of a small bolt of energy. "I mean for you to attack with your best, hold no bars and act as this would be your last, that is what I mean." Yoichi gulped after hearing that while firing Gekkoin at the shadow, it held out its hand catching the energy before shattering it in its grip like glass. "Is this all a relationship between human and demon amounts to in your world?"

Yoichi fired another shot making the shadow make a noise of disappointment as it went to do the same crushing trick as before. This time though right as the arrow was about to collide with his palm it split into multiple beams that soared around him, taking crow-like forms. " I see.." the shadow said cryptically as the birds all went to slam into him.

"Did we get him?" Yoichi mutter to his demon as the birds exploded against their target and what he got in response was surprising. "Not even close kid..we..we're...," Gekkoin's ghost-like image that was beside him seemed conscious of something and finally finished his sentence "we're better off retreating." Gekkoin wanted to run that didn't bode well for him especially as the shadow's voice echoed darkly through the cloud of smoke surrounding him. "The power to shoot one single projectile that can then split off into multiples without the cost of losing the firepower of the original? Your demon's ability is an impressive one and if cultivated correctly you could be quite the adversary even for "him" I'm sure."

As the smoke cleared Yoichi was wide-eyed at how the shadowed figure had somehow compacted Gekkoin's arrows into orb like forms, that then proceeded to gather into a single bolt of power. "Now take this attack back will you?" he then shot the bolt out way faster than what Yoichi could hope to dodge...

(With Natsu, Lucy, and Happy)

The trio had just gotten a pretty simple job done so Lucy would have her rent money in the bag, as a loud explosion caught their attention "What was that!" Lucy shouted while looking accusingly at Natsu who responded to her look "I'm right here next to you, how could it be my fault!?" Happy then with a happy smile "aye!" Natsu started bolting towards where the explosion came from while Lucy struggled to keep up with Happy sitting on her shoulder since he didn't want to run for himself.

Natsu got there just as the Shadow went to disappear saying "Hold it, buddy, you aren't going anywhere!" the shadow teleported right before the salamander's punch landed. "huh where did he..?" Lucy caught up huffing out "Geez I need to do more cardio." Happy didn't even hesitate to agree with his signature "Aye!" Lucy then growled out "Shut it you stupid cat!"

Regaining her composure quickly Lucy asked Natsu "So what did I miss?" Natsu responded with a little bit of an annoyed tone "Just some shadow-covered creep running away like a coward." Lucy then looked to where the smoke from the explosion had been coming from wondering "Some shadow covered creep huh? I wonder what he was shoo..?!" she went wide-eyed as the smoke rolled away to reveal a person.

"Crap that guy attacked someone!" Lucy hollered out while rushing over to check on the teenager, this got Natsu running over as well while Happy comically popped his head next to Lucy's saying with a worried look "Aye!" Lucy was already worried for the stranger but, it got worsened when she noticed it was a 16-year-old who seemed to have been knocked unconscious. "His wounds don't look too bad," Lucy muttered out while Natsu growled out "Damn can't believe I let that guy get away."

Happy then thought for a moment and said: "It's fine Natsu we should take him to the guild to get him fixed up." Lucy looked at the cat asking "Why the guild?" Happy then said, "Well it's closer than the doctor's office." Natsu then followed up with "And hey maybe once he recovers he'll be willing to give me a fight." Lucy's eye twitched this teen definitely didn't look like a fighter despite, though as she said that she looked at how he wore something similar to a military uniform.

(In Yoichi's Mind)

Gekkoin looked at the kid who was sitting against the bedroom wall with a sigh he was completely out cold, the demon couldn't even interact with him in the mental world. "Tch that bastard got the better of us there huh kid?" this silence it bothered him and sorta pissed him off. After a moment there was a strange feeling that came over Gekkoin, though he did his best to shake it off.

"Uhhgh..Ge...Gekkoin?" Yoichi muttered out his eyes opening in his mental world and the demon responded by slamming his foot inches from Yoichi's head growling out "The hell is wrong with you? Didn't I say to book it?" Yoichi sweatdropped before putting out a response "I..I don't know it felt like I couldn't move, a...and besides with how fast that attack came I out I couldn't dodge anyways. "

Gekkoin looked aggravated at what he considered to be excuses but, before he could actually give the kid a rebuke he remembered what was going outside of the mental world. "Hey, moron you may want to wake up before the dumbasses that found your unconscious ass start thinking your dead or something." that made Yoichi surprised and he could definitely feel that he was waking up.

"Right so why didn't you take the body?" Yoichi asked and the demon responded with a confused tone. "Simple for whatever reason I couldn't, " Gekkoin crossed his arms before telling him "probably something that bastard did I'll try to figure it out..you just handle the idiots outside." Yoichi nodded wondering what the people who saved him would be like.

(In the real world)

The guild members that were on the first floor (and cared) watched as the boy that Lucy, Happy and Natsu woke up in a rather cute way for a guy. He looked at them with half-lidded eyes before shaking his head and groaning "Ouugh what happened..?" he was more than aware of course but, felt like it was necessary to ask anyway.

Lucy was the first to answer giving a friendly smile while saying "We were kinda hoping you could tell us, we found you after Natsu scared off your attacker." Yoichi asked "We?" she nodded when Natsu walked up with his own friendly smile saying "I'm Natsu and this," he pointed to the strange looking cat that stood on his shoulder saying "is my partner Happy." the cat raised his paw saying "Aye!"

"I..I'm Yoichi Saotome thanks for the save hehe." he rubbed the back of his head while giving off a nervous laugh. After that, though Yoichi answered with "About the shadow that attacked me I honestly have no clue why he did it or well why he took me in the first place." Lucy then inquired "Took you?" Yoichi nodded before saying "Yeah took me, I was nowhere near a forest before but, then in a flash I was where you guys found me, caught in a fight with that guy."

At this point, Lucy took over the situation completely as Natsu began bickering with someone, taking Yoichi over to the bar to sit down. "So Yoichi where exactly are you from and uh how old are you?" it was awkward to ask that last part out of the blue but, she had to make sure he just didn't look young or something. "Uh well I'm sixteen and I'm from Ja.." he didn't get to finish as Lucy asked "Sixteen but, you're dressed like your part of a military?" the sudden shift of subject made Yoichi respond quickly and nervously.

"Uh well, I am actually..." that made Lucy blink in surprise before saying "Wait a second your military? at your age?" Yoichi responded to her with a smile saying "Yep I'm a special private trained as the sniper of the Shinoa Squad in the Moon Demon Company." that made Lucy somewhere between impressed (despite not understanding anything besides Special Private and Sniper) and slightly unnerved at how gingerly he spoke about being a trained shooter.

Just as Lucy was about to question the boy some more as the doors to the guild swung open revealing a woman in armor and with red hair carrying a giant tooth-like object with jewels embedded in it. Yoichi went wide-eyed at how she had silenced pretty much everyone and was carrying it with her bare hands. Lucy was just surprised while Yoichi swallowed some spit he knew this feeling of dread in the air, it was the feeling of an angry superior.

"So that's Erza?" Lucy asked Mirajane who had come out from behind the bar to talk to her. Mirajane nodded while taking a look at Yoichi who despite seeming fine was pissing himself on the inside after seeing this Erza girl's physical strength. Erza quickly took control of the guild members, telling them both how she felt about what was going on while she was gone and what they should be doing. "Holy crap it's like she's taking over!"

Happy had a slightly nervous look while responding "Th..that's Erza for you." Erza then looked around a small bit before saying "Is Natsu and Grey here?" Grey was the first to respond "Oh hey Erza we're just getting along as good friends should hehe." Natsu followed Grey's comment up with "Aye!"

Lucy quickly asked with an unnerved look "Why is Natsu talking like Happy?!" Yoichi looked at the man who had been fighting with Natsu figuring that was Grey and asked Lucy with his own creeped out expression "Is that all your concerned about?! That Grey guy isn't wearing anything besides a pair of boxers!" Lucy replied to Yoichi "That's just one of Grey's quirks, I'm more worried about what's wrong with Natsu."

Mirajane answered Lucy with a small smile "Natsu challenged Erza to a fight and she beat him down pretty bad." As Lucy replied to Mirajane about how she felt that it was a dumb idea another member of the guild said: "then she found Grey walking around naked and beat him up too." Yoichi thought with a frightened look "th...this place is full of weirdos isn't it?"

"Natsu, Grey I need you both to do me a favor. I heard something while traveling that's got me nervous and normally I would consult the master before acting but he's not here. This is a matter of utmost urgency and you two are the strongest wizards here so I could really use your help." the guild instantly became abuzz with the members all surprised that Erza had asked for their help.

Mirajane then started talking about how this could be the strongest team that the fairy tale guild has ever seen, while Yoichi's mind went to thinking "just where am I? all this guild stuff and what about my friends I've got a bunch of questions but, man I'm way to scared to break the atmosphere." That's when Gekkoin spoke up to him.

"Tch screw their damn atmosphere and don't worry about it I'm figuring out things just don't get involved with any of their shit." Lucy then noticed something after looking at Yoichi who seemed to have a gloomy expression "Yoichi you don't have a place to stay do you?" that snapped Yoichi from his thoughts and he nodded in response still under the effect of Erza's presence.

"Y...Yeah I don't have one." Lucy wondered what was wrong with him before giving the boy a small smile saying "Well I should have enough room at my apartment for you to stay there for the night if that's fine." the boy blinked before just agreeing to it since he literally had nowhere to go.

Author's note-
1. So next week maybe a pretty slow one for uploads cause this one's been terrible for me.

2. I hope this sounded pretty good remember I love seeing reviews of all forms come my way as long as your being constructive with your criticism.

3. I hope you all had very good weeks.