Chapter 1

Fairy sphere had just been cast yet something had gone wrong. Something had made it so that mere moments after Acnologia flew away the members of Fairy Tail suddenly broke the surface of the water.

"Solid Script: boat" Levy calls out as everyone climbed into the boat

"Is everyone alright, are we missing anyone?" Makarov asked as everyone looked themselves over before looking around

"NATSU'S MISSING" Happy called out in a panic with tears in his eyes

"Wendy's not here either" Carla stated with a look of fear on her face

Quickly realizing that the best choice would be them do to their Dragon Slayer lung capacity both Laxus and Gajeel inhaled a large breath of air before diving back into the water.

After ten minutes both had been forced to surface for more air only to immediately dive back down and keep looking. Once they had been doing this for an hour Gajeel called it and dragged Laxus back to the boat only to have to club him in his head so hard it knocked him out.

"Since when did Laxus care about anyone," Gray asked

"It's not so much that as it is his instincts had taken over," Gajeel said grimly

"What do you mean" Erza questioned knowing there had to be more to this than they thought

"*Sigh* Laxus is a lightning Dragon Slayer, Wendy was a sky Dragon Slayer and was raised by Grandena the Queen of the sky Dragons. As such it's in the very nature of his magic from him to be driven to protect her as lightning is an element that belongs to the sky. For as long as the Dragons have ever existed the lightning Dragons have always severed the Sky Dragons. Which is why there has never been a lightning Dragon king or queen" Gajeel explained as Gray used his ice make magic to make several boat oars for everyone to paddle with despite them not wanting to

"We don't have a choice, we searched for as long as we can right now. If we stay here that bastard of a Dragon could come back and wipe us out. Our best chance at finding them is to leave for now and come back with better equipped to look for them" Gildarts said with a saddened tone as he picked up the first of the boat oars as the others soon followed his example and began to sorrowfully paddle their way back to Fairy Tail.

When the group returned to Fairy Tail the guild members that had been left behind cheered and were about to celebrate when Romeo asked where Natsu and Wendy were. At that moment the others realized that the two were indeed not with the returning group and the depressed aura that was surrounding them

"I leave the explanation to you Gildarts, I need to contact the other guild Masters. Maybe a few of the other guilds will help in the search" Makarov said in a regretful tone as he slipped into his office.

Once Makarov was gone Gildarts walked over to the bar and pulled out a large bottle of vodka and popped the top as he took a massive drink with the others of the group doing the same with bottles of different alcohol that they knew would drop them fast. Or in Cana's case, she simply walked over and grabbed a bottle of Dragon fire alcohol that Natsu had brought to the guild asking Mira to hold them at the guild for him as they were the only alcoholic drink that could get him drunk. As such he had known that when he did drink them he would need to have those he trusted around just in case.

Once Gildarts saw that everyone that already had their "Fuck it to hell I need this" drink and had taken a few hits of his own, he delved into explaining what all happened on the island. For the start of the trail with what happened with each person in the first parts to him signing as he began the explanation of how the hell it all went wrong. Just as he was getting to the end the rest of the guild was beginning to become confused as it seemed the hardships were over when Gildarts came to the most dreaded part of the explanation, Acnologia's attack"

When he finished it became silent in the guild as the last part of the explanation had cleared away the guilds confusion as well as crushing any hope they had that this was just a big, horrible, prank. Yet the silence continued and with that silence, everyone heard quiet sobs as they turned to see Cana sitting in the corner of the guild with a single filled shot glass that had yet to be touched as she wept forcing the reality of what happened to cram its way into every member's head.

At seeing this Gildarts eyes went wide as memory after memory flowed through his head of watching Cana and Natsu act like they were practically siblings whenever Natsu wasn't with Lisanna.

Yet everyone became dumbfounded when they watched Cana pull out a single match to light the drink on fire and simply watched it burn away with her crying tears of sorrow as she mumbled words and strange phrases that made her seem as if she had lost her mind. After she finished she just watched the drunk burn away and then simply continued to weep after the fire died out not even bothering to touch even one drop of alcohol and merely repeatedly did the same thing over and over until she had gone through the entire bottle that she had grabbed.

"Does anyone else know why she's doing that?" Lucy asked with a very concerned look on her face as she worried for the sanity of one of her closest friends.

"All I know is she's rambling the same thing over and over in the league of Dragons," Gajeel said getting everyone's attention instantly

"Do you know what she's saying?" Mira asked

"Fraid not, If she were speaking in the universal language I could but she speaking in the old tongue which is a unique form of the Dragon language that is only understandable to each type of Dragon as they use it for their rituals. Other than that I'm as lost as….. wait, how close were they when they were kids" Gajeel asked as his eyes widened in realization

"If Natsu wasn't with Lisanna, on a job or picking a fight you could find him with her. Why" Gildarts asked

"What about on the anniversary of when the Dragon's vanished," Gajeel asked with slightly more urgency in his voice

"We couldn't ever find them, the first year Lisanna tried distracting him only for him to explode in a fit of rage at her. Hell, he nearly hospitalized her when Lisanna's stubborn strike kicked in and she wouldn't leave him alone. After that, he stormed out of the guild and Cana followed are him. Then every year after that they both would vanish for the day never to be found until they came back anywhere from the next day to the end of the next week" Erza explained patiently figuring Gajeel probably hadn't answered them and only asked more questions to verify something that involved them being Dragon Slayers.

"THAT IDIOTIC, LUCKY SON OF A BITCH OF A GENIUS" Gajeel yelled as he broke down in a fit of belly aching laughter

"Ok I've had it, what the hell is going on" Evergreen snapped in a growing rage at what was so funny about the disappearance of members of their guild

Smirking Gajeel walked up to Cana and forcibly revealed her entire left arm before he pumped some of his raw magic through her arm forcibly making a tattoo that was next to identical to the Fairy Glitter tattoo to show itself. Yet instead of a Fairy Tail emblem being in the center there was a massive red dragon that was blowing a stream of fire up the rest of her arm to her shoulder.

"I was wondering how the hell you even knew the old tongue of the fire Dragons. The salamander marked you as his sister and gave you the spell that the first Master modeled Fairy Glitter off of. Which also explains why you could use Fairy Glitter so well despite having never once used the spell before. Now which ritual are you doing and what the hell does it do" Gajeel demanded

"The lost flame ritual. Natsu said it was a ritual for guiding lost Dragons back to their loved ones and acted as a signal that there was still some that were waiting for the lost Dragons safe return" Cana choked out through a sobbing voice as Gildarts pulled her into a hug realizing that Natsu had been Cana's biggest pillar of support over the years.

No sooner had Gildarts done this than Cana had lost her ability to hold back the full extent of her sorrow and completely broke down into an even worse state than Mira had when they thought Lisanna had died. As Cana sobbed body jarring sobs all Gildarts could do was tighten his hold on his daughter as his own sorrow of the apparent loss of surrogate son began to make itself known via the tears that were now streaming from his eyes.

Meanwhile, the other members of Fairy Tail were in shock at what they heard and saw as it was now blatantly clear to everyone that both Cana and Gildarts had been far closer to Natsu than anyone realized. A fact that was enforced as memories of Cana telling Gray he stripped at the exact times that Natsu looked like he wasn't in the mood or was looking like he was about to REALLY lose it with Cana always having an almost invisible scowl on her face as she stealthily glared at Gray as he searched for his clothes. As well as having memories of Gildarts either taking Natsu off in private to teach him about something or pulling him off to the side to talk with Natsu when something was obviously not right with him.

"I don't know if I'm going to thank him or beat the shit out of him when I see salamander again but if they're alive then he'll be able to make it back here no matter what and if I know salamander he won't come back without Wendy being with him Gajeel said with a smirk bringing small smiles to everyone's faces.

Seven Years later

Over the last seven years, Fairy Tail slowly lost hope of Natsu and Wendy ever returning after each failed attempt to find a single lead.

Finally after four years past only Cana, Gildarts, and Romeo held out hope that Natsu and Wendy would make it back or were even still alive and would remain the only members to do so for the next three years. Also, everyone quickly learned to NEVER voice their doubt in front of any of those three people less the be beaten to death's doorstep.

Yet it was at the start of the fifth year of that things went downhill fast for the guild. Members started to leave the guild, all of the ones that stayed found it becoming rapidly harder and harder to fight with their all with the heart of their guild being there to drive them on. As a result, their magic power suffered a massive blow and they soon found themselves needing to use more of their magic for spells that had been easy to use before only to leave them gasping for breath from the extreme effort needed to use those same spells now.

Even the S-class wizards were affected and soon Makarov had to ban them from taking So class jobs due to the fact that guild wide condition made Some class jobs too dangerous for even the guild's own S-class wizards. However with that ban came one of the biggest problems for the guild, they quickly started piling up the bills until they were forced out of their guild hall and had to go into debt to buy a much smaller and run down building for their new one at the edge of magnolia with next to no jobs even being sent to them anymore and a depressing aura radiating from the once joyfully guild.

Such was the state that the members of Blue Pegasus walked into at the end of the seven years when they informed the guild of what they found.

Upon receiving the news the members latched onto it with a death lock as the embers of hope flared to life in the ashes of their failed gambles at finding even the smallest lead. With that hope came the rapid return of everyone's strength. With every passing second that the raced towards the location that their sacred ground once lay, they could feel their magic return to the point it was at seven years ago, and it came with a vengeance that screamed for the guild to bring Justice to those that had wronged them for the past seven years.

Ok that's it for this chapter. I know I didn't answer the question in the description but SOME of those answers will be coming in the next chapter. This was just more to set things up for the real story. So as always please remember to review or PM me. I like to know what my readers think and will respond just as fast as I can to any questions you may have