Author's Note- Sorry, everyone. I had to change some stuff in the story, so I just took the old one down. But it's up again, so I hope you all enjoy it! And to everyone wondering. I'll be writing a JellalxLucy fix this weekend (I hope).

Chapter 1: Searching

Styxx slammed his hands down on his master's desk, angered by her decision.

"Why? Why won't you let me go?"

Styxx's master, Theodora, looked up at her guild member. Her eyes were squinted at the young mage. A large frown donning her wrinkled face. The two mages were currently in her office in the Wolf's Howl guild building, located in Hargeon.

In a tired, raspy voice, the old woman replied to the white headed mage, "Styxx, it's been almost eight years now. Lucy's dead, and nothing will bring her back." Tears started to fall from the old woman's eyes as she continued, "It-it's time to move on and live your life. The past is the past, it can't be changed."

Styxx whipped his head from side to side, refusing to believe the pink haired woman's words. Tears of his own flew away from the action. With a sudden calmness, Styxx turned around and made way for the door. Opening it, the twenty-six year old took a single step into the hallway.

Not even looking back, Styxx told his master, "I will never believe that." The teen took that last step and shut the door behind him, not even taking a single glance back at his mother-figure. The old woman was left in the office to think on the event that just occurred.

Styxx, however, was thinking about the future. He would have to leave the country. He knew Fiore would be of no help to him, so he would have to try other countries. The white haired mage didn't carry much with him, only the necessities. Walking out the front doors of the Wolf's Howl guild building, a frown donned his scarred face.

Out of all the members of the guild, he was the only one who wanted to bring Lucy back. Not even the others from their old team; Isabella, Totomaru, and Kunaru. Instead, the three decided to go on their own decade long missions, due to return from in the least another three years.

Sighing at the thought, Styxx continued on, finding his way through the port city, onto a train that would take him as far as possible. Styxx had a plan. He would travel directly to Avian, the country farthest from Fiore, and then return on foot, searching all the countries he came in contact with on the way back. There are a total of thirteen countries on the continent, that meant there would be twelve countries to search through. Sighing yet again, Styxx thought back on the events that had occurred those few days eight years age. On how all this had started.

Eight years ago, Lucy Heartphilia had joined the Wolf's Howl guild after being kicked out of Fairy Tail. She had attempted to commit suicide when she was thrown out. Lucy, himself, Isabella, Totomaru, and Kunaru had trained for a fake three years thanks to Isabella's magic. The five had become a band. Competed in the Grand Magic Tournament. And Lucy had died.

No one knew how she died. She was fighting with Natsu on the street one day during the games, and she had been winning. Suddenly, when the blonde was about to wrap the battle up, something had happened to her. Her clothes and body had changed, as if she had become possessed. And then suddenly died. Styxx could still taste that last tear of hers, the one that rolled from her cheek into his mouth.

A gigantic explosion snapped Styxx out of his thoughts. Getting the best view he could, the white haired mage looked through his window. The last few cars at the back of the train were unseen as a pitch black smoke rolled out of them. With a sudden jerk, the train came to an abrupt stop, as if giving Styxx the signal to check things out.

The scarred mage busted the window he was looking through moments before, then shape-shifted so that great angelic wings were protruding from his back. Styxx flew head first into the clouds of smoke, beating away as much deadly gas as possible with his great wings. Thanks to the small cleared area, Styxx could make out the cause of the smoke. Not very surprisingly, a roaring fire was burning it's way across the train cars, wrecking havoc on the furniture and any luggage that was in there. As well as any people.

There were three carts that were on fire. Styxx landed on the closest one, that being the third from the end. Styxx climbed inside the car, covering his mouth with a hand to block any smoke. From what he could tell, no one was in here. Nodding to himself to confirm this, he swatted away the flames in his path by fanning his wings that were now a much more convenient size.

The next cart was the same, barren with no passengers but riddled with a threatening fire. The third cart, however, was not so. There were two bodies. One was on the floor while the other was huddled in one of the seats. Both had some burns. Styxx rushed to the side of the one on the ground, and felt her pulse. To his horror, there was none. He tried the man on the seat next. No pulse could be found on him either.

Styxx, forced to change to his true size and lose his wings, carried each person under one of his arms. Styxx, being stronger than three bulls combined when in his true form, easily destroyed the metal wall of the car. He then jumped down onto the ground which was, thankfully, not on fire. The mage gently set the two people down. It was obvious that they were dead.

Now that Styxx was away from the smoke, he could make out the two people now. He recognized them, but he couldn't remember their names or from where. Pushing that to the back of his mind, the white haired mage returned to a more important task, examining their bodies more closely. The woman was in her early twenties, the man in his early thirties. The burns were much more severe than Styxx originally thought, and it looked like small shrapnel were implanted into them, most likely from the glass of the windows and metal from the train car. It was hard to figure out what exactly killed them, though. Styxx would guess that they were in a weakened state from the glass, metal, and burns and were to weak to protect themselves from smoke inhalation.

Styxx sighed yet again, then looked down towards the front of the train. The other passengers were starting to group together, and maybe preparing to walk to the next city or back to Hargeon. It had only been about thirty minutes after leaving the port city did the explosion happen. Sighing for the umpteenth time that day, Styxx, still in his true form, picked up the man and girl and began walking a ways into a near forest.

It took some time for Styxx to get to where he wanted to. He was going to an outpost that Wolf's Howl had stationed out here for emergencies and to patrol the forest for thieves and bandits. After about twenty minutes, he arrived. The outpost was really just a small shack, only about ten feet by ten feet. Someone would be checking there soon. So, now back in his preferred form, Styxx gently laid the two on the floor of the building. On a small table in the corner of the room, Styxx left a note explaining what happened and what to do.

Leaving quickly, Styxx departed. After walking for a few minutes, Styxx regrew his wings and was off. He was heading to the East, like he had planned. There, he would arrive in Avian. The country was known to have hundreds of species of birds and other flying creatures naitive to only that country, hence it's name.

Wait, winged creatures...

It hit Styxx right in the face. He couldn't believe he had forgotten those two. The two were mages, he had already known that, but he couldn't believe that he didn't recognize them. The man and woman. The two mages on the train. The two victims to either a terrible accident, or a catastrophe in the making. Those two belonged to Fairy Tail. Wendy Marvel and Gajeel Redfox.

Author's Note- *THIS IS IMPORTANT*

This story will only be updated every 2-3 weeks. I know that's bad of me, but I want to be able to finish my other story first, which I kinda like more than this one. After I finish Thunder Spirits, I'll change to updating weekly so please just bare with me. Thanks.

Thanks for Reading!

Archangel-Angel