The story is between the Edolas and the S-Class arc

Thoughts

MOVES/ATTACKS

"Conversation"

Hello I´m DragonsDR, this is my first fic and I hope you enjoy it. This is not an OC story as it´s main focus is on other characters though the villain is an OC. If you have any ideas, comments, wishes or complaints please PM me or write it in the reviews. And now let the story begin:

Everybody in Fairy Tail had a past, Lucy and her Father, Erza and The Tower of Heaven, Gray and Ur, Natsu and Igneel. But there has always been members of guilds that's past is shrouded in mystery, one of these people is Gajeel Redfox.

It had been a normal day in Magnolia, well as normal as you can get when a tenth of the cities inhabitants were living time bombs of destruction, and everyday there was a huge brawl that cost the nearby guild a small fortune to repair. For any other town this would be weird, for Magnolia this was Tuesday. Inside the guild there had been a shortage of cash, quests were being ripped of the board the second Mirajane even placed them there, a lot of people even begged Mira and Erza to let them go on a quest with them to get some hard earned S-Class cash.

One quest struck an interest in several people; it was called "Find the Beast destroying our land". The quest was centered far to the north of Fiore, through unstable terrain like swamps, and a large desert. It would take two entire days to get there by train, and not to mention walking would take several weeks. The beast had been killing a he number of livestock in the nearby area, the farmers had attempted to move but the beast had followed them. Even after they tried agriculture instead the beast just ate the corn and grains, and once again left the farmers without anything to live off.

"Why exactly did you decide on this quest?" Pantherlily asked.

"Do you even need to ask", Gajeel said as he reached into his pocket. And pulled out the poster;

The poster described the creature with large black wings, shiny scales, horns, and a ground-shattering scream. There was a rough sketch of it and it was portrayed, as standing on two legs in the middle of a forest with a dark glare in its eye, though this was just a rough sketch and it didn´t seem very legit.

"I see, you think it might be a dragon, maybe he knows where all the other dragons disappeared to".

"What yeah sure, good idea" he replied oblivious to the fact that the dragon might know something, honestly he just wanted to beat something up, and if it was a dragon, then it was just a plus.

This was Gajeel Redfox and his partner Pantherlily, one of the guilds strongest members, and the guilds strongest cat, respectively. They had been the only ones daring/stupid enough to take the quest. Or rather Natsu attempted but wasn´t allowed by Erza but that's another story. The reason for the lack of interest in this quest was of two reasons, 1. Nobody wanted to sacrifice any money on travel expenses, and 2. The beast had proved to be not only very hard to find but also very dangerous. Elfman had used an entire week searching for it and had only found a single scale and a bunch of tracks. Gajeel and Lily had used 3 days on attempting to track the beast themselves.

Suddenly the sky boomed with lightning sending a chill down Pantherlily´s spine. Soon after rain started to plummet down as if somebody was pouring a bucket onto the forest. Though with hesitation from Gajeel´s side, the two eventually decided to find shelter under a large tree while they waited for the rain and lightning to stop.

"Lets just go find that dragon and get the hell out of here" Gajeel began screaming at Lily, "It´s a waste of time just to sit around here doing nothing.

"He won´t appear" Lily said just as another thunderbolt struck.

"What do you mean", Gajeel asked, while Lily was covering his ears and scared shitless.

"Dragons hate rain or any kind of water for that matter, they won´t come out in this kind of weather" Lily said he was obviously lying not wanting to get wet or to go out into the lightning.

"So were just supposed to sit here and wait for the sun to come out", Gajeel asked annoyed.

"Fraid so" Lily said with the relief of his bluff working, though he did find it odd that a person that had grown up with one would be so gullible.

It didn´t however, take long or the two of them to start bickering, something about Gajeel eating all their food. When it finally stopped raining the two had used most of their energy just on fighting. Suddenly a large crack could be heard in the distance. Gajeel jumped up on his legs and started sprinting towards the sound, his iron claws ready and a piece of metal, that he had brought to eat, was in his mouth.

There in a clearing of the forest stood a large, black shining wyvern, it had a huge wings where its front limbs should have been, its teeth were longer than its entire head and hung down along it´s face, and tail was twice the length of its body with a huge club on it. You could tell that it wasn´t a dragon from several factors, dragons always had four limbs, wyverns are much dumber and by the looks on this ones face it was an idiot, and lastly Dragons would have fled the second a human came close, they were smart enough to know that it would bring huge problems for them if they killed humans, this wyvern just stood there with a dumb gaze on its face.

"It isn´t a dragon but what the hell" Gajeel said as he flexed his claws. He swallowed his metal and was ready to fight.

Just as the beast began to lower it´s head, Gajeel guessed it was getting ready to attack. Gajeel jumped onto it´s chest and began to shred into it, the blood flew out of the beasts body as did the scales and flesh. Pantherlily followed suit by growing big and drawing sword before he started chopping at it. But suddenly the huge beast collapsed nearly smashing Gajeel and Lily. They suddenly saw that it´s back was covered in arrows; they also first noticed that its eyes were shut; it had been dead ever since they came into the clearing.

"Why hello there" said a sudden voice that stood in the trees behind the beast, "What a lovely day for a hunt isn´t it". The man wore a large black cloak and a hood that covered his face completely. He had an golden gauntlet on each hand, each with two metal pegs at the tip of them, he had a large machete on his back and two small crossbows that hung by his side. Most notably though was his left leg, it was mechanic.

"The hell, you just took out our prey, it took us forever to find it" Gajeel roared furiously as him.

"Oh I´m so sorry, I just happened to be walking by when I saw this creature and suddenly grew hungry".

Gajeel didn´t seem to calm down more with this explanation. "Well you just tricked us out of 500.000 jewels".

The man seemed annoyed, but then put on a despicable smile" I know what I´ll do, I´ll give you a challenge how about that, I´ll even pay you more than what you would normally have gotten".

"How much" Gajeel asked trying to see if he could get something out of this.

The man pondered for a bit, "How about the same amount of money that you would get from your job, then I´ll double it split it between us double it again give my half to you and then you give me your share in return for everything I have. After that we trade the money in for outlandish currency therefor doubling our value and then return it back where I get 50% plus half of the money and you get the rest, sound fair"?

Gajeel, being very bad at math*, was left completely oblivious to this and pretended to think about it before he accepted the challenge. Lily not being much better at math, though he knew something was wrong, tried to have Gajeel change his mind, but no luck.

The man drew his crossbow and suddenly an arrow was loaded into it "Your task is" the man said as he lifted the crossbow, "Please go die". He then pulled the trigger and the bolt split into 10 smaller versions of itself that surrounded Gajeel. The man then drew his machete and leapt at Gajeel, but Iron Slayer grabbed the blades with his hands and ate the metal.

"Goanna take more than bad aiming and cheap iron to kill me" he then readied to use an IRON DRAGON ROAR. Just then the man snapped his finger and all the arrows exploded while he himself used his cloak to ride the explosion.

Pantherlily drew his sword and got ready to split the man in two. But the second he swung his blade the man teleported away, and reappeared 6ft behind him. The man then shot five arrows that together formed a net and pinned Lily to a tree while they sent an electric current though him, draining him of his power and knocking him out temporarily.

The man then landed on the ground and ripped out the heart of the wyvern and began to eat it casually, while he saw Gajeel get up from the explosion. The man didn´t react as Gajeel got up and turned one of his hands into a chainsaw and the other into a sledgehammer. He simply swallowed the heart and got back up on his feet.

"That attack just there was really interesting, it´s been a long time since I´ve had so much fun, to bad it´s goanna end soon cause I´m afraid I´m goanna have to slice you to bits now" Gajeel said as he leapt at the man, the man teleported behind him just as Gajeel swung his hammer. Gajeel flung his chainsaw after the man behind him aimlessly only slightly tearing the mans cape.

"So you want to slice me to pieces, just like two years ago. You know with your old friends Phantom Lord, am I right".

Gajeel flinched for a second just as the man kicked him into a tree and shot explosive arrows after him once more. Gajeel blocked the arrows with an iron shield, but the arrows still blew up and sent him flying back. Gajeel got back on his legs and created two axes.

"Are you goanna go repeating history once again" the man said with an evil grin.

"Go to hell" Gajeel yelled as he raised his axes and went into a blind furry of powerful slashes in all directions.

"Oh you do remember how great, but please remember our deal, I can´t pay you if you don´t die now".

The man dodged the axes as he himself tried to punch Gajeel into oblivion, just when he thought he had a chance to hit him Gajeel grabbed his arm in mid air. But the man teleported behind Gajeel, just the Gajeel shot out two blades from his elbows, as they impaled the mans shoulders.

"Like hell I´ll just go and die without killing you first".

Gajeel spun around and turned his hands into sword and began to slice at the man, the man dodged all the attacks but for the last one where Gajeel managed to hit his side. Gajeel suddenly turned his arms into a Pillory* and ejected a nail from his forehead getting ready to impale the man. However just when was about to the man opened his mouth a cobra* flung out shooting venom into Gajeels eyes blinding him.

The cobra then shot out wings from his back and tripled in size while wrapping himself around the mans arm. The man then used the momentum of the wings to slam Gajeel into a tree. Just when he drew his crossbow and got ready to finish the deal Lily recovered from his shock and sliced him threw the net before slicing the mans back with his sword. The man kicked the overgrown kitty away as the cobra carried him into the sky.

Lily grabbed hold of Gajeels back as he shrunk and the two of them shot after the man. The man had the cobra coil around his body like an Exceed as the man drew the other crossbow and attempted to hit Lily once again with his arrows.

"Get back here and fight" Gajeel yelled at the man while he shot out nails at him through the studs on his face.

"Oh I will" the man replied as he through his hood back revealing the guild mark of Tartorus, the third member of the Balam Alliance. For the brief second that Gajeel was distracted he managed to hit Lily with a special arrow that somehow made him heavier as the two plunged down.

As the two got up again the man shot a single arrow into the ground as it exploded leaving a huge smokescreen behind. Just after this the Kobra flung a huge amount of air back and the two were quickly out of sight.

The two used the next hour searching for him, or they would have but Lily soon lost his wings and was unable to fly for the rest of the day. They continued to search the forest but again no luck.

Gajeel was obviously pissed at him getting away but didn´t say anything at first. Instead he just began to clobber every forest animal that he though looked at him weird. Eventually he managed to calm down as they set up a camp.

"Who the hell was that Gajeel" Lily said while covering Gajeels arm in a bandage trying to heal the wounds he had received during the day..

"I don´t know, but I hope I get to fight him again, it´s been a long time since I´ve had such a rush". Somehow his voice seemed odd, like he was trying to cover for something, it seemed like he didn't really mean what he said.

The next day the two began to walk the long way back towards the station, when something continuously bugged Lily, the man from yesterday had said "Just like two years ago" and "Repeat history", had something like this happened before.

"Oi, what was that man talking about" Lily suddenly asked.

Gajeel didn´t answer at first, then he replied "I don´t know, he must have been trying to psyche me out".

"Then why did you flinch when he said that"?

Gajeel didn´t answer, or say anything for that matter until they came back to the guild. He seemed completely ignorant to the fact and pretended that the fight had never happened. But Lily knew the Gajeel was hiding something, and if he was even hiding it from his best friend, then it had to be serious.

Meanwhile unknown location

The man landed in front of the huge Dark Guild HQ that was lodges into the mountain. Just as he landed the cobra slithered off his arm. After this the cobra bit into his arm and at once his wounds began to heal.

"Ma-z-ter why didn´t you just kill him off now, it would save you the trouble of having to find him again".

The man stroked the snake, but suddenly began to choke it "Because my little friend I want him to suffer for what he has done" he choked the snake harder. "Killing him and his cat now wouldn´t even give me the slightest satisfaction, I want him to be filled with grief and beg me to kill him off. Do I make myself clear"?

"Yes Ma-z-ter" the snake said as it´s abusive master released it from his stranglehold.

"Good" he said with an evilly happy tone. "Soon Dragon-Scum, after all these years I can finally avenge what you, your former guild and that pitiful excuse for a dragon that you called a father have done".

The man then walked back into the guild named Tartarus, the third and most evil of all in the Balam alliance*. The stage had been set for his dark plan.

-To Be Continued-

Okay so I know this might not be as good as many of the other fics out there, but please try to bear with me it´s my first time writing something like this. Anyway as said before if you have something to say (other than flaming please wait with that) please leave a review or PM me. Also I don´t really know when I´ll write the next chapter, but there will probably go a little time. Also this was really supposed to be 2-3 chapters but I couldn´t find a good place to make the split, so i decided to just make it into one very long chapter, the following ones probably won´t be as long. Aldo i have yet to decide on a mark for Tartarus so if you have any ideas then just leave a comment

Now I placed a lot of * around the texts this is either a Word or Text analysis were I try to explain some things.

Word analysis

Pillory: A punishment tool used during the middle ages and under the French revolution. It grabs the victim by the hands and arms leaving them bound to the place with no means of escape. If a person had committed a crime they would be put there and people could mock them or throw rocks, rotten fruit or dung at them. I don't think he ever uses something like this in the anime, not to mention the manga that I read, but he really should. We´ve already established that he can create anything out of metal.

Text analysis

Gajeel being bad at math: Whenever I heard about Metalicanna and Igneel I always thought of them as counterparts. Metalicanna being strong, only thinking about brute strength, and kinda hotheaded. And Igneel is the wise guy that struck when necessary and that analyses his opponents to find their weak point. I always thought that Metalicanna would never have bothered to teach Gajeel how to do things like complex math problems or even know how to do so himself.

Cobra: Okay I don´t think anybody would think this but just to be clear, this is not the same Cobra as in the Oracion Seis arc, he will be given a real name along with The Man in a later chapter. However they have some of the same powers I agree to that.

Tartarus being the most evil guild: I always kinda imagined them like a huge mafia organization and if you bother them they will destroy you no matter who you are, like the godfather except with magic. If you´re a member it´s until death, if you help them they help you if not, then go hide anywhere you want but they will find you. But I also somehow thought that they would be the ones standing behind huge operations like wars and the Heaven Tower. That they didn´t operate in plain site like other guilds, but instead caused terror in people through small things everywere.