Chapter 1: Burnt-Down Past
This is my second fanfic! Hope you guys will like it! Thanks for the support on the first one! :) :D :3 On with the new story!
Magnolia Town Normal POV
"Wahh! That was a hard one, right Natsu?" Lucy asked to the flame mage who was currently weak due to the train ride back from Togan City.
Flashback (Two months ago)
As the master was standing on the second floor railing, his voice was echoed throughout the whole guild.
"My children, we'll be leaving the guild for a while. As of a request from the Magic Council, Fairy Tail will take down the dark guild in Togan City, Night Blade. They have been terrorizing the citizens there with dark magic and harming many people. The mages there are extremely talented with sword-to-sword battles, they've magic in those swords. EVERYONE IN FAIRY TAIL, WE WILL BE LEAVING TOMORROW AT NOON. NIGHT BLADE MUST BE TAKEN DOWN!"
Everyone cheered in response and filed out of the guild slowly to prepare for the long journey tomorrow.
"I'm getting FIRED UP!" Natsu roared with excitement. Team Natsu haven't had a mission in weeks due to their teammates having serious injuries from their last mission. Ambushed and tormented, they managed to make it back to the guild with smiles and laughter.
"This would be a nice way to warm up my body from the injuries." Erza nodded in agreement to the excitement from the table Team Natsu was sitting at.
"True, sitting here, waiting for the injuries to heal is such a pain." Gray groaned at his boredness.
"Well, I should head home to pack up. You guys, should too. You never know how long taking down a guild will take, you know?" Lucy wisely pointed out to them. Agreeing to talk more in the morning, they parted ways at the guild gates.
Lucy was walking along the sides of the river when the same guy reminded Lucy to be careful, always on the look out for the blonde mage that happened to flash back a reply along with a smile to the gentleman. Plue was walking beside Lucy when they reached their apartment, Lucy was tired and her muscles ached from doing nothing for the last while in the guild but chatting with the rest of Team Natsu.
Expecting to find a quiet house of peace, Lucy saw Erza munching on the cake she bought a couple days ago. While Gray was already stripped to his boxers, lounging on her couch as usual. While Natsu was nowhere in sight, confused, she still freaked out at Gray and Erza. But with their company her house became lively again, until she entered the bathroom to take her shower. Finding Natsu conducting his own fire experiments on Lucy's bath essentials.
"Lucy! Look! If you add fire to this, it turns into purple fire! But it's too bubbly when I eat it... Do you want to try some?" Natsu remarked with his usual goofy smile. But Lucy wasn't the least amused with Natsu, her eyebrowed was twitching as she ordered Natsu to get out of the bathroom.
"Well Plue, better send you back before you start melting in the hot water." Lucy said with the normal response from Plue, waving as he slowly vanished back to the spirit world.
After taking a bath, Lucy walked out to find that the others were still here.
"Don't you need to pack?" Lucy curiously asking.
"Nope, this mission would probably be over in a split second after we reach the guild." Gray smirked. "I've got all I need."
"Lucy, don't underestimate me. I am always ready for any adventure. My luggage is ready to go." Erza said, still munching on the cake.
"We'll just use what you brought Lucy! Right, Happy?" Natsu asked to the blue cat who was eating all the fishes that he could find in Lucy's fridge.
"What?! When did you ever give you permission to use my stuff?!" Lucy questioned with her mouth wide open. "Don't you ever think about it."
When Lucy reached the guild the next day, the guild was already packed with most of the guild members.
"Wow... Didn't think that everyone would come so early." Lucy murmured to herself when someone gently tapped her shoulder. Turning around, she found Erza with her usually wagon-full luggage.
"Good morning Lucy. Are you ready to go?" Erza asked as she swiftly pulled her luggage into the guild.
Nodding as Lucy was following Erza, deeper into the guild. Where they spotted Gray and Natsu sitting at their usual table. Natsu, noticing that the girls were here waved at them.
"We should be leaving soon." Gray said after the girls had took their seats. When the master came out of his office.
"My children, let us take down Night Blade!" his voice roared through the guild, everyone was ready and agreed with shouts and cheers. Everyone headed out of the guild towards the train station where the Magic Council reserved a train just for us to get to Togan City.
The fight and planning took a while but in three months, Fairy Tail were able to finally go back to the guild. As Dranbalt congratulated Fairy Tail at the train station.
That puts us back to the beginning of the story.
Lucy's POV
As the guildmates were talking to each other, I noticed something strange about the people. They seemed to be whispering to each other, I started to have a bad feeling about it. So I decided to approach someone.
"Um. Excuse me. But did anything happened here when we were gone?" I asked to a elderly woman who was chatting to a salesman. The lady hesitated for a moment, but began telling me what happened between the three months we were gone from Magnolia.
"About a month after you youngsters left, a fire bursted out in the direction of the guild. We tried to help out but we were too late and... Your whole guild burned down. Sorry to tell you this. We tried to pin down who did it but we still have no clue about the culprit." she spoke with great sorrow in her voice. I knew that the towns people cared a lot about us, since we happen to always help out in the town when necessary. When I turned around, I noticed that everyone was surrounding us, with tears in their eyes. Master, standing besides me, had his head down low. Covering his teary eyes but he rose his head again and faced everyone.
"At least none of us were caught in that fire." with an breaking voice, all of us walked to the guild to find what the elderly woman said. A burnt down guild filled with our happy moments, but there were members of the Magic Council who were standing by the ashes and rubble. Lahar was ordering people around when the master walked up to him, taking him by surprise. I happened to overhear their conversation.
"Sorry, Master Makarov. This was a mistake made by one of the members in the Defense team. Thinking that leaving a lit cigarette by a guild is all right." Lahar said with an apologetic tone. Master lifted his head towards the Magic council captain, "It's alright, I'm sure that we'll be able to build the guild up again in no time. With better inprovements."
"The Magic Council will that charge of rebuilding the guild. Thank you for your forgiveness." Lahar said. The master nodded in approvall and walked back to the members.
"Warren. I need you to use your Telepathy magic and let me contact the masters of the other guilds for a quick chat," master ordered the mage. Nodding, Warren was concentrating on his magic with the master. After a while, Warren lifted his hand from his forehead and the master was happy.
"With the chat I just had, I will be disbanding Fairy Tail into groups for the meanwhile until the guild is rebuilt. The masters have accepted to take in members of Fairy Tail as their own. I will contact all of you again when the time comes." clearing his throat, Master began the groups.
"These will be groups, ..."
AND STOP! That is the first chapter of the second fanfic! Hope you guys liked it. Though it's a little slowpaced... Well, comment/review for any suggestions and couplings. This time is up to you guys! And does anyone know how do put a survey or something onto my page or somewhere so you guys can vote... THANKS! :) :D :3