As I walked along the crowded side street I couldn't help the small hopeful smile spread across my face as I walked. I'm finally leaving this place, new school, new friends, new life I thought happily.

My hood was drawn high over my head covering many of my features. I found it best to hide from the world than be labelled as a freak. As I continued walking I picked up a familiar scent in the air and I whirled around and let out a dangerous growl

"Stay away from me." I yelled to the three people who were following me but that only encouraged them to get closer.

"Oh, Sam don't be like that we merely wanted to say goodbye." The one on the centre said innocently as he snapped his finger's. The other two walked towards me with wicked smiles across their faces.

"I don't think it is right for you to hide your face all the time, I mean who knows what your hiding under there," the leader cocked his head slightly at me "Why don't you take the hood off?"

My eyes widened briefly as I continued to back away from them . How do they know?

I felt my back hit something hard and as I peered around the edge of my hood I finally noticed that they had backed me up in to a corner. dammit I let myself get distracted, but I can't stay hidden to the world any longer I won't be here after tomorrow so there won't be a problem with it.

Letting out a wolf like growl I flicked my hood back revealing my large mess of brown hair, on top of my head two small cat like ears protruded out slightly from underneath my hair, my tail wriggled their way from the confined space they had been kept in for so many weeks and I dropped down low placing my hand in front of me as I bared my teeth, my elongated canines giving off an threatening and fearful visage.

The three boy's in front of me faltered and that was all I needed as I pushed off the ground flying into the first one sending him sprawling down the alleyway, I turned to my left and threw my fist into the rib-cage of the second boy, I then ducked low as a leg flew over my head taking the opportunity I slammed my elbow into the exposed knee of the last boy, he let out a scream of pain as he toppled to the floor.

As I went to walk away I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my leg causing me to fall to the ground. As I looked down to see what was causing the pain, I could see a small piece of glass sticking out from the back of my leg.

After that everything was a blur. I remember one of the three running at me with a pole or something and hitting me a few times in the head and then they all started kicking me to the ground and stomping on my head to the point where I was barely conscious.

By the time I had the energy to stand all three of them had fled and I was alone but everything smelt and looked completely different from what it had been moments ago. The air, the ground, heck even the alleyway looked different.

As I limped out of the alleyway I started to look around trying to figure out where I was but nothing looked familiar. As I started to give up hope of finding anything my ears started to twitch and I could hear what sounded like maniacal laughter.

As I walked around the corner I was dumbfounded by what I saw. The only thing I could make out was a guy with long, spiky black hair that had a lot of piercing over his face, what looked like black cat and a small blue-haired female that were standing outside of a building with the name 'Fairy Tail' written on it

Before I could even move another step pain erupted throughout my entire body causing me to fall to the ground with a thud, I could slightly make out people shouting but it was muffled so I didn't know where it was coming from.

Then something hard hit my head and I blacked out.

Gajeel's POV

As shrimp, Lilly and I got back from a mission as soon as we stepped foot in magnolia I smelt something weird. I never said anything to shrimp though because she'd start freaking out but whatever it was I didn't like it.

As we got closer to the guild the smell was that strong that it was starting to make me wanna hurl.

"Yo lilly you smell that?" I said as we got closer to the guild doors. That's when I heard the sound of footsteps and I instantly was on guard. I pulled levy behind me and Lilly went into his battle form and got into a defensive stance.

"Gajeel what's going on?" Shrimp said from behind me but I didn't answer my eyes stayed focused on the shadows and when I saw a figure about to step out I threw a pillar of iron towards it and It flew backwards.

"Levy get inside the guild, Now!" I yelled causing her to flinch slightly and run inside.

I slowly made my way towards where I threw the pillar and was shocked by what I saw. Lying on the floor unconscious was a freakin kid. He looked in pretty bad shape but I didn't know what to do with him. Is that a fuckin tail?!

"We should take him into the guild and let Wendy heal him Gajeel" I heard Lilly say and I nodded whilst throwing the kid over my shoulder.

Something doesn't feel right about this kid. Guess I'll just have to watch him carefully