And here it is! This is my newest fic and I'm super excited about it! I'm not going to chatter here much but I will say there will be a glossary at the bottom of the page because I have used a few items of mythology and I will explain them there.

Enjoy XD


Levy yawned and stretched, her arms reached up, her wings fluttered slightly and her tail curled tightly into the small of her back. It was early but she needed to go to an early meeting with the Queen and her fellow Royal Court Advisors (RCA's). She scooped up her bag and slung it over her shoulder before heading out of her door. Her home with in an old oak tree a short distance from the Queen's tree, the Tenrou Tree so the flight to the meeting wouldn't take her long. She passed by the door of her best friend and fellow RCA Lucy Heartfilia, the lights were out and all the windows closed so levy knew she must have left already. She flew off as past as she could and it didn't take her long to arrive at the throne room of the Tenrou tree.

In the throne room everyone was already present, along with several faces Levy did not recognise. Queen Mavis was sat on her throne with her two personal bodyguards, Mirajane and Minerva stood either side of her. Makarov, the commander of the royal army was present along with three army captains, Gildarts, Bisca and Elfman. Lucy waved in greeting to Levy and walked over with one eyebrow raised in a questioning look, glancing briefly to a group of fairies stood off from the main group. They were different from other fairies, to start with they each had thick horns atop their heads, except for the girl, a young fairy whose horns were presumably underdeveloped. In addition to that their tails where thick and scaled, almost reptilian. Their wings matched, thick and scaled with an obviously large wing span, including a sharp looking talon on the tip of each fold, a drastic comparison to the frail, thin wings of the other present fairies. "What's going on Lu-chan?" Levy asked in a hushed tone once her friend was close enough.

"I don't know." Lucy shrugged her shoulders "They've been here since before any of us. Makarov thinks that Lady Mavis brought them in."

"This is all so strange…" Levy frowned slightly, "This emergency meeting, these strangers… I mean one of them looks like she's twelve."

"I can see your brain working Levy-chan." Lucy smiled "What are you thinking?"

"I'm not sure… I feel like there's something I know about that group, but I don't remember the specifics." She sighed.

"Levy." Lucy and levy both fell silent when the Queen spoke, her gentle voice traveling across the room to where the two friends were talking.

"Yes M'Lady." Levy stepped forward a few steps so she was directly in front of Mavis.

"Good Morning." Mavis gave the strategist a smile and a small nod.

"Good Morning Lady Mavis." Levy smiled.

"Levy, I'd like you to meet Gajeel…" Mavis waved her hand and Levy turned to watch a large male with messy black hair peel off from the group of strangers and come stand behind her. "He will be your shadow from today onwards."

"I'm… I'm not sure I understand Lady Mavis…"

"I will explain very soon." Mavis turned her attention to Lucy now. "Lucy."

"Yes Lady Mavis."

"A Good Morning to you."

"Good Morning." Lucy nodded.

"Lucy. This man is Natsu." Another man peeled off from the outsider group and walked to stand beside Lucy. "He will be your shadow."

"I…" Lucy looked shocked.

Before Lucy could form the words she was looking for Mavis was turning to the remaining people in the room. "Makarov, Gildarts, Elfman, Bisca… I trust you can protect yourselves well enough… but I would, in these precarious times, suggest you each find personal protection, and avoid being alone."

"Lady Mavis." Levy spoke up. "Might I ask what precarious times you speak of… You haven't spoken to me of such situations."

"Levy…" Mavis sighed. "Everyone. This is why I called this meeting, and why I called in the Dragonflies. I got word from Captain Grey on the western boarder."

"Captain Grey? What's happened?" Levy was alert in a split second, her mind whirring.

"The Deevs from the western plains are making moves of war against us. Captain Grey and his squad were attacked… his squad is dead and he is current incapacitated. He was recused and being cared for by a Nix just inside our boarder. He informs me he will travel back when he can, but his Nix has told him she has seen several small squads entering our territory. We… I'm sorry to say… are at war ladies and gentleman."

"Oh god…" Levy breathed out.

"My Lady, should me not send a squad to collect Captain Grey." Commander Makarov asked, stepping forward.

"Captain Grey said in his letter that he doesn't need a recuse squad. He feared people would would get hurt, and his Nix knows a secret shortcut that will keep him out of the way of any Deevs, He will return on his own strength." Mavis lowered her head "I wish I could send a squad… But I'm sworn to listen to Captain Grey's own desires."

"I-… Of course M'Lady." Makarov stepped back but it was clear by the frown on his face that it hurt him to do so.

"M'Lady if I may." Levy stepped forward.

"Of course you may."

"If we are at war we must all make preparations, especially myself as your strategist, I'd like to meet with Commander Makarov, all available Captains and Lucy as our liaison with the Celestial Spirits at noon today to discuss a defence, if it suits you I'll report back to you at sundown."

Mavis nodded her head. "This is agreeable with me, I trust you all to protect the people of my kingdom."

"We have permission to consider the dragonflies a member of the army?"

"You do, except the two I have personally assigned to shadow yourself and Lucy." Mavis nodded her head.

"Then I would also request that their leader… or one representative of theirs to attend the meeting at noon so I might learn each members strengths and weaknesses."

"With you and Lucy in the meeting Gajeel and Natsu would have to be nearby, so I suggest they attend the meeting as representatives."

"That is agreeable." Levy nodded.

"Perfect. In that case I dismiss you all to prepare for this meeting." Mavis got to her feet and everyone stepped aside as she left the room.

Once the queen had left the room Levy turned to Lucy. "Lu-chan… Could you help me collect some things from the archives?"

"Of course Levy-chan." Lucy nodded. "We can head down there now and we should be able to get it all in time for the meeting."

"Ok, let's go." Levy turned for the door with Lucy at her side and tried to ignore the hairs on the back of her next prickling as the two dragonflies followed them out.

Once they had descended several levels down into the roots of the great Tenrou tree in silence they reached the archive. They together pushed open the old heavy doors and entered the massive labyrinth of files, maps and books.

"We're going to need maps of the entire kingdom, recent ones and also ones from the past. Also maps of our boarder with the western plains from the same dates. I'm going to dig out the history files from our last issue with the Deevs and see what we can learn from the past."

"Right!" Lucy nodded "I'll get the maps."

With nods to each other the two split off and wonder off down separate corridors of shelves. After a while of gathering up various books and putting them in her bag Levy stopped and spun around to where her shadow was leaning against a shelf. "Do you speak?" She asked.

The dark haired man quirked an eyebrow at you and slowly a smirk curled at his lips. "No… No I do not."

Levy quirked an eyebrow in response. "Oh I see…" She closed the bag that was now nearly over flowing with books. "Then make yourself useful ok?" She pushed the bag into his arms and picked up the ones that hadn't fit. "Let's go shadow." She smiled at her own joke as she head back to meet up with Lucy at the doors.

Levy was amused to see that Lucy too had coerced her shadow into carrying a majority of the maps she had collected but she was surprised to see that her shadow… Natsu… was smiling and even talking to her openly. "Lu-chan we're back." Levy called.

"Ah." Lucy turned and then giggled slightly "I see we don't have to make two trips."

"Nope." Levy shook her head. "Let's go, we've got a lot to do."

Levy rolled two maps out on top of the table in the meeting room. The Commander, five army Captains, two dragonflies and Lucy were all sat around the table as Levy stood to explain the initial plan. "This is the boarder we have with the Deevs of the southern plains. Protecting the boarder at this stage would be pointless as we already know that some small squads are already inside. I suggest instead that was said various squads to each board village…" She pointed to five villages on the map. "They would have to be squads of reasonable size and power as we already know Captain Grey's small squad's fate … Freed, Kagura, You've been informed of Captain Grey's fate?" She turned to the two captains who had not been in the original meeting but had been made available for the strategy meeting.

"We have." Kagura nodded, buy Levy didn't miss how the captain's grip tightened on her sword handle.

"Good. With five villages and a total of seven captains when counting Grey I can assume that you can all organise the squads amongst yourselves, under Commander Makarov's supervision yes?" Levy looked about and was met with nods of agreement and approval. "Then I'll move on. It is my plan to ask Lady Mavis her opinion on this matter later but I will put it forward here first. I'd like to suggest that Lady Erza travel to the Eastern Mountains to seek assistance from the Orends. This kingdom has been known to do it before and they have been good friends to us."

"Will it be safe for Lady Erza?" Makarov spoke up. "We can't be sending out one of our kingdoms royalty with Deevs running around!"

"I do not think the Orends will take us very seriously if we send anyone of a lesser rank." Levy admitted "Lady Erza is of course an extremely competent warrior but she will be accompanied by her personal guards, Simon and Milanna, and perhaps a dragonfly."

There was a silence at the table as everyone glanced at Natsu and Gajeel. There was a long pause before Natsu seemed to register that everyone was looking at him (even Makarov seemed to have taken to avoiding looking at Gajeel who had taken to glaring at anyone who looked at him so everyone looked at the more easy going dragonfly) "Oh! Is that my cue?"

Lucy chuckled and Levy smiled "Yes, if you wouldn't mind Natsu."

"Right right… Well Sting and Rouge work best together so you should keep them together for the best results. Wendy isn't much of a fighter, she's a healer, but she can hold her own. Cobra and Luxas are both good on their own, neither are very good with any kind of team work. Personally I think Cobra would be the best choice, since he has Kinana and together they're the best at sensing oncoming danger."

Levy nodded "Kinana is not a dragonfly?"

"Kinana is a flying snake." Natsu confirmed.

"I see… We'll if it is agreeable with Cobra he can accompany Erza, Simon and Milanna." Levy decided. "Is everyone agreed?"

There was a wave of nods and mumbles of agreement "And what should the remaining members of the army do in the meantime. With squads in each village on the border, what should the remaining soldiers do?"

"I would suggest we increase patrols and guards on the Tenrou tree and also around the capital as a whole." Levy suggested "Meanwhile Lu-chan… You will be speaking with the celestial spirits?"

"I will be." Lucy nodded "They're… not ones for war in the most part but I will get what support I can from them."

"Good. Anything else that needs to be addressed today?"

"Not today… We we'll meet again in a few days once we've each got our own charges in order?" Makarov asked.

"Yes we will." Levy nodded "If everyone is happy, we can finish for the afternoon."


Ok so Mythology wise we have:

Deevs - Evil version of the Persian fairy 'Peri'

Nix (or Nixie) - Water-spirit said to be very beautiful (You can all probably guess who our Nix is~)

Orends - Mountain Nymphs