Update 8 /11/15: I went and reread chapters 1-6 and I felt like things really needed to match up. So I am going to revise all chapters leading up to the most current chapter 8.

Due to the recent updates to Fairy Tail, The trilogy takes place after the Tartaros arc and I will be rewriting some parts to incorporate Igneel's death and the Dragon's final farewell to their children.

Everyone will still have their current abilities gained from the Tartaros fights, while others will evolve (Pretty much like Gajeel going from Iron to Steel)

Some scenes will be rewritten and/or expanded on.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL. ALL CREATIVE RIGHTS GO TO HIRO MASHIMA

Chapter 1: Home Sweet Home

"Another mission done, but it was way too easy! The guys we beat up were not even tough at all!" A certain pink haired wizard although as happy as he was that the mission is complete was bored as a sloth at the enemies they took out.

"Aye it was too easy sir!" Happy said

"Come on Natsu; just be happy we finished this mission." Unfortunately for Natsu, his partner Lucy Heartfilia was not so thrilled at the end result.

"At least you didn't get stripped of clothes, lose your gate keys and get whipped for losing them by a ticked off mermaid."

"Aye Happy is happy that it went well."

With this most recent escapade ending in disaster, Team Natsu returns home with their heads in defeat. This mission was simple: go in, defeat the thugs and get out. Unfortunately for the strongest team this simple mission left a lot to be desired and half a city gone.

"Well guys we destroyed half a city so we can say goodbye to the reward money that is promised; lets add a pissed off master screaming down our throats… again." The young shirtless mage known as Gray Fullbuster said with complaint.

"Well ice boy here froze the city guard to death!" Natsu says as he tries to drag down his rival through the cracks.

"You burned half the city and smashed through ten walls when you got sent flying! This should be coming out of your damn pocket you fire breathing prick!" Gray retaliates back.

"Enough!" A loud thunderous voice boomed in the quiet forest. Walking behind them was a scarlet iron clad woman who had the abundance of eloquence and gracefulness of nobility, with the anger of a dragon. Erza Scarlet; the most prominent S-class mage in Fairy Tail is always the one breaking up fights between Natsu and Gray.

"Both of you contributed to the destruction of the city so BOTH of you will share the blame!" Erza says as she feels the hem of her skirt trembling.

Behind her iron armor was a small girl. She is no more than 12 years of age; quietly shaking in fear of the woman in front of her. Wendy Marvell is a new addition to Team Natsu, acting as the team medic. As powerful as she is, she is drained by the constant healing she had to do on Natsu and Gray. Dragging along her feet along and falling asleep, she is awakened by the booming, commandeering presence that is Erza Scarlet.

"Okay we'll stop! No arguing here!" Gray began to panic and sweat with Natsu grabbing his arm and imitating happy.

"What are we going to do with you?" Lucy said in exasperation. "Now you guys got Wendy worked up when she should be resting."

A female exceed flies alongside Happy and scolds the two mages saying "You should apologize to Wendy. She kept you two idiots in the fight."

"Sorry Wendy" Natsu and Gray apologize to the young girl. Wendy only produced a nod as she was too tired to respond.

The rest of the trip was quiet, and morbid, as they could only wait for their usual punishment by Makarov leader of the guild. After days of walking they finally make it back to the Guild Hall. The sight of their guild hall is still home. They all sighed as the judgment that they avoided in their Galuna Island mission would come back to bite them all.

The town is in the midst of rebuilding after Fairy Tail's war with the dark guild: Tartaros. The damage is critical and the guild hall was completely incinerated. At first Natsu, wanted to leave Magnolia and train, but after insistence from all his friends, he agrees to stay and help train alongside his guild. After numerous weeks of assisting Magnolia's reconstruction, the town was not only back to normal, but the town looked flashier and more attractive than what is was originally.

"Hard to believe that we managed to get this town up and running in only 5 months after that mess with those Tartaros bastards" Natsu says as he walks through the streets leading up to the guild hall.

"Yeah it's really amazing to see how everyone pulled together to help rebuild the town." Lucy adds to conversation.

"I can't understand how the master forced us to contribute to reconstruction of the WHOLE town." Gray was happy after seeing the restored town, but was a little frustrated at the fact they had to help with reconstruction of Magnolia.

"We were the ones who let this happen to Magnolia Gray." Erza still embittered by her experience as memory flashes of her being tortured by Kyoka. "We need to give back to them after its citizens tolerated us for this long."

Unbeknownst to her Natsu, Lucy, Happy, Carla, and Gray were already ahead leaving Erza and Wendy to themselves. Wendy saw her eyes obscured by her hair, and smelled the scent of salt coming from her eyelids.

"Are you okay Erza?" Wendy, who was still dragging along her exhausted body, is still keen enough to know something was on her mind.

"Yes Wendy I'm fine." Erza tries to play it off, but the Dragon Slayer didn't buy it.

"It's about Tartaros isn't it?" Wendy asks.

"Yes. I- I can't let it go for some odd reason." Erza says in a solemn voice. "I can't shake off being tortured and having all my senses dulled. I still can't let go of the possibility of us being killed. We might not escape from the next one, should it ever happen again."

"It will be okay Erza." Wendy says to her. "I- I still haven't recovered either. I-I almost died taking down face, and it still hurts to know Grandeeny is gone." Wendy pushes herself to walk in front of Erza.

"I'm glad I still have everyone here Erza. You should be too." Wendy smiles but loses her footing, and Erza catches the young dragon slayer. Wendy looks up at Erza's face to see that her tear is gone and that by her smile Erza is slowly coming to terms with her torture during the Tartaros war.

"You're right Wendy. We are still together and that's what matters. Unfortunately it's not going to save us from the wrath of the master."

After receiving their "punishment" (which consisted of public humiliation and running around naked in the streets for the guys, and a show for the guys put on by the girls (save for Wendy), they went their separate ways home, exhausted from their "retribution".

Today was a disaster. I hope we don't destroy another town in the next mission. Why do we always cause chaos wherever we go? Still it was fun as always. I hardly can believe we have been together for this long. As long as she has been in Fairy Tail Lucy reflects on her day and how she will put her thoughts into words for her late mother's letter. Regardless of how things are going I'm doing great mom, and another day of hard work is done.

As she finishes her thoughts she returns to her cozy apartment. However as she opens the door to her apartment she finds the lights on and sees her team sitting in the remains of her living room.

"Welcome home!" Gray and Erza manage to speak.

"W-welcome h-ome Lucy" Wendy mutters shyly.

"Here it comes in three, two, o-" Before Natsu could count down Lucy hits him with her heavy luggage.

"Haven't we already done enough damage today!?" Lucy exclaimed loudly.

"It was Erza's idea that we should all have a sleepover." Gray added.

Natsu dusts himself from getting slammed into the wall and says "I wanted to go home after "that", but Erza insisted on this after having some kind of pep talk."

"I understand Erza and Wendy, but you and Natsu are guys." After Lucy finished her ranting, she took the suitcase she hit Natsu with, and placed it by her new queen-sized bed.

"We didn't have choice! She just barged down our doors and dragged us out of our houses!" Gray said as he pointed to Erza. "I was just about to put my clothes on but I didn't get them in time."

"Oh stop it. I have your spares right here Gray." She hands the spare clothes she keeps for her childhood friend in case if he ever lost his clothes in some weird stripping event. "I thought it would also be great to build more morale between our team."

"For a second there I actually believed it." Carla appears out of nowhere. "We need to balance this team sad as it sounds."

"You can't balance us cause we're the strongest team!" Happy interjects. "Nothing and no one can come our way!"

"That's exactly WHY we need to balance out this team." Carla merely face palms at Happy's comment, choosing to not carry on the argument.

'I already think that we have more than enough morale since we destroy buildings and have a mob runs us out of what's left of town.'Lucy thought to herself.

"Come on let's get this whole sleepover started!" Natsu exclaims and cheers are heard afterwards.

With Lucy and Natsu cooking food and Gray using his magic to create drinks, the gang had dinner. Natsu started a conversation about who is currently the strongest, with Gray adding his usual remarks to Natsu. Natsu and Gray started butting heads at Lucy's small table, with the table almost breaking. With Erza stopping the fight, the group simmered down and continued another conversation. After eating dinner the gang decided to head to sleep for the night. The girls shared the bed, and the guys took the floor. The room was dark and quiet; save for a breeze gently flowing through Lucy's window. The quiet and the stillness would be broken by the stressful tossing and turning of the fire dragon slayer. As bare as his body is while sleeping, he is sweating hard and the salted drops ran down his forehead; like raindrops falling off a slanted edge. His already moist chest began to heat up with the fire swelling inside his body. With little tiny flames igniting on his chest there was no wonder Natsu became deeply involved in his dream.

Flames; there are flames spreading everywhere. Natsu as the dragon slayer who eats fire saw as the fire did its chaotic and destructive dance. Trying as he could to help pacify the flames by eating it he couldn't. People running to get away from the insanity that is destruction Natsu could only watch as people fled in fear, and corpses that littered the streets to pave the way for the harbinger of genocide. All Natsu could do was wait as the people try to flee, knowing that he could not save them. Natsu felt fear before, but this was an all-consuming, despairing fear. A fear for the people, fear for the destruction, and fear for his own helplessness. How he felt when his friend Lisanna was thought to be dead; how he felt when Lucy was kidnapped by Phantom Lord, and when Erza shed tears for Simon. It was the same shadow of despair and sorrow he felt as it crept up behind the tall proud mage of Fairy Tail. Its embrace, cold as the winter wind, gave him a chill as if he was blasted by Gray's Ice-Make magic.

'Is this how despair feels? Is this what everyone I helped also felt when they struggled? When they fell to their knees? When I picked them up to fight again? Is this feeling escapable?' Natsu began to ask these questions in his head as he saw the chaotic painting that is the destruction and death of the people flutter all about him. Suddenly he was slowly ascending to the night sky littered with the bright orange ground that is the town. As the very same feeling of despair left him, the heat began to become stronger.

'Its night it should be cold, so why do I…feel…hot?' Natsu began to realize that very same fear that first crept up his shoulder grab him by the neck. He couldn't breathe, couldn't speak with the wind being taken out of him. All he could do turn slowly. As he turned he saw an eye; a dragon's eye with its iris in the shape of a cross. Its four ways reaching north south east and west: a cross made just for Natsu one he couldn't escape or burn his way out of. The eye that stared at Natsu intently its gaze the embodiment of fear speaking to him like a whisper within the winds:

Chaos and destruction imbued within thy flames

A fate all will abide

Thy cross will hold your broken body

In to thy hands you will DIE!

"NOOOOOO!"Natsu woke up as quickly as he could. Everyone else that was sleeping soundly was woken up like an annoying alarm clock by Natsu's scream.

"Dude its six in the morning, go back to sleep!" Gray threw a pillow at Natsu, as he stood there dazed from his dream.

Update: 8/14/15: Here is the first re-edit completed. Hopefully it won't detract from the story. As such leave a review about the change whether you liked it or not.

Here is the end of the first chapter! As far as uploading goes I will continue to update in the weeks and months to come but with a catch: every ten chapters I publish will mark a break period for me to not only catch up but edit and rewrite the chapters I have already written. Thank you guys and please read and review my story and until the next chapter is up, keep on reading!