Hello again! So this is the "real" first chapter of this story. I got a few reviews and all I can say is: THANK YOU!
I was so nervous about posting the story, so every review, favorite and follow was like a cookie for me!:D I can't even say how grateful I am!
Now I stop talking, and let you continue with the story.
Disclaimer: Fairy Tail doesn't belong to me. Hiro Mashima is the rightful owner.
One and a half year later.
"That was my fish, Happy!" a loud and angry voice growled at a blue flying cat in the middle of a small town.
"No! We agreed that you get all the meat, while I get all the fish!" The Exceed claimed, and the people around them stopped to see where the ruckus came from. Some laughed, while other glared at them.
Natsu the Fire Dragon Slayer, oblivious to the gathering crowd, continued to argue with his partner.
The people of Calla, a small town which was located on the outskirt of the main capital Crocus, slowly began to loose the interest and continued with their business.
The town was very old, but the inhabitants were willed to keep the town in good condition, which was the reason it had an old but loving charm. The central point of the town was decorated with a huge fountain. It was the main attraction for the tourists.
But the pink-haired male couldn't care less about the fountain or the town. He would just stay here overnight and the next morning he would be on his way to Crocus, his main goal.
"Forget it! You can have the fish! Let's find a hotel." he said, and with that the whole argue was forgotten.
He entered a tiny hotel at the back of the founatin, and walked straight to the woman at the reception.
"Hello, my partner and I need a room for the night." Natsu spoke to the Lady, with his usual smile.
"Of course, Sir!"
After Natsu and Happy brought their belongings to their hotelroom, it was beginning to get dark outside.
"Hey Natsu, let's eat something!" Happy suggested.
"Sure, I saw that one restaurant, with a huge menu! Let's go there!" Natsu answered.
Happy began to jump up and float with his magical wings in the air.
"Aye!" He agreed enthusiastically.
So they wandered the street of the old town again, in the search of that restaurant.
It was a calm and happy mood in the city. The people were laughing and smiling, children ran around playing tag, and couples walked hand in hand.
When the wizard and the Exceed reached their goal, they decided to sit on the outside, in front of the bistro.
As usual Natsu ordered more than the half of the menu, while Happy was satisfied with a fish. The bistro was half full, and the people around them looked horrified to the Dragon Slayer, who once again, ate like it was his first meal in a month.
Pieces of food flew around and it didn't took long and the people near the pink-haired man started to leave or get in a place where the food wouldn't reach them.
Engrossed in his meal Natsu didn't notice how a pair walked right to their table.
"If that isn't a suprise! It's been over an year, and still flame-brain didn't learn any manners!" a deep, smooth voice spoke behind him.
Startled Natsu turned around and to his surprise saw the familiar faces of the ice mage Gray and the water mage Juvia.
"Gray, Juvia! Great to see you!" Happy chirped, his attention now on the two.
"Juvia is happy to see both of you again!" Juvia said in her weird way, but with a smile.
Meanwhile Natsu laid down his chicken leg and stood up to meet his rival/best friend face to face.
"You wanna go, Ice-cube?" he growled.
"Of course, Dragonbreath." Gray smirked.
The two mages glared at each other and Juvia and Happy shared looks, when suddenly they both grinned a gave each other a brofist.
"Long time, no see, Ice-Princess! How are you doing?" Natsu asked and sat again while Gray and Juvia also took place at their table.
"Good. We trained, took jobs and lived. And you?" Gray told in his usual shortcut answers.
"Uh, mostly the same. I was training to get stronger." Natsu spoke nonchalantly.
"Gray-sama forgot to tell you that Gray-sama and Juvia live together!" Juvia, with hearts in her eyes, happily chirped. Gray rolled his eyes, but smiled.
"So Love-rival won't stand a chance!...Wait a moment, where is Love-rival?" Juvia asked and looked around to confirm her rival isn't there.
"Right Natsu, where is Lucy?" Gray questioned and looked confused. Back, when the guild was still there, it was common to see the celestial mage and Natsu together.
"Why do you ask? Of course she is still with Fairy Tail in Magnolia, duh. And people think I am dumb." Natsu responded, while munching on his chicken.
There was silence. Gray and Juvia looked at Natsu, then at each other.
He doesn't know? Both thought.
Gray cleared his throat.
"Uh, Natsu, you joking right?" Gray asked laughing.
"About what would I be joking, Ice-cube?" Natsu responded serious.
The ice mage and the water mage shared a look again.
He don't know.
"Fairy Tail doesn't exist anymore, Natsu. The guild disbanded." Gray explains slowly.
Natsu, in the middle of eating, dropped his food and looked at his friend shocked. The tone Gray was using, meant he was dead serious.
"What?" Natsu asked silently and confused. The guild disbanded? There was no more Fairy Tail? When did this happen? Why wasn't he informed? And why the fuck they shut the guild down?!
Apparently Natsu didn't thought those question, but instead shouted them.
The people around the watched them curiously about what the screaming was.
"Calm down, Natsu! You scaring the people!" Gray hissed, and after he confirmed Natsu did in fact shut up, he sighed.
"Ok, so after the guild was completely destroyed after the fight with Tartaros, Gramps decided to disband Fairy Tail, and send every member on his way. It was two weeks after the final battle. Everyone set on their own paths. Some alone, some together. But when I recall it right, both you and Lucy weren't there at the announcement. We assumed you were gone together." Gray told lost in his own memories.
"Where is Lucy?!" Natsu smashed his fists on the table and had a worried, but also angry look on his face.
"I don't know, man! We didn't hear a word from her in all that time! Neither the magazines nor the people we met mentioned her!" Gray frantically explained, as he felt the heat began to pick up due to an enraged Dragon Slayer.
"We have to find her! I left thinking she was with you all!" Natsu pondered.
"Sorry, if you want to search her, you have to do it alone. We got a message from Mest… or Doranbalt, who wants to meet us in Crocus." Gray explained, while shaking his head.
When the circumstances were different, he would try to help his frenemie, but the meeting was important.
"You got that message from him too?" Happy asked suprised.
"What?!" Gray and Juvia looked at Happy and Natsu, who had his arm crossed and stared at the floor with a frown, deep in his own thoughts.
"Yeah, we got a letter where he asked us to meet him in Crocus." Happy told, and started to munch on his fish again.
"Natsu, Mest seemed very serious, whatever he wants to talk about. We have to meet him. Besides, Lucy is strong. I know wherever she is, she's fine." Gray reasoned with the pink-haired man, who shifted his attention back to Gray. They stared at each other for a moment, then Natsu sighed.
"Fine. I will meet him. But afterwards, I search her." He answered with a tone, wich meant he is dead serious.
"Good, then we can travel together to Crocus, and..." Gray could not get any further, because people on the street began to scream, and hurry all in the same direction down the street.
"A dark guild! A dark guild is coming!" were the only thing the mages could hear.
And if on commando, people with black coats, all bearing the same guild mark, a shark, were following the crowd of townspeople. But Gray and Natsu saw immediately, they were, too, running from something.
The former Fairy Tail mages began to stand up, so they could interfere, when suddenly something in the sky blinked and with an insanley speed, a golden arrow comes down, and hit the last guild member's coat, so the piece of clothing was stuck to the ground.
The dark mage was immediately stopped and fell hard on his back.
He looked over his shoulder to see what was stopping him.
"Damn that Bitch!" the dark mage growled, recognizing the weapon.
Suddenly, there was a golden glow, wich raced down the street to the leftover mage, before stopping in front of him.
The glowing began to fade of, and standing there was a woman, with a white coat, hood over her head. She wore a mix of clothing and pieces of an armor, wich was skin tight. Her face was hidden by the shadows of her hood.
"So you finally got me, huh Sweetheart?" the man sneered. His hood was now down, revealing a young man with dark purple hair, and black eyes.
The woman was not responding, she just held her arm in front of her. The golden arrow, began to glow, and transformed in to a flash, which shot to the womans arm. There, it transformed into a bracelet. Afterwards she put her arm down.
"I think there is no point in running anymore, huh? So let me show you my true form." The mage said, while he was standing up.
Sudddenly he held his head and began to growl. His eyes changed the colour to a green, which reminded of a poison.
Gray watched, when his right arm began to itch and get a few degrees colder. By then he knew in what the man was transforming.
His body started to grow and changing, while his skin was turning into brown scales. Horns grew at the side of his head. His clothing ripped apart, only the trousers remained. His face was now ugly with sharp oversized canines, and no human trace left.
The changing stopped and standing there was a demon, three times the size of a normal human, roaring loudly.
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