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Chapter 1: Fairy Tail! Fiore's Number 1 Guild!
At a laboratory, a group of scientists are sitting at a corner of the room with their ankles and wrists tied up in ropes. Another scientist gets pushed to the wall and sits next with the other scientists after having her wrists and ankles tied as well.
"That's the last of them, boss." A dark mage said, turning to his boss who is standing a few feet away.
"Excellent." The boss smiled as he walks over to a large lacrima placed at the end of the huge room, glowing green energy.
"Please! Don't tamper with it! That is a valuable object for us to study!" The head scientist cried to the boss.
The boss laughs, ignoring the scientist as he continues walking over. "Well sorry because this lacrima now belongs to me…Maximilian! Leader of the Snake Screamers!"
His fellow guild members cheer as they pump their fists into the air.
"With the power within this lacrima, we can become stronger than we are before!" Maximilian added.
Suddenly, there was a blast coming from the doors. Maximilian stops and turns around.
"What?!" He yells in shock. When the smoke is cleared, it reveals six figures standing at the doorway in fighting stances.
The guild members gasp. "It's them!" One of them cried.
"FAIRY TAIL!" All the members yell in unison.
Natsu grins as he punches his clenched fist and open palm together. "Alright! Let's kick their butts!" Lucy, Gray, Erza, Wendy and Judith smile as well as they prepare to fight too.
"I'll deal with their leader." Erza said. "The rest of you handle his goons."
"Right!" Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Wendy and Judith shouted in unison. The six then ran towards the dark guild with Erza charging towards Maximilian.
Maximilian grits his teeth. "SCREAMERS! ATTACK!"
The dark mages yell as they charge towards Team Natsu while Maximilian turns around and tries to go after the lacrima.
"Not so fast!" Erza said, narrowing her eyes as she draws out both her swords and run faster.
Natsu lights up both of his fists as he runs over to four dark mages. The members raise their hands and fires several blasts of dark magic.
Natsu dodges them by jumping into the air. Then as he falls through the air and head towards them, he yells, "FIRE DRAGON'S FIST!"
Natsu delivers a barrage of flaming punches, knocking out all four dark mages.
Three dark mages draw out their swords as they charge towards Gray. Gray grins at this.
"This should be easy." Gray said, slamming his clenched fist onto an open palm. "Ice Make…" He uses his ice magic to create a huge broadsword made of ice. "COLD EXCALIBUR!"
He yells as he runs towards the three mages and with just one huge swing of his sword, knocks all three out.
Lucy and Judith stood close together as six dark mages surround them. The two turn to each other.
"Ready Lucy?" Judith asked smiling at her.
"Ready!" Lucy said, nodding her head. The two then sprung into the air. While in mid-air, Lucy draws out her whip and Judith draws out her spear.
Lucy then twirls around and swings her whip at three mages, knocking them all out in one blow.
"DAWN MOON!" Judith shouted as she plummets towards the three remaining mages. White energy glows through her spear and when she lands; she delivers one powerful strike, knocking out the three mages and sends them flying through the air.
Lucy lands on the ground safely. But as she gets up, two mages tried to attack her from behind. Lucy turns around and gasps, seeing the two mages as they summon huge balls of dark magic.
"SKY DRAGON'S WING ATTACK!" Wendy shouted as she swings her arms, throwing two large whirlwinds at the two mages and sends them flying across the room and slamming onto the metal wall.
"Arigato Wendy!" Lucy said smiling at the Sky Dragon slayer.
"No problem, Lucy-san!" Wendy said, smiling back. The scientists cheer as they watch the fight.
"Come on. Let's free the scientists." Gray said to Lucy, Judith and Wendy. The three girls nodded and they and Gray run over to the hostages.
Meanwhile, Maximilian is nearing the lacrima. "That's it!" Maximilian said, widening his eyes at the lacrima and he goes nearer. "The lacrima shall be mine!"
"NO IT WON'T!" Erza shouted. She jumps in the air and prepares to deliver an overhead strike onto Maximilian with both her swords. As she does so, her swords slice through Maximilian, but did not hurt him.
"What?" Erza said as she lands on the ground. She notices something on her swords. She widens her eyes and realizes her swords are melting due to the acid on them. "Acid?!"
Maximilian laughs as he stops and turns around to face her. "Fool. This is why I'm the leader of the Snake Screamers. I have acid magic! Whatever weapon that goes through my body won't hurt me, but gets melted instead!"
"Dammit!" Erza cursed, tossing her now damaged swords away. "Try this then!" She now magically changes her normal armor into her Heaven's Wheel armor and huge metal wings appear on her back. She also now has two new swords in her hands. "BLUMENBLATT!"
She charges towards Maximilian and slices through his torso. Then several swords follow and pierce through his body.
Erza then lands on one knee and gets up. She turns around and to her shock, the swords pierce through his body are also melting. She notices the two swords in her hands are also melting due to the acid on them.
"Crap!" She cried, tossing the two swords away.
Maximilian laughed as the melting swords landed on the ground. He turns around as the holes on his body disappear thanks to the acid in his body.
"Fool! Nothing can stop me!" He said. Holding up his two hands, he yells, "Time for me to melt you down! ACID STRIKE!" He then fires two acid blasts at Erza.
'CRAP! WHAT SHOULD I DO?!' Erza thought, her eyes widen in shock as the acid blasts come straight towards her.
Then suddenly, there was a blast from the ceiling and someone lands in front of Erza. He quickly gets up and stretches out his hand.
"DEMONIC BARRIER!" The man shouted. He creates a red magic barrier, blocking the acid blast.
"What?!" Maximilian said, widening his eyes. He stops firing and sees the man in front of him, removing his barrier. Not a single drop of acid has splatted on him and Erza.
"Darren!" Erza said, smiling at the man.
Darren turns to her and smiles back. "Sorry I'm late."
Maximilian grits his teeth. "I don't care who you are. You two are going down! ACID STRIKE!" He fires his acid blasts at them again and the two quickly jump away in the time.
While in the air, Darren transforms his right arm into his demonic arm and aims at Maximilian. "DEMONIC BLAST!" He fires a blast and hits Maximilian. Darren and Erza lands back on the ground.
"Did we get him?" Erza asked. When the smoke is clear, there was a puddle of acid. Maximilian laughs as the puddle forms back into his human form.
"Fool! No magic and weapon can stop me!" Maximilian fires his blasts of acid again. "ACID STRIKE!"
Darren and Erza roll over. Then, an idea hatches inside Darren's mind. "Wait, if we can't hit him…" A smirk appears on his face. "WE CAN TRAP HIM!"
He gets up and aims his demonic arm at Maximilian again.
"Ha! Go ahead and try! I'll just recover again!" Maximilian yelled to Darren.
"I wasn't going to shoot you, moron." Darren said with a smirk.
"Huh?" Maximilian arches an eyebrow.
"DEMONIC BARRIER!" He creates his red magic barrier again, this time creating a sphere. He fires the sphere and when it hits Maximilian, he gets trapped inside.
"WHAT?!" Maximilian shouted. "ACID STRIKE!" He tries to fires his acid blasts but it only splatters onto the interior walls of barrier.
"Don't waste your energy." Darren said. Maximilian then frowns and lowers his head in defeat. "You can't melt what can't be touched."
Erza goes over to Darren and said to him, "Great job. We defeated the dark guild and save the lacrima."
"Thanks." Darren nods his head. He turns his head and sees Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Wendy and Judith walking over to him and Erza.
"Well done everyone. Our job is done!" Erza said.
"YEAH!" Everyone cheered loudly as they pump their fists into the air. It was another successful mission for the number 1 guild in Fiore.
Two days later, after handing Maximilian and the Snake Screamers over to the Rune Knights and receiving their reward, Team Natsu returns back to Magnolia. Lucy sighs happily as she stretches out her arms. Everybody smiles happily as they walk through their hometown. Well, okay. Just one isn't feeling happy right now. Rather sick.
Natsu is still feeling the side effects from the train ride home. Darren groans as he had to carry Natsu with one arm around his back all the way back to the guild's building.
"Aaaahhh, it's good to be back in Magnolia. I can pay this month's rent after the reward we received!" Lucy said.
"Yup, and I'm glad the scientists are able to repair my swords back to normal for free. It would really suck if I have to spend my money sending it to a blacksmith or even worse, having to buy new ones." Erza said.
"So what are you guys planning to do when we get back?" Gray asked everyone.
"Well I definitely want to take a good bath!" Lucy replied.
"Me too!" Wendy added.
"Me three." Erza said, nodding her head.
"What about you Darren and Judith?" Lucy asked, turning to the two.
"Well, we could do some shopping together. What do you think Darren?" Judith asked, turning to and smiling at Darren.
"Aye. Great idea." Darren said, smiling back.
"And usually this is the part where Happy would say…" Judith then clasps her hands together and spoke in a mockingly high-pitched voice. "Darwen and Judeeth liiiiiiiike each wother."
Darren, Lucy, Natsu, Gray, Wendy and Erza all sweatdropped at Judith's horrible imitation of Happy.
"Happy doesn't sound like that…" Natsu groans.
"Speaking of Happy, it's rare that he didn't follow us today." Wendy said.
"Yeah, he's feeling a little sick two days ago so that's why Takuto and Wako are attending him. Hope he's feeling better now." Natsu said smiling.
Erza sighs happily. Darren turns to her. "What is it Erza?"
"Nothing." She smiled. "It's just that it's great to be the number 1 guild in Fiore again."
Darren smiled as well. It's been a month after Fairy Tail won the Grand Magic Games and regained their number 1 position again after seven years. Unfortunately, he couldn't join the tournament due to his identity as the Demon Prince but nevertheless, he's still happy that his new guild won the games and reclaimed their position.
"Yeah." Gray said. "Everybody…Romeo, Macao, Jet, Droy, Laki…it's nice to see them smiling again."
Lucy, Natsu, Wendy and Judith all smile as well. Natsu smirks as he said while placing his hands on the back of his head, "It's always our job to cheer up our nakama. That's the Fairy Tail way!"
Eventually, everyone find themselves standing in front of their guild building. After winning the tournament and bringing pride and honor to Magnolia Town, the mayor and his people helped rebuild the building and brought it back to its former glory.
The seven walk through the gates, and then the large wooden doors.
"OHAYO MINNA!" All of them greeted as they entered the building.
"OHAYO!" All the other members replied back. The seven walk through the mess hall and look around, seeing their friends. Levy is reading at a table, reading a book with Jet and Droy sitting next to her.
Elfman and Lisanna are sitting together chatting with Cana nearby drinking a beer. Mirajane and Carl Clover are behind the bar table, cleaning glass cups. In front of them are Gajeel and Laxus are sitting together.
"Darren!" Lihua shouted as she comes running over to Darren with her arms spread out.
"Lihua!" Darren turns around and smiles. He kneels down and embraces her as she comes over to him. "Have you been good?" He asked. Lihua nods in response.
"Lihua! Come have your lunch!" Wako called, waving her hand as she sat at a table at the far left of the mess hall. Sitting in front of her was Takuto with his arms on the table.
"Okay!" Lihua said, turning over and heading her way to her adoptive parents.
"Ohayo Minna!" Takuto said, greeting Darren, Judith and Team Natsu while winking an eye and giving a peace sign.
"Ohayo Takuto." Darren said, giving him the peace sign as well.
"Natsu!" Happy cried with tears pooling down his cheeks as he flies over to Natsu.
"HAPPY!" Natsu yells happily as he spreads out his arms. He and the exceed then embraces each other.
"Oh Natsu!" Happy bawled. "I missed you so much!"
"I miss you too!" Natsu said, patting his head. "I can see you finally recovered from your sickness!"
"Aye!" Happy then breaks away from the hug and flies in midair. "I'll see you all later!"
"Bye!" The seven said, waving their hands before Happy turns around and flies away.
The seven walk over to Mirajane and Carl, who both smile at them. "Hello! Welcome back!" Mirajane bowed.
"How was the mission guys?" Carl asked, placing a cup he finished cleaning next to the sink.
"Meh." Gray shrugs. "Wasn't too hard."
"Care to give me the usual, Mira?" Darren said to Mirajane.
"Sure!" Mirajane nods her head. "One glass of root beer coming up!" She then turns around and walks off.
Laxus snorted before saying to Darren. "Root beer? You should try something stronger like actual beer."
"Sorry but I don't drink, even when I'm not a Templar." Darren said to him smirking as he stuffs his hands into his pockets.
"LAXUS! Let's have a rematch! After that embarrassment you made to me and Elfman, I'll never forgive you!" Natsu shouted at him, holding up a shaking fist.
"Give up brat. You will never win." Laxus said, tilting his head to the side.
"Seriously kid. You should listen to him." Gajeel added.
"Not to mention, you just returned home. You should rest." Judith said to him, folding her arms.
"NO WAY! I just regained my strength and now I can-" Suddenly, Laxus' fist comes colliding against the side of Natsu's cheek and sends the Fire Dragon slayer sprawling across the floor. Lucy, Wendy, Gray and Erza, Gajeel, Carl and Judith look shocked at this. Darren remains calm.
"That should shut him up." Laxus rolls his eyes before getting up and leaves.
"I told you moron! You never listen!" Gajeel shouted at the injured Natsu lying on the floor.
"Ummmm…I'll go see if the kitchen needs cleaning." Carl said, still looking shocked. He turns around and heads inside the kitchen.
Lucy then chuckles, trying to change the mood. "Hey guys, how about we all get ourselves a nice bath!" She said to everyone.
"Okay!" Wendy smiled. Erza nods her head.
"Oh Darren, you're back." Darren, Judith, Lucy, Gray, Erza and Wendy turn around to see CC. Her lime green hair is tied to two pigtails and she wears a small red hat, a white and black Swiss dress, red skirt, black stockings and white shoes.
"Oh hey CC. Did you do anything while we are gone?" Darren asked.
"Oh nothing. Well, except I ate ten whole pizzas in the course of two days." CC smiled.
"Ten?!" Wendy said as she and Lucy widen their eyes.
"Sugoi!" Lucy added.
"Where did you get the money to buy ten whole pizzas?" Judith asked.
"Oh easy. I used Darren's credit card." CC answered. Suddenly, Darren's face turns white as his jaw drops and his eyes are as wide as dinner plates. "Now then, I could use a bath."
"Cool! We're about to have one too!" Lucy said to her.
"Great! Let's all go!" Wendy added. She, Lucy, CC and Erza then walk off together and head for the ladies' bathroom.
"Here you go! Your root beer!" Mirajane said coming back as she places the glass of root beer on the table. Darren grabs the glass and his hand is shaking as he slowly lifts it up, causing some root beer to spill onto the table.
"Um, Darren?" Mirajane said in concern.
Judith and Gray turn to him and notice the ugly scowl on his face. "Oh boy." Gray said.
"I hate you CC." Darren uttered as anger boils inside his body. "I really do…"
Meanwhile, at the town, Jellal is walking down the road while dragging a big cart containing many boxes of cake. He was reminded by Mirajane this morning that Erza wanted the best cakes in town before she returns back from her mission. He has done his shopping and is now heading back to the guild. Unfortunately, the buying of the cakes has drained most of his money.
Jellal sighs heavily. "I guess that's just what happens when you have her as your girlfriend." He said to himself.
"Ooooohhhh…"
"Huh?" Jellal looks up and sees a man staggering out from an alley and when he reaches the middle of the road, he falls to his knees and grabs his stomach.
"Hey!" Jellal removes his grip from the cart and runs over to the man. The man has spiky blonde hair, blue eyes and wears a green choker around his neck, an orange vest with a white long-sleeved button shirt underneath it, brown gloves, black pants and brown boots. He also has a brown scabbard with a greenbelt wrapped around his waist with a long sword with a brown hilt sheathed in it.
Jellal kneels down to his level and asked in concern, "Are you alright?"
The man turns to Jellal and winks an eye at him. "Don't worry. I'm fine." Then, there was a huge growl coming from his stomach. He smiles sheepishly at him. "Well, if you can find me some good food that is."
"Hey Jellal!" Jellal turns around and sees Meredy running down the road, coming over to him. Meredy smiles at him before turning to the man. "Who's he?"
The man widens his eyes as he stares at Meredy. His face immediately turns white.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The man gets up and runs around in circles before he accidentally trips over the edge of the road and splashes into the river.
Jellal and Meredy simply watched in shock with their jaws drop wide open. After ten seconds, Meredy spoke.
"What the heck just happened?"
END OF CHAPTER
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