Fairy-tail guild hall- Magnolia…

"We're back!" Natsu yelled kicking the door down. "We're back!" Happy called.

They were greeted by friendly waves and greetings. "Wow." Lucy said. "You really went all out this time. I heard Hargeon was-" "You little..." Natsu said kicking the man.

"What was that for!" Lucy said completely startled. "You lied to me about salamander! I'm going to kick your butt!" Natsu yelled. "Don't get mad at me! I'm not the one to blame here! I'm just passing along the rumours I heard!" The man said.

"It was just a rumour!" Natsu yelled enraged. Lucy stood with a dumbfounded expression. "You wanna fight!" The man yelled. "Let's go!" Natsu said. He unleashed a fire dragon iron fist which smashed the man back and destroying multiple tables and the people sitting by them.

"Now, now Natsu, I think you need to calm d-" suddenly Happy was thrown back by a man ramming into him. In a matter of seconds, everyone started to fight each other, for no apparent reasons.

"Oh wow." Lucy said. "I'm actually standing inside the Fairy-tail guild hall!" She said. "So Natsu finally made it back huh!?" Gray said standing up. Lucy shrieked as she realized the man had only his underwear on.

"It's finally time to settle things once and for all!" Gray said walking into the fighting crowd. "Gray, your clothes?" Cana said. "I don't have time for that!" Gray said throwing his hands up.

"See I don't date the men here because they have no class." Cana said. She then took a barrel of wine and started to drink it all, making Lucy stutter.

"Come here and fight me Natsu!" Gray yelled. "Not until you put some clothes on!" Natsu yelled right back.

"It's only noon, and you boys are already whining like spoiled babies." Elfman said. "I'm a real man, want me to prove it to you!" He shouted raising a fist. "I can't believe he is supporting them!" Lucy said.

Natsu and Gray turned at the same time and punched him, throwing him back. "He knocked them out that easily?!" Lucy said sweating lightly. "Geez, it's so noisy here isn't it?" Loke said.

Lucy turned and saw two girls on Loke. Suddenly something hit him in the head and knocked him down. "Are you alright?" A girl said. Like quickly got up and smiled. "I'm gonna go fight, to protect you gals." Loke said. "Good luck Loke!" The girls said.

"He's definitely off my list, what's wrong with these guys!" Lucy said. "There's not one sane person in this whole place!" Lucy said. "Hello, are you new here?" A voice from behind said.

Lucy turned and saw a white-haired girl. "It's Mirajane!" Lucy said. "In the flesh!" Lucy said. "Um, don't you think we should try to stop them?" Lucy said pointed at the crowd.

"It's always like that around here; I'd just leave it alone." Mirajane said. "Besides-" suddenly Elfman crashed into him. "It's kinda fun, don't ya think?" Mirajane said before fainting.

"Ahhhh! Don't die Mirajane!" Lucy said. Gray then crashed into her. "Give me back my underwear jerk!" Gray said to Natsu. Lucy then shrieked. Gray then noticed her and turned to her.

"Excuse me miss, could I please borrow your underwear." Gray said. Lucy shrieked again and grabbed a piece of a stool, then smashed Gray with it. "As if!" Lucy said. Loke suddenly picked her up. "These guys are all insensitive, a woman has needs." Loke said.

"Real men speak with his fists Loke!" Elfman yelled upper cutting Loke. "I said butt out!" Natsu said kicking Elfman. "Aye, sir!" Happy said. "Ugh, so loud, so much for a quiet drink." Cana said.

That's enough guys, knock it off!" Cana said taking out a magic card. "Oh yea?! Says who?!" Gray said putting his hands together. An icy must flowed and the symbol for ice magic appeared. Elfman castes a spell that makes his fist turn into a bunch of rocks. Loke turned something on his ring and a green magic glyph appeared. "I'm ready for ya!" Natsu said setting his fists ablaze.

"They always fight like this?" Lucy said raising happy. "Uh huh!" Happy said nodding. "You don't seem too worried!" Lucy said. "Quiet!" bellowed "Hahaha! Look at all of you!" Natsu said. Makarov sighed and punched Natsu, smashing into a wall. "Now if you are all done!" Makarov said jumping on the balcony line.

"I have heard we have a new recruit." Makarov said looking at Lucy. "Welcome to Fairy-tail!" Makarov said. "Nice to meet you!" Makarov said smiling.

He then cleared his throat and everyone looked at him. "You've gone and done it again, you bunch of clowns!" He started. "Just look at the amount of complaints the magic council sent me this time!" Makarov said holding up a large stack of paper.

"This is the biggest pile of complaints yet!" He yelled. "Have you lost your minds?!" He shouted. "All you guys are good at is getting the higher ups mad at me!" He yelled shaking lightly.

"However," suddenly the papers blazed into a fire and he threw it. Natsu jumped and started to devout the flames. "I say to hell with the magic council." Lucy looked at Makarov.

"Any power that surpasses reason still comes from reason, right?" Makarov said. "Magic is not some kind of miraculous power; it is a talent that only works when the flow of energy inside of us and the flow of energy in the natural world are in perfect sync."

"To perform magic, one must have a strong mind, and the ability to focus. It should take over your being and come flowing out of your soul. If all we do is worry about the rules, our magic will never progress!" He shouted.

"Don't let those blow hards on the council scare you. Believe in the path that you believe in! And that's what makes the Fairy-tail guild, Number 1!" He shouted raising a single finger in a L-shape.

Everyone cheered and Lucy looked around. Everyone was coping the symbol over their heads.

"There, you are now an official Fairy- tail member!" Mirajane said after placing a pink fairy-tail symbol Lucy smiled and went to Natsu. "Hey look! I'm now a Fairy-tail member!" She said. "Oh yea, that's cool...Luigi" Natsu said looking at the request board. "It's Lucy!"

"Wow! 160,000 jewel for getting rid of some thieves!" Natsu said. "Sounds good to me!" Happy said. "Um, how come my dad hasn't come back yet?" A boy said. "Hey, that's Romeo"

"You're starting to work my nerves Romeo." Makarov said. "You're a wizard's son, have faith in your father and wait patiently for him." "But, sir, he told me he would be back in three days, and he's been gone for over a week now!" Romeo said.

"If I remember correctly he took the job on Mt. Hakobe." Makarov said. "You're right, it's not that far from here so why won't anybody look for him!" Romeo yelled clenching his fists.

"Listen kid, your old mans a wizard, and like every other wizard in this guild, he can take care of himself!" Makarov said. Natsu just stared at him. "Now go home, get some milk and cookies, and wait for him!" Makarov said.

Lucy noticed everyone has a slightly sour expression. Romeo yelled and punched Makarov right in the face. "I hate you all!" Romeo said running out the guild hall, crying.

A loud smash could be heard as Natsu punch the request he was holding in to the board

"Hey, what did you do that for? You could have broken the board!" A man said.

"Shut it Nab! you don't even go out on jobs." Natsu said walking outside to Romeo. Happy followed Natsu outside, Lucy watching them. "This doesn't look good master." The man, Nab, said. "Just leave him be." Makarov said.

"Why did Natsu get so upset?" Lucy asked. "They have a lot in common. Him and Romeo." Mirajane said. "I guess Natsu sees a connection between him and Romeo." She said sweetly.

"Just because we are all in the same guild, we still have all our personal issues..." Mirajane said. Natsu put a hand on Romeo's head. Romeo watched as the Natsu walked with a determined expression away from him.

A day or so from Shirotsume Town – late morning…

They had left Hargeon half an hour a go and so far they were about a day and half from Shirotsume town, the two of them thought that this would be the most logical place to head in search of Yui's parents.

The path they were on had a forest on one side and a rocky wall that was a part of a jagged mountain pass, that Aerion had no idea where it went.

Aerion remembered back to earlier that morning when they were having breakfast. About how Yui was telling him about how if she was a wizard she would join Fairy-tail and go on lots of missions. She had also told him that she was sad that she couldn't do magic and so he told her that even though most wizards are born with magic straight away and that all living things had magic if only a little.

Yui perked up at this statement and was curious as to how long it would take these powers to develop, Aerion had mulled it over for a bit before saying that it would probably take about 5-6 years or 11-12 years, Yui gasped when she heard the first set of years and moaned when she heard the second set. At this response Aerion couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

Yui had told him that her sixth birthday was in a few months' time, so told him that she would be a wizard and that he would have to wait to see her magic.

At this thought he smiled to himself and watched as Yui picked some wild baby snapdragons, which looked to be tiny iris-like flowers, he saw Yui pick Red, white, pink and yellow snapdragons.

"Hey Yui, you doing okay?" he called to the little girl who was just up ahead, she turned around "yeah Aeri" she said with a huge smile plastered on her face flowers in front of her. After talking for a bit Yui decide to run on a head and came across a man slumped against one of the trees that lined the path.

(Yui's perspective)

"You okay mister?" she asked a hint of worry in her voice. "I-I'm…okay" the man managed to cough between gasps for breath. "B-b-but you…" he gasped in pain "You won't be s-so lucky…little girl!" He managed to stutter out a slight hint of anger in his voice. "W-what!" she stammered. "Get her lads!" bellowed the man, who -apparently- had been faking his injuries, as four more men appeared from the forest behind the man and surrounded Yui

"Give us everything you have on you, little girly" sneered the giant man, who was clearly the leader. "I-I d-don't have an-anything except these f-flowers." She sobbed tears flowing down her cheeks as she shook in fear. "W-who are you guys?" She asked between sobs.

"Who are we?" said the boss "We are the Jones street Boys, you little brat!" spat the boss as he went to grab the terrified Yui, when she let out screamed. A few moments passed, "You little-"bellowed the boss who was promptly cut-off by a fist being smashed into his jaw.

(Aerion's perspective a few moments ago)

Aerion was beginning to wonder how far ahead Yui had run, when he heard her scream. He sprinted of in the direction the scream had originated from. As he ran he began to see figures on the path ahead, as he got closer he could see what looked like a gang of five men surrounding a petrified Yui.

Aerion picked up speed running at the big man and sent his fist crashing into the guy's jaw, the man flew a couple of feet from the force of the sudden attack. "Boss!" screamed the four other men as they stared with eye's blazing with anger and hatred at the new arrival.

" Aeri!" cried a startled Yui as she ran and hugged his leg. "It is okay now Yui, I will look after you." He said rubbing her head reassuringly whilst glaring daggers at the four men still standing. "It's probably best for you to get to somewhere safe Yui." He ordered placing his hat, he had bought earlier, on her head she nodded and as she went to hide said "Please be careful, Aeri."

They stood there staring at each other for a while, until one of the men charged, Aerion noted that the man running at him was slightly top heavy so with this fact in mind he decided to go for the man's legs. He dodged the fat man's first right swing and swiftly kicked one of the man's legs and spun bringing his fist down on the falling man's head sending him crashing to the ground.

As the man laid on the floor unconscious, he turned to the other men and charged at the skinniest looking one of the three. The man he had targeted went to roundhouse kick to Aerion's head but he jumped the kick and replied with a kick of his own to the man's ribs, the skinny man staggered away and Aerion ran at him a delivered a devastating jab to his opponent's stomach, causing the man to fall unconscious before he even hit the floor.

The last two men were stood there staring in shock as two of their guys were laid out to waste like they were no trouble at all. "You… asshole!" screamed one of the remaining men that, who Aerion would have to describe as being a bald muscle mountain, when a beam of light shot from his hand. "So you're a wizard, huh?" he inquired barely dodging the stream of light.

"hahaha, there is no way you can beat the two of us, we're the Jones street boy's infamous wizard twins, the Brakemens!" exclaimed the shorter man of the two. "I can see that Baldy there can use an Energy throwers type of magic; I'm guessing since you're twins that would mean you can do the same thing, Shorty?" Aerion asked. "I'm not bald, it's clean shaven!" bellowed the "clean shaven" one.

"I'm not short, I'm just vertically challenged!" roared the short man. "But you are correct in assuming that we use the same type of magic, but his is attributed towards light whereas mine is-"he replied his voice trailing off as he shot a bolt of pure lightning at Aerion only for it to hit the tree. "what, where did he go?!" the man bellowed. "He was just there!"

"Too slow." They heard from behind them, as they turned and saw Aerion stood there. Then he lunged forward smashing the bald one with an uppercut knocking the man in to the air followed by a swift kick to the man's bald dome that sent Him hurtling to the ground.

The last man of the group stood there for a moment before firing two consecutive bolts of lightning at his opponent. "I told you that you were too slow." the boy said.

" Don't get cocky with me, brat!" shouted the last man. Aerion sprang at the man fist colliding with the man's temple. Due to the force of the attack the short man went cartwheeling into a tree and came to a stop lying there unconscious.

Aerion stood there for a moment to catch his breath, Good god hethought I really shouldn't sprint at full speed then have four consecutive fights and have to use Flash step multiple times, it takes a lot out of me he then fought it beat to tie up the "jones street crew" or whatever their group was called.

Just then he heard a rustling and looked up to see Yui poking her head round a tree, her eyes watery." It's okay, you can come out now" he said reassuringly. She sprinted over to Aerion, wrapping him in as big a hug as her tiny arms would allow.

"I-I was s-so afraid" she spluttered into his chest "I-I-I really fought might of d-died right then b-but…" she continued looking up at him her big and teary. "Hey, don't cry, I promised you yesterday that I would help you and I meant it in any way possible." He said dropping down to her eye line putting his hand on her head gently. "R-really…" "Really, until we find your parents I will look after you." He said affirmatively. "You promise?" she whimpered to him. "I promise." He whispered to her.

"Come on, we should continue." He said getting to his feet and holding out his hand to Yui, she took it as they set off for Shirotsume town.

Route to Mt Hakobe…

"Urgh..." Natsu said. Natsu, Happy and Lucy were in a stable cart, heading to Mt. Hakobe. "Why'd you come with us?" Natsu said to Lucy. "I thought maybe I could help!" Lucy said.

"Wow, you do have a serious case of motion sickness." Lucy said looking at Natsu. He was laying down looking quite sick.

"Wow, it's just another reason to feel sorry for you." Lucy said. "Excuse me." Natsu said looking at her menacingly. "Sorry! Nothing." Lucy said.

... Not too long ago ...

"What?! Natsu was really raised by a dragon?!" Lucy said. "When he was a little boy, a dragon found him wandering through the forest, the dragon took him in, and taught him all about language, culture, and magic." Mirajane said.

"But one day, the dragon disappeared and never returned." Mirajane said. "So the dragon must've been Igneel!" Lucy said. "That's right." Mirajane said. "It's kinda cute, don't ya think?" Mirajane said.

Back to the Cart …

Lucy smiled as she looked at the very weakened Natsu. Suddenly the cart stopped moving. "Looks like we're here." Lucy said. "Alright we stopped!" Natsu said getting up. He started breathing fire at a small radius happily. "Hooray!" Happy said.

Lucy then noticed Happy watching Natsu with a pained expression on his face. "I'm sorry, but this is as far as I could get." The driver said. Natsu opened the back door and saw a blizzard raging,

"Why is it so cold! It's summer, there shouldn't be a blizzard anywhere!" Lucy yelled. "That's what you get for dressing like that." Natsu said. "Oh please! You're not dressed either!" Lucy said. "Now give me that blanket!" She yelled.

"Man she keeps on tugging huh?" Natsu said. "Aye." Happy said. "Oh I know." Lucy said taking out a key. "Open, gate of the clock constellation! Horologium!" Lucy yelled. Less than 5 seconds later there was a clock person.

"Woah, a clock." Natsu said. "That's so cool!" Happy said. Lucy got in its glass body and started to talk, although the others couldn't hear. "What? We can't hear you!" Natsu said.

"Let's take a small break." Natsu said. "Huh? Alright..." Natsu said. "Is it warm in there?" Happy asked sitting down. "She says it is." Horologium said.

... Near the summit ...

"Why does this keep happening to me?! Lucy replies." Horologium said. "And what's with this monkey!" Lucy yelled. Suddenly there was a puff. "Where did you go Horologium? Don't you dare leave me alone with this monkey!" Lucy yelled. "Sorry, but my time is up, take care."

"Hey you big ape!" Natsu yelled. "Huh?" Lucy said. Lucy turned and saw Natsu running to the ape. Suddenly he slipped and crashed into a wall. "Why does Natsu think he can make a big entrance to everything?!" Lucy said despairingly.

"Spill it monkey, where is my friend?!" Natsu yelled. Lucy ran to his side. "So tell me where my friend is." Natsu said. The Vulcan then put a hand on his chin. "That's right, show me where he is!" Natsu yelled again.

The Vulcan pointed somewhere and waved his other hand. "Oh! I think he is actually showing me where Makou is!" Natsu ran to the cave opening. The Vulcan suddenly kicked him out of the hole, and down the mountain. "Monkeyyyyy!" Natsu yelled.

"This is bad!" Lucy yelled. Lucy took out a key and it spun. "Open, gate of the golden bull!" She swiped the key down. "Taurus!" She yelled. A large bull with an even larger axe appeared.

"Hey Lucy, I must say your body is looking quite nice today could I-" "enough! I have a battle for you." Lucy cut Taurus off. Taurus turned and saw the Vulcan "Him, piece of cake." Taurus said taking out his axe.

Suddenly the was a blast of fire and Natsu burst from the hole and kicked Taurus. "Where are you monkey! I still need to destroy you!" Natsu yelled. "You stupid- wait; how did you survive the fall?" Lucy said.

"Happy saved me." Natsu said. Happy was above them, his wings spread. "Thanks buddy." Natsu said. "Aye sir!" Happy said. "Wait, you can't handle any other transportation, but you can handle happy?" Lucy said.

"What kind of stupid question is that? Happy isn't a mode of transportation, he's my friend, I mean duh!" Natsu said with a look of disgust. "You're right, it was totally wrong of me to compare the two." Lucy said.

The Vulcan growled and they all looked at it. "Listen, everyone in the Fairy-tail guild, is my friend. Mirajane or gramps, or those jerks Grey and Elfman, even Happy and Lucy." Natsu said. Lucy blushed lightly.

"Now..." Natsu punched his fists together and it flashed a red dragon magic circle.

"Fire dragons iron fist!" He yelled punching the Vulcan back. It crashed into the wall upside down and clearly defeated. "You beat it!" Happy said. "Yea, but wasn't this monkey supposed to tell us where your friend was?" Lucy said.

"Oh yea, forgot about that." Natsu said. Suddenly there was a bright flash and the Vulcan glowed, and burst. "What was that!?" Natsu said.

He then sighed. A man was standing where the monkey was. "You're telling me that that big perverted monkey was your friend this whole time?!" Lucy sputtered. "His body must have been taken over by the Vulcan." Happy said.

"What do you mean?" Lucy asked. "Vulcans have the power to use possession magic, they use it to take over other people's bodies." Happy said.

A few seconds later they layer Makou on the floor, on a blanket. "Don't you die on me! Romeos waiting for you!" Natsu yelled. Makou then opened his eyes. "I feel pathetic. I defeated 19 of them, but the 20th one got me." Makou said.

"I'm too embarrassed to see Romeo." Makou said. "C'mon man. Defeating 19 is pretty impressive." Makou smiled.

"C'mon. Romeo is waiting for you." Natsu said extending a hand. Makou grabbed it and Lucy exhaled. "Wow, I can't begin to say how amazing these wizards are." Lucy said. Lucy looked at Makou, then Natsu.

Magnolia...

Romeo sniffed and wiped his eyes. "Hey Romeo!" Natsu called. Romeo looked up and saw the group walking to him with Makou. His mouth dropped open. Romeo reared up before jumping on Makou.

"Dad!" He yelled. Makou fell over, but still held Romeo. "You came back! I'm so sorry dad!" Romeo cried. "No, I'm sorry for making you worry." Makou said. "Next time those bullies pick, tell them this. Can your old man defeat 19 monsters by himself, because mine can!" Makou said.

Natsu and Happy soon left. Lucy was about to follow them, but Draco stayed for a little. He smiled and sat down on a wall. "They are so lucky." He whispered. He then seemed to notice Lucy. "Oh, let's head back." He said. "Alright." Lucy said.

Fairy-tail guild hall…

"Hey guys, Cyst is on his way back from his quest." Bellowed a man, seeming to annoy a petite girl with electric blue hair but smiled a bit at the news of the man -Cyst- returning, Lucy noticed her reaction before she got to the bar.

Lucy sat on a chair facing Mirajane. "Hey, can I ask you a couple of questions?" Lucy asked. "Sure, what is it?" Mira said. "First question, who is Cyst?" Lucy said. Mira sighed. "Well, even I don't know that much about him, what I do know is that he is more likely to keep to himself and on the occasion that he does speak it is usually blunt or straight forward."

"What magic does he have? what does he look like?" Lucy asked.

"Let me see, well I remember that he has Yellow Autumn like eyes as well as Spiky Twilight blue hair and he this strange tattoo on the back of his neck and I believe he has shadow manipulation." Mira explained.

"Okay, thanks" Lucy responded "One more thing, Cyst was a part of a group that could be considered the strongest within this guild." Mira said clapping her hands in joy.

"Str-strongest group." Lucy stammered "who else was a part of this group?"

"The members of this group were: Anastaerien Menethil a fire wizard, a man nicknamed Zebsia who uses a form of curse magic, Cyst the shadow manipulator, Hazel castaway that girl with the electric blue curls- she uses ice magic and the one who usually calls the shots was a powerful man with a big heart and his name was…"

Back on the Shirotsume path…

The sun was setting as Aerion trudged on, he turned his head and looked of his shoulder to see Yui struggle to keep up. So he stopped, crouched down and looked at Yui, who was baffled by what he was doing, and said "Climb on I'll carry you for a bit, you seem tired." He began as she rubbed her eyes and replied with "I am getting quite sleepy, Aeri."

She accepted his piggyback offer and was soon asleep with her heard resting on his shoulder he continued his walk towards the little hamlet that was just a few minutes up the path. If he remembered correctly the hamlet was called Mirusuma and that they could find an inn to get dinner as well as stay the night.

A few minutes later…

Aerion gently shook the sleeping Yui to tell her that they had made to the hamlet of Mirusuma. They then spent a minute, Yui opting to walk on her own but still held Aerion's hand just in case they got separated.

They found the inn on the south west side of the hamlet from where they arrived, they entered and booked a room then decided to eat dinner whilst the room was prepared. Like last time Yui managed to eat several plates of food before opting to have a bath and go to bed.

As she was settling down she asked Aerion what his old guild-mates were like and him replied by saying that most weren't very talkative but there was two who always seemed to be fight and using lame insults.

Yui laughed gently before nodding off. Aerion stayed up for a bit wondering what the others were doing now before he to fell asleep.