I want to post it in a week or so after I changed the first chap but i think to myself, they're gonna kill me. So yeah, chapter two for your appetite. Okay, that sounds both weird and silly in my head.

P/S: who had read the latest and final chap of Fairy Tail manga 545? WHYYYYY?! you'll understand if you read it.

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CHAPTER TWO

When Lucy footsteps finally gone from the hallway, Natsu sits back on his leather chair, resting his arms against the armrest before looking at the Fullbuster couple. "So, what are your reason for coming here today Gray, Juvia?" Gray glances at his wife next to him, whom currently is looking away from both men; especially Natsu, before he sighs. He pulls out three files from his coat, two black files and one red file, before placing them all on top of the black glasses table.

Natsu looks at all those files, noting the colors of the files being shown and to be honest, he is quiet surprise to see a red file, one file that hasn't been used for quiet awhile and whenever there's a red file, it means, it's connected to something clearly means personal stuffs to any of them and latest investigation. So yeah, he is quiet surprise to see a red file – since each file color held their respective meaning behind it. "What are all these files are about Gray?" Natsu asks and Gray clears his throat before he looks back at Natsu. "These files contain our latest information about Tartaros," Gray says and Natsu nods at that. "Well, that's good news I'm supposed. So, Gray, enlighten me about your investigation," Natsu says as he picks up the first file that marks 'Recruits T', and once again, Gray clears his throat, before continues. "Well, as you read the Recruits T's file, the number of Tartaros' members have been increased a lot in the past couple of years and seeing the numbers of Tartaros keeps growing would have anyone piss in their pants – but for sure, not Fairy Tail's – but when we investigated deeper, we found out that the reason of their massive recruiting is because to cover up the loss numbers of their members." Gray says and Natsu nods. "I see, so, what you're saying is, Kyouka's death on the other day is not just by a coincidence?" he asks, more like saying, and Gray nods. "Exactly, now, if you turn on page 20, you'll find the reason behind their decreasing number."

And turn to page 20 he did and he raises his eyebrow in questions. "The Phantom Killer? The one who is on a killing spree in all areas, you mean? For the past two years?" he says slowly as he looks at Gray. The raven hair guy nods before continues, "Correct, the infamous Phantom Killer," Gray pauses, gathering some thoughts before continues, "We, at first, thought that she or he would have nothing to do with the decreasing number of Tartaros and since of the victims most kills are at Tartaros or near Tartaros' areas, we thought it might be Tartaros' doing. God's forbidden if we don't know how disgusting Tartaros is," Gray says with a sneer and Natsu only nods in agreement. "And?" he asks as his hand sometimes flips around the pages to read about this infamous Phantom Killer. "But when we realizes most; no, all the victims are either an associate of Tartaros, directly or indirectly, and Tartaros' members its own, and not to mention, not a trail were ever left behind the crime scene – not even a trace of it -, all of us click dots by dots before, boom, all connects to this Phantom Killer." Gray says and Natsu nods. As he scans the pages, he notices something else, nothing that has a connection to this Phantom Killer – or so he think.

"So Gray, I can understand about this Phantom Killer, though I don't quiet see what her or his roles in this shit, but, I'm supposed you forgot to mention about, I don't know, someone named Zodiac?" Natsu asks as he skims the name, a kind of similarity comes to him from the name.

As if awakes from a daze, Gray jolts on his seat, causing Juvia to glance at him worriedly before she looks away – once she finds out her husband is only over reacting or simply snaps out for his stupid daze. "Damn, I knew I was forgetting something there. Thanks for reminding me boss," the raven hair guy says and Natsu huffs in response. "Alright, now that you mention it, Zodiac-" Gray stops for a while when a knock is heard from the door of Natsu's office and Natsu couldn't help but groans in annoyance. "Enter," he says and with that, the door opens and a man with slick brown hair enters, with a tray of Chinese porcelain cups and a teapot, "I'm sorry for this interruption Mr. Dragneel but Lucy asked to me to send some tea here. I hope I don't bother you much," the butler says smoothly and Natsu looks at him, annoyance written all over his face for his interruption – but mostly from the reason Lucy sends this man to send the tea instead of doing it herself thus avoiding meeting him; but no one needs to know that - before he nods with a grunt. The butler nods before he places the cups on top of the black glass table and pours some tea into the cups and places the teapot in the middle of the table. "Forgive once again Mr. Dragneel, but now, I'll be taking my leave," the butler says before he walks out from the room, and closes the door shuts.

Natsu glares at the closed door before he looks back at Gray, who seems amused for some reasons. "What have you amused Gray?" Natsu asks and Gray chuckles before he shakes his head, before he takes a sip of the lukewarm tea, "Nothing," he says and Natsu hums, unconvinced by his answer but choose to ignore it, "Then continue what you're saying earlier Gray," Natsu says and Gray nods. "Yes boss. Okay, so, before the earlier interruption, Zodiac is another person we find out when we were searching up on Tartaros." he says and Natsu raises an eyebrow as he closes the file in his hands. "I see. Then tell me, how this Zodiac person connects to Tartaros? What did this person's role in the damn Tartaros?" Natsu asks, a snarl forms on his lips.

"Relax boss, before we're going any further, why don't you open the next file?" Gray asks, pointing at the other black file, marks as 'T Info' and Natsu takes it without further ado. Gray watches patiently as Natsu flips one by one the pages in the file, a smirk come upon his face at seeing the amused face the Fairy Tail's leader is wearing. "This is… marvelous. You guys did dig into a goldmine and for that, good job guys," having him congratulating them is one thing and seeing Natsu sporting a small smile? It was no wonder Gray blushes (not in the way your weird mind would've thought) and even Juvia who ignores the whole situation slightly blushes at hearing their usual cold and strict boss compliments them. Natsu looks at his blushing – albeit slightly – minions and nakamas before he continues inspecting the files. "Debt collection, addresses of each member, their drugs factories, ships, all of their secrets are in our hands." Natsu looks at them, the file in his hand back on the table. "Tell me, how you guys achieve this," he asks and Gray sighs, "That's when Zodiac comes in," he says and Natsu nods, although his eyes still glint with satisfaction because either way, they have something about Tartaros and it makes way to destroy Tartaros brighter.

"Zodiac?" "Yeah, Zodiac. It was, if I remember correctly, last month, when an e-mail from some anonymous e-mailer sends us some information about Tartaros. We thought it must have been Tartaros' trick to injects virus or RAT or some spying shits into our computer and both Levy and Freed work out their asses to inspect the anonymous e-mailer, but seems like she or he was smarter than our two combo that it tired them out before we decided to open up the e-mail, in some other laptop of course. When we open the e-mail, it was like a fucking rainbow flying above our heads when we saw all the information about Tartaros - associates, debts and some other shits. It was the first and last e-mail she or he sent but he or she introduces himself or herself as Zodiac, and that's all. But, I have to say that the information is not only send to our hands since I got calls from Lamia Scale, Sabertooth, Mermaid Heels, all of out associates that they had received the same e-mail from the same e-mailer that called himself or herself Zodiac. And with the news of how the cops are busting a lot of Tartaros hideouts and factories and some other stuff, it seems like, Zodiac sends some e-mails to the cops either. And, I'm with no doubt, said that Tartaros and all their associates got the same e-mail to because Erza and Jellal told us that Tartaros are buying new soft wares when they were spying on them couple of weeks ago." Gray finishes, before he sips on the cup of tea before him, feeling his throat a little bit of dried.

Natsu nods, still satisfied with the information he received.

"So, did any of you do a little background check on this Phantom Killer and Zodiac? Any chance they might be related or simply, a same person disguising as two different personas?" Natsu asks and Gray nods. "We did but not avail, like the name; Phantom Killer and as what the e-mailer called himself or herself Zodiac, quiet unreachable for any of us," Gray says and Natsu nods. "Hmm, anyway, should we worry about these two?" he asks and Gray shakes his head. "All of us think; no, we shouldn't be worry about them. The Phantom Killer, despite he or she did kill around our and our allies' areas, those victims are usually a Tartaros or direct or indirect associates of Tartaros. So, no, we don't have to worry about either Phantom Killer or Zodiac - I doubt he or she is a threat because Zodiac only sent one e-mail and that also the last one. But I'm supposed, if Zodiac strikes again, it might be something connected to Tartaros or their associates. And Phantom Killer, she or he seems to be grudging on Tartaros so I'm supposed whoever this Phantom Killer is, she or he is on our side, and same goes to Zodiac, I'm supposed." Gray says and Natsu nods.

"How about the red file? It has been… awhile since I last seen it," Natsu says as he stares at red file in front of him. The last time they used red file is the day when Zeref – Natsu shrugs off the memories away before he looks at Gray. "I think, you better look at it yourself boss," he says and Natsu looks at him, before he grabs the red file. As he reads the first sentence of the page, his fingers tremble as his eyes widen.

"C-Celestial?" the words come out from his lips and both Fullbusters flinch, not because of bad memories, but because of good memories that come along and the people that they oath to always remember and love. Natsu puts back the file back on the table, before looking at Gray, his eyes bewildered. "Gray, you have to be kidding me," Natsu says and Gray sighs, facing his wife with a concern look. Juvia looks at Natsu, despites herself still is annoyed at him for upsetting Lucy, she still understands the reaction coming from him because hell; when they heard about the name they haven't heard for years, they literally freak out. "Natsu," softly, Juvia calls out for him, looking at him, her hands grips her husband's hand. "I knew it has been almost two decades and believe us, all of us are still hard to believe it too but, what you about to read might surprise you," Juvia says and Natsu looks at her in disbelief.

"What do you mean by that?" he asks and Juvia sighs.

"One of the reasons Tartaros has been so active lately is because they're going to recruit the Celestial into their little group," Juvia says and Natsu snorts. "That's ridiculous, they promised in front of Mama Anna unless she or her is there to lead them, they won't ever come back into the underworld ever again and we all know how true to their words they are." Natsu says with a snarl and Juvia sighs.

"It's true but, Tartaros find other way," Juvia says and feeling suddenly anxious, Natsu looks at the blue hair woman nervously.

"What… what do you mean by that?" he asks and Juvia sighs, looking at Gray for some moral support. Gray nods and she smiles at him, before looking back at Natsu.

"You know what I mean Natsu," she says, seriousness in her voice and Natsu looks away.

"It can't be true though, because she… she died in front of me!" Natsu says, his breathing getting hectic as his eyes get bewildered.

"Natsu… she… she's still alive! Ashley still alive and if we don't get her before Tartaros, she'll be lost… again…"


Natsu sits on his chair, a glass of whiskey on his hand as he stares into the darkness. He watches how the ice cubes inside the whiskey bumps into each other, creating a 'clinking' sounds before what Juvia – the Fullbuster couple have gone to the base for something after they said goodbyes to Lucy, who is still currently sulking against him -says come crashing back, like bullet into his gut.

"Natsu… she… she's still alive! Ashley still alive and if we don't get her before Tartaros, she'll be lost… again…"

Ashley Lactvia, a girl with the most captivating golden blonde hair that she always loves to tie into a side tail, always wearing cute sundresses and her eyes, it looks so tasty, like hot cocoa and always, when they were both still a child, he was lost in her presence.

Although he is daydreaming about his cute Ashley, a vision of Lucy came out of nowhere. How he always lost into her eyes, how he loves the way she gets sassy on him - even though he is her master - and how cute she is when she is angry. That's his Lucy. When he caught her trying to steal his wallet, he has thought she looks almost like Ashley as he stared into the depth of her dark brown eyes. He doesn't know why but he guess it was his ego jumping – and his instinct – to action as he immediately declared her as his slave and she doesn't have any option but to obey him – he points a gun to her head that time so yeah, she really doesn't has any choice. As Lucy stays with him after the snatching incident, he sometimes would thought that Lucy is Ashley but then, Ashley isn't sassy, she always so sweet and kind and has a beautiful temper. She never throws a tantrum and albeit being a lot embarrassing, she always makes him a flowers crown. Although for her, he'll do anything, just anything.

And Lucy… he don't even know where to start. Despite being his slave, she is so damn sassy, always throw a tantrum and when she throws a tantrum, it was like fighting an eight years old kid! He swears that if he doesn't get to asylum now, he'll be there sooner or later. Ashley is different from Lucy and Lucy is so different from Ashley. Sure, sometimes Natsu sees Ashley in Lucy, but it just for a while because the next thing he knew, she'll be whining or complaining either how dusty wherever they are or how cold the place is, or simply just about anything.

He still wonders why he hasn't pulled the trigger yet.

But he knew the answer.

Ashley is his past and Lucy – even though she is a total different from Ashley and a pain in the ass – is his future.

And even if it's true Ashley is still alive, he knew it would always been childhood love between them because Lucy…

Has him intertwined around her fingers like a puppet master, despite her not knowing it.


And that's... it! Chapter two! So, what do you guys think? I hope it's okay...

Anyway, can any of you guess who is Phantom Killer and Zodiac? If you do guess correctly, you are a freaking mind-reader! )0o0(

Anyway, forgive my misspelled and grammar errors... and, WHYYYY?!

please review me your thoughts though.

And I'm out,

-Silver

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