uh yeah... hehe, i forgot to mention in the last chapter that theres a time skip in between here and there. on with the chapter

fairy tail guild hall

7 years later

"happy birthday dorian" yelled the guild in unison, "yeah your a real man now" yelled a large man with spiky white hair and a facial scar, dorian face palmed "why with the man thing all the time elfman..." dorian sighed. the man now known as elfman replied "because your 18 now which means your a real man" levy walked up and hugged dorian, they had grown quite close in the seven years since dorian had joined fairy tail, he was now quite lean but muscular and wore a very steampunk looking outfit (think jacob frye from assassins creed syndicate) "happy birthday dorian, wanna go on a mission with us?" she asked as the cockblock brothers (jet droy) behind her sulked about not being hugged like that. "sure, sounds like fu-" dorian's sentence was cut off as a chair hit him in the back of the head, dorian stood up very enraged by the offending peice of furniture. to most he seemed to dissapear and re-apear in front of natsu who was partly frozen courtesy of grey, the ice make wizard. the whole room whent silent as the thunk of dorian's fist uppercutting natsu's jaw rang out through the building, "watch where you throw shit dumb ass" dorian and grey said in unison. insighting yet another fairy tail brawl.

a few hours later

"as i was saying before, that..." he motioned to where quite a few unconcious wizards were now sprawled acroos the floor "i would love to go on a mission with you levs, sounds like fun" dorian said. "alright its settled dorian and team shadow gear are going on a mission" said levy as she jumped excitedly. "which mission should we do though?" asked jet, "i think dorian should pick seeing as it is his birthday" replied droy.

twenty minutes later.

dorian walked up with a job request "this one looks like fun, finding an ancient library in the ruins of an unknown civilization. and it pays 800,000 jewel" said dorian, "e-eight hundred th-thousand jewel?" stutted droy, "yeah! and its got stuff that all of us can do, clearing the lower levels of the ruins of some low level monsters, finding a library full of forgotten knowledge, and the possibility of deciphering an unknown language" said dorian as his eyes sparkled with determination at the possibilty of learning an unknown language.

"alright, lets go tell mira and then we will go" said levy determindley.

"so you guys are taking the job on shadow island?" questioned mira. "yeah, its not far from where i was raised. i was told a few stories of mer-people that used to live there, but i never explored the island" dorain said nonchalantly with a deadpan look on his face, "alrighty, i'll just clear it with the master and then you can go

ten minutes later mira returned with a small smile on her face, " master has cleared it and notified the employer, it should take about a week or two to complete. now go and do what you must guys" mira giggled as she sent them away.

"alright lets go" shouted dorian excitedly.

A/N. .

so people whaddya think of this the second chapter of the king of shadows. please leave a review, i need feedback yo. bye-bye til the next chapter -SubAtomicShadow. :D