Chapter 2: Drake needs money and the secret of the strange woman!

Chapter 2 is up already you ask? Yep! I am being good and doing this fast. Although the posts are already written- I still have to shuffle around the posts and do grammar checks and join the posts up! I am so happy you are carrying on reading! I have a question- please answer in PM or review: Are there too many OCs for your liking or is it okay? Please answer- I really want to make this as enjoyable as can be!

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The Authors for this chapter are:

Flair the demon dragon king

Forks'n'Spoons

IridescentHeart

VulpineSnow

Summary so far: Lucy finds an injured girl and takes her to Fairy Tail where they are attacked by a wyvern which is actually a take-over mage that is out for the mysterious girl. Also we meet "Drake" who is a free-lance Holder Mage that is going to work with Fairy Tail for a mission.

Yuru has been following sightings of a Wyvern for the last few days. The report has leaded him here to Magnolia. "Where is the first place I should look for information on this Wyvern? The tavern? Nah It would more likely be better to go to fairy tail given their reputation it wouldn't be hard to imagine that they would be attacked or have something to do with the Wyvern." Yuru said talking to himself before walking and start searching for Fairy Tail. Only the building was missing most of its front wall. "Yeah it defiantly came through here or Fairy Tail has a magically mutated Termite problem." Yuru said before walking around looking for a concious member that wasn't sprawled out on the front lawn.


Everyone stood in silent shock after the wyvern turned man vanished. In that moment, Erza turned back into her regular state, crossing her arms in thought.

In the end it was Natsu who broke the silence. "What the hell! What does he mean by that?" Natsu demanded looking ready to go after the man. "He wants to challenge us; well I'm all fired up. He can come at any time!" Natsu was waving his fire fist around. "He can-"

"Would you shut up fire brain?" Gray yelled, making Natsu glare at the ice mage and run over to butt heads with him.

"What was that ice brick?" They started to go at it again. Strangely, Erza said nothing as she just stood and thought for a moment. Felicia looked at her curiously, and then stepped aside, when the Titania turned and marched back towards the ruined guild, heading right up to Wendy and Mirajane who were still with Jill. Felicia followed after her.

Erza crossed her arms and stared down at the weak woman with an intense gaze. "That man came after you and cause havoc in our guild. I want answers now." She demanded.

"Now Erza, she weak." Mirajane said softly, trying to sooth the red haired mage.

"I'll give your answers, don't worry." Jill chuckled throatily while a weak smile grazed her lips. She lay, only dressed in her pants and with her torso being covered by blankets, in one of the beds of the infirmary, having Mira, Lucy and a very exhausted Wendy watching over her with still very concerned expressions, although the young Sky Dragon Slayer had actually managed to heal the woman's severe injury.

"For the moment, just let me rest a little, okay?"

Originally, Erza wanted to push her, telling her that she couldn't wait, but she immediately forgot about that upon seeing Mirajane's strict glare. It's not that Erza, not being Fairy Tail's strongest woman for no reason, was scared of Mira, but she respected her former rival and she knew better than to mess with her.

"Fine." she sighed and turned towards Jill again "But as soon as you~" Titania stopped mid-sentence, gazing at Jill with an incredulous glare while raising an eyebrow.

"Well, that was fast." she commented, seeing that the raven-haired woman had already fallen asleep.

Meanwhile, Natsu and Gray had paused in their fighting when they both noticed a stranger with who was reading a dragon mask. There was no way they could see his face or any other features. They immediately went on the defensive.

"Hey who are you?" Gray asked the new guy.

"Someone tracking a Wyvern." Yuru said, walking past Grey and Natsu without a second though and walking up to a member he knew by her reputation. "Would you be Erza Scarlet?" Yuru asks. Natsu not liked being brushed off gets mad. Lighting his hands on fire he jumps at Yuru while yelling a battle cry fully intent on striking him. Yuru without even looking slightly turns his body and fires lighting from his palm where he hears Natsu from hitting Natsu and sending him right into Grey head first.

Erza turned to the stranger with a raised eyebrow. However when the guy struck out at Natsu and indirectly harmed Gray, Erza called forth a sword, going into battle mode. "Who are you and why are you asking for me?" She demanded. After everything today, Erza wasn't going to be too friendly to strangers. "I don't appreciate people hurting my nakama." Erza narrowed her eyes, slowly parting her feet in her battle stance. "I suggest you speak quickly."

Felicia ran over to Natsu and Gray, kneeling down to check them over. "Nicely done Natsu you just got owned by some kid." She teased with a smirk.

"Not funny." Natsu mumbled as he sat up, rubbing his head. "Who is that guy?"

"Don't know, but he's asking for Erza." Felicia answered, looking over to the confrontation Erza was having with the stranger. "He picked the wrong time though. She's really on edge right now."

"Erza-san, please calm down" Lucy tried to soothe Erza when she walked up behind her older nakama and put a hand on her shoulder. "It actually was Natsu who provoked him, you know." she informed, sensing that Erza was incredibly tense at the moment and hoping that she wouldn't lose it.

In the meanwhile, Mirajane was tugging in Wendy in the bed next to Jill. The young Dragon Slayer had used up all of her magic energy when healing the amethyst eyed woman. She probably needed the rest as badly as Jill herself now. After the young girl was sound asleep after only a few moments, Mira joined the others in the guild hall.

"I would greatly appreciate it if you would stop fighting now. We have 2 people in the infirmary who need to recover. Please grant them some peace and quiet." the white haired mage said with a pleading voice although her glare was actually quite strict.


Yuru replied, "Technically your friend attacked me and for the reason I asked you are the fairy tail member I know best by reputation and being one of the higher ranking members of fairy tail you would more likely have the information I seek." Yuru explained not flinching or entering a battle stance as Erza entered her. Erza looked a long time at Yuru before lowering her sword and dropping her stance. "What is it you want to know?" Erza asked stilled watching him closely. "I wanted to know if you had seen a Wyvern recently. But from the state of things either it rampaged through here or you guys have a serious magically mutated Termite problem." Yuru said the last part jokingly. This earned a few chuckles among some of the conscious members.

Erza didn't even break a smile at the stranger's joke. Instead she gave him another look. "Why would you be looking for a wyvern?" She questioned. "Do you have anything you do with it?" Her hand tightened its grip on the sword, but she made no move to raise it back up. Her actions depended on this guy's answer.

The people of the guild immediately went silent, all eyes on the masked guy. Natsu had risen to his feet, his hands starting to glow with flames. He was prepared to attack again if need be. Gray was silently watching the scene as he leaned against Felicia for support. His head was still hurting from when Natsu crashed into him.

Mirajane watched everything, debating on whether it would be a good thing to call the master or not. The master always seems to be away when something major goes on in the guild.

"I am filling the last request of a dying man. That Wyvern is guilty of destroying an entire town and killing all the residents. I'm gonna see to it that it pays for its crimes or die trying." Yuru said not even budging. The air was so tense that a knife could cut it as the surrounding members waited for Erza to reply. Natsu's were flames still fully ignited.

Due to the mask, Erza couldn't really study the guy, but she did calculate his words carefully. Erza is usually a person who can tell the truth for a lie and she was getting the feeling that the guy before her was telling the truth. With a sharp nod, Erza loosed her grip on her sword and let it vanish.

At this the guild relaxed a bit. If Erza deemed it safe then it must be safe. Even Natsu followed suit and extinguished his flames. Though he wanted another round with the guy.

"Yes, the wyvern did come through here." Erza stated as she motioned to the wreckage. "It has destroyed most of our guild and injured some of our members." Pausing, Erza choose her next words carefully. "The wyvern was different in a way. I wasn't really a wyvern."

Yuru nodded. "I see you know that much then. I apologize for keeping that from you but I kinda wanted to keep this quite for a little longer." He paused, "You see the reason he can do that is because he stole a very powerful relic from the village he destroyed. This relic is the container of the soul and powers of dozens if not hundreds of Wyverns. It was forged from human sacrifices and much dark magic. While its purpose isn't of that nature if the council got wind of such an artefact what do you think they would do?" Yuru asks seriously. The mood switch back to tense as everyone took in this information.

"Dark magic?" Erza repeated, doubtful and a little sceptical. "You mean that man used dark magic that came from a relic?" Now she was wondering if she should pull out the sword again.

"Whoa whoa whoa." Felicia interrupted from behind, still holding Gray up. "A relic that possess dark magic? Now why would your village have such a thing? I mean if it was forged by human sacrifices, which last I check is forbidden, then just what exactly is you village?" Felicia had a valid point. Only people who dabbled in the dark arts, created stuff of the dark arts.

Narrowing her eyes, Erza went back on the defensive. "So you're village has dark magic. That is something the council would destroy instantly if they knew about it." Erza tensely said.

He coughed slightly before continuing. "Like I said it's a relic almost 5000 years old. And no it was forged from dark magic but it isn't it's something more along the lines of requip magic or takeover. Possibly a mixture of both. But I'm getting off track. Records of that time are all but lost to my people the things we have been able to piece together was that it was a last resort. My village being so secluded it was easy to keep ourselves hidden from the rest of the world. My ancestors came to the conclusion that the relic was far too powerful to be used again so they sealed it. But that mage took the relic and in the course killed all those who guarded it. He then was driven temporarily insane by the power or was too weak willed and was possessed by one of the Wyvern souls. But it none of that matters anymore my village was destroyed and all of them but me were killed. So your Council won't have anyone killed for because a village outside their control violated their rules." Yuru said not missing a beat.


Drake surveyed the sights of the city as he was guided toward the Guild Hall of Fairy Tail. He saw some wisps of smoke in the air above, but he simply dismissed it as... well, just smoke. It would still be quite a few minutes before he and Jenkins, the burly jerk, reached the sight of the Guild Hall, and since Drake did not want to meet another Guild so soon, he was actually taking his time with his walking speed.

The burly brunette leading him wasn't complaining, so it was all well and good. Jenkins himself wasn't actually a mage, or at least he never presented himself to be one. Drake thought that was just fine. Between the two of them, it was a standard formula. Jenkins would pull a couple of favours and help Drake find work. In turn, Drake would give a small percentage of his earnings to Jenkins, and then he could use the rest for room and board at where ever he was staying.

They had a deal, after all.

Still, Drake was NOT looking forward to working with another Guild, even if it was the famous Fairy Tail.

"Oi, Fairy Tail," Drake spoke up as he walked; only pausing to survey the damage. "..." He chose not to comment. He knew that this would end up bringing the fury of the Guild upon him.

The black-haired man's armoured boots clunked against the wooden planks of the floor as he walked, paying no mind to this story of dark magic and wyverns. As far as he was concerned, it was not his business. After the masked youth finished his exposition about some village, Drake scowled. Quite frankly, Drake did not care. He was here about a job. "I'm here about that job of Salamander Hunting," he spoke, crossing his arms with a serious expression.

See?

"Ah... Master Makarov..." Jenkins stepped around the crowd to try approaching the Guild Master. "You remember me, right? I was the one whom delivered a few of the job posters a couple of days ago." He paused to make sure the words sank in. "Anyway, the Salamander Hunting request was one of a good friend of mine," he fibbed a little, rubbing his hands together. "And also, my other friend, Drake here, needs the funds, but I don't think he can do this on his own." He leaned in close to the Guild Master, though he tried not to invade the man's personal space. "Sir, if Fairy Tail would assist, your guild can have seventy-five percent of the profit for all we care."

"Seventy-five?" Drake let out, visibly upset. "Jenkins, you swindler!"

"Oh, relax, it's 100,000. That gives you 25,000. Taxes and rent aside, you can live off that for a month by yourself," Jenkins shot back.

Drake's left eyebrow twitched as he scowled, visibly upset. "Damn your use of logic."


Erza remained quiet, not at all liking what was happening. Wyverns, dark relics, transforming men. It was all giving Erza a headache. She sighed and pinched the bride of her nose as she closed her eyes. "Ok, this is getting out of hand. We need the master for all of this." With that in mind, she turned in search for the soft old man, but stopped sort when she saw two new strangers talking to him. "You have got to be kidding me."

"What is this?" Gray mumbled. "Fairy Tail visit day or something?"

Marching over, Erza caught the last parts of the conversation, she was about to interrupt but the master shook his head.

"So you would like help on this Salamander Hunting request." Master Makarov repeated as he stroked his chin in thought. He studied the two men with his wise eyes. "Though it sounds to me, our help isn't wanted. Plus the job as already been accepted by one of our members, so it is up to her if she wants to work with you guys." The master pointed to Felicia who was currently guiding Gray to a chair.

"Well, we shall ask her then." Jenkins said and together with Dracul walked up to Felicia.

Immediately, Master Makarov turned to Mirajane and asked her if anyone was badly wounded during the attack, which Mira answered with a simple nod before she lead the old man to the infirmary. With a somewhat concerned gaze he looked at the sleeping form of Wendy but then, suddenly, his eyes widened in clear shock when he saw the black haired woman in the other bed that was sleeping so peacefully...

"It can't be...that woman...she is..." he murmured, which caused Mira and most of the other guild members to look at him questionably. Without hesitating, Makarov grabbed Mirajane's wrist, dragged her out of the infirmary again and closed the door before he took a deep breath. All of the guild's members were looking at him with confused and questioning expressions, even Felicia, Jenkins and Drake, who had been arguing rather loudly until then, turned their attention towards the guild master.

"Tie her up..." Makarov then rather whispered, trying to compose himself.

"Huh?" Saying that Mira was caught off guard by such a strange order would be a huge understatement...

"I said tie her up, right now! If she wakes up, I don't want her to be able to even move one finger!" the old mage repeated strictly.

"But master, she hasn't done anything!" Lucy argued, visibly in shock.

"Maybe not yet, but I don't want to risk that she will. That woman right there behind this door is undoubtedly Jillian Carter. She is on the council's top 10 list of Fiore's most wanted criminals." he began

"What?" almost everyone gasped in surprise upon hearing that before they silently listened as their guild master continued to explain.

"Yes. This woman is a dark mage. Moreover, she is known to be one of the most gruesome and sadistic dark mages in the whole country. Many bounty hunters have been send out to hunt her down and capture her, dead or alive. The current reward for the one who actually manages to capture her is 200.000 Jewel."

"But...what has she done?" Mirajane asked, her eyes expressing shock and horror.

"She is the Dragon Slayer that was raised by Dsurion, the feared, evil black dragon which has lived a long time in Serpent's County in the east of Fiore. He terrorized a lot of villages back then, but is said to have been killed by the dragon Metallicana in a fierce battle many years ago just before Dsurion was able to attack Celestia, the capital of Serpent's County. However, although Dsurion died in that fight, Jillian, his disciple that Metallicana didn't know of back then, lived on. She inherited his evil flames and ever since Dsurion's death, uses them to systematically burn down every single village and town Dsurion ever had a grudge against. She is responsible for the destruction of the villages Mandona, Corinia and Goemandh in Serpent's County. She was also the one that burned down a big part of Celestia 3 years ago. Throughout the years, a lot of hunters have tried to capture her, but never even once did one succeed." Makarov finished his explanation.

"Oh my goodness..." Lucy gasped in shock while covering her mouth with both of her hands. The young stellar spirit mage was visibly scared to death. She realized it was actually a miracle that she was still alive. She wouldn't know what she would have done if she would have run into Jill when the woman wouldn't have been that gravely wounded...

"And although this is already horrifying enough, it's not even the worst part." the guild master told them while crossing his arms in front of his chest.

"What is the worst part then?" Erza asked, her composure, surprisingly, as calm as ever.

"Nobody has ever encountered her in battle and lived long enough to tell about it."

Silence filled the room. A few murmurs were exchanged, but generally, everyone seemed to be too shocked to say a word...

"Tie her up. It is actually a quite lucky coincidence that she is here. Erza!" The master demanded.

"Yes, master?" Titania turned her attention towards the old man.

"I want you to make sure that you get a lot of rest tonight, for you will accompany me tomorrow. We will bring her to the Council so that this criminal can finally face the punishment for all of her cruel deeds."

"Do you mind if I accompany you?" Dracul then asked, stepping out of the crowd and in front of Makarov, causing Erza, the old man and a lot of other members to look at him quite surprised.

"Why would you want to accompany us?" Erza asked suspiciously, but Dracul simply shrugged his shoulders.

"200.000 bucks is a whole lot of money, simple as that. I accompany the two of you and in exchange I get a part of the reward. Let's say 15%?" he offered.

Makarov thought about that for a moment, before answering "Well, you did come all the way here only to take a job and it doesn't seem like Felicia wants to share her mission with a stranger...alright then, you shall accompany us and get a 15% share of the money as a-"

"Uh...hey gramps." Natsu, who, together with Elfman, had just gotten a few ropes to tie Jillian up like the master had ordered, suddenly interrupted Makarov.

He and the white haired coloss stood in the infirmary's entrance with wide eyes and just when Makarov asked what the pink haired Dragon Slayer wanted, they stepped aside to let their master have a look into the room.

Jillian's bed was empty, the window was wide open...and Wendy was gone.

Cliff hanger! What will happen next? Please R&R! We want feedback! Please tell us what you think! Please!

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