As the group set up for the night Seliph had decided to make a barrier to protect them from the nocturnal wild animals.
"So this barrier will hold until dawn?" Lucy asked as she set up a tent for the girls with Erza.
"Yeah as long as the moon is out it can stay up." Seliph explained as he sat on a stump near by having been told by both Natsu and Gray that he didn't need to help with the guy's tent.
"So you eat moonlight and sunlight as well?" Lucy asked as Seliph shook his head at that.
"It's more like I absorb it into my body and it helps restore magic that I used for fights, and it also acts as food but I like eating real food better." Seliph explained as Happy seemed to be very impressed by what the boy said.
"Anyway I think it's time to go to bed so good night to you all and Natsu, Gray since I didn't pack an extra sleeping-bag can one of you share with Seliph?" Erza asked as Natsu and Gray nodded.
"I can share with him." Natsu said as Seliph nodded and got off of the stump he was sitting on.
"Night everyone." Seliph said as the group decided to end the day.
…..
As the night became day the group packed up and continued down the road from yesterday making it to a town that had a train station.
"I don't wanna!" Natsu said throwing a fit at the fact that he had to ride a train as Erza and Gray where trying to convince him to get on with Erza trying to be civil this time and waiting to knock him out as Lucy spent time with a excited Seliph.
"This is my first time in a big city town! There are so many people!" Seliph being the eleven year-old that he is was very happy seeing all of the people and shops, trying to drag Lucy off to go see them.
"Seliph as much as I know you want to see what this town has we need to get back and tell Master that we finished the mission and wouldn't it be better if you come back as a Fairy Tail mage." Lucy reasoned as Seliph gained an understanding look as he turned to Lucy and nodded his head so fast that she was worried it would pop off.
"Lucy change of plans we have to wait for the next train to show up." Erza said as she came up to the two with Natsu and Gray following her.
"Does that mean we can explore the town Miss Erza!?" Seliph said excitedly as he didn't even wait for Erza to nod as he ran off to look around, leaving behind a dust cloud in his exact shape as the trio of young adults blinked in rapped succession as Happy, of all people seemed to have some sense out of all of them.
"I'll go after him so he doesn't get into trouble." And with that the blue cat flew off and went in the direction he saw Seliph run in.
…
Seliph was looking at everything he knew he didn't see before living with Ami and Tsyu, which was pretty much everything in town.
"Come get your fresh fruit!"
"Have some nice tasty and healthy veggies!"
The place he was at was what he assumed to be a market as he saw a bunch of people walking around a wide range of age groups young to old.
"Mom let's go to the sweet shop!"
"Big Bro let's go that traveling Magician."
The sounds of happy families gave Seliph a melancholy mood as he looked happy and sad as he saw the families, whishing that he had that back or wished for if he ever found his brother.
"Seliph there you are!" Seliph looked up seeing Happy fly down to his eye level, finally catching up with the boy.
"You're a lot faster then you seem you know that right?" Happy said as Seliph looked sheepishly at the floor.
"Sorry Happy I didn't realize." Seliph said as he gave Happy a small smile as a way of forgiveness.
"Its fine, but you should have seen the looks on the other's faces!" Happy said all upbeat as he told Seliph what the faces of the older mages looked like causing Seliph to fall to the ground laughing.
…
Meanwhile as Seliph was looking around town Lucy was looking in a clothing store for Seliph as she didn't think he had any other outfit then the on the had on, she had to be reinsured that Happy could find Seliph with-out getting distracted but this cause her to argue with Natsu, but the argument was cut short as Erza glared at them mainly because she was upset with Seliph for running off and then stormed off to punish the boy for his bad behavior and Natsu went after her to try and act as an in between for them as Gray decided to shop with her.
"You think Seliph would like this?" Gray asked as he held up a shirt that was exactly like his but in Seliph's size as Lucy shot him a deadpan stare.
"Don't get him something you would like get him something he'll like." Gray reluctantly put away the shirt as he looked for another shirt looking over he saw Lucy holding a few shirts that were in soft colors.
"What's with the soft colors?" Gray asked as he looked at what Lucy picked out seeing each shirt had a different design on it, one that caught his caught his attention was one that had a snowflake pattern on it, and upon further inspection he noticed that Lucy had a shirt that was similar to all of the mages that Seliph knew.
"You got him a shirt that was like each of us." Gray stated as Lucy blushed embarrassed from being found out as she went to put back the shirts.
"Sorry it's just hard buying for him since I only know his favorite colors so I tried to be creative." Lucy explained as she as looked at the jewelry section seeing a very nice pendent there but decided against it as she wasn't shopping for herself.
"Are you even sure the kid doesn't have any other cloths on him?" Gray asked as Lucy looked at him before grabbing an outfit that seemed to go together and she went to the register to buy it.
"So is this for your little brother Miss?" The clerk asked as she put the cloths in a bag.
"You could say it's for someone new joining our guild." Lucy explained as she took the bag and went out with Gray.
…..
"Erza please go easy on Seliph, he's only a kid." Natsu said as he was looking for Seliph to warn him to run rather then help Erza's plan of find and punish.
"I will go easy on him; he'll only receive ¼ of your standard punishment." Erza explained as Natsu paled at her word getting even more desperate to find the boy before the red haired woman.
"But anyway what are your thoughts on him Natsu?" Erza asked as Natsu needed to think about his answer to that question.
"He's a pretty cool kid and he's strong too, I wanna fight him but I know he wouldn't be able to keep up and he feels familiar somehow." Natsu said as he looked up at the sky as Erza nodded her head at him.
"And what do you think about him finding his brother?" Natsu thought again before answering.
"I think it's cool, I mean, if I had a brother I would want to find him and get to know him, and it would be nice to have a real family." Natsu said as Erza agreed with him as she felt the same as Natsu, the guild was a nice 'family' but it wasn't a 'real' family since most of the mages in Fairy Tail were orphans and didn't know their parents or if they had siblings.
"Seliph looks a little like Gray doesn't he?"
"Like hell he does!" Erza was testing the theory that her, Lucy and Gray came up with as she got a reaction that she wanted as Natsu didn't want there to be another Gray in the guild hall.
"Plus he can't be related to Gray I like Seliph and he's not an Ice Princess like Gray." Natsu said as he huffed and walked off leaving Erza behind him.
'It seems that we were wrong about that one part, but is Seliph related to him or is it someone else, I hope the latter.' Erza thought as she caught up with Natsu having forgotten about Seliph's punishment.
…
After walking around for a while Seliph and Happy had a great time exploring as apparently it was a fair and people were giving out free food and other tings so currently Seliph was munching on a candied apple and was wearing a mask on his head as it hanged off his right side on head as he and Happy were enjoying themselves.
"This fair is fun; I wish I could enjoy it with the others too." Seliph said out loud as Happy flew by him.
"Yeah I think they would enjoy it too but remember the train we have to catch is in half-an-hour." Seliph nodded at the cat's words as he continued eating his apple.
They eventually came to a park as Seliph looked around and saw a girl with dark blue hair with two males with her and the two males were arguing as the girl was reading a book. Seliph walked over to them as Happy was distracted by a fish vendor and had his eyes replaced by hearts.
"Hello." Seliph said as he held his apple eating it as the girl's attention was taken off her book and given to him.
"Hi there what's your name?" the female asked as Seliph answered.
"I'm Seliph, it's nice to meet you miss…"
"Levy."
"Miss Levy." Seliph said as he sat down next to her and continued to eat his apple watching the argument between the two males before Levy started the conversation again.
"Do you live in this town Seliph?" Levy asked as Seliph shook his head.
"No I'm passing through here to go somewhere else." Seliph said as Levy had a surprised look on her face at his answer.
"Really where are you're parents?!" Levy asked as Seliph answered.
"Never meet my real parents, but my foster mom and uncle disappeared one day." Seliph explained with a steady voice as Levy had another surprised look on her face and gave the boy a hug and said boy was surprised at the sudden hug.
"If you want to cry you can you know, there's no reason to act strong when you're sad." Levy said as Seliph felt tears pick his eyes as he was holding in his tears because crying won't do anything for him, at last that's what Tsyu said to him. And he let the tears he's been holding back fall as he hugged Levy back to more or less keep her there so he wasn't alone.
…
After a minute or two Seliph stopped crying for now as he left the girl saying that he hoped they could be friends when they re-meet each other but Levy assured him they were already friends and he went to find anyone that he was with earlier in the day.
"Seliph there you are!" Seliph turned his head as he saw Lucy and Gray running up to him as he waved at them running to meet them half-way.
"Hi guys did you enjoy the fair?" Seliph asked as he fixed his mask that was falling off as Lucy and Gray nodded at him.
"Yeah while we were looking for you we got a few things from the fair, I got you some cloths incase you didn't have anything else to wear." Lucy said as she held up some bags as Seliph paled a little.
"I'm sorry you had to spend money on me!" Seliph said with more force then necessary as Lucy and Gray looked at him.
"It's oaky Seliph, if you don't like the stuff we can return it and I can get my money back." Lucy said as Seliph started to feel better, only a little though.
"But you still had to pay money for me and it could have gone towards your rent Lucy." Seliph said as Gray ruffled his hair.
"Don't worry kid Lucy already paid her rent." Gray explained as Seliph nodded his head at the older male.
"Anyway let's get to the train station and wait for Natsu and Erza." Lucy said as she figured Happy was with the two.
As Seliph was in front of the two Lucy and Gray decided to talk about Seliph and who his brother was.
"Are you sure it's not you Gray?" Lucy asked as Gray looked at Seliph.
"Positive I would remember if I had a brother or if I was going to have a younger sibling. My mom wasn't pregnant when she was alive and I highly doubt that he's a bastard child." Gray said as Lucy winced at the word Gray said but she knew that's all he could say as Lucy gave a look of pity towards Seliph.
As the trio made it to the train station they met up with Natsu, Happy and Erza as the group greeted each other Erza knocked Natsu out and hoisted him over her should as Seliph backed in fear a little as Lucy patted him on his head to comfort him.
…..
The group was currently in the train with Natsu laying on Erza's lap and Seliph sleeping on Lucy's lap as he was not only exhausted from the excitement of the fair but also from a headache he was getting from riding the train.
"I wonder if Master would have any clues for Seliph."Lucy said as she had to think if Seliph's brother truly was in Fairy Tail or not.
"If Master doesn't know anything we can ask Granny if she knows anything." Gray said as Erza nodded her head.
"While she might not look it she does have a soft spot for kids, even if she says she's only helping so we stop bothering her." Erza said as she looked at Seliph sleeping on Lucy's lap hugging his mask close to him.
"But I think we should open up the options as to who is Seliph's brother." Erza said as Gray and Lucy nodded their heads.
"I know for a fact that he's not my little brother." Gray said as Erza nodded her head and continued on.
"I have reason to believe that he might be Laxus's brother." Erza said as Lucy and Gray looked at her like she was crazy.
"Why him Erza?" Lucy asked as Erza decided to explain.
"I remember Master told me that Laxus was very happy as a child and he would get excited very easily." Erza explained as Gray nodded his head with Lucy doing the same as Seliph seemed to stir in his sleep.
"I think he might be having a nightmare." Gray said as Lucy rubbed the boy's head calming him down as his movement calmed down and he went back to a calmer sleep.
"You're good with children Lucy." Erza said as Lucy laughed a little.
"I'm only doing what my mom did for me when she was still alive." Lucy answered as she stopped rubbing Seliph's head.
"I see if that were to happen to Natsu I would just hit him in the head." Erza said as Lucy and Gray sweat-dropped at what she said.
….
As the train came to a halt Lucy lightly shook Seliph to wake him up as Erza just dragged Natsu out of the train and Seliph followed along with Lucy holding his head to lead him.
"Hey Seliph you ready to join Fairy Tail?" Gray asked as Seliph seemed to wake up when he heard Gray say that and he nodded his head letting go of Lucy's hand to walk a little faster towards the guild.
"I think you should wake up flame-brain Erza." Gray said to the red head as she nodded her head and slapped Natsu on his face causing him to fall on the ground.
"What the hell was that for!?" Natsu said as he glared at Gray thinking it was him as Gray returned the glare.
"Wasn't me you…"
"Gray we have a child with us so don't you dare finish that sentence." Erza threatened as Gray shut his mouth to avoid potentiality ruining Seliph's innocent mind.
"I won't I'll make sure to watch my mouth for now." Gray said as Natsu was stared down by Erza making sure the pink haired male didn't laugh.
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"What happened to the guild, it's all broken, are you re-building?" Seliph said as seeing a building being made from the ground up did make you think of that.
"Yes we recently got out of a guild war with the only real damage being the guild hall." Erza said as she changed her outfit to a construction one as she walked up to the guild.
"Wait I just realized, where is Seliph going to stay?" Happy said as he flew above them as the four older mages shared a look between each other as Lucy broke the silence.
"He can stay with me tonight, well, if that's okay with you Seliph?" Lucy asked as Seliph nodded his head.
"Hey welcome back guys, who's this little one?" A female voiced asked as she moved her white hair over her shoulder as the others waved art her.
"Hey Mira, this is Seliph and he's goanna join Fairy Tail!" Natsu said as he picked Seliph up and held him towards Mira as he waved to the female.
"Really that's great! Having a new member would be great and he's so cute too." Mira said as she pinched his cheek for emphasize.
"Anyway what color do you want your guild mark to be and where do you want it?" Mira asked as Seliph started to think.
"You should get it on your shoulder like me." Natsu said as Gray hit him away.
"No get it on your chest it looks cooler." And then Natsu came back and the two started to fight like children.
"Can I have it here?" Seliph said as he pointed to his right forearm and Mira nodded her head to him.
"And can it be…..light blue." Mire then put the guild mark on his fore arm after hearing what color he wanted it.
"So now you're an official member of Fairy Tail!" Mira said as Seliph had a really happy grin on his face.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail Seliph!"
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Seliph is now a member of Fairy Tail and has now stepped down the Rabbit hole that is Fairy Tail. And as for why Seliph started crying back with Levy remember Seliph is still young and he had just been separated from his dragons so he is still hurting for that. Also I hope I didn't make it obvious as to who Seliph's big brother is. Anyway favorite and fallow and all that Jazz.
