Hey guys Somebody here. Thank you all for your support. Like I've been saying, I really wanna make this enjoyable. Keep in mind only the OCs and story plots are mine. This story will losely follow the canon events of the Fairy Tail. There will also be some time jumps in between story arcs. Like I know the guild has magic, but it had to take at least a month or two to rebuild the Fairy Tail guild hall.

I also want to mention that ethernano is basically magic power. It is what mages use to power their spells.

Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima

Previously

"Hey Romeo?" she asked him. "Ya Wendy?" he said in response. "I think we'll be great friends." she told him with a wide grin similar to Natsu's. "Really? Me too" he told her. "Friends huh? I'd like that?" he said to himself.

Now

It had been a week since Wendy and Romeo had found his apartment. And Romeo had to admit, it was the perfect place. A kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and guest room, and furniture only for 70,000 jewel a month. With the rent and upcoming monthly guild fee, Romeo decided to take smaller jobs until he could take on bigger jobs pretty easily. And so far it was going great. As he stepped out of the shower, he wrapped a towel around his waist, and walked towards his bedroom, only to find a big suprise. "Sup"

"What the hell?!??!" screamed Romeo. Then he saw Wendy and Carla sitting on his couch. "Honestly boy, you shouldn't walk around like that. It is very indecent. And here I was thinking you were a respectable young man." said Carla in a stern voice. "Wait what?! Carla this is my home, and I'll dress however I want to. And on the topic of my home, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU HERE?!?!?" Romeo screamed in a voice that probably woke up his entire apartment complex. "Because we wanted to drop by and visit you of course." said Wendy in a cheerful voice. "And how'd you get in?" Romeo asked. "We came in through your window of course." she said. Romeo took a deep breath and sighed. "Wendy, that is breaking and entering. I can literally report you." Romeo said. "That's what I told her, but she insisted." Carla said in response. "It's fine because we're friends, right Romeo?" Wendy asked the ravenette. "Ya ya. But if I were any other person I would kick you out." Romeo said grudgingly. "Next time just knock the door."

And with that Romeo made his way to his bedroom. Closing the door behind him he asked, "Is there another reason you guys are here?" "Actually ya," Wendy told him, "Wanna go on a mission with us?" Romeo opened the door, changed in his regular outfit, and saw Wendy holding a mission request. "Lemme see," he said starting to read the mission, "Please come and help us, there is a horde of vulcans plaguing our village. We are low on ethernano and can't continue fighting them. We will pay you a large sum." Romeo finished reading the paper. "Seems easy enough" he said. "But look at the reward Romeo!!!" said Wendy all giddy and excited. Romeo looked around for the reward sum and he found it to be, "1,000,000 JEWEL!!!!!" he yelled. "Yup!!!!" squealed Wendy. She was now jumping up and down like a litttle kid. But Romeo couldn't believe. Was the city really that desperate. " Sooooooo, you wanna come?" Wendy asked with a smirk on her face. Within a heartbeat Romeo replied, "Hell yes!" "Alright let's go. We are now officially a team." "Really?" he asked. "Yes we are. Teams are formed when missions are too hard for one person to handle." Carla replied. "Ya, come one let's go and get that reward." Wendy said while laughing. "Ok we're coming" Romeo replied.

Meanwhile

"Hey Master?" Lucy asked. "Ya, what is it Lucy?" answered Laxus. "You know the ether worm citings that have been going around?" "Yes Lucy, I know about the worm citings." "Well it's just been spotted near the Harspurus village." "Ok...and why does it matter? It won't attack unless a high ethernano level is felt. Such a level would require at least 2 half decent mages, something that that village doesn't have." "Well you know the job that Wendy and Carla just took with Romeo?" "No, what about it?" "Well they're going there to defeat about 100 or so vulcans." Lucy said in a very worried voice. Laxus choked on his beer. "Oh no."

Back to our protagonists

"So how are we splitting the money?" Romeo asked the girls. "I mean me we could split it three ways." Wendy suggested. "So approximately 333,333 jewel for each of us, give or take some numbers." Romeo said agreeing to the suggestion. "Well I have no need for money, all I really need are basic necessities, which Wendy provides, so I say you and Romeo split up evenly." Carla suggested. Romeo and Wendy looked at each other and nodded. "Seems fine to me." Romeo replied. "Ya I think its good too." Wendy said in agreement. "Hey Wendy, can I ask you something?" Romeo asked. "Ya sure Romeo." "Didn't the request say that the village was intact?" "Ya, why do you ask?" "I think we're too late." He pointed to smoke in the sky.

As they continued walking down the path they were on they came to the village and found it in ruins. "Wow that's one heck of a view." Wendy said in amazement. "Those poor people." Carla said in sadness. "Wendy, how dense are you? The village on fire, there's rubble eveywhere, and not a person in sight." Romeo exclaimed. "Well maybe they made the right decision and left." she said with a grin. "I mean that could be a possibility." Carla said doubtfully. "See, so there's no reason to worry." Wendy said in a cheerful manner. Romeo certainly thought that Wendy was being a little too relaxed about the situation. "If they up and left, then where are the vulcans?" Romeo asked in a somber voice. "I don't know, but since they're not here, we can't do our job, and if we can't do our job, then there's no point being here. Let's just go." Wendy said while turning around. And with that she started to walk away. It amazed Romeo at how negligent she was of the missing people. "We can't just leave. We have to at least look for them. We can't leave these people." "Sure we can. They're not here. That's just plain obvious. With them gone, nothing we can gain is lost...wait a second." "What?" he asked in confusion. "Without the village we can't get our reward. We have to go find them. Come on." she replied. She ran into the ruins of the village. Romeo looked at her. "She needs to get her priorities straight." Romeo said to Carla. "Indeed" she sighed, "Let's go follow her."

They walked around the ruins, yelling for anyone to answer. "Hey! Anybody! We come from Fairy Tail! You still have the

1, 000,000 jewel right!?!" Wendy yelled into a house. "Hello! Anybody! We have come to help!" Romeo yelled into yet another house. "I don't think anyone's here you two." Carla said to the mages. Just then the ground started to rumble. "What the hell is that?" asked Wendy. "I don't know. But I do know that it's big." Romeo answered. "I'm sensing a lot of magic power nearby." said Carla. "Ya I feel that too Carla, what could it be?" Romeo asked. "Get back you two!!" yelled Carla. Then bursting out of the ground came a giant worm. "What the hell is that!?!?!?" screamed Wendy. "Its an etherworm. A magical being that absorbs ether nano." said Carla. "It must've felt the presense of the villagers and came here." said Romeo. "No Romeo, it felt our presence and assumed we were here." Carla replied. "Then its because of this thing the villagers are gone." Romeo said in an anxious voice. "The vulcans must've ravaged the place, and then the etherworm came and abosorbed everything." Carla said in an equally anxious voice.

Wendy fell to her knees and started to cry. "We were so close. We almost got the money." she said sobbing. This ticked Romeo off "Is that what your worried about? The money? What about the people Wendy? We failed to save dozens of lives." Romeo scolded her. "So what? They were just random people who just hired us." She said to him. "Ok, what if they were the guild? Would you care then?" "Well ya, they're my family. I have to protect them." "Wendy the lives of our guildmates and the lives of these people are worth the same. Though you may not know them, they're still people with their own own lives and families. You can't prioritize one life over another. They're all important. This is what it means to be human. To help others we don't know." Romeo finished his lecture. He stretched out his hand. "Come on, let's go kick some ass." He said to her. And with that she took his hand and got up. "No let's go save those people." Wendy said with a determined look. Romeo sighed with relief. He didn't think that would actually work. He looked over to Carla. "I'm very impressed Romeo. You of all people changed her. The only other person that's done that is Natsu" "Carla" Wendy yelled. "Coming" Carla replied. With that Carla started to fly. She had sprouted wings. "You have wings!?!?!?!?" he yelled.

"Yes I do." she replied in a calm voice. Carla grabbed Wendy, and lifted her up. They charged towards the etherworm. "Sky Dragon's Crushing Fang!" yelled Wendy. The etherworm hissed and pulled back. "Oh so you want more huh." she said with a smirk. "Sky Dragon's Iron Fist" The worm was knocked back even more. But then suddenly, it charged Wendy. "Wendy, Carla, move out of the way!" Romeo yelled. Carla flew to left, in time for them to miss the beast's attack. A large beam came out of its mouth. "Highly condensed ethernano. Very deadly to touch." said Carla. The beast screamed, and then flaps on the side opened up, and out came more condensed ethernano beams. "Shit, Carla evasive maneuvers." Wendy said. A beam suddenly came straight for them. "Wendy move!!!" Romeo yelled. "Dammit. Purple Flare!" Romeo shot a flame of Purple Flare at Wendy and stuck her. He then pulled in and out of the way of the beams. "Thanks for that." Wendy thanked Romeo. Almost forgot your a mage too." "No problem. I think our plan of attack should be ranged attack." "Ya your right" Wendy replied. With that they started to attack. "Sky Dragon's Roar" "Red Flare: Fiery Vortex." Wendy's attack knocked the worm back, while Romeo's severely burned the creature. "Hah, this should be easy." Wendy said with a cocky grin. "I wouldn't celebrate yet Wendy. Look!" Carla pointed to the creature. Its skin had not only grown back, but it had somehow grown some armour. "The etherworm only grows stronger with every drop of ethernano it absorbs. With the vulcans and the village, its going to take someone stronger than us to defeat it." Carla said in a worried voice. "Wait. Carla. What do you guys mean by absorbed? Wendy asked. "Well the creature swallows whatever comes in its way." Carla answered "Do the people die?" "Yes, but first the ethernano must be taken out of the people, so the beast keeps its meals in a chamber that has special glands that absorb ethernano. It usually takes a day." Carla replied. "So how about we just cut it open and get the people out?" Wendy asked. "That could work, but you could risk hurting the people." "And risk their life instead? Nope." Wendy said firmly. "Let's do it. It's the best chance we have. You and Wendy fly up and distract while I cut it open. Its grusome yes, but also our best shot." Romeo said in agreement. "Fine." Carla looked up with a smile. "Let's do this."

Wendy and Carla took to the sky. "Hey! Big, bad, ugly! Over here!" Wendy yelled. "There's no reason to insult the thing, it doesn't understand you." Carla told the girl. "Hey at least I'm distracting it." Wendy replied. Romeo listened to the two as he made his way to the beast's neck, presumably where this absorbing chamber was. When he finally made it, he saw the armour that the beast had grown. "Pft, this is nothing against what I have. Red Flare: Burning Trident." Placing his right fist on his left palm, Romeo pulled out a trident made of fire. He lifted the weapon, and sliced it through the creature's armor plates. Romeo felt the thrill of his first mission rush through his veins. He kept hacking at the the creature's neck, but suprisingly, it was still moving. "So this thing doesn't breathe" he said to himself. "It really does need ethernano to live." He kept hacking away until he found a tunnel like tube. He stepped inside. The bottom of the creature's throat was soft and squishy. It disgusted him. Just then the worm started to squirm. It had felt him in its throat. Then it let out a great roar. Romeo used the trident to latch into the worm's throat so that he wouldn't be pushed out of its mouth. It smelled disgusting. As Romeo continued, the beast only squirmed more and more. Then he came to a wall of flesh. "This just gets more disgusting." he said in repulse. Using the trident, he opened a hole and found the people and vulcans in little pods.

He quickly started to cut open the pods with the villagers. One by one they all started to wake up, though very weak from the lack of ethernano. After cutting everyone out he said to them, "Hello. My name is Romeo. I am from Fairy Tail. Me and my partners have come to save you from this beast and the vulcans. Follow me." Without a word, they started to follow him. Though it took a while, he finally got all of them out of the chamber. "Go down this tunnel, and on the right should be a hole. Go through it, and you will find yourself back to the village grounds." he said to them. An elderly man walked up to him. He could only assume their leader. "Thank you for saving me and my people. We are forever indebted to you." "No need to thank me. Right now let's focus on getting out." And with that they slowly made it out of the beast. When they got out, they could hear Wendy yelling insults at the worm. "Hahaha. Come and catch me ugly. Man you are one weak monster." yelled Wendy. "Looks like she's having fun." Romeo said to himself. "Wendy!" he yelled to her. "I got the villagers." "That's great. Are they ok?" she yelled back. "A little tired and weak but fine." he yelled yet again. "Could you refrain from yelling so loud?" asked the village leader. "Oh yes. I'm sorry." he apologized. "Romeo! Look at the worm! Something's happening!" Wendy yelled to him. Romeo turned around and saw that the worm was shaking and slowly moving now. Then it just stopped. "I-I think it's dead." Romeo said. Wendy and Carla flew down right next to him. "Yes. Without the constant flow of ethernano, the monster couldn't sustain itself while fighting." Carla replied. "That means we won. Yes!" Wendy said very proudly. "Yes you did. But you also saved us. That we can never repay. Thank you three." The village leader said while bowing along with the rest of the village. "Like I said before, there's no need to tha-" Just then Romeo pulled back by a vine that was attached to his arm. Then the vine threw at a deadly speed and he crashed into the nearby trees. "Romeo!!" Wendy yelled. "W-wendy l-look." Carla stuttered while pointing to the group of 100 vulcans standing in front of them. "Me no like men. Me like women." said the Vulcan who threw Romeo. "Crap" said Wendy in disappointment.

Meanwhile on a nearby hill

"Hey master, what's the point of all of this?" asked a young male. "Ya? What's the point of watching these three do their mission?" asked a female. "The point of all of this is to gauge Romeo and Wendy's power. The etherworm was a test of mind. But the vulcans are a test of skill and power. Wendy is a perfect patient 0 for our plan. And Romeo is a perfect test subject." said their master. "How? Isn't Romeo much weaker than Wendy?" asked the young male. "Maybe. Dragon slayers are the strongest mages ever. But Wendy is still learning. She is also too dense to learn outside her own technique. Romeo is an adaptive learner. He is always changing how he fights to match his surroundings. This puts them on equal footing." their master replied. "Ok. Whateve you say boss. I just wanna execute this 'plan' already." said the female. "In time. In time. Spatial, open a portal." "Got it boss." said the young man who was Spatial. They walked through the portal. "When we are done with our plan, this world will feel the Dragon's Mark." said the master.

To be continued

Hey guys, that's it for chapter 3. I hoped you liked it. I'm really proud of it. Sorry for the kinda cliffhanger. The chapter was just getting way too long. Tell me how you liked the mission, the characters, or those mysterious people, and this "Dragon's Mark". Again please leave reviews, I really wanna make this enjoyable for you guys. Thank you for reading and have a great life.