Ugh. My longest chapter so far. I didn't expect that when I started with it. I'm glad I was still able to finish it yet.

I hope I can wake some interest in my OC (at the end of this chapter).

Reviews are welcome.


Lucy continued: "Back then they used to partying in Liliana always leaving a great mess. Once I witnessed only ten of them rampaging our annual fair. Shortly afterwards my family left the town and I chose to attend FT."

"Well, we won't let them do as they please at our academy." Erza said determined.

"You're absolutely right." Gray agreed confidently.

"So it's going to get interesting soon?" Natsu was finally heated up looking forward the upcoming events.

Chapter 3: Harbingers of chaos

Lucy was walking along the corridor to the entrance hall. Lucy was looking for Natsu and Gray because she hadn't seen them for the past five hours. She reached the upper level of the hall from where she had the best overview. But she couldn't identify one of her friends in mass of students down there.

Suddenly she saw a blue cat flying down there through the hall, towards a certain corridor.

"Happy, wait!" she shouted over to him.

The cat stopped abruptly almost falling to the ground. Happy turned around but he couldn't identify who was calling him.

Lucy took out a silver key: "Open the gate of Aquila!" a human sized eagle appeared. "Could you please take me down there?" Lucy asked politely pointing over to Happy.

The students noticed the summoning of Aquila and stared up surprised.

Lucy landed next to Happy. "Thank you. Close gate!" Aquila vanished again.

"Lucy. You scared me to death." he said reproachful.

'Has he always to exaggerate?' Lucy thought sighing. "I'm sorry. I've been looking for Natsu and Gray for quite a while. Do you have any idea where they could be?"

"Aye!" Happy answered.

For a short a moment nothing happened. Lucy was looking at the blue cat that was looking at Lucy.

"A-and could you please tell me where they are?" Lucy asked sighing not understanding why she even had to ask.

"Aye! Follow me!" was Happy's respond.

-…-

Lucy had followed Happy for almost 15 minutes now. He hadn't revealed yet where they were going to but Lucy realized that they were heading towards the training grounds which were located at one edge of the academy.

"Are you sure that Natsu and Gray are there?" she asked wondering what her friends had been doing there the whole time.

"Aye! Natsu said that he and Gray had to prepare."

"Prepare?" Lucy asked. Getting closer to the training ground she noticed battling noises coming from there.

Lucy started to hurry.

-…-

"Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu charged a large fireball out of his mouth towards Gray.

"Ice Make Shield!" Gray built up a large wall of ice in front him for protection.

The effect didn't last long and the ice started to melt away fast. But on the other hand Natsu's attack was over before it could reach Gray.

"Congrats! I didn't expect you to melt down my shield that fast." Gray complimented to Natsu.

"Same goes for you. I didn't expect you still to be able to create such a huge wall." Natsu responded.

Both were visibly exhausted because they had been battling again and again for the last hours.

"What the hell are you two doing here?" Lucy had just entered and witnessed the last attacks.

Natsu and Gray decided to rest for now and turned towards Lucy.

"We're just getting ready for the guys of FP." was Natsu's answer.

"So you're intending to fight them before you've even met?" Lucy questioned unbelievingly.

"But wasn't you who told us how dangerous they are?" Gray commented. "And Erza mentioned that we should prepare properly."

"I don't think she meant it that way." Lucy sighed.

-…-

Later that day at night the red haired woman entered a bar she used to visit often.

Mira was standing at the bar and turned over to her late guest: "Erza, welcome." she greeted politely. "I missed you visiting the last days. Nice seeing you today."

"Well, I was busy preparing for tomorrow." Erza said taking a seat.

"The same as usual?"

Erza nodded at Mira's question. "Tomorrow?" Mira referred to what Erza just said before while preparing the drink.

"The director didn't involve you yet but tomorrow a representative unit from FP is visiting our academy."

Mira listened concentrated while serving the drink: "Here you are."

"Thank you."

"Why didn't director Makarov involve me then?" Mira wondered returning to the bar.

"Well, the director asked me to explain you." Erza commented.

She paused for a moment and then continued: "According to rumors Lisanna is a member of the representative unit."

Mira froze at these words.

"Director Makarov wasn't sure if would be good for you two to meet so soon. So he asked me to request you to keep away tomorrow."

"Well, I understand that." Mira turned to Erza with a set up smile.

She noticed Erza finished drinking. "Would you like another one?"

Erza nodded watching over to Mira a bit sad.

-…-

The next day FP's air ship was landing on a field near FT. On the ground FT's reception team already awaited them. It consisted of Gildarts Clive in the center, Macao Conbolt to his left and Erza Scarlet to his right.

Four persons left the air ship.

"Welcome to Fairy Tail." Gildarts was the first to speak.

"Thank you very much." the girl replied politely. "We are glad that you accepted our short-termed visit."

"You're welcome. My name is Gildarts Clive and I'm in charge of introducing our academy to you before meeting our director, Makarov Dreyar. My assistants are Erza Scarlet and Macao Conbolt."

"It is nice to meet you, Gildarts-sama." the girl greeted back politely. "Then I should introduce me and my team: my name is Ayumi Takahara. I'm the student representative of our academy."

Gildarts and his team were a bit surprised because she seemed relatively young for that position. Erza guessed her to be 16 years old. She had gained the same position last year at the age of 18.

Ayumi continued: "My first assistant is Jean Bouvier." she pointed to a young, relatively small man with short dark-brown hair and brown eyes. His chubby figure wasn't what you would suspect from a member of FP. "He is our special analist."

Jean suddenly noticed a small pool of water were there wasn't any just before. But he couldn't identify anything strange. It might just have been his imagination.

"The woman next to him is Evangeline A.K. McDowell" Ayumi pointed to a girl with long blond hair that was even a bit smaller. She had a serios look and seemed to be watching over to Erza. She didn't seem to be much older than Ayumi, so Erza wondered why she was referred to as 'woman'. "She is our veteran member and will support me with her experience."

"The last member of the team is Annalis Sasturs." she pointed to a thin girl with black hair plaited into two short pigtails. She had brown eyes and seemed watching Erza as well. Erza even noticed a slight evil aura coming from her that made her shiver a bit. "Amongst all students she was the most eager one to meet Fairy Tail." Ayumi added.

Annalis frowned secretly at this comment.

"Nice to meet you." Gildarts replied friendly. "To be true we expected you to be six persons."

"Well, there is one member left in the ship that will wait there for our return and meanwhile prepare everything for our way back. And …" Ayumi looked down to the ground blushing. "Our team leader is currently missing. He said that he had to carry something out and left the air ship before our arrival."

Gildarts, Erza and Macao were taken aback at this explanation.

"Well, that doesn't mind. I think we should proceed as planned." Gildarts suggested.

Erza seemed to be a bit disappointed that Lisanna wasn't part of the representative unit but maybe the person left in the ship...

-…-

Lucy and Natsu were walking through the town next to FT. They didn't notice the arrival of the FP-members.

"Why did you take me here?" Natsu moaned. "To be true I'm not very keen on going shopping. Couldn't you have asked somebody else? I'm sure that Loke wouldn't have minded."

"Well, Natsu." Lucy blushed shyly. "I wanted to be alone with you."

"With me?" Natsu was visibly surprised.

'Damn you Erza!' Lucy secretly frowned without Natsu noticing.

In truth Erza had tasked her to keep Natsu away from FT for while. But for some reason the idea of being alone with Natsu didn't mind her anymore. She wondered.

"If that's the case I know the perfect location." Natsu smiled happily and grabbed Lucy's arm.

Lucy soon relized that they were heading back to the academy.

'W-wait! We should keep away from there.' Lucy thought but she wasn't able to speak it out to stop Natsu.

-…-

For a while now the reception team consisting of Gildarts, Erza and Macao was still introducing the important locations of FT to the representative team from FP consisting of Ayumi, Jean, Eva and Annalis.

As usual Jean was quietly following to the presentation at the back end of the group. He recorded some data he considered important.

Suddenly his right eye received a signal. A certain power had just arrived at FT.

'There you are' Jean thought locating the signal. It was an easy task for him to leave the group without being noticed.

-…-

Some minutes later. Annalis wasn't content with the slow development of their visit. She wasn't interested in the presentation at all and decided to search for an excuse for leaving the group.

"Excuse me." she suddenly interrupted Gildarts' explanations. "I need to use the washroom."

"No problem. Erza-san can show you the way." Macao suggested.

"You don't need to hurry. We can wait here for the moment." Gildarts commented.

Erza and Annalis left the group.

-…-

After 15 minutes Erza returned to the group alone.

"Annalis, she somehow escaped from the washroom without me noticing."

"And that's not the only problem. When you left we noticed another person was already missing." Gildarts was referring to Jean. "I already sent Macao to search for him."

"I am very sorry for the bad behavior of my mates." Ayumi apologized. "I'm sure they won't cause any trouble." But she knew it better.

"I should inform the director of the recent development." Gildarts just nodded as Erza went off.

"I should have paid more attention." Ayumi remarked sorrowfully. She just then noticed that Eva was missing too.

-…-

"Long time no see." a tall, young man with blond hair and a lightning mark on his face suddenly appeared in the office of director Makarov.

-…-

"I've seen you through." Erza suddenly noticed that she had been followed by the blond-haired girl all along.

-…-

"Found you!" Jean shouted at Natsu and Lucy suddenly appearing above them.

-…-

"LISANNA!" a blue-haired woman suddenly rushed at Annalis.


After having finished the chapter I find the title is quite matching. I wasn't sure about that when I started writing it.

I hope you enjoyed the fight scene between Natsu and Gray, although it is very short. There will be more fights in the next chapters.

I've decided for a theme song for the chapters I've uploaded until now: Thoushaltnot – Last Comfort

You can find it on youtube or on the homepage: thoushalt .net

next chapter: Forbidden magic