It's been a while since I even looked at this story, not much too really say apart from I'm sorry for not updating sooner and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

After alerting the ruin knights of the dark mages they had subdued Crime Sorciere returned to their guild to rest up for the day well Meredy and Jellal anyway as Natsu was in the make shift library searching for a particular type of book for the first time in his life for his own reasons. Natsu had taken Jellal's words to heart about finding a new magic to use in case they were in crowd areas and needed to use magic to apprehend dark mages. Since Natsu's fire dragonslayer magic was so well known he would need a new type of magic to keep his identity a secret even if his new look fooled a lot of people he knew he would be able to fool the other dragonslayers apart from Laxus who already knew about his new look.

"Aha now this is what I'm looking for!" Natsu exclaimed as he picked out a thin book of about 15 pages called 'Crash for Beginners' but before Natsu could start reading the book Meredy walked in rubbing sleep from her eyes and yawning alerting Natsu to her presence as she startled babbling things through her yawn showing just been awoken from a delightful dream, which just so happens to have involved a certain pink haired fire mage. "God Natsu why you have be so loud? I was having such a good dream about y.., I mean food yeah that it" Meredy started saying but quickly corrected herself realising what she was about to say.

"Okay well whatever" Natsu replied with a slightly confused look before returning to the book, "What you got there?" Meredy asked after noticing the book as she leaned on Natsu back over looking his shoulder to get a better look at the book. As the closeness of the proximity and the feeling on his back Natsu's face turned beet red luckily because of their position Meredy couldn't see his face and was completely oblivious to the position they were in. "hey I asked what you got there?" Meredy questioned in a bit of annoyance as she tightened her grip on the dragonslayer pulling her own and his body closer together further pushing her bust into his back causing Natsu's mind to malfunction.

"It's a book about crash magic" he managed to choke out, "oh you wanna learn crash magic, wait what's wrong with your voice?" Meredy asked after noticing how weird the dragonslayer's voice was, "y-your … pressing against me" he answered confusing the female pinkette "Huh?" was her simple reply before finally noticing the position they were in. "PERVERT!" she yelled before punching the dragonslayer in the back of the head. "What the hell did you do now Natsu?" Jellal ask slightly after having been woken from his dream about a certain scarlet haired mage.

"It wasn't me! This time it was all her, she's the one who was leaning her chest into my back" Natsu replied arguing his innocence "Yeah well you should have said something sooner!" Meredy shouted in reply, her face full flush. "Ugh I don't care anymore, Natsu have you figured out if you're gonna learn another magic?" Jellal asked in a fed up tone. "Yeah I want to learn crash magic so I was thinking maybe we could get Gildarts to convince the guild he is going on a mission so that he could come out and help teach me because I don't think this book is gonna help learn too much about crash magic so why not the best and most powerful crash mage I know to teach me plus I'll might get the chance to fight him." Natsu said in a neutral tone which slowly became more excited and child-like as he talked about the aspect of learning from and fighting Gildarts.

"I don't see a problem with that as long as that idiot teaches you how to control properly. I don't want to have to constantly replace furniture and walls because of you not being able to control you magic. "Don't worry Jellal I'm sure he'll be serious about this" Natsu replied in a carefree tone, oh how wrong he was.

Four days later

In the four days waiting for the crash mag to show up Meredy had opted to help Natsu learn whatever he could from the book he found, this helped the two grow closer as the only time the two were apart was for bathing and sleeping, well except that one night but we'll get to that later. Overall it was now very rare for Jellal to see the two pinkettes apart so had taken it upon himself to tease them with every opportunity he got, but as of right now we find our trio standing outside of their base watching a speeding silhouette of someone or thing running towards them.

"NATSUUUUUU!" an angry form of Gildarts shouted as he sprinted full speed towards the dragonslayer after seeing him from a distance, "yeah he's gonna be serious" Jellal said in a mocking tone. "My son" Gildarts said as he enveloped Natsu in a bone crushing death hug "Gildarts…stop…crushing me" Natsu managed to say in between choked breaths. "Ops sorry, guess I don't know my own strength." The crash mage replied sheepishly as he scratched the back of his head.

"Look are you gonna teach Natsu how to use Crash magic or not?" Meredy asked Gildarts who only noticed her now, "Hello beautiful…ow! Natsu what the hell, that's no way to act in front of a lady" Gildarts started but was cut off as Natsu bonked the man on the head with his metal fist which once again Gildarts just noticed. "Natsu what the hell happened to your arm?" he asked in confusion and shock, "well I was caught off guard by some dark mages resulting in me losing my arm but thanks to Anna she was able to save my life by giving me this mechanical arm. She is also apparently the daughter of the people who replaced your limbs after your fight with you know who" Natsu explained as Gildarts started to remember the couple who had helped him and recalled that seven years ago they had a young daughter.

"I always meant to return and thank them properly" Gildarts said as a wave of nostalgia hit him, "Well Anna isn't that far from here and I've been meaning to check up on her so after a couple of days we can visit her and her family, hopefully they'll all be there." Natsu said in soft and gentle tone, "I'm sure Anna is safe and would love to see you again" Meredy said in a reassuring tone while placing her hand on Natsu's shoulder and smiling, Gildarts noticed this as well as the look in Meredy's eyes causing him to sport a smug grin on his face before pulling Natsu away.

"Hey old man what the deal?" Natsu questioned Gildarts in slight anger, "You make me so proud" Gildarts replied in a prideful tone as he placed his hands on Natsu's shoulders, "What the hell are talking about?" Natsu asked in total confusion, "Don't play dumb with me kid, I seen the way you looked at each other, you two are definitely an item" the crash mage said with a teasing tone causing the dragonslayer to blush slightly "Shut up you old pervert" Natsu said in a slightly aggravated and embarrassed tone "We aren't like that" he continued in innocence "but you wanna be" "….." "I'll take you silence as a yes?" Gildarts then said before bursting out in Laughter.

"I only really noticed it now but what's with the hair, I get that you wanted to change your image but this a bit over the top don't you think?" Gildarts asked after finally calming down. "Well I don't really care so are you gonna teach me or not?" Natsu asked still a bit flustered while Gildarts just smiled at him "Yeah don't worry I teach how to be as epic as me" the crash mage said nonchalantly. "But magic isn't the only thing I'm gonna teach you" Gildarts thought deviously as a smug grin was plastered on his face.

"You're thinking something perverted aren't you?" Natsu stated the obvious as opposed to asking, "Pfft...What you talking about, I'll have you know I am a gentleman and a scholar sir" Gildarts replied in a sarcastic tone. "Whatever let's just get started" Natsu said I a fed up tone before the two went to a close by mountain to practice the very destructive magic.

1 Week Later

Over the last week Jellal and Meredy had been waiting patiently for their dragonslayer to return from his training and now they stood outside their base watching Gildarts with what they could only assume was a struggling Natsu slung over his shoulder with his usual carefree grin as he did so. Finally wriggling out of the older mages iron grip Natsu sprinted towards his guild mates at insane speeds before sliding to a stop at their feet. "Meredy save me! I don't want to ever go through that again" Natsu cried out like a little girl as he had his arms wrapped around the pinkette's Legs in an unbreakable iron grip.

"What the hell did you do to him?" Jellal asked as he looked at the sobbing Dragonslayer who busy burying his head in between Meredy's thighs rendering her unable to speak and turning her into a red spluttering mess. "I just trained him the way I train myself, I think I even got stronger from all the fights we had." Gildarts replied with a slightly amused tone. "Well was it successful?" Jellal asked now in a more amused tone due to watching Meredy efforts to speak with Natsu cuddling her lower half. "I'll say apart from me and my father, I've never seen anyone take to crash magic so fast" Gildarts replied neutrally

"Wait I thought you were Fairytail's first and only crash mage?" Jellal asked in curiosity, "Well my father was a part of Fairytail long before I was born, he became a part of the guild around half way through the time Hades was the guild master and according to Makarov he became the guilds ace and was even more powerful than Hades himself but he died shortly after I was born so I never got to meet him because he had already died when I found out he was a part of Fairytail" Gildarts said with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"How come I never heard about this?" Natsu questioned as he just tuned into the conversation as he walked up beside Jellal leaving a smoking and jabbering Meredy frozen where she stood. "Well you never asked and it isn't exactly something I like to talk about" Gildarts replied plainly. "Fair enough now how about we go visit Anna" Natsu replied not wanting to press on the subject. "Sure lets go" Gildarts replied but not before Natsu went over to Meredy who seemed to be coming back to her sense only to be put back into her previous state when Natsu slung her over his shoulder and started leading Gildarts in the direction of Anna's house leaving a confused Jellal behind who just went back inside to start packing things up before they moved base.

After a quick train ride Natsu with a now calmed down Meredy and Gildarts were approaching Anna's house where said person was standing outside hanging up the washing. "Hey Anna it's me" Anna heard a familiar voice call out but when she turned to its source she saw an unfamiliar person, "I'm sorry sir but who are you?" she asked causing Natsu a bit of confusion to which Meredy lifted when reminding him about his hair.

"Oh now wonder you don't recognise me I've changed my hair since then" Natsu explained while smiling a familiar smile and holding up his metal arm resulting in Anna immediately recognising him "Haru!" she shouted before wrapping him in a hugged caused Meredy to grind her teeth in jealousy as she watched Natsu return the hug. "Yep, hey promise you can keep a secret?" Natsu said to which she just nodded her head, "My name isn't Haru Dragion, my real name is Natsu Dragneel I only gave you a fake name to prevent the possibility of any dark mages coming here to hurt you and your family." He replied causing a shocked expression to crawl across Anna's face.

"You mean thee Natsu Dragneel from Fairytail?" Anna asked in disbelief causing a slight frown to appear on the ex-Fairytail mage's face. "Actually I'm no longer a part of Fairytail" Natsu admitted quietly but still loud enough to here. "Oh I'm sorry I didn't know but at any rate it really good to see you again but who are all these people?" Anna asked as she vaguely recognised the man behind Natsu but didn't recognise the pinkette beside him. "I'm sorry…Anna was it, but are John and Mary here I need to give them a long delayed thanks?" Gildarts spoke up wanting to thank the couple as soon as possible as it was well overdue.

"Um yeah they're out back behind the house but would you mind telling me who you are?" Anna replied causing the crash mage to laugh in a sheepish manner, "My bad, my name is Gildarts Clive and seven years ago your parents saved my life after I was attacked by a dragon so I would very much like to thank them properly" Gildarts replied causing both Anna and Meredy's jaws to hit floor, Meredy because as strong as she believed Gildarts to be after watching the dragons after the Grand Magic Games shrug off the hordes of wizards as mere flies she wasn't able to believe that one lone man no matter how powerful would be able to survive an attack from one of those monsters. Anna didn't know what to say as she had heard rumours of a black dragon that decimated continents but that was all she believed they were and thought dragons were extinct.

"It's true it was the same one that defeated the entire of Fairytail's best without even trying seven years ago on Tenrou Island" Natsu confirmed with much venom in his voice. "Wait you mean he fought Acnologia himself and survived?" Meredy asked in disbelief and a little fear now knowing that Gildarts probably went all out against the dragon king which smashed all her previous predictions of how strong the crash mage actually was. "Yep that's the one, I got serious and went all out for the first time in my life and it was only enough to break a few scales" Gildarts admitted in a defeated tone once again causing Meredy's jaw to hit the ground and Natsu to act out in anger "What the hell do you mean all out seriously for the first time? Then how much power were you using against me during the S-class exams?" Natsu asked in anger to which Gildarts started sweating because he knew if he told Natsu how much he would obviously want a rematch with him at full power and the crash mage didn't want to face 'that' as punishment from Master Makarov who had forbid Gildarts from ever using 100% of his power against any human be they Dark or Light mages.

"Well?" Natsu asked impatiently while Anna and Meredy looked on with curious looks. "70%" He admitted to which the dragonslayer drop to his knees in fear, both Anna and Meredy couldn't believe it, that Natsu Dragneel was shaking in fear wondering just how powerful Gildarts had been at 70% to make Natsu shake in fear at the revelation to the crash mage using only half his full power. "Jeez get a grip kid if it makes you feel any better it took me more than twice as long as you've lived to become this powerful, plus gramps won't let me use any more than that much unless it is a total emergency." Gildarts said in an attempt to calm down Natsu, thankfully it worked but when the Dragonslayer stood up he still had a depressed look on his face.

"Wow how strong was he at 70% then?" Meredy asked in a curious tone, "It was strong enough to shake the entire of Tenrou Island" Natsu admitted with no hint of lies in his voice. "That's not possible, then why didn't you fight Master Hades?" Meredy asked in a slightly pissed tone knowing that Gildarts could have taken Hades if he went all out. "Well during my fight with that Bluenote guy something happened resulting in my magic disappearing and then taking too much Damage without my magic so when I got it back I was too injured to continue fighting after I defeated him. I had actual planned on fighting Hades when I recovered enough but Natsu, Laxus and the others defeated him before I got anywhere close to the ship" Gildarts explained sheepishly.

"And it isn't exactly like I could have used 100% of my power even if I wanted to. The injuries I sustained from Acnologia limited my powers so I haven't been able to go full power since then, hell it strained my body to even use the amount I used against Natsu back then plus I still haven't recovered enough since then to use my full power." Gildarts said causing the dragonslayer to chuckle as if there was some life in him. Looking at him all three people could see a spark of anticipation and excitement back in the dragonslayer's eyes, "Okay old man whenever your back to 100% me and you are having a rematch I don't care what Makarov says we are fighting each other at full power!" Natsu said with fierce determination causing the older mage to grin like a child, "You're on kid and I promise I won't hold back so don't you dare either!" Gildarts replied with equal determination and excitement

Sometime later

After a few hours of being reacquainted Natsu, Meredy and Gildarts made their way back to Crime Sorciere's base where Jellal had finally finished packing and was standing patiently beside the many backpacks and suitcases of provisions, books and clothes they'd be taking with them. "So where are you guys going to go now?" Gildarts asked as he stood in front of the three person mage guild. "I want to go to Era to put the guild down as an official one after that we can begin recruiting more members, we three will remain true to our main objective of riding this world of Zeref and all his darkness and if the other guild members want to join then so be it" Jellal said in a monotonous tone.

"That's a good idea but who is going to be the master?" The crash mage asked out of curiosity, "Well I don't think they'd allow me or Meredy to become the master of the guild because of our past transgressions, while we are excused of what we did the trust element is still an issue so the council will most likely put someone in charge of us. Probably one of the commanders of the ruin knights or a wizard saint but whoever they send will have to very powerful if they are sent to keep us in line and make sure we are legit." Jellal then explained while wondering who they would send as the most obvious of the wizard saints would be Jura but that was quite unlikely as he is a part of Lamia Scale.

"You don't think they'd send one of the heavenly kings do you?" Meredy asked with slight fear evident in her voice, "I don't know but in terms of being able to keep you in check any of them would able. If they were to send one of them the most likely one they'd send would be the one ranked 4th" Gildarts replied in a neutral tone. "Jellal I told you that you will be able to stay as the guild's master, I told the king myself of both your circumstances with your past involvements and he told me himself that your records would be erased and that either of you could become the guild master should you choose to become a legal guild" Natsu spoke up in a slightly irritated tone that Jellal still didn't accept that he was allowed to become the guild master.

"Well now that is settled I'll be on my way I told the old man I'd be away for a few months before I grabbed a bunch of quests and I'm due to be on the other side of Fiore in a few days. See ya Natsu, guess I'll see you when I see you" Gildarts said as he began to walk away while waving good bye to his 'son'. "You better be ready to throw down the next time we meet old man, because next time I'm going to beat your ass!" Natsu shouted at the man he considered a second father.

"SO shall we get going it's going to take over a weak to get to ERA?" Meredy asked her to guild mates as she picked up her bag and began walking away. "Meredy is that all you taking?" Natsu asked in slight shock "Yep you two can carry the rest" she replied resulting in "WHAT!" the two male mages shouted in unison. "You wouldn't make a beautiful lady such as myself to carry any more than this would you" Meredy said while pouting. "Meredy that isn't going to work on me" Jellal replied as he started setting bags in front of the sensory like mage who then decided to use a new found secret weapon, "Natsu you wouldn't make me carry all these bags like that meanie Jellal…would you" she said before pouting and using the puppy dog eyes in maximum over drive resulting in Natsu caving in while releasing a sigh and holding his hand out for her bags causing Meredy to laugh evilly in her head.

"You're lucky you're cute" Natsu grumbled out but still loud enough for the sensory link mage to hear. "S-s-s-s-stop doing that" Meredy stuttered out in embarrassment, "doing what? And are you sick or something you're awfully red?" Natsu asked in an innocent tone knowing full well thanks to Gildarts 'other teaching why this was. He definitely found Meredy attractive but didn't know if he like likes her. "You know exactly what I mean, just hurry up and take these so we can get moving" she said far too quickly and in a very high pitched voice. "As you wish princess" Natsu replied in a mocking tone while giving a bow before the trio set off for their destination

Thanks to Natsu the trio took much longer to get to ERA than originally planned, two weeks longer in fact and although it was fun, well for Jellal anyway as he got more opportunities to tease Natsu and Meredy about how they acted as a couple and getting chances at using innuendos to imply more mature situations between the two pinkette's it was still an arduous journey. For the life of them Natsu and Meredy couldn't believe how Jellal could be so calm, mellow and funny at times and then the rest of the time be the equivalent of an emotionless emo.

However as the trio neared Era they were not greeted by the over shadowing council headquarters but by a smoking pile of rubble with a single lone man standing in front of the building staring at them. "Mest?" Natsu asked himself under his breath as said man started walking towards them with an emotionless face while Meredy and Jellal got into a fighting stance. "I need your help Jellal" Doranbolt said in such serious tone that it unnerved Jellal. "Why would you need my help Doranbolt?" Jellal asked slightly curious as to what could make him ask for Jellal of all people to help him.

"Tartaros did this, well more like one of their members did. He destroyed the council HQ and killed everyone except myself in the process" Doranbolt admitted painfully almost wishing he had perished along with the others but remembered what council man Org(can't remember if that is right) had told him about living on to avenge them and stop Tartaros. Jellal, Meredy and Natsu were all unnerved at the thought one person was able to do this.

"Tartaros the guild made out of nothing but demons the most powerful dark guild in existence. But they are only half the reason I need your help, the other half was because I needed to get information on Tartaros' plan of action and only one person had that information but it came with a price" Doranbolt said in solemn tone while looking towards the ground. "A price?" Natsu asked causing the teleportation mage to look up at him with an unfamiliar gaze, "Natsu Dragneel?" he asked to which the dragonslayer just nodded, Doranbolt actually happy now as he had heard that Natsu had been expelled from Fairytail and hadn't heard anything about him for months now where it had got to the stage he started thinking he was dead. However Doranbolt didn't have time for this so he continued his explanation.

"Yes a price, the person with this information is formally known as Eric but you will all know him better as Cobra of Oracion Seis and his price for the information was…" "His freedom along with that of his guild" Doranbolt started before Natsu finished Doranbolt nodding to show that he was correct. "So what was this information and what do you want us to do?" Jellal asked in serious tone while thinking about how things will play out. "He revealed that Tartaros plan to use a council weapon that I've never even heard of called face, it's a wide scale magic pulse bomb that would wipe out all magic across the continent leaving all mages powerless while the demons of Tartaros would have a field day wiping us out as they don't use magic but something called curses. Furthermore that isn't there true goal currently Tartaros' master is sealed away by powerful magic seals that not even their temporary guild master and the strongest active demon in the dark guild can remove that is why Face is needed." Doranbolt said in a scared tone pausing at the last Second to collect himself.

"All the demons in Tartaros are demons from the book of Zeref and Tartaros' master is the most powerful of them all in fact he is the most powerful of all Zeref's creation and possibly the black wizard himself if Cobra's information is correct" Doranbolt said in an even more fearful tone while the three wizards of Crime Sorciere just stood in a mixture of fear and sock not Believe that there was another being human or not with enough power to surpass the black wizard himself. "As for what I want you to do, I want you to go and force the members of the Oracion Seis to join forces with you. You're in need of new members then turn them onto the right path and make them atone for their sins unite them against a common enemy." Doranbolt said seriously before teleporting away.

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere

"You're okay with this Midnight? After all he only thought of us as pawns, I heard it myself" Cobra asked after striking down Brain the former leader or Oracion Seis, "If you heard it then it must be true" Midnight replied nonchalantly. So what are we going to do now that were free?" Racer asked the group, "I want to look for my little brother" Richard said followed by "I want to take a bath" Angel said she looked at herself feeling a bit of disgust as she realised that the entire time she had been put back in prison she wasn't able to take a bath. "You are free to do as you wish" Midnight replied in an uninterested tone while Cobra started sniffing the air picking up three scents two familiar and one unfamiliar.

Turning around he smiled when he saw the familiar face of Jellal, an unfamiliar pinkette and the other person who he had already identified as Natsu the Salamander Dragneel. However when he saw Natsu he burst out in Laughter getting the attention of the other four members of his guild. "What the hell happened to you Salamander?" Cobra said through fits of laughter while the other members looked on in surprise that this was the same Natsu Dragneel. "That's Salamander…he actually looks hot like that" Angel admitted surprising her guild mates, embarrassing the dragonslayer and leaving a rather pissed off Meredy. "Back off bitch he's mine!" Meredy replied once again shocking everyone present leaving a deadly silence between both sides and Meredy mentally cursing herself from acting out like that.

"Well okay that was different, anyway let me guess Doranbolt sent you after us to take us back?" Cobra said breaking the silence, "Yes and no, Doranbolt did send us but not to bring you back so listen up because I'm only going to say this once. "Join my guild Crime Sorciere, join us and all your past sins will be forgiven, join us and help us rid the world of evil and rid it of Zeref" Jellal said as he and Natsu stepped forward. "Heh and what if we refuse?" Cobra asked in slight amusement as he had a feeling of what the answer would be.

"Then we will defeat you and show the power of our guild as well as force you to join" Natsu said in excitement as he slammed his flaming fist into the metal palm of his other. "Now you're speaking my language" Racer said as he sped forward only to be met with a super sped fist to the face curtesy of a meteor fuelled Jellal. "Let's go Salamander!" Cobra shouted out as he charged forward with a poison dragon's claw attack while Natsu countered it with his own claw attack, "I can hear everything Salamander, I can hear her cries, their screams of pain as Tartaros picks off the fairies one by one" Cobra said with a smirk seeing Natsu's eyes widen in shock before he jumped away to gain distance.

"What the hell are you taking about?!" Natsu questioned in anger only causing Cobra's smirk to widen to nearly ear splitting proportions. "The lightning dragon has been poisoned, Titania, the demon and her sister have been captured and the rest are fighting desperately just to stay alive" Cobra said his grin not faltering until Natsu came at with such speed he was unable to follow and was hit by a crash imbued fist to the chest launched him flying backwards until he collided with the nearest boulder. "Jellal, Meredy handle these guys I've gotta help Mira and Lisanna!" Natsu shouted out before taking in off at inhuman speeds heading for Magnolia.

"Please hang on guys" Natsu desperately thought as he began to pick up speed using his Flames to propel him while Jellal kept the Oracion Seis that chose to fight busy, "Hang on."

End Chapter

Yes finally got this chapter out of the way, I really enjoyed this chapter despite the numerous time skips but I needed them to get to where I am now. Any next chapter will be the Tartaros arc probably around just before the dragons show up and yes I've already planned on how that is going to go but you'll have to wait for the next chapter to find out what will happen because if any reviews ask me how I'm going to do this and that then the only response your getting is it's a secret however if there is something you didn't understand about this chapter then ask away. If any of you are upset with the way I described Gildarts' power the ask me why and I'll give you my reason which is back up from the anime and manga as well as information Hiro Mashima released about Gildarts. Finally I hoped you liked this chapter because I was a little stuck half way through it.