Heyo! I'm back...after like, another month.

Yeesh.

I do apologize though, but college has been stressing me out lately and I've been having little time to work on my stories. This is the best I could come up with during the last update and now.

At least I ain't dead, eh?

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy.

Onward!

"...and so that's how it is. They've started their assault on our town less than a week ago, and the guards that live here have tried what they can...but the numbers were too large." The female client explained. She leaned forward on her wooden desk with a worried look, her eyes had bags underneath them, indication or her tiredness. She wore a tight purple business dress that hugged her body and her hair was made into a messy bun with strands of her hair hanged loose.

"You look like you haven't been doing well." I asked, crossing my arms in front of my chest.

"No…" The client shook her head, and looked at me tiredly. "I haven't at all Miss Erza...but I'm glad that Fairy Tail has come to aid us."

I allowed her thinking that I was Erza slide, knowing that she's already had a hard enough time on her hands as it is. "Of course. We'll make sure to resolve this as soon as possible."

"Thank you...all of you. I suggest looking towards east of our town. It's the direction our town guards last saw the group leave after they pillaged us."

"We'll do that immediately." I stated, raising a fist in the air in determination.

"From what I can gather...this must be all coordinated…" Erza said. We were all currently walking out of town and towards the direction the client told us where the group of vulcans and wyverns were last seen. It was a path that was next to the ocean that we were walking next to, and clumps of trees on the other side of us.

"Look." Gray pointed down, and all of us looked to see footprints that I recognized as Vulcans.

"There's a lot of them…" Marissa said.

"...I-I'm having second thoughts about this…" Lucy shakily said, and I immediately grew irritated.

"You're in my body Lucy! You're not allowed to say that!" I shouted at her, and I saw she winced at my voice. Not only her, but I also saw Natsu and Gray cringe.

"Man, even if you're not actually Erza right now, you're sure acting like her alot." Gray said.

"S-Scary…" Natsu uttered under his breath.

"S-Sorry…" Lucy timidly said. Rather than growing even more irritated, I sighed and looked ahead again.

"It's fine...just keep your guard up Lucy and you should be fine at all times." I instructed.

I saw Marissa through my peripherals and I looked to the side to look at her. "What is it?"

"I don't think it's just gonna be Vulcans and Wyverns when we get there…" She said.

"What do you mean?" Erza asked, and Marissa looked back at her.

"I think you're right that there might be something else involved. And I think I've been here long enough to sense people with and without magic. Feeling everything around us, I feel a lot of energy signatures that way." Marissa explained, pointed in a direction towards the trees.

"How far is it?" I asked.

"It's a ways away...maybe a few miles?"

"Hm...we could go check it out then…"

"There's no one else around us. If you want…"

"Well," I looked back behind me to see the rest of the group. "If I wasn't in Erza's body then maybe. I doubt Lucy would be able to sense Ki. Are they just standing there?"

"As far as I can tell yeah."

"Let's use your Instant Transmission then." I stopped walking, promptly making the rest of the group do so as well. "We can get close to them and plan our attack there after some scouting."

"Aye aye! Everyone, make sure you're holding onto each other." Marissa instructed, and I placed a hand on her shoulder just as she placed two fingers on her forehead. I felt my hand being grasped, and looked to see Erza holding it. Just beside her Wendy was holding her hand, then Lucy, then Natsu.

"Like hell I'm touching flame brain here!" Gray complained.

"Gray! Hurry up and make contact with him!" Erza scolded, making Gray pale and immediately placing a hand over Natsu's shoulders, making the fire dragonslayer roll his eyes.

"And a one way trip to their camp!" Marissa announced, and in an instant, we shifted locations.

"Ah this'll be easy." Marissa whispered, keeping her eyes open of the bush in front of her.

"Sure Kid, we'll let you have all the fun." I whispered back, looking around.

After travelling from one spot to another in just an instant, we all followed Marissa closer to the location of the sensed vulcans and wyverns. Along the way, she gestured all of us to keep quiet and continue on while crouching.

Eventually, we came to a halt and spreaded out, up against shrubs and bushes. Just up ahead, a moderately sized camp was set up with some people walking about. Keeping an observing eye, I looked to see wagons full of chests, and vulcans and wyverns all in one spot simple standing around.

"Bandits and a dark guild…" Erza hushly commented, but I saw a frown on her when I looked over.

"Looks like they're just raiding places for fun…" I heard Gray say through his teeth..

"...why are we just sitting around here for? Let's go kick their ass!" Natsu said, in a loud whisper.

"Keep it down, we don't want them to know we're here yet!" Lucy quietly scolded, and forcefully pulled him back to straighten him out.

"So, are gonna go fight them now…?" I slowly asked.

"Oh yeah, totally." Marissa replied with a grin, and she went ahead and cracked her fingers. "Ready whenever you are."

"This'll be fun...kind of." I simple said, and began going out of the bush with Marissa just beside me.

"Wait, Yusuke!" I heard Erza's hush voice call out, but waved her off. I felt my heart beating, and it was something I was familiar with. The thrill of wanting to knock some people out.

Either that, or Erza's known tendency of having to hit something or someone being dumb and not following the rules. Or in this case, people getting the taste of justice.

The moment I stepped out from the shrubs I slammed a foot onto the dirt ground, making noise and a crater underneath. At the same time, I saw some of the bandits and dark mages look at me in surprise, and I brought out Ki around me.

With a burst of speed, I instantly rushed towards one of the bandits, and side kicked him, sending him past the others present in the camp and slamming against a tree trunk.

I saw Marissa appear in front of me and punched a dark mage, causing them to crash into a tent.

"I-It's the Titania Erza!" I heard one of them cry out.

"Fairy Tail's involved?!"

Fire and Ice came from behind me, and slammed against several bandits and dark mages, sending them flying in the air and collapsing on the ground.

"Now we're talkin'!" Natsu shouted as he ran in.

"Don't think you'll get more than I will, Natsu!" Gray challenged.

I rolled my eyes and looked to see a group of dark mages coming towards me. I smirked and extended out an arm, materializing one of Erza's sword in my hand. I brought my arm with the sword in hand across me, and swung it to the side to let out a large force of winds, sending the group of enemies back.

"Who's next?!" I challenged, swiping my sword to the side to intimidate the other group of enemies.

"The Titania really is scary…!" One of them said.

"What's there to be scared of?! There's a whole bunch of us against her! Let's do this." A bandit said, raising a sword ready to swing. Along with him, I saw sensed several mages power rise, and some of them brought their hands out in front of them.

Before any of them could do anything, I extended my free hand out towards them and shot out a Ki blast towards the ground. The attack exploded the surface underneath their feet, and all of them scattered away from the impact with various screams of surprise and pain from them.

"D-Don't…" I raised an eyebrow seeing a mage wriggling on the ground. "...don't think that...you've all won yet…"

I caught sight of a wide grin from him before he did a gesture in the air with his finger and fell unconscious, still confused on what he did.

"Whoa!" I heard Gray's voice yell out and I looked to see him knocked down on his back. Looking ahead, a group of vulcan were banging on their chests, and started charging towards Natsu and Gray with wyverns flying just behind them.

FIRE DRAGON'S BRILLIANT FLAME!

Natsu already had his hands joined together above him with a large ball of fire around it, and he threw it down at the group of creatures.

I saw Gray got off the ground and brought his hands together to the left side of his body.

ICE MAKE: SAUCER!

Multiple ice discs flew out of from Gray's magic, colliding with multiple vulcans and wyverns, knocking them back.

I saw Marissa next throwing a vulcan in the air by the legs at wyverns in the air. With her strength, the bird-like creatures didn't have time to react, and was knocked down by the body of the vulcan's.

Not wanting to miss out, I flew in with a burst of speed towards a group of wyverns in the air. Reaching above them, I spreaded my arms out below me, and shot out a barrage of Ki blasts down towards the animals and any vulcans down on the ground.

Landing back on the ground, I saw a Ki wave being fired off, a large torrent of wind travelling towards a wyvern, and a watery whip knocking out a couple of vulcans. Looking ahead, I briefly saw Wendy in the air just landing back down on her feet, Lucy with her hand out - aimed at anything else that wasn't us - firing off energy attacks in my body, and Erza simply using Lucy's whip to attack while being in the blonde's body.

I looked around me to see all of the wyverns and vulcans that had attacked us on the ground, seeing nothing else trying to jump at us. A moment later, I went to regroup with the others.

"All's well that end's well?" Marissa said with a shrug.

"Yeah, though it was a bit too easy." I said.

"Seems as if the dark wizards were somehow controlling them...however, they needed more manpower to do much more." Erza said, seeing her look around at the downed bodies of both humans and animals.

"Looks like this is all the loot they gathered from that town...bastards. How are we going to get all of this stuff back?" Gray asked, looking at the carts and wagons full of crates.

"Man, I wish I was in my body right now. I could just carry two of those carts in my hands." I commented with a small grin.

"...I guess it's up to me?" Marissa asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I can help. Just won't be as effective while being in my body. Speaking of which…" I looked over at Lucy, and she acknowledged me by looking at me. "You're gonna help."

"M-Me…?" Lucy asked, pointing at herself.

"Yeah, you gotta do something while being in my body. Might as well lift these carts back to town."

"I...I guess."

"It'll be easy…" I went over to one of the crate filled carts. While not being in my body, even I knew that Erza had enough training with me that she's strong enough. Crouching a bit, I placed my arms under the base of the wooden mobile, and proceeded to lift it up. "See?"

When I glanced back, I caught Natsu's and Gray's face in a mixture of a cringe and wincing.

"It's so weird seeing Erza do something like that." Natsu commented.

"Yeah...even if it's Yusuke in there." Gray added in.

I sighed quietly to myself and rolled my eyes. Turning my head over to Marissa, I saw she already had a cart in her arms. "C'mon Kid, let's get going."

"Do I really have to…? It looks like you two have it covered." Lucy said. I shot her a quick glare in which she flinched, and immediately went over to a cart. "Okay, okay! I got it…"

"That should be the last one." I said, setting down a crate from the cart. I took a step back to see the hill of piled crates stacked atop of each other. I was near the edge of the town with Lucy with a few other townspeople around us.

After arriving, people saw us and began crowding around where we were at. There were even some that I saw had bandages on their arms rush in towards the crates that were slightly open. I smiled when I saw the people gasp in joy, their eyes lit up when they saw their belongings again. Over and over they thanked us, and it got to the point when Marissa left in embarrassment and went back to the others that had the bandits and dark mages tied up.\

So at the moment it was just Lucy and I, now away from the townspeople that mobbed around the crates in search for their possessions.

"The Kid was right, taking a casual mission like this is pretty good." I started.

"This is your definition of casual?" Lucy asked, and I saw her look at me through my peripherals.

"I mean...it's what we've been doing in the past at times. Taking care of dark mages and bandits. With vulcan's and wyvern's on the side." I shrugged nonchalantly.

"You're right. Maybe it's just me…"

I looked at her this time with a glance to the side. "Well, maybe you're not used to fighting all the time. It just naturally happens to me, guess it's part of a reason of why I hardly notice it."

"Naturally? From what we've seen you just walk right into it." Lucy laughed.

"I can't deny that...I just have that urge in my head."

"You said something about enjoying fighting?"

"Yeah, Saiyan's just love to fight. It's just how our race is. Guess that mindset just stuck with me even though I'm in Erza's body."

Our conversation ended when I sensed Marissa coming back with the others. Looking to the side, I saw her appear with the rest of the team a few feet away from us, and I could see smiles on their faces when they saw what the townspeople were currently doing.

"So what happened to them?" I asked as Lucy and I walked over to the group that had just arrived.

"The Rune Knights arrived, and currently taking everyone of them." Erza said. Her head turned towards the crowd of the folks that lives in the town we were currently helping, her smile widening a bit. "They were so gloomy before, it's good to see them like that."

"They deserve it, after going through all of this." Marissa said.

Just then, our client walked over to us with a smile on her face. Almost as if it was the first time for her in awhile.

"Thank you so much! All of you! You've managed to secure everything that the townspeople were missing." She said, clasping her hands in joy.

"It wasn't a problem, Fairy Tail easily handled it!" Natsu replied.

"Aye!"

"Still...with the amount of damage they did before, their homes are left destroyed. Perhaps we should help them with that as well." Erza suggested.

"Wait a minut-Oof!" Gray started to talk but was jabbed in the guts by Marissa.

"I wouldn't think of it…" Our client said rather timidly.

"We insist." I said, and she looked at me surprisingly. "If we left now with all of this on our conscience, I'm sure that we would beat ourselves later about it."

"If anything else, we won't take any more than what we'll be receiving on this job." Marissa chimed in.

"I'm grateful for Fairy Tail then. I'm in your debt!" The client agreed, and she bowed down slightly.

"Man, I'm tired…" Gray said as he laid on his cot, putting his hands behind his head.

"It didn't seem like a lot but...there was so much that had to be fixed…" Lucy said.

"Hope you're ready for tomorrow then." I said with a small grin, laying back on the cot I was on. All of us were currently inside a moderately small building for the night after a day's work of helping the people in the town rebuild.

"You're tired? I feel like I can take on an army still." Marissa rocked on her own cot as she swung her legs underneath it.

"Well...never mind…" Lucy replied with a sweatdrop.

I chuckled a little as they talked, and while they were doing so Erza came by and sat next to me.

"How was fighting in my body?" She asked.

"Not that different from being in my body. Except I can use magic along with Ki. How's Lucy's?" I asked back.

"It's...interesting."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Lucy shouted from afar, but Erza waved her off.

"I'm still not used to it I suppose. Not being able to requip bothers me somewhat…" Erza quietly said. I saw her look away, and I noticed her head was down, her hands shaking slightly.

"Are you still not over it…?" I quietly asked, and sat up from my cot.

"It's still there...but not as bad as before." Erza looked at me with a small smile. "I appreciate your concern Yusuke...I'll be fine once this is all over."

"Heh...I'm sure all of us will be when it does." I grinned a little and and laid back on the cot.

"Everyone, let's go to sleep. We've had quite the day today and we'll be having another tomorrow." Erza announced as she stood up. Everyone made sounds of agreement, and after a hard day's work, the light went off in our room and the team immediately relaxed on their beds. I saw Erza turn her head to the side to look at me. "Goodnight Yusuke."

"Night Erza." I bidded, and she walked away, back to her own cot. Not long after, I looked at the ceiling as my eyelids grew heavy, sleep eventually overtaking me.

I honestly thought it'd take more time for us to be in the town than now since we arrived in the beginning of the week. Turned out that most of the destroyed homes and buildings we saw were just a few and that was it. We managed to fix that on the third day in, and any other repairings of buildings that were scattered throughout town were easily fixed.

All in all, it took us almost an entire week for us to help out before the townspeople assured us that they could handle it on their own from here on out, to which we agreed.

While all of us were packing up our belongings in the room we were in, there was a knock on the door and Wendy went to open it.

When she arrived and opened the door, I looked to see it was the client on the other side.

"Hello there, may I come in?" She asked.

"Sure!" Wendy stepped aside and allowed her to come in. When she did, Wendy closed the door and the client bowed her head slightly to greet the rest of us.

"I just wanted to thank all of you and Fairy Tail for helping us so much."

"It was no problem, we were more than willing." Erza said.

"That's why I was wondering if all of you will be able to stay for one more night? Our town is hosting a festival this evening in the town square, and it'd be wonderful to have you there in celebration of rebuilding our homes and of course, for your aid."

"A festival?! Hell yeah!" Natsu cheered.

"That sounds pretty damn nice actually." Gray said with a smirk.

"I could definitely chow down on some food." Marissa spoke up.

"I suppose it's settled then. You can expect us to be there this evening." Erza said with a smile.

"Great! I'll let the others know then. I'm sure we'll all have fun!" The client said. She went to open the door, and with one last wave of a hand towards us, she left.

"Gives us all a good time to unwind I guess." I said.

"You can say that again, it'd be really nice to get some food to eat…" Lucy said, seeing that she was all finished packing and laid on her cot to relax.

"I'm surprised you're still awake then." Marissa laughed.

"Let's all take this time to relax before it begins then. We do only have a few hours." Carla suggested, and all of us agreed as most of our belongings were packed while hanging back before the town festival began.

"It's so lively." Wendy brightly said, looking around.

"Food!" Natsu instantly ran over to the area where they were handing out things to eat, and most of us sweatdropped.

"I think I'll join him…" Lucy said, and walked over to the fire dragonslayer.

I .looked around the town square to see all the residents enjoying themselves. With most of the construction done in their town, it looked as if nothing had ever happened to them. Seeing the others separate themselves to have fun, I merely smiled seeing them enjoying their time.

"What do you want to do first?" Erza asked.

"I could walk around and see what there is to eat." I answered with a small grin.

"Well then, we wouldn't want Natsu to have it all now do we?" Erza laughed slightly, and began walking over to a food stall.

I was about to follow behind Erza until someone grabbed my arm, and I looked behind me to see Marissa looking at me with a somewhat serious look.

"What is it?" I asked.

"I'm sensing a lot of guys just outside this town...I didn't want to tell anyone else since they're all having a good time." Marissa answered.

I narrowed eyes and looked towards the ground, concentrating as I drowned out all other noises around me. Aside from my Lucy being in my body and Marissa's energy that stood out, I felt a large group of other people outside of this town just as she said. Opening my eyes and I looked around to see the rest of the team ignorantly having fun, and I bit my lip a bit.

"I guess I'll go take care of them." I said loud enough just for her to hear, and I looked at her as I felt her jerk back a little.

"Bro, you know you're in Erza's body right? Even she has limitations." Marissa deadpanned.

"Still won't be a problem. She can take out entire dark guilds if she wanted to."

"And what if the enemy has something to actually stop you?"

I paused and sighed. "Alright, fine. Let's go before the others notice."

Smiling impishly, Marissa placed her index and middle finger on her forehead. "Time to kick some more ass."

In an instant, our surroundings changed.

Trees invaded my vision all around me under the evening sky, and I quickly looked around to see it was just Marissa and I at the moment. Concentrating, I sensed the group of people nearby.

"Come on, they shouldn't be too far." Marissa quietly said, and began walking away with my following just behind her.

Entering some bushes, we pushed through the thicket until eventually, Marissa stopped in front of me and I slowly went to her side.

"There they are."

"...how many of those things can they get?" I said, looking at the Vulcans and Wyverns around the moderately large group of dark mages sitting by a campfire. There were tents behind them as well as wooden poles to keep the animals in check with magic strengthened ropes binding them.

"They must be pretty common around this area...or near it I guess." Marissa deduced. "So, how should we go at it?"

"Rush in?" I suggested.

"So, like how we always do it."

"Pretty much."

"Hehe, that's fine with me." Marissa said with a grin, and she cracked her knuckles. She took a step forward, and rushed forward.

Large winds were felt, and I saw Marissa already taking out dark mages in swift motion. I didn't want to let her take all the fun away, so I ran in and saw a few wizards going towards Marissa. I moved in to intercept with a burst of Ki, and arrived in front of them, halting their movements.

"Titania…?!"

"Tch...how the hell did Fairy Tail know we were here?!"

"Don't sweat the small stuff...just worry about yourselves right now." I grinned, and I held out a hand, a sword appearing. I charged my Ki, power glowing around me.

...KAIOKEN!

Power surged through my body, and I swung the sword in the air, creating a large shockwave that sent the dark wizards flying. Glancing behind me, I moved towards another group of mages with an arm already outstretched. I fired off a Ki blast towards the ground underneath them, and they were blown away from the impact.

"Hah!" I heard Marissa's cry, and a horizontal line of explosion was created when she swiped her arm to the side. Looks like she took care of the rest of the dark guild as quickly as possible.

I walked over to her as she eyed her surroundings, and she turned around to look at me with a smile.

"I'd say we're done." Marissa said.

"I'll call in the Rune Knights and let them know about this. I'm sure they can handle the Vulcans and Wyverns too."

"Then let's not let the others wait any longer, otherwise they'll notice we went missing." She laughed, and extended a hand out for me to grab. Marissa placed an index and middle finger on her forehead once more, and we both phased out.

"Where were you?" Erza asked as I came walking up next to her.

"Oh y'know, just walking and looking around at what there is to eat." I said with a grin.

"Found anything good?"

"Well…" I looked to the side at a nearby stall. "I guess there's the cotton candy. The machine that makes it over there is pretty cool to watch."

"Why don't we go over there?" She suggested. I smiled and nodded, and we both headed to the stand.

Just shortly after taking care of the dark mages just outside of town, I called the Rune Knights just as I said. After doing so, Marissa suggested on looking after the wizards until they arrive, and assured me to just enjoy my time. I would've fully appreciated her thought, if it wasn't the fact that she also said that I needed it since I wasn't in my body at the moment. Irritated, I rolled my eyes and simply walked away until I found Erza.

For the rest of the night, all of us enjoyed the festival the town was having after rebuilding.

Natsu enjoyed all the food that he saw as well as Lucy, given that she was in my body. Gray entertained some kids with his ice magic by making different sculptures to showcase. The results of it was a large applause when there was a crowd gathered around him. Wendy, Carla and Happy were content walking around and playing any games they could find. Whether it was losing or winning, it didn't matter to them.

Eventually, Marissa came back and found Erza and I since we were just taking in the sights. Off to the side, she told me about the arrests made and how the Vulcans and Wyverns were simply let free. That aside, knowing that no one else was involved and kept in the dark, we put that to the back of our minds and simply enjoyed our time in the festivities.

Eventually, even the town's festival had to come to satisfying end late at night, and everybody headed back to their respective shelters.

The next day came after a night's sleep, and our entire group was already prepared to leave after doing all that we can. The residents came to give us a farewell once we were at the edge of the town. After receiving the reward from our overjoyed client, we waved all of them a goodbye before we made physical contact with each other in our group, and Marissa used her instant transmission to teleport all of us back to Magnolia.

So, a few things to say.

First, hope you enjoyed!

Second, there was a motive on making this side story and it was basically to stall out Dragonball Super as well as Dragonball Xenoverse 2 coming out very soon. I wanted to see where the show went as well as seeing if there was anything knew about the game.

Speaking of the show, it's getting REALLY good.

And speaking about the game, I saw the trailers for it. HYPE.

Anyway, I do want to say that since all of this time has passed, all of you can expect my next update to be back in the main story.

Regrettably I wasn't able to update on the one year anniversary that I started the main story, plus I wanted to get back into it.

I'll still be working on this here and there, but not as frequent as the main story (if I even have time currently...)

Just a small update, and I'll be working on Chapter 38 on FTXV as soon as I can.

Once again, hope all of you enjoyed!

Until then.

Timestamp: September 23, 2016.