Gajeel led his hunting party to the river, Natsu and Juvia followed behind him.
"Just saying I saw something, it was like a meteor! It crashed just over the river, let's go look!" Natsu whined.
"Shut ya trap, if we don't catch anything, I'll eat you!" Gajeel growled.
"Stop, guys look." Juvia whispered from her perch in the trees. Gajeel and Natsu followed her up and looked to where she was pointing.
"People?" Natsu looked confused.
"They're not ours? Where'd they come from?" Gajeel stared at the three figures. Natsu climbed higher to get a better view.
"Look!" Juvia followed him up.
"Their from space? I thought all our ancestors ships malfunctioned." She mused.
"Obviously not," Gajeel grumbled, "Makarov will wanna know about this." Gajeel climbed lower to look at the humans.
"Two females and a giant cat?" Natsu stared. Gajeel stared closely at the cat before noticing a mass of blue behind him, he shifted to get a clearer view. A small blunette was crouched down scribbling in a little leather bound journal, she tucked a lock of hair behind her ear and stood up. She was wearing a Skin tight orange jacket and an orange skirt with black tights and combat boots. The blonde girl was in white trousers and a white and blue jacket.
"Lets go tell Makarov." Juvia hopped to another tree.
"But..foooooood." Natsu groaned.
"We could always eat Happy." Gajeel joked.
"You wanna go metal head?" Natsu yelled.
"Do you want them to hear us?!" Juvia scolded.
The trio returned with some rabbits. The village guards opened the gates to let them passed.
"Mira! Where's Makarov?" Juvia asked the eldest Strauss sibling.
"He's at the bar." Mira pointed behind her smiling at the trio.
"Thank you." Gajeel grunted as they handed her the rabbits.
"Small catch?" Mira laughed.
"Intruders."
The trio explained the situation to their leader Makarov.
"I see, two girls and a giant cat? Is that all?" He asked.
"They came down on a ship, we don't know how many." Juvie explained.
"That explains the so called meteor." Cana mused from behind the bar.
"What are you planning master?" Erza interjected.
"Erza, get together a small stealth team to observe the space survivors, then report back. Do not make contact!"
"Bisca, Juvia you're with me." Erza
"What if their hostile?" Mira asked.
"Gajeel and Alzac can keep watch by the river, call them if you need back up."
"What about me?" Natsu waved his hands in front or Erza.
"You aren't exactly stealthy." Cana pointed out.
"You can look after Asuka!" Bisca comforted the teenager.
The next morning the two teams split up, Erza, Bisca and Juvia took the trees to the outskirts of the space survivors camp while Gajeel and Alzac camped out near the river. Gajeel grumbled, he'd rather just go fight them. His heightened senses told him someone was coming. He turned and saw the petite bluenette creeping up to the river. She pulled out a few viles from her bag and took water samples. Gajeel could see her clearer than the night before, she was small but not as young as he thought. The girl took out a journal and started sketching the landscape. He smirked to himself, a deer stepped up to the river to drink, pulling the girls attention from her book.
"Hey buddy," the deer stepped over to her, allowing her to stroke him, "Who knew that after a hundred years, this world would be so beautiful. Every book, every paper, none of them captured the planets beauty."
"Levy, I told you not to leave without a guard." The giant cat arrived scaring away the deer.
"Lily! You scared him!" The girl, Levy, pouted.
"It could be dangerous out here." Lily continued as the girl turned her attention to the creatures in the stream.
"Lily, look at these! They're a whole new species!" Levy held up what looked like a duck with a turtle shell, "I've been looking through a window for 17 years-"
"When your nose wasn't stuck in a book."
"-As I was saying, why would I stay inside, plus it's not like I'm completely defenceless, I have my magic." This caught the dragon slayers attention.
"Wizards?" Alzac seemed to of heard them too.
"Did you here that?" Levy looked up.
"We should get back to the base."
Erza watched the group suspiciously, thanks to Bisca's sharp eye they could count 9 people at camp. Three were guarding it, meaning that they had to keep out of sight.
"Two are missing," Juvia whispered. As if on cue the two appeared on the edge of the camp.
"Wendy!" The blunette called over a young girl, "Look,"
"A duck? A turtle? A turtle-duck!" She smiled brighter than the sun.
"Pretty cool, huh?"
"Definitely! Was it nuclear exposure or evolution?"
"Or maybe a sexy turtle walked into a bar and chatted up a hot chick." A man with a helmet interjected the two blunettes conversation.
"Bickslow!" A green haired man scolded him. A fat man walked up to the older blunette to enquire if the water was safe to drink, she explained that she still needed to run some tests.
Erza looked at her team, it was obvious the team were investigating whether or not Earth was survivable, this meant that others would be coming.
"But why now?" Natsu questioned, Asuka bouncing on his shoulders.
"My guess is that something's gone wrong on the dome," Erza stirred her drink, "Question is, do we make contact?"
"No, not yet, not till we know what magic they posses." Alzac stepped forward.
"It's true we heard the researcher girl mention magic."
"Then we may be in trouble." Macarov contemplated.