I'm so so sorry that it has been so long since I last published. It has been a very stressful year for me so far and I simply didn't have the time to continue the story. I don't think you'll have to wait so long again. Anyway, this was kind of a rush job so I don't think it's that great. Enjoy and please leave a review! I love you guys!:)

It has now been five years since Natsu left the guild and everyone was starting to lose hope on finding him ever again. Some guild members started thinking that he was already dead. Others thought that he was in countries that aren't on any map in the world. Few thought he found his way to Edolas and the rest thought that he now lives in the same place as where Igneel raised him as a baby. The guild still doesn't know that Natsu is E.N.D. except for Gray, Happy, Lucy, Erza, and Gajeel. The Master also told Gildarts. The dragon slayers now know about their true past. It wasn't easy at all for the Master to have to break it to them one year after Natsu's disappearance. He said that he wished that he told them sooner, but there was no helping it now. The guild has been an absolute mess since Natsu left Fairy Tail. They became Fiore's worst guild again because they all fell into a severe depression. They all wanted to see him again. The only two people who still had faith was Master Macarov and Gildarts. Gildarts still believed that they would see him someday, but he didn't think that they could find him anymore. Macarov on the other hand, wanted to keep searching for him.

"We have to keep searching! I know that he's out there somewhere, we just have to find him!" Master was desperate to find him. He would stop at nothing in order to find him.

"Give it up Master! He is nowhere to be found. No matter where we've gone, he's always somewhere else," said Gray, "Besides, even if we do go out to find him, Gildarts has gone on a mission with Happy, the only two people who can convince him to return to the guild!"

And now we go to Gildarts and Happy on their mission. They are on an escort mission for a very wealthy person through an extremely dangerous forest. The forest takes a week to get across, and they have been traveling for five of those days. Happy has now become a very droopy Exceed just like the rest of Fairy Tail. The three have come across various deadly monsters so far, and Gildarts has single-handedly defeated them all with the client wondering if Happy was even necessary in this mission. Little did they know, a miracle was coming their way.

They were walking for about six hours when Gildarts suddenly stopped.

"Hey, do hear that Happy?" Gildarts asked. It seemed like he was listening to an unfamiliar sound until he couldn't bare it anymore. Happy paused for a moment to try and find a weird noise.

"Yeah I do. What is that?" asked Happy, who was somewhat curious now.

"I think that there is a battle nearby us. It's strange though, Nobody has really fought against one another since the war five years ago," said Gildarts who also had curiosity in his voice. It was clear that he wanted to go and see what's up, so the three went towards the direction of the battle. Once they got to the battle, they were very surprised to see Zeref. They couldn't make out who he was fighting since he had all black on and covered his face with the hood from his cloak. The two didn't notice Gildarts, Happy or the client.

"This is clearly not a good place to be right now. Why don't we just keep walking forward?" asked the client, clearly not feeling safe.

"Yeah, but after I find out why these two are fighting and to put an end to it. We need these peaceful times to continue, and I know its small but they could possibly end that peace. Happy watch over the client while I deal with these two." said Gildarts as he started walking towards the two fighting.

"Aye sir," said Happy, very unenthusiastically. Anytime he says "Aye sir" it just reminds him of Natsu and makes him even more sad.

"Zeref?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" as Gildarts said that, Zeref managed to cut off his opponent's left leg and his right hand. The opponent immediately fell to the ground and Zeref pulled out a book that Gildarts knew all too well. Gildarts ran right into Zeref and snatched the book catching Zeref off guard. It was the book of E.N.D. Happy was quite surprised that Zeref didn't notice them when they first got there.

"I'm not really in the mood to start a fight with Fairy Tail again so I'll just take this back and be on my way. You can do whatever you want with him. He's bound to leave the second he sees you," and with that Zeref took the book back from Gildarts so fast that he couldn't even see it and just left.

Well that was strange. thought Gildarts I wonder why he just left, or why he decided to pick a fight with this guy. That doesn't really seem like something that Zeref would do. Whoever this guy is chose to pick a fight with the wrong man.

Gildarts walked over to the man to access his wounds. It was obvious that he needed urgent medical treatment since he has lost two limbs and is losing blood fast, but there was no place that he could quickly take him to.

So, Gildarts tore off two big pieces of his cloak and bandaged his two biggest wounds with it, the left leg and the right hand nubs. The man had passed out from the severity of his wound so the three called it a night. The next morning the three woke up to find that the man was still asleep. Gildarts felt a need to help the man until they could get him to a proper hospital, so he made Happy carry him with his wings. It was about noon when the man finally woke up. Happy set him down on the ground and he instantly put his hood up.