Tatenashi-san woke up with a whisper to her ear.

"Tatenashi-san, wake up, time to eat breakfast.."

I whispered softly near Tatenashi-san's ear. She is very sensitive when you whisper softly at her ears. After hearing, she woke up and saw her boyfriend smiling at her.

"Zane-kun, you are a meanie! How dare you tease this onee-san while she having her sleep!"

"I see... Tatenashi-san must be having a good time dreaming about her boyfriend..." I teased her. This is my first time teasing Tatenashi-san. Maybe I had the guts to tease her after being her boyfriend. Or I just want to show my affection towards her.

She sat up on the bed with a grumpy look, holding a fist and tried to punch me. I caught her hand and said

"Come on, you don't want to be angry now, the food is getting cold." She calmed down and blushed, never see me talking to her like this. Tatenashi-san quickly walked to the bathroom.

Today she wore a different clothing than her usual attire. She wore a light blue shirt that has long sleeves, a mini shorts with black leggings.

"How do I look, Zane-kun?" Tatenashi-san asked as she smiled cutely.

"Wow, you look absolutely beautiful. You should wear this when we are home."

"Huh, but I thought Zane-kun like me wearing my naked apron." She gave a smile.

"Where did you hear that coming out from my mouth?" I defended myself.

"Ara ara Zane-kun, you can't lie to this onee-san, I can see through you..."

"Ok ok, I surrender." I decided to change our topic.

"Yup! I knew Zane-kun like this onee-san in a naked apron! Next time I'm wearing it without any swimsuit next time!'" Tatenashi-san exclaimed happily.

"I see..." I walked up to her, then whispered softly at her ears..

"Why don't you do it now? I'm looking forward to it. It will be so interesting to see your beautiful body..." I teased her.

"Zane-kun no ecchi!" She pouted angrily and kick me. Then she sat down and ate her breakfast.

What a rowdy morning.

After we had our breakfast, we went to the guild. We decided to do our first S-rank quest. I didn't bring Tatenashi-san to any S-rank quests before since it very dangerous and the monsters usually faced are super tough and powerful. Even so, Tatenashi-san insisted that she wanted to try doing one, so I went up to the S-rank questboard to find an easier quest for her. However, we found something very interesting. Looking at the quest sends chill down my spine. I wonder how chill is that consider my body can hold up well even below zero degrees. That S-rank quest posted is something not just me but Tatenashi-san always wanted to take revenge on... A quest to hunt down the Extort Organization. This group is the one who killed the Sarashiki family, bombed the Sarashiki house, and killed every Sarashiki except Tatenashi-san, probably... We still don't know if her sister, Sarashiki Kanzashi was still alive. I would never have thought this day would come where I have an opportunity to take down Extort. And it's here now, right in front of my eyes!

We decided to take this job. No matter what it is, it's not going to stop me from doing this.

"How long is this request been on the board?"' I asked Mirajane. She said it was put up recently, which was yesterday.

"Then, we'll take this quest. Tatenashi-san, we have to act quickly now." I turned towards her and she nodded in agreement.

"Wait, you two can't go on this quest alone." Master saw this and stopped us.

"I'm not alone, I have Tatenashi-san's back, and she has my back." I talked back to Master. That was my first time talking back to Master.

"This organization is bigger than you think, you will get yourself killed, I will not allow this thing to happen to my members." Master speak as a powerful rage was flowing out from Master.

"I already knew how strong this dumb organization is, they're the ones who killed Tatenashi-san's family. That's why I must go and destroy them, to TAKE MY REVENGE!"

I released a gust of chill, leaving small frozen bits to be found along the sides of the guild hall. Everyone jumped up after seeing my reaction. Tatenashi-san was pulling my sleeve, telling me to bring some of my friends with us on the quest. She was scared and didn't want to talk back because even her never saw me acting like this before. I know how dangerous this organization is, and I don't want any of my friends getting hurt, or even sacrificing themselves.

"BANG!"

Suddenly, the guild's front wall was tore down with a big explosion. Rubbles scattered throughout the whole guild and everyone was pushed back. That was one unexpected attack that caught everyone off guard. Some were injured due to being too close to the explosion and some were hit by the rubbles. My instincts gave in and it didn't even took me half a second to think who blew up the wall. This was the same way used when they attack the Sarashiki family. Which means, Extort was attacking our guild! I never knew Extort's informers could get a hold on locations that got this request to take down Extort this fast. I have fought these guys before. It wasn't one of the best experience in battle I had. They will ambush and attack whoever was requested to defeat them before they could do anything. They had executed this way many times, making them to be feared even among the dark guilds. I won't say this is a dark guild, it's more of an organisation. I should have been more prepared when I saw this quest up on the quest board. I must have oversee something. Arrgghh, this is not the time to be frustrated. I called out to Tatenashi-san. She understood the situation on hand and knew what I wanted to do. We both performed Unision Raid.

"Sheer cold ice who encases all my enemies in eternity reign! Take down my enemies!" I chanted.

"Powerful tidal and currents sweep all evil in dismay. Bring the rain of despair on them!" Tatensahi-san followed.

Large glacier spikes poured down while a giant whirlpool was holding them down, holding them immobile. When the ice touched the water, it froze the water and popped out more ice spikes. Another wave of water gushed down and the ice continued freezing them in place. The ice propagated rapidly and soon covered almost half of the guild. The machines and most of the Extort lackeys froze and got destroyed in pieces. Everyone silenced. Even Master did. A red chain was aiming at Tatenashi-san, charging forward at high speeds. Before it could reach her, I grabbed it and froze it.

"Oh is this that same magic? The same magic used to try and stop us five years ago?" A voice sounded.

"Yeah, you're right. But it's being used by the different person now." I replied.

"It's been a while since we saw each other, Zane-chan." The voice continued.

"Master, could you please get everyone to the basement? Tatenashi-san, you must head down too, I will be back in another few minutes, safe and sound." I turned my head, looking at Master. He nodded and order everyone to the basement hall. There aren't many members in the guild, so having an all-out war will be a disadvantage to us.

"Zane-kun, let me help you." Tatenashi-san pulled out Mysteltainn.

"No. You'll just get in my way. Plus, if they know you're alive, they maybe will kill you."

"Fine, but don't die, Zane-kun. Wish you luck." Tatenashi-san said while she head down to the basement.

"Got it." I said as I charged into the smoke.

Seconds later, another explosion was heard. Two people had begun clashing.

Just as I expected, one of the four Seasons. Seasons is one of the many independent groups in the Extort Organization. He is Summer. He is the one who tricked me last time, and led on the catastrophe that happened in the Sarashiki's mansion.

"What's your motive here?" I asked while attacking using MetalEdge. I was moving with a faster pace than usual.

"Now why should I tell you? You're the one who should know best the reason we're here." He chuckled as he dodged all my attacks. Then, he proceeded to shoot multiple lava balls towards me.

"It's as I thought. Still, how can you manage to find your way here that quick? We just received the quest a day ago." I deflected the balls and counterattacked with launching ice spears at him.

"About that, I can't tell you. You figure it out yourself." He laughed.

After exchanging a few blows, we both moved to melee attacks. I used MetalEdge while he was using his Hell Chain. We're fighthing ferociously. Explosions were created when our magic collided.

"Not bad Zane-chan, you improved a lot since the last time we met."

I got so mad and impatient that I decided those were his last words. With blue flames cloaking around my body, I raged into Dragon Force mode. This is actually my first time using Dragon Force. I knew how to pull it off after asking around the other Dragon Slayers in the guild and even battled against them, but I actually never used it because of my weak magic capacity. I might be not able to hold on in this form fro more than three minutes.

"Woah what the!"

Summer was shocked to see me pulling off Dragon Force. Dragon Force is the true potential of a Dragon Slayer, making the user to have the power and the body of a dragon. After seeing this, he backed down immediately.

"Curses! Who knew you could pull it off!"

"I'm not who am I five years ago. I've changed."

"Don't give me that crap! Fiery Vortex!"

Red chains surrounded me and burned ferociously. The chains are slowly closing in and tried burn me. I punched against the chains with my fist cloaked in flames. The blue flames spread and shattered the chains. Both blue and red flames danced then cancelled each other out. He continued by sending four chains to restrict my movements. The chains got to my legs and arms and burn my body. It slowly melted.

"That's my double. I'm here."

He turned around, realising that I'm right behind him.

I gathered a white aura on both of my hands and fuse them together. Following that, I set the concentrated aura ablaze with my flames, freezing it into a ball. I launched it at Summer and flames bursted out with amazing speed while the whole guild was coated with a thick layer of ice. Big spikes of ice propagated, dealing massive amount of damage to him. That was my Secret Dragon Slayer Art: Final Force.

"Arrrgghh!"

He lied on the floor, fainted. I think I accidentally blew a hole on the floor too. But, the battle was not over yet, I felt something on my chest, it was a Magic Circle, casted by Summer. It's Last Resort. He must have cast it before he fainted. It's a Magic that lets the opponent feel the same damage the caster did. I took the impact, and fainted. Before my eyes shut, I saw Team Natsu. They're back. Thank goodness... I collapsed on the floor, with the remains of the battle on the guild.

When I woke up, I saw Tatenashi-san. She look worried about me, constantly gripping my hand tightly. She helped me sit up on the bed. I felt sad to make Tatenashi-san worry about me... Master came. Tatenashi-san was silent for a while, looking at me with concern and sadness. Suddenly, Tatenashi-san burst into tears. That gave me a jump.

"It's all my fault, if I didn't join Fairy Tail, your guild won't be destroyed." she sobbed.

I hugged her.

"It's not your fault, they are not aiming for you. They still have other motives. Other guilds were attacked too,'

"But..."

From that tone of her voice, she still felt guilty about it.

"Don't cry now, and it's our guild, our home." I spoke up. I turned and speak to Master, telling him 'We're joining the quest,'

"Sure, Tatenashi can join, but you can't, Zane. Natsu's team had offered to join too. You will have to stay here and rest." Master ordered.

"But..." I have to go and hunt them down...

"This is an order!" Master raised his voice.

That leave me no choice but to let it go. I wanted to stop Tatenashi-san from going, but I realised that I can't be that selfish. Tatenashi-san should be able to find something at there too. As long as she wants to go, I won't stop her.

"Are you fine like this?" She asked.

"Yeah, don't worry about me. Be careful, Tatenashi-san." I turned to her and wiped her tears off her beautiful face.

"Don't worry, we will protect her." Natsu said.

"I understand, Thank you... What happened to Summer?" I asked.

"He was taken by the Council" Master answered.

"I see... This is the starting of their attack, the guild should be more cautious next time. Sorry for leaving the guild in a mess." I said to Master, hoping they won't attack the guild again.

"It's fine, a worse situation happened before. This is nothing." I felt relieved when Master said that. Still, I wanted to help them too. Then, I thought of a plan... Maybe with that, I can go and help Tatenashi-san.

At night, when Tatenashi-san was walking towards the guild, something unexpected happened. A few people lurked in the shadows ambushed Tatenashi-san. Luckily, Tatenashi-san was aware of them and created a water shield to stun them when they closed in to attack her. When she looked closely at their cloak, it has a Extort symbol. Tatenashi-san whipped up a whirlpool and pushed them back against the wall. Those assassins cast smoke bombs and left the area. After that ordeal, Tatenashi-san came to visit me.

"Huh? Tatenashi-san, aren't you supposed to be at home now? You need to rest for tomorrow." I noticed that she was shaking a bit.

"It's okay, I just want to see you're doing fine. Never mind about me." she replied.

"What happened? Something's wrong with you? Don't try to hide anything from me, I will get angry." I want her to tell me the truth.

"Eh? It's nothing, I'm totally fine you see. Here, have some fruits." She fed me a slice of an apple.

Munching the fruit, I asked why she was trembling a little.

"Oh, it's nothing. It must be you being tired." She laughed it off.

"One last chance..."

She finally gave up and told the truth. She was trembling, shaking in fear. I was so sad that it felt like something sliced through me heart. I hold her hand.

"Don't worry, I will get better and I will come and help you as soon as I can leave the bed." I tried to confront her.

"You can't do that, you have to rest properly."

"Mm, I got it."

"You know Zane-kun, I want to stay at here tonight, can I?" She asked.

"It's fine, I'm here with you.." I just decided to let her sleep in the next bed.

I can't stand seeing this anymore, Tatenashi-san's fear is coming back to haunt her. I must find a way to end this, once and for all. I don't like seeing Tatenashi-san not being herself.