Nothing much happened after that, the rune knights came and questioned them for about a week, Kroenen thought nothing much about it on as compared to the SS interrogation techniques back home, they are a bunch of amateurs produced by a gentle world.

It seems that Erza got wind about his looting the Phantom Lord's castle.

Well considering that a very eye catching man, goes on about selling stuff that has Phantom Lord's marks on them.

Yeah, it's no big suprise that Erza found out about it as she suddenly confronts him about it.

Erza then proceeded take a huge chunk of the money he made saying that it would be spent wisely for the new guild house and that she appreciated his contributions to the guild.

Of course everyone in fairy tail thanked him but he could careless about their opinion!

'I'm starting to understand why everyone treats you like a demon' He thought as Erza kept wasting his time and making him work for free!

First it's tricking him in to that Eisenwald mess, then she refuses to let villager from Galuna island reward him and now she robs him in broad daylight.

He is starting to hate Erza, in the past he is fine with her and would even help in her training and she repays him by trickery, treachery and now robbery.

Now he is starting to prefer Mirajane, now if only she could go regain her powers and go back to her old self, that would have be just perfect.

As he was thinking about that he hears Erza and Laxus arguing, Laxus like always being an arrogant braggart pissed Erza off which doesn't take much.

He goes on about the guild being full of 'weaklings', how Jet and Droy being Phantoms personal punching bags and how it's all Lucy's fault.

Then Mirajane steps in saying something about no being accountable for what happened and she goes on about how she begged Laxus to help but he refuses which some how means that he should be also accountable for the damages caused by the Phantom guild.

Laxus replied that has nothing to do with him.

'Well everyone should have a right to choose not to get dragged in other peoples messes' though Kroenen as recently he finds himself getting more and more dragged in to other people's problems.

If he had a choice to not get dragged in their mess then he would most definitely choose not to, no matter who begged him or how they begged him. So he'll have to agree with the mean guy here.

Laxus continues on saying if he had been at the fight then the guild wouldn't have been reduced to rubbles.

'Well can't disagree with that' thought Kroenen, if Laxus were actually there then there is a hight chance that the guild hall wouldn't have been destroyed.

Natsu apparently also heard the mean things he had said and now finally can't takes it anymore, he tries to attack Laxu which he fails as he couldn't to even touch him.

Laxus then goes on about he can't wait to kick Natsu and other weakling out.

'Well most guild would have kicked Natsu out with in the first day' Kroenen could help but agree, while he doesn't know who these 'weakling' he is referring to but it most definitely not him.

As Laxus rarely bad mouth him, for some reason he is strangely cool with Kroenen.

Maybe it has something to do him not being noisy and cheerful like most of those 'weaklings' or maybe is because he thinks before he acts which unlike those emotional 'weaklings' which seems to always cause trouble.

Well since he isn't going to be kicked out and he has no problems surviving under Laxus's rule in case he inherits the guild he should just ignores this argument that is unrelated to him.

Then Laxus disappears in a flash of lightning.

Then as he was about continue tinkering with his inventions when he over hears Erza claiming Natsu, Gray, Luacy and Kroenen to be in her team.

'wait...what!? Since when was I in her team?' He questioned as he wants nothing to do with that money stealing demon.

'Well I'll just pretend to have not heard it and continue what I'm doing' he thought as he continues to tinkers with them.

But then he suddenly finds himself getting forced in to her team as Erza blackmails him by threatnig to tell the council that he lied at the interrogation which is a serious offense much more than what the walking disasters usually do.

They had an excused that it's part of the job for the disasters they make while him on the other hand has none.

'why is she so insistent on me joining her team?' he thought.

With no choice on the matter he agrees.

On the bright side since Erza is in the team it means that there is a chance that they could take on an S rank job which pays a lot, but the problem is Lucy.

Since she is weak, it means that the chances of Erza picking an S rank quest is also weak.

After a mission.

'yep, like I guessed it' they destroyed half the town while hunting down some cultist.

By they he means Natsu, Gray and Erza.

He tries to remember what happened on that disaster of a mission, he told them that he would hunt down the cultist alone and they could just sit back and wait.

But Noooo, Natsu decided to do his own thing and burn every thing in his parth, Gray on the other hand fallowed Natsu's example and forzed everything the Natsu missied while Erza...well most of the damage is her fault.

Fortunately Lucy is useless meaning that she couldn't cause any trouble, well...real trouble.

After that their reward gets deducted by damage they (Natsu, Gray and Erza mainly) caused which leaves him with nothing more than chump changes.

'Great now the demon even cuts off my livelihood' he thought.

Then Lucy comes running along with a new job that she thinks that they could do.

The job sounds simple all they had to do is to draw a crowd in to some run down theater but is it really that simple? Or more simply will the disaters make it diffecult.

As he was thinking about it they arrives at their destination.

The manager then told them that they are having a little problem right now.

He then explaines that all his actors walked out on him, he then said that the show is cancelled.

'Whats that go to do with us? Our job is only to attract the crowd, what you do with them is your problem. But since no longer need us to do that I'll asumed it as a job compete so pay up ' he wanted to say that after all he didn't came here only go empty handed.

But unfortunately for him, his teamates has other ideas as they just loves making other peoples problems their own.

As Erza the demon steps up and offers for them to performed in his play instead.

'sigh I called it' he thought as he really hates getting involve in their mess which this will most likely lead to.

And every agrees to it.

'Well might as well gives it a try' he thought.

A week later.

'The show is going to be a disaster' Kroenen thought as he sees the full house, he is even seeing a few guild masters on the VIP seats.

'this is going to very be embarrassing' he thought.

The show begins with Erza prodending to a be a prince from a distant land.

She looks nice, however being watched by this many people she starts freezing up, with shacky legs she stuttered as she said the lines.

Basically it's a story about a prince that came to save the princess.

And right now she is suppose to be introducing herself as the prince, right now she is like the early versions of his clockwork droid.

Rigid moments shacky limbs.

Then she said a line from a completely different scene.

'well if you can't handle it then you shouldn't have proposed it' he thought seeing her the on who proposed it embarrassing herself made him feel quite good.

She summons ten swords and sent them flying at random direction.

Lucy then said they'll just have to improvise with the show.

'improvise huh' he thought before comming up with something witch will be less emberrassing. The then whispered something to Natsu and Gray to which they replied "sure you got it"

Then Lucy appears on stag all tied up and goes on introducing herself as the princess that is being held by fiendish guy Yad yad yad.

That fiendish is supposed to be Kroenen but of course he lets his clockwork droid do it in his stead as he has bigger plans to make this all work.

Then Gray shows up also pretending to be a prince and right about now Natsu in a dragon costume flys in breathes fire everywhere.

Then chaos as Gray and Natsu naturally fights each other first then Erza also jumps in and joins the frey wanting to punish Natsu and Gray.

Meanwhile the clockwork driod is left alone.

Kroenen of course expected some thing like this will happened and he had prepared a little something in case to make it a little less emberrassing.

He summons a box with button on it, he pressed the button.

Moments later a sleeping gas in Natsu's costume was releasd making the biggist random element sleep.

With Natsu alseep Erza and Gray pretended to have won over the dragon but then Natsu snorse making the audience laugh.

They then turned their attention to the clockwork droid.

'All this just for a few chump change it is dark times indeed' he thought as he puts on his costume.

At this time Kroenen makes his appearance.

The audience meanswhile all had the same question "who is that guy"

"who are you?" Gray and Erza asked out loud for real as the numbers don't match.

Lucy while didn't voiced it out but also had the same question.

Lucy is hagging from a rope, Kroenen (clockwork droid) was next to Lucy, Natsu is asleep, Gray and Erza is next to each other, so who is this guy that came in with a helmet and wears a cloak.

Kroenen being a professional stage actor since a young age of course didn't stutter or became rigid, instead he acted like professional.

"I am of course the real princess" the guy in helmet said with a gentel voice that seemed to have came from an angel which dumfounded everyone.

Everyone had a same reaction "what!?"

The guy takes off his his helmet that revealed a very beautiful angelic face, with skin so white it seemed to glow (this is of course due to the lack of exposure to the sun which caused Kroenen's skin to turned very white), golden blonde hair which have the luster of gold and with blue eyes that seemed like it's made from gemstone.

Kroenen the removes and throws away the cloak revealing a fancy white dress.

It made Kroenen looked like a real princess.

The audience were all like.

"whoa! Who is she?"

"what a pretty girl"

"thats the prettiest girl I've ever seen"

"hey, I've got the cloak she throw"

"give me that"

"no way, it's mine now"

Kroenen steps up and the clockwork droid falls to one knee, Mroenen then winks at them.

It made Gray blush while it made Lucy think 'Kroenen (clockwork droid) seems to be playing along with "her"'

"my princes wellcome to my domain, please but don't be fooled by that treacherous servant girl's lies" Kroene pleaded

That made Lucy screamed "what!?" as this wasn't part of the script.

Gray and Erza didn't do anything and just stood there as they wanted to know what happens next.

"I've treated her kindly like a sister all these years but one day I've discovered her scheming a plot to over throw me and replace me as the princess of the kingdom" Kroenen made a betrayed kind of look.

"her crimes warranted execution but remembering all the years we're spent together I find myself unable to do so, instead I have her locked up in the dungeon hoping that one day she will realized her mistake and be my loving older sister again" kroenen said that tearfully making everyone's heart ached.

The came a understanding and resolute voice "But I understand now, what must be done must be done. I should have done this years ago, I should have moved pass this long ago and now beacuse I'm to weak to do what must be done the scred dragon that has been protecting this land now lays there in his eternal slumber"

Natsu snores which a few people laughed.

Kroenen then looked towords the clockwork droid and droid nodded in turn making the audience all wonder what does it.

They so Clockwork droid then cuts the ropes on Lucy, Lucy mean while doesn't know whats going on and is very confused.

She doesn't know whats she's supposed to do.

Kroenen then walks up to her then hugs her, this cought everyone by surprised as they they didn't Kroenen to just hugs the person who just lead to the dragons death.

"my sister for many years, How I've longed to hug you like this one more...just one last more time... Just let our last memory be a happy one Before" then comes the twist as Kroenen pulls out a dagger from behind Lucy.

While Lucy had no idea of what's going to happened next, it however made everyone else gasped as they soon realized what is about to happened.

"parting forever" Kroene whispered but it was still loud enough for the audience to hear it.

when Lucy heard this it made her eyes wide to the sudden coolness in 'her' voice.

Kroenen stabs and Lucy fells on top of him unconscious.

Of couse Kroenen didn't stabed for real, he just knocked her out at the last second.

"Sleep well my older sister, sleep well for our last memory is a happy one" Kroenen sorrowful voice as fake tears runs down on his angelic face.

He gently lays Lucy's unconscious body to the floor.

As Kroenen is mourns over the death Lucy's death, the clockwork droid walks up to him and pats him on the shoulder.

Kroenen looks at the droid a moment before wiping out his tears.

"thank you, for your years of hard work watching over my older sister" Kroenen said as he picked himself up.

"now let me reward you for your dedication" Kroenen said as he leans over to the droid preparing to removed it's mask and give the face behind it a kiss.

Everyone now eagerly waiting to see what the face behind the mask, not even the guild master Makarov has ever seen the face behind that mask.

At moment the certains closed.

Silence

Then people burst out and complains that they didn't get to see the person behind the mask.

Of course Kroenen already knows that such a thing would happened and already made preparations.

Kroenen hired a guy to say one simple sentence out loud, in case this happens.

As the people are complaining about it a comment rings out louder than the rest "Well aren't you glad that she didn't kiss whoever is behind that mask?"

Hearing that most guys couldn't help but agree.

"well yeah"

"hey your right"

"he probably has an ugly face anyways"

"yeah and he was very rigid the whole time"

"they probubly did it so that she woundn't have to kiss him"

While the girls still wanted to see who is behind that mask.

With that the complaints started to die down as people discussed about it and the general consensus is that, the play is good.

Kroenen quickly disappears to the back stage as soon as the play is over, he quickly unsummons his clockwork droid, changes back to his usual clothes and put on his gas mask.

After that when Lucy and Natsu finally wakes up, Natsu complains to Kroenen about the sleeping gas.

After a bit of investigating they discovered that this whole incident was orchestrated by Kroenen.

He was the one who told Natsu to put on a costume that is rigged and he told him at which time to come out, he also told Gray to dress as a prince and goes on stage like that.

This of course picked the interest of the people around, it means that he also knew who that girl was.

Everyone asked him about who the girl they just saw, he just simply replied "friend" and didn't say anything more.

Yeah, they would never have guessed that this aloof guy would be that same 'girl'.

They asked him some more questions about the 'girl' but he didn't budged and ignores them, strangely enough after that day a rumor has been going around that Kroenen has beautiful girlfriend.

The manager comes in complementing their performance and asked them to perform again but sadly since that 'girl' is missing they couldn't.

And since nobody could replace 'her' beauty and acting especially with these walking disasters they'll have to just call it a day.

Then the manager broke down cried and begged Kroenen to call that 'girl' here again.

To that he replied she has already left.

Well Kroenen is not doing that again and doubted that he could recreate it anyway with these people around.

At least the Manager made one master piece in his life some people wouldn't even have that.

Well not that he cares anymore as he only helped this time because of all VIPs here, he wouldn't want the walking disasters of Fairy Tail to bring shame to the guild in front of them.

Kroenen didn't care if they embarrassed themselves but don't embarrassed the guild in front of all these guild masters and VIPs here!

If they ruin Fairy Tail's reputation in front of all these important and influential figures, Kroenen it would most definitely be featured on every new tabloids in the country.

Meaning that people's trust in Fairy Tail to get the job done would fall especially since they were the once who proposed it in the first place.

And if that happens then people won't send job request to Fairy Tail anymore.

Without him these walking disasters would have most like made Fairy Tail the laughing stock of whole country by the end of this play.

Since he has already done his job and more, now it's time to get paid and go home.