I am alive! I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in so long! This is the last time that I go this long without updating I swear! I got mixed up with some other stuff. So onto the story!

Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima!


Fairy Tail, Zeto's POV…

"ZETO!" That familiar yell roared throughout the guild hall causing some of the members to cringe at the volume of it. I turned around to see a young man the same height as me with crimson spiky hair that reaches his back a bit, orange straight jacket with the sleeves torn off, black pants with a red belt that comes with a yellow buckle, a gray vest with the collar up, black leather gloves with a red spike on it, his shoes were black on the bottom and yellow on the top along with dark red lines and lastly wearing a red fur cape. My eyes widened when I recognized him and got up while walking towards him charging my magic to my right hand with the opposite doing the same. Once we got in range we punched each other's fists which caused a small shockwave.

"Well Zeto you gotten a lot stronger than before!"

"Same to you Kaos." We broke off and gave brotherly hug. I could feel everyone's eyes on us but I just shrugged it off and walked Kaos to the bar.

"Mira! Get my friend a beer, it's on me." Mira smiled and got Kaos a beer in record time. Kaos started to drink his beer when I turned to see Team Natsu along with Wendy looking at me for an answer.

"Guys this is one of my old friends, Kaos Seinaruyami I've known him for a couple years until we split up to go our separate ways." I introduced him as he turned to shake hands with everyone.

"So what are you doing here Kaos? Last time I saw you was in Era." I asked as I sat next to him.

"Well I was in Hargeon Town when I heard from the locals about a certain Dragon Slayer making waves all over Fiore and get this! His name is Zeto Nakahara, Fairy Tail's Black Dragon!" He finished while laughing his lungs out as I let my head fall on the table when I had a thought. If my success is all over Fiore, then how it is that none of my rivals from Dragon's Nest have come after me? I'd expect Rayo if not Cinder but so far no one, hmmm.

My thoughts were taken out when I felt Kaos nudge my shoulder to get my attention.

"So I heard Fairy Tail is a rowdy place! Is it true?" He asked with a glint in his eye. I just chuckle.

"You'll fit right in; Mira we got ourselves a new member." I said chuckling as everyone cheered. I looked up to see Makarov come out of his office then hopped off the railing unto the bar in front of Kaos.

"Hello there young man, my name is Makarov Dreyar and I'm the Guild Master. So you wish to join us?" He asked with a smile as he got the stamp ready.

"Of course!" He exclaimed as Makarov nodded and placed the guild mark in the middle of his chest in a dark red color with yellow outline. Everyone started partying with excitement as welcome party for Kaos. During the party, Team Natsu along with Wendy, Gajeel, Team Shadow Gear, Kaos and I grouped up in a corner talking about Kaos' interesting magic.

"Wait you are a what!?" Everyone exclaimed while Kaos laughed.

"Yep I'm Fire Devil Slayer and before you ask no, I will not tell you how I got it, not yet anyway." He said with the same cheerful tone as he took another sip from his drink. Everyone asked him questions regarding his magic and he answered every one of them with a smile or a laugh. After an hour I left the guild with Kaos in tow as we discussed more personal subjects.

"So any news about him?" He asked with a honest tone.

"Nope, nothing but dead ends. Turns out being the epitaph of the apocalypse apparently makes you impossible to find." I replied with a shrug and a chuckle.

"Do you have a place?" I asked.

"Yeah, I'm staying in the inn for now but once I get a good job I'll get an apartment here." He said with a neutral tone as we got to his inn. I shook his hand again with a smile.

"It's good to see you again old friend, we'll get a job tomorrow." I gestured him goodnight and went towards my apartment to get some sleep as no doubt tomorrow was going to be busy.

The next morning…

I walked through the doors of the guild greeting everyone along the way towards the request board to find a good job. After a few seconds of searching I found one that involves fighting a group of highway bandits on the road between Gracias Town and Riverun Town for forty thousand jewels. I looked around to see Kaos eating some breakfast at the bar while talking with Mirajane. Apparently Mira is actually enjoying the conversation; sadly said conversation has to end early if we were going to hit the road.

"Morning you two, Mira I got a job for Kaos and I if that's alright with you?" I asked politely as I took a piece of bacon from Kaos's plate, which surprisingly he didn't notice as he finished his food. Mira looked over the form, and then she eye smiled as she stamped the form and handed it back to me.

"There you go Zeto, I wish you guys the best of luck, so I'll see you soon." She gave us a smile as she waved us off. We went to the train station while talking about random things and then into a comfortable silence on the train.

A few hours later…

Once we got to Riverun Town we spoke to the mayor about the job and went on our merry way to the bandit camp within the forest. After twenty minutes searching the forest we came across the camp that was filled with forty or so bandits. After a moment I thought of a plan to do the job safely.

"Okay Kaos here's the plan: I'm going to use my magic to drag their leader out of their camp and into the road we came from to take them out there, even if they're bandits they're not going to let their boss get captured like that." I finished the explanation as I narrowed my eyes looking for whoever seems to be in charge.

"Well I don't have a problem but why go through all the trouble of that if we can take them here?" Kaos asked with a confused expression and I answered with two fingers raised.

"One, if we attack them here we'll have to drag them back unto the road anyways for the Rune Knights to collect and two, you're a Flame Devil Slayer, what do you think will happen if you used your magic here?" I answered with a deadpan expression as he mouthed an 'o' face then he nodded and went off to his position. I turned back to the camp and started looking for a bandit that looks like he's in charge.

"Seriously?" I ask myself as I saw a man in a fancy suit drinking tea while sitting on equally fancy looking chair that was obviously stolen. I sighed at the stereotype before charging my magic to my right arm then summoned my Black Dragon's Chain. The magic chain coiled around him securely before I yanked towards me sending him flying towards me screaming his lungs out in both fear and surprise. Once he landed I started to drag him away effortlessly in a brisk pace to the clearing where the road and hopefully Kaos would be waiting.

"Let me go! Do you know who I am!?" He yelled as while thrashing with the magic chain.

"You're a bandit with a bounty on your head which means you're nothing but an easy paycheck." I bluntly said as we reached the road. I could sense that both Kaos and the gang of bandits are close so without further ado I throw the leader in the air, grab by his head and smashed him into the ground just as his gang appeared.

"Anyone else?" All of them got ready to rush me when all of a sudden a purple wave of fire erupted from literally under their feet. I slightly cringed at the sounds of their pained screams from the fire but luckily the flames put themselves out leaving the bandits heavily burned but alive. I looked to see Kaos walking from the tree line with a grin on his face clearly satisfied with himself. I sent a signal to the Rune Knights to come pick up the bandits as Kaos was tying the bandits. About thirty minutes later they arrived with a few carriages then proceeded to load them up while Kaos and I arrived to the Mayor of Riverun to pick up our split rewards and when we left the building towards the train station, Kaos asked a peculiar question.

"Hey, Zeto you know if Mira is dating anyone?" He asked with a neutral face and I just snorted then proceeded to chuckle. He was not amused.

"Hey man! I'm being serious here! Be a wingman!" He yelled while pouting as I then broke and started laughing hard.

"Kaos, it's been a day and you're already trying to hook up with her? That my friend is why I'm laughing!" I said while holding my sides.

"Hey answer the question at least!" He yelled again with a slightly angered face.

"Alright, alright! No, as far as I know she isn't and I'll try to help but I'm going to warn you, be careful." I said while trying to calm my chuckles.

"Yeah, I'm sure I need to be worried about her brother Elfman." He said sarcastically.

"You do realize that she can wreck you if you anger her right? Easiest way on doing that is hurting her siblings. Trust me, she didn't become S-Class just because of her pretty face." I said with a smile as Kaos visibly paled with this information.

"If she does decide to beat the shit out of me, you'll back me up, right?" He cautiously asked.

"And lose my main source of gossip and cheap but delicious food? Hell no! You're on your own buddy." I said with a smirk on my face as I saw his depressed expression almost as if a dark cloud appeared over his head.

"I can't believe you would trade our friendship for food and gossip…" I chuckled a bit before patting his back.

"I'm joking I got your back." He visibly cheered up as he looked at me with expectant eyes.

"Really!?"

"Of course, I'll be watching the fight by the sidelines with everyone else while eating some popcorn and cheering you on while she beats your face into the ground." I said with a joking tone but what broke me was his shocked face as I tricked him again and I started laughing so hard I almost cried. He gave a depressed aura as we got to the train station, bought our tickets and got on the train to go home.


The next day…

I woke up early in the morning then proceeded to do my morning rituals and started walking towards the South Gate Park. Along the way I passed people who carrying on with their lives and some people actually greeted me when I passed. Once I got to the park I found a bench to sit on so I rest and enjoy the scenery. However, I noticed there were quite a few families with kids here and all playing with each other or spending time with one another and one particular one was a father playing with his son. I wonder if my mother hadn't died would I have something like that. From the moment I could remember my whole life was training, training and even more training. Could we have been a real family?

I was so deep in my thoughts that I didn't notice someone sit next to me and poke my cheek. I quickly snapped out of it and looked to my left to see someone I didn't expect.

"Hey Zeto what are you doing here?" Lucy kindly asked with a smile. She was wearing white and blue dress and skirt with her hair down. I'm quite surprised no one got her yet but according to Mirajane; she's probably waiting on Natsu to get his head out of his ass. Damn fool.

"Nothing…" I said while still looking at the various families as I heard a sigh from next to me.

"You may think I don't know what you've been through but I do." She said with a caring voice. I was going to reply but she held up her hand to stop me.

"When my mom died, my father changed from a caring father to a man who only cared about his company. Everything else including his daughter who needed him the most to get through the loss was just a background. Eventually I ran away and he didn't care at the slightest." She stopped to take a breath as I patiently waited knowing this a sore topic for her.

"Then I met Natsu and the rest of Fairy Tail who took me in and treated me like family. I've been with them ever since. However after some time another guild called Phantom Lord attacked us because my father hired them to take me back to them so he could marry me off to some heir to some company. I cut ties with him after that but then months later he came looking for me to set things right and I slightly forgave him but never got to really reconcile with him." She said with a depressed tone and took another breath.

"I never got the chance because of what happened on Tenrou Island and we've been gone for seven years. During that time he sent presents to my apartment knowing I would come back but before we came back he died and I never got to…" I stopped her by putting my hand on her shoulder as I saw tears in her eyes. I gave her a smile.

"Thank you for sharing, when I was born I was being raised by my father and when I was old enough I asked him about my mother and he said 'she's dead' just like that." I finished with a chuckle.

"Wow insensitive isn't he." She said with a frown as I chuckled a bit more.

"Well it's more than that; he believes sugar coating things will get you nowhere and I know he's still healing from our loss so I guess all the training he threw at me was a way to keep both our minds off her passing." I said with a soft smile.

"Wait both of you? I thought he's a Dragon which you haven't even told us his name." She said with a confused expression.

"He was close with my mother so you can understand how he could feel." I half lied as she nodded in understanding. After that we stayed in a comfortable silence until Lucy broke it.

"Hey this may be sudden but how you come on a job with me? It's easy since if I took a harder one Natsu along with everyone would want to come and muck up the pay and I need to pay rent." She said with a tense smile.

"Sure I'm not doing anything at the moment, what's the job?" I asked.

"We have to escort a noble's daughter as she visits Crocus for some family business and its sixty thousand jewels so we could split it?" She said with a cheerful smile. I got up and we agreed to meet at the train station in twenty minutes. Once I got my things I went over to the station and waited about five minutes until she showed up with her hair in pig tails, her whip on her hip along with keys and still wearing the same outfit. No traveling bag?

"Uh Lucy? Where's your travel bag or whatever you use." I asked with my eyes narrowed. I have nothing against her but I hope she knows this is a couple day job if not a few days at most.

"Oh I just realized this is the first time we actually hung out Zeto. Well I'm a Celestial Spirit Mage so one of my Spirits Virgo has my clothes over in the Celestial Spirit World." She answered with pride in her voice. From what I've heard from the others, she loves her Spirits more than her own life.

We boarded the train and waited for it to move as I sat down Lucy looked at me with a surprised expression.

"Um aren't you sick?"

"No, I trained myself to lessen my motion sickness so it doesn't bother me at all unless I'm on transportation for like a week straight." I half lied as usual.

"So what was the name of your Dragon? You never mentioned his name at all and please don't change the subject. If it's personal or a sore topic I understand but you never talk about him. Remember Master's words? One member's sadness is the guild's sadness." She finished with a sad pout and low tone. I looked at her with soft eyes and sighed before starting.

"I'll tell you when we reach our destination but you must promise me that you won't tell a soul, I'm not ready to tell everyone the truth as I don't know how everyone will react." I said with a sad but serious tone.

"Alright as long you tell me the truth but for now let's enjoy the ride!" She said and we switched topics. We talked mostly about her adventures with Team Natsu and we talked a bit of my adventures but mostly on my self-proclaimed sister, Eto.

"So who is Eto? Ever since that Deus incident she showed up a couple times almost always with you." She asked.

"Well when I joined Dragon's Nest I was introduced to everyone except for one who hid in a corner. At first, I ignored her but after a couple days I went up and talked to her." I chuckled a bit before I continued.

"I tell you, she was very shy and she possesses powerful Dragon Slayer magic that could rival a wizard saint, ironic right?"

"Wow, she doesn't seem that powerful but I guess looks can be deceiving. What kind is she?" She asked curiously.

"Sorry I'm not allowed to say but we became partners quickly after that. We watched each other's backs and took care of each other. Eventually she started calling me "big brother" and it stuck." I finished explaining with a smile.

"Then how come she doesn't join Fairy Tail? She'd fit in for sure!" She exclaimed with a thoughtful expression.

"She grew up with the guild; it's a hard thought for her to even consider leaving the people who took her in when her Dragon died." I said with a depressed tone.

"Oh I guess that makes sense… wait you said when her Dragon died? What happened?" She asked with a remorseful tone that matched mine.

"When she turned seven, her Dragon ordered her to kill him so she may receive greater power and for a much darker but conventional purpose." I replied back with an almost monotone voice.

"I might just regret this but what other purpose?"

"So she could get used to killing…" I answered back with the same tone and that ended the conversation.

A couple hours later we reached our destination which was an inn just outside of Crocus. When we entered we saw an attractive woman with blue hair, slightly shorter than Lucy and skinny. She was a wearing extravagant noble dress with white and yellow patterns. Right off Lucy went to the woman to ask.

"Excuse me are you Rachel Vanoss?" She asked politely.

"Yes I am and I take it you two are the Fairy Tail wizards that accepted the job?" She replied with a bright tone and smile.

"Yes we are, my name is Lucy Heartfilia and my partner is Zeto Nakahara now do you mind telling us a bit more of the job?" She finished as she sat down on the table along with me doing the same.

"Of course, I'm here to visit family here and explore Crocus a bit while and normally it is not an issue my father recently got paranoid and forced me to hire body guards. He's afraid something may happen to me so yeah here we are." She finished with an embarrassed expression. Lucy and I just looked at each other and shrugged.

"Well not a problem then, this will not change anything and even better we're both familiar with Crocus so we can show you around!" She answered for the both of us as I kindly nodded unconsciously until I heard the last part of her sentence. Wait what!?

I slightly glared at Lucy when Rachel got up to pay the owner her bill and I knew Lucy could feel my glaring as she started sweating bullets. Before either of us could say a word Rachel returned and practically dragged us out of the establishment towards Crocus. Immediately, Lucy took her to see landmarks along with a few clothing stores as I just kept watch. Each time they would leave an area or store and move on to the next one I would tiredly sigh at their antics. This went on for a couple hours until we stopped at a small mansion.

"Well this is it! I thank you both for the tour around the city! I've never had so much fun! Here's your payment!" She exclaimed as she gave us a box filled with our payment. We both smiled and nodded before we walked away. When we got to the outskirts of Crocus nearing the train station Lucy grabbed my hand and proceeded to drag me towards the field and under a tree. When we got there I sat down at the base of it and breathed in and out heavily.

"Alright, I promised you already that I won't tell a soul so shoot." She said while putting her hands on her hips with a serious expression.

"You and Fairy Tail already met him actually and that's what makes me feel ashamed." I said with remorse as I refused to look at her as the gears in her head started to turn.

"Wait you don't mean…" She started.

"Yep my father is Acnologia, the Black Dragon of The Apocalypse and the Dragon King."

That's a wrap! Once again I'm sorry it's been so long that I updated! I had a broken laptop and then life happened with like a hundred trucks! For now there is no update schedule because how busy things are. But this story is not forgotten! Happy Holidays to everybody! Prime out!