Chapter 7: Nice to meet ya!


-Decastrol-

Night was approaching quickly and so far the fairy tail mages hadn't gotten a hit on any of the men they were searching for. Everyone they asked gave them nothing to go on and when shown the wanted posters nobody seemed to have saw them or even heard of them. They had spent close to an hour questioning and searching and was now heading back to the arranged meeting point, where Erza's team would meet them. Time was of the essence and tensions began to rise. Well in one person anyway.

"This is pointless! We're getting nowhere!" yelled a extremely annoyed Mirajane, she looked about ready to rip someone's head off. This certainly made the rest of her group give Mira plenty of breathing room.

"Calm down Mira." said Lucy quietly, finding some foolish courage to speak to Mira, "Master did say these men have evaded capture for a few years. He knew this mission would be a long one." She tried to reason with her which was somewhat successful as Miras mood became less threatening. Only less.

"Although I agree with Luce I can see where Mira is coming from." Cana added in, "These guys were suspected to be involved with the warehouse thing? It's kind of irritating how nobody saw anything or these guys." Cana was right, how did these guys destroy a warehouse and got away without any witnesses or even being seen entering the city.

"Maybe they're better at covering their tracks than first thought?" speculated Lucy, she wasn't sure what these men were skilled at other than just fighting.

"Maybe but they still should have some sort of trail. They weren't exactly very subtle about destroying the War Dogs guild. They even left witnesses alive that knew where they were going." Cana countered Lucy's speculation, not convinced that these guys were under the radar types. Cana groaned, "Man I could use some booze right now."

The rendezvous point was in sight, the group of three approached their predetermined meeting place before they were interrupted.

"Excuse me." spoke a kind voice from behind them, the grouped turned to see man standing behind them. He stood taller than the rest of them. He wore a long slightly damaged cloak with a hood, a fitting black dress shirt with brown trousers and black boots. His face was chiseled and well defined blue eyes tidy brown hair complemented the rest of his face and from his body shape you could tell he took care of himself. "I was told that you three were searching for people for the past hour. I thought I may be of assistance." His voice kind and helpful.

Mira glared at him, "I've had it up to here with people who think they can help!" Mira growled to the stranger, "Give me some good news…" Her growl promised pain to someone if she didn't get any leads. Although as Mira glared at him she noticed something, 'Are those bandages?' she noticed the bandages wrapped around his arms.

The man sweatdropped slightly, "I shall try my absolute best." The deadpan expression went under everyone's radar. "Can you show me who are looking for?" He drew closer to the group of mages. Happy took hold of the wanted posters and moved to show this man. "Here you go!" replied a somewhat dazed Happy, a single drop of drool rolling down his face. It was fish, it had to be fish.

The group watched the man examine the posters for a moment after a few moments he replied, "I can't say I've seen these three." he handed three of the posters back, "But I have seen these two." He held up the posters of Rob and Jellal.

This got everyone's attention, "Where did you last see these men!" exclaimed Lucy, not wanting to lose this lead. They needed information.

"What's going on?" asked an approaching voice from behind them. They recognized the voice as Erza Scarlet, both Juvia and Wendy following behind her. The group had spotted Mira and her team speaking to someone and decided to join them.

"Erza!" exclaimed Lucy, "This guy says he seen these two before." She held up the posters of the 'Red Devil' and 'Heavenly Demon' before hiking her thumb over to the cloaked guy.

Erza went wide eyed at this before recomposing herself, "Where did you last see these men?" she asked firmly, her tone giving off a sense of urgency.

"I saw them in the northern district of the city. If you move now you should be able to make it there before the sunset." stated the cloaked figure, "That way is the quickest route to the northern district." He pointed toward the street opposite them. The group of mages banded close to together.

"Alright! Let's get after them!" yelled Mira, which got a collective nod from the group before Erza spoke up, "We have to move fast! This may be our only shot, we miss this and we might be a long time finding them again!" Erza' little speech gave the group determination for the mission ahead. They now had two of their targets in sight, now to take the shot. With that, the group all began to run toward the northern district, their goal set in mind.

Lucy stopped abruptly while the others put a bit of distance on her, "Thanks for the help! Sorry we didn't get your name?" Lucy shouted toward the man. The man chuckled, No worries." He smiled, "It's Attis Shokusei." Lucy smiled, "Thanks again!" before she took off after her friends.

The man laughed to himself before turning to head the other way, "No thank you." And with that, he was gone.

Lucy managed to catch up to the group rather quickly just in time as well as Erza was going over their plan to combat these men, "We're going up against the 'Red Devil' and the 'Heavenly Demon', these two are supposedly the strongest of the group along with the 'Raijin'. We should all focus our efforts in fighting them one at a time. Deal with one of them as soon as possible." Erza explained the plan. "None of you are to hesitate understood?" She wanted to hear it from them, she gave a proud smile when they all nodded and replied with 'Understood'. Apart from Mira...


-Northern District-

Jellal walked the streets of the northern district in search of Rob, 'How do you cause so much trouble.' He sighed as he continued to walk. He wore the hood of his cloak to hide from the people around him, he still stuck out with how well made his clothes were but he certainly blended in better than Rob in the crowd of men and women. Jellal needed to find Rob and get out of the city, they both had a lead to follow and possibly more rune knights if this brutal assault was reported.

As Jellal wandered down the street he noticed how people were glancing his way as he moved through the district. "Excuse me." someone to his left spoke to him. Jellal turned to see who it was, it was a man stood in front of a ruined hovel. The person who spoke to him was an older gentleman, in his seventies at the least. He carried a mature and wise albit wrinkly look about him but also one of tiredness, dressed in simple plain robes even if they were brightly coloured. His eyes looked hopeful despite how worn they looked, his hair had long since greyed with his beard. His slow movement toward Jellal indicating he was rather weak to the appearance.

"Can I help you?" was all Jellal replied with. It came off as a bit rude in Jellal's mind but that was not how he meant for it to be taken. Jellal glanced around himself to see who was watching him, to Jellal' surprise nobody was, the crowd around them actually looked to be on the lookout for some reason.

The old man mumbled his question, "Are you by any chance a friend of a red headed swordsman." The old man coughed, "He's been wanting to go look for you for a while now."

Jellal was shocked, 'How does he know any of that?' thought Jellal before replying. "Yes, I'm actually looking for that very friend right now." Jellal shifted a bit as the door behind the old man opened suddenly, two middle aged men came out and stood either side of the door. The old man slowly turned and headed for the door, "Follow." He said as he disappeared into the darkness beyond the doorway.

Jellal stood still for a brief moment before he slowly followed. He may not know what's going on but he wanted to find out where Rob was and this old man could help find him than he'd follow.

Jellal entered the house to only be surrounded by darkness. He could sense people were in the room, he felt like he was being watched but he couldn't feel any hostile intent. He followed a few feet behind the old man who was walking along a candle lit path through the hovel.

Jellal, although he wasn't certain of these people, asked, "How did you recognize me? And where is Rob?" He needed to inform Rob of his conversation earlier.

"Just keep following and I shall explain everything again." was all the old man replied with. After another brief moment of walking they reached a small hatch in a wall. Jellal noticed it blended in so well that he wouldn't have even noticed it if it weren't for the fact it had candles lit around it to highlight it.

The hatch opened and the old man stepped through, Jellal followed after. When he realized what he saw he couldn't help but pinch the bridge of his nose and sigh heavily.

"Come on Mr Jackie! Again! Again!" yelled a child like voice, you could hear the child trying to contain their joy from what they were doing.

"Yeah Mr Jackie! That was fun!" exclaimed another child like voice. The sound of laughter and giggling filled the room. The sound of children playing, truly a joyous sound.

Although Jellal did enjoy kids having fun what made him so frustrated was who they were playing with. This Mr Jackie as the children were referring him too.

"In a second alright? Jeez, you kids are a wild bunch of rascals aren't yous?" an older deeper voice spoke before giving a hearty chuckle. This man looked toward Jellal, "Oh Jellal! You're here! I got some news for you!" This man was Rob of course. He stood to walk over to Jellal, despite a few pouts from the kids.

Jellal just gave him a blank look, "Oh really? You got something useful from all this…" Jellal looked toward the children behind Rob, "babysitting?" Jellal wasn't impressed in the slightest.

Rob smiled sheepishly before giving a low chuckle, "You'd be surprised about what I learned." His reply did relieve some of Jellal's irritation and it piqued his curiosity, Rob wasn't one to lie or exaggerate.

"I believe I should explain myself now." Rob and Jellal turned to the old man, "I shall start from the beginning." The old man shuffled over to take a seat to rest his shakey bones. Rob and Jellal leaned back against the wall, other people came in to bring the children into another room inside the secret hatchway.

"Firstly, I'd like to say that I know who both of you are. The Red Devil and Heavenly Demon. Although I may know who you both are I swear to both you young men that all of us here mean you no harm." The old man shifted in his seat before continuing, "I wanted to meet you to ask a favour of you and the rest of your rascals. We know you're after the Underworld Emperors."

Jellal looked toward Rob who nodded, confirming to Jellal to listen, 'The old man must have already told him' thought Jellal before they both turned back to the old man, "How do you know that?" asked Jellal, it was still odd how this old man knew what they were up to when not even the council does.

The man gave a tired sigh, "You see, we are forced to work for one of the Emperors. You may know them as The Master." Jellals expression changed to one of trouble, he didn't like this information, not after the information he got earlier from that mysterious woman.

"He forces us to kidnap people to turn them into slaves. We capture unsuspecting people and give them to his men in order to protect our own." The old man teared up slightly, "This man has some of our children as h..h..hostages. He says if we don't do as he says the next time we see these children…" He took a breath," is when they're dead. Same result if we went to the council for help..." The old man covered his face in shame, "W..we overheard his men mention you by n..name Mr Jackdaw, about how you plan to take them down so to speak and how much of a threat you all could be." He wiped away his tears, recomposing himself, "Please save our children and the people we hurt, they are innocent. We keep the children that remain hidden away. That's why you only see grown men and women in this region of the city. Please will you help us…" His voice truly showed both the pain he felt and the shame in his actions.

They both didn't know how to react to the old man's plea, it was a sad story and they wanted to help but they had bigger fish to fry. For all Rob knew they'd be going up against two of the Emperors if they tried to help them out, not that Rob cared he'd help if they had to go against the world but Jellal had to weigh it in his mind. If they accepted he knew they be up against three of the Emperors and that could be like signing your own death warrant.

"We'll help you old man." Rob stepped toward him, " I personally promise to take down this bastard and save as many lives as I can while I do it. That's a promise of swordsman." Rob smirked and held out his hand. The old man gave a genuine smile and took his hand and shook it with gratitude. Jellal wasn't one to argue with Robs choice, even though this would be extremely dangerous for them but they had all knew that when they decided to clash with the Emperors.

"We all promise." Jellal add with a small smile of his own, Rob grinned wider. The old man seemed to genuinely glow with joy. He looked ready to burst from happiness at hearing this. Rob and Jellal couldn't help but smile at how life seemed to come back to the old man.

"T..t..thank you both! We are truly grateful for any help you can give." The old man was beside himself. They'd finally got someone to help them with their problems.

"Is there anything you can tell us about The Master? Anything at all? Names? Places?" Jellal listed anything that might be useful, they may have agreed to help but they didn't have much to go on about The Master they only had information on The Warlord.

"O..Of course. They always come from the west. They have a drop off point there where they collect the people we leave there before taking them west. From what we could gather, we believe they're in the city of Quercus." The old man settled down, "We believe they The Master has men stationed there. It'll be the best place for you to start."

Rob and Jellal nodded toward the old man, "We promise. We take this bastard down." said Rob, the determination and certainty in his voice only helped the old man's hope grow. "T...T..thank you." His smile was absolutely heartwarming to see.

With that, Rob and Jellal began to leave the hovel. They'd get nothing more from being here, although Decastrol still had some secrets for them to uncover, it was becoming difficult to move around undetected and their enemies knew they were in the city. They would have to come back here at a later date. As they both stept out onto the streets, it was sunset, the sun sat atop the horizon. Night was here in less than an hour, but a little voice spoke out behind them drawing their attention away from the slowly darkening sky.

"You're going Mr Red?" asked the voice, they both turned to see the little girl that found Rob earlier standing in the doorway of the ruined hovel. It was little Violet.

Rob smiled and walked over to her, "Don't worry about it little lady, I'll be back at some stage. I promise you that." He said as he ruffled her hair. Her cute smile only caused the other two to smile as well.

They both once again started off down the street, heading back toward Hargeon if they could. They wanted to inform the others of what happened and to go get Laxus as well. "Thanks Mr Red and Mr Blue!" her little voice carried down the street, which got a chuckle out of both men before they waved her off.

A few minutes down the road, "Rob," Jellal said seriously, atmosphere becoming serious as well "When I was out I was contacted by our mysterious guest from the warehouse." Rob remained silent as he listened, "She seemed to know who we are for a start. She'd been watching us from afar, observing our movements. She gave me information that could be useful in tracking down The Warlord."

"She just willingly gave you that information? How'd know about it in the first place?" asked Rob, although he appreciated any lead they got it was still a major red flag. "Ninety five percent of people have no idea who the Emperor's are and she just gave up something actually useful." Rob sighed, "she is an odd one for sure."

"Agreed. She informed me that in searching for The Warlord we should check out the cities of Trila and Oasis. But what concerns me is how she knew about all this." The pair still walked along the now deserted streets, the silence only helped to build unneeded tension. "She told me she was with The Princess of Pleasure." Robs expression changed to a troubled one. This was mixed news. Although they got inform on more of the Emperors, they were now in the spotlight of not only two but now three Emperors.

"You're right, that's concerning." Rob scratched his chin, "This could bring some real bad shit to our front door right?" To which Jellal nodded. "Damn." muttered Rob.

The pair continued their pace along the street, slowly considering the news. "Well what if we-" Rob began but stopped once he noticed what stood in front of them both, he blinked twice. Jellal turned to what he was looking at and they both had stopped in their tracks unsure of what to do next.

In front of them stood six people and two… cats? Nobody said anything for a moment but Jellal noticed the symbols on some of them. "Fairy Tail?" he muttered to himself in frustration. "Damn." Rob heard what he said but ignored it. The mages were of course, Erza, Mira, Lucy, Juvia, Cana and Wendy with Happy and Carla as the two cats...

All mages spread out. Mira and Erza stood dead centre with the criminals while Lucy, Cana and Happy on one side covering that side of the street and Wendy, Juvia and Carla on the other. They all stood ready for a fight, Cana and Lucy had their cards and keys at the ready, while Juvia had summoned some water ready to strike with. Mira just smiled like a demon as she cracked her knuckles.

"Yo! What up!" Said Rob as he waved over to the mages with a cheeky grin. Jellal merely face palmed himself, hard, at Robs No fucks given attitude. How exactly has he not gotten himself killed or captured… "Who are you lot?"

Erza and the rest of the group all blinked in confusion for a brief moment. Did a wanted criminal just ask them what's up so casually.

"We're Fairy Tail mages! My name is Erza Scarlet, S-class mage of Fairy Tail. Myself along with Mirajane, Lucy, Juvia, Cana, Wendy as well as Happy and Carla have been assigned the mission to capture you!" She declared with fire behind her words. "If you surrender now. We will show mercy! What is your decision!" Erza and the rest of the mages all stood ready for a fight but hoped for them to give up.

"Nice to meet ya!" shouted Rob, he gave them a thumbs up as well. All the mages just looked at him like he's crazy.

"I repeat myself one more one, come quietly and you won't be harmed!" yelled Erza, as she requiped her sword and pointed it toward Rob and Jellal. Her posture and stance indicated pain for any who were foolish enough to ignore her warning.

"We're busy right now. Maybe later." said Rob as he turned to Jellal, "Right Jellal." Rob looked to be expecting Jellal to back him up. Everyone here looked at like he was stupid.

"What's wrong with this guy?" muttered Cana, who was near enough for Lucy and Happy to hear.

Jellal deadpanned at him, "Seriously Rob?" Rob just grinned at him as a response.

"Satan Soul!"

Both Rob and Jellal turned to where the gothic looking woman stood to see she had now become a demon, large claws, bat wings and a huge tail were just some of the changes to the woman.

"Enough of this!" roared Mira who charged both the men. Her form gave her enhanced speed and her wings made it easy to close the distance.

"Evil Spark!"

She had closed the distance in no time. She went for a punch toward Rob. As she connected the strike, a shockwave shattered the ground beneath them ad kicked up dust. When the dust had settled she was shocked to see Rob had drawn his sword and was currently blocking her fists with one sword. He had another sword in his right, ready to strike. The blue haired man had disappeared from view.

"Strong…" Rob smirked, "Nice hit." said Rob as he forced her back by pushing against her with his deadlocked sword. She glared furiously at Robs calm demeanor, her attention drawn away from the missing blue haired man.

The rest of the fairy tail mages charged them to back her up. They seemed to go for Rob first as to backup Mira first. "Damn it Mira!" yelled Erza, the she demon had brashly charged an opponent without even fully analysis of them.

"Demon Blast!"

A large ball of dark energy formed in Miras demonic hands, before she fired it toward Rob. Rob didn't look at that intimidated by it as he just leapt through the air to avoid the attack as it shot past him and down the street. Shaking the ground beneath them.

"Impressive…" said Rob to himself as he observed the mages.

"Requip: Black Wing Armour!"

Rob quickly spun on the spot to see Erza had charged him in a suit of black armour with wings attached to it. She had swung her sword toward Rob who raise his own sword vertically to block the strike. The force of her swung was enough to send a blast of air from the collision of the swords as they clanged from the contact. Erza gritted her teeth and glared toward Rob who still remained rather calm.

"Erza move!" yelled Wendy from above them. Erza and Rob glanced up to see Wendy being carried by Carla, Wendy looked ready to attack.

"Sky Dragon's Roar!"

Erza leapt back from Rob who stood there, momentarily confused about the flying cat that held her in the air. The attack rushed toward Rob who didn't dodge it. The attack was enough to shatter the ground and leave a small crater.

"Nice one Wendy." Carla gave the girl praise for strike the opponent, but the celebration was far too early. Much to their shock and surprised as the dust from the attack cleared the attack had seemingly done nothing as the swordsman just stood there, sword in each hand.

"Unfortunately you are nowhere near strong enough to harm me little lady." Although he did mean for it, his words sounded rather menacing to Wendy and Carla.

Not giving him a second, Mira once again charged him. Rob glanced over to see Miras approaching attack.

"Evil Spar-"

"Heavenly Body Magic: Meteor!"

Mira barely turned to see a blur approach her. The blur slammed into her side which caused her to be knocked into a building, the roof collapsed slightly from the impact.

"Mira!" yelled Wendy and Carla, they were concerned, that was a powerful hit. Both of them turned to see it was the azure haired man that had hit her.

"The Prayers Fountain!"

"Water Slicer!"

Jellal turned to face the attack. Two massive water based attacks rushed toward Jellal but he still remained calm. He didn't even look like he was about to try and dodge it.

"Single Soaring Phoenix Strike!"

Both of Juvia' and Canas attacks were blasted to smithereens by an powerful slash. The ranged strike blasted through the duo's water attacks and carried on after that, slicing a few buildings in two as it travelled down the street. They both turned to the source to only find Rob had closed the distance between them, in a small panic both mages clumsily tried to avoid the attack.

"Tiger Strength Slash!"

Jellal watched as Rob closed on the two mages but he sensed an incoming attack. He dashed to the side to avoid the swung of the sword from Erza Scarlet. She glared at him, 'He hit Mira pretty damn hard.' She thought as she watched him, but her concern quickly changed to her other opponent.

Rob swung his sabres toward both Cana and Juvia, right before it hit a body impacted the ground between them. As a result Rob struk the person between with the full force of the strike.

Stood between both parties was Erza in her adamantine armour who had taken the hit with her shield held up. To her shock, her adamantine armour cracked severely from the power behind the strike. 'Such power!' thought Erza, her adamantine armour was by far her strongest defense armour. Erza was struggling to keep Rob at bay as Juvia and Cana put a bit of distance between them.

"Open gate of the Golden Bull!"

A small distance from them stood Lucy who had just summoned Taurus to the battlefield. "Now Taurus!" she yelled, "You got it miss Luuuucy~" Taurus raised his ax ready to strike the ground in front of them. Lucy nodded toward Erza who caught on to what she wanted her to do. With all her strength she pushed Rob back causing him to skid across the ground. Right as he stopped Taurus slammed his ax into the ground to most peoples surprise the ground shattered along different sprawling routes across the ground. All of them lead to right under Robs feet. In order to avoid being taken under he leapt into the air but this gave someone else an opening.

"Evil Spark!"

Rob looked up to see the demon Mirajane had charged him in the air, her hands charged with electricity. All the mages looked hopeful but Erza spotted how this Rob person didn't even care. He turned back to face Lucy instead. 'Here you go you bastard.' thought Mira who was less than a few feet away in the moment. But before she could get any closer Jellal appeared between causing Mira to go wide eyes from surprise.

"Heavenly Body Magic!"

Jellal raised his to face Mira before six beams of light shot from it, directly striking Mira which sent her flying into the ground below them. During this Rob had rushed Lucy much to everyone's shock. Lucy made eye contact for a brief moment with Rob and was filled with fear at what she felt when she did. Taurus tried valiantly to protect her by striking Rob with his ax only for Rob to quickly block it with one sword and slash Taurus in half with the other, forcing him to return to the spirit world. As he did he turned to Lucy and kicked her hard into the side of the stomach, causing her scream in pain and fly toward the others.

As she did Happy flew in and caught her right before she landed in front of Cana and Juvia. Erza growled as the rest of her team glared at the pair, as Jellal landed in the centre of all this mess, Rob moved up beside him. By this time Wendy and Carla had descended from the sky to Miras side who was now standing up again.

"You okay Mira-san?" asked a very worried Wendy, both these men were very powerful. They had clearly underestimated them.

"Yeah I'll be fine. Don't worry about it." Mira growled out, she stood up seemingly unharmed but everyone knew that both of those big hits had done some damage. Lucy as well had taken a large hit and she wasn't one for taking such a thing. All the mages regrouped Jellal and Rob watching the Fairy Tail mages and vice versa.

At this moment the sun had already set, the streets had become dark. There was a silence in the devastated streets of northern decastrol. One thing was for learned from all this, these two men were far stronger than they originally thought.


Chapter 7 complete. The first meeting and first major fight scene of the story, what did you ladies and gents think? Sorry this chapter took so long. I have another somewhat big story going on at the moment so my time was divided. The chapter length on that one was a big ,over, 8,000 words most of which was a fight scene so that was good and enjoyable to write. I'll also be starting another project in the next week or so.

-A Fairy Tail SYOC!-

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I'd like to remind people that you can interact with this story. If you want to see something happen in this story let me know and we can talk about it. Another thing to mention would be Robs Harem. I'm unsure of what to do really. I could make it a 'Small Harem' or a 'Mega Harem'. I suppose that'll depend on if you ladies and gents reading want to add any girls to the harem. Literally any from the series. (I literally mean any)...

Leave a review and tell me what girls you want to see in the Harem (If Any) and what you guys think of the story so far and what you believe will happen in the future. (Besides who will be paired together obviously)

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