Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks.


Kanji's POV

"Leave at once." Gramps said.

Gray and Elfman who had just woken up weren't too keen on leaving

"We're doing what he says." I told them "If we stay here we'll just get in the way."

We went outside and Gray made us a path across the water so we could get back to the guild. Along the way you could feel the air shake from the might of Gramp's magic. A bright light emerged in the sky and started to kill the shades that were attacking the guild hall, just being in the presence of this light made me feel better.

"It's Fairy Law." Erza said.

"What's that?"

"It's Gramp's strongest spell. A holy light the only hurts the casters enemies." I told him "It's a legendary spell."

"Well then this stupid war is finally over." Erza said.

"Good now we can get back to normal" Mira said.

"Hey!" Happy said flying up.

"Happy where's Natsu?"

"I don't know he said he had something to take care of." The cat explained.

Gramps had made his way back over to our side of the water. He observed the area and came across the decimated Guildhall.

"Well…This place got pretty trashed." He observed.

"Yeah but rather a building than one of us." I told him.

"Very true." He said.

"I'm sorry." Lucy said walking up.

Levy and her friends told Lucy she had nothing to be upset about, and it wasn't her fault.

"Lucy." Gramps said calling her attention "We can't always share all our emotions but we can to some extent. That's what a guild is for. One person's happiness is everyone's happiness. And one person's tears are everyone's tears. Be happy, because you're a member of Fairy Tail."

Gramps must have come to the realization that the council won't be happy with this fight because now both he and Lucy were crying.

"What the hell old man." I said surprised.


The rune knights showed up the next day and started rounding people up for questioning. It took a week but they finally let us off the hook and we got to work fixing the guildhall.

"Stop trying to carry so many Natsu" Gray said as he carried on log himself.

"You just too weak to carry this many." Natsu said struggling to move the dozen he was holding.

Gray took that as a challenge and ended up being buried under the wood. Erza yelled at the two for fooling around and went back to work. She was way too serious about this rebuilding project.

"I'm hungry." Natsu groaned.

"Yeah me two." I said.

"Me three." Gray said chiming in.

A wave of water splashed into Gray and when it disappeared the only to leave a lunchbox in its place. He insisted he couldn't eat it because the heart in the center was freaking him out. Natsu didn't hesitate to mooch of the free food and fill his own stomach.

"Hey…can you guys give these to Lucy?" Loke asked looking pretty beat.

"Where is Lucy anyway?" I wondered out loud.

"Probably at her house, we should go visit." Natsu said.

"Sounds like a plan." I told him.

We asked Loke if he wanted to come with us but he said he don't like celestial mages like Lucy. We made our way out the back while being chased by Erza for trying to skip out on work. When we got there we let ourselves into Lucy's apartment but no one was home when we looked inside. Gray checked the bathroom under the assumption that a scenario had to happen to find the girl.

"It seems she's not here." Erza observed.

"Yeah and it just feels weird without her." I said.

Happy opened up a cabinet and an avalanche of letters fell out. Natsu decided to read them despite not having permission. All the letters were addressed to her mom but none of them had any postage or looked to even have been sent.

"I found a note." Erza spoke up "It says she's going home."

"What?! Do you think she still feels bad?" I asked.

"Who cares we're going after her." Natsu said.

We made great time getting to the train station and getting on our way, we headed out after Lucy hoping to stop her from making a huge mistake.

This is where you belong don't leave.


We rode the train for a few hours before we arrived at Lucy's home. She lived in a big mansion fitting for someone a rich as her father I suppose. We scoured the grounds looking for my fellow blonde. It took us a while but we found her standing by a large statue.

"LUCY!"

She looked happy to see us. When we asked why she was leaving she explained that it was all just a misunderstanding, she had comeback to say goodbye to her father and tell him not to bother us anymore. She also went to visit her mother's grave.

So she's like me, a dad as the only parent left. Both of us don't really have great relationships with our fathers either. Lucy and I are sure a lot alike.

"Why didn't you just put that in the note?" We asked.

"I thought you guys trusted me more than that, I'm sorry you were worried."

"Gotta say Luce this town is huge." Natsu said

"Oh no. This is just the garden; my family owns all the land till the mountain."

"It is an honor to know someone like you miss." Gray told her.

"This place sure is great!" I said "Can we stay!"


We got back to town the next morning and Mira said Gramps had gone off to the council to be bothered about the fight with Phantom. I was walking around what's left of the guildhall build site. Mira had started letting people take quests again and I was ready to get to work again soon.

"Well look who's here."

Great.

"What Laxus?" I said turning to the man sitting at a nearby table.

"Nothing surprised to see you're still alive is all."

"What you don't think I could handle it."

"I'm just saying if you had gone all out the guildhall might still be standing. This is because you're too weak. You're an embarrassment to the word S-class."

I kicked the chair next to Laxus sending it flying "Wanna say that again!"

"Yeah. The guild doesn't need weaklings!" he taunted.

"Bastard."

"Reduced to this by Phantom Lord, it's disgraceful." He said, then he turned to Shadow Gear "And you three beaten up by Gajeel, I'm glad I didn't bother to remember your names."

"Shut up." I grumbled but he kept going.

"And you the worst of them all." He said looking to Lucy "The little princess who's the whole reason this happened."

"Laxus enough!" I yelled "This is no one's fault, Gramps said so. And you're in no position to talk, you didn't fight. You left me hanging despite the fact I begged you to help me."

"That fight had nothing to do with me! But if I had been there you wouldn't be wallowing in this pile of rubble."

"You Bastard!" I threw a punch but he teleported behind me.

I should've known better than that.

"Fight me man to man."

"Why if you can't hit me why should I waste my time. Besides if you won't use your full power it would be boring. Oh I forgot you still want that to be a secret. I could tell them all right now but I think I'll make you sweat it out why they look and you knowing you're hiding something. Once I take over this guild I'll kick all you weak punks out and build the strongest guild on the map. Your days are numbered!" with that he changed to lightning and took off.

I sat there fuming "Ass."

"Just let it go." Erza said "But I am intrigued by this secret, something that you haven't even told me must be very important."

"Hey! Hey! What is it?" Natsu said pestering me.

You exactly why I have this secret.

"Leave him alone Natsu he'll talk about it when he's ready." Kage said from a few tables over.

"That's no fun." Happy grumbled.

"How about we get your mind off Laxus." Erza said taking my hand "Let's go on a job. The two of us, Natsu, Gray, and Lucy. The five of us have been like a team since Eisenwald."

"Hey what about me." Happy yelled.

"Alright six." She corrected.

"Sure sounds like fun." I said.

Everyone started cheering over the fact that we finally came to the conclusion that we were a team.


AN

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