Fairy Tail V: Tale of the World Slayer

Chapter 10:
Next Generation

JellalRavan:
Hey guys, time for the 10:th chapter of Fairy Tail V. It will be a shorter chapter about Luke's time with Team Natsu and a quick fight with Laxus. And I will skip ahead to the beginning of the Tower of Heaven Arc in next chapter!

Loki:
WAIT! Then you would skip my arc! Why would you skip my arc?

JellalRavan:
Because Luke wasn't present at the time, but Lucy was and I intend to stick with Luke's story! But don't worry; I will mention you, Loki! I just want to get to the Tower of Heaven Arc!

Erza/ Luke:
Do you have to rush it?

JellalRavan:
HELL YEAH! It is one of my favorite arcs in Fairy Tail! So deal with it!

Erza/ Luke:
I still don't see the reason to rush it…

JellalRavan:
Anyway! I will make shorter chapters in the future, I hope, and the story will turn even more un-canon later on. But for now, enjoy the chapter! Oh, and I do not own Fairy Tail!

Luke's POV

It had been a week after the war against Phantom Lord had ended and we in Fairy Tail were rebuilding the guildhall. It would have continued like that, but the Magical Council's Rune Knights arrived and questioned us about the war with Phantom.

"RUN! RUN!" Natsu yelled, but he got trapped anyway.

"Let's just get this over with!" I demanded as I wanted to get it over and done with so that I could spend more time with Erza.

"WAAHHHAAAHHAAA!" Master Makarov cried out when the Council's Knights arrived.

"Pull yourself together, old man!" I yelled and Erza agreed with me.

As the Rune Knights questioned us, I and Erza defended Cindera, who stayed with Fairy Tail, and told the Knights that Cindera was just a pawn used by Jose. Cindera didn't get into any trouble and I was glad when she told me she could join Fairy Tail for real.

Once the interrogation and questioning was over, we could get back to rebuilding our guildhall.

But, that was simpler said than done.

I tried to get Natsu and Gray to work together, but they just couldn't do it, it ended with Erza hit them in the head with a wooden beam.

"Don't go and break that, Erza!" I told her, ignoring Natsu and Gray, that were hit so hard that they got stuck in the ground. "I need that beam for supporting the left wall!"

"Coming right up!" Erza yelled as she threw the beam to me.

If I had been a regular human, I would have been crushed by the weight of the beam, but I had inhuman strength and reaction so it was like nothing to me.

Some Time Later

"Master, were do you want this?" I wondered as I helped Cindera with another beam.

"Just over there!" He said pointing at a bunch of other beams on the ground. The master was in his giant form and helped a lot to rebuild the guild.

I had been recuperating the last week to make sure all my wounds were healed and I had to force Erza to do the same. She was quite reluctant at first, but when I told her we could share the same bed she didn't complain.

Cindera had now become a real member of Fairy Tail and she was more eager than most to help rebuilding the guildhall and she got along great with the other members as well.

"She is getting along better than expected!" Erza told me as we carried more beams to the construction site.

"She was twisted by Phantom… She deserves to have real friends!" I said as I was glad for Cindera.

Some More Time Later

As we kept building as we all grew hungry. After Gray had offended Mirajane's buildings plans and made her cry, we decided to sit down for a bit.

"I wish you would have brought lunch for me too, Luke!" Natsu nagged as I started to eat my homemade lunchbox.

"I am not some personal chef, Natsu! I got up early to get this done!" I told him as I started to munch on the crispy chicken and the delicious.

"Come on!" Natsu snapped. "Just one bite!"

"That bite would either turn into thirty bites or you would eat the whole box in one bite!" I told him as I moved away from him a bit.

"Damn, now you got me hungry as well!" Gray said. And before we knew it, water slashed all over me and Natsu and left Gray dry and with a lunchbox of his own.

"My lunchbox…" I whimpered. The whole thing was soaked and uneatable.

Why is life so cruel?

"Hey, you got a lunchbox too!" Natsu remarked as Gray opened it.

The content didn't seem to satisfice Gray, even though it was after all a lunchbox with his face made out of food, so Natsu and I started to eat from it.

"Don't blame me if you two get sick!" Gray said as Natsu and I was all over the lunchbox.

"As a chef myself, I know good food when I see it and this is good food!" I told them and smiled, the food was really good, whoever the chef was he or she was quite good, and seemd to be obsessed with Gray...

"This is rather good!" Natsu praised the food as we munched on. "Not as good as yours Luke, but still really good!" He didn't even bother swallow before talking.

"Then I might try it…" Gray said, but we got interrupted by Erza.

"WHO SAID YOU COULD TAKE A LUNCHBREAK!?" She demanded to know, Gray and Natsu backed off a little but I showed Erza the lunchbox and in a flash was she all over Gray's food-face.

"A Gray-face made out of vegies, so good!" She praised the food as well and Gray decided to try it.

But we got interrupted again by Loki; he gave us Lucy's Celestial Spirit Keys. Loki didn't look too good, but sense he didn't seem eager to meet Lucy, we decided to go and check on her ourselves.

Lucy's Apartment

She wasn't home. We couldn't find her anywhere. Gray was brave enough to check in the bath, but she wasn't there. We did find some weird underwear; at least I think it was underwear, risky underwear…

"Where is she?" I wondered as I checked her desk for clues.

"Hey!" Natsu called us. "Look at all these letters!" He had found a bunch of letters that still were sealed.

"They are from her mom…" Natsu told us as he opened one of them.

"Don't just go and open them!" I lectured him.

"'Dear mom, I have great news, I have joined the Fairy Tail guild… Erza is great, she is beautiful and cool and strong, and Luke is just as timid as I thought he'd be, but he is still the best match for Erza!'"

"You made up that last part, didn't you!?" I growled at Natsu, but Lucy had written that.

"'Natsu and Gray are kept in check by Erza and Luke, but I think they are just as great! I really do like it here at Fairy Tail, love Lucy…'" Natsu stopped reading and I felt weird, I was sad and concerned for Lucy and at the same time and I was still glad that Lucy thought about us like that.

"So all these letters are addressed to her mom… Why didn't she send the letters?" Gray asked, but none of us could answer.

"Guys…" Erza hold up a note she found, written by Lucy. "She must have left this for us… She says; she is going home!"

"WHAAAAAT?!"

At the Heartfilia-Estate

Natsu, Gray, Erza, Happy and I had hurried to the Heartfilia estate as fast as we could and reached it when the sun almost was about to set.

"LUCY!" We yelled as we saw her standing in front of a great stone statue.

"YOU GUYS ARE HERE!?" She yelled out in surprise.

"LUCY!" Happy yelled as he hugged her.

Lucy started to explain that she had come home to tell her father what she really felt and that she would remain with Fairy Tail. After we got it explained to us we relaxed a bit. Happy even cried out laud as he didn't want Lucy to leave.

After we had got everything explained, we started to go back to the train station.

"I am sorry for worrying you guys!" Lucy said as we walked through a cute little town.

"No need, we shouldn't have jumped to conclusion!" Erza said.

"We thought that you were going back for good!" Gray told the blonde.

"Yeah! Happy was crying like a baby." Natsu said.

"You cried just as much!" Argued back calmly.

"No I didn't!" Natsu snapped.

"Ohh, is someone embarrassed?" Lucy joked.

"But I gotta say; I'm diggin' your hometown!" Gray said.

"I agree. It's quite the peaceful town." Erza agreed as she and i were walking arm in arm.

"Oh, but this is not a town…" Lucy told us. "This is part of our garden. The Heartfilia-family's estate is reaching all the way to that mountain!" She pointed at a mountain that was really far away, like REALLY far away!

"What's the matter you guys?" Lucy asked as Natsu and Gray saluted Lucy. They had gotten so surprised about the wealth of Lucy's family that they had kind of panicked.

"Holy crap she is rich!" Gray yelled out laud.

"And she act like it's nothing!" Natsu added.

"Two of our soldiers are down, what should we do commanders Luka and erza?" Happy asked us.

"The sky is so beautiful…" Erza whispered in her frozen state. She was in shock.

"So… Much… Stuff…" I didn't even know what to say, it was beyond words. Lucy's family was SO rich…

Lucy first looked at us in worry, but she smiled and laughed at it and we went back to Fairy Tail together, happier than when we had left!

A Few Days Later

The guild had started to take on job-requests again and most in the guild was going on jobs to earn some money. I had already made sure the last few years to save up as much as I could so that I could take a break every now and then. And thanks to all the S-class missions the master had sent me on, I had enough money to last at least a year or two.

Mira was talking to Lucy about Loki and Lucy's spirits while I was working on a new recipe for ramen. The master told me he would like me to make up the menus for the guilds restaurant. I had already made up a few successful dishes and the members had approved of all of them.

"What can I put in a new ramen-dish?" I wondered as I was thinking of ingredients.

Not before long I heard a bash and angry screams.

"Why don't you tell the rest how you feel!?"

Erza was arguing with Laxus and she had hit Natsu with a barrel she had thrown.

"I have no problem telling them what I think about them!" Laxus confessed. "This guild is full of nothing but pathetic weaklings and losers!"

Here we go again… I thought as I rose up from the table I was sitting at.

"Especially you two morons!" Laxus said looking at Jet and Droy; that had gotten better from their fight with Gajeel. "You two were Phantom's personal punching-bags! I'm glad I didn't even bother learning your names!"

Everyone in the guild was watching Laxus now. The tension was brutal...

"With brings me to the worst of them all; the rich prinssess-wanna-be-wizard! This was all your fault!"

"LAXUS!" Mirajane snapped at the bastard. "Just shut up! The master said that no one was to be held accountable for what happened, not even you! Even though I begged you to help us, you turned your back at us-"

"Stop your whining!" Laxus roared. "It wasn't my fight! And even if I had been there, you wouldn't be drowning your sorrows in this rubble!"

"Why you!" Erza growled.

"LAXUS!" Natsu was about to attack him, but I stepped in.

"He is mine!" I told Natsu.

Lucy's POV

Luke had stopped Natsu from attacking Laxus. But Luke had a strange aura around him. He was angry and disappointed. Luke and Laxus were staring at each other and I felt how marvelous they were.

"Luke…" Erza whispered as she took a step forwards him.

Luke held up his hand and stopped Erza.

"I'll deal with him!" Luke growled as he took an offensive pose.

Laxus laughed at Luke and smiled evil at him.

"You think you can take me on just like that!?" Laxus asked as he laughed. "You are just as pathetic as the rest of this scum!"

"Why you!" Natsu hissed.

"Am I pathetic?" Luke asked calmly. "I who fought and fought until I nearly died… I almost got myself killed because I wanted to protect my guildmates… Yet you, that is said to be so strong, was a spineless coward that ran away with your tail between your legs! You are laughable!" Luke started to laugh and I saw the rage in Laxus' eyes.

"This is coming from the punk that let Phantom-scum into Fairy Tail!?" Laxus snapped, making everyone quiet down. "That sunlight-bitch did a number on you and the whole guild! And now you let her in with open arms?! She is just a plain bitch that you couldn't defeat!"

"Shut it, Laxus!" Mira yelled.

We all saw that Luke was crying. Laxus' words had hurt him more than he had meant.

"She was used by Phantom…" Luke whispered.

"That only makes her more pathetic!" Laxus roared. "You are way weaker than everyone think, Luke! You have taken beating after beating the last times, no way can you beat me any less can that pathetic bitch you call sister! I don't see how this guild can accept someone as weak as you!"

"LAXUS!" Mira, Erza, Natsu, Gray and others yelled at him, but Luke only stood still and didn't even blink over the offensive things Laxus said. Luke just cried quietly.

"SHUT IT!" Laxus ordered. "Your days in Fairy Tail is numbered, kids! Things will be different when I inherit this place and kick out the lot of you!"

"Damn you!" Natsu yelled as he tried to attack Laxus, but Laxus turned into lightning and dodged Natsu. "Come on, fight me like a man!" Natsu demanded of Laxus.

"You'll have to be able to touch me if you want to fight me, punk!" Laxus said as Luke stepped in again.

"Let me show you real power!" Laxus spat at Luke. "And just how pathetically weak you and that Phantom-bitch really is!" Laxus laughed at Luke as he raised a fist, ready to strike Luke down.

Laxus was threatening Cindera and Luke. That jerk was threatening Luke's own little sister right in front of him. And now he would strike at him as well.

It all happened so fast, I didn't even see them move, in a flash on blue; Luke had attacked Laxus with his knee and sent him flying with amazing speed and force straight into the wooden wall.

Everyone was quiet. We watched as Laxus got up and attacked Luke with his lightning. I was amazed as Luke ate the lightning and teleported behind Laxus in a matter of seconds. Luke kicked Laxus to the ground and started to punch Laxus in his face, making sure that Laxus couldn't get up.

"DON'T YOU DARE LAY A FINGER ON CINDERA!" Luke yelled as he punched Laxus.

"LUKE!" Mirajane and Erza called out to him and he stopped hitting Laxus.

"Fairy Tail will never be yours!" Luke declared. "As long as I live, I will protect this guild from you!"

Laxus got up and looked at Luke. His eyes showed mixed feelings of hate and fear.

"I will get my hands on Fairy Tail, and when I do you weaklings will have to find another place to hang out!" With those words Laxus turned to lightning and disappeared.

"What a jerk!" I said. "Why would anyone let him have Fairy Tail?" I asked and Mira answered.

"We may not have a choice…" She said, sounding quite sad. "Laxus is the master's grandchild and that puts him at the top of the list of the few people that can inherit the guild!"

"Say what!? But that isn't fair, someone who talk about his fellow guildmates like that is not worthy of being master of Fairy Tail!"

"It is said that's the reason the master won't retire!" Mira told me.

"Man I hate him!" Natsu growled as he clenched his fist.

"Me too!" Luke hissed. "I should have bashed his head in!"

"Now, now!" Erza said. "That is just a waste of energy! I know, why don't we take on a request together!"

"Yeah, why not!" Luke agreed, smiling a bit too.

"Gray and Lucy will come too!"

"What!?" I and Gray snapped.

"Gray, your clothes!" Mira told the ice-boy.

"We have been working together for some time now and Luke and I have already talked about it!" Erza told us. "So let's make it official! The five of us is a team, six if we count Happy!"

"Alright!" Natsu cheered.

I was happy that they wanted me on the team, but…

"Do you really need someone like me on the team?" I asked.

"Someone like you?" Natsu asked me. "Lucy, it got to be you!" He told me with a smile.

I couldn't help but smile.

"So now they are officially our strongest team!" Cana said.

"Yeah, but anyone with Luke on their team would be the strongest!" Macao said.

"Is Lucy really one of our strongest?" Wakaba asked as he puffed his pipe.

"I know I would be done and gone if she let out that psycho Aquarius!" Alzack said, making me feel even better.

Gray and Natsu were giving each other the evil eye.

"Problems boys?" Erza asked making the boys hug and dance as if everything was fine.

"I already got the job!" Erza told us. "We are to take down an arcane cult in the castle-town of Lupinas."

"So, go get your stuff, we are off in an hour." Luke told us with a smile.

"Yeah!" We replied.

Late at Night, Fairy Tail Guildhall Construction

Makarov's POV

I was sitting on the top of the construction of the new guildhall and was enjoying a mug of ale, Luke had ordered it from an old friend so that we could sell it in the guild, and it was rather good.

"And that thing with retirement…" I said to myself. "With the new guildhall the guild might be in need of a new master as well. But Laxus, he is too entangled in personal issues. Mistogan, he comes and goes as he wants not good material for a guild master. And then there's Erza, but she is too young… And the same goes for Luke, he might have his heart in the right place, but he doesn't even want to be master… Hmm, what to do?"

"Oh, there you are master!" Mirajane called for me from the ground. "I have been looking all over for you. It seems they have done it gain sir!"

"Done what?" I asked her.

"Erza and her team finished the Lupinas-job, but they destroyed half the town!"

I felt my heart stop and my blood turn cold. I wanted to whither and be gone…

Those brats, why… Luke was with them, right? Why didn't Luke keep them in check?!

"And now the Council wants you to submit an apology immediately!" Mira told me as I started to rage.

"I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO RETIRE AT THIS RATE!" I yelled out to the night.

Happy:
To be continued!

JellalRavan:
True! And that's it for the seventh chapter of Fairy Tail V. I hope you enjoyed it!

Gray:
Wasn't it a bit too short?

JellalRavan:
I told you I would write shorter chapters! And, *uhum*, Gray, clothes!

Gray:
AHH! NOT AGAIN!

Happy:
Emm… What about next chapter Vision?

JellalRavan:
Next chapter will start the Tower of Heaven Arc! Luke and Erza will get into all kinds of problems throughout the arc, they will confront their past and Luke's and Erza's love for each other will be tested for real!

Jellal:
And at last I will make my first appearance!

JellalRavan:
What are you doing here?!

Jellal:
Ehm, I was… Eh?

JellalRavan:
You are meant to appear in next chapter, get out! NOW! Go, go, go, go!

Luke:
You didn't need to be so harsh!

JellalRavan:
Don't you start now too!
At any rate… Thank you for reading this chapter! Leave a review or/ and fallow/ favorite, it helps a lot!
I will not update my Naruto fanfic in a while. I am starting school again in a few days so I will have less time to write.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter! See you next chapter!