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-Let there be midnight

ME NO OWNS THE FAIRY TAIL

Neko Natsu?

"W-why me…" Natsu whimpered, looking up fearfully at the girls who had cornered him. They all had scary aura's and bright red glowing demon eyes as they stared at Natsu, pink cat ears and tail in their hands as they inched towards him. "I—I don't deserve to die…" he said fearfully, cowering away from the girls as he tried to become one with the floor beneath him, not wanting the females before him to grab him and put in the embarrassing cat things. Gray stood behind them, an annoyed look on his face.

"Don't you dare try to put those ugly cat things on my brother!" he shouted, hope gleaming in Natsu's eyes as he recognized the voice as his *cough cough* heroic *cough with a little laugh cough* brother that has come to save him.

"Gray-nii!" he cried happily, wanting his older brother to save him from the girls that had hungry looks on their faces at the mere thought of him dressed as a neko.

"Do you know what people will think of me if I let my brother run around like that? They'll make fun of me and I just cannot stand it!" Natsu whimpered, tears running down his face.

"I love you too Gray-nii…" he cried sarcastically.

Gramps watched the scene with amusement dancing in his eyes. A week before Team Natsu—along with Gajeel and Pantherlily—had come back with Natsu safe and sound. They retold the tale of what had happened to get Natsu back, even the tale of a little girl.

"I've known Anoa back when I was in that guild. I only saw her once and that was when they brought the new comers to a cell and everyone was crying, but Anoa didn't look to be a new comer. After that I never saw her till just a few days ago." Natsu's face scrunched up. "And the weird thing is, she doesn't look any different than she did when I first saw her. She doesn't look a day old." Natsu looked up at Gramps when confusion. "She should be about seventeen right about now, but she isn't. She still looks ten." he told him. Gramps smiled softly, hands folded in his lap as a memory came to surface.

"That's because Pandora isn't ten, nor is she anywhere near that age." At this the whole guild looked very confused as the master continued. "She's as old as the earth itself, the oldest being alive. And the reason why she looks the exact same is because she can control the age she is and the age ten happens to be her favorite age." Gray looked alarmed.

"How's that possible?!" he asked, eyebrows arched high on his forehead.

"You don't expect the humans to not have anyone watching over them, do you? Well if we didn't we would be long dead. Pandora knows what is supposed to happen and when it's supposed to happen, and when something pops up that wasn't meant to be, she's there instantly to make things right again." he explained casually.

"How do you know all this?" Erza asked curiously.

"I happened to be at an event that wasn't supposed to happen and helped her out in my younger years." He stretched, picking up his beer beside him and taking a long drink. "It's rare to ever see her just once, but even rarer to see her twice. You can't even find her because if you tried, it seems like she just vanished off the face of the earth."

Natsu had asked so many questions about the event that led Gramps and Pandora to meet, but he just gave him vague answers, finding it amusing to see the young one annoyed at this.

Now as he watched Natsu struggle to get away from the grabbing hands of the females in the guild, only a bandage on his left cheek and forehead remained, the only evidence of what had happened when The Star Searches had kidnapped him.

"He looks so cute!" Mira cooed as she admired her work of putting the pink cat ears and tail on Natsu, the other girls cooing along with her. Natsu looked down at the floor, his face red from embarrassment and his fake cat tail swinging behind him. "Hurry Reedus! Draw a picture before he runs!" Mira shouted as she dragged the painter in front of Natsu. Before the pink haired boy could run away from all of this, Reedus had already finished the drawing and showed it to the girls. Natsu looked far different in the picture than he did in real life. In the picture he was winking with a cat like smile and his hands looked like paws. The only thing that remained slightly the same was the little blush on his face. The girls didn't seem to care about this as they asked the painter to make them copies.

Seeing this as a distraction, Natsu quickly made his escape and ran over to the table where Gray, Gajeel, Wendy, Romeo, and Elfman sat at, both Happy and Carla sitting on top the table with Happy trying to flirt with the white cat. Natsu sat down glumly next to Romeo, tearing the cat ears and cat tail off of him and throwing them onto the table with a death glare.

"Why do they always want to dress me up?" he whined. "Why not Romeo or Wendy for a change? It's not fair!" he pouted with cross arms.

"That's because we're older than you Natsu." Romeo pointed out with an amused smile. Natsu stuck his tongue out at him.

"So?!" he challenged, looking away.

"They find you more innocent." Natsu didn't say anything as he looked down at his dangling feet with a pouting face.

"Don't worry," Gray said to the others nonchalantly as he yawned. "He'll forget about this whole mess tonight with his type of memory."