Author's note:

Welcome back! This chapter concludes the rest of the "fluff" from last chapter. I do apologize if this and the last chapter were a bit bland. These are more of my transition chapters into more important chapters that will be coming up. As always, hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. That privilege belongs to Hiro Mashima

After the incident with Kalea, she seemed to be ignoring Fenris. Whenever she entered the guild, she made sure to sit at tables on the complete opposite side of the guild hall. He tried to talk to her, but whenever he approached she would get up and either go to the bar or leave the guild hall.

One morning, Gray asked, "What's up with Kalea? She's been pretty distant from you lately. Actually, when was the last time you guys even hung out?"

"It's been a while…" said Fenris.

He didn't know why she wasn't speaking to him. But he missed it. He missed her voice. He missed her.

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This went on for another two months. During this time, Natsu had stolen an S-Class mission and Gray and Erza had left to find him. It turned out Lucy and Happy had ended up going along too so Fenris knew they were in trouble.

While they were gone, Fenris went on a lot of solo missions with Faelen. Since Kalea no longer hung out with him, it was just the two of them.

He also trained a lot. He found that was the only way to take his mind off of Kalea. And because of this, he trained hard. His powers developed at a rapid rate. Soon enough, he was able to channel his abilities through just one hand when before it took two.

Then, one day he got fed up with the situation and went to Mira. She had to know why Kalea was acting this way. He walked up to the bar in the afternoon and sat in front of her. She was casually clearing the table of some mugs but paused when she saw Fenris.

She smiled at him. "Hello Fen. What can I get you today?"

"Information," he said. "More specifically about Kalea. Why is she ignoring me? It's been months since the last time she spoke to me. I-" he cut himself off. Mira didn't need to know he missed her.

"You miss her don't you," said Mira.

Well there goes that.

"To answer your question… yes I know why," she said. "But it's not my answer to give. And it's not yours to ask either Fen. I don't say this to be mean. But this is her personal business. She… no. It's not my right to say. Look. You just have to give her time. She'll come around again. Believe me. I don't think she'll be able to keep this up. Staying away from you… I don't think she enjoys it either."

"Then why would she even do it in the first place?" he asked.

"Fen. I told you I can't say. I have a feeling she'll soon come around though," she said.

On the way back to his apartment that afternoon, Fenris sensed someone ahead of him. Someone he missed dearly. He looked up and saw Kalea walking a few blocks in front of him. He was about to shout her name when he saw someone walking beside her. It was a guy.

He froze in place.

Faelen growled.

Who is that with her, he thought.

Fenris decided to tail them. Using his powers, he enhanced his eyesight so he could stay far enough away but still see where they were headed. As they continued walking through the streets, he saw them enter a restaurant near Kalea's apartment. She had moved in with Levy recently to cut down on her rent.

He chanced sneaking up to the restaurant to get a closer view through the window. People were staring at him as they walked past the building. He didn't care though.

He saw them sit at a table and begin to talk. He could have enhanced his hearing to hear them but he found his stomach wouldn't allow him to. Every time he thought about hearing her talk to this guy it made him want to be sick.

He continued watching as they talked, then ate, then talked some more. Kalea was smiling. It pained him to see her smile with this random guy. After about an hour, they got up to leave.

Fenris quickly ran up the street but realized it was getting dark and there were less people walking around now. He knew Kalea would see him if he followed them on the ground so he focused all his power into his feet, and jumped. He jumped high up onto the roof of one of the buildings near him. Faelen easily made the jump after him. Fenris was always impressed by what the wolf could do even without magic.

He saw them walk out of the restaurant and continue down the few blocks to her apartment. He saw the guy reach out for her hand and grab it. Kalea didn't protest. But it didn't look as though she held it back either.

They reached the door to her apartment and stopped. He couldn't take it anymore. He enhanced his hearing and focused it on them. After a few moments of silence, he heard the man's voice.

"I really enjoyed our meal tonight Kalea. I hope you enjoyed it as well?" he heard the man ask. He sounded like a snob.

"Yes it was… nice," said Kalea.

The guy didn't seem to hear her lack of enthusiasm. Instead, he said, "Excellent! I do hope you will grace me with your beautiful presence again some time?"

He saw Kalea blush at the word beautiful. He gripped a tile on the roof so hard it shattered. Luckily he was too far for them to hear.

"Ummmm… I think," she said hesitantly. "Not. I'm sorry Jarred. You're a really, really nice guy. And I really did have fun. It's just that… I think this was a mistake. It's not anything about you. Any girl would be lucky to go out with you on a date like that. It's just… I don't think I'm one of those girls."

"Oh… ummm. Well. Can I at least… kiss you good night?" he asked. Fenris froze.

So did Kalea.

The Jarred guy leaned in and Kalea didn't seem to signal to stop. Just as he was mere centimeters from her lips, Kalea swung her head to the side, causing him to kiss her cheek.

Jarred stepped back at that and hesitated. Then, "Good night Kalea. If you ever change your mind, don't hesitate to contact me." And he left.

Kalea stood there for a few more minutes. Fenris watched her. Then, she opened the door and went inside.

He didn't know what caused him to, but Fenris jumped down from the roof and sprinted over to her apartment. Because of his hearing, he could hear Levy and Kalea talking when he reached the door. He stopped, allowing Faelen to catch up to him.

"…so how'd it go girl!" came Levy's voice.

"It was… fine," responded Kalea.

"Just fine? Come on! Jarred is hot! How could it not go great!" said Levy.

"He's okay. He's… not my type. Honestly, the only reason I went on this date was to figure some stuff out," said Kalea.

"Figure what out?" asked Levy.

"I needed to figure out some stuff about myself. And I did it. I don't think I'll be going back out with Jarred. Or anyone else for that matter," said Kalea.

"Ummmm… is there someone else?" asked Levy.

Kalea didn't respond. He couldn't see her reaction either.

After a few moments Levy said, "Alright. Well you know you can come to me if something is up. Also, maybe you could go to Fenris too. I can tell he's been very sad lately. And I don't think it's a coincidence that it was suddenly when you stopped talking to him."

Fenris cut off the magic. He didn't want to hear that. Because he wassad. And hearing it out loud from someone else made him even more sad. He made his way back to his own apartment. He wondered why he reacted so strongly when that Jarred guy had leaned in to kiss Kalea…

Faelen bumped into him at that thought. He could sense what the wolf was thinking.

"No Faelen. That's not the reason. Kalea's just a friend…."

The next morning, Fenris was eating breakfast with Faelen when he felt someone tap his shoulder. He turned around to see Kalea looking down at him.

"Mind if I sit?" she asked.

"Uh-no-I mean yeah! Sure! Sit!" Fenris responded.

She sat down across from him and began eating. A few moments of silence, then, "I'm sorry."

Fenris jerked his head up. "What? Oh! Um…you don't need to apologize for anything. I'm just…glad you're back."

She looked at him, then smiled.

"Me too."

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The next day, Fenris and Kalea went on their first mission together in months. It was a simple one to protect some Minster as he made his way from Onibus to Clover Town.

Once they arrived in Onibus, they met their client. He was a middle aged man and seemed nice enough. As they set off, he chatted with them for a while until his guards told him he needed to stay in his carriage.

After that, nothing out of the ordinary happened until the last stretch of their journey. Faelen sensed it first, then a few seconds later so did Fenris. He looked over to the right and shot a blast of energy out of his hand. Someone fell out of the tree and, as he walked up to the figure, he could see it was a tall man with a mask over his face.

Fenris picked up the man, who was knocked out cold and threw him to one of the guards. "I think this is probably going to be the only problem from here until Clover Town. I don't think he has any friends," Fenris said.

He walked back over to Kalea.

"This mission is kind of a joke," he said lazily. "If that's really the only guy we have to deal with the-" he was suddenly cut off by an explosion right in front of them. The road had been blown apart by something and horses were running wild. Fenris and Kalea ran up to the carriage where the Minister was in and saw it was unharmed. If the explosion had been just a few seconds later, it would have blown the carriage apart. Fenris sensed five people running up to them from the left.

"Five people are coming. Get ready," he told Kalea. Faelen jumped in front of them, fangs bared.

He saw them before anyone else. Enhancing his speed, he flew past Kalea to the men, intending to disarm them all before they got too far.

The first two were too slow. He ran up to the first man before he could even react and channeled his energy into his fist. He punched the man in the gut, sending him flying.

The next man had aimed a kick to his face as he hit the first, but Fenris leaned back and the leg swept over his face, brushing his nose. Before the man was even done kicking, Fenris grabbed the leg in midair, lifted the man, swung him around once and threw him into a boulder a few feet away.

The remaining three men were on him by then. But so were Kalea and Faelen. Faelen rushed past Fenris, jumping onto a third man and bit through his arm. The assailant screamed in pain. Leaving him to Faelen, Kalea and Fenris confronted the last two.

They were both very tall, much taller than Fenris. He could sense their magic. One was a fire user while the other was a nature user. The fire user reacted first. He threw a ball of fire their way, and Fenris parried it with his own magic, creating his own ball of energy, which deflected it to the left.

The nature user then manipulated vines all around them, which shot down and grabbed them by their hands and lifted them into the air.

Fenris struggled against the vines but to no avail. He saw the fire user shoot another ball of flame when he heard beside him, "Fire Dragon ROAR!"

An even bigger ball of fire rushed at the fire user. It consumed the smaller ball, then consumed the mage. He screamed in pain and fell to the floor.

Fenris looked over at Kalea. She sent him a wry smile and shot flames up her arms, incinerating the vines that held her. The nature user was staring in shock until he shook his head. He shot what looked like large spears out of his hands at Fenris. Fenris kicked out his foot, and the momentum of his kick, coupled with the energy he sent through it, knocked them to the side. He then used a new power he had just learned called Malacia. With it, he threw off the nature users sense of balance. This caused him to stagger about, allowing Kalea time to run up to him and punch him hard in the gut, knocking him out.

Breathing hard, Fenris looked around. All the mages were down. He sighed. That was a close one.

Flames shot up around him, destroying the vines that held him. He dropped down to the ground. As he got back up, he looked over at Kalea.

"Those were some impressive flames," he said.

She smiled again. "Natsu's powers really do come in handy.

Faelen walked up to Fenris, wagging his tail.

He bent down. "Good job buddy. You did great out there."

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A few hours later, they were in Clover Town receiving their payment for the mission. The Minister thanked them over and over again, telling them to visit him whenever they liked.

Once they finally escaped him, they were back on the train heading to Magnolia. Fenris was looking out the window when a motion caught his eye. He looked over at Kalea and saw her staring at him.

Then, "Fenris. I'm sorry. About… the past few months. It's just that… after that night at the party. I thought there was something… never mind. Just- I'm sorry that's all."

Fenris looked at her. "It's alright. But… don't… do it again. Please. I… just don't."

He hesitated, before pressing on.

"Whenever you do this…fall back into that bubble of yours," he said, hoping he wasn't pushing her. "I worry that I can't pull you back out. I worry that I'll lose…" he cut himself off. He didn't want to push her. But he needed her to understand what her actions did to him.

"I just want you to laugh and smile with the rest of us," he continued. "I don't want you to feel like you did when you first got to Fairy Tail. I…Faelen didn't like these past few months."

Fenris expected her to ignore him. She rarely responded when he talked like this. But then he saw her smile.

"I won't. I care about Faelen. I don't want to hurt him," she said.

She went back to looking out the window. Fenris looked down at Faelen. He cares about you too.

Author's note:

Andddd we're done! Now we get into the serious stuff. Next chapter will start the fight with Phantom Lord! Fenris will be taking part in this arc seeing as pretty much the entire guild took part. I won't be going into detail for fights such as Gray vs Juvia or Elfman's fight seeing as they aren't my main characters and I'd essentially just be rewriting the manga. But Fenris will have his own fights to deal with so there will still be plenty of action.

See you next time!