Author's note:

Hello once again! Today we begin a new arc, one you will all be familiar with. The Phantom Lord Arc! I do hope my ability to write fighting scenes has improved, but I guess we'll be finding out. If anyone has any advice on how to improve that feel free to let me know. Hopefully it isn't too bad. Enjoy!

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

Fenris woke with a start, having just been trampled on by Faelen. Groaning, he got up and did his usual routine. Got dressed, brushed his teeth, and so on.

I wish something exciting would happen, he thought as he laced up his shoes. Little did he know how much he'd regret thinking this.

On his way to the guild, he sensed Kalea running up behind him. Before she reached him he said, "Morning Kalea."

When she reached him, she gave him a playful push.

"I hate when you do that," she said.

He smiled at her. She was finally showing more emotion around everyone and it made him incredibly happy. As they got closer to the guild, Faelen began barking. He took off towards the guild without an explanation. Fenris and Kalea looked at each other, then ran after him.

When the guild came into view, both of them gasped. There seemed to be hundreds of iron rods sticking out of the building. It was completely destroyed. Everyone was gathered in front of the guild when they finally reached it. Faelen was standing next to Mira, his ears drooping sadly.

When they reached Mira, Kalea shouted, "What happened?! Who did this?!"

Mira looked over at her, tears in her eyes.

"Phantom Lord," came a response from their left. They saw the Master walking up to them.

"It happened over night. I suspect Redfox Gajeel is the one who specifically destroyed the guild. Although there is no doubt he was taking orders from Jose," said the Master.

Gajeel, thought Fenris.

He had heard that name before. Gajeel was a dragon slayer just like Natsu. He was apparently an iron dragon slayer, which made sense considering the state of the guild.

"Come my children. Let's head down to the basement. We can establish ourselves there for the time being." With that said, they all walked into the guild.

The main hall was completely trashed. Fenris couldn't recognize anything. They made their way down the stairs to the basement. Tables were already set out down there and everyone made their way to a table. Fenris, Faelen, and Kalea sat down by themselves. Mira started serving drinks to everyone to try and lift their spirits. The Master drank the most.

A few hours later, Mira went out to go get some more supplies for everyone. While they drank, Fenris thought, Why the hell would they do this? We've never been on good terms with Phantom but this is just ridiculous.

Beside him, Kalea drank in silence. He touched her shoulder and her head shot in his direction. Her eyes were watery. But she didn't let the tears fall.

"We have to do something about this. There's no way we can let them get away with this," she said.

"I know…" he said. "I'm sure Master will think of something. For now, we need to wait for Team Natsu to get back so we can have everyone here together to make a pl-"

Suddenly, he heard shouting from above. That's when Natsu kicked down the door and ran inside. He and the rest of his team gathered around the Master, asking what had happened. As Master told them what he knew, Fenris thought some more.

Something's gotta be done. Kalea is right. If we let them get away with this, they may attack again without any notice.

He heard Natsu shouting at Master, "THEY WRECKED OUR GUILD!"

"Gah, Natsu is so annoyingly loud sometimes," he complained.

She agreed. But she said, "It's understandable. Everyone is angry. We want something done but it seems like Master is content to just drink away his troubles."

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Later that day, the trio were walking back to Fenris' apartment. After Mira had told everyone to stay in groups from now on, Fenris insisted she stay with him. When she started to protest, he grabbed her arm and marched her out of the guild.

"Levy's staying with Cana and Mira and I don't like when you hang out with Cana. She just tried to get you drunk," he reasoned.

She finally relented, saying, "You're probably right I guess."

The following day, while they were walking to the guild, Fenris felt a disturbance. A large group of people were gathering at the park. He grabbed Kalea's hand. "Let's go. Something's happening at the park."

Before she could protest he ran towards the disturbance, Faelen right beside him. Entering the park, Fenris took note of the commotion. As he suspected, a large crowd had gathered at the grand tree in the middle of the park. Fenris saw three figures that seemed pinned to the middle of the tree above the crowd.

"Oh my god," said Kalea. She ran towards the tree. Fenris ran after her, hoping it wasn't what he thought it was.

The guild was already there as Fenris pushed his way through the crowd. He walked up beside Kalea and saw them. Levy, Jet, and Droy. Hung up on the tree, blood all over them. And on their stomachs was the Phantom guild mark.

He heard Lucy mutter, "Levy-chan…" as she started to cry.

Gray shouted, "Jet! Droy!"

Natsu looked as if he was going to murder someone.

As Fenris looked on, he got angry. He got so angry he started to lose control of his powers. A white aura began to flow out of him until Kalea touched his fingers. It went away immediately. He looked over at her and saw tears in her eyes. Then the Master walked up.

"I could look the other way when they made a ruin of our bar…but no father can see the blood of his children and stand silent!" His staff shattered.

"THIS MEANS WAR!" he shouted. And so it did.

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Master called every able body to his side. Lucy and Mira helped get Levy, Jet, and Droy down from the tree to take them back to the guild. A few hours later, with the trio safely in the hospital room of the guild, Master gathered everyone around him.

"Look at what they have done to my children!" said the Master. "To your fellow comrades! Forget the Council! Forget protocol! We SHALL NOT allow this to go unpunished! Come! Everyone! It is time for recompense!"

He began running. All the way to Oak Town. Everyone in the guild cheered and ran after him, ready for the fight to come. It took about an hour to get to Oak Town from Magnolia. As they approached Phantom, Natsu sprinted ahead of everyone. He lit one of his fists on fire and destroyed the front door.

That's Natsu… thought Fenris.

As soon as the doors were destroyed the entire guild flooded in.

"WE ARE FAIRY TAIL!" shouted Master.

And the chaos began.

Fenris couldn't tell his left from right. There were so many bodies being shoved around he could hardly even tell who was who. As he dodged a fist, he threw an uppercut at the man who missed. Fenris didn't use his magic other than to enhance his strength. He didn't feel he needed to right now.

He heard a yell from behind him and whirled around. A man was running up to him, his fists cloaked in dark flames. Faelen jumped over him and tackled the man to the ground. After he was taken out, Faelen ran back to him. He put a hand on his head, "Good boy."

As he continued fighting he saw others of the guild. He saw Natsu taking out five men all at once, Elfman knocking out someone almost as big with one fist, and saw Cana slice through people with her card magic. He also saw Kalea using his own magic to repel fire that was coming her way.

She caught his eye, paused for a second, then went back into the fray. He knew she could handle herself. Suddenly, he heard the Master shout Jose's name and run up the stairs.

Jose is a Master of the guild, there's no way I can take him on. The Master can handle him, he thought and went back to the fight.

As he threw another punch, there was a huge explosion. He whirled around and saw that Gajeel had finally shown himself. Before he knew it, Elfman was running past him, shouting about being a man.

He was holding his own until Gajeel sent out wave after wave of his iron arm, taking out his own guild members in the process. This seemed to catch Elfman off guard, allowing Gajeel to hit him with a sucker punch. Elfman was thrown off balance, and then Natsu showed up. Before Fenris knew it, Natsu and Gajeel were fighting high above everyone else. He turned his attention back to his own fight.

He quickly dodged an incoming kick to the face and decided now was the time to use his powers. Just as Kalea had done, he pushed his hand forward, releasing a blast of energy that knocked his attacker back. He then enhanced his speed, running up to the man in the blink of an eye and punched him square in the face. He was out.

The fight continued this way for longer than Fenris wished. He dodged attacks from every direction. But his strength was not infinite. He did tire, causing his reactions to slow. The first blow came from behind. He was exchanging attacks with a Phantom member when he felt someone smash something hard into his back.

He coughed up blood. The momentary distraction allowed his frontal attacker to land a hit to his face. He fell to the floor, seeing stars in his eyes. As his attacker came in for a second hit, he channeled his magic to his back.

It exploded out of him, throwing him up and over his attacker. Landing on one foot, he kicked the man hard in the face. Another one down. However, the blow to his head caused him to feel dizzy. He accumulated more and more bruises as the fight wore on. He could feel his magical energy draining as the minutes passed. If this didn't end soon, he'd be out completely.

Suddenly, there was a huge noise from up above and a figure was blasted through the ceiling. The next thing he knew, the Master was lying on the ground. He looked almost lifeless.

Erza yelled, "Master!"

She ran over to him. Fenris could see he was hardly breathing. Everyone in the Fairy Tail guild was shocked. Then, the Phantom members grinned. The tide was turning.

"GET EM!" he heard someone yell.

He reacted just as Natsu began running and they were about to charge back into battle when Erza shouted, "RETREAT! Everyone fall back and regroup to the guild!"

People started to protest and Fenris was about to agree when she yelled again, "We cannot defeat Jose without our Master. Retreat to the guild! That is an order!"

Fenris paused. Noticing another presence, he looked up. A huge man had appeared next to Gajeel. He wore a top hat and had some bandana over his eyes. Who the hell…

He could see they were talking but couldn't hear what they said. He saw Natsu whirl around and drag some Phantom member out the door. He looked after him until he realized the other Phantom members were attacking again.

He was about to fight back when he heard Erza shout, "Fenris! It's time to retreat NOW! We have to fall back to the guild."

"Bu-" he protested.

"NOW FENRIS PLEASE!" she exclaimed.

He heard Gray shout, "ERZA how can we retreat like this? We have to avenge Levy and the others!"

Then Erza fell on Gray. Fenris heard her mutter, "Please…"

Moments later, Gray yelled, "RETREAT NOW!"

They had lost.

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When they returned to the guild, Alzack and Bisca took the Master to Porlyusica. If anyone was able to cure whatever happened to Master, it was her.

The entire guild began preparing for another attack. Lacrima bombs were made, strategies were laid out.

Fenris walked up to Kalea, who was nursing a large cut on her arm.

"You okay?" he asked her.

She looked up at him and gave him a grimace. "Yeah. It's just a small cut."

He looked at the cut again. It was anything but small. "Kalea…you should get that looked at by someone who knows some healing magic. It looks pretty deep."

"I'm fine." She raised her arm to show him she was okay. As she did, he saw her arm give an involuntary spasm and she flinched.

He eyed her. "Doesn't look fine to me."

She gave him a pout and looked away. Despite everything that was going on, he couldn't help think, Wow…that was really cute.

Shaking his head, he sat down next to her.

What the hell am I thinking?

"Are you okay? I saw you take a hit to the head," she said.

He touched the side of his head, where he had wrapped up his wound. "Nothing that won't heal."

She rolled her eyes. "Now look who's lying."

He laughed at that. As he did so, the door burst open and Natsu, Lucy, and Happy ran in. Everyone ran up to them, questioned where they had been. Fenris stared in shock as Lucy explained the situation. Who would have thought she was THE Lucy Heartfilia from that rich family he heard about. They were one of the richest families in all of Fiore.

Although she didn't give her reasons, Lucy explained how she had ran away from her home and that was when she was found by Natsu. And now her father wanted her back. He even went as far as to hire the Phantom guild to do so.

Fenris could tell Lucy was upset about this. She and Natsu were sitting by the job board when he, Gray, and Elfman walked over.

"What's up? Still worried?" asked Gray.

"No… it's not that… it's just… I'm sorry," said Lucy.

"Hey don't be sorry. You didn't even do anything wrong," said Fenris.

"Yeah, daughters from rich families are destined to be targeted. And it's a man's duty to protect them," said Elfman.

Fenris looked up at him. "Dude, read the room."

"But we sure were surprised. Lucy, why did you hide it?" asked Happy.

"I wasn't hiding it, exactly…I just…I was running away from home, and I didn't want to talk about it… For an entire year, he didn't do a damn thing about his runaway daughter…then suddenly he wants me home again… I never dreamed that my father would use such tactics to get me back. How low can he sink?!" She started to cry.

"This whole mess can be taken back to the fact that I ran away…" she said.

"N-no way! Your father is the evil one!" shouted Elfman.

"Dude shut up!" said Gray.

"I-I meant Phantom!" Elfman corrected himself.

Lucy rubbed her eyes. "I acted on my own selfish whims. But I never thought it would cause everyone to be hurt like this… I'm really sorry. If I go home, everything will go back to normal so…"

"Is that so… I mean, the term 'Lady' doesn't really suit you, does it? You fit better in this dirty bar, laughing and goin' on adventures with us!" said Natsu.

Lucy looked up at him, tears in her eyes.

"You're Lucy from Fairy Tail, right? This is your home," said Natsu.

The tears poured out as she began crying. Everyone smiled and agreed with him. Lucy looked into Natsu's eyes and Fenris saw something in them. It reminded him of… someone else. The connection between those two. He saw Kalea out of the corner of his eyes. She was still sitting alone at the table they had been talking at earlier.

"Hey," he said, walking up to her.

"I heard Lucy's confession. That's really sad," she said.

"Yeah, it is," he said.

Out of nowhere he heard Laxus' voice coming from in the room. His head shot up.

Laxus isn't here though, he thought.

He turned around and saw Cana talking with him through a Lacrima. He heard Laxus shout some pretty mean things about Lucy and the Master when Mira suddenly shattered the Lacrima.

He turned back around. "Laxus is an ass," said Kalea.

"I know. He's also one of the strongest members in the guild. We could have used him for this," said Fenris.

"We don't need him," Kalea said. "Someone who is that arrogant and selfish will only burden us. We need people who care about the guild. And the members in it. We need…" She didn't finish her sentence.

A loud noise came from outside and everyone jumped up. Following everyone else, Fenris and Kalea ran outside. Coming from across the river, Fenris saw it. The entire guild hall of Phantom Lord was walking towards them on giant legs.

"Wha-what is that?" stuttered Kalea.

"It's the whole damn guild," said Fenris.

He looked on, wondering what could possibly happen next, when the front of the guild opened up. A giant cannon slowly appeared from the depths of the building.

He heard Erza shout, "This is bad! Everybody, get down!"

He shoved Kalea down and dropped to the ground. Faelen came and laid down beside them.

The cannon fired at the same time Erza re-quiped into a giant suit of armor.

"I won't let you take down our guild!" she shouted.

Fenris realized what she was going to do. He shot up and was about to run after her when Kalea grabbed his arm.

"NO!" she shouted at him with such emotion he stopped.

"You can't help her Fenris! Erza knows what she's doing and something that powerful could kill you and I-" she stopped herself.

Fenris looked at her for a second. Wondering what she was going to say, then looked back at Erza as everyone started to shout.

The blast was so explosive, Fenris felt as though the ground would tear beneath them. Erza's Herculean Armor was hit with the full force of it. Fenris was blinded by the explosion and, a few seconds later, rubbed his eyes to clear them.

He saw Natsu holding Erza as she lay very still in his arms. Her armor had been completely destroyed. "I can't believe she really stopped it…" he muttered.

He heard Jose's voice, amplified with magic, come from the guild hall.

"After Makarov… now Erza is unable to fight too. You don't stand a chance. Hand over Lucy Heartfilia RIGHT NOW!" came his angry voice.

Almost at the same time, every member of the guild shouted in protest at him.

"SCREW YOU!" shouted both Fenris and Kalea at the same time.

Then Erza's voice came loudest of all. "WE'D RATHER DIE THAN GIVE UP ON OUR COMRADE!"

Everyone cheered in agreement.

Then Natsu shouted. "Our answer won't change no matter what! We'll take you down!"

"Then we'll fire an even bigger and stronger Jupiter! Now struggle in this 15-minute terror until it's reloaded!" came Jose's amplified voice.

Fenris froze. They can shoot another one so soon after that? Crap…

Hundreds of figures suddenly flew out of the guild towards Fairy Tail.

Kalea shouted, "Their soldiers are coming! Everyone get prepared!"

"Feel the pain Fairy Tail. You have two choices. Get killed by my soldiers, or die by Jupiter," said Jose.

"Is he going to kill his own men with Jupiter as well?!" someone shouted.

"Yes. That's Jose's magic 'shade.' Those aren't humans. Just ghosts Jose has created," said Cana.

"We've gotta do something about Jupiter," Kalea said.

"I'll go smash it down!" shouted Natsu.

He ran towards the Phantom buliding, Happy swooping down to pick him up and fly off.

"Elfman, we're going to!" shouted Gray.

"All right!" Elfman said.

Fenris made a quick decision and sprinted after them.

"WAIT!" came Kalea's voice.

He looked back. She was staring at him with wide eyes. "Where the hell do you think you're going?! You could get hurt or worse!" she shouted at him. She had never cursed at him before. He was slightly taken aback.

Recovering quickly, he simply smiled. "I won't."

"And how do you know that?!" she said in protest.

He paused, looking into her eyes. And then he knew why he wouldn't die.

"Because I have something to live for," he said.

She stared at him, her eyes full of tears again.

"Faelen. Stay here and protect Kalea. I'll be back once this is all over. Do everything you can to make sure she isn't hurt," Fenris said to Faelen. He barked in response.

Fenris gave one last look to Kalea and then ran off after Gray and Elfman.

Author's note:

Next chapter, more Phantom. See ya next time!