Chapter 1

Natsu hit the ground, skidding to a halt before the weight of Gajeel slammed into him causing him to groan at the impact before the added weight of Wendy landing atop both of them, while it didn't add much like Gajeel had so it didn't bother him all that much to be honest. The Three Dragon Slayers lay in a heap on the ground, groaning from the experience that they had just gone through.

"Natsu!" Happy cried, flying to where Natsu's face could be seen poking out of the mass of bodies piled atop one another, the blue exceed hugging Natsu's face. "You're okay!" He cried happily, believing he had almost lost his closest friend.

"Yeah." Natsu groan shifting slightly as Gajeel finally moved and allowed Natsu more freedom to sit up. Wendy was blushing in embarrassment, apologising for landing on them like she had.

"It's fine shrimp." Gajeel huffed as he sat on the ground, the three forming a small circle. "What the hell just happened to us?" He questioned, taking a look around. They were in a forest, but the ruins of before couldn't be seen and the forest itself didn't match anything like what they had walked through to get to the ruins. They were somewhere completely different.

"That black orb absorbed us." Wendy noted recalling what had happened. "Did it send us somewhere?"

"I'm going to beat the crap out of that old man!" Natsu growled punching his fists together. Gajeel readily agreed, however more pressing matters were on their minds first.

'Well, it's not the first time something like this has happened." Wendy smiled, trying to brightened the situation some. "I mean, we were sent to Edolas in a similar way right? So maybe if we work hard we can find a way back to Fairy Tail."

"Wendy's right. We can overcome this if we work together." Lily nodded standing in the centre of their small circle with Happy.

"So what, we assume that guy sent us somewhere, to his Empire or whatever he was rambling on about, to save it?" Gajeel questioned.

"Like Hell I'm doing anything for that bastard! He could have at least explained what the heck was going on!" Natsu grumbled crossing his arms with a pout.

"Come on Natsu, you accepted the job we have to complete it." Happy told him. Natsu sighed before noticing that Wendy was looking around for something… or more precise, someone.

"W-Where's Carla?" Wendy questioned, raising to her feet. "Carla!?" She called out before Lily approached.

"I don't think she made it through the black orb." Lily told her causing Wendy to look down at him shocked. "As soon as Natsu had been dragged into it, the orb began to shrink, Happy and I made it just in time. Carla was right behind us, but she must not have been able to make it through." Tears sprang to her eyes as she realised that Carla was left all alone. That was before a heavy weight landed atop her head showing Gajeel having placed his hand atop her head.

"It'll be alright kid, this just means that Carla can go tell everyone back at Fairy Tail what's happened." Gajeel explained as Wendy looked up at him and smiling.

"Right!" Wendy wiped the tears from her eyes. "Even if it takes time, I'm sure that Fairy Tail will figure out what happened to us."

"In the meantime?" Lily questioned, curious to know what they should do while waiting for Fairy Tail to come find them.

"We go exploring!" Natsu cheered, deciding to look on the bright side of things. New place meant new things to find.

"Aye sir!" Happy agreed right along with him causing Gajeel to roll his eyes as Wendy smiled.

"In that case, Happy let's get a better idea of our surroundings." Lily declared getting a nod from Happy before both of their wings appeared before they took to the skies above the trees.

"I wonder where we are." Wendy asked as the trio of Dragon Slayers headed through the trees, following after Natsu who had randomly picked a direction and started to walk. "I mean, the air here is different." She explained taking in a deep breath, being a Sky Dragon Slayer was easy to determine air quality. "It's different from Fiore somehow."

"Maybe we're on a different continent." Gajeel remarked. "That old man said we had to save an Empire right, meaning it's probably not in Fiore. Who knows where we ended up."

"Maybe we're in another Edolas or something?" Natsu asked, raising his hand up which burst into flames showing he was capable of using his magic. "Maybe not Edolas exactly." He added disbursing the flames.

"Knowing our luck, who knows." Gajeel huffed.

"Natsu!" The pink hair Dragon Slayer looked up to see where Lily and Happy were hovering in the air. "We found a road!" He pointed in the direction where he and Lily and spotted it.

"Good work!" Natsu grinned.

"It's not far." Lily concluded as both he and Happy left in the direction of the road, the three Dragon Slayers followed after racing through the trees. Breaching the tree line Natsu skidded across the dirt road looking around wildly for anything and everything. Gajeel and Wendy broke through soon after at a slower pace, looking around their surroundings.

"Do you think if we followed the road one way we'd find a city or something?" Wendy questioned, looking up at Gajeel questioningly. However the older Dragon Slayer simply smirked, having picked up something with his sensitive hearing.

"Just wait a bit shrimp." He told them causing Wendy to look at him questioningly before she also picked up the sound.

"What is it?" Natsu asked, standing in the centre of the road looking in the direction where the sound was coming from. Only a few short moments passed before the carriage, with two men seated behind the horse came rolling over the hill.

"It's a carriage!" Wendy announced happily running out to join Natsu in the centre of the path, the two Dragon Slayers raising their arms to wave down the drivers.

Gajeel was the first to pick up the rumbling beneath their feet, whatever it was was moving quickly and heading straight for the approaching carriage. Whatever it was had heard the carriages approach also. The ground trembled further causing Wendy and Natsu to catch on that something wasn't right. The ground itself cracked before bursting open as a massive form reared up out of the ground. IT's form towering over the carriage.

Then Natsu raised his arm, While advancing towards them, and gave them a sign to stop so that they could question them. Nevertheless, as soon as he had time to do this, vibrations were felt beneath his feet.

"It's an Earth Dragon!" One of the men on the carriage cried out, pulling back on the reigns of the horse to try and keep it from panicking, but faced with such a creature it was hard to do so.

"Time to let off some steam." Gajeel smirked.

"Yeah!" Natsu agreed. "It's no old bastard but at least I can invision his face as I beat this monster back into the dirt!"

"Did they just call it a Dragon?" Wendy wondered, it wasn't like any Dragon that she had ever seen and it definitely didn't house any magic power. The two older Dragon Slayers were about to burst forward to end the creatures existence however stopped as a young man shot between both Natsu and Gajeel surprising the Dragon Slayers.

In mere moments the young man had severed the Dragon's arm causing a spray of blood to coat the surrounding trees crimson. However the shock of the newcomer now gone, Gajeel and Natsu charged forward, intending to let their frustrations out on this creature.

"Iron Dragon's Iron Club!" Gajeel roared as he leapt into the air, arm morphing into a club before launching forward from Gajeel's arm, extending at incredible speed and colliding with the Dragon sending it off its feet, soaring through the air. In the time that it was in the air, Natsu had already leapt above it, arm reared back with a roar.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!" The surge of fire engulfed the entire Earth Dragon, it letting out a screech before all fell silent amidst the Dragon Slayers flames. There was nothing left but a cloud of as that crashed into the ground, before being caught on the wind and blowing away.

Gajeel huffed, irritated that Natsu got to finish it off as Wendy jogged up to him, the youngest of the trio already aware of the shocked looks the two were getting from both the Carriage drives and the youth that had come in to lop of the Dragon's arm.

"Man! That was barely a warm up!" Natsu grumbled rolling his shoulder, having through that it would put up more of a fight that what it had.

"If this is all that we're up against." Gajeel grumbled. "This is going to be a total waste of time."

"I should have figured something like this would have happened." Lily sighed to himself having watched what happened from the air. "It's not like these two are the most subtle of people."

"Aye." Happy agreed. Gajeel ignored the exceeds and saw that the two carriage drivers were whispering to one another causing him to raise an eyebrow and head over to them.

"Oi…" However a crack of their reigns on the horse caused the horse to gallop forward leaving Gajeel amidst the dust that was kicked up. "... which way to town." He muttered, irritation growing on his face. "Assholes!" He roared at the retreating carriage.

"Maybe he can help us?" Wendy suggested catching Gajeel's attention, recalling that there was still one person left to deal with. The youth that had chopped off the Dragon's arm was currently standing before them, a glint of excitement in his eyes as he looked at Natsu and Gajeel in amazement.

"That was so cool!"

Short Time Later

"The kingdom of Fiore?" Tatsumi questioned as the four walked along the road. He had been asking them all sorts of questions since they had met, but to find out that they were some far away kingdom he had never heard of before. It was just so amazing to him. It sounded like a place full of adventure. Gajeel, seeing the look on Tatsumi's face rolled his eyes.

"Of course, the one person we run into knows jack about anything." He growled in annoyance snapping Tatsumi from his thoughts.

"Hey I might be from out in the boonies, but I'll let you know that I'm not some uncivilized hick!" He argued back however Gajeel just rolled his eyes once more and looked away. "But in saying all that… Fiore really doesn't ring any bells. I've never heard of it before." He replied honestly. "So you guys are trying to head home then?" Tatsumi asked.

"Something like that." Lily nodded walking on the ground beside Gajeel. "Let's say we weren't exactly prepare to come to another country, we were forcibly brought here with little to no information about where here is." He continued to explain to the young man. Tatsumi blinked as he looked down at the black cat walking on two legs…

"...did that thing just talk!?" Tatsumi questioned in astonishment causing Lily to blink, was he just called a thing? Setting a glare up at the young man, about to retort, however Happy broke the silence flying up in front of Tatsumi's face.

"Aye! And we fly too!" Happy announced, fluffing his wings slightly causing tatsumi to fall back on his ass as he stared up at the flying cat in amazement.

"Bu… wha… how…" Tatusmi was at a loss for words as the three Dragon Slayers looked down at him with questioning looks, as if two flying and talking cats was practically normal. "Who the hell are you?"

"Us?" Natsu asked before grinning and offering his hand, Tatsumi catching a small smile on Wendy's face as a smirk came to Gajeels. "We're Fairy Tail Wizards!" Natsu declared happily.

"Fai-Fairy Tail?" Tatsumi asked, taking the offered hand of the Dragon Slayer, surprised at his strength as Natsu helped him up with no effort on his part. "What's Fairy Tail?"

"That's an easy one." Wendy smiled, as the small group began to walk again, Gajeel taking the lead. "It's a Guild full of Wizards, it's a place that we get jobs from."

"Wi-Wizards?" Tatsumi questioned looking between the three, all the stories he heard about magic and such were all usually pictured about elderly man who had dedicated their life to magic. "Like in the stories?"

"Have you never met a Wizard before, Tatsumi?" Wendy questioned.

"Of course not, wizards are made up. There's no such thing as magic." He told them with a wave of his hand, a laugh erupting from him as he pressed onward thinking the whole thing was just a joke. The three Dragon Slayers slowed their pace as Tatsumi headed up the group.

"This is probably a bad sign." Gajeel huffed. "If magic isn't known in these parts, then there's something definitely wrong here."

"So it is another Edolas… but still a different Edolas." Natsu nodded to himself causing the other two to sigh. Sometimes once Natsu came to his own conclusion on something… there was no changing his mind.

"We really might have to wait for everyone back in Fairy Tail to find us a way back home." Wendy told them both gettings nod from the older duo.

"Um… is something wrong?" Tatsumi called out to them, having noticed the gap between them growing due to their slow pace.

"Everything's fine." Gajeel commented back. "We were just trying to figure out which way it is to the closest town near here." He figured that telling some rando on the road that somehow they had come from another world, considering that he didn't even believe that they were Wizards wouldn't do much for them and just raise issues later.

"If you want, you can come with me." Tatsumi suggested folding his hands behind his head with a smile on his face. "I got seperated with my friends on the way to the Capital of the Empire, it'd be nice to have some company for a change."

"The Capital?" Wendy asked, unsure.

"Yeah, it is the biggest city in the entire Empire! My friends and I wanted to try our luck getting into the military. No doubt with ours skills we'll be immediately promoted to Captain or something like that." He laughed.

"You sure are a cocky one." Gajeel smirked.

"You have a lot of potential, that's for sure." Lily nodded, having him witnessed Tatsumi's attack on the Earth Dragon. Tatsumi once more awkwardly glanced at Lily, unsure how he should feel about being praised by a cat.

"Let's check it out!" Natsu declared with a grin. "Got nothing better to do than wait for everyone back at Fairy Tail to find us a way home."

"Plus we might find some information on how to get home too." Wendy smiled up at him getting a nod of agreement from the older Dragon Slayer.

"Alright, just follow me!" Tatsumi declared.

"Wow, this is so awesome!" Tatsumi was so amazed at everything before them. Never in his entire life had he seen anything like the Empire. Shortly after meeting his current companions they reached a pointer where the city walls came into view and after another few hours of traveling here they were. Finally he had made it to the Capital. To the Dragon Slayers, it was clear that this was the biggest city he had ever seen. And while large, it's architecture had nothing on Crocus.

Moving in every direction, Tatsumi was looking at the city in every corner, under the astonished gaze of others.

"Let's go exploring!" Natsu cheered with a grin surprising Tatsumi as he turned to face the Dragon Slayer, he didn't think that they would be parting ways so soon, but he figured if he wanted to meet up with Sayo and Ieyasu, he would need to head for the garrison where they would undoubtedly be waiting for him.

"I guess this is where we part ways." Tatsumi smiled looking at the three.

"Don't sweat it kid." Gajeel smirked. "You've got a military to join right? Good luck." Tatsumi smiled and nodded his head with a grin.

"Thank you for the help on getting us this far, Tatsumi." Wendy bowed her head deeply.

"Don't mention it!" Tatsumi laughed awkwardly, never having dealt with someone as polite as Wendy before. "It was nice meeting you, maybe we'll meet one another again." He told them before running off into the city with a wave of his hand.

"We should stop him before he gets too far." Wendy suggested, seeing Natsu amidst the crowds looking around with happy sitting on his shoulder. Both acting childish at everything they saw, acting like tourists. "Also… because of Tatsumi's reaction to Happy and Lily, maybe."

"Already on it." Lily stated, going from bipedal down to all fours, as a normal cat generally would. "I already summarized that this might be a requirement after our meeting with Tatsumi."

"Tell that to them." Gajeel huffed as they followed after Natsu. However the old Dragon Slayer stopped, a familiar scent reaching his nose, the iron in the air was thick but not metal, it was blood. Looking around his red eyes narrowed dangerously, this stench of blood was unnerving, it was like somebody's scent was covered in it. Now that he was focusing on it… there were a lot of scents unfamiliar to him but blood stood out the most.

"Something wrong, Gajeel?" Wendy asked seeing that he had stopped. However he didn't answer, instead focusing on somebody in the crowd. A young woman with auburn hair tied into a long ponytail was walking through the crowds with a happy smile on her face. She wore a black and white uniform with upper body armor. Something Gajeel had seen numerous people wearing since they entered the Capital. Gajeel also saw that she was dragging something along on a leash, a small white creature… while not a cat or a dog… he didn't know what it was.

"It's her… she reeks of blood." Gajeel grabbed Wendy by the shoulder and before the blood soaked girl made contact with them, he ushered the young Dragon Slayer along. Whatever was her deal, he wanted no part of it. Her very presence made him nervous.

"Gajeel?" Wendy questioned.

"Somethings wrong with this place." Gajeel simply commented. "Let's catch up to Salamander."

Night had begun to descend over the Capital, and with little success of gathering information for the trio of Dragon Slayers.

"We walked all day… and nothing to show for it." Natsu groaned as he slumped down next to a random wall. After having discovered that their Jewel was useless here they were now broke, considering that they had no currency. Meaning not only had they not gotten any information from journeying around the Capital, they were also hungry and considering a Dragon Slayer's appetite, it was starting to gnaw at them.

"There wasn't a single trace of that old man either." Happy stated as he curled up in Natsu's lap, the pink haired Dragon Slayer petting him gently.

"Not only that, nobody has ever heard of Fiore before." Wendy added. While they didn't think Tatsumi was lying about not knowing of the place, it was still good to ask around. They might not be in another world after all.

"I'm so hungry!" Natsu groaned, his stomaching rumbling and echoing out over the now empty street.

"Gehehe." The sound of chomping came from their third Dragon Slayer, Gajeel having taken to a nearby lamp post that was made out of iron and had taken a few chunks out of it.

"Guess it's time to see if Iron tastes any good." Natsu declared getting a sweat drop from Wendy as Natsu got up heading for the lamp post, only for an argument to arise between Gajeel and Natsu causing a fight to erupt between the two. Wendy sighed as she sat down in the spot Natsu had once occupied, Happy joining her like he once did with Natsu as Lily sat beside her, Wendy was already missing Carla.

"Perhaps we should head back out of the Capital for the night, we could make do with camping and won't be bothered by the lights or anyone passing us by in the street here." Lily suggested, Wendy hanging her head slightly. She knew that it was a good idea but….

"I'm too tired to walk anymore." She confessed softly, she didn't want to complain but it had already been a really long day. The trek out of Magnolia, being transported wherever here was and then the walk from the road to the Capital, it had all been draining, not just physically but mentally also. About to apologize for complaining, her hearing picked something up and she turned only to a blonde woman in a revealing state of dress walk out of the nearby alley with a smile on her face.

Whistling cheerfully she strolled out of the alley, turning left and right to pick a direction to take before spotting the three and tilted her head. Two were fighting one another while the third was sitting down on the ground looking worse for wear. Huh, did she have cats with her? Was that cat freaking blue!? Had she been drinking too much?

"Uh… hey there." She greeted with a raised hand, deciding to talk to the girl seeing as the other two hadn't noticed her yet. "You doing alright?" Wendy stiffened slightly before nodding her head frantically, before her stomach let out a growl showing her hunger causing her to blush fiercely.

"I-Im sorry!" she apologized bowing her head.

"Nothing to eat huh?" The blonde questioned, getting a slight nod from Wendy. The blonde smiled down at her before crouching down before her, a hand pressing atop of Wendy's head… it was weird, this woman had the feel of a big sister about her.

"Don't worry, Big Sis Leone is here to help." The blonde told her, reaching around to where a coin purse was tied to her belt, undoing it she handed it to the petite girl with a small.

"I-I can't accept this." Wendy tried to refuse.

"Don't worry about it." Leone smiled, closing the girls hands around the coin purse. "It's really not putting me out of pocket." She winked causing Wendy to tilt her head as Leone smiled at her. "Get yourself something to eat, you won't grow if you don't eat." she laughed causing Wendy's face to flush as she realized just how well endowed Leone was.

"You're a life saver!" Natsu exclaimed, shock coming over Leone's face as the pink haired Dragon Slayer appeared from nowhere and wrapped her in a hug. "Thank you!" From Wendy's point of few, not only was she startled by the sudden gesture… she was ready to fight if needed, her body had tensed and she almost reacted by instinct alone but after taking everything in, she relaxed…

"She must be a fighter." Wendy thought, figuring that was the response Leone had given before she looked down at the bag in her hand that Leone had given her. "This has Tatsumi's scent on it…"

"Don't mention it, I can't let these cute little kitties go hungry now can I?" Leone laughed awkwardly as Gajeel pulled Natsu off her, the blonde crouching down and petting both Lily and Happy. The two exceeds glanced at one another before looking up at Leone.

"Meow." Both responded causing Leone to hesitate.

"Did they say say 'meow'?" Deciding not to linger much longer otherwise she was going to get into trouble. Änyway, I can see that you guys are probably new here to the Capital, huh?" Wendy nodded as the three looked at her. "If you want any advice, here it is." She began. "Leave, this isn't the kind of place for good hearted people… it'll kill you before long." With that she raised her hand and left with just a wave leaving the three Dragon Slayers looking at her retreated form.