Chapter Three: What the Hell did we Miss?!

Up on the roof of the guild, two large and powerful dragon slayers lay side-by-side. An uncomfortable silence drifting over them, and the fire dragon slayer is the first to speak up.

"So, what did you want?" Laxus looks towards the formally-younger dragon slayer, analyzing everything that had changed about him. He held himself differently, the air around him showing his newfound strength and superiority. Yet in the guild hall, it was lower, more friendly. He obviously doesn't hold himself too high down there.

"Well, I wanted to know why you got kicked out, mainly." He states, and he can feel Natsu stiffen slightly beside him.

"... On a mission with my old team seven years ago, we were fighting a dark guild." He begins, and as Laxus sees him pause and crease his brows in semi-frustration, he realizes that the pinkette had probably never told this story, if he had he'd only done it once or twice. "Hm... I don't remember exactly." Natsu admits, looking up into the sky which is fading out into oranges and reds, painting the perfect sunset. "One of them hit me with an odd spell, it looked violet-blue, but it triggered something inside me, at least that's what I think. Next thing I know I wake up and everything around me is charred black, my team is injured and I thought the dark mages had fled. Turns out I killed them all..."

"You killed them?" Laxus slightly gasps. "Okay, who are you and what have you done with that dense idiot?" A dry, humorless chuckle breaks pasts Natsu's lips as he hears this, and he closes his eyes for a second, feeling the cool breeze that signifies that night is on its way.

"Since I killed them and hurt my comrades, they kicked me out." He finishes, and a silence falls over the two of them.

"But you're back now." Natsu shakes his head at Laxus' statement.

"I came back to save Fairy Tail and redeem myself, I'm leaving after the Grand Magic Games."

"Grand Magic Games?"

"Oh yeah, you don't know about that!" Natsu gives a short chuckles at Laxus' confusion, before explaining just what the games are. As he does this, down below Macao walks up to the old members of 'Team Natsu', Romeo at his side.

"What's up?" Gray asks, turning to the pair.

"We've come to ask you a favor." The guild master says, catching the attention of some other guild members. But they stay silent as the conversations continues.

"What is it?" Lucy speaks up, giving him her full attention.

"Well..." Macao drags on, much to Erza's annouyance.

"Spit it out!" She slams her fist onto the table, effectively denting the fork she held, much to her displeasure. "Kinana? May I have another fork?" She asks, wanting a proper utensil to finish eating her strawberry cheesecake.

"We were wondering-well, the whole guild is wondering-if you'd help us get Natsu back into Fairy Tail." Nearly everyone goes silent at that, the entire guild having heard his request.

"And why should we do that?" Erza asks, narrowing her eyes at the older male.

"Because you're the only ones who can do it!" Romeo squeaks, pushing through his fear of Erza. "W-we figured out during your absence that he never killed anyone!" This shocks everyone that was on Tenrou, and makes Lucy crack a smile.

"He didn't?" The blonde speaks up, unable to hide the grin she wears.

"No, he didn't." Macao picks up after his son. "Grimoire Heart were the ones who killed them, they didn't want Natsu going to the S-Class trails. They shot a spell at Natsu and took his magic, knocking him out, before amplifying it and making it explode, seeming like he did it. While their Flame God Slayer burned and killed the dark guild members. I believe his name was... Zancrow."

"How did you learn all of this?" Makarov asks, putting himself into the conversation.

"About two years ago, two members who were once a part of Grimoire Heart, came with Jellal-"

"With Jellal, what do you mean?" Erza speaks up, confused on why Jellal would even be out of jail.

"Well, during the seven years you were away, these two people broke Jellal out, and they made a independent guild known as Crime Sorciere. They destroy Dark guilds. Anyway, so they came one day and explained to us what had really happened that day all those years ago on that mission."

"Who were the members?" Gildarts speaks up, wondering which members of that dark guild were still alive.

"Ultear and Meredy."

"Ultear?" Gray speaks up, glad that she made it out alive.

"Meredy!?" Juvia squeaks in joy, remembering the friend she made that day years ago, not long ago to her. Macao nods, but Makarov breaks their moment of happiness.

"Does he know?"

"Natsu? No, he doesn't." Macao reveals, but quickly gives his reasons. "We wanted the right person to tell him. Because we knew that he'd still blame himself because he let the spell hit him, we needed someone that would be able to tell him, convince him and forgive him..."

"Like Team Natsu." They all realize everything he had said was correct, and nod in agreement. That was what Natsu would do.

"So, will you do it?" He looks towards them pleadingly, and before anyone can get the next word in, Lucy jumps to it with her fist raised and a smile touching her eyes.

"Of course!" She shouts out, the other three voice their agreement, albeit not with as much energy.

"Oh, and one more thing... In order to get him back, he needs you to accept him back into the guild." Macao says to Makarov. "I've tried a million times, but he won't even let me finish because he believes I have no right to, as in I wasn't the one who kicked him out so I can't bring him back. He needs you all to forgive and accept him back for him to join once again-" Just as he finished saying this, before Makarov can get a word in, the doors open revealing the two missing dragon slayers.

"So," Natsu speaks up,"who'll be in the games this year? Because I nominate the people who had been on Tenrou because they haven't been in it." Everyone stands frozen stiff, like a child caught taking a cookie from the cookie jar, and Laxus raises his brow at this while Natsu shakes his head slightly. "What'd I miss?"

"N-nothing really..." Macao tries to cover it up but fails and just slams his head onto the nearest table. I stuttered... Natsu just gives a small laugh at that, before shaking his head and turning his attention to the rest of the guild.

"Fine, I'll leave it at that." He says, still wearing a grin, although not as warm as the one he was formally famous for. "Now, back to the Grand Magic Games. I honestly don't want to explain it twice, but basically they are new to you guys-" he points to the Tenrou Group,"and it's the thing that decides who's the strongest guild in all Fiore. Although..." He scans the small group,"if you guys want to be in it you have a lot of catching up to do."

"Catching up to-you think you're that much better than us, Flame Brain!" Gray shouts out in denial, standing and pointing a finger at the pinkette.

"He is..." Romeo whispers to him, making his brow twitch in anger. In a second he's on the table, preparing to run across it towards his old rival, only for an armored hand to latch onto his pants, making him fall off and smack his head into the ground.

"WHAT THE-" He shoots up, ready to start a brawl with the person, only to shrink down as he sees the red glare in Erza's eye. "Yes ma'am..." He concedes, letting Erza stand to face Natsu.

"I believe I misheard you." She says, standing parallel to the dragon slayer. "We have to catch up?"

"No, you heard right." He admits, unfazed by her glare. "You've been sealed for seven years while the rest of the world has kept going. The only people who can still get by in this 'new world', as you may call it, would be Gramps, Gildarts, and maybe you, Laxus and Mira."

"Then let me prove you wrong, right here, right now." She re-quips her sword, and in an instant runes appear, crawling through the air completing a dome-shape, which Natsu steps through to join her in.

"Very well, then come." She blasts towards him. I'll make this quick, she thinks, remembering the old Natsu. As she swings down, she finds nothing going according to plan. Soon she's struggling as she lays on the ground, darkness edging into her vision.

Everyone watches, those from Tenrou have their jaws dropped, Laxus and the others who could keep up with what just happened reviewing it in their minds. He used her momentum, grabbed the back of her head at speeds she couldn't read, and slammed her face into the ground. With that much force, I'm surprised she's still conscious, although barely.

"Erza?" Lucy asks timidly, worried for her teammate, and completely shocked that she was brought down like that in one hit.

"Get up," Natsu commands, looking down at her,"you said you wanted to prove me wrong, so get up." With a tremble in her arms, she puts them under herself and begins to push up, only for a weight to be added onto her spine, the pressure to great for her weak limbs to hold and she falls back down.

"Flame Brain..." Gray grounds out, watching the dragon slayer step onto his friends back and push her back down. Erza grits her teeth and pushes herself back up once more, fighting against the voice in her head that says she lost.

"Come on," he speaks up again,"show me how wrong I am... or, accept my help." This shocks the Tenrou group, and she looks up at him, sending a glare that should be able to kill, but he just shrugs it off. "So, proud Titania, what'll it be?" She looks away, down to the floor below, rethinking everything that had just happened.

"I... will never give up!" As soon as she finishes the small phrase, the pressure on her back is lifted and she's almost thrown back onto her feet by a strong arm. She looks slightly shocked as she meets onyx eyes. Before she can say anything a sharp pain explodes in her face and she teeters on the edge of consciousness, Natsu pulling his head away after giving her a merciless headbutt. Some people from the Tenrou Group grit their teeth as he lets Erza go, and she falls limp on the ground. Lids half closed as she stares up at the pinkette almost lazily.

"Stop this match! He's won!" Makarov demands, seeing the state of one of his strongest mages.

"Ah... no can do, old man." Natsu replies, looking down at the scarlet mage. This makes Makarov look on in confusion. Sure, Natsu wasn't the most obedient child, but he listened when he knew he needed to, and never put one of his guildmates in such a state..."I think you're forgetting that you have no power over me." Natsu states, turning to the Third Guildmaster. "One: I'm no longer a guild member, and two: you're no longer the Guildmaster. So you have no power here, period." He looks back down to Erza,"Come on, Erza. You're stronger than this. I know you are." Below him she groans in pain, (I know what some of you were thinking, you pervs) and he flips her over with his foot. "Well, Titania?" She glares up at him, and using her legendary speed, she re-quips a sword and slices towards Natsu with a precision people wouldn't normally have in her state.

"How dare you talk back to master!" She howls, jumping onto her feet and launching at the pinkette. Putting on her Heaven's Wheel armor she attacks in a flurry of strikes, Natsu dodging each one, but a smile growing onto his face.

"Now that's the Erza I know." Just after he says this, everyone freezes in shock as the ground is painted in red. Erza staring wide-eyed as blood drips along her blade and onto the floor. She's quick to pull the sword back, shocked that she had made contact. Looking at Natsu, she sees him wearing a smile even though she had just penetrated his shoulder with a blade. His palms cut where he had gripped the blade and blood spreading out, soaking his shirt around his right shoulder. "I believe that signify's the end of our little fight, don't you agree, Erza?" Natsu asks, acting as if he didn't have such a wound.

"Y-yeah," she stutters then coughs into her fist, regaining her composure,"yes."

"Now that that's over," he begins, clearing his throat,"you all-" he points to the Tenrou Group,"must realize your place by now. Erza is strong, no doubt about that. But her power from back then isn't enough, and all of you guys are the same. So, the only thing that can help you is by training." He concludes, putting his hands on his hips. "I'm willing to help in your training, but with some of your guys' pride issues, you probably won't accept me. Although, I'll give advise no matter what you say. You have three months to train, that is when the Diamontou Enbu will begin. Three months! Don't waste your time, because Fairy Tail has only not won ONE of the games, and that year they decided not to compete." He then turns to Macao with sharp eyes,"Is it okay if the people who compete are those from Tenrou?" The Guildmaster gives a smile and a nod.

"Of course." With that, Natsu gives a resounding clap of his hands, and a toothy grin-although missing some of the warmth of his old one-and speaks up one last time.

"Then it's settled! If you need my help, which I doubt, I'll be there." And with that he, just turns and walks out of the guild hall. It takes everyone a moment to realize he had left, and in a moment Wendy is scurrying around, worrying about the injury he had just received.

"Oh, Wendy, you can stop worrying." Kinana tells the poor girl who had just walked back into the guild hall and slumped at the counter, unable to find and heal the pinkette. "Besides, it's impossible to find him."

"He's bleeding! It's easier to find an injured person, and even with my nose I couldn't! I know I don't have the best sense of smell, but still... He just walked out like everything's fine! Am I the only one worried about him!?" She rants on, before a metal hand clamps down onto her shoulder.

"No, I am worried as well." Erza admits. "Team, assemble!" With that being said, Happy, Lucy and Gray walks up to her with confusion in her eyes, Happy giving an army salute. "We have a new mission which will start immediately!" Everyone is now watching the scene, wondering just what the red head will say. "It will be called; Getting Team Natsu Back Together, our mission: getting Natsu to become a Fairy Tail member once again!" Everyone-not including some from the Tenrou Group-jump in joy at this. They had been trying for years to get him to become a Fairy Tail member once again, and knew if anyone could do it, Team Natsu could.

A/N: So obviously, if you didn't notice in the beginning of this chapter which is okay, Natsu and Laxus are gonna be getting closer in this fic. Similar experiences can bring people closer together. And they even have similar magic! Now go get Natsu, Team Natsu! *that's just weird to say... reminds me of another FanFic I'm gonna recommend later on...

Pairings you can vote on:

*NO PAIRING

*Natsu x Ultear (NaUl)

*Natsu x Meredy (I don't know the ship name...)

*Natsu x Erza (NaZa)

*Natsu x Mira (NaMi)

* Gray x Lucy (GraLu)

* Gray x Juvia (GruVia)

* Loke x Lucy (LoLu)

* Mira x Laxus (MirAxus)

(Know that you can vote on more than one. Just not all Any other one's will be my choice)

This weeks recommendation is a FanFic Shadowed Past by Akiko Natsuko, and I fucking love it. So much. It's completed and its sequel is Sunlit Future, in case you're interested. Go check it out! (It's also favorited-dur)