Today is the day! I admit that I am very excited.

Still, the cynical and suspicious part of me wisely made me go to Weasely's Wizard Wheezers, or as I lovingly call, WWW, early this morning and stock up on gear that could help me survive against the forces of douche bags with magical powers.

I mean, it's cool and all that I now have a mystical armor that is making me stronger, but it's got a really annoying downside in that it not only increases everything good in helping me fight, but it amplifies my already abysmal luck into stupid cartoon levels of unfairness. (Now that I think back on it that does explain a lot on why not just that last week but my over all testing of the armor almost made me lose what was left of my sanity.)

Words could not even describe how horrible my Luck test went when we were measuring the armor's abilities.

But besides that, I was currently doing my chores around the guild that cloudy morning like sweeping the floors, washing mugs, cleaning Cana's leftovers, wiping tables, cleaning Cana's leftovers, helping out with food, and cleaning Cana's leftovers with more vigor than usual.

"Kain is in a good mood, what is the occasion?" I spotted Erza nearby Mirajane as she said this.

I was close enough to take a few steps forward towards them and answer for her. "I won my first case as a defense lawyer and my client is coming here to Fairy Tail for his parole. Master Markarov and I talked about this and he helped sign the papers."

Erza seemed to realize something as I said that. "A client coming here for his parole? Do you mean Kageyama is coming here?"

I nodded. "Yep, Kageyama Maru, previously of the now disbanded Eisenwald guild, is now coming over to serve his parole as a Fairy Tail mage! I told Natsu about this a while ago and he dragged of Lucy to buy a cake for him as a welcoming gift."

"I was wondering why it felt more peaceful than usual." Erza looked around for the lively dragon slayer, but saw no sign of him. It was like she was just trying to validate my comment and got what she was looking for.

She then turned towards me with a casual smile. "You seem excited about him coming over."

"It's super cute how he is though." Mirajane gushed along with her friend's observation.

"Of course I am! … The excited part I mean—not the cute—you get the idea." I waved off my hand as my manager started to laugh at the correction. I cleared my throat before continuing. "I think Kage is a pretty good guy, so maybe he'll fit right in here!"

"So there is one person who thinks that."

That didn't come from Mira or Erza. I turned around to the voice coming behind me and I saw Kageyama holding a sack over his shoulder and lifting a hand towards me.

"Kage, you're here early!" I walked up to the shadow mage who seemed a little nervous. Weird how he appeared out of nowhere, but then again he does have the ability to move in shadows. "Welcome to Fairy Tail! What do you think?"

Kageyama put a hand over his eyes as he side stepped a lamp and into a shaded area. "It's a lot brighter inside than outside when it's cloudy."

I looked towards the lamp he stepped out from and asked, "Is that like a shadow mage thing if you're sensitive to light like that?"

Kage put his hand down as he seemed to think. "I… never really thought about that until now. I mean, Eisenwald was pretty dark, but that was because Erigor thought it was best like that. And now that it came up, Erigor has made a lot of downright weird orders as our leader. One time, he attacked a caravan that was filled with mascara and face-paint and we never sold any of it to the black market. In fact, it almost seemed like there was no trace of it soon after Erigor had his hands on it."

Oh, so I wasn't truly crazy in imagining he was trying way too hard to be dark and brooding? "Anyway, let's get you to see Master Makarov and then we can start on your first quest in an official guild again."

"A legal job huh? Haven't done one of those in a while."

Soon, even Erza and Mirajane followed us to the office where Makarov welcomed Kageyama into the guild. After a small warning not to mess up his second chance, Kage asked for a black stamp at the back of his right shoulder blade.

With that done, he was already ready to start questing again.

"Now I don't know if you were told this by your parole officer, but just in case, you are contractually obligated at least one job a week while under Fairy Tail." I repeated as we walked to the mission board.

"Yeah yeah. Are you going to follow me around?" The shadow mage turned to me as we stopped right in front of the board.

His tone was kind of hurtful, but as I thought about it I guess it stood to reason he didn't fully trust me yet. "For your first job? Yeah. I have to see how you're settling in, but other than that I can pretty much leave you alone with the others after that."

He seemed to understand that since I was his legal agent—he suddenly looked at me as if I had grown a second head that was speaking backwards while bees flew out of its nose. "Wait, what others?"

Now it was my turn to give him an incredulous look. "Kage, how much did your parole officer tell you about the stipulations of said parole?"

"Some stuff that he said I could ask you about. But what was that about 'others'?"

My face fell into a deadpan after realizing there was a 'miscommunication' somewhere in there. "Your contract dictates that you need to have two official mages chaperone you in all of your missions for the next three months."

"What!?"

His reaction gave me the exact same feeling. "Kage, it's one of the rehabilitation rules for mages going back into official guilds. It's one of the things I covered when we were going over your case."

Kageyama looked like he wanted to focus on something else. "Are you telling me that besides you, someone else has to babysit me on my first mission?"

I fought very hard to face palm after hearing that question. "Kage, we went over this, I'm not an official mage here in Fairy Tail. The contract states that you have to be chaperoned by at least two Fairy Tail mages during your three month parole period. That means, including me since I do have to report to your parole officer, two other mages will be officially joining us."

"What!? That sucks!"

"Kage, worst case was you going to jail for two years in a maximum magical penitentiary prison. You did break the rules for years before the Lullaby event. Even with Master Makarov vouching for you, your past crimes stacked up enough to put you into the low A-class punishment." I told him calmly.

The Ex-dark mage wanted to argue more, but as his mouth opened, he found he could say nothing. Instead he sighed and his posture slumped in defeat somewhat. "What does this do to my money then?"

"Well since no one informed you properly, I will remind you that you keep only 70% of the money you earn in quests and the rest goes to the guild for these three months." I placed a hand out to stop him from even opening his mouth. "And before you complain about that, it took me hours to finally convince the court to bump it up to that number when the original limit was for you to keep only 50% of your jewels."

I could hear Kage's muffled groaning after hearing that. "… Thanks." I suppose this was progress from him being annoyed with me earlier.

I looked back at the bulletin board, and noticed Nab look away from us, no doubt hearing our conversation. Then I said to Kage, "You can pick a job now. When you're done, come back to me and I'll explain more on what to do next."

I ended up walking back to the bar counter with Mirajane and Erza watching me.

"He doesn't seem as happy as you about being here." The S-Class armor mage noted with the delicacy of a politician.

I rubbed my head as I thought about it more. "In hindsight, I didn't take into account that he'd be defensive when welcomed into a guild he was previously enemies with. On one hand, I think he does want to try, but on the other, I think he is still keeping his guard up."

I felt a hand on my shoulder that made me look back at Mirajane. "You're still doing a lot for him. Don't give up. I'm sure he'll appreciate you for doing this for him."

Mira always seemed to know what to say. "Thanks boss. You're right. I didn't study to become a lawyer just so I could be thanked."

Erza seemed to catch what I had said. "You didn't do it for that? Was it because it pays a lot then?"

"What? I mean, yeah it pays a lot, but that isn't the main reason why I chose to be a lawyer." They both looked at me curiously, which signaled that I had to explain to them why I chose that job specifically. "The reason I chose that job was because—"

"Hey, I picked a quest."

My attention was caught again as I looked over to Kage coming over to me and handing me a flier he picked up. I ended up reading it out loud. "Hello, mages. I am Mayor of Telo City, Harot Boutki. Our city is a mining town located in the great Valley of Galoen. The purpose of this quest is that recently, our miners have discovered a magically sealed room that predates the time of our founding fathers. We wish to hire any mage to dispel the barrier and see if there are any traps or treasure beyond this seal. If there is a plentiful bounty, we will reward mages with an extra bonus: one treasure of their choosing depending on the quantity there. Reward: 400,000 jewels." I finished as I looked back to Kage. "This looks promising. You are allowed to keep bonuses from quest jobs."

Kage gave his first sigh that was of relief. "That's good to hear, but how do the babysitters—"

"Chaperones." I corrected quickly.

"The 'whatever you call them' work?"

At that, I turned to the red headed mage standing nearby. "Erza, are you free to chaperone Kage and me?"

The S-class mage shook her head. "Sorry, I'm only in the guild waiting for my train later this afternoon. It'll take me to another mission that will take a day or two."

"I can go." Before I had time to even wonder who to ask next, we all turned around to the voice to see Macao Conbolt walking up to us. "I've finished a few quests that'll last me a week or two, so I can come along."

"Oh thanks." Macao was more levelheaded than Natsu—who would have been my fall back option… …

I don't think it was a good idea to have him as a fall back option. "There is an incentive for mages to join the chaperone contract since their next quest without Kage will have a multiplier bonus."

The older fire mage blinked in surprise. "You serious? You mean by watching you two, I get bonus jewels on my next quest?"

I nodded. "Yeah, it's to reward mages for taking their time to assist people like Kage since all the money is being divided by him and the guild. The magic council adds a fifty percent bonus reward after your next completed quest, though you have to sign a few papers and waivers before receiving it."

"A 50 percent bonus huh?" Macao mused out loud as he rubbed his chin. It seemed like he was already imagining what he would do with that.

I noticed Mirajane behind me perk up by making a small sound and then turning towards a certain someone in the counter nearby.

"Cana, why don't you join them?"

We all turned towards the heavy drinker of the guild who looked with surprise as she pointed to herself. "Huh? Me?"

Even though there wasn't any physical change, I swore there was something different about Mira's smile at that time as she took out some kind of scroll… then let it roll on the ground as it kept unrolling itself even as it left the guild doors. "You haven't paid your tab for the past three months yet."

We all turned back to the heavy drink whose eyes were just staring at all the numbers seen on the massive bill. It seemed like she suddenly turned sober since her cheeks were no longer flushed and looked at me with a hint of desperation. "So uhhh how much was that multiplier again?"

It was kind of funny, as I and a few others laughed at her response before I repeated myself. "You get a bonus 50 percent of your next quest reward from the council on after helping out Kage's quest."

"I'm in." She said no sooner than the last word left my mouth.

I found myself smiling before I head another voice come in the same direction where Macao came from.

"I want that multiplier too!" Wakaba raised his hand as he walked right next to Macao after overhearing the conversation.

"Sorry Wakaba, while more than two chaperones can come with Kage, only two are awarded the multiplier which Macao and Cana already filled. Unless you wanna come for moral support?"

"Tch! Never mind then. I'll take the next one." The smoke mage put his hand out to show he didn't want to come along without the incentive.

"I feel so loved," I could tell Kage was being sarcastic, but I think it was best to look past that.

I ended up standing up and walking back up to him before patting him in the back. "Well get used to it, buddy. This is how it's going to go for the next three months."

However, at this point I recalled something that felt like was missing the entire time until now. "By the way, shouldn't Natsu and Lucy have comeback with the cake by now?"

*BOOM!*

There was a muffled explosion in the distance as well looked towards a wall where the sound came from. In the surrounding windows, we could see smoke rising high into the clouds.

By this point, our imaginations pointed that without Natsu in the guild, the chances of him being the cause of that event was at least 85 percent—and that was the lowest anyone could possibly go.

I sighed and turned to the shadow mage. "So when do you want to leave for the quest?"

Natsu was rather disappointed he couldn't come with us on the mission. This was mostly because he was 'grounded' for destroying a building or two because a worker treated him poorly. However, Makarov did give us a warning before we flew over with Ignis.

"The weather looks horrible." He pointed up to the sky where it was still cloudy. Actually, they looked like they were so soaked to the brim that it was a wonder why it hadn't started raining yet. "It probably isn't safe for Ignis to fly if a storm comes."

"Alright, sir, we'll just fly quickly and stay over the town if we can." I waved goodbye to him as the unlikely team consisting of me, Kageyama Maru, Cana Alberona, and Macao Conbolt flew on Ignis' back towards Telo City.

The ride itself was as uneventful as someone accidentally dressing up as a clown and going to a funeral instead of a birthday party. The reason for such a conflicting term is that during the ride, an awkward silence filled the air as Macao and Cana stayed a certain distance away from Kageyama. The shadow mage himself also kept to himself rather than try to converse with others.

After what was undoubtedly my second worst road trip, we soon arrived at the Valley of Galoen which was a lot like the Grand Canyon back in my home world with a large valley that stretched on for miles. But my surprise didn't stop there. When the map said that Telo City was in the valley, they weren't kidding. The mining city is inside a cliff where you could see hundreds of mining tracks scattered across the city. I even spotted people using mining carts like trams to move around from place to place.

"Never been here before," Kageyama said as we started to look for a place to land. No doubt some people were looking up at awe seeing a wyvern flying by their place. "I have heard of it though."

"First time seeing and hearing a place like this, but I guess we'll just have to land somewhere near the outskirts of the cliff." No sooner than I said this, I felt water droplets on my skin followed by a distant sound of thunder. "Good timing too, a storm's about to come in."

It didn't take us long to get to the mayor and have him lead us down into the mines we were asked to inspect. After a fun ride through a mine cart that stroked my inner six-year-old's love for roller coasters, we were lead down a path illuminated by small magical light until we eventually came across to the end of a cave where a door with special runes surrounding it was seen.

Mr. Harot Boutki, a mayor and head miner of the expedition motioned to the door in question. "Here is where we found the door. There's a magic barrier preventing us from even getting close to it." He picked up a rock and tossed it towards the direction of the door.

The stone was instantly repelled by a yellow barrier and sent the stone flying in the opposite direction.

Kage glanced back at the door with a look of confusion on his face. "Huh. Give me a second." At the mention of that, his shadow started moving towards the barrier and it split into a dozen shadowy limbs.

After placing a few runic symbols I didn't recognize, the barrier disappeared and Kage started walking towards the door.

I blinked in surprise when I saw him pass through the area where the force field should have acted up. "That was a lot faster than I thought it would be." My only reference for how de-spelling even worked was when Erza told me that it took Kage three days to undo Lullaby's seal.

"It was a lot faster because it wasn't a seal, it was a lock." The shadow mage pointed to some of the runes above the door. "The runes you see here are old, but they look similar to protective spells you put on storage rather than some big secret."

As soon as he said this, he grabbed the door knob and pushed open the door. Lights from inside opened up that looked different than the ones outside and as Kage stepped in, we all followed after him.

He put his hands in his pocket before pointing to what looked to be a giant, old storage room. "It wasn't some seal made by ancient mages, I recognize the design as something like a simple safe lock that's old and hasn't been used as much due to more efficient barriers coming up nowadays. I guess whoever made this was just using this room a storage room that was forgotten over time."

"Oh." The mayor looked a little disappointed after hearing that and looking at the room. "That is significantly more mundane than I thought it would be. And here I thought there might be some grand adventure behind this door or like a secret artifact." He sighed before looking to Kageyama. "But a deal is a deal, you will get your money."

While he was talking, I took the liberty to step in and take a closer look at a nearby vase with a nice design pattern. The artistic design of it tickled my mind and when the mayor finished his sentence, I realized what I was looking at.

"Whoa! Wait a second! I recognize these patterns!" I screamed out loud as I went deeper into the room. I stopped in front of a box that seemed half opened and pushed its cover to the side delicately. Inside the box was a large amount of colorful, patterned clothing that seemed similar to old Aztec designs back in my world.

"Guys, do you know what this is?!" I turned excitedly to everyone only for them to stare at me oddly.

"A bunch of old stuff?" Kageyama answered in the form of a question.

I rolled my eyes before taking a piece of cloth, finding out they seemed to be in pristine condition. "These items are from the Goralidan Nomad Tribes from X550's! I remembered studying their history in that that the traveled all around Ishgar in what they perceived as a Holy Pilgrimage for their patron gods. They left goods in random caves as marks so their dead loved ones and ancestors could follow their path after them." I only knew all of this because of a history book Levy let me borrow and how she told me how fascinating these people were. I have got to thank her for teaching me a crash course in this.

I eventually looked to see an elaborate staff and handed it over to the mayor. "I'm not an archeologist, but even I could tell that if you sell Goralidan artifacts to a museum or a Smithsonian of any kind, you'll probably get millions, if not more in jewels!"

At the mention of that, everyone looked around. "Are you serious?!" Macao was the first to ask as he looked around.

"Well, I could be wrong since I just studied that recently. But stuff kept this pristine from around two hundred years ago still should be worth a pretty jewel." Not as catchy as 'pretty penny', but they don't exist here.

"Whooo! Hoo! I hit the jack pot!" Harot Boutki, the mayor of Telo city jumped for joy.

"Ehm!" I coughed, stopping him instantly. "I do remember your reward also including the takers treasure if they found a lot. My good sir, there are a lot."

"Uhhhhh." That's a lovely look on his face as he glanced quickly at the four of us.

I tapped his shoulder. "Don't worry sir: we'll only take one each. I've taken a liking to one of those shepherd staves in the back. But as for everyone else here, take one. Make sure that pick counts."

Don't jinx yourself. Don't jinx yourself. For the love of all that is good, evil, and ambiguously neutral, do not jinx yourself until we are back in the guild!

"You know this was a pretty easy mission."

Dammit!

I quickly turned to the only fire mage among us. "Really, Macao, really?! You just jinxed us!"

The older mage looked at me weirdly while carrying an elaborate mask. "You don't actually believe that, do you?"

I glared harder.

"O-Okay, maybe I should have paid more attention to who I was saying that too." He rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"Yeesh, you fairies get worked up over the littlest things." Kage nonchalantly started using his hand shadows to toss around a vase.

I instantly saw both Cana and Macao frown when looking back at Kage walking ahead. To stop whatever he was trying to start, I quickly responded.

"Kage, don't be the guy that grows up all alone with a dozen or more cats," After channeling my favorite crime/comedy series, Psych. Everyone looked at me in a bizarre manner of which I took advantage off to tell Kage what I wanted to say, "I can understand that being with people you don't know can be a challenge."

"You broke my nose."

"After you tried to kill me and confused my injured body as a soccer ball. I'm sure I'm the lesser evil here, but that is not the point." I fired back before pointing towards the storm still raging on outside the valley. "The fact it's still raining means that we can't leave even with the job done. We need to find an inn we can all borrow for the night."

I wasn't aware that everyone was looking at where I was pointing. This little fact might have not meant much, but for Kage, he was walking past a corner since he was in front of us.

Because of this, he bumped into someone around the corner, making him lose hold of the vase, which I instantly dove for and caught.

"Good catch." Kage looked to me with relief before looking over to who he bumped to with anger. "Watch where you're…"

I looked up at him as I heard all anger in his voice die instantly. In front of us was a beautiful woman with black hair and wearing exotic clothes who seemed knocked down by bumping into Kage.

"…you're… are you alright miss?" Uhh what? Do you not see me on the floor too? Kage? I think I slid into a jagged rock?

"Éclair! Are you alright?" A cartoonish talking bird flew over to the fallen girl.

The woman named Éclair opened her eyes, got up, and then glared at Kage with utter spite. She then walked away as if not even meeting with us. The cartoon bird, whose head made up sixty percent of his entire body, which was somehow flying with very tiny wings smaller than his legs, flew after her after apologizing to us.

…

So when I first met Kage, he kicked my ass for nearly no reason. But when he met a pretty girl, the guy suddenly asks her if she's alright from a bump?! I know people are always complaining girls get all the bad things happen to them. But in all seriousness, I think the world screws with everyone regardless of gender, race, and how much of an asshole they are.

"What?" Kage asked as he seemed to have caught me glaring at him.

However, since I knew I was now glaring, I chose not to relent in it.

"Let's just go." Those were the three words that came out that did not represent at all what I wanted to say.

"Éclair that was rude. You bumped into him too." The flying yellow bird said to the still fuming woman as she walked at a fast pace.

"I saw his past. He was a despicable man." She practically spat at the memory. For a very long time, she had this ability that wasn't magic, but could see into people's pasts. Seeing a criminal like him made her skin crawl.

"He didn't seem that bad to me."

"It doesn't matter. As soon as the storm is gone, we're leaving the city." The raven haired woman suddenly stopped as she looked towards an alleyway. She could have sworn she saw a shadow move in there. "Actually… we should leave now."

"But there's a storm!"

"Momon, we need to leave, now." Éclair wasted no time after saying this and started walking much faster.

The small bird tried to follow. However, the raven haired girl noticed in the distance, among people and carts moving around. There was a cloaked figure waiting in front of her path standing as if no one noticed this person existed. The woman quickly clicked her tongue and turned back, trying another escape, but saw another cloaked figure that seemed eerily unnoticed.

"What's wrong, Éclair?" Momon, the birdy seemed worried towards his friend. "I thought we were trying to leave?"

At hearing the tone of her friend's voice, the woman turned to see that her companion was indeed more confused than worried in this situation. "Momon, don't you see them?"

The bird tilted his funny shaped head. "See who?"

At hearing such honest and simple words, the woman stared in a frozen state. She slowly turned to see the figures start walking… away from her, but never facing away from her presence.

She looked around, seeing more and more figures staring from all around her, on the roof, passing by the mines, standing right behind windows, but still no one else seemed to notice them.

No one but her.

It was then that not one, but all of them slowly lifted their hand and pointed at her. "SazaKnuk B'harim."

"What did you just say?" I turned back to Kage from the desk I was borrowing in the inn.

We had found an in that had two free room with twin beds. Seeing there were four of us, I offered to stay with Kageyama while Cana and Macao shared a room. While it was still raining outside hard, and while I was a bit worried for Ignis sleeping outside a cave in the outskirts of the city, the room itself had all the necessities needed so I wasn't really worried.

In fact, I just went straight to work by taking out a bag carrying a lot of the recent files Makarov wanted me to look at and starting a case file for all of them while just using the desk in the room.

However, Kage seemed a bit off when he and I were in the room together. While I was writing, he asked me something I half missed.

I removed the speed reading glasses as he sat up from his bed and repeated what he said, "I said that I don't get you."

Needless to say I needed more context than that.

Kageyama pointed to me. "What is your angle in all of this? Why did you go out of your way to help me more than other people? No one would go so far as to help someone who's been labeled as a criminal without anything in return! What? Are you trying to prove something to your friends? Is that it?!"

I stared at Kage because of the outburst. He was still confused as to why I was helping him?

Wait, I never told him why I helped him, did I?

The shadow mage pointed to me. "Listen, I don't know what your game is but don't you… don't you… what the hell is going on with the rain?"

I wasn't expecting a sudden topic about the weather after something obviously so personal, but the sheer oddity of it made me look back and stare at the rain through the window—wait.

Rain doesn't pour upward.

"Shit," I muttered as I fixed my papers and stuffed them back into a bag pack I was using. I then looked to Kageyama as I slug it over my back. "Kage, we can discuss whatever it was you were trying to point out later, but right now? I have a bad feeling that needs us to go."

I got out of the room quickly then proceeded to knock on Macao and Cana's room.

Well okay, I knocked like once before opening the door since it wasn't locked.

"Macao, get up!" I yelled.

The older mage sat up from his bed with a sudden jerk. He looked up at me then rubbed his eyes because of the light returning to the room. "Kain, what the—"

There was no time for this. "Macao, the rain is falling upward." I quickly interrupted him.

The older fire mage seemed to pause as he heard those words I just said. He gave me a look of confusion, but realized I was being dead serious. "Wait, is this why you told me it was a bad thing to say it was easy awhile ago?"

Oh right. That. "Don't remind me. Where's Cana?" Her bed was obviously empty, so she wasn't here.

"My guess is the bar inn."

"Get dressed up and meet me down stairs, also, look out the window and stare at the rain. While it is unlikely, I really hope this is done by a storm or water mage just messing around." I didn't wait for him as I started walking down to the first floor.

When the three of us got down, we had found Cana… just not in the bar like we thought.

She was in the lobby staring at the bar from the outside and she looked—let's go with "irritable".

"Cana." When she turned to me after I called her, the look on her face didn't even seem to let up.

Seeing time of the essence, and with how there was a growing nausea in my belly the longer this went, I cut to the chase. "We need your help. The rain is falling upward."

Instead of believing me, she actually seemed even more pissed and pointed to me. "The hell, Kain!? I haven't even paid my tab back in Fairy Tail, but you've been drinking behind my back!? That's bullshit!"

Any other day, I probably would have shown more care, but this horrible feeling in my stomach just kept getting worse and worse as time went on by. "Cana, the rain is falling upward."

While she was distressed, she was still sober. When she noticed I was dead serious about something so nonsensical, she looked outside a window. A second later, she soon realized that I was right.

"Well shit, you're serious." At that, she sighed and stood up from her seat. "This would have made so much more sense if I wasn't sober."

Soon we all left outside the inn to inspect the rain closer to the edge of the cliff.

"Well damn, the rain is falling upward. Should it be doing that?" Cana asked as we all watched rain fall in the opposite direction of gravity.

"I was half expecting all of you to tell me upside-down rain to be normal here. Is it?" I looked to all three mages who each said their own variation of no to me. "Okay, how crazy would it sound that I think I have an idea of what this is?"

"The water mage theory?" Kage asked. "Because if this is his idea of a joke, it's creeping me out."

"No," I only something like this before in a different series. "I saw something like this in a different fantasy story." It was from the Sci-fi show, Doctor Who. It described one episode about how an entire hospital had rain going up instead of down before teleporting the entire building and people in it to the moon. But I have no time at all to tell them the truth. "Long story short, the rain flying up meant that a powerful teleportation spell was about to activate and mass warp a lot of people."

"Wait what?! Can magic even do that?!" Macao asked with obvious disbelief.

However, no sooner than he said that, large symbols appeared at the edge of town, circling around the entire city and trapped the area in a barrier that glowed white.

I looked beyond the barrier to see Ignis roaring and trying to make a break for us, but before he could reach the edge of the ring, a bright light enveloped us—

My last words before the light swallowed us went along the lines, "Dammit, Macao, stop jinxing us!"

{Author Notes}

And so we begin the very first original saga! I have a bunch planned for this one that takes place before the Phantom Lord saga. I do hope you all enjoy it.

Kain is now paired with an unlikely group consisting of Macao, Cana, and Kageyama instead of the usual A-team.

Can this ragtag group handle future dangers that await them!?

No.

They can't.

*Evil smile* But it'll be fun to watch them squirm.

Anyway, for those of you have noticed the inclusion of Éclair from the first Fairy Tail movie, I kind of liked her design. She was really beautiful and I thought her being an immortal had a lot of potential in this story than more than usual. So she's crossing paths with Fairy Tail sooner than expected. I may have tweaked things a bit, since the pre movie manga suggested Momon, the bird that follows her around, was made after the 7-year skip, but I think it's vague enough for me to overlook here.

What this means for the actual movie though? Well…. that's really far down the line when I get to the seven year skip part. I'm not sure I'll even do it, but I do have at least the ending of this story already planned out somewhat even if it's a little vague. ( I heard from sources that Mishima didn't even know how to end Fairy Tail. Though in his defense, it was implied that he really wasn't expecting it to last as long as it did which does explain a quality drop as the series went on. Yet it also implies that he had some things that potentially wouldn't be answered, but hey. Plot holes aside, I did enjoy Fairy Tail. And I'm glad he helped make it. I'm not going to hate him for making questionable story decisions.)

Rant aside, thanks for reading and thank you all for supporting this story!