I half expected to be on the moon. In Doctor Who, the flash of light meant that they were transported into the moon. Though, in all fairness, I wouldn't be surprised if we did end up on the moon in some later adventure just to spite me.

But in Fairy Tail's world, after the light died down, I found myself waking up on a grassy plain again.

Wait, no. This isn't a forest. It's a jungle that is eerily quiet. And it's also nighttime, so there's more than likely something hiding behind the shadows. I don't like those facts adding up together.

Still, without everyone, I'm not going to get anything done. I better start looking.

"Guys!?" I yelled out, seeing that there was no sign of the others around me.

However, I suddenly felt a stinging pain on my right wrist, and I looked down to see the Wyvern Knight Morpher cackling with green electricity before coming to a stop.

Half of me wanted to see if I could still use it, but the other half was suspicious about how it was on the fritz just a few seconds ago.

It was then that I noticed smoke in the air and followed it towards…

Another bloody volcano.

I'm on another volcano/tropical island, aren't I? After getting over my odyssey in trying to get back to Fairy Tail some time ago, I get bloody sent back to another bloody stupid, asinine volcano island?!

What then comes out of my mouth in the next few seconds will never be repeated. But in a fit of rage, I did hit a tree nearby. That was a mistake.

*Crack!*

Ow. Ow! Ow! That was a bad idea to do while I was angry. Huh? Did I crack a tree in anger? Can I do that now? I guess The Morpher is giving me a boost in physical strength, but not by much. I'm not going to complain if this will help me out in the long run.

Hold on a second, the tree I punched, there's some kind of weird symbol on it. I'm guessing it's a magic rune or something, but I've never seen something like it before. Whatever it is, it's giving me a bad vibe.

Speaking of bad vibes, I really hope the others aren't dying right now. I still haven't even found any… one…

Huh? I think I hear something.

After a second, I realize I lost whatever it was I thought I heard. If only there was a way I could have sharp senses like Natsu, then maybe I could…

Wait.

I looked at my Morpher then sighed. I always did want to be a Power Ranger when I was a toddler. But there's a chance that using this alternate universe Morpher will increase my bad luck and potentially make me crazier with each use. Hopefully, my opponents are less likely to be campy and over-top enemies with dangerous and bizarre powers.

Oh. I forgot I lived in an Anime world for a few seconds.

Let me focus: my superweapon, while it does have disadvantages, does have much sharper senses than I normally do. And considering I need to find people quickly, somehow avoid things in the dark, and potentially avoid dangers…

I activated the device on my arms, and in a flash of light, I felt the armor surrounding me, increasing my senses. It also gave me an overwhelming rush of what I could only describe as adrenaline. It could be addictive to keep doing this, so I'll have to keep an eye on myself.

The armor increased my senses tenfold. I could hear the sounds of countless footsteps moving around me, and I could clearly—ow—hear voices around me calling out for their friends and family. I needed a way to somehow focus everything I'm hearing, and soon… I think I was able to filter the voices shouting out.

The closest one I could recognize was Macao, who seemed to be shouting out my name. I didn't hesitate to move towards the voice. However, as I did, my heightened senses heard footsteps coming from a direction that wasn't in the same place as Macao's voice.

I hid behind a tree as two confused people wearing the same clothes from Telo City walked out.

"Carel, Josiah! Where are you guys!?" A female with short brown hair cried out loud.

"Mua, are you sure you heard them?" The male with spiky blonde hair asked his compatriot.

"It had to be them, Gez. They're the mages among us, so this has to be one of their pranks!"

"I'm fairly certain this is beyond anything the two can do." The man responded.

Seeing as it was just townsfolk, I relaxed.

I was about to walk up to them when I felt my whole body freeze at the presence of something else.

Fear had frozen my body as the instincts of what must have been the armor kicked in. All my honed senses looked beyond the two civilians, sensing someone running towards them with uncanny speed and urgency. Was this the presence of what brought us here? Some powerful, malevolent force that was about to unleash hell upon those two unsuspecting people?

I-I must save them if that was the case, but my body! No matter how much I wanted to move, I was frozen with fear as out of the bushes came—

"Hail and well met, my good friends!"

A guy with a smile that was as bright as his clothes were dark and gothic.

What the hell? Was my armor afraid of this guy? He looked pretty chipper despite how dark his tie and chalk-striped suit was. He was carrying two swords with him, but he just didn't seem as threatening as I thought.

"Catch!" I stared with fascination as the man with dark hair that was swept back tossed one of his bejeweled blades at the man. After a surprising catch, the jolly man giddily pulled out his other sword. "En grade, you magnificent bastard!"

I stared in awe as he suddenly attacked the man, who was then forced to unsheathe his blade and parry against his opponent. The girl screamed back as the two started dueling. I have been training with Erza for a week, but I could tell the civilian was a complete newbie with the blade. It was a fencing rapier, and he was trying to use it as a broad sword. Yet the gothic man didn't seem bothered, and he had excellent fencing form. In one beautiful parry, he stepped forward and stopped his fencing blade right at the person's neck.

"Well done! A bit unsteady, but a good strong grip! That may or may not help you in your love life." In one fluid motion, he retracted his blade and pulled the sword away from him. As he walked back, he picked up the sword the civilian discarded on the ground when he attacked and dusted it off.

"W-Who the hell are you!?" The woman pointed at him in utter shock.

The jolly but dark-clothed man turned on his heel. "Why Moi? I am Gomez Bison, a lover, and fighter! Alas, I'd love to talk to you more old sport, but my boss is already in quite the pickle with someone messing with his mass teleportation."

His boss? Wait, he's part of the reason why we're here!? But then that means those two are…!

In the stupor of the other two, I saw him take something out of the inside pockets of his suit, revealing two small green cylinders. "Now it's nothing personal. Perhaps we can one day have a grand duel!"

He threw the cylinders at the two civilians. As they flew, they opened up in half and flashed a green light on them and suddenly sucked them into the cylinders like Pokémon Balls. The cylinders flew back to Gomez Bison.

I can't believe that I just watched him capture those two! Why didn't I move!?

Was I really that afraid? Dang, it! Is my armor actually amplifying my fear!? What good is it then!?

There was another rustling sound as Macao, of all people, ran into Gomez's view.

"Ahh! Well met, traveler! Would you like to sword fight?" The man called out.

"Wait what? Are you the one that just screamed?" The older mage asked as he viewed the rather chipper man.

Gomez bowed politely. "No no, it was two people a while ago. Now, if you will do me the favor of quietly getting into this capsule here, my job will go much easier."

The older mage seemed confused. "Get into a capsule? What the heck are you on about?"

Suddenly the idea of Macao being captured snapped me out of my stupor as I forsook all caution and stepped out of my hiding spot. "Macao, those capsules can capture people! They're the reason why we're here!"

The gothic-dressed man blinked as he looked at me with surprise. "Blimey, how'd I miss someone wearing all that bright red here?"

"Wait, you're the reason why you mass teleported the town?! What's your purpose for doing that? Tell us now!" Macao started as he lit his flames read for a fight.

"Mages then?" Gomez seemed calm even though he was facing Macao with fire gathering around him. "That means I do have to get rough." He absentmindedly stated.

"Fine, you're not going to tell us?" I do not like how he said that. I especially dislike how his magical circles were humming at a much higher frequency. "Purple Rain!"

I felt my jaw slack when Macao called out an attack at the guy when we bloody didn't know anything about this man's abilities!

My inner cynicism was confirmed when the fencer took out his blades and stabbed every flame burst at uncanny speed, making him untouched.

"W-What?!" The older mage looked on with surprise to see all of his bolts of fire be knocked away by the man.

I cupped my hands and got into the open plain. "Macao, of course, he's powerful! He's with a group that somehow captured an entire town without anyone noticing. Why did you think a simple attack would work on him!?"

Gomez seemed to turn to me with a smile. "That is a wonderful thought. Why is it that you're the first one to say something so simple sounding when almost no one has ever done that in the past 100 years?"

Wait, what number of years did he just say?

"Unfortunately, our boss is in a—how you say—bad mood. So I must defeat you both right now." In one instant, both of the swords disappeared from Gomez's hands, and out appeared a green whip. As he pulled his hand back, the whip he held started coming to life.

"Is that re-equip magic?!" Macao yelled before he turned towards me. "Kain, dodge! It's heading for…"

I got what he was saying as I avoided the whip—

*Boom!*

I wasn't expecting the edge of the whip to explode into the ground I was standing on! I almost fell face-first into the ground until I felt my body move faster than I could think, making me land on my two feet even if it wasn't steady.

I turned around, seeing Gomez already aiming his whip at Macao and unleashing it at him. Unlike me, Macao was more prepared and jumped away fast enough to avoid being caught by the shockwave from Gomez's exploding whip. While mid-air and in one fluid movement after avoiding the weapon, Macao threw his own fire whip right for the dark-clothed man.

The fencer didn't hesitate to jump high into the moonlight sky, then a flash of light surrounded his whip as he then replaced it with a light blue gun. I was too stunned to stop him from firing it and hitting the ground just beneath Macao, turning it into ice.

Without friction, Macao instantly lost his balance and fell straight to the floor. However, I heard another magical hum as I looked back up to see that the freeze ray was now replaced with a Rocket Launcher aimed right at the fallen fire mage.

"Au revoir!" He cried out as the missile flew right for the older man.

I quickly started to move. With every ounce of strength I had I ran towards Macao, slid on the ice, and grabbed him as I was still moving from the speed of my slide. Behind us, the shockwave of the exploding weapon threw us even further and made us come back into the air. However, this time I landed on my feet and started running, carrying Macao's weight easily with the power the armor was giving me, and didn't hesitate to run away from Gomez.

After a few minutes of randomly running, I stopped nearby what looked to be a cave and dropped Macao nearby a stone.

"Hrk! T-That was unpleasant. I-I think I finally understand what Natsu feels like." Macao coughed somewhat before looking at me. "Why the hell did you get us out of there?"

I deactivated the armor by will as I turned back to the older man. "He said Boss, Macao, I'm more than willing to bet that he had associates coming up to run and back him up if the battle went on, and in a dragged-out battle where he has home advantage and we have no idea where the others were? That wasn't a favorable fight and it wasn't best if we kept fighting and potentially reveal more of our abilities than we already did."

The purple-haired man looked at me before sighing. "Crud that's a good point. So what's our next move?"

"Getting the others and finding what the heck is going on." I looked up to the sky then looked back down to Macao. "Hey, do you by any chance have constellations in this world?"

He blinked at my question. "Uh yeah. They're all also the same as Lucy's spirits. Each spirit she has is based on a major constellation in the sky and there's around twelve of them."

I was surprised about Lucy's constellations actually being similar to my world, but that was not the point I was going for. "Do you know which one is pointing north? Maybe we could find some way to figure out where we are if we looked them up."

"Oh! That's a good idea!" As soon as he heard it he stood up and started looking at the clear night sky.

I saw him point a hand towards a bright start to our right. "That's the formation of Leo!" I was about to respond to that until I noticed he retracted his hand back a bit. "Errr, I think?"

His question made me question him. "What?"

"Okay, it's been a while since I've studied astrology and most of that was when I was a kid, so…"

Not this again. "Are you telling me you don't recognize any of them?"

"H-Hey! It's been a long time alright!?"

Fighting the urge to sigh, I shook my head. "Well, plan A is still in place. Let's find Cana and Kageyama. Then somehow figure out how to either get out of here or save everyone then get out of here."

"Did you guys say, finding someone?"

Macao and I tensed as we looked back into the cave. However, my brain registered after instinct that the voice that said this was small, scared, and familiar?

From behind a rock, a familiar yellow bird wearing a light blue vest stepped out. "You're those mages we met earlier today, aren't you?"

"Hey, you're that bird that was following that lady Kage bumped into," Macao responded before I ended up walking to the little guy.

I kneeled and tried to give him a small smile. "Don't worry, we won't hurt you. Are you looking for your friend?" He seemed close to that girl Kage fancied, so I'm guessing he was separated from her when the mass warp happened.

The small bird nodded as he started to fly again. "Yeah, her name is Éclair. I, Momon, am sworn to protect her!"

"That's very noble of you." Macao gave a warm smile at the declaration. "Do you have any way to find her though?"

The bird lowered his head as he heard that. "No. I don't."

Man, it feels like I just watched someone kick a puppy. "Hey don't feel bad. We're looking for our friends too, but we're trying to be careful because the guys here are capturing everyone that was warped into the town."

"Why are they doing that?"

"That," I paused for a second in response to Momon's simple question, "is a good question; one that I don't know as well. I do have a suspicion it isn't good if they have enough magic to kidnap an entire city against their will."

"We probably could have asked that guy who attacked us." I turned back over to Macao after he said that. "I still think we could have beaten him and have him answer our questions."

I decided to think about that a little more. Gomez did seem like the type to explain something if one asked him. But then again, "Maybe you could have, but I'm still new at fighting. I don't really want to risk him potentially abusing a weakness in our teamwork or because like I said: this is their home turf. We know nothing but he does."

"Those are good points, but no point arguing about what already happened. How do we find Cana and Kageyama?"

I opened my mouth—

*BOOM!*

Then closed it as another explosion came from behind me some distance away.

"How much you want to bet that's someone we know?"

"It's fifty/fifty in either way, but I have a strong feeling it's Cana," I responded to Macao.

The older mage's eyes widened. "Hey wait. Cana has card fortune magic which might help us pinpoint where Momon's friend is too if she's here."

I didn't know that. "She can do that? Then the more we have to help if it is her."

The three of us wasted no time running straight for the explosion.

Kageyama currently was annoyed. What the heck kind of magic needed to take everyone in town? Not only that, he was separated from Fairy Tail. Instead of feeling good, he felt conflicted. On one hand, it was obvious that the only one who liked him was Kain along with maybe the fire guy he fought back during the Lullaby incident. But at the same time, there was just something about Kain that rubbed him the wrong way. Why go so far as to help him? There had to be some kind of angle that he was working so damn hard for him.

There was a rustle from the bushes that snapped Kageyama out of his thoughts. Instinctively, he activated his shadow magic which was made even stronger due to the fact it was night.

"Think you can sneak up on me!?" He yelled as several tendril shadows raced passed the bush.

"KYA!"

And then Kageyama blinked when he heard a feminine but familiar voice coming from the bush. His shadows pulled in their target—revealing it to be that beautiful woman he bumped into earlier that day. As of right now, his shadows were constricting her and for some dammed reason it looked strangely stimulating.

Kage let go of her, flushed, and yelped… in the opposite order of which was told. Éclair shrieked again before falling to the ground.

"I-I am sorry miss!" Kage nervously said as he tried to help her, only to have a hand thrown out in the form of a stop sign and with an icy and cruel glare sent his way.

"Stay away from me, mage."

"Hey, I'm not here to harm you. I promise!" Kage tried to say to the woman.

"The same for me. However, I do ask that you come with me peacefully."

The two suddenly turned to the sound of the voice. To their surprise, a tall man was wearing royal blue armor with gold symbols of a griffon in the center of his chest plate. Beneath the armor, he was wearing chainmail that covered every part of his body except his face which was covered by a faceplate. He carried a large spear beside him that seemed to be made of pure gold.

"Who the heck are you!?" Kage turned to the armored man. Inside his mind, he was panicking. He heard Éclair, but not this giant man wearing brightly colored armor walking up to them right now!?

"It is rude to demand a name when you did not introduce your own." The knight stepped forward.

Kage saw his moment strike as over a dozen shadows launched themselves as spikes towards the ornate warrior.

*SlashSlashSlashSlashSlashSlashSlash*

The two stared as they suddenly saw all the shadows Kageyama launched were cut into shreds before they even reached into arm's distance of the ornate warrior.

"I'm waiting for your name, young man." The knight spoke out as if Kage's attack didn't even register to him.

"W-What the!?" Kage blinked in shock before summoning a magic circle in his hand and slamming it into the ground. As he did, a giant shadow fist came out from behind him and towered over the blue and gold warrior. "Shadow's Fist!"

As soon as he called out the attack, the large fist came barreling down on the decorated fighter. However, the enemy was still showing no signs of being disturbed by this.

It was then that the warrior simply raised a hand and then stopped the giant fist. It wasn't that it was weak—no. The moment the fist was stopped, a shockwave blew from the impact, signaling that the attack was indeed strong; it's just that the one standing other the spell was in a league far beyond him.

"W-Who the hell are you!?" Kageyama began to sweat at a man who easily threw aside one of his more powerful spells.

A sigh escaped the man before he put pressure into his hand, causing the fist to crack with light before shattering into pieces. While Kage and Éclair stared with stunned awe, the man introduced himself. "My name is Horus Anhur."

That name did not ring alarm bells, they blared sirens throughout every fiber of his being. "Horus Anhur!? As in, the strongest mage in the age of The Gathering War? History's first Wizard Saint!? Impossible! He's been dead for centuries!"

"You're not wrong on that." The man spoke up as he took a step forward. "I've had other people react strangely when I ask this question: but what do you know of Necromancy?"

Hearing the word not only made Kage freeze, but it even made a mage hater like Éclair gasp in shock. "N-Necromancy? That magic is a myth! Legends says that even Zeref himself found the art of reviving the dead as an insult to nature itself!"

The knight planted his spear into the ground and slowly removed his faceplate.

Kage and Éclair could only stare with unmoving horror as behind the faceplate was a pale, rotting, green-skinned corpse of a man's face.

"Insult to nature aside, it's annoying to have your nose sewed to your face now and then." The crusader casually said as he put his helmet back on. "I mean. It still works even when it falls off, but then it just seems wrong to not have it on my face."

"Y-You're… you're a zombie!" Kage pointed at the crusader with horror.

The zombie in question had a much more muted response than the two in front of him. "Ah yes. That is the same reaction as most. But I digress my boss is in a sour mood and I really should be hurrying."

Before the two could move, they suddenly felt their world go dark. The ornate man had already knocked them both out cold.

"Hmm, I think this is the immortal he was aiming for," Horus said as he looked at the unconscious girl. As he looked at her, he couldn't help but feel pity. "Strange. Why can I sense such sorrow in her?"

"AAAUGH!?" Cards scattered as Cana crashed into a large rock. The heavy drinker heaved as she fell on her knees and looked up at her opponent.

"I apologize profusely for hurting you, milady. However, it is my sworn duty to obey my lord's orders even if they are against my chivalrous nature!"

A high-pitched and confused sounding whine came from below the proud man. "Arf?"

The man dropped his stance as he rolled his eyes. "Yes, Audolf, I am still a chivalrous knight!"

"Bark!"

"W-What!? That's not fair; Sir Anhur was buried with his war armor, I wasn't! You know why I wear these modern clothes since I have nothing left!"

"Bark! Bark!"

"Him!? More chivalrous than I?! The man cheats at poker; he doesn't clean up after he eats; HE NEVER WASHES HIS HANDS AFTER THE TOILET WHICH IS ESPECIALLY WORSE BECAUSE HIS SKIN IS EVERYWHERE!"

"Arf."

"Audolf that was uncalled for!"

During the little back and forth, Cana had gotten back up and magically gathered her cards back. "You bastard. Who the hell are you?"

She was looking towards the red shaggy-haired, handsome adult man with blue eyes wearing jeans, a red T-shirt, and a black zipper hoodie with red sneakers. Strangely enough, she imagined Kain wearing something like that instead of Gray's hand-me-down clothes. But then she turned her attention to the stupid, shaggy, and Old English Sheep Dog.

Yes, a sheepdog, those large dogs that can be confused as a giant mop without the stick. This shaggy bastard somehow deflected her attacks back at her!

"A yes, introductions! I am Sir Jeremiah Archibald the Seventh and this is my most trusted companion, the Celestial Spirit: The Shepherd, Audolf!"

"That dog is a celestial spirit?" To Cana that did make some sense her. "Wait, I've never seen a spirit that looked so normal." It really looked like a regular dog compared to when she had heard and seen Lucy's spirits.

"That is the strange thing. I've been alive for a while—" Cana had caught that strange phrase before he continued "—and no one seems to have heard of these types of spirits." Jeremiah fished his jacket and brought out a bronze celestial gate key. "A bronze key, have you seen one?"

"There are bronze keys? Wouldn't they be lower than silver or gold?"

"They are. And when they came out, apparently they used more magic than a silver key and a gold key did. … I can see now why they fell out of fashion in this age." As he said this, Jeremiah turned towards his key and sighed deeply at it. "Shame. I've grown quite fond of mine."

Cana raised her brow. "In this age? Alive?" Those words made no sense to her.

"Sorry, milady, but I have no time for this. My lord is usually a kind man, but the stress of recent times has gotten to him and you must be brought to the temple."

"Temple? Dammit all, this shit made more sense when I was drunk!" Cana snapped when she quickly drew a dozen cards for each of her hands and threw them at all her opponents.

The sheepdog jumped in and started glowing, making his hair fly in all directions before suddenly, all cards were sent back right at her. However, Cana remained calm as she suddenly ducked and rolled to avoid the cards piercing through her like they did the rock behind her.

The brunette sighed as she took a hair tie from her pocket. "I knew something was off when the dog first reflected my attacks. You doubled the speed and power when you returned them, didn't you?" She said as she tied her hair up into a ponytail.

"And you used a weaker attack to test the strength of Audolf's reflect magic. Clever." Jeremiah stepped forward and his eyes turned black. "But you haven't seen my magic yet."

He pushed his right hand out and black light gathered in his palm. "Twisted light; form a blade to help this fight." In a powerful burst, a glowing black blade appeared in Jeremiah's right hand before he threw out his left hand. "The twilight I wield, form an unbreakable shield!" and on his left hand, a large tower shield appeared for him to wield.

Cana whistled even though sweat was starting to pour down her head. "Rhyming incantations? Talk about old school."

"Well then, milady," Jeremiah and his dog took a fighting stance that made Cana go into one as well with her cards ready. "It's time to show the newer generation some old tricks."

The heavy drinker grunted before throwing another card. Instead of at her opponents where the dog could reflect her spells at her, she threw it in the ground right in front of them before jumping back.

Audolf barked as he noticed water spewing out of the card before Jeremiah used his shield to protect his canine companion.

While still mid-air, Cana threw another card—one with a thunder symbol on it—that hit the water and unleashed a powerful shock. However, the shield created a barrier that prevented the electricity from harming the duo from Cana's combined attack.

As the electricity died down, Jeremiah threw his right arm with his sword back. "Shield and blade must be used as one!" He threw the sword at the brunette who side-stepped the blade and watched it fly past her before looking back—and seeing the man had disappeared.

"Warp me from one to the other so my enemy may be undone!" The card user paled when she heard that voice behind her. She turned around to see Jeremiah had teleported to where the sword was thrown and was now pointing an empty palm right in her face.

"This is your last, Twilight Blast!" Black light appeared in Jeremiah's hands before exploding at Cana at point-blank.

Cana's unconscious body flew from the direct hit. However, a giant purple hand created out of fire shot out and caught her, softening her landing greatly.

Jeremiah and Audolf looked over to see two men, one young and one older come in with a flying yellow bird.

"Cana! Are you alright!?" Macao cried out as he ran over to the girl who was gently placed down into the ground.

"Ahh," Jeremiah summoned back his weapons with the same incantation before looking towards Macao and Kain. "So you two must be her allies then considering I spot the same guild mage symbols on you."

"And you must be with Gomez Bison," Kain responded.

Jeremiah's face suddenly dropped as his eyes widened. "Gomez let you go? He knows now is not a good time to disobey our lord! Now I have to pick up his slack."

"What!? Hey! I did not let them go!" Macao, Momon, and Kain turned back to see Gomez Bison, appearing behind some trees as he ran in. "They all skedaddled and it took me a while before I finally caught up!"

Kain and the others tensed. One of their opponents was strong enough to take on the stronger mage of the group. Now? They had two people to protect while they had to deal with powerful mages they had no idea how to handle.

"Well then, it's best if we finish our job then!" Jeremiah cried jumped to the sky. "Magic at my disposal can maim, I summon Twilight Rain!" A magical circle appeared in front of the redhead as bolts of black light went straight for Fairy Tail.

"Macao, Momon, duck for cover!" Macao did so, after picking up Cana and hold her close so she'd be protected. The older mage even let the small bird fly in so he could cover them.

In a flash of red light, Kain was back in his suit of armor as he stood in front of Macao and the others and used his body to shield the incoming attack. The red armor did its job, taking most of the attack. However, Kain spotted Gomez readying a FREAKING ANTI-TANK RIFLE!?

"We're moving!" With the strength of a wyvern, Kain quickly picked up Macao, who was carrying Cana who Momon was riding on her stomach, and then the young red warrior ran to avoid massive bullets cutting through the thick jungle-like wet tissue.

"W-Whoa!? Are you carrying me like a cartoon!?"

"Macao, in the middle of avoiding a bullet hell! Worry about the image later!" Kain mentally knew what every character of every bullet hell game he ever played felt like. However, unlike them, he didn't have infinite lives, so he needed to avoid every single blast to protect his more vulnerable friends, specifically the anti-tank rifle. He did not want to test how durable the armor was to take something like that.

However, a new problem occurred. The anti-tank rifles stopped firing, prompting Kain to look back and see Gomez armed with two Anti-Tank rifles and a large metal backpack connecting to his weapons.

Kain now stood(ran) corrected. He was truly about to see a bullet hell.

He tried to make another run to escape. However, his paths were blocked with Jeremiah summoning large pillars of twilight to block him from escaping.

"Kain!?" Macao cried out as he saw Gomez about to unleash a powerful assault while Jeremiah was trapping them like rats.

The young boy started to panic. There wasn't much he could do in this situation.

Actually, there was one left. He didn't like it, but with how those rifles were charging up, there was no time to think of another plan.

"Hold on tight!" Kain yelled as he gripped on to Macao… then tossed him into the sky with the other two.

"Kaaaaaiiinnnn!?" The man yelled as he flew out of the trapped pillars keeping them in.

"Oh no, you don't!" Jeremiah started to gather energy but Kain picked up a rock and threw it at the black light user. It interrupted his attempt to intercept his thrown friends. However, Kain lost his chance to escape by ensuring his friend's escape.

"Eat lead!" Gomez cried as a large amount of Anti-Tank Rifle bullets fell on the crimson knight.

The entire area exploded, even being seen by Macao as he was thrown away.

"Kain!" He yelled out before gravity started to pull him back down.

"Damn it, what was he thinking—what's that sound?" The sound of loud running water made Macao blink before he tried to turn his head to where he was landing. Unfortunately for Kain, it appears his bad luck even affected where he tried to throw his friends as Macao realized they were all being thrown towards the bottom end of a large waterfall!

"Aaa! We're doomed!" Momon cried out in fear as he held tightly onto the older mage.

"Calm down, will ya!?" Macao quickly motioned his right hand out from supporting Cana as they started falling past the highest point of the waterfall. "I need to concentrate! Purple Swing!"

A magical circle appeared, shooting out a large flame hand that caught onto a protruding rock. Macao held the younger woman tightly along with the bird as he started to swing. However, in his haste to stop them from falling to their doom, Macao had forgotten to properly make his flames waterproof. The running water pouring down on the hand quickly simmered it down before the flame mage could complete the swing in order to somehow swing down.

Macao panicked as he started to fall again but this time, he fired another fire spell, in the form of a harpoon to launch into the dry side of the water fall and swing to a stop.

The flame mage gasped for breath as he held on to a make-shift fire rope and tried to re-support Cana. Momon, finally seeing it to be safe started flying again.

"What do we do?"

Wasn't that the million jeweled question? Macao thought to himself. The situation was looking worse by the second. Cana was knocked out cold, Kain's been captured, and Kageyama was nowhere to be seen—if he didn't high tail it out of here—no. Kain still believes in him, so Macao would as well. Still, he never thought he would be caught in a situation like this. Things didn't look this bleak since his divo…

Macao shook his head.

"Well, we can't stay up here." The flame mage started as he made the flame rope slowly and safely descend to the ground.

As he did, Macao and Momon looked over and heard something coming towards them.

"Dang it! Already!?" The flame mage got ready to fight, but then his eyes widened as he saw what was coming towards them.

Meanwhile, Gomez, Jeremiah, and Audolf were staring over the recently knocked unconscious Kain.

"You are seeing this, right Gomez?" The twilight mage said this while still staring at the boy's face.

Gomez also didn't look back and just continued to observe Kain's unconscious body. "Jeri, I know I was revived after you, but I'm sure all of our eyes aren't fooling us."

"What is going on here?" The two and the dog turned to see Horus Anhur walking over to them. "I already have the immortal and we have more than enough people needed to start the ceremony. We should head back to the temple."

"Horus, you need to see this." Jeremiah pointed to the downed boy as the crusader walked closer. Because he was wearing a helmet, no one could tell his facial expressions. However, the way his body seemed to freeze spoke enough for his allies.

"… Hide this young man's face." Horus finally said.

"Hide it?" The other two men repeated.

"I have a plan. A plan that might work with the help of Rattleblade. But the young man's face has to be hidden from our leader otherwise we might have no chance to convince him out of this."

Gomez raised his hand, summoning a white mask with many holes as he did. "I went to a hockey game and got this as a souvenir. It could hide his face."

"Do it." The crusader spoke out before noticing something else. "Hold on. Is this young man part of a mage guild?"

"I did see him re-equip into a red armor. So yes, he must be a mage." Gomez assumed that Kain was a Re-equip mage, not knowing that he was technically something different.

"No that's not what I meant. This symbol he has is the same as one of the men I captured along with the immortal." Horus took out a capsule containing the person he was talking about.

"And? What about it?" Jeremiah asked.

"Was there anyone else besides these two?" The crusader asked the twilight mage.

"Yes, but the young man made sure they escaped before we could capture them."

"Then leave them be, we must return. Take that man to Rattleblade first before we give the immortal to our leader." As soon as he said this, Horus started walking towards the volcano.

Gomez bent down and put the mask over the boy before looking back at the crusader. "Are you sure this plan will work, Horus?"

He stopped and turned around. "No. But I must have faith, otherwise…"

They all became silent.

"Take the boy and go." That was all Horus needed to say before Gomez slung the unconscious boy over his shoulder, making all four of them walk back towards the temple.

Omake # 3: Team Names.

"Alright, team meeting, right now!" Kain said as he put a notebook onto one of the guild tables where, He, Gray, Natsu, Erza, Lucy, and Happy were sitting.

"Why did you call this meeting anyway?" Gray seemed kind of uninterested as he asked this.

"Well this is a rare time where we are all free and in the guild at the same time. Thus, I took this opportunity to bring us all together for a very important manner."

Natsu and Happy looked at Kain with confusion. "Did you just say, thus?" The dragon slayer started.

"Yes, Natsu. I used 'thus'." Kain shook his head. "But the real reason why I called this team together is because of what happened with Symphony, or rather when I tried to make us look cool when we just made fools of ourselves arguing over our team name."

"I thought we were Team Natsu?"

"That name is never, and will never fly, cinder blockhead." Gray narrowed his eyes at Natsu who also returned the glare.

"Enough." Erza quickly said, making the two look like old friends. "Kain is right; we should have a proper team name like The Thunder Legion or even Levy's team, Shadow Gear."

"Thunder Legion? You know, I've heard stories about them but I've never met them here yet." Lucy thoughtfully said as she looked around.

"That's a topic for another day. We should focus on our name as of right now." Erza quickly said. "What do we name ourselves?"

The young man from another dimension cleared his throat. "So I've been actually brainstorming a lot of names, and the only one that I found remotely satisfactory was Alpha Squad."

"Isn't that kinda overused? It also sounds like cheerleading team…" Gray's glance started to move when he said this.

Lucy seemed to narrow her eyes when she saw the ice mage looking at her. "Why are you looking at me when you say that?"

"You look like one." Natsu easily answered.

"And you're just about as useful as one." Happy added along.

"I am not just a cheerleader!" Lucy screeched towards the blue cat.

Deciding to stop that before it started, the young brunette spoke up. "Yeah, after like my one-hundredth name consisting of the words, 'final' and 'darkness' with 'rainbow', I gave up completely." Kain threw the notebook back down on the table and looked to his friends. "Any of you got ideas?"

"Happy Group!"

"We'll put a pin on that name for later." Kain instantly said without any sign of interest in Happy's idea.

"Hmph!" Erza had her eyes snapped open with a triumphant look in her eye. "We shall be known as Avenger League! Named after the great heroic series that has inspired children to do the right thing no matter the cost!"

Kain blinked as he heard the name; from what he was briefly told, it's the Earthland equivalent of DC/Marvel. Erza was a fan of comic books and heroes? That… made sense actually. "I like the name, but it would sound like we're copying the comics, wouldn't it?"

The redhead actually tried to speak against that point. However, she seemed to silently turn away after the young lawyer brought up his point.

"What about Demon Slayers? We did fight two of Zeref's demons…"

"Didn't we almost lose both times though?" Lucy hesitantly pointed out after Gray's point.

…

"Man, who knew thinking of a name would be so hard?" Natsu finally said, making everyone agree with him.

The team's resident Celestial Mage started thinking until she spotted Kain's notebook. "Kain, can I see the names you made?"

At the question, the young man blinked before opening the notebook with the names on it. "Sure, but why? They aren't any good."

"I'm sure they aren't that… huh?"

Kain sighed heard Lucy make that sound. "I told you they weren't good."

"No no. It's just the first name you came up with, 'Trailblazer Crusaders'?" Lucy repeated, which made everyone but Kain perk up at the mention. "That doesn't actually sound bad."

"Nah, it kinda does. It was the first name so I didn't like it when I kept repeating it over and over again."

Lucy wasn't all that sure as she decided to read more names. "Battle Battalion, Omega Squadron, Arcane Heroes… Kain these names really aren't as bad as you made them out to be."

The young man in question had buried his head into his arms that were on the table and groaned. "They don't feel like it."

By now, the rest looked over Lucy's shoulders to see the list of names Kain had made.

"Whoa! Look at this one, "The Oncoming Storm"! I like that!" Natsu said before Kain responded.

"That name was taken in my world and by then I just ran out of ideas."

Soon, everyone but Kain started to look at the names Kain had listed. The young man buried his head deeper into the table as more and more people seemed to be attracted and start reading his list of names.

However, as Kain looked up, he had noticed that everyone seemed happy and they were having fun.

Maybe he was going about this the wrong way. He was trying to think of a catchy name when maybe he should have been thinking of a name that matches each and every one of them.

But, besides being in the same guild, what did any of them have in common?

{"Do you want to join our guild?"}

Wait.

{ I was bought a new batch of clothes while my old ones were being repaired. Gray actually gave me some of his spare clothes from when he was a few years younger that seemed to fit me well enough.}

{ He said it was only natural that he'd give me his clothes since when we first met I did the same for him. I had forgotten that little fact in actually until he bought it up.}

Wait a second.

{"Exactly, if anything, you deserve that crest in your arm for everything that you did do." That made me turn back to her with surprise before Erza started talking. "You helped an utter stranger save a village; you stopped dozens of women from being kidnapped; you helped a man finally honor his father's legacy; you stood up to a mad man even without powers, and not only inspired others but gave them the courage to fight back and help you. And lastly, I will not stop admitting that we only won against Lullaby thanks to your quick thinking. Our guild is proud to have someone with a strong sense of compassion regardless of their magical ability."}

Maybe…

{"Hey, Kain? Why didn't you come with us? I noticed Natsu was down when I asked about you coming along."}

He thought…

{ Happy activated his wings and grabbed Kain in an attempt to get him out of here while the others relied on their close combat to ward off their mindless clients.}

He had been doing this wrong the whole time.

"Lucy, can I see that really quick?" Kain asked, making everyone stop and look at the dimensionally displaced young man. As soon as she gave it back, he took out a pen and was about to write something down until he stopped.

Everyone that was making noise a while ago, suggesting names for fun or what they thought was good had paused because of how focused Kain seemed to be.

After a few seconds of silence, the brunette started writing down something.

"I've been going about this wrong for a while," Kain explained while he wrote. "I thought we had to choose a fancy name that sounded cool. But no matter what, each name didn't sound right to me. That was because I was trying to give us a name we would follow to when I should have been basing the team name on who we were."

Kain put his pen down as he turned the notebook around for everyone to see.

"I think despite all our many differences, we don't hesitate to stand up for those that need help, which is why I think this name fits Fairy Tail's strongest team…"

He pointed to the word he wrote.

"What do you guys think of the name, Team Valiant?"

Silence was his only response.

However, Natsu and silence never went together in the first place. "That actually sounds cool!"

Gray was next to smile. "I can't believe I'm agreeing with pinkie here, but yeah, the name actually sounds decent."

"That was very insightful in how it reflects all of us. Not to mention it sounds like something everyone could take seriously and doesn't sound like it was made by a child." Erza concurred as she nodded in agreement.

"Wait, you really think we're valiant?" The blonde celestial mage asked the brunette lawyer.

"You were willing to talk to Erza to convince you guys to stay even if you knew you disobeyed the rules. That seems brave to me." Lucy blushed at the compliment since she realized she did do that.

More murmurs came, most of them seemed to be on the same page about the name.

"Well then, it's decided!" To Kain's surprise, he didn't see Makarov standing on the table to his right. The small old man raised his hand. "Will Erza, Gray, Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and Kain please stand up in the front of the bar, please?"

The six all did what they were told as Makrov placed a hand out for everyone to hear.

"From this moment on, Fairy Tail's strongest team is named, Team Valiant!"

The cheers around the guild were loud that day as everyone started to party—get into another brawl because of the smallest darn thing.

However, as Kain watched all of Fairy Tail duking it out and causing Master Makarov to cry, he smiled.

… Then he was blindsided by a table thrown his way.

{Author Notes}

Fanfiction! I am disappointed in all of you! Using 'Team Natsu' as a name for Fairy Tail's strongest team while even Levy has a better team name than him!

For shame on you all for not trying to come up with better names and just sticking to that! We're writers, we're supposed to do things better even if we are fanfiction writers!

All that aside, I am really excited for a completely original Arc that I'm doing!

It's my own spin to the usual formula Fairy Tail has but with my own personal twists.

The first twist? I'm giving more character development to the side characters in Fairy Tail!

*Gasp!*

That's right, the imaginary audience I made to gasp! I'm letting the smaller characters from Fairy Tail shine! I've noticed sometimes that a lot of people either focus on new OCs to help build their story when Fairy Tail has a large cast of characters, why not use them instead?

Like Nab! … You know, Nab! T-That one guy who just stands in front of the Jobs board?

I just think that those characters that are sidelined deserve a chance to shine as the main cast does.

Also, what is this TV Trope's page I keep hearing about? It sounds like a big deal. I kinda want one but I don't know-how. Should I ask you guys to do it, or do it myself?

What? What do you mean, I sound vain for asking for it?

Ah, forget it then.

Thank you all for reading and enjoy your day!