3 days passed in Magnolia, things in the town hasn't been the same for the Fairy Tail guild and its members. The building of Fairy Tail is getting rebuilt on its damage areas but the members are doing it at a slow pace, each of them having a frown while they work.

Makarov sat on the rebuilt bar where he drinks a mug of beer and then sighs after drinking. The old man looks down with a solemn look as things in the guild after the attack and the kidnapping of Ikaruga and Haruka, along with the lost of Haruo, everything changed for the guild.

"Hey!" a voice rang out from the rebuilted front entrance of the guild, as the door got kicked open and sees a group of five men, all members of Twilight Ogre who all just came in with smirks and smug grins.

"What are you doing here, Thiabault?" said Macao with Wakaba beside him, the two senior mages familiar with one of the Twilight Ogre member.

"well, I can see that your guild got redecorated and all. Thought we dropped by and see how the decorations are" said Thiabault with a chuckle. "and I can see that the place is looking better than before"

"if you're here to pick a fight, I suggest doing it elsewhere" said Wakaba while smoking his cigar. "no one here wants one right now"

"hihihihi, just look at this guild!" laughed Thiabault. "the former number one and then become the number four guild is all wrecked up and everyone here looks so sour and foul! You guys are really getting old! It's time just to disband and move on!" Thiabault and his group laughed as this got on the nerve of some members of the guild. "I guess without Salamander around, you guys are all weak!"

Before long, Mira, Gajeel, and Elfman appeared in front of the Twilight Ogre Group, the three having pissed off faces on.

BANG! POW! BANG! KA-POW! BANG!

Each of the Twilight Ogre members sent crashing to the ground with bruises and wounds as they got beaten up by the three.

"y-you just hurt us! You are against the anti-Guild war rule you know!" exclaimed Thiabault as Gajeel holds him up by his collar. "the Council will shut down your guild!"

"like we care what the Council do" said Gajeel as he holds up his left hand that transforms into an Iron Dragon Sword. "what we care right now, it's beating your scums for mocking our guild and one of our own"

"give that guy to me, Gajeel" said Mira as the Majin has a very pissed look than the two. "I'm already mad and pissed the moment these guys went into our guild. I'll teach them a good lesson."

Thiabault screams as he and his group went flying into the sky from a powerful dark magic blast from Mira, a star shines as Thiabault and his group is all gone.

Mira clapped her hands to get the dust off after beating the hell out of the Twilight Ogre members before she turns while still looking annoyed.

"this is going to get us some trouble with Twilight Ogre and the Councill too" said Wakaba while crossing his arms.

"not like we can have any care right now" added Max while shaking his head.

Mira went to the bar where she sat down and runs her hands in her hair, scratching it while having a frustrated look.

"don't think of even saying it" said Makarov to Mira while holding his mug of beer.

"you know that we have to get to Lingyue, Master! We got to save Haruka and Ikaruga!" exclaimed Mira to Master.

"a no is a no" said Makarov with a serious look. "Lingyue is a place that no one would be able to be survive, it is a dangerous continent"

Mira looks even more frustrated as she turns and kicks her chair down before stomping off angry.

Makarov sighs as he glanced at Mira who just furiously walk off to who knows where before he looks down and frowned a bit.

Flashback

A few days back, Makarov sat on a table as he is face to face with the members of the guild.

"Lingyue?" said everyone in unison to what Makarov had previously stated. Makarov nodded while having Gildarts sitting near the table.

"that's right" said Makarov with another head nod. "I suspect that the ones who attack us are the 8 generals of Lingyue"

"what's Lingyue? Some sort of city?" asked Gajeel, never hearing the name.

"not a city, it's a continent" said Gildarts, chipping in. "precisely as the Southern Continent near Ishgar"

"there's a southern continent?" said Erza, first time hearing. "but that isn't possible"

"in the maps of nowadays, it won't show you the southern continent because on the southern borders, it is covered in a very thick fog that can cause ships to go astray and be lost forever" explained Makarov while closing his eyes. "not many know of the Continent's existence, but the Magic Council has been keeping an eye on the mysterious continent"

"so why did those bastards attack the guild and us in the first place?" said Mira while having an irritated look.

"they also said something about destroying everything that Natsu made and loved" added Erza to her rival's statement.

Makarov glance at Gildarts who sighs and nodded, the old man sighs before looking to Erza and the others.

"that's because Natsu was one of them" stated Makarov as his statement is like a bomb to everyone's mind. "you could say that not only was he one of them, but he was also once raised and grew up on Lingyue before he came to Ishgar many years ago"

"but Natsu told us that he was raised by Igneel, his Dragon Father like Wendy and Gajeel!" said Lucy, not understanding the whole story.

"yes, but he was raised by his father at Lingyue" stated Gildarts. "the details aren't that clear but Natsu might have been brought there by his Dragon father in the first place"

"ok, we get that part, now get back to the part where you said that Natsu was one of them" said Mira while crossing her arms. "what do you mean one of them?"

Makarov sighs before he replied. "he was one of their members, I supposed that you all meet or rather faced them, right?"

"we only meet four of them in the guild while two of them went to Salamander's house and got his wife" said Gajeel while rubbing his chin, thinking back on the attack.

"Natsu told me that he left their group and fled to Ishgar, followed by Ikaruga and the twins" said Makarov while scratching his lower moustache. "I just don't know why they would take away Haruka and Ikaruga"

"Master, two of them once said that Ikaruga is an 'Empress' to them, I think that must be something?" said Wendy, while holding Charla in her arms, the young Dragon Slayer recalling the encounter.

"an Empress…" said Makarov, the old man thinks of anything but couldn't get any clear idea.

"alright, enough thinking and talking" said Mira while unfolding her arms before she lifted her right hand and formed a hard fist with her fingers. "now, let's go to Lingyue and get Ikaruga and Haruka back from those bastards!"

"I'm with you" said Gajeel while punching a fist to an open palm. "I got a bone to pick with that Kusarigama bastard"

"took the words right out of my mouth" said Cana, remembering Gojin's mocking words.

"no" said Makarov with a stern face. "not one of you are going off to Lingyue"

"what? Why Master?" said Erza with a confused look. "we have to save Ikaruga and Haruka"

"listen to the master" said Gildarts. "Lingyue isn't just a mysterious continent. It's also a dangerous continent"

"what do you mean?" said Lucy, confused

"we have no idea what lies there, nor do we have a chance in fighting against the residence of that continent" said Makarov while crossing his arms. "the 8 Generals of Lingyue, they all possess weapons that are unique and dangerous"

"now that he said it" said Lucy, remembering how Gojin transformed into a different man with his weapon, just like Natsu with Chitetsu. "that guy, he changed like Natsu"

"those weapons of theirs are like Chitetsu, you could say that they're Chitetsu's brother and sisters" said Gildarts while holding up his artificial hand that has a cut on its forearm area, that is resulted by his fight against Gojin. "those weapons can destroy anything"

"so what!? We get to them before they can use whatever trick they have!" said Mira, not backing down from the idea of invading Lingyue.

"that is enough! This is a continent we are facing! We have no idea how many military forces they have, nor do we have any idea if we are able to reach there!" said Makarov with a stern voice as he is not letting anyone go

Flashback end

Makarov let out another umpteenth sigh as he watch back the guild members focus back on rebuilding the guild.

'an Empress of Lingyue in Magnolia….how could I not foreseen this?' thought Makarov with a frown.


Meanwhile, at Fairy Hills. The sound of crying is heard from inside as Ikki is in the dorm, the child crying loudly.

Lucy, Lisanna, Wendy, and Charla are looking after Ikki as the child is crying loudly for the past few days where he just cries himself to sleep.

"come on, Ikki. It's alright, it's alright!" said Lisanna cradling the child while patting his back a few times. Ikki just cries endlessly as the child is upset without his mother.

"see Charla's tail! It's fluffy!" said Wendy while holding up Charla backward so her tail is right in front of Ikki's face. The child momentarily paused his cries to see Charla's tail before he resumed crying.

"I got your favorite blanky!" said Lucy, holding up a brownish pink small blanket in her hands, the blonde mage getting the item from the Daimou's wrecked home. The four tried their best to calm the child down but all their efforts proved to be a failure.

"if we don't get him to stop crying, his vocal cord might be broken in the future" said Charla with a stressed face as they had been trying to stop his cries since morning.

"if only Kiara is here" said Wendy as the Pop Fox is also kidnapped since the attack on the guild. Wendy frowned before she turns and looks at the nearby window where she could see the nearby sea water outside.


Now we turn our attention to the Sakura Cave where everything seems to still be in its destroyed state. Ash and his Wyvern Family were all nested up in the remains of their nest that is a bit destroyed, the grass around the field filled with electrical scorch marks, drag marks, and black marks.

All the Sakura trees were cut down from their roots as the cutoff parts are slowly dying with the petals that are slowly withering. Natsu is in the cave as he stands on a Sakura Tree's stump where he is near Haruo who lied on the grass, the deceased young boy surrounded by dying Sakura Petals that remains nearby.

Natsu's eyes are shadowed as the Fourth Guild Master of Fairy Tail sat in silence, his back hunkered forward with his head as the atmosphere in the cave is silent and quiet.

"it would seem that anyone's past can come to haunt them" said Chitetsu with a cackle to Natsu. "especially yours"

Natsu didn't respond as he just kept silent and spoke out no words.

"you lost one of your children, your woman and daughter got taken away, leaving you and your last son behind." Said Chitetsu as the katana slowly gets drawn out of its scabbard mysteriously. "well? Would you not take the chance for revenge? Take revenge on the one who took away one of your sons?"

Natsu just sat on the stump before he sees a glowing sakura petal flying down and landed near his feet, the petal glows before it slowly dies. He looks at the dying petal as Natsu picks it up and sees its dying glow.

"Sakura never dies….they are reborn" Natsu uttered out before he raises his head up, the shadow upon his eyes disappearing as the man looks at the sakura petal in his hand. Natsu holds the petal upon his palm and grasped it tight before he stands up then kneels beside his son.

He looks at his son's peaceful resting face before he patted his head and nodded once. Natsu stood up straight and walks to the nearby river stream that survived the destruction of the cave's area, Natsu kneels on both knees and placed a hand on the grass.

Natsu petted the grass before he pushed his palm down, a magic circle appeared as the ground started to shake before a large rectangular wooden box arises out of the soil. Opening the box, Natsu takes the lid off to reveal the content of the box which were red and black clothing with greyish black armor.

The man slowly takes the armor out first before the clothes as he looks at clothing, rubbing his fingers on its fabric before he placed them aside with the armor. Natsu looks back into the rectangular wooden box where there is a white katana bag that is wrapped up in red strings.

Natsu picks it out of the box and started unravelling the strings around it slowly. The strings falling to the ground before Natsu takes the bag off to reveal a pure red katana's scabbard that has a golden dragon mark seal on it. The man looks at the piece as it slowly emanates a red aura around itself.

Looking at the scabbard, Natsu glance at Chitetsu, the cursed katana emanating a dark aura as if the two items are calling out to each other.

"wait for me, Ikaruga, Haruka" said Natsu before he glanced at his son who just laid there peacefully in his death bed. "Haruo"


Night has come as Natsu stands within the Sakura Cave, the man has discarded his previous garments and is now wearing a red collarless long sleeved dress shirt with black trim, matching black grey slacks, and red dress shoes, his scarf around his neck, accompanied with a long sweeping trench coat of reddish black with a ribbed goldenrod interior trim, along with red and black fingerless gloves. Parts of his forearms up to his shoulders, and knees down to the feet are covered in whiteish red armor platings.

Natsu holds Chitetsu along his scabbard before he slowly draws the sword out and replaced the black scabbard with the red scabbard that is glowing red every passing second. Natsu took a deep breath before he slowly sheathed Chitetsu into the red scabbard as the black and red aura of both items combined into one to create a mixture of the two auras together.

"I feel completed now" said Chitetsu as the cursed katana creates an aura pulse around the area before Natsu strapped him to his waist's right side.

Natsu looks at Chitetsu's old black scabbard before he pierced the grass and the ground with it. The man soon went to the side where he stood near the river stream and grips his hold on Chitetsu's handle, the cursed katana emanates a red and black glow before being drawn out by its wielder.

Wielding Chitetsu with both hands, Natsu's eyes closed for a second before opening back to reveal glowing red eyes. Natsu lifted Chitetsu up before he swung the katana down as he created a tear of space in front of him where a portal now appears.

Natsu sheathed away Chitetsu before went a few steps back as he kneels on the grass before standing back up, the man carrying his deceased son's body while having Ikki wrapped in a blanket and tied around his back.

Ikki let out a few whines of discomfort as Natsu shushes him to calm his child down before the father started walking into the portal and as soon as he entered in, the portal distorted itself and closed, leaving only the Sakura cave empty with no one present other than Ash with his Wyvern family and Chitetsu's old scabbard that lies in the middle of the field.


That's a wrap!

Bye bye