A/N: Wow. I got some good feedback about the prologue. Now I'm hoping this story will live up to all of your expectations. Now without delay, you know the drill by now. Tales of Zestiria the X first opening as first opening.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail and/or Akame Ga Kill. They belong to their original owners.

The Assassins of Fairy Tail

Job One: Leone's Tag Along

Laughter could be along the trail Wendy was walking on. With her joining the laughing was Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and Carla. While traveling to their next destination, Wendy thought it was a good time to catch up with the other Fairy Tail members with what she was doing in the past year. Excluding what happened to her when she was pulled into the Other Gateway and was sent to the Capital. Unknown to her, Lucy, Natsu, and Happy already know about that thanks to Leone and the other two former Night Raid members telling them the night Orochi Fin attack Margret Town and that they themselves are from that same world. Speaking of the members, they were walking behind Wendy and the others while continuing to chat with each another. Leone couldn't be any happier seeing the sight before her. "Look at her. I haven't seen Wendy this happy in a while."

Chelsea was enjoying the sight before her as well. Aside from Chelia and themselves, this was the most she had seen Wendy talk. It didn't come as much of a surprise to her since Natsu and the others were in the same guild as the young dragon slayer. "I don't blame her. She hasn't seen them in a long time. Longer if you count the time she was stuck in our world."

During the group conversation, Carla looked back at the second group and sprouted her wings. She flew over to the former assassins and stopped in front of them. "All of you are sure keeping your distance. Are you sure you don't wish to join in on the conversation?"

Akame smiled at the Exceed and shook her head. "We're fine Carla. We're giving Wendy all the time she needs with them."

Carla could understand the reason. While she has not seen Happy and the others for over a year, it was even longer for Wendy. "I suppose you're right."

"Hey! Check this out!"

Carla and Akame's group heard Natsu's shout and ran to catch up with the first group. When they did, all of them saw a most unusual sight. There was a dark rain cloud over a town and the rain was falling on top only on the town. Chelsea raised an eyebrow at the sight. "Huh. That's something you don't see every day."

Lucy leaned in forward to take a closer look. "That's Rainfall Village." She studied the area a little more. "Look at all the rain and in one place too."

The phenomenon was strange for Wendy to see as well. "It's so weird."

As soon as they walked up to the village, it didn't take Happy long to test out the difference. He was going back and forth between the rainfall enjoying the difference. "It's rainy here…but sunny here!" He went back into the rainy part. "It's rainy here!"

Natsu thought it was fun. "Ha ha ha ha! You've still got a long way to go Happy." He stood in the middle of the difference and spread his arms out. "Behold the half-rain!"

Happy did the same. "Half-rain!"

Carla had an anime sweat drop at their behavior. "Really guys?"

While it was amusing, they still needed to enter. "Alright, that's enough you two. Let's get going." She and the rest of the first group walked into the rain.

Already Chelsea had doubts about this whole thing. "Great and I didn't even bring an umbrella."

Leone slapped her back pushing the other girl forward to it. "Suck it up, Chelsea. Akame already went in."

"She what!?" Chelsea looked forward and sure enough, Akame was already walking in the heavy rain.

The blonde started to walk into it not soon after. "Come on unless you're scared getting a little wet."

Chelsea sighed and decided to get it over with. "One for the money I guess." She finally walked into the rain. As if the rain didn't make the village gloomy enough, the whole village seemed void of any sign of life. It reminded Akame many of the missions she took up in such environments. Chelsea caught up with Akame and Leone. "So what are we doing here again?"

Akame was keeping an eye of her surroundings. "We're here to find another of the Fairy Tail members, Juvia."

Leone knew all too well who she was. "Oh yeah, that water chick. It would explain the rain falling on here."

The whole group traveled further into the village. It was strangely amazing to Lucy. "There's not even a shadow here."

Already Wendy started to have doubts about this whole thing. "Maybe nobody lives here anymore."

Natsu pointed ahead. "Nope. I can smell Juvia. That way." Just as he said, up ahead they saw a figure sitting on a wooden bench. Sure enough, it was Juvia but she looked somewhat lost in thought.

Fairy Tail member: Juvia Lockser

Juvia heard several footsteps approaching and looked forward. She saw three figures running toward her. "Hey! Juvia!"

Juvia gasped at the voice and the figures mysteriously transformed into Gray. "Sorry to keep you waiting."

The water mage was beyond happy to see him again. "Gray…"

"Gray" stopped in front of her. "I've come for you."

Juvia stood up and ran toward her beloved. "My love! Juvia's…Juvia's…!"

And her cheek was grabbed by Natsu. "Calm down." Juvia calmed down after that and saw three other familiar faces she hadn't seen in a long time. Natsu smiled at her. "Yo! How've ya been?"

Lucy winked at her fellow member. "I'm glad you're still the same."

Wendy was the happiest seeing someone else from Fairy Tail. "It's been so long Juvia."

Juvia was still having a hard time believing seeing the people who were in front of her. "Natsu…Lucy…Wendy…and…" She saw three extra people she had never seen before.

Leone grinned at the water mage. "Hiya! It's nice to finally meet you in person."

Chelsea meekly waved her hand at Juvia. "Hi there."

Akame bowed to Juvia. "We've heard much about you."

Juvia just kept staring at the three former Night Raid members. "Who are you people?"

"We're here too!" Happy exclaimed.

"Are you living here all by yourself?" Carla asked.

Juvia continued to stare until she suddenly dropped. Natsu caught her in time and was worried. "What's wrong?"

Lucy was equally worried. "Juvia!"

Everyone went into a house which Chelsea was all too glad to be in. "If I knew we were going to be in heavy rainfall, I would've skipped out on my shower earlier today." She and everyone else were drying themselves off from the rain.

Juvia was in bed with her face looking flush. Wendy had finished diagnosing her. "She's got a really bad fever."

Carla was busy drying herself with a towel. "Well, she's been in the rain this whole time. It's really not surprising."

Lucy looked around the house they were in. "Wonder if this is Juvia's house?"

Natsu sniffed a few times around and crossed his arms. "It kinda smells like Gray too?"

"Gray's been here too?" Happy guessed?"

Juvia breathing slightly heavy through her mouth. "Juvia once…lived together with Gray…" Both Lucy and Wendy were surprised to hear that detail. "Alone." She gave Lucy a look as if she won something.

The blonde wasn't all too impressed. "Wow. She's really proud of herself."

The water mage continued to reminiscence her time with Gray. "We ate together…trained together…worked together…" She turned to her side and closed her eyes. "Slept together."

Wendy became a little embarrassed upon hearing that. So was Lucy. "Unnecessary information!" Leone just whistled at the detail.

"Well…tried to but he kicked me out." That they could believe in a little more.

Juvia turned to her back once again. "We were happy…but then one day…

F

Juvia was picking up Gray's clothes off the ground like usual. "Gray! You're leaving your clothes all over the place again." Once she picked all of them up, she gasped at the sight before her. There was mysterious black marking from his arm all the way to the cheek. "What's…wrong with your body?"

Gray smiled as a response. "Don't worry." Even if he said that, Juvia was still wondering what that black mark was. Gray began to walk away. "Alright. Time for food."

F

"And from that day onwards, he'd frequently go out alone and he stopped coming back altogether. This was half a year ago."

Wendy lowered her head. "No way."

Natsu gritted his teeth. "What a bastard leaving you all alone."

Lucy could see the irony in his words. "That's funny coming from you."

"We left a will, didn't we?"

"Natsu, it's a note, not a will." Happy clarified.

Lucy glared at the fire dragon slayer. "Either way, you technically did leave us all behind as well, you know." Natsu really couldn't argue against that. Lucy looked away from him. "And those left behind."

"Get a room you two." Juvia commented.

Lucy didn't take the comment well. "Hey!"

"So you don't know where Gray is now?" Happy asked.

"She wouldn't be here if she knew, would she?" Carla explained.

The water mage had already thought of that before. "Juvia tried to looking for him for days…but…Gray was nowhere to be found so Juvia decided to wait." Tears were beginning to come out of her eyes. "This is where Juvia and Gray had such happy times. Juvia's sure Gray will come home…eventually."

Her words reached out to everyone in the room. This whole thing was mysterious to Akame and the others. "Why would he leave all of a sudden? More importantly…" She looked at Juvia. "She's been waiting for him to return all this time." Akame thought this was some major dedication.

Juvia continued to cry. "Juvia's sorry you had to see her like this."

Natsu looked out the window. "I'll find him for you." The water mage turned to her side once again. "No, wait. I'll definitely find him." He turned back and smiled. "I'm bringing everyone back together…so we can be a guild again." Everyone looked over at Juvia still lying on her back. Little did they know she was now crying out of hope of what the fire dragon slayer said would come true.

After some time had passed, the group went outside but remained under the roof so they wouldn't become wet. Except for Natsu. He was back in the rain. "Juvia's finally asleep." Wendy spoke. "You said you'd find him but do you even know where to start?"

Lucy had to agree that the young dragon slayer was right. "I don't have anything on his whereabouts in my memos."

Already Chelsea didn't like how this was starting. "Great so we got no leads whatsoever. What now?"

All of them didn't hear a response from Natsu. In fact, he was giving off a very serious look. Seeing it make Happy feel a little nervous. "What's wrong Natsu? Your face is scary."

"It's somewhere around here wasn't it?" Natsu softly spoke. Lucy wondered what he meant by that. The fire dragon slayer looked back at everyone. "We're going to Sabertooth."

The whole group had the same reaction when they heard that. "Huh?"

B

Deep in a part of some dark twisted woods, there was a building. Inside were seven people gathered around a table for a meeting. "Oración Seis…Grimoire Heart and now Tartaros. The Balam Alliance's fall symbolizes the end of the Dark Guild Era. From this point onwards, it's the start of the Avatar Era. Our Creed…a world that belongs to the black wizard Zeref."

Avatar Priest: Arlock

The other members were in full agreement. "The time has come."

Avatar member: Abel

"To wipe out all wizards that have gone against Zeref."

Avatar member: Goumon

One of the two women smiled at the idea. "All is to be done for Zeref…"

Avatar member: Briar

The member next to her whose body was covered head to toe in full black armor was silent but agreed.

Avatar member: D-6

"For Zeref."

Avatar member: Jerome

The younger of the two girls smiled sweetly. "For Zeref."

Avatar member: Mary

Mary gave a playful smile to their last member. He was fully confident about accomplishing their one true goal. His smile said the same with a black marking going from his arm all the way to the side of his cheek. "All is to be done for Zeref."

Avatar member: Gray Fullbuster

B

Wendy was inside Juvia's home continuing to treat the water mage's fever with her healing magic. Chelsea walked up to the young dragon slayer to check up on both of them. "How's she doing Wendy?"

Wendy stopped using her healing magic and sighed. "It's not going well. Her fever isn't getting any lower even with my healing powers." For Wendy to say that, the fever must've been something else for even Wendy to have trouble with it.

Carla continued to look out the window. "I wonder if Natsu's made it to Sabertooth's guild already."

The young dragon slayer wiped the sweat from her forehead with arm determined not to give up. "Leave this to me, Natsu. So please bring Gray back as quickly as you can."

Chelsea smiled at Wendy's determination. Even if she was being sidelined this time, Wendy was still giving it her all. Chelsea turned to look at Akame who was just leaning back against the wall with her arms crossed. She could pretty much guess what's on the other girl's mind. She walked up to Akame with that same smile. "You thinking about her?"

Her words broke Akame's train of thought and looked back at the other girl. She smiled back. "You can say that."

When it came to fighting, Akame could be unpredictable but outside of battle, there were only two things on her mind. One of them was of recent. "She volunteered you know. You'll see her again. So in the meantime, kick back, relax and enjoy what scenery this place has."

Akame closed her eyes momentarily and opened them halfway through. She didn't relax how quiet a place would be without a certain girl. Like Chelsea said, she'll see her again. "Leone…"

B

Natsu and Lucy were riding on an animal running a fast speed and Happy was flying next to them. Behind them was Leone in her beast form keeping up with the animal. Happy looked to the side and smiled. "I see it!"

Lucy looked at the same direction and was amazed seeing the size of Sabertooth's guild. "It's huge!"

Leone whistled at the size of the building. "Damn. It's as big as the base."

Lucy looked in front at Natsu. "Hey, Natsu…are you sure Sabertooth has information about Gray?"

"Can't be for sure." The fire dragon slayer replied.

The blonde didn't quite understand. "What do you mean by that?"

Natsu suddenly turned his whole body around to face Lucy. "Listen up, Lucy…"

Lucy could care less about what Natsu had to say and more about him keeping an eye out on front. "Hey! Turn back! The front! The Front!"

The fire dragon slayer ignored the cries. "I believe in Gray. But this time, I won't get any information unless I stop trusting in him."

Hearing that really didn't make any sense to Lucy. "I don't understand what you're saying but…turn to the front!"

"I mean I'll stop trusting him until I find him. That's it." Natsu replied.

"I still don't get it!"

"Lucy…" Natsu neared his face towards Lucy's. "I'll definitely bring Gray back. This I promise you." The blonde felt a little embarrassed with Natsu being this close to her. "So until then, don't ask."

Lucy looked away for a moment until she suddenly turned Natsu's head around. "Look forward stupid!"

"Gwoh!"

Leone saw the whole thing and couldn't help but chuckle. "Did anyone tell that you two kinda look like a couple?"

Happy flew back next to her with a playful smile. "That's because they loooove each other."

Lucy looked back at the Exceed angrily. "I don't need to hear that now you stupid cat!" Speaking of cats, she was wondering something about the other girl joining them. "By the way, Leone was it? Why are you coming with us?"

Leone gave her trademark toothy grin at the other blonde. "If you think I'm going to let you two have all the fun without me, think again. I know something fun will happen if it'll involve you two so I'm sticking around."

Lucy could understand the reason. One thing she couldn't understand was Leone herself. She was still wondering how the other blonde could do a Take Over on a Take Over. There was so much she didn't know about Wendy's new friends. One thing she did know was that Lucy was glad they were on their side.

B

The four arrived at the Sabertooth guild and it was quite the surprise for all of the Sabertooth members. Yukino particularly. "Natsu, Lucy, Happy!"

Lucy was also happy seeing her fellow Celestial mage. "Yukino! It's been such a long time! How've you been?"

Yukino smiled at the blonde. "I'm good thanks."

Leone popped up from behind Lucy and waved at the other girl. "Hey there! Long time no see!"

Yukino didn't expect to see Leone again. "Leone. It's nice to see you again. How are Wendy and the others?"

Leone smiled at the question. "They're doing fine."

Lucy looked back and forth between the two girls looking a little confused. "Wait, you two know each other? You've actually seen Wendy before Yukino?"

The other girl giggled nervously. "It's kinda of a long story." She quickly realized something. "Now that I think about it, why are you with Lucy and Natsu Leone?"

The second blonde chuckled. "I'm just tagging along with them, that's all. That and they paid a visit to Lamia Scale. We'll tell you about that fiasco later."

While they were enjoying the reunion, Orga chuckled at the Fairy Tail members. "Heh. All the jobs from Fairy Tail got sent over."

Rufus gave a sly smile. "Thanks to you guys, business has been well."

Lucy thought as much but she had some news of her own. "I know. Plus, Fairy Tail's coming back anyway."

Yukino was surprised to hear that. "Really?"

Lucy was still a little unsure. "Uh…that's not what I meant."

Yukino apparently didn't care as she was crying out of joy. "I'm really looking forward to it!"

The other girl gave a platonic look at her. "You don't have to cry over it."

"Huh. I thought this voice sounded familiar."

"Yeah…hi!"

Natsu turned where he heard that voice and saw Sting who had changed quite a lot. And by a lot meant he had gotten very obese. "It's Natsu and Lucy."

"And Happy too!" Lector cheered.

Lucy didn't know what to think of the Sabertooth guild master. Natsu didn't look the least bit surprised. "Yo Sting."

Leone's reaction was laughing uncontrollably while grabbing her sides. "Holy crap! You've gotten so freaking fat!" She continued to cackle.

Sting didn't seem to mind her laughing. In fact, he was surprised to see her again. "Oh hey. It's Leone. Haven't seen you in a while. So you're with Natsu and Lucy huh?" Lucy still didn't understand how they knew Leone. "You haven't changed a bit Natsu."

The other dragon slayer smiled back. "Heh, you too."

Lucy would have to disagree. "No way! He's changed alright!"

Lector walked up to Happy and noticed one other cat was not with them. "Huh, where's Carla? Wasn't she supposed to be with you?"

Happy had a question of his own as he noticed something too. "Well, what about Frosch? Isn't he with you?"

He brought up a good point. "Frosch is on a mission with Rogue and the Missus."

And Natsu suddenly grabbed the Exceed's cheeks looking a little distressed. "Where'd he go!?"

Sting took a step forward knocking Lucy back a little due to his large size. "What're you doing to Lector Natsu."

Yukino was a little worried. "Natsu?"

Lector found it hard to answer with the fire dragon slayer squeezing his face. "I…don't know but…it hasn't been long since they left. They might be at the town's entrance."

The answer was more than good enough for Natsu. "I see." He let go of the Exceed and started run out the entrance. "Thanks, Lector!"

Both Lucy and Happy held out their hand and paw at him. "Hey, wait up Natsu!"

"Wait!"

And Sting somehow returned to normal in the next second. "What did he want?"

Lector jumped on his shoulder. "I don't know."

Lucy was surprised by his drastic change back. "He's back to normal!"

Yukino held up one of her golden gate keys with Libra behind her. "Well, it was getting too much so I had to use Libra's powers on him."

Leone was quite impressed at that. "Huh. That's pretty handy."

Meanwhile, outside of town, Natsu was running toward the entrance hoping to find Rouge. He finally saw two figures up ahead. "ROGUE!"

Rogue looked back to see Natsu approaching him quickly. Along with him was Minerva. "Natsu?"

Natsu suddenly grabbed the shadow dragon slayer and continued to run ahead. "C'mere! Let's talk!"

Rogue didn't know what think about what just happened. "Huh!? What's this all about?!"

Minerva had questions with just happened. "Wait up!"

"Natsu!"

"Holy crap that guy can run fast."

Minerva heard these three voices and turn around to see Lucy, Happy, and Leone running toward her. "You're…"

Frosch jumped a little into the air. "I want to come along too!"

Natsu looked back at everyone with an angry look on his face. "All of you stay here! We need to talk in private!" He continued to run with Rogue until they couldn't see them anymore when they turned around the corner.

All of them wondered what was so important Natsu had to talk to Rogue alone. The three girls finally noticed each other. "Long time no see." Minerva spoke to Lucy.

The blonde smiled at her. "Yeah…it's nice that you're back in the guild now."

Minerva looked over at Leone and smiled at her as well. "And it's been a while since I've seen you."

Leone chuckled awkwardly. "Yeah…been seeing some familiar faces lately huh?"

Once again, Lucy was looking back and forth between the two girls. "Okay, how is it you know everyone in Sabertooth?"

Her question was ignored as Frosch asked a question. "Did you say hi to everyone back at the guild?"

Happy grabbed the other Exceed's paws. "Yeah, just a while back."

Speaking of the guild, Lucy had another question. "What was up with Sting?"

Leone began to giggle again remembering that. "Yeah…he was so freaking fat-ha ha ha ha!"

Minerva was happy to explain that. "Hmm…we had our annual Saber eating competition. The Tora-Tora-Tora."

Now it made sense to Lucy. "Ah so that's why he was so puffed up."

Minerva giggled. "Well, it was me that won, though."

Now Leone had a passing thought about that. "Huh. I wonder who would win in an eating contest. Her or Akame?"

Lucy had one more question for Minerva. "Was that why you guys didn't join the Games?"

The other girl shook her head. "No. Our master said it wasn't worth joining if Fairy Tail isn't in it."

Frosch raised his arm. "I think so too."

Talking to Lucy so nonchalantly again felt strange to Minerva. In fact, she felt a little guilty for what she did to her back at the last Grand Magic Games and looked away from her. "Uh…my apologies for what happened during the last games."

Lucy tilted her head in confusion but then smiled at the other girl. "Oh, don't worry about it. It was a fight among guild members anyway."

Hearing that still didn't make Minerva feel any better. "Even so, I overdid it."

Lucy still didn't mind it. "Nah…don't worry about it."

Minerva did feel a little glad that Lucy didn't harbor any hard feelings for what happened between them. She gave a small smile at the other girl. "It's sad that Fairy Tail is no more. It really was a good guild."

Lucy smiled as she brought up her hand with the Fairy Tail symbol. She placed her hand on her chest. "It isn't over yet. The guild still exists in our heart."

Both Minerva and Leone smiled at the words. "It's in me too."

Happy couldn't agree more with Frosch. "I think so too."

Over to Natsu and Rogue, Rogue wasn't all too happy he was suddenly taken away. He was a little peeved at the other dragon slayer doing that. "After such a long time, the first thing you do is this?"

Natsu didn't care about his consequences and seemed very impatient. "Lemme see your work request!" Rogue didn't quite understand what Natsu meant by that. "Just lemme see it!" Rogue decided it would be better to go along with what Natsu demanded. He handed him his job request and Natsu immediately grabbed it. The fire dragon slayer took a good look at the request and his eyes widened. "This..." He instantly decided. "I'll do this."

Once again, Rogue was surprised to hear that. "Huh?! This is Sabertooth…hey, you aren't in a guild anymore."

Natsu turned to look at him. "I'm in Fairy Tail!" He handed Rogue back the request. "Listen Rogue. I'll do the job for you and you can have the reward. So promise me you and Frosch don't leave this town until I come back. Just don't!"

To Rogue, Natsu was acting stranger than usual. "You're crazy."

With their talk down, Natsu ran back to Lucy and the others and grabbed both Lucy and Happy while running. "Let's go Lucy, Happy!"

Leone ran after the three. "Hey! What's the hurry?!"

Natsu had some last minute advice to give. "Minerva! Keep an eye on Rogue and Frosch! Don't let them out of town!"

The reason why Natsu was acting this was because remembered what Future Rogue told him just before he went back to his time. "A year after…"

The current Rogue caught up with Minerva still trying to figure what was going on. "What the hell?"

Minerva didn't know what happened either. "I have no idea."

"Fro doesn't have one either."

"Please tell 'me'…to protect Frosch…a year…later…because Gray will kill Frosch."

Natsu was determined of not only finding Gray where he was but also put a stop of what was to come by Future Rogue's foretelling. "Fairy Tail…needs Gray!"

A/N: Claymore ending song.