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Chapter 36

Aiming For Our Goals

Six years later...

It is now the year of X781. In a ruined town surrounded by stone houses of different shapes and sizes with damaged archways and steps, a lone building stood standing out out of all the others. It was double storied, well maintained, and inside looked just as well kept too. There was a flight of stairs that led downwards which eventually led to a small rec room. This was where a dark guild called Naked Mummy made it's home. The people in this guild all resembled monkeys and all they specialized in Guns Magic. They didn't seem like much but a few of the members had a tendency of causing trouble thieving from people in town whenever they day, the guild was laughing and partying having a good time.

Among them were two of the their strongest. Other than looking like a monkey like the others, one of them had a large black afro paired with side burns with the Naked Mummy guild mark on it. On his face was a pair of dark sunglasses that covered his eyes and had gold teeth that sparkled. His outfit promised of someone you would see back in the 1970s, a diamond-patterned shirt, with a polka-dotted tie circling its open collar and light pants held up by a belt covered in studs and platform boots. He even had rings on his fingers.

The other one had an attire that comprised of a poncho-like cape that had diamond-shaped motifs on the edges and had a mantle with thin strips hanging from it. He also had shoulder pads and also wore striped pants and simple shoes. Like the others he also had the face that was like a monkey's. However he had very long, fluffy, and blonde spiky hair giving it the appearance of a long spike with darkened red ends. He didn't have any eyebrows, had small, strange lockings looped into his mouth and lower-lip making them look like stitches and had the Naked Mummy guild mark on the top of his nose.

These two were Zatô and Gatô. Two of Naked Mummy's strongest members.

"Man things seem pretty boring here. Eh Big Bro Gatô?" asked Zatô.

"Yeah. You said it Big Bro Zatô," said Gatô. "But I don't know if this is the time to be lounging around."

"Why you say that Big Bro Gatô?"

"You know why Big Bro Zatô. The deadline for the protection fee for the Oracion Seis is coming up soon and we gotta pay them before things get rough."

"I know and don't worry about that. I already sent a squad of our members to go get the money we need. They'll be there and back again with the money before you know it."

"If you say so bro," said Zatô. "But I don't know if this is the time to be lounging-"

"There you go again repeating yourself," interrupted Gatô. "Seriously bro. You need to stop that man. I heard you the first time around."

"Sorry bout that bro. It's a force of habit," apologized Zatô. "I'm just worried about how the deadline for the-"

Suddenly there was a loud noise that was heard up above causing everyone to look up towards the stairs their attention drawn. First there was silence, then the sound of footsteps was heard as someone came down the stairs. The Naked Mummy members immediately got on their feet. Some of them had their guns ready aimed right toward the stairs ready to attack whoever was intruding, while others stood away not sure if they should do. Gatô and Zatô even stood up preparing themselves to attack whoever decided to invade on their property.

The footsteps grew louder and louder until finally a solitary figure stepped out from the shadows and into the light. He wore a black cloth mask that covered the upper part of his face even his eyes. His outfit comprised of a red shirt with a white symbol with a black coat on top, a pair of baggy navy blue bottoms with a pair of black shoes, and on his arms were black fingerless gloves on his wrists. The guild members aimed their guns and prepared to fire. Zatô and Gatô upon seeing this man immediately felt their faces pale and their skin start to get clammy.

"Hey Bro... Is that... who I think it is?" asked Gatô.

"Yeah Bro. It is," said Zatô nervously.

"Hey you! Identify yourself!" demanded a guild member.

"Yeah! And who do you think you are bursting into our guild hall?!" said another. "Give us one good reason why we shouldn't shoot your ass!"

The man calmly looked around saying nothing. Then he slowly walked up Zatô and Gatô not caring if the guild members were pointing their guns at him. The guild members got ready to fire their guns to dispose of the man.

"Hey! Are you deaf or something?! We asked you to identify yourself!"

"You looking to get shot?!"

"Hey! All of you! Lower your guns!" snapped Zatô. "Do you have any idea who you're talking to that way?! Show some respect!" He turned to the man. "I'm so sorry for their rudeness Mr. Shark sir. Please forgive them!"

"That's quite alright," answered the man. "I take it that two are the ones known as Zatô and Gatô of the dark guild known as Naked Mummy correct?"

His voice was stoic and calm, but at the same time had a tone that made it sound intimidating.

"y-yes sir," said Zatô. "I'm Zatô and the guy behind me is Gatô."

"Good. Then I have a message for you as well as your entire guild from Brain," said Shark. "As you're well aware your protection money is due in the upcoming deadline. However there's something else you need to know about that. As of now, the protection money is being increased to 100,000 jewel."

"What?!"

Zatô and Gatô as well as everyone else in the guild gasped in shock and slight anger.

"What the hell?! Why the sudden increase?!" cried a guild member. "We don't have that kind of money!"

"I'm only here to tell you what my master Brain told me to tell you," said Shark. "If you all have any problems you would have to take it up with him. It's not my problem"

"Smart aleck bastard! What'd you say?!"

"Now you're gonna get it!"

A couple of angry guild members aimed their guns at Shark ready to shoot him, but then Shark turned around and dashed straight by them in a blinding speed until he was standing at the entrance of the stairs. The Naked Mummy guild members stood stupefied trying to comprehend what had just happened.

"I'll say it again," said Shark. "If you have a problem with it, then take it up to my master and not me. However if anyone of you has a problem with me and wishes to fight me... I won't hesitate to attack. But be warned... like my name suggests, a shark will always fight it's prey and utterly destroy it. Keep that in mind."

And with that, Shark walked up the steps and disappeared into the shadows. A few seconds of silence passed. Then the guns that the guild members were holding suddenly split in half and fell to pieces on the floor. Everyone stared at the destroyed guns in shock and then at stairs where Shark left.

"When the hell did he..." murmured a guild member.

"He destroyed our guns in the blink of an eye!" said another. "Just who the hell is that guy?!"

"That's someone you don't wanna mess with," said Gatô.

"No kidding," said Zatô. "He's one of the members of the Oracion Seis as well as Brain's right hand man. An assassin as well as a powerful wizard. The Demon of the Sea, Shark."

"Yeah... he's a guy that you don't wanna mess with," said Gatô.

Normally Zatô would tell his brother that he was repeating himself, but this time he let that one slide.

Back outside of the Naked Mummy guild, Shark had just stepped out of the building having delivered the message and was just about to return to base when he heard a voice inside of his head. The voice belonged to Brain who was speaking to Shark telepathically.

"Shark. Do you copy?"

"Yes Master Brain. I copy."

"Did you do what I told you to do?"

"Yes Master. I did what you asked."

"Good. Now hurry back to base. We have plans to discuss."

"Understood Master. I'll hurry back as soon as I can."

The telepathy was then cut of and Shark spread his black water wings and took off into the air disappearing into the distance beyond.

In an unknown location, in a room filled with candles, Brain stood typing on his display made from his Archive Magic. He still looked the same as he always did, however he now had black markings all over his body including a symbol that covered his chest and abdomen. Then Shark came into the room.

"I have returned Master," he said. "Forgive me if I have arrived so late."

"It's no problem Shark," said Brain. "You needn't worry about things like that. I did give you a meager task after all. Besides, you're just in time."

Just then, there was a loud thunk noise causing Shark to turn his attention behind him. There standing there were five people. The same people that were once the children that were recruited from the Tower of Heaven. Now they all were members of the Oracion Seis and each one of them had gone through a couple of changes and given their respective codenames.

One of them was the boy with the pointy nose. He now had a blonde mohawk on top of his head, long eyebrows, wore a pair of sunglasses with green lenses, a strange metal chin guard, and wore an outfit comprising of a red and white racing suit, the jacket being red with white sleeves and the pants being white and the shoes being blue. He was carrying what appeared to be a large coffin. He was known as Racer.

The second man happened to be the tallest of the group. He had long flowing orange hair that went past his hips, had a geometrical face, wore a black loose shirt with light sleeves adorned by a series of dark merged rhombuses with a large, white collar with red-brown pants tied tucked by shoes that were black on the bottom and white on top. He also had a large brown beaded necklace and was carrying a book in his right arm. This man was Hoteye

The third still retained his appearance back when he was little, however he too showed significant changes. On his bang with his black and white hair were brown beads. His outfit was a black leather vest with white fur trimming, a white armlet around his right bicep, and a black choker around his neck. He also wore a pair of yellow pants with black designs on them and burgundy boots. He sat on top of a floating carpet fast asleep and snoring peacefully. He was Midnight.

There was also a young woman. She had short silver white hair in the style of a bob cut. Her attire consisted of she wears a short dress made up of white feathers with two feathery wings that hang from her back. The dress split just above her bellybutton that revealed a lot of her cleavage in the shape of a v and is also lined by a row of long feathers on both sides. She also had a dark-blue ribbon around her head with four bows hanging from it with two on each side, had long, dark blue gloves that reached her shoulders and knee-length stockings, and light blue, feathered boots. She was Angel.

Finally the last man had his maroon hair pointed upwards into a tuft, wore circular earrings, and had snake like features on his face. His outfit consisted of an white coat with purple inner lining and black metal armbands just above his elbows. He also had a black shirt and a pair of crimson leather pants held up by a studded belt with other belts circling diagonally the upper parts of his legs and brown shoes. He had a giant purple snake that was lightly wrapped around him. He was called Cobra.

"So you all finally made it back," said Brain. "Did you complete your mission?"

"Yeah we did. But this thing was freaking heavy," complained Racer. "I couldn't even get to the speed I wanted to to get it here."

"Oh quit complaining Racer. At least we got what came for right?" said Angel. "Besides, you know that there's no one as fast as you."

"I would have loved to help you, but then you would have to pay me with money," said Hoteye.

"Oh brother Hoteye. Can't you think of anything else other than money?" said Cobra flatly. "Even your thoughts are filled with money."

"And what's wrong with that?" shrugged Hoteye. "After all, it's money that makes the world go round! Oh yeah!"

"Now that everyone is here," said Brain. "Let's proceed to the plan. As you're all well aware, we the Oracion Seis have one goal on our minds. To find a destructive spell known for it's power over light and darkness called Nirvana. With it, we will be able to turn all the light guilds that are out there against each other and then total chaos will ensue and we will destroy anyone who gets in our way."

"We know all of that Brain," said Cobra. "But do you even know where Nirvana is? I mean we've been looking for a while now and we still haven't had any luck."

"Naturally I took the liberty of narrowing down the locations," said Brain. He snapped his fingers using his Archive Magic and then a display appeared showing a map of a particular location with a red dot in the middle. "I've tracked it's location and now I know that it's located somewhere deep in the Worth Woodsea somewhere north."

"And that's where Nirvana is?" asked Angel. "Seems simple enough."

"Oh yeah! Once we find Nirvana, we can sell it for money! Ooh! I'm feeling giddy just thinking about it!" said Hoteye excitedly.

"Will you give it a rest already?" snapped Cobra. "Seriously. Money isn't the answer to everything."

"All right enough chatting around already," said Racer. "I say we get busy and start looking for Nirvana. The faster we do that the better."

"Now hold on a minute Racer," said Brain. "There's one more thing we have to discuss."

"You mean our plan of action in case we're attacked? I don't see any reason to bother," said Cobra shrugging his shoulders. "After all each of us has the power to take down an entire guild all by ourselves."

"That may be so Cobra," said Brain. "But it is better to be safe than sorry. And try not to listen in on my thoughts, one of these days it could end up being your downfall."

Cobra shrugged his shoulders and let out a humph under his breath as Brain continued.

"Now listen up. Racer, Cobra, Hoteye and I will continue search in the Worth Woodsea for Nirvana. Angel you will stand by and be the look out for anyone who comes by in the area. If there any intruders out there, you will report them to me."

"Understood sir," said Angel. "But what should happen I encounter someone who's just as strong as I am?"

"In that case you're going to need help," said Brain. He then turned to Shark. "Shark. I want you to assist Angel. Help her and follow her orders. Is that understood?"

"Yes Master," said Shark.

"That guy is so weird," said Cobra. "I can never hear what that guy is thinking. It's like he's some kind of zombie of something. I don't understand way you have him in the first place Brain."

"Let's just say I have my reasons," said Brain.

"And boss what about this thing?" asked Racer pointing to the coffin. "Should we bring this with us?"

"That won't be necessary," said Brain. "Leave it here. Now go. Fulfill your missions and report to me if there is anything out of the ordinary."

"Yes sir," everyone replied.

Meanwhile high up in the air, an ominous air ship was silently floating in the clouds undetected to anyone. It was large in size and looked like a giant boat and it was also hovering by red glyphs on the bottom. This ship belonged to another dark guild named Grimoire Heart. Inside the ship, a certain girl who had too grown up the past six years stood there watching the ground below. She now had long purple hair in the style of pigtails wearing a purple dress with a black bow on the back. She had a red Grimoire Heart symbol on her back and was hold what appeared to be a crystal ball. She played with her crystal ball and then turned toward a shadowy figure sitting on what appeared to be a bony throne.

"The Oración Seis huh?" she said. "Sounds to me that they're making their move. How should we respond to this Master Hades?"

"We shall allow them to do as they please Ultear," said the shadowy figure on the throne. "For the moment at least. After all once they make their move, the people on the other side are not going to stand idly by. And in the confusion that come due to their chaos, we will take advantage of that opportunity to find the remaining keys to Zeref's seal. And maybe if we're lucky perhaps some of our rivals will be eliminated in the process as well."

Ultear smiled. "Such as Fairy Tail perhaps?" she asked.

The man who Ultear called Hades answered with a throaty chuckle.

In the town of Magnolia, at the Fairy Tail guild hall has changed much over the past few years. The guild hall itself had gone through a big remodeling and the guild itself had new recruits to their ranks. One of the recent newest members in particular was looking at the request board. She was a young girl with blonde hair with a ponytail on the side. She wore a sleeveless blue and white shirt with a blue mini skirt with strange keys and a whip on the sides and black leather high heeled boots.

"Now then... I wonder which job looks good?" she murmured to herself.

As she looked around, a certain group of people of Fairy Tail members walked up to her causing her to turn her attention towards them. They pretty much looked the same as they did when they were kids, but now they had grown up very well. The group comprised of Natsu, Gray, and Erza along with a blue cat named Happy.

"Hey Lucy! Watcha doing over there?" asked Natsu.

"Oh hey guys," said Lucy. "Nothing much. I'm just looking for a job to go on."

"I take it you're looking for another job to help pay for your rent?" asked Erza.

"Yeah. But I don't know which one I should go on," said Lucy squinting her eyes at the requests. "Each one's more crazier than the last one. Finding a cursed bracelet, releasing a curse from a cane, and even reading a love horoscope? Seriously! What kind of jobs are these!?"

Then Natsu picked a flyer from the board.

"What about this one?" he asked as he handed it to her.

Lucy took a once over with the flyer and then her eyes went wide with excitement.

"Oh wow! All we have to do is to subdue some thieves for 160,000 jewel?!"

"Sounds like you picked a winner," said Erza. "And since we have nothing else going on right now, why don't we come with you?"

"Yeah. I've been meaning to let out some pent up energy," said Gray. "Things have gotten boring around here and I need something to take out my energy on. And what better why than to take it out on some thieves."

"Well... sure. Just try not to overdo it this time OK?" said Lucy.

"Oh yeah! I'm all fired up now!" said Natsu pumping his fist. "Let's go on that job right now!"

"All right then," said Erza. "Let's get it approved by Mira and we'll be on our way."

Then went all went over to the bar where Mira was cleaning and working the bar. She especially had changed a lot over the years. Her silver hair was longer than ever having curls on the ends and she had an upwards ponytail tied above her forehead. She had a very curvy figure, wore a red dress with pink bows and frills, and wore the same flower bracelet and blue necklace that was given to her. Most of all her belligerent nature had changed to a sweet kind and caring one.

"Well hello everyone," said Mira. "Have you decided to take a job?"

"Yeah. We're gonna be taking this one," said Natsu showing her the flier.

"All right then. Good luck," said Mira smiling. "Try not to destroy anything. Otherwise it's gonna come right out of your pay."

"Don't worry about that Mira," said Erza. "They have me coming with them, so I'll make sure everything goes smoothly."

"That's what you said the last time," mumbled Lucy.

"Anyway we're off. See ya!" said Happy.

And with that, the team of Natsu, Lucy, Erza, Gray, and Happy left on the job leaving Mira by herself. As she watched them leave, Mira went on with her daily routine at the bar. As she worked the bar she couldn't help but feel a hint of nostalgia.

"The time sure has flown by," she said to herself. "Six years isn't much, but it seemed like a day ago."

She looked down at her necklace that hung around her neck. It was the same necklace that a good friend of hers gave her six years ago. She held it in her hand and her feelings of nostalgia slowly began to turn into feelings of saudade.

"Hey Sis!"

Then her thoughts were interrupted by Mira's brother Elfman who had just came up to her. He too had gone through major changes. He was now a tall and muscular man. His silver hair was now pointed upwards in wavy spikes instead of his messy bowl cut. He had a stitched scar on his right eye and wore an outfit that was something like a high school hooligan would wear. A dark blue jacket with a kanji sign on the back that said "No. 1" and pants with geta sandals.

"Oh hi Elfman. What's up?" asked Mira.

"I was just gonna tell you that I was gonna take this job," said Elfman holding up a flier. "It's perfect for a real man like me."

"OK then. Be careful out there," said Mira.

"Hey. By the way, you feeling OK Sis?" asked Elfman. "You look a little out of it."

"Oh I'm fine," said Mira. "Just got some things on my mind is all."

"You were thinking about Willy weren't you?"

Elfman's question made Mira flinch a little causing her to look at him. Elfman stared at Mira and then gave her a light smile.

"Come on Mira. It's so obvious. After all I am your brother."

Mira smiled sadly. "Was it that obvious?"

"Kinda. Considering that you're still wearing that necklace he gave you," said Elfman. Then he spoke in a low voice so no one would hear him. "We all miss him too you know. I just wish that we knew where he is right now. It's been six years already. It's bad enough that he's been gone for so long and then after that the doctor who was there disappeared as well? The master even talked to the magic council and they still couldn't find anything. I just can't help but feel that something's happened and he... he might have..."

Mira said nothing, but she knew what Elfman was going to say. Then she gripped the necklace around her neck. "I know Elfman. But... I refuse to believe that. Call me naive or stupid... but I feel that he's still out there somewhere. After all he made a promise to me... to us that he'd come back no matter what. And as long as I have this necklace... I will always remember that promise."

Elfman stared at Mira and a smile worked it's way to his lips. "Yeah. You're right. I'm sure he'll be OK. Things may look bleak now, but he'll be back. After all he's a real man."

Mira smiled back at her brother.

"Well then," said Elfman. "I'm gonna go out on this job. I'll see you later Sis."

"All right then. Bye Elfman."

And with that Elfman walked away to go on his job leaving Mira by herself once again. She decided to get back to her duties and started to clean the dishes. As she did she nonchalantly looked up and smiled a little.

"That's right," she thought to herself. "I know that you'll be back soon... just please be OK... Willy..."

And that's that! Before I end this chapter...

To answer some of your questions based on your reviews...

I will try to post a new chapter of this story once a week on Friday.

In addition, when it comes to Willy's power I'll reveal that a little bit later. It's not gonna be like some kind of power level thing. After all to quote someone from Team Four Star...

POWER LEVELS ARE BULLSHIT!

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Until then...

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