Growling lowly the wild man paced in front of the barrier. He knew what it was, the notification runes that glowed weren't even hidden, he wouldn't be stopped, wouldn't be hurt but the damned Fairies were being intrusive. Then again, he thought, I did give them the warning. He sneered as he continued pacing. He'd tried flying around the barrier but the damned thing spread on for miles, and he didn't want to risk flying too far to the west or east. He knew that the damned council had eyes everywhere. And the last thing you want is to fly into a trap, he mused silently rolling his eyes at the thought. The damned Fairies had fought him once and nobody had won that. But the idea of taking another multidecade nap was not a fond one.

"Damn you Haroworths!" he bellowed in the sky as he huffed in exertion. He'd been here for nearly a week. Had only started moving when he felt his sibling disappear over a month ago, but her sudden reappearance and this damned barrier stopped him in is tracks.

He wasn't scared, he was excited to finally see who was really worthy of being the damned celestial dragon slayer title. But he knew he still wasn't fully recovered. Even traveling as a human again and feeding whenever he could hadn't helped as much as he needed. He could feel the stain on magic more so than ever. The humans had been neglectful to the etherious that feed their world at best and destructive to it most of the time, and the dragons had abandoned this world. They all deserved to perish as far as he was concerned. But he knew that this fight had to come first.

Quietly he heard the grumblings of a group not far off in the distance. Moving towards them he noticed that they were all magic users and had the same symbol on their bodies. All of them were arguing, as a few seemed to begin setting up a camp of some kind.

"Those damned Fairies can't reach us here, lets just find another city and start over!" one of them finally yelled as the wild man's grin increase.

Jumping down into the clearing where they all where he laughed, the dry sound cracking his throat as he talked.

"Well if you want to avoid Fairy Tail I'd be happy to help," he grinned as the people paled as he reached for the first one with in his grasp. Breathing in deeply he watched as the man in his grip writhed in agony as his very soul was sucked out of his body.

His companions paled as the wild man licked is lips sighing in relief, "Now, who's next?" he asked a wicked grin spreading out on his face.


Nash bopped his head to the music as he looked over the letter from the magic counsel, they were proposing a change in the laws for mage registration and it was amusing him to no end. Laxus had been dumping all the counsel stuff on him since he and Lexie had gotten back from the Iles, saying that he has more patience for this work than he did and as the mate of the future master he'd better help out. The pink haired man hadn't minded as he enjoyed the counsel's failing attempts to over extend their reach.

Laughing at the proposed law he was about to call the master at Elements Force to see what their take on the proposed change was, and how they should thwart them, when it began. The loud blaring beep that filled the hall startled him enough that the stack of papers on his desk was knocked over. Quickly he left the office and walked towards the command room.

"Who's in trouble?" Lexie asked as she flew out of the studio and Laxus not far behind her as he came from the ground level where he was reviewing the bar needs with Mira before he placed another liquor order.

"I don't know," Nash answered as he opened the door.

Rushing to the main console he canceled the alarm and began sorting through the notifications that jumped up onto the screen to find out what had tripped the alarm. Cursing himself that he hadn't asked that anything that was tripping the emergency signal that sounded throughout the guild hall wasn't immediately sent to the top of the list. The system may be new but the problem was an issue that kept repeating itself, after all needing to know when his siblings had gotten into too much trouble and needed bailing out was imperative to keeping Fairy Tail in the publics good graces.

"If it's Ryu terrorizing the merchants near the cathedral again, I'm confining him to the basement for a month," Laxus growled as Nash bit back the urge to laugh as he decided to just pull up the map instead.

But the flashing rune on the map was nowhere near Magnolia. In fact, it was no where near any one bearing a Fairy Tail mark could be in a hundred miles radius. And Nash's blood ran cold as he remembered why he had set that specific rune in the first place.

"Alert the rune knights, the palace, and the guild masters," Nash said quickly as he typed in the emergency recall command for every member of Fairy Tail, past and present sending it through as a loud beeping filled the hall as the coms of every Fairy Tail mage beeped.

"Why?" Lexie asked as she wrapped her arms around her mate's neck as she looked at the screen, she may not be a technologically ignorant as her father but her mate had built this system with Hibiki's help and there was no way she understood everything that was flashing on the screen.

"He's coming," Nash said as a sense of dread permeated the room. "Acnologia is coming."