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Bold is for attacks.

Kanji's POV

We got back to town a few hours later. I was just happy to be home and have everybody back where they belonged.

"All that trouble for one little key." Gray remarked as we walked.

"Yeah it's like Lucy's the only one who got a reward." Happy groaned "Can we sell it."

"Hands off fur ball!"

"What key is it?" I asked.

"Sagittarius, the archer."

I wonder how that'd look

"Let's get to the guild so we can decide your punishment." Erza told them "You didn't think you were all off the hook did you."

"You don't think he'll make us do That do you?!" Happy asked visibly terrified.

"NO! Anything but That!"

"Relax I'm sure the old man will praise us for a job well done and act like nothing happened." Natsu said trying to calm the others down.

"No I'm pretty sure you'll have to do That." I told him.

Natsu tried to flee but Erza dragged him along. On our way back to the guild I kept hearing an awful lot of whispering coming from the townspeople around the streets.

"What the hell is that?" Erza asked "The guild hall…"

We looked up the street and saw that the hall was a mess. As we got closer it became more and more clear something was very wrong. The guild hall was mostly rubble and there were huge iron rods sticking out all over the place.

"Who the hell did it?!"

"It was Phantom." We all turned around and saw Mira standing there looking upset.

Mira told us everyone was inside in the basement.

"Oh no." I turned around and saw a little girl standing there looking sad.

The girl was short, still young, and probably not even in her teens. She had light green hair and blue eyes.

"You guys go ahead I'll be down in a second." Mira and the others walked off to the basement and I went up to the little girl.

"Hi. I'm Kanji, what's your name?"

"I'm Diana."

"Nice to meet you. Is something wrong?"

"What happened here?" she asked me.

Gotta put this lightly don't wanna scare the kid.

"Some people came and thought it'd be funny to wreck our guild hall. Don't worry I'm sure everything will be alright." I told her with a smile.

"Are you a member of Fairy Tail Mister?"

"Sure am."

"I wanna be in Fairy Tail someday but my parents said I have to wait till I'm thirteen, since I just turned eleven it'll be two more years. Do you think the guild will still be here then?"

"I don't see why not. Remember Diana a guild isn't a building it's the people in it. You see right now we might not have a guild hall but all my friends are still there so I don't care. If my friends weren't here, I don't know if I'd be able to stay here."

"So a guild is a group of people not a building?" she asked trying to understand my statement.

"Exactly, now I have to go inside but don't hang around here too long alright. There are a lot of dangerous objects around here."

"Okay! Thank you, Mr. Kanji, I will join Fairy Tail just you wait." With that she ran off.

I look forward to it.

I headed down into the basement where the others were.

"My decision is final; we'll take job requests down here until the upstairs is fixed, no buts!" Gramps yelled as he spanked Lucy and ran off to the bathroom.

What the hell did I walk in on?

"They attacked us first!" Natsu yelled.

"Shut up! Non-aggression was Gramps choice and you will accept it, got it Natsu." I told him alerting the others to my presence downstairs.

"You guys are as loud as always." Kage said walking up

"Hey, what happened?" I asked.

"I don't really know, I showed up this morning and the place was like this. This sucks man. That was one thing about being in Eisenwald that was actually a benefit, you could retaliate whenever you wanted." He said shrugging.

"How are you settling in?" Erza asked.

"Pretty well. Everyone's super nice. I just got back from a job with that Laki girl the other day. Boy she talks weird.

"Yeah that's Laki alright. Well good to see you getting along with everyone."

"It's weird I've only been in this guild a little over a week and I'm already pissed that this place got attacked" he said with a look of determination in his eye.

LATER

Before I left the guild that night Erza told me that Mira suggested that people stay in groups just to be safe. Apparently Natsu and Gray were staying with Lucy and Erza wanted us to be there to make sure they didn't do something stupid. When we got to Lucy's apartment the door was wide open and Natsu and Gray were already there.

"Where's Lucy?" I asked.

"She's not home yet." Gray explained.

They just let themselves in.

We sat down to eat and it wasn't too much longer till Lucy got home. She wasn't too happy that we let ourselves in. Gray explained why we were staying with her and Lucy wasn't too happy it was decided that she'd have to stay with Natsu and Gray. We spent most of the night ransacking Lucy's apartment. Gray tried to go to sleep and Happy kept digging through Lucy's underwear drawer.

I wanna see Erza wear that! Although she'd kill me for saying that. 'Wait till we get married' is what she'd say.

"We have a serious issue." Erza said standing up from her seat on the floor "You boys have terrible hygiene. I refuse to sleep in the same room and you two."

Natsu and Gray complained about having to take a shower.

"We can always take a bath together like when we were children."

AWW HELL NO!

"I OBJECT!" I yelled.

"What kind of relationship to you people have!" Lucy yelled flabbergasted.

We all managed to get in the shower ALONE. We continued to loiter around Lucy's house not really getting anything done.

"The old man should quit being so scared and let us go blow those guys away." Natsu said refusing to let the subject go.

"Gramps is not scared. I told him, did your brain melt. Have you forgotten he's one of the Ten Wizard Saints?" I told Natsu.

Lucy asked what a wizard saint was and we explained that it was a title given to the ten most powerful wizards in world or at least this continent.

"Master Jose of Phantom Lord is one of the Wizard Saints too." Happy chimed in.

"He's just worried because he thinks they have more members then us."

"You still don't get it do you Natsu." Gray said getting pissed off "Gramps and Mira know why we can't fight. The balance of the magical world is important you know."

"Are they really that strong?" Lucy asked

"They're not all that." Natsu grumbled.

"No…If we fought them both guilds would be utterly obliterated." I told the girl "Balance is safest for now. Think of it this way, Jose and Makarov would cancel each other out since they're both Wizard Saint. Phantom has a group of mages called the Element Four, they'd be equivalent to our S-Class, but since our only S-Class members who can fight right now are me and Erza we'd have a tough time. All that ignores the most formidable member, the man who destroyed the guild hall 'Black Steel' Gajeel, the Iron Dragon Slayer."

"You mean there are other Dragon Slayers besides Natsu" Lucy said looking surprised "Do you think he eats iron?"

"I'm not sure, but it's late we should get some sleep." Erza said pulling a blanket next to me.

Lucy flicked off a light and climbed into her own bed. Gray and Natsu found their own placed to sleep and we out fairly quickly.

"Do you really think we'd have trouble against the Element Four?" Erza whispered.

"If it's just you and me maybe. There's no way Gildarts is coming back for a while. Mira can't fight, and I doubt Laxus or Mystogan will come back just for this." I told her.

"Yeah but I think we'd manage"

"Will two shut up I'm trying to sleep!" Lucy yelled.

I was woken up early the next morning by a banging on Lucy's door. Everyone else was still asleep so I made my way over to the peephole and looked through it, I saw a very nervous Kage outside the door.

I unlocked the deadbolt and answered the door "What's up?"

"We have a problem; get to South Gate park now!"

I could tell by the look in his eyes he wasn't fooling around.

"Get up now!"

While everyone else quickly threw on clothes I asked Kage what happened, but he told me it was something I'd have to see for myself. We made our way to the park as quickly as we could and when we got there a crowd of people had gathered around the center tree.

As I got closer I saw it "No…"

Levy, Jet, and Droy were beaten to near death and pinned to the tree in the center of the park. Levy had a Phantom Lord mark on her torso as well.

Now I really pissed off.

I looked down and saw Gramps had arrived at the park and he didn't look happy.

"Gramps…" I sighed.

"Wrecking some beat up old bar, I can deal with that. But there's no way a parent can stand by when seeing his child's blood." Gramps shattered his walking stick "This means war!"

AN

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