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Over at the magic council known as ERA, they had recently received news of the damage caused by Fairy Tail in the port town of Hargeon.
"Those idiots from Fairy Tail have gone and done it again. This time they've destroyed and entire port."
"What is the matter with them?"
"I'm actually quite fond of those dimwits and their lazy fair attitude."
"They may behave like fools, but we mustn't also forget, they're also an extremely capable lot."
"Yes, that's true. They present quite the quandary."
"I think we should leave them be. After all, if it wasn't for those fools, think how boring this world would be."
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Natsu, Lucy and Happy arrived stopping in front of the Fairy Tail Guild hall.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail," Happy said.
"We made it back alive!" Natsu shouted kicking the doors open.
"We're home," Happy announced.
Everyone inside waved or shouted greeting to Natsu and Happy, welcoming them both back to the Guild.
Lucy looked around Fairy Tail and saw there were quite a lot of people.
"So I heard you went all out in Hargeon, Natsu" Krov said. "You just had to go starting trouble…"
Natsu abruptly kicked Krov in the face angrily.
"You lied about that Salamander!" Natsu yelled at Krov. "I'm going to kick your butt!"
"Don't get mad at me!" Krov told Natsu. "I'm not the one to blame here! I'm just passing along a rumour I heard!"
"It was just a rumour?!" Natsu shouted.
"You want to fight!" Krov shouted back.
"Let's go!"
Before Lucy knew it a fight erupted between Natsu and Krov. However, Natsu sent Krov flying and in seconds nearly everyone in the guild had started to fight each other.
"So he really is just a hot headed fool" Lucy shook her in disbelief.
"Now, now, Natsu, I think you need to calm…"
Before Happy could finish his sentence, somebody smashed into him, which in turn caused him to go flying through the bar like a pinball.
"So this is Fairy Tail is it?" Lucy said quirking an eyebrow and gazing at the brawling fools sceptically.
Getting up from his seat was a pretty talented ice wizard named Gray Fullbuster, who also he had a bad habit of taking off his clothes.
"So Natsu finally made it back, huh!" Gray shouted. "It's time we settle thing's once in for all!"
Sitting at the bar nearby was Cana Alberona, the woman who held the title of Fairy Tail's heaviest drinker; she was also the first to notice the Gray was walking around in his boxers as usual.
"Gray, your clothes," Cana told him.
"I don't have time for that!" Gray yelled at Cana before looking around for Natsu again.
"Ah, you see. I don't date the men here because they have no class." Cana sighed to herself and took a whole barrel of beer and started chugging it down, much to Lucy's surprise.
"Come here and fight me Natsu!" Gray demanded kicking a table.
"Not until you put some clothes on" Natsu yelled back as he was wrestling with Krov.
"It's only noon and you boys are already whining like spoiled babies" a voice said.
The owner of the voice was Elfman; he was a large, muscular man with tan coloured skin stepped forward. He had long white hair kept styled upwards in long, wavy spikes, dark eyes that possessed no visible eyebrows and a rectangular, elongated face has a stitched scar running down its right side, crossing his right eye. He had a black Fairy Tail stamp on the left part of his neck.
"I'm a real man do you want me to prove it you?" Elfman said flexing his right arm.
He was promptly sent flying by fists from both Gray and Natsu at the same time.
"Butt out Elfman" they both said in unison
"Yeesh are all the men in this place a pack of morons?" Lucy wondered to herself.
Lucy then noticed another young man with spiky orange hair and sunglasses who was flirting with two women at the same time. She also sensed something off about him but couldn't quite place it.
"Jeez, it's so noisy in here, huh?" the young wizard said, as the girls sighed dreamily.
This young wizard went by the name of Loke. He's ranked high on the eligible wizard's bachelor list.
Suddenly, Loke was hit in the face by a small piece of wood, which of course made him angry.
"Are you all right?" one of the girls asked.
"I'm going to go fight," Loke said continuing to flirt with the girls. "But only to protect you two."
"Good luck, Loke" the girls said to him in unison.
"He looks like he'll need all the luck he can get" Lucy chuckled "But there is something about him..."
"Hello. Are you new here?"
Lucy turned around saw a young attractive white-haired woman that she recognised instantly.
"You're Mirajane, right?" Lucy asked.
"Yep that's me" Mirajane replied with a sweet smile
"Don't you want to stop these fools?" Lucy asked "Because with the damage they're causing, they could bring down the entire place,"
"It's always like this around here, I'd just leave them alone" Mirajane replied with smile her suddenly being floored as her own brother was smashed into her "Besides, it's kind of fun don't you think…"
Gray was thrown right towards Lucy, falling on top of her. Natsu laughed when managed to snatch Gray's boxers from him, leaving him stark naked.
"Give me back my underwear jerk!" Gray yelled demandingly.
"Excuse me, Miss, can I please borrow your underwear?" He asked apparently serious.
"Mongrel!" Lucy yelled punching him and sending him flying across the room
"These guys are so insensitive. A woman has needs and…" Loke said grabbing Lucy and holding her in his arms.
Elfman suddenly interrupted Loke by punching him causing to drop Lucy who managed to land on her feet.
"Real men speak with their fists Loke!" Elfman yelled.
"I told you to butt out" Natsu said kicking Elfman away just as Lucy was considering doing the same thing, as much as Loke's flirting was unwanted she hated being dropped even more.
"Aye" Happy said
"So much for having a drink to relax. That's enough you guys. I suggest you knock it off!" Cana sighed as she got ready to use her magic to stop the fight.
"Oh, yeah," Gray said, challengingly, readying his ice magic. "Says who?"
Elfman let out a battle cry as his right arm took on a rocky appearance
"You punks can be such a nuisance." Loke sighed preparing his ring magic.
"I'm ready for you!" Natsu said forming fire around his hands.
Lucy shook her head and looked at Happy.
"Do they always fight like this?" She asked the blue cat.
"Yep," Happy replied.
The fighting came to a stop when a gigantic shadow stormed.
"WOULD YOU FOOLS STOP BICKERING LIKE CHILDREN?" It yelled furiously
As soon as the gigantic shadowy figure came in, everyone stopped fighting.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you were still here, Master," Mirajane said.
"So this is the master?" Lucy asked unintimidated
"Man, talk about what a bunch of babies." Natsu laughed with an idiotic smile on his face "Looks like I've won this round…"
The Master of Fairy Tail promptly stomped on Natsu, effectively shutting him up.
Noticing Lucy, the Master said, "Well, it seems like we have a new recruit"
"Yes that would be me" Lucy said unintimidated.
The Master began changing as he deflated like a balloon. The Master went by the name of Makarov and was in reality a small old man.
"Nice to meet you," Makarov said, greeting himself to Lucy
"So this is the one in charge around here?" Lucy asked, quirking an eyebrow.
"Of course he is," Mirajane said. "Allow me to introduce the Fairy Tail guild Master, Makarov."
Makarov jumped upstairs and stood looing down at his children. Although everyone already knew it was another lecture on the trouble they caused, yet again.
"You've gone and done it again, you bunch of clods!" Makarov shouted. "Just take a look at how much paperwork the magic council sent me this time! This is the biggest pile of complaints yet!"
"Gray it's good that you rounded up that ring of smugglers. But afterward you stumbled around town in the nude and in the end you wound up stealing somebody's underwear right off the line and running away with it."
"But I couldn't keep running around naked!" Gray mumbled in embarrassment.
"You shouldn't have been naked in the first place," Elfman told him.
"Elfman! While performing bodyguard service for a VIP you attack that self-same VIP"
"He made a crack about how 'a man is only worth as much as his education' and before I knew it…" Elfman replied quietly
"Cana Alberona. You drank fifteen full kegs of liquor at a certain tavern, falsely claimed it as 'expenses' and worse sent the bill directly to the council."
"So they found out?" Cana sighed.
"Loki, you seduced the granddaughter of the Senior Council member Rage. Also we've been sent an invoice for damages at a certain talent agency."
"And Natsu," Makarov slumped in dismay "In bringing down the Devon Bandit Clan you destroyed seven private homes!, You brought down the Tully Village's historic clock tower, the town of Freesia's church is completely destroyed, you damaged a section of the Lupinus Castle!, the Observation station at Nazuna Ravine is closed due to Wanton Destruction, and YOU LEVELED HALF OF THE PORT AT HARGEON!"
"Have you all lost your minds! All you kids are good for is getting the higher ups mad at me!"
Everyone remained quiet as Lucy and wondered what Master Makarov was about to do next.
"However," Makarov said, as he burned the pile of papers, much Lucy's surprise. "I say to hell with the magic council."
"Now, you all listen up! Any power that surpasses reason still comes from reason, right? Magic isn't some kind of miraculous power. It is a talent that only works when the flow of energy inside of us and the flow of energy in the natural world are in perfect synchronization."
"To perform magic, one must have a strong mind and the ability to focus. It should take over your being and pouring out of your soul. If all we do is worry about following rules, then our magic will never progress. Don't let those blow hard's on the council scare you. Follow the path you believe in, because that's what makes the Fairy Tail Guild number one!"
Everyone in Fairy Tail cheered at Master Makarovs proclamation. It was because of him that most of them became the people that they are now. Lucy raised an eyebrow and wondered if Fairy Tail could be what she needed to become someone different from her past self. Not that she would associate with just anyone, after all the companionship of weaklings hardly mattered, no she'd have to find the strong in this guild and see what hanging around them would do.
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Later on, Mirajane then put the symbol of the Fairy Tail stamp on the back of Lucy's right hand coloured gold.
"There," Mirajane said. "Now you're an official member of the Fairy Tail Guild."
Lucy refrained from acting like a school girl, at receiving the mark.
"Thank you," Lucy said. "Well Natsu, I have the guild mark now"
"Oh, yeah, that's cool," Natsu replied, ignoring her. "Welcome to the guild Loopy"
"My name is Lucy!" Lucy let out a breath to keep calm, reminding was trying not become like her past self, who would have lost his temper right then and there.
Natsu was busy looking at the request board of which job to take since he currently had no money.
"Make sure you pick one with a big reward, Natsu," Happy told him.
"Amend your mistake, mongrel" Lucy demanded with growl
"Woah, 160,000 Jewels just to get rid of some thieves." Natsu said ignoring her.
"Sounds good to me," Happy said, feeling taking care of thieves seemed like a simple job.
Lucy's anger reached its peak and before Natsu knew it a grip that he'd only felt from a certain red haired swordswoman clamped onto the back of his head.
"Hey what the big-OOOFFF" Natsu found his face planted into the wall where it was held for a few seconds before being pulled out but still held in her grip.
"So what's my name again?" Lucy asked with a twitching eyebrow.
"Lucy, sorry" Natsu groaned
"Good" Lucy said with satisfaction and released him from her grip and took a seat at the bar.
"How come my dad hasn't come back yet?" A young voice asked Makarov
"You're staring to work my nerves, Romeo." Makarov said with a sigh "You're a wizard's son. Have faith in your father and wait patiently for him."
"But, sir, he told me he'd be back in three days," Romeo protested "And he's been gone for over a week now."
"If I remember correctly, he took the job on Mt. Hakobe," Makarov said.
"That's right and it's not that far from here!" Romeo said to Makarov desperately "So why won't somebody go look for him?"
"Listen, kid, you're old man's a wizard!" Makarov replied casually waving him off. "And like every other wizard in this guild he can take care of himself. Now go home, have some milk and cookies and wait!"
"JERK!" Romeo shouted as he punched Makarov in face and ran out. "I hate you all!"
Lucy ignored the scene; it wasn't her problem what happened to the weak was it? So why should she care at all if one man could take care of himself?
"I know it sounds like the Master doesn't care, but he really is worried.
Natsu suddenly punched the board began running
"Hey, you almost broke the board, Natsu!" Nab told him.
Natsu ignored him however was quickly out of Fairy Tail, clearly intent on looking for Macao
Nab stood next to the Makarov and said, "This doesn't look good Master. You know how he can be. I bet he's going to Mount Hakobe to save Macao."
"When is that guy ever going to grow up?" Krov wondered.
"Who knows," Nab said. "Going after Macao isn't going to do anything except hurt his pride."
"Enough, Nab," Makarov told him. "Just remember, we can't choose another's path. Just leave him be."
"Mira, why did Natsu get upset?" Lucy asked finding herself interested in knowing a bit more about him.
"Probably because he and Romeo have a lot in common" Mirajane said. "I think he see's himself in Romeo. Just because we're members of Fairy Tail doesn't mean we all have our own personal issues. We've all had our fair share of suffering and loss."
Lucy chose to ignore the situation and was about to order a drink when she thought she heard a familiar voice whispering her name.
'Lucy'
She turned to look at the guild entrance and stared at for a few seconds before widening her eyes. Standing near the entrance smiling at her was a translucent image of her mother who smiled before vanishing. No one else in the guild gave any indication of having seen her.
"Damn it mother" Lucy grumbled "Why must you make things difficult for me?"
With that Lucy stood up and decided to follow Natsu and Happy, if only to silence her Mothers nagging memory.
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The next day, Natsu and Happy made their departure for Mt. Hakobe, with Lucy accompanying them.
"Why'd you come with us?" Natsu asked apparently his motion sickness had caught up with him again
"None of your business" Lucy replied as she thought back on what Mirajane told her about Natsu.
"Many years ago, Natsu's father left and never came back. Well, technically it wasn't his real father. But the one who raised him, he was actually a dragon."
"So Natsu was really raised by dragon?" Lucy asked with interest
Mirajane continued. "When he was a little boy, a dragon found him wandering the forest. He took him in and taught him everything about language, culture, and magic. But one day, the dragon disappeared and never returned."
"So I take it that dragon was Igneel" Lucy said
"That's right," Mirajane nodded. "And Natsu lives for the day when he'll finally see Igneel again. It's kind of cute, don't you think?"
The wagon cart they were riding in came to a stop indicating that the three had arrived at their destination.
"So we're finally here," Lucy said
"Alright, we stopped moving!" Natsu shouted, relieved.
"I'm sorry, but this is as far as I can get you," the driver told the three of them.
As soon as they got down, the trio found themselves in a blizzard. Lucy began thinking; if she stuck with Natsu she might be able to meet this dragon Igneel. Then she could see if the dragons on this world were worthy of being called dragons or not when compared to the ones Gilgamesh had seen.
"Alright so why did Macao come up here?" Lucy asked ignoring the blizzard "What was his mission"
"Apparently he came here to slay a Vulcan. It's a big monster." Natsu replied
"I see" Lucy said "Well let's get going I don't want be up here any longer than I have too."
"Macao, where are you!" Natsu called out.
"Macao!" Happy shouted.
Natsu and Happy manage to jump out of the way when a Vulcan jumped out of the blizzard to attack, now they found themselves face to face with it.
"That's a big Vulcan!" Happy said panicking.
However, the Vulcan wasn't paying attention to the duo. It had its attention on somebody else. It then ran off towards the other direction.
The Vulcan headed towards where Lucy who had hung back a bit, and put its paws on her.
"Me like woman," the Vulcan said in a Neanderthal like manner.
"So it can talk, huh." Natsu said getting ready to fight
"You know there's a line about dirty ape's in here" Lucy said summoning a warhammer from her gate into her hands "But it's clichéd and beneath me"
Lucy then swung it and smashed the Vulcan, sending flying towards the summit of the mountain. She watched it crash into what looked like a cave near the summit and quickly followed its flight path, hoping to resolve this ridiculous situation as soon as possible.
"Nice shot Lucy" Natsu complimented.
"Just hurry up" she called back with annoyance.
"How do you think she does that Happy?" Natsu asked
"I don't know maybe she's knows Requip magic like Erza does?" Happy suggested
"Move it you two!" Lucy yelled causing Natsu and Happy to snap out of their conversation and begin following her up the mountain.
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"There you are you monkey" Lucy said casually as she walked into the cave "I have some unfinished business with you"
The Vulcan began leering at her after it had finished shaking the stars from its vision.
"Hey you big ape" a voice yelled from outside of the cave. The Vulcan stopped staring at Lucy and turned its attention to the voice.
"Where is Macao?" Natsu demanded as he ran towards them. "TELL ME!"
Suddenly, he slipped on the ice, sending him backwards and spiralling away from her.
"Fool…" Lucy sighed and watching as Natsu got up. "You need to work on your entrances"
"Hey, monkey! Where's Macao?!" Natsu asked again.
The monkey looked at him with confusion.
"You can understand me, right? I'm asking about Macao, a human man." Natsu asked.
"Man?" the monkey said.
"That's right!" Natsu pointed his finger at him. "Where are you hiding him?"
The monkey made hand signs at Natsu, telling him to go over to the window.
"Oh, I think he's going to show me." Natsu said. He followed the monkey to the large hole that in the wall.
"Macao?!" Natsu called looking out of the hole before the Vulcan shoved him out of it and he fell into the ravine below.
"Monkey!" Natsu yelled as he fell into the snowy abyss below.
"Fool" Lucy sighed "You should have seen that coming"
Behind her, the Vulcan was doing a jig and beating its chest.
"No like man, me like woman!"
"He'll be fine as long as that cat catches him in time" Lucy said shaking her head.
"Woman, woman, woman, woman." The monkey chanted beating its chest.
"Very well monkey, prepare to be crushed and I have exactly the spirit for this job" Lucy withdrew a golden key from her Gate and dismissed her warhammer. "Open, Gate of the Golden Bull, Taurus!"
Appearing near her out a flash of light was a large bipedal muscular cow that carried an axe.
"Cow?" the Vulcan said, confused.
"Well monkey lets see how you do against Taurus, who is the most powerful Celestial Spirit I have a contract with," Lucy told the Vulcan.
"Ooh, wow, Miss Lucy, I almost forgot what a nice figure you have. Why don't you come give me a smooch." Taurus said with hearts in his eyes
"Oh, yeah, and he's a pervert too," Lucy sighed pinching the bridge of nose in exasperation.
Lucy valued her spirits thanks in no small part due to her mother but Gilgamesh also contributed. The part of her that was Gilgamesh viewed them as loyal servants and enjoyed them and so despite their personality flaws, like Taurus being a pervert for example, she wouldn't dream of taking her anger out on him simply for his pervy comments.
"No touch my woman!" the Vulcan bellowed.
"Your woman!" Taurus shouted. "Them's fighting words you Moo-nkey."
"Get him!" Lucy commanded Taurus.
Taurus leapt into air and raised his axe then slammed it into the ground with all his might as he came down, this caused an ice quake to head towards the Vulcan. However the Vulcan quickly moved out of the way before it could hit him.
"That monkey is fast" Lucy said. "I wonder if I can slow it down somehow"
The Vulcan was about to pounce on Taurus, however luckily Taurus was prepared and began raising his axe to finish off the Vulcan.
However Lucy saw something coming and it was heading for Taurus. So before it could impact her spirit she grabbed it by its leg and slammed it into the ground using her considerable strength, unfortunately this turned out to be Natsu.
"Do, not, harm, my spirits, Got it?" Lucy growled out glaring at Natsu furiously.
She hated it when her spirits were harmed, especially by idiots, especially ones who were supposed to be on her side.
"Yes ma'am" Natsu said nodded fearfully.
Taurus used the distraction that had gained the Vulcans attention to finish it off by giving it a slash to its mid section. There was a bright flash of light and it revealed a man who had been taken over by the Vulcan.
He was a slim man of average height with short, straight, slicked back dark blue hair was in front of them. He had linear dark eyebrows, dark eyes, and a prominent nose with a flat, rectangular front. The lower part of his face was covered in a large amount of stubble which included a thin moustache.
"Macao!" Natsu said, shocked that his guild mate was the Vulcan.
"So that's Macao but how did he become that monkey?" Lucy asked
"The Vulcan must have done a Take Over." Happy said.
"A Take Over?" Lucy asked "That's magic which is used to occupy someone's body"
"Yes that's right Ms Lucy you see Vulcan's are monsters that live by stealing human bodies and taking them over." Taurus explained.
Picking Macao up from the rubble, they set him down and treated his wounds.
"It looks like he put up a good fight before being taken over though" Happy said, looking over his injuries
"Macao! Don't die on me!" Natsu yelled at the unconscious man. "Romeo's waiting for you! Open your eyes!"
"Natsu…" Macao mumbled as he opened his eyes
"Macao!" Natsu said, relieved that he had woken up "you're ok"
"I'm so pathetic…" he said "I defeated 19 of those brutes but the twentieth, that's the one that got me. I'm so angry with myself, I'm embarrassed to go home and face Romeo"
"Come on man don't be like that you beat nineteen monsters" Natsu said. "You did great defeating that many!"
'So there were more of those beasts?' Lucy thought. 'And this man defeated all but one of these beasts by himself? Despite his failure to complete this job by himself it's not even close to being worthy of my respect, but it is noteworthy I suppose'
"Now let's go home." Natsu said with a grin "Romeo's been waiting for you!"
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Meanwhile back in Magnolia, Romeo was sitting on a staircase thinking about what had lead to his father vanishing.
"Fairy Tail wizards are a joke Romeo."
"Yeah, everybody just knows that they're a bunch of drunken cowards"
"I'm gonna be a knight when I grow up not some dumb wizard!"
"Yeah they're dirty and they smell like booze!"
"Please Dad, go to the board and take a job!" Romeo begged his father. "I can't handle all this teasing anymore!"
"Sure!"
Romeo wiped the guilty tears from his eyes.
"Hey Romeo!" a voice called.
Looking up, Romeo saw the new guild member Lucy along with Natsu and-
Romeo gasped in delight.
Leaning on Natsu's shoulder was his father Macao who was smiling as they walked towards him.
"Dad!" Romeo shouted as he hugged his father. "You came back I'm so sorry dad!"
"No I'm sorry for making you worry." Macao said to his crying son.
"I can handle it…because I'm a wizard's son."
"The next time those bullies pick on you, here's what I want you to say:" Natsu, Happy and Lucy started to walk away the father and son. "Can your old man defeat nineteen monsters all by himself? because mine can'"
Romeo grinned up at him.
Noticing that the others were leaving, Romeo shouted to them.
"Natsu! Happy! Thank you!"
"Sure thing!" Natsu shouted back.
"Aye!"
"Lucy, thanks for helping them bring my dad back to me!"
Lucy stopped walking froze in place and straightened up for a few seconds before she kept on walking. That was the first time in this life that anyone had thanked her for doing anything, well if you didn't count Natsu and Happy thanking her for the food in Hargeon, which she didn't.