It's a peaceful day in a town called Magnolia but there is one place where 'peace' has no business being and that place is a mage's guild known as Fairy Tail. Let's just say that they have a wild and destructive reputation. When you walk inside, you need to duck almost instantly and have good reflexes because something is always flying and you don't want to get hit. But you know it's all in good fun when you hear the laughter. Beer is fueling everybody and the food is bringing a smile to their faces.
On the second floor, watching everyone below, is the lightning dragon slayer Laxus. He's a giant man with broad shoulders and large muscles. His spiky blonde hair is kept out of his face by the headphones he always wears.
In the middle of the guild, a huge free for all brawl is taking place. It's nothing serious, almost a playful type of fight that almost everyone got pulled into. Laxus simply snorts at the people in the fight and turns back to his beer and his teammates sitting around him. Freed is a bookworm who is always wearing gentleman clothes, long green hair with lightening on his sides, and a rapier at his side. Evergreen is a fairy obsessed woman who hides behind her fan, long red brown hair pulled up high into a ponytail, and is always looking down at everyone in her as she wears skin tight clothes. Bixlow is a pervert with flying wooden totems that he calls his 'babies', half of his face is covered with this visor he always wears, and he has this weird tongue habit where he just sticks it out whenever he's super happy.
Laxus leaned back in the chair until it's balancing on the back legs and his shoulders are against the wall. He drops his boot covered feet on the table, crossing ankles, and takes a sigh as he relaxes.
And then the guild door bursts open. Of course. There is never a peaceful day in Fairy Tail. This place is cursed to never know what 'peace' is. Laxus glances over and is surprised by what he sees. A yellow cat with orange stripes walks in, glaring at everyone with his dark gold eyes. White wings sprout from his back and he flies up to the bar where a smiling woman with long white hair greets him, "Hi! Welcome to Fairy Tail. I'm Mirajane but you can call me Mira. Is there something I can help you with?"
"I'm looking for that stupid Spark Plug. You seen him? Giant ogre with an unoriginal scar on his face." the car grumbles.
Laxus stands up and shouts, "Don't make me come down there cat! I'll fucking roast you and then eat you for lunch!"
The cat simply turns and looks at him with that same glare as he says, "Lulu needs help."
Laxus immediately drops down from the second floor, he grabs the cat and places him on his shoulder, and then walks back up the stairs and into the guild master's office.
Everything in the guild stopped. They were all so confused.
"Who was that cat?"
"Why did he want Laxus?"
"Did you see how Laxus reacted?"
"Who is Lulu?"
Everyone kept asking their questions out loud but there are three people who are pressing their ears to the door, listening.
Makarov raises an eyebrow when he sees Laxus walk in with an exceed he hasn't seen before on his shoulder. "Who's your new friend?" Laxus silently places the exceed on his desk.
"What's going on with Lulu?" Laxus questions the cat with seriousness while also ignoring his grandfather. He never messes around when it comes to Lulu. He may tease her but he is always serious when it comes to her happiness, safety, and overall well being.
"She's been taken and is being held captive. She would normally bust herself out but she is surrounded by layer upon layer upon layer of anti-magic chains and charms. With all of that pushing her powers back she can't even move." the cat explains. "I know where she is now gather a team and let's go!"
"Hold it!" Makarov shouts, gaining there attention. "What's going on?"
Laxus sighs, not ready to have this conversation but it was long overdue. "I know Lucy."
Makarov's eyes go wide. He only knows one Lucy. He made sure not to tell anyone about her or to even give a hint of her existence in order to keep her safe. How does Laxus know her?
"I met her when I was fifteen on Tenrou Island where I go to train alone. That was five years ago. She meets me there once a month in order to catch up when she comes back from her search. I've kept her secret to keep her safe." Laxus hangs in head in shame. He wanted to tell Gramps but Lucy asked that she be kept secret. She wouldn't say why but he couldn't refuse that earnest face of hers.
Makarov glances over at the exceed and questions with a tone so serious that he commanded obedience, "Where. Is. My. Granddaughter?"