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Chords of Fate

Knight and Dragon

Caden's POV

"What the hell happened..."

It was the first thing I asked when I woke up. I didn't remember very well the last thing that had happened, I only had memories of a flash of pink hair, as weird as that was, Apollo splitting his back with laughter and a slightly annoying but adorable voice…

"Natsu, Natsu! He has woken up!" Oh God… everything was beginning to return to my head, they had appeared.

The one who was talking to me was Happy, one of those responsible for almost causing me a heart attack and making me pass out.

All of this was nuts. I? In the universe of Fairy Tail? Why…? That only complicated EVERYTHING. What was I supposed to do here? Was this what Ilianna mean by saying all that stuff about belonging to the world to which I truly was destined to...? What could I even do here! Everything here was already written! Besides, doesn't my mere existence here change everything? Ugh... This only gets more confusing as time passed by.

"Hey! Are you ok? It's not normal to faint when you see someone you know." That voice came from my right, when I turned my gaze towards the owner I could see him, Natsu Dragneel, along with an Apollo quite disgusted with Happy riding on the back of his neck and playing with his ears.

"I guess so..." I replied as I got up. It was until that moment that I noticed that I was no longer in the place I remembered. Now I was in a park, on a bench far from the crowd to be exact.

'When you were unconscious we brought you here, don't worry, nothing bad happened.'

I heard Apollo's voice in my head. He wasn't doing a thing to communicate with me, but then I remembered what he had said before. That about we having a link between booth of us, perhaps he was referring to this, after all it was logical.

"Very well! Now tell me where Igneel is!" Natsu ordered me, very effusive and with that typical smile of him.

'...Wait a minute, Natsu looking for Igneel? Exactly being in a port?... This is Hargeon! This must be the day Natsu met Lucy...'

"Sorry, I don't know any one named Igneel." I lied to him, as much as I really knew where the dragon was, I couldn't tell Natsu. This place already had a written history, I couldn't alter it, my presence here was enough.

'Cade..., You may be right, but remember what Ilianna told you, somehow you have to change something here, that that's already written. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I think you shouldn't limit yourself so much in your actions'.

'You are quite right, Apollo; but I still can't tell him that, I'm a complete stranger to him… What I will do is live as if I didn't know anything about what will happen...'

'Sounds fair to me.'

"Oh well! Then I will keep looking!" At first Natsu looked a little discouraged, but in the blink of an eye that changed and, with his spirits in high swing, he left leaving me alone with Apollo in the small park.

"Wait!" I screamed. "You see ... I'm new here, I really don't know anything, or anyone, I don't even have any family. Where I come from, everything works very differently... I have nowhere to live, eat, sleep... What could someone like me do around here?" I Finish explaining. It really was the truth, raw and hard, my situation was currently a great pile of shit.

"Then join Fairy Tale! In my guild we all see our backs We are family! You can come back with us if you want when we finish looking for Igneel." That's what Natsu answered, looking at me smiling with Happy.

Me?... A member of Fairy Tali... Join Fairy Tail?! That would be a damn dream come true! Not only because I would be part of Fiore's strongest wizard guild, but because... I would finally have a family, after years, I would have someone besides Lucia.

I would get a place where to live in Magnolia, I would make musical presentations once in a while at the guild hall, I would work on missions... just imagine it.

"Count on me!" I replied cheerfully, jumping and raising my fist in the air of how happy and excited I was.

"I hope that invitation is also for me..." Apollo also said looking sideways with disinterest.

"Aye! That way I can play with you and we will become the best friends in the world!"

"That doesn't catch my attention at all." Apollo replied paying little attention to the cat. Happy only ignore it and then he was mounted on the nape of the dog, in a very effusive way for the taste of the husky.

'What sin am I paying for...?'

'Quiet, you will soon become friends...'

"Of course! Now come, help me with finding Igneel!" Then being very cheerful, sincerely without thinking much about what I knew was waiting for me, we followed Natsu.

While Caden and Natsu were begining their friendship, a girl was looking for something peculiar, keys.

"EEHHHH?! How is there's only one magic shop in the whole town ?!" Said girl shouted in surprise in front of the old man who ran the store where she was in.

"Yes, this town is more prosperous in fishing than in magic to begin with. Only ten percent of the population is able to use magic. This is why this store is more than anything for traveling magicians." Explained the old man to the girl.

She was a young blonde, with brown eyes and very good assets. Its height could be said to be the average among the women of that world and well... its measures were large... quite large. Big breasts, thin waist and big hips.

"Buff... I think you wasted your time Lucy." The blonde sighed more for her than for the poor old man who was just trying to sell her products.

"Please, don't say that and look around!" Said the old man trying not to lose his client. "We also have new articles that may interest you!"

The old man in his fight to try to get the blonde to buy something began to show him endless useless items. One, after another, after another... there was a time when he even tried to sell her an article that changed his clothes color, article that by the way the girl already had.

"None of that works for me." The blonde answered selflessly as she looked around the store in search of something worth buying. "Actually, what I'm looking for are zodiac keys, some strong ones."

And at that moment, as if it were the work of fate, the girl's gaze fell on a showcase. Showcase that had what she was looking for.

"It's the white dog's key!" The girl shouted excitedly.

Being very excited, the blonde hurried to ask the old man how much the key cost. He replied that its price, for lament and tears of the actual currency of the girl, was twenty thousand jewels.

And that wasn't cheap at all.

The girl, hearing the crazy price of the key she was looking for, decided that it was time to opt for her master card, her ace under the sleeve, what she could trust when a case like this was presented!

Her sex appeal.

"But come on, handsome sir... Do you want to tell me how much it really costs?" The blonde said this slowly, seductively and leaning with her arms under her big breasts to highlight them even more, revealing her wide cleavage…

'HA! I'm sure at least I'll get a half discount!'.

Lucy was now walking the streets of Hargeon. She was frustrated, frustrated because her oh so self-acclaimed plan to get a discount had failed...

"In the end that stingy old man only made me a thousand jewels discount... Do my sex appeal is only worth a thousand jewels?!" Lucy, very frustrated, annoyed and angry; entertaining and frightening many of those who were in the street at that time, kicked the first thing she found, which was a poor... poor... coffee sign.

Obviously the people around were going to laugh of her, you didn't see a mad blonde kicking the hell out of a sign every day.

Well, while Lucy continued her frenzy of kicks at the poor Sign, an absurd amount of girls ran through that same street. They cheered, shouted, they even cried, of emotion for some reason. Reason that caught the blonde's attention and pulled her out of her anger trance.

When the blonde saw where were going all that horde of girls, she could notice a lot of women screaming excited in the distance.

'What's going on there?' Lucy though curiously.

"Two famous wizards are in town!" Shouted one of the girls who passed in front of the blonde. "It's Mr. Salamander and his sexy bodyguard!"

Realization hit the girl upon hearing that. Then, excited and very curious, Lucy looked at the majority of Salamander's "fan girls" with great curiosity painted on her face and with a slight smile.

'I wonder... How will he be?' She through before she began to walk to where the crowd was.

"I'm so hungry ..." It was what Natsu and Caden said, Natsu while practically walking by inertia and Caden with his hands lying on his neck, looking at the sky with boredom. They had been looking for "salamander" all day since they had met and now, they were very hungry.

"We have no money, so you two will have to wait." That made the two boys growl in annoyance. Happy was riding on the backs of Apollo. He had been for a long time now, and let's say that the husky didn't like that, but he still didn't do anything to stop the curious cat.

"Yes, but that wouldn't be a problem if certain idiots had not wasted all our money." Apollo added to what Happy had said, growling annoyingly in the direction of Caden and Natsu… What the two boyz had done was pretty idiotic for the dog's reasoning. Caden had been foolish enough to get carried away by an old scammer who was posing as a homeless man. And Natsu had simply lost his money ...

"We are sorry…" The boys said at the same time, feeling scolded by Apollo.

At the end of half an hour, the group had realized that what they were doing was roaming the city without any direction. They decided that it was best to sit on a bench that was next to the road and rest. Hunger was already winning over the whole group, even Apollo and Happy stomachs were thundering of the need of food, they even had no courage to speak.

Then Natsu decided to break the silence.

"Cade, I wonder if..." Natsu said thoughtfully looking toward the road. "... I wonder if Salamander really is here." The pink-haired was bitter from the same hunger he had been having. While wandering around the city Natsu had explained to Caden who Igneel was and, although he knew who he was, he decided to listen to him and follow him.

"If I'm honest, I don't have the slightest idea, although if the guild members told you it is probably true." The redhead replied in the middle of a yawn, quite bored and hungry.

"I think we will find it!" Happy added as he happily pulled Apollo's ears.

"And here I was, believing that your stupidity wouldn't let you think." Apollo said angrily. The cat's actions caused absolutely no grace to the dog, who resigned to not being able to do anything, just growled as Happy continued playing with his ears.

"I thought so, I will finally find it! I'm fired up now!" Natsu celebrated as he rose quickly from where he sat, raising his hands and looking up at the sky with a look full of energy and joy. Cade couldn't help looking at such a display of feelings without smiling with glee. Although it had been half a day since he had woken up in this world, he still couldn't believe he was side by side with Natsu. Nor could he see how that cheerful pink-haired next to him could become what he knew, a fierce warrior who never gave up on anything.

"Kyaa!"

"It's Salamander ~!"

"it's him! It's him! KYAAAA!"

"Look!" Natsu exclaimed with a big smile when he saw the commotion in the distance. "They are talking about Salamander!" And so without warning, the pink-haired ran in the direction of the screams and nonsense of the large number of girls.

"Natsu, wait!" Caden shouted when he saw him walk away, he had no choice but to follow him. So he quickly got up from where he was sitting and started chasing him.

"Apollo, Happy! Go ahead and follow him!"

"Understood! /Aye!"

That way the two young mans were going to where "Salamander" was supposedly. While Natsu remained excited about the possibility of finally finding Igneel, Caden went to that place thinking he knew what awaited him. Little would be his surprise to see what awaited him there.

In the middle of the crowd of girls were the two responsible for their screams. One was a man with blue hair, tall and with a tattoo on his forehead. He wore a kind of cape and under it he wore what appeared to be a simple button-up shirt accompanied by red dress pants.

The other was a long-haired man with gray hair. On his back he carried a spear and he was wearing a tunic fitted to the body accompanied by iron gloves, that covered his entire arm to the forearm, and iron boots.

Lucy was already in the place, and while looking at those two men, it couldn't be explained why her heart was beating at a thousand kilometers per hour. Her face reflected amazement and little by little she could feel his cheeks blush.

'My heart beats too fast ... What is this happening to me? What is this I feel?'

While Lucy questioned what she felt at that moment, the aforementioned salamander turned in the direction of the blonde, giving her a seductive look and close an eye at her. Simply an aptitude worthy of a heartthrob.

This caused the blonde to sigh while her insides were a chaos. Now she was blushing, she felt confused; she didn't understand what it was that made her blush, bite her lips with salamander's gazes, bring her hands to her chest and look at that man with illusion.

'Is this because he is a famous wizard? Is that why I feel this way?'

"Igneel! Igneel!"

'Is that why my heart is beating this fast?'

"Goddamnit Natsu, calm down!"

'Can it be... this feel... perhaps what I feel is...'

"IGNEEL!" Then, out of the crowd, an exaggeratedly excited Natsu emerged. Followed by an agitated tall white boy with long red hair tied in a high tail, and an exaggeratedly large dog with a small blue cat mounted on his back.

Thanks to them, and the effusive arrival of the pink-haired boy, the blonde felt like she was coming out of a kind of trance. She immediately understood what was happening.

Natsu, at last being face to face with salamander, stared at him. After a few seconds, he sighed with disappointment.

"Eh?!" The blue-haired one exclaimed in amazement, while his companion sighed and closed his eyes in exasperation.

"You may know me as salamander!" Said the man once he regained his composure. Just then Cade had arrived at Natsu's side, tired and struggling to recover his breath.

"Wow, it wasn't Igneel..."

"Man, please, control yourself a little more!" Cade exasperatedly exclaimed as he gave Natsu karate chops in his head. Apollo was by his side mocking the two, and Happy just saw them with an amused smile while the group of friends left the place.

That surprised the seductive magician, the two who had suddenly appeared in his circle of fans were already walking away. As if Cade's blows weren't enough for Natsu's aptitude at that time, the pink-haired boy was walking downcast and had a huge depressive aura...

In short, "Salamander" had been completely ignored.

To the misfortune of the two young men, the reaction of Salamander fans was very different from that of the same. These, angry at the disrespect for their idol, ran to where Natsu and Cade were and began to beat the hell out of the boys.

"You two are rude!"

"It is true! Salamander is a great and famous magician, you two will never be like him, you are just envious!"

"Ask for forgiveness!"

Those were one of the many things that the hopeless fans shouted at the two poor boys being trampled on the ground. Apollo, who laughed maliciously while enjoying the show in front of him, resigned himself to watch the scene with Happy while his companions shouted for the beating they were being given.

"Girls, girls. I think it's enough. They didn't do it on purpose." Upon hearing Salamander's voice, the girls stopped tamping the poor youths. He had approached the boys. "Have my autograph, you can show them to your friends."

While Salamander handed them a paper with his signature on it, Natsu and Cade at thousands of costs were trying to get up. Once standing, the pink-haired, next to his partner, to this responded the only thing that came to his mind at that time, the only thing that could fix the situation.

"I don't want it."

...

"YOU IDIOT!" Cade yelled at Natsu, very aware of what was going to happen to them now.

Now, the girls, releasing an aura that could only be described as demonic and scary, grabbed and threw Cade and Natsu to a garbage can. Apollo simply couldn't hide it anymore when he saw the boys fly through the air. The dog was now rolling with laughter while Happy, trying to comfort his friends, rubbed their back to see if they would come to their senses.

Seeing the misfortune of the boys, salamander with a snap of his fingers conjured a kind of carpet made out of flames and, laughing, along with his partner climbed on it.

"I appreciate everyone's enthusiastic welcome, but I have some business to do." Said the fire mage winking at the crowd of girls.

"Salamander here will be hosting a party on his ship tonight, all of you are cordially invited, please do not miss." Salamander companion added. Then the men leave the place, leaving a group of girls screaming like crazy and a very very disgusted and angry blonde.

"Who the hell do he think he is?" Natsu said watching the men move away in the distance. "A presumptuous useless scum, that's what he is. I'm most interested in his companion, he caught my attention." Caden was no fool, it was obvious to him that something had changed here. That white-haired man didn't even have to be there to begin with, and his appearance was awfully similar to that of a holy knight.

'Probably one of the changes that my presence generates here...' Cade through.

"For me he is nothing but a disgusting man." That new voice caught the attention of the boys. There, in front of them was Lucy. "First than all, thanks." The blonde said smiling, leaving Natsu baffled and Caden stunned by how beautiful Lucy was in person.

'I hope nothing is moving down there, Cade.' Apollo was making a smugly grind while he looked at Cade.

'Apollo, please shut up.' if Cade had never considered killing his dog, he was doing it now.

Natsu was a total savage while he was eating. That was what Cade and Lucy were learning by bad means.

While the blonde watched from the opposite end of the table how dangerous Natsu could be when he was hungry, Cade tried to enjoy his burger while Natsu was sweeping huge amounts of food to his side. That, obviously, if he didn't end up buried among all the remains of food that his friend splashed all over the place while he ate first.

"So… Natsu and Caden, right? And those two are Apollo and Happy." Lucy asked awkwardly as she tried to avoid being splashed with Natsu's food remains.

"Nwsuwwi (Yes)"

"Don't talk while you're eating Natsu... And yes, that's me"

"Aye!"

"Hmmm..."

The four of them nodded with a smile to the blonde. "You see, that guy, Salamander, was using a spell. It is a type of magic that makes people fall in love with whoever uses it. It has been forbidden for many years, trying to capture the attention of girls through magic like that is… disgusting. So thank you very much for interrupting, the effect that was beginning to cause the magic on me was undone when you two appeared." Caden just nodded as he remained focused on his hamburger. Holy God, the red-haired boy had never tasted something as good as that burger in his life. He didn't know if it was the restaurant recipe or whatever, but hamburgers had definitely become his favorite food.

While Natsu kept eating without measure and muttering meaningless things with his mouth full. He probably wanted to answer Lucy, but she didn't understand what he was trying to say.

"It may not seem like it, but just like you I am a wizard." Caden to this stopped eating his burger, smiling while taking time to swallow his food. That caused some intrigue in the blonde.

"I am not a wizard. As you can see…" Caden now grabbed the guitar case that he brought with him. "I am a musician."

"Really! A few hours ago I heard about a young man who had done a wonderful performance in the square near the market. Was that you? You know... I don't want to show off, but I know how to sing." Lucy said with a loud and cheerful voice. Cade just raised one of his eyebrows at that. If he remembered well, Lucy had never sung on the Anime.

"Natsu also knows how to play the drum like nobody else!" Happy added happily while eating a fish. And now, to the great surprise of the red-haired, Natsu was a drummer. Great, was there something else that Cade didn't know? Things were definitely not as he thought now.

"Anyway, as I was saying, I may not be part of a guild yet, but..." The blonde then began to explain to the young boys what guilds were, the absurd amount of wizard classes that existed throughout the world, how difficult it was entering a guild, which were the most popular guilds, and finally, ended up fantasizing about the guild that she wanted to join and the great things she would do once in it.

"You talk way too much blondie." Apollo said braying.

"I agree with Apollo!" Happy supported his friend. All of this just to annoy Cade.

"Respect her a little more!" The red hair snapped at the two. Lucy couldn't avoid sweat dropping at then…

"Anyway, were you looking for someone?" Lucy asked ignoring most of the comments, except for Cade's who defended her.

"Yes, we are trying to find Igneel." Natsu replied finally entering the conversation and stopping eating his food. "And I'm just helping him." Cade added, leaning back a little and putting his hands on his stomach, with a very pleased expression. "I swear to God, that was the best hamburger I've ever eaten."

"I had heard that salamander was in the city, but in the end he was not the one we were looking for… That's why I came to the city, but instead I met Cade here! Now we are traveling together." Cade could see how discouraged the pink-haired was. He felt a bit bad for the boy. In part he knew Igneel wasn't in the city, he could easily have told Natsu; but, could he really assure that everything would happen in the same way? He was already noticing small changes in what he knew would happen.

Knowing this, he decided to give his friend his support by patting him on the back. "Come on, everything will be fine, you will find him someday."

"That salamander doesn't really look like a salamander tho. I really thought we were going to find Igneel here." Happy was at Natsu's side, also helping him with feeling better. When Natsu saw the support he was having for his friends, in an instant he felt better and his typical smile returned to him.

The blonde watched the scene with a warm smile plastered on her face. However, something had her a little confused here. "How can a human resemble a salamander... I don't understand."

"Ehhh? Igneel isn't a human, he is a dragon." And of course, Caden could already see what was coming just by seeing how Lucy's skin tone changed. How was it that Natsu was able to say such things as if they were nothing?

'Where we go I guess.' Cade through as he let out a sigh.

"Wait, What?! How did you hope that such a thing was going to be in the city and nobody would notice! It would be exactly like trying to find the white fox!"

Lucy's screams, and Natsu and Happy's moment of realization were ignored by Caden and Apollo. Apollo turned to Caden, he could feel something was bugging him now, something that he had hear Lucy say.

'White fox…?'

"Wahaaa... I ate too much..." Natsu was very pleased with everything he had eaten in the restaurant. If his giant stomach and the pats of satisfaction he gave to it were no sign of it, nothing else was. Night had already fallen into Hargeon and the group had separated from Lucy hours ago. Of course, Cade was not surprised that Natsu still felt full, after all he had eaten a barbarity.

But if we were gonna talk about Cade, we could certainly say he have been thinking a lot since everyone took their way. This was due to what Lucy had said in the restaurant, something about "The White Fox."

Cade knew that definitely a lot had changed by his arrival, and that this was not the same "Fairy Tail" he knew. The redhead was beginning to have slight suspicions about something, he could be say he had a hunch. Besides, he still couldn't get that white-haired Look-Alike-Knight that accompanied salamander out of his head since he heard about the fox. Who has he? Was Cade right? Could it be that his suspicions and the identity of the stranger were related as he was suspecting?

Who knows, Cade had no way of checking yet.

Yet…

"Spit it out Cade, what's bugging you? Since we left the restaurant you have been completely out of this planet." Apollo had averted his gaze to his partner. His aptitude may not show it, but the dog had been very worried about his master since the begging of all. This couldn't be easy for the redhead, adapting and all that crap.

They were mentally linked after all, they had a really special bond, Apollo could literally feel that Cade wasn't ok. But the dog didn't actually need their bond to know something was off, the young guitarist was not quite good at hiding his thinks, he never was.

"Apollo is right; did something you eat was in bad shape or something? If so, I have some pills in my backpack." The pink-haired said innocently. Natsu was already taking off his luggage to search for the pills, and that actually made Cade snap off of his troughs.

"It's nothing Natsu." Cade said stopping Natsu's hand, preventing him from reaching his luggage. "It's just... I've been thinking, a lot actually, but it just bothers me not knowing who this 'White fox' that Lucy mentioned at lunch is. Do you know?" Finally, Cade dared asking what was bothering him. To this, the faces of Natsu and Happy became a sea of ... bewilderment. They looked at each other, then at Cade, then ate each other again; it was like that for about a minute. It was as if Cade had asked something obvious.

"Wait..." Natsu, very calmly before continuing to speak, took a big breath, and then continued. "YOU ACTUALLY DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY ERA! How is that even possible? Everyone knows it. We all know about them." Between screams and various grimaces, Natsu seemed really surprised at the redhead's ignorance.

'Wait what? Now I'm getting a bit lost here…' Cade wondered as he stared at Natsu in bewilderment.

"Emmm, No?" Sincerely Cade was now completely misplaced. How was he supposed to know about something like this? It had never been mentioned before that he knew. He wasn't going to deny that it catches his attention a lot, but being realistic, if this White fox was just a legend, who would care? If this was some makeup history, then apparently Cade had been wasting his time since lunch overthinking stupid things...

"Man! I don't believe it! Everyone knows about that! Even Igneel showed it to me. It's speculated that all the magic we know today had their roots on that legend somehow. The white fox is the living proof of that… Nobody currently believes he exists, but I do, Igneel knew him after all!"

Well, maybe it was something important if it was related to Natsu's father.

"Look, it's Mr. Salamander's ship!~" Well, Cade was about to ask Natsu for more details, but he was interrupted by a couple of girls pointing towards a lighted and festive boat that was in the middle of Hargeon Bay.

Currently, the group of Cade and Natsu was in a viewpoint. Everyone turned to look at the boat when they heard what the girls said. And then, Natsu being himself, got dizzy just by seeing it move.

"Natsu, be serious, you are barely seeing it..." Cade said between a laugh, feeling sorry for his friend.

"How incompetent..." Apollo added, also trying to suppress his laughter.

"Aye, that's Natsu for you!"

"I can't believe it!" Began the girl's companion. "I had heard he is a famous Fairy Tail mage! People also says that his body guard may be the only holy knight left!" The four were greatly surprised to hear that. Natsu and Happy because they had mentioned that that idiot belonged to the guild. Cade and Apollo because of the mention of a holy knight... Both things didn't fit on place for either of the two boys.

Now, looking again at the ship, one of them being extremely angry; while the other, with a serious expression and frowning, both could make anyone tremble.

"Fairy Tail..."

"Holy knight..."

"Lucy... That's a beautiful name." The blonde had ended up in an unpleasant and beneficial situation.

She was in salamander ship.

On afternoon, once she had separated from Cade and Natsu's group; while she was resting in one of the city parks, fantasizing again about joining Fairy Tail, she realized that the arrogant man from before was part of the guild. He offered her to join, with the clear condition that Lucy attended the party he was offering on his ship.

And well... here was the blonde. Sitting in front of salamander and his bodyguard, trying to use him to make her way into Fairy Tail.

"Thank you!" The blonde replied to the compliment, pretending to be happy with the company of the two men when she clearly wasn't.

"Let's have some toast with wine, don't you agree?" Standing up, the man poured a glass of wine to Lucy. The blonde wondered why the moron in front of her insisted so much on giving her this kind of attention. However, when she was about to drink from the wineglass, she realized why.

"What are you planning?" Lucy asked seriously, throwing the wineglass to the floor, breaking it in the process. "These are Narcotics, aren't they? Don't get me wrong, I really want to join the guild, but I have no intention of sleeping with you."

"Oh... So you did notice?" Salamander smiled wickedly, without even looking at the girl. "You are such a bad girl, if you had simply fallen asleep everything would have been much easier. You wouldn't have forced me to… hurt the merchandise."

Afterwards, everything happened too fast for the blonde to fully take notice. When Lucy realized the white haired man had disappeared from Salamander's side. She then felt how he was holding her tightly with a pressure hold that held her hands on her back. Alongside the bodyguard's actions, many bad-looking men appeared behind a large curtain, carrying women who seemed unconscious and in deplorable states.

Lucy was outraged... terrified to say the less.

"As always, hurting the merchandise, don't overdo it Drey." The blue haired man said as he slowly approached where "Drey" had Lucy immobilized.

"She brought it on herself, Salamander." The white-haired man answered monotonously.

Lucy fought, kicked; struggled in disgust thinking of everything that could happen to her, but all her efforts were in vain. That is why, when she felt that cold and calloused hand roughly holding her by the chin and forcing her to see those lascivious eyes that undressed her just by looking at her, she felt that she wanted to throw up.

And fear, a lot of fear.

"Welcome to our slave ship, I ask you to be silent until we get to the boss hideout."

'This can't be happening to me.' Lucy thought incredulously.

While the disgusting Salamander removed her keys, and threw them out a window, Lucy asked herself many questions. If that man really was a Fairy Tail mage... How could someone abuse in such a way a gift as beautiful as magic was? How could he fool girls to fall in love with him and then just... sell them or whatever?

She couldn't help crying. Maybe they would say she was exaggerating, but... how could she held her tears if in front of her was salamander holding a red-hot iron mark, ready to mark her as if she were simply a price? As if she was some kind of animal.

"Now I will mark you as the slave you will be from now on. At the beginning it will be a little hot, but you will endure it, they all do it. In addition, this will be nothing compared to what awaits you honey." Those words generated so much hatred and contempt in the blonde's tears flooded gaze that Lucy couldn't't help thinking how much she regretted wanting to be part of a guild in which a man like salamander belonged.

'If this is a Fairy Tail wizard… I never want to join!'

But fate had other things planned for Lucy.

From a cloud of destruction and debris, generated directly by the violent appearance of a hole in the ceiling, appeared that pink-haired boy Lucy had known a few hours ago, accompanied by the gigantic dog. The latter growled like a beast straight out of hell, the crew backed away intimidated just seeing such a beast.

They came to help her, that was what the blonde wanted to believe.

But all her hopes were ruined when she saw how Natsu was.

Natsu was knocked out could...

If it hadn't been for the quick acts of Apollo, that without Drey being able to record what was happening, he strongly held his jaw to the man from one of his shoulder and with an extraordinary force sent him to flying through the air towards the coast. For Lucy alone it would had been difficult to break free, or she wouldn't have succeeded.

"Fly you idiot, because with whom you will meet has many questions for you." It was what the dog said among his growls, helping Lucy and leaving Natsu's dirty work.

Drey flew through the air until landing in one of the squares of the port. The impact didn't hurt him at all, but the distinctive pain in his shoulder was another story.

"That damn dog… this will leave me a disgusting scar. " Said the white-haired holding his shoulder and rising from the sandy ground. "When I see it again it will become a beautiful layer of skin for my room. I don't understand how he was that fast…"

"I don't think you'll see him again in your life, it's not like I'm going to let you do what you say anyway." That voice belonged to a tall, pale young man with red hair.

It was Caden.

"And who the hell are you?" Drey asked annoyed.

"Caden, Future member and of Fairy Tail and also a knight." Cade answered selflessly and with his hands on his pant's front pockets. "What really triggers me here is knowing who you are, holy knight."

"As if I were going to tell you, fairy." The white-haired answered by drawing his spear.

"I definitely liked how that sounded." Cade thought, realizing how great it sounded that he was told he was also a fairy. A member of the guild, it was kind of nice.

In that the man disappeared. Seconds later the man reappeared, directing a lunge at the redhead. Caden didn't react at all. He didn't understand how, but only his reflexes were enough to stop the attack of the white-haired knight. He was holding the spear a few inches from his chest tho.

"That was fast." Cade said, maintaining his composure, without taking his eyes off his attacker. "Did you intend to kill me with that?"

"I intended and I succeeded... PIERS!" A white beam of energy was fired from the tip of the spear, piercing Caden's chest and leaving a hole of a few inches where his heart was supposed to be.

However, what really happened left Dray scared.

"Y-You... how is it possible..."

"I think I can't be killed easily, or I really don't know how this works... I'm new to it." It was Cade's blank expression while the dripping blood hole in his chest healed alone and easily what terrified the man. Cade was trying to act all mighty and strong, but hell… he was also terrified of what was happening. Whatever, he needed to deal whit this man first. "As far as I know, the only one really capable of hurting me is me and me alone."

With eyes wide open, and with a psychopathic smile, the white-haired began to laugh... That laugh slowly became whole hearty until finally Drey spoke with great ecstasy and surprise. "It's you! The survivor of the holy era! Sir Ban the immortal!"

'What the hell…' Cade thought surprised.

"We were right ..." Drey was still smiling and laughing obsessively. "With you… The world will finally be able to see his glory and know what true power really is!"

"White fox!"

Caden was surprised, even if his face didn't express it, that psychotic and obsessive man in front of him had confirmed his suspicions. Somehow, the worlds of Fairy Tail and Seven Deadly Sins had merged.

Now he just needed to get the details of the holy era and who was the one he was speaking.

Caden sighed.

"I'm not that 'White Fox' you are talking about." The redhead said surprising the man with the spear, making his sick grin disappear and his face twist in anger. "That magic you used is called 'Break' right?"

"The old sacred magics are gone. My magic is this time version of 'Break', but never as powerful as the original. " Drey responded furiously as he struggled trying to free his spear from Cade's grip.

The redhead nodded resigned, pushing the man with the spear and making him stumble. Honestly, he didn't know if things made more and more sense or became even more confusing.

'why can't it be simpler… I need concrete answers, and fast, or I swear I will go crazy." Thought Cade.

"Well, with that I ended up with you, thanks for the help." To be frank, Cade no longer wanted to interrogate the man, it was obvious that he was not going to speak, it also seemed that he was going to blow a fuse because of how angry he was. That's why Cade decided to turn his back on the knight and flee before that happened.

"GOD DAMN YOU!" Drey shouted. "Do you have any idea how long our master has looked for the fox? I can't let a fake like you make fun of him with his mere existence! I will kill you here and now!"

"Well, good luck with that!" Shouted Cade as he walked away, but not before pointing to the sea with his thumb.

It was there when Drey realized what was happening. It was probably because of his outbursts that he didn't notice it, but a tsunami was heading straight for where he was, to the point that it was so late to dodge it that the shadow of the wave already covered him completely.

Can we mention that a ship was also about to fall on the man?

Drey didn't even have the necessary time to react, so he was completely crushed by the ship.

"So don't call me for a while. Understood? I will take a trip with my boyfriend... With my boyfriend!" During the commotion, Lucy, Happy, Apollo and the one who was clearly one of the spirits of the blonde, Aquarius, landed next to Caden.

"I got it, ok?! Ugh, she can be such a showoff sometimes!" Lucy said as her spirit vanished from that plane of existence. Cade could tell the blonde was quite angry.

"Hey Lucy ..." Apollo began while smirking. "You have never had a man? And here I was believing that those great melons where great at fu-"

"Shut up you damn pervert dog!" The blonde shouted in disgust at what Apollo was implying. Caden was just trying to smile, very distressed by what his partner had wanted to say to Lucy.

"What did I miss?" Asked the redhead, getting Lucy's attention. The instant she saw him, she ran on his direction and hugged him, screaming in exasperation and begging him to save Natsu's life that, due to an accident, which must be clarified that she had caused, had been left in the wreckage of the ship.

"It's strange, I don't remember Lucy worrying so much about Natsu when this happened..." Cade thought with his curiosity.

'Please, it is obvious that she is attracted to the pink-haired idiot…' Apollo replied, while the two looked at each other. 'She clearly wants to get into his pants'. Cade was really begging to worry of how his pet was acting.

He was smiling smugly.

'Stop smiling like that, Apollo, you are really frightening me...' the redhead replied.

"Don't worry about him." Happy said while Lucy cried lying on Cade's chest. She felt so guilty that because she couldn't control one of her spirits, Natsu was probably hurt.

"Quiet, just look at the ship for a moment, will you?" Cade said, holding both shoulders of Lucy gently and pulling her away from him. He then look into her eyes and gently clean up her tears.

At that moment Lucy felt that what Cade wanted to tell her with his actions was that everything would be fine. That's why she trusted the redhead, and when she turned her gaze towards the ship, she ran into a completely intact Natsu, standing on top of the ship's remains with determination and fierceness, with an aura that spoke for the thoughts the pink haired man was having at the time.

None of those present knew how "Salamander" was not trembling in fear with the looks that Natsu was giving him.

"Natsu!" Exclaimed Lucy smiling to see her friend safeness.

"I forgot to tell you, but Natsu is also a mage." Said Happy, causing surprise in the blonde.

"EHHHH?!"

"Are you a Fairy Tail mage?" Natsu asked the blue haired while his subordinates ran to attack him.

"And how does that matter?" Salamander responded arrogantly.

...

"There we go." Cade said out loud while smirking seeing how Natsu tensed up.

"How does that matter?" Natsu said as the shadow covering up his eyes darkened. "I'm Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail! And I've never seen you in the Guild before!" Exclaimed Natsu, getting rid with just a blow of the thugs who were attacking him, leaving them out cold. This surprised everyone who was watching the scene, except for Caden Happy and Apollo, obviously.

After all the real Salamander was in front of them...

What happened after Natsu revealed who he was, was crazy. The pinket fulfilled his duty to defend the guild's honor only as he could do it, giving the impostor, Bora of prominence, a huge beating. While all that was happening, Happy explained to Lucy, Cade and Apollo how the power of Natsu, the magic of a Dragon Slayer, worked.

Although it was true that Cade already knew what Dragneel's magic was like, it was still impressive to see it in action; and for Lucy, who had never before experienced being in the presence of a magic as powerful as Natsu's, she couldn't help losing her breath from the impression. However, there was something that had the two young companions very worried...

"It's amazing..." The two said as they looked at Natsu. "But…"

Of course, they were worried because the whole port was a hell on fire.

"You destroyed all the damn port!"

Natsu's destructive tendency was no lie after all.

"Aye!"

"Yep."

Happy and Apollo said as if it were the most normal think in the world. Cade could understand that this was normal for the cat, but Apollo? He was definitely doing it to piss him and Lucy off.

And he was doing it just right.

"Do not tell!" The Lucy and Caden shouted, wanting to kill both the cat and the dog.

"What is all this scandal ?!" However, something else caught the attention of the boys.

A large squad of angry soldiers, and they were coming towards them.

"Shit, we have to go!" Lucy didn't have time to react because when she least expected it, she was already being dragged by Natsu and Cade, who were escaping at full speed from the place with Happy and Apollo at her side.

"Why me!?" The blonde shouted in surprise, she had nothing to do with the disaster happening right now, rather she was the victim!

Of course, apart from the tsunami...

"Isn't it obvious? No, Natsu?" Caden started, smiling as he ran.

"You want to join Fairy Tail, don't you?" And to this Lucy was incredulous, everything pointed to probably, most likely...

"Then come with us." The two young men said giving the blonde a warm smile. She just stand there, smiling why being dragged, without even being able to believe what was happening, without being able to imagine how her dream of joining the number one guild in the whole continent was going to be fulfilled, that's why she smiled. Because the charisma of these two boys had embellished her, because she strangely felt it was the beginning of something big just by seeing the Dragon Slayer smile...

"I'm in then!" The girl nodded happily.

Cade saw all this with joy, he wanted to have something to remember this moment. Then he remembered that for some bizarre reason he had his phone in his pants bag since the beginning of the day.

"Hey guys!" Cade said taking out his cell phone and activating the front camera. "Smile!"

The group was already on its way to Magnolia. A few hours ago, they had lost the militaries that where pursuing them and now they were talking pleasantly among themselves. Everyone was in a very good mood, Natsu and Lucy seemed to get along very well while Apollo and Happy, although it seemed impossible, had reached an agreement so that Happy could ride on the nape of the dog.

Story short, everyone seemed to be having a good time.

Everyone but Caden.

Although everything that happened was the best for them, the redhead couldn't stop thinking about his conversation with the aforementioned "Holy Knight", the revelations he had during the day, and more importantly ...

The white fox

Somehow Ban was still alive, and he was somewhere out there, Cade could tell.

'I think it's time you tell them, Cade,' Apollo told Cade using his link after seeing and feeling how lost he was in his thoughts.

"Yes, I think it is," Cade replied simply.

"Guys, now that we are all calm, I would like to, and I think it is time, that you know about me." Cade said drawing the attention of Natsu and Lucy, who were still in the middle of a conversation. Their smiles disappeared from their faces when they saw how serious Cade was being with this.

"What happens?" They both asked at the same time, surprised and worried about the sudden change in their friend.

"Where to start..."

'I can't tell them everything, I don't know how they would react if I tell them that I am from another world…' Cade thought.

"Natsu, do you remember how I know nothing about the holy era?"

"Yes, in fact it is very rare that someone does not know about that nowadays." Natsu said, you could see from the glow in his eyes that the subject caused him excitement.

"Yes... very rare indeed, it is part of basic education practically everywhere." Added Lucy thoughtfully. "For example, I loved when my tutors teached me about Escanor's feats!" And now the blonde was also excited, both looked like children in cade opinion.

'After all who wouldn't, it's the seven deadly sins we are talking about after all." Cade thought as he smiled at his friends' behaviors.

"So how come you two haven't noticed? Guys, pay attention to my tattoos." Cade told them, taking off what was left of his shirt and showing them his body. It was there when the two young men looked closely at Cade's tattoos. They were the same as the ones described on the legends of the seven deadly sins. But it couldn't be possible right? Cade couldn't have any relationship with them. But they were there, the tattoos were real, and emanated a strange magical energy.

Perfect Time-NnT OST

"There's no fucking way, you said you didn't know anything about the sins, and those tattoos look real." Natsu said incredulously, his eyes wide open.

"Is it magic I fell coming out from them? " Lucy was equally surprised.

"Cadeeeen!" Everything was interrupted by a voice foreign to the group, a voice that Caden know. In front of the road the group was Drey stood just some meters in front of them. He was wielding his weapon offensively while pointing it towards the group. The disturbing thing about all this was the dense mass of magic that was forming in the spear head, it was more than clear that it was an attack he was charging.

And it was addressed to them.

"Fuck! Guys back off, I'll take care of this!" Natsu was already in position and ready to counter the attack. However, Caden pulled the pink haired back with his hand while he took the position of the Dragon Slayer.

"I'll take care of this." Cade said already ahead of the group.

"What the hell are you doing Cade!? How do you intend to block that without magic!?" Natsu shouted worriedly, watching as Dray's attack grew more and more stronger.

"Natsu is right, leave it to him!" Lucy supported the pink head. If that attack touched Cade it would be the end of the him. Although she was not a mage as strong as Natsu, she knew how to recognize a strong attack and the one charging up surely was.

"You two worry a lot, jeez." Apollo started. He looked unconcerned and that made Lucy and Natsu quirk an eye. "You see, it may be true that Cade isn't a mage, but that does not mean he cannot use magic... he is a different kind of warrior."

Natsu and Lucy, thanks to Apollo's words, gradually assembled the puzzle. The two already were suspicious, but what they were thinking was almost impossible. That kind of warriors had died out millennia ago. The two were looking incredulously at Cade's bare back while they were being covered by the shadow of same redhead, shadow that was being formed by the same light released by the mass of magic the man in front of them was forming.

"Natsu, could it be that...?" Lucy half asked, feeling a combination of worry and amazement, without taking her eyes from Caden back.

"I don't know if we are thinking the same thing..." Natsu also answered without taking his eyes off his friend back.

Apollo just smirk entertained with the state of shock of his new friends. "I see you two had already realized."

"Seven sacred powers inherited and trusted to one man, along with seven relics worthy of wielding those powers..."

"HOKEI RAKAN! (Piercing charge)" Drey shouted in the middle of a maniacal grim, finally releasing from his spear all the magic he had gathered, throwing a massive stream of pure energy.

"Please, I hope this really work as I'm think" Thought Cade, bringing his hand to his bare chest, just above the dragon tattoo.

"Roar! Fury's Dragon, Lostvayne!" Then, from Caden's chest, wrapped in black miasma, a sword emerged. This was not just any sword, Natsu and Lucy recognized it instantly and yet, having it in front, couldn't believe it, it was the legendary sword Lostvayne, once the sacred treasure of the captain of the seven deadly sins, Meliodas.

Quickly and with semi-precise movements, the redhead stood guard with the sword right in front of him, waiting patiently for the attack to collide with his persona. He had never used a sword in his life, he hadn't even fought, but there was... there was this something that moved him like he was used to using this sword.

And so, when the magic ray was about to impact.

"FULL COUNTER!" For a brief instant Cade was struggling while keeping the attack in contact with the blade, holding on the stream of magic. Then bean just disappeared.

"That's impossible, he has just nullified my most powerful attack..." Drey said scared as he backed away slowly and fearfully.

"Nullified, no, amplified. Now eat this." Cade said making a slight diagonal movement in the air right where he had stopped the attack. At that moment the same attack reappeared.

Only this time twice as big and in Drey's direction.

The "Holly Knight" could only see helplessly as his own attack came towards him. Upon receiving the blow, he couldn't say anything, make a move, not even think, he was completely razed.

"See? He is fine, after all you two are seeing a Holy Knight in the flesh." Apollo said pompously and proudly as he looked at the tired and panting figure of Cade, and the path of destruction that the Full Counter had caused.

'I'm… in no… condition for this…' Cade thought as he tried to catch his breath.

'It's like that woman told you, you have to train your power and truly make it yours...' Apollo replied.

'Whatever…'

On the other hand; Natsu, Lucy and Happy were impressed.

Cade turned to look at then, agitated and still recovering air. "See... what I... wanted to say?..." The redhead finished, struggling with the mere action of giving them a smile.

Little by little the redhead felt his body beginning to give in to exhaustion. He began to fall onto the dirt.

"Cade!" Natsu, Lucy and Happy shouted as they ran next to Apollo where Cade laid.

There, conscious and lying on the road, with his gaze fixed on the stars of the night sky, Caden couldn't take off his silly smile.

In another place, while a group of people walked through a forest, one of them stopped for a moment, making the others stop with him.

"What's up old man?" Asked a blond with a somewhat annoying tone.

"Something's wrong?" A woman also asked while a girl looked cautiously at the back of the man who had stopped walking.

"Nothing." The man replied, resuming his course and making others follow his walk.

That's interesting, so he is the knight you were talking about… Illianna.

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