Chapter 2: Family Issues
AM 2 HQ Irene's office
Irene sat at her table going through multiple piles of paper work. She slowly sipped a cup of tea left on her desk by one of her secretaries. Probably Juliet the girl was irresponsible and oblivious, sometimes other members of the office would ask how she became Irene's secretary. But the child had her good days such as today, but that was as far as it went in terms of maturity. Her other secretary had to constantly be on the Back on Juliet just to get her to perform the simplest of tasks that she didn't consider fun. Though Irene had found the behavior of her two adopted daughters amusing it could get annoying.
"Hmm?" She stopped on a specific paper, a name had caught her eye this was not very common. Most of the papers were from the head branch in Crocus or from the Special Ability council Era. But this one it was from-
"Jiemma." She growled, that name left a bad taste in her mouth. It was a letter concerning the incident 3 days ago. About the massive spike in A.M.M output in the laboratory.
Bisca had finally left the room to meet the two support teams up on the surface that had recently arrived. The teams were filled with normal persons, not a single A.M.M user on both teams. Two Armoured knights (larger versions of the US Military Sea Knights) slightly hovered above a small field the used as a landing zone, before touching down.
"Alright load what we can and get outta here!" Bisca yelled to the men of the three teams. They all turned to gather what they could scavenge from the underground lab. It took some time before they loaded the Armoured knights. But now they were ready to skip after 25 minutes of work.
Every one boarded there own respective aircrafts, they were all set. The Knights were first to lift off, the aircraft tilted to the right due to the weight. Soon it was stabilized everyone was on the way back to Magnolia.
Macao looked behind to see multiple choppers closing on the area they once were. " Um guys did they send a fourth, fifth and sixth team?" He was hoping it would be yes.
"No I have no reports of other teams why?" Bisca answered the question. Seems luck was not on there side. The aircrafts now almost out of sight started descending on the field they once occupied.
"I have a bad feeling about this. Alright get us out of here." She ordered the pilot.
"Yes Ma'am!" he nodded. "Who was that?" She asked as she sat back in her seat.
"No idea maybe we can ask Director Belserion when we get back." Alzack said while looking at her in concern. "You don't look so good. Are you okay? We're about an hour away from Magnolia get some sleep you can't keep pushing yourself." He continued, but was ignored.
"I'm fine I can still continue-" She collapsed, not in the right place either, fall the wrong way and the chances of waking up would be zero. Fortunately Alzack caught his wife.
"See what I mean?" He sighed, why are women always so stubborn?
The rest of the trip was pretty uneventful. Maybe except where Wakaba started smoking, only Kami knows where he got a cigarette from but not just one but an entire pack.
"Where do you even get those?"
Wakaba shrugged. "How am I supposed to know?"
"Because your smoking them!" Macao yelled. A tick mark formed one his head.
"Meh, I just found them lying around." Wakaba shrugged off the fact that he not only stole someone's cigarettes but was smoking them without a care.
"There are so much things wrong with that." Macao sighed while he pinched the bridge of his nose. What is wrong with you?"
"Nothing i'm healthy as a horse ask your wife." He joked.
"Heh you wish, you couldn't get if you were ten years younger." Macao elbowed him playfully. "Besides who would want you?"
Wakaba starter sulking in a corner, while Macao laughed at him. Alzack had fell asleep shortly after his wife so only the two remained.
"Okay boys get ready it's time." The co-pilot said. Macao started to wake the sleeping couple. "Time to go."
The group quickly exited the flying vehicle, the rotors still spinning rapidly kicking up the wind and dust. They were met by a grumpy Porlyusica.
"So how did your mission go runts?" She asked them quite rudely.
"If this is how you show concern I'd hate to see you when your mad." Macoa said out loud, this caused him to receive a glare from her.
"You should be lucky I even came here you brats! If it weren't for Irene and Makarov I would have left you all to die!" She bellowed. Macao and Wakaba covered their ears yelling. "Lalala!" And Alzack and Bisca was having their own conversation blocking her out.
"You little-"she began but stopped when she remembered she had a job to do. "This why I hate humans." She groaned.
"Alright you little runts I want every detail!"
"So they figured we we're coming?" Irene whispered silently. Bisca nodded as a reply.
"Yes ma'am, they cleared out and sabotaged most of what they left. They even bombed in a room filled with..." She stopped her bottom lip quivered.
Irene nodded in understanding. "Alright you may go." Bisca again nodded before leaving silently sobbing. 'Bastards.'
She stared emotionlessly at the pile of paper work on her desk. "Heine!" She yelled.
"Yes Lady Irene!?" A girl at the age of seemingly 18 years old sped through the door.
"Can I ask you to take care of this? I think it's about time I see them." She asked the girl known as Heine.
"Yes Lady Irene!" She nodded, "I would have done it even if you didn't ask."
"Thank you. I'm off then." Irene waved at Heine before she walked out the door.
She too stared at the papers. "Now where should I start?" She sighed
Elsewhere..
Irene walked down the street. It was so peaceful... Okay not peaceful it was deserted, everyone who saw Irene made a run for it. To the point where a eight month pregnant lady scaled a ten ft fence with the sign "beware of dogs" slapped on it. Yeah that bad...
She stared at the scene with an amused smile before continuing her journey. Loud barks was soon heard, but she paid no mind.
Soon she came to a house. It was a red Three story building, she gently knocked on the door. A few seconds later it clicked open. "Ah lady Irene." A woman dressed in a maid outfit said. "Welcome back." Irene stepped in and was met by a row of females maids. "Welcome back!" They all bowed.
"Mommy!" A eleven year old girl practically jumped the 12 step stairs. She had scarlet hair the same as her mother, and brown eyes. She smiled brightely. "Welcome back! Did you bring it!?" Irene nodded showing her the box if strawberry cheese cake. She cheered before it was interrupted.
"Erza what did I say about running in the house!?" A girl shouted from atop the exact same stairs. She had the exact same appearance as Erza with one main difference. While Erza's hair was let down hers was tied in a ponytail. "Oh mom your here. Welcome back."
Erza turned around to look at her twin sister and stuck her tongue out at her. This annoyed her but she said nothing.
"Indeed I am but I'll have to leave soon. I'll be leaving tomorrow."
"Yay!" Erza cheered. That meant she could catch up with her mother and hear amazing stories about her job.
"Great, she wouldn't stop after you left." Her sister complained. " She wouldn't stop complaining about when you'd return how you were going to have fun blah blah. It was seriously getting on my nerves."
Sierra the head maid chuckled mischievously.. "And where are you going Lady Knightwalker?" They all looked at her. For the first time Irene finally noticed her attire which was a blue tank top, black jeans and a pair of white sneakers finished with a silver necklace.
"Erza?" Irene rose an eyebrow.
"I was just going out with some friends." Knightwalker sighed.
"And by friends you mean that Jellal fellow?" Erza nodded sadly.
"What!?" Erza screamed. "And you were going without me!"
"I knew it." The head maid squealed happily. "Young love its so romantic I wish I was young again!" It wasn't that she was exactly old. In fact she was only 36 years old. She just wished she was 16 again. Even though all the guys would probably tell her she was sexy, hot, mature yadi yada. "But just imagining the two makes me want to squeal they would be so cute!"
"Wha- wait what!?" Erza Knightwalker stammered. "No!" Her face turned the shade of her hair she immediately started to hyperventilate.
"What of course not I'll be the one to marry Jellal!" Erza jumped in.
"Over my dead body!" And the two started an all out war over who would marry Jellal.
Sierra squealed again. " Not one but two!"
'If both my daughters like him that much he must be pretty amazing.' Irene thought, oh how wrong she was.
8 years later
"Captain Knightwalker ma'am! Sgt Valdez reporting for duty!" The man saluted. He had spiky black hair, shining blue eyes and had the look of a rookie. Well technically he was a rookie newly assigned to the Magnolia division. And the Knightwalker subdivision. Let me explain, two years ago Irene decided to divide the Branch into subdivisions. The knightwalker subdivision and The Belserion (Erza, I decided to give her Irene's last name.) Subdivision. So the work would be divided to everyone in charge. (Just a way to take the work load off of herself.)
Sgt Valdez I want you to gather your team and head to Valcoave. I heard that some immigrants from Bosco are causing trouble in the area. I want you and your team to suppress them use force of necessary.
"Roger that!" The Sargent saluted once more.
"That is all you may leave." She muttered. 'From rookie to Sergeant in less than a week and he's this bad. What kind of idiots are in the main branch (Crocus division) right now?' She didn't bother voicing her annoyance.
"This is a pain." Her annoyance increased, when she saw Erza her sister and Jellal in a corner seemingly enjoying each others company. Erza Knightwalker stomped over to the two to voice her protests. People in between her point and her destination or even slightly close pathed like the red sea before they turned into a sea of red.
They all knew to avoid her when she was like that. And no one here was ready to die unless it was in the field.
And it would be fine unless someone was stupid enough to say.
"Who's the red headed bitches?" Yeah that.. Wait what?
"What!?"
"Nooo! she's gonna lose it scatter!" Someone screamed and everyone was gone. The building had gone from busy to ghost town quickly.
"Knightwalker stopped her advances and stared at the person who dared to call her a red haired bitch. While Erza simply glared daggers at the perpetrator.
A girl around the same age. She had long silver hair and dark almost demonic eyes. She wore a simply white shirt and tight black mini skirt that didn't do much to hide her almost perfect ass, she wore a pair of black gloves and tights with black shoes.
"The demon whore is here!" Erza said loudly. "What you here to fuck another guy who's it this time, Jet, Droy, Macao?" Erza sneered.
"What about your man?" What's his name. "Jellal I believe."
"You wouldn't!" Both of them shouted.
"Care to test that theory?" She smirked.
"Alright bulldogs break it up!" Erzas mother shouted from the 2nd floor balcony in front of her office. "I have an announcement to make. Today we have a new recruit! You can come out now."
Someone stepped out of her office. He had spiky pink hair and had a muscular build his eyes were emotionless, cold and calculating. (literally and figuratively) This made some of them shiver.
"His hair is pink? Did you dye it are you ga-" She looked in his eyes and instantly shut up. Not even a second later she was staring right down the barrel of a Glock-17 pistol.
"Finish that and i'll blow your brains all the floor." His voice was calm, yet it held a dark fury hidden. A demon slept within this boy. A real demon that should never be awakened Or it would only spell catastrophe.
"Got it Bulldog?" He questioned threateningly. While Erza and Knightwalker prepared for a fight. Mira could only nod furiously trying not to get a bullet through her skull.
"Good. Glad we're on the same page." He said his gun vanished.
"And it's not Bulldog my name is Mirajane." But he just brushed it off like nothing.
"As I was saying his Name is Natsu Dragneel. He's very unstable so don't go near him and don't call his hair pink or him gay unless you want to die early. Got it?"
Everyone nodded. Mira stared at him. 'What was that?'
"Alright back to business!" She clapped her hands repeatedly causing everyone to scattered returning to their business.
DNatsu stood in place glanced at a face he thought he'd never see again but the emotions that came back were not joy and happiness, neither were they anger and rage. They were..nothing came back he felt no emotions, the emotional connection that he felt nine years ago had gone from a river to a canyon then to a void. Nothing at all.
Ur Milkovich stood on the balcony staring at him in shock. He simply turned and walked away. Ultear who was watching the exchange frowned. She was going to have a talk with the new guy.
He simply sat in an open seat. Placing his headphones over his ears he let the music take him away.
This was his utopia. No one, nothing just him and the music. It gave him Serenity all his negative emotions were simply washed away. Not that he had positive emotions anyway. Here he was at peace, his meaning of heaven, his distraction from the pointless world around him and it's stupidity, madness and pointlessness.
To him their was no meaning to the world. Was it just to house creatures that simply poisoned the universe with there own ignorance and carelessness? Or was it made for more who would tell? Humans only make the same mistakes over and over never caring about who or what they hurt in the process just themselves humans were selfish beings even himself.
And this was the only place he alone could exist. Even when they were warned someone always found their way in front of him. This was one of those cases. Ultear spun his chair around violently glaring at him.
"If your trying intimidate me i'll give you seven for attempt but zero at everything else." The man said removing the headphone.
"We need to talk." She said gripping the chair tightly. He sighed, what a pain.
"Time and place then never speak to me again." He said emotionlessly.
"Fine with me. As for time and place, the roof now." She said placing emphasis on now.
He sighed again as he left his chair and made his way to the stairs towards the roof. Halfway there, a flash caught her attention. She pulled a gun for precaution, but to her surprise a small girl she looked no older than 13 with cat ears. She had short purple hair blue eyes with a pale complexion. She wore a black sweater with "Your boss bitches!" on it, she also wore a black miniskirt knee high stockings and black shoes. she had a wireless headphone with a star on each side. around her neck.
"Master!" She shouted loudly. Natsu blinked.
"Neko what are you doing here?" He asked.
I'm an AI where can't I go?" She asked cheerfully.
" Genisis-12." Said bluntly.
"Oh yeah.." She muttered. "I came to warn you it's almost time. They've already made their move."
"Ah I see thank you Neko." She nodded then disappeared with a flash. Just as he made it to the final step.
Once he exited the stairs he made a few more steps before turning to face her. "What do you want." He asked trying not to sound bored.
"What was that?" She glared at him.
"What was what? Neko she's just a-"
"Don't screw with me! You know what I'm talking about." He paused for a few seconds then answered..
"Ah you mean Ur. But what was what?"
You think i'm a fool? I know what happened and I saw the exchange between you two. She was surprised when she saw you she had thought you were-"
"Dead?" He asked. "Ah yes they always do."
"Are you going to blame what happened on her?"
"I never blamed anything on her. YOU want to know the truth, I don't blame it on THEM I don't blame it you and I don't blame it on her." He said with a bitter smile. "I blame it on myself. I was always too dependent on others, in anything I would always depend on someone for help. But after Ur left with you I learned. You can't always depend on someone to be their for you. The only person I can truly depend on is myself." He said darkly.
"You wanna know what? I really don't blame anyone but myself for being a failure. I really can't blame her for running with you. A mother has to do what she has to do to protect her child." His voice returned to cold and icy. "And I had to do what I had to survive. After all i'm just an Orphan from one mom to another then none. I am like this because I chose to be."
"She ran with you. That's, that it's the past there is nothing anyone can do about it. It's that simple." He said he made his way to the stairs once again. There he saw Ur staring at him with wide eyes.
"Good to see you again." He said giving her a bright closed eyed smile before continuing his journey. As soon as he looked away his smile vanished.
Ur sobbed silently Ultear rushed to help her mother who had fell on her knees.
"How much did you hear?" Ultear whispered.
"E-everything." She whimpered. "What have I done?"
Ultear gave her a soft smile. "You did what you had to." She whispered.
Disappointing? I know well here is Chapter 2. Chapter 3 should be out by next weekend I wanted to finish it by this week and start Chapter 4 but sadly it shall not be done. If possible both Chapters will be released by next week if not well we'll all have to wait another week. It's hard to write in a phone but I'll have to make due. As for the chapter I like to think they get better hopefully this is my first Fanfic so you'll have to see past my mistakes.
As for the book overall I originally intended it for a Natsu X Knightwalker pairing but now I'm updating to a Natsu X Harem for personal reasons. I've already decided on Ultear, maybe Lucy, Kagura, and maybe Meredy.
Also in this fanfiction the ages of the characters are kind of jumbled. Example Both Erzas are 19 years old while Natsu is 17. A few others are all over the place for pairing reasons so you'll have to look past that as well.
Level system explained..
As for the level system spoken of in this chapter, I noticed I never explained so here we are. The levels are represented by how powerful a person is(obviously) but only in power or A.M.M output, skills, previous training and such are bot registered.
There are 12 levels, lowest being 0 these are civilians. And the highest is 12 the current only level 12 in the known 2 warring continents are August, Irene and Acnologia. Natsu is currently level 8 while Both Erzas are lvl 5 along with Mira. Jellal is lvl 6 and Laxus is lvl 7 both Guildarts and Makarov are lvl 10 and such. Gajeel and Gray are lvl 6 as well and it takes 4 of one lvl to match a lvl higher example 4 lvl 5 to match a lvl 6 and so on..
Next time: Teammates and Rogue Missions!
Irene: You did what!?