Ciao,
It has been a while, but I have finally updated new chapter. I hope you guys like it. Well school is going to start tomorrow, so I am afraid that my updates will become less often. I will try to write one chapter a week, however I will make no promises. Oh, and good luck to any other person who goes to school a.k.a hell hole, I hope you make it out alive.
English is my third language so if there are any mistakes I apologize.
Disclaimer: I still do NOT own Fairy Tail, just the plot and Anastasia!
It was a while since the missing members returned and one day in our tiny guild the third master Makarov decided to announce the fifth master of Fairy Tail. Every pair of eyes was turned to the third master "And so…" he started "I've decided to retire. I am going to introduce the next master now." The guild looked at the short man with surprise and wonder. "Are you serious?!" Came Cana's question, on her left was standing Macao, dusting his coat "Wait. I am not mentally prepared yet…" I wanted to snort, I knew there was no way that Macao would be the next master. Apparently Wakaba agreed with me and voiced it loud "It ain't gonna be you!" I was nodding in the background and wondering who will be. Probably someone from S-class.
"The fifth Fairy Tail master…" continued Makarov, pausing for a while for more drama "Gildarts Clive!" He pointed with his hand to his right, expecting the Fairy Tail's strongest mage to be there. Sadly this was not the case. On Makarov's right was standing Mirajane and waving at us. The whole situation was a little comical, everyone just blinked, Makarov almost choked making some weird sound with it and Mirajane smiled. The tiny man walked to Mira asking where is Gildarts. "He left a letter." Came the only answer from the polite barmaid.
Makarov opened the letter and started reading. His expression so horrified it made me want to burst out laughing. Really, Fairy Tail was so funny; they fought over stray piece of dust and yet they would kill for one another.
"Master, as well as everyone in the guild, I am sorry, but I am not cut out to be a "master". " Read Makarov, while others were laughing. I liked Gildarts. He knew what he want and was a free soul. But then again, I liked everyone in Fairy Tail. "Well, I will take the opportunity to make two orders as the fifth master. The first: accept Laxus as a member of Fairy Tail." Everyone was left with mouth open, the most surprised was Laxus. "That's taking liberties!" Exclaimed Makarov, but I could see it was actually making him happy. Laxus seemed to regain his ability to speak and the Thunder God Tribe was happily surrounding their not-so-ex member. "Now the Thunder God Tribe is complete again!" Exclaimed Evergreen, hugging Laxus that looked at loss of word again. Next to him was standing Fred that had tears running down his face like a waterfall and mumbling about Gildarts being a great man. "If that is what the fifth master rules, we have no choice, but to obey." Said Makarov hiding his happiness and continuing "The second: I appoint Mr. Makarov Dreyar the sixth master of Fairy Tail."
"Me again!" Came shout from the third and now sixth master, while everyone had smiles on their faces. "I am going to travel for a while. But I will come back when I am in the mood. Until then, take care." Mira pulled out another letter for Cana, with a card inside that can contact Gildarts. Cana simply tore it apart, but we knew she was touched by the gesture. "Fairy Tail is my home. I will return. I pray that by then, Fairy Tail will once again be Fiore's number one guild. But that's not my duty. It's yours. Master, that's your last job. To make fairy Tail Fiore's number one guild again!" Everyone was quiet after the emotional letter, until Master's shout broke the silence.
"My last job, you say?! Jackass!" He shouted in the air "Since it's come to this, I am not gonna let anyone else be master!" Laughing once again filled the guild I call home "I will be master 'till the day I die! Booze! Bring out the booze!" And so the party started.
People drank and the theme of conversation came to becoming Fiore's number one guild. "That Gildarts… Fiore's number one guild, he say's…" Said one of members "That's being way too optimistic!" Said Max. Erza heard the conversation and joined it "Oh, no, it's not. It's good to be ambitious." Warren answered "Yeah, if this were seven years ago…" "But things are different now." Finished Max. "Of course, there's Sabertooth…" joined Alzack "But Lamia and Pegasus too, they are powerful guilds that can't be compared to what they were seven years ago." "They are huge guilds!" Added his wife and daughter. "There is no way to make up for seven-year gap..." Came from depressed fourth master "Whether we're talkin' individual magic power or the guild's overall strength, becoming Fiore's number one guild is impossible!" Finished the fourth master's advisor and Erza agreed with their point.
Then Romeo jumped on a table telling her that he waited for seven years and that he doesn't want to wait any more. "There's just one way to become number one in a hurry!" Protests of the guild members that weren't asleep for seven years came. I knew what all that was about, they told me about it. Well Romeo did, others just looked gloomy. And so the fight came to be between Romeo and Macao "We're gonna be in it! We're gonna! We're gonna!" Came from Romeo and "No, we're not! We're not! We're not!" Came from Macao. It was in moments like that, that I wondered who is the father and who the son. "We're never gonna take part in that again!"
As the two continued to argue about it while Natsu, Wendy, Lucy and Grey came back from Porlyusica. "Who doesn't wanna participate?!" Shouted Macao and all the members that weren't missing for seven years minus Romeo, raised hands in agreement. Romeo disagreed and then Natsu asked what it was all about. So Romeo told him about a festival that decides Fiore's strongest guild "It's called the Grand Magic Games!" And so Romeo tried to convince them to enter and battle Sabertooth, current strongest guild. "But… I don't know if you guys are strong enough to pull that off right now…" Said Makarov, I had to agree. They were gone for seven years after all. But Romeo's next words convinced the current master to agree. "If we win, the guild gets 30 million jewels as a reward!" Shouted Romeo. It was instant victory in convincing Makarov. In the moment he heard the words he exclaimed "We are in it!"
There were protests from other guild members about how we were always last. "We'll take that crummy record and destroy it!" Shouted master and Natsu joined him with saying how he is fired up. "When's the tournament?" Asked Natsu "Three months from now." Answered happy Romeo. "Plenty of time! By then we will be lean and mean and Fairy Tail will became Fiore's number one guild again!"
Some of the members still tried to fight against the decision, but it was too late, the decision was made and we were aiming for the 30 million... ahem I mean, aiming for Fiore's number one!
And so we came to the beach to train and become stronger… Though it may not seem so on first look. Especially when Natsu and Gray went to have swimming race, sand castle building, eating and suntan contests. But after that everybody started training. On the night of the first day when we were walking to our rooms, Lucy stopped and looked at the night sky. I liked Lucy, she was always nice and in the small amount of time we had since we met, we became friends. I walked next to her and leaned on the fence. "Look! The stars are so beautiful!" Exclaimed my blonde friend. "I wonder if everyone else is training hard too…" I said "Maybe they are looking up at the stars right now, just like us!" And in that moment I felt so close with everyone in the guild, we all did.
The second day on the beach, Lucy's spirit Virgo came, with the request for help. Apparently the spirit world was in danger and we decided to help. Virgo transported us to the spirit world and it was beautiful. When we transported our clothes changed and I was dressed in light green kimono like dress, similar to Wendy's just another color. Glitter was everywhere, things seemed to shine and everything looked great. That confused me. We came here to help them with something, yet everything seemed fine. Then I saw a giant man, with giant mustache standing before us.
"We heard that the Spirit World is in trouble." Said worried Lucy and I looked at the Spirit King. He looked serious for a second and then he smiled. "Lucy and friends! Let's celebrate your release from the shackles of time! Party!" Said the Spirit King and that showed even more how great Lucy was, I read thousand of books and I never heard that somebody even met the Spirit King, let alone was invited in the Spirit World! I looked at the Celestial Mage and smiled, thinking about how happy I am to be surrounded by people like her.
The party started. We ate, drank and had tons of fun. I met Lucy's spirits and many others. Levy and I even got a book from the spirit world as a gift. All in all, the day was amazing and all too soon it ended. "Well, old friend may you have the divine protection of the stars." And with that the Spirit King and all other spirits, besides Virgo disappeared and it was time to go back home. Natsu began to shout about three month training and Virgo turned to look at us. "Oh, there is one thing I forgot to tell you." She said with emotionless voice "The flow of time is different in the Celestial Spirit World and the human world." Well it did make sense, after all. Natsu and Gray shouted if one year here is one day in the human world and how this would be perfect place for training if so. Virgo just emotionlessly looked at them "No." Oh, this is gonna be bad, I can sense it "It's the opposite. One day spent in the Celestial Spirit World equals three months in the human world." With that we were transported back.
Virgo's words seemed to suck the happiness out of us. I was right, it was bad, even more so than I feared. "Everyone we were looking for you! The Grand Magic Games are just five days away! I bet you guys trained your hearts out!" Exclaimed Jet and Droy happily, while their words stabbed us, like imaginary arrows. We had done absolutely NO training! "It's over…" Gray, Natsu and Erza fallen on the ground, Wendy started to cry, my knees gave up as I fallen on the sand next to crying Sky dragon slayer and Lucy started to shout at the sky to give our time back to us. Yup, it was official, in the last three months that were for training and improving we done nothing. Zero! Nula! Niente! Rien! Nicht!
We were depressingly trying to come up with an idea how to improve, when a white dove landed on Erza's hair, with letter on it's leg. Happy took the note and read it to us "It says: Dear Fairy Tail, come to the broken suspension bridge on the hill." It was suspicious, but let's face it we had nothing better to do, so we listened to the letter, well more like a note, and went to the broken suspension bridge on the hill.
"This is what they meant by the broke suspension bridge?" Asked Erza when we arrived to, as the letter says, broken suspension bridge. There was nobody there or at least I haven't seen anybody and we were ready to turn around and leave when the bridge repaired itself. Others were sure it's a trap, but they still decided to go on. However nobody wanted to go first, until Gray pushed Natsu onto the now repaired bridge. After a few steps the pink haired dragon slayer caught himself on the rope of the bridge. Sadly the said bridge was shaking and my dear pink haired friend got motion sickness. Somehow he managed to get over it and we followed him on the other side.
We walked through the forest, until we saw three figures before us. Turns out they are ex dark mages that turned good and want to help people, but because the council still believes they are criminals they can't so do freely. So they formed a guild called Crime Sorciere, an independent guild, in order to atone for their sins. They destroyed many dark guild in the last several years. I heard of them, once or twice on my missions. Apparently they have only one purpose; to drive away all of the darkness from the world, so wizards won't be possessed by the dark side like they were.
They heard we are going to participate in the Grand Magic Games and they came to ask us for a favor. My moronic friend, the pink haired one made a comment if they need an autograph and I smacked him on his head. The guy had no common sense. Well not than many in the guild did either. Turns out there's a dark magical presence, that it's similar to that of Zeref every year at Grand Magic Games and they want our help to investigate it. We agreed. Actually Erza did, I think she likes the blue haired member of the guild, Jellal.
In return Ultear's evolved Time Ark will raise the level of our abilities. ""Power up" has a ring to it, but that's not really what it is. Wizards have something like a container that determines the limit of their magic power. Even if that container becomes empty, for example the body will automatically absorb Eternanos from the air, and after a while the container will be full again. But recent research has shown there's a part of the container wizards possess that normally doesn't get used. It something that everybody has. Latent ability, Second Origin." Explained Ultear.
It hurt like hell, but we all survived in the end. And so our three months training that passed in a day ended.