Chapter 2
(Two Years Later)
Gajeel's P.O.V.
Gajeel ran after the hooded man. He had taken another S-class mission with Wendy, and at the moment the mission was not going as planned. He and Wendy were supposed to take down a small dark guild called Crimson Moon. Their problems started when he was caught of guard.
Flashback
Gajeel and Wendy were hiding in the bushes and waiting for a guard to go to another part of the giant castle which was home to Crimson Moon. From the scents that Gajeel could sniff out, he estimated that the guild had twenty members. He could also tell that those twenty members were extremely powerful.
"Gajeel these guys are no joke." his partner observed. He only grunted in response. Since Natsu's disappearance a lot of things had changed. Fairy Tail wasn't as rowdy as it used to be, the members rarely got into fights. Gray didn't strip all the time. Nab didn't hang around the request board. Gajeel became an S-class mage. He, Wendy and the former team Natsu became obsessed with finding any important information about Natsu.
After Natsu left news of his departure spread very quickly, two days after he left every mage guild knew that Fairy tail lost its Salamander. Gajeel was one of the few that still believed that Natsu was still out there and was going to come back to them eventually.
Gajeel was so distracted by his thoughts that he hadn't realized he and Wendy had been spotted. Wendy screamed, he saw a flash of light then he fell unconscious.
He woke up with a headache. After the pain subsided he noticed two things. Wendy was nowhere in sight and he was inside a prison, bound by metal chains. "No chains can hold me." He said before he bit down on the chain binding his right arm.
The chain broke with a snap, Gajeel then repeated the action with the other chain. He broke the door leading out of the cell. As Gajeel checked his surrounding he saw a man clad in black clothes, wearing a hood that covered most of his face breaking into a run once he laid his eyes on Gajeel. "Hey!" he shouted as the man sprinted towards a large black door.
Flashback End
The memory of how he got into his current position left a bad taste in his mouth. The hooded passed a balcony Gajeel realized he was inside the Crimson Moon guild and this guy was one of their mages. He finally decided to end the chase. Gathering magic into his mouth he let loose a powerful tornado which contained sharp shards of metal. "Tetsuryū no Hōkō!"he cried as the tornado hit the man, tearing into his clothes to pieces and giving him deep cuts.
The man was already unconscious before he hit the ground. Gajeel immediately left the scene as the noise from his attack called the attention of every single sentry that was in that area.
As Gajeel fled the scene he began to realize that the information he was given about the dark guild was wrong. The number of sentries he saw was well over twenty. It seemed like their client didn't know much about the dark guild. He cursed as he saw another guard come round a corner. He immediately lashed out a fist, which hit the man's face breaking his nose.
Gajeel pulled the hood over the sentry's head. "I'm looking for a little girl with blue hair, brown eyes and sharp teeth." he growled. "Th….the girl is with our boss, he's trying to use some power of hers to heal a beast that he found a while back, they're behind the castle." Gajeel ran off leaving the bleeding man on the floor.
Wendy's P.O.V.
While Gajeel was chasing sentries, Wendy was definitely not having fun. After Gajeel got knocked out she tried to put up a fight with the guild members. Eventually she realized she would soon be overwhelmed by her attackers, so she tried to heal Gajeel.
It was when she began to heal him that the guild members took interest in her abilities. All the sentries that were around her knelt down as a man dressed in black robes came from the castle. In a flash the man was in front of Wendy and he swiftly knocked her out.
When Wendy woke up she realized that she was in a field behind the castle. She wrinkled her nose in disgust as she smelled something in the air. She stood up shakily and looked in front of her. An injured wyvern was on the ground trying to get up. "Sad isn't it." A voice next to her said. The robed man was in front of her.
"Who are you?" she asked. The man pulled of his hood revealing a bald head covered in black tattoos. He looked at her with blank eyes. "My name is…" he paused and looked at the castle, a frown appearing on his face. Immediately an explosion destroyed part of the castle.
A smile came upon Wendy's face when she saw Gajeel enter the field. "Let Wendy go now!" he raged
Gajeel's P.O.V.
Gajeel nearly smiled when he saw that Wendy was unharmed. He then focused his eyes on the bald man next to her. This was the leader of Crimson Moon, so he and Wendy would have to be cautious when fighting this man. The man looked at Gajeel, a wry smile manifested on his face. Gajeel's anger spiked at this. Throwing caution to the wind he raged "Let Wendy go now!"
The man raised his hand and a wave of shadows burst out of the forest and hit Gajeel in the chest. A thin shadow then wrapped itself around him, keeping him in place. "GAJEEL!" Wendy was crying as she looked at Gajeel's injured form. The bald man just released a shrill laugh. Wendy glared at him, eyes filled with pure hatred.
"If you want your friend to go then you had better heal that beat before I lose my patience." he said calmly. "What do you even need that wyvern for?" she asked. "Hmm, I'll tell you once you're done healing it." He replied.
Gajeel looked on in anger as Wendy started to heal the injured creature. Once its injuries were gone Wendy. Stood up, "It's done" she said "It should be able to move about and hunt for itself, how did it even get into such a state." The man cleared his throat. "I was the one who damaged that animal." He walked towards a tree, used a shadow to sever the trunk and then he sat on the stump. "I shall tell you of a story only remembered by the necromancers, Zeref and the dragons." He took a deep breath "In the distant past, before the time of Zeref, at a time before man discovered magic, there were was a dragon so powerful that it was able to perform unimaginable feats. That creature was the most powerful being in its time, with a power so great no dragon or human could seem to challenge it."
"That dragon would go on to become known as the Dragon-God, as its power was said to be comparable to that of a deity. But with time its strength began to wane and it was eventually killed. The dragonslayer who killed this beast eventually became the dragon Acnologia the dragon of the apocalypse." He looked at our faces of disbelief and laughed.
"It seems you find my story hard to believe but it doesn't matter, the truth will always remain the truth regardless of whether people believe it or not." He then looked at Wendy expectantly, as if he knew she was going to have a question for him."
"What does this have to do with you becoming a dark guild master?" she asked fear in her voice. "I came here in order to learn more about dragons if I'm to help stop Acnologia, who seeks to gain then same god like power of the Dragon-God, he will then use this power to erase most of the life in this world."
Gajeel was scared. Was there really a creature so mighty no dragon could stand up to it? The man continued "I guess it is time for me to go, seeing that I've left something to think about." He covered his head with the hood again. "I believe that in the near future another dragon-god will appear and throw the world into chaos." He started to walk away from us "So as a part of the world I believe I should find a way to kill this creature." He motioned to the wyvern which started to follow him. "Goodbye, if we ever meet again it may not be under the best of circumstances." He touched the wyvern and together they dissolved into shadows.
Gajeel was completely shocked. He look at Wendy who seemed like she was about to collapse. "Wendy lets go back to the guild, I'm sure they've been waiting for us to get back." Wendy simply nodded.
"Wait Gajeel, lets keep this as a secret between the two of us." She said. Gajeel looked at the girl, grunted and started walking away. "Hey!" Wendy shouted as she ran towards the iron dragon slayer.
Magnolia (One week later)
Natsu's P.O.V.
After two years Natsu Dragneel came back to Magnolia. "This place hasn't changed." He observed as he made his way to Magnolia's number one guild Fairy Tail.
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