NA: My story is getting longer than I first intended it to be. I hope you guys don't mind… I'm having too much fun writing their stories.

Anyway, I decided to make Bonus chapter come in 2 parts coz it's not going to fit in one part. I PROMISE, ONLY TWO PARTS… then we'll get back to the main story. .

~BONUS CHAPTER PART 1~

15-year-old Grant has just finished training with Erza and the rest of the Prodigy team. He was all too excited with the fact that today was the day: The day his parents were coming home from a month long mission.

"Well at least one of you is excited." Lexy commented as the team made their way out of the dojo.

"I am excited," Luna tried to convince her friend, "I mean, I'm glad they're back because it means the mission was a success and that they can be back home, where it's safe."

"Luna, Luna, Luna" Jer put his arm around Luna's shoulders while shaking his head and said, "Don't worry too much, your parents are extremely strong. There's no need to be worried about those things."

Grant made his way between the two mages as he sensed that Jer was too close to Luna. He made a promise to his parents (well just his mom, really) that he will always protect the Dragneel girl from danger: he concluded that Jer was a dangerous person, to women at least. Jer, being the oldest person of his generation, was very popular. He was the trendsetter, the idol, and it helped that he was extremely good-looking. There wasn't an official team leader at the time, but everyone just assumed that Jer was the one. That was until Grant beat him in the S-Class promotional trial a year later, but of course, no one knew of this event yet.

"Well, I'm heading this direction now, I'll see you guys later." Ren left the rest of his teammates and later on Lexy started hitting Jer after saying something completely promiscuous to the 13-year-old Luna.

"Jer! Don't say those things to a 13-year-old!"

"What's the problem, she's only 3 years younger than me. Besides, Luna is my favorite. At least she's a lot nicer than you, Lexy" Jer provoked the dragon slayer, which earned him an ear pull. As Lexy dragged the requip mage, Jer said goodbye to his two friends.

"I bet those two will get married one day." Luna told Grant when their friends left.

"They should get married now so that Jer could suffer earlier." Grant suggested while looking a little annoyed. Luna remembered how the elders usually laughed at how Jer and Grant interacted with each other.

"Auntie Erza said you and Jer have the same relationship as our fathers when they were younger." Luna said, as if implying how he shouldn't hate Jer so much.

"The hell with that! Jer's stupid! Our fathers at least trust each other."

"You don't trust Jer?" Luna asked her best friend, who gets annoyed of every action Jer did. Jer could be tying his shoes and Grant would get annoyed.

"I do… and I don't. I don't know, it's hard to explain."

"I think you're jealous of him." Luna looked at her friend with accusing eyes while her statement got Grant off-guard.

"Why would I be jealous of him?"

"Well, cause he has the reputation of being the coolest mage, he's also a lot stronger than you, not to mention that he's also very handsome, he's tall, and funny, and charming and –"

"Ok Luna, I get it." Grant looked at his friend with teasing eyes, "basically, you have a crush on him."

"wha?" Luna was surprised by the assumptions although; she'd be lying if she said she didn't have a crush on the older mage. Which made it even harder for her to keep her cool as she felt her secret coming out in the open. "Wha-what made you say that?!" She tried to question Grant but Grant knew, judging by her facial expression and voice that he has found out something she didn't want others to know. Oh, this is good. This is very good.

"Hehe, here carry my bag" Grant handed over his bag to Luna as they walked to their homes, which were close by each other.

Luna, thinking that Grant tried to change the subject to something more comfortable, internally thanked the ice-water mage. "Why would I carry it for you?!"

"Because I have blackmail material." Grant said with a grin while Luna was horrified. Crap, he's not going to let this go then.

Meanwhile, their parents and Happy were on their way back to Magnolia, but brought someone along with them.

"Don't worry, Keres, Fairy Tail is a very loving guild, I'm sure you will fit right in!" Natsu told the 15-year-old girl they ended up rescuing while out in the mission.

"So there are 3 water mages in the guild now, it seems, at least Grant will have someone to train with. She might even be strong enough to become part of the Prodigy team." Gray commented.

The black haired girl laughed shyly at the comment and insisted that they think too much of her. She's never been in a proper guild before and right now, she's only excited to finally be able to get proper training and make new friends.

Happy suggested that she could even be more than friends with someone at the guild, suggesting a certain ice-water mage to match her powers. Juvia only glared at the blue exceed and Happy ended up having a personalized cloud that dropped rain on him as they walked.

"Grant will marry Luna. Juvia will not give her blessing to anyone else!" Juvia explained.

"Now, now, Juvia, we shouldn't meddle with our children's lives." Lucy tried to calm Juvia down.

When the group reached Magnolia, their first destination was the guild to introduce the new mage as well as to get her settled in and get a mark. Laxus welcomed back the group and team Natsu discussed their mission to the guild master. Mirajane assisted Keres with getting her guild insignia, a blue one that sat just below her neck.

"Nice choice, Keres, from afar it looks like a necklace!"

"I know right, it's exactly why I chose this spot."

"Do you want anything to eat? We're having a celebration so feel free to order anything."

"I'm not that hungry but I'll just have soup, please."

Mira went to the kitchen to fix something up for Keres and little Ren walked up to the beautiful mage and invited her to come to his table and meet his friends. Keres smiled at the young mage and accepted his offer.

Little did anyone know, Keres was making calculations in her head.

Ren Conbolt: 11 years old, prodigy team, second-generation wind dragon slayer. Perfect. My life just got easier, I'll have you in no time, Dragneel. She couldn't believe her luck, she thought it would take a while for her to make her way to Luna but this invite from Ren will let her finish her mission a lot faster.

As they walked to Ren's group, Keres noticed how two mages her age started to fight.

"Requip! Don't think I'll go easy on you, Mr. Frosty. We all know I'm superior!"

"I agree, you are superior! Superior at costume changing!"

Jer Fernandez: 16 years old, prodigy team unofficial leader, requip magic.

Grant Fullbuster: 15 years old, prodigy team, ice-water magic… and most importantly, Luna Dragneel's most trusted person.

While the two mages fought, Keres got acquainted to the other members of the Prodigy team thanks to Ren. "So this is Lexy. She's also a dragon slayer. Well, second generation."

"You make it sound as if we're inferior to first-generations!" Lexy tried to scare Ren but the small mage only smiled and said that they still had a lot to learn, so in a way, they were inferior.

Lexy RedFox: 16 years old, Prodigy team, second-generation iron dragon slayer.

Just as she finished thinking this, she was introduced to her real goal.

Luna Dragneel: 13 years old, prodigy team, hybrid of celestial wizardry and second-generation fire dragon slayer. The only dragon slayer who can actually summon dragons.

Luna smiled at the older mage and greeted her, "Hello, my name is Luna. It's nice to meet you." Luna said shyly.

Ironically, she seems weak.

"Hello! It's very nice to meet you, my name is Keres!" Keres faked her friendliness and was soon conversing with the 3 members of the prodigy team.

As the two other members calmed down and walked back to their table, Ren asked the new comer what kind of magic she used.

Keres smiled at the young boy and demonstrated her magic by refilling the little boy's glass of water. "I control water."

This left a shocked Grant and an overjoyed Luna. Luna has known how badly Grant wanted to improve his elemental skills but it's been hard without someone with the same element as him to train with. Grant soon bombarded the water mage with questions, without bothering with everybody else.

Luna felt a little jealous as she watched the two interact. Grant's never that excited to talk to me. Hmp. But before she could entertain the feeling any further, she concluded that Grant had a crush on this girl and now she had blackmail material too. She smirked at the thought and convinced herself that the jealousy she felt wasn't romantic at all. Beside the fire mage, Jer looked on with scrutinizing eyes at the new member, something felt off about her but he didn't know exactly what. All he knew was that her aura had a weird feel to it.

"Don't even think about it!" Lexy whispered to Jer with much force that it made the mage jump.

"What are you talking about?" Jer whispered back.

"You want to seduce her too!"

"What do you mean by 'too'?"

"You know exactly what I mean, seriously you just flirt with all the girls in this guild. The only girls you don't flirt with are your mom and Auntie Mirajane because you know Master Laxus would kill you."

"Sounds like you're a little jealous, Lexy." Jer tried to tease his friend but he ended up getting hit by 3 plates in the head.

Luna saw her parents walk in the scene and she decided to go up to them to greet them after their long journey.

- Jer continued observing Keres and Grant -

Grant and Keres talked more about their magic and each of them suggested techniques to each other. Grant was learning a lot from Keres and Keres "seemed" to be learning a lot from him as well. In reality, the female mage was bored of the conversation.

- Jer continued observing Keres and Grant -

Natsu, Lucy, and Happy were tired from their mission and told Luna that they could have the family celebration for tomorrow instead since today was a guild welcome celebration for Keres. Natsu perked up with the word "dinner" and asked her daughter to make something extra spicy tomorrow, which received a disapproving comment from Lucy and Happy. The Dragneels had a light-hearted moment, which ended too soon when Natsu noticed how Luna got another burnt mark on her hand.

"Did you get another dragon?" inquired Natsu.

Luna hid her wound in her pocket but she knew it was too late. "Yes, my 8th one."

As Luna got older, the dragons were getting harder and harder to defeat, after her 6th one, the upcoming dragons required more than just physical strengths as they began to question her about what kind of wisdom she could bring to the world, apparently they didn't want to assist a stupid girl, which was understandable.

Natsu only nodded and commented that he was tired and will see her tomorrow. Deep down, he was proud of his daughter but he was worried too. Lucy hugged her daughter and told her that everything will be okay and not to stay out too late. Happy also hugged Luna and wished her good night.

- Jer continued observing Keres and Grant -

As the night progressed, Luna's mood became even sourer as she noticed Grant not even noticing her presence. Usually, this is the part when he would comfort her and tell her that everything was fine, that her parents were really tired and didn't mean to look mad. But tonight, she was getting neither the family time she wanted nor the attention from Grant she depended on. She frustratingly chastised herself for being annoyingly dependent on Grant but she's never even realized it until that very moment. She decided to call it a day and leave. She said her goodbyes to everyone and left off saying goodbye to Grant to the very end. Grant would surely walk her home, at least, since they live so close to each other. She would soon learn that she wasn't getting anything her way tonight.

- Jer continued observing Keres and Grant -

She walked up to Grant and told him she wanted to go home. Grant didn't even look at her. He simply said bye and told her to be careful as there was a construction site on the way home.

Construction site?! We live on the other side of the road! Does he even know who he's talking to?! Luna thought frustratingly.

- Jer continued observing Keres and Grant… and Luna -

Luna decided to stomp her way out of the guild, refusing to let her tears fall from her eyes. Lexy was observing Jer, who seemed to have figured something out in his head. Despite all her teases and her comments, Lexy looked up to Jer and knew more than anyone (besides Erza) how amazingly observant and smart Jer really was. How else was he able to decipher when to continue flirting with a girl or back away before he gets slapped? Not to mention, how else would he know how jealous Lexy was each time he flirted with another person.

Lexy decided to call it a day, and Jer knew she meant she wanted him to walk her home. "This girl is promiscuous, I swear." Jer thought. As if sensing his thoughts, Lexy glared at the guy mage and said her father will kill a shrimp like him if he did anything to her, which kind of intimidated the requip mage.

As they walked, Lexy asked the burning question she's been keeping all night.

"So, what did you figure out?"

"I swear, Lexy, can't I hide anything from you? You'll probably be as amazing as me when it comes to reading people and situations if you had a crush on everybody!"

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?! I don't have a crush on you!"

"I didn't say you did, but now that you mentioned it-"

"Stop changing the subject!" Lexy said before letting Jer finish. "What did you figure out about the girl who made Luna sad?!"

Jer became serious for a moment and said one thing to his friend, "Compulsion."

"Compulsion?"

"Exactly. Lexy, please don't think I'm crazy, I know this is going to sound odd as fu-"

"I don't think you're crazy, so please tell me what's in your mind" Lexy encouraged Jer to continue.

"I don't know who she is and what her ultimate goal is, but it seems that she's placing a spell on Grant to make him interested in her. You could think that she just has a crush on him and at first I thought she was just genuinely interested in Grant so I was just going to leave it and watch the drama unfold, but…"

"But…?"

"But, her aura is weird, and it's like she used compulsion on other people too, including Luna's and Grant's parents. Why would anyone go to that extent for a small crush?"

"What made you sure?" questioned the dragon-slayer.

"I don't know. But now that you know, you can't be fooled by her magic. Which means, lets be partners in keeping Grant sane."

"Hmm? For all your talk, you actually worry about Grant."

"No, I worry about Luna. You said it yourself, she was sad when she left."

The two reached Lexy's home and Lexy agreed to partner up with Jer but warned the boy that she was doing it for Luna and not for him. Jer smiled and said that it was mutual then, which made Lexy a little jealous as she began to suspect that Jer was starting to have a crush on Luna. But, she decided to put her feelings aside to help her friends.

Back at the guild, Grant and Keres decided to train together the next day. Grant wasn't sure why but he was extremely excited to just see Keres again. Juvia pulled his son out of the guild and told him it was late. Juvia didn't like what she was seeing. She was very serious when she said she wasn't giving her blessing to anyone other than Luna.

The next day started early for Grant as he made his way to the river to train water magic with Keres while the Dragneels were asleep until around lunch time. Except for Lucy, who was busy in the kitchen preparing a nice lunch for her family, Luna would be helping her if she wasn't so depressed. Ren was helping his mother in the small clinic, it was also his way of training. Jer, was busy deciding if he should notify his mother or even Master Laxus about Keres' weird aura.

When lunch time stroke, Lexy arrived at the Dragneels and Grant invited Keres to have lunch at his place. He had already told his mother the night prior and Juvia promised to make her "specialty" for the water mage, which apparently was a green soup that Gray has never seen his entire life.

Luna admitted to being jealous of Keres that day but Lexy had convinced her that Grant was probably just excited to see the girl. Although, Lexy knew it was a lie. She wasn't sure why Keres had to use compulsion but it definitely can't be good.

After lunch, the Prodigy team met up in the dojo to train with Erza. Much to everyone's surprise, Grant invited his new friend to watch their training. He's convinced Erza that Keres simply wanted to learn.

Luna wasn't happy about this scenario at all. The only time she got to see Grant that day was during training and she couldn't even get his full attention there.

The events repeated for a few days, and eventually, the days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into months and when the third month stroke, Grant announced that he was officially dating Keres in front of the whole guild. Everyone rejoiced except for those who knew about the compulsion.

Lexy wanted to hit something and decided to sneak a drink from her Aunt Cana, something they usually do behind Levy's back. While Cana drank to celebrate, Lexy drank to keep herself from doing something she'd regret. After the third beer, something burned within her, she wasn't sure if it was heartburn from the alcohol or something else, all she knew was that she wanted to figure out who exactly Keres was, why she's compelling everyone, and how on earth they could get rid of her. From afar, Jer noticed his partner get fired up and realized that it was time they did something with the knowledge they have. Behind him, he felt the guild door open and noticed a crying Luna walk out of the guild. He decided to follow her as he truly worried about his friend.

Luna eventually got to the sakura tree her parents would take her to when she was younger. Happy told her it was an important tree to her parents and she always felt relaxed when she's there. Much to her dismay, the tree didn't help at all. She sat down, hugged her knees, and cried her eyes out.

Jer finally reached the crying girl and sat down in front of her, he realized that Luna was too focused on her tears to even feel his presence. As much as Jer liked to think he had experience with the opposite sex, he'd never really dealt with a crying girl before. Prior to this night, the most negative interaction he's had with a girl was with Lexy who would constantly beat him up, since she was the only girl he lets himself lose to.

Not knowing what to say, Jer simply hugged the girl, which caught Luna by surprise. Jer didn't know why he could always sense Lexy's presence but he knew she reached them now too and was seeing the entire thing.

"Don't worry, Luna. We'll figure something out to help you." Jer said confidently.

Luna was confused with what he meant, "We?" as she said that, she noticed another figure behind Jer. "We'll do something about this! We promise, right Jer?" Lexy said enthusiastically. Jer stood up and nodded at the girl in front of them.

Two months after, Grant and Luna's relationship went down from best friends to friends to just teammates. Luna was sad about this but refused to show any signs of her heart shattering to anyone, especially Grant. She decided to focus all her energy in getting better with her magic. Eventually, when she's old enough to decide for herself, she will go to a mission and her parents will not be able to stop her.

One day, as she walked to the dojo, she heard a very angry Jer yelling at Grant.

"DEFINITELY NOT! We're not going to add another person in the team! Especially not your girlfriend. She's a distraction to you in training, she'll be a distraction to you in missions!"

Nobody noticed Luna walk in the room but if anyone saw her, they would see shock, confusion, and hurt in her eyes.

"What are you talking about? Keres is an excellent mage and you know very well how strong she is. If anything, her and I working together is an asset to the team as our elements match. Grant tried to reason out with his rival.

Jer knew that Grant had a point but if he could, he would argue that Keres was probably evil but he couldn't say that without any proof in his hands. The long pause encouraged Grant and he felt that his case had won, but just for extra measure, he decided to say one last thing; something that will change everything in an instant.

"Besides," Grant continued, "If you really think about it, Luna's an even bigger distraction to me because I always have to look after her."

Just like that, a slap was heard. Luna had hit Grant so hard that his body actually moved from the shock while Jer stared on at the events happening in front of him. Seriously, exactly what kind of compulsion spell is Keres using that she got such a mature person like Grant to say that. Little did he know that Luna's tears were a lot more powerful than any compulsion against Grant.

Luna couldn't keep her tears from falling. The statement she heard wasn't new to her. Many people have already commented on how undeserving she was of being part of the Prodigy team. For the most part, she was used to it and had shut off those comments but hearing them from Grant's mouth was an entirely different story. This was Grant Fullbuster, the person she trusted more than anyone, the person who made her the happiest when the saddest moments hit, and at that moment, Luna realized that this was also the man she loves. Her heart shattered even further as the realization synced in that the person she loves just called her a nuisance.

For the first time in her life, she felt the dragons within her rage. She felt their presence all at once. She would have run away from the dojo and cried herself somewhere but instead, the dragons' anger became hers, and there were 8 of them inside of her. They edged her on and eventually Luna said two simple words that would break apart the Prodigy team. "I quit." And just like that, her relationship with Grant went down even further as they are not even teammates anymore.

Luna's tears stopped but sadness was still present in her eyes. She turned around and walked away, confident of her decision. Luna thought she would cry and run like she always did but instead she walked away as if she's won a fight. It was apparent to everyone that Luna was mad, and it occurred to them that it was the first time they've ever seen her this angry.

As Luna walked out, she passed Keres who was in her way to the dojo. Even though it was her plan to join the team, she didn't expect such a powerful aura from Luna. Another person passed by her: Grant, who did not at all notice her presence. This left her shocked and that look was not missed by Jer who realized that the compulsion spell broke and that Keres had not expected it.

Grant, on the other hand, was shocked by the events that happened. All he could think about was Luna. Luna slapping his face, Luna looking angry, Luna walking away, and above all, Luna crying. The thing that made it worst for him, is knowing that Luna's tears were because of him. He wasn't sure of what he did, everything was a daze but all he wanted to do now was to come up to her, hug her and comfort her in his arms. He desperately wanted to get to her, desperately wanted to make her understand how important she was to him but instead Luna glared at him and told him to leave her alone.

"Luna, let me explain plea-"

"I said leave!" With that, 3 dragons appeared from the ground between the two mages, as if shielding Luna from Grant. This surprised Grant, as he didn't realize that Luna had gotten so strong recently as to be able to summon more than one dragon. He recognized the dragons in front of him, in fact, he knew all her dragons by name because she always introduced them to him.

Fafnir. Dragon 6, battling him was hard for Luna but in the end she pushed through and won against the war-loving dragon.

Ryu, Dragon 7, The battle against him wasn't so much physical as they were mental. He mostly asked Luna about her wisdom.

Zmey, Dragon 8, Luna's strongest dragon so far.

Grant realized that these were Luna's strongest dragons and he was reminded that Luna wasn't weak at all, he was reminded of why guilds, both legitimate and dark, wanted to get their hands on her.

For the first time in his life, he saw a glimpse Luna's real powers. For the first time in his life, he feared for something. He feared her powers, as they were the strongest he's ever felt. Above all, he feared for her, in the same way Natsu and Lucy feared for her.

Keres on the other hand, already had a plan on how to make this work to her advantage.