Recently was too distracted with so many stuff like exam and others going on and my PC just caught a virus which took me the weekend to kill. Hopefully, things will get better.

Just a reminder, Juvia doesn't address Gray as Gray-sama in my fic due to my fic setting. I have my reasons and they will be revealed in the next season.

Chapter 16: The Strongest Mage of Fairy Tail

Fairy Tail had accomplished their mission brilliantly and all the destruction of the towns and villages had ceased.

Lucy finally got to return to the ever-noisy guild. Putting down her sweater, she sat beside Wendy who was eating with Charles. A certain white-haired girl standing upstairs looking over them caught her attention. She thought she was someone new in the guild. Lucy was puzzled as it seemed that Mirajane and Elfman who were standing behind her smiling and talking with her knew her.

"Ahh… Lucy-san, that is Lisanna-san, Mirajane-san's younger sister. Didn't you know?" Wendy pointed out when she noticed Lucy staring at her direction. She thought Lucy might know her since she joined the guild longer than she did.

"EH?! I didn't know." Lucy was surprised. She looked so different from Mira except for her blue eyes and her white hair.

"I wonder if she is as strong as Mira?" Lucy looked up in awe. Wendy smiled apologetically. "I don't know. According to Mirajane-san, she just came back from her animal magic studies aboard and she will be taking the S Class examination this year."

"Really? Wow! I'm sure she will do as well as Mira." Lucy commented. "After all, she is Mira's sister."

Suddenly, a creature which resembled a trumpet flew in. "Gildarts shift activated! Gildarts shift activated!" The guild cheered when they heard the trumpet's announcement.

"Gildarts is back!" The guild members exclaimed in excitement.

Lucy was puzzled. It seemed that there were quite a number of people who was unknown to her returning to the guild that day.

"Who is Gildarts?" Lucy asked while Wendy shrugged.

"Gildarts is the strongest mage of our guild!" Erza explained as she walked over to them. Meanwhile over at the balcony, Tsuna was extremely excited to hear that the strongest mage of Fairy Tail had returned. He had reverted back to his normal self after a talk with Jellal. There was some progress with regards to the issue with Zeref after all.

"So the strongest mage of this guild is known as Gildarts? Great! I want to challenge him." Tsuna declared stretching himself.

"Aye!" Happy jumped up sharing his excitement.

"We can be compared against Gildarts." Erza was going through with Lucy and Wendy on Gildarts' profile.

"He is a SSS mage if you need a gauge for the level he is at. He could well become one of the Wizard Saints if he likes but due to some reason, he gave up on it."Mirajane came over with Lisanna and Elfman.

"EH?! You mean he is stronger than you and Erza?" Lucy exclaimed in surprise. Mirajane smiled and nodded.

"Just how strong is he?" Lucy could not imagine.

The whole Magnolia Town transformed and made way for the arrival of the strongest mage. Lucy and Wendy were told that he could destroy a whole town even walking in daze. Lucy froze when she heard that. "What kind of idiot is he?" She wondered. Wendy's mind was shuddered just by thinking about the damages he had caused out there. Tsuna and the rest destroyed things during their missions, he was of another level when comes to destruction.

A big orange-haired man scratched his head when he came through the entrance. He was puzzled. "Am I at the wrong place?" He asked.

"Welcome home! Gildarts!" Mirajane walked over to greet him.

"Miss, do you know where the guild Fairy Tail is located?" The man scratched his head.

"I'm Mira. Mirajane." The lady in pink dressed smiled. It took some time for Gildarts to register who Mirajane was. "Mira? You are that Mira?" He was shocked. Gildarts could not recognise Mirajane who had an extreme makeover in terms of appearance and personality. What happened to her? Not only Mirajane, even the guild building had a makeover and the guild building had undergone an expansion and it had grown considerably after the destruction of the previous guild building by Jellal's clone.

"He hasn't change at all." Gray commented folding his arms.

"Gray, your clothes!" Juvia reminded. Gray jumped in fright noticing himself topless.

Gildarts looked around a guild and noticed a number of unfamiliar faces. Many things had changed over time since he was away.

"Gildarts, you are back!" Master Makarov showed himself.

"Master, why did you summon me back urgently?" Gildarts got to the point after greeting Makarov. He foresees something serious was going on.

"Have a good rest today. We will talk tomorrow." Makarov replied.

"Great! I want to rest too!" Gildarts noticed Tsuna and continued. "Come to my house later, I have a present for you." With that Gildarts broke the wall and left the guild starling both Lucy and Wendy.

"He is really an idiot." Both of them thought.

Tsuna was excited to be noticed by the strongest mage in the guild. To him it was an honour. "I shall go and challenge him." Tsuna stormed out excitedly through the hole Gildarts had made.

"Go by the entrance, you idiot!" The other members of the guild exclaimed. Lucy sweat dropped at her energetic Brother-in-law. He had been this way since his talk with Jellal. She wondered what Jellal had talked to him about. She noticed the blue Exceed beside her was shaking his head.

"Happy, what kind of relationship does Gildarts have with Brother-in-law? Why did he ask him to drop by his house?" Lucy asked curiously.

"You just wait and see, he will storm back in fury later." Happy's expression turned dark when he said that startling Lucy a little. "He must have mistaken you as Natsu since it had been a long time since he last saw him. Gildarts dotes on Natsu the most." Happy face-palmed and flew after Tsuna.

"Hello!" Tsuna greeted following Gildarts in his trail to his house. "Sorry for intruding!" Happy added.

"Ahh.. Natsu and Happy, you are here." Gildarts greeted them and continued rambling not noticing the change in Tsuna's expression. "Natsu, have you found a girl you like? Let me introduce some I met during my mission to you".

Tsuna felt really uneasy to hear Gildarts mentioning his twin brother's name. He should have realised it earlier. Gildarts did not mean to invite him to his house. He just joined the guild not long ago and Gildarts who was away for very long didn't know about him but He was surprised when Gildarts called his name. Gildarts was just teasing him.

"Tsuna… I know you are Tsuna. In fact, I had realised it's you when I saw you in the guild. You have grown up. You were just 11 years old and this short when I last saw you. I remember you didn't want to join Fairy Tail and gone to Edolas that time. What made you change your mind? Doesn't matter. I will still ask you the same question, have you found a girlfriend? Where is Natsu? Isn't he with you?"

Tsuna reacted the way Happy had expected. He was fuming mad.

"Thanks for your concern. Don't compare me with that idiot. I'm different from him. Besides, I'm already married. " Tsuna paused for a while before breaking the news about his brother to him. "My idiotic brother and met with an accident during a mission and was no longer with us." The elder man's eyes widened. He did not know better.

"Really? That's why you... Why? I'm sorry to hear that." Gildarts slapped his head.

"If you ask me here to talk about that idiot, then forget it. I'm leaving now". Tsuna walked to the door as soon as he finished.

"Wait! Tsuna-kun! I don't think you remember me. Not as the mage of Fairy Tail but as a good friend of your late mother, Uncle Gil." To Tsuna's horror, it was revealed that Gildarts knew his real identity as a member of Dragneel Clan.