Sorry to keep everyone waiting. I have been busy with other things lately. Hopefully I can get the next chapter up next week or the week after next.

Even though Doranbalt was the real name of Mest. I will refer him as Mest in my fic.

Chapter 19: Three-way battle

The revamped new management of The Magic Council held a meeting discussing how they should deal with one of the Light Guilds, Fairy Tail. The council had never liked Fairy Tail because how much trouble they were causing them all the time but they were not able to nail them down without anything concrete against them.

"What? Not Fairy Tail again?" One of the council members with sunglasses asked.

"I don't think they are always causing us problem. They have been a great help to us. They have defeated the traitor, Jellal and destroyed Nirvana for us". Org, the sage of the council highlighted combing his beard. He was a tall old man with long beard.

"The council have never granted them approval to do that. They did that of their own volition. Our library guards were assaulted by Tsuna Dragion. In addition, the idiotic twin brother of his even broke the extremely dangerous criminal, Brain out of the prison. Until now, we have yet to apprehend him to answer for his crime. I'm sure Fairy Tail have hidden him from us. Besides, he is Jellal's disciple. I will believe they are in cahoots." Another member shared his view.

"Natsu Dragion was still a member of the council even though he came from Fairy Tail." Org reminded them. He couldn't have them giving a one-sided view against Fairy Tail when the guild had lent their hands to them despite what they had done against them sometimes. " You should not judge the guild with just one or two person's action." He defended.

"I bet he is a spy sent by Jellal to spy on us to find our weakness and ultimately destroy us. Natsu Dragion was brought in by Jellal and we have never acknowledged him as one of us." Another member spoke up before looking over to the last member for his view.

"The dark magic, Zeref was revived. How should we deal with this? Zeref was originally created by us and guarded by the Dragneel Clan. Nine years ago, Zeref disappeared after he massacred the Dragneel Clan. Makarov claimed that Zeref had been sealed as its vessel had taken his own life. But look at what had happened? The magic was revived and evidences were pointing at Fairy Tail for hiding the mage who possessed the magic at their sacred island, Tenroujima. However, it was proved that Zeref was not involved with the destruction of the various towns and villages. Can we take action to infiltrate their territories to capture the current vessel?"

The Chairman, Gran Doma stamped his staff on the ground. "Summon the both of them here. We have no time to lose. We need to take action and to find the vessel before Fairy Tail does. Destroy the vessel before Zeref is fully awakened. The moment we find the vessel is the moment we gathered enough evidence to disband the guild". The Chairman was determined to get rid of the guild which knew too much about Zeref. But before that he wanted to retrieve something from the guild...

"Bring her back to us. She is too important to be allowed to stay in the guild, we need her power to keep our pet in good health."

Meanwhile, the dark guild, Grimiore Hearts were preparing for their next mission.

"We have pinpointed the boy's location. It's time to take him back." Ultear rolled her crystal ball as it revealed the location of an island right in the middle of the sea with a huge tree on it. At first glance the island could fit nicely in a globe.

"Let me smoke the rascal up to seek revenge for Miss Ultear. Just by slapping him alone did not help to force him to obey us. Let us teach him a lesson to show him what Grimiore Hearts is made of. He didn't know that we had been watching him and doing things behind his back using his name. So much for saving him from his critical condition being condemned in a half-dead vegetative state. He is better off dead". A long spiky-blonde mage laughed cynically lighting his black fire over his body.

"Stop playing, Zancrow. He is our prized treasure. We will have much problems if he lost control of the magic power". A goat-liked humanoid creature, Caprico responded.

"He is such a pure young man before he was tainted. May I suggest we put him to sleep after we retrieve him? He looked so alluring when asleep whether in his original feature or in his "Zeref-activated" appearance. I will make him my sleeping beauty whom I will wake as his "prince charming"". A man with silver hair, Rustyrose sniffed from a rose he was holding.

"As I read it, you are teaching the wrong stuff to the kids. We should not learn from you." Meredy, a small pink-haired girl commented in her soft tone.

"IIIIIIIIII aaaaaaaaaaggggggggrrrrreeeee." A fat white man named Kain Hikaru was trying to say something and Meredy corrected him on his behalf. "As I read it, he agrees with me.

Their Master spoke, ignoring their chit chat. "I didn't think anybody could have seen through our ploy until that man did. As expected from the descendent of the smartest clan of mages, Jellal of the Fernandes Clan who took after his late father. We had intended to divert his attention towards the events we created luring him to think that Zeref was behind it while we look into his location but he ended up proving his innocence. We were not able to obtain Zeref due to Elie Dragneel's interference. Hence we can only use the data obtained to clone it. After years of experiments, we have finally succeeded. Just by observing him after letting him roam around have proven our success. We need his power."

"It's time to retrieve him for the sake of our dreams. There will be problem if the creator of the magic, the Magic Council learnt of his presence. The previous events have already caught their attention".

"There is one problem". Ultear highlighted. "That kid have escaped to the holy ground of the strongest guild of Fiore. There is usually a strong barrier cast on it which makes it hard to detect by the public. Because of the boy's entry, the barrier was dispelled. I will believe the Master of the guild, Fairy Tail have noticed the breach of the barrier and they will be taking action very soon. It will certainly affect us in our mission to retrieve the boy".

Their Master was not fazed at it. He felt that it was time to settle all scores with the fairies. "Will they be eaten or we will be eaten? The moment we retrieve Zeref and awaken his full power is the moment of their deaths. Let's fight it out my Seven Sins of Purgatory!" Master Hades declared as his six members of his strongest team appeared on scene.

Natsu woke up from his nightmare at the island no one was in. He was trembling in fear from what he had seen from his dream.

"They are coming!" He clutched his head. "Does that mean I can't escape from my fate? Is the world going to end because of me?

Wendy and Charles were on their way home from the guild. Charles was extremely worried due to her power of precognition; she just got a really bad foreboding.

"Wendy, I think it is better for you not to get involved in this mission as I think things are getting serious. With Mystogan and Gildarts and the other S and A Class mages around, I don't think they will have problem in taking care of the matter." Charles advised.

Wendy disagreed. "As one of the fellow S Class mage, of course I have to help. I believed that as long as we work together, we will succeed in accomplishing the mission. Besides, I can put my healing and support magic to good use." Wendy explained.

A man with almost shaved hair in red and orange striped shirt appeared before them interrupted their conversation and Wendy recognised him as Mest of the Magic Council.

"Long time no see, Sky Sorceress, I'm honoured that you still remember me." The man named Mest greeted her. He came to her for his mission.