"Hey there dudes! Whats up?" Alfred's grin grew even wider, smiling at all the people in the guild. "How does a hero like me join?"

"Alfred! You can't just go waltzing in a guild yelling stuff like that! Try to be civilized for once!" Arthur came running in after him and grabbed Alfred's shoulder to pull him back. "Hey! Are you listening to me?"

"Ahahaha!" Alfred stayed smiling at the guild members, never once turning his face towards Arthur. "Calm down, Arthur!" He said, slapping Arthur on the back a few times, still laughing.

"New comers, I take it?" A cheerful woman with long, white, wavy hair walked up to them. "How nice!" She clapped her hands together, as the rest of the guild began to talk again, "What are your names?"

"I'm Alfred!" Alfred said, still grinning.

"And I'm Arthur. Nice to meet you." Arthur bowed his head to her.

"Artie?" The woman gasped and hugged him.

"W-what?" Arthur's face grew red with embarrassment and confusion, "W-who are you?"

"It's me! Mirajane!" She said, still hugging him.

"Mira?" He pushed her out a little from him, leaving his hands on her shoulders. "Mira was an evil little girl! How'd you get to be so different if you are her?"

She smiled at him, "A lot of things happened, but I am her, it's good to see you again Artie."

"Don't call me that." He said, partly discussed.

"You know each other?" Alfred questioned, "Why didn't you tell me this? Artie?"

"I've told you before, you git, don't call me that!" Arthur turned and started strangling Alfred.

"Gah! Let go! I can't breath!" Alfred shouted back. Arthur quickly released his grip around Alfred's neck and faced Mirajane once more.

"So sorry about that." He gave an embarrassed smile. "You're so different now... But you've grown into a beautiful woman. It's been a long time, really, I can't believe your already an adult. And your siblings you told me so much about before?"

"Elfman is right over there." She pointed to a tall man, probably about 18, who was goofing off with a group of teens. "And Lisanna... She died two years ago. But we're fine now. We know she's in a better place."

"I'm so sorry..." Arthur replied, feeling guilty for have asking. "I'm glad to know your fine now, though."

"You still look exactly the same, Arthur! You haven't aged a bit!"

"Oh, well thank you." He glanced over at Alfred, giving him a 'don't say a word' look. "So your apart of this guild then?"

"Yes. I help out around here. Did you two want to join?"

"Yeah, we came just for that reason. Is there anything we have to do?"

"Just come this way." She started walking towards a bar area, and waved her hand for them to fallow. As they came up behind her, she stopped and bent down. She arose with a magic device in her hand. "Where do you want your tattoo?" She smiled at them again.

"Thats it?" Arthur asked, completely in awe.

"Awesome!" Alfred yelled, "I'll have it on my chest then!"

"Ok." The smile stayed on her face. "You'll need to show me where."

Alfred took off his jacket and unbuttoned his uniform and shirt. Then he pointed to the right side of his chest. "Here." He said. With that Mirajane set the device down on his chest then lifted it up.

"There you go! You are now an official member of Fairy Tail." Her smile came back.

"This is so cool!" Alfred yelled, looking down at the new tattoo on his chest that resembled the Fairy Tail symbol.

"Where do you want yours, Arthur?" Mirajane asked.

"Oh? Um..." He took a moment to think about it. "I'll have it on my left shoulder, thank you."

"Okay then, would you mind showing me were you want it?" Arthur did so, pulling down his dark green uniform to show part of the top of his shoulder. Just as she had with Alfred, Mirajane created the Fairy Tail symbol on Arthur's shoulder.

"There you are! You are both members of Fairy Tail now!"

"That was seriously it?" Arthur questioned, "It seems like it would take a lot more to become a member then just that."

"Not at all! Anyone's welcome here. If you guys want to go get to know anyone, just go talk to people. Everyone here is really friendly." Mira winked at them. Alfred started looking around the room in a frenzy, trying to take in all the cool things he was seeing.

"So these are some the new members?" A tall woman with long, scarlet hair and armor walked up to them. "I'm Erza Scarlet. Would you like me to show you around?" With that, Alfred quickly jolted his head back around to look at the woman.

"Erza?" He yelled, extremely surprised. "Your... Erza?" Erza's face grew with confusion. Who was this guy that was talking to her like he knew her?

"I'm... Erza. Why?"

"You... but you're..." He pointed at her face, hand shaking. "How are you here?"

"Who the hell are you?" Erza asked fed up with the perplexity he was setting on her. Suddenly, he grabbed her hand, turned and started running out of the guild pulling her behind him.

"Come." He said, still running.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" Erza screamed, trying to wrestle her way out of his grip, but failed. How couldn't she get out of his grip when she was the strongest female member of Fairy Tail? It made no scene to her and it shouldn't have been posible. She was able to beat the hell out of people, but she couldn't even make her way out of this guys grip! It was as if his strength was superhuman. When they reached the outer wall of the guild building, he shoved her up against it.

"Erza." He said very seriously, his hands clenching her shoulders and his face the fiercest it had been since his Country had been bombed. "You, what happened to you? I thought..."

"Who are you?" Erza asked, completely calm.

"I..." Erza could tell Alfred was trying to hold back tears. "I thought you were dead..." He didn't realize how much he had started to like that girl from his 'dream', or reality as he knew now.

"Answer me!" Erza said forcefully, waking Alfred up from his wondering mind, "Who are you? Tell me now!"

"Alfred! Don't you remember me?" Alfred bit his lip, tears welling up in his eyes.

"Alfred?" She took a moment and bent her head down, then jerked it back up. "Alfred Jones?" Alfred nodded, lightening his grip on her. Erza's eyes grew wide, "Alfred!" She exclaimed, now remembering who he was she dragged herself out from his hands and threw her arms around him. "I haven't seen you in eight years! You dummy! Where were you! Why'd you leave me!"

"I thought..." Alfred tried speaking, but choked on his words. He gazed down at how Erza had her arms around him, slowly pulling his own arms up around her waist and relaxing his head on her shoulder. Erza let him stay there for a while, just being quite, remembering things from when they last met. Arthur and Mira came running to find them, stopping when they caught sight of the position they were in.

"How sweet." Mira whispered, "How do they know each other?"

"I was told that Alfred had met her when they we're kids, then something happened and she disappeared." Arthur knew the whole story, but he wasn't going to share it with Mira. She didn't need to know more then what he had already said. Back when Alfred was still a colony of his, another rift had opened up between this world and theirs. He had been sucked in completely, and apparently Alfred had been too, but since they were oceans apart at the time, they ended up in different places. Alfred had met this girl named Erza and they became good friends, so they lived together in one of the forests, seeing as how both of them were orphans. Or at least that's what Alfred had lead her to believe since he didn't know Arthur was there, and then one day Erza had disappeared, and Alfred was back home in his own land, America. Arthur had ended up staying in the world for a lot longer, a rift opening up for him years later.

"Really?" Mira said, completely surprised, interrupting Arthur's train of thought, "I didn't know Erza had any friends from that long ago."

"Apparently." Arthur turned and push Mira back to inside the guild. "We should just leave them alone." He whispered in her ear, slightly looking back at the others.

Erza loosened her arms from around Alfred's neck. Alfred still had his head on her shoulders, keeping himself from crying. She pulled him out away from her and stared into his eyes.

"Long time no see, huh?" she said, smiling at him.

Alfred sniffed, "Yeah." softly he started to giggle, then slowly got louder until he was laughing like normal. "I'm such a baby. I almost cried 'cause of you. What is it about you that made me do that?"

Erza gave a soft smile, "It's nice to see you, Alfred. I'm glad to know your still around."

"I thought you were dead. You just disappeared and I had no idea what happened to you!"

"I don't really know much about what happened either... I just remember being with you, then the next thing being back in one of the forests here."

"It's at least good to know that you didn't die."

"Well, how bout we go back in and I show you around the guild? You are nakama after all."

"That'd be great!" He laughed again.

As they walked back inside, Erza's friends, Natsu, Lucy and Gray, came to greet her, asking why the guy had dragged her out.

"Its fine, you guys. He's an old friend."

"Like Shou and the others? From there? Why wasn't he with them?" Lucy asked.

"Who? Where?" Alfred became very confused.

"Obviously not." Gray remarked. "Who is this guy, Erza?"

"I knew him before all that. He's a good guy, but he's seemed to have changed a lot."

"Ha!" Alfred laughed, "Of course, I'm more of a hero now then ever!"

"He reminds me of Natsu..." Gray said, kind of annoyed.

"Of me? Well he is interesting." Natsu examined popping up in Alfreds face from time to time with his hand on his chin. "Whats your name?"

"Alfred F. Jones." Alfred said, smiling.

"Funny name." Happy, Natsu's blue, flying pet(more like a friend, really) cat giggled under his breath. They all introduced themselves to him, Natsu was a dragon slayer, the type of wizard who uses a certain element and was thought by a dragon. He used fire as his element, it was practically his food even! Happy was just a blue cat who could talk. Even he used magic though, his called Aera, allowing him to sprout wings on his back and fly. Lucy was a nice girl, and like Arthur, she too used Stellar spirits. She seemed to have a lot more keys then Arthur did and even some called the 'Zodiac' or twelve golden keys. Apparently there was only one of each of those keys. Gray was an Ice wizard, and he had an odd habit of stripping Alfred noticed. He was always shirtless it looked like, sometime even down to his boxers!

Erza had grown up a lot since the last time Alfred had seen her. She was now almost 20, and an S-class wizard in Fairy Tail. Almost everyone in Feiore knew her, and her magic was amazing! She had hundreds of different armors she could change into and fight with, all having their own abilities. Weapons were able to be exchanged out too, so she could stay in one armor, but use tons of different weapons.

As Erza told Alfred about herself, his eyes where focused and sparkling with amazement. His mouth fell open a few times in a happy smile, making her laugh.

"So, Alfred, what's your magic?" Gray asked. Alfred gave him a funny look, and Arthur interrupted just at the right moment.

"Alfred, I need to talk to you." Alfred quickly darted over to him, thankful he didn't have to say anything. Erza and the others let him go and made their way over to a table, discussing what they'd be doing later. "Who knows how long we're going to be here, so we'll need to find a place to stay. Probably a house to rent. And before we do that we'll have to go take on a few jobs."

"What do you mean by jobs?"

"You thought being in a guild was just for the friends? You have to take on jobs to, git. We'll make money from those to pay for everything. Be sure to go on some sooner or later, but I'm sure you'll need some more training with magic, or else you may die. Which I wouldn't mind to much."

"Even now you hate me?"

"It's not like I want to be here with you, it's that I have to be here with you, and sadly teach you everything."

"Gah... You're rude. What else do you want?"

"I'm finding a place to rent out, go train or something so you can take one some of those jobs..."

"Should you train yourself? It's not like you've been in this place for your whole life! How many years where you gone anyways?"

"About 220 years, back when that last rift opened when you met that Erza woman."

"If you ended up here, why didn't I end up here, too?"

"You did, you blood git! That forest was this world, twit! Now go get training! There's no use for you if you can't use magic!"

Alfred gave Arthur a cold glare, obviously offended by the fact that he was the one being told to go train when Arthur needed as much training as he did. He turned his back to Arthur, letting his eye wonder around the guild. People where all over the place. Upstairs, downstairs, on the stairs, outside, sitting on benches... Everywhere. Your eye couldn't find a place in this guild without someone standing there. As his eyes wondered, he caught a glimpse of a blond ponytail with a blue ribbon to tie it back. It was Lucy, the other stellar spirit mage. Alfred's eyes lit up with brilliance, he would get Lucy to force Arthur to train. That way he wouldn't be the only one having to work his butt off.

"Hey Lucy!" Alfred came running across the room, linking arms with the young wizard, he dragged her back to Arthur. "You're a stellar spirit mage, right? He said, still pulling her.

"Yeah. Whats up?" She said, prying his arm from her.

"Igg- Uh... Arthur's a stellar spirit mage too! But I don't think he know much. Teach him some stuff!" At that moment Alfred came to a sudden halt, Lucy crashing into his body. She quickly got herself together, wiped off her skirt and looked up into Arthurs bright green eyes. Alfred stood next to Lucy, grinning at his brilliant plan.

"Alfred, whats the meaning of this? Another one of your stupid plans? Your trying to get me to work on my magic, aren't you? Well it's not going to work." Arthur was very rude about it. He never liked being a part of Alfred's "plans". Lucy took charge of the situation.

"I'm Lucy." she waved at him, "I heard you're a stellar spirit mage?"

"Yes, why?"

"That's awesome! But I guess that makes up rivals!" She crossed her arms, grinning sarcastically at him.

"Then your-"

"Yup! No other magic would be mine!" She came close to him and whispered in his ear, "Your friend doesn't think you know much."

"Why that... How dare you say I don't know what I'm doing!" Arthur turned a fist over to Alfred, ready to hit him. Hard.

"Hey!" Lucy shouted, grabbing Arthur's wrist. "There's no point in fighting over something like that!"

After waking Alfred in the head and telling him to go do something, he turned back to Lucy. "Sorry about that, he's too much of an idiot to know what's good for him."

"Tsundere..." Lucy mumbled, loud enough for him to hear.

"I-I am not!" Arthur stammered, flustered. "I'm a gentleman! A perfect one at that!"

Alfred snickered at Arthur's response.

"Did you just laugh at me? Bloody hell, I doubt you could ever even come close to saying that about yourself, Alfred! Don't laughing at me when you should be laughing at yourself for being such an idiot!"

"I never laughed at you, Iggy!" Alfred said happily, but quickly noticing the mistake in his speech.

"I'm sure you're not a Tsundere." Lucy giggled, knowing that there was really no way for him to deny it, yet he continued to do so. "I've been a bit curious," She started to get back on topic, "What keys do you have? Any of the Golden Zodiac keys?"

"Alfred, why don't you go run off somewhere? Go find a deli or something and stuff your face, just go away. You're so annoying, no one needs you hovering about their shoulders when their trying to conversate." Alfred was in fact hovering about, listening in on the conversation, really having no business there. "Here, go buy yourself a hamburger or something." Arthur pulled out a few jewels from his pocket, enough to buy one or two sandwiches and handed it over to Alfred.

"Aww man! Really? Your letting me buy more? Dude! You're so awesome! I love you!" Alfred squished Arthur half to death, luckily keeping most of his strength held back, and ran off into town. As they watched Alfred leave, Lucy made her way over to one of the close benches.

"Take a seat. You probably don't want to be standing for so long."

Arthur fallowed letting himself sink down on the hard bench seats, pulling his keys from his pockets. Lucy did the same. Compared to all of Lucy's keys, Arthur had barley any. Four keys dangled from the chain they hung from, while Lucy had just around ten.

"Oh my... This really does make me feel quite weak... Oh! Are those the Zodiac keys? How many do you have? I can barley even see any silver ones!"

"I have six as of right now. I don't know how I got all of them really. I guess they just come to me?" She laughed, obviously confused on how she really did have all of them. "Which one do you have?"

One gold...ish looking key hung from Arthurs set of keys. He wasn't really sure if the "Zodiac" would even work with him anymore, since he was gone for eight or nine years from this world.

"This is... Ophiuchus... I guess you could say he's part of the Zodiac. His key is almost gold..."

Lucy picked up the key and looked closer at it. It really wasn't gold like she had thought, but was some weird golden brown color. Maybe bronze? No, it was a little to gold to be bronze.

"I've never seen a key this color!" She exclaimed, "What exactly is he?"

"I think he was supposed to a Zodiac, but got kicked out somehow... I don't know exactly. He doesn't really like talking about it."

"Well, what other keys do you have?"

"Monoceros, Leo Minor, and Draco. I haven't called any of them out in a while..."

"You know, they might be mad at you for that..." She gave him a concerned look, "Why don't we go and call these guys out then? Besides, if you haven't fought in a while it might be best to train a little!" Lucy grabbed his hand and jumped off of the bench, taking Arthur along with her. Her feet flew quickly across the floor, causing Arthur to stumble behind her, trying to keep up.

There's the end to chapter 2. Sorry that it's so long and pretty pointless… Next chapter the romance starts.

As you can probably tell, the pairings in here are gonna be AlfredXErza and Iggy(or Arthur)XLucy. Both really interesting pairings that I have fallen in love with while writing this.