"W-what do you mean your sister!" Levy said as she stared at Gajeel.
"Well… Uh you see I uh…" Gajeel said not knowing where to start.
"Tell us everything." Mira said, wanting to get every juicy detail. After all it wasn't every day someone's lost sibling shows up.
"Hey!" Kyoske shouted."I want to hear about this too. She only mentioned a brother once but she said that he was dead to her or dead. Something like that, she said the only memory she has of him is a picture she has in a locket. But she never lets me look inside."
Gajeel lets out a big sigh. "I'm not surprised. After what I did to her i'm surprised she never hunted me down. I'll tell you all what happened between us so long ago. Just remember the type of person I used to be."
"Well that's not hard." Natsu told him, which earned him a blow to the head.
"Just shut your trap and let me talk. And don't even think of interuptin'. Got it?" He got a nod from most in the guild, even Laxus was curious as to what happened."Okay you might wanna sit down this story is a long one. Alright me and Ayane are twins. Not those Identical ones but fraternal. We grew up with our dragons Mentalicana and Frezica (lame name I know). We were so happy, she was a sweet little girl and I was a… handful. Anyways, all was fine until our parents left when we were 10. Ayane blamed herself, she would cry a lot and Frezica would always scold her. Fezica would always tell her crying was for babys. Ayane is the Ice dragon slayer, her dragons heart was as cold as ice. Frezica was always hard on Ayane, but Ayane was the nicest little girl you'd ever meet. And when Frezica left she blamed herself. After that it was just me and Ayane, I would always tell her: Family comes first. We were on our own for a year or two before Jose came for me. He wanted my power, he wanted to train me. I was all too willing to become stronger so I could get Mentalicana back. But Jose didn't want Ayane."
Gajeel stopped. His face looked older, and he looked tired."Hey Mira can I have a drink? I need something before I continue." Mira nodded and went to get him a tankard. When she returned he quickly drained it and sighed before he continued.
"As I said, Jose didn't want Ayane. He said she was too weak, untrainable. I pleaded for him to take her in, but he said he wouldn't. Looking back on it now I realized I could have done more. I wish I had, god I wish I hadn't been so damn selfish."
Gajeel let one tear roll down his cheek. Everyone was surprised. This was black steel Gajeel. He never cried, but here he was in the middle of the guild with a single tear on his face."Gajeel what did you do?" Levy asked. Obviously if he was crying he must have done something terrible.
"Jose recruited me into Phantom lord and I left my sister on her own. Every month though I would try and send her money trying to be a good brother ya know, without Jose knowing. He didn't want me being in touch with my past. He said that Ayane made me soft. After a year of being in Phantom lord Jose asked me to do something. Something bad."
Makarov was the one to speak this time, "what did you do child. What did that man tell you to do?"
"He told me to get rid of Ayane." Gajeel said slowly. Everyone in the guild was staring at Gajeel. They all knew Gajeel used to be bad but he would never kill his own sister, would he?
"Gajeel you didn't do it right! I mean she is still alive, so you didn't do it?" Levy said
Gajeel hung his head down low."I did it. I went to where she lived and I took her to a field not far from where she lived I told her that I left Phantom lord. I told her…. that we were going to be a family again. She was so damn happy. But then when her back was turned… I struck her down. Jose watched the whole thing. I will never forget her last words to me. What happened to Family comes first. After that I never saw her again. I thought she was gone. After that I became evil, do whatever Jose told me to do. I thought I had no home to come home to."
"Well you did!" Everyones heads turned towards the guild doors, where Ayane stood. "Kyoske we are definitely joining this guild now. I thought about it and you know what Gajeel? I'm going to give you a second chance. If you are in this good guild then you must have changed right?"
"Yes Ayane I swear I have. We can be a fam-"
"No! We will not be a family. We will be strangers. Last time we were family it didn't end to well for me. So we will start out as strangers, because I am not the helpless little girl you used to know." Ayane walked up to the Makarov. "Master where me and my brother get our guild stamp?" Makarov directed them to Mira who was looking sympathetically at Ayane.
"Where do you want it?" She asked Kyoske. He took off his shirt and pointed at his chest. "Dark green please." He said boldly. Mira stamped his chest and looked to Ayane. Ayane pulled her hair which was at her waist into a bun then pulled the back of her shirt up revealing a long diagonal scar across her back. Mira gasped as well as the rest of the girls in the guild them men stood there with their mouths open. Gajeel stood there with a look true regret and aguish.
Ayane just smirked and said, "light blue with a dark blue outline please. Right in-between the shoulder blades." Mira walked over to her and stamped it on.
"Congrats brats you are now part of Fairy tail!" Makarov said and started to drink his beer like nothing ever happened.