What up guys and welcome to another EARLY chapter of Fairy Tail's Black Dragon! So obviously this continues right off where we left off and as much as I wanted to avoid this, but alas I couldn't so forgive me! Listen to a Blaze that Burns Evil Hearts—Ost for this part, I listened to this song for this fight scene considering I needed inspiration. Finally, for those who are wondering Zeto wears a slightly modified of Kirito's trench coat from SAO, but without the sheath on his back along with the belts criss cross his chest. Also the grey lining is blue instead. So yeah Chapter 5!

I do not own Fairy Tail as it belongs to Hiro Mashima!

Zeto's POV…

"So you're here now huh Zeto? I thought you might have run off before I got here." Deus said with a mocking tone as he kept pushing the sword towards me but that didn't matter because I was so angry.

"You have no idea how much I wanted to avoid you so we wouldn't meet like this Deus, but here we are! Yes, I left but not in fear of you but because I wanted to avoid repercussions of what will happen here but now… I don't care…" I seethed as I felt my anger increase my strength as I pushed back the sword back one handed. At the same time I felt my magic flare but this magic was foreign as it felt like mine but stronger and it felt like there's more coming too. Could this be? I broke a Seal!? I looked over to Deus as he regained his stance from the overwhelming magic surge coming from me as I walked towards him and of course being Deus, he charged me with another swing of his sword, which I caught just as easily.

"Deus, you've made plenty of mistakes in your life but your biggest one was attacking Fairy Tail!" I screamed as I pushed the sword aside then sent magic to my right foot.

"Black Dragon's Crushing Talons!"

I did a back flip with my foot connecting with his face but I was done yet as I tried a spell I was taught to use but I couldn't back then.

"Black Dragon's Chain!"

A black magic circle appeared from my right hand as a chain flew from the circle towards Deus as it snaked forward extremely fast as it coiled around Deus in the air. I then proceeded to swing him towards the ground, hard. Once he crashed into it, leaving a small crater I yanked the chain back towards me as it flung him into the air and coming towards me as I readied my magic on my left hand just as he was flying towards me.

"Black Dragon's Crushing Fist!"

My hand hit him square in the jaw as the force sent him away from me a few feet away. As Deus was getting up I saw shards of steel falling from his face which Deus quickly noticed and snarled at me as he got up. He roared at me as he charged me with his right arm raised and already in sword form. When he was within range, he swung down with the sword with me staying still until at the last second I sent magic to my left hand and grabbed the sword one handed stopping it entirely.

"How are you this strong, Nakahara!? You weren't this strong back when you were in our guild!" He screamed as he tried to overpower me.

"That because I found a reason to fight! To get stronger!" I yelled as I sent magic to my right hand.

"And what's that! To protect these weaklings!?" He replied back as my anger reached new heights which showed in my magic flaring.

"They are not weaklings! They are Fairy Tail! The people who I will protect with my life! My family!" I screamed as I forced his sword arm downwards as I punched the base of the sword and quite literally breaking it which caused Deus to scream as held his now broken, normal arm and as he started backing up in fear, I stalked forward with my right fist pulsing with my Black Dragon Slayer magic.

"Alright, I give up! Just stop! Get away!" He begged as he fell on his ass in fear while having his left arm in the air trying to stop me. Once I reached him, I sent some of my magic to my left foot as I proceeded to curb stomp him.

The force of the stomp created a small crater and sent him into the ground unconscious, with his eyes rolled up into his head and with a stunned yet fearful expression on his face. I sighed as I went back to the others to check up on them. When I got there Wendy was healing Gajeel as Mira and Natsu were helping the others.

"Are you guys alright?" I asked and luckily everyone either nodded or voiced that they were. I crouched next to Wendy as she stopped using her healing magic. I tried to see her face but it was covered by her bangs.

"Gajeel will be alright, he just needs rest for now and also…" She stopped talking as she out of nowhere hugged me that almost sent me into the ground but held I held my balance.

"Thank you, Zeto for coming back to us." She said quietly but enough for me to hear and the others who were close to us. I smiled as I returned the hug.

"Of course, I meant what I said back there. Family watches each other's backs right?" I replied as I let go of her and went to help Natsu lift Gajeel to take him to the infirmary.

After we got him to the infirmary, I went back outside with Wendy and Natsu in tow as Mira was already outside keeping an eye on the unconscious Steel Dragon Slayer. I walked up to Deus and stopped a few feet short as I felt that familiar presence. I looked up to see Eto jumping from the roof of a building and landing between me and Deus as she had her back turned to us crouching to Deus' side.

"Whoa, who's she!" I heard Natsu ask in shock of her sudden appearance.

"Hi! My name is Eto and I'm Zeto's younger sister!" She said with a smile as she turned to face us.

"What! Zeto you didn't say you had a sister!" Natsu yelled quite comically with his eyes widened as Eto giggled at his expense.

"Don't fall for it Natsu, she only proclaimed herself as my sister because Eto and I have been close friends when I was in her guild." I replied with a slightly annoyed tone as Eto continued to giggle.

"Oh okay then, so what do we do with him?" Natsu asked pointing at Deus. I was going to say something until Eto spoke up.

"He's from my guild so I'll take him back so we can discipline him, I'm sorry for his actions, he's just an idiot." She said with cheery expression. Before anyone could talk, we heard a groan from behind Eto, we turned to see Deus waking up.

"Ah, Deus you woke up! That's great!" She said with the same cheery tone.

"E-eto!? What are you doing here!?" He asked in shock while looking behind her to look at us.

"Why I'm here to take you back to the guild silly! By the way, is your arm okay?" She said with a slight change to her cheery tone that if you knew her long enough, that tone was going to cross into a sinister tone. Sadly for Deus, only I knew what was coming.

"No, that bastard Zeto brok—" He screamed so loud that all of Magnolia's citizens probably heard it with the cause of his screaming was Eto putting her foot on his broken arm with a lot of weight to it but with a sinister smile that showed ill intentions as everyone either gasped or backed away in fear.

"Oh is that so then? Then you probably shouldn't have attacked Zeto's guild, after all you deserve a lot more than a broken arm." She replied while twisting her foot continuing his screaming. She then removed her foot as she lowered herself down to a crouch next to him as I knew what she was going to do and so did Deus as he started sweating.

"Please Eto anything but that! In my state, I won't survive!" He screamed as she placed her hand on his shoulder with the same sinister smile on her face as turned to face us completely ignoring his screams.

"It was nice meeting you guys! I'll come by another time so for now look after my big brother!" She replied as she and Deus disappeared from thin air while hearing Deus' screams echoing before it vanished. I turned to see everyone with a shocked expression on how Eto handled Deus. I heavily sighed as I went back to the guildhall with everyone following me.

"Hey Mira, I need a drink, it's been three long days." I said casually as Mira ran ahead to get me a drink as I kept my leisurely pace I looked around to see everyone trying to fix and replace what's been broken but all with smiles when they saw me. When I arrived at the bar Mira handed me the mug then drank a bit feeling a lot better. But of course that didn't last very long until I felt both my arms in pain as if they were on fire, I fell on the ground trying to ease the pain on my arms with everyone surrounding me trying to find some way to help me.

"Zeto! What's wrong? Talk to us!"

"Wendy can you help him!?"

"I'm trying but it's not working!"

"Someone get the broom lady!"

Finally what seemed like hours but was only thirty seconds, the pain subsided completely as I stopped shaking as I tried to sit up with Natsu and Max helping me up as I sat back on the stool panting. I nodded that I was okay, everyone stayed close just in case. What was that pain? I never experienced a pain like that! But what was the cause of it? Unless…

"Someone do me a favor and take off my coat. I need to see something…" I asked politely and looked over my shoulder to see Lisanna walking towards me then started taking off the coat slowly just in case she causes anymore pain. After a few seconds I felt the coat off me but what I saw made everyone and I gasp in surprise. There on both my arms were multiple small black marks all over. Once I looked closely I recognized them as my fathers but his were bigger and they were blue too. Okay what's going on!? Father didn't tell me about this!

"Zeto, you have tattoos since when!?" Natsu, the Dense Slayer exclaimed.

"I never had tattoos before; this must be a result from breaking one of the seals." I said merely talking to myself.

"Seals?" I heard Wendy ask.

"Yeah, I think I should tell you guys some things, so if everyone would gather up so I wouldn't have to repeat that be appreciated." I said while turning on the stool to look at everyone as they all got comfortable and awaited my explanation.

"I'll start on the attack from Deus. Around four years ago, I joined an all Dragon Slayer guild called Doragon no su or Dragon's Nest. I stuck with them for about a year until I left after an incident that hurt two of the guild's S-Class members. So because of that most if not all the members hold a grudge against me except for the Master, Eto and a couple others. Among all of them Deus hated me the most because he's close to one two S-Classes which is why he attacked here, trying to find me." I stopped to let the information sink in with everyone as I took another sip from my drink.

"So wait, were you S-Class?" Cana asked surprisingly sober as I nodded.

"Yep." I simply said not wanting to reveal anything about it as she grumbled on how the new guy was S-Class before her. Once everyone settled down I continued.

"The guild is in a way like Fairy Tail, they look after each other like family but the difference is that they hold grudges and disobey the guild master quite a lot so we'll probably expect more of them coming here. I'm sorry guys about what happened, I'm truly am." I apologized with my head down when I felt a strong arm on my right shoulder; I looked up to see a grinning Natsu and everyone else with smiles.

"Don't worry about it; you're family so whoever comes after you will have to fight all of us and we know you'll fight with us!" Natsu explained and everyone cheered when he finished making me smile.

"Thanks everyone, now to continue the explanation before we get off track. Now in regards to my seals; when you guys left me with Porlyusica she gave me files from my father or Dragon as you guys would probably call that, explaining that the reason why my magic never progressed was because I have seals implanted in me. When I fought Deus, one of my seals were broken which was the Seal of Anger and as you saw, I have more magic to work with and probably a few new spells that I need to try out." I stopped as Wendy raised her hand.

"Why do you have seals?" Wendy asked with curiosity.

"Well as it turns out, when I was born I had too much magic at the time so they placed seals on me so I wouldn't die. For now I have to break one by one so I could unlock my abilities and even if I were able to break all my seals at once the result would be the same. For now I have four more seals to break: those would be the seals of Vengeance, Hope, Forgiveness and Redemption." I finished my explanation as I waited for any questions, mainly from a certain dense Dragon Slayer.

"So if you broke all of your seals, how strong would you be?" I had to admit, that was a good question from Natsu.

"Well, my theory is that I would be either stronger than a Wizard Saint or as strong as a Tier 1 Dragon, again theory." I said with a thoughtful expression as everyone was in shock more or so.

"What is a Tier 1 Dragon? I've never heard about this, Igneel hasn't taught me about that." Natsu said with a confused tone as scratched his cheek pondering.

"Tier 1 are Dragons that are more powerful than the average Dragon. I have a mental list that my father gave me about the names of Dragons in Tier 1 if you want to hear." I asked with a smile as everyone nodded, especially the Slayers.

"Tier 1 Dragons as follows: Fire Dragons Igneel, Atlas Flame, Gōruden-en, Sky Dragons Grandeeney, Aeris, Metal Dragons Metalicana, Acero, Lightning Dragon Tengoku and finally Acnologia." I said the list in one go as I watched everyone's reactions as the names went on which mostly were amazement especially the Slayers as their foster Dragons were in the list until I mentioned Acnologia and everyone's expression were a mix of fear, anger and hate. Quite understandable really.

"Hey Zeto, which one is your Dragon?" Mira asked with a tilt of her head.

"My Dragon isn't Tier 1 so he's not on the list; I believe he's Tier 3, which is quite a weak Tier." I lied as I dodged the question. They're not ready yet to know the truth…

They accepted the lie, as I finished the explanation with everyone understanding my situation a lot more clearly as they went to do their own things. I left the guildhall to go back home exhausted from the past couple days. Once I entered the apartment, I took a shower, dressed in white shirt and black sweat pants and got into bed.

The next day…

"Yo Mira, I'm taking this job with me." I placed the job form on the bar for her to stamp it. Once she looked it over, she gave me a nod and stamped it.

"You're not taking anyone? I almost expected you to take at least Wendy with you." She said with a tilt of her head as I chuckled lightly.

"Maybe next time, I'll see you guys in a couple of days." I waved back at her as I went towards the path that leads to the train station. As I was passing some of the stores I look in an alley to see, someone that I'm still getting used to seeing on the streets.

"Oi! Raijin!" I called him over as it appears that I woke him up.

"Hey man, what do you want?" He tried to ask me politely but he's getting there.

"I got a job to escort some noble's daughter to party in crocus, could be a couple days but good pay. We'll get more details from the client when we get there, so you in?" I explained as I handed the form over to him.

"You know what? Sure I'm in, why not?" He said with that same emotionless face that I'm used to seeing. We continued heading for the train station at a steady pace in comfortable silence, along the way I heard murmurs of from people talking about us. Mostly on how a strong, polite member of Fairy Tail could be walking with someone in rags.

"You know if you're going to stay here in Magnolia, you should at least invest in some clothes when you go one jobs." I advised but he gave me the same deadpan expression.

"No need got some clothes from a store a couple hours ago before you showed up." He said nonchalantly.

"Oh? Then why wear those old clothes now? I understand they may be brand new but in your circumstance, you've out of take the chance to wear something new." I advised again at my hobo of a friend.

"Well I have to wait a couple days until the shop owner forgets about the stolen clothes, so yeah not a smart move to wear them right now." He replied nonchalantly again, even with my mouth open in shock at this guy. You stole clothes!?

"Why did you steal clothes? You could've bought them, they're cheap." I asked while trying to remain calm.

"Because I felt like it, come on we're here and you're paying for the tickets." He said with the same expression as he pushed me into the line for the train tickets. I grumbled as I waited until the smell of iron hit my nose faintly. I looked to my left to see Gajeel just notice me too me and went over to me.

"Huh, Zeto what ya doing here?" Gajeel asked.

"I could as you the same thing." I replied with a surprised tone..

"Gee hee, just passing through when I saw you." A trademark feral smile with his trademark laugh, what a combo. I just sighed and bought three tickets knowing he would be coming. Once I paid the clerk for the tickets I went back to the bench where Raijin was waiting with Gajeel following.

"You still haven't answered my question Zeto." He asked with his usual annoyed expression.

"I was going to go on a job with a friend of mine but knowing you, you'd be asking to join so come on, I already bought your ticket." I replied as Raijin looked at Gajeel suspiciously with his eyes narrowed.

"Raijin meet Gajeel, Gajeel meet Raijin so play nice you two." I ordered just as the train was calling for its passengers, I looked behind me to see Gajeel sweating with a nervous expression while Raijin was looking half asleep.

We gave the employees our tickets, found a booth and just relaxed for the three hour ride to Gracias Town. Well tried to relax as Gajeel was groaning from his motion sickness, preventing Raijin and I from having any kind power nap.

"How are you not sick? You're a Dragon Slayer aren't you!?" Gajeel finished his rant while vomiting outside through the open window, making my motion sickness want to appear but luckily with me being a Fourth Generation Dragon Slayer and some willpower I was virtually immune to it as long my sickness wasn't specifically targeted. But he doesn't need the full explanation.

"Sheer willpower Gajeel, sheer willpower now shut up so Raijin and I could get some sleep." I ordered then closed my eyes to rest for the long day.

Three hours later, Gracias Town, Client's Mansion…

"Raijin, Gajeel stay out here, we're dealing with nobles so I have a feeling your appearances might cause an issue. Understood?" I ordered them and went towards the door when I saw them either nod or grunt in annoyance. God knows I'm tired of our reward always being cut in half for Team Natsu's antics. I have to agree with Lucy, it's hard to pay rent with Natsu and the others; I should probably go on a job sometime with only Lucy so we can actually get paid in full.

My musing was abruptly stopped when the door opened to see a young tall butler with black hair, motion me inside.

"Thank you for coming on time, the masters are this way if you would follow me." He told me with a polite smile and tone. He led me to what seems to be a living room that already has two occupants sitting on a sofa inside. When I entered there was a man that seems to be in his early 40s wearing grey suit and with a young girl with long white hair no older than eighteen sitting next to him wearing an extravagant white and blue dress. The butler gestured me to sit on the opposite sofa in front of them then curtly bowed and left the room, closing the door.

"Thank you for accepting the job request Mr?" The man asked while reaching his hand to shake mine, which I politely shook.

"My name is Zeto Nakahara and I came with two others but they're waiting outside." I replied with my most polite tone that I could muster; after all I'm not exactly a fan of nobles.

"I see, well let's go straight to business. My daughters Yuki and Shiro have been invited to a family friend's birthday party for their own daughter who is close with mine in Crocus. This wouldn't be a problem but I can't go with them as I have an extremely important meeting tomorrow. Normally I would send them to the train station with our butler Sebastian but the train tracks that lead to Crocus are closed and my daughters really want to go so the only way is by carriage. Your job is to escort their carriage to Crocus within three days which is enough time to reach the party and when you get them there; my eldest daughter Yuki will pay you, simple really." He said with the same polite tone.

"I understand, has your family been threatened? I'm asking to be sure what to expect on the trip, after all it is a three day trip." I asked as I leaned forward with my chin resting on my hands as I calculated his expressions for any lies to be safe.

"No, we haven't been threatened at all but nowadays bandits run loose causing trouble, so I prefer being cautious. I trust Fairy Tail to the fullest as I have hired some of your mages already with satisfactory results." He said with a smile which the girl next to him also smiled with a nod.

"Alright I understand and I accept the job." I said with a smile. The girl quickly got up with excitement as she bowed before speaking.

"Thank you Mr. Nakahara, I'll go get my sister then as she's quite shy." She said while quickly leaving us in the room.

"Sir, are your daughters easily frightened by say intimidating people?" I asked with worry because of those two outside.

"Yuki is very strong willed but Shiro is only ten and easily gets nervous around new people. Why do you ask?" He asked with visible worry.

"No problem, but I'm going to talk with my teammates about this, so if you don't mind I'll go outside and talk to them so send your daughters outside when they're ready." I said with a bow as I moved outside to see Gajeel leaning on a tree while Raijin was napping in the tree.

"Alright guys this is the plan, I need you guys to go on ahead because one of the girls could be problematic with your appearances. It's going to be a three day ride by carriage to Crocus for some party. Gajeel I'm saving you from the carriage so you better get a head start before they roll it out." I curtly ordered and surprisingly no arguments as they took off jogging down the road. I turned to see Yuki along with well, a carbon copy of her but shorter and younger. I saw the carriage pull up by their father when I thanked my upbringing for granting me immunity from motion sickness.

"Thank you again for offering your services Mr. Nakahara! My name is Yuki and this is my younger sister Shiro! Say hi to the nice man Shiro." She said slightly pushing the little girl towards me as I crouched to be at her eye level with my hand in the air to shake. At this distance I could see both sisters have blue eyes.

"Hello there Ms. Shiro, my name is Zeto I'll be escorting the both of you to Crocus." I said politely as she mumbled something that even my hearing couldn't pick up.

"I'm sorry please repeat that again."

"Please call me Shiro and I'll call you Zeto." She said cutely with a timid voice as I smiled warmly.

"You got yourself a deal, now how about we leave so you two can get to the party." I offered my hand to put them in the carriage as I got on the front seat with the reins and snapped the reins to get the horses to move. Once we got moving I heard the girls' wave and say their goodbyes back to their father as we left. About two hours into the trip I heard a couple knocks from the inside of the carriage. I stopped then jumped off to open the door to see what the problem is.

"Hey Zeto do you mind if we got in the front with you? We honestly hate being in the back of a carriage." She said with a sheepish look while Shiro looked timidly, I nodded seeing that there was enough space for the three of us as I helped each one get on then put myself in the middle so I could continue steering the horses. The ride was comfortably silent until Yuki spoke up with a question.

"Excuse me Zeto but do you mind telling us what kind of mage are you?" She asked me curiously as her I felt her sister perk up at the question.

"Not at all, I'm a Black Dragon Slayer." I said politely as Yuki had an interested expression while Shiro had a barely contained excited face.

"Wow are you really strong!? Do you know Natsu Dragneel!?" I was surprised from the quick personality change from the small girl. I looked to the eldest for answers to see her giggling.

"Shiro is very passionate about magic along with the fact she idolizes Fairy Tail especially their Dragon Slayers. She loved Fairy Tail for two years and her love grew after the recent Grand Magic Games when they made their comeback." She said while still giggling at how sister is acting.

"Ah I understand, well to answer your questions Shiro, I believe I'm strong and I do know Natsu, we actually fought when we met but I lost sadly." I said modestly while she was fangirling with stars in her eyes. No seriously, she had stars in her eyes!

"That's so cool! Can you show your magic to us please?" I responded with a nod and sent some of my magic to my right hand as it got shrouded in black energy with blue lightning surrounding it. I looked to see the same stars in Shiro's eyes but they show brighter this time.

"Wow it looks like Rogue Cheney's Shadow Dragon Slayer Magic but way cooler!" She said excitedly as I chuckled a bit. This job may not be so boring at all…

That's a wrap for now! So yeah, there's not much to say really… Thanks for the reviews, follows, favorites and PMs! As usual any questions PM me! Expect updates every Friday and if by chance there's no update on Friday check throughout the weekend. That is all, Acnologia out!