They stepped out of the cart, taking in the city in front of them. Breeg was flooded with all sorts of memories of his home town as they approached the gates. Kisune walked through the city gates with a purpose, but Breeg stopped at the threshold. He looked up to the gates, and then lowered his gaze into the city. Kisune had kept walking through, but she suddenly noticed he wasn't with her anymore. She looked around for him, and saw him standing there at the gates, wearing probably the stupidest grin she had ever seen in her life.
She tilted her head as she watched him. "Hey, you coming, Kazu? I know the gate is fascinating and all, but we still gotta find Fairy Tail." She called to him, anxious to find the Guild Hall.
Breeg looked over to her, and saw the rather impatient stance she was standing in. "Yeah, I'm coming." He finally called back as he walked toward her.
They walked together through the streets. Kisune and Breeg both saw the same things as they walked through the streets, but they felt completely different things as they looked. Kisune felt wonder and excitement at all the new things she saw. But Breeg felt nostalgic as he watched the familiar scene of the vendors going about their affairs. And suddenly he noticed a stall he could never forget as they passed by. It was a humble little trinket stall, not much to look at, but it had set him on his path. He stopped in front of it, just as he had done when he was small. He remembered he had asked him for directions to somewhere he could stay. The man looked at the boy thoughtfully, and then gave him directions to a place he said would be good for a youngster like him...

"Can I help you, son?" A voice yanked him away from his nostalgia. There was a man standing in front of him in the stall. Breeg looked at the man, who was shorter than he was by a few inches. Breeg noticed how familiar he was, even though his face was now weathered with age.

"Uh..." Breeg thought for a moment. "Yes, sir. I need directions for a place to stay." He said, not sure why he asked him. He knew where the Guild Hall was.
The man cocked an eyebrow at him. "Age get to you, boy? My directions haven't changed any from when you were younger." He stated with a serious look on his face.
Breeg smiled. "Just wanted to make sure it hadn't caught up with you, old man." He replied.
"Augh, I'll be in my grave before I start to forget things." He replied back. "Now, do you have any business with me, or are you just stopping up my customers?"
Breeg shook his head. "Ever the business man. Very well, I'll take... that ring there." He said, pointing to a golden band inset with a single green jewel all the way around. The old man followed his fingers with his gaze. He picked it up and examined it. "You grow up to be rich, son? This is an expensive ring. And I hope when you said 'take' you don't mean you're not gonna pay for it." He said, looking at Breeg with mild skepticism.
Breeg laughed."No, not quiet rich. But I work, so I have money. How much?"
The man looked at him sceptically. "Alright then, the price is 20,000 jewel." He stated straightly.
Breeg just looked at the man. "You're right, that is rather pricey. But still..." He said as he reached into his wallet and pulled out the Jewel. "Here. Full payment." He said as he laid the money down.
The man picked it up, and counted it out. "Aye, full payment. Why would you want this ring anyway? It's an old wedding ring, for a woman, no less. You looking to get married soon?" He asked as he put the amount away.
Breeg laughed again. "No, not quiet yet. But old trinkets often bring good luck, especially those that used to be precious to someone. And you can never have too much of that."
The old vendor cocked an eyebrow at him. "Mm. Well I suppose you're right. Although I should be saving that for a certain young woman I know. She comes by every now and then and looks at it." He stated.

"Oh, well I can choose something else if this was reserved." Breeg stated, offering the ring back.
He shook his head. "No, you're fine. I'm not sure if she even wanted to buy it, she never inquired about it." He said, shrugging his shoulders. "Alright now, you've had your business. Now shove off, you're cloggin' my lines." He said, gesturing behind Breeg.
He glanced back, and did notice a few people were waiting. "Alright, I'll be on my way, old man. Thank you for the directions, they've been most helpful." Breeg said, smiling back. And with that, he began down the walk.

Then a young woman walked up after him, an angry look on her face. "Hey, what gives, Jugo?" She asked him.

"Not me, that's for sure, Lia." He said, leaning on his bar, looking up at her lazily.

"That is the biggest pile of crap!" She shouted. "I came here yesterday for that same ring, and you said the price was 50,000 jewel!" She glared at him.

"Well excuse me if I happen to give a random sale every now and then to people I choose. What's it to you?" He asked her simply.

"What's it to me?!" She said, trying to be calm, but not doing very well. "You saw me in line behind that guy! I know you did, because you looked at me when you mentioned me coming by to look at it! And you know for damn sure I inquire about that ring every time! Did you just sell it to him to spite me? What have I done to you?!"

"Simmer down there, Lia. I'm not the type to spite people. And I didn't look back to you, I just looked back to the line that was building, which you are only adding to." He said, straightening back up. "I don't lie either, so obviously I wasn't talking about you. And you've never done anything to me, except not pay me for it. He had the money, so I gave it to him. He still would've had the money if I had given him full price." He said.

"That's a load of crap! Did you see him? I'll bet he used all of his money on that so he could resell it at a higher price! You've been had, old man!" She yelled in his face.

"I thought I told you to simmer down. And if he does, so what? That's none of my business. And it shouldn't be any of yours either, so I suggest you let it go." He stated, glaring at her. "Now are you gonna buy somethin', or am I gonna have to call the guards?"

Kisune walked through the city streets gazing in wonder at everything she saw. She took in all the sights, the sounds, the... the delicious smells!
She looked up to the sky, looking at the position of the sun. It was straight overhead. "Lunch time!" she thought, hardly containing her excitement as she thought of the food she couldn't wait to try.

"Hey Kazu!" She said as she turned around. "What say we stop somewhere to eat before we... Kazu?" She asked aloud. "Kazu!" She called his name.
"Great! Where'd we get separated?!" She said to herself, exasperated as she continued to try and spot Kazu in the crowd. "Fat lot of good these heels are doing me." She mumbled to herself. She thought back to where she had just came from and began to retrace her steps.

Meanwhile, Breeg was walking away from Jugo's old trinket stall, examining the ring he just bought. He was turning it over in his hands, when he noticed what looked like an inscription inside the band.
"What's this, now?" He said softly to himself. He held it closer, trying to make out the writing, but with little success. He backed the ring away from his face and turned to his companion.

"Kisune, can you rea-" He cut himself off as he noticed she wasn't there. "Kisune?" He called. And then again, louder. "Kisune! ...Great, where that girl go? She was right here a second ago..." He thought back to the last time he saw her. "Oh, she must not have noticed I stopped at the stall." He said aloud as he looked over the crowd, looking for her dark hood. He walked down a through street, thinking maybe he'd find her in the next street.

Just then Kisune rounded the corner of the opposing street, looking for Breeg. "Great, how am I gonna find him here?" She thought to herself. She figured the old fashioned way would work best, so she asked around, describing him to people asking if they'd seen him...

"Good lord, where could she be?!"
Breeg was getting frustrated. He had been looking for her for a good hour now, with no success. And to round it off, he had gotten himself lost as well. He was surprised at how much the city had changed in the years he had been gone. But he didn't have time to appreciate any of it, because he was too busy trying to find his companion. "How can someone who stands out so much be so hard to find?" He thought to himself in wonder. Suddenly he saw her. Or, he thought it was her. She had just passed in front of the entrance to an alley on the next street over. "Okay, if that's not her, then I've been looking too long..." He grumbled to himself as he ran to the alleyway. He emerged on the other side of the alley, and began to look around. But as he turned his head to the left, he saw it. The Fairy Tail Guild Hall. He smiled as he looked at it. It hadn't changed. It was still the marvelous castle-like building he knew from years ago. But his smile faded as he remembered he had to find Kisune.

"She had better appreciate the fact I'm looking for her instead of just going to Fairy Tail without her." He said under his breath as he turned around. Suddenly his eyes locked on her. She was across the street from him, and had noticed him just as he saw her. She smiled and waved to him.

"Good, the search is over." He thought. He smiled in return, and was just about to raise his hand to wave when he suddenly heard someone shout something.

"Daddy!"

Breeg turned to look where it was originating from, but all he saw was a streak of bright orange rush past the edge of his vision. He kept turning, but suddenly felt his hand being grabbed and pulled along. He jolted after the person dragging him.

"Come on, daddy, we're gonna be late!" The girl said over her shoulder, running toward the Guild Hall.
Breeg looked back at Kisune as he was being dragged along. She was just sort of staring at them in confusion, but regained her senses and ran after them.

"Wait, is Kazu a father?" She thought to herself. Then she looked at the young woman dragging him. "Gosh, she's gotta be in her late teens!" She exclaimed in her head. "So either this is a misunderstanding, or Kazu is a lot older than he looks."

Meanwhile, there was a man with flaming orange hair searching frantically for his seventeen year old daughter. "Dammit, why does she always do this to me?" He said aloud, aggravated. "Every time I take her to the market, ever since that first time when she was four!"
He thought back to that time. It was her fourth birthday, and they were on their third trip to the market. The woman watching the stalls was quite the smooth talker. "Sold us just about everything but the candles." He recalled. Orange candles. Orange was her favorite color, after all. Always had been. Well, up until recently. Lately she had grown much more attached to green. He didn't know why, but she really loved green all of a sudden.
He shook his head as he cleared his head. "No time for that. I have to find her!" He said, determined. He was looking around for her bright orange hair, much like his own, when he suddenly noticed a lamppost. He suddenly remembered he had seen her from up on one when she first ran off that day. "Old ways work best, I guess." He thought to himself, slightly amused.
As he ran to it, he also remembered the trouble she had gotten into that day. "That had better not be the case today." He thought as he approached the pole. He twisted the ring on his finger, and a magic circle appeared below his feet, magically boosting him up to the top of the pole. He looked out, and saw his daughter with another man, with flaming hair like his own. Was he following her? They were both running...
He jumped down the pole and began to dash for his daughter and the Guild Hall they were headed for, fearing the worst...

Breeg kept getting dragged along by the girl. Before he knew it they were through the Guild Hall doors. Suddenly he regained his senses and he pulled his hand out from her grasp. She stopped and turned around.

"What's up Da-" She began to ask as she turned around, but cut herself off when she saw that the man she had been dragging was not her father. A look of confusion passed over her face as she focused on his face. "You're not my father." She stated.

"No, I'm no-." Breeg said as he straightened up, but stopped. He looked at the young woman who had abducted him. He stared at her, wide eyed. She must have been around five-nine or so. She was wearing a loose red and white sleeveless shirt over a plain white mini skirt with a belt, and she wore brown boots that went almost to her knees, boosting her about an inch. "So she's actually around five-eight," he thought to himself as he looked at her. She had shorter, bright orange hair, just reaching her collar bone. She had dark brown eyes, which were set in a semi-round face which looked confused.
Breeg cleared his throat and recomposed himself. "Um... no I'm not your father." He responded. "But, maybe I can help you find him. What does he look like?" He inquired.
The girl just looked at him. "But he looked so much like Daddy." She thought too herself. "Well, from the back, anyway."
She compared him to her father as she looked him over. He was wearing a white button up shirt, which had been the same thing her father had been wearing, but he was wearing his open. Her father always kept his closed. He was also wearing a bright maroon shirt underneath it.
The stranger was also wearing jeans, but her father had been wearing black pants. This guy was wearing black sneakers, but she couldn't remember what her father had been wearing.
They also had the same hair color, which means both herself and this guy had the same hair color. A trait she got from her father. But she also noticed the styles were similar, but not exact. Her fathers was slightly more wild, but his was more laid down. Not by much, but enough to notice if you look.
She finally looked down to his face. He had an angular face, with a somewhat sharp chin. She couldn't see his eyes under his hair very well though.

"Well... he looks an awful lot like you," She finally answered him. "He's wearing a white shirt, like yours, but it's buttoned up. And he has hair like yours. Almost exactly, only it flies out more than yours does."

"Okay, what does his face look like?" He asked further.

"His face?" She asked. "Well, like that." She said, pointing past him. Breeg turned around, but he didn't see a face. All he saw was a fist enveloping his whole vision. He tried to move to the side, but only got partially out of the way. The punch connected, and Breeg stumbled backwards, hitting a table, drawing the attention of other people in the Guild Hall. Breeg quickly unfastened his sword scabbard from his belt, and laid both it and the sword on the table. He turned around and raised his hands, ready to fight...

Mira was cleaning a glass when she suddenly heard a crash at the front of the Guild Hall. "Natsu and Gray must have gotten back from their job..." She sighed as she looked up. But then was surprised to see Loke standing there. She looked over to who he was fighting, but couldn't see very well. But suddenly someone shot up, holding a sword. She gasped, but then watched as he laid it on the table. She also noticed he hadn't even unsheathed it. She looked on, seeing if she could recognize the man Loke was fighting. And soon she did. It looked like Loke was fighting... himself? She stared in confusion for a moment, but then saw the other man's green eyes flash in the light. She covered her mouth as recognition pulsed through her. Recognition of the young boy with shining green eyes. The boy she used to sit and talk with every morning for five years. The boy who she was wondering what kind of man he had become just a few days ago... Breeg...

Breeg stood there, arms raised, prepared to fight. The other man stood there, glaring at him from under his mane of hair. "So this is her father, huh?" He thought to himself. "I wonder if I can convince him it was all a misunderstanding."
Breeg lowered his arms slightly, and opened his mouth to speak. But the girls father suddenly threw another punch. Breeg raised his arms again, and stepped aside, pushing the man as he went. The man pushed himself up from the table he had been thrown into, and turned back around to face Breeg. They both stood there, waiting for the other to strike, when suddenly Breeg heard a familiar voice.

"Breeg!" Mira called excitedly from the other side of the room. All heads turned to see her waving to him. Breeg straightened up as she waved. He smiled, and then ran to the bar where she was. She came out from around the bar and wrapped him in a tight hug.

"Oh my gosh, you're back!" She exclaimed happily. "Oh, back up, let me look at you!" She said pulling away from him. "Who knew that little kid from years ago would grow up to be so tall!" She almost squealed as she looked up at him. "I can't believe it, you're finally home!" She smiled brightly at him. But suddenly her face turned stern. "And don't you think this visit is a little past due?" She said to him.
Breeg looked down at her. "Yeah, maybe..." He said. "But I did write."

"Not near often enough!" She stated.

"Well, I thought it was pretty often." He said, scratching the back of his head. Mira continued to look sternly at him. But then suddenly brightened up again. "It's alright!" She said, hugging him again. "All that matters is you're home now!" She pulled away. "Now, come to the bar, and I'll fix you a drink! I've wanted to do that ever since you were little!" She said, clearly excited.

Breeg followed her over to the bar. "That sounds good, Mira." He said, smiling brightly.

Just then Kisune arrived at the Guild, panting. "I really need new shoes," she said in between breaths."I tripped twice in these stupid things." She said as she looked up. She saw Kazu standing by the door with the woman that had kidnapped him. She walked over to him. "Well, thanks for just leaving me behind!" She said prodding him in the back. "Just what do you think you're doing, running off with some random woman like that? Seems like odd behavior when you're already with a girl." She said, walking around to face him. "I know you were all excited about getting back to the Guild, but st-" She cut herself off as she looked up at Kazu, agape. "Wait, you're not Kazu!" She said, pointing accusingly. Not-Kazu just stared at her for a second. Then she heard the girl he was with speak up.

"Oh, are you friends with that other man?" She asked. "He's over by the bar." She finished, pointing. Kisune followed her gesture, and there he was, at the bar. "Gosh, of course as soon as he gets here he goes straight to the bar!" She said under her breath. She began to walk over, but she felt a finger tap her shoulder. She turned around to see the girl holding Kazu's sword. "Umm... here. Your friend left his sword over here when he ran over to Mira." Kisune took the sword from her. "Mira?" she inquired.

"The bar keep." The man replied.

"Oh. Thank you." She replied. She proceeded to walk over to the bar, about to repeat to Kazu what she had said to Not-Kazu a second ago.

"Well, thanks for just leaving me behi-"

"Oh, there you are Kisune. Where'd you go?" He asked, turning around to face her.

She opened her mouth to speak, but all that she had just said just left her mind. She just stood there for a moment with her mouth hanging opened. But finally she sighed. "... nowhere." Was all she said, feeling her little speech had gone to waste.

"Well, pull up a stool then." He said, smiling at her.

She shook her head and sighed. "Is there any hope for you, Kazu?" She thought to herself. But when she looked up, she could see he was smiling as he talked to the bar keep, and the other few Guild Members around him. She couldn't help smiling as she watched him. "Well, I guess I won't hold it over his head this once." She thought to herself...

Several hours passed as he talked with everyone, telling them stories he couldn't fit on letters. But most of all how much he had missed Fairy Tail, and all of his family. He asked where everyone else was, as there was only a small number there, but he was told they were all out on jobs.
Soon, it grew late and everyone grew tired. Breeg was one of the last ones to get up from the bar. Mira offered him a room up stairs, which he gladly accepted. He asked for a separate room for Kisune as well, until she could find a place of her own. Mira was glad to give her a room, finding it cute how the little boy she knew had grown up to be so polite.
Kisune had already went up stairs to her room after thanking Mira. But Breeg was heading to the foot of the stairs, when suddenly he heard someone clear their throat behind him. He stopped at the foot of the stairs. He reached over to his sword hilt as he turned around. When he did, he saw the man he had fought earlier standing in the dim light, his daughter was with him, and she wrapped her hands around her fathers arm when she saw he was grasping his sword. He noticed her action and let go. She relaxed a little, but still held on to her father. "She must be around sixteen or so." Breeg thought as he looked at her.

"Hello... Breeg was it?" Her father addressed him. "I would like to apologize for earlier. My daughter explained to me what happened, and I realize what I thought had happened wasn't... well, what happened." He laughed slightly. Breeg just looked at him for a moment.

"So, what do you think happened?" Breeg asked him.

The other man looked at him. "Well, I saw what looked like my daughter being chased by a man who looked like me. I thought someone had made a magical clone of me, and were after my daughter. So I was... angry, to say the least." He looked down at his daughter when he said this. "But after Mira called your name, it didn't make sense for you to be a clone. Just an uncanny look alike from behind." He took a step forward, his daughter's arms sliding out from his own. "I'm sorry for earlier, and I'd like to start over." He reached his hand out to Breeg. "I'm Loke. And this is my daughter..." He trailed off as he gestured to her.

She stepped forward and smiled at him. "I'm Fararia, but you can call me Fairy, if you'd like." She said, also holding out her hand. Breeg took each hand in turn, and also flashed a smile back at Fairy. She blushed slightly when he did. Breeg noticed it as he let go of her hand.

Breeg turned back to Loke. "Good to meet you. I'm Breeg." He said, bowing slightly. "And now if you'll excuse me, I have sword practice early tomorrow."

Hey guys! First of all, sorry for the late night postings, I know it may be frustrating at times, but I don't have much time to write until sometime after noon. Also, sorry for all the borders in this chapter, but I switched perspectives quite a bit, so they were necessary. But I'll experiment and see if I can find a different way to border to at least make it look better.
Also, I wanted to say that uploads may grow farther apart soon, 'cause I'll have to go back to school soon, so I certainly won't have as much time to write. So even if I do keep the uploads daily, the chapters will be shorter. So we'll just see how it goes. :/
But yeah, thanks a lot guys, it's nice writing for an audience (even if it's a small one). Again, reviews are welcome, and I hope y'all like the story.

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