I will be posting another chapter tomorrow night. So... see you then. I think Lucy and Minerva will be waiting as well as that peeping Sting. LOL

Disclaimer... I do not own Fairy Tail.

Chapter 6

Sometime Earlier, Just Down the Road From Minerva's Place...

Sting's POV

"Do you guys think it was a good idea to leave the Fairy with Minerva? Orga asked as he stopped and looked at his comrades.

"Why, are you worried about her?" I said.

"Not worried for the little Fairy, I'm just worried what will happen if Minerva looses it and kills her. If that happens Master will kill us," Orga said as everyone looked to one another with similar concerns.

"Well it wouldn't surprise me if something did happen to Lucy-san, we all know what Minerva can be like," said Rogue as he turned to look back at Minerva's place.

"Minerva does have a short fuse and Lucy did knock her on her ass twice, perhaps one of us should go back and keep an eye on things for a little while," I said as I looked at Rogue who seemed to be deeply concerned. "Are you guys that worried about Lucy?"

"Yes!" they all said in unison.

"I guess we have no other choice then... one of us has to go back," Rufus said as he leaned towards Sting and tapped him on the shoulder and laughed. "YOU"RE IT!" and he ran down the street. He was quickly followed Orga, Rogue and their Exceeds.

"DAM IT!" I said as I shouted at my so called friends. "Cowards."

Rogue stopped and turned around to face Sting, "sorry Sting, but you have the most experience dealing with Minerva... good luck," he said as he turned around and raised his hand to wave goodbye and walked off with Frosh and Lector trailing behind him.

"Yea! Yea! lucky me," I said as I sighed and started walking up to Minerva's place. I was about to knock on her door when I heard laughter and I thought, 'What the hell is this, they're laughing... Minervas laughing, I think I'll hang out here for a while to see what's going on." I laughed to myself.

At Fairy Tail - Around The Same Time...

Master Makarov's POV

I double checked my bag and I had everything I'd need for my trip. I threw it over my shoulder and took one last look around my office, before I walked out and closed the door behind me. 'This is like the forth trip to appear in front of the Magic Council. I'm getting so tired of this foolishness. I just want this over with so we can get back to normal or whatever normal is now,' I thought to myself as I walked down the stairs and stopped at the bar to speak with Mira.

"Mira do you have that video that I asked you for," I said as I jumped up on the bar and reached over to pour myself one for the road.

"Yes I do Master. It took myself and Levy-chan all night to get it ready but we did it," Mira said with a small smile as she reached under the bar and bought up a small package and handed it to me. "Here you go Master."

"Thank you Mira. Hopefully this puts an end to all this horrible business. It's time Fairy Tail got back to work. Three months without anyone going on missions is really starting to take its toll on us and the bills are really piling up now," I said as I sighed. "By the way where is Levy-chan, I want to thank her as well."

"Gajeel took her home after we finished up, you know what she's been like since then. She's still having a hard time dealing with everything... the poor thing misses Lucy so much. It just breaks my heart when I think about it," Mira said as she started to cry.

"I know Mira, it's been hard on us all, but first we must deal with the Magic Council then maybe we can find a way to set things right again," I said as I put my hand on Mira's shoulder to comfort her.

"I hope so Master, we need something positive to happen soon or we will all fall apart," Mira said as she tried to wipe her tears away.

"Anyway Mira, I'll be gone for a few days, so you're in charge while I'm gone... wish me luck," I said as I walked toward the front door.

"Good luck Master and please be safe," Mira said as I waved to her and left the guild.

Later At The Magic Council...

Gran Doma's POV

As the doors to the Magic Council swung open, Lahar, the Captain of the 4th Custody Enforcement Unit appeared before the council. "Members I bring you news, Makarov Dreyar is here. Shall I show him in," said the black haired man, wearing glasses.

"Yes! show him in," I said as I sat down between my fellow council members. (LOL, That just sounds wrong.)

Makarov was led into the large oval council chambers and stood at the lone podium at it's center. Many who have sought an audience with the council have stood there before and Fairy Tail was no stranger to that podium. In front of the podium stands a raised stand in the shape of an arc, on which sits the council members. Gran Dorma the council chairman sits at the center of this council, flanked to his left and right by six other members of the council, totaling seven members in all.

"Well Makarov, here we are again. Your guilds three month suspension, hanging in the balance. There will be only two possible out comes to this hearing today, one Fairy Tail is reinstated, with observation and possible restrictions or two Fairy Tail is disbanded. Most council members want Fairy Tail disbanded, unfortunately in order to disband a guild there has to be an unanimous vote, but you seem to still have one friend on this council... Yajima. So we will give you this last chance to appeal your case and save your guild," I said as I ran my fingers through my beard.

"Now Makarov do you have any thing new to enter here today," said the tall, old, gray bearded man Org.

"Council members, friends, I have a tape of the event from three months ago. It shows that we did nothing wrong other than attempt to protect ourselves and our guild from what we saw as a threat from two unknown mages," Makarov stated as he started to display the video on the wall of the council chambers.

Everyone sat and watched as that days events played out, from that morning when Lucy Heartfilia left to the arival of the two strangers, to the inevitable conflict between the unknown mages and finally arrival of Lucy Heartfilia later that night as she was attacked by members of Fairy Tail. The video showed the arrival of two other unknown mages as well during that day. This occurred after the first two mages incapacitated the entire guild. After nearly forty minutes of nonstop video, edited to save time, the council had seen enough to make it's final decision... or so they had hoped.

"So my friend, do you truly believe that your guild is without fault here," Makarov's old friend Yajima, a short old man with a small mustache said.

"Yes, we truly believe that we did nothing wrong other than protect ourselves. Perhaps we could have handled the situation better, but we were provoked and mistakes and misunderstandings on everyone's behalf almost cost a dear child her life. But we would do the same thing again, because we our Fairy Tail and we protect our Nakama," Makarov said with pride.

"You would do that again, you say... amazing... Fairy Tail is truly a house of fools. Chairman lets just end this foolishness now and take a new vote ," stated Org with a small smirk on his face.

"Agreed," I said as I looked to everyone for their vote. "Raise your hand if you vote to disband Fairy Tail,"

Makarov's POV

As I scanned the seven council members, to my horror all seven had their hand up. Even my long time friend and confidant Yajima had voted against me.

"Makarov Dreyar, Master of the guild Fairy Tail, we hereby disbann..." Gran Doma said as I stopped him in mid-sentence.

"But how, I don't understand. We did nothing, but defend our home and family. Please explain why?" I begged. "Please!"

"Yajima, will you please explain to him what they did wrong," Gran Dome said as he motioned for the podium to be removed and a chair to be given to Makarov. "Have a seat Makarov," I said.

"My Pleasure chairman," Yajima said as he directed his attention to his old friend sitting in the middle of the council chambers.

Yajima's POV

"I have two questions for you my old friend... one what year is it and two why is your guild called Fairy Tail," I asked.

"Well the year is x791 and our guild got its name from our first Master, Mavis Vermilion, who once told me that she named her guild Fairy Tail because she liked Fairy Tails as a child," Makarov said as he shifted on his chair.

"So let me ask you Makarov, name one event that happened 792 years ago before our current calendar started?" I asked him.

"I do not know, I don't think there is any recorded history from before that time," Makarov said.

"Actually that is incorrect, there is plenty of recorded history," I said as I nodded to Lahar, who walked over to the wall by the main door and pressed a hidden button. The walls of the council chamber began to move and revealed row after row of old books. Lahar pressed the button again and the walls returned and covered the books. "As you just saw, there are literally thousands of books from that time, before our current calendar started."

"Makarov, all humans on Earthland are from ancestors who fled their original home, a planet called Earth some 791 years ago. The x in front of our date is actually a 1 and as there is a slight time difference between the two worlds, the real date now is probably 2010 or something like that," I said.

"Just a second now, we're not originally from this world?" Makarov said as he stood up in disbelief.

"That is correct," Gran Doma stated. "That information is classified and is to never leave this room, the penalty is death, understood! Now sit back down!" the Chairman ordered.

"Understood!" Makarov said as he quietly sat back down.

"Anyway... ages ago there was a war between magical creatures on Earth. It was a war that nearly wiped out all magic users. Once our numbers started to dwindle, those without magic started to take advantage of this fact and they hunted our kind until we were on the verge of extinction. So the two most powerful mages at the time opened a gate to here and almost all magical beings crossed over. Some created their own worlds, like the Dragon world and the Spirit world, but most settled here and named the world after their old home world Earth... they called it Earthland," I said as I took a drink and continued.

"The two mages who gave all magic creatures a future, mine and yours included, are both immortal beings. One is a former Goddess and the other is in a sense a Demi-God. You met them both just three months ago. The names they use the most are Morgana and Emerys, but they are better know by their other names from the King Arthur Tail... Morgana le Faye and Merlin the Magician. Morgana has a son who was the main person behind the original magical war back on Earth. His name was Mordred and we believe you met him as well three months ago. He was banished from Earth for several hundred years, but he escaped about 420 years ago and showed up here on Earthland. You may know the name he goes by now... Zeref," I said.

"We know from reliable sources here and on Earth, that Morgana and Mordred hate each other. What happened to cause this is still unknown to us, but we do know that because of their bloodline they can not kill one another so it's a stalemate. We also know that Morgana and Emrys do not like Earthland and they care less about this place, than they do for humans. They do have one thing here that is extremely precious to them and that is their daughter Lucy. We've known about her existence since the day she was born. From the shadows, we've intervened on many occasions to protect her, just because of who her parents are. As you may have noticed, trouble seems to follow her, but she does have a natural knack for overcoming adversity. The only thing we are unsure of with regards to Lucy is the true extent of her powers, but we will test her limits soon. We were also surprised to learn a few years back that she choose to join Fairy Tail, so consider yourselves lucky that she was with your guild, because it's probably the only reason we over looked so many your infractions," I said as I took another drink of water and attempted to catch my breath.

"Is any of this starting to click with you Makarov," Org said.

"Yes councilor, I believe I see where your going with this. The council is afraid that if they upset Morgana and Emrys, they may undo what they have done for us," Makarov said as he looked around.

"Precisely! Although we have counter measures in place, just in case, we would really not want to be put into a position to have to use them. We would prefer a better solution, one that will keep Lucy safe and sound and thereby not antagonize her parents. Although, at the moment it seems that they may have left Earthland for an unknown location to rest and regenerate, so we should be safe from them for a few years. But you idiots really did cause a mess," Gran Doma said with disgust in his voice. "So after hearing our story, do you now understand what really happened that night at your guild."

"Morgana and Emrys actually protected your guild. They did not attack you. They asked several times to see their daughter and you and your children refused, by remaining silent, to provide answers. Even after being disrespected by all of you, they still protected you from Zeref. They never even blamed your guild for Lucy leaving and yet your so called strongest team attacked without confirming what was going on. Your earlier video proves what we had suspected. You Makarov, you bought the damming evidence here yourself. You proved our case for us. Do you now see why we ruled against your guild and why we will disband Fairy Tail?" I said as all council members rose from their seats, myself included.

"Please there must be something we can do to solve this. We had no idea who any of those people were at that time. I know I'm wrong and all of Fairy Tail is in the wrong this time, but my brats are good children and they need a place like Fairy Tail... they need their family and friends around them for support. Plus, we've saved the Magic Council before and we've saved Fiore and it's citizens so many times. Shouldn't that count for something. Please give us a chance to prove ourselves and make amends for what we've done," Makarov said as he knelled down on the floor before the council.

The council members all gathered in a small huddle and attempted to see if there was any way that this situation could be saved, after all Fairy Tail has saved so many, so often. After a few moments they all stood facing Makarov...

"We will give you one week to make things right again. Exactly one week from today, we the Magic Council will send an envoy to Sabertooth to ask Lucy two questions, one does she remember what happened that night? and two does she forgive Fairy Tail and her assailants? If she answers no to either question we will uphold our original decision and disband Fairy Tail. You are not to force her or put pressure on her to answer yes to either question. We will have a telepath there, to verify her answers" I said as we turned to leave the council chambers.

"One other thing Makarov, if Lucy's response is favorable, then we will reinstate Fairy Tail. Of course there will be some conditions. We will advise you of them, if needed, at that time," Gran Doma said. "You may return now... remember you have one week."

"Thank you, we won't let you down. We will make this right. May I ask for one favor before you leave... can we please start running missions again. We're all hurting after a three month ban," Makarov asked in a gentle respectful tone.

"Very well, but if there are any problems this week, you Makarov, you will be personally held responsible... understood," Gran Doma said as he walked out of the chambers.

"Understood and thank you," Makarov said with a smile. The best news he's had in months.

Makarov's POV

As Makarov approached the doors Lahar stopped him and said, "Master Drayer, for the next week your guild will be closely monitored. Do not mess up this golden opportunity that's been given to you."

"We won't! Thank you for your concern," Makarov said as he walked out the door.

"Oh! one more thing Master Drayer, I thought you should know... Lucy has no memory of that night. So you may need a miracle to save your guild. Good Luck," Lahar said as Makarov waved goodbye and left the Magic Council.

I pulled out my communication device and contacted Mira. "Hi Master, so how did it go," said our bar maid Mira.

"I'll fill you in tomorrow morning. Mira, contact all Fairy Tail members and have them at the guild for a meeting the first thing in the morning. Also have some one drag Team Natsu in as well. Whether they want to come or not have them there. Is that clear?" I said as looked around for a hotel.

"Understood Master, I'll get Laxus on that for you. Be safe and good night," Mira said as she ended the call.

"I'm getting to old for this," I sighed as I entered the hotel.