Author's Note: Okay the idiot Commodore has a plan. Let's see what happens.

Also I do not own Fairy Tail.

Chapter Five - Lead the Way, Natsu!

The morning quickly changed to late afternoon along the shores of Port Hargeon. Soldiers were making reports from the battle that ensued the night before, and the sorrowed town's folk were helping each other clean up the streets and buildings throughout the market square.

However, one shop remained thoroughly closed to any volunteer clean ups, and as the doors on the town back smith stayed firmly locked, three familiar faces were sitting inside hatching a new idea for their adventure ahead.

"I'm tellin ya! It'll be easy!" Natsu boasts with prude as he slams his finger down on a map of the town. "My ship is way too big to take out by ourselves, and you'll need a smaller boat to steer!" He firmly yelled to his friend Gajeel who continued to shake his head.

"How many times do I have to tell ya!? I CAN"T DRIVE A SHIP DAMN IT!" Gajeel was firmly clear that although he was pretty good at handling side jobs along a ship, he had no idea how to steer one.

Lucy sighed and fiddled with her thumbs. "Yea Natsu…he did say that already."

Natsu sat down in his chair. "Pfff! Some pi…piiirate prisoner you are!" Natsu bit his tongue before he said more. He knew Gajeel was a pirate and so did Levy, but as far as Lucy was concerned, they rough black haired boy they met seven years ago was a fellow Phantom prisoner a long side Gajeel.

Lucy then turned to her fiancé. "Okay, so Natsu have they even taught you how to steer a ship?"

"Ahahahaha…eh not exactly." The sorry Natsu reluctantly admitted. "I was just thinking I could keep one of my guards hostage and make him drive us out."

"Gyah, you people are morons!" Gajeel launched out of his seat and went to open the door. "I'm going to go get some help cleaning the ally way out behind the barn. You kiddies can keep playing your little game, but until you have a better plan count me out!"

Lucy was sorry to hear that, but she wouldn't take no for an answer. "Gajeel wait! Just…let us handle the boat. Meet us at the dock in an hour."

"…" Gajeel paused before responding. "…Fine. But if we get caught I want both of you to idiots to bail my ass out immediately."

He slammed open the door and walked around the back while Natsu and Lucy were left all alone. Immediately Natsu slapped the table and smiled. "Hehe! I told ya he'd be down!" He began to roll the map up and stuffed it in his pockets as Lucy let out another sigh.

"Eh I guess…hey, why don't you stop by the tavern on the way out. We wouldn't want you to get your little sickness on the voyage out at sea…"

After an hour or so Gajeel was seen walking along the lower back allies with a full cloak of black and a semi large sack of items slung over his shoulder. He also carried a medium length black steel cutlass on his belt but kept it under his cloak so the town's guards wouldn't ask too many questions.

As he made it closer to the shore and docks he noticed only two boats in the Hargeon harbor. Instinctively he rolled his eyes. "You gotta be kidding me…they expect to get outta here with a damn patrol ship in the dock?"

Either way, the angry black smith wondered down to the side port to try and find his high ranking friends. As he looked around and uncomfortably passed through a series of guards, he kept his mind locked on two suspicious Royal troops who were following him from behind.

As he turned the next corner, the two guards slowed down and kept their eyes on is presence, but as the first one turned to follow, Gajeel grabbed him by the arm and pulled him into the side street.

As the second guard howled in fear, both he and Gajeel pulled pistols, and after an awkward silence, they easily recognized each other from before.

"GAJEEL!?"

"HEY YOU'RE THAT LOUSY JET GUY!" Gajeel hissed as he noticed the guard he grabbed was a little on the heavy side. "Oh, this oaf must be Droy…figures."

"PLEASE LET ME GO!" Droy sounded off like a child in fear while Gajeel undid his hold on the large man's neck.

Jet then holstered his weapon and rolled his eyes. "Great. I didn't think you were the guy the Commodore was talking about."

"Como what? Oh that dumb ass Salamander, yea I'm with him…and I'm assuming you guys are too?"

Jet responded. "Duh? Why else would we be tracking a random citizen from town? We were sent out to get you! Natsu and Lucy are waiting on his flag ship, the H. M. S. Igneel."

"Oh." Gajeel thought. "Isn't that his dad's name?"

Droy frowned. "Yea…he used to be a ship captain a few years ago…then he passed away."

Gajeel didn't bother telling the two that he was indirectly involved with the killing of, Igneel, but maybe another day would have been better. "Okay, but I got a look at that thing, and I'm gonna go ahead and say it's way too big for a small crew to handle. Plus we got that chick on board with us?"

Jet smiled and looked out to the harbor. "Yea, but we're not gonna take that one out, we're gonna swap ships." He then gestured the must smaller, and faster clipper ship on the far side of the bay.

"That's the Sea Star. It's the fastest ship in the southern seas. We're gonna race it out to find Phantom and bring back Levy!"

Gajeel laughed. "You morons make me laugh. First of all, that little dinky ship is nowhere near as fast as the Phantom ship, and secondly why the hell do you two losers care about Levy?"

Jet stepped up and looked Gajeel in the face. "Quit acting like you're the only one who's allowed to care about her!"

The slightly taller blacksmith never moved an inch. "Okay, I'm gonna ask your fat friend here ta move you out of my way before I do it myself."

Droy grabbed Jet and scowled at both of them. "Come on, the Commodore's waiting."

Now, we arrive in the very large and spacious deck of the H.M.S. Igneel, pride of the fleet and future sole property of Commodore Natsu Dragneel.

Gajeel finally stepped foot on the large vessel before noticed it was completely empty. "Hold on. How the hell did he get everyone off this damn thing?"

"Haha! I did it by force!"

Gajeel, Jet, and Droy looked up to find Natsu standing atop the stern castle with a great big smile on his face. Not long after, Lucy emerged from inside the back room itself with a worried smile of her own.

"Yea, just don't ask…so are you guys ready!?" She quickly changed her demeanor as the thought of an open sea adventure rattled her imaginative brain with excitement and energy.

"Yea!" Jet cried out. "We're gonna go all the way to bring Levy back!"

"OH YEA! AIN'T NO PIRATES STOPPIN US!"

"You people make no sense. First things first, you're captain there is clearly hammered, and the moment he becomes un-hammered he'll be pukin his guts out over the edge of the boat. Secondly this isn't the ship we're taking, so we need to jump off it before we start bragging about any little adventure…"

Then, he sighed before reaching his final thought. "And once we set out, you people have no idea what you're in for once we reach…"

"WAIT! IT'S COMING!"

Natsu pointed out to the back of the ship as he noticed a new boat was sailing over. Immediately Lucy, Jet, Droy, and even Gajeel all leaned over the railing to see the new ship, only as it arrived, they were left in pure confusion.

"Um…sweetie?" Lucy laughed. "Why is the Sea Star not moving?"

She was right, the other large scale ship hadn't moved from its spot all the way a crossed the harbor, and instead Natsu was laughing as he pointed out a single sailed medium-sized dinghy floating in their direction.

"HUH? You guys are nuts, we can't take the Sea Star!? We're taking that thing!"

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" Gajeel and Lucy both yelled in unison as Jet and Droy turned to leave.

"Well, this was fun for a little bit." Jet sighed.

Droy agreed. "Yea, I can't imagine crossing the sea in a puny thing like that."

Natsu turned to yell at his friends. "OY! MIND TELLING ME WHAT OUR PROBLEM IS!?"

"EVERYTHING!" Lucy snapped back. "Natsu we can't take that thing across open water! It's so tiny it probably doesn't even have a name!"

"Sure it does!"

That did not come Natsu, or any of the other members aboard the Igneel. Instead that voice came from the stern of the tiny dinghy as it rowed up to meet the large galleon flagship.

"It's called the S.S. Serge, and it's the best fishing boat you'll find in the entire city." He had a messy head of dark blue hair, and long black pants on as he didn't even bother to put on a shirt.

Right away Natsu waved. "HEY MAN! I HOPE YOU CAN FIT ALL 5 OF US ON!"

The kid rolled his eyes and turned to his new friend in the boat. "Man, why did you have to go and give him alcohol?"

"Hehe, I dunno." Said the familiar voice of Cana the bar keep. "But now that you've gone shirtless I'd say it's time for the two of us to have a drink of our own."

She winked at him from the other side of the small boat as he tilted his head. "Huh? I am too wearing a…OH DAMN IT I FORGOT A SHIRT!"

Natsu started smiling. "HEY CANA! WHO'S THE STIFF?"

The flirty bar tender smiled back. "This is Gray Fullbuster! He'll be sailing us out to sea!"

"This is ridiculous." Gajeel hissed. 'I don't have time to waste with you morons. I gotta…"

"TOO LATE LET'S GO!"

Natsu yelled out as he jumped down several stories off the tall stern castle to the main desk. He quickly grabbed Lucy by the hand and ran down the ramp.

"OY! WHAT THE HELL SALAMANDER!?" Gajeel yelled as he, Jet and Droy followed suit.

Natsu started to laugh hysterically as he turned to jump onto Gray's tiny boat. "I never actually got rid of the crew, most of them were just down stairs playing cards or something!"

"Why am I marrying him again?" Lucy asked herself as Natsu stuffed her down in the boat beside Cana.

Right away, Cana leaned over for a welcoming hello. "Oh yay, my favorite customer is going with us."

Lucy tensed up and looked out to the sky. "WHY DID I HAVE TO SUGGEST DOING THIS!?"

"TOO LATE BLONDIE! IF I'M ROPED IN THERE AIN'T NO WAY YOU'RE BACKING OUT!"

Gajeel yelled as his heavy feet hit the boat. Right then, Gray used that as a signal to quickly lower the sails and turn the rudder out onwards the open sea, beginning their voyage with a smooth ride out of site from the city.

Before things got too quiet, Lucy leaned over to Gajeel. "Hey, what we're trying to tell us back on the ship?"

Gajeel finished off a flagon of water before turning to answer. "Just…this isn't gonna be some little ride to some magical land. These are killers we're hunting. And to be honest I have no real idea where to find them."

Natsu sat up with a spinning head. "Ah man, but you said you had the map plan figured out!"

Gajeel lashed out again. "I WASN'T FINISHED…I said I have no idea where to find them…but I may know of some people that do."

Oh Gray. Always shirtless.

So I'm watching Pirates 1 a few nights ago, and the commandeering scene where Jack and Will take the Interceptors a very important scene. They also looked like totla bad asses whenit worked, but this is Fairy Tail...so how could i make this crew look like a bunch of idiots? Not having them get away in a giant, practical ship, I have them leave in a tiny fishing dignhy that can barely fit all 7 of them!

Anyway let's see where Gajeel takes them, and we might even check in on Levy next time!