When Makarov looked up from the floor, the whole guild had froze. They looked a few shades darker and the time had stopped. He looked at the doors and smiled.

"Sorry we're late. Kitty here was getting emotional about the whole thing."

"What can I say? I guess I've had a soft spot for this story."

"Hi gramps." Said the girl with a soft smile.

" Welcome back, Life." Makarov answered. He looked her up and down noticing some things had changed since her last visit wich was a year ago on this exact day. Her long lilac hair was loose and touched her hips. She was still wearing the same black cape and hood as always, although it now looked burned and torned up at the bottom. He also noticed that she was wearing knee high boots and that her clothes looked a little bit more revealing than the last time. He could see she was wearing tight black pants and a white tank top that was separated in the middle and was being held by crisscrossed straps. Even if her hood covered her arms and back, he imagined she was still covering her seals with bandages.

He then looked down to see Star. He, on the other hand, hasn't changed a bit. Grey fur, one green and one blue eye, and piercings on his left ear.

" So, I see we have a new commer here," she said as she spun around Lucy and examined her. "What can she do? Oh wait, never mind. Her keys are dangling of her hip. Does she know that's dangerous?" Added the caped girl now sitting on the counter dangling her legs like a small child. 'Just like her mother' thought Makarov.

"Yeah! Anyone could steal them." Said Star, looking around for, who Makarov could imagine be, Happy.

Letting a small chuckle escape his lips, Makarov looked around with a satisfied look.

"I see you're getting better at this... Time stopping magic. How's the search been going?" Ignoring his comment she looked him in the eyes and stopped swinging her legs. Her face changed from happiness to seriousness in a matter of micro seconds.

"Not. Good. We have nothing," she started to pace around the people trying not to move something or someone, " every lead, every info leads to a dead end. No one knows about who my parents could be. I even looked for the dragon who gave me Star, nothing. Like they never existed." She mumbled the last two words as if she didn't want to believe them.

The thing about the dragon didn't really surprise her though. She did only meet her once. When she was a kid, all she ever really remembered was being taken in by the Magic Council. They were the ones to put the seals on her. She never knew why she had them. All she knew is that they hurt. A lot. At one point she got tired of it, being some sort of freak to them, being miserable and alone, so she left. For a few weeks she ran away from the guards that they sent after her and one day, they stopped. She was happy and relieved but she also felt lost. She started wandering the forests and villages but everywhere she went, she would be feared.

One day, while she was crying under a tree, a dragon heard her. That dragon saw her and felt sorry for the poor little girl. She could feel the loneliness, but something else too. When Life looked up at the dragon, the creature stepped back with what seemed like fear overflowing in her eyes. Life got up and noticed ampathy and a smile creeped the dragon's lips.

"You're lonely, aren't you?" The big crystal like dragon asked Life. Life wasn't scared. Actually she felt somewhat safer next to this dragon. She looked down at her feet and hugged herself.

"What if I am?" Asked the little girl. Although she felt safe, she knew that the dragon feared her.

'How scary can I be for even a dragon to be afraid of me?' She whispered not noticing that the dragon could hear her. 'So she doesn't know, unh.' Thought the dragon. The dragon rumbled in the leaves wich made Life look up. The dragon had an egg in her hand. She put the egg closer to the young child and smiled at her.

"Here. This way, you won't be lonely anymore."

Life approached the egg and looked at it. It was really big, but it didn't look like a dragon egg. She took it in her hands, but before she could thank the dragon, she had already disappeared.

A few days later, the egg hatched and revealed a grey kitten. She didn't know what to call him, but when she looked up at the sky, she immediately got an idea.

Less than three weeks later, she found herself at Fairy Tail.

"This isn't why you're here though, is it." Said Makarov, trying to snap Life out of her thoughts.

"Star wanted to come back. To be honest, I'm tired of this too. Plus, here we have the resources to make the search easier. It's just that- that, I don't know. What do we tell them?. I mean, look at them. Gray looks miserable, Natsu's angry, Erza would never forgive me and Laxus would have my head. I did something horrible. I can't just waltz back in here like nothing happened!" Life said looking a frozen Gray in the eyes.

" There is a way. They won't know it's you, although you could come back to the guild. It's risky, but if you two play the part right, they won't see a thing." Makarov proposed remembering those magic crystals he had, hidden, in the library. Life looked at Star who was a few feet away next to Happy. They both nodded.

"We'll do it." Agreed Star.

"Right now, we have to leave. I may have practiced this spell, but it's hard to keep it going for so long." Life added before kissing Gray's cheek and leaving. Star followed after her soon after.

A week had passed and Makarov was now ready with everything. He decided to make a bracelet for Life and a necklace for Star. The necklace allowed Star to have a human form but still keep his wings in case of danger. Life agreed to only use her powers in case of danger.

When the clock stopped ticking, he knew the time had come for the guild to be whole again.