I follow the sound of laughing and cheering and I come to a set of large wooden doors that are wide open. I keep my distance as I watch inside, hoping I can get someone's attention. I watch in amusement as a half naked man is currently running away from a girl with blue curly hair, a girl with red hair with armour on is pointing a sword at some large white haired male and a small blue haired girl is sitting down reading a book with a large black haired male with piercings everywhere! Brother! What sort of people do you hang out with?

I take a look around and I can not seem to see you, so I take a deep breath in and I start walking into the guild.

I seem to have stepped louder than I thought, or they have really good hearing because suddenly everyone stops to look at me. I immediately blush bright red and turn my body to the side holding my hands together in embarrassment. This is really freaky. How did they know I was here? Why did they suddenly stop to look at me at once!

I look around to see all of the people that I had observed before. The shirtless man, the blue haired girl now caught up with him grabbing his arm, the girl in the armour, the white haired man and the blue haired girl and her black haired friend. They had all stopped to look at me as if to size me up! The girl in the armour gives me a sly grin and I am immediately on my guard with her. Something about her isn't right! I fiddle with my black jacket that I am wearing to try and work out what to say.

But before I can bring myself to say anything, a small grey-haired man wearing an oversized beige coat with lined white fur comes up in front of everyone to speak to me directly.

"Who are you?" He asks sternly

I shudder as I feel his magical power. I know that I am in a room of mages, but his power seems to be above everyone else's. This man is very powerful! "I am Nozomi Sir" I mutter.

The old man looks at me with concern. "What can we help you with?"

Here it is. I am hopefully about to get the help to see him again. "I-I….." They all look at me patiently as I try to speak "I am looking for my younger brother. I need your help in finding him"

The old man's posture calms down and so does everyone else's. The old man gives me a smile and hold out a gestured hand to a table. "Come sit down so we can get all of the right details." Then he turns the rest of the people standing there "Alright you brats! Back to as you were! Erza, Gray. I'll need you for this one" I look over to the shirtless man and the girl in armour as they nod their heads and walk with me to the gestured table.

Just before we sit down to the table, the girl opens her hand out for me to shake. "I am Erza Scarlet and this is Gray Fullbuster. The man you spoke to earlier is our Master of the guild" She says gesturing to Gray who simply nods.

I shake her hand in response "I am Nozomi. It's nice to meet you. Thank you for your help."

"That's why Fairy Tail is here. So tell us about your brother."

I look down frowning as I hold the picture in both of my hands tight on the table. I look at the picture of my younger brother and I start to retell my story for what seems the thousandth time to unknown strangers.

"My brother and I used to live a small village outside of Fiore with our Mama and Papa. Everyone was happy until our village was suddenly set on fire and was bombarded. We had no hope so we ran for our lives. I was about 5, my brother was just a baby. As we were running, I grabbed him and held on tight looking for Mama and Papa. I managed to run outside with him and as I turned away I saw Mama and Papa were trapped in our house. I screamed at them, wanting to help them but there was nothing that I could do."

I stopped as the memories were coming back to haunt me. Tears were slowing streaking down my face as I was reliving my nightmare once more.

"I watched as they burned alive screaming for them to come out. Everytime I tried to go near them to help I remembered that I was holding onto my brother who was crying. I tried to comfort him as I watched our parents die. Before the fire died out they were screaming at me to run away. To take him and run. Before I could a man was standing there. He was a large black shadow and I was terrified. I couldn't run anywhere. I tried to move but I was too petrified.

In a way of protecting myself and my brother I curled into a ball holding onto my brother to make sure that I would get the brunt of whatever was coming. I closed my eyes and I felt this surge of energy coming from me…." I looked up to see more people had stopped and were now listening to my story. The tears were flowing heavily now as I reached the climax of the story.

"I didn't know that I was a mage at this point. Mama and Papa never showed any signs of our family knowing magic, but as I sat there huddled over my brother whispering to him that everything will be alright and that I would protect him in whatever way that I could, this energy burst out of me, I saw a magic circle surround us both and a dome of what looked like fire escalated from me and it surged forward, towards that dark shadow knocking him out."

"I had used a lot of energy and when I had calmed down, I saw that my brother was fine. I saw the house where we lived burning to the ground and knowing that my Mama and Papa were in there dead, I collapsed from exhaustion and shock. I woke up to find the village completely burnt down and my brother missing. I have never seen him since but I was convinced that he was still alive so ever since I have been looking for him."

I looked up and saw a man who I vaguely recognised from the last time I visited here. He looked at me and his eyes widened with shock, recognising who I am and why I am here. But he let carry on my story for everyone to hear.

"I had heard rumours of a boy that was raised by a dragon. No mention of a previous family, only that he had a specific coloured hair. That hair happened to be the same colour as my brother's. I saw pictures in Wizards Weekly with this man in it and he looks like how my brother would if he had grown up. I actually came here about 7 or 8 years ago hoping to meet the man who I was convinced was my brother but when I arrived, I was told that he was said to be missing, feared dead along with half of his guild" Many of the guild members gasped, recollecting when that would have been.

"My brother would have been 17 when he was deemed lost. I had lost my life's mission to find him. That is….until the Grand Master Games. I saw his picture again on the screens and I knew this time that I had found him. I have spent over 24 years looking for him and I know now that I have found him. He is a mage in Fairy Tail and I need your help with meeting him."

"So do you have a name?" Gray asks. I look at the picture in my hands and I hand it over to him.

"This is the only picture that I have of him. I found it in our house after the fire went out." Gray takes a hold of the picture and both him and Erza gasp in shock. They then look at each other, nod their heads as if to agree on something and then look at me.

"We think we know who this is, but we need a name to make sure you are who we think you are."

"My name is Nozomi and my brother's name…." Here goes nothing.

"…is Natsu."

There you go! Who of you worked it out before reading this and got it right?! Thank you so much for reading this! This story has taken me over a year to write so I hope that I dont disappoint!

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