(Sorry folks, this chapter is mostly just explaining what happened to Wendy during her mission. Don't worry though, more grumpy Mavis next chapter.)

Soon enough, the medics they had gotten to help out had eventually stabilized Wendy's condition. The male, turning out to be Romeo, later accepted medical help once he was sure Wendy was secure. And with her still unconscious and resting across the hall. Romeo explained to the guild what had happened.

(Thankfully, we get to experience that ordeal through the story telling miracle of the Flashback! And away we go!)

Wendy, Romeo, and Carla were on a mission in a neighboring town to Magnolia. The three had started being a team when most of the other members of team Natsu had been spending more and more time in town. Mainly wanting to just stay at home with the ones they love.

Not that Wendy was mad about it, not at all. She was happy for them all wanting to try and start calming down (Some even starting families). But she found that she needed reward money to be able to keep her room in Fairy Hills. So she formed a group with Romeo and started going on missions together.

Because of this turn of events, some members of the guild started jokingly calling them team Natsu and Lucy 2.0. Mirajane even playing her favourite game 'force others to realize their feelings for one another' with them nearly as much as she did the pink and blond duo.

As for how they looked these days. While Carla hadn't changed at all, Wendy was now resembling her edolas self, while still wearing clothes similar to when she was younger. Romeo on the other hand had only been looking more and more like Natsu than ever.

"Hey Wendy," Romeo asked after arriving in the town. "what kind of mission are we doing anyway?"

"Oh, just work at the hospital, sometimes they need mages to help with the more extreme cases." Wendy said. "I just hope they don't try to get me to wear some kind of nurse outfit." She later sighed.

"W-wait, do they do that?" Romeo said, a faint blush appearing on his face.

Wendy only replied that she hoped they didn't. While Carla only fumed at him. "If she does end up in one, which I most certainly doubt, if I catch you looking at her like your father at the other women then I will kick you right out of this town!"

"I won't, I won't. Geez." Romeo said trying to reassure her.

A few hours later and the two found themselves finally finishing up the last of their work. Wendy thankfully without having to wear a nurse outfit. Just as the two of them, along with their flying cat, were about to leave. One of the nurses ran in. Asking the nearest doctor to come with her, saying that a patient had recently been stirring.

Unbeknownst to the two of them, in the room where the nurse and doctor were headed. A single figure was getting out of the bed he was in. He used his right hand to run through his hair. When he noticed that his jet black spiky hair was missing the hood he wore. He looked down and saw that all his clothes were missing wearing a simple hospital gown, including his whole left arm being un-plugged from his metal/skin mixed shoulder. Looking around, he saw his gear folded neatly in a chair next to his bed. His arm leaning against it.

Quickly tearing the gown off his well built, toned body, he grabbed his clothes and started to put them back on. His memory slowly returning as he did. Or lack there of. From what he gathered he came to the quick conclusion that he passed out just before the border of the town. Someone must have noticed him and brought him to the hospital. Quickly, he got his pants, shirt, and his small, dark green cape on, placing his headpiece of the same colour on and pulling the hood up, along with the bottom mask, to cover his face, hair, and mouth and any noticeable scars from light.

Did he even have scars? He couldn't remember. He might have gotten some over the years, but he had no clue or time to check. If he did have scars though, he knew exactly who did it to him. The same fuck who took his arm. That might even explain why he was going after the guild in the first place. A group that have been in such odd dangers like them, they might know where he is. That, and, he wanted to finish the job he had started with that dammed black mage.

So, with that, he picked up the hunk of junk he called his left arm, large and had so many oddities inside it that it was bulky in parts that a typical arm wouldn't be, He swung it over his shoulder and started to walk away. If he wanted to reattach it, he'd need a screwdriver at least. And he also picked up the old chain that was on a nearby table, moving it around with his good hand, he soon found the end with the hilt of some Excalibur type sword with a little bit of the blade still remaining, coming out to the length of a dagger, the top being cut off like it was done with countless swings from an axe.

He slung the chain over his shoulder, and left out the window.

And by the time the doctor and nurse arrived, there was no trace of him.

"So, you wanna start walking back now? I mean it's like a 3 hour walk." Romeo stated about 4 minutes later.

"Yea, but we better eat something before we do." Wendy replied, not wanting to starve along the way.

Romeo only nodded his head in agreement as they walked for the nearest cafe.

Yet in the corridor nearby sat the same man from the hospital as he tightened the screw of his arm. As the final bit of metal and wires were set into place, pain shot through his body as he grunted. His metal fingers curling as he tried to fight off the pain. When it subsided, he started wiggling his fingers to make sure they were in working order. The final test being him bringing them together in the classic fist. Then he toke the chain and roped it around his flesh arm, the end with the blade coming up to his wrist. Finally taking the hilt of the sword into his hand, gripping it.

"So apparently Zeref is supposed to come back today." Wendy said sipping her drink.

"Oh yeah, Natsu kept talking about that yesterday." Romeo said, memory kicking in.

"I'm a little worried about how Mavis might react to it." Wendy said. Said emotion visible on her face.

"I'm sure it'll be fine, what's the worse that could happen?" Romeo reassured.

"She might try to kill him." Carla, now in her human form, quickly said.

"That's a little overboard don't ya think?" Romeo joked.

"You clearly didn't see Lucy when she finally got her hands on Natsu after the war." Wendy put in shivering at the memory.

"Hey Wendy, you got enough money to pay for rent now?" Romeo asked, trying to snap her out of her flashback.

"Oh, yea, I've got enough, thanks again for going on this mission with me." Wendy assured.

"No problem, I don't mind."

The two continued to talk to each other as the figure walked by, quickly getting a glance at the guild mark on the blue haired woman's right shoulder sitting at the cafe patio. While it was a light blue colour, the shape was unmistakable, Fairy Tail.

"Hey." His gruff, always angered voice said to her. "You with the blue hair."

Wendy and Romeo turned their head's at the man. Carla staring him down as her seat was right in her direction. All they could see of him was the hood, his right arm (The other being covered by his shadow), and two, small, white, glowing dots presumed to be his eyes. "Yes?" Wendy replied.

"You're from Fairy Tail right?"

"Yea. Do you have a mission for us? Because if you do you'll have to-"

"I just want to give them a message." The man growled. Romeo narrowing his eyes in suspicion.

"And what might that be?" Wendy asked. She herself keeping her guard up.

"You."

He then lifted his left hand revealing his bulky, metal appendage. His palm seemingly condensing some kind of visible energy.

"DUCK!" Romeo yelled. Grabbing Wendy and taking her with him over the side, Carla ducking under them and the table.

*ZAP*

Splinters of wood flew everywhere. The cloth of the table flying off as the two mages hit the floor of the patio.

"Wendy, you okay?" Romeo quickly asked.

"Yea, I'm fine." Wendy replied. "What about Carla?"

She was answered by said friend pushing the table upward on it's side as a makeshift shield. Quickly ducking back. "I'm fine, but I'm more worried about that man." She muttered so that only they could hear.

At the same time the rest of the customers and other civilians nearby were fleeing in the opposite direction.

"What's with that guy anyway?" Romeo said getting up, but not standing, with Wendy joining him.

"I don't know but he seems to be after us, so if we get away from any of the townsfolk he should follow." Carla quickly stated.

"Or we could just jump him and tie him down." Romeo put in.

"We can't just jump him! He'll just blast at us again!" Carla retorted.

"If we run he could just go after the townsfolk!"

"Then we should keep him distracted until everyone else is gone, then run." Wendy said trying to come up with the perfect collaboration.

"Fine." Carla said.

"Works for me." Romeo added.

"Kinda late for that now, don't ya think?"

The three turned around toward the new voice and then saw behind them the same man standing there.

"Woah, he's fast." Was Romeo's only reply.

"My mom always said I was quicker than my old man."

He then raised his metal arm again and did the exact same trick again.

The trio dodged quickly.

The hole in the table let out a small amount of smoke afterwards.

The man lowered his arm down and lugged his heavy body to where they had moved. Only to find them missing.

His white dot eyes narrowed. The frantic panic of the other folk being drowned out by his thoughts. If his guess was right, then he was about to get hit on the back of his he-

*Whack*

Next thing he knew, his face was kissing the dirty, rotten, and splintering wood.

"Ah!" Romeo said waving his fist in pain. "Guys' got one hell of a hard head."

The man only pushed himself up by his left arm and swung his right at his opponent.

Romeo stepped back just in time.

The man then shot up using his metal arm and brought it up front for a punch. Romeo grabbed it without flinching. He quickly brought his right arm up. The sword in it cutting Romeo's chest. Barely wavering, Romeo used his free arm to hit the man's face. Slugging him head on, the man grunted, stepping back. Forcing his hand out of Romeo's grasp.

The man swung his right back at him, only for Romeo to move his body slightly out of the way, then elbowing his head.

The man found himself on the floor yet again. And he had had enough.

His metallic misshapen arm clenched into a fist as small electrical bolts coursed through it. Then he immediately rammed it at the mage. Hitting him square in his chest.

Romeo then felt the large amount of energy he had been attacked with. Backing away as quickly as he could as he could, wincing as the electricity continued to run through his body.

"WENDY KICK!"

The foot came out of nowhere. And yet again, seconds later he was on the floor. Now by this point he had had it. Getting up again he saw the blue haired woman trying her best to heal her friend.

"Stay out of the way." The hooded man growled. Releasing his fist and letting his metal hand do the same palm charge trick again.

Wendy only ducked in reply. Trying her best to get Romeo to sit down.

"I'm fine Wendy, he just caught me off guard that's all."

"Well you should still sit down. It'll make it easier for my magic to help."

"What about metal hand over there?"

"Don't worry, I can handle him just fine." Wendy reassured.

The man only used his hand beam trick once again, and she dodged again. Walking up to him while Romeo sat at a chair trying to recover.

"Sir, if you could please not hurt my guild mate then I won't be forced to use violence to stop you." Wendy kindly asked.

"What, too goody goody to take me on little girl?" The man taunted.

"No, it's just she can't afford to pay damages these days." Romeo shot back from his seat.

"Yeah right, if you two and that 'black mage' are the best your guilds got. Then I'd be surprised if you could break china." the man continued to taunt. "Hell, this chick couldn't even protect you, you're guild's a fucking joke."

He then ran his left right at the woman's face, hoping to ram her pretty little face with the poorly repaired nuts and bolts of his hand. His lust for blood surging as he longed to see her hair go red.

Only to be stopped by a single, small, feminine hand.

"What happened after that?" Natsu asked pausing the flashback.

"Well, after that, Wendy took him on. The fight nearly tore up the whole place. It got so crazy that it would be next to impossible to describe it in words." Romeo said reading off the cue cards held by the author.

(Hey, fight scenes are hard.)

"So, who was winning?" Lucy asked.

"Oh, Wendy was basically going for a flawless victory. She was dodging every attack that guy threw at her and landing every one of hers." Romeo said remembering the fight.

"So, how did she, get injured?" Mira said hesitant in pointing out the plot hole in Romeo's tale.

Romeo only narrowed his eyes in disgust as his mind went back to the end of the fight. But before he could say anything, Carla (Who had been sitting next to Wendy), spoke for him, cold and harsh.

"He wasn't alone."

Zapping back through time, the fight was reaching it's peak. The man in the hood had been tossed, pushed and flown through the air at the hands of the female dragon slayer. While he had yet to land a hit.

Right now he was recovering after being hit with her 'sky dragon's roar' as she called out preforming it. And, after flying through about five walls, he was lying on the ground outside the cafe with bits of said walls around him.

He brought his metal hand into a fist, then released his tensed fingers trying to ignore the aching pain.

He slammed his left arm onto the ground and hoisted himself up. The iron taste of blood rich in his mouth.

His blood. Not hers.

Looking up at the hole in the wall. He saw the male and the other female from before somewhere inside the restaurant, the male still recovering. While she stood there looking down at him. Her blue hair flowing from the wind of her attacks. Stern determination on her face. The expression he knew all too well.

"Please don't insult my guild sir." Was the first thing she said since their fight started. Her voice as stern and non-shit taking as her face.

The man only responded by hefting himself up. Eyeing the blue haired woman who held the high ground.

The man shifted his feet back and suddenly jumped right at her.

Wendy quickly reacted by uppercutting him with her 'Sky dragon's crushing fang' move. Shouting it as he flew high into the clouds. Not noticing the smile under the hood.

'That idiot.'

The wind had knocked his hood off. He was now higher in the sky than the tallest of the buildings in the town.

Gripping his metal fist he turned himself around and dived straight down on top of her. Arcs of electricity flying to and from his arm.

Wendy tried her best to see what was going on. Squinting her eyes to see. Only to be meet with the face of her attacker slowly falling towards her.

The murder and lust for blood in his eyes was what stuck out to her most. His uncut and messy black hair flapping about as his robot hand looked like his was about to swing a punch.

Wendy's response was only to wait and stare at the man.

He was falling faster and his grin was getting wider.

She kept eyeing him down.

He was ready to hit. Blinded by his blood lust.

Just when he was a metre close, she unleashed two large whirlwinds from her arms. Shouting 'Sky dragon's wing attack' as she sent the man flying yet again into another building.

At that point, he had had it.

Wendy didn't even see it, but next thing she knew, a chain with the end of a sword on the end shot up out of the dust cloud and up into the sky, turned over due to gravity, and then fell back down at a even faster pace.

When it finally fell back into the dust cloud, all that was seen after was a large blue glow that brightly flashed like a lighthouse lamp passing by.

Wendy narrowed her eyes. Moving to the spot right in front of the cloud.

Then, the cloud suddenly dissipated, quickly and starting from the centre. Revealing the man from before, hood still down and still recovering from the last attack. But that wasn't what caught her eye.

What did was the white figure that was anything but human. A four armed creature, with a humanoid base, looking oddly male, with legs and a torso, only the legs seemed to have two literal left feet, and sticking out of the left side of the foot actually on the left leg, was a sort of claw sticking out of it. Constantly twitching randomly like it was from another being's body, still linked to their brain and nervous system. Oddly enough, the torso was the only part of the... thing's body that seemed to resemble the average male. But the hands of the four arms were not. Having similar claws for fingers like the odd one sticking out of the foot, but the problem was that these were flipped the opposite way on the wrist. And to add on to that, it also had perfectly normal fingers, attached to the wrists the right way, seeming to have grooves in the normal fingers for the claws to retract into when not being used. Making Wendy guess that the thing could swap hands like a spinning top of some kind.

But by far the scariest part was the head. The hair was made out of even more of those claws but seemed to all be facing backwards and down, resembling that of a groomed head of hair.

The face though seemed even worse than the shape of it's skull, it had misshapen eyes, the right one taking up half the room of the facial area, and the other the size of a slightly overgrown pea. The larger one having a single vertical line acting as a pupil. And the mouth was just horrific. A large smile being the shape, complete with a open mouth of ragged, pointy teeth, each one different in it's own twisted way. But the oddest part was the fact that if you were to stare long enough at the smile, you would begin to notice that it looked like a overly exaggerated frown ripped off the mouth and placed back again upside down.

The entirety of the creature was bathed in white, with it looking like it was melting slowly like a plastic action figure in a oven. And made sounds like that of a dimwitted caveman with the kind of tone of voice that would make it come across as a lovable idiot. Romeo later relating it to the sounds of a whale.

The being walked slowly, seeming to move around like it was in some kind of dancing music video. At first it tried to turn around and go for the man, only for him to shoot his hand beam again at the figure, blasting off the left side of it's face, only for drooping bits from above to hit the bottom of the hole and rebuild itself from the bottom up. The thing turning around in reply and moving toward Wendy.

Not having to go very far, the being used it's two left arms to take a swing at Wendy, but, like before, she avoided it by stepping back, eyes fixated at the odd glare of the creature.

The creature kept repeating similar notions, taking a swing, missing, then taking another swing, apparently having no other fighting techniques other than that. Although they did get quicker and quicker after each hit. eventually being up to that of a athlete.

For Wendy though, the fight was simple, they had only really done this a small handful of times, until she felt the sharpest of pains in her leg, looking down, she saw blood oozing out of her left leg. The broken sword bit embedded into her flesh.

The piece of metal was then ripped right out causing a even bigger sting of pain to zap through Wendy's nerves.

The man was back up, hood pulled over his face again. The chain slowly receding back to him as he swung his arm around looping it back around it. Blood dripping off the sword blade.

Before she could react, a large beam of light shot out from the creature's face, revealed to be the man shooting his beam again, zapping Wendy's hair and leaving a burn spot.

By the time Romeo screamed her name and staring running to help, the man grabbed Wendy by her hair and kicked her bleeding leg as hard as he could.

Using the chain wrapped arm to lift her face up to his, the hooded man looked her right in the eye. Telling her the last thing he wanted to say to her.

"Next time you see someone charging a attack in the sky, maybe don't get distracted by his pet."

"And that was the last thing I heard before he destroyed the entire town. Wendy being the first target." Romeo said trying to explain it as best as he could.

No one reacted at first. The story was about as cut and dry as you could get, guy comes out of nowhere, fights Wendy, caught her off guard once and used his equivalent of a finishing move on her first chance he got. Romeo filled in the gaps saying that after the blast the man vanished along with the white being, he then grabbed Wendy and, since the hospital in the town was destroyed, ran as fast as he could for magnolia.

As for the remains of the town, after the story was told, a good chunk of the non-character members of the guild ran for the town to help with the rebuilding efforts.

As for the people whose names you can remember, they stayed at the guild and constantly kept an eye on Wendy's health. Everyone, except for Zeref.

Now don't think ill of the poor ex-black mage, he was worried about someone who was part of the guild. Romeo's story had said had sent him into a worry. He wouldn't stop pacing around the hall. Playing his chin with his fingers like a piano. Nearly forgetting the world around him.

The only one to notice this was Mavis.

How, you may ask, can be answered by her watching him stepping right on the shards of her broken glass that Mavis had yet to clean up.

So, after having a quick little laugh to herself, she took him to another room to take care of his foot, questioning him about why he was pacing around in the first place.

"It's nothing."

"Uh huh, sure."

"I was just... thinking."

"About?" Mavis said digging deeper.

"It's really nothing impor- AH!"

She had pulled out one of the shards. Her eyes narrowed.

"I'm not immortal anymore Mavis." He said through clenched teeth.

"What were you thinking about?" Mavis interrogated.

"Since when did you start using torture methods?"

"I'm not torturing you, I'm just causing your nerves to go off every time you don't answer my questions. Besides it's your fault for stepping on that broken glass."

"That was your glass!"

"Are you gonna answer my question?"

Zeref only sighed in defeat. "What Romeo said."

"What about what Romeo said?"

"About the guy who attacked them..."

"The one with the weird robot arm?" Mavis said tilting her head.

"And the hood."

Zeref was out of the scene now, not physically, but his mind had gone to a time before he returned. Mavis on the other hand could only get a second hand insight into the memory.

But since you can't look into others minds through eyes, I'm just gonna say that Zeref's mind was in a large bar, a saloon, burning, caught on fire as the wooden pillars creaked. Two men stood around a table, one trying to kill the other. The roof was now burning, a beam high above was starting to give out. The hooded man lashed out his left, Zeref backed off, kicking the table at the man, shoving it into his gut. Just as he did the beam split apart and crashed right in between the two men, the fire only growing ever more.

"You okay?"

Zeref snapped back to the present.

"You zoned out there." Mavis said. Worry unknowingly in her eyes.

"Uh, sorry. Just, got side tracked."

"Because of the hooded guy?"

"Yea, um, uh, how's the, foot coming along?" Zeref said trying to change the subject.

"Do you know that guy?" Mavis questioned, still trying to figure out the mystery.

"Listen Mavis I don't want to talk about it right now."

"Why not?"

"I'd rather not go back to that time. Long story short though, If he's heading for the guild, we need to prepare."

Mavis only thought to herself while still tending to Zeref's wound. Getting the last of the shards out of his foot.

"Well, don't get too frantic," She said grabbing the rubbing alcohol. "He just got a lucky shot is all, I highly doubt he can win against everyone in the guild."

"Yes but he has a guild of his own. That's the problem." Zeref muttered under his breath.

"What?" Mavis said trying to figure out what he said.

"Nothing, just muttering gibberish to try and dull the pain." Zeref said, the last word being through his clenched teeth as Mavis put the cloth on his foot.

"Oh come on, you can't handle a little stinging in your foot?" Mavis taunted.

"No not really." Zeref said, not even trying to come up with a comeback.

"You'll just have to grin and bear it then."

Zeref did just that as Mavis finished off his foot. Complete with wrapping it in gauze.

"Thank you." Zeref said. His gentleman like kindness coming out as he got up.

"Next time, look where you're going." Mavis said. Ignoring him while leaving the room, her mind saying that she wasn't going to fall for whatever trick he was trying to pull.

Zeref's own mind could only reply by saying that there was no trick at all, just that he was trying to be kind.

(Sorry there isn't that much of the two stars in this chapter, I just wanted to finally reveal a good chunk of info on Robo-Jerk (That's what I call him). Don't worry though, next one will have plenty of salty Mavis to go around.)