CH3: Path to Righteousness

Zancrow had been traveling for most of the day coming across many strange sights along the way.

He saw a carriage heist by some people who called themselves Sylph Labyrinth.

"What a bunch of losers. Did they not see the royal crest on the side of the carriage?" Zancrow asked himself.

Although there were only a couple of soldiers guarding it, it took down the guild in a heartbeat.

"They should have known that royal transports only have the elite protecting them. Rank amateurs." Zancrow thought as he walked away while the guild was arrested.

He later saw a small bank robbery in one of the towns he stopped to eat in by three individuals in skin tight leotards. He almost choked on his food as he laughed for what seemed like hours. He overheard their leader say something about all the loot they managed to take while being chased by a squad of royal guards. What a peculiar name they had. The 'Butt Jiggle' something. Zancrow could not believe the level of incompetence small time crooks had in these towns.

He had several laughs throughout his journey to the Fairy Tail Guild hall. But what he recently stumbled across had him debate a moral issue. He was in the outskirts of a City called Magnolia. Supposedly this was where Fairy Tail was harbored in. What he saw was a young female wizard fighting against a larger group of wizards. The girl was thinly built with purple hair wrapped in a ponytail which made its way down to her mid back. She also was wearing glasses…

"I hate glasses," Zancrow thought.

He watched as she held her own against the six hooligans that decided to fight her for unknow reasons. She seemed to be fighting utilizing wood make magic. In a way he reminded him of Azuma.

"Her fight is not my concern." As Zancrow turned around and started to make his way towards the Magnolia gate…

(BOOM)

Next thing he knew, there was a crater not five feet away from him. Inside that crater was a now scorched purple haired wizard, embedded into the ground. Her clothes were severely burned exposing her stomach and a major part of her cleavage.

'She looks knocked out,' he thought. He then noticed a guild mark on her left love handle. "Fairy Tail." He looked at it wide eyed.

'If I help her out, she can put in a good word for me. You are one clever devil Zancrow,' he thought.

"The hell are you looking at!"

Zancrow snapped out of his daze and looked up to see an ill-mannered wizard with a face only a mother could love glaring right at him.

"Yea I'm talking to you. What's your problem?" he continued.

Zancrow lost it at that point and he couldn't keep in his laughter any longer. "HAHAHAHA, does it seriously take six of you losers to take down one defenseless girl? I'm starting to think your magic power has nothing more than the sole purpose to compensate for something you all lack."

"What did you just say to us?" the supposed leader asked. "You do not address Twilight Ogre in that manner! We are one of the strongest guilds in Fiore and we will kick your ass like we did hers."

Zancrow decided to piss them off even more. "You definitely got the ogre part right. I mean look at all of you. You all have faces that a dragon ate and shit out. HAHAHA. And as for your strength, well, that remains to be seen," Zancrow smirked, daring them to provoke him. "If you think you can take me down, give it your best shot." Zancrow got into his battle stance and began to power up. Immediately black flames manifested themselves in his proximity and he began to shake the earth around him.

He saw how the band of Twilight Ogre members looked uneasy. It was almost as if they immediately regretted threatening the God Slayer.

"I will teach you all to pick on defenseless girls." He saw two of the members huddled together while the other four including the leader did the smarter thing and ran the opposite way. Zancrow inhaled as much as he could, "FLAME GOD BELLOW," and unleashed his attack upon the wizards.

What followed was an even bigger BOOM than the one made by the leader of Twilight Ogre. After all, Zancrow was one of Grimoire Heart's Seven Kin of Purgatory. He did not earn that title by being weak. When the smoke cleared, the aftermath of what he saw gave him nothing but delight. All six members were knocked out cold on the ground with their clothes burned even worse than their female victim. At this point they might as well have been wearing speedos and bras for it would have covered more than what they were wearing now. "It's good to be bad, HEHEHE," Zancrow chuckled to himself.

He then picked up the injured Fairy Tail guild member bridal style and decided to carry her to a healer within Magnolia Town. Zancrow knew that the gods must be smiling down upon him. This burst of luck, running into and saving a Fairy Tail guild member was just what he needed. Trust would immediately be formed making his revenge that much easier to fulfill.

…

Zancrow was appalled. He decided to go to a supposed well known healer in the outskirts of town. What he didn't know was that the girl he had saved was a "two-man" job. So of course, the healer asked Zancrow to help him out. The girls stomach was severely burned as was the section underneath each of her individual breasts. The healer asked Zancrow to hold them up so that he may spread the burn healing tonic without "those massive things" getting in the way. Here was Zancrow, a Black Flame God Slayer, supporting two massive breasts on a girl he didn't even know. Under normal circumstances Zancrow would have been thrilled to be playing with breasts this size. But since nothing else was happening he decided this was not worth his time.

"My vengeance better be worth it if I have to go through this," the God Slayer Mumbled to himself.

"Did you say something?" the healer asked.

"No! Nothing. Well yes actually, hurry the hell up!" Zancrow shouted with as much bravado as he could.

The procedure went smoothly but lasted too long for Zancrow's taste. The worse part was when the girl finally decided to wake up towards the end. She looked groggy like she just woke up from a nap undoubtedly confused to where she was at. Needless to say, the grogginess wore off in a flash once she realized she was topless and had a pair of male hands on her breasts. Chaos ensued for the next few minutes as the young female wizard chased the God Slayer around the healer's facility with a wooden club she seemingly pulled out of thin air. Chasing her was the healer trying to explain that Zancrow was only trying to help. When the wizard finally calmed down Zancrow collapsed on the floor in exhaustion.

"You crazy bitch! I saved you from those Twilight Ogre guild members, carried you all the way here so that you may get medical attention, and this is how you repay me?" Zancrow had a few lumps on his head marking the spots which the female wizard did manage to introduce her club to. The healer finally explained everything to her on why there was a "creepy blonde man" groping her when she came to. She apologized to Zancrow immediately.

"I'm so sorry mister Zancrow, please forgive me!" She even gave him a little bow to show that she was seriously sorry.

Zancrow cringed in annoyance and merely responded with, "Put some clothes on."

Realizing that her breasts were still fully exposed, she ran with embarrassment back to the healer's examination room.

After some looking around, the healer brought her a gown he provided for all his patients. The wizard put it on immediately and introduced herself as Laki, a wood make magical wizard. She instructed the healer to bill her guild Fairy Tail and then she and Zancrow made their way outside.

"I'm sorry again, for bashing your head in without realizing what was going on," Laki said sheepishly.

"If I was a girl I would have killed anyone grabbing my breasts regardless what the situation was. And incidentally, you're welcome," Zancrow retorted. "What did you do to piss those guys off anyway?"

"The leader of the group kept hitting on me so I punched him in the face." She said bluntly. "That's when I realized that he had more than one guild member with him at the restaurant I was at. You see, I was returning from a job that I had completed and just wanted to grab a bite to eat. That was the most dangerous meal I had ever eaten from the looks of how we ended up. HAHA."

Zancrow couldn't help but chuckle at that last remark.

They both made their way downtown and after a quick shopping trip to replace Laki's patient gown, she finally gave him an opening.

"So what brings you to Magnolia Zancrow?"

'This is it,' he thought. "I have been traveling Fiore for sometime now and have been wanting to make Fairy Tail's acquaintance. I hear a lot of good things about their work and reputation and have decided to see if I can join them. Think you can put in a good word for me?" Zancrow winked.

"Master Makarov will most likely admit you into the guild. I mean you did save one of his favorites today after all," she said whilst pointing to herself. "Any traveler who goes out of his way to protect anybody is immediately appreciated especially by our guild. You see, within our guild, we are all family. No matter what happens, when one of us gets into trouble, Fairy Tail members always have each other's backs. We are after all, one big happy family."

Zancrow felt as if he was going to puke. Family, Teamwork? He couldn't help but remember what Makarov had told him back on Tenrou Island as he was being crushed by his giant form.

"You have no idea, the power of family!"

Zancrow grit his teeth in anger. 'I may not know about family old man, but your "favorite" is about to admit me into your guild that Grimoire Heart once tried to take down. I will burn it to the ground from the inside laying waste to your precious family. And then, when you, Natsu and the other come back from whatever godforsaken place you ended up in, I will kill you all in one blow.'

The hand he was gripping tightly was all of a sudden surrounded by Laki's. "You alright Zancrow?"

The God Slayer snapped out of his state of mind and smiled at her. "Oh, of course. I just don't have much experience with family."

Laki sent him a smile that reminded him a lot of Meredy's. "Once you're in Fairy Tail, you will have all the experience you need Zancrow." They continued walking down the road not paying attention to the fact that she was still holding his hand. They turned a final corner, and with wide eyes Zancrow gawked at the size of a certain guildhall that was right in front of him.

Laki smiled once again. "Welcome to Fairy Tail."