Chapter 6: Bad Day to Horrible Day to Average Day

A/N: Hey look a new chapter! Just for you guys!

Natsu: Oi writer person wtf? Where am I in this story?

Huh? How did you even get here? Shoo I'm introducing the chapter! Enjoy chapter 6 everyone! Now back into my brain you! Oh and shout out to nico2883 for favoriting and ElyseexD for following!

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(Lucy POV)

The scene was gruesome, almost as bad as what happened to me five years ago. I look away from the scene and walk outside with Mira and Lisanna, the former saying, "Lisanna-nii, lets go and get Porlyusica so she can help heal up Elf-nii!" Lisanna nods and they both run off to Porlyusica's house. As I watch them go I see a shadowy figure out of the corner my eye. He's watching us, I realize but he doesn't notice me yet. I sigh thinking, 'Just like everyone nowadays, overlooking me and thinking I'm a nobody.' I watch as he…is that a smirk? Is he smirking? 'Could he have been…' my reverie is interrupted by him turning and leaving and him pulling out a communication lacrima and starting to say something. 'Hmmm I need to follow him but I really shouldn't leave… I got it! Open the gates of the twins, the maiden, and the scorpion!' I open the three gates with ease as Virgo, Gemini, and Scorpio appear before me.

"Ok guys there's a guy I need you to follow, he's wearing a brown, full-body cloak and ran off to the west, Gemini transform into a flying animal of sorts and follow via the air, Scorpio use your sand and dirt to see if he's on the ground and track him, Virgo chase underground using Scorpio and Gemini as guides. If anyone finds him do not try and fight him. Let me know and I'll join you as quickly as I can, now GO!" I say as they follow their orders and begin the search. I sense another person running up and see Gildarts coming my way with a look of serious concern on his face. "Elfman got attacked and Evergreen was the first to find him, she was unconscious from the shock when we got here." I inform him.

"Ok, and what's with the spirits?" He asks me, he knows this is no longer an issue to have three spirits out at the same time, but he knows that I never do this so quickly without good reason. After the incident he took me on shorter missions with him and helped me train to get stronger, for which I am forever grateful for and now see him in a new light. He's become like second father to me and is a father that I actually like, unlike Cana, but then again he doesn't get all lovey-dovey with me so that's a plus.

"I saw a guy who I think could be our culprit, so I sent Virgo and Gemini after him and am having Scorpio see if he's on the ground yet or not." I explained, he nodded after I finished explaining and I saw his eyes look towards the house as I say, "Everyone else but Mira and Lisanna are inside, those two went to get Porlyusica-san from her house. You should probably go in and check in with master." I tell him as he nods and goes inside.

I sigh and turn to Scorpio who's brow is furrowed in concentration and ask him, "Any luck?" He shakes his head but continues to focus as I sigh, and pull Gemini's key to my mouth and using it like a communication lacrima I ask, "Any luck Gemini?" Meanwhile I pull out another key, Crux's key.

"No, I still don't see him, sorry!" I sigh at his response.

"No don't worry. Didn't want to call him before I had more information on him but open gate of the cross, Crux!" I yell as Crux appears before me. He's already 'asleep' knowing what I need him to do.

"… Sorry master Lucy but it seems I cannot trace his magic. I truly am sorry." He informs me as I sigh I knew it was a long shot but it had to be done. "I'll be taking my leave now. Goodbye."

"Kay thanks Crux, sorry for wasting your time." I sigh as he leaves and I see Scorpio looking at me exasperated, "Nothing huh? Well you can go if you want, say hi to Aquarius for me, kay?" He nods and makes to leave but tenses up.

"I found the guy! He's on the outskirts of town!" he yells as I quickly stand up.

"Which direction?" He points straight to his left, "Ok go on back you've been out here a little while. Open the gates of the lion and the goat, Leo and Capricorn!" I summon my strongest two and say, "Lets go! Gemini come back to where I was and let them know what happened, Virgo go back I might need the magic power." I command as they all begin to do as they were told. The three of us head off in the direction Scorpio pointed us and we begin our chase, hoping it ends like a lion's hunt, prey in hand.

Six Hours Later

… Well that was more like a lion cub hunt for us. We found him where we thought he would be, well at least we though we found him but it turns out it was just a psychic projection and not really him…Oh well at least we know he is a decent mage since he can do psychic projection. And yes it's a he, we saw that he had a beard and muscles as big as my entire body for arms so if he wasn't a guy… lets just say that that person would be in a circus if he was a she. After that we searched the area but found nothing and are now returning to the guild, well at least I am I sent back the Loke and Capricorn earlier and am walking alone, frustrated and worried. 'Who was that guy, what does he want? Who was he talking to? How strong is he? Where did he come from? Why am I asking so many so many rhetorical questions?' I wonder as I open the guild doors to see chaos has ensued inside, Gajeel is a stone statue frozen in the middle of the guild while Levy and Evergreen are fighting near him, Levy demanding he be de-petrified while Evergreen was shouting that he was the one responsible for today's events. Meanwhile Gray is comforting a very upset Juvia who keeps mumbling that her wedding is doomed to end up like Gajeel's and Gray had those scary demon slayer eyes on, daring anyone to mess with him or disturb him right now. The Strauss sisters were in the corner crying about Elfman with many people trying to console them… And Max and his broom were… doing their thing. Looking I sweat dropped and saw the only people seemingly under control, Master, Laxus, Jura, and Richard. Cobra was calm but that was because he was talking to his wife Kinana, yes another couple in the guild… Fuck my love life. I walked over to the group to report what I had been up to dodging attacks left and right from Levy and Evergreen's fight.

"Oh Lucy! There you, quite lively today isn't it?" I nodded and avoided some of Levy's conjured fire while Laxus and Richard ducked Evergreen's eye laser. "So where have you been? You disappeared on us earlier today at Elfman's house."

"That's what I wanted to discuss with you, actually." I said as I dodged more of Levy's solid script, damn! Where's Erza when you need her? I retold my story to them, their faces turning serious and worried about what they heard.

(POV Change to Jura)

I listened as Lucy began to retell the story and grew very worried, I had a bad feeling about this. "Lucy what did the man look like again?" I asked as she finished her story.

"He was wearing a full-body cloak that was brown and covered most of his face, except for his beard that was dark brown." She responded and said, "I'm gonna go and see if I can calm those two idiots from destroying the guild, I hope the information can be of use." She said and turned around joining the fray in the middle of the guild.

"Makarov-dono, there is something I wish to discuss with you as well." I said as he nodded and the four of us went upstairs to his office as the door closed and we all took a seat I said, "There is something you should know… Richard-dono and I have both had it confirmed to us by sources that, that… Natsu Dragneel was killed by that new group calling themselves 'The Ronin'." I said, the last part quicker than the rest and looked the Fairy Tail master in the eyes.

"WHAAAATT?!" Both Laxus and Makarov yelled in utter disbelief. "HOOOOOWWW?!"

"Apparently they found him about six months ago trying to run from some council enforcement squads, with the rest of the legion not far behind. They quickly defeated the entire legion by themselves," at this their jaws dropped, this was almost impossible to believe s they are a group meant to stop mages with numbers yet they were defeated by just five of them. Continuing my story I said, "yes an entire legion, just the five of them. Apparently Natsu was grateful and wished to say thank you and returned to do so as they were finishing up, but they then turned on him and attacked him. Even after defeating an entire legion of magic enforcement, they still had more than enough power left to crush Natsu. He put up a valiant effort but was ultimately slain by 'The Ronin'. My source was their on the scene but could not get a good view of any of their faces, so we still don't know what they look like, but we know their names, well at least two of them, the two made up the pair known as the 'Couple From Hell's Gates', the man is called 'Hades Judge' and uses some sort of fire magic…"

"WHAT? NATSU DEFEATED BY FIRE MAGIC?!" Makarov yelled visibly shaken.

Yes apparently his fire was too much even for a fire dragon slayer. And the woman is called 'Hell's Angel' and uses an unknown type of magic that emits bright lights, other than that we know next to nothing." I said finishing my story.

There was silence for a while before we heard the door open with a crying woman falling through followed by Gray, Gajeel, Levy and others. The woman in question was Lisanna and she was incredulous sob yelling, "NOOOOO! IT CAN'T BE TRUE!" she continued to sob uncontrollably as the others stared in shock. The only one who seemed unaffected was Lucy but she looked more numb than anything.

I sighed deeply as I stood and turned to face them, "Yes it's all true, I'm sorry for your loss." I said bowing to them and the turned to Richard, "Richard-dono we should leave at once and allow them to have their time alone."

"Yes. In the name of their love." He said as we both left and returned to our hotel, 'turned a bad day into a horrific one.' I thought to myself as we skulked back to our rooms.

(POV Change to unknown character)

'Hahaha the bait was taken!' I thought to myself as I watched the mages who simply stood in disbelief.

"Our chance at revenge, gone. Taken…" said a black haired man who…was in nothing but his boxers with his hands about to take them off… the fuck? Where are the tears and the sobs and the promises of revenge? 'This isn't the reaction we wanted!' I yell to myself.

"Yeah! We were supposed to be the ones to do him in! Not some second rate freelance team!" THE FUCK?! This is nowhere near how we thought they would react, in fact this is the exact opposite.

"Eh I'm indifferent, he's dead right? So who cares then. Good riddance I say."

"Yeah but it sucks I wanted to be the one to do it though!" They all murmur in agreement to what the man with blonde hair and wicked scar said.

'SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIIIIITTTT! I have to report this now!' I quickly left my vantage point and raced toward the rendezvous point, concern readable all over my face. 'FUCK! This is not good…'

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After a few moments I arrive and see the others waiting for me, the bossman asking "Why are you here? I thought I had you watching the guild!" He asked clearly irritated.

"Sorry boss but I was then Jura told them the news about the Salamander, but.."

"But what?" He asked pointedly, now clearly interested.

"They weren't sad or nothin'. They were mad, not about him being dead, but him being killed by someone else other than them. They sounded more disappointed more than anything, well except for one who was crying her eyes out the one we we're watching closely, Lisanna." I reported and saw his face scrunch up in annoyance.

"FUCK! WHY ARE THEY SO DAMN UNPREDICTABLE?!" He yelled as he punched the side of the mountain, the punch sending a massive crack up the side. "Fuck! Alright time to switch to plan B. We're taking this to 'em. Here's how were gonna do it." He said as we all listened intently to the new plan, not wanting to miss a detail that would cause us to mess up and earn his ire, like the mountain just had.

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A/N: Natsu: THE FUCK?! YOU KILLED ME!

Oi get out of here! Back in your corner! (Brings out whip and forces him back) So what did you guys think? Pretty messed brain over here huh? Hahaha well it was either write this depressing chapter or study for physics… So yeah I made the obvious choice here. Oh and by the by the question still stands, can you guess who makes up the five-man team of people terrorizing Fairy Tail? Answer via Review or PM, so PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! ADIOS!