Correll kicked the Fairy Tail doors open, a smirk on his face as he got everyone's attention immediately upon doing so, walking inside as though he had total control over the guild as Gray carried Cana inside. Alright, Fairy Tail! Listen up!" Correll shouted, though his shouting only managed to get Makarov up from his seat, looking up at the council man curiously.

"Is there something wrong?" Makarov asked.

"Damn right there is!" Correll said as his smirk widened, and he scanned the guild, looking for most of Team Natsu. "Where's Heartfilia, Titania, and Salamander?"

Upon hearing the name Titania, Evergreen started to move forward, since she considered herself to he the true Titania. "Right here~". Evergreen said as she fanned herself, batting her eyes flirtatiously at Correll.

"There she goes..." Freed sighed, looking away from the scene.

"Ever, you're embarrassing us, baby..." Bickslow groaned slightly, bringing a hand onto his mask to facepalm.

"...Perhaps I should've been more clear..." Correll coughed slightly before taking a step around Ever, making it clear he wasn't interested in her in the slightest, which caused the Fairy Mage's face to gain a comical shocked expression as her entire body paled. "Where's Erza?"

"I heard you the first time," Erza said to Corell as she and Lucy walked out of the infirmary, her arms crossed. "Is there something you need?"

"Answers," Correll replied to Erza, tapping his foot slightly as he nudged his head to the outside. "Care to explain those damaged outside?"

"Damages?" Erza blinked a few times before she realized what Correll was referring to. "You mean the rooftops?"

"Yes, that's right. There are a lot of unhappy people right now, and according to a witness, you, and Heartfilia over there are to blame," Correll tapped his foot on the ground, awaiting an explanation for the property damage.

"W-We didn't mean to!" Lucy shouted, attempting to get her point across, but Correll wasn't having it with that weak excuse.

"Oh, don't give me that shitty excuse!" Correll scoffed. "You never seem to mean to do damage, but you always end up doing it one way or another, eh?"

"We were chasing after someone." Erza replied coolly, even though all the eyes in the guild were either glaring at Correll or awaiting a response from Erza that would shut Correll up.

"That's right!" Wendy said defensively, hoping to back Erza up. "Carla, Happy, and I were there!"

"So, you were there too, huh?" Correll raised a brow as he looked to the young sky dragon slayer.

"I was too!" Cynthia jumped up.

"Why does that not surprise me..." Correll sighed. "So, what I'm hearing is that I have a reason to arrest you all?"

"I don't think that is what's being said at all." Lisanna said over to Correll.

"A Man would listen to a story before making assumptions!" Elfman shouted, glaring at Correll, and the other members started to riot, saying how Correll wasn't giving fair justice because he wasn't going to listen to the story on what happened.

Correll merely smirked at the guild's riot, shaking his head slowly as he spoke with a dominate tone. "I could arrest you all for obstruction of justice, but I'll play along, and I'll listen, since that seems to be the only thin that will shut you up. What was happening that night?"

"We ran into the assassin last night," Erza replied calmly.

"Ha! Likely excuse!" Correll replied, not believing the story for even a second.

"It's true!" Happy flailed. "I saw the assassin with my own two eyes!"

"Is that so?" Correll took a step close to Erza, a smirk curled on his lips. "I find it hard to believe that quite a few Fairy Tail mages were unable to catch an assassin, but they were able to cause quite a bit of property damage!"

"What are you insinuating?" Erza asked, leaning her face back slightly as Correll stepped forward.

"You honestly can't be saying that they caused the damage on purpose!" Gray objected.

"Hm...I just remembered that the witness said he saw Salamander around with you as well, where is he, huh?" Correll asked as he looked around. "He's almost always in here, right?"

"I haven't seen Natsu since last night..." Lucy frowned. "He went off to chase the assassin..."

"Is that so? Then where is he now? Hiding from his crimes, perhaps?" Correll continued, mentally tallying up the multiple crimes he could pin on Natsu from just this one incident.

"That's preposterous!" Makarov boomed in defense of Natsu.

"Pipe down, old man, Councilman is working here," Correll replied with a dismissive tone to the wizard saint.

"We're telling the truth!" Wendy said, pleading for Correll to listen.

"Guess this'll be something to write down in my quota," Correll smirked as he pulled out magic sealing cuffs, but before he could do anything else, the Fairy Tail doors opened once again.

"Correll...calm down..." Layanna said as she walked inside the guild with a heavily bandaged Natsu.

"Natsu!?" Lucy immediately rushed over to the injured Natsu. "What happened to you?!"

"Correll...lets return to the Council...there is something I have to share with everyone..." Layanna nodded slowly, and walked out.

"Tch...this isn't the end, Fairy Tail..." Correll scoffed and walked out.

"What did I miss...?" Natsu said with a slight grin.

"That's not important right now," Mirajane said with worry in her voice. "Who did this to you?"

"Oh, this?" Natsu looked down to his bandages. "While I was hunting down the assassin, I ran into Takeru of White Eclipse, and some dark mage named Tobias attacked us."

Lucy's face paled at the mention of Tobias, remembering him well from her and Luke's battle against the Tartaros mage over six months ago. "T-Tobias..?"

"You know him, Lucy?" Natsu asked with a puzzled expression.

"You don't remember...? He was a part of Fiore's End on the Tartaros side...He almost killed me, but Luke was the one who almost died instead," Lucy replied.

"Oh. I remember that...I was scared..." Cynthia said with a nod.

"CYNTHIA!" Alex rushed through the front doors, unable to stay concealed any longer as she tackle hugged Cynthia to the ground.

"WAH! ALEX!" Cynthia yelped in surprise from the tackle hug, but she returned the hug nonetheless.

"I told you I'd come visit!" Alex shouted as her grip increased. Wendy huffed slightly, crossing her arms, but she managed to keep her usual soft smile as she watched Cynthia and Alex reunite once again.

"You look jealous," Gajeel said with a taunting smirk.

"I'm not jealous!" Wendy replied, poking her tongue out childishly at Gajeel, who simply patted her head tauntingly.

"Gihehe, whatever you say, kid."

"Ah, drat...I suppose it was too much to ask of her to stay quiet..." Daryan laughed slightly as he too walked inside.

"What are you doing here?" Laxus narrowed his eyes at Daryan, who merely shrugged him off.

Daryan walked over to Mirajane, smirking slightly. "Hello, beautiful, what can I do for you today?"

"We didn't come here for you to be rejected again, Daryan!" Alex shouted as she hopped up.

"Can you really blame him for trying, though?" Gildarts said with a slight laugh. "I see a little of myself in you, Daryan."

"Don't encourage him!" Cana shouted, finally sobering up, though she didn't have too much of an idea on what was going on.

"Tell, me Gildarts!" Daryan said as he looked towards the crash mage. "What's the secret?!"

"Wellllllllll!" Gildarts started, but Cana walked over to him, and dragged him away.

"He doesn't need to know anything!" Cana shouted.

Outside the building, it looked as though Flynn was standing alone, but it turned out, Rylo was standing right outside the door, camouflaged with his surroundings to make him appear invisible. "It's amazing how they didn't see us..." Flynn whispered as he scouted the surrounding area. "Hear anything...?"

"Just a bunch of chatter..." Rylo replied. "They're too loud, I can't make anything out."

"I don't think we're gonna find anything out on this mission..." Flynn sighed slightly, beginning to jog in place from sitting still for too long.

"Flynn, you're jogging again..." Rylo said in hushed whisper.

"Wha?" Flynn looked down at his feet, his eyes widening. "I can't help it...!"

"Ugh..." Rylo sighed slightly, starting to pull back from the door...until it opened, smacking the invisible Rylo in the face, sending him stumbling back into Flynn, who stumbled back far enough to he swept away by a crowd of people in the town.

"...Did I hit something?" Daryan blinked a few times, shrugging after, leaving the guild with Alex. "So that was useless..."

"Oh, on the contrary..." Alex said with a lowered, yet calm voice, her hair shifting to white once again.

"Eh...?" Daryan turned, nearly jumping at the sight of Alex before letting out a sigh. "You really need to stop popping in like that...!"

"Stop being such a whiner..." Alex sighed, using her index fingers to rub her temples.

"Where do you even come from?!" Daryan asked.

"Alex, of course," Alex replied, skipping as though she hasn't a care in the world.

"Gaia's getting real sick of you showing up..." Daryan replied as she shoved his hands into his pant pockets.

"Like I care what Gaia thinks, that belongs to the red head, I only have one thing in mind..." Alex replied with a smile.

"And that is...?" Daryan asked as he narrowed his eyes.

"Oh, like I'd tell you that. Just let me do my thing, kay?" Alex asked...actually, it was more of a demand, but Daryan simply nodded.

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"Tak, you looked fucked up, what happened to you?" Luke asked as Takeru (with bandages around 80% of his body) walked inside the guild.

"Oh, Salamander and I fought some guy named Tobias, kicked his ass though," Takeru said with a smirk.

"Hm?" Sidney took interest to Takeru's statement, raising a brow simultaneously. "You and Salamander fought someone, and you came out looking like that?"

"You should see the other guy!" Takeru laughed slightly at his joke before the serious expression appeared over his face again. "But, seriously, he was pretty strong. He almost had us, I won't deny that..."

"Tobias, huh..." Luke shivered somewhat at the memory, lifting his shirt up slightly to look at the scar on his stomach. "Man...this scar is just a constant reminder..."

There was a sudden knock at the door, and Luke, being the doorman, went over to answer it. To his surprise, a hooded female stood at the doorway. "Can we...help you...?"

"Is this White Eclipse...?" The woman asked quietly.

"That's right..." Luke nodded.

The woman nodded, then removed her hood, revealing herself to be Ultear. "I apologize for my actions..."

"U-Ultear?!" Luke nearly jumped back from surprise.

"Ultear?" Takeru immediately jumped to the door alongside Luke. "You here for another beating or something?"

"Takeru, relax," Sidney said calmly. "She's not here to cause harm." Ultear had no malicious intent.

"I wanted to apologize to...Reve...and anyone else who ended up fighting against Grimoire Heart...Cygnus...that was his name, right?" Ultear asked, looking towards Luke and Takeru with a solemn expression. It was...strange having her time back. She felt like she didn't deserve it, but it was also her chance to make amends for the harm she did cause. Could she ever escape her sins? There was at least a way to try.

"They aren't here right now...but a lot of people did fight Grimoire Heart from this guild..." Luke replied.

"I...I have something...I don't think it will make up for it..." Ultear continued, revealing her time arc.

"What is it?" Takeru asked, keeping his suspicions of the woman before him.

"Second Origin..."

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Inside the Cosmic Star guild, Gaia led Melanie, and Evanee inside, scowling slightly because during the train ride, Melanie vomited water all over Gaia due to never experiencing motion sickness before. "Welcome!" Gaia said with a half smile.

"This place is empty..." Evanee said as she looked around.

"I told you it was..." Gaia scoffed.

"This place is dirty..." Melanie said as she looked around, activating her water body as it started to fill the main room. "I'll clean it for you!"

"W-What?! No! What are you doing?!" Gaia shouted with her eyes widened.

"Being a good guest, obviously," Evanee replied while checking out the design of the interior. "Hm...seems a bit...drab..."

"D-drab?" Gaia's eye twitched slightly. "I picked out the design myself..."

"You obviously picked the wrong one," Evanee replied while taking note of Gaia's reaction.

"Magnus said it was good!" Gaia flailed her arms.

"He obviously lied to you." Evanee said, holding back a snicker as she did so. Having enough of the insults, Gaia grabbed a random stone, and began to chew on it, which left Evanee gawking.

Gaia looked at Evanee with a raised eyebrow, continuing to chew on the stone. "What are you looking at?"

"How are you...?" Evanee started.

"How am I what?" Gaia threw the stone behind her, now waiting to see what Evanee was going to say, but the stone dragon slayer instead started to sniff Gaia. "Uhm...What on earth are you doing...?" Gaia raised an eyebrow, taking a step back, but Evanee only took a step forward, deeply confused.

"Stalagmus...why do you smell like him?!" Evanee said while glaring at Gaia, who merely shrugged.

"Who knows?" Gaia replied.

"You know, you're pretty scummy, Guy..." Evanee growled slightly, but Gaia paid no attention to it.

"Aw, you're cute when you're mad Ev. But, I've got nothing to hide, you know?" Gaia smiled, yet spoke in her usual condescending tone.

"Now, Now...everyone should just calm down..." Magnus said as he walked down the stairs. "Starting a fight wouldn't be wise..."

"Magnus," Gaia merely shrugged.

"Come on, Melanie, we're leaving." Evanee grabbed Melanie's arm, and walked out the guild.

"She's a handful..." Gaia sighed.

"It's a wonder, hm?" Magnus merely leaned against the railing. "There is something odd about her, though."

"Yes. Ev-chan certainly is something else. I wonder if that's all the power she has, or if she's holding something back." She was thinking about it a bit. Evanee was capable or more, however, it felt like that power wasn't being used. Or maybe it couldn't be? Gaia merely shook her head. "I'll see if she can figure it out for herself. It's not every day you meet an Earth Dragon...but she can't even figure that out..."