Date: XX/XX/0784

Time Left: Approximately Seven Years Before Disaster

Location: Hargeon Port

"Fuck!" Natsu yelled out in exasperation, "What's a guy gotta do to get a fucking ride to a goddamn island!?"

Happy swiped a fish from one of the crates on the side of the walkway and gave a thumbs up, "Aye sir! It's really worrying that everyone keeps referring to it as the cursed island, though I'm sure that has nothing to worry about!"

"I think it's something we should really be worried about, they keep talking about how the island is inhabited by demons!" Lucy said, her form shivering at the thought of a Lullaby-esque creature coming to attack her.

Natsu gave a side-eyed glance towards the young blonde, "Wow Luce…didn't know you were racist against demons, kind of cringe, not gonna lie."

Lucy blinked once, twice at the accusation, "What?"

Natsu patted Lucy on the shoulder with a sigh, "It's okay Luce, just like you I once had to deal with my overt racism."

Lucy's face continued to morph in confusion, "What?"

Natsu gave her a wide smile, "But that was before I realized that I was better than that! No more focusing on my racist past, instead, I decided to focus on my racist future!"

Happy chimed in with a smile, "Aye sir! Natsu is the best at looking towards a better tomorrow!"

Lucy…wasn't quite sure what to say, so she simply didn't say anything at all. Though that didn't stop a familiar voice from speaking up behind her, "You guys are in so much trouble!"

Lucy immediately jumped in surprise as the grinning form of Gray, "Gray!? What are you doing here!?"

Gray placed his hands on his hips and scoffed, "Why do you think? You guys stole an S-class quest, you can't just do that, we have rules for a reason you know."

Natsu gasped in horror at being found out, "What, how!? I planned this out so thoroughly, every detail accounted for, every simulation ran! How did they possibly find out we took the quest!?"

Gray blinked once, twice, "Well…"

Date: XX/XX/0784

Time Left: Approximately Seven Years Before Disaster

Location: Fairy Tail Guild a Few Hours Before

"Ah, what a completely peaceful and normal day at the guild. Now I know I shouldn't jinx myself, but I can't think of a single thing that can possibly go wrong!" Makarov stated with a smile, his small form perched upon the bar with a content smile on his face.

"Uhm, master?" Mira called out, a confused look on her face as she descended from the second floor, "I think we might have an issue."

Makarov raised an eyebrow at his barmaids tone, "Oh? I'm sure it's nothing, after all it's such a beautiful day!"

Mira coughed into her hand, "Yeah, well it appears that we're missing an S-class quest. I thought I just forgot to check it out for whoever took it, but no…it seems it's just gone."

Makarov frowned at the information. S-class quests were no joke, they're some of the most difficult jobs a mage could take, if someone just took it and wasn't qualified…that'd be bad. He already lost one of his children to an S-class quest due to unpreparedness, he wouldn't lose another one, "Hmm, I don't suppose you could have thrown it away by accident, could you've?" Makarov asked hopefully, only for a shake of Mira's head to answer his question, "Fuck! And here I thought I was gonna have a nice day where I could get drunk and ogle at some nice tits! Who's the dumb motherfucker that decided to be a pain in my ass!?"

Mira looked to the side as her mouth turned to a slight frown, "I'm afraid I don't know, it could be anyone."

"I know who took it." Laxus' voice called out from atop the second floor as he placed a thick cigar into his mouth and lit it with a spark, "Yeah, just some stray cat came flying in and nabbed it."

Makarov's harsh look turned murderous at the mention of a flying cat, "Natsu…" Before he turned back to his grandson with an irritated expression, "I don't suppose you tried to stop Happy, did you?"

Laxus laughed a puff of smoke, "You kidding!? Why would I care if that stupid cat and that sorry excuse for a Dragon Slayer kicked the bucket on a suicide mission? Just less weaklings I'll need to take care of later down the line."

Makarov rubbed his balding head in frustration, "Fuck, and it'll be days before Erza can reach them, Laxus-!"

The lightning mage flipped his grandfather the bird as he puffed another drag from his cigar, "Sorry gramps, but I'm actually on my way out to complete another mission, give me a call when you bring them back though, I wanna be there when they get their shit kicked in by you." Laxus said with a chuckle as he disappeared in a flash of lightning.

"Damn it! Why can't things go my way just once in my life!?" Makarov yelled out to the heavens in sheer desperation.

Gray held a cigarette in his off hand and sighed, "Just like Little Miss Fire Prancer to go off and do something so astronomically stupid…"

Makarov heard Gray's voice and a dangerous aura materialized around his small form before reaching over with a giant hand and picking up the half naked mage with an angry look on his face, "Gray! You'll have to do! Go bring those idiots back now before they get themselves killed!" Gray yelled out in terror as he was flung by the guild master out of the guild at mach speed.

Mira sweat dropped at the harsh handling of her fellow guildmate, "I hope he gets there before it's too late, Natsu might be strong, but this quest is way above his expertise. I hate to think what might happen to him…"

Makarov let out a deep breath, "Gray is a capable mage, I'm sure he'll be able to talk some sense into the boy." A sly grin appeared on Makarov's face, "The concern for Natsu's very sweet though, have you two finally decided to…you know…" Mira lost her smile and gave Makarov an emotionless expression in response, "Honestly, I'm surprised it took him so long, what with such a nice supple body you-!"

Makarov was hit hard on the head by a serving tray, knocking him out almost instantly. A very annoyed Mirajane being the cause for the large lump that grew from his head, "Pervy old man…"

"Safe to say, you guys are screwed. I wouldn't be surprised if the master decided to excommunicate you three from the guild from such a stupid decision. If you come back now, I might be able to convince him to go easy on you…maybe." Gray added with a smirk.

"Huh." Natsu simply noted, before grabbing a lid from a nearby barrel, weighing it in his hand for a second, before slamming it on Gray's head, knocking him out almost instantly, "Holy shit! It actually works! Thank you Mira!"

Meanwhile Lucy was freaking out over the whole excommunication thing that Gray said, "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! You said that mages do this stuff all the time! Now I'm gonna be kicked out!? I just got into the guild for crying out loud!"

Natsu scoffed at his companion's concern, "Oh please, this isn't the first time I've done something reckless and stupid. And it won't be the last!"

Happy popped up from behind Natsu's back with a grin, "Aye sir! Natsu is the most reckless and stupid person I've ever met!"

Natsu gave a thumbs up that did little to calm Lucy's nerves and then pulled out the request form from his back pocket, "Now where the hell are we gonna find someone who will take us to Galuna Island! Those people aren't gonna save themselves!"

"Did you say, Galuna Island?" Natsu swiveled to find a giant man wearing a dark cloak suddenly appeared to ask them that question.

Natsu gave a curt nod of his head, "Indeed I did good sir, I have been tasked by the power's that be, that being my own brash decision making, to complete this mission where there are people in trouble, and are willing to pay a lot…and they talk about demons…and I guess there's a purple moon or something, I don't know, I didn't read the whole thing through."

Lucy gripped the sides of her head at the absolute insanity of the man in front of her, "You're a maniac!"

The large man looked over his shoulder, before leaning in to whisper into Natsu's ear, "Alright, I'll take you to the island, follow me."

Natsu gave a grin, "Alright! Hear that Luce, Happy? We're going to the island at last!"

Happy flew in with another stolen fish in his mouth, "Yay! Things always work out whenever Natsu's around!"

Lucy's eyes spiraled in a comedic fashion as she and Gray's unconscious body were dragged and placed on a small boat not much bigger than a dingy, "This is it, I'm going to be expelled from the guild for trusting a crazed pyromaniac and his talking cat! What is my life!?"

Natsu dusted off his hands before jumping onto the boat and pushing it from the dock out into open waters…wait…boat, moving, open water, Natsu…motion sickness. The Dragon Slayer immediately doubled over as his gut twisted itself into a knot, "Ooooh…fucking boats…"

The large sailor looked over at the man in slight worry as he began to row away from the port, "Is…he gonna be okay?"

Lucy gave an annoyed sigh, "Don't mind him, it's the least he deserves for what he's done to me." She emphasized her point by kicking the mage with her boot, not enough to hurt him, but enough to make him know her discontent.

The sailor sweat dropped at the action, "Oh, okay." Before continuing to row towards Galuna Island.

Torafuzar felt a tick mark appear above his brow as the chief of the village rambled on and on about the moon, demons, and other pointless crap that didn't get him any closer to finding out why they were ghosting Tartaros, "Look, I don't know anything about purple moons, demonic transformations, or anything like that! I told you, I'm here because we've lost contact with you a few weeks ago-and why are you draping flowers on me!?"

Sure enough, some of the women of the village came forward with hands full of, he believed they were called lei's, and draped them over his fin and onto his broad shoulders, "Thank you for taking this harrowing task, great mage of Tartaros."

Torafuzar ground his teeth to the point that he created sparks in his mouth. If he wasn't here on official guild business, he would have dragged every single one of these damn lesser demons into his murky depths. More tick marks grew on his forehead as the villagers began to suddenly break out into dance, "What the fuck is going on!? And why are you all still partially disguised as humans!? There is no one here except us!" Though, much to his dismay, the villagers didn't even acknowledge he'd said anything, "Stop dancing! I demand to be dignified with a response-stop putting flowers all over me!"

"…and that's the difference between smallmouth bass, and largemouth bass. It's all about the mouth size. Isn't that cool?" The sailor said with slight excitement as his rowing kept a firm and steady pace.

Lucy blinked at the man before a nervous look stretched across her face, "Yeah, really informative…uhm, who are you exactly?"

The large man laughed out loud at the question, "Oh, my apologies! My name is Bobo, sorry I didn't share it earlier. I'm actually from Galuna Island."

Lucy gave a polite smile at that, "Oh, so that's why you're helping us then. You probably want to help with the whole demon issue on the island."

Bobo gave a curt nod, "Absolutely, had I known that you four were mages, I would've offered my help long before I did."

Happy tossed his finished fishbone over the boat with a belch, "Galuna Island sure is far out, I heard that some weird rituals were performed there in the past. It's such a shame that a culturally significant island has been marred by this purple moon problem."

Bobo gained a solemn look underneath his hood, "It's true…I've prayed and prayed to our god for the saving of my people, but no matter how much I ask for guidance, my faith has yet to bear fruit. No matter how hard I seek wisdom from him, he doesn't show me the way forward…"

Lucy quirked her eyebrow at the mention of a god, "I wasn't aware Galuna Island had a god."

Bobo shrugged his shoulders, "Not surprising, to be completely honest it's more of a localized religion kind of thing than anything else."

"So a cult." Happy proclaimed with a smile on his face.

Bobo sputtered for a second before an angry look marred his face, "No, not a cult! We've worshiped the god of flame and purification since before Galuna Island was even given its name! Don't relegate our faith to little more than a simple cult!"

Lucy and Happy leaned back in the dingy as Bobo calmed himself down from his outburst, "Sorry, sorry, it's just…it's been rough. I hold hope that my friends and family will get the help they need but…it just seems like a lost cause at this point." Bobo looked into Lucy and Happy's eyes with that same hope he talked about before radiating in his own eyes, "Please, do everything you can to save my home."

Lucy stumbled for words as she saw the visage of the large intimidating man turn to one of a desperate pleading beggar who put his entire hope into them, his very faith that he'd placed in his god, into them, "W-we will."

Happy raised a paw in the air with a determined smile on his face, "Aye sir! Natsu and I will take care of all your purple moon needs! It is our speciality after all!"

Lucy gave Happy a sour look as Bobo laughed at the promises they both made, "Well then, I guess there's nothing left for me to do! See you guys later."

Lucy was about to ask what he meant by that, but was distracted when Gray's unconscious body began to stir with a groan. The young mage instantly started freaking out at the ice mage's recovery, "Ah, Gray you're awake!"

Gray took a second to adjust to his surroundings before a deep frown appeared on his face and he kicked the groaning, puking form of Natsu right in the rear, "You asshole! Don't go knocking people out like that, you could have given me a concussion!" Natsu couldn't do anything else except groan in pain over the side of the boat as a response. Gray scratched his forehead in frustration before letting out a sigh, "If you guys had let me finish, I would have told you that I wanted to tag along as well."

Lucy was even more shocked now, "Huh!? Why!?"

Gray shrugged his shoulders as he started removing the tropical shirt he was wearing, only for Happy to swoop in and stop him at the last second, "Because…because Laxus is a dick!" Lucy sweatdropped at the explanation, but didn't say anything as Gray continued, "All he ever talks about is 'strength' and 'weakness' in Fairy Tail like none of us fucking matter! Well I'm sick of it! I'm an A-class mage! Me and Natsu are shoe-ins for the S-class trials, so if Laxus wants to see how strong we can be, I'm gonna show him through completing this mission!"

Lucy blinked a couple of times at Gray's proclamation, "So…this entire mission is basically a dick measuring contest between you and Laxus."

Gray pointed a finger at Lucy with a small smile, "Yeah, you get it!"

Lucy felt another sweatdrop form on her head, "I really don't."

Suddenly Gray looked around the boat with a slightly concerned look, "So uh…who's sailing this thing."

Happy blinked a couple times in confusion, "What do you mean? It's Bo-"

Only for Lucy and him to turn around to see nobody there. Lucy felt a chill creep up her spine, "Okay…that's creepy."

Gray scratched his head again with a unreadable expression taking shape on his face, "Yeah…I was just asking because there is a giant fucking tidal wave heading our way."

Lucy and Happy both turned to where Gray pointed, and sure enough, there was a giant fucking tidal wave just like he had described. Happy kept his smile plastered on his face as the wave rocketed towards the boat at alarming speeds, "This is gonna hurt…"

Natsu woke up with a mouthful of sand and the rest of his team with their faces planted in the beach like he was. The Dragon Slayer stood up on wobbly legs before giving a large stretch of his form, "Fuck, I hate boats…" Natsu then began kicking each of his teammates in the side to wake them up, "Wakey wakey motherfuckers! We've arrived!"

Gray got up with a look of murderous intent plain to see on his face, "Natsu, I swear to all that is holy-!" Now Natsu really wanted to listen to Gray and his annoying ranting, he really did! But the guy was just so irritating, and his dick was just so tiny that Natsu had no choice but to drown him out as he marched forward into the jungle surrounding the beach and moved towards, where he thought, the village was. Lucy said something about not liking big jungle insects, Happy found another fish…somehow, and Gray kept complaining about how much of a soy boy he was.

The foliage was dense, and the noise of wildlife was constantly sounding out from somewhere in the distance, causing Happy and Lucy to cling to Gray in an attempt to comfort themselves, much to the ice mage's chagrin. The dull thud of Natsu's headache was still there, at this point he was starting to worry that he had some kind of medical emergency or something. Not to mention the weird stuff he'd been seeing…the intrusive thoughts…the mood swings…the feeling of pleasure he got whenever he started ripping and tearing and mangling and crushing a̵n̵d̵ ̷s̸t̷r̵a̸n̵g̷l̷i̷n̸g̵ a̴̱͑͌n̸͈̞̂̉d̸̥̻̈́̈́ ̸͉͒͂b̶̙͆ū̷̟ͅr̸̪̬̊n̵̥̉i̶̛̻̺n̵̪̞̈̆g̷̰͆ ̸̟͚̀͝ā̷̛͕w̴̝͈͝ȁ̷͎̽y̵͓͔̅͠ ̴͎̜̋̕ȃ̶͚l̴̺̀l̴̘̆͋ ̴̹̎͒t̶͕͉̋̐h̸͖͂̍o̸̠͈͗̈́ș̴͊̀ẹ̶͈̹̔̀̋ ̸̪̇̋́f̷̹̋̓ų̵͇̔̿̕c̴̡̋̾k̴̩̘̰̈́̃ȉ̸̤͉͉ṇ̴̒́̀g̵̩͈͉̈́̐͌-oh! They're here.

"Who goes there!" A guard yelled from atop the giant wooden gate.

Natsu grew his signature grin and flipped his scarf in a dramatic fashion, "Natsu motherfucking Dragneel, esteemed member of the Fairy Tail guild!" Natsu looked over his shoulder at the rest of the group before turning back with the same grin plastered on his face, "And my cheerleaders!"

Natsu instantly felt the back of his head cave in from an ice hammer that Gray had constructed out of rage, "I'm no one's cheerleader you absolute dumbass!"

Lucy then gave an impressive kick to Natsu's behind just to rub salt into the wound, "Neither am I!"

Happy looked around as the two berated his friend and just smiled in response, "It's okay Natsu, I'll be your cheerleader."

Natsu raised a shaky thumb up into the air and gave a wobbly grin, "Ah, thanks pal…"

The guard looked down at the team with a blank expression before humming in thought, "Oh! You guys must be here for the mission as well! Don't worry, I'll let you in and inform mister Torafuzar you've arrived!"

As soon as the guard said this, the wooden gate opened up and allowed the Fairy Tail team passage inside. Natsu cricked his neck with a wince before following the rest of the mages inside the village. For a second, Natsu wasn't sure if the villagers would be able to provide the reward they said they would. The village was…small, barely big enough to even be considered a town if it wanted to. Huts scrunched up next to each other, palm trees decorating the outer parts, and a large crowd of people who seemed to be in some sort of celebration around something in the middle.

"What's going on over there?" Lucy inquired, her brow furrowing in thought as the four made their way through the crowd towards the middle.

"Stop dancing! I demand to be dignified with a response-stop putting flowers all over me!" A deep voice shouted in frustration.

Natsu felt his left eye twitch as he listened to the voice, a smell entered his nose, a foul smell…something wasn't right here, "Guys-!" But that was all Natsu was able to get out before the crowd gave way enough for the Dragon Slayer and Torafuzar to meet eye contact. Natsu froze in place as his face instinctively scrunched up in horror. Torafuzar met Natsu's onyx-green eyes with his own pinprick ones, and a smile stretched across his face, showing off his shark-like teeth in a macabre show of pure and utter joy…