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A young teen with black hair was lying on the grass with his hands behind his head, bathing in the sunlight. This boy is the same one that Harry had run into before meeting Gildarts.

Zeref was just watching the clouds pass by when he heard rustling somewhere to his left. He got up into a sitting position and looked over and saw the ugliest creature he has ever laid eyes on. It looked snake-like, but also human. Zeref could tell it was male and that he dived in too deep into the dark arts, because his eyes are blood red.

Those red eyes spotted Zeref, who saw the creature tense up, but just barely.

"Who are you?" the snake-creature asked, but Zeref knew that it was more of an order.

Zeref got up on to his feet before replying, "Isn't it rude to ask someone their name before giving yours?"

While Zeref waited for his answer he could tell that his question made the man-snake angry. He may not be able to see it on the creature's face, but he can feel it in his magic. And when Zeref felt the magic, he couldn't help but think that he felt it somewhere before.

'Where have I felt this magic, and when?' Zeref couldn't muse for very long, because he had to move out of the way.

"Crucio!" The snake-man shouted, but missed since Zeref was no longer in the same spot. He knows that the spell wouldn't kill him, but Zeref has taken some Latin and knows that this means pain for him. For crying out loud, the spell means torture.

Zeref threw a black ball of death magic at the snake-man, who moved out of its path, and it hit a tree instead; the tree now has a hole in its trunk, and is very must dead. Zeref faced the creature again, and said, "Please, I don't want to fight you. You might die if this keeps up!" He tried to plea with him, but he could tell it wasn't working.

"Avada Kedavra!" The creature hissed the name of the spell, and it hit Zeref. The snake-man smirked, but then his eyes widened in shock when Zeref stood back up. Zeref decided that he was going to take advantage of the man's shock and teleport out of there.

Zeref landed on an island that holds the biggest tree he has ever seen, and still can't find one bigger than it. He sat down in front of a grave and tilted his head up to watch the clouds again, but he wasn't really looking at them.

'I remember now. That magic felt just like the one that belonged to the man that killed my parents and Natsu. I was next, but the green spell didn't hit me, instead it wrapped around my body, and cursed me with this death magic. I killed him that day too, but later on I was cursed with immortality by trying to bring Natsu back.' Zeref looked down at his hands. 'If I remember correctly, mom and dad fought that man before, but they were killed for it.' He looked back up at the sky again. 'If they didn't fight him at all, would this never have happened?' he sighed. "I guess I'll never know."

"Welcome to Fairy Tail!" Natsu said with a grin that is almost eating his face.

"Home sweet home," Harry added with a warm smile. He looked back to Lucy, who is looking at the guild hall in awe. "Come on, let's go inside."

Lucy turns back to face them with an open smile. "Yeah, this is going to be great!" she exclaimed while throwing her fist in the air.

{She's excited,} Fawkes stated while watching the blond-haired girl. Harry nodded his agreement, he's glad that she's happy, but he can tell that Lucy is nervous.

Natsu was the first to charge on into the guild, followed by Happy, leaving the rest behind. Harry shook his head while looking down. 'What am I going to do with him?' He turns to Lucy. "Let's go before Natsu starts a fight," Harry said.

Lucy is confused if the tilt of her head was anything to go by, but she followed after Harry and Fawkes anyway. They walked into the guild just in time for them to see Natsu send poor Max flying into a table, which is now broken.

"What was that for?!" Max demanded with a shout.

"You lied to me! There was no Salamander there!" Natsu shouted back.

"It's not my fault… I was just telling you a rumor that I heard," Max said calmly while rubbing the back of his head.

Harry looked over to Lucy to see how she is taking this. It doesn't seem that she's paying attention to the two fighting, but more like she's looking around the guild. Thanks to Harry not looking at Natsu and the rest of the members of the guild, he didn't notice when or how a full out brawl happened. Well, he could guess that Max wanted to get pay back on Natsu for sending him into a table by throwing something back, but it missed and hit someone else. That's Harry's guess as to how this fight broke out.

Harry looked back over to Lucy, who is saying to herself in awe, "I can't believe I'm really standing inside of Fairy Tail." Harry heard something break right next to him, and saw some pieces of wood flying by him. He turned to face the other way where Fawkes is on his shoulder.

{A chair was about to hit you. You should be more on guard while you're here, Harry,} Fawkes answered Harry's silent question.

Harry thanked Fawkes and told Lucy to follow closely behind him. They moved over to the bar counter where Mira is. When Lucy saw her, she had stars form in her eyes. "It's Mirajane, in the flesh!" she fan-girled.

Mira smiled when she saw them. "Welcome back, Harry. Who's this with you?" she asked.

"Hello, Mira." Harry gestured to Lucy and said, "This is Lucy, she is looking to join."

Mira smiled at Lucy and held out her hand to shake. "It's nice to meet you, Lucy." They shook hands, and when they let go, Mira continued. "Just give me a moment to grab the… OOF!" Mira was cut off when her brother, Elfman, crashed into her.

"Mira!" Lucy cried out in worry.

"Don't worry so much, she's fine," Harry reassured her that Mira was indeed fine, and Mira was able to say that she is before passing out with her ghost coming out. "Yeah, she's fine…" Harry said again, hoping that Lucy didn't hear the slight questioning tone in his voice.

Lucy is looking at the fighting that is going on in the guild and asks, "Is it always this crazy?"

"Yup…" Harry and Happy, who popped out of nowhere, said.

A giant foot slammed onto the ground, making everyone freeze in what they were doing while also looking at the giant. "Will you all stop acting like a bunch of children?!" the giant exclaimed, who Harry recognizes as their master, Makarov.

Lucy was staring in awe and fear. "He's huge…" she squeaked.

Natsu was in the middle of the guild and no one was standing anywhere near him, and he was laughing. "You're all acting like a bunch of scaredy cats!" he roared in between laughs, but he stopped laughing when Makarov laid his giant foot down on top of him.

Mira comes up from behind Lucy, Harry, Happy, and Fawkes saying, "Welcome back, Master."

Lucy whipped her head around to look at her. "That's the guild master?!" she questioned in fear.

Makarov looks down at the five of them. "I see there is someone with you, Harry, is she a new recruit?" he asked.

Harry nodded. "Yes, Gramps, she is." Wind swirled around the giant and he started to shrink. Lucy watched in shock - much to Harry and Fawkes' amusement - as the master kept on shrinking until he was shorter than everyone in the room, even the children.

When the master was down shrinking, he held up his hand, and with a smile on his face said, "Hello, I'm the master of this guild, and my name is Makarov. Nice to meet you."

"He's tiny," Lucy said in awe.

{I just got an idea,} Fawkes said and flapped down to the ground next to Makarov. {This is to give Lucy an idea of just how tiny he is.}

Harry turned his eyes over to Lucy to see that she was looking in shock. He can't really blame her since the master is the same size as the phoenix. Harry chuckled softly, and then he turned his green eyes back to Makarov. "So, is Lucy joining or what?" he asked.

Lucy bowed down her head and held her hands up in a prayer position. "Please let me join!" she begged. "What do I have to do to get in?" she asked.

"Do you have magic?" Makarov asked.

"Yes," she answered.

"Then you can join," he said with a smile.

"Wait, that's it?" Makarov nodded his head to confirm. "YAY!" Lucy exclaimed while jumping up and down.

"Mira, be a dear and grab the stamp," Makarov asked the young woman next to Harry.

Mira smiled. "Sure thing, Master," she said and ran to go get the stamp from behind the counter. After a few moments, she came back, and held up the device that allows one to join the guild. Mira smiled warmly at Lucy and said, "Where do you want the mark, and in what color?"

It took Lucy a moment to wrap her head around the fact that this was happening – she was joining her dream guild. "On the back of my hand in pink, please," she replied while holding up her right hand.

Harry left Lucy to get her guild mark and walked over to Natsu, who was standing in front of the request board. "I see you're already looking for a job," Harry said.

"Yeah, I'm trying to find one with a lot of action in it, and some money," Natsu replied.

"Didn't you already have a lot of action last night and just a few moments ago?"

"That was last night, and today didn't have enough of it."

"Hey, guys, look I got my guild mark!" Lucy ran up from behind them while holding up her hand.

"Yeah, that's nice…Welcome to the guild, Loony," Natsu said, not even looking at her.

"The name's LUCY!" she said angrily.

Harry smiled. "Don't listen to him; he likes to give nicknames sometimes. Welcome to the guild, Lucy," he said.

The next thing anyone knows is Makarov is on the second floor railing demanding their attention. "I almost forgot! You brats have gone and done it again!" he shouted. He held up a stack of papers. "These are filled with complaints for all the destruction you all caused, and making the Magic Council mad at me!"

Everyone in the guild are holding their heads down in shame. Harry, Natsu, Happy, and Fawkes know that their master isn't really mad at them.

Makarov smirked. "However…" he burns the papers, and threw the flaming pile for Natsu to grab and eat."I say the heck with the Magic Council. If we didn't put everything we have into our work and magic, then we would never progress. If you keep worrying about the watchful eyes of the Council your magic would never improve, so never fear them. That is the Fairy Tail way!" Makarov exclaimed while holding his hand up in an L shape.

Everyone did the same and shouting, "YYYEEEAAAHHH!"

After everything calmed down, Natsu was in front of the board again while Harry waited for him at a nearby table, sitting in a chair.

"Hey what about this one?" Happy asked while grabbing a request off the board. "This one has a lot of jewels."

"Awesome!" Natsu turns to Lucy. "Hey, you want to come?" he asked.

"Uh…sure…?" She didn't sound too sure, but Harry is guessing it's because she is surprised, and there will be fighting.

"Please, send someone out to look for him," a little boy's voice said. Harry, Natsu, Fawkes, Happy, and Lucy turned to see Romeo begging Makarov about something.

"Calm down, Romeo. You're father is a mage, he can take care of himself," Makarov said.

"My father said he would be back in three days, but it's been a week since then!" Romeo replied. "His job is in mount Hakobe, isn't it? So, it's not that far. Why don't you send someone out there to look for him?!"

"Your father is a mage, boy. We don't have any mages that can't take care of themselves. Now, go home, have some mike and cookies, and WAIT!"

Romeo punched Makarov in the face while shouting, "JERK!" He turned around and ran out the door. "I hate you!"

Harry wasn't surprised at all when Natsu slammed the request back where it was and almost breaking the board while doing so, grabbed his traveling bag, and left through the door. He sighed, "I'm going after Romeo." Harry got up from the chair he was waiting for Natsu on and left as well, not hearing Mira telling Lucy about Natsu's father, and Lucy going after the Dragon Slayer.

TBC

This is a shorter chapter; I'll have to make sure the next one is longer. As you can tell, in this fanfic Natsu and his parents didn't die the same way, and Zeref wasn't cursed the same way either. *looks around and only sees Natsu and Zeref* Oh good, the other two didn't hear that.

Natsu: Where are they anyway?

Enj/Dark: I sent them out to get some stuff for me.

Zeref: How did you get Voldemort to do something?

Enj/Dark: I couldn't, so I turned him into a mouse and gave Harry a snake before he left with him. It's to make sure that Voldy doesn't do anything stupid.

Natsu: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I can't wait for them to come back! I need to see that! :D

Enj/Dark: Don't worry, you'll see him. He'll stay like that till the next chapter.

Natsu: Sweet! C:

Zeref: Please review. :)