Hey, guys, I just wanted to let you know that I'm taking a break after this chapter. It's only for a month. After finishing 'My Hollow Siblings', I felt that I needed some time off. That was a long fanfic. It took me over 2 years to do. So, yeah, I'll be taking a break. Enjoy this chapter. :)

7

Harry and Fawkes are outside behind the guild hall after reading a new spell in the book that he got while on his way to join Fairy Tail. This spell was much harder to control than the other spells he learned from the book, but he just about got it.

"Causa Satani!" Harry shouted the name of the spell at a dummy, causing it to explode. The spell is supposed to be small explosions, but Harry kept making them too big. Every dummy he aimed the spell at would be destroyed completely.

"Causa Satani!" Harry shouted again at a different dummy with a little less power to the spell. Only the arm of the dummy was blown off. This means that Harry was able to make the spell work the way it's supposed to. He did this a few more times on the same dummy, and then on the next he was able to do it with no troubles.

{Good job, Harry. I'd say you master that exploding spell,} Fawkes praised. Harry smiled weakly at the phoenix while trying to catch his breath. That spell took a lot of him. He's been trying to master it for the last few days now.

"Thanks, Fawkes. I'm glad I was able to finish this training before going on another mission. I was thinking of going on a bigger one tomorrow, so I thought this spell would come in handy," Harry replied.

{Are you going with someone?}

"Besides you, no. I was thinking of going solo for this one."

{You already found a job and told Mira to keep hold of it, didn't you?}

Harry sighed, "You know me too well. Yes, I did. The job is for 50,000Js and I'll also get a new spell book. It says that the book is from 500 years ago."

Fawkes shook his head was a trill that Harry was sure was his was of a chuckle. {You're mostly going for the book, aren't you?} Harry laughed sheepishly while also rubbing the back of his head; this answered Fawkes' question. {What's the job about?}

"It's about destroying a scary building that the locals believe to be haunted. Everyone is too scared to go in so they could destroy it themselves," Harry was walking to go back into the guild hall while he spoke, "and then build a new building there. I don't know what they are going to build though," Harry finished what he was saying before he sat down at a table. He looked around to see if Natsu, Happy, and Lucy came back from their job yet, and saw that they did.

Lucy, Happy, and Natsu went to go and destroy a book from a guy called Duke Everlue. They asked Harry if he would like to go with them, but he declined, wanting to finish his training instead.

{Why do they think it's haunted?} Fawkes asked.

"It's just some bad luck. They keep falling down the stairs, hurting themselves by tripping and smashing their heads against the windows, stuff like that," Harry answered.

Fawkes nodded in understanding, and allowed silence to fall over them. Thanks to the silence, Harry was deep in thought, but he was pulled out of it when Fawkes asks, {What are you thinking about?}

Harry turned his head up to face the phoenix, who is on the table in front of him. "I was just thinking about my godfather. I told you about how I remember everything about him, right?" Fawkes nodded his head. "Well, I was thinking about how he could turn into a dog, and wondered if I could something like that."

{You can. If I remember right, your father was able to do the same thing,} Fawkes said.

"I don't remember anything about my dad. Just that he was dead and friends with Sirius," Harry replied. "So, he was able to turn into a dog?"

Fawkes shook his head this time. {No, when a wizard or witch turns into an animal, they turn into what fits them best. They don't really have a choice of what animal they become. Your father was a stage,} he explained.

"Do you know how this works?" Harry asked, and Fawkes nodded. "Can you teach me?"

{I'll be more than happy to teach you to find your animal. I always love to found out what animal a witch or wizard would turn into. Some, very few, were able to turn into a phoenix.}

"I just have to ask. What's the difference between this and transformation magic?"

{Not much, transformation magic is just transforming your body into anything you with, but an animagus, which is what you call someone that has an animal form, is more complex than that. The animal is something that is already inside you that is just waiting to be released. Another difference is that you can stay in your animal form all you want without your magic running out, but with transformation you use up magic to hold the form. Do you understand, Harry?} Fawkes explained and asked.

"Yeah, I think so. Thank you for explaining this to me," Harry said with a smile.

The doors to the guild hall banged open, making Harry jump and Fawkes squawk in surprise. They look over to see Loke in the opening. "I got bad new!" Harry was confused. Were they being attacked or something? "It's Erza, she's back," he said more calmly, but still with some panic in his tone.

Everyone in the guild hall froze at hearing this; well, everyone except Harry, Mira, Fawkes, and Lucy. Harry couldn't help the snicker from escaping; he always found it funny that everyone is so afraid of just one girl. He can kind of understand, but he never done anything – yet – to see just how bad she can really be.

Harry can hear Erza walking toward the doors, unintentionally putting everyone on edge with anticipation. It didn't take too long for her to come through the doors with a giant horn over her shoulders. She put it down while looking around.

"I have returned. Where is Master?" Erza asked.

"Welcome back, Erza. The Master had a meeting, so he's not here right now," Mira answered.

"I see…" Erza paused for a moment before starting to tear into everyone.

Harry didn't listen, even though watching everyone panic would be funny, he instead thought back to the time he first met Erza.

~Flashback: Lisanna's anniversary last year~

Harry and Mira were on their way back to the guild from the graveyard after he spoke to her about how he too lost someone close to him. They walked into the guild hall, only for Harry to stop dead in his tracks, because there is a red-haired woman, he's guessing around Mira and his age, standing in front of him with an intimidating expression.

"Who are you, and why do you look ready to kill me?" Harry asked quietly, listening to the little voice in the back of his head that he knows is his survival instincts. Fawkes for some reason calls them his Slytherin instincts – whatever that means; although, he knew deep down he did, but he just can't remember it.

"Mira's eyes are a little red, which means she was crying. You didn't make her more upset than she already was, did you?" The red head demanded.

"Why would you think I…?" Harry was stopped by Mira.

"Oh, welcome back, Erza. How was the job? Did it go well?" she questioned.

"It went well. Now, did this boy upset you?" Erza wasn't going to let this go until she got an answer, Harry noticed.

"Not at all; as a matter of fact he helped cheer me up after comforting me. He understood the pain I was feeling, so he was able to help me pull through it," Mira replied.

"He did?" Erza asked her, and then looked at Harry. "That would mean… I'm sorry for your loss," she told him.

"It's fine, it happened a long time ago. Even though I had to relive it today," Harry said, confusing Erza.

"He lost his memories, but he's getting them back slowly," Mira answered Erza's silent question. "Oh, yeah, and his name is Harry Potter. He joined the guild a few weeks ago."

"I see… Well then," she turned to Harry, "my name is Erza Scarlet. Allow me to welcome you to the guild," she said with her hand held out. Harry took it, but realized his mistake a little too late, because he could almost feel the bones in his hand breaking.

"Nice you meet you," Harry said, trying to not show any sign of pain in his voice or face. Thankfully, Harry has Mira to save him from the death grip.

"Come on, Harry, you said you would help me with cooking for everyone when we got back. I'm sure everyone is hungry by now," she said. "We'll talk later, Erza." Mira and Harry went into the kitchen to start on cooking some food. Every now and then they would take turns coming out, so they could ask what everyone wanted to eat.

~End of Flashback~

"Is Natsu and Gray here?" Harry was snapped out of his memory when he heard Erza ask that question. He looked over to where he thinks Natsu is, and sees that he and Gray have slung an arm over each other's shoulders, sweating buckets, and smiling nervously.

"Oh, hey, Erza, we're just being the best of friends," Gray said shaken.

"Ay," Natsu agreed.

Harry heard Lucy ask why Natsu sounded like Happy. He gets up to walk over to her. Once he was standing next to her, he says, "He's talking like Happy, because he's scared. You've heard of scaredy cat? Well, that is what this is." Lucy seems to have understood that, because she nodded her head up and down.

"Good, I'm glad to see two friends getting along," Erza said to the rivals.

"I wouldn't go as far as calling us friends," Gray replied quietly.

"Ay," Natsu said again.

"Why do you need them, Erza?" Harry asked her.

Erza turned to face him. "Oh, Harry, you're here too. You're so quite." She points to the fire and ice mages. "I need their help with a mission," she said, shocking everyone else in the guild hall, including Harry.

"Why…?" Harry didn't know what to say besides that.

"On my way back from my last mission, I heard something a bit disturbing. I thought nothing of it at first, but now I realized that it was a dark guild talking about unsealing something," Erza explained, and then turned back to Natsu and Gray. "Now normally, I would talk to the master about this, but he's not here, and this is important. So, that's why I need your help."

Harry was surprised; Erza hardly ever needed help with anything.

"Can this be?" Harry looked over to Mira when she finished her question. "With Natsu, Gray, and Erza… This could be Fairy Tail's strongest team," she finished.

Harry laughed at the thought. "More like our most destructive team," he said with a smirk.

"Natsu, Gray, meet me at the train station tomorrow, don't be late," Erza said before leaving.

Natsu and Gray breathed sighs of relief and let go of each other, but it didn't take them long to want to go back to killing each other; this only made Harry laugh at their antics. He walked over to the bar where Mira and Lucy are, and sat down next to the blond-haired girl.

Harry saw something out of the corner of his eye on Lucy's finger. There is a silver ring that had an icy blue - making it almost look like ice - gem in it. He questioned how he never seen it until now, but then he noticed that the ring is quite small.

"Are you okay, Harry?" Harry looked up to see Lucy looking at him.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just noticed your ring. I have never seen one like that before," he replied.

Lucy looked down at the ring on her left hand's ring finger. "Oh, this? That's because it is one of a kind. I got it from my mentor before she left. I don't even know where she went," she explained.

"I see… It's a beautiful ring."

"Thanks, I never take it off."

Harry wondered if the reason why Lucy never takes the ring off is because of the magic that is on it. It feels cold, almost colder than Gray's ice magic, but he wasn't sure and didn't say anything.

"I think the two of you should go with them," Mira's voice cut in. Harry turned his head over to look at her, and tilt his head to the side.

"Why do you say that?" Lucy asked.

"Natsu and Gray are going to fight when Erza is not looking. So, I want the two of you to break them up when she can't do it herself," Mira explained.

'More like I'm going to try to break them up, and fail miserably at it,' Harry thought with a sigh. "We'll go, just to make sure nothing bad happens," he said. "Like a whole town being destroyed." The two girls laughed and agreed with his statement.

TBC

You guys see what I mean by skipping? It's those kinds. Oh, and the job I wrote down, Harry will be doing it, but it's after this arc.

By the end of Halloween, the Poll will close. So, if you haven't voted yet, please do so.

To Gruvia and NaLu 4 life's review: No, they have never met back then. Harry was sealed away for 500 years, and Natsu was born 400 years ago; however, I will say keep this in mind. I won't say the reason. You'll find out toward the end of this story.

Harry: Now I want to know what you're planning. :/

Enj/Dark: Let's just say, you'll be really mad. …I think. :(

Harry: Why…?

Zeref: She's not going to tell you, because it will ruin the surprise. -_-

Enj/Dark: What he said. :)

Voldy Mouse: TURN ME BACK! DX If you turn me back right now, I'll kill you quickly! *Glare*

Enj/Dark: Looks like you're stuck like that for the month then, because I'm leaving. Harry could you say it?

Harry: Sure. Please review, and see you all within a month! :)