Wendy was the first to notice something was off. The air. Being a sky dragon slayer Wendy would likely be the first to notice strange things going on, with the wind that is. The air, it felt heavier, like it actually had weight. Wendy brushed it off, assuming her mind was playing tricks on her because she was gone for so long, or maybe she wasn't fully healed. Coming to this conclusion she decided to call it a night and go home to rest. As Wendy was ending her chat with Levy and started to say goodbye, the air changed yet again, this time it was the smell.

Wendy isn't the only dragon slayer who had a good enough sense of smell to notice something fishy was going on. There was little to no doubt in the Sky Maiden's mind that Gajeel and Natsu probably picked up on the new smell, she was right.

Natsu had stopped eating his food to look up near the guild doors, as if he was expecting somebody to just appear out of thin air. This small action had tipped Lucy off that something might be wrong. When Natsu was eating it was nearly impossible to get him to stop, unless a fight broke out. Gray usually started the fights but he hasn't even thrown a glance in Natsu direction, not to mention Natsu was staring away from Gray. It was odd to say the least.

"Strange." Natsu said. As weird as it may seem, he sounded focused to an extent.

"What's strange, Natsu?" Lucy was concerned as to what would be so important Natsu would stop eating, even for a second.

"I dunno, it's weird." Natsu sounded like he confused himself, which surprisingly enough, happened more often than you would think. "The air changed." He stated matter-of-factly, kind of in an 'it's obvious' tone.

"Can you even hear yourself?" Lucy wondered if Natsu knew what he was talking about. "You sound insane." Lucy's confusion was growing bigger than before.

"The wind is even weirder than you, and that's really weird!" The way Natsu emphasised 'really' made Lucy angry.

"What's that supposed to mean?" A tick mark had appeared on her forehead.

Before Lucy could hit Natsu, Gajeel who had been listening decided it was time to give his opinion on the matter. "For once I think I'm gonna have to agree with the fire freak. Somethin' ain't right."

Even though not giving their input Gray and Juvia had started listening to them when Natsu stopped eating. They couldn't actually give their opinion if they wanted to because the difference was only apparent to dragon slayers. Nobody can tell the difference, not even S-Class wizards. This wasn't a change in magic power, but feeling and senses, that's the reason only dragon slayers knew of anything changing.

A few seconds later this was no longer the case. The third change was magic power, a whole lot of it too. There was so much magic power that you didn't need to be a S-Class wizard to notice. You didn't even have to be a wizard, or have magic power to now understand that there was something going on behind the scenes.

At the beginning, the situation had stayed quiet between the few that noticed, this was no longer the case. Fairy Tail had went from the casual guild noise, to war strategies and panic from some people. For a little group that seemed to have subconsciously formed at a table, made up of the usual, was different from everyone else. This group remained, or 'became' would be a more accurate word, silent, as if they were communicating telepathically.

This silent group, if you didn't know them you wouldn't think it, but was made up of the loudest bunch in Fairy Tail. Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Juvia, Erza, Gajeel, and Wendy were the people that formed the group. Although they were not using telepathy, you could probably guess they all thought about the same thing, 'isn't this scent/power familiar?' Well, everyone except Lucy.

Lucy was the first to speak up. "Is it an enemy?" She already knew the answer, considering Natsu and Gajeel were still sitting down and not ready to fight. She decided to ask anyway just to get a few possibilities out of the way.

"No, can't be, it's familiar." Gajeel answered as if it the possibility crossed his mind a thousand times, although it probably had.

"Maybe it's an enemy you fought before." Lucy wouldn't let it go until there was an acceptable answer that wasn't, because it isn't.

"It's hard to explain, but..." Getting lost in thought for a little bit he stopped speaking, leaving Lucy in suspense. "It's warm." Sounding pleased with his own answer Natsu left it at that.

"That doesn't make sense." Lucy was going to speak up again but Juvia interupted.

"Juvia thinks Natsu is correct." Lucy got her hopes up that Juvia would help her understand. "It feels warm, like Gray-sama." Juvia threw herself on Gray and they almost fell on the floor.

"Knock it off!" Gray didn't sound too annoyed, he probably knew she would do that. They were sitting up now but Juvia was still hugging Gray.

Lucy understood it a little more, but not much. She understood enough to stop asking if it was an enemy.

"So if it isn't an enemy, is it someone we all know?" If it was familiar to most of them these sounded like the only two options.

"You can't explain it, you just have to understand it." Gajeel was trying to make sense, it clearly didn't work.

"Am I the only one here who doesn't understand?" Lucy had a hunch, and when she got nods from everyone at the table, her hunch was proven right. She was the only one who didn't understand. She could feel the magic of course, but it was all new to her.

For everyone it was a mystery as to who could possess this much magic power and why they were coming towards the guild. Well to be more precise, it was only a mystery to everyone in Fairy Tail if you don't count Lucy. One of the reasons Lucy couldn't understand why her friends said the magic felt warm and familiar, was because she didn't feel one single magic power, she was feeling multiple different magic powers. Why was she different from the others?