Author's note:
I don't own Fairy Tail or any of its original characters Hiro Mashima does.
Any feedback is appreciated.
I hope you all have a happy holidays and a happy new year anyway on with the the story.
Confrontation:
Alec, along with Team Natsu and the Strauss siblings return to the rest of their guild mates to find that at some point during the war against Phantom lord the guild hall had collapsed in on itself. Alec sighs at the sight in front of him. "I don't care who tells me, but I'm not fixing that with my magic. I'm too tired to be dealing with this right now." Alec thought.
Alec then catches a familiar scent on the breeze and smiles. "Even though the guild hall was destroyed, not everything was lost."
"What the hell does that mean Alec?" Grey asks, Alec turns to face everyone. "You sly kid, stop hiding from your children. They've been worried sick about you." Alec says, Makarov comes out from behind the corner with a smile.
"I still can't hide from you, can I Alec." Makarov says, the members of Fairy Tail turn and rush towards the guild master with tears of relief and joy in their eyes.
Makarov quickly moves out of the way of the rushing stampede and makes his way to the destroyed guild hall. "Well, it's a mess." He says with a sigh.
Lucy walks up to Makarov and says, "Master, I'm so sorry." Makarov turns around to face her. "Oh child, you've been through a lot lately but don't let it get you down." A voice interrupts and says, "Yeah let's see a smile Lucy." Lucy turns around quickly to find the source of the voice and says, "Levy!"
Lucy sees a patched up Levy, Jet and Droy with smiles on their faces with a beat up Reedus behind the trio. "Yup, we're back." Levy says winking at the blonde. "You're all right." Lucy says happily.
"We beat phantom so there's no reason for you to be sad." Levy adds. "Sure they might have destroyed our guildhall." Droy says. "But we're going to build it even bigger and better." Jet states, and Reedus nods in agreement.
"I'm sorry we had you so worried Lucy." Levy apologizes, Lucy claps her hands together in guilt and says, "No I'm the one who's sorry, it was all my fault."
"We heard about your secret, and there's not a single person in the guild who thinks you're to blame." Levy states.
"She's right, in fact, I owe you an apology." Reedus says scratching his head. "Lucy…" Lucy then turns her head to Makarov. "Though we might not be able to share happiness and sadness entirely, we do share them to some extent. That's what happens in a guild. One person's happiness becomes everyone's happiness, one person's anger becomes everyone's anger, one person's tears become everyone's tears. There's no reason for you to feel guilty so don't cry, you should already know how much everyone here cares about you." Makarov says, Lucy puts her head in her hands and begins to cry.
"Hold your head high, my dear, because you are a proud member of the Fairy Tail guild family." Makarov adds and Lucy holds her head high and her tears stream down her face falling to the ground before letting her emotions take over and begins balling her eyes out dropping to her knees.
"I'm glad everything worked out, but I am worried about the council. They'll be furious I'm sure. I hate to think about it, but I might be looking at prison time." Makarov thought to himself before crying himself. "Master what's wrong!" Erza shouts. "He's fine. He's probably contemplating what's gonna happen to him in the future. Let him be." Alec says as he walks away from the Fairy Tail guild members and into Magnolia Forest.
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Alec jumps down into a small ravine that he calls home deep in the forest. Despite Alec always sleeping at the guild once in a while he returns here for peace and quiet, or to just be alone. Alec lands and finds the entrance to his cave and he walks in. Inside there are bones of monsters, animals and a few humans scattered around along with mountains of Jems, gold, and money.
"It's high time I returned home it's been quite hectic the last few weeks. From the new girl joining, Some flute business that I needed to fill paperwork out for because of the damages, Deliora, Phantom Lord just now. I need a vacation from this, besides I don't want to be around when the Magic council comes to question everyone about what happened." Alec stretches then gets on all fours and transforms into his dragon form. "Oh yeah, now this feels a lot better."
Alec makes his way to the back of the cave before laying down and closing his eyes. Just as he was about to fall asleep Alec hears footsteps approaching. Alec gets to his feet ready to defend himself, but he catches a familiar scent. A human figure stops still hiding their identity in the shadows.
"Loki, what brings you here?" Alec says as he lays back down. Loki steps forward where Alec can see him, "Alec, I've come to ask you a question." Loki seriously states.
"Sure, go ahead." Loki takes a deep breath and asks, "How do you know the name Leo?" Alec sighs.
"Out of everything you could've asked me that's what it was. My gosh think you idiot, you were in my body for a little bit you had to have noticed something or are you too dense." Alec says, Loki ponders for a moment before saying, "You're a Watcher aren't you."
"Ding, ding, ding we have a winner. Now that you have your answer, can you go now? I don't want anyone to find this place. Actually, now that I think about it, how did you find me?" Alec looks at Loki with curiosity.
"I followed you after the battle." Loki answered, "Really, I must be losing my touch if I didn't hear or smell you following me. Then again you're a celestial spirit, so I'm not completely surprised."
"How… How are you still alive? The Spirit king was positive you all died in the war 400 years ago! So how are you alive?" Loki questions in frustration.
"You know Natsu's adoptive father." Alec says, "Yeah, Igneel right, Natsu always goes storming off at the slightest hint of where Igneel might be. But what does he have to do with anything?" Loki questions.
"400 years ago a Dragon slayer tried to kill me. I was badly wounded from a dragon slayer that tried to kill me and managed to kill my mother, however Igneel happened to be flying overhead when he saw the man kill her. So he surrounded the man with fire as a barrier and grabbed me, flying me to safety. Despite being a different species of dragon, Igneel brought me to a Sky dragon apparently she was a friend of his. The sky dragon healed me though it took time due to the extent of my injuries and they both helped me recover. I stayed with Igneel for about 5 months before I left him. I've been in his debt ever since, as for the Sky dragon I don't quite remember her name. But does that answer your question as to how I'm still alive." Alec asks.
Loki nods, "It does, it also explains why you've looked after Natsu all this time." Alec smiles. "Perhaps, but I'll let you decide on that. Anyway I have a question for you. Why aren't you in the celestial spirit world right now?"
"I committed a crime, therefore I have been banished from entering the celestial spirit world." Loki explains. "Are you talking about the Blue Pegasus chick that died on a job. What does that have to do with you?" Alec questions. "Everything Alec! If I wasn't so adamant in teaching her a lesson she… Karen would still be alive now." Tears form in Loki's eyes.
"Loki… no Leo, that wasn't your fault. I've heard what she did to her spirits and if you didn't do whatever it is you did, I can guarantee that she would still be harming the spirits she contracted with. You may not accept it but it's the truth, I've met her and she was quite the bitch." Alec states.
"Karen might have been terrible, but she wasn't so bad she deserved death." Loki retorts.
"Well in the end it's up to you how you feel about it. But at least let me do this for you, 'Creation Magic: Give'." Alec blows a golden mist at Loki, and Loki's body absorbs the golden mist. "What was that? I feel lighter, not as drained as before."
"My ancestors always said 'if you're ever lost, look to the stars for guidance.' I never understood it until 100 years ago. I learned every type of magic I could find at the time, I didn't know what was left for me to do. That night I looked to the stars and the sky shifted in a way I never thought was possible. The next thing I knew I saw a young girl with long blonde wavy hair standing next to me along with two other people standing infront of a wooden building that I couldn't quite make out. I didn't quite understand it at the time until I met Mavis a couple days later then everything made sense. She asked if I'd let her build the guild in Magnolia, apparently the residents at the time didn't want to make the decision and sent her to me instead. She even asked if I'd be a founder so I could watch over the guild when they were all gone. It was interesting that a human asked me, a dragon, to partake in something so human. So I decided that I would entertain her idea, I never thought I'd actually enjoy the guild. That's why I think that the stars guide us to our next destination in life at least that's how I see it. So after the guild was built I decided that I'd create a new magic. One being able to give magic power to your allies regardless of what they are." Alec explains, Loki is sitting on the ground nodding off to sleep.
"This is what I get for telling someone a little about my past, how pathetic." Alec places his claw on the ground by Loki and says, 'Creation Magic: Teleport'.
Loki then vanishes out of the cave and Alec then begins to get comfy once more and falls asleep.