Author's note:

I don't own Fairy Tail or its original characters Hiro Mashima does.

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Play of Disaster part 1:

"Ugg…" Lucy groaned as she slammed her head against the bar counter. "What's wrong Lucy you look a bit down in the dumps there." Mira says leaning against the counter.

"It's that job we took in Luminous, it was nuts. Natsu kept spitting fire everywhere, Grey froze the stuff he missed and Erza…" Lucy then grabs her hair, lifting her head in frustration and shouts, "OHH don't even get me started on her!"

"I could've warned you this would happen." Mira says with a smile. "Why didn't you then?" Alec asks sitting at the other end of the bar, "Be quiet you." Mira then throws a towel at Alec to shut him up. "We were a bigger menace to that town than that Cult ever was and now we're paying for it out of our reward." Lucy somberly says, as she places her head back on the counter. "If this keeps up I won't be able to cover my rent!" Lucy cries out picking her head up to look at Mira.

"Well it just so happen to have a special job I can throw your way." Mira say enthusiastically. "You don't mean 'That' job do you Mira?" Alec questions narrowing his eyes. "Of course I do, it should be easy since it's impossible for them to destroy anything." Mira states. "Ptff you know they will find a way whether intentionally or unintentionally I don't think you should give it to them."

"Oh come on Alec, have a little faith in them." Mira says to the dragon. "If you do as much paperwork as I do you'd say otherwise. Besides I told Makarov I won't help him with the paperwork this month so he has to figure it out on his own. After all, he should be doing it on his own anyway." Alec states.

"Umm, what's this job Alec doesn't want us to go on? Is it dangerous?" Lucy questions. "No not in the slightest Lucy, here let me get you the flier." Mira reaches underneath the bar counter and grabs a parchment and hands it over.

"Oh wow all we have to do is use our magic to draw a crowd to a theater that's going out of business. That seems simple, but why don't you want us to go Alec?" Lucy asks. "Well, you'll see when you get there." Alec says.

"I have an amazing idea, why don't you go with them Alec that way you can make sure nothing bad happens since you're so worried." Mira suggests. "I'm sorry what?" Alec says with widened eyes. "I'm sorry Mira but I don't babysit." Alec states holding his hand up.

"If you do I'll personally find the last ingredient you need to make that potion for you to get drunk." Mira says devilishly, Alec flinches as he then stands up with a wide grin. "Mira get started on finding that last ingredient I'm going with them!"

…

Alec and Team Natsu get off the train in Onibus station both Alec and Natsu are lying on the walkway as Erza is pulling her mountain of luggage on a wooden cart. With Lucy pulling her pink suitcase and Grey with his hands behind his head following right behind the two.

"Wow Onibus, we haven't been here since that Lullaby incident." Lucy states. "Hey Natsu, Alec, we're here!" Happy says flying over the two. "Don't make me move…" Natsu groans. "No… speak… too… sick…" Alec barely says without throwing up.

Natsu then gets to his feet and slowly walks behind the group to catch up. Happy grabs Alec and drags him across the ground, unable to lift him until Erza stops and throws him on top of her pile of luggage. "Thank you." Happy says to the armored mage Erza nods in acknowledgment. "So let me get this straight, our job is to safely use our magic to draw a crowd for an old run down theater?" Grey questions. "Yup Natsu will impress the crowd with his fire breathing, you'll make amazing ice sculptures, Erza will Requip into different armor, I'll have Lyra play a song that will melt their hearts so people will come from miles around, and Alec will make sure everyone is safe should anything go wrong." Lucy explains. "If I ever finish my novel this would make a great play. This is my chance to learn about the stage!" Lucy says enthusiastically.

"Whoa!" They all say in awe, Alec then sits up from up top the mountain of luggage and now notices he's not in the station anymore. "Umm how'd we get here?" He says scratching his head. Alec then sees the giant theater in front of him, "Huh, well that's new." He exclaims.

"It's pretty classy, isn't it." Happy states. "Let's go!" Lucy says in excitement. A man with a big long head with purple hair and a mustache, wearing an orange coat pops out from around the doorway and says, "Excuse me, I don't suppose you're the wizards from Fairy Tail are you?"

"Yup." Lucy says, nodding her head with a smile. "Oh thank you for accepting the job. I can't tell you how grateful I am." The man says. "Well, we'll make sure you have a packed house." Lucy states with confidence. "Actually, about that, unfortunately I'm in a bit of a pickle right now." The man says.

"You don't look like you're in a pickle, you look like a normal clothed person to me." Alec says in confusion. "It's a figure of speech Alec. It means he's in a tough position right now." Erza states, she then looks at the dragon and says, "Now that you're feeling better how about you come down here now."

"But I don't wanna." Alec pouts. "Don't act like a child Alec, we all know you're not." Erza says with a sigh. Alec hops off the mountain of luggage and sits on the ground pouting. Alec then looks to the man in the doorway and says, "Well, what's this pickle you're in?"

…

"What, All your actors just walked out on you?!" Lucy says in shock as herself, Natsu, Grey and Alec sit on the floor in the dressing room with Erza sitting on a nearby chair.

"Yes. Thank you so very much!" The man says, "Thanks for what?" Happy questions. "My last few shows have been complete and utter failures. The reviews have gotten so bad, the actors are embarrassed to perform in another one of my productions. So they left just like my wife, but I won't give up my dreams. The theater is in my blood, but this was my last chance to shine! Now I can never redeem myself!" The man explains.

"Man, I thought actors were the dramatic ones." Grey commented. " I had no choice. The performance has been canceled. Thank you so very much!" The man says with tears in his eyes. "You know what they say, The Show Must Go On!" Erza calmly says, everyone trains to look at her.

"Have no fear! We shall perform in your play!" Erza declares with twinkling eyes and excitement in her voice. Everyone gasps then Grey says, "Hey is she glowing?"

"Ah— A— EE— Ewe— A— Ooh— Ah— ooh— kah— Kay— Kee— Ku." Erza continues to say it over and over. "That's some warm up you got there." Happy comments, "I'll say…" Alec says in agreement.

"Now that I think about it, this sounds like it could be a lot of fun!" Lucy says enthusiastically. "Ya wanna do it." Natsu blandly asks Happy, "Aye!", "Well that settles it then, we're not gonna let your dream die, sir!" Grey says, looking at the man. "Really? Well, I guess I've got nothing to lose." The man says, he then looks away and says in a whisper, "Ugh. What amateurs…", "So this is when you should be thanking us." Grey says as the group on the floor clearly heard that last part.

"I never agreed to help you with this. So you're on your own with this play, I'm not going to participate." Alec says crossing his arms. "Come on Alec, it'll be fun. Besides if you don't I'll tell Mira you just followed us to the train station and left the moment we got on." Lucy threatens. Alec's arms and the sides of his face begin to be covered in white scales almost like a tattoo. Alec's pupils turn to slits as his eyes are filled with nothing but cold emptiness. "You challenging me, brat. Because I'll take you out before you speak to her." Alec growls, Natsu gets in front of Lucy but it's clear he's struggling to stay on his feet because Natsu's legs begin shaking.

"No! I'm sorry you can do what you want!" Lucy shouts, Alec takes a deep breath and his scales disappear along with his eyes turning back to normal. Alec then walks out of the dressing room and outside.

"That was scary." Lucy says, "You're lucky Luce, Alec doesn't do well with threats, even if it's just teasing." Happy states. "Yeah, the only reason Mira gets away with it is because she knows how to make Alec's potion into an alcoholic drink. So he just tolerates it but even Mira doesn't push her luck with it." Erza adds.

"Then why does Alec drink when he can't get drunk." Lucy questions. Grey and Erza shrug, "It helps him forget…" Natsu mutters with a dark expression. "What do you mean?" Erza asks.

"It's something both dragons and dragon slayer's have in common and if they loose them they…" Natsu begins to hug himself as he shudders. "Natsu?" Grey looks at the dragon slayer in concern.

"I don't want to talk about it okay. Just know Alec is lucky to be in the state he is now. I'm going to get some air please don't follow me or bring the topic up to Alec, it's something nobody not even us humans would want to remember." Natsu then leaves the room.

…

"Stupid Lucy, Stupid play, Stupid Fairy Tail, everything is just stupid." Alec rants as he kicks a can into a wall creating a small indent. Alec sighs as he snaps his fingers and says 'Creation Magic: Repair' and the indent vanishes and the wall restores back to what it was before.

Alec takes a look of his surroundings and finds that he's lost. "Dammit, now what am I gonna do." He then hears the sound of children laughing and he turns to see three kids playing tag. One of the kids falls down and begins to cry, all the adults around are just passing by the child not stopping to check on them. "Why aren't the human's checking on the smaller one?" Alec makes his way over to the child and kneels down to eye level. "Hello there, My name is Alec and I'm from Fairy Tail. I heard you crying so I came to check on you. Are you Okay?" The child shakes his head, Alec looks down and sees that the kid has scraped his hands and knees.

"Looks like those scapes hurt, luckily I know a spell that can help clean those up. But it'll sting a little, are you prepared for that?" The kid nods their head and holds out their hands and knees so Alec can see. "Alright here we go 3, 2, 1, 'Creation Magic: Heal'." A gold light shimmers on the scrapes as they begin to heal and vanish from sight and the scrape appears on Alec's knee instead. "There you go, how do you feel?" Alec asks the child.

The kid stands up and opens and closes their hands. "Thank you sir!" The kid says, Alec smiles and the kid runs off into the distance. "Been awhile since I used that spell. I think the last time I used it was when Natsu and Grey beat each other black and blue seven years ago." Alec reminisces. He then looks up to the sky and sees that it's starting to get dark.

"I guess I should figure out how to get back now huh." Alec starts wandering around hoping to find the theater but with no luck. For the next hour he wander the town and right when he is about to give up he spots Natsu sitting on some steps.

"Natsu? Why are you out here and not at the theater?" Alec asks, walking towards the dragon slayer. "Oh, hey Al… I just needed some time by myself." Natsu replies. "I see." No words are spoken as Alec sits down next to Natsu making the situation awkward.

"So… I might have gone overboard with Lucy back there. Is she, you know… okay?" Alec asks, Natsu smirks "Yeah, she's fine. After you left I vaguely explained why you were like that. When they wanted a better explanation I left because the thought of me one day losing myself. Well, it terrifies me." Natsu says looking up at the night sky. "Natsu, it's true that dragon slayers take the traits of a dragon. However, losing your sense of self is the worst of your problems. I indeed lost myself when my mate died, but in the process I hurt a lot of people because of it. It's not a fun memory to look back on but I believe Amania would've wanted me to be who I currently am, a childish and stubborn dragon rather than a mad killer." Natsu looks at Alec and sees a subtle smile.

"You don't talk about your mate at all. So why are you suddenly talking about her now?" Natsu questions. "Who knows, but I do have a question for you though." Alec says.

"And what's that?" Natsu questions. "How do we get back to the theater?"

"Well, we follow our nose of course. Did you forget to follow your own scent back to the theater?" Natsu questions, "No, I just went in circles and its all jumbled up, now come on lets head back."