Reclaiming a Lost Friend

Chapter 2: Fairy Tail x791

Michael: Sorry for the absence from this, but now I'm back for Reclaiming a Lost Friend. We start this story proper and when I mean proper we start with episode 123, Fairy Tail x791. I'm not sure any story that completed the X791 arc is detail without rushing or dragging, or make it feel really sexual… Yeah, none right?

So I've decided on the three OCs for this story: Chisame Corona and Setsuko Koori (Mine and AshK's OCs). Since it's only three this time, I won't have to worry about juggling a lot for screen time.

Also, with the anime returning in April 5th this year (my birthday month), I'll use both the anime and manga chapters.

I'll do my best to cover/flesh out this episode and episode 124, Seven Lost Years. Wish me luck.

(Cue Kingdom of Fiore-Fairy Tail original soundtrack one)

The Port town of Hargeon, normally a quiet and peaceful place where ships and business flourish. Seagulls would fly above the partly clear skies into the bright sun and endless blue seas and people who enjoy themselves. Seven years ago, this port town had its fair share of events, most which shook up the town. Seven years ago, a man known as Bora the Prominence was pretending to be the well-known Salamander of Fairy Tail and using Charm magic, an illegal and banned type of magic to make girls in the town fall in love with him and turn them to merchandise for trades. But the true Salamander, a boy named Natsu Dragneel was the one who revealed the fake Salamander and defeated him (but doing so, he destroyed part of the town in process of his fight). This story was the talk of the town, many eye witnesses also saw a blonde haired girl wearing a red party dress accompany him along with a blue flying cat. They were running from the Magic Council's Rune Knights and escaped easily. As time went on, more of Hargeon were hearing tales of the three on mission or jobs they went on. Most in particular were the battle against Lullaby and Eisenwald, the battles on Galuna Island, the guild war with Phantom lord, The Tower of Heaven, The Fantasia parade, the battle against the dark guild Oración Seis and destroyed Nirvana with the help of three other guilds, and rumors that the town of Magnolia was swallowed by a strange magic then returned like nothing happened. The last time people heard from the three was them leaving on a boat to a special island only for the guild to take an S-Class exam. But after December 15th, there was no word from the three who made article after article of their adventures, the peaceful port town had nothing to talk about.

Seven years have went and gone, but yet… one lone boy stood near the edge of pier's ledge, staring out into the horizon and endless sea, hoping to see 'them' again…

The boy stood there with eyes fixated on the sea, the helm of his clothes and hair blowing in the light breeze not realizing someone was speaking to him.

"How long are you going to stare at the sea?" a young woman asked the young boy standing from him. She had long green hair that reached her lower back with her bangs framing her face. Her eyes were a brownish purple color, and wore red lipstick on her lips. She clothes resembled that of a cowgirl in the old west, most of her wardrobe showing her slim body. She wore a revealing bikini top covered in dark stripes below an open, dark buttoned vest. A similarly colored skirt adorned by a series of light strips hanging down from it in the middle part covers her lower body, whilst a pair of high-heeled cowgirl boots decorated by matching strips were on her feet. Also presented is a set of armbands circling her biceps, paired by darker, simple long bands around her wrists. On her head was a dark colored cowgirl hat with a lowered brim, adorned by a lighter-colored band covered in large studs.

"Our job is finished, so let's head back to the guild." said a young to young boy who stood alongside the green hared woman and close to her height with an average figure. He had short, spiky, black hair and matching black eyes with a pair of earrings composed of small tassels hanging from both of his ears. His clothes was a light colored poncho, adorned by large dark stripes near its collar and lower edges. Under the poncho he wore a dark vest over his shirt, and a belt holding up his pants to a new one, whose buckle is adorned by an incision reminiscent of a small, stylized sun.

The boy didn't respond or look at the pair, his black eyes showing so much sadness and coldness in his face while he frowned. From behind him, the green haired woman placed a hand to her hip, while the black haired man remain still his arms to his sides.

"Yeesh," she said in regards to boy's lack of a reply.

"If you don't come back to the guild, your dad will be worried." The black haired man assured the young boy with a smile on his face. This was Fairy Tail's Alzack Connell, and beside him was his partner and wife, Bisca Connell. Two members of Fairy Tail who stayed behind after many of their core members left for Tenrou Island and never came back. Seven years had changed them, not just by appearance, but in their lives since their friends vanished.

"Macao asked us to take care of you, Romeo." Bisca reminded the young lad named Romeo.

"Yeah…" Romeo said finally replying sadly to the pair. Romeo Conbolt, son of Macao Conbolt, one of Fairy Tail's mages and now a Fairy Tail mage himself. A once cheerful and upbeat kid who looked up to Natsu and most of the Fairy Tail, now stands much older but a sad look had washed up the cheery lad he once was.

"Romeo, I know how you feel, but…" Bisca spoke up again hand still to her hip but step a little to the boy, but Alzack interrupted her with, "Bisca…" allowing the green haired mage to look at him. Alzack shook his head to his wife, not wanting her to pry on Romeo any farther than usually they spoke to him. Romeo didn't want to be bother, Alzack knows this. He knows Romeo feels sad, they feel sad too. But to pry more, to pester him further would only make it worse for him.

Romeo straighten his head down from looking at the ocean and now to the clear sky, his fist clenched tight to his sides with serious but sad frown on his face.

"Natsu-nii…"

Magnolia is another well-known place when many events happened, and seven years ago, many eventful times happened for the town and its residential mage guild, Fairy Tail. It hasn't changed one bit in the seven years, and is thriving as ever. But now, those eventual days had slowed down as the seven years went by and things had changed. One thing in particular is that the remaining members of Fairy Tail weren't in the guild in town anymore. In the outskirts quiet hillside of the town, a young woman was placing wet laundry on a clothesline in a different location. She had long purple hair and green eyes, her face an oval like shape. She was tall noticeably, and had a large bust for someone still young. She wore a lime green-colored blouse with a green neckline and trim, which is complimented by a long, white skirt. The top of her blouse exposed her breasts and on her feet were green boots. She was smiling while placing the clothes on the clothesline, taking her hand to her forehead to wipe off the sweat. She look behind a linen sheet to see someone jump from top of a fence. She continued to smile at the unknown figure but greeted the person with a light wave.

"Good to see you back, Chisame."

The person (who went by the name Chisame) walked up to the purple haired girl with a smile. The person was a girl around seventeen years old with purple hair that was cut low to her back and matching purple eyes. She wore a purple low-cut dress that goes up to her knees and wearing purple high-heeled shin-length Boots on her feet. On her left shoulder was the Fairy Tail guild crest and colored purple like her dress, hair, and boots. Despite her dress hiding it, she had a voluptuous figure. She spoke up to the other purple haired woman, her voice seeming very calm and smooth.

"Hello Kinnana." She said with a smile on her face, not noticing someone land on top of her head smiling too. It was a dark purple cat with light purple fur in its ear that wore a sunshine yellow backless sundress that bore her guild mark (a white crest) on the back.

"We're back from our mission!" the cat said cheerfully with a feminine voice.

Kinnana giggled, seeing the small cat sit happily on Chisame's head, taking her hand and patting the small cat on the head, "Good to see you too, Roxie."

"Has Romeo, Alzack, Setsuko, Shiro, and Bisca returned from their jobs yet?" Chisame asked.

"Romeo, Alzack, and Bisca?" Kinnana repeated, placing a finger to her chin, "They haven't returned yet. Setsuko and Shiro either. You should go and see the see the master firsthand before going to look for them, he would want to know you completed you request."

"Okay." Chisame nodded and took Roxie from her head and walk to the Guild. The guild was a small tavern with one floor, with its walls being mainly composed of bricks, bearing visible cracks here and there and having some of its parts covered by vine, while some wood beams enforce the structure in its upper part. In front of the building's wooden doors is a large archway composed of massive beams; half way up its length is a pyramidal sign with Fairy Tail's name on it, with very long edges going past the beams holding it up, topped and paired with a large Fairy Tail symbol. The building's roof is pitched, and from its front, central part sprouts a small tower, yet again bearing a dark banner with the guild's symbol on it, just below a small, tiled roof flanked by a pair of windows. At each of such windows' outer side is a banner, attached to a pole horizontally sprouting from the building. In its upper part, the tower takes on the shape of a windmill with tattered and torn sails. The building's wooden, double door is flanked by a pair of large, pentagon-shaped windows, with the frame of each one protruding on it and taking on a stylized heart shape; something which is highly reminiscent of the guild's first headquarters.

'I've been here for almost seven years, despite its size its home to me.' She thought to herself before opening the doors to the guild and entering inside. The inside of the guild building highly resembles a small restaurant or pub, mainly constructed of wood. The room possesses a stone floor, and several small, round tables are scattered across it, paired with some chairs. In the right side of the room is a bar counter, complete with a sink and several bottles, which has a wooden platform in front of it, with some more tables and chairs sitting on it, plus some round bar stools by the counter. Behind it is a staircase, with its landing sitting on the only structure of bricks in the inner part of the building, a massive, rectangular column. Leaning against the walls are some bookshelves packed full of books, and at the entrance's sides are a pair of plants kept in jars. Some lamps are attached to the pillars adjacent to the walls; one of such walls is covered in a variety of frames, of different size and shape, seemingly housing pictures.

Chisame and Roxie look to see the master of the guild, slamming a mug of beer to the table and speaking to someone. Roxie noticed he wasn't in a good mood, "Romeo isn't home yet?! I bet Al and Bisca ditched him and went off to snuggle!"

"Ah, pipe down. You're too old for these outbursts, so take it easy, Macao." Spoke the male occupant sitting by the master. The Master (known by the other man as Macao) got into the other man's face, both looking at each other with dark looks on their faces. Chisame and Roxie looked nervously at them, it was one of 'those' days with them.

The two were Macao Conbolt and Wakaba Mine, two veteran Fairy Tail members before the core members' disappearance. Both were not very young (Macao showing sharper facial features, among which include excess wrinkles, a receding hairline of dark blue hair, and an extremely prominent mustache the same color but his black eyes remained the same). Wakaba, (like Macao, has a receding hairline of brown with a straighter-looking hair style; this being slicked upwards in a spiked shape. He also has wrinkles on his face, and has a thick, pointed beard on his chin). Macao wore a long, light-colored jacket with darker edges, sporting a large and high collar and dark cuffs reaching down to his wrists, which is now paired by a light vest under it, held closed by three round buttons, worn over a simple dark shirt. Macao's pants were dark and plain, however, his shoes were intricately designed, with the pair in particular being designed with clashing light and dark designs. Wakaba wore a light-colored jacket with dark fur trimmings on its edges and dark cuffs. He wore the jacket over a simple shirt, with another black undershirt visible from its open collar. He had light pants matching his jacket, with large hemlines and a thin line going down each leg's side, combined with simple dark shoes.

"I told you to call me master, Wakaba!" Macao exclaimed at the cigar smoking mage with eyes so darkly at him.

"I've never seen a master with less dignity than you!" Wakaba spat at the dark blue haired mage his eyes showing anger as Macao, "4th Guild Master, my ass!"

"They're really at it again?" Roxie asked, her and Chisame looking to one of their members who rub the back of his head with a frown on his face. He had dark brown hair that was long to his chin with several chin hair growing there. He wore a plain, brown vest adorned with a dark pattern (composed of countless minuscule circles or squares) over his shirt, which is black in color, and wore a pair of light brown pants, held up by a bright brown belt with a simple metal buckle, with each leg being seemingly adorned by a line of studs.

"Yes…" he said dryly as Macao said to Wakaba from behind them, "You do realize you're supposed to be the master's advisor?!"

"At any rate…" the male mage said looking at how quiet and almost empty the guild was with one of their members dancing about and another sitting near a table far to the door. The one dancing about had brown hair and black eyes and wore a an orange toga-like cloth, draped over his right shoulder and tied around his waist by a light sash with a knot on the left, with a dark, short-sleeved shirt under it. He donned dark pants reaching down below his knees, with light strips hanging from its hemlines over his bare calves, and his feet are covered by simple sandals. He has round, metal bracelets around each wrist, and a necklace composed of large beads around his neck. Cover his brown hair is a round headgear, seemingly consisting of a dark cap, with its peak emerging from the gray bands adorned by blue, diamond-shaped motifs wrapped around its top, and sporting six large fang-like ornaments hanging from it, three on each side of his head. The one sitting down at the table had orange hair tied in the back with a short, spiky ponytail by a dark band. He wore a high-collared dark shirt, with light edges and sleeves reaching down below his elbows, adorned by a motif reminiscent of a wing and two resembling large leafs, respectively on the right part of the collar and on the upper parts of the sleeves, under a cuirass-like cloth covering the lower part of his chest, held up by two light bands passing over his shoulders. "Apart from you and Setsu, have we been losing members again?"

"I don't remember the last few members that left, Max. It's been what a few months since the last batch left?" Chisame asked staring at the empty like guild.

"It can't be helped Max, Chisame." spoke another mage to the three. He had black hair that partially cover his forehead, being styled in a single prominent spike on top of his head. He wore a long, double-breasted sleeveless green tunic held closed on the chest by four buttons, with pale green sleeves emerging from under it, tucked inside long, similarly-colored gloves, and a light green sash circling his waist. He also wore light-colored pants, similarly tucked inside simple boots. "They don't give jobs to minor guilds like us. At least you and Setsu have been doing your share as best you could."

"Warren, just look at how few jobs there are." spoke a tan skinned and black haired mage from behind the one named Warren gesturing his hand to the request board. His hair was long to his neck and a thin beard around his mouth. His stomach was exposed, revealing he was a heavy looking man, wearing clothes resembling Native Americans, its most prominent feature being a light red cape tied in a knot on the front. He wore a dark loincloth with a lighter part hanging over it and a belt divided in round squares around the waist. His forearms and calves were wrapped up in bandages, and has a large, roundish red feather to the right side of the band circling his head. Lastly was the necklace of skulls around his neck.

"It has nothing to do with you. At least Setsuko and Chisame are the ones trying to work hard." Warren retorted to the mage, looking at him with a raised eyebrow and arms folded. "You haven't been out on a job in seven years, Nab!"

Nab looked stunned at those (while true), but didn't responded. Chisame had to agree with Warren, Nab hasn't worked as long as she knew him. What does he do here anyway she never understood.

"Look at this!" exclaimed the dancing mage by the door, his arms raised up and dancing getting everyone's attention (Max not even looking at him to respond while his face was darken with a glare, "Vijeeter Ecor has completed his new dance! I call it the puny dance!"

"It disgust me, so get him out of here." Max said darkly.

"I don't even want to know what's the 'puny' of the dance." Chisame chimed in nervously not looking at Vijeeter either.

"Kinana-chan, bring me another of these!" spoke a hefty sounding mage, speaking to Kinana, who had finished outside and was carrying a tray when looking to him with a kind smile while we waved a drumstick.

"Sure!" she replied to the mage.

"Hey Droy, are you putting more stress on the ground these days?" a female violet haired female mage asked to the one named Droy. Her hair was kept up in wavy ponytail with the bangs framing her face and going down to her shoulders being undulated, and with a triangular tuft covering her forehead. She wears a light-colored mantle, held closed on the front by a ring, over a strapless, dark dress, with a revealing neckline and a series of light-colored squares adorning its lower part, which has a light belt circling it around her waist, with three bullet-like objects attached to it on the left side, and dark boots.

"You trying to say I got fatter, wench?!" the hefty mage named Droy said eyes glaring at the woman. He had black hair and black eyes, his face showing his heftiness with less-defined features and a larger nose as a result, as well as a prominent double chin. His hairstyle was simple, with the cuts on the sides having disappeared, and the tuft on top of his head having gotten shorter. His bodily proportions was off by his fattening, with his limbs looking smaller than most of his body. He wore a light, short-sleeved jacket over a dark shirt with rolled-up light sleeves, which seems to have a dark-collared light undershirt or A-shirt below it, pants covered in light and dark rhombs, and dark shoes.

"Don't take it out on Laki. And don't you have any self-awareness?" the orange haired mage said sitting beside Droy with his arms folded. The orange haired mage look to another mage with the corner of his eyes sitting in front a canvas with a paint brush in his hands and a smile on his face. The mage had orange hair that was curled in the back with black eyes that was covered with glasses like goggles. His clothes resembled that of a French artist, consisting of a dark vest over a light shirt with rolled-up sleeves, dark pants and striped shoes with plain tips. Around his neck is a large, and light-colored ribbon, he wears a dark top hat with a light band around it. "Look at Reedus! See how slim he's gotten?!"

"Oui. This is my true form." Reedus said in response to the orange haired mage.

"I've been in training!" Droy retorted to the orange haired mage, "Can't you tell from these muscles?!"

"And see how ladylike Kinana has become!" the orange haired mage added, looking to the purple haired woman who was cleaning dishes, "compare to her and even Chismae-chan, you're…" but was interjected by Droy who retorted again with, "Shut up! I'm trying to increase my magic power by eating!

"Both of you, cut it out!" Kinana said annoyed at the two bickering mages and sighed.

"She's right you know, cut it out for once." Roxie said annoyed too flying from Chisame and Max to their table, "It's always an argument when Droy's weight is brought up. Jet, at least be a little subtle about it."

Jet groaned looking at the angry look his partner had as he still stood with drumsticks in hand and said with a sigh, "Jeez. What would Levy say if she could see you know?"

"Levy's not coming home!" Droy retorted to Jet, taking his seat again and yelling the words throughout the guild. A wave of silence hit the place like a wave of cold water. The guild was quiet after Droy's outburst of words, no one saying word. Chisame froze, hearing the name Levy and remembering, she wasn't coming home. Not just her, but the others, they wouldn't come home either. Her hand that clutched the Jewels pouch had loosen her grip and the bag fell to the ground, hitting the cold floor. Roxie look as frozen as her partner, her eyes as frozen and glossy as Chisame's. Droy gasped, realizing the words he had said, the silence in the guild the answer to his words. Jet and Laki gasped too, hearing Droy's words made their mouths slight agape. Vijeeter and Max were shocked and slightly gasped too, along with Warren and Nab who shocked by Droy's words too. Macao had his eyes closed and his head facing the ceiling but Wakaba had his head turned from the master, still smoking his cigar but taken aback from Droy's words as well. Reedus frowned but continued with his painting, nothing saying a word but taking brush to canvas. "Oui." he said frowning, going on with his painting.

"Well, well." A voice rang out throughout the silent guild as the guild doors opened, getting Reedus' attention to the doors. A group of mages were standing from the doorway, not looking very cheerful, but were smiling like they meant business. The one in the center of the five was a young man of average height with poofy dark hair. He had a prominent nose pointing downwards, with each of his nostrils going upwards in a curved motif, and pointed, mildly rectangular ears. He look to be quite muscular, with his forearms being large, and the right one bearing a dark tattoo of his guild's symbol.

He wore a light shirt with short, mildly puffy sleeves, which has some dark padding over the shoulders areas, seemingly held up by a pair of bands passing below each of his shoulders, and outlined by lighter edges extending to the shirt's thin, rectangular and elongated collar, which has a dark part to it. Around his waist is a light haramaki-like cloth covered in elongated dark spots, from which a buckled belt is seen emerging, passing over his right shoulder and seemingly holding up the large kanabō whose handle appears from behind his right shoulder. He also wore dark pants reaching down below his knees, paired with light buckled shoes, and has a light band circling his head, parting his curly hair, which sports a pair of short, round horns reminiscent of an oni's. The four others on his right and left all had the appearance of looking thug like and dangerous.

"As always, this place is dead from the afternoon on…" the center mage said with sly smile, "That's what I hate about pissant guilds!" and one of the men (a shorter one who stood in a slouch) laughed in the remark the middle mage made.

"There's no spirit here!" remarked a mage on the left with blonde hair and yellow shirt.

"Thibault…" Macao said as he, Wakaba, and Chisame walked up to the name named Thibault and his men. The purple haired girl kept her hands close to her sides as possible, knowing that if this group causes trouble, she wasn't going to let that happen, staying close to the master and Advisor. "I told you to stay away from here!"

"Hey, Hey… Is it really okay to be talking to me like that?" Thibault said with sinister smile on his face, "After all, we are the guild that represents Magnolia, Twilight Ogre."

"Don't remind me…" Chisame said as she stepped closer to them, but was stopped by Wakaba's arm, shield the girl to not try and fight. Chisame look into the eyes of the advisor, who shook his head to her, knowing what she was going to try. Macao growled by those words, even he know how Chismae was feeling right now.

"There was a time when Fairy Tail was the strongest, but who knows now..." Thibault continued with a smile and hands in his pockets, "Your era has come to an end."

Chisame growled again while still being shielded by Wakaba, Jet, Droy, Max, Laki, Warren, Nab, and Roxie stood amongst side them, outnumbering them while Kinana was still behind the bar. "Compare to that place built on a beat-up old tavern… And the mage guild of the new age, Twilight Ogre. It's obvious which one will beneficial to the advancement of Magnolia, right?" the raven haired member of Twilight Ogre asked.

"Acting all high and mighty just because they have a bigger guild…" Max spat, gritting his teeth in anger at Thibault.

"Yeah, we have spirit!" Warren retorted to his remark too.

"You can't survive off of spirit alone…" Thibault continued with his smirk.

"Why are you here, Thibault?" Macao asked the Twilight Ogre mage.

"This month's rent." he replied, making the blue haired mage gasped in shock, Chisame to look shock as well as Wakaba look to Macao in anger and disbelief.

"You didn't pay them again, Macao?!" he yelled to him.

"I thought I told you to call me Master!" Macao retorted to the advisor, Chisame still behind Wakaba's arm.

"You're late on your payments." said the bald headed black bearded member of Twilight Ogre with a sneering voice while Kinana looked back still cleaning a bottle with a rag,

"We haven't gotten any work this month!" Macao yelled pointing to the semi-blank request board where only a few poster remained, Even with Setsuko and Chisame's help, We'll pay you next month, just please!" he pleased to the Twilight Ogre members.

"Come on now, when you were on the verge of collapse, who it was that came to the rescue of this run down guild?" asked the slouched short brown headed member of Twilight Ogre holding out his hand.

"We were the one who stepped in and loan you money, weren't we?!" exclaimed the taller Twilight Ogre mage, a main with a bald head and a pointed alfalfa and wore a blue coat like a cape with his arms folded.

"Why would you accept their help when you know they were this stupid?" Jet remarked, gritting his teeth at them. While Laki and Chisame nodded in agreement

"Did you say something, you bastard?!" yelled the blonde Twilight Ogre member to Jet's remark. Jet was ready to fight but Macao held him back, "Stop it, Jet!"

"But?!" the high speed mage retorted to the current master. Macao took his eyes off jet and Chisame, the two who were more eager to attack them here and now, and kept his gaze back to the five Twilight Ogre members. His eyes narrowed in anger, but his reply to them was much calmer, "Wait until next month… we'll pay you." He said to Thibault and the raven haired mage still grinned. With one swift kick, the kicked the purple fire mage squarely in the stomach, the current master crying out, "Gah!" as he was kick and his members watched in complete shock.

"Macao!" screamed Wakaba seeing his close friend be kicked and sent flying.

"Master!" screamed Laki and Chisame.

Macao crashed head first into the bar, causing several of the bootless to be knocked off the shelves and fall. Roxie, despite her size, cried out, "Master Macao!" and ran to see if he was alright.

"All across the room!" the slouched and bald headed Twilight Ogre member jeered pointing to the direction of Macao and Roxie, smiling.

"He did a first-rate job of flying backwards!" laughed Thibault looking to one of his men as the taller member with the blue coat like cape laughed too.

"Bastards!" spat Droy in anger, not liking how Thibault treated their master like that, no matter how their guild was or not. Everyone including Chisame were separate from one another ready to fight with the five Twilight Ogre members, wanting to defend their master. The Twilight Ogre members all were geared up to fight as well, gripping weapons they carried with him.

"You want a go at us?" Thibault asked, seeing the remaining Fairy Tail members wanting to fight them despite knowing they were more of them than they were.

"Don't do anything!" cried Macao from the ground where he felt, Kinana and Roxie trying to help him up. The guild members all look to Macao, a slight gasp escape their breath. A dead silent echoed the guild as the members looked back to the Twilight Ogre members, wanting so hard to defend the honor of the master, but he had order them not to try to fight. Even Chisame, who clutched her hands tightly together, wanting to fight, the blood of her magic boiling within her. Their teeth were just as bared as the purple haired young girl, but it was a direct order, they couldn't refuse it, even to scum like Twilight Ogre. Wakaba finally spoke up, leaning forward to the men, Laki, and Chisame.

"You heard the man, suck it up." He told them. Jet and Chisame growled in anger, their eyes narrowed. Suddenly, the members of Twilight Ogre began to start trashing their guild while they all watch helpless to stop them. Tables knocked around, floor boards smashed with their weapons, everything a complete wreak as they watched, their anger building. One of them laughed as the others remarked in mock hilarity, "How pathetic!" "This is the legendary Fairy Tai?!" "Pitiful!" as even Thibault laughed as he allowed his men to trash the Guild. The blonde Twilight Ogre member slung his arm on a disgusted and nervous Laki as he asked, "Wan to come back to my place?"

"You bastard!" exclaimed Chisame, leaped foreword to punch the man who was harassing her friend, "Leave her alone!"

But the blonde haired member of Twilight Ogre swayed her aside as she crashed with cry of pain to the wall as Roxie cried out to her. Everyone still watched their guild be trash and two of their own were in pain. One of the Twilight Ogre member chugging the beer as Nab and Warren with teas falling from their eyes as they there was nothing they could do.

Thibault spoke again to Macao, still smiling to the current master, "Don't forget, it's next month."

Macao rose up from his back with one hand to his month, his right eyes closed as he cringed in pain and in anger. One by one, the Twilight Ogres members all left, leaving the Fairy Tail members in the wreckage of their guild. It was a quiet few minutes since the members of Twilight Ogre had reached the guild, no one choosing to even more. Just then, someone came bursting into the guild in a panic state, breathing heavily as someone or two someone's were standing by the doorway. The first was a young woman of average height with like most girls, a petite body. She had light blue hair that reaches the base of her neck with strains of her hair covering her right eyebrow. Her clothes were a mixture of traditional Japanese clothes and Earthland clothes. On the outside, she wears a light blue and white kimono that reaches her calves decorated with ice crystals on the hem and ends of her short sleeves with a white sash that splits the outfit in the middle. Her footwear consisted of brown low heeled sandals and white socks as well. Underneath the kimono is a light blue top slightly viable by the kimono and a matching skirt of the same color as well. She wore ice shaped earrings in both her ears and one ring on her right index finger. On her right hip is a silver blade katana in a black sheath. Beside her was light blue and white Exceed wearing a snow white colored dress and a little blue bow in front of her left ear.

"Shiro and I…" the girl panted heavily, "Saw Twilight Ogre coming here. We duck out of sight before they saw us. Don't tell me they…?" but the light blue haired girl gasped and clapped her hands together in front of her mouth at the horrible sight she saw. The Fairy Tail guild trashed, Chisame and Macao on the ground, her fellow comrades all were distrusted. The light blue haired girl collapse to the ground and slammed her fist to the ground in anger.

"Damn it, if I could have stop them, maybe I could I have… I could…." She stammered, tears straining her face as she was about to cry. Shiro the light blue and white Exceed only put a solemn hand to her partner's leg, knowing how she felt.

"Setsuko… I know, I know you wanted to stop them, but there was nothing we could do…" Shiro said her voice cracking. The guild members all look to the light blue haired girl, all could feel how she felt right now, feeling helpless and weak, Reedus, who sat legs crossed together on the ground only uttered a simple, "Oui." From behind him and most of the guild, a Sketch book fell to the ground getting their attention, revealing hand drawn pictures of the former Master, Makarov, Natsu, Mirajane, and several of the others members who were lost seven years ago. Reedus gasped, so did the others, seeing the pictures of the fallen and departed friends.

(Cue Fairy Tail Main theme-Piano Version-Fairy Tail Soundtrack volume two)

There was pictures of Team Natsu all huddled together near a table. Lucy was reading a book, Natsu was looming over her while Gray had a mug in front of him, and Erza stood behind the lot while Happy was flying beside his best buddy. And just behind a pillar was Juvia, watching from a distance of Gray and his friends. Another picture showed four more members of the guild: Wendy with her Exceed partner Carla and Gajeel with Panther Lily. Wendy had a shy look on her face while Carla did so as well, Gajeel only had a smile on his face and his arms folded, Panther Lily only by his shoulder. Another pictures on the right of it was a self-portrait of Gray, as always without his shirt. Jet and Droy's faces froze with shock when they saw another pictures, one of them with Levy in their younger days. It made them start to cry, the friend, the one girl they pine for, worked with, was now gone. They'll never see her again. Another pictures was the three Strauss Siblings: Lisanna (sitting with her legs crossed), Mirajane (who sat beside her), Elfman (who grinned with pride) and Cana (who drank from a bottle as usually). The Last pictures was that of the Thunder Legion: Freed, Evergreen, and Bicslow. Kinana was starting to crying, trying her best to hold back her tears, the dish in her hand and the bar rag as well. The last picture was everyone all together seven years, all smiles and having a good time. It was drawn sometime after Lisanna came back and before the S-Class Exams. The S-Class exams… If they know it was the last time they would speak to them, they would have said more than "Good luck, one of you come back a proud S-Class Mage." Laki started crying, her team dropping to the floor, tears staining her glasses as well. The Guild Advisor took a smoke of his cigar and started to speak, smoke exceeding from the tip.

"It's been seven years, hasn't it?" Wakaba asked to members of the guild.

"It has." Chisame replied, finally getting up to go and comfort her friend Setsuko. She place an arm around Setsuko as the blue haired mage was still crying for her failure. "We only joined a day before they departed to Tenrou Island. We didn't get to talk much from them, only saw them leave for training or have a quick drink before setting off. We were young, Setsu-chan and me, to them we were a new generation joining and when we would return." Her voice became hoarse, becoming hard for her to even speak, "One of them would be S-class." Chisame look to two more pictures, one man she didn't know, but the second she remembered as Gildarts Clive, the Ace of Fairy Tail. She started to cry too, now hugging Setsuko in her arms.

"That really takes me back, Seven years ago..." Max said holding back more tears.

"After that, nothing's changed at all/" Warren said trembling, more tears falling from his eyes.

Jet rose up, speaking aloud to the guild members. "When we heard Tenrou Island was destroyed, everyone searched with everything they had."

"But not a single one of them was found…" Veejeter said sadly, his head hung low.

"If the story from the Council is true, then it was Acnologia the eradicated the island." Nab said standing with Veejeter and Reedus.

"In reality, all different organizations worked together in the search… But known of their efforts resulted in anything." Reedus added sadly, his head hung low too. Jet sat back to the ground with his arms folded and head hung low.

"Yeah that day… There was a strange emptiness in the Eternano Waters that day..." he continued sadly, "Because it was on a level no human being could endure." Looking to a litter of old papers about seven years ago.

"That was the force of Acnologia's Roar!" spoke up Warren, holding a book on Dragon History in his hand, "Long ago, there was a dragon that by itself could wipe out a single country on its own! There no way no human alive…" he paused, his voice starting to shaking, "Could be able to take on that thing!"

"Why…" Droy said tearfully, "Why Levy, why our comrades?"

"Ever since the moment they disappeared... We turned into this weak pathetic guild." Max said, his bangs covering his eyes, "Even with two Dragon Slayers remaining, we weren't strong enough. They were too young, too inexperienced… Meanwhile, a new guild was built in Magnolia"

Wakaba took another puff of his cigar, speaking again in sadness, "Our time to close maybe coming soon…" but Laki's voice interjected with with a yell, "I don't wanna hear it!"

Wakaba looked alarmed at her voice, knowing she would never allow Fairy Tail to disband. He look from Laki and then to Macao, looking to him to see how sad he looked, his head still hung low like the rest. "What's wrong, Macao?" But Macao said nothing, not looking to his friend. He smiled to him, his cigar still in his mouth while he smiled. "You done well, Master." Finally choosing to call him by master now.

Macao slammed his left fist to the ground and placed his right hand over his eyes covering his tearful eyes. "Ever since that happened… Romeo hasn't smiled once since then…" as a frowning Romeo, Alzack, and Bisca were making their quiet return home. Everyone remain quiet except for the tearing two girls, no one wanted to say anything but remain there in their wreaked guild. Suddenly, coming caught their attention, something that sounded like it was coming from outside. It first caught Nab's attention, then the others, and lastly the girls and Exceeds. Shiro's ears perked up before everyone else could hear it. It felt like rumbling, like it was overheard or near them

"What's that sound…?" Droy asked, looking worried.

"Is Twilight Ogre coming back?" Jet asked in anger of dealing with them again.

Max, Veejeter, and Warren went outside first too see what the rumbling was. What they found made them gasp in shock.

"That's…!" gasped Max in shock.

"Ohh!?" gasped Warren is disbelief, looking up into the guild as its shadow covered even the sun. It look to be an aircraft like ship, the entire structure seemed to be held up by a number of dark sails, with some of them being found on the masts dominating the deck of the ship, and more at its sides and lower front part, with one even taking the place of the helm. Those on the masts are Plain Square, except for the ones on the back, which are arched and also adorned by a series of wavy, darker stripes; the ones on the hull, on the other hand, seem to be triangular and bent, being vaguely reminiscent of wings. Its hull, seemingly made of extremely long wooden planks, is now arched, and bears a series of round protrusions on its lower part. The hull's broadside is covered by a very large, dark stripe, bearing the writing "Blue Pegasus" in light characters; the ship's head is dark too, being adorned in its central part by a series of intricately decorated motifs, among which is visible a round figure flanked by two wings. Topping the head is a highly elaborated figurehead shaped like a rampant Pegasus, with its body appearing from the head itself, and thus its legs and back not being visible. When Max saw the name, he put two and two together, was this ship belonged to who he thought it was?

(Cue Alliance Force, Assemble! Fairy Tail Soundtrack Volume two)

"Blue Pegasus's… Christina Version 2.0?!" gasped Max seeing it over a part of the guild ground.

From above the Christina, a familiar old face sniffed his nose, smelling the air before speaking up. "What a sentimental partum." He said. He was short and rather stout man with a distinctively big, somewhat rectangular face, a large flat nose which always seems to be shining, and prominent cheekbones. He has dark eyes and eyebrows, with a pair of lines pointing towards his nose below them, plus some stubble around his mouth and a prominent chin. His orange hair is initially kept in a wavy style with many curved spikes jutting outwards, with one acting as a fringe on the left side of his face. His outfit consist of a white suit with elbow-long sleeves, with distinctive pants ending below his knees in dark hems, adorned by Blue Pegasus' symbol on its left shoulder, over an orange shirt covered in many dark leaf motifs, possessing sleeves reaching down below his elbows and closed around the neck by a red bow tie, and elegant light shoes paired with light socks. The left part of his chest was adorned by a large flower reminiscent of a rose, and a wide, dark belt is seen hanging over his right hip. Although is was visible above the nose of the ship, only his shadow could be seen from below with the Fairy Tail guild as everyone came running out to follow Reedus and the other men..

"A demon?!" gasped Laki and Chisame in fear.

"No!" replied Macao seriously standing with the two while Wakaba stood behind him. "What's he doing?!" he asked seeing the shadow of the man.

Finally, the short man from Blue Pegasus leaped from the nose of Christina with dramatic dive with his arms out like a T. the guild members gasped, "He jumped!" as they could finally identify who it was.

"Twinkling!" he exclaimed dramatically, now entering a nose dive to the ground. From their view, it felt like time moved slowly as he fell, now time resume to normal as he crashed head first into the ground with a cry of "Man!" shocking members and men of the guild as he broke up the ground where he fell. "He fell!" the men of Fairy Tail exclaimed in disbelief on their faces.

But the short man continued on like it was nothing, striking a pose and signaling his finger in front of his face, speaking like nothing was wrong. "Sorry you keep you waiting…" he said and faced the guild members with serious looking face and eyes. "Your Ichiya has arrived..." but his legs twitched in the air.

"What are you?" Macao asked seeing the familiar old face who once allied with Fairy Tail seven years ago.

"Ichiya-sama…" a young man's voice rang from above again, getting the attention of the guild again as they looked up seeing three more familiar faces, one center one speaking held his arms out. "I know how you fell, but maybe you should calm down a bit."

"After all, I use air magic." spoke the second male from the center one who spoke first with his hands to his pockets.

"Long time no see, everyone." Spoke the third to the left of the center male, his hands to his pockets as well.

The center male was is a slim young man of average height with spiky, somewhat messy brownish blond hair framing his face. He had dark eyes and noticeably long eyelashes. He wore a dark vest, adorned by a pair of light wings pointing outwards over the chest, together with a light, plain shirt and dark pants and shoes.

The male on the right of him was a slim young man of average height with dark, spiky hair reaching down to his shoulders, with long strands framing his face, and a short ponytail at the back of his head. Each of his eyebrows juts upwards in a pair of thin spikes, and he's distinguished by his dark skin. He wore a black suit with the jacket left open, bearing Blue Pegasus' symbol on its left shoulder, over a leopard patterned shirt, whose similarly open collar reveals a small metal necklace circling his neck, and polished, dark dress shoes

The third and final male on the left of the center male was a slim, young man with sharp facial features and narrowed dark green eyes, while at the same time his hairstyle, which was wavier and slightly messy blonde hair. He wore a short-sleeved shirt left untucked over dark suit pants complementing the tie around his neck, covered in light and dark diagonal stripes, and dark shoes.

"Hi." spoke the middle male with a charming smile, Macao said his name in shock seeing him, "Hibiki!"

The tanned male on the right only grunted a frown as Macao said seeing him as well, "Rem!"

"Macao-san, have you aged again?" the blonde male on the left asked with a smile, Macao said his name last in shock of him too, "Eve!"

"It's Blue Pegasus!" said Droy in shock of seeing the three males and their leaders, "They're so cool!"

"What in the world are they here for?!" Jet asked standing with his partner still in shock of see the boys of Pegasus. But before his question could be answered, the three members of Blue Pegasus walked over to Laki and stood around her, making the light purple haired mage look embarrassed and blushing.

"Laki-san, you look beautiful as ever." Hibiki said with a smile and a hand behind her back.

"You're too good in those glasses." commented Rem from behind her.

"Can I call you 'Onee-chan'?" Eve asked with a smile on his face, hand to her arm.

"Um…" Laki responded blushing to while Max yelled furiously, "If you're going to fix on a girl, do it elsewhere else!" as Kinana turned around to see the Trimens huddle to her too, flirting with her like Laki.

"Kinana-san, are you free tonight?" Hibiki asked hand to her back like he did to Laki.

"T-That dress, it looks good on you." Rem said stuttering at Kinana's beauty.

"I've decided, I'm gonna be your little brother." Eve said smiling to the purple haired waitress. Of Fairy Tail.

"Um…" Kinana said in confusion, blinking her eyes rapidly as Max yelled out furiously again. "What are you here again?"

Chisame and Setsuko merely giggled, this was the Trimens after all, remembering them a few years back when they came to see how Fairy Tail was doing. It wasn't long now they came up to them too, huddling around the two girls like their fellow female members.

"Setsu-chan, Chisame-chan, it's been so long. You've grown so much." Hibiki said with smile, placing a hand to Chisame's back.

"Was it four years ago we saw you, Chisame-chan?" Rem asked with a frown on his face.

"Is that a new kimono, Setsuko-chan?" Eve asked, his hand on Setsuko's back too. Chisame and Setsuko giggled and blushed a faint scarlet as Max yelled furiously again, "Will you please cut it out?!"

"Hey, you boys!" Ichiya said to the Trimens finally getting up and dusting himself off, "We are here on very important business." making the Trimens look apologetically at Laki, Kinana, Setsuko, and Chisame, bowing to them (while Laki and Kinana seem the most embarrassed yet Setsuko and Chisame weren't too embarrassed but were blushing), "Forgive us!"

"Something matching Christina's movement characteristics that we're recovered in the information archives... Has been detected in Fiore's Eternano readings." Hibiki said, pulling up his Archive magic to show it to the Fairy Tail members.

Macao and Wakaba mouths dropped in shock. Eternano, they only were just talking about it, does that mean? There was no way, it couldn't be true. Chisame walked up to the Trimens and Ichiya and asked in disbelief, "Wait, does that mean…?"

"That is correct, lady Corona… It means Tenrou Island might still exist." Ichiya said striking a pose again.

The shock that Tenrou Island might still exist made everyone shocked, even the master and advisor. They know their fellow guild allies wouldn't lie to cheer them, if this was true, they should take caution to the wind and check it out. Thanking the Trimens and Ichiya (with Chisame going overboard as to hug each of the Trimens (They didn't mind after all, a small group were to search the waters. The moment Romeo came back with Alzack and Bisca, the group of Jet, Droy, Max, Warren, Alzack, Bisca, Setsuko, and Shiro took sail from Hargeon on a ship to the location of the place where Tenrou Island once stood the next day. The group were all around the bow of the ship with Max holding a map of the waters, Setsuko resting her arms on the end of the bow while looking at the sea. Everyone else was scattering on the bow as well, the sound of seagulls and the smell of seawater greeted as they made the voyage to the Tenrou Island's location. Bisca was looking through a pair of binoculars and frowning as she looked through the endless sea for where Tenrou Island once stood.

"Is it really around here?" Bisca asked, putting down her binoculars to look to her husband for advice.

"There's nothing to see." Alzack replied, looking to his left where she could see Droy eating a chicken leg.

"According to those Pegasus guys, there was something about 'eternano' in this part of this ocean." said Warren, carrying a bag on his back and looking from the right.

"What's 'eternano' in the first place anyway?" Max asked peering through the map.

"How am I meant to know? Probably has something to do with the magic particles in the water or something." Warren replied to the sandy blonde mage.

"Was it really not okay not to being Romeo along?" Bisca asked looking to Alzack.

"We should have brought him along, by force if we have to." Alzack replied seriously with a frown.

"It's not a certainty they are still alive." Max added still eyeing the map while Warren stood next to him.

"That's right, we shouldn't get our hopes up." Warren agreed as Jet and Droy were chanting over and over from behind the group, "We can see Levy Again! We can see Levy again!"

"So noisy!" yelled Warren to the Shadow Gear team.

"Look to you two, I miss your friend too, but remember one thing…" Setsuko said, turning back to them looking annoyed by their chanting, "There's no word in over seven years, think about the worst case scenario." And hearing her words and Warren nodding in agreement, the two looked depressed again along with Bisca and Alzack. She sighed, knowing she put her foot in her mouth with what she said, "I'm sorry, I didn't want to say that, but, huh?" as she felt the wind around her stop, but they were still out at sea.

"Huh?" Alzack asked.

"The wind just stopped." Bisca, Shiro and Setsuko said and turned around as Max and others gasped at what they saw in the waters distance away from them. It look like someone was in the water, no it wasn't what they saw. It was like someone was standing over the water.

"What… is that?" Max asked in disbelief sweating in shock.

"A person?" asked Jet, not believing what he saw either.

"How?! It's on top of the ocean!" Warren exclaimed, looking Jet and back to the sea.

True to their disbelief, there was someone standing over the waters, the waves rippling under the person. As they got nearer, they identify it to be a girl, no older than 12-15 years old. She very long, wavy, pale blonde hair that reaches down to her feet with a single lock pointing upwards, large green eyes that appear to have no irises and a slight child-like build. She wears a frilly, pink layered robe with a red ribbon tied in a bow around her neck. Around the chest are three blue diamond patterns with two blue triangles above. Each series of these is outlined in a hot pink. She wears wing-like adornments around her ears and small hoop earrings. She was smiling, almost like she knew someone would here. The guild members all were shock to see her, whoever she was. Calls of 'She's… She's standing on it!' or 'who is it?!' were called at the mysterious girl. She continued to smile as she held her arms out from her body as they slowly rose up in a Y formation. The water from behind her started to move about as pillars of light were shooting from the water, leaving a slight yellow light in the water. Suddenly, the sky began to darken behind the unknown girl as the waters were still moving in a rapid pace. More pillars shout up from the water and the waves remained rapid in their pace. Even the water turned a golden color, causing the ship the guild members were on to even up in the wild waves as they screamed. Setsuko was turning paler as she fell to the group, but remain conscious enough to hear her fellow comrades be knocked around by the waves. Many that still were on their feet or hanging on for dear life, watch the light show happen before their eyes and the rushing waves too. Something was happening in those waters, and whatever this girl was, she was connected to it somehow. Finally something large was surging over the girl's feet as the water turned a brighter gold and blue and some large was forming and rising from the water. When it final emerged from the depths of the water, it seem to be in dome like shell, but Max and Shiro gasped at what they saw. No, it couldn't be? Could this be what the Trimens and Ichiya were talking about, the Eternano readings that pointed to here? In the golden sphere was Tenrou Island, really Tenrou Island. They couldn't believe it. Could that mean, their lost comrades are all on the island? Alzack held Bisca tight in his arms, but couldn't believe it either.

"Tenrou Island…" Max said in shock.

"It rose up from the water…" Shiro said her eyes wide in shock even seeing the Fairy Tail guild crest in the front of the sphere. The golden sphere slowly dissolved from the around the island, revealing the island completely to them and made a splash into the water. Jet and Droy were still froze with shock, but the mysterious woman didn't smile anymore was looked much calmer now. As she slowly turned away, her body moving slowly but from their view point, she was moving at normal speed facing to the direction to the island.

"That woman! She's heading for the Island!" Warren exclaimed, pointing to her.

"After her!" ordered Max as the ship finally dock onto the island as everyone including a recovered Setsuko were running after the woman.

"Hey you!" called Warren and Alzack as they ran.

"Wait up!" called Setsuko and Shiro, the white and blue Exceed caring the girl with white angelic wing that were on her back.

The guild member were running through a forest still following the mysterious woman, Setskuo still calling for, "didn't you hear us, we said wait!"

"What's up with that woman?" Bisca asked as she ran with her husband.

"But she did show us the location of Tenrou Island…" Alzack said still running with everyone. "Maybe she'll lead us to where everyone is…"

"I… I see!" Warren agreed, everyone in agreement as Jet and Shiro sped up from the group to go after the woman first as Warren yelled to the two mages, "Don't lose sight of her!"

Jet and Shiro were still in the lead of the pack, going through the forest until finally they stopped, looking down at the ground below them. Shiro put Setsuko down as she looked down too. Both back mages were, just more disbelief was upon them. The others finally caught up with their speedy friends, but look towards they direction and gasped. In the wreaked of the center of the forest, a familiar head of pink spiky hair was poking out from the dirt, on arm uncovered while the rest of him wasn't. Could it be true, could it be…?

"Natsu…" said Alzack calmly.

"It's really Natsu-san?" asked Setsuko.

Back at the Fairy Tail guild, Romeo was sitting silently reading a book, while his father and most of the guild were looking for Tenrou Island. Chisame and Roxie sat alongside him to keep the sad Romeo company. Kinana was cleaning up the mess Twilight Ogre left them that morning while Macao look to his sad son and Chisame.

"Romeo... Was it really a good idea for you to not go with them?" Macao asked.

"Setsu and Shiro went along with them, she wants to see for herself, you know." Chisame said assuring the boy.

"Even if Tenrou Island is found…" Romeo sad sadly and tonelessly to Chisame and Macao, "There's no telling whether they are alive or not."

"Nonsense!" yelled Macao to his son, "We have to believe!"

"There's been no word for seven years…" he replied tonelessly.

Macao sighed, feeling there no way to break that mood of his. He missed the happy Romeo, the one who dreamed to be a mage one day like him and join Fairy Tail. Chisame and Setsuko do their best to cheer me up, but nothing works. If only Natsu and the others were here, that could make him happy. 'Please guys, find them and bring them home…' he thought as a familiar sinister voice spoke from behind them stepping into the guild once more.

"Oh?" the voice of Thibault and his member said as they entered the guild once more carrying their dangerous weapons, "There are fewer members here today." As the slouched Twilight Ogre member laughed, pointing at the semi empty guild. "Rather than a guild, what is this? A friendship Club?" and laughed with his men.

"Thibault, payments due next month, isn't it?!" Wakaba asked, reminding the mage the deal they make before he trashed their guild.

"Our master, well, you see... He said that simply won't do." Thibault said with sinister smile as Macao and Wakaba growled in anger. "It's a problem if payments are not made on schedule,,, If the master said it, it can't be helped…" making Romeo turn to him with a frown, closing his book with a snap and slamming it to the ground, rising up along with Chisame, both looking angry.

"We don't have money to pay you guys." Both said at once, making Macao called on them to stop before they get hurt, "Stop it, Romeo, Chisame!"

"What's up with that attitude, you shitty brats?!" Thibault sneered seeing the walk slowly to the Twilight Ogre members, magic surging in their hands, both a purple color.

"Having been tamed by punks like these… Father and everyone are cowards!" Romeo explained, as a purple flame surged in his hand and a purple and dark red energy surged on Chisame's left hand.

"We're going to fight!" both mages yelled out to the guild members and Twilight Ogre members. "If things keep up! Fairy Tail's name with be worthless!" but with one blow of his breath, he blew out Romeo's flame, making both Romeo look shocked and Chisame look terrified at him. Thibault raised from his back his weapon as he spoke to the two as Chisame tried to keep Romeo safe with her body.

"The name became worthless long time ago, no?" bringing out a large spiked club from his back and held dangerously at the two as Chisame watched with her eyes trembling in fear. He held it over their heads ready to strike at them, look like he was going to kill them. Macao ran screaming to them, "Stop!" He didn't want this to happen, he already lost his comrades, and he wasn't going to lose Romeo and Chisame too. As Thibault was ready to strike them, he yelled out, "You guys will never be above us, as long you shall live!"

"Romeo, Chisame!" Roxie cried out, running to them too. But before he could strike them coming kicked the Twilight Ogre from behind, sending him off his feet, dropping his weapon. Chisame and Romeo gasped as the raven haired man of Twilight Ogre was crying out in the air. Wakaba and Macao gasped to who it was that hit Thibault as Thibault himself hit the wall with a splat/ He men look from behind him, wanting to know who attacked their leader as it happen in a flash: A Ice hammer hit one, A Sword slash hit the second, an Iron Club hit the third, and a giant's fist hit the fourth, defeating them all with ease. The members all gasped even more, seeing the quick use of magic take out the Twilight Ogre member. It couldn't be, could it? As they stood in the shadow of the sunlight, a goofy and familiar face grinned from the inside.

"We're back!" smiled the Re-quip mage, Erza Scarlet.

"Everyone!" cheered the blue Exceed, Happy.

"We're home!" waved the Fire dragon Slayer, Natsu Dragneel

"Hmph!" frowned the Iron Dragon Slayer, Gajeel Redfox.

"Alcohol, Alcohol!" cheered the Card Mage, Cana Alberona.

"What up with this tiny Guild?" asked the third master Makarov Dreyer with his hand to his chin.

"We've come home!" smiled the Sky Dragon Slayer, Wendy Marvell who carried the pure white Exceed, Carla in her arms.

"Isn't it wonderful!?" said the Animal Takeover Mage, Lisanna Strauss happily with her brother and sister smiling beside her while standing with Setsuko and Shiro. (A/N 1)

"Yo." Greeted the Ice Mage Gray Fullbuster with a frown.

Standing in the guild doorway were their friends, each while looking battled scarred and wrapped in bandages, were all happy, healthy, and young: Natsu, Gray, Erza, Happy, Lisanna, Mirajane, Elfman, Cana, Juvia, Wendy, Carla, Levy, Gajeel, Panther Lily, Freed, Bicslow, Evergreen, Freed, Laxus, and Gildarts. Along with them were the rescue/search party who looked happy too. Despite not wearing the usual clothes, it was them alright, the ones who were on Tenrou Island were back.

"It's you guys…" Macao said his jaw dropped seeing everyone standing there in the doorway. Romeo and Chisame were frozen with shock, seeing what would look like a trick of the light.

"Wow, they look so young!" Laki cried tears of joy seeing them again.

"How it happen, why you guys looked the same?" Nab asked curiously, pointing to them.

Lisanna scratched her chin sheepishly, trying to find the right way to explain. She looks to her siblings, and her fellow comrades. "Well, it goes like this…. After we were attacked…" and went into detail of what happened.

(A few hours ago)

"Oi, Natsu, Natsu, wake up! Can you hear us, wake up you bastard!" Jet yelled after they found Natsu his face buried in the ground. Alzack, Bisca, Warren, Max, Droy, Setsuko, and Shiro all circled the Fire Dragon Slayer as he started to stir in the ground. They could hear him, hearing that childish but brave attitude voice again, "Who's talking… I'm trying to sleep…" His head rose up from the ground as he coughed out dirt from as someone else popped out from the head feet from him. A light groan of, "Aye." was heard as they look to see Happy groan in pain. Natsu shook the dirt from his hair as his vision from clearing up, looking in front of him were the tears of joy of Jet, Droy, and Setsuko. They were crying, but they were so happy he was alive.

"Natsu!" exclaimed the three, jump tacking the Dragon Slayer as he was shook they attack him like this. He completely taken aback, what were they doing here?

"Jet and Droy, what the hell are you two doing on this island?" He asked in anger and disbelief, seeing two of his friends appeared on the island and attacks him. Then it hit him, something was off about them. He looks to Jet and then to Droy, they look different than before. He wasn't at the guild much during the week preparations for the S-Class Exams but they couldn't look different in only a day. "Wait a moment... you guys look older, and Droy… I'm sorry, what happened to you, man? You seem to gain weight?" he asked.

Jet and Droy only chuckled, they knew Natsu hasn't seen them in so long, and they haven't either. "You haven't changed one bit, Natsu." Jet chuckled, looking to his partner.

Natsu then look to the third attacker, a girl a year younger than him, her light blue hair and blue eyes slightly shining in the sunlight as she smiled to him. "You look… Familiar?"

"Don't you remember me, Natsu-san?" Setsuko asked smiling at him. He shook his head for a brief moment, and then his mind flashed to someone from the guild. It was a little girl and a small cat who he spoke with briefly before going to training for the Exam. Then it hit him when his memory faded away, looking to the light blue haired girl.

"No way, Setsuko?" he asked as she embraced him in a friendly hug.

"That's right, you do remember me. It's great to see you again, Natsu-san." She said with a smile. Natsu smiled to the girl, but remembered what happened, crossing his arms. "What happened to us, I remember we got hit by Acnologia's attack…Wait! What about everyone else?" he asked getting up to his feet to look around. He saw Happy was alright, seeing his favorite buddy was fine, but continued looking for everyone else. Suddenly a young but gentle voice spoke to them.

"Over here…"

Natsu and the rescue party look to see a young woman standing by a small cliff smiling to them with a radiant glow and peacefulness to her. The rescue party recognized as the woman they followed to the island, the one who revealed the island to them. Even Natsu wondered who this mysterious person was, not knowing who see was, "I'm Fairy Tail's First Master, Mavis Vermillion."

"No way, the first master, but I thought?" Happy asked but Natsu shook his head to his buddy when he came up to them. The group followed Mavis to another part area of the island where the rest of group was unconscious in the dirt. A few minutes passed when every finally got up to see Natsu and the rescue party (Natsu getting hugged by the Strauss siblings, happy he was okay). They look to the savior who saved them, puzzled they even survived a Dragon's roar like that. Mavis went on explaining once everyone was together.

"Back then, I took everyone's strong faith and converted all of it into magic power. It allowed one of the Great Fairy Magic's, 'Fairy Sphere', to be activated. It is a magic that protects the guild from any evil, an absolute defense." Said Mavis as everyone was impressed, but before asking why their friends look older, she added on seeing their expressions, "However, everyone here was sealed in a frozen state…and though Fairy Sphere was released, seven years have passed."

The Tenrou gang was stunned, but Makarov still smiled at Mavis even though they know now that seven years had passed when they slept, "To think the First Master would protect us…"

Mavis shook her head with a light frown on her face, "No…I'm just an ethereal body. I had to give it my all, with everyone's strong feelings. Those unwavering bonds and faith will bring even miracles to your side." She smiled sweetly to them, her body still radiating with the warm, gentle glow. "Third Master…you've done a wonderful job. It's become a beautiful guild…"

"And after that, we returned here to the guild." Lisanna said finishing her explanation. The guild members were amazed by their tale, how despite almost being wiped out by the Dark Dragon, they were saved by the first Master. Miracles do happen, and it was a wonderful one. Natsu while still smiling, looking to the ground where Romeo and Chisame were, the two mages who were frozen since their return. He chuckled to them; kneel downing to help them up.

"You've grown so big, Romeo. And Chisame, long time no see." He said with a goofy grin.

As the two mage started at Natsu, tears began to fall from Romeo's and Chisame's eyes, the boy slowly forming a smile after seven years. He wiped his tears and grinned at everyone, himself and Chisame looking to all of the Tenrou Island survivors.

"Natsu-nii, everyone... Welcome back!" he said cheerfully. Behind Romeo and Chisame, Macao beamed at him, happy his son was finally happy again. Everyone was happy and full of smiles, just like seven years before it. Everyone wanted to hear all the tales on Tenrou Islands, the battles, the hardships, the tears; they wanted to know them all. They even wanted to who became S-Class (if they were able to finish the Exam that is). But before anyone could celebrate, something caught their eye when they noticed someone was missing. They looked around and saw who was mission, a certain Blonde Celestial Sprit mage. It was Roxie who climbed into Chisame's arms and asked to the Tenrou gang.

"By the way, where's Lucy-san, what's she with you?" Roxie asked.

The Tenrou team all gasped, hearing Lucy's name again, reminding that she wasn't there with them. No one could find Lucy, not even Mavis knows where she was. It was like she slip from the Fairy Sphere and was out of sight. Natsu remembered holding her hand and that was that. The atmosphere shifted after Roxie said those words, everyone trying to find the correct words to say. Was Lucy alive, was she did, what to say. Everyone look to Lisanna, the one who first told everyone in the guild what happened on Tenrou Island. The members on Tenrou and rescue party all moved away to let Lisanna be seen. Elfman was about to speak up, but Mirajane placed a hand to her little brother. She shook her head, signaling her little brother to allow their sister to take the floor again about all this. Lisanna sighed, digging into her shirt to pull out a necklace, a simple blue ruby on a silver chain. She gripped tightly and spoke aloud to the guild, "to tell you the truth, I wish I knew where she is. Lucy, where did you go?"

A heartwarming return turns south with mystery, as one Fairy has not returned home...

To be continued in Chapter 3: Seven Lost Years

Michael: And the end of the first half of the x791 arc. Truth be told, I started working on the second chapter a few months after I started the story, took some time on my other work and school, I had time to finish this. After seeing the Fairy Tail 2014 PV, I felt fired up to finish this chapter and get ready for the return of the Fairy Tail anime on April 5th. So if you are reading this on that date, I hope you are fired up as I am for the return, especially if you heard the new opening: "Masayume Chasing" – BoA. I guess you call me a fan of her music, from her song for Inuyasha's fourth ending to her song for Tales of Graces "White Wishes", I am a fan. To hear they got her to sing an opening for Fairy Tail, I was so happy to wake up on Monday to see the trailer and got some excited for it. With the new episodes for the 5th day/Dragon Wars, I won't have to worry about going to the manga too much for episodes that aren't animated yet. Now the two new characters, if you don't know, they are the two Dragon Slayers hinted by Max. If it wasn't obvious enough, they joined one day before the Tenrou gang left for the island. I'll go more into them in chapter three. Sorry they seem 'weak' but for purpose sake and considering one of the two will get some character development in GMG arc, they are going to start off weak, but grow stronger. I am getting sick of any character that gets left behind become complete badass and Gary Stu/Mary sue, if you how I feel about all that wasn't clear enough. I guess I should just to give everyone the heads up on the plan for most of the GMG arc structure, so there won't be any surprises or changes. The chapter structure for most of the arc is the following:

Chapter 3: Sever Lost Years

Chapter 4: Saber Tooth

Chapter 5: We aim for the top!

Chapter 6: Three months of adventures and fun (plus OVA 4 events) –This will be a fun chapter to do a very long one like the prologue/first chapter since Natsu and his group won't lose their three months. So expect new Takeover collections from Lisanna and development of relationships from Gray and Juvia and another paring I'll keep secret from everyone but someone else I keep contact so only he or she knows.

Chapter 7: Only Enough Time to Pass By One Another

Chapter 8: The Blooming Capital – Crocus

Chapter 9: Sky Labyrinth

Chapter 10: New Guild

Chapter 11: In a Night of Falling Stars

Chapter 12: Natsu vs. Flare

Chapter 13: Bad Omen

Chapter 14: Chariot

Chapter 15: Setsuko vs. Bacchus

Chapter 16: Mirajane vs. Jenny

Chapter 17: Kagura vs. Yukino

Chapter 18: Malice is Concealed by the Veil of Darkness

Chapter 19: Pandemonium

Chapter 20: 100 versus 1

Chapter 21: Laxus vs. Alexei

Chapter 22: Wendy vs. Chelia

Chapter 23: A Small Fist

Chapter 24: The Exciting Ryuzetsu Land

Chapter 25: Naval Battle

Chapter 26: The Perfume Dedicated To You

Chapter 27: Battle of Dragon Slayers

Chapter 28: Four Dragons

Chapter 29: Natsu vs. the Two Dragons

And that's all of the four days of the GMG arc, once the anime starts up again, I'll have titles for the 5th day up to July episodes. Now, I have a challenge for my readers and followers. I now have three Fairy Tail fics adding this that is going to the Grand Magic Games arc in a few years' time, but one of these stories connects to this one. If you know how alternate timelines work then you know what to expect. Follow all the Fairy Tail stories and keep an eye out for hints to which one this connects to. You have until the 5th day/Dragon Wars to guess the story. I can't tell and I won't answer it to you until the 5th day arc. That is it, I hope all of you enjoyed the chapter, I hope it wasn't rushed, and I hope everyone was in character. See you next time. Bye-Bye!

#1 if you are curious where she is standing, she is standing where Lucy was supposed to be, not replacing her spot, but standing there. Don't get the wrong idea.