Hello and welcome back to another chapter. I would like to apologise for the lack of updates with this story and my other three, I have no excuse other than my computer crashed and I as too lazy to rewrite all the lost chapters. I'm hoping that this chapter will be at least 5k words to make up for that. With True Salamander, I was forced to skip some parts as due to that little laptop issue. Anyway, this will be the start of the Tower of Heaven arc so please review so I know what you guys want, I'm open to suggestions as always.

23th July x784 Magnolia, construction site of Fairy Tail's guildhall 09:30"

"Wait, wait, wait, you mean to tell me while we're busting our asses killing some beast, you guys were at a spa?!" Natsu asked his teammates, it had been a day since he and Juvia returned from their quest and ere currently seated by a table along with Grey, Lucy, Happy and Erza.

"Well we had some time after the job so we took a quick break at Hosenka, what the big deal?" Grey asked back, he didn't really care that Natsu missed out as he was out on an S-class mission which he would have loved to do.

"Well you could have least waited for us dammit." Natsu whined as his head landed on the table in depression, leaving Juvia to pat his back in support.

"Aye, we got into a really big pillow fight but Lucy isn't so good." Happy added as he landed on the table.

"It's not my fault Gray and Erza somehow turn pillows into weapons!" Lucy defended herself as losing a pillow fight is never a good thing.

"You're over exaggerating." Happy said as he waved his paw at her.

"Gray threw a pillow, a damn pillow so hard it made a hole in the wall while Erza knocked out an attendant with one." Lucy reminded him as those pillows hit like rocks.

"Sounds like Erza." Natsu said as he remembered Erza could go overboard when she was having fun.

"It wasn't my fault he didn't knock before entering." Erza defended herself as he drank her morning coffee, not feeling guilty in the slightest.

"What else happen while we were gone, the moon fall from the sky?" Natsu asked, playing along with them so they don't catch on.

"Nothing like that but it turns out Loke is a Celestial Spirit." Lucy told him as she took out his key to show him and Juvia.

"Pretty boy Loke is a spirit, don't you have to pure of heart or something." Natsu asked, he felt like playing around today and this was a good chance to do so.

'I dint think so since Lucy had that prevvy cow man." Grey answered as he recalled the 'tendencies' of the cow.

"Oh yeah, you're right there ice-block." Natsu shot back.

"I don't think that's a requirement." Lucy muttered.

"If I may, what happened?" Juvia asked, she felt this was a good time to join the conversation and try to become their friend again.

"Oh well at first we didn't know and shortly after Phantom Lord, Loke was acting strange and even broke up with all of his girlfriends." Happy told her.

"Yeah I remember that, he wasn't really himself." Natsu nodded as he and Juvia listen to them.

"Anyway, after dropping Lucy some hints, he just quit the guild and vanished, we were really concerned for him." Grey said as he got his order of a hot soup. "Don't worry he re-joined after all this was cleared up." He added when he saw Juvia frown.

"Anyway he was in trouble with the Celestial Spirit King and was banned from the Celestial Spirit world for it…he was dying." Lucy told them with a sad frown as she remembered his guilt and death wish.

"That sounds awful!" Juvia said as she placed her hands on front of her mouth in disgust.

"Yeah but Lucy here was able to convince the King to reconsider so now Loke is one of her spirits, the leader of the Zodiac." Grey said as he pointed to Lucy with a grin as she blushed at the extra attention.

"Oh, isn't that the Lion spirit?" Natsu said.

"Yes it is, how did you know that?" Erza asked, Natsu wasn't one to remember things outside of fighting and celestial spirits wasn't his favourite topic.

"I remember Levy mentioning it a while ago, it stuck out in my memory because I knocked out Gray that day." Natsu told her, silently thanking Erik for giving his that crash course of making up excuses on the spot that don't sound like bullshit.

"You didn't knock me out!" Grey yelled at him.

"But you let Happy draw on your face, you can't tell me you were awake and allowed him." Natsu shot back with a shit eating grin but before it could escalate into a full blown brawl, Erza interjected.

"Oh, Lucy didn't you have something to tell us?" Erza asked her new friend before a brawl broke out that she would have to stop, she wasn't in the mood.

"Oh yeah! Loke swung by earlier and gave me these." Lucy said as she pulled out five small papers slips.

"Are those tickets to where I think they are?" Grey said as he saw the name of the place on then tickets.

"Yup! We have 5 tickets to Akame Beach Resort, three whole days of sun, surf and relaxation." Lucy said as she gave one each to Erza, Grey, Juvia and Natsu.

"Wait why five? I'm here too!" Happy yelled, this was racism!

"I don't think you'll need a ticket Happy." Grey said as he never heard of a place that charged him before, normally Natsu just paid for himself.

"Last I checked, pets don't need one." Erza added, not seeing how Happy grew shocked at her insinuating he was just a pet or something.

"Oh Erza, how could you be so cruel?" happy moaned as he developed an aura of depression at Erza callus words.

"Is he gonna be alright?" Juvia asked as Happy floated over to the corner to sulk.

"Yeah, give him a couple minutes and he'll be back to normal." Natsu assured her as he left to start packing, well that was the plan but a messenger bird fly in.

"Message for Natsu Dragneel of Fairy Tail!" The little creature chirped as it landed on the table.

"That would be me, from who?" Natsu asked, he didn't have that many contacts outside the guild.

"This is a job assignment straight from the Magic Council!" The bird chirped as it bounced around. This surprised them as this didn't happened often as even Makarov got his in the mail or when he went for the meetings.

"Those old fogs, what could they want? Play message." Natsu told the bird, even if Lucy only just figured out that it was a magical bird similar to the one Mire sends Makarov.

"There is a large group of bandits north of Magnolia who are harassing travellers, unknown number but has been estimated to be over 200 of them. You are to hunt down and arrest them with haste." The bird relied to him.

"What! Why they need a saint for that? We could have done that in an hour?" Natsu raged as this wasn't anything near the saint level he knew Makarov did from time to time, hell this was A-class, maybe low rank S-class. His team could have done this in no time flat.

"Regardless Natsu, an assignment from the council can't be ignored. We'll meet you there after you're done." Erza told him as she gripped his shoulder, she found it fishy but it was an order none the less.

"What I want to know is why now, they can't be that big of a deal if they only show up now." Grey asked as he could see Natsu point of view on the matter which got them all thinking about it till Lucy come to her own conclusion on the matter.

"Maybe they hazing him, he is the newest member." Lucy suggested to the group as a whole.

'Why do I have a felling a certain blue haired pretty boy has something to do with this? But why send me away, he can't see me as that big of a threat yet.' Natsu thought to himself as he thought of the way the timeline has changed and how much of his knowledge is still useful.

"Alright Erza, I'll meet you there just after this little detour." Natsu told her with a smirk as he turned and walked back to his house to pack. 'Oh I got to pass by the architect's consultant offices and see if they can't build me another house while we're gone, Meredy will definitely need her own room…maybe bathroom as well. Hmmm Juvia can pick out that stuff, maybe Cana can help her' Natsu thought to himself as he walked along till he saw someone he wanted to talk to along the way.

"Cana! Wait up!" Natsu called as he raced to meet with the resident bar queen, Cana herself was surprised to see him still in town, she thought he would be on his way to that beach resort with his team.

"Natsu? What are you still doing in town, I thought you were leaving with Lucy and crew?" Cana asked him once he caught up with her.

"I was but something came up so I'm joining them later, anyways I need your help with something." Natsu told her before he led her down the road.

"Really what?" Cana asked with a raised brow.

"Well my little sister is coming to stay and I was hoping you could help give some ideas on how a 13 year old girl's room should look." Natsu asked of her with a slightly nervous smile. He gave Cana a look to tell her to play along since they were still in public which she luckily caught on.

"You have a sister?" Cana asked as this was news to her.

"Yeah we were separated as kids but she has been taken care by monks, she got word of my survival and sent me letter, I was hoping to renovate my place since I only have one bedroom." Natsu told her as they walked along the bridge, waving at some dudes on a boat.

"I see…well I could spare some time, besides this could be fun." Cana replied after putting some thought into it and deciding she would, it wasn't like she had some duty to fulfil today.

"Thanks a bunch, I don't really know a lot about girls." Natsu thanked as he they walked through the marker, both window shopping for anything they would need.

"I could figure." Cana remarked as she remember how 'boy' his house was, no way in hell a girl had step foot in that place before her.

"So how are things been?" Natsu asked, wishing to move on from his poor choices in design. Luckily for him, his girlfriend was in a forgiving mood.

"Not so bad, the guild hall is going smoothly and people can take jobs again. I just returned from one myself." Cana told him as she walked up to a stand and brought a cone of ice-cream for herself.

"Really what was it?" Natsu asked as he just bought a bottle of water before they both moved on.

"I just had to give some people their fortunes, the usual." Cana told him as she shrugged her shoulders, it wasn't anything of great importance.

"Oh, well them why don't you take a more combat related one or even one of those decoding quests Levy loves so much?" Natsu asked her with a curious face.

"Thanks but no thanks, fighting isn't my style and those decoding quest aren't easy." Cana rebuked with a smirk as she continued to eat her treat.

"You could still do them Cana, I know your smart enough to so why?" Natsu pressed, he wanted an honest answer from her about this and he wasn't going to back down, she stopped for a moment to think about before replying to him in a softer tone.

"…I suppose...up till now I didn't really have the self-confidence to try them. I was always so hung up about becoming S-Class that I never really did anything else." Cana told him as she remembered how she would get all depressed around that time of year and how she got in into her head that Gildarts would only accept her if she was S-class like him, she really felt stupid about it now seeing how he would accept her for just being her, not her wizarding rank or power but for the person she had become.

"That's dumb, Cana there's a reason that gramps keeps picking you, he sees that you have the potential, so what if Mira and Erza become S-class before you, so what if Erza is the youngest person to achieve the rank?" Natsu told her as he took her hands into his own and looked her directly in the eye.

"You're not making me feel better." Cana remarked as he seriously had to work on his pep talks.

"My point is: that those factors don't matter at all. You can still become S-class, Hell you could take Erza's title as the strongest women in the whole guild if you tired!" Natsu finished with his usual passion, shocking her that he thought she could surpass the queen of the fairies herself, not even Mira in her prime could do that.

"How the hell would I usurp the throne of the Fairy queen?" Cana asked him as they reached the agency, it wasn't much but it was decent sized 3 storey building with lots of plants out front.

"Hard work that is, I can help you with the training and I'm pretty sure we can rope in Levy to help with the tutoring." Natsu told her as he counted off all the people they could ask for help in his one hand, granted it wasn't much they those few could really be game changers.

"Hmm, you know that could work." Cana told him after she thought about it for a while and found that his plan had a lot of benefits with little risks, after all there was nothing wrong with guild mates helping each other out from time to time.

"Of course it will, not come on we're here." Natsu replied as he led her into the building by the hand, missing the smirk on her face at the gesture.

"Why is he so excited about this?" Cana muttered to herself with a smile as he kinda liked the attention from him.

"Welcome to Buzzy Architect, how can I help you?" The attendant manning the desk asked them once they made to it.

"Hi, I would like to speak to an architect about redoing my house, Makarov Dreyer recommended you." Natsu told her kindly as he took out a small letter from gramps and gave it to the attendant to loom over.

"Oh yes, Fairy Tail's guild master! Are you a member of the guild?" She asked him once she read the full thing, it was nice to get more business from clients recommending them to others, it showed you were worth someone spreading word about their product or in this case services.

"Yes, yes I am, my names Natsu Dragneel and this is my guild mate, Cana Alberona." Natsu introduced himself and Cana to her.

"Oh yes, I recognise you, please wait a moment while I see if there are any available consultant for you to talk to." The attendant asked of him once she recognised the new saint but repressing any fan girl tendencies to do her job, besides, he and the brunette seemed close.

"It's alright, take your time." Natsu said as he and Cana went to stand by the waiting area.

"So what do you plan for the training?" Cana asked him, she wanted to have an idea of what to expect.

"Well first physical fitness, I can't count the number of fights that boil down to just a bare fisted brawl, I mean Erza has her swords but that sort of her thing." Natsu told her as he thought about all the times quests didn't even need that much magic.

"So what, I gotta join a gym?" Cana asked, she didn't even know if Magnolia had any gyms to speak of.

"Well yeah, I did even Popsicle stick did, when we're done here I'll show you the place, the rates are a little pricy but it's worth it." Natsu told her with a surprised look as he thought she knew about them, the town had three gyms after all.

"Alright if you say so." Cana conceded to him as he would know beast about keeping in shape.

"Sorry for the wait, please make your way to office number 12, Mr Akira will be waiting for you." The attendant called to them as she pointed to the left hallway which had a staircase.

"Thank you, we'll be on our way." Cana thanked her she they both made their way up, it didn't take that long to get to the 2nd floor and find the door they were looking for, and all of them are labelled after all. Natsu knocked on the door twice in quick secession

"Come in." a voice on the other side called out to them as they both entered the office to find a their man, he as in his late 50s going by the greying hair and the glasses but he seemed rather proud of his work as there were awards both on the desk and on the shelf to the left, behind the desk as the window which allowed one to view the yard.

"Is this office 12?" Natsu asked they both entered.

"Well that's what it says on the door, my name is Mr Aden Akira, and I will be your architectural consultant today, how can I help you." The man chuckled as he gestured to the three seat in front of his desk which they both sat in, leaving the middle one free.

"Hello my name is Natsu Dragneel and this is my guild mate, Cana Alberona. I'm hoping of tearing down my old house in the woods and replacing it with a newer one." Natsu told him.

"In the woods, do you have running water and electricity that far out?" Mr Akira asked him as in the past he had to work with people who lived that far out who had neither.

"No, just water I make use of candles for lighting." Natsu told him as he was hardly ever there so he never saw the need to connect power to the place.

"Would you like your new dwelling to have electrical lighting and outlets?" Mr Akira asked of him as he knew someone in the power company who could help with that.

"Yes, that would be great." Natsu answered him as he thought of all the stuff they would no need that required power.

"Good, how big is your current house and what is the size of the property it sits on?" Mr Akira asked, he needed to know the size of the canvas he was to paint on to know how to paint, so to speak.

"Well the current place is pretty small at around 110 metres squared, the property itself is pretty big as it's around 1670 metres squared." Natsu told him, surprising the man that he would own so much land out of the city but he remembered land outside of the city was much cheaper.

"I see we can do a lot with that space, what kind of design were you looking for?" Mr Akira asked he started to take noted on these points.

"I'm not so sure there, which do you think would fit the East forest best?" Natsu told him as he never put much thought into design like this.

"Oh that would definitely be Stuart design, the brickwork may seem simple but it keeps the house feeling like a part of the forest around it, for interior, I would suggest Rustic interiors, nothing makes a home feel so good more than handcrafted furniture and design." Mr Akira recommended as he pulled out a binder which had pictures and illustrations of the things he was talking about and showed them both which impressed Natsu as the design would fit perfectly with the surroundings.

"Really, that sounds simple, I like simple." Natsu told him with a smile as Mr Akira put away the binder before picking up his pen and notepad again.

"Thank you sir, now what are the rooms and or additions you'll looking for?" Mr Akira asked of him.

"Well I'm already living with a roommate but we share a room. We'll be having another, my sister moving in soon so I would like the new house to have three maybe four bedroom, two bathrooms to kept morning routine going, a kitchen, lounge, and study-oh can the lounge have a nice bog fireplace for those winter nights?" Natsu listed off as he thought of all the stuff he could place into his new house.

"It most certainly can have one sir, in fact these days' people forget how nice it is to have a fireplace even if it just sits there, it adds character." Mr Akira agreed with him as he loved old timey fireplaces and never liked it when clients insisted that they not be included. "I know right, I need more details on how you would like the room to be designed and built." Mr Akira asked again as he needed more than that to start drawing up plans.

"Well if you can fit one, the master bedroom can have its own bathroom and has to be big enough to take a Large King sized bed." Cana suggested as she knew he would need a bed that big if was planning to have girls over.

"Yes, and the other rooms?" Mr Akira asked, keeping his thoughts about why they would need a bed that big to himself.

"They should able to fit Queen sized beds as well, oh and all the rooms should have enough space to place all the necessary bedroom stuff in like wardrobes, dressers and nightstands, you know the usual." Natsu added to his list.

"Alright then, any other things?" Mr Akira asked as he had already written 4 pages full if notes and ideas about this.

"Well Cana here can tell you more about the room design since I don't know much about girls." Natsu said as he gestured to Cana to finish up that part.

(Later)

"Well that was nice."

"Yeah plus I like the fact they'll be done in just a week with everything."

"How the hell are they gonna be able to finish everything so quick?"

"There the same people master contracts to fix up the guild hall whenever we go overboard."

"Oh, well why aren't they fixing it now?"

"Makarov wanted all of us to help build the new hall, apparently, the first master and the other three founding members build the first one by themselves so he wanted us to do the same with the new one."

"Oh…well I hope we can do our part then, anyway I gotta head home, I gotta pack for a quest and a vacation while moving everything of value into storage since I told them to destroy everything they made on site."

24th July x784 Akame Resort 11:00"

The Fairy Tail mages were really having fun at Akane Resort, the sun, the sand and the great atmosphere left them in a great mood, true Natsu wasn't present but that didn't stop them. Erza was wearing her black two piece bikini, Lucy wore her white one while Juvia wore a blue one. Grey chose to wear a light and dark blue pair of trucks while Happy wore his yellow trucks and swimming cap. Lucy had decided to take a wakeboarding while being towed by a tamed killer whale. Grey and Erza were playing a game of beach volley ball to the side. After a while Lucy came back to shore and sat with Juvia who hadn't really done much since they got there.

"Hey Juvia. Why don't you want to swim?" Lucy asked the water mage as she thought Juvia would feel more at home by the water but since they arrived, she only entered the water once and since then, she was looking at the sea like it was lava. She also noticed Happy giggling evilly.

"Well you see…" Juvia began as she remembered her small conversation with Happy. It was earlier when she took advantage and tried to teach the cat some oceanology.

"Happy. Do you know why the waters here arm even though they are colder further out?" Juvia asked.

"That's easy, cause I peed in it" Happy said as he giggled, causing the woman to stare at him in slight horror.

"Because that's not pure water, not water at all." She finished with a small pause. Lucy just looked at her confused by her words but before she could wonder more about it, she saw that Happy was having some fun….by snatching Grey's trucks.

"Give me back my boxers you damn cat!" Gray screamed as he jumped into the water so that the waist deep water would hide his shame, they were on a public beach after all and he had no interest in the security detaining him for public indecently…not again.

"No way, you don't need them anymore!" Happy told him with an evil Happy smirk as he floated above Grey knowing if Grey jumped, his package would be seen by all. Erza just sighed at her friends' antics.

"Don't use that to cover yourself up!" Lucy demanded, her eyes were wide in shock as Grey used his magic to create a 'censor' block to hide himself from all four sides.

"Gray is certainly creative!" Juvia commented on Gray's technique.

"Oopsis daisy!" Happy said as he 'dropped trucks in his hand on top of a nearby palm tree.

Juvia decided this would be a great time to tease her former love interest so she took a deep breath, flushed her cheeks and screamed in a girly way, "KYAAA! A naked man!" Instantly, people all around the beach looked around before they spotted a naked Gray (His ice censorship bar had dissolved), trying to climb into a tree, where a pair of boxers were stuck.

"Crap!" Gray shouted before ran at full speed as a roaring crowd of angry bikini-clad women chased after him, "Holy-!" he screamed, barely able to dodge a thrown butcher knife that almost stuck him in his backside. How carry a butcher's knife to the damn beach?!

Happy and Juvia were practically rolling on the sand, struggling to breathe through the laughter. Lucy looked at Gray, who was trying to both dodge the knives and axes thrown at him and not being caught by the angry females. "That's really mean, you know…" Lucy said, wincing as Gray tripped and the women jumped at him and the 'punishment' began.

"Y-Yeah…can it really bent that way?" Erza asked as she watched one damn sadistic woman bend one of Gray's limb in a direction she was pretty sure wasn't meant to.

"Sorry but Juvia couldn't resist!" Juvia apologised as she tried to reign in her laughter, all the while shrill screams were echoing across the beach from Grey.

"I wonder where they got all those weapons from when all they're wearing are bikinis." Happy asked, causing Lucy to look at him with a sweat drop.

"That's what you're wondering about?!" Lucy yelled at the cat.

"Well yeah, Erza is the only one I know who used Requip magic so she can pull stuff out of nothing, what about them? Do all scary women have Requip magic?" happy thought aloud as he thought about the implications of such a thing, how many of Fairy tail's own girls would need more swords and axes? After a while, the women finally left behind a broken and battered Gray sprawled in the sand.

*Later that day*

A bandaged Gray was sitting on the sand grumbling while the others laughed at him, "Shou syons sof Sbitches!" he shouted with a massive dark aura, his voice muffled by the bandages.

"Huh? What are you saying?" Happy teased as he leaned down.

"We cannot understand you with all the bandages…" Lucy told him, sweat dropping in disbelief.

"Hmm? They beat you up so much that my beatings look like nothing!" Erza was impressed at the damages done to him. Cleary she had room for improvement if this was an outcome of she could get! Juvia sweat dropped at her words, remembering all the beatings she saw her give Natsu and Grey in the past, hell even her own encounter with the Fairy queen on Tenrou during the trials.

"Sorry about that Gray, Juvia didn't think they would be brutal." Juvia apologised as she help to wrap some bandages in him.

"Sits sokay…" Grey mumbled as she sat and let her do her thing, at least Natsu wasn't here to see this. After a while, they decided to play around in the sand with them building a life-sized version of Aquarius's body, it would have fooled anyone if not for the fact it was made of sand and Happy was the head. After that they all went back to the water after convincing Juvia is was safe to do so. Juvia and Lucy paddled the large floater while Erza and Grey lounged in it, Happy swam ahead of them.

(Meanwhile on the other side of the country)

"THIS is the quest the council thought a Saint should do?!" Natsu yelled as he smashed another one of the bandits head into the ground, it took him a while to find them and the camp was pretty large at around 400 (how they got so big without him knowing is beyond him) but seriously, it had only been 5 minutes and he had already taken down 54 of them!

"Who were you sons of bitches stealing from, old ladies and little kids, you know what, scratched that, I'm pretty sure old ladies and kids would have been too much for your weak asses." Natsu taunted as he faced the rest of the group, he had already burned more than a couple of their tents and his opening strikes had left small crater here and there but they didn't seem like they were willing to quit.

"Don't underestimate us you pink haired bastard!" one of them yelled as he jumped forward to slash at the dragon demon, but in all honestly he wasn't going so fast as some of the things Natsu had to contend with in the past so to him, he was a turtle.

"[sign] you just had to mention the hair." Natsu said as he dodged to the right to avoid the attack and quickly drew of his sirens and fired a shot through the man's shin, dropping him near instantly.

"Haaah! My leg!" the man screamed as she clutched at his bleeding and broken leg as the shot tore a hole an inch in size through it. This shocked the bandits as up till this point, Natsu had just been using low powered fire attacks and his fists.

"Anyone else want some their daily dose of iron?" Natsu asked as he pulled out his second firearm and looked at them with a bored expression.

"Idiots, get him, there's only of him and hundreds of us!" One of bandits rallied as he ran towards the slayer, leading his comrades to their doom, not that they knew that.

"Yeah!" they all cheered as they went on the offensive, figuring that by using sheer numbers, they would win, oh how wrong they were. The first wave were around 20 swordsmen, Natsu took aim and fired off 12 rounds of explosive rounds at the ground in front of them, knocking them back before he fired off 2 more rounds of explosive into the crowds, heedless of the pained screams from those the blast hit, he jumped back to avoid some blasts of magic before reloading and firing again, aiming for the limbs of the attackers, after he used up both clips, he was awarded with the pained cries of 14 people with holes through their arms or legs.

"Got you!" One had managed to get behind him and was going for a slash to take his head off but Natsu heard him coming.

"Think again." Natsu counted as he blocked the sword with his one pistol before a devastatingly well placed kick to his shin left him in the dirt grasping at his now fractured shin. "And another one bites the bites." Natsu said as he kicked the man in the face, rendering him knocked out. With another few placed shots, Natsu took down a further 30 bandits, which at which point he was starting to lose his cool. He put both pistol away and prepared to actually fight. The criminals took this as a sign that he as out of ammo and grew more confident in themselves.

"Alright, the idiots used up all his shots, let's get him." One of the them yelled she and four others charges at him, Natsu being himself, was able to dodged the first one, grab her by the arm and armpit, spin around the throw her back into the group, knocking them all back. Before they could even untangle themselves from dog pile, Natsu made his move and jumped into the air before landing a brutal knee drop on them, breaking bones on impact. Natsu quickly got to work with the rest of them.

This process repeated itself for around another 20 minutes before he had taken down around 312 of them, leaving the rest scared and demoralized. "How the hell it he still standing?!" One of the terrified survivors asked as Natsu dropped his latest victim, the poor bastard had his face bashed in with more than a few missing teeth before he was knocked out like the rest.

"How should I know, it's just one man for God's sake!" Another replied before the air was knocked out of him as with speeds, they still couldn't track, Natsu got in front of him and socked him with a heavy uppercut to the gut, making the guy cough up bile and blood.

"Don't use the lord's name in vain, lest he curse you too." Natsu told him before giving his a mean bitchslap which sent him to the floor, out of the fight. He would have continued if not for a feint sound he heard. He stopped and looked around, not caring there were still active targets in play as they were too scared try, it took him a while but he found the sound was coming from collapsed church. He quickly pulled out sirens and reloaded before he made his way towards it.

"If any of you try to run, I'll put a bullet through your balls, got it?" Natsu ordered them as he made his way towards it.

"Yes sir!" They all said as they stood stiff, not at all in the mood to test if he was willing to do so. Satisfied with this, he made his way closer to the old building, it wasn't the so much the sounded that was drawing him in but what the sound was, it sounded like cries and laboured breathing. As Natsu got inside, he saw that most of the place was ruin but there was an intact table with a couple chairs near a cellar door. This confused him as he was simple bandits. Fearing the worse, Natsu called out.

"Stay clear of the door, I'm blowing it open!" Natsu yelled as he waited another 5 seconds before he took aim and fired on the lock, blowing it apart and taking most of the wooden door with it. Once it opened the remains and stepped inside, he was stunned stiff at what he saw.

All around him were cells with women and children locked up, some were chained to the wall while others were tied to chairs. All of them were very pale and skinny, telling him they had been down here for a while. All of this reminded him of that went down at the Tower of Heaven for so long ago that he froze, till he heard a voice call out with a small smidge of hope.

"We saved." One of the women chained to a wall called out as she looked up at the light source, her tired and beaten voice knocked Natsu back to reality as he run inside and started busting open door with well places shots and snapping chains and laying the people down gently on the floor.

"Are you all alright, any injured, elderly?" he asked as he hurried around helping.

"Yes, the injured are kept further in where they kill them, they aren't any elderly." One of the victims replied as he let her down from her chains, luckily she was able to stand and started to help out with the rescue.

"How did you all end up here?" Natsu asked as he broke out another 7 people before lighting a fire on the middle to help keep them warm.

"We were captured, they raided out villagers and caravans and took us here." One of the children told him as one of the women help the boy out of the cell.

"Why would bandits need to kidnap people?" Natsu asked as he carried a clearly weaken and dehydrated older women out of the cell and laid her by the fire to warm up.

"There aren't bandits, their monsters!" one of the children cried as he buried his face into the chest of who Natsu assumed was his mother.

"What did he mean by that?" Natsu asked, this place wasn't making any sense at all!

"He meant that we are meant to serve as sacrifices' or….or…pleasure items to Tartarus." Of the younger girls told him, he was nearly floored by this, the worst part was the people here ranged from 12 yrs. to 40 so Natsu didn't dare ask who was for what.

"What! How they keep this from people?" Natsu asked, how was this not on the quest letter, it should have been the first thing on it for God's sake!

"They threatened to kill us if anyone dared speak of this." One of the older women told him as she tended to the wounded the others had brought in.

"…Alright, I need to go 'ask these bastards about this mess, can any of you help those who aren't in a condition to help themselves?" Natsu asked as he was in the mood to up and murder some fools.

"Y-yeah, we can do that." The same women told him as she received nods of approval from the rest.

"Good, stay down here, at least here you'll be safe, ironically." Natsu muttered as he left the cellar and went back to the field. He was slightly happy to see that none of them at left but it did little to improve his mood.

"Do any of you fell like explaining to me what the fuck is going on?" Natsu asked the group at large as he stood in front of them all.

"W-what do you me-!" one of them tried to excuse but was stopped when Natsu put a bullet through his head.

"Bang!" the shot was an explosive one as it reduced his head into nothing more than a bloody mess of bone and brain matter, dropping the now headless corpse to the floor, scaring the shit out of them.

"Anyone else fell like testing my patience?" Natsu asked, not starting to look more and more pissed.

"We don't kn-!" another tried to plead but he was met with the same

"Bang!" this shot tore through his chest, carving up his torso and destroying his heart, his body hit the floor just as he passed away.

"Tell me what the fuck is going on before I start blasting off testicles and feeding them to the person standing next to you." Natsu ordered with a calm tone that was only betrayed by the sheer fury on his face, making it clear he was very willing to carry out that threat which got them taking.

"We're just capture them alright!" one of the brave ones yelled out before he was shot too.

"Bang!" the shot took of his genitals and dropped the man to the floor as he clutched at his ruined reproductive organs.

"My balls, god he shot me in the balls!" he cried in pain and panic as he tried to stop the bleeding before passing out from pain.

"Why did you do that!? He was talking!?" one of them yelled at the dragon slayer but he was quickly answered when Natsu burst into flames, showing just how high his flames of emotion were riding

"BECAUSE IT TOOK YOU SICK FUCKS TWO CHANCES TO TALK AND DON'T YOU DARE GET WITH ME OR YOUR NEXT, IS THAT CLEAR!" Natsu ordered them as the flames even higher into the sky, making them visible from miles away.

"Crystal." They all piped, scared shitless.

"Good, now you are going to tell me what I want to know and for every lie or excuse, that will be a random limb blown off, is that clear?" Natsu asked, still surrounded by a pillar of flames.

"Yes sir." They all piped.

"Good, now spill." Natsu ordered as the pillar of flames morphed into a dragon glaring down at them.

Well that is finished, as you can see Natsu will have his own issues to deal with before he can even think about going to the tower to help out there. I made it so that quest seemed like it was Jellal but the quest is more than meets the eye. How will Natsu deal with this was he knew this was a different timeline but how much of it different to his own. Also I'll try to give you guys more information about this slave ring next chapter as the opening bits of the tower happen pretty much the same way with few changes to the cannon material. Speaking of changes, we all saw as Juvia isn't acting like Gray is none existent now that she has Natsu but rather she's acting like a teenage girl would when hanging out with friends so I hope you all like this take on her character.