Chapter 1: The Pirates

The ship rocked gently back and forth on the ocean waves by the port of Hargeon. The waves gentle and calm just like the rising sun of the new day. The skies were clear and they seem to promise a warm day. It was still the early hours of the morning, not many would be up at this time The air was silent and soothing, it felt like it would be a crime to break this peace in the world.

Smash!

A sigh was heard after that rather unpleasant noise was made to ruin the peace. The man who had sighed turned to the door leading into the mess hall aboard their ship.

'Wait for it' thought the man.

As he did a voice yelled out.

"Ugh, shit, my bad. Didn't mean to smash the plate like that."

The man grinned to himself. The voice was groggy at best; the man knew who was responsible for the noise almost by instinct before the voice even heard. After all, they had known each other for years and had been through hell and high water together.

The man stood from his perch on top of the railing of the ship and moved towards the kitchen. The man stood at six-feet-and-two-inches. His red hair was a drastic contrast to the beautiful blue sea around him. The man's eyes were a vivid yellow like that of a predator. This is made even more intimidating by the clean cut scar over his right eye. He wore dark brown boots, deep red cargo pants. Around his waist a pale yellow sash was wrapped around him, the sash held four sabres in place. Two on either side of him. He wore a red casual dress shirt with his black trench coat, under which hide a massive scar running from his right shoulder to his left hip. His leather outback hat gentle swinging from the string on his neck.

Most people when they first look at him think he is a pirate and they would be correct in that, for the most part.

This man's name was Rob Jackdaw. Wanted criminal and thought to be leader of a rag tag team of pirates, bandits, rogue mages and over all criminals.

As Rob lay his hand about the door to open it another voice was heard,

"You're useless as always aren't you, Flame brain," said an irritated voice.

Rob didn't even care who it was as he entered the reasonable little kitchen. The ill-famous saw two of his comrades inside. One by the counter top, standing over a smashed plate; the other at a table sitting there having finished eating. They seemed as if they were trying to relax and enjoy the peace of the morning.

But was clearly failing.

"Shut it Ice Princess, it's too early for your shit alright!" a fiery red head yelled, flaring his magic slightly.

"You trying to start something with the Ice Princess shit!?" the blue haired male growled, who in turn flared his magic as well.

These men, of course, were Natsu Dragneel and Gray Fullbuster. Natsu in his signature scarf given to him by Igneel with his cargo pants and sandals. Just by looking at the guy you could tell he hadn't gotten much sleep last night. Which was understandable considering Natsu had just returned from a job the guys needed doing. That said, he still looked like shit, having been up for nearly 24 hours before hand, he looked as if he had only gotten 3 hours sleep at max. Rob stared at he shattered plate on the floor and concluded it was understandable, the poor bastard mustn't be fully there in the head right now. Gray on the other hand wasn't so understanding.

"Try not to break everything you touch alright you walking fire hazard. We don't need to keep buying replacements for everything you destroy alright," Gray said while rubbing his temples, clearly annoyed by the disturbance of the peace.

Gray sat at the table in only his underwear, although to be fair he hadn't started off the conversation in only his underwear but that's currently how he is dressed.

"Shut it Ice Stripper, I had a long night alright! First I had to go with Jellal to meet with his contact in the next town over, which we had to wait for ages because the contact was 'worried' he was being followed or something and then make it back here to try and grab some shut eye before we head out later. It also doesn't help with your constant snoring. I was almost tempted to throw you overboard with how loud you got," Natsu sighed.

"Who you calling a Stripper flame brain," Gray snapped, his crystal ice eyes glaring at the other mage.

Rob just stood in the doorway and chuckled to himself as he listened to the conversation between his two comrades. Both Natsu and Gray turned toward the doorway to see Rob's silhouette stand there with the sun behind him, making it difficult to make anything out on him.

"Gray, I think Natsu is referring to your current state of dress, am I right Natsu?"

Natsu just grinned at Rob when asked this question. Gray however was confused as to what Rob meant.

"What do you mean state of dress? I'm fully clo-"

The ice mage looked down to see in fact he was only in his underwear with the rest of his clothes spread all over the floor around the chair he currently sat in.

"WHAT THE HELL! When did that happen?!" Gray shouted as he scrambled to gather his clothes in a rather comical attempt to try and save face.

Both Natsu and Rob laughed at Gray' mad panic for his clothes, although it was to different degrees of laughter. Natsu was laughing rather loudly, finding it hilarious to watch Gray scamper about like a headless chicken trying to find all his clothes again. While Rob merely chuckled to himself with an amused grin plastered on his face.

After a quick re-dress from Gray, he sat down in his chair trying to ignore what just happened to the best of his abilities, trying to change the subject. wore a white muscle shirt that stuck to his form, with black trousers that were perfectly loose yet good enough to be used without a belt, he was also currently only wearing socks.

"Yo Rob, when we moving out anyway, it has been a while since we last raided a Dark Guild for information."

As Natsu recovered from his laughter he went to cleaning up the shattered remnants of ate he was going to use for his food. Rob moved toward the table Gray sat at, crossed his arms and leaned on the table. Rob glanced up toward the roof slightly before answering.

"Not sure yet myself Gray if I'm honest with you. Jellal and the others haven't returned yet so we'll be waiting for them before we make our move."

"Come on! We don't need them, we'd be fine if was just the three of us! Besides I'm itching for a fight," the fire mage interrupted.

Natsu proceed to light his hand on fire and flair his magic to show his strength. Not that Rob cared all that much. Although he was slightly taken back by what he heard next.

"I got to agree with flame brain on this one Rob. We should just go ourselves. Who knows how long the others may be gone for. We need to move now before we lose the chance to move at all," added Gray, which was surprising because GRAY of all people actually sided with Natsu for once.

Rob thought it over for minute. He himself had to agree with the both of them. Rob knew they could easily overpower some random Dark guild. Hell, he could do it himself if wanted to, he just wanted to inform the others of their move before going in head first like they always do. Stealth was always out the window with this crazy crew. This though made Rob grin.

'I guess they're right, we really need to get a move on this if we are to find any info on the Emperor's.'

Rob turned to both Gray, who was leaning back in his chair facing Rob, waiting for an answer and to Natsu who was stuffing his face with a charred pieces of meat he had stolen from the fridge.

"Alright, we'll move out later this evening. We'll wrecked that shit hole they call a guild and we'll interrogate them for information on any of the Emperor's."

This caused both men to grin from ear to ear. Natsu was getting all fired up as usual before they went off to fight, Natsu started to try get the blood flowing and start moving more, shaking his hands and hoping on the spot. Gray just closed his eyes, smirked and leaned further back in his chair, pleased with the choice made. Just by looking at the three guys you could see they were all itching for a fight and bad. It had been a boring couple of days aboard the 'Empress' (AN: The Ship's name) with the lack of the rest of the crew/team. Everyone had gone out in search of rumours and hearsay on the Emperor's movements. As it stood, they still never had all that much to begin with. Just knowing their professions, titles and the fact they exist in the first place. Face's, names locations were a mystery but that was nothing new. You had to be in the inner-circle of crime to know anything like that. Not like a bunch of pirates and rogue mages will make it on that list. Not with their records anyway.

'I wonder if our bounties will be raised after this stunt of ours. I hope they do, I've been looking forward to my bounty be raised to a 100 million.' Captain Rob smirked as he imagined what his newest bounty would look like.

As it stood right now, their bounties were among the highest in Fiore.

Rob's bounty stand at an impressive 97 million Jewels, wanted dead or alive.

(AN: Correct me if I am wrong with these bounties being considered high)

Natsu's bounty stood at a decent amount of 52 million Jewels, this was also the same amount offered for Gray. Which ended up pissing off the both of them, each stating that their own bounty should be higher than the others because they are stronger than the other. The only difference was Natsu's bounty stated 'Only alive' which at first was odd because no one among the crew knew why that was, although that wasn't given much thought after the first day.

The other members of the crew also had bounties around the same of Natsu's and Gray' or higher, but seeing as they aren't here we won't mention them just yet. (AN ;) )

-Later on-

The rest of that morning went by as it usually did aboard the 'Empress'. Gray just sat atop the crow's nest relaxing and enjoying the view of the port town and the sea, while Natsu was lifting a rather large weight, silently keep track of his reps. Rob was not fair off doing the same as Natsu. Rob stood a few feet from Natsu, holding a giant weight and swinging like a sword, practicing his sword form.

That is one of the reasons why Natsu and Rob got along so well, they both loved a good fight. They loved the turmoil, the sweat, the blood and the pride they felt after every difficult fight. You could see Natsu respected Rob and did see him as the 'big brother' figure most of the time. That's an aspect of this crew that everyone loved so much. It was like a crazy family in its own weird way. Rob was seen as the older brother to most of the crew considering he was the eldest among them. (AN: Rob is 22) . Natsu and Grey were always seen as the equal brothers in the crew with how they had that brotherly rivalry going on. Well that and how they have a fuse that most people would call 'non-existent'. Rob simply smiled at the thought. However, Rob was drawn from his thoughts by a loud Pink haired mage.

"Rob, have any ideas for which of the Emperor's this place is connected too?"

"As far as I know from the rumours on this guild is they're connected to weapons and arms dealing in some way. This does fit in with what we know about the 'Warlord' but then again. The shit hole of a dark guild might be trying to muscle in on the 'Warlords' turf or they may be looking for a quick few jewels. Either way, we're going to wrecked the place and see if we get a reaction someone along the line." responded Rob who maintained his focus on his workout.

"Damn straight, I'm getting all fired up now!" yelled Natsu. Who proceeded to light his fist aflame to prove how fired up he was. Rob grinned at Natsu's contagious energy.

"Same plan as always alright, I go for the guild master, you and Gray wreck everyone and everything that remains."

"Come on Rob, I want a go at a guild master myself! You always hog the strongest fighters for yourself. It gets boring dealing with weaklings all the time you know that." Natsu whined, crossing his arms over his toned chest.

Rob merely laughed at Natsu's whining and if you listened closely, a scoff could be heard from Gray atop the crow's nest.

"Yeah, sorry Natsu, I know that I always hog the strongest for myself…" Rob Grinned, "But that's because I am clearly the strongest here you know that!" Rob boasted, who tried to get a reaction out of Natsu. Which he did…

"Yeah yeah, sure. When we get back me and you are going to fight it out and then I'll show you who's the strongest out of all of us!" replied an energized Natsu. Who changed his stance into a fighting position ready to kick Gray's ass.

"As if you could beat Rob flame brain! You can't even beat Jellal, how you going to deal with the monster himself!" shouted Gray from the crow's nest above. He leaned over the railing on the crow's nest arms crossed, smirking. Everyone here knowing he was trying to get a raise out of Natsu.

"Shut it Icicles! I'd have no problem beating your sorry ass anytime anywhere!" Natsu said as he slowly began to lose his temper at the insults and jokes about him. If you looked closely you could see a bit of steam rising from his head. Which Rob found entertaining.

"Alright alright, settle down you two! Get your shit together, we might as well get moving on this guild before you guys get too excited," said Rob who grinned to himself knowing full well a fight was inevitable, so he tried to get them to move that fight energy and point it at their opponents and not each other.

Before Rob had even finished the sentence Natsu was already gone to get changed. He'd been riled up for a fight for so long, now he can cut loose and break something.

"About time," the ice mage chuckled, who lept from the crow's nest and proceeded to the sleeping quarters to get changed.

After a, very, short period to change, the guys boarded a small row boat to paddle closer to shore from where they had lay anchor a small distance off shore. Although they didn't really care all that much if someone found them, because they'd just fight them off and escape without much effort. They didn't want their only home to be put in harm's way so they had it a far distance from the port in hopes of people not recognizing it and deciding to try something on them.

The slow row to shore was calm due to the peaceful sea, they reached the shore in a matter of a minute or two.

-Hargeon Docks-

As they all disembarked from the row boat they simple left it hitch to a post in the water and moved off the dock. Natsu was dressed in his usual attire, with his signature scarf. He wore cream coloured cargo pants, sandals and his black and orange jacket shirt with the sleeves cut off. Gray wore dark blue-ish trousers with black boots. His jacket had a longer back to it. The jacket was white with shades of light blue at the edges of the jacket. Rob pretty much wore what he had on earlier except the shirt which changed from a red one to a white casual dress shirt and put on his fingerless leather gloves. They didn't really care for being inconspicuous, never really felt like hiding under a cloak. Jellal saw the logic behind it so he did generally wear one but even he abandoned it every now and then. He's spending too much time with the rest of the crew he's starting to act like them, poor Jellal.

"Let's go, The guild should be up in the mountain forest just northeast of here," informed Rob as he knew where it was from the information he had personally gathered it over the past few weeks.

Not wanting to keep the guild waiting, they all started to sprint through Hargeon to reach the guild by any sort of reasonable time frame. Rob leading the way through the crowds on the streets. It was evening time so the streets were still active with workers and travellers still hustling through the town. As they neared the edge of the town a scream was heard,

"Someone help! That man just stole my bag!"

The cry for help had come from an older woman who was on the ground, clearly having been shoved to the ground. A man was running from the scene, down the street heading for the docks. The man had a piece of cloth wrapped around his face covering everything except his eyes. He wore ragged clothes and that were different shades of grey and purple. The man smiled under his masked and glanced at the bag in his hand.

Unfortunately, because he was running in the direction of the docks, he ended up going toward the worst place imaginable. Before he even had a chance to glance back up from the bag, a glove covered fist met his face at high speed. Everything seemed to move in slow motion as the man stopped within seconds of the fist making contact. The fist then plummeted toward the ground effectively pummeling the man into the ground with a single hit. The ground under the man cracked open and left him lying unconscious in a crater. Blood dripping from his nose with a single tooth having been knocked out.

Without even missing a stride Rob continued running on as his nothing had happened, Natsu and Gray still on either side of him. As they did,

"Sorry, We can't stop right now! He shouldn't be a problem until someone comes to collect him or something. See ya!" Rob shouted as they passed the old lady on the ground.

Most of the onlookers were shocked to see someone do what he just did. Others just cringed at the state of the poor thief in the crater. Most of them thinking 'Man, that was just overkill'. Others sweatdropped at how casually that man dealt with the situation. The old woman, although grateful was shocked, for she recognized the person who had just stopped the thief. She wasn't sure how to react being completely honest, she felt she should report the sighting of such criminals in the area, but she wasn't sure. After all, he did just help her.

Only time would tell on what she would do.

Further into the forest, Rob, Natsu and Gray were still running. Rob, simple laughing at what he just did, Natsu was arguing saying he wanted to punch the guy into the ground while Gray simple muttered something about 'Overdoing it' and 'Idiots'. They continued their long sprint through the forest that went rather undisturbed, the forest was lush with it still being spring time. The sun was still out, giving them plenty of time to wreck the dark guild. Rob listened intently to the world around him, the sound of their footsteps, the clanging of his swords in his sash around his waist, the rustling of the tree tops in the smooth breeze. As they began to near the location where this dark guild resided,

"Try keep one or two relatively unharmed, we might need them if the Guild master is 'uncooperative' with me," said Rob who knew they'd more than likely give him anything he wants, so they get one of the piss ants to answer for them.

"Alright we'll try, but we make no promises," Gray replied, to which they both grinned.

Rob merely joined in on the smiling, knowing that they were going to be having some fun shortly. As they approached their destination.

Hello there! AlcatrazDGold here! I just want to say this is my first fan fic to be posted before so I'm looking for all kinds of feedback, R&R. Be as descriptive as you like in your reviews, if you have anything more you want to say to me, feel free to PM me. Don't mind answering anything I can for you guys. I will say, don't let this title fool you. The story might not be what you are expecting if you only go by the title.

I'll also be looking for your guy's opinions on certain aspects of the story.

Think of it as a bit of an interaction in some areas.

Like right now, I'm wondering who else should be in the "Pirates" crew. I have Rob(OC), Natsu, Gray and Jellal but I was wondering what other guys I might have in there. People like Elfman would be difficult to add because he'd be with his sisters. And Gajeel I might have as Natsu's opponent in one chapter. So I'm wondering who you liked to see running as a Criminal with the Crew so far.

The Princesses will be introduced later on but I might be looking for who should be coupled with who. I'll explain/ go into more detail with this at a later date.

This story was inspired by a song I listened to, search: "S/H/S ft FPS} Pirate and Princess" the thumbnail should have Natsu in it for you to recognize it.

All rights to Fairy Tail go to their respective owner's, in no way am I stealing anyones creations as my own. The only things I own are the unique plot and my OC characters.

I hope to hear what you's have to say and I hope to be back soon.