Erza sat in the mayor's office; she had accepted an S-class quest to take out the dark mages that invaded the ruins of an ancient temple. The citizens of the town figured that the dark mages would use the temple for some sort of ritual involving human sacrifices so they sent out a request, but so far the dark mage just kept to themselves which scarred the towns people even more since they didn't know when would the dark mages would attack, and at night a strange light would appear where the temple was that amplified that fear the town already had.

"So Mayor how many dark wizards are there?" asked the scarlet haired wizard

"I honestly don't know, we all have been too scared to even go and investigate if I'm being honest." He said

"Hmm may I ask what the temple is for then?" asked Erza

"It's really old, older than the village. I'd say older than the kingdom of Fiore itself, but some archeologist have said that the temple appears to be a shrine of some sorts, maybe a tomb." Replied the mayor

"You think that these dark wizards are trying to revive whatever is inside?"

"Yes, why else would they be here, I may not know a lot of magic but wouldn't a ritual like that need a sacrifice?" asked the mayor

"Perhaps I wouldn't know." Responded Erza, "I'll go to the temple right now if you would point me towards its direction."

"Yes of course." Said the mayor pointing northeast

The S-class wizard of Fairy Tail marched towards her destination with determination, she was going to put a stop to these dark wizards and liberate this town of their fear she had already made up her mind. After thirty minutes of walking Erza finally saw the temple, it was ancient that she was certain of. The roof, or what used to be the roof, was now torn apart by time the wall had holes only to be covered by vines, the entrance was wide exposed. Steeling her resolve Erza entered the ruin, the echoes of chanting was heard she was getting closer to her targets. Once she was finally close enough she made her move.

"Hold it right there!" demanded Tatiana

"Why there's only one of you and plenty of us, and besides we are almost finished with the ritual and he can finally be reborn!" said one of the wizards

"I'll stop you and whatever you are trying to revive." Said Erza, "Re-quip: Heavens Wheel!"

A bright light covered the red headed beauty and once it died down she was in her famous Heavens wheel armor with a sword in each hand she charged at the evil doers. Erza leapt over the first one and landed between two others wizards and slashed them, she pivoted and blocked an incoming swipe at her and she kicked back her assailant. These run in the mill wizards were no match for the famous Tatiana, she slashed threw the majority of the dark mages, she skillfully evaded and blocked any attack that they sent her way, she seemed unstoppable. Now it was just her and what appeared to be the leader, he looked nothing special, he looked like a random wizard one would casually walk by.

"You're too late to stop me, he's free!" said the wizard at the same time the temple began to glow and tremble, the wall behind the wizard began to crack and piece by piece a cavern was revealed and as the glow from the temple began to die down heavy breathing was heard from the cavern. "Now for the final step for the monster to be fully awaken a sacrifice needs to be made, one of meat, and what better sacrifice than a wizard."

"Like I said I'll stop you and that monster in there." Said Erza

"I like to see you try, now be a good sacrifice and die!" the wizards sent a volley of dark energy at Erza who gracefully dodged all the while getting closer and closer to her prey, once she was she whacked his head with the flat of her swords, knocking him out.

"Now then only thing left to do is…"

"MEAAT!" cried the beast with in the cavern, "FOOOOD!"

Erza readied her swords, her armor shining under the moon, giving her the appearance of an angel. She slowly made her way towards the cavern but stopped half way threw as the sound of foot steps echoed from with in, a boney hand reached out and gripped the opening of the cavern pulling a boney body with it, Erza's eyes widened at the sight of the creature. It looked almost human, it had a dull ragged yellow cloth wrapped around its thigh, ripped denim shorts and what appeared to be a straw hat on its head.

"MEEAAAAT!" it cried out, "So hungry."

The creature looked around the temple, he looked at the defeated wizards and then at Erza, who readied herself for combat. The creature was all bones, in a metaphorical way of speaking since, it had skin but it clung to its bones like a wet rag to a stick, its eyes were glossed over and sunken. Erza prepared her swords ready to strike but the creature attacked first. It grabbed Erza by extending its arms towards her and pulled her towards him, Erza couldn't help but to gasp. For a brief second she seriously thought she was going to be eaten by this creature, but in the next second she readied her weapons once more. The creature then surprised her.

"I'm so hungry, do you have any food?" he asked her, "A piece of meat at least."

"Um no I'm sorry." She couldn't help but to say

"Oh but I'm hungry." It whined like a child

Erza couldn't help but to be astonished by the creature's behavior, most things that involve dark magic usually didn't act so child like. And once she got a closer look at the creature she saw that it was human, it just looked grotesque do to lack of food maybe.

"What do you eat?' Erza asked

"Food." It replied

"Yes but what type of food?"

"Meat." It replied again

"Like human meat?" Erza asked

"Hmm no why would you say that, your pretty sick for saying that you know." It said, "Ohhh but I'm so hungry are you sure you don't have food armor-lady."

"I'm sorry but I don't, maybe I could get you some though." Said Erza she didn't know why she was acting like this to this thing but she didn't sense any malicious intent coming from it she didn't sense any evil with in it at all when it spoke it was so pure and almost innocent like.

"Really you would do that armor-lady?" it asked

"Yes and you can call me Erza."

"Ok smellza!" it replied

'No not smellza Erza." She said

"Ah sorry Erma."

"No no Erza, E-R-Z-A."

"Oh ok Erza-lady." It replied, "My name is Monkey D. Luffy, and I'm the king if the pirates."

'King of the pirates? Do pirates even have kings? And what kinda name is monkey?'

"It's nice to meet you Monkey." Said Erza

"No no no my name is Luffy, what are you stupid or something." Said Luffy

A tick mark appeared on Erza's head "You just said that your name is monkey."

"You are stupid then," Luffy didn't notice the rage in Erza, "Monkey is my family name, so are we going to eat or not."

"Very well come along." Erza said 'I should just let him starve to death.'

Erza led Luffy back into a village and bought him a meal in the inn she was staying at, she left to the mayors office to tell him of the events, leaving out the part about Luffy she didn't know why but she didn't want to see any harm come to him if the towns people found out that he was the creature they revived, even if he was annoying, she told the mayor that she found him wandering around and that she would take him back to her guild. Once Erza went back to the inn she saw a mountain of plates where she had left Luffy, she also noticed that Luffy wasn't where she had left him.

"Excuse me but did you see what happened to the person that was sitting here?" Erza asked the barmaid

"Yes he's out back picking out clothes; there are plenty of clothes that get left behind so I told him to pick out what he liked." Responded the barmaid

Erza thanked her and was shocked at the bill she had to pay, but the barmaid told her that she didn't have to since she saved the town from the dark wizards so for now it was on the house. Erza waited for Luffy to return she felt someone sitting next to her; she glanced at the teen that sat down. He had shaggy black hair, a scar under his left eye; he wore a red unbuttoned jacket that revealed an X shaped scar on his chest, and a straw hat that hung from his neck by a string. The teen smiled at her she politely smiled back at him.

"So Erza are you going to eat anything?" said the teen

"Uh do you know me?" she asked

"Huh what do you mean of course I know you, it's me Luffy. You are weird aren't you." Said Luffy, it really was him Erza didn't even recognize him he wasn't the walking bag of skin of bones anymore, he had muscles, well defined muscles as if he's been fighting his whole life.

"Oh my." Said the barmaid

"I didn't recognize you, you look healthy." Replied Erza

"I was hungry." Said Luffy

"I guess you were." Said Erza

"So are you going to eat anything or not?" he asked again

"Uh y-yeah I will."

After Erza had her meal the duo decided to leave, Luffy wanted to go exploring and Erza wanted to go back to the guild Erza won the argument with a smack to the head. Magnolia really wasn't that far off, all they needed to do was walk to the nearest town and hitch a ride on the train and an hour later they would be in Magnolia, but of course anyone who has ever travelled with Luffy knows the difficulties of travelling with him. They were nearing the next town when Luffy saw a shadow moving through the trees and he just had to go see what it was, when Erza finally caught up to him she found him looking at a herd of deer, and surprisingly enough Luffy was very still and quite.

"They remind me of a friend I used to have, he's gone now so are all of my friends." Luffy suddenly spoke up Erza couldn't help but to feel sorry for him, she wouldn't know what to do if she lost all her friends she certainly wouldn't be acting the way he does. "But just because they're gone doesn't mean I can't think of them and remember all the fun and cool adventures we had and the dreams we accomplished together, and I have you now Erza…a new friend."

"That's a mature way to look at it Luffy." Said Erza

"Mmh so does your guild thingy have any meat?" asked Luffy

"Uh yeah they do." 'He was so mature a moment ago what happened?'

Erza and Luffy finally made it to the train station and Luffy was excited to ride the train but that excitement soon died when the train arrived, he mumbled something about having been on a cooler train that can travel on water, Erza just thought he was just saying nonsense and childish things. Despite traveling with him Erza didn't know anything about Luffy other than the fact that his friends were no longer with him, and his love of meat.

"So Luffy where you from?" asked Erza trying to start a conversation she soon remembered that he came from the shrine and mentally slapped herself.

"My home was back in the East Blue, windmill village to be exact." He strangely answered Erza had no knowledge of this East Blue or windmill village she wasn't good in geography but she was no dummy either, but again she remembers how she first met Luffy and what the Mayor of the town told her, the shrine was ancient older than Fiore. This was something she needed to tell the master about as soon as possible. "But once I left for my journey the sea became my home especially the going merry in the beginning then later the sunny."

Erza was totally lost she had no idea what he was talking about.

The duo arrived in Magnolia and started to head to the guild hall, until Luffy ran towards the smell of meat, Erza sighed and ran after him she didn't have to go far she saw him get kicked out of a restaurant, he still had droll on his face. Once Erza got to him she gave him another knock to the head, they finally reached the guild hall and Luffy wasn't really impressed. He thought it would look bigger and cooler. Well it was really hard to impress the man who sailed in the grand line and has seen many "cool" things in his lifetime, and really who would be impressed by a building.

The duo entered the guild and it was as noisy as its always been, much to Erza's annoyance, she soon fixed that.

"Quite Down!" she commanded and they did, "Now where is the master I have something to talk to him about?"

"He's in his office Erza." Replied Mirajane a white haired blue eyed beauty

"Thank you Mira, this is Luffy could you please make him something to eat." Said Erza, "specifically meat."

"No problem, nice to meet you Luffy are you going to join our guild?" asked Mira

"No, he's just visiting." Said Erza

"I see, well I'll go get your food ready."

"Thanks you're so sweet." Said Luffy, making Mira smile with a slight blush and Erza frown, it was a gift and a curse that Luffy had when it came to woman.

Luffy couldn't help but to look at Mira's hair it reminded him of someone but he couldn't remember who at the moment, a man with a pompadour and smoking a pipe sat next to Luffy and a man with blue hair slicked back sat on his other side.

"Hey checking out our lovely Mira are we." Said the man with the blue hair

"I wouldn't blame you if you were." Said the man with the pompadour

"Hmm you guys say something?" asked Luffy

This seemed to depress the two men but Luffy didn't pay them much attention he went back to look at Mira's white hair he knows he's seen someone with white hair before. He Notices the smoke coming out of the man with the pompadour's smoking pipe, Wakaba. Luffy looks at the smoke, then at Mira's white hair, back to the smoke then again to the white hair, smoke, white hair, smoke.

"Here's your meat Luffy." Came Mira interrupting Luffy's train of thought

"Ah thank you." Luffy started to devour the plateful of meat, "Wow Mira (chew chew) this is (chew chew) really good meat (swallow) this almost as good ( bite chew chew) Sani's ( chew chew) cooking (swallow).

"Thank you Luffy your vey sweet." Said Mira, "But who's this Sanji you're talking about."

"He was (chew chew) my friend and he (chew chew) was a really good cook (swallow)

Meanwhile with Makarov and Erza, the two of them sat there in silence after Erza explained the events if her job and how she met Luffy. She explained everything with great detail, from the Mayor saying that the temple could be an ancient shrine older than Fiore itself to fighting the wizards and too when Luffy appeared out of the cavern after the ritual was completed. Makarov had a grim look on his face, he didn't know what type of ritual this was, he's heard of necromancy but that usually comes with a price and the foul feeling in the air during the ritual could be felt for miles. No this wasn't some sort of Necromancy, maybe like a summoning whatever it was it brought the boy into this world, he could inform the magic council but Erza seemed fond of the lad, she explained that there was no malice when the boy spoke, just child like innocence and wonder, and who knows what the council would do to the boy and his wizard, who was he kidding he did know death to the boy and punishment for Erza for not dealing with the boy that's how the magic council worked. He could ask for someone to go and investigate the ruins and maybe he could talk to the dark wizards that were captured, yes that was the smart and safe choice

"Erza keep an eye on the boy, I'm going to talk with these wizards you mentioned. I'll send someone to go investigate these ruins as well." Said Makarov

"I was thinking about doing that myself master, maybe you could send me and Levy, her knowledge with text could come in handy I wouldn't feel safe if anyone else was sent." She replied

"…Very well Erza rest now you may leave tomorrow." said the master

'Thank you master I will inform Levy right away."

"And Erza I 'm not one to repeat myself, but do keep a close eye in him." Warned the master

"Understood."

Luffy had just finished his tenth plate of meat, he had gathered a small crowed of people it didn't take long for a bet to start on how many plates could he finished, currently he was starting his eleventh. Erza came down and saw the whole commotion she was thankful that Natsu wasn't currently here or it would've been worse, releasing a sigh she searched for Levy and spotted her at a corner of the guild reading one of her favorite books: The Journey to Raftel.

"Levy could I speak with you." Erza startled the bluenette

"Uh y-yeah Erza wh-what is tis about?" meekly asked Levy

"Can you accompany me tomorrow please your expertise with text will come in handy, and I was wondering if you could decipher something I found in an ancient temple." This caught Levy's attention, deciphering old ancient writings in a temple and possibly doing something that not even Erza could do, how could she say no.

"Yes of course!" proclaimed Levy

"Excellent we leave tomorrow." replied Erza

Erza stood up and walked towards Luffy who had just finished his fifteenth plate of meat

"C'mon Luffy lets see if we can find you an inn for you to spend the night." Said Erza

"(Chew chew) ok." Luffy finished the plateful of meat and walked away towards Erza until he suddenly stopped.

"Hey Mira…" this caught everyone's attention, including Erza. "You wouldn't know Smokey would you...Are you related to Smokey?!"

"…?" everyone in the guild

"No I don't know who Smokey is, is he a friend of yours?" asked Mira

"…" the guild

"Nope just someone I used to know who chased me around, anyways bye Mira, bye other weird people." Said the straw hat boy

"…?" the guild. Luffy and Erza left the guild hall and found a room for Luffy to sleep for the night, although it wasn't nighttime yet, but just to get it out of the way. Erza spent the rest of the day showing Luffy around Magnolia and chasing after him when he would run off or get lost. Once it got dark Erza escorted Luffy back to the Inn and then left to Fairy Hill.

"I wonder what we'll find out tomorrow, just what are you Luffy?"

A/N so that's it for now, I had an idea about this for a while either Erza goes to Luffy's world after escaping from the tower of heaven or this. Just incase I couldn't explain it well in the summery, basically this is hundreds of years in the future from Luffy's timeline and he's woken up or in the future I wont explain how here but I will explain that in future chapters