Disclaimer: I do not own ANYTHING in this story at this point in time. Later on I will include some original characters, and I will try and remember to list them as I do, but that will come later.

Hello everyone!

So, this is my third go at my Aurora of the High Heavens story. I re-wrote the original, unfinished version because I felt like I skipped over way too much, and I'm still in the process of writing that. I recently decided to re-write it again, with Wendy also being sent back to Magnolia before Acnologia attacks, which is what this version is. I intend to continue that first re-write, but here's the first chapter of this version!

NOTE: this will include even more crossover characters, so if that's not your thing, I would recommend looking elsewhere for entertainment. The pairings are also NOT guaranteed to stay the same; in fact, I've already changed those up a bit. You'll just have to wait and see about those (except for LaLu, that WILL stay the same.) There will also be crossover characters joining guilds other than Fairy Tail, so that the gap in strength between them and Fairy Tail at least lessens a tiny bit.

Enjoy!

Zeref stared at the group of Fairy Tail mages.

So this was the legacy—or at least a big part of the legacy—left behind by Mavis Vermillion. The girl that was so much like him, that he had placed all of his hopes on.

The girl that he had effectively killed.

The Black Wizard shook his head subtly, not wanting to relive that memory again.

These people were mere children to him, even the little old man at the head of the group. After all, no mere mortal's lifespan could measure up against his own.

He couldn't wait until Natsu was strong enough to finally kill him. He often dreamed about what oblivion would feel like.

But Natsu wasn't strong enough to kill him. Not yet, anyway.

Sensing Acnologia's presence encroaching on the island, Zeref realized that perhaps that damned dragon could act as a test for the Fire Dragon Slayer. Something to test his mettle against.

But then the black haired man's eyes landed on two forms in particular among the group.

The first was a young girl just shy of her teenage years, with long dark blue hair and large brown eyes staring at him with both fear and determination.

Judging by her slightly barred teeth, showing sharpened canines, she was the female dragon slayer. Grandineey's little student.

He had no problem letting Natsu and Metalicana's brat fight Acnologia, knowing that Natsu WOULD live through it and not particularly caring about the latter, but…

Willow, or Wendy, whatever her name was—she hadn't lived long enough, trained long enough, to have even the slightest hope of surviving Acnologia unless a miracle happened.

He was surprised to find that he still had a conscience. Interesting.

'I'll get her off the island," he decided, already turning his gaze to the other one. 'She might become useful later on.'

The second person who had caught his attention was a young woman with blonde hair, with a face so familiar that he could have sworn that she was Anna Heartfilia's reincarnation.

'A descendant.' Zeref realized, eyes zeroing in on the ring attached to her belt, over a dozen gold and silver keys jingling as she shifted under his gaze. 'Perhaps the daughter of the one who opened the Gate.'

He did silently admit to himself that he was slightly impressed by the number of keys in her possession, though. Anna had only had three of the Zodiac spirits contracted to her, and she had had the most out of the Celestial Spirit mages back then.

Maybe it was sentiment, but Zeref didn't want to end Anna's line here.

Celestial Spirit mages had a bewildering knack for messing up plans, anyway. For a magic so rare, there were a lot of rituals that required them.

So he'd get her off the island, too.

He didn't care enough about any of the others (Natsu being the obvious exception) to bother with them.

Makarov's eyes widened in horror as a large black magic circle appeared in front of the most notorious mage in the history of Fiore, quickly disappearing only to leave a terrifying swirling whirlpool behind.

His horror only heightened as two of his grandchildren were suddenly yanked forward by an invisible force, being pulled into the whirlpool.

His other grandchildren's horrified screams echoed in his ears as more than a few of them lunged towards the girls, trying their damnedest to grab ahold of them and get them out of the whirlpool's gravitational pool.

But it was of no use. Within moments, both girls were sucked into the whirlpool and disappeared, followed a moment later by the whirlpool itself.

Everything was silent for a long moment.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?!" Natsu roared, flames literally shooting from his mouth as he tried to leap towards the Black Wizard.

Makarov was prepared to enlarge his hand to block the hotheaded pinkette's way, but luckily Erza and Gray were smart enough to grab him from behind and hold him down.

"Natsu…" Erza whispered as she held him down at the chest, Gray making sure he couldn't kick his way out from under her.

"They're not dead." Zeref said in a monotone voice, eyes displaying the slightest bit of surprise at Natsu's reaction. No one bothered to look past his bored expression to see that, however. "Now. I believe there's something else that requires your…attention."

With that, he turned and walked away, disappearing.

Natsu growled again, renewing his attempts to get his remaining teammates off of him, but was caught off guard as they all heard a deafening roar.

"Is that…" Gajeel gaped.

"It can't be." Laxus argued, following the Iron Dragon Slayer's train of thought. Laxus might be a dragon slayer himself, but only because of a lacrima. He hadn't had any contact with a real dragon, and until hearing that roar honestly hadn't believed that they existed.

"The roar of a dragon!" Natsu's eyes bulged.

The others screamed in shock as a huge black dragon came into view, heading straight towards them.

"Shit." Laxus muttered.

He just had to follow his gut and come to help, didn't he?

Hundreds of miles away, the rest of the Fairy Tail guild gasped or screamed in shock as a black magic circle appeared on the ceiling of the guild hall, dumping two of their own painfully onto a table.

"Lucy-nee! Wendy-nee!" Romeo shouted worriedly, the six-year-old rushing towards the girls and shouting at his dad to get help.

The acting guild master jumped into action, noting that they were in bad shape and Wendy too magically exhausted to heal herself (much less anyone else) and ordering for the girls to be brought to the infirmary.

Laki left to get Porlyusica, the old bat's bad attitude be damned.

"N-no!" Wendy cried out, struggling to sit up as Romeo tried to push her back down so she didn't make her wounds worse. "Don't bother! The others, they need—!"

She dissolved into a coughing fit, so Lucy took over for her, just as wide-eyed.

"We were attacked by Grimoure Heart." She said in a strangled voice. "T-they were looking for Zeref. We drove them off, and then ran into him. Next thing we know, we're being sucked into a portal, everyone is trying to grab onto us, and here we are."

If it hadn't been for her father trying to train her to act emotionless since her mother died, there would have been no way for her to get all of that out in her current state.

"Y-yeah, that." Wendy gasped, shaking slightly. "They need our help!"

"A-are you serious?" Kinana asked, face paling rapidly as she slowly walked towards the other girls, getting a strange feeling deep in her gut but not knowing why.

Grimoure Heart…she had heard of the guild, of course, but for some reason, she felt like she should know it a little more…well, intimately.

Damn her amnesia!

"Yeah." Lucy said, and the pure terror in her eyes was more than enough for everyone to believe her.

There was a pause as everyone tried to absorb that information, until there was a loud bang, and everyone jumped, looking towards Wendy.

The Sky Dragon Slayer was glaring at everyone angrily, fist on the now broken table.

"Why are you all just sitting around?!" she seethed. "Our friends are in DANGER! Call for help!"

The blunette's uncharacteristic behavior spurred everyone into action, and they brought out all of the communication lacrima they had.

Fifteen minutes later, and not only had they arranged for a rescue squad from their own guild to go to Tenrou Island and offer aid, but so had their allied guilds: Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale, Quatro Cerberus, and Mermaid Heel.

They were too late.

By the time anyone had arrived at their destination, Tenrou Island had already disappeared without a trace, with eyewitness accounts from the Rune Knights (and didn't that just add to the unpleasantness) that a gigantic dragon had decimated everything in a single roar.

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I decided to put everyone's reactions to the island's disappearance in the next chapter. Last time it was kind of short, so…yeah.

Kinana's odd feeling about Grimoure Heart is because, as Cubellios, she was (kind of) a member of the Oracion Seis, which was one of the three guilds that made up the Balam Alliance of dark guilds, along with Grimoure Heart and Tartaros. All three guilds had smaller ones under their command, but they were the leaders. Of course, now we know that Tartaros was way more dangerous than anyone had imagined.