This is just a short preview of a story that I've been planning for a while. If you like it please favourite and review. If you read my other stories, please remember that A Promise to Keep is still in the process of being rewritten. Think of it as renovations so that it will be better than before.

Natsu:

"Stop, thief!" "Don't let him get away!" The pink haired boy ran over the roof tops as the royal guards were hot on his trail. He made a note to himself not to go near the palace ever again. Right now though, he had to lose the guards before he returned to the guild. Jumping through the nearest open window, he was greeted by a room full of screaming women.

He grinned, "Sorry, ladies, I'll just be passing through." Not exactly how things worked out. The guards were waiting for him at the building's entrance. The man in charge pointed his sword at Natsu's throat. "Give it up, Salamander. We know it was you that stole the princess' crown."

Crown? What were they going on about? "Look, you have the wrong guy. The crown is beautiful and all but I don't wear women's jewelry." The guard growled, "I can forgive the vandalism and fighting, but you've gone too far this time, Flame Head. This is a crime punishable by death."

"Flame Head? Really, that's the best you got? Why don't you put the sword down, Ice Princess, and we handle this like men." Just as the guard was about to show off his magic powers, a voice boomed from behind him. "Gray, you know the rules! The use of magic is strictly forbidden."

None other than 'Titania' Erza, the city's strongest warrior, approached the scene. It was at this time while Gray was distracted that Natsu took to oppurtunity to escape. There was no way even someone like himself could take on both Gray and Erza at the same time.

Laxus roared, "You did what?!" His guild mates shook their heads. He had really messed up this time. Because of him, Titania was closing in on their hiding place. They would have to relocate their guild within the next few days unless they wanted to be caught and executed.

Juvia stormed up to Natsu, "In case you have forgotten, mage guilds are illegal, especially a dark guild like us! If they they find where we are, we don't know who else we'll lose next!" He bit his lip. They've lost many friends these past couple years.

Freed. Bixlow. Alzack. Bisca. Wendy...Lisanna. They were all taken away in the middle of the night. Their only crime was embracing their magic powers instead of hiding it within themselves.

The king believes that magic is a tool of Satan, and that the age of magic has ended to be replaced with industrialism. At least, this is what he wants everyone to believe. Guilds are a dangerous thing because a large group of mages working together have the power to over throw the king and knock him off of his thrown.

Many guilds refused to disband as ordered by the royal guard but one by one they fell to Titania and the king's army. Fairy Tail is the last guild standing and they are forced to hide in secrecy.

Natsu couldn't take the looks that everyone was giving him. His comrades were looking at him as if he had betrayed them with his own two hands. Ridiculous. He stormed past them and into the moonlit night to clear his head.

If Gramps was still around, he would side with him. He always had, right up until his death bed. However, what Natsu was about to do was nothing that their old master would have approved of.

The only way to protect Fairy Tail was by changing the king's mind about magic, but there was only one way of getting his attention, and that was by taking the king's own flesh and blood;

Princess Lucille Eucliffe.

Yeah, I know it's short but it's only a preview ;)