Before me stood two large wooden doors, behind them I could hear the sounds of crashing and thuds, the tell tale sounds of brawl going on inside the precious guild. I could hear the laughter and the high pitched squeals of excitement. Friendly brawls? Tch. I don't understand how a brawl could possibly be friendly. Tch. Fuckin fairies.

I couldn't seem to be happy about standing outside of this particular guildhall. I can feel my nails dig into the palms of my hands. I can't shake the anger. He left me. How could he have left me? Tch. The dumb fucking bastard. It's his fault. All of it. He promised, yet he still left me, seven years. Seven fucking years!

The wind started to pick up causing my purple Mohawk to ruffle, and my black and purple tutu to billow up a bit. Tch. I take a deep breath before lifting my combat boot clad foot and kicking the guild doors wide open. The friendly chaos around me froze. Members of the guild stared at me. I felt the corners of my lips twitch as my dark purple eyes flash dangerously, honing in on my target. I smirk, there he is.

" Oniisan! Welcome home!" My voice seeps through the guild eerily echoing through everyones skulls. "Kage no haka (grave of shadows)." I scream while raising both my black fingerless gloved hands up causing the shadows in the guild to swirl around my hands. I feel the magic gathered and I force it forward, blanketing all the guild members in shadows, causing them to not be able to move. As I start to move towards a particular green haired mage, vengeance pouring out of my aura.

"Who the fuck do you think you are?" An annoying voice echoed in my ears. I stopped and pivoted to my left and shoot my glare towards the salmon haired mage encased in my shadowy tendrils that had yelled at me.

"Fuck off!." I seethed, as I kept making my way towards the green haired mage.

He looked at me wide eyed, as his guild mates were locked in by magic. They were all shouting and protesting. I didn't care. My rage and my hurt were far too great to care. I stopped as I stood in front of him. I could see in his eyes the regret.

"Seven years…" I whispered staring at him. "Seven years!" I shout. "You left me for seven years, after promising you wouldn't leave me with him for more than a week! You promised!" I screeched, everyone in the guild quieted down. They were watching the scene in front of them, confusion etched in all of their faces.

A throat cleared. I turned my gaze to a short old man, my shadows holding him in place. "My dear, I don't know who you are or what you think you are doing, but I can not allow you to hurt one of my children." His eyes were narrowed in anger as his voice spoke in a calm tone.

"Tch. This doesn't concern you old man! No…wait it does," I turn facing the old man. "You're the guild master, Markov, so, it's your fault. No matter how many years he denied taking the S-class exams, you still nominated him. Ever think maybe there was a reason he said no? Ever think maybe you should have stopped nominating him as a participant? Huh, old man! Ever think that maybe Freed had someone he needed to protect in Magnolia?" I scream tears now streaming down my face.

The master opened his mouth to say something, but closed it unable to think of what he could say.

"Echo…" His voice ghosted my name causing me to whip my head back in his direction.

"While you were busy playing S-class mage, and getting yourself trapped on Tenroujima, I died. He killed me. You've been back for a month Freed, why didn't you come looking for me?"

"What do you mean you died?" He narrowed his eyes.

"I mean I was dead. I had no heart beat, no air in my lungs, no pulse. I died. He killed me. Your father murdered me after he…after he…Tch. It doesn't matter. Pay attention Freed. What kind of mage was I before you left. Hmmm? Why can I suddenly do this? Kurayami no eikyo! (Darkness impact)." I scream as my fists are engulfed in darkness. I raise my fists to go and punch Freed, before I can make contact with his face, a body steps in front of me, a hand encasing my fist. I look at the figure, as my mind instantly calms. His lips are twisted into a worried frown and the rest of his face is hidden behind a knights helm. I frown. I feel this instant pull towards the man. I need to see his face. I take my free hand and hesitantly pull of his visor. I hear everyone gasp as I stare into his beautiful red eyes.

I'm speechless, how did he get out from my shadows, why isn't he looking at me in hatred? His beautiful redeyes were staring at me, as if looking into my very soul, he had such a soft expression on his face. For a moment, everything disappeared. Until I heard it, "Fire Dragons Roar!" The salmon haired mans voice shouted out.

I couldn't even react.

"Natsu no!" Screamed a female voice. Before I could move, a beautiful blonde woman stood in front of me, causing the pink haired man, whose name I assume is Natsu, to turn his head, letting the roar go past us into an empty table.

"Luce! I could have hurt you why'd you do that?" Screamed Natsu.

The woman Luce, that must be short for something, turned around to face me. Her brown owns filled with kindness, and her smile lit up my soul. Why was I feeling such a strong pull towards this woman and the man with red eyes, and blue hair?

"We don't hurt nakama, Natsu!" She shouts over her shoulder.

"Lucy!" Oh that's her name. It's lovely. "She is not nakama!" Natsu screams angrily. He sounds like a child.

"She is Freed's imooto (little sister)! Meaning she is our nakama!" She brings her gaze back to me. "You're hurting right?" I nod my head slowly and feel tears gather in my eyes. "You've gone through so much pan because Freed left, that you feel betrayed. You don't want to hurt Freed, you just wanted him to feel how much it hurt you to be left, abandoned, right?" I looked at her with tears flowing out of my purple eyes, they started to glow a faint green, not noticeable to anyone but the man and Lucy standing beside me. I can see her soul. It's so pure. There it is. The reason why I feel that tug. Mixed in with her golden soul, is the thread of a reaper soul, my soul, my red soul is pressed into hers in the shape of the sister ruin. She's my soul sister. The one woman, that would always be there for me, always love me, and fit my life perfectly as a sister.

With tears still falling I embrace her, "Anee-chan (big sister)!" I whimper. She holds me tight as I start to sob. We both sink to the floor, She pulls my small frame into her and rubs my back soothingly, as I sob into her shoulder.

"Shh, it's okay imooto, it's okay." I couldn't stop the tear flow, all the anger and hate, sadness and betrayal I felt towards Freed, are just too much for me to take. I don't want to feel those things against my big brother anymore.

I didn't care that everyone was seeing me cry, I just let it all out. Then a voice broke through the almost dead silence. "Freed, you never told us you had a sister. We've been partners since you joined. You never told us. We could have helped you with her." I look up and it's the man with the blue hair and red eyes.

Freed looked down ashamed his long green hair falling in front of his eyes. He never even told them about me? Was he ashamed of me. I cried harder. Lucy started rocking me back and forth.

"I had to protect her Bickslow. From everything. Including Fairy Tail. How could I have lived with myself if she was hurt because of an enemy of Fairy Tail?" I guess the man who pulled at my heart and my soul, is Bickslow.

"Yet you abandoned her for the S-class exam." Bickslow's eyes started to glow green. Wait Green?

"It wasn't my fault!" Freed shouts. "Mest changed everyone's memories, which involved those outside of Fairy Tail, since no one knew about her here. He didn't either so those memories went away!"

Before anyone could react five small tiki dolls smashed into Freed. Without a word, Bickslow movies towards me and Lucy, he instantly grabs me and picks me up with one arm under my legs, and the other supporting my back. I look up at him before leaning my head against his chest, to exhausted from crying to fight it, not that I'd want to.

"Come on Lucy." Bickslow motions Lucy with his head to follow us.

"Hai!" She shouts with no hesitation following us out of the guildhall.

He walks away from the guildhall and we're surrounded with silence for five minutes before Lucy breaks it.

"Ne, Bickslow, where are we going?"

Bickslow looks at the blonde girl and smiles. His eyes no longer glowing green. "My place. She'll need somewhere to stay that no one will bother her." I blush.

Lucy-nee smiles at the two of us, it goes back to silence until we reach Bickslow's house.

Bickslow sets me down to stand so he can open the door. That's when I realize just how much taller he is than me my five foot stature barely comes up to his chest. I don't mind though, it's kind of comforting in a weird way. Lucy-nee wraps an arm around my shoulder as we go into Bickslow's house and he leads us into his living room.

I take in my surrounding's and smile. It's a very nice room. The walls are a light cream color with black carpet and grey furniture. Lucy-nee maneuvers me over to the couch and we both sit down, Bickslow sits in a chair across from us. It's silent and the three of us just stare at eachother.

Lucy-nee smile. "Why don't we start all over hmm? My name is Lucy Heartfillia and I am a celestial spirit mage! I'm 18 years old, and if not for the time skip I'd be 25." She smiles widely at me. My eyes widen, a celestial spirit mage? I have such cool things to show her. I smile wide.

"My name is Echo Alyss, technically there should be a Justine at the end, but I cut it out when I came back to life last year. I'm a reaper. I'm also 21 year old. Freed disappeared when I was 14 and I died when I was 15. It's nice to meet you Lucy-nee!"

Bickslow frowns when I speak about my dying so does Lucy-nee, but they don't ask yet.

"I'm Bickslow. I'm a seith mage and I'm 22 years old, though if not for the time skip I would be 29." I smile at Bickslow shyly.

"Ne, Echo-chan, what is a reaper?"

I smile widely and stand up. "Well a reaper is a death mage of sorts. When I died, I went to purgatory, but I met death, the reaper, the one who takes all souls to their rightful place. I didn't have a place because I wasn't supposed to die. So Death-chan taught me his magic. It can only be taught by a reaper. Sort of like how dragon slayers are taught by dragons. Though you can't have a lacrima implanted to become a reaper, there is no such thing." I place my index finger to my chin thinking.

"What does reaper magic involve?" Bickslow asks.

"It's actually really exciting!" I say with a large smile. "You two will like two parts of my magic. First though, I can control shadows and darkness, as you saw in the guild. I can also control hell fire, which is blue fire, it's beautiful." As I talk about hell fire I raise one of my hands and a small ball of blue flame appears in the palm. I hear Lucy-nee gasp.

"Catch Lucy-nee!" I through the ball of fire at her, and without thinking she catches it.

She blinks not once but twice. "Why…why doesn't it burn?" I squeal and place my hand over hers extinguishing the fire.

"I was right!" I exclaim. "I'll explain when I get to the last of my magic." Lucy-nee nods.

"Lets see next, eto…oh! Yami no shinigami ha!" I yell reaching out my left hand and appearing in it is a scythe. "This is my reaper blade of darkness. I can summon a bunch of weapons, but they're all scythes but have different attributes to them, much like a reequip mage. The reason I can only do scythes is because I am a reaper and that's the weapon of a reaper. I can also transform into a reaper form, but at my current levels it's very exhausting along with summoning the doors of purgatory, hell, and heaven."

"That's a lot of magic Echo-chan!" Lucy smiles at me.

"It is but that's just the attributes of a reaper Lucy-nee, I'm not unbeatable. " She nods.

"I've only been able to practice this magic in the living world for a year. In purgatory I could do all of my magic with out my magic levels dropping because I didn't have the restraints of a human body. "

"That makes sense." Bickslow speaks. "You need to train your body to match with your magic skill level, since it wasn't with you in purgatory, it wasn't able to adapt, and will require a lot more training." I nod and smile at him, which he returns.

"Lucy-nee your going to like this part!" I smile with glee. I pull my necklace out from under my shirt and finger through the 25 keys hanging off of it. Lucy-nee squeals in excitement. I chose my favorite companion. The key is black and encrusted with red jewels.

"Gateway to hell I open the, Gin the wind imp!" In a flash of red light a figure appear. A small green figure with large blue eyes and small horns poking out from a mop of black hair. The figure has a red scarf wrapped around his neck and he smiles with glee.

"Echo-chan!" His voice squeals. He runs and jumps at me, and I catch him and tickle his tummy, he lets out a giggle.

"Gin! My little imp how are you?"

"Gin has missed you Echo-chan!"

I smile. "This is one of my hell spirits, Gin the wind imp. He's more like a companion and I never call him out for combat, I would be crushed if he ever got hurt. He is however very sneaky and likes to snoop through peoples stuff. He uses a little wind magic, he's to young right now to master it, and can heal small cuts and abrasions."

"Echo-chan!" Lucy squeals, "He's so cute." Bickslow just smiles at the two of us, letting us have a moment with the spirit. "Would you like to make a new friend, Gin?" Lucy-nee asks my little imp.

"Oh can I Echo-chan?" The imp crawls all over me, his hyperactive energy starting to show.

"Of course you can Gin!"

Lucy squeals again before summoning the her little dog spirit. "Pun pun!" we hear as the spirit who looks like a snowman appears.

Gin squeals right in my ear causing me to cringe. "Kawaii!" Gin yells before jumping down and hugging the small celestial spirit to him. "Pun pun!" Plue shouts.

"Gin you can stay out as long as Plue is and play with him okay?" Gin nods and runs around with the little snowman dog.

"That's so cool Echo-chan! I didn't know there were other keys! "

I smile and nod, "There are. I own hell, purgatory, and heaven keys. Though I only have 25 keys all together. I can't wait to get more!. Now the final part of my magic, is extremely rare for reapers to poses. The reason I received this part is because of how I died and the fact that I was apparently always meant to become a reaper. I, like Bickslow, have seith magic." I state.

Bickslow jumps out of his seat and spins me around to look at him. I look back, with a small smile on my face. His eyes start to glow along with mine. Before long a large smile spreads across his face and he hugs me to him. I inhale his scent and all my nerves calm down and I snuggle into him. I hear a giggle coming from Lucy.

"Would you two like to be left alone?" She waggles her eyebrows. I instantly blush.

"N..no!" I exclaim and Bickslow holds onto me tighter.

"Oh!, Lucy-nee! The reason why my fire didn't burn you is because part of my soul is in yours. In very rare cases people that poses seith magic, have their souls scattered into two people. Depending on the gender of the person their soul will be implanted into a member of the same sex, and the opposite sex. My soul was implanted into yours and it's imprinted into your soul as rune for sister. You are my soul sister Lucy. That means no matter what our lives will always be intertwined, and my magic will always protect you and never hurt you, no matter how far from me you are."

Lucy looks at me with tears in her brown eyes. "I've always wanted a real sister." Lucy cries.

I smile, "This is even closer then a biological sibling Lucy. This bond is unbreakable, my soul will never leave yours. It's why you were able to break out of my shadows, it's why you felt the need to protect me. The only other person who'd be able to do that is my soulmate…oh my mavis." I whisper the last part my eyes wide with tears steadily falling as I twirl around to face Bickslow. At the same time both of our eyes glow as we gaze at each others souls. There it is, his soul…it's purple with my name embedded with my red soul. I look at his eyes, the shock written on his face, and I know that his name is written on my red soul in purple.

"Bi…" I'm cut off as his lips crash onto mine. It's a soft kiss, a slow kiss, that lasts for maybe ten seconds, before he pulls away. He looks ashamed at what he just did. But there's no reason, finding your soulmate is just like a dragon finding there mate. There is almost no control when you finally realize who it is. It's okay though, because that's how it's meant to be.

I smile at him and rub my index finger over his tattoo on his face. He smiles back.

"So, I take it you're soul mates." Lucy says wagging her eyebrows at us again.

I blush and nod snuggling into Bickslow. I let my eyes glow green and gaze into Lucy's soul.

"Eto…Lucy-nee, do you have a boyfriend, or um…two?" I ask slowly.

"Ehhh! Two boyfirends? Echo-chan don't be silly I'd never cheat on a boyfriend if I had one." Lucy-nee grumbles. Her lips form a frown, she's hurt that I think of her like that. Bickslow chuckles, he's seen it too.

"No, Lucy-nee, you misunderstand. The only other people that have something like soul mates are dragon slayers. They have mates. The soul of the mate will have the color of the dragon slayers soul wrapped around theirs. It's just that, Lucy-nee, you have two. "

Lucy blushes bright red, and me and Bickslow smile at her. "Bickslow, do you know who they are?" I question him.

"Lucy's mates are both in the guild Echo. One of which is my soul brother." I squeal loudly.

"Lucy-nee this is fantastic! You have two mates! Two wonderful mates. Oh my Mavis! Lucy! This is so exciting." Lucy just gets even redder and collapses on the couch.

"Ne, Echo-chan can we discuss something else. This is embarrassing."

I smirk. "Don't you want to know who they are, I'm sure Bickslow will tell you."

"No!" Lucy shouts. She's so cute when she's embarrassed.

"Fine! But I will tell you that the colors are a greyish silver and a yellow, and the yellow is kind of like static." She blushes even more.

Bickslow laughs at Lucy-nee's reaction. I chuckle a little as well.

"Oh!" I shout getting excited. "Lucy-nee, I have something for you. You I found it and for some reason I felt like I had to keep it even though I can't use it. Now I know why! My soul knew that our paths would cross." I grin wide as Lucy raises an eyebrow at me.

I grab the chain with all my keys again and take one of them off. "This is a diamond key Lucy, It's a planetary key. I can't use them because it's not related to either hell, heaven or purgatory, but you Lucy, are celestial and planetary keys fit that." I hand her the key. "This one is Pluto!" I say excitedly.

She looks at me with the biggest grin, and a slight prick of tears at the corner of her eyes. "Thank you so much imooto!" She pulls me into a bone crushing hug.

Bickslow clears his throat and looks at the two of us. "I hate to break this lovely girl on girl moment up," He sticks his tongue out. "But we should probably go back to the guild. The more I think about it the more It's been coming clear that we should probably get things cleared up sooner rather than later."

Lucy nods and looks at me. She narrows her eyes when I open my mouth to protest, and I hang my head. Lucy-nee can be scary. "Do I have to? They're gonna attack me…"

Bickslow pulls me close. "I won't let them touch you." Lucy-nee stands up and nods.

"Neither will I." She says firmly.

I smile at them and nod. "Hai! I can do anything as long as I have you two with me!" They both smile as we walk out of Bickslow's house.

Bickslow wraps an arm around my shoulder and Lucy-nee grabs my hand and we make our way towards my fate.