Okay, so it's been a while since I posted something. Well, this is my first Fairy Tail fic, but those of you that have read my works before, you know what I mean. Speaking of Celestial War (Storm Hawks) and A Darkened World (Slugterra), they are on hiatus for the moment. I haven't said anything because I wasn't sure how to break it, other than make a note on my profile. The reason for Celestial War's hiatus, it's because it had lost it's touch after the fifth time I had redone it-I might actually delete it and create a brand new story. For A Darkened World, I'm having a bit of...internal conflict because the movies kind of threw me off my thunder (but they were great) so I have no idea which direction I will go with it.

Anyways, like I said this is my first Fairy Tail story so I hope I did okay. And please let me know if I got the suffixes right, because this is my first time using them. Anyways, enjoy and review!

I do not own anything except for the OCs. Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima.

Introduction:

"There's nothing left!"

The sky with it's azure glory, the cerulean waves below and the gentle rocking of the boat; the calmness of the scenery didn't settle their nerves. Something was missing from this view. A land sacred to this group was missing. The youngest of the group, however, wasn't to sure that this was right. Her silvery eyes narrowed in confusion and the wind forced her dark brown locks in her face. A woman with lavender hair and glasses noticed her internal conflicts.

"Something the matter, Ophelia?"

"If nothing's here, Laki-san, then why do I sense many magical presences?"

"Just Laki and you have something?"

"They aren't leftovers that's for sure..." said the girl as she continued to scan horizon, "Yet, they're faint. I'll keep working on it."

"Alright. Thank y-"

"W-wait! I-I have a connection!"

Everyone on the ship jumped at the girl's sudden outburst. They ran to her side of the ship and looked into the distance, but before they could find out what it was that she found, she jumped off the side of the boat.

"Ophelia!"

As the girl fell, she held her arm towards the water. The next moment, a platform of light appeared and her feet met it gracefully. She then swiped her wrist in the same direction she was looking to. The platform turned into a ramp-like shape and she rode it down to her destination as if she was riding a surfboard.

"I feel them. They're close..." she said to no one.

A moment later, she came upon the end of her ramp-to another platform- and three unconscious bodies floating in the water just a few inches away. Two were young men about the age of eighteen or nineteen and the third was of a little girl about a year older than her. She used her power to remove them from the water and onto the platform. They were bandaged, as if they had faced many injuries from battle.

Moments later, she returns to the hip and the rest of her friends were shacked at whom she had found. Apparently, these three were a part of the group that went missing on Tenrou Island. She learned the boys were Natsu Dragneel and Gray Fullbuster; and the girl was Wendy Marvell.

When the rescue team returned to Fairy Tail, they were both emitting auras of hope and despair. The three survivors were brought to the the infirmary via Ophelia's magic. The girl took them upstairs as Laki and the others checked in with the people that did not go on the mission. The rest of Fairy Tail broke down in tears as they learned most of their friends have vanished.

"We can't just give up!" shouted a determined Jet.

His orange hair hid under his tall brimmed hat and his lips were stuck in a furious frown. Next to him was a man-sharing that same expression- with dark hair that was shaped like a plant sprout growing from his head.

"Surely, if Natsu, Gray and Wendy survived then the others might have as well. Including Levy!" the second man shouted.

"Jet, Droy," sighed Laki, "We have scoured those waters for days. We can't assume too much. We have to consider the worst-case scenario even if we don't believe it to be true..."

Meanwhile, in the infirmary, Ophelia had put the veteran Fairy Tail members in their beds and started to bandage what she can see. It was temporary treatment until someone could reach Porlyusica in the East Forest. For a young girl, she knew many different things. Everyone keeps asking how she obtained her knowledge and she answers it was her magic and the ways of nature. She read about a lot of stories on forbidden, legendary and status ailment magic.

"W-wha..?"

The young brunette was brought back to reality. She looked around, wondering where the voice was coming from. No one other than her and the unconscious ones in front her were in the room. Or rather, she had thought all of them were unconscious. The young man lying in front of her was awake; groggy but awake. It was the one the others pointed out as Natsu Dragneel, their resident Fire Dragon Slayer. She was curious about that spiky mess on his head, wondering if the pink color it bears was hereditary or it was dyed.

"Ungh, my head," he mumbled, as he tried to sit up. Ophelia stopped him.

"No, you have to rest, Natsu-san! You're not in the condition do anything at this point, unless Porlyusica-san gives you the clear when she comes."

Natsu glared at the girl with absent eyes.

"I'm fine, a bit dizzy but fine. Just get me some fire and I- Wait, who are you? Where am I? This isn't the island!" he asked a bit bluntly.

Ophelia showed him the white Fairy Tail mark on her arm. The Dragon Slayer eyes widened a bit then he smiled.

"My name is a Ophelia, a new member of Fairy Tail. I joined about a week ago, right before the Master had left to...Tenrou..."

Natsu's eyebrow peaked at her hesitation as she mentioned the island. The girl went on anyway.

"You're in the infirmary. You were brought here after we found you."

At that moment, a man with purplish hair wearing a white coat and another man with strange hair and had a pipe in his mouth came in the room. They bore grim expressions.

"Figures you're the first one awake..." the weird haired man sighed with sadness.

"Natsu, do you know what happened to Tenrou Island?" Macao asked hesitantly.

Natsu's eyes widened as he remembered something important.

"Where's everyone else?! What happened to Acnologia and that Zeref bastard?!" he shouted desparately.

Macao and Wakaba held their breath.

"We'd thought you'd be the one to know..."

It had been a week since Natsu, Gray and Wendy were found in the ocean. They haven't shown up at the guild since they heard the news that their friends have vanished. They did no take the news very well. No one blamed them, however, and they new the reasons why. There was that possibility that everyone was...killed with Acnologia's roar? If not that, then maybe with Zeref's wrath they were taken from them.

Natsu sat on the couch of his house, exhausted and drained of motivation. Were they really gone? Happy? Erza? Laxus?...Lucy? He thought back to what happened right before the impact of Acnolgia's roar. He kept going through the memory over and over. Then something inside him clicked. He remembered a soft voice chanting something before the blast hit. He was lucky he had such outstanding hearing, or he wouldn't have caught what the voice said.

"Fairy Sphere..."

Was it some sort of incantation that cast a spell to protect his friends? Or was it the real cause of his friend's demise? Then again, he could have been going insane due to the trauma of past events and it's neither. Even so, he realized that it was important to keep the guild functioning as it was before the S-Class Trials because, dead or alive, his missing friends wouldn't want it to end like this.

The Dragon Slayer jumped from his couch and got rid of much of the evidence of his sadness as he could. He ran out of his house and went straight to the guild hall.

When he arrived at the guild hall, it was crowded yet...sickeningly quiet; it made Natsu cringe. He immediately caught the scent of Gray, Wendy and the girl he met in the infirmary, Ophelia was it? The three of them were seated at the bar. They, no, the whole guild wore grim and depressed faces. Are they that stupid? Natsu thought angrily. He jumped across tables, obtaining everyone's attention. After a moment, he jumped from a table to second floor balcony.

"Oi, Natsu! Stop acting like an idiot, would you?" Gray shouted-with no motivation-at him from his seat.

"Why I'm the idiot?! You guys are the idiots! Start cheering up a little!" the Dragon Slayer barked at his teammate.

"What the hell, flame-brain?! Are you saying to be happy that our friends are gone!"

"Gray-san!" yelled a shocked Wendy, "How dare you say that!"

It took all his might to not jump the ice mage from his position and beat him until he couldn't see straight; but Natsu went on anyway.

"Bastard! Are you really that stupid! You know that's not what I'm saying!" he roared, "What I'm saying is that we can't be all mopey and negative! Yeah, I'm torn about how the rest of us are missing...They could be alive...or dead..." He tried to keep himself from hesitating in his words before he finished his speech. He took a deep breath, "But, I've come to realize in the past week is that, in either case, I'm sure that NONE of them would want us to remain like this forever! I'm sure they want us to be happy and live our lives to the fullest...Because if we didn't, then what does Fairy Tail stand for?! It will be hard, but they would want us to remain strong, to keep the guild thriving...So get off your gloomy asses and start looking to the future!"

Everyone remained silent. All of them were shocked by his powerful words, and this included Gray; but they all smiled as Natsu finished.

Gray sighed with a small smile, "He's right..."

Then Ophelia asked an important question.

"Then who will be master?"

Natsu froze and pondered it for a moment, not noticing the fingers that were pointed at him.