Chapter One

Found By Darkness, Seen Some Light

Dark clouds swirled above the home of a Dark guild's base. This ominous guild housed three particular dragonslayers. A pink haired fire dragon slayer slept on top of the wooden floorboards, snoring as loud as a dragon and a small blue cat took a nap on his scaly scarf. A blue haired girl sat on a stool and held a giant egg with strange markings on it; she shied away from her intimidating guildmates her were drooling and pointing daggers at her. These two were only small children who barely knew anything of the world when they were left to wander in it after their dragon parents disappeared mysteriously.

The blue haired girl named Wendy couldn't stand the intimidating people staring at the egg so she accidentally slipped out of her stool and accidentally fell on the pink haired boy's chest.

The guildmates immediately froze when they realized what happened. Once the fire dragon slayer's sleep was interrupted by harsh physical contact, a never ending brawl would occur, and they would all get beat to a pulp by the boy. But the boy continued to snore loudly with no worries in the silent guild. Everyone sighed in relief and Wendy softly stood up and whispered with a sweat drop. "Sorry Natsu."

When the guildmates thought that the absolute wrath of the fire dragon was avoided, the giant guild doors slammed out of it's hinges and in came a black haired boy, stomping towards Wendy with a tick mark. His guildmates mocked "Looks like Gajeel couldn't find his cat." They all laughed but unfortunately ceased to laugh when they all got suckerpunched by a club of steel.

Gajeel stopped in his tracks in front of Wendy and wore a sharp frown. "You are going to help me find a giant egg." He said, slowly and sternly. He felt jealous that the other dragonslayers found strange eggs but he would never say it.

"Whaaaat?" Wendy whined but she was already being dragged away by Gajeel, to find another giant egg with strange markings.

At sundown, the guild master strolled in through the entrance, not noticing that the doors were gone. By now, all the guild members were sprawled over the tables and floor, sleeping their debts away. The guild master kept walking, his mind focused on a small sheet of paper in his hands until he accidentally stepped on Natsu, who was still sleeping. He didn't flinch when Natsu groaned lazily "Get off me old man."

The guild master nonchalantly stepped off of the kid and said "I have a mission specifically for you."

"I don't listen to old people." Natsu started to heavily breath again to signal that he was about to sleep again.

"The mission is to fight someone really really strong." The old man said, hoping it would catch the young dragonslayer's interest.

Natsu immediately sat up and stared innocently to the guild master's eyes. "Who?"

The guild master handed Natsu a paper of wet papyrus with rips and tears everywhere.

The pink haired boy's eyes widened when he saw the mission. "Wake up Happy. we're going!"

Happy woke up immediately and chirped "Aye!"

The duo ran out the entrance just before a bolt of realization struck the guild master. The doors were gone… Just as Natsu and Happy were out of his vocal range, the guild master exploded and a tornado of salt burst from the guild, attacking all those who were in it.

The guild members yelled in agony "My eyes!" and "Why is the guild master salty again!?"

Natsu marched down a small path in a deep forest with Happy napping on his head. He strained his eyes when he tried to read the directions on the mission. He sighed in defeat and stood in front of a puddle. He looked at his reflection and all he saw was a ghost of Igneel. He rubbed his eyes and just saw his old self again. He sighed again, he was going crazy.

He frowned and said out loud under the shade of the forest. "Igneel, I know you can hear me since I guess you're technically inside of me so I'm going to ask you to guide me in any way. Please if you don't answer, I'll think I'm going insane. But the fact that I'm talking to myself means I am going insane. Answer me Igneel, Am I going crazy?"

There was no reply with the exception of Happy sleep talking. "Natsu is going crazy." The blue cat hummed lightly.

"Thanks a lot." Natsu muttered. Plan B then. "Zeref can you hear me?" He called. But he knew it was no use, for his brother was somewhere else hiding from life. Plan H. "Happy can you talk to me?"

Happy snored happily away before pausing to say "No" and then continue to snore.

"Why don't I have anyone normal that I can talk to?"

Natsu sighed and then decided to backtrack back to the guild. This mission was a fail because the challenger didn't appear and because he couldn't read.

He walked back to the guild location, only to find the guild in crumbles. So the guild master was salty again, okay. Natsu guessed he was free so he decided to explore the world with no restrictions. The only thing he really cared about in the guild was Wendy and Gajeel and Happy, but they'll probably be fine. Happy was with Natsu himself and he'll always protect the cat. As long as Gajeel is in search for his own cat, then everything will be fine. And since Wendy is with Gajeel, she'll be fine. And hopefully they'll find another guild where their guild master won't unleash a wave of fiery on to their own guild building.

In the meantime Natsu has plans to actually train until he can finally get strong enough to defeat Zeref. He walked down a different path through the forest, only to sense that there was someone stalking him. "Come out." He said.

A man walked out from behind a tree to reveal himself to be very old. He had white hair and a really long white beard. Although the eyepatch made him seem ten years younger Natsu thought. "I have a request… Join my guild."

"I don't listen to old people." Natsu replied immediately.

"Even if we could potentially lead you to Zeref?"

"I don't know what you're talking about."
" I heard you say Zeref's name back there. Say, how do you know about Zeref at such a young age?"

"So you're that challenger from the mission!." Natsu exclaimed happily. "Let's fight!"

"You're no match for me, but I can train you to become strong. After all, I'm nearly close to discovering One Magic."

Natsu raised an eyebrow. "What's your name old man?"

"Purehito, yours?"

"Natsu Dragneel."

Six years later x784

A long black train zoomed through the rails in the clear blue sky. It's destination: Magnolia

"Mmm." A man groaned as he sat against the window of the train in a sickly position. Once the train stopped, he sighed in relief quietly. Curse this motion sickness...

The man departed from the train quite quietly and threw his dark cloak on and covered his head with a hood. He walked on a main road. The road led to a particular guild, called Fairy Tail, but he didn't know.

Walking on this path surrounded by various interesting buildings, he heard a scream come from the alleyway from the left. He came from a dark guild, why should he care? His thoughts bounced around back and forth.

"Dammit." He grit his teeth as he left to investigate the dark alleyway. Under the heavy moonlight, he saw a blonde girl being harassed by a group of thugs. The man was about to make a move when the blonde girl held up a golden key and yelled "Open! Gate of the Bull, Taurus!"

Then all of a sudden the key glowed and a muscular cow with a double edged axe appeared out of nowhere and started swinging his axe at the thugs. Seeing this, the man sweatdropped and started to walk out of the alley, wanting no business with this weird girl with the weird cow. Back it up, back it up, Natsu you saw nothing in that alley so just back it up, real nice and slowly he thought to himself. But on que, the weird girl called him out when she caught up to him and pointed her key at him.

"Who are you?"

"Just a normal passerby." The man answered.

"I saw you come when I was being attacked by the thugs, are you with them?"

"Of course I'm not!" The man talked back as he felt slightly insulted that he could be seen as just a thug. If someone thought he was a thug, he would obviously do a way better job.

"Can you pull down your hood?" She asked. "Oh, by the way my name is Lucy."

"Yes the weird girl who can summon cows out of nowhere." The man said as he pulled down his hood at the request of the girl. Wait why am I listening to her?

"And your- you have pink hair…" Lucy trailed off.

"So WHAT? You have blonde hair, does it matter?" The man shouted angrily at Lucy. He felt offended that slightly having a different hair color is so strange.

"Oh sorry, I have never seen such a strange hair color." Lucy apologized.

"And I have never seen a man cow." The man grumbled.

"I didn't get your name."

"It's Natsu, yours?"

"I already told you…"

"It was something like Luigi I think…"

"It's Lucy…" She sweatdropped.

Natsu kept walking on the road after that conversation with Lucy but he couldn't help but notice that she was following him. He didn't ask why and just kept silent. Lucy broke the silence when she asked "Are you going to Fairy Tail by any chance?"

"No?" Natsu said in confusion. "I'm going to that restaurant over there." He pointed at the specific building that he was talking about.

"That's the guild Fairy Tail that you're pointing to." Lucy squinted at the building just to be sure. "Yeah, it is."

"Really? It looks like a bar to me." Natsu tilted his head. Here he was about to walk into a guild full of light mages. He was so hungry… and he took the train of death for no reason…

Lucy noticed Natsu wore a disappointed look as she heard his stomach growl. "Hey if you don't want your journey to be a waste, you could help me join Fairy Tail. I also hear that they have some pretty good drinks."

Natsu pondered on the request for a while. Why do I feel in such a helpful mood today… He frowned and thought about his hunger and situation. Maybe he was supposed to walk in the path of light instead of the path of darkness. But dark guilds always worshipped his brother while light guilds always tense up when they hear the name 'Zeref' as if it's some kind of taboo. They even nicknamed Zeref the black wizard. On the other hand, Igneel always told him not to do bad things like burn the forest. Too bad that always happened. Natsu started to think too much that it hurt his head.

"Dammit I'm going insane."

Lucy blinked at Natsu. "Your answer?"

"Sure, why not?" Natsu said in an irritated tone.

As they strolled towards Fairy Tail, Lucy told Natsu a bit of herself like that she was a celestial mage that could summon key guys.

"They're not called key guys…" Lucy sweatdropped.

They finally stood in front of the large doors that would open into the guild of Lucy's dreams. She trembled a bit, what if she wasn't good enough to join?

Natsu just eyed Lucy and the door. "So am I supposed to open the door for you or what?"

"Please." Lucy whispered. She really needed help, she didn't have the courage to do this by herself. But she retracted that thought when Natsu opened the door in an unnecessary way. He kicked the door and the giant wooden doors literally blasted off its hinges and was launched into a few unsuspecting people.

But that wasn't the worst part. The worst part is that a naked guy just suddenly crashed into her. She screeched in horror "WHERE ON EARTHLAND ARE YOUR CLOTHES?!" She covered her eyes (halfway). And she looked pleadingly to Natsu, to get the heavy naked guy off of her. But the naked guy just pushed her off and launched himself towards the people in the building.

Natsu just stood still with his eyes as voids. Yes, what was seen cannot be unseen… Now Lucy and the cow just seemed like ordinary people after seeing that guy… But he was suddenly hit with the bolt of sudden realization. Fairy… Tail? This was the guild Purehito always talked about. This was the supposed guild that housed the secret of Fairy Heart. He peeked at the inside of the guild, trying to avoid the sight of the naked guy. All he saw were aggressive people, a barmaid and a drunk.

"Is this really the guild?.." Natsu trailed off.

Lucy continued the sentence for herself unconsciously "... That I wanted to join?"

Natsu and Lucy looked at each other after they realized that they created a sentence together. Lucy was about to say weird, but nothing could get weirder than a naked guy falling on you.

They stared in horror when they saw that everyone in the guild didn't pay much attention to the guy with no clothes. "I think… I should take my leave…" Natsu said, wide eyed.

"Take me with you…" Lucy shook her head out of those thoughts. "No, I'm going to finally join my dream guild." She said with bright determination.

"Good luck." Natsu snorted and disappeared.

"DON'T LEAVE ME!" Lucy shouted but the pink haired man was long gone. Now she was alone, surrounded by her possible soon to be new guildmates. Lucy was found crawling low on the floor, trying to avoid to get involved with the fight going on until a certain white haired girl spotted her.

"What brings you here?" Asked the white haired barmaid with a smile.

"Um… I- I want to join your guild." Lucy muttered.

"Oh joy, the master will be happy to see a new member." The barmaid clapped. "My name is Mirajane."

"I'm Lu-" Lucy couldn't finish the sentence when Mirajane was taken out by a flying table. "Uh, I guess I'll introduce myself when you wake up. Hehe…" Lucy looked slightly scared at the fact that Mirajane might be dead now. She couldn't hold her thought when a big guy with white spiky hair crashed onto her body. "Help me please." She gasped as she was being crushed by a weight greater than hers.

While the guy who crashed into her didn't notice and screamed something about being a man.

Natsu hid in the shadows and chuckled at the sight. He wondered what would have happened if he had joined a guild like this instead of a dark guild. Before being noticed, he left through the front entrance that no longer had doors. He remembered the times when he could blast open a door like that. Too bad the guild he's in now is just a floating airship with a million doors that lead to nothingness.

On his way out, he saw a small old man who looked at him suspiciously as their paths crossed. The old man sensed something intensely dark in the pink haired boy with a hint of light. He was about to introduce himself to the boy, but his thoughts suddenly snapped towards his guild where the doors were no longer able to be seen... again. His magic exploded and he immediately transformed into a giant to crush the brutes inside the guild.

"BRATS! COULD YOU ALL STOP ACTING LIKE DESTRUCTIVE MONSTERS AND JUST CALM DOWN FOR ONCE."

Everyone froze in disarray, not ready to receive punishment. Natsu was surprised when the naked guy acted like he just realized that he wasn't wearing clothes.

"AND WHO IN THE WORLD BLEW THE DOOR AGAIN?"

Natsu couldn't stop himself from laughing. That old man was possibly the guild master. So this guild also had a master that explodes and scolds everyone, just better. If only Gajeel and Wendy were in the guild then it would just be like old times.

He saw everyone point at Lucy and say "It was her, the new girl."

Lucy wore a look of astonishment and yell "It wasn't me!"

"A new girl?" The old man shrunk to midget and inspected Lucy. "We could use another strong member… But why does every member have to kill the door?"

"Like I said, IT WASN'T ME!" She cried as everyone cheered in happiness that another member was addd to the guild. Shortly after, they all continued to brawl again like nothing happened.

Then Natsu left. He was supposed to report to Purehito about his meeting with Fairy Tail, but he still eavesdropped on the conversations going back and forth in the guild with his really good hearing and all. What an odd guild. He smiled.

So that's what a light guild is.

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