Disclaimer: I own nothing here except for this plot; don't sue me I am just a teenager. Also the picture is not mine either, it is from Google Images, so person who drew this lovely work of art… Please dear heaven, don't hate me!

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Fairy Tail hadn't been the same. At some point while Team Natsu was on their merry way out causing the custom chaos the Guild was attacked. However the name of those who attacked Fairy Tail isn't known and the hall itself lay in shambles was beyond their care at the moment. What was taking center stage was a small man crushed in the rubble and debris caused by the attack. The whole guild was in dismay as upon closer inspection it was the Guild Master himself trapped under a high beam, buildings can be rebuilt, items replaced, even memories change… however a life cannot be replaced so easily, they tried to help him in every way they could but to no avail the old man was stuck and he was dying. The very man who raised most of the Guild and nurtured it like his own flesh and blood was dying crushed by the very place he loved so dearly. In a way it's almost poetic to a fault.

Team Natsu returned on that day, Lucy was walking ahead ranting about Gray's stripping habits and the niceness of a bed and shower when she saw the smoke coming from where the Guild should have been and screamed.

"Natsu the Guild's been attacked!" She then took off at a dead run with the other's close to follow before suddenly running into an invisible wall.

"Freed, it's Erza! Let me in this instant! What the happened here?!"

The green-haired mage just had a sullen look on his face as he took down the runes.

"Sorry, we were attacked, those were to keep all who weren't here during the first attack from the Guild outside the barrier… There was a Guild, most likely a dark one at this point, and they came from everywhere, the Guild she shook, and then the roof caved, everyone made it out alright… Well almost everyone."

"What do you mean almost everyone?!"

"Master… He- He got caught pushing some of the other's out of the way and the beams fell so fast when the attacks began. Erza I didn't even see him get caught, no one heard him, I swear I didn't intend to do this!" Freed was most definitely distraught and Erza just sighed.

"Alright. I understand Freed, please calm down alright? How is everyone else?"

"Not good, Master is gone, everyone's distraught and… and, go see for yourself." He then gave up trying to explain.

Erza, Lucy, Natsu and Gray all walked into the ruins of their Guild. Lucy automatically began to cry and Natsu placed his arm around her lightly.

"Luce… Hey, it's going to be alright, I promise, you don't need to leave, we're still Nakama, and we'll take care of each other, it's what the old man would have wanted."

He tried to comfort her but she was upset, Fairy Tail was the one place she'd belonged, the one place she'd felt safe ever since she had been there, everyone had gone through so much together… She then began to look around.

"We'll rebuild it and everything of course, but what do we do about the new Guild Master?" She asked after regaining some composure from the shock of losing Makarov.

"Laxus, Erza, Gildarts, and a few others probably are in the running at this point but we honestly have no idea. Cana's a good bet she can keep people in order and Mirajane knows what she's doing… Speaking of Laxus, where is the ungrateful son of a bitch?" Gray asked as he looked through the crowd of people finally speaking.

Freed seemed surprised.

"You're right, he's not here right now though!"

"He of all people should be here! His own grandfather has just died!" Natsu screamed already amping up, Lucy just shook her head.

"Natsu, no more fighting." She said and placed a hand on his arm, he listened after seeing the look on her face and sighing.

"Alright Luce, say, we should clean this place up, see what we have, and stuff then we'll rebuild right?"

"Yeah, but what about Master?"

"Perhaps we'll bury him in the cemetery." Mira said softly walking up from the rubble, ash, dirt, and other debris covered her, even some still in her hair.

"I see, when's the service going to be?"

"Probably soon, it's cold right now but that's best I suppose, we can bury him in a coffin with the Fairy Tail insignia on it along with some pretty words on his headstone."

Headstone. A word never seemed to be so wrong since the Guild Master was so full of life.

"I see." Was all she had to say before looking around at the devastation.

"His remains… I hate that word, they have been taken care of though right?"

"Yes, of course, we've preserved him with magic."

"Alright now, we begin to rebuild his pride and joy." Erza said.

"Lucy call your Spirits, Natsu, begin to clear out all the debris, if anything is too hot for the normal mages to touch you can eat it. Gray, help preserve what's left of the guild and freeze anything he misses. I'll help gather supplies and Levy can help us calculate expenses wherever she's at." Erza then began to give out orders to the rest of the guild as time went by.

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The day came and everyone showed up, if they didn't well most made a Lacrima appearance, no matter how sick they were they somehow managed to show up.

Lucy was leaning against the newest rebuild of the Fairy Tail guild's Pillar and sighing softly as she bit her lips to not cry aloud. Juvia was openly sobbing along with the sky, and Gray was freezing the area over the group so it didn't soak everything and everyone even the Raijinshu looked around for Laxus but he was a no show. However this was to be expected, most took it that he couldn't bear to come here and bother showing emotion in this pouring rain. Whilst those that showed up wore solid black.

Erza walked to the podium.

"Excuse me, this thing is on right Mira?" She asked into the microphone hearing her voice carry over the speakers she just nodded.

"Okay it is, now then, as you all know, we lost our dear Master, Makarov Dreyar a week or so back due to the fact that the Guild was attacked by a dark guild, our only clue is a symbol we found burned into the ashes which consists of a tower like symbol burned completely black." She sighed then. "Does anyone have any idea who they may be?"

Everyone shook their heads and sighed with her.

"Well, they are the reason we've lost him, our Master, Makarov Dreyar, he was a good kind man, despite his quirks and perverted habits, but he was the man who led this Guild, and helped make it what it was. And after all this, he's gone. Does anyone have anything they want to say to him?"

Erza then waited holding the microphone out to others in the audience at this point some people from Magnolia even came under the cover to see how what was going on.

Erza blinked as Gajeel came up with three flowers. They seemed to be surprised to do anything.

"Well, I didn't know him as long as most of you, even Princess over here knows more about him than I do, but despite what I did to his family, and to his team Shadow Gear, he let me join along with Juvia from Phantom Lord. I wasn't even sure what the old man's reason was but he did, and I thank him for it. I also made these from metal… They will never need to be replaced and stuff so… We'll place these on top of his grave…" He said and then left them in an empty vase.

Holding back tears Lucy stood up and walked towards them as Gajeel passed the microphone over and smiled softly at her. He then returned to his spot by Levy to which he sat holding her hand gently whispering something to her as he kissed the back of her hand very slyly.

"Hi everyone, well, for starters. I'm going to miss him, he was more of a father for me within the time I spent here than my biological father was in all of my 17. He will be most definitely missed after all he doesn't even know how important he is… was… to us." She began as she began to tear up. Natsu stood up and walked over to her he put his arm around her and she leaned into his side. She began to cry as she delivered the rest.

"I have my first true family ever since Momma died. T-Thank you for accepting me, and I just want you all to know, that I-I am happy to have such a loving family… And well, I want you all to know that I love you all." She said and then cried, she always hated funerals. She never liked speaking at them but she felt obligated to this time and so she did. She was walked back to her seat with Natsu as Gray even looked at her pitifully. He sighed and then turned to Juvia.

"He was a nice man, letting Juvia join after all the trouble Juvia caused you…" She whispered to Gray and the others around her he put his hand on her shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze.

"I know. He was a nice person." He whispered to her back.

The sermon continued for the Guild Master and they then buried him, he went down in a casket that was meant for a child as they buried him in a cemetery. Gajeel placed the flowers over the tops of the grave and Levy burst into tears. Everyone grew up with Makarov Dreyar, their leader, their father, their protector, their family. Natsu gave a howl, he had respected the old man even giving him the title of Gramps. He to Natsu was honest to god family and the flames that cast shadows against the storming grey sky proved this, rain hammered down everyone.

Despite all the familiar faces not a single person saw Laxus Dreyar in the crowd of faces.

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Laxus' POV

I went to her house to see her again, but something was wrong as I saw smoke billow over the house she lived in…

"Lilia!" I shouted in a panic and ran forwards bolting towards the smoldering house.

"Answer me!" I yelled the smell of smoke itself was so thick it made my nose and eyes burn with a fury, add that to my dragon-slayer senses and I was practically dying.

Damn woman what stunt did she pull this time?! I thought this angrily as I picked my way through the mansion.

"This is bull crap… Lilia! Enough of your games woman answer me!" I shouted and then I tripped, headlong down a flight of burning stairs and I hit something hard… Glaring in the haze I made a grab for what I smacked into and it appeared to be a person, I hoped it wasn't her, if it was her, I would be crushed…

Carrying this being outside to the lake nearby, after taking my headphones off I plunged my heads into the water blinking and staring snorting as well anything to get the smoke out of my senses… When I pulled myself out of the water I turned to the person next to me, my heart as hard as it was cracked a little… It was her…

"Lilia, can you hear me?" I asked tentatively and shook her shoulder violently.

She coughed and sputtered for a moment I was relieved, that was of course before I saw the red stain the grass and the dress she wore…

"Laxus?" Her voice was hoarse and angry sounding, she seemed ready to scold me before another set of body shaking coughs consumed her.

"He would have come for me… You didn't need to save me Laxus, you know this means I'll have to be an even bigger spectacle in order to get him to come to me."

"Don't tell me you're still wanting that prick Salome…" I asked incredulously.

"Don't bad mouth him Laxus, he's a nice guy in honest, I know he doesn't think I exist but he sometimes comes to save me from myself, you've done so, so much he probably thinks we're an item…"

She said after coughing so hard she threw up bile and blood onto the grass, she must have been hurt by something… swallowed or inhaled something bad, ash perhaps or maybe an ember they're floating all around. Then it happened, she stopped breathing, blood trickling from her nose and her lips, I felt my heart, as hard as it was it twinges. You have no idea how much it hurt me to feel anything, but I had to feel this after the crack that losing my grandfather brought, he was my self-proclaimed number one fan. I lost him now I've lost Lilia… I have nothing left, the Guild probably hates me, I have nothing left to live for…

It's time to end this…

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Lucy's POV

Lucy sat after the service wearing a black trench coat, black long-sleeve, and a black skirt. My boots were the usual pair and she sat at the bar and drank the strawberry smoothie made for her by Mira.

"Hey, isn't it odd that we didn't see Laxus?" She asked as she looked around and sighed depressed at the world.

"Well I'm sure he was there…" Mira said hoping to reassure her in the best.

"I don't know though, no one saw him and he… he didn't seem to care a great deal about the Guild always blaming to be weak and useless." Lucy sighed and rested her head on the bar before Cana staggered over with full keg in in hand.

"Lucy… Laxus is having some serious problems…"

"What are you talking about?"

"We need to do a reading on him then."

"Alright that sounds fine, how do I do these things? Simple, you think of him and pull cards, I'll look at them and we can see what goes on."

"When I think about him what should I think about?"

"Just him and his future. All you gotta do…" She said simply and sneezed a bit.

"Geez I may have gotten a cold…" Cana mumbled and proceeded to simply have Lucy draw cards from the deck while focused on Laxus' well-being.

"Alright, so what do they say Cana?" Lucy asked sweetly and Cana read them…

"I see, well we got problems, the cards say Laxus is in a dark place right now and it may be too late for him… He's in big trouble, like possibly gonna die kinda trouble…"

Lucy blinked, panicked and then ran out of the guild she created such a gust of wind that all of Cana's cards fell on the ground, she saw the Death card lying next to the Hanging Man… She chuckled at this as she knelt picking up her things.

"Laxus, you son of a bitch, if you scar her, you're in big trouble." She huffed.

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Lucy had ran all around Magnolia and saw how he stood under the tree his neck in the noose as he was about to kick the chair down and he knew it would hopefully snap his neck, however he took off his coat and his headphones, no need to mess them up without need after all by the looks of it. He was gonna do it soon…

Laxus could hear screaming as he was fumbling with his feet trying to push the chair away far enough the pressure around his neck was tight but not tight enough to do much more damage the skin on his neck. He'd finally kicked it away only to drop, sadly he wasn't dead yet he underestimated his weight limit on the cable and with his weight it held for a while however he could hear the bough breaking he just hoped it would be his life with it. Suddenly he saw something glint in the distance and a faint voice call his name as the pressure spiked for a moment then it vanished and he began to fall rapidly to the ground and then he felt something stop him mid fall. His vision flickered in and out of the blackness as he saw brown eyes, pale skin, and golden hair.

"I'm sorry Lila…" He choked out reaching his hand out as he felt someone grab his hand gently and a soft voice speak.

"Laxus, come on you sorry little shit! Stay with us! Loke what's happening Cancer's scissors are over there by the way…"

"Don't worry Hime, he's just suffering from loss of oxygen, no one said that Laxus was bright but this is unusal behavior for him."

Laxus was officially passed out since his body couldn't take what he'd just put himself through, Loke and Taurus carried the big man to Lucy's apartment as she walked this time along the edge not because of her free will but out of necessity. She walked along the edge of the canal and unlocked her place on Strawberry Street and let them in. They placed Laxus on her bed and smiled as she saw him breathing regularly. However his body neck was forming a bruise so she placed a cool wet cloth on it in order to help reduce the bruising and so he wouldn't hurt as much. She sighed and leaned on the couch, Taurus kept his composure about the position and highlighted his contractor's natural feminine physique and continued to stand about as Loke looked over to her.

"Hime, you need anything else from us?"

"No, I'm tired now, coming down from the lovely adrenaline rush he's given me and drink some tea, then probably go to bed. I'll contact you if I need you alright? Everything seems to be fine for now. Goodnight guys." She said and went into the kitchen as Taurus gave a confirmative grunt and vanished. Loke nodded and left the scene as well.

This left Lucy time to unwind and attempt to relax, she had Virgo send a message to the guild that Laxus would be alright and will be recovering at her house for the time being. She was given back a note confirming this and allowing it. Also the thanks of the Guild since in essence, Makarov would have been distraught to find that his Grandson had joined him in the afterlife. Upon finishing up reading the note she changed and went to bed then cuddling into her sheets and falling asleep for the day's events had worn her out after attending a funeral then preventing another one cost quite a surprising amount of effort.