Unexpected Unofficial Quest

A day had passed since Luna, Natsu, Elise and Happy embarked on a training journey together. The previous night, Natsu, Luna and their exceeds left a note on the table in Lucy's bedroom. It wasn't Luna's idea to leave a note for Lucy. She thought it would've been better to talk to Lucy about it in person, but she figured Natsu wouldn't want her asking to come with them so she just went with Natsu's note idea. Meanwhile at the guild, Lucy was sitting at a table with Erza, Wendy, Carla, Gray, Juvia, Gajeel, Panther Lily, and Levy. Normally Natsu, Happy, Luna, and Elise would be sitting at the table with them. Lucy was sitting there with a sad expression on her face while the other members were starting to wonder where the four of them were. Mirajane approached them with mugs full of drinks and asked Lucy what was wrong. Lucy sighed and told the Satan Soul mage all about the letter that Natsu and Luna had left on the table in her bedroom.

"Aww it'll be okay Lucy. A year will be over before you know it!" Mirajane said, trying to cheer Lucy up. Then Master Makarov called everyone over to gather around.

"Everyone, I know this may come as a bit of a shock, but I am disbanding the guild." Makarov announced as whispers filled the room. Tears started to well up in Lucy's eyes and she didn't stay any longer. She pulled out the note that Natsu and Luna left her and read the words over and over:

Luna, Elise, Happy and I are goin' on a journey to train ourselves. We'll be back in about a year, so pass it on to everybody else. See you, Lucy.

Natsu & Luna

Lucy clutched the note to her chest, trying her best to hold back the tears threatening to spill out. First her best friends suddenly go off on a journey, then the guild she loved so much was disbanding.

~Time Skip~

It had been one week since Natsu, Luna, Happy, and Elise had set off on a training journey. Luna had been wondering something for a while now.

"So where exactly are we going?" Luna asked Natsu as they walked through town. Natsu scratched his chin, looking upwards like he was thinking about something.

"Uhh... dunno. I just kinda thought of it on a whim and didn't really plan anything." Natsu admitted as Luna made a small frown and sighed.

"Really Pinky? We've been on this training adventure for a week now and you never had a plan to begin with? You're unbelievable!" Luna said frustratingly as she lightly punched Natsu on the shoulder. Natsu just rubbed his shoulder where Luna's fist made contact, then smiled.

"Does it really matter? As long as we get stronger, who cares?" Natsu said as Luna thought about it for a bit. She cupped her hand under her chin.

"Well I guess it doesn't matter that much." Luna said as she withdrew her hand from her chin, smiling.

"Yeah but all we've been doing so far is walking, eating, and sleeping. We haven't even done any training at all. How's that supposed to make us any stronger?" Elise pointed out.

"Aye. Elise has a point there." Happy said, an awkward silence following as the group continued to walk through the streets of the town.

"I have an idea! How about we go to Tenrou Island. You know, where we were suspended in animation for 7 years and where the First Master was buried." Happy suggested as Natsu perked up a bit.

"You know, you might be on to something Happy." Natsu said, scratching his chin again as he thought it through.

"Yeah that sounds like a good idea." Luna agreed as she reflected back on the memories the island brought back, both good and bad. She hadn't been to Tenrou Island since the S-class Wizard Trial of year 784 where Natsu picked her as his partner, along with Happy of course. Elise got dragged into it too because she's always been Luna's partner. The guild allowed Natsu to have Luna, Elise and Happy to be his partners because like him and Happy, Luna and Elise were a package deal and Happy and Elise were exceeds, not wizards.

~Time Skip~

"That's right... to get to an island... you have to take a boat." Natsu squeaked, consumed by his motion sickness as the little boat containing the two dragon slayers and their exceeds bobbed up and down over the waves as they made their way to Tenrou Island.

"You seriously... urp... forgot... about that?" Luna said as she hung her head over the boat's edge, trying to keep her own motion sickness under control. Elise rubbed Luna's back to comfort her as she dealt with the nausea. Shortly after, the boat landed on Tenrou Island's eastern shore. As soon as the boat stopped on the shores of the island, Luna and Natsu immediately jumped off the boat and onto the ground.

"Phew! I feel better already." Luna sighed with relief, wiping the sweat off her forehead as her nausea went away.

"Ground! Sweet solid ground!" Natsu shouted as he got on his hands and knees and kissed the sandy earth. Elise shook her head at him.

"Now that we're here, let's go find the First Master's grave. Cana gave me directions on how to get there." Happy said as he started to lead the way with Natsu, Luna and Elise following behind.

~Time Skip~

After hours of wandering around, the four of them reached the First Master's grave. The sun was about to set when they finally spotted the grave stone.

"Look there it is! We finally made it!" Luna said with triumph as she ran towards the grave site of Mavis Vermillion, Fairy Tail's first master.

"I thought you said Cana gave you directions to the grave site but you didn't seem to know where you were going at all." Elise said to Happy.

"She did but they were based off of landmarks. The problem is that everything looks the same around here." Happy said as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Well regardless, we found First Master's grave in the end." Luna said as everyone nodded their heads in agreement. Suddenly, the four of them heard a loud crashing sound which was accompanied by a tremor.

"What was that?!" Luna asked, looking in the direction where the loud noise had come from.

"I don't know, but we should go check it out. Come on everyone!" Natsu said as Happy grabbed him and started flying off in the direction they heard the loud crash noise. Elise grabbed Luna and took off to the sky, following Happy and Natsu. They searched from above for what could have caused the loud noise and tremor. They flew until they reached the western shore of the island where they spotted a large strange structure.

"Look! There's something on the shore." Luna pointed out as the four of them hovered above the large structure. It was a tall T-shape tower of some sort with two giant spheres on the ends of the T. The giant spheres had much smaller spheres joined to them on the opposite ends of where the giant spheres attached to the tower. All four spheres had holes in them like a wiffle ball. The entire tower-like structure seemed to be made of iron. Natsu frowned as he sniffed the air.

"Something's not right. We should be careful while checking that thing out. Come on Happy, let's go. Luna and Elise, you stay up here until I say it's okay." Natsu said as Luna and Elise looked at him then each other and nodded their heads in agreement. Natsu and Happy then descended and landed near the tower. Luna watched as they checked out the tower. Natsu walked up to the tower, sniffed it then knocked on it three times.

"Yep this is iron alright. Boy, Gajeel would be set for weeks with this much iron." Natsu said as he continued to inspect the tower. Happy was flying along side one of the spheres. He hovered next to it and peered inside one of the holes in the sphere.

"Hey Natsu, it looks like there's some kind of core inside here. It looks like a white round stone." Happy said to Natsu down below who looked up at him with a puzzled look on his face.

"What? Lemme see. Come and bring me up there so I can take a look." Natsu said as Happy swooped down and grabbed Natsu, flying him up to a hole in one of the spheres so he could look inside.

"You're right Happy. Hmm it smells familiar. Where have I smelled this before?" Natsu said as he sniffed again.

"Damn it. I can't think of where I've come across this scent before." Natsu said after thinking about it for a while. Happy set Natsu back down near the tower. Natsu sat down as he tried to think more about that familiar scent.

"Why don't you have Luna check it out? She's also a dragon slayer so her sense of smell is really good too. Maybe she can recall the scent." Happy suggested.

"Yeah, that's a good idea Happy." Natsu said as he signaled for Luna and Elise to come over. Elise brought Luna over to where Natsu and Happy were.

"What is it Natsu?" Luna asked Natsu who pointed up at the sphere.

"There's some kind of core in there and it smells very familiar but I can't quite remember where I've come across this scent before. Could you sniff it and see if you can remember what it is?" Natsu asked Luna who nodded her head. Happy grabbed Natsu and the four of them flew up to one of the giant spheres. Elise brought Luna closer to one of the holes. She peered through the hole before sniffing through it. Her eyes widened because she recognized exactly what the core was made of.

"This is not good at all. The core is made of the same substance that those face pillars were made of." Luna said as her face paled.

"Huh? I thought the dragons destroyed all the face pillars." Natsu said as laughter could be heard from ground level.

"Yes indeed the dragons did destroy all the face pillars. But they didn't obliterate the pieces left over from the destroyed faces. We gathered those pieces and made cores from them which we installed into these towers we constructed for the same purpose as those faces." A tall lean man with long, two toned light blue and white hair said from the ground. He was accompanied by two other people. One was a very tall and muscular man with medium length rusty brown-colored hair, and a woman with thick, long maroon red hair tied in a ponytail with two locks of hair framing her face.

"Wait, how did he hear us from all the way down there?" Luna asked Natsu who ignored her question.

"Who the hell are you?! And why are you littering Fairy Tail's sacred island?! Happy let's get him!" Natsu yelled at the man as Happy flew him at the man, his fist drawn back and flaming. Luna and Elise followed behind Natsu and Happy at a safe distance. The man smirked as Natsu thrust his fist forward, sending a beam of flames straight at him. The man held out his hand, pointing two fingers at Natsu's attack and froze Natsu's flame beam with ice instantly. Natsu and Happy stopped in their tracks and stared at the man in shock. Not even Gray had been able to freeze his flames before, even with his ice devil slayer magic. Luna did it once by accident, but hasn't been able to do it since then. Not to mention it drained almost all of her magic power to do so. This guy did it without breaking a sweat.

"My, my, is that how you greet strangers? Forgive my rudeness of not introducing myself first. I am Frostus Mergard, leader of Hell Spawn, a dark guild. This man here is Scraporio Ergonan, but you can call him Scrap. And this young lady here is Myne Coranos. The three of us make up the entire guild. We are an affiliate of Tartaros. I'm sure you've heard of them before." The man said, smirking as Natsu, Happy, Luna, and Elise landed on the shore about ten yards away from Frostus and his guild mates, their guards up.

"Yeah we have and we kicked their asses! What the hell do you want?" Natsu said, giving Frostus a death glare.

"Why, we simply came to finish what Tartaros started. But instead of nullifying magic across the continent, we're going to nullify magic across the entire earth. Those of us who use curse power and those who don't use magic at all will not be affected which I'm sure you already know. You see, this tower here is one of four towers like it. One tower for each hemisphere of the earth." Frostus explained as Natsu and Luna glared at him.

"If Tartaros didn't get away with this, you won't either!" Luna yelled at Frostus as she balled up her fists in a defensive stance.

"Oh, but we will. We've already set up two of the four MNTs. By the way, MNT stands for magic nullifying tower. Anyways, we're about ready to set up the 3rd one. A tower is to be placed in the center of each hemisphere of the earth. You'll never reach and destroy all four of the MNTs in time before we detonate them. You see, as long as one of the cores remains somewhat intact, the towers will be functional. Every tower has the power to nullify magic across the entire earth. We made four towers to make the detonation process faster and to increase our chances of success. Each tower has two main cores and two much smaller backup cores. All four of which are encased in enhanced curse iron spherical chambers." Frostus explained.

"What about those holes in the spheres? Wouldn't that make the cores vulnerable?" Luna asked Frostus as he chuckled at her question.

"Those holes allow the magic nullifying particles to flow out from the core chambers. The holes are sealed by curse runes that cancel out all magic thrown at the holes in any attempts to destroy the cores through them." Frostus said.

"Damn it!" Natsu muttered under his breath.

"Well we really should get going so we can finish carrying out our plan." Frostus said as he and his two other guild mates started to leave.

"Like hell you will! You're not going anywhere!" Natsu said as he charged at Frostus who turned around and pointed two fingers at Natsu. Luna's eyes widened as she realized the danger Natsu was in.

"Natsu look out!" Luna said as she ran after Natsu without thinking. She managed to get in front of Natsu just as Frostus blasted an ice ray at him from his fingers. It ended up hitting Luna instead of him. She fell to the ground, frozen in the position she was in when she got hit. Natsu just stood there in shock at what just happened.

"What a pity. I meant to hit the fiery one. Oh well, at least I got one of them." Frostus said as he looked back with a mocking expression of fake disappointment then took off on his way with his guild members.

"You bastard! You'll pay for this! No one hurts my comrades and gets away with it!" Natsu yelled in the direction Frostus and his guild mates had gone, but they were nowhere in sight.