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Disclaimer I do not own Fairy Tail. Why would I be writing fanfiction if I owned something like that?

Beta Reader: volfwildman

Both my mother and I stood in front of our new house. Well, I say house but that's like calling a cruise ship a paddleboat. What I am currently staring at is not a house, no, no it's a MANSION! Easily the largest building in the city.

I just slowly changed my stare from the mansion to my mother. All she did was just stand there looking very happy. "What?" She says with a tilt of her head.

"A Cousin?" I say with disbelief in my voice.

"Yep." She says, "A really rich cousin." Either she's telling the truth, or she has the best poker face I've ever seen. Oh, I feel my eye twitch coming back. Lovely.

After a few seconds of a staring contest, I promptly gave up. I've had years to conclude that Mom is an unsolvable puzzle. Lost enough sleep trying to solve it and not going to lose anymore.

"I'm going to look around it. Find a room for myself and get a feel of the place." I say with a sigh as I walk forward into the maze that is now my home. All I hear from Mom is a "Have fun sweetie."

As I step into the threshold of my current resident and start looking around. It's Huge with a capital H. It's built like a giant square with the four corners going up into decently large spires. The back and left part of the mansion appears to be for housing. There are about 13 different bedrooms and, oh wait make that 14 missed the one in the corner. Also, a dining room and kitchen as well.

The right part of the mansion appears to be for recreation. A giant library which I'm partially liking, a game room with billiards and other games like darts and more, A sitting room, A what I think is a painting room and all kinds of other stuff.

The very front is one big foyer with a few rooms to the side and a door that leads out into the middle of the square that's one big outdoor area. Nice area out there some trees and flowers with a pond in the corner. A lot of free space to grow poison.

So, in conclusion. It's a ridiculously huge building. And now it my home. Lovely.

I laid claim to a room on the left side of the building. Nice little room that's got a nice small library with a comfy chair in the corner. I promptly laid in that chair until I heard a call in the built-in communication system, a bunch of pipes with voice magic, from Mom saying it was dinner time.

"How about after dinner you go look at that nice little mage guild in town?" Mom says after eating a little of the steak she made for dinner.

After hearing her I freeze up. I had no plans whatsoever to join Fairy Tail. Why would I? My main goal since arriving in this world was to survive all the storms that would face this kingdom. While Fairy Tail would get rid of pretty much all the storms they at the same time would be the cause and epicenter of most of them.

I had planned to just ignore them while I lived here and let them do what they do. Yeah, that sounds like a good plan now I just need to convince Mom to drop the issue.

"Maybe later," I say nonchalantly as possible. I just need to keep buying time until she just drops the issue and we can all move past this.

Mother apparently had other ideas.

"Awwww is my little boy shy?" She says with her inhuman smile. I choke a little, the statement startled me before composing myself. "No, I'm just not feeling up to it right now. Maybe tomorrow?" I say with as much confidence as I could muster. Even giving a little smile to help convince her.

Mom just tilts her head before her smile gains an edge to it that I'm not really liking. "No don't be like that. Ohhhhh I know I'll go with you!" She says with a small squeal.

I feel the temperature around my body drop several degrees as my skin becomes very pale. The only thing worse than having to join Fairy Tail is having my Mom coming with me. The need to not be embarrassed by my Mom out weighted the need to avoid the chaos that I would face if I join that guild.

"No, no, no I can go on my own. Just let me finish my dinner." I almost yell this as I try to calm myself. It's fine I can leave after dinner and walk around for a bit, come back and say I joined. Yeah, that sounds like the beginning of a good plan. Let's go with that, please.

"Don't worry honey, I know you're just a little nervous. After dinner, we'll both go and introduce you to all those nice mages." As she's saying all this her smile gets wider and wider to the point that even I'm surprised that is could get that wide.

Sweat falls down my face as I try my best to think up of some excuse that could save me but the second I saw the look in her eyes I knew that my fate was sealed. Why? Why does this happen to me?

And why do I hear laughter in the distance again!?

Have you ever felt like you were walking on death row? I think like that feeling is what I'm feeling right now.

My current situation is both me and Mom standing outside the Fairy Tail guild hall. The most annoy thing about it all is the fact I'm currently trapped in the iron vice grip of my mother's hand. I had for the entire time we were walking here been trying to break free of it, but Mom once again had other ideas.

The guildhall was a simple white two-story building with colorful flags at the top with the guild symbol on them. Decently large building, the only thing that stood out was the words Fairy Tail in big blue letters at the entrance.

"Well honey, are you ready?" As she says this I knew that no matter my answer we would be going into the building. I let out one final sigh before just shaking my head yes. Mom lets out a small giggle and leads me into the building.

Has we push past the doors I held on a bit of hope that we would be walking into a bar fight and Mom would take one look at it and turn around. Nope.

The building was split into two floors. The first floor was mainly a bar and cafeteria area with a few rooms in the back for various things. The second floor from what I could see from the first floor was small and mainly looped around the sides to look down at the first floor with room to the side for if I remember correctly S-class jobs.

Everything could be described in one word. Homey.

No fights or roughhousing just a bunch of happy mages having fun with food and drink. You could almost mistake this place as a small-town bar-restaurant. As Mom lead me to the bar I took notice of something. I recognized no one. I had come in expecting to see Natsu or Erza or something but no one in this room I remembered.

I was so busy looking for people to recognize that I didn't notice that I was about to walk into someone. As my body collides with another I hear a high-pitched female voice let out an "ow." I instantly turn to her and start to apologize only to pause mid-sentence.

I recognized the small female on the ground in front of me. Smaller than me with a red shirt and white skirt. The thing that stood out the most to me was her short brown hair. My mind worked through all kinds of loops before coming to one conclusion on who this person was. Cana.

Cana one of the most recognizable Fairy Tail mages is in front of me and it looks like she's five years younger than me. As my brain processes what in front of me Mom goes into action. She instantly helping the girl up from the ground and is fussing about her making sure she ok.

The sight of it would have been a little funny if my brain still wasn't in overdrive. "Are you sure you ok dear?" Mom says with a concerned voice.

"I'm fine ma'am." Cana says with a bit of shyness in her voice before it picks up with a bit of confidence "I'm a Fairy Tail mage after all."

Mom let out a small chuckle at the cute little proclamation before saying "Well hopefully my son will be a member soon too. Speaking of my son I believe he has something to say to you for his actions." She ends this with a tad bit of an edge in her voice as she turns to me.

My mind finally stops overthinking things as I say "Sorry. I was distracted by everything and didn't see you." I even bow a little for effect.

Cana simply gives me a smile before saying "It's fine. It's a lot to take in even after being here for a few weeks."

Mom seems happy with the apology as she turns back to Cana and says "Are your parents around dear? I'd like to talk to them." Once those words left Mom's mouth Cana's shy demeanor change to one of light sadness.

Cana's eyes shift a bit to the side before she starts to say" My Mom dead and Dad is …" She trails off but before she could continue Mom gets on her knees and gives the girl a hug.

Mom starts to rub Cana back before saying "Its ok sweetie."

Cana seems a bit confused and not sure what to do before just giving in to the hug and letting a small smile slide onto her face. Mom has always had this talent of making people happy and whenever she shows a kid that was upset she would do everything in her power to turn that frown upside down.

After a few seconds, Mom let go of the girl and ask her "Sweetie what's your name?" She finishes with a normal smile rather than her inhuman one.

Cana seems to lose all her shyness and hesitation "Cana Alberona ma'am." She replied confidently to the kind woman in front of her.

"Well Cana," Mom says "If you ever need something please don't hesitate to come to me or my son Bishop ok?" Cana gives a little nob before she heads off giving both me and Mom a little wave just as she leaves the building.

"Well, that was a nice thing to do." Says a voice from behind me and Mom. We both turn around and look for the origin of the voice before we hear it again from below "Down here."

Mom and I look down to see a small old man in an outfit that looks like it belonged on a leprechaun. Seriously what is with that striped hat.

"Hello," The old man says offering a hand to my Mom "I'm Makarov Dreyar. The guild master of Fairy Tail." Mom let out an "oh" before shaking the guild master's hand.

"What are you two doing here?" Makarov says with a tilt upward of his head.

"Well, my little boy was hoping to join your guild," Mom says with a smile. I ignore the fact this is all her idea and I didn't even want to come.

The guild master lets out a "hmmm" as he looks me over. "Show me your magic boy," He says with a bit of an intimidating tone. After a few seconds of thinking I let out a little sigh as I decide to just show off my magic rather than do nothing.

There's a loud crash from the front of the building as the doors all but fly off the hinges. At the doors is a giant lizard man in golden armor that lets out a roar before holding his hand to the ceiling as fire magic gathers around it to form a giant fireball.

Several of the guild member jump to their feet and fired off a few magic spells. The spells only pass through the lizard man much to everyone's confusion. Just as the fireball seems to be ready to be used the lizard man himself seems to turning into fire and be absorbed into the fireball.

A good number of guild members take cover from what they think is a bomb of fire about to go off. The fireball does explode but instead of a giant wave of fire consuming everyone a wave of flowers made of fire spread around the guildhall. The members are all looking in awe of the beautiful display in front of them before the flowers just disappear and the doors to the building are once again closed like nothing happened.

While everyone is looking around trying to figure out what happened Makarov just turns to me with an eyebrow raised. "Was that illusion you?" He says with interest in his voice. I simply shake my head yes.

"Rather impressive for a boy your age. Even I thought it was real at first." As he says this he puts a hand on my shoulder. That would be a bit more impressive if he didn't need to stand on his tippy toes to do it.

"I think given enough time you could do some really good things." He lets go of my shoulder before turning to my Mom with a smile "We'd be happy to have him here."

Mom lets out a happy sigh before they both start talking about guild details. I pay no attention to the talks as I let my mind wander as I look around the guild. Before the end of the day, I have a purple guild mark on the left corner of my back and Mom and I head home.

I am currently laying in my new rather comfortable bed staring at the ceiling. My mind wonders though that day I had just been through. I have come to several conclusions.

One. I am in fact older than the main cast of Fairy Tail by a good few years. This meant I had a lot an extra time to prepare for the coming chaos.

Two. I am now in the guild that I had been planning to avoid for my entire time in this world. This is annoying, but I could still make use of this.

And three. My Mom is up to something. There is no way a cousin left her this house and she was far too insistent on me joining Fairy Tail.

After thinking on these conclusions for a bit I decide on a course of action. I would work for the Fairy Tail guild. I would use them and their resources to get better and before the storms hit I would be out of there.

I wouldn't make any bonds or friendships. I would keep a distant and professional relationship with the guild. I did not need any baggage with me for this already annoying and frustrating journey ahead of me. I would survive.

I start to drift off to sleep. Ready for whatever life would throw at me. I really need to learn to stop tempting fate.

AN: And so we start to get into the meat of the story. Hope it was a good read and sorry it took this long to finally get to Fairy Tail itself. Needed to set up everything first.

Thanks once again to volfwildman for being a Beta. Great guy and an even greater author/writer. Also a thank you to those that have been following the story and those that have taken an interest in my story like Lull Meister and Zephyr47. It's heartwarming to see people like what I make.

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