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When I saw Natsu I had expected many different things. A breath of fresh air was not one of them.

"This stuff tastes great lady!" Shouted the pink-haired dragon slayer as he shoved another helping of steak into his mouth. "Ooohh thank you, dear. But just call me Mom ok?"

"Ok Mom!" shouted the slayer as he went in for a helping of mashed potatoes. He stops his eating for a second with a look like he had just remembered something before looking at me, "Does that mean I call you Big Brother?"

I was startled for a second before just nodding my head. Natsu gives me a big grin before saying "Cool Big Bro." He was just about to go back to eating before a shout from across the table stopped him.

"Hey!" Cana shouted, "You can't just call him Big Brother!" At Cana's words, Natsu just looked at her with a confused tilt of the head. "I can't?"

"Ya! You need to ask permission first." As Cana finished saying this, she adopted a proud look on her face. "Why?" Only for that look to deflate at the slayer's question. "Because uuuuuuuh." Cana seemed to be trying her best to come up with a reason for her rule. "Because it's tradition!" was apparently what she came up with.

"That's stupid," Natsu says like it was the simplest thing on Earth Land before going back to eating. Cana seemed to once again try to find a comeback but judging from the silence from her open mouth she had nothing. In the end, she just popped her head onto the table and groaned into the wooden structure while Gray awkwardly just patted her back.

And that is how I concluded that Natsu is the most logical of all my siblings.

"Hey Big Bro, fight me!" I looked towards the yelling form of Natsu to my left as I tried to help Erza with a sword style she was trying. I and all my siblings were in the backyard for one of our training days which had evolved from the training session between me and Erza.

Both Cana and Gray looked away from their own train off to the side and stared at me, clearly, they were curious what my answer was. Erza just looked annoyed at having her training interrupted.

I was about to decline since I had no reason to fight the younger yet stronger mage but just as I was about to utter the decline an idea came to me. Slowly a far too large smile found its way to my face, made even larger by the scar. My siblings all seem to pale slightly at the inhuman smile, apparently, they remember the other times I had this smile. It usually ended with me testing out a new illusion on them.

"Ok Natsu," I replied and judging from the look of excitement on his face he didn't see anything wrong with my smile. Cana, Gray, and Erza quickly fled to the sideline, not wanting to be caught in the battle.

Natsu and I took positions across from each other as we prepared to fight. "Cana, countdown from three please." At my words, Cana adopted an excited yet cautious expression. After a few seconds, I heard her speak up.

"3…...2….1…Start!"

(Natsu's POV)

I grinned as I heard Sis say start. "Yaaaaaa I'm all fired up!" I shouted, ready for an amazing fight to start. I started to breathe in a deep breath as I prepared to roar at Big Bro.

"Fire Dragon's R-" "The World Revolving"

Just before I could finish my spell Bishop shouted out his and for a second nothing happened, then the world started moving.

The piece of earth me and Bro were on started to spin rapidly to the left with the sky seemed to move just as fast to the right. I heard the wind whipping around and even felt it push against my skin. Even the smell of the area seemed to mess up as the world moved.

I tried telling myself that it was an illusion, but my body disagreed. My eyes saw a world moving, my ears heard the world moving and my skin felt the world moving. As far as my body was concerned it was on a moving piece of ground and my stomach couldn't agree more.

I let out a groan as I slowly fall to the ground, my stomach roaring in distress the entire time. My motion sickness was running at full force as I held in my lunch. I notice Bishop slowly start to walk towards me, with what I think was a slight grin on his face. Kind of hard to tell with that scar and my motion sickness.

Eventually after what felt like an eternity Bishop was standing above me. He waited a second or two before poking me in the forehead with his sheathed sword. The world abruptly stopped soon after and I felt the war in my stomach end.

I had lost.

(Bishop's POV)

Well, that went better than expected.

I had developed "The World Revolving" to throw off an opponent's sense of balance but it apparently worked great to counter Dragon Slayers. Good to know.

"That was no fair!" Shouted Natsu as he got off the ground. I couldn't help the chuckle in my throat from the pout on his face. "Yes, it was because this was a fight, not a spar," I say as I put my saber back into my hammerspace. "In a real fight, people don't care about being fair Natsu. They care about winning."

Natsu continued to pout for a second before letting out a sigh. "Ok, maybe you have a point." He begrudgingly says. I just roll my eyes before looking at the falling sun. "Let's go to that pastry shop before dinner. Get a nice little treat."

Natsu's grin returned to his face as he shouts out a loud yes before turning to the other and running toward them. I allowed a little smile as I heard his yell at them to start moving, something that they protest until they heard where we're going.

From their smiles, it seems like they were looking forward to the treat too.

Natsu's relationship with me and others was an interesting thing.

First off Natsu and Gray were not at each other's throats every other minute, in fact, they were just like Cana and Erza. Partners in crime. I guess Gray saw Natsu as his counter to Cana and her commanding nature.

In fact, nowadays it seems like the boys and girls are always in some sort of competition between each other, mainly Cana vs Natsu with Gray and Erza acting as cheerleaders for their same-sex sibling.

Not to say that Natsu was constantly fighting with his sisters but it was looking more and more like Cana would be taking Gray place in the Natsu Gray rivalry in the show. That said Natsu and Erza get along just fine as long as Cana isn't there to get competition going.

It is with this contest that led me to my current situation. Acting as a referee for a tennis game of brothers vs sisters.

I tried to keep the peace. I really did but it wasn't long before my younger siblings started to use their magic in the match. Currently, the girl's side of the court looks like a firestorm and an ice storm hit it at the same time while the boy's side had all manner of bladed weapons sticking in the ground along with a few cards too.

It was absolute chaos is what I'm getting at.

I watched as Natsu sent a flaming tennis ball to the other side of the court only for Erza to hit it back with what looked like a love child between a tennis racket and a Morningstar. The ball was about to head out of bounds and score a point for the girls only for a wall of ice to appear sending it back into play as Gray sent the battered ball towards the girl's side. Cana responded by throwing a card into the air only for that card to expand to be as large as a person and promptly whack the ball back to the boy's side.

How the hell was I supposed to referee this? The fact that I couldn't see the ball half the time didn't help. Well at least they're getting in some magic training, right? God, I wish I brought a book.

The match came to a halt when Natsu hit the ball high up in the air where it promptly exploded. "Well, that ball last longer than I thought it would." I idly say from the bench I was sat in. My words seem to snap my siblings out of their trance of looking at the sky. "Someone gets a new ball!" shout the pink-haired slayer mage.

"Yaaaaaa no, I'm going to veto that," I say calmly as I get up from the bench. "Why!" shout Cana as she stood on the court, tennis racket in one hand and cards in the other. "The fact that the court looks like a battlefield," I replied in a dull tone as I give my oldest sister a deadpan look.

Cana at least had the common sense to look embarrassed at the destruction she had been a part of. That look did not last long after Natsu started to laugh at her. "Shut it Flame Brain! You were a part of this too!" shout the card mage. "You did more than me Card Witch!" was the slayer mage's reply.

"If you keep fighting, I'm taking away your sense of taste at dinner," I said in a hard tone of an older sibling reprimanding his younger siblings. My words seem to get them to stop but the silent glares they were giving each other showed that this wasn't over.

I had recently developed a new spell I called Negate Sense. Did pretty much what it said, I choose one of the five senses and nullify it. I had gotten in so much practice with it due to the fact I used it as a punishment if any of them acted up. It seemed like overnight I had mastered the sense of taste thanks to all the fighting.

Eventually, Cana and Natsu stopped their glaring contest. "Come on bro let's go do something else," Natsu said to Gray who nodded his head and went with the technically younger sibling. "Come on Erza let go do some shopping," Cana said to her sister as both went off into town.

I just stood in the devastated tennis court that we had rented out. I was about to leave myself until I saw the guy who had rented the court from stomping his way toward me. I was very tempted just to use Vanish and leave but I knew word of this would get back to Mom and me just leaving like that would just get me in trouble.

In the end, I let out a heavy sigh as I faced the rather angry man. How has my life come to this?

"Did you guys hear about that rebellion in the Kingdom of Stella?" At Wakaba's question, I look up from the newspaper I was reading, and Macao stops writing on a piece of paper he had at the table we were sitting at.

"No. What happened?" I asked. "Apparently the people were upset about a corrupt minister that was overtaxing people for his own personal wealth. The minister ended up getting fired by the king and was left to the rebellion for punishment, but the entire rebellion just ended up disappearing overnight and the minister along with them."

"Really," said Macao scratching his chin "Are there any rumors about what really happened." Wakaba just shook his head no "It's being kept under wraps, I just know about it from a friend that lives in the kingdom. The only other thing I was told is that after searching the minister's home it's believed he was practicing magic. What kind I don't know but it could explain what happened."

I let out a hmmmmmm at the man's words as I went back to my paper. Interesting piece of news but ultimately it didn't affect me.

I was skimming through the newspaper's sale section. Basically, some people would give the paper money to advertise some item or items they were selling. Currently, I was looking for any enchanted piece of equipment I could use but it seemed like no one had anything of interest to sell.

"Would either one of you know a good magic shop that sells enchanted items?" At my words, the two adults look over to me with contemplative looks on their faces. "Their one in Hargeon Town that's got some good stock. You are looking for another ring of something?"

I turn my head to Macao who had spoken, "Something like that. Really I'm just looking for another useful enchanted item." My two current rings were very useful. The Ring of Telekinesis was very useful in everyday life and had some uses in battle while the Ring of Magic Suppression really help with suppressing my magic core, even if I still couldn't one hundred percent suppress it.

"Have you thought of looking into Ring Magic?" said Wakaba. "Ring magic?" I asked, the name seemed somewhat familiar, so I had probably read about it somewhere. "Ya, it's magic that works specifically with special rings. I know you can't do much more than illusions, but it's considered a basic magic just like Requip magic and you can do that at least a little bit."

He was right, despite my Bond with Illusion Magic I had been able to perform some Requip Magic. Although to be fair my Hammerspace was very small compared to most Requip mages. It was currently the size of a small shack, while Erza told me hers was somewhere near as big as the mansion we lived in. The fact her hammerspace was near full of enchanted armor and weapons didn't annoy me at all.

"Does it work with normal enchanted rings?" Wakaba nodded its head at my question. "Last time I checked it made the enchantment of enchanted rings stronger." That sounded nice, even more, if I could get even more rings.

I had pretty much master the five senses for my illusions. Taste I had gotten way too much practice in thanks to my siblings and the other four I could do very easily. Trying for a new Magic in my arsenal could be good, even if it was just to make my enchanted rings stronger.

"You know where I could get started learning it?" Wakaba just shrugged his shoulders at my question. "You could probably find a book in the guild library about it and if not I'm sure the Guild Master could help."

I nodded my head in thanks and was about to go back to reading my paper when I heard mumbling from Macao. Both me and Wakaba shifted our gaze toward the dark blue-haired man. He was writing on his paper while mumbling random names.

"Still trying to decide a name?" ask Wakaba. Macao muttered out a ya as he continues to look at what I assumed was a list of names. Apparently, Macao couldn't what until after the marriage to bang his soon to be wife and as a result, she was pregnant. A seer had told him and his lady that the kid would be a boy, so they had been discussing names for him. He's been spending the entire we've been at the guildhall going over names.

"How about a simple name? Like Jake or Tom." Macao just looked at his friend annoyed. "No, it's got to be something special." I just roll my eyes at the man. I was about to once again go back to my paper when a thought occurred to me.

"How about Romeo?" The fire mage paused at my words and slowly looked towards me with a contemplated look. Said look soon morphed into one of pure happiness. "YA! That's a perfect name! Let me go talk to Alexis about it right now!"

I was thrown back slightly by his excitement and his running out of the guild didn't help. I just stared at the entrance to the guild while Wakaba chuckled at me. In the end, I just decided to head back to my newspaper.

As it turned out, Macao's fiancée also loved the name and as a thank you they both agreed to name me the kid's Goduncle. Goduncle…this world's equivalent to Godfather.

I really should have been more surprised, but I think I've just gotten numb to the madness of this world. Really, I was more surprised that Mom didn't have Macao and Alexis move into the mansion the second they announced me as Goduncle.

Well, at least the madness is entertaining.

I was currently reading through a book on basic magic. Particularly I was reading the Ring Magic section. I was reading from my chair in the mansion's library, a comfy club chair to be more precise.

Ring magic was rather basic. It basically was channeling magic through specialized rings for various effects. The rings were made from special mixtures that would be mixed into some metal and forged into a ring. Depending on the mixtures the ring would have different effects like making someone fall asleep or controlling water.

Like mages, a Ring mage would be limited by their equipment and just like Requip mages, a Ring mage could be very dangerous if they had a large selection of rings to choose from. It helped if you got a powerful ring to use.

From what little experimentation I've done so far, I believe I can use it, but it would not be easy. It took years to be able to use Requip magic adeptly and even then, I had nowhere near the space in my hammerspace to become a Requip mage. Still, if I could get to the point where I can empower my enchanted ring then it would be worth it.

"Hmmm." For the record that was not me. No, that sound came from the person who was currently sitting on the ground leaning against my chair. Cana had come into the library about an hour ago and decided to pick up a book to read herself. Why was she sitting on the floor next to me rather than in a chair?

Simple, I can rub her head when she's next to me on the floor. I tried to tell her no, I really did but she's gotten too good at guilt-tripping me into things. So here I was reading the basics of Ring magic while she was reading a random fantasy book while I rubbed her head.

"Bishop." I pause for a second as I heard her call my name, I knew something was off since she only used my normal name when something was wrong. Usually, she just called me Big Brother Bish or just Bish.

"Yes?" I asked as I mark my place in the book and look down at her. In response, she looked up to me and I saw something in her eyes, sadness? Maybe downtrodden. In the end, it doesn't matter, something was wrong.

"Do….do you still like spending time with me?" She said this in a rather shy tone, one that I hadn't heard from her in years. I let out a sigh as I motioned her to get up and when she does, I motioned for her to sit in my lap. She was 11 years old and had yet to really grow and I was a 16-year-old who had just stopped growing at a nice tall 6,1 so she easily fit in my lap.

"Ok, what brought this up?" I make sure to even my eyes with hers as I spoke. She looked to the side for a second before her eyes focused back onto me mine. "It just that we've been spending less time together."

"That's because we have three other siblings who take up our time. Are you saying that you don't like them for that?" At my words, Cana's eyes widen a bit as she vigorously shakes her head no. "NO! I like all of them! Erza is the best sister I could ever ask for, Gray is always there to help me even if he doesn't what too and Natsu might be a flaming idiot, but I wouldn't give him up for the world."

She takes a deep breath as she finishes her long sentence, her shoulder slumps a little as she looks back to me. "It's just…. I miss the old times. When it was just me and you when we would do all kinds of things together like gardening or just going out to eat together."

I let out another sigh as I process all of this. This must have been on her mind for a while, looking back on it she was giving me some sad looks that I just pushed aside. I put my hand on her head and lightly rub her hair as I looked her straight in the eyes one more.

"Just bear with me on this, you know more than anyone else I'm not good with emotional moments like this." She let out a little giggle at my words, good she looks off when she's sad. "Let me make one thing clear, you'll always be important to me. Maybe when you first moved in, I wasn't particularly fond of you but as far as I'm concerned my sister now."

I pull her in for a light hug which she responded to by wrapping her arms around my neck and returning the hug. "Don't ever forget that ok. You'll always be my overconfident and full of herself little sister." She chuckles a little as my words.

I pause for a second and contemplate my next words, I never have told her this had I? I had never told her what I was about to say next.

"I…...I love you." The world seemed to pause as my words and Cana stiffened at my words. A few seconds passed before I heard Cana speak "I Love you too Big Brother."

We just stayed there for a good minute while I idly rubbed her head. Eventually, I patted the back of her head and push her lightly off me. "Why don't you go feed Thunder the Third and we'll go get something to eat together? Maybe go to the poker parlor afterward so I can watch you pout while you lose your money."

She laughed at my words but the smile on her face was all I was focused on. She got off my lap and ran out to her room to feed her mouse and get ready to leave. I just chuckled as I watched her run and a smile found its way onto my face.

Not a small one or an inhumanly wide one either. A real full smile.

God, it felt weird.

AN: I'm sorry guys but unfortunately Thunder the Second is died. He was a good mouse, no a Great mouse but all great things must come to an end. Thunder the Third as a big shoes to fill but I have faith in the little guy. So a Moment of Silence for Thunder the Second... Oh right, also some development for Natsu and a nice touching Platonic Sibling Relationship (The fact I have to stress this makes me really wonder how romance obsess the Fairy Tail fandom is, and I've seen the shipping wars of the RWBY fandom) moment between Cana and Bishop but we all know that's second to Thunder's death.

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