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Beta Reader: volfwildman

The guild was alight with activity like usual. People were drinking and eating while others simply talked to each other about recent jobs they had taken with a few looking over the job board in order to make money for the expenses of life. As for me?

I was at one of the corner tables as usual while reading from today's newspaper. No one else was sat with me as Wakaba was on a job, Macao was at home taking care of Romeo and most of my siblings were off doing their own thing. Should I be sad that there not spending as much time with me? I guess I miss their near-constant chatter but then again, I still see them nearly every day, so I guess it evens out.

"Hahahaha, that's right boys! I finally got a title from the Sorcerer Weekly! The Green Beast is what they're calling me!" Said some random plant mage from the table in front of me which I was trying my best to ignore.

Apparently, titles or rather nicknames were a big thing among mage guilds. From what I've gathered it's a pride/notoriety thing for mages. Having a nickname or rather title as they call it was believed to powerful thing. Kind of like that saying that names have power.

This became apparent when my sibling was gaining titles. Erza had still got the title of Titania aka The Fairy Queen, she had been rather proud of the name even if Mira had tried to argue that she deserved the title. Had to end that fight rather quickly.

Natsu and Gray had received their titles at the same time do to the fact that the titles reflected each other with Nastu being the Fairy of Summer and Gray being called the Fairy of Winter. Natsu had been rather happy about it while Gray had grumbled about how not being called the Knight of Ice like he wanted.

Even Cana got one but unlike the other three who had been done by the same guy who had looked through Fairy mythology to come up with the names, she got a guy who took one look at her and her magic and gave her the title of The Gambler and then called it a day. At Least Cana was happy with the name.

I had even gotten one much to my surprise. Apparently, an editor of Sorcerer Weekly had learned of me through my siblings and had been inspired by an illusionist being a decently high rank in the guild. Now, what was my over-glorified nickname?

The Gatekeeper of Fairy Tail. Yes, that was what I was being called. Apparently, it was done by the same guy as Erza, Natsu and Gray with his reasoning for the title being that in most mythology fairy havens, places that fairies gather, were protected by a gatekeeper who would use illusions to keep the haven hidden from the world. Decent reason, I guess but I still found the title annoying.

To be far it was mostly because of all the jokes people were making which made me dislike the title. The joke that the guild kept making about me opening and closing the door for people. This had peaked when Makarov himself had come up to me and given me a key and said that the Gatekeeper needed the key to the gate. I took a bit too much pleasure in taking away the old man's sense of taste and watching him desperately try to taste his precious alcohol.

The key worked too by the way.

The only other thing that happened because of the title was the fact that I now got fan mail. Yes, fan mail. It was mainly other illusionist that were telling me about how I was becoming such an inspiration to illusion users everywhere. I also got hate mail, mainly people just saying how I should stop playing mage and go off and become an entertainer like how all illusionist should be. Natsu seemed rather happy to burn those letters.

I was in the middle of reading about some parade that was going on in the Kingdom of Seven when Cana plopped down on a chair next to me and let out a sigh. "You ok?" I say without taking my eyes off the paper. Cana nodded her head at my question "Ya just tired. That A-rank job was annoying."

Cana had been talking a rather large amount of A-rank jobs ever since she failed her first S-class trials, I guess she wanted to be better prepared for the next one. She looked like she was about to say something else but was interrupted by someone else.

"Hey there sweetie, why don't you and I go on a little walk and talk about our future together." This came from a mage that had just joined yesterday, Loke aka Leo the Lion.

I felt my hand clench the paper as Loke gave my little sister bedroom eyes, Cana just had an amused look on her face. Before either could say anything else a red demon face with a purple aura appeared behind Cana and glared at Loke.

"Ahhhh!" Screamed Loke as he back up. "What's wrong!?" Said Cana while giving the spirit an odd look. In response to Cana's question, Loke nervously pointed behind her but when Cana looked back the face disappeared from reality.

"You ok? I don't see anything behind me." Cana said this while looking back to the playboy. Said playboy looked around the room for a second before calming down. "I think I was just imagining it. So why don't forget about that and go out on a-" Loke paused and stared at the demon face that had once again appeared behind Cana and giving him an even more intense glare.

He took a step back as sweat started to run down his face "I-I-I got to go!" And just like that the orange headed man ran out of the guild much to Cana's visible confusion. After a few seconds, Cana's eyes narrowed and she looked over at me.

"What did you do?" At her question, I look up from the paper with confusion on my face. "What do you mean?" Cana just rolled her eyes and sighed at my words. "You know I wasn't going to say yes to him, right?" I simply let out a hmm at her words.

She let out another sigh before getting up from her chair "I'm heading home. See you there." As Cana walked off, I was once again facing the newspaper while trying to hide my little smile. I had thought about asking Loke about Ring magic but on second thought maybe I should just leave him alone.

No point in scaring him to death. Well unless her get a bit too aggressive with his flirting that is.

I found myself letting out my tenth sigh of today as I walked through the city of Bleakwatch. I had planned for today to be an off day, a day to relax and unwind but nooooooo. Something just had to come up.

I walked on the cobbled streets of the city while ignoring the people around me and eventually I stopped when I saw my destinations. With a few more swift steps I enter the Rune Knight city garrison building.

With a quick look around, I found a Rune knight waiting in the lobby, said knight took one look at me before saying "You Bishop Vern?" At my head nod, he motioned for me to follow him. After about a minute of walking, he opened a door for me and said, "He's here. Just give us a few minutes to get things in order to get him out."

I nodded and walked through the doorway and quickly found the reason for my presence located in one of the cells. "Hello Natsu," I said in a rather flat and dry voice.

Natsu was sitting against the wall of the cell with anti-magic chains and cuffs all over his body along with Happy next to him also bound in chains "Hey there Big Bro." Natsu nervously replied while trying to give me his best smile but even that had a nervous edge to it.

I just stood there for a few seconds staring at my little brother before letting out sigh number eleven. "Nine buildings. You destroyed nine different builds while trying to take down a mage. Why did you destroy nine different buildings? I thought we had train you out of your 'destroyed building while fighting' style of fighting." I kept my tone even while talking which seemed to put Natsu even more on edge.

"Wellllllll." Natsu says while trying and failing to look me in the eyes, "The guy was being really annoying with his Water magic and I thought that a roar would finish him off really quick. To be fair a roar did finish him off! Well, the second roar did. The first he kinda dodge and it destroys some stuff."

I shifted my eyes to the blue cat next to my brother. "And why didn't you tell him that was a bad idea Happy?" The cat seems to shuffle nervously for a second before speaking up. "Well, I would have but…. during the fighting I saw some grilled fish and got distracted." As Happy finished his words I couldn't help but just stare at the blue feline.

Oh, my left eye was twitching. Lovely.

Eventually, I close my eyes and brought a hand up to rub my eyelids while also letting out sigh number twelve. "Ok, Natsu. So, the good news is the Magic Council agreed to pay for everything. Again." Natsu seemed to pick up at my words, "But the bad news is that they've made it clear this is the last time they are going to do this for you." And now Natsu was downtrodden once more.

I felt bad for the Magic Council. In the show, I remember them being a big bad government organization run by old men that wanted to bring down the destructive youth. The truth of the matter was that they had been more than fair with Natsu and the rest of the destructive members of Fairy Tail.

Due to Fairy Tail being a high ranked guild and even being close to taking the number one ranking itself, the Council was more than willing to sweep some destruction under the rug for us. The problem here is that said destruction keeps happening. As a result, they have the monarchy and citizens breathing down their necks to deal with the problem and add on to the fact they keep losing money due to having to pay for repairs and you get a rather annoyed Magic Council.

I had tried to play damage control here and get Nastu, who was the biggest offender of the destruction, to tone down his fighting and for the most part, it seemed to work. For the most part.

As I was about to say something the door to the room opened and the same Rune Knight I had met came into the room with a key ring. The man quickly opened the door and unlocked all the things that were restraining Natsu and Happy.

"Hey, thanks!" The Knight just gave a flat stare at Natsu before turning to me and speaking, "Please have him leave the city before he ends up destroying more buildings. We are aware of Fairy Tail's destructive reputation."

I winced a bit at the man's words before motioning Natsu and Happy to follow me. In about a minute we were out of the building and on the streets. "Welp." Natsu says, "Let get home." And was about to start walking off until he froze at me putting my hand on his shoulder.

"Now now Natsu. We both know you're not getting away with this." Natsu start to sweat at my words and said sweat seemed to come down faster when I gave him a cold inhumanly wide smile. "And it just so happens that the Guild Master and Mom have both agreed to let me handle your punishment. SOOO when we get home you are going to be helping me with a few of my… experiments in both illusions and poison."

Natsu gave me a pleading look which I promptly ignored and started walking towards the train station. "Oh," I said while stopping "And get ready for some motion sickness. I'm not putting an illusion up to make the train seem like it's not moving."

I took a bit too much pleasure in hearing his whimper.

Cheers were heard from all over the guildhall as the guild partied. Why were they celebrating? Well, that was because the guild now had a new S-class mage in the form of the She-devil Mira Strauss.

The S-class trials had just come to an end and the oldest Takeover mage sibling had come out on top and won. Judging from her rather smug and prideful face she was rather happy about it too.

And judging from Cana's downtrodden face she was rather saddened by the trial outcome. Cana had been in this year's S-class trials as well but this time she had faced Mira in the second trial and lost. Although it seemed like my head rubs were cheering her up a bit.

Cana and I were joined by Erza, Natsu, and Gray who were also enjoying the party. Natsu and Gray seemed to be discussing different ways for them to get into the trials for next year as neither of them had been selected this year. Erza was just enjoying some food and drink next to Cana but would occasionally try to cheer up her sibling.

"Come on Cana it's not like you won't have another chance to pass the trail. Just let it go and have some fun right now." The only response Cana gave to her redheaded sister was a sad groan. Erza just shook her head and tried to get back to eating. Keyword being tried.

"Hey, Erza!" Shouted Mira as she walked over to our table, "You better get ready! Because now that I'm an S-class mage I'll be showing you who's the real fairy queen around here!" Mira ended her words by pointing rather threatening at Erza.

Erza just scoffed and turned back to her food. "Sure Mira. Keep saying that if it helps you sleep at night." Mira seemed rather annoyed at those words and started to flare some magic around her. "Oh ya?! Well, how about we have a go at it right now! I bet that-"

I cut the whitehead off in the coldest and even voice I could muster "Mira I'm going to kindly ask you to not pick a fight with my little sister right now."

Mira paused at my words and a conflicted look found its way onto her face. Eventually, she sighed and spoke her next words calmly. "Just watch out ok. I'm going to take as many S-class jobs as I can to get stronger than you. And before long I bet both my little brother and sister will be S-class too."

With her words over, she turned and went back to her table were said little siblings were. Erza let out an annoyed sigh. "I wish she would stop being so rude all the time." And with that said she started to dig into her strawberry cheesecake.

I just shrugged at Erza's words while I kept rubbing my saddened little sister's head. Starting to think she's just putting on a show to get more head rubs at this point.

I let out a tired yawn as I put up the book I had just finished. It was rather late right now, but I had just bought a rather interesting book on Earthland's ancient empires and just had to finish it up before I went to bed.

I stretched a little as I listened to the heavy rain outside. It had come in about two hours ago and showed no signs of stopping soon. Eventually, I walked out of the mansion's library and was about to head to my room when I heard heavy knocking coming from the front door.

'That's weird.' I thought, 'It's in the middle of the night and pouring rain outside. Who would come here now of all times?' Either way, I decided to quickly head to the front entrance which was rather close to the library.

In a few seconds, I was at the door and proceeded to open it. "Yes? Who's ther-" I stopped as I saw who was in front of the Vern home.

Mira and Elfman stood in the pouring rain, both had very torn up clothes. Mira appeared to be supporting Elfman who had a dulled look on his face as if he couldn't believe something while Mira had her own face full of grief.

"Mira? Elfman? What happened?! Where's Lisanna?" At my words, the two siblings seemed even more overcome with sadness. Eventually, Mira helped Elfman inside before turning to me and speaking. "I was on an S-rank job and my siblings were helping me, but we got in some trouble and Elfman…."

Mira seemed to pause at her words and tightly clench her fingers. "Lisanna is…. dead."

I froze at Mira's words and just stared at the S-class mage. Lisanna was…

Oh…. oh shit.

AN: Well said words in my opinion. So we get some official titles for the characters and some other things but I feel the ending is what most people are going to be reviewing about. Ya decided to have Lisanna go bye-bye. Felt it work better for what I have planned and it would help move Mira and Elfman's characters forward a bit. It will also have an interesting effect on Bishop but you got to wait a week for that.

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