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Beta Reader: volfwildman

(Cana's POV)

I was worried. Very worried.

Bishop hadn't come home last night, that didn't make me too worried. Bishop was an adult and could choose to be out if he wanted but what was truly worrying me and the rest of my siblings along with Lucy was what had happened just a dozen or so minutes ago. During breakfast, Erza's communication lacrimal had gotten a message from Mira.

She had simply said "Come to the guild now. Bishop's hurt."

We had all but abandoned breakfast and headed straight to the guild. Mom, unfortunately, had to work so she had left to after making breakfast so she was unaware of the situation although maybe that was for the better. She had been getting on in her years and the last thing she needed now was stress adding onto her age.

It wasn't long before we got to the guild and instantly, I could tell something was wrong. Everyone was on the main floor despite the damages and there was a general air of both anger and sadness. Some of the members looked towards us when we got here and had pitying looks upon seeing us but many others kept their eyes on a doorway that leads to the back. It leads to the guild's little medical room we kept for emergency.

Near instantly we all moved to the doorway and upon looking in I saw something that made my blood run cold.

Bishop was laying on one of the beds in the corner of the room. He had his chest bared which showed off all the bandages that were wrapped around him, many were stained red. Above him stood Porlyusica as she worked on applying salve and other medical things on to my brother. Beside her sat Makarov with a frightening neutral look on his face as he waited for the old lady to finish. I could also see Macao and Wakaba sitting off to the side on one of the beds.

Once we entered the room Natsu made to speak but Makarov instantly held up his hand to my little brother silencing him before he could speak. With that gesture done we waited in silence for almost a minute before human-hating human seemed to finish her work.

"Well," Said the Guild Master. His tone was just as frighteningly neutral as his face.

Porlyusica turned to him and spoke, "He's lucky, he seemed smart enough to drink one of those horrid red potions before he passed out. Horrible and industrialized little things but they get the job done. His rather large Magic Core also helped the potion get a jumpstart on the healing process. Between that and all the herbs, I've applied he should be mostly healed by tomorrow although I would suggest keeping him in bed until at least the day after tomorrow."

She paused after saying all of this and gave Makarov a studying looks before speaking once more. "I saw that symbol on his chest Makarov. Are you going to do what I think you're going to do?"

Each word said was causing chills down my neck and back. If she was talking about what I think she's talking about then that means we would be facing off against a certain guild soon. I hope I was wrong.

The Guild Master looked towards the old lady and with the same neutral expression and tone as before spoke. "Do you really need to ask Porly? You were a Fairy once, you know what comes next."

Once more chills run down my spine at the master of the guild's words. Porlyusica just shakes her head and makes her way out, "Just be careful your old fool. If I have to heal you then you're not going to hear the end of it from me."

And with those words, she left the room and as she left my line of sight, I assumed the guild too. Once she was gone I and the others turned out full attention once more unto Makarov who was looking at my brother with his neutral expression although I could see rage simmering to the surface. He soon turned to use once more and spoke, "Ok you lot head to the common room, I'll explain it to everyone at once."

None of us argued as we filtered out of the room and found a table for me and my siblings to sit at. Lucy had joined us too and Macao along with Wakaba both stood to the side as the Guild Master jumped up to the damaged bar and looked upon all the guild members.

"I'm sure your all wondering what happened," He began, "I'll cut straight to the point. Bishop Vern, The Gatekeeper of Fairy Tail was attacked by a member of Phantom Lord."

Noise near exploded form the members as questions upon questions were asked before the Makarov held up his hand once more and silenced everyone. He then pointed to Elfman who had his hand up, wither this was a quirk of his gentlemanliness or him just being smart enough to understand that if he wanted to speak, he would need the master's permission to do so first I'm not sure.

"How could someone do this to Sir Bishop. I mean he's never been one of the most powerful members, at least in terms of physical strength but he could give anyone here a good fight with his illusions." At Elfman's question, the guild master let out a sigh before answering.

"Were not sure yet but we believe he got ambushed by Black Steel Gajeel. He attacked him after Bishop left late at night. I guess he didn't give Bishop much of a chance to use his illusions to fight back and by the time he was able to, he was already very injured."

Once Makarov ended his words another hand shot up, this time it was Levy. Once the Guild Master nodded his head towards her, she spoke, "Why as he at the guild so late? I thought it was weird when I saw him standing by the door when me, Droy and Jet left."

Makarov seemed to contemplate this question for a few seconds as he looks at us. Soon he once more let out a sigh and spoke, "Tell me. Did any of you noticed something strange when you all went home together? Like you were being ignored by people?"

There was a light mumble upon us as I heard several people talk about something like that happening. It quieted down when the Guild Master for a third time held up his hand and spoke, "That would be due to Bishop. He stayed by the door for hours and put illusions on people to protect them on their way home. I guess he was so busy doing that he forgot about himself."

Silence rang out as everyone absorbed what was just said. Bishop was by no means loved by the guild, I knew this very well. Even after he finally stopped ignoring everyone, he kept social interaction to a minimum. That said he was still a well-respected member of the guild. Someone that the rest of the guild at the very least looked up to for how far he had gotten with his illusions.

I guess the thought that he would go out of his way to make sure the guild was safe was a tad bit shocking to most, even though I knew that Bish was just as loyal to this guild as me and the rest of our family.

Eventually, the silence was broken by Loke, "So what are we going to do?"

Everyone stopped there contemplation and laid their eyes on the Guild Mater once more as he took a deep breath and gave us a determined look.

"Well, I'm going to head to Logtown where their main branch is and... show them why messing with one of mine is a bad idea. Anyone who wants to join me is welcome but I will not think less of you for staying. I know-."

Before he could finish everyone in the guild stood up. Each and everyone one of use started checking or equipment and magic. "You think that anyone of is just going to sit here and twiddle our fingers after one of our family has been hurt, old man." This was said by Alzack as he checked his guns. Everyone nodded in agreement.

Mira was the next to speak up, "I'll be staying here. Unfortunately, I still don't have all my magic back under control and Bishop will need someone to look after him."

After a second Lucy also spoke, "I'll stay here too… I'm not that strong, I'll just slow you guys down. Besides, I'm sure Mira could use the help." Mira nodded her head at Lucy words.

Personally, I thought she was more than strong enough to take down any of those Phantom Lord bastards but I'm not one to judge, just meant that there was more for me to take care of. I hope I can get a good hit or two on this Gajeel but from the look that Natsu had I had a feeling he wouldn't leave much for me.

Makarov paused as he looked over all of us and smile. He let out a little chuckle and shook his head before once more looking at more. "That was foolish of me to think you all wouldn't want this as much as me, wasn't it? Well then let's be off then."

The Guild Master paused as he finally allowed the rage to surface and a look of pure wrath overtook his face as a bright yellow aura surrounded him. To anyone else, he would be a terrifying sight. But to his guild and family, he was a beacon of hope that erased any doubts I and most likely anyone else had about what we were going to do to Phantom Lord. And as we ready to move Makarov spoke one last time.

"It's about time we show our rivals what happens when you mess with our family!"

(Phantom Lord 3rd Person POV)

The main branch of the Phantom Lord guild was having a little party right now. Gajeel had just come back a few hours ago and announced what he had done and soon after the guild had started a little party to celebrate. People were drinking and eating as they celebrated the little victory, they had over their rivals at Fairy Tail.

"Hahahaha I'm glad Gajeel was able to show those fairies just how powerful Phantom Lord is! It won't be long now before the council realizes their mistake and gives us back the title of number one guild!" Said a tall lanky man in a Hawaiian t-shirt and short.

"I tell you, Fred, that those fairies had what was coming to them! Phantom Lord worked hard to get to where we are today and they just come out of nowhere and take not just our title but so many of our jobs too! I heard that the guild was even having trouble keeping up with all it's expensive with the lack of money from jobs." Stated a short blond woman in a red polka dot dress.

"Ya man, I even heard the Jose was told that he might be forced to close one or two of our branches! I feel bad for our Guild Master. I mean his grandfather and father built up this guild, he's got a lot on his shoulders to keep it running. But it should be easier after what Gajeel did to those fairies, they can't accept jobs with their guildhall in that state." Replied the newly named Jeff.

"But don't you think Gajeel went a bit too far dude? I mean trashing their guild is one thing but doing what he did to one of their members is another. I don't like those fairies either but we're all still apart of the Guilds of Fiore. Hell, even Jose seemed to be a bit upset with that part." Said a husky fellow with a yellow-red striped shirt and blue jeans.

"I mean maybe man. I guess branding someone with our symbol is taking it too far. But the rest I don't disagree with. Like I said those fairies have been taking some good jobs from us. I was hoping to take my girlfriend on a trip to Enca, weird little kingdom but she loves the stuff from there and I can't because of all the trouble I've had with getting some good jobs to pay for it. What about you, dude?" Said Jeff as he continued his conversation with his friends.

While these and several other members were discussing what Gajeel had done to Fairy Tail the Iron Dragon Slayer himself was up in the rafters munching on some iron scrap. He had been up there since his talk with Phantom Lord's Guild Master Jose Porla, a tall man with a black ponytail and mustache with long sides. The man had at first been rather happy with Gajeel for what he had done to Fairy Tail, especially considering a recent job request from a certain wealthy man but his tone had changed when he heard what Gajeel had done to The Gatekeeper of Fairy Tail.

The Guild Master had pulled the Iron Dragon Slayer to the side and lightly scolded him for what he had done to the Fairy Tail guild member. Gajeel had been rather confused through most of the scolding but from what he could gather he didn't like him going that far over the law as well as something to deal with Fairy Tail's response.

Gajeel himself didn't put too much thought into it, he had never been much of a thinker and more of a fighter. But what had been plaguing his mind had been what Jose had said when he walked away from the Slayer, "What will you all do when I'm gone?"

The Guild Master had whispered it to himself but Gajeel's enhanced hearing heard it and he found himself not like what the Master had said. From the sad tone, it almost sounded like...like he was going to be gone soon. That thought sent shivers down Gajeel's back. Jose had given him a home and something to fight for. Phantom Lord wouldn't be the same without him.

While Gajeel was in thought the party below him was still going on. But for one member it was to end early has Jeff the Phantom Lord mage was trying to make his way out.

"Oh, come on Jeff you can't leave now! We're partying man!" Stated the husky mage.

Jeff just gave them a sad smile, "Sorry dudes but I got a date with my girlfriend. I can't be late, not for her man. She the love of my life. Don't worry if this party keeps going on, I might be able to be back tonight to continue. See you guys later."

With a wave towards his friends, Jeff made his way to the door but just as he was about to open it and head out, he heard a loud thump from outside. "What the-" Jeff started saying before the doors to the building were blasted off their hinges with Jeff being sent into a wall from as a result.

Don't worry about Jeff though, the injuries he got would have his girlfriend take care of him for the next few days and by the time he recovered he would ask her to marry him and the two would live rather happily together, even have four kids. It was the rest of Phantom Lord that would need to be worried about.

The dust from the explosion withered away to reveal to the Phantom Lord guild who was at their doorstep. Makarov, who was already slightly used his Giant Magic to be a rather tall nine feet pulled his fist back from where he had punched the door open. Behind him was the rest of the Fairy Tail Guild, each of them with a rather angry look on their faces as they had their magic ready for battle.

"To mess with our Guild Building is one thing Phantom! But to hurt one of my own...You'll see what happens to those that harm one of my children!" And with that, the battle had begun.

(3rd Person Battle POV)

The battle between Fairies and Phantoms began with a bang as the two sides collided with each other. Magics of all kinds were on display, Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Wand, Requip, Sword, Gun, Bow, and many more were used to battle. Hell, there was one man that had his body cut up into pieces as said pieces were flying randomly around the battlefield hitting people.

"Hahahaha bow little Fairies! Bow before my Body Cut Up magic. Hahaha-" And his little speech was ended there by Elfman as he hit the man's floating head with his Stone Fist. The head was sent towards the wall as the rest of the body quickly recomposed itself under it just before he hit the wall and blacked out.

"Look out guys! It The Gentlemen Beast Elfman!" Stated a random man in a dress before Elfman brought his stone hand around and sent him flying as well.

Afterward, Elfman took a moment to straighten his tie and wipe some dust off his shoulder as he glared at the Phantom Lord mages around him. "Such uncultured and unsophisticated filth. I will make sure, with my honor as a gentleman on the line, that you all pay for what happened to Sir Bishop!"

And with that, he launched himself into a crowd of mages and went at them. He wasn't alone as other Fairy Tail mages were showing the mages of Phantom Lord just how upset they were by what their S-class mage had done. Alzack and Bisca were raining hell down a group of mages with their Gun magic. Levy was throwing words like fire and bomb at any Phantom Lord mage she could find while Droy's plants where ensnaring mages and Jet was running down others. Laki was letting loss her confusingly named Wood Make creations upon any Phantom unlucky enough to get close.

The most damage being done was by two mages. Erza was in her Heaven's Wheel Armor and was throwing sword after sword at large groupings of Phantoms. One mage had tried to use his Flying magic to crash into her and take her down but when he got close, she simply summoned a hammer and used it sent him crashing down into the floor. The other mage was Cana as she had her Full House rapidly spinning around her, both protecting her and attacking any mages she got close to. She was also throwing cards like no tomorrow as she threw fire, ice, earth, wind, and lighting infused cards at the unlucky opponents.

Off to the side, Reedus was unleashing wave after wave of colorful attacks at his Phantom Lord opponent as he made use of his Pict magic. Wakaba was using his Smoke magic to let loss a barrage of smoky fist on two mages he was fighting and before an enemy mage could attack him from behind Macao hit said enemy with a spear of purple fire that sent him into unconscious. Vijeeter was using his Dancing Magic to take out mage after mage as he dances along the battlefield with deadly grace. All in all, Fairy Tail was rather destroying Phantom Lord.

Not to say that there weren't some Phantom Lord's mages were putting up a good fight but the guild's greatest strength has always been in their rather large number. Members such as Sue with her Mirror magic and Boze with his Sound magic were putting up a particularly good fight as the two support each other against a group of Fairies that were trying to overwhelm them. Other than that most of the Phantom mages were resilient enough to keep fighting even after taking good hit or two. But without any of their S-class mages down helping and supporting them, they were quickly finding themselves overwhelmed by the greater quality mages from Fairy Tail. As for said S-class mages?

One, Black Steel Gajeel was looking on from the rafter on the high ceiling. He couldn't help but smile at the fighting, while he was annoyed at his comrades being beaten, he couldn't help the feeling he was getting. The feeling that he was going to finally get a good fight after so long. He saw the Fairy Tail Guild Master his way to the door that led to the stairs, going as far as to say that he was going to find Jose and telling The Fairy Queen to keep charge.

With Makarov gone Gajeel as about to jump down into the fighting itself and help his fellow Phantoms until he was interrupted.

"Hey!" The shout made Gajeel look to the side and see Natsu being held by Happy as the two floated next to him, "Are you Gajeel!?"

Gajeel had to take a moment to just take in the odd scene before him. Someone was just next to him in the air, being held up by a blue cat with wings. Eventually, though he regained his composer and grinned, "Ya I'm Gajeel and from the looks of it, you're the Summer Fairy Natsu right? Well-"

And that was about as far as he got before Natsu launched himself off Happy with his fist flaming and threw a punch at Gajeel. The Iron Dragon Slayer was surprised and was just able to bring an arm up to block the attack. Unfortunately, the strength of the attack was enough to break the wooden rafter Gajeel was standing on and send the Iron Slayer crashing to the ground.

"God damn Summer! I was at least hoping-" Once again Gajeel was stopped as Natsu came crashing down on him and forced the Iron Slayer to dodge to the side. But not a second later Natsu rushed his opponent and unleashed a barrage of flaming punches. Gajeel was forced to hold his arms out in front of him and turn then iron to block the punches. But even with the iron hands, he felt blow after blow which ended with one major punch that sent Gajeel sliding all the way back to one of the guild's walls.

"Ok, this is getting old! I-" He stopped with wide eyes as he saw Natsu taking a deep breath, something that Gajeel knew meant. Not a second too soon Gajeel also took a deep breath as Natsu unleashed his attack.

"Fire Dragon's Roar" A beam of fire was released from Natsu mouth but not a second later Gajeel released something of his own.

"Iron Dragon's Roar" Another beam, this one made of small bits of iron, was unleashed from Gajeel's mouth at it meets the fire one in the middle of the two Slayers. A gale storm was whipped up around the clash as the two refused to give any ground as the two clashed. The beam struggle was even forcing a few Faeries and Phantoms to hold onto the ground to prevent them from being sent flying.

Eventually, the Roars lessened until they disappeared as the two Slayers too deep breaths in order to refill their empty lungs. Gajeel as the first to recover as he glared at Natsu, "What the fuck did I do to make you so angry! I mean-"

"Ice-Make: Ice Hammer" a large hammer made of ice appeared and instantly smacked down on the Iron Dragon Slayer who was forced onto his stomach from the blow. Natsu had a slight look of surprise on his face as Gray came up from behind him with a vicious smile on his face.

"Sorry, Bro I couldn't help it. He was open and well... I can't let you have all the fun with the guy that hurt our brother, can I?" Natsu shook his head a little and chuckled before responding.

"Naaa I can't blame you. In fact, now that I think about it, I feel like this would be a great time for some sibling bonding. You go for his legs and I am for the face?" The smile Gray gave him was all the confirmation he needed.

When Gajeel got up he found himself faced with two powerful opponents, both viciously grinning at him as they prepared their magic. The Iron Slayer was a bit nervously from this, he had never fought someone who fought even more aggressively than he did, let alone two of them.

He found himself regretting the fact that he was the only S-class Phantom Lord fighting here right now. Totomaru had been delayed from the job he was coming back from. Sol and Juvia was on that mission that Jose had given them for if Fairy Tail left the guild to attack them. And Aria was here but he was in the upper levels in order to help with the Master's plan to deal with Makarov. He was all alone to deal with this and he didn't like the side glares that the other members of Fairy Tail were giving him, especially the ones from Cana and Erza.

Despite all of this he grinned and turned most of his upper body into iron scales as he got into a fighting stance, "Ok then! One, Two, Three or more! I'll take on all you little fairies if I have to!"

And as the battle continued, another member of Fairy Tail was about to find herself in trouble.

AN: So fair warning I am changing Phantom Lord a bit. Mainly I'm just making some of their members have actual personalities rather than a living personality quirks, I'm looking at you, Sol! Basically I'm trying to make them feel more human but keep them in 'character' with what they were in the show. Other than that I am making some of the Element Four a bit more powerful to have them feel like actual S-class mages, again I'm looking at you, Sol!

Thanks once again to volfwildman for being a Beta. The man's got a new story out called "I Never Asked to be Born", a Loud House fic based on the Sin Kids AU. Fair warning it's a very mature story. This week's shoutout goes to iiDarkReaperz for his rather...uplifting review about my last reviewing joke. It was mostly a joke but it did make me feel much better.

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