On normal days, this place showcases a vibrant and peaceful port where merchants, travelers and citizens go about their day in harmony. But not this night....
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The peaceful rhythm of Hargeon's port shattered in an instant.
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A massive wooden ship stormed into the harbor, its hull grinding against stone, splintering docks and sending crates flying. The impact cracked the ground beneath it, as if the sea itself had hurled the vessel in rage. Buildings nearby shook, windows rattling, and townsfolk screamed as they scrambled to safety.
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From the crowd, someone shouted, "Wha—what is it?!"
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Another voice, panicked and breathless: "A ship stormed into the port!!"
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The vessel loomed like a beast, its arrival unnatural, violent, and deliberate. And in the stunned silence that followed, all eyes turned skyward, searching for the force that had cast it down.
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After the clouds of dust calmed down, we hear a woman's voice, shouting and complaining...
"What were you thinking!? How could you flush me along, too!? Shouted a young woman with blonde hair and black sexy dress. Her figure, still magnificent despite the dirt clinging to her body. Lucy, a young woman looking for her great adventure, is asking the woman in front of her.
But, the woman doesn't look like a regular human- for her lower part consists of scaly fish tail. A mermaid with a mesmerizing figure, but clearly with an attitude "My bad.... I flushed the ship as well...."
"Were you aiming at me just now!!??"
"Don't call me for a while. I'm going on a trip with my boyfriend.....with my boyfriend"
"NO need to repeat it!!"
As the Celestial Spirit vanished in thin air. "She's so selfish!!!UGGGHH"
"You don't really get along, huh?" a talking blue cat..Happy the happy go lucky..
"But I did it!!! Once the military personnel hears about it and arrive at the scene, all the other girls will be safe too. I'M SO NICE----!!" with a mix of narcism
"ACK!! We forgot Natsu inside!!
Inside the ship, within the central hall of it. The pink haired youth stand bravely amidst numerous villains surrounding him. Suddenly the door of the hall swang open violenty
"Natsu, are you oka... Lucy's voice trailled off as she take-in the scene in front of her...Natsu on one side and thugs on the other.
A cocky face, who looked like to be the leader of the criminals "Brat...you shouldn't get on other people's ship without permission.
Natsu didn't even bother replying. Instead he slowly took off his coat..Seeing this, the leader of the thugs called out to his subordinate " Hey!! Throw him out, quick."
"YES SIR!"
"OH no" Lucy, feeling worried about the pink haired youth tried helping but Happy stop her "Don't worry. I forgot to tell you, but Natsu is a mage too."
As the thugs get near Natsu, he suddenly spoke and asked a question to the leader. " Are you a mage of Fairy Tail?"
"What about it?" still with his punchable cocky face
"Let me take a good look at your face" as he said it, the thugs reached him and tried to grab him . But, with a swing, Natsu flung the tugs away. " I've never seen you before"
Everyone except Happy are shocked to see this happening. "Fairy tail??? Is Natsu a mage from Fairy Tail??"
"Wha...that mark!"
"He's real Bora-san!!"
"I-idiot!!! Don't call me by that name!!"
Happy also showing his fairy tail crest on his back to the people "Bora, Bora of Prominence. He was banished from a mage guild called "Titan Nose" several years ago."
Lucy is so shocked to know that "I've heard about him... he commited several thefts and using magic and got banished"
Going back to Natsu, who this time look really annoyed " I don't care if you are a bastard or a good person, But I can't forgive you for using our name."
Bora cannot hold it in and attacked first "Whatever!! You're just a noisy brat!!" while blasting Natsu with his fire magic.
"NATSU!!" again Lucy trying to help with Happy blocking her with his magical wings.
"HMPF"
"Awful" a voice coming from the burning flames of Bora froze Bora's smile. "What is this? Are you really a fire mage? I've never tasted such awful fire." a hand grabbed the flam and started stuffing it to his wide open mouth.
This image of eating fire made everyone shocked with their mouths and eyes wide open. Again, except Happy. "FUUUUUU, thank you for the food."
"WHA- wha-wha.... What is he!?!?!?!?
"fire....!??"
"Did he just eat fire!??!
"Fire won't work on Natsu" revealed Happy.
"I've never seen such magic!!Lucy exclaimed
Now that I've eaten, I can feel my power... HERE I COME!!!!" as he sytarted inhaling a huge breath of air. Nora and his people started to panic...
Unfortunately or fortunately....before he can able to release his attack...
A beam of red light tore through the clouds, striking the deck beside the impostor. The wood hissed and cracked, scorched in an instant. Another blast hit the mast, vaporizing it. Screams erupted as the thugs scrambled, some diving into the water.
Everyone froze.
High above the ship, a figure hovered—silent, cloaked, eyes glowing like twin suns. Heat shimmered around him, warping the air. His presence pressed down like gravity itself.
Lucy shielded her eyes. "What… is that?"
The fake Salamander stumbled backward, trembling. One of his men dropped to his knees.
"It's him," the thug whispered. "The Skyfather… The Ascendant…"
Natsu blinked, his flames flickering. "Okay… that definitely wasn't me."
The figure didn't speak. He simply watched. Judged. And the world below remembered what it felt like to be small.
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He lived a quiet life....That's what he wants to believe. Well he live like that as he became a father himself. He came from a very dysfunctional family...A family with 10 members. And he is the oldest child. Although he never really believe he experience becoming a kid. His parents forced the idea that since he is the oldest, he should be the one to help raise the family. So by 9 years old, he had a part-time at a welding shop. In the morning he worked as a simple helper. In the afternoon, he brought his siblings to their school and pick them up later on. By fifteen, he covers himself with old-man's clothes and wore a mask on his face as he drive a tricycle in a rural town in the north. Driving for teens his age from their school to their homes while he missed classes. By 18, he was working in a fast-food chain with a terrible management, not long after he switch jobs as a sales representative for Suzuki, working for the company for almost 4 months but 0 sales. Knowing he doesn't have talent in selling things, even with his undergraduate status, lied in his resume and applied in an American{AT&T} company(4 times) before getting a job he absolutely do not deserve and have no idea how to do but paid really well.
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He lasted only 1 month before getting fired. Tried again on another American(AMAZON) company, lasted 7 months, this time learning a lot of English from his experience, getting better with the language. Another company{verizon} after the other {T-mobile}..Getting promoted 3 times even. The job lasted a total of 6 years. With the money he earned, he never even managed to buy a smartphone, nor shoes that really fit him and made do with fake shoes that fit his feet too tighty that his feet was wounded. Able to send his sibling to a decent university.
By the age of 24, he still looked like a skeleton due to malnutrition. weighing only 55kg with 165cm height. His siblings? They have fair skin and very healthy complexion. His parents? Riding a motorcycle he paid for. Going on vacation on places he never been. Riding airplanes he never seen in person. Living in a house he paid for with everything that is left on him.
Once his siblings started finishing their studies, he thought he can start to relax. But the opposite happened. Maybe with years of him giving them everything, they thought it is his responsibility to make their life better. They had decent jobs, they travelled abroad with their money. And him? He didn't get anything. Nothing was left on him.
At least until he met her. The love of her life. Brought him to dates he cannot afford. Bought him things, clothes, gadgets he never had. Without asking for anything in return but his love and faithfulness. And he gave it to her, she gave him 2 sons. Wonderful sweet loving boys who respected and admired him as his wife did as well.
His biological family? blocked him from their contacts,. Never invited to events, to weddings and birthdays, holidays and whatnot. His wife, angry for him, fought them. This time he knows who to give everything, so he removed them from his life. And focused on his own family. Happy and within 6 years together gained height and weight, not a skeleton anymore. 95kg with 175cm height...a bit overweight this time but definitey happy.
A small home. A steady job. A wife who laughed at his dry jokes, and two sons who thought he hung the moon.
He was present. He showed up. He listened.
And when the illness came, something accumulated from previous many years of neglect to his own body, he didn't fight it like a warrior—he accepted it like a man who had already given the best of himself.
In the final days, he didn't ask for miracles. He just hoped his family would be okay.
"If there's more after this," he thought, "I hope I remember them."
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Light.
Warm, golden, and too close. His eyes fluttered open. He was… small. Weightless. Cradled in someone's arms. The woman holding him had long, dark hair that shimmered like dusk. Her eyes were tired, but kind. She looked down at him with a softness that felt impossibly familiar.
Then it hit him, the flood of memory. Names. Faces. A quiet life. A wife who teased him for forgetting to take out the meals his kids would have for bento that his wife will cook early in the morning out of the freezer. Two sons who raced him to the dinner table. A body that had grown old and worn, and a final breath taken with hopes of having that wonderful family be happy.
And now—this.
A second life.
Fairy Tail.
He had watched it during quiet evenings. A show full of chaos and heart, magic and myth. He remembered the names—Natsu, Erza, Lucy.
And now, somehow, he was here.
The woman whispered something—soft, melodic. "Caelum," she said. "My little sky."
Caelum Noctelle.
That was his name now. Son of Elira, the woman with haunted eyes and a gift she couldn't control. And somewhere out there, though she didn't speak of him, was Gildarts Clive—the mage who shattered mountains and vanished without knowing he had a son.
Caelum's body felt strange. Strong. Too strong. Even as an infant, he could feel the tension in his muscles, the quiet hum beneath his skin.
"This is a world with magic. I can feel it. I don't know how but I feel like I am getting stronger little by little." it flowed into him, drawn by something deeper. His body absorbed sunlight like breath, but it also drank in ambient magic, weaving it into his bones.
He didn't understand it all yet.
But he remembered enough.
He understood himself.
He had lived before. Loved before. Lost before.
In a world of chaos and wonder, he would grow.
Only time will tell how strong he will be.
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So here it is...hopefully people like it as well as I like it.