5 years later
X784
"Harry! Fight me!"
During 5 years, Harry quickly grew and showed a lot of intelligence and aptitude for magic, especially when he first used Take Over: Dragon Soul. Taking over the dragon that attacked Mirajane by surprise, who had no time to defend herself and ended up watching the younger brother fight to win against the dragon. Of course, the dragon was not a native of Fiore, who disappeared on July 7th, X777. The dragons that Harry took the form of were less intelligent and more like entertainment animals for wizards in other countries.
Harry also learned Equip from Erza when he asked her for help, wanting a secondary spell that could efficiently complement Take Over. This resulted in the rivalry between Mira and Erza escalating and saved Mira a lot of pain when Lisanna died. Mirajane had changed drastically, but she wasn't afraid of her own magic to the point where she couldn't use it, but Mirajane still ended up choosing to work in the guild bar.
During the years that passed, it could be said that Harry had strong bonds with Mira, Cana, Elfman, Natsu, Erza, Levy, Bisca, and Gray. Harry learned many forms of magic, more than anyone expected, but because he learned magic faster than ordinary and the people who taught him were experts in their field of magic, Harry learned quickly.
"Natsu, not now... I'm choosing a mission," Harry replied, reading through the flyers available on the Service Board.
"Oh? What kind of work?" Natsu asks, looking at the available missions.
"Someone to pay for a few things I need... like new armor."
"Oh... How about this one to defeat some monsters? It's close to Hargeon... I'm going there."
"Oh? for what reason?"
"One of the guild members said he heard rumors of a 'Salamander' in Hargeon. I'll go check to see if it could be Igneel," Natsu explains. The dragon slayer has told the boy how Igneel had a human form due to being king of the fire dragons.
"I hope you find him this time.."
"Me too, brat..."
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Harry was returning from the mission when he saw Natsu getting on the train with a blonde girl accompanying him. The boy decided to join the young man on the trip, suspicious of the girl who followed his pseudo-brother. Natsu saw him and invited him to accompany them. The girl took the opportunity to introduce herself.
"I'm Lucy. What's your name?"
"My name is Harry. Nice to meet you."
"Wow! Harry in 'Harry the Dragon of Fairy Tail'?" Lucy exclaims in awe, and with good reason. Harry was mostly known for being the youngest S-class wizard.
"Erm... I didn't expect many people to know this. It's kind... of embarrassing." Harry said, confirming a little embarrassed with his face a little red with shyness.
"oh! I'm sorry, but I've always had a certain admiration for Fairy Tail mages."
"No problem, Lucy!" Harry said, soothing the young woman.
The two exchanged words before deciding to read the books they had brought along for the trip. Lucy was reading a romantic novel while Harry was reading a book about the spells Bisca was teaching him, wanting to see if he could add effects to make the person fall asleep to be easier to capture.
The trip passed quickly as the two wizards read their respective books until they arrived in Magnolia, where Harry had to carry Natsu off the train to get him better and walk to the Guild, where Lucy was introduced to Fairy Tail's branch of madness.
"WE'RE HERE!!!" Natsu declares loudly, kicking the door open.
"Natsu, Happy, Harry, Welcome back," Mirajane said.
"You overreacted again. I read about the incident in Hargeon in the news..." The guild member said until he noticed Natsu running towards him.
"...paper..." Natsu's foot touches the guy's chin, sending his head back.
"Bastard! The information you gave me about Salamander was false!!!" Natsu yells, his kick sending the guy backward, smashing tables in the way.
"Ah... now that Natsu is back, the shop will be all broken down soon," Mira said to no one.
"Hihihi..." Harry chuckles at his sister's comment, standing next to her.
"IT'S ALREADY BREAKING EVERYTHING!!" one of the guy's friends being mugged by Natsu screams.
Thus began yet another fight between the wizards of Fairy Tail.
"I really... came to Fairy Tail," Lucy says quietly to herself as she takes in the commotion in front of her. With guys walking around in their underwear, girls drinking BARRELS of alcohol, gigantic men screaming about manhood, and flying chairs and tables.
"STOP IT, YOU FOOLS!!!!!" Makarov yelled, using his magic to grow in size. The guild members go silent, some turning away and others cursing under their breath.
"Wow... are you here, Master?" Mira asks rhetorically.
"Teacher?!!!" Lucy exclaims. She didn't notice the smile on Natsu's face before he exclaimed.
"DAHA HA. YOU ALL GOT SCARED!!!!! THAT'S ME WHO CACHED- Bleh." Natsu couldn't boast anymore because of the master stomping on him.
"mu? a newbie?" The master wonders when he finally sees Lucy.
"Y-yes..."
"FNUUUU..."
Lucy screams as she becomes startled and afraid as the master begins to vibrate with magic, only to be dumbfounded when she sees him shrink to his knees in height. "WHAAAAAT???!!!"
"Nice to meet you," Makarov said before jumping to the second floor and doing somersaults in the air. When Makarov was in a favorable position, he took out paperwork from his robes and waved them in the air a little.
"You did it again, fools. Look at these documents I got from the council. First..."
The mages could already feel the lecture they would receive.
"Gray."
"huh?" The aforementioned asks, pondering what he did wrong this time.
"Nice job sweeping up the illegal organization, but then you walked around town naked, then ran out after stealing underpants that were drying."
"But... wouldn't it be worse if I got naked?" Gray wonders.
"For starters, don't get naked," Elfman tells Gray as if it were fact, which it was.
"ELFMAN!!! You had a mission to escort a VIP but attacked him during the mission."
"He said men need to be educated, so…" Elfman tries to explain by scratching his neck in a nervous act, which makes Makarov shake his head.
"Cana Alberona. He drank 15 large barrels of beer and even put it on the council's account."
"Damn it! They found out..."
"Loke... flirted with Elder Reiji's granddaughter, who sits on the council. A certain talent agency charged us for damages, too."
"And Natsu..." Makarov sighed, looking like he wanted to cry out of misery. "You destroyed the Devon family of thieves, but you also destroyed seven other homes of the villagers... you broke the clock tower that is a historic Tully Village landmark. You set fire to a church in Freesia. You caused damage to part of Castle Lupinus. You Destroyed the observatory at Lake Nazuna, which therefore ceased activities. Destroyed half of Hargeon's harbor." One could see the tears of sweat on Natsu's face from the list of destruction he caused.
"Arzarch. Lévi. Kulov. Reedus. Warren. Visca. Harry...etc."
"Me too...?" Harry asks, surprised that his name was mentioned, and the others got surprised too. It wasn't every day that a claim was made against Harry, as the boy was famous for not causing proprietary harm.
"Guys..." Makarov says, hiding his face in shadows. "The board members are mad at me all the time..."
Silence reigned with all the mages looking away, ashamed of themselves. "but..."
"Forget the board members," Makarov announces, causing the documents to catch fire and throwing them towards Natsu, catching it with his mouth and eating the fire.
"Listen well... The power to overcome reason. It is born of reason. Magic is not a miracle. When the 'spirit' that flows from us connects with the 'spirit' that flows from nature, they form something concrete for the first time. You will need a strong mind and a lot of concentration for this. And I mean giving yourself in body and soul to whatever you do is the way. If you keep worrying about being watched by your superiors, your magic will not grow. Fear not the council's fools."
"DO WHAT YOU THINK IS RIGHT!!!! THAT'S FAIRY TAIL'S MOTTO!!!" Makarov yells, ending his speech and causing everyone to start cheering in relief and joy.
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Harry had just walked into the Guild this morning, only to find Gray and Natsu fighting, which resulted in him going over to Lucy and Mira.
"What just happened?" Lucy asks, confused by Loke's behavior.
"Loke doesn't get along very well with star mages," Mira explains briefly.
"huh?"
"I bet something happened in your past involving a girl..." Harry says to Lucy, knowing from the way Loke avoids Star Mages. "Oh, he's back."
Loke runs as fast as possible to Gray and Natsu, still fighting. "Shit! Natsu, Gray!"
"Huh?" The two mentioned ask.
"ERZA IS BACK!"
"ARGH!!!?"
The Guild doors are abruptly opened by a red-haired girl wearing armor, carrying what appears to be the horn of a gigantic monster. All the other members, except for a few, turned pale with fear at the expression on the girl's face, Erza.
"Even if master forgives you, I didn't." The redhead says with a tone of finality.
"Wh-who is she?" Lucy asks, not expecting an answer.
"Erza Scarlet, an S-Class mage."
"What?" Lucy says quickly, stunned by the revelation.
"Cane... this is an inappropriate posture for drinking."
"ugh..."
"Visitor, if you're going to dance, dance outside. Wakaba, cigarette butts are all over the floor."
She lectured the other members a few more times until she sighed and spoke softly about how they gave her too much trouble.
Lucy even wondered if she was being disciplined for the redhead's behavior.
"Anyway... Are Natsu and Gray here?" Erza asks, not seeing them in the position they were in.
"Aye," Happy says, flying to her side and pointing in their direction.
"W-hey Erza. W-we... a-are being g-nice to each other as usual!"
"Aye."
'NATSU GOT LIKE HAPPY!!' Lucy thought, shocked by what she saw. Because from the little he knew of Natsu, it seemed that the boy wasn't afraid of anything. Erza continued to chat with the two boys while Mira and Harry decided to explain to Lucy a little about Erza.
"Both Natsu and Gray are afraid of Erza," Mira says, handing the light pen back to Reedus.
"Natsu fought her back in the day... and got her beat up," Harry said.
"NO CHANCE! Natsu?" Lucy exclaims.
"And she found Gray naked and spanked him too."
"My goodness... but can you imagine..."
"Loki had a crush on Erza and was nearly killed."
"..."
"I'm happy to see you're both okay," Erza says with closed eyes and a serene face. "Actually... I have a favor to ask of both of you." This caught the attention of everyone in the Guild. It wasn't every day that ERZA SCARLET asked for a favor unless you were Harry Strauss.
Harry wondered why the redhead asked Gray and Natsu for help instead of him. Erza usually requested his help, mainly to use these opportunities to be together to train him in Requip and help him improve big sister stuff.
"I heard something troublesome while at work, and normally I would consult the master about it or ask Harry for assistance, but since it's urgent," Erza explained, pausing a little to catch her breath. "I'm going to need your help. Will you come with me?"
"Eh!?" "HUH!?" Gray/Natsu says. Shocked by what they heard.
The Guild was silenced by that request.
"Erza...Natsu and Gray...I never thought about it, but...it might be Fairy Tail's strongest team." Mirajane says to herself. Harry and Lucy heard what she said, and Harry nodded as he knew all three of them, even with Raijinshuu still standing. Lucy was surprised, as she didn't know the two very well.
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Harry sighs for the fourth time as he heads towards his destination. Mira wanted him to go with Lucy to keep an eye on Natsu and Gray, to be a mediator, but there was no way as Mirajane also wanted him to go with one of her 'shortcuts' to the regular meeting between Guild Masters and tell you the news.
Harry asked to stay a while as his magical reserves needed nourishment, which the other masters allowed, and asked questions about Fairy Tail since Makarov was unconscious but made sure not to ask about Mirajane in a perverted way.
Harry's reactions to negative comments about his brothers were legendary.
Harry was getting ready to leave with Jichan when he heard some commotion in the gardens. As he got closer, he noticed a few things.
1- The newest Fairy Tail team was there with two other guild masters;
2- There was an injured guy with what looked like a flute in his hands;
3- jichan seemed to be giving one of his sermons/words of wisdom;
"Weak will remain weak forever. But weakness is not evil, as human beings are weak creatures, to begin with. Alone, one feels nothing but insecurity; that's why we form guilds... that's why we have Nakama."
The boy seemed to lose his strength little by little, insecure.
"We walk together to be able to live strongly. The clumsy ones will run into more walls than others and maybe will take them longer to get there. If you believe in tomorrow and try hard enough, you can naturally get your strength. That's how you'll be able to smile and live strong."
The young man seemed to tremble with insecurity until he heard something that shocked him. "Without having to rely on a flute, of course."
'He knew everything... impressive...'
The young man knelt down and admitted defeat. Makarov seemed to be in Fairy Tail Master mode until he lost his composure when he saw his 'children' come to him happy that Makarov was alright. Harry was happy too that nothing bad happened and went to join his nakamas.
Until the flute speaks...
There goes peace, and that was the moment Team Natsu became famous.