A Return? Or a Final Goodbye?(invite only)

Takumi was returning to his former home to gather the rest of his things. He was going to move himself closer to his new guild, so that travel would be easier. He wasn't the white haired young man he had been when he had left Fairy Tail, but anybody who knew him would be able to tell it was really him by looking at the Scythe he was carrying, or by the familiar exceed that walked beside him.

As he approached the door of the house he had been living in for years, he closed his eyes, stopping for a moment to remember all that had happened in this house. His eyes closed, he let the faint breeze ruffled his hair, recalling all the moments that he had shared with others here. A small smile played across his lips, and he stepped towards the door, opening his eyes once more.

As much as he missed this place, it was time to move on. He had to move on, for the sake of all that had happened since he had left. He had a new guild, a new team, and it was time he stopped living in the past so he could enjoy that. As his hand reached for the door handle, something made him hesitate. Was he really ready to let go?

Soaring around, the spirit of a mere Mura was spectating the changes that would be made in their previous guild home, Magnolia. It was rather the same as always, except by the lack of the name Fairy Tail. Keeping an optimistic tone, he just kept soaring around, followed by Kyuken and Zirconis as they asked no questions to his reason for coming back to a city that would most likely witch hunt him down if they saw him for even a brief second.

And as he rounded a corner, he spotted a familiar aura. That black cat, and its companion, a long-missed rival, none other than Takumi. Wait… did he do it? He appeared well and healthy. That must’ve meant that he might’ve fund what he searched for! Happily, the shaman appeared right in front of the person with a huge smile as a ghost that tried to jump-scare someone, speaking: “Hey, you’re back..!” At the moment, only his torso and head was visible as he kept on, “So, did you find it? You must’ve found it… I mean, look at yourself.” He was extremely curious about that cure, in which he wouldn’t let Takumi off his sight before he got an answer.

Hera had actually been sitting on the roof of Takumi's house, and saw him exit with a rather sad expression on his face. He hadn't been back here in awhile. She listened with her superhuman hearing as he began to talk to someone...a very familiar voice. It was one of her guildmates, one she had a slight crush on but annoyed the fuck out of her.

Leaping down off of Takumi's roof in a sweep of her blonde hair, Hera would land. Wearing her usual outfit, her hair in a long ponytail. She would stand up to her full height, which was a bit shorter than Mura or Takumi.

"Takumi....I've been waiting for you. You came back." Hera said as she blushed a bit. Looking to Mura and listening, she nodded. "Yes you look....a lot stronger and healthier." she added. "But do you still have it in you? The will to fight?" she asked him as Rose would come flying in from a different direction in town.

"Takumi?! And Mura too?!" she said as she floated down, white wings out as she floated off of the ground next to them all. "Well shoot....I guess we should go see the old Guild Hall then. Don't worry about the townsfolk, Mura. They've been missing Fairy Tail more than you know."

As they walked, Rose continued.

"This used to be an unthinkable place for Dark Mages and Wizards to come, or even think about coming...." she recalled the days of Heero at the Guild as she sighed, floating alongside them on the way to the Guild Hall. "Now.....they walk the streets, cause chaos at night, rape, kill and steal. Magnolia is a party town...so it's a paradise for them now without a single Fairy Tail mage to keep them in check."

"Don't worry, that time will be over soon." Hera said as they came to the main street leading up to the Fairy Tail guild. Up ahead it looked like...a junkyard. Windows, wood, glass, everywhere. Fences broken. Holes in the walls. It was enough to make her cry a bit as she walked up to the destroyed and twisted gates of the old hall. "Takumi...we need you. To help us rebuild our home. All of our home." she looked at the ground and then over to Takumi. "Do you remember the first time you walked through these doors? Meeting my father? My mom, Alyia being pregnant with me?"

Takumi was quite honestly half scared to death when both Mura and Hera made an appearance. He cast his eyes downwards when Mura asked if the curse, unwilling to tell him of the fact that it was being held off by another spell, which would not last for long. He cast a glance at Hera with those big blue eyes, that glance saying all the things he could not. He was not cured, he was still dying.

"I'm not cured, guys. This is only a temporary spell, which will break soon. I'm still dying. But there is a way to break the curse... however, it means we need the dragon slayers. All of them."Takumi finally spoke after a long moment of silence. The young man put one hand on Hera's shoulder as they walked, stopping before the old guild. One look at the guild hall was enough for Takumi. He wasn't ready for this. He wasn't ready to leave this guild, or these people behind.

"Takumi. Tell them why you came back, or I will myself." Coal interrupted the conversation with a stern look at Takumi. Her red eyes narrowed as she looked at him, trying to get him to just spit it out already.

Soaring with no legs as a classic ghost, Mura was quite surprised by Takumi’s answer. So he hadn’t found the true ‘cure’ yet, have he… it was rather saddening. Although, what he told next surprised him even more; to break this curse, he apparently needed all the dragon slayers. For what was yet untold… but maybe, he would lift that veil sometime. At least, there were some dragon slayers whose help was to be expected, and as he thought about that, one of them even appeared at the same place. What a surprise…

It was Hera. Haven’t it been a little while since… wait, what did Rose just say? Don’t worry about the townsfolk? What, was he spiriting himself away for no reason? How come? “… E-H?” he and Kyuken spoke up at the same time. As they made their way, Rose explained further about the case… so that was the case. He felt like facepalming, it was obvious. “I feel like that I’ve done a sin… hiding myself. Well, I do spirit myself once in a while, anyways,” he replied. “Took you five days to learn, boy,” the samurai ghost added, in which he received a darting gaze from the shaman. He had to do the most embarrassing things to learn how it felt to be invisible… and it didn’t always work. You see, training invisibility and being forced to do stuff with Kyuken was a bad combination.

There they stood. He was still a spirit for forgettable reasons, but… oh boy, it felt good to be back. Or kind of. Its construction and structure was more or less damaged, in which he felt the sudden change in Hera’s spirit. Pained, he looked at the building again and spoke: “… Your dad threw me through the roof.” His voice would most likely blame Hera a little, but it wasn’t intended. It was a crazy time. That and Heero’s face when Mura suggested the place for his Guild Mark… as he thought about that, his hand made it to the same mark, patting it a little with a returning smile on his face. “A lot happened here… right, my spirit animal?” he spoke to Zirconis who just shrugged in a response: “You’re still lost. I’m not exactly your rea-“ “Mura’s been missing you so much, Hera-chan. Having dreams and all~” Kyuken whispered to Hera’s ear, “I guess that it’s become a huge problem for his well-being. Mind if…” Instant kick to the spirit ball followed by Mura and his funny, angry face, while Takumi appeared to have something in store for them in the form of something to tell, at least according to Coal…

As Hera listened too Takumi, she could tell he wasn't as optimistic as she had hoped. In fact he wasn't cured at all. But he'd found a temporary magical solution...apparently. Looking someone glum and down, Hera just stared at the grass. As Zirconis spoke, Hera just looked over her shoulder.

Smiling at the dead spirit of the Jade Dragon silently, she then blushed when Kyuken, the perverted ghost flew up into her ear and whispered something extremely naughty about Mura's dreams. Blushing profusely, she just lowered her eyes at Kyuken and didn't speak. Mura was a few years younger than her....but....maybe in a few years, and a ton of growing up. No. He was like a brother too her. Right? Why was she even thinking about this. She already had a thing for too many guys, adding one more would not be beneficial too her.

"He's far to young. And immature at that." Hera said crossing her arms and looking away. "Besides....we're mages of the same Guild, we have bigger things to focus on." she said as her blush faded, keeping her arms crossed she would look over to Takumi.

"Well?" she heard what Coal, the Exceed had just said. Like Rose, he floated nearby with his white wings out as most Exceeds did when not walking on the ground.

"I had originally come back to my house to get my things, I was going to leave the guild. I didn't want you all to see me in pain once this temporary fix wore off... it would be much easier to die surrounded by strangers than put everyone through the pain of watching me slowly dying. But looking at the old hall, and at you guys, I simply can't seem to work up the will to walk away from all of this." Takumi looked at the ground as he said this, slightly embarrassed to tell this to two of his favorite members of Fairy Tail. As he looked at the ground, his now-black hair fell over his face, shrouding his expression from view. He couldn't tell them he was about to join a new guild. When he looked at them, at the old guild hall, he simply couldn't begin to think of leaving.

Sighing, the shaman just kept Kyuken under his armpit to avoid further awkward suggestions. Heck, he never wished to hear that from Hera, anyways; too young? Immature? Ehm… she did have a point. When it came to stuff like that, Mura couldn’t be other than that, in which a rather sad atmosphere engulfed him. “I don’t want to hear that from you…” he sighed with a letdown voice, slowly choking the remaining life off of the ghostly moron beneath his hold. Sure, he might’ve not been too much into this theme, but he was confident that if the time came, then he would be more than… wait, why was he even putting himself in the trouble of thinking about all that?!

“Sometimes, I don’t get your 600 years’ worth of wisdom, Kyuken,” he commented afterwards, while Zirconis had absolutely no business in what just happened. Meanwhile, what Takumi explained was rather more saddening than what he said earlier; was he leaving the guild? Because of this issue? Although, he ended with the words that expressed a lot of miss of this guild. Perhaps he was but convincing himself to leave, yet his heart wouldn’t. “… It’s true that we don’t want to see you suffer from this curse, but…” he stammered a little in his reply, “We don’t want you to leave us. You said that there’s a curse earlier, right? Then why not put your faith in that?” His hand made it onto Takumi’s shoulder, eyes filled with worry of his well-being. He wouldn’t leave them back then just to return with a ticking clock, and Mura wouldn’t have any of that. He was sure that Hera felt the same, too; including every other member of their guild…