Fairy Tail: The Dark Swordsman

9 - Smuggling Ring

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[X774, 2 years later]

— Dannis Martell —

My life in Fairy Tail continued on, a few years had passed and now I'm the ripe old age of 12.

Laxus and I had gone on plenty of missions throughout the years; bandit hunts, monster exterminations, a few minor ones like finding a lost item or helping out in the local restaurant.

Not a lot of people paid attention to what we did yet since we were still kids, but we were slowly but surely making our name known throughout all of Fiore and we started to make a name for ourselves as a duo.

I had also made friends with Cana, but she was also a little bit on the shy part of the spectrum so our conversations were limited to small conversations and talks about magic.

There was also that one time where a recently added member called Gray stripped naked in the middle of the guild. I found it pretty funny but I also felt pretty bad for Cana since she was traumatized by the event.

In the end though, the person I spend time the most with is Laxus. Sure I talk to Cana and Gray here and there, but they were always brief. Laxus and I train together and we also go on missions together, so it's not that surprising when he became the person I regard as a best friend.

I also had just come to realize and appreciate my new life now in Fairy Tail. Just a few short years ago, my life turned for the absolute worst. But thanks to the kindness and gracious nature of Master Makarov and the guild, I now have a roof over my head, a steady well paying job, and friends that I could count on.

It wasn't the life I had imagined all those years ago plowing the fields and helping my farmer parents, but it's a life I can appreciate all the same.

As Fairy Tail devolved back into a brawl, I deftly avoided everything to find Laxus so we could go on our mission.

"There you are, ready to go?"

"Yep, let's go." I responded to Laxus's question and we quickly left through the doors to pursue our next adventure.

The job we picked today wasn't like our original ones. and the stakes are a little bit higher than we're used to.

We're going to bust a smuggling ring.

Usually, the kind of jobs Laxus and I go with are ones that involve dissolving bandit groups and hunting down magical beasts. There was this one time where we wanted to try exterminating dark guilds but the Master said that we were still too young and those kinds of missions were still much too dangerous for us.

So Laxus scoured the entire mission board and found this one where we were asked to help bust down a smuggling ring that became prevalent in this quaint little town called Maplerock.

Apparently there had been plenty of kidnappings, and the local investigators reported that the people responsible were slavers from Bosco that wanted to smuggle citizens of Fiore back to their country.

The investigators also mentioned that the slavers had mages in their employ. So the request was sent to Fairy Tail, and after a heavy attempt of coercion and persuasion from our part, the master agreed to send us.

So we swiftly packed up our bags and were on our way. Maplerock was southwest of Magnolia, and there weren't trains that could take us there directly. So our plan was to get the train to the nearest town to the location and walk the rest of the way.