章 13: As Years Go By

In the year X787 Magnolia gone through brief power struggle. Twilight Ogre came to the Magnolia with the intention of take over the town for themselves and start to harass Fairy Tail members. Though one month later when Axel came from his S rank mission he learned what's happening and gone to their guild. He kick the door from the hinges and saw they were celebrating something but they stop their party when Axel broke the door. Some of them start to yell at him like who does he think he is but he didn't listen to them and said his name, his guild name and told them he came because they try to harass his guild with that he released his conquering spirit and start to crush them, only their master show little will and he start to increase his output little bit and he too collapsed unconscious to the floor. After that they leave the town, with that Fairy Tail name heard once again after disappearance their members. Axel became ace of the guild and gained new nickname; Magic Emperor. He gained this nickname because when civilians saw him he crush Twilight Ogre guild without even lift a finger they thought he looked like an Emperor, which Axel heard later from Macao. This victory homewer didn't go unnoticed from other mages and guilds. 3 months later kingdom announce that Grand Magic Games was starting and Fairy Tail only send Axel. First Grand Magic Games gone through tournament style and Axel was the champion, with this Fairy Tail name heard once again. After he came to the guild they partied till the dawn, in the morning Romeo came to him and ask him to teach him which Axel accepted, after all Axel wanted Fairy Tail strong again. He wanted them stand at their feet without their main group so he decided to teach whoever interested hand-to-hand combat or sword training. That was the start of suffering of Romeo. He soon found that Axel was slave driver and when he complained Axel told him that nothing is easy, if he wanted to suprass others he need to work hard and he showed him that even now he was still training hard. When Romeo saw how busy was Axel through his training and jobs he thanked him profusely for training him and asked him why he still train when he was already strong enough which Axel replied it was nothing and told him that in this world only training won't betray him. Romeo took this advice to the heart and carry to the grave even when he became first ranked wizard saint, ace of the fairy tail he trained every day so he didn't fall back. Though this is story of another time.