Returning Home: Hanako's Brave Crossing Over the Rubicon.

There was a world that not many knew of. Even in the Sugiura Dimension, where this 'world' had originated, only a selected few had ever met people from this 'world' - the world of guilds. Unions of people with strong and eternal bonds, coming together under a single goal - groups where race and origin did not matter, where one was expected to leave old grudges behind and to start anew with an adopted family of varying ages, sizes and personalities.
And that world was the one Hanako was now entering. Gildarts was a strange and strong man - he saw which people had it in them to become a member of this guild, called Fairy Tail - those who had nowhere else to turn, those looking for a clean start, those looking for eternal fellows, they all were welcome in this hall. Behind the golden light that streamed out of the door, warm air awaited - mixed with the smell of tasty meals and alcoholic beverages, the weak as well as the strong ones.
Under the big lights on the ceiling, there they were - countless rows of tables and things to sit on, or so it seemed, and as one would expect - it was quite lively in here! With one view, it was possible to see demons playing cards with Iramasha in a corner, while a group of half-grownup Sugiura were trying their luck with magic tricks right besides that, searing their own eyebrows off. Behind that, people eating, other people drinking, but all in all, they were all one thing...
Happy. And at the bar, right across this entire meeting, dining and fighting hall, there was a bar - a bar occupied by a few hard drinking and harder laughing 'mages', joking about the last request they completed together. One of them almost fell off of his bar stool - if not for a blue-haired man catching him from behind with a pat on the back and smile.
"Haha! Thanks Master!"
Just a few words that sounded over the general atmosphere of the room, then silence again...

And the man with blue hair, white mage clothing and an odd, sad smile turned around towards the door. For one eternal seeming second, he looked into the eyes of the new arrival - he seemed almost as out of place as the door leading right into a bedroom did. The air around him seemed eerily melancholic, and if the words of the man he had just saved from a meeting with the ground had not been enough, the nods and warm eyes on him whenever they noticed him were a clear sign...
This man was Gerard Fernandez, the Guild Master of Fairy Tail. Or rather, the acting Guild Master, as he would quickly correct anyone.
With safe steps - even evading two brawling members of his guild by side-stepping without looking - he came towards Hanako, extending out his right hand when he stood infront of her.
"Welcome to the Guild Hall. You must be one of the members Gildarts recruited recently." Was the warm greeting. His eyes went past her for a moment, noticing the luggage, causing him to turn his head around for a short second.
"Ralph, Karma! Give the lady a hand with her luggage, alright?"
Before turning back towards her.
"My name is Gerard Fernandez. May I ask you for your name?"

Hanako Shikijou Junior... at times, Gerard was almost worried about that talent of Gildarts to find exactly the kind of people that needed Fairy Tail by their side so easily. The stellar mage wished he could say the same for himself, but thanks to his 'situation', he was rarely able to even leave the Guild Hall without endangering his own life right on the spot... So he only did that whenever one of his own needed his help, since everyone in Fairy Tail was his family. Wether Hanako realized it by now or not - this man, who looked to be her age, but was so much older, was already seeing her not unlike one would see a daughter.
A new daughter that would need protection from terrorists, as it seemed, and Gerard wasn't the only one to hear the words - Fairy Tail members were not called 'Mages' for nothing. While quite a few of them didn't use 'magic' in the literal sense, most of them were superhuman enough to enhance their hearing, and as troublemakers and family, they always listened in on EVERYTHING - one could almost see the ears growing all across the guild hall.
Still, the magician listened without interrupting his newest guild member. A passage to Osaka? That was easy for the guild hall, almost too easy a task for it. But nonetheless, it would open the portal in time, that much was for sure.
"I'd probably qualify for great-great-great-great-grandfather instead." A small joking remark, and Gerard stepped out of the Guild Hall - through the door, right into the human world and Hanako's bedroom. The Yuudeshi Network could probably not even notice this portal - and even if they could, they'd be gone in seconds anyway, before the Sugiura Kingdom could possibly hear of his appearance on this plane. Of course, the Guild Master knew that all of his members were staring at his back right now, while the two he had tasked with the luggage grabbed the mentioned objects to transport them away into the hall of wonders.

In this 'real' world now, Gerard followed his newest member - and raised one eyebrow upon seeing the children. Five of them? Well, someone had been busy for sure... Where was the father, though? Dead, missing, or simply up and left? He'd have to ask Hanako sooner rather than later, in order to assess his course of action accordingly. A prodigy of magic still couldn't read the thoughts of other intelligent beings freely. One thing he could do - and did right away - is making himself visible on the material spectrum. As a Magus Sugiura, he was a soul being at the core, and thus would probably turn invisible for either the children or the mother.
Said children still had to take on their places for the journey, and that was something he could help with - a few words, in a language that nobody but Gerard spoke, and he stretched out his right hand. With the light of countless, sparkling stars, space itself became realized from his mind - a simple 'levitation' spell, that had no chance of accidentally waking the children up, for a simple reason. Levitation was usually the act of 'lifting' something with energy, but this spell simply created negative gravity, causing a floating effect - before carefully guiding three of the four children into their correct spaces at once, Gerard's hands moving softly and with a grace that was utterly inhuman, as his mind soothed the energy of space into something peaceful and helping. With this help, a task that would normally take quite a bit of time was accomplished incredibly fast. The wizard wouldn't call himself 'good with children', but he was 'good with being silent', and that seemed enough for this moment.
"You could've asked for help earlier, Hanako. We don't turn away our own." He said, his voice lowered, as they finished putting the children into position. His smile was friendly, and although he looked no older than Hanako on first glance, he certainly seemed more like a father-figure in that moment.

As they returned to the Guild Hall, Gerard helped out Hanako's request for silence by raising his own right palm, the sign for the guild to shut up for just a moment, and one that was usually listened to. But when Hanako opened the portal again right away, to depart towards Osaka... Gerard reached out his right hand, to grab her shoulder softly.
"Wait a moment, Hanako." Just a simple request, one that she would hopefully follow, if Gildarts had been right about her. "You're haunted by the past. We can all see that... and we can all relate to that. I am no different myself. But remember... You're not alone in this. And you don't need to return... Or at least, not alone."
"He's right!" "Don't forget about us, got it?" "We've got your back, freshling!" Voices from the hall, as the members stood up - now, the size of the Guild Hall seemed deceptive, as there were, at most, 30 or 40 people here, not hundreds or even that many. A small, family-like group, that was Fairy Tail. And now, they all looked upon Hanako.
"If you need a save place to stay, then stay here. We have living quarters in some distance to this main hall, and this wouldn't be the first time for an entire family to move in." Showing his own, blue crest on the left hand towards her, the magician and all of his Guild Mates spoke out the infamous quote...
"We're Fairy Tail!"