Hey guys as you read from the title this isn't a chapter but I am working on the new chapter along with my other two stories. I re-read the previous chapter and so how long it was and I might have been a bit of a chore to read. So redirected myself to focus a bit me on quality over quantity. And the next arc will take place in Fiore. Some of the story beats were the same like the whole business with the different realms and the great war which gave the dragons the opportunity to rule Earthland for so long.
Anyway back to the main topic of the Original Draft. The story would have started in year 775 with Salem still having the same origins but him being a year older than Mira he still wouldn't be a part of Fairy tail. Morrigan being his mentor but there meeting would have been a tad different. The story would have taken place in Fiore mostly with all the anomalies being place there save very few.
The reason why I didn't go with this was because I was afraid I would fall into the trap of the Mc joins fairy tail and just follows the Canon route. Plus I couldn't really properly weave the ideas which I had with the time frame and the static location.
But for more major context Ur would have been alive, Salem and Gray would have been good friends. Because there was an anomaly which was the Velkhana from monster Hunter near there location and Morrigan's crazy and over spending ass accepted a job to defeat Deriora due to them being low on money, leading them to meet.
Ultear would have been the main love interest and she would have a very complicated and tense relationship with Ur.
And Brain would have been more of a problem because I felt the guy was more devious than the show gave him credit for.