Welcome to the region of Fiore! Fiore is a lush land filled with plenty of pokemon and magic! In this region exists a phenomenon known as mages, sworn to duty under Fiore's Magic Council! These people are blessed with the power known as magic and will fight for any cause presented to them alongside their pokemon! Fiore is now working alongside the other regions to form our very own gym leader syndicate and establishing Fiore's own Elite Four, so if you want excitement and wonder in your life, visit us TODAY!

Lucy skimmed along the font of the colorful advertisement Mest had passed on to her. It was gauded up with clip art balloons and a cartoonishly drawn map of Fiore which was definitely inaccurate. "Mest, what exactly is this?" she asked.

Mest scratched at his 2 o' clock shadow and replied "Uh, I think it's… probably the new advertisement for our country? Tourism and such, y'know?"

"Why does it look like a unicorn fucked an amusement park?" came the irritated groaning from Cobra as he was leaning his chin on her head; he had to bend down half a foot to do so. The Serperior curled around his waist began sliding itself around Lucy as well.

Mest sighed, "We couldn't be bothered to do it so we handed the duty off to Larry." He sighed at the blond man in a rune knight uniform goofing off in the hallway.

"Fire him. It's the only way." Cobra said.

"Cobra, shut it." Lucy said, "Mest, why are you and Lahar handling this? I thought as rune knights your job is to protect the people, not make poorly executed tourism campaigns."

"Well, you see," Mest paused as his Alakazam pulled out a chalkboard and teleported a piece of chalk into its' hand, " oh. Good thinking buddy. Now you see, up until now we were a country with no set of gym leaders and no alliances to help us. Being a small country, you can see the danger we face with larger empires. Even if we do have a mage phenomena in which we can fight alongside our pokemon more effectively, there are still many dangers we face, especially with an enemy nation right across from us. So by now, we have to join in the alliance created by the Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, and Kalos nations. But in order to do that, we must obey the alliance laws in creating our own Pokemon League. This is a very dangerous task for the main government to conduct, as the most proficient and experienced pokemon trainers are mages. Therefore, as rune knights dedicated to the welfare of Fiore, it is our job to make sure everything is up and running." Mest finished while the Alakazam finished with his drawn description.

"Well, why did you start off by fucking this up?!" Cobra said as he stole the brochure from Lucy and flung it into Mest's face. He was about to continue his rampage until he felt the magic aura rising from the blond mage in front of him. "Star…" he muttered. Lucy reached for the pokeballs hooked to her belt. Cobra's eyes widened in panic. "Star, please don't! I surrender! No punishment, please!" he begged for his life.

Lucy was not merciful as she sent out her Kirlia and Klefki to chase him.

"AW GOD DAMMIT STAR. OW FUCK FUCK SHIT. CALL THEM OFF."

"Ignore him. Now what do you need us to do Mest?" Lucy asked.

"Ah… well…" Mest muttered as he nervously eyed the other three pokeballs attached to the belt.

"Mest, we haven't got all day. Whatever you need me to do will most likely require me to go back to Magnolia." she said.

"Ah, yes, as you can already see we will need a few more volunteers to become gym leaders. Truly strong trainers are hard to come by, and Fairy Tail has some of the best." he replied.

"Mest, you and I both know being a gym leader requires not only strength, but responsibility. A gym leader has to be available at all times to battle any trainers and to oversee their town. It's no easy thing to do, and our master is becoming old. He can't conduct this operation while looking over the guild!" Lucy clenched her fists and rose her voice. She couldn't allow any more stress to be foisted upon Makarov.

"Lucy we both know that. But we need to do this in order to keep this nation safe. We're having enough trouble already getting the Ishgar gods to cooperate and be our Elite Four, could you please find us a gym leader for Magnolia?" he said.

"... Mest, the whole of Fairy Tail and I have done much for this Council, have we not?" Lucy spoke softly.

"Yes, you have. And we are very grateful for it. And we count on you guys, Lucy." he said.

"If the Magic Council depends on us," Lucy's voice cracked, "can we count on you, Mest?"

"...Yes. You can."

Lucy stepped off the train with her Lopunny in tow, carrying a sickly green Cobra. She called

Lopunny back and waited at one of the benches lining the station. Crocus was pretty far away from Magnolia, so it would take awhile for the sickness to die down. She thought back to her task, and who she and master Makarov could trust to become the Magnolia gym leader. It would have to be someone trustworthy and someone the public could trust. Someone who had a full, strong team of pokemon. Laxus would be the most obvious choice, since he's the first choice for the next guild master in the first place, but there was the problem with his attitude. Gildarts is never here, and would crush any new trainer to cross his path anyways. Gajeel had almost the same potential as Laxus, but also had the same attitude problem as Laxus. Erza and Mirajane were both powerful and would dedicate themselves to the cause, but both could and would traumatize anybody in battle.

Lucy sighed as she went to go get Cobra back up while they walked home. Cobra… it was only two years ago that Mest knocked on her apartment door to have her watch over him. Even longer before that, he was a member of the crime syndicate Tartaros. The boss of the organization, it was revealed, had a nasty habit of convincing young children and teenagers of his beliefs to get them to join. Cobra and the rest of the children he joined with had no idea the boss' real intentions, and were all betrayed and incarcerated. Mest had convinced the Council to let them go an a 3 years probation for their crimes, and placed them all under the care of one or two more Fairy Tail members, and she was saddled with Cobra. Not that she minded now anyways, as he was actually quite a pleasant person to be around. Sometimes.

Once Cobra managed to get up, they both began to walk home in the moon and street lamp lit cobbled roads. The baby Seviper Cobra had brought along with him coiling itself again around his wrist and his Superior gliding around his neck like a scarf. He stretched his arms and yawned, glaring at the girl beside him. "Star, why is it that you have to sic your pokemon on me whenever I try to have fun?"

"You kept threatening and insulting government officials."

"They deserved it! And that keychain of doom hurts!"

"Oh please, Klefki didn't hurt you that bad!"

"I ended up in the infirmary while you played chess with that Alakazam!"

"I had no choice. It gave me a spoon. That's a sign of love from them." she smiled as she once again called out the Klefki.

Cobra sighed as he side-eyed the sidewalk behind him for the 200th time since walking back into town with Lucy. Lucy was currently walking up on the stone walk that surrounded the canal, cooing at a tiny Klefki that kept forming itself into different heart shapes and jingling the gold and silver keys it kept in an incessantly annoying jingle. Neither one of them noticed the click clack of the tiny footsteps behind them. "Star, stop." he sighed as the street became quiet.

"What is it, Cobra?" Lucy questioned. She knew that he would never stop her for anything unimportant. The Klefki jiggled up and down at its' mother's words.

"Do you have all your pokemon?" he said.

A slight bit confused, she ran her hand on the custom pokeballs held at her side, all gleaming black with tiny stars shining. "Hm… Lopunny, Sylveon, Plusle, Kirlia," she paused, shifting her finger up to the floating ring of keys currently twirling through her ponytail, "and Klefki. Cobra, everyone's here. What's going on?"

"Then what's that thing behind us?" Turning around to where Cobra was glaring, she saw a Clefairy, frozen in mid step, not expecting to be discovered with nowhere to hide. The giant Superior curled around Cobra's body tightened up, ready to tear apart the pokemon at any moment. A glance at his wrist confirmed the newly hatched Seviper curling up in a tighter coil.

Not being able to keep it's balance any longer, the Clefairy tripped and fell flat on it's face. Lucy rushed over to the pokemon in concern.

"C'mon Star, wait a minute," he said, "Don't go running every time something cries. Who knows what that … thing has been up to!" Cobra grimaced as he kept a careful watch on the blonde.

"Cobra, you can't not tell me not to help it it's so widdle!" Lucy exclaimed in excitement. He raised his hand up to his face and rubbed, trepidation already growing as he knew what would happen if anyone dared tried to separate her and her new-found friend. That was, until the Clefairy ran away, leaving a huge, black crystalline rock with points coming off of it as if it were a meteor in her arms; a scrolled up piece of old paper written in an ancient text was taped to the top with a brightly colored and shiny smiley face sticker.

"Star… why do you always have to get into trouble?"