left hook. block. kick. All of it came naturally to me. I continued to block, then strike in, then block again, all to train. It had been twenty days since I had joined Fairy Tail, but I already was fitting in. I had been training with Mica all day. Finally, I saw my opening. Mica had come running in to get a better punch. Now he would lose. As he came forward, I requiped a shield and side-stepped, his punch barely grazing the front of my shield. Then, I rushed forward, throwing off his punch, and as he stumbled sideways, I requiped my sword, bashed him with the hilt, and put the tip to his throat.

"I win" I said nonchalantly

"Oh come on! Ethan, atleast sound excited about winning!" Mica said in reply, angry I seemed to never be happy with beating her.

I knew she was ticked off. For the 27 times I had beaten her in a row, I never seemed happy. In reality, I just knew it annoyed her.

I decided to play with her. Because that's just the type of person I am.

"hm. Like I would ever be satisfied defeating you. My sword could beat your 'Ice Sword' any day of the week." I said with a snarky tone.

"Is that a challenge?" Mica asked, excitement in her voice.

I answered by requiping and running at her. I had my best armor on to deal with Ice Mages, Flame Armor. By emitting flames, it weakens or nullifies the effects of Ice Magic. The armor also had a sword, able to melt anything by just touching it. But I knew why she was so excited. Her Ice Sword was so powerful, she wasn't allowed to use it except against me.

"Ice make Sword!" I hear her yell, telegraphing her spell, so I knew she had it out.

Her mistake.

I realized the best way to defeat the Ice Sword was not to face it head on, but to switch to my Shadow Armor, allowing me to keep my Flame Sword, but become invisble. Suddenly, I was behind Mica. She heard the swish of my sword, and moved hers to parry.

Once again, her mistake.

A second too late, she realized what sword I was using. She tried moving her sword out of the way, and dodge, but she was too slow. The Flame Sword turned the entire sword to water, as if someone had cut Juvia's body.

The sword stop an inch from Mica's face. I knew she could feel the intense heat radiating from the sword.

I put it away, returning to my regular clothes. "Good game!" I said, finally showing some emotion.

On purpose, of course.

"HA! I got you to admit it was a good game, and you seem happy about beating me!" Mica exclaimed proudly.

She didn't have to know I had planned that.

"Hey!" I hear a shout from the other side of the arena.

When I look over, I see it was Shen. Shen is a Mage who uses Speed Magic. He's the best Speed Mage there is.

"Hey Shen!" I yell "Do you need something?"

Before the words come out of his mouth, I know what he's going to say. Even though he's on our team, we barely see him. The only time we do is when he has an s-class mission he needs help with.

Us three, Mica, Shen and I, we make up the strongest team in the world. Our name is The Fortissimis Tres. We are part of the strongest, and most know, guild in the world, Fairy Tail.

He runs over, well, teleports, to us, and shows us the mission he's got. It's a simple one, but a hard one.

"Destroy a rampaging monster." I read quietly "Reward: 100,000,000"

Wow! One hundred million gems! We could pay rent for a year with that! But, with such a reward comes a price. The monster is probably really powerful.

And just like that, we were on our next quest.