With the exception of the OC's, the characters and settings belong to Fairy Tail which belongs to Hiro Mashima

Hello, guys. If there's things you don't recognize, go check my other stories. This is going to be my big fanfic. Hope y'all enjoy it.

It was morning and everyone was assembled in a pub they called Guild Hall. Gajeel was eating his iron, Lily in his shoulder eating a kiwi and Levy reading one of her big books, being flushed for some unknown reason. Laxus and his team were just hanging around in their table, talking about trivial affairs that were happening in their everyday lives. Same could be said about Team Natsu, the Guild Master had told them not to cause any more fights, as it started to get expensive to repair. Cana was, unexpectedly, talking to Wendy about thing that were happening to her, to which Cana told her it was the simple process to become a woman. Mirajane and Lisanna were serving tables, while their brother was sulking, still blaming himself for what he had done to the main Fairy Tail building the citizens worked so hard to create.

This was all interrupted, though, as someone entered through the doors of the pub. That person was none other than the very one that was missing for about two months. The fifth master of Fairy Tail, Gildarts Clive, walked into the room, causing complete silence to fall and concentrate all the eyes to him.

"Hello, everyone. Long time no see, huh." He simply said, effectively breaking the silence and the tension. Soon after, all the Guild Members started talking at the same time, some giving high pitched voices in surprise, others just screaming out his name, and the there was one who just had break it all.

"Gildarts! FIGHT ME!" the local fire dragon said, screaming and punching his way through everyone around him, and as he got closer, his arms generated more and more fire, needless to say, Natsu had every intention to fight the older man, but the same couldn't be said about said man.

"Natsu, stop," Gildarts calmly said, as the fire dragon slayer did come to a stop, he paused completely in fact and was then divided by tiny frames, dividing Natsu into tiny hundreds of Natsus. "I'm afraid I'm not really in the mood for fighting right now, sorry."

"You better be sorry, I bet you're just scared of facing- HEY WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!" The Natsus said, in screechy kind of voice, as Gildarts walked though the small "pond" of Natsus.

"Master, I have to give this to you. A man told me this was a job flier for Fairy Tail, which is now here, I guess." Gildarts handed the paper to Makarov, as he gave a quick look, seeing it was specifying for only two people and an exceed, even saying it would "preferable" for it to be Gajeel and Lily, while not saying who other person might be.

"Hey, Gajeel! This is for you," the old man called out, as he saw the tall, broody man coming to the bar, where he was currently sitting in.

"Well, let's see..." he started reading it as he murmured some of the details of the job description out loud. "Making iron swords... two more people for creativity... food and water paid for... A YEAR... ONLY 100 000 JEWELS!?WHO THE HELL SENT THIS?!" he screamed, looking at Gildarts for the answer.

"He wouldn't say. He just gave me an alias. Do you know or recognise anybody or anything called Horohoro?" Gildarts said and the last word, the very last word, made Gajeel's frown turn into a full blown grin.

"Gihihihi... Hahahahahaha. Ya kiddin'! Shrimp, c'mon we're goin' away for the year." Gajeel screamed, acting like a complete maniac and no one knew why. He ran to Levy, jumping above any chairs or tables that were in his way, when arriving next to Levy, he whispered, "He the one to put ya in that oh-so-funny state, gihi." Levy understood him immediately, getting up she said.

"Bye, everyone, see you in a year or so." She was excited to say the least, she had been wanting to meet the author of that stupid magazine that puts crazy dreams in her subconscious, she wanted to hit him for it, and maybe advice on how to get her crush.

The trio went, as Lily, although silent, knew from the start who the man was, Gajeel was quite the fan of his work after all.

Nobody got why. The trio of people seemed to know the man very well, but the people close to Levy had no idea who the man was or his importance to the little group, especially to the point of going on a low paying job for a year. But, surprisingly someone did have a clue of what was going on. "So, it started with them, huh. The Gods of Ishvall are picking theie people, one by one. Jobs no one in their right mind would pick that became focus of attention with one simple expression. Wonder if Gildarts knows of this." The one with these thoughts was none other than the local Lightning Dragon Slayer, Laxus Dreyar.

At the end of the day, every one forgot the weird choice, they knew the group was more than capable of taking care of themselves, and this was a simple job that would have all the expenses paid for, so it's like taking a break, really. But a couple of people were pretty bummed to not being able to see their friend again, Jet and Droy. Unless they went to visit the city they were in, but that'd be unlikely, it was two days by train to get there, that is if they always catch the train on time.

That was no problem for Gajeel, though. One of the conditions in the job description said if he took it to the train station, he would, eventually, meet his client, who could take them without the dragon slayer having to worry about motion-sickness. They both sat down in a nearby bench, their bags full full of clothing, but that wasn't saying much as neither of the people particularly cared to have clothes. Instead of them, Levy's two bags were around one third filled with clothing and the other two filled with some books she "had to take". And Gajeel really only took his clothes and some snacks in case he got hungry in the trip.

Around ten minutes passed, making the last train leave, at 7:30 p.m., and someone unknowingly approached the people, that someone was about the same height as Gildarts, who stood at a full 1,88 meters. That someone was wearing a dark vest with blue patterns, with a white t-shirt, white pants and a dark bandanna which matched his vest and was pulling back his light blue hair. That someone had, in his hand, a copy of the job flier that caused this trip.

"Hello. You must be Gajeel, Pantherlily and Levy, is that right?" His voice was heard, making the three mentioned turn their heads around to see the man. They looked up and down, inspecting every last detail about the man, as if they would recognize any of his clothing or body altogether. "I believe it's my turn to introduce myself. My name is Horokeu Diethel, but you must know me for my nickname Horohoro. Now, before I start explaining what you will be doing, have you got any questions to ask me?"

"Why do you write porn? Seems such a dirty job to do." The black exceed started.

"First of all, you don't write porn, you write smut. Second of all, I started it because sometimes I feel particularly aroused for some reason and there's no one I can do it with, then I got into a magazine and the whole thing started."

"Why'd we have to meet here?" The dragon slayer followed.

"I'm sorry I don't know the meaning of 'why'd', care to rephrase that?"

"Yer not as fun as I'd expected. Why did we have to meet here?" Gajeel grunted.

"I don't feel insulted since I don't know the meaning of 'yer', and question you asked I will answer when I explain the job."

"How did you know we'd recognize the nickname? You had to be confident about that key word because otherwise we wouldn't bother with the job." The small woman asked, showing some intelligence.

"Oh, you noticed that, did you? Well the reason for that is because I wanted to make sure Gajeel would bring you as partner. You see, I am very well informed, and I know anything that happens in the guild. That is, Gajeel served as a spy to your guild, anything he saw I know about it. Not because Gajeel himself is a spy but the thing he has in his shirt was." He finished talking to give everyone time to look at Gajeel's shirt, standing out of it the pattern of a snake. "You might ask yourselves what that is. Well, in a nutshell, it is a pet that can get inside you and work as a spy without your knowledge of its existence. Amazing, isn't it? For me it is, anyway. This is how I knew about the various things happening in the guild and you reading my magazines, by the way you acted the next day I could only assume you read until the end. Now if all the questions have been answered I have someone you'd like to meet. Exceeds aren't restricted to dragon slayers, and here's mine. Everyone meet Blair!" At end of his sentence, an exceed came flying from God-knows-where at full speed, abruptly stopping, but still gracefully landing on Horokeu's head. It had dark purple fur and wore a small jacket, opened allowing one to see its* belly, tight pants and a big, witch-like hat that was right now covering her eyes.

"Hello, everybody" she said, revealing a rather feminine voice as well as a slight 'purr' when saying the r's, "As Horohoro said, my name is Blair, I am not between the eggs that were sent here, I actually was between the ones that came with the whole Extalia."

"Oh, really, where are them, anyways?" Lily said, excited to finally hearing news about them.

"Well-"

"Whatever it is, you can talk about it while we're going." Horohoro stated, starting to get sick of the small talk. "Let's just go to the requested town already!"

"Yeah, how are we going to get to the town without my motion sickness?" Gajeel asked, being extremely careful not to fall to his usual language, being already sick of the fact he would have to repeat the whole sentence again if had used it.

"We're walking there." He said, as if it was the simplest thing to just walk between five towns.

"WE'LL WHAT?!" Levy screamed.

"Awesome" Gajeel said.

"So, how's everything with the other exceeds?" Lily and Blair talked in the background, not really paying attention to the stuff happening before them.

"Calm down. Here's how the mission goes. I'm sure you realized by now that the job description was wrong. What we're actually going to do is train together. Gajeel, you're a dragon slayer, and there's a dragon out there that needs to be taken care of, so you'll have to be stronger than you currently are. Levy, you're a pretty smart woman, I'm sure, given the proper stimuli, you'd be a great fighter, which will be helpful against Zeref's army. The exceeds there will take part in the training as well. You might not believe it by the way she acts, but Blair is actually pretty strong, to the point she might give someone like, well, you, Gajeel, a tough fight. How were going to train will be decided afterwards, but once we reach the next town, we're going to spend the rest of the week there in a local hotel, training. Once the week has passed, we'll move forward again. We keep that up until we finally reach the city. Once there, we'll spend there about ten months, where will be training with other groups that have been making their own training." Horohoro explained, looking at both the mages for reactions. They gave him the reaction he would expect from Fairy Tail, a grin showing their excitement to start the mission.

They went ahead. They went to the next town, and the next, and the next. They kept on walking, with stops only for training. Needless to say, they became stronger and stronger each week. By now Horohoro was acting like the big parent, not that unsurprising since he's the oldest, he was also the one that made them do the fitness and magical exercises, as they were not quite ready for a battle with him. Lily and Blair bonded to the point they had feelings for each other, though, while Lily didn't acknowledged them as anything other than friendship, the same couldn't be said about Blair, as she was openly flirting with Lily and touching his arms, even in small form when they were just as toned as a baby's. Levy and Gajeel were the ones to make almost no progress, they knew more and more about each other, but Horohoro just wanted to push their heads together and make that kiss finally happen, but for some unknown reason, they wouldn't move forward.

The month ended, and the group stood before the city that was where the real training would begin, the city named Eyrie.

* Means I wanted to use a gender neutral, its and it ae the only ones I know, sorry to the offended

I planned this story to go like this. First, I'll have everyone from Fairy Tail go with someone to train. Then I'll focus on these guys, because OTP reasons, and make quick updtates at the end of the chapter.

And tell me what you thought of this chapter.

BYE