Chapter 2: Exiles

And here is chapter two!

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Today wasn't very good day for Sting and Rogue. In fact, it wasn't good at all. They were both proud members of Sabertooth and were respected by most of people. Master Jiemma sent them on a century quest, for everyone feared them and their power. He thought they were up to challenge. But he was wrong.

While they were indeed strong, they lacked experience. The dragon duo was supposed to slay one of remaining Zeref's demons, but it turned out it was too strong for them. They spent about two years searching for it, and when they finally caught a track, it ended up being few months old. It was really hard for them just to locate it, and when they finally did, it destroyed them. They were lucky to be alive.

They crawled back to the guild, ashamed of their failure. The punishment they received was something they expected. Their master was ruthless and had beaten them into pulps. He even made them erase their own guild marks. It was humiliating, but both dragon slayers felt relief. While they both loved being mages of Sabertooth, they hated the fact that nobody in that guild cared about each other. And they wouldn't have to fear for their exceeds getting hurt.

So here they are, walking down the streets of Crocus, searching for place to sleep. They left Sabertooth and decided they will relax a bit, spend few days in Crocus. After short vacation, they will find themselves fine guild that actually treated their members with respect.

Soon enough the dragon duo found decent enough inn and dropped their stuff in their room.

"Oi Rogue, I'm tired. Could you get some food for us?" Sting asked.

"Hn" Rouge wasn't really happy with the idea, he was tired too. But they needed food, so he complied.

Streets were busy, same as the people. Rogue walked down the street with Frosch in his hands. Little exceed wanted to keep company to his dragon slayer who was currently trying to find place to buy some food. They were passing by the train station when Rogue noticed something unusual. There was an exceed with midnight blue fur and intelligent golden eyes. It was apparently female, wearing white dress with black bow. What caught dragon slayer's attention was the fact that she had katana attached to her belt. He looked at Frosch, who was looking at female exceed curiously.

"Frosch, you see exceed too, right?" Rogue asked. Frosch simply nodded. It wasn't really common to see exceeds without dragon slayers with them, so Rogue couldn't help but wonder why is she alone.

Shadow dragon slayer decided to ask her himself. He approached her carefully. He was well aware that exceed meant that there is a dragon slayer nearby, so he didn't want them to think that he was going to harm her.

"Excuse me, but may I ask why are you here alone?" The exceed turned her attention to Rogue and Frosch.

"I am waiting for somebody" she replied bluntly.

"Is that somebody, by any chance, a dragon slayer?" That seemed to got her attention.

"Yes, and how did you know?" She looked amused, carefully studying Rogue's face.

Her eyes traveled down only to notice man held exceed and it suddenly made sense to her. Sigh of relief escaped her lips.

Rogue noticed how she relaxed upon realization that he was a dragon slayer himself, so he tried to continue their conversation "I'm Rogue and this is Frosch. Pleased to meet you"

"Hazel, nice to meet you too" she returned gesture with a small smile.

"Fro thinks that Hazel is pretty!"

That remark made Hazel laugh, she didn't get compliments like that every day, especially not from fellow exceeds.

"Hazel, who are you talking to?" sweet voice called from their backs.

All three heads turned towards the direction of the voice only to see beautiful blonde girl who looked wary and yet curious. Her nose wrinkled and her warm brown eyes seemed to soften a bit.

Hazel walked towards blonde with warm, ignoring question that she asked.

"Lucy!"