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Chapter 4:

"I'm all fired up for this mission Erza you have absolutely no idea on how much I've been waiting to go on another S-Class mission, since it's been a while since the last time we went on one!" Natsu said raising a fist into the air, "I can just tell you that I won't be holding back at all on this one!"

Erza folded her arms staring at the houses on the side of the road, "I just hope you don't cause too much damage this time, same goes for you Gray. I don't want you two to be arguing with whatever guild that's been chosen to work alongside us on this S-Class one."

"I don't see why I'm always compared to the idiot" Gray muttered under his breath, "Besides, it's Laxus you should be worrying about. At any moment, he could "accidentally" electrocute everyone for no apparent reason."

"I'll have you know that I've been on more S-Class missions than you Gray" Laxus said with a sigh before furrowing an eyebrow at the ice mage, "And trust me, it's not going to be a replay of the Harvest Festival."

As Gray and Laxus began to go back and forth arguing with each other, Lucy was walking a few feet behind them with Wendy, and Erza who had stopped to walk with them. She was quite curious on what guild would be accompanying them, and one thing she knew for sure was that it was one of the main guilds. All she hoped for is that they'd get along in a sane manner, which most likely wouldn't be a problem if it was one of the guilds they associate themselves with.

"I wonder what guild's going to be helping us" Lucy said with a glittering smile looking at Wendy who was walking besides her, "I hope it's Lamia Scale or Blue Pegasus at the most since I haven't seen any of them since the Grand Magic Games!"

Wendy nodded her head in agreement, "It'd be nice to see Chelia once again!"

"For the sake of our humanity" Erza said with a serious expression as her eyes darted back and forth to Lucy and then to Wendy, "Let's hope that it is Lamia Scale since I believe I'll go insane if we see Ichiya there as well as the Trimens. There's just so much I can take and dealing with Natsu and Gray is already quite a handful."

"You really find them that annoying?" Laxus said snickering as he pointed a finger towards Natsu and Gray who were sticking their tongues out at each other like they were children, "I find them actually quite entertaining."

"SHUT IT LAXUS!" Natsu and Gray said in unison turning their heads at the Lightning Dragon Slayer who had a death glare on his face. At that moment, they immediately dropped the subject that they had just freaked at Laxus.

"Erza, how much longer till we're there" Natsu groaned swaying his arms side-to-side in front of him, "I'm literally dying of starvation, and the longer we're walking the weaker I'm getting since I'm not eating right now."

"How the hell are you starving flame brain?" Gray asked furrowing an eyebrow at the Fire Dragon Slayer who was patting his stomach now, "You ate three servings of flame chicken, then you add another three more. Please tell me how in the hell are you dying of what you call starvation?"

Before Natsu could even reply back to Gray, Erza stood in between the two pinching the bridge of her nose. They could already tell that she was already annoyed at the two of them since they had caused such a ruckus onboard the train, and were still bickering on the road now.

Laxus found this a chance to strike a conversation with the celestial mage since she hadn't even spoken to him once this whole time. He didn't know why she found it so awkward to even glance at him for a second. I mean he would've thought she would've been one of those girls that have had a lot of boyfriends, but according to Natsu, he was literally her first boyfriend ever. And to tell you the truth once the Fire Dragon Slayer had announced that to him it instantly struck him since he would've never thought that. That meant that he would be her first kiss, first date, first time, and leading to other first things which would be a lot more.

Laxus rubbed the back of his head as he smoothly shifted next to the celestial mage who had turned her head to look at Wendy knowing what the Lightning Dragon Slayer is attempting to do. She wasn't shy to speak to him or anything, it's just that she had never really had a conversation with him and wouldn't know what he likes to talk about or interests.

"Chickie, how much longer are you going to be avoiding me?"

Lucy then spun her head to see Laxus glancing down at her with a straight line formed onto his lips as if it was a somewhat pout. She looked up at him with her chocolate orbs widening as she began to crack a smile through her lips.

"I'm not avoiding you, I'm just trying to think of what to talk about that's all" Lucy said placing her hands on her hips looking at the Lightning Dragon Slayer who had a smirk plastered onto his lips, "What're you smirking about?"

"Oh, nothing" Laxus said folding his arms against his chest, "Just thought about something that includes-"

Laxus then stopped his sentence as he looked over at Erza who had re-quipped into her Heaven Wheel's Armor, Gray had taken off his shirt placing his fist into his palm, Natsu had his hands engulfed in flames with a glare pasted on his face, and Wendy was standing behind Natsu with her fists in front of her.

"It's been quite a while hasn't it been Fairy Tail?"

Lucy narrowed her eyes at the source of the voice which was surprisingly Minerva Orland of Sabertooth along with Sting Eucliffe, Rogue Cheney, Orga Nanagear, and Rufus Lohr. Each of them had a devious grin pasted onto their lips except Rogue who kept his face completely nonchalant.

"What're you guys doing here?" Natsu hollered clutching his fists tightly as the flames increased in size, "I don't recall a freaking get together."

Sting shoved his hands in his pockets with the same smirk plastered onto his lips as he paced over to Natsu, "Now Natsu-san, we didn't even plan on meeting you guys here. All we're out here for is a mission we're on our way to."

"Hey Frosch, it's the stupid looking cat and the white one" Lector snickered nudging Frosch on the elbow as he pointed a finger towards Happy and Carla who were standing beside each other, "We didn't talk to that one now did we?"

"Fro thinks so too!"

"Did he just say mission?" Lucy said letting out a sigh. She was crossing her fingers seriously hoping that whatever mission name was going to come out of Sting's mouth or even the others wasn't the one they were currently going to.

"It so happens to be an S-Class job" Minerva said placing her hands on her hips as she took another step closer to Lucy, glaring hatefully at the celestial mage, "I don't suppose you're S-Class, so how can you even be able to be attending this?"

"I so happen to be an S-Class wizard and I think you've forgotten that Erza is one as well" Laxus said defensively stepping in front of the celestial mage, "And I don't recommend you taking another step unless you want to be chopped to pieces by Scarlet over here."

"Don't talk to the Lady like that" Orga said stepping in front of Minerva folding his arms against his chest just like Laxus as the two were sharing an electrifying glare, "She can talk to the blonde anyway she wants too, and it's too bad you have to be the one sticking up for her since she's not even close to Minerva's level."

"I remember Fairy Tail always shouted out their thoughts of stupidity" Rufus said adjusting his hat in a downward motion, "Or that's at least what's saved into my memory."

"You should shut up you Sabertooth bastard" Gray said pointing a finger right at the Memory-Make mage, "I don't give a damn what your memory tells you, what's important is what mine says and that's that you all are bastards!"

"Well that's not nice" Sting said tilting his head to the side with his signature grin still remaining on his lips, "I thought we had settled our little rivalry after the Grand Magic Games were over, but it seems that it's still the same with you guys."

"This all started because this one over here had to just make a comment" Natsu said gritting his teeth pointing his index finger over to Minerva who looked accomplished on creating this argument, "Now, how about you tell us your S-Class mission just so we can make sure it isn't the same one!"

Minerva extended her arm in front of her face, staring at her polished-red nails, "Ah, I really don't feel like doing the explaining. Rogue if you would do the honors, since you haven't spoken one word since we've encountered the trash guild."

Rogue stared at Minerva with his crimson red eyes before turning to face Fairy Tail directly staring at the Sky Dragon Slayer who was standing beside the Exceeds, "The S-Class job that we had accepted was the one in Shirotsume Town. Apparently, there's an S-Class monster that keeps producing these monsters that are rampaging all over the town, and attacking the townspeople. Lots of mages have tried to eliminate the S-Class monster on their own, but they'd get annihilated themselves in the end. They then came to the conclusion this is up to a group from two guilds instead of one. And it's said that this mission is going to take a few weeks, or even days if we speed it up. But the reward is high for the mission, so that's why we're here right now. So yeah, that's all to it."

Erza raised an eyebrow as she ex-quipped out of her Heaven Wheel's Armor, folding her arms, "So if I'm correct to the information you have just explained to me, you're that other guild that's going to be assisting us?"

"Yeah that's right" Sting said flicking a pebble at Natsu who was already getting irritated at the White Dragon Slayer, "I suppose it'd be best if we begin to get on good terms with each other."

"Flicking a pebble is supposed to be good terms?" Lucy whispered to Wendy who giggled and then shrugged in response. They honestly didn't get Sting at times especially with his annoyance with Natsu.

"I suppose we're going to have to if we're going to be working alongside them" Minerva said bending over getting in Erza's face, "Just don't get in my way Scarlet, or we're going to have to battle again, and trust me I don't intend on losing this time."

"I swear she's asking for a death wish" Laxus muttered under his breath which was heard by Natsu and Gray who began snickering at his comment. Sometimes they wanted to know what grudge Minerva had against Fairy Tail that made her hate them so much.

"Not to interrupt this little festivity, but as I recall we must return to heading to our client's house" Rufus said turning his back against the two groups, "Now if we can get back to schedule, I'm sure that we'd be able to arrive as planned. Or that's what I at least have memorized into my memory base."

Minerva stared at Rufus who began walking down the road, his boots tapping against the marble pavement. She placed a hand on her hip, rolling her eyes at the fact that the Memory-Make mage was acting like he was the leader of this group when it was clear to her that she was.

"Tch whatever" Minerva said as she motioned a hand signal for everyone to follow which earned a grunt from Laxus. She turned her head around and glared at the Lightning Dragon Slayer who just shrugged it off.

"Let's go" Erza said clutching the rope that was attached to her cart of luggage, "The faster we finish this mission, the quicker we won't have to deal with them for that amount of time. Who knows we may even finish this in an amount of two days if done correctly."

Lucy let out a deep breath as she began walking beside Laxus who had a smirk curled onto his lips as if he thought of a brilliant idea. And to him it was quite the idea of perfection that had to do with the celestial mage. He was going to make sure this mission lasted a few days at the most, or even great longer which he knew wasn't going to happen but days yes. He knew that on those days would be the fresh bonding of his and Lucy's relationship, and the main goal. To actually make something out of this.