Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima, not me.

Hey everybody, here we are again. Let me just clear some things up from last chapter.

1. Natsu as he was in the last chapter wasn't stronger than Gildarts, he still has a little bit to go before matching Gildarts in a long term fight. He was only able to match Gildarts last time because he was going easy on Natsu.

2. I decided to skip the 9 year gap between when Natsu joined Fairy Tail and the beginning of the canon story. I'll cover what happened during those years in Flashbacks (I'll spread them out so they won't take up a huge amount of space).

3. Natsu will be proficient with Crash Magic, not to the degree that Gildarts is but he will be pretty close.

4. I'm not hating on Gray so don't worry, he'll get his own time to shine.

I might be kicking Lucy off of Team Natsu because I'll have Mira be in her place instead, it's also because for the life of me I can't write for Lucy.

Also, tell me how I did on the Natsu X Erza stuff, it's my first time writing romance so I'd like feedback! I'd also like feedback on how I did the fight scene so I can improve upon it later.

Anyways, let's get to Chapter 4!

Port town of Hargeon X784

"What! This is the only magic store in town?"

"Well this is a fishing town, Wizards rarely go through here so there isn't a massive demand for Magic stores. I bet that most people here don't even know how to use magic." the store owner replied.

"Aww man I came all this way for nothing." Lucy said pouting, "What I really want are some powerful Gate Keys."

"Gate Keys huh? Well I happen to have this one right here." he said as he pulled out a small red box, opening it to reveal a silver key inside it.

Lucy perked up instantly, "Awesome! How much does it cost?"

"20,000 Jewel."

"I'm sorry, how much was that again?"

"I said 20,000 Jewel."

Lucy sat upon the counter, sitting in a quite revealing position, "Aww come on, I'm sure you can cut me a deal?"

10 minutes later

"I can't believe that old man knocked off a thousand jewel! Am I not appealing? So much for my feminine wiles." she exclaimed as she marched through town.

"Salamander's here!?" one girl suddenly said.

"Are serious he's really here?!" another asked.

"Salamander? Isn't he the Wizard that uses Fire Magic you can't buy in stores?! What's he doing in this dump?" she asked herself as she made her way down to 'Salamander'.

'Why is my heart beating so fast?! Is it because he's a famous Wizard?' she thought as she saw him, her sudden change in emotions confused her to no end. Why was she suddenly charmed by this guy?

"Excuse me for moment, but I have a few words for the Salamander."

Lucy turned her head to see a young man, a year or two older than her. He had shoulder length spiky pink hair, around his neck was a long scaly scarf, and he looked to be wearing a long brown cloak with shoulder pads, underneath the cloak he wore a dark red coat with no shirt, revealing his well toned chest to all, he was wearing white baggy knee-length pants and sandals.

He smiled at her and gently pushed past her, making his presence known to 'Salamander'.

"You're not doing a very good job at pretending to be me. I never usually put myself out here like this, but I'll make an exception just for you." the man grinned evilly.

'Salamander' widened his eyes but before he could react in any other way, he was sent flying into the wall behind him, his heart-shaped ring shattering as soon as he hit the wall.

"Another one bites the dust," he muttered. As the crowd of girls cleared away, the pink haired man walked up to the unconscious 'Salamander' and removed him from his indent in the wall, throwing him onto his shoulders.

"Natsu, did you have to show off?" one asked.

"Well at least you didn't overdo it this time!" another chimed in.

"Hmph!" the last one motioned.

Lucy turned around to see a young, dark-blue haired girl who was wearing a green knee-length dress. Standing in between a blue cat and a white cat. She had a sweet smile spread across her face, the blue cat had his tongue out, and the white one had a look of annoyance on her face.

"C'mon Happy, you know that's how I always roll." said Natsu, a grin spreading across his face. He whistled as he started walking towards the group, a squad of Rune Knights marched over to his position.

"Is this the assailant?" the Knight in front asked.

"Yes. One Bora the Prominence right here for yah!" Natsu replied as he handed the unconscious Bora over to the Rune Knights. They marched away, leaving Natsu to return to his friends, but instead he stopped and turned to Lucy.

"What're you lookin' at lady?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

His question knocked Lucy out of her gaze, sending her back to reality "Thank you for breaking that creep's charm spell, I can't believe he'd resort to such a cheap trick to lure in women." she then remembered what he said earlier, 'You're not doing a very good job at pretending to be me,'

She froze at her realization.

"You-You're the S-Salamander!" she stammered out.

"And? What's your point?" he replied, looking bored.

"You're a Wizard from Fairy Tail!"

"So what? You wanna join or something?"

She instantly started nodding her head, which started to make her feel dizzy. This caused Natsu to burst out laughing, still after all of the lessons Gildarts taught him about women, he still found them confusing.

He stopped his laughing to see her pouting in front of him, he cracked a smile and motioned for her to tag along, "Well come on then, we were just about to head back anyways." he said as he turned around to head back to his group, Lucy following close behind.

"Hey Natsu, who's the blondie?" asked Happy.

"I don't know, she said she wants to join Fairy Tail though. That's good enough for me." he replied, putting his hands behind his hand.

Wendy sweatdropped at their rudeness, she looked to Lucy "I'm sorry about those two, they aren't exactly the most polite people. Even though Natsu is a Prince, he doesn't seem to know what manners are."

"What! He's royalty too?!" Lucy exclaimed. Wendy nodded in response, albeit looking a bit confused. She still had no idea why people had a problem seeing Natsu as royalty, despite the way he carries himself, he dresses rather humbly.

"Alright everyone, we ought to catch the next train before it leaves. I'd rather we not have to stay any longer than we have to, c'mon you'll love Fairy Tail." Natsu said holding up his hand, taking control of the situation.

The five of them began walking to the train station, Happy being a little pain in the ass brought up one of Natsu's former worst enemies: motion sickness. "Natsu, I thought you hated trains. Why the sudden change of heart?"

Natsu sighed, his little buddy was being a pain again "Look I just have some bad memories ok! The hell that Gildarts put me through made sure that I won't get sick ever again!" he remembered how Gildarts left him stranded on a boat out on the sea for two months before he was able to fly back to Fairy Tail. He ate for three days straight, and then proceeded to give old Gildarts a good knock on the head.

"By the way, I forgot to ask you your name." asked Wendy as she looked at Lucy. Natsu also turned turned as he forgot to ask as well.

"Oh my name is Lucy! I know it's a bit late but it's nice to meet you!" she said happily, a smile forming on her face.

"Forgive our rudeness earlier Lucy, Natsu had heard that there was a Salamander in this town and he came to investigate, turns out it was only just someone pretending to be him." replied Wendy.

"I bet that poser couldn't even breathe fire like a Dragon too." Natsu added.

"Aye!" said Happy.

"Must you be so crude in front of Wendy?" asked Carla.

Lucy giggled at their antics, she wondered what she was getting herself into.

20 minutes later

Even though Natsu had gotten over his motion sickness, he couldn't help but feel unpleasant while they were on the train during their trip back to Magnolia. He tried his best to listen to Lucy prattle on about stuff he already knew, but he couldn't find it in himself to do so.

He was pulled out of his daze when he heard his being called.

"Hey Natsu, what kind of Magic do you use?" asked Lucy, she was curious to know as she never saw him use it against Bora, at least she never outright noticed that he used the tiniest fraction of his Crash Magic on Bora's charm ring.

Natsu folded his arms and looked out the window of their car, "I don't think I should show you Lucy, sorry but I don't want Gramps to get mad at me for blowing up this train by accident."

Carla spoke up "Hmph! First responsible thing you've said all day."

Wendy nodded in agreement, Happy was too focused on his fish, and Lucy simply gaped at Natsu's response to her question. "Don't worry Lucy, I'll answer your question!" Wendy said quickly.

"Natsu uses Fire Dragon Slayer Magic and Crash Magic, both magics by themselves are extremely destructive, but since Natsu has control and proficiency in both, our guild master has banned him from using either unless the situation is dire. He's currently learning Requip magic too!" she said ecstatically, she was very proud of her fellow Dragonslayer and Brother-figure.

"So even if he used just a little bit, he could blow up the train?! What the hell did he do to become so powerful?!" Lucy asked, flabbergasted that someone who is so powerful sat in front her.

Happy perked up, "Natsu was trained by the Fire Dragon King Igneel, so he essentially has the power of a Dragon at his fingertips, then he learned his Crash Magic from Fairy Tail's Ace, Gildarts. I guess you'll understand when we get to Magnolia though."

Natsu simply ignored them for the rest of the train ride, he was excited to get back to Magnolia, he needed a drink.

3 hours later

"Attention citizens of Magnolia, we are about to undergo a Natsu shift. Please go to your designated spots!"

Lucy shivered in fear as she witnessed the city moving for this one man, said man having a shit eating grin spread across his face.

"Never gets old does it?" He asked them, he looked to Lucy and figured her reaction would have been similar to his when he first witnessed the shift, "Don't worry about it Lucy, I was scared shitless of Gildarts when I witnessed the town move for him."

His statement still did nothing to comfort Lucy as they walked down the straight road that lead the large building at the end of town.

"Hey Natsu, seems I was just in time eh?" a voice the left of them called out, "Damn shame they started calling these things after you, I guess it just depends on whichever of us shows up first."

The group turned to see Gildarts walking down a path heading towards the middle road they were walking in currently, Natsu grinned, today was getting better and better, he now had his favorite drinking buddy with him.

"Hey Old Man, how'd the job go?" he asked.

"Didn't go so well. I'll tell you about it later, but first I need a drink." Gildarts replied, he looked over to Lucy "New recruit?" he asked Natsu. The Dragon Slayer nodded "We picked her up after dealing with that phony Salamander in Hargeon."

Gildarts chuckled "You keep this up kid and you'll be better than me with the ladies, anyways how much you wanna bet that the ice cube attacks you on sight as soon as we get in?"

"I'm not betting on it, I'm counting on it."

"Aye sir!" chirped Happy.

The rest of the walk up to the guild was mostly just the group listening in on Natsu and Gildart's conversations. After awhile Lucy got curious and asked Wendy "What's the deal with those two?"

Wendy replied excitedly "Gildarts is a somewhat Father figure to Natsu, usually Gildarts would be off doing extremely hard S-Class requests but he always made time for Natsu. I think it's mainly because Gildarts sees a bit of himself in Natsu, their more similar than they think, that's for sure."

They both watched the two laugh and bicker, Lucy could definitely see the bond they shared being displayed in front of her. They were like two peas in a pod.

The walk to the guild came to a stop when they were in front of the building itself, the guild hall standing proud, they could hear laughter inside.

As they walked up to the doors, Lucy expected Natsu and Gildarts to open the doors, much to her horror they both walked through each one, creating massive holes in them.

"Hey, we're back." Natsu said nonchalantly, ignoring the fact that he blew a hole in the door behind him. Gildarts also appeared to not be affected by it either as they both walked to the bar with smirks on their faces, "Lisanna, some whiskey please." they both said simultaneously.

Wendy and Lucy sweatdropped at sight before promptly walking through the holes that the two Crash Mage's left in their wake, along with Happy and Carla. They were instantly met with a guild wide brawl taking place on the first floor. Lucy looked to the bar and saw Natsu and Gildarts clinking their glasses together and cracking smiles, they both seemed oblivious to the mini-war that was going on on the other side of the guild hall.

"ICE MAKE: HAMMER!"

As predicted, Gray rushed at Natsu with a giant hammer of ice however Natsu paid him no mind. The Hammer proceeded to land on Natsu's head, and shattered instantly into tiny cubes. Natsu sighed and turned his head towards Gray, who had a look of fear and anger on his face.

"Dude, can't I at least have one drink before you tickle me?" Natsu asked, giving off a tired look.

"I swear flame-brain, one of these days I'm gonna kick your ass." Gray hissed back.

"Yeah, sure." Natsu said as he flicked Gray's forehead, sending him flying into the warzone that was the Fairy Tail guild hall. He turned back to Gildarts and continued their conversation, before being interrupted again albeit from someone else.

"Ohhhh Natsuuu" a voice purred, Natsu muttered to himself "Shit." he looked around only to see Mira running up to him. Gildarts chuckled as he saw Mira promptly sit herself on Natsu's lap, Natsu himself had no complaints but he looked around the guild hall to see some patrons stop brawling and look at the display. Natsu looked at some of the patrons and noticed the jealous looks they were giving him, his response was to sweatdrop.

"Every time I get home you gotta do this. Why Mira? Why? Do you enjoy watching me suffer?" he asked.

Lucy started stuttering from the sight "Th-That's Mirajane?!" Wendy nodded as she sweatdropped, "Yeah, she seems really familiar with Natsu already doesn't she?"

This woman is Mirajane Strauss, one of Fairy Tail's S-Class mages and the top rated model for Sorcerer Weekly. Known for her reputation as the 'She-Demon', she often teases and causes mischief throughout guild but she's always had a soft spot for Fairy Tail's pink haired Dragon Slayer, although teasing him is usually the best part of her day.

She herself, unbeknownst to Lucy, retained her fashion statement from childhood, having her silky white hair in a ponytail that fell down to her back with bangs in front. She wore a black leather jacket over a grey tank top and blue jeans with black knee-high boots.

"Oh come on Natsu, you know I just love spending time with you." she teased as she wrapped her arms around the Dragon Slayer's neck, making him groan in annoyance in response.

Gildarts roared is head back, unable to contain his laughter. He was proud of this kid, that's for sure, just as he predicted, the kid was picking up women left and right and he appeared to be doing so without trying.

"Natsu! It isn't manly to be hitting on my sister!" Elfman yelled as he rushed Natsu, Gray seemed to have recovered as well and was right behind him.

Natsu gave Mira a soft smile and whispered in her ear, his breath traveling down her neck sent jolts throughout her body, "If you send those two packing, I'll let you stay in this exact spot for as long as you want." he finished as he gave her a peck on the cheek.

The She-Demon sprung into action at his request, a blush on her angry face "Do you two need to be taught a lesson? Erza ain't here so I might have to do it for her!" she grinned evilly. Instantly, as if by magic, the two stopped dead in their tracks as soon as they saw Mira's blushing glare.

"WE'RE SORRY!" they both yelled while getting onto their knees.

Lucy sweatdropped, this was the guild she'd been wanting to join? They were all crazy!

The brawl in the guild started getting out of hand soon, but it was stopped abruptly as a giant appeared in the middle of the guild hall "STOP FIGHTING THIS INSTANT YOU DAMN BRATS!" the giant yelled. All fighting in the guild hall stopped, Lisanna spoke up from behind the bar "Oh Master, I didn't know you were still here!"

Lucy screamed inwardly, 'What! This is their Master?!'

The giant looked over to Lucy, "IT SEEMS WE'VE A NEW RECRUIT EH? AND OUR ACES HAVE RETURNED AS WELL!"

The giant began to shrink until it stopped to reveal a tiny old man, he was wearing an orange hoodie, orange shorts, and an orange and blue striped jesters hat. He walked up to Lucy "Nice to meet yah!" he then turned around and jumped up to the bannister on the second floor, while also hitting his head on it. He cleared his throat, "You damn brats! Do you know how much paperwork the magic has been sending me?!"

Silence followed, but then a smile formed on his face "But I say to hell with the Council!" the papers in his hands suddenly lit on fire and he threw the flames at Natsu who promptly ate them.

"Magic is about one's being, about how a person brings it out of them and expresses it themselves. It is about how said being is connected and synchronized with the world around them, if you follow the rules your entire life then your magic will never progress. Don't let that pesky Council scare you, follow the path you believe in. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MAKES FAIRY TAIL NUMBER ONE!" everybody cheered as he finished, Natsu and Gildarts clinked their second round of whiskey and they were about to drink when they heard Makarov yell at them.

"NATSU! GILDARTS! WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU BOTH ABOUT USING THE DOORS!? I'M GONNA HAVE TO GET NEW ONES AGAIN!" he yelled as he walked up to them. He saw Mira on Natsu's lap and calmed down a bit, 'Lucky little bastard,' he thought as he jumped up onto the bar next to them.

Natsu chuckled, "Sorry Gramps, guess I forgot again." scratching the back of his head.

"For the millionth time, it isn't hard to open the damn doors!" Makarov exclaimed. These two were hopeless at this point, Gildarts had already rubbed off on the Dragon Slayer. Gildarts himself also scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, he never knew how he kept on forgetting that the doors were there, it just happened.

Natsu perked his head up from Mira's cleavage which was promptly shoved in his face a little bit before hand, "Oh Lucy come up and me- Oof!" he said looking to the blond before Mira hugged his face back into her chest.

"Lucky little shit" both Gildarts and Makarov muttered.

Lucy walked up to Makarov and introduced herself, "Hi my name is Lu-" she stopped as she felt something touch her bottom, she turned her head and saw that it was Makarov's hand. "Pervert!" she screamed as she kicked Makarov.

The old man recovered, a red mark from where he was kicked on his face, he still had a smile on his face though "Feisty! We have plenty of women like that here in Fairy Tail, go talk to Lisanna about getting your guild mark!" he exclaimed.

Lucy sweatdropped, turns out that her new Guild Master is a total pervert. She walked over to Lisanna who was cleaning mugs behind the bar, hopefully there were some people in this guild who were sane.

3 days later

Natsu awoke earlier than he usually would, normally he would stay in bed until ten in the morning, but today was a special day. Today was the day he'd get to see his favorite scarlet haired mage again since she finished up her job. He was excited not only because he had missed her, but because of her vow that she made to him.

Flashback*

"When I get back, I'm going to show you just how strong I've become. No holding back on me Natsu." she declared.

"And here I thought that we'd be fighting for fun Erza. You know that if I go all out, Gramps is gonna die from the paperwork right?" he chuckled as her confident demeanor soon turned into a pout.

"Aww Erza, you're so cute when you pout like that. You'll make me shed some tears if you keep that up."

Her face turned to that of her hair, she knew that he liked to tease her mercilessly but she secretly loved it. This time however, she wasn't prepared.

Natsu laughed, "Don't worry Erza, I'll be sure to give you a good fight when you get back. Just make me proud by giving a good entrance."

The Knight looked at Natsu, now full of determination "I'll be sure to give you a great one, Natsu." she winked back at him as she walked out of the guild hall.

Flashback end*

He smiled fondly of her, the slightest blush creeping on his cheeks. He promptly got out of his bed and walked over to Wendy's room, knocking on it to notify her "Wendy, I'll be at the guild if you need anything." he heard an "Ok," in response.

He walked back to his room where he found Happy asleep in his tiny hammock, he nudged him awake "Hey Happy get up, we're going to the guild." Happy's eyes barely opened but his face had one of annoyance plastered on it.

"Natsu why did you wake me up?! I had best dream ever, there was fish and flying fish and even more fish!" he jumped up, now flying in the air with his wings.

"Cause little buddy, Erza's coming back today and I wanna get there now so I can drink with Gildarts." he replied, he thought he sounded rather reasonable, but Happy wasn't convinced.

"Why do you two drink in the morning? It's kind of weird actually."

"Hey! It's not weird ok, we just like drinking booze is all!"

"It's probably not even good for you either, I'm surprised Magnolia isn't a pile of rubble by now considering how much you two drink."

"I'll give you a fish if you come with me to the guild."

"Aye sir! Drinking early in the morning is completely normal!"

Natsu sighed, 'Maybe I should get Erza to deal with him or something. She's really good at scaring Gray so maybe it'll work on Happy.'

The pairs antics got Wendy out of bed along with Carla, so Natsu decided that he should cook up breakfast first and then head to the guild. Natsu thanked himself, Gildarts, Erza, and Mira. They all built this magnificent house after all, which was surprising considering when you take Gildart's magic into account, he was actually pretty good at building a house. Of course, when it was finished he had accidentally disassembled the entire thing. They were lucky though because he simply reassembled it after, but not before he earned two murderous glares from Erza and Mira.

The house itself wasn't too big like a mansion, but it was big enough to hold a decent sized family, two bedrooms, a guest room, a master bedroom, kitchen, two bathrooms, etc. It was more surprising since they actually lived a good distance away from Magnolia, but not too far away so that the town wouldn't have to constantly shift for him. Natsu valued his seclusion despite being a party animal, and he wanted to keep it that way.

The walk to the guild was routine, but they got there early enough. Gildarts was there, but Makarov appeared to be absent which got Natsu curious, usually the old man would be in here by now.

Lisanna was maintaining the bar, while Gildarts was sitting on a stool next to it. Natsu broke from his group and sat with him, "Where's Gramps?" he asked as he motioned Lisanna to head over to him.

"He's at a Guild Masters meeting in Clover, said he'd be back in a day." Gildarts replied, he looked over to the pink haired Dragon Slayer and thought that this would be a good time for teasing, "So Erza's coming back today right?" feigning ignorance as he knew that Natsu knew perfectly well when she would be back.

Natsu caught wind of what the Crash Mage was trying to pull, "You want me to confess or something?"

"Whoa there buddy, I never said anything about a confession, you must really have Erza on your mind a lot." Gildarts chuckled before a fist met his face.

The Crash Mage laughed as he got back up on his stool, he always loved teasing Natsu about Erza. Gildarts knew for a fact that Natsu had a secret crush on Erza, and he hung around Erza enough to know that she harboured feelings as well for the Pyro. Both of them were simply too stubborn to admit it.

Gildarts thought that this couldn't get any better, but then Happy chirped in "You liiiike her!"

That's when Gildarts exploded with laughter, and also how he was sent into the ground. He got up and dusted himself off, and sat down in his stool again. He smirked, "Alright kid, I'll stop."

Natsu sighed in relief, "I was about to give you another beating old man."

Gildarts spat out his drink in annoyance, promptly standing up and meeting Natsu's forehead with his own.

"You just got lucky last time you damn Pyro!"

"Maybe, but I still beat your ass Cube prick!"

"I think you need to be taught another lesson fire punk!"

"You wanna go old man?!"

The rest of the guild watched in terror as their Guild's two most powerful mages were bickering back and forth like children, their magic scaling up to frightening heights.

Eventually the two calmed down and enjoyed a bottle of whiskey. Natsu didn't actually want to fight Gildarts this time, not because he's powerful, but because of what the Crash Mage told him a few days ago.

Flashback to 2 days ago*

Natsu had just returned from rescuing Macao at Mt. Hakobe and he planned to help Lucy with her first job tomorrow, he was going to head home but he told Happy to head back instead, Natsu had to make a stop at Gildart's house.

Gildarts lived closer to town than he did, I guess he figured that he also wanted to keep the town at rest from the shifting.

He walked up to the Crash Mage's door and knocked lightly, almost making it fly off its hinges. Natsu winced slightly, but sighed in relief when he heard Gildarts call out to him, "Hey Natsu push the door open, don't break it."

Natsu pushed the door open and chuckled "That's a lot more concern than we show for the guild hall doors." Gildarts laughed with him.

"Alright what did you want to talk about?" he asked.

Gildart's face grew grim, "While I was out on my job, I met a Dragon. He wasn't red like Igneel though, black as night and ruthless as hell. In fact he's the reason why I didn't complete the job."

Gildarts removed his cloak to reveal his prosthetic limbs and his torn up abdomen, bandages wrapped around his chest.

"He took off my arm and my leg, and then he gutted me. This Dragon is a friend to no one, I know what your thinking, but I barely escaped with my life, fighting this thing is suicide." he finished.

From Gildart's description of the Dragon, Natsu could only think of one being that matches it.

"It must have been Acnologia." He declared, the Dragon King is an enemy of his father, and Natsu's enemy by extension, but now he also hurt Gildarts.

"Yeah kid. I know you'll be able to take that monster down eventually, but you need to train more for that to happen. You told me that only Igneel would be able to fight him head on, but you'd be ripped apart like me. Don't make the same mistake I did, don't go after him."

Natsu nodded in agreement, as much as it pained him, the Crash Mage was right.

"Well shit conversation aside, you wanna grab a drink?" Gildarts asked.

Natsu formed a small smile on his face, "Yeah let's go."

Flashback end*

Only him and the Master knew what had happened to Gildarts, if everyone in the guild found out that one of their Aces was gutted by a Dragon, it would spread panic.

His thoughts were ended as Loki dashed into the guild hall, out breath as he relayed a message "Erza's back!"

The entire guild hall was thrown into chaos, hell was about to come down on them in most painful way possible. Only Gildarts, Natsu, and Mira didn't show signs of fear, "Excellent, I get to beat up the tin can!" she exclaimed.

Silence fell in the guild hall as a shadow was cast on the floor in the shape of a giant horn. Then she entered.

Erza Scarlet, in all her glory and beauty, entered the guild hall carrying a giant horn on her back, a warm smile across her face as she saw Natsu looking at her in amazement. She was wearing her classic Heart Kreuz armor with a blue skirt and black boots, her red hair flowing perfectly in synch with the air around her.

The guild hall was silent until clapping was heard, and it was coming from none other than Natsu himself, he stood up and walked over to Erza.

"Great job Erza, carrying home a trophy on your back like a badass, I hope you had a good time." he said.

To everyone's surprise, she began stuttering as a blush broke out on her cheeks. "T-thanks Natsu, but the reward they gave me was more than enough." she said, she was ready to melt at the sight of him but she continued to stand.

"Hmm well in any case, here's my welcome back," he said as he leaned forward to kiss her on the cheek.

He chuckled as he leaned back, seeing her face rival the colour of her hair, her face having a slight pout meaning she wanted more.

Erza's knees shook violently, 'Did he really just do that in front of the entire guild? He should know that I have a reputation to uphold!' she did her best to regain her composure, however a blush was still plastered on her face.

"Hey fatty! What are doing to my man huh?!", Mira yelled.

Erza's face hardened, "He's not yours you damn strumpet!"

Gildarts chuckled, 'That kid's got the two most beautiful women in the guild fighting over him, I don't know if he's lucky or doomed.'

Natsu also chuckled while he slowly backed away, heading back to the bar and sitting next to Gildarts. He was ready to watch the fireworks.

Many men in the guild looked at Natsu, contempt and jealousy in their eyes, wondering how he was able to rein in the two hottest and scariest women in the guild.

As the two rivals were fighting over the pink haired Dragon Slayer, Gray walked up to Natsu and asked "How do you do it man? She's so damn scary."

"I know this is a surprise to you Gray, but chicks like it when you say no to them." he replied with a smirk, Gildarts chuckling and nodding in agreement.

Gray shook his head in disbelief and walked away, "Perverts," he muttered loud enough for Cana to hear.

"Gray, your clothes!"

"Ahhhh! Why does this keep happening?!"

The Guild returned to their usual business, however it wasn't long before Erza walked up to Natsu and Gray, the latter trying to provoke the Pyro while he was nursing his drink.

"Natsu, Gray, I need a favor from you both." she put on her stern face.

"Hmm, what is it Erza?" said Natsu coyly, he gave her a shit eating grin. She felt vulnerable whenever he gave her those, she always said she hated it but like his teasing, she loved it.

She shook her head to remove those thoughts from her head, this was a serious matter after all.

"Dammit Natsu if your going to tease me then do it later, I need help from both of you." she said, fighting back a blush.

Natsu's face got serious, Erza only asked him for help if it was extremely important, "What's going on?" he asked.

"Yeah Erza what's happening?" Gray asked.

Erza sighed in relief, "I've heard rumors of Dark Guild activity and I need your help to take them down. I will explain on the train, you both will need to pack."

"Can I bring Wendy?" asked Natsu, he wanted her to get some more experience as a Wizard.

Erza was about to respond when someone else cut in, "I'm coming too tin can! I gotta make sure you don't pull anything on my Dragonslayer!"

Erza held back her anger successfully before turning to Natsu to answer his question, "Of course she can." she said, now forming a smile.

"Hell yeah!" he yelled, excited that his foster sister was gonna kick some Dark Guild ass.

Gildarts laughed, 'Damn, three of Fairy Tail's S-Class, along with Gray and Wendy. Master is gonna have a heart attack.' he thought.

Those five were gonna be one hell of a team, that's for sure.