Winter had fallen over the city of Magnolia,and snow flakes were falling from the gray had been a month or two since the anniversary of Fairy Tail and since then Natsu had taken to training Wendy in hand to hand combat at her request and she had caught on quick,and progressed greatly in her training to the point that she could actually give Natsu a good fight with her enchantments.

Currently most of Fairy tails mages were gathered in front of the stage talking amongst themselve. Team natsu not counting Erza were all standing and Grey looked anxious and for once were not fighting gajeel,Juvia,Lucy and Wendy were all curious on what was curtains opened getting revealing Master Makarov and the s-class wizards standing behind his throat Makarov started his announcement

"fairy Tail wizards as we have since long days past,I will announce the participants in this years S-class trials"Makarov announced getting cheers from the wizards.

"There will be 8 participants in this years exam and they are"Natsu Dragneel,Grey Fullbuster,Gajeel Redfox,Juvia Lockser,Freed justine,Elfman,Cana Alberona and Mest Gryder".

"All right"Natsu said with a grin.

"Finally it's my year"Grey said.

Gajeel remained silent but looked pleased other wise.

"Juvia is participating"Juvia said wide eyed.

Freed gave a smirk showing he was pleased.

"That's a man"Elfman said.

Cana looked indiffernt and Mest looked like she didn't care.

Mirajane spoke up gaining the attention of the audience"All participants must have a partner for the exams,the requirements for the partner is that they must be a member of Fairy Tail and they cannot be an S-class mage.

Makarov quickly caught the attention of the mages to make an announcement"You have one week to pick your partner,train and prepare for the exams and meet at Harragon Port.

A few minutes later Team Natsu not counting Erza,Elfman and Lisanna were sitting at a table in the guild discussing the upcoming trials.

"So this is your guys first year participating"Wendy asked Natsu and Grey sitting Next to Natsu.

"Natsu and Grey nodded their heads acknowledging the question."

"That's actually kind of surprising,I figured that you guys would have been in it plenty of times before"Lucy said to both of them.

"Anyway who's gonna be your guys partners for the exams"Lisanna said to Grey,Natsu,Gajeel,Juvia and Elfman.

"I'm partnering with Wendy"Natsu said putitng his arm around her shoulder.

"I'm partnering with Lily"Gajeel said motioning toward's his exceed.

"I..I-I"Juvia spoke up but was unable to get the words.

"What are you saying"Grey said.

"I think that she want's to be your partner"Lucy whispered in Gray's ear.

"Sorry but I already have a partner"Grey said looking to his left.

Looing to where Grey was looking everyone saw loke approaching.

"Loke"Elfman exclaimed in shock at seeing the celestial spirt.

"Yeah I promised Grey last year that I would be his partner when he was in the S-class exams"Loke explained.

"What about me"Lucy asked her celestial spirt.

"Don't worry i'll be here on my own magic power"Loke said to Lucy who was still somewhat shocked at the sudden announcement.

"were you two ever this close to each other"Natsu asked with his eyebrow raised.

"Wait,is Loke even a wizard here anymore"Elfman asked.

Turning his back to the group,Loke took his suit top off revealing a Green Fairy Tail symbol in the middle of his back.

"I may be Lucy's spirt but i'm still a Fairy Tail Wizard"Loke answered the group.

"Well then i'll be Juvia's partner"Lisanna exclaimed to the group.

"Huh Lisanna-san"Juvia said clearly confused.

"Yeah I was good friend's with the Edolas Juvia,and this Juvia's actually pretty cute"Lisanna explained to the group.

"Wait Lisanna then who's going to be my partner"Elfman said crying"man tears".

"What do you mean,someone's been giving you a passionate stare down for the past few minutes"Lisanna said looking to the bar.

Elfman looked to where Lisanna was looking,and saw a member of the raijinshu looking at him.

"Evergreen"Elfman said quietly as a shiver ran up his spine and a chill washed over him.

"I think she's pissed that Freed chose Bickslow as his partner instead of at her brother he seemed like he wasn't going to be moving for a while so she decided to talk to the rest of the group talked for a while,before going there seperate way's to prepare for the exams.

At Natsu's House

Natsu and Wendy were training for the upcoming exams two were currently in a no magic sparring session went on for about an hour,before the two decided to take a break from training.

"You're a fast learner you know"Natsu said flashing a smile.

"I'm not that good,I barely managed to da anything to you"Wendy said modestly cheeck's slightly red from the praise.

"That may be true,but your excellent for just a few months of training"Natsu said laying down.

"That's because I have a good teacher"Wendy said before cuddling up to Natsu.

The two stayed in that position for a while,but eventually got back to finishing their training Natsu and Wendy headed into the city,and ate at a restuarant called The Mystical the dinner Natsu and Wendy went back to Natsu's house and drifted off to sleep.

On the way to Tenrou Island

"IT'S SO HOT"was heard across the ship from multiple people,as the temperature around the island was like a sauna compared to the bitter cold back in everyone was in their swim sorts or naked in Grey's case,and Natsu was unaffected by the intense heat and was not staggering around the ship since Wendy cast Troia on Natsu before the ship took teams for the exams were Natsu and Wendy,Grey and Loke,Gajeel and Pantherlily,Cana and Lucy,Juvia and Lisanna,Elfman and Evergreen,Freed and Bickslow and Mest and Lahar.

"Hey Loke"Natsu said gaining the lion spirt's attention.

"What is it"Loke responded to the dragon slayer.

"What is the celestial spirt world like"Natsu asked curiosity etched on his face.

"It's actually not very much diffent from this world"Loke responded to the question.

"Really"Natsu asked looking somewhat surprised.

"Yeah the only big difference is the way it looks"Loke explained.

"Attention everyone"was heard above everyone at the source of the noise everyone saw the master.

"Okay now that I have you all I will explain the first part of the exam:First you will all race to the shore and when you get there you will see 8 paths each path had a different route but will lead to the same location"Makarov started explaining.

"Everyone with me so far"Makarov nodded and Makarov continued his explanation

"On 3 routes there will be one of the current S-class wizards,2 will have two teams face off and the winner will progress and finally one lucky team will have no obstacles if they pick the right one"Makarov finished explaining.

"Now get ready"Makarov started as everyone looked ready to take off.

"Get set".

"GO"Everyone took off and was about to jump off but ran into an invisible wall.

"What the hell was that"Gajeel exclaimed.

"Runes"Wendy said as text started appearing where the invisible wall was.

"Freed you asshole"Natsu yelled as he saw Freed fly and Bickslow ride his dolls to the shore.

"Alright"Evergreen said as she took out some sort of pen and started to rearrange the text.

"I've worked with Freed long enough to know how to undo simple runes"Evergreen explained as she finished breaking the rune."Evergreen and Elfman jumped off the ship but everyone else was still stuck on the boat.

"I'd say that rune will only last a few more minutes"Makarov said to those stuck.

A few minutes later the runes faded and everyone jumped off ship except for Gajeel who had Pantherliliy fly them to shore.

"Ice Make:Floor"Grey said freezing the water and running along the ice road with Loke.

Lisanna transformed into a fish and Juvia turned her body into water to get to and Lahar dissapeared and reappeared on shore almost immedialtely after the runes broke,and everyone else had to swim to shore.

After a few minutes of swimming Natsu and Wendy arrived on the shore line.

"Which path should we take"Wendy asked Natsu.

"Path E so we can fight Erza"Natsu said walking toward's it.

"What makes you think Erza's down this path"Wendy questioned.

"E's in her name so she should be down here"Natsu explained.

"That doesn't mean we'll run into Erza"Wendy deadpanned to her boyfriend while walking out of the path.

Suddenly a voice was heard ahead of them

"So this is who I get huh,well this'll be interesting"the voice ahead of them Natsu got a smile on his face in anticipation

"So it's you then Gildart's".

Author note-Sorry for not updating for so long lazienss unfortunately got the better of me but i got back in it and wrote pretty much 3 quarters of this chapter in one sitting