~Somewhere in Magnolia~

"Erza," Fairy Tail's guild master started, "are you sure you want to do this?"

Titania crossed her arms as she stared unto the magic circle blankly. She opened her mouth but no words escaped from it.

"Erza-san," Happy said apologetically then his face immediately displayed a teasing grin, "Ahihihi you really want to see hi – "

Before he could even finish the statement, the exceed was sent flying straight into the magic circle. "Of course I have to do this." She then jumped into the circle as well.

"We shall be on our way now, master," Charle said with a dry smile, "Although I still don't get why we have to do such a big favour for a stranger."

Makarov managed to chuckle and patted the young exceed's head, "If Fairy Tail wasn't so good to strangers then what would have happened to you and to Wendy?"

The white exceed's face grew red as she felt ashamed of her way of thinking. "I'm so sorry," she uttered so softly it was barely audible.

"Have a safe trip."

~Yuni's house~

"One, two, three… seven," Byakuran frowned playfully, "Errr… This is not good, I can only teleport seven including myself."

"But you just counted se –," Hayato cut himself upon realizing how stupid he sounded, "Fine, Takeshi, you should stay!"

Yamamoto pointed at himself, "Me? But I'm Tsuna's right-hand man. I can't stay." The rain guardian laughed teasingly with a light heart.

"Ano~," Chrome started with a soft voice, "If someone needs to stay, I can."

"No, I'll stay," Yuni said with a calm but serious voice then she smiled warmly, "You know it is important for a guardian to deepen his bonds with his family. And a journey like this can make those bonds stronger." Yuni lifted her face, "Minna-san, please bring back Uncle Reborn safely."

Tsuna grabbed both of Yuni's hands instinctively with both of his, "Thank you so much, we promise to bring him back as soon as possible."

"Later then Yuni-chan," the former Mare boss said with his usual playful smile.

The sky guardian stepped towards the others as Byakuran creates a circle with his own sky flames. Tsunayoshi was really thankful of Yuni. He knew that she was worrying as much, if not more than his, but she still had the courage to stay behind. His intuition told him that it would be for the best since his guardians are going to play a vital role in this search.

~Fiore Underground Station~

"We're finally –"

"We're finally here," Lucy smiled as she helped Natsu up, who just collapsed in front of the train door.

Reborn retrained himself from laughing and buried his face with his hat. He wasn't able to stop from smiling which caused the dragon slayer to leap back to his feet, "Are you trying to pick a fight?"

"Natsu-san, stop it," Wendy sighed nervously.

"She's right Natsu," Gray hit him on the head, "We still have to walk quite a distance you know."

"Learn how to behave once in a while like Reborn-san," Lucy shifted her gaze towards Reborn then immediately faced backward and covered her face with his hands.

The fire dragon slayer peeked into Lucy's face, "Oy, Lucy~ Why are you blushing?"

"C-cut it out Natsu," the celestial mage said defensively, "we should really start walking now."

Gray, Wendy and Reborn walked quietly while the other two kept on teasing each other until they reached the arena.

"Oy, you two, if you didn't realize it we are already here," the ice wizard voiced out, "Lucy, can you hand me over the flyer?"

"Oh, just wait a second," the blonde mage immediately opened her pack and got the flyer, "Here you go."

The black haired wizard unfolded the piece of paper and handed it to the guard, "We are the requested team from Fairy Tail." Gray looked at the guard who has silky black hair. He took note of how one eye was kept casually closed and something that look like horns were popping out of his head.

Reborn placed his hand on his hat and looked at the guard himself. With only one eye showing, he almost raised his hat to check if he was seeing properly, but he instead immediately hid his face. "So the employer's name wasn't a coincidence after all," he thought.

"Hey," the guard grabbed the arcobaleno's shoulder, "You look funny." He smiled and laughed mockingly.

Reborn twitched upon receiving electrical shocks on the touched part, "Same attribute, I see. Quite different attitude though, nevertheless, annoying," he told himself.


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