Chapter 8

"Hikaru-nee where are you!" Sorano yelled from beside Taki. The two exceeds and Hikaru had gone looking for a shop that sold fish, and had somehow lost Hikaru in the process.

"We should find him before he heads back to the hotel, and Chinami kills him for loosing us." Taki said. They sat upon a large brick wall and were scanning the crowd of people for Hikaru.

"Hey, what's that?" Sorano asked as pointed to a small group of people that had gathered. Taki's eyes followed where Sorano's furry paw was pointing and squinted, trying to see what was happening.

"I don't know." Taki shrugged

"Let's go see. We might find Hikaru there." Sorano suggested as she stood up and her wings appeared with a poof.

"Fine." Taki said as she did the same thing as Sorano. The two exceeds flew down to the ground, and as their wings disappeared they slowly walked through the crowd of people to see what everyone was looking at. Taki stood in front of the crowd about to say something when Sorano spoke from behind her.

"Um, Taki. Help." Taki turned around to see that Sorano was stuck between two pairs of legs and couldn't move, with a sigh Taki reached forward, grabbed onto Sorano and tugged. Taki pulled as hard as she could, only to have the people that Sorano was stuck in between move. This caused Taki to land on her back, from the momentum of the pull, and Sorano to be launched through the air. Sorano in the process slammed into something.

"Ow" both Sorano and the thing she crashed into said in unison. She looked down and saw a redish colored exceed underneath her.

"OH. Sorry!" Sorano exclaimed as she rushed off of the male exceed.

"Hey, watch wh..." the other exceed started, only to stop and stared at Sorano in aww. Sorano stopped rubbing her head as she looked at the exceed waiting for him to finish his sentence.

"Yeah?" she asked looking at him with her large eyes. The other exceed then quickly shook his head and blushed slightly while opening his mouth to say something.

"Sorano are you OK?" Taki asked as she came up behind the two, causing Sorano to jump slightly and turn to Taki.

"Yeah I'm fine I landed on.. um what's your name?" Sorano asked turning back to the boy exceed. He was about to speak when he was cut off again.

"I'M ALL FIRED UP." they heard a boy exclaim, and they all turned to see what was happening. Standing in front of them was a pink haired boy with a large grin and a scaly scarf wrapped around his neck, his hands were engulfed in fire. Across from him stood a blond haired boy with a scar over his right eye and a grin almost identical to the others, his hands were engulfed in a bright white light. Beside them stood two black haired boys with red eyes, one of them had metal studs in his face and the other boy had black hair hanging over his right eye along with a scar across his nose.

Near the edge of the crowd, watching the boys, were three girls. One of them was blond and dressed in a very short skirt and a tight tank top, beside her was a white haired girl with a tank top and skirt on, and the last girl had blue hair and was in an orange dress. All three of girls were sweatdropping as they watched the four boys getting ready to fight.

"Why do they look familiar Taki?" Sorano whispered to her friend.

"They're Fairy Tail and Sabertooth members. The boy with the black hair covering his eye is Rogue Cheney and the blond boy is Sting Eucliffe, they're the Twin Dragon Slayers of Sabertooth. That white haired girl is Yukino Aguria, Sting's girlfriend. That pink haired boy is Fairy Tail's Fire Dragon Slayer Natsu Dragneel and the other black haired guy is Gajeel Redfox, Fairy Tail's Metal Dragon Slayer. The blond haired girl is Lucy Heartfilia and the blue haired girl is Levy McGarden, Gajeel's girlfriend." Taki explained.

"Oh, and who's that?"

"Who's who?"

"That angry looking red head in the armor." Sorano said as she pointed to a tall red head walked towards the group of mages. Taki was about to respond but first watched as the angry looking girl walked closer to the group and in a quick flash slammed the four dragon slayers heads together causing a sickening crack to echo out. As soon as this happened the crowd quickly left, not wanting to face the wrath of the girl. The only people left where the mages and exceeds. Taki looked around at the other exceeds, not noticing them before, there was a green one with a pink frog suit on, one was black with a sword on his back, one was blue and then there was the redish one.

"That's Erza Scarlet, she's also known as Titania." Taki explained to a frightened looking Sorano, who had latched onto her.

"What do you think you're doing? Don't make a scene like that again or you'll suffer far worse." Erza threatened with a dark look on her face, the four Dragon Slayer mages that were clutching their heads. Natsu was about to say something but was distracted by a scent, he raised his head and sniffed slightly before turning and looking straight at Taki and Sorano. He then stood up and quickly scrambled towards the two exceeds before sniffing close to them. His eyes filled with excitement as he opened his mouth again, only to be grabbed by the back of his one sleeved black shirt and scarf.

"What do you think you're doing?" an angry voice asked Natsu, a voice that the girl exceeds recognized right away.

"Hikaru-nee! We found you." Sorano said excitedly towards the angry mage.

"Actually, I think he found us." Taki deadpanned.

"I asked you a question. What. Do. You. Think. You're. Doing." Hikaru stated as his gripped tightened on the pinkette.

"Can you please put him down? He wasn't trying to hurt them." a feminine voice asked and the two mages looked over to see Lucy standing there.

"…Fine." Hikaru grumbled as he released the Dragon Slayer, reluctantly, and pushed him away slightly. "Though next time he puts his nose near them I cut it off." he threatened before heading towards the exceeds and picking up a still frightened Sorano, while cradling her trembling form against his chest. He started walking away when he was grabbed from behind.

"WAS THAT A THREAT! YOU WANNA FIGHT!" Natsu yelled as he raised his flaming fist, about to punch Hikaru, before stopping suddenly. "Wait!" he exclaimed before leaning forward and sniffing close to Hikaru.

"DUDE. Quit it with the smelling. What are you STUPID!" Hikaru shouted as he grabbed onto Natsu's face and pushed him away.

"You smell like the same dragon as them! WHY?!" Natsu shouted as he shoved his face towards Hikaru, who stared at him cross eyed.

"Probably because we spend almost every waking hour with a Dragon Slayer who was raised by a dragon. Now will you let go?" Hikaru said through clenched teeth. Natsu released him, in shock, and Hikaru started walking away, only to be grabbed again.

"Would you stop that!" Hikaru yelled into Natsu's face.

"You know a Dragon Slayer raised by an actually Dragon. Where is he!?" Natsu shouted excitedly as he moved closer to the other boy, forcing him to bend away. Hikaru was about to respond when Natsu was pulled away forcefully and hit over the head.

"Sorry about him. Please continue with what you were doing." Hikaru looked up to see Erza standing in front of him holding an unconscious Natsu.

"Thanks." Hikaru responded politely before bowing slightly, both of them acting as if nothing happened, causing everyone, besides Erza and Hikaru, to sweatdrop. Hikaru then turned with Sorano still cradled in his arms and headed towards the hotel. Taki followed but not before looking at the black furred exceed who caused heat to rush to her face.