"I'm sorry for the confusion. You see, we're long-standing members of Fairy Tail, even before Cana, I hope I got her name right, joined. 8 years ago, I took off on a 10 year job and took all of them with me, and now we've returned with 5 new members." Charles explained to the group that surrounded and sat at the table he was sitting at. Ethan sat across from him.

"In any case, thanks for saving Fate and I." Ethan said.

"So, what do we call you?" Lucy asked.

"Do you mean our names or...?" Charles asked, a playful grin pulling at his lips.

"Yah, that's what I mean..." Lucy sighed in reply, causing Levy and Namine to giggle at her.

"Well, I'm Charles Turill." Charles started.
"That's Adam Maalouf, you can't miss his gray shirt," Charles pointed to the man beside him who was, indeed, wearing a gray t-shirt with and a sleevless black vest over top of it.
"Cathy Dixon," Charles pointed to the girl sitting beside Adam. Her wavy hair was brown and it reached just past her shoulders. It drifted well over the sides of her black glasses.
"Jordan Marone," Charles pointed to a guy next to Cathy, who simply raised his hand off of the table a little to greet them.
"Daniel Hoyle, Philip Ledger," Charles named 2 guys, to his left this time.
"Max and Malcolm Gaine," Charles pointed to another guy, but this time also pointed to the ground to name Malcolm, who was a dog. A husky, to be exact.
"Renee and Zoe Nacci," Charles pointed to a girl sitting beside Max and in her lap was a brown, mixed of browns more like, cat. Not an Exceed, but a cat.
"Chilled and Minx Daznews," Charles pointed to the girl who had asked Ethan if he was okay earlier, and the boy sitting next to her. The boy's dark brown hair was slightly sticking out of his red hat, and his dark brown eyes were staring at his lap. Everyone had decided, he was just shy.
"Hotaru Zachihnoy," Charles patted the head the head of a small girl sitting next to him. She had to be a younger age than the rest of them, but she was also not a little girl. Her black hair reached the middle of her back and she had her arms crossed in front of her on the table, restin gher head on them.
"And last, but not least, Rory Evitt and Ruri Shiro." Charles stopped pointing after that.

Fate looked at Ruri and Rory. Ruri seemed calm and sweet, and she was smiling. But Rory... she didn't know what to think. Sometimes, a smile would play at his lips; but at other times, he was frowning and often casting her a very quick side-glance. Why did they seem so bothered by her? What had they called her... Sapphire? It was true that she had sapphire blue eyes, but it had to be the weirdest thing in her life, and that was saying something. Another weird thing was that the group had shrugged it off, helped them finish their job, let them split the reward when they had done most of the work of taking out the Forest Vulcan. The facts just weren't an easy puzzle for her, and as a kid she used to put together 1000 piece puzzles. Maybe she was missing something...?

"What type of magic do you all use?" Wendy asked.

"That's a question I was just waiting for." Charles teased.
"I use Mind/Memory magic,
Adam uses Fire Dragon Slaying magic,
Cathy, Dan and Phil use Water Dragon Slaying magic,
Jordan uses Sky Dragon Slaying magic,
Max uses Water magic,
Renee uses Poison magic,
Chilled and Minx use Elemental Dragon Slaying magic
and Hotaru also uses Mind/Memory magic, but she uses other magic as well."

Everyone was silent, staring at them with wide eyes.

"Was it something I said?"

All of the sudden, everything was thrown into a ruckus.

"DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE DRAGONS ARE?!" Natsu yelled more than asked. It was a more tell-me-now-or-I'll-kill-you type of "question"

"Natsu-San! Please, calm down!" Wendy pleaded, but her voice was too small for him.
"IGNEEL?! GRANDEENEY?! METALICANA?! HIKARI?! TERRA?! ANY OF THEM?!"

"CALM DOWN, FLAME BRAIN!" Gray yelled.

"BACK OFF, ICE PRINCESS!" Natsu yelled back.

"You know Igneel!?" Adam asked.
"You know Grandeeney!?" Jordan asked.

Everyone was yelling back and forth.

"STOP!"

And then everyone froze. They turned to the small voice that had just been raised in a stern way, although she had been pleading. It had startled the old/new group and everyone who knew her, was scared and shocked by her yelling at them. Fate hadn't yelled once. In fact, she mumbled a lot, or just didn't get involved at all. Natsu and Gray had stopped fighting, but had froze in place, where Natsu was holding Gray's shirt collar and Gray was pushing on Natsu's face and one of his shoulders. Everyone was waiting to see if she would yell again.

"Everytime we hear something about the dragons, all of you go ballistic! You- You go /seananners/!" Fate's voice had lowered, but it was still stern. "This /might/ be one of our closest clues, and it may not be! It just means that we'll have to keep searching! Now, can we please just sit down and talk so we're not killing each other by dusk!?" Fate asked. Everyone took it as a retorical question and sat down.

"The Fire Dragon, Igneel,
The Iron Dragon, Metalicana,
The Sky Dragon, Grandeeney,
The Light Dragon, Hikari,
The Earth Dragon, Terra,
The Water Dragon, Mizu,
The Elemental Dragon, Amizuchi...
Just where have they all gone...?" Jordan asked.

"I don't understand. We're talking about 7 dragons here. They shouldn't be this hard to find." Ruri said.

"But, they are..." Phil complained.

"And it's driving all of us completely nuts." Dan stated.

"Don't you mean... seananners?" Akina asked teasingly.

"Please stop." Fate said, regretting the use of the word.

"Either way, all of the dragons have disappeared, leaving no trace behind. My question is, how did Natsu and Adam, and Wendy and Jordan, have the same dragon, but didn't know each other?" Charles asked. Everyone thought for a moment, then deeply sighed.

"Where are those math skills, Fate?" Ethan asked.

"This isn't math, though..." Fate replied. She noticed Rory staring at her and sighed, sending him a smile. As she expected, he turned away and she quietly huffed. What she didn't expect was him turning back and sending her a small, sincere smile, before he turned away again. "I don't understand..." She muttered.