A/N: I DON'T OWN FAIRY TAIL OR ITS CHARACTERS. THE MAN WHO DOES GOES BY THE NAME OF HIRO MASHIMA.

Words: "Words"

Thoughts: 'Thoughts'

Spells: "Spells"

Yelling: "YELLING"

Non-human being speaking: "Speaking"

Soft Sound: *Soft Sound*

Loud Sound: *Loud Sound*


(A/N: Cue Spongebob narrator voice)

Ah, Magnolia…. A peaceful and beautiful town, always so full of joy and happiness. However, today is different, for the streets were bare. As we move through the empty streets and admire the Kardia Cathedral, we hit the massive double doors of our favourite guild: Fairy Tail. With sweaty hands, we open the doors, we are beheld by a most interesting sight.

The floor of the guild building is littered with the unconscious bodies of the Fairy Tail mages. Not one mage wasn't unconscious, even the innocent Lisanna was unconscious on the bar counter while holding a mug like a teddy bear. The couples were latched onto each other, sound asleep with content smiles on their faces. On the far end on the guild, Evergreen can be seen leaning on Elfman's muscular body. Maria's head was on Hansuke's lap as her brother was asleep leaned on a pillar. Cana was unsurprisingly passed out near a barrel of booze, but beside her were the other unconscious (and completely hammered) members of the Raijinshuu along with Laxus. Lucy was sleeping in a sitting position at one of the bar stools. Mira was no where to be seen - nevermind, she's passed out on the balcony railing with an odd look on her sleeping face

Unfortunately for them, Makarov walked in with a needlessly large gong trailing behind him and when the author means needlessly large, he means that the gong was the size of the double doors. The old man had an evil grin on his face and it grew as he activated his Titan magic. He took the mallet, practiced swinging it a few times until he was content and then with a mighty swing….

*GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG*

(I recommend playing a gong soundfile to amplify the effect.)

The effect was hilariously instantaneous. Lucy fell backwards and her flailing legs caused Lisanna to fall from the counter, spilling the partially empty mug's contents on her. Elfman let out a 'manly' scream as he unintentionally punched Evergreen through the roof. Maria jumped up from her brother's lap and bonked her head on his chin. This action caused her to collapse on the floor and roll back and forth while yelling "Ow!" or "It hurts!" repeatedly. Mira jolted upwards and crashed to the ground. The couples didn't react so well. Unlike everyone else, they slowly opened their eyes and stood up. They turned their heads to face Makarov, who was on the verge of dying due to laughing so hard.

"Master…" Their guildmaster froze and turned to face 6 mages with sadistic smiles on their faces, "We would like to … 'talk'... with you." Sweating profusely at their approaching figures, Makarov turned around to find Natsu, Gray and Gajeel blocking his escape route. The sound of knuckles being cracked was heard behind him and once again he turned around. Bad mistake man. Erza, Levy and Juvia were emitting a dark aura a well as their boyfriends/mates.

"I'm sorry?" Was the last thing Makarov said before he felt the wrath of three couples. After their punishment (beating) of him, they began to head to the bar until they heard Makarov speak again. "The author gave me the idea and made me do it."

'What are you talking about you senile old man?'

'You know, he has a point… You're the author, so you are technically controlling our actions.' Levy pointed out, the others nodded in approval. Behind them, the rest of the guild was beating a fully recovered and escaping Makarov….. Poor guy…

'I may be the author, but I let you guys do what you want to do. Makarov wanted to wake everyone up in the most entertaining method I can think of. I gave him the idea, but he committed the act.' Five out of the six mages weren't convinced and were already preparing to go to the author's world in order to teach him a lesson. 'Hey Natsu, help me out here… You're a nice guy, right? Talk some sense into them.'

'...' the pinkette was silent, either he's thinking whether or not to believe me or he's thinking of a way to punish me harshly. I'll take my chances with the former. 'I may be a nice guy… But that doesn't mean I won't beat you for giving Makarov a way to disrupt my time together with Erza.'

`Mercy?'

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' Ow… Thanks guys, that beating was great! Yeah, especially when I thought I saw my life flash before my eyes.' If you guys want to know what happened, the 6 of them teleported to my world and knocked me unconscious. When I woke up, I was tied by chains to a metal platform. First, the women took turns hitting/lacerating/drowning me. Then the men decided to have some fun. Natsu heated the platform to the point that my clothes were beginning to melt on my skin. Then Gray came along and froze the platform, parts of my skin were stuck on it. Finally, Gajeel took pity on me and untied me... Only for him to whack me on the backside while wielding a steel baseball bat.

Total time in a hospital: 5 months... Thanks.

'You're welcome, because there's more people who would want to 'meet' you.'

'What do you mean Gray… I - … Oh dear." The entirety of the Fairy Tail guild is standing right front of me, my readers. Laxus has given me 15 seconds to type down my 'final' words before the beating commences.

'I REGRET NOTHING!'

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After most recent beating: a year and a half in the hospital.. Anyways, I bear no grudges to them, so on to the story.

After dealing with the author, Fairy Tail was back to its rowdy self. Especially since there was another brawl occurring. At the epicentre of the brawl were the catfighting and insulting Erza Scarlet, Levy McGarden and Juvia Lockser. It may be hard to believe, but those three women are the cause of this brawl, not that anyone's complaining. The main reason why they were at each other's necks was due to a small disagreement between the three.


FLASHBACK

"So how was your first date Erza?" Levy asked her fellow dragon slayer. All of the ladies were seated in a clump of tables while the males were scattered all over the place.

"It was amazing." Erza began to recap what happened during that night, barring the 'after-date' celebration. The girls were very amused and happy for her and some were jealous because she has such a cool boyfriend.

"Gajeel can make a better date than that happen. He is the best mate ever." Erza's eye slightly twitched at her comment.

"Levy, I'll consider that as an opinion and -"

"No, Erza. It is not an opinion, it is a fact. A fact that Gajeel is better in many aspects than Natsu." Erza's right eye twitched at Levy's snide comment.

"Oh my Levy, I didn't expect you, out of all people, to mix up their facts. Natsu is clearly superior to your mate. I mean, come on….. He beat Gajeel in a fight before and he's a wizard saint too." It was Levy's turn to react to Erza's jab towards Gajeel.

"Yes, that may be so Erza. But when it comes to romance and *ahem* nocturnal activities, Natsu falls short to subpar." Some of the girls blushed at Levy's implications while Erza turned bright red, not from embarrassment or thoughts regarding the 'nocturnal activities', but from pure anger. Thankfully, she managed to compose herself for a moment before she could do anything that would cause Makarov to receive a heart attack.

"Hmph. Maybe you're just jealous that Natsu gave me a better time than all of your nights with Gajeel combined." Levy's index finger twitched so very slightly and her eyes narrowed. "Meh, it's not really surprising for a man who is compensating for something by having a small mate."

"THAT'S IT!" To everyone except Erza's surprise, Levy flipped the table and charged towards Erza. With her impressive reflexes, Erza put her hands up to block Levy's fist.

"Did you learn to fight from your mate also? I thought I recognized that weak as hell punch." The redhead taunted the bluenette, and caused said bluenette to get infuriated and throw more punches at Erza. None of them seemed to hit Erza until she stumbled on her own feet, allowing Levy to land a powerful punch on Erza's face. She went flying towards a random table, which happened to be where Natsu, Gray and Gajeel were seated.

"WATCH OUT!" She yelled as she closed the distance to the table. Before she could impact it, Natsu stopped her by acting as a shield for the table with his arms open. "Thanks Natsu."

"Why are you starting fights with her, Erza?" He asked while motioning to a bluenette iron dragon slayer that is being currently held back by the other girls. She then gave him a quick sitrep on what has occurred, After her little story, Natsu's eyes narrowed and his face turned into a scowl.

"REDFOX! Control your mate will you. Next thing you know she'll be starting an all-out war with mine."

"Aight." The iron dragon slayer then walked up to Levy to have a little chat. "Look, I can't believe I'm saying this, but try not to pick fights with Salamander's mate. The next time he finds out that you've been starting fights with her, he's gonna tear me a new one."

"Fine," She reluctantly agreed to his request. "Why are you so scared of him? Before you would just laugh off any threat he gives you."

"That was before he got ridiculously overpowered. Now, I've come to respect the guy for his strength, talents and social status as a 'Wizard Saint' and "Dragonkin'. Plus, he's a rep for the Dragon Council, I wouldn't want to make him unhappy." Levy disappointedly sighed before going up to Erza and apologizing.

"Good, now that you two have apologized, we will be leaving."

"What?" Both women looked at him in confusion.

"Yeah, Salamander, Ice Princess and I will be going on an S-class mission. Gajeel purposely ignored Gray's quiet insult towards him. "We should be back in a week or so."

"Alright, be safe." Levy told Gajeel as he gave her his signature 'Gihihi' before walking away with Natsu and Gray. "Man this week is going to be boring."

"I'll say, I got nothing good to do besides go fishing with Happy or going on missions."

"Hey Erza, I'm sorry."

"It's alright Levy, you've already apologized."

"You guys wouldn't be apologizing to each other and making a scene in the first place if you weren't arguing who is the better boyfriend." Erza and Levy's shoulders drooped in embarrassment. "Besides, it's obvious that Gray-sama is the superior boyfriend."

"IS NOT!" Both Dragon slayers argued.

"IS TOO!" the water mage retorted and before long, the three of them were fighting each other. However, they weren't throwing punches, they were pulling each other's hair, pulling cheeks slapping, and all that stuff that girls stereotypically do when fighting. How am I supposed to know, I don't find 'catfights' intriguing thus I don't pay attention on how catfighting girls interact with each other.


BACK TO THE PRESENT

Everyone at the guild is unconscious once more, not from exhaustion, but from trying to break up the catfighting girls. Apparently, the girls are still fighting and Makarov just drank his sorrows away as he knew that there is nothing he could do but wait for the fighting to end. Suddenly bells began to ring, and the fighting immediately stopped to the joy of Makarov's ailing heart.

"ATTENTION MAGNOLIA, WE ARE NOW INITIATING THE GILDARTS SHIFT." The ground began to shake as buildings to move about to provide Fairy Tail's ace a pathway towards the guild building. The three ladies cleaned themselves up while in the background, Makarov was crying tears of joy. Moments later, the orangette walked into the guild hall. The man comically fell over when he saw the unconscious mages and a drunk Makarov.

"What happened here?" Before any of the ladies could answer, Makarov hugged Gildarts' legs while saying "Thank you" over and over again. Everyone conscious sweatdropped at his antics. After Makarov unlatched himself from Gildarts' leg and explained the situation. "That's a surprise, the three of you fighting over who has a superior boyfriend is not what I would expect from the three of you." The girls just shrugged their shoulders.

"We're just standing up to our beliefs." They said in unison.

"So Gildarts, how was your last mission?" Makarov asked.

"You know me, completed without difficulty. So where's Natsu, I was planning to go fishing with him."

"He left for a mission with Gajeel and Gray. They should be back after a week or so." Erza spoke, quite downcast along with the other ladies.

"That sucks."

"Hey did you know that Natsu-san is now a Wizard Saint." Maria piped into their conversation.

"Really?" The large man stared at the younger redhead with wide eyes. "A bigger reason for me to catch up with him!" They then went to the bar to chat even further, or drink some good whiskey in Gildarts' case. Thankfully, the rest of the guild began to wake up, albeit some were really grumpy towards the three.

"Erza you're lucky that I've changed, if not I would've whooped your sorry butt from one side of Fiore to another." The barmaid glared at Erza as she gave Gildarts his whiskey before she proceeded to wipe the counter.

"Is that a challenge Mira?" Erza returned the glare with full force. "Because I hope you can support that statement."

"You wanna go?" Mira threw the cloth on the ground as she released a bit of her magic.

"Anytime, any place." Erza stood up from her stool and released some magic of her own.

"RAAAGHH!" Mira let out a battle cry as she jumped from behind the counter to tackle Erza. Once again, within a span of 3 minutes after the last brawl stopped, another infamous Fairy Tail brawl began. However, unlike the previous one, Makarov intervened to prevent any more damages from occurring - and more money to be lost.

"THAT'S ENOUGH YOU BRATS!" Everyone stopped mid-punch or mid-mug throw. "Erza, Mira…. Since the both of you started this fight, it's up to you two to fix the mess you made." Erza and Mira stared at him as if he was crazy and then audibly growled when they saw Juvia and Levy snickering. "That goes to you too, Levy and Juvia." Everyone except for the previously mentioned mages laughed, that is until the 4 females glared at them.

"Alright master, we'll do it." The four of them dispersed and cleaned up various places of the fairly large guild hall. Many of the members wanted to make fun of them so badly, but almost all wanted to live a long life and not die from the hands of four angry women. The keywords were almost all.

"Hey you four," Laxus boomed while putting on a mischievous grin that reminded some members of Gildarts' 'trollface'. "Enjoying clean up duty?" If the four people he was making fun of weren't 4 of the currently strongest women of Fairy Tail, everyone would've been laughing. Unfortunately for Laxus, those four ladies emitted a dark aura that made every sane person in the guild run to the nearest underground bunker. The only people who stayed, and you could say that they're the insane ones, besides Makarov, the women and Laxus were Gildarts and his drunk daughter, the other dragon slayers and the Exceeds.

"Laxus, have you written your will yet?" Erza took a step towards him, along with the others. Laxus fearfully shook his head with wide eyes. "Well then, that would be bad since no one would know what you want when you….. prematurely pass away." Then she disappeared, only to appear in front of Laxus. Her face was plastered with a rather predatory and dark grin and her eyes shone with an evil glint.

'What have I gotten myself into?' Before Erza could throw a punch at him, the guild doors suddenly slammed open. Everyone, except an escaping Laxus, turned to see who caused the doors to open. Millions of visible question marks flew around their heads, trying to process why are Natsu, Gray and Gajeel back waaaaaaaay too early.

"Yo!" Natsu cheerily said before he was suffocated by a comically teary eyed Erza. He saw from the corners of his eyes that his friends suffered a similar fate.

"WAAAAAAAAH! Why did you leave me alone Natsu?" Erza bawled her eyes out as Natsu was struggling to breathe. He tried to push her off, but this only made the redhead hug him even tighter. Before he could faint from lack of oxygen, she was separated from him by a worried Gildarts. Natsu greedily sucked in some air and chuckled a bit when he noticed that his friends are still in the same predicament.

"How's it going kid?" Gildarts let out a small smirk before helping Natsu up.

"Nothing much, you?"

"Same old, same old; except that I just found out that you've become a wizard saint. Congrats."

"Thanks, so you're done your mission."

"Yeah, it was easy as pie."

"Of course it was, you wouldn't be Fairy Tail's ace if you had difficulty in a simple S-class mission. In fact, you're lucky you were on an S-class mission. When we got to our client, he decided to cancel the contract because he felt that mages weren't necessary for what he was going to do."

"What was the request?" Gildarts asked, with Erza trying to rescue a suffocating Gajeel from an overly attached Levy in the background.

"Protect a noble's convoy of supplies as it journeys from Crocus to Onibas. Don't really know why it's S-class, but the pay was 3.6 million jewels."

"That sucks kid. By the way, look behind you." Natsu did as he was told and saw the arguing quartet of Fairy Tail women. His eyes twitched in annoyance before he walked up to them and separated them.

"Alright, what's going on. I thought I told you to not fight Levy and Levy, I thought that Gajeel told you to stop starting fights with Erza."

"But they started it." The dragon slayers' mates followed their fingers, which were being pointed at Mira and Juvia, who seemed to have found their nails and the floor very interesting. Natsu shook his head towards Erza's and Levy's childish attitude.

"I'll let it slip, just this once." Then Natsu walked into the guild hall, only to turn around and walked back towards the ladies with a look of confusion on his face. "Where's everyone else?"

"Laxus made fun of them when I tasked them with clean-up duty and for the sake of their lives, everyone except the ones present ran to the nearest underground bunker." Makarov provided context for Natsu. The pinkette, joined with his black-haired friends and Gildarts, stared at Makarov with wide eyes before falling on the ground laughing so hard that their lungs began to hurt.

"Hahahah… I can… Hahahah…. only…hahaha. imagine…hahahaha…. everyone's faces...hahahaha." Gajeel tried to speak in between roaring fits of laughter. This went on for a few minutes before they calmed down and regained their composure. "So do you have any means of contacting them, old man?"

"I think I do, one of the mages should have a Communication Lacrima on them. Let me get one." Makarov ran as fast as his short, old legs could carry him to his office and back. In his hands was the same lacrima ball that Erza used to contact Jellal when Team Natsu confronted the escaped members of 'Panther's Maw'.

*ring*

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"H-h-hello?" A slightly paranoid voice answered the lacrima. The owner of the voice was Lucy.

"Lucy, how are you? Are the others with you?" A collection of muffled 'hello's' were heard in the background, answering Makarov's question. "That's good, I would like to inform everyone that the storm has passed." A few mages could be heard singing "Hallelujah!" in the background while the rest were heard partying like there was no tomorrow.

"NOW GET YOUR SORRY BUTTS HERE!" Natsu, Gray, Gildarts, and Gajeel yelled into the lacrima. The partying and singing quickly stopped and the connection was cut off. A few minutes later, the breathless and fearful mages of Fairy Tail burst through the double doors.

"What's up?" Gray nonchalantly asked everyone.

"Nothing much, I just nearly lost my hearing because four people yelled at me through a communication lacrima." Lucy sarcastically said.

"Hehehe, sorry." Gildarts spoke, and that was when people finally realized he was there.

"Hey! Gildarts is back!" Jet yelled and everyone began to dogpile the orangette. The large man squirmed underneath the pile before he was pulled out by his daughter.

"~Thanks Cana-chan.~"

"No problem old man." Without her noticing, Gildarts began to cuddle with her. "Gildarts! How many times must I tell you to not go all lovey dovey with me just cause I'm your daughter." She exclaimed while trying to pry herself from her over affectionate father. She soon got away, but bumped into Erza, who was glaring at Levy.

"Sorry, Erza." The redhead shifted her gaze towards the brunette, making her squeak and flinch in fear, but Erza's face softened at the recognition of a friend.

"It's alright, Cana. My mind's been acting up lately." Then a proverbial light bulb lit up in Erza's mind. "Actually Cana, could you wait here for a second."

"Okay?" She watched Erza run towards her new rival and speak a few words with her. At the end of their conversation, Levy and Erza ran back towards Cana, who took note of the competitive flare in their eyes. "Soooo...?"

"To put it simply, Erza challenged me to a competition." Levy vaguely explained.

"I still don't see why you two came to me." Cana raised an eyebrow at the two.

"The competition is to drink more shots than you." Erza clarified. The guild's top drunk looked at them with wide eyes before she broke into a small smile.

"Need I remind you two that the both of you are nigh completely alcohol intolerant." The dragon slayers growled at her, causing her to quickly withdraw her comment.

"Let's see about that… MIRA!" Erza called for her old rival.

"Yes?" The barmaid materialized behind the 3 of them, effectively scaring 2 of the 3.

"Three shot glasses and the strongest bottle of alcohol you have." The platinum blonde's eyes widened as she brought the pieces together and figured out what they were up to.

"Make it four." Juvia piped in, with a smug smirk on her face and a competitive flare in her eyes much like Erza and Levy.

"Are you sure?" All of them nodded stiffly before she left to get them their order. Meanwhile as they waited, Juvia set up a table while Levy got some chairs. Their actions caught the attention of many guild members. Soon, everyone had their eyes on the table where the four were seated. No later than a minute after their request, Mira came and brought them the shot glasses and a bottle of fire whiskey.

Cana filled each glass with whiskey and before anyone of them could drink a shot, a booming voice was heard, "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!" The crowd parted to reveal a pretty furious Natsu Dragneel. Erza, Hansuke and Maria audibly gulped as they remembered past conversations of not consuming alcohol. He slowly stalked forward while giving off an aura of rage. Levy noticed that Erza's hands were slightly shaking and couldn't help but freeze when Natsu stared down at all of them.

Natsu picked up the bottle and examined it. He brought the opening to his nose and took a quick whiff. He recoiled a bit before throwing the bottle outside, ignoring the fact that it hit a dumpster cat. What he did next surprised everyone. From the inside of his trenchcoat he produced a small metallic flask and set it down on the table.

"The contents of the previous bottle were weak compared to this." All eyes were now on him, "There's enough alcohol there to provide you guys four shots each. It's called 'Dragonic Moonshine' and that stuff's powerful as hell, so I wouldn't be surprised if you pass out after the first shot."

"OI NATSU-SAMA!" The aforementioned mage turned to see an interested Hanuske and Maria. "Why do you have a flask of strong alcohol? You firmly stated that you don't drink and despise the act."

"They're right, Natsu. On our date, you told me the same things. So why do you have some alcohol on you?" The fire dragon slayer simply chuckled at them before answering.

"Igneel loves the stuff and he always wants me to bring a flask to him every time I visit him. The main ingredients are only found in the Hakobe Mountain so he can't get it on his own."

"Oh." a large portion of the guild spoke in unison while Makarov, Macao and Wakaba were looking through maps and books in order to find how to make the stuff. Cana shrugged her shoulders and ordered everyone to spill the contents of their glasses so that she could fill it up with the moonshine.

"Here goes nothing." Juvia muttered to herself before downing the alcohol along with her friends/rivals. The drink went down her throat, leaving a sensation of burning as it travelled towards her stomach. Gray watched her from the sidelines worriedly as her cheeks began to turn to pink. "*hiccup* Wooooooow…. Natshuu-shama, youuu're riight….. Thissshh shtuff ish shho shhtrong and *hiccup* yet shoo gooooood."

"Juvia!" Gray exclaimed while pushing past the crowd to get to his girlfriend.

"Gray-shama?!" She looked towards the source of his voice and attempted to walk towards it. Only for her to stumble and fall after 3 steps. Gray saw this and tried even harder to reach Juvia. When he did, the ice mage picked her up and helped her walk home. "Awwww… Gray-shama, Juviia wantched to drink shome moreee."

"Juvia, you're intoxicated enough. We're going home so you can recover." He firmly stated. The water mage glared at him before pouting and letting tears form at the edges of her eyes.

"Oh…. I'm shorry Gray-shama…." She hung her head low in disappointment to herself. "I'm not thinking shtraight *sniff*. You're right, I should go home and recover."

"*sigh* I'm glad that you agree with me. Look on the bright side, when you recover I might just treat you out again." Juvia's eyes sparkled for a moment before bile began to rise up on her throat and she quickly put a hand to her mouth as she turned slightly green. "Crap, we gotta go! Bye!" Gray swiftly picked her up and ran towards their home.

Meanwhile with the other participants, Cana was feeling slightly woozy while Levy and Erza were unsurprisingly unfazed, albeit the light shade of pink on their cheeks.

"HIT ME!" They both yelled while shoving their shots in Cana's face. The poor card mage struggled to pour the liquor into the glasses before she poured some of her own. She looked into the glass to watch her own reflection in the swirl of dark blue and clear liquid. 'What have I gotten myself into. As long as I got a good drink, I suppose this is alright. I gotta ask Natsu how to make this though, it's really good.'

She downed her shot in unison with Levy and Erza. Everyone at the sidelines were watching her expectantly, with the majority putting bets on her. The only ones who bet on Levy were Pantherlily and Gajeel, whereas only Happy and Natsu betted on Erza. The people who bet on Cana were in such a big surprise when the guild's heaviest drinker toppled backwards with a snore.

"WHAAAAT!" Their jaws dropped as the jingling of lost cash was vibrating in their ears. Never in their life would they expect two of the most (formerly) alcohol intolerant mages to beat Cana. Even Gildarts was bawling at two things, his daughter lost and he lost about 5000 jewels. The real question was who was going to last longer, Erza or Levy.

"Feeling sick, Titania?" Levy lightly slurred through her words. Erza simply smirked at her while pouring shots into their glasses.

"In your dreams."


3 (EACH) SHOTS LATER.

"I can't believe it! Those two are still going!" Warren exclaimed with wide eyes. However, mostly everyone noticed that both of their eyelids were getting heavy and their breaths were short and laboured. Their faces were nearly as red as Erza's hair and they were struggling to grasp the shot glasses.

"I *hiccup* shaaaall beat'chyou, Errzzzha *hiccup* Shcarlet."

"Dittchoo, Levvy *hiccup* McGar'n." Before they could down their shots for the 6th time, they were stopped by Natsu and Gajeel.

"Alright, that's enough."

"~Buuuuuut Naaatshuuu,~" Erza was dragging the vowels in her words and was slurring heavily, "~I neeeeear'y beeeeeat herrrrrr, nya.~"

'Nya?' the entire guild thought in unison. Then Erza was enveloped in a bright light, signifying that she was requipping. Her choice of attire shocked everyone present. She was wearing her Flight Armour, which was a revealing set of armour featuring a cheetah patterned bra, revealing black shorts, a belt with a cloth hanging over her left leg, dark armbands, mid-thigh stockings, asymmetrical high heel boots, a pair of cheetah ears and a cheetah tail. Many of the males in fainted at the sight or from immense blood loss. Natsu himself was blushing a storm, especially because Erza was hugging him tightly from the sides and she was peppering his face with kisses.

"E-E-Erza?" he stuttered. This was one of the last things he expected Erza to do, especially in front of all their nakama.

"~Hmmmmmmm? Are you worrid about meeee, nya?~" She giggled lowly, causing Natsu breath to hitch because it was so cute and very uncharacteristical. "~That wazsh one theeng that made me fall for you Natshu-kuun, nya.~"

"Okay, we've got to get you home Erza. Now." Natsu then picked her up bridal style and began to walk home. He caught the image of a Gajeel trying to comfort an over emotional Levy at the corner of his eye and couldn't help but smile.

"Hehehehe," Another uncharacteristic giggle from Erza as she enjoyed the ride like three year old, "~Natshu-kuuun iszh sho shtrong, nya.~" When they got home, the first thing Natsu did was bring Erza to the bathroom. And it was a good decision because the moment he stepped foot in the bathroom, she jumped from his arms to proceed hugging the toilet bowl while emptying her stomach from its alcoholic contents. The entire night was spent throwing up, in Erza's part, and soothing his mate, in Natsu's case.

The next morning, Erza woke up in the bathroom with a horrible headache and a disgusting taste in her mouth. It felt like someone was punching the back of her head at the rate of 1000 punches per minute with the strength of a Vulcan.

"Good, you're awake." She slowly turned around to face her beloved, who was holding a cup of steaming contents. Natsu walked up to her and handed her the cup. The scent of freshly ground herbal leaves filed her nostrils as she slowly drank from the cup. "That's a tea made with herbs that supposedly helps cure or at least mediate the side effects of a hangover."

True to his word, the throbbing in her head lessened to a more bearable annoyance. "What happened yesterday? Everything is a blur to me." Natsu then gave her a recap of what happened yesterday, he left nothing out. When he mentioned her actions towards him after their little competition, Erza blushed heavily and began to apologize to him.

"It's alright Erza. At least now you have learnt your lesson." She nodded furiously.

"Never drink alcohol to that extent ever again. In fact, I feel that barring alcohol from my life is a good choice." Natsu clapped at her words before walking away. "Where are you going Natsu?"

"Making breakfast and waking up the other residents of our humble abode." She finished the rest of the tea and stood up slowly, for her knees were weak from the hangover. Erza walked to the kitchen to meet a hyperactive Happy, a groggy Hansuke and a ready-for-action looking Maria.

"Good morning." She greeted them, they greeted her back. Happy flew towards Erza and landed on her shoulder.

"You okay, Erza?" The exceed looked genuinely worried for his surrogate father's mate, which kind of makes Erza his stepmother since Lisanna was his real surrogate mother.

"I'll be fine, Happy." She weakly smiled at him as she sat down on the table.

"Ugh, after seeing that little fiasco with the four of you yesterday, it finally dawned to me why Natsu-sama banned alcohol from our lives." Maria spoke and Hansuke minisculely nodded in support.

"After our little fiasco, I'll be sure to never touch alcohol ever again." They shared a laugh just as Natsu came in with the food. They ate whilst chatting amongst each other before preparing to head to the guild.

When they got there, it was as lively as it always was. Brawling on one side of the guild, socializing in another. They made their way towards the bar and sat down, spectating the brawl. It wasn't long before Hansuke, Maria and Natsu were dragged into it, much to Erza's chagrin. She needed someone to talk to.

"Good morning Erza!" The cheery voice of her old rival came from behind her. Erza spun around to face a smiling Mira.

"Good morning to you too, Mira." Erza smiled back at her.

"Are you feeling alright?" Mira caught a flying mug of mead and spilled its contents into a nearby sink before she proceeded to clean it.

"Just a weak headache, Natsu gave me a herbal tea to kind of mitigate the pain."

"I see. Oh look, here come the others." Erza looked over her shoulder to see Levy, Juvia, and Cana walking towards her. She greeted them and they sat down at the bar, chatting with each other.

"EVERYONE! WE HAVE A FEW WORDS TO SAY." The brawling immediately stopped and everyone's attention was directed to the three men at the stage in front of the guild. "THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY HAVE TO BE ERASED FROM YOUR MEMORIES AND YOU WILL NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO ARGUE BECAUSE IF YOU DO…. YOU'LL REGRET IT." Natsu stated, looking towards his buddies in support. They simply nodded at him.

"That is all." Gray said as they made their way towards their respective girlfriends. They ignored the either hateful glares or pitiful looks that some of the men were sending them. Though everyone knew better than to go against their wishes, because if those three had their minds set on the same thing, whether it be blowing up the Magic Council or protecting the honour of their girlfriends, the only thing that will stop them is if their goals are met.

"Thanks guys, but I pretty sure that wasn't necessary." Cana said, earning questioning looks from the men and nods from the women.

"Yeah sure, because letting everyone remember you fall unconscious after 2 shots of Draconic Moonshine, Juvia stumbling while getting to Ice princess here, Levy going all emotional on me and Titania in cheetah patterned underwear is fine." Gajeel sarcastically said, causing the women to turn red.

"Nevermind, I take that back." Cana quickly said. The men grinned wickedly before conversing with themselves and their girlfriends. Suddenly, Levy and Gajeel's noses twitched and their faces contorted into a hateful scowl.

"Erza, they're back for more." Natsu was confused at Levy's choice of words, but judging from Erza's sadistic smile, he had an idea who she was referring to. The guild doors opened to reveal Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney along with their Exceed partners. As quick as a flash, everyone at Fairy Tail began to surround them with sick smiles on their faces, except for Natsu, who was still trying to decipher the situation.

"H-H-Hello guys, how's it going?" Sting stuttered, feeling a cold sweat go down his back. Fairy Tail remained quiet and kept glaring at them.

"State your business Sabertooth mage." Mira spat at them, venom evident in her voice.

"W-W-We w-w-would like t-t-to invite you once m-more to next year's Grand Magic Games."

"Guys, give them some breathing room will you. Plus, I wanna see them with my own two eyes." Rogue and Sting felt relieved that someone was actually a little lenient with them, but they were also worried because that person may be out for their blood. The crowd parted to reveal a man clad in a red short-sleeved trenchcoat over a white dress shirt, black pants and black boots with a hood covering the majority of his face. The man walked towards the two, and they felt the sheer amount of magical power that he was emitting.

"Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney?" They nodded slowly, afraid to anger the man. "So you're the two punks who were desecrating and insulting Natsu Dragneel's honour." Unfortunately for Sting, Lector - who wasn't there at last year's tournament and visit to Fairy Tail - decided to speak up with a voice filled with pride and arrogance.

"So, what of it?" He shivered when he heard the growling of the Fairy Tail mages and felt a spike of magic from them. The man simply held up his hand and Fairy Tail stood back, lowering their magic.

"It's because," The man gave them a wide, feral grin before pulling down his hood to reveal a head of pink hair. "I am Natsu Dragneel." Both Sabertooth mages paled at the sight of the man. His golden dragon eyes seemed to stare deep into their soul with thoughts on how to make them suffer underlying that calm visage.

"Hmph, Sting ain't scared, He's the most powerful mage ever!" Lector puffed his furry maroon chest, seemingly unafraid of Natsu's intimidating aura.

"Fro thinks so too!" Frosch, a green exceed in a pink frog onesie raised his paw in the air in support of Lector's bold statement. However, their owners were sweating like pigs at the moment, silently begging for the both of them to shut up before they could end up in deep trouble. Fairy Tail, on the other hand, was silently waiting in anticipation on how Natsu will react to these comments. To everyone's surprise, Natsu laughed heartily and almost insanely.

"Of course, of course. Why else would they come here, boast about their strength and call me weak? It's obvious that they are very strong, much stronger than I will ever be." The sarcasm in his voice was lost to the naive Exceeds. "In fact, I'll let them fight me at the same time so that they can show you two how weak I am." Natsu's heavy emphasis on weak was ignored by Frosch and Lector, but was paid attention to by the Sabertooth mages and Fairy Tail.

"Any time, any place." Lector once again opened his prideful mouth.

'Lector, just please… Shut up before Fairy Tail beats me within a centimetre of my life again like last year.' Sting silently pleaded to his partner as he watched Natsu with cautious eyes.

"Alright, come with me." The pink-haired dragon slayer began to walk into the guild, only for him to open a portal leading to a lush clearing in a forest. He walked right through it, with Sting and Co. following him and Fairy Tail entering last. Now they were where Natsu fought Fairy tail when he returned.

"Erza," His mate turned to face him with a wild look in her eyes. "I would like you to recommend some handicaps for me."

"WHAT!" Sting and Rogue exclaimed in unison.

"Hmmm, " Erza looked up for a moment to think, "Blindfolded, no magic, no weapons." Sting and Rogue's jaws dropped at her 'handicaps'.

"Wise choices." He began to prepare himself for the fight, 'Sweetie.' he added telepathically.

'Finally!' She sounded relieved that he is finally using pet names like her. Natsu simply chuckled at her before blindfolding himself.

"Damn, I was starting to like your little gifts." He said while handing her the knives. With those in hand, she walked away.

"Freed!" the green-haired rune mage was heard approaching Natsu. "Cast blindness on me as an extra precaution and do you know any runes that will prevent me from using magic?"

"Sorry, Natsu I don't. You're going to have to apply a lot of self-control and discipline in this one." Freed drew his rapier and yelled, "Dark Ecriture: Blindness!" Natsu's world turned black and he stayed still for a moment for his other senses to adjust with the lost of one of their 'family members'. He then began to remove his upper clothing as well as his boots, leaving him topless and barefoot.

"Alright, bring the others to the edge of the field and cast a protection spell, these two might go nuts on me." Natsu heard Freed run away from him as he turned to face the closest set of heartbeats. "You two ready?"

"Yes." They curtly replied.

Before they could start, Makarov had to tell Natsu something, "Natsu, you're going to have to explain this to the council afterwards. They wouldn't want a representative of the Dragon Council as well as a Wizard Saint picking fights with other mages." Natsu heard both of their heartbeats quicken at the realization of who their opponent was. He also figured out Makarov's plan on revealing his prestigious titles, he wanted to intimidate these fools and to prepare them on what may come to them.

"Understood.." Natsu raised his index and middle finger and gestured for Sting and Rogue to attack him. And attack him, they did.

They both decided to attack him head-on, starting with their fists to test his hand-to-hand proficiency. Sting proceeded to throw a punch towards Natsu's face while Rogue kicked his ribcage.

Natsu shifted his head to the right to dodge the punch and caught Rogue's kick. He pushed Rogue so that he would hit Sting before stepping back a few steps. Both Sabertooth mages looked at each other as if in a telepathic conversation and then nodded.

They ran to opposite sides of Natsu, who just stood there in a battle stance. Then they launched themselves at him simultaneously. When they reached him, they began to throw a series of punches and kicks. To their surprise, Natsu was either blocking or dodging the blows with ease.

'They've gotten faster since last year. It's safe to assume that they've gotten stronger as well.' Laxus thought as he watched Natsu dodge the blows.

However, Natsu screwed up for a moment and a punch managed to hit him square in the chest. His defense crumbled as he teetered backwards. The both of them used this momentary lapse of defenselessness to their advantage. Sting punched Natsu in the solar plexus and immediately after, Rogue kicked him on the chin, causing the pinkette to be airborne for a few seconds. While he was airborne, Sting kicked him towards the crowd. Before Natsu's flying body got within 100 metres of Fairy Tail, the shadow dragon slayer appeared from the shadows and punched the fire dragon slayer into the ground, creating a human sized indent. Rogue jumped away and regrouped with Sting, both with triumphant yet nervous smiles on their faces.

"Ha! Look at this guy. Thinks he's so tough to fight the both of them with handicaps." Lector boasted.

"Fro thinks so too!" Frosch once again raises his paw into the air.

"Shut yer yap and keep watchin'." Gajeel barked at them, and they had to shut up so that they wouldn't piss him off. As they continued watching and to their surprise, Natsu stood back up with a smirk on his face.

"Wow, you guys sure pack quite a punch." He cracked his neck and began to stretch. The smirk never left his face. " I commend you for making the best out of that intentional slip-up of mine."

"WHAT!" All the present Sabertooth members exclaimed while the Fairy Tail mages chuckled due to Natsu's deviousness.

"My turn." Natsu launched himself to the now-ready Twin Dragons of Sabertooth. He threw a punch that could break bones of normal people towards Sting's crossed arms. The blonde dragon slayer went flying from the force of the blow. Rogue was about to retaliate but he didn't see a spinning back elbow from Natsu. Natsu smelled Sting closing the distance between them from behind and turned around to catch a magic-enhanced fist. The impact produced a shock wave that ruffled both mages' hair. Natsu extended his other hand to catch another magic-enhanced fist, in courtesy of Rogue.

"Good. Good. You're finally using magic." Natsu's smirk transitioned into a maniacal grin. The grin gave the both of them the creeps. Before they could land another hit, Natsu pushed them away.

"White Dragon's/Shadow Dragon's.." They breathed in deeply as they reared their head backwards. Natsu's ear twitched at recognition of what they're about to do.

"Roar!" A laser of white escaped Sting's mouth at the same time a torrent of shadows escaped Rogue's mouth. To everyone's surprise, whether in a stroke of insanity or need for adrenaline, Natsu ran towards the two roars. When the roars and Natsu were about to meet, he jumped upwards and towards Sting and Rogue. They immediately canceled their roars.

"Shadow Dragon's Slash!" Rogue's right arm was engulfed in shadows and he jumped towards Natsu to punch him. He wasn't expecting his target to grab hold of his arm to pull him in and punch him straight in the face. Rogue righted himself before he landed. When he looked up to find his target, let's just say he got acquainted to Natsu's right foot.

"White Dragon's Purity Fist!" Natsu turned around and momentarily recreated 'The Matrix' to dodge the blow. Sting's eyes widened when he dodged the blow and realized that they were way too close for comfort. Natsu planted a hand on the ground and bicycle kicked Sting. When he felt the kick connect, he got into a crouched position and launched himself into the air once more.

When Natsu got to a higher altitude than Sting, he straddled the White Dragon Slayer and began to punch him at an agonizingly fast pace as they descended. 50 ft from the ground, Natsu used Sting as a springboard and jumped away.

A dust cloud was formed and the crowd watched in anticipation as to whether or not the twin dragons of Sabertooth have been defeated.

"White Drive/Shadow Drive!" The shadow cloud dissipated to reveal the more determined looking mages surrounded in an aura of their respective colour (white for Sting, black for Rogue).

"Oh? A power up?" Natsu tilted his head to the side in curiosity. The both of them kept quiet, but proceeded to attack Natsu with brand new vigor. Each of their punches felt much stronger than before and they were moving almost twice as fast. Instead of being worried, Natsu just got more excited. It was evident when his grin got bigger.

They broke his rock hard defense through their immense speed boost and punched him in the chest at the same time. He went flying for a few metres before he rolled to a stop. When he stood back up to face his opponents, he was met with a White Dragon's Claw to his stomach. The blow wasn't that powerful, it barely even knocked the wind out of him. What was so devastatingly effective about the blow was that a stigma of the white dragon was engraved on Natsu's abdomen. The stigma prevented Natsu from moving his body.

"Feeling comfortable?" Sting's cocky voice entered Natsu's ears. "Don't get used to it." Natsu felt his opponent's magic levels fluctuate to about Gajeel's level before they focused into one point.

"Holy Nova!" Sting punched Natsu in the abdomen and created an explosion of light. When the light disappeared and everyone's eyes readjusted, they were met with a sight of Sting standing triumphantly near Natsu, who was lying down on his back in the centre of a shallow crater.

"Natsu?" Erza whispered to herself a little worriedly. Even though she was dead sure that he won't be defeated easily by a bunch of punks. Sting, on the other hand, believed that he finally beat his role model. He walked towards the prone pinkette, unconsciously lowering his guard. Big mistake.

Natsu swept Sting's legs from underneath him and then head-butted the falling dragon slayer. Before he could do any more, Rogue rose from his shadow and tried to hit him with a Shadow Dragon's Roar. The keyword is tried because Natsu effortlessly dodged the magical attack. The pinkette then jumped away to create some distance between the two.

"How are you able to move?" Sting asked with wide eyes. Natsu responded by laughing softly.

"Your recent attack released me from that stigma. I knew the effects of that mark, so I decided to let you hit me so that it dispels from the sheer force from the attack."

"But Holy Nova is a powerful attack that would've knocked anyone unconscious."

"That is true to a point. However, compared to the damage that dragons dish out, it's pretty weak."

"WHAT! I'LL SHOW YOU WEAK!" Sting's and Rogue's magical levels surged to near Gildarts' levels. The crowd saw scales begin to form on their bodies, and their canines elongating.

"Is that what I think it is?" Hansuke asked.

"Dragon Force? Yeah, it is kid." Gildarts answered, "Those two somehow can access it at will. I fought them at this state once, along with Laxus. We won, but not easily."

"Tch, knowing Natsu, he's going to find this amusing rather than challenging." Laxus said. A large collection of 'Aye!'s were heard from the crowd. The Sabertooth exceeds stood there in shock at Fairy Tail's unwavering faith in Natsu.

"Are you all insane?" All eyes shifted to Lector, "Dragon Force is when a dragon slayer is just as powerful as a dragon, there is no chance that pinkie over there can beat them."

"I can vouch against that." Lector stared at a straight-faced Erza. "I have witnessed a first-generation dragon slayer's Dragon Force up close and felt its magical pressure. Comparing theirs to it is like comparing my magical pressure to Master Makarov's. And that was 7 years ago, Natsu has grown undeniably stronger since then."

"Impossible, Sting and Rogue can and will beat that pinkie."

"Fro think so too!" Erza merely grunted in annoyance before focusing her attention to Natsu's fight. Sting and Rogue's transformation had just finished.

"Ahh. Dragon Force, I presume." Natsu said with a hint of playfulness, "This fight just got better." Sting and Rogue kept quiet and began their assault. They moved at speeds that surprised Natsu and Fairy Tail.

Sting unleash a flurry of punches with each successive punch increasing in speed and power. Natsu found himself struggling to keep up with Sting. Then he realized that Rogue was missing, but he was a little too late. The black-haired dragon slayer appeared to his side with a plan in mind. He threw a magically enhanced punch at Natsu at the same time Sting did. Natsu was forced to block both at the same time. At the same time, they latched onto Natsu's arms, preventing him from pushing them away or jumping away.

"White Dragon's Claw!" Sting hit Natsu once more in the abdomen. Once more, Natsu is paralyzed due to the stigma produced by the blow.

"Shadow Dragon's Waxwing Flash!" Rogue turned into a shadow and began to wrap himself around Natsu's paralyzed form. As shadows to engulf him, a large amount of blows were dealt to him. From the outside, his pain-filled cries were heard, greatly worrying Erza. The assault ended seconds after it began and an airborne Natsu was revealed.

"White Dragon's Holy Breath!" Sting released a large amount of light magic from his mouth towards Natsu's falling body. When the beam hit, a large explosion occurred, with a blast radius at least 3 times larger than Holy Nova's. It seems that they aren't taking any chances with Natsu winning.

When the explosion died down, Natsu's body was no where to be seen, as well as his scent. Erza was frantically looking around for her mate, she even called out to him telepathically. Sting and Rogue were also equally worried since they would be in such deep trouble when they find out that they overdid it and vaporized Natsu. They didn't have to worry for long when Natsu appeared behind them and kicked them to the ground.

"How? We couldn't smell you." Natsu simply shrugged his shoulders.

"A little secret of mine." He then got into a battle stance, one that was slightly different than his usual. His usual battle stance has him crouched down with both arms at the ready on his sides. This battle stance has one arm extended, the other kept close to his chest and him shifting his weight from one foot to another through jumping. (Bruce Lee's stance vs Chuck Norris)

"Holy Ray!" A ball of light formed in Sting's hands before expanding and releasing multiple tendrils of light magic towards Natsu.

"Eclipse of the Shadow Dragon!" Three balls of shadow appeared on Rogue' body, one on his mouth and one each on his hands. They each released a beam of shadow magic before converging to produce a much larger beam of shadow magic. The dragon slayers seemed to have adopted long range contact in order for Natsu to not land any hits on them.

That was put to the test when Natsu began to close the distance on them while nimbly dodging all of the projectiles. Panicking, the both of them unleashed their respective dragon roars, only for him to dodge it once more. They brought their arms up to attempt to mitigate the force of the blow Natsu was about to give them. He simply went around them in speeds that surpassed Erza's Flight Armour and bonked their heads together. Finding themselves in a fairly sticky situation, they resorted to hand-to-hand once again.

However, each punch and each kick was parried by Natsu and was answered back with a punch or kick of his own. There were a few times when they landed a powerful hit on his torso or face, but he only shrugged it off as if a fly landed on his face instead. They kept up this pattern of attacking, parrying, and counter-attacking until Natsu had enough. Rogue tried to land a punch, Natsu parried and before his opponent could reiterate, the pinkette swiftly punched him in the solar plexus, chest, nose and forehead before uppercutting and tornado kicking him. All of this was done in under 5 seconds.

When Rogue finally hit the ground, Natsu could hear his breathing slow down from it's erratic pattern to a slow and deep one, signifying that the shadow dragon slayer was down for the count. Sting saw this and tried to avenge his fallen comrade. He kicked Natsu in the head, only for him to grab his leg and flip him. Before Sting could get away from Natsu, he was put in a headlock by the older dragon slayer. He tried to get away, but that only made the head lock tighter. Seconds later, he succumbed to the sweet darkness of sleep.

"Glad that was over." Natsu said to himself, surprisingly he wasn't winded. He then was tackled to the ground by an ecstatic guild.

"Told you guys he could do it."

"Pay up, I said under 15 minutes."

"No way, it was earlier than that."

"Natsu-sama is the best."

"Tch, I could do better." Were the various things Natsu heard while he was being smothered by his mate. Though one noise made his ears twitch, it was the sound of someone crying.

"Get off of me for a moment." his voice wasn't necessarily loud, but it was enough to make everyone get off of him. He stood up and made his way to the source of the sounds of sadness. When he smelled the tears were the strongest, he knelt down and said, "Lector?". The sniffing stopped for a moment before a small fist hit him repeatedly in the chest.

"Y-y-you cheated. You must have. Sting is the greatest dragon slayer ever. He wouldn't lose to anyone." Lector said while punching Natsu in between syllables.

"F-F-Fr-Fro t-thinks so too." Natsu felt a little guilty for making their best friends lose. He was about to say something, but someone beat him to it.

"He won fair and square Lector." Sting's weak voice was heard from behind the exceed. "I'm just weak compared to him." The exceed stopped punching Natsu and ran towards his best buddy.

"Sting is right, Frosch. Natsu is powerful compared to us." Frosch ran towards his best buddy and began to bawl.

"There it is!" Natsu exclaimed scaring the four of them while earning confused looks from his guildmates. "There is the true strength that you have been shunning all these years."

"What are you talking about?" Everyone, fairly eerily, asked at the exact same time -save Makarov, who was wise enough to know what Natsu was referring to.

"Humility. To be powerful doesn't necessarily mean to be undefeated. Sometimes, being powerful is knowing when you have been outmatched and openly admitting it. That humility earns you respect from your opponent, as well as providing you with some drive to improve in the future. I shall make you an offer. When we meet the next time, if you are able to force me to use magic, then you have gotten stronger. Strong enough to go toe to toe with my own two students. Until then, train your hearts out." He kept quiet for a minute or two to let them process the words he had just uttered. As he let them think it through, Natsu asked Freed to lift the blinding spell so he could see once again. The moment Natsu opened his eyes, he was met with a terrifically devastated field with dozens of uprooted trees at the edges. He couldn't help but laugh at the damage they have done.

"Natsu," The aforementioned mage shook his head to break out of his stupor to face the owner of the voice, which was Sting. "Thank you for the opportunity to spar with you."

"Not at all, I wanted a good fight as well. Leaving already?" Sting nodded. "Alright, see you next time. Train hard." The two then walked away with their exceeds in tow.

"Alright brats!" Makarov enlarged so that he could look down upon everyone. Silly senile old man. "After contemplating whether or not we will join next years' GMG, I have reached a conclusion. Drum roll, please." Natsu played a snare drum that he *ahem* "borrowed" from the author.

"YES!" Half of the crowd cheered while the other half smiled sadistically. "This time we shall be entering two teams because why not. It doesn't saying anything against it in the rules. Team A will be: Team Natsu's members - Erza Scarlet, Gray Fullbuster, Hansuke Terranos, Wendy Marvel and Lucy Heartphilia."

"Natsu, why do people always forget that I'm a member of the team as well?" Happy nudged Natsu with a half-eaten fish.

"I don't know Happy." Natsu shrugged his shoulders, "I'm sure that they don't do it on purpose."

"Team B will be: Laxus Dreyar, Mirajane Strauss, Juvia Lockser, Gajeel Redfox, and Maria Terranos. And to spice things up a bit, the team with the higher amount of points will have the privilege of making the other team do whatever they want for 24 hours." The sound of crickets chirping could be heard from the intense silence that followed his last statement.

"HEY!" Lucy yelled out loud, catching the attention of everyone else. "How come they have 4 S-class mages, really strong ones as well, while we have only 3?!"

"Are you implying that the S-classes in your team are weak, Lucy?" Makarov innocently asked, ignoring the menacing aura's that the S-classes of Team A were giving off while they glared at Lucy's back.

"N-n-no.. It's just that they have a number advantage, you know." Lucy chuckled nervously, her spine tingled to tell her that her answer saved her life.

"I knew that Lucy, but your team has a better chemistry with each other compared to Team B. Thus, when there's a team battle, you five will have an advantage." Lucy gave a weak 'Oh' before nodding.

"I also have something to say." Everyone's attention now belonged to Natsu, "All dragon slayers are to come with me to the Dragon Realm to train for the year, including the ones not participating in GMG. While we are there, I will be sending two professionals to improve on everyone else's hand-to-hand combat" The dragon slayers nodded in approval, along with the others. Except for the shaking siblings.

"U-u-uh, Natsu-sama." Maria nervously piped in. "I-I-Is there a chance that Hansuke and I could train with the hand-to-hand people instead?"

"Nonsense, you two still need some improving to do, if my mission report from Makarov is correct." The both of them paled a little bit. "So, you're staying with me." Natsu then walked away to retrieve his clothing, which happened to be on the other side of the clearing.

"Why are you two sweating like pigs and stuttering like lovesick teenagers?" Laxus asked, curiosity written all over his face. The other dragon slayers wanted to know the answer as well.

"Natsu-sama isn't that much of a gentle trainer and that's putting it nicely. No matter what we say, you cannot be mentally prepared for what's coming to you. You have experience it to be able to endure it." Hansuke answered for his still horror-stricken sister. Natsu then returned minutes later, fully clothed with a smile on his face.

"Let's go!" He opened a portal and the dragon slayers entered. Hansuk and Maria were about to high-tail out of there, if it wasn't for Natsu grabbing them by the collars and pulling them into the portal. "The pros should be here in three days. Until then, increase your magic reserves." Then the portal closed.

"You heard the man. Let's get training!" Gray enthusiastically spoke and everyone oorahed in agreement.


IN THE DRAGON REALM

"Why were you two so paranoid back there? This place isn't so bad." Erza said, trying to calm them down. They currently were in a building situated at the base of an enormous mountain.

"Find a happy place. Find a happy place….." The both of them were reciting the same mantra over and over again, creeping out some of the present dragon slayers.

"Whatever, I hope that Salamander gets here quick. I'm dying for some training." Everyone ignored him and began to explore the building, leaving behind Gajeel and the Terannos siblings.

"Oh? You want some training already." They turned around and were met with a pretty new Natsu. He was wearing a short sleeved tan dress shirt, tucked in underneath some brown pants with some crisp creases going down the centre of the front and back of each leg. His feet were encased in shiny, and I mean shiny to the point that you go blind, parade boots. His hair was in a small ponytail and on his head was a brown campaign hat. The image the author wanted to portray: USMC Drill Sergeant.

"Yeah." Gajeel curtly replied as he sat down on a nearby bunk.

"Good." Natsu lowered his head with a smile, but that smile quickly disappeared and was replaced by a look of seriousness. "WELL YOU CAN START BY GETTING YOUR BUTT OF THAT BUNK!" Gajeel quickly jumped off, he hated to admit it, but the volume and power behind Natsu's voice scared him at that moment. At the same time, Hansuk and Maria quickly stood on their feet with their back straight,eyes forward, arms tight to the side and showed no emotion.

"TERRANOS H.!" The orangette quickly ran towards Natsu and stood there at the same form he began with. "WHERE THE (BLEEP) ARE THE OTHERS?!"

"SIR, THEY WENT AROUND EXPLORING THE PLACE, SIR!" Hansuke replied in the same volume.

"YOU AND YOUR SISTER BETTER START COLLECTING THOSE (BLEEPS) OR SO HELP ME, I WILL MAKE YOU SCOOP DRAGON DROPPINGS FOR THE REST OF YOUR TRAINING! AM I UNDERSTOOD?!"

"SIR, YES, SIR!" Hansuke then ran towards his sister and relayed Natsu's orders. They both turned around and started to find the others before they were punished. Gajeel just stood there shell-shocked, unable to formulate any thoughts in his mind besides:

'What have I gotten myself into?'


A/N: AAAAAAnd another 10k chapter for all of my lovely peeps. GMG arc is up next, so prepare yourselves for fight scenes galore.

Question: Should I write another fic and split my time between the two, or should I just focus on this one?

Aye for the Former and Nay for the latter...