A/N: And the next lesson is out!

So originally this lesson wasn't supposed to come out for about another two chapters at least. But I just couldn't shake the ideas out of my head long enough to write the next chapter, so you get Maddox's next lesson a bit early! Plus, I was in the mood to write more humorous material, considering I ended up having a lightsaber fight in the middle of a store with one of my friends the other day while we waited on another friend to go hunt down something. I won by the way! She didn't know how to block very well, lol! But the lesson here is, friends shouldn't leave others friends in the toy section of a store alone while they're gone for five minutes! She's lucky she didn't leave us next to the ball bin! HA!

But then I started thinking about it and maybe it's good that you all got this chapter first before we start getting into some more serious things. I do have the next actual chapter started, so you all should hopefully get that soon, but until then, enjoy this little bit of humor!

Oh! So just as a reminder, you all should check out some other OC Guild Fics if you haven't already! Undine's Cove by dreadburner94, Angel's Breath by Master of Anime224, Dragon's Dogma by Cat the Alien and Phoenix Refuge by lexlovesya. I don't think they're accepting characters any longer, but you can always check with the authors about that. I know a few of them are looking for villains I believe, but don't hold me to it! But they're all definitely worth the read!

I don't think there's too much else to go over for the time being, so I'll go ahead and jump right into the reviews!

Thanks to everyone that reviewed for the last chapter!

Thegreatlaw - I'll make sure to add that to his profile! Thanks! And I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Resmesh - No worries on the whole reviewing thing! I'm sure you had things that you needed to deal with since we all have things to deal with in our own lives. But I'm glad to hear that you're liking the way the story has been progressing! I hope you enjoy this chapter!

WaterDragonMaverick - :3 Glad to hear you enjoyed the scene with Zander and Quinn! Personalities for all characters should hopefully start coming out more. But we'll just have to wait and see who will be on this year's GMG team! I hope you enjoy this chapter!

No. XIII - You're welcome! And I'm glad you enjoyed the last chapter and I hope you enjoy this one as well!

Haley Le - CHA! :3 I'm really happy to hear you loved that last scene with Zander and Quinn! And that you've decided on them being a canon couple for this story! The new missions that will start happening should be interesting since we all now have a sense of each of the characters for the most part. And yes, Phantasm will be a bit of a threat for the guild (that's the understatement of the year, lol), but it may be a little while until he finally makes his appearance. I hope you enjoy this chapter!

ColdBurn-3 - Yes, that last chapter was basically the calm before the storm before more serious issues start arising. And yeah, the last chapter was also definitely more serious, as it was meant to be because of the things that will be coming up next; considering Maddox's mission for that trio and the fact that Quinn also still has to learn how to deal with Norman's memories. Hmmm, I haven't really thought of what they would do if Akemi is out from the guild and they need her. I'll have to think about that. The others at the guild can handle most minor injuries and such, so I'm not too worried in that aspect, but I'll have to think of something for more serious issues if Akemi is gone. But I hope you enjoy this chapter!

dreadburner94 - Glad to hear that you're excited for Raoul's and Nika's future appearance in the story! I just couldn't not bring the back for a long time! I just love writing them! And yeah, Maddox doesn't care at the moment about the authorities. I mean, it's not everyday that Judge warns him of something like that and plus with him not finding any info on Phantasm in the guild worries him...a lot. And CHA! I'm so glad that you enjoyed that last scene so much that you had to keep going back to re-read it! It was probably one of my favorites as well! I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Joshua1277 - Yes! Awkward family moment indeed for Azielle and Axel! I'm glad you liked Walker's moment there with Quinn. I wanted to give him a bit of a shining light with that. Yeah, the Disruptor Magic definitely has some damage to it, enough for Sera to give him that seal anyways. But yeah, I think Light Bullets would be lighter than regular ones. It would make sense anyways. The trio being sent on the illegal mission will definitely make things interesting, considering Bishop's attitude, Azielle's quick wit and mouth and Tada's laidback and amused personality. I'm glad that you enjoyed the scene between Quinn and Zander. It was nice for me to write a scene that they weren't arguing with each other as well. I hope you enjoy this chapter!

PlaguedAmbition - Glad to hear that you're liking the build of the romances within the story! I'm not one that particularly likes those quick, love at first sight type of romances since I feel it leaves the storyline lacking and there's nothing for the characters to build on. You wouldn't instantly trust and love someone that quickly in real life, so why would it be written that way? I hope you enjoy this chapter!

halobeast - Actually, Eric will be making his appearance much sooner in the story than the games, so just be watching out for him! I'll make sure to add that info to his profile, thank you! And Fairy Tail should be making an appearance soon. I'm not sure exactly when, but it should be before the GMGs. I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Benthino - :3 I'm glad that you enjoyed the last chapter! I'm glad that it left a happy feeling because after this new lesson, things may not be so happy for a few chapters. I hope you enjoy this chapter!

lexlovesya - CHA! I'm glad you're all caught up with the story and that you're liking it so far! And I'm super happy to hear that you loved the last scene so much and that you're shipping Zander and Quinn! :3 And I'm glad that you're excited for the mission with Tada, Bishop and Azielle! I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Phew! So many that time! But again, I never mind responding you all!

I don't own Fairy Tail!

Please enjoy!

Maddox's Guide to Nakama

Lesson Two: Phobias

Beginning Notes: It's always best to learn as much as you can about your fellow nakama, even if it's something as small as discovering a phobia. The smallest amount of information can lead to a stronger bond between nakama.

Arachnophobia – the fear of spiders.

Morning came to Thunder Stone in a rather quiet fashion. Maddox was sitting upstairs in the main hall, drinking coffee and reading over the newspaper. The only others that happened to be up at such an early hour were Liam and Shaw due to their insomnia. The three men enjoyed the peace of the morning, knowing it was only a matter of time before things started to get loud; and it seemed that things would be getting started just a little earlier than normal that morning.

Quinn rolled over in bed, beginning to slowly wake up. She laid in the warmth of the covers for a moment before blinking her eyes open a few times. She yawned as her eyes tried to focus on a black blob sitting on her pillow. She rubbed her eyes a few times to clear her vision and soon the blob came into focus.

She stared at the eight legged creature sitting on her pillow in fear, trying to figure out how the large black spider got into her room. She continued to stare at it, not realizing that she was holding her breath out of fear. Finally, one of the legs twitched and Quinn lost it. She belted out the loudest scream she ever had and flew out of the bed. In her haste, her back slammed into the bookshelf that was attached to the long side of the bed and pushed up against the wall. A few of the books were knocked off the shelves, causing Quinn to trip over them and the mess of covers on the bed. She fell and landed on her back on the ground, breathing hard and her eyes wide as she searched for the creature.

Quinn suddenly felt a light tickling on the leg that was still up on the bed. She looked up to see the spider sitting on her leg. She screamed again as she kicked her leg into the air, flinging the spider onto the ground across from her. It was at that moment her door was flung open with a crowd standing outside of it.

"What the hell is your problem?!" Diesel shouted, "You woke up the whole guild!"

"IT TOUCHED ME!" she screamed as she scrambled up off of the ground and ran towards the door. As soon as she saw messy red hair, she jumped behind it and grabbed tightly onto solid shoulders, "Get it out of my room! Kill it! Kill it!"

"What are you talking about?" Zander asked, peering over his shoulder to look at her, "What's in your room?"

"THAT!" she shouted, pointing to the black spider on the ground.

The crowd turned to look down at the spider and sweat dropped as the creature turned to stare up at them.

"I woke up and it was on my pillow and then I fell on the ground and then it touched me on the leg and then it landed near me and…and…" Quinn said, rushing through her words.

"Whoa, calm down," Zander interrupted her after hearing all her sentences run together. In all honesty, he wanted to laugh at the thought of a spider getting the better of her, but quickly thought better of it since she was latched onto his shoulders. God only knew what she would do to him if he laughed at her in such a close proximity, "How did it even get in here?"

"How the hell should I know?! Just get it out!" she shouted.

Even though Zander managed to hold back his laughter, Walker and Diesel simply couldn't help themselves. They busted out laughing while pointing at Quinn.

"I can't believe you're scared of a tiny little spider!" Diesel said loudly.

"Yeah, and that thing should be more scared of you!" Walker added, "What with that Medusa hairstyle you have going on there!" he said, motioning to her messy bedhead.

Diesel quickly high-fived the blonde man as they began laughing harder.

Zander was about to finally give in and laugh with them until he felt the grip on his shoulders tighten, causing him to bite the inside of his lip to hold himself back again.

"You two really are damn idiots," Yuna mumbled as she moved out of the way and into Quinn's room to get the spider.

"Shut the hell up!" Quinn yelled at them, "I bet you wouldn't be laughing if that thing was on your pillow when you woke up!"

"Keep dreaming," Walker waved off her comment.

"Besides, how did a thing like that get there? It's like someone would've had to sneak into your room to put it there before you woke up," Diesel said.

Quinn froze for a moment as she thought about what Diesel had said. A vein suddenly ticked on her forehead, "Did you two assholes put that thing in my room?!"

"What?! No!" Walker and Diesel answered.

"I bet you did just so you could laugh at me in the morning!" Quinn shouted. She was about to launch herself at them until Yuna came walking through the door, carrying the spider. She squeaked in fear and hid further behind Zander, turning him so he would directly block the spider from her, "Thanks, Yun," she said from behind the redhead.

"No problem," Yuna smiled, "I'll take this little guy out to the forest, so you shouldn't see him anymore," she explained before turning to Walker and Diesel with a smirk, "And I'd suggest you two make a run for it while she's still hiding from the spider."

"But we didn't do anything!" they both shouted.

"Sure you didn't," she replied, beginning to walk away with the spider, "Still, you should really think about running."

Walker and Diesel looked back to see Quinn's eyes glowing red as she stared them down. As soon as Yuna had disappeared from the hallway, she finally jumped out from behind Zander.

"You two are so dead!" she shouted, taking off after the men as soon as they started running.

Once they were all out of sight, Rey and Tejil cracked up laughing while high-fiving each other.

"It worked!" Tejil grinned.

"And we didn't even get caught!" Rey added.

Zander glanced over at them with his own smirk, "So it was you two then?" he asked, receiving nods in return, "That's a pretty good one, but if you ever play a prank on her that somehow turns on me, then you'll be wishing that Quinn would have been the one to catch you," he warned before sending them one last smirk and walking away.

Rey and Tejil exchanged glances, both thinking that they don't ever want to see a pissed off Zander.

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Ophidiophobia – the fear of snakes.

"I'm so hungry!" Miyako groaned as she and Azielle entered the guild after visiting the town that morning.

"I'm sure there's something in the kitchen that we can make," Azielle mentioned, "We could have gotten something in town. Why didn't you say anything then?"

"Because I wasn't hungry then!"

Azielle sighed, "Of course you weren't," she said as she led the silver haired girl towards the kitchen, "Let's see what we can find."

"But I don't want to have to wait to make something," Miyako whined.

"Well, it's either that or we walk back into town again," Azielle stated.

"But that's so far!"

"And you're so indecisive!"

"It's because I'm hungry!"

"Maybe I can help with that then," Hikari suddenly appeared in front of the two girls with a wide smile and Flora flying next to her, "I can make you anything you want. What are you in the mood for?"

"I can pick anything?!" Miyako asked, her eyes lighting up.

"Yep!" Hikari grinned.

"Dear lord, please don't give her that many options," Azielle said, almost wanting to cry at the thought of how long it would take her best friend to choose something to eat, "Just make us some pancakes and bacon, please."

"Coming right up," Hikari said, turning away from the two to start on their order.

"You two can come sit down over here," Flora said, motioning to a large, marble bar in the middle of the kitchen that had six stools lined up next to it.

Azielle and Miyako followed Flora over to the bar and took their seats. While looking around the kitchen, Miyako's eyes landed on a container that appeared to hold gummy worms. She quickly grabbed it, figuring it wouldn't be so bad to eat a few before breakfast.

"What are you doing?" Azielle asked, "We're going to be eating soon."

"But I want something now," Miyako whined again.

"Fine, whatever," Azielle huffed, not wanting to listen to her whining anymore that morning.

"CHA! Gummy worms here I come!" Miyako announced loudly.

"What?" Hikari said, looking behind her in time to see Miyako about to pop the lid, "Wait! Don't open that!" she shouted, trying to move to stop her from opening the container.

Hikari wasn't able to move fast enough as Miyako was able to successfully get the top popped off. In the next instant, fake, realistic snakes came flying out from the container and into Miyako's face. The girl screamed like someone had shot her and threw the container away from her, beaming Hikari right in the face with it.

"Ow, ow, ow," Hikari said quickly, holding her forehead in pain while Flora flew over to her to see if she was all right.

Azielle chuckled as she watched Miyako struggle and cry over the fake snakes still covering her, a few of them having tangled around her.

"AZI! Help! Just don't leave me to die here!" Miyako shouted, clearly terrified by the snakes.

"Aww, someone let the container off early?" Terran suddenly asked, appearing in the kitchen with Kimera and Mahrin-Kah.

"So you knew about this?" Azielle asked, trying to help Miyako get the snakes off of her. It was just a bit difficult with the girl moving around so much.

"Yeah," Terran grinned, "But it was really meant for Kimera."

"You idiot!" Kimera shouted before bopping him on the head, "What if Mahrin-Kah had opened it instead of me? You would have literally scared the poor girl to death!"

"I was going to hand them directly to you," Terran answered, rubbing his head.

"Because that's not suspicious at all," Kimera sighed, "You should really try to think things through more."

"I'm sorry," he smiled, holding out a container of gummy bears towards her, "How about some candy to make up for it."

Kimera reached out for the container, but quickly thought better of it, "Nice try, buddy. How about you open it for me?"

"Sure," he replied, aiming the top right at Kimera, who stood in front of Miyako. He popped the top, causing more snakes to fly out from it. Kimera easily side stepped them, causing the snakes to hit Miyako just as Azielle had pulled the last one off of her from the first group.

Miyako screamed again as she fell to the ground and rolled around while flailing her arms, "I'm under attack! Why is this happening?!"

Azielle started laughing even harder while the others joined in with her.

"Hold…hold on!" Mahrin-Kah said, trying to help Miyako out, "I'll get them off of you," she said before Miyako dragged her down with her and the two were now rolling around the floor together. This only caused the rest of the group to laugh harder and for the rest of the guild to stare at the kitchen doors in confusion.

Although, many people in the guild hall spit out whatever they were drinking when they heard a sudden shout from Terran - "Snake wrestling to the extreme!" – which caused the guild to stay away from the kitchen that day.

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Lactophobia – the fear of milk.

Remi stood behind the bar, flipping through a magazine. It had been a pretty slow day since some of the guild members were out on missions and the others that were here were helping themselves to the upstairs bar, though she made sure to keep a tab on them. She picked up one of the chocolate chip cookies that Hikari had made to set out at the bar that day, her eyes landing on two men walking up to the bar.

"Remi," Tada said, nodding to her as he sat down at the bar.

"What? No Azi-chan today?" Bishop asked, sitting down next to Tada.

"I told her I would take the bar over for the day," Remi answered, pointing over to Azielle who sat at one of the tables on her own while reading over some books she had been wanting to get caught up on, "And I hope you know that she doesn't like to be called Azi. Not by you anyways."

"But I call her that all the time," Bishop retorted, "And she has yet to stop me."

"Then maybe you've just lucked out so far," Remi shrugged, "So what can I get you two?"

"Our usual," Tada answered.

Remi stared at the two men, waiting for one of them to continue with their order, "And that would be…?" she finally asked.

"You don't know them yet?" Bishop asked, almost sounding offended, "I know this isn't your first day working behind the bar. You should really start memorizing your customer's orders, you know. Azi-chan remembered after being behind the bar for one day."

"Well, I'm not Azielle," Remi answered through clenched teeth, "Now, tell me what you want to drink or you're gonna end up with the cheapest beer we have in the place. I know enough to know you'd hate that."

"Tch," was all Bishop responded with.

"Sorry about him," Tada said, interrupting the two with an easy smile, "He's just a little grumpy without some fine wine in his system," he explained, "So, he'll take some of that wine over there and I'll take some of that scotch back there, on the rocks. Just make sure it's been aged for twenty years at least."

Remi stared at him for a moment longer before turning to collect their order, mumbling something about how it would be easier to serve ten Titans than these two.

"And get something for us to wash these cookies down with," Bishop added.

"A 'please' would be appreciated," Remi growled.

Bishop stayed quiet until Tada nudged him with his elbow. He sighed heavily before he gave in, "Fine, please."

"That's better," Remi said as she turned around and sat a glass of wine in front of Bishop and a tumbler of scotch in front of Tada. She then sat two empty glasses between them quickly followed by an opened jug of milk, "That should work, right?" she asked, looking up to see Tada's face turn slightly green as he shrank away from the milk, "What the hell is wrong with him?" she asked, pointing her thump towards him while looking over at Bishop, who was giving her an 'I-can't-believe-you-just-did-that' look.

In the midst of her moving her hand, she barely bumped the jug of milk, but it was just enough to spill a drop from it. The drop then landed on top of Tada's hand, causing his eyes to go wide. He slapped his clean hand over his mouth as he threw the tainted hand up in the air as if it burned him.

"What the hell?!" Remi shouted, "It's just some milk! What's wrong with you?!"

"Azi-chan!" Bishop shouted, causing the blonde girl to look up from her books.

Azielle looked to where Bishop was pointing, seeing the opened jug of milk. Her face fell for a moment before her eyes went wide upon seeing Tada's current appearance. She quickly got up from her table and made her way over to the bar.

"What did you do, Remi?" she asked, pulling out an antibacterial wipe from under the bar.

"Me? It's just some freaking milk!" she retorted loudly, "He's acting like he's afraid of it," she added, seeing a serious look on both Azielle's and Bishop's faces, "Oh my God! You're kidding me, right? He's afraid of milk?!"

"You'd be afraid of it too if your family members poured spoiled milk all over you when you were sleeping AND you ended up drinking some of it," Bishop retorted back harshly.

"Ew," Remi replied, gagging slightly.

Azielle ignored the two for now as she grabbed Tada's hand and began cleaning it with the wet wipe. She watched him calm down and she stopped after Tada took his hand from his mouth, indicating that he would be all right. She then turned and moved the milk from sight in order to keep another incident from happening. She pulled out lemonade instead and filled up the two empty glasses in front of the men. She quickly turned on her heels to look straight at Remi.

"You never serve these two milk, ever," she stated evenly, "Unless you want to clean up the floor after he pukes all over it," she said, motioning towards Tada, "Honestly Remi, you should really learn these things after being behind the bar for so long," she sighed.

"That what I told her!" Bishop shouted.

"Shut up you!" Remi hissed.

"Just go," Azielle said, still looking at Remi, "I'll take over from here. I'd rather not have any other incidents like that."

"But I told you I would man the bar today to give you some time off," Remi said.

"It's all right," Azielle answered, "It's not even that busy today and I can get my reading finished here. Unless you feel like making another mistake and having to clean it up?"

"No, that's all right," Remi said as she began to move away from the bar area. Though, she gave the two men one last look, mumbling 'freaks' before she completely disappeared.

Azielle sighed again before she turned around to face the men. She was about to move to go get all her books from the table, but was surprised to see them sitting in front of her already.

"I believe you were in the middle of this one," Tada said, handing over an open book towards the blonde. She looked down at it and let a small smile escape.

"Yes I was, thank you," she said as she took the book from him.

"I hope you don't mind if I have a smoke here, but I need something to get rid of that milk smell," Tada said, pulling out a black box of cigarettes from his coat.

"That's fine," she answered while still looking down at her book, flipping to the next page.

Tada let another easy smile spread across his lips as he leaned back against the bar. Really, she was such an interesting girl to him. Though, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed that he had caused such a scene over milk, but he was grateful she didn't make a big deal out of it. And he couldn't help but wonder what she was afraid of since she never showed any signs of being scared of anything. He supposed this was the next thing he would need to figure out about the blonde girl. He smiled wider at that thought as he settled into the content silence of Azielle's page flipping, Bishop's cookie eating and his own sound of blowing out cigarette smoke.

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Ornithophobia – the fear of birds.

Yuna hated birds, feared them even, and she wasn't one to frighten easily. Birds of prey she could handle, considering one of her take over stages was a Falcon. What she hated were regular birds, particularly swans. She truly felt they were the source of all evil.

'I mean, just look at them and their beady little eyes,' she thought, staring at the two swans that sat in her path, 'And they think they're so high and mighty just because they're supposed to be beautiful. What's beautiful about a creature that waddles everywhere and shits while doing so? And that honking noise they make! Talk about the sound of evil!'

"What's taking you so long, grizzly bear?!" Diesel shouted, bringing Yuna out of her thoughts.

She looked up to see the rest of her team watching her in curiosity after their unusually quick mission for the day. They all stood on the other side of the bridge that they needed to cross in order to make their way through town to get back to the guild. Though, Yuna just couldn't bring herself to cross the bridge with the two swans that currently sat in front of her.

"You all can go on without me," she called out to them, "I'm just gonna take my time getting back home," she said, adding a nervous laugh afterwards.

The rest of the team exchanged glances for a moment, never actually having heard Yuna nervous before.

"Is there something wrong, Yun?" Quinn asked.

"Wrong?" Yuna replied, her voice rising in pitch slightly, "Why would there be anything wrong?"

"Because you're acting really weird," Walker answered.

"You're face is weird!" she shouted, hoping that it would be enough to get them to go away.

Walker simply sent her a flat stare as he crossed his arms and continued to stand where he was.

"Hurry up already!" Diesel yelled, "I don't have all day to wait for you!"

"No one said you had to wait!" Yuna yelled back, "I told you that you could leave!"

"Just move it," Diesel growled.

Yuna gulped, knowing that there wasn't any way out of this. They would all wait for her to join them no matter how many times she told them to go away. She took a few cautious steps forward, watching the swans the entire time. Eventually, one of them honked at her, causing her to freeze temporarily before moving back to her original spot. The rest of her team watched this with interest before Zander finally spoke up.

"Uh…are you afraid of the birds?" he asked.

"They're not just any birds! They're SWANS!" she shouted, her voice filled with complete disdain as she said the word 'swans'.

"So what?" Diesel asked.

"So what?! They're the form of all evil! What if they touch me?! I'll have been tainted with evil!"

"I didn't know you were such a drama queen," Walker mentioned.

"I am not!" Yuna shouted, stomping her foot down which caused the swans to get a little riled up. She froze again and stared at the birds to make sure they wouldn't come near her.

"We don't have time for this," Diesel huffed as he walked back over the bridge towards Yuna. He easily walked passed the swans and grabbed onto her wrist, "Let's go."

"No! Let go! They're gonna get me!"

"No they won't," Diesel growled, "Now, man up!"

"But I'm not a man!" she shouted as she fell limply to the ground.

"What the hell is your problem?! Get up!" he shouted, trying to pull her up to make her stand on her feet.

"No!"

"Fine, then I'll just carry you."

"But that's so embarrassing!"

"You asked for it," he retorted as he picked her up bridal style. She began thrashing about, trying desperately to get out of his arms and away from the swans, "Stop moving, bird brain!"

"Then put me down, grease head!" she shouted, smacking her palm up under his chin. The force was enough to get Diesel to drop her, but she landed with a loud thump directly in front of the swans. The white birds honked loudly as they stood up and flapped their wings at Yuna, "Oh my God! You've unleashed Satan upon me!" she cried as she jumped to her feet and began making a run for it. Diesel quickly followed her as the two swans started chasing them while honking and biting at them.

The rest of the team's eyes went wide upon seeing the angry swans and began running back towards the guild as well. The swans continued following the group through town, causing a huge scene along the way while Yuna kept on shouting, "I told you they were the source of all evil!" all the way up to the guild.

Once they reached the doors of the guild, they saw Maddox standing inside the doorway as if he was waiting for them. They all ran into the guild, Yuna literally leaping inside the building before turning around and yelling at Maddox.

"Shut the doors before you let pure evil in here!" she shouted.

Maddox chuckled as he slammed the doors shut, the swans running into them with only one small, white feather floating down onto the floor afterwards.

"Thank God," she sighed heavily before plopping down onto the floor.

"Looks like you all made it just in time for dinner," Maddox smirked, motioning towards a table full of food and guild members that were staring at all of them, most of them wearing raised eyebrows.

"You're afraid of swans?" Rey finally asked.

"It's no worse than Tada being scared of milk," Remi huffed, earning a hard nudge from Azielle, "What? It's true!"

"I think Miyako's fear of snakes was funnier," Hikari smiled.

"And Terran turning it into a wrestling match," Kimera added with a smirk.

"Well, nothing can be as bad as Quinn waking up the entire guild because of a spider," Tejil added with his own smirk.

"It's a good thing we got up early for that," Rey snickered, earning a hard thump on his head from Tejil.

"You idiot," Tejil hissed.

"Whoops!" Rey said, laughing nervously.

"So it was you two?!" Quinn shouted.

The two men began laughing nervously, waving their hands in front of them while Quinn began approaching them along with Walker and Diesel who wanted payback for having to take the blame. Rey and Tejil tried to run, but were quickly caught by the other three. A brawl soon started to break out, but at least Hikari managed to guide it away from the food. Yuna quickly dove in on Diesel, wanting to get back at him for dropping her in front of the swans. More and more members started to join in on the wrestling match, not being able to resist it. Maddox sighed, knowing he was going to have to rebuild a few of the tables. Though, he smiled nonetheless since his guild was now acting more like a family, even if it had taken some fears to get them there.

Conclusion: Even the smallest bit of information should be known by your nakama. They can protect you from the things you fear and will stand in the way of those fears long enough for you to stand back up on your feet. Although, this time around, it appears that laughter, building bonds and friendly wrestling came from our seemingly ridiculous fears.

Note to Self: Don't let the guild find out about my fear of losing bets and wagers. Pandemonium may break out in the guild if that happens. I can't be losing all my money in one night.

A/N: Well, there's the new lesson! I hope you all enjoyed it!

As always, you are more than welcome to send in ideas for future lessons!

I'll have the next chapter up soon!

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Yours Truly,

MyDearWatson