After some time in the guild the ants were already getting used to the place, they knew the names of some of the members and even made some friends like Natsu
"Hey, Pitou rematch!" He screamed jumping towards them
Pitou simply charged their fist with a massive amount of nen and punched Natsu sending him flying. "I win," they said
The best of friends
"This is so boring! Why can't anything interesting happen in this place?" Pitou whined sitting on the ground and crossing their arms
"I agree this place is a little dull" Youpi said crossing his arms
"I don't see the issue, this place doesn't seem to have someone who could be able to fight the king so is easy for us to do our job of protecting him," Pouf said not understanding their complaints
"Yeah but your weird Pouf," Pitou said nonchalantly annoying Pouf "besides I think I found the perfect opponent to kill this boredom, I've read in one book that there are these people called God Slayers just by the name they seem powerful and I want to find one and have a fight with them so badly," they thought imagining a fight with a God Slayer while hearts appeared in their eyes
"And you say I'm the weird one," Pouf said to himself but Pitou was too busy in their fantasies to notice what he said
"What about those Dragon Slayers? I've heard there were made to kill dragons and they are really powerful" Youpi said
"Maybe one at full power would be a good fight, but if Natsu is something to go off," Pitou said looking at Natsu and Gray fighting again "they are not that fun if you just use hatsu. But I think I'll fight him without using hatsu just to see what will happen"
"God Slayer… interesting" Meruem thought, he knew that underestimating humans was a mistake after his fight with Netero, and one single mistake can be fatal so he thinks that Pitou will need to get stronger if she wants to fight someone with the title of god slayer "checkmate you win again"
"Hey, Meruem, why do you always play this game with them?" Asked Levy
"I want to beat them on it" Meruem answered
"Oh… ok. Do you mind if I watch you two play?" She asked
"No," Meruem said
"It's fine," Komugi said
Levy them sat in front of the board and watched them play, they were really good at it, Komugi had her eyes open while we played and Meruem was in total focus, she didn't really know the rules of the game but it looked a lot like chess so she understood it a little, the game was impressive but what really got her attention was when Komugi all of a sudden put a finger in one of the pieces and when she took it off a bubble appeared in her finger and she started to be surrounded by bubbles.
What is that? What kind of magic is that? Those were the thoughts going through her head but when she looked at Meruem he was practically unfazed by it. Was this normal? Does this always happen when they play? Her thoughts were interrupted when Loke came bursting through the front door
"She is here! Ezra is back!" Loke screamed shocking the guild except for the ants
Pouf and Youpi looked at the door, Pitou was snapped out of her fighting fantasies, and Meruem and Komugi were just too concentrated on their game to care, and then after some screaming from the guild the doors busted open once more revealing a woman with scarlet hair wearing the top of an armor and a skirt carrying what looked like the horn of a giant creature, that was Erza Scarlet the strongest woman in Fairy Tail.
"So she is Erza," Pitou thought already planning on testing how strong she is
"Wow, she is beautiful!" Lucy said surprised
"So she is Titania? Fits the description" Meruem thought looking at Erza for a split second
"I have returned!" Erza announces
"Welcome back Erza," Mira said
"Is the master here Mira?" Erza asked
"No, he is in Clover Town attending a guild master meeting," Mira said giving Erza a smile
"I see dammit… ALRIGHT EVERYONE LISTEN UP!" Erza shouted getting everyone's attention, she even managed to take Meruem and Komugi's attention off their game of gungi "On my way back from my previous job I overheard a lot of problems about our members, the master may not care but I certainly do!" Erza said with anger in her voice making everyone almost melt out of fear
"I like her" Pitou thought wondering how strong she might be
"Cana, stop drinking like that is indecent!" She yelled, making Cana put her beer down "Vijeeter go outside to dance, don't do it here! Wakaba, get rid of that dirty habit or at least someone outside! Nab just pick a job already, it isn't that hard! Macao…" Erza yelled until she looked at Macao and just looked at him in silence and closes her eyes and sighs like she just gave up
"A-At least say something!" Macao cried out getting a laugh out of the royal guard, the one that was having the most fun was Pitou they were rolling on the ground out of laughter
"You guys get in so much trouble…" Erza said giving a quick glance at the laughing ants and then put a hand on her forehead "However I have a lot on my mind today so instead I'll just love on and say no more" the ant sighed in disappointment, the fun was over
"So is Natsu and Gray here at least?" Erza asked
"Yes they are" Mira answered
"Aye" Happy said
"W-were right here Erza… G-great friends as usual…! Haha" Gray said with one of his arms around Natsu's shoulder while they did fist bumps with the other arms, and that just made the royal guard laugh again with Pitou having the time of her life
"Is good to see you two getting along, I understand that it is natural for friends to fight sometimes however I do like to see you two getting along so well" Erza said only making the royal guard laugh more
"W-were still on the best of terms!" Gray said
"A-aye" Natsu said
"I've never seen Natsu act like Happy before," Lucy said in shock
"Never did I but I love it," Pitou said trying to stop laughing
"A few years ago Natsu challenged Erza to a fight but he ended up losing badly," Mira said
"Don't forget the time she related up Gray for walking in town wearing only his underwear" Macao said
"And then there was the time when Loke got punched in the face after he tried to flirt with her," Wakaba said
"Weird that he never tried to flirt with you Pitou," Youpi said
"He isn't brave enough to come near me after what I did in the fight against Natsu," Pitou said regaining her composure
"Natsu, Gray I need a favor from the two of you, as I was returning I overheard a conversation that ended up with things going wrong, I originally hoped to speak to the master but since he's not here and time is an essence I need the help from you two," Erza said making Pitou perk up and look at Erza and then at Meruem
"You have my permission," Meruem said while playing gungi with Komugi not caring what Erza was saying
Pitou gave a little hop of joy completely ignoring the worry of the other member that knew Erza about how dangerous this could be, Pitou just appeared behind Erza without any warning or even being detected
"I except you two at the train station tomorrow morning," Erza said turning around and looking straight a Pitou startling the scarlet hair mage a little
"Will do Erza," Pitou said nonchalantly
"What?" Erza said puzzled
"I will be at the train station by tomorrow morning," Pitou said
"No you won't, this is a really dangerous and important mission!" Erza said
"I terrorized this entire guild just with my aura I'm pretty sure I can handle whatever is going on, also it looks like fun" Pitou said lying a little bit, she wasn't wrong but she technically used her hatsu to scare them
"Still…" Erza was about to say something but was interrupted by Pitou
"Too late," Pitou said disappearing
"Where did they go?" Erza asked looking around
"They just got in the room" Meruem said not taking his eyes out of the game
Pitou peeked through the door while everyone looked at her
"I'm still going," Pitou said
"Ugh fine," Erza said realizing they were coming either way and walking out of the guildhall
"Natsu, Gray, Erza, and Pitou… that just might be the strongest team in Fairy Tail," Mira said making the royal guard laugh a little, the strongest team would be of course them and the king in their eyes
"Eh?" Lucy said staring at the door in shock "the strongest team?"
The other members were just looking at Pitou in shock that they just inserted themselves into the mission
"Lucy, can you do me a favor? Can you go and make sure that Natsu and Gray behave while Erza and Pitou aren't around?" Mira asked kindly
"Sure thing Mira," Lucy said
The next at the train station
"The train station is very peaceful in the morning," Lucy thought
The wind was blowing and a beautiful sun was shining, it was an incredible day for Lucy
"What a lovely day," she said before she heard Natsu's voice
"This sucks why do I have to be stuck with you!?" Natsu said while he growled angrily at Gray
For Lucy
"Hey, that's my line! If Erza wanted help, I could handle this myself!" Gray respond with the same energy
"Can you two keep it down you've been doing this for fifteen minutes" Pitou said stretching herself like a cat
"That's Gray and Natsu for Ya," Happy said eating a fish while Lucy sat beside them
"I hope Erza doesn't take long I'm already getting bored," Pitou said yawning
"You get bored pretty easily don't you?" Lucy said
"Yeah but I'm sure I will have some fun coming from this, and maybe I'll see you not being useless," Pitou said patting Lucy on the head and making Happy snort
"These damn cats!" Lucy thought "I can fight!" She said
"Of course you can," Pitou said
Just before she could answer Erza's voice was heard
"I'm sorry for making you wait so long for me," she said
All of them turn around and see Erza along with a giant cart carrying a bunch of her belongings
"Holy" Pitou thought
"That's… a lot of things," Lucy said starting in shock at Erza's cart full of things
"I'm sorry for how I acted towards you yesterday, I was really stressed and I shouldn't have talked like that to a new member," Erza said bowing a little towards Pitou
"Don't worry" Pitou said waving her hand
"And are you also a new member? I saw you at the guildhall yesterday." Erza said now looking at Lucy
"Ah yes, my name is Lucy, and this one is Pitou if you didn't know, Mira asked me to come," Lucy said
"I'm Erza Scarlet, your name sounds familiar I overheard people saying you beat a mercenaries gorilla," Erza said
"Oh wow" Pitou was a little surprised Lucy could actually fight and not just stand around yelling one thing
"Not really… Natsu did most of the work and he wasn't even an ape or a mercenary, it was just a Vulcan possessing Macao" Lucy muttered
"And as you said terrorized the entire guild just with your aura right?" Erza said looking at Pitou
"Yeah, I can do it again right now if you want," Pitou said wanting to see if Erza could resist hatsu
"No need, with that level of strength you are indeed a fit for this mission since what we are doing, is quite risky," Erza said
"R-risky?" Lucy said a little bit scared
And then Pitou tuned out and started to look around the place, she could see some birds, and then she looked at Natsu he was talking to Erza, they heard something about a rematch but didn't really cared and just followed everyone on the train and was brought back to reality after Natsu screamed
"NOOOOO!!!"
"What is his problem?" Pitou thought annoyed