Sorry about the fight. I'm disappointed with myself. I guess I'm just not good when it's not a serious battle - if it's friendly fire, I seem to have issues with it.

Also, don't get your hopes up, this is mostly filler. Real stuff starts up next chapter.

Chapter Fifty One - The End of X774

So, something I should have seen coming…

While Older!Juvia appreciated Gray's nakedness, Young!Juvia did not.

At all.

"Boys, put your clothes on!" Ur yelled.

Silver sighed, looking at his son. "I still don't understand how he picked up that habit. How does he do it without realizing it?"

Ultear just sighed, before turning back to Makarov and moving the back of her shirt (causing a bit of a panic before people realized she wasn't stripping on purpose). "I want my guildmark on my back, just like Nee-san's!"

Now it's just a circle, considering that I got the idea of my placement kinda from Ultear…though I suppose that the first time around she did it so she could hide Grimoire Heart's guildmark, since it was a dark guild.

Gray and Lyon both got theirs on their chests (since their shirts were already off, anyway), and Silver got his on his arm. Ur got hers on her stomach.

"So, tell me about your magic!" Makarov said.

The entire guild (not being the messy thing it became once Natsu joined, though still rowdy in its own right) settled down to hear everyone's explanations.

Especially since I was the one bringing them in.

Apparently I now have something of a reputation among the older mages.

Ur started. "My name is Ur Milkovich, and I practice Maker Magic. So do the boys; this is Gray Fullbuster and Lyon Vastia. All five of us specialize in Ice. My daughter,-"

"I'm Ultear!" Ultear piped up. "And I can do Maker Magic, too. But ever since Nee-san helped me unlock it, I've been practicing with something called Arc of Time."

Makarov's expression didn't change, but his eye began to twitch.

Silver was last. "I'm Silver, I'm Gray's dad. And I practice Devil Slaying Magic."

And…Makarov lost it, and passed out, falling off the table.

Silence for a bit.

"Is he alright?" Ur asked, the five of them staring at Makarov in shock.

"He'll be fine," I said dismissively. "Now, let's celebrate our new guild members!"

The guild went up in cheers and people began to break out the booze, despite it still being morning.

"Wait!" I shouted.

Everyone halted.

I turned to the ice group. "Ur, how would you like to battle one of our mages? I'm interested in seeing which one of you is more powerful."

Ur paused and shrugged. "Sure."

"Everyone, to the training grounds!" I shouted.

Cheers went up again, and all of us marched outside (most people with liquor in their hands). Ur was positioned on one side of the field. "Who do I have the pleasure of fighting?"

I pointed at Gildarts. "This is Gildarts Clive. He practices Crash Magic. He's also known as the Ace of Fairy Tail."

Gildarts sighed and stepped forward. "A little more warning would be appreciated, next time, Elle."

I shrugged it off. "There probably won't be a next time. I don't think I'd put anyone else up against you, except maybe Brandish and one other kid when they get older."

Even still, I'm pretty sure that Gildarts could beat Jellal, hands down.

"You're a Crash Mage?" Ur asked. "Maybe we should put down some sort of barrier to stop the damage."

I nodded. "Great idea, Ur. But we actually already have some runes down!"

After my second fight with Gildarts, I asked Freed to put up regular runes to help stop damage from getting too expansive, and to also set everything back to rights when the battle is finished.

"Whoo! Go Dad!" Cana shouted.

Lyon snorted. "Ur is the strongest wizard alive! She'll kick your dad's ass!"

"Ur is pretty strong…" Gray muttered. He turned to Cana. "What's your name?"

"Cana. I specialize in Card Magic," Cana said.

"Cool," Gray offered.

After many, many beat downs from me and Laxus, as well as scoldings from Ur and Silver, Gray stopped being a stupid cocky child and seemed to be getting a bit better.

Lyon was still a sassy ass, though.

"What's going on?" asked Makarov, having awoken and joined us outside.

"Ur and Gildarts are fighting," I told him.

"Are you sure that's wise?" he asked.

"Nope," I said. "But I'm not actually sure which one will win, and I want to find out."

He blinked, before thinking and quietly saying, "Ur died last time, didn't she? I remember you mentioning wanting to save some powerful wizards."

"Yeah," I muttered. "I'm just glad I was able to help, especially since I reunited her and Ultear."

"Arc of Time…and Devil Slaying Magic?" he asked, turning to me. "Are there any other Lost Magics we'll end up getting?"

"We'll be getting several more Dragon Slayers," I said. "Also, some God Slayers will probably start surfacing, soon, and the Celestial Spirits have asked that I reintroduce the Priestesses of the Moon. And there will be a few more Arcs, as well."

"How many of these were in the last timeline?" Makarov asked.

"The Dragon Slayers and God Slayers, and the Arcs. There was only one Devil Slayer in the end, though, which I know of."

"Gray, your clothes," Cana pointed out.

"Gray!" Ur yelled, while Lyon laughed at him and pointed, which didn't have the same effect because –

"Lyon, yours disappeared too," Cana said.

The boys yelled and scrambled to get their clothes back on.

I sighed. Maybe we need to glue the clothes on, or something?

Was that a thing?

It should be a thing.

"Are you both ready?" Makarov asked.

Ur and Gildarts nodded.

"Get set," Makarov said.

They both tensed and began to build up their magic.

"BEGIN!" Makarov yelled, and their magical pressures increased.

"Ice Make: Rosen Krone," Ur shouted, and large roses sprouted across the field, rushing at Gildarts, who easily dispelled them with a wave of his hand.

"Wha-?" Lyon started.

"It's called Crash Magic, what did you think it would do?" Cana asked.

"All Crush," Gildarts intoned, and a strong beam of light went straight for Ur, who not only got up a shield, but held.

"No way!" Cana yelled.

"Impressive," Makarov murmured. "I don't think I've ever seen someone block something other than a basic attack from him."

"Yo, guys, I want to see you get serious!" I yelled.

They both looked at me, smiling a little. "Shall we?" Ur asked.

Gildarts smirked. "Why the hell not?"

"Oh my god, Dad. Are you flirting?" Cana yelled.

The two ignored Cana and raised their magical pressure.

I sighed as the ground began to vibrate and other mages started to have trouble standing. Something told me we wouldn't get to finish this fight.

"Ice Make; Volcano!" Ur shouted.

"Crushing Evil, Spreading the Truth; Empyrean!" Gildarts shouted.

Ur's Volcano is supposed to be a lot like Gray's Geyser, except on a much stronger and higher level. Gildarts's spell is supposed to negate an opponent's spell and then hit them with Crash Magic. That didn't happen. Instead, there was a resulting explosion that ended with both mages getting flown backwards and a variety of ice shards, steam, and snow exploding within the battlefield.

When everything died down, both mages were lying on the ground, and while both were clearly conscious, I decided that we should probably stop this before things get worse and we can put up more security and safety measures.

Like three or four more rune barriers.

Or maybe ten.

"Alright, I think that's enough for today," I said, sighing. "Why don't we go back to celebrating?"

There was shouting and cheers from the guild as they went back inside (as well as some disappointed murmurings), and Ur and Gildarts, despite being extremely scratched up, went in merrily, happily talking with each other.

I think Silver looked a little jealous, though I could just be imagining it...

And at the end, Ultear hung back a bit the whole time, looking around at everyone and smiling widely.

"Elle, we need to talk," Makarov said seriously.

"What's up?" I asked.

"My office," he said.

I followed him upstairs and he closed the door behind us, the runes on the wall and floor springing up.

"It stops sound," Makarov said, looking at my gaze.

I nodded. "Smart." I glared at him. "It also means you have no excuse for not doing paperwork."

He glanced at a drawer which I'm about 98% positive was filled with pornography, before changing the subject. "I finished going through those items."

Items? What items?...Oh.

To tell you the truth I had nearly forgotten about those.

Makarov pulled out the box and placed it on the table. "These are all clear. Though we were a bit confused on some of the items, so we might have taken a bit longer than we expected. And then you were gone for so long…"

I nodded. "Yeah. Thank you."

"Do you have anything else you're unsure of?" Makarov asked.

I paused, thinking, before requipping one thing. I held out the snake pendant I had found. "I've classified everything by what it is, including what it does if it has a magical signature. But I've been unable to figure out what this is. Or well…what it does."

Makarov nodded, taking it from me. "Yes, this won't take too long." He paused and looked at me. "One more thing. The S-Class trials…"

I nodded. "Ur could probably jump straight up to SS Class, along with Gildarts."

Makarov nodded. "As for this timeline, measuring everyone's magical abilities…I'm thinking that we should update it once a year, around now."

"Right before the trials?" I asked. "Yeah, that makes sense."

"Alright," Makarov said. "Now let's go enjoy the party."

After the party I added our new members to the board. For the last timeline, I put Ur and Silver down in the Wizard Saint Category. We never really got to see Silver fight at his full potential (because he wanted to die) but I think he was pretty damn powerful.

And if I'm stretching it a bit, he's just going to have to try a bit harder, isn't he?

Gray was stronger than Lyon in the end (which made Lyon throw a fit when he saw the board) so I put Gray in the low SS Category and Lyon in low S Class. Ultear, I put in high S Class.

On the current chart, I put Ur in the Wizard Saint Category (and she was joined by Gildarts, who moved out of the SS Category). Silver was a high B. Gray and Lyon were both low Bs and Ultear was a high B.

As for everyone else…lots of people moved up at least a bit on their level, some jumping to other letters. Brandish probably had the best improvement, followed by Macao and Wakaba, who were both clear into the A category (probably trying for S Class nominations this year).

In the end it looked something like this:

On the previous timeline –

In the Wizard Saint Category was Makarov, Ur, Brandish, Gildarts, and Laxus. Silver was in the lower half of the category.

Cana had high SS and Gray had low SS. Ultear had high S Class, Lucy and Erigor were in the middle, and Juvia, Freed and Lyon were in low S Class.

Bickslow and Evergreen were in the A Class, with Evergreen a bit lower than Bickslow.

Levy was high B Class, with Macao and Wakaba in the middle, and Nab in high C class, with Reedus.

This time around, though, after updating everyone's abilities and conferencing with most of the older mages...

In Wizard Saint, Makarov. Ur and Gildarts were hovering on the border between High SS and Wizard Saint.

The SS Class was empty, and S Class only had Lucy, on the lowest level.

Laxus and I were high A Class, and Macao was in the middle. Wakaba, Erigor and Cana were all low A Class.

Silver, Juvia and Brandish were high B Class, and Ultear, Levy, Freed and Enno were in the middle. Gray, Lyon and Evergreen were in the lower B Class.

Bickslow was in high C Class, almost at B Class - the thing needed to push him over were more souls. And underneath him was Reedus and Nab.

Taking a step back, I looked at my work. It was amazing to see how quickly we were catching up, especially since we were still a decade before the story began.

Over a week passed before I realized that I hadn't seen Juvia; in fact, she had slipped into the crowd when Ultear was getting her guildmark.

Which lead to me practically breaking down her door at Fairy Hills.

"Juvia!" I shrieked.

She looked up from where she was sitting. "Onee-sama?"

"What are you doing?" I asked, calming as I realized that this was not an emergency. "I panicked, Juvia. I haven't seen you in days!"

She jumped off her bed and hugged me. "I'm sorry Onee-sama. But I've been hiding..."

I pulled out of the hug to look at her. "Hiding? From what?"

"Perverts."

I sighed. "Alright, listen, remember when I first brought you to the guild? And I talked about acceptance, and your water body?"

She nodded.

"Magic makes people do weird things," I said. "Gray and Lyon are ice wizards, and feel better when they aren't wearing clothing, because it lowers their body temperature. Because of this, they even do it subconsciously."

"What's that mean?" she asked, cocking her head.

"Subconsciously?" I repeated. She nodded. "Well, your subconscious is part of your mind that you don't think of, but memories and information go. It stores things in a separate part of your mind, and it slowly influences you. So the boys don't actually realize what it is they're doing."

"So it's leaking?"

I blinked. "Yeah, I guess you could say that. The information leaks into your normal functions and mind."

I shook my head, and continued. "As I said, Gray and Lyon don't even realize they're stripping, half the time."

"But the other ones don't strip!" Juvia cried.

"Ur strips when she's particularly practicing her Ice Magic, and I honestly don't know why Ultear wasn't affected. Maybe because her Arc of Time magic balances it out, or something...I don't know. And as for Silver, he trained his magic differently. I'm not quite sure what it is that he did, but Silver didn't learn to strip down to use his magic."

Juvia was quiet, thinking. "So...it's like with my water body?..."

"Kind of," I said gently. "It's something that can't really be helped for them. Though we're going to try. You haven't been around lately, but Laxus started shocking them whenever their clothes came off."

"Is it working?" Juvia asked.

"No," I said, shaking my head. "He's not doing it anymore, he was tired of doing it so often. Instead, Cana made some cards to monitor them, and whenever the clothes come off, it gives them a shock. At the very least, they know when their clothes are off, now."

Juvia giggled.

"Come on, we've missed you." I pulled her up, and she came along easily, going down to the guild with me.

The rest of the year passed pretty easily.

Juvia spent a lot of the time inching around the boys, occasionally letting out squeaks and shrieks when their clothes disappeared. Cana, Freed and Levy sat down, trying to find a way to write runes into their clothes or something to keep the clothes on (though I told them that if they willingly want to take them off, they should be able to, as it helps their fighting).

As far as I know, though, there is no progress on that front.

Also, Cana's electric cards were working for now, but we found out that eventually, after a few days, they seemed to stop working. They weren't sure of why that happened either, especially since all of the other cards we monitored were just fine.

Laxus had his fourteenth birthday (and wasn't that an odd thought) and Porlyusica finally told him the truth about his heritage.

Laxus, as I had guessed, was merely mad that she kept it a secret for so long.

But they got over it.

Wakaba's birthday was celebrated, too, and then I got a surprise visit.

"Hey, Elle."

I will admit…I nearly punched him in the face.

"Phoenix, don't sneak up on me like that!" I snapped at him, before pausing. "Phoenix… Phoenix!"

I jumped at him, hugging him. "I'm so glad you're all better!"

"So am I!" he joked.

I really did hit him, this time.

"So what happened with that guy, anyway?" Phoenix asked.

"Zeref?" I asked. I paused. "You know, I don't actually know. And I haven't seen Mavis in awhile, either…"

"I wasn't really able to find anything in the Celestial Library, even though Crux and I both searched it," he sighed. "Any luck on your end?"

I hmmed. "I think so. But I'm gonna need your help with something else, first. And it's not really the best solution…but it will work for now."

Before the end of November, Erigor told me that he wanted to move out. He had been saving up all of his money, and he had also found a good place to rent out.

"That's fine," I said, and though I would get lonely, it was. Though I wasn't that surprised. After all, Erigor had had the place to himself for over six months, and probably wants more privacy now that he's had his first taste of it.

He talked it over with the landlord and decided to move in on the first of January, as a birthday present to himself.

Which reminded me that Erigor was turning seventeen soon, and he would be the same age as Lucy and Natsu (sorta) when the series started.

That's a bit of a scary thought.

The S Class trials came and went, leaving both Ur and Gildarts declared as official SS Class, and leaving Erigor and Macao disappointed over their loss - especially since, if they had passed the test, they would have become S Class, despite Ur's elevation.

Laxus, oddly enough, denied the opportunity for the test, claiming he wasn't ready, and that he refused to participate in the trials until his name was clearly in the S Class category on the current timeline chart.

Which brought tears to Makarov's eyes, and caused a whole mess of annoying blubbering.

December came and Erigor's birthday passed, which he also decided to celebrate (and cheer himself up) by taking on his first solo mission.

After reminding him for the fifth time to be careful, he pointing out that I had a card that registered his location and his vitals, and that he would be fine.

And he was fine.

Then Levy decided that she wanted to take a small solo mission the town over decoding a small tablet, and we changed the rule. If there was fighting involved, no solo missions until you were over sixteen. But simple jobs were fine, as long as they weren't overnight.

And then, finally, it was Christmas.

So...sorry about the chapter. I know you guys all probably wanted something more, but this was all I was able to do for this week, because I'm moving up to the college this weekend. I probably won't be able to post the next chapter until late next week. Sorry about that.

Also, I'm sorry about the psychology stuff. Like with Elle's kleptomania, it wasn't planned, it just sort of happened.

I had a sugar high the other day (she was also sleep deprived) and was trying to explain the subconscious and I kinda just ended up with 'it's leaking guys ...leaking'.

And it kinda ended up in here when I wasn't paying attention.