Italics indicate thinking.

Bold is for attacks.

Kanji's POV

After we got back to the guild, we had a nice party to celebrate our defeat of the Oracion Seis. Lucy's been working on getting Michelle acclimatized to a normal life. The girl still has the power to shift into her Imitatia outfit and control vines with it.

After the legion departed, we got back to a normal routine.

"What's this about Sabertooth?" Natsu asked.

"They're the strongest guild in Fiore." Romeo explained.

"They only became strong after you all disappeared." Carole added.

"They have six incredibly powerful mages." Max said "That's how they got so strong."

"Where are we ranked?" Wendy asked.

"Dead last."

"Weakest guild in the country." Carole nodded.

"Alright!" Natsu yelled "That'll just make it more fun to climb back to the top!"

"Natsu right, it'll only make the story better." I said

"You're all as optimistic as ever." Michelle said.

She had started dressing more casually like Lucy, she even got her guild mark on her hand like Lucy. So now she was wearing a black shirt and blue skirt.

"Have any of you seen Gildarts?" Cana asked.

"Why missing daddy already?" Gray joked before her noticed Lucy "…Oh sorry."

"It's fine." She smiled.

"He went to the old guild hall with Gramps." I told her.

"Sweet now I can actually do some work!" she cheered.

?'S POV

I watched as Sting blew that poor soldier away.

Poor guy was out of his league.

"Are you two boys done?" I asked playing with the sand in my hand, grains pouring through my fingers "Can we go home now?"

"What's you problem?" Sting asked "You love this kind of stuff."

"I like getting out and getting fresh air, I don't like seeing you go overboard like that."

"Stop treating him like a child." Rogue said.

"I don't treat you two boys like children."

"Go easy on the poor girl Rogue she's just looking for an excuse to vent her frustrations about her crush coming back to life."

"Kanji is no my crush." I said "You know that I prefer a different type."

"Oh we know what you prefer." Sting smirked.

"See, it's attitudes like yours that make it so I can't stand men. Go get your cats so we can go home."

"Jeez Di lighten up."

"It's Diana!" I yelled.

I pushed my green and brown hair out of my eyes and trudged off "Those two idiots…Why did I even become friends with them in the first place."

This is what I get for joining Sabertooth instead of Fairy Tail.

Kanji's POV

Gramps assembled the whole guild for a meeting.

"Long story short I'm retiring." He said.

Finally calling it quits huh.

"So here is the fifth master of Fairy Tail…"

There's no fricken way it's me.

"Gildarts Clive."

"That's just Mira old man." I told him.

"Hi!" she waved.

"Where's Gildarts?!"

"He left you a letter" she said.

Gildarts Letter said that he didn't want to be master.

"But before I give up the title there a few things I want to do."

"First- Laxus is a member of Fairy Tail again."

I smiled at that first on "Thanks old man…"

Erza leaned over "Do you think he can get money and move out now?"

I laughed "Who knows."

"Second-I nominate Makarov Dreyer as Sixth Master."

"AGAIN?!"

"It's fate old man!" I yelled over the laughter "You'll never get out of this job."

Gildarts final message was that upon his return in the future we reclaim the title of strongest guild in Fiore.

"My final task huh?! That I'll be master of this gild till the day I die!"

We had a party to celebrate a new day for the guild.

"How are we supposed to be the strongest?" Kage asked "If Saber and Lamia Scale are so strong it'll take forever, not to mention most of us are seven years behind them."

"There's only one way for us to become number one in a short amount of time." Romeo said.

"How?" I asked.

"No way! We're never participating in that again." Macao told him.

"What are you talking about?" Gramps asked.

"We can do it we've got everybody back!" Carole said "I'm with Romeo."

Natsu's group came back from their excursion in the forest.

"Anyone who doesn't want to participate raise your hand." Macao said.

Anyone who hadn't gotten stuck on Tenrou raised their hand.

"Can someone please explain what we're talking about?" Michelle asked.

"While everyone was gone an annual festival started to determine the number one guild in the land. All the guilds compete to show their strength. It's called the Grand Magic Games." Romeo explained.

"Sounds like a blast." I said.

"If we win we'll jump right to the top." Erza said.

"Talk about a shortcut." Kage smirked "Why not use it?"

"The winning guild gets 30,000,000 jewels in prize money." Carol said.

"We're in!" Gramps yelled.

"When's it starting?" Natsu asked.

"Three mouths." Romeo said.

"That's plenty of time. We'll be back in fighting shape by then." Natsu said.

"We'll be number one in no time." Gray said.

"We can accomplish anything." Erza said.

"We'll show them all just how strong we are." I added.

"YEAH!"

We had a big party to celebrate our decision to enter the games.

LATER

The party the night before was loud and rowdy. Erza and I had gone home fairly early but the party was still raging when we left.

"Morning." I mumbled to Erza as I got out of bed.

"You're getting up?" she asked.

"Going to the bathroom, then I'll start breakfast." I told her.

I slinked down the hall way and opened the door. I blinked a few time and stared at the woman in my bathroom.

"Uh…" Mira said.

She was looking in the mirror just wearing a tee-shirt.

I just closed the door and turned around. I crawled back into bed next to Erza.

"I thought you were getting up?" she said.

"I just had the funniest dream." I said "Mira was half naked in our bathroom."

"Is that so…Wait What?!" Erza said sitting up in bed.

"At least I think it was a dream." I said scratching my head.

"Why are you dreaming about Mira?!" she yelled.

The door to our bedroom opened.

"This isn't what it looks like!" Mira yelled.

"What the hell's all that noise?!" Laxus yelled.

"Everyone in the kitchen now!" I yelled.

The four of us all took a seat at the table.

"I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say Mira came back here last night? And I wager you brought her here." I said giving my brother a look.

"I just woke up in his bed." Mira said "I don't remember much."

"I remember plenty." Laxus smirked.

"Ewww!" Erza yelled "Just ewww. Really Mira?"

"It was an accident." She said.

I let out a sigh "Let's just pretend this never happened.

"Agreed." We all said.

LATER

When we broke into groups to train I opted to go with Laxus' group instead of Erza's

"You're sure you don't want to come?" she said.

"It'll be better for me and Laxus to work on our magic together. You'll be fine by yourself. You guys have a lot of work, training yourselves and helping Michelle control her powers, it'll be best if I let you guys work alone."

"Yeah." she said hugging me "I'll miss you."

We had a long kiss "I'll miss you too."

"Let's go!" Laxus yelled.

Erza gave me one more kiss "I love you."

"Love you too." I said holding her as long as I could "I have to go Erza."

She held me tightly "Don't do anything stupid okay."

"Same goes for you." I said "You have fun."

"Bye love." She said kissing me.

"See you in three mouths." I said.

"Come on!" Laxus yelled grabbing me and dragging me off "You'll see her soon enough."

"Why don't you go with Mira's group?" I smirked

"Shut it brat! That was a one time thing!"

Near the end of training.

I was sitting around the fire watching the embers crackle.

"What are you doing?" Ever asked.

"Sitting around." I told her.

"How exciting." She said "Hear anything from Erza?"

"No…" I told her "I'm sure she's fine they went to a beach resort."

We sat around the fire when a bird landed on Evergreen's shoulder.

"Eek! Get it off!"

"What's the problem?" Bickslow asked looking out.

"Get this thing off me!"

I whistled "Over here birdy."

The thing flew over and landed on my finger.

"You look awfully familiar." I said "Come out I know your back there!"

"Perceptive as always." The tan skinned man said stepping out of the forest.

"Who are you?" Freed said getting defensive.

"What are you doing here Harver?" I asked.

He looked similar to how he had seven years ago. He had gotten older and had grown a ponytail and a goatee aside from that he looked about the same.

"I'm here to ask a friend for a favor." He said.

"You know this guy?" Laxus asked.

"Very little."

"I'm hurt." He said "I thought we were friends. I've changed you know. I'm not with Grimoire Heart anymore. I'm with a new guild you might know some of the members."

"I have no idea what you're talking about." I told him.

"A guild meant to stop Zeref, Crime Sorciere. We only have four member and you're looking at one."

"Who are the other three?" I asked.

"Ultear, Meredy and you old pal Jellal."

"Jellal." I spat "I can't stand that guy. I heard he broke out of prison."

"Speaking of Jellal. He meant up with your friends and they agreed to look into a weird magic at the games this year. You'll help too right?"

"If Erza said yes sure I'll look into it." I shrugged.

"Something else." he said standing up "I know it's not my place but you need to keep a close eye on Erza."

"Hey watch your mouth man." Bickslow said.

"I'm only telling you because I'm your friend Kanji…Next time you see Erza you need to talk with her about Jellal. Don't end up like I did…"

"Alright thanks." I said.

"Well I gotta hit the road." He said "I'm sure we'll see each other again soon."

"Hey Harver?" I asked as he started to depart "Were you able to help that woman?"

"Not yet." he said "Maybe you were right…maybe I'm too late."

"Have some hope." I told him "I'm sure it'll work out. If you need help with it, just ask ok."

"Right." He said fixing his hat and walking away.

"You have interesting friends." Laxus said.

"Yeah…"

Erza…what was he talking about?

When the teams arrive back at the guild

"I told you we're a day late!" I yelled "Erza's group already left for the games!"

"I'm sorry alright!" Laxus yelled "Blame Freed he was the one keeping track on the time. He made us miss the train."

"Will you two knock it off?!" Gramps yelled "I called the five of you here for a reason."

Gramps explained that each guild could have two teams in the games, and he wanted us to be the B-team.

"Uhh Gramps…" I said "We need six to form a team." I told him "We've only got five here."

"I'm working on the sixth. Natsu, Erza, Gray, Lucy, Kage, and Wendy are the first team so will you lot be the second?"

"Why would we do that?" Gajeel asked.

"I don't like the idea of being the B-Team" Laxus said.

"I only want to be on a team with Gray-sama!" Juvia whined.

"How about this?" Gramps said "Losing team has to do what the winning one says."

We all had visions of making the other team do menial tasks for us.

Yes Master…what would you like Master…Take off my uniform…No not there that tickles. OH MASTER!

"Erza…In a maid outfit…" I said staring off into the light

"He stole my idea and made it naughty!" Mira whined.

"YEAH WE'LL DO IT!"

We were now the B-Team, and the next morning we headed out to the capital city of Crocus.

AN

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