Hey guys! I was going to post this chapter yesterday and since this one seems so short I'm posting another one today too. Everything's been going fine, this weekend was crazy because apparently Saturday gymnastics meets are a thing now so that's going to suck. I'll definitely try to post a lot more over Christmas break unless my teachers decide to punish me for my sins with homework. Hope you guys like this chapter and thank you so much for all of the favorites, follows, and reviews. I honestly didn't expect this to be popular.

Gray's POV

September first rolled around soon enough. Things hadn't died down at the Order's headquarters though. There were still arguments everyday and we came dangerously close to using our magic on more than one occasion. "How are we getting to the train station?" Erza asked the adults.

"Please no cars, please no cars," Natsu was fervently praying under his breath. I rolled my eyes at my frenemy's hatred for anything that moved, with the exception of the exceeds.

"Nope we're walking," the auror Tonks said. Natsu cheered in happiness. "But you do get to the school by train," Tonks added as an afterthought. Natsu's face turned pale green at the very thought.

"It's ok Natsu, I can use troia," Wendy comforted.

I laughed at his weakness at the slightest mention of transportation. "You wanna go droopy eyes?" he challenged his energy revived at the idea of a fight.

"Not now Natsu," Lucy hissed. "We need to get to the train station so we don't miss the train to school."

"No we don't, we can walk there," Natsu desperately argued. The celestial mage threw her hands in the air.

"Like the time you wanted to swim out to Galuna Island?" He nodded enthusiastically remembering the second quest the four of us had gone on together. Evelyn hadn't been with us; instead she was doing a mission with Levy, Jet, and Droy.

"You still haven't gotten lectured about it," Erza grumbled.

"Wait, what happened?" Wendy inquired. She had joined Fairy Tail months after that event occurred and she joined when mages could go on S-class missions as long as they had an S-class wizard with them.

"Natsu had the brilliant idea to go and do an S-class mission without any permission or checking to see if an S-class wizard would come with us," Lucy narrated. "And it was against the rules at the time for anyone other than S-class wizards to do those quests."

"That does sound like something Natsu would do," Wendy shook her head laughing.

Charle sighed, "I'm amazed you haven't gotten killed boy."

"Believe me, I've been wondering that too," Evelyn confided loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Evie do you have that little faith in your brother?" the boy in question wheedled, trying to earn praise from her.

"What kind of mission?" Harry asked curiously, ignoring the argument the two siblings were getting in.

"Our school lets us go out and practice using magic in the real world. We get to do jobs for people that need help and in return we get money and experience," I described; the wizards' eyes widened in amazement.

"That's so cool!" Ron exclaimed. "I wish they let us do that at Hogwarts. The closest we come to practicing magic for the real world is practicing spells in class."

"It seems dangerous," Hermione commented, "but it's nice that you get to use magic in real life situations."

"Except when Natsu goes overboard and destroys half a town so we don't get the full payment," Lucy muttered, resentful over the millions of jewels Natsu's destructive tendencies had caused her to lose.

"But we always got your rent paid right Lucy?" Happy pointed out cheerfully while Natsu was walking with his hands behind his head, his confrontation with Evie finished.

"Yeah, if you didn't have a place to live we couldn't hang out anymore!" the pinkette observed.

"You have a house!" Lucy reminded him but the dragonslayer just shrugged it off.

"Wait how do you hide your magic from muggles?" Hermione asked suspiciously.

"We don't," Gajeel answered shortly.

"But why? Isn't that against the rules?" Hermione questioned.

"We've told you, it's different where we live," I supported Gajeel's answer. Hermione didn't seem convinced but she dropped the topic.

When we got to the train station we stared looking for the sign that said Platform 9 3/4. "Oh yes, that's right," Ms. Weasley exclaimed. "You don't know how to get to the platform. Just run straight through the column between platforms nine and ten." We all stared at her as if she was crazy. "Here watch Harry and Ron." We turned to watch the two wizards run and disappear before they hit the column.

All of us seemed to reach a silent agreement about who should go first. "Natsu can go first," Erza ordered. The fire mage laughed.

"Ok I'm all fired up!" he proclaimed while several of us groaned at his catchphrase. He ran through with his stuff before disappearing from view.

"I'll go next," the celestial mage volunteered as she followed him. After all of us reached the station we saw a gleaming, red scarlet train that was being swarmed by hundreds of people. Parents were talking to their kids through open windows while younger kids looked like a combination of being scared and excited.

"Put your stuff in the back of the train and then we can all go get a compartment together," Harry offered. Erza was reluctant to part with her oversized wagon of luggage but she was persuaded to eventually. Harry's best friends were standing there awkwardly.

"Harry, Ron and I are supposed to go into the prefect carriage," Hermione stammered. Harry looked away dejectedly.

"Oh right, see you later then."

"Come on lets go find a carriage," Lucy coaxed Harry to break out of his melancholic state. Once we were all crammed into one, no one was looking happy at the prospect of being in a compartment with a motion-sick Natsu, Evelyn and Gajeel for eight hours. The train lurched as it started to roll out of the station, the pinkette's face had already turned green.

There was a knock as Ginny and two more people we hadn't met spilled into the compartment taking up the remaining room.

"Hi Harry," Ginny greeted. "Do you mind if we're sitting here?" When the lightning shape scarred boy shook his head Ginny continued introductions.

"Luna!" Lucy screeched rushing to greet the life-force mage. Luna wasn't much of a fighter, but she did a lot of support magic like replenishing magic or physical energy. If she was forced to fight she could drain an enemy's magic energy. The two blondes hugged after being separated for so long.

"You know them?" Ginny asked, surprised. Luna nodded and greeted all of them but sent a questioning glance.

"I went to Fairy Tail before transferring to start school at Hogwarts," Luna simplified the story, stretching the truth only a little bit. She sat down next to Lisanna and started talking excitedly about something.