WOAH, so this is way longer than I originally thought... being a little less than 1K words. Not long but a good deal more than I planned. So this ended up being so long because I started the scene and couldn't find a perfect stopping point until I finished the manga and was like, Well that is actually good. I can't take credit from almost all of the dialogue in here and the manga debut chapter is 458 (I think?) Soooo yeah.

See ya at the bottom for an announcement!

~ Diana

Cold air. That's what Sting felt at first. Just cold air. Not that that was a bad thing after a fight. The Fiore Citizens had been hunted down and brought to justice or killed directly after the Grand Magic Games had ended. He had visited Lyra and told her so. She didn't reply, but he could imagine it. She would have laughed and make a cheeky reply about him and Rogue needing help from Orga and/or Rufus. He would have called her Witch Hunter and she would have called him Dragon Slayer. Lector would have pissed her off and she would have yelled at him before cuddling Frosch.

He missed her.

They both did.

"Hey Lyra, thought you would find this funny. You too Rogue," he said, sitting on her tombstone. Now that he had begun speaking to her, the air didn't seem so cold. He felt like this was the closest he could ever get to her again. Rogue refused to sit next to him so he stood next to her grave, thinking. Sting was the only one who would talk to her, at least out loud. "Apparently they've come back."

"What are you talking about?" Rogue asked.

"The core members of Fairy Tail who disappeared seven years ago."

"I'm not interested."

"Don't lie to me, Rogue." Sting said as he surveyed the field of injured Dark Guild members before them. "Especially when you looked up to Natsu all those years ago." I wonder if Lyra did too? Sting thought. He quickly perished it because of the absurdity. Nah, Lyra didn't look up to anyone. She didn't need to. Especially not those Fairy Twerps.

"That was a long time ago." Rogue responded.

"Man, taking about seven years ago really makes me nostalgic… I was so small back then." You would have liked me, Lyra. Rogue was tiny too. "You were Gajeel's apprentice back then, right? Man… Gajeel was really scary."

"Don't cling to the past, Sting." Don't cling to Lyra. "Those people were not there on the path we took." But she was, at least for part of it.

Someone comes running past his unconscious Guildmates. "I FOUND YOU!" He shouted. He nocked an arrow. "DIE!" Sting caught it, and munched on it while he thought. "He ate…" the man seemed at a loss for words. "the arrow… huh? No way! He can't be!" But he was. Sting let out a spell and the man fell to the ground from shock. Lyra would have done it with more finesse.

"Ooh, you let your bad side slip out a bit, didn't ya?"

"YOU'RE THEM! THE TWIN DRAGONS OF SABERTOOTH!" The member shouted.

"Are you going to abandon your comrades? You're really scum." Sting said as he lazily stood and walked over to the man. The man screamed and ran.

"They're a dark guild after all." Rogue commented. Even though Sabertooth did the same to Lyra.

"Uh-oh." Lector said to Frosch. "Sting really over did it again, didn't he?"

"Where did Lector and Frosch go?" Sting asked, he couldn't see them from where he stood.

The Exceeds walked towards their friends. "We were just doing a bit of reconassince. It's the fire dragon and the iron dragon… and we won't be second best to the sky dragon-" Lector informed the duo.

"Fro think so too!" Frosch said helpfully.

I bet Lyra would have loved to see us take them down. Lector thought as he glanced over where her resting place lay. He high-fived his friend.

"Right?" Sting asked.

"After all, you're the most powerful Dragon Slayer, Sting!"

"I think as of now, I would definitely be able to beat Natsu."

"Yeah, of course you would!" Lector encouraged.

"Wanna go have a duel with him? Rogue?"

"Not interested." The Shadow Dragon Slayer rejected. They walked away. Soon they would be back in the Games. And they'd win again. Or at least, they'd try.

"Fro think so too!"

First off, I would like to thank everyone for reading and those who favorited/commented/reviewed/followed, everyone gets a bit shout-out and thank you.

ANNOUNCEMENT TIME

So if anyone is interested, I am actually writing a GaLe/Gajeevy story which will include NaLu, slight JerZa and slight GrUvia. The first chapter should be uploaded before September 1, but I'm horrible with schedules. It's a Modern Day/High School AU so please check it out! I don't know what I'm rating it yet or naming it (gotta figure that out) but I'm figuring for rating probably T or M if it gets there. Of course there will be minor abuse (because Gajeel and Levy), foul language (because Gajeel), and possibly other stuff.

I love you all and hope you have great lives!

XOXO

~ Diana