On the balcony of White Eclipse, Waiston and Jaxon faced off against each other, but not for a fight. It was a different type of challenge. "Are you ready?" Jaxon asked as a cool blue light started to emit from his body. "Remember, if I can make you shiver from the cold, you lose!"

"Hah, I'm ready!" Waiston said with a confident smirk on his face. "500 jewel goes to the winner, and I'm waiting for it!"

"Heh, we'll see about that, Waiston! Here we go!" Jaxon smirked, and the around the two started to drop considerably. A normal human would be quite cold at this point, as the temperature was below thirty, but the ice dragon slayer was just fine.

"Is that all you got?" Waiston asked as he looked around, the cold temperature not affecting him in the slightest. "It's still pretty warm, if you ask me."

"I'm just getting started, Waiston." Jaxon's smirk widened slightly as the blue glow around his body brightened, lowering the temperature as a result to about zero, yet Waiston seemed fine. In fact, he let out a relaxing sigh.

"This almost reminds me of Thundra!" Waiston said with a grin, which caused Jaxon's smirk to fade. "Might as well pack up and hand me the jewel, Jaxon. The cold is my element, and there's no beating me in my element!"

"Oh yeah?!" Jaxon, determined not to lose, decreased the temperature even further, to about 70 below zero, which would've caused a normal human to probably freeze over at this point but Waiston let out a grin.

"Ahhh…now this…THIS exactly what Thundra had…this is perfect…" Waiston let out a relaxed sigh.

"I know you're not completely immune to the cold, Waiston!" Jaxon said as he lowered the temperature to negative 120. Waiston seemed fine once again, but he slowly slid his hands into his pockets this time to keep them warm.

"You sure about that?" Waiston asked, keeping the grin on his face to divert from his hands in his pockets.

Jaxon saw it though, which caused him to smirk slightly as he continued to lower the temperature, covering parts of the balcony in ice. "Positive." The temperature continued to lower, eventually reaching negative 200 degrees. Waiston was starting to feel the cold hit him pretty hard at this point, but he covered his body in icy scales, providing him some defense against the cold.

"T-This is nothing…!" Waiston said, trying his best to prevent his teeth from chattering.

"I got you now…!" Jaxon said as the temperature lowered to at least negative 300, and a few seconds after, the icy scales on Waiston's body shattered, and the ice dragon slayer began to shiver tremendously.

"G-Gah…! You win! You win!" Waiston said as his teeth chattered and his body shook.

"Haha!" Jaxon grinned, the temperature quickly returning to normal. "I win!"

"Gah…" Waiston sighed, pulling out the payment and handed it over to Jaxon. "That's some serious cold you have there, Jaxon…" Waiston then smirked slightly.

Within his tower just on the side of the guild, Takeru trained in his tower, though he wasn't using any magic. Why? Because magic would only speed up the process of the predicament Takeru created for himself, which was his 9 month life span. Takeru knew he had to tell the guild about it, but he didn't want anyone to worry about him, so he kept it to himself, and Arc didn't say a word to anyone about it. After a few hours of training, Takeru sat on his bed and sighed somewhat, but he put on a slight smile.

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Inside the now rebuilt Fairy Tail building, Gray (shirtless of course) gave a slight shiver. Such a thing caught attention from various guild members. "GRAY SHIVERED!" Happy exclaimed, pointing to the ice make mage with a shocked expression on his face.

"Yeah, so what?" Gray asked while crossing his arms.

"It means you can get cold!" Cynthia said, covering her open mouth with her hands.

"It wasn't a cold shiver!" Gray shouted.

"Then what was it?" Lucy asked curiously.

"It was…I dunno…I just had a bad feeling, that's all…" Gray said, but he gave a nonchalant shrug about it afterwards. "It was probably nothing…"

"Oh…! Oh, hey, I just remembered something…!" Cynthia said before pulling out an issue of Sorcerer's Weekly. "Did you guys hear about those two guilds popping up?!"

"Two guilds?" Natsu asked while crossing his arms.

"It's all in here!" Cynthia said as she opened up the magazine, pointing to the article about Twilight Zone and Cosmic Star. "Two new guilds!"

"…I remember him…" Erza said as she glanced at the picture of Daryan.

"Oh hey…he's the guy whose back was broken and didn't flinch after…" Lucy said as she glanced at the picture of Daryan along with Erza. "And he tried to flirt with me…" Lucy let out a sigh at the memory, shaking her head after.

"Twilight Zone?" Gray asked.

"Oh, that's where Wendy and I were before we came back. I heard their ace defeated Bluenote!" Cynthia said with a nod.

"They were very nice to treat us after our fight," Wendy said with a sweet smile.

"Their ace defeated Bluenote, eh…?" A smug grin appeared on Natsu's face as he placed a fist into an open palm confidently. "I wanna take him on!"

"…The ace is a girl, Natsu…" Cynthia said with a pale face.

"…Nani?" Natsu blinked a few times.

"I wonder about him sometimes…" Carla said with a sigh.

"Someone else defeated Bluenote, eh…?" Gildarts asked from the bar as he took a sip of his beer. He was sitting next to Makarov, Cana, and Mirajane, who was working the bar alongside Kinana.

"Yeah, I bet it would be a great fight if you two fought, Gildarts!" Cynthia nodded.

"There are a lot of SS class mages out there…" Gildarts said with a smirk. "Though, I do want a rematch with White Eclipse's Sidney before I take on anyone else."

"Keh, White Eclipse is nothing!" Natsu said with a confident grin. "We managed to keep our number one spot against them half a year ago, and we've only gotten stronger since then!"

"But…" Cynthia started as she placed her index finger on her chin, looking up slightly. "Don't they technically have more wins over us than we do them?" Cynthia's comment caused the lively guild to go silent, which made Cynthia feel like she was public enemy number one. "I'll just…slide away…" Cynthia then slid away into a corner, attempting to hide from the awkward tension she created. Wendy just went after her.

"She's right though…" Kinana said as she cleaned out a glass mug. "White Eclipse is powerful…and it's been a while since there's been any tension between us."

"We were just getting warmed up," Makarov said in a reassuring tone to those who've lost. "Next time there is a fight between the two, which is something I wouldn't normally condone, one of you will win. This goes for anyone Fairy Tail faces as well."

"Because Fairy Tail is number one!" The entire guild shouted in unison.

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In Lamia Scale's infirmary, Chelia was using her Sky God Slayer magic to heal up the injured Lyon who walked through the doors not too long ago. "Lyon-sama…you're hurt pretty bad…what happened…?"

"Tch…" Lyon clenched his fist as he thought back to the battle. "I was visiting Ur…watching the ocean when a mysterious mage appeared. He wanted to disturb her rest, and I wasn't going to allow it…but he used some weird mage and got the best of me…" Lyon sighed, and then shivered slightly after as a chill slowly crawled its way up his spine.

"Are you okay…?" Chelia asked with the upmost concern.

"Yes…I'm fine…I just had a sudden chill for some reason…" Lyon replied.

"Alright, you just stay here and rest for a little, okay?" Chelia asked, though it was more of a demand than anything. Lyon nodded, and Chelia walked out of the infirmary, only to stop and scratch her ankle where her guild mark was. "Hn…" Chelia sat on a chair, and lowered her socks to reveal her guild mark. It was an itch that had been bothering her for a while, but she didn't notice anything wrong with it, nor was it something that was eradicable with the use of her sky god healing magic. "It's been annoying me since that fight…" Chelia thought to herself as she thought back to the job she took a while ago. "It's nothing…Probably nothing…"

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Nightfall in the middle of a forest; Jellal, Meredy, and Ultear, finally reunited, sat around a camp fire made with fire, since Jellal was capable of using such magic. Jellal sighed heavily, still regretting the decision to create Siegrain once again. Ultear looked up at Jealle, but she couldn't look him in the eyes. "I'm sorry, Jellal…Meredy…" Ultear sighed.

"What are you apologizing for?" Jellal asked.

"I put you in Meredy in danger…and you recreated Siegrain even though you didn't want to…" Ultear responded.

"You're back, Ul, and that's all that matters…" Meredy replied. "I don't know why they want Siegrain…" Meredy then turned to Jellal. "Can't you just…get rid of Siegrain now?" Meredy asked somewhat hopefully.

"I wouldn't recommend that…" Ultear said.

"I was going to say the same thing," Jellal nodded. "If Siegrain vanishes, they'll know I was the one who removed him, and those mages are very powerful…I don't think we'll be able to take them all on our own."

"So we just let them toy with us…!?" Meredy asked, her voice rising somewhat.

"We'll lay low like we did before," Jellal replied. "I don't know what Siegrain might be up to now, but we can only wait…"

"I suppose so…" Ultear nodded slowly, and a few minutes later, a shiver crawled up her spine.

"Ul…? Are you alright…?" Meredy asked. "Do you need anything…?"

"I-I'm fine…" Ultear replied, looking up into the starry night sky. "What was that…?" She asked to herself.

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Ur currently had her heel on Tobias' head, her hands on her hips as she looked down at him tauntingly. "Know your place, yeah?"

"I didn't…even do anything…!" Tobias protested.

"You're alive…" Ur replied with a disgusted tone before she kicked Tobias in the side, enough force to send him rolling away. The powerful ice make mage then dusted her hands off after, looking to Maggie and Kiora for a second, and then walking off.

"Oi, so this is that Ur Dait was talkin' about?" Maggie asked. "Because if so, I like the lass already."

"I can tell she's going to fit right in," Kiora said with a nod.

"Sora likes her!" Sora said while throwing her arms in the air happily. The pinkette then ran over to Ur with a happy face. "Will Ur play with Sora?"

Ur stared blankly at the child for a few seconds before giving a slight nod. "Alright, I can play with you, Sora, right?"

"And she gets along with the kids rather well," Maggie said with a slight nod.

"Oh, do I have some information for you all," Ruika said as she walked from seemingly nowhere to the two girls, ignoring Tobias completely even though she stepped on him.

"Oh?" Maggie asked while raising a brow. "What might that be?"

"It appears the Council may be getting a new look soon enough," Ruika nodded.

"The Council? The daft bastards couldn't even defeat that annoying nitwit, Zancrow." Maggie scoffed while looking to her nails. Somewhere off screen, Zancrow sneezed, setting a portion of the castle on fire, which he desperately attempted to put out because he thought Daityas would destroy him should he find out.

"Exactly," Ruika said. "But, I won't spoil the fun for you, because I'm sure it will all be revealed soon enough."

"Keeping us in the dark…?" Tobias mumbled with his face in the ground.

"SHUT UP TOBIAS!" The three females shouted in unison.

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Siegrain approached the Magic Council building, fixing his suit slightly as a grin appeared on his face. "Ah…It's been quite some time, hasn't it?"