"Wendy ! Wendy !" Cynthia shouted exitely at the bluenette, who smiled at her, while Carla just shrugged, begining to get used to.

"What is i-" Wendy's face was smacked by a paper Cynthia held "Look !".

Wendy took the paper off her face, intrigued, since her eyes were on the words 'DRAGON SLAYER NEEDED !'. She held the paper, reading the rest.

"So, what does it say ?" Cynthia asked impatiently.

Wendy furrowed her brows "Actually, not much". Cynthia downed her head, disapointed.

"Let me see" Carla took the job, scanning it in turn. "Strange, it is not really detailed" She pondered what to think about it.

"So, what do we do ?" Wendy asked

"What a question ! Of course we go !" Cynthia tighed her fist, a orange flame emitted from it

"Not so fast !" Carla calmed her. "Something is not right with this"

Cynthia groaned, swinging her head backward "Please, Carla. Stop being paranoid like that "

A small tick appeared on the Exceed's face "I'm jut cautious " She sighed, calmed down.

"Either way. Whoever who it might be, he need help, our help. It says only dragon slayers could come, and..." Cynthia looked behind her, looking the state of the guild. We are few days after the fateful dinner at White Eclipse. Since then, the ambiance became... more morose. Obviously, the most affected was Makarov, so much that his eyes were shadowed. Everyone could remember his words after finishing a mug "Then this is war ".

Strangely, the only one who keep the head up was Cynthia. One can say that unlike most of the guild who hate the other one since basically their encounter, Cynthia had a different first impression, using terms like 'cool' or 'amazing' which didn't help. "...and I think we are the only one who are mostly disponible".

Wendy nodded "I affraid you're right, Natsu-san was silent since that night, Laxus-san, well, I don't think this kind of mission really interest him, and Gajeel-san went away on a mission " Wendy sighed in dejection.

Cynthia scratched her head "So it seems like we are the only one disponible. If only Shizu was here, too bad she went too" She seems a little disapointed.

On the other side, Carla was rather relieved that the eye-patch woman was gone for now. Since she introduced herself to the guild, she passed most of the time hugging the three of them at the cost of their poor spine. It really began to unnerve the Exceed who, despite her quiteness, found her invasive. The rapture point was earlier today, and scolded her like no one and let her know it was time to stop, even Wendy didn't see Carla scold someone like that. What they saw was unthinkable: Shizu's facial features changed ! She had her head down, took a job and left. "Good, at least we will have peace for the day."

"Then it's decided !" Cynthia took the paper from Carla's paws and ran at Mira. She slammed the paper on the table "We take this !"

Mira scanned th epaper, verifying if everything was okay "Alright, please be careful."

"Okay !" Cynthia moved away from the counter "You come ?". Wendy and Carla nodded and the trio exited the guild.

In the snowy mountains, there was agitation, but from a different cause. When we came inside of White Eclipse, the first thing we heard was Kuro's laugh. He may like laughing, but this time it was genuine, Cygnus and Luke were at his side, amused.

[Earlier in the morning]

Unlike most of the night, where everyone was in their room, a lot of them was lying on various things : Floor, couch, table, other members, ect. The sun just arise, letting its orange light to illuminate the hall. Takeru was the first to be awake "Urgh..." He got up painfully and look at his surroundings "...What a pain".

After Fairy Tail and Darkness departure, there was still a lot of remaining food, and there was no question to waste all that. Fortunately, Selene proposed to finish it like it should be. Moreover, the objective of the dinner was a success. Thanks to that, they learnt more about the mysterious newcomers in their 'rivals' guilds, mainly about Darkness.

One by one, the other one woke up like a day after cooking, although there was not a lot of alcool, if we don't take account of a man with brown hair and eyes lying with his lower part inside of a large baril, he was Jack Royal, and you can guess he was the White Eclipse's counterpart of Cana. A door in the second floor blasted open, blenching the last marmots, Taya emerged from it, inhaling a huge amount of air. "GET ! UP !".

Luke, head inside of a chips bag, rose instantly with a military salute "Here and ready !". Selene, face on the floor, just muffled, signifying her wake.

"Hurry and clear this mess !" Various groans piped up, but Taya could cared less about that "You made this, you clean ! This value for you too Reve"

"B-But- "

"You have something to say ?" Taya lifted a brow. Reve only growled. "I prefer that" she moved away.

Luke removed thr chips bag "Aw man, look atthis mess"

"It will took all the day to cleane this " Cygnus complained. He remarked that a lot of pair of eyes were on him "What ? Oh, no."

"Aww, please ?" Aria pleaded with puppy eyes.

Cygnus tried to resist, but it was mission impossible "Urrrr, Fine !" He lifted his finger, all the small garbages (leftover, porcelain shards...) began to elevated from the ground "Tak, can you let your shadow engulfre all that ?"

"My shadow is not a junkyard !" Takeru screamed. Cygnus turned at Reve, who shook a finger "Don't even think about it" He was about to get away as fast as possible, but a chill ran down his spine.

"Don't tell me you just forget what sis just said, riiiight ?" Nami with a innocent, but creepy smile and eyes close made Reve scoffed and return to work.

"Found it !" Kuro stepped in the hall with a large plastic bag "That should do the trick"

"Okay, open your eyes" Cygnus crackles his fingers, extended his arms "Gravity God's..." He turned his arms in a clockwise sense before swinging them toward the bag "Great Cleanup !" The garbages flew toward the bag, filling it up to the max "And that's done."

"Now..." Aira took a broom "Let's finish it !"

After cleaning all the mess they did last night, the hall finally look like it was before. Not longer after, a knock was heard.

"I'll check" Kuro stepped happily toward the wooden door "Coming !" He opened it, and what was his surprise when he saw two total strangers, even if one of them looks familiar.

One of them was a beautiful standing straight and well endowed woman with a very pale skin, black hair tied into a tigh bun and glasses. She was wearing a white shirt with dark blue long sleeves, a very long skirt down her feet, a blue choker, and the most striking feature was her cactus-liike gauntlets aroud her wrists and foreams.

The other person was a child who remind him a lot like a Fairy they just saw yesterday. Shewas a small girl with mid long bob blond hair with a flat fringe. She was wearing a white jacket over a blue shirt, a white pleated mini skirt, long white socks and brown boots. She was caring a wooden staff close to her. Her eyes were heterochromic: her left eye was green while the right one was blue and had a unsure look. She was also smaller than Selene, which was a difficult thing to see.

Kuro was for the least agape by what was in front of him. "Can I... help you ?"

The black hair woman replaced her glasses, a familiar view for him. "Is this White Eclipse ?"

"Kuro, what's going on ?" Waiston looked over Kuro, and was wearing the same reaction as the latter. The little girls broke the glass "W-We would l-like t-to join y-you" her voice was almost like a whisper, barely audible. Waiston and Kuro still proceed to registering the information.

"Arr, get out of the way !" Reve pushed both of his colleagues back, now having a fuul view of the situation "What's happening again ?"

Waiston cleared his thoart "It seems like these two persons want to join us"

"Ah yeah ?" Reve pointed his finger at the inside "This way". The two mysterious peoples looked each other before stepping inside.

Members of White Eclipse stared, curious about who might be these two. Taya and Nami stood on the second floor, looking down.

Reve guided them at Calium, who was smiling warmly "Welcome at White Eclipse. How can we help you ?"

"These chicks want to join us" Selene lifted a brow. Chicks, both ? Takeru, Waiston and Haether thiugh the same.

Calium nodded at Reve's statement "And before I stomp the guild mark, may I know the reason of your arrival here ?"

'I-In truth, w-we wanted t-to join F-Fairy Tail, b-but we heard some p-peoples talking about 'The real strongest guild' s-so we d-decided to j-join you instead"The little girl had a lot of difficulties to explain why did they came here, at White Eclipse. Some of them held back to laugh, while though she was very brave to managing to stated that all byherself, and some though she was just so cute.

The black haired one replaced her glasses "Indeed, that's why we wanted to join you"

Calium nodded. Of course, he remarked the resemblance between her and Aura Are they reliated ? Of course, seeing by their appearence. But why didn't they come at Fairy Tail too ?

"Yeah, Yeah I know !" Reve posed nonchalantly his forearm on the girl's skull, not seeing the eye twitching on the teacher like woman "Of course we are the strongest, we are White Eclipse, and no one can match us !" He patted her head "But, y'know, it will take more than that to eb the elite of the elite. It would be long, hard." He shook his head "And I don't think you have the profile"

"Reve, enough" Calium looked back at the two females "Don't paid attention to him. You really want to join White Eclipse ?" The females positively nodded.

"Then it's decided " He spoked loudly, for everyone to hear it " Welcome to White Eclipse !" The crowd cheered joyfully at the declaration, the two concerned smiled too.

"Now... um, I don't remember asking your names ?"

"Didn't we ? Please excuse us " the woman bowed "My name is Yuri"

"A-And I'm M-Mare. Mare Bello Fiore" Her, or in this case, his reply didn't engender any reaction. He looked around himself, wondering why such a reaction. D-Did I say something terrible ?.

Luke blinked before breaking the silence "Can... can you repeat your last name ?"

"Uh ? Umm...F-Fiore ?" Silence again, but this time, there were wided eyes.

Jaxon spoke first "D-did you just say 'Fiore' ?"

"Like, the royal family ?" Cygnus continued.

As more whispers occured, Reve stood here, immobile, hand still on Mare's head and big drops of sweat. I-I just speak like that at a member of royal family ? Shiiiit...

[Present]

"Yes, it was pretty funny" Kuro still laughed as he placed his arm around Reve's neck.

"Even if she said that it was a misunderstatement, I must admit it was quite a moment" Cygnus smirked.

Reve groaned "Just shut up !"

Cynthia's face stood between disilusion and disgust "Are...Are we forced to do that ?"

Cynthia giggled nervously "Come on Cynthia, it can't kill you"

"But...but..."

Carla sighed "It's not like we have the choice, not only this is the fastest way togo there, but also the only one"

A lightbulb appeared above Cynthia's head, she stared at Carla, who know what the girl was thinking "No"

"Please ?"

"No"

"Just this time"

"No"

Cynthia got down to the ground "Please Carla. You're my way only way to survive"

" You can plead as much as you want, it's still no. Now, get in !" She pull Cynthia by her feet who tried in vain to stop her track "No ! I don't want to go there !"

Wendy hid her face to the several eyes on them. Her face became reddish as she followed Carla and Cynthia toward the latter's worst ennemy: the train.

Cynthia's complains were not empty words. Barely the train statred to move her face became pale, her eyes rolled and laid limp on Wendy's lap. The only way we know if she was alive was barely audible moans and eventual spasmes. Fortunately for her, Wendy caressed her scalp and Carla opened the window.

"A...Are we...arrived ?"

"We just left"

Cynthia groaned, or tried to. She was even too weak for complains.

"Hard to imagine someone so energetic could be in this state in a moment" Carla commented and looked at Wendy "Why didn't you use Troia on her ?"

"T...Troia ?" Cynthia murbled

"This is a spell which allows Dragon slayers to be on vehicles without motion sickness." Wendy replied " And to answer you, Carla, that's because It has less efficiency when used multiples times. Sorry Cynthia, but this train is not an emergency" Wendy apologied.

"Y...You trai...tor"

The travel only last few hours, but this was a hell for Cynthia, she fell asleep since the first half. Wendy and even Carla saw how cute she was when she slept. When the train made its final shaking before stopping, Cynthia instantly opened her eyes and lifted herself from Wendy's lap, surprising her. "C-Cynthia ?"

"Is this here ?" She stared at Carla, who was drinking a cup of tea "This time, yes"

Cynthia turned at the still open window and jump through it, widening Wendy and Carla's eyes "What is she do-"

"Ahh, sweet ground, we're finally together. I promise to never being separate from you ever again" They looked over the window, and they saw Cynthia down to the floor, hugging it with passion. Wendy could only laugh at the situation.

"Guess Natsu have a bad influence on her" Carla sighed.

"Is it the right path ?" Cynthia asked.

Wendy nodded "The job say it's at the end of the town."

"What do you mean by 'end' ? As far as I know, a city is circular-shaped " Cynthia lifted a brow

"It...is not indicated" Wendy said deadpanned.

"Fine" Carla deployed her wings "We searche a house distant from the others, right ? I will go and – Oh, I found it"

"Already !?" Cynthia and Wendy shouted at the same time. 'Then, let's go !" Cynthia brough her fist in the air following Carla.

Once arrived, they assembled in front of the main door. "It's looks old" Cynthia stated.

"Don't talk about other's houses like that !" Wendy scolded her.

"It's not in that way. I mean, look at it, it looks...abandoned."

"For once, I agree with Cynthia" Carla said "But we are not here for judging others's habitations" She knocked at the door three times "Hello ? Is anyone here"

A few seconds later, a old mann with white hair opened the door with a warm smile. "Oh, hello"

"We are-"

"Fairy Tail, right ?"

"Um... yes" Wendy said

"Please, come in" The old man invited them

The interior looked like they were expecting: messy, dirty, and covered in cobwebs. How could someone lives like this ? The three girls though.

"Make yourself at home" the old man took three chairs, sit on one of them. The girls did as well "Now, about the mission"

"Why do you want dragon slayers specifically ?" Cynthia asked, not beating the bush.

"Hehe, direct, as I like" The old man laughed "Reassuring yourself, it's not about an immediate danger. It's just I'm...curious"

"Curious ?"

"Yes. I was always curious about Dragon Slayers. If I remember well, there is different types of generations. So tell me, which generation are you ?"

Carla whispered at Wendy's ear " Something is not right"

"I know" Wendy said whispering as well "We'll be on guard"

While they talked, Cynthia replied "She's a First generation. That means she was raised by a dragon. Me, I'm a Second generation, it means..." her face tensed "...that I have a lacrima which give me the same kind of power"

She sweared she saw for a mini amount of time a smirk on the old man's lips, but it may be hermind playing around "I see, thank you for your time." He took a money bag "There is it"

"What is it ?" Wendy asked.

"Your reward" The trio's eyes widened "THE WHAT ?"

"You came here to respond my call. You did it and I'm satisfied. You can go now."

The girls looked at each other. They reluctantly took the bag and go. After the door closed. The old man, also named Doranbolt, took a communication lacrima "Is it worked ?" A voice through the lacrima asked.

"They are suspicious. I told you this cover won't work very well. I will try to lead her at you, but peapare to come as well"

"Oh? Preparing for Plan B, Huh ?"

Doranbolt narrowed his eyes "If the original plan don't work, remember to only take the black haired one. Don't harm Wendy or her cat"

"Yeah yeah, I know"

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