Sting, Rogue, Lector and Frosch were on their way to the Fairy Tail guild. The two exceeds carrying their respective slayers. Sting and Rogue had woken up by now and their motion sickness was almost gone. "Lector, you have to let us go. This isn't right, Rogue and I belong together!"

"Yes, I agree the two of you belong with each other, just…not right now. Not during the season." Lector says.

Sting groans and crosses his arms, he was still weak from everything that had happened. Plus, if he fought Lector in the air, he would most definitely fall to his death. Sting looked over at Rogue who was being carried the same as him about seven feet away. He wanted nothing more than to just hold Rogue tightly and to never let him go. He felt himself being pulled towards Rogue, unfortunately though it was only mental and spiritual…not physical. "Where exactly are you taking us?"

"Fairy Tail has taken precautions for all the dragon slayers, you'll be joining them. Unfortunately, since you and Rogue are mates, we have to separate you from each other and the other dragon slayers. I don't like it and wish we didn't have to separate y'all, it's going to kill me watching the two of you be miserable." Lector says, sadly.

Rogue didn't add into the conversation, he opted to just listen. What was Fairy Tail up to exactly? They're taking precautions for all the dragon slayers? What did that mean exactly? Were they being captured? Why are their exceeds going against them? Nothing is going the way it's supposed to. Frosch looks like he's about to cry and Lector's voice seems to break as he talks to Sting. Rogue looked over at Sting who looked extremely depressed, he couldn't stand seeing Sting like that. All he wanted to do was to make Sting happy again, unfortunately, he didn't think he'd be able to do that again, not for a long time.

Rogue wasn't sure why his dragon force had activated. He hadn't done it on purpose, it was more of an emotional thing. Normally, he could control his emotions, even if his partner got hurt. Rogue had decided to accept the fact that they are in the season which could have been why he's acting the way he is. If they had already entered the second stage and became more dragon-like, that would explain why his dragon force activated out of nowhere. Rogue could feel himself pulling Sting towards him, why was it only him pulling Sting? Why wasn't Sting pulling Rogue? Is it possible for some dragon slayers to progress faster than others? Or did Sting not feel the same way? All these thoughts swirled through his mind, not leaving him time to process anything.

The four flew into Fairy Tail, Sting and Rogue visibly upset and angry. "We're back," Lector calls out.

"Take them downstairs," Erza says, walking over to the two exceeds. "Since they are mated to each other, we have separate cozy places for them to stay, yell if y'all need help." Lector and Frosch nod heading downstairs. Sting and Rogue had already given up, there wasn't anything they could do now. Plus, they were both extremely distraught and their emotions were going haywire.

Once they got downstairs, Freed opened the cell doors, the two exceeds sat them on the bed before flying out quickly. Once it was shut, Freed put a rune on each door and nodded at the exceeds before going back upstairs. "This is fucking bullshit," Sting grumbels, sitting down on his bed, his arms crossed.

"I'm sorry, but this is what has to be done until we figure out when it stops, then we can safely let everyone out."

Sting just rolled his eyes and looked at Rogue who was in the cell beside him, he longed for Rogue, he just wanted to touch him again. By the time Sting finally looked in front of him again to talk to Lector, both of the exceeds were gone.

Rogue laid on the bed, feeling very depressed without Sting being with him, he needed Sting in the same room as him.

The other dragon slayers looked at the two of them, "so the two of you went for each other?' Gajeel asks, chuckling. "At least y'all don't have to feel the betrayal of your own mate helping to lock you up." Sting and Rogue both looked across to see the others. Neither of them said a word before going off to do something to keep their minds off each other.

"It's going to kill them knowing their mate is so close yet so far," Cobra whispers to Natsu.

"I know, I feel bad for them," Natsu admits, making his way to the fridge for a snack.

"We can hear you!" Sting grumbles, obviously annoyed.

"My bad," Cobra says, darting his eyes away. He wasn't trying to be mean, he just didn't think before saying anything.

"I say we work together to get out of here," Gajeel says, "I can't stand this anymore."

"I never thought I'd say this but I agree with metal head," Laxus says, joining the group that was forming at the cell doors so they could also discuss with Sting and Rogue.

"They have all of us in here now so they will most likely only be coming down to visit," Wendy says.

"Freed put enchantments up though," Rogue says, coming out of the shadows.

"We might be able to find a loophole. He had a loophole when Laxus tried to take over Fairy Tail," Natsu adds.

"Did you really have to bring that up?" Laxus asks, huffing.

"Yes."

"You little-"

"Shut up!" Wendy growls, "this isn't the time."

"Damn, the little one's feisty," Sting chuckles.

"Say that again and see what happens," Gajeel threatens, sticking up for Wendy.

"I wasn't being mean, I see her as a little sister just like everyone else in the room," Sting explains.

"I don't need you sticking up for me," Wendy hisses.

"Let's just come up with a plan," Cobra grumbles. Everyone finally agreed and started working on ideas.

Meanwhile, Juvia was in Porlyusica's little cabin. Porlyusica had given her an antidote for the poison and scolded her for coming to see her, although she had to admit, she was worried for Wendy. She might not be able to stand people but Wendy was a healer, just like her and for some odd reason, she felt as though she would be able to stand being around Wendy. "Juvia is thankful for Porlyusica," she says, standing up.

She was about to walk out the door when Gildarts came rushing in with gray over his shoulder, "please help him, he's lost a lot of blood."

Porlyusica mutters curses under her breath and glances at the table. "What happened to him?"

"He was in a fight with the shadow dragon slayer and got knocked unconscious, I don't know how it happened exactly though, I wasn't there."

"You fairies and your constant fighting, I swear." She grumbles, grabbing a couple of healing potions. She walked over to Gray and began to do her thing, mumbling under her breath the entire time. After about ten minutes, she stepped back, "there, it's done. He should wake up soon and as soon as he wakes up, I want y'all out of here!"

Juvia and Gray-sama will leave as soon as Gray-sama wakes up," Juvia replies, seeing as how Gildarts had already left to report back to the guild. Porlyusica walked off to do something else and Juvia sat down beside gray, slipping her hand into his. Juvia got scared for a second because Gray's hand was ice cold but then she remembered he's an ice mage and relaxed. "Please wake up soon, Gray-sama."