X792; six months (February) after the event called Fiore's End. Peace has returned to the land of Fiore, and all the guilds within the country have returned to their normal business; and of course, the constant bickering between two of Fiore's strongest guilds, Fairy Tail and White Eclipse. Although relations between the two guilds weren't as hostile as before, the tension still remained nonetheless.

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Natsu eyed the request board inside the Fairy Tail guild, looking for a request that seemed challenging for the fire dragon slayer. "Hm…" Natsu's eyes continued to scan the board, not seeing anything to his interest.

Lucy walked over to Natsu, eying the board along with him. "What's wrong, Natsu?" Lucy asked, shifting her gaze over to the slightly disappointed dragon slayer.

Natsu turned to Lucy, letting out a soft sigh. "There's nothing interesting to do on this board."

"Nothing to do?" Lucy crossed her arms, tapping her foot on the floor before gasping suddenly. "My rent!"

"Eh?" Natsu raised an eyebrow at Lucy's sudden gasp.

"My rent! I almost forgot I had to pay it off soon!" Lucy flailed slightly, feeling glad she managed to catch this before she completely forgot.

"You STILL have to pay rent?" Natsu gave a sigh before turning back to the request board. "I guess we can just do the highest paying job then."

"Aye!" Happy said in agreement.

A girl with long black hair, and sky blue eyes approached the trio. The girl was also wearing a green sleeveless shirt, black denim pants, and black boots to top it off. This was the Omega Fire Dragon Slayer of Fairy Tail, Cynthia Rose. "Oh, going on a job!?" Cynthia said with sparkles in her eyes. "It's been a while since I've gone out, can I join you two!?"

"Sure thing!" Lucy gave a happy nod of agreement. "I don't mind, do you, Natsu?"

"Nope, it's fine with me!" Natsu nodded twice, turning his head to see Erza and Gray walking out. "Oi, Erza!" Natsu called out, causing the scarlet haired requip mage to turn around at the sound of his voice. Natsu walked over to Erza and Gray, raising an eyebrow. "Where are you two going?"

"On an S class job," Erza replied with a nod.

"You're taking Gray?" Natsu asked with a huff.

"I think his abilities may be useful for this particular job," Erza replied.

"Heh, you hear that, Natsu?" Gray started with a cocky tone and smirk, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Now's not the time to start another fight, Gray," Erza said with a stern tone, causing Gray to shape up immediately, sweat beading down his forehead as he nodded a few times. "Anyway, you seem like you're about to go on a job yourself?"

"Oh, yeah," Natsu nodded, pointing over to Lucy, Happy, and Cynthia. "We're gonna go find something to do so Lucy can pay her rent off for this month."

"Ah, I see. Well, good luck with your mission," Erza said with a faint smile before her and Gray stepped out of the guild.

"What's this job about?" Gray asked as he placed his hands behind his back.

"There's something the requester wants us to retrieve from some place," Erza replied.

From behind a support beam, Juvia glared as she watched Erza and Gray step out, an imaginary scenario playing in her head about Erza and Gray falling in love with each other, immediately causing her face to turn blue just from the thought of it. It was at the moment that Juvia decided that Erza wasn't to be trusted alone with Gray. "Erza-san thinks she can steal Gray-sama away from Juvia…" Juvia nodded to herself, quickly making her way out of the door, making sure to say behind and out of sight for Gray and Erza.

"…That girl worries me sometimes…" Alzack said with a faint laugh.

"You and me both…" Cynthia said while holding Alzack's daughter, Asuka, in her arms. "Did I ever mention how adorable your daughter is?!"

Alzack let out a chuckle before looking over to Bisca. "Well, she did get her looks from her mother."

"Oh stop it, you," Bisca said with a grin.

"…I'm getting out of here before this gets gross…" Cynthia placed Asuka down, and then proceeded to skip over to Natsu, Happy, Lucy, and now Wendy, who was holding Carla in her arms. "Oh, Wendy, Carla, you're coming too?"

"Mhm!" Wendy nodded, giving a large grin. "Natsu-san and Lucy-san invited me."

"And of course, I have to watch Wendy," Carla nodded.

"Understandable, yes," Cynthia nodded before looking over at the group. "What's the mission?"

Lucy brought the flyer up, paraphrasing the description. "Basically, we have to find project a shipment of something until it gets to the factory in the eastern mountains."

"Eastern?" Wendy tilted her head a bit.

"…That means we'll have to travel by train, doesn't it?" Cynthia groaned.

"Unfortunately…" Natsu sighed, his face going pale along with Cynthia's as the very thought of motion sickness made the pair sick.

"I'd cast Troia on you both if you hadn't already gained immunity to it…" Wendy sighed, frowning slightly, wishing she could be of more help to the two.

"Come on, you two! The sooner we get started, the sooner we can leave!" Lucy nodded.

"Yeah, yeah…let's make this quick…" Cynthia groaned.

"Mira, we're taking this one!" Lucy walked over to the bar, showing Mirajane the job.

"Alright, good luck, you guys!" Mirajane nodded as a sweet smile sew its way onto her features.

"Thanks!" Lucy nodded, walking out the door with Natsu, Happy, Cynthia, Wendy, and Carla.

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In the northern mountains of Fiore rested the self-proclaimed strongest guild in the country, White Eclipse. Over the last six months, the guild experienced the loss of a few of its members, such as Hanako and Azeleon, but gained a few new members as well. The new member list included a girl chestnut colored hair and light brown eyes, currently in a green top, and wore black pants, currently resting on the couch with a glass of wine between her fingers. This girl was Skye Ravenwood, who joined White Eclipse just recently. The other girl was in the kitchen, happily munching on a box of Wheat Thins; she also had long white hair tied into a pony tail, reaching down to her waist. This girl was the Angelic Takeover mage of White Eclipse, Kairi Ayes. The final new member White Eclipse received was certainly the most unique of the three. A tall, well-built male reaching well over six feet stood outside, gazing up at a tower just behind the guild. This male had snow-white hair, blue eyes, black leather gloves, a large blue shirt that fit someone like him perfectly, large blue jeans, and large boots. The strongest ice mage in all of Fiore, or as White Eclipse usually calls him, Adamantine, Adam for short.

"Hm…" The brown-haired mage, Luke Cloud, also known as the infamous copy mage, walked to the request board, wearing his standard clothing as he eyed the request board. "What's the job we can go on today…?"

Skye's ears perked up from the sound of a voice, sitting up to see who it was. "Hm? Luke?"

Luke turned at the sound of his name called, and he simply waved over to Skye, giving a half-smile. "Oh, hey, Skye."

"Looking for something?" Skye asked.

"Ah, just a job for Heather and I to do in a bit," Luke nodded twice after he spoke. A few minutes later, a tall, slender male with black hair, blue eyes, a white tee, black pants and boots walked down the stairs. This was the cocky gunslinger of White Eclipse, one of the guild's original mages, and one of their S class mages, Reve Volver. Following behind Reve, a shorter male with brown hair, green eyes with glasses atop them, and wearing a fancy suit to top it off came down; White Eclipse's construction mage and one of the guild's original members, Zalen Castle. Reve held a flyer in his hands as he strolled down the chairs.

"Nii-san!" Skye said in a happy tone, directing her voice towards Reve.

The gunslinger blinked, raising a brow as he turned to face Skye. "…What?"

Skye ignored Reve's question as she pointed to the flyer in his hands. "What's that?"

"This? An S class job, of course," Reve replied. "Zalen and I are gonna take this one, so we'll be back soon."

"See you guys!" Zalen said as he and Reve walked out the door.

"No attitude today? Lucky break…" Luke sighed before eventually pulling off a job with a content smile. "I think this'll do…" A few moments later, the poison dragon slayer known as Heather strolled into the main room of the guild, looking over towards Luke. Heather had long vanilla blonde hair that reached down to her lower back, hazel eyes, along with an outfit consisting of a long sleeve white shirt, blue shorts, and sneakers.

"Did you find a job?" Heather asked, crossing her arms and tapping her foot on the ground.

Luke nodded, hoisting a small bag over his shoulders. "Yup, got one right here. Just follow me and I'll explain it to you."

"Alright," Heather nodded, simply following Luke out the front doors.

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Mermaid Heel, the guild that only contained women, was actually quite quiet lately. The strongest mage in Mermaid Heel, Kagura Mikazuchi, was just returning from an S class job, keeping quiet to herself as she strolled through the town Mermaid Heel was located in. "Hm…" The woman kept quiet the entire time, occasionally shifting her eyes around to see what was happening around her, but since nothing of interest was going on, she decided to keep on walking. Before she could reach her guild, she spotted a female limping through the streets, leaning against a wall for support. "What…?" Kagura walked over to the female, asking in a monotonous tone, as she wasn't really one to show any kind of emotion to those she didn't know. "Are you alright?"

"I-I don't know…" The female coughed into her hand, getting small droplets of blood onto it. The female had silver hair and red eyes, sporting an outfit of thick black jeans, a black jacket, and black boots. Her body was covered in all sorts of injuries, and she was bleeding from the side of her head; this was a clear sign to Kagura that the female was not okay.

"You're terribly wounded…what's your name…?" Kagura asked, placing an arm around the female's shoulders as she supported her, slowly making her way back to Mermaid Heel to give the girl medical treatment.

"That's the only thing aside from my magic I do remember…" The silver-haired female responded, slowly walking alongside Kagura. "My name is Melody Silver…"

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Sabertooth, the former strongest guild in Fiore after X791's Grand Magic Games; the new guild master, the White Dragon Slayer, Sting Eucliffe, sighed, looking around what was left of the former guild. Though he, Rogue Cheney, Orga Nanagear, Rufus Lohr, and Yukino Aguria were ready to change the name of Sabertooth for the better. Nothing of interest was happening, so Orga decided he would take a job to pass some time. He eyed the request board until an interesting job request caught his eye. "Eh…?" Orga promptly took the job off the board, eying it intensively.

"Something wrong, Orga?" Sting asked, walking over to the Lightning God Slayer.

"Nothing's wrong, Sting. This is just an interesting job," Orga replied with a nod, showing Sting the paper.

"God slayers only, huh? Western part of Fiore, too?" Sting read, scratching the top of his head. "You'll be able to handle it!"

"Because…" Orga started, grabbing a microphone from nowhere, immediately singing horridly into the microphone. "SABERTOOTH IS NUMBER ONE!" Orga's off key voice forced the other four members of the guild to cover their ears, yet they just gave a simple smile to the ecstatic lightning god slayer, who promptly exited the guild right after.

"He needs to work on his singing…" Yukino said with a sheepish smile on her face.

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Things were oddly quiet in Lamia, Scale. The only ones really around in the guild were the dynamic ice make mage, Lyon Vastia, and the Sky God Slayer, Chelia Blendy; though Lyon was asleep, so he didn't really provided Chelia with much company. Instead, the young girl simply hopped over to the request board, eying anything she could possibly do to pass the time until either more people arrived or Lyon woke up. She scanned the board for a few moments before a particular job caught her eye, and she picked it off the board, reading it slowly. "God Slayers, huh…? Western part of Fiore…Alright!" Chelia nodded, turning to tell Lyon she was leaving, but remembered he was asleep, so she quietly exited the guild, skipping towards her destination.

From the shadows, a hooded figure watched as Chelia exited the guild. Within seconds, another hooded figure appeared next to the first. "Did the other one accept?" The first figure asked, their voice feminine, yet threatening at the same time; not towards the other figure, but it was just a natural tone for her.

"Yes, we have both the Sky God Slayer and the Lightning God Slayer on route to the destination," The second figure replied, their voice obviously masculine, but it didn't hold the same threatening tone as the female's voice.

"Good job, Blake…" The female said, a dark smirk painting her face. "We'll see how strong those two god slayers really are…"

"Indeed, Diana," Blake replied, nodding in agreement.