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The blonde haired dragon slayer was currently wandering around the streets of Pelerno contemplating how he and the Thunder Legion managed to become SS Class mages in the world renowned White Sea guild. Bickslow, Freed, and Evergreen had followed him to Bosco even after he had told them that there was no need to do so but each had there own reasons for coming. Bickslow's family all lived in Pelerno and were a very well known family in the country, Freed was excited to get his nose stuck in some new books, and Evergreen was there to help heal her broken heart. All four of them had their own individual reasons for being here, but they all came to the same conclusion after Fairy Tail had been disbanded.

The battle against Tartaros had left a mark on everyone, some worse than others. The four mages had been protecting one of the old men from the Magic Council when they were attacked by a demon who used bane particles to kill his victims. The Thunder Legion had fallen ill from breathing in the particles and Laxus breathed the brunt of the particles to stop them from reaching the innocent people around them. They had been bed ridden for most of the battle with the guild, but Laxus had summoned enough power to transport himself to the crash site and face off with Tempester. It was a tough battle since he wasn't even close to full strength, but the demon found himself in a puddle of water and one solid bolt was enough to permanently kill him. Blood had gotten on his jacket and he gave it to Gajeel to take to the old hag to make an antidote for everyone who was infected.

Shortly after that Gramps decided the best course of action was to disband the guild, which was a bunch of bull shit in his mind. Gramps was constantly preaching about family and how they always first, no mage left behind. However that was exactly what Makarov had done, he abandoned everyone who needed him and left them on their own. The guild members all went their own ways and he was only in contact with a few of mages. Mirajane talked to Laxus once a week and kept him updated on how the Strauss siblings were doing, Cana called in once every two weeks to let him know that her and Gildarts were alright, and Erza contacted him once a month to update him on her situation with Crime Sorciere as well as everyone she had tracked in the guild. She didn't know where Natsu, Grey, Juvia, or Lucy were at though and that was enough to raise some concern.

The fact that Natsu hadn't caused an international incident was proof enough that he was alright, same goes for Grey and Juvia was at least stalking the stripper. Blondie gave him cause for concern though. She was never seen without her team and when she was it was generally because someone decided to kidnap her or use her in a plan to end the world. It wasn't like her to drop off the face of the planet with her being a people person, plus she really was the Light of Fairy Tail. It had taken them a month to travel to Pelerno, trying to take the least amount of transportation because if Laxus' motion sickness, and another four months had passed since joining the guild. Five months in total that no one had heard from the celestial mage, so he had asked Master Kaleb to keep an eye out for her.

Kaleb was an incredible mindbender mage, Master of Immaculate Light, fifth Wizard Saint of Bosco, older brother to Bickslow, and Arman's first adopted son. He was as tall as Laxus was with long platinum hair he kept in a ponytail, pale lavender eyes, and trained with lances while being an expert swordsman. He had accepted them into the the guild with open arms and had let them train for two weeks before going through their ranking trials. Each challenge was specific to each mage to gauge their strengths, weaknesses, strategizing, and magic powers as well as how they operate in a group setting. Needless to say they had aced it since they were all SS Class now.

The night they were all welcomed into the guild was the first night that Freed and Evergreen met Arman and Farron, Bickslow's father and eldest brother. Laxus had previously met him when he was exiled from the guild thanks to Bickslow's suggestion. Arman, a decorated ambassador, was a talented sound mage with pale green eyes and black hair he keeps braided and hanging over his shoulder. He's also a widower who lost his wife and son, Zen, when an attack on the embassy had occurred. His wife's dream was to have a large family of eight and after she passed away he decided to honor her wishes by adopting several children. Farron was also a sound mage and was the spitting image of his father with mahogany colored hair and baby blue eyes whom followed his father's footsteps and became an ambassador too.

There were four other children in the family, all of them being talented mages as well. Cristoff was a lunar dragon slayer who was raised by his dragon, Nurem, until he was twelve. The slayer was as tall as Laxus and just as well defined from his years of physical training under Kaleb in the guild. He kept his black hair shorter, resting just above his shoulders and while his soft dark blue eyes would make anyone feel safe. His dragon power were amazing, but his healing abilities were like none other he had ever seen in his life. Cristoff often joined them for missions and the two slayer got along swimmingly.

There were two girls int he family as well, Emzadi and Xally. Emzadi is a solar dragon slayer with blonde hair, orange eyes, and was several inches shorter than Laxus. Emzadi was usually gone on long missions due to her power as a slayer. Xally was the shortest of all the siblings with black hair and aquamarine eyes that perfectly reflected her water magic. She had strong healing abilities as well, nowhere near Cristoff's, but it had lead her pursue her passion of becoming a doctor, graduating from the University of Pelerno with her PHD in pediatric medicine. She was away quite often due to her shifts at the Pradesh Emergency Hospital.

Then there was the king of trouble making, Vander. Laxus had very little patience with the shadowquip mage and had yet actually hit the lil shit with a bolt of his lightning. Vander and Bickslow had trained in acrobatics and gymnastics together, sported red and black hair and matching red eyes. When his eyes glowed he was channeling the void shades and while he comes off as a lazy cocky man he is meticulous in his training to ensure that the voids won't warp his soul and turn him into a dark mage.

Laxus found himself back at the front doors of the guild and he walked through them and headed straight to his dorm room. A couple women asked if he'd like to share pleasure with them, but he politely declined their offer. Sure he had indulged when he had first come back to the guild, hell they all had, since Boscans were world renowned for their skills and teachings. Now however he had an aching need to settle down, which was upsurd because Laxus liked his freedom and liked his women.

After talking with Cristoff about what was going on the lunar slayer had a lot of insight for the lightning slayer. Turns out all slayers were born with some dragon tendencies, such as the need find a mate and start a family or build a nest in which to store all their treasures or to claim kin and feel safe. Laxus' dragon seemed to have woken after the Tartaros incident, after his near death experience with those damn particles. The first and third gen slayers were taught all of this already, maybe besides Wendy since she was so young, but it appeared that Laxus and Cobra were sorely lacking that knowledge. Emzadi was a second gen, but had the privilege of learning from Nurem as well.

Apparently the dragon would only choose one mate, whether it was male or female, and spend eternity by each other's side. Mates would be their perfect counterpart in every way and they'd be drawn to his or her scent. There was a chance you may have known this person before hand, but until the dragon had matured there was no way of knowing whom it could be. The case was also the same for the second and third generation slayers as well, but the constant whining from his dragon was going to drive him of the deep end real fuckin quick. To his knowledge none of the dragon slayers knew whom their mates were and none of them were mated. Laxus felt sorry for the poor bastard who had to experience it first.

"Laxus to you have a minute?" Vander came slinking out of the shadows as the slayer was about to enter his room.

"What do you want?"

"Presca and I were using our super sleuthing skills," Laxus rolled his eyes at the cocky young mage, "and stumbled across another dragon slayer. Kaleb has looked into his mind and seems he has crossed paths with you several times. He wants you to come check him out, because he says he has news about Lucy." That piqued Laxus' attention enough that he followed the shadowquip mage to the infirmary where Cristoff was working on healing what looked like a broken leg.

"What's shakin socket rocket?" Cobra smirked as Laxus growled at the mage.

"I thought you were in prison?"

"After the whole mess with the council being murdered we were released into Crime Sorciere's custody. We took out a nasty dark guild but I was attacked by six mages, captured, and taken to the mountains of Seven. I poisoned my way out of there but not before running into Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum over there."

"That's great and all, but what about Cosplayer?" At the mention of her Cobra's demeanor sank.

"I met Tink while we were captured in Seven. The two of us had ample time to talk and needless to say she snaked her way into my black heart. We shared a cell for seven days before they took her with the intent of selling her to the Joyan Warqueen, Sydelle. No one seemed to know why she wants Tink though. They left the mountains five days ago and were heading on foot to meet her in Stella. I know the route they were taking and as soon as mooney is done healing me we can set out." Freed, Evergreen, and Bickslow looked to Laxus. They all knew Cobra's past as a member of the Oracion Seis and the Neo Oracion Seis, and none of them were super keen on working with him.

"How can we trust you after all the bull shit you've pulled in the past?" Laxus questioned the maroon haired slayer.

"His dragon has claimed Lucy as it's Kin and I believe he may be the slayer to formally do so," Kaleb said while Cobra glared at the mindbender mage. It was fun to do the soul reading, but having someone else inside your head just sucked.

"Well fuck. If his dragon has claimed Lucy as Kin and she has accepted his claim then he's not all bad," stated Cristoff while thinking about the subject a little more. "If she really did agree to be your Kin where did you place your mark and her and hers on you?" Cobra pulled back the sleeve of his white jacket to reveal an eight point golden star on his wrist. The four points facing north, south, east, and west were longer than that other points that intersected with the others.

"What's Lucy get? A skull and cross bones?" chuckled Vander.

"Fuck off Red. I placed my mark on the same spot on her wrist as she did mine, so she now bares a green diamond surrounded by purple flames." The green diamond actually looked like a jewel with purple flames encasing the stone. Cobra was quite proud of his mark. "If we leave soon we should be able to meet them at the most north eastern part of the Bosco mountain range before they cross into Stella."

"We leave within the hour, so go pack up. Cristoff will moon jump us to the mountains and we'll spread in three group there, each of which will be with Cristoff, Vander, or Thane so that we can meet up easily once Lucy has been found. I'll assign groups once we are ready." All ten mages, minus Cobra, headed to their rooms and quickly packed their gear. Evergreen packed extra clothes for Lucy, since she has a penance to lose all of her clothes while travelling or battling, which also made her the last mage to arrive.

"The teams will be Cristoff, Cobra, Evergreen, and Freed covering the north - Vander, Laxus, and Presca covering the south - Thane, Bickslow, and myself covering the west. Are there any questions?" No one spoke up so Kaleb continued. "Beck is going to be in command while I am away and I have let father and Farron know of our mission. I will be linking all of our minds for this mission, so please keep the perverseness to a minimum." Kaleb pointedly looked at Vander whom just shrugged. "If there are no other concerns we'll be heading off."

The Thunder Legion looked at each other and one thought crossed their minds - Hang in there Lucy. We're coming for you.