Fairy's Guardian.

Chapter 4

"First Mission."

"Fairy Tail!" Makarov stepped out of his office with a mission request in his hands, "We have a new mission!"

The mages below, save for Naruto, cheered out loudly from hearing the announcement from the Guild Master.

Because of the absence of the core members of Fairy Tail, the guild was dethroned from the number one position a few years ago and became the weakest guild among the Mage Guilds of Fiore. Missions were rarely sent to Fairy Tail nowadays, especially missions from A-class and S-class with high payments. Most of the remained missions were finished by Team Natsu and the returned, stronger members of Fairy Tail so around this time there was no more mission on the Guild's mission board, even on the S-class board on the second floor.

And of course, every member of the Guild was seriously in need for money.

"Mine!" Natsu cried out and leaped forward, trying to get the mission request paper from the master's hands.

"Forget it! That's mine!" Jet cried out and shot forward with his magic pumping into his legs.

"Oh no you don't!" Cana pulled out three cards and they began to glow with magic.

'There they go again,' Naruto thought, sighing as he sipped his orange juice.

He didn't know what was so interesting about this guild that Mavis wanted him to come with them, but apparently it was interesting enough to make him stick around. For the past week Naruto had considered about leaving the place numerous times, but every time he came to this guild something new happened and he couldn't help but come to the place every morning, though he would never admit it out loud.

The whole guild then broke out in a massive fight, just like the last time a mission request arrived at the Guild Master's office. Erza let out a sigh in disappointment after finishing her favorite strawberry cheesecake and stood up from her seat. When she was present in the guild and not out doing missions with her team, the redheaded mage was always the one who won most of the missions for her team; more or less everyone was really afraid of her and didn't want to face her wrath.

But before she could make any move to stop the fight, the master raised his hand and took a deep breath before shouting out, "Enough!"

Instantly the guild stopped their fight and turned their head to look at the master.

"Ahem, now that everyone had calmed down, I have a few things to say before assigning this mission for a mage or a team. This is not a simple mission," he announced, his tone changing to a serious one. "This is an S-class mission."

Quite a few mages gasped out in shock. This was their first S-class mission in many years after the disappearance of the core members of Fairy Tail.

"YES!" Natsu cheered "Give us that mission!"

Team Natsu was the current one of the only two teams that had S-class mages in it, who was none other than Titania Erza Scarlet and the only chance any mage who wasn't S-class yet got the chance of doing the highest ranking missions was having at least an S-class mage accompany them.

"Unfortunately Natsu, your team won't be the one who get this mission," Makarov said, making Team Natsu groan out in disappointment and the others to smirk. The master looked around for a moment before his eyes landed on a certain blond haired young man who was still isolating himself from the guild's every day activities. "I think it's time for Naruto to get his first mission."