Following her job for the free-spirted tavern owner, Dealana had taken a few smaller jobs while Lucy apparently ran off to Acalypha. The Storm Dragon Slayer helped serve food and even made a few more drinks that Cana taste tested for free. The brunette was more than willing.

"So, where did Erza and the others go?" Dealana asked MiraJane, pouring yet another cup of booze for Cana. The white-haired beauty smiled, "There's a new restaurant opened in Hargeon. You remember Yajima, right?"

Dealana nodded, "He was on the magic council before the whole Jellal thing."

"Well, he went into the food business and requested for wizards to help him out and entertain guests." Mira explained.

Fairy Tail's Tempest sweat-dropped, "I get Erza and Lucy, maybe Gray, but Natsu? Unless he's helping in the kitchen, I'd say Old Man Yajima's place will be burnt to the ground in no time." Hearing this, Cana laughed, her cheeks already rosy from intoxication.

Dealana spent the rest of the day in the company of the Guild Hall serving and making drinks with Mira. The eldest Strauss figured that something was bothering Dealana but the stubborn heterochromatic brushed off her concerns claiming she was fine.

Dealana wasn't ready to admit that she had problems with her magic since coming back from her first job. She believed she could handle it before anything more happened. So, she couldn't use lightning magic properly? She could still use other styles of storms. Dealana planned on training more later that day back at her cave.

The next day, Dealana was among the first to arrive at the guild. She conjured a cloud to sit crossed legged on, one of her hands playing with Lisanna's bracelet and Laxus' bracelet around her ankle. Reedus was drawing up a chart of Dark Guilds. Dealana was still young, despite feeling much older after growing up in the chaos that is Fairy Tail and she rarely took solo jobs that involved Dark Guilds. She had accompanied Gajeel on a couple of jobs when he joined Fairy Tail that dealt with Dark Guilds and she had a lot of fun taking them down with the Iron Dragon Slayer.

"What's this?" Dealana glanced over at Lucy who was staring at the chart in curiosity.

"It's an organization chart of the Dark Guilds," Mira explained. Reedus spoke up saying, "Yes, I drew it."

"When you look at it overall, there are quite a lot of them." Erza remarked. Lucy was still trying to understand and asked, "Why?"

"Because lately it seems like their activity has increased," Mira admitted, "We have to strengthen the bonds between guilds."

Gray spoke up asking, "What's the big oval?"

"Juvia knows!" the water mage answered, "It's the Balam Alliance. The Balam Alliance is the most powerful force of Dark Guilds, combining the three guilds of Oración Seis, Tartaros, and Grimoire Heart. Each of them have a number of associated guilds, and they control the world of Dark Guilds." she explained, "Then there's the guild that acts independently of the rest, Raven Tail."

Dealana's ear perked up recalling Makarov sending Gajeel in as a double agent, along with the fact that the guild's master was Ivan Dreyar, Laxus' father. Meanwhile, Lucy's eyes caught onto a familiar guild, "Huh? Eisenwald?"

"Yes. That's the guild Erigor was in," Erza nodded.

"So that was one of the guilds associated with Oración Seis, huh?" Gray wondered.

"There's a lot of names that I remember up there..." Wakaba commented. Macao spoke up soon after, "Aren't there some that used to be official guilds too?"

"Ghoul Spirits, the one that the Thunder Legion destroyed, was also one of them." Cana pointed out, as she read the various Dark Guild names.

"And the guilds Juvia and Gajeel destroyed when we were in Phantom were all from the Oración Seis!" Juvia added.

"Uh oh...I hope they're not angry..." Lucy muttered feeling goosebumps. Dealana remained quiet, reading all the names, she spotted a few that she recognized.

"Don't worry 'bout it! There's nothing to fear!" Wakaba told the blonde, "From the rumors I hear, they've only got six members!" Lucy's demeanor brightened quickly.

"Damn, how small a guild is it?" Macao asked before Mira silenced them with a sharp look, "But even with only six people, they're a member of the strongest organization." she reminded them.

"She's right," Dealana spoke up from her cloud, "Six members and they have all the lesser Dark Guilds under their thumb."

"About that Oración Seis..." Makarov's voice came from the door way and everyone present turned their attention toward the Guild Master as he continued, "We're going to attack them." Short exclamations of surprise left everyone's lips before silence fell over the guild area...

"Welcome back, Master!" Mira greeted cheerfully, her response causing everyone to sweat-drop and fall over, aside from Dealana who flopped backwards into her cloud with a snort of laughter. "How was the regular meeting?" Mira asked him while Lucy recovered.

"Way to miss the point." the blonde told her while Erza wanted more details, "Master, what are you talking about?"

"At the regular meeting the other day, we discussed the recent activity by Oración Seis. As it is not something we can ignore, we decided that some guild has to fight them." Makarov explained.

"You pulled the short straw again, Gramps?" Gray guessed. Juvia added on asking, "And Fairy Tail will take on that role?"

"No...The enemy this time is too powerful." he replied walking down the steps, "If it were only us, then afterwards the Balam alliance would retaliate only here. And that is why we formed an alliance ourselves." Makarov announced.

everyone questioned.

"Fairy Tail! Blue Pegasus! Lamia Scale! Caitshelter!" the last Guild name Makarov announced got Dealana's attention real quick and she sat up straight on her cloud. Wendy was a member of the Caitshelter Guild. "These four guilds will each send out members to strike these guys down!"

"But we could handle it ourselves, no problem! Or actually, I could even handle it myself!" Natsu immediately stated before receiving an armored palm to the face, courtesy of Erza.

"Naive fool! The Master is thinking about the consequences afterwards!" she scolded.

"So...Wait a second...The enemy only has six members, right? How crazy powerful are these people, then?" Lucy gulped.

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"Why do I have a feeling like something really bad is going to happen?" Lucy asked as the Fairy Tail delegation was on route to the rendezvous point, "And wait...Why am I participating in this again?" she exclaimed looking over to where Gray was sitting.

"It's not a picnic for me either, you know. Stop complaining." the ice mage replied. Happy was driving the cart and Erza sat in between the two dragon slayer who were groaning. Dealana was quieter than Natsu as she sat with her eyes closed, focusing on her breathing rather than the motion sickness bubbling up inside her like a soda shaken too much before it's opened.

"The Master chose who went. Shouldn't we be happy he trusts us with this duty?" Erza asked them as Dealana's nose scrunched up in discomfort.

"But when it comes to fighting, there's Juvia or Gajeel..." Lucy pointed out. Happy answered with a mouth full of fish, "Well, the two of them had other jobs to do."

"So...Are we...there yet?" Natsu groaned laying down on his back, trying to hold down the vomit.

"In the end, it's the usual gang." Lucy commented.

"Except we got Dealana with us this time!" Happy cheered. Everyone aside from Natsu turned to the Storm Dragon Slayer who opened one eye to glare at them, "Next time...I'm traveling by cloud..." she managed to spit out before moving her head back as another wave of motion sickness hit her.

"Dealana gets motion sick too!?" Lucy exclaimed.

"Aye, it's a dragon slayer thing!" Happy piped up.

"But Dealana floats on her clouds and doesn't get sick," Lucy frowned in confusion.

"Dealana is also right here," the Storm Dragon Slayer snapped, "My clouds don't stimulate motion sickness the same way vehicles do..." she explained uncharacteristically quiet.

"At least Dealana can hold up better than Natsu." Gray shrugged looking at the scarf-wearer in front of him.

"This will be the first time teaming up with the other guilds." Erza reminded them, reaching over to shift Dealana so she had her head in the requip mage's lap. Surprisingly, Dealana made no movement of protest as Erza stroked the top of the young girl's head while saying, "The first thing that's important is forming better ties with the other guilds."

"I can see it!" Happy exclaimed as Master Bob's Palace, "There's the meeting place!"

"Finally..." Dealana muttered, her eyes still closed as she held her stomach.

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Upon entering Master Bob's manor, Dealana's nose was assaulted with the smell of heavy perfume and dust. Her nose scrunched up and she rubbed the scar on her nose.

"This place's decor is seriously creepy..." Lucy commented looking at the pegasus statue revealed as the sun poured into the room.

"This is Master Bob's villa, from Blue Pegasus," Erza explained. Gray immediately freaked out, "Him? I-I'm not so good with him..."

"Now, now, don't go there." Erza said, equally as creeped out, "He's powerful enough to give our own master a run for his money, despite..." she trailed off still trying to convince herself.

"I see..." Lucy said she grew more and more nervous.

"This place smells like too much perfume," Dealana spoke up covering her mouth and nose with her hands. She was once again wearing her lightning lacrima gloves as well as the metal bracelets Erza bought for her. By pushing magic power into them, they would shift into gauntlets, similar to the ones she had before Gajeel shattered and ate half of them.

"Are we there yet?" Natsu groaned from where he sat cross legged on the floor. He was still slightly motion sick from the looks of it. Happy was quick to respond to his dragon slayer partner saying, "Yes, we're here, Natsu."

"Yes, you've arrived!" a new voice exclaimed. The Fairy Tail group whirled around to face the grand staircase. "Arrived!" a second voice echoed.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey! Welcome! Fairy Tail wizards!" the smell of perfume only increased as Dealana watched the three mysterious people continue their overdramatic introduction, "Sorry to keep you waiting!"

"We..." the first one started.

The second one stepped in line saying, "...are the representatives chosen..."

"...from Blue Pegasus," the final one said.

they finished in unison. Dealana let out a sigh of relief before groaning when she realized they were finished.

"Hundred night, Hibiki!"

"Holy night, Eve!"

"Silent night, Ren!"

"Trimens from Blue Pegasus! How cool!" she exclaimed before fangirling about the one called Hibiki. Dealana sighed, ignoring Gray freaking out and Natsu still recovering from motion sickness. The Storm Dragon Slayer really should have taught Natsu her trick for dealing with the lingering effects of motion sickness, but she never got around to it because the scarf-wearer was annoying most times.

As soon as the Trimens began flirting with Erza and Lucy, Dealana conjured a cloud and floated up to a comfortable ceiling beam and dissipated the cloud so as to not reveal her location. There was no way she was dealing with Blue Pegasus until the other guild arrived. She didn't trust herself not to murder them and bury the bodies before the alliance even began.

A new figure spoke up but Dealana couldn't hear anything over the obnoxious amount of perfume she was smelling. It was beginning to be too much. All she heard was Erza's sudden shout of "Stay away from me!"

It was enough for Fairy Tail's Tempest to peer over the edge, watching Ichiya fly towards the door where his head was subsequently frozen by a newcomer's ice magic.

"This is quite the greeting," they stated, "You consider yourselves equal to Lamia Scale?"

Dealana frowned, the man seemed familiar but she couldn't quite place it before Gray said his name, "Lyon?"

The man, Lyon, looked up to see Gray and his expression morphed into one of shock, "Gray?" Natsu seemed excited to see Lyon as he asked, "So you joined a guild?" In response, Lyon tossed Ichiya, who's head was still frozen, aside to land on the ground near Gray.

"What the hell are you doing?" Gray shouted.

"He started it." Lyon replied with a cold tone to match his magic.

"What do you think you're doing with our General?" Ren asked as Eve added on, "How awful!"

"I think all the men should just leave." Hibiki stated. Dealana wished she had some sort of snack up here to watch all the drama play out, she was surprised they hadn't noticed her disappearance.

"I suppose that means women can stay and fight." A female voice piped up before the carpet began to move on its own, "Marionette Attack: Carpet Doll!"

"Me?" Lucy squealed as it was aimed for her. Realization flashed in her eyes as she seemed to recognize the magic, "And wait...that magic...Sherry! You also joined Lamia Scale?" she called out to the pink haired woman now standing by the door.

"I won't allow you to say you've forgotten me. And please, forget who I was in the past!" she stated. Her words confused Dealana but she realized that these must have been the ones on Galuna Island. "For Love, I have been reborn!"

Ichiya went for Erza, who requipped to hold a spear. Gray and Lyon were having a stand off that Natsu wanted to join while Sherry and Lucy faced each other. Just when Dealana thought everything would go to chaos, a stern voice came from the door way saying, "Cease this!"

Dealana stiffened at the power this man radiated, "We're making an alliance to defeat Oración Seis! This is not the time to be fighting amongst ourselves!" the newcomer that Dealana easily identified as Jura Neekis, Lamia Scale's ace.

"Jura..." Lyon greeted.

"Jura?" Erza echoed.

"He's the ace of Lamia Scale...Iron Rock Jura." Hibiki stated.

"Who?" Natsu was confused as he turned to Happy, who explained, "He's one of the Ten Wizard Saints!"

"Even I've heard his name before..." Lucy agreed. Sherry looked at the blond, "The Fairies and the Pegasus all have four people... but for us, just three is more than enough." she teased before Dealana found this moment perfect for her own entrance.

She conjured a cloud and sat cross-legged as she manipulated it lower while saying, "Maybe your guild was too scared to send more than three." her different colored eyes snapping to Sherry's in a silent challenge, "And you forgot to count Happy and I, which makes six Fairies."

"Dealana!" Happy cried, thankful for her remembering to count him.

"Why were you up there?" Lucy asked the heterochromatic mage with a sweat-drop before Dealana dissipated the cloud and stood on her feet, significantly shorter than those around her. She shrugged and pointed a thumb over her shoulder at the Trimens and Ichiya saying, "The amount of perfume they wear is nauseating more than motion sickness."

"With this, three of the guilds have gathered." Jura stated, bringing the attention back to him, "All that is left are the people from Caitshelter."

Dealana couldn't help the smile that spread on her face, she was hoping for it to be Wendy and see her friend again, but she also wished it would be under better circumstances. Her thoughts were interuppted by Ichiya speaking up from where he dangled off the edge of Erza's spear, "People? I heard it is only one person."

"One person?" Erza asked in surprise.

"They only sent one person for a mission as dangerous as this?" Gray questioned as everyone had wide eyes. Dealana was merely crossing her fingers for her friend.

"Wait...How crazy dangerous is this guy?" Lucy wondered before a familiar girl with dark blue hair ran into the manor and tripped on air. Before she could face plant on the ground, however, Dealana's hand shot out, on instinct, and conjured a low cloud that caught Wendy just in time.

Everyone followed the direction of Dealana's outstretched arm to see Wendy getting off the cloud, looking at it in confusion and recognition before her brown eyes met everyone else's. "Um...I'm sorry I'm late. I'm Wendy from Caitshelter. It's nice to meet everyone!"

Lucy was shook, "A kid?"

"A girl?" Lyon asked.

Dealana shot them both a look before turning to Wendy with a lazy grin, " Hey, Wendy! I was hoping it was you."

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This took me longer to write than I wanted, and it's longer than a few other chapters, but I figured I would squeeze the entire episode into one chapter rather than make it messy. It's the Oración Seis arc, probably my favorite, which means, I'm going to do my best to not screw it up.

In other news, Wendy is back! Cobra and Dealana's battle of sarcasm and sass is fast approaching and I'm hyped up to write this arc!

Also, can we just appreciate the gif of Gray and Lyon? I was looking for a different gif but found this one instead and I just...just look at it.