In response to an increase in dark guild activity, Makarov Dreyar announces that Fairy Tail is to coalesce with three other official guilds—Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale, and Cait Shelter—in an alliance against the Oración Seis, one of the three Balam Alliance guilds with jurisdiction over the kingdom's dark guild network. Natsu and his team are selected to represent their guild, and they rendezvous with their allies from Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale: Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki and his entourage, the Tri-men, the former of whom Erza Scarlet is repulsed by; and Lyon Vastia and Sherry Blendy, two of Fairy Tail's old enemies, who are accompanied by the legendary Wizard Saint Jura Neekis. The delegates learn that Cait Shelter has only sent a single representative: the blue-haired girl, Wendy Marvell, whose name Natsu recognizes.