Right now he was breathing slightly heavy and was sweating a lot. After catching his breath, he seems to have finally sensed my presence as he looked towards me and was slightly shocked. Maybe because he didn't expect a fourteen –year-old looking boy to be here. He straightened his back to fully show his presence as an S-cla.s.s mage and the man known as the strongest mage in Fairy Tail Guild.

Gildarts Clive.

That's right, Cana's father, the man with one of the strongest magic in the world and the person who came out of fighting Achnologia alive. I have already decided that I would first fight two of the strongest mages in Fiore to test myself and see where to improve before heading off to my next target for the harem. The first one I want to fight is Gildarts so here I am.

"What are you doing here kid? Go away, you might end up getting hurt since I am not able to fully control my magic right now." He said after looking at me for a while with curiosity.

"My name is Ray Cross. I am here to challenge you to a spar, Gildarts Clive." I replied as I gave him a small smile waiting for him to accept my challenge since he was portrayed as someone who looked forward to a good fight in the canon.

After recovering from his initial shock he told me to leave which of course I splendidly ignored and went on to challenge him to a fight. Once again, he was sent into a shocked state but recovered soon. He looked at me for a while without showing any expression on his face.

"You want to fight me? Hahaha, No way!!" He gave a hearty laugh in response to my repeated challenges before taking a page out of my book and splendidly refused me.

This time it was my turned to be stunned. I thought he was supposed to be a guy who looks forward to challenges. He was like that in the canon for sure. I mean, he gladly accepted the challenges thrown his way by Natsu and it was also quite evident by how he was portrayed. I never thought he would refuse so I didn't know what to do.

He walked away seeing me unresponsive and I finally managed to get myself together. Since you don't want to accept my challenge, then I will just follow you until you do agree. Because in your case apart from testing myself, there is also the reason of beating you up in Cana's place.

And so began my boring journey of following Gildarts. He just kept on walking aimlessly without any destination in mind while completely ignoring me. After a few weeks, I was getting more and more bored so I spread my senses to see what my girls who I have already met are up to.

There was Erza who seems to be doing a mission, Mira who was beating up some Fairy Tail members and Lisanna who was looking at the mission board alongside Elfman who seemed to have put on some muscles since the last I saw him.

And then there was Levy who was reading a book while there were two guys trying to talk to her to which she remained completely oblivious. Then there was Kagura who was training with the sword and Brandish who was also training. And lastly, Cana was, well, drinking.

As I kept looking at the girls which by the way can in no way be called stalking, Gildarts was starting to get slightly annoyed at being followed. Because right now he was finding a place to relieve himself and yet I was still following him. This gave me a great idea. I can just prevent him from taking care of his business until he completely snaps and agrees to fight me.

But, I underestimated his will power and finally his shamelessness. He held himself back for about two days until he finally couldn't. but instead of bursting out at me he shamelessly relieved himself right there and then while looking at me with a smug smile on his face.

I didn't like neither that smug face of his or the fact that my idea failed. So, I teleported a few snakes from the forest and put them on his body while he was in the middle of p.i.s.sing. Well what was his reaction you might be thinking.

He froze. He rigidly, like a robot looked over his body which was holding on to a few snakes one of which he saw was heading towards his family jewels and he screamed his lungs out. And the fact that he had to stop midway also didn't help as his jewels were hurting. After he managed to get the snakes off he was holding onto his jewels while crouching and quickly ran towards a tree and without looking at me quickly emptied his tank before coming at me and lashed out.

"What the h.e.l.l was that for? What would you have done if those snake had bitten me?" He was literally venting all his annoyance from the past few days with that as he looked like he was about to pop a vein.

"I didn't like the look you were giving me." I replied as nonchalantly as possible while trying to hold my laughter from leaking out and displayed the most innocent face I could show.

In his view I had said that with a completely innocent face and a straight and honest reply which made his mouth twitch and I can see a few nerve appearing on his forehead. Good, good, I just need to give a final push.

"If you agree to fight me I would just leave after the fight. You are the one making this hard so I am just giving you your just desserts." I finally proposed the condition for leaving him alone as I once again challenged him.

"Haah, look kid. It's not that I don't want to fight you but it's that I can't. you see when I met you at that mountain I had gotten myself injured after I went too hard on myself while training. It will take me some time before I will be able to fight again." He stayed silent for a while and quickly calmed himself before looking at me seriously and then finally sighed.

"That's it? Why didn't you say so? You wasted so much of my time, you stupid old man!!" hearing what he said almost blew my fuse. If he had just told me then I would have healed him.

This d.a.m.n idiot. I could have already finished my fight with him and fought with the second before going to meet my future wives by now. This dumba.s.s kept me from my wives. Alright, this isn't just about testing myself or beating him up for Cana. It's about all the girls who are in the harem and the girls who will be in it in the future.

I quickly teleported us to a gra.s.sland where no one was around so that I could beat his a.s.s for delaying me. He seemed to be sweating buckets while looking at my expression, haha you better be scared Gildarts cause I'm gonna beat you up so bad your mother won't recognize you. I healed him by using time and both of us got ready to fight without any useless words.

Gildarts Clive