User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 300: Where the Dragon's Soul Rests, Review and Commentary/@comment-36.68.197.11-20120922104941/@comment-5268982-20120922105545

About recruiting 5 strange but capable mage, the fifth may have been Yukino, for all we know.

As for your second idea...I admit it sounds AWESOME! What a twist that would be...