User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 408: The Definitive Demon, Review and Commentary/@comment-4933386-20141110131711/@comment-7418318-20141110142019

He sure has far more reason to hate Sting, but he also has a reason to hate them as a team.

They were pretty much the poster-children of Jiemma's guild, lauded as the strongest of all Fiore and then they got their ass whooped by Natsu. Someone like Jiemma would surely have punished the two of them severely, if he hadn't been forestalled by getting a hole blasted into his chest.