

As we see in the series, all Dragon Slayers (not God Slayers) who are trained
by Dragons have Exceeds as partners.

Specifically there are 5 of them: Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, Sting and Rogue. Now,
Laxus is also a Dragon Slayer, but he was not trained by a Dragon and became a
Dragon Slayer by Lacrima. Is this a coincidence? Or is there a reason behind
it?


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Why do all Dragon Slayers have Exceeds?


> One-hundred Exceed eggs, including Happy and Carla, were taken from their
> parents and sent to Earth Land on a mission to obliterate the Dragon
> Slayers. When Faust began using Anima to steal Magic Power from Earth Land,
> Queen Shagotte gave the Exceed in the field new orders: To capture the
> Dragon Slayers and bring them to Edolas. The Dragon Slayers would then be
> used to create a special type of Lacrima filled with Dragon Magic.
>
> Carla decides to abandon her mission to kill Wendy and brought her to Edolas
> without knowing that her mission had been changed to simply lure Wendy to
> Edolas. She becomes very distressed by the fact that she unknowingly
> betrayed Wendy and fulfilled her mission. Happy is unable to recall the
> details of his mission but refuses to be a puppet of the Exceed, making it
> clear that he and Carla are members of Fairy Tail first and Exceed second.
> After this, they escape and are declared outlaws.
>
> This mission was later revealed to be a lie, due to the Queen's power she
> could see the events of the Edolas arc, and as such, she saw Extalia
> destroyed. So in order to keep the species alive, she sent 100 eggs to Earth
> Land to protect them, and lied about the mission to kill the Dragon Slayers
> to the other Exceed.

Source : <http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Exceed> ([specific
revision](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Exceed?oldid=650711))


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There are no connections between Exceeds and Dragon Slayers. Hiro seems to
always pair them up without any reason.

Remember, Gajeel did not want an exceed initially, but after seeing Wendy and
Natsu with one he wondered why he didn't have one. He then became jealous of
Natsu and Wendy and wanted Lilly as his comrade.


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If we follow the story of Fairy Tail from the beginning, I think it goes like
this. At first, Happy was the only Exceed. Mashima-sensei created Happy to be
some-kind of sidekick to Natsu. And then there's Gajeel. At that time Mashima-
sensei still has no idea about the Edolas Arc, so Gajeel was on his own, even
when he revealed that Laxus' thunder magic was in fact a dragon slayer magic.
Then there's Wendy, another dragon slayer. Wendy is the first female dragon
slayer, and since Happy was the only flying cat (the term Exceed was not
revealed at that time), he decided to make another flying cat, named Charle to
accompany her.

It was during this that Mashima-sensei got the idea to make Exceed as the
official sidekick of Dragon Slayers. That's why he then make Gajeel wonder why
he is the only Dragon Slayer without a cat. And after that, Exceed is the
official sidekick of Dragon Slayers. So when he created Sting and Rogue, he
created Frosche and Lector too.

Edit: The Exceed is sidekick of dragon slayers that was raised by dragons,
that is, a real dragon slayer, not the one made by embedding lacrima such as
Laxus (Thunder Dragon Slayer) and Cobra (Poison Dragon Slayer).


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Second gen dragon slayer don't get exceeds because there not connected to
dragons a lacrima was put inside them to give that magic


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I think it's just a coincidence that all of the First Gen Dragon Slayers have
Exceed partners. After all, we find out that the whole "Kill/Bring the Dragon
Slayers to Edolas" thing was made up by the queen.


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All the First and Third generation dragon slayers have exceeds because they
are basically true dragon slayers because they are or were raised by a dragon.
The queen of extalia which is now no more created a fake mission to capture
and kill the dragon slayers so the future for the exceeds could be safe,
including her daughter, Carla. The only exceed that later became a sidekick of
an dragon slayer that didn't get sent to earthland is Panther Lily, which
Gajeel made his sidekick because he was jealous of Natsu and Wendy with Happy
and Carla.


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**I agree with Ayase Eri answer**.

However i like to add some of my own points based on the episodes which shows
other Exceeds after Edolas Arc. Mashima didn't have any original plan
regarding to have Exceeds with Dragon slayer, he only created Happy as a
sidekick for Natsu. Later he decided to assign Carla to Wendy so that he can
create Edolas Arc. After Edolas Arc he decide to Make Exceed as official side
kick for Dragon Slayer and made Lily as Gajeel partner, but i don't think
there was any specific reason to assign Exceed with Dragon slayer other than
creating Edolas Arc, because in later episodes Nichiya(Exceed) join Blue
Pegasus guild which does not have any Dragon Slayer. Also i think people want
to see an Exceed with Dragon slayer that why when he created Sting and Rogue,
he created Frosche and Lector too.

<http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Exceed>

<http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Nichiya>


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