It back. Prepare yourself.
A lone cloaked figure walked to through the gate, entering the wonderful town of Magnolia. He looked around, searching for his destination.
Having no luck, he turned to a local café, walking inside to ask for directions.
As he walked in, the bell on the door chimed, alerting the female barista to his presence.
She was slightly intimidated by his appearance, a dark grey hooded cloak, opening on his steps to reveal dark blue jeans, ripped at the knees, tucked into black combat boots with bright silver laces.
However, when he spoke, her worries were washed away.
"Sorry to intrude, but I was wondering if you could give me directions to the current base of the Fairy Tail guild?" A deep, yet soothing voice asked her. (Think Gladiolus from FFXV, but smooth, not scratchy.)
"Not a problem, just follow the road east towards the forest and take the dirt road, it will lead you right there." The barista responded.
The man nodded his thanks, walking back towards the door to continue his journey. On his way his hand reached out and dropped a few thousand jewel into the tip jar, shocking the barista at the amount.
The bell on the door chimed as he walked out. "Have a nice day." He said, just before the door completely closed behind him.
Makarov Dreyar was sitting on the bar as usual, enjoying the peace and quiet, slowly sipping a mug of ale, when he heard the doors open.
'Strange. I don't sense anything.' The guild master thought as he lowered his mug and looked towards the door, spotting a figure in a dark grey cloak walking towards him.
He sat down next to the wizard saint, not saying a word.
"How can I help you, young man?" Makarov asked, quite curious at the stranger in his guild.
"What makes you call me young?" The cloaked figure responded.
"Probably the youthful air around you, stranger." The purple haired barmaid answered in a jovial manner. "What's your name Mister?"
"Only if you give yours first." The traveler responded.
"I see no problem with that." The guild master responded. "I am Makarov, the master of this guild. This is Kinana, our barmaid."
"Pleasure to meet you both. I can't tell you my real name just yet, but people have taken to calling me Wolf." He said, lowering the hood of his cloak, revealing white hair with multicolor tips, closed eyes and a bandage covered mouth and nose, flowing into his cloak.
His eyes opened to reveal slitted pupils, surrounded by amber irises. He looked first at Kinana, causing a blush to dust her cheeks, then to Makarov, getting a raised eyebrow.
"What brings you to our humble abode, young Wolf?" The man questioned, getting a sigh in response.
"I wish to join Fairy Tail and participate as a team member in the Grand Magic Games." Wolf answered without hesitation, getting surprised looks from the members of said guild.
"We would be happy to have you as a member, but what makes you think you qualify to be part of the participating team?" The wizard saint asked.
Wolf reached out his hand. "Shake my hand, and you'll find out." He said mysteriously as his irises turned a cobalt blue.
Makarov hesitated slightly, before throwing caution to the wind and grabbing the stranger's hand while staring into his eyes.
For the next two minutes, neither moved. Kinana kept looking back and forth between the two, waiting for something to happen.
"Kinana." The guild master broke the silence, attracting the barmaids' attention. "Get this man the stamp. We have much to arrange."
"I can't believe we barely made it." Lucy said as she relaxed in her shared hotel room in crocus.
"It is quite hard to believe." Erza admitted. "But we should look on the bright side. We did make it, even if it was in last place."
"Yeah. To think there are seven other guilds above us right now. We definitely have our work ahead of us." The blonde responded.
"Indeed." The requip mage said. "We will have to give it one hundred and ten percent, but we will win."
"Hey, have you noticed that some of the guild never came back from training? It's weird, right?" Lucy asked.
"It is quite strange. It's possible they were simply delayed on their way here." Erza reasoned as she requiped into pajamas. "We shall have to find out eventually. Goodnight Lucy."
"Goodnight Erza." Lucy responded as she turned off her bedside lamp.
With Fairy Tail placing eighth, Quatro Cerberus in seventh, Mermaid Heel in sixth, Blue Pegasus in fifth, Lamia Scale in fourth, and Raven Tail in third, everyone was on the edge of their seats to see the final two guilds in the game.
"In second place we have…..SABERTOOTH!" Chapati announced, getting shocked gasps from the entire coliseum.
The team for said guild walked out on to the field scowls on their faces.
"This year's first place competitor is….." Chapati paused for dramatic effect as five shadowed figures appeared from the final tunnel.
"FAIRY TAIL TEAM B!" The whole coliseum jaw dropped as Mirajane, Laxus, Gajeel, Juvia and a mystery figure emerged out of the tunnel, and into the arena, with a soft smile, a smirk, a grin, and a neutral expression, respectively, even the other Fairy Tail team. They were all wearing their normal clothing, simply colored differently. Mainly white, but with colors off all sorts making spikes at the seams. The mystery figure had the same color scheme on his hoodie, which was fully zipped, and his jeans that tucked into his combat boots.
"What the hell are you guys doing here!?" Natsu shouted out, members of several other guilds agreeing with his question.
"It seems as though there is confusion among the crowd." Yajima said. "Perhaps you should explain, Chapati."
"Of course, Yajima. You see, this year there was a new rule put into the guidelines for the tournament. It states that any guild may enter a second team, so long as both teams contain no more than two official S-class wizards each." Chapati explained, earning looks of understanding, curiosity and rage throughout the arena.
"What if there are unofficial S-class wizards on the team?" Yajima asked in an amused tone of voice as he looked towards the second Fairy Tail team.
"Well then, we would have no way of knowing, now would we?" Chapati answered as he sent a wink to the audience. "For all we know, Fairy Tail could be fooling us right now."
"What makes you say that Chapati?" Yajima asked in a voice that said he already knew the answer to his own question.
"Well as we can all see, Fairy Tail team A only has one official S-class mage, Erza Scarlet, and Fairy Tail team B has two, Laxus Dreyar and Mirajane Strauss. However, there seems to be a wild card in this deck." The hyper announcer responded. "The fifth member of Fairy Tail team B is this wild card. There are very few things we know about him. One, his alias, Wolf. Two, he joined his guild mere days before the tournament. However, the third has to be the most exciting fact yet, seeing as it comes from Master Makarov Dreyar himself. Master Makarov, if you would please enlighten the audience?"
At that, all attention was drawn to the grinning wizard saint. He stood, making his announcement even more dramatic. "Listen up everyone, because if you even think about forgetting what I'm about to say, you are sealing your own defeat." He said, unaware that only half of the audience's attention was on him.
The other half was on the field.
"Look at this pansy, he probably can even throw a decent punch." Sting comment, getting a hum of agreement from his partner Rouge, and a howl of laughter from Orga.
"I afraid I must agree, this Wolf looks like he can only yip, not howl, only bark, not bite. Not to mention the air of arrogance surrounding him." Rufus added.
"If you turn your back, -" Makarov started.
"Now, now, -" Wolf began his reply to the Sabertooth team, drawing everyone's attention to himself.
"-If you close your eyes, -"
"-don't mistake arrogance, -"
"-If you so much as blink, -"
"-when it is truly, -"
"-than he will-"
"-Confidence, -" Wolf disappeared from the arena, widening the eyes of all, pardon his team.
"-annihilate you before you can comprehend your mistake!" Makarov shouted, startling all as they watched the field.
"-and Skill." Wolf finished calmly as he reappeared behind the sabertooth team, wearing Rufus's hat on top of his hood. After a moment of silence, he vanished again reappearing back with his team, Rufus's hat reappearing on the memory mages head. Only thing was, it was now backwards, its feathers covering his face.
Chapati interrupted the silence. "If everyone would please make their way to their assigned area, we can start the first competition." He said as everyone started to make their way back through their respective tunnels.
"Just what is the first event called Chapati?" Yajima asked, pure curiosity in his voice.
"I'm glad you asked Yajima." Chapati said before answering the former wizard saints question.
"Hidden."
Welcome back everyone. I have finally become comfortable enough with writing to bring back the story that started it all. It's back and I can assure you, it is definitely here to stay.
For those curious about the writing process, I livestream most of my writing twitch, channel listed below.
This is not all, however. I am making a gamer story. I love reading them, but I notice a lack of specific aspects in all that I read. A few have some, but I'm not satisfied.
So, I'm taking matters into my own hands, and making one, the likes of which have never been seen before. So keep an eye out for it, yeah?
Sone of the day is 'Zero' by Imagine Dragons, from Ralph Breaks The Internet. I love this song, so I figured I would suggest. If you don't like, go listen to the rap-crap they currently call 'hip-hop'.
Either way, This is how it begins, and you'll simply have to wait a while to see how it ends.
Dasvidanya, Slayers.
-Dexis/TheInfiniteWolf