Chapter 1

Domus Flau was packed with spectators and guild mates of the teams that made it past the preliminaries.

"For the contest part, you can select anyone from your guild to participate," Matt announced. "For the following battle part, the organizers will pair up cards selected from the fans votes."

"What the..." Erza wondered.

"They're going to match us up on their own?" Gray said.

"So if you have bad luck, you could use up all your magical power in the contest part and end up being selected to battle?" Lucy noted.

"Without further ado, I bring you the Grand Magic Games' opening game! Let's begin 'Hidden'!"

"Each team will have one participant. After each team submits their player, I'll explain the rules."

A bulky man from Quatro Cerberus stepped up. "I'll go first, leave this to me!"

"Don't forget! Your soul is always..."

"Wild, Foh!" Team Quatro Cerberus roared.

-Quatro Cerberus: Yeager-

"If it's 'Hidden', then it'll mean our smallest member," Risley said.

A ten year old girl with an ice-blue hooded cloak from their group stepped up. "I'll go first then," she said, pulling her hood down, revealing a head of snow-white hair and skin just as pale set with a pair of sharp glacier eyes.

-Mermaid Heel: Glacia-

The masked man from Raven Tail spoke to the man with the unusually large chin. "You're up, Nullpuding."

"Gotcha."

-Raven Tail: Nullpuding-

Eve straightened his tie. "I got this," he said to his team.

"Eve-kun! Eve-kun!"

"Number one! Number one!"

-Blue Pegasus: Eve-

"One after another, each team is deciding on their player. Who will Sabertooth choose?"

The masquerade man with the feathered hat came forward. "I'll go. The birds are singing a sweet song today."

-Sabertooth: Rufus-

"They've chosen! The singing bard of the red moon! Rufus has entered!"

"Why the hell is everyone cheering like crazy over that jerk?" Natsu scowled.

"As a man, let me take a point for the team!" Elfman proclaimed.

"There's not a thing about you that feels 'Hidden', meatball," Erza said. "We don't know anything about the rules of the game, but judging from the name 'Hidden', it's going to involve stealth."

"Wendy should go, since she's so small," Lucy trailed off.

"If small is better, then maybe Yuka or I should go?" Shelia wondered.

"Don't call me small," Yuka said, annoyed.

"Oooon."

"No..." Lyon smirked. "We should grab this from the very start. I'll go."

-Lamia Scale: Lyon-

"Already?!" Toby shouted.

"Settle down," Yuka said.

"You're going, Lyon?" Shelia said.

"Yeah."

"In that case, I'll go, too." Gray smiled. "Let's find out just what kind of tournament this really is."

-Fairy Tail A: Gray-

Lyon flashed his smirk back at his rival.

"If they're sending Gray-sama, then I'll go, too!" Juvia gushed, hearts for eyes.

"Hey! If you lose on purpose, I'm gonna kick your ass!" Gajeel shouted.

-Fairy Tail B: Juvia-

I summarized Chapter 268 while typing this, which was not easy. Also, in this story, Kagura was out on a job-like the bitch Minerva-so Glacia will be in her place until Day Two. I changed the dragon scale jacket that Glacia owned into a hooded cloak with silver fastenings that reaches her heels-when she's a ten year old, that is. Sorry for discontinuing to rewrite it, but by the time the new idea came to me, it was already too late.

My apologies.

Signing off.

Divine Valor