A/N: This story, in most part, retains the personality, past and magical abilities of the characters. The only thing changed is that the characters, instead of being part of a guild and taking jobs, are students at an academy for training in magic and live on-campus. They are the same age as mentioned in the manga, and this academy is not high school. Thus, they can still drink (Cana and Bacchus), and other stuff.

Lucy POV:

I had been at Fairy Hills Dorms for a few months now, and had made plenty of close friends. The girls at the dorms were very sweet to me, even though they were an unusual bunch.

I shared a room with Levy and Juvia, but that didn't matter.

Do you want to know why?

Because all the girls in the dorm had this inveterate propensity to end up in the same room.

My room.

Be it Erza, Mirajane and Cana from the room next to us, or Laki, Evergreen and Kinana from three floors below. Even Wendy, the youngest of us all, tended to end up in our dorm.

And if Levy was to be believed, this had started only after I had shown up.

Most of them even ended up having a sleepover in my bed, though they had perfectly good beds of their own down the hallway.

Today morning, I woke up to Cana snuggled up next to me, clutching a bottle of beer and whispering sweet nothings to it.

I shook my head slightly and grinned at the eternally drunk brunette.

I flung my legs out of the bed and onto the wood-panelled floor, getting up and stretching. I heard a few satisfying 'pop's from my limbs as I looked out from my window and to the building that stood opposite. Fairy Greens.

Fairy Tail was an Academy for magically gifted people, or 'mages'. It was a co-ed school, but our dormitories were strictly divided according to genders. Fairy Hills was the name for the girls' dorms, while the boys' dorms were named Fairy Greens.

A brick wall separated the two buildings standing close to each other, and though girls and guys were friends at school, that friendship instantly turned to good-natured competitiveness when it came to the dorms.

This might be because a lot of inter-dorm competitions were held throughout the year, and mages trained in Fairy Tail had a very competitive streak.

From sports and talent, to eating and even burping competitions, all were taken extremely seriously.

Every year, a new competition was declared that, along with the sports competition and quiz competition, would determine the winner of the year's dorm cup.

The sports competition this year had been won, by the margin of one event, by the boys. Erza had kicked ass at the obstacle race, overcoming a hundred monsters at once( she was scary that way), but Jet had won the races. Juvia won all the swimming competitions, but Warren won at chess (obviously. I mean, he could read minds). Evergreen won at the relay race (because she turned all her competitors to stone), but Gray won at Ice Hockey. It was going to end as a tie, but a final tie-breaker round was declared.

An eating competition.

Had it been desserts, we could still have won(Erza) ; However, it was a competition consisting solely of spicy food.

And we all know who the winner of that would turn out to be.

Natsu's shit-eating grin was visible even a month after the competition. It had prompted Erza to use him as her personal punching bag quite a few times.

And though I and Natsu were best friends, I had to admit that he deserved it.

The quiz competition had been won by the girls. Obviously, since the boys had only Freed and Hibiki who were remotely intelligent, while the girls had Levy, me, Kagura and Kinana (who looks quite shy, but is, and let me assure you, very smart).

So, at the moment, we stood quite evenly matched. All of us were just waiting for our seniors and dorm supervisors to arrive. After all, they were the ones would decide the mystery competition of the year, and who would declare the winners.

Yesterday, Mirajane had received a letter from our seniors, Mavis and Zeref ( who were dating) that they, along with Gildarts (joint firm supervisor) would be arriving today, before noon.

The atmosphere between the two buildings was charged with energy, as the girls had vowed that the victory would be theirs, and the boys had declared that the trophy belonged to them.

My eyes met Natsu's in the window opposite. He was playing with Happy, the flying blue exceed (annoying cat, he always teased her about being fat and vain).

Today, Natsu did not smile and wave at me like he usually did. Instead, he smirked challengingly at me. I returned the favour, mouthing the words "You are going down".

Rule No. 1: All former loyalties must be forgone when one steps onto the battlefield.