The following day, Natsumi was sitting at a lunch table with Gray, Lucy , and Erza, who were still shocked that Natsumi was a dragon slayer, like 5 of their other comrades, and 1 one their enemies. They were even more shocked when Natsumi told them her alias name, Salamander the Fire Mage. The news spread across the school, making her the new gossip. People would always stare at her, or try to talk to her, or try to get an autograph. Natsumi ignored them all. She was good at that.

Sting and Rogue had just walked over, and were wondering if Natsumi wanted to eat lunch with them today. She looked over to her current friends, who smiled and nodded, and so she went with them. They sat on the field, eating their meals on a picnic blanket. They looked like the worlds weirdest group; A blonde boy, Two boys with red eyes, and a girl with pink hair. Natsumi told them about Igneel, her teacher. She left out the parts about how he was captured by her evil brother, and the two had to train in secret. She found out the other three were raised by Dragons too, but Gajeel's vanished, and Sting's and Rogue's Dragons were slaughtered by the said students, but only because they told them to. The four laughed and joked until the end of lunch, telling jokes and stories.

The next lesson of that day was 'Real world surviving skills'. The class met at the forest, waiting for their teacher to arrive. Mr Clive was 10 minutes late, claiming he had problems to do with his daughter, Cana.

The first skill they were taught that day was how to start a fire, but Natsu would keep eating it after craving it so much. After all, fire was her favourite food. They then learned how to cook fish over a fire, but Natsumi just jumped into the lake, dove under and pulled out a large fish. Her blouse went clear due to the water, causing many of the boys to almost have nosebleeds, however they were calmed after realising she was bandaged up. She dried herself off using her magic as a heater, and then cooked the fish with her flaming hand. She then scoffed it down in a piggly manner, not caring that she had some left around her mouth. She was never really taught now to be a lady, unless it was her brother, forcing lessons onto her.

Everything was perfect, she had new friends, who were always there for her, and she was accepted; something she had always wanted. She wasn't a princess, she didn't have authority, she was normal, well as normal as she could be. She wanted it to last, even for a little bit. Unluckily, for her, what would soon happen would make it be anything but lasting.

It was her fifth day at her new school, and the end of the first week. An emergency assembly was held for an unknown reason. Students flooded into the hall, the different years sitting in different sections. On Natsumi's left, there was Gray, and Lucy sat next to him. On Natsumi's right was Sting, then Rogue, then Gajeel.

They found out that a tournament called The Grand Magic School Games was being held, and their school was competing. The teams would be created, and they would not be all S-Class. Natsumi got really excited, and decided to go training so she would get picked.

Sting, Rogue and Gajeel all wanted to be in the team too, and for some reason, all wanted to impress Natsumi, and be on her team at the same time.

Trials were held at the end of the day, after school. Natsumi got some extra training in at break and lunch, although it didn't really do much as it was only 1 hour and 30 minutes if you add them together.

Instead of fighting each other, the students had to do various tasks, to asses their abilities. Magic power was first, and Natsumi got 2nd place with 7368, a score she was very happy with. On the second task, everyone had to go through an obstacle course. Natsumi had a really fast time, putting her in 3rd place of the event. She told herself she would've gotten quicker if one of the obstacles didn't move. The final task was physical strength, which pleased Natsumi. She got 2nd place again, giving her a 2nd place score altogether. The man who beat her everyone was Laxus, a stuck up 3rd year, who was related to the School-Master. (A/N By the Way, I do know that its Principal, or Head teacher, but I wanted it to sound more like guild master, so this happens. Just thought I'd tell you...)

The first team, and the schools Ace team, was Laxus, Erza, Gray, Gajeel and Natsumi. Sting and Rogue sighed in defeat as Gajeel boasted.

The other team was Sting, Rogue, Juvia, Mira and Lucy. They would fight in the group battles, rather than the one on one fights.

Whilst everyone was partying, Natsumi ran home to tell Happy the good news. He was delighted, but also sad that Natsumi was leaving for a while. Natsumi entered her bedroom and excitedly started to pack her bag, putting in all of her favourite stuff, including her forever lasting lighter. It would be useful in tight situations. She picked up her bag, left the room, and waved bye to Happy. After taking a pizza slice out of the fridge, she exited her house, getting hype for the upcoming battles.

Let the Grand Magic School Games begin.

Supppp. This one is a little shorter. It was meant to over 1000, but it is around 50 words under that -_- Sorry if this was too rushed, but expect GraTsu within the next two chapters... I guess?

Thanks!