Yo guys! How are you guys doing? Flaredragon here with this chapter! I just want to say, thanks for those reading my stories and for those following and favoring this story. Oh yeah, one more thing,
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I don't own Fairy Tail or any of it's characters. If I did, I would have of gotten Natsu and Lisanna being close again and have them be together.
The only thing I own are my oc's.
'Ice-Make Magic' The type of magic
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Announcing the magic move
"(text)" People talking
'(text)' People thinking
"(text)" Beasts/dragons/powerful beings talking
'(text)' Beasts/dragons/powerful beings thinking
Chapter 4
"Now let's begin the Grand Magic Games!" Chapita exclaimed as more cheers were heard. Out of nowhere, the short pumpkin headed man appeared in the middle of the groups.
"Alright, it's time to explain the rules of the game-kabo!" He exclaimed excitedly, "But first, my name is Mato-kabo!"
"Anyway, here's how this year's games will be. Each day will have two events, one of them being a surprise event. The event will vary for each day. The teams will receive points by how well they placed for that event of the day. So the team that comes in first in the competitions will receive the most points. Like this."
Mato thrusted his hand up towards the sky and a huge board came out of the ground. The board was easily reaching twenty feet. All the mages were either shocked at the display or impressed. The board had big golden letters that read:
1st place: 10 points
2nd place: 8 points
3rd place: 6 points
4th place: 4 points
5th place: 3 points
6th place: 2 points
7th place: 1 points
8th place: 0 points
"This is how you'll be scored, understand?"
All the competitors nodded and gestured the mascot/referee to continue.
"As for the second event of the games, it will battles." This got the teams interested, especially Natsu and Gray.
"The battles will be between one member from one team against one member from another. Such as so." Mato snapped his fingers and the words from the board changed to form the next ones.
Team A vs Team B
Team C vs Team D
Team E vs Team F
Team G vs Team H
"The scoring is pretty simple, for any winner they shall receive ten points for their team while the loser gets nothing. The battles have a time limit, so if you do not finish by then, then it will be considered a draw. Each team will receive five points if it ends in a draw. Now if you don't have any questions, ON WITH THE GAMES!"
The entire stadium cheered for the games to begin. Mato snapped his fingers again and the board sunk back into the ground.
"For the first part of the event, we will need each team to choose one of their players." Mato instructed as he pointed to all the teams.
"I'm going in." Jager from Quatro Cerberus. "Wild…FOUR!" Jager's the type of man that's as big as Elfman, and just as muscular. Jager was shirtless with red pants and white fingerless gloves. His only accessories were black earmuffs and a spiked collar.
"It looks like Jager is going in for Quatro Cerberus!" Chapita exclaimed through his mic.
"Kagura-san, can I do this?" One of the girls from Mermaid Heel asked their captain of the team, who just nodded. The girl smiled and walked forward toward the referee. The girl was petite compared to the other girls in the competition. She has ginger hair in two braided pig tail and wore a white shirt under blue overalls.
"Do your best Beth." Kagura said in her usual stoic expression.
In Team Raven Tail, their team leader looked at a short man with purple skin.
"Nullpudding, you're up." Their team leader, Alexei, ordered. Nullpudding chuckled darkly,
"If that's what you want."
"And it looks like Beth from Mermaid Heel and Nullpudding from Raven Tail; how interesting." Yajima commented.
In Lamia Scale's team, Lyon volunteered. His clothes were simple, dark pants with a plain dark blue shirt under a white trench coat. The reason his attire is simple because, like his rival Gray, tends to unintentionally strip and lose his clothes.
"Good luck Lyon, I know you will do well." Jura encouraged while a small pinkette was cheering on for Lyon.
"You can do it Lyon!" The pinkette cheered with glee.
"Thanks Chelia." Lyon gave her a sly smirk.
"If Lyon's entering then I'm going in as well." Gray declared with gusto.
"Gray and Lyon, both infamous ice mages, are in the game, I can feel my blood pumping from the excitement!" Chapita yelled out as he gripped his mic. "Who will the remaining teams chose?!"
"I'll go for Blue Pegasus." Eve volunteered with half the girls in the stadium cheering for him.
"Yay! Eve-san is going for my guild!" Jenny chirped excitedly.
"Who's going in our team?" Ryu asked. Natsu smiled and began cracking his knuckles.
"I'm going in, I wanna kick some ass." Ryu sighed when he saw that glint in Natsu's eyes whenever he was going to fight.
"No way Salamander! I'll be the one kicking ass." Gajeel snarled. Both dragon slayers head butted and glared daggers at each other.
"I'll fight!" Natsu yelled.
"No I'll fight!" Gajeel countered.
"No me!"
"Me!"
"I said me damn it!"
"I'll do it." Laxus intervened before walking to the group of competitors. Both Fairy teams were surprised to see the usual stoic Laxus volunteering, but they're not complaining. Not many people can beat Laxus in anything. Mira giggled.
"Maybe next time Natsu, okay?" Mira suggested as she placed her hand on Natsu's shoulder.
"Okay…" Natsu trailed off, not really interested in the competition any more.
In Sabertooth's team, the man in the masquerade attire walked up to the group.
"I'll be taking this challenge. I hope it would give me a good challenge." The blonde haired man said in an elegant manner as everyone cheered for him.
"It appears that Laxus from Fairy Tail and Rufus from Sabertooth have joined in. Both very powerful mages, I can't believe this!" Chapita yelled out.
Everyone else went to their respective booths and saw Mato explain the event. Everyone but Natsu and Ryu and Gajeel listened to the mascot/referee. These three dragon slayers tensed up when they felt something, or possibly someone, within the stands.
"Salamander…" Gajeel warned.
"I felt it too." Natsu replied as he looked around the stands to pinpoint the spot of that feeling."
"I felt it inside the stadium, possibly near the clinic room." Ryu said, he turned towards his fellow dragon slayers but found them gone.
"Damn it, couldn't they have waited for me?" He ran to follow his team mates.
"I guess I have to watch the games then." Mira said to herself before sighing, watching the mages beginning on the event called 'Hidden'.
~In front of the clinic room~
All three dragon slayers searched half of the stadium before meeting up again in the clinic area.
"Did you find anything?" Natsu asked.
"Nothin'." Gajeel sighed before grabbing an iron nail his pocket and began chewing on it.
"Me neither." Ryu said. This didn't sit well with the dragon slayers. They have the best senses in the city. They could smell, see and hear anything from at least a mile away. So how come they couldn't hunt down that weird presence?
"Man, this is a waste of time. I'm going back to the games. You two can stay here and find that thing if ya want." Gajeel said before walking off to join Mira on seeing the games. Natsu and Ryu decided to check the place again in case they missed something.
"So Natsu," Ryu said, "How are you holding up?"
Natsu chuckled, "I could be better but it's really starting to annoy me."
"It wouldn't be so bad if you already chosen someone." Ryu smirked when he saw Natsu blush.
"It's not that easy, especially with my problem." Natsu murmured the last part as his blush grew darker. Ryu rolled his eyes.
"Other men would be happy if they were in your shoes Natsu. Appreciate it and choose someone quickly, or else you'll lose control on your instincts."
"Yeah yeah, I know but it will take a while." The dragon slayers gave up on their search and went back to their balcony. What they didn't realize was that two cloaked figures were hiding behind a door and heard Natsu and Ryu's talk.
"What do you think they were talking about?" The first cloaked figure asked. The second one, who was shorter and slimmer than the first, shrugged her shoulders.
"Not sure, maybe something about fighting something in the games." The second said with little care.
"Then why was Natsu blushing?"
"How should I know?" The two cloaked figures decided to leave the area and discuss it later.
~Back to the Games~
"How much did we miss?" Ryu asked. Mira gave a small frown while Gajeel looked pissed.
"We didn't do so well." Mira said, "Gray got last place, but that was because Raven Tail kept targeting him. Laxus didn't do any better. He got seventh place."
Natsu and Ryu were shocked, "How? I thought he would've gotten at least second place." Mira shook her head.
"We thought so too but something happened in the middle of the event. His movements slowed down and all his attacks became weak, it was as if he lost his all his strength and power."
"That can't be right." Natsu thought aloud. Mira nodded in agreement, but there nothing they could do about the event now.
"What's going on now?" Ryu asked. Mira smiled and pointed towards the arena,
"Right now Lucy is fighting one of the mages from Raven Tail. I think her name was Flare." Both dragon slayers looked and saw both mages brawling. Lucy was doing well against the Raven mage. The mage was a fiery red ginger, with eyes just as red. Her dress is red and opened to show off her voluptuous body. Her gloves nearly each up to shoulders, just below her 'X' shaped scar on her left arm.
Flare's hair was free from her braids and formed itself into a large wolf-like shape with teeth and claws.
"Hair Shower: Wolf Fang!"
The wolf-like hair lunged at Lucy with its teeth bared and ready to chew into pieces. Lucy was able to dodge and pulled out one of her keys. She did a slash like motion and pointed the key down.
"It looks like Flare from Raven Tail starts with the first move." Yajima stated.
"Open, Gate of the Giant Crab: Cancer!"
A bright light soon appeared next to Lucy and quickly faded showing the spirit, who looked a lot like a hair stylist with two large shrimps on his head.
"Anything particular haircut you want, ebi?" Cancer asked Lucy while doing a pose with his scissors. Lucy ducked under the wolf's attack and kicked it away.
"NO! I want you to cut that wolf to pieces!" Lucy yelled out as she kept dodging the wolf.
"You got it, ebi!" And just like that, Cancer sprinted toward the wolf and cut him to pieces in a matter of seconds. The crowd was cheering for the exciting battle in front of them. As for Fairy Tail, everyone was cheering Lucy on and giving her great encouragement.
Flare looked at the remaining pieces of her wolf and glared at Lucy,
"You dare cut my precious hair?! Unforgivable!" Flare's hair began to extend and began lashing towards the celestial mage. Lucy side stepped away from the attacks with some ease. After the first ten attacks, Lucy grabbed a handle from her side and aimed it at Flare, water flowed out of the handle and formed itself into a whip.
"Fleuve d'étoiles!"
Lucy used her water whip and was able to hit Flare a few times while dodging Flare's attacks. The fight looked pretty one sided to the spectators. This actually surprised most of audience since they didn't believe that Fairy Tail had a chance at all, well all except Fairy Tail of course.
"Damn, Lucy has gotten good." Gray commented as he saw Lucy getting closer to Flare and kicking her at the core.
"Of course, it was all thanks to her training and her second origin." Erza said, proud of Lucy's skills.
"Uh Erza-san? I thought it was mostly her second origin? You guys barely had any time to do proper training." Wendy said, causing Erza, Gray and Juvia to deflate a little from that painful reminder.
"I forgot about that…" Erza mumble under her breath. Wendy sweat dropped, feeling kind of guilty for causing her team mates to feel this way. She just ignored her team mates' actions and continued to watch the fight.
After Lucy got Flare on the ground, she pulled out two golden keys and summoned the spirits,
"Open, Gate of the Golden Bull: Taurus!"
"Open, Gate of the Scorpion: Scorpio!"
Two flash appeared before fading away and revealing two of Lucy's spirits. One of them was a big, bulky spirit that resembled a humanoid cow. The other was a man with black and white hair with a metal-like scorpion tail.
"Amazing! Lucy from Fairy Tail was able to summon two spirits! Is this the true strength of Fairy Tail?" Chapita yelled through the mic.
"Taurus, Scorpio! Combo Attack!" Lucy shouted.
"You got it!" Scorpio shouted while crossing his arms in a pose.
"Anything for you and your booooody." Taurus yelled as he pulled out his ax.
Both spirits sprinted towards the ginger mage with great speed. Scorpio conjured up a sand storm and moved towards Taurus, who caught the storm with his ax and sent a powerful swing at Flare. The sand storm with the ax swing crashed into the mage and sent her towards the wall of the arena. Flare took a while to get back up, her legs were a bit shaky and she had a few new bruises.
"Damn blonde…" Flare muttered as she glared at the Fairy mage.
"Are you ready to give up?" Lucy asked while getting in a defensive mode. Both of her spirits returned to the spirit world.
Flare began to laughing and gave Lucy and crazed grin, "Actually, I'm having fun."
"Eh?"
Flare gave a small gesture to Lucy's guild booth. Lucy looked over and gasped. She saw a strand of Flare's hair hiding behind Fairy Tail's youngest member…
…Asuka Connell.
"Asuka! Guys wat-hmmph!" Flare's hair covered Lucy's mouth before another strand grabbed her leg and swung her and dragged her across the floor.
"What's this?! Just a few seconds ago Lucy was winning the match but now Flare has the advantage!" Chapita said
Flare laughed as she continued to drag Lucy around and smashing her against the floor of the arena. Lucy was getting covered in bruises and scrapes as she dealt more and more hits, as well as her clothes getting torn from the thrashing, with got some the guys from the stands excited. Flare got bored with throwing her around so she placed Lucy in front of her and smiled.
"Enjoying your beating Blonde?" Flare got more strands of hair and grabbed both her arms and rose her up to the air.
"Let's see, what should we do now?" Flare saw Lucy struggling and looked disappointed.
"You shouldn't struggle now Blonde, not unless you want that poor little girl to suffer." Flare whispered. Lucy's eyes widened and looked down.
"I know what we could do! I could brand my guild's mark on you." To prove it, Flare's hair formed into her guild's emblem and got coated in flames.
"Let's try to brand this little beauty on your guild mark." Flare said with a crazed smile. Lucy really tried to struggle free but she knew if she did, then Asuka would be hurt.
Right before Flare could brand the mark, Lucy saw Natsu running towards Asuka and took the hair from behind the small child and ripped it from the ground, surprising everyone around him. Asuka's parents grabbed the young girl and kept her in their arms while Natsu burned the strand of hair.
"I heard it…"Natsu mumbled.
"I heard what that woman said…" He continued, he turned to Lucy and smiled.
"You can stop holding back now Luce!" He shouted at the celestial mage, who smiled back and broke free from Flare's grip. Lucy grabbed her magic whipped and returned Flare the favor and thrashed her around.
"I can't believe it! Lucy has turned the tables against Flare again. Do you think she will be able to beat Flare before time runs out?" Chapita asked his two commenter's.
"I believe so." Yajima stated while nodding.
"I think so too. She's pretty tough, but I still think that Blue Pegasus will win." Jenny proudly stated, throwing her hands in the air.
"Your guild isn't fighting though…"Chapita sweatdropped.
Lucy stopped her whip and let Flare rest. Once she saw Flare beginning to regain her footing, Lucy pulled golden key of Gemini to help her with her final move. As she about to summon Gemini, she felt weak. Her legs began wobbling and her arms shook. Soon she got on her knees and fell, Gemini's key faling out of her hand. Her magic was gone.
"Eh?" Flare looked confuse until she realized it and looked at her guild's booth. Her master was smirking and gesture to a blue skinned man next to him.
'So it was you…'Flare thought before looking at the fallen blonde in front of her. She smiled and laughed. Soon the people at the audience began to join her and mocked Lucy.
"I…I don't really know what happened but it appears that Flare from Raven Tail is the winner." Chapita declared. Yajima glared at the area where Raven Tail, knowing what just happened. Jenny just looked as confused as everyone else. The audience was still laughing.
"What was that? That was pathetic!"
"I knew that Fairy Tail would lose! They've always lost!"
"She just fell down! That's just pathetic and weak hearted!
"Go back to your shitty guild blonde!"
Lucy began to cry as she heard more and more of what the audience had to say. She curled up into a ball and shook. She was getting ready to sob when she felt two warm arms carrying her.
"N-natsu?" She asked when she saw the familiar pink mop of hair.
"Don't cry Luce." Natsu said in a gentle tone, "You did great Luce, you really got her good."
Lucy didn't trust herself to speak so she just buried her face into Natsu's chest.
"Don't worry Luce, you'll get another chance, I know it."
Natsu carried Lucy up to their respected booths and ignored all the insults the audience had. He handed Lucy to Erza and Gray and left her to his team. Erza and the rest of her team thanked Natsu. Wendy from behind and hugged him.
"Thanks for doing that Natsu-san." Wendy said, "I think Lucy really appreciated it."
Natsu gave Wendy his signature grin and ruffled up her hair a bit, causing her to blush. He returned to his team and saw Ryu and Gajeel bickering. He ignored the two and got next to Mira.
"Where's Laxus?"
"I'm not sure. I think he went to the nearest place to get a drink." Mira answered before looking at the fight between Ren and Arana.
"I'm glad for what you did for Lucy Natsu. That was very kind of you." Mira said.
"It was nothing; anyone else in the guild would've done the same for her." Natsu said sheepishly, scratching the back of his back.
"Maybe." Mira said below her breath, her cheek were rosy red as she thought about Natsu's sweet and caring side. It really made her happy of how Natsu could be so destructive and powerful could still be gentle and kind.
The fight between Ren and Arana didn't last too long. Ren was the winner in the end. The next one was a mage called Warcry from Quatro Cerberus and Orga from Sabertooth. Their fight was even quicker than the previous one. Orga won the fight in less than two minutes, with one small move of black lightning.
"Okay, we are coming to the final match of the day! The fight will be from Fairy Tail Team B and Lamia Scale!"Chapita stated as he heard the audience cheering for the final fight.
"Please wait a moment before we announce the fighters."
"So it's finally our turn eh?" Gajeel ask before grinning, "I can't wait beat the shit out of the poor sucker."
"We don't know who's fighting yet Gajeel." Mira said but Gajeel wasn't listening. Natsu wasn't any better as he thought of who he will fight.
"Hey guys, I'm back." Laxus said, looking like he was bored. Mira gave him a stern look, "Where have you been?"
"I just went outside for some beer." Laxus said, "And flirting."
"With who?" Mira questioned.
Laxus frowned and looked away, "None of your business."
Mira giggled, "She turned you down, didn't she?"
"Shut it."
"Alright! Ours next fighters are Ryu from Fairy Tail and Jura from Lamia Scale!" Chapita shouted with excitement. Erveryone's cheers doubled when they heard Jura's name.
"Who's Jura?" Ryu asked.
"He's the ace of Lamia Scale; he's a Wizard Saint…"Mira explained, worried for Ryu's well being.
"He can't be that tough, right?" Ryu asked, feeling nervous when he heard 'Wizard Saint'.
"Don't worry man, I'm sure you'll do fine." Natsu assured his pal and slapped him on the back.
Ryu smiled at Natsu and walked toward the arena.
"He's fucked isn't he?" Gajeel asked.
"Without a doubt." Laxus answered. Natsu glared at the two and yelled,
"Shut up! You two don't even know him!"
~Down at the arena~
Ryu and Jura were staring at each other, looking for any advantage, any weak points.
"So you're a wizard saint?" Ryu asked the taller man.
"I am, I hope that doesn't stop you from fighting me though." The larger man stated calmly.
Ryu laughed, "As if! A wizard Saint is only a title, I just hope you're as tough as Natsu."
The pumpkin headed referee appeared between them and shouted, "Alright, are you both ready, kabo?"
Jura smiled, "Ready."
Ryu smirked, "Ready to kick your ass."
"Kabo, in that case BEGIN!"
Everyone in the arena cheered for the match. All of the guild competing were watching as the wizard saint and the new member of Fairy Tail in their stances.
"Get ready to lose." Ryu said before sprinting towards Jura with a wind incased fist. He was inches from connecting it to Jura's before Jura karate chopped Ryu's head, planting his face to the ground. Everyone cringed when his face connected and caused a web of cracks.
Everyone from Fairy Tail was shell shocked from seeing a quick wipe out. Erza's team couldn't believe it while Wendy was worried for her father.
"I knew he was fucked." Laxus said.
"I thought I was the one that said it." Gajeel corrected.
Ryu wasn't responding for a while. Jura looked surprised,
"I'm sure I held back enough for you to a least hit me." He said as he inspected the downed mage.
"Well, that was quite disappointing." Yajima stated with a sigh. Chapita nodded in agreement,
"It appears that the winner of this match is-"
"Hold it!"
Everyone turned to the voice and was surprised to see Ryu coming up from the ground and dusted off the dirt and sand on him. He chuckled and looked at the surprised Jura.
"That's some strength you got there, but you are going to need a lot more than that to actually take me down."
Ryu ran to Jura again. Jura threw another chop but Ryu stepped to the side and turned around, facing his back. Ryu threw a powerful palm strike and sent Jura flying across the arena. Jura summoned a pillar of rock to catch himself and stop his flight. He slid down the pillar and looked at Ryu.
"That was impressive, your name is Ryu right?"
"It is, I'm Ryu Marvell, a dragon slayer." Once again, everyone was shell shocked. Everyone knew about dragon slayers and how it's a lost magic.
Wind formed around Ryu and his brown eyes glowed neon blue.
"You're an earth mage right?" Jura slowly nodded, observing his interesting opponent.
Ryu smiled, "That's great, an earth mage versus a Sky Dragon Slayer." The sky mage gave Jura a toothy grin, showing off his big canines.
"Bring it Wizard Saint."
A/N: And that's the fourth chapter for this story. It took me a really, really long time to get this chapter done because of the fights, also because of school. I'm glad that it's almost over, the school year I mean. I'll be working on my other stories. Oh yeah, I think I'm going to change this to M for a bit of swearing and possibly some other reasons in the future chapters.
Please review or send me PMs for any ideas you have for the story, I'm open minded.
April 24, 2016
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