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Grays POV
*time skip 3 months~ at Crocus *
The train station was packed. I had just gotten off a 14 hour train ride. I had been training by going on the most dangerous S-class missions I could take. The last mission had been one of the most difficult I had ever faced.
I had to take down three dark guilds that had formed they're on alliance. The mages were all skilled and I barely completed the task. I almost lost my life in the process too. Man, I was still bruised and sore as hell. Never before had I felt magic on that caliber either. No wonder the Magic Council didn't do a thing about it. No regular rune knight squadron would have been able to complete the task, let alone make it out with their lives. An alliance would have drawn too much attention though and tipped them off, so they decided to make it an S-class job.
They had sent the request out to multiple guilds as well, but since the Grand Magic Games were in a week no one bothered with it except me. Yeah, you got it right; I completed the mission in 1 week. Most of the week was spent traveling to the location though. I was able to take out all three dark guilds in 3 days time total. The other 4 days were solely spent on traveling to get there and back.
As I made my way out of the station I looked around. It was the day before the Games were supposed to start. You could see that people from all around Fiore had come all the way to the capital of the country. You could all so see merchandise based off of the favorite guilds being sold. Shirts with guild stamps designed on them. People dressed up as their favorite mages. Posters dedicated to the guild they were rooting for, or posters with messages like 'Go get them Lyon!' or, 'I love you Eve!' and even 'The era of manly men is here!'. I simply shook my head at all the nonsensical joy. It wasn't a disapproving nod though. It was rather one of those head shake things that you did while laughing in an attempt to make the extra movement calm you down or something. That was when I heard it.
"KYA! OMG IT'S THE ICE PRINCE!" screamed some random girl at the top of her lungs while pointing at me. Suddenly I was surrounded by girls and guys alike. They swarmed around me. Some shoving pens and papers towards me so that they could get an autograph, while others just grabbed me and took pictures.
I sighed at the craziness of it all. Sometime between me becoming an S-class wizard and the first Grand Magic Games, that I competed in without Lucy being in the guild, some random people just started calling me nicknames. The first one was the Ice Prince, and the second one was The Knight of Ice/ The Ice Knight. I have no clue who came up with them, all I know is that they seem to have stuck. I really couldn't care less though.
As the craziness ensued I quickly dropped to my hands and knees among the growing crowd, before crawling my way out of the mass of people. People got confused about where I went. As I finally crawled my way out I got up and ran to the designated inn that we'd be staying at. It was the same inn—the Honey Bone Lodge—that we used the first time we entered the games. As I entered the inn I was met with all of the other guild members backs to me and Master starting a speech while standing on a table, before he started though he saw me.
"Gray!" he shouted enthusiastically. He jumped off of the table and ran towards me before hugging me. "Baka, why would you take such a dangerous mission by yourself?!" He yelled at me after breaking off the hug. My only response was the quirking of one eyebrow.
"Oh, don't give me that stupid answer of 'it was the best way to train myself to become stronger'. Seriously Gray, you could have gotten seriously hurt. Taking down three dark guilds by yourself, in a week none the less, is a very stupid and very dangerous thing to do alone."
"What, you don't trust me and my skills?" I asked with a hint of amusement and faked offense.
"Oi, don't get smart with me!" He yelled at me, but you could tell in his eyes that he was proud of how much I had grown these last three years. He turned his back on me and started back towards the table while yelling at me "I don't have time to deal with you now. We'll talk later."
As soon as master said that everyone else rushed up to me. I was given hugs and pats on the back, and then I heard Natsu.
"Hey, ice princess, you trying to show off to everyone by completing the hardest missions ever in a matter of weeks?" I would have thought it was an insult except for the grin on his face and his joking tone.
You see, while I was still angry with everyone about their forgetting Lucy and causing her pain, I forgave them. I can't stay mad and resentful toward them, they are my nakama after all, and they have been there for me countless times in the past.
Yeah, so messed up, right? Well, just is who I am.
I was about to send some smart $$ (done purposefully) comeback at him but master spoke before I could reply.
"Listen up brats, the games are starting tomorrow. We will have two teams compete this year as well. On team A it's Natsu, Erza, Wendy, Lisanna, and Gray." Everyone cheered before they got quiet so master could continue "On team B it will be Laxus, Juvia, Gajeel, Mirajane, and Cana!" Everyone started cheering again before once again quieting down. "Now, there's most likely gonna be a preliminary event, because they have the 12:00 curfew rule this year as well. Be prepared! Now, let's head for number 1 again this year!" He screamed. I was the only one who heard him quietly tack on "Let's also find Lucy and make her see we miss her, and that we do care. Let's make her proud."
I smiled sadly at master when he turned his head towards me. He smiled back before jumping off of the table and walking towards the bar.
It was only 4:00 so we had a bit less than 8 hours to kill. I decided to go explore the city. I walked out of the Lodge, but not before putting on a baseball cap and a pair of sunglasses. I didn't want a relapse of earlier today to happen again.
I was aimlessly walking around when I randomly bumped into the trimens and Ichiya.
"Oh, hey you guys." I said casually.
"Oh, hey Gray" everyone chimed except for Ichiya who first screamed men before saying hi to me.
"What brings you out this evening?" I asked.
"Probably the same as you." said Ren. I only arch a brow as my response.
"We are looking for Lucy. She took out a dark guild all on her own and took out the master in 5 seconds flat. Since she's in a guild, and they are probably participating, then we need to know what our competition is capable of." stated Hibiki logically.
"I was searching for Lucy. I'll admit to that, but not for the same reasons as you all. Well, may as well search for her together." came my response.
They only nodded before we set out. We wasted most of the rest of the day this way, talking about random stuff for conversation, checking out the competition, and searching for Lucy and her guild. We did, of course, take a couple of breaks and get something to eat though. It was an hour before 12 when we decided to stop and head back to our own guilds.
I was a bit upset that we hadn't found Lucy, but figured that if she was really participating in the games, then she and her team mates would definitely pass the preliminary event.
With this knowledge in mind I made my way back to the Honey Bone Lodge. Everyone else was already there by the time I arrived. We made small talk until it was 12. As soon as it was Mato appeared in his usual pumpkin costume above the city.
"To all the guilds here for the Grand Magic Games, good morning, pum! In order to reduce the participating teams from113 down to eight we will now begin this year's preliminary event. You all know why we are doing this so let's get straight to the rules, pum!"
Suddenly the city shifted. Everything started to move outward in a giant circle. Once everything had moved out in to the giant circle we noticed something. Inside of the vast circle were these long poles that were anywhere from 70 to 80 feet straight up. They looked as if they had been embedded into the ground. Suddenly water started to gush into the vast expanse. Once the thing was filled we realized that the vast expanse was supposed to be a lake bed. Damn, they ended up creating their own lake. The lake had to be at least 60 feet deep based off of how much of the poles were left out of the water.
"Your job is to make it to the island in the center of the lake, pum! Once you get there you will have to find a way from the island to the arena. You must head to the island first though. There is something waiting for you there, a prize that will help you in the games, only if you find it though.
"You are allowed to use any magic that you would like during this challenge, but all five members of your team must make it to the finish line if you are to be one of the participating eight teams. Oh, and one more thing, we take no responsibility for anyone who loses their life in the event, pum!"
All of a sudden a bridge formed taking us to the edge of the lake and the poles. "Now, the Grand Magic Games preliminary event has begun pum!"
"Follow me!" I quickly screamed and started running on the bridge. I already had a plan formed on how to deal with this portion of the event.
I stopped at the edge of the manmade lake and screamed "Ice-Make: Stairs!" All of a sudden a gigantic staircase appeared before me. By now everyone had caught up to me and we ascended the stairs. When we reached the top I took a moment to see what was happening beneath us. I could see people fighting on top of the poles. Some, who could use air magic, were flying towards the island while using their magic to carry their team mates toward the island. What surprised me though was the group of 5 cloaked people jumping from pole to pole like ninjas. They were already three quarters of the way to the island, successfully leaving everyone, and I mean everyone, in the dust.
"What now, Gray?" I heard Erza yell at me.
"This" I simply stated before yelling "Ice-Make: Slide!" Suddenly a huge slide started to form in front of me. I jumped on and yelled at the others to hurry up. I jumped on and kept using my magic to form the slide as I descended toward the island. I added a couple of twists and turns because if we had just gone straight down the speed and momentum would have been too much for the others. As we all slid down the ice slide I saw us pass everyone. I suddenly saw Lyon. He had made a bridge of ice that he and his comrades were currently running on. As we passed by them he saw me and he looked like he was mentally cursing himself for not thinking of something along the lines of what I had. In order to piss him off a bit I smirked in his direction and waved to him as we quickly passed him.
We passed all of our competitors quickly and reached the island within a couple of minutes. As we reached the end of the slide everyone jumped off of my ice slide, the only difference was that while I had jumped off and ran a few steps because of the still quite fast momentum. Everyone else had to tuck and roll.
I quickly scanned my surroundings. Like any island there was sand at the edge of the island where the land met water, unless it was cliff drop off. The island was covered in trees, and at the center of it was a small mountain. I saw that there were already some sets of foot prints in the sand surrounding us. From the looks of it I deciphered that it was five different sets of prints. It was probably the people I had seen earlier.
"Good going ice princess." said Natsu with his signature grin.
"It's the Ice Prince you idiot." I said calmly and walked away from the group I was heading straight for the tree line, right in the direction of the small mountain. I quickly looked over my shoulder and called out to them "You all do realize that that was only the first half, right? We still have the other half, so let's get going." I then heard all of them jog to catch up to me.
"So what now Gray-san?" asked Wendy.
"Look for anything suspicious. They said that we could obtain prizes here that would help us in the games. Keep your eyes open." I replied softly. Everyone nodded and started looking around them while walking on.
We went on in silence for a couple of minutes when Lisanna suddenly exclaimed "Hey minna, look over there she said running towards something.
"Lisanna wait, it could be a trap!" I screamed worriedly before chasing after her with everyone hot on my heels.
I saw what she was pointing at. It was a piece of paper attached to a string that was dangling from a tree.
Lisanna ran straight up to it and untied the piece of paper from the string. She opened it and read it while the rest of us looked around for any hint of a threat. When we didn't find any we all turned to Lisanna who was staring at the sheet of paper confusedly.
"I think…that this is a prize that helps with the games."
…"What?" came Erza's confused reply.
"Just as she said, it's a prize, pum." We all quickly spun around at the sound of the new voice. We saw that it was a 3D projection of Mato. "You can use that during the games, but it's only good for one use, and it has to be used in the first 4 days of the competition. It's invalid on the last day, pum.
"Now, your task is to make it off this island and make it to the entrance of the arena. The only way to get there is with the use of magic, pum. You may want to get a move on, the other competitors will arrive shortly, and one team all ready found a prize and is heading towards the arena as we speak, come to think of it, they're almost there, pum. Good luck, pum." And with that the projection faded out.
We only looked at each other before we ran towards the mini mountain. Once we reached the base of it we started climbing, once we reached the top we looked to see how close our competition was to us. Some were already searching the island as well. We all just looked at each other before setting off.
"Animal Soul: Wings" Lisanna says, successfully turning only her arms into a pair of wings.
"Requip: Black Wing Armor" Erza requipped into the said armor, which gives her the ability to fly for a bit.
"Ice-Make: Kite" I made the kite underneath me and right before it went up into the air I grabbed Wendy and Natsu and pulled them on. Natsu immediately sunk down onto the ice kite getting motion sickness. I only shook my head at his pathetic self before flying towards the arena. Lisanna and Erza were right next to me the entire way there.
As we sped towards the arena I looked around searching for the other team that Mato had said had already found their prize ahead of us and were on their way to the arena. When I didn't see them I sighed inwardly. Looks like we're coming in second this year for the preliminaries,I thought to myself.
We finally reached the arena and I made the ice kite shatter into millions of pieces once we had landed. Lisanna transformed her arms back to normal, and Erza requipped back into her regular heart kreuz armor.
We then all walked up to the entrance to the arena, except for Natsu. I ended up having to carry the still sick feeling dragon slayer over my shoulder. We reached the entrance and found Mato waiting there for us.
"Wow, that was fast, pum! You're group ended up coming in first place for this year's preliminary event again, thanks to the Ice Knight here, pum!" Mato says gesturing at me.
Everyone looks happy and excited about placing first, but I was confused, and it was apparently shown thanks to my facial expression.
"Is something wrong, Gray?" asked Lisanna quickly noticing my confused look.
"Yeah," I replied to her before turning to Mato "hey Mato, when I was making the ice slide I saw a group of people that were cloaked. They were already a bit over three quarters of the way to the island, and they were moving fast. Then, when we were on the island and your projection showed up you told us that a group had reached the island, found a prize, and was already heading towards the arena, scratch that, you said that they had almost reached the arena. Where are they?"
At this Mato looked thoughtful before placing a hand on the back of his neck and saying sheepishly, "Yeah…funny thing about that is that we…don't really know."
We all just stared at him dumbly for a moment before I spoke slowly, "You don't know?"
"Yup, pum."
"How is that possible?" asked Erza.
"Well, their group has an air magic user and that air magic user is pretty strong. The air mage was able to lift all of his/her team mates and just about reach here when they all suddenly stopped. They spoke for a moment before coming to some sort of decision. Then, all of a sudden, they quickly flew somewhere else and our lacrima cameras have yet to find them, pum. We really have no clue as to where they are currently."
"That's weird." stated Natsu. We all just nodded slowly in agreement.
"Well, the other 7 teams should be arriving soon, so I suggest you go to the waiting area so that we can announce the placing of the teams in the preliminaries. That's really all I can tell you guys for now, pum." With that said he ushered us to the 1st place waiting area.
We all walked in silently. The room lacked color, its walls a stark white. There wasn't any furniture except for a couch that could fit 3 people and a love seat. We walked up to the two pieces of furniture and all sat down quietly. I was on the love seat with Lisanna next to me. Natsu and Erza were sitting on either ends of the couch with Wendy sitting in between them.
We stayed like that for a while, all of us thinking about what Mato had just told us. It just didn't add up. Why hadn't they taken first place? Where were they now? Who were they? These questions plagued my head before I thought of something.
What if one of those people had been Lucy? If that was the case, then where were she and her teammates now? What was going on?
My trail of thoughts was suddenly broken when I heard a sob off to my right. I turned my head to see Lisanna crying with her eyes shut. Her hands were covering her mouth in an attempt to stifle the sound of her crying.
We were all shocked. Why was she crying? We all stood frozen, I was the first to recover though.
"Oi, Lisanna, what's wrong?" I asked her quietly while putting an arm around her shoulder and pulling her closer to me in an attempt to comfort her.
"I c-can't do th-this g-g-gr-Gray. I-I sho-should-shouldn't be h-here!" she screamed while turning towards me and putting her arms around my neck. She then buried her head into my shoulder and continued to bawl her eyes out. Her entire body shook as her sobs racked through her.
"Lisanna, what are you talking about?" I whispered quietly to her, but everyone heard it. I now had one hand rubbing her back while the other one patted her head.
"I'm t-t-talk-talking ab-about l-lucy! It was m-my fa-faul-fault th-that sh-she end- end-ended u-up l-l-leaving! If I hadn't come back then she'd be here now and everything would be okay, but everyone was too busy hanging out with me and talking to me to notice Lucy!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. She then quietly whispered in a broken voice "If I hadn't come back she would have never been hurt, she would have never left the place she considers home, she would have never had to go through all that pain. It's all my fault. If she's here then I can't face her knowing what I've done to her."
My eyes had widened, right along with everyone else's. I then pulled back from the hug and cradled her face in my hands. Her eyes were red and puffy. Her entire face was red as well, while her nose was slightly runny. Tears streamed down her face, and hey eyes were misty. I then wiped away her tears with my thumbs before touching her forehead to mine.
"Don't blame yourself for this Lisanna." I whispered quietly. "It's not your fault. Lucy understands this as well. While she was still here she and I ended up talking and hanging out a lot. Whenever we talked about how the guild was ignoring her she always defended you saying it wasn't your fault that they were all ignoring her. She would always say that she couldn't fault you for protecting you sister and trying to bring your brother to his senses. She would always tell me that it wasn't your fault that you got attacked and sucked into the anima. She never blamed you for coming back here when all the magic was sucked out of Edolas. She was glad that you were reunited with your brother and sister. She never blamed you, so don't blame yourself for any of this. Neither Lucy nor I will ever find you anything but innocent when it comes to how she was treated, so please don't blame yourself." I begged of her quietly.
She then pulled back and looked me dead in the eye. She had stopped crying, but her breathing was still irregular. "How can I not Gray?" she whispered quietly before looking down towards her hands which were clasped together in her lap. Hey eyes now covered by her hair.
"Easy," I said determinedly while ducking my head down to see her face "just think about how Lucy would feel if she found out you blamed yourself. She'd be upset with herself for making you feel like this. So, for Lucy's sake, don't blame yourself, please."
Lisanna just stared at me while tears continued to stream down her face. It took her a couple of minutes but she finally nodded.
"That's right, now stop crying. If we go out there and you look as if you've been crying, Lucy would blame herself if she saw. So, why not put a smile on that pretty face of yours. Crying doesn't suit you."
"Thanks Gray, you're an amazing friend." Lisanna said shakily while rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand.
"Not really, I just can't stand it to see one of my nakama hurt." I replied sheepishly while my hand rubbed the back of my neck.
"Hey Gray," Lissana said to me once she had calmed down. She looked me dead in the eye and had a small smile on her face. I don't know why, but I didn't like the way she was smiling. I felt as if she was going to say something that was just going to cause me to embarrass myself. "I have a question."
"Yes…" I asked suspiciously. She was planning something.
"Do you like Lucy?" She asked her smile getting bigger until she was full on grinning.
"WHAT?!" I screamed my face turning beet red. I turned my away from Lisanna only to be met with everyone's eyes observing me. All of them had the same stupid grin that Lisanna had as well.
"Well I guess we have our answer based off of how red your face is droopy eyes." Natsu said while laughing is $$ off.
"Well, that would make sense," giggled Erza "after all you were the only one to hang out with her after Lisanna came back. Wouldn't your reason behind doing that be that you like her Gray?" She asked me with a tone of voice that implied something.
"That's right Gray-san. After all, you were the one who attacked us for her. You must really like her, ne." singed Wendy happily.
I sputtered indignantly. My face had gone even redder. I must have looked like an idiot.
Everyone just laughed. I finally got angry.
"So what if I like her. It's not like I'm the only person in the world to like someone of the opposite gender!" I yelled at them. Then I got an idea.
"Besides," I said cooly while crossing my arms and planting a smirk on my face "you all have no right to talk."
The laughter died down and soon everyone was looking at me with guarded expressions.
"What do you mean by that snow cone?" Natsu asked while narrowing his eyes.
"Well, I can tell that you, flame brain, like Lisanna over here." I said pointing at her. The two mages looked at each other only to quickly look away. Both of them were turning a shade lighter than Erza's hair.
"Same goes for you Lisanna, you like ash for brains here as well." Lisanna and Natsu looked at each other again and turned an even darker shade of scarlet.
"Oh, but that's not all, after all, you like Jellal, isn't that right Erza?" I asked her gleefully. Erza's face was now the same color as her hair. She was also sputtering indignantly.
"And what about you Wendy? You like Romeo, don't you?" I smiled at her while saying it.
She let out a small eep noise and buried her red face in her hands.
I gave a deep laugh at seeing all their expressions. I continued this way for a couple of minutes before calming down.
"Now that that's all settled and done why don't we focus and make a plan for the games, ne?" I replied with the barest hint of laughter.
Everyone's blood was starting to circulate normally now and they all only nodded as their response.
"Okay," I said immediately taking charge "let's see what that prize Lisanna found was. Lisanna, if you could read what it was."
"Okay." she said pulling out the sheet of paper. She then opened it up and started reading its contents "Congratulations, you have received a prize. Your prize is the chance to enter two other members of your group in an event that your team is participating in. Be it the challenge for the day, or for the battles. Prize is invalid on the last day when every team and its members duke it out." She finished reading and looked at me.
"That can come in really handy. We need to make sure we use it for something important though. It's a damn great prize that will make all the difference if we go up against some strong people like Jura."
Everyone nodded. We were about to continue our strategy configuration when Mato came in.
"It's time to go out you guys, pum. We're about to start introducing the teams that made it into this year's games. Follow me, pum."
We all just looked at each other before getting up and following Mato to the place where we were supposed to enter from. There was a small lacrima sitting on a shelf.
"Wait here," said Mato "When you're team is about to be called you'll see that lacrima light up. Once you see it light up that's your cue to walk to the entrance, pum. Since you were the first team to pass the preliminaries you shall be called out last, pum. See you out there in a couple of minutes, pum." And with that said Mato walked off to announce the people that had passed the preliminaries, and had successfully made it into the games.
"This is going to be so fun" exclaimed Wendy.
"You can say that again Wendy" chuckled Lisanna at the little bluenette's excitement.
"We still need to stay on guard. Our competition is bound to be tough this year as well." Stated Erza calmly, but her words were undermined by the smile that graced her lips.
"I'm all fired up!" yelled Natsu, who's fist was ablaze.
"Minna," I started giving them a pep talk. "when we head out for the challenges or the battles let's make sure to lay out everything. We give it our all no matter what, even if or all is way over the top. We're proud members of Fairy Tail, so let's keep our heads held high through all of this. Let's head out there and show them what we're made of!" I screamed and everyone cheered.
It was then that we heard Mato. I gestured at everyone to quiet down so that we could hear who made it through the preliminaries.
"Thank you to all of the guilds that participated this year. Now, To announce the Teams that made it successfully through the preliminaries.
"In 8th place we have our first time competitors, not much is known about them but here they are, Elven Light, pum!" we heard a bit of clapping, but then we heard everyone in the stadium break out into conversation all at once. We couldn't understand what was going on. I turned to everyone and they were all looking at me with questioning eyes. Each of them seemed to be asking the same question: who were the team members from this guild?
I gave them a shrug in response and then went back to listening.
"Now now everyone settle down. We still have the other 7 teams to get to, pum. Now, in 7th place we have Mermaid Heel!" More cheering erupted from the crowd.
"Next, in 6th place we have Blue Pegasus, pum!" I heard many squeals and shout's of 'I love you', 'so cool', and 'you're all amazing!'
"Now, in 5th place we have Lamia Scale, pum!" More cheering was heard at this point, but then someone shouted "Why are you in 5th in the preliminaries?! Are you even trying?!" based off of the sound of the voice I could tell that it was Lamia Scales Master Ooba.
"Coming in 4th place we have the Raven Tail!" We heard a lot of booing at this. "now now everyone, the three year participation ban has been carried out. They have every right to participate now, pum." Mato stated calmly.
"Next up in 3rd place we have Fairy Tail's Team B, pum!" The booing that was heard just a moment ago was the complete opposite reaction of now. The stadium was deafening. They were all cheering at the top of their lungs.
"Settle down everyone we still have the first and second place teams left. Coming in second place, here is Sabertooth, pum!" The crowd erupted into cheers again, though not quite as loud. After the incident three years ago where they showed just how horrible they could be no one saw them in quite the same light.
It was then that lacrima lit up. We all started walking towards the entrance to the grounds of the arena. Lisanna and Wendy were on my right while Natsu and Erza were on my left. "Now, last bust never least, or in this case first, we have the three time reigning champions. Here they are everyone. We present to you Fairy Tail's Team A, pum!"
We entered into the arena and the crowd went absolutely nuts. People were shouting compliments at us from every direction. Some were even waving signs that sported the guild's crest while others simply sported signs with sayings like 'Go Fairy Tail' or 'We 3 fairies'.
I looked over at the other teams, while my teammates just basked in the glory of their cheering fans. Fairy Tail's Team B was smirking at us
The team from Lamia Scale consisted of Chelia, Jura, Toby, Yuka, and Lyon. They were all waving at me and smiling.
Next up was the team from blue Pegasus, who consisted of the trimens, Ichiya, and Jenny. Jenny was talking to Mira, Ichiya was sniffing a freaked out Erza, and the trimens were currently trying to flirt with Wendy and Lisanna.
The team from mermaid heel consisted of Kagura, Millianna, Risley, Beth, and Arania. They were just completely ignoring everyone, but you could see that both Millianna, and Kagura were looking at Erza with complete adoration.
The team from Sabertooth was currently glaring at us. Sting, Rouge, Ogra, Rufus, and Minerva were staring at my teammates with contempt. Rouge, Sting, and Ora did send small smirks my way though which I returned.
The team from Raven Tail was staring us down as well, except for one of them. Their team was made up of Flare, Obra, Nullpuding, Kurohebi, and some tall and lanky guy that I had no clue who he was. He was around Natsu's height and he was wearing a loose black tee and black jeans. He had light brown hair, green eyes, and a full bottom lip. His top lip wasn't quite full though. He was constantly looking around, as if trying to take in every last detail. He looked around the age of 17. I studied him for a moment and Flare saw what I was doing. She quickly put herself in between me and the boy, almost as if she were trying to shield him from me. I was surprised by her actions. She then looked at the boy with a loving expression. It wasn't one of those girl likes guy expressions though. It was more like a doting sister expression. She then quickly turned back to me and sent Icy daggers at me with her eyes. I quickly turned away and looked at the last team.
What I saw shocked me thoroughly.
It was the five cloaked figures that I had seen far ahead of us in the preliminaries. There were two figures that looked around Wendy's height. Next there were three figures that were all around the same height. Those three were a bit shorter than Erza. Other than their heights I couldn't make out a single detail about them. Their faces were completely covered and you couldn't even tell their stature underneath the cloaks. Even their hair was hidden.
I looked at my teammates who were all staring at the members from Elven Light as well. We knew they were fast, but we knew nothing else at all except that one of them could use air magic.
Looks like we were going to have to stay on guard for this year's games.
Yes, finally finished! Sorry for the long wait. I know this chapter seems like a bunch of useless fluff, but believe me on this. I have dropped many pieces of information in this chapter that is going to be called upon in later chapters. Sorry for the long wait you guys. This flu season coupled with the mountain of work I get from school has not been easy on me. I hardly got enough time to type this chapter. Well, nothing much I can do about it. I will try to get the next chapter out by this weekend, but no promises.
Now, thank you to all of those that fav'd, followed, reviewed, or just plain old read my story.
leoslady4ever: I can't help but worry. I feel like a failure. If it weren't for you guys I probably would discontinue this. I have zero self confidence. I love that he let the others beat them as well. I love the fact that he says it so calmly.
Evil-Kitty-Kat-666: Seriously? I thought it was horrible. Oh, when they meet her it is going to be very emotional, and sad. At least I think it will be. I got sick three different times, but now I'm okay. Thanks for the compliment!
fairytaillover416: Well it's the truth! Thank you for making me not feel self conscious about my YAYing. When they meet her it will hopefully be very emotional. Well, that's nice to know. I usually don't curse unless I feel that it adds emotion to the scene in the story. I still feel the need to explain my shortcomings. Why shouldn't I thank you? You leave me reviews even though you don't have to. Not everyone does that. Yet you do, so you deserved to be thanked. Thank you for all the nice compliments! Whenever I feel bad about my story your and everyone else's reviews really cheer me up! I'm not really all that great, but I still thank you for making me feel like I should be proud of my writing. No need to thank me at all. The truth is you are a very nice and very special person, so no need to thank me for just telling you how you already are! I will always reply, and until everyone that reviews tells me to give up on this story then I won't. No need to thank me. Thanks for always reviewing!
Bee: Is it really?! Here is the next chapter.
rouges luv: Thank you for the compliment about the story. Name changed… alright. Now I know it's you.
graylu rocks101: Because school gives me a mountain of homework and I got sick. Here's the chapter.
Guest: I think that's why I chose it. I like to try and create my own original things out of stuff that's pretty common. Thanks for the compliments! (I feel like I repeat this a lot) I'm glad you like it. You can sign in that way if you want to. It's really your choice.
Bee: Thank you. Here it is!
gralu4ever: Thanks! Gralu FTW!
Bee: Here it is. Sorry it took so long. Already working on the next chapter. Thank you for that! I'm happy that my story is loved by you!
Bee: Thanks! Here it is. Fangirl screaming is fun. I see you like to review, thank you for that!
Azuky Is Who I Am: Is it really? That's good to know. I'm a Madame in case you wanted to know. I'm no genius. Gray beating up people for the sake of those he cares for is awesome!
Once again, to all of you who fav'd, followed, reviewed, or just plain old read my story I thank you!
Please review! It makes me happy to know what you guys think about my story.
Peace out guys!
a random fairy out!