Yeah sorry for the delayed wait work other stories I'm lazy, you know the usual excuses. Anyway I don't really have much more to say apart from some of the fight might be a bit short and bad so sorry but it's trying to fit them into a specific word limit while keeping up the quality while also remembering that I put on an extra year for the canon events so it's just as hard making it seem everyone has gotten stronger some of the weaker ones will be difficult but for the stronger characters i.e. wizard saints, main villains and dragonslayers it should be easy enough so hope you enjoy this chapter.

It's the final match-up before the last event for the first day of the GMG and Gajeel Redfox of Fairytail team B and Bacchus Groh of Quattro Cerberus stand opposite each other ready to eagerly engage in battle.

"MATCH BEGIN!"

"Iron Dragon Roar!" Gajeel started things of quickly with a powerful roar filled with jagged iron shrapnel sending it flying towards his competitor who easily dodged it allowing the attack to tear up a good portion of the arena floor. "Ho, this is going to be interesting, guess I better get serious from the get go" Bacchus said in a crazed tone before downing his entire jar of alcohol which in turn caused Gajeel to smile.

"If you couldn't get past the lizard scales last year you won't be able to get through these, Iron scales!" Gajeel replied in a battle crazed tone before his skin turn iron scales drastically increasing his defences. However since his defeat to Elfman last year Bacchus had been training mercilessly and now he would show what it had done for him.

"Focused Palm Magic:…" the drunken falcon called out as he rushed Gajeel with insane unexpected speeds before suddenly stopping mere inches in front of the dragonslayer in a crouched positioned with his hands drawn back. The unexpected appearance of the palms magic wizard caused Gajeel to stumble back a bit which gave Bacchus his narrow striking window "Hidden Strike Technique; Reverse Counter!" before Gajeel knew it he was slammed in the stomach by both of Bacchus' palms which were layered over the other.

"GAJEEL!" a particular bookworm shouted out in worry as she saw said slayers iron scales shatter and watched as his body collided with the wall of the arena. "My hup reverse counter dis something I made hup after Elfman beat me, figured I'd need it for you defensive types" Bacchus slurred out as he let his arms hang loosely while a smug grin made its way across his face.

"Incredible folks did Bacchus actually take out Gajeel with just one hit!?" Lola shouted from the commentators box while Jason was busy doing backflips shouting about how cool it was. "Gihee, don't go getting ahead of yourself just yet, now I'm reran to go!" Gajeel voice shouted from within the plume of dust and smoke before "Iron Dragon Lance; Demon Logs!" a barrage of miniature iron spear heads shot out from the smoke at insane speeds causing the drunken Falcon to widen his eyes in shock as there wasn't much he was able to do. The best Bacchus could manage was to deflect some of the spears but it wasn't enough as some of spears bypassed his defences and struck the mage causing him to stumble back in pain.

"I ain't letting up yet Iron Dragon Club!" Gajeel followed up with a devastating club attack the result of which was the powerful iron pole extending and making contact with Bacchus' chest sending into an unconscious state while being lodged in the stadium wall "And that's it folks Gajeel turned he match around and has defeated Bacchus gaining Fairytail team B 10 points, as things stand before our final event tied for first place we have Fairytail team B, Mermaid Heel and Sabretooth all on 10 points, then tied for second place with 5 points apiece is Blue Pegasus and the Titan Nose guild and finally with no points so far are Fairytail team A and Lamia Scale" Mato announced it his usual voice.

"Now onto our final event of the day to settle who places where, are you ready for Ascension!?" he then continued on in a more excited tone getting cheers from the crowd but drawing blanks from the participants, "Ascension? As in climbing?" Gray asked trying to grasp what sort of event it would be based on its name. "Ascension is simple folks each guild choses one member to compete, the idea of the game is to see who can stay up the longest. The competing members will be transported up to the large boulders on the lacrima screen" Mato explained causing everybody competitor and spectator alike to look at the image of large floating boulders in the screen.

The image then turn into a rough drawing of how the event worked "Here how it works magic is allowed throughout the event and the competitors can move from boulder to boulder points will be awarded in accordance to where you place. If you fall and go passed the danger zone you are transported back to the stadium, competitors can cause other to fall as long as it's not sleep magic and no flying allowed got it" Mat said as the drawing went from image to image giving the competitors a rough image of how the events worked "Guilds chose your members.

"And our eight contestants are…"

"Gray Fullbuster!"

"Rufus Lore!"

"Lyon Vastia!"

"Mirajane Strauss"

"Ren Akatsuki!"

"Milliana!"

"Yeager!"

"And Zane Riser!"

The named competitors stepped forward and were transported to individual boulders that surrounded a few pillar like projections that were also similar to towers from the pandemonium event from last year, other than that the area they were transported just had couple dozen floating boulders that varied in size. Meanwhile from the Mermaid Heel both Natsu felt sorry for whatever poor bastard crossed Mira, after what he had told her earlier he knew she was going to use this tournament to vent and she needed to but then again Natsu also felt sorry for anyone that underestimated Milliana who Natsu would admit could actually despite her cutie self be terrifying when she wanted to be.

"Begin" the referee shouted and before anyone noticed Mirajane had switched into her Satan soul and sent an Evil explosion that was much stronger than it needed to be towards Zane and Yeager's boulders before it exploded sending them downward lucky for the Cerberus mage he landed on another boulder but the same couldn't be said for Zane "Oh my not even Ten seconds in and we already have our first knockout looks like Titan nose will receive 0 points this time round" Mato announced to the crowd while the judges looked on wide eyed "It would seem that the Demon of Fairytail is Back with a vengeance today" Yajima said in a slightly nervous voice remembering all the letters he received as a council member due to Fairytail or more specifically one Mirajane Demon Strauss.

The other competitors could only look at her wide, they were prepared for a fight but not this, not someone who was said to be on par with Erza Scarlet. "Anyone else?" Mira asked in a demonic like voice casing the other competitors to shudder. "Memory Make; Frozen Blade of Black Lightning!" Rufus called out taking advantage of the momentary silence to cast a wide range attack targeting everyone who could only put some spell up in an effort to defend themselves.

"Ice Make; Shield!"

"Ice Make; Shield!"

"Evil Explosion!"

"Wind wall!"

"Eh"

All the mages managed to either dodge the attack in Milliana's case or block it with some difficulty bar Mirajane who didn't break a sweat. However Yeager wasn't so lucky and soon found himself knocked off with no boulder to save him and then being transported back to the arena. "I'd expect nothing less from Fairytail and Lamia scale" Rufus said with a smirk which angered Ren as he thought the memory make was saying that Blue Pegasus was still weak.

However before the wind mage could burst out in anger Milliana decided she needed to climb up a bit higher on the point scoring system "Leo Breaker!" the cat like girl called out as she swung out in front on Ren using her kitten magic causing the Pegasus mage's eyes to widen in shock as he didn't even notice her move. Before he knew it Milliana had were clad in a golden bright light before three equally as golden metre long claws appeared on her each of her hands.

The next thing the dark skinned wind mage felt was an undeniable pain across his abdomen were Milliana had slashed him with her claws causing him to stumble off his boulder while holding onto his slightly bleeding stomach "Shit, Aerial ….ugh" Ren tried to call out a counter spell to get himself back up on the floating boulder but he was soon silenced by an axle Kick to the head from Milliana the result of which was Ren obtaining 6th place.

"Yeah way to go Milliana you got this!" Everyone in the Mermaid hill booth shouted out in unison, "Ice make Dragonfly!" the shout came from Lyon Vastia who decided to try and take advantage of Milliana's momentary distraction to put her out using a swarm of dynamic ice Dragonflies. However he wasn't expecting her reflexes to be as good as she proved when she then used her kitten magic to swing away to another boulder.

"Sorry but I'm ending this Lyon…Ugh" Gray started but was silenced to everyone's surprise by the clawed hand of Mirajane which made undeniable contact with Gray's face sending him flying into and lodging him inside another boulder "Don't forget Gray were on opposing teams, so act like it and don't think that I'll just let you take second place!" Mira said in a venomous tone as she still hadn't forgiven Gray, Erza or the others for not believing in Natsu and at that ruining her chances of her actually getting together with the pyromaniac, "Dark Oblivion!" Mira muttered in a serious voice as a ring of dark magic formed around her before it stated spinning at an incredible speed with the magic power increasing with every second as well as the gale force winds it was starting to create. "Scatter!" the she devil shouted before the ring of dark magic shot of in every direction destroying boulders all over the place as well as making contact with the other remaining contestants who could only shout out in pain

"Milliana!"

"Gray!"

"Lyon!"

"Rufus!"

Each team called out the name of their contestant, Fairytail team A and Lamia scale could only watch on as Gray and Lyon both started dropping down to the ground in a near unconscious state fortunately both ice make mages both managed to stay in the contest by calling out the same spell "Ice make grappling hook!" both called out before throwing their projectiles at any boulder that was still intact. Milliana however wasn't as lucky due to her body not being as durable as the two ice mages who were currently climbing up the ice chains they created. "Memory make: Ice make Grappling hook!" Rufus shouted out employing the same plan as the two ice make mages.

"And Mermaid Heel receive 5th place and receives 3 points for her guild, still pretty impressive looks like Milliana really has been training her hardest for this year but then what else can we expect from the other mages who trained with the infamous Natsu the Salamander Dragneel!" Mato called out as Milliana was transported back to the arena. "Gray just because we're a part of the same guild doesn't mean I'll go easy on and you other two better come at me with everything you got otherwise this won't be much of a challenge since I won't be holding back from here on" Mira said in a dark voice to the three maker mages who had finally got back up onto a boulder, however what she said caused Gray's eyes to widen in shock as he say her shifting into another take-over.

"MIRA YOU CAN'T SERIOUSLY BE THINKING OF USING THAT HERE ARE YOU INSANE?!" Natsu shouted from the arena causing the rest of Mermaid heel to look at him quizzically, it almost sounded like he was afraid of what was about to come and when the mages looked over to the Fairytail booth only to see a crying Makarov saying something about children not knowing restraint.

"Natsu what the hell is she using that has you scared" Master Aerial asked the pinkette who slowly turned around to face her, "Remember the soul Mira used against Jenny well that wasn't her strongest soul, what she is about to transform into now is, Satan soul Halphas. It's so powerful that Makarov had forbidden her from ever using…like ever because it's that powerful and consumes so much magic" Natsu replied while hiding behind the barrier as a memory of the take-over mage using said soul surfaced causing him to cradle back forth like a child "I'm sorry Mira I didn't mean to read it I promise I'll never do it again" Natsu said cryptically causing his fellow guild members to look at him with a puzzled expression

Back with Mirajane and the others an almost completely black aura had surrounded that was emanating a fearsome amount of magic "SATAN SOUL HALPHAS!" the she demon called out summoning forth the soul causing a pair of curved light blue horns to appear on her head, her ear became scaled and more pointed in the same blue. Light blue scales appeared on the sides of her cheeks as well as her forehead and a tight light and dark blue stripped one piece suit with a hole cut out that showed her toned stomach fitted itself to her figure. A long powerful light blue tail with a white under half appear from her tail bone.

An armour like black collar with gold lining appeared around her neck, spiked shoulder pads that matched her one piece suit also were visible and her hands and legs from the mid-thigh down became reptilian like. Finally two light blue demonically angel like wings made themselves known "If you all don't come at me at once you'll lose!" Mira stated in a rather dark voice, so much so that all three mages felt chills go up their spines.

"Ice Make…." Both Lyon and Gray shared the same look before they began charging up their magic while Rufus had searched through his memories for a sufficient spell "Memory Make…" the sabretooth mage chanted while his eyes started glowing but Mirajane just stood there with a stoic expression plastered on her face.

"Bazooka!"

"Snow Dragon!"

"Tempest of holy black thunder!"

All three mages sent their attacks towards the demoness with Lyon's dynamic ice dragon combining with the magic power shot out of Gray's ice canon and Rufus sending a tempest of wind fused with a mixture of Sting's white dragonslayer magic and Orga's Godslayer magic. "Could this be it for Fairytail B's Mirajane surely she doesn't plan to take those powerful attacks head on?" Lola called out from the arena as he watched the screen seeing the attacks close in on the demoness.

"She's not moving an inch folks looks like she plans to tank the attack!" Lola then announced in shock, however Mira had other plans as she launched herself at the combining mass of magical energy with her claws glowing a strong blackish purple colour "Soul Reaper!"

In a split second the Magical attack was dispersed leaving a stunned crowd and competitors as they looked at Mira whose arms were clad in the same blackish purple energy from before except it had taken the shape of the head from a scythe. "She sliced the magic apart! Amazing folks this is the true power of the she Demon, just how strong is Fairytail's B team this year?" Lola shouted into his microphone.

"I'm going to end this no so I'm just going to shoot randomly" Mira said before drawing her hands back and clasping them over each other while charging up purple spirals of dark magic between them. The three Maker mages scattered but not fast enough as the Mira thrust her hands forward unleashing her attack which seemed to home in on each of the mages, no matter how many spirals of dark magic the dodged or deflect there was always another right on their tail, this continued until the inevitable happened

"Gray Fullbuster is out, he receives 4th place along with 4 points for team A"

"Rufus Lore is next to fall and take 3rd place for Sabretooth along with 6 points for his guild"

"Lyon Vastia is the last to fall bagging 2nd and 8 points for Lamia scale"

"That leaves Mirajane Strauss as our winner of today's final event bagging Fairytail team B a top score of 10 points" Lola announced in a loud excited voice as everyone was finally transported back to the arena "let's see where the standings are amongst the guilds shall we?" he then announced getting a cheer from the crowd

"In 8th place with 1 point is Quattro Cerberus"

"In 7th we have Fairytail team A with 4 points"

"In 6th we the Titan Nose guild with 5 points"

"In 5th we have Blue Pegasus with 7 points"

"In 4th are Lamia Scale just ahead with 8 points"

"Next up in the rankings in 3rd place we have Mermaid Heel with 13 points"

"In 2nd we have the former champions Sabretooth with an impressive 16 points"

"And in 1st place with a maximum on the first day of 20 point we have the unstoppable Fairytail team B!"

The crowd erupted in cheers at the mention of the B-team, "Make no mistake folks there appears to be some division amongst Fairytail as both teams the B-team more so than A, appear to want to be willing to compete against other members from within their guild this should be an interesting competition so make sure you turn up tomorrow because we got some dozies instore for you, for now this is your host Mato and this your announcer Lola signing off" the mascot and announcer said simultaneously before the Lacrima screens faded.

"When Natsu looked over the Mermaid Heel balcony down at Mirajane in the arena still clad in her Halphas he was still shaking but he then felt a shiver crawl up his spine when he saw her turn to looks towards him and mouth something before winking. The demoness then walked away dispelling her take-over. "Guys I'm sorry I couldn't do any better" Milliana spoke up in a disappointed tone snapping Natsu back to reality and he could see her disappointment reflected in her appearance as her ear-like hair was flopped down. "Don't sweat it you did great, you've improved a lot Milli and you bagged us some crucial points" Natsu said in a cheerful tone while ruffling her hair causing her tail to wag about. (A/N: I know she isn't a dog but what the hell)

"Natsu's right, 3RD place isn't a bad place to be in the early stages of the competition besides we got other reasons to party so let's go out and celebrate!" Master Aerial called out while holding up a large bottle of Sake "Geez starting this early master you're in high spirits" Ariana said as she was practicing her web magic, this caused the blonde guild master to smirk "It's never too early to hit the hooch right girls…and guy" she replied before taking a swig from the bottle of sake and then addressing Natsu because she forgot they weren't an all woman's guild anymore.

"Whatever you say master" Natsu said while laughing a bit before he went to go see Kagura, although delighted no ecstatic about his own little fire breathing, sword slashing and possibly gravity defying child Natsu knew the next 9 or so months were going to be trying especially since Kagura would no longer be able to use her magic and do one of her favourite things missions and there was no way Natsu would despite knowing how skilled she was wield a sword during this time.

When he arrived at her room he saw Kagura awake with a displeased look on her face "How you feeling?" Natsu as he sat down beside her and placed his hand on top of her own, "Better than before, it's a bit loud though" she answered making Natsu smirk "Well you missed a couple of good matched so that would explain that" the pinkette said in a caring tone before he placed a kiss on Kagura's forehead, "How are we doing?" she asked with curiosity, "3rd place we've got 13 points but Laxus' team are in the lead with 20 points but we'll catch up although Laxus, Jura and Gildarts will be a worry later on especially on the final day even as I am now going all out I know I can't beat them so we'll have to come up with something for that." The slayer said while lying down next to his partner and wrapping his arms around her.

"Erza and Mirajane are another worry as well. If Erza had been aware of how strong I am and how much I've changed then it would have been a lot closer and now that I've seen Halphas in action when Mira is angry she definitely an even bigger threat to our chances of winning" He continued with a sigh, "We're going out to celebrate getting 3rd place and you being pregnant do you think you're well enough to go out tonight?" Natsu asked in a caring tone before he got up to stand and offered her his hand. "Yeah I'm fine besides I can hardly not go when I'm part of the celebration" She replied in a smug tone while taking Natsu's hand to pull herself up before the two shared a kiss

Meanwhile with Fairytail teams A+B

"Mirajane what were you thinking you could of gravely injured the other competitors!" Master Makarov scolded in a stern voice but before he could say anything both Laxus and Gildarts stepped forward "Don't blow a gasket old man this is a competition and were in it to win it just because we have another team doesn't mean we won't take points when we can, Mira just proved that" Laxus said in a stern tone while looking down at his miniature grandfather.

"That's not what bothers me it's because she used the soul I forbid her from using, why would you use something so dangerous Mirajane?" Makarov demanded to know as while Erza, Gray, Lucy and Juvia stood behind him as did much of the rest of the guild bar team B, Elfman and a few others. Erza had a good idea why Mirajane used the soul but she wanted to hear the reason for her use of the forbidden soul.

"Think about it master look at everybody that's on this team, we're all people who defended Natsu but you accused him and wouldn't believe him. Someone how has continuously risked his life for the guild, did you consider how much he meant to us individually to some of us he was a brother, a role model, a son and someone that they cared more about than the bonds of friendship. You pick whatever reason but we're using this tournament to go all out and let go of our pent up anger" Gildarts said in a neutral tone causing several of the opposing Fairytail mages eyes to widen.

"Gildarts you can't go all out here you'll destroy the arena!" Makarov practically shouted at the crash mage, "I'm well of that but then you've never seen me go all out but keep this in mind master I went all out against Acnologia and survived against that monster. I'm well aware of my limitations and how much magic I should use so you won't have to worry about me destroying the arena" Gildarts replied in the same neutral tone before leaving with the rest of team B, Cana and the Strauss Siblings

"Third you realise that the key to patching things up in the guild lies with Natsu, while I'm not happy how things played out I am happy that one of my guilds former members has found happiness. Still you should have had more faith in the boy, I'll say this now you know how to make things right don't you third" the astral projection of Mavis Vermillion first master of Fairytail spoke up but before Makarov could speak up himself he realised she was communicating with him telepathically. "The first is right, now that he is here I can finally amend my mistake" Makarov muttered to himself before walking off.

Later that night with Mermaid Heel in one of the town's restaurants

The mages of Mermaid Heel had gone out to a fancy enough restaurant to celebrate for the guilds resident couple, it had been a few hours since the celebrations had started and to no-one's amazement Natsu hadn't stopped eating, that was until Master Aerial called out to him in a serious voice which he knew always meant business, well either that or someone was going to get 'that' as punishment. "Natsu you have a visitor" the young guild master gestured to the smaller Figure beside her causing Natsu eyes to widen "Gramps!" the pinkette shouted out in shock, as master Makarov was the last person he expected to visit him, he expected any of the dragonslayers, Mira, Gildarts, Elfman, Lisanna hell even Erza and his old team but not Olm man Makarov.

"YO!"

Chapter End

There chapter complete and I'm quite satisfied with what I created tell me what you thought, like fav review cause every little bit fuels my writing. As to the real reasons why my updating has become so infrequent is because I was focusing on another idea for another DxD cross over and trying to finish up already started chapter anyway hopefully after this I'll get the next chapter of my Natsu Sayla story that Mirajane has become a part of now. Anyway hope you enjoyed this chapter until next time