Hey guys! I hope you liked that chapter! My friend legit says that I'm killing her with all my cliffhangers, but guess what. I don't care! LOL. I mean I know it's annoying but it's the only way I know how to end these so yah.
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"Now that we've all gathered here, I will tell you the first competition. It's going to be the same as all the previous years. The exam starts now! First person to get to the island wins!" He yells and we're all off.
Most of them are just running, but Mai, Alex, and The Unknown aren't do the same, though. They're thinking it through
I'm not gonna fall behind either!
The Unknown has started teleporting in and out of forests, Mai is darting through the crowd, and Alex is racing through the forest floor.
I jump up into a tree and use my normal means of transportation.
I've already taken over Alex, but I can't see Mai and The Unknown.
I quickly speed up and the island comes into my line of view. While I'm sure that the others haven't gotten very far, I'm not sure about The Unknown and Mai.
I land and the second I land I see Mai out of the corner of my eye. She landed right next to me. I see that the Unknown is already there, sitting on a rock in front of the first masters grave.
"Looks like I lost, again," I say.
"Hm," The Unknown says.
"Ya, you came third," Mai teases.
"No way, you came third, I came second," I retaliate.
"No I landed a split second before you did," Mai replies.
"I got here a hair before you did," I say
"That makes no sense," Mai says.
"I don't care," I say
"Let's ask him then," Mai suggests, pointing at The Unknown, who was watching us banter.
"Unknown, who landed first?" I ask
"I did," he says.
I facepalm, "I know that, but out of us two,"
"I wasn't watching," The Unknown says.
"WHAT?!" Me and Mai both yell at the same time.
The others start arriving. and me and Mai end our little 'conversation'.
Alex and Rin come next. Cana after that. Wendy and Lucy show up next.
And Natsu and Gray come last.
The Master comes later.
"Ok guys, that wasn't actually a part of the competition," He says, making everyone groan.
"Then what was the point of that?" Natsu demands.
"I just didn't feel like getting a boat for us to go in," He answers.
"Then how did you get here?" Gray asks.
"I had Happy drop me off," He says, looking at the sky. "Thanks Happy!"
"Aye sir!"
"So what's the actual first part?" I ask.
"I… Um… I haven't made one yet," He admits.
"You haven't WHAT?" Mai exclaims.
"I haven't had the time," He says. "I don't know what to do,"
"Ok, If we help you, can you pick an idea that you like, and then we do that?" Cana asks.
"YES! PLEASE!" He exclaims.
"Anyone got any ideas?" Cana asks.
Nobody responds.
I speak up. "We could do one-on-one battles," I suggest.
"Go on," The master says, intrigued.
"Well, we could all have a randomly chosen partner, and we have to fight them. There will be a few rounds, and each winner gets 5 points. The 3 people with the least amount of points are eliminated," I explain.
"Yes, let's do that," The master says.
"Wait," The Unknown says. "I have another idea. I suggest that we get put into pairs or teams of 3 and the other groups are as well. We will be put on different locations on the island. We fight other teams and the first team down is eliminated. Once that's done, we can do Crystal's idea for the next part,"
"Well which one do I choose, now there's 2," The master says.
"How 'bout we take a vote, but the master can vote too, just to make it an odd number," Lucy says. "But, Crystal and the Unknown can't vote,"
"Ok," Everyone agrees.
"All for Crystal's plan," Lucy says. Only Natsu's, Rin's, and Alex's hands go up.
"All for The Unknown's plan," All the other hands go up.
"So how do we make the teams?" Mai asks.
"The master will choose," The Unknown says.
"Ok, I'll make them now," he says looking at everyone.
"Natsu, Gray, and Cana,"
"Why am with the Ice Princess?" Natsu yells.
"You took the words right out of my mouth," Gray says.
"I'm only making pairs that wouldn't work well together," He says and continues.
Me and Mai glance at each other. Sure we dislike, but we are a pretty good team.
"Wendy, Lucy, and Rin,"
"Yay!"
"And finally Mai, The Unknown, and Crystal," He says.
I knew it.
"But what about me?" Alex asks.
"You can join Lucy's group," He says.
"Ok," She says, and walks over to discuss plans.
I turn to my group. "Do we really need a plan?" I ask.
"No," Mai says.
"Ok, so we just wing it?" I ask
"Ya, I guess," Mai says.
I turn to the Unknown. "Try not to kill anyone, ok?"
"Hmm,"
"Ok," I say. "Now that that's taken care of, I guess we wait for the first test to start."
A few moments pass and then the first trial starts.
We are sent to different locations on the island. I can sense another team near ours.
It's Natsu's group.
I signal to my team and they seem to understand.
We slowly creep over the hill and at the bottom there are the three members.
"So should we just attack?" I ask, whispering.
The other two take a cue from me and start to whisper too.
"I think we should wait to see what they'll do," Mai says.
"Ok," I say
We wait behind a couple of bushes and watch.
Cana starts drinking, not bothering with Natsu and Gray.
Natsu and Gray seem to be having an argument. I see Gray point to where we're hidden.
Please don't come up here.
I look at Mai and The Unknown and signal an attack.
"Wait," The Unknown says peering down at them. "We'll attack if they come up."
So we wait a little longer. They look around and seem to think that the other groups are far from them.
I try to concentrate on their conversation.
"-Anywhere," Gray was saying, pointing at the surrounding area.
"That's not my problem," Natsu says. "I wanna fight."
"Well first we gotta find another group to fight," Gray says.
"I wanna fight Crystal's group," Natsu says.
"I kinda wanna as well, I wanna fight Mai," Gray says.
"Hey! That leaves me with The Unknown," Cana says. "He's too strong for me,"
"We'll switch between them," Gray says.
"Meaning?" Cana asks.
"We each get a turn to fight each of them," Gray says. "But they're really strong."
"So if we do your idea, I'm starting with The Unknown," Cana sums up.
"Unfortunately, yes," Gray says. "I'm going against Mai, The Unknown, and then Crystal,"
"I'll take Crystal, Mai, and then the Unknown," Natsu says. "In that order."
"Then I guess I'll take, The Unknown, Crystal, and then Mai," Cana says.
The conversation continues and turn to my group.
"Guys they're planning on attacking us one-on-one," I whisper. "Mai, you're going to be against Gray, then Natsu, and finally Cana,"
"Ok," Mai says, uninterested. "They're all weak anyways,"
She's looking forward to fighting Gray, isn't she.
"The Unknown, you're fighting Cana, Gray, and then Natsu," I say.
"Ok,"
"What about you?" Mai asks.
"I'm fighting Natsu, Cana, and then Gray," I explain.
"So now what?" Mai asks
"We can attack first," I suggest.
"Ok, I need something to do," Mai says and is about to jump down the hill, before the Unknown stops her.
"Wait, they're coming here," He says pointing at the clearing.
They're making they're way up the hill, right towards our bush.
"So, should we move and go back a little so we have space to fight," I say
"Sure,"
We backup and they meet us at the top.
"I knew I smelled you guys," Natsu says.
"GO!" Gray yelled, engaging Mai in battle.
Cana saunters over to The Unknown.
As for me, I'm stuck with Natsu.
"I'm gonna beat you this time," Natsu smirks.
"You can try," I say.
He doesn't bother using magic yet. He's just punching and kicking. I easily dodge all of them, and begin to get bored.
I look at the other battles.
Mai and Gray are using Ice devil Slayer Magic, but Gray is also using normal Ice-make. Mai's at a disadvantage, seeing as she can only use Devil Slayer, but she's holding her own against him. She hasn't drawn her sword yet, so she's just warming up.
As for the Unknown, he seem way more bored than I am. Cana continually places cards, and he dodges whatever come out of them and looks utterly uninterested in the fight. He keeps looking over at me and Natsu and I can tell he wants to fight Natsu. I don't know why, but I can see he wants to.
I turn my attention back to Natsu. He throws a punch and I grab his fist. I twist his arm, but not enough so it hurts him, and restrict his movement with a spell I picked up during training.
Knowing Natsu, he'll probably try to burn it off, but this individual spell can't be taken off unless the caster wants it to be.
I can see his trying to get it off. The sweat shows on his forehead.
I approach him. "What made you think that you could beat me with only hand-to-hand combat?"
"I'm not really sure, I just kinda went for it," Natsu says. He begins to struggle again.
"You can't get out of that," I say.
He doesn't waver. "Just watch me,"
"Even one of the ten wizards couldn't get out of it if he was caught," I say.
Natsu seems to consider this, but then goes back to struggling.
"I guess you won't give up," I say.
"No," He says.
I weaken the seal on his hands.
"Happy? you can move now," I say.
He moves his hands back and forth.
"Was this your doing?" He asks.
"Yes it was," I say. "Ok, this isn't fun when you can't move."
I move back and take away the seal.
He lunges at me, and punches.
I dodge and we restart the cycle.
I get bored again, and look at the other fights.
Mai looks bored now too. She still hasn't drawn her sword and is just blocking Gray. She's not even bothering to use magic anymore.
The Unknown looks even more bored than before.
"That's it!" Natsu yells.
He summons fire to his fist and tries to punch me again.
He grazes my arm and leaves me with a small burn, which I quickly heal.
He smirks and continues to attack me with fire.
He knows now that he won't be able to hit me the same way he did before, so he switches to Fire Lightning Dragon Slayer mode.
"Wait!" Some yells from somewhere high.
"You didn't think you could leave us out of this?" Someone else asks.
I look behind Natsu and ….
it's Lucy's team.
Hey guys! I hope you guys liked that chapter. I have like three projects to finish, so I'll have to do that soon, but I had to update this. Anyways, see you next week. Byeeeeeeee