Fairy Tail is almost over and I'm SHOOK.
-Red's POV(Next Day)-
I get up before everyone else, as usual. Today's the start of the Grand Magic Games, and I need to make sure that I don't make a fool of myself when I get there. Getting out of bed, I change into my normal clothes and strap my sword to my back. Just as I'm about to finish that, Katana taps me on the shoulder. She's all ready, so I wasn't up before everyone else. Oh well.
"Hey, Red, are you gonna be okay in front of all those people?" she asks me, concern in her shifting gold eyes. I've seen those eyes a lot in my dreams, usually full of tears or completely blank.
"I think I'll be fine," I say. "I mean, Ilyass is going out too and he's probably going to trip on something." Katana makes a small pfft noise behind her hand.
The main Shadow Dream team consists of Saskia, Eden, Ilyaas, Sakura, and me. The second team is Katana, Ryuu, Natsu, Gabriel, and Joy. The reserve member is Alex. Sayla and Happy are there for moral support, though Happy is skilled enough to be a reserve. But they don't let non-humans participate. Eden made a joke about how she couldn't because of her father, and Saskia flicked her in the ear and said, "You're participating to show that you're human and not a dragon, got it Ede?"
So that's what we're doing. Katana snaps her fingers in front of my face to get my attention. "Hey, Red, your glamour?" I nod at her and go to look in the bathroom mirror. The one in the girl's room got thrown out the window by Saskia, so I have to look over Eden's shoulder to actually see my reflection.
I pull the hair over my right eye away. That eye is green, while the other one is that brown color that made someone think I was Erza Scarlet a few years ago. The green eye makes me think of him, so I pass my hand over it and it becomes a nice shade of brown. Eden glances up from where she's washing her face and glances back down, used to seeing me do this.
Around a half-hour later, we all head to the stadium. The waiting time passes like a blur, the only things I remember from that are Natsu wondering aloud how people are going to think about him since Ryuu was impersonating him and Ryuu telling him to shut up and stop worrying, Saskia juggling three knives out of sheer nervousness, and Katana rocking back and forth happily.
"And the other two teams that tied in second place with the previous guild mentioned, Shadow Dream A and Shadow Dream B!"
The light almost blinds me when I step out, and the cheering for the previous guild makes some of the people with more sensitive ears flinch. But, as soon as we're all out, the cheering stops and changes to confused muttering. From the crowd, mom flashes our teams with a discreet thumbs-up.
Suddenly, someone lobs a brick at us. It's aimed at Katana or someone near her, so I quickly step in front of her and get the brick right in the face. Stars dance in my vision and I fall to the ground, one hand held to the bloody wound on my face and the other supporting me so I don't fall all the way down. Someone else, probably from one of the other teams, shrieks. I look at the hand that was over my wound and notice that it's completely covered in my own blood. From the stickiness on my face, there's probably blood all over it too.
I can't hear what the winning team is through my blurry vision and distorted hearing (I think it's Sabertooth, the one we're sharing a hotel with), and the moment the first competition is announced, I black out.
I wake up in the stands of the area with Sayla's hand pressed on my face. "About time you woke up. Guess who's fighting?" I roll up slowly and glance down at the battle. Mom spares a quick glance at me, then turns back to the battle.
I'm surprised to see Sakura fighting against Erza Scarlet. Erza seems to be dodging all of the pink-haired girl's bullets, but that's not the full extent of Sakura's magic.
When Erza is close enough to slash at Sakura, golden strings shoot out of Sakura's fingertips and wrap around Erza's waist, lifting her high in the air and hurling her backwards so hard that the wall she hits visibly cracks. Erza gets up slowly, but the golden strings, now seemingly having a mind of their own, start whipping viciously at her, not giving her a chance to do anything but stand as the strings leave odd golden markings that apparently hurt, considering Erza's screaming. Judging what Fairy Tail is like with people hurting their friends, Sakura's in for a hell of a time along with the rest of us.
Sakura keeps making the golden strings going like that until Erza's eyes roll back into her head and faints. The announcer, with some sort of tremor in his voice, announces that Sakura wins the match. All the watching Fairy Tail members have their stares boring into Sakura, but she either doesn't notice or mind as she flashes a confident smile up at the crowd, who takes in the pink-haired twin-tailed girl wearing a strange outfit with shock and surprise.
-!-!-
When Sakura exits the arena (Erza gets carried out by some of her teammates who death glare Sakura the entire time), Sakura is immediately cornered by mom.
"Sakura, you seriously didn't have to knock her out like that," mom says, crossing her arms. "That was uncalled for." Sakura huffs.
"Well, what was I supposed to do? Let her slice me in half? No thanks," Sakura huffs, crossing her arms and looking the other way.
"You could have just been put back together again," Gabriel counters. Ryuu looks confused, which makes a lot of sense, considering that he doesn't know Sakura that well yet.
"But that takes a really long time," Sakura grumbles.
"Oh, by the way, Fairy Tail now probably hates you," Ryuu pipes up. "They're really effing protective of their teammates, so you and the rest of us are in for a treat."
