Okay, since I decided I didn't want to follow the GGM too closely, I'm going to ask you guys to decide the battles, I'll keep to the same events, saving me some time, so I can give up updates more often. So instead of the Elfman vs Bacchus, you could chose Blake vs Nastu, or Natsu vs Grey, or even Ebony vs Blake. So just send me a pm or a review, of any characters you'd like to see fight, and maybe who you want to win as well.
I think I'm going to do the GGM dominantly from the Sabertooth side of it, because I sort of don't want to tell a Story that's already been told fantastically, but if you guys want I can do the one chapter ST and the other FT.
I'm not the biggest fan on this chapter tbh, but I wanted to get it out of the way so I could start writing the other events and the battles. I'm yet to decide whether I should do a day as a chapter, or a single event as a chapter.
"It's the Twin Dragons of Sabertooth." These words were whispered, over and over again as they walked down the street of Crocus. Ebony walked at front, people just moved out of the way, no one dared to stop the group for an autograph, maybe it was the wolf on her shoulder, or the fact her eyes promised death.
Sting waved, happy with all attention he was getting, promising he'll win the tournament for Sabertooth, as Rouge sighed at his antics.
Orga didn't wave, but he had a smile on his face, listening to the people shout and cheer, all in awe of his power as a God Slayer.
"Who are the other two?" Might have been the most common thing that was heard whispered around then, they must have been powerful, they were Sabertooth, but who exactly were they?
"They're the Twin Gods of Sabertooth." Orga said with a slight smirk. "The Twin Dragons only rivals."
Gasps and whispers shot through the crowds as people watched the two God Slayers. They were in awe and wonder, new players in this game but already rivals with the most powerful. The questions arose, what are their elements? What were their names? These two people were stories yet to be told, and this had the crowd hung on every word any of the group spoke.
"But aren't we the Three Gods of Sabertooth?" Ebony asked, glancing back at Orga with a mischievous glint in her eye. "Only we three have the power to slay Gods."
"What's your elements?" Someone shouted from the crowd.
"First Generation God Slayers don't tend to have an element, just a God." Blake said. "But I am the White God Slayer, my lord is Apollo."
"I am the Shadow God Slayer my lord and lady are Erebus and Artemis." Ebony said. "But alas, two masters always come at a price."
"Are you more powerful than the Twin Dragon Slayers?" Another shouted.
"Well..." Ebony said, turning around and crossing her arms at the wrist, her legs spread slightly, the shadows began to swarm around her, twisting and turning as they began to whip around her body.
Blake stretched his hands to the sky, his wrists touching and his hands as if he was cupping a ball. Tainted white light began to swarm in a ball around him; he brought it down in front of him, his hands moving above and below it.
"This could be interesting." Orga said, moving away from the Four, as the crowd backed up just a little. Knowing that Sting and Rouge would probably end up destroying a lot of things around them.
"We shouldn't tire ourselves out." Rouge said his voice emotionless, like usual. "But there are always mages who are willing to test their mettle against us; perhaps we could demonstrate our power on them."
"Suit yourself." Ebony said as the shadows started to fade away or return to where they belonged. "It seems you don't think the other mages will put up a fight."
Blake sighed in distaste and let the tainted light dissipate.
"Your magic isn't shadows, it's just void!" Someone shouted.
"What do you think Shadows are?" Orga asked.
"God Slayer magic is forever tainted with black; you can't taint black with black, so it just becomes void of light." Ebony said. "Who wants to fight us then?"
"I'll take your bags; get to the Hotel for Midnight." Orga said, as he took all the luggage and walked away.
It was safe to say the fight wasn't worth mentioning.
Frosch stood by a man, poking his cheek with a stick. "They're literally beneath us."
"Won?" Istas asked.
"It was more of a beating than a fight." Ebony said as she stroked her wolf's small head. The crowd around them just continued to whisper in awe, the power of the Twin Dragons and Twin Gods was immense; they'd surely win the GGM.
"You!" Sting suddenly said, drawing the attention of the Twins.
"Natsu Dragneel..." The words seemed to roll off Rouge's tongue as if it was a sin to say such a name.
Ebony looked at the fire Dragon Slayer, who was kneeling on the floor, looking rather confused. He had no idea who these two Slayers were, never mind how they knew him.
Lucy looked just as confused, but her eyes lit up when she saw Ebony and Blake, she smiled at them and they offered a nod back before turning to Sting and Rouge.
"Acnologia..." Sting said, making Natsu suddenly frown. "We could have defeated him."
"How can you defeat something you haven't seen?" Lucy asked.
"Well, I'd like to see them defeat an Old God." Ebony said to Blake.
"We watched them try, and fail." Blake responded.
"Does that really count?"
"I guess not..." Blake said. "Do you think we could slay a dragon?"
"If Sting can do it, it can't be that hard." Ebony replied with a nod.
Frosch and Lector stood in front of Happy, judging him, looking at his slightly shocked face before both declaring. "You look stupid."
"They're cats and they talk!" Happy shouted out in horror, his paws to his cheeks.
"I bet the God Slayers over there could have defeated him." Sting said with a smirk. "But Rouge and I are clearly the stronger slayers, what is a Dragon Slayer who can't slay a Dragon?"
"Sting, leave it, let's just go to the Hotel. He's not worth our time." Ebony said, placing her hand gently on Sting's arm, but he only shrugged it off. "Sting!" She said, raising her voice slightly. "Let's go!"
"Why?" Sting asked, turning around and facing her, his eyes alight with rage.
"Maybe I don't want you or Rouge to get hurt." She said with a sigh as she turned away. "Maybe you two are more powerful than him, but you don't know that for certain. If you're going to fight, we're going to leave. You'll only put yourself at risk and probably lose us the Grand Magic Games."
Sting let out a heavy breath and offered Natsu a glance. "I heard you're taking part in the GGM, I'll show you the power of a real Dragon Slayer then."
He walked away, grumbling something underneath his breath, grabbing Ebony's hand forcefully and pulling her along as he stormed away, his pace suddenly quickening.
"I didn't want a fight." Rouge mumbled to himself as he followed the two.
"And here I was hoping to get in an actual fight..." Blake said with a sigh and wandered off as well.
Sting had finally slowed down, his hand still holding hers as they walked. Ebony didn't question it or pull away; she waited for him to speak, to finally tell her why he was so frustrated. His grip suddenly tightened and he let out a sigh.
"I used to idolise him when I was growing up." Sting finally said. "He was Natsu Dragneel, the strongest Dragon Slayer. I used to want to grow up to be just like him. I'd listen to every story about his adventures eagerly, taking in every single word of it. Telling myself I'd become just as powerful as him, and I'd join Fairy Tail just for the chance of being able to fight beside him."
"But?" Ebony promoted, giving his hand a reassuring squeeze.
"He just went missing, defeated by a Dragon. Left the guild he valued so much to fall is disarray. He was a Dragon Slayer who couldn't slay a Dragon..." Sting shook his head. "To think I even idolised him..."
"That's part of growing up." Ebony said softly. "You realise those who you looked up to aren't as powerful as you once thought."
"Did you ever look up to someone?" Sting asked.
"My parents... they were really strong mages. They were part of the Army, a private sector designated to protect the King at any and all costs. I thought they could do anything, but they weren't strong enough to kill an Old God, which cost them their lives, but my brother and I are. It's a learning experience, is it not? You learn from their mistakes, the things that went wrong for them, and make sure that will never happen to you."
"Ebony..." Sting began but she let go of his hand, and opened the door to the Hotel they were staying at.
"So this is home for the next week?" She asked, looking behind to him, he just nodded and watched her walk inside, and go to Orga who stood looking a little vexed.
"You had 15 minutes to spare, you really cut it close. Where's your brother and Rouge?"
"Sorry Mother." Ebony said, before motioning behind her as Rouge and Blake walked in. "Where are we staying? I'm tired, what's for dinner?" She began to whine, falling onto the floor in a dramatic show of her tiredness.
Orga let out a sigh, hounding the other four Slayers to the common room.
The whole hotel began to shake, causing Ebony to jump into Rouge's arms and cling to him, as it felt as if the hotel began to rise into the air. A window suddenly opened, and a wooden pathway, which looked extremely unsafe lead up to a strange looking object in the sky. There were many of these walkways, none of them looking in the slightest bit safe.
The place had stopped shaking, but still Ebony clung to Rouge, refusing to let go.
"She fears Earthquakes." Blake said with a sigh. "She almost got crushed by a falling building in an Earthquake when we were younger, but that is a story for another time. I fear Spiders."
A 3D image shone up, it seemed to look directly at them. "We decided that 113 groups was too many, so boring. So we decided to have an elimination round! The first eight teams to reach the goal of the sky labyrinth get to compete in the Grand Magic Games." The Large pumpkin said in the sky, and laughed weirdly. "Just remember, the GGM committee won't take any responsibility for lives lost in the Labyrinth!" And then it vanished.
"What was that?" Ebony asked, yet to remove herself from Rouge.
"If it hasn't occurred to you, if we want to participate in the GGM, we better head for the Labyrinth." Orga said.
Ebony slid to the ground slowly, before climbing to her feet. "I guess last one there gets to buy dinner for the rest of us!" She shouted as she sprinted towards the Labyrinth.
"I don't make enough money to be able to pay for the amount Rouge and Sting eat!" Blake shouted as he sprinted after his sister.
"Shut up!" Rouge shouted running after them.
"I think they could out eat us!" Sting shouted at Rouge as he too began to run for the Labyrinth.
Orga just laughed before he realised if he didn't get a move on he'd have to pay for the dinner, even with a rent free life, he had things to pay for.
Ebony was the first one to step foot on the stone floor of the maze, and look around in wonder. Everything was everywhere, it was a 3D maze, stairs going up, down, left, right, diagonal and every direction you could think of. Some of it was enough to give you a headache, but if you looked down, there was a massive drop.
"I don't like it." Blake announced to the group.
"Istas..." Ebony murmured, stroking the cub's head. "Are you even supposed to be here?"
A hologram of a man, with a pumpkin for a head appeared in front of them. "Your pet is fine to stay with you!" It, he or whatever it exactly was, sang out. "Your Dragon Slayers will also notice a lack of motion sickness! We have a special spell that cures people of their fear of heights and motion sickness so that everyone is on equal footing!"
"You owe us dinner!" Someone behind them declared, from the obnoxiousness, it was probably Sting to Orga, who Blake could clearly here grumble curses under his breath.
"Lightning is supposed to be fast." Rouge said, with little to know emotion in his voice, but the side of his mouth curled up into a smirk.
"Not as fast as four gluttonous kids who are after a free meal." Orga grumbled.
"So... we try and reach the goal?" Ebony asked as she looked around. "I see fuck all."
Blake turned, a full 360 degrees, looked up, looked down and shrugged. "Apparently the Goal will have a flashy sign above it saying Goal. So if we don't see it now..." His voice trailed off as he felt four pair of eyes land on him.
"We better get moving then or get kicked from the Guild. Only eight teams are getting through, and there are 113." Sting said, beginning to walk down a flight of stairs, with no banister, or rail, one wrong placement of your foot could end up with you landing head first on the streets below.
Rouge reached into a pocket, hidden beneath his cloak, and pulled out some paper and a pen, before beginning to mark something down.
"Rouge? Now isn't the time to be writing your Diary for the day." Ebony said, to which he only gave her a dirty look and responded with one word.
"Map."
Ebony only shrugged and held her arms out, letting Istas jump from her shoulder and cuddle into her chest as they began to walk.
They reached a crossroad, three directions, each leading out of sight. Sting seemed to edge for the one going north, Orga seemed to prefer the one going east, the twins seemed to have a thing for the one going south, while Rouge continued to draw on his paper.
Before they could argue, the whole Labyrinth began to shake. Rouge found Ebony in his arms, clinging to him, with Istas digging her claws into his shoulder. He would have said something, but in some way, this meant Ebony trusted him, and that somehow gave his satisfaction, made him feel better in some way. Though when the shaking stopped, she stood like nothing had happened, that she hadn't held onto him like he was her life line.
"What happened before?" Rouge asked.
"What?"
"When we found you." He said, as if it was perhaps the most obvious thing in the world but Ebony only shrugged.
"I opened my senses up to much to try and find what was wrong with Istas, the Old God found an opening and tried to attack me. In defence I blacked out, and let myself fall into the sanctuary of the shadows. What I did was stupid of me I guess, but I got a new friend out of it." Ebony said with yet another shrug.
"You could have died?" Rouge asked, his brow creased a little but Ebony just gently punched his shoulder before she began to walk down the only option left for them to walk, south, like she'd wanted to go.
"But I didn't." She said, as she knelt down to pick Istas up. "Even if I could have, I didn't."
The group was then bombarded with magical attacks. Left right and centre, balls of earth, water, air and fire came at them. One hit Sting in the crotch, another hit Rouge in the face, one knocked Blake to the ground and a ball of Ice just smacked into Orga's chest, shattered and he watched the pitiful pieces for all the ground.
"God Slayers Shadow Whirlwind!" Ebony shouted as she crossed her arms at the wrist, legs apart and shadows whipped around them, protecting them. Every spell that went into the spinning Shadows would be spit out in a totally different direction.
"Make it bigger." Orga said, taking his instructor pose, arms crossed as he looked at Ebony with disapproving eyes.
Ebony shut her eyes and focused. Slowly, the whirlwind pushed outwards, the shadows hovering in mid air. Further and further out it went, until Orga placed his hand on Ebony's shoulder.
"You did well." He said. "Finish it."
She spread her arms, and with it, the shadows shot out, knocking any who weren't prepared to the streets below.
"Take five, we'll protect you." Blake said, and Ebony nodded, sitting down on the ground as her brother darted forward, jumping from one platform, to the one below. He elbow slammed an unprepared mage, and then pushed them off the edge.
Twisting, he slammed his fist into the next mage. Tainted light appearing in his hands as he aimed for the stomach, knocking yet another off the edge.
Orga smirked, only holding out one hand. Lightning sparked around it, he suddenly made a fist. Around him lightning rushed to mages near him, paralysing them, making them fall to the ground or of the edge.
Sting just threw a ball of light in the air, watching as five mages surrounded him. He threw it, twisting around. The ball followed his hand, knocking into every mage. Before he just kicked them off the edge, no remorse.
Only two mages were left, one look at Rouge, they ran. A ball of shadows glided into them, knocking them off the platform.
"Well, that was fun." Ebony said as she got up. "Seems like teams are teaming up."
"Doesn't matter, we'll kick their asses." Sting said. "Conserve your magic; we might meet some high players rather than these pawns."
Blake, for a change, began to cast a spell. "I summon Light from yonder plains, guide my way!"
A white ball, tainted with black, like everything to do with God Slayers was, came into existence. It danced a little to the left and a little bit to the right, twirled round and round before just stopping, if it had eyes, Ebony would have sworn herself blind it was judging them.
It then shot off, moving quickly to the east. Blake broke into a run following it. The team ran for what seemed like forever, when in reality at most five minutes had passed. It suddenly stopped, again moving from left to right, before the whole Labyrinth began to shake again.
Ebony paused, looked down at her hands and then shrugged. "They must have edited the spell to cure my fear..." She grumbled to herself. "I'm so fucking screwed if I go up against an Old God that controls the earth."
Blake looked over to his shoulder to his twin and sighed. "You're weird as hell, you'd get over that fear just to kick its ass. You're like that kid from the manga we read once, E... something from Attack on... something."
Sting tapped the twins on the shoulders, and gestured for them to look upwards.
Above them stood luscious green grass, and a rural hamlet, flowing rivers and some trees.
"This is some fucked up magic." Sting said.
"I agree." Rouge replied.
Then they were falling, as if gravity itself had shifted.
"White God's Murder!" Blake shouted, a flock of black birds appearing and slowing his fall.
Rouge pulled Ebony up against him, forcing her to shift into the shadows as he did, before they vanished from thin air. Only then emerging from the shadows down on the ground.
Sting hit the ground, hard.
Orga landed with some grace.
Blake was the last one to the ground.
"Hey look, there it is!" Sting shouted, pointing to the distance. True to his word, a stair case, leading to a door with Goal flashing above it wasn't too far away.
After they had walked up these stairs, about to enter a door, the pumpkin man appeared in front of them, doing a little Dance.
"Orga Nanagear." The pumpkin said, and Orga nodded. "Sting Eucliffe, Rouge Cheney, Ebony and Blake Erawen, congratulations, you've qualified for the Grand Magical Games."
"What position?" Orga asked.
"First, as expected of Sabertooth." It said, before moving to the side, letting them pass through.
(The Realisation that Fanfic hates anything I do to break up sections is kinda real right now)
"So, we walk out when we're told to, accept all the glory the fans are going to give us, and then find out about the next event." Sting said, looking around at the group. They stood in a tunnel that led up to area, they could already hear cheering, booing and all sorts.
It wasn't long before the signal came, and they walked out. Sting in the lead, followed by Orga and Rouge, and last came Ebony and Blake.
The whole arena roared with excitement, cheers and screaming as the Sabertooth team emerged. Sting holding his arms out, accepting the glory, Orga with one arm in the air, Rouge not making any movement but walking but a small smile on his face. Blake and Ebony just walked, looking around, waving at people who seemed to take a special interest in them.
When the screaming and cheering had died down, Orga appeared by the blonde celestial mage of Fairy Tail.
"If we're making bets about who's going to win, I say if Sabertooth wins we get this chick." Orga said, putting his large hands on the blonde's small shoulders.
Laxus, the resident Lightning slayer of Fairy Tail glared at Orga. "When Fairy Tail wins, we get the Shadow God Slayer chick."
"You can't have Ebony!" Sting said, pulling the confused Shadow Slayer behind him. "And we won't lose to a washed out guild."
"You're not getting Lucy." Laxus growled out and Orga only laughed.
"But we will, who wouldn't want a hot chick in their guild?" Orga replied with a smirk.
"... We already have Ebony." Rouge said, earning a death glare from Blake.
Ebony pushed past Sting and looked the Titania dead in the eye. "Since most of my team seems to have some rivalry with your guild. I declare you as my rival. I hope to see you in the ring."
Erza smirked and nodded. "You must be rather powerful, taking out that thing with your brother in three spells. I'm almost honoured to have you as a rival.
Blake looked around at Fairy Tail, his eyes fell on the masked one, to who he shrugged and got a nod, and a sigh.
Rouge's eyes seemed to be fixed on Gajeel, watching him closely, taking in his every movement.
"Who the hell are you staring at?" Gajeel growled out.
"Gajeel..." The words seemed to roll of Rouge's tongue so naturally.
"So!" Chapita Lola announced. "It seems that Sabertooth is now all rivalled with someone out of Fairy Tail! This will be a rivalry of the century! But can Fairy Tail ever hope to beat the glorious Sabertooth? Mystogan vs Blake, both unknown to us, I'd like to see that battle! Ebony vs Erza, Ebony is just as unknown as her twin brother but we know Erza very well, can Ebony prove to be the most powerful?"
"I miss Istas..." Ebony said with a sigh, waving to the Stand with Sabertooth members in it.
"Good Luck Sting-kun, Rouge-Kun and Ebony-Chan!" The exceeds Chimed out, as Istas sat next to them, watching her master with curious eyes.
"Okay Everyone! You've waited long enough! I'm going to announce to program of the Grand Magic Games!" Chapati announced.
The ground began to shake as a large stone tablet rose from it, revealing the schedule of the GGM. A battle every day, with an event.
"What place you get during an event depends on how many points you get! The points have already been added from the elimination round, from first to eight! For the competitions, each team can select a member to take part in, and for the battle part, the result from the fan vote will be taken into consideration while the sponsors make the pairings. The battle part is simple, the winner gets 10 points, the loser gets none and in case of a draw, they both get 5 points. Now for the Grand Magic Game opening event, let's begin 'Hidden'!"
"Each team select someone to play!"
The first person to step up was. "Quatro Cerberus's Yeager!"
The Second to take their place was. "From Mermaid Heel, Beth Vanderwood!"
The Third to announce themselves was. "Raven Tails, Nalpudding!"
The fourth to step up was. "Eve Tilm from Blue Pegasus!"
The fifth was. "Gray Fullbuster from Fairy Tail A."
"Lyon Vastia, Lamia Scale!"
"And Eighth is the Unknown Blake Erawen from Sabertooth!"
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