I am so sorry that this took so long!
My great uncle had major surgery, I've been swamped with projects and my hamster died, so I haven't had much time to write.I hope to have the next chapter finished soon but it depends on how well I can write other characters fight scenes.
Chapter 12
Hundreds of various colored balloons floated out of the large opened battle arena that was The Domus Flau. The Domus Flau's seats were filled with cheering spectators, creating a large sea of mixed colors.
In one of the viewing areas sat several members of Phoenix Talon; who all looked bored waiting for the games to begin. Haruhi was sitting on one of the benches reading a large book, while Jun had his head in her lap. Tora was curled up on the bench while she leaned into Koi's side, who was leaning on Ken's large arm. Raiden was leaning against the wall, keeping an eye on Madoka, who was sitting on the end of the bench talking to a jumpy Akira. Suzumu was holding Sumiko's arm, who was next to Asuki and Ren. Sain was sitting next to Yoshima, and had his hand on her pregnant belly, while they talked to Safire, who was on the other side of Yoshima. Haine and Emiko were leaning against the half stone wall, which acted as a railing, and looked out at the arena.
"Alright it's that time of year! The annual magic festival… The Grand Magic Games! In just a moment the curtain will rise on The Grand Magic Games. I'm your emcee, Chapati Rola, and next to me is former Council member, Yajima-san, who will provide commentary. And I'd like to introduce our guest for the day, the beautiful and ravishing member of the Sun Village, Flare Corona." Chapati announced through his silver microphone sitting on a desk in front of him, beside him was Yajima and beside Yajima was Flare.
"Thank you Chapati. It's nice to be back here under better terms." Flare said through her own silver microphone. She looked the exact same as she did in The Grand Magic Games last year.
"Flare is here to also provide commentary and to root for Fairy Tail, who saved her home The Sun Village about a year ago." Chapati added. "Now the players are about to take the field! Starting with the eighth-ranked team! Who are here to keep their title as the #1 guild in Fiore, Fairy Tail!"
"Finally it's beginning." Haruhi said as she slammed the large book that she was reading closed, and stood up along with everyone else.
"Koi and I can't see." Tora whined before she let out a squeak as Ken lifted her and Koi up to sit on the half wall. "Thank you, Ken." Tora smiled before grabbing onto Koi's arm, while Ken grunted in response.
As Fairy Tail's team emerged from the dark tunnel, into the large arena, the audience went berserk, yelling and screaming in excitement. Fairy Tail's team consisted of Natsu Dragneel, Erza Scarlet, Lucy Heartfilia, Gray Fullbuster and Wendy Marvell. Each member of the Fairy Tail team was dressed the exact same way that they were in the beginning of the last Grand Magic Games.
"Will Fairy Tail be able to win once again and keep their spot as the #1 guild in Fiore?" Chapati announced. Meanwhile out on the field Fairy Tail was staring surprised at Fairy Tail's First Master Mavis. Mavis was once again sitting in front of the other members of Fairy Tail, who were watching from one of the viewing areas.
"What is First Master Mavis doing here again?!" Gray yelled shocked.
"I wanted to show my support for Fairy Tail! Don't worry only those wearing Fairy Tail's guild symbol can see me, just like last time." Mavis giggled as she swung her feet back and forth. "Hooray, Hooray! Fairy Tail." Everyone in Fairy Tail looked at Mavis in shock and aw once again, while on the field Natsu started to laugh loudly and Lucy and Wendy sweatdropped.
"Hooray! Hooray! Fairy Tail!" The rest of Fairy Tail cheered along, once they got over their shock of seeing Master Mavis.
"Now let's move onto the team that finished in seventh place!" Chapati yelled onto the mic. "In seventh place is the all-female guild, the dancing girls of the great deep, Mermaid Heel!"
A glow of blue came from the tunnel and made a wall which the members of Mermaid Heel walked through, one of them carrying the guilds flag. The team consisted of Kagura Mikazuchi, Beth Vanderwood, Araña Webb, Risely Law and Millianna. At that moment most of the male spectators whistle and whooped, while they gained hearts in their eyes, as they stared at the beautiful members of Mermaid Heel.
"Er-chan!" Millianna yelled as she ran forward and hugged Erza.
"It's nice to see you again Millianna." Erza laughed slightly while she hugged Millianna back.
"In sixth place are the bright blue wings in pitch dark, Blue Pegasus." Chapati announced as each member of team Blue Pegasus appeared in a bright spotlight. The members of the team were Ichiya Kotobuki, Hibiki Lates, Ren Akatsuki, Eve Tearm and Jenny Realight.
"Continuing with fifth place! The goddess of love and war, the holy destroyer… Lamia Scale!" Chapati yelled as puffs of different colored smoke appeared and Lamia Scales team came out onto the field. The team's members were Jura Neekis, Lyon Vastia, Yuka Suzuki, Toby Horhorta and Chelia Blendy.
"Why did you come in fifth place?! You did worse than last year! Were you slacking off again?! I thought I told you kids not to hold back!" Lamia Scale's guild master, Obaba, yelled from the stands
"Sorry, Obaba-sama. I screwed up and wasn't looking were I w…" Chelia started only to be cut off when she tripped and fell to the ground. "Wendy!" Chelia yelled once she scrambled up and ran to Wendy.
"Chelia!" Wendy exclaimed happily as she and Chelia hugged each other before clasping their hands together.
"It's so good to see you again. Your hair is still short, I like it." Chelia said as she looked at Wendy's shoulder length hair.
"Thank you." Wendy giggled as she smiled at Chelia.
"Hey Lyon what are you doing?" Gray asked as he stepped up beside the two girls and looked at his fellow ice mage, who was scanning the crowd, looking distracted.
"…Nothing just looking for something." Lyon mumbled still looking at the crowd, before turning back to Gray. "Gray it's nice to see you again, it's been awhile." As soon as he finished, he quickly turned back towards the crowd, searching again.
"Am I the only one that thinks Lyon is acting different?" Lucy asked Gray, who was about to respond when he was cut off.
"I completely agree, Lucy." Hibiki said as he appeared beside Lucy and put his arm over her shoulder. "But then again I will agree to anything a beauty such as yourself asks."
"It's nice to see you too, Hibiki." Lucy grumbled as she pushed him away.
"It's a pleasure to see you again, Lucy" Eve said as he appeared in front of Lucy and bent down on one knee.
"Just because I'm happy to see you, doesn't mean I missed you." Ren mumbled as he wrapped his arm around Lucy. This caused Lucy to huff in annoyance and sweatdrop.
"Aren't you married?" Lucy grumbled.
"Men, do not annoy this girl with the excellent parfum." Ichiya announced as the other male members of the Blue Pegasus team snapped to attention and stood in front of him yelling; "Yes Boss.". Ichiya then sniffed the air before appearing in front of Erza. "No one's parfum is more beautiful than yours Erza. I don't understand how you always exude an exquisite parfum." He said as sparkles appeared around him and Erza sweatdropped and turned pale, before backing away from him.
"You're not the only one who thinks he's acting different Lucy-san, all of Lamia Scale thinks so." Chelia said to Lucy.
"He's been different ever since he came back to the hotel yesterday. After he got back he was distracted and kept mumbling 'pretty pink' and 'adorable'." Yuka grumbled, looking at the searching Lyon.
"Adorable? ...Did Lyon maybe find a new love?" Chelia said with a small blush on her face.
"Who knows." Gray stated, looking at Lyon who was looking more and more disappointed, as he couldn't find what he was looking for.
"Next up, finishing fourth in the elimination round… is quite a surprise! The first appearance of a guild, who got fourth place no less. The guild that strikes fast as lighting… Serpents Fang." Chapati yelled through his microphone, the arena then became deadly silent as everyone stared in anticipation at the tunnel that the guild would be appearing out of.
Slowly a purple cloud of gas puffed out into the arena, as 5 figures appeared in the smoke before walking out into the arena. The team consisted of two girls and three males, one of whom was carrying a large flag with the guild's guild mark on it. The guild's insignia was the silhouette of a large cobra head, that's mouth was open showing a large, sharp fang.
The first man was tall and muscular, with spiky purple hair that fell into his eyes and three metal earrings in his left ear. He was wearing a large dark purple scarf and a black over shirt that was short sleeved. All over top of a tight white t-shirt and black cargo pants, which were tucked into black combat boots. On the underside of his forearm was a purple guild symbol.
The second man was muscular and shorter than everyone else on the team. His skin was blue along with his hair, which was long and reached his shoulders. He was wearing a black vest without a shirt on underneath, tight purple pants and purple boots; also his forearms were covered with white bandages. On his right cheek was a black guild symbol.
The third man was tall and muscular but lanky with short black hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a tight black suit, which had a thick black belt in the middle, with tight black boots that reached his knees; the top of the suit reached up to his mouth and covered it. Also on right hand was a bright red guild mark.
The first girl was short, with a medium chest, and had long red hair that reached her waist; with the top half in a high ponytail. She was in a strapless, black corset with a small black skirt, which had black and white checkered tights on underneath. On her feet were white high wedged sandals and around her neck was a long white tie. Her guild mark was purple on her pale, almost white, upper arm and at the corner of her mouth were long black lines making two long stitch patterns.
The second girl was tall with short black hair, in a bob cut with straight bangs, a small chest and brown eyes. She was in a black leather jacket, with a tight gray tank top on underneath, tight black jeans and black combat boots. Her guild mark was blue and on the right side of her neck.
Meanwhile with Phoenix Talon
"Wow, they look cool!" Tora said as she kicked her legs back and forth over the edge of the wall and gripped Koi's arm tighter. "But they kind of freak me out."
"Agreed." Suzumu said as she held onto her sister's arm before turning to Safire who was next to them. "What do you thi… Safire, are you alright you look pale?" At that point the guild members looked over to Safire who was indeed very pale; she was also shaking and had her hand over top of her mouth. Her eyes were filled with tears as she stared down at the arena.
"Safire child what's wrong?" Emiko asked as she gently touched Safire's arm. Instead of answering Safire's knees started to buckle and she slowly started to sink to the ground, only to be stopped by Sain and Haine who grabbed onto her elbows to keep her up.
"Safire what's wrong?" Haine asked with a concerned look on his usually emotionless face. "Tell us."
"N-Noir." Safire stuttered out as tears fell from her eyes.
"Noir? What's a… Noir?" Madoka asked confused.
"N-Noir isn't a what, s-she's that girl with the black hair o-on Serpents Fang team." Safire choked out through her tears.
"What did she upset you? ...I'll kick her ass!" Akira screeched, as she tried to leap into the arena only to be stopped by Raiden, Jun and Ren, who grabbed onto her waist.
"Are you fool or just a giant idiot?!" Asuki yelled before taking the book out of Haruhi's hands and hitting Akira over the head with it.
"That was really mean new girl." Akira sobbed as she laid her head on the half-wall and held it in pain.
"No she didn't upset me. I'm overreacting." Safire said as she rubbed her eyes with her fists.
"If you got this upset you have to tell us what's wrong, Sa-chan. That's what families are for, right?" Tora asked, but the question only seemed to upset Safire more, as more tears fell from her eyes.
"N-Noir's my Onee-san. I haven't seen her since I was six years old." Safire explained as Sain hugged her comfortingly and Haine rubbed her back soothingly.
"Onee-san!" the guild members exclaimed.
"You have a big sister?" Raiden asked surprised, to which Safire nodded into Sain's chest in response.
"Yeah, she ran a-away when she was nine and I was s-six. Mom and dad never told me why she ran away, but I know it was my fault." Safire sobbed. "S-She always hated."
"Why would she hate you?" Yoshima asked as she rubbed Safire's arm.
"I-I never knew." Safire said as she moved from Sain's hug and turned back to the arena. "But let's forget about it please. Were her to cheer on our family members so let's do that." Everyone wanted to continue but they knew that talking about it would only make her more upset, so they all turned back to the arena.
"Alright next up in third place is the team you loved last year, the fast, the strong and the incredible Fairy Tail Team B." Chapati announced in excitement, as the Fairy Tail's guild mark made of lighting appeared and the members of Fairy Tail's Team B emerged from it, as the crowd erupted into cheers. The team consisted of Laxus Dreyar, Gajeel Redfox, Mirajane Strauss, Juvia Lockstar and Cana. The Fairy Tail members on the field turned pale and their jaws dropped.
"You've got to be kidding!" Natsu yelled in rage. "Why didn't tell us there were two Fairy Tail teams again, you old geezer?!" And all Master Makarov did was cackle in response at the angry mage.
"We shouldn't be so surprised after what happened last year." Gray grumbled in response.
"Hey, Erza, "Mystogen" came to support you by the way." Cana winked.
"Jellal? What is he doing here?" Erza asked ignoring Cana's suggestive wink.
"Meredy insisted on coming and Jellal had to stay with her." Laxus whispered to Erza.
"Good, then I demand to fight him later!" Natsu yelled before turning to Laxus and Gajeel. "You bastards, when we fight I'm going to kick your asses!"
"You took the words right out of my mouth, eighth place. Gi-hi." Gajeel smirked at Natsu, who tried to jump at him, but was stopped when Erza smashed her hand down onto his shoulder.
"Where's Meredy and Jellal?" Wendy whispered to Laxus.
"They disguised themselves and are sitting with the rest of your guild." Laxus explained pointing to where Fairy Tail was sitting. Waving from the stands beside Makarov was 'Mystogen', and tall girl with long brown hair, a large chest and a white shirt with brown shorts; the girl was a disguised Meredy and Mystogen was a disguised Jellal.
Meanwhile up in Phoenix Talon's viewing area Master Emiko pulled Haruhi and Akira towards her.
"Does the team know who that Mystogen really is, the one in the stands?" Emiko asked.
"Yes, Master. We put everything they would need to know in the files. They'll need to know if Cana is later swapped out with him." Haruhi responded.
"Yep, we did intense research. Fairy Tail isn't as sneaky as they believe." Akira said quickly.
"Good. Now I told the team this and I'm going to tell you; you are not to tell anyone about who Mystogen really is. There could be bad consequences for Fairy Tail if anyone were to find out, alright." Emiko said to which the two girls replied with 'Yes Master'.
"Now we have two more teams left, in second place is going to be a shocker to you all. In second place we have the guild that lost their title as the #1 guild in Fiore last year. The strong and the fierce, Sabertooth!" Chapati yelled through the microphone. His announcement was met with silence and shock as Sabertooth entered the arena; the team consisted of Sting Eucliffe, Rogue Cheney, Rufus Lore, Orga Nanagear and Yukino Aguria. Sabertooth alone with every other mage on the field looked shocked.
"What! If Fairy Tail or Sabertooth didn't get first place, then who did?!" Flare exclaimed through her microphone.
"What is this, who else could have gotten first place?" Lucy asked.
"Do you think it's Quatro Puppy? Or does Fairy Tail have a third team?" Yukino asked as she came over to Lucy, with Sting following closely behind.
"Natsu-san it's good to see you again!" Sting exclaimed happily with a large toothy smile on his face, he was about to continue when he was cut off by a yell from the crowd.
"It's Quatro Cerberus not Puppy! And we didn't make it past the elimination round." A man yelled from the crowd, causing the mages to look over and see the members of Quatro Cerberus's in the crowd.
"If it's not Quatro Puppy then who is it?" Lector asked from his spot next to Frosch in the area where team Sabertooth would be sitting during the games.
"Fro don't know." Frosch said.
"Finally, number one in the elimination round is… another surprise! This is the first appearance of this guild. This guild is not well known but their members are rumored to be more beautiful than even Blue Pegasus and Fairy Tail." Chapati announced.
"That's not possible. No is more beautiful than the members of Blue Pegasus." Jenny protested.
"That's totally true we are the most beautiful!" Suzumu said to the guild.
"That's not true sis." Sumiko mumbled to her sister.
"Yes it is! Hey, did you give the team that shadow ball?" Suzumu asked.
"What shadow ball?" Madoka inquired.
"Using my magic I gave the team a way to make their entrance more interesting. The shadow ball will create a shadow hiding them till their entrance ends." Sumiko explained.
"Coooooool! Can I have one? It's important!" Madoka exclaimed to the twins only to get a no in response, before turning to Raiden. "Raiden can I have one?"
"No. Watch." Raiden said without looking at her, knowing that if he did he wouldn't be able to resist her puppy dog eyes.
"The beautiful, the graceful, the strong… Phoenix Talon." Chapati yelled and every person in the arena leaned forward in anticipation.
"That smell. It's the scent that was on those exceeds last night. Their guild has a Dragon Slayer!" Natsu exclaimed.
"Really! I can't wait to meet him." Wendy said excitedly.
As soon as she said this a large stream of water shot out of the opening that Phoenix Talon who be appearing out of. The stream then created the shape of a large phoenix with its wings spread out wide, before it froze, completely solid, and the members of Phoenix Talon walked out of the tunnel. As they stood under the phoenix, their bodies covered by shadows, the shape exploded and small ice shards fell to the ground; evaporating before they hit the team. The shadow then disappeared and the members of team Phoenix Talon could be seen by the crowd. Once the crowd saw them they erupted into cheers and whistling, and many of the spectator's eyes filled with hearts, while some of them even swooned.
On the field team Phoenix Talon stood in a line, Shinju was on one end with Yumi next to her; beside her was Hikaru, with Kukika in between him and Chinami. Yumi had turned to the live lacrima camera facing Phoenix Talon and waggled her fingers at it, while giving the crowd a smoldering look, which caused many of the male audience members to faint. Shinju rolled her eyes at Yumi before giggling and waving to the crowd with a large smile on her face. Hikaru stood there scanning the other mages in the arena, while Chinami had her hand on her hip and stood there with her hood still covering her face. Meanwhile Kukika was staring, transfixed, at Lyon with a large blush on her face.
A second later Lyon finally took his eyes off the audience, looking very disappointed before he saw Kukika and his face brightened with a goofy grin on his face. Then, as he realized that he was staring, his entire face turned red but he continued to stare, transfixed. Kukika's face turned even redder as she met his eyes and she was about to take a step forward, before Chinami grabbed her sleeve to stop her.
"Don't." Chinami mumbled so only Kukika could hear her. Kukika's eyes widened as she realized what she was about to subconsciously do, and she quickly snapped her head towards the ground in front of Hikaru. Every member of Phoenix Talon's team noticed Kukika's action out of the corner of their eyes, but didn't say or do anything; but Shinju and Yumi stored the moment away in their memory to tease her with later. Every mage on the field noticed the moment between the two mages, and watched as Lyon deflated when Kukika looked away suddenly.
"Wow! It looks like the rumors where true and what's that…" Chapati yelled before pausing and leaning forward slightly. "Are those exceeds in Phoenix Talon's team area!?"
At that point many spectators and mages looked over to Phoenix Talon's team area and saw the two exceeds sitting on top of the half wall. Taki sat there blank faced staring into the arena and Sorano was wide eyed, scared of all the eyes on her, with a fish vertically in her mouth.
"Does that mean Phoenix Talon has two Dragon Slayers?" Flare asked through her microphone, which caused an excited murmur to break out through the crowd.
"Really?" Yukino asked Rogue as she dragged Sting back to their team.
"Yes one of them is a Dragon Slayer but I can't tell which one; their scents are all mixed together. And even though there are two exceeds I can only smell one Dragon scent." Rogue explained as he watched Phoenix Talon closely, with narrowed eyes.
"Rogue's right. I can smell the scent of a Dragon Slayer raised by a Dragon, but I can't tell who it is." Sting said, looking intently at team Phoenix Talon.
"They really can't tell?" Kukika whispered quietly to Chinami.
"No. We spend so much time together that my scent has rubbed off on you guys." Chinami said, speaking quietly so that no one, not even those with advanced hearing, could hear her. "They'll figure it out eventually."
"Interesting. Chinami they said you smell like a Dragon, why?" Kukika whispered.
"Since I was raised by a dragon who also gave me my magic I smell like her it's that same with those like me." Chinami said quietly.
"I guess that explains why Natsu Dragneel said Sorano, Taki and I smelled like a Dragon. Damn bastard better keep his nose away from you guys." Hikaru grumbled.
"What?" Shinju questioned quietly to Yumi who just shrugged in response.
"And now all the teams are here, but what are your impressions, Yajima-san?" Chapati asked.
"I envy there youth." Yajima responded.
"That's not what I meant… Okay, everyone, you've waited long enough. I'm going to announce the program of the Grand Magic Games!" One Chapati said this the arena ground shook and a large stone slab shot up from underneath the sand. On the slab of stone was filled with large writing; it listed off the days and beside them were several question marks. Day one said Search and beside that was battle.
"For the competition part, each team can select one of their members to take part." Chapati announced. "The battle part has changed since last year, it will all be randomized. For the battle part a randomizer will pick two guild names, and then the randomizer will choose the two mages that will be battling against each other."
"So the battles are all random?" Lucy questioned.
"It seems so. Like last year if you partake in the competition, and exhaust your magic during, you could be forced into battle right after." Erza said.
"That hardly seems fair." Shinju grumbled.
"Agreed." Hikaru responded with narrowed eyes.
"The rules for the battle part are simple. As you can see, the teams face off against each other, with the winning team receiving 10 points and the losing team getting 0 points. In the case of a tie, both teams receive five points. And now the Grand Magic Games' opening game! Let's begin "Search"!" Chapati announced, which was met by mumbles in the crowd.
"What's Search?" a girl in the audience asked.
"One person from each team will compete. I'll explain the rules of the game after all the players are on the field."
"Let me check out the first one!" Beth Vanderwood said to her team mates.
"The first person to step up is Beth Vanderwood from Mermaid Heel." Chapati announced
"Osumu you take this one, don't fail us." The man from Serpents Fang with the purple scarf said to the small blue man.
"Understood, Michio." Osumu said.
"Wait!" the black haired girl from Serpents Fang, Noir, said as Osamu walked out onto the field. "Who said you were in charge Michio."
"Who else would be able to lead us besides Michio-sama." The red haired girl hissed at Noir.
"Honestly I think anyone would be better than him, Hotaru." Noir smirked.
"Why you little… Toshi let me go!" Hotaru yelled once the man in the black suit grabbed her arm to keep her from attacking Noir.
"Hotaru settle." Michio said staring at the field, which caused the girl to stop her struggling and just stand next to him.
"OK." Hotaru sighed dreamily.
"Next up from Serpents Fang is Osamu." Chapati yelled through his microphone.
"I'll take care of this." Eve said stepping forward.
"Eve-kun is our first person!" the Blue Pegasus team chanted.
"Eve has been called out! From Blue Pegasus, Eve Tearm." Chapati announced.
"I'll do it. The singing of the birds is pleasant today." Rufus said tipping his hat forward.
"From Sabertooth is the minstrel who sings to the red moon, Rufus!" Chapati announced.
"We should probably go with Lyon but he isn't paying attention." Chelia mumbled staring intently at Lyon, who had gone back to staring at Kukika.
"I'll do it then." Yuka said as he stepped forward.
"From Lamia Scale, Yuka Suzuki!" Chapati yelled.
"I'll handle this one." Wendy said stepping forward.
"From Fairy Tail A Team, Wendy Marvell!"
"This one is mine." Cana slurred.
"If you lose this for us you drunk there'll be hell to pay." Gajeel yelled from behind her.
"From Fairy Tail A Team, Cana Alberona!" Chapati announced.
"Which one of us should do it?" Kukika asked Hikaru, who was about to respond but was cut off.
"I want to. Can I Chinami?" Yumi said which caused the rest of the team, except for Chinami, to look over. Chinami stood there for a few seconds before nodding her head yes.
"Finally from Phoenix Talon, Yumi Hayashi!" Chapati announced, as Yumi stepped up into the line that the other participants had formed. Most of the males in the crowd went crazy, cheering, when Yumi turned to the lacrima camera and blew a kiss
"All of the participating players from the eight teams are set! And now for the rules of the opening game "Search!" Chapati announced.
Meanwhile in the crowd.
A cloaked man sat in one of the closest rows of seats staring intently at the Dragon Slayers on the field.
"Perfect." The man smirked, before chuckling. "The time is near and we finally have enough first and third generation Dragon Slayers, for the plan!"
'Phew' Done. This is by far my longest chapter. The next one will have more action.
By the way I may add some new characters so if you have any OC ideas, I could use them.
If anyone has an idea for competitions it would be greatly appreciated.
This competition "Search" may be the same as "Hidden" I had a different idea for it but I realized that it wouldn't work very well. I might not make it the same, I haven't figured it out.