~ Chapter 14 - It is not Easy~

Lucy's POV

It's dark.

Pitch black darkness.

Funny, it was always there for me.

Every time I needed comfort, it was there.

I'm not scared of the dark.

Darkness is my friend.

It doesn't leave me like Mama.

It doesn't hate me like Papa.

And

It doesn't hurt me like….who was it again?

Back to GMG,

The games were just starting, after the heated battle glare between the two gangs, everyone in the audience started to vote on who would win the bet. Naturally, making Cana rich because she was the first one that suggested the bet.

"Alright everyone! The first game of today is called, 'Maze Kill'. Each participants must find their target person and kill them" said the announcer. That was right killing was part of the game, or at least injure them until they are unable to continue further into the game. That was the strategy of the Royal family, get the gangs to kill each other and less work for them. After all, the prize is billions of cash and they get to go free crime for a week.

"Alright everyone, send out your members!" the announcer said.

The groups turned to their leaders, since they were to pick who to go out. Megumi glanced at Rogue and he nodded, stepping down onto the battlefield.

"Gihi, I'mma go play this round" said Gajeel once he noticed Rogue went out. Natsu didn't say anything and simply nodded. Even though everyone was thinking, 'But Gajeel, you're horrible at mazes' and Levy looking very worried.

The other participants too went down and each and everyone of them glared at each other. The announcer gave each one of them a paper that they would pick in a hat and said,

"The rules are to simply just kill your target.

You may use any weapon you like.

No receiving help from outsiders.

No one should kill anyone else unless it is their target and likewise their target can also kill your killer.

If the killer has chosen to not fight the target, the killer is able to give up but will immediately have a score 0, no matter how much targets the killer had kill.

Once you have killed your target, you would be given another piece of paper. If you were to have the same target as another killer, then the first one to kill the target would be given the points. The other would receive another paper.

Game lasts for 17 minutes, any more harming after that would consider a rule breaker" the announcer said, blunt and simple, no questions ask, no loopholes found at least that was what they thought.

The gang nodded and so began the game.

The battle area started to rise on where the participants were standing. For safety issues, every time there would be a battle the arena would be like an elevator and go upwards. So in order to watch them, they installed cameras in every inch and corner of the arena. Of course, no shield to protect them if they were to fall off the arena and land onto the ground, so death for that unlucky person.

On top of the arena also grew long walls with each participants in between them. A hologram counter appeared on top of the sky. Counting from '10...9...8….4….3...2….1! START GAME!'

They ran forward and into the complicated maze entrance. When Gajeel entered, he looked around and only saw walls and turnings. He grumbled in frustration, maze wasn't his type of thing, heck his blue hair friend was! He so wished that he had her mind right now. He looked down onto his paper and it wrote, 'Hibiki'

"Gihi, he should be easy" Gajeel smirked and looked around again, "IF ONLY I CAN FIND HIM!" he yelled and walked to a direction.

As he began to walk into another direction, he felt a sudden blade swing behind him. He quickly moved to the side but the side of the blade still gave a small slash on his cheek.

"Shhh….aw, I missed" said Kurohebi as he proceed to use his long snake like tongue to lick the blade.

"Well, look who it is the Black Snake" glared Gajeel.

Kurohebi laughed and showed him the paper that said, 'Gajeel' "Wellsss, good thing I didn't need to waste time on finding a metal head like you"

"And I don't need to find someone to kill" said Gajeel getting his knuckles ready. Kurohebi gotten his tiny blade shurikens out on each of the opening between his fingers and charged at Gajeel. Likewise, Gajeel had his hard metal gloves on and ran towards him.

Kurohebi threw a handful of shurikens towards Gajeel, which he dodged with his gloves blocking it for him. Only to release that it was a mere distraction and saw that Kurohebi jumped up towards him with his other hand of shurikens ready to cut him anytime.

Gajeel smirked and let the shurikens hit his skin, only for Kurohebi to noticed that not even a scratch was placed on his body.

"Gihi, didn't you know that my body is as hard as iron? Your weak ass shurikens can't do shit" smirked Gajeel and proceeded to charge at Kurohebi and punch him in the chest. He continued to punch him until blood splat out of his mouth.

Gajeel grinned even more when he noticed the hot red blood, then his gloves appeared with sharp thorn edges. With one final punch, the edges dug deep inside and small parts of the meat in the body came following out of the body when Gajeel pulled out.

Ding! Ding! Good as dead.

Gajeel smiled in excitement as he continued on his journey, leaving the dead body to rot or the game cleaners to dig the body a grave or burn it into ashes.

"Now then, have to find Hibiki"

Meanwhile Rogue

Rogue sighed as he looked back down on his paper, 'Sol'. A Phantom Lord member. He hated that guild, it was stupid enough to even try to kidnap Oujou-sama. Even though they nearly did, since she was in Lucy form but Oujou-sama quickly came out and beat them senseless. After that they disbanded because when we heard about the attempt, the whole group rushed to their base and destroyed everything in it, without telling Oujou-sama though. In the end it was worth it, even though we had to endure Oujou-sama's lecture about not telling her anything.

'It's been awhile since I killed someone' he thought as he heard someone approaching from behind the corner. He turned around and surprise surprise, it was just the person he was looking for, Sol.

When Sol noticed Rogue, he was in deep fuck. Sol looked at him and quickly said, "W-Wait! I don't want to battle you!" while showing him a paper with, 'Milliana'. While Rogue responded by showing him his paper and Sol quickly turned and ran. Rogue sighed and ran after him. 'Really you just had to give me this bullshit' he thought as he caught up to him in no time.

Rogue simply jumped higher with the wall to support it and landed in front of his target. Sol quickly turned into a stop and prayed for mercy.

"Pathetic" Rogue said with a glare. This was not how assassins were suppose to act, even if they were in the face of death, they should not ever beg for mercy. What a shame, he thought Phantom Lord would have at least decent members.

With one more glare, Rogue took out his sword and one slash Sol into half. Soon after, Rogue examined his sword and looked at his shiny black blade, with no hint of blood since he cut him so fast that the blood was unable to respond in time.

Rogue had his face as expressionless as ever. 'This was too easy' he thought as a paper fell down from the sky and landed on his hand. His next target was, 'Gajeel'. Rogue had excitement all over his body and left to another direction.

To the Audiences.

The crowd had witnessed the two blood battles, well mostly just one sided. Milliana in Mermaid Heel had already defeated Toby from Lamai Scale with ease, who knew to never mess with a cat especially against a dog. Hibiki from Blue Pegasus also defeated Rocker from Quatro with ease.

Eventually, Milliana gotten Rogue's paper but Hibiki had Milliana's paper. Fortunately for Hibiki, he ran into Milliana quite quickly. Milliana just thanked the heavens that it wasn't Rogue, or else she would have been dead meat.

They both got into a battle pose and started to fight, with Milliana's cat claws and Hibiki's punches and armor. Even though it was Hibiki's policy to not hit girls, he needed to do this for the sake of his gang.

Eventually, Hibiki won, since Milliana's cat claws were not enough to destroy him armor. However, he stilled let Milliana lived, even though severely injured. Then another paper fell on to Hibiki's hand, 'Rogue'.

"Oh hell" said Hibiki as he already felt a shadow creeping behind him. Hibiki turned around and saw Rogue standing right behind him, oh what luck he had.

Rogue looked at him boredly but then saw the paper on his hand. He looked up at him and waited for Hibiki to attack first, since the attacker had to attack the target first in order for the target to fight back.

Hibiki looked at Rogue and sighed, he raised his hands up and yelled "I give up!" and so, a hole appeared in the ground for him to slide in and slide out of the area.

Rogue looked at the hole lazily he wasn't thinking that Hibiki was a coward, in fact he thought that Hibiki was smart, he knew that he was able to fight him and so he quitted and he wouldn't die, since he was mostly just brains instead of fists.

"Well, saves me time to battle you" said Gajeel coming from behind Rogue.

"Looks like it's just the two of us" said Rogue as he turned around and faced Gajeel.

Gajeel immediately charged into the fight with his sharp metal gloves in hand. While Rogue got out his sword and both weapons clash onto each other.

Gajeel pulled back on of his hands and punched forward to Rogue's arm. Making him flinch in pain and just enough time for Gajeel to make both hands aim to Rogue's face. Rogue acting fast, quickly jumped onto the air and did a flip behind Gajeel, with his sword slashing down his tip of Gajeel's hair. When Rogue landed, Gajeel's hair was shortly cut in the middle and some skin with clothing peeled off.

"Gihi, nice try but my body is as hard as iron" Gajeel said and turned around to punch Rogue, but then he froze in place.

"Wait, what?" Gajeel said trying to move.

"You should know that my blade contains poison, why do you think it's black and shiny then the rest of the silver swords. The poison is too a strong one, it affects the body in just a few seconds. Don't worry I made sure it wasn't deep enough to kill you because Oujou-sama would not like dead slaves" Rouge said as he proceeded to light punch Gajeel down to the ground, since he was still frozen.

"FUCKER! I WANT A REMATCH!"

Score:

Fairy Tail - 1

Sabertooth - 2

Mermaid Heel - 1

Blue Pegasus - 0

Lamia Scale - 0

Raven Tail - 0

Quatro Puppy - 0

Phantom Lord - 0