Alright since a few of you are confused, I will try and explain the best I can. Lucy has not forgotten about gaining strength, she will be training a lot in later chapters. Don't worry TsukiChanChan Lucy will not become a celestial demon slayer, she will become stronger through her celestial magic. Also Lucy can use her aura, but she needs Nightfire's power to go into angel god mode. Thank you, if you have any other questions feel free to ask!
Chapter 25
The last of the remaining groups looked eagerly through the clearing, the last groups were Natsu and Happy, Lucy and Nightfire and Gray and Juvia. The teams glared at each other, to let everyone know they weren't going to give up no matter how brutal the next trial was.
Lucy couldn't believe she made it to the final round, Nightfire seemed to be relaxed as she strolled through the forest, watching as Erza led the group towards the clearing. Cana and Freed seemed to be giggling about something, while Nightfire growled at Gray and Juvia, Gajeel and Levy seemed pretty down that they were defeated, and Bickslow and Lisanna teased Evergreen and Elfman for being a little too close.
Wendy and Romeo didn't defeat any opponents so they were strolling with the group casually, they seemed to take to loss pretty easy. Erza made the groups that were defeated sit on benches, while the remaining groups in the trial made their way up to a stage marked off for each of the groups.
Natsu and Happy sulked their way towards their marked off section, while Lucy and Nightfire curiously went into their section that was decorated colorfully with their names on the front. A microphone sat on a desk, as two chairs sat on the stage, Nightfire sat in one, while Lucy sat in the other.
"This looks like a game show," Nightfire whispered to Lucy. The celestial wizard nodded towards her demon friend, and they both watched as Erza, Mira, Laxus and Makarov sit at a long desk with microphones in front of each of them. Erza had a devious look in her eye, as she put on some glasses and tapped cards on the side of the desk.
Gray and Juvia looked at each other nervously as Mira tapped her microphone and smiled at the remaining groups. Mavis strolled lightly towards a chair and sat in it, while Erza slid her some cards and they both went through them and giggled.
"Alright everyone, this is a little game Erza invented, she is in a very bad mood today, so I hope everyone can forgive her for what is about to happen," Mira said. The sweet mage smiled at everyone, before talking again, "The rules are pretty simple, you get three lives and you just need to answer the questions honestly."
"The questions will be embarrassing and exposing, some of them will also make you do actions, if you fail to answer or do an action, you will get shocked by Laxus and lose a life," Erza growled. The group swallowed hard, Lucy wanted to hide behind someone, she didn't want to answer embarrassing questions.
"Lose all three lives and you lose, game over, and you are out of the trial," Laxus said. Nightfire scratched her head, what on earth was the point of this anyway? The S-Class trials were supposed to be brutal, not some stupid game show.
"Mavis put a spell around this area that will expose you if you lie, but if you really can't answer the question or do an action, you can pass it to someone else and they will have to complete it," Mira said. Erza growled, before she slammed her hand on the table making everyone jump.
"If you pass a question or an action you will suffer the punishment of losing twenty points, each question you answer correctly you will gain five points, every action is worth ten points, first one to thirty points wins the game," Erza said. Nightfire rolled her eyes, she wanted to fight someone, not play a dumb game Erza invented.
"Okay what is the point of this, I don't think this is really necessary," Nightfire said. Erza's brow furrowed as she growled at Nightfire, the demon frowned when she saw Erza's scowl, she didn't want to anger the requip mage.
"I spent a long time on this game, you are going to play it if you like it or not," Erza roared. Nightfire rolled her eyes and leaned back in her chair, Nightfire was an open book, and Fairytail didn't know anything about her anyways so the questions couldn't be that serious.
"Alright we will go from Natsu all the way down to Lucy, and that will be the order we will ask questions in, let's begin," Mira said. The friendly mage sat down while the S-Class mages started discussing what question they should ask first, Erza gave Laxus a card and the guy actually seemed a little embarrassed by what was on the card.
"Alright Natsu, this question was written by Cana, if you were to choose one person from the guild that you wanted to see naked who would it be?" Laxus said. The S-Class mage tried to hold in a laugh, Cana was a savage chick, and everyone knew she could think of crazy things.
"We are so screwed," Lucy sobbed. Nightfire was too busy laughing at Natsu to really care that Lucy was freaking out. Natsu rubbed his head awkwardly as a slight blush appeared on his cheeks.
"No one, I am not in that kind of stuff."
Suddenly a red haze floated around Natsu's head, and a powerful thunderbolt rained down on Natsu shocking him. Nightfire and Lucy's mouth dropped open, that shock looked painful. Natsu recovered from the shock, as he coughed up smoke from his mouth.
"That was a lie, you lost a life," Laxus laughed. Nightfire couldn't hold it in anymore, and she fell out of her chair trying to contain her laughter. Lucy was curious, if Natsu lied, did he truly want to see someone naked? Lucy wondered who it could possibly be.
"This is going to be a piece of cake, I have nothing to hide," Nightfire snorted. Lucy buried her face in her hands, she didn't want to answer any questions, and hopefully they didn't ask her to.
"Alright Gray, this question was written by Juvia, and we couldn't resist not using it, are you in love with her?" Mira asked. Gray's mouth dropped open, Juvia started bouncing in her seat, he couldn't lie, or he would risk getting shocked and losing a life.
"Savage," Nightfire whispered to Lucy. The blond haired girl nodded, poor Gray, he had to have a battle of the heart right in front of everyone.
"I-I am going to pass the question to Lucy and Nightfire," Gray said. Juvia screamed, she was clearly upset that he wasn't going to answer the question, but Gray seemed happy that the pressure was lifted. Nightfire took the microphone and stuck her tongue at Gray, he now had negative twenty points, good luck getting out of that one.
"The answer is no, I am not in love with Juvia," Nightfire said. Nothing seemed to happen indicating that Nightfire was telling the truth, Lucy gave Nightfire a high five, they had just earned five points.
"Alright good job Nightfire, next question was written by Evergreen, what was the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you," Mira said. Nightfire stood up almost instantly when she saw that her partner did not want to answer the question.
"Okay so when I was with my friends, I drank too much and got into a fight with a girl and ripped off all of her clothes and ran around the village completely naked, it was in the newspaper the next day, and that's why I don't drink, true story."
Cana stood up and smiled, "Hey that's like a story I had when I drank too much."
Nightfire gave Cana a thumbs up and sat back down, Nightfire was telling the truth, Evergreen snorted, Nightfire was an idiot in her opinion, but she was satisfied with her answer.
Nightfire and Lucy now had ten points, they seemed to be on a roll, and poor Gray was still recovering from his loss. Erza held a card as she stared at Natsu, the requip mage had a curious look in her eyes as Natsu gulped.
"Happy this question is for you, this card was written by Laki, what is the weirdest thing you have done while you were alone?"
Natsu took a deep breath, he was glad that he wouldn't have to answer another question. Happy rubbed his head as he thought, Happy has done several weird things when he was alone, but there was only one he could think of that was the worst.
"I sometimes sneak into Lucy's apartment to grab some of her underwear, and then I sell it to weird men on the street so I can buy fish with the money," Happy giggled. Lucy was mortified, that's why her underwear was disappearing, how long has Happy been doing that exactly?
"You are so dead Happy," Lucy said. Happy covered his face as Erza nodded in satisfaction, Erza sat back down as Makarov got a card from the deck and looked at Gray's team.
"Juvia, this question was written by Lisanna, what's your go-to move for gaining attention from the opposite sex?"
Juvia looked at Gray and smiled, she seemed to have already planned everything out. Juvia tapped on the microphone before speaking into it.
"Juvia doesn't need to gain attention from the opposite sex, she has Gray-sama, and she doesn't need anyone else."
The guild nodded their heads, they were expecting that kind of answer from Juvia. The water mage seemed satisfied as she clung onto Gray's arm, Gray still seemed a little down, probably because they were still in the negatives.
Mavis seemed to want to join the fun as she swiped a card from the deck and stood in front of a bored Nightfire and a scared Lucy. Mavis read the card and giggled, before clearing her throat and speaking.
"Lucy this question is for you, it was written by Levy, what was the naughtiest thing you have read and did you enjoy it," Mavis said. Lucy blushed hard as she sank into her chair, she has read a lot of romantic novels, and she usually read the naughty parts, even though she would freak out if anyone saw her.
"Sorry Lucy, didn't know you would get the question," Levy yelled. Nightfire leaned her elbow on the table as she stared intensely at her partner while grinning. Lucy sat there for a few seconds, before finally gathering enough strength to answer the question.
"I-I read a book one time that had extremely explicit scenes," Lucy swallowed hard. Lucy looked towards the crowd that was snickering and judging her, before she continued, "I-I enjoyed it."
Lucy buried her face in her hands, it's not like she enjoyed the "romantic" scenes, she just liked the plot, and how much the characters loved each other. Lucy was telling the truth, and soon Mavis sat back down and awaited the next embarrassing question.
Lucy couldn't believe Nightfire was so calm about everything, Lucy's cheeks felt like they were on fire. Nightfire yawned, when were they going to get to her question? Her question was brutal and would expose the person so bad they would be so embarrassed.
Soon enough the embarrassment lifted off of Lucy, and the next question was directed at Natsu. Laxus stood up and grinned at Natsu, who was already getting nervous, but he knew he could handle it.
"This is an action card, Natsu if you complete it you get ten points, but I picked it specifically for you, and it is going to be a challenge." Laxus grinned again before reading the card out loud, "Natsu must ride the rapids without getting sick."
Natsu felt his stomach tie in knots, he groaned, he really didn't want to do what the card said, but he also wanted to win the S-Class trials. The task was nearly impossible, but he was going to do the best he could.
Soon enough everyone gathered near a rushing river, Laxus kicked a wooden raft out into the water, as Natsu boarded it. Within a few seconds Natsu threw up, Nightfire laughed, the challenge was over before it even began.
Laxus jumped in the water and pulled the raft back to shore, as Natsu drifted on the raft completely helpless. Nightfire picked Natsu up off the raft, while flapping her wings to help Natsu on his feet, but he just slumped on Nightfire, making her growl with frustration.
Natsu had one life left, if he didn't answer another question correct, or do a task without failing he was out. Nightfire dragged Natsu towards his section before throwing his limp body on a chair.
Nightfire went to her section before putting her feet on the desk and leaning her chair back. Everyone settled back into their original seats, and next up was Gray and Juvia, they both squirmed nervously as Erza swiped a card and smiled.
"This one was written by Wendy, either Juvia or Gray can answer this question, if you woke one day as the opposite gender, what is the first thing you would do?"
Gray let out a long breath, finally a question that wasn't humiliating, well, it was in some ways. Gray decided to answer the question as he stood up and eyed the audience.
"I would check to see if I still had ice magic, I refuse to be a girl without ice magic," Gray said. Nightfire rolled her eyes, that was such a lame answer, if only someone would just pull her card, then everything would be interesting again.
Erza sat back down as Wendy giggled at Gray's answer, Mavis was about to grab a card for Lucy's group, but Mira shook her head and grabbed a card from the bottom of the deck. Nightfire's eyebrow rose, what was so important about the card at the bottom of the deck?
Mira handed the card to Erza as they both giggled and nodded at each other, Lucy was already embarrassed, she wondered what torturous question they had in their hands. Erza read the card again and her face started turning red, Erza cleared her throat and tried to ask the question without laughing.
"This card was picked because we were getting bored, it was written by Nightfire and both of you have to answer it, who is your crush and what naughty things would you do to them if you could?"
Nightfire choked on her spit, Erza smiled, not so confident now huh Nightfire? Mira had the idea to use Nightfire's own card against her, and it seemed like a very good idea, the demon was pounding on her chest to stop herself form choking. Lucy's face was extremely red, there was no way in HELL she would expect Nightfire to answer that question, or her.
"This is an outrage you can't use my own card against me!" Nightfire said. Erza rolled her eyes, it was her game she could do whatever she wanted, the whole reason behind this trial was to get the groups to get over their fears.
"It's my game, I can do whatever I want," Erza said. Nightfire roared as she slammed her fist into the table, snapping it in half, while she kicked her chair out of the way and screamed, throwing a temper tantrum.
"I hate you ALL," Nightfire screamed. Lucy hid her face in her hands, she couldn't admit who her crush was, she would rather die.
"How does it feel to be exposed Nightfire, you should have given me that tape with me and Jellal on it," Erza hissed. Nightfire growled as she picked up her chair and sat down in it, staring at the broken splinters of the table that used to be intact.
"We aren't answering this, just let us lose a life."
"Nightfire we need our lives though!"
"WE ARE NOT ANSWERING THAT QUESTION, DAMN IT!"
A thunderbolt rained down on Nightfire and Lucy, the pain was excruciating and they had now lost a life. Nightfire seemed to be taking the pain well, she just sat there scowling at Erza, but the requip mage just smiled back at Nightfire, she deserved every inch of humiliation she was feeling.
Nightfire had written two more questions for the trial, she prayed that they wouldn't use them on her again. Lucy felt sick to her stomach, from both the embarrassment and the thunderbolt that shocked her.
The audience seemed a little disappointed that Nightfire and Lucy chose to lose a life over the question, they must be hiding something. Cana took a sip of her alcohol that she brought with her, even though she lost the S-Class trials, this whole thing was pretty darn entertaining.
Makarov took a question card before clearing his throat and looking at Natsu, the Dragon Slayer was still recovering from his motion sickness so he decided to ask his partner instead.
"This question was written by Romeo, Happy what was the weirdest dream you have ever had?"
Happy seemed to not be bothered by this question at all, he talked about how he had a dream about riding a humongous fish before eating it. The audience grew quite bored of his story and soon Makarov sat back down and Mira quickly asked Gray the next question.
"Gray this question is for you, it was written by me, in your opinion who is the sexiest person in the guild?"
Gray opened his mouth to say something, but Juvia stopped him by breathing heavily and staring at him intensely. Juvia wouldn't allow Gray to say any other girl was prettier than her, and the entire audience was on the edge of their seats wondering what Gray would say.
"U-Um, I guess Juvia would be?"
A thunderbolt rained down on Gray after a red haze drifted above his head, he lied.
Juvia was crying a river as the entire group laughed, Nightfire wasn't laughing though, she was still extremely upset over what Erza and Mira pulled on her. Even though she didn't answer the question they still lost a life, and she was sure they had even more embarrassing things up their sleeves.
Nightfire groaned as Mira smiled at her, Mavis grabbed a card from another deck, and smiled as she read it. Mavis knew about Nightfire's weakness, she also knew that Nightfire needed a challenge, since they were ahead.
"Nightfire this is an action card, complete it and you get ten points, there is a flag in the middle of a pond, you have to swim and get it," Mavis said. Nightfire screamed in frustration as she tore her hair out, the guild was extremely confused, it seemed like an easy task to them.
"Nightfire you have to do this, you can do it," Lucy said. Nightfire wanted to cry, she hated water, and she didn't think she could do it. Nightfire bit her lip as the group headed towards a pond, and soon enough she could see a flag poking out of the water.
It was just a few meters away, but it looked like miles and miles away to Nightfire. The guild stared at Nightfire as she approached the pond, she saw gross looking creatures slither in and out of the pond, Nightfire covered her mouth, she was going to puke.
"What's the big idea Nightfire, it's not that hard of a challenge," Gajeel yelled. Nightfire ignored him as she stared at the endless sea of death before her, she knew it was just a pond, but it was disgusting and it was WATER.
Nightfire dipped her toe in the water, "Oh my GOD it's so WET and COLD!" The demon flinched as she submerged her entire foot in the water "I hate everything about this stupid trial!"
The guild was laughing as Lucy bit her lip nervously, was Nightfire able to defeat her fear? Mavis cheered Nightfire on, as the demon sank her entire body in the water with a scream of pure fear.
"SOMETHING JUST TOUCHED ME!"
Nightfire screamed as she charged at the flag, something touched her again, the mud at the bottom was squishy and cold, and she felt like she was walking on human guts. Nightfire felt tears of fear streaming down her face, she grabbed the flag and walked back, no way in hell she was putting anymore of her body in this pond.
Lucy cheered as Nightfire got out of the pond, Mavis didn't see Nightfire really swim, but she got the flag and that was enough for her.
"Team Lucy has twenty five points, five more and they win, step up your game guys," Erza said. Nightfire screamed as leeches were decorated all over her body, she lit herself on fire and burned them all off, before she stormed back towards camp and sat in her chair unhappily.
Lucy sat next to her and rubbed her shoulder, Nightfire hid her face in her hands, she was cold, wet, and humiliated, now everyone knew her fear of water. Erza seemed extremely pleased, she knew Nightfire's weakness now, and she could threaten Nightfire with water until she coughed up that tape of her and Jellal.
Mira stood up and looked at Natsu, the next question was written by Makarov, and she knew Natsu had to answer it correctly or he would lose the game.
"Natsu this question was written by Makarov, have you ever tried on women's clothing before?"
Natsu didn't see what the big deal about that question was, and he would answer it honestly.
"Of course, who hasn't," Natsu said. Gajeel smacked his forehead, Natsu was just as clueless as ever, even Gray was shaking his head in shame. "What, you all are acting as if that isn't normal."
"Moving on this question was written by Freed, Gray and Juvia one of you will be answering this question, what is your deepest desire," Erza said. Juvia immediately jumped up with sparkles in her eyes, everyone groaned, they knew exactly where this was going.
"Juvia's deepest desire is to marry Gray-sama and have several children with him, and move into a big house and_"
"Yeah we get it, you win, five points for you," Laxus said. Juvia pouted as she sat back down disappointed that she couldn't finish her fantasy.
"Nightfire and Lucy, if you answer this question right you will win five points and complete the final challenge, are you ready?" Mavis asked. Lucy squeezed her hands together tightly, this was it, if they answered this question right she was an S-Class mage.
Mavis was handed a card by Erza, the first guild master read over it and swallowed hard. Erza laughed in her seat as she crossed her arms, Nightfire wouldn't want to answer this question, and she already knew she would pass.
"This question is for Nightfire and Lucy, it was written by Jason from Sorcerer Weekly, your answer will be recorded and put in a magazine, so be careful with what you say," Mavis said. Lucy could feel her heart pounding in her chest, she was so nervous, if the question was embarrassing everyone in Earth Land would be reading it by tomorrow.
"Lucy and Nightfire are you two currently virgins?"
Nightfire smiled, she knew exactly what to say, all of her revenge could be served right here and now, and Erza and Mira couldn't stop her words from going in the magazine for everyone to read.
"Of course, I am not a skank like Erza," Nightfire said. Erza's mouth dropped open, did Nightfire just call her a skank? That cannot go in the magazine, Erza wouldn't allow her reputation to be ruined by Nightfire!
"Alright, that answer was recorded, sorry Erza."
"NO, I refuse for Jason to have that in his magazine!"
"Sorry Erza, her words are what gets put in Sorcerer Weekly, I guess your plan backfired."
"UGH!"
Lucy looked around, she wasn't ashamed to answer this question, she just didn't want it all over Sorcerer Weekly.
"Yes I am a virgin," Lucy said. Suddenly a light appeared over her head with the number thirty written over it. Everyone got up and clapped, they had finished the S-Class trial and the torture was finally over.
"We did it Lucy, we won!" Nightfire said. Lucy hugged her partner as Makarov walked over to the both of them and gave them a wide smile.
"It's always a proud day as a guild master to see my children grow up right in front of my eyes, congratulations both Nightfire and Lucy for passing the trial, you earned this praise," Makarov said. Nightfire let loose a powerful blast of fire from her mouth to celebrate, as Mira and Erza came up to the both of them and gave them both a giant hug.
Natsu was happy for Lucy, but he was also a little bit sad, what would happen to their team? Happy came over and pressed his head against Natsu's chest, noticing he was starting to let his face melt into a frown.
"No way Lucy beat us in the S-Class trial," Gajeel yelled. Levy patted his back, they both tried their hardest, but it just wasn't their year.
Nightfire watched as Mira and everyone else surrounded them, time seemed to move slow as she looked up into the sky. The day seemed to be happy and full of laughs, but Nightfire had a feeling that it wouldn't last very much longer.