F.Y.I. Cobra is the same age as Natsu, Gajeel, Sting, Rogue, etc. Ultear is at the age she was after tenrou, so is Meredy.
Ok! I changed my mind no flashback this chapter! Now for the new chapter! Hope you enjoy!
Eve blinked twice as he suddenly materialized in the center of the maze.
But this time, the maze wasn't the same. Everywhere you looked there were oddball shops that shouldn't belong there, empty.
A disco lounge, a pet store, a boxing club, an antiques shop, a burger shop? What the heck?
Eve thought in confusion.
Then he spotted Rina, she was was running out of the disco lounge and slammed into the antiques shop.
Eve sprinted in after her.
She was sifting though the different wooden products in the shop with a look of total concentration on her face.
"Hey Rina!" Eve exclaimed, slipping up next to her.
She punched him in the face. Again.
"YAAGGH!" Eve shouted, stumbling backward.
"Why do you keep hitting me?" He demanded.
"Last time it was on accident, but not this time, snow boy." She said, balling her hands into fists.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, who said I wanted a fight?"
"We're in the Grand Magic Games, genius, what do you want me to think? You wanted to grab a cup of coffee?"
"Oh, that'd be nice..." Eve began, before Rina rolled her eyes and continued to search the shop.
"Ok, I just wanted to ask, you won that bet, so what do you want? It's been killing me!" Eve exclaimed.
Rina stared at him, confused.
"Oh yeah!" She cried, snapping her fingers.
"I totally forgot about that!"
Eve physically deflated.
"Oh...you did, did you, and I just, huh, ok, than you don't want anything?"
"Oh, I do!" Rina replied.
"If your gonna ask me to give up, no way! I won't over a dumb bet." Eve said, getting into fighting stance.
"Easy, tiger, I don't want you down, I want to team up!" She cried.
Eve stared.
"You...want me to team up with..you?" He asked slowly.
"You got a problem with that?" She asked, her eyes going scarier than Aquarius when she's angry.
Eve was reduced to a blubbering little chibi.
"No! Of course not! It's my pleasure to work with you, Rina! I swear!" He cried, flailing his arms above his head with comically large sweat drops flying from his head.
She smiled, "Good, now, help me find a jewelry box." She ordered.
Eve blinked, "Is now really the time to be antiquing?"
"Idiot." She grumbled, but said nothing, only continued her search.
Finally, "Got it!" She cried, seizing a carved wooden jewelry box.
"Got what?" Eve deadpanned, "It's a box, not gonna help you get though the..."
Rina opened up the box, and tucked neatly within was a ticket.
It had a gold Draconem Heart guild mark stamped onto it and read.
ADMITS ONE DRACONEM HEART MEMBER
In large letters.
Rina turned and ran towards the entry to the maze portion of the level.
Eve followed.
"Hey! What kind of team up is this? I haven't even started searching yet! How can you be my partner yet just go running of without helping me?" He demanded.
That was when Millianna came flying around the corner.
"Nya! Did I hear team up?~" She asked.
"You ready to throw down, kitty?" Rina demanded, dropping down into a stance with one arm in a fist slightly behind her and the other hovering just beneath her chin.
"Nope!" Millianna replied cheerily.
"Great, you remembered." Rina said, standing up and walking over to Millianna.
"What is going on here?" Eve demanded, completely baffled.
"We had an agreement when we arrived to meet up and team up. Three heads are better than one, right? Besides, once we get to the end and take out everyone else, we'll be guaranteeing our guilds at least third place. Which is more than your guaranteed at the start by yourself. So, you in, or are Millianna and I gonna have to kick your butt first?" Rina asked threateningly.
Eve was yet again nothing more than a scared little boy under Rina's fierce glare and giant amount of magic.
"In totally in!" He said quickly, nodding his head.
"Great, lets get spiffy!" Millianna cheered, before racing off down the path with her cloak dropping to the ground behind her.
"She's right smarter than she lets on, cloaks will only slow us down." Rina muttered, then she unclasped her cloak and dropped it to the ground.
" I got three more at home anyway." She sighed.
Eve stared at her, more at her neck than anything else.
She had a blue Draconem Heart dragon mark on the left side of her neck.
"Whats wrong with you?" She asked coldly.
"Nothing." Eve said as they sprinted off with Millianna in the lead.
"It's just, your mark is the exact same color as mine is."
"So? It's blue, plenty of people like blue." She said, then she picked up her pace, and as they neared the toll, Eve realized something very important.
"I don't have a ticket!" He cried.
Both Rina and Millianna whirled on him and threw out one arm.
Eve was expecting them to punch him, yet again, but when he opened her eyes, he saw each was holding out a Blue Pegasus ticket.
"You, guy, but...when?" Eve choked out as he took the ticket Millianna offered as Rina dropped hers, allowing it to blow off in the breeze.
"Simple." Rina began.
"They had a super spiffy idea!" Millianna continued.
"See, they hid our tickets in the place related to us! Mine was in the section of the pet store where you can pet the kitties!"
"Mine was in a jewelry box in the antiques shop, as you saw." Rina said.
"And yours was in the disco lounge." Millianna said.
"Marking a spot in a book called '101 chick magnet pick up lines.'" Rina finished, narrowing her eyes at Eve.
"Stupid players, you just toy around with us for fun." She growled.
"Rina! I don't!" Eve didn't get a chance to say much before Rina interrupted him.
"Just shut up and run."She ordered.
Eve had really no choice but to obey.
They entered the toll booth and fed their tickets into the slot provided. Eve was the last one through the arm, and the oddball trio burst into the second level of the competition.
"Well then, kabo!" Mato exclaimed from the announcing booth.
"We've got something never seen in the Grand Magic Games before, kabo!"
"A Mermaid, a Pegasus, and a Dragon! All working together to get through the maze, kabo! Will it be a team up to remember, kabo?"
The pumpkin asked
The question in Eve's mind was.
Am I gonna be able to take both of them when we've finally got to fight? And am I ever gonna be able to impress her?
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