May the gods rain great lightning spears down upon thee all! (favorite curse) Hey again, apologies for the delay, nothing special just me being lazy. Great, nobody needs to remember that I am, in fact, a lazy asshole and we'll just forget about that right now. Moving on, pappah chappah's here, yo! Gon' try to introduce the GMG as good as I can, I hope to delay the actual games to next episode though. We'll see how it works out, as we usually do.


It was late at night, Mirajane was changing into her nightgown. She was exhausted by all the cleaning she had done for Natsu's homecoming. She was delighted to know that she would finally be able to share that bed with the person she loved once more. After letting out a big sigh, she slowly pushed against the door. With an eery sound, the door shifted open. Mirajane peeked through the gaping opening to see Natsu... reading? When she looked closer, she noticed it was the GMG codex he was examining. When the light of the hall behind her reached him, Natsu took notice of her presence.

"Oh, hey Mira!" He cheerfully spoke, as usual. She smiled, how could she not after seeing the expression on his face?

"Never thought I'd see you read in bed, or anywhere at that." Mirajane poked him teasingly after carefully closing the distance between them.

"Thought it'd be best to know all about these games." He replied, surprising her with his simple and reasonable explenation.

"There's enough time, no need to rush these things. Though I'm surprised to see you take it so serious." She slowly loosened the book from his grip before carefully placing it on his bedside cabinet.

"I guess so, but I have something planned..." He sunk his head into his pillow with his hands behind it. Mirajane's interests were peaked, usually it was she who had the plans going and not someone else.

"...And I won't tell you." As if he could read her mind, Natsu turned his head towards her with a smile. He was immediatly amused by the pouting face he recieved.

"But Natsu... You know I don't like being kept in the dark!" She looked at him with those deep marine-blue eyes.

"I do, and it won't change a thing."

"Bu-" She wanted to argue, but was silenced by the sweet touch of Natsu's lips.

"Just trust me, okay? He whispered as they seperated. Mirajane was in enough bliss to nod and not care, she had missed that feeling for so long. Before she herself realized it, Mirajane lunged herself at him. Natsu's mouth was completely occupied by her and before he could do anything about it, he was in it himself.

"Natsu.." A female voice whispered. Natsu grunted, but was shaken awake soon enough.

"Violet?!" The flame spirit grinned at him.

"Wanna hang out?" She innocently asked.

"I guess I don't have a choice?" he raised his shoulders.

"Does that mean you don't want to?" She pouted, staring at him with a pair of puppy eyes.

"I never said anything of the sort!" He brought his fist to his chest while he raised his chin, Violet laughed at the gesture.

"Alright then, so what's this thing you're keeping from Mira?" It became immediatly obvious why she wanted to talk to him, privately at that.

"So this is what it's all about eh?" The fire mage sat cross-legged in a thinking position.

"But I'm your bestest of friends, right?" She looked down at him, pleading.

"Eeeeh-" He shook his hand, enjoying the helpless look in her eyes.

"Guys not included?" She hoped.

"I would go as far to say that, yes." Natsu agreed, Violet was definitely someone he felt extremely comfortable around. I mean, for fuck's sake she lives inside of him.

"So, will you tell me or not?" Violet crossed her fingers behind her back, hoping to get an answer.

"Fine then, but only you!" He assured before he motioned her to come closer. She recieved Natsu's plan in whispers.

"Wow, that'd be so cool!" She cheered.

"Hmh, it would be." Natsu nodded.

"So that's why you've been so into the whole thing, I didn't know you had it in you." She patted him on the head as if he was a child that had just gotten his lolly from the dentist. A loud grumble made her hand retreat.

"Nevertheless, it's pretty cute. I must say, you're making me jalous of her." She smiled at him, Natsu tinted slightly pink. Being praised that way isn't exactly the most casual of things.

"I'm sure that if only you were allowed to, you would have just as much guys around you as the Fairies during a Miss Fairy Contest." This seemed to surprise Violet as her eyes widened and she looked downwards.

"As in friends or more?" She asked seriously. Noticing the tone of voice she used, Natsu decided to reply in an honest manner.

"Both." ...Now, time froze for her shortly. She had long given up on the idea of having a partner and such, being bound and all. She had always wanted to just materialize in the real world and find a partner, someone she could rely on. That dream was shattered once she was bound to the fire dragon slayer of four generations before Natsu. After being tortured and exploited for power for that long, someone had finally shown her that she was still appreciated for who she was, as a person. It was that particular moment, that she became certain that Natsu truly did see her and the others as humans with their own personalities. Knowing that, she almost collapsed. She forced the dragon slayer into a hug as she creid out over his shoulder.

"Woah, Violet?!" He asked in shock.

"Thank you so much, Natsu, for believing in us." She grasped him tighter, Natsu had no idea how much this meant to her so he decided to leave her be. However after a while he thought enough time had passed.

"Ehm, Violet... This is getting kinda awkward." She realized what she had been doing and quickly let go of him.

"S-Sorry, spur of the moment thingy." He chuckled at her justification.

"It's fine, I just hope I won't have to keep convincing you of your own existance." She showed him a grin almost as cheerful as his own. They kept chatting for a while, until Violet informed him that it was time to get up. He looked at her with a confused look for a bit until he suddenly was awoken in his own bed.

"Seems like you slept well, you were really deep." he was greeted by the voice and smile of Mirajane, he's sure missed that in the morning.

"You could say that, I was forced into it." She stopped what she was doing to look over him for a bit, worried.

"Ah, no matter. It was just one of them that wanted to talk to me." He at the colorful embers on the tips of his fingers.

"So they can do even that now? I hope they won't get take you over completely, especially not while we're doing something like ... last night." Mirajane came really really close to whisper that to him. Natsu could feel her breath on his skin, it was mesmerizing.

"I'm just kidding of course. Anyways, let's go. We all gotta prepare for the GMG, especially those who've been doing nothing for seven years. " Natsu grunted as he got up, his mind was set only to food at that time. Luckily for him Mirajane was able to quickly prepare some breakfast for them. Upon their arrival, they noticed the lack of rowdiness at the guild.

"A lot of them have gone training until the GMG, we won't see them until just beforehand." Makarov explained when he had seen the pair enter.

"And I suggest you do the same." Both of them nodded.

"Some of them will still be sticking around, right?" Natsu asked the old man, who nodded.

"As will we." Mirajane announced.

"Yo, Natsu, we're countin' on ya!" Elfman patted him on his shoulder as he passed Natsu with a couple other mages who were just setting out. They were gonna have a day like any other at the guild, doing missions and covering the bar. However, the plan was to train hard during the days to follow. And so they did, the following weeks have been quite exhausting for the two. The day before everyone would return to Fairy Tail, Mirajane and Natsu sat in an open area of the forest close to their house. Cross-legged, they were facing each other. They were holding hands and channeling their magic. After a whole while of silence, Natsu slowly opened one eye.

"No peeking." Mirajane ordered, making Natsu quickly close his eye again. He was trying to concentrate, but all of that went down the train when he recieved the touch of Mira's soft lips on his nose. His eyes shot open and stared right into her own. He couldn't move, he didn't want to back off but he also didn't know if he should press up against her. When she nearly closed her eyes and peeked through her eyelids at him, she granted him permission to move. Mirajane quickly came to regret that decision as she was soon found unable to move herself from underneath the dragon slayer.

"That was a lot like your first lesson." Natsu brougth up the memory of a young Mirajane and Natsu sitting across each other in the same way they did just now, in the same spot.

"Yeah, it was." She managed to speak before her mouth got assaulted.

A couple weeks later the Fairy Tail mages had all returned. It was one more week until the actual GMG, so people had time to rest from their long training trip. However, Natsu still wanted a proper sparring match to test something out. He was found in the forest, where he always went for training, surrounded by Erza, Gray, Gajeel and Wendy. He had asked them all to come at him with full force. Mirajane was spectating, wondering what Natsu was up to. The fire mage stood firmly, and did not inted to move an inch.

"Here's how this will go. If you all can manage to move me, you win." Natsu explained.

'I'm counting on you guys...' He thought to himself.

"You serious? I mean, I know you're strong and all, but even you should not be overdoing it after a break like that Natsu." Gray countered, his opinion became irrelevant once Natsu showed him his death glare. Gajeel smirked, making the first move.

"Iron Dragon's Iron Pole!" He went with his default ranged attack. Without making a move, a flame copy of Natsu caught the pole and threw it in the ground, distorting Gajeel's sense of balance and making him drop to the ground. Gray came in next with his own ranged attack.

"Ice Make: Lance!" Multiple ice lances made their way to Natsu. Again, without moving, electricity jolted from him as a barrage of lightning bolts negated the ice lances.

Wendy attempted a roar from the back, which was blocked by a sudden ice wall that was created by the chill wind that appeared behind Natsu. Erza had enough of Natsu's defense and charged ahead, thinking he wouldn't do that well against melee attacks. When she was about to strike him, crimson flames engulfed him and blinded them all. The light was so bright, it probably could've been seen from all of Magnolia. When they all regained their sight, they were being held captive by a flame copy. Natsu stood still, seeming to have caught Erza's sword with his thumb and index finger alone. With a snap of his finger, all the copies faded away. They dropped to the ground.

"Yup, he's ready." Gray commented as he looked up at Natsu.


I tried to make it a LITTLE more exciting than the past ones but it was mostly still relaxed. Having thought about the pairing previously also made me realize I've been going low on the NaMi moments, so I decided to try and emphasize those a bit. Sorry if I might've given Violet a bit too much attention at the start, I just like her that much :P Anyways, I'm gettin' out!