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"Natsu Dragneel Huh,"
"*ACHOO* ugh someone must be talking about me," said Natsu as he began to wipe his nose, Natsu and class F were currently sat in a large hall all the students from class F stood around chatting to one another.
You could feel the anxiety in the air, everyone was waiting for Natsu to decide the 6 people to compete in the tournament, after about 5 minutes Natsu comes to the front of the room and ready's himself to speak.
"Now I expected them to go down a tournament route and for them to allow a select number of players, so Ive already devised a list of the people competing," a large number of quiet whispers emerge from the class
"That's Natsu for you; predicting what was gonna happen," "It's like he knows everything sometimes," They quiet down after a few seconds and Natsu speaks up, "Now I will be competing in this tournament…but I will be leaving most of the fighting to the 5 I pick, I want to see how far these people who have piqued my interest have come along, I will only fight if the person fighting asks me," another round of chatter goes around this time much loader.
"So we basically only have 5 people," "we're already at a disadvantage," Natsu looking around at the slight distress decides to speak up
"Everyone Quiet down, I can assure you that the people I've picked out after our training are easily strong enough to win, I can assure you that F-Class will no longer be a laughingstock at the expense of those who think there stronger than you," A loud cheer emanates from the room and after a few seconds It too dies down
"Now for the 5 who will be competing…staring with Ria Green, snow type," a girl with long flowing black hair steps out next to Natsu shuffling to his side and sliding behind him, her head just peeking over his shoulder
"h-hello," she says before ducking behind his shoulder as a loud cheer rings out, "Next will be Braun Rivet, card type," as he says his name a medium size boy comes out from the crowd, red hair atop his head with a lean body, "I swear Braun Rivet was really fat when I saw him on the first day," "ive seen him during training but I didn't think that was him, to think that was Braun; he's completely changed,"
As he walks up to Natsu he drops to his knees and looking up with comically wide eyes, tears sprouting from them "Natsuuuu I knew you would pick meeee," he says whimpering; standing up wiping his tear's he looks at Natsu to see him giving him a deadpanned look before pointing towards the left of himself indicating for where he wants Braun to go.
"Next will be Drake Alger, Water-type" a boy just taller than Braun comes out of the crowd his jet-black hair covering his left eye. He walks to the right of Natsu and stands silently.
"I knew he'd get picked," "He's second to none as a water mage," a few people chatter around the hall
Natsu again speaks up "So we have four now, 2 more to go…can Ruby Blighter come up to the front," pushing and shoving can be heard from the crowd as a small high pitch voice can be heard speaking up "Move out of the way" "Get out of my way now, c'mon moveeee," as the voice finishes there sentence a small girl falls out of the crowd of the people onto the floor face first "owwwwww," she whines out, standing up it's a girl stood at about 4'9 with her long blond hair tied into pigtails.
Standing up she brushes herself off and confidently walks over to Natsu "Well thanks to you picking me, we've already won," she turns around facing F-class "So know I want to say something, I'm the strongest here, so I'm going to get the most eli-," she's cut off mid-sentence as Natsu picks her up by the collar and lifts her up to his face, "Ruby…what did we talk about the other day?" Natsu was surrounded by a dark aura his eyes glowing red, Ruby looked at Natsu with tears in her eyes and spoke up "I wasn't going to shout out and boast," she says, her voice more of a high terrified squeal, "And what did you just do?" "I shouted out loud…Sorry Natsu," she bows her head multiple times repeating that she was sorry.
Natsu slowly lowers her to the ground and stares at her, his aura dispersed "Now go stand next to Braun and behave," "yes sir" she whispers and goes and stands next to Braun.
"Now the final member of the team will be…huh, that's not who I put on here, guess it's just a mist-" the doors crashing open, and a decently large magical signature caught Natsu's attention 'that scent it can't be'
"H-hello" a small timid voice came from the door the light was obscuring who she was, but Natsu already knew, the girl walked in the room all eyes on her
"I-I'm *GULP* Wendy Marvel, I w-was told that I had to be a m-member of the F-class team," she says seemingly finding the floor to be very interesting at this moment in time, chattering all around the room began; the main subject being this girl, Natsu was beyond confused 'why would they send her here to F-class' Natsu slowly began to walk over to Wendy and kneeled down next to her, his head almost level with hers.
"Which teacher sent you?" he asked, an unheard kindness in his voice
She nervously looked up at Natsu and spoke "Mi-miss Belserion"
"O-oh I see, well then what's your magic Wendy" again an unheard kindness from Natsu, bewildering the class 'I'm going to kill that woman when I'm finished with this competition'
"I-i'm a wind type magician, but i-i'm not very powerful," she says while messing with her hair
"You've got to be pretty strong to be in S-class; so I doubt you're weak," he again says kindly
"Psssst Natsu are you okay, do you have someone holding you hostage; why are you being so nice?" a voice came from Natsu's left
Natsu slowly turned his head before speaking giving Braun a glare "Be. Quiet." He whisper shouts at Braun through gritted teeth
"Sorry Sorry," he immediately put his head forward several beads of sweat rolled down his face
Natsu turned his head back at Wendy before smiling "Anyway so your are 6 and final member; it kind of messes with my game plan bu-," "Im so sorry please forgive me" she shouted interrupting Natsu, bowing her head. Natsu smiled at her before lifting his hand to her head and flicking her forehead "owe" she whined slightly before looking back up at Natsu
"Don't worry about it; it's not your fault" another beaming smile was sent Wendy's way as she also smiled back at him
"Sorry" she again apologised 'She hasn't changed one little bit'
"Right we better get going, the selection is gonna begin any minute now, If your watching please head towards the seating area if you're fighting; your with me, and I will say this F-class, today is the day we WIN" a massive cheer from F-class indicates their enthusiasm for today, eventually it dies down and they all exit to the seating area
"Wow you're so small, you look like an 8-year-old," Natsu turned around to see Ruby patting Wendy on the head
"So are you like strong or are you like super weak is that wh-HEY," Natsu picks her up by the collar giving her a deadpan look as she crosses her arms and pouts
"Put me down right now Natsu" Natsu simply looked at her; then back at Wendy, the back at Ruby
"She looks older than you Ruby," he put her down and put his hands in his pockets and began to walk towards the door Wendy giggled before swiftly following behind him
"HEYYY NATSU ILL GET YOU FOR THAT ONE," she shouts, not getting a reaction she sighs and begins to walk next to Braun and Ria who were laughing at the interaction
"You'll get used to it Ruby, he can be a hard-ass sometimes," Braun says smugly, his hands behind his head and his eyes closed…before a flying pencil hit's him right in the forehead
"I heard that Braun" A far off Natsu shouts
Braun sits up rubbing his head, looking up at Natsu in the distance "Damn him and his insane hearing,"
All 6 head off towards the centre arena
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Centre Arena
"S-sir can I ask you something, why have you only got 5 p-people fighting?" Wendy enquired, Natsu looked at her for a second before smiling
"Call me Natsu, I'm not a teacher; and I'm the 6th person fighting," he says as they continue walking
"T-then who's your teacher?" she again asked confused
"I am, are teacher quit so I took over, they let me compete anyway seen as I'm 'only an F-Class'," he says indicating using his fingers as quotation mark's
"O-oh," she says understandingly, the 4 people behind them eventually catch up to them as they enter the main arena; a deafening chorus of Boo's and Jeers are thrown their way
"They really do hate us" a large amount of amusement evident in his voice, hearing the curses coming their way he quickly covers Wendy's ears as they all walk to the centre, the Boos and curses dying down, the only class that weren't there were S-class, Natsu recognised 2 of the people from A-class 'Toby, the dog looking one, if I remember correctly his main weapon was paralysing claws and …Bora; I don't believe it' A string of memories of Hargeon flew through his mind, quickly disappearing
A microphone being hit 3 times quickly becomes everyone attention "Hello my lovelies and welcome back to the class battles, its time for selection so...hmm were missing S-class, oh wait never mind here they are,"
Footsteps are all that ring out around the stadium as 6 figures obscured by the darkness of the hallway walk towards the arena, stepping out a massive burst of cheers from the crowd rings out
The 6 that have arrived from S-class are: Laxus Dreyer, Erza Belserion, Jellal Fernandes, Grey Fulbuster, Minerva Orland and Lucy Heartfilla
"WHAT A LINE-UP, my my my look at all you lovelies,"
Natsu was currently too preoccupied with his thoughts to even think about what Bob just said 'good on ya Luce' he smiled looking at the S-class line up, 'Laxus and Erza as well that's a strong line up'
"So now we will be deciding the teams, can the team leader's please come to the very centre" bob announced, F-class decided that Natsu was the team leader when he was picking the people competing
"I would just like to announce that S-class Wendy Marvel is going to be competing with F-class to gain some experience as she is still quite young, so don't be too hard on the F-class whoever gets them," 'so they did it to make sure F-class weren't brutalised hmmm'
Walking towards the centre; he knew 2 of 5 other team leader's, Bora and Laxus.
"So know we will announce the first fight," a large board appeared from thin air and had all the classes at the bottom
"We will begin the randomization," the name started flicking between each other at a fast pace, the first-class landed on "CLASS-A will fight," it again flicked and flicked until it landed on the class "…F-class," a cheer went around the ground for a few seconds before people were chatting away
"A-Class in the semi-finals already," "what an easy win," a few people in F-class heads dropped their eye's glued to the floor
Back in the centre, Bora began to laugh "Well well well; F-class do you want to surrender now and we will leave you be," he said sarcastically obviously expecting Natsu to reply he waited and waited; it took him a few seconds before he had realised Natsu had walked back to his team and gone into the tunnel
"Man that is one cocky F-class, well A-class don't be too hard on them" the B-class leader spoke breaking the silence between the leaders
"Hmph they won't last 5 minutes, this year we're going for top spot S-class" he smiled smugly looking at Laxus
"Shut up before I put you in a hospital bed," Laxus threatened his voice low and terrifying
"Y-Yes Si-sir"
"Now the next battle will be…"
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"Are we all ready?" Natsu asked, they had been transported to a forest outside of Crocus, the whole thing would be recorded with magic recording lacrimas and show on screen's all over Fiore
They had all been able to use their own gear for the fight, so everyone had their own set of clothing on: Ruby was wearing a red and white shirt with a frilly skirt on and her hair tied with a bow, Drake had a black t-shirt with a pair of black jeans, Braun was wearing a red leather jacket with a white inner shirt and simple pants, while Ria was wearing a green jumper with a pair of peach pants, while Wendy had her white shirt on with a red bow as a collar and a blue jacket with a red skirt on, her hair was in her normal style, Natsu had gone for the look of what he used to travel around in the other world in, he wore a long trench coat with a black inner t-shirt, a scabbard on his belt for his sword and a pair of black jeans.
"Let's go then," he said as he flicked his trench coat open placing his hands in his pockets and walking out of the sunlight hiding where they were going
"May the battle Commence"
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Sorry for no chapter last week, just started college again so been working, my description of what they're wearing really isn't the best so apologies but review and enjoy!