Hello everyone I usually don't write anything at the beginning or end of chapters so if I do it will be short and just some info on how the story is going. Now onto what I wanted to say first of thank you to everyone who has favourite, follow and review the story. I really do appreciate the support and that you enjoy the story I've written so far. I know updates have been pretty fast so far. That's due to the chapters having been already written. I have at this moment got up to chapter 10 done minus myself going over it a few times editing mistakes. So the chapter updates will be slowing down and won't be coming out as they have been before.
Now enough of me talking and onto chapter 7 :)
"Welcome to the third day of the competitive marathon we call the grand magic games!" Chapati started the day off.
"I wonder what new game we'll have today?" Continued Yajima.
"Our guest commentator today is from the Magic Council, Lahar." Introduced Chapati to the audience.
Lahar turns to Chapati and Yajima who nods at him as if saying it was nice to see him again before responding to his introduction. "It's a pleasure to be here."
"I'M SO READY!" Asta wants nothing else but to compete in today's competition as he missed out on the first two days
"DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO LOUD BAKASTA!" Noelle shot back just as loudly at Asta in response to him yelling basically in her ear.
"You two need to calm down and have something to eat to fill those bellies," Charmy comes up from behind them, holding out two muffins to both of them. They take the muffins and start eating them, Charmy smiles. "La, feeling better now?" Getting two nodes in reply.
Asta was eating his muffin when a question came to his mind "Hey Char –" was all he could get out before he started choking and coughing on his muffin. A worried-looking Noelle quickly went into action and hit Asta on the back in an effort to help him. Only to hit him too hard knocking him to the ground right after he got the muffin down himself.
"The competition for the third day is PANDEMONIUM!" Yelled Chapati.
Asta was about to get up so he could compete, only for him to be knocked down again. This time due to Charmy jumped on this head as a makeshift springboard to get on to the field of play as fast as possible yelling loudly with a hungry look on her face "PANDA ONIGIRI!"
droll sliding down from her mouth, having misheard the name of the game.
Before any of The Black Bulls could call out Charmy's mistake, Chapati started announcing those who had made it on the field. With that, The Black Bulls resident muscle head fate was sealed, leaving Asta upset that he wasn't able to compete yet again.
"From Fairy Tail A: Erza Scarlet!"
"From Fairy Tail B: Cana Alberona!"
"From Mermaid Heel: Millianna!"
"From Raven Tail: Obra!"
"From Blue Pegasus: Hibiki Lates!"
"From Sabertooth: Orga Nanagia!"
"From Lamia Scale: Jura Neekis!"
"From The Black Bulls: Charmy Pappitson!"
On the field with all the players of this game, Mato stood in front of them to introduce the rules of the game to them and the stadium rumbled round them and a dark ominous building came into the reality behind him "It's the Palace of Evil Monsters... PANDEMONIUM!"
"It's huge!" Yelled a shocked Cana while all the others looked up at the palace as well only for that to be broken by a shriek from the little member of The Black Bulls Charmy
"Pan... pan... de...mon...ium?" Confusing everyone, thinking she was that scared of the palace before her. About to ride her off as not a threat in this game because if she was this scared before the game even started. But those thoughts quickly changed into confusion with her next few words "Not Panda onigiri?" getting a weird look from the other contestants seeing Charmy about to cry turning to Mato hoping she heard wrong or he was mistaken when announcing the game.
Only for the some hope she had, to go up in smoke with Mato replied "Yes, Pandemonium Punkin." In a sickly sweet tone of voice in the hope to make the small girl a little happier, but it only seemed to have the opposite effect he was intending as Charmy started to cry like a small toddler.
The others on the field grew more confused about her actions, Charmy crying about the name of the game. Just to stop crying and get up as if she wasn't just acting like a child in front of a stadium full of people. Her grimoire glows and floats in front of her opening up to a page. Making the others step back as they were having a hard time reading this girl and didn't know what she was going to do next, hearing her cast some magic "Cotton Creation Magic: Sheep Cooks." Multiple balls' cotton began to form in the air and started to bundle together to form three sheep with chef hats on. As soon as they're formed they get to work as they seem to pull out food and the equipment needed to make any type of meal for their creator would desire. Everyone's shocked state is immediately broken when Charmy specks up again in the middle of eating a mountain worth of food that has somehow been cooked up within the few seconds when everyone minds shut down. "La... ok you can continue now."
Mato just jumped in place and went on as if nothing happened, to continue with the rules of the game "The rules are simple inside this palace wait, one-hundred monsters!... Well, really they're just magical incarnations that we conjured. So they pose no risk to the audience!" Getting mixed responses from the guilds and audience members. "The monsters are sectioned off into five different levels: fifty D class, thirty C class, fifteen B class, four A class, and one S class. By the way, if you want to know how tough our lowest class is..." Mato says, pointing to a Lacrima screen that appears above him showing footage of a giant grey four-legged beast with what seems to be metal skin smashing its way through a wall like it was made out of paper. Shocking everyone in the stadium that this was the strength of the lowest monster you had to face within the castle palace, Mato continued with his explanation of the game. "A hundred monsters are scattered within the palace! Punkin" making everyone go silent with worry about what this game will entail for the competitor competing. "Each class of monster should be twice as strong as the class below it! And the S class monster is so strong, there's no guarantee that even a wizard saint could take it down! Punkin!" looking towards Jura.
"You will each enter in order and decide how many monsters you will each fight. That will be your challenge. For example, if you choose to fight three you will find three monsters emerging from the palace gates. If you manage to beat all three that contestants you'll get three points and the next contestant will choose a number out of the remaining ninth-seven! We will continue this until the number of monsters hits zero or until the contestant runs out of magic whichever comes first." Mato finishes his explanation.
"It's like one of those numbers games." Asked Millianna, bending down to look at the short Punkin head Mato.
"Exactly! Once you've made a complete round, it's very important to strategize based on how everyone else did. But as I mentioned, each monster has a class. Once you've submitted your choice of how many monsters it doesn't matter if it's as low as one or as high as twenty, as the monsters appear at random!" Mato answered Millianna's question about the game.
"So one will need a strategy to avoid running in with the S class monster." States Hibiki trying to come up with a plan for this game.
Orga scoff at Hibiki "If they come at random, strategies won't help you."
"Not so, My Archive Magic can judge the odds and I can develop a strategy from that." Counted Hibiki.
Mato came in with some last minute advice "Your points only come from the number of monsters you vanquish, not the class. Once you have entered the palace, you will not be allowed to leave until you have vanquished the number of monsters you have chosen.
"What happens if you go down within the palace?" Asked Cana.
"Then you keep the number of points you have already earned. But you will retire, with your turn never coming again, and that round will be counted for zero points." Mato answered before pulling out a box with eight sticks in it. "Now we'll draw sticks to determine the order." Going around the group so they can all get a stick from the box revealing when their turn is. Getting to Charmy who is still eating from the mountain of food she has in front of her didn't even stop eating to pull the stick out from the box, relieving the number six.
"I'm one." States Erza looking down at her stick with the glowing number one at the end of it.
"You're lucky!" Cana comes to congratulate Erza on the advantage she has "The first gets the most turns of anybody. Unlike me who got eight."
Erza took a deep breath. "I had figured this game would all depend on the number I drew."
Mato turns towards Erza "You mean the luck of the draw? N-no... maybe but I don't think so. The game is set up to be based on how you pace yourself and how well you sum up the situation."
Only for a smile to form on Erza's face as she begins to speak again and to correct Mato on what she actually meant "No. This game is over." Getting shocked and confused looks at what she meant as this game was over, only to get his answer when Erza stepped towards the palace "I will take on all one hundred monsters. I chose the number one hundred." Making the whole stadium fall silent on what they have just heard causes everyone jaws to hit the floor in surprise, it even got Charmy to stop eating and look over at Erza.
'I-impossible! It's set up so that they'd massacre a single wizard!" Yelled a still in shock Punkin trying to get Erza to stop, though Mato's protest fell on deaf ears as Erza continued to walk forward towards the palace.
Back in the stands with everyone still in shock bar from Fairy Tail who seem to be laughing at Erza's actions, up with The Black Bulls, Zora looking down at the stadium asking himself if she was stupid or not. Like all, she had to do to win was beat fifth-one monsters. But now she had to fight an extra forty-nine of them for no reason. Only to shake his head and to see if this girl was as strong as she was stupid.
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"I-I don't believe my eyes!" Yelled Chapati at the top of his lungs "All alone, she vanquished a hundred monsters. She has cleared the entire palace! Is this the true power of the Guild that, seven years ago, was known as the strongest in the land!"
"Fairy Tail A: Erza Scarlet takes an overwhelming victory! A total victory that no one can dispute!"
The stadium is flooded with cheers over Erza's performance and what they have just witnessed with their own two eyes
"The crowd is still cheering!" Yelled Chapati
"I'm totally overwhelmed." A still in shock Yajima said
"There are no words." Lahar added.
Up with The Black Bulls "Now that girl knows how to push past her limits." Said a somewhat impressed Yami, smoking his cigarette. Seeing the Fairy Tail guild celebrating her win every loudly
"I wonder what they're going to do now? Seeing as she defeated all the monsters" Asked Finral
As if answering his question Mato came out to announce to the crowd and the rest of the competitors "Um... to assign the rest of the points to the remaining seven teams, we are going to have to come up with a ranking. It won't be the most thrilling of games but we do have a plan for this." The Punkin points to a floating machine behind him "The Magic Power Finder or MPF for short!"
"When you hit this machine with magic power, it assigns a point value to it and displays it." Mato explained how the MPF works "We'll assign the ranking to the wizards based on these scores."
This makes Hibiki a little nervous "A simple test of magic power. Hm... I'm afraid I'm at a slight disadvantage here." Just to turn to Cana putting his arm around her. "By the way, Cana, are you free this evening?" Seeming to forget his troubles he was just having a moment ago about this game.
Cana turns around "I am free, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to drink any more than one barrel." Responding with a smile on her face.
Hibiki just smiles back with a bit of a sweat drop, looking at the pile of barrels already behind her empty. "You drink too much."
"We'll leave the order the same as the order we chose beforehand. Punkin"
"Yay, then that means I'm first up!" Yelled an excited Millianna and she tore off her cloak relieving her lack of clothing underneath making all the men in the stadium start drooling over her including the Black Bull residence lady's man Finral. "Here I go!" Millianna steps into her spell "Kitten Blast!" A spiralling kitten paw shoots towards the MPF. Showing a score of 365 makes most of the crowd confused.
"Without anything to compare it to, we can't tell if that is a high number or not" Chapati added to the crowd's confusion.
Though Lahar comes in to clear things up for everyone "We Rune Knights have introduced this device into our training. So I can tell you that this level is very high. The same as a Rune Knight unit leader." making the crowd cheer for Millianna score.
"I see, then well done Millianna." Chapati spoke as the crowd started to cheer.
"Up next we have Hibiki from Blue Pegasus" Chapati introduced the next competitor.
"My turn" Hibiki steps up to the plate with confidence, only to get a score of 95 making him depressed "Aw... What have I done?"
While a drunk Cana to try and cheer him up "hya hya hya! Just let me cheer you up tonight!" while rubbing his head.
"Up next is Obra from Raven Tail!" A little black creature flies out of his sleeve to hit the MPF relieving a score of only 4 points.
"Something feels off about that group?" Asta said to Noelle who only nodded her head in agreement.
"Sorry, but there aren't any do overs, Punkin!" Said Mato but he didn't get a response back from Obra as he walked back in like.
"Meow that means I'm still in the lead." Said an excited Millana happy that she doing well
"I'm about to change that." Orga spoke walking past her getting into position to take his turn because he wanted to finish this as soon as he could.
"Up next is Orga Nanagia from Sabertooth.'' announced Chapati making the crowd get excited about what score he was going to get.
"120mm Black Lightning Cannon." Orga shouts hit the MPF mechanic dead centre with his black lightning making the numbers roll up, higher and higher stopping at 3825 points, shocking everyone in the stadium at the high score.
"He's ten times stronger than me!" Yelled in shock Millianna at the score she had just witnessed.
"Oh, I want to fight him!" Yelled an overexcited Luck jumping up and down looking excited towards Orga.
Coming over his shock Chapati calls up the next competitor. "What an impressive score. How will Charmy Pappitson from The Black Bulls match up!" Every turn to the small child who is still eating after all this time. With her sheep busy cooking up anything and everything. Looking like she isn't going to stop anytime soon Mato makes the brave decision and walks up to her
"Excuse me Punkin, it's your turn." Not getting a response from the eating girl.
He was going to try again, before Orga stepped forward towards Charmy and her food, right out of her hands, shocking everyone in the Black Bulls on what he just did. "It's your turn now, so hurry up!"
He throws the food away from her. As it hits the floor, Charmy could only watch as it hit the ground in slow motion feeling a rage she only felt once before from rough memory. Turning to stare at Orga in anger, "Rude... Who do you think you are?" She spoke in a dark tone, getting up on her feet. Charmy also grew in height, all the while releasing a crazy amount of magic shaking the stadium. Cotton forms behind her taking the shape of a giant sheep, scaring everyone, Orga took a few steps back "Why did you just waste my food?" Chamry asked, "I was starving and you threw it away." Drool coming from her mouth "You're going to regret wasting that food earlier!" The giant sheep's eyes begin to glow ominously red as well as Charmy's. "Cotton Creation Magic: Strike of the Sleeping Sheep!" The sheep pulls its arm back before striking Orga into the MPF Machine with all its might; it's creating a dust cloud covering the score and what happened to Orga. "None shall ever lay a finger on my food
After a moment, the crowd could see a score of 3659, and a knocked unconscious Orga in front of the MPF machine, shocking everyone on what this little girl had just done. She shrinks back down to the size she was before, laying down on a floating ball of cotton turning to find some more food next to her as she starts to eat once again. Making the crowd sweatdrop at the girls' action.
Lahar just looks down at the girl thinking and back up towards the Black Bull's section cheering making yet another mental note to the growing list for the Black Bull's
With the unconscious Orga pulled out of the way, Chapati got over his shock to call the next competitor. "Now Jura Neekis from Lamia Scale."
The large hulking bald man walked forward turning to Mato "It's ok to go all out right?" Asked Jura.
"That's the aim of the game." Spoke a confused Mato only for Jura to walk forward to the MPF machine
Clapping his hands together focusing his magic power, making it come off him in waves before calling out his spell "Rumbling Mt. Fuji Eruption!" Shaking the stadium itself along with the mountain it stands on, with a powerful magic beam erupting from the earth itself under the MPF machine reaching up towards the sky. When the spell died down the score became visible to everyone showing 8544. The crowd roared loudly, getting to see what a Wizard Saint was capable of.
Cana just looked at the score before hiccuping due to all the alcohol she drank. "Up next is Cana Alberona from Fairy Tail team B" As she hiccups again. "I sure wouldn't want to follow those performances." Said Chapati
Cana stumbles up to the MPF machine making everyone in the crowd think that she'll be lucky to beat Millianna's score if she could even hit the machine at that. Only to confuse everyone when she starts stripping her top off. Relviling a mark on her arm " Now. For the Grand Finale!" Cana shouts. A shocked Master Marvorav turned to the First master who was sitting next to him.
"I gave it to her for this special occasion. Now she's sure to win!" She said with star's in her eyes, making Marvorav pale in shock at her response.
Cana puts her right arm in the air as she begins the spell "To me! River of light that guides the fairies!"
"Wilding that spell is not easy; it takes a lot of concentration and power. Cana has both, I know she won't fail us."
"Shine! Break the evil fangs of those who would threaten us!" Cana brings her hand down towards the MPF machine "FAIRY GLITTER!" A golden light shot down from the heavens enveloping the MPF machine with tremendous power. Everyone was caught speechless, as the score was relieved to be 9999.
"Wh-what just happened? She destroyed the MPF... and maxed out the score. What is this guild made of! With a one and two finish... It's Fairy Tail. Can anyone stop them now?" Chapati asked in shock.
"No one can stop us!" Yelled Cana to the crowd as they started roaring out cheer "Why?! Because we're Fairy Tail!"
The Black Bulls watched the scene in surprise and excitement "Uh... now, this could cause some problems." Yami turned to his squad who still had the same expression on their faces. "You know what that means..." they turn to him "You just have to push past your limits." Making all of them grin either due to excitement to face a tough opponent, or that their Capitan believed in them.
"Hai" They all saluted Yami with newfound confidence.
1st Place: Raven Tail - 36 points
2nd Place: Lamia Scale - 26 points
3rd Place: Black Bulls - 22 points
3rd Place: Fairy Tail A - 22 points
3rd Place: Mermaid Heel: 22 points
6th Place: Fairy Tail B - 20 points
7th Place: Blue Pegasus - 17 points
7th Place: Sabertooth - 17 points