08 | Introductions

...The Next Day

"Lucy-san! You look gorgeous!" Wendy complimented Lucy.

"Thank you Wendy!" Lucy replied, looking at herself in the mirror.

She was wearing her grand magic games outfit that matched the others. Instead, however, of it being purple and short like last year. They changed their color to red, and Lucy had exchanged her short dress for a white skirt with a brown cover, which was held by a belt, long brown boots, and a red sort of corset with lace as short sleeves and a white collar. In a weird way, she felt like a pirate, but she felt awesome so it was a win-win. She also wore her hair half up half down, with a red bow in the ponytail. Wendy had changed her outfit a little bit too, the only difference from her last one was the fact that the purple part was now red. She also wore her hair in one ponytail now instead of two. Erza, Gray, and Natsu, however, weren't in the creative mood at all so they just kept their exactly the same, they just changed the color red (Honestly, Lucy thought that was fitting, since Gray wouldn't wear his for more than an hour before he stripped them off, Erza would just re-quip into something else, and Natsu couldn't care less about what he wears as long as he has his scarf)

Satisfied with the way she looked, Lucy turned away from the mirror, and walked down the hallway that would eventually lead her to the main room, Wendy following her. Once Lucy arrived in the main room, she saw Erza sharpening one of her swords, Gray sleeping, and...and Natsu tickling Gray's nose with a feather...this won't end well. Luckily for her, though, once Natsu noticed her. He immediately straightened up and looked at her and then smiled his one of a kind smile.

"Nice outfit Luce!" He said, happily.

Lucy, being who she is, just smiled a small blush appearing on her cheeks. Erza, looking up from her sword, observed the two and just smiled at their cuteness.

All of a sudden a knock came at the door, so Lucy went to go get it. Surprisingly, she opened the door to find Gajeel standing there, then she looked down and found Levy.

"Hey Lu!" Levy said, giving her best friend a hug, "Are you guys ready?" She asked, "They're about to announce the competing guilds, and you're one of them."

At this Lucy looked a little confused and said, "I thought the guilds were already announced a while back?" Lucy said, remembering when she was first told she would participate in the grand magic games.

"Oh, that was just the other guilds letting us know that they were going to participate and who they were choosing. All the major guilds, like Fairy Tail, Sabertooth, Lamia Scale, etc., have to do that. It's a weird rule, but I guess it's to give the less experienced guilds an idea of what they're going against,"

"Ok, next question" Lucy said, "How much time do we have left before they begin announcing who participating?"

"Well, you would've had 5 minutes, but now...I'd say you have 2," Levy replied, calmly.

"Two minutes?!" Lucy said in a stressed voice, "I still have to wake Gray up!"

As if on cue, Natsu 'accidently' kicked Gray off the couch.

"What the heck?" Gray asked, irritated.

"Hurry up Gray!" Lucy shouted at him, throwing his white jacket at him, which hit him directly in the face, "And put this on! Erza, Wendy," Lucy said, "C'mon we need to go or we won't be able to see who made it through!" Those were the last words Lucy said before she ran off out the door to what the others assumed was the Grand Magic Games.

"Hey, does anyone know why Lucy was in such a hurry?" Natsu asked, confused.

Everyone simply returned his question with a look.

"Really man?" Gray deadpanned, "Did you really not just hear anything she said?"

"Hello everyone and welcome to the Grand Magic Games!" The announcer's voice came throughout the arena, the crowd replying with shouts and screams of excitement.

"I'm sure you're all ready to hear who's participating?" The announcer asked, to which once again he was responded to with screams of excitement, "Well then, we will be going in order of what place each guild came in, from last to first, at the preliminary round. I hope you're all ready!"

At this the crowd screamed even louder, making Lucy's stomach fill up with butterflies, she was honestly nervous and excited to see what place her guild came in!

"Ok, everyone give it up for the guild that came in last; Quattro Cerberus!" The announcer called out, "Everybody give it up for this year's participants: Rocker, Warcry, Jager, Nobarly, Semmes, and last but definitely not the least...Bacchus Groh!"

None of the crowd started cheering until Bacchus walked out in the arena, after that the crowd went wild. One other thing, that did not go unnoticed was that Bacchus winked at someone, once Lucy followed his eyes she found...Cana? Since when were they a thing? Lucy just smiled, she was so going to tease Cana later.

"Coming in 9th place; Blue Pegasus! Everyone give it up for Ichiya, Hibiki Lates, Eve Tearm, Ren Akatsuki, Nichiya, and the ever beautiful Jenny Realight!" Everyone, especially the girls, screamed for these members. Of course, it was probably just because of how handsome all the guys were, well except for Nichiya and Ichiya.

"Coming in 8th place; Lamia Scale!" The announcer didn't even have a chance to get any further, because the crowd had already started cheering, "Need I even say more? Everybody give it up for Sherry Blendy, Sherria Blendy, Toby Horhorta, Yuka Suzuki, Lyon Vastia, and the magnificent wizard saint Jura Neekis!" This was it, Lucy thought, she would definitely be going home deaf tonight, wonderful.

After that the announcer announced the rest of the positions the guilds came in; Mermaid Heel in 7th, Fairy Tail team B (Lucy didn't even know they had one this year, in Fairy Tail team B was Gajeel, which Lucy thought he was on team A, Juvia, Levy, Laxus, Mira, and Cana) Sabertooth in 4th, Crime Sorciere in 3rd, Fairy Tail team A in 2nd. It wasn't until the first place was about to be announced that the crowds finally got quiet. Of course, at this point, Lucy couldn't really tell since she had gone completely and utterly deaf when Natsu was called and had to walk out. The crowd really liked him, Erza, and Gray.

"Now the moment you've all been waiting for" The announcer said, pausing dramatically, which at that moment Lucy really wanted to strangle him for making them wait.

"Shadowalkers!"

"What?!" Lucy shrieked as she looked around and saw members of both Raven Tail and Phantom Lord. They had combined their members to make one team. Flare was not one of them, luckily.

All of a sudden, Lucy felt raindrops falling on her skin, and when she turned around she saw Juvia crying, and Gajeel holding her...

What was going to happen now?

A:N

Hey my lil donuts!

So what did you guys think of this chapter?

I tried to make it as dramatic as possible, but I struggled a little bit.

One quick thing, this fanfic has been very lightly edited all the way through, so I'm sorry if you guys get confused at one point. Once I'm done writing it, it will be edited fully.

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Rissa