Daryun P.O.V.
The Colosseum was buzzing with eager chatter from the audience, trying to figure out what they would be doing today. The guilds stood in their designated areas pondering over the events of the day. Arslan sat in his chair and patiently watched the empty arena, waiting for the familiar crackle of the voice amplifier to announce the first task of the day. A large purple magic circle started to glow in the sky, going down to the ground, leaving an upside down castle in its place. The Pumpkin Man walked into the arena with a small cup in his hand with eight sticks in it.
"Choose your contenders!" He yells at the guilds, breaking them out of their curious gazes and they scrambled to make a decision. Fairy Tail Team B gathered together, discussing who will go out.
"I will do it." Daryun announces, a firm look in his eyes. The rest of the team nods.
"Alright. You would be a good choice. No one would suspect you being the one in it." Mira says. Daryun nods and glances at Team A, who is also deciding who should go. Seeing the team nod in agreement over something, Daryun looks back. The chosen people leave the teams and head to the arena, confidence oozing off of them. Daryun glances at Arslan who gives him a reassuring smile, telling him to not get hurt. Daryun nods and continues his course to the arena.
The Pumpkin Man walks up to each of the contestants and gestures they take a stick out of the container. Daryun does so in confusion and looks down at the stick, seeing it show the number eight. Daryun glances around, seeing each stick has a different number, and Erza has number one.
"There are one hundred monsters that can be fought inside this castle. You can choose however many you want to fight, and you cannot leave until everyone of them is destroyed." The Pumpkin Man explains. Erza nods and walks up to the castle, stopping in front of it.
"I will fight all one hundred monsters." She declares. The Pumpkin Man stops in his place before nodding.
"I guess that isn't against the rules... " He says. The inside of the castle gains a faint light before it disappears. The Pumpkin man nods at Erza, letting her know it is okay to enter the castle now. She does, walking with confidence most people would not have. Immediately she summoned her armor, fighting the first monsters in her way. Armor after armor, weapon after weapon, she took down each of the monsters in the castle. She had destroyed all of the monsters. All but the the level S one. Scratches all over her body, she breathed heavily as the small black ball that had followed her through everything turned into a large raging monster. She smirked and summoned her katanas, cutting through the monster and efficiently killing it. She walked out of the castle, the crowd cheering for her and she smiled, waving at the guild and her team.
With no more monsters left, but still seven teams, The Pumpkin Man looked towards the judges before smiling with an idea.
"I have something else for the rest of you to do. This is the magic power finder, or MPF for short." The Pumpkin Man said, looking towards the big black stand holding a blue ball in the center.
"In other words, it measures a wizard's magic power?" Someone asked.
"Righto! If you cast a spell on the blue ball, it will display your magical power in numerical form. I'll use this number to decide the rankings for the remaining teams. Since you all drew straws earlier, you will continue in that order." Pumpkin explained. A cat eared girl went first. She ripped her cloak off and did her attack, getting the number 365. Another guy did an attack, receiving the number 124. Hibiki went and received the number 95. A Raven Tail member went and got four. Orga went, getting 3,825. Then a wizard saint, getting 8,544. Daryun summoned his strongest weapon and charged at the MPF, making an explosion cover up what the score was, sending dust everywhere. When it cleared, the only thing left of the MPF was the score, reading 9,999.
The crowd cheered and the guild members left the arena, several glaring daggers at Daryun. Daryun turned his gaze to the glaring opposing team members and glared back, smirking when the flinch back in shock. Daryun turns and stalks over to the teams, his hair swishing behind him. Daryun climbed over to Arslan, immediately walking behind him and putting himself into a guarding position. Arslan smiles and turns his head to face Daryun.
"Good job, Daryun." Arslan says. Daryun bows his head and smiles softly.
"My thanks, Highness." He responds. His team walks over to him and congratulates him, smiling about getting second place.
"Great job, man! We are climbing the ranks!" Gajeel says, walking over and patting Daryun's shoulder proudly. Daryun looks up at his team and nods.
"It was not much. I just focused on my strength and let the magic take control." He explains. Gajeel scoffs.
"It doesn't matter what you did, you got us second place!" He says. Daryun lets a small smile cross his face briefly.
"Yeah, I guess I did."