Chapter TWENTY SIX

A huge, complex looking magic circle had been drawn onto the soil ground.

Lucy and Jellal stood next to each other, at the center of the circle. Sting, Rogue, Cobra, Midnight and Wendy stood behind them in a neat row. The magic circle was big enough for all of them to stand on it.

The clearing they were in seemed like it was glowing in the moonlight. Darque stood in her battle form in front of her, her hands held out in front of her. Lying in front of her was her list of recruits scroll.

Darque muttered some words under her breath, then made a slashing motion with her right hand towards her left wrist, then held it out towards the scroll. Seven drops of blood dripped onto the scroll, and Darque withdrew her hand.

The scroll began to glow, and the magic circle followed. Mist seeped out of the scroll, and Lucy felt something on her wrist. She looked down and noticed the mist had formed a bangle like thing around her right wrist. It soon faded away, leaving behind a tattoo which looked like vines. On the top side of her wrist, there was Darque's blood red and ice blue version of a yin yang sign.

She glanced around and noted that everyone had the same vine tattoo on their right wrist, through only she and Jellal seemed to have the yin yang sign. She decided that it was because she and Jellal were Darque's candidates.

The magic circle stopped glowing, then the lines began to crack and turn into dust, before fading away.

Darque took a deep breath and picked up her scroll. She smiled, then handed it to Lucy, who took it and glanced at it.

The names of the people here now had a splotch of blood on in, and their names seemed to be glowing.

Darque took it back from her and carefully rolled it up, before slipping it back into her cloak. She held up her own wrist, where Lucy could see the same vine tattoo as her own. "Now we're bound together by the law of loyalty." She said.

They had left the exceeds behind at Lucy's apartment, where they were already asleep. Lucy had notified the Land Lady that she would be moving out. Though the Land Lady looked as strict as ever, she still nodded at Lucy's words and gave a teeny tiny smile, which was gone before Lucy could confirm it.

Darque said that she had already organized their guild building. On their form, Lucy had ticked the 'Only those who are invited can join' box instead of the 'Anyone is welcome' box. After all, if random people came to ask if they could join, Lucy was sure she didn't have to heart to say no.

"What now?" Midnight asked.

"The Grand Magical Games." Darque said. "We could use that event to introduce ourselves to the world." She said. "Besides, I am pretty sure that once Lite finds out that we've entered the games, he will join as well. The games would give us a perfect excuse on why we're leaping at each other's throats."

"Grand Magical Games are planned for next month." Midnight said.

Darque nodded. "I will tell you when Lite decides his candidates, so that we can look up information on them."

"Now what?" Sting asked, still looking at the vine tattoo on his wrist.

Darque grinned. "Now, we train." She said. "So that when the time comes, we can surprise your former guilds."

Sting smirked, looking please with the idea. Rogue sighed, as if he had some idea on what his blonde friend was thinking of.

For once, Cobra was not insulting Sting. Instead, he and Midnight were giving each other thoughtful glances.

Darque glanced at Lucy and Jellal. "Do both of you remember the map I asked you to study yesterday?" Both of the mages nodded. "Then, will you please open a Black Hole leading there?"

Lucy and Jellal glanced at each other. Recently, they had been practicing opening Black Holes together, as teleporting a lot of people at once could be magic consuming. They hesitantly grasped each other's hand, and held out the other in front of them.

A small, swirling black sphere appeared, and it began to glow. It expanded, until it was as tall as some of the trees surrounding the clearing.

Lucy and Jellal let go and stepped away from the Black Hole. Darque nodded in satisfaction. "Good, both of you mastered it."

Lucy nodded proudly while Jellal smiled. Darque led the way through the portal, and everyone followed.

They gasped when they stepped out of the swirling mass of black. The Black Hole faded and the mages barely noticed as they stared at the building in front of them.

Wendy's eyes were literally sparkling.

"Welcome to our guild base." Darque said proudly.

When Fairy Tail finally noticed the absence of Lucy and Wendy, it was already too late. The guild had asked Master why he had kept this piece of information to himself, only for him to reveal that it was at the wishes of Lucy and Wendy. It had been around three months and finally, the guild was starting to get back to its usual state.

The X792 Grand Magical Games were coming up and the whole guild was excited, ready to claim the title as 1st for the second year in a row.

Mira was reading the newest edition of the Sorcerer Magazine. Recently, a new guild had been a very hot topic. This guild had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, reports saying that they had defeated one of the troublesome Dark guilds that had been causing havoc recently.

Now the magazine was reporting on how this 'mystery guild' had announced its participation in the Grand Magical Games.

Mira didn't know why, but she had a feeling that this years Grand Magical Games would be like none other.

Hi guys!

Finally, something interesting is starting.

By the way, we have noticed a VERY STUPID mistake in a couple of the previous chapters.

We mixed up some of the names, {Namely Rufus and Rustyrose} We have fixed the results, and we are sorry if anyone if displeased with the actual outcome, or is just simply confused.

So, Lites candidates are ANGEL and RUSTYROSE.

Now, we still want to include Rufus into the story. Do you guys think he should be a part of Darque's group or Lite's group.

By the way, who do think should be on the Fairy tail teams for the GMG? {There are going to be 2 teams}

Darque: Hey, guess what? Apparently, Raven thought it would be a good idea to play a trick on his family by changing the time on their house clock so that it was one hour late, only to forget it himself and he arrived at his baseball practice one hour early, and had no idea what was going on until he remembered.

Now, he is grounded and is unable to post chapters for a week, which is why I am doing so. Plus, this gives me a chance to make fun of him while he's away. If you want, I could share on of his embarrassing stories with you!

XD

That's it for now, see you guys next chapter.

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