Just then Natsu stood up. "Gray! Xavier! Cana! Levy! Faya! Elfman!" He spoke pointing to each one of us in turn, "Let's fight and see just who'll become an S-class wizard!"
"You, especially, I ain't gonna loose to." Gray spoke, a faint smile upon his face. Cana smiled.
"Neither will I." Levy determinedly stated.
"You bet I won't hold back!" Xavier called out. I sighed. I wasn't going to say anything or smile. I didn't like competing against my friends. I didn't want to draw any attention either..."As a man, I will take on that challenge!" Elfman exclaimed. He couldn't have a conversation without mentioning the word 'man' could he?
"I'm gettin' fired up!" Natsu shouted, a flame curling around his fist. It looked tasty... As soon as everyone had calmed down (if that was even possible in this guild), Makarov spoke again. "Now then, I will announce the details for the second test of the S-class wizard trials!"
We all listened eagerly, waiting for what was to come next. "The second test is searching for the grave of Mavis, our founding guild master." So we had to look for my mother's grave? I never thought I'd be doing something like that... "Founding guild master?" Lucy spoke. Oh, I had forgotten that the others didn't know about Mavis...
"That sounds easy!" Natsu confidently stated. I didn't think so though, the island was huge, and what I had came here before, I had never spotted the grave... "You have only 6 hours! Hear that? I said 6 hours. I'll be waiting at Mavis's grave." With that, Makarov turned away in the opposite direction. Just then Natsu and Happy ran off in a hurry in a random direction. I waited with Lilias for everyone else to disperse. "Why are you just standing there?" she asked me, "We need to get looking before the others find the grave so you can become S-class!" I shook my head.
"Everyone ran off in random directions didn't they? Despite the fact that Makarov said he'd be waiting at the grave."
"And?" I pointed in the direction in which Makarov went. "The grave is most likely to be in this direction, as that's where Makarov headed." Lilias nodded, understanding what I was getting at. We then ran off in the direction Makarov had walked.
"Can you try and follow his scent?" Lilias asked. I shook my head. Even though I had been here before, I haven't been here for a while - making it harder for me to pick up certain scents I would easily b able to pick up. I guess it was even harder for Lilias since she had never been here at all. Soon, we arrived at the place where we had arrived on the island - the area with all the routes. They were all open now - none were sealed off. That seemed rather suspicious to me. "Any ideas why they're all open now?" I asked.
"I guess because we're allowed to look in them now for the grave..." Lilias shrugged. "Wait - maybe the grave is down one of the routes?" I wasn't too sure about that. If the grave was there, wouldn't there have been a chance that one of the teams could have spotted it? "We'll check here later," I spoke. Lilias nodded. With that, we began to walk away from the 10 routes.
It was easy to get lost on Tenrou. After a lot of walking, we found ourselves in the middle of a forest... We had no idea what part of the island we were on, so had no idea whether we were searching the right area... I had no idea how much time had passed, but we had been searching for a while - with no luck. A few hours later and we still hadn't found anything. Just then, I heard rustling coming from the bushes. "Who's there?" I called out. Had someone been following us? Just then, I saw a figure emerge from the bushes. Lilias spoke. "Faya, they're not in our guild..." I knew that already. The figure seemed surprised to see us, I could see it in his dark, black eyes. If I were to be honest, the only reason that I had taken part in the trials was to see this person again... I couldn't help myself. I remembered all the times sitting alone in the guild hall, having nobody to talk to - nobody to who I could truly be myself around... Looking at the figure before me, I couldn't help but remember what that had felt like... I couldn't stop the tears from falling down my eyes as I embraced the figure in a hug. With that, they seemed rather alarmed. "Do you not remember my curse!?" he muttered, obviously agitated that I had hugged him. He didn't want to hurt me.
Quickly, I let him go and stepped back - wiping the tears from my eyes. "Sorry Sensei..." I muttered. I have no idea why I had just called him that... Old habits die hard... "It's been a while, Faya Dragneel..." he spoke, the frown I remembered so well was formed upon his face. "I'm sorry, but I cannot stay..." With that, he walked off. I wasn't too sad about seeing him go. Just being with him for a small amount of time was good enough for me. Before he could completely vanish from sight. "Promise me that you'll look after Natsu - help him grow stronger..." And with that he was gone.
"I promise," I muttered. I had no idea why my father had wanted me to look after Natsu and help him grow stronger... Did it have something to do with the whole 'Dragneel' thing. I could tell that Zeref cared about him, that - for me - confirmed that they were related. "What was all that?" Lilias spoke - sounding father confused. "Why did he call you 'Faya Dragneel?' Isn't that Natsu's second name?" I turned to Lilias.
"I'll tell you about it later, but you have to promise me you won't tell anyone what had happened here." Lilias nodded, as we walked further into the forest...
Not soon after my reunion, something else happened. We stumbled upon Xavier and Lokni, who were fighting an army of soldiers. All we could do was gasp. Lokni spotted us as he knocked a soldier to the ground. "These guys are interfering with the trials!" he exclaimed, "I think their invaders!" I nodded and rushed into the fight. The soldiers were fairly easy to defeat. It was just rather annoying how there were so many of them. I mainly used my fire dragon iron fist, as that allowed me to attack those who attacked me. I was pretty sure that anything else would be going over board - though a wing attack or talon might be fine... This reminded me of the fight with Miriza, accept she was much harder to defeat.
"What was it like fighting Miriza?" Xavier asked mid battle. It was as if he were reading me mind, though I was not impressed. "Shut up and save the small talk for after the fight Xavy Wavy!" was my annoyed response. I heard Lokni snicker at 'Xavy Wavy.' That nickname suited him perfectly! I doubted that he thought the same thing though... It took us a while to defeat the soldiers, but when we did - the first thing that caught our attention was the sky: There was a red signal flare. Tenrou island was being invaded...
