Italic = narrating

"Speak"

- Thought

"CAPS LOCK" = SCREAMING

Disclaimer: not owning Fairy Tail nor the original fairy tales


Jellal and the armor clad princess

As the tournament was about to begin, the participants prepared themselves. The organizers where running all over the place, panicking over not being done in time. As a man run to collect the entries, he was racing against a young man on horse.

Siegrain pulled lightly on the reins to get the horse to stop in front of the man accepting the entries. The man looked terrified as he had been staring pale-face on the galloping horse.

"Where do I enter the tournament?" Siegrain asked the man. The man pointed to himself and Siegrain jumped down. "I´d like to participate."

The man nodded slowly, the color of his face slowly returning. He picked up a stack of papers and a pen. "Name?"

"Siegrain."

"Last name?"

"Fernandez", Siegrain heard himself say. But before he had a chance to tell the man he had said wrong, the man was already gone, headed to leave the entries in.

- Why didn´t I say Dragbuster?

Siegrain shook his head as he grabbed the reins of his horse and took her to the cradle with water. By the cradle stood a man and as soon as he saw Siegrain he freaked out and ran up to him.

"What are you doing sir?!"

"I´m letting my horse drink", Siegrain answered calmly.

"No, you must get into the arena! Here, give me the reins and get in! It´s starting, hurry up! You have to get in there! Into the starter´s booth!" he started to push Siegrain into the arena.

"Wait, what..?" before he got to finished the sentence, the reins were taken out of his hands and he was pushed through an entry-way and gripped by another man.

"Hurry up!" he was dragged along.

"Wait, I need to find my brothers!"

"No time, you can do that later. All of the participants have to get out to the fighting grounds so they can tell the rules."

Siegrain followed the man under silence. They were nearing the entrance, but Siegrain was surprised over how big the arena was. They had been going through a windowless corridor with a few doors on the right side since he encountered the man that now was showing Siegrain the way. Siegrain had more or less expected to come right into the arena.

"Alright", the man stopped in front of the line that waited to get out onto the arena grounds. "Get in line, put your helmet on and listen to what we workers tell you."

Siegrain nodded. "Thanks."

The man grunted ever so slightly, but Siegrain saw a smirk on his lips before he turned away and left. Siegrain pulled his helmet on and waited till it was his turn to go out through the port into the arena.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to Fiore´s big tournament! We´ve sent requests to all men in Fiore between 18 and 30 to come here and take their chance to fight our beautiful, princess Erza for her hand. Give our contestants a warm welcome", a voice called out and cheers and clapping erupted from the audience as the line moved forward and the men entered the tournament grounds.

Siegrain was looking around trying to find his brothers, but noticed that most of the participants had similar looking armor, and participants entered from different ports.

- I´m not going to find them by just looking… Siegrain thought.

"And now", the same voice as before said, "the king will tell you the rules.

Siegrain had no chance of seeing the king what-so-ever since he was at the far back and a lot of tall men were standing before him, making it impossible to see anything over their heads. But he could hear the elder man. The king first welcomed them all and said he was looking forward to see their skills. He then said they had decided on a tournament due to the fact that the king needed to be a strong and skilled man to protect the kingdom.

- I have a feeling the king made that reason up…

He then continued to the rules. Siegrain noticed that when the king started to tell them, everyone quieted down, even the mumbles that had been heard before.

"One must not fight with intent to hurt or kill. To win the match, one must either disarm their opponent or put them in a position where they would die or get severely wounded in a real fight. Our referees, Gildarts Clive, Laxus Dreyar and Freed Justine, will decide when this happens", the voice of the king of Fiore spread over the arena powerfully, reaching everyone´s ears. "One must never leave the arena until the fight is over. If one leaves even as a part of the match, one will be disqualified. No looking on other matches is allowed until one has been defeated."

There were a few more, minor rules, but Siegrain knew he wouldn´t break them, even by accident. After the king was finished with the speech, all men but the two starting ones where supposed to leave. A few minutes went before Lyon Vastia was pronounced as the winner. Next fight continued for a while longer, but now in such an early stage, the fights were over quickly.

"Next up is Ezra Titan and Vijeeter Ecor!"

That match was the shortest so far.


I´m back with an update sooner than I expected ^-^ It hasn´t been that long since I updated... right?

Well, my Christmas special failed to be finished in time, but now I have a whole year until next Christmas to finish it XD

Once again, an answer to my guest review Anonymous (you know who you are ;) ) because I love to read your reviews too;

I´m so glad you think you´ll like the coming chapters so I just hope I will not disappoint you... Still no meeting for... a couple of chapters. They will meet though. Just not soon. And probably not in a very romanticc way. And probably in disguise...

Thank you for reviewing twice XD

I have a special plan for Levy but it will take some time. But I think you all will like it... (if you like Gale that is... ;) )

And there are no bad ideas :) It´s just not quite what I was looking for and it kinda reminds of what I was planning having Gray give Natsu XD But thanks for suggesting something ^-^

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