Italic = narrating
"Speak"
- Thought
"CAPS LOCK" = SCREAMING
Disclaimer: not owning Fairy Tail nor the original fairy tales
Jellal and the armor clad princess
"Good luck", Lucy whispered and squeezed her hand gently.
"Ezra-nii will win for sure", Juvia said and tugged at her arm gently before letting her go.
Erza hadn´t expected to be third up, but she wasn´t nervous about losing any time soon. She had faith in her own ability and knew she would go far, most likely to the final. But to be over-confident was a great danger that could result in loss and thus Erza would take every opponent on as if he or she was the greatest sword-fighter ever.
Vijeeter entered opposite of the port Erza had gone through. The man entered in a way that made her lift her eyebrows. First of all, his armor looked different – thinner and weaker. It looked as if there was missing parts in some places. Secondly, Vijeeter seemed to be dancing. Erza frowned at the strange movement he did – if it was dancing, it wasn´t particularly good. Erza stopped in the middle of the court and waited for the dancer to arrive.
Laxus, her cousin, stood close by her, waiting for the dancer as well.
"Take your time, it´s not like there´s other matches coming up", Laxus muttered and Erza couldn´t restrain a smile of amusement even though she kept her giggle in. Laxus didn´t know it was her inside and she couldn´t reveal her identity, or else his decisions could be affected by who she was.
Vijeeter finally reached the middle of the court and Laxus asked if they remembered the rules before starting the match. Erza was quick to draw her sword but as she was about to attack her opponent the man had moved away by dancing. He held his sword in his hand but he held it with the arm high and his sword pointing at her, as if he was going to thrust it through her. Erza frowned at the strange man.
But it still won´t be a problem knocking it out of his hand…
Erza went low and thrust her sword upwards with the flat side towards his sword, but before she could hit his sword he sidestepped and her sword hit empty air. Erza stopped for a moment, on defense and looked at his movements. He wasn´t on offense since he didn´t attack, but neither was he on defense as he wouldn´t have a chance to defend himself from a sword the way he held his own. Erza moved forward as to attack, but she was learning his movement-pattern. She then went left with a bigger leap and he moved to the right as she had predicted. What she had noticed was that he was slower than her, meaning she would be able to intercept him. The distance between them were now smaller than before and she moved quicker towards him, forward – left – right –right – forward. When she was close enough, she turned her sword and thrust the top of the handle into his chest, knocking him out cold.
"Winner – Ezra Titan!" Laxus called out. "Nice hit there, cousin", he mumbled to her as she passed him on her way back in.
"Right in solar-plexus", she answered in a mumbling and she caught a small smirk as answer from him.
When she arrived inside her sisters smiled at her under their helmets.
"As expected", Lucy said cheerfully and Juvia nodded excitedly.
"I hope the others will be more of swordsmen, especially for your training´s sake. My opponent was more of a dancer than a fighter", Erza told them.
The girls giggled and Juvia then said that most won´t be any resistance for her.
- Maybe… maybe he could…
Lucy sighed. "I´m starting to get all nervous again. What if we´re up next? Against each other?!"
Erza smiled to calm her. "Don´t worry, I´m sure you won´t fight each other first of all. And you´re probably not up next."
Erza was right, the two younger princesses weren´t the next to fight. But our hero´s brother was.
"Don´t screw this up Natsu", Gray told him and Natsu grinned with confidence as he entered the field.
His opponent didn´t look like much of a fighter. Natsu remembered he was named Max or something and the guy didn´t make much of an impression. In the middle of the field stood the referee, a middle aged man with back-slick. Natsu had to give it to the guy – he was well-built and Natsu could see he´d lost a leg, probably in some battle.
- That´s impressive, even though he´s missing a leg, he´s still working out.
"I suppose you remember the rules", the referee said. "Let´s not wait any longer, let´s begin. Go."
The second the refree allowed them to start, Natsu readied his sword and prepared for attack. But before he got a chance to strike, sand was all around him as he couldn't see. Hearing something behind him, he quickly spun around and blocked his opponent in the last second.
- Looks like this will be harder than I thought.
Max disappeared in the sand again and Natsu half-closed his eyelids in a meaningless attempt to see. It was hopeless and he stepped aside in the last second again, almost getting hit on the arm by his opponent.
- Okay, looks like it will be way harder than I thought.
An update! Woop-woop!
Happy New Year´s peepz! (A couple of days late)
Hope you had a great eve (I didn´t, got sick... oh well, that´s just life) and a great (or at least good) year before that. (At least tell me your year was alright! or else, this will be me - :( ) And let´s hope for a better year now cause it can always get better :P
Okay, rambling moment over. Wanna thank you who reviewed for my christmas gift ^-^
An answer to Anonymous (again) because every review I get is ecually worth to me, wheter you´re a member or no - and everyone need to get an answer ^-^
I don´t mind a late gift, I still have some left to get at it is so you can leave me another review and call it a christmas gift ;) Merry Christmas back, and Happy New Year´s too - late of course.
I could still post the Christmas special - but I never finished XD
The match between Erza and Jellal... that would be something. Not sure if it´ll happen, I´m still having some scenarios... but I have time to decide :P
Oh Mavis, 1000 chapters? I dunno, I was really hoping for at maximum 100 with all the stories XD like 20 chaps max per story... isn´t that enough? XD
Thanks for leaving a review, I love your reviews just as much! You should become a member already so I can PM you! And then we could have these awesome conversations ;) :3
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