Chapter 3: The S-Class Tournament

A/N So here's another chapter. Sorry, it's been awhile, school started and I wasn't able to write anything for a while T.T I've been considering doing something like a weekend bonus where I could post a new chapter on Sunday afternoon. So be prepared for that.

Enough with my rambling! Onto the story ^3^

Carla's eyes widened as Wendy started another healing spell. She busted through the door, startling Wendy causing the green light to disappear.

"What are you doing Child?" Shouted Carla, "Those spells take too much magic power. You could risk your own life!"

"I know these spells are a risky move, but this is too important! This girl is lost and nobody knows where she came from." Wendy looked down at the girl laying there, peacefully. Suddenly the girl started coughing, blood coming out of her mouth. Wendy was scrambling to get focused.

"Wendy what's happening?" Asked the Master running to the bed, Kianna Following.

"She broke some rib bones near her lungs. One of the pieces damaged the organ somehow. I was casting an internal healing spell to heal the damage, but Carla scared me causing me to lose my focus. Her lung got damaged even more now this is happening." Wendy explains with her hands over the girl's chest again.

The room was silent, everyone watching Wendy in anticipation. Soon later the girl stopped coughing, but Wendy looked even more tired. She was breathing heavily but continued to cast the spell. Carla stood in the middle of the room eyes widened with shock of what she has done.

"Carla you're welcome to stay, but Wendy wanted to help the girl. She didn't hesitate when she answered." Said Makarov. The white cat looked up at him with confusion.

"Wendy wanted to help her knowing that her life could be at risk?" Asked Carla

"I believe so. Wendy has grown into the most spectacular young wizard Fairy Tail has ever seen if I do say so myself." boasted Makarov

Carla had a small smile as she approached the chair next to Makarov. She looked at Wendy with pride in her eyes.

Master's right." Thought Carla,'Wendy has become a pretty great wizard'

Lucy was looking up at the infirmary thoughts running through her head. When she sighed Mira noticed that something was wrong.

"Lucy." said Mira with her signature smile,"I think Wendy will be fine. She's completely capable of handling herself."

"It's not Wendy that I'm worried about." said Lucy,"We don't know anything about this girl. She could be dangerous for all we know."

Mira sighed and went back to cleaning the cup in her hands. No later than thirty seconds after that Natsu came running up to Lucy with a paper in his hands.

"Hey, Luce do ya' want to go on this job with me and Happy." Shouted Natsu, "All we gotta do is catch some bandits hiding in Onibus, and boom! 200,000 jewels."

"Maybe some other time," said Lucy still looking at the infirmary.

"Common Luce? Why don't you want to go?" asked Natsu stupidly. Gray walked up behind Natsu and smacked him upside the head.

"What was that for Ice head?" Screamed Natsu

"She clearly doesn't want to go so just leave it be Flame Brains," shouted Gray

"That's not a good enough reason for hitting me, Asshole."

Natsu and Gray started fighting like children. Soon after they started fighting they started dragging everybody else in. Lucy stayed seated looking staring at the infirmary.

'I know Wendy can handle herself, but we don't know anything about the girl.' Lucy thought to herself,' If I go on a job then I won't have a chance to help if anything bad happens. I want to stay here just in case.'

Hours passed before Wendy finally came down from the infirmary. She looked exhausted, there were bags under her eyes, her hair fell out of her signature pigtails without her noticing, Wendy was also slouching like she was going to fall asleep mid step. She walked up beside everybody else and took a seat, already half asleep.

"Is there any news Wendy?" questioned Natsu

"No nothing that interesting"

"Well what about the girl?" asked Gray,"is she a wizard?"

"I don't know if she's a wizard or not. When I was healing her, I was too focused on treating her injuries to sense any magic power," replied Wendy

"Well how's she doing?" asked Lucy,"I heard that she was really injured when she walked into the guild."

"She had so many injuries. Most of them were minor cuts and bruises, but some of her major organs were badly damaged."

"How'd that happen? It must have been pretty bad to have some of the organs bruised," said Natsu

"I don't know." said Wendy,"I can only guess what happened. But for now, she's just sleeping up in the infirmary."

"That's why you look so tired. Using healing spells takes a lot of magic power right?" asked Gray

"Correct." yawned Wendy

Carla came down the steps leading to the infirmary. She took Wendy's hand and walked out of the guild hall saying,

"You used to much magic power. We're going home so you can rest."

Wendy groaned along with a yawn as they left the guild hall. Everybody continued their conversations.

"I wonder what her name is." Said Bisca,"I hope it's something like Asuna or Maka."

"I hope she some type of wizard." Said Macao

"I hope she's a wizard, but not strong enough to beat us." said Wakaba,"We don't need any more wizards to put us in any of the lower ranks of the guild."

"We already are." said Macao

"I hope she's super strong if she's a wizard," said Gray starting their own conversation

"If she is you betcha that I'm going to be the first person to fight her," said Natsu

"Does all he think about is fighting and food?" said Lucy

"Aye sir" shouted Happy who was eating a fish.

Makarov came down the steps and walked onto the stage. A flying bird-microphone flew toward his face. He gazed upon all the members of the guild. Macao and Wakaba looked bummed after their conversation. Natsu was standing on a table with his arm in the air describing how his fight would go. The rest of the guild looked up at the master waiting patiently. Makarov cleared his throat into the bird-microphone and said

"Now I know that you are all waiting patiently for our guest to arrive from the infirmary. But she is still sleeping and is not expected to come down at all today."

Moans could be heard throughout the entire guild hall. Many of the wizards were complaining, the rest of the wizards who weren't complaining looked like Macao and Wakaba.

"If you still want to see her she might be down tomorrow afternoon." Makarov explained," she might even answer questions then."

Everybody's excitement faded as they started to leave the guild hall, very few stayed talking about the girl. Lucy was among of the group of wizards who left to go home. When Lucy walks home she summons one of her celestial spirits to accompany her to her apartment.

"I am a little worried about that girl," said Lucy,"she just appeared without an explanation. I'm pretty sure nobody could find any information on her."

"Ahhh," Plue replied

"Now that you mention it. I did hear that a weird figure was spotted in Magnolia around the same time the girl came into Fairy Tail."

"Ohhhh"

As Lucy was walking by she was acknowledged by two fishermen sitting in a boat. They shouted, "You better be careful Lucy or you're going to fall in."

Lucy walked into her apartment and was shocked to see that Natsu, Gray, Erza, Wendy, Happy, and Carla we're sitting in her living room waiting for Lucy to return home.

"Welcome home Lucy," said Wendy

"What are all of you doing in my house?!" Shouted Lucy in rage,"You can't come here whenever you want!"

"We came here to bring something to your attention." said Erza casually eating a piece of cake.

"Well, what is it?"

"The guild is going to hold a fighting tournament!"screamed Natsu shoving a flyer into Lucy's face.

"Cool so what's the prize for winning the tournament," asked Lucy

"This tournament is not for the faint of heart," said Erza still eating her cake,"It's an S-Class tournament, and the winner will become S-Class since nobody was declared S-Class on Tenrou island."

"That S-Class spot has my name written all over it," shouted Natsu,"I'm all fired up now!"

"Aye sir!" said Happy

"That sounds like a good idea, but did you get permission from the Master?" said Lucy reading the flyer.

"We made sure that Master gave us permission when we asked him," said Gray," actually he seemed quite fond of the idea."

Lucy shuddered at the idea of the master being pleased with a fighting tournament without a punishment.

"Is everybody in the guild participating?"

"They're not required to do it," said Carla,"I don't even know if Wendy should do it. Healing that girl took a lot out of her."

Wendy gave an exaggerated glance at Carla and said, "I will do it, Carla! I'm not a little kid anymore!"

Carla sighed and took a sip of tea that was in her hand. Lucy was still looking at the flyer Natsu gave her.

"Will the girl be participating." asked Lucy.

"We don't even know if she's a wizard or not," said Wendy

"Well if she is a wizard then that's to her personal preference," said Erza," The Master said that we shouldn't rush her into anything."

"Mira and Kinana have already started to come up the rules." shouted Natsu," they said it won't take too long and it will be ready tomorrow."

"So what do you think Lucy?" asked Wendy

Lucy took one final look at the flyer and thought,"I know I'm not that strong, but I think I could give it a try.'

"I'll do it!" shouted Lucy

Natsu jumped up into the air and shouted," Well what are you all waiting for? We have some training to do!"

"Aye sir!" shouted Happy

The two of them ran out of Lucy's apartment then followed by Gray and Erza then by Wendy and Carla leaving Lucy standing in the middle of her bedroom.

"Well it's a little late to be training." said Lucy as she started to get ready for bed.

The next morning everybody in the guild heard about the tournament and started training. Most of the members were training with each other, then there were people like Natsu who challenged everybody with a fight. Gray was freezing every body of water in sight bothering the mages who weren't training. Lucy did what she normally did when training and summoned Capricorn. Carla was watching Wendy practice her dragon slayer magic along with simple healing spells. Erza's swords could be heard from the other side of the guild hall when she was sparing with Gajeel. Everybody was training too hard to notice the strange increase of magic power coming from the infirmary.

A/N welp, that's it. Another chapter said and done. I want to mention a few things before I go. Like I said in the beginning of the chapter, school had already started so it might take even longer to post chapters.T^T Also, I will be writing a lot during the weekend and possibly posting a new chapter Sunday afternoons.^W^ Finally, I need criticism for me to improve my story. 8(_)8

I appreciate the people who have followed and favorited my story, you have no idea how much it means to me. (*^*)

Welp, I hope you liked the chapter. (^O^)

-Toritaco