Disclaimer: Okay, don't own Fairy Tail, or the plots or characters from any other series. If you recognize a character from somewhere else, I don't own them. And there are a few ideas from this chapter that I took from shows such as American Ninja Warrior and Total Wipeout. Well, more accurately scenes of those shows I found on YouTube, but you get the picture.

Warnings: same as always!

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"And now that hat excited match has come to a close and the total ranking is decided for the day, let's move on to our optional guild-wide second event!" Chapati cheered. "Like yesterday, we will wait for the participating groups' decision on whether they want to take part before announcing the event!"

As was the case the day before, only Raven Tail chose to opt out.

"Choose your representatives! Remember, Fairy Tail, you can only send one person out!"


Makarov turned to Levy.

Knowing what he was expected, Levy hummed thoughtfully. "Yesterday's challenge was intellectual, kind of, so today's will most likely be a more physical challenge."

Everyone who heard her nodded in acknowledgement.

"I'll go." A voice declared, and everyone turned to Charlotte, who was tying up her long hair in a ponytail. "My demon heritage enhances my physical abilities, so I'll have an advantage if it does end up being a physical challenge."

Natsu and a few others pouted, but everyone agreed that she would be a good choice, so she went.

One by one, the other guilds chose their own participants.

Sabertooth, learning their lesson from the Chariot event, decided against sending either of their dragon slayers out, and Orga was sent out, Rufus having come to the same conclusion as Levy about the focus of the challenge.

Mermaid Heel sent out Risley this time, Quatro Cerberus sent out Bacchus (as he wanted a chance to make up for his loss), the Vikings sent out Astrid, Blue Pegasus sent out Hibiki, Lamia Scale sent out Toby, and the Exorcists sent out Yukio, Rin's younger twin.


"Alright then!" Chapati called out. "Today's secondary event is...an obstacle course! Contestants will go one by one, comparing their time with the other participants, and as an added challenge, it will be purely physical! Absolutely no magic will be allowed!"

The guild mages' eyes widened in surprise, while the Viking and Exorcist groups smirked.

After all, from their perspective mages relied only on their magical abilities in a fight, so all of them would be horrible in a physical challenge.

Charlotte smirked. Her demon heritage wasn't magic, so she wasn't limited like some of the others were.

"Damn." Millianna hissed, glancing at Risley. If the chubby girl couldn't use her Gravity Change magic to get to her other, more physically capable form, then they wouldn't do very well.

Especially since the only other contestant who looked like they would have a hard time was Hibiki Lates from Blue Pegasus. The lean man was far more suited for intellectual pursuits.

…Why had Blue Pegasus chosen him for the second event again anyway? He'd already done the last one.


"Contestants will first have to stay on a narrow balance beam while they navigate through a forest of swinging balls. Then there are ten large poles that very in distance, and they'll need to get on those and either reach or jump to the next ones to arrive on the other side. After that there are five rotating foam structures with arms sticking out at various heights, and the participants will have to navigate that as well. If they fall into the water below they'll have to swim to the start of the next obstacle, delaying them further." Chapati grinned. "What are you thinking Mr. Yajima? Jason?"

"COOL!" Jason cheered.

"This should be interesting to watch." Yajima agreed with a small smile.


The contestants drew sticks with numbers one them to decide the order that they would go in, and Risley was up first.


The Mermaid Heel groaned as she took a look at the course that the game organizers had conjured.

"Fuck." She swore.


Risley Law had an easy time staying on the balance beam, considering her magic had to do with gravity and even without using it she had exceptional balance, but the swinging balls kept hitting her. They didn't manage to knock her off, but she did come out slightly bruised and dazed.

She had some trouble with the poles, too, since they required a fair bit of body strength that she just didn't have, but she managed six of the ten poles before falling into the water and needing to swim the rest of the way.

The rotating foam obstacles were a huge pain. Jump over, duck down, dodge left, dodge right, and since there wasn't water below them she could drop into to swim the rest of the way, when she was knocked over she had no choice but to get right back up and try again.


Orga Nanagear from Sabertooth was next.

Oddly enough, he seemed to be doing worse than Risley, even though at first glance one would think that he would do very well at a physical challenge.

Unfortunately, he had horrible balance, and fell almost immediately during the first part of the course, and he wasn't a very fast swimmer either, so that cost him some time. He got distracted by Sting's jeering and Rufus' comments about how his memories of Orga's physical prowess must be out of date during the part with the poles, too, and ended up slipping a few times before stumbling onto the mat on the other side, cursing at the pair of blondes all the while.

He also kept on getting hit in the face with the foam during the last part, and ended up getting a black eye.

And since everyone witnessed it, he couldn't even lie and say he'd gotten it facing some huge monster.

Damn.

Hopefully he wouldn't be kicked out like Master Jiemma was probably going to do with Yukino.


"All bark and no bite." Toby said quietly from where he and the other contestants were waiting for their turn, earning a few snickers.


Of course, Toby was next, and boy was everyone in for a surprise.

Motivated by the loss of his sock, the dog-man sped through the course like a squirrel on crack, not even stumbling once, dodging the balls swiftly, leaping fluidly from pole to pole, and flipping through the clock-like obstacles like they were nothing.

Finishing far sooner than the first two had, Toby went back to quietly mourning his beloved sock as many in the crowd revised their opinion of him.


Blue Pegasus' Hibiki Lates was not a physically strong man. Everyone who knew him was aware of this.

But he did have his brain.

It only took a few seconds to calculate the timing on the swinging balls and spinning obstacle parts of the course, and he moved slowly but surely so that he didn't fall off of the balance beam. He only really had any trouble with the poles, lacking arm strength to do it well, but he managed to use his legs, placing one of them firmly on the next pole before carefully making the transition, so like Toby he didn't fall even once.


Astrid Hofferson from the Hairy Hooligans Viking tribe also did very well, unfortunately.

She smirked as she nimbly dodged the balls and leapt from pole to pole like a monkey, and she was through the spinning obstacles within a few moments, only ending up with a glancing blow to the shoulder.


Charlotte Phantomhive, however, blew even Astrid out of the water.

She had completed the balance beam and swinging obstacles portion in only a few seconds, dodging and weaving through the swinging balls so quickly that Erik thought that even Racer wouldn't have been able to see her.

'Actually, this girl's speed might be just as fast as Racer's had seemed,' Erik theorized, watching the half-demon closely as she got to the spinning foam things and started flipping, cartwheeling, and bending in uncomfortable-looking ways to get back them.

He wasn't even sure if she had done the pole part or just bypassed it entirely by just jumping straight to the other side, it was that fast. 'That's actual speed, she's not slowing down anyone's perception like he did.'


Mey-Rin smirked, pleased at how well Charlotte had done as the young half-demon's mother, Lizzy, cheered wildly.

"That's my girl." The plum-haired former assassin said proudly, fist shooting up as she cheered as loudly as her old friend. "Go Char!"


"Is that the Shunshin (AN: Body Flicker technique, allowing the user to move so quickly the uninformed would assume it was teleportation)?!" Naruto asked, startled at the blue-eyed girl's speed.

"No…" Sasuke's brows furrowed in concentration as he watched. "She's not using hand seals. And if it was magic she'd have been disqualified already."

"Damn…" Naruto whistled, impressed.

Ninja could move extremely fast, sure, but he'd never seen anyone move that fast without using chakra to enhance their speed, which this girl apparently wasn't doing.


"And once again Fairy Tail takes the lead, with their contestant easily taking the lead." Chapati shouted excitedly, though he was admittedly baffled at how that had been done without using magic, not realizing that Charlotte didn't even have magic.


Bacchus…well, he did even better than Charlotte, in a way.

The judges did penalize his time a bit though, bumping him down to second place because he completely destroyed the obstacle course by plowing through it, and like Charlotte he had just jumped across instead of bothering with the ten poles. Apparently even without his magic he had formidable strength.


Yukio Okumura was supposed to go up next, but since the Quatro Cerberus mage had destroyed the course, he had to wait for them to fix it before he could go.

He got through it with little issue, but his time was mediocre compared to some of the others.

The brunette was also admittedly kind of pissed off that while the rest of his team had cheered for the mage's, not only had they not shown any support whatsoever for him, but they hadn't even bothered to watch.

God, he'd fucked up big time…

And when Yukio cursed, you knew shit had gotten serious.


"And so the rankings are as follows!" Yajima announced, Chapati's throat being dry from the commentary he'd been doing.

1st place is Fairy Tail!

2nd place is Quatro Cerberus!

3rd place is Toby Horhorta!

4th place is Astrid Hofferson!

5th place is Yukio Okumura!

6th place is Hibiki Lates!

7th place is Orga Nanagear!

And in 8th place we have Risley Law!

"Remember that these rankings have no bearing on the scores for the Games, but it was fun to watch!" Yajima tacked on.


"Well done!" Sinon said with a small smile as Charlotte arrived back to her place in the stands.

"T-thanks." Charlotte said with an embarrassed grin, purposefully letting her long black hair (which had blue tints) fall in front of her face just in case she was blushing.

From their place behind Sinon, Asuna and Kirito smiled at the two oblivious girls.


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