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As time flew by, the Capitol began to come into view causing the excitement of the guild to build even more.
As the train stopped in the station, Master Hiro had jumped up from his spot on the floor with excitement, making his way out of the train followed by his 'children'. Surprisingly enough, Shiro was awake and instead of being aggressive, she was calmly speaking with Hanako about what the elimination round could be, behind them was Chika and Raiden - who were reminiscing about their missing friends from Fairy Tail, and Calen was walking by Master Hiro, who was rambling on about how great having 30,000,000 jewels would be, causing the cheerful mage to smile and agree with the eccentric man. The unusual group walked around Crocus looking for the inn that they'd be staying in until Master Hiro stopped in front of a pink tudor style inn with the words Moe Moe on it. Everyone except Master Hiro sweatdropped at the inn, while the Master cheered about being in the Grand Magic Games. The first one to speak up happened to be Shiro.
"You're not serious, right?" The look in her bored eyes showed that she wasn't happy with the Master's choice in an inn, however Hiro simply ignored the blonde female and skipped inside the building to get the keys to their rooms - one rooms for the males, and other for the females. Sighing, the mismatched team joined their guild master inside the pink building and divided themselves into the separate rooms after Master Hiro had explained the rules.
"We don't have to be in our rooms until midnight and it's only noon, is there anything you guys wish to do?" Hanako asked as she stepped into the room, looking at the three queen beds spacely placed around the room. As she turned towards the other females in the room, her left eye twitched as she watched Chika jump on the queen sized bed nearest the sliding glass door that leads to the balcony, and Shiro asleep with the upper half of her body laying on the ground while her legs stayed on the bottom half of the queen sized bed near Chika's. With a sigh, the tanned pinkette left the inn room to take a stroll around Crocus without the others.
Meanwhile, in the other room, the men were talking about what the elimination round could be, and just as the conversion was at the beginning stages of a one-sided argument, persistent knocking on their door was heard causing Raiden - who was the closest to the door - to stand up and open the door only to be pushed away with the door being slammed shut with the invader's back against the door as they began to catch their breath.
"What the hell Chika?" Raiden's crimson eyes narrowed at the dark purple haired girl who looked like she just ran a mile. The small girl kept glancing back at the door as if waiting for something to pop out at her, until three slow knocks were heard causing her body to freeze.
"What's wrong Chika?" The concerned voice of the guild master brought the light violet eyed girl to unfreeze and shudder with fear.
"Hanako left the room leaving me and Shiro alone, but Shiro was asleep and was ignoring me, so I woke her up by pouring water on her and now she's chasing me!" Chika explained quickly as she backed away from the door. Everyone in the room froze as the door leading into the room slowly creaked open revealing a dangerously calm and soaked Shiro.
"KYAAAA!" The high pitched, terror filled scream filled the quiet city causing the birds to scatter away from their places in the lush green trees. Laughter could then be heard from the pink inn as Shiro hugged the purple haired girl making her black lolita dress wet wherever Shiro touched. As Shiro finally let go of the now wet girl, she turned around and walked to the door stopping just before she closed the door.
"I'm going to change my clothes, then I'm heading out to the nearest bar for a beer. Feel free to tag along, but I'm not paying for your drinks." And with that she closed the door, ignoring Master Hiro's shout about being sober for the elimination rounds. Looking around, Chika noticed the three males in the room getting ready to head to the nearest bar with Shiro, not liking the fact that they were going to ignore her, she stomped her left shoe-clad foot, and demanded to know what they were doing. The three responded at the same time annoying the young purple haired teen.
"Going to drink." Was Raiden's response.
"Going to make sure Shiro doesn't get drunk." Were the words that left Calen's mouth.
"Going to enjoy a night out with my children." Master Hiro said proudly. Of course it was only one in the afternoon, but to these odd mages, anytime is a good drinking time - plus they had plenty of hours to kill before midnight. They left the light colored inn room with an annoyed Chika trailing behind. Shiro met up with them outside of the girls room - which was conveniently beside the guys room - and lead them to the nearest bar that just so happened to be named The Laughing Hyena. It was a dark masonry covered tudor style bar with dark wood tables and bar. Immediately, Shiro and Raiden took their seats at the bar with Calen, Master Hiro, and Chika following behind.
While Shiro, Raiden, Calen, and Master Hiro were in the middle of drinking contest, Chika - who is too young to drink - got on the bar's stage and began to sing to her heart's content. Meanwhile, Shiro and Calen had reached their fourth drink only for Calen to accidently freeze the alcohol inside the beer mug, making Raiden - who sat to the right of Calen - laugh at him. Despite now having five drinks each, none of the drinker were even closer to feeling a buzz, Raiden then decided that after Chika finished her current song that he was going to entertain the drunk crowd with his - in his own opinion - beautiful voice. Everyone had to admit that Chika was very good at singing, but no one was willing to say that to her face - mainly because it would give her more reason to act higher than everyone else. By the time Chika finished her song and Raiden went on stage, Shiro had fallen asleep - her whole body laying on top of the dark wooden bar, five glass beer mugs surrounding her - despite not being even the slightest bit drunk, as Calen and the Master talked about the random bar brawls around them - Hiro even making a bet that one of the fights would wake up Shiro - and around seven in the evening Master Hiro sent everyone back to their room to rest for the elimination round.
At Moe Moe Inn, chaos was two steps from occurring in the girl's room due Hanako - who had arrived back from her stroll half an hour ago - and Chika arguing over who was going to sleep in the queen-sized bed nearest the glass sliding door, in which Hanako was trying to sleep in - after playing two songs on her flute - before Chika began the argument, however the shouting had woken up Shiro - who was asleep inside the empty bathroom tub - who silently walked up to the arguing girls calmly and swiftly knocked them unconscious, before going back to sleep in the empty bathtub. As midnight approached, Master Hiro had woken up everyone expect Shiro, because Mato - the Grand Magic Games Mascot - was beginning to announce what the elimination round was going to be.
"Because there're one hundred and two guilds signed up for the Grand Magic Games this year, an elimination round has been created to narrow the teams down to eight. The entire city of Crocus will serve as the arena and the goal is to be one of the first eight teams in the arena, however you must have the correct key to enter. The rules are simple, all of your teammates must be present to win, kabo!" The pumpkin man shouted gleefully, "The Grand Magic Games Council takes no responsibility for any deaths or injuries that may occur. Let the Shadow Labyrinth being!"
With that, magical stairs leading to the ground below the inns were created. The tired mismatch team, excluding Master Hiro, quickly made their way down the stairs - Shiro was asleep on Calen's back - and into the darken city. It seemed as if a spell was cast over the city, because everything was darker and monsters roamed the city freely - although they didn't seem to attack anything other than the game participants. Hanako take lead of the group, while Chika murmured complains under her breath knowing that fighting now would make them lose, turning corners only to run into a giant dark blue monster - similar to the ones in nightmares - with only one eye in the center of its' face, two giant claws that reached the floor as arms, and two stumpy legs similar to a toddlers. The monster let out a dragon like roar as it prepared to attack, when suddenly Shiro's bored voice was heard casting a spell - not bothering to even move from her spot on Calen's back.
"Water Nebula." A giant deep blue magic circle appeared underneath the monster and two waves of water rushed up from it hitting the horrid beast and blasting it into the air with tremendous force, destroying the dark blue monster in one blow. As the water and monster disappeared, a beautiful gold key designed with the king's symbol fell from the sky in front of the cheering team. Hanako quickly picked up the beautiful key and the team continued on their way to the arena - Domus Flau - avoiding other teams and various monsters despite Raiden's want to fight him.
Finally arriving at the arena, the team was greeted by the pumpkin man, Mato. Behind him stood the teams for Sabertooth, Mermaid Heel, and Lamia Scale. Calen was the first to speak after he set Shiro down nearby.
"Does this mean we came in fourth place?" He tone curious as he looked over the other teams. The rest of the mismatched team watching Calen and Mato talk.
"That's right, kabo! After the other teams arrive you'll be excused back to your inns, because tomorrow is the first day of the Grand Magic Games, and the participating guilds will be announced then, kabo!" The pumpkin explained before turning towards the rest of the team spotting Shiro, who was still asleep.
"Is she okay, kabo?" this question caused the other guilds to look over as Calen and the other sweatdropped at the sight - Shiro was asleep standing against the wall.
"She always like that." Raiden explained as other teams began to enter the arena. As more teams filed in, Mato stated where they ranked and when they could leave again.
Finally after Fairy Tail entered the arena last, everyone was allowed to head back to their hotel rooms to rest for the first day of the Grand Magic Games. Team Raven's Oath was prepared to win first place.
