Ciao!
I wrote another chapter, so I could go back in battlefield to a war with school, without any regrets of not writing a chapter. When I started writing I swore I will never write a chapter under 1.000 words, well this chapter is the second longest I have ever wrote (I have to be a bit arrogant ;) ), so enjoy!
English is my third language so if there are any mistakes I apologize.
Disclaimer: I still do NOT own Fairy Tail, just the plot and Anastasia!
The elimination round started, but all didn't go as planned, Wendy and Carla were missing. At first we thought that they simply got lost, but after we couldn't contact them with magic, we became worried and went looking for them. I went with Lisanna and Happy. We looked all over the city, but there were no trace of them and what worried me even more was that there wasn't Wendy's scent anywhere! We ran left and right, searching every corner of the big and unknown city, however we had no luck, until we reached the last place we haven't looked yet, the royal gardens.
At first the guards didn't let us enter, but after a few words we got in. At first I didn't sense anything, however soon after me, Lisanna and Happy parted in the maze I smelled Wendy's scent. I frantically started running to the point it was coming from and when I reached it I saw Wendy's bag. I looked around, my eyes gazing from one corner of the maze to the other, until I saw two familiar bodies lying in the grass, unconscious. It was Carla and Wendy.
I ran to them and sat on the ground next to them, not caring if I got my clothes dirty. I gently picked Wendy in my arms and tried to wake her up. As I was doing so I contacted others and told them I found her. Soon Lisanna and Happy were standing behind me, while Wendy started waking up. I wondered, what could knock her out like that, but it concerned me that there was nothing physically wrong with Wendy, all that there was wrong was that something or someone basically sucked magic out of Wendy. She needed to rest, to recharge her magical core, but we had to know what happened first, if my little blue haired friend was in danger, we needed to know what the danger was or who it was and for that, Wendy had to be awaken. As my mind was racing around possible spells and magical artifacts that could cause this damage Wendy slowly woke up.
At first she didn't recognize us, she told us to stop, to not hurt her and in that moment she seemed so scared it broke my heart. Then she realized it was us and calmed down a little. Lisanna asked her if she remembered anything and the little sky dragon slayer answered "No…"
After that we brought Carla and Wendy to the pink haired healer that hated humans with passion and Lisanna and Happy left them in her care. I on the other hand stayed. I like Wendy, didn't like to fight all that much. Don't get me wrong, I could fight quite good and I even enjoy a friendly fight sometimes, I simply don't like violence all that much and that's why I am good at healing and support magic. So I stayed with Wendy and Carla and tried to give them a bit of my magic, just a little, it can be quite dangerous fusing two people's magic together and I didn't want to risk it, I simply gave her enough so that their cores weren't completely empty. After that I gave them some sleep potion, so they could rest in peace and their bodies and magical cores could recover, after all her muscles suffered because of it too. Soon after they fell asleep, my eyes closed to and I drifted in the land of dreams in an uncomfortable position on the chair next to their beds.
The next day I was woken up by Romeo that came searching for me. I slept for a long time, even longer than Wendy and Carla seeing as they were already awake. "The Grand Magic Games already are going to start in 5 minutes Ana! We must hurry! Come on!" Shouted Romeo and I was about to protest, insisting that I stay with Wendy when Porlyusica came in and sensed my soon-to-be-resistance she threw me out along with Romeo, telling me not to come back unless I'm dying and with that she closed the door in my face.
So seeing that I wasn't all that welcome in healer's den I decided to hurry and go watch Grand Magic Games. "OK, Romeo! Wait here, I'm going to shower, change and brush my teeth. Be right back." I was ready to run up and be as quick as possible when he grabbed my hand. "No time for that Ana, we must go! Now! It starts in 3 minutes!" Romeo was ready to drag me there, but there's no way I'm going there without washing myself! "Romeo! The walk to the arena takes at least 20 minutes! If you let me wash myself first I will teleport us there and we will be ready in 10 minutes or we can walk right now and miss 20 minutes." I looked in Romeo's dark blue eyes and with an annoyed "Fine! If we miss Natsu-nii's grand entrance it will be your fault!"
And so I teleported in my room, jumped under shower with a toothbrush in my hands and got ready in 9 minutes. Sadly I had no time to dry my hair or anything at all so I simply used my requip magic and dressed myself in my pale purple loose dress that went down to my knees and my brown ankle boots. I quickly picked up my bag and teleported back down, where Romeo was angry glaring at me "10 minutes and 30 seconds, we better not miss anything important!" he huffed at me. I rolled my eyes, grabbed his arm and in a puff we were gone.
I- well we reappeared in the Grand Magic Games arena, next to master Makarov, just as the pumpkin man along with the judges was having a speech.
"Okay, the player are about to take the field!" Started one of the judges, the middle aged one. "starting with the eighth ranked team! Can they recapture their past glory?! The group whose name clashes with their rowdiness! Fairy Tail!" And so they came on the field, Natsu, Elfman, Erza, Gray and Lucy, looking victorious and happy! Sadly the majority of arena wasn't as happy to see them as Romeo and I as were they meet with very loud 'Boos'. "Fairy Tail has came last place every year, but they survived the elimination round, though even in that they were eighth place. Will the Tenrou bunch that created the sensation with their homecoming now become Fiore's number one?!" Commented the man and frankly he pissed me off, along with the rest of the arena. I mean most of those people are here just to see someone stronger than them fight as they are probably too weak to get past first round, but yet they boo at someone that got past? I get it that they have their favourite, everybody does, but that doesn't mean that they can be rude and discriminating to others.
"I'm just glad you are back." Said one of the judges. The old one, that used to be a member of the Magic council and now he has a restaurant somewhere, if I remember correctly. I was happy that there were people that still liked Fairy Tail and as I looked around the arena I swore that by the end of this year Grand Magic Games most of the arena will cheer for us. That made my mood lift for a while, until I remembered that having support of mindless ships that turned where the wind was blowing the strongest wasn't really all that great. Oh, well all that truly matters is that Fairy Tail stick together, that's all we truly need to survive. That thought lifted my mood and I joined others from my guild in cheering for our team.
"Hooray, hooray Fairy Tail!" I heard a sweet voice cheer next to me. As I turned I saw a girl that looked around 13 years old and I knew that i never saw her before in my life. When the others saw her it was hilarious, their mouths opened and they seemed all to jump on one side, looking at the girl with wide eyes. "Master Mavis!" Shouted master Makarov. Mavis, where have I heard this name? I wondered as Mavis explained how and why she was here. And then it hit me. This was the first master! I guess I should be surprised, but if you are in Fairy Tail long enough and if you manage to hold onto your common sense, then you kinda get used to it. Seeing as Mavis seemed really comfortable sitting on the stone wall, I sat next to her and joined her in cheering. My hair was still damp, but it didn't bother me and soon others continued cheering too.
Quatro Cerberus, Mermaid Heel, Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale and surprisingly even once dark guild Raven Tail were called in the arena. That confused me a little and along with 113 teams that entered the Games. All that smelled fishy and not in a Happy-is-standing-next-to-you-with-a-fish-in-his-paws kind of way. The announcer just announced top strongest guilds, minus Sabertooth, so why the hell are there two places left? If there was another strong guild around here there would be rumors, however I checked, there are currently 112 guilds in Fiore, no guild became surprisingly strong in the last few months and no wild rumors were going around. So, that left few options and the most realistic was that one guild entered with two teams. So, taking one guild entered two teams in the Games, considering that our current master is not a drunk fool - well actually he is- let's just consider that our current master has some brains and the fact that Laxus, Mira, Juvia and Gajeel didn't enter or weren't even here for that matter, while Pantherlily, Lisanna and Elfman were made me realize th-"The unbelievable, improbable Fairy Tail B team!" You get it now too, don't you?
So with a giant flash of lightning entered Fairy Tail B team, that had Mystogan that wasn't Mystogan and all the strong and not-missing-anymore members. I looked in the arena, staring at the fake Mystogan, until I saw Erza look at him. She mumbled something and I could read from her lips a name that should be obvious, Jellal. Well that solved the mystery.
When the B team came out, people started to question how is that possible and when Lucy asked master Makarov about it, he answered in typical Fairy Tail way "You see that?! That's Fairy Tail!" and with a roll of my eyes I joined the cheering too.
"That masked person isn't a member of the guild is he?" Asked Mavis, however it didn't sound like a question, more like a statement and master Makarov started to kneel and apologize. It would be quite funny if it wasn't for the seriousness of the whole thing. "But he's not evil. Strangely enough, I sense that he has the same heart as those who bear insigma of our guild." Came from Mavis and I could see the intelligence in her eyes that was far beyond those of a child she appeared to be. "It's a long story, but in a sense you could say he's a member of our guild." Said the blue exceed. "Is he strong?" and the current master answered that he was once one of 10 Great Wizard Saints. After that a bit of Mavis's hair started to do this strange motion and then the accessories she had on her ears seemed to jump "I approve." Suddenly stars appeared in her eyes and around her "So that Fairy Tail wins!" And with that Jellal was approved by the creator herself.
"Alright, we got one more team to introduce! That's right you know who it is! They are the strongest, invincible, indisputable champions! Sabertooth!" The crowd went wild and I thought my ears would fall off. I watched as Sting and Rogue came in the arena, Sting basking in the attention he got, while Rogue was silently walking behind. There were three more people with them a girl who used celestial keys, a man who I sensed used lightning magic, but I sensed he was a slayer too, curious and a woman, a woman who I knew from my past.
The moment I saw her, I turned myself invisible. I knew her, from so, so long ago. From where I was a child, even before the dragons… Before I meet Nana and my family. Oh, I tried for so to forget about my past, but I couldn't escape it couldn't I? And now my past is back, probably getting ready to bite me in the ass… And with that my world went black.