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"We can turn the table upside down."

Both Mira and Laxus were smirking. Their acts were too obvious. And the two of them didn't like it. It seemed like no one knew about it but they were just lying to each other. Of all the races they've played, this just has to be the best spy races.

They liked it. These races were exciting and shocking and thrilling. It fueled them. In each game, the spy would pretend that they weren't the spy. But once you point out that they're the spy, they'd lose the poker face and start panicking.

That was the part of what they liked. Especially the part that when the spy panics and the two would just attack them.

That was the best part.

"Look at them, acting so confused," Laxus commented dryly, smirking as he watched the other participants ask each other who was the spy among them.

Mira chuckled. "I bet one of them is laughing deep inside since 'he' knows what's happening."

"Hey, we also know what's happening but we're not even hiding our laughs," Laxus pointed out, laughing again. It was just hilarious to him. And also, it looked ridiculous.

"Hey, who's the spy?"

"I didn't know there was a spy."

"You better come out now!"

"Everyone, from now on, the missions will have clues about the spies," Master Makarov announced to them, making Laxus and Mira smile.

Mira looked at the mixed emotions and expressions. She knew it was making Laxus excited for the final mission. And she was excited too. She wanted to take everyone out. No one was eliminated from the last game and that meant more members would participate at the last game and that would mean it be more harder to point out the spy. But that meant more excitement.

"Ne, Laxus, should we win those clues and prizes?" Mira asked, her eyes twinkling bright with delight.

"That was my line."

Even Laxus was excited. Yeah, this race would definitely be one of the best races. He wanted to time travel and just go to the final mission and eliminate everyone. But he was happier when he was seeing the faces of confusion and surprise. He knew all of them were faking it except for one. And that one person knew everything what was going on.

Mira grinned, her competitiveness showing.

"Okay. I'll be more serious this time."

TLOS

"You'll be blindfolded and there will be ten wooden pieces in front of you. You just have to hit and break two pieces or more. If you don't, you're eliminated."

"This will be harder since we're blindfolded," Gray heard Gajeel say beside. He thought, 'You Dragon Slayers just need to use your nose to smell the dust.'

Gray was the first to go. He just remained calm and let Macao put the blindfold on him while Wakaba fixed the woods. Firstly, he concentrated. Then, he focused in materializing ten pieces of wood in front of him. Without feeling doubt, he punched his fist downwards.

Excitedly, he removed the cloth covering his eyes and looked at the pieces. He bent down and started counting the broken ones. It was more than two, for sure.

"4... 5... 6... 7!" He shouted happily. He passed. He turned around and found Natsu. The Fire Dragon Slayer was holding a bored expression on his face. But when Gray pointed to him, Natsu looked at him.

Gray smirked triumphantly. "I'd like to see you try and beat that, Flame Brain!"

Later on, no one was still eliminated. Erza, Mira, Laxus all tied in first place for ten pieces. Next was Gajeel with eight pieces. Then it was Gray and Natsu for third place with both seven. Bixlow and Evergreen both had six, Lucy had five, Wendy had three, Levy had two.

"For everyone who won first to third places, we will have a rematch. This time, there will be no blindfolds. The goal is five pieces or more."

So they did a rematch. First was Laxus with still ten pieces. Mira got second by breaking nine woods. And Erza got eight.

'Damn that rematch,' he thought to himself angrily.

TLOS

She hadn't won a prize but she was okay with it. All Lucy needed now was to get everyone eliminated by the final round. And how can she do that? There was Laxus, Mira, Erza... No matter how hard she tried, she still wouldn't be able to eliminate them. Especially without magic. Why did the races need to prohibit the use of magic anyway? Well, sure, it was unfair but... it was more unfair without magic.

"Ne, Lu-chan, who do you think is the spy?" Levy asked her. She smiled as she thought about it.

"I don't know. You?"

"I'm thinking of Laxus and Mira," Levy answered honestly.

Lucy wanted to say, "Oh, Levy-chan. I know for a fact it's not them."

"Really?" She asked instead. There was no way she was spilling that, even to her best friend. She wanted to win so she'll do anything just to win. Covering it up, she added, "I don't think so. I think those two wouldn't be able to work together."

Levy put her index finger and her thumb on her chin, humming as she maybe thought about something. Maybe it was about the spy that the Master revealed to them earlier. It really sent everyone thinking. Then, she heard her best friend speak. "Those two? Those two are both S-Class so I think they can work together. But I'm thinking that it's one of them, if they're not working together."

She didn't answer anymore. It left her thinking about it though. Is it really Laxus and Mira? If so, she'd be in trouble. And that meant big trouble.

"Levy-chan, want to make an alliance for the last mission?"

"Hmm, I don't know," the blunette girl mumbled truthful, blushing a bit. Lucy knew she was feeling embarrassed since she basically rejected her offer to be allies. But if Lucy was to be honest, it was okay with her. "I-I'll th - "

Levy was interrupted by their Master. "The fourth mission is 'Walk Race'. The rules are, only walking or running is allowed, no transportation or jumping on roofs or swimming underwater allowed, physical attacks on another member isn't allowed too. You need to walk or run to Clover Town within an hour."

She heard Mira and Laxus conversing.

"A race?" Mira had asked. From the corner of her eye, she saw the woman smirk while the man beside her shrugged as his face was blank. Lucy thought about it for a second. Those two were definitely suspicious for today.

"Looks like it," Laxus said, she heard. They suddenly became serious when they were taking the games from the start lightly. Was it a mission? Or was Levy right and they were the spies?

But Master said 'spy', not 'spies'. Maybe he was just fooling her and everyone else. Maybe it was a trick with his words. Today's race was definitely weird.

"That'll be easy," she heard Natsu say proudly. Easy? 'That's what you think,' she thought bitterly. Maybe she should've followed Loke and Capricorn's instructions to exercise and train regularly. Now she really feels bad and she's beginning to regret it. But there's no harm in trying, right?

"Ready?" The Master suddenly asked.

'Now?'

"Start!"

'Crap!'

She started running, trying her best to win here. "If I don't win here, I won't get that money!"

TLOS

Even Natsu was flustered. Keeping an act was insane, for him at least. Early this morning, he was called by the Master to go to the guild. Of course he went, Happy was pestering him every other minute to wake up and get out of the damn house to go to the guild. He met up with the Master on his office.

What Makarov told him was surprising though. It was about today's race. He was told about the games, the rules, the list of participants, almost everything. The reason why really shocked him.

He was the main lead of this race.

And if he was asked, he'd say he was quite the actor. The pink-haired Slayer was really worried that he might spill something. But he managed to keep it up until now. But when the Master told everyone that there was a spy, he mentally panicked.

He remembered thinking, 'Damn. Is Gramps giving me the disadvantage?'

Instead, he asked everyone who was the spy and told them to reveal themselves. But he knew no one was going to reveal themselves because he was the main character, not somebody else. And that's why he was winning this game.

While he was currently running, he was thinking of ways to defeat Laxus, Erza, and Mira. Maybe he should attack from behind. Or go all out. Should he form a small alliance and defeat those three first before eliminating everyone else?

'I'm not losing to anyone.'

"Why is Natsu quiet today?" He knew Gray was smirking at him. He always knew when Gray was glaring or smirking at him. He could sense it.

"Shut up, food thief."

"Food thief?" Lucy asked, catching up with the two of them. Natsu nodded to his best friend and partner. When he jumped over a rock, he explained, "That prick stole my chicken last week."

With that, Lucy laughed. It made them feel comfortable. Somehow, the angelic sound made the thick air of tension go away. Lucy always made the pressure vanish from their midst. It was really useful whenever she did when they were playing these games.

It made him smile too.

"Hey, I did not!"

The pressure was really gone.

"You did! I totally saw you eat the chicken!"

"It was my chicken, Fire Freak!"

"It was mine, Princess Stripper!"

"Oh, shut up, you two," he heard Erza threaten them from the front. They were all running and Erza was in the lead. He could sense Erza's eyes glaring at the grass in front of them. They had decided to go by the forest but the branches and rocks were a disturbance.

'Poor grass,' Natsu thought, feeling sympathetic for the fresh, green grass that Erza was running on and glaring at.

TLOS

Gajeel was annoyed. Why did he have to run with these people? He wasn't pressured at all, if that's what you're thinking. 'Damn it if I am.' But he didn't want to run beside these guys. Think about it. Running with the Titania, Demon Mirajane, and the infamous Laxus of lightning. And Bunny Girl and Shrimp was saying that the Fire Freak was strong. Talk about titans.

'I'm running with monsters,' he thought, rolling his eyes. And thank Zeref no one saw that... hopefully.

"So, guys, who do you think is the spy?" Mira suddenly asked.

It hit a nerve in him but he scolded himself to stay calm. So he did and he kept that blank face he always had. He knew it always worked and it would work this time too.

'Just don't let the She-Demon notice your hesitance, you'll be fine,' he told himself earlier.

He suddenly remembered what had happened this morning. To say he was surprised was an understatement. The news he had received was like a bombshell. He was too astounded earlier to respond to Makarov.

"You are the spy today."

"You need to defeat everyone."

"You are the center of this race."

It wasn't his first time being a spy but it had been too long since he was one. It had almost been near three months since he became a spy. Earlier, Makarov had informed him of the rules, the missions, everything he needed to know about the game.

"What about you, Gajeel?" The Shrimp asked him.

"I think it's the Flame Brain," he answered quickly.

"Me?" The other Dragon Slayer questioned loudly, giving the man a hard glare.

Gajeel glared at him. There was something in Natsu's tone that he couldn't comprehend. Maybe it was disbelief or dishonesty or confusion or whatever shit that might come to his mind next. He knew, though, that he didn't like the sound of that question.

"Yes, you. Problem?"

He saw Natsu stop running as the pink-haired man glared at him. He didn't mind it though. He, too, running. 'Damn that race. This is more interesting,' he told himself. The former took huge, heavy steps to him but he didn't buldge an inch.

Seeing them, Gray and Lucy halted at the same time. From the corner of his eyes, he saw the Shrimp bump into Lucy's back and fall down to the ground before looking at the two of them curiously. Wendy also stopped running. Hearing no more footsteps, maybe, the three S-Class Mages turned around, making Evergreen and Bixlow automatically do the same. But the former three were just staring at them blankly, seemingly not caring about them.

"I have one. Why were you saying earlier that Luce was weak?"

And that's why he hated this particular Dragon Slayer. Nothing really gets past him when it comes to his comrades. Especially Lucy. Gajeel hated it. The pinkette was always so protective of Bunny Girl and it was making him puke. Now how would he get out of here?

He thought of his words carefully. Damn that moron, getting Erza's attention. And that meant they were in danger. And that also meant Erza would observe him from now on. As the spy, that would place him in a critical situation.

He snarled at Natsu. "I didn't say she was weak. I said she had weak guts."

"Well, what was that for?" Natsu was making it really hard for him. Gajeel thought, 'Just because you're not the damn spy doesn't mean you can make others go through hell.' Natsu took another step towards him. He pressed on, "Well?"

"Natsu, let's just go," he heard the Bunny Girl tell him.

It was true that he said that the woman had weak guts. But he didn't say she was physically nor did he mean that kind of insinuation. Earlier during the third game, which was to punch the wooden blocks, the Bunny Girl was complaining that it was too hard and she was scared.

"Not until this jerk says sorry to you." It was clear to Gajeel that Natsu wanted him to apologize to Lucy. He thought about it. If he apologized now, Erza might ignore it. If he didn't, well, he sure as hell losing in the last game.

"Fine, sorry."

"Natsu, it's okay. Let's just go," Bunny Girl told Natsu. After that, the S-Class Mages started to run and they did too, catching their pace.

'Damn, that was close.'

TLOS

Levy was tired. How many kilometers have they even ran already? How many minutes have they been running so far? To be frank, she didn't know because she didn't care. She wanted that money and complicating things for her brain and adding math problems for herself wouldn't give her any good out of it. Besides, she could just ask the other members.

'I've had my eyes on a couple of books in the past week and I want that money to buy it!'

"Ne, do you guys know how many kilometers we've already ran?" She heard Gray ask before she was almost about to.

She mentally thanked the Ice Mage. She thought that if she spoke, she'll just use her energy when she's already using her battery to run. And that was without their magic powers.

"Lucy-san, why do you think Master only gave us one hour?" Wendy asked Lucy. She saw her best friend shrug her shoulders while running.

Actually, when they were deciding that all of them would go by the city or through the forest, Erza and Mira had said that there's no use in competing to try and see who'll be the first to reach Clover Town. So they all agreed to go there all at the same time without any problems.

Levy looked at the slightly muddy ground while she was running.

Earlier, when Master was announcing the rules, he kept on glancing from Mira to Erza. Why? She noticed that, and she was sure that some of them noticed it too. Why, is there something with the two of them? Or were they related in any things related to this race? Was Master telling them something through telepathy?

No, the Master can't do that.

But what were the looks for? It had been on Levy's mind earlier but she tried to push it to the back of her mind. But it was coming back and this time, she can't get it out of her head. It was bothering her too much. What if she asks the two of them? At the same time or separately? No, asking them here would be suicide. If others didn't notice that before, they'd surely be suspicious. Meanwhile, asking them alone would be dangerous for someone like her. Even if she asked the two of them separately, one of them might change their mind and attack her all of a sudden. That would be a disadvantage for her. Now she wished she had accepted that alliance with Lucy.

What if he wasn't looking at them?

That. Maybe that was it. Maybe it wasn't Erza or it wasn't Mira... or it wasn't the two of them! 'But that's impossible. There wasn't anyone else beside Erza or Mira,' she thought.

Maybe it was just some coincidence. She was sure, though, that it happened. Besides, those two weren't out of their usual characters today. Maybe they weren't the spy.

Speaking of characters, Bixlow and Natsu were acting weird.

"There are two spies today."

This has got to be the most difficult race of all times.

Levy doubted that Natsu was the spy. If he was, it would be obvious by now. The same for Gray. Bixlow, though... well, he's acting strange. Evergreen wasn't flipping her hair that much. Erza was... too focused on the game. Lucy was acting perfectly fine. How could that be?

Lucy [ × ]

'I'm sure Lu-chan is not the spy,' Levy said in her mind, a small smile on her lips. There's no way her best friend was a spy. If she was, Lucy would've told her already.

"What about Laxus and Mira?" Her conscience butted in.

Those two were still the same; the silent but competitive type. After this mission, for sure, they'll be seeing the two's competitive side. But even if they were acting normal, there was still a chance that they were just pretending.

Laxus [ × ]

Mira [ × ]

'I just need to find the other spy,' Levy thought.

Tantrum Zone: I know, you might think this was a bit rushed. Well, when I was writing years ago, maybe I was really rushing it that time. Haha. I'll edit them... soon. But like I said, I'm trying to focus on the last mission and the spy. Aren't you curious about our favorite Fairy Tail characters?

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