Hello here is Chapter 5 (Trumpet noises) This is the furthest I have come in a story of mine. Woohoo. ( I will update the others I just want to focus on this now.) Now I hope you will enjoy this and please review. (I do not own fairytail)
"All right now it's time for the preliminary round of the grand magic games!" A voice suddenly boomed through the air. The team had just ran into the inn just in time.
"Hey, it's pumpkin head again." Natsu smiled.
"Hey, do you guys think that it's going to be as the same as last time?" Lucy asked uncertain.
"I'm not sure." Erza replied then suddenly there was a rumbling outside. The team looked at each other, and ran outside. Gray was shocked at what he saw. Before there were buildings now there are tall bushes around the whole city. Gray looked up and saw that the houses are now raised by stilts which were the same ones from last time when it was their inn being lifted. The now appeared walls of bushes looked to be a maze. Gray was looking in awe until Mato the 'Pumpkin heads' voice boomed through the city.
"All teams must go through the maze and collect one flag that presents the other guilds. They are place all over the maze. Teams are also going to have to choose one team member to battle a monster that would be guarding it. The one rule is that you are not allowed to use flying magic." At this Natsu, Wendy, and Happy's face fell. Only Carla was the only who nodded. "After they have collected the flag they must go through the maze and find the exit, you have an hour and a half to complete this task. Also watch out for traps. Now let the game commence."
"Ok come on guys, we have to be careful through the maze, let's-" Erza started but then got cut off by Natsu.
"Alright guys come on let's do this thing." He said and bolted through the maze with flames coming from his feet.
"NATSU" Lucy shouted and ran in with Happy.
"That idiot" Erza muttered and followed Lucy and Happy.
"Honestly when we catch up to that flame-brained idiot I'm going to beat the crap out of him." Gray said and started to run.
"Hey Gray can you maybe do that after the round please" Wendy asked politely and she and Carla followed behind.
After a little while of running Gray slowed to a stop as he caught up with Erza, Happy, and Lucy.
"Hey guys where has that idiot gone?" Gray questioned. Just as he asked the loud voice was back.
"Hey guys. A new rule has been added to the games. If you are separated from your team you have at least 10 seconds to get otherwise your disqualified." As soon as he said that Gray could hear people yelling out for team members.
"NATSU!" He shouted
"Natsu where are you?" Erza questioned.
"NATSU!" Just literally five seconds later Natsu came around the corner bolting although he was going so fast that he couldn't stop. BAM.
"Aaaah! What the heck Natsu!" Gray growled as struggled to get up from underneath Natsu.
"I didn't mean to do it."
"Of course not, you were just being an idiot."
"Oh yeah icebrick." Natsu asked as they head budded.
"Yeah firebreath."
"BOYS" Erza turned to them and gave them a dark glare.
"Need I remind you that we are in the games and we need to move fast or otherwise we are going to come in last." Both boys nodded. "And Gray put some clothes on."
"Huh?" He looked down and it turns out he was in his boxers again. "Aahh when did this happen?" He screeched and looked to find his clothes just behind him. After Gray put some clothes on they started the search for a flag as quickly as possible. As they were running Gray could here screams and yells. He occasionally thought that he could hear Lyon's voice or someone from Fairytail but he couldn't be sure. They kept running through the maze. It was very dark in the made so it was a good thing they had a fire wizard so that they could light the way. They kept on taking turns right and left until suddenly the bushes started to shake.
"Uhh what's going on?" Lucy asked uncertain. The others weren't sure wat was going on. Until Gray heard a noise behind him and saw this giant wave coming straight towards them.
"Uhh guys we gotta go." He said and started running. The others looked at him confused until they saw what he saw.
"Oh crap." Natsu shouted. They all bolted through the maze trying to get away from it but the further they ran the closer it came. Gray suddenly got an idea. He stopped running and just as the wave was about to hit him he shouted.
"Ice-make: Wall!" A large chunk of ice appeared in front of Gray. Just as he casted the spell, the wave hit it just in time.
"Nice job Gray." Erza said just as they were about to continue Mato's voice appeared once again.
"That was the first lot of traps wizards. Those elemental spells were caused by powerful elemental mages. Now there is only 20 guilds left. Good luck."
"Only 20 guilds left?" Happy asked shock.
"I can't believe it." Lucy mused.
"They must've been pretty powerful wizards then to know out some of the guilds." Wendy said amazed. The others agreed.
They continued their path. The team made a few turns until Gray saw something at the corner of his eye, he turned and looked at what caught his eye. It was a very narrow path and it was very dark but Gray could just make out a yellow flag with a bright green guilds symbol on it. He looked a little closer and saw that it was Lamia's scale flag. Gray smirked, when Lyon finds out that they got he's guilds flag (Hopefully before they got their hands on a flag) that would be priceless. He called out to the others to stop.
"Hey guys look." He pointed towards the flag and they came back.
"Nice work Gray." Lucy said.
"Alright right! let's go and get it." The others tried to stop Natsu again, but once again they were too late, he had already bolted through the narrow path. Just as Natsu was about to reach out and grab the Lamia scale's flag with a huge smile on his face a large ugly looking like Troll appeared from the bush. He was big and had slimy green coloured skin. The troll-look- alike had short grey hair and snot dangling from his left nostril. He had an unbuttoned small blue t-shirt on and an enormous large sledge hammer in his left hand.
What do you think you are doing?" The look alike troll asked.
"trying to get the flag." The monster jut blinked at him confuse.
"What?"
"Trying to get the flag." Natsu pointed to the flag and was about to reach out and grab but then the troll blinked in remembrance and blocked Natsu from getting it.
"I don't think so." He stood in front of the flag and held out his hand and all of a sudden a giant hole appeared from underneath Natsu.
"Aahhh! What the heck?" Natsu asked from down in the hole outraged.
"Hey Erza, what is that?" Lucy asked as she, Erza, Gray, Wendy and Carla both saw the Monster.
"That is a Goglar, they are like cousins from Trolls. They are very stupid but also incredibly powerful when they are concentrated."
"My name is Grorr and I will defeat you." The Goglar named Grorr said as he slammed down the sledge hammer on Natsu who was knocked out immediately. The others flinched back.
"NATSU!" Lucy, Wendy, and Happy all shouted.
"Oh, that's gotta leave a mark in the morning." Gray laughed. Erza quickly got Natsu out of the hole and ran back towards the others.
"Wendy do you think you are able to heal him?" She asked and Wendy nodded and crouched down next to Natsu and started to heal him while Carla told her to be careful.
"And Gray can you please defeat him instead?" Erza asked him and Gray nodded.
"Yeah it will only take me five seconds." He replied with a smirk. 'Oh, I'm defiantly going to rub It in Natsu's face when I defeat this guy.' He thought. Then walked towards the Goglar.
"Oooh, so you think that you are going to beat me next." Grorr mocked.
"I don't think that I will, I know that I will." He said and activated his magic.
"ICE DEVIL'S ZEROTH DESTRUCTION FIST!" He shouted and punched Grorr straight in the face and fell down unconsciousness.
"A little too much. Don't you think Gray?" Lucy asked.
"Nah." Gray replied as he walked over to grab the flag. The other cheered.
"Nice job Gray. Now let's get going." Erza smiled.
"That was a piece of cake. I can't believe that you were knocked out so easily FlameBrain." Gray laughed as they ran through the maze.
" I could've done it, but I just wanted to let Snowflake have this one just this once." Natsu said trying to defend himself but failed. While they were running, they decided to follow Natsu's and Wendy's noses to see if they could find any familiar scents.
"Hey!" Natsu shouted suddenly. "I can smell that drunk guy."
"Don't you mean Bacchus." Erza corrected him.
"Yeah that's him." He sniffed the air again. "That way." He pointed and they headed that way. After a few seconds of running they found a door. It was an Oakwood door that looked to be over 100 years old.
"Is that it?" Carla asked uncertain.
"It could be a trap." Happy mused.
"Or it could be our way out because I can smell people from Sabertooth in there. Come on let's go." They ran to the door and Natsu opened it. They all bolted inside and covered there faces as bright white light hit them. Just as the light cleared Gray could see 4 teams already there. Sabertooth, Lamia scale, Mermaid heel, Quatro Puppy… uhhh quarto Cerberus, and another guild he didn't know but he did know one of their Team members.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Gray questioned Jake. Everyone turned to look at him in surprise. He was about to walk over there but Mato's voice appeared again.
"AND FAIRYTAIL COMES IN 5TH PLACE. WE ARE JUST WAITING FOR THE LAST TEAM TO COME NOW!"
"Yay we're not in last place this time." Lucy cheered happily.
"Yeah but we came in place though." Natsu whined.
"Well at least that's still better than last time." Happy said trying to cheer up Natsu. Erza wasn't listening to them she was concerned about Gray who was glaring over at the other mage.
"Gray is that the guy who attacked you earlier." She asked as she watched Jake do a trick with his fire impressing one of his team members with a creepy smile.
"Yes, he is. I need to get some pay back." He held his fist up and walked over to them but Erza stopped him.
"Gray don't make a scene alright. Let's not focus on him you can get back at him in the games." Gray sighed but nodded and walked back to the others.
"So, I guess the other team hasn't made it then." Lucy said.
"Well you still don't know that though there is still one more member to come." Natsu said.
"Gray glad to see you made it. I guess now that I do have my wish to beat you at the games." A voice came suddenly behind Gray. He turned to look and see that it was Lyon and his team.
"You do know that if we do end up battling I can easily defeat you now, right?" Lyon simply shrugged.
"We'll just have to see then shall we." He smirked and Gray looked at him confused but then smirked as well.
"Yeah we'll see."
"Hello, I don't believe that we've met before." Erza asked suddenly. She was looking at a shy girl that was behind Yuka.
"Oh, this is my cousin that I was talking about. Meet Aki Fukui everyone." He smiled proudly.
"Hello everyone." She gave a small wave of her hand and a smile.
"Nice to meet you Aki." Lucy greeted. Aki looked to be about sixteen years old. She had short fluo green hair. She wore a black skirt with strips of pink going down on the side, and she had a blue singlet top on with a jacket over the top.
"Look forward to battling you at the game." Natsu said but the girl screeched a little and hid behind Yuka.
"Natsu, you idiot, look at what you did. You scared her." Gray said to the dragon slayer.
"I was only trying to be friendly, and don't call me an idiot." He glared at Gray.
"So what magic do you use." Wendy asked politely. Aki looked at her and answered.
"I use garden magic." The others looked at her a bit confused. "Here let me show you." She held out her hand and a big daisy with a smiley face on it grew out of her hand.
"That is seriously cool." Natsu said in awe with his mouth hanging open and was pointing at it. She smiled at him and gave a quiet thank you as the flower disappeared.
"She is a really strong mage." Yuka told them. "She once defeated a hole dark guild by herself."
"Well I did have some help from you. I was almost out of magic and they were about to finish me off until you stepped in and help."
"Yeah but you still did all yourself and it was awesome." Chelia agreed who was hugging Wendy. Aki smiled in return.
"Well done Aki." Erza said with a smile. Just as they were about to talk more, the doors flew open and in came was Blue Pegasus.
"Hey, you guys finally made. We have been waiting for hours." Natsu complained.
"Oh, calm down it's only been 10 minutes." Carla said with her arms crossed.
"Meeeeeeennnnn, that's easy for you to say didn't you come last in the last game you guys were in." Ichya retorted. And with that Natsu grumbled.
"Yeah whatever."
"Alright we have all our teams but like last time we are going to have to see who they are when the first round begins tomorrow. See you then folks and good night!" Mato finished and then the ground began to shake again and the bushes started to go back into the ground and disappear, while the buildings went back to their original place.
"Well I guess we will see you tomorrow." Erza said to Lyon's team.
"To bad you're going to lose." Natsu smirked.
"You're the one who's going to lose!" Toby shouted with a fist in the air and angry eyes.
"Hope to battle and defeat you Gray, so I can prove my love to Juvia." He sad with love hearts for eyes. Gray sweat dropped.
"Uhh, ok good luck with, but yeah see you tomorrow." They shook hands.
"See you tomorrow Shelia." Wendy said as they hugged each other.
"Yep." Shelia smiled.
"Nice meeting you again, Aki." Lucy smiled.
"Aye." And with that they all parted ways and went to get some sleep for the big day ahead.
Hope you enjoyed it. ( I need to work on my endings, a lot.) Anyway thank you for reading.
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