Sorry if the characters seem a bit out of character. After all, I'm not the creator. I am trying my very best to make them as close to the cannon as I could. Alliteration!

I'll be cleaning these stories up a bit, making them look nicer and more organized as soon as I can access a computer. So bare with me!

Thank you to GoldenRoseTanya for first review! As well as a big thanks to those of you who have favorited and are following this story! I'll do my best!

Also, I didn't tell you what sort of bathing suits everyone had on etc. Personally, I've got them in the same ones from the ova at the beach, but I figured I'd give you, the readers, free reign to use your imagination! So enjoy envisioning Lucy in whatever skimpy bikini you'd like or Gray in ... They are all wearing something, though, alright! Hahaha enjoy!

Lucy eventually stopped screaming, and flailing about and telling Natsu to "put me down! I have legs, you know?!" when she realized it would do her no good. She could hear her rambunctious guild becoming louder and louder with Natsu's approach when he suddenly stopped and plopped Lucy down, unexpectedly, causing her to fall on her butt. "Ouch.. HEY!" She proclaimed angrily at her dropper. He grinned at her before running over to Gray, challenging him very loudly to play chicken. Of course, now the whole guild was involved and people were either running around looking for a partner to play with, or setting up a good spot to watch the challenge-turned-tournament. Natsu walked back over to the girl he dropped earlier, who was still on her butt. She looked up at him, a bit upset and annoyed when he reached out his hand to help her up. Lucy let out a small sigh before smiling and taking his hand. She could never stay mad at this idiot. She got up with a jump. "Now look at what you've caused." She jokingly complained as she watched the guild scramble. Natsu gave her a big toothy smile before saying "Lets team up!" Lucy smiled and nodded and they did their high-five.

Before Gray could choose a partner, Erza made the choice for him. "Gray, we will be partners." She said sternly, to which he complied with no hesitation. Partly due to his fear of the woman, but mostly because Erza was the strongest girl in the guild. He smirked at his chances having been improved ten-fold while walking toward the rapidly assembled tournament sign-up table with Erza. Juvia, who had been hiding close to Gray in the background was now teary-eyed and furiously pulling at her handkerchief with her teeth. "Gray-sama" she sobbed through the hanky. Levy was playing with Wendy in the shallow part of the beach when Gajeel walked up to her "hey, shrimp. We're playing." he said gruffly, not even giving her a chance to respond as he picked her up and slung her over his shoulder. "Gajeel, wait!" the tiny girl protested as he continued walking away from Wendy who now had a slight blush on her cheeks knowing that the two were closer than just friends.
"Mira-nee! Let's be partners!"
"Okay, Lisanna!"
"Juvia, will you do me the honor of becoming my partner?"
"Lyon-sama?! What is Lyon-sama doing here?"
"I'm never very far from you."
Other pairs involved Alzack and Bisca, Jet and Droy, and lastly Elfman and Evergreen. They all signed the sheet and the organizers told everyone that the bracket would be drawn up in about fifteen minutes, so they had time to practice. Natsu sped into the ocean going far enough for the water to come up to his chest and turned around to wave at Lucy. "C'mon Lucy!" "Okay, I'm coming, hold on!" She waded through the water carefully, coming near to where Natsu was when she got distracted by a small fish swimming past her legs. She looked down at the fish, watching it swim away, and when she looked back up, Natsu was gone. "Natsu?" She looked around her wondering where he could've disappeared to. "Nats-wAAAAHH!" She screamed as Natsu quickly emerged from under her, holding her legs to his chest, making her seated on his shoulders with his head just below her bust. Her arms immediately wrapped themselves tightly around his head, pressing her body as close as possible to secure herself, due to the sudden scare. She looked like a baby koala clinging to it's mother after being freaked out by an idiot. "IDIOT!" She recovered from her state of shock, to karate chop Natsu on the head. "You scared me half to death!" She was now giving him a double noogie with her fists on either side of his head. "Gaa-ow! I'm sorry! I won't do it again!"
Lucy ended her punishment and crossed her arms over her chest, a slight blush lighting her cheeks as she huffed. Natsu looked up at her and grinned before running full speed through the water without warning toward Gray and Erza. "KYYAAAAAAA...!" Tears were comically flying out of Lucy's enlarged eyeballs as she clung to him again, arms wrapped around his forehead, chest pressed to his head, screaming all the way. He only put on the breaks when they were within a legs length of the two, making Lucy jerk forward. She would've flown right into Erza if Natsu didn't have a firm grip on her legs. So instead, she got whip-lash and punished Natsu with another noogie. "Ahh! Okay! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" He fervently apologized to Lucy who continued her torture. Erza had already been sitting on Gray's shoulders and was looking at the both of them. Gray sneered at Natsu being punished, "If you guys are looking to do a practice round, I'm gonna have to disappoint you. We won't be facing off till the tournament starts." Lucy stopped her fists to look quizzically at Gray. Natsu stepped forward a bit, "What are you saying, Gray? Too scared to face me, now?! Ahahahaha!" He exclaimed triumphantly as though he'd already won. "That's not it at all, moron. The guys organizing it say official teams will be disqualified!" "When did they have the time to come up with rules?" Lucy questioned the logic of her guild. There were some things that were never meant to be understood. Like how happy can appear out of thin air. The organizers, by the way were the exceeds along with a few others. The fairy tail reporter was there for commentary and, well, reporting. "How are we supposed to practice if we can't use each other?" Another question coming from Lucy. "Indeed, it does make it difficult." Nodded Erza in agreement. They all thought on this for a few seconds when Natsu pipped up "We don't need practice anyway! Since we're gonna win!" He boisterously claimed
"yeah well we don't need it even more than you guys, cuz we're gonna wipe the floor with all of you!"
"Yeah right! I'd like to see you try it, ice-perv!"
Before they had the chance to escalate this further Erza interfered "You two wouldn't happen to be starting a fight, would you..?" Gray and Natsu stood straight at attention "No ma'am!" They answered in unison. Gray followed it with "just a friendly competitive spirit, right?" "Aye!" They shook hands like robots. Just then a loud horn sounded getting everyone's attention. "The bracket has been decided! We will now announce who you'll be facing for the first round!" The contestants began gathering around the announcer.
"The first match will be Erza and Gray VS. Mira and Lisanna! Whichever team wins will face the winner of Jet and Droy VS. Lyon and Juvia! Then we have Gajeel and Levi VS. Evergreen and Elfman! The winners here will go on to face the pair that wins in the last game, Natsu and Lucy VS. Alzack and Bisca! The matches will begin as soon as the first teams signal they're ready! If you fall, you're out! Players can surrender at any time before or during the match! May the first contestants enter the water, now?!"

Alright! Second chapter, Whoo! So, yes, this starts rather slow, but don't think I didn't put that alcove there for a reason! Hehehe..

And yeah, my chapters are pretty short, but you try writing for 3 hours on an iPod touch! My thumb is cramping up...
Anywho, I'd love to hear your comments, compliments and complaints! So please rate and review!
Also, let me know which teams you'd like to or think would win between these match ups!