A/N: and I am back, yay! Fist off I would like to thank those who reviewed; TheLingeringWolf, Fairytail123, Empress BloodRose (as much as I would love to it would be crap if I did post twice a day), Not-A-Randomer, and Ebon fire Red waters. Thank you all! I hope that you all like this chapter, I really do. As you can tell from the tittle, I am finishing up this little side track into the GMG's and getting ready to move on to the next important parts!
Chapter Seventeen: The Final Day
Lucy tried her best to control her breathing a she looked out over the town. Fairy Tail had partied hard last night, and the teams would have too, if not for Erza scaring them all to go to their rooms early so that they could be on even ground with the others when it came to the final battle. Lucy was happy about that because it meant that Gray and Natsu didn't knock each other out. That might have made things complicated.
"Everything will work out. We have a plan and we intend to stick to it!" Erza said with a passive look on her face. Lucy could tell that she excited to pummel people into oblivion. Lucy was glad she was on this team, but at the same time she did not want to fight against the other Fairy Tail team.
For one thing Laxus and Mira were on that team. Those two were monsters. And Lucy already knew that she couldn't defeat Laxus, she had a feeling that she would have to distract Mira in order to get anywhere with that too.
Even with all of the monsters in the competition, the only two that even seemed to be nervous on the first team were Lucy and Levy. Wendy was forced on bed rest seeing as she had almost died the previous day, and so Levy was on the team because she was the reserve. Lucy still wasn't sure how her magic had seemed to be bigger now, or how she had gained her magic fully after just an hour after all that had happened yesterday, but she was grateful to still be in the position to fight for her guild.
Finally the bell rang and the contestants split up to go and look for the other teams to go and defeat them. Levy and Lucy decided that it would be best if they stayed together and fight that way. For one thing, it would make defeating them that much harder, and two, they really didn't want to be alone. Even if Lucy always had her spirits, she didn't just want to leave Levy.
"Ah, look at our luck; two lovely ladies have graced us with their presence. We must not be too hard on them." A flirtatious voice said as they turned the corner.
"Looks like we found the Trimens." Levy said with her best smirk. It was completely fake, and all could tell. She was still nervous but she had decided to trust in her abilities and the abilities of Lucy. She knew that together the two of them could totally do this.
Lucy let out a sigh, "And here I was hoping that it might have been someone harder to fight," it was an over confident ploy that she was hoping would work in her favor.
"Lucy, dear, you should know not to underestimate us," Hibiki said as he smiled at the girls.
"You both can call me your big brother after we beat you," Eve said with his cuteness level rising exponentially.
"It's not like I care anyway," Ren said as he looked away, a small but completely fake blush covering his cheek bones.
Deciding that the men should make the first move, Eve reached out and sent a blizzard at the girls in front of them.
"Levy," Lucy called to her friend to get rid of the first attack as she readied a key.
With a nod the little blue haired mage took out her pen and yelled "Solid Script: Fire!"
A blaze of fire came out while spelling the word fire. It hit the incoming blizzard and there was a short explosion that followed and both of the attacks were nullified. When the smoke cleared Lucy still had her smirk on, but here was no longer a key in her hand. She knew that she was being slightly mean to them, but she also had to admit that it was going to be so damn funny!
As Ren started to make his move he was stopped when the very earth round them started to convulse and quake. Then, out of nowhere, a gigantic gorilla maid came up from the ground and was up in the air right behind the three first of Blue Pegasus.
"Flying Virgo Attack!" it yelled as it body slammed the three boys. When it was done the gorilla maid started to glow before Virgo was standing in her true form in the center of the flattened Trimens. She bowed as she said "Punishment has been served, hime." Then she shimmered back to the spirit world.
Doing a little happy dance, the two girls laughed that they got three points for their team already. Then they both started to walk to the next place when they were stopped by another pair of people.
"Oh, shit," Lucy said as she paled.
Right in front of the two was a four way fork in the road. And coming from two of the sides were two of the more powerful mages. To their left was Kagura, and to their right stood Orga. Both were very menacing, and both looked as if they were out for blood.
Before Levy or Lucy could do anything, the other two mages had fired off their first attacks at each other. And both of the Fairy Tail mages were forced into the air due to the shock wave that they weren't expecting. If they had gotten a warning or time to anchor themselves, they didn't think that either of them would have gotten thrown like that.
"Solid Script: Parachute!" Levy yelled as the letters formed a parachute for her to glide down on. "Lu-chan!" she then yelled as she looked for any sign of her friend.
"I'd be more concerned about yourself, Levy." A deep voice that Levy usually remembered as cheerful and nice said with a hint of amusement.
"M-M-Mira," Levy whimpered as she twisted around to look at the demon flying behind her. Erza was supposed to be the one to face her, not Levy or Lucy. With an evil smirk Mira sent a dark blast at the solid script mage's parachute, instantly cutting it to shreds.
Levy was falling before she could even think to scream, and so she did the only thing that came naturally to her. She took out her pen and yelled "Solid Script: Mattress!" It broke her fall so that she wasn't injured, and she was just glad that the dark blast didn't hit her, that would have been the end.
Levy bounced off of her creation's 'T' just before it poofed out of existence. Then she ran to find somewhere to hide in order to avoid the demon. It was a tactical retreat that would help her team out later, in her eyes.
Just as she rounded the corner, she ran into something warm and solid. Looking up, it was none other than Mirajane. And from the smile on her face, Levy had the notion that this was going to be the end of her participation in the Grand Magic Games.
That was until something big and white ran right into the demon and sent her flying.
Blinking one, twice, thrice in confusion, Levy then looked up to see that the big white thing was actually a horse with wings, and on its back was Lucy.
Flashback:
As Lucy was sent flying, she suddenly landed onto something that was warm and moving. Opening her eyes she breathed out "Pegasus?" when she found she was on a completely white horse with pearly feathered wings.
"Please listen to what I have to say Lucy Heartfilia." A voice said into her mind. Looking around one she had straddled the winged horse in order to ride it properly, Lucy saw that there was a dove not far from her. That was the thing that was talking in her head.
"My name is Columba, and this is Pegasus. We have come seeking to make a contract with the one that has found Phoenix and Draco. We understand that the timing for such contracts is not for this moment, but we will explain everything fully once this competition is through. For now both of our keys are on your key ring and through me you can contact any of your spirits telepathically even if I am not out and when I am you can contact anyone else through their minds. Pegasus here has the ability to fly as well as some limited wind and light magic. But be warned, when Pegasus is extraordinarily angry, the light magic becomes darkness magic." The dove finished the introduction in his smooth voice.
"Right, we will continue speaking later, but for now we have to find Levy!" Lucy answered with her mind, hoping that both spirits could hear her.
With a nod Columba left and the winged horse changed course so that they would reach Levy in time for whatever it was they had to do. When Lucy saw that Levy was with Mirajane, and that the barmaid was in full demon mode, she knew that she had to do something, so she had Pegasus run into her.
"Lu-chan!" Levy said as she saw her friend. She couldn't believe that the blond had just run into the demon Mirajane. Now not only were they in trouble staying in the games, but Lucy had just now put her life in the demons hands. This was not good.
Lucy would have responded if not for Mira coming right in front of them at the moment. The demon looked at Lucy before asking "So, when exactly did you get Pegasus?" She asked as she was getting ready with one of her evil explosion attacks.
"Um," Lucy stalled, "it's a long story, but I know something else that you have got to know about!"
"Oh, and what would that be?" she smirked.
Thinking on her feet about what Elfman and Evergreen had done in the S-class trials, Lucy blurted out "Bixlow and Lisanna have been hooking up, and Lisanna is pregnant!"
Everything seemed to stop at those words, as Lucy knew it would. The pause was so long and tense that both Lucy and Levy had already started to back off, Levy had joined Lucy on the winged horse in case they needed to run away quickly.
Finally Mira said "What! And she didn't tell me?" That started her fuming and ranting.
Finally Lucy interrupted her when she said "But Mira, the good news is that you are going to be an Auntie to a little blue hared, blue eyed baby. Or it could be white hared, red eyes baby!"
Mira stopped again. This time when she moved the takeover was completely dissolved as she started to daydream about the cute little babies that she would be aunt to. It became so much that she squealed and passed out.
"Quick, Levy, while she's down, hit her with something!" Lucy said as she was mentally cheering that she had done something right for a change.
Not sure what to do, Levy called out "Solid Script: Lead," and watched as a giant piece of lead shaped as the word written in blocky letters fell onto the woman so that she wouldn't be coming up any time soon.
Then Lucy looked at the recording lacrima and called out, "I am so sorry Bixlow and Lisanna, but I couldn't think of anything else. Please don't kill me the next time you see me!" And with that, the two rushed off to find someone else that they stood a chance against.
In the stands, the youngest takeover sibling was blushing like mad, while a certain perverted blue haired mage was still grinning like a pervert with his tongue sticking out so that the world could see the guild mark that was stamped on it.
Over with Natsu, he was just finishing up the last of the Blue Pegasus mages and he had gotten rid of most of the guild Twilight Ogre. He was now running around looking for Laxus or Gajeel. He really wanted to fight one, if not both of them. Even if he would get pummeled in the process, he still wanted to fight them! Sure enough, he came up on Gajeel, and he was toying with Rogue. Well, that would be fun!
Gray had gotten rid of a few of the wild crew, though Cana had to take out her fellow drunk, and had once again gotten the better of Rufus. He had met up with Erza shortly after Levy and Lucy were thrown from the area with Orga and Kagura, and the two of them had taken the Mermaid and Saber out of the running. Now he was running off to hopefully avoid Juvia. He didn't really want to run into her and be forced to fight her at the moment, mainly because he didn't want to get soaked.
Erza had been making short work of the people that she had been up against. So far they had been low level mages, until she had come upon Orga and Kagura. It was nice to fight with her again. They were both highly trained and powerful, and working with Gray was also somewhat fun. Now she was looking for her next challenge. And it came in the form of Laxus and Jura having a show down.
As Erza Ex-quipped into her Lightning Empress armor, she came down and joined the fight. As they all started to trade blows equally, Erza was surprised when suddenly Natsu, Gajeel and Rogue came into their plaza and suddenly it when from a three way battle to a free for all.
Gajeel landed the last blow on Rogue right before Laxus almost knocked Natsu out with a large bolt of lightning. But before it could hit him Erza redirected it so that it hit the iron dragon slayer and Natsu was able to use the time to land a roar on Jura. Soon the Wizard Saint was just overwhelmed with Erza landing the last hit on him. Then the four fairies squared off. It was a close and long battle, but Natsu and Erza somehow managed to stay conscious enough to win, though they were both very worn out.
In that time, Juvia had found Lucy. And she was spouting out nonsense.
"Juvia will show Gray-sama jut how much more powerful Juvia is than Love Rival!" She proclaimed like a mad woman before she shot water at Lucy and Levy. Pegasus managed to dodge, but the water just seemed to keep coming, and it was boiling with her jealousy. It really was scary with the two of them that were on the receiving end of her attacks.
As the rain woman's water slicer was raging towards them, Pegasus reared in the air and took two strong flaps of his wings. Wind and light shot forward towards the attack and the water was turned into vapor.
"That's right! Use your light magic to try and stop her!" Lucy called out from her perch on the back of the winged horse. With a nod and a neigh, he spread his wings wide and they began to glow before the light began to stream towards the water woman.
Not that it did much. Juvia might have started to boil, but it really did nothing else to her. "As if Juvia would fall to an attack like that! Juvia will now defeat you Love Rival!" she yelled.
Meanwhile, Lucy yelled out "I am not your freaking love rival! If you want Gray he is all yours! When will you get that through your freaking head?"
Of course that just caused Juvia to rant and throw more attacks. This seemed to last for hours as the two girls were pulling up blanks on how to actually fight against the enraged mage in front of them. They needed Gray, but he wasn't there at that moment. And neither Lucy nor Levy had any clue how to fight her without the aid of ice. They never saw any other way to fight against her. She didn't fight in the brawls, and the only weakness they could think of was Gray.
Finally, it seemed to be getting to Pegasus. A rumbling sound was heard by the girls on his back as he started to shake.
"Are you alright, Pegasus?" Lucy asked her spirit.
It didn't answer, instead Lucy heard Columba in her head as he relayed "It would seem that the water mage has angered Pegasus to the point where he is about to go into his shadow form. It would seem he really doesn't like that the girl is insulting you any way she can."
Thanking the dove for his help, Lucy watched as Pegasus's coat slowly got darker and darker until it was black. At the same time, his wings turned from the feathery ones that they had been to wings that reminded Lucy of a bat. Pegasus was pissed.
He landed and the girls got off as quickly as they could before the enraged midnight black winged horse started to charge at Juvia. Both mages watched with slacked jaws as Pegasus landed blow after blow until Juvia was unconscious and on the brick road completely defeated.
"W-what was th-that?" Levy asked as she looked at Pegasus with a new level of respect.
"Well, it turns out that Juvia pissed him off by speaking badly about me. So he went into his super angry shadow form that only comes out when he is angry and beat her up for us." Lucy answered as she too looked at the spirit with a bit of awe in her gaze.
With his job done, and a bit more tired than he would like to have admitted, Pegasus bowed before he shimmered into the spirit world. Lucy was sure to thank him as he disappeared in a shower of sparkles just like all of her other spirits.
As it turned out, that had been the last fight of the battle. Gray had taken out Cana and the others that were still around while Erza and Natsu did their best to help without dropping into unconsciousness. The three were looking for their teammates in order to help when they had just finished their fight.
"Amazing! Fairy Tail's A Team has won without a single loss! They even beat the other team that had come from their guild! It is clear who the most powerful guild around here is!" The speakers announced. And with that, the Grand Magic Games were over with Fairy Tail once again claiming victory.
A/N: so I know that I went a bit funny on that one, but I liked it a lot. It s a nice way to end it in my opinion, and I really did not want the final day to take forever. I was getting sick of the games to be honest. Thank you all for reading, and I still do love it so when people review. It makes me happy, oh so happy, I'm gunna stop singing this song now... Just for a preview, the next chapter will be titled Train Jumping. Untill next time!
