The Two Dragon Slayers
so here yay go hen joy this chapter and ill have the next one up as soon as i can. I don't FT or FMA
Three months ago...
"Really?" an excited Sting asked, turning to face Lector, "Natsu and the others are gonna be in the Grand Magic Games!?"
"Yeah!" The little moroun cat answered, "That's the rumor going on."
"Fro heard that to!" the green cat dressed in a frog suit, chimed in.
"I'm actually looking' forward to this, y'know, Rogue?" Sting grinned, facing his companion.
"Not that interested." Rogue muttered.
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Now...
"Attention all participants in the games, good morning!" Roy spun around, looking up he saw a giant projection of a pumpkin wearing a hat and shirt.
"What the hell is that?" Ed yelled
"Not so loud, brother." Al pleaded turning around.
"That's Moto, he's the referee for the games." Hawkeye said, already halfway through the inn's entrance. "He has been the ref for the past 7 years."
The group had changed their clothing a day before they reached the city, all except Al who Edward had fixed after they got off the train, Ed now had a black military issued coat with a white shirt, black pants and his regular elevator boots. Roy had similar outfit on, just minus the boots that were replaced by simple shoes. Riza had a *open-collared, waistcoat that was under the same black military issued trenchcoat that the Colonel and Ed had. White pants that were tucked into boots. *With a scarf she had received from Igneel tied around her waist."
"To narrow down the one hundred thirteen guilds in this years games, to a more manageable eight," the pumpkin man continued, "let's begin the preliminary round!"
"What?!" Roy yelled "Does that mean!?"
"That's new," Hawkeye muttered, "I don't recall there being a preliminary round in past years"
"A lot of the guild numbers increase and multiply each year," the ref started doing an odd little dance while continuing. "The games have gotten boring, is all I ever hear. Let windel them down I say to you, and give just eight a cheer. The rules for this preliminary round are simple!"
The ground began to shake under her feet "Colonel, get off the step now!" Hawkeye yelled kicking the man hard enough to make him fall.
"Wait, Lieutenant what the hell are you doing!?" Mustang yelled as the building started to rapidly rise.
"Don't worry, sir" Hawkeye called over her shoulder, as she let the turned around, "I'll be fine!"
"Damn it." Roy growled as he watched the building finish rising. "Look Colonel, the other inns are also rising." Al pointed.
"Now you will all be participating in a race! The Pumpkin shouted, "The finish line as at the colosseum, only the first eight teams will make it to the Grand Magic Games!"
"That's a path!" Hawkeye heard a familiar voice call "I suppose we take it!" Hawkeye grinned when she heard the the unmistakable voice of Erza Scarlet.
"Well, this certainly wasn't part of the plan, I had no idea they were at this inn." She a soft chuckle, as she climbed to the side of the inn.
"You may use magic in any way fit, there are no restrictions!" The ref called out "But remember only the first eight teams will claim this round, however all five team members must cross the finish line to qualify! And remember we are not responsible for any life that may be lost in the labyrinth."
"Say what!" Roy, Ed and screamed all at once.
"So without further ado let the preliminary round Sky Labyrinth began!"
"Ha we got a roster change!" Elman yelled with glee as he picked up Erza, Grey, Lucy and Natsu.
"He's so much stronger now!" Declared Happy.
"What are you doing Bro?" Lisanna asked as Elfman started running up the makeshift stairway.
Lisanna is alive? How is that possible? Hawkeye thought as jumped under the stairway. If I'm right she died nine years ago, they are going to have to some serious explaining to do.
"He's doing what need to be done" Grey called, "We don't have time to wait around for Wendy to show up!"
"Elfman to the rescue!" Natsu cheered. "You give leave it to me!" Elfman grinned.
"Lisanna! Happy!" Erza called.
"Aye? Yeah what is it?" Both asked.
"I need you two to go look for Wendy and Carla! I'm really worried that ran into some kind of trouble!" Titania continued.
"Well ask around town and see what we can find out!" Lisanna called back
"Aye sir, good luck to ya!" Happy waved, "Go team!"
At this point, Hawkeye had started scale up from underneath the stairs, so she wouldn't be seen. "They haven't changed a bit." She sighed, as she started reached the top.
"MANLY" Elfman roared as hard as he could.
As all of them got inside the, Hawkeye positioned herself so she could easily follow them without being seen.
"And remember the Grand Magic Games planning committee is not responsible for any loss that may ucore with the labyrinth. Good luck everyone!" Moto cheered.
Grey looked around completely awed "Whoa, it's like a three-dimensional maize!"
"Aw man, I suck at this kind of stuff!" Natsu scratched his head looking around.
"Don't give up already!" Lucy scolded. "We have to finish in the top eight, otherwise we can kiss the title of 'Number One in Fiore' goodbye."
"Yeah your right!" Natsu grinned cracking his knuckles, "We got through this if we want chance to kick Sabertooth's ass!"
"Let's make sure we reach the goal before they do." Grey said.
"Real men never settle For anything less than first place!"
Erza folded her arms "When we were on the ground, the Coliseum was towards the east, we should head in the direction."
"I've got just the thing to help us out!" Lucy exclaimed "Open gate of the compass! Pixies!"
Out popped a bird like compass, giving a little cry and smiling .
"We need your help Pixies! Can you show us which way is east?" Lucy asked.
The compases on the birds head begain to spin as the bird/compass began to make little excited crys. The compass needle stopped spinning and pointed east.
"East is that way!" Lucy yelled pointing in the same direction.
"Yes I'm well aware." Erza said flatly "Because I brought a regular compass."
"Thanks for the help anyway Pixis..." Lucy said curled up in a corner with the bird. Erza sweat dropped before the bird vanished.
Huh, so the girl's a celestial Wizard, I haven't seen one for a long time. And I see Erza is just as cold as ever.
Hawkeye followed the group as they ran up the stairs Eastwards.
"Alright east, here we come!" Natsu cried.
"A REAL MAN CHARGES STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE GOAL!" Elfman yelled.
"Not to be a downer." Lucy started "But with the way this place is built, I don't think will be able to straight east."
"We're going to have a hard enough time just to figure which way is up." Gray stated.
"Natsu." Erza turned towards him, "You're not feeling sick?"
"Not uh." He responded "You'd think I'd be spewing my guts out, but I feel fine."
That's right! I didn't feel sick at all and haven't taken my medicine in over a week, but I feel just fine. Hawkeye thought as she observed The group below her.
"Allow me to explain!" A projection Of Moto appeared, "A special spell was cast over the Sky labyrinth, allow participants with weakness such as motion sickness and fear of highest, to be able to compete on equal terms in the preliminary round!"
"I see." Erza said as the projection of Moto disappeared.
"I seriously doubt that the other participants get motion sickness as easily as Natsu." Lucy sighed.
"I know what you mean." Gray folded his arms "He's kind of a baby."
"Hey I can hear you ya know!"
Erza shook her head "Let's keep heading eastward!"
"RIGHT!"
After running through a dizzying tunnel Natsu found a door a shoved it open, nearly tumbling down to the street below.
"Ayaya!"
"Don't worry, I gotcha!" Elfman exclaimed, grabbing Natsu by the shoulder.
"That was a close one!"
"It was lucky that we caught you in time, we could have lost you!" Lucy said "When he was talking about possible loss of life he wasn't bluffing."
Gray looked down "Watch your step, I don't think anybody would survive falling head first into the steer from this thing."
"We gotta be more careful about choosing our path from now on."
"Guys, we're never going to reach the goal if we keep looking down, we need to head eastward." Natsu knocked his fist together.
"I think it would be we started taking notes as we move along."
"On what?"
"We should write down the paths we've taken from our starting point." Erza answered "As well as the locations we've past. We need to know precisely where we are in order to pass."
"That would sure help us stop running around in circles!" Lucy said in relief.
"No joke!" Gray folded his arms "Guess we should start mapping stuff out"
"Come on that ain't gonna work here!" Elfman grumbled.
The group began to argue back and forth. Hawkeye chuckled.
That celestial wizard must have joined the Guild sometime ago or at least when I was away.
Edward, Roy and Alphonse had stationed themselves at a local restaurant to grab a bite to eat and to observe the game.
"I hope Hawkeye is doing alright." Al said, bring Ed another sandwich.
"I'm sure she can handle herself." Ed responded, "She was the one to defeat Lust, right?"
"That's right but sti"-" Al was cut off mid sentence by a boy yelling.
"Whatta you mean Wendy is gone?!" Romeo yelled.
"Calm down Romeo." Neb said "Are you saying she's missing?"
"We can't find her or Carla!" Happy answered.
"Don't the rules say that each team has to have five members? Don't tell me they've been disqualified!"
"No, my brother stepped in as a last minute replacement." Lisanna said.
"Elfman's in the preliminary round too?"
"That not fair, if I had been there they would have chosen me, not that big dummy!" Romeo cried
"Uh sure, Happy and I are going to start looking for them." Lisanna said turning to leave, "I want you to start looking and we can also use Warren's telepathy, it's a pretty big city, so will need all the help we can get."
Lisanna started running forward when she smashed into what felt like metal.
"Ow." She said.
"I'm sorry!" Al cried turning around. He help Lisanna to her feet, if he still had a body, he would have been blushing super hard.
"Hey! Watch out punk!" Romeo yelled activating his blue flame.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL MY BROTHER?!" Edward thundered.
"A punk, just like you." Romeo turned to face Ed, "Only taller."
"WHAAAAAAAA?!" Edward charged towards Romeo clapping his hands.
Roy acted quickly, pulling on his gloves, he snapped his fingers. On an instant a wall of flames erupted, separating the two hot heads.
"Stand down Fullmetal." He said as the flames died, "I'm sure the kid was only acting on impulse."
"How did you do that?" Romeo asked.
"My name is Roy Mustang, otherwise known as the Flame Alchemist" Roy answered, turning to face the kid, "This runt here is the Fullmetal Alchemist."
"WHO YOU CALLING A TINY LITTLE MIDGET!?"
"Brother, please calm down." Al pleaded, "I sorry for bumping into you miss!"
"No it's ok." Lisanna said holding her hands up.
"I over heard that you guys had lost some friends." Al said.
"Yeah! One of theme was suppose to compete in the games!" Neb answered.
"Would you like some help looking for them?" Al asked.
"Sure!" Lisanna smiled, causing Al to rub his helmet sheepishly.
"Al it's one thing that you pick up stray kittens everywhere we go, but it's something completely different when you offer to help out random people."
Ed sighed, "But I guess that means we're going to help anyway."
"That's fine by me!" Mustang and Lisanna said at the same time.
"Alright! You three come with me and Happy. Neb, Romeo I want you to tell everyone about the situation." Lisanna said.
"Awwww he's so cute!" Al cooed.
"What the hell Al?!" Ed yelled.
Al was kneeling petting Happy on the head.
"Lisanna why is the Tin Man petting me?!"
"WHAT THE HELL! THE CAT CAN TALK!" Ed and Mustang screamed.
"And fly!" Happy declared shooting up into the air.
That was too much for Ed and Roy to take. Both fainted, Al just had sparkles in his 'eyes' that could rival Armstrong's.
"Someone's there!"
Makes sense. The teams from other guilds are here too. Elfman thought.
"It's Twilight Ogre?! So they're in the games too?" Gray yelled.
"Never thought we'd face them this early!" Get 'em!" The leader of the group yelled.
"YOURE IN OUR WAY!" The team yelled.
After the team completely kicked the butts of Twilight Ogre...
"THE WHOLE LABYRINTH IS ROTATING!"
"Every one move to the side!" Erza yelled holding on to Gray.
"But were already falling." Lucy called.
Damnit, I can't let them know I'm here! Argh! I guess if I make it quick.
With that Riza quickly ran off the ledge and then jumped at the end. Quick as a Flash she grabbed Natsu and Lucy in her right arm and grabbed Elfman in her left arm. Landing on a different platform, Riza quickly hopped out of sight before any of the others could see her.
"Are guys alright?" Gray called.
"We're good!"
Erza and Gray went to go join the rest of the group.
"What the hell was that?" Gray asked.
"I don't know, who ever they were, they were quick about saving the three
of you." Erza said thoughtfully.
"Maybe they were from another guild."
Natsu thought out loud.
"Why would another guild help u-" Gray was cut off mid rant when a piece of paper fell next to him.
"Ogre was making a map too? That's a lucky break!" Gray grinned.
Then an evil look got into everyone's eyes, except for Lucy who looked extremely terrified.
"That makes sense! I think I'm beginning to see the meaning behind this preliminary test!"
"LET'S GET ALL THE OTHER MAPS! WHEN YOU'RE TALKING BATTLE YOU'RE TALKING OUR SPECIALTY!" Natsu roared.
He hasn't matured one bit since I saw him. Riza thought.
"Hey who the hell are you?!"
Riza turned around to see another wizard guild. "Not interested in fighting, go away." She waved them away.
"Not until you tell us who you are." The leader of the guild cracked his knuckles.
"I tried to warn you."
The leader ran up the her attempting to strike her face. She held him back using her foot. Riza pushed him back sending him crashing into walls. Another member of the guild tried to take a swing at her mouth. Hawkeye caught him and threw him at the rest of his teammates, sending them falling through the air.
"You'll never get away with this!" The leader called flying through the air.
"And another team bites the dirt." Moto announced.
Hawkeye quickly caught up with team Fairy Tail and followed them from a platform from above. As they ran through a hallway. Just as they were running, an iron door slid shut, blocking their way.
"Damnit!" We can't open it!" Natsu yelled. After several attempts to open the sliding doors failed.
"There might be a way..." Elfman said,
all of a sudden he transformed into a humongous beast.
Taking both hand he pried open the door.
"GO NOW!" He yelled.
"What about you?" Lucy asked as the rest of the group moved past.
"Don't worry. I'll think of something, now go!"
Lucy casted one last glance just as the doors shut.
"What are we going to do?" Lucy asked.
"I don't know, we'll think of something by the time we get to the finish." Erza answered.
By the time they reach the finish line...
"We'll what do we do?" Lucy hissed.
"We face the music." Gray responded.
"Congratulations on making it to the finish line!" Moto cheered, "and I see you have everyone from your team."
"What?!"
"Is that not a member of your team?"
All four turned around slowly. Natsu, Gray and Erza's eyes all widened in surprise.
"It can't be!" Erza gasped.
The person gave the three of them a crooked smile.
"I-I don't understand!" Gray cried.
Natsu's eyes widened at the crooked smile, the last time he had seen that smile was two weeks after Lisanna had 'died' and then his only family member
left and never returned from the job she took, oh so long ago.
"Hey little brother." Riza said. "You haven't changed a bit."
A/N: Here you guys go! The outfit Hawkeye is wearing, is basically the same as Natsu's, so is the scarf, The difference is hers has two sleeves and she has boots. Riza was around 24 when she met the Elric brothers, so she's about 27 when the events of the manga and Brotherhood happen and Natsu's real age is_. In the events of this story I have decided to make him 24 just 3 years younger than Hawkeye. On another topic, school just got out, so yay!:) Which mean I have more time to write. I'm almost done with chapter 2 on my other story 'A Different Type of Greed.'
Peace I'm out!:)
P.S the reason why Riza's smile is crooked, is because when I first saw her smile in the Manga, I was holding the book sideways, so it looked crooked. And there you have it.