After the chaos caused by Aquarius everyone worked together to make sure everyone else was alright while Lucy kept apologizing to everyone she saw. Once everyone was settled Master got started, "Ok now that we're all ok after that little mishap-"
"I'm sorry Master!" Lucy spoke up once more.
"It's alright dear you didn't mean for it to work quite like that I do commend you on the use of your spirits though and since you and Gajeel were still technically the first ones here with a good plan in place you both win this round. This next challenge is going to be even harder though and will test not only your agility but also your stealth, for this next challenge is a game of hide and seek tag. If one of the S-Class mages finds you and touches you, you're out!" All of the contestants started lining up at the edge of the forest, "Oh I almost forgot, Lucy! Gajeel! Since you two won the first round you get one chance at a do over Make It Count! On the count of three all of you go hide; after ten seconds I set off the flare and the hunt begins!"
3
They braced themselves.
2
They let their magic build.
1
Lucy grabbed her keys
"GO!"
And off they went scattering into the forest. After a few seconds a flare could be heard firing off, and so, the game had begun.
After hearing the flare Juvia kept running sensing water not too far ahead found a small pond and dissolved herself into it. Which would've been a great plan had Laxus not caught her sent beforehand and tracked her right to the pond she hid in. She didn't even have a chance to gather herself before Lightning struck the pond shocking her right out of it Laxus then grabbed her and took her to the recovering area. Shockingly though he and Juvia weren't the first ones there, apparently Gildarts took out Natsu in even less time.
Even Laxus was shocked, "How?" he asked completely baffled.
"Simple."
Flashback
Gildarts walked down a small path not far from the first masters grave listening for any sign of the contestants when suddenly branches started rustling above head, and out dropped Natsu fist a flame and ready to fight until he landed then his fire dissipated.
"That might've worked kid if you didn't make so much noise on the way down."
"Damn it!" Natsu wanted to fight but he couldn't risk getting touched just as he was about to run though…
"What too scared to fight an old man Natsu?"
Natsu Rushed forward yelling "Never! You old-!" but before he could finish Gildarts knocked him out.
He sighed "Some habits never die I guess, at least you tried Natsu."
"And so I brought him back here and now here we are."
Laxus shook his head. "That fucking idiot."
"AHHH!" Their talk was interrupted by a scream in the distance.
"That was one of the girls!" and so off they ran.
~Meanwhile~
Mira swore she saw a flash of blue heading this way she knew Wendy was participating but just because she's a kid doesn't mean she can go easy on her, child or not this is still the S-Class Exams and she needed to be prepared. However, Mira was the unprepared one cause as soon as she looked behind a rock formation she found her blue haired prey but she wasn't a child and she certainly wasn't alone. Levy and Gajeel were in a rather compromising position when Mira spotted them and let out a hellish scream; immediately rushing over to smack Gajeel for his indecency.
Levy and him had unknowingly decided to climb the same tree and when lifting up onto the same branch they startled each other; Levy's grip faltering. As she started falling Gajeel jumped down to catch her and break her fall. All Mira could see was Levy trapped against the iron dragon slayer's chest with her legs spread around his hips clothes torn all throughout.
As they were breaking apart, Laxus and Gildarts arrived. Laxus went and lifted up Levy "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, he just broke my fall from the tree." Levy said blushing ear to ear she couldn't believe he'd do that for her only to end up in a position like that she was so embarrassed!
Gildarts headed over to Gajeel who was rubbing at a hand print on the side of his face -which also seemed to have a hint of blush on it- and patted him on the shoulder. "Ok you're both out Gajeel was tagged twice and Levy was tagged by Laxus head up to the recovery camp and wait for the more instructions from master."
"Damn it!"/ "Ok." And they headed off, Laxus' ears just managing to pick up the sounds of Levy apologizing and Gajeel comforting her.
Just tell her already Dumbass.
Cana was the next to be captured she knew her dad would be the one to find her, the cards told her so. So she waited in the bushes for his arrival a plan already in place. She had the cards set and ready if it worked on Freed last time it would have to work on an even bigger pervert this time. Thirty minutes had passed when she heard him muttering about trying to find the other four. Four? Who got captured already? How fast are these guys? She must have made a noise because he quickly looked over to her hiding place and slowly approached it when he was just a few steps away she cast it, a tower of women in bikinis surrounded her dad as she started to run off.
But then the tower was disbanded and Gildarts caught her only a few moments later. "On a lesser man that would've worked, but there's only one woman I care about and she's my beautiful daughter. Nothing can distract a father from his daughter remember that."
"Heh you got me old Man." Cana gave him a quick hug, "Give the others hell for me." She waved back at him as she walked off towards the camp.
Erza and Lucy were facing off at the top of one of Tenrou's many cliffs Lucy had managed to dodge and reflect all but one of Erza's attacks so far with the help of her whip, Loke and Capricorn. Alas her magic was starting to run low and she was getting exhausted but she couldn't give up, not yet! So she did the most reckless desperate thing to do in a time like this. She forced Capricorn and Loke back to the spirit realm and jumped off the cliff.
As she was free falling she reached for Aries key and summoned her. "I'm sorr- EEEEEEPP!" as soon as the lamb realized what was going on she made a giant wool pillow for them both to land on and poofed back to the spirit realm as soon as she was sure her owner was ok.
"I'm Sorry Aries!" Lucy felt bad about putting the little lamb through that but at the time she didn't have much choice.
Just as Lucy was about to run and hide again something caught her attention. Is that… music? Lucy followed the sound trying to find where it was coming from and it lead her to a very small opening near some rocks it was just big enough for her squeeze through and when she did she was awestruck. It was like a whole other world inside of this cave. Flowers of all kinds dotted the cavern floor, a moat with deep blue water flowed around a small island, and on that island a willow tree danced to the beautifully haunting melody that brought her down here. The song seemed to be coming from a small pedestal not far from the tree. Lucy didn't hesitate she crossed the moat and approached the pedestal. What was on it suddenly made the music and her surroundings disappear all she could see was that diamond key floating there with a small symbol on the end in the shape of a fairy…
Authors Note
Hey Guys!
So a Few things:
I'm noticing a few people are following this already and that's really great it makes me really happy that at least some people are enjoying my first ever work. However, that being said I'm noticing a majority of the people following are LaLu fans and although I too ship that this is not a LaLu pairing I haven't decided who will be paired with who yet as far as Lucy is concerned but I wasn't planning Laxus. But! if more people really want LaLu I might change it but as of right now I'm liking the idea of Laxus and the OC hopefully you'll see why when that time comes.
My goal is one chapter a day I'm not quite sure how I'm going to end it but I am hoping to make unpredictable and exciting Suggestions are all welcome but please don't be mad if I don't use them it's still my story and my creation obviously the characters aren't mine (aside from the OC) but you know what I mean.