Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima does. This story was made for fun, and not for cash. (How unfortunate.)
Chapter 15: Sweet Like Chocolate, Tough Like Rocks
After two weeks had passed since Sting had announced who would be the team that would represent the Sabertooth guild in the Grand Magic Games or Grand Magic League, Sting was sitting down at a white patio table outside of a cafe in Castelia Town with Lucy sitting across from him. They were both starting off their morning with breakfast, respectively eating a plate of chocolate chip pancakes and a plate of waffles covered in maple syrup, and Sting had spent his time smiling at Lucy while he ate his pancakes.
She had saved him from Natsu's flames two weeks ago when the fire dragon slayer and his former crew had come looking for the spell book, and Lucy was really angry with Natsu for trying to hurt her new boyfriend. She had showed that jerk how he wasn't going to be a major part on the good end of her love life, and Natsu was the ex that the blonde mage really found to be intolerable. He had also continued to underestimate her, really irritating Lucy on that day, and Natsu really had no right to look down when she had nearly destroyed him once before.
While Lucy cut up her waffles, taking a big piece into her mouth, she frowned a bit while wondering how Fairy Tail could lose a spell book. The brown-eyed girl knew that Mirajane had the task of counting all the books, and she was Makarov's assistant. Mira had never missed a book before, so why would one suddenly be missing now? Also, why was Fairy Tail so quick to point the finger at Sabertooth? Just because the rivals of Fairy Tail got second place in last year's Grand Magic Games, they weren't bitter enough to steal a book.
As Lucy ate that piece of the golden waffle, tasting its crunchiness and sweetness, she also wondered why Erza knew so little about the book. She had told Lucy and Sting how the group of four had been searching for a red spell book, but Lucy's book was currently orange. Either the scarlet-haired woman did not know about the book's color-changing ability, or she needed to get Natsu's eyes examined if red had suddenly became orange to him. Both assumptions were quite possible, but the motives of her former guild left Lucy stumped.
She had opened up the orange spell book a few days ago to see that the other four spells of Earth Magic had been written, since her defenses and fierceness had become powerful and tough like the hardest rocks to break, and Lucy had also been gaining physical strength from using the Earth Magic. It didn't just involve manipulating the earth for attacks and defenses, but it made her punches and kicks become tough like the Earth Magic that Jura could create. She could even break through boulders with one punch now, impressing Sting.
Speaking of impressing him, the white dragon slayer had also taken a liking to Lucy's outfit today. She wore a simple blue T-shirt with a white miniskirt, and her flat shoes were forest green. She had a blue ribbon in her blonde hair as well, tying it in a ponytail on the right side, and Sting definitely thought that his girlfriend looked pretty fashionable. Lucy had been buying many outfits in Castelia's fashion district with some of the money from all the jobs that she did with Sting, and her fashion sense definitely made Sting love her even more.
He loved her fashion just as much as her passion for wanting to become a much stronger mage, and Sting had smirked a bit with confidence in his charming blue eyes while there was a brown flyer on the table. It was between him and Lucy, and Sting had found something a bit odd about this job. It was not all that weird in a bad way, but it just stunned him a bit before he shook off the shock by eating another one of his pancakes. Lucy curiously looked down at the flyer, seeing the reward for 700,000 jewels, but the client's name made her gasp and seem surprised.
Cana Alberona, Lucy's partner during the S-Class Promotion Trial that was held on Tenrou Island back in the year X784, had put up an interesting job request. She had wanted someone in Fiore to be her bodyguards while she handled a simple job in the town of Cioccolato. The flyer had unexpectedly been delivered to the Sabertooth guild, and Lucy saw it as a great chance to meet up with her old friend. After all, the two girls had not seen each other since Lucy left Fairy Tail. Her brown eyes were filled with happiness, thinking that this job would be easy and fun.
Sting, however, wasn't so pleased with this type of mission. If Cana was doing a job that was supposedly easy for her to handle, what could she possibly need help with? He looked a bit arrogant while openly wondering if Cana was a lazy person, earning him a little glare from Lucy, and she told him that Cana was one of her best friends. Sting could tell that there was more to this mission that what seemed to be the simple task of watching Cana win in a booze-drinking contest, and he had to wonder what was going on.
"I know that Cana's your friend, Lucy, but it feels like she's trying to hide from something. People don't usually need bodyguards for easy tasks that can be done at any given time, and this reward is really more than what the job is worth. You may think I'm just being paranoid, but the weirdness of this job request is really getting me intrigued." Sting told his girlfriend in a calm manner, while sternly looking down at the flyer while he began to make a few guesses about what could be transpiring.
Lucy responded with a happy facial expression, feeling confident about such an easy job, "There's nothing strange about being bodyguards for someone on any job, Sting. This job will be a piece of cake for us. Besides, I'm sure that we can easily restrain Cana from drinking out all the booze in Cioccolato Town if she tries asking for a few kegs of it. There's really nothing to worry about, Sting."
He wanted to believe his girlfriend's advice about the mission having nothing big in store for them, but Sting just couldn't shake the feeling that they were in for something that would be a bit surprising. He got up out of his chair and smiled confidently at Lucy, before gobbling down his last three chocolate chip pancakes. Lucy giggled a bit from seeing Sting eat so fast, and she decided to eat her waffles on the way to Cioccolato Town where Cana would be waiting. As Lucy stuffed the waffles into her mouth, before chewing her food, she didn't even see that the orange spell book that she held tightly in her left hand had begun to faintly pulsate with an orange glow once again.
Meanwhile, at another cafe...
The town of Cioccolato was known for its many chocolate desserts, making it a very sweet place for anyone to visit, and Cana sat down at a black patio table while she was seemingly reading a newspaper as well. She wore some sunglasses with blue frames and a cute blue hat as well, most likely being in disguise for some strange reason, and the card mage narrowed her purple eyes while her eyes kept shifting back and forth between her left and right sides. If she was supposed to be on a job, why did she have to do it in such a weird way?
Cana wasn't actually trying to be weird to the people who were passing by the cafe, but she was actually on the lookout for two important people. One of them was the bodyguard that had accepted her job offer, protecting her from danger, and the other person she watched out for was the danger itself. She had not told the Fairy Tail guild about this, not wanting to get any hate from anyone who had been good friends with this person before the seven-year gap transpired, but Cana was being chased by someone.
She was being hunted down by someone who used to be her friend when they were in Fairy Tail, but now this person had joined a dark guild. When Cana first encountered them two weeks ago, she thought that this girl would still be her friend. However, Cana was attacked by this person. She could not believe that her own friend had tried to attack her while they were laughing evilly, and the brown-haired woman had ran away before her former friend could deliver the finishing blow. Quite sad to be duped by someone who she was friendly with, right?
Cana had encountered this girl many times while she went out on jobs, and she had been attacked by her each time. Cana had always been forced to run away from the jobs because of this person, and they had been pretty infuriated when Cana had managed to escape from them. They had seen her as a weakling that they could pick on, and that was partly true. Cana's card spells had pretty strong defenses, but the attacks weren't exactly powerful enough to damage her predatory foe. How much longer could she keep this up?
She knew that it was only a matter of time before they found her again, and Cana also had to wonder who her bodyguard would be. She even wished that her friend Lucy was with her, but Cana also knew that her blonde friend was not physically strong enough to take on her new enemy. This person had really been quite strong when they were in Fairy Tail, useful as an ally, but now they had become enemies with their old guild because they were arrogant and thought that they were incredibly powerful.
Her former friend, Miyabi Kinzoku, had started this feud when Cana had finished a job on a moving cruise ship. She had been staring out at the ocean while being at the front of the ship with a smile on her face, until the purple-eyed woman heard soft giggling and footsteps coming from behind her. She had turned around to see that it was Miyabi, her friend from seven years ago, and Cana looked pretty happy to see one of her old friends. However, Miyabi frowned a bit before snickering evilly. She was the type of woman who was a user that hated weaklings, and she even told Cana that they were never friends.
Miyabi even chastised Fairy Tail's wins in last year's Grand Magic Games, stating that they were gained by getting lucky on the third day's events and fighting against weak opponents in the battles. She even told Cana that she was weak for being part of a guild that won because of the enemy surrendering, and she also stated how the Grand Magic Games were about eliminating your friends instead of being nice to them. Miyabi let Cana know that the moment she trusted her was the moment that she lost the battle, too.
Cana had thrown a few cards at Miyabi that would create immense jolts of lightning in the air to strike Miyabi from above, but the card mage looked pretty shocked to see her former friend make a large metal pillar emerge from her left hand to strike her down! The metal pillar also created grey explosions occur when it made contact with her cards and destroyed them, and Miyabi also struck Cana in her back with the iron pillar. Its power was enough to knock the wind out of her, and it also sent her falling off the ship before crashing into the ocean.
"We were such good friends, and Miyabi was nothing but a dirty snake! She betrayed me, seeing our friendship as nothing, and now she wants to get rid of me to make herself amused. I can't even defeat her with my attacks, and my defensive cards can only protect me. I've been running away for so long, wanting some peace, and I don't even know if I can get it." Cana thought to herself while sighing in a depressed manner, fear in her violet eyes, and she suddenly remembered the large chocolate cake that she had bought from the cafe.
She had it on the table in front of her, having already cut a slice of the delicious treat to enjoy in her mouth, and Cana managed to have slight smile on her face while she began to eat the slice with a fork. The card mage's thoughts also drifted back to when Lucy had used that strange book to defeat Natsu, but Cana knew that was a form of Holder Magic. She knew that Lucy wouldn't be any good without her book or the keys, and she had probably gone to a faraway land to be far away from guys like Natsu.
"That's a very nice hat you're wearing." A feminine voice said in a somewhat sweet tone, as the person's footsteps came towards Cana from behind.
She replied kindly while smiling, before gasping in shock when she turned around to see who gave her that compliment, "Thank you. That's sweet. Who are you, by the-"
20 minutes later, in another part of Cioccolato Town...
Sting and Lucy had arrived in the town of Cioccolato, a place that was located in the northern part of Fiore, and they both took notice of the shops selling many desserts in the flavor of chocolate. There were even warm plates of chocolate chip cookies on sale at the merchant shops, and hot chocolate was also being sold at a high price. This place had been thriving off of its desserts like Snowpoint Town was, but it wasn't in a distant land. Lucy shivered a bit from the cold air that came from a nearby bakery that was obviously hardening the chocolate, and Sting smiled while they walked down the paved street.
He loved to hold hands with Lucy, and the white dragon slayer knew that they could have some fun while being on this job. Sting noticed that his girlfriend was smiling confidently, ready to help Cana with whatever she had to do, and fierceness had made its way into her brown eyes. She seemed really prepared to see her best friend once again, and Lucy was going to do her best with whatever the task would be. The brown-eyed girl could feel strength welling up from within her, and she had definitely become strong like her Earth Magic.
Despite seeing Lucy be really happy about this job, Sting could tell that something was weird about this job. If it seemed supposedly simple, why had Cana called for bodyguards? She wasn't exactly a famous person who would be swarmed by adoring fans, and Lucy had informed Sting that Cana wasn't the type of person to have many enemies. She was certainly one of the nicer Fairy Tail mages, and the brown-haired woman could finish ten kegs in one day. Sting could buy the fact that Cana was nice, but the mission still seemed to be hiding something from him.
While he narrowed his blue eyes at the situation, Sting's eyes were met with what appeared to be chocolate and peanut butter brownies. Lucy had bought a plate of them from a nearby bakery that had just started its business hours, and she smiled happily while putting one into her mouth. There was steam coming from the brownies as well, allowing their sweet smell to reach Sting's nostrils, and he arrogantly grinned while taking one of the eleven remaining brownies from the plate. With her at his side, this mission would probably not be as tense as he imagined it to be.
Sting even noticed that the town had an entire museum dedicated to all of the types of chocolate in the country of Fiore, and he could tell that this job would have its good points. Even if Cana really did need something simple to be done, then why would Sting see it as mediocre? He could just show off his skills, getting the job done faster than Cana or anyone else, making him be admired by this town as well. He really was glad about that plan entering his head, and it wouldn't have been there if Lucy hadn't convinced him to go on this job with her.
As Sting and Lucy both took brownies from the plate, eating them before they were going to share a great kiss that would taste like chocolate and peanut butter, both mages looked shocked to hear an explosion of some kind transpiring somewhere in the town. There wasn't anything to celebrate today, and fireworks could not really be good to be used in the daytime. The sounds of a building being destroyed could be heard, and Sting's enhanced hearing also managed to pick up the sounds of someone groaning in pain. Was he right about this job having more to it than how it originally seemed?
"It sounds like somebody is in trouble, Lucy, and we can't let any innocent people get hurt here. Someone is using magic to do something, and they're doing it only in one area of the town. Let's go there, and see what exactly is going on." Sting explained to his girlfriend in a calm manner while he began to look stern at the sight of a third explosion taking place.
Lucy responded with a confident facial expression, speaking in an ambitious tone of voice, "You're right, Sting! Let's go check this out, and see who it is! I just hope that Cana managed to run from those explosions."
It was interesting to note that Lucy had mentioned Cana because the card mage was actually the one clashing with somebody right now. Her attack spells had made a lot of smoke appear, but it all cleared up quickly to reveal that her opponent had taken no damage from her attacks. Cana groaned in frustration from the sight of the enemy blocking the spell that didn't even leave a tiny mark, and her enemy's spells of metal had just destroyed a nearby building as a clear demonstration of her power.
She was Miyabi Kinzoku, Cana's former friend, and she had long pink hair that was tied on top of her head in two large buns. She had strawberry pink eyes as well, and her skin was rather fair. She wore a long and slightly loose white kimono with a red stripe in between two black stripes around the waist as well, and her high heels were pink as well. She wore red lipstick, making her look just as attractive as her curvaceous figure, and Miyabi was really as deadly as she was seemingly beautiful.
Miyabi had been hunting down Cana to end their little game of tag, since she really hated Fairy Tail for still having weaklings in their ranks, and she was also shocked that they managed to win the Grand Magic Games in the end. However, this was deemed as pure luck by Miyabi. She enjoyed picking on weaklings in any guild, and she found it fitting that Cana was alone. She wanted to get rid of her first, and then she would show everyone how pathetic Fairy Tail really was. Besides, Miyabi had also enjoyed the fact that Cana was dumb enough to think that they were ever friends.
She was a real bully, enjoying the fact that she could pick on weaklings without much resistance, and Miyabi was really tired of this game of chase that she had played with Cana. She unleashed a large metal pillar with spikes on it from her hand, only to see Cana defend herself with an Energy Dome Card. This card made a blue dome of energy surround Cana, protecting her from any kind of attacks that came her way, and she exhaled a soft sigh of relief from seeing that the spell worked. Could she keep it up forever, though?
Miyabi narrowed her pink eyes, clenching her fists tightly, and she fired several metal orbs from her hands. The grey orbs were covered in black spikes, looking pretty deadly, but Cana used another one of her shield cards. This card made a circular disc-shaped shield float in midair, letting Cana stay behind the large shield, and it completely neutralized Miyabi's attacks. The pink-haired woman groaned in frustration from thinking that Cana would just run away again, and the card mage started looking a bit more confident when she realized something.
"You're right, Miyabi. Attacks from my cards are not strong enough to knock you down, but your magical power will keep getting depleted as you fail to get throug my defenses! I'm no threat if I can't damage you, but you're no threat if you also can't even land an attack on me! You can cast spells to your heart's content, if you want to!" Cana shouted in a confident manner, knowing her plan would definitely end this battle.
Miyabi replied in a vicious manner, arrogance in her pink eyes, "I can cast spells to my heart's content, you say? Well, this next one will silence you for good! It happens to be one of my favorites!"
She shot out a spiked grey orb from her left hand, and the orb was on a chain while it appeared to be bouncing towards Cana. The orb kept jumping in and out of the ground, making Cana a bit nervous about it, and she used another Energy Dome Card to defend herself. However, that simply made Miyabi smirk with delight. As the blue dome of energy surrounded Cana, Miyabi made the spiked ball go into the ground and emerge from beneath the dome where Cana thought she was safe. The power of the spell was immense, as the spiked ball hit Cana hard in the stomach, and it made her cough up some blood while also nearly knocking her unconscious.
Cana groaned in pain from feeling the full brunt of that spell, and she tried her best to stand up. However, that only caused Miyabi to make a spiky metal pillar quickly emerge from her left hand to finish off her weak prey. The metal pillar struck Cana with tremendous force, sending her smashing into a nearby bakery, and the brown-haired woman could barely even move because of the pain from the pillar and the impact with the bakery. She had only wished that fate had allowed her bodyguards to reach this place sooner, since she could hear Miyabi's evil laughter while the antagonist walked towards the damaged bakery.
As Cana had given up hope of even surviving this battle against her foe, she and Miyabi suddenly heard a familiar voice shout in a fierce tone, "I call upon thee, the fifth spell, Rocky Detonation!"
This spell caused the rubble in front of Miyabi to be surrounded by an orange aura, and every piece of the damaged building began to float upward from the ground. Miyabi looked a bit confused from seeing not only large pieces of rubble in the air, but small pieces as well. When one of them was sent flying towards her, she simply laughed it off. However, even the smallest piece of rubble made a powerful explosion of Earth Magic. She was sent sliding backwards, only to met with all the other chunks of earth causing bigger explosions in a chain sequence with more power involved.
Cana looked up from laying on the ground to see that Lucy and Sting had arrived, and they had either seen what was going on or decided to stop someone from destroying the bakery. Cana did not have any idea that they were the bodyguards who accepted her job request, and Lucy looked pretty angry at Miyabi for what she had done to Cana. She was looking really fierce right now, tough as the earth itself, and Lucy planned to win against someone who had the nerve to pick on one of her closest friends.
The smoke cleared up to reveal that Miyabi had definitely taken damage from those attacks, and she could not believe what she was seeing. Lucy Heartfilia, the girl who was the newbie in Fairy Tail when Miyabi was there, had managed to now learn a new little trick. She angrily groaned in frustration, not going to allow herself to be done in by a weakling like Lucy, and she quickly unleashed the spiky metal pillar from her left hand. However, what would happen next was sure to surprise her and Cana.
Lucy called upon the power of the sixth spell, and it was known as Stone Slam. This spell caused a nearby large chunk of rubble to break apart into smaller pieces, and the ground also began to crack for the spell to work. More chunks of earth rose up from underground, circling Lucy in a fast manner like a means of defense, and Lucy continued to have that fierceness in her cocoa brown eyes while they now became narrowed at Miyabi. She could command the stones with simple thoughts, telling some of them to strike the iron pillar that was coming her way, and Cana looked appalled at Lucy's strategy.
While it seemed mediocre, the stones had enough power to create large orange blasts of Earth Magic that broke through the iron pillar. Miyabi looked pretty shocked to see one of her best spells be torn through like this, and Lucy's remaining stones struck her directly with intense amounts of power. They sent Miyabi falling to the ground, feeling tons of pain from the stones that had now turned into sand, and the antagonist began to growl in anger at the sight of someone supposedly inferior beginning to look down on her like this.
"You may have changed, since all those years passed by, but there's no way that weaklings like you and Cana can beat me! I am the definition of perfection, a great mage who rises above the trash heaps like you, and I'll destroy Fairy Tail to prove that you guys are just a bunch of losers! You can't possibly beat me, and my ultimate attack can't be stopped!" Miyabi furiously exclaimed with hatred in her pink eyes, growling at Lucy.
She stretched her arms outward, placing her palms next to each other, and Miyabi fired many large metal spikes from her hands! They were all aimed at Lucy, intending to stab her and cause major damage, but the blonde mage simply stood there while activating the seventh spell of Earth Magic. An orange aura surrounded her body, but what would it even do? Sting tried to divert the metal spikes with Holy Ray, but to no avail. He had to wonder why Lucy would just stand there and get skewed like that, too.
Miyabi laughed evilly at the sight of Cana's little helper being stabbed in many places by the metal spikes, and Lucy simply fell to the ground with her eyes and mouth still open. One of the metal spikes had struck her right in the heart, and two others had pinned her arms down to the ground while striking major veins. However, there was no blood coming out of Lucy at all. Miyabi walked towards her with a deadly smirk on her face while she lifted the blonde girl up by her hair, and she was delighted to see her look so pathetic.
However, the sound of something cracking had made everyone look curious. The cracking sound kept transpiring, and Miyabi's pink eyes widened in utter shock from seeing that Lucy's face was breaking apart. The rest of her body was breaking apart like a shell as well, prompting Sting to wonder if this was the power of the seventh spell. He simply called it Sand Shell, since sand was beginning to emerge from Lucy's broken body. Even the shell itself was turning into brown sand, leaving Miyabi to wonder what happened to the real Lucy.
Suddenly, she saw a hole be made from underneath her feet. Miyabi gasped in shock from seeing the ground crack, and Lucy came out of the hole while dealing a powerful uppercut to Miyabi's face. She grinned confidently from seeing that the seventh spell had worked just in time, and now the blonde girl was determined to finish this battle. She was going to win for Cana, and she was going to teach Miyabi a lesson about looking down on someone who had left Fairy Tail to become stronger.
As the orange spell book began to glow with Lucy's fierceness building up inside her, she looked in the book and smiled at what the final spell of Earth Magic could do. It was simply known as Roaring Earth, possibly a variation of the Earth Dragon's Roar that Suna could probably use, and the spell caused the orange aura to once again surround Lucy's body. She felt more power than before, almost like she was absorbing the hardness of the ground through the soles of her feet, and Lucy sprang up high into the sky.
She came back down with tremendous force, causing an earthquake to occur in Cioccolato Town for about 5 minutes, and the earthquake was powerful enough to have its seismic waves head mostly towards Miyabi. The ground around the antagonist began to break apart, rumbling around her, and it all exploded in a massive orange blast after a few moments. Miyabi was sent flying high into the sky, blasting off like she was part of a trio that always failed to capture an electric mouse, and now knowing how it felt to hurt others would hopefully make her never mess with Cana again.
The brown-haired woman had regained most of her strength while she had watched Lucy fight, and Cana was now able to stand up. She gasped in awe at the ground being damaged, but Lucy used a non-spell ability of Earth Magic to make the ground expand and repair itself while also giving it much more hardness to get that job accomplished. The blonde mage turned around to face Cana, who was still shocked at the fact that Lucy had gotten so strong with just that book. What kind of unorthodox author would make a book with spells like Roaring Earth, anyway?
Lucy exclaimed happily, seeing that her best friend was now okay, "Cana, you can walk! I hope you aren't hurt too badly."
"I'm fine, Lucy. It seems like you and Sting realized that I kinda made a fake job request, too. I'm sorry, but many other people in Fairy Tail talk about how cool and friendly Miyabi was to them. They've even seen her on jobs, and she acts so nice to them. However, you saw how two-faced she is. She just wanted to take down Fairy Tail for some recognition, which is just selfish and evil." Cana replied nicely while smiling at Lucy, happy to see that her friend was okay and had just saved her life.
When she had seen that Sting was accompanying Lucy on this job, Cana had to wonder if her good friend had joined the guild of Sabertooth. Lucy told her that her assumption was correct, and how life was getting really good for her over there. Lucy also asked Cana about the upcoming tournament, and the card mage informed her that it would most likely be the Grand Magic Games again. This made Lucy smile a bit, now knowing that she would possibly have five days to really show off her strength for her new guild, and Cana would probably be looking forward to seeing it as well.
Upon noticing that Sting had been eating the plate of chocolate and peanut butter brownies during the whole fight, Lucy looked appalled to know that her boyfriend had eaten them all while she was fighting Miyabi. He was either really hungry, or the fight was incredibly exciting that he had to eat all of her brownies. As Lucy looked a bit miffed, the loud growling of her stomach caused Cana to laugh and happily suggest that they all go get some chocolate to celebrate this reunion and great victory.
As the trio walked off, Karen emerged from the shadow of a pebble. She had seen the whole fight, seeing the Earth Magic contain the greatest spells that she had ever seen, and the woman with silvery-blue hair smirked a bit while knowing that Lucy was continuing to use the book to great heights. She was becoming much more powerful with every spell, despite only being able to use one type of magic at a time, and Karen knew that the blonde maiden was getting to where she needed to be.
"She has a very great heart of light, so nice and pure, but she is still lacking the emotions of my master. Sweet little Lucy, you're so beautiful yet you still keep your negative emotions dormant. Using the darkness on Natsu would make him never bother you again, but you don't have it. No need to worry, though. You've already broken five seals, and I think that destiny will send the sixth one to you after it shows Fairy Tail how your retribution truly feels. Ah, yes. My master will be pleased, and you will know eventually that your role as the book wielder is..." Karen thought to herself while snickering in a sinister manner, not wanting to reveal her thoughts to anyone who possibly possessed telepathy in the area.
How was Chapter 15? Did you like it? Sorry if there wasn't much StiCy, but there will be more in the next chapter. The plot was changed a little bit, and the NaLi will also be in the next chapter. The grand event is also coming up, and you may vote in the poll on which one you'd like to see. Anyway, what will Natsu learn as he tries to regain Lisanna's trust? Will Lucy and Sting continue to get cuter? What will Gray and Juvia think when they come across something unnerving? Standby for the update!