Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima does. This story was made for fun, and not for cash. (How unfortunate.)
Chapter 16: Misinterpretations and Mistaken Identity
Three more weeks had gone by, ever since Lucy had broken the fifth seal in the mysterious spell book, and she had been improving her physical strength to help her spells of Earth Magic gain some more support. She had also tested out the other types of magic, wondering how they were doing when they were not in use, and Lucy was very surprised to find out that her four other types of magic were much stronger than before. A single Aqua Ball could make a big splash of water, and the many puddles that it left behind would result in a few blue blasts of energy.
Every single blue blast of energy from the Water Magic had made the initially struck object shine in accord with a blue glow surrounding every piece of it, and Lucy had remembered the chain power of her Water Magic. When seven blasts had transpired, that caused the power of a spell like Scalding Shot to be increased exponentially. Spells such as Sapphire Shield and Azure Ace had grown a lot without the chain power as well, making Lucy become more and more intrigued about the kind of spell book that she was using.
Her Wind Magic had also improved a lot since the time that she last used it, and spells like Aerial Disc had become incredibly powerful. The number of discs had also gone up from three to ten, and the green buzzsaw-like blade projectiles had grown in size. They were now powerful enough to cut through many things in a row with ease, and they created large emerald green blasts of Wind Magic. The other spells, mainly Wind Cannon and Sky Impact had also become pretty high-level spells that could be used in battle.
Lucy's Fire Magic had grown by three levels, unlike the Water Magic and Wind Magic that had respectively grown by five and four levels to be on equal footing with the other types of magic, and the blonde mage had found her Fire Magic to really be capable of causing quite a blaze. She had been testing these spells out on a volcanic island near the country of Fiore, and Lucy had been very surprised to find that some attacks like Flame Cutter had considerably increased in power. One slash had made flames and volcanic liquid enter the volcano, and it caused an eruptive explosion that made news around Fiore. Thankfully, Lucy and Sting had left that island before they could get hurt.
Finally, her Lightning Magic had ascended in power by two levels. Lucy had noticed that all of her lightning spells had not only grown larger in size, but they had also gotten faster as well. Even Electric Vortex had become faster because of the lightning and earth seals now being broken, and its power could probably even rival a defensive spell like Jura's Rock Mountain. Lucy's Earth Magic had obviously grown by only one level, since it had only been around to experience one seal being broken, but the orange spell book had made all five types of magic be at the same level for perfect synchronicity with their master.
Due to the slow week, Lucy and Sting had been looking bored while they sat at a table with their friends to enjoy breakfast. This morning seemed rather calm, something that was a bit delightful to Lucy, but the brown-eyed girl was also surprised that nobody needed any help from the second-best guild in Fiore. Normally, the request board would be filled with job requests. However, only a few could be found. Why wasn't a copious amount of jobs coming into Sabertooth, and what could be the reason for something like this to transpire?
"Man, you have to be kidding me! It's the fifth day of the week, and not many jobs are on the board! It's almost like nobody in Fiore needs much to be done, and that sucks! I can't go a day without showing off my skills to people who are in need!" Sting exclaimed in an annoyed manner, looking pretty upset at the lack of jobs in his guild.
Lucy replied nicely with a soft smile on her face, putting her left hand on her boyfriend's right shoulder, "Don't worry, Sting. I'm sure that more jobs will come in tomorrow, and everyone will be able to make some money. Besides, you just need to calm down and give some thought to this dilemma. If other guilds are getting jobs while we have none, then there's something going on."
Her response to Sting's complaints had made Rogue, Frosch, Lector, Yukino, Orga, and Rufus all give her confused looks. They thought that Lucy's suspicions were strange at first, but then Rogue looked a bit more calm about this. Lucy could be right about her assumption that something was going on, probably someone trying to make Sabertooth look bad by not giving them many jobs to make them seem like an unreliable guild, and the shadow dragon slayer narrowed his red eyes when he knew that the post office in Fiore would have some explaining to do.
As Lucy began to smile a bit, she also took notice of Yukino taking her orange spell book for a moment. The woman with light blue hair had been wondering about this strange book for quite a while now, and she told Lucy that the languages in her book were definitely not from the modern era. They seemed to be more olden than foreign, and Yukino seemed curious about the creator of this book. Lucy had told her how the book worked with its sets of spells and certain conditions that she had to abide by, but Yukino could tell that this was no ordinary spell book.
Since it was something that seemed to have originated from long ago, Yukino smiled a bit while she came up with a creative idea. Lucy had informed her about the different colors of the text, some colors meaning that the spells were completely unreadable to her right now, and Yukino had to wonder if the Celestial Spirits that she and Lucy wielded could decipher the ancient languages. It would be a pretty good idea, and both girls knew that Lucy had been getting much stronger. They didn't know that one of the book's curses affected her abilities with her keys, though, and let's just say that using two keys would not make her be depleted of major amounts of stamina.
While Lucy decided to summon out Virgo and help Yukino with this idea of hers, something had caught the interest of Lector. The red Exceed looked over at the request board for a split second to see that it was now filled with jobs, and shadowy black puddles began to disappear like someone was trying to hide. Lector blinked twice, making sure that he wasn't seeing things, but he had also noticed that nobody else had seen what he had just witnessed. Why would the shadows be bringing jobs to Sabertooth?
Meanwhile, at Fairy Tail...
Lisanna and Erza had just come back to the guild after finishing a few jobs together, and they had known that Gray was out somewhere with Juvia. Apparently, she really needed his help with something that she couldn't do on her own, and Lisanna giggled a bit from knowing how Juvia loved Gray. He probably wouldn't like what she had in store for him, but it wouldn't be anything bad. After all, Juvia was a kind person. Despite her overactive imagination at times, she was still one of the nicest mages in Fairy Tail.
Speaking of mages who were being nice, Lisanna looked a bit shocked to see Natsu trying to give her a friendly smile. What in the world was he thinking? She didn't exactly find him to be all that great anymore, and the white-haired mage had seen how he treated Lucy when the foursome came to the Sabertooth guild for their search about the missing book from Fairy Tail's library. Natsu had acted so rude to Sting, the guild master of Sabertooth, and Lucy simply gave bad karma to the fire dragon slayer.
He truly deserved it for being such a jerk to her, trying to make her jealous like it was some fun little game of his, and bullying her was not exactly the way to make someone want to stay in a guild. No wonder Lucy felt no remorse about leaving. Natsu had caused her so much trouble after he had kicked her off the team like she was a worthless pawn in his game of chess, and he sure looked shocked at the sight of Lucy kissing Sting. Lisanna hadn't interpreted his feeling of shock in the right way, though, making her resent him even more.
She saw his shock as wanting Lucy back after he had been low enough to kick her off the team in such a rude way, and Lisanna really had to wonder if she ever even meant anything to Natsu. She really felt like he didn't love her at all, and he had just been using her to make Lucy jealous. Lisanna did not want to be some trophy that Natsu could flaunt for everyone to be envious of, and she had really wanted to be on good terms with Lucy. She probably felt very annoyed at the sight of Fairy Tail picking a fight with Sabertooth, too.
As Natsu began shouting her name and waving, Lisanna could only turn away with her arms folded. She gave him an uncaring look, similar to the way that he had kicked Lucy off of Team Natsu, and Erza didn't feel like saying anything about it. She didn't want this drama in Fairy Tail to keep going on forever, and Gray really would agree with her about not choosing sides between Natsu and Lisanna. The blue-eyed girl had tried to reach out to Natsu, but he would not listen to anything she said. Now she was giving him a taste of his own medicine.
Natsu sighed sadly while he looked at Erza, now knowing that this really was all his fault, and he really couldn't think of any clever way to get Lisanna back. He could probably ask Mira for help, but Lisanna could not be forced to get back with him. Love just did not work like that, and it had to really be earned. Trust had to be earned as well, and Natsu had lost Lisanna's respect for him when he had picked a fight with Sting. Lucy had put him in his place, but Natsu still could not admit that she was stronger than him.
He still couldn't believe that she had moved on to his fiercest rival, Sting Eucliffe, and Natsu thought that Lucy would still be crying over him. He thought that she would be thrown into deep depression because of what he had done to her, losing her willpower to even defy him, but the fire dragon slayer could not understand where Lucy was getting all of her strength from. She had become so much tougher than she had been before, looking much more confident, and his sadistic plan of making her jealous had certainly failed.
Natsu was still upset about the fact that he wouldn't be able to get back with Lisanna, not being able to even give out a proper apology, and he had to wonder if there was some way that he could fix it. He would do anything to win her back and not look like a total jerk, since that's what the entire Fairy Tail guild now thought about him, and exciting things like the Grand Magic Games were not in his thoughts right now. He had to make amends with Lisanna in some way, but what in the world could he possibly do?
"Come on, Lisanna! I made mistakes, ok? I screwed up majorly, ever since I kicked Lucy off the team, and I'm sorry about using you to make her jealous. I don't know what else you want from me, unless you'd like to fight this out with me." He had exclaimed in a saddened manner with puppy dog eyes, before looking a bit confident at the thought of fighting the white-haired mage.
She responded in a somewhat annoyed manner while looking like she would give up on him, since he had only realized a few of his wrongdoings, "You just still don't get it, do you? Lucy and I were really close to being friends, but you had to butt into that and cause problems! She probably hates me now, and it's all your fault! You attacked her boyfriend as well, and don't think that I didn't see how you looked like your whole world came crashing down around you when Sting and Lucy shared a kiss! You stabbed her in the back, and you did the same to me by not even showing me any love at all!"
"You've got it wrong, Lisanna! I was just shocked that Lucy moved on from me so fast, and I wanted her to stay depressed for me to bully her around! She would submit to anything that we would've told her to do, but that didn't happen! That's why I was so shocked, and seeing her in Sabertooth did come as a big surprise to me! I want to earn your love and trust back, ok? I'll do anything to fix my mistakes!" Natsu defensively stated while walking over to Lisanna, trying to let her know that he did want her to be back with him.
Those last two sentences certainly made her eyes become widened with some amazement, and she could not believe that Natsu had said something like that. He had wanted to reconcile with her and make up for what he had done, looking for a way to get through to the white-haired mage, and his begging had really given Lisanna a clever idea. She smirked deviously, thinking of something that would definitely make Natsu's apology seem like he really meant it, and she really did not care about what Erza or the other guild members would think about what she had in mind.
In Gateau Town...
Gray had just finished helping Juvia with her job of buying a mint green cake, not knowing that she had bought it for him, and the ice mage didn't even care to see that the top of the mint green cake was covered in the chocolate Oreo cookies without the filling included. He had really loved chocolate, unaware that Juvia had always been tailing him when he had gone to his favorite dessert shop in Magnolia, and Gray thought that she must've been buying it for Lyon to make him finally stay away from her.
Juvia had smiled at Gray while they walked down the street that was covered in brick and cobblestone, blushing a bit while she tried to make her right hand hold his left hand, and this was like one of Juvia's greatest dreams. She had always wanted to spend some time alone with Gray, wanting to be around the guy that she was in love with, and just seeing the slightest twinkle in his dark blue eyes was enough to make her sigh happily and probably faint from the sheer happiness that her heart would experience.
Even though he was out on a job with Juvia right now, Gray could not stop thinking about Lucy. He was pretty happy to know that she was safe and sound, but he never really thought that she would have joined the Sabertooth guild. He certainly hoped that Rufus would not be using his Memory-Make Magic to brainwash her into forgetting all of her friends who were in Fairy Tail, and he also hoped that she would not be plotting a war against her former guild just because of what Natsu had done to her.
Gray had really cared for Lucy, and seeing her saddened by Natsu was really painful for him to watch. Erza had told him that words of sympathy would only make things worse in the situation, and even giving Natsu some stern lectures had proven to be pretty useless. Gray just hoped that Lucy was enjoying her new life in Sabertooth, and maybe he would see her at the Grand Magic Games. He had also heard a few rumors about the Grand Fiore League that might be held in place of the Grand Magic Games, but either tournament would make somebody win a title of some kind.
As the ice mage kept on walking, he noticed that Juvia had stopped for some reason. He turned around to ask her what was wrong, wondering if the cake had been struck by bird poop or something, and he surprisingly saw the Rain Woman clenching her teeth while growling at the sight of something or someone who was up ahead. Gray looked straight ahead in the direction where Juvia was looking, and what he saw was really a sight for sore eyes to him. He had to blink twice to confirm what he saw, and his vision wasn't playing tricks on him.
Lucy had apparently dyed her hair purple, now having it in a violet color, and she had been wearing a purple top that looked similar to the one that she wore on the first day of the Grand Magic Games last year in X791. Her miniskirt was also black, and her flat shoes were lavender. Gray smiled a bit from seeing her here, wondering what she could be doing in this town, and he would gladly assist her with any job that she was on right now. He knew that Juvia considered Lucy as her love rival for Gray's affections, but he knew that Lucy only liked him as a friend. Buddies had to help each other out, right?
"Hey, Lucy! It's good to see you here! I'd be happy to buy you some cake or something!" Gray shouted to her in a friendly manner while smiling happily, a calm look in his dark blue eyes.
Lucy, or whoever he thought was her, had replied in a stern manner while turning around to face Gray and Juvia with an evil look in her amethyst purple eyes, "You've got the wrong girl, you idiot. How dare you mistake me for that sniveling little clown of a mage!"
At that moment, Gray and Juvia both gasped in shock at what they were seeing. This person who looked exactly like Lucy, except for the violet hair and amethyst purple eyes, was not the blonde mage that they both knew? Gray could see the harsh look in this girl's amethyst purple eyes, an evil look that Lucy could never really have, and he had to wonder why this girl looked so much like Lucy. She had never spoke of having a twin sister, nor did she ever seem like one had actually existed somewhere.
Juvia also looked a bit startled, getting a pretty strange vibe from this girl, and she didn't like it at all. Her magical power seemed to be different from Lucy's, much fiercer in some way, and it made the Rain Woman look alert while also knowing that she could not just leave Gray alone with this lookalike of Lucy. After all, Juvia couldn't stand to think of what this girl would do to the man that she loved with all of her heart. She glared at the violet-haired girl, who smirked at the Fairy Tail mages for mentioning Lucy's name.
"Tell me something, then. Have you seen Lucy Heartfilia lately? I'm just wanting to know if you destroyed her, that's all." The mysterious girl asked and told Gray in a calm tone, seeming like she knew Lucy from somewhere.
Not wanting Lucy's current whereabouts to be told to someone who had unknown and possibly dangerous intentions, Gray simply told the girl that he had indeed battled against Lucy when she had been wielding the red spell book. However, he made up a lie and said how she was strong enough for them to settle things on a draw and end the fight because he didn't want the guild to burn down in flames. Gray also informed this girl that Lucy's spells had tripped him up majorly, and he looked stern while hoping she would believe this lie.
However, his explanation only caused this girl with violet hair to snicker in a vicious manner. She could only see Gray's words as pure garbage, and she told him and Juvia to not even try joking around with her about Lucy. She let the ice mage know that if he had to be thinking that Lucy was powerful in her current state, then him and Juvia must've been the weakest team on Earthland. She had even brought up some of the opponents that the Fairy Tail mages fought in the Grand Magic Games and on their adventures, stating how Lucy was only surviving because she was fighting weak trash.
This comment greatly offended Juvia, who knew that Fairy Tail's victories did not come as easily as this girl made it sound, and she had really heard enough. If she wasn't going to do anything but stand there and dish out tough talk, then there was no reason to fight. Besides, Juvia had come to this town to buy a cake for Gray. She didn't plan on fighting anybody, and the Rain Woman had a fierce look in her blue eyes while letting this lookalike of Lucy know that there was no need to quarrel with her.
Gray and Juvia both saw no reason for fighting someone who didn't even seem tough, proceeding to walk away from this confrontation and head back to the town of Magnolia where the Fairy Tail guild was located, but this only made their new opponent speak in a darker tone of voice while her violet hair began to obscure her eyes. She let the duo know that they were both very naive for thinking that they could just walk away quietly from her without anything happening, and the doppelganger of Lucy threatened to destroy the town. Not wanting to let that happen, along with the stakes being too high if they were to refuse, Gray and Juvia requested that their battle be on the countryside route near Gateau Town.
15 minutes later...
After getting far away from the town, not wanting any innocent people to be hurt in this fight, Gray and Juvia stood on one side of the grassy field while their violet-haired opponent stood on the other side of it. Three large windmills were on the sidelines of the battlefield, letting their propellers spin while a breeze blew through the area, and Juvia had set her mint cake on the sidelines as well. She hoped that it wouldn't get damaged in any way, or she would definitely be teaching her opponent a lesson about messing with her love for Gray.
The girl with amethyst purple eyes revealed that her name was Darcy Homika, and she let the Fairy Tail mages know that it was bad luck for them to be standing before the "Escaped Reincarnation of Tsukiakari". This girl was either telling crazy lies, or she was truly the reincarnation that was brought back to life by some unknown type of magic. Either way, she looked pretty confident while staring down Gray and Juvia. If this battle would be two against one, then how could they possibly lose?
Narrowing his dark blue eyes, Gray looked stern while jumping up into the air and firing three large icicles at Darcy. They wouldn't actually come down upon her, since Gray was using this as a way to test her strength. He also wanted to see what kind of book or keys would be used by this girl, since she was a lookalike of Lucy, and he certainly hoped that none of her Celestial Spirits would be as powerful as Aquarius. He smirked a bit, seeing the icicles about to land in a triangle around Darcy, but something strange happened.
Much to his and Juvia's surprise, Darcy had not tried to dodge the icicles at all. She somehow knew that Gray wasn't actually trying to hit her, and she smirked a bit while the evil look was maintained in her amethyst purple eyes. Darcy used her first spell, and it was known as Ghastly Nightmare. This move caused a purple ball to be fired from the palm of her right hand, and it appeared to be from Darkness Magic. The purple ball struck one of the windmills, obliterating it while creating a large purple blast of energy, and Juvia thought that Darcy's aim was off.
However, Gray quickly grabbed his friend's left hand while getting her out of the way of the falling debris. Every piece of wood had a purple aura surrounding it, and purple blasts transpired when the pieces of wood hit the ground. Gray took notice of that unorthodox spell being similar to an attack that Lucy would probably use, but him and Juvia had managed to dodge all of the debris. He knew that Darcy would have to do better than that to defeat mages from the guild of Fairy Tail, and the ice mage also wondered about the other spells in her arsenal.
Darcy noticed that Gray and Juvia looked happy to have dodged that first attack, but her next spell would not be something to laugh about. It was known as Dark Efiálti̱s, and this spell had worked in conjunction with her first spell. All of the violet blasts had a side effect to them, and they caused purple silhouettes of Darcy to rise from the spots where her attacks had landed. They all flew towards Juvia, surprisingly passing right through her body like they were ghosts, and the blue-haired woman screamed when she felt like her stamina was being drained.
In reality, Darcy was actually using this spell to give herself more energy by absorbing every single bad thought in the heart and mind of Juvia. A purple aura surrounded her body while she could feel her magical power increasing, and she began to laugh evilly from stealing Juvia's magical power in such a cruel way. Gray attempted to hit Darcy with Ice-Make: Shotgun, hoping that his thick spears of ice would hit her, but her second spell had also allowed her to use its side effect. Her silhouettes taken the attacks for her, creating violet explosions in the process, and Darcy felt more power being transferred to her.
Deciding to take this battle into her own hands, most likely to help Gray, Juvia used her Water Magic to unleash a Water Cyclone down on Darcy from a cloud that was floating overhead. The vortex of blue water was about to come down upon the violet-haired girl to cause massive damage, but she quickly countered with a spell known as Haunting Betrayal. This spell caused Juvia's Water Cyclone to turn purple, changing its properties to now be a spell of Darkness Magic, and the large vortex of energy somehow struck Gray without even touching him! A large violet blast of Darkness Magic transpired, causing Darcy to snicker viciously.
Haunting Betrayal was a spell that allowed its user to distract its prey with a little nightmare, and hit them with its biggest impact from anywhere that they pleased. Darcy had imagined Gray being struck by the spell, and the purple smoke cleared up to reveal its side effect. Gray was now immobilized because of Darcy making the spell have intense properties of gravity as well, and he couldn't even lift a single finger because of all the pressure that was being forced down on him. Juvia looked very concerned for Gray, wanting to help him, but the ice mage told her to run away quickly.
"Juvia will not leave Gray-sama here! She will defeat Darcy, one way or another!" Juvia exclaimed with a determined facial expression, ready to try and beat Darcy with any kind of spell.
The girl with amethyst purple eyes replied evilly while harshly glaring at Juvia, "I guess it's time for me to end this little battle. Prepare to see the difference between me and Lucy, or I can give you more of a demonstration."
Before Juvia could even attack with Water Slicer, she noticed that Darcy's shadow was starting to change into something very strange. It began to rise up from the ground, having large red eyes and a wide mouth, making Juvia seem a bit uneasy. Darcy's shadow morphed into a dark purple, bipedal creature with a roundish body. Multiple purple spikes covered its back, and it had large pointed ears. Its arms and legs were short with three digits on both its hands and feet. It also had a stubby tail, too. This spell was known as Lunar Shadow, and its effect would not be good for Juvia.
Darcy's newly morphed shadow separated itself from her, and it shot out a large purple ball of energy from its mouth. This attack went up into the air, confusing Juvia, but then she and Gray both looked startled to see the Rain Woman being levitated into the air like gravity around her had been removed. She was now floating in midair, seeming surprised at what was going on, and Darcy's shadowy creature laughed when it made the purple sphere come down upon Juvia at fast speeds. It had gained power on its descent, and Juvia found herself now unable to move because of the gravity immobilizing her.
When the purple ball of energy struck Juvia with tremendous amounts of force, it sent her crashing back down to the ground! A large violet blast of energy transpired afterwards, blinding Gray's eyes, and he could sense the enormous power of this attack. The sound of the explosion was louder than Juvia's scream of pain, and the Rain Woman had taken an extreme amount of damage from the gravity smashing her against the ground. When the purple smoke quickly cleared up, Gray's dark blue eyes widened in pure shock from seeing Juvia unconscious with her eyes open. The gravity was now released from him, and he slowly stood up to go over and aid his friend.
"You monster! You are sick! You intended to kill Juvia!" Gray shouted at Darcy while looking stern, seeing some purple and bloody slash wounds on his friend's arms and legs.
Darcy responded calmly, smiling a bit at the effects of her spell, "You are one stupid idiot, you know that? She may be injured, but the side effect of my fourth spell eats away at the thoughts of the opponent and their allies. Maybe I'll rename it Dream Eater. Juvia will wake up in a few hours with those bruises having been healed, but she'll clearly remember all the pain of my spells. By the way, tell Lucy that-"
Before she could continue, someone came out of the shadow of a nearby windmill. Gray wondered what could be going on now, hoping more enemies hadn't arrived, and it was actually Karen. She rose from the shadows, surprising Darcy, but Gray did not know who this woman was. She smiled nicely at him for a split second, upon seeing him look down at his injured friend, and then the woman with silvery-blue walked over to Darcy. What business did she have to discuss with someone who seemed so cold and merciless?
"I have finally found you, rebellious one. You decided to escape from the book for some of your deadly fun, but I require your services for something that you should know of. Maybe you don't remember the legend, but your powers will be restored to their real versions when you transfer your aura of trickiness to the maiden's list. After all, she is perfect for the plan to commence. Your seal is one that's required, though." Karen explained to Darcy in a calm tone, smiling while cryptically referring to Lucy and the spell book.
The violet-eyed girl responded evilly, before turning into a purple aura and going into the shadows to find Lucy's book, "All right, fine. I'll help the little wimp, but she better be the one who can make the angelic skies see how great we truly are while they look down on us."
Karen disappeared into the shadows with Darcy, taking Juvia's mint cake to deliver it to the infirmary of the Fairy Tail guild for suspicion to not arise, and she left Gray looking pretty stunned. He had no idea about what had just happened, but he needed to get Juvia back to Magnolia. He would also inform Erza and Lisanna about what had happened, too. Why had Karen appeared for Darcy's seal? What in the world could she be up to, and what had her message meant? Gray carried Juvia in his arms, and he hoped that this was the end of the creepiness for the day.
Back at Sabertooth...
Lucy and Yukino had respectively summoned Virgo and Libra to try and read the unreadable words in the orange spell book, hoping for some kind of answer relating to why those spells weren't ready yet, and Lucy decided to spend some time with Sting while the Celestial Spirits tried to decipher the words in the spell book. Sting had been acting pretty bummed out all day, most likely because of the lack of jobs, and he didn't even notice that more jobs had filled up the request board. Of course, that was Karen's doing.
Sting had been smiling at Lucy while seeing how determined she was about figuring out the secrets of her spell book, and she looked pretty hot today in her white T-shirt and black pair of shorts. He had always loved her fashion sense, and Lucy could look good in almost anything. Sting had been wanting to take her out on another date, one that would not be interrupted in any way, but he knew what the chances were about that happening. He had also been unable to read the book, and the white dragon slayer couldn't even find copies of it in any bookstore in Castelia.
Wendy had even brought a few language books for Lucy to check out, but the characters in her spell book weren't in any language book. Even words of Orient Solid Script magic didn't even work with translating the book, making everyone even more curious. Sting was happy to see his girlfriend working so hard to accomplish something important, and that reminded him of what he had to do. Guild masters couldn't participate in the Grand Magic Games, and Sting had wanted to show off his skills. What thoughts had ran through his mind?
He told Lucy and everyone else while announcing his plan in an excited manner to help lift everyone's busy mood, "Listen up, people! I have finally decided on how I'll be in the Grand Magic Games! If I'm temporarily not the guild master, then I can participate! It's a perfect plan, and the first person who wants to be the guild master will get the title for the duration of the Grand Magic Games!"
Everyone seemed pretty startled by Sting's announcement, and it made everyone get curious. Who would be the new guild master of Sabertooth, and would this be a choice that Sting would not live to regret? His outburst provided the perfect distraction for Karen to come from the shadows and take the orange spell book when no one was looking. She put the purple aura into it, causing the spell book to also turn purple, and Karen put the book in Lucy's hands before disappearing into the shadows once again.
Virgo had whispered to Lucy in a calm manner, telling her something that she didn't hope to hear, "Those languages aren't in the Celestial Spirit World, my princess. I must be punished for failing you like this."
Sting confidently spoke while having happiness in his charming blue eyes, before kissing Lucy's cheek, "Lucy, you and I will now be on the team for the Grand Magic Games. I choose Wendy to be the new guild master for the duration of the tournament, and that's certainly not a bad idea."
Wendy asked curiously, her brown eyes having some confusion in them, "Sting-san, don't you know that the Grand Fiore League could be taking place? We still don't know what we'll be battling for, or how Sabertooth will be battling."
At that moment, Sting and everyone else had to wonder what would be happening. Could the Grand Fiore League be taking place instead of the Grand Magic Games? What in the world would happen?
How was Chapter 16? Did you like it? This was more focused on the Fairy Tail side, in case you didn't know. There will be more StiCy in the next chapter, and that will be the prologue chapter to the main arc of the Grand Magic Games/Grand Fiore League. Also, Lucy's Celestial Spirits will have more of a role in this arc as well. I'll keep the poll up for a little while longer, and I won't reveal too many details. Standby for the next update!