(You're all in for a treat tonight - Natsu and Gray in the same Tribal Council area! Who will be voted out tonight? Let's find out!)
Warrod Day 7
"You're going down tonight, ice breath!" Natsu yelled once they were back in the camp.
"Like hell I am! You're the one who messed up at the challenge!" Gray yelled back.
"Ice princess!"
"Flame brain!"
The others watched this interaction with a myriad of emotion. Juvia glared at Natsu angrily, tugging at her hat. Cana laughed merrily and drank. Elfman just sighed.
"I wanted to make a men's alliance, but Natsu and Gray aren't being very... manly about it..." -Elfman
"At least I know three people aren't voting for me," Levy sighed. "You'd think they wouldn't be so loud about it."
"That's to our advantage," Freed pointed out, standing behind her. "The two of us could use this to keep ourselves in."
"Do we even need to worry?" Levy asked. "With their votes obvious, and us not voting ourselves, there's not even a chance we'll get the majority of votes."
"We should use this opportunity to eliminate a weak player so we may win our upcoming challenges," Freed replied.
"Like Natsu?" Levy deadpanned.
"Natsu is useful. He's a strong challenge player. We want to eliminate someone who isn't useful as a challenge player in any way. This person also does not take much part in taking care of camp," Freed said.
"Who are you talking about?" Levy asked. Freed subtly gestured to Cana. "...Cana?" Levy was surprised.
"She's the only part of the group who has absolutely no purpose. The others are muscle, or useful for water challenges. It's a good idea to take out weak links," Freed said.
"Whatever you say," Levy said after a moment, shrugging. "Let's go for it." Freed next approached Elfman, who was looking confused.
"You wouldn't happen to want to ally, Elfman? An alliance between us men?" Freed asked.
"Would I?!" Elfman grinned. "Now there's the man I should've been asking!" Freed just smiled.
"Sorry, Cana, Levy, Elfman... I have to manipulate you in order to stick around. I WILL help Laxus!" -Freed
Freed was about to say more to Elfman, but he was interrupted by a big blast of fire. Natsu and Gray had gotten into a fight.
"I almost regret keeping them around," Freed sighed.
Once the sun had set, the seven green buffed members of the Warrod Tribe arrived at Tribal Council. Flash, G, and Colette were present, the latter of the three standing in the background, looking cool without even having to try.
"Behind each of you is a torch lacrima. I'd like you to find the one with your name on it, let G light it, and get fire." Flash instructed. "This is the ritual here at Tribal Council because in this game, fire represents your life in this game. When your fire goes out, so do you."
"Heh! I got this!" Natsu easily lit all the lacrima. Warrod trudged over and each selected their lactima before sitting.
"Or do that." Colette giggled.
Flash rolled his eyes, patting his podium. "Alright. It's been seven days, so we've got a lot to catch up on." He began. "Cana, what's camp life like?"
"It's like a vacation! Doing a whole lot of nothing," Cana elaborated. "In a tropical setting, no less!"
"Gray, what about you?" Flash asked. "Would you agree with Cana here?"
"Maybe I would if a certain flame brain would shut up once in awhile." Gray grumbled.
"Shut up, Gray!"
Flash picked up on this. "So Natsu. What exactly happened today at the challenge?"
"Gray was terrible." Natsu grumbled.
"That's not true at all!" Gray shouted.
"Alright, let's get an unbiased opinion." Flash deadpanned. "Levy, same question I asked to Natsu - what happened at the challenge today?"
"Our teamwork is off. We all are good individually, but we don't work well together as a tribe." Levy explained.
"So Juvia, do you think this vote will help the tribe?" Flash shifted over to Juvia. "And if yes, how so?"
"Juvia doesn't care." Juvia grumbled.
"So you don't care who gets voted off?" Flash raised an eyebrow.
"Juvia does care about that! Juvia will vote off Natsu-San for troubling Gray-Sama like this!" Juvia declared. Surprisingly, Flash was a bit taken aback by that sudden proclamation.
"So it's the foregone conclusion you're voting for Natsu tonight?" He asked her after taking a second to compose himself. Juvia nodded earnestly. "Natsu, it's possible that's two votes locked up against you. Juvia would only need two more for majority." Flash explained. "How do you get around this and survive Tribal Council tonight?"
"Like GRAY can take me down." Natsu grumbled.
Flash thought to himself. "So because you don't think Gray can beat you, you don't think it'll be you. Freed, with this going on...how safe do you feel?"
"It would seem a majority of people are not voting for me," Freed responded.
"So it'd be safe to say that a majority of the votes are going elsewhere, save for those votes for whom we can guess they're going to." Flash was looking right at Natsu, Gray, and Juvia when he said this to Freed. Freed nodded. "Alright, we're about to vote Elfman. With all this talk about Natsu and Gray being the mark, what are the odds of a blindside happening tonight?" Flash asked.
"Uh... Dunno how to answer that!" Elfman replied.
"Well I know how to answer that." Flash grinned. "And that's through a vote. I've gotta say, it's been a bit of a fireworks show this Tribal Council, but like all great things, they gotta end. It is, time to vote." Like with Yuri and Precht before them, he instructed Warrod on the voting procedure. "Cana. You're up." Without skipping a beat, Cana went to cast her vote.
Levy casted her vote.
Natsu: Hehe! You're going down, Gray! (Gray)
Gray: It's obvious who needs to go tonight… (Natsu)
Juvia: Gray-Sama shouldn't be bothered like this! Gray-Sama and Juvia will be in the final two! (Natsu)
Freed: This is for Laxus's victory… (?)
Once Freed returned to his seat, Flash asked, "You wanna get the votes this time, G?"
"Sure, sure! Pass 'em over, Flashy!" G replied cheerfully. Flash passed the urn on over to G. G took it and read over the votes. "Alright, three of you are safe with no votes to your name. When I read your names, take your keys from the keychain. First, Elfman."
"Hell yeah! Safe!" Elfman cheered.
"Levy." Levy sighed in relief as she retrieved her key.
"And Freed." Freed calmly retrieved his key.
"Now, for the rest of you...you all have votes to your names."
Juvia growled angrily, while Cana just seemed surprised.
"Three of you don't have enough to be voted off. The first two are...
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...Juvia and Gray."
"Yes! Gray-Sama is safe!" Juvia cheered.
"Why the hell is Gray safe and not me?!" Natsu yelled.
"Because you're an idiot." Gray deadpanned.
"The last one that's safe is...
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...Natsu."
"What?!" Gray yelled.
Cana seemed equally shocked.
"Ha! Sucks to be you, Gray! You're going home next time!" Natsu yelled happily as he took his key.
"I'll let Flash wrap up this Tribal Council." G said cheerfully.
"Cana, you need to bring us your torch." Flash instructed. He turned to G as she did so. "Mind showing me how to snuff torches just in case?"
"Ah, right. I need to do that, Ehe." G responded.
"Cana, your tribe has spoken." Flash said, G snuffing her torch. "Time for you to go." Cana allowed Colette and Hank to escort her off. To close out Tribal Council, Flash said, "Well, it doesn't matter if you're an Ice Devil Slayer, or an Exceed, one thing's for certain - a blindside is a blindside. Hopefully this will be the start of a very exciting game. Grab your stuff, head back to camp, g'night." And with that, the six surviving players of the Warrod tribe did so.
Cana's Final Words: That was surprising. Why did they even vote me? Ah well, whatever! A bunch of jewel would've been great, but I've got alcohol either way!
The Votes!
Natsu- Gray, Juvia
Gray- Natsu
Juvia- Cana
Cana- Freed, Levy, Elfman
(Next time on Survivor…
A twist shakes up tribal lines, and the fairies strategies. But their pre-existing relationships aren't the only things they'll be taking off.
I'll be doing teasers like this from here-on this season.)