S.R: Hi guys. Sorry about the delay, I've been working on other things. Some of those things you may like to know are coming soon (Like no more than a week after this chapter goes up). WARNING: there is a scene I really didn't want to write in this one. If it had been another character I wouldn't have an issue with it but I wanted to make something personal to Natsu so he'd reveal the third Fire Dragon Slayer magic form he has. Please forgive me for doing what I did to the character it happened to, I apologize in advance. Also this will be a longer chapter because I just started typing and typing and typing.
NATSU'S POV
"Alright listen up brats!" Erza and I heard as we walked back into the main room of the guild hall. Turning our heads towards the banister on the second floor we saw Gramps standing on it about to make a speech. "I have been approached by the council. They've put together a competition for the guilds and want us to participate…. Normally I wouldn't care but they're giving the winning guild 30 million jewels. I want you all to get ready, because we're gonna win not only for the money but to prove once more that Fairy Tail is the number 1 guild in Fiore!"
Everyone began to get excited and pumped, before falling silent at the knock on the door. Gramps called out for the person to enter and we all saw that it was a messenger frog from the council. "I've been sent to inform you of the rules of this competition. Rule 1. Each guild participating can enter a team of five plus one stand in that may be swapped in at any time. Rule 2. Any guild caught interfering with another will be disqualified. This also includes antagonizing a non participating member. Rule 3. the guild masters may not be on the team due to master Makarov being the only guild master to also be a Wizard Saint. Rule 4. For safety reasons only A and S class wizards may participate. Rule 5. Each member may only participate once in an event. Though all fights are predetermined the day before."
"So we can't choose when to participate?" Gray asked curiously. "You may choose when you participate as the fights are separated from the events." the frog answered him. After waiting a few moments just in case anyone else had a question the frog announced "When you inform the council of your team selection they will notify you of the time and location for this even that will be known as the Grand Magic Games" and left. Gramps put a hand to his chin and thought a minute before saying "The team will be Natsu, Laxus, Erza, Mira, Gray, and Gajeel with Juvia as the stand in. I want you to stay in town training for these Grand Magic Games.
A FEW MONTHS LATER
"Are you sure master?" Erza asked Gramps as he announced that only the guild members participating in the Grand Magic Games and himself would be going to Crocus for the games. He nodded at her before explaining the council decided to air the competition live so there would be no reason for the whole guild to go, and then mentioned the council is paying for the hotels so we can only take the number of people they're willing to pay for. "But what if we pay for a room or two ourselves?" Erza questioned trying to get it set up so that Wendy could go with us. "I don't mind if you do that" was Gramp's reply.
"Erza are you sure you want to take Wendy with you? I mean Crocus is a big place and since your participating you won't be able to keep an eye on her." Macao asked knowing Wendy was the reason behind Erza's questioning. She just nodded her head in response before smiling down at Wendy who was taking a nap in her lap. I gave my wife a knowing smile as to the biggest reason she wanted to keep Wendy close. Lately she'd been having nightmares of when she woke up all alone after Grandeeney left.
"It'll be fine Macao. So long as she doesn't leave the city I'll be able to know where she's at and you know as well as we do that she won't get into trouble since she's so well behaved." I commented deciding to keep Wendy's nightmares a secret from the guild so they don't smother her (A/N: she gets enough smothering from Natsu and Erza). Gramps turned around to finish signing the last few pages of paperwork he had to do before we could leave, so I picked Wendy up out of Erza's lap and got the three of us ready to go. Once Gramps finished his work we left the guild hall for the train station.
Thankfully the train was mostly empty so we had no problem finding seats. The ride was filled with small talk between the guys and I since Wendy had gone back to her nap and Erza was napping as well. Though After a couple stops we were joined by Lamia Scale. "You know, just from how you and Erza are sitting with little Wendy I can tell the two of you would be good parents" Jura said after greeting us. "You didn't know? We adopted her." I replied with a smile. Jura smiled as well before saying he was glad to see she has a proper family now. The small talk continued till we reached Crocus as which point Lamia Scale split off to go to their registered hotel while we did the same. Erza and I payed for our own separate room so Wendy could stay with us. After that we followed Gramps to the check in location before being ushered into reserved viewing box in the stadium to be told we had two hours before the Grand Magic Games officially start. I decided to take a nap so Erza sat down and let me lie on her lap.
Two hours later as they're rapping up the opening announcements and starting that two of the four fights scheduled for today would be happening before the first event with the last two scheduled fights happen after the event. At that point they called for Me, Jura, Hibiki, and a girl named Flare from Raven Tail to head to the waiting rooms while the arena gets prepared. Wendy walked out of the box with me saying she was going to get a drink.
WENDY'S POV
After telling daddy I was going to get a drink I skipped off towards the nearest concession stand only to be hit in the head from behind. As I fell I felt a foot kick me in the back. I tried to stand up, but was hit by what felt like a hammer. It hurt so much I couldn't even cry out in pain. I just fell back to the floor and laid there on the ground being attacked, whimpering in pain because I couldn't even speak. I tried to gather my magic to force them back so I could get up but someone stomped on my right hand. I then felt someone run a short blade through my right leg. The blade was pulled out and stabbed in a few more times before whoever it was repeated the action to my left arm. My eyes started to water at the pain as I felt my jaw being kicked until it was dislocated. But then I was hit in the back of the head once more and I fell unconscious.
I don't know what they did while I was unconscious but when I woke up again my stomach was bruised up and my shirt was in bloody tatters. I tried to move right arm only to find it broken. Someone noticed I was moving again and slapped me so hard I began to see double. I slowly shook my head trying to focus. Looking down at my legs I saw my left leg was bent at weird angels and that my skirt as in the same condition as my shirt while my socks were nonexistent. My eyes started tearing up again, as someone smacked me once more this time making my lip split open. Trying to be defiant I spit up some of the blood that was pooling in my mouth from the split lip. Someone behind me noticed and ran a very sharp pointed stick or something in a jagged line across my back just deep enough to cause scaring. Whoever it was then slammed a fist into the center of my spine cracking it and making my watery eyes finally start crying. I began crying more as the person held me up and began to speak.
NATSU'S POV
Half an hour later I was allowed out into the stadium to see that Jura was my opponent. As the bell rang for the fight to start he and I both got into a combat stance and let out a bit of magic, before hearing a shout from the Raven Tail guilds box. Ivan the guild master and former Fairy Tail member was holding up a crying Wendy. Her clothes were torn, she was covered in bruises and cuts, and just overall looked like she'd been tortured. Ivan was yelling about Fairy Tail being weak and useless demanding that we be kicked out of the games. Before he could finish the stadium was shaking due to my magic flaring to its maximum. "Ivan you were once a member of Fairy Tail so I will give you a warning. Let my daughter go our not even the council will stop me from slaughtering your entire fucking guild!" I shouted only to be laughed at. Launching myself at him, his guild jumped in front of me thinking the could stop me. I just used my Fire Dragon's Roar and they fell like charred logs. Ivan's eyes went wide at how his mages were taken out by one attack. Before he could make a move I hit him with a Fire Dragon's Talon followed by a Fire Dragon's Grip strike and then I slammed a Fire Dragon's Iron Fist into his jaw shattering it and forcing him to drop Wendy. Quickly catching her I pulled my daughter into my arms and held her tightly against my chest. I jumped backwards and landed in the Fairy Tail box.
I turned and handed Wendy to Erza before attempting to finish demolishing Raven Tail, only to be stopped by Gramps. "Let me handle this Natsu" he said before enlarging his right arm and crushing Ivan with it. I had Erza run Wendy to the infirmary telling her I'd come see them once the situation was dealt with. Somehow Ivan was still standing after the beatings he received from Gramps and I. "Gramps let me blow off a bit more steam" I said walking towards Ivan once more. I focused my anger into my right hand and watched as my flames went from orangish red to a solid black and hit Ivan with my Godless Flame Dragon's Secret Art Chaotic Blaze: Demolishing Fists. I waled on Ivan for a good twenty five minutes before casting my Godless Flame Dragon's Roar which caused him to finally pass out. At that point I had calmed down and walked back to Gramps side to deal with the council. The council disqualified Raven Tail for attacking Wendy and was going to disqualified us for my vengeful attack but the other guilds jumped to our defense. For some reason they kept secret, Lamia Scale offered to back out in our place so they could so there would still be an even number of guilds. Gramps didn't want them to leave for our sake so the council decided to continue on with the match between Jura and I. The loosing guild would back out.
"I do not wish to fight him right now as his adopted daughter is in bad shape. He should be with her right now." Jura tried to call the fight off or get it moved to the end of the day so I could check on Wendy. "This issue must be dealt with first it cannot be put off and delayed" the council spokesman told us. "I know you enjoy a good fight Natsu, so please forgive me for ending this quickly since they won't let us delay" Jura spoke to me. "You'll forgive me for trying the same then" I told him as the bell for the fight rang once more. This time neither one of us delayed choosing to charge forward. We traded hits for a minute or two before I jumped back and sucked in a deep breath for my Fire Dragon's Roar only for Jura's Rock Wall to spring up between us. My roar made it through 4 layers before I felt too much resistance so I cut it off and used the dust thrown up as cover. Following my nose I came up right behind Jura and hit him with my Fire Dragon's Wing Attack only for him to shrug off most of the damage. "Supreme King Rock Crush" Jura cried out and I was encased in rocks momentarily.
Deciding I needed to take things up a notch I began to each some of the rocks for a power up. I pulled myself out of the pile of rocks and slammed my hands into the ground crying out Earth Dragon's Secret Art Sturdy Ground: Trembling Earth. I succeeded in creating a fissure under Jura that he fell into. Standing still I waited for his next move. He rose out of the crack on a rock pillar before pointing at me and using his Rock Avalanche. I jumped under the attack towards him and hit with my Earth Dragon's Stone Fist which pushed him off the rock pillar and into the arena wall. With the dust kicked up I didn't see him silently cast his Iron Rock Fist and got sent flying into the other arena wall. Pulling myself out of the wall I activated my Flame Drive and dashed off appearing before him in a the blink of an eye. I front flipped and hit him with my Earth Dragon's Piercing Claw which forced him to the ground. He recovered quick enough to grab my leg and throw me into one of the earth pillars that was still standing from his rock wall spell.
The pillar collapsed on top of me pining me down long enough for Jura to cast Rumbling Mt. Fuji Taking the full brunt of the attack I fell to the ground. I panted for a moment to recover and slowly pushed myself up. "Sorry Jura but I'm done messing around. It's time for me to end this" I said as I deactivated my Flame Drive and instead forced myself into Dragon Force. I jumped up and used some flames to hold myself in the air as I began my chant "With the flames of my left hand, and the stones of my right hand, bring them together… Flaming Earth Dragon's Volcanic Avalanche." when my spell was done I threw my arms down at Jura and the ground watching the attack slam into him and explode before erupting upwards and encasing him in a torrent of flames that then fell bringing down brimstone to bury Jura. I lowered myself to the ground where I stood panting and waiting for something to happen.
"The Winner is Natsu Dragneel!" they announced, at which point I left the arena and went straight the infirmary where I was greeted by a smiling Erza and Wendy. "They used healing magic to seal up the cuts and prevent scaring but she'll still be bruised in places for a few days as she recovers" Erza said after hugging me. I smiled down at Wendy "that's good news. I've got some good news as well" I started only to be cut off since they already knew. Apparently the medical staff turned on a lacrima screen for them to watch what was going on. "That was an amazing fight Natsu. You've managed to beat 2 wizard saints now." Erza said as I sat down in the chair next to her.
"You'd be wrong there Erza. When I first found Natsu he was on a rampage and beat me. It wasn't till after I woke up that I learned he'd gone crazy from hunger and attacked me for the food I was carrying." Gramps said walking into the room with Jura and few more people accompanying them. "That was an impressive fight my boy" began the one who walked in right next to Gramps. "I'm Yajima and I'm a member of the council. I along with our chairman came down to congratulate you. But now I'm curious. You've beaten Jura publicly, Makarov here just admitted to losing to you and your wife says you've beaten another. Who would that be?" I answered that I'd beaten Jellal or more appropriately as the council knew him Segrain.
"Very Impressive. We'd wondered where Segrain had gone but then councilwoman Ultear discovered his hand in trying to build the R system and we thought he vanished while creating the Tower of Heaven, now we know the truth... But we still need to fill both his and Jose Parla's spots as wizard saints. Considering what we've just learned and the fact you just publicly proved yourself to be stronger than Jura who is a wizard saint I must ask. Would you fill one of the two slots?" the remaining man who must have been the council chairman spoke. I thought about it for a moment receiving nods of encouragement from Erza and Wendy so I nodded my head. "We'll deal with the actual details later then. Then main reasons I came down here were just to congratulate you and make sure your daughter was okay." Erza told everyone the same thing she told me. "That's good to hear. And I'm sure you all will be happy to hear everyone from Raven Tail that participated in this horrible act have been thrown in jail with the guild being disbanded. I will see you when we officially swear you in as a wizard saint, so good day to you all." The chairman then left. Yajima stayed a bit to use some of his magic to help Jura and I recover somewhat, then left saying he had a few more things to do today. Jura stayed for a while talking about the fight and how impressed he was .
"Well I've got to get back to my guild mates now so I'll see you all later" Jura said before leaving. As he left Mira walked in and gave us a report on what happened after Gramps left to come see us since we were talking and didn't pay attention to the Lacrima screen that was showing the rest of the games. The event was an obstacle course that they had to clear without setting off one of the many different alarms that were scattered throughout. There were magic sensor alarms, weight sensor alarms, motion sensor alarms, and even a heat sensor alarm. "Luckily Gajeel's senses warned him of the magic sensor, he was the only person to make it past that point so we won" Mira explained to us. We chatted a bit about the current standings before a doctor came by and gave us an all clear to leave as Wendy was starting to get antsy. "Well, I think its time we head back to the hotel and celebrate today's victory" Gramps said as we all stood up.
S.R: ONCE MORE I'D LIKE TO APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO WENDY. SHE IS AN ADORABLE CINNAMON ROLL THAT MUST BE PROTECTED BUT I NEEDED A VALID REASON FOR NATSU TO USE THE GODLESS FLAMES. Okay now that I've done that once more I can move on.
S.R: After I put this up and the other work I've done that will go up I will be putting this one on the back burner for a bit since its the furthest along out of all I've done that is ongoing right now (actually I think it is my longest running story too). It won't be too long though just long enough for Soaring Dragons to hit the 13th chapter and the other stories that will be going up to reach at least 4 chapters. So sometime around late April I'm guessing… I kid, I kid. But seriously I'll be working on the others more since I have the next arc started but it needs some major plot work (which I don't have in mind already unlike the other stories).
S.R: Also I should mention I borrowed the obstacle course idea from digemsmack who is awesome and you guys should totally go check him out if you haven't already. He's a great author and a fun guy to talk to (he responds to your reviews and is very open to discussions. Speaking of I will try to respond more to reviews and what not, I just need to remember to actually check the reviews). See ya'll later.