Double chapter today! Don't get hyped, just some exposition in this chapter. Setting up day 5, and the like.
Enjoy!
"You don't have to be so mad." Elise advised Nashi, who was still miffed. She laughed and looked over at Elise.
"This coming from you." She retorted, making the others laugh and Elise fume.
"She's got you there." Drake said, earning a punch in the arm. Ow! See?!"
"If Tetsu kept his mouth shut I wouldn't have gotten mad!" Elise shouted back, making Drake cower a bit.
"You get mad way to easily no matter what we're talking about..." He said lowly.
"What did you say?" Drake did not speak up again, which was probably for the best.
"Today seemed pretty tame." Ultear said. "Nothing extremely exciting happened."
"After yesterday that's hardly saying anything." Damien said, elbowing Simon with a smirk on his face. The redhead ignored this. "Tha tag team competition is tomorrow, huh?"
"It is." Simon answered. "Which means you and Ul are up for our event team, Damien." Damien smiled over at Ultear at this.
"We'll handle it, don't worry guys." He said, Ultear nodding.
"We'll do our best."
"And that means Nashi and Elise are up in the tag team fight, right?" Damien asked. Elise nodded.
"Yep. We have yet to have a fight." Nashi looked down at the table as her friends continued to talk about the tag competition.
The only ones left to fight...
Nashi could list everyone who was in the tag competition by process of elimination. Herself and Elise, Yuki and Kendra from Lamia Scale, Bella and Nikki from Blue Pegasus, Mai and Meg from Mermaid Heel, Kunio and Akihiro from Quatro Cerberus...
And Michael and Keita.
She wasn't an idiot.
Excusing herself from the table, Nashi walked out of the bar and up the stairs towards the room they all shared as competitors, lost in her thoughts.
The Queen set up the fights for each day...She would be insane if she didn't set it up...
"Just don't disappoint us, Keita!" Rina chastised. Keita rolled his eyes.
"So don't copy you?" he asked in a deadpan, making the others laugh. Rina just ignored him.
"But you guys are probably the best to go in the tag fight." Kyoko said, leaning on the table. "You work really well together."
"Do we?" Keita asked. Juno nodded.
"You do." She answered. "When you aren't fighting over something, that is." Keita knew that was often, so he hoped the next day would go over well.
"Speaking of your other half." Blake said. "Where is he?" The team looked around, but the White Dragon Slayer was nowhere to be found.
"He went for a walk a while ago..." Juno said. "I hope he's okay."
"I'm sure he's fine." Rina replied. "He jut wanted to get away from all the noise, I'm sure." Keita wasn't so sure.
"I'll go and look for him." He said, standing to leave." We should be planning for tomorrow, not wandering around aimlessly." He had more of an aim than that. Leaving the hotel and walking down the near empty streets, Keita was left alone with his thoughts, and one very specific thought in particular. He walked through a few streets before finally catching his friends scent, and he moved in the direction it was strongest. Doing so, he eventually found Michael overlooking the city, leaning against a railing.
"You okay?" He asked. Michael nodded without looking back at him.
"Just swell." He answered in a monotone. "Just...thinking."
"I think I can wager about what." Keita said, walking closer to his friend. Michael chuckled.
"You can read me like a book, Keita." He said quietly. Keita shook his head.
"No, I just know you're thinking what I'm thinking." Silence, then, "We both know who we're going up against tomorrow." Michael nodded again.
"Fairly obvious." he answered. "There's no way we aren't."
"What's got you so bothered? Nerves?" Michael shook his head once more.
"No." He said. "I'm just...wondering."
"About what?"
"If the power she displayed today is all she's capable of." Keita frowned, thinking back.
"I somehow doubt that incredibly." He replied. Michael sighed.
"That's what I'm worried about." he turned to look at Keita. "In any case, we should try and plan our way around this." Keita nodded.
"Never hurts to be prepared."
Elise decided to may have been appropriate to knock. She highly doubted that, for whatever reason, Nashi would be naked or something, but she wasn't risking it.
"Nashi?" She asked upon gaining no response from the knock. "You in there?"
"Yeah." Elise opened the door and found Nashi sitting on her bed, staring out the window.
"You okay?" She asked. "You were pretty pissed for a while, and then you got really quiet for some reason." Nashi nodded.
"I know. I was just thinking."
"About our tag fight?" Elise asked, and Nashi nodded again. "Hey, don't sweat it. We'll stomp whoever gets in our way and then we'll..."
"You do realize who we might be fighting right?" Nashi asked, cutting her off. Elise made a face as Nashi looked back at her. "Give it some thought, Elise. It should be fairly obvious." So Elise did that, and she thought about the tag team competitors. Only a select few hadn't had a fight yet...
She pieced it together fairly easily after that.
"Oh." She said. "That's what's bothering you." Nashi looked down.
"Yeah."
"Is that it?" Elise put her hands on her hips. "You're the one who survived a point blank Etherion explosion. Why are those two bothering you?" Nashi shrugged.
"I don't know." She said. "There's nothing to worry about at the end of the day, really. Not life threatening, for one. Which seems to be every time I have too fight." Elise couldn't agree more. They very rarely fought outside of for their lives. "But after today..."
"All he did was prevent you from moving." Elise jabbed. "other than that you would have had him."
"It wasn't just that." Nashi said. "Every time I tried to do something, he stopped me. His roar pierced mine, his punches hit harder, and he won." Nashi made a face. "Will that be the outcome of tomorrow too?" Elise looked down at the ground, thinking over what she was being told.
"Well, then that's it." She said, rubbing her hands together, making Nashi raise an eyebrow. Elise walked over, sat on the bed, pulled a pillow over, and rested herself on it. She smiled over at Nashi. "Let's come up with a strategy for tomorrow. If he have a battle plan, at least a vague one, we'll be set." Nashi watched Elise closely before she smiled.
"Good idea." She said. "If we have a plan, we'll be set up well." She grabbed a pillow for herself and a determined look grew over her face.
"After all, tomorrow the second Fire and Iron vs. Light and Shadow showdown begins"
It wasn't the sunlight that woke Nashi up on the fifth day of the Grand Magic Games. She'd woken up before that. As her friends all began to wake up and get dressed and ready for their day, Nashi remained sitting on the edge of her bed, thinking over what had happened the night before. Hours of planning, the two had spent, all preparing for half a =n hour of their day.
Maybe less, depending on who fell first.
"Nashi?" Nashi looked up to find Drake standing in front of her. "We're going." Nashi nodded and stood, walking towards the door. once she got there, he stopped her.
"What's the problem?" Nashi asked without looking over at him. Drake took a deep breath.
"You'll do fine." he told her. "Stop thinking about it so much." Nashi looked over and narrowed her eyes at him.
"How many times do I have to tell you to stay about of my head?" She demanded, and he met her fiery gaze with an equal amount of determination.
"Is it so wrong to worry about a friend?" he asked. She didn't really have a response for him, so she remained quiet and just stared at him. "I wanted to know what was worrying you, so I indulged myself. Listen, I'm sorry, okay? I just wanted to know."
"It's fine." She said. "It's one of your more endearing traits"
"...Gee, thanks." The two of them left the room and down into the lobby of the hotel, staying silent the whole way. Once they met up with the rest of the group, they left the hotel and walked towards the arena. Thankfully not a lot of people were out on the streets at that time, probably all huddled in bars across the city or in the Domus Flau, ready to watch the fifth day of the Games start up.
Once they reached the arena, they walked up towards their stand and once they got there, they could sense the hype. They on,y had to stand there for a short time before Ross cleared his throat, ready to start his shoutcasting.
"Good morning everyone!" He shouted, making the crowd cheered. "Today starts the tag team competition of the Grand Magic Games. Today the final competitors who have yet to compete i a fight or an event will do so! Are you ready to get started?!" The crowd roared a resounding yes. "Let's get right into it!Let me show you just what exactly our final event is!"
At first, nothing happened.
And then, the ground started to shake.
The center of the arena opened up, and a platform started to raise up from the pit below.
Something roared in anger.
"What the hell was that?" Simon asked. Nobody had an answer for him. The roar got louder, and finally, the platform raising up from beneath appeared.
"You can't be serious..." Ultear said in disbelief.
A Wyvern, chained down with magic, roared again as the crowd cheered itself into a frenzy.
And for the final event, ladies and gentlemen, do we have a good one!" Ross roared. "The event today features not only this angered Wyvern, but also our tag teams! Allow me to explain. This event, dubbed Scale Treasure Hunt, will have our teams of two from each competing guild squaring off against this angered Wyvern! However, defeating the beats is not the purpose of the event, as the name implies. All across this monsters, six scales have been painted with the insignia of each competing guild! Take a look!"
The lacrima vision turned on, and zoomed in on the beast and circled it. Nashi could see what Ross was talking about. Sitting in the center of the Wyvern's back, was a scale painted with Fairy Tail's guild mark.
"Each team will be competing to take the scale painted with their guilds mark! However, there is a catch, and a big one at that! If any team takes the Wyvern out before all scales have been taken, you will be disqualified! This, however, does not count if your guilds scale is the last to be retrieved! Teams will be ranked in descending order of time in took to retrieve their respective scale! So, say if you got your scale if one minute, and no other team did, you will be in first place!"
"So we just need to get our hands on the scale branded with the guild mark."Damien reasoned. "You ready, Ul?" Ultear gulped.
"Yeah...totally." She replied. "We, uh, have a plan right?" Damien laughed as the other teams descended into the arena.
"Sure we do! Come on!" Ultear didn't really have a choice. Partially because she was the only other one of them who had yet to do an event.
And also because Damien grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and dragged her down into the arena.
Not the longest chapter given the last few, but you guys have no room to complain seeing as you got two chapters today. I hope you enjoyed, leave a review! Let's try to get five!