Chapter 101: Sky Labyrinth
Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. I thought I'd kick the games off with a bang, I tried my best to make it exciting since I thought the original Fairy Tail episode didn't really have much to offer. I hope you like what I have planned. Please Review and Enjoy.
Down below at the hotel, Blondie was recording Roxas and Sora's teams running up to the Sky Labyrinth.
"Alright Fairy Tale viewers, Blondie Lockes here at the start of the Grand Magic Games in Fiore where already our teams are faced with a tremendous challenge. There are 114 guilds including us in these games, but by the end of the night it will be down to only 8. Will Sora and Roxas be able to lead their teams to the finals? Stay tuned and find out." Blondie recorded.
As the two paths separated Sora looked to Roxas' team and smirked.
"Hey you guys better make it to the finish line in time!" Sora calls out.
"Oh we will because we're the best. Get it memorized." Lea said as they entered the labyrinth.
Once inside they were greeted by a giant 3-dimensional maze.
"Okay this place keeps getting more and more interesting." Daring said impressed.
"But how are we going to find the finish line?" Crystal asks when Roxas summons Pirate King.
"What is it you want most?" Roxas smirks holding up the compass part of it causing them all to smile.
"Now that's what I'm talking about." Raven said as they followed the compass needle.
Making their way deeper into the maze they saw a goal sign in the distance.
"There it is." Crystal smiles.
"This was way too easy." Daring smirks walking forward to the goal line when suddenly Lea heard something.
"Look out!" Lea said yanking him out of the way as a blast of light struck the ground where Daring was standing.
"You guys really thought you would get to the finish line before us?" Looking up they saw 5 people glaring down at them. One had spiky blonde hair, a grey sleeveless shirt under a blue and gold vest. This was Sting Euclciffe. One had shaggy black hair that hid a portion of his face and a black cloak that covered most of him. This was Rogue Cheney. One had a red jacket with frills, a red mask over his face and red hat over his blonde hair. This was Rufus Lore. The fourth person had no shirt to reveal his muscles, spiky green hair and a black headband. This was Orga Nanagear. Finally, the fifth member was a girl with short white hair and a white and blue feathered cloak. This was Yukino Aguria.
Sting looks at Roxas' arm to see the Hearts of Light logo and smirks. "Oh so you're the guys he was talking about. The one who were actually stupid enough to turn down an offer to join Sabertooth."
"Sabertooth? Wait a minute you guys part of that guild?" Crystal asks.
"That's right and Master Jiemma was not pleased with your rejection." Rufus said.
"Well excuse us for not wanting to join the biggest losers ever." Lea said causing Orga to raise an eyebrow.
"Losers? We're the undefeated champions of these games. Show some respect." Orga said
"Respect is something you earn and frankly you guys don't deserve any." Raven said.
"Oh I am going to enjoy beating you guys, almost as much as beating Natsu." Sting said cracking his knuckles.
"We faced you losers earlier and we wiped the floor with them." Daring said.
"Those members weren't worthy enough to wipe my shoes. You're facing the real deal." Orga said.
Sting and Rogue leap down towards them.
"Shadow Dragon Claw!" Rogue said as darkness formed in his fists.
"White Dragon Roar!" Sting took a deep breath and a blast of light shot towards them.
Summoning his keyblade Lea creates a wave of flames which clashes with the roar canceling each other out.
As Rogue rushed towards Raven she fired a giant blast of darkness at him which caused an explosion.
Raven grins thinking she had gotten him until the smoke cleared to reveal Rogue eating her darkness. "Hmm not bad." Rogue said.
"You ate my attack?" Raven said shocked.
"You never seen a Dragon Slayer before?" Rogue asks as he charged towards her continuing his attack.
"Dragon Slayer magic? Whoa that sounds cool." Brooke said.
"I've never heard of that magic before." The female narrator said.
"Elecmon! Help!" Daring said taking out his Digivice.
"You too Flamemon!" Lea said taking out his.
As the two Digimon appeared Yukino looked at them with interest.
'Are they Celestial Wizards too?' She thought.
"Elecmon digivolve to…Leomon!" A bright light engulfs Elecmon turning him into a large lion Digimon that stood on two legs, had a sword strapped to his side and was wearing long pants.
"Flamemon digivolve to…Agunimon!"
"I don't remember creatures like that." Rufus said.
"What are those things?" Rogue asks surprised.
"I don't know about you, but that think could be our new mascot." Sting said looking at Leomon.
"I serve only Daring and his friends." Leomon said.
"Open gate of the fish! Pisces!" Yukino said pulling out a gold key which summons two giant fish monsters. One was black and the other was white.
"Oh man those are some big fish." Roxas said as he summoned Kingsglaive in his other hand. "Alright guys let's show these guys how we do things."
Crystal draws her wand, darkness formed in Raven's hand and Daring turned into his Beast form.
As Yukino, Sting and Rogue took fighting stances, Rufus drew his sword and electricity surrounded Orga.
Charging towards each other the two teams, spirits and Digimon met in the middle.
With Sora's team, the 5 of them were a little further from the finish line than Roxas' team, but they had run into more enemies.
As Sora, Donald, Goofy, Kitty and Kairi were standing on a platform an enemy guild rushed towards them but as they were about to climb the staircase one of the members falls through the stairs and screams before hitting a lower platform.
"Nice thinking Donald." Kairi said.
"They never saw it coming." Donald smirks as they ran down the hall only to come face to face with another guild.
"Who the heck are you guys?"
Looking at them Sora looked at them and saw the same emblem Yen Sid had.
"Whoa you guys are Fairy Tail?" Sora said surprising them.
'They're from Yen Sid's old guild?' Donald, Goofy, Kitty and Kairi thought.
Looking at the 5 figures the first was a tall man with spiky yellow hair, headphones and large coat. This was Laxus Dreyar. The second was a man with long black hair, this was Gajeel Redfox. The third was woman with long white hair and a black dress, this was Mirajane Strauss. The fourth was girl with long blue hair, this was Juvia Lockser. And finally, the last person was a man wearing a cloak that covered his face and most of his body with multiple staffs strapped to his back, this was Jellal Fernandas.
"Wow, they let in all kinds of weirdoes into the games." Gajeel said looking at Donald and Goofy.
Jellal looks at their guild marks and though you couldn't see it because of the mask he had a puzzled look on his face. 'I've never seen that mark before. Who are these people?' He thought when suddenly they heard an explosion go off in the distance.
"That was in the direction of the stadium." Juvia said.
"We must be near the finish line." Laxus said.
"Well then sorry about this." Kitty said appearing behind Gajeel surprising him.
"What the—" Before he could finish Kitty whacks him with her tonfas knocking him into his team.
"RUN!" Kitty yells as they sprinted in the direction of the finish line.
"Those guys are so dead!" Gajeel snaps as he ran after them while Laxus was looking at Kitty curiously.
'Invisibility, that's an interesting type of magic.' Laxus thought as he ran after Gajeel with the rest of the team right behind him.
Back near the finish line, Hearts of Light was facing off against Sabertooth and needless to say the team was starting to realize that these members were A LOT tougher than the ones they beat earlier.
Lea swings his keyblade at Rufus who bobs and weaves out of the way with ease.
"Memory Make: Shrine of Turbulent Fang!" Rufus said creating multiple whirlwinds which blew Lea's flames out and sent him tumbling to the ground.
"Oh you want to play like that huh?" Lea growls as he threw his keyblade which spins flames knocking Rufus backwards.
Up above Agunimon and Leomon were fighting off Pisces as the giant fish tried to destroy them.
"Fist of the Beast King!"
"Pyro Tornado!"
Both Digimon leaped in the air and punched the two giant fishes in the face sending them crashing down towards the ground where Raven was firing multiple blasts at Yukino. Running forward Yukino gives Raven a roundhouse to the side.
"I don't just rely on my spirits to do the fighting." Yukino said when Raven catches her foot.
"Good then this would be way too easy." Raven glares as purple flames surrounded her fists and she knocks Yukino backwards.
Nearby Roxas was clashing with Sting and the two of them were in a lock trying to push the other one back.
"You really think we're gonna lose to a bunch of first-time rookies? You're should drop out before you get humiliated." Sting smirks.
"Someone needs to teach arrogant jerks like you a lesson and that's my specialty." Roxas moves his blades to the side leaving Sting wide open as he smashes them into him knocking him to the ground.
Running around Crystal was dodging Rogue's attacks while firing blasts of ice at him while Daring and Orga grabbled.
"Yukino slow these people down!" Sting yells.
"Open Gate of the Scales, Libra!" Yukino said as a tan skin woman with scales appeared.
As Libra looked out at them she noticed the keyblades in Roxas and Lea's hands surprising her.
'Forgive me great warriors.' She thought activating her scales.
"What the?" Lea said when suddenly large amounts of gravity came down on top of Hearts of Light trapping them.
"I…can't move." Raven groans.
Daring looks up to see Rufus making his way up the stairs to the finish line.
"And just like that, we win." Sting grins.
"Strongest! Strongest! Number one!" Orga sang causing all of them to cringe in pain.
'Not if I have anything to say about it.' Daring growls before turning to Orga. "Hey ugly! That's the worst singing I've ever heard!"
Orga turns to Daring with a cold expression. "What did you say?"
"You heard me. Your singing is more torture than all this gravity pushing down on us. You have no musical talent whatsoever. I've seen trolls who live under bridges who can sing better than you. So I guess it's a good thing you're a wizard because you're too horrible and stupid to be anything else" Daring declares.
"Why you son of a! 120mm Black Lightning Cannon!" Orga yells blasting Daring with a powerful beam of black lightning.
Grinning Daring takes the blast head on sending him flying up towards Rufus.
"See ya losers!" Daring yells as he turns back into his human form.
Everyone watches in shock as Daring crashes on top of Rufus just as he reaches the goal surprising Mato who was waiting there.
"It's…It's a tie. Hearts of Light and Sabertooth tie for first place." Mato announces shocking Sabertooth.
"We tied?" Rogue said as Sting turned to Orga.
"Nice going Orga." He growls as Yukino undoes her spell on the Hearts of Light.
"Daring tricked him into attacking so he could cross the finish line." The Female narrator said.
"Now that was a stunt worthy of the Charming name." The Male Narrator said.
"Way to go Daring." Brooke said.
Smiling Roxas, Raven, Crystal and Lea run up the steps to see Daring covered in bruises.
"Daring are you okay?" Raven asks concerned.
"Why'd do you that?" Lea asks.
"I took a risk and it paid off." Daring smirks causing them all to smile.
"Now that was taking one for the team." Crystal said.
"You're the best Daring." Roxas smiles offering him a hand.
"I'd take your hand Roxas, but I'm too worn out to move." Daring groans.
"Don't worry you got us in. Let's get you some rest." Lea said helping Daring up as the two teams were being transported back to their hotels but as they left Sting looks to Roxas who was smirking at him causing Sting to growl.
'I am gonna enjoy taking you down.' Sting thought before disappearing.
Appearing back at the hotel everyone is surprised to see them.
"Daring!" Dexter, Darling and Rosabella gasp in shock when they see him all hurt and worn out.
"What happened to him?" Apple asks as they helped lay Daring down on the bed.
"Daring took one for the team and because of him we tied for first place." Crystal said surprising them.
"We're in the games?" Briar said excited.
"Yep and so are those guys from Sabertooth." Roxas nods.
Rosabella looks to Daring and a serious expression appeared on her face as she tightened her fist.
"Are you gonna be okay Daring?" Dexter asks.
"They didn't hit me in the face, so I think I'll live." Daring said causing Rosabella to giggle. "But I don't think I'll be of much help tomorrow. Someone's going to have to take my place."
"We'll worry about that later, right now you just need to get some rest." Rosabella said putting a blanket over him.
Smiling Daring looks to Rosabella and lays down.
"Any news on Sora's team?" Roxas asks.
"Not yet, let's hope compared to you guys they haven't gotten into as much trouble." Riku said.
"Who are we kidding? It's Sora we're talking about, he gets in as much trouble as Roxas." Lea said.
"No arguments there." Roxas said.
Back in the labyrinth, Sora had summoned Favorite Deputy and blocks Gajeel's Iron Dragon Sword.
"That's a tasty looking weapon." Gajeel grins.
"Tasty?" Sora sweatdrops when Veemon rushed in.
"Hang on Sora! V-Headbutt!" Veemon yells ramming into Gajeel from the side causing him to skid back.
"What is that thing?" Gajeel growls.
"Aw it's adorable." Mirajane smiles.
"Thank you." Veemon blushes.
"Focus Mirajane, Juvia cannot afford to lose this." Juvia said firing multiple blasts of water Goofy who blocks them with his shield.
"Sorry about this but you're not the only team who needs to win." Goofy said charging to ram into Juvia only to go right through her.
"Huh?" Donald looks to see Juvia's body was made of water.
"Sorry but physical attacks won't work on Juvia." She said.
"Now then how about this? Thunder!" Donald yells blasting Juvia with a bolt of electricity making her flinch in pain.
Lightning surrounded Laxus as he fired multiple bolts of lighting at Kitty.
"Whoa!" Turning invisible she dodges them again and again before making her way towards the finish line.
"Mirajane stop her!" Laxus yells.
"Satan Soul!" Mirajane yells as her body changed to that of a demon scaring everyone on the other side.
"And I thought Raven's mom was scary." Kairi gulps.
As Mira flies towards Kitty Kairi spins her keyblade and fires a beam of light at Mira but Jellal gets in front of her and deflects the attack.
"Oh no you don't!" Jellal said drawing a staff and clashing with Kairi.
Putting her tonfas together in a bo staff Kitty tries to block Mira's claws but she knocked Kitty to the ground with ease sending her tumbling.
"Mirajane get to the finish line!" Gajeel yells as Donald tackles him from behind and hits him on the head multiple times with his staff.
"Guys we need something big!" Goofy said giving Kairi an idea.
"Great idea Goofy! Come on out Zolephant!" Spinning her keyblade the large elephant Dream Eater appeared and swung its trunk knocking Jellal away as it lifted Kairi onto its back.
"Whoa Kairi, when did you learn that?" Sora asks surprised.
"I've been practicing." Kairi smiles as the Zolephant charged after Mira who looked behind to see the big dream eater gaining on her.
Racing in front of Kairi, Laxus coats his fist with lightning.
"Lightning Dragon's Breakdown Fist!" He yells as a fist made of lighting flies towards Kairi. Acting quickly the Zolephant throws Kairi over Laxus and takes the attack himself before screaming in pain and disappears to heal its wounds.
As Kairi runs alongside Mira the two of them look towards Mato who was waiting and then to each other.
Drawing Destiny's Embrace Kairi swings it at Mira who blocks it with her claws before countering back.
Sparks flew as the two of them clashed.
As the two of them neared Mato both Kairi and Mirajane dove towards the finish line. At first it looked like Mirajane was going to touch first but Kairi used her keyblade to extend and they touched the goal at the same time.
"Congratulations! Both your teams have tied for second place." Mato said surprising them all.
"We tied?" Gajeel said.
"Yes, you are the second group of people to tie for a position which brings the total of teams in the games to a total of 10." Mato said.
"10 Teams?" Donald asks.
"That's right, with two more these games are sure to be twice as exciting. Be at the stadium tomorrow morning and be ready to face off. Good luck." Mato said as both teams disappeared once he did Mato sighs heavily. "10 Guilds competing in the Grand Magic Games. How are we going to make this work?"
Back at the hotel Sora's team appeared and told everyone the good news.
"Both teams are going to the games!" Maddie cheers.
"Way to go fellas." Mickey said.
"I knew you guys could do it!" Hopper smiles.
"That's right viewers both our teams will be participaiting in the Grand Magic Games tomorrow, so tune in tomorrow for the main event." Blondie said into her mirrorpad.
"So who did you guys tie with?" Lea asks.
"Fairy Tail." Goofy said surprising them.
"Yen Sid's old guild? Were they strong?" Riku asks.
"Oh yeah there was this one guy who took down my Dream Eater with one punch." Kairi said causing their eyes to widen.
"These games just got interesting." Ramona grins.
"Sounds like we have some competition." Darling said.
"We better all get some rest we have a big day tomorrow." Namine suggests.
All of them nod as they went back to their rooms as Roxas was about to go to his room he felt a tap on his shoulder. Turning around he saw Sora standing behind him.
"What's up?" Roxas asks.
"Hey just because we both made and we're friends doesn't mean my team and I are going to go easy on you guys. If we end up facing each other we won't hold back." Sora smiles.
"Right back at ya. But we still have 8 other teams to face in these games so we'll have our work cut out for us." Roxas said.
"Plus if Yen Sid finds out you guys took the easy way he probably won't be too pleased." Looking down they saw Mickey smiling at them.
"True enough." Roxas said.
"Guess we better give it our all." Sora said as they went to bed.
At the Fairy Tail Guild's hotel, Master Makarov was waiting patiently when Laxus appears down the hall.
"So how did it go?" Makarov asks.
"We got second place." Laxus said.
"Excellent that means both our teams made it in." Makarov grins
"What place did Natsu's team get?" Laxus asks.
"8th place. They just barely made it in." Makarov said causing Laxus to smirk.
Suckers." Laxus said before thinking about Sora's Hearts of Light team.
"Something else on your mind Laxus?" Makarov asks looking at the expression on his face.
"There was another guild, we ended up tying with them." Laxus said getting his attention.
"Who was it?" Makarov asks.
"They called themselves Heart of Light." Laxus said.
"Hearts of Light? I've never heard of such a guild." Makarov said raising an eyebrow. "We're they strong?"
"They were decent, their guild members were…unique." Laxus said.
"How so?" Makarov asks.
"Well you remember those old stories you used to read to me when I was a kid? One of the members reminded me of those books. What was it called? Uh…Wonderland." Laxus said.
"Wonderland? Alice in Wonderland?" Makarov asks curiously.
"I know it's weird but there was something else, they had these weird weapons. They were swords but they looked like keys." Laxus said causing Makarov's eyes to widen.
"Keys? We'll have to keep a close eye on them. If they tied with you that means they'll be in the games as well." Makarov said as Laxus nods and made his way to bed. "Hearts of Light. Hmm I haven't seen a keyblade in a long time…not since you were around old friend." Makarov said as he looks to his room where he slept in there was a picture of a young him and a young Yen Sid smiling together. "If they're in the games we'll have our work cut out for us, I wonder what their story is?"
