Quick announcement, Johnsingh4642 gave me permission to use the first day of the GMG to his story the Fifth Guildmaster of Fairy Tail and I would recommend checking out his story and others that he has done.

I don't Own Naruto or Fairy Tail

Chapter 3

11:45 pm, Fairy Tail lodging

After their surprise meeting with Yajima and Co, the Fairy Tail members proceeded to carry out their plans in the capital city. While most of the members decided to just rest for the day in their lodging after a long day of traveling; some of the members like Naruto decided to go sightseeing around the city. He had taken Asuka and Romeo along with him to see the various beautiful sceneries and monuments littered around the city. And after a very fun and eventful day, they had all gathered inside their lodge during dinner hours as they had planned.

Presently they were all gathered around their lodge living room expectantly starting at the wall clock, waiting for it to finally strike midnight. Some of them like Naruto and Romeo were excited for the event to finally start, while the others were either fidgeting with nervousness or anxiety. For which no one could blame them for being so.

"Naruto-kun are you not at all nervous about the whole thing?" Kinana curiously asked the blonde as she saw him leaning against the wall with no concern like the others.

"Not at all. I know that whatever they have planned, we can handle it. I'll also keep them safe, so don't worry about it." Naruto assured, smiling at her worried nature

He grabbed her hand and gave it a comforting and gentle squeeze as he smiled at her.

"I know, but I can't help, but worry about everyone. We don't know who you'll be facing against, so I can't help, but be nervous." Kinana said as she accepted the small gesture with a smile on her face.

"I'll keep everyone safe, I promise you that." Naruto said as she nodded.

"Like, Naruto-kun said, don't worry about us. We'll be alright, but we appreciate the concern you have for us Kinana-chan." Laki said as she walked up to the duo who smiled at the wood-make user.

"I know Laki-chan, but I can't help, but be concerned for you and the others. I know you'll be alright, but just be careful." Kinana said with a pleading look.

"Fine, fine, we're going to be fine. Twist my arm why don't you with your cute and bright green eyes." Naruto muttered.

Kinana giggled in amusement at the blonde's attitude and blushed at his words at calling her cute. "That's good to know that you are still as confident as ever, Naruto-kun. But there is a chance that you might have to fight Jura-san in the games. So, please be a bit careful and not let your excitement cloud your judgment." She advised the blonde, who sheepishly nodded his head in understanding.

"Guys, look! it's almost midnight!" Bisca announced, pointing at the wall clock, wanting to change the attention off of him.

His tactic seemed to work quite well as all his friends snapped their heads toward the clock with varied expressions on their faces; the most prominent being nervousness.

"It's finally midnight, I wonder what the organizers have in store for us." Max loudly voiced the thought that was running through everyone's minds as the clock ticked twelve o'clock. They could also hear the church belt at a local church start to ring.

"What's going to happen?" Laki asked with a little nervousness in her tone. The whole city had become quiet and the only things that could be heard were the belt's tolls.

"To all the guilds here for the Grand Magic Game!" A massive and playful voice that could be heard all over the city hit them, surprising team Fairy Tail as well as the other none participants. They immediately ran outside to see what was happening. Above the city was the hologram of a man wearing a pumpkin head with large eyes and mouth, a striped shirt with white cuffs, a black shirt underneath, a dark cape with white edges and white underside, a pair of white pants, white boots, white gloves, and a dark witch-like hat "Good morning! and you can all call me Mato!"

"Whoa!" Romeo gasped in childlike amazement "He's huge."

"It's time.," Naruto muttered under his breath, a small smirk forming on his face as he cracked his knuckles.

"In order to reduce the participating teams from eighty-five down to six…" Mato said. "We will now begin the 'Preliminary Event'."

"What!?" All the members except Naruto cried out in shock who narrowed his eyes.

"This will be the first time we've ever had these games, so we hope that everyone enjoys them~" Mato started to dance around and said with a singsong tone

"You will all now compete with each other to find and collect a information lacrima. After finding this, each team had to reach the event ground, Domus Flau. The first six teams to make it will participate in the event. Your lodging will be the starting line for the preliminary." Mato explained the goal of the preliminary event in glee and continued with the rules.

"Feel free to use any magic you like, because there are no restrictions as long as you can find an information lacrima and make it to the Domus Flau. You can also fight the other teams for any additional lacrimas to eliminate teams, but remember that any team planning to simply steal one from the other team should at least have a lacrima in their hands already. Otherwise, your team will be delayed for doing unnecessary battles. However, if all five members of your team don't make it there, you still lose. And… one… more.. thing," Mato said with a dark chuckle "We take no responsibility for anyone who loses their life in this event."

"The Grand Magic Game's preliminary event! "TREASURE HUNT!" Mato cried and the whole city lit up "Has BEGUN!"

"How are we supposed to find such small lacrima orbs in such a large city!?" Jet cried out at the impossible task given to them.

"The most worrying part is that other teams might attack us for the orbs even if we somehow managed to find them," Bisca stated, making the other members even more anxious. As there was a large chance of other strong teams attacking them for the orbs since they were considered one of the weakest teams that were participating in this year's Grand Magic Games.

Jet looked at their team leader who had suddenly become quiet after the rules were announced, which was quite unusual for the boisterous blonde.

"Naruto, do you have any ideas where we can find a scroll quickly?" Jet inquired the blonde, who now had the attention of all the other members, wondering whether he had any plans.

"I might have something?" Naruto whispered, his head bowed down and his hair covering his face giving an ominous vibe.

"Really? Do you have any?" Max nervously gulped and repeated his question, quite taken aback by the blonde sudden change. He was sure that he wasn't the only one.

Seeing the confused looks on his friend's face Naruto chuckled and asked, "You guys know that I can make a large amount of clones, right?" He asked them, getting them to nod as they remembered what he was capable of with his Chakra.

"So...I can simply make hundreds of clones and have them search for the lacrima orbs for us. While we just chill here and wait for them to find one for us. After that, we can just head to the Domus Flau with it instantly.!" Naruto explained, his face threatening to split from the way he was grinning.

"He...he is right!" Max exclaimed in excitement as all of their eyes widened in understanding as they heard the blonde ingenious plan. "Why didn't we think of that before!?"

"But, what will your clones do if they are attacked by the other teams? Alzack curiously asked the grinning blonde.

"You don't have to worry about that," Naruto clarified, "All my clones are going to transform themselves into normal civilians so that other teams won't be able to recognize that it is me."

"You can use Chakra to transform as well!?" Laki cried out in disbelief as they all just learned that Naruto can use transformation magic as well.

"Yes, I can. They won't last long though, just enough for us to find what we need and get out before anyone can realize it." Naruto said.

'Is there a limit to what Chakra can do? Was the collective thoughts and questions running through all the member's minds?


12:45 am, Domus Flau

Just like Naruto had said, it didn't even take an hour for his numerous clones, which he had made and scattered all around the city, to find a lacrima for Team Fairy Tail. On top of that, the clones were also able to avoid getting into unnecessary fights with the other team's thanks to their change in appearance.

Now, Team Fairy Tail composed of Naruto, Max, Bisca, Jet, and Laki were excitedly heading toward the Domus Flau to hand over the Lacrima orbs that 'they' had found and finally complete the preliminary event.

As they neared the entrance of the massive stadium, they saw the peculiar figure of the event announcer Mato waiting for them. They also noticed that Mato's eyes behind his weird pumpkin mask/helmet seemed to be widening in shock as he saw them walking to the stadium.

"Well, that went as good as I expected." Naruto grinned as the team stood in front of Mato and Laki handed him the lacrima. After seeing it Mato started clapping his hands rapidly to congratulate them for passing the preliminary "So how did we do?"

Laki asked quickly which was completely out of character for her "We were first, right?"

"You are correct! Your team is the first one to make it to the Domus Flau with all five Lacrima orbs. Congratulations!" Mato cheered and congratulated Team Fairy Tail for finishing the preliminary round in first place. Even though, he was a bit taken aback by how fast they were able to complete the round.

"Yeah, we did it!" Bisca cheered as they all hugged each other in happiness. They had not only managed to pass through the preliminary round but had also managed to get first place! How exciting was that! They already knew that the others were going to be over the moon after learning about this.

Mato smiled fondly at the scene "Now, you can all go back to your lodgings now…" He ushered the excited team "You all deserve a good night's rest and you are going to need it for the morning event."


9:00 am, Domus Flau.

It was the moment they were all waiting for. The citizens of Crocus were gathered together inside the Domus Flau, excited for the upcoming event.

"The Magic Festival finally starts! The Grand Magic Tournament!"And the crowds went wild as they waited to see the 8 Teams that made it through the preliminary round.

"I'm Chapati Lola here. I'll be covering today's events."He introduced himself. Chapati was a middle-aged short man, thin and pale-skinned. His smooth face was rather unusual, square, and very big when compared to his small eyes, thin eyebrows, nose, mouth, and chin, all close together and located in the middle of the face. For attire, he wears a simple dark suit with a light shirt under it, dark pants, and a tie, where it reads 'Grand Magic Games'"We are honored to have Yajima-san, a former member of the Magic Council, as our commentator. Thrilled to have you here again, Yajima-san."

The old man gave a nod of acknowledgment. "The pleasure's mine," replied Yajima, and Chapati continued the introductions of the special guests of the day. An incredibly beautiful blonde woman.

"For day one's guest, we're privileged to have the upcoming spectacular Miss Fiore, Jenny Realight from Blue Pegasus!"Loud exclamations were heard and many cheers from fans could also be heard as she made her comment.

"We're gonna win this thing~!" Jenny stated with full confidence in her guild.

Inside one of the entrances of the Domus Flau, four members of Team Fairy Tail were nervously waiting for the participants to be called out, except for Naruto who waiting patiently. They were all wearing the same clothes that they were during the preliminary round.

Alzack, their reserve member, was currently with the other members of Fairy Tail watching the event from the audience stand.

"Okay… contestants are arriving. First Team ranks 6th in the preliminary event. Let's welcome them… Quatro Cerberus!"

"WILD!" All of the members shouted and some of them even flexed to show off some muscles, gaining a huge pop from the crowd.

"The 5th place is a female guild. Dancers of the Ocean… MERMAID HEEL!" Some of their members waved or blew kisses while the leader looked nonchalant, getting a raised eyebrow from him..

"Coming up, the 4th place is the Wings that Sparkle in the Dark, BLUE PEGASUS!"

"KYA! EVE-KUN!"

"HIBIKI-SAMA!

"REN~~~~~!"

Many girls yelled as they all posed in their famous handsome men's pose. However, Ichiya and the person who was in a bunny costume weren't making a very good impression.

"The 3rd place goes to the Goddess of Love and War, Sacred Destroyers… LAMIA SCALE!"

Lamia Scale, led by Jura, made their entrance.

"3rd place again?! Were you guys holding back, you idiots?!" their elderly guild leader raged as she watched from the sidelines.

"For the 2nd place, Oh my! surprisingly, it's the new uprunning guild with many talented and strong mages in the guild!...SABERTOOTH!"

Team Sabertooth led by s a slim young woman of average height distinguished by her Eastern look: her long, straight and glossy purple (black in the Anime) hair, reaching down to her lower back, while mostly left loose, being parted in the middle of her forehead and sporting two bangs framing her face and going down below her shoulders, her hair is also tied into a pair of bun-shaped Dango loops at both sides of her head, and a braid is present some inches below each of such loops.

"Alright! For the last team that made it through the preliminary round…" the crowd began to get wild."...Oh my! This year is full of surprises! Despite the fact they lost a lot of their members recently, they managed to make an incredible run. Can the broken wings of the fairies be mended once again and allow them to take the skies once again? Let's welcome the 1st place team of the preliminary round... FAIRY TAIL!"

Just like that the whole audience suddenly grew quiet and a large number of the audience started cheering.

Naruto took the lead and walked out of their entrance. The cheering from the crowd was getting louder each second, though unlike his team he paid no mind to it and simply waved at them while the others looked embarrassed by the attention they were getting.

Yajima, who saw the Fairy Tail team emerge from the entrance, gave a thumbs up at them. "This is wonderful. Congrats, Fairy Tail."

"HURRAY, HURRAY! FAIRY TAIL!" The whole guild yelled from the sidelines as they cheered with big signs and everything.

Naruto and his team looked at the loud cheering from the sidelines and grinned in happiness as they saw the whole Fairy Tail guild along with Kinana cheering for them. They even noticed that their Fairy Tail family wasn't alone in cheering for them.

"There is no way that we are going to get any less than the 1st place with their support." Naruto chuckled and waved at their friends.

"Indeed." Laki smiled and agreed with Naruto along with Max, Bisca, and Jet.

"Alright! Thank you all for waiting, here is your lineup!" A stone board shot up from the ground "The Grand Magic Games had been unveiled!"

The crowd started to cheer again as Chapati started explaining the rule. The tournament would be divided into 4 days, with two events held each day, one battle and one hidden event. For the hidden event, each team will receive a number of points based on their position at the end of it.

For the battles, the winning team was going to get 10 points and the loser wasn't going to get any at all; if the fight ended up in a draw, both teams got 5 points for themselves. The battles would be decided by the organizers based on the fans' votes. However, some battles are arranged according to the Fiore's King's desires and would be set up like so:

Team A vs Team B

Team C vs Team D

Team E vs Team F

Team G vs Team H

"Without further ado, I bring you the Grand Magic Games opening game!" Chapati cried excitedly, "Let's begin...!" King of the Hill!" he then lowered his voice though it wasn't any less loud than before "Each team will have one participant. After each team submits their player, I'll explain the rules."

"Though, I would like to advise the teams to send their strongest participants for this round as according to the organizers, it is going to be quite dangerous and challenging." Chapati added with a devilish grin forming on his large face.

"King of the Hill?" Naruto thought out loud at the first round's unusual name and looked at his friends who just shrugged at him, indicating that they also were confused just like him.

"It probably has to do something with combat, if it's named King of the Hill." Max reckoned while looking at Naruto, "So I think you should be the one to participate in this round, as Chapati did advise us to send our strongest member and you are without a doubt the strongest in our team."

"I agree with Max on this one, It would be best to start off strong. " Laki added agreeing with their teammate "It will be better if we can grab this from the very start."

"You got this, Naruto-kun, be careful though." Bisca gave him a warm smile.

Jet also voiced their thoughts in approval with Max's and Laki's.

"Alright, I'll be the one to get us started, it should be interesting." Naruto smirked as he cracked his neck and knuckles agreeing with his teammate's sound reasoning. Not to mention the fact that he, himself, kinda wanted to participate in this round as it had quite the name.

"Good luck, Naruto. Show them the might of Fairy Tail!" Team Fairy Tail cheered as the blonde waved and walked down to the stadium ground from the participant's viewer area allotted to their team.

"It seems, Naruto will be participating in the first round." Wakaba mused as he along with the whole Fairy Tail guild plus more, watched and cheered for the blonde; who now seemed to be doing some light stretching as he excitedly waited for the other participants.

"I think it is a good idea that he is participating in this round as the other teams seemed to be sending out their strongest member as well." Macao analyzed a bit concerned by the strong mages that were being sent out by the other teams to participate in the first round.

"We are probably going to win this round then!" Romeo cheered confidently with the others enthusiastically agreeing with him as there was no way that their Ace was going to lose.

Macao sighed as his words were completely ignored by his son and the others.

"YOU CAN DO IT NARUTO!"

"GO FAIRY TAIL!"


Quarto Cerberus sent out their veteran S-class mage with black hair that was in a ponytail and red eyes, he was Bachuus Groh, their S-class mage.

Mermaid Heel sent out a beautiful young woman with black hair and amber eyes. She wore a white blazer coat and black pants. She had her sword in hand that was wrapped in bandages. This was Kagura Mikazuchi, their only S-class mage as of a couple months ago.

Ichiya decided to represent Blue Pegasus at their first game knowing the others were sending out strong members.

Lamia Scale had their strongest mage Jura—possibly the strongest mage among the participating teams in the GMGs— to represent them in the first round.

"Who's going to be going first for our guild? There are some strong mages out there after all?" Rogue asked.

"I'll go fir-" Sting said, but was pulled back by the young woman that led her team out.

"I'm doing it. We have Jura and Naruto Uzumaki going out, so we'll need our strongest to go out as well. I'm going." She said with a smirk as she looked at Naruto who was making his way out like the others.

"Are you sure, mistress? it wouldn't be a problem for one of us to go in your place." Sting asked, wanting to fight them himself.

"Yes." She said with finality as she stepped into the arena with the others.

"Jura Neekis, it's been a few years." Naruto greeted the wizard saint with a lazy wave.

"Naruto-dono, it certainly has, rumor has it that you died." Jura said with a small smile at seeing his fellow mage again.

"That's a misconception. Maybe I'll tell you about it some other time. Looks like we'll be facing each other though. I won't hold back even if we're friends." Naruto said with a smirk.

"I wouldn't have it any other way, I'd be surprised if you did." Jura chuckled as they shook hands.

"We're finally ready to begin. I wonder what kind of contest King of the Hill will be" Chapati spoke up "Yajima-san, is there anyone we should be looking for?"

"Hmm… well, we all know Jura-kun is a force to be reckoned with here… but I'm gonna be keeping an eye on Naruto Uzumaki-kun too." The short old man said, staring at the figure of the formerly missing Shinobi. "He suddenly reappeared after being gone for four years, so we don't know what's changed about him." He said with a curious expression.

"What about you Jenny-san?"

"I'm all for Ichiya-Kun, of course. He's our guild's strongest mage." She proclaimed her support for her guild's Ace in pride. Though, if she was being honest she didn't really have much hope of Ichiya winning the round, as strong as their Ace was, his strength was not at all comparable to the likes of Jura. There was also that Naruto guy that Yajima had just mentioned, if the blonde had managed to get Yajima's attention and Jura's, then there's something about him that she should watch out for.

"It seems both of you are rooting for the participants of your own guilds then." Chapati teased his two fellow panelists, prompting both Yajima and Jenny to awkwardly cough as Chapati was indeed correct.

"Now let's start. FIELD OPEN!" Mato cried out and pointed his finger to the sky. Suddenly everything changed into a city, surprising everyone. In an instant, Naruto and the other competitors found themselves transported to the middle of a large city that had just popped up inside the large stadium field.

"Are we supposed to play hide and seek in here?" Jura asked, looking around the city with interest.

"Where shall we hide?" Ichiya asked worriedly.

Kagura had a calm and confident expression and Minerva remained quiet as a confident and a slight arrogant smile formed on her face.

"If it's hidden and seek, it's too strange," Naruto commented, examining the large buildings which looked like a replica of the ones in the Capital city.

"Everyone in the stadium! Please watch what happens in the town through Lacrima's vision!" The scene above the city suddenly showed all eight contestants.

"The King of the Hill rule is very simple. You all will be transported to different areas in this city and will be given a necklace with a golden bell attached to it, which you will have to wear on your neck. The goal here is to obtain the bells of your fellow competitors by either defeating them in battle or by just stealing the bells from them. Each bell that you collect from your fellow competitors will give you 20 points." Chapati paused his explanation taking in the excitement that was reverberating in the audience and continued, "There are also going to be 50 monsters lurking around this city which won't hesitate to attack you if they see you, but don't worry they are just magical tools that we created for the event. They are not going to attack the audience, " His words managed to calm down the nervous audience, "...Each of those monsters' strengths are comparable to a high A-class mage and if you are unable to collect the bells from your fellow competitors; you can defeat those monsters and collect the silver bells that each monster will drop after getting defeated. Though, those silver bells will only give you 5 points, compared to the 20 points that you will get from the golden bells."

"However, there is a catch..." Chapati paused, giving a devilish grin, "if you somehow lose your golden bells to a competitor, they will not only receive the 20 points but also half of the points that you had collected by defeating those monsters. So make sure that you stay alert and on your toes! You can use any method and any magic to collect the bells, and whoever manages to collect the most number of bells, thereby, getting the most points before the 30 minutes mark will win this round and will earn their team 10 points while the other teams would get corresponding points according to their placement!"

As Chapati finished explaining the game rules all the competitors were covered in bright light and were suddenly transported to different areas of the fake city.

"Let's see what I can do, after all the training and rehabilitation I've done, let's see how I do." Naruto said with a smirk as he walked through the city without concern.

"Start! Collect the bells like it is your lifeline and become the King of the Hill!" Chapati announced the first event, getting a huge cheer of excitement from the audience.

"Hmm...how should I do this?" Naruto grinned mulling over the various ways that he could use to collect the bells as the first round officially began.

Meanwhile... outside the city

"No wonder the organizers advised the teams to send their strongest members," Macao muttered as they finally knew the objective of the first game "It is indeed quite dangerous and challenging compared to the first rounds of the previous years."

Wakaba nodded agreeing with his friend's sentiment, "I hope that Naruto will be alright." He spoke concerned with the blonde's well-being as they watched their guild representative on the huge lacrima screen.

"Have some faith in Naruto-kun, he'll be just fine." Kinana said with a confident smile. The others couldn't help, but follow her example as they decided to trust in him.

"He is walking straight to Bacchus, location." Macao nervously whispered as they saw Naruto heading toward the area, where the Quarto Cerberus Ace was lazily waiting for the other competitors to walk to him; while chugging down alcohol from his flask.

Bacchus was a strong mage, who had even fought with the Titania of Fairy Tail to a draw many times in the past, and now seeing Naruto was probably about to fight the mage for the bells was nerve-racking for them.

With Naruto

"This is getting too boring.!" Naruto grumbled with a sigh as he dodged a swipe aimed at his head by one of the monsters that had suddenly attacked him and then shot his wind-enhanced tri-pronged kunai at its head, 'killing' it instantly.

'Killing' was not exactly the right word, more like dispersed. As the bodies of the three monsters that he had defeated so far, including this one, had dispersed in a golden glitter leaving a silver-colored bell on the ground.

Naruto felt like Chapati was just exaggerating the monster's strength to scare the competitors. As the monsters were kinda slow and their strength was nowhere near an A-class mage since he had already defeated 3 of those monsters with ease, earning 15 points for himself in just 7 minutes.

He had initially planned to just search and defeat those monsters to collect as many silver bells as possible from them. While avoiding the other competitors as he didn't want to really give away his abilities so early in the Games but it seems he might just have to go with plan B, which is, finding the other competitors and stealing the golden bells from them without showing too much of his abilities.

Fighting these monsters was boring and most importantly, it was kinda troublesome to locate the monsters in such a large place as they didn't really have any negative emotions nor huge magical reserves for him to identify them without his sage mode. Add to the fact that the silver bells were only giving him 5 points each, which he felt was too troublesome.

"Great...now I'm thinking like Shikamaru." Naruto sighed as he thought of his lazy friend and picked up the silver bell from the ground which instantly flew from his hand and attached itself to the necklace that he was currently wearing.

'At least this is pretty convenient.' He thought as he didn't really have to worry about pocketing the bells in his small jeans pockets. His necklace now had 3 silver bells and 1 golden bell attached to it which made a tinkering sound whenever he took a step, which he felt was quite grating to his ears.

After aimlessly walking through the streets of the fake city for a few minutes, Naruto halted his steps as he finally saw a fellow competitor... sitting on the street and by the looks of it, the person had been probably waiting for him...or for someone.

"At last, some bastard had finally arrived!" Bacchus crudely remarked and took a chug from his flask as he noticed Naruto appear in front of him

"And I see a drunk bastard that doesn't look like much." Naruto countered in a deadpanned tone that made him choke at the unexpected retort..

"Bahh!" Bacchus complained as he stood up and scowled at the blonde. "Instead of wasting my time with such pointless games I would rather like to spend my time in a bar with some sexy ladies!" Bachuus held his hand out as if expecting him to do as told. "So, just hand over your bells to me when I'm being nice to you kid. Otherwise, I would have to show you the difference in our pow..."

*BAM!*

Bacchus wasn't able to finish his tirade as his world exploded in pain and he found himself flying away backward through multiple buildings, courtesy of a sucker punch thrown by an irate blonde who suddenly close the distance between them before he could even blink.

"Fucking jackass, thinking he could underestimate me. He was weak." Naruto glared, his eyebrows twitching in annoyance at the unconscious form of Bacchus, who was now lying on top of large rubble from the destroyed buildings almost 20 meters away from the blonde.

Naruto huffed and walked toward the body of the unconscious man and checked whether he had accidentally killed the guy or not and snatched the golden bell off from the man's necklace. Which now only had a single silver bell attached to it.

"So much for showing me the difference in our powers." He taunted the very much alive but unconscious Bacchus, while childishly mimicking the man's previous rant "Now you know the light-year gap between our powers."

(Meanwhile...with the audience)

"Un...Unbelievable!" Chapati stuttered out in disbelief at the scene they had just witnessed "Naruto Uzumaki, the Yellow Flash of Team Fairy Tail had just defeated Bacchus, the Ace of Quarto Cerberus with just a single punch!"

All of the audience had their jaws on the floor in shock at the announcement. Unlike Team Fairy Tail, those that remembered Naruto from before he disappeared, and its supporters, most of the audience hadn't even been paying attention to the lacrima screen where Naruto was being displayed; opting to instead simply pay attention to their favorite participants whom they believe had the most chances of winning the round, such as Sting and Jura.

Now, as they all watched the replay of the Quarto Cerberus defeat played on one of the lacrima screens, they couldn't help but wonder how strong the Fairy Tail mage was. Since it wasn't every day that an S-class mage of Bacchus caliber, got knocked out by just a punch...a single punch! Granted there was a possibility that Bacchus might have been caught off guard...but still...a single punch!? that was unbelievable.

Maybe Team Fairy Tail wasn't as weak as they had initially thought.

Sure the audience had witnessed Jura defeating Cixot just a few minutes ago, but it had even taken the Wizard Saint more than a single punch to defeat the Orochi's Fin mage. Moreover, they all were aware of the fact that Bacchus was far stronger than Cixot, as the former had defeated the latter during the combat round of the previous Grand Magic Games.

"The speed and the strength displayed by the young Naruto Uzumaki are quite extraordinary. Isn't it Yajima-san?" Chapati excitedly asked the old man, who had been observing the blonde through the lacrima screen with pride.

"As I've said before, " Yajima smiled as he heard the crowd slowly starting to cheer for the blonde "Young Naruto is someone that we should all be paying attention to during this year's Grand Magic Games, especially since he was S-class before his disappearance and was one of their guild's strongest, even at the age of 16."

"I'll make sure to do that from now on, Yajima-san," Jenny chuckled and started to observe the Fairy Tail mage through the lacrima screen, who was now making his way towards another mage. She wasn't sure, as they had a hard time understanding what the participants were speaking due to the loud cheer of the audience.

With Team Fairy Tail

"Damn! Naruto sure did a number on him." Max said, getting a nod of agreement from his teammates as they all saw the unconscious form of Bacchus.

"We all knew that Naruto was strong, but seeing him defeat someone like Bacchus with just a single punch makes me wonder how strong he really is." Alzack stated and chuckled in disbelief at the scene.

"I can't agree more with your statement there," Jet replied shaking his head at the unbelievable strength of their teammate and chuckled along with the others.

Up in the stands

"Go! Go! Naruto! You are the best!"

"Go! Team Fairy Tail!"

If the Fairy Tail members and their friends had been excited before, they were now completely over the moon as they saw what their Ace had done. Their chants and cheer of excitement grew even louder in support of their team and the blonde.

"Only Naruto can defeat someone strong like Bacchus with a single punch." Macao sighed and chuckled at the scene they had just witnessed.

Wakaba grinned at his friend's words in agreement taking a huge chug of beer from his glass and going back to observe Naruto through the lacrima screen.

"It seems the blonde idiot is still very sensitive with being referred to as a kid." Steven, the chef of 8-Island restaurant commented getting a round of chuckles from the people around him as it was indeed true. He still remembered the black eye given to him once, when he had called blonde a 'kid' in jest.

"He is such a hypocrite," Macao complained with a huff, "He doesn't like being called a kid, while he goes around giving embarrassing Nicknames to other people." He still feels insulted whenever Naruto calls him an old man.

Just a few seats away from the enthusiastic Fairy Tail supporters, Master Goldmine, the guild master of Quarto Cerberus groaned in embarrassment at the poor performance of his guild S-class mage.

"That damn idiot! He had it coming, for being so careless and for always underestimating his opponents!" Goldmine cursed loudly at Bacchus's unconscious form through the screen, making the other members of the guild that were sitting near him gulp in fear at their master's loud cursing.

''Poor Bacchus, he is going to get an earful from the master after this round." One of the Quarto Cerberus members whispered in fear, getting a nod from the other members. They now truly pitied their Drunkard guildmate.

Back with Naruto

"Now the other competitors are going to be on guard during the combat rounds, making the fights even more interesting for me." Naruto grinned as he again continued to walk aimlessly through the empty streets of the fake city. "Maybe I can reintroduce why I was called the Yellow Flash." He smirked at the shocked looks reminding everyone of who he is.

Despite. the wise words of his perverted Sensei, a Shinobi was supposed to always keep their real abilities and strength a secret from their opponents, and catch them completely off guard when they make the mistake of underestimating you.

He wasn't going to be doing that as he had done that for so long and he wasn't going to hold back anymore if he can help it, but to make sure to keep his more powerful techniques on the backburner until absolutely necessary.

He knew it would be inevitable for his abilities to be known by the audience and the competitors during the later rounds, but it would have been a bit easier for him later on if he hadn't lost his cool and knocked Bacchus out with a single punch. As the other competitors would have underestimated him making his work a bit easier. Now they were all going to be wary of his strength and speed.

Of course, he would like to put on a great show for the audience, while bringing more positive recognition to his guild during the competition. But he also wanted to be as mysterious as possible until the combat rounds.

Though, he doubted it was going to help them much in defeating him. As he still kinda had numerous tricks up his sleeves and had various forms he can take and other skills.

"You shouldn't use such language, Naruto-san." Jura chuckled and lightly reprimanded the blonde.

"Come on, Jura..." Naruto lightly chuckled at the mage's reprimand "...anyone who comes face to face against you in a possible battle is going to do the same thing."

"Well, I thought you would be one of the exceptions, Naruto-san," Jura replied amused by the blond's words "As you seemed to have made quite a performance against Bacchus and the monsters."

Naruto grimaced realizing that Jura had also heard the announcement...who was he kidding?...of course, the Wizard Saint had heard it! He also noticed that the mage had the same number of bells on his necklace as him: three golden bells and three silver bells, which wasn't really surprising as Jura was a powerful mage.

"Say what you will, but the monsters aren't really that impressive compared to what we've both gone against in the past." Naruto said casually.

Jura slowly, but did nod his head in agreement with him.

"I can't argue since you speak the truth, but they aren't weak either."Jura smiled.

"So, you ready for this? It'll be like when we first fought." Naruto wouldn't say it out loud, but he was excited to fight his friend again.

Jura smiled at him and replied, "Sorry to tell you this, but we would have to postpone it for future rounds."

Naruto blinked in confusion at the response, "What do you..."

*Ring!*

"Times up! Every competitor will be now transported back to the field!"

Chapati's loud announcement reverberated throughout the whole stadium. Much to the relief of the blonde, and to the utter disappointment of the audience that was spectating the conversation between the two mages; hoping to see an epic fight.

"That's what you meant, huh?" Naruto gave an amused grin to the chuckling mage in front of him, now understanding the response as he felt the fake city slowly disappearing.

"You got that right, Naruto-san," Jura replied as the first round of the Grand Magic Games finally came to an end.

The result of the first round was:

Bacchus from Team Quarto Cerberus— 7 points. (He somehow gained consciousness and managed to defeat a monster.)

Ichiya from Team Blue Pegasus— 30 points.

Minerva from Team Sabertooth— 64 points.

Naruto Uzumaki from Team Fairy Tail— 65

Jura from Team Lamia Scale— 70 points.

The scores were so close that everyone was on edge now with the teams being so close it could've been anyone to take first place.

(Line break)

"Naruto! You did it!"

Team Fairy Tail exclaimed and all of them tackled the surprised blonde to the ground in excitement.

"I can't... breathe. Guys..." Naruto wheezed out finding it hard to breathe, getting his friends to sheepishly apologize, and got off from the wheezing blonde.

"You were amazing in this round!" Max beamed, recalling the extraordinary performance put on by the blonde.

"Ahh, I only did what I needed to get our guild up there." Naruto rubbed the back of his neck with a sheepish smile.

"Yup. You showed those bastards that Fairy Tail was not some weak guild!" Jet cheered in giddiness, getting a nod of agreement from the team.

Well...except one.

"Guys, it is really good that we managed to get the second place right off from this round thanks to Naruto, " Laki said, getting the attention of her friends and adjusting her glasses "but let's not forget that we have to compete in another round today. So, we should be concentrating on it now."

This made the whole excited members calm down a bit as they realized that she was indeed correct. They still had the combat round of the first day to compete in.

"Who do you guys think would be selected from our team to fight in this round?" Alzack curiously asked his friends.

"It won't be Naruto that's for sure, as he had already competed in the first round..." Laki, the voice of reasoning of the team answered "...so it is probably going to be one of us."

Max, Alzack, and Jet sweated nervously at her words.

"Eh, don't worry guys. You all are going to do just fine!" Naruto confidently tried to cheer up his friends as he saw their expressions, getting a slight nod of thank you from them.

"Go Fairy Tail, Go!"

They all smiled as they heard their guild earnestly cheering from them, up from the stands. They were going to do their best to not let their beloved guild down.

"Now if you excuse me"Chapati cleared his throat to silence the crowd "Let's take a look at the battle's system" A hologram appeared on the air, showing the match-ups "The matchups were decided by the organizers.

"I hope there are some interesting matchups" Yajima commented getting a nod of agreement from Mato and Jenny.

"The first matchup of the First day is..."

The chapter is done and I want to say that I had a very difficult time coming up with ideas for events, not just for this chapter, but the rest of the GMG, so I used the one from Johnsingh4642 with his permission. With that being said, I'll be doing a timeskip since I don't want to just keep using his idea even if he gave me the okay to do so. I'll be skipping ahead to the next chapter.

I hope that you guys will accept that and still continue to show support. For the next chapter, we'll be seeing the return of the Tenrou Island group. Stay safe everyone. Killerssg out!

Harem: Mira, Cana, Laki, Bisca, Kinana, and two others that will be mentioned in the future.