Hello and welcome to Chapter 6, this is the beginning to the official Grand Magic Games, and where I begin adding to the story-line to make it more of a actual tournament than the original, enjoy.
This chapter has been revised and edited, so be ready for the battles to start in the next chapter-thank you for continuing to read this story
"Naruto" Normal Speech.
'Naruto' Normal Thought.
"Kurama" Demonic/Dragon Speech/Jutsu technique.
'Kurama' Demonic/Dragon Thoughts
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Once a year, the Grand Magic Game for mages was held. The capital of Fiore, the flower blooming capital, Crocus was busting with its citizens as well as mages of Fiore coming from all over the world in order to participate in this certain event. In the center was the King of Fiore's palace, Mercurius, an extremely large and tall building, appearing as one of the most visible elements in the valley where Crocus is located, and towering over all of the city's other buildings.
Mercurius was also surrounded by a lush garden, which, much like the rest of the city, was adorned by a large amount of flowers, possessing flowerbeds and, in addition, artistically arranged plants and small, tidy hedges, which have square, hollow spaces on their edges, housing ornately decorated streetlamps, with wavy poles ending in large orbs, with circular objects surrounding them, seemingly floating. The streets there were adorned by mosaics, which consisted of a variety of small, flat rectangular stones arranged to resemble semicircles. In front of the palace sat a fountain, surrounded by a ground-level, round and shallow pool; water jets jut upwards from both the fountain and the pool, with the former also housing some plants, or possibly statues of plants, on its base.
A magnificent sight, even for Naruto who came here many times in the past months, the first time he was here was during his cleaning duty at Mercurius, the mission that he accidentally cleaned princess Hisui of Fiore as well with a water vortex as well. Naruto took his time memorized the greatness of the capital of Fiore, but compared the richness of nature between Crocus and Tenrou, of course Naruto would prefer the holy ground of Fairy Tail more.
And in the mountains to the West, the great magic tournament was going to be held in the Domus Flau. The place appeared to be a large, round, open battle arena and had no cover on the top. It has numerous arches in its walls, and a large entrance. The Domus Flau also had four gigantic statues, each holding a staff with a big circle on top, facing inwards, surrounding the Domus Flau. Four gigantic chains could also be seen around the Domus Flau; each starting from a circular metal in the ground around the Domus Flau, connecting to circles behind the statues, and reaching down another circular metal in the ground.
And in the middle of the town, was the so called Team Natsu, five of them lying on the middle of the street, exhausted from all the training Naruto pushed them through in the last five days. Erza, however, was completely fine and was conversing with Naruto, with a map of Crocus in her hand, "Oi, I still don't feel so great about all this…" Gray said through gritting teeth, trying to push himself up to his feet, "We don't know for sure if that spell worked." He still remembered every single detail about the pain he had to go through to boost his own ability and unlock his Second Origin. He didn't know if it was really worth it or not.
Gray also doubted five days of training with Naruto could help them in the battles against many incredible strong and amazing mages with magic powers that were still mysteries to them.
"Yeah, but I do feel like my magic power has increased." Lucy said with a long sigh, "All my joints are still totally sore though."
"Relax, you all worry about the big things before they ever come when you should focus on the here and now." Naruto walked to them and grabbed Natsu's scarf, pulling the boy to his feet "More or less, you guys are a lot stronger than you were before you were ticked by Virgo." He grabbed Lucy's hand and guided her up to her feet.
"But… we still can't defeat you?" Natsu pointed to Naruto, "Just exactly how strong are you?" he then waved his hands around, "Wait wait, don't answer that. Exactly just how many magic's do you have?" he asked. Even after unlocking their second origin and attacking him at the same time, they could do very little to Naruto, who simply stood still and let the sand protect him before attacking them with a speed far greater than the first time he showed it.
"More than you know less than you think." The blond replied blankly, "You lot forced me to concentrate on the fight, that is some major improvement right there alone." Naruto chuckled and pointed to Erza, who was standing behind him with his thumb, "Even Erza managed to force me to use a stronger defense and lasted longer than you all put together." he pointed out.
But again, Erza was a S-Class wizard borderline SS-Class if she pushed herself.
"Ufufu, that was only natural." Erza let out a small, satisfied laugh before glaring at her friends, "And you guys, don't you guys feel embarrassed for yourself?" She asked, putting her hands on her hip.
"Why are you completely fine, Erza?" Lucy asked with a nervous sweat dropped.
"She probably got her Second Origin from the start." Gray followed after the blonde celestial mages, "Is it possible for a Third Origin?"
Erza, turned her eyes to Naruto. Her mind recalled what Jellal told her about him at their conversation while Ultear was casting her spell on the rest of the team. He was an enigma, a mystery that she and everyone couldn't shove and Jellal's words for her further proved it, 'Be careful when you're around him Erza. If he is really that Naruto Uzumaki I heard about when I was still in the Magic Council, then he had a very close connection with the One Magic and Zeref.' Maybe Jellal was becoming a bit paranoid with Zeref related things. She didn't know if she should trust her childhood friend or not, but she trusted Mavis Vermilion and her judgment. There was no way the First Master would allow an evil mage join Fairy Tail, her pride and joy.
And rather than used to be a bit disdainful, Naruto was anything but evil.
Naruto then looked around and caught sight of the third master of Fairy Tail, Makarov with Asuka sitting on his shoulders, her parent's following closely behind them. Jet and Droy were also present as well, those two weren't going to participate in the Grand Magic Game, since they were too afraid to go through the same pain Team Natsu had to go through to unlock their Second Origin.
"So you guys finally made it!" The master greeted them with a huge smile, "Naruto, how're you doing?" He asked.
"I'm good, old man." The blond man nodded his head before patting Asuka on her head, making the cowboy hat she was wearing fell down to her eyes, "Hello there, Asuka." He did have a soft spot for the little girl after all.
"Hello Naruto onii-chan." Asuka smiled brightly to him after lifting her hat up.
"Alright, let's get on with this even already!" Makarov said, crossing his arms on his chest, "Kahahaha! We'll show them the power of Fairy Tail!" Makarov announced confidently.
"Did you hear that, Fairy Tail?"
"Where? Them?"
"The weak little guild forever claiming last place?"
"Pft…kufufu… you guys gonna get last place again this year too!"
"Everyone knows Sabertooth is gonna dominate this year too."
"Ahaha you should just pack it in and go home."
"Yeah, pack your bags and get out of here you trouble making losers!"
"GRRR!" Natsu gritted his fist in anger, glaring angrily at the citizens around them.
"Whoever wants to laugh them let them go ahead and laugh." Naruto said as he pat Natsu on his shoulder "We will just have to wait and see which one is going to get the last laugh." he told the teen.
"Anyway, Naruto, I'm glad that you decided to join us in this event." Makarov said with a large smile, "With you here, we'll probably win this tournament for sure." He said but then tilted his head to the side and said, "Though, I wanted to form a team consists of you, Erza, Laxus, Gildarts and Mirajane or something close to that." The other hadn't returned from their training just yet, so Makarov had to go with Team Natsu.
"Don't jinx it old man, they might be not as strong as your dream team, but these kids have ambitions, the will to keep going and most important of all they got each others back." Naruto said with a nod of his head, making a small smile, "I'm sure there is nothing… what?" Naruto asked with a raise of his eyebrow when he noticed the grin Makarov was giving him.
"I can see that you have changed a lot, young man." Makarov said, giving Naruto a thumb up, "Three months ago, you were this gloomy and moody boy who decided to stay outside of the Guild business, and the only one who could reach you is Mira and Lucy. Yet, here you're now, saying some very heartwarming words after three months of training with them, about to join the Grand Magic Game with Team Natsu and help us climb to the top again."
"Tch, I don't want to miss this kind of event, that's all. This Grand Magic Games sounds interesting enough to gain my attention." Naruto said and walked ahead of them "Plus, I need a team to take part in this, remember?" but his true intention wasn't winning the Game. In the past three months, during his 'investigating', Naruto found some interesting things hidden deep underneath Mercurius Castle-aside from Eclipse-and most of the true purpose of the Grand Magic Game, which was why he recruited the Dragon Slayer Guild Diabolos, Selene, and the old man turned dragon Elefseria. He was here to make sure that plan of the princess, didn't happen or-in case it did-didn't come to be.
"Whatever you say, my boy." Makarov shook his head, the smile never left his face.
"But, Master, the Grand Magic Games is always a different competition every year." Alzack said
"It was sharpshooting the year I didn't participate." Bisca said.
"It was a race the year after that." Jet said.
"The games always change each year." Levy explained, "I've read the rule-book a few times, and there are three rules that always remain consistent."
Team Fairy Tail listened on intently to the rules.
"Firstly, the Guild Master can't participate in the games."
"Well, obviously. But shucks, that's a party pooper." Makarov replied.
"Secondly, only mages with the guild's insignia are allowed to participate."
"That seems to be an expected rule for anyone to follow." Gray said.
Oh!" Levy suddenly spoke, which gained everyone's attention.
"What is it Levy-chan?" Lucy asked.
"There is one more thing to mention at the very end. All participants in the games must be at their designated lodgings by midnight tonight."
"Midnight?" they all questioned.
"I see, it's just like that Cinderella story then." Lucy said with a bright smile.
"You know that story is going to be a lot easier to understand if Cinderella just go head and tell him everything he should know about herself." Naruto pointed out, making Lucy look at him with a nervous smile "They danced all night and what, they stared at each other the whole time? Cinderella could at least tell him something about yourself, the whole staring thing between them is a little creepy don't you think?"
"Are you kidding? If it is like what you say then where is the romantic action?"
"Shut it!" Natsu jumped in between the two blonds with a toothy grin "We've come all the way to this city and still got plenty of time left, we may as well hit the town!" He grabbed Lucy and Happy before dashing off. He also tried to grab Naruto too, but the older boy easily slipped out of his grip.
"Hey! Do you even know where the lodgings are?" Erza shouted after them.
"Honeybone right?" Lucy asked loudly "We'll be there by twelve for sure!" With that, the trio dashed away.
"Well, I'll see you later old man, everyone." Naruto waved his hands to them and went to the opposite direction, disappearing into the crowd of the people of Crocus. The Fairy Tail group soon parted away as well, with Erza heading to the Honeybone lodge.
Naruto rapidly flipped through the pages the new rule book of Grand Magic Game, memorizing every single detail written inside with just the first glance. Apparently, rules changed every year so he couldn't rely on everything he read in the old books. There were three important rules that were specific and more important than the others. First of all, each guild's master cannot participate. This was simply because of the amount of power they wielded, not as mages-but politically as a member of the Guild League. He was not Fairy Tail's master so he didn't have to worry about this, but he was the secret leader of Diabolos until he assimilated them into a more fitting environment to keep his eye on them and let someone else take control of them and their actions, but he had already made them swear a vow of silence aside from Elefseria who agreed it was best he would lead Diabolos until a later date. Selene was already in the know and wouldn't reveal him even if she were tortured-which was impossible.
In fact, Elefseria, Selene and the member's of Diabolos met barely a month ago, and boy did he have to run a lot of interference to make sure they didn't do something stupid, add to the fact he had been requested by Elefseria to retrieve his heart from the core of the Labyrinth of Dogra-the final resting place of Dogramag-so it wouldn't fall into someone's hands in case they got any idea's while he was away. And when that was done, the blond had made Selene use Aqua Aera to bring them to Ishgar, where he built a sealing array that would transport the Diabolos Guildhall to it so they would have a base of operations, and then he had to file the paperwork on transferring them from Giltina to Ishgar.
Second, anyone without the Guild's insignia simply was prohibited from being able to participate and must simply observe. Naruto truthfully didn't care much about this rule because he had the magical insignia of Fairy Tail on the armband he wore around his right arm. Also, the third rule was about each event will remain a secret up until before they begin, at which point the rules will be explain. Also, each of the team's participating consisted of five members and possible one reserve member per mage in the individual team, a reserve mage wasn't allowed to participate in the event unless the original member was either away on a job, or felt they would not fit in the Tournament in specific events. If not because of this rule, Naruto would have participate in the event himself, his own team.
Then suddenly, when he was about to cross an alley, a hand shot out, grabbed him by his collar and pulled him into the place. Naruto's left hand immediately shot up and grabbed the wrist of that person, putting a little force into his grip and forcing them to release him. Naruto then twisted that person around and pushed forward, pinched their front body against the wall and with a flick of his right hand, the kunai hidden in his sleeve shot into his palm. In an instant, Naruto had the person that, in his opinion was stupid enough to make a sneak attack on him, pinned against the wall and a kunai pointed at the back of their neck.
He could easily kill that person with a single stab forward, but stopped himself from doing so when he recognized the long and wavy white hair and incredible feminine curves on her body, "You know, in a different circumstance, this kind of position will definitely turn me on." it was Mirajane Strauss, the beautiful demon of Fairy Tail.
"It's a kunai." Naruto said blankly and released her.
"Seriously, there is no need to react like that." Naruto snapped his head to the side and saw Gajeel Redfox, the Iron Dragon Slayer appeared from the shadow. Standing behind him with his back leaned against the wall was another Dragon Slayer of Fairy Tail, Makarov's grandson, Laxus Dreyar.
"Next time, don't try to grab me like that." he turned back to Mira and told her after returning his kunai back to his sleeve. He eyed her up and down, realizing that she had changed out of her usual attire and was wearing a long, shoulder-less black maroon dress with white trims, exposing her shoulders and a fair amount of her large cleavage.. It also had a slit at the left of her pleated skirt, "Nice dress."
"Thank you." Mira smiled brightly.
"What are you guys doing here anyway?" Naruto asked, looking at Laxus, "I thought you guys couldn't make it."
"We returned a week ago, but Ji-san told us to remain hidden, as a secret weapon for Fairy Tail." The lightning dragon slayer answered, "Apparently, there is a new revisions to the rules this year. Each Guild can have not just one, but two teams enter into the tournament." Naruto opened the rule book he was reading and found the rule Laxus was talking about at the last page.
"So… to increase our chances of winning, he decided to create another Fairy Tail Team?" Naruto asked, putting the rule book away, "Wise decision. But you know that even if we can make it to the finals, there is a high chance of being matched up against each other… Fairy Tail is all about family and stuff, will you be capable enough to fight yourself?" he questioned.
"Don't worry, guys like Salamander aren't going to hold back even if he has to fight against his family." Gajeel smirked, "I also really want to see just how strong he has become after the training. So neither of us is going to hold back."
"I see." Naruto nodded his head.
"Naruto-kun, would you like to join our team?" Mirajane asked, "Master said you're going to participate in the Grand Magic Games with Team Natsu. Team Natsu already have four members and Wendy is there to make it five." She pointed to herself and then to Laxus and Gajeel, "With Cana, we only need one more member to make a formidable team." she told him.
"So you think I should join your team?" Naruto asked and Mira nodded her head with a smile, "Hate to bust the bubble, but I already promised Team Natsu to fight with them." he told them somewhat apologetically.
"Oh, is that so… it's too bad then." Mira's smile dropped a little but immediately brightened up, "Let's try our best then."
"Right." Naruto nodded his head before looking up to check the sun. It was right on top of his head, "About time for lunch, would you like to have lunch with me?" He asked casually, making a small smile.
"Really? I'd love to." The drawing card of Fairy Tail nodded her head.
"You really smile a lot, don't you?" Naruto teased before turning his eyes to Laxus and Gajeel, "Well? What about you guys?"
"I think I'll pass. See you guys at midnight then." Gajeel said before walking away. Laxus also left as well, leaving Naruto alone with Mirajane.
"So… it's just the two of us then." Naruto turned back to Mira, "Let's go, before anyone start wondering what I'm doing with a girl like you in this alley." he then noticed the way Mira was looking at him and couldn't help but became a little uncomfortable with her gaze, "What?"
"Master is right, you sure changed a lot in the past three months, haven't you Naruto-kun?" she quickly added "Of course, in a good way."
"Why are you people keep talking about that anyway?" He asked with a slight scowl under his breath and walked out of the alley.
"Hey, wait for me Naruto-kun."
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Naruto opened the door to this building where the hidden ace for his plans resided for the tournament. He saw all but four were there so he could have them relay the mission, "You're here, good." he remarked, "Remember the plan, any team you come across aside form Fairy Tail, eliminate from the competition, don't kill. We wouldn't want you to be prosecuted for fighting to the death in a non-killing environment. Reach the end by any means you can get there aside from that, and you're gold." he stated, "The old man will bein charge so for now you can refer to him as your Guild Master, but do not forget, it is by my mercy that each of you are here." he said, each of hem shivering at his tone.
"M-Master, are you sure that this Princess will open a portal-cha?" Madmole asked him.
"She will." Naruto told them as he raised a hand, a sprout of wood coming off his body and quickly shaping into the old form of Georg, causing several of the member's to flinch at the sight of the man, "I am leaving this clone here as a secret member to participate as our main team. Having studied his abilities I can mimic them easily and use them in combat effectively enough." he remarked, ignoring their looks, "It's a clone of me, but designed to look specifically look like Georg. I can't say how it will behave, but it will keep our secret, as each of you should." he told them, "I will expect nothing less than absolute greatness from a guild built of nothing but Dragon Slayers who consume the flesh of dragon's. Good luck, I will see each of you in the Grand Magic Games." he said as he departed.
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"You guys… seriously, you're late" Erza Scarlet crossed her arms underneath her ample chest, scolding at the three younger mages kneeling on the floor in front of her, "Where have you been wandering around up till now?" She asked, glaring at them. Naruto, meanwhile was sitting on his bed writing something into the small notebook with a pencil, having returned to their room as soon as he walked Mira back to her own lodge.
"Just another boring dinner…" Gray said with a nervous smile.
"Well… it's complicated… well… I mean… err..." Lucy tried to explain, but all she could was making out some incompetent words. Natsu, however was shaking in anger next to her.
"You guys met the Twin Dragons of Sabertooth, didn't you?" Naruto spoke up, not looking up from his notebook.
"How did you know?" Lucy was surprise.
"An encounter between the strongest members of the strongest Guild and a duo of the weakest Guild in Fiore isn't something someone sees every day." the older blond explained. He overheard a couple talked about the meeting while having lunch with Mira in a local restaurant, "And you know, there is a lot people around town."
"GAH! I'm so gonna get those guys back, no matter what!" Natsu retorted in frustration as he balled his fists up. He remembered that he felt their magical power and compared it to Acnologia, it was nothing but a drop of water in an ocean. It would take Acnologia one sneeze to rip them to shreds, and thinking they take that dragon on was a suicide mission. He had told the two of them both this and this pissed the two off, but then they gave arrogant smirks and claimed that they were 'True' dragonslayers, because they killed their dragons.
This shocked and appalled Natsu that these two boasted proudly that they killed their parents. He decided to walk away and dragged Lucy and Happy away before he did something reckless. Natsu did have some last words for the two. He said when they face each other, he would show them who the real dragonslayers are. They smirked in acceptance of the challenge. And here he was still pissed off about those smug bastards. Happy was pissed, because one of the exceed with Sting, Lector, kept insulting him and he wanted to prove that damn cat wrong.
"You will have your chance soon enough Natsu." Naruto said and turned his eyes to look at the clock. It was a quarter before twelve, "It's nearly midnight, I wonder what the organizers have in store for us." he sighed.
"Anyway, where is Wendy?" Erza asked, looking around, "We decided that she will be our reserve."
"That's right." Lucy nodded her head, "She's late… it's almost twelve though, that little girl is out there alone" Lucy said worriedly, "I hope she is okay."
"Don't worry, she'll be fine." Happy spoke up, "Carla is with her, so I don't think they're lost."
"No time to wait for her." Naruto closed the notebook when the clock ticked twelve o'clock. The church belt at a local church started to ring, "The reserve can join us later, so we don't have to worry too much about being disqualified without her." Everyone nodded their head in agreement.
"What's going to happen?" Lucy 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, surprise team Fairy Tail. 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, 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!" it greeted happily.
"Whoa!" Natsu gasped in amazement "He's massive."
"Showtime." Naruto muttered under his breath, a small smile formed on his face.
"In order to reduce the participating teams from one hundred and thirteen down to eight…" The Pumpkin said, "We will now begin a 'Preliminary Event'"
"Preliminary?" Gray cried out in shock "No one said anything about this."
"One hundred and thirteen teams huh?" Naruto asked, "That's a lot of guilds, even for a country like Fiore."
"Every year more and more come that's a sign this even was starting to be taken too lightly~" the pumpkin started to dance around and said with a singsong tone "This year, we're brought the number of final competing teams down to eight~" he then pointed his index finger up and the whole city starting to move, shocking everyone. To be more specific, every single lodge for the participants starting raising up from the ground, "You will all now compete with each other. The goal is the even ground, Domus Flau. The first eight teams to make it will participate in the event. Your lodging will be the starting line for the preliminary." After that, paths started being created on the balcony of the lodges all around the capital of Fiore and all connected to the place where the preliminaries would take place, a massive structure floating on the sky, "Feel free to use any magic you like, because there are no restrictions as long as you can be one of the first eight team to make it. But if all five members of your team don't make it there, you still lose. And… one… more.. thing," he said with a dark chuckle, "We take no responsibility for anyone who loses their life in the Labyrinth."
"Gear up!" Naruto called out for them and grabbed his sandals, in a flash they were on his feet, "We shouldn't waste anymore time!" he said as Team Natsu immediately did what they were told, with Erza changing her pajama to an upgraded form of her usual Heart Kreuz armor.
"The Grand Magic Game's preliminary event! SKY LABYRINTH!" Pumpkin cried and the whole city lighted up "Has BEGUN!"
"Try to keep up brats!" Naruto shot out of their lodge first and shouted, making his way up the path lead to the floating labyrinth.
"YOSH!" Natsu smirked confidently, "TEAM FAIRY TAIL! Let's go!" he shouted out and followed after Naruto, with the rest of his team following shortly behind sharing the same determination smile.
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"This is so confusing!" Lucy hollered, stomping her feet. They were currently inside the labyrinth, standing on floating platforms in the maze. Lucy's blonde hair swished side to side as she turned around. Naruto meanwhile was standing on a higher ground, a massive pillar twenty feet higher than where the other were standing and scouting around the area with his eyes.
"We have to head east," Erza instructed.
Lucy grinned. "I've got this!" She pulled out a silver key and waved it above her head. "Open! Gate of the Compass, Pixus!" In a brilliant flash of light, a small penguin-like creature with a compass on its head appeared, flapping its tiny wings, "All right, Pixus," Lucy said, bending down, "Which way is east?" After a few spins of the compass, Pixus squawked a cheer and pointed. The squad followed his gaze and saw platforms upon platforms of difficult climbing.
"Actually," Erza mentioned, "I have a compass right here." The Queen of the Fairies held up a small silver circle with a red and white needle in the center. This made the celestial mage smiled dropped and had to call back Pixus.
"We should get moving, I saw some fights ahead of us." Naruto said, "Try to avoid fighting as much as possible, we don't want to waste any more of our time." The others nodded their head in agreement. The labyrinth was indeed not making it easy for the Fairy Tail team, even with Naruto's help and Erza's compass. Gray continuously made stairs of ice for everyone to climb, and at several points in time they came across other guilds, even if they tried to battle was unavoidable. The group attempted to make a map and three out of the five members were very keen on the idea of stealing maps from other groups. But once the maze began to shift, Naruto knew immediately the maps were useless.
"It's moving!" Lucy howled and fell off the platform. Natsu shot forward and grabbed her, but he too fell off the platform when it shifted again. Natsu tried to hold on but the platform twisted around again, this time vertically and hurled his hand away. Both Salamander and Celestial Mage gasped in shock as they started falling. Fortunately, Naruto saw this and shot forward, grabbing Natsu's wrist and stopping them from meeting their ultimate end.
"Got'ch ya!" Naruto smirked and pulled Natsu and Lucy up. His chakra allowed him to stick his feet to the platform no matter what angle it was in, "Be careful where you're going." The two breathed out a sigh in relief and nodded their head.
"I wish Happy is here, he can take us to the Domus Flau for sure." Natsu remarked.
"Unfortunately, Happy is counted as a member of Fairy Tail, so we can't have him here." Naruto shook his head at the pink haired teen. Naruto then suggested, must to Natsu's dismay, "I can just grab you and take you all there in a few seconds, you now."
"Hell no man, I nearly threw up back there." Natsu immediately crossed his arms in front of him.
"Suit yourself."
"Whoa!" Erza started sliding backwards off her platform and their last member, Gray was having enough troubles holding onto his own platform.
"This place is a mess" was his comment before he was helped up to his feet.
After a few minutes of travelling, team Fairy Tail encountered a group of man with very familiar guild mark
"Twilight Ogre!" Lucy gasped.
The man, apparently their leader curled his lip. "Fairy Tail! You really think you have a chance-"
He never finished his sentence. "Typical villains' speech" Naruto called, leaping forward with his feet put together in a drop-kick. His feet connected with the man's face and sent him away. The remaining for members growled and gripped their weapons tightly, but they was met with an ice cannonball shot with high speed and Natsu's flaming fist to the head, "Piss off" With a simple kick to the ass with his hands in his pockets, Naruto sent the last member of Twilight Ogre, the smallest member off the platform they were standing on, not before he took the map he was making from the ogre's hands.
"Here is another map" Naruto gave Lucy the map, who nodded her head and started checking it with what they got along the way "Let's go before this whole place shift again." After much more discussion and movement, it didn't take them long for the group to find themselves on a long path. Encouraged by the prospect that they were close, Team Fairy Tail moved slightly faster, keeping a good pace.
And then they saw the exit, and Pumpkin waiting for them.
"Well, that was easy." Natsu grinned as the team stood in front of Mato, who was clapping his hands rapidly to congratulate them for passing the preliminary, "So how did we do?" he asked excitedly.
Gray asked quickly. "We were first, right?"
Mato rubbed his palms together nervously, "Not exactly." The anticipated win that the Fairy Tail team expected did not come, "You got fourth place." This made Fairy tail's hopeful smile dropped.
"Well, at least we didn't come in last." Naruto nodded his head, "I take that we also aren't allowed to know who passed this before us, right?" he asked Pumpkin man, who nodded his head.
"Yes, you'll know about the others tomorrow morning." He smiled, "Now, come along, come along…" he ushered everyone in through the gateway "You all deserve a good night rest." he told them cheerfully.
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