Welcome to the Fiore Capital, Crocus!
"Okay, today is the day! The day that Fairy Tail will finally reclaim the title as the Number 1 Guild in all of Fiore!" Macao announced as everyone in the guild cheers for the excitement.
"And we have three special guild members to thank for encouraging us to never give up, even they are still new to the guild, they quickly became part of the family and they'll be part of the team to represent our guild. Give it up for the Wolverine, Jen the She-Hulk, and Doreen Green the Squirrel Girl!" Macao gestured his hand toward the three as the guild cheers for them.
"Thanks, I promise we'll win the Grand Magic Game for sure!" Squirrel Girl declared.
"Don't forget it we need two more mages on our team if we want to compete." She-Hulk reminded.
"Which is why I decided to go with your idea and put two of our finest mages, Max and Bisca!" Macao said, then everyone cheers for them.
"We won't let you down, everyone!" Max promised.
"Mommy, mommy, I know you'll do great because even daddy knows you're stronger than him!" Asuka excited to see her mom compete in the games.
"She's right, you know. Even though we're known as the Gum Magic Duo, you've always been better than me and that's one of the many reasons I love you!" Alzack smiled.
"Thanks, I'll definitely give it my all!" Bsica said as she kisses her husband on the cheek.
"Alright bubs, we better get moving if we want to compete in the game on time." Wolverine said as he walks away.
"He's right, we better make our way to the capital and fast." Macao said as everyone hurry to the train that is leaving for the Fiore capital.
(Crocus)
"Wow, the capital is even bigger than I imagined!" Squirrel Girl amazed of the sight.
"Yep, Crocus is the main capital of the whole Fiore Kingdom where the king himself and the princess lives as well as where the Grand Magic Games will take place. It's by far the largest city in the kingdom and it's also known for the limitless amount of flowers here which this city is also called the Flower Blooming Capital." Macao explained.
"Huh, that would explain the flower scent I've been getting." Wolverine said, sniffing his nose in the air smelling flowers everywhere.
"I always wanted to visit the capital, but I could find the right time to come here until now, when the games are over, we should think about taking a vacation here." She-Hulk admired the scenery as she's already thinking of plans for a vacation here.
"Let just focus on entering the game before we can go sight-seeing." Wolverine said.
As Fairy Tail walk by, some people on the streets seeing have begun whispering to each other.
"Hey, look, it those loser fairies." A man pointed at them.
"I thought they would quiet this year because of all the losing they suffer throughout the years." A woman said.
"They're only losers now is because they lost some of their strongest member six years ago, I think it was about a dragon destroying an island they were on." Another man recalled hearing that rumor.
"I think they just ran away because of the bad reputation the guild has been getting because of all the damage they did whenever they're on jobs and felt ashamed." A dark-looking man mocked.
"I wouldn't blame them, that guild always causes trouble, why even bother?" A young working man asked sarcastically.
"Hey, hold on guys, look at those three walking with Fairy Tail." Another working man pointed at Wolverine and his two girlfriends.
"Hey, isn't she that tall green woman from that Sorcerer Weekly magazine." A woman asked.
"Oh, that's right, I heard she's not only a tall green-beauty, but she is also super strong." Another woman recalled.
"And I think that girl with the hug fluffy tail is the one who attacked the Lamia Scale Guild months ago." A muscle man pointed at Squirrel Girl.
"Whoa, dudes, I thinks that's the dude with the metal claws I heard so much about from my cousins in another town." A groovy-looking man pointed at Wolverine as he is checking out his claws.
"No way! I remember, he's the guy who came to my home town to deal with a giant green monster-man and he also defeated some wizards that wanted payback on Fairy Tail, I think they were Phantom Lord." A round man recalled.
"Phantom Lord? Isn't that the guild that got disbanded for starting a war?" A breaded man asked, trying to remember the event that happened years ago.
"Not only that, but I also heard the he fought against a bunch an army of Vulcans on a snowy mountain!" A red-breaded man added.
"You gotta believe me, I really saw him got impaled by a spear but treated like it was nothing then the wound just healed instantly!" A skinny waiter telling his fellow workers at a restaurant.
"Holy shit, where did Fairy Tail find those strong guys?" A spiky blonde guy asked shock.
"You know, maybe this year things will be different, and they might actually do better in the games." A long red-haired woman said.
"Well, with three strong newbies in their guild they might actually rank up the top five!" A fancy-dressed woman winked, believing Fairy Tail can pull it off consider she's a fan of the guild and still is.
"Check it out, dad, everyone is already believing that we can do better this year!' Romeo smirked.
"Yeah, usually people would just say bad things about us whenever we enter, but now we're gaining some of our rep back and that have spread to here. It's a nice change." Wakaba smiled.
"Don't get all cocky with the phrases, people may say some good things about us now, but wait until the games start as that will be the true test of how far we'll get from here." Macao said firm.
"Aren't sounding a bit paranoid?" Wolverine asked.
"Being a Guild Master for six years have taught me very important things, like how to be paranoid at times like this." Macao said with serious in his eyes.
"…I see, I can understand that much." Wolverine said.
"Which remains me, what kind of events does the Grand Magic Games involve?" Squirrel Girl asked.
"To be honest, it's more like a random pick of what to do than doing the same thing every year." Max answered annoy of the question.
"Random, what do you mean?" She-Hulk confused.
"It just as he said, every year the grand always do different competition than the ones they did the year before." Jet answered.
"So, they choose what kind of event they'll be doing rather than sticking to the same routine, huh? That's pretty interesting." She-Hulk commented.
"Maybe for you, but because of those random events we always come unprepared without knowing what they're going to be." Droy said upset as he eats a bag of potato chips.
"Like there was this one year that I didn't compete, they had a running contest and I could've have gained some points for us." Jet explained as he jogs in place.
"And that one year, they had a shooting game for gunners, me and Alzack would've done pretty good there." Bisca mentioned as she held her gun.
"Damn, now listening to all this I'm actually pretty nervous about doing this." Squirrel Girl gulped.
"Quiet your worrying, we're already here, so it's too late to turn back now." Wolverine pointed out.
"Man, I just hope this year won't be hard." Max exclaimed.
"Come on, Max, what's the point of trying your hardest if there aren't anything challenging." Wolverine stated.
"Sure, sound confident because of you being so fucking strong." Max muttered.
"Okay, everyone, from what I got in the rule book it says the Preliminary round will start tomorrow morning and that there will be an "unseen" surprise for all of us." Laki read through the rule book of this year's magic games she got after reading through them with a little help from her magic glasses.
"Unseen surprise? What the hell does that mean?" Wolverine confused as everyone else.
"Beats me, that's all it says and nothing more." Laki shrugged.
"Maybe it involves a game of hide and seek, but the four members of the teams are hidden away while the fifth member has to find all of them and get the arena before time runs out!" Squirrel Girl guessed.
"Don't be stupid, this is the biggest event in the entire country there's no way they could do something childish like that." Wakaba stated.
"Hey, you said that they do random events every year." Squirrel Girl snapped.
"Come on, let's not yell at each other. Let just get to our hotel and try to enjoy the big city before the big game." She-Hulk suggested.
Once Squirrel Girl and Wakaba calm down, they all made their way to one hotel for the Fairy Tail members who aren't going to compete in the games and the group that are going to enter will be staying at a different hotel. Once they settle down in their rooms they decided on what they want to do: Squirrel Girl wants to explore the city on a higher view by climbing up some tall buildings, She-Hulk wants to go check on some of the clothing stores to see if they have any for her sizes, Bisca went to spend time with her family as Asuka wants to see some cool places, everyone else just went somewhere together Macao said that they should all be back when it's nighttime, and Wolverine just went on a walk alone hoping to relax a little before the game.
As Wolverine looks around, seeing all the wonder sights in the city like the big water fountain, the large garden house, and seeing the outside of the Domus Flau where the Grand Magic Games is gonna be at just every other year.
"Hmm, I got to admit this place sure has become more grand than the last time I was here. I think was about… 30 years ago, maybe?" Wolverine said, trying to remember that one visit he came to the capital.
But then a guy suddenly bumps into Wolverine almost making him trip.
"Hey! Watch where you're going, bub!" Wolverine yelled.
"Huh, that should my line, what kind of idiot doesn't look where he's going?" The guy complained.
The guy is a slim, yet muscular, toned young man of average height with spiky blond hair, which is kept in strands jutting outwards in every direction, and a smaller, frontal cowlick (or tuft) of hair partially hanging over his forehead. He has slanted, slit pupiled, dark blue eyes; above the right one is a thin, diagonal scar. His left ear is adorned with an earring which, in itself, is attached to by a prominent metal pendant that is crystalline in shape. He wears a blue vest with golden outer edges and inner edges covered by a prominent trimming of gray fur that appears similar to a feather boa over a short, cream top, leaving his muscular upper abdominals exposed. His arms are covered by dark blue gloves reaching up to his mid-bicep, with their upper edges being adorned by light gray bands hanging down several centimeters. He wears loose, cream-colored pants held up by suspenders, which attach to the pant loops by square-shaped rings that are gold in color. Over them, he dons distinctive dark blue galosh-esque footwear that reaches up to his thighs and attach to the upper edge of his pants. The prominent soles of the "boots" are distinctive in their own right; it has rectangular protrusions pointing upwards on their front portion, reminiscent of square fangs. He has a wildcat-like white mark on his left shoulder meaning he belongs to a guild which also means he's here for the Grand Magic Games.
"Oh, then I'm sorry for you being born an idiot." Wolverine insulted.
"What did you say, don't you know who I am?" The blonde guy shouted in rage.
"No, and I don't give a fuck!" Wolverine growled as the two press their heads against each other.
"Easy Sting, no need to waste your time on a weakling like him." A guy's voice said.
"What'd you said?" Wolverine turned around but found no one as he looks around a bit.
"Down here."
Wolverine looks down to see two strange cats standing on two feet in front of him. One is dark brown in color, with most of his body being red, but his face, belly, paws and the end of his long tail being pink. He has large, pointed ears, and prominent tufts of dark fur jutting outwards in correspondence to his cheekbones, where his whiskers are. He wears a blue, sleeveless button-up vest which is left open, and has three dark round buttons on its right side.
The other cat has large, round eyes, each complete with a pair of prominent eyelashes, and rosy cheeks, and green fur. What strange about this cat is that he's wearing a pink frog-like suit, of which the vast majority is covered by black spots. The suit sports a plain belly, webbed hands, and a hood which forms the frog's head, complete with two beady eyes resting on the hood.
"Huh, is this one wearing a frog suit?" Wolverine asked pointing at the frog suit wearing cat.
"Yeah, Frosh likes to wear that all the time because he likes frogs." The dark, red-brown cat explained.
"Frosh thinks so too!" Frosh said.
"Okay, so I take it you're with this chump?" Wolverine asked pointing his thumb at the guy the cat just called him Sting as he yells "Hey."
"Yep, that's Sting Eucliffe, Sabretooth's strongest mage and one of the Twin Dragon Slayers. I'm Lector, by the way." Lector said.
"Sting, so he's like a bee?" Wolverine asked.
"Seriously, I'm a Dragon Slayer!" Sting snapped.
"Sheesh, you acted like you never heard of him before." Lector noticed Wolverine's lack of respect to Sting as he is pretty famous around.
"That's because I haven't, I'm Fairy Tail's new member Wolverine." Wolverine introduced himself.
"Oh, a new member? Well, I hope you do better than that loser guild." Lector mocked, than he felt his spine shivers when Wolverine glares at him.
"Wolverine? Oh yeah, I did hear something about you though I didn't really care." Sting said.
"I guess you're the type of guy that want to see the action itself than hearing about it." Wolverine raised his right fist where his sliver guild mark is and brought out his claws.
"Oh, you really think you can take me on?" Sting asked rhetorically.
"Why don't we find out right now and see?" Wolverine smirked.
"Okay, okay, as much as I love to see Sting beat up a chump we have to get back, we should get going. You're going to need to save up that energy for the games tomorrow." Lector reminded Sting as wings appear on his back and flew to Sting's face.
"I think so too!" Frosh said.
"(Cat with wings, now I've seen everything.)" Wolverine thought.
"Yeah, you're right, Lector. I can always humiliate in front of the whole kingdom." Sting smirked before walking away with the two cats.
"So, there's a guild named after HIM, huh. Well, I hope he don't see him here, otherwise there will be a bloody battle on our hands." Wolverine looked at up the sky, getting a bad feeling that he may meet with Sabretooth here very soon.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
The Fairy Tail gang have arrived at Crocus in time for the Grand Magic Games as they will have to ready themselves when this "unseen" surprise happen for the Preliminary round Squirrel Girl's guess may not be stupid as Wakaba thought and Wolverine has just met Sting of the Sabretooth guild as they have already challenge each other. Let see how the new Fairy Tail members deal with the crazy events that is about to unfold itself to the kingdom and hope they'll be able to move on to the main event.
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