To be totally honest with you guys, the only reason I gave you two chapters yesterday was because 167 was a little lackluster. You know what I mean? Whatever, more story!
Enjoy!
"It seems the teams for the event have made their way to the arena! And oh man do we have some powerhouses down there! We have Yuki and Terra from Lamia Scale, Rachel and Kimberly from Mermaid Heel, Damien and Ultear from Fairy Tail, Kyoko and Blake from Sabertooth, Ryo and Toshiro from Quatro Cerberus and, for the first time in the Games, Bella Realight from Blue Pegasus joins us with her tag partner, Ken!"
Ultear was finally released from Damien's grasp as they reached the rest of the competitors in the arena.
"You didn't have to drag me..." Ultear hissed, dusting herself off. This just made Damien laugh.
"Sorry, I'm excited." he said.
"Don't get too into it, Dreyar." It was Terra who spoke. "There aren't any rules against attacking other competitors." Damien smirked at this.
"Are you saying you want another go, Neekis? Make me beat you down again?"
"You tricked me, alright?!" This made Damien snort in laughter and made Terra fume in irritation.
"Good luck anyway, guys." Ultear said. "This is going to be an interesting event."
"Definitely." Yuki agreed, her eyes moving over to Ken and Bella. "May I ask you a question, Ultear?"
"Yeah, sure." Yuki looked back at her, a serious look on her face.
"Are you aware of what Bella Realight is capable of?" Ultear cast her gaze over to the girl in question, watching her giggle as Ken fawned over her.
"Not a clue." She said. "I've never seen her in combat before." After realizing this, it made Ultear curious. Just what was Bella going to pull out? Had Blue Pegasus saved her for an important event, or just made sure she stayed away as long as possible due to her uselessness? Ultear surmised she was about to find out.
"Alright everyone! The event begins NOW! Release the Wyvern!" The magical chain keeping the beast tethered disappeared, and it let out a vicious roar and flapped it's wings as it stood up straight.
"Ready for this, Ul?" Damien asked. Ultear gulped and nodded.
"As I'll ever be." She replied. Every contestant charged right at the beast without a second thought, Ultear in the middle of the pack. She watched as Quatro Cerberus reached it first, and both men were thrown back with a flap of its wings. The Wyvern flapped it's wings again and took off, Now flying into the sky above the arena. Damien took over into his demon form and unfurled his wings.
"Get ready Ul!" he shouted, Ultear making a face.
"What do you...Kyaah!" Ultear yelped in surprise as Damien grabbed her with one arm and took to the skies after the beast. "Give me more warning next time!" She scolded, punching his back.
"Sorry, just trying to get this over with!" he replied. The pair caught up to the Wyvern and Damien kept speed with it. "Think you can get the scale from here?!" He yelled over the wind as the Wyvern circled the Domus Flau.
"I think so..." She replied. "Keep up with it o you can catch me, just in case!" Damien nodded and got closer to the beast, trying to let Ultear mount it.
Bursts of plasma nearly knocked them out of the sky. Damien veered away from the blasts as a few struck the Wyvern. It changed direction and headed back down towards the remainder of the contestants, who were waiting without much they could do.
"He could've really hurt us with that..." Damien hissed, slowing down to descend after the beast.
"Don't dwell on it, just go after it!" Ultear shouted. Damien listened and shot after the beast, who was engaging those on the ground. A few of them got thrown around as the Wyvern landed, and others went after it to secure their scale. Ultear got an idea.
"Drop me!" She shouted at Damien.
"Are you insane?!" he asked.
"Do it!" Damien growled but released his hold on Ultear's midsection, causing her to plummet down towards the Wyvern. Liquefying her body, she landed on the Wyvern's back, and looked around frantically for the scale painted with the Fairy Tail emblem. Looking below her gaze her the answer, as the fist sized object was right below her.
The Wyvern bucked as it realized a human was clinging to it, which made Ultear lose her grip on the beast and fell to the ground. Ultear got to her feet just in time to avoid the torrent of flame that shot from the beasts mouth. Damien landed near her and curled his wings up a bit.
"Got any ideas?" he asked.
"Not really." She said. "Our scale is pretty much right in the center of his back." Damien nodded at this as others threw themselves at the Wyvern.
"We just need to get the scale." Damien said. "So as long as we manage to get it, we can..." The Wyvern interrupted Damien by roaring in anger, making them both look back at it.
It was being chained by plasma.
"Keep it down, Blake!" Kyoko yelled as she mounted the Wyvern as it bucked around. More plasma chains kept it down as Kyoko reached for their scale, which was resting near the beats head.
"He can create chains?" Ultear asked, genuinely surprised.
"Don't be shocked, use it our advantage!" Damien told her, going after the Wyvern. Everyone seemed to get the same idea, and ran towards the chain beast.
Kyoko got the scale.
And Blake let go of the chains.
The very second he did, the chains did not disappear, and instead lashed out every which way as the Wyvern shook them off. A few people were struck by them, but everyone else got out of the way in time as Kyoko returned to Blake.
"It seems that Sabertooth has already retrieved their scale!" Ross announced, both contestants fleeing the arena. "This places them in first place!"
"Of course they did, Blake could chain it down..." Ultear muttered under her breath as everyone backed away from the Wyvern to think about how to approach it. Ultear watched as the Wyvern attempted to take off again, and she rolled her eyes. "Yeah, not again. Raising both of her hands, she concentrated.
Ice started to form around the wings of the Wyvern, keeping it from taking off.
"Great job Ultear!" Damien praised. "Now, let's get this scale and put this to rest." Ultear nodded, but refocused her energy on keeping the ice from cracking.
"I need to keep the ice on it's wings!" She told Damien. "Go! I got this!" Damien nodded and shot towards the Wyvern, just as everyone else tried to get their scales from it, or even find them. Pillars of earth struck the beast in the midsection, allowing Yuki and Terra to jump onto the beast and try to get their scale as well, which was resting on the chest of the Wyvern. The Wyvern blew fire at the ice on it's wings, making Ultear work overtime in her attempt to keep the ice on there. The Wyvern's tail came swinging around, knocking Rachel and Kim away from it.
"From what I can tell, Terra Neekis has retrieved her scale!" Ultear looked up to find Terra waving the scale emblazoned with Lamia Scale's mark, smirking at Damien, who seemed to be trying to ignore her. "Lamia Scale finishes second!"
"Come on Damien!" Ultear shouted, sweat trickling down her forehead as the fire melted her ice faster than she could freeze it again. "I can't keep this up much longer!" Damien did not reply to her, so she looked up to see what he was doing.
He wasn't even near the Wyvern.
Looking around frantically, she found her tag partner a little ways away from the Wyvern, fighting off Ryo and Toshiro, who were both attacking him. He wasn't struggling o much as just trying to get away from them. Ultear heard someone giggling.
"Boys please!" Bella shouted from somewhere. "There's no need to fight over me!"
"She's mine!" Toshiro shouted, going after Damien.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Damien hissed, punching the man in the face. Rolling his eyes, Damien soared away from the men attacking him (who were for some reason, shouting about Bella), went right past the girls from Mermaid Heel, and right for the back of the Wyvern. He latched onto the back, but the beast was already done melting the ice keeping it from using it's wings. It tried to shake Damien off, but the man's grip was a bit too strong. He dug his fingers underneath the scales and pulled.
Causing it too fly off. Ultear frantically ran off of it and held her hands out, managing to catch it before it hit the ground. She smiled as she raised the scale above her head.
"Damien Dreyar and Ultear Fullbuster have retrieved their Scale! This places them in third!"
Ken watched as Ultear caught the scale representing their guild, and he he heard Bella sigh.
"Well, that's disappointing." He heard her say. "All the good competition is gone." Ken shrugged
"So what's our strategy?" he asked her, and Bella smiled.
"Don't worry, I have it down pat." She cleared her throat and posed. "Ryo! Toshiro!" Both men from Quatro Cerberus looked back at her. "Whoever gets the Blue Pegasus scale to me gets a kiss!" Both men's eyes widened, and then looked over at each other.
They then sprinted towards the Wyvern, all sense of fear replaced with what Ken could tell, overwhelming courage. They attacked the Wyvern with Ryo's sand magic and Toshiro flew at the beast, roaring angrily as he tried to grab the scale with the Blue Pegasus mark on it. After struggling with the beast for a bit, Toshiro managed to get it off, and sprinted towards Ken and Bella. Rachel and Kim tried to talk some sense into him or stop them, but nothing worked. Ryo went after Toshiro and tried to grab the scale from him, but Toshiro wouldn't cave.
"Give it to me!" Ryo shouted. "I did all the work!"
"You shut your mouth!" Toshiro shouted back. "I had to wrangle the thing!" They continued shouting at each other until they tripped and landed in front of them, both having a single hand holding up the scale for Bella to take.
"I got it!"They both shouted, grinning like blithering idiots. Bella smiled, bent down, and took the scale from them.
"Thanks boys!" She said. "You can go get your own now!" It was as if the boys were released from a daze. They looked around in confusion, looked at Ken, who just blinked in confusion as well. Why were they not even asking about their end of the deal.
W-Well, that was not expected!" Ross shouted. "Quatro Cerberus has retrieved Blue Pegasus' scale for them!"
"Come on Ken hun, we're done." Ken blinked and looked back to find Bella leaving the arena, so he hastily joined her.
After all, the Wyvern seemed rather pissed off from four scales being ripped from it's body.
"Uh..." Toshiro said. "What...Just happened?" Ryo shrugged and looked around.
"I...I don't know." he replied. "I feel dizzy..." Looking around, the two could see that the entire arena was vacated save them, the girls from Mermaid Heel, and the angry Wyvern. "But I think... we're in danger of getting last again."
"Again?!" He shouted. "We need to step it up man!" Both of them got to their feet and prepared to rush the Wyvern. Both Rachel and Kim seemed ready to rush it once again.
All four of them rushed the beast, not wanting to be last.
And that's it!" Ross announced. "Quatro Cerberus takes fifth place, while Mermaid Heel gets stuck automatically with sixth! And now, we move onto the tag team battles! First up we have Mai and Megan from Mermaid Heel against Kunio and Akihiro from Quatro Cerberus!"
Natsu wasn't all that interested in the upcoming fight, so he opted to take a walk. Moving past the rest of the guild, he made his way down the stairs into the lobby of the Domus Flau, which was basically vacated because no one wanted to miss a single moment of the Games.
And he was certain that wouldn't change.
He wasn't worried, not one bit. He'd trained Nashi well enough, so there was really no reason for him to have a knot in his stomach.
So why did he?
"Daddy! Mommy wanted you to get the other kind!"
"Ally!" A deeper voice scolded. "You could've said that ten minutes ago!" Natsu looked up to find Sting and his daughter Ally walking his way. The little girl seemed miffed, and Sting did as well. Natsu wondered what was in the box Sting was carrying. The Master of Sabertooth looked up to watch where he was going, and spotted him. "Oh, hey Natsu-san!"
"Hey Sting." Natsu greeted, shifting his gaze to Ally. "Hi Ally." The little girl beamed up at him.
"Hi Mr. Natsu!" She said in a sweet tone. Natsu smiled at her before returning his gaze to Sting.
"What's in the box?" he asked. Sting shifted a bit and laughed.
"Just some lunch for the others." He replied. "And apparently the wrong type, according to Ally."
"I listen to Mommy, that's why." Ally said. Sting just rolled his eyes.
"Ally, how about you bring this to your mother?" The girl happily held her arms out, and took the box in her arms. "Don't drop it! I'll take the blame!"
"Sure thing Daddy!" The girl ran towards her guild, and Sting sighed.
"She's going to drop it." He muttered. Natsu chuckled.
"She seems like a handful."
"She is, but I still love her." Natsu nodded in an understanding way. Both men remained quiet for a moment, before Sting took a deep breath.
"I assume you've realized?" Sting asked. Natsu nodded.
"If Hisui planned them, she most certainly did it." He agreed. More silence, then, "I'm sure they'll all do fine."
"Yeah..." Sting made a face. "I'm just worried about how much damage to the arena they'll do." Natsu looked over at Sting to find the Third Generation Dragon Slayer making a pitiful face. "You have no idea how hard it is paying for stuff like that..." Natsu snorted.
"I doubt they'll make you pay for it." He replied.
"That's it for Mermaid Heel! The boys from Quatro Cerberus have defeated them, earning themselves ten points! Next up we have Yuki and Kendra from Lamia Scale against Bella Realight and Nikki from Blue Pegasus!"
" And they're last as well?" Sting asked. "They're preparing for it to destroy everything..."
"probably a smart idea..." Natsu murmured. "...Sting?"
"Hm?"
"...If Nashi..." Natsu found it hard to finish his thought process, as he was imagining the sheer destruction. "If she somehow..." The two Slayers eyes met, and the message was conveyed to Sting that way, which made him tense.
"Doesn't she have to be aware of it to go Etherious?" he asked in a low tone. "Like Mard Geer?"
"...I don't know." Natsu answered, looking back up to the lacrima vision in the lobby showing the Blue Pegasus girls getting thrown everywhere.
"...All I can do is pray she doesn't do it on accident."
It looks like that's it for the beautiful girls from Blue Pegasus! And now, we have our final fight for the fifth day of the Games! And ladies and gentlemen, do we have an a amazing fight planned! For now, we have the be all, the end all! It's been seventeen years in the making! Please put your hands together for the final tag team battle, NASHI DRAGNEEL AND ELISE REDFOX VS. MICHAEL EUCLIFFE AND KEITA CHENEY!"
Nashi took a deep breath and looked over at Elise, who met her gaze. She nodded, so the two turned and prepared to leave the stands.
"Good luck, girls." Drake said. They both nodded. Neither felt like talking. They walked down the flight of stairs and turned to get into the arena, and encountered someone on the way.
"Rocky?" Nashi asked, surprised as the presence of her former enemy. Rocky looked up as they approached him, and he nodded.
"Hey girls." He said. Elise walked right past him and went into the openness of the arena, and Nashi followed her. She didn't spare Rocky a look.
"...Good luck, Nashi." She heard him say. She stopped, and smiled.
"...Thank you, Rocky."
Nashi entered the arena.
But would she leave it the victor?
If you guys couldn't tell, I'm doing my best to get through the GMG but not make it rushed. I feel like I'm failing but meh, whatever. The next fight will make up for it ;)
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