Surprisingly enough, here I am! Obviously you guys don't know what I mean, but I didn't think I'd be able to post this today. Huge snowstorm blew in yesterday, and the power went out. Didn't think it'd actually come back by now cause the storm was really bad, but thankfully it did!

Enjoy!

Keita's head was killing him. He stumbled through the street, clutching his temples.

"What the hell..." He hissed, leaning against a wall near him. "I can barely think straight..." The pain started to fade, at least a little, and Keita looked around. He appeared to be alone, and that was probably for the best. His headache was making it impossible to focus.

"It seems Fairy Tail is on the move! After being attacked during the night and injured badly, they've decided to fight! What a display!" Keita raised an eyebrow and turned his gaze upward, where the lacrima vision displayed a wounded team Fairy Tail all running in different directions.

"Attacked?" Keita asked weakly, his head throbbing. "What does that mean?"

"It means someone went after them." Keita sighed and turned in the direction of the voice, where Nami was walking in his direction, looking up at the lacrima vision as well. "Which sucks, I was looking forward to fighting Simon."

"Hm." Keita hummed, looking up at them as well. "I suppose. Maybe he'll still put up a decent fight."

"Eh, maybe." The two went quiet, before Nami looked over at him. "So, you holding up?"

"Yeah." Keita replied. "Although that girl from Blue Pegasus, Bella...something weird happened with her."

"Like what?"

"One minute we're going to fight, next I'm on a mission to find someone else to fight. I don't even know why." Nami made a face and then smiled coyly.

"Did she tell you too?" She asked.

"I don't know...Wait, why?" Keita glared at Nami, and the woman giggled innocently.

"Nothing sweetie, nothing."

"Don't call me sweetie." Keita hissed, and Nami waved him off.

"Yeah yeah, act tough all you want. So, you wanna have a go or not?"

"Against you?" Keita asked for clarification. "Yeah, no thanks. I'd rather stay in the fight."

"Alright, whatever." Nami walked towards Keita, and he tensed out of instinct. She reached him and placed a hand on his chest.

"Just be careful, sweetie. Don't want anything bad to happen to you."

"I can handle myself." Keita replied defensively. Nami rolled her eyes and lightly slapped him on the cheek.

"Yeah I know. But if anyone gets to beat the shit out of you, it's me and me alone. Right?"

"...Right..."

"There's a good boy." Nami slapped him lightly again, and walked away, waving to him over her shoulder. "I'll see you later Keita. I have other things to attend to."

"See you." Keita replied, relieved the girl was leaving. He turned and began to walk away, wonder what was going to happen now that Fairy Tail had gotten back in the fight.

"Hey!" It was Nami. Keita stopped and looked over his shoulder at her, and she was watching him. "Remember we're having dinner after the Games, okay? Don't forget this time!"

"I won't!" Keita replied. "Michael was to blame last time!" Nami rolled her eyes and made a blabbing motion with her hand.

"Just be there!" She shouted, and Keita started to ignore her. "Hey! Listen to me!" Keita growled and turned around.

"Okay! I'll be there, and on time too!" The two watched each other before Nami snickered and started laughing.

"Don't get so pissy!" She shouted. "God, you're so hard to get through too!" Keita sighed and turned around.

"Shut up, Nami!" He said, ignoring her as her laughter got louder.

I swear to God, that girl will be the death of me...

Rina watched as her blast of lightning threw Mami backwards, and right through a flower shop. The girl struggled to stand, so Rina clasped her hands together and aimed them at Mami.

"40mm Black Lightning Cannon!" She shouted, again striking Mami. The girl rolled through the debris and didn't raise her head anymore, making Rina smiled and wipe the sweat from her forehead.

"You put up a good fight." She said, walking towards Mami. "Now please, don't get up. It'll make things unnecessarily complicated." Mami didn't respond, and Ross cleared his throat.

"It seems Rina Nanagear has defeated the leader of Blue Pegasus, Mami Kotobuki! She's earned Sabertooth another five points!" Rina smiled and stretched. Taking out so many people had an amazing advantage, truthfully. Even Fairy Tail was in danger of not catching them the way things were now. Which was good, because the less chance they had the better. Rina didn't have anything against Fairy Tail, in fact they were pretty cool. She just didn't want to lose to them.

"Now, where the hell are they anyway?" Rina asked herself. "I hope Dreyar keeps his promise and gives me all he's got, because I really want to take him down." Lightning crackled around Rina at the thought alone. "Oh yeah, that'll be fun." Walking through the destroyed streets, it gave Rina some time to think. If Fairy Tail was really just hiding, why? And if so, where?

"Ugh, I just hope no one else comes at me..." Rina said. "I need to conserve my strength for Damien, or else I'll end up getting trashed."

Someone was approaching her from behind. Rina didn't move at first, accessing the situation as best she could, before she started to laugh.

"So you came to me, huh?" She asked, flexing her hands. "I guess I should thank you, Damien. After all, I would've had to search for you myself. So, shall we...?!" Rina whirled on her next opponent, wholly expecting Damien to be standing there.

Drake stopped where he was and watched her carefully, heavily leaning on his right leg. Rina stared at him in surprise.

"W...What are you doing?" Rina asked. "I don't want to fight you, Drake! Where the hell is Damien?!" Drake sighed and moved a little closer.

"You know, he was going to head your request." Drake told her, stopped and standing up straight. "He was going to seek you out and not hold back." The Poison Dragon laughed and looked up at her. "But then, a thought occurred to me, and I told him I'd take care of you."

"What...?!" A smirk crossed Drake's face as he pocketed his hands.

"I asked myself, why should I let the girl who lost at both things Damien could've done easily?" Rina felt a rock settle in her stomach. "You didn't come first in Hidden, and you lost to Nami. Both of these things Damien could've done easily. So why, exactly, should I let our strongest member waste his time and energy with someone who would lose in the first thirty seconds? With people like Nami and Terra out there, he's got bigger fish to fry." Rina gritted her teeth together and clenched her fists.

"Are you trying to tell me I'm not worth his time?"

"Essentially, yeah. Nothing personal Rina, it's just a matter of fact, you know?" Rina laughed, black lightning crackling around her.

"And you're telling me that instead of sending me the Demon, they send me the puny Dragon Slayer?! I hate to remind you Drake, but you have nothing on me! My magic is stronger, and so am I!"

"That a fact?"

"You're damn right it is!" Rina brought her hands together and shot lighting out at Drake, who remained still. As the lightning got closer, he simply side stepped it and it blasted apart the building behind him.

"And yet, Hidden taught you nothing." He said, his facial expression remaining still. "I can hear your moves, Rina. Not to mention it's so easy to let your anger control you." Rina laughed darkly as the lightning continued to crackle.

"Well, then i guess it's a good thing you're already hurt." She blasted more lightning bolts at him, and he dodged the first three, the fourth surging towards him.

And it hit him dead center in the chest, throwing him backwards. Rina laughed as he hit the dirt.

"I can tell your right leg is killing you, Drake!" She shouted as the Dragon Slayer struggled to stand. "I guess I'll just orientate my lightning to your left!" Drake growled as he got out off of the ground.

"You want to play cheap?" he asked, poison flowing out of his figure. "Then let's go. Even with this bad leg, I'll beat the shit out of you!" Rina laughed as Drake ran towards her.

"Once I'm done with you," She said, breaking into a sprint towards him as well. "I'll go after Damien!" Their fists connected, sending out an explosion of poison and lightning.

The Poison Dragon and the Lightning Goddess were butting heads.

"Lightning-White Blast!" Kyoko's attack sent Megan and Kim flying, and they landed in a heap. She brought her hands up to her temples, preparing another volley of attacks. Both girls only barely got to their feet before Kyoko sent another round of White and Lightning magic at them, which sent them flying again.

"This is bad." Kim said, struggling to stand. "We can't even get close to her."

"Isn't there anything we can do?" Megan asked weakly. "I mean really, she's just one person."

"And the two of you are just two people." Kyoko replied, another magic circle appearing behind her, charging up a blast of White and Shadows. "The amount of people makes no difference. The magic is what counts." The blast went off, engulfing the girls in the powers Kyoko had memorized.

Once the power had faded, neither girl was moving. Kyoko watched them, but nothing happened.

"Welp, Megan and Kimberley have both fallen to Kyoko Lore! Another two points for Sabertooth!"

"At this rate, Sabertooth won't be able to lose."

"Well, that was the idea with a full on offensive attack om the others." Kyoko said to herself. "Take everyone out." She was about to turn and walk away when An explosion sounded next to her, whipping her hair around viciously. She looked over to find Juno standing there, watching another pair of girls from Mermaid Heel, Mai and Rachel. Both girls, like the others, weren't getting up.

"Oh, hey Kyoko." Juno said, walking over to Kyoko as the points were added t their score.

"Hey." She greeted. "You did a great job right there."

"Yeah, you too." The girls high fived, and Juno wiped sweat from her brow. "They put up a a better fight than I had anticipated, though." Kyoko realized at that moment that she was pretty tired. Taking out all of Quatro Cerberus, Megan and Kim had done a number on her. Although, she was still ready to take anyone else on.

"You seen Fairy Tail yet?" Kyoko asked, wiping her own forehead with her hand.

"Nope," Juno said. "Haven't laid eyes on them yet." Kyoko frowned.

"I wonder what..."

An explosion of light went off, throwing both girls away from each other. Kyoko got up just in time to dodge a blast of ice coming from the same direction. Making it a fair distance away, Kyoko looked up towards the blast site to see what had happened.

Simon and Ultear were standing in between her and Juno, with Ultear facing her and Simon facing Juno.

"You guys wouldn't happen to know anything about why we were attacked outside of today, would you?" Simon asked, making Kyoko frown in confusion. Attacked? What were they talking about?

"Not a clue what you mean." Juno replied, her hands glowing with Territory. But it's exciting you guys managed to show, I was starting to get bored." Kyoko, raised two fingers to her forehead, and the four squared off.

"Ultear." it was Simon who spoke, and the girl looked over her shoulder at him. "can you handle Kyoko?" Ultear grinned.

"You just make sure Juno doesn't gang up with Kyoko on me." The girl replied. Simon chuckled, and surged towards Juno, who raised her hands to defend herself. Simon grappled with her and, with the glow of Territory, both of them disappeared.

"It would appear Juno has taken Simon elsewhere." Kyoko observed, looking back at Ultear. Now that she was being given a chance to look at her, Kyoko could tell the girl was, as a matter of fact, very wounded. Her clothes were torn, she had cuts and bruises, but she still stood against her. "I hope you fair as more of a challenge then the rest of the fighters that have gone up against me." Ultear grinned as water whipped around her.

"I guess we'll have to find out, Kyoko."

Blake looked up at the lacrima vision as Drake went against Rina, Simon against Juno, and Ultear against Kyoko.

It would appear the battle between Fairies and Tigers has begun." He observed, his feet swinging off the edge he was sitting on. "Although none of those people are a concern to me." He raised his left hand to his temple. "Zeus?"

"Report, Agent." The Master of the Olympians replied. "What is it?"

"Requesting visual on target END." He didn't get a reply for a moment, and finally the Master replied.

"Visual acquired. END is moving about a mile south of your current position."

"Acknowledged. Moving in." Blake jumped off of the ledge he was sitting on and looked to the south of him. He walked for a moment until he paused, and raised two fingers to his temple once more. "Master?"

"Yes?"

"...What am I too do if I cannot draw END out?" He asked quietly. "If she suppresses the power and fights through the pain, how am I too tell if she is at the necessary power levels?" Zeus did not reply to him at first, but eventually someone spoke up.

"Problem has been acknowledged, Agent." It was Athena who spoke to him now. "I am currently running diagnostics on her power levels as showcased during her fight against the New Twin Dragons."

"..Okay, so what do I do?" Blake asked again, pocketing his other hand. Athena sighed.

"I told you, I am running a diagnostic. I don't know yet. At best please keep her at bay until I have the information available."

"...Okay. Just tell me as soon as you know."

"Understood, Agent. You may proceed. Best of luck." The connection was severed, and Blake slowly lowered the hand that had been at his temple. Sighing, he continued on his path towards Nashi.

"You know," he said to himself. "I wonder what the power of END feels like...and if I'll live through it to acknowledge just how powerful it is."

Amidst the battlefield for first place in the Grand Magic Games, Blake moved to be the second man to fight against Etherious Nashi Dragneel.

But would he?

Yep, another cliffhanger. But hey, this arc is nearing it's completion, so, there's that right? I hope you enjoyed, leave a review! Let's try and get five!