Natsu's POV:

We were on the train, heading towards the beach. The ten of us chosen to compete in the GMG are all going to train as hard as we can for the next month. Well, eight of us will be training our hardest. Gray and I would be training, just not as hard as we could. Don't want people to figure us out yet do we? 

I was pretending to have motion sickness when Gray decided it would be fun to mess with me. "Jeez, even after all the training you did, motion sickness always wins. It's pathetic." He gave me a shit eating grin. I scowled the best I could while pretending to be sick. 'Shut up Ice Princess.' 'Make me.' We continued our playful stare down, though if we could fight in our minds, I'd be beating the crap outta him right now.

The train began to slow down, just as we were able to see the beach. The train pulled into the station and came to a stop. We all got off the train and looked towards the bleach. Clear water, even clearer sky, no people... wait... "Uh Gramps, why are we the only ones here?" "That's easy. I rented out the whole beach!" "It makes perfect sense. We all need to train our hardest, and we are a destructive group of people. If other people were here, they could get seriously injured." "Erza has a point. Now, let's head to the resort."

When we got to the resort, Mira and Erza went to get us signed in. The rest of us were examining everything in the lobby. It was huge! The ceiling was high enough for this to be atleast three story building. There were fancy couches and even fancier wall decorations. Heck, there was a chandelier.  The girls had come back over with what looked to be about 20 room keys. 

"Ok, everyone partner up, except for 3 girls. We need a group of three girls since there is an odd number. Girls with girls, boys with boys." "Once you partner up, come get a key, get settled in, and do whatever else you feel like!" 

Gray and I were going to room together. The other groups were Erza & Mira, Laxus and Guildarts, Levy and Lucy, Cana, Evergreen, and Juvia, Lisanna and Wendy, Jet and Droy, Bixslow and Freed, and Gajeel and Elfman. Gramps, being Master and all, got his own room. We all got our room key and headed to our respective rooms. While we were walking off, my enhanced hearing aloud me to hear a 'Why couldn't I be with Natsu/Gray-sama?! Stupid girls with girls rule.' I told Gray and we quietly laughed to ourselves.

When we got to our room, we saw it was a standard room. There was a desk, closet, bathroom, couch, t.v. lacrima, and bed. One bed. I chuckled to myself. The girls just had to make sure there was one bed. 

We put our stuff down and decided to explore the resort. We found a pool, which I found odd since we are at the beach, a small gym, a hot spring, a small cafe, and the hotel restaurant. We decided to get some food since it was already sundown. It was a nice dinner. Gray and I were relatively quiet throughout the meal. 

When we finished, we headed back to our room. We both stripped down to our boxers and got comfortable in bed. We watched 'Bleach' on the t.v. lacrima. It was pretty good. Spiky, weird colored hair for the win!

When we finished watching 'Bleach' it was around 12:30, so we went to sleep. Not before a pillow fight though. So we actually went to bed around 1:00. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

*Time Skip Next Morning*

Gray's POV

I woke up, only to find myself about to fall off the bed. I rolled over and looked at Natsu, and he was already awake. "Dang it! I was so close." "Close to what?" "This." Then, Natsu pushed me off the bed. Natsu started laughing at me. "You should see your face!" I grabbed a pillow from the pillow fight last night and threw it at him. I hit him square in the face and he stopped laughing. We had another pillow fight after Natsu threw his pillow at me. 

We stopped fighting after a few minutes. We put on our clothes, fixed our hair, and left to get breakfast. We ate at the cafe and it was pretty good. We both had coffee and a croissant. Erza and Mira joined us after a while and we talked for a good 30 minutes before we got up to head to the beach. 

When we got to the beach, we saw almost everyone else training. "I guess we should get started. We need to be at the top of our game to beat Sabertooth." Mira nodded and walked off with Erza. 

I turned towards Natsu and a smile made its way to my face. He was deep in though, and his face was adorable. "Gray, want to get our cloaks and head into town?" "Yeah sure. It'll be fun. Especially if we run into any wizards who want to challenge us." "Ok. Race you to our room!" We took off, not running to fast, but still quick. I froze the floor at one point. He never said no magic. I made it to the room first, but barely. "Damn you Ice Princess." "You never said no magic." "I hate you." "Love you too!"

We grabbed our cloaks from the room and headed back out to the beach. We found our vertically challenged guild master and told him we were going to wander around a bit. "Fine. You brats better be back at lunch though." We nodded and ran into the forest near the beach. We were wandering around until Natsu stopped. He began smelling the air. I tried to ask what was wrong when he clapped his hand over my mouth. He stayed quiet as well, listening too our surroundings. 

'Stay quiet. I can smell two people coming this way. I don't recognize their scent though' I nodded. 'We should probably put up our hoods.' 'Good idea.' We pulled up our hoods just in time. I could hear two voices coming closer. Natsu and I acted as though we didn't know they were coming. 

The two people came out from behind a tree and froze. One had blonde hair, blue eyes, and a scar on his eyebrow. He had a white guild mark on his shoulder, but I couldn't tell what it looked like. The second had black hair and red eyes. He was wearing mostly black. We didn't see a guild mark on him at all. The blonde one spoke up. "Who the hell are you guys?" "We could ask you the same thing." His friend spoke next, "We asked you first." Natsu countered, "We don't care. So what are you doing out here?" 

The blonde one was looking a bit angry, but his friend calmed him down. "We came to the forest to do some training before the Grand Magic Games and got a bit lost. We smelled people over this way, so we followed and found you two." Natsu and I glanced at each other. "You wouldn't happen to be Sting and Rogue from Sabertooth would you?" "That is correct. I'm Rogue, and this is Sting." The man, now named Sting, puffed out his chest slightly and smirked. "How does it feel to be in the presence of true dragon slayers?" I could tell Natsu was struggling to hold back his laughter, but he managed. Sting continued, "So, now you know who we are and what we are doing. We would like to know the same of you guys." Natsu sighed, "We are at the beach a bit away from here with our guild. The name's Kasai. This is Fuyu." The twin dragons were gaping at us. "How does it feel to be in the presence of two Wizard Saints?" A small, smug smile was forming on my lips. 

Sting was struggling to make coherent words, but managed to form a very short sentence. "Fight me." Rogue looked at him shocked before nodding. "Me too." I raised an eyebrow, not that anyone could see it because of my hood. "You two, want to fight the two of us. The mysterious Wizard Saints only known under aliases." They nodded and slipped into their fighting stances. 

 Salamander and I sighed and crossed our arms. I guess you could say this was our fighting stance when we weren't taking people seriously. We simultaneously agreed to the challenge. "We accept. Now, come at us." 

Our opponents launched themselves at us, their fist covered in magic. Sting's was white while Rogues was black. They went to punch us and we stepped out of the way. We then kicked the duo in the back. They hit a tree, not surprising since we are in the middle of the forest. Sting and Rogue pushed themselves off the tree and turned to face us. "White Dragon: Roar!" A white beam shot from Sting's mouth, heading for the two of us. It wasn't anything impressive. Natsu was looking pretty bored. I sighed, this was going to be easier than fighting the four S-Class wizards in our guild. Natsu mumbled under his breath, and I don't think the other two heard it.  "Fire Dragon: Roar!" It was one of the weaker roars I've seen from him, but it got the job done. His attack canceled out Sting's as soon as it made contact. The fire continued forwards, hitting the other dragon slayers. 

When the fire disappeared, Sting and Rogue were on the ground and burnt. Their clothes had many holes and scorch marks on them. I walked over to stand in between their unconscious bodies. "Better luck next time." I jogged back to the resort with Natsu right behind me. 

We took off our cloaks and went to our room to drop them off. When we were done, we went back to the beach and found Erza. She was standing on the edge of a rock. Whenever the waves crashed against it, she would swing he swords and the water. "Hey Erza! What did the water ever do to you!?" She turned around  and sighed when she saw us. "Natsu, Gray. Why was there an explosion in the forest?" Natsu was looking away, whistling like he didn't hear her. "We an into some people and they wanted to fight. So we did, but they don't know it was us." "How so?" "Cloaks, and different names!" Natsu had stopped whistling. "Yeah. we told them we were wizard saints and they challenged us." 

Erza sighed and rubbed her temples. "You didn't need to cause an explosion though. I don't care if it was small, he could seen it from here." Natsu was rubbing the back of his neck. "Yeah. Didn't really mean to." "You still caused it though. Now, who did you meet? I assume it was more than one since you are saying they." "They were from Sabertooth. String and Roast I believe." I hit Natsu on the head. "It was Sting and Rogue you idiot!" "Whatever. I'll be at the bottom of the ocean if you need me." He took of his clothes, luckily he had his swim trunks under them. "Why are your swim trunks under your pants?" "Didn't want to go back to the room to change later." "Are you insane!? You can't go to the bottom of the ocean! You'll-" "Just let him go." With that, he jumped into the water and swam off.  

Erza looked at me with confusion flooding her face. "Just watch." She hesitantly nodded before watching the water. A moment or so later, a huge column of flames ripped through the ocean. Erza's mouth was agape and her eyes wide. "He did this while training. Since fire is weak to water, why not shoot flames from the bottom of the ocean and make them break the surface." She sighed before rubbing her temples. "I guess that makes sense, but he draws to much attention to himself when he does it." "Well, Natsu has always drawn attention to himself. Mainly because of the destruction he caused, but attention grabbing none the less."

Natsu hopped out of the water, shaking his head to dry his hair. "How big was it?" "Somewhere between your biggest and smallest." "No duh. Stupid Ice Princess can't tell how big a roar is." "What was that Flame-for-Brains?" "You heard me. So how big do you think it was?" I sighed. "Somewhere between your ninth and seventeenth biggest I guess." He nodded his head, smiling like the idiot he is. 

"I'm gonna head to the restaurant. You coming Natsu?" Yeah, just gimme a sec to get my clothes." He gathered his belongings and we began walking towards the resort. "Bye Erza!" "Bye you two."

After we ate, we spent the rest of the day relaxing. I'm kidding. We raced each other, tried to annoy Erza, ran away from an angry Erza. It was entertaining to say the least. As the sun started to set, we got dinner, then headed back to our room. We spent the rest of the night watching movies on the t.v. lacrima. We eventually turned of the movie and drifted of to sleep.

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Chapter nine is done!

Hello everyone! I'm not dead!

I'm sorry I haven't been updating lately, I've had to work on a lot of school related stuff. 

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and are enjoying the book so far! 

I apologize for any and all mistakes! 

Until next time, Sayonara!