Cynthia's POV

"Cheers!", everyone shouted as they clinked at each other's mugs.

After a few hours after everyone arrived back home from Tenrou Island and filling them in on the information that has happened here in Magnolia... we were still having the time of our lives. I sat on my chair drinking on my vanilla milkshake that Mira had made for me. Man I missed her milkshakes! They were the best!

Pretty much, Natsu and Gajeel learned about Romeo's new fire magic that he's been taking classes from Totomaru-san, who was in the former guild, Phantom Lord with Gajeel and Juvia. Master Makarov or I mean Gramps was thankful that Macao filled in for his position while they were away but offer him to still be the Fourth Master, with a sneaky idea. Which I did not want to learn about...

Erza was really shocked at the news that Alzack and Bisca got married six years ago. A year after they went missing and soon had a daughter of their own, Asuka. I noticed that Wendy was looking at a piece of paper that Reedus gave her to look at. I was curious as to what he gave to her so I quickly finished my milkshake and walked up beside her to have a little peek.

"Um... Reedus-san, this.." she shivered.

"Oui. I drew how I pictured you grown up after seven years, Wendy." he said.

The picture of her was pretty and gorgeous! She looked the same as she is now but now taller and a beautiful body, in my opinion. However Wendy seemed about upset about something.

"My chest is..." she started.

I looked at her drawing from her chest to mine, then back to her picture and to mine, over and over again. That's when it clicked in my head. It was her chest... she wanted it bigger, I'm guessing. I gave a little giggle.

"E-Even if I get bigger, I'm not going to get bigger there?" she said, tears forming in the corner of her eyes.

"Oui? Are you dissatisfied with my drawing?" Reedus asked while rubbing his hat nervously.

"I like it, Wendy-chan!" I said to her while staring at the picture. She looked up to me with a shock. Not understanding why she looked so shocked, I snapped my fingers to let her come back to her senses.

"Wendy...chan? Are you okay...? Hallo?~" I said in a sing-song voice and snapping my fingers in front of her.

"G-gomen! You just look so different form seven years ago! You and me were about the same height and now you're taller!" she said with a blush.

"Hmmm, I guess your right! We were both pretty much the same age but since seven years passed, time went by a lot, huh?"

"E-even... your c-chest..." she mumbled with a blush on her cheeks. I blushed at her remark and sweat dropped a the same time.

"Cy-cynthia-chan?!", Lucy joined in on the conversation.

"Hey there Lucy-san! I've missed you!" I grinned.

"I missed you to! You look so pretty and all grown up now! You're pretty much my height! I didn't even recognize you!" she stared in awe, making me to only blush more.

"Oh, t-thanks..."

"Now that you mention it, you did became such a lovely lady!" Erza commented while rubbing her chin as she made her way towards us.

"Haha, thanks Erza-san! I'll take that as a compliment!"

"Have you trained and gotten stronger while we were away?"

"I've been on a few missions, here and there so I'm not sure if I'm the same or if I actually improved..."

"Oi! Cynthia! Fight me!" a familiar pink haired asked me again while pumping his fist in the air.

"Ehhh? Next time Natsu! It's a promise."

"But you said that before!" he pouted.

"Sorry! I promise for real, I just feel lazy at the moment."

"Leave her alone dumbass and Cynthia! I forgot to mention but you look great." Gray said in a bored tone towards Natsu but smiled at me. I could feel a jealous aura behind me and I didn't bother to look, knowing that it was Juvia.

"Juvia has another love rival!", I could faintly hear her from behind. I gulped nervously and formed a sweat drop. I heard two voices breaking my thoughts and looked to see that it was Natsu and Gray going at it again with one another.

"What was that Ice Princess?" Natsu shouted with an irk mark appearing from his forehead.

"Alright you too... That's enough" Lucy said with her hands in defensive trying to calm them down. They looked over to Lucy with a glare and went back to verbally fight.

"You wanna fight me? Huh?" Natsu provoked him.

"Bring it on idiot!"

"Shut up, you Ice Pervert!"

"Make me, Squinty Eyes!"

"Droopy Eyes!"

"Oi, you two" I said.

"What?!" they both said in unison with annoyed looks on their faces.

"Shut your traps or I'll do it for you!" I said in a dark menacing tone with evil aura surrounding me. They look like they were about to piss their pants and saluted their hands at me.

"Y-yes ma'am! W-we're sorry!", they shook in fear while sweat beads were forming on their faces.

"Wow, I'm impressed! You're becoming just like me!" a proud Erza commented with a smile.

"She seems more scary since seven years ago..." Happy said.

"Gray your clothes..." I mumbled.

"Shimata!" He yelled and ran to find his clothes.

"Y-you got that right..." Lucy commented with a sweat drop, while Wendy looked surprised.

I looked over to Happy with a stare, making him to sweat in fear. I walked up to him and grabbed him into a tight embrace and snuggled with him.

"Happy! I've missed you!"

"I missed you too Cynthia-chan~!" he says, cuddling back in my arms. I noticed at the corner of my eyes to see white fur and one with black fur. I slowly let go of Happy so that he can fly and turned my direction to the black and white figures.

"Carla! Lily!" I exclaimed.

"Hello Miss Cynthia! It's nice to see you again!" The black cat smiled. I patted him on the head and see Carla with a faint blush.

"Cynthia...". She flew over to me and gave a small hug which I also returned.

"I've missed you for our few train rides and missions with Wendy-chan!" I whispered in her ear.

"Me too..." she smiled with a few tears in her eyes.

Suddenly the doors flew open, which brought me to a surprise to let go of Carla and gaze at whoever came in. It was one of the guilds who helped us to look for any information of Tenroujima. That guild was, Lamia Scale. Who also helped us seven years ago during that Nirvana mission along with Blue Pegasus.

"Hey guys!" I waved over to them. They waved back to me but one of them only spoke up to me as a spokesperson for the rest of them.

"Hey Cynthia! How are you?", it was Lyon who said with a smile.

"Good good! How about you?"

"Great as well! Thanks."

I noticed that Sherry was sitting on a table in front of Natsu and Elfman who stared at Sherry with blush on his cheeks and right behind Elfman, was Evergreen who seemingly appear to be pissed at him...? No wait.. More like of a jealous look! Ohh. Maybe she got feelings for him during Tenrou Island? I'm gonna ask her for more information later. I grinned in my thoughts.

A few minutes later, Gray and Jura turned to see Lyon which I got intrigued as well and stared at him. I looked to where he was staring at and it appeared to be Juvia. I grinned and walked towards Mira and whispered in her ear. "Mira-san! I have a feeling that we have another love matching couple!".

She looked over to me and grinned.

"Just what I had thought!"

I giggled with her and continued to watch the couple scene to click. Juvia seemed so confused with Lyon who was staring her as if he was observing her but replaced it with a faint blush and with amazement. I giggled at his the sight of what was going to happen. In a swift motion his hands were on top of Juvia's shoulders.

"I-Is this what they call love at first sight?!" he beamed.

"Eh?!", Juvia blinked her eyes a few times and was shocked at his words.

"He came right out with it!" Lucy commented in the background with her hands over her mouth.

My mouth was gaped open and I didn't really expected it to be so straightforward. What on Earthland... I was expecting of a little 'Hello! or Hi! nice to you meet you' that sort of thing.

But boooy, I guess I was wrong.

"I can tell, this is gonna get really complicated!" Gray whined with sweat beads forming on his face.

"W-wait, this means... Juvia..." she stuttered with her hands slightly over her mouth.

Lyon looked like he wanted to touch her shoulder and almost reached out to her but stopped midway. "Pandemonium!" she shouted with a few love triangles she pictured in her mind.

"She's got quite the imagination." Lucy stated.

"You got that right..." I muttered.

"Gimme a break!" Gray said nonchalantly.

"By the way...". I heard a deep masculine voice on my right. I noticed it was Gildarts with his right hand on top of Cana's shoulder patting it and his left prosthetic hand pointing at himself with a grin and I swear I saw him blushing and a few sparkles on his side.

"I found out I'm Cana's dad!" he beamed.

"Nani?!" I popped over beside them with a shocked look on my face.

"Really, Cynthia-chan!" Gildarts said excitedly.

"Cut it out! Don't get all clingy!" Cana implied and soon she was lifted up in her dad's arms and tried to push herself away from his grasp.

"I can't help it! I'm so happy!" her happy father said lovingly and with excitement.

"Do something about that goofball face! But first put me down!" she pushed on her dad's head over and over but Gildarts didn't seem to let go and had hearts floating above them. I simply smiled and walked to another group of people where Alzack held a piece of paper in front of Erza, Gajeel, Wendy, and Lily with his face filled with hearts and love. Bisca was beside him smiling at them and then over to me.

"She looks exactly like you two." Wendy commented.

"She is a real cutie! Sometimes I even get to babysit her!" I said with a smile.

"That reminds me, would it be alright if you would like to babysit her in a few days Cynthia?" Bisca asked me. The first thing that came into my mind was a huge yes! I simply loved the little girl to pieces and she's too adorable.

"Of course I will!" I said happily.

"Thank you! I'll tell you when the time comes." Bisca smiled and pulled me into a small hug.

"I see. She reminds me of Wendy. She's very cute." Lily says, while Wendy and Gajeel looked over to him, while I cringed a small smile.

'Oh dear..'. I thought.

Wendy gave a small gasp and was surprised at Lily's comment and there was Gajeel beside her who sweat dropped at his exceeds' words.

"Hey..." he said.

And with that Wendy ran away crying, I smiled awkwardly as Gajeel face palmed himself and Lily turned pale white like a ghost.

"Good job... Lily..." I sighed.

"Even Lily!" Wendy cried as she was farther than us by a bit.

"Huh? What did I say?!" he questioned.

"You should watch what you say about her being uh... tiny" I said.

"I-I didn't m-mean to!" he stuttered with guilt.

"Hey Cynthia-chan!" I heard Lucy called to me and made a gesture for me to come up to her, in which I did.

"What's up Lucy-san?"

"Since seven years have passed... I think we need to have a girls day out some time and go out shopping! I could really need a new wardrobe!"

"Ohhh, of course we can! Just tell me when you feel like it!"

"For sure! Maybe you can help me pick out on a few outfits...?"

"For real?! I'm even more excited now!" I squealed in excitement .

"Me too!"

"Say... How old are you now?" she curiously asked.

"Haha, I already told Natsu this but I'm 19 now."

"19?! You're basically older than me! Well since my time is frozen... I would be 24 by now! And please don't use -san at the end of my name! It doesn't seem to fit right... since you are older than me..."

"I guess you could say that... b-but are you sure you don't want me to say you name ending with -san?"

"For real! You are older than me, so I think it's best for you to do that."

"Then... how about Lucy-chan?" I asked softly.

"That's fine by me!" she grinned.

"Cool! Then you have to call me by my name with chan, just like you would always do" I said.

"For sure, Cynthia-chan!"

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Time Skip!~ Around Episode 152

I was on my way back to the guild, since I just came back from a mission not too long ago. I wanted to smell fresh... just because I felt gross. I wore my usual outfit that consisted of a cropped black shoulder off tee that was just above my belly button to show my lavender guild mark appearing on the right side of my hip. Royal blue shorts, black high knee socks covered by knee high brown boots with black lace, I tied my hair the way I always do it, in small twin pigtails and let the rest of my hair to fall naturally (the image in the first chapter if you forgot). Then a few bracelets, and the gold necklace with a blue gem to hang on my neck.

As I entered the guild, I walked up beside Wendy and everyone turned to look at me.

"Uh... did I miss anything?" I asked nervously.

"Welcome back home!" Master said and then everyone else followed his gesture.

"Thanks!"

"As I was saying..." Romeo said.

"Natsu-nii, while you guys were gone, a festival started up to decide the number one guild in Fiore." he continued.

"Ohh!~" Happy chirped as he jumped beside Natsu.

"That sounds like fun!" Natsu raised his fist in excitement.

"Sorry to interrupt... but are you talking about the that time of... year-round thing?" I asked pointing my index finger up.

"Yes Cynthia onee-chan!" Romeo smiled.

"I see..."

The year-round festival event again? Wow, time went by really fast. So I'm guessing its the Grand Magic Games? The time of year where I would always miss it by accident since I would always go on a few job requests that took a while for me to accomplish. Another reason was the accident that happened to me three years ago. My health and condition at the time wasn't that great and Porlyusica didn't want me to risk it, so I always had to rest but ever since then I'm perfectly fine. I found it rather intriguing and now I'm even more interested in partaking the games. My first time in the GMG.

"All guilds in Fiore gather and compete with each other with their magic! It's called the Grand Magic Games!" Romeo smiled.

"Grand Magic Games?!" Lucy said.

"It sounds like fun!" Wendy added.

"I'm even more pumped up! This would be so exciting with everyone!" I said.

"Like a real festival!" Gray chimed.

"I see... Right now, the number one guild in Fiore is said to be Sabertooth, right?" Erza smiled.

"Yup! That sounds about right Erza-san!" I said.

"That's right! If we beat Sabertooth and win the games, we'll become Fiore's number one guild!" Romeo stated. Everyone was amazed by this saying their 'Oohs' and 'Awws'.

"But... I don't know if you guys are strong enough to pull that off right now..." Master explained with a hand under his chin.

"That's right! Exactly!" Macao agreed.

"I heard that whoever wins the Grand Magic Games... the number one guild in Fiore will get a reward of 30 million jewel!" I mentioned while looking at Master Makarov.

"We're in it!" he said without hesitating.

"Master!" Macao yelled.

"It's impossible! Between Pegasus and Lamia..." Droy stated.

"Sabertooth isn't our only enemy!" Warren added.

"Don't be proud of that!" Elfman disagreed with the two of them.

"Incidentally, in past festivals, we were always in last place." Jet said.

"We'll take that crummy record and destroy it!" Master said while he pretended to punch someone.

"Sabertooth, huh? I'm fired up!" Natsu said as he lifted a leg on top of the table.

"When is that tournament?" he added.

"Three months from now." Romeo answered.

Natsu pounded his fist into his other hand with his fire dragon flames out. "Plenty of time! By then, we'll be lean and mean, and Fairy Tail will become Fiore's number one guild again!"

"I'm with you, Natsu-san!" I pumped my fist in the air.

"Now that's the spirit Cynthia!"

"Man! When it comes to festivals, Man!" Elfman shouted.

"Seriously?" Droy said.

"Are we really gonna participate?" Jet asked.

"Sure, why not give it a shot?" Levy smiled.

"I agree with Levy-chan! You never know that we can be Fiore's number one guild again! We have to at least try and do our best as a guild!" I simply stated with a smile.

"I've already decided we're gonna do it, so there's no point in complaining! Let's aim for the 30 million... ahem, I mean, aim for Fiore's number one! Team Fairy Tail is going to enter the Grand Magic Games!" Master said with determination.

"Yeah!" Everyone single one of us shouted in cheers and excitement.

I can't wait to participate in the games for the first time, now that everyone is back from Tenrou Island. I'm really excited and can't wait to train! This was going to be the best year, ever yet! Training and Grand Magic Games, here I come. I mean, here comes Fairy Tail!

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Just an easy going chapter of Fairy Tail's members back from Tenrou c:
Next Chapter coming soon!