Chapter 19~ Woot!

Posting pics will be the death of me. They aren't working properly -_-'

Anyways! Back to the story! c:

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Sting's POV

The time has finally arrived! Grand Magic Games were starting a few minutes. We heard a few booing from the audience towards Fairy Tail which made me to smirk. What weaklings. After a while, there were many cheers and soon shouting from Natsu-san? Apparently there were two Fairy Tail teams competing now in the games. I looked over to Rogue who held no expression but I knew he was excited for Gajeel-san who was also participating in the games as well. But one thought came across my mind and that was Cynthia.

I hope she was alright from earlier. I remembered the way of how she fainted into my arms and it pained me to see her like that. Why did she faint? Was it because of my handsomely and charming looks? I smirked but I knew that wasn't the reason. I was going to find out from her sooner or later.

"Alright, we've just got one more team left to introduce! That's right, you know who it is! They're the strongest, invincible, indisputable champions! Sabertooth!" The emcee announced, breaking my thoughts about her. 'It's showtime' I thought.

I started to walk out in front as well with everyone else behind me. As I was making my way towards the arena, I brought up both of my arms lifted into the air with my hands in fists and gave a proud and smug expression on my face. Proud that I was in Sabertooth and that we, are Fiore's number one guild! Many colorful confetti were falling as we made our entrance. My heart was pounding and I could hear many cheers from the audience. They love us! It makes me feel good on the inside and strong

"So here you are, huh?" A voice spoke up that was near me and I already knew that it was Natsu-san who was glaring in my direction. This will be fun.

"Let's have a good time, Natsu-san!" I said while I pointed my index finger up in the air and waved it from side to side. Walking further away from him, I turned my gaze to look over to a booth for fairy tail and looked for the sand beach hair. There she was, talking to the blue haired girl I saw earlier in the morning. I'm so glad Cynthia's okay and doing fine. I mentally smiled. She seemed to have noticed that I was staring at her.

Her warm and soft purple eyes were gazing towards mine. Our eyes locked onto each other that felt really long but I didn't mind. I missed my best friend. I gave her a smirk then a wink afterwards. I could see that she turned really red, based on my impression to her and she looked away from me. I chuckled lightly and walked back to where my guild mates were standing.

The games were already starting and they told us about the boring rules that set out for us. I kept my gaze at Cynthia, ignoring about the rules that Chapati the emcee was explaining to the eight guilds, including ours. Finally when they were done talking, the games started out with Hidden that Rufus volunteered to go up first. I didn't care who really went, as long as Natsu-san is in it, I'll be right in there to join him and to defeat him as well. I wasn't too fond about this round, except for the fact that weird person called Nalpudding from Raven Tail was beating the crap out of Gray... I think that's his name, from Fairy Tail. The same guild as Cynthia. 'So weak and lame.' I thought.

After the ice man was out of sight with Nalpudding, he bumped into another Ice mage like him, not caring what his name was, he got kicked by a girl who was on Fairy Tail B Team and explained this kind of promise to their Master which didn't interest me at all. Speaking of Fairy Tail... I thought of her again, Cynthia...

I looked over to the other side of the arena and noticed her giggling over to this old short man? I'm guessing it was their Master? I kept my gaze towards her and never looked away, I was watching her every move and traced the outline of her face. Man she was really pretty.. No scratch that! Beautiful. I could feel my inner dragon instincts kicking in, telling me to go to her right now. But I held back, not right now. I couldn't keep my gaze away, even if I wanted too... I couldn't. I saw her sigh before turning her gaze to me, I inhaled sharply and gave her a smile.

A soft smile, the ones I usually give to her when we were younger back then in the old days. I saw her flushed when she noticed me staring, which only made me to grin wider. 'That was cute.' In a few seconds she looked away, but I still kept my gaze on her. Then I noticed her to look back to the arena trying to avoid my gaze making me to chuckle.

Before I even knew it, it was already time's up of that Hidden game and I wasn't surprised at all, Sabertooth was in first place. I smirked. We are the strongest after all. It's not like we're gonna lose to anyone. All of a sudden I saw the beach sand hair who was once standing at her guild's booth was now down in the arena walking towards the Ice Mage.

"Gray...?" I heard her asking him softly and touched his arm. I felt something sharp in my heart and it was painful. But I ignored it which only made it worse. Deep down inside me I was hoping that he wouldn't hug her or anything else to her. She's my best friend and I don't want her to be any other guy's best friend. She was my first best friend and I will make sure of that.

Still looking towards them, the Ice Mage didn't say anything to her but except for patting her head before walking away. A sudden wash of relief swept through me... which I have no idea why. Not too long after, I saw Natsu-san walking near his Ice Mage member and shouted in anger towards the audience who were booing at them.

"What's so funny, asshole?!" I heard him yell at the crowd. Then Cynthia walked up beside him.

"Natsu, it's okay...We'll make them take back their words at the end of the games when we win!" I saw her hand holding onto Natsu-san's wrist who was still growling at the audience and slowly lowered himself. My inner dragon growled at the sight. Damn it!

"Enough." The red haired Titania placed her hand on Natsu-san's shoulder as Cynthia let go of his wrist. I wasn't concentrating on the big guy and Titania who said something else and walked off. My attention was more towards Cynthia and Natsu-san.

Natsu faced Cynthia and gave her a smile. A small one... which seemed friendly enough and I didn't mind. But I was growling in my mind and clenched my hands into tight fists. I was piercing a hardened glare at them. No, towards Natsu-san. He was holding on Cynthia's hand. Anger was slowly rising inside of me but I had to remain calm. She's only my best friend and nothing more. I tried to think of something else, away from him and her. But it wasn't working a slight bit.

"Sting-kun... Are you okay?" Lector asked who was standing on the railing beside me. I unclenched my white knuckled fists and lowered them to fall to my sides. I looked over to him with a smirk.

"Why wouldn't I be?", still keeping my smirk on my face.

"It's nothing. And of course you wouldn't be! You're strong and nothing can stand in your way!" my red furry partner said proudly, making me to smirk even more.

I looked back to set my sights on Cynthia and found her back at the booth with her fellow guild mates. I was still angry and upset about what happened earlier. But why?! She's nothing more than a friend! A best friend to be exact. She scrunched her face a little and looked over to me while she tilted her head to the side and arched an eyebrow.

I didn't notice but my hands were in fists again and I sighed looking away from her, trying to distract myself which Chapati the emcee miraculously agreed as if he read my thoughts and announced the next part of the games. A battle now and the first to hit the arena would be that blonde girl from Fairy Tail A Team and the red haired Flare from Raven Tail.

'Cynthia will be that thing that would stand in my way Lector... If only you knew...' mumbling in my thoughts.

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Cynthia's POV

Lucy was injured roughly enough from her battle with Flare. Not to mention that red haired girl and her team were totally cheating! It wasn't a fair fight! How much did they want to make Fairy Tail angry? It pissed me off even more. Maybe they're jealous because we have a great guild than theirs? Or was it because Ivan the Master of Raven Tail, son Gramps and father of Laxus wanted revenge from Gramps? If he wanted revenge, he wasn't doing right. yet alone, it's really stupid just by making our guild more upset and frustrated with their 'fun'.

I felt dumb for not noticing Flare's blackmailing towards Lucy and Lucy didn't even had a chance to fight back properly. First of all she blackmailed her into not doing anything because Flare's hair was next to Asuka that was hidden from underground but Natsu heard it with one of his perks as a Dragon Slayer. Then second, somehow and someone stopped Lucy to activate her strongest attack yet! No wait... That wasn't it. It was the same presence I felt earlier with searching for Wendy and Carla! Lucy's magic was drained!

Maybe they were too afraid of Lucy's magic. What wimps. Yajima-san the former member of the Magic Council even gave off a glare, one where he was pissed and I was pretty surprised but I wouldn't complain. I jumped from the booth, hearing everyone telling me to come back and not make a scene. I didn't care! Even if I was the shy and innocent Cynthia, I wasn't going to hold back from those who hurt my friends, yet alone cheating within a game. I wanted to make sure that Lucy was okay and tell Flare and her team to watch their backs.

"Cynthia?!" Erza shouted at my direction while I was running up to Lucy who was on the ground. As I was walking towards Lucy, I heard the red haired bimbo talked trash about Lucy which made me to clench my fist and I was clearly annoyed..

"I win. That's what you get, Blondie! You're pathetic! And ugly! And a loser!" she laughed maniacally.

I tried to restrain myself which I did thankfully. But to make the situation even worse, the crowd were now making fun about Lucy as well. I gritted my teeth in anger as I was still walking towards Lucy and noticed that she held one of her hand covering her eyes and the other resting on her forearm. Soon Natsu arrived beside me. I knelt down beside her and gently caressed her head.

"Lucy-chan...She'll pay for this... Or no... they will pay for it. They'll be sorry for doing this to you... to Wendy-chan, Carla and to Gray" I mumbled. Still suppressing my anger inside of me.

"Don't cry, Lucy." Natsu spoke who was standing behind me and Lucy.

"Well, after all...it's just so frustrating!" she cried. I winced, knowing that was the truth. But we couldn't do anything about it, except to win fair and square.

"Let's save the tears for when we win." Natsu grinned while I helped Lucy to get up on her knees for support and held her hand in mine.

"Natsu is right... We will win. For sure!" I chirped.

"You were great. Thanks to you, I realized we can fight in this world." Natsu added in and held out a hand towards her in which she used her free hand to grab it. "Zero points? That makes it fun, don't ya think? We're gonna turn it around from this point on." he smirked while he tightened his grip on her hand softly.

"Yeah! I'm fired up!" she cried trying to smile towards Natsu and I. "This will be a lot of fun. Not too mention, there are many more battles to come! And when it's our turn... we will beat up their asses whenever we get the chance." I winked at her as Natsu and I helped her up to her feet.

"Ah! I'm even more fired up now!" Natsu pumped his fist in the air. In return Lucy gave out a small laugh and smiled. There's that smile. I smiled back at her and helped her to take bring her to the infirmary.

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Natsu and I were heading back to the arena but I was pulled back by Lucy who hugged me. I was taken back but I hugged her gently in return. "Arigato... Cynthia-chan." she whispered in my ear before letting me go to Natsu who was waiting for me outside. I nodded and walked my way out the door so that I could leave Lucy to take a shower and get some rest.

"Let's hurry back." I turned to face Natsu who was leaning against a stone beam with a smile on his face.

"Sure." I quickly said.

We were both jogging side by side and soon Natsu and I were to part our ways. Before I could even leave, I felt someone grab onto my wrist and looked to see that it was Natsu...?

"Uh... Natsu... you should hurry back to Erza-san and Elfman! They'll be looking for you!" I was beyond confused as to why he held me back. He looked at me with soft eyes and stepped towards me making me to gulp nervously. What on earthland.

"Oi! Natsu... What are yo-" I was cut off when he held me in his arms for a warm embrace that I wasn't expecting from him. I was puzzled and confused. To make it worse, I felt my cheeks to rise in heat.

"N-Natsu...?" I whispered softly.

"Cynthia. Your such a great friend. How do you manage to keep everyone smiling? To help them when they're angry and hurt, sad and scared? Your feelings and smiles are contagious. I'll tell you that! Even with Lucy... you helped her and not care about jumping right into the arena. You mustered up your anger trying not to cause any commotion. I even knew that you lied to Elfman earlier to give him a chance to step in for Wendy when it was suppose to be you. You tried to cheer up Gray. You even held onto my wrist twice already ever since we came here in Crocus. Every time I look at you... you have this like spell! It makes me happy and I smile that you're always there! Just what are you? You're a mystery... ", he beamed as he unwrapped his arms on me.

I stepped back and flushed instantly by his long speech. I didn't know what to say... but only fiddled with my hands and stood there awkwardly.

"U-uh... I just do w-what I think is right... and feel. It c-comes from my heart about what I want to do. My feelings is what makes me strong and you guys. Fairy Tail with everyone in it.. are my family, my friends... and I couldn't just sit t-there and do nothing... I want to help everyone in a way I can, even if it is impossible... but I'm just being me. No spell or mystery..." I giggled looking up to him placing a smile on my face.

In which he gave me a toothy smile. "Well you're amazing at that! I like that about you! Keep it up Cynthia, you just make me even more curious about you!" he grinned happily with a faint of pink showing on his cheeks.

"U-Um... Thanks?" I blushed at his comment.

"Err... Y-you're welcome." scratching the back of his neck. It was a little silent between the two of us but I broke it off the awkwardness and I was feeling uncomfortable with the mood filling in the air.

"I guess... we should be parting ways now?" I said shyly.

"O-Oh! Y-yeah... See ya!" he waved and walked back to the booth where Erza-san and Elfman were waiting for his arrival.

"See you." I smiled, waving back to him as well and went back to the booth where everyone was.

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The next battle was starting up in a few minutes. It was featuring Ren from Blue Pegasus versus Arania of Mermaid Heel, but Ren got quite distracted a few times because of Sherry who was on the sidelines cheering him on. I must say, those two have gotten closer since Nirvana, I'm happy for them but Ren should really stop hitting on other women. At the end of the battle it was Ren who won, he improved by a lot since seven years ago.

Next up was the third battle of today, War Cry of Quatro Cerberus and Orga from Sabertooth, which he got many cheers from the crowd...and well War Cry... was making the first move that I did not expect at all... he was crying? Crying magic? It was weird but uh interesting? But he was backfired by Orga's black lightning and already made him KO. Let's just say it ended pretty quickly.

I looked over to the cocky blonde who was smirking at the sight of Orga who won in a flash, making me to roll my eyes. He noticed and gazed towards me with that annoying smirk on his face. Can I just smash that pretty face of his?! Whatever. Orga walking back towards his booth with the rest of his comrades and was stopped by a particular voice which made him to stare at the person.

"Couldn't you have made it more fun, Orga?!" Sting yelled.

"I'll sing a song!" Orga was walking back towards the middle of the arena.

"That's not what I meant!" I was now laughing at Sabertooth's Orga who was now singing with a microphone in his hand and acting all punk.

"The strongest, the strongest, number one! We're the leaders, Sabertooth!"

He repeated the same words over and over. I noticed that most people were either crying and laughing out loud, covering their ears or sweat dropped at the sight. I used my thumb and placed it near my lips trying to stifle my laughter, but it didn't last too long. It was hilarious! But soon after the fun was done, many more battles happened and later on. It was the final battle of day one, this time it was Mystogan aka, Jellal in B Team and Jura from Lamia Scale. This was going to be an interesting battle! They both seem to be pretty strong and I was excited to see how this fight would go.

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The battle didn't end well as I thought it would be. Jellal lost, while Jura won. There wasn't much action action... like an explosions or anything that much. It was just the beginning of it, was all cool and exciting! Jellal even copied similar spells like the original Mystogan from Edolas, there was this magic spell that he tried to unleash at Jura, but was stopped...? Jellal appeared to be choking and sweating at the same time.

It also looked like he was going to gag something out, I think... But he didn't.. It was weird. Then out of no where he started to laugh for 5 minutes straight on the ground rolling around and got himself to be knocked out. We all turned white, eyes as wide as dinner plates. Shocked at his unusual and weird fight at the end... Poor Jellal.

It was already the end of Day one for the games. Both Fairy Tail teams ended in seventh and eighth place which was a terrible impression for us but there were more games to come. So I was excited for that, just like what Natsu said earlier to Lucy. It's going to be a lot of fun! Everyone in Fairy Tail were rounded up together in a pub called Bar Sun, drinking booze or either eating. Cana was drinking as much booze as she usually does, just like in Magnolia. Natsu volunteered to take up to the challenge tomorrow as well as Gajeel since Salamander was going to partake in.

"Alright! We're all here, yeah? Listen up, brats!" Master jumped onto a table with his mug of booze. We all turned our attention towards him and watched him with smiles. "Today's defeat is the seed for tomorrow's victory! Let's rise up! 'Cause we don't know the meaning of the words 'give up"'!" Master shouted across the pub. "Aim for number one in Fiore!"

"Yeah!". Every single one of us were cheering and roaring in excitement. After a few hours or so, Cana challenged me to a drinking contest which I didn't agree on, so I went Lucy and Levy who were giggling. "Hey guys, mind if I join you?"

"Of course you can Cynthia-chan!" Levy smiled while offering me a seat.

"Ne, Cynthia-chan! Is it true that you were picked up by that Sting guy who's in Sabertooth earlier this morning?" Lucy grinned mischievously, and I can already tell that my cheeks were being covered in blush.

"I g-guess you can say that...", I noticed Levy who was gazing away from me, pretending to not be in the scene.

"Do you know him...? Since he claimed that he knew you before." Lucy asked softly. This brought Levy's interest and stared at you with a faint blush.

"Honestly, I don't remember seeing his face before..." I sighed looking away from them and towards the food on the table in front of me. The two looked at me sadly but before one of them can say anything, I turned to see a drunkard Cana who wasn't passed out on the floor like Bickslow and Evergreen, and someone from another guild walked up to her.

"You're a strong drinker, huh, doll? Why don't we see who's stronger?" he said, slamming his drink on the table in front of her. Cana, the one who would accept challenges to drinking booze accepted his proposal without hesitating. Making me to sweat drop.

"I'll be going back to the inn." I said to Lucy and Levy as I got up from my seat.

"Do you want us to come with you?" Lucy asked.

"Nah, it's fine! Don't worry about me but thank you!"

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I was walking through the town of Crocus trying to find my way back to the inn where most of us Fairy Tail members stay during the Grand Magic Games. The night was silent, streetlights were still on, the moon shined brightly casting its shimmery light throughout the town, I must say... it's a calm night and I loved it. Going out for walks always help me to relax and be at ease.

The fresh air outside and the scenery, makes it even better. I can think straight and go through my thoughts of what going on in my mind. Just six more days until the games are over and I wonder how it's going to be. Even though we were in last place, I had faith that we will be number one. Man, just thinking about this gets me excited!

"E-ey there pwetty lahdie."

Surprised by the voice who shattered my thoughts, I looked to find a man and a few more who was tailing behind him. They already look drunk by the way of their talking and wobbling while making their way towards me. Not too mention, their stench of booze.

"Hey there Mr Drunkie..." I covered my nose with my hand to not inhale anymore of his stench.

"Uhhhh. Say... ou wanna beh mah dollay?" the one who spoke earlier, slurred his words.

"Nah way! She wanna beee mine!" another one spoke.

"Sorry guys but no thanks! I don't want to be anyone's dollay..." I mocked while walking away from them. One of the drunkies took a hold of my wrist and brought his face close to mine making me to wince at his reek of alcohol and how his face was too close for comfort.

"Cwome on lahdie! Weh promse toh not hurt ya!" a different one spoke up.

"Let go of me if you don't want to get hurt..." I said sternly but a little shaky.

"Ohh, this one is a fiesty one!"

"I wike her alwreaday!"

"Excuse me sir, I thought I told you to let go of me." I said politely with a hint of demand to the man who was still kept his hand on my wrist.

In return he tightened his grip on me, making me to get even more pissed. Before I could say anything back to him, I felt another drunkard, who I had assumed was wrapping one of his arms around my waist. His cold touch caused shivers all over my body making me to feel tingly.

"Sir, I thought the lady already told you to let go of her wrist." the voice said with a hint of anger.

This voice! It sounded familiar. I turned my head a little to the side and saw that it was him. The one with spiky blond hair and his blue eyes... Sting. His face was stoic and I could tell that he was trying his best to not punch the drunk man who still had his hand on my wrist.

"Yweah like hell I would! Thwis woman is my dwoll!" the drunk man barked.

"B-Boss! That's Sting the Light Dragon S-slayer of Sabertooth! You don't w-want to m-mess with him!" one of his fellow followers shook in fear.

"D-dwagon sayer mah bwutt!" their boss shouted, who still kept his strong grip on my wrist. I could already feel the anger rising within Sting, his grip on my waist tightened slightly while gritting his teeth which looked like fangs and before he could do anything... I jumped in, based on my instincts and punched the drunkard from his grip on my arm making him to fly into the air.

"Gwaaaaaaah!" he cried while flying.

"L-Let's g-get out of h-here" the other drunks said in fear and shock, then they escaped running like their lives depend on it. This made me to chuckle at the looks on their faces. That's what they get for not listening to me. Geez.. what a troublesome bunch.

"Are you okay Cee-chan?" the White Dragon Slayer asked, his warm breath tickling my ear creating goosebumps all over my skin.

I just realized and forgot that I was still in his grip, his arm was still holding onto my waist. Before I could answer him, he brought his face a few inches closer to my face... our noses almost touching which made my face to turn red. He then brought his face down to my neck, which made me to blush even more! What was he doing?! I could feel his warm breath even closer, his lips almost in contact with my skin. It didn't look like he was going to bring his face any closer but it looked like he was sniffing me? That's weird. Did I smell that bad? Embarrassed, I blushed at the sight and pushed myself free out from his arm and faced him which he took in by surprise, but slowly turned his lips into a smirk. That cocky smirk of his.

"I'm fine... But you know I could handle them by myself..." I said shyly.

"Didn't look like you could handle them... Besides one of them even said that you were his doll." he spat those two last words that came out from his mouth but he still held his smirk.

"Well.. If you didn't show up, then I would've beat them up already. Oh and why were you sniffing me?." I said while rolling my eyes, but that only made him to smirk even more.

"Too bad, you were too slow before you even had the chance. And no particular reason..."

"Yeah sure.... and well, I didn't even ask for your help... you show-off." This angered him slightly, he clenched his hands and stared at me with a hard look but his eyes were still soft.

"I don't care. You should be lucky that you were saved by me."

"Saved by you? Mr Cocky pants of Sabertooth? Oh please." I scoffed.

"Are you asking me to save you again...?" he smirked this time.

"I did not say that!"

"You implied it though..."

"Did not!"

"Did too! Now stop acting like a kid" he sighed. I groaned at his childish acts and ran my right hand through my brown sand locks, then placed my free hand onto my hip. He seemed to be enjoying this and looked at me with googly eyes. It felt uncomfortable but somewhat pleasing to me.

"Oi, stop staring." I said in annoyance, which he stared into my eyes and arched an eyebrow to me.

"Make me." he grinned.

"Seriously? You're such a kid yourself!" I huffed my cheeks. Before he could say his comeback to me, a voice behind him interrupted.

"Sting-kun! We've been looking all over for you!" the red exceed walked up behind him and when he saw me in front of Sting, he gave me a grin.

"Oh hey Lector! Where's Rogue and Frosch?"

"They're right... there", he pointed behind him and they appeared, right when he said that.

"Cynthia!~" The green exceed in the pink frog-like suit came running towards me, meanwhile Rogue stared at me and gave a nod. I was still confused about how they knew me...and I couldn't help it that the little exceed running towards me was just sooo cute! I crouched down to get a closer look at the exceed.

"Hello little one! Your name is Frosch right?" I patted the exceed's head softly while she nodded and leaned in towards my touch.

"Well I think you're adorable!" I smiled.

"Fro thinks so, to!" she beamed and hugged my leg. It was just too cute! I couldn't help but picked up Frosch into my arms to hug her and stood up to face the two Dragon Slayers in front of me.

"Hmmm, it seems that Cee-chan is still Frosch's second favorite person!" Sting grinned and I noticed that Rogue smiled... Well I thought he did, but it returned to his usual blank expression on his face.

"Fro thinks so, to! Fro wonders why Cynthia doesn't remember us..." she said sadly. I frowned at the thought and placed her on the ground next to Lector. Both of the exceeds had a questioning look on their faces. As well with Sting and Rogue who were staring at me, waiting for me to answer all of them. Wow, talk about pressure.

"I'm really sorry but I don't remember any of you from my past... This is my first time seeing you all...and even if I did remember I would've already been excited and thrilled to see you all." I apologetically said when placing my hand on my arm. Sting was mumbling a few things to himself while he stared at the ground, while Rogue kept his stare at me making me to sweat drop.

"So... you really don't remember us?" Lector spoke looking up to me, whose ears were down. My heart just dropped at the sight. I felt really bad for not remembering, let alone... how they knew me and how we met. It never clicked. I knelt down to pick up Lector in my arms and cooed him.

"Gomen Lector..." I said softly while petting his head. He hugged me while a few tears came out of the corners of his eyes.

"I wish you can remember..." he whispered softly before letting go of me. I gave him a soft smile and stood up again.

"Why can't you remember?" this time, Rogue spoke out which he hasn't yet ever since he arrived.

"I'm not sure... It's all a blur and I don't recall any memories of being with you guys except for yesterday and today."

"I see..." he looked away from me. The atmosphere was quiet and overwhelming. I stood there awkwardly not knowing what I should do, an idea rang into my head.

"Well it's getting late and I should be heading to the inn... I'm a little tired but it's been nice talking to all of you..." I said softly trying to not break their feelings any further.

"It was nice to see you again, Cynthia-chan. Let's go, Sting, Frosch, Lector." Rogue nodded to me and turned his back to me and walked off. Frosch gave another small hug which I gave back and she ran to where Rogue was walking.

"Sting-kun...?" Lector asked his partner who was still staring hard at the ground.

"Hm? Oh Lector. Yeah let's go!" he smirked at him but his eyes held sorrow and pain.

"See you Cynthia-chan." Lector smiled and walked off to where Rogue and Frosch who were there a few minutes ago.

"Well I'll see you later, Cee-chan." he glanced to me with a small smile and turned his back to me. Before he could even take a step, my fast reflexes got me to grab his hand. I was still hesitant but I felt like I needed to. I don't know why but I felt like it. Sting stared back to me with a shocked look on his face but looked away, making me to squeeze his hand. He still didn't look back.

"Um... I forgot to say thank you..." I mumbled with a blush appearing on my face. This time he turned to look at me with confusion.

"For what?"

"For uh... Taking care of me and taking me back to Levy-chan and the others when I passed out earlier...a-and..." I fidgeted taking my hand away from his and tried to look elsewhere other than him.

"And?"

"And for trying to help me with those d-drunkards."

"Hm. You're welcome... Cee-chan." he gave a smile. His smile was warm and gentle.. the same one from earlier in the games when he saw me giggling. It gave me butterflies in my tummy...again! What the heck?!

"D-don't get the wrong idea! It's just a thank you..." I rolled my eyes at him, feeling my blush turn redder.

"Oh really? Are you sure you aren't begging me to come for your aid again?" his smile slowly turned into a smirk. This idiot.

"Sh-shutup! I'm not asking for you're help! Get your head straight!"

"Your fun to tease." he laughed at my embarrassment.

"Whatever, laugh all you want. I'm going back. See ya!". I turned on my heels and walked slowly to the inn.

"Oi! Cee-chan. I was kidding! Come on! Get back here! I'm not done talking to you!" I heard him whine making me to chuckle. I waved a hand at him saying 'I'm done, see ya later Cocky Pants', which he understood and I walked back inside the inn to see that no one was there. I was the first one, assuming that they were still at the Pub. Sighing, I got ready for bed and thought about Sting and the others. 'Why can't I remember?' My last thoughts before I drifted off to sleep.

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More chapters later to come, they will be pretty much as long as this one and the last three... (:

Somewhere I'll make them shorter.

Comment if I should fix something up.

Tata for now, readers <3