Chapter 13 - Pandemonium
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That night after the second day, Erza and Jellal meet under a bridge in Crocus, discussing the mysterious presence that Jellal has sensed every year, the Crime Sorciere Mage slightly uneasy as it hasn't appeared yet in the Games. With the two being unable to really come to any solid conclusion over what may be happening, Jellal states that he will begin to check out the organizers on the third day, and as the two depart, silently thanks Erza for having a normal conversation with him. Whilst Erza walks back to Fairy Tail's quarters, she is called out to by a member of Mermaid Heel, who reveals herself to be Millianna. As the two run to each other and hug, Erza begins to tear up and expresses her happiness at seeing Millianna well and happy in a new guild.
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Later that night.
"Puha! I sure ate." Natsu said with a very satisfied tone as he held his slightly swollen belly, walking back to one of Fairy Tail's lodges with Sora, Wendy, Lucy and the three orange, blue and white Exceeds walking before him.
"You ate too much..." Carla said with a monotone, pointing her paws at Natsu "You too, Happy." The white cat turned to her fellow Exceed.
"I'm full too." Happy meowed happily, having gotten for himself three tuna fishes in total. How could a small cat like him ate three big tuna fishes, no one didn't know.
"You guys really are the same..." Lucas sighed, causing Sora to chuckle a bit.
"Is the lodging around here?" Wendy asked, turning to Lucy.
"Yeah, we're almost there." The Celestial Mage nodded her head with a smile.
"Is everyone in the same room?" Wendy asked nervously, with her cheeks reddened a little.
"This is really... the worst." Lucy made a force smile and sighed longingly "Natsu snores so loudly, Gray ends up naked before you know it... Erza always crawls into my bed. Though Sora being there isn't bad."
"Now that you mention it, where is Gray and Erza?" Happy asked, looking around and noticed the absent of Titania and the infamous stripper of Fairy Tail.
Lucas looked around too. "Not sure."
"Poor Gray..." Carla giggled while shrugging her shoulders "it seems like Gray got snatch away by Lyon..."
"And Erza?" It was Natsu who asked that question.
"I haven't seen her, now that you mention it..." Lucy shook her head before turning to her boyfriend. "Sora, do you know where she is?"
"She went to meet that Milliana girl girl from Mermaid Heel, I saw the two of them together not too long ago." Sora informed them. "The one from the Tower of Heaven."
"Oh yeah, they're childhood friends." Lucy nodded her head.
"Huh?" Natsu's confused tone drew everyone attention back to him "There's someone in front of our lodging..." their eyes turned to the door of Honeybone and tried to make out who it was. Sora, however with his sight could immediately recognize that person. That was the girl who lost her match miserably after wagging her own life with an opponent clearly way out of her league.
"There really is. That person is..."
"You guys have such a good eyes..." it took Lucy a few seconds to make out who it was "Huh?"
It was Yukino Aguria, the Celestial Mage of Sabertooth, standing in front of Honeybone Lodge with her eyes filled with sadness.
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Meanwhile, Erza has her first conversation with Millianna after a long time, and, although relieved to find out that her childhood friend is doing well, she is confused and depressed when she finds out that Millianna holds a grudge against Jellal for the death of Simon, as well the years of captivity she had to endure. She also finds out that Kagura intends to kill Jellal when she unsheathes her sword.
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"Business?" Lucy asked in confusion, staring at the girl who was sitting on the sofa in front of her "with me?"
"Yes" Yukino nodded her head "I have important business with you, Lucy."
"What is Saber trying to pull this time?" Natsu asked with a growl, making Yukino look at him nervously. Sora then appeared beside him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Come on, bro. Why don't we at least listen to what she has to say?" Sora said. Wendy nodded her head in agreement.
"Thank you, Sora." Yukino nodded her head gratefully at him.
"No need to be formal." Sora shook his head with a small smile as Yukino turned her attention back to Lucy.
"This maybe a rather bold request but..." Yukino said, pulling something from her pocket and putting it on the table between them. She then took her hand back and revealed her two Golden Keys much to Lucy's surprise "The key of the paired fish Pisces and the key of the heavenly scale Libra," she continued. "I'd like you to take the two of these, Lucy."
Everyone, especially Lucy, looked shocked by her request.
"You're giving your keys away?" Sora asked.
"That's...impossible," Lucy replied, looking at Yukino. "I can't take them."
"When I saw you on the first day, I decided...that after the Games had ended, I would give you these keys," Yukino said, closing her eyes.
"The Games haven't ended yet," Natsu said, looking suspicious, crossing his arms on his chest. "Have they?"
"My Games have ended," Yukino replied. "Minerva will probably be added in my place. With this, the 'Strongest Five' that changed Sabertooth have been gathered."
"So then..." Happy said, remembering what Max said about the Strongest Five, the ones who Sabertooth's master gathered a few years ago. Very strange but very capable mages. They were Rufus, Orga, Twin Dragon Slayers Sting and Rogue and lastly his own daughter Minerva.
You weren't part of them, huh..." Carla ended.
"But you were so strong back in the arena." Lucas said.
"I was just a substitute for Minerva, who was in a middle of a job," Yukino explained, gripping her hands tightly
"But why?" Wendy asked, looking confused. "These Celestial Spirits are precious to you, aren't they?"
"Precisely for that reason..." Yukino replied. "These Celestial Spirits will be happier, as well as me, if they're entrusted to Lucy, who is a far more outstanding Celestial Spirit mage than me." Her eyes saddened for a moment.
"That's quite a happy request..." Lucy made a nervous smile, flustering. "But for me?"
"You have already gathered ten of the twelve Golden Keys of the Zodiac," Yukino said. "With these two keys added..." Yukino looked at Lucy, her face more serious than ever. "The Twelve Keys will have been gathered," she said in a serious tone. "The Gateway that changes the world will open."
"The Gateway that changes the world?" Lucy asked in awe "What does that mean?"
"Like I said, it's just an old legend," Yukino paused for a second before continuing "I don't know understand the meaning of it, either. You might have notice this already...but the number of Celestial Spirit mages has decreased over the past years. Even the one mage from our guild lost his magic. There was that Zentopia incident some time ago, as well. We might be the only two Celestial Spirit mages left now." She then smiled at Lucy "You are one that loves and is loved by Celestial Spirits. You should carry the Twelve Keys and walk together with these Spirits," Yukino finished, looking at Lucy.
"Sorry," Lucy said, surprising Yukino. "But I can't accept them." Lucy gave the shocked Yukino a smile "Celestial Spirit Magic is a magic of bonds and trust," she explained. "There's no way that owners can be switched so easily."
"This wasn't... an easy solution come by," Yukino said, exhaling the breath.
"Eh?" Lucy asked, looking at Yukino, who stood up.
"I figured you would say that," Yukino explained, smiling at Lucy. "When the time comes...the Twelve Keys will naturally be reunited again."
Lucy smiled at her.
"It'd be nice if we could meet again," Yukino said as she bid them farewell and left the place.
Yukino pulled her bag and walked in the streets, wondering where to go next. Though before she could come up with a place to go, she heard a voice.
"Hey." It was right behind her "Wait a second there." Yukino turned around and saw Natsu and Sora heading towards her with smiles on their faces.
Sora had his hands in his pockets "Yo!"
"Natsu? Sora?" she said, shock to see them here "What are you two doing out here?"
Natsu rubbed his head. "Haha...Sorry. It's that you're not a bad person."
Hearing that shocked Yukino a lot.
"The thing is my brother here wanted to apologize for assuming that you were sent by Sabertooth to mess with Luce." Sora explained. "Also, that was a pretty awesome fight you had with Kagura today."
"Yeah, so my bad." Natsu said with a grin that rivaled Sora's.
"You two went to all that trouble of chasing after me just for that..." she asked, her voice trembling.
"It's because you looked so gloomy," Natsu replied "I thought, that maybe I'd made you feel bad because you lost against Kagura and all."
Sora then became serious. "But seriously, Yukino. Are you okay?"
"No..." she said, trembling. "I'm sorry." He was about to say something but stopped dead when Yukino started crying.
"Ah! She's crying!" Natsu exclaimed.
"Hey... what's wrong?" Sora asked with a soft and comforting tone, approaching her.
"I...can't take it...anymore..." she cried as she feel on her knees, crying into her hands. "I...the only people who ever treated me like this was my sister..." Sora and Natsu just stood there, listening to the girl as she pouring her heart out "I...always looked up to Sabertooth," Yukino continued, still crying. "Last year, I finally got in, but...I'm...not allowed to go back anymore..."
"Huh?" Natsu asked, feeling confused.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked.
"Just from that one loss..." Yukino said through sobbing gasps. "I was kicked out of the guild. I was forced to be naked in front of a lot of people... and I had erase my guild stamp with my own hands." The brothers' expressions changed from confusion to shock, their eyes widened slightly "It was so bitter and humiliating..." Yukino cried. "My self-respect and memories of the guild was completely destroyed...and despite all that, I have no place to return to..." Yukino cried harder after that "If... if only... I can be just as... strong as yo..u are... Sora and Natsu." She looked at them with tearful eyes "The moment I saw you at Sora at that... fight... I feel more courage within me, when I saw you defeat Bacchus... who, is very strong...and the way you continued on for your friends, Natsu...It made me feel like I can accomplish something if I try my best... It makes me feel like I am worth something... I'm so ashamed... of myself... to feel such way."
Sora didn't know what to say. Those words... this girl... it made him remember when he saw Lucy break down in tears because of Phantom.
"Yes..." Yukino said, trying to wipe the tears from his eyes. "I'm sorry...I...just..." but she widened her eyes in surprise when Sora suddenly knelt down in front of her and put a hand on her shoulder comfortingly.
"Don't cry... there is nothing for you to feel ashamed about Yuknio" Sora said with a soft expression before it hardened.
Natsu's bangs shadowed his eyes. "He's right. I don't know how things are in other guilds but...though it may be another guild, if you say that 'We're both mages' then I understand. I know the bitterness of being humiliated and having your guild mark removed." He then raised his head as a deathly glare was seen on his face. "Any guild that makes a friend cry, is not a guild at all."
"He's right, Sabertooth should be the one who felt ashamed about what they did." Sora said as he stood up. He and Natsu looked at each other and nodded. It was time to give those bastards a proper 'Fairy Tail' hello.
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Meanwhile, Erza meets up with Gray, and after a short talk about Juiva's feelings for Gray and Erza's position, the two decide to return to their lodging. Elsewhere, Aracdios schemes to get all 12 Gold Keys and open the Eclipse Gate.
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Sabertooth was one of the luckier Guilds around the Grand Magic Games, since the whole guild got to use Crocus Gardens as a place to stay for the duration of the games. It was nearly midnight, and everyone was sleeping soundly, completely unaffected that one of their fellow guildmate just got disbanded from the Guild.
Then suddenly, out of nowhere, something exploded.
"What the?!" Sting exclaimed in shock, shooting up from his bed and looking around. His sleepiness instantly gone when he heard a lot of crashing and screaming under him.
"What's happening?" Lector, his cat asked as they heard another scream.
Grabbing his vest, the light dragon slayer ran towards the door and saw his partner Rogue, and Fro flying next to him.
"Guys!" Sting exclaimed, running towards them. "What's going on?!"
"There's are intruders attacking us!" Rogue explained with a beard of sweat on his temple.
"Intruders?" Sting said in shock as they ran towards the hallway. "Who is are they?!"
"Beats me" Sting replied while gritting his teeth "But they probably have a death wish." While running through the hallway, the doors to the lobby exploded and one of their guild mates came flying towards them.
"Hey!" Sting asked the guy who was lying on the ground. "You okay? Who did this!?"
"Their...too...strong..." the guy mumbled before passing out. Sting looked through the door and his expression changed from confused to shock as he saw two certain Dragon Slayers.
"WHERE'S YOUR MASTER!?" Natsu roared as he high kicked a Sabertooth mage.
"How rude, We only come to meet you master and you try to beat us just because we're Fairy Tail?" Sora said, mercilessly hitting away the mages that were trying to stop him and Natsu like they were nothing. Even more so, he was wearing a small smirk on his face and looking like he wasn't even trying at all. When the hallway was clear, both brothers walked toward the hall with slow footstep, cracking their fingers dangerously.
Sabertooth mages gathered in the hall, staring nervously and in shock at Sora and Natsu as they made their way inside. Some of them backed away once they saw Sora, as they all kind of knew just how powerful he was and clearly, the power he displayed in his fight earlier wasn't something that should be taken lightly.
"Do you have business with me, brats?" a tall, elderly man distinguished by his massive, extremely muscular physique, untarnished despite his advanced age roughly pushed his mages out of the way and stood in front of them, glaring down at Sora and Natsu. This was Jiemma, the master of Sabertooth.
"You're the master, huh?" Sora asked while everyone stared at him in shock, thinking he'd gone mad "We came in peace and yet your mages attacked us like we were some intruders." His eyes then darkened as he returned the glare the massive man was giving him "We came to challenge you, old man." The others gaped in shock at his declaration.
"Hm?" Jiemma was unimpressed.
"Kicked out just because of one loss?" Natsu asked, raising his eyebrow "Sound familiar to you?" some of the Sabertooth's mages, like Sting and Rogue immediately knew that he was talking about Yukino.
"I don't know what you're talking about, but you're acting out of your own sense of justice, huh?"
"Justice? There is no such thing like that." Sora made a small smirk "Now, I might be a calm guy, but even things like tears of a young or older woman can set me off." Sora then pointed his finger at Jiemma "You kicked Yukino out of your guild, shattered her dream, humiliated her in front of everyone and destroyed the good memories about Sabertooth in her heart, in one single night. People like you don't deserve to be a master, you don't even deserve to stand there facing me."
"To make the skies roar... to make the earth boil... to make the seas silent. That is Sabertooth" Jiemma said emotionlessly "I have no sympathy for weaklings like her."
"You sound like a tyrant more than a guild master in my opinion pal." Natsu set his left hand on fire, held it up, saying "Now back to the business, We came here to challenge you and get what just like what happened today, let's make a wager. If we win, you quit the guild too."
"Hahaha!" Jiemma laughed loudly "That's some big words from flies like you. Surely you can't think that a mere fairies can defeat a tiger."
"You'd be surprised." Sora's expression darkened "So, old man, what are you going to do?"
"I have no use for someone like you two." Sora made a mocking expression when Jiemma said that "Dobengal... Skirin....be reasonable opponents for them." A man wearing Shinobi gear came up and kneeled beside him while another with katanas nodded his ahead.
"Yes, master."
"Avoiding a battle, not so brave huh?" Natsu taunted.
"It's one hundred years too early for the likes of common guild soldiers like you two challenge me." Jiemma said "If you want to fight with those on top, show me that you're qualified to do so..."
Dobengal submits and faces Natsu, explaining that while he is not a participant in the Grand Magic Games, he is just as strong. However, after a few cheap attacks from Dobengal, Natsu swiftly takes him out in a single hit.
At the same time, Skirin then charged at Sora with his katanas drawn, but before he could even do anything, Sora lightly smashed the back of his fist to the side of his head, sending the Sabertooth mage through the wall behind him and the walls after that before he was completely out of Crocus garden.
No one dared to say a word after seeing two of the top ten members of their Guild defeated just like that.
"You were saying?" Sora asked darkly.
"Master, let me..." Sting stepped forward but his master held his arm out, stopping him.
"I see... amusing." Jiemma pushed the right side of his Kimono down and said loudly "Come at me with all you got brats!"
"Just this level and you..." Natsu threw a punch at him that Jiemma easily blocked with his arm. Then he sent powerful pressure at Natsu, causing the dragon slayer to skid backwards a bit. Suddenly, to Jiemma's shock, Sora appeared below him and slammed a fist to the Sabertooth master's stomach.
Natsu then launched at the master and punched him in the face. Then both dragon slayers began throwing barrage after barrage of punches at Jiemma who didn't really seem affected.
"As I said..." Jiemma began, however, before he could even finish his statement, Sora and Natsu appeared in front of him in a flash with their fist next to each other. Solar light and fire were focused into their hands, before emerging into shimmering golden flames.
"Unsion Raid: Solar Flame Dragon's Chaos Hammer!" They yelled in unison and punched Jiemma in the face.
The force of the punch caused a powerful shockwave that knocked the entire members of Sabertooth back, some were even knocked away miserably and rolled on the ground to regain their balance. The entire Crocus Garden Lodge shook with the immense strength of the attack, and the part of the place in front of him was completely destroyed and collapsed.
When the dust was finally clear, Sora wasn't surprise to see Jiemma completely unharmed and standing between him and the man was a girl with black hair and sharp dark colored eyes, her arms outstretched and hands covered in multi colored aura.
"Minerva..." Jiemma muttered.
Everyone else in Sabertooth were surprised to see her as well.
"So you're Minerva..." Sora mumbled.
"It seems tonight's festivities extended to this vicinity as well." Minerva spoke.
"How dare you get my way? This does not concern you." Jiemma stated with a glare.
"Please forgive. Of course, even if the present state of affairs were to continue, you would surely triumph, Father." Minvera said.
"He's your Dad?" Natsu questioned.
Minerva continued, "But there is such a thing as 'Maintaining appearances appearances' as well. Putting aside the the fact that you were the ones that attacked us...If our master were to eliminate two participants in the Grand Magic Games, that would put us in a bind as well. Father got fired up in front of his subordinates, so it was clear that it was challenging for him to back down as well. So how about it? Will you both allow me some face here?"
Natsu had the urge to attack again, but Sora placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Come on bro, save it for tomorrow." He said. "We only came here to make a point, not to start a Guild War. Besides, we will have a lot of times to wreck them in the arena."
Natsu looked like he was seriously considering about the Sora's words. After a moment of silent, Natsu released a long sigh before saying. "Fine then, let's go back."
As the two made their way towards the exit, Jiemma stared at them. "You brats have some backbone."
"We shall settle things in the games." Minerva said with a smirk.
Natsu stopped walking for a minute, he then turned back to Jiemma and gave him a look. "We won't lose to guys like you and you won't surpass us."
"A nation can only stand strong when the leader has, not only the loyalty but also the hearts and souls of his people as well. You want to show others that this is a strong guild? Start acting like one." Sora said, With that, they continued on their way out.
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Sora and Natsu returned to the Honeybone lodgings and explains what happened between them and Sabertooth earlier. Their teammates scold them for his reckless behavior and worry about the consequences, believing that now Sabertooth will put up a tougher front against them (Though Gray was upset that he missed the action). Erza does not join in her teammates' discussion and instead walks outside. She considers how all the other Guilds' participants have their own feelings and recollects on what Millianna told her earlier.
The next day, walks around and learns from passing individuals about the incident with Sabertooth. She wonders whether Sora and Natsu were responsible and looks up at the Domus Flau, smiling.
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"Welcome, everyone, to the third day of the Grand Magic Games! We have finally entered the middle portion of the competition today!" Chapati had to yell into his microphone five times as loud to be heard over the deafening roars and screams of the audience. More people had come to spectate today, making the arena as lively and chaotic as ever.
"What kind of fierce dramas will we see today?" Yajima added, and more cheers erupted in response.
"Today's guest is Lahar from the Magic Council!" Chapati indicated to an important-looking man who was seated beside Yajima, dressed in a high-ranking Council attire.
Lahar pushed his circular-lensed glasses further up his nose and smiled at the applause from the many crowds. "It's been awhile."
"Lahar, your position is Captain of the Custody Enforcement Squad, is it?"
Indeed. Any impropriety in the Games will not be tolerated." Lahar sounded very firm and strict. There were mutters at his words; many people in the audience were talking amongst themselves, clearly debating which guilds had acted unjustly.
Chapati cleared his throat loudly to capture the audience's attention.
"Let's move right into the competition, shall we?! Today's competition is called Pandemonium!"
"So, there will be one participant from each team!"
"I WILL-!"
"I will go," Erza calmly volunteered, cutting off Natsu.
"Hey hey hey Erza! Whaddya doin', send m-"
"Let me handle this, Natsu." Erza simply marched up to the battlefield, Lucy and Wendy giving her good lucks and Gray calming down a thrashing Natsu.
"Go get em, Red!" Sora called out.
From Fairy Tail Team B, Cana stepped out for this event. Replacing Jellal with Cana turned out to be a wise idea, because the guest of the Third day was Lahar, a magic council's member and also the Captain of the Custody Enforcement Squad. Quarto Puppy sent out a guy named Novally while Milianna of Mermaid Heel volunteered herself for the fight, after getting an approval from Kagura their leader. Jura Neekis represented Lamia Scale while Hibiki would head out for Blue Pegasus.
Orga headed down to the arena with a confident smirk on his face. Minerva indeed replaced Yukino's position in the team.
Raven Tail sent Obra, the mysterious mage with odd looking creature on his shoulders. If he wasn't mistaken, this man was the one responsible for Lucy's lost against Flare, by draining all of her magical energy from her body. The strange thing about this man, was that Sora felt no life, no emotion or any signs of a living being from him.
When the competitors gathered around the short, pumpkin-headed man, he smiled and waved, "Yesterday was my day off. My apologies. Now, I'll explain how Pandemonium works." A mass of magic power suddenly burst from the earth and formed a giant, malevolent and even sinister looking castle. Mato pointed at it before explaining "This is the temple where evil monsters nest. This is Pandemonium."
Erza's eyes widened in surprise, "Th-this is..."
"It's huge!" Cana gasped in shock.
"Awesome..." Milianna couldn't stop herself either.
"Commencing analysis..." Hibiki murmured, activating his Archive with a smile and starting to analyze the place with his magic.
"W-wild..." Novally muttered with sweats covered his face, no longer felt so confident about it.
Orga, meanwhile stared up at it with disinterest.
Jura glanced at Mato, "Where monsters nest... you say?"
The Pumpkin man nodded his head "That's the setting-kabo! Within the temple, there are 100 monsters. Well, we call them that, but they're really just magical tools we created. They won't go after the audience or anything, so don't worry!" His words calmed the now nervous crowd. Mato continued, "The monsters are divided into five battle classes: D, C, B, A, and S! With the specifics set like this!"
"Incidentally, in regards to how powerful D-Class monsters are..." A Lacrima screen popped up with a camera inside the temple, where a massive, hound-like creature snarled and jumped at a stone statue, easily destroying it in one swipe. The crowd recoiled at the sight as Mato went on, "Ones like that and even stronger ones...the place where 100 of them are lurking, that's Pandemonium-kabo! The S-Class monster is so powerful that even one of the Wizard Saints can't be guaranteed to defeat it."
Lucy and Wendy looked uneasy, but Sora ginned largely, "Dammit, I should've gone in for this..."
"You want to get in on that monstrosity?!" Lucy shrieked in shock.
Mato continued, "In order, each of you will take turns selecting a number of monsters to fight with. That's called your Challenge Right. For example, if one person selects three monsters, then that's how many will show up in the temple. If that person succeeds in defeating them, then he or she gets three points and the next competitor goes in and can choose from amongst the 97 remaining monsters. This will continue until all the monsters are defeated, or until everyone's magic power reaches zero. At that point, the the competition will end."
Milianna smiled, "So, it's like a counting game."
Mato nodded, "Exactly. Situational judgment becomes important. Remember, the monsters have ranks, but no matter how many monsters you choose, the ranks are always random-kabo. If you're extremely unlucky, you might choose two and end up with the S-Class!"
Hibiki glanced over from his Archive, "Then some sort of battle strategy to avoid drawing the S-Class monster is necessary."
"If it's random, that strategy wouldn't work." Orga dismissed with a snort.
Hibiki shook his head, "Not quite. With probability theory and my Archive, strategy will work to some extent."
Mato held his hands up, "Points are given for the number of monsters defeated, regardless of their rank. Once you enter, you cannot withdraw until you've won or been defeated. If you happen to go down inside the temple, the number of points you've earned up until that turn will remain as they are. The number of victories for that turn, however, will be counted as zero, and you'll exit like that."
"And with that" A box full of sticks then appeared in Mato's hands, which he held out sand "Please draw your lots, everyone!" The competitors did so, and a number appeared on the sticks as they were drawn.
"Number one." Erza said as Cana laughed wryly behind her, lamenting the fact she drew last.
"You're lucky Erza, it'll go back to your turn the most." She said as she patted the redhead on the back.
"I was thinking that this competition would all come down to the luck of the draw..." Erza released a small sigh as Mato sweat dropped at her statement.
"The luck of the draw? No, how should I put this. It's a game where maintaining your pace and situational judgment are more important than just the order of battle!" Mato said as Erza smirked at his answer.
"No... With this, it's not longer just a game." She said as her smirk changed to a small smile, confusing the others. "All one hundred will be my opponents. My challenge right will be one hundred." She said as everyone looked on in utter and complete shock at her statement.
"That girl..." Sora laughed, shaking his head.
Natsu and Gray immediately broke out in laughter also at Erza's declaration. Pretty much everyone else was completely stunned, some in bewilderment. Mato tried to stop her, "Th-that's impossible! It wasn't designed so one person could possibly defeat them all!"
Erza shrugged, "I don't care." And casually stepped ahead into the Pandemonium.
Over the course of the next hour, Erza tore through the monsters like paper, both beautiful and utterly terrifying as the beast after beast fell apart around her. Natsu and Gray grinned and bumped their fists to each other, celebrating loudly with each other.
"WOOOOOOO!" Sora cheered loudly.
Sabertooth's mages looked at Erza in shock, completely unaware of the power of one single mage of Fairy Tail. Minerva raised an eyebrow, for once legitimately impressed at the other female mage's strength.
Kagura, meanwhile watched Erza with a calm expression on her face. Though, wariness could be detected. She knew that no one with that kind of strength should be taken lightly.
The crowd screamed as Erza cut the S-Class monster, the final monster, down with grace before pointing her sword high in victory. Fairy Tail cried in joy as her performance, no one, even Doranbolt was able to hold back their tears when Erza finally did the impossible.
In the stands, Levy smiled. She was just like a scarlet flower in full bloom, with pride. Even if her whole body was covered in blood and injures, even though her swords broke during strikes, her clothes torn like rags... she kept pushing forward and defeated every single monsters, with a simple, yet burning belief in her family.
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"Un..un-unbelievable! Somehow..one person...defeated all 100 monsters! Is this the true strength of the guild that was the strongest seven years ago?!" The roaring in the stadium rose to a fever pitch, with screams and cheers of admiration. Chapati riled them up even more, "Erza Scarlet dominated Pandemonium! That victory...no one can complain about this! The cheering has yet to stop!"
Yajima sighed with a smile, "I give up..."
"I have no words..." Lahar agreed, still perspiring with tense sweat.
On the state, Cana shook his head with a smile, "So much for topping her in this competition..."
"Erza's just the best!" Milianna cheered with a wide grin.
"That's Master Ichiya's girlfriend for you"Hibiki sighed with a nervous smile "I should have expected this..."
Novally gulped, still shocked "That was..is reckless even enough of a word to put to something like that?!"
Jura clapped her hands, "Simply magnificent."
Orga looked less enthusiastic than the others, "I don't like this... at all."
"That was so cool!" Gray shouted.
"That was awesome Erza!" Natsu cried out excitedly "Fight with me afterward!"
"I was so touched" Lucy said with a large smile.
"My chest felt like it was about to bust." Wendy said.
"Red, you were so badass!" Sora exclaimed.
"Still, we haven't won yet, you know." Erza released a sigh and smiled at them. With that, Team A got for themselves ten more points, slowly closing the gap between them and Raven Tail.
So I'm going to end it here because this chapter has become a bit longer. Hope you guys enjoyed though. More events of the GMG are still to come, so look forward to it. Comment on your favorite parts and don't forget to vote!
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