Sorry this was posted a little later than when I usually post. I had to deal with some personal stuff and then my younger sister's birthday, but it's all good now. :3

Anyways, enjoy!

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Previously:

"Then do me a favor," Luca stated, inwardly smirking as he shrugged, ignoring the pain he felt from his left arm. Gray simply nodded, but looked at his opponent with a little suspicion. "Tell her how you feel before the other 4 do."

Gray looked absolutely baffled as he looked at Luca's figure completely disappearing and returning to his guild's balcony.

"...Huh?"

Now:

With Luca teleported back to his guild balcony, Kiran started bombarding both their guild master and Luca with questions while the rest of the games continued with battles between other wizards.

Rogue and Malcolm were at each other's throats, not willing to back down. Rogue had quickly defeated his opponent's wolf companion, earning Sabertooth only 1 point as their power up only counted towards wizards. With the wizard still remaining on the battleground, they fought with all they had.

The two god slayers - Orga Nanagear and Sherria Blendy - were also continuing their battle. Even with Orga having several more years of experience, he seemed evenly matched against Sherria. With neither of them yet to be defeated, they continued to throw magic spells at each other.

Kairius Triton soon found himself against Dante Adwin. From what the other Meraki Parastin wizards say, Dante's one of the most powerful wizards in their guild - if not the most. Of course, with all this talk, it was hard for Kairius not to worry. He then ignored these worries as he remembered he defeated one of Fairy Tail's most powerful, even though it was kind of unfairly.

Dante had easily defeated the wolf companion of Kairius, earning Meraki Parastin another point. The males then found themselves throwing everything they got at each other, aiming for victory over the other.

Sabertooth's Minerva Orland ran around the forest, looking for an opponent. Of course, she had hoped to find Erza for another rematch, but soon found Yuka Suzuki of Lamia Scale. With Minerva being the powerful wizard she is, she quickly defeated him and earned Sabertooth 3 points with their power up.

Cayden Magnar of Meraki Parastin was honestly just chilling. He strolled around the forest aimlessly, just waiting for someone to come to him, and it seemed the gods answered his prayer. He ran into the last two ladies of Mermaid Heel - Milliana and Risley Law.

After moments of fighting, the two Mermaid Heel mages were no match for Cayden Magnar. He defeated them and earned another 2 points for Meraki Parastin. Rewarding Meraki Parastin's efforts, they continued to stay in 2nd place, but was no longer tying with Sabertooth. (Edit: I just noticed I put Yuka twice oops)

With all the battling going on between the wizards and guilds, the arena watched it all with entertainment as a lacrima screen displayed the current leaderboard. (I'm adding symbols to show if their places increased, decreased, or stay the same because I'm getting majorly confused with all this point stuff-)

[ X796 Grand Magic Games ]

- [ 1st ] Fairy Tail - 66 pts

- [ 2nd ] Meraki Parastin - 55 pts

- [ 3rd ] Splitforce - 53 pts

\/ [ 4th ] Sabertooth - 52 pts

\/ [ 5th ] Lamia Scale - 50 pts

- [ 6th ] Mermaid Heel - 31 pts

- [ 7th ] Quatro Cerberus - 22 pts

- [ 8th ] Blue Pegasus - 21 pts

Now to the infamous fire dragon slayer of Fairy Tail, Natsu Dragneel.

Master Mavis' directions to him were to run off the dirt trail and head east until he ran into one specific wizard.

Another Meraki Parastin wizard.

More specifically, the beast soul user and earth wizard, Remo Ekon.

Remo was honestly just playing around, jumping from tree to tree to just scout and try to defeat any opposing wizard he'd come across. I guess that's when he was met with a face full of "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist".

Natsu burst into a fit of laughter as he clung onto the tree branch for support when he witnessed Remo fall out of the tree with a burnt face and land face first into the dirt ground.

"Oh come on man!" Remo exclaimed as he pushed himself out of the dirt to face Natsu, who stood on the tree branch Remo had just fallen out of. "Why you gotta do me like that? I thought we were cool."

"Yeah, you're definitely better than that Ice Prick!" Natsu commented with a cheeky grin as he gazed down at the earth mage on the ground. "But I'd still like to win the games again!"

"Haha, we'll see about that!" Remo challenged with a laugh as he got into a battle stance, readying to be transformed into one of his beast souls. "Beast Soul: Dragion!" (I don't know if this creature has a proper name, but I'ma just go with this)

Remo was then surrounding by a blinding light as he started transforming into a relatively large lion-like beast. As the light soon dissipated, it revealed Remo as a large white and green (Greenish? I don't know. My eyesight sucks trash-) lion with large horns that stuck upwards and huge feathered wings. His tail was bigger than a normal lions as it whipped back and forth, looking as if it could launch a person with just one hit.

"Dude, that's so cool!" Natsu laughed, complimenting his opponent as his fists were then engulfed in fiery hot flames.

"Bro, I know, right?!" Remo exclaimed, roaring loudly like a lion, though his human words were still as clear as day. "Dragion is the words dragon and lion smashed together!"

Remo's lion tail swished back and forth, the soft sound of air wooshing by his tail join the atmosphere as he proudly stood in his Dragion form. The word 'dragon' just seemed to fire Natsu up even more.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu yelled, wasting no time to charge towards his opponent as his feet left the sturdy platform of the tree branch that he formerly stood on.

Remo was quick on his feet, hastily turning around to whip his tail, knocking Natsu into one of the nearby trees as a small 'oof' was heard with the fire dragon slayer's voice.

Despite getting hit into a tree, Natsu jumped through the broken wood and splinters and rushed towards the Meraki Parastin wizard with his fists ablaze.

Catching his opponent by his sudden surprise, Natsu managed to punch the lion mutant beast square in the face.

The Beast Soul wizard jumped back from the impact, the whitish fur of the side of his face singed from the blazing fire of the Fairy Tail wizard.

Despite the burning feeling on his face, Remo smirked at the challenge this fire dragon slayer proposed. With his green tinted tail hammering against the dirt on the ground, he let out a mighty roar that sounded like a dragon-lion hybrid, releasing a bright green fire from his mouth.

Of course, Remo knew that fire had no effect on fire dragon slayers. He wasn't stupid... At least not stupid stupid.

Natsu grinned, not finding this suspicious or anything. To him, he thought it was just another person giving him a meal.

Downing the green flames like it was nothing, Natsu smirked at his opponent as he pat his *not* full stomach. Before he could brag about his accomplishment, Natsu had the sudden urge to throw up.

He wasn't sick, or on a vehicle, or anything of the sort - well that's at least what he thought. But no, it was simply the absolute disgusting ass flames he just ate.

*make sure to know what you're consuming kids*

"Why does your flames taste like grass and dirt that's been pissed on by a shit eating monster?!" Natsu exclaimed with a green tinted face as he tried spitting out and scraping the disgusting taste on his tongue.

"Haha, I don't know," Remo laughed loudly, his voice sounding rough as he was still in his beast soul.  He then smashed his large tail into the ground, breaking off small chunks of stone and dirt. "Earth's Pierced Shot!" The Meraki Parastin mage yelled, causing the ground chunks to float into the air, later crumbling to form a sharp, piercing arrow.

Remo motioned his tail forward, shooting the arrows toward his green-looking opponent. Despite wanting to throw up, Natsu didn't think this feeling was as bad as feeling like he was on a train.

Train.

Just the thought of it made him sicker.

But anyways, he still managed to dodge, but he wasn't unscathed. His reaction time was definitely slower than normal and he ended up getting cut just on his left upper-arm.

Natsu simply glanced at his newly found wound, but then diverted his gaze towards his opponent. The wound wasn't deep, and it barely even shed any blood, so he figured it was fine. However, the urging feeling to puke was still present and it annoyed Natsu to a large degree.

Taking a large breath of air, Natsu then casted another spell as he spewed a ray of large, skin-melting flames out of his mouth. "Fire Dragon Roar!"

His flames were slightly tinted green from his ill state, but they were still as burning hot as usual.

Natsu aimed his fire breath around the forested area around the two wizards as Remo flew around with his beast's wings, struggling to dodge the flaming ray of the dragon slayer.

The surrounding tree caught on fire, emitting large clouds of hazy smoke into the formerly clear blue sky.

As Remo's beast soul was quite large, Natsu easily set fire onto Remo's feathered wings. The lion beast roared from the sudden burning feeling he felt on his right wing as he quickly decended down to the burning trees.

The Meraki Parastin wizard's landing was anything but graceful, as his large wings cut through the nearby trees and his beast horn getting tangled within the tree's long branches. He landed face first into the dirt ground, his right wing aflame with his horns stabbed into tree trunks and leaves stuck to his pale green fur.

Another pained roar slipped through Remo's lion mouth as he started illuminating, slowly changing from a large lion beadt to a normal teenage boy.

The fire on his right wing went out with a slight hiss as it let out a stream of smoke and Remo returned to his normal form.

The clothing on Remo's back was burned, revealing his back with a burning scar as he rested one knee on the ground. His dark brown hair was disheveled, accessorizing with green tree leaves upon his head and upper body.

As soon as his Dragion form disappeared, Natsu's sickness disappeared as well. Natsu immediately felt better, even instantly forgetting how he previously felt when he was ill with the weird green flame virus as if it never existed or he never got sick in the first place.

The beast soul mage got up onto both of his feet with ease, an expression filled with seriousness painted across his face, showing that he was still in the fight and he wasn't planning in giving up that easily.

Remo readied his fists as Natsu smirked, following by raising his fists as well.

After a small moment of nothing but the sound of fire crackling around them, they dug their feet into the dirt before pushing themselves off and lunging towards the other.

Their fists soared through the air in front of them as they aimed to punch the others' face. They both failed as instead of their fists colliding with their opponent's face, it collided with their opponent's fist.

The pain shot through their arms from their knuckles as the impact from the colliding bones let out a small crack.

"Holy jesus! You crack my finger!" Remo exclaimed, not necessarily in agony, but not necessarily completely fine either.

(Have you ever accidentally cracked your finger? Or like someone cracked your toe without your permission? Lmao, I'm probably just weak, but that shit hurtssss 😂)

The two wizards flew past each other, landing on the dirt ground as they inspected their fist that had a growing red mark from the impact.

Remo held his fist as he chuckled, brushing off his little incident. He soon let his hand go before punching out his fist to the air, aiming at Natsu as Remo casted a spell. "Earth's Pillar!"

A stone pillar shot out of the ground, extending towards Natsu as specs of dirt fell from the stone. The pillar head rams into Natsu's chest, pushing him into a nearby tree, smashing it into pieces.

The stone crumbled, landing in the dirt as Natsu brushed off the attack and launching himself towards Remo, his fists surrounded by his usual skin-melting fire.

As Natsu swiftly moved from one spot to another, he managed to get a direct hit on Remo's head with his flaming fist, punching him into the ground as it made a human-shaped dent.

Continuing with his momentum, Natsu's flames grew larger as he pummeled Remo further and further into the ground. Remo was stuck, not being able to do anything as he felt like he was dying in intense summer heat. Not literally though. No one dying today.

The Fairy Tail wizard stopped after a few moments, glancing at his opponent to see if he didn't go too far. Luckily, he didn't as Remo wasn't dead. Just a few bruises, large cuts, and burn marks.

The thing was that Remo was completely knocked out cold. His eyes were closed as if he was taking a nap, except it wasn't a nap and Natsu had knock him unconscious.

Remo slowly sparkled as his body lit up, slowly turning transparent as he was being teleported to his guild balcony to go to the infirmary and receive treatment for his condition.

Natsu chuckled nervously before saying a small 'sorry' to the unconscious boy.

(lmao this fight kinda sucks, but I honestly didn't know how to end it)