Previously:

"I'm glad I'm back with you guys," I whispered, but loud enough for everyone to hear me.

"We're glad you're back too."

Now:

• Time Skip ~ 10 am •

"Welcome everyone to Day 4 of this year's Grand Magic Games!" Chapati exclaimed as the crowd roared with cheers and excitement.

Right now, I was on the team Fairy Tail balcony with Natsu, Gray, Laxus, Gajeel, and Erza as Happy and Callista sat on the stone railing just to watch.

Team Splitforce's balcony was all the way across the Domus Flau, their injuries from yesterday still visible yet bandaged. They glared at me with intense hatred as I ignored them like their existence was irrelevant, which it was.

"Yesterday we witnessed the true power of Lucy Heartfilia, who has now rejoined her old guild, Fairy Tail!" Chapati added, the audience still surprised at the show I had put on yesterday, more impressed with the so-called 'dragon' I summoned.

"Maky (This is Yajima's nickname for Makarov if you don't remember) told me that Ms. Heartfilia is now team Fairy Tail's reserve," Yajima informed as the other guild team grabbed their heads in frustration and nervousness, still not over how I said I'd be the reserve for team Fairy Tail last night. "The other guilds are in for quite a treat."

"That's for sure! Lucy's power has since increased immensely since the last time we saw her," Chapati agreed as he turned to the guest host. "Today, we're joined by council member and #1 wizard saint Draculos Hyberion!"

"Hello. It's a pleasure to be here," Draculos said calmly into the microphone.

"Now, let's take a look at the leaderboard!" Chapati exclaimed as a large lacrima screen appeared in the middle of the arena.

[ X796 Grand Magic Games ]

[ 1st ] Splitforce - 37 pts

[ 2nd ] Fairy Tail - 35 pts

[ 2nd ] Sabertooth - 35 pts

[ 3rd ] Meraki Parastin - 29 pts

[ 4th ] Lamia Scale - 28 pts

[ 5th ] Mermaid Heel - 25 pts

[ 6th ] Blue Pegasus - 14 pts

[ 7th ] Quatro Cerberus - 9 pts

"Fairy Tail and Sabertooth are currently tied for second place, close behind Splitforce!" Chapati pointed out. "With Fairy Tail's new addition, I'm sure that will soon change!"

"I'm sure Her Maj- Lucy will turn the tables when she gets on the field," Draculos assured as he nodded his head. Since he's "Her power is unmatched that we've been thinking about making her a wizard saint."

The crowd cheered with excitement as team Fairy Tail congratulated me for being considered powerful enough to be a wizard saint.

"That's amazing!" Chapati cheered as the lacrima-screen disappeared. "Now let's get to Day 4's event. It's a little different than the other events since there's no fighting in this event. It's called Dual Tones! Will each guild send down their contestants for this event?"

"This might be a singing competition because of the name," Erza speculated, causing Gajeel to try and jump off the balcony to get to the arena as Natsu and Gray rushed to hold him back. (I'm sorry. I'm obsessed with musicals right now because of quarantine and I just need to do this 😂)

"Let me go! My amazing singing is what we need to win this!" Gajeel growled, Natsu and Gray prying Gajeel's hands off the stone railing as Happy tried pulling Gajeel farther onto the balcony, away from the arena.

"No!" Natsu yelled, using all his strength to try and keep Gajeel from entering the arena. Sabertooth's Orga Nanagear seemed to figure this would have singing as team Sabertooth also struggled to keep him away from the arena.

"We need to everyone's eardrums from your terrible voice!" Gray added as Gajeel growled.

"Well, does anyone else want to go?" Laxus questioned the team as Natsu and Gray held Gajeel back. "I'm definitely not going."

"Well Gajeel's singing is terrible. I doubt Natsu's any good at singing and I don't think Gray's any better," Happy said, trying to stifle a laugh as Gajeel tried choking the cat.

"I wouldn't be able to sing if my life depended on it," Erza mentioned, quickly realizing our predicament.

"Every guild but Fairy Tail has entered the arena! Will Fairy Tail send down their competitor?" Chapati asked as we talked about who to send.

"Should I go?" I asked my team as Gray, Natsu, and Happy sat on Gajeel who struggled to get up.

"You can sing?" Laxus asked me as I stepped up onto the stone railing. I simply shrugged, not knowing if my singing was any good.

"Her singing's amazing!" Callista chimed in, swinging her legs as she sat on the edge of the railing. "She's sung around the palace tons of times!"

"I guess you'll be doing the event," Erza reasoned with a nod of her head. We really had no other choice if we wanted to win. It's either me... or Gajeel.

"Okay. I'll be going," I beamed as I hopped off the railing and into the arena.

"From Quatro Cerberus, Bacchus Groh!"

"From Blue Pegasus, Jenny Realight!"

"From Mermaid Heel, Beth Vanderwood!"

"From Lamia Scale, Sherria Blendy!"

"From Meraki Parastin, Kiran Mavra!"

"From Splitforce, Malcolm Seth!" Malcolm was the phony angel I beat the crap out of yesterday. The one who tried threatening Sting to make me send Hydra back.

"From Sabertooth, Rogue Cheney!"

* Le Gasp *

"And from Fairy Tail, Lucy Heartfilia!"

"In Dual Tones, we will be pairing you up with another contestant to form a team of 2, creating 4 teams. Each team will sing a song of whatever topic you get when you spin this wheel and when you tell us the song of your choice, we will provide the instrumentals so all you have to do is sing, kabo!" Mato explained, motioned the spinning wheel with different words on it. Country, Rock, Sad, Heartbreak, and Empowering were just a few of the categories on the wheel that you could get.

"You will be judged on song choice, teamwork, and vocals. Like if your song fits your category, if you and your partner work well, and if your singing is good, kabo!" Mato continued as he explained to the participants. "While you may be on the same team with your partner, the best singer of the group will get an extra 5 points in addition to what their group's placement points are, kabo! Like if you placed first while being the best singer of your group, you get your guild team 10 points for winning the event and 5 points for being the better singer. Every group will have a better singer chosen, kabo!" (I don't know if you understand or not but just go with it)

Mato held out 8 popsicle sticks as he stood next to the category wheel. "Each popsicle stick has a number between 1 - 4. Find the person with the same number and that number is the place you'll be singing," Mato explained as each participant chose a stick.

I glanced down at mine. 4. Guess my group's going last. I looked over to Rogue who was right next to me. His number was also 4.

"Well I guess we're partners," I said with a warm smile as Rogue looked at me, expressionless as ever.

"I guess we are, Lucy-sama," Rogue replied as he turned to me.

"Sama?" I questioned with a chuckle.

"You are a goddess and royalty after all," Rogue answered as I shrugged slightly.

"Alright, Rogue-san, why are you singing for Sabertooth?" I asked as the other competitors found their partners.

"Rufus and Minerva refused because of their dignity. Sting refuses to sing, and Orga..." Rogue trailed off, making me giggle.

"Yeah. I saw you guys trying to hold him back. We were the same with Gajeel," I responded as we made our way to the side of the arena to make way for group 1's performance. I think it was Jenny and Sherria's group who was going first with their category being empowering (😎). "Well let's hope you can sing, Rogue-san. I don't intend on losing in my first event of being back."

"I never lose," Rogue assured as Jenny and Sherria performed their song with us on the sidelines. The group was into it, with the men cheering for them being female and the women cheering for females singing an empowering song.

"Good to know." I smiled as I turned to the center, leaning back on the stone walls of the arena. Jenny and Sherria were doing decently well. Their singing wasn't terrible and their energy was high. Their teamwork was iffy, with Jenny mainly wanting to be in the spotlight and Sherria standing back, and their song choice fit their category.

Their performance soon ended, Kiran and Beth stepping into the center as Jenny and Sherria step to the sidelines. I guess we weren't learning our scores until the end of the event.

Beth spun the wheel, their category being 'upbeat'. They were given 15 seconds to talk with one another and choose a song. They chose their song and sang. Kiran's singing was pretty good and Beth's wasn't all that bad either. Their teamwork was decent, as was their song choice. Some people from the crowd even got up and started dancing.

Their performance ended, causing Bacchus and Malcolm to walk to the center and spin the wheel while I played tic tac toe with Sherria in the dirt.

I don't know their category, not do I care. Nothing against Bacchus or Quatro Cerberus. It's just Splitforce just disgusts me too much to even look, but I'll be honest. Bacchus does not have the best singing voice, but that may be because he has a hangover from drinking too much last night or he drank before the event this morning.

Their teamwork kind of sucked due to Malcolm hitting the probably drunk Bacchus every now and then for slurring his words or messing up the lyrics. It was honestly kind of funny to see that phony angel so frustrated.

Anyways, their performance ended, making me and Rogue step into the center.

"Would you like to do the honors, Lucy-sama?" Rogue asked me as we stood next to the spinning wheel.

"I would be glad to, Rogue-san," I beamed as I reached for the edge of the wheel. I pulled it up before quickly pushing it down, spinning the wheel.

As the wheel spun, the sound of the plastic arrow on the top of the wheel clacked against the pegs, passing by many different words and categories.

The wheel slowed down as it neared our group's category. "Looks like Lucy and Rogue's category is..." Mato trailed off, the wheel still slowly spinning in suspense before stopping, the red arrow landing on a word.

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"Love." (Duh 🤪)