A/N: It has been brought to my attention, by furious googling, that Millianna has NO LAST NAME (but I'm not upset at all. Not at all.) So I have decided that her last name is 'Kitty' because she would definitely have picked that when she was in the Tower of Heaven.
Also! I got tagged or whatever so I'm supposed to say my top 20 authors... BUT I ONLY READ FIVE CONSISTENTLY! So... I realized I'm an introvert online and in real like (hold on, let me just cry for a sec... okay, done) and so I'm putting those five! (In no particular order)
morijinhui
TheRandomnessofLife
Cupcakes20040
islanddude2005
RebelPlayzGaming
"I won?!" Sting asked incredulously.
Rogue, who had run to the competitor exit to congratulate him, nodded.
"I didn't think you'd have the patience to wait that long... what were you smiling about?" Rogue asked.
Sting suddenly found himself noticing the little movements Rogue made.
It was weird.
He had focused on all his memories when he was in the waiting room and now it seemed as if he knew him twice as well.
Sting felt himself blush a bit as he noticed just how intrigued Rogue was. He could tell by the subtle look in his eyes.
"Umm... just good memories."
Sting didn't know why he was so flustered. It was just Rogue... but all the sudden everything seemed different.
•••
Ever since Sting had been in the waiting room, he couldn't take his mind off of Rogue.
Everywhere he went, Rogue was on his mind.
It was kind of annoying and he didn't know what was wrong with him. Was it weird?
No. Of course not.
They were best friends after all. It wasn't weird for him to act like that.
<><><>
"C'MON MAN! IT WASN'T EVEN THAT LONG! YOU WERE THE FIRST ONE OUT!" Gray yelled at his boyfriend angrily.
Natsu fired back angrily.
"IT'S NOT MY FAULT IT WAS RIGGED!" He raged.
Wendy rolled her eyes and looked over at her girlfriend.
'You're welcome,' she mouthed.
Chelia mouthed a 'thank you' back to her.
Both girls started giggling soon after.
Natsu cast them both a glare before turning back to his boyfriend.
"Pfft." He said, rolling his eyes.
"Whatever. I got second."
<><><>
The fight of the day was Eve vs. Lyon.
Lyon took him out without problem, making Chelia smirk smugly at her cousin from a few yards away.
<><><>
Kagura looked over to see Millianna excitedly congratulating Beth, giving her a very enthusiastic hug.
"You did great, Beth! You got third place! And you had such a great plan!" Millianna grinned and Beth was soon smiling back at her.
Millianna's smiles were the definition of contagious. So much so that even Kagura reacted.
"What did you think, Kagy?" Millianna asked, giving her a look that said 'be nice'.
"You did very well, Beth." She said truthfully.
Kagura opened her mouth to continue, to likely say what the country girl could have done better, but Millianna shook her head slightly and mouthed 'no'.
Kagura closed her mouth and Millianna cast her a bright grin.
Kagura couldn't help but smile just slightly, just a tug of the lips upwards.
If Millianna hadn't known Kagura so well, she would have assumed that she was upset.
But she could tell.
She could almost always tell what Kagura was feeling.
She had a great poker face... that is if you didn't know her.
But Millianna did.
She could tell by the slight changing in her eyes, the small hand movements.
A hand twitch (of course just slightly) towards the sword in its sheath and she was angry.
An eye twitch meant annoyance.
A small twitch of the lips, joy or excitement.
There was more, but it was a tad bit more complicated.
(Except for embarrassment. Kagura was always very clear when she was feeling that particular emotion.)
Millianna suddenly gave Kagura a smug smirk that the Gravity Mage didn't understand.
Her eyebrow twitched and raised as her eyes turned slightly questioning.
Confusion.
I can read you like a book, Kagy Kag... I just need to figure out what's got you all confused and embarrassed lately...
But I will.
And soon.
Mark my words, Kagura...
Or, well, mark my words, me considering I'm thinking to myself...
Maybe I should stop looking so smug. I probably look suspicious.
Good idea, me. Let's do that.
<><><>
Sting glanced over at Rogue and found himself feeling all... weird.
He didn't know what was going on with him.
Ever since the competition...
Sting shook his head and forced himself to look over at Yukino and Minerva.
Yukino was telling some story that Sting couldn't hear before giggling and looking over at Minerva.
The usually icy-cold Mage has to fight to keep from gaining a fiery blush.
Sting couldn't help but chuckle at the two.
Did Yukino not even realize what she was doing to Minerva? That seemed highly unfair...
And yet so funny and amazing to watch.
Sting glanced over and saw Rogue looking back at him, motioning with his head towards the pair.
"She's in way over her head," Rogue whispered to Sting.
Sting didn't know why his heart started beating so quickly at the close proximity.
Sting forced himself to nod in response.
"Yeah. She's having more than a bit of trouble right now." He responded.
Silence soon enveloped the two.
Normally Sting would have found it a comfortable one that was found among life-long friends, but now he found it awkward and stifling.
Perhaps it was due to the weird feelings he had suddenly found himself feeling.
Sting searched hurriedly for a topic of conversation.
"Maybe we should help her." He suggested finally.
Rogue looked over at him and raised an eyebrow.
"M'Lady is great at fighting and cooking... but emotions? Didn't she spend her whole childhood being told that emotions were weakness?" Sting asked, using a surprising burst of intelligence.
Rogue blinked and nodded.
"You're right." He said, looking surprised.
Sting rolled his eyes.
"Of course I'm right! I can be smart sometimes!" He protested.
Rogue held his hands up defensively.
"Never said you couldn't." He said, but the look in his eyes said otherwise.
Sting rolled his eyes yet again.
<><><>
Natsu and Gray were still bickering two hours later and the others were tired of it.
Lucy gave Erza a look and the redhead nodded.
Erza reached across the table and grabbed onto the pair's heads with her gauntleted hands, slamming their craniums together.
The pair slumped down unconsciously, falling against each other.
"Thanks, Erza." The God Slayer said from other side of the table.
Wendy gave Gray and Natsu a sympathetic look before turning back to the rest of the Fairy Tail members gathered there.
"I can't believe you tied with Natsu." This time it was Levy that spoke and the Iron Dragon Slayer rolled his eyes.
"You'll have to do better in the fights," Cana taunted him.
Gajeel let out a huff of annoyance at the words.
<><><>
The second day of the competition came to a start and everyone gathered in the stadium to watch.
"Can I go today, WenWen?" Chelia pleaded, looking over at her girlfriend.
Wendy looked over at her.
"Chelly, I'm not stopping you. If you want to go, go." She said, flashing her girlfriend a smile.
"Alright! Then I want to go today!" She said, making sure to be loud enough to be heard by the rest of Fairy Tail Team A.
Natsu grumbled something under his breath and rolled his eyes about his test the day before.
Gray smacked him in the back of the head and Natsu scowled at his boyfriend.
"You're going to do so great, Chelly!" The Sky Dragon Slayer said, hugging her for luck.
Carla cleared her thoat aggressively and Wendy backed up, blushing.
"Today's competitors will be..." The announcer drug the words out for dramatic effect.
"From Fairy Tail A, Chelia Blendy!"
The God Slayer copied the words she had said last year.
"Can you feel the love?!" But this time when she said it she looked over at Wendy and winked, making her blush.
"From Fairy Tail B, Cana Alberona!"
Mirajane looked over and grinned at her.
"See you later, Mir!" She said with a wave towards her.
"From Sabertooth, Yukino Agria!"
Minerva looked at her, feeling slightly worried.
Yukino gave her a wide grin and Minerva tried to meet it with a smile of her own to hide the worry.
She thought she did an alright job.
"From Blue Pegasus, Sherry Akatsuki!"
Chelia rolled her eyes at her cousin.
Sherry had giggled as her new last name had been called and Chelia had found it slightly corny...
It was about that time that she realized she was still being a hopeless romantic and holding Wendy's hand.
She let out a sigh at the thought.
"From Mermaid Heel, Millianna Kitty!"
Kagura glanced at Millianna and saw she was already looking back at her.
"Good luck." The Gravity Mage said calmly.
"Thanks!" She said, preparing to skip out onto the arena.
"From Lamia Scale, Yuka Suzuki!"
•••
"Today's competition will have a twist."
All the competitors looked over at the announcer.
"Not only will those who have volunteered for today's competition be playing..."
"But those they care about most."
All of their eyes widened and they looked around.
<><><>
Wendy let out a shriek as something grabbed onto her and she was pulled out of the stands.
Five other similar sounds came as the others were taken from their places in the stands as well. One for each of the other guilds and the members that had decided to compete.
The blue-haired girl reappeared in... well, she wasn't sure where exactly she was.
There was darkness surrounding her for a moment before it cleared and is became blindingly bright a moment later, but only due to the comparison of absolute darkness.
She caught sight of several other people surrounding her.
There was Toby, who she assumed was for Yuka, to the side and squished up against a glass wall.
Another she saw was Ren, of course here for Sherry. He was looking slightly dazed, sprawled across the ground gracelessly. She understood the feeling.
Mirajane was beside Ren. She was sitting upright with a shocking amount of calmness as she did so. It was as if she hadn't just been stolen from her seat and shoved into a glass room.
Next, she caught sight of Minerva. She was looking around with keen eyes, trying to figure out what was happening.
Finally, she caught sight of Kagura. The Gravity Mage was on her feet, sword pulled from its sheath. Wait, is that a pink cat? Wendy thought with confusion.
Then Kagura slammed the sword against the glass wall, making the whole room vibrate from the impact.
Wendy wondered for a moment why she didn't use her powers.
That moment was short lived as she realized her powers were being blocked inside the room.
Kagura started to prowl to the side, but suddenly she bumped into something.
That something was a wall.
A wall that Kagura followed until she had made a square back to the beginning point.
Wendy realized that it wasn't one large room, but instead six small ones. One for each of them.
While many of them started to try to escape (those many being Minerva, Kagura, and Toby), Wendy tried to figure out what was happening and formulate a plan.
Mirajane just sat there as if she knew exactly what was happening.
Ren was still passed out.
Wendy assumed he had run full force into one of the almost invisible inner glass walls.
Wendy looked over to the outermost walls of her room. She was one of the four with a corner room.
The rooms were arranged so that there was no space in the middle, the rooms two by three on opposite walls.
Wendy suddenly caught sight of something.
A lock.
There wasn't actually only one, but really four.
She cocked her head to the side and examined it further.
She came to the conclusion that you'd need all four to get out (shocker, right?). But, of course, there were no keys in here.
So that meant that Chelia and the others had to find them.
Wendy looked out over the arena and saw the six of them were hovering thirty feet into the air...
And below them was a tower like structure.
The stairs that led to the top were too far apart for a person to jump without the use of magic.
Wendy frowned and looked out across the rest of the arena, finding that each of the six had been given a separate starting point.
As she realized this, the announcer started to speak.