Chapter 83 - 82

Few minutes earlier....

"Whoa~! This place is really beautiful Carla, Happy! It truly deserved its name as the Palace of Flowers and Light! Waaa~!" Wendy exclaimed as she watched flowers in the surroundings.

"It is indeed beautiful." Carla stated as she followed after Wendy while walking on the ground.

"Meh~ I've been here several times already that I got bored of it. The only place I really like is the 'Pond of Promised Happiness' there are many rare fishes there!" Happy said as he walkes beside Carla.

"Of course, its fishes, once again." Carla rolled her eyes and gave Happy a smile, though he didn't saw it, too bad.

"Happy, what is this Pond of Promised Happiness you are talking about? I didn't saw it in this map." Wendy asked while looking at the map on her hands.

"Of course you wouldn't see it! It is at the inner part of Mercurius, only Nobles, High Ranking Officials, and those who are allowed by the King can go there." he replied to Wendy's question.

"Really? Then how did you go there?" Carla asked while looking at him with a raised eyebrow.

"You didn't know? Natsu is in a relationship with the royal princess." said Happy, shocking the two of them, then he searched his bag and took out a token. "Also this, it was given by the King to Natsu before, using this, one can go anywhere you want in the Palace, though Natsu doesn't need it anymore so he gave it to me."

"Whoa~! Then can we go to the pond? Can we? Can we?" Wendy asked while looking at Happy with a sparkling eyes.

"Errr~...I don't think that's a good idea." Happy scratched the back of his head and gave them a wry smile.

"Why? Don't tell me that thing is a fake and you lost the real one?" Carla raised an eyebrow and folded her 'arms'.

"No, not like that, I'm not that irresponsible. It's just that, Natsu is probably there along with Hisui, and they might be doing...'that' now we don't want to disturb them do we?"

"T-Tha-That!? Awawawa~?" Wendy's face turned red as her eyes became a spiral and smoke 'puffed' out of her ears and head.

"Now looked at what you did to my poor girl, you perverted tom-cat." Carla said as she harshly glared at Happy.

"Ah? Ahaha~?" Happy scratched the back of his head as he gave Carla a wry smile.

However, his face suddenly turned serious, as he quickly transformed into his demi-human form and reappeared behind Wendy, in his hand is a small black creature that is struggling to break free.

"Whats this?"

However, before Happy could look at it any further, a person dressed in black wearing a wierd mask with long nose appeared in front of him.

"Huh? Guk-!? Ahrgh-!?" Before Happy could react, the person extended his arms and put it on Happy's shoulders.

Happy felt all of his magic power draining out of him, as he suddenly felt weaker until he transformed back to his cat form and passed out.

"Happy!" Wendy yelled as she ran towards him, and at that moment, the person in black already disappeared.

"Happy!" Carla flew to Happy's side and looked at him worryingly, he was breathing hard, catching his breath aa if he'll suffocate any second now.

Wendy's hands glowed as she tried to heal Happy, a few minutes later, it was proven effective as Happy's breathing steadied.

"Wendy!"

The dragon and the cat were startled by the voice, they turned their heads and saw Natsu carrying a green haired girl in his arms, running towards them.

"Na-Natsu-san! Happy-...he...he-"

Natsu already stood beside Wendy, he put Hisui on to the ground and slowly took Happy from Wendy's arms.

"What happened?" Natsu asked with a dark tone. He will never forgive the guy that did this to his partner.

"Th-There was a man in black with wierd mask, he also has this tiny beast with him, he grabbed Happy's shoulders and Happy's magic power immediately started to drop until he fell unconscious." Wendy explained, tears were falling on her eyes as she glanced at the ground.

Natsu looked at his partner before looking at Wendy, he patted her head and smiles. "Don't cry Wendy, right now you still have something to do, the Fairy Tail needs you right now. Go and reunite with them, I'll take care of everything here."

"*Sniffles*....Un..." She nodded her head and wiped the tears off her eyes. "T-Then I'll be leaving now, let's go Carla."

However, Carla shook her head, "You go ahead child, I'll stay here for a bit."

"Okay, but please come back later okay? I'll see you soon!"

Carla noticed Natsu looking at her and couldn't help but evade his eyes, even she herself didn't knew why she decided to stay. Well, it could be because Happy saved Wendy earlier and wanted to thanked him, yeah, that's probably it.

Natsu just smile and shook his head, he then glanced at Hisui and said, "Can I borrow the clinic for a bit?"

Hisui smiled and nodded her head, "You don't have to ask Natsu. Didn't I already told you? That you can treat this place as your home."

"Haha~ of course. Then let's go now."

Carla was watching the interaction of Hisui and Natsu with a frown on her face. 'So what Happy said earlier has some truths in it, perhaps the two are really in a relationship, and pretty intimate at that.'

At that moment, the bell rings, signifying the start of the Grand Magic Games.

The three of them looked at the sky, as a loud voice boomed throughout Crocus.

"TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE GATHERED FOR THIS YEAR'S GRAND MAGIC GAMES! GOOD MORNING!"

"WE WILL NOW WINNOW DOWN THE 113 TEAMS COMPETING TO 8! AND TO DO THAT, WE WILL NOW START OUR PRELIMINARY ROUND!"

"YOU MAY USE WHATEVER MAGIC YOU WISHED! THERE ARE NO LIMITS!"

"THE FIRST EIGHT TEAM TO HEAD TOWARDS THE GOAL WILL PASS THE PRELIMINARIES! BUT IF YOUR TEAM ISN'T COMPLETE, THEN YOU WILL BE ELIMINATED!"

"ONE...MORE....THING..."

"IF ANY OF YOU LOSE YOUR LIVES IN THIS ROUND, THEN THE ORGANIZERS WON'T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE."

"NOW, LET THE PRELIMINARY TO THE GRAND MAGIC GAMES, THE SKY LABYRINTH..."

"...BEGINS!"