Fairy Tail: Dragon Slayer Lucy

Chapter 11: Day Three

Chapati smiled. "The Daimatou Enbu has finally reached the middle portion of the competition, here on the third day."

"What kind of fierce events will we be able to see today?" Yajima wondered.

"Today's guest is Lahar-san of the Magic Council." Chapati introduced the third judge.

Lahar smiled. "It's been a while."

"Lahar-san... your position is Captain of the Custody Enforcement Unit, correct?"

"Indeed." Lahar nodded. "Any impropriety in the games will not be allowed."

In the stands, Doranbolt sighed. "Lahar, you... dragging me here along like that..." He glanced at the Fairy Tail teams and smiled wistfully.

"The third day's competition is Pandemonium!" Chapati announced. "There will be one participant from each guild!"

"I will go." Erza decided.

Cana smirked. "I'll go for B team."

Laxus frowned. "What happened to Mystogan?"

Juvia looked around. "He's not here..."

"Since the guest judge is a Magic Council member, he prefers to stay hidden, right?" Cana observed.

Mira nodded. "That's true..."

"If Er-chan is coming out, then let me go too, Kagura-chan!" Milliana begged.

"Go ahead."

"We're in front of a Council member." The gold-armored man warned Obra. "Don't do anything unnecessary."

Hibiki smiled. "I'll be going from Pegasus."

"I'll go." Orga decided. "I'll turn everyone into black lightning chili."

Minerva sweatdropped. "You don't even know what kind of competition it is."

Chelia gaped. "Jura-san is coming out?"

"Obaba's orders..." Lyon smirked. "Can't be helped."

"Mhm." Jura stepped forward. "Leave it to me. I'll not lose this time"

"Yesterday was my day off... my apologies." Matou bowed to the participants. "Now I'll explain the rules of Pandemonium."

Quatro Puppy's Novally watched in awe as a huge castle formed in the arena. "Wild..."

"The temple where evil monsters dwell..." Matou grinned. "Pandemonium."

Jura frowned. "Where's the monsters dwell... you say?"

"Yup. That's the setting." Matou explained. "Within the temple there are 100 monsters. Well, they're actually magical tools that we've created. They won't attack anyone in the audience, so relax."

"Anyway, the monsters are divided into five levels of power: D, C, B, A, and S. 50 D-levels, 30 C, 15 B, 4 A, and 1 S-level. Incidentally, in regards to the strength that D-class monsters have..."

A magical screen showed everyone a metallic horse-like monster tearing up a hallway and easily breaking walls.

"Ones like that, and even stronger ones than that... the place where 100 of them are lurking around, that is Pandemonium. As the class goes up, please note that the battle power goes up exponentially." Matou warned them. "The S-class monster has such strength that even one of the 10 Wizard Saints cannot be guaranteed to defeat it." Jura frowned at that.

"In order, each of you will take turns selecting a number of monsters to fight with. This is called your 'challenge right'. For example, if one person chooses '3', then three monsters will appear inside the temple. If one succeeds in defeating those three, then that competitor gets three points and the next challenger declares their 'challenge right' from the remaining 97. This will continue until either there are no monsters left, or no competitors can continue fighting. At that point, the competition will end."