Chapter Thirty-One: Momentum
The fourth day of the Grand Magic Games, the competitive portion: naval battle;
In the center of the Grand Magic Games Competition Arena, there was a huge magic circle on the ground, and above the magic circle was a huge circular water sphere, it seemed that today's competition would take place inside the water sphere;
"Each team has one player. Once a player leaves the ball-shaped water, they are immediately declared the loser. The last player remaining is the winner."
"When only two players remain in the water polo pool, an additional jump rule and a 5-minute rule will be added. If either player falls out of bounds within 5 minutes, they will be placed last!"
"What you see now are the swimsuits of the athletes from each team, uh, no, there's also one athlete wearing all their clothes."
"Why, why isn't Lord Chen Fan wearing a swimsuit...?"
"With such immense strength, Lord Chen Fan must have very well-developed muscles!"
"We really want to see Lord Chen Fan in his swimsuit!"... A bunch of Chen Fan's female fans in the venue were shouting that they wanted to see Chen Fan in his swimsuit, but Chen Fan just covered himself up even more tightly;
The characters in Hiro Mashima's manga are all incredibly muscular, which Chen Fan greatly envies. Compared to them, Chen Fan is rather thin. Well, he's quite conscious of that aspect; a less-than-muscular physique, in some people's eyes, means a lack of ability in that area. But Chen Fan has already proven that his superpowers are quite strong in that area. If you don't know, go read the side stories.
Lamia Scale sent Sherry, who performed well yesterday; Blue Pegasus sent Jenny; Mermaid Heel sent Riesly; Fairy Tail B-Team sent Juvia; Sabertooth sent their young lady Minerva; let's ignore Four Beasts; and Fairy Tail A-Team sent Lucy.
Chen Fan realized something was wrong as soon as he entered the water. Today was a team battle, and everyone was positioned according to their roles. Chen Fan was right in the center. The objective was clear: to eliminate Chen Fan.
"Go Lucy...! Take down Chen Fan!" Natsu shouted.
"We can use Aquarius underwater! Take down Chen Fan!" Gray shouted.
"I wonder if we can win this match and take down Chen Fan...!" Erza exclaimed.
Wendy was speechless. Just how unpopular was Brother Chen Fan? She silently cheered for Chen Fan in her heart.
Gajeel, Mira, Laxus, and Elfman were equally confident, believing that Juvia in the water was the strongest.
In the audience, the Fairy Tail members also shouted together, "Kill Chen Fan...!" The other audience members were stunned. What was going on with Fairy Tail? Were there internal conflicts?
"These bastards! Do they really think I can't improve my score?" Chen Fan thought to himself. However, his team's score was indeed not high enough at the Chen Fan, even though they were very arrogant. Moreover, the other two Fairy Tail teams also had high scores, and the Fairy Tail members seemed to enjoy seeing Chen Fan get his comeuppance.
"Chen Fan, I'm sorry, but to win, I must first defeat you!" Lucy smiled and shouted first, "Open! Gate of Aquarius! Aquarius!"
The Aquarius Celestial Spirit Aquarius appeared. "Aquarius...! Attack Chen Fan...!" Lucy shouted to Aquarius.
"Ah...! Why attack handsome guys? All young and beautiful girls are enemies...! Enemies...! Oh oh oh... May all young and beautiful girls die...!" A huge vortex appeared, sweeping towards the surrounding female mages;
Chen Fan broke out in a cold sweat. He had almost forgotten Lucy's unique hobby as Celestial Spirit: she utterly disliked young and beautiful girls.
"No, I won't let you succeed! Your rival must be defeated! Water Cyclone...!" Juvia conjured a massive vortex in her hand, neutralizing Aquarius's magic.
Chen Fan slapped his forehead speechlessly. This seemed to be a problem as well; Juvia had always considered Lucy as an imaginary rival in love.
The announcer's voice came over the loudspeaker. "What's going on? The competition has only just begun, and members of Fairy Tail are already fighting amongst themselves. Is this still the harmonious and Isshin -in-arms guild we saw just three days ago? Or is there some kind of entanglement between these three? Could it be a romantic dispute? This is truly unexpected, yet also quite reasonable...!"
The First Generation's little mouth pouted again, looking unhappy. Chen Fan was too lazy to explain; the more he talked, the more confusing it became.
Juvia, her face flushed, kept explaining the hail to Gray.
"A perfect opportunity...!" Jenny of the Blue Pegasus saw an opening behind Juvia and kicked through it, but suddenly passed right through Juvia. It turned out that Juvia had become elemental, but she immediately reformed, and the others also began to fight.
Chen Fan was somewhat speechless to find that these people, who had initially been united against him—well, mainly against him—had suddenly turned on each other.