A blue-haired boy walked his way through the streets of Magnolia. 

"Rin-Rin~." A voice sang his nickname.

Rin looked up and saw another bluenette. He's standing at the edge of a house's roof. He jumped into a backflip and landed on his feet in front of Rin.

"Damon." Rin chuckled.

"I'm glad I ran into someone who actually likes my dolls." Damon smiled.

"I like them because they're creepy not because they're cute," Rin said.

"C'mon, they're cute," Damon said as a white puff of smoke appeared behind him and a creepy-looking doll with black braided twintails appeared. The doll towered before Damon and Rin. It was wearing a red dress, with cracks and discoloration on its skin and face and its full black eyes.

"Like I said creepy. She'll be great in a horror movie." Rin chuckled. "I'd watch it."

"Don't say that about Annie!!!" Damon shouted and the doll attacked Rin.

Rin dodged the attacks, but due to the sheer size of the doll, it was rather difficult. As he dodged he raised his right arm and pointed his index and middle finger directly at the doll.

"WATER RAY"

A stream of water erupted from his fingertips and sliced through the doll.

"ANNIE!!" Damon shouted as he watched his doll fall to the ground.

"Oops, I didn't mean to do that." Rin gasped.

Rin Fullbuster is known to only use Water magic and he's incredibly skilled at it. He has mastered spells that even his older siblings haven't even come close to mastering themselves. However, Rin has trouble with his discipline and control over his magic. He needs to be constantly looked over during missions just to make sure he doesn't accidentally flood an entire village.

"You'll pay for that," Damon growled as Annie disappeared into a white puff of smoke and another one appeared. This doll is much smaller than Annie's, but it still towers above the mages.

Damon is the only son of Bickslow and Lissanna. He uses Puppet magic. This magic ables him to generate, manifest and manipulate magical puppets. However, these puppets are generated from the puppets, dolls, or toys that Damon owns. A magic circle is placed upon the doll, and Damon can use them as he sees fit. He thinks that his dolls are cute, even though everyone agrees that they all should belong in a haunted house. He's also incredibly caring for them. He couldn't bear to see them damaged or broken, even if he knew that the dolls were simply a manifestation and that the real dolls were in his room, perfectly safe. His favorite is Annie, the first doll he purchased.

"Yup, Rin deserves this." Rin nodded as he looked at the doll in its red eyes.

What Damon summoned isn't entirely a doll, but rather a toy. The infamous toy monkey with the cymbals, to be specific. Damon climbed above the monkey and sat on its head and started chasing Rin.

Rin ran for dear life, because, holy Mavis, that thing is fast as hell. He ran and ran. He's focused on figuring out a way to beat Damon and his creepy monkey toy that he didn't realize that he's about to stand on a landmine.

He took another step and that resulted in a magic circle appearing. The magic circle slowly grew in size until it reached even Damon and the monkey.

"Well, we're fucked." Damon cursed as water erupted from the ground, enveloping the entirety of the magic circle.

Rin and Damon are then transported back to the guild.

"Rin is really sorry about Annie." Rin apologized as they were being healed by Wendy.

"It's alright, you have that weird thing with your magic." Damon nodded.

"Yeah, I'm still working on that," Rin said before he walked towards a specific table.

"Hey, Rin." One of his comrades greeted him. She has long blue hair and brown eyes. Her name is Rosemary Fernandez.

"You lost already." A blonde boy who is sitting next to Rosemary said. He's Jude Dragneel.

"Yeah," Rin nodded. "I stepped on one of mom's traps."

"Well, that's unfortunate." Rosemary giggled.

"What about you?"

"Haven't you been watching? I lost to Big Sis remember?" Jude raised a brow.

"Not really." He yawned and started playing with his drink. Swirling it around, forming mini whirlpools and tornadoes.

"Hey, stop playing with your drink." A stern voice boomed behind him.

"Oh, hey Novs." Rin smiled. "So, who beat you?"

"Erica-chan did." Nova huffed and pouted.

"Don't feel bad about it at least you didn't step on a landmine" Rin grumbled.

Rin, Nova, Jude, and Rosemary are all part of a team called 'Quarthreat'. Jude was the one who came up with the name. He's quite proud of it.

"Too bad Justin and Dad missed all of this." Rosemary sighed.

"They'll be here in time for the parade, right? So don't get all gloomed up about it." Nova smiled, trying to cheer up the blunette. Rosemary slowly grew a smile in turn.

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Iron-make: Needle Dance!!" Shutora chanted as multiple small blades made of iron flew around her opponent's body.

The red-headed swordsman swung his sword around deflecting the blades around him, once there was a clear path he leaped towards her and swung his sword again only to be stopped by a rapier in Shutora's hand.

The clashing of blades can be heard in the distance. Shutora did her best to keep up with Reiki but the redhead overpowered her.

Strands of blue hair fell to the ground as Shutora struggled to fight Reiki, she then bent over and proceeded to kick Reiki on the chin and landed from a front flip.

"Iron-make: Double Hammer"

Two giant iron fists appeared and before they could crush Reiki he dodged and went straight to Shutora and swung his sword.

Shutora wasn't able to react fast enough sending her back to the guild.

"Tora, what happened to your hair?" Wendy asked looking at the mess that is Shutora's chopped hair.

"Reiki happened, I'll fix it later."

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Raiden whistles a tune as he walks his way through town.

"Well, someone finally came out of his hiding spot." A voice boomed from above.

Raiden looked at the figure above him and chuckled.

"You won't care about 10 measly points do you?" Raiden asked innocently.

The figure jumped down and faced the teen. She flipped her long white hair and adjusted her dress.

"10 points is all I need."

"Is that so?" Raiden tilted his head as he scratched the scar on his cheek.

"Looks like Raiden is facing Elizabeth. Eli is in 11th place with 56 points. The victor of this battle will be placed on the top ten for sure, watch out guys, someone's getting replaced in the line-up." Happy announced.

"But there's only a couple of people remaining, their best strategy is to go after the wizards with a high number of points," Makarov added.

"Not to mention they've been fighting for a while and Raiden is only getting started." Happy nodded.

"That might be true but Raiden has barely recovered all of his magic. If I'm not mistaken, he purposely did nothing this entire time to get into an even field with the rest. Everyone has a high number of points is just an added bonus."

"Now that's what I call strategy!!" Happy cheered.

"Apologies in advance Eli, your make-up might be ruined after this," Raiden spoke and raised his right arm.

Scriptures enveloped his arm and in a second his right arm turned demonic. His hand turned into dark claws. His nails grew sharper. His black lightning tattoo glowed and increased in size and went up to his shoulders.

"Uhhh... Raiden. I don't think we need to go that far." Elizabeth nervously chuckled.

"Retribution Fall."

The sky turned dark and several circles formed in the sky and almost immediately a dark magic force struck down. Hitting Elizabeth and others who are unlucky enough to be in the right position.

After the sky cleared, Raiden's arm turned back to normal and Elizabeth was transported back to the guild.

"And just like that Raiden earned a total of 89 points and climbed his way to 2nd place in just one attack." Happy cheered.

Raiden chuckled and cracked his knuckles before disappearing. Leaving lightning sparks in his wake.

On the other side of town, Reiki Fernandez is sharpening his sword and he's visibly upset about what just went down.

"That's a dirty trick, you bastard." He growled.

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"Only 5 minutes remaining. Let's take a quick look at our scoreboard" Happy exclaimed.

"At 10th place with 87 points, Luke Dragneel."

"9th place with 89 points, Sylvia Fullbuster."

"8th place with 93 points, Nasha Dragneel"

"7th place with 96 points, Greige Fullbuster."

"6th place with 100 points, Gajeel Redfox."

"5th place with 109 points, Reiki Fernandez"

"4th place with 113 points, Natsu Dragneel."

"3rd place with 115 points, Gray Fullbuster."

"2nd place with 119 points, Raiden Dreyar."

"1st place with 122 points, Erza Fernandez."

"The competition is tight, as there are only 27 wizards remaining in the field." Happy said. "Say, Gramps, do you have any ideas on who to pair up with who on the second round?"

"I have a few ideas, but you just have to wait." Makarov chuckled.

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*inserts random emoji*

The first round is almost finished...

Justin Fernandez is what Mashima named the Jerza kid and he'll be part of the story. I already had an idea of what his role would be.

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