When Bella woke the morning of their arrival to Crocus Fiore.

She was quite surprised to see the town as they got off the train.

She had spent the entire trip listening to Evergreen complain about her.

She was more than happy to get away from them and stretch her legs. 

She wanted to laugh seeing Natsu's reaction to seeing them.

Bella was currently walking around and looking at the different shops of the town when she heard someone crying.

She walked over to a group of people and saw a man dressed in white standing over another person triumphantly and gloating. 

"ugh" Bella scowled. "bullies" she said as she started to walk away, but apparently she caught the attention of said bully. 

"hey, you there!" feeling someone's hand grab her shoulder she tensed up. "hey i am talking to you"

Bella looked up at him with a murderous glint in her eyes. "you have approximately five seconds to remove your hand, or i will remove it for you" she said coldly. 

"whoa...hey now. I just wanna talk" The man said.

"the name is Sting, but of course. you already know that" he said with a charming smile.

"i take it you are a fan huh" he said. "I mean obviously you are"  

"I see you still haven't remove your hand" bella said coldly.

Sting removed his hand from her shoulder and she relaxed.

"As for being a fan....I dont even know who you are" she added. 

He stared at her owlishly before laughing. "Oh come on. dont be a kidder" he said grinning. 

"I am not kidding i have never heard of you before in my life" Bella replied looking at him.

The look of pure shock on his face made her want to laugh. 

"Well of course you have heard of sabertooth" Sting said. 

"A sabertooth is an extinct tiger from the ice ages" Bella replied blankly. 

"w..well. i..i mean" sting stammered unsure of how to reply to her. 

"if you will excuse me. I was trying to take a tour of the town" bella said as she started to walk away. 

"Let me show you around" Sting said quickly recovering from his shock.

"I know this place like the back of my hand" he said clearly happy about that piece of information. 

"no thank you" Bella replied walking away as he fell to the ground.

Bella walked up to one of the shops and continued what she had been doing.

Sting apparently didn't take the hint and came up to her. 

"so are you going to watch the grand magic games" He asked trying to strike a conversation. 

Bella sighed clearly annoyed. "I will be in the arena" she replied. 

"Cool! Im going to be participating in the games, and like every other year we are going to win. that is an obvious" Sting said with a grin.

"you know you should totally join Sabertooth. we are the strongest guild out there" he continued boasting as he followed Bella from booth to booth. 

Bella tried her hardest to ignore him, but she was finding it very difficult as he kept talking loudly and wrapping his arm around her.

She finally snapped when he had the balls to 'subtly' tell her to date him. 

She turned and slapped him hard across the face with tears streaming down her face.

"fuck you. you only want a trophy girl." she spat.

"you men sicken me. Prove me wrong" she said bitterly as she ran away from him leaving him standing there in shock at what had just happened. 

she made her way to the hotel that the guild was staying at.

She forced her self to calm down before entering the building.

She walked over to where the master was sitting on the bar. 

"hey" she said in greeting. 

"Hey there. I was starting to wonder where you had gone off too" Makarov said with a grin. 

"i was looking around the town, Ran into a little bit of a problem" Bella explained with a sigh. 

"Problem?" Makarov tensed up hearing her. 

"Just an egotistical boy who apparently doesn't understand when someone clearly isn't into them" Bella explained.

"you seem to be a magnet to them" Makarov said with a laugh.

"have a beer, it will cheer you up" he added as the bartender got her a cup of something that did not smell at all good. 

Bella watch everyone in amusement time flew by and it was soon nightfall.

Still Wendy and Carla were not back yet either.

She could feel the protectiveness rush over her thinking about all about the different scenarios that the young girl could have caught her self into. 

Bella stumbled over with a yelp and fall to the ground as the building began shaking. her heart starts racing. 

"What the hell is happening?" Someone shrieked.

Bella shakily get up and hold on tightly to the table as my heart thuds painfully in my chest.

I quickly group up with Laxus, Mirajane, gajeel, and Juvia as we step out of the hotel.

"Oh shit!" Bella shrieks seeing how far up they were while someone was announcing the rules of the game.

Bella felt pure panic rush through her.

"Come on we need to go!" Gajeel said as they began running up the steps.

Bella only backed away fearfully. Oh hell no!

Mirajane looked back at me. "Come on Bella!" She called back making the others look back.

"Oh, no I..I can't"Bella stammer out trying to go back into the hotel, but gajeel appeared beside her and picked her up throwing her over his shoulder making Bella yelp out in alarm.

"No!" She yelled.

Bella was terrified of heights, and this was doing nothing to help that fear.

Gajeel darted off with the rest of the team into the laberynth.

"Put me down! Put me down!" Bella scream at Gajeel and he sets her down once they reach the inside of the laberynth.

Bella squeals in fear as a begin falling. "Pick me up! Pick me up!" She scream and grab a hold of his neck.

He throws her off of him only to be caught by Laxus.

bella look up fearfully and then look down. Big mistake.

Bella latched herself tightly onto Laxus as she looked at how far off the ground they were.

"Are you done now" laxus asked annoyed.

"I HATE HIGHTS!!" Bella yelled.

"Ugh, could master Makarov put us with someone who isn't useless.....like my darling Gray!!" Juvia said half in disgust and half in her freaky stalkerish voice.

"Come on before we end up in dead last" laxus growled setting Bella down.

Reluctantly agreeing bella follows them but stayed close to them afraid of falling.

Which in Bella's defense she would be the one to fall...they would probably let her too if fairy tail's ranking wasn't at stake.

They continue running until they end up in an odd looking place. "Is this?" I start to ask.

"Illusion magic" Mirajane explained as They slowed our pace a little.

Bella gave a nod and stopped talking.

This preliminary round alone had made her nerves shot. Sadly.

Along with her in counter with that sabertooth guy earlier that day.

Bella sighed a little and looked up "look" She said in excitement as she saw another door.

They look up and had a relieved look. the group began running once again until they reach the door where a person with a pumpkin head was standing.

Wait...what? Oh God...where's the damn horse.

Bella look around quickly and hide behind Laxus.

*I'm not getting my head chopped off for anything!* she thought to her self.

"Welcome. You have made it!" The pumpkin guy said.

"We would have gotten here sooner if SOMEONE wasn't a coward" gajeel growled.

Bella look down with a flinch. She had to admit...she was a coward back there.

"Everyone has their own problems laxus" Mirajane said.

*Thanks Mira. At least someone is on my side.* Bella thought.

The team walked through the door and found themselves back at the hotel.

Everything was back to normal thank Gods.