"Disgrace to dragon slayers." I hear the insult from across the arena, and see Gajeel look like he's about to lose his temper. It would be bad if he tried to start a brawl with them during one of the events. Laxus was busy staring at Juvia on the screen and Mira was keeping an eye on Gray, so I took it upon myself to go over and make sure Gajeel didn't do anything stupid. If that was out of Mystogan's character then who'd know anyway?

"You think you're so great, but you need lacrima don't you." Gajeel was saying. "If you relied on just your own strength you'd be nothing!"

"You need a freak monster cat to help you." A cat standing at Sting's feet said. Cats shouldn't talk. They had been for years, but it still bugged me. Were they even allowed in the arena? Happy wasn't flying around Natsu, after all.

"Yeah, Fro agrees. Your cat's weird." The one in the frog suit said as I approached to group.

"What? You leave Lily out of this!" Gajeel roared. It was nice of him to defend Pantherlily, but I was pretty sure that a giant human sized, sword wielding feline could defend itself just fine.

"Gajeel." I spoke up. He glanced at me and returned to arguing with them.

"And your hair is-"

"You look like some sort of emo cream-"

"If your dragon could see-"

"-whip your ass-"

"-some sort of spikey-"

"-who can't even-"

"-total failure-"

"-black pineapple fruitcake."

I don't even know who said what, but when the darker cat screamed "IDIOTS!" I didn't realize he wasn't referring to all of them until he pointed at just me and Gajeel. "Both of you. You're idiots and we'll crush you!"

"I could crush your spine by stepping on you." Gajeel snaps back.

"Fro thinks your too violent for someone too weak." The cat in the frog suit said, stepping out in front of the group.

I don't know why. I couldn't help myself. I bent down to be closer to the cat's eye level and said "Ribbit."

The cat stared.

Gajeel stared.

They all stared.

Even people in the nearby crowd stared.

"Come on." Gajeel grumbled. "Let's get back to our team." As he pushed me back towards Laxus and Mira he added in a whisper "Before you blow your cover!"

Fro watched the dumb old style dragon slayer lead the masked man away. He said ribbit. He told Fro ribbit. That made Fro so happy!

Fro waved to the masked man, though he didn't turn back to see it. Maybe, if he didn't go up against Rogue or Sting, Fro could cheer for him a little. It would be great to talk to him again. He was Fro's Frog Prince now.

STA: Yeah, I don't know. This idea just popped into my head the other day so... hm... yeah.