Hey-yo my beloved Evesha fans. Today is the day. February 11 2015 and it's update time! I hope you enjoy this chapter but be aware that I had to cut the original chapter title short in the chapter title box. Little shit. I mean seriously, chapter titles should not be limited and neither should the story title. Sorry for the swearing but if you are signed up to read a rated M fanfic than you should be prepared for swearing-even from me!
Enjoy Ya'll!
Marathon in the Sky, Takeover Battle, and Sting's Unanswered Challenge
Ren's POV
"Everyone WAKE UP! We're going to be late!" I heard Natasha scream at the top of her lungs. I rolled over and peeled open an eye to see her running around like a headless chicken. I casually turn my head to look at the clock. 9:50...[Brain still processing]... SHIT! I bolted up out of bed and ran to the wardrobe where I grabbed my pants, shirt, and jacket. I turned around to see Natasha hopping on one foot as she tried to stick in her other foot in her boot. Everyone else was still asleep.
"Wake up Eve, Ebony!" Natasha shouted as she pulled the blanket out from under the blonde and exceed that apparently shared a bed last night. However, she only succeeded in pulled them a little ways in the bed. The two of them flopped over on their other side and I could literally hear the sound of Natasha seething.
"Come on Nat, five more minutes?" Jenny asked as she rolled over.
"We don't have five more minutes." As soon as she said that, the three of them bolted out of bed. All of hell broke loose as we tried to get dressed, brush our hair and teeth, and make it to the arena in four minutes. Ebony, flew out of the window with 12 thousand jewel to buy us some breakfast since she could requip into her outfit. We all followed her lead and jumped out the window before hurrying to the arena. As we ran, I noticed we picked up five other people trying to get to the stadium. It was Fairy Tail A team.
"Late start?" I heard Natasha asked her brother.
"Yeah, you?"
"We woke up literally two minutes ago. Ebb went to grab us food." Speak of the devil, Ebony flew next to us while carrying ten brown paper bags and a thousand jewel in her hands.
"I got you guys some extra stuff since I don't know what everyone likes."
"Why didn't we think to send the exceeds to get food? I'm starved." I heard Gray complain as he panted. One minute, we were almost there.
"You guys can get second dibs on the left overs." I heard Eve offer. We all stumbled into the participants section right as Mato, Chapati, Yajima, and today's guest, Doranbolt, said good morning to everyone. We read the writing on each of the bags before handing the ones we didn't want to Ebony and she flew off to give to the excess to Fairy Tail A Team. We unwrapped our breakfast from it's tin foil and began to dig in.
"Today, the teams will choose someone to be running threw the air on a suspended platform. This event will be called the Grand Sky Race. There are no rules to how you guys use your magic against each other."
"Your up Ren." I heard Natasha mumble through her food as she kept shoveling forkful after forkful of food in her face.
"What?" I protested as I looked at my egg and sausage sandwich and then back at her, "But what about my breakfast?"
"It will give you incentive to run faster."
"No way in hell-I'll be down there waiting." I stopped myself as I saw the killer glare that she gave Gray and Erza being directed at me. I took another bite out of my sandwich before taking off. I arrived at the staircase that led up to the raised platform. The idea is probably for use to start here and run all the way around the town because there is another platform directly across the one I am at. Only that one is sloped at the end. Good thing Natasha trained us to run seven miles in under an hour. Never thought all that torture would pay off. I could probably run the town in five minutes. And I mean the entire three mile long town.
"From Blue Pegasus: Ren Akatsuki, from Sabertooth: Orga Nanagear, from Twilight Ogre: Sue, from Fairy Tail A: Gray Fullbuster, from Fairy Tail B: Cana Alberona, from Quatro Cerberus: Jagar, from Lamia Scale: Yuka Suzuki, and from Mermaid Heel: Arana Web. Get ready," We all took our positions at the staircase, I readied my air as a booster, "get set," I leaned down even further for a more powerful push off. I looked over at Gray and smirked at him and he gave me a weird look, "go!" I took off with my wind pushing me to run faster.
"What the hell?" I heard Gray say as he and everyone else tried to play catch up. Soon it was just me in first and everyone else competing for second. My wind stayed strong as I followed the trail that wove around town. I dropped my boosters for a second as I looked at my watch. Three minutes and I was only half done. Natasha will be disappointed in me. I reignited my boosters and started sprinting through the rest of town. In another two minutes I had crossed the finish line with everyone in the audience staring at me with open mouths.
"Ren Akatsuki is in first place. At 35 points and only at day two, can anyone stop them?" Chapati asked into the mike as everyone cheered. I looked over my shoulder and saw everyone come in panting like mad men. Ogra, Gray, and Yuka all came in second and earned four points for their teams. Cana and Arana tied for third, taking two points and Jagar came in fourth and he go no points. I sweat dropped as everyone fell on their asses before passing out. Am I really that hard to keep up with?
I turned to look at my teammates and sweat dropped again. They were so wrapped up in their food that they had no idea of what was going on around them. Do they even care that I won?
Everyone Else In Team Blue Pegasus's POV
Hey look, Ren won. Damn, this food is good.
Master Bob's POV
Do they even care that Ren won? No. All they care about is stuffing their faces. Well, we do have a major lead right now. And we do have two wizard saints fighting for us. Oh well, as long as they don't destroy anything I supposed I don't give a crap about what they do.
Jenny's POV
"Now! Since the event was completed relatively early, we are going to move right along to the battles. Will Jenny Realight, Mirajane Strauss, Yukino Aguria, Kagura Mikazuchi, Thibault, Guy Alues, Erza Scarlet, and Toby please make their way to the center of the arena."
"Wood wuck." Ren said over his sandwich.
"Thanks." I said as I reluctantly put down my fruit and chicken salad and walked toward the stairs.
"Wender coo way won wour woes." Natasha said and some of her omelet spit out of her mouth. I have no idea what these people are saying to me.
"Yeah, see you later." I made my way into the arena and waited for the shuffle of our opponents on the jumbo screen to happen. Why can't they go any faster, I want to eat. As if the grant my wish, our profile pictures started to shuffle before flipping themselves over to reveal our opponents. Looks like I would be fighting Mirajane again this year. I can't wait to show her how much I've improved. Our battle would be second so I could eat more of my salad.
"Hey Jenny?" I heard Mira call out to me.
"Yeah Mira?" I asked her.
"I was wondering if you wanted to do another model off like last year."
"No. I want to fight you." I answered curtly as I made my way back to balcony where my team was stuffing their faces. I soon joined them as I tried to finish my food before the next fight happened. Since it was Thibault vs Erza, I knew it would be over as soon as it began. Soon enough, three minutes later, Mira and I were called down to the arena. As I made my way down to the arena, I started to go over possible strategies. I could probably use my Hard Suit takeover, maybe my Mecha Takeover. Thanks to Natasha, my speed and magic energy have increased substantially.
"Lets have a clean fight ladies." As soon as Mato said that, the two of us started to glow. After a few seconds, we stopped glowing and stared at each other in our battle forms. I see that Mira wasted no time going right into her Sitri form. It kind of surprised me that she would go that far in the beginning of the battle. I on the other hand, had stuck to the basics in the beginning of the fight. I had transformed into my Hard Suit takeover, a takeover that enhanced my agility, reflexes, strength, and intellect. It was a white and silver body suited armor that covered me from head to toe. My white and silver helmet had a red visor as well as grey ribbon like cutters, that can slice threw anything, located in the back of my head. One of my main weapons that is called "knuckle bomb" is, essentially, shaped-charge explosive devices on the knuckles of my gauntlets. Another weapon is called "railgun" and it can shoot high sectional density-armor piercing metal spikes into my opponent. Very useful when I am fighting someone with good battle armor, like Erza's Adamantine Armor. On my back is a retractable Katar styled Katana sword blade that can be deadly to anyone who makes the mistake of being on my bad side. On each side of my suit, by my hips, are three charged explosives. One of the ways that this armor raises my intellect is the computer based system in my suit. This computer rivals any archive mage's and can give me good background info on my opponent, telling me their weaknesses, strength, and how to beat them. My takeover also has a stealth system that I can activate, making me invisible is some respects. Not a good choice when fighting dragon slayers though, they can spell you a mile away. This takeover is my favorite for all the reasons stated above.
We stared at each other for what felt like an eternity. We just stood there, analyzing each other without so much as blinking. I activated my computer based system to analyze her weaknesses and strength. In my red visor, small writings and arrows appeared, pointing out everything from the magic energy she was currently using to the way she was breathing. The two of us narrowed our eyes as we searched for any weakness we could use against each other. After another eternity, I heard the voice of my friend and leader calling out to me.
"Quit stalling and get to the fight already."
"Tch. Alway impatient, that Natasha. Looks like I'll have to cut it short Mira." I ran at her with gut wrenching determination. Reaching my right hand behind my back, I grabbed my Katana and activated it. It stayed on my right side as I readied to pounce.
"Demon Blast." Mira said, her voice slightly deeper than before. She moved at incredible speed as she cast her spell. Had Natasha not trained me, I probably wouldn't be able to keep up with her, but I'm a new person now. Natasha made me a new person. As soon as Mira directed her spell at me, I dodged it. She gasped in surprise when she saw that I had disappeared. She turned her head around in time to see me behind her as my blade connected with her back. She screamed as the pressure of my blow caused her to fly into the wall across from her.
Thinking I had won, I dropped my guard, I retracted my blade and put it back in its place on my back. However, I didn't anticipate her to come at me with her powerful Soul Extinction spell followed by her Evil Explosion practically at the speed of light. I screamed in pain as the attacks hit me dead on. After the smoke cleared, I struggled to get up on my feet. My armor had been, for the most part, destroyed. My helmet was long gone, along with it, my computer based system and ribbon cutters. My charged explosives crumbled as soon as I stood. I watched the silhouetted figure stand in the hole that I had made when I threw her. The magic that came from her was stronger than the presence I sensed when she was in her Sitri form.
"Shit." I muttered under my breath as she walked my way. The magic presence seemed to grow with each step she took towards me. When I finally saw her in the light, I gasped. She was wearing a red one piece armor corset that left most of her body exposed. Red boots came up to her upper thigh, A red covered armored collar covered all of her neck and shoulders. The collar had a chain on each end that reached her wings and were attached to a chained collar on each top of the wings. Her wings were big enough to be dragon wings that were almost spiked at each finger. Black horns grew out of her head, her ears sharpened to a point like elf ears, her skin changed to a light blue, her eyes a pale yellow, and a eere red jewel rested in the center of her forehead. The whole of her armor and demon body seemed to have a theme muscles tissue and spikes.
"Mira! Don't lose control Mira! Snap out of it Mira." I heard the call of her brother and sister. They seemed worried about her and I had to admit so I. Something about her magic energy seemed off. Her entire person seemed off. Almost like she was being controlled. Almost like she was there anymore, someone else was.
"You can't let Sacum Terus control you Mira! You're not strong enough. Go back to Sitri Mira. Please Mira." Her sister called to her but Mira didn't react. Either Mirajane didn't hear her sister or she didn't care. I tensed my muscles for her next attack. I don't know what happened, but I have to snap Mira out of it somehow. I began to transform into my Mecha suit when I felt something sharp hit my back.
"Darkbolt Claws." I heard her chant as I felt myself being flung across the arena.
"Jenny!" The shouts of my worried comrades followed me as I crashed into the arena wall, creating another whole. I thought I heard a couple of my bones crack from the impact. After a few seconds, my clothing automatically changed back into my dark purple dress. I struggled to lift my head up to stare at Mirajane. She smirked at me as she sauntered over and lifted me by my head. She flung me into the ground with such force that it created a dent in the earth. I screamed on impact as I felt more bones break. I thought I heard people talking in a microphone, but I couldn't make out what they were saying. My head throbbed from the pressure of hitting the ground. More pain hit me as Mira hit me in the back with one of her Dark Palm spells.
"..." I hear Mira whisper something to me. That was all I heard before I passed out.
Natasha's POV
"Jenny!" We all shouted as we watched Mirajane throw her into a wall. After a few second, Jenny's Hard Suit disappeared into her assigned dress. I watched with pain in my chest as she tried to lift her head to face her opponent. In the few months that I have known her, I have watched Jenny transform from someone who would surrender after the first hit to someone who would get up and fight, even after being pushed down multiple times.
I heard myself growl as Mirajane picked up Jenny by her head and flung her into the ground. She then cast a Dark Palm spell and hit Jenny in the back, hard. Mira leaned over and whispered something to Jenny that my dragon ears couldn't catch because all that I could hear were Jenny's screams of pain. Jenny screamed one more time and then was quiet. Mirajane wasn't done though. She kept shouting out all the spells she could name and all of the punches she could throw. I watched as blood began to appear all around Jenny.
"How cruel. I have never seen Mirajane Strauss, or Fairy Tail itself, ever so this level of violence and cruelty. I wonder what happened to make her snap?" Yamija said darkly.
"When will the ref call the fight? Is she even conscious?" Mest asked concerned and I growled again. I shot Mira's brother and sister a glare. They must have sensed that I was glaring at them because they turned to look at me, and I saw the fear in their eyes. Clearly, this was nothing that was planned and they had no idea how to stop her. I softened my glare and tilted my head towards the fighting and nodded slowly. I saw the brother nod too like he could tell what I was thinking. I returned my attention back to the fight and placed my hands on the balcony.
"You're going to stop the fight aren't you?" Ren asked tensely as he glanced at how my hands gripped the balcony. I nodded once more while looking at the fight, trying to anticipate a good time to intervene. A time when Mirajane dropped her guard. But unfortunately, she wouldn't give me that time.
"NOW DIE!" Mirajane screamed at Jenny's bloody broken body as she summoned the most powerful dark magic I could sense. If that attack hit Jenny, she would die. I launched myself over the balcony and ran over to Jenny. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted Mira's sibling running over to her, "Utterdark!" She screeched as she launched her attack at Jenny. I activated my magic and tried to put up a barrier for for Jenny. The last think I could remember before being surrounded by darkness, was having my arm outreached for Jenny.
Third Person's POV
Everyone held their breath as they watched the dust settle. They saw Elfman and Lisanna Strauss strapped onto their sister, trying to force her back into her normal form. Then they dared to cast their gaze upon Jenny Realight, expecting to see her ashes scattered across battle ground, only to blow off into the breeze. When they saw her body being surrounded by a light blue dome, they gasped. Next to her, with a hand over her head to protect her, was Natasha Dragneel. Everyone watched how in less than thirty seconds, everyone noteworthy in Blue Pegasus was surrounding Jenny and Natasha. Natasha removed her hand from Jenny's head gentle, got up and dusted herself off, and walked up to Mirajane, Elfman, and Lisanna.
Everyone took note of how her bangs created a shadow over her eyes and how with each slow step she took, the dark aura that followed her seemed to grow. Mirajane was still in her battle form and struggling against her siblings. Natasha stood in front of Mira for a good minute before punching her so hard, spit came out of Mira's mouth as she fell. Elfman and Lisanna just stared at Natasha like she had grown an extra head. Mira got up quickly and was about to strick when she stopped dead in her tracks.
In front of her stood Natasha in all of her totally pissed off glory. Ten to twenty angry clouds surrounded her as lightning and thunder went off beside her. The dark aura she had acquired had engulfed the entire stadium and the temperature had dropped to negative ten degrees, making everyone but Gray, Lyon, and Natsu shiver. (they were shivering for a different reason) When Mirajane saw Natasha's eyes, she felt like she couldn't move. They held an unadulterated hatred as Natasha's pupils became slits, her ruby eyes hardened to the point where they no longer looked like they had ever known compassion. Mirajane's demons, all of them, were unable to move in side of her. They were all cowering in fear of Natsu's twin sister. Slowly, Mira felt her Sacum Terus slipping away as Natasha glared at her. Mira returned to her normal form and started at Natasha with a look of disbelief. Slowly she began to fall into darkness. She felt her brother's arm wrap around her and catch her from falling.
The last thing Mira remembered before entering darkness was the whispering voice of Natasha, "If you ever hurt my Nakama again, I will kill you. Remember that."
~Time Skip 2 hours~
Rogue's POV
These last few days have been terrifying. First Lucy has her mood swings and now Sting wants to drag us into the land of the beast to challenge the Water Demon. What the hell is wrong with Sting? I swear to God, sometimes I want to kill him. But he is my best friend. Sigh. Since he is guild leader, he is forbidden to challenge the Water Demon. But he is allowed to join the fight if he feels like a member can't handle the fight. So I have to challenge the Water Demon, and then he will conveniently join the fight because "I can't handle it." Not only is Sting bringing me into a fight that I don't want to be in, but he is also insulting me at the same time. We paused at the closed door of the infirmary before Sting kicked it open.
"Yo Dragneel! Rogue here wants to-" Sting trailed off as we were hit wave after wave of dark aura. In the middle of that dark aura was none other than a miffed Natasha and six other equally miffed off people and exceed.
"Idiot!" I muttered quietly as I mentally face palmed.
"What do you want Nova?!" Natasha whispered darkly. It was even creepier than when she yelled as Sting and I shivered.
"Rogue wanted to challenge you to a fight." Sting held his hands up in surrender.
"Bull shit." She said.
"Thank you." I muttered but was quieted by a glare.
"So you want to challenge me to a fight. Correct?" She asked Sting. Her voice was surprisingly calm as she got up from the chair she was sitting in and walked up to us.
"Y-yes m-ma'am!" Sting shivered.
"Then go away. I'm not accepting challenges at the moment." She turned and walked back to her friends.
"Nice try girly." Sting said with his ego back. That sure was a quick recovery, "You can't get out of fighting me so quickly. Besides, you should feel honored to be given the chance to fight the mighty Sting Eucliffe." Sting's chest puffed out, "I am the strongest Dragon Slayer after all."
"If you're the strongest, then why did my brother beat you last year?" Natasha asked over her shoulder with a smug smirk.
"Well... uh... you see... I went easy on him. That's it. I did look up to him once upon a time when I was younger. So I wanted him to at least be proud that he could still call himself strong. Even if he wasn't." That was the biggest egotistical save I have ever seen Sting make.
"What about him. He didn't beat Natsu. What's his story? There is no way he's as strong as the 'mighty Sting Eucliffe'." She asked him turning back around and giving me a wink. Sting looked at me with panic in his eyes and I looked at him with a raised eyebrow and arms crossed.
"I don't answer those types of questions, actually. So how about it, will you fight us?"
"Two against one doesn't sound very fair. Especially if the almighty Sting Eucliffe is one of my opponents. How could I ever hope to beat you?" Natasha sighed dramatically and I couldn't help but smile the smallest of smiles.
"Don't worry I can hold back." Sting took a step forward until he was whispering in her ear, "How could I ever harm such a lovely lady such as yourself. I could let you win and then later you could," Sting looked at her figure, "find a way to repay me." I saw him draw back and wink at her. Instead of blushing, she smirked up at him. I wondered why she was smirking till I heard three very distinct growls. I saw one of her team mates take a few steps forward and for a brief second, I saw the blue tear dropped shaped tattoo flash a dark blue before disappearing behind his collar. I can't believe it! The idiot was flirting with a mated dragon slayer! Course Sting being the real idiot he was gave a her smirk as he stared down at her.
I let my mind wander to the two other growls that I heard. They didn't sound like the other members of her team, so I wonder where they came from?
"What do you say?" Sting asked as he cupped Natasha's chin and lifted it up so she could look him better in the eye. Natasha crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes at him with a smirk still on her lips.
"I'd say that if you lay a hand on my sister I'm going to have to kill you." A scary hiss sent shivers up and down our spines as a set of hands grab each of our shoulders.
"Natsu-san!" Sting shivered as he saw the pissed off aura of Natsu stare us down. But it had no comparison to the pissed off aura of Lucy. I think the hormones give her some extra dark aura.
"Natasha's friend is critically injured and you two have the NERVE to challenge her to a fight!" Lucy screamed at us and we flinched.
"Lucy. It's not like that!" Sting tried to calm her down.
"Not ONE word from you Sting Eucliffe. Not ONE word. AND YOU!" I felt sweat start to drip down my back as Lucy turned towards me.
"Y-yes ma'am?!" I stuttered.
"I am very disappointed in you Rogue! I thought you were the responsible one. We all know this moron-"
"Hey!" Sting protested only to be silenced by a Lucy Glare.
"-couldn't be responsible to save his life but YOU are the one that makes him responsible. If you just go along with whatever STUPID-"
"Hey! I'm standing right here you know!" Sting protested again only to be silenced by another Lucy Glare.
"-plan this IDIOT-"
"I'm not even going to say anything anymore." Sting threw his arms up in defeat.
"-comes up with, than you are no better than him." Lucy lectured me. I swear to god, I will never babysit another pregnant woman, ever.
"Okay, okay. We're leaving, let's go Sting." I said as I half dragged, have walked Sting out the door.
"Why? I wanted to fight her." Sting whined childishly.
