Many apologies for this late update! I made it much longer than usual to atone for my sin T_T ! Please enjoy and review!

The rest of the week were pretty uneventful. I guess the audience had complained about not enough action, so I hadn't gotten any more one on one battles. The last day was here, the battle royale, and I was itching to let off some magic power. I couldn't sit still, my magic had been uncomfortably building up for the last three days, and I had been unable to leave the city to let some off the top, so I was fidgeting like I had ants all crawling up and down. They called out our team to the final battle.

"In third place, Fairy Tail!" the crowd actually cheered, not booing, but cheering. I could see a smile on my teammates faces for the first time in the week. The crowds were yelling for us and, most surprisingly, me. "Lead them to victory Lady Beast!" I just stood there, my surprise hidden by my cloak. Macao came up and put his hand on my shoulder. "This is your doing, Bella! Enjoy it!" I turned to him, nodded, then turned back around. After a moment's hesitation, I shot one limiter covered arm in the air and made the Fairy Tail symbol; one finger pointing straight up and my thumb sticking out to the side. If anything, the cheers got louder. "Show us your face!" "Yeah, Your face!"

I decided to do something more than what I had originally planned. I let my magic whip around my, making my cloak fly up and dance in the wind created. I was enveloped by a silver light. When it disappeared, there stood an incredible sight. About 5 meters in length and gleaming in the light of the sun, stood me, proud, in my arashitora form. I scream-roared the legendary call of these magnificent creatures and spread my white and gray wings. I reared onto my hind legs, my tail whipping around the siberian-tiger half of my body and roared again. Everyone heard my song of victory ringing in their ears as lighting danced a waltz upon my feathers. My golden-amber eyes gleamed with the fierce pride that I held in my guild. After a (slightly over-) dramatic moment, I settled back upon my haunches and gazed at the struck-dumb audience for a few seconds before I reverted back to my original, cloaked form. The only difference, my hand was still in the air in the Fairy Tail symbol.

The audience was silent for a few more moments, but then exploded into cheers even louder than before. The announcer finally was able to calm them down and call the last two teams, but cheers were for them were not nearly as loud, not even for the reigning champions, Sabertooth.

"Okay, Contestants!" the pumpkin-man was calling for our attention. "Today we have the Final Battle! Each guild will have a team of five participating. All the teams will enter our arena and battle it out for strongest guild in Fiore! Every person you defeat will earn you a point, except if it is the team leader, then you will get five points. Understood- kabo?" we all nodded in affirmation and were teleported into the arena. I mentally contacted Macao and told him to change our team leader to Laki instead of me, he was confused, so I told him why.

Being your strongest mage just painted a massive target on my back. Imagine their faces if they defeat me and only get one point! Plus, it'll draw the attention away from the others and, hopefully, work in our favor. I thought to him as we warmed up before starting. He nodded in understanding and I cut the connection. Laki and I had already talked about this and she agreed that this was our best course of action, but I had yet to fill in the rest of the team, so I did just that. They looked doubtful, but they still trusted me. I turned around and got ready as the timer to begin started counting down.

10... 9... 8... Almost there... 5... Come on... 3... 2... 1... "GO!"

Oh great, here comes my sadistic side...

The gong sounded and the team broke up. Laki and Max went together and so did Bisca and Alzack. I was on my own; it was time to attempt my distraction strategy. I jogged for a while until I turned a corner and came across Lyon and Chelia from Lamia Scale. They didn't see me yet so I sneak attacked them, I didn't have time to waste on easy prey, and continued jogging as an announcer called, "Two points for Fairy Tail!" I sent out my magic sense and saw that most of my targets were currently occupied, so I found a hidden spot and started meditating, keeping my eye on the rest of my team.

Bisca and Alzack had seen some guys from Blue Pegasus... The Trimen I think? They were able to defeat them, but at the cost of Alzack as he had taken a shot meant for Bisca. Bisca flipped and took out their sparkly leader, earning a total of 9 points for us. So far we were in second with 11 points; right after Sabretooth's 13. I was so focused that I almost didn't see the creepy AF group from Raven Tail. Key word: almost.

I leapt upwards and wall jumped to the top of the nearest object and stared down at the five beneath me. I don't have time for this. I didn't want to fight all of them so I took out the snake-boy, the magic-drainer, and mister spiky-face, then transported the others elsewhere. "Three more points for Fairy Tail! They are now just 1 point behind our current leaders and 2 points ahead of Lamia Scale-kabo! With only two members left, will Fairy Tail be able to regain their former glory.?" two?

"Bella!" I looked down to see Laki calling me down.

"What happened Laki?" I asked her

"After we lost Alzack, Bisca met up with us and we were on our way to catch up with you when those Sbre-bastards attacked us. Bisca and Max were taken out, but I escaped into the forest. They couldn't follow me once I entered the wood."

That made me pause. "Laki you do realize that two of them are Dragon Slayers like Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy. They don't have to see you when they can follow your scent her, all the way to m-" a magic shot at us made us both leap backwards. The ground exploded where we just stood and we turned to see two guys and a female. Sabretooth.

"Well well well. What do we have here? A couple of stray fairies that have yet to get their wings clipped...we'll just have to change that, won't we." the blonde guy laughed loudly at the woman's words and the dark-haired boy just smirked faintly.

"Are you sure about that Kitten?" I snapped back at the annoying bitch. I smirked at my childish victory when I saw her flinch visibly.

"Don't call me that bug! Try again and I'll...I'll-" she was so easily pissed off. Oh, I'm going to have some fun with tis one.

"Or what Pussy Cat? You going to shed on me? I have a brush somewhere is you need it, maybe come catnip, too... That's it!" She looked really confused now.

"What?"

"I'll call you Catnip!" I did a little victory dance, congratulating myself. She just stood there, angrier than before. I felt her magic building up so I prepared myself. Before I could do anything, however, I pillar of rock shot up between us; Jura had arrived.

"OI! Old man! Watch where you're putting those things! You could've hurt me!" I yelled over to my left. There stood Jura, hands together and eyebrow raised. "It's about time you got here, too! What was taking you so long?"

"You may be my superior, but down talk to me like that! Respect your elders!"

"Kay ojii-chan!"

"Weren't we fighting here?" That blonde loudmouth is getting on my nerves.

""Very well." I suddenly turned serious and formal. "Let us begin."

"HA! A takeover mage like you can't defeat the Great Sting Eucliffe!" He shot a beam of light at me, but I easily dodged it.

"Whoever said I was a takeover mage, Little Bee?" I called to him.

"You use takeover magic! I saw you!" he yelled, shooting another beam of light at me.

"That is correct."

"Then you are a takeover mage!"

"No, I'm not. A takeover mage solely uses takeover magic. Whoever said I only use takeover?"

He paused in his attacks. "You use other magic?"

"Yes. Takeover is just the weakest and least destructive magic I have." I thought for a second, then added at as afterthought. "Though that isn't saying much I guess..."

"Fight me!" I just sweatdropped at his challenge.

"I thought we were already doing that..." I sensed a presence behind and heard a, "Shadow Dragon's Roar!"

I dodged, and so did the Bee, seeing as he didn't have me in the way of the pitch black beam originally aimed at me. I decided to actually start using magic as I heard clashes behind me; Jura and Minerva, Catnip, were going at it with Laki throwing in attacks every now and then.

"Mythic Takeover: Demon of Darkness: Full!" A ball of shadows engulfed me and when it cleared, a new me stood there. My once copper-blonde hair was now pitch black and my eyes had gone bloodred and slitted, like a snake's. I was now wearing a tank-top of sort with a high collar; it was black with gold and red embroidery on it. I was also wearing black shorts with the same designs and black, thigh-high boots. My limiters had sunk into my skin and turned into alternating black, red, and gold tattoos. I had two blood red horns spiraling out of my head and fangs. I had a red and gold tail, similar anatomically to a lion's tail, and two black bat wings with red webbing. I grinned sadistically at the Bee and the Emo (as I had dubbed him) and "disappeared".

I reality, I was just moving too fast for them to see. I flew around them and delivered quick, efficient blows that they feebly tried to dodges and/or block. I saw them collapse and, thinking they were down for the count, turned to my next opponent. I saw Jura knock Laki back, but I caught her before she hit a wall, knocking her unconscious. She thanked me as I stood her back up. I was distracted by making sure Laki was okay that I didn't watch the two Slayers get back up. All I heard was, "Hoy Shadow Dragon's Flash Fang!".

I turned to see a ball of shadows and light heading towards Laki and I. I knew I could dodge, but Laki wouldn't be able to. I stood in front of her and absorbed the attack, but I underestimated the amount of magical power that was in the attack and felt my nearly full magical container top off and then, most terrifyingly, overflow. I felt the magic start to break my limiters, so I flew off into the sky and prepared a powerful spell to release some of the magic.

συγγενής φονιάςΜυστική: μυστική Τέχνη : ακτινοβολεί Δαχτυλίδια Τύχη (Translation: Kin Slayer: Secret Art: Fate's Radiating Rings!"

The magic exploded out of me in waves, similar to ripples in a pond, and the golden light lit up the entire arena as everyone stared up at me in awe. The sudden expulsion of magic had exhausted my body, even if my magic container was only half empty. My body plummeted towards the earth, my appearance shifting back to my regular cloaked form as I fell. My team knew I would be fine, even from falling at this height, but everyone else screamed or at least cried out as I showed no sign of stopping. I crashed into the ground, creating a large crater from the impact. Everyone was silent for a moment, but then a mix of wonder and fear appeared on everybody's faces as I groaned and started to get up. Even Sabertooth looked unsure.

"Well shit." I said and Laki sweatdropped. "I'm gong to me sore for days."

"Oh come on, Bella, that's nothing compared to when you fell asleep while flying that one time and reverted back to your human form."

"Hey! That was an accident! I stayed up for hours the night before and didn't get enough sleep. That was nothing compared to when I fell off that one mount-" I was interrupted by a blow to the back of head. I collapsed and the blackness started to encroach on my vision. I looked up to see Minerva looking down on me with a half-smirk and a half-expression of disbelief. I sighed and said, "Well played Catnip." Before I completely blacked out, I saw Jura take out Laki and smiled, good thing those points aren't going to the tigers.

So yeah, Kin Slayer spells are going to be in Greek. Just F.Y.I. ANYWHOO! Hope you liked, please rate and review! :D