Here's the new chapter :D Okay Author note for the last chapter since I was exhausted to write XD I hope Laxus wasn't too ooc in the last chapter and I'd love to hear what you think Eiran was talking about when it came to his 'crimes' ;)
L.A. Artemis : I am glad you find it exciting! :D Hope this chapter lives up to the expectation :D
"The final day of the Grand Magic Games! Fairy Tail is in first place with 50 points!" Chapati announced
"And all five members are still in the game." Yajima added
"Sabertooth is in hot pursuit with 49 points! With Lamia Scale right after with 48 points!" Chapati added
"And Mermaid Heel is bringing up the rear with 43 points." Yajima added
"Fairy Tail still doesn't have any fallen members! Talk about strong!" Chapati commented
Freed was looking smug "Of course. Say what you will, but it's because my Laxus is there." He said
"Not yours, but the thunder tribe's, right?" Evergreen corrected him
"Whatever! Just finish 'em off, Laxus!" Bickslow said
"At this rate, we've got a lock on victory. That's my Laxus!" Freed stated as he and the rest of the thunder tribe started cheering Laxus.
"Say…" Raine started quietly
"You guys do realize Laxus hasn't done anything yet, right?" Venus told them bluntly "Anyhow, First what's gonna happen now?"
"If my calculations are correct…" Mavis started smiling as they watched the Lacrima vision
Lia walked through one of the streets till she reached a small bridge over a canal in town. She was focused on her surroundings with her sensing so when a water torrent headed to where she had stood she easily teleported to the other side of the bridge dodging it.
"Kinda brings back memories, right, Lia?" Anise asked as she walked down the street towards the opposite side of the bridge from Lia.
"Ah, we never finished our fight back then though" Lia stated
"Time to bring it to a conclusion, right?" Anise said smirking as faced off with Lia
"And a fight starts between Fairy Tail's Lia and Lamia Scale's Anise!" Chapati announced as the crowd broke into cheers, glad to see a fight again after a long pause.
Venus was contemplative "Lia vs Anise? That's going to be a tough one." She noted
"Is that woman, Anise, that strong?" Evergreen asked her
Venus nodded "She's one of Lamia's S rank wizards for a reason, also, she and Lia fought seven years ago, they never finished the fight, but…" She focused on the Lacrima "Lia was the more exhausted one after, and Anise had seven years to grow, so, I don't know"
"Lia will win this one or at least immobilize her" Mavis said giggling "Meanwhile, Erza will fight Minerva."
"She looks triumphant!" Evergreen commented
At that time Erza had made her way to the area where the First told her to be, but instead of running into Minerva, she had to block Mermaid's Kagura.
Back at the bridge, Lia and Anise hadn't moved and were staring off, without the need Lia's sensing, she and Anise heard the commentary that Erza had run into Kagura instead of Minerva, and this surprised her, more so when she heard Minerva had joined the fight too.
"Oh! My! Goodness! It's become a three-way battle!" Chapati announced "A showdown between the foremost wizard women of this tournament! Who will survive?!"
"And what are we? Chopped liver?!" Anise exclaimed irked before turning to Lia again
Lia shrugged while biting the inside of her cheek, praying for Erza's safety. Anise frowned before she was irked even more "You're focusing on their fight instead of ours too, aren't ya?" Anise didn't give Lia time to answer, before the latter teleported at the last second to avoid a water beam from Anise.
"Guess your temper hadn't gone down in the seven years, right?" Lia joked as she countered with a magic burst, but Anise dodged, they both whipped their heads to the side when they sensed the magic pressure building somewhere in town, Lia sensed who it was from, Anise though realized it based on Chapati's commentary.
Lia was hit directly at that moment by another water beam from Anise "You should pay attention…" Anise told Lia with narrowed eyes as the latter stood up "Because starting this moment I am not holding back, you were strong enough to tie with Jura…" Anise spread her left arm to the side as a blue magic circle appeared at the end "…you better show me that strength, Water Jet!"
Lia teleported away as the water stream which was smaller than a rope in diameter sliced through the building behind where Lia had stood, a clean cut that had the top of the building crashing down.
Lia teleported again as Anise moved the thing just like she was moving a whip and the stream had headed for Lia slicing through another building.
"Ok, Lia, Focus!" Lia muttered to herself before she took into the air flying instead of teleporting to avoid the stream again.
Just as she was about to focus on their fight though their attention was stolen by the giant explosion happening at the center of town, right where Erza, Kagura and Minerva were.
Even Anise had stopped to focus solely on the explosion this time, Lia though was frozen for a few moments fearing for Erza till she sensed the woman safe and was later confirmed in the commentary.
She let out a sigh of relief, "Erza is doing her best, time for me to do mine" Lia muttered to herself before she breathed and pushed all other thoughts out of her head, she limited her sensing range to the surrounding area, at the moment Anise had turned to look at Lia, the woman was gone.
Anise didn't have time to react as the wind lashed all around her, slashing at her and leaving her coat tattered "So you're playing serious…" Anise smirked "About time!" Despite the wind still hitting her, Anise moved her two hands "Water Oracle!"
The torrents of water released from around her, before they all headed for one spot hitting it and Lia was thrown back and back to herself.
She teleported out of the way at the last moment, when a water jet from Anise hit the ground, where she had been lying. Before she dodged just as a water torrent was about to hit her from behind, except when she dodged a water beam spewed from the side of the one she dodged and forced her to teleport into the air.
"Running won't be so easy!" Anise told her as the water torrents surrounded Lia, who clapped her hands "Destroy!" she casted just as the water torrents his her invisible shield and pushed against it, not relenting, which eventually forced Lia to teleport away.
Lia hid in an alley, this was turning too much of a reminiscent of her previous fight with Anise, she was being forced on the defensive no even given a moment to attack.
"You know, I thought by now, you'd use that Elementization spell of yours in water form" Anise called from where she stood smirking "But you can't use water form can you?"
In the stands where Fairy Tail was watching both Erza's fight and Lia's, "She can't?" Freed wondered
Venus shook her head "Lia managed fire, wind and lightning and she was working on iron but never got it" Venus told them, since she had been the one with Lia while she trained
"Fire, Wind, Lightning and Iron?!" Evergreen repeated "those elements are…"
"She was thinking it would make a good spell to support the Dragon slayers in the guild when they're low on power" Venus said
"Still is it me or is Lia doing worse than in the fight against Jura?" Raine wondered worried as they turned to watch the screen again.
"Lia can fight against solid magic better, or at least that was how it always been" Bickslow said as his dolls repeated 'always been'.
"And this time she can't just keep on dodging till a timer runs out" Freed added
Lia was forced out of her hiding spot as she flew out of the way of the water torrents that converged together into a large beam and trailed behind her as she flew away. "Elementization: Lightning!" Lia stood in her lightning form, her hair loose cackled behind her, as her lightning was light purple in color, and her face features white spaces.
She sent a bolt right at the water beam as Anise stopped the spell and dodged at the neck of time before she was hit by the bolt that traveled through her water.
Lia appeared in front of Anise, with a kick that the water mage didn't manage to dodge and threw her away, with a shock passing through her body.
"D-Didn't forget about that spell" Anise told her standing up, Lia was surprised when she found herself in a water sphere and for whatever reason couldn't move "Black as night, death of the brave, to Davy Jones' Locker I send you…" Anise casted as Lia undid her Elementization spell, she instantly though regretted it as she felt the pressure in the water was increasing exponentially "Maro Abismo!" The water sphere was a black and no light was heading inside, and no one could see Lia inside.
Anise stopped her spell, she wanted Lia unconscious not dead, but when the water sphere dispersed Lia wasn't inside "What?!"
"I almost couldn't teleport out of there" Lia told her as she stood leaning with her back against one wall, drenched, and breathing hard, "That was some water pressure, but you were a second late in your casting"
"I know you Fairy Tail members like to defy the odds, but that spell is like putting you at deep sea level, how the hell do you use magic when you probably couldn't even breath or move?!" Anise asked Lia who took a deep breath
"Ever faced a Siren?" Lia counter asked as she turned back to Lightning "They're not very friendly"
"Figures, but I am not done yet!" Anise answered "Water Tsunami!" The large body of water headed straight for Lia, but the latter used her lightning body to accelerate through the water, only to be punched right in the face and be thrown back.
"You didn't think you're the only one that can change her body into her element, did ya?" Anise asked hovering over the ground with her entire body made out of water.
Lia got up still in her lightning form, "This should be fun!" she grinned as the lightning cackled.
At that time Minerva had left Erza to fight Kagura after she showed them she was holding Millianna hostage so that they would fight each other.
At the same time, Gajeel had just been found by Rogue, and Laxus and Orga faced off as well.
Elsewhere at the town edge, "We made a grave error; while at the same time got locked into an in escapable destiny." Jellal told Meldy and Ultear
"If everything that the future said is true…" Meldy started worried
"…this country will be destroyed tomorrow." Ultear finished
Unknown to the three someone was listening in on them, that person wore a giant cloak that hid their features completely, before teleporting away and appearing outside a bar next town over, entering the person weaved their way to one of the people watching the games.
"Xenos~" the person called with a giggle, their voice giving the fact that she was female "I just heard something interesting"
"Get on with it, Envy." He told her
"Well~ we might need to move our plans a little early, and we won't even have to worry about Fairy Tail or any other mage coming after us" She whispered while giggling, not that anybody turned to her they were all busy watching the games "They'll be too busy"
He raised an eyebrow before smirking "Sound interesting alright" He said
Back in Crocus, Anise didn't even bother to block as Lia's fist passed through her water body, recovering right after, she countered with her own punch increasing the water's surface tension so the hit made contact, as Lia was thrown backwards, she rolled on the floor her lightning form disappearing.
Anise had proven that she was still superior to Lia in physical strength and hand to hand combat, she wasn't affected by the lightning in her water form, or more like lightning passed through her water body with no effect.
She wasn't even bothering to dodge or block Lia's hits, which was frustrating Lia.
Lia knew her fire strength wouldn't be strong enough to counter her water, "Elementization: Wind!"
Anise wasn't affected when her water body was being cut through by the wind "Water Oracle!" Anise casted and the torrents of water like the first time found Lia in her wind form hitting her and sending her to ground again, Anise appeared above her with a punch to Lia's stomach that was hard enough to create a crater under the said girl.
She didn't stop there, not giving Lia a chance to recover, she gathered her magic "Water Tsunami!" The wave washed Lia a little distance away.
Anise stopped and just watched Lia who didn't move for a few seconds before she started pushing herself on her knees, while coughing.
"I won't lose" Lia told her determined as she teleported appearing behind Anise "Explosion!"
Anise was surprised enough for her water body to scatter before it gathered again, but her water oracle immediately went for Lia again.
Lia teleported out of the way and appeared a distance from Anise "Body Enchant: Defendo! Celero! Robur! Reflex!" she casted on herself as the water torrents headed for her with Anise now recovered from explosion in tow "Magic Burst: Heaven's Light!"
The magic circle appeared in front of her with the magic gathering at five tips forming a star before each point headed for Anise and her torrents.
Anise dodged the beam, to be surprised when Lia switched the beam to multiple beams and each tried to hit her, Anise though dodged each of them, but not easily.
"A bit like your water Oracle spell! But they don't follow the water in a person's body, they track magic!" Lia told her
"Took you a while to figure out how my spell worked though" Anise replied
They both froze though before they dodged as a large magic energy destroyed a large section from where they were, or destroyed what they hadn't already destroyed; Lia noted that that magic energy had come from where Erza was fighting.
"Guess those people don't realize others are fighting here" Anise said as she faced Lia again, although she was back to her human form, if anything she was staring to get tired, getting hit in her water form might have prevented injury, but each hit took a chunk out of her magic reserves, and then there was the magic needed to maintain the body itself to worry about.
Lia on the other hand was both exhausted and injured, between using her Elementization spell for so long, getting hit by Anise's deep sea spell, that had her entire body and lungs especially hurting, then getting beat up by Anise, she had no idea whether she would give In to magic exhaustion or physical exhaustion first.
"I knew this top wouldn't make it past the day" Lia muttered, her top was now missing the lace sleeve, the corset was cut in multiple places, her pants too were missing a leg. Anise on the other hand, only had her coat missing and was down to her strapless dress and black leggings with the boots, and looking completely unharmed, the only sign she was even fighting was how hard she was breathing.
The two women faced off, getting ready to go for round three or was it four now. Back in the arena Sabertooth points had just increased to 55 after Minerva had stolen the points for defeating Kagura from Erza, leaving Kagura in a critical state, before she revealed she had tortured Millianna till the girl was unconscious, giving Saber another point.
"With this, all Mermaid Heel participants are out!" Chapati announced "So it's now down to Erza and Minerva!"
"But Erza has already been put through the wringer-kabo!" Mato said
"Minerva, on the other hand doesn't have a scratch on her." Yajima added
"Does the fairy with the flapping wings have any chance at victory?!" Chapati wondered
The Fairy Tail members watched the lacrimas that showed the fights and not just Erza's. Gajeel was fighting Rogue, easily beating him, before he started walking away only to stop when Rogue told him he wasn't as strong as Natsu.
"And that's how you send yourself to an early grave" Cana noted as Levy nodded
"Laxus and Orga are just showing off by destroying the town" Venus noted
"I think Master is probably glad we don't have to pay for repairs this time" Lisanna replied
Raine nodded in agreement "Lia and Anise's fight isn't helping with the town's state either" She said, the said area's buildings were cut in half, the streets drenched and scorched from all the lightning and water, and even some walls had holes from when Anise had punched Lia a few times through walls.
Anise moved forward first running towards Lia immediately switching back to her water form, but Lia countered by putting her hands in front of her aimed at Anise "Magic burst: Heaven's Light!" The magic beam headed straight for Anise who dodged "Water Snake!" Anise countered as the water beams headed straight for Lia, the latter though jumped into the air, as the water hit where she had stood before.
"Magic Burst: Arrows!" Lia casted as the magic beam headed for Anise before separating into multiple beams as Anise tried to dodge each one, but was hit by the last one, what caught Lia's attention was that Anise was actually affected even for a second by the hit.
She recovered immediately though, throwing her hand forward "Water Jet!" The whip like water stream headed for Lia, but the latter teleported away appearing in the air above Anise "Magic Burst" She used her regular magic burst that Anise dodged, Lia smirked though as she started moving her arms and the beam moved like a whip with it, it was leaving a mark on the ground and Anise wasn't going to wait and see what would happen if it hit her, as she dodged.
"Ice Make: Eagle!" The attack headed straight for Lia, but before she could dodge another voice casted "Ice Make: Shield!" The Ice shield was high enough to shield her from the attack as she landed on the ground.
Gray walked towards Lia from behind her, as Lyon walked towards Anise who was in her human form again.
Lyon smirked as he noticed Gray "What's wrong, Gray? You're all beat up."
"I had some minor business to take care of." Gray replied
On the other hand, Anise and Lia were frowning at the sight of the two guys, "Lia! Let's take them out together." Gray told Lia who didn't even turn to him.
Back at the crowd in the arena, "Love Rival!" Juvia muttered darkly glaring at the lacrima vision
"Calm down, Juvia" Raine tried to calm the jealous woman
"He didn't mean it like that" Lisanna tried to help
In the town, Lia put a hand on Gray's shoulder "You know…" She turned to him with a glare that had him sweating "I really wanted to fight Rufus, but I let you have that fight, so…" Her death aura intensified "If you even think about joining this fight, I will give you a one way trip to Magnolia from here!"
"Lyon, you heard her, didn't ya?" Anise turned to Lyon with her own glare "Because I can give you a one way trip to Margret town…"
"Uhhh…" Gray stuttered as they backed away
"Why don't you guys fight elsewhere?!" Lia suggested in a tone that was more commanding then suggesting as Anise hummed in agreement, in less than a minute the two boys were gone.
"Since when can Lia glare someone into running away?" Raine wondered as they watched
"She always could" Evergreen answered with a sweat drop
While Freed nodded sweating too "She just isn't the type to get irritated or angry easily"
"But if she is, you better get away, Natsu and Gray learned that the hard way, when they almost started a fight in her library" Bickslow recalled just as nervous
"Figures" Venus replied chuckling nervously "Anise were always short tempered though"
At the same time inside the palace, where the infiltration team had eventually wandered into what looked like the dining hall.
Natsu shuddered "What's wrong, Natsu?" Happy asked him
"Kinda of feels like Erza or someone was glaring at me" Natsu replied "still this is Un-friggin'-believable."
"Who figured we'd get lost after all that?" Loke wondered
"This is a real pickle." Mira said
"I just don't have enough knowledge of the castle's structure…" Yukino said
"It's not your fault, we should've prepared better" Eiran said
"We got a lot to tell everyone, so we'd better get out of here soon." Lily said
Happy agreed "Aye. Like about Eclipse and Future Lucy…"
"This is a pain in the ass, so let's just plow through some soldiers." Natsu suggested
"Forget it! We've got injured people here." Carla told him
"Maybe we could handle them with our numbers." Happy said
Eiran sweat dropped "I am pretty sure they got the number's advantage on this one"
"No, that's not all." Mira told them "We're also fighting in the Grand Magic Games, right? It's a kingdom-sponsored tournament. I don't think we can afford to make a bad impression on the imperial armed forces."
"Well, we did beat up the executioners, so it may be too late." Wendy stated
"Maybe we should have gone a little easier on them." Happy wondered "If you think about it, it's not like they're especially bad people."
"Well, we couldn't afford the luxury of saying that at the time." Carla told him
Lily crossed his arms "We didn't put anyone out of commission permanently." He said "They'll probably be waking up any time now."
Loke crouched beside Lucy who was staring worriedly at her unconscious future self. "Lucy, you needn't worry so much." He told her as she nodded "Because even if there are two of you, I've got enough love for you both!"
"You know this isn't the right time or place?" Carla asked him
"Guess going back to the Celestial spirit world didn't change much about him" Eiran sweat dropped.
At that moment, future Lucy stirred "Are you okay, future Lucy?" Happy asked her as she sat up
"Where am I?" She asked
"We don't know." Lily told her
"It looks like the palace dining hall." Mira told her
She frowned "So we're still in the palace…" she said before holding her head "According to my memory…after escaping from Hell Palace, we're all captured by imperial soldiers. I came rushing back here so I could warn us beforehand…but all I can say is, we were unlucky. And until that time came, we were in a prison."
"'That time'?" Happy repeated but Future Lucy didn't reply
"You're talking about the reality you experienced, future Lucy?" Lily asked her
"What are you talkin' about? Those guys could never capture us!" Natsu boasted
"True. I don't feel like they could take us." Mira agreed
"We got close to Eclipse while we're on the run." Future Lucy told them "Because of that, we couldn't use our magic and all get thrown into the dungeon."
"Our future selves sure are careless, huh?" Natsu said
"Um, how did you come from the future, Lucy?" Wendy asked
"Good question. You haven't told us the important stuff yet." Loke said as future Lucy started shaking.
"Ah, why did you come from the future?" Eiran asked
"In order to change a terrible future…" future Lucy told them
"A terrible future?" Natsu repeated
"What happened in your future?" Yukino asked her
Future Lucy started shaking again "Despair awaits in the very near future. A swarm of more than 10,000 dragons will attack this country. The city is burned down. The palace is destroyed. Many lives are lost." This had them shocked and wide eyed.
"What…the hell…is that?!" Natsu asked shouting as he and Happy freaked out.
"Use your indoor voice!" Lily told them
"Over 10,000 dragons…" Mira repeated
"…we couldn't even fight one" Eiran stated with worry
"Why would that happen?" Yukino asked
"Oh my gosh!" Happy freaked out
"Maybe it has something to do with the dragon graveyard?" Wendy wondered
"I don't know." Carla replied
"It's unfathomable." Lily added as Happy continued to freak out.
"I wonder where they'll come from." Lucy wondered
"Is it even possible for them to be lying in wait without being discovered?" Loke wondered
Natsu was suddenly wearing a helmet and holding a bunch of spears "Anyway, we stop wastin' time here and prepare for war!"
"We're going to fight?!" Lucy asked him
"That'd be impossible!" Happy told him
"Everyone…you believe me?" Future Lucy asked them
Natsu turned to her "Is it a lie?!" he asked her
"No! But…I didn't think anyone would believe something like this." Future Lucy told them
"Why would we doubt your words, Lucy?" Natsu asked her
Future Lucy was stunned at his words and looked down smiling "You're my future self, but that's pathetic!" Lucy told her "Have more trust in your friends!"
"I'm scolding myself?!" Future Lucy wondered "But you're right…"
"Hey, what happened to us in the palace when the dragons came?" Carla asked future Lucy, who didn't reply and looked down frowning.
"Carla, I'll take a guess." Wendy told her "Maybe we…"
"…d-died?" Natsu finished
"No…" Mira said
"We…died?" Happy repeated as he barely held his tears
"I don't remember how many days passed." Future Lucy started telling them "When I came to, I remembered Eclipse. I didn't know how to activate it, but I opened the gate by instinct. I had faith in the possibility of going back in time. And then I really did go back to the past. July 4th, 791."
"That's…so recent." Loke noted
"With Eclipse, can you only go back to the recent past?" Mira wondered
"But the plan was to go back 400 years in the past and defeat Zeref…" Wendy said
"Maybe there is some type of way to control the timing?" Eiran wondered
"I don't know." Future Lucy replied "Part of it was broken, so maybe that's why. There are Lacrimas placed all throughout the city to film the Grand Magic Game. I want you to go underground to meet up with Jellal and his comrades."
"Jellal?" Natsu asked her
"I told him everything." She explained "I'm sure he's developing a strategy right now."
"Developing a strategy?" Lucy repeated
"I'm sorry. I didn't come from the future with an answer. I don't know how to keep all of this from happening." Future Lucy told them "I'm really sorry. It's like, why did I come here? Until today, I didn't know what to do, so I just wandered around the city."
"Nah. We'll do somethin'." Natsu told her as he leaned down and put his forehead against hers while patting her "Thank you. You're doin' this for our future." At this future Lucy started crying, while they all watched with smiles and determination at Natsu's words. "I swear we'll change the future."
After getting their bearing together, future Lucy started leading them through the halls "This way!" Future Lucy instructed
"I'm surprised you know the way!" Natsu told her
"I wanted to at least avoid a future where everyone is captured by the imperial army." She replied
"Makes sense." Lily agreed
"You must have studied the underground passages, huh?" Happy said
"I want to send up a flare soon." Mira said
"Especially since everyone must be worried about us." Wendy agreed
"They're bound to, since we took so long." Eiran agreed
Just as they walked into one of the main halls of the palace, and to find a platoon of guards heading straight for them from one direction.
"The imperial army? They were stationed here?!" future Lucy questioned shocked to see them
"How…?!" Lucy wondered just as Natsu, Loke and Eiran walked forward
"Don't worry!" Natsu told them "If I can use magic, we won't get caught."
"That's right." Loke agreed as he adjusted his tie
"We handle worse things with magic" Eiran added
Wendy called their attention "Arcadios isn't here!"
"Neither is Yukino!" Mira added
"What?!" Natsu questioned
"Why would they go off on their own?!" Lucy questioned
"I don't care about the knight, but I can't leave Yukino behind." Mira stated and took of running in the other direction "I'll go back!"
"Mira!" Lily called
"Don't! We'll get separated!" Lucy told her
"Go with her!" Loke told Eiran, who in turn looked at the guards "We'll handle them!"
"Leave it to us. We're gonna…" Natsu started as he and Loke got in a fighting stance
"…run through these guys!" They said together
Eiran nodded as he formed twin crystals, throwing one to Lucy "Keep this! I'll use it to find you guys after we find Yukino!" And he took off running after Mira, just as the group started fighting the soldiers.
The sun was starting to set, Gajeel had beaten Rogue till he was exhausted, before they talked and Rogue seemed about to give in, before something possessed him and he started fighting Gajeel.
At the same time, after Lyon and Gray had walked away and started fighting elsewhere, Anise and Lia faced as their remaining magic build up and they got ready waiting for the right moment to strike. Almost simultaneously, they moved together "Water Snake!" Anise casted as Lia countered "Magic Missile: Fire!" as the two spells hit each other and steam covered the area as a result.
"Water Oracle!" Anise casted as the water beams grabbed Lia, who had teleported to a different place than where she had stood, and threw her to the ground. Lia teleported away and gathered her magic as where Anise stood, the remaining steam dissipated to show a giant magic circle connecting four small magic circles "Infernal Torrent!"
Anise cursed as the flame tower surrounded her rising into the air like a beacon, it faded away fast though replaced by a water torrent that over take it, before it headed straight for Lia, she was hit at first before she teleported away, to the top of a pile of debris.
The water beam dropped to the ground as Anise stood her dress a bit scorched, showing she was actually hit by the spell before she countered.
At the same time Gajeel after having swallowed Rogue's shadow, and thus gained the upper hand in their fight, managed to defeat Rogue with a resounding Iron Shadow Dragon's Roar, that left the crowd and judges wide eyed and Fairy Tail cheering happily.
"So with this, Fairy Tail gains 1 point, for a total of 51 points!" Chapati announced
"Sabertooth still has 55 points, but Fairy Tail is slowly catching up-kabo!" Mato announced
"Wow! Now that was a magnificent battle worthy of Dragon Slayers!" Chapati commented
"It didn't turn out the way I thought, but it was incredible-kabo!" Mato said
"That's the true pleasure of the Grand Magic Games." Yajima said
At that moment, the fight between Erza and Minerva commenced, while elsewhere Gray and Lyon fought with neither sides letting up.
Before all attention turned to Laxus and Orga's fight which was just joined by Jura, who when challenged by Orga, managed to take down the god slayer with one hit, which raised Lamia Scales's points to 49.
Afterwards Laxus and Jura faced, before Laxus was knocked to the ground with one hit, he recovered and the fight between him and Jura commenced.
At that time, Lia teleported away when Anise had gotten close enough to switch to hand to hand combat.
She was getting tired, and Anise was unrelenting, and wasn't giving Lia the chance to gather magic for her stronger attacks, and she was even wary of standing in one spot too long after Lia had used her infernal torrent once.
She had an idea but it could very well blow in her face, quite literally, and give the win to Anise, but she was running out of magic and stamina.
Lia and Anise's fight stopped momentarily as the two gathered their breath, Anise though was on her feet a second before Lia "Water garden" Anise casted as two water walls rose beside Lia and multiple water beams came at her from the two sides, which made Lia teleport but didn't appear in sight of Anise.
Anise looked around her and was about to use her water Oracle, but was unable to when she was suddenly unable to move when the area's gravity changed, enough that a crater was forming under her.
Anise strained her neck as she turned her head to try and see where she had sensed large magic was being gathered; there Lia was kneeling on the ground between two piles of debris, eyes closed, with her right hand in front of her aimed straight at Anise, and her left hand on the ground holding the gravity spell.
"Is she…" Freed started as they watched the fight
"…she casting two spells at the same time?!" Bickslow finished as they all stared in surprise, the Fairy Tail team kept on surprising them, with Erza using her Second Origin, Laxus fighting on equal grounds with Jura, and now Lia dual casting two spells.
Venus was biting her lips, She was with Lia during training, another thing Lia had tried working on was duel casting, the problem was when she kept gathering magic for her spell, she couldn't stay focused enough to keep the two spells together and one of them always ended up blowing in Lia's face.
Lia was completely focused on the spell, she tuned out everything else, that if someone decided to attack her now, she wouldn't realize it till she's hit.
But this was risky for an entirely different reason, duel casting was dangerous, she had to balance two different spells, and of two different natures, it was like looking in two different directions at the same time, since she needed to keep them separate and not mixed together, which was why she usually would end up blowing herself when she lost focus for even a second.
She pushed all worry out of her head, she had to do this! She would do this!
Anise tried to push herself out of the gravity field, but she couldn't move not even in her water body, she had tried and ended up pancake on the ground in water form, and the way that Lia was charging that attack, even lying on the ground wouldn't help.
Fairy Tail in the stands watched as Erza changed into her Nakagami Armor "Advance like a wild win, youngsters!" Mavis started
"Magic Burst:…" Lia started the casting opening her eyes"…Heaven's light!" The large magic beam that was released destroyed everything in sight; it hit Anise straight on and every building behind the woman.
"Your fiery blood, sweat and tears are as beautiful as sunshine!" Mavis continued just as Lia's beam interrupted Gray's and Lyon's fight, Gray used the distraction as Lyon turned to look at where it came from "Ice Geyser!"
At the same time Laxus was gathering his magic for a dragon slayer's secret art. "Fear not, young ones. Move forward and that shall become your path." Mavis continued as she watched Laxus take down Jura with his roaring thunder, giving Fairy Tail five points that made them rise to first.
Lia's arms sagged stopping her attack as she sat on the ground breathing hard; she was waiting for the cloud of dust to clear, wondering if it was over.
When it cleared the entire path in front of Lia was destroyed in a hemi cone like path, and right where she had been stuck, was an unconscious Anise.
"It's over! The winner is Lia!" Chapati announced
"And with that Fairy Tail gains 1 point, for a total of 57 points!" Yajima announced.
"She won!" Venus cheered along with Lisanna as the two hugged each other.
The celebration extended even after when Gray took down Lyon with his attack then Erza took down Minerva, bringing Fairy Tail's total to 63 points.
"It's Erza! She beat Sabertooth's leader and earned five points!" Chapati announced as the crowd roared "Right now, Fairy Tail has 63 points! They're strong! Fairy Tail is too strong! Will they win this without one member going down?! The wizards from the other guilds are almost all out! In fact, the only one who's left is Sabertooth's Sting! Mr. Yajima, I think this is about over! "
"Fairy Tail has gotten extremely close to victory." Yajima said
"Incredible-kabo!" Mato added
Meanwhile, the Fairy Tail members especially the ones who were in the guild for the last seven years were stunned.
"Victory!" Romeo muttered
"Seriously?!" Sol muttered
"Us?!" Jet questioned
"We, who were bottom-ranked the whole time?!" Droy wondered with tears in his eyes
"Idiot! It's too soon to cry!" Macao told him with his own tears
The crowd too was stunned silent before they started rising into cheers for Fairy Tail, as the sun finally set and night came upon them.
Before everyone was stunned when they realized that if Sting took down all five members, Sabertooth would win.
At the same time in town Sting shot his magic into the sky forming the Sabertooth mark to signal his location.
Lia watched the signal appear in the sky as she stood up and Gray joined her since they were the closest to each other.
Like the rest of the Fairy Tail members they pushed themselves despite their injuries to where the signal came from.
The crowd and the Fairy Tail members watched stunned and silently as the five injured wizards reach the square where Sting was, as they stood side by side facing the dragon slayer.
"What a spectacular sight. All of you are wizards I looked up to seven years ago." Sting told them
"Can the chatter. This is the final battle." Gajeel told him
"We'll beat you one on one. Who do you want?" Gray asked him
"All at once is fine. With your injuries, one on one would be boring." Sting replied
"You should have learned by now not to underestimate Fairy Tail!" Lia told him
"I wouldn't dream of it. I'm treating you guys with respect." Sting replied "That's why I'm gonna crush you all together! I've been waiting for this. I'm gonna show Lector how strong I am!"
"Lector?" Gray questioned
"I don't know what you're talkin' about, but are you serious?" Laxus asked him
"I'm serious! I got stronger!" Sting declared "Losing Lector has awakened new strength! For Lector's sake…for my best friend's sake…I'm gonna beat all of you!"
"Fine. If you're that prepared…then we'll fight you, Sting!" Erza told him
"That's what I want to hear." Sting replied as they faced him with determination, he started gathering his magic "I'll show you my newly-awakened power!"
He looked at them and was shocked to see the determination as they faced him despite their injuries, he tried to move to attack but hesitated, instead of attacking he dropped to the ground on his knees and admitted defeat.
The Fairy Tail members at the arena stared at the score of 64, the score that had won them the games, before they broke into tears, and cheers.
"That's it! The winner of the Grand Magic Games…" Chapati announced as fireworks shot into the sky "…is Fairy Tail!"
The cheers were thunderous from the arena, reaching as far as where the Fairy Tail team was in town.
Erza approached the fallen Sting "Sting, why didn't you come after us?" She asked him
"I had a feeling I couldn't meet him." He told her "Before, I thought I'd be able to meet him if I won…but for some reason, I felt like I couldn't meet him. I don't understand it myself. You people are so radiant that I didn't think I could meet him the way I am now."
"Sure you can." Erza told him
"Erza!" Millianna called as she came running and in her hands was Lector who Sting immediately started running towards, Lector himself when he saw Sting jumped from Millianna's hands and started running towards Sting.
The two were crying as they hugged each other, as all the onlookers smiled at the scene.
The Games are officially over! Now to deal with the Dragons! and what will Epta members do? ;)