"Where the heck am I?" Sasha questioned. Each one of Fairy Tail and Sabertooth went after one of the eclipse spirits, but they keep finding themselves in a strange situation. This time, Sasha found herself in a fair. Rides, stands, everything you would find in a fair. "Why am I here?"
"Hi!" Sasha turned around and was met with Eclipse Aquarius. "I'm so glad you came over. It was going to be so boring here without someone to play with."
"Excuse me? Which spirit are you and where are we?" Sasha said.
"I'm Aquarius." Eclipse Aquarius said. "We're in an amusement park, silly. It's so much fun here, but it's even more fun when you have someone to do it with. I'm so glad you're here so we can play."
"Play?" Sasha questioned. "I didn't come here to play. I'm on a mission and you're not going to divert me from it."
"Aw. Come on. What's wrong with having some fun?" Eclipse Aquarius said.
'Is she serious? How can she think of playing games at a time like this?' Sasha thought. 'It doesn't really matter. I have to take her down. She's one of those eclipse spirits and she needs to be taken down.'
"Come on. Let's play with some water." Eclipse Aquarius said.
"Not a chance. Don't think you can distract me with childish charms." Sasha said, but she realized she was mistaken as she saw what she pulled out. It was a large urn. "How can she even lift that?"
"Let's play." Eclipse Aquarius said. She started out by firing a blast of water. Sasha was caught off guard from the attack and she got hit pretty hard by that water. She crashed against a stand and couldn't believe what she felt.
"How did she do that? I didn't expect that." Sasha said.
"Come on. You've got to dodge. If you don't dodge, it won't be as much fun." Sasha said. She shot another blast of water. Sasha was able to move out of the way this time. The water blasted the stand behind her and it was completely crushed. Sasha couldn't believe it. "No way! How does she have that much power when she's a child? These celestial spirits are a lot tougher than they look."
"That's more like it. Now try this one on for size." Eclipse Aquarius said. She released more water and manipulated it to form a dragon.
"You've got to be kidding! What else can she do with the water?!" Sasha said as she couldn't believe someone that looks just like a young child could wield such power.
"Here it comes!" Eclipse Aquarius said as she sent the dragon right at Sasha.
"I don't think so!" Sasha said and pulled out her bazooka. "Take a bite out of this!" Sasha fired her bazooka and the magic blasted the water dragon right in the head. Sasha thought the counter attack worked, but the dragon's head was able to reform. "No way!"
"That was a nice try, but you'll have to do better than that." Eclipse Aquarius said.
"Fine. Let's try this." Sasha said as she requipped again. "Magic Gatling Cannon! Eat this!" She used her cannon and fired multiple shots against the water dragon and it was starting to lose form.
"That looks like its fun! Let me try!" Eclispe Aquarius said.
"Not good." Sasha said as she could see trouble comping her way. Eclipse Aquarius attacked again as she launched multiple blasts of water at once. Sasha acted fast as she requipped to a pair of twin swords. She moved as fast she could to deflect each attack.
"Wow! You're really fast!" Eclipse Aquarius said as she was amazed with what Sasha can do.
"You haven't seen anything yet!" Sasha said as she pushed through her attacks and charged right at Eclipse Aquarius. She got in close and was about to attack, but once she got a good look at her, she stopped and stopped herself from attacking. "Oh man. You might be a spirit, but you still look like a child."
"Don't stop. Let's keep playing." Eclipse Aquarius said as she blasted Sasha again with some water. She was blown away from the attack and rolled against the ground.
"Where did this kid learn to play games?" Sasha said in her pain. She was able to stand, but she saw she was in a predicament. "What am I going to do? She looks and acts too much like a child. Can I really bring myself to fight her?"
"Are you having fun yet?" Eclipse Aquarius asked.
"Does it look like I'm having fun?" Sasha questioned.
"That's okay. We'll just keep playing until we can find a game you might like." Eclipse Aquarius said.
"I don't even want to play games." Sasha said. "Will you quit it with this act already? This little innocent child act of yours isn't going to work on me."
"What are you talking about? I'm not pretending." Eclipse Aquarius said.
"Knock it off. You expect me to believe you're really just some innocent kid?" Sasha said. "You attacked the spirit world and now you're trying to break the bonds between celestial spirit and humans."
"You mean all that happened earlier? We're just playing." Eclipse Aquarius said. Sasha wasn't expecting her to say that. "Leo told me it would be fun and we would have lost of new friends to play with. That's all it is. It's not like we're really trying to hurt anyone."
"Is she serious?" Sasha said as she was a little confused. Was this version of Aquarius evil or not.
"Time in. Time to go back to playing." Eclipse Aquarius said and kept shooting water. Sasha was doing her best to avoid each of those water attacks, but they kept coming like cannonballs.
"If she insists on "playing" like this, I'm gonna have to take that urn away." Sasha said. She moved as carefully as she could to get as close as she could to Eclipse Aquarius. She reached out and was aiming for the urn.
"Wait! Wait a minute!" Eclipse Aquarius said as she held out her hand and stopped Sasha. Sasha slid to a stop.
"Stop? In the middle of a fight? For what?" Sasha said.
"Look there." Eclipse Aquarius said as she pointed to something.
"Look at what?" Sasha said as she turned to whatever it was she was pointing at. She followed the finger and saw it was pointing to an ice cream stand.
"Let's stop for some ice cream." Eclipse Aquarius said.
"Ice cream? Now?" Sasha said as she found that unbelievable.
"Yeah. There's always time for ice cream." Eclipse Aquarius said as she sent the urn away. She grabbed Sasha's hand and dragged her towards it. "Let's go. It's great to stop for an ice cream break." Sasha couldn't believe this was happening.
'She can't be serious.' Sasha thought. 'I don't get this. Is she serious or is she trying to trick me.' Eclipse Aquarius took her to the stand and was working on an ice cream cone.
"What flavors do you like?" Eclipse Aquarius asked.
"Uh….I'm not really in the mood for ice cream." Sasha said.
"There's always room for ice cream." Eclipse Aquarius said.
"I wouldn't know. I don't really have it that often." Sasha said. Eclipse Aquarius actually gasped from hearing that.
"You don't have ice cream?! You'll love it!" Eclipse Aquarius said. "I'll just go with chocolate and vanilla. They're classic and almost everyone like one or the other." She made the cone and handed it over to her. "Here you go. Try it." Sasha took the ice cream, but she was hesitant to eat it.
"Uh…thanks." Sasha said. 'I can't really eat this. We were in the middle of a fight. This thing could be poison for all I know.' She thought as she was trying to be cautious about it.
"Go on. Try it." Eclipse Aquarius said. She smiled and it was hard for Sasha to say no to an adorable face like hers.
"I give up." Sasha said. She just went for it and ate it. "Wow. It's actually good. It's like milk."
"That's because milk is one of the main ingredients in it, silly." Eclipse Aquarius said. Both of them had some ice cream and it was like what they were doing earlier doesn't even matter. "Isn't this great? There's nothing better than having some ice cream after playing."
"I guess so." Sasha said. She liked the ice cream, but she didn't understand it. All the other spirits appeared to be mean and ruthless, but Eclipse Aquarius is real nice. "Aquarius, can I ask you something?"
"Sure. Just hurry before your ice cream melts." Eclipse Aquarius said.
"I just want to know what the other spirits told you. Do you really think you're just playing some sort of game?" Sasha asked as Eclipse Aquarius was finishing her ice cream.
"Yeah. Leo and the others told me that we would be making many new friends." Eclipse Aquarius said. "Doing this will have all the spirits free to play." Sasha was a little amazed with what was going on with her. She certainly wasn't like the others.
"So what do you say we get back to playing?" Eclipse Aquarius said as she ran out and got in front of Sasha. She pulled out hold urn again.
"Wait a minute. I haven't even finished yet." Sasha said. Eclipse Aquarius didn't listen as she fired some water at her. Sasha ducked out of the way and took cover. "That is not how children should play! Oh who am I kidding? When I was a kid, I didn't even what to play. Who am I to judge?"
"Come on out. Let's keep playing." Eclipse Aquarius said. Sasha stayed hidden. "Are we playing hide and seek? Fun." Sasha tried her best to stay hidden and was trying to figure this out.
'She doesn't appear to be evil. She's acting like a little kid that just doesn't know any better.' Sasha thought. 'I still need to figure out a way for me to end this, but how? I can't bring myself to actually fight her since she's so much like a child. However, if I can't find some way to defeat her, I can't get out of here and help the others. What to do? What to do?'
"You're really good at this." Eclipse Aquarius said. "I can't seem to find you. So maybe I'll just shoot at everything I can and get you to come out."
'Is she playing or is she using actual battle strategy?' Sasha thought as she didn't like the sound of that. Eclipse Aquarius kept shooting around. Sasha moved around as carefully as she could without being seen or getting blasted by the water. "How much water does she keep in that thing?"
"Come out! I'll find you soon!" Eclipse Aquarius said.
'There's got to be some way I can stop this kid.' Sasha thought. When she thought that, she came to a realization. 'Wait. That's it. She's just a kid. There's one sure way to knock a kid out without hurting them.' Eclipse Aquarius looked around as she still didn't find Sasha. She was having fun, but now she was getting annoyed.
"Hey! This isn't fun anymore if you're just going to keep hiding!" Eclipse Aquarius called.
"Up here!" Sasha called. Eclipse Aquarius looked and saw Sasha up on the ferris wheel.
"What are you doing?" Elipse Aquarius asked.
"Sorry, but it's time for the fun and games to be over." Sasha said as she requipped and pulled out a lavender cannon.
"What are you doing?" Eclipse Aquarius said. Sasha didn't answer, but she did shoot a missile at her. It landed near her and exploded into a sparkling pink cloud. "Pretty!" Eclipse Aquarius loved what she saw, but something was happening to her. Her eyelids were getting heavy. She couldn't even hold her urn out. It disappeared and Eclipse Aquarius collapsed with her falling asleep. The cloud cleared away and Sasha went down as she went to check on Eclipse Aquarius.
"Putting them to sleep. Always takes them out without hurting them." Sasha said. She watched as Eclipse Aquarius turned to stardust and vanished. "Hopefully things will be better for her. She wasn't really that bad." There's always more than one way to beat your enemy.
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Nova
Nova followed another one of the spirits. She ended up on a beach and was keeping her eye opened for one of the spirits. She watched the waves crashed by.
"A lovely beach with a cloudy sky. That's a little depressing." Nova said. As she was watching the waves, she didn't notice a shark fin moving through the sand. Nova did feel something and when she turned around and saw the shark of Eclipse Pieces jump out and was about to take a bite out of her.
