No One's P.O.V.
The next event was coming closer by the second.
"Where is Arslan?" Erza asks.
"He is with the Sabertooth Team." Daryun says, walking over to them. "He told me he is going to get to know them. He said it would be good to make friends with them and have a friendly battle to see who is stronger than to be fighting to the death." Daryun explains. As soon as he said that, Team A was nodding in agreement.
"That is smart." Gray says. When he finishes, a patter of feet coming closer to them is heard, as well as the sound of metal hitting leather. Daryun stands on guard, but it drops immediately when he sees it is just Arslan.
"Your Highness!" He exclaims. Arslan smiles and waves at them.
"Hello." He says.
"Did the Sabertooth Team do anything to you?" Daryun asks.
"No. They did not do anything. I was in good company there." Arslan comforts. Daryun sighs in relief.
"That is good." Daryun says. The Pumpkin Man's voice comes over an amplifier, announcing the next battle was about to start. The Teams went to their sections, Daryun lingering with Arslan instead of going with is group. Lucy went down into the arena with a red haired girl, Flare, and stood in the center, glaring at her. Lucy took out her keys and summoned Taurus, the Ox spirit, who immediately attacked Flare with is ax. Flare jumped out of the way. As she was in the ir, Lucy took out another key and summoned a spirit with red and white hair, Scorpio. Scorpio did a sand attack, and Flare's hair came out of it's hairdo. Her hair floated around her, lighting up with fire. The hair went in front of her, creating a shield, and protecting her from the sand, Flare laughing maniacally. Fairy Tail was shocked.
"She uses fire magic?" Natsu asked.
"She just blocked the attack with her hair." Daryun states. Arslan was too busy watching the battle to notice their talking, to focused on subconsciously strategizing an attack plan to win against Flare.
"Okay, Taurus, time to take things up a notch!" Lucy yelled.
"Can doo!" Taurus said. He raised his ax over his shoulder and magic started swirling around him. He jumped and swung the ax down, making a sand blizzard. Lucy thanked the two spirits, sending them back to the Celestial Spirit world. Flare got up from the ground, but was sent backwards from the force of the blizzard.
"I'm gonna kill her!" Flare yells. She laughed, making her hair grow and go towards Lucy. Instead of her hair grabbing Lucy, it became the head of a lion. Lucy summons Cancer, the crab spirit, and he cuts Flares hair. The lion's head disappears and Flare almost enters a mental breakdown.
"No, my hair! You cut it!" She cries.
"Way to go, Cancer!" Lucy says.
"I'm just doing my job, Cancer explains, then disappears. Flare sends her hair into the ground and it flows over to Lucy. The hair comes out of the ground, grabbing her legs. Flare swings around and slams Lucy into the ground.
"Your spirits have nothing on my free flowing hair, Blondie." Flare speaks. Lucy grabs her whip.
"Oh yeah? My Fleuve d'étoiles might disagree!" Lucy yells. She takes the whip out and a long, water and fire mixed thing that looks rope like appears at the end of it, growing and shrinking in size depending on how Lucy was moving it. She swung the whip, aiming at Flares wrist. The whip clasps her wrist, circling around three times.
"How's that for free flowing?" Lucy asks, a smirk on her face. The two girls launch into the air, doing cartwheels. Flares hair ignites and circles around Lucy's ankles, burning Lucy's boots. She continues flinging Lucy around in the air and burning her boots, going onto her skin. Flare eventually let's go of Lucy, making them jump away from each other. Lucy lands on her knees and she carefully peels the boots off of her feet, wincing as the burnt fabric peels off of her skin.
"Aww. I liked those boots." Lucy whines. Flare throws her hair into the ground again, leaving her head slightly tilted as her hair grows into the ground.
"What gives? Are you going to go for my feet again?" Lucy asked. She looked and tried to pinpoint for where the hair would turn up. She turns to look at the guild, who is cheering for her, and sees a bunch of red hair coming out of the grounds behind Asuka.
"ASUKA, LOOK OUT MHHM!" Lucy's yell is muffled by Flares hair gagging her. She throws Lucy into the ground again. Arslan frowns, having heard Lucy's muffled yell. He looks over at the guild and notices the red hair behind Asuka, growing slightly taller, but not enough to be noticed by the guild. Arslan immediately becomes more alert, looking anywhere else where there might be hair. Seeing that there isn't any, Arslan turns to Natsu.
"Natsu." Arslan said seriously, surprising Natsu. His surprise is short lived when he sees the serious but worried look on Arslan's face, and Natsu's face soon adopts the same expression.
"What? What's the matter?" Natsu asked.
"Flare's hair is in the guild stand, behind Asuka. I think Flare is going to use that to her advantage so Lucy will not be able to fight back. You need to do something." Arslan said. Natsu's head snapped over to the guild stand and saw what Arslan was talking about, a red clump of hair coming out of the ground, small flames flicking off of the top. Natsu starts running over to the guild group, dodging people in the stands. Arslan turned his attention back to the fight.
"Okay, I surrenDER HMM!" Lucy was once again cut off by Flares hair.
"I thought I told you, no talking!" Flare scolded. She used more of her hair to hold Lucy's limbs so she wouldn't be able to move. She let Lucy's mouth go, turning her hair into the Raven Tail guild mark and putting it on fire.
"Where would you like me to put it? Oh, I know! You want it on top of your Fairy Tail emblem, don't you?" Flare mused. Lucy started panicking.
"No! Please don't! Put it anywhere but there!" Lucy pleaded. The Raven Tail mark got closer and closer to Lucy's hand, making Lucy tense up further and further, waiting the mark to burn her skin.
"Lucy! You're in the clear!" Natsu's yell broke the tensing atmosphere.
"Thanks, Natsu!" Lucy exclaimed, a sudden burst of strength letting her reach down and grab a key.
"Gemini!" She called. A bluish gold light appeared behind her and the Gemini appeared from it. One of the two Gemini noticed Lucy's position and hit Flare's jaw. The other one right through Flare's hair, freeing Lucy. Flare jerked away, letting all her hair come back to her and landing on the ground.
"Transform into me!" She told the Gemini. They did, a blue form of Lucy appearing as they transformed. When the transformation was complete, the light died down leaving the Gemini looking like Lucy, but in only a towel. Daryun immediately covered Arslan's eyes, leaving Arslan confused. He didn't question it though when he heard several people passing out in the stands. Daryun eventually stopped covering Arslan's eyes, and they looked down into the arena where Lucy and Gemini were holding hands.
"Survey the Heavens,
Open the Heavens...
All the stars,
far and wide...
Show me thy appearance...
With such shine.
Oh Tetrabiblos...
I am the ruler of the stars…" The two Lucy's began. The area around the two started glowing, changing in color and becoming more galaxy like as the spell continued.
"Aspect become complete...
Open thy malevolent gate.
O 88 Stars of the heaven...
Shine!" By this time, you could clearly see planets and stars around the arena.
"Urano Metria!" The Lucy's finished. The planets aimed at Flare and attacked, heading straight towards her. Flare just sat on the ground of the arena, terrified and frozen in place as she was attacked. The spell hit her, and the crowd waited in anticipation to see…. Nothing. Fairy Tail lost. Whispers erupted from the crowd as Lucy started crying. Natsu went down into the arena to comfort her and bring her back into the waiting area for Team A.
"You fought a good battle, Lucy. Do not be ashamed." Arslan says, coming up to her. She sniffs and smiles through her tears as Arslan.
"Thanks." She mumbles. Natsu guides her to the showers and comes back, crossing his arms over his chest.
"How is she?" Gray asks.
"She is taking a shower right now. I could go check on her again." Natsu says.
"You can't do that." Erza said.
"Why not?" Natsu asks. When it dawns on his he smiles kingly and starts heading in the direction of the showers again. Erza grabs onto him by the scarf.
"She needs some time alone. Let her have it." Erza says.