Chapter 51 Double Battle Double Trouble Part 1

With the Fairy Tail teams setting up for what seemed to be war, the first competitors began to walk on the field.

"First of our competitors, from Twilight Ogre, it's Thibault and their lovely debutant Mattan Ginger" Chopati Lola announced.

"She'll be looking to make up for her disappointment in today's event, and Thibault too for his debut" Mr. Yajima added.

"With Twilight Ogre on the field, we now see the pair from Quattro Cerberus' ' Chopati Lola said as they walked onto the field.

"It seems Bacchus and Rocker are representing Quattro Cerberus" Mr. Yajima started with, followed ominously by, "in this battle for last place".

Bacchus from the field huffed with frustration, "man, that ain't wild" hearing Mr. Yajima's voice through the stadium speakers.

"We do still need to win and save our reputation" Rocker said as if to focus Bacchus back on the match.

"You two aren't going to win, '' Mattan Ginger said as if to antagonize the top man of Quattro Cerberus.

"That's some mighty tall words coming from the team even worse than us" Rocker retorted.

"Alright, alright, alright!" Mato said, walking up to the two. "Now, the rules have slightly changed this year. If at the end of the thirty minutes one team has one member left while another has two left. The two-person team will be awarded the victory. If the same number of people are left, either two and two or one and one, then the match will end in a tie. Is that clear?" Mato finished.

Everyone answered in a resounding "yes".

"With all of that settled, let the battle begin!" Mato said as he scurried away with the gong sounded to start the match.

"This battle should be an easy victory, time for some chop hanging palm!" Bacchus declared as he smacked both Thibault and Mattan Ginger with his palms to which they fell over with ease.

Both the fallen wizards slowly got back up as Rocker then charged at the two, shouting, "time to finish them off with some drill and rock!" as he managed to return the two to the dirt.

As they struggled to stand back up Thibault and Mattan Ginger scoffed at their opponents, with Mattan Ginger particularly aggrieved.

"Oh, you'll both pay for that!" Mattan Ginger sneered. "Now it's time for some ice floor!" as she reached down and touched the ground, forcing Bacchus and Rocker in place.

"What the hell?" remarked Bacchus and Rocker in uniform.

"I can't even move my feet," Bacchus said, slowly realizing what was happening to me.

"Alright, time to level out this fight!" declared Thibault, "now mace impact" as he swung his mace with all his might. This knocked Bacchus and Rocker from their icy trap knocking them into the wall.

"Easy victory, huh?" Thibault said as he walked slowly over to the two Quattro Cerberus wizards.

Bacchus and Rocker were both groaning in pain and slowly recollecting their thoughts.

"So, what if we underestimated you?" Bacchus said smugly. "It doesn't matter, we are still going to defeat the both of you".

"Ain't that right" Rocker agreed.

"Now, time for a last call" Bacchus said, grabbing a small bottle on his waist and beginning to open the cap of the bottle, when suddenly.

"ICE BULLET!" Mattan Ginger yelled, and a shower of icy bullets came at the two Quattro Cerberus wizards. One of these hit Bacchus's booze bottle, knocking it to the far side of the arena.

"Bacchus's booze has been knocked out of his hands! Now what will the famously drunk wizard do!" Chopati Lola said.

"That really did not do him any good," Mr Yajima said. "This means he's got to defeat them sober. Twilight Ogre has now really leveled the playing field" he finished.

Bacchus' once smug look turned to that of panic. His face drained of color; this sentimentality was shared by Rocker.

Thibault's confident look turned to that of smugness, "still think you can defeat us without your booze?" he said, taunting Bacchus.

However, Bacchus was ready and delivered an uppercut with his chop hanging palm, sending Thibault flying.

"I know I can defeat you without my booze," Bacchus said to Thibault. "As for you little girly- "Bacchus tried to say before being frozen by Mattan Ginger.

"You could at least let him fin-" Rocker said before he was frozen.

This allowed Thibault to finally stand up and recover, "now let's get them!" Thibault declared.

"With pleasure!" Mattan Ginger responed, followed by "flash fire!" which instantly sublimated the ice, burning their skin.

Louds shrieks of pain could be heard from both Quattro Cerberus wizards.

"A flash freeze and flash sublimation gotta hurt, Twilight Ogre might be on the ropes now" Mr. Yajima speculated.

Thibault then swung his mace at Rocker while in the middle of screaming, knocking him unconscious as the Quattro Cerberus wizard fell to the ground.

Bacchus was now trying to stumble forward towards Thibault.

"Now, let's finally end this, ice club!" Mattan Ginger said as a massive club of ice formed, and was swung at Bacchus, knocking him unconscious as well.

The crowd was in silent awe of what they just witnessed from the two guilds that occupied the bottom of the points table.

"I don't think Bacchus and Rocker are going to be returning to the battle anytime soon folks" Chopati Lola said.

Mato then ran up to Twilight Ogre wizards and held one of their arms up, "winner, Twilight Ogre!" as the crowd roared in approval.

"With that win, Twilight Ogre can help wipe away their string of bad placements and leave Quattro Cerberus with possession of last place" Chopati Lola said.

"Indeed, really sad to think Gold Mine has finally struck rock bottom" Mr. Yajima said as the entire Quattro Cerberus guild was left in disbelief.

With Bacchus and Rocker being escorted off to their team's infirmary, Mattan Ginger and Thibault walked off to celebrate their win.

"Now with the battle for last place settled, we can go to our next battle with Mermaid Heel taking on fallen champions Saber Tooth!" Chopati Lola announced.

"Again, we don't know who will be competing until they come out, but I see Kagura and Millianna coming out on the field for Mermaid Heel," Mr. Yajima said.

"And it looks like we have Minerva and Rogue in for Saber Tooth" Chopati Lola added.

"This should be a very exciting match to say the least!" Mr. Yajima finished.

Both sets of wizards stared each other down. Minerva and Rogue did not match the intensity of the stares from Millianna and Kagura.

Mato ran up to the pairs giving them the same rundown, "remember, 30 minutes to win it, the team with the most wizards left standing wins, good luck!" he said, sprinting away. The gong sounded and it was time to battle.

Minerva quickly leapt into action, "territory explosion!" as seeming pockets of air all around Millianna and Kagura, forcing them into close combat.

"Shadow dragon slash!" Rogue yelled as he tried to launch a physical attack on the Mermaid Heel wizards. He was quite nimble despite his significant bandages from the Tri Aquathlon event.

This drew in the two from Mermaid Heel and they decided to strike.

"Kitten slash!" Millianna shouted and used her massive claws to strike deep into the faces of Minerva and Rogue. This left both Saber Tooth wizards reeling with visible pain from that attack.

"Oh, you'll pay for this," Minerva said, as if to finally get her head in the match.

"Territory explosion" Minerva said, trying to do the same attack again, this time Kagura countered.

"Gravity change!" Kagura shouted, drawing her sword as two arena sized purple magic circles like in 791 formed. Minerva and Rouge were swept off their feet and rose into the air.

"It's Kagura's signature gravity change magic" Chopati Lola announced.

"Minerva and Rogue need to turn this match around or else they're going to take the loss" Mr. Yajima said in concern.

At this moment Kagura and Millianna jumped into the air to launch their final assault. Millianna struck first, kicking, and slashing at both Rogue and Minerva. Then Kagura struck down both Minerva and Rogue, releasing the two of them from her gravity spell. They fell to the arena floor and looked as if they had been dragged through a warzone.

"Alright, we surrender," Minerva said wearily. Kagura and Millianna lowered themselves down with ease, before turning to look at the wizards they defeated.

Kagura specifically walked to Minerva, kneeling on one knee to make sure she was alright, saying to her, "I hope the next time we can fight, we can fight no holds bar".

"I felt that I owed this to you after how I treated you in 791" Minerva responded, followed by "please accept this as my apology".

Kagura nodded and walked with Millianna off the field. Rogue meanwhile stood up slowly and helped Minerva off the field. Sting greeted them as the twin dragon slayers escorted their comrade to their infirmary.

"M'lady, did you really throw the match?" Sting asked, still overly concerned about his guild member.

Minerva nodded, "and I have my reasons," she said.

"We aren't holding it against you," Rogue said.

"If anything, we agree and endorse your decision" Sting said encouragingly.

"All we ask is, you do it a bit less painfully" groaned Rogue.

"I think we can both agree on that," Minerva said, as they walked into their infirmary, with the crowd cheering in preparation for the next match. Crime Soricere and the Alvarez Guild.