"Well with that win for Mermaid Heel, it is time for our third match of the day!" Chopati Lola announced.
"Crime Sorciere and The Alvarez guild" Mr. Yajima said with interest.
"And it looks like we can see who is coming out for both sides," Chopati Lola said, as two pairs of two people walked out onto the grounds of the stadium.
"Moreno and Alayna for Alvarez" Mr. Yajima said, impressively, recognizing the pair.
"Alvarez bringing their power couple to battle. Meanwhile, we see Erik and Meredy for Crime Sorciere" Chopati Lola said.
"Those two are no slouches either" Mr. Yajima added, "the poison dragon slayer, and a former seven kin of purgatory" he finished.
Meredy frowned as she heard the announcement regarding her past, "I wish they wouldn't mention that part" she said disheartened.
"It can't be helped, one is always judged by their past" Erik said to her, understanding her dismay.
"At least we are being pardoned," Meredy said, cheering for her colleague and herself.
"Indeed, but for now we need to focus on these two" Erik said as both pairs met in the center.
The pairs locked eyes and exchanged menacing stares, judging and sizing each other up and planning their moves against each other.
Mato ran up to the center of the arena where the pairs were eyeing each other, "so scary" he muttered before officially announcing, "you each have thirty minutes, the team that has the most members standing at the end of the thirty minutes wins! Now let the battle begin!" he finished saying as a large gong was struck to start the battle.
"Those who strike first wins!" Erik shouted as he and Meredy then began to charge at the pair of Alvarez wizards.
"No, you don't!" Alayna said, as she moved the wax-colored sphere in her hand, "speed of time!" she finished, and time slowed to a crawl for Erik and Meredy.
"Now, time to run archive on these two" Moreno said with a relaxed confidence, before saying, "want to keep them two busy?" he said to Alayna.
"Aren't I doing that already?" Alayna said in slight annoyance to her husband's remarks. Moreno continued to read and make note of Erik and Meredy's past, spells, and much more.
"This is just like Sawyer's dumb trick!" Erik declared and suddenly returned to normal speed, with Meredy joining him in his return to speed.
Alayna and Moreno quickly jumped clear of the attacking pair of wizards, with both Alvarez wizards equally alarmed by Alayna's spell.
"I thought no one could break your spell, Alayna!" Moreno shouted in surprise as they both figured their next actions.
"Oh, shut it, just finish your analysis" Alayna barked back at her husband. Erik and Meredy meanwhile took their own stock of the situation and planned their next moves. Erik had jumped closer to Moreno during the frenzy of movements while Meredy was closer to Alayna.
Moreno smirked, saying in an ominous tone, "analysis complete" and readied his guns for use. He followed this up as he began to fire with Erik lunging for him, "sonic boom bullets!"
A pair of bullets were fired from Moreno's guns and they whizzed towards Erik and began to split their path to miss him. They then exploded in a loud explosion of sound, like that of a sonic boom. This left the poison dragon slayer screaming in agony of the pain and ringing in his ears.
Meredy was left in shock at the tactics the Alvarez pair were using to try and stop them, it left him quite angry and in the haste of the moment, "maguilty sword!" she said as hundreds of bright blue outlines of swords appeared around Meredy in a circle as she lifted her hand in the air, before lowering it towards the Alvarez pair, sending the swords towards them.
Alayna grinned and muttered, "arc of time" as all the swords missed her and her husband. Meredy was left even angrier, her attacks missed, and it was from the same magic the one she looked up to used, arc of time.
"You know how to Meredy!" Juvia shouted from the stands, "you know how to fight her magic and win!" She finished to motivate Meredy to win. It helped get Meredy's head in the match and allowed her to think of a strategy to win.
"I'm not done yet!" She declared to everyone, "now, sensory link" as she linked her senses with Erik and restored his hearing and allowed him to at least recover.
"Oh, thank goodness" Erik said as he slowly got up from the ground. He then backed over to where Meredy stood as the four wizards were locked in a standoff until which pair of wizards made the first move.
"We've got a much better chance now that I'm better and with your knowledge of arc of time" Erik said, gaining more confidence.
"Do you think she knows more than archive's data?" Alayna said to Moreno with concern.
"I'll keep them busy as I look, you just work your magic on them" Moreno said, as he quickly began to pull up the archive to his left. All the while, firing at the pair of Crime Sorciere wizards with Alayna using her magic to make things next to impossible for them to do anything but dodge bullets.
Erik and Meredy were struggling to dodge the bullets as the seconds felt like minutes and the minutes felt like hours. After what felt like an eternity, the bullets seemed to slow down as Moreno was running low on magic power.
Moreno grunted in frustration as he looked weak, and his guns began misfiring. This left Alayna doing the grunt work of trying to keep their opponents busy until the bullets finally fell from the air. With Alayna left gasping and exhausted with Moreno not much better as he was desperately trying to give the spells from archive to Alayna.
"I have an idea that I know will work," Meredy said, catching her breath as she began to whisper her plan to Erik. A few seconds later a rumbling could be felt behind the pair of Crime Sorciere wizards.
Erik's right hand was put in Meredy's left and the rumbling grew in intensity as the pair began to talk in unison, "now, time for poison dragon maguilty sword!" as hundreds of light blue and dark maroon swords appeared behind the two Crime Sorciere wizards, increasing in numbers with every second.
The two with their hands locked aimed the swords at the Alvarez pair and the swords simply brushed the two targets. But it quickly left the two Alvarez wizards screaming in agony as Meredy and Erik released their hands.
Meredy looked at the pair writhing in agony, "those swords attack your nerve ends to inflict maximum damage".
With Erik adding, "and with those nerve endings open, my poison dragon magic is flooding your body with viruses and working their way through your bodies".
With that, the large gong sounded with Mato shouting, "that's time for the match and with Alayna and Moreno unable to compete, Crime Sorciere wins!" as the crowd shouted their approval of the victory.
Zeldris stared in awe of Meredy, of her beauty and strength in the battle, the two locked eyes for a moment before Meredy turned her head and began to walk off the stadium grounds.
"It's easy to forget how strong she is," Erza said in the Fairy Tail team A suite.
"Or how menacing she can actually be" Juvia added, remembering the pair's own encounter with Meredy ten years ago when Meredy was a member of Grimoire Heart.
Medical staff took care of Alayna and Moreno as they were escorted off the field and to their team's infirmary. Erik and Meredy meanwhile walked off the field to the cheers of the crowd.
"After that incredible matchup we have Blue Pegasus versus Lamia Scale for supremacy in the battle for third" Chopati Lola said.
"This should be a good matchup as Blue Pegasus needs a win or even just a tie to keep pace with the other teams in this year's midfield" Mr. Yajima said.
"Absolutely and all the more reason for Lamia Scale should work to win this match and separate themselves from the midfield" Chopati Lola said.
"It seems that we finally have our competitors," Mr. Yajima said as the crowd cheered for the contestants walking out onto the arena grounds.
For Blue Pegasus, stood two men, Sho and Ichiya, both of whom held a stern look on their face that was matched and exceeded by their intoxicated parfum.
Walking towards the pair of them were the men fighting for Lamia Scale. The monster known as Jura, and the icy ace of Lamia Scale, Lyon.
"Ichiya and Sho for Blue Pegasus with Jura and Lyon for Lamia Scale, this should make for an excellent battle", Chopati Lola announced excitedly.
"Absolutely, this could stand to be the best battle of the day", Mr. Yajima added.
Mato the mascot ran to the center of the arena grounds to repeat the rules of the battles, "and remember, you only have 30 minutes to win. Let the battle begin!"
As the gong sounded, a now traditional gesture by Blue Pegasus caught Lamia Scale off hand.
"Sirs", Ichiya said, as Sho and himself held out their hands in a gesture of friendship.
"Thank you, let's have a clean match then", Jura said before adding, "we shall give this battle our all and hope to receive the same", he finished.
Ichiya nodded and pulled a vile out from his coat pocket, "then it is time for some power parfum", he bragged, as he sniffed the vile and began to transform into a 10-foot-tall man of muscle.
"Rumbling Fuji!" Jura countered as column-like pillars came from the ground in attacks towards the two Blue Pegasus members.
Sho jumped in front to the surprise of the crowd and was trying to use his card magic to block the massive pillars of earth, all of this to no avail. Finally, a pillar to his right struck Sho and knocked him to the ground. The rest of the pillars could now be used towards the 10-foot tall Ichiya.
Lyon had used a snow tiger and snow ape to aid Jura, all the attacks which finally knocked the man over and to the ground. All in the span of about 10 minutes.
"I think that was the quickest match all day", Chopati Lola said in a strong sense of disbelief of how quickly the battle unfolded.
"Indeed, by about 2 minutes", Mr Yajima said in what stung equally hard as the defeat itself.
As the two Blue Pegasus members were being carted off the field, the next pairs prepared themselves for their own battle of Fairy Tail.
