"Thank you, Pink. I own you one."
"Lyon-sama, you're so reckless this time," she said, giving him a healing potion, "What if I don't know what you're planning?"
"I know you're smart, Meredy," Lyon smiled, as he took the bottle and drank the potion.
"She said he beat you again and again," Meredy whispered.
"Who said? The girl you fought?" He asked, raising his eyebrow. She replied with a nod.
"Don't worry, a few kicks and punches can't harm me," he let out a quiet laugh before calming his facial expression, "As for now, please cancel your sensory link."
Her eyes widened, and her face's color changed to bright red as the realization hit upon her that she totally completely forgot her sensory chain. Earlier, she used it to know Lyon-sama's battle, and she could feel that all of his offensive combats were slowed down in a particular situation. When she saw the ice eagle landing in front of her, she noticed his intention... which was to attack the enemy from a very far distance. Even after the enemy was defeated, her thoughts were preoccupied with Lyon-sama.
Still blushing, she ended her magic link, "Let's go," she said quickly, trying to change the topic as she started walking.
"Don't walk. It will take so long to reach their hideout," Lyon commented, "Ice-make: Falcon," another giant bird, smaller than ice eagle, emerged from the magic circle, Lyon climbed on the ice falcon then helped her, before heading to their destination.
• • • • •
A giant black magic circle appeared beneath the lightning dragon slayer. The dark waves quickly emerged from the magic circle and caught his legs, thus he was dragged down into the endless pit.
"Hahaha, you can't escape from my black hole," D-6 said, his evil laughter spreading to the surrounding.
However, seconds later, the Oracion Seis mages saw that the dark hollow was crashed as a flash of lightning bolt traveled through the air.
Laxus appeared behind the metal-armored man before stretching his arm to punch him. But, his fist was stopped by the latter who then attacked the lightning dragon slayer with his black axe that he created earlier. Laxus, in lightning form, retreated.
A powerful electricity beam was gathered and released from the dragon slayer's mouth. The massive beam was then directed to D-6. Continuously, Laxus punched the air, before creating a giant, high-speed lightning blast in the form of a giant fist. His new combo; 'Lightning Dragon's Roar followed by Lighting Dragon's Breakdown Fist' was an effective strategy that led to his victory.
Although D-6 could withstand Lightning Dragon's Roar by blocking it with his axe, he didn't have time to counterattack or dodge Laxus's second attack. Dark Sword Jerome, another Oracion Seis elite, didn't make a move to defend his comrade, as he watched the massive lightning fist hit the man in metal armor, sending him backward. D-6 was hit by the big mountain wall behind, thus dropped to the ground, defeated, with his armor broken.
Laxus faced Jerome and his subordinates, giving them a stern glare that made his opponents deadly pale and shivered.
"Lord D-6 is defeated!" "Impossible!" "Our opponent.. He's too strong!" Several comments from twenty dark guild members made the remaining elite irritated. "SILENT!" Jerome ordered as he stepped forward.
The blond swordsman looked at the defeated man with a pathetic look, "What a shame! A weakling like you becoming Oracion Seis elite is a disgust to our guild."
Then he faced the thunder dragon slayer, with a sly smirk on his face, "Laxus Dreyar, you're a strong mage, however, your arrogance will be your downfall."
• • • • •
"No, what's going on?" M said in fear.
'You stupid girl, how dare you tear my dress?' the familiar shout of a woman rang in her ears, she knew that voice too well... it was her stepmother's.
'I'm sorry. I didn't mean to ruin your dress, auntie.' Little Mary cried loudly, 'Father, please help me!' But she knew her father won't be there.
'How many times did I tell you to call me Madam? You annoying brat.' the angry voice continued.
Memories brought M back to her past, as she remembered a middle-aged woman with green hair grabbing a pair of scissors from the nearby table and mercilessly cutting a seven-year-old girl's long purple hair furiously.
'Madam, please stop.' Little Mary begged through her tears.
'Shut up!' the woman scolded, and the abuse continued, with the woman's cruel laughter and the little girl's cries echoing the darkness time-space. M covered her ears, blocking all the noises, as she ran forwards, only to find the endless darkness. She turned right and ran again, but she was still lost in the dark surrounding. Due to the torture of the voices from her painful past, and her present fear and anxiety, she felt like her surrounding was spinning, and unconsciousness took her away.
• • • • •
"Oh, you can still stand?" Seeing the swordsmaiden changed into her other armor, Midnight stifled a laugh that received a fierce glare from her.
Waving a long metallic bisebto, Erza continued to glare at the black-haired dark mage, "I will put an end to your outlandish aims. I swear." Her new armor was a purple kimono, that had a short sleeveless tunic decorated with many flower motifs, held closed by a large black obi belt, and a thin red rope tied around the wrist, with a wide closing ribbon on the back. A long cloth was hung down from her tunic, while the back is circled by another one, almost reaching down to her knees, and another two from the sides, possessing jagged edges. Her legs were covered by light pink stockings reaching up to her thighs, and her feet had simple sandals.
"Not that you will actually be able to hit me though," Midnight commented, with a smirk on his face.
Erza rushed to his side and slashed him with her spear four times without a second gap between her attacks. However, with Midnight's reflector activating upon her, her spear failed to land a blow on him again, resulting in hitting the stones at some distance behind him.
"See?" the black-haired guy said arrogantly, not noticing Erza who swing and landed a swift punch to Midnight's chest, sending him four steps behind.
"How?" His eyes widened, too shocked, to realize what was happening.
"You have two weaknesses," Erza replied, "First... Even if it can bend magic and weapons, you can't distort human bodies. If it could, it would be quicker for you to target my body rather than my armor."
Midnight sent out a quick laugh, "Even if you know that you can't prevent your strangling with your clothing," he commented, twisting Erza's Robe of Yuen around her, thus restraining her movements again.
"Your second weakness," Erza stated in a whisper but loud enough for the dark mage to hear, "You know, you're letting your guard down." At that moment, a myriad of swords appeared above the dark mage, a second later, rained down upon him. The swords successfully hit the target, as a result, Midnight was pinned on the ground, surrounded by the swords.
Seeing her opponent's struggle, the red-haired beauty continued talking, "You dodged my sword when I aimed my sword at you. Why didn't you simply deflect it?" she paused for a second, "It is because you can only bend one spot at a time, so while your spell activating on me, you can't deploy your reflector around you."
Midnight's hold around Erza was loosened, as she broke free of his reflector, "What's more, my Yūen Robe armor can stretch and contract freely. Your magic had no effect on it," she explained with a self-satisfied smirk, "I guess there are three weakness if you include this armor."
• • • • •
"Eternal Flame... Holy Fire that cannot be put out by the water," fifteen-year-old Juvia read out a paragraph from an ancient magic book, which gained the attention of her senior who entered the training room.
Juvia looked at the black-haired guy who seemed angry for an unknown reason, after quarreling with a certain know-it-all bookworm.
"So what will Juvia do then?" Juvia whispered to herself.
"Don't trust books, Raingirl," Gajeel said as he sat down beside her, "Reading means only scaring you."
"But Juvia thinks this book is reliable."
"You sound like shrimp, always this book and that book. Just forget about its nonsense and go training."
Not arguing back, Juvia just smiled, excused herself, and went for training.
• • • • •
"You seem troubled, sweetie," a mocking voice from Flame brought Juvia back to reality. Even after minutes of battle had passed, the blunette became tired. She still couldn't find a way to defeat Eternal Flame, not to mention the ancient magic book she read years ago also didn't describe how to deal with it. Her Water Slicer and her Water Ray also didn't manage to land an attack on the hair magic user.
On the other hand, the red-haired girl was always having the upper hand, of course, she was enjoying the fight, like she was playing instead of fighting, "Just give up, you can't defeat me."
• • • • •
Kagura opened her eyes and saw her sword spirit standing in front of her, and her opponent lying on the ground.
"Isn't it too harsh for her?" the swordsmaiden asked, looking at the unconscious tomboy sympathetically.
"No, it's just an illusion. It is herself who can't forget the shadows of her past," the brown-haired girl replied.
"Next time, don't use this magic," Kagura ordered. She, too, knew the pain and sadness she suffered when she was under Zera's illusion spell.
"Can't guarantee," Zera said with a slight smirk, "It depends on circumstances," she explained before returning to her sword.
• • • • •
Jerome summoned a large purple sword before rushing towards the blond prince, thus making the first move. Laxus could sense that the sword was different from other swords he had seen, hence, discovering the sword's capability was his priority. The blond prince created several sparks of longitudinal bolts of lightning in front of him to block the dark sword.
The purple sword collided with the yellow sparks, resulting in corroding them. As the barrier-like lightning spell disappeared, the blond dark mage saw an empty space in front, much to his surprise. Fairy Tail Prince reappeared behind him, within a flash of time, and punched him. He dodged and swayed his sword to attack his opponent continuously.
Laxus, knowing how the sword worked, avoided every single attack swiftly, thanks to his lightning form.
'Shit, he is so fast,' the swordsman cursed, anger crossing his face because of his failed attempt to stab Laxus Dreyar.
The fight continued, and the only thing Laxus did was dodge the sword, which made the blond dark mage angrier. As impatience took over the swordsman, his attack became more and more rushed.
Laxus smirked, as he dodged the last sword attack, before creating a weak jolt of electricity. It strike to Jerome, unbeknownst to him. This single charge of lightning, unlike his other powerful offense attacks, passed through the elite's body, interfering with the nervous system and affecting his nerves, thus causing temporary paralysis and numbness.
In the battle of life and death, where even a second was so important for the outcome, Laxus's paralysis spell gave him a great opportunity to launch an attack on his enemy.
"Rumble of thunder, crashing roar, With the great giant flashes, Thunder and lightning shatter the darkness... LIGHTNING BOLT!"
After the spell was cast, the clear sky began to cloudy, with thunder sparks dancing in the sky. Small sparks formed three strikes of lightning and fused into a single one, which then traveled down to strike the paralyzed dark mage.
"AHH!" Jerome shouted painfully, as he suffered from the never-ending pain until he lost consciousness.
Laxus looked at the sword wielder, "It's your arrogance that brings you downfall."
• • • • •
Laxus glared at the remaining dark mages who were preparing to retreat, "As for you guys... I won't let you escape," he gathered a flash of large lightning in his fist and then punched the ground, the attack engulfed six mages in a torrent of lightning and defeated them.
One of the dark mages threw his spear at the blond prince, but surprisingly the latter made no attempt to dodge or parry the attack as the spear approached him. Then suddenly, the spear was stopped by a blue rope. The rope was pulled and the spear was yanked out of that dark mage's hand and flew to a blonde girl who just stepped into the battlefield. The said girl waved her whip skilfully for the offense which caught one of the dark guild members. She then pulled him towards her and 'Lucy-kick'-ed him.
A bright light of heavenly body magic also arrived the battlezone, landing between a small group of dark mages. Within three seconds, Jellal defeated five mages. Even within two minutes, all the dark guild fellows were defeated by the Fairy Tail mages, with the last three mages being knocked out by Lyon's 'Ice-make: Dragonfly spell.'
"Glad to know that you guys are alright," Jellal said with a smile.
"Well, mine was a tough battle," Lyon smiled weakly, remembering that he would've been killed by Racer if Meredy wasn't there.
"We all are," Laxus replied, "Our opponent is Oracion Seis after all." Jellal and Lyon nodded.
"Lucelia-sama, this is a healing potion that I made," Meredy smiled sweetly as she gave a small bottle to her princess consort.
"Thank you, Meredy," Lucy smiled back. After drinking the potion, she felt better and more energetic, and her weariness due to her previous fight completely wore off.
'I'm here! We're waiting for you, please find us,' Two different voices; one was a soft whisper, and another was a calm voice, reached the celestial spirit mage, which made her look at the surrounding.
"Who's there?" she asked quickly.
Hello readers, It's EosAurora99.
How's the fight between Laxus and Two OS elites? In this battle, from what I could think, D-6 was easily defeated because Laxus was too much powerful than him. As for the fight Laxus vs Jerome, Well, their magics were not compatible for combat. My mistake, I paired them up for this fight two months ago, and I don't want to change another villain.
So, if there is a weakness or other missing points in my fighting scenes, please let me know- in comment or to my chatbox, Ideas and remarks are welcomed openly. Always trying to improve my writing.
Have a nice day, everyone!!
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EosAurora99
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P.S.. I'll update next chapter a week later.
My couple goals for this arc?
JellalErza - Well, this ship is sealed since the previous battle.
LyonMeredy - YES! Romance is in the air.
MidnightAngel - I can't spoil, please find out in my Midnight's Angel.
LaxusLucy ? Wait a little longer~《chuckling》