A/N: Hello, readers! Yes, I'm alive after a year of not updating! I don't really go on this writing platform anymore, but I'll try to keep it active!

Enjoy!

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: LUCY VS FLARE

"The first match of the first day! From Fairy Tail A, Lucy Heartfilia!" Chapati announced. "Versus Flare Corona from Raven Tail!"

"Blondie..." Flare said.

"Lucy! Show her the results of your training!" Natsu cheered.

"If you win here, we can still go on!" Erza encouraged.

"Kick her ass!" Elfman added on.

"Raven Tail... They said they hurt Wendy 'by way of greeting'?! And in the competition, they prioritized interfering with Gray over winning! I'm angry..." Lucy clenched her jaw angrily. "Count on me. I swear I'll win!"

"I like that look." Lily commented.

"Lucy's really fired up..." Happy stated.

"It's because her opponent's from Ivan's stupid guild! Tear her to pieces!" Makarov exclaimed.

"What's wrong, First Master?" Romeo asked.

"I wonder what Raven Tail's after..." Mavis replied.

"It's gotta be making us look like imbeciles! They really know how to get under a guy's skin!" Makarov claimed.

"I hope that's all it is..." Mavis said.

"Apparently, the masters of these two guilds are father and son, Yajima-san!" Chapati said.

"True, but if they bear the insignia of different guilds, it doesn't matter if they're parent and child." Yajima stated.

"It's so dramatic! I'm getting the chills!" Jenny commented.

Mato stepped forward. "Both of you, come forward!" He said as Lucy and Flare did so. "Since the entire area will be your battlefield, only you two will be in here. Your time limit is 30 minutes."

"B-Blondie..." Flare said, tilting her head to the side.

"I'm not gonna lose!" Lucy declared.

"During that time, if you knock out your opponent, you win. Alright, let the first match... begin!" Mato exclaimed as the sound of the gong was heard.

"Here I go!" Lucy announced, taking out a gold key. "Gate of the Golden Bull, I open thee! Taurus!"

"Mooore power!" Taurus shouted as he swung his axe in which Flare dodged his attack.

"Oh, my! Celestial Spirit Magic! And it's one of the 12 Zodiac Gates!" Chapati said.

"Gate of the Scorpion, I open thee! Scorpio!" Lucy shouted as Scorpio appeared.

"We are! Here I go!" Scorpio announced.

"Two Celestial Spirits at the same time?!" Bisca exclaimed.

"Wow! Since when has she been able to have two gates open simultaneously?!" Alzack questioned.

"Cool!" Asuka said.

"Sand Buster!" Scorpio shouted, throwing an attack at Flare's direction. Her hair caught on fire as she blocked the attack.

"Her hair got longer?!" Natsu exclaimed.

"She's guarding with it?!" Elfman added on.

"Taurus! Use Scorpio's sand!" Lucy ordered.

"Moo! Perfect!" Taurus said as he began to gather up the sand. "Absorb!"

"Go, Taurus! We!" Scorpio cheered.

"Sandstorm Axe! Aldebaran!" Taurus shouted as sand covered the arena as the audience were shielding their eyes.

"The sand's in my eyes!" Jenny complained.

"This is incredible! Two gates open simultaneously is an amazing spectacle in itself, but a combination attack, too?!" Chapati said.

"That girl has improved so much, you can't even compare her with what she was like seven years ago!" Yajima stated.

"Good job, both of you!" Lucy praised.

"We are!" Scorpio said as him and Taurus disappeared back to the celestial spirit world.

Flare was flying in the air. "Blondie!" She exclaimed in anger as her hair grew. "Hair Dog, Wolf Fang!"

"Gate of the Crab, I open thee!" Lucy began as a Magic Circle appeared in front of the wolf and Cancer appeared, cutting Flare's hair.

"Cancer!"

"My hair..." Flare mumbled in disbelief.

"Nice, Cancer!" Lucy complimented.

"When it comes to haircuts, leave it to me-ebi!" Cancer said before disappearing.

"You!" Flare screeched as she used her hair to pick Lucy up by her feet, swinging her around the arena.

"Lucy!" Her team shouted.

"Take that!" Flare shouted, finally releasing Lucy. "My red hair does exactly what I want it to..."

"Now that you mention it, my Fleuve d'Etoile also..." Lucy trailed off as she used her whip to grab onto Flare's wrist. "...does what I want it to!"

"What?!"

Both Lucy and Flare flew into the air. Soon enough, Flare's hair that was holding onto Lucy's ankles caught on fire as they were finally released.

"Oh, my! It's only the first match and it's a battle where the fighters barely have time to breathe! A showdown between father and son guilds! A battle between two women! And neither of them is backing down!" Chapati exclaimed.

"Although it looks like Fairy Tail is a little more dominant." Jenny commented as Flare grinned while Lucy winced in pain.

"Lu-chan!" Levy said.

"What the...?!" Droy said while eating a hamburger.

"Hey, look at Lucy's legs!" Jet pointed out.

"It's hot..." Lucy mumbled.

"Can't stand so easily, huh? My red hair hurt your legs." Flare said.

"That red hair..." Max trailed off.

"It must've been burning through when it had a hold on her!"

"Hang in there, Lucy!"

"Stand up!"

Lucy soon removed her ruined boots. "Dang it! I really liked these boots!" She complained.

"My burning hair... My red hair... That's all the damage it did?!" Flare thinks to herself. "Blondie..."

Flare soon screeched as her hair soon went underground. "W-What?! You're aiming for my legs again?!" Lucy questioned.

"Now she's barefoot. If that hair gets a hold of her again, there will be damage." Julian commented.

Akame looked towards Zack, who looked troubled. "None of us have doubted Zack's loyalty to Twilight Phoenix for a second when it comes to those in his mother's guild." He noted. "I wonder what's going through his head at this moment."

Lucy looked around cautiously. "Strange... This time, I'm not sensing anything... Where will she attack from?!" She thought, looking at Flare who had a dark shadow over her eyes.

Lucy looked over towards her cheering guildmates. "What's she doin'?!" Natsu wondered.

"Go on! Keep attacking her! Take that Raven witch down a peg!"

"Calm down!"

Lucy widened her eyes as she spotted a tuff of red hair near Asuka. "Asuka-chan!" Lucy called out before Flare covered her mouth harshly and brought her down.

"Get a hold of yourself!" Nab shouted.

"Stand up dance!"

"I guess her legs were injured more than we thought?" Max guessed.

"Don't say anything. That's an order. If you disobey, you know what'll happen, right?" Flare asked. "Even a blonde bimbo like you can understand."

Lucy gritted her teeth. "That's low..." She thought as the audience cheered.

"No one notices. There's no way they will notice. If I feel like it, I could take down that brat in an instant..." Flare claimed.

"What kind of monster is she?!" Lucy wondered.

"The breathtaking battle part continues! It's Lucy Heartfilia versus Flare Corona! Come to think of it, Yajima-san, when you were in the Council, Fairy Tail enjoyed a very different reputation than they do today, correct?" Chapati asked.

Yajima nodded. "They were popular. They were top class when it came to raw power. Unfortunately, we had a heck of a time with all the problems they caused." He answered.

"Well, I bet a lot of people here don't know what they were like back then."

Flare laughed evilly. "How dirty can you get?!" Lucy questioned.

"Don't say anything. Don't move. Don't use any magic. You know what'll happen if you don't obey, right?" Flare asked as Lucy could only grit her teeth and Flare attacked her. "Blondie!"

"Did keeping two gates open at the same time backfire on her?" Jura wondered.

"Is her magic cupboard bare?" Sherria asked.

"She's not naked!" Toby exclaimed.

"That's not what she means."

Flare attacked with her hair once more as Lucy just took the attacks. "Lucy! What's wrong?!" Erza asked.

"They were neck in neck just before!" Elfman said as Lucy got swung around the arena again.

"Lucy, what about your Celestial Spirits?!" Max questioned.

"I can't watch! She's getting beaten to a pulp!"

"Endurance Dance!"

"Is she conserving magic? I don't get it, but at this rate..." Nab trailed off as Lucy crashed to the ground.

"What happened!?"

"She's suddenly stopped movin' around!"

"Get a grip, Blondie!"

"What in the world is going on?!" Chapati questioned. "What was a fierce battle just moments ago has turned into a one-sided beat down!"

"Hang in there!" Asuka shouted.

Flare's hair lit up again as she attacked Lucy. "Take that! And that!" Flare exclaimed as she laughed.

"Everyone... Wendy... Gray... I'm sorry..." Lucy thought. "I give up..."

Flare covered Lucy's mouth once more. "Lu-chan!" Levy shouted in concern.

"Maybe she's so hungry she can't move..." Droy guessed.

"Yeah, right!" Jet disagreed.

"Who told you it was okay to talk, Blondie?!" Flare asked as she tied up her arms and legs. "I'm not gonna let you surrender. I'm just getting started here playing with you. Understand? Don't say a word. However... I will allow screaming!"

Flare then laughed. "Now let's see... What shall I do to you first? Maybe I'll tear off your clothes in front of all these people... That would be funny, but I've just thought of an even better idea!" She exclaimed. "I'll brand the insignia of Raven Tail onto your body! A brand that'll never fade away!"

She soon began moving the brand around. "Where would you like me to put it?" Flare questioned before spotting Lucy's pink Fairy Tail emblem. "I see! You want me to put it right over your Fairy Tail insignia, huh?"

"Please! Anything but that!" Lucy begged.

"I told you not to talk!" Flare ordered.

"Don't! Anywhere but there!" Lucy pleaded.

"Oh, god. I can't look..." Hana mumbled to herself.

"Zack, what's your-" Akame stopped his train of thought when he realized Zack had disappeared. He turned back to look at his guildmates. "Where did Zack go?"

"He was here a moment ago." Ezekiel informed.

Zack was currently running, hoping he'd make it in time. "I've got good ears! I know what I heard!" Zack told himself.

He happened to rush past Natsu, who heard the same thing. "Huh? Isn't he-?" Natsu thought. "A Twilight Phoenix wizard? What's he doing?"

The Raven Tail insignia was getting closer as Zack kept running through the crowd of people. He eventually made it to the Fairy Tail stands, grabbing onto the piece of Flare's hair, turning it to dust using his Ash Magic.

"She was trying to protect a guildmate!" Zack exclaimed as Bisca held Asuka close.

"What's that doing here?!" Makarov questioned.

"What?!" Flare said.

"Lucy! Now!" Zack shouted out at her.

"Thank you!" Lucy thanked him, taking out a key. "Gemini!"

Gemini soon appeared, releasing Lucy from Flare's grip on her. "Do that thing!" Lucy said.

"We haven't practiced enough!"

"We don't know if we can do it or not!"

"Anyway, turn into me!" Lucy ordered.

"Roger!"

Gemini soon turned into Lucy who was just in a towel. "What are you dressed like that for?!" Lucy scolded.

"It's not our fault! This is what you had on when we copied you!" Gemini claimed.

All of the guys in the audience had hearts in their eyes. "I see... Yesterday, right after I got out of the tub..." Lucy face palmed as Gemini looked at her breasts. "Don't look!"

"Blondie!" Flare exclaimed.

"Wouldn't Gemini be a powerhouse if it turned into someone like Erza or Laxus?" Julian asked as Zack soon returned to his guildmates.

"It can't. I read somewhere it can only copy someone with the same level as its owner, Lucy-sama. So copying someone with extreme magical power such as Erza-sama or Laxus-sama is a huge no." Hana explained, crossing her two index fingers together.

"I guess that makes sense. So it couldn't copy someone like Akame or Zack." Julian hummed. "You seemed to know you stuff, Hana."

Hana shrugged. "While I was in Horned Serpent I did a lot of reading on the 12 Zodiac keys. I made not have any of the keys, but I do have the knowledge." She joked, tapping her temple.

"Well, well! This is a nice happening!" Chapati claimed as Yajima agreed.

"She does have curves in all the right places..." Jenny spoke.

Mavis touched her own chest as she got gloomy. "All the right places..." She muttered.

"There are now two Lucy Heartfilias! And one of them is only wearing a bath towel!" Chapati said.

"Those are the Twins, Gemini, of the Twelve Zodiac Celestial Spirits." Yajima explained as Gemini and Lucy joined hands.

Sound out the heavens, open the heavens...

Stars across the universe,

show yourselves to me

with all your brilliance!

"That magic... I don't believe it!" Hibiki exclaimed.

"I see... She made two of herself to increase her magic power." Eve said.

"Amazing... So she learned the ultimate magic of the stars!" Hibiki stated.

With the magic power that I have at the moment,

I can't produce the power that I did then, even with two of me...

but I'll show you!

"W-What is this?!" Flare exclaimed.

"Open thy savage gate! This is Fairy Tail! This is... one stroke that the pride of the guild is riding on!"

88 stars of the heavens...

Open!

Stars soon filled the arena. "The sky filled with stars?!" Flare said. "What is this?!"

"Urano Metria!"

Light started flying towards the sky as the audience stared in shock. When the light finally dimmed, Flare was left unharmed as the audience was in shock.

"What the...?"

"What went wrong?"

"W-What?" Happy said in confusion. "What's going on?"

"Gemini's gone, too." Lily pointed out.

Lucy stumbled a bit. "It all disappeared...?" She questioned more to herself as Flare looked back at the Raven Tail stands.

"Obra!" Flare thought as Obra just nodded. "It was you, wasn't it?!"

Lucy headed for the ground. "I don't believe it... Why...?" She asked herself.

"What happened?!" Erza questioned.

"Her magic disappeared?!" Elfman also asked.

"Lucy seemed to be casting a major spell, but her magic failed?!" Chapati said with uncertainty. "Yajima-san, what do you think?"

Chapati flinched as Yajima had a dark look. "Y-Yajima-san!" He exclaimed. Lucy soon fell to the ground.

"Oh, my! Lucy is down for the count! The match is over! The winner is Raven Tail's Flare Corona!" Chapati announced.

The audience soon cheered. "There's something off about this." Julian claimed.

"I agree. That spell should've hit Flare straight on." Hana agreed.

Zack clenched his fist. "It would've if she didn't have help from outside of the ring." He informed.

"Those assholes cheated!" Akame growled.

"I win. That's what you get, Blondie! You're pathetic! And ugly! And a loser!" Flare laughed.

"What the hell was that, a magic misfire?!"

"Lame!"

"So now Raven Tail has 18 points. Fairy Tail... still has zero points!"

"If nobody sees it, it's not a breach of the rules." Loji commented.

"They only won by using foul play as back-up." Ajar spoke.

"It was a good magic battle!" Mato announced.

Zack could only watch as Lucy sobbed while Natsu went out to her. "Akame, if I ever go against a Raven Tail member..." Zack began as Akame hummed and looked at him, immediately flinching when he saw Zack having a murderous look on his face.

"... I'm going to make them wish they've never been born!"

A/N: Sorry that it took a year to update! I might have to binge update this. We'll see.

Thanks for reading!

~ Kaleb.