White Eclipse

Chapter 3

"So it's a fight you want?" Luke said with a smug look on his face. Kuro watched with dramatically widened eyes as the two stood off. "Well in that case. Let's do this Salamander."

"Before you do." Erza walked forward as she spoke. "Answer me one thing. If you're a guild, where we you at the grand magic games?" Immediately Luke gives an embarrassed look on his face as Kuro ducks his head in embarrassment as well.

"Well you see." Kuro mumbled. "We we participated in the games. In the preliminaries! We were actually in first until..."

"It's this way!" The black haired mage yelled at Reve as they were shown standing on an upside down staircase. The preliminaries were underway and everything had been going well for White Eclipse, until this moment. The mage yelling was named Takeru. He stood in a sleeveless black shirt, jeans and black shoes. Reve shouted back at him as he pointed in the opposite direction. "No! It's over here! We just came from that way you idiot!"

"Don't call me an idiot!"

"What are you going to do kid!?"

"Don't call me kid either!"

To the left of them, Luke, and two more mages watched them argue, amazed that they picked such a time to do so. The female beside Luke was named Nami. Her black hair reaches just past her shoulders. She wore a white shirt with black shorts. She sighed. "We're going to lose if they don't stop."

"I'll say." The green haired mage beside Luke sighed as well. His eyes were two different colors. One red and one blue. His shirt was sleeveless as well, except it was purple. He wore black pants along with it. "I feel like we're being passed by the longer we stand here."

Minutes go by until Reve and Takeru finally come to a compromise..because Reve pistol whipped him on the top of the head and Luke held him back from retaliating until he calmed down. A few minutes later they run to the home stretch of the maze, not stopping until the reach the host.

"I don't...see anyone in sight." Reve huffed out. "That means we're still first!" They all cheer in excitement.

"No." The pumpkin headed host gives them a blank stare as he looked at the mages who suddenly stopped cheering. "You're actually the first team out. You came in ninth."

Stale faces were produced all around as they couldn't believe their ears.

"How embarrassing..."

"How embarrassing." Kuro said again as he came back from his flash back. "We didn't even stay for the games after that, we went home."

As Kuro finished speaking, stifling laughter was heard throughout the guild, until Natsu upfront and Gajeel from the back begin laughing boisterously at the events. This caused over half the guild to join them. "Stop laughing!" Kuro cried out.

Natsu responded while rolling around. "You guys didn't get out the maze! Me and Gray fought the entire time and we still made it out! And we started late!"

As Natsu makes his way to his feet, he's quickly taken off of them as Luke shoves him with force into the nearest table.

"Champs or not, laughing at us isn't a good idea. We didn't laugh when your guns man over there took a bullet to the shoulder. No matter how funny it was that he went down with one shot."

Natsu, who was not even listening anymore, charges back and throws a hook to Luke's jaw, sending him through the guild doors. He then slides outside as the streets clear. Luke makes his way to his feet as he rubs his jaw. "Okay amigo. Lets go then."

As Natsu and Luke stand off, Lucy looks on as she thinks. "We shouldn't have laughed. Our guild was in the same predicament once. Being laughed at. I think we're forgetting that."

"Oi! I'm gonna burn you to ash Duke!"

"My name is Luke you idiot!"

Natsu enflames both his fists as the entire street looks on in anticipation.

Erza looks over at Kuro, who was watching the fight with a sincere smile on his face. His arms crossed over his chest. "These mages, they kind of remind me of..."