White Eclipse
Chapter 9
"Gate of the bull, Gate of the scorpion! I open thee! Taurus! Scorpio!"
"We are!"
"MOOOOO! I'll protect your nice body from this guy Lucy! I can see it in his eyes he wants it!"
Luke jumps back from Taurus's comment "Wh-What!? No!"
"So now Lucy isn't attractive!?" Taurus looks at Luke with evil eyes as he towers over him as Luke repeatedly sweat drops.
Lucy facepalms. "Taurus just attack!" Taurus raises his axe and spins it over his head. He then swings down at Luke, but the brown haired mage rolls hard out the way. Taurus's hit was so strong it caused a crack in the ground but no one really paid much attention as Scorpio followed Taurus's strike with a sand buster. "We are!"
With quick thinking, Luke summoned a mirror, that reflected the sand buster right back at Lucy, causing Scorpio to have to step in and take the blunt of the attack.
"Scorpio!"
"We...are." Scorpio returns back through his gate.
Luke then charges for Lucy, but Taurus quickly cuts the Mage off, now swinging his axe down repeatedly at Luke, but the nimble Mage dodges each blow, causing the bull to repeatedly slam his axe into the ground, Causing the ground under the snow to slowly break apart. Luke slides back once again as he grunts in frustration. "I can beat her spirits all day, but that doesn't help if I can't get to her.."
Natsu and Gajeel continue with their stand off with Selene and Takeru. No one moves, waiting for the other to begin. Or atleast, that's what Natsu and Gajeel were waiting on..
"So this pie.." Takeru says while staring emotionless at his opponents. "Is there anyway we can turn it to key lime?"
Selene huffs. Not taking her eyes off of Natsu or Gajeel neither. "Tak...eat the damn pie when it's time and you'll like it."
"I don't wanna like it. I want key lime."
"That's the only pie you've ever had! Of course it's what you want!"
"Will you too shut up about pie!" Gajeel roars out as he charges Selene, turning his fist into an iron pole and extending it towards her torso. Selene puts her arms in an X formation as the iron pole slams into her, dragging her back a good bit before coming to a stop. At the same time, Natsu had charged Takeru, exchanging punches with the shadow dragon slayer. Takeru ducks a punch and comes with a roaring uppercut to Natsu's chin, sending him into the air. Natsu uses the momentum of the uppercut to flip backwards and as soon as he touches the ground he lunges forward, palming the face of Takeru and shoving him into the ground. We Tak hits the ground, Natsu continues driving him back into the snow with his fiery hand until Takeru grabs his forearm and forcefully pulls it off his face. The shadow dragon slayer then, slams a right foot into the Salamander's chest, flipping back to his feet in the process.
"Gihehe." Gajeel stands across from Selene as he points his right arm to the ground. His arm morphs into his patented Iron Dragon sword. He leaps in the air and swings it straight down at Selene. Selene merely smirk and puts her arms up over her head. Gajeel was kind of disappointed as he continues to swing down, but then his eyes perk up as Selene's arms, turn into diamond structures. The sword slams into her arms, but don't even make a dent through the diamonds as Selene slides back from impact. As she puts her arms down slowly, she smirks. "Looks like a long day for you Gajeel."
"Gihe.. Don't let one strike fool you."
Gajeel said in a prideful tone, but before he could throw another strike, from her left diamond arm, Selene starts firing off miniature diamond spikes towards Gajeel, leaving no time to dodge. Gajeel puts his arms up in an X formation to block as the barrage of diamonds slam into him and creating a cloud of smoke.
"Roar.." Selene stands strong, appreciating her work on Gajeel. A little too much as Gajeel fires a Roar of the Iron Dragon through the smoke and towards Selene. Selene eyes widen as impact is made. Causing a cloud of smoke itself.
"Like I said." Gajeel walks out his side of the smoke. "Don't let one strike fool you. I'm made of the hardest metal known to man."
"Hardest metal, sure." Gajeel's eyes widen as Selene's eyes appear through the smoke, seemingly pure red until she steps out the smoke,
Covered once again in her diamond scales. "But there's no harder /substance/ than that of diamonds, black steel."
Erza goes sliding back, now in her purgatory armor, she stabs her spiked mace into the ground to stop her from sliding anymore. Erza was being double teamed, but she only saw Jaxon. She continuously glances over at Arcturus, but he hasn't moved since the kick he threw. As she turned back to Jaxon, she felt someone brush against her shoulder. She takes a wild swing, still hitting nothing. Then, out of nowhere she's hunched over from a hard shot to the abdomen.
"C-coward!"
"Excuse me for my fighting methods." A voice said beside her. It was all she wanted to hear. Erza quickly grabs the invisible Mage and slams a right hook into his jaw. The Mage goes sliding back in the ground, his back leaving a trail of brought up snow. Erza watches the trail and requips into her fire empress armor. She gives chase and looks for a stab to the spot where the invisible Mage stopped, but she quickly has to change direction as Jaxon comes back in the picture, firing off a stream of lightning towards Titania. She moves out the way in time, and stares down the meteorology made Thats been giving her a hard time...
It's seems as Gray and Juvia have admitted defeat as they stay seated, looking up at Waiston and Cygnus with disgust.
"Ice maker huh? Not bad. Just ran into the wrong opponent."
Gray crosses his arms as he turns away. "Just so you know...I never lose to the same opponent twice. I'll challenge you again. I had distractions."
Cygnus laughs. "Damn man, she's sitting right next to you."
I know.. "Gray darts his eyes at Juvia. She lowers her head in shame as he burns a hole through her with his side glare.
"Wait..." Gray looks around a bit, noticing someone was missing. "Where's...where is...Reve!"
Even Waiston and Cygnus were confused as they looked around for the guns mage. And right on cue, a small, but powerful bullet of magic comes roaring in at a high speed; right over Gray's head; right between Natsu, Gajeel, Selene and Tak, stopping their fighting, and right by Jaxon, shocking him.
"ERZA!" Natsu screams out to Titania, but it was too late. Erza falls back into the snow, not moving as the bullet pierces her left shoulder.
"Oi..." Reve comes walking back from the distance, now being seen behind the cloud of rushing snow. "Zalen, remind me to work on my aim. That shot was embarrassing to me."
Gray looks on with trembling eyes. "How...ruthless."
"Erza is hurt!" Juvia screamed out as she ran over to her. Natsu looked back over to Reve, his anger already taking over his senses.
"That was to far! You'll pay for that!" Natsu runs full speed at Reve but then everything comes to a halt as a cracking sound his heard.
"Lucy...don't move."
Luke's advice went into one ear and out the other as Lucy looked down, realizing that the ground was breaking apart. She yelped in fear. "Oh no...!" She was standing with her back to the cliff. Taurus immediately goes back into his gate, but it doesn't help the pressure any as the ground continues to break apart.
Lucy begins to run to get past the cracking ground. "Lucy!" Natsu immediately changes direction and sprints towards Lucy. As the ground finally breaks apart, Lucy lunges for the edge as Natsu also lunges for Lucy...
