White Eclipse

Chapter 11

The Fairy Tail group begins their walk back to the guild, with White Eclipses Aira leading the way. She steps lively with her hands behind her back, skipping occasionally to her own thoughts and humming.

"You guys really took a beating back there Huh?" Aira looked up to the sky, realizing the clouds were beginning to clear, which meant they were almost out in the open.

Gray scoffs at the blonde haired Mage, but it was Natsu that spoke. "Shut up. We can beat you guys no sweat. And we will. I don't care if we have to wait until the next grand magic games. We'll show you who's the stronger guild."

"You know, if it wasn't for Tayakata, you'd all be dead."

"You're talking about that Arcturus guy right?" Gajeel asked. "What was he about to do. I never seen a magic circle like that."

Aira simply raises a finger as she kept walking. "The void."

"The void?" The two Fairy Tail Dragon slaeyrs asked in unison.

Aira nodded. "You remember when Reve said that Arc was a demon slayer? Well demons, unlike the others, aren't from EarthLand. They come from the underworld. They escaped into EarthLand by using the void. Arc found away to send people there, where you would of been torn apart by countless of demons."

"You're telling me, we were about to be sent to the underworld just now!?" Gray exclaimed. That guy isn't human!

"We don't think so either." Aira then gives a soft smile as she looked up into the now clear sky. "But he's White Eclipse. And he's family. I'm glad we saved him from that place."

Lucy tilted her head in curiosity. "What place?"

"T-" Aira immediately stopped. Knowing she wasn't supposed to say. She was caught in the middle of conversation and almost let it out. "Nothing...it's not important. We're here, it a straight shot back to Magnolia from here." Aira waves as she starts backing away and then turns to walk away.

"So it seems White Eclipse has a secret." Gajeel looks back at Aira as she walks off.

"Lets not bother them about it. I'm sure we have secrets of our own in the guild." Lucy replied.

Gajeel still gives a skeptical look.

"I'll find out myself." He thinks to himself.

After they reach the guild and minutes Pass, Wendy walks out of the guild's infirmary, closing the door behind her as she looks on at the eyes of her guildmates as they waited for Erza's update. She nodded and then gave a faint smile.

"She's okay. She'll be healed fully within the day."

The entire guild gave a sigh of relief as Master Makarov walked into the center of the room and hopped up onto the table.

"Listen up!" The old man yelled as he raised a hand in the air. "Hurting our nakama, my children, for sheer pleasure or for any reason outside of sanctioned fights is one thing I can not stand! I will have a talk with White Eclipse's master. Until then.." His stare becomes mean as he looks around the guild. "They are /not/ your friends. You brats already break all the rules; so the next time you see one of these mages, give them /the/ Fairy Tail welcome that we give all our rival guilds."

"Aye! I'm all fired up!" Natsu screams out. Just then a giant fist slams him into the ground.

"And try not to lose next time!" Makarov shouted. Natsu laid on the ground KO'ed, twitching a bit before he hops up again with a knot on his head.

Makarov then pulls out a scroll. "Now then, listen up. We've been requested, along with another guid, to form a team and take on a mission. This mission has been linked to a dark guild, called...Silent Sanctum. As soon as Erza heals up I need her, Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Wendy, Gajeel, and Juvia to head to Talhan forest."

"Talhan? Nothing is in there but dead trees. That place is deserted. This may end up another dead job anyways." Gray protested. Until Makarov had another giant fist ready to strike.

"On the other hand!" Gray says while backing away from Makarov. "This is for Fiore's safety.."

Makarov nods. "So, tomorrow, you all set out for Talhan forest. Make me proud."

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Reve was sitting at the guild's main table as the other mages gathered around for breakfast. Nami looks around as everyone ate quietly. Not a fan of silence. She decided to break it.

"So what's everyone doing today!?"

Tak swallowed the food in his mouth and responded. "I'm gonna finish this meal, train, and then go on a job. Alone of course."

"No you're not." Reve replied as he put more food in his mouth. Takeru merely raised a brow at him as Reve readied to speak.

"We have our first request from the council themselves. Like I said, if we took every job possible, like we did, we would get noticed by the council."

Taya narrows her eyes. "How long have you had this request by the way."

"Since we got back from beating up the fairies yesterday."

"And you're just now telling us?"

"Well /Tayakata./ I'm sure no matter when I told you, you and Nami wouldn't mind coming along."

"Nami isn't going on such a mission."

Nami puffed out her cheeks. "And why not!?"

"Yeah, why not!?" Reve said in a mocking tone.

Taya glared at them both. "Nami I'm not gonna fight with you."

"Great!" Nami hops up out her seat and quickly begins walking to her room. "I'll go get ready!" She closes her door quickly.

"Nami-! Ugh.."

Reve smirked. "Well now that the two sisters are in. Takeru?"

Takeru simply nodded.

"Nice. Luke too."

"Alright, lets do this." Luke stood, excited to go.

"Sit down /hero./" Reve barked at Luke, referring to when he saved Lucy from falling.

[FlashBack]

As Sidney was talking, Luke turned to Lucy and gave a small smile. Lucy looked back at Luke with a confused look as to why he was smiling.

"If you're going to brag about winning, or saving me, then-"

"I'm not doing that at all, Lucy." Luke smiles again. "But I do have a proposition."

Lucy looks on, skeptical of what Luke was about to say next. "Well I guess I do owe you from saving me.."

"Then.." Luke hesitated at first. "Let me take you out sometime. You know..when things between the guild aren't as hectic."

Lucy's eyes widened. "Take me out? A d-date?" Lucy hesitated for a while, but she knew that she owed him her life, and she didnt want to actually owe him for life. So she nodded. "Okay, I'll go, on one date." Luke then takes her hand, and puts it in his and gives it a light shake. He smiles. "Then it's a date."

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"Oh yeah...hero. Heh." Luke snaps out of his Flashback as Reve continues talking.

"Now. That's Me, Luke, Taya and Nami and Tak. Who else?" He pretends to ponder as if he didn't know who he was going to pick. "Selene I guess."

Selene glared at Reve.

"Please, I was probably your first pick."

"And last but not least!" Reve shouted, ignoring Selene's statement. "Kuro! Lets break you out of your nice guy slump."

"Actually," Zalen cuts in. "Kuro said he felt bad for ditching the brawl yesterday, so he went on a quick job or something to make up for it."

"Oh." Reve looked around. "Well in that case." He then pointed at a vanilla-blonde haired mage that was sitting near the end of the table, quietly eating her food still. "Heather, yes."

Heather continues chewing until she swallows the food in her mouth.

"So be it. If it will stop me from being the newbie."

"Alright!" Reve stood up, finishing the last of his meal. "We leave later this afternoon! Everyone be ready by then!"

"Fire make: Tornado!"

After a big explosion, Kuro is already sitting down with a bowl of noodles and a smile as a giant monster falls to the ground, burnt to a crisp. His job was complete just like that.

"Nothing like noodles after a job well done! Well...there's nothing like noodles ever!"

As Kuro began eating his noodles aloud, a dark figure steps out from behind a couple of trees. As he came into the clear, he showed to be a tall,

Well built blonde. He wore an unzipped hoodie with no shirt under and jeans with boots. The man walked over to the sitting Kuro. Kuro turns, and looks at the man with a mouth full of noodles. He slurps them up wildly and smiles. "Hi! Who are you!?"

The man just looks at Kuro for a bit, his demeanor threw the man off. Usually no one would be so calm to him walking up to people.

"Hey...I'm Daityas." He answered while pulling his hood off his head.

Kuro smiles and hands him the bowl he was eating. "Want some?" Daityas was now more confused than anything. Why wasn't he scared? Or atleast defensive. Daityas appearance screamed anything but friendly.

"What is it?" He asked.

"It's noodles!"

"What are noodles?"

Kuro's eyes light up in disbelief. "You...you never had noodles before!? Eat them now!"

Daityas stares at the bowl of steaming hot noodles and then, a second later, he eats the entire content in an entire gulp.

Kuro stared. "That wasn't hot?"

"Nah." Daityas replied as he wipes his mouth. I"'m a type of fire mage, so no big deal. But these noodles, they're amazing, is there more?"

The second after that statement Kuro hands Daityas another bowl as he held his own. Daityas looks on for a while, and then sits down after taking the bowl. "This is amazing, I didn't know there were food out there like this, besides berries and animals."

Kuro looks up after slurping up another batch of noodles. "Really?! You should come to my guild one day! Tayakata cooks and-"

Daityas ears completely shut off as soon as he heard her name. And a sadistic grin comes across his face. "Tayakata.."

"Yeah! She's great. A bit scary, but you get used to it. "

"Alright." Daityas stood up after finishing his bowl. He put on the most generous smile he could muster. "I'll come to your guild to visit. Tomorrow. Sounds good?"

Daityas was already walking away as Kuro waved and replied.

"Alright! See you tomorrow Dait!"

"Dait?" Daityas stopped for a second, but merely chuckles and keeps walking. "Tayakata...time to come home. I know you have Arc too."