White Eclipse
Chapter 13
Luke continues to walk through the forest, still cursing Reve, aloud this time as he was alone. He finally gets over his conflict and begins actually looking around as he walks along under the rotted trees. "It's one thing for a forest to die. But there really is nothing here, no bugs, nothing." As he takes a few more steps, he stops at the edge of a lower hill and turns, having heard something behind him. He already assumed that it wasn't a guild mate since Reve made him go alone." Roar of the Ice Dragon! "The copy mage fires a funnel of ice down his previous path. As the ice funnel destroys the trees in the way Luke waits to get a reaction, but the steps still get louder. "Idiot." A female's voice calls out. Luke steps back to ready himself, but that step back was too close to the edge as he slips and begins falling down the lower hill until a hand catches him.
"Huh!?" He looks up as he dangled from the hill to see Heather holding his arm. "Heather.. Thanks."
"Screw off. What's the big idea of attacking me?"
"I thought you were someone else."
"Reve? Or an actual dark mage?"
"Either one." Luke smiles as Heather looks past him. Seeing a small cave at the bottom of the hill.
"Look."
Luke turns his head back down to cave he now sees. He nods.
"Lets go check it out."
Moments later, Luke and Heather are crawling through the cave until they come to the edge. They both look over to see two female mages. The one they knew of, Lucy, was chained against a wall unconscious. The other, was sitting in a chair across from Lucy, filing her nails.
"If she doesn't wake up soon, I'm joining the fun outside. We brought you a toy Myou. You can torture her until you decide to kill her Myou. Tch. Cretins, she hasn't even woken up yet." The female sighs. Her black hair draped over her shoulders. She seemed like a normal person, except that she was basically wearing rags. A torn up shirt that exposed her slim stomach, and ripped pants that stopped at her shins. She didn't even have sandals or shoes on. "Just wake up already girl. Before I call it a night with you."
Luke and Heather exchange looks, then began to whisper towards on another.
"That's a Silent Sanctum mage no doubt." Heather nods at Luke's words.
"Okay, we should get your girlfriend out of there before that woman does any real damage."
"She's not my-!"
The female's head lifts from the noise. Heather had cut off Luke by placing her hand over his mouth but Myou stands out of her chair.
"It seems we have guest blondie." Luke and Heather get ready to jump down, but instead of facing the entrance they were hiding at, Myou turns to the hallway, as the screams of others were being heard, as well as explosions. In the next few seconds, an explosion of fire comes roaring down the hallway. When it clears, Natsu stands there with a floating Happy. Natsu was already encased in flames entirely as he stared at Myou, seeing Lucy chained up in his peripherals. Myou stands there unphased and emotionless. "She must belong to you." Myou says while rotating her wrist. "Well I was going to torture her but she's sleeping. But since you're awake, you'll have to do."
Natsu averts his eyes to Lucy to get a good look, then back at Myou. "I'm going to burn you to ash. You'll pay for holding Lucy like this."
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An explosion of magic happens out in the forest. Gray and Juvia find themselves back to back, surrounded by a circle of random dark mages. "Ice make: Lance!" Gray fires off an abundance of ice lances towards his side of the mages, causing a good deal of them to go falling back unconscious and hurt.
"Water slicer!" With a violent wave of the hand, Juvia sends a powerful wave of water towards her side of the mages, having near the same effect as the ice lances. As the dark mages fire back, both Gray and Juvia jump away to avoid the attacks.
"Tch. There's so many."
"Juvia will defeat them with you!"
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Gajeel and Lily begin running towards the fighting they heard in a full sprint. "I want some action too! I'm not waiting for it to come to me."
Before he could take another step, a funnel of shadows comes roaring right by his and Lily's face. "What in the!?"
"This can only mean one of two things." Takeru walks out of the shadows as he slowly walks towards the Iron Dragon Slayer and his exceed. "Either you're the other guild that was on this mission, or you're the dark guild that we're looking for."
"You idiot." Gajeel fully turned to Takeru. "You know Fairy Tail isn't a dark guild!"
"Oh do I?"
"Gihe. Maybe it's you Eclipse punks that are the dark guild."
Takeru stands with his body shifted to the right, ready to attack Gajeel again. Gajeel stands, crouched a bit with both fists clenched as he grins back at Takeru. Takeru digs his feet in the ground but before he takes off towards Gajeel, he notices the trees behind him. "Wait..behind you." Skeptical at first, Gajeel doesn't look, but Pantherlily does, and his gasps cause Gajeel to turn around. His eyes widen at what he saw. Takeru's roar that destroyed the trees in it's path, uncovered more of the blue crystal like substance that Lucy scratched off but didn't notice.
"L-lacrima." Lily looked on in astonishment. "Is this whole forest..."
"My my. You got us. Not that we tried to hide it that well." To the right of Gajeel, Hokori comes walking up with his hands in his pockets. Cigarette still lit.
Gajeel now turned to Hokori. "And who the hell are you?"
"It should be obvious.." Takeru sighed out. "He's from Silent Sanctum."
Hokori chuckled as a magic circle appears under his feet. "That's right. Hokori is the name. And I'll be the last person you see in this /forest/."
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Just like Gray and Juvia, Reve and Taya were now back to back as random dark mages surrounded them. Except, Reve had a twisted grin on his face, while Taya stayed unphased either way. Reve's demeanor itself caused every mage to "freeze," waiting for the gunslinger and the dark vector user to move in the slightest. With two pistols already in his hands, and two large vectors already near the feet of Taya, at the same exact time, they attack. Reve takes aim so quick, that the mages didn't even react until shots were fired, about ten of them go down from taking magic bullets right into the chest. One of Taya's vectors wrap around a couple of the dark mages before they could attack. The other one goes slamming into an entire line of them, smashing them through trees, then sending them high into the air and back into the ground. Mistakingly, not that Taya was bothered by it, but the mage at the bottom of the pile that hit the ground dies instantly due to the impact of the ground, and the "dirt" begins to crack under his body. Pieces of it break, revealing the lacrima underneath it. They both notice but then continue fighting off the mages until the coast was clear.
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"I think we're lost." Nami stops and looks around, causing to Selene to come to an abrupt halt as well. "Nami, we were lost the minute we left the group. Don't point out the obvious."
"Is it obvious that we're being watched?"
"Huh?"
Nami points to the mage standing on a branch with his arms crossed. He had brown hair and tannish skin. He carried a sheathed sword on his back. The man smirked as he looked down at the two. "You lost?"
"Nope!" Nami called out. She begins waving at the man. "We're looking for Silent Sanctum in this forest. Can you help us?"
Selene stares at the man who now stood up straight on the branch. "Nami I think..."
"I am from Silent Sanctum. And people outside our guild who utter our name end up dying. You're not an exception to this rule."
"We will be today!" Nami shouted. "Silent Sanctum Silent Sanctum Silent Sactum Silent Sanctum!"
Selen merely face palms as the man jumps down and now stands across from them. He reaches over his shoulder for his sword, causing Nami to ready herself and Selene to close her fists into two pointed diamond structures.
"My name is Byron, I would tell you to remember it. But I don't know if the dead have memories."
"Sidney has memories."
"...Sidney isn't dead Nami, he just looks like it; and /stops replying to everything."
"Just making conversation!"
"Wow...I would be stuck with them." Byron chuckles as a magic circle appears around the base of his sword and then goes through it, enlarging the sword. "Now, lets get this over with."
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After what seemed like miles. Wendy crouches over from walking so long to catch herself and shake off her tired legs. "Sorry Erza.. I'll keep up I promise."
Erza looks back and merely smiles and nods. "Don't apologize anymore Wendy. You're not holding anyone back. You're doing great. It's actually better than babysitting Natsu and Gray for a change."
"H-hai! Just give me a second."
"Take all the time you-"
Before Erza could finish her sentence, a stream of golden light catches her eye. She knew that stream of light all too well. "Heavenly Body magic?!" She catches it again in the corner of her eye. After a few seconds of shock, she gives a smile. "I should of known he'd be here. That means Meredy is somewhere around too. Taking down dark guilds is what they do. You don't have to hide from us anymore, we're passed that remember."
"Erza, who are you talking to?" Wendy looks up as the golden stream of light passes once again. Wendy's eyes widen as she smiles. "Jellal!"
The golden light finally comes to a stop as he lands a little out of distance. Erza and Wendy give chase until they see him and come to a stop.
"Je...you're not Jellal."
As he came into view, Aloy began laughing quietly to himself. "Jellal? Jellal is a failure to dark guilds and Zeref followers everywhere. I'm Aloysis. The real heavenly body, and so much more." He gives such a calm smirk, until he flashes a sadistic grin at Wendy and Erza. "And this is where your journey ends by the way."
"You're part of Silent Sanctum aren't you!?" Erza draws a sword and points it towards Aloy.
"This isn't good." Charla begins backing away from the potential fight scene so she wouldn't be caught in it.
"Part of?" Aloy chuckles again. "I might as well /be/ Silent Sanctum. Besides the master here, there's no one stronger than the man you're sitting in front of. I don't appreciate you pointing that sword at me either." Aloysis raises his hand towards Erza as Erza's sword begins turns pitch black. He then pushes his palm out and the sword shatters, causing Erza to yelp out as she stumbles backwards, holding her wrist.
"Erza! What...what is he?" Wendy kept his eyes on Aloy as he stood there with his palm still out.
"Second Rapture." A magic circle appears under Wendy, and Erza as a pitch black glow comes from under them, seemingly engulfing the two mages as they both let out screams of pain.
Aloy keeps laughing as the pitch blackness came shooting out the ground, consuming nearly a fourth of the forest.
"Welcome." He leans forward a bit as he gives a full, sadistic smile. "TO SILENT SANCTUM!"
