White Eclipse
Chapter 14
"Fire Dragon Wing Slash!" Natsu leaps in the air, and then with his arms spread he charges at Myou, but she simply slams a palm against Natsu's forehead. The momentum of Natsu's attack drives her back, but with an emotionless stare, Myou simply drives her feet into the ground, bringing the floor up until she comes to a stop, unharmed. As Natsu was forced to a halt, he grabs Myou's wrist that was placed on his head and then aims a punch to her jaw with his free hand. Myou simply sways her head out the way to dodge. He follows with a leg sweep that Myou jumps over, and a fiery uppercut that Myou simply leans back from.
Natsu growls. "Stand still!"
"Don't tell me what to do." Myou fires a knee to Natsu's stomach, causing him to hang in midair from the blow. She then fires a quick spinning kick to his sternum. Natsu goes tumbling back through the ground back near the hallway entrance.
"Nows our chance." Luke Whispered.
"Change of plans." Heather replied.
"You free your girlfriend, I'm going to help Natsu, but you have to free her first. She's in the way."
"Will you stop calling her that?"
"Just go!"
Natsu stands up after the kick to the chest, wincing. He stares at Myou but his eyes widen for a quick second for what he saw behind her. Luke and Heather freeing the unconscious Lucy. They quickly undo the chains before they make too much noise. By the time Myou turns around, Luke was making his way out the back with Lucy on his back.
"Hey! That's my victim!"
"Iron fist of the Fire-!"
Before he could throw his punch, the angered Myou rushes him in an instant, and grabs his hair. She pushes his head down and raises a knee at the same time, slamming it into his forehead. She then throws him over towards Heather.
"Get up Salamander." Heather readied herself as Myou walked towards them.
"S-shut up. Who are you anyways?"
"Heather, White Eclipse. Yeah yeah you hate me, we'll save that for later. Lets take this dark mage out first."
"My my." Myou looks on at Heather, no longer focusing on Natsu for the moment. "Aren't you pretty? It's too bad for you, torment knows no beauty but itself."
"Enough. Roar.."
Natsu's eyes widened as he looked over at Heather. "What!?"
"She's a dragon slayer!" Happy shouted, still floating at the entrance."
"..of the Poison Dragon!" Heather cups a fist around her mouth as she fires at Myou so that the poison won't go everywhere and affect Natsu. Myou just stands there again with her palm out and the roar slams into it, pushing her back until she swats the roar away.
"Cute." Myou takes a step forward, but the second she does she feels sharp pains around her body. "Gah..! Am I actually poisoned from that?"
Heather stays in a fighting stance. "Looks like your time is almost up."
"Don't be ridiculous!" Myou opens her palms, a magic circle appearing in both as black smoke quickly covers the room.
"W-what?! I...I can't move!" Natsu goes to his hands and knees as he loses control of his body. Heather doesn't move either as Myou walks towards them both.
"Paralyzed yet still awake. This..this is how I like to perform torture."
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They cleared the entire lot of them. Reve's guns vanish as he and Taya walk over to the cracked ground. Taya pushes the dead body out the way with her foot and they both bend down to examine the ground. Reve digs a finger into the dirt, and ends up lifting a piece of Lacrima.
"..Well this explains the forest." Reve continued looking at the lacrima as Taya dug out a piece also.
"Yeah but, in order for lacrima to be stored it needs a source right? Our new question is, who or where did the source start from?"
Before Reve could say another word, they both here an explosion of magic not too far off.
"Hm!? Lets go see."
They both take off towards the explosion of magic.
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Erza was down on one knee. Wendy was face planted in the now exposed lacrima, until she started making her way to her feet along with Erza.
"I see rapture magic is way too much for you weaklings. I won't you to last a little while, so lets make this fun yeah?" Aloy begins to glow the same golden light as before and begins hovering mid air.
"K-Kanso!" Erza's body glows as well, turning into her flight armor. She immediately takes off towards Aloy, who is backing up at the same speed with a smirk. He allows Erza close enough to where she begins to slash at Aloy with her sword. After dodging them all, Aloy ducks the last one and charges right by Erza and heads for Wendy. "Wendy!" Erza hits the breaks, and begins running after Aloy. "Wendy! Look out!"
"Huh?" Wendy kept her eyes peeled to the path Erza and Aloy took.
"Boo." Aloy appeared to the right of Wendy with his palm out firing off multiple curving beams of dark magic towards her. Wendy, with no where to go, covers up, but the beams of magic ram into her, causing her to fall back and go tumbling into the ground.
"Wendy!" Charla screamed out as she watched the sky dragon hit the ground. Her scream caused Aloy to turn to the exceed's direction. She begins backing up as Aloy stalks her. "Here kitty kitty." He was about to strike her, but Erza makes it back in time, swinging a vertical strike aimed at he back of Aloy's head. Aloy moves to the right causing her to miss, and then swings an uppercut to Erza's chin. Before she was sent flying up, Aloy grabs her foot and slams her back into the ground. He then stomps on her abdomen twice, holding it there the second time.
"H-how is he...this strong?" Erza began coughing in pain. Aloy pushes down with his foot causing Erza to groan in pain. She bared her teeth shut to not scream out. "Oh? You have so much pride that you won't scream for me? How cute of you." He leans closer to Erza, near face to face. He licks his lips as he stares at her. "You know, you're not that bad looking. It's too bad I have to kill you." Erza merely snarls as Aloy straightens up now, conjuring a magic circle under him and Erza. "First rapture-"
Before he could deliver the final blow, a small but powerful beam of magic comes roaring in. Aloy here's it from a good distance away and turns on his Heavenly body to escape, but the bullet was so fast it still slams into him and sends him hurling into a pile of broken trees. Then, it starts raining dark vectors into the pile of trees for a good minute until it finally stops.
"Titania? On the ground? Nothing new here." Reve and Taya walk into view. Erza didn't know what was worse at the moment. Her injuries, or being seen in this condition from the man who shot her.
"N-not now."
"Yeah it's never a good time when you're hurt." He smirks as he holds a hand out to Erza. The look on her face said that she didnt want to but Erza reaches out to grab Reve's hand...until he pulled it back. "Wendy!" Reve moved away from Erza and walked to Wendy. Everyone knew he did it on purpose as Erza fell back again. Taya then grabs Erza by the hand and pulls her up.
"Wendy, what are you doing out here?"
Wendy coughs as she makes her way back up. "I-I didn't know you cared?"
"Heh. I don't." He gives an innocent smile. "Just messing with your S class heroine over there.
"Anyways." Taya interjected. "I'm almost positive you're the other guild on this mission, which makes sense why we weren't told who we were working with. But we made a discovery, that you can now see actually. This entire forest, is made of lacrima. What they plan to do with it..I don't know."
"...the Tower Of Heaven..!" Erza shook from her own memory.
"Tower of heaven? You lunatics destroyed that." Reve scratches his head with his sniper rifle.
"I call it. The Forest of Rapture." Aloy was seen throwing broken trees off of him. He dusts himself off as he begins walking over to the group. "The master let me name it. Heh. And yes, it has the exact same properties of the Tower of Heaven. But. We plan on using it for a different purpose. Since Zeref is alive! We plan on wiping out non mages with it!"
Erza bares her teeth at Aloy in anger as she requips into her purgatory armor. "We were sent here to shut this operation down. And that's what we plan to do. Now if I remember correctly, you need a sacrifice in order for this to work. If you think you can take any of us-"
"You guys? A sacrifice!?" Aloy begins laughing aloud. "Oh no, we already have our sacrifice hidden somewhere in this forest. And this kid, is all we need. Now, are you four gonna stand there, or do I have to destroy all of you without having fun?"
"As much as I hate you guys." Reve requips his gun into two pistols. "We're gonna have to work together obviously. He can't take all of us."
"Agreed." Erza nodded, still in her Purgatory armor. The four surround Aloy as the prepare to attack.
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Byron swings his now heavy sword in between Selene and Nami, separating them as they both jump away from the strike. Nami goes sliding on her feet as she faced Byron and cupped her hands together, then thrusts them forward, firing a beam of light towards Byron. He pulls out a shield, and on impact, it reflects the light back to Nami. She sways out the way, and watches the light cause a small explosion over in the distance. Selene quickly takes aim at Byron when he has his back turned and fires off pointed diamonds at a fast paced. Byron smirks and then side flips out the way, causing the diamond structures to slam into Nami, pinning her against a tree until for a quick second until Selene stops.
"Nami!" Byron appears beside the distracted "Kanso.." He speaks in a low tone as a well sized hammer appeared in his hands. He swings it at Selene but she caught glimpse and ducked at the last second and scrambles out the way; but the swing from the hammer, causes a gravity shift. The shift starts to pull Selene back to Byron due to the horizontal swing. Selene tries to fight it but to no avail as Byron twirls the hammer in his hand and then swings it like a golf club up to Selene's chin. She happened to cover her face with her diamond plates, but the damage was still done as Selene went flying towards the air. Nami shakes off the diamonds that slammed into her and charges Byron with orbs of light around her fists. She swings then at Byron with grace and precision, but he continuously dodges the attacks and swings his hammer down. Nami rolls out the way as the hammer hits the ground, creating a trail of concentrated gravity that just missed Nami. She pants from exhaustion.
"This guy..he's strong.." She smirks. "I like that."
Byron held the hammer under his left arm while signaling Nami to bring it wait his right hand.
"Alright..."
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Natsu continued choking on the smoke as he couldn't move. Myou moves toward the Salamander first, and grabs him by the throat.
"Finally, you'll be able to see what my magic can really do." She was so fixated on Natsu with her sadistic grin that she almost forgot about Heather. Heather reminded her, as a sucking sound was heard throughout the room. The black smoke was being consumed by Heather. "What!? What are you doing!?" Myou turned to her, dropping Natsu. By this time, the smoke was completely clear. Heather wipes her mouth. "Eh, it wasn't great, but now that I've eaten I'm all revved up yeah?"
Natsu weakly raises a finger "T-that's m-my line.."
Myou growls in anger. "You'll die for ruining my fun."
"A magic circle appears under Heather as the entire room starts shaking. She looks over to Happy." Hey, Exceed, get the Salamander out."
"...Aye." Happy flies over and grabs and then carries Natsu out of the room.
"No matter. I'll get them later."
Heather's hair starts to levitate as she grins, for the first time, at Myou.
She then clenches both her fists and punches them together.
"Secret Dragon Slayer Art..."
