White Eclipse
Chapter 16
Heather was now waist deep in the Lacrima, Takeru was pulling Heather, trying to pull her out. Everyone else was pulling Takeru trying to help. Everyone but Gajeel.
"Oi...you're wasting your time." The Black Steel protested while crossing his arms.
"Shut up!" Takeru yelled back at Gajeel as he continued pulling.
Heather winced as Takeru pulled. "Takeru, you're gonna pull my arm out!"
"Would you rather have a dislocated arm or be dead!?"
"There has to be a better way. Everyone just think for a second."
Everyone but Takeru at this point stops pulling.
"I'll just break it apart then." Takeru starts punching down on the lacrima ground. It started cracking, but there was no way he was going to make it in time.
"This kid is so annoying." Gajeel thought. "He doesn't know when to actually quit. Just like..." Gajeel sighed as an idea came to his head at the same time. "Alright, move out the way." Gajeel's arm turns into his patented sword. Then the blades on the edge of the sword start moving like a working chainsaw. "I'm going to cut her out!"
Everyone, even Takeru after hesitating, moves out the way. Gajeel stabs his sword arm into the ground and begins pulling it through as he walks a circle around Heather. By the time he was halfway around, Heather was neck deep in Lacrima.
Takeru looks on. "He's not gonna make it..."
"Kanso!" Erza's body glows a bright light and then disperses as she appeared back into her purgatory armor. She slams her mace in the crack where Gajeel started, and starts pulling the other way.
"It's gonna be close!" Nami and the others watch in anticipation. "Keep you arms up Heather!" Heather could no longer hear as her face was submerged in the lacrima. Just her right hand was left by the time Erza and Gajeel met back around. They use the leverage of their mace and sword and pull out the circle of lacrima that Heather was stuck inside. The chunk of lacrima lands behind The group and breaks apart, leaving a now unconscious Heather laying on the ground. "Heather!" Nami runs over to check on her. "...She's okay. Just knocked out."
"Whew!" Selene falls to her seat as she sighs in relief. "I'm just glad this is over. Those two got away, but we stopped their operation."
"For now." Reve chimed in. "But this was hectic. Maybe taking all those jobs to get recognized wasn't a good idea huh Taya?"
White Eclipse found that statement funny, knowing that Reve was kidding. All of Fairy Tail on the other hand.
"That was you?" Gray asked, slightly annoyed. "You're the guild that's been taking /all/ the jobs?!"
Reve cocks a brow at the Ice Make Mage. "Is there a problem? There's no rule against it."
"I think they're more pissed that they've been out of work." Taya added.
"You damn right we are!" Gajeel balled a fist up at her comment. "There's no rule against it, but you really have to go out your way to do that!
"And out the way we went. Man it's been a busy month, and here we are now, taking out dark guilds. White Eclipse or second place ya know?" Reve starts laughing as all of White Eclipse stand beside him. Just then, Hokori, in his Giant warrior take over form that Takeru and Gajeel took out, towers over them with his fist reared back.
"Hey!" Erza calls out. But Reve and the others were to busy enjoying themselves.
"Fire Dragon's Sword horn!" Out of completely no where, Natsu slams into the ribs of Hokori, instantly KO'ing him due to the element of surprise. The blow sends him flying until he goes tumbling into the ground. Everyone turns to see what happened, only to see the KO'ed Hokori, and Natsu standing there with a childish smile on his face. "I got one!"
"Everyone's here right?" Takeru asked, unamused at Natsu's antics against his and Gajeel's left overs
"No, we're missing Luke and that blonde chick." Taya replied.
"Ooooo." Nami instigated. She leaned back with an innocent smile as Natsu screamed "STOP THAT!" towards here.
"But I know they're okay." Natsu crosses his arms. "They escaped when I was fighting one of the mages."
Erza nods as she gives a small smile. She then turns back to everyone else. "Our job is done. We should make our way out the forest."
"Yeah no shit." Reve stretched his arms out, as if his comment was acceptable.
"...You seem to have a real problem with me Reve."
"You have no idea."
"Okay." Taya interrupted. "I've contacted Lahar, and he and Doranbolt are on the way, so lets meet them outside the forest."
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Luke finally puts Lucy down as the had make their way out the forest. She gently grabs it, caressing it as she looks at the swollen ankle.
"Sorry I don't have any medical supplies." Luke says with a guilty feeling.
"It's fine. It's not your fault for my ankle." Lucy nodded.
"And just like I said, they're right here." Reve speaks as the entire White Eclipse and Fairy Tail group walk out the forest and next to them, carrying an unconscious and tied up Hokori. "Where were you two during all of this eh? You just met recently you know."
Luke and Lucy's face immediately goes red from Reve's implications. "Reve! Shut up!" Luke averts his eyes to see Lahar and Doranbolt appear to his right along with the council guards. "Oh..the council guards are here."
Lahar bows. "On behalf of the council, we want to thank both of your guilds for taking on such a heavy task."
"Wasn't a problem!" Nami exclaimed.
Lahar then spoke again as Doranbolt escorted Hokori to the miniature cell block that was brought along. "Your money is being transferred to your guilds as we speak. Sorry to cut out meeting short, but we have other matters to attend to. Once again, we thank you.
As Lahar and Doranbolt take their leave with the only mage in Silent Sanctum captured, the others stand around in their victory.
"White Eclipse?" Luke said to Selene with a grin, holding his fist out.
"Or second place." Selene pounds his fist and returns the grin.
"/Or/ second place?" Gajeel interrupted. "So what..are you all third?"
"I got all the energy in the world loud mouth, you wanna go?" Takeru steps to Gajeel, only to be held back by Luke.
"Gihe! Your guild mates hold you back because they don't want you hurt kid. You're out of your league when I'm serious."
"So I guess you were playing around when Selene and I were kicking yours and Salamander's asses!"
"What!?" Natsu interjected. "That didn't happen!"
"All of you just shut up and seperate!"
"I agree with Titania on this one." Reve steps in the middle of the mayhem as he speaks.
"Thank you Reve."
"I mean, there's no need to fight. We already know that we're better,
So why don't we call it a truce and be done with it; with White Eclipse on top."
Erza is beyond annoyed at this point, so she steps up to Reve who merely smirks.
"If you want Fairy Tail so bad-"
"Watch your tone Titana." Reve was now also serious, due to the fact that he was face to face with the one person he wanted to beat so badly.
"The only thing we /want/ is to be the best guild. And we've become that."
"Under what grounds!?"
The entire group watched the two go back and fort, wondering what was going to happen.
"Under the ground that we're the reason you don't have jobs and missions. And if I remember, someone here was out cold back in the mountains."
Erza, can only stand as she glares at the cocky gunslinger. Until she finally stoops to his level. "If you didn't place in the top eight in the games, then you have no room to speak of Fairy Tail."
Her comment struck a nerve in not only Reve, but White Eclipse entirely. Reve balls a fist up but then relaxes as he laughs at the statement. "You know what Titania? You're right, and from now on...we won't." Erza cocks a brow as he continues. "Let's call a /truce/ right here, a treaty if you will. The Grand Magic Games are a year away. Until then, we won't fight, nor talk trash about you, intentionally. I can't speak for run-ins and mishaps though, but besides that, we part ways here." Reve extends a hand to confirm the treaty.
Erza looks at Reve, then back at her guild mates who wait for her decision. "So you're saying, no picking fights, no down talking the other guild, all until the grand magic games?"
"That's exactly what I just said ten seconds ago."
Erza's eyebrow flickers in annoyance from Reve's comment, but she then smirks. "Fine, since you White Eclipse members can't handle it. We'll spare you until the games." She quickly grabs Reve's hand before he could say anything back and grips it firmly. Anything Reve was about to say was now gone, as he was now matching strength and insincere smile with Erza on the handshake.
Lucy sighs. "Well atleast we can live along peacefully for a year."
"That's true." Luke agreed.
"White Eclipse, we out." Reve and the others begin walking towards the north, while Fairy Tail begins their trek to the south. Reve turns back around, catching Erza's eye as they both smirked at each other. Reve gives her one last hand gun gesture. Erza merely holds her right hand up, her index finger up and her thumb out. The entire guild joins her without turning around.
Inside the mini cell, on the way back to the Council Headquarters, Hokori sat in the corner with magic sealing cuffs. He stared at the ground, feeling like the weak link for being the only one captured.
"Well well." Outside the cell, holding on to the bars to the only window of the cell, was Daityas, except he now had black hair.
"D-Daityas!?"
"Move over ya wanker, I want to pick at the poor pup as well." A girl's face appears. She has white hair that's shoulder length and red/orange eyes.
"Maggie too!? For what do I owe the honor?"
"What you think? We have to break your ass out because you were beaten by some two bit mages." Daityas glared at Hokori. "Wasting my time with this. Sora, do your thing.
On top of the cell, a little girl with pink hair giggles. She had blue eyes, and she wore a big hat that covered most of her head. It would even occasionally fall over her eyes. "Lets play a game." A magic circle appears under Sora, causing shadows to seep out and around the cell and the vehicle carrying it. Daityas smiles at Hokori. "Hang on." Dait and Maggie both hop off, and in that instant, Sora giggling was the last thing heard before the cell was viciously ripped apart and the vehicle Doranbolt and Lahar were in was violently flipped, causing them two, along with a few other guards, to go flying out until the hit the ground hard. The guards were out cold.
"What in the!?" Lahar looks up, and sees Daityas, Maggie and Sora standing over him. Sora balancing back and forth on her toes and the heel of her feet. Lahar's eyes widen in fear as he shook. "Y...Y-you're."
"Say it." Daityas grinned as his arms to the side. "Say it like you just pissed yourself!"
"You're Tataros..." Doranbolt finishes the statement. Also in paralytic shock as well.
"Oi...lets kill em' eh?"
"We would Maggie...but our bossman is being an ass. I don't know why he wants these clowns alive. Buuuuutt..roughing em up won't /hurt/."
"...don't ever do a play on words again." Maggie side eyed Daityas.
Daityas drops his hands, as if losing his muse for the whole situation. "You just couldn't let me have it huh?"
"I'm sorry, if your snappy phrases and comebacks weren't such a damn drip, maybe I would of let it go."
"...I'll give you a drip."
As Maggie and Daityas argue, Lahar and Doranbolt begin making their way to their feet. As they do so, theirs shadows begin to move freely. "Wanna play?" They both look at Sora, confused, until Lahar takes a clubbing blow to the back of his head by his own shadow, knocking him out. "Lahar!" Doranbolt quickly phases away from his shadow and grabs Sora, then phases away from Dait and Maggie again, holding Sora in a hold and out in the open.
"Okay!" Doranbolt stares down the two mages. Sora's eyes begin to water as if she was about to start crying.
"Now you are all under arrest for-" Befor Doranbolt could finish, a fist comes crashing into his jaw, KO'ing him instantly as he hits the ground. Another girl, with black hair and icy blue eyes, just knocked him out cold. "OHHHHHH!" Maggie starts jumping around with the black haired girl. They chest bump each other then stand over Doranbolt. "Damn! You ate that! Kiora knocked you out!" Maggie yells as she crouched over Doranbolt.
"Yeahhh I did! Laid you out!"
Daityas merely facepalms. "I hate when they're together."
Kiora point Daityas to Doranbolt. "Tea bag him! You won't do it!"
Daityas sighed. "I have somewhere to be tomorrow, soo.. You two done yet?"
"Quite."
Daityas turned back to Hokori, who was watching the entire thing. "Well then Hokori. You should go find the rest of the Silent Sanctum wimps and regroup. We, are leaving.
Leaving Hokori stunned and speechless, the four mages walk over the horizon, Sora tugging on Kiora's shirt. "Brownies later?" The little girl asked.
"Damn Sora eat something else sometime." Kiora replied, but turns to see her watering eyes. "...okay okay. I swear this kid..."
