White Eclipse
Chapter 30
"How do we know that you're not just Jellal's thought projection anymore?" Daityas asked.
"Because Daityas." He fixed his white coat and ran his right hand through his blue hair. Siegrain then turned to Daityas with a sadistic smirk on his face. "That fool over there was forced to revive me. You made him recreate me. Therefore, I was made in regret. Are you following? Jellal didn't want to revive me obviously, but since you forced him to, he wasn't in his right mind, which means I was free from any of his motives. I am Siegrain, and I am now my own person. The same person, that was created to revive Zeref."
Daityas grins at the revived Siegrain as Jellal was behind the demon slayer, on his hands and knees still coughing from the stomp he took from Daityas. Daityas gets annoyed from the coughing and slams the bottom of is boot to Jellal's skull; the force was so strong it caused a small crater even from such a close range. "Shut up." Daityas turns back to Siegrain who was looking at Tartaros. Tobias was standing off to the right with a very annoyed look on his face as small pebbles continued to hit him across the head. Siegrain looked to the left to see Kiora sitting on top of the unconscious Meredy with a bunch of small rocks in her hand. She continuously tossed them at Tobias hitting him the head repeatedly. He then looks over at Maggie, who was still standing over Meredy with her foot on the mages head, filing her nails and not paying attention to anything that's going on. "Such a...bizarre team you have here. Aren't you all the strongest dark guild?" Siegrain asked.
"Don't let their demeanors fool you... Seriously, don't." Daityas replied. "They're actually the best mages around when they aren't...well...this."
Siegrain shrugs. "Right, well I'll be making my way back to the council headquarters now, to take back what's rightfully mine." Siegrain begins walking off. They all watch him until he uses his heavenly body magic and takes off over the horizon.
"And as for you." Daityas grabs the back of Jellal's head, who was trying to make his way off the ground. He then slams it back into the dirt, ear first. "I'm not exactly sure how thought projection works. I should of asked Siegrain before he left. But it looks like you get to live for now. But you've also seen too much. So.." He lifts Jellal's head and makes him look at Meredy, who was now having her face smushed in by Maggie's foot. "We're gonna take your friend back home with us. I'd be lying if I said we were going to treat her with hospitality. We don't even do that for each other. But we'll keep her alive for the time being. So if you utter a peep about what happened to your weak ass today, we'll hear about it, and I'll personally set up a lacrima screen for you as I burn her to a crisp in front of you and all of Fiore. Oh just talking about it makes me anxious."
"M-Meredy.." Jellal calls for her as he slowly loses consciousness. Daityas helps him fade out faster as he throws him by his hair back into another tree, leaving Jellal there nearly lifeless. "Lets go." Daityas orders out as Maggie tosses Meredy to Tobias. He reluctantly catches her and begins carrying her by her collar, allowing her body to drag on the ground as Tataros disappears into the night.
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Cana was falling from the staircase. As she fell, halfway down, Mirajane caught her, now in her demon Halphas form.
"I got you." Mirajane said as she grabbed Cana by the leg. Cana catches her breath as she looks up at Mirajane with a sigh of relief. "Thanks Mira."
"Look out!" Laxus and Gajeel yelled at them both.
Mirjane turns to see a magic bullet come rushing towards her at full speed. With widened eyes,
She sways hard to the right to dodge, but the bullet still pierced right through her left wing. She screams out in pain as she and Cana goes crashing to the ground. "Cana, Mirajane!" Juvia yelled out. "Juvia will go get them!"
Gajeel grabs Juvia by the shoulders before she could take off. She looks back as Laxus shakes his head. "We'll just lose time. It's Cana and Mirajane. They'll make it here in time, lets go." As he finished his sentence, he looked over at the staircase to his right to see White Eclipse A nearing the top. "Shit." Laxus curled his lip in disgust. "They'll finish first." Before they reach the peak to finish, Reve makes a shooting gesture at Laxus with his hand. Then, all of White Eclipse stop right before the reach the top of the staircase. At the very last step, Reve turns and holds the sniper he just shot Mirajane with. He looks through the scope as he aims down at the city, watching everything happen.
"What's he doing!?" Gajeel asked.
"He's stalling.. Their B team got a slow start, I saw them running back to the inn earlier." Laxus replied.
"Tch. Is that even legal?"
"Juvia thinks that's unfair. Juvia didn't help Gray-Sama even though she wanted to!"
Reve continues to look through his scope. Laxus watches Reve and sees a smirk appear on his face. He tries to find what Reve is looking at. He does. It was Fairy Tail's A team running towards their staircase. Laxus looks back at Reve with wide eyes as he pulls the trigger, the newly formed magic bullet goes rushing towards Erza, aimed right for her head.
"LOOK OUT!" Laxus screamed from the top of his lungs. Erza and everyone else look up at Laxus as he yelled.
"Laxus?" Natsu questioned. As he looked up at the Lightning Dragon slayer, a gleaming light caught his peripherals. And before he could question his instincts, Natsu was tackling Erza to the ground. "Gah!" Erza let out a groan as she and Natsu hit the ground, the bullet hit the ground right as Lucy feet, causing her to yelp and jump back.
"Reve!" Erza bared her teeth then looked up at the White Eclipse staircase to see Reve posted at the second to last step. She clenched a fist. She knew that if it wasn't for Natsu, Reve would of gotten her twice. So to her, he technically did.
Erza was so upset, she didn't even thank Natsu. She stood up and kept running. "Come on! Keep your head low and be on the look out for Reve shooting!"
A team keeps running. Reve takes aim again. "Roar, of the Iron Dragon!" Gajeel fires his roar over at White Eclipse. "Roar, of the Shadow Dragon!" Takeru fires back as both roars collide in the middle and explode, later dispersing into nothing.
"They have Reve covered!" Juvia yells.
Laxus growls a bit to himself and then turns to the other side of the staircase where Mirajane and Cana landed but couldn't be seen. "Hey! How long do you two plan on staying down there!? Get a move on!" He looks on as he waits for a response.
"Mermaid Heel spotted over here Reve! Kuro yelled out as he points to Kagura and the others running.
"Atta boy." Reve turns to take aim at the running girls, and then fires. "Get down!" Kagura yells as she clearly saw Reve fire. The sudden yell startled and confused the girls, causing only Millianna to duck. Risley Law takes a bullet to the leg, immediately going down into a tumble as she let out a yell of excruciating pain.
"Risley!" Kagura yelled as she stayed crouch. "Dammit you asshole!" She yelled as she looked back at the gunslinger.
"They're not getting us!" Blues yelled.
"Hell no!" Kuro replied as he kept his fists infused with black water as the climbed the stairs.
"Reve!" Jack yelled.
"Screw em!" Reve replied. Let them be first, it's a waste of bullets on Bacchus, he's waiting for me to fire. Lets get the ones panicking."
Bacchus and Quatro Cerberus pass the finish line to their staircase being the first ones to finish.
"WILD!" Bacchus yells out as he slides across on his knees with his head tilted back in victory.
"FOUR!" The entire team yells out as they all celebrate in their own way.
Reve stays focused, waiting for movement. "Come on Luke, Selene, Cygnus. Hurry the hell up.
"Making great time! Hang in there Aira!" Luke called out
"Don't worry about me!" Aira replied. Aira was using her magic to hover everyone with gusts of wind as she pushed them faster then anyone there could run. She told them not to worry, but the truth was she was already panting as consumed so much magic. She had gotten three miles out of the way quickly though, and still kept pushing.
"Ice make, Lion!"
A giant ice lion comes crashing towards the team. It's claw slams into Cygnus, causing him to fall off the gust of wind and into the ground. "Cygnus! Damn it! Stop."
Aira stops using her magic as everyone lands on the ground and go back go back, unsure of where the attack came from.
"Sky god's bellow!" Chelia leaps into view as she exhaled her already puffed cheeks, firing off a giant black funnel of air. The funnel goes flying to an already down Cygnus, but instead, Selene steps in with her diamond scales, taking the brunt of the attack. When the smoke clears, Selene stood there basically unscathed. Cygnus was quick to return the favor to Selene as he hopped up to his feet and charged Chelia. Chelia stayed ready and smirked. As Cygnus got closer Chelia mouths the words "gotcha" as a rock pillar shoots out beside her and charges Cygnus. He doesn't stop running though. Instead, Luke jumps in front of Cygnus and create a mirror that reflects the rock pillar into the air. Chelia's eyes widen because she didn't expect this. Cygnus then comes to a hard stop in front of Chelia and had no problem thrusting an uppercut to her gut. He infused his gravity magic with the blow, which caused Chelia to literally go "flying" into the air, basically floating there. With the sky god slayer out the way, Kairi had no problem joining the party as she performed her angel take over. She charged in the process and slid around the corner, spotting the rest of Lamia Scale. Lyon stood ready in his Ice make position as Jura summoned up more Rock Pillars towards Kairi. She flys up and around with her wings to dodge the pursuing pillars.
"Reve, look. There they are." Takeru pointed over to the flying Kairi dodging the rock pillars.
"Well that's great, but there's buildings in the way so I can't see her opponents."
"Wait, those are rock pillars." Jack ran down a few steps and slowly exhaled. He summons a magic circle as he threw down two fingers from his right hand. Breaking the pillars apart. "Yeah!" Kuro yells out. "Nice Jack!"
"Heh. Wizard saint huh?" Jack smirks as he pulls out a flask and takes a swig of alcohol.
Jura scowls. "That guy. That's the second time."
"Wrap it up Kairi we don't have time." Luke and the others begin following the sprite again as Kairi swoops back down. She then pins Lamia scale down by firing off rounds if air bullets. All Jura can do is hold up a rock wall for a shield as Kairi continued firing until all of White Eclipse B took off behind the sprite in the other direction. Jura finally drops the wall as Lyon growls in anger. "Darn it! Lets go!" They continue to follow their sprite down the street that White Eclipse just came from.
Eve and the others of Blue Pegasus finally sit up. Eve holds his head in pain. "Gah... What happened?" Eve asked.
"I don't know... The competition!" Ren shouted. "How long have we been out!?"
"Men! No time for that! Lets keep moving!" Ichiya stated. All of Blue Pegasus were on the move again.
"What about them Reve?" Adamantine stated as he head nod to Blue Pegasus.
"Hmm." Reve smirked as he took aim at Ichiya. And pulls the trigger. The bullet forms and goes flying.
"Senpai!" Ren dives, and pushes Ichiya out the way, causing the bullet to slam into his ribs. He goes tumbling into the ground a good ways away from his team. "Ren!" Hibiki shouts as he runs over to his fallen guild mate. "Ren wake up! Stay awake Ren!"
Jenny stands there speechless, her hand covering her mouth. Ichiya looks up at Reve who was grinning. "Great shot Reve." Adamantine complimented. Ichiya couldn't do anything but glare. "You'll pay for that."
"Oi, you're doing nothing but making enemies." Laxus stated to Reve.
"That's fine with us. We aren't here to be your friends." Reve smirked back.
"This way!" Selene slides into a right turn, now leading the pack as the sprite continues moving. The others follow closely behind. It was a dead sprint down a long street. The sprite stopped at the end of the street and then took off towards the stadium.
"We did it!" Kairi yelled in excitement.
"Almost there! Now lets make it to the stadium." Aira added.
"Lets go!" Luke yelled as they all turned around.
"Roar of the White Dragon!"
"Roar of the Shadow Dragon!"
"Lightning God's bellow!"
The second they turn around, a giant unison raid slams into all of White Eclipse. All five of them laid on the ground in K.O. With white eyes as the smoke cleared.
"Reve!" Kuro cried out.
"Shit!" Reve turned his sniper to take aim, but Sabertooth was already out of sight. "Dammit! They're out cold!" Everyone was so distracted, that Fairy Tail A ran right past them on their own stairwell, coming in second.
"Laxus! What's the hold up!?" Natsu yelled out. Catching Reve and others attention.
"We're running out of time.." Reve mumbled.
"Mirajane and Cana fell off the stair well!" Laxus yelled back. "We're waiting on them."
"What!?" Natsu bent over the edge of the stairs as he yelled down into the pitch black. "Cana! Mira! Get up!" He roared his loudest. A few minutes later, a decent sized explosion happens as Mirajane flies into the air in her Satan Soul takeover with Cana holding on to her back. Reve looks over at Mirajane and Cana as Laxus smirks back at them and crosses over the line. "... Lets go." Reve said.
"What? We have to wait for them." Kuro pleaded.
"We're already in fourth.. We'll just have to hold down the White Eclipse name ourselves. Everyone but Kuro crosses over the line. "Kuro.." Jack called to him. "Come on.. We have to."
Kuro looks up at his team and then turns and cups his hands over his mouth. "LUKE! SELENE! KAIRI! CYGNUS! AIRA! GET UP!"
GET UP!" Jack pulls Kuro over the line as he continued yelling. "GET UP!"
By this time, Sabertooth and Lamia scale finish fifth and sixth. Mermaid Heel then rolls in seventh.
"Only one spot left-Kabo!" The host shouts out.
Luke begins to force his body up. "Saber..tooth."
"You made the wrong..enemies." Cygnus stated as he made his way to his feet.
"G-gah! They'll pay.." Kairi sits and then stands up with Aira who was coughing.
"Lets finish this stupid race, so I can flatten some Sabers." Selene says as she stands up straight, nearly leaning over backwards to catch her breath.
All five of then immediately take off in a dead sprint.
On the other side of the city, Blue Pegasus was in a dead sprint to the stairs as well. Ichiya carried Ren on his shoulders as he was now bulked up from the parfum he sniffed. Both teams hit the stairs at the same time. And begin climbing. It was nearly too close to call as everyone looked on. "Lets go!" Luke yelled out as both teams hit the final ten steps at the same time.
White Eclipse crosses the line as the host waits. He looks at them.
"Sorry... You came in ninth."
Blue Pegasus stood in shock from the news that they lost, while White Eclipse B laid in a pile on top of each other, panting heavily as they smiled and laughed.
"I..told you..not to panic.." Luke breathes out.
"They're gonna...kill us..back at the inn." Selene says while laughing and breathing heavily.
"Worth it..." Aira added. "So worth it."
"I'm eating a giant meatball sub when we get to the inn." Cygnus stated "Who wants to help me find a sub place."
"NO!" Everyone shouted as they all laughed.
"They made it." Reve smiled.
"By less than a second. But they're here." Adamantine stated.
"You guys did it!" Kuro cheered as he jumped on top of the dog pile. Causing the lot of them to groan in pain and exhaustion.
"Heh." Takeru just grins as Selene looks over from the ground and winks.
"Heh. You can't be mad at them." Laxus says as he watches on.
"I want them in!" Natsu exclaims. "It wouldn't be right if I didn't get to pound them myself!"
"Is this what it's like?" Erza thought to herself. "It's like being on the outside looking in. We aren't as bad, but... Is this how we are to others? And after all they're actions. They're still a family."
"Heh. Wild group." Bacchus smirks.
The other guilds look on as White Eclipse continues laughing in relief with Kuro on top, celebrating their survival of the elimination round.
