White Eclipse
Chapter 33

A review of the leader board:
White Eclipse B: 18
Quatro Cerberus: 16
White Eclipse A: 14
Fairy Tail A: 12
Fairy Tail B: 10
Sabertooth: 3
Lamia Scale: 1
Mermaid Heel: 0

"Heh. It's a good start." Reve says as White Eclipse A stands in the arena with the rest of the guilds waiting to officially start. He folds his arms and looks directly ahead. His stare was met by none other than Erza Scarlet. Almost mirror like, Erza had her arms folded as she smirked at Reve while staring. Only two points separated them so far, so there was no reason to panic in anyone's eyes, and panic was the furthest thing from their mind.
"Welcome back! It's the second day of the Grand Magic Games here in Crocus! I'm Chapati Lola and lets cut to the chase! Will today's event competitors please step forward!"
On cue, Natsu Dragneel steps into the middle of the arena, and just like a mirror, Takeru joins the Fire Dragon slayer, nearly face to face. The two mages never take their eye off each other as Lamia Scale's Chelia Blendy and Mermaid Heel's Kagura join the circle. Next was Quatro Cerberus's own Kuro.
"I see, Bacchus is still holding out." Erza says as she looks over to their team. Bacchus was standing with his arms crossed and a grin plastered on his face. "I strategy that seems to be working, since they're in second."
"You're going down Dragneel." Takeru says.
"No matter what the event it, I'm kicking your ass!" Natsu exclaims.
Just then, Sabertooth's Sting Eucliffe walks in between them both, bumping into both of them. He then stands there with a grin. "You two are counting us out. It's time to change that."
"What was that?" Takeru growled. "You're old news. It's our turn."
"Heh. We'll see." Sting chuckles out.
Juvia walks to the arena. "Juvia must get revenge for Gray-Sama! This win will be for Gray-Sama! He asked me to win this for him!"
(Flashback/Fantasy)
In the Fairy Tail infirmary yesterday, Gray was sitting up in the bed as he held Juvia's hands.
"Juvia...though my body is weak, my heart still beats strong. Strong for you. Win your event Juvia.. for me, so they'll know that love conquers all."
"G-Gray-Sama..!" They continue leaning towards each other.
-The Flash back ends with a bandaged up Gray yelling from the audience. "THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED!"
Finally, from White Eclipse B, Aira steps into the arena middle.
"Alright! Today's event is... Pandemonium squared!"
"Pandemonium squared!?" All the mages called out.
"Wow..lets never do that again." Takeru stated.
"Aye..I agree." Natsu nodded. "That was weird."
"Juvia agrees as well."
A few seconds later, the arena starts to expand out.
"Nani!? What's going on?" Natsu calls out as the arena shakes from the shift.
"Don't panic already Natsu." Sting says laughing.
"Pandemonium squared is just like last year's pandemonium! The only thing that's different is that they're are now eight hundred monsters!"
"Eight hundred!?" Even Erza was thrown off by such a challenge.
"I'm taking on all five hundred." Takeru said with an emotionless face.
"Also!" Chapati continued. "You will all be going at the same time! The rules are simple! The first one to finish off all one hundred of their monsters wins. The rest will fall in under how many monsters you destroyed or when you were KO'ed. There are eight different paths, one mage per path. In each path, the orders of the monsters are varied, which means in one path it's weakest to strongest. In another path it's strongest monster to weakest. And everything in between from there!"
"Interesting." Kuro stated.
"I like this game!" Sting shouted.
Kagura simply nodded, understanding the instructions as Chelia swayed back and forth in her heels and toes a bit nervous.
"Now that we're clear, will you all line up side by side behind the line as we prepare to start."
They all oblige. Just then, the stands in front of them opens up, keeping the audience hovered over the ocean as she awed at the view.
"Aw man!" Kuro Crane cried out as he stood next to Daityas. "If I would of known this I would of competed!"
"Tough luck kid." Kiora says as she continues to stuff her face with food, watching the arena down below.
As the giant castle like tower forms at over the ocean, eight staircases appear. They spiral around so much before getting to the castle that you can't tell which path leads to where with a simple glance.
"Mages ready!?" They all get in a running stance.
"Go!"
Simultaneously, they all take off at quick pace. Natsu, Takeru, and Sting lead the pack as they all pick a staircase. Natsu edges out until he looks up and sees Aira use her wind magic to float to path number four, now ahead of everyone. "Hey!"
"Heh. Smart move Aira." Luke states as Aira enters inside, running down the hallway.
"Or was it?" Selene questioned. "She's gonna need that magic once she starts fighting.
Kagura begins to pick up speed as she too passes the Dragon Slayers. Entering path number two from her staircase. The three dragon slayers finally make it as well. Natsu in five, Takeru in one and Sting in path number three.
Juvia dead sprints into number eight, with Kuro right behind her straight into number six. Chelia brings up the rear as she enters the seventh path.
"And all mages have entered!" Eight lacrima screens appear, so that the audience can watch who they were rooting for.
Already in front, Aira began taking out the smaller monsters with her wind magic and hand to hand skills. She used mostly melee attacks to the nearly harmless smaller monsters. Smashing them into nothing with her kicks and punches. She clears the ten in the hallway and keeps running. "I must of got the luck of the draw." As soon as she says that, she turns the corner into a giant room. Aira looked up as she was being towered over the biggest monster in her path. Already she was up against it. "...oh." The giant purple armored beast took the form of a snake. It's coiling took up the entire outside of the giant room. It opened its mouth, firing off a huge beam. With wide eyes, Aira rolls hard out the way, but the beam kept coming towards her. She continues running around until she gained an angle to get under the beam, which she did barely. She then sprinted towards the snake with two magic circles in front of her. "Wind blade!" She fires off two extremely sharp gusts of wind that slice into the armored snake. Though it connected, it barely did any damage as it only left two small gashes into the beast.
"How did she get stuck with that already!?" Luke exclaimed.
"This isn't good.." Cygnus added.
"Believe in her guys! She's fine..." Selene turned back to the screen as she watched on. "Come on Aira you can do it."
Jaxon nods. "She's got it."
In door two, Kagura was sprinting down her hallway. Instead of the smaller monsters like Aira had, decent sized, tiger like creatures covered her hallway. Five of them. They all turn to her and begin charging. Kagura simply crouches and in the next instant she was at the end of the hallway re-sheathing her sword that she barely pulled out. All five tiger like monsters go down. Kagura waste no time as she turns the corner entering a giant room. From the ceiling, ten well sized bat like monsters begin swooping down towards Kagura. She uses her gravity manipulation and begins floating towards them. Kicking the first one away, she uses the momentum to grab the one right above the first bat like creature. She reverses the gravity, causing the bat to go plummeting to the ground, slamming into the one below it as well and into the ground, destroying them both. She turns back to the other eight, and with her sheath sword, she slices through the remaining with ease. She then runs through, fifteen monsters quickly down.
"Sky god's bellow!" Chelia's bellow slams into the seven tiger like monsters, destroying them. She was ten monsters in and came to a stop in her big room. It was /crowded/ with the weak smaller monsters.
"Field day Chelia!" Lyon shouted even though she couldn't hear him.
Chelia grins as the monsters hop around not seeing her. She takes a step forward, catching their attention. The small creatures all turn to her and charge. "Sky God's Boreas!" Chelia conjures up to well sized black currents. As she throws them, they combine into one great one. The Boreas swoops around the entire room, destroying all fifty of the small monsters.
"Nice! She's way in the lead!" Yuka shouted.
"That may be true...but I don't think we'll see anymore of those things in her path..." Lyon replied.
"Huh? What are you saying OOOONN!?" Toby asked as he scratched his head.
"It means, every monster from here on out won't be push overs. Especially if they come in numbers for her." Jura states ominously.
"Water slicer!" Juvia throws a wave of rushing water that slices right through a ten foot tall armored knight. Three more stood as they charged her. One swings horizontally, but Juvia jumps over it's swing. Now a sitting duck, the knight to the right swings a clubbing blow to Juvia. She hits the wall as she lets out a help of pain. The closest knight swings down a punch, leaving a crater in the floor as Juvia rolls out the way. She then quickly conjures up a whirlpool that catches two of the knights, spinning them and then slamming them through a wall. With one remaining, she turns to the charging knight who swings at her. Using her water body, the punch goes right through her. "Water slicer!" She's uses her technique again, slicing right through the knight. She quickly runs down the next hallway. "Juvia must win! For Gray-Sama's love!"
"Stop that!"-Gray from the audience.
Kuro stood in front of his strongest monster. He simply looked up at the giant Wyvern looking monster. "Hm. It'll be nothing but a speed run once I beat this thing." The beast aims a stomp at Kuro, the force could be seen by the wind passing it's foot. Kuro simply puts up a black water dome. Causing the beast to go stumbling back. A magic circle then appears below Kuro Chi as blackened water begins to swirl around the edges as it rises and then connects together at a point, still spinning. "Begone. Water god's drill." He pushes his palm forward, causing the drill from the top to slam down onto the head of the Wyvern. It runs straight through the head and to dispersing against the ground. The giant beast hits the ground and disperses as well. Kuro begins running through to the next room.
"Oh my..." Chapati announces.
"He just...Kuro Chi just took out his strongest monster in one blow."
"Yes Kuro! It's all you now!" Bacchus yells out.
"Wild!" "Four!"
Natsu, Takeru and Sting were seen running through their respective hallways, destroying monster after monster. Natsu wing slashes through a couple as Sting fires a holy ray down the hallway. Takeru, with his shadow katanas, begins slashing through monsters with ease. Though Chelia was in first by numbers, the three dragon slayers were quickly catching up.
"No sign of the big one for Natsu yet." Lucy says while watching on. "I hope it comes soon before he gets too tired."
"He's fine." Erza replies with a small smile. "All we're worried about it him finishing first. Erza then turns back to Kuro Chi, who was destroying monsters left and right, keeping up with the dragon slayers. "Kuro is going to be the problem...he already destroyed his toughest monster and he's right there with Natsu..."
"Shit..come on Takeru. You too Aira." Reve watches on, gripping the railing. "They'll do it..." Luke says from the other side.
Back at Aira, the giant snake swings his tail. Aira avoids it and begins wind blading the snake as she runs up it's body. The snake turns to her and opens her mouth at a close range, firing off a huge beam. Aira's eyes widen. "Wind Wall!" With her magic, a wall of wind appears in front of Aira as she ducks her head. The beam just disperses before the wall gives way. Aira then charges up the snake again and jumps. "Great cross slash." Aira puts her hands in an X formation. Before she could attack, the snake had charged her. And swallows her whole.
"Aira!" Cygnus and Selene called out.
"Holy.." Jaxon looked on with wide eyes.
"Wait for it." Luke stated.
The snake stays there for a few seconds. Then, out of the tail comes Aira, crouches from performing her attack. The snake begins to break apart into nothing. Aira quickly sprints out and down the hallway as she's defeated her monster, now taking out the other with great confidence.
"Alright!" Selene fist pumped for her teammate.
Skye looks on amazed. "Aira is amazing, she let herself get eaten, just to finish the monster.."
Chelia rounded out to eighty five, when her giant came into view. A giant armored frog stood waiting in a room halfway submerged in water. She didn't hesitate and leaped towards it. But instead of attacking, the frog jumped into the water. Chelia stayed on a pad as she eyed the frog. The room then slowly begins to fill up with wate, all the way to the top. Chelia couldn't pass until she beat this monster and now she was racing against her lungs as well. She couldn't use her bellow since she couldn't inhale so she goes for her Boreas instead, but the frog dodges, moving with agility under water. The frog then stops and opens it's mouth, revealing a tongue. The tongue sprawls out on the floor of the water filled room, and then sparks wildly. The electricity amplifies due to the water and shocks Chelia, causing her to lose air as well.
"Crap! Hang on Chelia!" Lyon yells.
"No she's in the lead, it won't be good if she loses here ONNNN!" Toby begins to frantically pace back and forth.
Chelia snaps away as she can feel her lungs burning. In desperation she uses her wind magic to quickly swim to the giant frog. She catches up and gets under the frog. "..." If she was able to talk underwater, what would of been heard was "Heavenly Gathering of the Clouds!" She fires right into the under belly of the frog, hurling it towards the ceiling of the room, destroying the monster on impact. The room quickly drains of water. Chelia hunches over and catches her breath.
"She did it! Go Chelia! Run!" Lyon cheers as the others of Lamia Scale sigh in relief.
"Close one Chelia-dono." Jura thinks to himself.
Kagura was making great pace until she came to her monster as well. A giant bird flew around a seemingly endlessly tall room. The bird ascended and Kagura quickly gave chase. She hopped from wall to wall until nearly one hundred and fifty feet in the air, she caught up. She went to unsheathe her sword but with a single flap of the wings, the giant bird sends Kagura hurling towards the ground. She recovers halfway down and then uses her gravity this time to float towards the bird. When close enough, the reverses the gravity on the giant bird to slow it down. It had little but just enough affect as Kagura aims for the head with her sheathed sword. She finishes the monster off with unseen slashes all around the bird, breaking it apart.
Juvia was surrounded. Twenty wolf like monsters, very agile, charged at Juvia. She used her water magic to keep them at bay and take them out one by one. She had taken out about fifteen until one jumps on her back and bites her on the shoulder. She lets out a shriek of pain until she throws it off of her. The other four join in, biting on her legs. The silver wolves crowding her.
"It's not looking good." Laxus stated.
"Don't give up just yet." Mirajane replied.
"Juvia will not lose!" She screamed out as she fires another water slicer into the four wolves. Cutting them into pieces. Juvia had miscounted. She places her hands on her knees as she pants. Before she could take a step forward, the last wolf jumps on her back, biting her on the shoulder again. This time. As it bit down, it glows a bright red light and then explodes.
"Juvia!" Cana calls out.
Everyone waits for the smoke to clear, and when it does, Juvia was standing.
"Wow, what endurance." Reve says.
Juvia takes a step forward...and then passes out in a KO. "Oh my! Juvia was the first to go! Which means Fairy Tail B ends with zero points! What a set back!"
"Darn it!" Gajeel yelled out. The monsters in Juvia's path all disperse as the medical team goes to retrieve her.
"Well..she tried." Mirajane stated.
"We're gonna fall way behind." Laxus stated.
"Juvia..." Gray looked on with a worried look.
As they were finishing up, Natsu, Takeru, and Sting had one thing in common. Though they're monsters came in various ways, all three of then could feel that the biggest one was at the end.
Chelia and Aira at this time, due to Chelia being stalled by the frog, were tied at ninety nine. They both were also in the same predicament. They walked into their own rooms at the same time, Chelia literally one step ahead of Aira. In this room was a lone monster. A small one, just like the fifty Chelia destroyed earlier. "Too easy! Finish it Chelia/Aira!" Lyon and Jack both yell at the same time. Aira and Chelia take a step forward, and when they do, the creatures take off like a rocket, bouncing around the room away from their mages. "Holy..!" Luke watched as the incredibly fast monster ran from it's mage.
"That won't stop me!" Aira charges after it, firing off wind blades, trying to hit the fast moving target.
"Right! Lets go!" Chelia does the same in her room, firing off black winds at the target. Both of them continuously missing.
"This is close!" Chapati yells. "Aira and Wendy are facing off on their last monster already! But here comes the others! Everyone is on Ninety mine!" Because of this, an announcement echoed throughout the arena and inside the tower. "Attention-Kabo! Everyone is on their last monster. So the rules have changed a bit. Instead of ending the challenge once a mage defeats their last monster, everyone must finish their last one. The ranking will go by who finishes first to last. That is all-Kabo!"
"Darn it!" Aira pants as her monster continues bouncing around the room. She continues chasing and firing away. Chelia does the same, slowly panicking from the announcemt.
Natsu, Takeru, and Sting; they all ran forward down their own hallways. To the end of the hall was a giant opening where their last monster awaited. Great fighting minds thought alike as Sting enters White Drive, Natsu enters his lightning flame mode and Takeru enters his White Shadow mode. All three of them picking up speed as they made a beeline to the beasts that stood in their way of victory. Here they went.
Natsu, without losing a step, crouches and lunges full speed head first. "Lightning flame sword horn!" Sting comes to a stop, and at the same speed cups his hands together in front of him and fires off a multitude of full powered rays. "Holy ray!"
Takeru was in a sprint as well and halfway to the beast he jumps forward and fires a high powered funnel of white and shadows, taking up nearly the entire room. The monsters were destroyed nearly af the same time. The bell goes off. "Oh my it was close!" Chapati yells. Another lacrima screen comes down in the middle, ready to show the winner. "But the lacrima never lies, and your winner is... Kagura of Mermaid Heel!
"What!?" Lucy yells.
"Tch. I wasn't even paying attention to her at the end." Erza commented. As the replay shows, before anyone else made contact, right before, Kagura had sliced though her last monster so swiftly that no one noticed. "That gives Mermaid Heel ten points! This was the closest match ever. Everyone literally finished within the same second! But in second place is.. Kuro Chi!"
Takeru grabs his hair in shock and confusion. "I could of sworn...!" Replay shows that right after Kagura, Kuro had fired a water god's bellow right into his respective monster, putting a gaping hole right through it for an instant kill.
"What is this!?" Natsu freaks.
"This is nerve wrecking.." Sting says.
"And in third place, giving his team six points is... Sting Eucliffe!" Still a bit upset, Sting manages a small smirk. "Well, I beat Natsu-San and Takeru. That works for me."
"Next giving their team four points is Natsu Dragneel!" Takeru immediately drops his head. "I..."
"Takeru of White Eclipse A comes in fifth, giving his team three points!"
Takeru stayed speechless for a bit, but then clenches his fist. "I will make up for this..!"
Aira and Chelia wait patiently, both already feeling bad for falling down so far. "With two points...Chelia Blendy!" Chelia couldn't really celebrate but she was happy she wasn't last. Aira on the other hand slides down against the wall and buries her head in her knees.
"Aira..." Selene calls out in a sympathetic tone.
"One point.." Aira said to herself. "I was ahead of everyone, and one point, because my aim is bad." She began to find any and every excuse to blame herself.
"Alright!" Chapati shouts. "As we take a short break for the arena to revert back to normal I'll announce the first fight! It'll be... Fairy Tail A's Erza Scarlet!"
"Right." Erza nods as the crowd erupts in a frenzy of cheers. "I love watching her fight!"
"I hope she gets Kagura! "
"No, get Bacchus!"
Chapati continues. "Vs...White Eclipse A's.." Reve immediately crossed his fingers to himself, praying that he would be going up against Erza. It was the main thing he wanted. "Come on.."
Chapati quits holding in the suspense. "Skye Ravenwood!"
"SKYE!?" Everyone on the A team says in unison.
Skye blinks. "M-me?"
"Both fighters have five minutes to prepare."

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At the council headquarters, a familiar face has been escorted to the council circle.
"Siegrain!" Gran Doma calls out. "How are you...!?"
"Long story Doma. But I'm here..and it's time for change, again. Starting with me back in the council circle." Siegrain smirks as he looks at the other councilmen.
"If you think we'd let you back in here-"
"Ah but you don't have much of a choice." Siegrain says as he walks to the middle with his hands behind his back. "You see, let me explain the loophole to the /crime/ I committed. I was once a thought projection of the criminal Jellal Fernandes. I was created from his motives to revive Zeref; and as a thought projection, I was nothing but Jellal with a different name. The same Jellal you were all after and captured am I correct? Even though he got away again? I believe so. Anyways, since I technically didn't exist and even if I did, I was under motives of a criminal and now no longer am, I've made my case of how am innocent. You remember what that means for a councilmen right Doma? That means he or she should be rightfully allowed to have his position back."
"Tch! Even so, we also have a rule where we can make exceptions to other rules with a house vote!" Doma added.
"Ah that's true!" Siegrain said with a grin. "But you're also forgetting another rule. You're forgetting that you're the one that placed the charges on Jellal and I. You're the one that sent the guards after us both. And even though you had Jellal right, I was innocent. And you know what happens when the chairman makes a false arrest call don't you Doma?" Doma's eyes immediately widen at what was about to come next as guards surround the room. "That's right Doma, the lead chair gets impeached. For, and I quote. The lead chair position is proof that the person holding such a title makes no mistakes when upholding the law and if proven wrong will have no issue stepping down. So guards. Get this man out my seat."
The council guards surround Gran Doma as he puts his hands up in surrender. He could easily take them out, but decides to follow. "This isn't over Siegrain." He says as he's escorted out.
"Oh I know Doma. I'm just getting started." Siegrain turns to the other councilmen.
"Guess what. You're all fired. Guards!"

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"Good luck to you, Skye." Erza nods as she waits for the host give the okay to start.
Skye couldn't even hear her. She was breathing short panicking breathes. "I can do this. I...can't do this. No! Remember your training! Don't let Reve down! You can do this Skye!" Her hands shook from fear. "But...if Reve wants Erza so bad that means she's up there with him...I'm not there yet."
"Fighters ready-Kabo!"
"No!" Skye yells out.
"Huh?" Erza looks on, but then folds her arms and smirks a bit. "Seems like she's nervous."
"You alright-Kabo?"
Skye shakes a bit more.
"Hey!" Reve calls out to Skye, causing her to turn around.
"I didn't waste all those days helping you for you to chicken out and act scared in front of thousands! Now out your game face on or take off that White Eclipse symbol! We may be family but one thing we don't raise are cowards! She isn't better than you, and you know why!? You're a White Eclipse Mage! So act like it! Because it's White Eclipse or what Skye!?"
Skye gulps a bit but her shaking stops. "Or second place.."
"The hell was that!?" Reve yells again. "Don't make me come over there I said it's White Eclipse or what!?"
She clenches a her fist by her side as she shouts into the air. "OR SECOND PLACE!" The crowd erupts into a frenzy again, half of them cheering for the underdog Skye while the other half for Erza.
"Come on Skye." Kuro says to himself, still standing with Tartaros.
"I'm ready!" Skye calls out to the host, not taking her eyes off Erza.
"Okay-kabo!"

The host throws his hands down.

"Begin!"