White Eclipse
Chapter 36
"The race is coming near the end and neither White Eclipse member has yet to move from the starting line! Did they decide to not participate!?" Chapati and the others continue looking on as the other mages continue their climb up the mountain side.
Wendy was the only one on her trail it seemed as she took a left road while Beth took the right. Everyone else continued climbing right up the middle. She comes across a curving road and runs up it until everyone comes back into view for her. Spotting Blues in second, she aims at him since Mystogan was too far ahead. She rears her head back as she puffs out her cheeks. "Roar of the Sky Dragon!" She fires a funnel of sky magic right at Blues. "Huh!?" Blues notices, but not in time as he covers up from the attack. The force behind the funnel blows him off to the right and down the mountain side a bit as Jura keeps his pace, passing the Quatro Cerberus Mage.
"I'm almost there!" Mystogan reactivated his meteor and takes off. Jura once again begins lifting rock like pillars up in the air, trying to knock Mystogan off course, but to no avail. Mystogan nears the peak of the mountain.
"Alright, it's time." Reve says as he requips a sniper rifle into his hands.
"Gotcha." Jaxon smirks as his body begins to glow red. As his body begins to glow, the heat over the mountain begins to rise. It quickly sky rockets to near unbearable heat.
"What...why is it so hot all of sudden?" Mystogan begins to sweat, and quickly goes down to a knee, trying to fan himself from the heat. "I can't shed my mask, that would cause chaos. Dammit!"
"Ah..it's so hot!" Wendy cries out as she went down to her hands and knees.
"I feel like I'm evaporating." Blues whines out. He stops and hunches over to gasp for air as the heat makes it nearly too humid to breathe. "Air..." The other mages also stop their running due to the heat.
"All yours." Jaxon says with a smirk.
"Heh." Reve lines up his sniper rifle. "First things first." He takes aim at Mystogan, right at his back. "Bang." Reve fires, and the small, yet powerful bullet of magic goes traveling at a high speed, and then slams into Mystogan's back. He lets out a yell of pain as he falls forward. Unconscious.
"What!? From back there!?" Rogue looked back to the base of the mountain as he continued to sweat profusely. His blurry vision spotted Reve and Jaxon still standing there. It was the last thing he saw before a beam of magic slammed into his chest, causing him to black out after tumbling into the ground.
"Those assholes!" Natsu shouted.
"Watch your mouth over there." Takeru said, really just to bother the already riled up Natsu.
"Or what!?" Natsu yelled back as Lucy grabs him by the arm. A small grin comes over Takeru's face. "Why is she always holding you back Salamander? Is it a ploy because you know you can't beat me in a fight?"
"Why don't you come say that over here you coward!"
"Natsu stop!" Lucy yells back.
"Coward?" Takeru begins walking over until Selene grabs him as well. "Huh? Selene?"
"Don't even think about it Tak. Just let it go." Selene gives him a stern look.
"Ha! Who's being held back now!" Natsu yells in a mocking tone.
Takeru bares his teeth and then turns back to the lacrima screen to watch the event unfold.
Back at the mountain base, down goes Jura from being shot in the shoulder, then Beth in the leg. "That's all of them Jaxon. Lets go." Reve grins as he retracts his sniper rifle. "You remember the rules right?"
Jaxon chuckles. "Yeah Yeah, dead sprint once we get up there to keep it fair. Fastest on foot wins." As he speaks, Jaxon creates two tornadoes that hover the mages over them, the tornadoes make their way up the mountain side easily.
"Everyone's down... They're gonna win.." Lucy said with worry in her voice.
"Wendy get up!" Natsu yells as he cups his hands around his mouth.
"Mystogan! Get up you wimp, damn!" Gajeel joins Natsu in the yelling, then all of Fairy Tail begin shouting, rooting their team on.
"Laying down during an event ain't wild Blues!" Bacchus yelled out.
"Beth. Up!" Kagura exclaimed.
"Come on Jura!" Lyon yelled.
"Rogue! You're the best one out there come on!" Lector yells for his dragon slayer's best friend. "Fro thinks so too!" One by one, starting with Wendy and Mystogan, they all rose to their feet as Jaxon and Reve take the lead near the peak.
"This is as far as she goes Reve." Jaxon stated.
"Cool, the second we touch down, it's a dead sprint for first." Reve replied.
"Ready...go!" The second they took off, a giant rock wall appears before them, cutting off their path. "What!?" Reve turns around, just in time to have a shadow dragon's roar slam into his chest and against the wall. The same thing happened to Jaxon with the aquatic roar from Blues. They both slam into the unforgiving wall, until Jura collapses it on top of the two mages, breaking the wall into smaller boulders, all on top of the mages. They now sat under the pile, buried alive.
"Damn!" Jack expresses as he looked on.
"Tch! Bastards.." Adam scoffed while recrossing his arms. Taya chuckles as everyone turns to her.
"They may not come in first now." She says. "But they won't be last, and they pissed off the wrong mage."
Coming to the top, from opposite sides, were Wendy and Beth. They both ran for the circle that indicated the finish to the event. "Carrot missle!" Beth fires at Wendy again. The hoard of carrots come hurling towards her. Wendy keeps running as she wraps sky magic around her fists. She begins knocking down the incoming vegetables as she doesn't lose momentum. Beth as well was running full speed as they both came to a slide for the circle.
"Oh my! Another close one! But first place goes too.." The lacrima vision shows a replay of Beth Vanderwood's fingertips passing the line right before Wendy's. "It's Beth Vanderwood! She's given Mermaid Heel ten points! What a comeback these past few days from Mermaid Heel! That leaves Fairy Tail A with eight points!"
Wendy stands and walks over to the plant mage who was dusting herself off. All Wendy could do was smile and extend her hand. "Nice job Beth!" Beth looks at her hand for a bit, and then shakes it with a smile. "Thanks! You too!"
"She did it!" Millions cheers as she and Risley huh in excitement. Kagura lowers her head a bit with a smirk of approval.
Erza nods. "It couldn't of been any closer. Good job Wendy."
Back at the mountain side, in the pile of smaller boulders, an explosion of magical pressure happens, pushing the rocks out in multiple directions. Now sitting up, seething, was Reve and Jaxon. Jaxon had blood trickling down his lip as he sat there wide eyed and angered. "That's it! Everybody's going down!" The green haired mage yelled as the entire mountain began to rumble. Just then, the giant magic circle begins to spin clockwise at a fast pace. Suddenly, out of the circle, comes a giant cyclone. The cyclone was mixed with cool blue and red heated winds. The cyclone started near the peak of the mountain, and began to swirl around and down the mountain, expecting to take no prisoners. At the same time, right down the middle of the mountain, the earth begins to split in half as the entire area begins to tremble. Lava also begins shooting out of the giant crevice and spreads out to the mages, as if it locked on to them.
"What's going on!?" Jura exclaimed as he hopped to the right side of the mountain to avoid the giant crack and the incoming lava that was slowly taking over the mountain.
"Apacolyptica." Taya said with a grin. She then raised her voice to the stunned mages that were watching. "It seems we underestimated all of you. You're witty, clever little devils. But you're starting something you don't want to finish with us. Jaxon is one of our best. With no offense to our mages, besides Reve, Kuro and Jack and Adam, and now Heather; our best have been sitting over here in the audience the whole time. But you wimps want to hang on, and win by lucky stints. You're barking up the wrong tree."
"Hey shut up lady!" Natsu yells back.
"Cute, please don't make me suit up Dragneel, I'll drag your sorry ass across this entire city." Taya replied.
"Oh yeah!?"
Taya ignores the last comment as she turns back to the screen.
"I've got to time this right." Mystogan takes off sprinting as the cyclone continues to roll by faster and faster on each go around. "Meteor!" Once again, he takes off in a blur, but not in time as his foot was caught by the incoming cyclone. Now caught in the middle of ice cold and scorching hot winds, Mystogan let's out a yell as he was spit out back down at the base of the mountain, fighting the urge to pass out from the damage. "The mountain is completely ruined." Rogue speaks, he then catches Reve and Jaxon racing up a path of the mountain. "Hm.. I bet that's the safest path to take right now." He then takes off right behind them, ready to strike so he can finish before them.
Blues and Jura continue racing up the mountain side. Blues uses his aqua jets to cool off the lava into rocks for him to step on, as Jura simply causes pillar after pillar to appear like stepping stones and bridges. Upon coming up to the cyclone, Blues conjures up two giant orbs of water and fires them directly into the vortex, but the cyclone merely absorbs the water and continues its rampage. Jura edges past the cyclone just barely, and continues his sprint to the finish. At this time, Reve and Jaxon hit the peak and sprint towards the finish. "Now.." Rogue speeds up and lunges past them, taking them both by surprise. Rogue then leaps for the finish where Wendy and Beth were standing, but Reve and Jaxon both grab him by the collar and pull him back. Before he could react, Reve was pointing a shot gun right to his gut and open fired, slamming a burst shot right into Rogue's gut. The shadow dragon slayer goes falling backwards into the ground as he rolled a bit. Still running, Reve finishes right Before Jaxon. "And both White Eclipse mages finish, giving them six and four points to A and B!"
Coming up now was Jura and Blues. Blues tackles the mage in front of him, taking Jura down with him. They both scramble for the finish line, crawling with everything they had. Blues was an inch ahead as he reached, but then a golden blur passes right past him as it lands in the circle. "Oh my what a comeback! Fairy Tail B steals three points!
"Shit" Blues yells as he scrambled across the circles right in front of Jura and the just now awakened Rogue who came in last. "Blues finishes for Quatro Cerberus, giving him two points! Jura gives Lamia Scale one point! That leaves Rogue with zero, poor Sabertooth."
"This is insane!" Sting yells out. "We are better than this!"
"Well, at least he was able to get some points." Mirajane said, talking about her teammate Mystogan.
"We'll make up for it." Laxus stated.
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"Ha! Told ya!" Ruika holds her hand out as Kiora, Maggie and Tobias all hand over a small bag of jewel.
"Told ya, I knew that weird carrot girl was gonna win."
"Tch, lucky guess." Tobias scoffed.
"Why!?" Kiora cried out. "Why did I listen to Tobias about Jellal!? I never listen to Tobias! Why would I even consider listening to Tobias!?"
"Calm down Kiora, I betted on that wanker Rogue and he came in dead last. At least yours got points." Maggie huffs as she turns back to the arena.
"But..." Kiora sniffled. "I was gonna buy things with that."
"Shouldn't have bet." Ruika states as she runs her hands through the gold. As she does so, Chapati begins to speak over the microphone.
"It's time for the fights again! And this time, Fairy Tail A's Lucy Heartfilia! Vs. Sabertooth's Yukino Aguria! That's right, the two celestial mages are about to go at it!" Everyone from Tartaros stops, and then turns to Ruika. Ruika stops on the dime. "Did he say..." Her eye begins to twitch. Ruika drops the jewel from her hands as she stares down at the two female mages taking the arena.
"Ruika..lets stay calm now." Maggie says to her, trying to keep Ruika relaxed.
"Celestial mages... Two of them, in the same place...I want both of their faces mounted on my wall."
"Good luck to you Yukino!" Lucy yells as she waved. Yukino smiles and then bows. "You too Lucy!"
"Fighters ready-Kabo!?"
"Begin!"
Lucy and Yukino both grab a key from their side. "Open! Gate of the paired fish, Pisces!" Out of its gate, two giant fish begin to hover above and throughout the arena.
AYEEEE! THEY'RE BACK!" Happy yells in excitement as he begins to drool out of his mouth.
"Calm down He-cat." Charla sighs out in embarrassment.
"She's starting off strong. In that case, open! Gate of the lion! Loke!" Loke walks out of his gate with his hands in his pockets as he looks up at the two giant fish. "For Lucy, I'll win this fight. His fists begin to glow a golden orange light as he takes off towards Yukino herself. The black fish cuts Loke off by slamming into his side head first. Loke goes sliding as the other half of Pisces begins heading towards Lucy.
"Lucy!" Loke calls out. Lucy lifts up another key. "Open! Gate of the ram! Aries!" Out of the shining gate is Aries the white lamb. "Wool bomb!" She quickly fires a large clump of wool at the white fish, stopping it in its tracks. "Loke now!" Lucy calls for her celestial spirit. Loke smirks and begins to charge his regulas attack. "Open! Gate of the scales! Libra!" Yukino lifted her key into the air as it glowed. Then out of her gate, came Libra. The second she touched down, She shifted the gravity against Loke, causing him to lose concentration. "Loke hang on!" Lucy quickly pulled out her whip and swings it at Loke, wrapping it around his waist. She then pulls him out of the gravity shift. "Heh. Thanks Lucy. Now.." Loke begins charging Yukino. The black fish of Pisces begins to charge at him again, but Loke slides to a halt and turns to it. "Regulus punch!" He rears back a right fist and slams it into Pisces, the impact so strong that Pisces begins to disperse and leave back towards the celestial world. "Nice job! Now to Yukino!" Lucy yells as she points to the other key holder!
"Not so fast Lucy. Libra!"
"Aries!"
Before Libra could shit the gravity against Loke to keep her away from Yukino.. "Wool Bomb!" Aries fires off her patented wool bomb, consuming Libra inside and temporarily useless. "Oh no.." Yukino takes a step back. "Finish it Loke!"
"Right!" Loke begins charging Yukino again.
"You both suck!" Ruika yells at the top of her lungs, even though no one from the arena could hear her from that far. "You're both horrible Celestial Mages, and I'll personally kill you both!"
"Damn Ruika calm down girl." Kiora snickers. "We all know who's better."
"Hmph.. Of course you do.. It's not even worth debating. I would easily destroy them both."
"Well you'll probably get your chance sooner or later." Daityas adds.
"I can't wait."
"Regulus.." Loke rears back a fist that he aims at Yukino, looking for the final blow.
Yukino lifts a key into the air. "Open...gate of the snake charmer. Ophiuchus." As the clouds darken, an incredibly long, Mechanical snake comes sliding out of the gate. Immediately ramming into Loke, slamming him into the ground. It then makes its way, and then slams into Aries, causing her to go tumbling, until she returns to her gate. "Aries! Loke!" Lucy cries out.
"I'm fine.." Loke says as he struggles to his feet.
Lucy begins to look on with worry. "I don't know anything about..."
"Ophiuchus!?" Ruika jumped up with wide eyes.
"Hm? Something special about that one Ruika?" Tobias asked.
"Shut up Tobias."
"Something special about that one Ruika?" Kiora repeated Tobias's question exactly.
"That's a powerful spirit. But how did that two bit mage get her hands on it!" I MUST have it!" Ruika clenches both of her fists as her eyes light up. She quickly then composes herself as a small gate opens. A miniature devil looking dog that oddly resembles Plue appears on her shoulders. She pats the little devil on the head. "Well aren't you anxious Devillo." Ruika smirks at the devil as it smiles back, looking down at the fight.
"It's you and him Loke!" Lucy shouts.
"Right!" Loke stares down the moving snake as Yukino looks on at Lucy.
"Is she not planning to summon another spirit? She's just sticking with Loke?"
Loke and Ophiuchus continue to trade blows. Loke's punches begin to leave dents in the mechanical snake as Ophiuchus continues leaving bruises against Loke with each impact.
"Time!" The pumpkin headed host yells.
"What a fight! But with neither side giving in, or seems this match has ended in a draw, giving both sides five points."
"BOOO! You both suck!" The other Tartaros mages couldn't help but laugh at Ruika and her distaste for the other celestial wizards.
"That gives Fairy Tail A thirty 39 points for the day, and Sabertooth still an unimpressive fourteen."
"Did he have to say unimpressive?" Sting says as he face palms.
"We obviously didn't come prepared this year.." Rogue stated. "And we're missing our sadism.
"Our sadism?" Orga questioned as Yukino walks back to the group.
"The old master and Minerva were evil, but we weren't. It gave us a sadistic balance. We took no prisoners. Now...we're nice. We don't have anyone to balance us out."
"Huh? Well what about Fairy Tail?" Rufus asked.
"Don't let them fool you. They're our allies now, but Fairy Tail is as sadistic as they come in a way. White Eclipse as well. When it comes to competition, they all fight until there is none, while we're over here cherishing it." Rogue lowers his head at his own words. "It's one thing to be a face in the eyes of everyone. It's another to completely give up who you are as a guild, and we've done that."
Everyone stays quiet at the harsh reality of Rogue Cheney's words. Sting then looks up at the leader board, seeing that they're the ones at the bottom now.
"Well then." Sting says as he slowly smirks. "This isn't over. We'll just have to remind them all, why we're Sabertooth."
"Next up! We have White Eclipse A's Adamantine! vs. Lamia Scale's Jura Neekis!"
Jura walks to the arena, standing across from an already waiting Adamantine. The crowd to this day, continued to awe at the massive build of the "mage."
"I really hope Jura doesn't push Adam of the edge." Calium states.
"Push him over the edge Jura. I dare you." Taya states just loud enough over the crowd.
Sidney smirks. "She's into it now. I can't wait for the final day. The dark vector mage."
In the middle of the stands, sat an elderly woman, she was well buried in the crowd to the naked eye. Her gray hair was wrapped in a bun.
"These are the mages I've had many an encounter with. I do miss the fights I can't lie about that." The elderly woman says to herself as she smiles softly.
"Excuse me miss?" Just then, a blonde haired male with a council captain uniform walks over to her seat, now standing in the way of her view.
"Hm?" She looks up at the youthful captain. "Is there something I can help you with young one?"
"Young one? Heh.. You're technically not that old, Ultear." The captain chuckled at her previous statement.
"How do you know my name? Who are you?" The woman now revealed as Ultear begins to become suspicious of the blonde haired male.
"Council advisor Ultear, it's me! Young Correll!" He smiles as he takes a seat next to her. It quickly clicks as soon as he says his name. "Correll? You've grown up quite well! You don't look like that perverted little kid that hung around Siegrain anymore. Much different."
"Heh, I'm a perverted young man now." He laughed.
"Some things never change I guess Correll. So what brings you here?"
"You bring me here, Ultear." The former time ark mage looks at Correll with a raised brow. "What do you mean?"
"Ultear... We've found a cure. Siegrain is back, and we want you back in the council."
"...get away from me Correll." Ultear scooted away from the captain as far as she could without invading anyone else's personal space.
"Wait, Ultear! Hear me out. I know you miss your youth. You were a powerful mage. Please just give this a chance. This isn't just about bringing you back to council."
"If Siegrain is back in power, why didn't he come here himself?" She asked.
"He's busy setting everything up. He has big plans! You still want Zeref stopped right!? This is our chance."
Her face perks up from Zeref's name. "Zeref.."
"Begin!"
The host throws his hands down to initiate the start of the fight. Adam unfolds his arms and begins walking towards Jura in a stalking matter. "I feel like breaking you in two, wizard saint." He spoke in such an animalistic tone, as if not human. Jura smirked as he raised to fingers just below his own chin. "We'll see about that, Adam-Dono." Out of the ground, Jura conjures an iron rock fist that comes hurling towards Adamantine. "Heh." Adam merely rears a fist back, and slams it into the giant iron rock fist, shattering it to pieces. "Are you serious!?" Lyon shouted.
"What is this guy!?" Bacchus yells.
"He is definitely a man." Elfman states as he looks on in shock.
"I want to fight him." Natsu smirks as he looks on with amusement.
"That's our big guy!" Reve shouted.
"Hmph." Jura stays poised as Adam continues walking toward him. "My turn. Ice.." Adam puffs his cheeks, and then fires a gigantic funnel of Ice towards Jura. "Roar!" Jura quickly puts up wall after wall of tall stone, about ten in all, but the roar breaks them all down easily and then slams into the wizard saint, causing him to go sliding back a great deal from the cushioned blow. "It broke through!" Lyon was still in shock at the power Adam had. "And he's not even an S class? This has to be a mistake on their guild's part."
"I won't be dominated! Supreme rock crush!" Taking the shattered rocks from the rock wall and fist, Jura controls them and surrounds Adam with the broken sediments. With a strong flick of the wrist, leading with his two fingers, Jura buries Adamantine in stones. "He's got him!" Elfman yells.
"Finish him!" Lyon shouts with excitement. Jura nods, and with another flip of the wrist, the mini mountain of rocks explode with Adam inside.
When the debris clears, Adam stands there. A few scratches were seen on his body through his now ripped sleeveless shirt. "...Aira made this for me. Do you know how hard it is to find my size?" Adam rips his shirt off completely as a magic circle appears under Jura. Without warning, a giant glacier shoots up from under him, causing Jura to go flying high into the air. All eyes were on Adam as he crouched down, and then launched himself into the air. He leaped himself right next to the still ascending Jura who couldn't do anything but look at Adam with wide eyes. "I think there's a bed right next to Fullbuster in the infirmary."
"You...bastard." And with that, Adam slams an elbow right into the sternum of Jura, sending him speeding down into the ground. When the dust cloud cleared, it was obvious that Jura was out cold.
"...J-Jura is unable to fight-Kabo! The winner is Adamantine!"
"And White Eclipse...White Eclipse A picks up the win!" Chapati shouts in a stunned like tone. "We may need to get some medical help for Jura."
"M-monster!" All of Lamia Scale look on in disbelief.
"And don't forget it." Adamantine says with a grin. "It's White Eclipse."
"Or second place!" The guild members yell. "I told you." Taya added on. "There's no way in hell you'll be able to beat us."
"Oh shut up!" Natsu steps to the near middle of the arena. He then points at Adam as he stood inches away. "No one from Fairy Tail is afraid of you! You're just another person like everyone else! We can defeat you!"
"That's the thing Dragneel!" Adam's eyes begin to change as he looks down at the Salamander. The excitement of battle had him off his focus as his pupils shift from round to oval, like a dragon's. "I'm not just another person!"
"Adam just blew his cover." Takeru thought to himself.
Reve quickly jogs over and grabs Adamantine by the arm, snapping the dragon out of his own trance. "Easy big guy. We're done here. Move along Natsu."
Adam begins walking away from Natsu with Reve but it was too late by then. Natsu was snarling. He picked up the scent that Adam tried so hard to mask. Standing there for a few more seconds he begins walking back to the team. Lucy looks at Natsu with concern.
"What's wrong Natsu.?" She asked.
"White Eclipse's Adamantine.
He's a dragon."
