White Eclipse
Chapter 37
"Siegrain sir." Lahar had entered the room and bowed upon his arrival. "I've just been contacted by Correll. Ultear has been persuaded, and they will be here shortly."
Siegrain smirks. He stood alone on the council magic circle as he had a lacrima screen active, watching the Grand Magic Games take place. The room was dark, only the magic circle and the lacrima screen gave off light, just enough to see Siegrain. "That's not news to me. I knew my dear Ultear wouldn't pass up a chance to regain her youth. Now everything is coming to plan. I will reign supreme in Fiore with this plan. Once Ultear gets here Lahar, leave us be. I have much to do before the Grand Magic Games end tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Lahar raised a brow in confusion. "Sir, I think you're mistaken. The games still have three more days left including today."
Siegrain grins as he folds his arms, eyes still fixated on the lacrima screen. "Don't worry, I know what I'm saying and I've taken care of that, Lahar." Lahar decides not to question as he bows again. "Alright, well I'll be taking my leave then." Lahar walks out, and the minute he does, two familiar faces walk out from the shadows. A kid, and an older man. Silent Sanctum's master and strongest mage, Jikan Calium and Aloysis. The young Jikan Calium stepped onto the magic circle to the right of Siegrain, while Aloy took to the left. Something was different about Aloysis however. He was, in uniform; a council guard uniform. On his chest was a badge that said "Lead captain." They both avert their eyes to the screen as Siegrain begins to speak.
"Alright, when Ultear gets here, you both will make yourself scarce until I can talk to her. Jikan, you'll thence your magic to make her the young and fearsome Ultear again. Everything is understood yes?"
Aloysis smirks. "Got it, 'sir.'"
"Not a problem." Jikan slowly starts swinging a pendulum from his middle finger, a small ticking sound was heard through each swing. "She'll be as good as new."
"Which is great." Aloy added. "I heard she was a beautiful thing when she was at her youth."
Siegrain can't help but laugh. "Alright you two. See you in a few minutes." Aloysis and Jikan back away into the shadows once again. Siegrain then smirks as he goes into his own thoughts.
"That foolish Daityas, mercifully handing over the tools I need to complete /my/ goals. Though I have no ties to the fool Jellal, if he thinks I'm really on his side to help that god monster destroy the world and 'start over in the world of magic,' he's sadly mistaken. I'll save us all, yet it'll be done my way, and then Fiore will have no choice, but to let me literally rule this land. So says your future king of Fiore, Siegrain!" He almost lets out a maniacal laugh on the outside but quickly stops himself and clears his throat. "Well then, lets finish watching the next to last day of these games shall we? I think I'll make an appearance there tomorrow."
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"Next in our fight, we have Araña Webb from Mermaid Heel! Vs. Gajeel Redfox!"
Gajeel grins as e walks to the arena, where Araña waited. He stood with his arms crossed as he waited for the host to drop his hands. "Fighters ready-Kabo!?" He then does so as he shouts "Begin!"
No one moves at first, Gajeel was hoping for some offense from the girl, but Araña waited patiently. "What? You mermaids are on a roll, you don't want to keep the spirit up?" The iron dragon slayer asked in a taunting tone.
"Oh..but I am." Araña smirks as she looks up at the clock, slowly receding in time.
"Don't look at the clock Araña." Kagura stated as she facepalmed, now looking at the ground, except her palm blocking her view.
"Gihehehe! You think you're gonna survive that long?"
"Gajeel, lets go." Laxus says, raising his voice.
"I don't remember teaching these runts to underestimate their opponent." Makarov states as he watches Gajeel with his arms folded, an entire minute gone by and still movement from either mage. "I do." Mavis chimed in with a smile. Makarov, in shock of her reply turns to her with a confused and shamed look. "When!?"
She turns to the old man and smiles. "You've done a marvelous job raising them, Makarov. You've also done a marvelous job helping them believe that there is no one stronger than Fairy Tail, but it seems recently, you've forgotten to draw the line between confidence and cockiness. If I didn't know who we were, I'd think we were White Eclipse just from the rumors.."
"Hold on!" Levy yells out.
"Levy!" Droy replied. "You can't yell at the first master like that!"
"I just did! I don't mean any disrespect Master Mavis, but Gajeel is not, nor are any of us, like them! And as a member I'll defend them against anyone who says other wise, guild master or not!"
"Levy..." Everyone looks at Levy and Mavis in shock, waiting for a reply.
"..." Master Mavis smiles. "Well at least we still have the most important Fairy Tail characteristic. Though my words may be harsh Levy, they don't ring any false accusations. Didn't you guys laugh when those two White Eclipse boys tell you why you didn't see them at last year's games?" Before anyone could answer, Mavis continued. "And Macao, if I'm not mistaken, where were we the year before that? And the year before that?" Instead of answering, he lowers his head, knowing that any response was a bad one.
Mavis smiles again as she looks back at Fairy Tail. "Don't ever get my words wrong. I'll always love you guys. You could become a dark guild and I would still love Fairy Tail, but it's a Master's job to point out your weaknesses so you can fix them, and since Makarov was part of the weakness this time, I felt like it was necessary." Levy, still upset, turns to the and cups her hands over her mouth.
"Lets go Gajeel!"
"Alright. Lets go!" Gajeel begins rushing towards Araña at full speed as he right fist turns into a retracted iron pole. He then fires the iron pole, extending it at a fast pace, towards Araña.
"Wait for it..." Kagura stated. "Now!"
And with that, Araña hops slightly to the left, avoiding the iron pole Gajeel threw. "Web shot!" As the iron pole hits the ground, Araña quickly fires her web shot at Gajeel's arm, concentrating her aim at the pole that was slammed into the dirt.
"What is she?" Gajeel begins to pull his arm out the ground, but halfway on the pull, his arm becomes stuck. "Oh I see your game. It won't work. Gihe!" Upon his laughter, Gajeel's arm turns into his iron sword. It then begins spinning as the blades quickly cut through the web. "Didn't count on that.." Araña gives a low growl as the charges Gajeel. She lunges forward with a flying kick, but Gajeel grabs her leg and tosses her in the air like a rag doll. "Web shot!" Araña recovers in mid air and off more strands of webs. Gajeel times the incoming webs and then rolls hard under them. He then springs into the air right behind the descending Araña. He then performs a flip kick aimed at the top of Araña's head. She blocks it, but the strength of Gajeel sends her flying to the ground anyways. As the dust clears, Araña was laying on the ground, but well awake, causing the host to not call he fight. "Here I come!" With his iron sword still out as his right hand, Gajeel dive bombs towards Araña. With nowhere to go in time, Araña covers up as a cloud of smoke appears from Gajeel's impact. When the smoke clears, the sword was lodged into the ground right beside Araña's head as Gajeel stood over her. "It's safe to say you give right?"
Araña nods, and the host throws his hands up. "Araña has forfeited-Kabo! The winner is Gajeel!"
"Gihe.." Gajeel walks back to his team as Araña shamefully walks back over to Mermaid Heel.
"Alright!" Chapati yells. "It's time for the last match today! But before we begin, I have a stunning announcemt for you all. I have a letter from the council, stating that an mandatory job is coming up shortly, and some of the guilds in this contest are needed for this mission. Therefore, tomorrow is the last day of the Grand Magic Games!"
"What!?" Sting yells out.
"Well there goes our comeback." Orga states. Rogue merely sighs.
"That's unfair!" Lyon yells out.
"Oh can it ice maker." Adam replied. "It's not like you were catching up anyways. You have four points."
"This last match is really important for both teams then." Sidney thought to himself. "If Quatro Cerberus wins, they'll be in the running still for champions come tomorrow. But if our B team wins, we'll start out in the lead for tomorrow, and since we planned on putting all of our best on the last day, that would almost insure victory. I guess we'll just have to see how this plays out then. It's either Jaxon, or Selene that's up against either Bacchus or that other Kuro guy. Jaxon can take Kuro just from his weather magic beats water...but Selene is a good match for Bacchus... Any other way, it'll come down to who wants it more, and I still believe in White Eclipse in that category.
"Okay! For the final match, we have Selene Marquise! Vs... Bacchus!"
"Heh." Sidney smirks. "I don't know about any improvements Bacchus has made, but on paper, Selene is the clear winner here."
Bacchus waits with Selene, his gourd in his right left hand, dangling from his finger tips. Selene walks up as the host holds his hands in the air.
"Fighters ready-Kabo?"
"Hold on.." Bacchus lifts the gourd up. "My team needs this win. So I'm not pulling any punches." As he finished his statement, Bacchus lifts the gourd and begins to down the alcohol inside, all the way down to the last drop. He wipes his mouth as his eyes become droopy. A small smile was now plastered cross his face. "I know about your diamonds, you're no secret. And it just makes my soul quiver to know that my bare palms have to get through your diamond scales." He looks over at the host, giving the signal that he's ready as Selene, with a determined face, stands ready.
"Begin!"
Immediately, Bacchus takes off at full speed. Selene beats him to the punch, throwing a plain right hook, but Bacchus stops on the mark and bends backwards to the left, dodging the blow. He follows with a combination of open palm strikes that Selene manages to dodge up until the last one. She blocks that one as she goes for a leg sweep. Bacchus hops over the sweep and on his way down he adds force to his legs, causing the ground to shake when he touches down. Selene loses balance due to this, which leaves her open as Bacchus slams one of his magic palms into her abdomen, causing Selene to go tumbling into the ground. She stands up quickly however and with an emotionless stare, she charges back at the drunken Mage, covering her arms in diamonds. She began swinging fast paced, but not as fast as her bare fists punches at Bacchus. He counters by stepping backwards and dodging the blows, slapping away the punches and looking for an opening. "Gotcha!" Upon finding one, he fires another palm aimed right for her chest, but Selene ducks. "As if." Selene twists her diamond encrusted right fist and slams an uppercut to Bacchus's jaw. Bacchus takes a rumble into the dirt after hovering from the blow after a few seconds. He too quickly stands as the two mages glare at each other from across the arena. The crowd roars as the two begin charging at the same time, meeting in the middle as the collide fist to palm, creating a shockwave.
"Lets go Bacchus! Wild!" Blues yells out!
"Four!" The other Cerberus members roar in excitement.
"Come on Selene!" Takeru yells. "You can do it!" Calium looks over at Takeru and smiles at his enthusiasm. "Heh, little brat hasn't cheered so loud this entire week. How cute."
Selene releases her punch and begins firing off a combination of punches once again. The drunk one, parries once again. Bacchus then ducks a left straight and smirks. "Done." From behind his shoulder, he swings a right palm towards Selene in a U shape, slamming right into her jaw. Before Selene could go anywhere, Bacchus quickly grabs her leg to keep her from flying off. He then slams her into the ground and lifts his leg, going for his patented stomp. A loud slam was heard, but as the dusts settles, Selene was seen on her knees, holding up Bacchus's leg by her diamond coated arm. She then pushes him off and the quickly takes aim at the drunk with her left arm. "Done?" She says in a mocking tone as she fires off a plethora of small but high speed pointed diamonds. Bacchus sees it coming, but with no where to go he quickly covers himself by using his arms to shield his body. The diamonds slam into him nonstop, pinning him against the nearest wall. This last for a good ten seconds before Bacchus finally was able to roll out of the way. Now running from the diamonds, Bacchus makes his way under them and sprints full speed for Selene. Selene stops firing but not in time as Bacchus was already inside. Yet when Bacchus goes to fire another magic palm, Selene merely lifts a leg up to block the strike with her knee. Since Bacchus was much taller, she had to hop up a bit to block successfully, and since she did so, she used the momentum to slam a roundhouse to Bacchus's head. His head snapped over to the left, but he chuckles as he comes right back, grabbing Selene by her collar and shoving his knee into her gut, causing her to fold over. Wide open, Bacchus hip tosses Selene to the ground and stands over her. In an amazing pace, Bacchus slams palm after magic palm into the face and body of Selene.
"Selene!" Tak yells out. "Get up!"
"Come on Selena." Reve says, but not too loud. "You're better than that."
"It's now or never girl!" Nami yells.
Bacchus begins laughing as he continues slamming his palms all around the grounded Selene. Finally, after taking the abuse.. "Roar... Of the diamond dragon!" Selene fires a point blank diamond dragon's roar into the sternum of Bacchus. The S class mage is sent flying into the air, and then falls hard feet away from Selene who was slowly making her way to her feet. Not only that, but she reappears with the diamond scales on her head and face, as well around her exposed arms. Bacchus makes his way to his feet as well.
"This fight is going by fast." Cana says as she looks on impressed.
"That's because they're both going all out." Laxus replied. "Not a single punch is being pulled. This is strange for Bacchus but he has no choice but respect that diamond girl's defense and offensive abilities. I thought that was his only problem, but it seems she's also a savy fighter."
"Selene he can't hold you!" Cygnus yells.
"Hit him where it hurts!" Zain yells out as well. The rest of White Eclipse starts to cheer, drowning out the rest of Quatro Cerberus. "Do it for first place! That's what we are!" Cygnus was almost as loud as Takeru as they continued yelling. Selene couldn't help but smirk, for the first time since she's been here. "You guys are embarrassing." She re-focuses as Bacchus paints a grin on his face. "Alright, that was a fun warm up."
"What!?" Cana says in shock.
"He's bluffing." Erza says as she watches on with her arms folded. "Come on Bacchus, bluffs don't work like that anymore.
"Heh, yeah right. I'll show you a warm up." Selene grins as she conjures up a magic circle directly under Bacchus. A diamond tower shoots out from under the mage, but Bacchus slams his palm into the tower as it appears. He used the momentum to flip off and dive
Bombs towards Selene head first.
"He's not..." Blues looked on lost for words.
"He's insane, he'll lose that for real even if it's a man of a move!" Elfman chimed in.
"WILD!"
"You wanna go!?" Selene rears her diamond coated head backwards. And with perfect timing, she slams her forehead into Bacchus's incoming dive bombing headbutt. The two blows colliding create a massive shockwave. The collision was so perfect that Bacchus stayed hovering mid air for a few more seconds...until a trail of blood began to run down his forehead, past his nose and down to his chin. "Heh..Wild..." He lands on the ground...standing on his feet. Seconds later, cracking sounds could be heard. Upon a closer look, Selene's diamond scales could be seen peeling off from the crack in them. "There's no way!" Takeru shouted.
Gajeel looked on in shock. The diamonds he couldn't get through back when they fought, were being shattered by mere flesh and bone. "Bacchus is truly amazing.." Sting says as he waits for the outcome.
"It's about who falls first! Don't you do it Selene!" Taya yells as she grips the railing.
Selene and Bacchus both stand there, blood slowly flows from Bacchus skull while Selene's diamonds break off piece by piece. Selene gives a small smirk. Bacchus returns it...and falls backwards. "He's going down!" Takeru yells. He begins to cheer until Reve interrupts. "Selene move!" It was too late. What looked like Bacchus falling, was just him leaning back in his unorthodox manner. "FOUR!" He swings himself back up with incredible force, slamming another headbutt into Selene's head. Another seemingly stalemate occurs, but a few seconds later, Selene hits the ground.
"Selene!"
"Get up right now!"
"Bacchus did it!" Rocker yells as Quatro Cerberus cheers.
The host looks over at Selene. "Selene is unable-"
"...Wait!"
"What!?" Bacchus turns back in shock as Selene makes her way to her feet slowly. Panting heavily, she winces as she looks at Bacchus. "Selene..." Tak and the others watch her carefully.
"I'm not..done. I'm not...-" Before Selene could utter another word, she falls over again. This time out cold.
"That's a wild spirit you got there. I hope you keep that."
"Bacchus wins-Kabo!"
The crowd cheers as Bacchus slides on his knees and throws his hands in the air. Quatro Cerberus was back in the hunt to become winners of the Grand Magic games.
"WILD!"
"FOUR!"
Tak quickly runs over to Selene who was just making her way to a sitting position.
"You okay?"
Selene nods her head, and then makes her way to a stance. Unable to look at anyone, she then walks back to her team with Tak with her head down. As she walked towards them, an uproar of applause came over the White Eclipse fanbase and then some. Random positive comments and shouts about White Eclipse came from the crowd as Selene kept walking. "We just wanted you in the picture!" Selene looks up at Reve who was yelling as he pointed at Bacchus and Quatro Cerberus. "We know we can beat Fairy Tail easily! So hey, how about throw in the puppies as well right!?"
Bacchus eye twitches from the puppy reference. "You're out of your league. You'll see tomorrow."
"No you'll see!" Reve responded. "I feel bad for making my teammate let you look good. But tomorrow, whether fairy or puppy. Lamia or Sabertooth. Mermaids too! You're all going down. Because it's White Eclipse!"
"Or second place!" The crowd and the rest of the team yells.
"I said it's White Eclipse!"
"OR SECOND PLACE!"
"Screw that!" Natsu yelled from across the arena. He then threw up his fairy tail sign as both team A and B joins him, then the rest of the guild behind them. Then the crowd behind them. "You're all talk Volver." Erza stated. "We'll see what you're made of tomorrow!"
"I'm tired of all of you." Taya commented. "We'll show you why you fear us. We're the top guild here and it's time to shut the fairies up."
Takeru slams his fist into his palm. "Finally, some action is coming my way." He then points at Natsu. "There's no running. No one to stop me, from getting rid of you, Dragneel."
"I'll make sure the weather is to our liking tomorrow. Heh. This will be a day to remember, might as well make the forecast the same." Jaxon chuckles as he looks over at Kuro and Blues. "No water in the world can save you for what's coming."
"My! It's coming down to this finally event tomorrow! The all out fight! Teams vs teams! Who will win it! I'm becoming restless just thinking about it! This has been Chapati Lola. We'll see you all tomorrow!"
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"Why is it getting cut short though?" Kiora wondered.
"I'm sure Siegrain has something to do with it. And if he double crosses us.." Daityas continues to stare at the arena.
"The bloke doesn't have the stones to do such a thing. It's the other Bluenette we have to watch." Maggie chimed in.
"If you ask me-"
"No one asked you Tobias!" Kiora yelled back.
"...well anyways. I feel like Siegrain isn't completely innocent."
"Well no shit." Daityas replied. "But either way, he'll be dealt with if he crosses me. Rugal, transport to the council HQ for a surprise visit."
Rugal smirks. "No problem, Daityas." And with that, Rugal summons a portal and sinks into it, disappearing along with the portal he created.
"Sora's hungry." The young, pink haired girl stated.
"Sora isn't cute so she needs to not talk in third person like some little brat." Kiora responded.
"Kiora..."
"I'm just saying Arc."
Arc walks up to the front of the group, right behind Daityas as he lifts Sora up and onto his shoulders. She smiles contently as she hugs the top of his head. "I'm glad you're home by the way Arcy."
"It's good to be around family Sora." Arc replies. "A family that kills together, stays together."
"What about Taya by the way?" Ruika asked, finally coming down from her obsession over the celestial mages.
"Simple, we kill her. After the games, we kill her, then we use the vase to bring her back."
Daityas turns and walks away from the arena sight. Everyone else follows behind. Sora begins clapping her hands in rhythm as they all walk off.
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Later that night, the members of White Eclipse all sit around. All were
Seated except Reve and Taya who were in uniform. They both took turns organizing their teams.
"This is it guys. The scores are close. We're both tied with thirty three. Fairy Tail A had thirty nine. Fairy Tail B has thirty three as well though. But Quatro Cerberus has thirty six. And Mermaid Heel is a one woman wrecking crew, Kagura, and they have thirty points. Me and Taya talked to Sidney and the master, and we've all agreed on who is participating in the final event. I'll start. Zalen."
"Huh!?" Zalen perks up. "Me?"
"Don't act surprised, have I ever done anything without you?" He smirks at Zalen as he goes to continue. "Tak, Jack and Kuro."
"I'm all in." Jack says as he takes a swig on of his drink.
"I'll make up for ditching you guys I promise!" Kuro yells as he pumps his fists. Takeru stays quiet as he waits for Taya to begin.
"Alright ladies, and Luke. And by ladies I mean, Me, Heather, Jaxon and Nami."
"Hey now." Jaxon says as he smirks.
"Heh, you're a man Jaxon we know."
Calium then walks into the middle of the room. "Cygnus, Skye, Selene, Kairi, all of you. Thank you all for your contribution to the games. You all did marvelous. Adam, we can't risk you participating anymore. You understand." Adamantine nods. "You ten...bring us home. Win or lose, we're still White Eclipse. Nothing will separate us. Especially not any games."
"Good luck brats."
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"Siegrain-Senpai!" Correll jogs into the council room, Siegrain was standing alone. "Here she is! Council lady Ultear!" Correll bows as the elderly Ultear walks into the room. Siegrain puts on an excited smile as he walks toward his former partner in council crime. "Ultear. It's been so long."
"Don't talk, lets just do this first, and if it works, we'll negotiate." Taken back for a quick second, Siegrain smiles again as he nods to Correll for him to leave. As the blonde does so, Jikan Calium walks back out of the shadows. "Ultear, you want your youth back yes?"
"Isn't that why I'm here?" She snapped back.
"Ah, you can tell that her mind is still young with such tongue." Jikan laughed to himself as he shows the pendulum, motioning for Siegrain to clear out the way. As he does, the pendulum swings and a black magic circle appears under Ultear, shooting magic pressure up from under her.
"Just relax Ultear.
This is what you wanted.
To be young again."
