White Eclipse
Chapter 39
"...No.."
Gajeel hit the ground, laying there with no movement. A small floating lacrima screen comes floating over the mage to give the call that's he's out of the fight.
"I'm sure he wasn't the captain though." Araña says.
"That's fine! One point at a time!" Millianna replied.
"Come." Kagura continues walking until she readies her gravity manipulation magic. "Lets go before the poison takes the streets again."
"Right!" The two girls say in unison. Millianna jogged toward Kagura.
Araña took a step forward, only to have her foot grabbed. "What the!?"
"Gihe!" Kagura and Millianna turn to see Araña being thrown to the right by a now bruised, but standing Gajeel. He follow his toss with an iron pole, slamming right into her face. The pole adds more force and momentum as she slams into a building, out cold. The miniature lacrima screen goes to check on Araña, and after a few seconds, counts her as KO'ed, giving Fairy Tail B one point.
"How!?" Kagura looked on in shock along with Millianna.
"You really think one slice from that puny sword has anything against the iron dragon slayer!?" Gajeel taunted, though the giant gash on his chest was all but invisible. Yet, Gajeel still grinned sadistically as if he was unphased.
"I'll show you!"
"Millianna wait!" Kagura reached out and shouted for her, but it was too late.
"Nekōsoku Tube!" She fires off another strand of the rubbery tube directed at Gajeel, but with that same smirk plastered on his face, he merely side steps the incoming attack. He then aims a right hook to Millianna. She ducks and swings a left high kick that Gajeel easily blocks. Millianna continues throwing a barrage of punches and kicks, until Gajeel ducks a spinning kick she threw. Millianna comes full circle to an iron pole uppercut. The pole extending high into the air just to lift Millianna into the sky.
"Millianna!" Kagura yells out as Millianna hits the ground, unconscious. The lacrima screen does its look over and then rewards Gajeel and his team the point. Gajeel then turns his head, leaning back a bit as he grins at Kagura. "If you run, Kagura, I won't blame you. I have a plan to execute and you're holding me back."
Kagura scowls as she crouches and grips her sword. She averts her eyes back to the poison gas that was slowly moving back to the middle of the street. She then looked back at Gajeel with a small smirk of her own.
"Run? I've faced worst things than an iron eating mage." She twists her sword a bit as Gajeel crouches into a readied stance.
"I'll cut you down with one slice."
"That ship has already sailed. Gihe!"
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"The middle. In the middle, everyone is converging soon. They have no choice unless they choose to take their chances with the poison, and Heather's poison isn't something to toy with." Sidney continues to talk aloud his strategy as the events occur. "And that's only the beginning. With Reve's target eyes and his long ranged Devil's wheel, your options of movement are very limited." He looks over at Mavis and Makarov, seeing the worried looks on their faces. "We're just getting started. We're the strongest team."
"Yeah!" Skye screams out. "Because it's White Eclipse!"
"Or second place." Sidney stated as he turns back to the lacrima screen.
Back in the city, Rufus walks around, looking for an opponent alone. Every street he comes to doesn't take long before cutting off and causing him to turn left. "Hm? I don't remember the streets being like this." Rufus turns left again, and again. "Yeah, this is definitely wrong." Rufus then stops in the middle of the street as he stares straight ahead at the building right before the left turn. "I see it now." He says as he turns around, staring at the other building, which looked exactly like the one right behind him. "They're the exact same building. But how?" As Rufus turns back around to the first building he stared at, Nami comes sliding around the corner with her hands cupped. A glowing bright light was formed as a ball between her cupped hands.
"Huh!?" Rufus turns around as Nami thrusts her arms forward, firing off a giant stream off light. "Holy Nova!"
"Our next step." Sidney states. "Get rid of who you believe the dark horse is."
Nami fires her giant beam of light, and it hurls towards Rufus, yet, it goes right through the mage. "That was just your memory of where I last was" Rufus says as he appears a bit off to the right from the giant blast. "Oh I know." Nami replies with a smirk. Rufus raises a brow at her confidence, and just then. The building behind Rufus shatters like the mirror it was. Behind the now broken pieces, was Luke, who conjures up another motto using a magic circle. He tilts his magic circle as the beam of light hits it. The beam then comes roaring back towards Rufus at an even faster pace. "What!?" Rufus was too off guard, and the reflected Holy Nova slams into the Memory Make Mage, causing him to go flying into the nearest building, right past Nami, out cold, giving a point to Eclipse B.
"They knew Rufus was going to use his memory make magic to dodge,
So the mirror Luke created was not only a distraction, it was used to reflect the light magic back at Rufus once he dodged." Mavis looks on with concern at the screen, then turns and smirks at Sidney. "I must say, he's got it figured out."
"But he hasn't touched any of us yet!" Makarov said as he began laughing.
"He's not planning to." Mavis replied, which stopped Makarov's laughter. "What do you mean first master?" Macao asked.
"Isn't it obvious? They want us. Ten on ten, or at least the exact number of whoever is left. My strategy was created for us to win. Sidney's...was created to single out Fairy Tail..."
Luke and Nami simply nod and grin at each other as they both take off in opposite directions.
Lamia scale jogged together, planning to attack as a team. With Lyon and Jura leading the way, they took a right and ran down a long road in the city of Crocus.
"These streets are pretty empty for it to be inhabited by eight teams!" Chelia called out as she ran behind Lyon, who was right begin Jura. Yuka and Toby brought up the rear. "That is strange, so keep your eyes peeled." Lyon replied.
"This is our chance for a comeback OOOO-"
Toby's words were cut off. While he was talking...Takeru sprouted from the ground after traveling in his shadow form, similar to the one Rogue uses. He had grabbed Toby from behind and pulled him down through the ground using his shadow form. Everyone stops running due to Toby not finishing his sentence. "Toby? Toby!?" Yuka calls out for him as they all begin to look around frantically, not seeing a single person in sight. However, White Eclipse A's score was seen going up a point. From the wall of a random building in front of Chelia, Toby was seen being spat out by a shadow. The shadow quickly disappears as Chelia yelps then covers her mouth at Toby's heavily bruised yet unconscious body. "Toby!" Lyon yells and sets to run for him, but Jura grabs Lyon and forces him to his back. The remaining four mages now stand back to back, keeping their eyes peeled.
"Well! This is quite exciting!" Siegrain says as he laughs. "Wouldn't you say Ultear?"
Ultear stood beside the seated Siegrain with a smirk on her face and her youth restored. The once curvaceous time ark mage stood once again, as if her age had never accelerated. "I'll admit. White Eclipse is showing a real sadistic side to them. Which is something every guild needs to be successful."
"Tch...anyone see anything!?" Lyon called out.
"Nothing.." Yuka replied as he growled.
"Not yet.." Chelia chimed in. Just then, a sparkle in the sky catches the eye of the Sky god slayer. "Huh?" A beam of magic comes roaring towards her at such an incredible pace. She lets out a yell as she couldn't really regain herself to react.
"Not on my watch!" Yuka jumps a few feet in front of Chelia, and disperses the bullet with his wave magic. Chelia opens her eyes from the wincing, preparing for the strike to see that Yuka had saved her. "Y-Yuka.." She said with a thankful smile.
Yuka turned his head to her and have a cheesy smile. As he did so, like a zombie from the grave, Takeru rose from the ground, out of his shadow form in front of the unaware Yuka. His hair covering his eyes, making him look even scarier than he actually was. Chelia's eyes widen, but she couldn't get a word out fast enough. "Yuka!" Lyon and Jura yelled at the same time, but it was too late. Takeru had Yuka in a hold and dragged him through the ground, reactivating his shadow form. "Yuka!" Chelia called out for him, but a few seconds later, White Eclipse A's score changes again, giving them another point.
"That bastard!" Lyon growls as he clenches a fist, watching Yuka resurface from the ground, bruised and unconscious.
"And just like that, we're only down by five." Sidney says with a smug tone. "And we haven't hit a captain yet. My guess is that it's Jura, he's the strongest."
"Maybe Sidney, but then again, Lyon is a very prideful person." Calium added.
"Either way master, their both about to go down."
"Lyon! Jura! So something!" Chelia cried out.
"Get ahold of yourself Chelia!" Lyon yelled out, causing her to jump a little, but straighten up. "We have to stay alert. There's bullets coming from the sky, yet they're just a distraction. That shadow dragon slayer is the one doing the damage."
"Don't underestimate Reve, Lyon-Dono. He is their S class after all."
"No time for admiration Jura!" Lyon yelled back. As he did, the ground began to shake. "Jura?" Chelia called out, confused.
"That's not me- everyone out the way!" Jura pushed Lyon and Chelia out of the radius of the brown magic circle that had quickly appeared under them, leaving Jura by himself as the stone path from under him collapses, causing Jura to fall underground. Walking around the corner, was Jack Royal. He holds out a palm and then clenches a fist as the rumbling becomes heavier. Suddenly, the hole Jura fell through, violently closes. Jack comes into Lyon and Chelia's view as he takes a swig from the wine bottle in his hand. "Aye... They need to redo the wizard saints list, and just give them to the ten strongest White Eclipse mages." As Jack chuckles, White Eclipse A's score changes again. This time...by five points. Jack then begins to let out a drunken laugh as he saw the score change. "Well then! Looks like I hit the jackpot with that one!"
"I knew it." Sidney says as he crosses his arms, pleased at Jack. "It was Jura that was captaining this event.
Makarov begins to laugh. Everyone turns to him, his guild and White Eclipse both.
"What's so funny?" Sidney asked.
"Enlighten me as well." Mavis said in a concerned tone.
"You guys really have proven to be a thorn in Fairy Tail's side. We were over here sweating you guys and you haven't even went at us yet." Makarov continues laughing. "This is good. We have no problem ramming our foots down your throat, since you're asking for it."
"That's cute." Sidney shrugs as he turns back to the screen.
"Oh don't be so quiet now ghost mage Sidney. I want to hear you preach, all the way up to when Fairy Tail and White Eclipse meet. Don't let me stop your bold words."
Erza does sliding back from a small explosion, still in her normal armor and a single sword in her hand. Rocker comes out from the cloud of dust, his lower body spinning as he charged Erza once more. Erza closes her eyes, and with a shift of her sword, she ducks under Rocker's next punch, then slices right past the Mage, knocking Rocker clean out. The mini lacrima gives Rocker an unneeded look over and then rewards Fairy Tail A the point.
GoldMine facepalms and sighs, but doesn't say anything else as he continues watching.
"I believe that put us up by one." Erza says as she looks around for where to head to next. With her back turned, a whip made of water, yet hard as steel, comes swinging towards her. Erza perks up and quickly jumps away, causing the whip to miss. It hits the ground, bringing up a piece of the ground due to impact. Erza grips her sword with two hands as she now stares down Blues, the aquatic dragon slayer.
"Ehe..." Blues smirks as he fixes his tie. "Erza Scarlet has to be the captain of Fairy Tail team A without a doubt. I'll have the pleasure of taking her out."
Behind Blues, a clearing of the throat was heard, as Kuro of Quatro Cerberus walk up to the left of Blues.
"Excuse me, /We'll/ have the pleasure of taking you out, Erza."
"The water Dragon and the water God slayer of Quatro Cerberus. Not a bad situation." Erza begins to glow her golden aura as she quickly shifts into her Sea Empress armor.
"The Sea Empress armor." Kuro stated. "The armor that helps protect against water based attacks. The keyword is helps. We have plenty of time, our aquatic skills will still get through you, two on one." As Kuro finished talking, the two mages thrust their arms forward, firing off two well sized funnels of water, both hard as steel, spinning towards Erza. She braced herself for impact.
"Ice make:" At the last second, Gray Fullbuster slides in front of Erza and with his back to Blues and Kuro, he goes down to a knee as he spreads his arms out. "Shield!" Upon the call of his technique, a shield made completely of ice stands in front of him and Erza as the two funnels of water slam against it. Blues and Kuro stop firing and the shield disperses.
"Looks like it's not a two on one anymore." Gray states, already losing his jacket and shirt. "You guys aren't too far off behind us, so getting rid of you both would do us a big favor."
Blues smiles as he readies himself along with Kuro. "Well by all means. Bring it on fairies!"
"Lets go I have brownies riding on you guys!" Sora shouted. Rugal lets out a chuckle from her cheering.
"Maybe I should have bet on White Eclipse." Kiora says. "They have such a good plan going. It's almost rude."
"Too late now." Tobias said, interrupting Kiora. Kiora then put her foot to Tobias's back and shoved him off the tower. "Didn't ask you!" Tobias yells all the way down until he slams into the ground face first in an animated fashion.
Daityas's eyes were on his "star pupil" Kuro.
"What's your guy doing Daityas?" Rugal asked, referring to Kuro Crane who was once running, but now stood in the middle of the street, right before an intersection.
"Waiting..." Daityas replied, not adding anything to it.
"Well the bloke better hurry up with his blasted waiting. That poison is about to come from the left street." Maggie looked on, curious as to what Kuro was going to do about the situation.
"What do you think he's waiting on,
Maggie?" Arc added. "He doesn't see it yet like we do. Not from his angle, but I'm sure this is part of the plan. Look to the right street."
Maggie looks over to the opposite street of the poison gas, but Ruika spots him first.
"Hey that's that Sabertooth guy, Orga." Ruika chimes in.
"It makes sense now. What a sound strategy." Kiora says. "Kuro is about to head to the street opposite of the incoming poison."
"And he's prepared. Orga isn't. Kuro knows that someone is going to be over there. Orga doesn't know when his next opponent is coming." Rugal nods to his own comment as all eyes were on Kuro.
Kuro's eyes were on the intersection,
And just like that, from the left, he spots the poison gas from Heather begin to flow. Upon spotting the gas, Kuro slams his hands together as a bright red magic circle appears. "Fire make: Hermes!" From the ankles of his feet, two small wings made of flames come out from both sides of each foot. He immediately takes off running at a tremendous speed leaving a small trail of fire behind him. Just beating the poison, he turns to the right, and then takes another left, spotting Orga straight ahead. "Huh?" Orga spots a red blur coming his way, but before he could react, Kuro slams a right hook to the bulky lightning God slayers. Orga goes sliding backwards, yet he holds his ground as he winces from the shot. "You just messed up kid!" Orga roared as he faced off against Kuro.
"Okay, pause again. Am I the only one who is certain that that was the worst way to capitalize on that situation? Orga is too big for that, he should of used a fire make technique right?" Kiora continued questioning Kuro's actions as she looked on.
"I agree." Maggie added. "He could of KO'ed him with one shot but he did that instead."
Arc smirks. "He's saving magic. Man, whoever planned this attack strategy needs a gold star."
"Saving magic? What's he gonna do, fight Orga hand to hand?" Ruika asked. "I'm sorry but I don't care what training he got from hell boy over here, Kuro is a twig compared to Orga."
Arc laughs a bit, causing Sora to giggle as Arc's shoulders move up and down, giving her a mini roller coaster ride. "Are you sure you ladies are ready to take over Fiore?"
"Whatcha tryna say?" Kiora asked, a bit annoyed as she narrowed her eyes. Tobias was making his way back up the tower since no one would help him. Kiora spots the mage clawing his way back up over the ledge and quickly kicks him off again, listening to the animated screams of Tobias falling towards the ground. No one seemed to care at all as he hit the ground again.
"I'm saying look at the surroundings. Kuro left a small trail of fire with his Hermes. Poison gas is heading towards them. Kuro can manipulate his own fire. And finally, I'm almost positive that the girl's poison gas is highly flammable."
"Oh my Zeref, Orga is about to be blown to pieces." Ruika shouted.
"At least someone's catching on." Arc replied.
At the time, Tobias once again was panting, making his way back up the tower. Kiora spots him hanging over the ledge once again, and kicks him again, only this time, Tobias grabs her foot and smirks. "Not..this time!" Tobias pulls Kiora by the leg and throws Kiora off. Fortunately for her, Kiora was grabbed by Maggie before she fell.
"Tobias what the hell is wrong with you!?" Ruika yelled.
"Did you just try throw your own member off this tower!?" Maggie yelled.
"...Seriously!?" Tobias looked at them both dumbfounded.
"Bad Tobias!" Sora yelled as she pointed at him.
"Dude...that's low even for a dark Mage." Rugal added.
"This can't really be happening..."
"I live for the cruel and unusual. But your actions took things too far Tobias." Arc shakes his head while still watching the lacrima screen.
"Not you too Arc."
"We'll talk about your punishment later Tobias." Daityas says as he too continues to watch the screen.
"ARE YOU SERIOUS!? SHE PUSHED ME OFF TWICE!" Tobias yelled in a rage.
"Tobias I thought we were friends...guild-mates...family..." Kiora sniffles as she covers her face from the "traumatic" situation she was just in.
"STOP FAKING!"
"Shut up Tobias!" Sora yells out as she gives a mean look to the mage.
"I... I give up.."
Tobias sighs as he turns back to the lacrima screen, only to be blind sided /again/ by Kiora. She leans over the edge while he falls.
"You forgot who you was messing with!? I run this shit!"
Back at the fight, Kuro literally ran circles around Orga every step he took as the fire make Mage continued to throw punches and kicks at his blind spot. Orga couldn't really do anything except cover up, as he was too slow for Kuro at this state. "Stay still!" Orga roared as he fired a black lightning infused that somehow slammed into Kuro's stomach, causing him to tumble off a bit down the street. He stands, holding his stomach as Orga stares him down. "Now that you're not running everywhere! It's time to finish this off!" Orga grins as he inhales. Kuro does nothing but smirk as he stalled the bulky mage long enough. As Orga inhaled the air, Heather's poison gas had crept towards Orga, just now surrounding him. He incidentally inhales some of the poison and immediately goes down to both knees coughing, gasping for air. Kuro begins to walk away as Orga continues trying to fight the poison. "W-wait!" Orga coughs out he slowly makes his way to his feet. "I'm not done!"
Kuro turns around with a smile from ear to ear with his patented innocent look. "Sorry Orga. But not only are you done, so is everyone near the poison." Kuro snaps his fingers, and in that second, the tiny trails of fire he left from the fire make: Hermes ignites into bigger flames. They make contact with the poison gas. The poison gas then acts as a trail as a massive explosion ignites due to the fire coming in contact with the poison.
"And this." Sidney Castle says. "This is how you use Kuro."
Orga was surrounded by Kuro's trail of fire and the poison gas. And just like that, he was caught in a massive explosion. Safe to say that White Eclipse A gained another point. Kuro continues walking away as the poison and fire combination now makes it's way around the town.
"Anyone see any of ours caught in the poison!?" Makarov yelled.
"It's hard to see anything now." Mavis replied. "The explosions have grabbed the attention of all the screens."
"And I thought the fairies had no remorse for destruction." Siegrain says in an amused manner.
"Think! Who did you last see in the poison!?"
Levy's eyes light up. "Gajeel!"
"Shit!" Makarov gripped the top of his head in worry.
"Oh? Gajeel is in the way?" Sidney smirked under his scarf. "That's too bad, I was hoping for ten on ten, but things don't always go as planned." Seething, Makarov growls as he clenches his fist.
Gajeel and Kagura was still in standoff. They both take a step forward, then feel a rumbling going on in the city.
"Jura? No...he's been eliminated. That Jack guy?" Gajeel continued to ponder the shaking, as well as Kagura. Then it happened. From behind, an explosive trail slams into Kagura from behind as she lets out an agonizing scream. Gajeel's eyes widen and with no time to really react, he covers up with his arms like an X as the explosions take him over. ...
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"This isn't wild at all." Bacchus was still jumping from safe zone to safe zone through the poison. "I need to find a way out of this stuff. I already feel the effects." As he hopped to the last safe zone, he saw that his last jump consisted of a street clear of poison. "Finally!" But before he could ready himself. The shaking of the area caught up to Bacchus. Knocking him off balance. A second behind the shaking, the explosive trail comes storming in behind, now headed towards Bacchus's way. With wide eyes, Bacchus quickly makes his way to his feet and without much momentum he leaps for the street, only to be consumed by the explosion anyways...
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Lucy lets out a long sigh. "Where is everyone. I wanna fight and prove I can win for Fairy Tail! I will win my fights! I won't be eliminated!" Lucy clenches a fist as she turned a couple corners and made her way down the street. As she walked, she saw Heather running across the next intersection. As Heather came to the cross roads, she turns her head and smirks at Lucy, all while still running.
"Hey! Don't run!" Lucy then takes off after Heather. A few seconds later, she turns in the direction that Heather had ran to, quickly stopping after a couple of strides, realizing that she was shins deep in poison. "Huh?" She quickly covers her mouth as she begins to cough from the small amount of poison she inhaled. "Poison? When...did this happen? Heather of course!" Lucy tries to regain herself, but as she does, the rumbling becomes heavy around Lucy. "What's going on now!?" She looked around for an answer, and she got one as a trail of fiery explosions headed right for her. With nowhere to go, she lets out a loud scream as she desperately covers up, bracing herself for impact...
Until a figure, at the last second, sprints to and slides in front of Lucy. With his arms out, standing in front of the celestial mage,
He take the brunt of the explosion.
The explosion still seemingly swallowing them both.
