White Eclipse
Chapter 41

Mystogan and Mirajane were eyes to eyes with Takeru and Jack. Both parties take a few steps back and stop simultaneously. Takeru, who was standing across from Mirajane, slides into a crouching position. His fists begin to infuse with his shadows as he bares his teeth, allowing his magic pressure to build up. Mirajane stood waiting, emotionless and unphased to the immediate shake of the ground. Beside their partners, Jack tosses the empty wine bottle in his hand backwards, out of sight as a glass shattering crash was heard in the background. Jack hiccups once as he slides into his normal fighting stance, except this time he wavered back and forth.
"A drunken fighter? I'll have to be careful." Mystogan acknowledged his opponents fighting style. He looked Jack over, seeing nothing out of the ordinary except for the mages deck of cards. Taking note once again, he went back to the to the contact with his opponent.
After another minute of stand offs, Takeru and Jack charge their opponents. Mirajane charges Takeru, meeting him halfway while Mystogan waits for Jack. As Mirajane charged Takeru, darkness magic wrapped around her fists, and she sprouts wings from her back to pick up speed. With her reach, she threw the first punch, aiming a right straight for Takeru's head. Takeru crouches while sliding, ducking under her punch. He then goes for an uppercut, but Mirajane raises her knee to block the punch, causing a mini shockwave. Mirajane then quickly goes for a stomp that Takeru steps away from. Takeru counters with a leg sweep but the demon not only jumps over, but she takes off in the air. Takeru grabs her tail, but instead of trying to pull her down, he goes along for the ride. After ascending into the air, the satan soul user snaps her tail up, sending the shadow dragon into the air even higher. He quickly recovers and descends slowly towards her. While suspended in mid air, Takeru throws a shadow infused roundhouse kick. The demon blocks it with both forearms and throws a left hook that Takeru not only parries, but grabs her fist. She tries to throw a right but Takeru grabs that punch as well. Now in a tie up, Takeru begins to push down on the take over mage, causing them to descend to the ground at a fast pace. He bared his teeth and growled, due to the face of feeling the raw strength of Mirajane. Mirajane returned the expression, due to Takeru not being a slouch in the power department either. As they continued falling, they exchanged knees, colliding repeatedly. They both throw their own head butt, colliding with that as well. The force of the shockwave on the head butts cause them both to let go as Takeru backflips to his feet to the ground; Mirajane merely opening her wings to catch wind and descend slowly to the ground. The second her feet touches the ground however, she fires off a not so strong beam of darkness magic. Takeru, sinks into the shadows at the exact same time, causing the beam of magic to just barely sail over his head. The shadow disappears, causing Mirajane to look around cautiously for Takeru. From the wall behind her, Takeru leaps out, swinging a shadow infused axe kick aimed at the back of the take over mage's head. Mirajane catches glimpse of him however, and turns to block with both arms over her head. The force behind Takeru's kick sends them both sliding, pushing them both through the wall of the building, opposite of where Takeru leaped from.
Mystogan was in mid backflip when pulling out a single staff. He fires off a stream of magic aimed at Jack Royal, yet the drunk merely sways away from it in his drunken manner. "Borrowed magic won't help me here. It's inevitable that I'll have to use my own soon." Still, Jellal charged Jack, who met him halfway. Retracting his staff, Jellal began throwing punches towards Royal, but once again, the drunk begins to sway away from his attacks with unorthodox movements. Upon dodging another right hook from Jellal, Jack spins, backhanding him in the left jaw. Now having his opponent off balance, Jack slams a kick to Jellal's ribs, pushing him away. The heavenly body mage recovers and flips on to the side of a building wall. "Meteor!" His body began to glow a golden aura and he then takes off in a golden blur, heading right for Jack. Upon reaching him, Jellal goes back to swinging fists; throwing combination after combination of punches. This time, Jack has to put up his arms to block as he attempts to dodge. He continues to parry and evade the blows until one slams into his nose, causing him to flinch as he stumbles backwards. Jellal takes this time to tackle Jack into the stone path street, pushing him deeper into the street as he drags him along. Jack groans in pain until he finally gets the where with all to conjure a magic circle beneath him, firing a pillar of earth skyward that sends him and Jellal into the air on top of the pillar. Jack then plants his foot into Jellal chest and kicks him off. Jellal uses his meteor to begin flying around the drunk at a quickened pace. Jack clenches a fist as he hops up to his feet, causing the pillar of rock to break off into seven well sized discs of earth. Now floating on one of the discs, the drunken earth, Jack Royal, begins to manipulate the other six well sized discs, causing them to give chase to Jellal, trying to cut him off every which way. Jellal flies each and every way with his meteor, dodging the incoming discs. He then makes a turn, and heads straight for Jack. The earth/card mage smirks, and from his deck pulls out a card. He then slings it towards Jellal. It stops short and glows. The card then disappears, but once Jellal enters the area where the card was thrown, he slows down against his will. "Gah..! Gravity!?" Before he could react, a disc from both his left and his right slam flat into him, smothering the mage. Jack raises his right hand, and with two fingers extended, he throws his hand back down, causing the rest of the discs to slam into the two already smashed against him. Jack pushes his hand down again, sending the cluster of discs with Jellal trapped inside down towards the ground. He then quickly flicks another card that stabs into the cluster of discs. The second it hits the ground, a small magic circle appears, then a decent sized explosion happens, destroying the cluster of discs with Jellal inside. When the smoke clears however, Jellal is seen, bruised but the expression on his face was more agitated than hurt. He throws off his mask, even though no one in the audience was that surprised. The look on his face brought back shades of tower of heaven. He looked up at Jack who jumped off his floating disc of stone and once again stood across from ex-criminal. Warmups were over for the four of them...

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Their fight was underway. With a grin on his face, Kuro charged the four mages. None of them move, yet all four were ready. Just then, a bullet goes flying by Kuro's ear, and rushes towards Laxus Dreyar. Laxus sways out the way at the last second, then locked on to Reve as he ran towards the dragon slayer. Kuro quickly cuts to Gray Fullbuster with a right fist aimed at his skull. Gray blocks the incoming blow, yet the force sends him sliding backwards. He digs his feet into the ground to come to a sliding stop. Kuro flips over him and lands, taunting Gray to bring the fight to him. Laxus gives chase to the wily Reve Volver as he continued firing streams of lightning at the mage. Reve's speed just edging out against the lightning, avoiding each stream that chases him. Laxus then turns into a bolt of lightning himself and gives chase to Reve, cutting him off shortly. Reve kept running straight for Laxus however. The brute of a lightning Mage rears back an electric fist while at the same time, the gunslinger conjures a small magic circle right behind his fist that propels his hand that was holding his gun forward, quickly pointing it point blank to Laxus' gut. Reve fires a burst shot into his abdomen at the exact time Laxus slams his fist into Reve's jaw. The catastrophic blows send both mages flying backwards into opposing walls with clouds of smoke covering them.
Nami and Taya stood off with Erza and Cana. Erza requips out of her sea empress armor and into her robe of Yuen, carrying the long staff with the curved blade at the end. Cana looks at her forearm, signifying that the Fairy Glitter hasn't had time to recharge, so she gets a grip of her cards. Upon that notice, they charge each other. Erza and Taya meet. Running full speed, Taya flips over Erza's horizontal swipe of her weapon, then goes for a quick kick to the back of Erza. Titania quickly turns to block with her staff however. She then spins her staff to knock Tayakata off balance. Though she succeeded, when Erza swung her weapon again, a dark vector pops out of the ground quickly, cutting off her path to Taya. Two more dark vectors violently fire from out of the ground, sending Erza into the air. Taya rides another vector up, quickly ascending until she's above the scarlet haired Mage. She jumps off and aims a kick to her abdomen. Erza counters by turning her body to the side, and the momentum Taya had sent her past Erza. She takes that opportunity to slam a spinning kick to the back of Taya's head. She goes crashing to the ground only to be caught by one of her dark vectors. Taya quickly pops up as Erza touches down. Taya holds out her right arm, pointing at Erza as a magic circle forms. About twenty dark vectors shoot out towards her. With her bladed staff, Erza begins to twirl her weapon as she makes her way to Taya, deflecting the vectors as she drew ever so near.
Cana throws two cards forward. A funnel of lightning and wind flies out of the two cards and towards Nami, yet the light mage easily dodges as she begins running up the wall of the building to her right. She leaps off into a corkscrew style flip and then fires off a decent sized beam of light towards Cana. She ducks under it and begins to run as the beam gives chase, bringing up the ground as it continues to follow Cana. Cana throws another card, causing a whirlpool to appear as it slams into the beam of light, causing a stalemate. Cana takes this opportunity to charge Nami who had just landed and swings a left straight at her. A mistake as Nami easily ducks the punch, grabs her wrist, and flips Cana over. While Cana was in mid air, Nami summons a magic circle right under the card mage. "Holy light: Raining in reverse." From the magic circle, a plethora of light magic, size of raindrops, slam into Cana, causing her to let out a shriek of pain as the launch her into the air. Now struggling to bare against the reverse rain of light, Cana reaches for her cards once again and throws two more cards towards Nami. Once in range, the two cards explode. Covering herself up, Nami tumbles backwards once and then comes to a sliding stop as she was down on one knee, yet quickly back on her feet. Cana recovers as well and lands on the rooftop of a building. Nami looks up at Cana with a smirk. While Erza was parrying the dark vectors, a few of them were deflected with a purpose. Two of them had snuck behind Cana, wrapping around her right arm and left leg. They then violently pull her off the roof and into the ground. They then pull her into Erza, slamming into her back. They both let out yelps of pain as the in sync sisters charge from both sides; Nami at Cana and Taya at Erza. Before Erza could move, the dark vector that wrapped around Cana wrapped around her as well. The sisters both come to a slide at the same time, in front of their respective opponents. "Now.." Taya swings a hard leg sweep that caused a vector to pop out of the ground, while Nami swung a high, light infused roundhouse. Cana tries to duck while Erza tries to jump, causing them to go nowhere and all in one slow motion, Erza has her legs swept from under her, while Cana eats the roundhouse kick cleanly in the jaw. The force behind Nami's light kick was so strong, yet the dark vectors holding the to females down were just as equally strong in strength. This caused them to go nowhere as Cana falls limp. The dark vectors release them and Erza quickly scrambles away only to find Cana on the ground not moving. "Cana!" She called out for her guildmate, but no response. The mini lacrima screen appears and looks her over... Then counts her out. An "X" appears over her face, signifying that she was out of the competition now.
"Alright! We're now up one point!" Skye yelled out.
"The score doesn't matter anymore Skye, we're tied until one team is completely eliminated." Sidney replied.
"I know, but still! It's always good to be up!"
"Is it?" Sidney's rhetorical question threw Skye for a loop mentally as she looked at Sidney with questioning eyes.
"This isn't good.. But we're okay.." Makarov doesn't take his eyes off the screen.
"Cana...good try." Macao lowers his head for a bit, then re fixes his eyes to the lacrima screen.
"Ice make: Saucer!" From his magic circle, Gray fires off a sharp, spinning saucer made of ice. Kuro smiles from ear to ear as he holds his ground. He then, with perfect timing, catches the saucer by clapping his palms into the sides of the saucer. The force of the saucer continues to slide him back until when conjuring his own magic circle, he melts the saucer into nothing. "Fire make: knuckles!" Over his normal fists, two flaming fist that were twice the size of his appear. Kuro then charges Gray full speed as he swings a swift combination of punches towards Gray's face and body, daring him to block the flaming fists. Instead, Gray tries dodging, but the fists covered too much space and by the third swing, Kuro's right fist slams into the Ice Make mage's jaw, sending him sliding off a good deal before recovering. "Tch!" Gray then slams a fist into his palm again, creating a frosty aura. "Ice make: Bringer!" Out pops a giant sword made from his ice magic. Gray lunges at Kuro, swinging his sword every which way. Kuro begins to back pedal while dodging the swipes of Gray's sword. Kuro ducks a horizontal swing and quickly slams another punch of his fire knuckles into Gray, causing him to fold over. "Hai! You're open!" Kuro then slams his palms together, dispersing the knuckles. "Fire make: Tornado!" From such a close range, Kuro conjures up a flaming tornado that swept Gray right off his feet as it traveled away from Kuro, slamming into a nearby building. Gray laid in the rubble pile, down but not out as he panted heavily. Though he wasn't done, his body wouldn't let him move due to exhaustion. Kuro walks up to him with a smile. "Good fight!"
"It's not over..." Gray quickly forces himself up, using his dead weight and tackles Kuro. Kuro was completely taken off guard by this maneuver. "Ice make:" Gray places his palm against Kuro's chest. "Geyser!" After his incantation, a giant frozen geyser sprouts up into the air. At the top, Gray stood on top of the geyser with a grin on his face. Frozen inside, Was Kuro Crane.

"What do you think!?" Heather asked as her and Luke kept running. Upon looking up, all they could see was a floating disc of earth, obviously created by Jack, and now a tower of ice.
"We should split up. I'll take Jack's location!"
"Right!" Heather nods in agreement and they both go their separate ways as they reach they intersection.
"What do you think? Natsu?" Lucy called out for her partner as they continued running. Natsu looks up at the floating disc, and then the ice geyser. "...Geyser!" Making his quick decision, Natsu reached his hand back to Lucy. She grabs his hand and the salamander pulls her to him, causing Lucy to wrap her arms around his neck and latch on as he leaps to the rooftops, now running along the rooftops to catch up to Gray and the others. Gray was perched on top still when he spotted Natsu and Lucy headed their way. He gives them a wave. "Oi! Natsu! Lucy!" As he waved at the mages, a hand wraps around his ankle. "Huh!?" Kuro was melting the ice with his ability to manipulate fire.
"Gray!" Natsu yells out as he witnessed Kuro break free from the ice, his fire knuckles re activated. As the ice shattered around the top of he geysers. Kuro lets out a yell as he rears back a left fist. He then slams the fist into Gray's nose. The impact sends him flying off the geyser diagonally into the ground. He now laid there, KO'ed. "G-Gray!" Erza yelled out for her other fallen comrade. She quickly went back to her senses, seeing that she was surrounded by the twin sisters, and Kuro who was making his way down from the geyser. She slowly stood as she requipped into her black wing armor as she held her ground, gripping her sword tightly.
Leading him away from Erza, Reve finally comes to a stop as Laxus seemingly cuts off his path. "No more running, you're supposed to be an S class mage." Laxus said as he stalked towards the gunslinger.
"Heh...I wasn't running from you big guy. But now that we're alone. Lets finish this so we can put the pressure on you fairies." Upon Reve finishing his cocky statement, Laxus charged Reve once again with his lightning infused fists. "Lets see how you like close range, shooter!" Laxus roars as he swings down a punch aimed at Reve's head. Reve simply sways out of the way and throws a taunting kick to Laxus's stomach. Laxus swings a horizontal punch that Reve leans away from, and then a right hook that Reve ducks. Reve was grinning while he dodged, until Laxus lands a hard kick to the sternum of the mage, sending him sliding into the ground. Reve scrambles to his feet and then glares viciously at Laxus while rolling his sleeves up to his forearm slowly. "Alright big guy." Reve requips two assault rifle style guns into his hands and begins to fire off a seemingly endless round of beams of magic. Laxus merely covers up as the beams rain upon him, creating a cloud of smoke as the onslaught continues. Reve continues until he could no longer see Laxus and finally stops firing. He waits, until out of the smoke, a lightning dragon's roar slams into Reve, causing him to go crashing into the ground again. This time, Laxus gives chase, then picks Reve up by his collar. He quickly slams him again, then swings a punch behind the slam. Reve covers his face, causing the electric charged fist to hit his arms. Though shocked, Reve quickly regains his senses and kicks Laxus right under the chin. In one slow motion, Reve requips his two assault rifles into a sawed off shotgun style gun. He pressed it against Laxus' sternum in one motion, and then fires a concentrated blast, sending him sliding back into a building wall as well. After a second or two, Laxus makes his way out only to see Reve with his arms spread out to the sides. His eyes widen a bit as he looks around him, seeing himself surrounded by about ten floating guns. "...Devil's Wheel!" Upon shouting, the ten guns let loose a plethora of magic, all slamming against Laxus as he covers up again. The power behind the guns cause him to go down to a knee as they continue to unload on the second generation Dragon Slayer. Reve begins to laugh loudly as his attack continues. "The big bad Laxus is already about to go huh!? This isn't looking good for Fairy Tail!"

"Water slicer!"
"Roar of the Frozen Dragon!" Juvia fires off her water slicer attack, only to have it frozen solid by Waiston's breath. It hits the ground, shattering into pieces.
"Sky dragon's Wing slash!" Wendy fires off two small funnels of wind from her arms. Yet..Jaxon merely spins a finger, causing a small tornado that cuts off the wing slash, dispersing as well. Waiston quickly rushes Juvia, freezing his fists over as he did so. With Juvia on her heels trying her best to dodge his frozen fists, Waiston began firing off combination after combination of punches. He catches Juvia once in the ribs, which leaves her open for a his kick to her stomach, but the kick goes right through her watery body. This now left the surprised Waiston Tunundra off balance. She took advantage by throwing her arm in a backhand motion, a wave of water slams into Waiston, pushing him off to the side.
Jaxon creates a magic circle above Wendy, and quickly, bolts of lightning begin surging towards her. Wendy falls out of the way, barely avoiding each thunderbolt as she desperately jumped out the way. Jaxon then conjures up two more magic circles, one from each side as hail the size of baseballs begin to slam into Wendy from both sides, also burying her in a pile of ice. After a bit, she fires a Roar of the Sky dragon into the air, pushing the hail off of her and into the air. The fall harmlessly as Wendy closes her eyes. "Hey..." Jaxon looked on with interest. "What you planning over there.
"Water Cane!" Juvia fires a whip of water towards Jaxon, wrapping around his arms to hold him down. "What the!?"
"Secret dragon slayer art! Shattering Light: Sky Drill!" With a wave of her arms, Wendy creates a barrier of sky magic around her. The barrier then released from around her and then rushes towards the constricted Jaxon. Jaxon looked on with wide eyes as Wendy's strongest attack came rushing in. At the last second, a recovered Waiston slides in front of Jaxon, taking the brunt of the attack. "Waiston! Tch!"
"Whoa, Wendy is quite strong.." Juvia says as she pulls back her water cane.
As the attack connects however, an inhaling sound was being heard.
"...N-No.."
"Yes..." Jaxon, still with wide eyes, grins a little as he watched his guildmate began to "eat" the massive amount of sky magic. As he finished up, His aura began to glow both an icy and sky blue. He stared down the two female mages as his hair wavered in his new aura. The Frozen Sky dragon smirked a bit, then began inhaling the air around him.
"Juvia!"
"Wendy get down!"
"Roar, of the Frozen Sky Dragon!" Waiston fires off an enormous funnel of sky and ice magic. The giant funnel sweeps both Wendy and Juvia off of their feet and into a wall, a giant cloud if smoke covering them. "Heh.."
"Yes! Waiston!" Zalen shouted in glee from the stands. "Now he's just like Takeru!"
"Astounding." Sidney thought to himself as the others cheered.
Waiston and Jaxon high five each other. Back in the stands Makarov smirks. Juvia seeps back up through the ground behind them, Wendy under her. The two mages now stood behind the White Eclipse mages. "Water nebula!"
"Roar of the Sky Dragon!"
The unison raid slams into both Waiston and Jaxon, sailing them into the air. They both hit the ground, leaving small craters from their bodies. Waiston stirred around, showing he was still able to go. Jaxon however..was KO'ed.
"Never count out a Fairy Tail mage!" They all cheer for Juvia and Wendy in unison as it was now two one one against Waiston.
"Jaxon...don't worry bud...I'll take them both down.." Waiston then makes his way to his feet slowly. Standing across from Juvia and Wendy. "Lets go... I'm taking you both down!"

Mirajane had Takeru pinned against the wall, slamming fist after fist into the shadow dragon who could do nothing right now but cover up. He finds an opening however, and ducks a punch, he then springs upward, connecting a head butt to the demon's chin. "Shadow Dragon's claw!" He then slams a heavily shadow infused punch to Mirajane's abdomen, sending her flying, and then tumbling into the ground. A good bit of Mirajane's punches caught up to Takeru as he stepped away from the wall light headed. He wobbles a bit as he stands in the open, leaving him open as Mirajane springs upwards and quickly shouts. "Evil Explosion!"
She fires a giant beam of dark magic towards Takeru, but just then, through a magic circle, a mirror appears, reflecting the beam of magic directly back at Mirajane. Caught off guard, she covers her face with her arms as her own blast slams into her. Though she took heavy damage, she held her ground. When she put her arms down, she no longer saw Takeru, but Luke standing across from her. "Raging bolt.." Luke smirked as a yellow magic circle appeared in front of him. Mirajane braces herself, getting ready for impact. While she did so, out of the shadows, Takeru appeared with his cheeks puffed out. "Roar.. Of the Shadow Dragon!" From behind, Takeru fires off a funnel of shadow magic. Not even seeing the blast coming. The roar slams right into Mirajane's exposed back, causing her to cry out in pain as the evil explosion also breaks her way through, then the Raging bolt slams into her as well. As the smoke clears, Mirajane was found on the ground, knocked out. While that happened, Jack was giving chase to Jellal, who was once again in his heavenly body technique. He flew in a certain pattern as Jack looked on, confused at what he was doing. "Grand chariot!" Jack's eyes widen as the magic circles were formed. Jack couldn't raise his defenses fast enough, as the magic beams from the grand chariot come raining down on top of Jack. He too laid unconscious once the smoke dispersed.
"Damn...Jack is gone. But we got the demon though." Zalen nodded as he continued standing in between Calium and Sidney.
"Mystogan won't last much longer either. Three on one against a Fairy Tail wizard, who isn't even really in Fairy Tail.." Sidney slowly turned his head to Mavis, who was too busy watching intently at the matches going on.
Heather was running full speed, gaining on the battle site to where Erza and the others were located. "The odds are in our favor. We're gonna win." She continued to run on the ground. When she looked up, she noticed Natsu and Lucy leaping from rooftop to rooftop as they ran in the same direction as Heather.
"I'll take them both out right now!" Heather prepared to leap up to the rooftops, only to leap off to the right, dodging an incoming iron pole. She landed in a readied defensive position as she followed the refracting pole with her eyes, now seeing Gajeel standing at the streets end with a grin on his face.
"There he is." Pantherlily exclaimed as he nodded once.
"Oi...you're that poison girl right? The poison dragon slayer?"
Heather looked on, not changing her position. "Yeah, my name is Heather though, not poison dragon slayer."
"I don't care about that. I almost lost because of your underhanded tactic."
Heather smirked. "Call it what you want. To be fair it wasn't my idea. If I had my way, I'd beat you all myself, starting with the tin can in front of me."
"Gihi!" Gajeel began a boisterous laughter from Heather's words. "I like your spirit! Lets see if you can back it up though!"

"Gray and Cana are down! That means Erza is by herself! We have to hurry!" Lucy and Natsu were closing in on Erza as the blonde haired Mage pointed out the situation to Natsu.
"We're not gonna make it..." Natsu groans as he keeps running. Just then, a devious look comes over his face as he looks back at Lucy. "I got an idea."
"Huh!?... Natsu I don't like that look of yours.."
Natsu grabs Lucy by both of her wrists. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"
Natsu grins. "Get ready! Go help...Erza!" Upon saying Erza, Natsu swings around and launches Lucy in the air, towards the area. Lucy lets out a loud shriek as she was launched in the air. "WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO FROM UP HERE!?"
Lucy looks down as she now hovered over the fight. "Take someone out!" Natsu yelled.
Lucy nodded. "Right!"
On the ground, after their stand off. Taya and Nami were both charging Erza at the same time. The scarlet hair mage held her ground, bracing for impact.
Lucy pulls out a key as it begins to glow. "Gate of the Archer, I open thee! Sagittarius!" From the blinding light, Sagittarius begins free falling with Lucy. "How can I assist you Moshi Moshi!?"
Lucky then points at the twins charging towards Erza. "Sagittarius! Take them down!"
"How many keys does this bimbo have?" Ruika asked herself out loud as she folded her arms in a bit of envy.
"Looks like we got the wrong celestial wizard on our team." Tobias said slyly. Right after his comment, he was kicked off the tower by Ruika. He screamed "Worth it." All the way down until a loud thud that no one paid attention to was heard.
"Now Sagittarius!"
Sagittarius takes aim at both Nami and Taya.

The horse cosplaying spirit fires off four arrows simultaneously towards the twins.

As Taya and Nami near the standing Erza with their fists reared back, the arrows catch their attention, but due to their momentum they were wide open.

It was too late for them to react..