White Eclipse
Chapter 42

"Two down!" Lucy smiles as Loke appears out of his gate from his own free will, now cradling Lucy as he prepares to land on the ground.
A smirk appears on Erza's face as the arrows come flying towards Taya and Nami. They both had seen the incoming projectiles, but couldn't stop in time to evade. All they could do was watch as the piercing arrows made their way to them. Erza's smirk...disappeared. She now showed a face of shock and confusion. The heads of the arrows have shattered, right before hitting the twins. Nami and Taya both jump out of the way anyways and look back behind them. Reve stood ways away with two pistols requipped into his hands. With his precision eyes, the gunslinger had easily shot down the arrows that were merely inches away from piercing into his guild mates. "And that's how you watch someone's back Taya."
"Tch.." Taya failed at hiding the small smile on her face that quickly faded as she remembered that they were in the middle of a fight for strongest guild in Fiore. "No one said we were done!" Behind Reve, a heavily bruised Laxus comes sliding behind him, all the way to his left. Before Reve could react, Laxus throws a right hook into the mage's jaw. The immense force behind the punch sent Reve flying in a direct line through a building. "Reve!" Nami and Taya shouted in unison as the gunslinger's body was currently hidden behind a cloud of smoke and debris. "He's okay, keep the pressure on!" Kuro runs up behind the bulky Laxus as he shouted these words. He threw a jumping kick at the lightning mage's head, yet, it was blocked by Laxus's massive forearm. As Laxus pushed Kuro away, the fire make mage flipped and landed on his feet, quickly slapping his palms together. "Fire make: Spears!" Out of a bright red magic seal placed right in front of Kuro, ten spears made of flames hurl towards Laxus. Laxus fires back with a lightning roar, the two attack colliding into a stalemate.
"Erza!" Lucy and Loke land beside Erza, now standing across both Nami and Taya. "You alright?"
Erza simply nodded, not taking her eyes off of her opponents.
"Two on two again? That's still not a problem, right Nami?"
"Right! Can we finish then with one attack this time?"
"I was planning on saving that. But okay."
"I won't give you the time! Loke!"
"On it!" Loke's fist begins to glow a bright orange, along with the aura around him. He then swings forward a punch. From the punch, a lions head goes roaring towards the twins. "Regulas impact!"
Separating, the sisters avoid the attack by leaping away in opposite directions. Nami comes around full circle as she sprints towards Lucy. Taya takes Erza as she begins to surf one of her dark vectors towards the mage. Nami swings a light infused spinning kick towards Lucy, but Loke steps in and blocks it. He then swings a punch that Nami backflips away from.
"They're agile!" Lucy took note of their quickness as she pulled out her Fleuve d'étoiles, the whip she acquired from her celestial spirit Virgo.
"Loke, if you can get her to quit moving, I'll be able to hold her down!"
"Already on it Lucy." Loke and Nami continued exchanging melees, yet Nami continued to grab the upper hand, occasionally hitting Loke in the chest with a kick, or a solid punch to his jaw.
Loke growled in frustration. "Stand still!"
Nami giggled as she bounced around on her toes just to defy the lion's demands.
"Don't forget about me! Moshi Moshi!" Sagittarius stretches back the string to his bow and fired two arrows towards Nami who barely had time to dodge them as she stumbled backwards towards Lucy. "Now!" Lucy swings her Fleuve d'étoiles towards Nami, wrapping the light user in a bind, unable to move. "All yours Loke!"
"Here we go!" Loke begins to charge his Regulas Impact once more, a glowing orange aura surrounds him until he lunges towards Nami. Her eyes widen as she had nowhere to go.
"Nami!" The distraction took Taya off the offensive as Erza, in her black wing armor, now had Tayakata on her heels, backing up as she used her dark vectors to parry the strikes Erza threw with her sword.
"Finish it Loke!"
"Regulas impact!" Loke yelled out as he slammed his fist directly into the jaw of Nami, snapping her head to the side as Lucy releases her grip of the light mage. Nami was sent sliding across the ground a good ways before coming to a stop, not moving.
"Nami!" Taya takes a huge leap backwards from a horizontal swipe from Erza, towards her sister as she quickly runs the rest of the way towards her.
"...I'm fine."
"There's no way!" Loke stares in awe along with Lucy as Nami slowly makes her way to her feet next to her sister Taya. "Can we finish them now, while they're unprepared?"
Taya, also surprised by her durability, nods her head. "Lets do it."
Nami rubs her jaw as she gives Lucy a glare of near hatred. Then, Nami connects her right palm to Taya's left. The entire area begins to shake as a mixture of light and dark begin to intertwine within each other in a perfect yet dangerous harmony, swirling around the sisters.
"They're gonna do it!" Aira shouted.
"Goodbye Lucy and Erza!" Skye and Kairi both added.
"Lets see first." The always skeptical Sidney added in.
The shaking of the city stopped even Laxus and Kuro in their tracks as they turn to see what's going on. The violent shaking continues as a giant black and white magic circle appears in front of them both. Still palm to palm, they both turn to the side, nearly cheek to cheek as the connect their free hands together. Cupping all four hands together, the rear back, and then thrusts their hands forward. Out of the magic circle fired a giant beam filled with raw darkness and light magic, covering the entire street and giving Lucy and Erza no where to go.
"Lucy! Behind me!" Loke slides in front of the celestial wizard, prepared to take on the devastating attack himself.

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"Lets not waste much on this guy Luke. We need to catch up to the others. They have the ones we're concerned about."
Luke nods to Takeru's words. Both of them stand off against Jellal.
"In fact, Takeru. Let me take care of him." Luke smirked at the leader of the independent guild, that took down countless of dark guilds. Jellal stood, waiting on his opponents next move.
"Are you sure?" The young dragon slayer asked the copy mage. Takeru looked at Luke with uncertainty.
Luke turned to Takeru and grinned. "Just go ahead and shadow your way to the real battle. I'll be right behind you. They can't take us one on one. White Eclipse remember?"
Takeru finally caves, giving a small smirk as he sinks into the shadows.
"Don't let me down Luke." Was his last words before Takeru took off to where the rest of the mages were. Luke smirked as he turned back to Jellal, who was standing, already conjuring a spell. "?" Luke watched intently, but didn't notice until a few seconds later the five magic circles above him. "Five layered magic circle. Sacred Song."
Through the five circle above him, a concentrated beam of magic comes firing down towards the copy mage. He looked on with widened eyes at first, but then Luke covers up as a magic circle appears above his person, creating a domed mirror. The sacred song slams into the mirror, and reflects into different directions,
Destroying buildings left and right.
"That place is going to become a wreck pretty soon." Cygnus says, staying focused on the fight between Luke and Jellal.
"I'm not a fan of Takeru leaving Luke.." Sidney admitted.
"Hey, Luke is fine he's got it!" Selene interjected.
"Meteor!" Once again, Jellal went back to his patented move, coating himself in a golden aura as his speed increased immeasurably.
"I was prepared for this!" Luke yells towards Jellal as both lightning and fire begins to surge and dance around the mage.
"Natsu's lightning flame mode..." Jellal rushed past Luke, but Luke takes off right behind the blue haired mage. He eventually catches up to Jellal. Jellal takes off into the air, causing Luke to stop his run, but the copy mage quickly plants and crouches, and then springs into the air, right above Jellal.
"Fast!"
"Iron fist! Of the lightning flame dragon!" Luke throws a heavily infused punch of lightning and flames at Jellal. He blocks it with both arms, but the force alone sends Jellal crashing into the ground. He tries to quickly make his way to his feet, which was fortunate because Luke was right behind him as he aimed a stomp at Jellal, but the Heavenly Body moved out the way, and came back with a hard kick to Luke's face, causing him to slide backwards a few yards.
"I don't have time to carry this on!" Luke began to roar out as he shook the area due to the power of the lightning flame mode. Jellal stood waiting for him to attack as Luke reared his head back. "Roar.. Of the lightning flame dragon!" Luke lunged his head forward, firing off a funnel of flames and lightning.
"Mistake." Through a couple of quick hand signs, three magic circles appear before Jellal. "Three layered magic circle. Mirror water!" The three magic seals immediately reflect the roar on impact, sending them back towards Luke.
"Oh no you don't!" Luke quickly puts both of his palms forward, summoning a giant mirror that also reflected the roar. Now stuck in a deadlock, the huge funnel of lightning and flames were caught in between the mirror water from Jellal and Luke's mirror as well. Luke bares his teeth as the mirror in front of him starts to crack. "Come...on!" The cracks in the mirror begin to accumulate, ready to break any second, while Jellal's mirror water seemed to stand strong as the two magic struggle between the lightning flame magic. Luke slides back more, digging his feet into the ground... Until a giant crack appears horizontally on the mirror, from one side to the other.
"No..."

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"I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm pretty beat from Kagura." Gajeel plants a smirk on his face as he reactivates his iron scales over his body. "But I don't have the same respect for you as her, so I'll finish you off quickly, before I have to actually do any real work."
"Keep talking Black Steel, it'll be an honor to stuff your throat with poison."
"Gihe! I like it! Well then!? Lets see your poison, Heather!"
Heather crouches a bit, as poisonous scales begin to form over her arms and a bit over her face. "Oh.. I'm much more than poison."
Heather and Gajeel charge each other, meeting in the middle, fist to fist. As soon as they connect, Heather goes for a leg sweep that Gajeel easily hops over. That was just what Heather wanted however, as she quickly comes back around with immense speed, aiming a flipping kick to the top of Gajeel's head. The iron dragon hits the ground, looking up to see a taunting Heather standing a few feet back. "Not...bad!" Gajeel charges again, fast enough to throw Heather off guard. "Iron Dragon's hard fist!" Gajeel swings his heavy iron punch into Heather's arms that were held in an X shape. The poison dragon was sent sliding back from the force of the punch, but she held her ground. Heather showed no expression of pain as Gajeel once again lunges towards her. Gajeel catches Heather off guard by feigning a left jab, just to slam a hard uppercut to her stomach, causing the vanilla blonde haired mage to hunch over in pain. "Gihe. Times up." Gajeel follows through with the punch by turning his fist into an iron pole and then planting Heather into the ground, continuously pushing her into the ground with his iron pole extending. After a good twenty yards, Heather finally rolls out of the way. She quickly stands, and even though the damage was done, she stood tall, glaring at the iron dragon slayer. "Why on the defensive!?" Gajeel began to grin as he stalked towards her. "You seemed more confident than this just a minute ago."
"...heh. You sure talk a lot for someone who is slowly decaying.
"...Slowly...?" He didn't feel anything until she mentioned it. Gajeel looked down at his hands, seeing a purple fume arising from his knuckles. The stinging sensation begins to kick in as he watches the iron scales slowly corrode. What was even worse, was the same thing happening right between his eyes, where Heather had kicked him earlier. "What's happening?"
Heather grinned as she inched towards Gajeel. "You know what's happening. You're losing to White Eclipse's poison dragon slayer. You're lucky you have your iron scales on, or you'd be in a lot worse pain than you are now. What's wrong Gajeel? You don't seem as confident as you were a few seconds ago." Gajeel's expression quickly changed into one of a serious nature. "I don't know how long I have until this really starts to bother me, but you won't be awake to find out." As he spoke, a shadowy aura begins to wrap around Gajeel and what was left of his iron scales.
"Iron shadow huh? That won't save you from the poison."
"No.. But it won't save you either." Gajeel then takes off with immense speed. Heather, caught off guard, puts her arms up to block the incoming attack to her front. However, Gajeel ends up behind her with a kick to the back of her head. Heather stumbles forward and Gajeel stays in pursuit. Hearing him coming, Heather turns to throw a punch that goes right through the dragon slayer, causing the shadowy figure I disappear, only to reappear to her right. Heather beats him to the punch again, aiming a back kick to him, but once again Gajeel vanishes. She looks around cautiously. "Come out coward...you're the one on borrowed time."
"Gihehe!" From underneath her, Gajeel appears from the shadows, grabbing her leg and leaping into the air. Well into the air and still holding onto his prey, Gajeel swings a punch to Heather's jaw. "Time to finish this!"
"...I'm not out yet.."
"ROAR." They both yelled in unison, puffing out their cheeks as the used their hands to set aim to concentrate the attack at their opponents. "Of the poison.."
"Of the Iron Shadow."
"Dragon!"
Gajeel's funnel soars right over Heather's, causing both attacks to hit their mark. Gajeel goes soaring into the air, while the Iron shadow roar drills Heather into the ground, leaving a well sized crater.
Heather laid unconscious. Gajeel fell a minute after Heather, hitting the ground back first as an outline of his body cratered the ground.
The lacrima screen hovered over to Gajeel.. But before it could count him out, the dragon slayer slowly rose to his feet. He now stood on both of his feet, his eyes heavy as the fumes of poison continuously poured out of him. "I took that blow without iron scales. Heh... Still...I'm not gonna...let some poi-...poison..." Gajeel took a few steps forward while he spoke. On his fifth step, Gajeel fell over once again, face first. "Stop... Me..."

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"Water Nebula!"
"Sky Dragon's Wing Attack!"
Both attacks go hurling towards, yet miss the Frozen Sky Dragon slayer as Waiston uses his new found speed to outrun them. Waiston then plants his feet, and reversed direction. In a full sprint he covers his fists in ice with sky magic swirling around them. Juvia fires off another funnel of water, but Waiston easily sways away from it without losing a step. In the next blink of an eye, Waiston shoved a fist right into the stomach of Juvia. Her eyes widen as she began to hunch over. Waiston rears his fist back once more. "Solid fist.. Of the Frozen Sky Dragon." He fires once more, connecting into her gut again. Juvia quickly goes tumbling hard into the ground into an undoubtable knock out.
"Juvia!" The young dragon slayer shouted for her comrade. It all happened to fast for her to react.
"You'll join her in a second!" Waiston smirks as he throws a right hook towards Wendy. She manages to duck under the punch, but the icy trail behind the punch causes Wendy to shiver and slow her pace down. Waiston took advantage firing a shroud of ice and sky magic combined into a small beam, slamming into her chest. She hits the ground hard, yet still awake.
"Come on now Wendy, it's hard enough fighting a little girl. Just give up. They'll forgive you."
"I won't!" Wendy raises to her feet. She wobbles a bit as she gathers the magic that she has left. "Arms!" Wendy's body begins to glow a sky blue as her strength increases.
"I see where this is going! You want a shoot out eh!? Your little arms power up isn't gonna help you! ROAR." Waiston tilts his head back as Wendy does the same. "Roar."
"Of the Sky dragon!"
"Of the Frozen Sky Dragon!" They both fire their funnels of dragon slaying magic at the same time, both funnels meeting in the middle in what seems like a deadlock...Until Waiston's roar pushes through. Wendy goes down to a knee, and then lets out a yell as she covers up from the attack. Being swept off her feet, she lands face first in the street as she struggles to lift her head. Ultimately passing out.
"Hm..." Waiston now took the time to marvel at his new state. "Back on top Dragon Slayer. As one of the originals it's only right. Move over Luke, Takeru. Waiston Tunundra is a threat again." Waiston begins walking to where everyone else was fighting. "Hopefully they left some for the Frozen Sky dragon." He laughs at his new title, repeating it with pride. "Frozen Sky.. I see how Takeru feels now."

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"Loke, no!" It was too late, the enormous beam of magic that Nami and Taya fired collided, going over and around Lucy as the defense in front of her took the brunt of the attack. As she shielded her eyes from the light of the attack she noticed small pieces of some sort of material pelting against her. "No way.." When the attack subsided, Lucy looked on in shock, yet a bit of relief as Erza stood in front of both her and Loke, in what was left of her Adamantine armor.
"E-Erza.." Loke stood in shock at their moments savior. Once convinced that the blast was completely subsided. Erza requipped once more into her Giant's armor. Without a word, she charged the magically drained twins with her heavy fist reared back. As she swung, Taya put up a wall of dark vectors, but Erza's fist easily broke through as her fist collided with the nose of Taya, sending her through the closest building and out the other side unconscious. Nami watched everything happen in a slow motion as she covered her mouth in shock...leaving her wide open as Laxus came sliding in behind her with his fist infused with lightning. The sparking sound caused Nami to turn right into a clubbing haymaker. Nami's body then joined right next to Taya's as she too was KO'ed.
"I didn't even see him leave me..." Kuro looked on with wide eyes. "I was too busy watching the unison raid."
"Alright!" The Fairy Tail guid cheers with their fist in the air.
"...Nami and Taya. Two heavy hitters." Sidney groaned out as his eyes never leave the lacrima screen.
Calium gives a small smile. "As if it's fate.. I see where this is headed."
"I wish you would enlighten me old man. Because I'm at a lost."
"Me too..." The building Mage sighed out.
"I hope your friends are on the way." Erza yelled to Reve and Kuro as she requipped into her standard armor and sword. Kuro growled as he slid back into a fighting stance due to Laxus turning back to the fire make mage.
Reve climbed out of the rubble he was laying in, holding a small magnum in his dominant hand. "I'll finish you all off alone if I have to."
"There's no need for that." Takeru spoke as he arose from the ground a few feet in front of Reve.
"Takeru... Where's-"
"Jack didn't make it as you can see on the board, and Luke...-"
"Luke is..right here..."
Walking around the corner, Luke was holding his left arm as he limped to beside Takeru. "Don't let my disposition fool you. I'm raring to go. Lucy, Titania, Laxus, and...-" Natsu quickly jumps down from the rooftops, landing behind Laxus. "Natsu.."
"He's fresh." Reve snarled.
"So am I." Takeru replied as he and the Salamander starred each other down.
Erza looks on at Luke. "That means Jellal..."
"Too easy." Luke finished, giving a small smirk as he winced past the pain.
"Same goes for Wendy and Juvia." Waiston comes nonchalantly walking around the corner with his hands in his pockets. Takeru raises a brow at the dragon slayer. "You seem different."
"Do I? It's probably because I'm now the Frozen Sky Dragon slayer." Waiston couldn't help but smile brightly as he let his magic aura rise around him. "And I'm ready to clean these fairies up, Frozen Sky style!"
"A few seconds and it's already annoying." Reve said as he turned back to his four opponents. "So what? Five on four, White Eclipse?" Not looking good for you chumps heh."
"Check...your math...Gihe.."
On the other side of the street, Gajeel came limping in, holding on to the building side. "It looks..pretty even to me!"
"...Heather!" Luke clenched a fist as he glared at the iron dragon slayer. "I should of taken that road, it seemed too clear."
"Five on five!" Ruika yelled out. "All bets are still on! Will it be Fairy Tail or White Eclipse!"
Everyone else watched with intent and silence. Ruika joined them after realizing how much everyone was into the fight.
"Five on five... Natsu and Takeru are the freshest ones here. But Waiston looks okay too.." Reve's thoughts begin to examine the entire situation, he then spoke aloud in his usually cocky tone. "Well well!" He rolled up his sleeves one last time, up to his forearm. "Fairies, lets see what you're made of when your backs against the wall eh!?"
Takeru stood with his arms crossed behind everyone on his team. "I got this, Dragneel has to go. The rest will be easy. Selene...this one's for you."
Luke winced again from the pain in his body, yet he managed to stay up on his own. "Heather.. I'll personally break Gajeel in half. Watch."
Reve twirled the small magnum in his hand, biting his lip to conceal the pain he was in. "Erza... I'll shoot her down just for you, Tayakata."
Waiston looked around at everyone's serious face, then shrugged as he turned back to the opposing guild. "I can't wait to chow down on some ice later ah man. Can I eat raw winds now? I never seen Tak eat raw light so I don't know.."
Lucy and Natsu now stood next to each other as they gave each other a nod. Laxus rotated his left arm to work the stiffness out. Erza stood ready as Gajeel limps to the back of the group.

"Well..."

"Well.."

Reve raised his magnum and aimed it at the Fairy Tail group.

"Bang."