White Eclipse
Chapter 44

"Yeah! The strongest team!" Romeo shouted, throwing a fist in the air.
"These two are inseparable in the end! White Eclipse is done!"
"This is your strongest team?" Sidney asked rhetorically. "You're kidding right? Takeru and Luke aren't exactly a team, but Luke thrives on teamwork. And Tak, well Tak just thrives. What you're about to witness is pure art between two White Eclipse mages. Don't let them stick together. It'll be over in an instant.
"That's the thing!" Makarov chuckled out.
"With these two, Natsu and Lucy. It's never over in an instant. They've tackled opponents that should of killed them long ago. I'm sure two mages from a guild that's holding on by a prayer shouldn't be too much of an issue."
"Watch your mouth Makarov." Calium spoke, but Makarov kept laughing.
"Sorry sorry, the excitement really gets to us Fairies you know?"
"We'll see how big that grin on your face is once this fight is over.."

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"No use of stalling anymore." Takeru grinned towards the infamous duo as a shadowy aura began to shroud around him. Natsu does the same a a fiery aura covers around the Salamander. Lucy kept her determined face as Taurus stood in front of her, dripping his axe. Luke also slid into a fighting stance of his own. He merely smirks as the Copy cat snaps his fingers, creating a yellow magic seal under both of the fairies. They both quickly roll out of range as a plethora of lightning surge up from the ground, attempting to shock them and hold them down. The second Natsu rolled out of the way, Takeru took off towards him at a high speed. Natsu rolled and hopped up right into a right hook from Takeru, slamming right into his jaw. Takeru follows with a left, but Natsu blocks, and retaliates with his own left hook, connecting against the Shadow Dragon's jaw. Natsu then slams a knee into his abdomen, and then another left hook back to his jaw. He went for a right hook, but Takeru quickly recovered his senses. In one motion, Takeru ducked under the punch and then hopped up into a spinning roundhouse, slamming the kick against Natsu's head. Natsu goes tumbling off into the griping before quickly recovering, and now coming to a sliding stop as Takeru gave pursuit. Natsu fires off a quick and low powered fire dragon's roar. Takeru smirks as he continues running forward. Like a submarine diving into the water, Tak quickly takes on his shadow form and dives into the ground, avoiding the roar altogether without losing any momentum. He then reappeared out of the ground beside Natsu and swung a shadow infused punch. Natsu counters by meeting him fist to fist with his own fiery aura covering his fists. The shock waves were strong enough to shatter the remaining windows that still stood intact.
Luke ran right for Lucy, and as he neared Taurus, the giant bull swung down his axe towards the copy mage, but with a quick spin, he was around Taurus in an instant. What happened next threw everyone off. The second he spun around Taurus, Lucy met the copy mage with a straight punch to the nose. Though the weakest attack Luke had dealt with all day, a punch to the nose was a punch to the nose and the copy mage went stumbling backwards, more shocked than anything. After groaning in aggravation, Luke looked up from sheltering his nose from the throbbing pain to see Lucy in her interpretation of a boxer's stance. Seeing something like this really put Luke in a trance, leaving him wide open. Taurus comes sliding to Luke's right, and once again swings down his axe. Luke hops back, but the force of the shock wave from the collision was enough to knock him off his feet. "Quick! Scorpio!"
"We are!" Out of his gate quickly, Scorpio appeared crouching. He fires off a sand buster, except Taurus puts his axe in front of the attack, allowing the sand to wrap around the heavy weapon.
"Taurus! Go!"
Taurus charges a recovering Luke. He leaps into the air away from Taurus prematurely. "Gotcha!" With a loud mooing sound, the bull swings his axe upward, causing the Sand Buster to travel upwards, as if Scorpio fired it himself. The funnel of sand slams right into Luke, causing him to soar upwards.
"Good shot!"
Wincing in pain, Luke turns over, and slams a fist into his palm, causing a frosty aura around him. "Ice make: Lance!" Out of the blue seal in front of him, five ice lances fire out and down towards Lucy and the spirits. With no time to protect their key holder, Lucy and the spirits all get slammed by the lances. Lucy falls back as she winces from the attack, yet she makes it back to her feet.
"Taurus! Scorpio! Everyone okay!?"
"We are! I'm good to go!"
"One little attack won't stop me from protecting your nice body Lucy!"
"Right..." Lucy then spots a shadowy circle under Taurus's feet. "Huh!? Taurus! Look out!"
It was too late, Taurus was being pulled into the shadows by a now visible Takeru.
"I thought he was...!?"
Lucy looks back over at Natsu, who was swinging fiery punches at another Takeru. Finally catching him with a powerful uppercut, the Takeru Natsu was fighting disperses into nothing. "Huh? A fake?"
Lucy quickly turns back around with Taurus's key in her hand. "Taurus! Go back!" But nothing happened. Taurus was sucked into the shadows. The giant bull then appeared from a little ways away from Lucy and Scorpio, being tossed into the air like nothing as his body dissipates back to the spirit world. "Taurus!"
"You have bigger issues." Luke smirked while behind Lucy. Her eyes widened, not turning around. "How did he get down so fast.."
"Ice make:... Geyser!"
From the ground up, where Lucy was once standing. A huge tower of ice forms into the air with her trapped inside. The lacrima screen makes it's way up to give the decision.
"If she can't move, she can't compete. That's how you do it Gray."
"Lucy!" Natsu looked up at the tip of the geyser. He squinted to get a better view, and then smirked.
Luke raised a brow at Natsu's facial expression.
"She's not done." Takeru said as he too looked up.
"What do you mean?" The copy mage asked. "She's frozen solid."
Just then, the ice breaks from the top.
"I'm fine! She says."
Luke, now shocked along with puzzled, continues to look up. "Who's voice was that?"
"It looks like a clock from here." Takeru replied.
"A clock?"
"Ehe.. Horologium." Natsu grinned as the clock jumped down beside him. Lucy quickly crawls out of the clock spirit. She then returns to her feet and smiles gratefully towards the spirit. "Thank you so much Horologium!"
"It's not a problem. Win your fight." He said as he returned through his celestial gate. Lucy wipes her forehead to signify a close call. "Won't get a second chance like that again!" She smiled as she winked at Luke.
"... Don't get cocky. We're just getting started here!"
"It's too bad it's time for you're Early exit! Natsu! How long can you hold them off!?"
"Huh?" The Fire Dragon blinked at her in confusion, but before he could answer, Lucy pulled out another key. "Open! Gate of the twins! Gemini!"
From their gate, two small blue humanoids begin floating around Lucy.
"What's the plan Lucy?" Natsu asked, looking at the now confident celestial wizard.
"Plan? We never have a plan Natsu! Lets just win this!" Lucy then points at Takeru! "That one Gemini!"
Quickly, in a poof of smoke, Gemini takes the shape of Takeru and then charges the original. "Oh!?" Gemini swings a shadow infused punch towards Takeru, but the shadow dragon slayer catches the punch as they go sliding backwards. The same happens to the other punch Gemini threw, but that's all Gemini and Lucy wanted as Gemini trips Takeru over. After a quick roll, they both hop back up. Luke is immediately confused. Gemini then speaks. "Luke...what are you waiting on. Hurry before the numbers catch up to us. I can't beat myself. Gemini then takes off towards Natsu, swinging convincing punches towards the mage.
"Huh?" Takeru watches the imposter charge Natsu. Lucy then points at the real Takeru. "Don't stand there twins! Take out Luke!"
"As if, amigo!" Luke quickly lunged at the confused Dragon Slayer, who was still watching Natsu and Gemini. "Oh shit...Luke!"
"Iron fist of the Fire dragon!" Takeru turned right into a clean Iron fist, slammed right into his jaw as he goes soaring backwards, into building after building.
"Yeah..!" Luke stood proudly after his hit to Takeru, and then turned back to Lucy, pointing. "You're running low on spirits, amigo!"
Lucy, Natsu, and "Takeru." All begin cracking up. Luke raises a brow in confusion. Then it connects.
"No..."
"I'm sorry but that deserved a laugh." Lucy then stops laughing as she goes back to her confident yet determined outlook.
"Okay Gemini!" The twin spirits poof again, this time an exact replica of Lucy as they hop over to beside her. They then touch palms as a golden aura comes over them both and a golden magic seal under them both. Lucy began chanting the words to Urano Metria.
"She's really taken the lead of this team." Erza says with a small smile. "She's come a long way."
Luke was stuck in awe as the eighty eight stars began to "form" around them.
"Luke you gotta move!" Zalen yelled out, of course hitting on deaf ears from such a distance.
"He can't...Luke's done, there's no where to go." Sidney sighed a bit as Lucy was almost ready to attack.
"I...I..." Luke stood frozen as his eyes looked around, spotting all eighty eight stars.
"Urano Met-"
In a blur of white in shadow magic, Takeru appeared directly in front of Lucy in his White Shadow mode, seething in anger. Natsu's eyes widen as Lucy was now the one in shock. Takeru balls his fist. Natsu lunges towards Takeru, but it was too late. With no remorse, Takeru had slammed a right haymaker, infused with both white and shadow magic, into the temple of Lucy Heartfilia. /Everyone watches in complete shock and silence as the celestial mage falls to the side with a blank stare, completely out cold. Natsu stops running, and watches in horror as Lucy fell.
"It's not so funny now huh?" Takeru says as he looks at Lucy. He then turns to Natsu. "Lets end this shit, I'm getting annoyed.
"I wouldn't be surprised if she was dead..." Sidney quietly spoke. "I know I'm not the only one who felt that. Takeru swung for the fences..."
All of Fairy Tail was quiet... Until Makarov turned to Calium. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR BRAT!?"
Calium shook his head, as he prepared to defend Takeru. "...You read the rules. All is fair."
"How dare you! It isn't that serious!" Levy screamed.
Cana held Levy back as she continued to scream at White Eclipse's master.
"First Gajeel and now Lucy! He's a monster why would you even let him do that!?"
"Hey...I'm okay..." Gajeel winced from the blow he just saw Lucy take. "A lot better than Lucy right now at least."
"The only monster here is me anyways." Adamantine said as he crosses his arms. "I for one applaud Takeru's hit. It was a bit weaker to what I gave to idc boy on day one. Heh."
"What did you say!?" Gray roared out as Juvia held him down, pleading him to calm down.
"Hm. I remember an old guild master just before these four started fighting, had a cocky smile on his face, preaching about the best team in the best guild. Now that Lucy is out cold, you're upset." Calium gave a smirk towards Makarov.
"I'll crush you."
"You can try Dreyar."
"If the two masters go at it. I won't hesitate to ruin the rest of you chumps." Adamantine's eyes flash as he grinned, secretly hoping that they would fight.
"No ones afraid of you." Erza says as she grabs Makarov by the shoulder, Mirajane grabbing the other.
"You should be!" Kairi yelled out. "The only reason you're upset now is because we're about to win!"
"L-Lucy..." Natsu stared in horror at the blonde haired mage. The image of her face on the screen was now X'ed out. Takeru did nothing but smile at Natsu. "That's right, lets get Salamander at his best. When he's pissed off. When he's upset. When he's fighting for his nakama. Let it go."
Natsu began to tremble in anger. Slowly, a towering inferno began to cover him. Behind that, lightning sparked around the mage as well.
"Oh? The lightning flame mode? Against the White Shadow?"
"And the copy mage.. I'm still here."
Natsu turned to Luke after hearing him speak. He crouched barely an inch before taking off towards him. The speed even took Takeru off guard. "L-Luke!"
"IRON FIST!"
With wide eyes, Luke desperately puts up a mirror right in front of him as a shield.
"OF THE LIGHTNING FLAME DRAGON!" Natsu punched the mirror, easily shattering it. The fist went through the mirror and slams right into Luke's nose. First there was a shockwave, and then a delayed reaction. In the next instant, Luke goes flying backwards for yards on in until he finally slams into the ground, still sliding into the ground until he finally came to a stop. He was out cold the moment Natsu punch landed. Everything else was just insult to injury to the copy mage. An X mark appears on the screen as it was now one on one. Takeru vs Natsu.
Takeru looks on with widened eyes as Natsu stood in his follow through. He then turned around to the White Shadow dragon. He glared at Takeru. Takeru then glared back as he slid into a fighting stance.
"You wanted this..." Natsu began stalking towards Tak.
"I did. And I'm ready for it. It's White Eclipse, or-"
Before Tak could finish his sentence, Natsu palmed the dragon slayer's face and slammed him into the ground, erupting his lighting and flame mixture from his hand in the process. "Shut up!" Natsu then grabs Takeru by the collar and lifts him off the ground, and tosses him into the rubble that used to be a building. Takeru goes crashing through. Natsu charges again, but the second he was close, Takeru fires a White shadow roar out of the rubble without warning. The attack roars towards Natsu. He puts his arms up in an X formation to cushion the blow as he slides backwards. He digs his feet into the ground to stop the sliding. By the time he stopped, Takeru appeared beside Natsu and begins to swing a combination of White and Shadow infused punches towards Natsu. The first three punches slam into his face, but Natsu quickly recovers as he begins blocking the rest of them with his lightning flamed arms. He then retaliates as he ducks a left hook from Takeru and crouches to the ground. Without hesitation, Natsu slams a sword horn dead into the belly of Takeru, folding him over as they both go soaring a couple of streets over. Natsu finally hops back as Takeru continues flying. He hits the ground but quickly hops up before he goes tumbling. Holding his stomach, he panted heavily as he looked up at Natsu who continued stalking him. "B-Bastard! You're a.."
"Go ahead." Natsu says as he continues inching towards the wounded mage. "I've heard it all before. Monster, mad man. Demon.."
"Demon..." Takeru slowly rose to his feet, still shaky as he began laughing.
"I've seen demons! You're not a demon! I'll show you a demon!" Takeru continued laughing. Natsu stopped for a few seconds to figure out why he was laughing. "You, a demon?! You ever called you that must have low expectations.."
"You're talking to much." Natsu lunged towards Takeru once again. "It's time to end this! Secret dragon slayer art: Crimson Lotus: Exploding Lightning Blade!" Natsu engulfs one hand in lightning and the other in flames. By swinging his arms around, Natsu creates a highly destructive vortex of fire and lightning that slams right into and through Takeru. Natsu ends up on the other side as he finishes his attack.
Badly burned, as the delayed reaction kicked in, Takeru stood with wide eyes as he began falling backwards.
"He's done it!" Romeo yells.
"Natsu won!"
"You better not touch that ground! Die on your feet!" Sidney yells in an uproar, and inches away from touching the ground in KO, Takeru yanks himself back up as streams of thick blackness once again steams off of him. "A demon huh..." Takeru bared his teeth as he then let out a loud war cry to fight through the immense pain he was in from Natsu's last attack.
"He's still up!?" Natsu stood as he looked at the Darkness wavering off of Takeru.
"Oh no...twice in one day. This isn't good.." Selene looked on with worry in her eyes.
"Check again. This is marvelous." Sidney said as he folded his arms. Selene looked up at Sidney. "What do you mean?"
"Look at the screen young Selene." Calium smiles as he takes his own advice while the screen was locked on to Takeru. "Look at his eyes."
She takes a look. "They aren't black.."
"Takeru is in control this time."
"And what a time to do it!" Adam laughs out.
"A demon huh...I'll show you a real demon." Takeru turns to Natsu as the entire area begins to shake between the darkness shadow and the lightning flame.

"No more miracles Salamander.

This ends now."

"BRING IT ON!"