White Eclipse
Chapter 46
A few hours before dawn. Taya sat out on the balcony as she looked up at the night sky. Crossing her arms , she watched the moon slowly descend towards the horizon. "Idiot..." She huffed as she pulled her knees to her chest. Nami walks in, rubbing her eye. "Taya? You're up early.."
She doesn't say anything, just merely shrugs.
"I know you're upset at Reve but-"
"I could careless what Reve does, so don't start with that. All I care about is about your safety, and now the guild. That's my only two priorities."
Nami looks at her for a bit, and then takes the seat across from her. "..Right. You're bad at hiding how you feel though. At least to me."
"Well you are my sister Nami. And I'm not hiding anything, it's what I meant. Reve could not come back for all I care. It's his choice."
"You don't mean that Taya."
"Try me."
Nami sighs a bit, and then stands back from her seat. "I rather not. I just wanted to check on you because I knew you weren't sleeping. Try to get some rest, big sister. Oh! By the way, did you see Kuro come in?"
Taya shook her head. "He probably fell asleep beside his mentor's grave again or something. You know how he is when bad things happen."
"Yeah.." Nami smiles a bit, and then turns back to walk inside the hotel room, out of Taya's sight.
Taya then began to think to herself. "I'll never sleep again, knowing that Tartaros is active. I have to do something. It's me they're after.."
Taya looked back to see if Nami had disappeared. Seeing that coast is clear, Taya quickly leaped over the balcony, landing on the ground. She then made a bee line out of Magnolia, heading to the area where she last ran into Daityas.
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"I'm still wondering why the process speed up." Mithril says as he walks down the hallway with Rugal.
"Same here. Not that I mind. But I guess Daityas actually finds those fairies a threat. Which makes no sense. Anyone of us could demolish that entire guild alone. Especially you, Mr. Lightning Dragon."
"You're too kind." Mithril grins as they enter the main room. Inside, Daityas was sitting at a table with Kiora and Maggie across from him with giddy faces on.
"Okay, we know you said give it a couple days but.."
"We couldn't wait!" Kiora interrupted. "We already have a basic, yet fun way to demolish the city and to let the lacrima flourish faster."
Daityas looked at them both skeptically. "Oh you do? In that short of time? Planning takes a good amount of time you know. Do you really believe you have a full proof plan that will help you succeed?"
Kiora rolls her eyes as Maggie speaks. "Just because we didn't lock ourselves in our room for fifty hours doesn't mean that our idea isn't good. Geez."
Daityas sighed. "You know what, I don't even wanna know the plan. Surprise me. Show me what 'the best team' is capable of. Just make sure magnolia is down and out. It holds the biggest lacrima."
"Yeah yeah." Kiora waves in a dismissive manner. Now ignoring Daityas' presence altogether, Kiora shoves Maggie as she hops around. "YOU READY!?"
Maggie shoved Kiora back, getting pumped. "I'M READY! YOU READY!?"
"I'M READY! MAGNOLIA AINT READY!"
Rugal looks on with a puzzled look at the two mages hopping around. "What is wrong with you two?"
"Shut your stupid frickin face Rugal!" Kiora yelled, pointing at the light green haired mage. Rugal merely shook his head as Kiora and Maggie hop out of the room screaming "Tomorrow!"
Rugal and Mithril then turn back to and walk towards Daityas. Dait sighs a bit in annoyance. "And what do you two want?"
"We're just here to deliver Sora's reconnaissance. Poor thing was tired and went straight to bed." Rugal then turns to Mithril, notifying that he would give the news.
"Well?" Daityas asked.
Mithril cleared his throat.
"You may be right about Siegrain. Sora infiltrated the council headquarters, with ease of course, and heard them talking about gathering not only the strongest mages, but every mage from each guild for an 'important job.' He didn't say what, but it's pretty obvious."
Daityas stayed quiet for a bit. He then gives a small smirk and chuckled. "That fool doesn't know who he's dealing with. He's the pawn here, not us. If he wants to lie to my face, and then try to stop us then be my guest. It's the idiot's funeral. When Sora wakes up tell her to find me. I have another job for her that requires her to head back to the Council Headquarters." Daityas stands from his seat, walking by Rugal and Mithril. "You two should call it a morning as well."
"No problem." Rugal bowed and then they both exit behind Daityas, all going separate ways inside the castle hallways.
Daityas walks down the hallways alone as he makes his way to his room.
"Siegrain. You want to play this game huh? Thinking you can send all of Fiore after us? You're just making my job a lot more fun. I'll burn you all to ashes. And I'll make you watch as the country you wish to rule slowly fades into a nonexistent landmark. Only memories of what it used to be, carried by no one."
As Daityas neared his door, he grabs the doorknob but stops. His ears perk up. Someone was calling for him, and it wasn't a pleasant call.
"Hm? Wait.." The demon slayer grins. "I know that voice from anywhere. I can't believe he's dumb enough to look for me."
Standing on a grassy plain, the same place where Taya was attacked; the same place where He and Daityas trained him for the games, was Kuro. He was seething in blind anger as he continued yelling. "Daityas! Come out! I know it was you! Don't be a coward!"
Appearing out of the small forest to Kuro's right, Daityas walked towards him with a smug look on his face. "Whoa whoa now. Quiet down before you wake everyone. We didn't get much sleep last night."
Kuro growled, baring his teeth as he clenched his fists. "You burned my home down! You destroyed our guild didn't you!?"
Daityas paints on a not so convincing surprised expression. The sarcasm pouring out of him. "What!? Your guild was burned down!? That's tragic Kuro. Tell ya what, if you join my guild, you'll have a place to stay. Things like that never happen...in Tartaros!"
Kuro's heart sunk. "I figured you were still part of Tartaros, but I just wanted to believe you.."
"Part of Tartaros? No no kid. I am Tartaros. But you came here for retribution right!?" Daityas spreads his stance a bit as he grins, taunting Kuro to attack him. "Come on, pay me back for that picture of your weak little mentor that a burned to a crisp."
Kuro's eyes widened at the mention of Mary. "I'll kill you.."
"Ooo! That's not Kuro style of language. Come on Fire Make! Show me what I've taught you!"
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The streets of Magnolia. Outside of Lucy's apartment, familiar celestial mage stands outside in the shadows. On her shoulder, was a small devil like spirit. She scratches the little devil's head as it smiles from the pleasure. "You ready? I need you to get the key we talked about. Before lava girl and Kiora destroy this town. So you gotta make this count. As she spoke, she lifted up her own key ring. On the ring were her own set of keys, and an extra one. She pulled of the newest addition to her collection as she marveled at it. "Just like how you crept inside that other girl's place and took Ophiuchus. Run in there, she's that window right there, and grab me the gate of the lion. Okay Devillo?"
The little devil nodded, and then hopped off of Ruika's shoulders as it ran towards the apartment. Ruika leaned against a building wall, waiting as she admired the stolen key in her hand. "I'm sure there's something in the book of Zeref that allows you to take control of someone else's property. He is Zeref after all."
Ruika watches as Devillo makes it to the door of the apartment. The little devil then takes out his pitchfork and creates a small magic seal, causing him to levitate up to Lucy's window. Like an agent on a mission, Devillo puts his back against the wall as he slowly peers around into the room, seeing nothing but a dark room. He then takes his pitchfork, and summons another magic seal inside the room on the window lock, causing it to unlock from the inside. Devillo slowly opens the window and creeps inside. Standing on the window sill, the creepy little spirit looks around, searching for Lucy's keys. After scanning the room, he spots the bundle of keys laying on the desk. He quietly makes his way to the desk by leaping onto it, softly landing. He looks over at the sleeping Lucy to see if he's awaken her. She was still fast asleep, so Devillo makes his way to the keys quietly. Upon reaching them, he looks for Loke's celestial key without touching the ring. There it was, right in the middle of the others, and the opening to the key ring was on the other side of the keys. Face-palming, Devillo slowly picks up the key ring and begins to carefully slide them around until he reached Loke's key. He attempts to drag the key around to the opening, but it slips through his fingers and clangs against the other keys. This causes Lucy to stir in her sleep. Devillo doesn't move, waiting for her to finish moving just to make sure. After she finally stopped, Devillo tries again, this time succeeding as he carefully puts the key ring back down and dashes to the window. He quietly closes the window behind him and the jumps down to the street, running back to Ruika as she walks out of the shadows of the building on the other side of the street. She stifles a squeal as she marvels at Loke's key. She then pats Devillo on the head as he climbs back to her shoulders. "You never let me down Devillo. Batto needs to take lessons from you I swear. It's been real Magnolia. See you never." Ruika then begins walking out of the city as she laughs to herself and Devillo.
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"Don't tell me you're scared of your mentor?" Daityas stayed in his stance, grinning towards Kuro who was still seething in anger, anxious to get his hands on the demon slayer.
"You're not my mentor. You're a liar and a fake." Kuro then slaps his palms together. "Fire Make: Knuckles!" Kuro then rushes Daityas and slams a right haymaker to his jaw. Daityas head snaps to the side, but he doesn't move anything else. Unphased, Daityas then slowly turns back to Kuro with a sadistic grin on his face. "Wow...I guess training didn't pay off." He laughed as the Hell fire mage slammed a headbutt against the skull of Kuro, causing him to violently hit the ground, creating a small crater as well. Daityas then digs his foot under Kuro's stomach that was pressed against the earth, and kicks him up out of the crater. Kuro goes crashing and rolling into the ground before he forced himself to a stop. He held his ribs, but as he touched them, he immediately winced in severe pain. "Are..."
"I wouldn't be surprised." Daityas interrupts. "You know, if your ribs are broken from that kick. Sometimes I don't know my own strength. Sometimes I do know but just don't give a damn." Daityas lets out an evil laugh as Kuro slowly makes his way to his feet, wobbling.
"Oh? You stand? That means you want more. Well here, I'll just wrap this bullshit of an attempt for revenge up quickly."
"I only have one shot at this...and it's gonna cost me everything..." As Daityas began walking towards him, Kuro but his arms out in front of him in an X formation. His aura begins to rise.
"Daityas continues to smirk as he stalked towards Kuro, until a bunch of dark vectors catch his eye at the last second. He quickly covers up as they all slam into him, barely moving him out of his spot. This caused Kuro to drop his arms as he looked around. "Taya?"
"Tayakata? No need for cheap shots Tayakata! Come on out!"
As Daityas yelled, a black magic circle appeared under his feet, causing more dark vectors to shoot up and slam into Daityas. He blocks the first few and then leaps into the air away from the rest.
"Gotcha." Taya appears above Daityas, riding on a dark vector. She then jumps off and swings an axe kick to the top of Daityas head. Daityas nonchalantly catches her leg before it connects however. And throws her to the ground, causing her to crash into the earth. Tayakata struggles, but quickly makes her way to her feet as she holds her right arm in pain. Daityas lands on the ground shortly after, now grinning at the both of them. "Oh boy, what a surprise. My two favorite people. The runaway and the traitor. What's funny about that is, Taya could be both. I planned on killing you both anyways."
"Kuro, run." Taya slid into a fighting stance as she barked at Kuro.
"Fat chance. He's gonna pay for what he did."
"Kuro don't be an idiot, he's too strong. And you use his element. You don't stand a chance."
"I stand one..." Kuro then runs towards Daityas.
"Kuro what did I say!?" Taya yelled out, causing Kuro to stop right in front of Taya. Kuro then turns to Taya with a smile as he slams his palms together. A quick rumble happens as Kuro quickly gathers most of his magic and concentrates it into his next move. "Sorry Taya, but I have to do this since it's my fault. Fire make: Wall!"
Kuro spreads his hands out, creating a giant wall of flames that seemingly went on forever in both height and length. Taya shielded herself from the bright flames but then opened her eyes, widening them as she looked at Kuro and Daityas on the other side.
"Kuro!" She yelled out. But Kuro chose to ignore Taya's cries as he stared at Daityas.
"I know I can't beat you. At least not without a sacrifice..."
"A sacrifice?" Daityas cocked a brow in confusion. "What sacrifice?"
Taya however stood in shock a bit. "Kuro no! Don't you dare!"
Kuro took a deep breath as the intrigued Daityas stood waiting. "I want to see this sacrifice that's supposed to kill me."
Kuro put his arms back out in front of him, crossing them in an X formation. What remained of his red magic aura began to flare out everywhere as a twin spiral of flames began to circle around him as the flowed endlessly into the air.
"Okay, your little fire show is boring me." Daityas was about to move, but before he could, the same style of spiral flames began to circle around him and into the air. "Huh?! And this is what now? I didn't teach you this?"
"No...my mentor did..."
[Flashback]
At the peak of one of the twelve mountains around White Eclipse, Kuro, Waiston, Reve and Jack all run, trying to make their way down the mountain side. Kuro stops and then turns back around. "Kuro!" Reve yelled out as he too ran after the fire make kid. "What are you doing!?"
"I can't leave her again!" Kuro yelled as he ran into the heavy blizzard.
"Kuro stop you dummy!" Waiston and Jack also run behind Reve who was giving chase to Kuro Crane.
"Kuro! Kuro! Can you see anything Waiston?" Reve asked as he shielded his eyes from the blizzard.
"Nothing yet." The ice dragon slayer yelled back. The three kept walking forward until Jack finally spotted Kuro, who was sitting behind a standing Mary. In front of them both, was a giant Wyvern. The Wyvern let out a massive roar, cornering both Mary and Kuro against a well sized rock formation against the mountain peak. "Didn't I tell you to run you brats?" Mary gave them all a stern look, then quickly shielded herself as the Wyvern let out another roar.
"We were! Kuro turned around!" Reve yelled, trying to explain the situation.
"Just go!" As Mary yelled towards the three brats, Kuro tried to make a break for Reve and the others as well, but caught the Wyvern's attention. The giant winged beast then turned and began chasing after Kuro who had just tripped and fell into the snow.
"Crap!" Reve, Jack and Waiston watched helplessly as the Wyvern stalked towards the fallen Kuro.
"Kuro!" Mary charges the Wyvern from behind with her fire make knuckles. The Wyvern easily swatted her away with it's tail, causing her to go crashing into the snow. While the Wyvern was distracted, Waiston was helping Kuro up, but the distraction didn't last long as the Wyvern let out another roar, scaring the two boys into a paralytic state.
"Do something toy soldier!" Jack yelled at Reve, not taking his eyes off of him. Reve doesn't even answer. Instead he stares up at the abnormally large Wyvern in fear.
The Wyvern rears it's head back a bit, ready to devour Waiston and Kuro from the ground. Before it could move forward, a twin spiral of flames surrounds it.
Reve looks up as he and Jack pull Waiston and Kuro up and away from the Wyvern. "Mary's got it!"
"Huh?" Kuro looks up to see what was happening. He then looks over at Mary to see the same two spirals surround her, then immediately tries to pull away from Reve. "Mary!"
"Kuro stop! She's handling it!"
"She's killing herself!"
Reve stood confused at Kuro's last outburst but still held on as Kuro tried to struggle out of his grasp.
The Wyvern continued to let out a roar, but it's body didn't move as Mary stood a ways away from it with her arms out in front, shaped like an X.
"Mary don't!"
"Flamed shell!"
The two spirals around the Wyvern then quickly collapse around the beast, smothering it in now a giant orb of flames. The orb continues to shrink and shrink, compacting the Wyvern into nothing.
"It's gone..." Jack looks on, astounded as he lets go of Waiston.
"That was a giant Wyvern..I didn't know they came that big." Waiston added.
Kuro finally kicked away from Reve as he ran towards Mary, who still had the flames rising around her. "Mary!"
Kuro ran up to in front of his mentor, as close as he could without getting burned by the flames surrounding her. She returns a soft smile. "Sorry, kiddo. But it was either you or me. And I couldn't live with myself anyways if it was you. I want you to be strong okay? I'm not your only family anymore. They'll take care of you."
"But.." Tears began to stream down the cheeks of Kuro as he looked up at the eyes of Mary Crane. "Don't leave..."
Her smile grows a bit as her feet begin to turn into ashes. Ashes that immediately blow away within the blizzard's wind. "Sorry, now stop crying. You have a lot of growing up to do. And Reve, Sidney, Jack, old man Calium, they're gonna help you do it okay? I've taught you all I could anyways. It's time for you to practice what you've learned." By this time, up to her waist has turned to ashes and blown away. "Try not to be so annoying either. Crying all the time."
"Stop being mean when you're about to leave me." Kuro wipes the tears off his face, only to have more replace them. Mary laughs a bit as the ashes reach her shoulder.
"Bye squirt. Thanks for everything."
As she finished her sentence, she completely vanished. Not a trace of ash was left as the blizzard's wind swept everything away.
"Mary...MARY!"
[End Flashback.]
"She sacrificed herself so I could live to grow with my family. But if I let you live, they'll be more people in danger."
"Kuro don't you do it!" Taya watched helplessly as the fire make mage shouted. "Flamed shell!"
Just then, the two spirals of flames collapse onto Daityas, creating a hollow orb of flames around him. The orb slowly collapses onto Daityas, slowly shrinking with Daityas trapped inside. "You're gonna regret this you brat!" Daityas yelled out as he tried to push against the orb, but to no avail. He struggles and struggles until...the orb and Daityas disappears.
"He's gone..." Taya then turns back to Kuro, waiting for the tragedy that came next. Kuro's fire wall disperses and Taya quickly runs up to him. "Kuro! I...I'm sorry.."
"Don't be...he needed to be stop. He's too strong. I'm just glad I could help. Tell everyone I'm sorry."
As he spoke, his feet begin to turn into ashes, just like Mary's as the wind sweeps them away.
"Don't talk like that! We can fix this! There has to be a way!" Taya looks around frantically, grabbing her own head in frustration.
Kuro smiles a bit as he laughs. "I'm sorry for not listening Taya. But I guess this is fair punishment right?"
"No..you don't deserve this. You don't Kuro.."
Kuro looks up to the sky as the ashes reach to his sternum. "Whenever Reve comes back, tell him I don't hate him. And my noodles are up for grabs."
"Stop it!"
Kuro turns his head to Tayakata and smiles from ear to ear as the ashes make their way to his neck. "Bye Taya. Be safe, and remember that you're not one of them." As he finished so did the ashes, as the wind blows Kuro away, scattering the ashes in each direction until they disappeared.
"K-Kuro..." Taya falls to her knees as she sobs. "First Arc... Now-"
"You know what's worse than sad endings?"
Taya's eyes widen in absolute fear as Daityas's voice echoes from nowhere.
"Sad endings that had a failed purpose."
From the exact spot where he disappeared, a small orb of fire was seen being formed from thin air. It continues to grow until it was large enough to fit a person inside. An inhaling sound was then heard as the orb caved in on itself. Out from the flamed shell, was an unharmed Daityas. "Man, talk about close calls right?" The demon began laughing as Taya stayed on her knees in shock. "Now..where was I?" Before Daityas took a step forward, he noticed the sun coming over the horizon. "Hm..it seems you survive another day Tayakata.. I have plans I'm already behind on because I wasted my time with you cretins. Till next time."
Daityas then trudges back into the forest as if nothing happened, leaving Taya alone as she mourned over the loss of Kuro Crane.
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"So why were we called here exactly? And so early?" Erza asked as she folded her arms. Standing next to her inside of the magic council headquarters was Gray, Bacchus, Kagura, Sting, Ichiya, Lyon and Sidney. Escort it them was a tall man with a goatee and black medium length but well kept hair. He was second captain Odin.
"Sir Siegrain will explain as soon as we reach the debriefing room." The captain kept his words short and sweet as they continued down the hallways. Sting followed in the middle, and turned to the few council guards escorting and talking to young children as they marched down hallways. "What are they doing?"
Odin glanced over to acknowledge what Sting was talking about. "That, is our youth program, for any kid that believe he or she wants to be a council guard or captain when they're older."
"You said that like it's not weird." Bacchus says as he grins at his own comment. He then noticed a kid he's seen before. The girl had black hair and brown eyes.
"Hey, Erza. Isn't that the girl we and Kagura saved from the Wyverns?"
Erza and Kagura turn to look. "Hey that is her. I guess she's been inspired to be a council guard when she's older." Erza smirks a bit as she looks at the young girl in line with the other kids.
"That's funny." Gray chimes in. "She kinda looks like the girl I sat next to in the hospital. Except she had brown hair."
Gray then squints his eyes. "No wait, yeah...that looks exactly like her."
"Anyways!" Captain Odin interrupted. "We're here." Odin opens the door to a room. Sitting down on the other side of a long table, was Seigrain. Beside him standing, was Ultear and Correll.
"Ultear, you're looking well." Bacchus commented. "Back to standing beside the phonies side once again huh?"
Correll immediately fires back. "What did you say!? Watch how you speak of Seigrain Senpai."
"Senpai!?" Bacchus roars in laughter. "Wow. Only a few days and your lips are already attached to his-"
"Enough." Seigrain cuts them both off. Correll stays glaring at Bacchus as Ultear hands Seigrain a file. "We have bigger problems than Bacchus small wit."
"We're in your territory so I'll let that one slide."
Siegrain opens the file and then spreads out photos. The photos show pictures of the Tartaros mages.
"I got these from one of my undercover sources. These, are the mages of Tartaros. The most dangerous dark guild ever. They've been spotted, which means they're active. We have no idea what they're planning, but it's up to you and your guilds to stop any if you see them."
They all examine the pictures laid out on the table. Gray spots one that stands out. He squints and lifts a picture of a little girl with pink hair. It was Sora. "This girl... She looks just like..."
Odin snatches the picture out of Grays hand, throwing off his concentration and train of thought. "Don't lift the photo, let everyone else see too."
"I can have copies made if you all need them." Siegrain commented. It /will/ take an effort from all of you and your guilds."
"And what happens if we fail?" Lyon asked.
"Then Fiore fails. Each mage we're told, has the lone ability to destroy nearly all of Fiore on their own. We don't want that now do we? I have my best men on the case as well. You can see how serious this is if I'm taking time out of my day to personally give you all this mission."
"I'm sure you're plenty busy." Kagura nodded. "With all your plots to destroy us on your own."
Siegrain chuckled. "Meanwhile. We will send copies to your guild halls when we can. Thank you for your time. Odin will walk you out again."
As they all begin leaving, Gray turns back to the picture of the little girl one last time. "She looks so familiar.."
Down the hallway, the black haired girl sneaks away from the group. Quickly, she slides into a nearby unused closet. As she enters, nothing was inside but old cobwebs and dusts. In the corner, the black haired girl crouched as she pulled out a shining blue stone like fragment out of her pocket. She then pushed the lacrima into the corner, and covered it back up with the excess dust. The lacrima entered the walks of the headquarters and now laid there as the inside of the walls slowly turned into lacrima, unseen to the naked eye." The black hair the girl wore then slowly turns back to pink as she giggles. Seeping into her own shadow, Sora then disappears.
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Outside of the hotel, Jack stretches out, holding a bottle of alcohol in his hands. He then looks both ways before he begins his public drinking. He then looks over as he hears a loud shriek. Down the street, he notices the pink haired Dragon slayer literally being kicked out of Lucy's apartment. "Oh..that's not good. We would get a hotel close to them. Oh well!" Jack resumes drinking from is bottle.
"Hey!" Jack chokes for a second as he was startled. He puts the bottle down to see Natsu and Happy in front of him.
"Salamander..."
"What are you doing here so early? In front of a hotel?" Natsu asked.
"None of your business really. But the whole guild is here really."
"Oh.." Natsu blinked, but doesn't question why they were here when their guild was just up the mountains. "Well, I didn't get to see him, but tell Takeru that I really enjoyed our fight. And anytime he wants another-"
"You don't get it do you?" Jack interrupted. "This isn't a game. Not to them. These kids hate you. They hate anyone better than them. Me personally, I couldn't care less. But Takeru, Luke, Selene, Kairi. You didn't earn respect from them through battle or anything. They hate you all. And they'll continue to until they prove that they're better than you. So until they're the ones holding up a Grand Magic Games trophy, you can forget about any friendlies going on Salamander."
Natsu nods at the harsh reality. "Shame..."
"Call it what you want. But it's the White Eclipse way." Jack shrugs as he takes another swig of his bottle.
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Upon a hill overlooking Magnolia they stood. Just miles away from the city, Kiora and Maggie stood at the top of the giant hill.
"I'm so bloody giddy to start." Maggie says as she cracks her knuckles.
"Me too yo. Lets do this!"
"Lets go!"
"Yeah!"
"Right now!"
"Okay!"
"I'm nervous..."
Maggie slaps Kiora across the face.
"...alright I'm not nervous anymore."
"Right." Maggie conjures up a giant red magic seal from in front of her. Just then, the area begins to shake as the ground beneath her cracks open. From the massive cracks in the ground, a giant wall of lava rises methodically, nearly reaching the sky.
Still outside the inn, Jack and Natsu wobble, feeling quakes of the Earth.
"What is that!?" Natsu yelled out.
Kairi runs outside and looks over the balcony. "Jack!"
"It's not me I swear!" Jack replies as he holds on to the wall.
"Then what is-" Kairi stops in mid sentence as everyone from White Eclipse looks up in awe. A giant tsunami of lava slowly makes it's way towards Magnolia. In front of the tsunami of lava, a giant three headed dog, completely black could be seen charging towards the town. Kiora was seen riding the dog she named Cerberus as she placed her fist into her other palm. From her position, a long way away, four well sized and powerful lances made of shadows traveled towards Magnolia at a tremendous speed. The lances slam into the building closest to her, still miles away. On impact, the building completely collapses. An uproar of screams were heard as this happened.
"What the hell is going on!?" Jack watched in awe as Natsu immediately takes off. Happy flies to get Lucy. Takeru jumps out the window, leaping forward, he lands beside Natsu as he begins sprinting as well.
"Takeru.."
"Don't talk to me Salamander. Lets just do this."
In a dead sprint they head out of the city as they attempted to meet Kiora head on.
"I'm gonna go help Takeru." Selene says as she hops down from the balcony.
"Me too." Kairi does the same.
"Wait Selene." Jack says as he grabs her arm. "We have a more important job. We need to stop that lava flow. They can handle whoever is attacking."
"...Okay. Lets go then."
"Adam, and Zalen!" Jack yells.
"I'm here."
"Here!"
"Okay, you three follow me! Everyone else, get the towns people out!
We don't have much time!"
