White Eclipse
Chapter 47
Erza, Gray, Sidney, Bacchus, Kagura, Lyon, Ichiya, they all stood outside after being escorted out of the council headquarters.
Erza folds her arms once again as she sighs a bit. "When's the last time we had a break?"
"Yesterday." Sidney answered abruptly. "Or at least I did."
"Sorry, that was more of a rhetorical question, Sidney."
"A question is a question, and they all need answers."
"Hey! Anyways, so Tartaros right?" Bacchus chimed in. "The strongest dark guild. Must be a huge deal if the underhanded Siegrain called on us."
"Lets not...count him out so fast." Erza replies, averting her eyes to the ground. "Maybe he's not the same Siegrain as before."
"Erza, you aren't serious?" Kagura asked. Erza merely shrugs as she hides her face within her hair. "I've been around Jellal longer than anyone. I know him, and Siegrain, though he's different, seems to have the same motives and slightly similar character."
Lyon merely shakes his head. "Back to important matters."
"Of course! The parfum of terror is upon us! We must keep our eyes out for these mages!" Ichiya stated as he struck a pose. "Of course the Trimen are all in!"
"Those clowns.. If they're in, we can't have any women join us or they'll be distracted." Gray says as he huffs out his annoyance. "But in the meantime I guess we should-"
Before Gray could finish his sentence, a group of council guards rush by them in a hurry!
"I wonder what the rush is?" Lyon questions as one of the council guards stop to catch his breath. He then turns to the group of mages with a panicked look on his face.
"Magnolia...! Under attack..! Huge lava...!"
"What!? Slow down. Regain yourself first."
The council guard takes Erza's advice, and gathers his breath and thoughts before speaking.
"Two Tartaros mages have been spotted miles outside of Magnolia! On top of that, one of them summoned a huge tsunami of lava and it's slowly moving towards the city!"
"That's good enough for me!" Bacchus yells as he immediately takes off towards Magnolia.
"Can we beat it there if we go by foot?" Erza asked after seeing Bacchus take off without knowing the information.
"I think so. The tsunami is really slow, but extremely tall and wide. It's going to wipe all of Magnolia away."
"Alright, we're on the way now. You can leave."
Erza and the others take off into a full sprint behind Bacchus. Sidney using his magic to disappear in a white puff of smoke to appear miles ahead.
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Five miles until impact. After arriving with the rest of Fairy Tail, Juvia stood in a good couple of yards in front of the incoming tsunami.
"Juvia will stop this with her water magic. And then Gray-Sama will see her as his hero."
As the tsunami inches closer, Juvia summons a magic seal as she firmly plants her feet into the ground. "Water Nebula!" Throwing her hands forward, Juvia fires two powerful streams of water into the incoming wave of lava. She kept firing, yet it had no effect. Her water merely turned into stream on impact. Juvia stepped back in surprise. "Juvia's water has no effect!? This magic is..."
"Juvia!" From above, on a cloud he created, the green haired weather mage swoops down with his arm out. Juvia grabs it as Jaxon pulls her up onto the cloud and away from the incoming lava.
"Thanks...Jaxon-San."
"It's no big deal." Jaxon stands as he grabs her hand, taking Juvia by surprise a bit. He then smiles. "Now. I heard you can make it rain. Mind helping me out?"
Staring a bit longer at her disposition, she nods as she grips his hand a bit more. "Yeah."
Holding hands, a mixture of blue and green become a magic seal as dark clouds quickly cover the sky. Following after, was a heavy rainfall, to near flooding type depth. Though it rained like no tomorrow, the lava tsunami was still as strong as ever. The rain was having no effect.
"Darn it!" I thought that would work. I hope Jack has a plan then..."
Giving chase to Kiora now, who was still riding on her shadow created three headed dog Cerberus, was Takeru, and Natsu. In the air, was Kairi in her favorite angel taker over and a Satan Soul Mirajane.
"You know, this is a kinda uneasy feeling." Mirajane says as she smiles. "An angel and a demon sharing the air together.
Kairi huffs. "Believe me I know. Demons shouldn't be allowed to fly in the skies anyways. This is where angels prosper."
Mirajane acknowledges but doesn't reply to Kairi's comment. Instead, catching up to Kiora, the split to each side of the Tartaros mage. Kairi ended up on Kiora's right as Mirajane appeared on her left,
Both flying low next to the running Cerberus as it made it's way towards Magnolia.
"If you think we're letting you ruin this city!" Kairi shouts as she holds out her right palm, firing off a multitude of air bullets towards Kiora and Cerberus. The three headed shadow dog easily dodged them all, no matter how fast they came in, and without losing momentum. Kiora began laughing as he did so. "That's cute angel wings, but you don't know who you're messing with.
"Evil explosion!" Mirajane fired off a beam of negative magic towards the "distracted" Kiora. Cerberus leaps into the air to dodge the attack. Kiora then turns a bit as she smirks. Kiora then puts her fist into an open palm sideways as a bunch of black magic circles appear in the air; too many to count. She doesn't say a word, but in her mind she recites "shadow make: Meteors!"
From the countless magic seals in the air, pure black meteor shaped blasts fall from the sky by the dozens. They were all aimed for the demon and angel. Kairi and Mirajane both began dodging, still slightly in a panic, barely keeping up with the meteors. As the meteors pick up, Mirajane and Kairi both swerve to the inside, causing them to crash into each other as they both come to a painful crash landing, tumbling into the ground. What made matters worse was the rest of the meteors, which fortunately for them was not a lot remaining, came crashing into them.
"Clowns. I'm the real demon and angel. Just look at this face and my demeanor."
Gloating, Kiora distracted herself long enough for Takeru to appear from Cerberus's shadow. He then plants his feet into the ground as he plants his hands between the three heads of the hound. Cerberus kept trucking along, causing Takeru's feet to go sliding into the ground but after a few yards, Cerberus began to slow down. Kiora flips off of Cerberus and lands behind Takeru, putting a fist back into her open palm. "Die, you burden."
Before she could fire, Natsu quickly caught her attention. She dodges an incoming fiery right straight that she saw coming with in her peripherals. Everything slowed down as she leaned away from the punch. Her and Natsu now look eye to eye as she grins. Natsu's momentum still carried him. "Sorry kid, I invented the blind side."
With her fist still in her palm she once again didn't say anything out loud. In her mind however. "Shadow make: claws!" And from the magic seal that quickly appeared under Natsu's feet, a bunch of shadow made claws spring high up into the air, grabbing Natsu and bringing him up with them. Holding onto Natsu, the claws quickly descend at a tremendous speed, slamming Natsu into the ground and then some.
"Dammit Salamander!" Takeru looked back at Natsu being slammed into the ground. That was all Cerberus needed as the right head of the three headed dog crunches on Takeru's opposing shoulder, causing Takeru to grunt in pain and wince. This also threw Takeru off balance as the beast of a dog took it's front right paw and slammed it against Takeru's chest, pinning him violently against the ground.
"Ah man... This is such a drag. I don't wanna walk to Magnolia. But Cerberus is playing with his food again." Kiora looked back at the city. "Well, it's only a mile or so."
She then looked over at the slowly approaching tsunami of molten lava. "And Maggie won't be here for another 3 miles it seems. Welp!" Kiora began marching in an animated fashion until a decent sized gust of wind stopped her in her tracks. "Ugh! My hair! Who does wind magic anymore!?" She groaned in annoyance as Aira now swooped down and slid into a fighter's stance.
"Sorry! But you can't harm this city! The people here had no warning of your coming and they've also done nothing to deserve such torment." The blonde haired wind mage of white eclipse held her ground. Above her, headed towards the lava tsunami, was the blue exceed Happy, carrying Lucy.
"Oi! Lucy you're heavy...!"
"Shut it Happy! And get me to the tsunami! In the mean time, Aira is gonna need help and Natsu is down! She must be really strong. In that case, Loke!" She reached for Loke's key, only to see that it was gone. "What...!? It's gone! Did I..did I drop it? That's not like me.."
"Lucy! No time!"
"Right..! I'll find the key later! Taurus!"
"She lifted the bull's key and after a glimmering light, out of his gate, the axe wielding spirit dove feet first towards Kiora, twirling his axe above his head until he swung down a vertical slice that hit the ground due to Kiora dodging. "Ugh...Ruika should of just snatched them all. Spirits are so annoying."
"Snatched them all?" Aira stood puzzled, lost at what Kiora meant. She shook it off however as she stood next to Taurus. Ready to fight.
"Jaxon-San, the rain isn't having any effect." Juvia watched on as she let go of his hand. The downpour continued, yet still there was no sign of the tsunami giving leeway.
"I know, Juvia." Jaxon huffed, until he looked up and saw a figure form at the top of the wave of lava. "What's that?"
Maggie began laughing as she stood at the peak of the moving molten lava. "You bloody wankers really believe that water is going to stop my lava magic? You two are more condensed in the skull than even I expected from you halfwit twits."
"She must be the one controlling the lava flow!" Jaxon glares at the Tartaros mage as she continued to laugh. "Lets attack her now, and maybe it'll stop the lava flow!"
"Right! Juvia understands! Water slicer!"
Juvia fires off two blades of water as Jaxon conjures up a green magic seal, capturing them in a tornado. He then cancels the tornado, using the momentum to speed up the water slicers as they rush towards Maggie.
Still laughing, she nonchalantly sinks back into her own tsunami of lava, causing the water slicer to miss completely.
"Darn it.. She disappeared."
From the middle of the tsunami, four magic circles appear. And out of the magic circles, four golems, made of molten rock, and lava holding it together like glue appear. All four of them were about seven feet tall.
"And what is that!?" Jaxon yelled.
"Nothing we can't handle! Through the thick downpour, Cygnus and Waiston were seen standing across from the growling golems that just sprouted.
"Alright, Cygnus! Waiston!"
"Juvia thinks we need to think of another solution. The lava girls tsunami is getting closer!"
"Huh? Right!"
"Gravity God's Bellow!"
"Roar of the Frozen Dragon!"
Both firing from their mouths, a mixture of purple and icy blue magic swirl together as they easily strike through the four golems, breaking them apart.
"Wow...thought it would be harder than that."
"Me too, Cygnus. She must be all talk besides that giant tsunami."
As Waiston finished speaking, the broken pierces from the golems began to pull back together. As if never broken apart in the first place, the four seven foot golems stood once again, charging both Waiston and Cygnus.
"What!? No way!" Cygnus looked on in shock, then quickly dodged a hard right fist that one of the molten golems threw.
"They just regenerated!" Waiston shouted as he ducked a punch from his own golem. With ice covering his fists, he swing a hook to the side of the golem in front of him. The punch broke off a chunk, yet the pieces floated back onto the creature, easily repairing itself.
Cygnus and Waiston go back to back as the four golems surround and stalk towards them.
"Any ideas, gravity god?"
"Only one, but now isn't the time for a meatball sub."
"Jaxon and Juvia couldn't do it. So you all remember the plan right?" Jack looked at Zalen, Selene and Adamantine as they all nodded.
"This will take a lot of magic, so I'm praying it works. We're gonna wait until it's closer in case it crashes before reaching us."
"It's about two miles away now, Jack." Zalen says while fixing his glasses.
"Just trust me Zalen. Reve and Sidney aren't the only ones with the plans all the time."
"Uh...!...sorry, Jack." Zalen lowered his head, feeling bad for how he said his previous statement, for Jack to comeback with the one he did.
"Suck it up and be ready." Jack looked back to see if Heather, Luke and the others were doing their job, evacuating the Magnolia citizens. Slowly but surely they were. Heather and Luke directed traffic from the east, while Elfman and Gajeel were controlling traffic from the west. Leading them all southward and out of the city, they kept a lookout for any stragglers.
"Though I love the flow of lava, I feel like this isn't a fair exhibition for the blokes. I'll give them a taste before the real thing crashes into the buggers."
Maggie's voice could be heard from inside the wave as a well sized magic circle could be seen in the middle of the wave. From the seal, decent sized balls of lava come shooting out, high into the air, as they begin raining into the city. The rain of lava caused a massive panic as the citizens of Magnolia witness the balls of the unbearably hot liquid touch down on their jokes and shops, melting away the structures.
"H-hey! Don't panic! Just keep moving!" Luke's yell fell on deaf ears. They continued to panic, push and shove as they raced to the city exits.
"Listen to the man!" The vanilla blonde yelled. "You're only making a mess of things!" Once again, the message wasn't received as they continued the frenzy.
"Tch... This isn't working." The iron dragon slayer watched as even his crowd was no longer controllable. He looked up as the raining lava began decimating the city, taking out the bridge, and now random shops and buildings. Gajeel's eyes widen as he sees a lone little boy, just now running to catch up with the crowd a good few yards away. As bad luck would have it, Gajeel looked up to see a bigger sized ball of lava, falling, as if it had the little boy targeted. "Damn it! Kid!"
Gajeel took a full sprint towards the kid, which caused him to freeze himself. The kid was so frightened at the situation already, he didn't know what Gajeel was about to do, not did he have the where with all to move.
With no time to push him out of the way, Gajeel dives over the little boy as the well sized lava ball splashed onto him, causing Gajeel to let out a yell that everyone could hear, even over the frenzy of the panicking crowds.
"Gajeel!" Elfman yelled as he ran to his guild mate.
"Heh...well first things first." Kiora retakes her molding position as she whispers. "Shadow make: Ursa!"
Natsu was making his way to his feet from the impact he faced earlier. As he did he now wobbled in front of a giant bear made completely of shadows. Beginning on it's hind legs, the giant bear swings down a front paw that Natsu barely rolls away from. The paw slams into the ground, breaking it apart easily as it leaves a giant paw sized crater. Natsu rolled away, but the second he was on his feet, the dragon slayer put out both hands to block an incoming devastating horizontal swipe. The strength behind the bear threw Natsu off his feet. The bear hopped towards Natsu, and landing to a position right over him, but before the bear could swing it's next paw, Natsu concentrates his flames to his feet as he spins on his back like a dancer. The flames in his feet surround him as he does so, creating. A mini tornado that slams into the beer, causing it to back away as Natsu kips up into a fighting stance. Natsu growls as he looks at Kiora who was still looking at at still Aira and Taurus.
Before Kiora could move, her first two annoyances were back, as Mirajane and Kaira both land on opposite sides of Taurus and Aira, Kairi on Aira's side as Mirajane took to Taurus's.
"And now, to get you four out of my way. Shadow make: Death scythe!"
Kiora showed an open hand as a small orb of shadow magic floated over it. She then gripped it, causing it to stretch out a good six feet. Taller then herself, the six foot pole of magic then grew a sharp scythe edge. Kiora then twirled the blade as she smirked at her opponents, and within the midst of her scythe spinning, she quickly slung a horizontal slice towards all four of her opponents. They all duck, just barely getting under the scythe. The swing of the scythe has a follow through of shadow magic. The magic went sailing off until it dispersed into nothing. Kiora began laughing to herself as she continued to swing the death scythe each an every way at her opponents. The four of them barely had anytime to react as they continued to dodge for their lives.
"How is she that fast?" Aira asked herself as she side flipped away from another vertical slice. "There's four of us, yet she's covering the ground like it's nothing."
As Kiora turned to throw another swing of the scythe at Kairi, Aira saw her opening as she quickly summoned a clear magic seal. "Wind Blades!" She fired blades, made of her wind magic directly at Kiora. Without turning around, Kiora back swings her scythe, destroying the wind blades. She then barely turned her head as she smirked at Aira, who was now looking on in shock. As she continued to look on, she witnessed Kiora disappear into nothing. "Huh?"
Confused, Aira didn't even recognize Kiora reappear behind her.
"Aira!" Kairi called for her friend as Kiora winds back her scythe, but it was too late, Kiora swings all the way through, slicing...Taurus in half as the bull slid in front of the wind mage. Aira stood with wide eyes to see the spirit sacrifice himself for her well being.
"T-Taurus..."
Aira could feel the cold hard stare from Lucy a mile away as the celestial mage was standing next a puddle the rain created. Shaking it off, she stared back at the incoming tsunami. "Please don't hate me too much. I know I promised I'd never summon you from a puddle again but..." Lucy pulls out a key, and submerged it into the puddle of rain water. "Gate of the water bearer! I open the! Aquarius!"
Through a bright light, the mermaid, Aquarius appeared.
"You have some nerve, breaking a promise like this.." The mermaid said in a calm tone. After she spoke, she saw the wave of lava in front of her.
"I-I'm sorry! But please-"
"I see it, so I'll excuse you this time. And look.."
Aquarius holds her hand out to feel the rain continuously pour. "It's raining. I'll wipe this lava away no problem!" She lifts her jar as she begins to gather all of the water around her, including the puddles and the falling rain. The force of her jar inhaling all of the water began to shake the ground. The process however, was as slow as the lava travel itself.
"This is going to be a close call!" Aquarius yelled to Lucy. "You sure you wanna risk standing here!?"
Lucy shook her head. "I'm not gonna leave you to do this alone. I'm here with you, Aquarius!"
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Back in Tartaros, Ruika slid into "Daityas" library that he claimed for his own. Inside were dozens of untouched books, and one lone desk with a thick book on it, along with the vase that revived Arc. She looked around to see if anyone was inside. After seeing that the coast was clear, she quickly made her way to the desk. She opened the thick book as she began to skim through the words and titles.
"I know there's a spell in here...that will let you posses items that aren't yours."
Ruika sits in the chair as she continues to flip the pages. Until...
"Found it!" She quickly covers her mouth from her own scream of excitement. "The black binding spell.." She begins to read the incantation to herself to memorize for when she's back in her room. "Warning? I don't have time for warnings, it's probably not important.
[Warning, the black binding spell doesn't release the items bond from previous owner, yet it just makes yours stronger for the time being.]
Closing the book without reading the warning, Ruika puts the book back to the exact spot she found it. She then pushed the chair back under the desk and took a step around the desk.
"What are you doing?"
Ruika jumped out of her skin as Sora showed up out of nowhere. The little girl tilted her head at the more than startled celestial mage as Ruika grabbed her chest, panting from the fright. "What is wrong with you kid!?"
Sora slowly pointed at Ruika, and then smiled. "You're not supposed to be in here."
"Yeah well, neither are you."
"I'm in here all the time when I play hide and seek. Even Daityas knows."
"Well, a tray of brownies says that neither one of us were here okay, Sora?" Ruika smiles as she grabs Sora's hands and walk out of the library.
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"Get...off me...you three headed, disgusting, drooling, mutt!" Takeru plants his feet into the underbelly of Cerberus, and with all his strength, kicks the beast into the air. Cerberus lands on his feet with a thud behind Takeru as the shadow dragon kips up and turns to the beast. Back to his emotionless stare, Takeru nods his head back, signaling Cerberus to come at him. And the three headed monster obliged as it charged Tak. In both of his hands, a small orb floated. Takeru gripped them both, creating two katanas in his hands. He then took off towards Cerberus. Nearly reaching each other, Cerberus lunges towards Takeru. He takes this opportunity, and slides under the beast, using his katanas to stab repeatedly into the stomach of the three headed hound. As they pass each other, Takeru jumps to his feet as he quickly turns to the now injured Cerberus, firing off a shadow dragon's roar. The roar slams into the three header beast, causing it to disperse into nothing as it completely disappears.
"Shit... All that work and it was just raw magic, not even a being... She's for real.."
Less than a mile away until impact, Lucy continued to stand next to Aquarius as the water bearer was finishing up gathering all the water in the area.
"...Alright! Lets do this!" Aquarius shouted.
"Lets go!"
Thrusting her arms, and the jar forward, Aquarius fires a giant funnel of water towards the lava tsunami. As it roared forward, a bright red magic seal forms in front of the gigantic wave of lava, and fires out it's own giant funnel of lava, easily matching strength with the water bearer until her funnel of water finally gave in.
"I-it didn't work!"
"But how!?"
Aquarius and Lucy look up as the wall of lava towers over them, inches away from them. "I...I.." Struck in fear, Lucy was unable to move as Aquarius heads back through her gate. Less than an inch away, right before contact, a dark vector wraps around Lucy's waist, pulling her back towards the town. More dark vectors wrap around both Cygnus and Waiston, then Mirajane, Kairi and Aira and even Natsu and Takeru, pulling them all back into the town of Magnolia. Upon reaching the city, the dark vectors drop the mages in the street.
"What happened now!?" Natsu yells out as he rubs his head.
"As he finished speaking Taya walked by the lot of mages as she made her way towards Kiora and the giant wave that Maggie was hiding in. "Everyone stay in the town. I'm going to handle these two."
Natsu quickly stood as he clenched a fist at Taya. "What makes you think you're stronger than them when all of us were having problems!?"
"I'm not /stronger/ than them." Taya continues walking until she was in an ear shot of Kiora. She wanted Kiora to hear her next statement as she said, "But these two spoiled brats haven't changed a bit, I know all their moves. So this won't be an issue."
Kiora growled a bit as she held her scythe. "What did you say traitor!?"
Before anyone could move, about ten dark vectors fire through the huge tsunami of lava, knocking Maggie out of it and to the ground. She landed on her feet, and growled, then began walking towards Kiora and Taya to catch up. "You're a nobody when you left us, Tayakata."
"That's not my name, Maggie Solfatara...Kiora. This is both of your's last warning. Leave, or prepare for the possibility of prison, or death. Doesn't matter to me since you continue to bear that awful Tartaros guild sign."
"You really think you can take the both of us?"
Kiora and Maggie both laugh as Maggie turns back to the incoming tsunami.
"Well I'll tell ya. We got about... Less than a mile before the wave comes crashing down on this bloody city. So sure, we'll properly entertain you until then, /sister/ Tayakata."
"Using that name just makes me want to rip your skull from your frame."
"OOO~! That's Tartaros talk! Well then TAYAKATA! Me and Maggie will remind you of your roots! So lets go!"
