White Eclipse
Chapter 50

A few days have passed since the first attack on Magnolia. Though White Eclipse stayed at the town's inn, nothing out of the ordinary has taken place since the attack. Everything seemed back to normal. Until...

"I swear I don't know what happened to it! I never take my keys out unless I'm using them!"
Inside Lucy's apartment, everything was turned over, from her bed to the rest off her furniture. Even the clothes in her closet were thrown everywhere. Standing in the middle of the mess, was Natsu, Happy and Gray, watching Lucy continue to scramble around for her missing key. The gate of the Lion, Loke.
"Oi, Lucy. You've been at this for days. Are you sure you didn't drop it somewhere?"
"I'm sure Natsu!" The blonde haired mage yelled in frustration as she continued to scale her entire room, searching for Loke's key. Gray, quickly shirtless, begins to look around with his eyes with little effort. "Have you tried calling for him? You know how Loke is. He can open his gate without you."
Her eyes widen with a hopeful smile. "Good thinking!" Lucy then cupped her left hand around her mouth as she yelled out. "Loke! Loke if you're here... Come out!"
Happy then gives it a try as he stood on Lucy's bed with his paws around his mouth. "Loke! We have fish!"
Gray gives Happy a look of disappointment. "That only works for you Happy."
After a few seconds, Lucy drops her head. "I just don't understand how I could lose him.."
"Let me try." Natsu cupped both hands over his mouth as he yelled. "Loke! Lucy's naked!"
"Don't tell him that!" She screamed back at the Dragon Slayer
"Oh... Did we come at a bad time?"
The four of them turned around to see Sting, Rogue and Yukino now standing in Lucy's room as well.
"HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE!" Lucy yelled again, flailing about in frustration and confusion.
Sting blinked, and then pointed to the only window in the room. "The window..."
Yukino gave an embarrassed smile and a slight wave. "I told them not to, Lucy."
"We heard screaming..." Rogue added. "And it looks like someone ruined your place."
"I ruined my place.." Lucy sighed loudly as she re positioned the chairs that were flipped over.
"I lost Loke.."
Yukino's eyes widen a bit as she perks up. "How strange. I lost Ophiuchus!"
"Really!? How!?"
Yukino shrugged a bit as her face showed sadness of her missing key. "I don't know... One minute I had it with me, and the next, he was missing. I was actually on the way to Magnolia's magic shop to see if anyone pawned it."
Lucy smiles at the idea, especially since it was her last hope to find her key. "That's smart! I'll go with you!"
Lucy grabs her key pouch, scanning over them to make sure that everyone was counted for. She then walks to the door to her room, opening it before looking back at Yukino. "Coming?"
Yukino nodded. "Hai!" She then exits the room with Lucy as the door closes behind them. Now standing awkwardly in Lucy's room, Sting and Rogue's eyes wonder a bit until they come back to Gray and Natsu. "So we heard about the attack here a few days ago."
"Oh yeah." Gray shrugged. "We handled it. It was from Tartaros though. And the council made some huge thing about their guild saying that they're.."
"The strongest dark guild." Rogue says, cutting Gray off.
"Yeah... That."
"We've all heard of Tartaros. I'm surprised you guys didn't know until recently." Sting begins to smile. "Things are always happening to you guys neh? Speaking of always happening, how's your friends White Eclipse doing?"
"Annoying still." Natsu huffed from the mention of the Grand Magic Games runner up. "Their guild was burned down and they've been in Magnolia ever since. But we also got word, that that Reve guy disappeared and the red head Kiro died..."
"Kuro." Gray said, fixing Natsu's mistake. "We heard he ran into the guild master of Tartaros, and didn't stand a chance...which is scary because Kuro was strong."
"He wasn't that tough, you're just weak now."
Gray slams his face against Natsu's, now standing cheek to cheek with the Dragon Slayer as they both push back, growling. "What did you say flame head!? I'll put you in the ground right now!"
"You wanna go underpants man!?"
Happy, who somehow made his way to their shoulders, pushes them both away to separate the two.
"We were about to go find them ourselves days ago, but Lucy refuses to leave without Loke and she has yet to find him! She probably ate it!"
"Be nice Happy."
Sting was too busy watching Gray and Natsu to pay too much attention to Happy, chuckling at their actions. Rogue on the other hand...
"Looking for them is a bad idea..."
Natsu turned to the quiet Shadow Dragon Slayer as he came back to his senses from barking at Gray. "And why is that?"
"They aren't a normal guild. I'm sure the last attack was no walk in the park. It'll probably only get worse, and you should prepare for it.."

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Lucy and Yukino continued walking down the street as they headed towards the magic shop in Magnolia.
"So you looked everywhere you said?" Lucy blinked at Yukino, now looking at the white haired celestial mage. Yukino nodded. "I retraced all my steps, all the way back to Crocus. I checked every magic shop everywhere and nothing."
"You don't think... Our keys have been stolen have you?"
Yukino shrugs again. "I don't think so. I mean, if they were, why weren't the others taken? Especially yours. You have so many powerful ones, you'd think that Aquarius, or Taurus would of been taken as well."
Lucy sighs again, as they come to the magic shop's door. "That's a good point." Lucy then puts her hand on the door handle as she takes a deep breath. "Well... Here we go. They have to be here."
"They are I know it!" Yukino walks in behind Lucy as she opens the door, immediately heading towards the shop keeper.
"Oh! And what can I do for you two girls today!?" The shop keeper gave a smile towards them both as they approached the counter.
"We just have a question." Yukino said as they both now stood across from the elderly man. "I may have an answer!" The shop keeper replied with a smile.
Lucy then begins to speak. "We both seemed to have lost something very important to us. Two celestial keys. The gate of the Lion and the gate of the snake charmer. Has anyone pawned them off of you, or bought them from you or anything? They're still under our contracts."
The shop keeper stayed quiet for a bit as he began to think. After a moment of silence, the shop keeper began to shake his head. "I'm sorry, I haven't received nor sold any keys lately."
Hearts sink as Yukino and Lucy sigh simultaneously. Yukino begins to tear up as she sniffles. Lucy looks over to the fellow celestial mage. "Yukino.."
"I'm sorry. It's just... I miss him. That's my spirit..." She quickly rubs her eyes clean of tears as she walks out of the shop, giving the keeper a small wave. "Sorry for the trouble."
"It's no problem at all.. I hope you find what you're looking for!" He waves back as the girls exit the shop.

"You ready, Sora?"
"Hai! Me and my friends are ready."
"Alright. Lets get to it then."

Natsu, Gray, Happy, Sting and Rogue all made their way outside as they now walked towards the shop to see it Lucy and Yukino had any luck in finding their keys.
"Man, I forgot how lively this town is." Sting says as he walks forward, his hands on his hips as he continues to watch the people and scenery around them.
"Yeah, it's the busiest city next to Crocus." Says Gray as he scopes out the scenery along with Sting. "Something is always happening."
"Aye! There's always an event at least once a week here! And if not, then it's just busy streets non stop!" Happy smiles as he raised a paw in the air. "And the fish..."
"We catch our own fish anyways Happy." Natsu laughed a bit as they continued walking, blocks away from the shop that Lucy and Yukino went to, until Natsu spotted a light green haired male in the middle of the street, standing with his eyes closed. Natsu then stopped walking, causing everyone else to do the same as they looked over at the Salamander. "Oi, Natsu? What are you doing?" Gray asked as he looked over to where Natsu was staring.
"Hm?" Sting does the same, spotting Rugal along with Rogue and Happy.
"What's that guy doing? He seems suspicious..."
After standing still for a few more seconds, Rugal slowly opens his eyes, and averts them to the mages to his right. A smirk slowly creeps on his face as a light green magic circle appears from his feet. The magic seal causes a rumble in the city, causing shock at first, and then city wide panic as the rumbling became more violent.
"Not again!" Gray yelled as he held his ground. Happy held on to Natsu's leg as the other dragon slayers stood firm, waiting to see what was about to happen. The shaking became more and more violent until everything stopped within the next second.
"... That was it?" Natsu asked as he looked around.
"You know better than to ask that, Natsu-San. Sting replied as he kept his guard up.
Rugal began walking forward as the towns people began easing on the panic, still confused on what happened. As he walked forward, he reached a four way stop, and with a snap of his fingers, four portals appear at the end of each street, covering the entire intersection. All across town this happened, giant portals appeared at the end of each street, cutting off each turn. Even the alleyways were blocked by Rugal's portals. As Rugal stood in front of one of the portals, he once again looked back at the four Mages and Happy. "You're on little girl." He says to himself it seems. Just then, a faint giggle was heard as a plethora of shadowed figures pour out from the portals. The screams of terror once again begin as these figures begin rushing the city, clawing and pouncing on anything and everything; tearing apart buildings and streets and the occasional citizen running away from the terrors. Their sharp finger tips still dripping with crimson, they continued their mindless onslaught.
"What the!?" Rogue looked on in shock as the shadow puppets controlled by little Sora began to do their work.
"What's going on!?" Sting was too in shock. Yet, Natsu and Gray ran forward, both heading for Rugal as he entered the portal before they could reach him. They both slam on the brakes as he does so.
"How dangerous do you think that thing is?" Gray asked Natsu.
"Only one way to find out!"
"Natsu!" Happy flew after the Salamander, who just entered the portal without a single concern for the consequences.
Stunned at first, Gray follows right behind them both, disappearing away from Rogue and Sting.
"Should we follow?" Rogue asked. As he did though, the shadow puppets surrounded the twin dragons as they went back to back. Sting lets out a chuckle. "It seems we have our own problem for right now.."

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"What's going on?!" Lucy and Yukino stood in confusion as they witnessed the portals form, and the puppets appearing out of them. "Tartaros..!" Lucy held her hand against her key pouch, ready to defend herself. Due to Lucy's movement to her keys, half of the puppets turn their attention to the two girls and quickly charge them, seeing them as the biggest threat in their area.
"Heads up!"
"Gate of the scorpion, I open thee! Scorpio!"
"We are!" Out of his gate, Scorpio appears as the puppets continue their charge, rearing back their crimson colored fingertips. "Sand buster!" From his tail, Scorpio fires off a funnel of sand, taking out half of the charging shadow puppets. The other half leap into the air as the ready themselves to strike.
"Gate of the paired fish. Pisces." Yukino lifts her key as it glows, summoning the black and white twin fish, Pisces. Both fish ram into the remaining threats as the disperse from slamming into the ground. "They aren't so tough!" Lucy says with a point of the finger. "Scorpio! The rest of them, before they cause harm to anyone!"
"We are!" Scorpio fires off another sand buster towards the two puppets scaling a random building, ripping the wall apart as they did so. The sand buster slams into the two as the disappear into nothing, clearing the entire area of the puppets.
"Okay." Yukino says. "Now we have to find the source of these things."
"Yeah." Lucy nods. "But are those portals safe to travel through? I don't know how these things work."
As Lucy spoke, a faint giggle was heard once again, catching Yukino's ear. She turns around, but sees nothing. Lucy sees Yukino quickly turn and now looks at her in confusion. "Everything okay, Yukino?" As Lucy looked towards Yukino, she noticed the white haired mage's shadow moving on it's own. "Y-Yukino!" By the time she screamed out her name, Yukino's shadow had come to life, now standing like an actual person behind Yukino. She turns around, and scrambles away in a panic. "Wh-what... What is that!?" She yelled.
"It's your shadow! Lucy pointed as she yelled in a panic.
"How...! Lucy look out!" Yukino yells and points as well. Lucy slowly turns around, and then yells as she scrambles away from her now standing shadow. The two black silhouettes now stood side by side and both slowly lifted a black key, also made of shadows.
"T-they can't..."
"They're copying our magic too!?" Yukino and Lucy both look on wide eyed as the two keys begin to glow. Out of their gate, a silhouette of Scorpio, and the paired fish Pisces appear, now standing off with the real Scorpio and Pisces.
"This can get bad..." Lucy slowly reaches for her keys, but as she does, she realizes her shadow that was now standing across from her, mimicking her exactly. Both stopping at the same time, and moving the exact same body parts with every move Lucy takes. Yukino's did the same as she shuffles uneasily. "Their copying our every move.." Lucy says, pointing out the obvious due to her disbelief.
"Annoying... We have to get past them.." Yukino says, as she once again hears Sora's giggle quietly echo around the city. "Who are you..?"

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Before entering the portal, they were in the middle of Magnolia with Sting and Rogue. Now, after coming out of the other side of the portal, Natsu, Happy and Gray appeared on the southern part of the city, looking at the chaos that was the puppets, chasing the helpless and slowly bringing down buildings with their sharp crimson dripping fingertips.
"We're in the south of The city." Gray points out.
"Right.." Natsu looks around, and then quickly spots Rugal turning the corner, walking through another portal. "There!" Natsu begins running after him as Happy flies low behind the dragon slayer.
Gray begins running behind them until he heard a familiar voice.
"Help me!" The voice stops Gray right in his tracks. He then turns to his left and looks up towards the ceiling of a house. His eyes widen as he sees the same little girl with brown hair on the roof, being cornered by four of the puppets.
"It's that girl from the hospital and the council head quarters!" He growls and then takes off running towards her. As Natsu disappears, Gray slams a fist into his open palm,
And then slams both hands into the ground, creating a staircase made of ice towards the ceiling. He quickly runs up the ice staircase and at the last few steps he leaps towards the surrounding shadow puppets with his fist once again pressed against his palm. "Ice make: Lance!" As he thrusts his hands forward, a couple of ice lances fire forward, crashing into the four shadow figures, causing them to go tumbling away from the little girl. Gray landed in front of the girl, now ready to strike again as he stood as her last line of defense.
"I got you.." The ice mage says as he keeps his eyes on the shadow figures.
"Th-thank you.." The little girl whispers, unbeknownst to Gray, she began to show a small grin on her face as Gray stayed poised, facing the shadow puppets that now charged him."

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Over in the north eastern streets of Magnolia, a group of people ran for their lives as the shadow puppets stalked them. They scraped their claw like hands through buildings as the gave chase to the civilians of Magnolia, causing some of then to collapse. Finally, one man tripped and fell. With no time to get up, seven of the puppets surrounded the cowering man as he feebly scooted back away from them. "Please! Please don't hurt me!" The man begged for his life, but the puppets all reared their hands back, ready to strike.
"Wind Blades!"
"Gravity God's Bellow!"
"Claymore!"
From the top of the roofs of the buildings, three sharp blades of wind slam into three different shadow figures slamming them into random building walls and covering them with smoke. Then, a purplish black ball of magic slams into two more, causing the same effect as Skye jumps down and slices one of the shadow puppets in half. The remaining one swings a horizontal slice at the former assassin, but she swiftly ducks and and swings her claymore sword in an uppercut fashion, once again slicing it in half. The man who was about to meet a grueling fate quickly bows at the three White Eclipse mages's feet. "Thank you, Thank you so much!"
Skye sneered a bit. "Yeah, yeah, just hurry up and catch up with your family."
The man bows again and quickly runs off.
"Another Tartaros attack huh?" Cygnus says as he notices the five shadow puppets that were slammed into the wall reappear.
"Finally, some action." Skye says with a smirk, the usual innocent manner of hers completely gone. It didn't go unnoticed either.
"Skye seems like a different person." Aira says as she balances some wind magic within her hands.
"Lets worry about that later." Cygnus charges the five puppets. He then slides under the one in the middle, causing all five of them to turn around. As they did so, the head of the one to Cygnus's far right comes clean off thanks to Skye's claymore sword. The next one over throws a jab towards Skye with it's fingertips out, looking to stab her. Within a blur, Skye seemingly disappears. As the puppet looked again, Skye was seen balancing with ease on it's oversized hand. Skye smirks as Cygnus quickly leaps back towards the next puppet with a gravity infused punched. The second he connects with the figure's head, the sudden shift in gravy I slams it's head directly into the ground, causing it to disperse as it leaves it's head print as a crater in the ground. The remaining three were already charging towards Aira, who stood with her eyes closed and her arms out. "Black Hurricane."
Aira then summons a small black orb over her index finger. It grows slightly before completely disappearing. As it vanishes, a magic circle appears under the three rushing puppets. The magic circle releases a black wind that lashes out towards the the figures, violently sending them into the air until they dispersed into nothing. Cygnus and Skye not walk back towards Aira as they scout the street to see if anything else was coming.
"Alright... Now that they're gone..." Cygnus stared at the portal in front of them. "What do we do about these things?"
"I don't know." Skye replies. "Do we go inside?"
"Takeru and the others did.."
Skye scoffs. "And we haven't heard from them since."
"You said that like it was no big deal!" Aira says while flailing in a frenzy.
"Calm down! We'll figure something- Cygnus wait!" Sky yells for the gravity god slayer, but it was too late. Cygnus stuck his head into the portal. He then pulls it back out and smiles. "It's Western Magnolia lets go." Cygnus then jumps in the portal again.
"...dummie could of died." Skye quickly follows behind him, hopping into the portal.
"Hey wait up!" Aira yells, but as she took a step forward, something grabbed her by the shoulder. Suddenly frozen at first, she slowly turns around to see her shadow silhouette behind her. She lets out a loud scream upon seeing the shadow.
The second Skye steps out of the portal, both her and Cygnus hear Aira scream from the other side of town.
"Shit!" Cygnus grunts as he hears his guild mate. We have to go back.
"Cygnus wait!" Skye once again tried to stop him, but Cygnus quickly leaps into the portal, disappearing.
"Gah! We can't just go running everywhere!" Skye turns and looks at the empty street. "Empty? No Shadow things here?" She began walking down the road curiously until she heard something rustle behind her. She quickly unsheathes her claymore sword and turns around, only to see nothing there. "..." Skye continues walking, except backwards as she kept her sword in her hands, until a bladed ring came whizzing towards her. Hearing the blade through the air, she barely swayed out of the way as a shadow like version of her blades ring, Biofrost went flying right by her; flying around back to where it was thrown from. "Biofrost?" Skye followed it with her eyes as it flew to a roof top. Seconds later, a shadowy figure dropped down from the rooftop as Skye stood in confusion. She then happened to look down and notice that her shadow was missing as a soft giggle was heard once again. The shadowy Skye look alike now requipped her version of Biofrost back into her regular claymore sword and pointed it towards Skye.
"I see... It's my own shadow I'm fighting huh? This could get ugly then..."

"Aira!" As Cygnus leaped back through the portal, he found himself in an entirely different area if Magnolia. "What!? That's weird, this is the exact same portal we came through, why am I not with Aira?" Cygnus looked around, seeing the numbers of puppets laying waste to the buildings in sight. "Damn... I can't leave now.. Hang on Aira..."

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Eastern Magnolia, Natsu leaps out of the portal as he comes to a sliding stop with Happy right behind him. Now standing in an empty street, he stood across Rugal, merely feet away as the Tartaros mage.
"You!" Natsu pointed at the mage as his light green haired swayed in the light wind. His arms remained crossed even though he stood against the Salamander himself.
"Me."
"You're doing all this! Stop it right now!"
Rugal chuckled to himself, and then let out a boisterous laugh into the air. "Stop? I'm not going to stop. And besides, I'm not even doing the damage here. I'm just giving the puppets places to go so they don't have to run around and waste their energy. But I'll tell you what Dragneel. I knew that we would meet, because I've set it up so we could. Why do you think it's empty here? So if you can defeat me,
I'll stop. But you better hurry, the longer you wait, the more victims there are."
Rugal gives a sly grin as he remains standing with his arms crossed.
"No problem!" Natsu gets ready to leap forward, until a familiar face steps through the portal, causing Natsu to turn around.
"I knew if I would of followed the Salamander, I would find the better action."
"Takeru.."
Takeru grinned as he walked up to beside Natsu, not taking his eyes off of Rugal.
"You can either sit this one out, or just don't get in my way Natsu. I owe Tartaros a corpse."
"Hey now.." Natsu gives a wide grin as he slams a fist into his open palm, knowing that he was about to have to share the fight with Takeru. "I'm not sitting back! Lets wreck this guy!"
"Natsu! Be careful!" Happy shouted. "His magic has something to do with portals!"
"Portals." Rugal laughed a bit to himself. "What gave that away?" Rugal then uncrossed his arms as he held his arms out to his side, inviting Takeru and Natsu to attack him.
"Come, lets see what you have against the dimensional mage of Tartaros!"

"Ice Make: Hammer!" Gray fired his ice hammer towards the last of the remaining puppets, easily dispersing of it. After seeing the coast is clear, Gray turns back to the little girl and kneeled down to her with a smile. "You seem to be everywhere huh?" He held out his hand as she takes it, and then puts the little girl on his back, piggy back style. "Hang on, we'll get you out of here okay?"
"O-okay.." The little brunette says sniffling. Her sniffles quickly stop as a small grin reappears on her face. Her hands slowly make their way towards Gray Fullbuster's neck, looking to snap it sideways.
"Alright..lets see-" something didn't feel right to Gray, and he quickly looked back at the girl, who was still teary eyed. Gray then shakes off the feeling as he makes his way to the stairs he created. The little brunette tries again, slowly reaching for Gray's neck, until someone grabs her from behind and lifts her off of Gray's shoulders.
"Hey!" She shouts out.
"What are you doing!?" Gray quickly turns around to see Waiston holding the little girl by the collar as she kicks and flails about.
"This girl was seconds away from snapping your neck, Gray."
"Huh!?" Gray looks at Waiston in utter confusion. "Her?"
"Tell him, or freeze." Waiston then begins to cover his hand in ice, causing the frosty aura to travel to the little girl's neck. She squeals in pain. "Get off me you stupid!" Losing her concentration, Sora's hair turns from brown, back to pink. Gray's eyes widen again as he quickly flashes back to the picture he saw at the council headquarters. "You're that little Tartaros girl!"
Sora smiles an innocent smile as she allows Waiston to continue covering her in ice. Gray sees something creep up behind Waiston. "Hey... Waiston!" He couldn't yell fast enough as Waiston's own shadow silhouette slams an ice covered fist into the temple of the Frozen Dragon Slayer, knocking him out cold.
"Waiston!" Gray yells for him as the frozen dragon unconsciously rolls off of the roof and lands on the ground back first and still unresponsive. As Gray turned to watch Waiston fall. He spots his own shadow coming to life. The shadow quickly places a fist into his palm and creates the ice bringer sword, but as it swings the sword down, Gray rolls out of the way, away from both the shadow and Sora as she smiles and waves. "It's been fun! See ya!" As she continues waving, Sora sinks into her own shadow and disappears, leaving Gray standing off against his and Waiston's own shadow silhouette.
"Wait! Dammit!"

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"Wind blades!" Aira fired off a couple of sharp gusts of wind towards her shadow counter part, yet the counterpart performed the exact same move at the exact same time, causing them to collide and disperse in the middle. Aira then charges full speed and throws a swift roundhouse towards the shadow. It ducked however, showing it had a mind of it's own as well, and slammed two open palms into Aira's sternum, causing her to go sliding back as she held herself in pain. The shadow version of her then quickly fires a sonic boom towards Aira, slamming it into her chest. She lets out a shriek as she's lifted off her feet in pain. She tumbles, but quickly rolls back to a kneeling position as she slides to a stop. "G-gah!" Aira stood back up, but it was the shadow that charged this time. The shadow then leaped into the air. Aira still hasn't fully recovered, causing her to wince in pain, unable to actually move. But, as her shadow counterpart reaches the top of it's jump, a funnel of white magic slams into "her," causing the shadow to go flying backwards and into the building at the end of the street.
"Huh?" Aira turns around to see Rogue stepping through the portal, now standing next to an already visible Sting who was wiping his mouth from the roar he just fired. "Seems like you needed help Aira." Sting said as he winked toward the Wind mage. Aira blinks.. "Uh.. Yeah... Thanks." As she turned completely towards them, she noticed Sting and Rogue's shadow begin to move. "But look out!" Aira yells, causing them to turn around in time to jump out the way of the shadow silhouettes of themselves. Both shadows swing around as Sting Rogue and Aira follow them by turning about. Now, all three shadows stood together, facing their counterparts. Aira took notice to Rogue's shadow in particular, seeing that it had a visible grin and red eyes.
"Um, Rogue, what's with your shadow."
"...You don't wanna know." Was his only reply as he readied himself for a fight.
"Rogue." The shadow's grin becomes a bit wider. "Are you ready to come home, Rogue?"

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Natsu and Takeru both charge Rugal head on. Rugal didn't uncross his arms until they were mere feet away. As the two dragons began their onslaught of punches and kicks, Rugal began easily swaying away from them, coming out of the combination untouched as he slammed a quick but powerful jab into Natsu's abdomen, pushing him back, and the grabs Takeru and slams him into the ground, lifting some of the street out of place as he slides him down the with the form of rolling a bowling ball. Takeru hops up after behind slid for a good twenty feet and rears his head back. Natsu does the same.
"Roar of the Shadow/Fire Dragon!" They both yelled out their respective roars in unison, and fired directly towards Rugal.
"Heh." Rugal smirked as he lifted both of his arms, and from his light green magic seal he created two portals, one on each side. The two portals absorbed the roars. Not only that. Rugal then relaxed his arms, and then pushed them out again, causing the portals to close and then reopen, firing off the roars back at the two Dragon Slayers. Natsu covers up, but the shadow roar still lifts him off of his feet and hurls him away a bit before crashing into the ground. "Natsu!" Happy yells out as he flies over towards his friend.
The same happens to Takeru as the fire dragon's roar lifts him off his feet, causing him to crash into the ground as well with a couple of burn marks. "Never...getting used to that fire.." Takeru struggles back up to his feet as his shadowy aura begins to flow around him.
"Oh? Up before the Salamander? I'm not surprised that much tho, after watching you at the Grand Magic Games."
"Heh.. So you saw me in action already huh? I'm flattered."
"Don't be this is the last time you get up, shadow dragon."
Rugal clenches his left fist, and without any warning, lunges towards Takeru and swings down a heavy left hook. Takeru blocks it, yet the shock wave behind he blow sunk Takeru into the ground. Now stuck, Tak quickly tries to free himself from the ground, but fails as Rugal slams a kick right into Tak's sternum, forcing him out of the ground and sliding once again into the ground. At this time, Natsu was on his feet and charging. He lunged towards Rugal and swung a fiery kick towards his head. Rugal grins again as he quickly opens a portal in front of Natsu, sucking the salamander right in. Rugal then takes a couple steps back and reopens the portal from the ground. Natsu pops out but has no idea where he is as he faces away from Rugal, just as he wanted. Rugal slams a hard right elbow into the spine of Natsu and then follows up by grabbing him and flinging him into the building side. Natsu goes crashing through the wall, but is quickly on his feet, though stumbling due to the beating he took. "Dammit...! This guy..."
Takeru rose to his feet once again as he winced in pain. He panted a bit as he kept his blurry vision on Rugal. "Well, you are Tartaros... S-so I guess.. Warmups are over..."
"I hope that was you warming up. Or you two are in a lot of trouble." Rugal says as he laughs a bit to himself. As Rugal laughs, the shadow aura around Takeru grows as a white aura joins in, combining with the shadows. Takeru's appearance slightly changes as he now stood in his dual mode, the White Shadow Dragon slayer.
Over where Rugal threw him, Natsu walks out of the rubble as lightning could be heard crackling. Surges of light in appeared over his fiery aura as Natsu once again stood at the Lightning Flame dragon slayer.
"Now we're getting somewhere!" Rugal says in a bit of excitement. Natsu and Takeru once again stood on opposite sides of the dimensional mage, ready to pounce at any second.

"Don't be shy you two. You can do it.

It's only ye fate of this city that's in your hands.

Can you handle it?"