White Eclipse
Chapter 54
"So we're all clear here?" Sidney asked as he stood in a group with Takeru, Luke, Cygnus, Adam, Kairi, Zalen, Taya, Selene and Aira.
"Loud and clear!" Aira shouts as she punches a fist into her open palm, letting a bit of her wind magic fluctuate.
"Lets show them that they've missed with the wrong guild." Zalen says as he fixes his glasses.
"I'm ready, amigo." Luke grins a bit as he stood next to Takeru who stayed quiet. Kairi and Selene stood next to each other quietly.
"Lets get a move on." Taya says. "The longer we wait, the less chance we have of saving Skye."
"Don't forget the entire world made be at stake too." Luke replies.
"Skye first." Taya says as she places her hands on her hips, waiting impatiently to get a move on.
"Alright." Calium says as he walks towards the group. "The rest of us will stay here to make sure nothing happens to the city."
Jack gives a thumbs up to his guild mates. "You guys can handle it. We'll be here waiting for your return. Come back in one piece so we can celebrate with some booze."
"Do it for Kuro!" Waiston shouted, as he and Jaxon held up a W in the air.
"What Waiston said." Jaxon adds. "They need to know about the strongest guild on Fiore, and how you shouldn't mess with one of ours!"
Sidney nods, and interjects before anyone else tried to give words of encouragement. "Alright, lets move out."
"Right!" They yelled in unison.
"Wait!" Selene exclaimed as she looked around.
"What's wrong now?" Tayakata asked, a bit annoyed.
"Where did Takeru go!?"
Everyone looks around for the Shadow Dragon, seeing that he was no longer present.
"He didn't... Okay lets go now! We have to catch up to the stubborn idiot!" Sidney yells as he running off towards the enormous castle. "Dammit Tak!" Selene grunts out as she and the others begin following Sidney. Luke begins to take off until someone grabs his wrist. He looks back to see Heather with her head lowered a bit. "Heather..?"
"...Come back okay?" The poison dragon slayer whimpered out. Luke gives her a soft smile, then salutes. "I'll be back, amiga." He then continues running off to catch up with the group.
A good ways ahead, already nearing the castle, Takeru pops out of the ground and out of his shadow form. He continues running full speed towards Tartaros castle with a determined look on his face. "Me and you Daityas. Nothing's gonna stop me.
"Hey! Takeru!"
The shadow dragon slayer hears his name from the sky, and then looks up to see Natsu and Happy swooping down. Happy puts Natsu down as he begins to run beside Takeru with Happy flying beside them both. "It looks like I have help after all!" The Salamander says with a smile on his face.
"Help? What, your guild didn't want to fight?"
"I don't have a guild anymore." Natsu says as he drops his head a bit. He then quickly picks it back up. "What about yours?"
Takeru smirks, ignoring Natsu's last comment. "They're on the way, I just ran ahead so I could get my hands on Daityas."
"What!? I want Daityas!" Natsu protested.
"Too bad!" Takeru yelled back. "Save the strongest for the strongest!"
"I'm stronger! I beat you at the games!"
"Fluke!"
"What!?"
"Why don't you both just take him out!?" Happy yells out. He was about to protest that idea too, but the Salamander remembered everything that was at stake here.
Natsu finally calms down. He then holds out a hand. Takeru looks at it, then back at Natsu as Dragneel smiled once again. "Lets work together then, ne?"
Takeru stared at his hand, and then swatted it away. "I don't know how many times I have to tell you. We aren't friends, we never will be, not even teammates or acquaintances. Get it through your head."
Natsu blinks, then sighs a bit as both Dragon Slayers near Tartaros castle. "You look pretty beat up by the way."
"I can say the same for you, Salamander."
The landscape quickly changing from a grassland to a dried up ground, as if the area has been in a year long drought. Black clouds hovered over the entire area.
"We're almost there!" Happy shouted.
"Daityas!" Takeru and Natsu both shouted in unison. "You're mine!"
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"They just left and I'm already worried." Levy says as the rest of Fairy Tail walk into Magnolia.
"Don't worry Levy." Droy says as he walks beside her with Jet on the other side. "Gajeel and the others will be fine. If anyone can do it, it's them!"
"Everything will be alright.." Makarov says as he continues walking, yet keeping a somber face. "They can do it."
"Right!" Max says, still rotating the soreness out of his shoulder. "Until then, lets make sure nothing happens here!"
Hearing the commotion between the guild heading towards them. Jack slowly stands back up from sitting on the sidewalk where the inn once stood. "They're here.."
The rest of White Eclipse stood as the waited for Fairy Tail to come into view. Makarov put on a smile and gave his wave as they now stood across from each other; both masters. Calium gives a simple nod in return. He then looks at the remaining members of Fairy Tail. "So this is your defense? You really went for an all out attack didn't you?"
"Didn't you do the same?" Makarov asked as he ignored what felt like a cheap shot to his guild. "Anyways, we should prepare ourselves just in case anything does happen here."
"Way ahead of you old man." Jack says as continues to mess around with his broken flask, trying to put the pieces back together as if it was a simple puzzle. "We're already healed and ready to go."
"So are we!" Romeo yells out with a clenched fist. "We won't let anyone through!"
Jack raises a brow and then scoffs at the kid. "Right, boy wonder here is going to save us."
"Jack, enough." Calium gave the Earth mage a stern look, and then turned back to Makarov. Before he could say anything, a rumbling begins to happen, causing Jack and the other White Eclipse members to jump up. "What now!? Another attack!?"
"No.." Makarov says as a smile slowly creeps onto his face.
"It's him!" Romeo shouts as the city, or what was left of it, begins to shift around.
"It's who? What's going on?" Nami asked as she looked around, still in a bit of worry.
"Gildarts."
"Gildarts?" Waiston looks on as they now stood in the middle of the street. From the distance he saw him. Toting a bag over his shoulder, Gildarts walked into the city, making his way to the two guilds as he yawned. "Man I'm tired."
"Gildarts!" Romeo yells as he runs towards the mage, jumping on him and hugging him.
"Hm? Romeo, what are you doing in the city so..." Gildarts didn't finish his sentence since he now had his eyes open, looking around at the destruction that happened. "Oh, did I do this? I thought they moved the buildings out the way when I came home?"
"Th-they move the city around!? Just for this guy!? What kind of monster is he?" Jaxon asked as he began to shake just a bit.
"He's a monster alright." Max says as he nods to his own words. "Meet Gildarts, the Ace of Fairy Tail!"
"So that's the Ace huh?" Jack says as he crosses his arms.
"Don't let him fool you." Cana says as she folds her arms. "He's not all the way there."
"Gildarts..." Romeo calls out for the mage as he looks around.
"Yeah Romeo?"
"You didn't do this.."
"Oh? Then who did? Was it Natsu!? Man I'm impressed then!" The unaware ace began to laugh while rubbing the back of his head.
"Gildarts!" Makarov yelled in a stern voice, causing the man to cease his laughing. "Hm? What's wrong Makarov? I'm sure we can pay for the damages after a few jobs-"
"Natsu didn't do this!"
"Oh? Then who-"
"While you were gone, we've been relentlessly attacked by the strongest dark guild known as Tartaros. It would take a while to bring you up to speed, but just know that we've sent our best mages to that castle!" Makarov points behind him to show Gildarts the giant castle in the middle of Fiore.
"Oh wow, that might take me a good ten minutes to destroy.."
"Ten minutes!?" Jaxon freaks out again, this time with Waiston.
"Who does this guy think he is!?"
"That's not all Gildarts.." Makarov continues. "Lisanna has been taken hostage by them..."
Everything becomes quiet as a lone wind blows against Gildarts. He allows puts Romeo down, and then hands the young rainbow flame mage his bag. Without another word, Gildarts quickly lost his carefree demeanor as he began walking towards Tartaros Castle.
"Gildarts!" Makarov yells out one more time, but the ace of Fairy Tail merely raises a hand as he continues walking. "I'll handle it."
"Tch... Just don't get yourself hurt!" Cana yells back as Gildarts continues walking. He threw a fist into the air as he walked out of sight.
Halfway there as well, a little bit behind Takeru and Natsu, Fairy Tail hightailed it towards Tartaros. Erza, Laxus, Gray, Gajeel and Pantherlily, Juvia, Wendy and Charla, Lucy, Elfman, and Mirajane all ran together as the grassy plains they ran through quickly turned into the dried up ground that surrounded the area.
"There's no doubt that Natsu is already there." Erza says.
"Great, that's two people we have to save." Gray replies with a bit of a smirk. Lucy stays quiet as she kept a worried look on her face, Juvia then looks over at the celestial wizard. "Lucy."
"Huh? Juvia.."
"Natsu will be alright." Juvia says as she gives her a smile. "Natsu knows how to survive, and Fairy Tail be there in time if Natsu needs help."
Juvia's words cause Lucy to smile through her worries as she nods a bit. She then turns back to the path ahead of her as they all continued running.
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"Okay Tobias. It's time to hear the second part of your plan. That would be nice since they're almost here ya know?" Maggie stood waiting impatiently as everyone gathered around, waiting for Tobias to speak. The Mage stood in the middle of the circle with a grin on his face as he cleared his throat. "Right, phase two. This phase shouldn't be too hard since they're all injured now, but this is when you all really get your hands dirty." Tobias lifts up a small book on runes magic as he continues speaking. "I've been studying a bit of runes magic just for this occasion. You see, in phase two, the fairies and White Eclipse will make their way to the castle as they do so now. This is where we put up our 'defenses.' We will make this as hard for them as possible. That being said. Maggie, if you would be so kind, to put up a lava wall around the castle. After that, give them a few of your golems to play with. And by few, I mean a good fifty will be just enough to demolish them. If somehow, Maggie's golems fail, and they make it past the lava wall. They'll head straight to the dungeons where their loved ones are captured. Well I've done some renovating. I've set up ten different paths, each laced with rune magic. You will all take a room, and wait patiently for whoever entered your path. If they can make it to you, you get to fight them. By this time, those mages will be too tired to lift a finger. You kill them, we move on to reviving Zeref with the lacrima we have from the council HQ and the one will soon get from Magnolia. And then..."
Tobias's eyes then light up with sparkles. "I'll be Zeref's favorite dark mage and he'll make me one of his generals I just know it!"
"...Yeah... Okay well they're almost here so lets hop to it." Aloysis says as he begins walking out of the room. Everyone else follows down the hallways as Maggie jogs down another hallways and up the stairs. She then slides out to the second floor balcony and looked out into the nothing that the rise of the castle created. There, she spotted Takeru and Natsu running towards the castle. "That's odd, only two?" She raised a brow until her eyes caught small specs in the distance, running in her direction. Two different groups she spotted, slowly converging into one. "Well I'll be. So far that bloke's plan is dead on. Okay.. Lets get started."
Maggie begins cracking her knuckles. She then rolled her neck as she laid her arms by her side. A bright red-orange magic seal then appears around Tartaros Castle. As Maggie slowly lifts her arms, around the castle a giant wall of lava begins to shoot up like a fountain, covering to the sky, just like the tsunami she created before. Once finished, Natsu and Takeru come into view completely, noticing the lava wall as they never slowed momentum. What did make them come to a stop however, was the golems that popped out of the wall. Mixed with molten rock and the lava itself, an estimate of fifty now stood in the way of The Salamander and the Shadow Dragon.
"This isn't going to stop me!" They both yelled in unison as the first wave of golems charged the two dragon slayers. Both rearing their dominant fists back, Takeru slams a shadow infused punch through two of the golems as Natsu gives the same effort with his flames. Though with two already gone, the remainder of the mini army surrounded the two mages. They refused to back down however. "Shadow Dragon's Wing Slash!" Takeru takes off past an entire line of golems, slicing and breaking their bodies in half.
"Iron fist! Of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu roars out his attack as he repeatedly slams a heavy fist into the golems that surround him. He slid back to a back to back position with Takeru as the seemingly endless numbers of the golems once again surround them.
"There's a lot.." Takeru says.
"We're wasting time a a magic here. We need a way past that lava wall."
As Takeru finished talking, a couple of golems leaped towards the two dragons were ready to attack until...
"Ice make: freeze lancer!"
From two different angles, a set of ice lances come hurling in, slamming into the airborne golems. The lances break the golems apart easily. Gray and Luke now stood side by side in their ice make positions until they turned to growl at each other in a comical fashion.
"Get it together!" Erza yelled as she stayed in her standard armor, yet she requipped two normal swords in her hands as she began slicing through the incoming golems. Taya then charges in with her dark vectors, destroying every golem in her way with her sharp dark arrows.
"Natsu!" Lucy calls out as she runs to his side, now standing next to the dragon slayer as everyone else comes into view completely.
Natsu looks around in a bit of shock. "I thought.."
"You really think we were gonna allow you to have all the fun, Salamander!?" Gajeel says as he and a full sized Pantherlily stood side by side. With that being said, Lily quickly turns and pulls out his sword, slicing a golem in half as Gajeel began to inhale the air around him. He then fired off a heavy funnel of iron magic, sweeping it from left to right. The roar collides into a line of golems, breaking them all apart as their remaining pieces were swept up into the roar. "Gihi!"
"Beast soul! Weretiger!" Elfman ran straight ahead, right into a circle of golems, and began dodging and countering their attempts to strike the beast soul takeover mage down. With one lightning fast strike after another, a possessed looking Elfman continued destroying the golems around him. One of them gets free and leaps towards the unsuspecting Elfman, only to have a fist infused with dark magic slam through it's stomach, causing it to limp over lifelessly. Mirajane then threw the golem aside as her and Elfman continued to raced towards the castle.
"Well they're on a mission it seems." Sidney says as he easily gets rid of the golems in front of him by conjuring up a light purple magic seal and firing off raw beams of ghost magic into them, killing them instantly.
One golem charges both Selene and Cygnus at full speed. Selene wraps diamond scales around her fist, ready to strike, but Kairi quickly picks the golem off with a hard axe kick to the top of it's head, shutting it down on impact. "Save your magic the best you can. We haven't even gotten inside yet." The angel takeover yells to her guild mates specifically. Zalen conjures up a small magic seal, creating two plates of armor that fit perfectly around his feet. He then begins slamming his newly strengthened fist into any golem in his way. Adam had his back, as he stood behind the building mage, easily lifting the golems off their feet and slamming their heads into the hard ground each time.
"I'll never get over how big that guy is..." Gray says as he then keeps his guard up, watching the remaining golems charge them.
"Water nebula!"
"Roar of the Sky Dragon!"
The two females combine their attacks for a unison raid that slams into a good amount of lava golems, quickly destroying them.
"Wind blades!" Aira then joins in the fray, leaping over Juvia and Wendy, covering their back as she fired off blades made purely of her wind magic, slicing two golems in half. With the golems now completely finished, every on turns their attention to the lava wall in the way of their destination.
"Elfman wait!" Mirajane yells out as she flies after the were-tiger. Elfman completely ignores her as he runs full sprint towards the wall.
"If I just jump through, the pain won't be that bad." He thought to himself, which was more like not thinking at all as his mind was clouded with thoughts of saving his little sister.
"I'm coming Lisanna!" Elfman screams out as he jumps towards the lava wall. "Elfman!"
The take over mage was quickly halted as Sidney appeared in a puff of white smoke, pushing his palm against Elfman's chest. What was a push felt like a punch to the mage as he fell off of his feet and onto his rear. Elfman then growls at Sidney as he quickly jumps to his feet after reverting back to his normal form. "Get out of the way!" He yelled as he clenched his fist towards the ghost mage. By this time, everyone else caught up to the two as they stood in front of the towering wall of molten liquid.
"And if I do, what will you do? Jump through that lava wall? Idiot."
"What did you say!?" Elfman took a step forward. "My little sister is in there!"
Natsu's eyes widen at what he just heard. "Lisanna..." Without a moments hesitation, Natsu sprints forward. Then, right before the wall itself, he crouches and lunges forward while covering himself in flames as he leaps through the wall.
"Natsu!" Lucy and the others yell out while the rest watch in shock.
"Dammit...he's getting ahead. Daityas is mine..." Takeru whispers to himself.
"See, that's pure idiocy, but only he can do it. Now, we have someone in there as well. Use your head, how can you save her if you're dead?" Sidney's words quickly hush the mage as he looks over at Selene. "Selene."
"Say no more." The diamond dragon slayer says as she steps in front of the group. Her arms cover in diamond scales once again. She then slams her palms down into the ground, creating a diamond plated floor to the entrance of the castle. The diamond floor stopped the flow of the lava wall, leaving a gap wide enough for a safe trip inside.
"Alright lets go!" Erza shouts as everyone else runs inside, Takeru leading the pack as he sprints ahead.
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Inside the castle. Lisanna, Skye, and Meredy all shared a cell that restrained them from using any of their magic. The three girls sat around with nothing but somber faces. Skye looked over to the wall outside of the cell as she gazed at her sword. "Claymore..."
"There has to be a way out." Lisanna says as she finally stands from her seat. "We can't just sit here!"
Meredy slowly shakes her head. "Sorry, I looked all over, this cell is closed shut. There's no way out from the inside."
Skye then begins shaking the bars of the cell. "Agh! This is unfair! Let me out!"
"You're wasting your energy." The pink haired mage stands from her seat just to move over and lean against the far wall. "We're trapped and no one can hear us."
"This is bull!" Skye says as she kicks the cell door. "Reve, Kairi, anyone from White Eclipse.. Please!"
Lisanna and Meredy watch as Skye starts to break down.
"Don't worry..."
Skye stops and turns to a smiling Lisanna. "They'll come and save us. They always do."
Skye just looks up at Lisanna, then slides her knees up to her chest as she waits, sniffling.
"I hope they hurry."
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Takeru sprinted down the hallway, in front of Fairy Tail and White Eclipse a good ways, yet behind Natsu to the point where he could just barely see him. "Get back here!" Takeru ducked his head down as he tried to pick up speed. He looked back up as he saw Natsu finish the hallway and enter another smaller one. Beside the first hallway that Natsu and Happy entered, were nine more just like it. Still, Takeru elected to take the same hallway that Natsu did. The second he ran inside, a wall of runes appeared behind the dragon slater unnoticed as he kept running to keep up with Natsu. Bringing up the rear, Luke and the others ran into the same room before the hallways.
"I saw them run into here!" Luke yells as he runs for the first hallway. He then slams face first into the invisible runes wall and comically falls over onto his back. "...ow."
Sidney then walks up to the wall, and places his hand upon it, causing the runes to appear. He then began to read the "rules" that the runes have given.
"Only one member from each guild per hallway... Is this some kind of game to them?"
"Never mind that." Erza says. "Lets just follow their game until we can find Lisanna."
"And Skye." Taya adds as she pushes Erza into hallway number two. "Hey!" Erza turns back to the mage who calmly walks in the room and by Erza. "Let it go Titania. If I'm gonna be partnered with a fairy, it might as well be with the strongest one."
"Tch." Erza scoffed and then began walking next to Taya as they made their way down the hallways.
"Who's coming?!" Luke asked as he took hallway number three.
"Wait up!" Gray yells as he follows quickly.
"Gray-Sama!" Juvia calls out to the leaving ice maker. Just then, Zalen gives Juvia a small smile and a push towards hallway number four, causing the runes to appear as they both enter.
"Mirajane.."
"I'll be fine." Mirajane gives her younger brother a smile as she takes hallway number five.
"I guess I'll go with her." Kairi says as she walks in behind her.
"Come on tin can." Selene says as she smirks towards Gajeel. He grins back. "Yeah Yeah. You ready Lily?"
Pantherlily nods. "Although I'm upset that they don't see us exceeds as guild members."
"Well we'll just have to show em what you are!"
"Hallway number seven.." Adamantine walks towards the room, the near same time as Laxus. The unspoken agreement of them two was ironically loud and clear.
Aira then grabs Wendy by the hand. "Come with me Wendy, we can help each other okay?"
Wendy blinks, but then nods in agreement. "Hai!"
"Not without me!" Charla yells as she follows the two girls into hallway number eight.
"Hey, beast soul guy." Cygnus calls out for Elfman as he enters hallway number nine."
Elfman nods. "Man!" He then runs in behind the gravity god slayer.
All that was left was Sidney...and Lucy.
"Hm..." Sidney looks the girl over, and then begins walking towards the last hallway. Lucy, completely nervous from even being around him, slowly follows the ghost mage behind. "Why me...?"
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"Heh, I knew those two would pick the first hallway." Tobias grins to himself as he loosens up his hands. "They'll get here and we'll stand off, two on one. And I'll let them know how pathetic they are, causing them to attack in blind fury. Then I'll finish them both off." Tobias begins to laugh to himself until their footsteps became louder. With a grin he then prepared himself. He then saw both Natsu enter the room. "Well well, if it isn't the two Dragon slay-" before Tobias could finish his sentence, Natsu palmed the mage's face, pushing him backwards. Takeru then came sliding in with a hard right hook to Tobias's side. The mage goes slamming into the wall. He quickly hops back up with an angered expression, dusting himself off as Happy flies in. "Hey! I was going to make a speech!"
"Shut up!" Natsu yells as he charges Tobias once again with Takeru right behind him.
"You insolent!" Tobias creates a magic seal right in front of him. Out of the seal a giant wave of water violently slams the two mages against the wall. As the water drains, Tobias stalks both of the mages who quickly make their way to their feet. "I'm going to end you both right here."
Entering the second room of their hallway, Taya and Erza look around as they enter, carefully watching their every step. "Careful..."
"I know Titania." Taya groaned a bit as she softly trended across the empty room.
"Well well." Kiora says as she rises from the ground, reforming to a solid form and no longer a shadow. "Hey Maggie, we have friends."
"Well I'll be!" Out of a slithering puddle of lava, Maggie appears into a solid form as well. "And look it is! We get to finish Tayakata off after all it seems! What a lovely day!"
Taya wasted no time sliding into a fighting stance. Erza quickly requips into her purgatory armor as she spun her giant mace and then stabbed it hard into the ground.
"Well geez Maggie, our two playmates didn't waste much time huh?"
"Doesn't look like it love." Maggie says with a smile. She then turned her left hand into a whip made of pure molten lava. "Lets show them what the greatest team can do."
Kiora smirks as she performs a quick shadow make maneuver. A small ball of shadow magic hovers over her dominant hand. She squeezes the ball, causing it to turn into a large scythe.
"Keep your guard up at all times Scarlet. These two are annoying dolts, but they do work well together."
"What did you just call us!?" The two dark mages yelled at the same time. "It's time to shut you up for good!" They both once again yell in unison as they simultaneously swing down vertical attacks at Erza and Taya.
Hallway three. Gray and Luke walk into the room. Byron was already waiting, leaning on his hammer with an unamused look upon his face.
"You already lost." Byron says to the two mages.
"In your dreams!" Gray shouts back. "We're about to ruin your entire day!" "You heard the man." Luke says as he gives Byron a thumbs down.
"No you don't understand." Byron says as he points to the magic circle under both the mages feet. "You already lost!"
Both Gray and Luke look down as the magic seal begins to glow. Before either one could react, an explosion occurs from under them, knocking them both towards opposite walls and on their backs. "What was..." Luke groaned out as he winced in pain. As he looked up, he saw Byron towering over him with his hammer over his shoulder. He then lifted the hammer above his head. "Too easy."
Juvia and Zalen nearly arrive at the end of their hallway. "Juvia should be with Gray-Sama!" The aquatic mage says as she tugs on her own shirt, wondering what was going on wherever Gray was. Zalen huffs. "That's not a concern right now. Right now we have to save your friend and mind. Reve would kill me if anything happened to Skye..." His words trail off as they both enter a room. Another empty room, except their room was filled with a type of mist. Zalen squinted his eyes as he could see eyes at the end of the thick mist. The eyes stared back at them both until they started to bounce up and down as they came closer to the two mages. Once in view, Juvia and Zalen watch in utter confusion as they see Myou literally skip towards them. She then stops right before them. Myou continues to stare at them both, emotionless. Zalen and Juvia stare back, lost at what to do. The stare down continues until Zalen tries to slide to the right. The second he moved, Myou slams a wick left kick to his side, sliding him right back beside Juvia. Juvia then rears and arm back, ready to fire a water slicer, but Myou beats her to the attack as she wraps smoke around her hands and backhands Juvia away from her and Zalen.
"She's fast..!" Zalen says to himself. He quickly conjures up a magic seal under Myou as an iron pillar shoots up from under her. Myou slides out the way in an instant, never taking her eyes off of Zalen. Her stars became more and more eerie to Zalen due to the fact she has yet to blink since he saw her.
"We're in trouble..."
In hallway number five, Kairi and Mirajane enter their room. The room was a lot different from the others. In their room, were a few pillars made of stone, the rest of the room was a seemingly bottomless pit. "This is it?" Kairi asked as she hopped to the middle pillar. In her Satan Soul form, Mirajane flew towards the opposing door, but of course it was blocked by runes. As she placed her palm against the door, the rules appeared. {Only one of you can pass. The other, or both, will drown.}
"What?" Mirajane raised a brow at the runes. "We aren't going to fight each other. Help me find a way around this Kairi... Kairi?"
Mirajane turned around to Kairi who had her head lowered. "There's no way around it. There never is." Her hair began to flow upward as she started her angel soul takeover. "I'm sorry, but Skye needs me."
Mirajane turns around completely as magic seals appear on the ceiling. Water begins to pour from them as they splash at the bottom, now slowly filling up the room. "Lisanna needs me as well. And I won't let her down. So if this is how you want to proceed.."
Selene, Gajeel and Lily finish up hallway number six, stepping into an empty room just like the others. They look around to find no one insight. "There's the next door." Gajeel says as they walk towards it. Just then, four purple darts land right in front of them. "Watch out!" Selene yells as they all three hop backwards. As the darts land, poisonous gas begins to flow out from the darts and quickly fill the room, causing the three to cover up their faces as the cough profusely. "Poison!" Lily says as he quickly falls to a knee. From the ceiling, Hokori laughs, gathering their attention. He then flips down to reveal himself in his poison warrior takeover. He reverts back to his normal form as he takes in a drag of his cigarette. "I thought this would be more fun." He exhales as the mages and Lily continue coughing, both falling to their knees as they gasp for air.
Adamantine sniffs the air as he an Laxus walk down hallway number seven. Laxus knew exactly to whom they were headed for. It was why he chose this path. As they both entered the room, it was to no surprise who was waiting inside. They both now stood across from the giant Mithril. He was a bit taller than Adamantine, which made Laxus look small himself. Still, the Fairy Tail mage wasn't shakes a bit.
"I saw this coming. Welcome to my home, brother." Mithril says as he grins at Adam.
"That term is such a vague one. We're only brothers by species."
"Species?" Laxus raises a brow as he looks at Adam and then back at Mithril. As he does, he noticed Mithril's eyes change shape into those of a lizard's. "It makes sense now. He wasn't a lightning dragon slayer.. He's a lightning dragon.."
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Already in the room at the end of hallway number eight, Aira and Wendy look around at the eerie sight of dolls hanging from shelves. They all stared back at the two mages who had just entered. "This is creepy." Aira says as she and Wendy stay close together and slowly walk towards the next door. They quickly stop walking as they heard giggling. Echo throughout the room. "You hear that!?" Charla asked as she stayed next to Wendy. "I'm scared!" Wendy says as she shifts her eyes around, looking for the source of the laughter.
"Relax, just...keep moving.." Aira says even though she couldn't move a muscle. Seconds later, Sora appears out of the ground from her own shadow. "Hi." She says with a smile as she waves. Her big blue eyes gathered everyone's attention.
"It's that girl.." Wendy says. "She attacked me earlier..."
"Sora's smile widens as she twirled her pink her in her fingers. "Sorry about that! How about we play this time instead!" As she finishes her sentence, about ten of her shadow puppets arise from the ground behind her. "This will be fun!"
Cygnus and Elfman enter their room in hallway number nine. Calmly waiting across the room was the dimensional mage, Rugal. "Finally! A fight!" Cygnus yells out as he runs towards the green haired mage. Elfman hung back to see what Cygnus was going to do. As the gravity god slayer charged in, Rugal stood with his eyes closed and arms crossed. Cygnus then threw a gravity magic infused right punch towards Rugal. Without moving an inch, or opening his eyes, Rugal opens a portal right before the punch landed. Elfman looked on, not noticing the portal reopen to his left. Cygnus's fist shoots through the portal and slams into Elfman's jaw, causing him to slide into the far wall from the force of the blow.
"What the!?" The confusion on Cygnus's face was all the opening Rugal needed as he then slammed a hard knee into Cygnus's abdomen. Cygnus then hunched over from the overwhelming force. Rugal then slams an uppercut to the mage's chin. The blow sent him flying upward, but before Cygnus hit the ceiling, Rugal opened another portal, and Cygnus went flying through it. The portal reopened right in front of Rugal, and the dimensional mage fired a left hook with perfect timing as Cygnus reappears. The hook slammed into Cyg's jaw, causing him to go sliding hard into the ground. Rugal then turns to Elfman who was making his way back to his feet. "Come on take over mage. Your sister could be right behind this door. All you have to do is beat me."
That all he needed to hear as Elfman rose to his feet and charged Rugal. "Give me back Lisanna!"
Finally in the room of hallway ten, Sidney and Lucy kept walking. Lucy was a little ways behind Sidney just to be safe of the eerie ace of White Eclipse. Unlike the others, Sidney had no problem with the room he was in as he continued on out of the empty room and into the next hall. As Lucy jogged a bit to catch up, she was stopped as the runes quickly activated. "Huh!? What? Why!?" Lucy says as she bangs on the wall of runes. "Sidney!"
She yelled out, but Sidney was already gone.
"Oops.. Looks like you're alone." Appearing behind Lucy, was Ruika. She placed her hands on her hips as she gave a small grin.
"Who are you?" Lucy asked.
"Who am I? I'm the true celestial wizard, Ruika. And it's mages like you and that Yukino girl that make me sick, running around with your keys, thinking you're actually a decent mage; but I'm here to put a stop to that. I wanted this fight for so long, Lucy Heartfilia." Ruika goes to a wicked grin as she lifts a key into the air. "Gate of the eagle. Aquila."
Out of it's gate, appeared an humanoid with the features of a human. Holding it's sword, Aquila pointed it's weapon towards Lucy as she lifted a key of her own. "Sagittarius!"
"Moshi Moshi!"
"Ugh! I hate you already! With your horrible summoning strategies. I can't wait to mount your head on my wall!"
"What's wrong with this woman!?"
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Daityas sat alone at the room in Tartaros castle. He sat with his arms crossed and a grin plastered on his face.
"I liked this plan. I like it even more now that I've added my own twist to it. I expect them to mess up. Because once they do...
That's when my plan begins to prosper.."
