White Eclipse
Chapter 55

"It seems I'm late. I can already hear them starting without me." He grins and walks over the diamond surface that Selene created earlier, entering the castle. In no rush, he continued walking until he came across a path that splits into eight hallways. With a lot of commotion going on, he closes his eyes to gain focus. "... Hallway number one. I'm coming for you Salamander. We're gonna settle this."
Since he wasn't apart of either guild, he walked right through the runes and down the hallway, making his way to the fight.

{Minutes later}
"Over here!" Sting yelled as he ran full speed towards the castle. Behind him was Rogue and Yukino. Sting began to smirk as he neared Tartaros Castle. "I'm not missing the fun this time. The council did say it was everyone's job to handle these guys, not just Fairy Tail." As he completes his thoughts, a golden blur zooms by Sting and Sabertooth as it enters the castle, causing the three mages to stop in their tracks.
"What was that?" Yukino asked.
"I don't know..but lets keep moving anyways." Rogue says.
The three Sabertooth mages run across the diamond structure and down the main hallway until they came to the eight hallway stop.
"There's eight..." Rogue says as he began choosing which to take in his mind.
"We'll have to split from here..." Sting says as he begins to inch towards the first hallway. "Pick one and we'll meet up later."
Yukino and Rogue both nodded. After a minute of thinking, Yukino quickly dashes into the last hallway as Rogue takes the sixth. All three dash down the hallway in attempt to catch up to and provide support to White Eclipse and Fairy Tail.

{Minutes Before}
Surrounded by the shadow puppets,
Wendy and Aira stood back to back with Charla at their feet. The puppets all gave a wicked smile as the crimson liquid continuously dripped from their finger tips. "I've never seen things like these before.." Wendy says as she stays alert to the ones in front of her.
"I have, you can take them! It's your own shadow you'll have to worry about."
"What!?" Wendy was taken off guard by Aira's words. Two of the shadows in front of her took this as an opening and charged the sky dragon slayer. They both threw jabs with their pointed fingertips. Wendy stood, unable to move from being caught off guard, but Aira grabs her and spins her around to change places with her. In one motion she then creates a magic seal that fires off her patented wind blades. As the four blades of wind fire out; two for each puppet,
Aira turns her back to the now dismembered puppets as she watches Wendy take the helm now. The little sky dragon leaps over the shadow puppet charging her. She then lands and lunges back towards it. "Sky Dragon's Wing Attack!" With her arms crossed, she flung them to the side as she threw two vortexes of sky magic towards the puppet, sweeping up three more in the process and leaving six remaining. Those six surround the two girls, leaving them no space to maneuver. Aira smirks as her and Wendy exchange looks. Then, in one slowed motion, the six remaining puppets lunge toward the two mages. "Black Hurricane!"
"Roar of the Sky Dragon!"
As Wendy fires off her roar, the magic combines with the violently clockwise spinning motion of the Black Hurricane from Aira. The thrashing winds send the puppets flying about violently until they dispersed into nothing. As the hurricane and Sky Dragon Roar disappear, Aira and Wendy turn their attention towards Sora, who still stood in her same spot with a smile. She tilted her head to the side a bit as she gave her innocent yet eery smile.
"I know what's coming!" Aira yells towards Sora as she averted her eyes to her own shadow every once in a while.
"You're running out of tricks little girl! Just give up!"
"My name is Sora!" She says, a bit upset at what Aira called her.
"Your name isn't important at this point. Just give us our friends back!"
Sora then smiles again. "You shouldn't worry about your friends, when you're the one in trouble."
"Oh yeah.?" Aira was about to slide into a fighting stance, until she found that she couldn't move her feet. "Huh!?" She continued to struggle but it was to no avail. Wendy and Charla let out a gasp as well as they too found themselves stuck in the ground. "What's going on?" The blue haired mage asked.
"Don't look at me." Sora says with a smile, her tone sarcastic. "I'm all out of tricks." As Sora began to laugh, Aira's, Wendy's and Charla's shadow began to slide up their own bodies, constricting them from movement as they made their way up the legs, then around their torso,
And finally to their head. They now stood nearly frozen, with their shadows visibly seen holding them down. "I...I can't move!" Wendy cried out.
"I can't use any magic either!" Aira replied as she relentlessly struggled to find a way out of her predicament. Sora gave out a childish laughter as she walked towards the three constricted victims. "You three were boring!" As she spoke, her shadow arises from the ground, smiling. From it's hand, it creates a long dagger and hands it to Sora. An evil smile then creeps upon Sora's face as she held the dagger over Aira.
"Maybe you'll be more fun as one of my dolls."

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"Brother huh?" Laxus says to Adam without taking his eyes off of Mithril. He stood with his arms still crossed as Mithril stood opposite of them both with his long but bulky arms to his side, grinning.
"Only by race." Adam replies while still narrowing his eyes at Mithril.
"Yeah, it makes sense now. You're not a dragon slayer. Neither one of you are...
...you're dragons."
"Very good little lightning boy." Mithril says with a laugh. "Now prepare for death, because neither one of you stand a chance."
"Let me handle this." Adamantine says as he takes a step foward. His icy aura begins to shroud around him as his eyes stay locked with Mithril. Laxus begins to spark an aura around him as well. "I'm not sitting anything out. This guy attacked me and my guild, and I won't let anyone pay back such a debt but me."
"What's with all this talking!? Here let me help the party get started!" And with that, Mithril, lifts his right leg and then stomps it down, creating a giant charge of lightning in the ground. Both Laxus and Adam leap into the air out of the way. When Adam jumped, he lunged towards Mithril with his fists covered in ice. He swung a right hook, that was met by Mithril's left one; his fists infused with his lightning. When both fists collide, a mixture of ice and lightning shockwave and decorate the giant room as it shakes. After holding his ground, Laxus come sliding in with a right, lightning infused haymaker. He slams it right into Mithril's jaw, which causes him to slide backwards from the blow. Laxus raises a brow a bit, realizing that he put all his brute strength into that blow and yet it came off as a normal punch. He quickly snaps out of it and leaps towards Mithril with both of his fists connected. "Jaw, of the lightning dragon!" Before he could connect however, Mithril recovered from the previous blow and catches Laxus by his torso. He then slings him across the room into the opposite wall. Mithril quickly turns his attention back to Adamantine whose arm grew a large blade shape scale made of ice. He slings his arm at Mithril, but the lightning dragon leans away from the blade. He then used his momentum to fire a headbutt, slamming right in between Adam's eyes. The ice dragon stumbles backwards from the blow. The groggy dragon was then lifted off his feet by Mithril as he tackled Adam to the ground. Mithril quickly hops to his feet and begins to repeatedly stomp on Adam's chest. Each time a lightning discharge was made from the stomp. Mithril went for his sixth stomp, but was halted halfway down. He looked under his foot to see Laxus hold up his boot with both of his hands. As he struggled, Laxus's shirt began to rip off as he bulked up. Using the power of the lacrima inside of him, Laxus now stood bulkier than before, yet still smaller than the two dragons. He didn't mind it however, as he pushed Mithril backwards, giving Adamantine time to make it to his feet, yet holding his chest from the lightning stomps. Mithril regained his balance, and then grinned at the bulked up Laxus. "Oh? Is this the lightning dragon slayer's strongest form? I feel threatened. Maybe I should reveal mine too.."
Adam's eyes widen from Mithril's comment. "You should go back Laxus. This is going to get a lot worse."
"Look, I know he's a dragon. I'm the lightning dragon slayer. I think I can handle this with you."
"Okay, here's the truth." Adam says as Mithril clenches both of his fists, baring his teeth and causing his eyes to change shape. "Dragon slaying magic was a desperation tactic when we were at war. Only dragons can beat dragons. The magic you have is a copy of a dragon. Only one person was successfully able to beat a dragon that wasn't one himself and you know what happened to him. I don't need you to play savior right now. I'm glad our magic has been proven superior over other mages, but this is different. Now move, or get squashed!" As Adam finishes his sentence, he begins to clench his fist as well, causing an icy blue magic seal to appear under his feet. Just like Mithril who was a bit ahead of him, his canines begin to lengthen as his arms begin to form scales.
Laxus took a few steps back as he watched them both begin to expand, crowding the room. As Mithril's tail began to appear, the rune doors shatter from his tail smashing against it. Still, Laxus stayed as the two dragons continued to slowly transform to their original states. As their necks began to grow, their heads smash through the ceiling, their bodies following. Laxus covers up as he continues to watch two dragons form right in front of his eyes. "This is unreal...how many more are hiding like this!?"

As Mirajane stood ready in her Satan Soul form, Kairi stood across from her in a silver one piece. Her footwear were now matching boots that ran up to her thighs. The boots held a gold trim around them. She also had matching wrist length gloves with angel wings sprouting from her back. She now stood in her angel takeover: Uriel.
They both disappear in a blur, meeting in the middle with their fists colliding for a shockwave. They both begin exchanging punches, colliding in a stalemate nearly each time. A few of Mirajane's punches would slide by and scrape or connect against Kairi's face. The same would steadily happen to Kairi's punches against Mirajane. The demon slowly started to gain advantage of the exchange as more and more of her punches began to slide through and connect against the angel takeover mage. Kairi finally bails out of the exchange as she ducks a punch and lands on a lone pillar. She then cups her hands together and thrusts them forward; firing out a strong beam of light magic. Mirajane quickly crosses her arms in an X formation as the beam slams into her and pushes her into the ceiling. The Satan Soul quickly flies out of the cloud of debris however and charges at Kairi full speed. Before Kairi could react, Mirajane had her hands against her chest. "Evil Spark!" From her hands, Mirajane emits a well sized spark of lightning from her hands against Kairi. The force sends her slamming into the wall behind her, but with great endurance, she bounces back and lands feet first on another pillar, glaring at her opponent. Mirajane charges once again, but this time, Kairi fires back by holding out her right palm, firing off a plethora of air bullets torwards the mage. Mirajane flies around them while heading toward Kairi, barely losing any momentum, but enough momentum was lost to when Mirajane reared back and fired another right fist, Kairi swayed away from it, and lifted a knee right into Mirajane's abdomen. Folding her over, Kairi then followed with a spinning roundhouse that slammed into the demon's shoulder, pushing her into the far wall. Mirajane recovers before crashing into the wall however and charges at Kairi once again. As she neared, Kairi took flight into the air, causing Mirajane to give chase. Mirajane falls right into Kairi's trap as the angel take over mage quickly opens her wings fully to stop immediately. She then sways hard to the right, causing Mirajane to fly right past her. The second Mirajane turns around, Kairi slams an open palm to her face, pushing he back into the ceiling, where the unforgiving structure collides with the back of the demon's head. Wincing, Mirajane held the back of head as she tried to fight the groggy feeling. Kairi took the opening, and flew behind the Satan Soul, grabbing her in a bear hug that held down her arms and wings. Mirajane tried to struggle out, but it was too late as Kairi turns them upside down and begins to dive towards the elevating water. On the way down, she began to spin them both, in order to keep Mirajane off balance. The spin was fast enough to nearly create a miniature tornado as she finally released the demon. Mirajane goes crashing into the water, causing a great splash followed by silence.
Kairi waits, and then looks over at the door, the runes still intact. "Tch.."
Kairi turns back to the water, waiting on Mirajane to resurface since the runes indicated that she was fine. A few seconds later, a bright light emitted from the bottom of the body of water that halfway filled the room. From the light, Mirajane ascended out of the water, now in her Demon Halphas form. With an emotionless expression, she stared at the angel who was now somewhat cautious by her stare alone.
"Kairi...
Brace yourself."

Byron swung the hammer down towards Luke, but before he could connect, Gray slid in on one knee as he faced Luke. His arms were spread out behind him as he kneeled over the copy mage shirtless. Behind him was his ice make: shield. The hammer slams against the shield harmlessly, allowing Luke time to scramble to his feet as he and Gray roll away from the upcoming explosion. The shield cushions that as well, but the force of the explosion was strong enough to cause the two mages to tumble away from Byron. "Lucky save, won't happen twice." Byron says as he takes a few horizontal practice swings with his hammer.
"Alright!" Luke says as he stands. "You got the drop on us! Now it's time for you to go down. Ice make: Freeze Lancer!" From an icy blue magic seal, the copy mage fires off four lances made of ice. Byron leaps away from the continuously until they all shatter. By this time, Gray comes to a sliding stop to Byron's left. "Heh.." He quickly slides into his patented stance. "Ice make: saucer!" From in front of him, he creates a sharp blade that begins to spin as he hurls towards Byron. Once again, Byron managed to dodge, but barely by swaying away from it at the last second. This caused him to stumble backwards. This was Luke's opening as he lunges in with his right fist reared backwards. "Iron fist, of the Fire Dragon!" He slams the fist right into the jaw of Byron, causing the dark mage to slam face first into the opposite wall. He slowly gets up from the wall and turns to the two mages. "Oi...you're in for a world of hurt now." His hammer disappears. He then gives a small grin as his boots and gloves begin to glow, both of them now appearing slightly bigger. Dawned in all black boots and gloves, Byron zooms towards Gray. Unable to react in time, Gray hunches over from a clubbing blow Byron slammed into his stomach. He tries to retaliate with a right hook of his own but Byron quickly blocks it and slams a left uppercut to the ice maker's jaw. As Gray falls backwards from the hard uppercut, Luke then comes in with a fiery roundhouse that Byron easily ducks under. The requip mage then follows up with his own kick to Luke's abdomen. As Luke folds over, Byron slams down an axe kick on the top of Luke's head, leaving him face down on the floor. "What happened to me going down eh?" Byron asked as he laughed. He then turned his attention back to Gray as he pounded his gloves together. "Lets wrap this up." Before Byron could take another step, a yellow magic seal formed under his feet. He looked down, and a second later, a surge of lightning shocked all through his body. After it was over, he stayed standing, yet shocked and even burned by the bolts of lightning. He turned back to the culprit, a teetering, but standing Luke cloud. Luke began to chuckle a bit as Gray too makes it to his feet with the same expression. "I wasn't kidding." Luke Cloud says as he wipes off some of the dirt on his face. He then looks up at Byron as Gray finishes off his statement. "You're going down. And we'll save our nakama."

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As the castle shakes, Daityas sits in his study, unphased by the tremors. With his feet propped up on the desk, he rolls a perfectly square piece of lacrima in between his fingers. "I guess it's about time. They'll be upset, but it's just a castle, we can always find a new home once we rid the world of these puny mages and non magic users." Daityas then gets up from his desk, and walks to the nearest wall. With a grin, he pushes a different, more jagged piece of lacrima into the wall. He then watches as the lacrima quickly reacts to the magic being used inside the castle due to all the fighting. The lacrima quickly overtakes the entire study and then some. With a satisfied smirk, the King of hell walks back to his seat and props his feet up once again, admiring the new lacrima filled room. "Ah~ I love when a plan comes together. I don't know how many times I've said that already. That's how good it is." He laughs as he moves his feet, accidentally kicking over the vase that was used to revive Arc. With fast reflexes however, he catches the vase and sighs in relief. "Can't break you just yet there big guy. We have to revive Taya once Maggie and Kiora finish her off." He continues his laughter as he leans back once again, enjoying his moment as he waited for the rest of his plan unfold.

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"Sagittarius" The cosplaying spirit took aim, and fired off three arrows. The arrows flew towards the spirit Aquila, but the eagle humanoid leaps out of the way as he lengthens his sword. He then took a swing downward, but Lucy and Sagittarius both jump out of the way. Pulling out her whip, Lucy was able to wrap it around the spirit's arms, constricting him from movement. Ruika raises a brow. "Uh, what are you doing?" She asked in a bit of an annoyed tone.
"My spirits never fight alone!" Lucy yelled. "I always fight with them."
"...And here I thought I couldn't hate you anymore than I already do. I didn't think it was possible, for you to be such a horrible celestial mage. But you've outdone yourself again. I can't wait to kill you, I don't even want your head on my wall anymore."
"Whatever! Sagittarius! Now!"
"You just gonna stand there or what Aquila!?"
As Sagittarius took aim, Aquila quickly overpowered the whip and used his sword to deflect the incoming arrows. The eagle like spirit then quickly rushes the cosplayer, knowing it was useless against close range. Once under the archer, Aquila extended his sword once again, stabbing it right through Sagittarius and causing it to disappear back to the spirit world.
"Sagittarius!"
"Shame, that was too easy." Ruika says as she stood with her hands on her hips. "This is why I'm the only true celestial wizard."
"Is this what this is about?" Lucy asked as she pulled out another key.
"Oh no, there's a much bigger mission. But if you're just referring to my intentions, then yes. It's a shame I couldn't get that Yukino girl here also. Killing you both before we take over Fiore would of been more satisfying." As Ruika finished speaking, Lucy held her key in the air. "Scorpio!"
"We are!" Out of his gate quickly, Scorpio fires off a funnel of sand. Aquila dodges it and charges the scorpion spirit. He tries the same tactic as he did against Sagittarius but as it got close to Scorpio, Lucy successfully wrapped her whip around it's wrists, constricting it.
"Stop interfering you idiot!" Ruika yelled out.
"Scorpio now!"
"Sand buster!" From point blank range, Scorpio fires his sand buster attack directly into Aquila's chest. The bird is sent flying into the wall as the sand buster continues to bury into him until he finally disappears back into his gate.
"I told you, my spirits never fight alone!" The blonde haired mage says as she held her whip in a fighting pose.
"That's because they're weak and useless! It's a good thing I took him when I did!"
Lucy raised a brow in confusion. Her expression then turned into one of utter shock as Ruika lifted a familiar key into the air. Ruika then grinned as she was so giddy to say these next words right in front of Lucy.
"Gate of the Lion..."
"No..." Lucy watched in fear and shock, afraid of what was happening right before her.
"I open thee, Loke!" As his gate opened, Loke steps out, looking normal except for his eyes that were pitch black behind his shades that he readjusted.
"L-Loke...!" She looked on in surprise. "But that's impossible! We're still in contract! How can you summon him!?"
Ruika begins to laugh at her comments. "Contract!? Silly weak celestial mage. I'm a dark mage, I find ways around contracts! Loke, Regulas this cretin away from me!"
Loke bows to Ruika, then turns to Lucy with his fist by his chest. An orange aura begins to radiate around him. "Loke! Stop! It's me, Lucy! Can't you hear me!?"
Lucy tried her best to call out for the spirit, but with no answer to her call, Loke lunges with his glowing fist reared back. Lucy covers up as the lion begins to slam his fist into her, but nothing happens. Lucy looks up to see Loke now floating on the air with a purple magic seal under him.
"What's going on!?" Ruika asked as she stared at Loke.
"Lucy!" The blonde haired mage looked behind her at the doorway as Yukino and Libra enter the room. "Yukino! How did you?"
"Sorry I'm late." The white haired mage huffed out. She then pointed towards Ruika. "Give Lucy Loke back this instant!"
Ruika then grins as she reaches for another key. "If I give her Loke back, does that mean I have to give you..."
Yukino's eyes widen as Ruika holds up a key.
"Gate of the snake Charmer! Ophiuchus!" The ceiling of the room becomes shrouded in dark clouds, and out of it's gate, the giant snake slithers out, taking up nearly all of Ruika's side of the room. Yukino covers her mouth in shock and awe. "Ophiuchus...!"
Upon seeing their reactions, Ruika begins to laugh once more. "It's funny how you two thought you lost your keys, and yet, you're even worse of an owner than you think you are, because you allowed them to be stolen!"
"I can't attack Ophiuchus..." Yukino says as she takes a step back in fear in confusion, uncertain of what to do.
"How long are you gonna stay in that gravity Loke?" Ruika asked with a demanding tone. He then responded, struggling at first, but then quickly pulling himself out of the gravitational pull from the magic seal. "Good, now, you and Ophiuchus attack those two useless mages and their spirits!"
Loke and the giant snake quickly charge.
"Loke!" Lucy calls out with a couple tears swelling up in her eyes. "Loke stop!"
"Lucy! Now isn't the time!" Yukino yells, tho it was obvious with the water works starting up in her pupils that she too was upset. "Libra!"
Libra nodded, and opened a magic seal that attempted to shift the gravity once again on Loke. The lion quickly sways out of the way however, and continues his charge.
"Sand Buster!" Scorpio fires off a funnel of sand directly towards Loke, only to be halted by a glowing punch from the Lion spirit. After the quick stalemate, Loke was able to continue forward unlike Scorpio! "Regulas..."
"Loke!"
"...Impact!" Loke slammed a devastating glowing right fist outlined with the head of a lion directly into Scorpio. The force of the blow sent the scorpion flying backwards, disappearing back into the spirit world right before hitting the wall. Lucy holds her hand over her mouth in fear as Loke now towered over her.
"Libra help her!" Yukino yelled, but before the gate of the scales could make a move, Ophiuchus rams head first into Libra, slamming her into the wall. The celestial spirit quickly then dispersed back into her gate from the one hit KO. Yukino looks on in shock and fear as well as Ophiuchus begins to stalk her, coiling around the mage. "Seems like you two are running out of options." Ruika says as she begins laughing. "You might as well just stick your necks out now, because your heads are going on my wall collection."

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Back at the city of Magnolia, more and more guilds begin to show up, waiting for the outcome of the battle at Tartaros Castle. First, Mermaid Heel, then Lamia Scale and Sabertooth. Then finally Blue Pegasus and Quatro Cerebrus. "This place is a wreck!" Lyon says as he walks towards the already present Fairy Tail and White Eclipse.
"Good eye captain." Jack replies in a sardonic tone, still tinkering with his broken flask. Ignoring his comment, Lyon continues to look around as Bacchus made his presence known. "So Jack, what actually happened?"
"Oh you know... Minding our business, Tartaros comes out of nowhere and attacks the inn. They kidnapped Skye too."
"And Lisanna.." Levy says with a worried voice as she continues to stare at the castle.
"Yeah, that girl too." Jack groans in frustration as he continues to try to piece the flask back together.
"Makarov." GoldMine appears behind his guild and walks toward the old man, stopping right behind him.
"GoldMine. This battle won't end at the castle, I know this much." Makarov says without taking his eye off the gigantic structure over the horizon.
"It certainly won't." Calium says from his group of kids. "But we'll win that battle. Then we'll win the war as well. I have faith in my mages."
"This isn't good at all!" Master Bob says, appearing with the other masters. "If Zeref is revived, that will be a whole new problem!"
"Not just a problem. That's one problem that not even I can send spinning!" Master Ooba exclaims as she begins twirling her finger, incidentally spinning Toby. "Master Ooba stop! ONNNN!"
"Either way, we must prepare for the worst." Makarov says. "No matter the situation, we need to be ready for anything. This is beyond a war. We may have an apocalypse on our hands."
"Sounds fun."
Everyone that wasn't White Eclipse turns to the icy blue haired mage. Waiston stood up and slid his hands in his jacket. Everyone else from his guild stood up around him with confident expressions. "This is what we signed up for. Reve said this to us from day one. He said, you guys want to be one of the strongest guilds in Fiore? And we all said of course, who doesn't. And the first thing he said to us was, that once we do become the strongest guild, responsibilities would be put on us, whether we like it or not. And now, our biggest responsibility to date, is making sure the world doesn't in. At first I thought Reve was talking about the boring things, like conferences and fancy dinners that we had to attend, but if this is the life for the top right guilds in all of Fiore, then I don't mind it at all."
"I agree with Waiston for once." The vanilla blonde mage Heather adds. "You all should be excited. This is what you live for right?"
"I know this is what I live for." Jaxon says. "This is a great wind of change, and I'll ride this wind until the fight is over."
As the rest of White Eclipse stands, so does Fairy Tail, causing the rest of the Guilds to change their outlook.
"Wild!"
"Four!"
Lyon nods. "Lamia Scale will not be shown up in this fight."
"Neither will Mermaid Hell." Kagura says as she held her head down with a small smirk.
"Sabertooth's number one!" Orga begins to sing in his horrible tone.
A small smile creeps upon the guid master's faces.
"Those are our brats.."

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As the ceiling collapses, Mithril and Adamantine quickly take flight before the other walls do the same. Appearing out of the right lower side ceiling of the castle, minimum damage was done to the building since they were away from the main structure. Still, Mithril the lightning dragon begins to fly high into the air to move away from the castle, and of course, Adamantine follows him as the icy aura from his wings let of a chilling wind with each flap, quickly dropping the temperature below him. Laxus makes his way up out of the rubble, and looks into the sky to see the two dragons. "Maybe it isn't my fight..." Laxus then looks to the door that was now runes free. He quickly makes his way up and out of the room, now running down the next hallway, looking back only once to see the dragons one last time. In the air, Mithril and Adamantine begin to fly around one another, one of them trying to gain the upper hand against the other. It was Adam to slip first as Mithril swoops in and slams his front right claw into Adam's side. On impact, a violent electric charge sparked off of Mithril's claw and against the body of the Ice Dragon. Adam finally rolls out of the way and behind Mithril after taking the damage, and without warning, he fires a large icy breath to the back of Mithril. The force alone sent the Lightning Dragon plummeting. On top of that, his wings were temporarily frozen. He however, began to spark lighting from his back and after a few seconds, the lightning breaks through the ice. Mithril then begins to flap his wings vigorously, stopping himself from hitting the ground just before impact. The wind being pushed from his wings as such a close range began to uproot the ground itself. Adam was charging Mithril from behind, but before he could ram into him, with one huge push, Mithril strafes out of the way, now behind Adam who landed on the ground on all fours. Mithril then bites down on the Ice Dragon's tail and slings him backwards. Adam's body slams into the supposed to be unforgiving wall of the castle.
"Finish them off!" Ruika yelled as Loke and Ophiuchus towered over their previous owners. Loke's fists begin to glow as the snake charmer rears his neck back, preparing to strike. Before either one could strike, Adam goes crashing in from the outside wall of hallway eight, knocking Ophiuchus away from Yukino and into Loke. Both spirits crash into the opposite wall. "Hey!" Ruika looks over to see Mithril pulling Adam back away from the castle. She then runs to the hole they created. "Mithril! Watch what you're doing!"
"Now's our chance!" Lucy says as she quickly gathers herself. She lifts a key into the air. "Gemini!" Out of it's gate, the twins appear and waste no time turning into a copy of Lucy. As if reading each other's mind. Gemini and Lucy nod, and the Gemini version lifts up two keys of her own. "Taurus, Aries!" From their gates, Taurus and Aries appear in front of Gemini and Lucy.
"That's a lot of magic you're using Lucy.." Yukino states.
"Not exactly, Taurus and Aries are all Gemini!"
"In that case!" Yukino lifts up a key of her own. "Pisces!" Out of their gate, the twin fish begin to fly about the giant room. Quickly, the head for the wide open Ruika. Surprisingly, Ruika leaps out of the way, causing them both to ram into the wall behind them. "Aries, now!"
"Wool bomb!" Aries throws her hands forward, firing off a giant cloud of pink wool that traps Ruika inside. "What!?"
"Alright! Taurus! Take us home!"
With a loud Mooing sound, Taurus leaps into the air and prepares to swing down his axe towards the constricted celestial mage. With wide eyes Ruika continues to attempt to struggle out of the wool bomb. As Taurus closes in, Ruika begins to panic. "Uh! Uh! ORION!" She shouts his name as she closes her eyes, bracing herself for impact. Out of his gate quickly, Orion appears and blocks the heavy axe with his sword. He then pushes back with immense strength, causing Taurus to slide backwards away from Ruika.
"So close..." Lucy murmurs as she watches on. "But how can she control three spirits at once? Does she really have that much magic?"
"Three? Three is nothing." Ruika says with a bluff as Orion cuts her loose from the wool. She was beyond annoyed by the point with both Lucy and Yukino. "I'll summon who I want, and however many I want. Ursa Major and Minor!" She held up two more keys, summoning the two bears, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. "Now that's five. Should I go for six?" Ruika asked with a grin. Though she stood in a cocky manner, she slowly began to pant and wince from her overuse of magic. "I can...summon however many I want. I'm way beyond you two! Now, everyone!" She points towards Lucy and Yukino, along with their spirits. "Finish them off!"

"Ice Bringer!" In his hands, a giant sword made of ice forms. Gray then lunges at Byron, swinging the sword each way. Byron quickly begins to jump out of the way from each swing until Gray finally catches up to him, swinging down his sword towards Byron. With his gloves, Byron catches the sword by slapping his hands together over his head with great timing. As he was occupied with the struggle against Gray, Luke slides in right under Byron with a fist in his palm. "Ice make:..."
"No!" Byron's eyes widen as he had nowhere to go due to being held by Gray and his Ice Bringer. "...geyser!" The copy mage slams his palms right into the chest of Byron Blade, freezing him and sending him to the ceiling. The impact of the ceiling causes the geyser to break and for Byron to crash into the ground, holding his torso in pain.
"That's it..." Byron pushes himself up, faster than he should as he winced. His gloves and boots disappear as another hammer appears in his hands, different from the exploding hammer. He then grins, and backs to the wall behind him. Byron then slams the hammer against the wall, creating a magic seal. The magic seal creates a beam of gravity magic that quickly slams into Gray, slamming him against the wall. After watching Gray be thrown against the wall, Luke quickly charges Byron, but the requip expert beats him to the punch by slamming down his hammer against the ground, causing a trail of gravity magic to shoot up as it rushes towards Luke. With no time to react, Luke was thrown to the ceiling, his body slamming against the roof with no remorse as he lets out a cry of pain. The gravity begins to intensify as Byron tightens the grip on his hammer.
"I've played around too long. It's time for you to die, listen to your bones shatter before you from gravity."

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Mirajane was giving Kairi no room ever since she turned to her Demon Halphas form. Her and Kairi continued to exchange punches, yet Mirajane was seen not only easily blocking the angel take over mage's punches, but she even found openings and was fast enough to land her own strikes against her face and body. It didn't take Kairi long to bail out of the exchange as she covers up her face with her arms and flies backwards, away from Mirajane. When she uncovered her arms from her face however, Mirajane was gone from her sights. The demon Halphas then appears behind the Angel Soul: Uriel in a blur. Kairi turns right into a hard kick into her stomach, followed by a hammerfist directly against the back of her head. As Kairi falls towards the water in an seemingly unconscious manner, Mirajane aims an open palm towards the mage. A magic seal forms before her, followed by a cosmic beam that hurled towards Kairi. Kairi's body splashes into the water with the beam right behind her, causing a massive underwater explosion. After a few seconds of watching, Mirajane hovers over to the door, but stops to realize that the runes still haven't disappeared. "Hm.."
Suddenly, after a full minute of nothingness, a whirlpool within the rising water begins to form. The water, which was once up to her knees as she stood on the elevated pillar against the door, now began to draw towards the whirlpool in the middle. As the water drains, Kairi becomes visible. Standing with her arms spread, she now wore a black one piece that exposed her midsection and was also accented with purple waves and a silver lining. She wore matching, black wrist-length gloves and thigh high boots. Her hair now stood upward in a wild, wavy fashion and was now a pure lilac color all over. As she stood in her Angel Soul: Arariel, the water around her condenses into her now cupped hands as she hovered upward towards the eye level of Mirajane, and with a mix of her own raw magic, she thrusted her arms forward towards Mirajane, firing off a mixture of the powerful beam of water, along with her own light magic. With nowhere to go, Mirajane holds her arms up in an X formation. The attack slams into the Demon Halphas and pushes her back into the runes. At first a stalemate, the runes finally give seconds later, breaking apart as Mirajane falls backwards through the now open door, causing the beam to soar over her and down the hallway until an explosion was heard and felt. Kairi quickly flies through just as fast as Mirajane flips to her feet. With one hand around each other's throat, and their free fist reared back in almost a mirror like stance, the two mages who were well aware that they were free of the room, actually considered to continue the fight. Finally, Mirajane was the first to revert to her normal self. Kairi follows after realizing that Mirajane was done. They both shared a low glare as they refused to exchange words with each other, and continued walking, or limping, down the long hallway.

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"This was fun!" Sora says as she continues to hold the shadow like dagger in her hands, watching Aira and Wendy struggle with no success against their own shadows. "It's too bad we'll never get to play again."
Wendy watched as Sora stood in front of her first. Eye level to the dark mage, she stood with widened eyes as she lifted the dagger. Wendy then closed her eyes, waiting on the worst until..
From out of the door behind them, a golden blur zips past Sora, pushing her back and eventually off her feet. "What is that!? And why is it interrupting!" Sora runs off back to the middle of the room to try and follow the blur, but her eyes couldn't keep track. She then peered up at the ceiling to see multiple golden seals drawn in a pattern. "Huh?"
Finally, the golden blur comes to a sliding stop beside Aira and Wendy, facing away from Sora. "Grand Chariot.." As Jellal spoke these words, from the magic circles on the ceiling, it rained beams of heavenly body magic, right on top of the shadow mage herself. She let out a loud shriek as the beams rained down on her, and as the smoke cleared, Sora laid there with her face in the ground, unresponsive. As this happens, the shadows that constricted Aira and Wendy return back to normal. Wendy runs over to hug Jellal. "Jellal!"
He gives a small smile as he nods to Aira who nods back with a smile. "Come on, we have people to save."
"Oh right! Skye!" Aira yells as she runs through the now open door with Jellal and Wendy right behind her.

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Sidney walked alone down the hallway. He continued his trek, not paying any attention to the fact that he left Lucy behind. As he continued his walk, he came across the next room. He huffed to himself a bit before walking in. "This place is forcing you to take directions you don't want to." The ghost mage walked inside the room. At first pitch black, the room lights up as soon as Sidney takes a step inside. Now standing across from him, was the Silent Sanctum ace himself, Aloysis. Aloy grins a bit as he stood leaning against the wall with his arms crossed against his chest. He then stands up straight off the wall as he addresses the ghost mage. "Sidney Castle, Ace of White Eclipse."
Sidney nods in acknowledgement. "Aloysis, first captain of the Magic Council. Better known as the not so former Ace of Silent Sanctum."
"Been a while, Sidney." The ghost mage's attention then turns to the man appearing behind Aloysis. "Jikan Calium." Sidney says as he squints his eyes at the time mage. "How long has it truly been Sidney? Last time I saw you, White Eclipse didn't even exist. You and your infant brother Zalen, stranded alone in a broken down city."
"I'm not getting into all that Jikan. Since when were you the master of Silent Sanctum?"
"Since that inconsiderate old man ditched me that's when. But you're right, lets skip the explanations right?" Jikan smirks as he and Aloy stood side by side. "You're outclassed for once." Aloysis says. He begins to slide into a fighting position. "Well come on Sidney, lets see what the legendary Ghost mage of White Eclipse can do."
Even with two powerful dark mages in front of him, Sidney nods once again. "...It's White Eclipse tradition to allow the weaker opponent to attack first. And since it's two on one, that makes me presume that I'm obviously the strongest one here. So if you will."
Jikan chuckles, then bursts into laughter. "Nothing's changed huh? Very well then. Prepare for your last fight ever."

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Gildarts now stood before the eight hallways, panting heavily. "There's...dragons...! Outside...fighting! Whew! I need to lay off the alcohol. Okay.." The destructive mage looks up towards the entry ways to the eight hallways. "Which one do I take? It would be best to find Natsu. He has a great nose and he's probably picked whichever hallway has the toughest opponent if there is one. So..." Gildarts scratches his head as he looks back and forth between the hallway numbers. "Eight."

"I pick eight.

Hang on Lisanna."