White Eclipse
Chapter 56

Zalen stood with his back against the wall, next to Juvia and wit Myou nearly nose to nose with him, staring right into his eyes with an emotionless expression. He gulps a little, moving nothing but his shifting eyes and his slowly moving chest from his heavy breathing. "J-Juvia... We have to separate, okay?"
Juvia, who was also standing there, slowly nods. "Juvia understands. On Zalen's mark."
"Right..." The building mage nods. "On three okay.."
"I'm standing right here. It's rude to plot with me right in front of you." The ragged clothes wearing mage says, not moving a single body part except her lips. Still, Zalen ignored her statement as he took a slow, deep breath. "One...tw-"
Trying to catch Myou off guard, Zalen quickly presses his right palm against the wall he leaned on. Immediately following was a magic seal from the wall and out from that an iron pillar fired out, aiming for Myou's head. Myou simply leaned her head away as the pillar shoots by into the opposite wall. Juvia attempts to scramble away the second Zalen fires, but it was to no avail as Myou uses her immense speed to cut Juvia off before she could run, aiming a hard kick to her side and sliding her back next to Zalen. Seeing Juvia fail, Zalen takes his chance and scrambles the other way. Once again, Myou cuts him off before he gets started, but this time, Zalen predicted she would, and quickly conjures a magic circle from the floor that shoots up two pillars of wood between him and Myou. As she easily punches through it, Zalen changes direction, running to the opposite wall as Juvia quickly makes her way past Myou. Myou cuts Juvia off, but it was too late by then as the two mages had finally separated from each other. Juvia slides to a quick stop as Myou appeared in front of her. "Water Slicer!" The aquatic mage yelled out as she thrusted an a forward, firing off two blades of water magic. Myou simply flips forward, dodging them both. On the second flip she quickly landed in front of Juvia as grey smoke began to wrap around her right fist. Before Juvia could react, Myou slams the right fist into her abdomen, bending Juvia over. As she hunched over, the torture mage, Myou, raised both of her fist in the air, and swung them down, aiming for the top of Juvia's head. On the way down, another magic circle appear right over Juvia's head. Right after that a plate of iron appears. As Myou swings down her fists, the hit against the iron plate, causing the plate to wrap around her fists and wrists like a restraint. "Juvia!" Zalen yells out, hoping she would recover faster from the blow she took. She does and glares up at Myou to see her disposition. "Water Nebula!" Juvia slings her hand forward, firing off a huge funnel of her water magic towards Myou. Impact seemed imminent at first, yet at the last second, Myou side flips to the right, causing the water nebula to miss completely. With her hand still restrained by the iron plate, Myou charges the water user. As she ran, multiple magic seals appeared below her feet. Yet as they did, she began to easily hop from side to side as she avoid the sharp pillars made of marble shoot up from the floor, not losing any momentum in the process. She then reached an unprepared Juvia, who leaned back in shock that she was so close so fast. She stood there, staring, causing Juvia to stare back in a bit of fear. Seconds later, red smoke began to pour from Myou's hands, seeping out of the iron restraints. The smoke quickly fills the room. "...Red smoke?" Zalen looks around in confusion.
Myou gives her first expression change in the entire fight, giving the smallest of grins.
"Boom."
The entire room explodes from the red smoke, and now the room was filled with normal smoke and debris from said explosion. Myou stood unharmed by her own magic as she looked around. Though still emotionless, her eyes widened a bit for less than a second as she saw to dented iron dome like structures within the smoke. As Zalen retracted them both he coughed a bit, but then grinned at the torture mage while fixing his glasses. "I hope that wasn't your best."
Myou looks on, nothing changed in her expression as she began pulling her arms apart. Juvia and Zalen watched as in mere seconds, Myou pulled the iron restraints right off, snapping them off in mere seconds.
"What!?" Zalen looked on with Juvia as Myou then placed her palms out to the side pointing downward. As she did so, two small magic circles emitted from her palms. Following that, blue smoke began to slowly pour out of her hands...and into her nose, continuously running like a cycle. Myou then begins stalking Zalen and Juvia as the smoke continued to run through her. "I'll make this slow and painful.."

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Miles off the shore of southern Fiore, he sat underneath a tree on an uncharted island. He sighs a bit as he rested under the shade. "Well, it's not as bountiful as Tenrou Island, but it'll have to do." He then inches forward and then lays backwards, resting his head on the stump of the tree that towered over him, providing him shade. "It's been seven years. It could be another hundred. At first I was sure that Natsu would be the one to stop me, but here I am, waiting for time to give me the signal once again." He sighed, and then began to slowly close his eyes to drift to sleep. Right before his eyes could completely shut, he heard it. A loud roar in the sky above him. The roar caused him to open his eyes,
But as he opened his eyes, the once calm manner he had in them was gone, replaced with an evil demeanor. He slowly sat up as he looked towards the sky, looking for the roar he heard so familiar.
"Well... It seems I spoke too soon. But I wonder who claims to be the hero now? Natsu's dead. It doesn't matter, not knowing makes me anxious enough." He now stood, his black hair waves in the wind with his long white sash. "I'm right here, come to me, Acnologia."
The giant foul beast let out another immense roar as Zeref stood with his arm spread, waiting on the dragon to land.

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Selene, Pantherlily and Gajeel both laid on the ground, struggling to stay conscious from the surrounding mist of poison. They continued coughing from the lack of oxygen as well as the poison slowly filling there lungs. Hokori stood in the middle of the mist, unphased as he inhales the smoke from his cigarette. He then held it, and finally exhaled as he looked down as the mist that now covered the two mages completely. Still, he could hear them coughing for their lives. "Hmph... I almost forgot that dragon slayers have advanced lungs or something like that. Usually the victim would be dead by now. But even the cat is alive. He must be getting ready to hit the dirt soon."
Gajeel continued coughing as he struggled to lift his head. "Lily! Lift me above the mist! You're our last hope, get up!"
Pantherlily couldn't see him, be he heard Gajeel perfectly. After a series of coughing, Lily sprouted his wings and took into the air, above the mist. "Tch." The warrior take over mage scoffed as he glared at the exceed. "No matter, he's easy pickings. And he's surrounded by mist, he won't last long."
Finally catching the oxygen back in his lungs, Pantherlily takes in a deep breath, and quickly swoops down into the mist. Unable to see, he flies low until he bumps into someone. Once he does, he grabs the dragon slayer, and ascends back towards the ceiling. "Oops...wrong one." Lily looked down as he saw that he was holding, Selene who was trying to cough out the poison in her lungs. "It's fine!" Gajeel yelled out. "Just get rid of this damn poison!"
"Selene!" Lily yelled as he shook her a bit.
"Yeah, Yeah!" Selene barks back as she finally regains herself. She then takes a deep breath, inhaling the air around her. "Roar, of the Diamond Dragon!" Selene then fires straight down to the ground. The wind behind the force of the roar pushes the poison to the corners of the room temporarily. The second he was free from the poison mist, Gajeel slowly stood up as Lily and Selene landed beside him. "Looks like your trick didn't work." Selene says with a smirk.
"Heh." Hokori slowly takes out the cigarette and drops it in front of him. He then stomps on it to ash it. "That's no problem, I'll just have to get my hands dirty."
As he finished his statement, a magic circle ran through Hokori's body. He reappears in an all red outfit, a red sleeveless hoodie, the hood causing a dark shadow over his eyes. He wore red pants that cuffed around his ankles, and red slippers that started from the ankle and covered his feet entirely. From his sheath on his back he drew a long sword that immediately became wrapped in flames. He then point to the two dragon slayers. "Well?"
Selene was the first to charge, drawing her diamond scales around her fists. She swung a right hook, and then a left one; both of them missing due to Hokori easily swaying away from them. As Selene threw a high kick towards Hokori, the take over mage quickly ducked, and then swung a horizontal slice with his flaming sword towards her ribs. Selene used her left hand to block the blade, her diamond scales strong enough to make the blade seem too dull to cut through. It was the flames that made things difficult as the heat quickly became too unbearable for her. She quickly slid back, but Hokori followed right after her, slamming a hard kick right into her sternum. As she slid backwards, Gajeel came lunging in with his entire right hand turned into his patented iron sword. After clanging blades a few times on the exchange, Gajeel swings down a vertical strike with his. Hokori blocks by holding his sword upward, stopping the sword from splitting his skull open. As he did so, the flames began to flare out in attempt to burn Gajeel. "Gihe! You think your flames hurt me!? Salamander's are way hotter!" As he spoke with a sadistic smile on his face, the blades on his sword began to run in a chainsaw like manner, giving him the advantage as he continued to push down against Hokori. "Heh... Not bad! But if fire won't do the trick..!"
In the next second, Gajeel went from smiling, to shouting in pain as he was being electrocuted. Hokori's outfit and sword had changed colors from red to yellow and the sword that once emitted flames, now shot out lightning. Already connected against the dragon slayer, the lightning was doing it's damage, shocking Gajeel continuously. "Gajeel!" Lily quickly runs towards the two in his more taller, bulked up form. He then slams a left fist into the jaw of Hokori, causing him to let go of Gajeel. Lily then pulls his sword out and charges the sliding take over mage. It only took one strike before Lily too was being shocked. "You're not that bright huh?" Hokori says as he grins towards Lily. Pantherlily returns the grin as he winces through the pain. "Wrong again!"
Hokori raised a brow, and before he could react, Selene and Gajeel come sliding in under the mage. With her diamond scaled fist, Selene scores a clean uppercut into Hokori's jaw. As he hit the ceiling he began to fall. Gajeel then inhaled the air around him, and with perfect timing, he slams a Roar of the Iron Dragon right into Hokori, slamming him into the wall behind him. As a result, a giant cloud of smoke covers Hokori. "...I'm going to brutally murder you both." He said as a bright light was seen from the smoke. Seconds later, a giant walked out. Over seven feet and bulky, Hokori wore an iron mask and held two giant axes in his hand as he fully stepped into plain sight.
"Heh...your forms don't scare me, you might have tin head here shaking, but the bigger they are..."
"...the harder they fall." Gajeel finishes, ignoring the tin head comment as he an Pantherlily stood side by side, waiting for Hokori's next move.

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"It's about time for me to leave." Daityas says as he looks around the lacrima filled walls. He peered down the hallway from his seat, seeing the lacrima already fill the hallway walls and floors. Daityas then turns to the thick book that stayed on his desk the entire time. The same book that Ruika used to take control of the two keys that weren't hers. He picked up the book of Zeref and the vase. He then rose from his chair and stood in front of the desk. Seconds later, a magic circle appeared beside him. The circle runs up and down repeatedly until an exact look alike of Daityas appeared beside him. Daityas grins as the look alike turns to him with the mirror like expression. He then places a palm against the thought projection, causing a small magic circle to appear. The magic circle began to tick like a clock for a bit until it disappeared into the chest of the thought projection. "Sora, Ruika, Kiora, Maggie Arcturus, Mithril, Rugal. I apologize, but I planned on you failing against those mages. That's why this entire castle is going down with them. But hey, with this vase, I'll easily revive you. Maybe you'll come back with a little less fucking sass." Daityas begins to laugh as he props himself on his desk to wait a bit longer before leaving. "We're all going to the world we dreamed of one way or another."
"... I feel like I was missing someone in that little speech...oh well."

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Wasting no time, Cygnus charged Rugal with his gravity magic wrapped around his fists and feet. He threw a combination of punches and kicks, all that missed as Rugal easily evaded. Though the dimensional mage dodged these attacks, he began to become heavier as the gravity around them began to shift. "Hm...I see your game gravity mage."
"That's god to you." Cygnus says as Elfman leaps over him, appearing in his takeover: Weretiger form. Elfman began his own flurry of attacks. Rugal still continuously dodged and parried the attacks, swinging back his own combination, yet Elfman with his speed began to gain the advantage, landing a couple strikes against the Tartaros mage. Rugal slides back from a hard blow and Elfman quickly lunges towards him. As he did, Rugal quickly opens a portal before him, causing Elfman to be sucked in due to his inability to halt his momentum. Rugal reopened the portal behind him, causing Elfman to lung out and punch nothing but the wall. "Huh?" He blinked, and turned around right into a hard right punch to his temple, sending the beast takeover mage sliding hard against the ground. Cygnus takes back over as he continued to shift the gravity with his missed punches and kicks, making the area heavier and heavier for Rugal. Becoming annoyed and now showing that he was affected by the shift in gravity. Rugal slides away from Cygnus's next punch into his own portal. Appearing on the other side of the room, he curls his lip as he opens another dimensional gate. Two more open right over both Cygnus and Elfman. The dimensional mage then begins to rapidly punch through his portal, causing his fists to appear through Elfman's and Cygnus's. With no where to go, both mages have no choice but to cover up as the fist rain down on them continuously. The calm disposition that Rugal had on his face while performing this task slowly began to fade as he felt a stinging sensation that quickly turned into immense pain on his fists. He finally stops punching as he looks at his hands. His hands, all the way up to his forearms showed his sleeves and gloves being burned off into nothing. "What is this?" Rugal asked as he looked at his bare hands that were throbbing in pain. "Heh..it takes a man to handle this form."
Rugal looks over at Elfman who was no longer in his Weretiger takeover. Instead he stood in his Beast Soul: Lizardman. A few of his scales fell to the ground, but he was more than okay.
"You impudent-"
"What's worse, is that you took your eyes off me."
Rugal's eyes widen as he slowly turned to Cygnus who was crouched right beside him. "Gravity God's bellow!" Cygnus quickly fires off a large sphere of his gravity magic, slamming it right into Rugal. Rugal goes soaring, seemingly unconscious, as he hits the ground on the other side of the room.
"Now that's a man!" Elfman shouted as gave a wide grin.
"Too easy!" Cygnus said as he dusted his hands off. "You know I could of handled it alone. But I guess it's good to have back-"
"You're both garbage."
"Hm?" Cygnus and Elfman both look over towards Rugal as he was flat on his back. Seconds later, a portal appears from under him. He then reappears out of a portal in mid air as he held a palm up towards the ceiling. "I'll get rid of you both with this black hole." Battered and bruised, Rugal forms a magic circle behind him. Then, just like that a black hole forms behind him, creating a huge suction of wind in attempts to drag Cygnus and Elfman in. Quickly, both mages begin to lose their footing. "This isn't good!" Elfman yells as he digs his claws into the ground.
"Okay...we have one shot at this big guy."
Elfman looks over at Cygnus as he too raises a hand towards the ceiling. A near identical magic circle appears before him, and just like Rugal's, a black hole appears, causing the suction from both sides to come to a stalemate. This caused Elfman and Cygnus to stay grounded for a while, but seconds later, Rugal's black hole proved to be stronger as they both began sliding forward once again. "Listen! I can't move! So you're gonna have to finish this with your next move! Make it count!"
Elfman looked over at Cygnus with his eyebrows raised. "I don't know if I can do that!"
Cygnus grit his teeth as he looked over at Elfman. He then smirked. "You're a Man aren't you!? Isn't that what you preach about!? Well!? Come on Man! Hop to it!"

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Erza and Taya quickly leap to opposite sides of the room to avoid the incoming strikes from Maggie and Kiora. Kiora's scythe "slices" the room in half, leaving an about foot deep line against the floor and wall that was behind the two mages before they leaped away. Taya now faced Maggie as Erza faces Kiora. Both of the Tartaros mages smirk as they held their weapons manifested from their own magic. Making the first move, Maggie swung her lava whip towards Taya once more. Taya merely swayed her head out the way, causing the whip to miss. It was when Maggie pulled back however, that caused the lava whip to smack across the dark vector mage's cheek. Throbbing in pain, she consoles her burnt cheek with her hand as she glared at Maggie who was smiling. "You better get serious love. I'm not the same bloke you towered over her entire life in Tartaros."
"So be it." Taya charges Maggie on command. Behind her, a hoard of dark vectors gave chase. As she came closer to Maggie, Taya came to a sliding stop and thrusted her hands forward, sending the near endless swarm of vectors Maggie's way. The lava mage began dancing around them, easily dodging the incoming swarm. Once she found and opening, Maggie quickly threw her lava whip once again. Taya sways hard to the right out of the way and charges once again, she came to a sliding stop as she crouched right under the lava mage. She then wrapped a dark vector around her fist, and swung it upward for an uppercut. She missed. Maggie quickly leaned back as she continued to grin at Tayakata. Before Taya could move out the way, Maggie throws her head forward, a small grey magic seal appears followed by a ball of ash that slams into Taya's chest and exploding right after.
As Taya goes tumbling away. Erza requips a single sword in her hands. Staying in her Heart Kruez armor, she charged Kiora full speed, and swings her sword. Kiora holds up her scythe, parrying Erza's lone attack. She then quickly spins and swings her scythe in a horizontal fashion. Erza immediately ducks as the swing from the scythe ends up reaching back to the wall a ways behind her, leaving a line within it. Not to be thrown off by the intimidation factor of Kiora's attack, Erza quickly requips into her flight armor. The scarlet haired mage then takes off in a blur, Kiora barely able to keep up as she desperately parries each of Erza's attacks as Titania ran by her continuously. Getting annoyed, Kiora stabbed her scythe into the ground and quickly went to her shadow make stance. "Shadow make: Lance!" She then fires off a plethora of shadow magic in the form of lances. She continuously turns to give chase to Erza who was moving away from the lances, finally hitting her as the end of her wave slams into Titania's body, causing her to stumble backwards. As she came to a stop, Erza realized a red magic circle under her feet. She stood in shock, and then quickly requiped as a large fountain of molten lava sprouts out from the seal, slamming Erza into the ceiling. As the fountain retracts, Erza was temporarily pinned against the ceiling in her Flame Empress armor. As she fell to the ground she quickly recovered into a flip and landed feet first. Though her armor cushioned the heat some, the burning could still be seen as steam flowed off of her. She winced a bit as her attention was drawn upon Maggie. Kiora took the opportunity to sneak behind Erza, rearing her scythe over her head. Before she could swing down however, just like what Maggie did to Erza, Taya placed a magic seal under Kiora's feet and from it, an uprising of dark vectors occurred, pushing her high into the air and into the ceiling. Once retracted, Kiora fell to the ground. She recovered, yet landed in a kneeling position as Erza made her way safely next to Tayakata. Maggie slid next to Kiora attempting to help her up. Kiora smacks Maggie's hand away in anger. "I'm fine!" She then stood, glaring at both of the mages before her. "You little shits think you're gonna get out of here alive!? I got bad news for you kids. It's not happening!"
"What she said!" Maggie threw in. "It's time to show you ninnies the reason why we're the strongest team here!"

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Natsu and Takeru stood side by side as Tobias walked towards them. "I'm going to kill you both. This will be most satisfying. Finally some respect." As Tobias spoke, Natsu and Takeru both grin. Takeru then looks over at the fire dragon slayer. With a cocky expression, Takeru quickly forms into his white shadow mode. Following right behind him, Natsu immediately turns on his lightning flame mode. They both turn back to Tobias who stopped walking. "Hm!? I didn't...think they would resort to this so fast. Guess I'm that much of a threat eh?" Tobias smirks as he slides into a fighting stance. As Natsu and Takeru began walking towards the mage, Tobias conjures up a magic seal. From the seal, another strong wave of water rushes towards them both. Takeru chuckles a bit as he throws a punch forward, colliding with the water and easily parting it. Tobias begins to back up a bit, showing slight worry as he brings forth another seal, this time under Natsu. A bunch of vines then wraps around the lightning flame slayer, but Natsu continues to walk forward, easily burning and ripping off the vines.
"You're in our way." The Salamander states. "We have family in trouble and you're holding us back."
"W-well that's too bad!" Tobias replies opens a palm. Out of another seal, blades of wind fire out towards both Takeru and Natsu, and in near harmonic movements, they both quickly sidestep each one. Tobias then began backing up continuously. "They can't improve like this within days can they!? They just came from that stupid tournament, I had them scouted!"
Natsu then crouches a bit as Takeru begins to inhale the air around him. Natsu lunges first at a high speed towards Tobias. "Iron fist! Of the Lightning Flame Dragon!"
Following Natsu's lunge, Takeru throws his head forward. "Roar! Of the White Shadow Dragon!" As Takeru fires off his roar, the funnel of white and shadow magic swirls around Natsu's fist, combining with the already lightning and flame mixture. The unison raid was too stunning for Tobias to move as Natsu slams the punch right into the bridge of Tobias's nose. The power behind the blow created a huge crater under Tobias and Natsu, and after a delayed reaction, Tobias hits the wall, then slides down to the floor, white eyed and unconscious. Following Tobias's quick defeat, the runes quickly drop.
"Alright!" Natsu yells as he holds his hand up to Takeru for a high five. Takeru looks up at Natsu's hand, and then turns to walk out the room. "I already old you, we aren't friends idiot." Takeru exits the room, leaving Natsu standing there blinking. Natsu then turns to the unconscious Tobias. He walks over to the mage as Happy hovers over him. He then begins to shake Tobias by the collar vigorously. "Hey! Robian!"
"It's Tobias.." Happy says as he plants a paw against his own face.
"Where's Lisanna!? Where's the dungeons!" Natsu continued to shake the unresponsive mage comically. He then stopped as his nose picked up a familiar scent. Before it could connect, Natsu rolled away from the funnel of poison that now slammed against the wall, breaking a chunk of it off.
"I knew I heard you in here."
From the shadow of the hallway, Cobra stepped into the light, giving a small grin towards the Salamander. Natsu looks on in a bit of shock. "Cobra!? I thought you were inprisoned?"
"You didn't hear Salamander? Tartaros took out the council. And I was freed in he process. Now, we can finally finish what we started long ago. Are you ready Natsu? I-"
Cobra's words were quickly halted from his hearing. He snarled as he moved away from the door. Seconds later, Sting comes running in, standing across from Natsu and to the right of Cobra. "Natsu!"
"Sting! Why are you here?"
"To make sure you don't die of course!" Sting then looks over to Cobra. "Hm? Cobra?"
"Stay away from him!" Natsu yells.
Instead Sting grins as he turns to him with his cocky demeanor. "This guy giving you trouble Natsu?"
"Begone. I'm here for Natsu, not you." Cobra replied.
"Well that's too bad. Natsu has somewhere to be. Don't you Natsu?"
"Right!" Happy yells. "Natsu, Lisanna!"
"Oh yeah!" Without a second thought, Natsu runs out of the room with Happy flying right behind him.
"No you don't!" Cobra yells but before he could take another step, Sting lunges towards the Poison Dragon Slayer with a right hook.
"Tch! I can hear you coming fool!" Cobra sways away from Sting's punch and slams a kick into his side. Sting slides away from Cobra due to the kick, but still grins while holding his side.
"This will be fun. I'll be your opponent. If I can beat you, I'll be able to hold something over Natsu!"
"That's your goal?" He arched a brow towards one half of the twin dragon slayers. "Well then, I'll make quick work with you so I can catch up to Natsu and finish my fight."

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"Any day now beast man!" Cygnus yelled as Elfman stood, still trying to keep himself from getting sucked into Rugal's black hole.
"Alright! Just give me a minute!"
"We don't have a minute!"
"It's useless!" Rugal yelled as he laughed. "You'll both be consumed very soon!"
"Elfman!" Cygnus yelled for his "partner" once again.
"Alright... A real man can do this." Elfman says to himself as he begins his takeover. He appeared in his Beast Soul form, the king of beasts. With a roar, Elfman began running towards Rugal, moving faster than he wanted to due to the black hole suction. Once halfway there, Elfman leaps towards Rugal with a fist reared back. Rugal watched with wide eyes as Elfman's massive right fist slams clean into his jaw, causing a huge shockwave. Also causing Rugal's head to snap to the side, his black hole immediately stops as Rugal falls to the floor head first in K. O. Elfman then lands, panting heavily as he reverts back to his normal self. "I did it.. That black hole was intimidating."
Cygnus had closed his by this time as well as the rune doors lower. Allowing them to pass. "Look! Lets go get your sister and Skye."
The two mages quickly exit the room as the run down the hallway. Skipping every stairwell the see, they continued to run straight ahead until they ran into two familiar faces.
"Kairi!" Cygnus yells as he waves her down while still running.
"Mira!" Elfman does the same, causing the two mages to turn around.
"Cygnus!"
"Elfman!"
The four mages meet, Mirajane and Elfman hugging each other. Cygnus looks Kairi and Mirajane over and raises a brow. "Wow, who did you run into?"
The two takeover opposites glare at each other, and then away from each other, answering Cygnus's question.
"Anyways!" Kairi says. "Lets go find them! Dungeons are usually at the end so lets go!"
"Right!" The four mages continue to sprint down the hallway as they searched for Lisanna and Skye.

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"Shit! Where did he go!" Natsu continued down the hallway. The same hallway that Cygnus and Elfman just met Kairi and Mirajane on. He stopped and sniffed the air, picking up a scent. He then turned to his right, now climbing a stairwell. The spiral staircase led to the top of Tartaros castle, and seemed like it went on forever. "There's no time for this! Happy!"
"Aye sir!" Happy quickly picks Natsu up and begins flying upward towards the top of the castle.
"Daityas!" He yells out. I'm coming for you!"
"I thought we were getting Lisanna?" Happy asked, breaking the dramatic tension.
"Elfman and Mira are on the path to get her! I could smell them."
"Riiiiight."
"I'm not lying!"

He had taken the staircase opposite to Natsu. the spiral staircase led downwards, and the deeper he went, the darker it became, until it was pitch black. Even though there was no light anymore, thanks to Arc's training, Takeru could see just fine. Skipping the rest of the stairs, he leaps down, landing at the bottom of the staircase. He then walked a few paces into the pitch black room and turned to his left to face him. "I knew you were here." Takeru says. "I don't know how you're alive, but I'm glad you are, even though you're one of them now."
"Heh. The nose of a dragon slayer is a strong one it seems." He folds his arms and walks towards Takeru with no intention to attack just yet. Arc now stood towering over Takeru with a sadistic grin. "I saw your fight, and you have my magic. I can't allow that."
"You're the one that gave it to me." The Shadow Dragon Slayer replied.
"Don't lie to me."
"I'm not lying. You've been brainwashed. I don't know what they told you, but you used to be on our side. And you chose to be on your own."
Arc begins to laugh a bit. "Your side? Why would I leave what I'm best at?"
"Because you said that even though killing gave you a rush, you were tired of holding the burden."
"Even if that's true runt, I'm a new mage now. And this darkness demon slayer is ending your little run right here.

Brace yourself, Takeru."

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On the uncharted island away from Fiore, the reawakened Zeref stood in front of the giant Acnologia. Though his power was yet to be fully unlocked, the wizard was full aware of who he was and what he was going to do. The giant black dragon let out a loud roar, right in front of Zeref, but the mage stood un phased. "You sense dragons huh? The last time you sensed dragons, there's was nothing there once we got to Crocus. You better be right this time. Actually, it doesn't matter if you're right or not. This time, I'm awake. So let us fly back to the country, and begin what we were supposed to do seven years ago. It's time for a new age, Acnologia. None will be spared.

It's time. For the world of pure magic to arrive."