White Eclipse
Chapter 65
"ZEREF!" Natsu yelled as he came charging down the main street of Magnolia. "I'm going to burn you to ash!"
"Natsu wait up!" Lucy yelled as her Levy and Aira chased after him.
"Natsu!" Happy yelled. The blue exceed immediately took off towards his partner, then flew around and picked him up, now flying him towards the death mage himself.
"We're coming for you! Zeref!"
"Salamander!" Takeru turned in surprise, not being able to spot, but obviously able to hear the Fire Dragon Slayer. "They healed him, I knew Aira would be the help they needed." Selene says as the echoes of Natsu roaring blared through the city.
"Keep your focus!" Gildarts yelled as the demon charged another laser like beam. It fired directly towards Gildarts, but his crash magic easily broke apart the laser, leaving it ineffective. Sidney then appeared on the demon's shoulder in a puff of white smoke. The ghost mage would then place his right palm on the demon's shoulder. "Resurrection: phantoms."
After his quick chant, a magic seal appeared and four floating phantoms appeared, flying through the demon repeatedly, temporarily cutting off it's magic. "It's magic has been cut!" Waiston yelled. "Everyone who can, attack!"
"Right!"
"Necrosis!" Skye begins spinning her scythe until the wheel illuminates a purple light. She then slings it forward, firing a wheel of poison magic towards the monstrosity.
"Raging Bolt!" Laxus gathered his magic energy, and then fired off a stream of lightning magic with both hands.
"Holy Ray!" Sting quickly gathered his own supply of magic, and then fired off a plethora of small but destructive white magic rays.
"Water God's Drill." Kuro chill conjured a magic circle beneath him. Black water then begins to swirl around him as it ascended upward to a point. The hard as steel black liquid then combined with the other attacks, and slammed into the demon giant. The soulless being fell backwards, unresponsive after taking the devastating attack.
"Nice shot!" Waiston yelled, but before he could fully celebrate, the demon quickly hopped up again. It literally shakes off the attack it just suffered, and now stood again, rejuvenated. "What is it going to take!? This thing is too wild!" Bacchus yelled as he watched the demon rear it's head back, ready to fire another laser. "Don't be fooled, it's taking damage." Sidney says as he reappeared next to Jaxon. Jaxon nods after swallowing in a bit of nervousness. "It's just taking forever, right?"
The demon throws to head forward, but when it fired it's laser, the beam was way off it's mark. The cause, was a beam of magic slamming into it's right eye. The giant held it's eye as it roared in pain and annoyance. The culprit, Reve, stood on a lone, half destroyed building with a single celestial pistol in his left hand. He requipped another and aimed for the demon's left eye. He fired, and connected again, leaving the giant blind as it held both of it's eye sockets in agony. Attention turned to Reve as he requipped once more, now holding his patented magnum gun as his other two disappeared. With his precision eyes, the gunslinger took aim at the demon who was swinging his head around in pain from the temporary blindness. "Bang."
Reve pulled the trigger, and the following second, a giant beam of raw magic shot out of the barrel; so strong that Reve nearly fell backwards before catching himself. The giant beam hurled right towards the demon and as the soulless creature roared in pain, the beam slammed directly into it's open mouth, exploding inside. The demon soldier yelled in pain once again, even louder as it went down to one knee.
"Reve!" Nami shouted with glee. Reve kept an emotionless face as he watched the demon carefully. After a full minute, the demon stood once again, looking directly at Reve as it regained it's eyesight. "You can't be serious!" Gajeel yelled in frustration. "What's it going to take!?"
"You're all going about it wrong."
Suddenly, everyone stopped. They quickly averted their attention to the voice that came from the building next to Reve. All of White Eclipse gave a mixture of expressions as Arcturus stood with his arms crossed. "A-Arc!" Nami stutters out, not exactly how to react to her ex guildmate.
"This may be bad." Sidney says. Gildarts then pats the ghost mage on the shoulder. "Lets wait and see."
"No need to wait, ace of Fairy Tail." Arc says as he heard the man with his heightened hearing. "Everyone, clear out, a good two hundred yard radius."
At first, no one moved. Then, Arc slowly begins to reach for the bandages that covered his eyes. Takeru's eyes then widen. He quickly turns to the crowd as he yelled. "Do what he says, or be trapped in the void!"
"Of course." Sidney nods, and then disappears without hesitation.
"Everyone out!" Gildarts yells. And with that, the mages take off running their separate ways. The demon giant focuses on a bunch running towards the south to get away, and it quickly charges another laser. It fired, but the blast was quickly cut off by another one of Reve's magnum bullets.
"You should leave, Volver." Arc says as he gripped and ripped off his bandages, revealing his heinous red eyes.
"I'll leave once everyone has cleared out, or this thing will kill them all while their back is turned."
"Your funeral..." Arc dropped the bandages, and his eyes began to illuminate as a magic circle appears under the demon, expanding to exactly a two hundred yard radius. The light from the circle stunned the demon, causing it to roar in pain once more.
"It's finished Reve. Take your leave."
Reve noticed the other mages leaving, and quickly took off running after her jumped down from the building he was perched on. He immediately went to a full sprint as the markings in the magic circle began to illuminate a white glow, the outer of the circle still black.
"Reve!" Luke yelled while waving, showing him how much further he had to go.
"What's going on over there!?" Bune asked in anxiousness, causing him to take his eyes off Jellal, who slammed a right fist into Bune's jaw.
"Arc.." Taya whispered out. "He's helping us. Thank you."
Reve slid out of the magic circle, then turned to give Arc the thumbs up. Arc nodded, and then turned back to the howling demon who was still stunned by the light of the seal.
"...Void."
Arcturus's eyes flash, causing the entire seal to turn into a whirlpool of a portal. Immediately the demon begins to sink into the portal, along with everything within the circle. Arcturus was the only thing inside that wasn't being drawn to the middle. The demon did it's best to attempt an escape, but within seconds, the void swallowed him whole, not leaving a single trace.
"That was the void?" Gray says as he shivers. "He nearly did that to us before."
"I remember..." Gajeel says as he gives a cautious look towards the demon slayer. "And to think, if Sidney wouldn't have stopped him that day. Gihehe...I wanna fight him one day now."
"More importantly." Sting says with a smile. "All the demons are gone! It's not up to Erza and Tayakata to finish off the last general!"
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Jellal and Bune continued exchanging blows, slamming their face against each other's faces in rapid succession. Jellal was still covered in his heavenly body magic known as Meteor. Bune would occasionally try to dispel it by firing off his waves of magic, but the speed of Jellal evading the waves was too great. Jellal and Bune meet once again in the middle, slamming their right fist into each other's jaw. Though he was covered in his "meteor," Jellal began to pant heavily, while Bune just started his small gasps for air. It seemed that Bune's punches were still more effective than Jellal's despite the magic behind it. "Give it up and let me kill you! You're just delaying. I'm way too strong for you, Giha!"
Jellal panted a bit more before replying. "I'll do whatever it takes. I'm not giving in!" He yelled as he rushed back towards Bune. Bune fired off a few more waves of his dispelling magic. Jellal dodged the first few, but the last wave slammed into his chest, shutting off his meteor. This caught Jellal off guard, and Bune slammed a hard uppercut right into the jaw of the Bluenette. Jellal's head snapped backwards as he was lifted off of his feet from the blow. Bune would then leap forward, and slam a stomp into Jellal's sternum before he could hit the ground, causing him to crash into the earth painfully. "Gihahaha! It's time you got the same treatment as that red head did!" Bune cackled out. He then bent down a bit, and began firing off an onslaught of punches with Jellal unable to defend himself.
"Jellal!" Erza yelled as she still stayed on one knee, still struggling to make it to her feet. Taya watched as well as she wobbled around on her feet, trying to regain herself. Bune continued to laugh as his punches continued to slam into the Heavenly Body Mage. "I'll pummel you to death!" The general yelled. His punches had long knocked Jellal out cold, yet he was planning on continued the horrendous onslaught until Jellal was no longer breathing.
"No...no..." Erza then made her way to her feet, against her own body's will.
"STOP!" She roared. Her yell caused Bune to stop in mid-swing as he turned his head towards Titania. As he looked over towards her, he realized that Erza now stood in her Heaven's Wheel armor. "Gihaha! Didn't you learn!? Your magic won't work here!"
"No magic is useless against anyone." Erza said, quoting Jellal's words. She then took off towards Bune with immense speed.
"Have it your way!" Bune cackled. He then fired off a wave of dispel magic that violently slams into Erza, breaking her armor right off. However, Erza didn't stop moving forward. She kept momentum in her broken armor, until she requipped once again, now in her Morning Star armor. "It's useless!" Bune repeated as he fired another wave. The wave slams into Erza once again, shattering the armor into pieces. She screamed out in pain, yet she fought through it, still soaring towards Bune. Bune watched with his eyes wide. Taya did the same off to the side. "Erza..."
Erza Scarlett then turned to her Armadura Fairy armor, slightly picking up speed as she neared the demon general. "You're annoying!" Bune yelled.
"She's gonna do it..." Taya murmured.
"This is your end, Bune of Justice!"
"Not so fast!" Bune clenched his fists and reared them back. He then fired a giant wave of dispel towards Erza. The wave slams into her sword that she was using as a cushion to the devastating magic, and cushion the attack it did as her sword shattered first, and then her armor. Though she was once again without armor or weapon, she continued to charge. Finally, Erza reverted back to her Heart Kruez armor, holding a single sword. "I won't be defeated!" They both yelled as Erza raised her sword the same time Bune reared his fist back. With a vertical slice and a hard punch, the two run by each other, holding their stance as a result. Seconds later, Erza's armor shatters again, leaving her exposed in her regular clothes. Bune turns around, wincing in dire pain as a giant gash was seen on his torso.
"Deep...but now deep enough to stop justice." Bune says as he no longer held the sadistic smile he usually held. As he held his chest, he began limping over to the now downed Erza Scarlett. He winced a bit more as he now stood inches away from her. He pulled his hand away to look at his gash once more, sneering a bit at the sight. "I win again." Bune raised a fist, but before he could swing down...a dark vector pierces right through his open wound. Three more follow right behind the first one, piercing right through his body as Bune began to gag from the immense pain. He struggled to move his head over to the side to get a look at the culprit. Taya huffed, and then etched out a grin. "You forgot about me."
Bune turned to face Taya but as he took a step forward, his eyes went completely white as he fell over, no longer alive. His body disappeared just like the others, and so did the magic seal in the sky. The sky was no clear, and Zeref looked up, still emotionless. "It seems I underestimated the mages. Could this really be my time to go?"
"Your damn right it is!"
Zeref turned to see Natsu flying in quickly towards him. He turned around fully as he aimed a palm toward the incoming dragon slayer, ready to fire another beam of his death magic. Before he could fire however, he found himself surrounded by four towers, two of dark magic and two of light. "Eclipse Tower." Calium chanted as he held his magic in place.
"What's this?" Zeref looked around at the four towers of powerful magic. Within the next few seconds, a heavenly light appeared in the sky. "Fairy Law!" Makarov shouted.
"Whoa..." Was nearly every mage's reaction as they watched the two guild master's at work.
"Such an undeniable unison raid." Reve says as he watches in amazement.
Zeref begins to frantically look around for an escape, but to no avail as Calium and Makarov both attacked, the combination of magic going off like an atomic bomb on impact. A giant cloud of smoke covered the area, yet when it cleared, Zeref stood on his feet. He was in extreme pain, yet he stayed on his feet as he glared towards the masters. "There's no way-"
"We got this! Cana!"
Appearing from the middle of the crowd, Cana throws off her jacket as her arm begins to glow.
"Reve, give her a hand." Calium says.
Just like that, Reve requips a well sized cannon in his hands. The cannon held the White Eclipse insignia. He began charging the cannon, a ball of dark and light magic appearing and quickly increasing in size.
"Fairy Glitter!"
Eclipse Cannon!" Reve fires his now enormous ball of dark and light infused magic as a powerful beam from Cana rains from the sky, slamming into Zeref simultaneously. The death mage held in an agonizing yell as he bared his teeth. The two attacks rocked the entire city, but once it was over, Zeref was still alive, just down on one knee.
"I'm going...to kill you all!" He said in a near demonic tone.
"Don't let up!" Makarov yelled, but before he could give an order, he noticed his blonde haired celestial mage standing behind Zeref. Zeref slowly turned around to see Lucy hovering over a magic circle. "Now, what we were planning the first time. Survey the Heaven, Open the Heaven...
All the stars, far and wide...
Show me thy appearance...
With such shine.
O Tetrabiblos...
I am the ruler of the stars...
Aspect became complete...
Open thy malevolent gate.
O 88 Stars of the heaven...
Shine!
Urano Metria!"
Zeref made his way to his feet, only to have a plethora of "stars" repeatedly slam into him, stunning him as well as heavily damaging him.
"Don't...you fools understand..." He cried out as he hunched over after the attack was done.
"He's still standing!?" Lucy yelled in surprise.
"I can't be killed, not by you fools."
"No one is unbeatable!"
"Huh?" Zeref turned to see an already crouched Natsu. He was covered in a flame and lightning aura as he took off in a blur towards Zeref. At the same time, Takeru appeared out of his shadow mode behind Natsu and quickly turned to his White Shadow mode.
"Sword Horn, of the Lightning Flame Dragon!"
"Roar of the White Shadow Dragon!"
Takeru's roar covered Natsu completely as he hurled towards Zeref. The death mage was frozen still after taking the full stint of Lucy's attack. With wide eyes he did nothing but watch as Natsu continued to fly towards him in the unison raid. "Natsu..." Zeref says to himself. "And to think, I gave up on you seven years ago. Thank you, for freeing me."
Zeref closes his eyes as Natsu drills right through the heart of the death mage, coming to a sliding stop on the other side. Zeref fell off to the side as he smiled. "Thank you...Natsu. Though you won't survive 'him,' I'm glad that you freed me before you were to die as well."
And with that, Zeref closed his eyes as he was no longer of this world, falling off the building until he finally hit the ground.
Everyone stood still for a couple of seconds. Then, as Natsu raised up the patented Fairy Tail sign, the army of mages erupted in a roar of victory. "We did it!"
"Natsu!" Lucy yelled in joy as she wrapped her arms around The Salamander. "We won!"
"Ehe.. Thanks for your help too, Lucy."
"I can't believe we just rid the world of it's greatest evil." Makarov says as he sighs in relief.
"Wait! Wait it's not over!" Aira yelled. Her call went on deaf ears as too many people were celebrating the death of Zeref. "Listen! Listen to me!" Her voice began to crack as she began to breakdown from frustration. "Listen!"
"Aira cheer up we won! Why are you crying?" Selene asked as she patted her friend on the back.
"It's Adam! He and Mithril!"
"Adam wouldn't dare lose to that Tartaros dragon you know that. We'll go check on -"
"Shut up and listen!" Aira snapped, causing Selene to look at her in shock.
"Adam and Mithril. They're fighting against-"
Before Aira could finish her statement...a loud roar was heard in the air. Selene, along with every dragon slayer's ears perk up quickly. Their pupils shrink as the legendary roar clouded their ears. "No..."
"Not now..." Gajeel says as he drops to his knees. "Gajeel what's wrong!?" Levy asked. Right after she did, another roar happens, louder than the previous. This time, everyone heard it. "Oh god no.."
"It can't be.."
"It's what I-I've been trying to say since I ran into you! Adam and Mithril ran into Acnologia!" Aira then covered her mouth as she came to a realization. "And he's on the way here... That means...ADAM!"
[Flashback]
The two on one battle was a one sided fight, as Acnologia easily tossed around the two dragons. Acnologia sunk it's teeth into Mithril's side, and brutally ripped him open, putting him out of commission. To subdue Adamantine, he brutally tail whipped the ice dragon repeatedly into the ground. Acnologia would then fly upward, and inhale the air around him.
As Adam laid there beneath the ultimate dragon, he looked up with a blurry vision. "Sorry, White Eclipse. Thanks for sharing the human life with me. I really appreciate everything-"
Before Adam could finish his full thoughts, the giant vortex slammed into both him and Mithril, destroying the entire landscape around them as well. When the roar cleared, nothing was left. No tree, stone, nor dragon was found. Acnologia then flew off towards the city of Magnolia in victory, ready to deal with the rest of the "vermin."
[End FlashBack.]
"Adam...he's gone...just like Zalen..."
"Master, please tell me out ears are playing tricks on us." Mirajane pleaded to Makarov. He didn't say a word as a third roar was heard, causing the mages to cover their ears in pain.
Natsu stood frozen with Takeru and Lucy on the building roof as the giant black dragon with blue markings on it's skin appeared. As if it was grinning, it stared at Natsu, remembering his face. Lucy took a step back, behind Natsu as Acnologia roared into the air once more.
"We're all dead..." Takeru claimed.
"Dead..."
