1st Place: Fairy Tail – 69
2nd Place: Sabertooth- 65
3rd Place: Lamia Scale – 43
4th Place: Mermaid Heel – 34
5th Place: Blue Pegasus – 32 (out)
6th Place: Quatro Puppy – 7 (out)
The GMG is raging on as the leading team is still Fairy Tail who has the most points and still five members remaining, followed by Sabertooth who has only four, Lamia Scale who has 3 left, and lastly Mermaid Heel who only have 2 people remaining.
"last fight of the GMG! And Fairy Tail leads the score board with an amazing 69 points! Sabertooth is following behind! Will they catch up with them!?" exclaimed Lola on the mic as the crowd's cheers echoes loudly for the Fairy Tail members.
"go, you guys!" shouted Jet in happiness as their guild team is winning.
"we're winning!" added Droy while eating a bucket of fried chicken.
"first Master! What's going to happen next!?" asked Warren to Mavis whose entire focus is on the lacrima screen that showed Erza and the others in their locations.
"judging by my calculations, Juvia will encounter one of Lamia Scale members" said Mavis as the crowd soon cheered even louder. The guild looks at one lacrima screen and showed Juvia in a face off against Cheria.
"wait a minute! That's Cheria, right!?" said Macao in surprise.
"Juvia might be in a pinch! That girl can heal her own wounds with her own magic!" added Wakaba as Cheria is a healer and this could be a bad thing for Juvia.
"do not worry, Juvia is not going to defeat her" said Mavis as this got their attention and looking curious to what she meant.
At the field, Juvia did a high jump to dodge a storm of black wind from Cheria as she soon runs down an alley.
"you're not escaping! I am going to take you down for Lyon's love!" shouted Cheria.
"Juvia doesn't even love him! Juvia only loves Gray-sama!" exclaimed Juvia in retort.
"then disappear!" shouted Cheria as she fired another black storm down the alley to take out Juvia in it but was blocked when a large stone wall arises and deflected her attack. "what!?"
Several staff tapping sound is heard and the ground below Cheria rises up as a pillar with the Lamia Scale mage on it.
"waaaah waaaah!" screamed Cheria as she fell on the top of the stone pillar and is now above in the air. "w-what's going on?!"
Cheria looks around before she hears crackling noises behind, she turns, and her face went deadpanned pale as she faces Draco who is hovering behind her while charging up lightning in his large jaw.
"will this suffice to answer your question?" asked Natsu/ Ikaruga who smiles while on top of Draco's head.
"a-ah…um.." said Cheria in a stutter while sweating endlessly.
BOOM!
Lightning got fired from Draco's jaw as a loud thunder rang and Cheria went flying in the sky while smoking.
"Nooo!" screams Cheria while flying away.
"out! Natsu has taken out Cheria-tan and gained 1 point!" Lola shouted on the mic before crying "why Cheria-tan!?"
1st Place: Fairy Tail – 70
2nd Place: Sabertooth- 65
3rd Place: Lamia Scale – 43
4th Place: Mermaid Heel – 34
5th Place: Blue Pegasus – 32 (out)
6th Place: Quatro Puppy – 7 (out)
Natsu/ Ikaruga smiles before she looks down to see Juvia who is with Genbu who soon disappears. The water mage did a thumbs up and a nod to the disguised woman before going off to the next location that Mavis strategized for her to go.
"let's go, Draco" said Natsu/ Ikaruga as Draco soon flies away.
Returning back to the Fairy Tail stand, some of the group had deadpanned face.
"this is really overkill" said Macao in seeing what happened to Cheria.
"more like chaotic. Draco just blew out lightning and sends the poor girl to the air" added Wakaba.
"all for the sake of winning" said Mavis with a proudful smile.
"for the sake of winning?" stated Warren with a sweatdrop behind his head.
"first, what about Erza?" asked Cana as she looks to one lacrima screen that showed Erza by a garden palace all alone. "what's she doing there?"
"Erza will encounter Minerva there and engage in combat," said Mavis with a smirk
"wait what?! That Sabertooth woman is going to be there?!" exclaimed Elfman.
"Yes." Said Mavis with a nod. "She's the one best equipped to fight her."
Upon the part of the city of where Erza is, the scarlet knight looks around to find Minerva, but she saw no signs of anyone.
'according to the first, I should meet that Sabertooth's woman' thought Erza while continuing to look for Minerva, but she soon sensed a presence behind and jumps away to dodge a swung sheathed katana. 'that katana!'
"IT'S KAGURA!" Shouted Lola as Kagura came out of nowhere and failed to land a strike on Erza who had dodged.
"eh?" Mavis looks in surprise and confusion as her prediction was wrong.
'the first master's prediction is off!?' thought Erza while summoning two katanas in her hands before she got into a sword battle against Kagura in rapid speed.
"it's a battle against two powerful and beautiful swordswomen! What a show! This fight will prove who is the strongest later!" shouted Lola before he made a loud gasping sound. "at the downtown area! There's big actions!"
Lola's comment made the Fairy Tail team look to another Lacrima screen and their eyes went wide for Natsu/ Ikaruga is in battle against Orga, Sting, and Rogue. The two Dragon slayers are attacking Draco in the sky while Orga is facing Natsu/ Ikaruga in a direct battle and she isn't having it easy against lightning attacks.
"what?! Those three!?" exclaimed Levy.
"three against two, that ain't fair!" said Lisanna.
"t-they shouldn't be…working together…my predictions.." said Mavis in shock as her predictions is going wrong by the minute.
Nearby the downtown area, Gajeel with Laxus, and Juvia had grouped up and are heading to the downtown area to give support to Natsu/ Ikaruga.
"damnit! This isn't going like the First's plan!" said Gajeel in annoyance.
"just keep running till we get her some support!" shouted Laxus whose eyes went wide as he jumps away from a rock spear that came springing out of the ground.
"this attack!" said Juvia who looks at front and stops running with Gajeel as they got confronted by Jura and Lyon.
"I am not fond on attacking individuals who are going to help an outnumbered member" said Jura while combing his beard. "but this is a battle that Lamia Scale won't be losing"
"I'm a bit offended that Gray didn't come for this last match, and that Lamia Scale won't win even if we take out Sabertooth and Mermaid Heel" said Lyon while readying his Ice magic "but I'll be sure to take down Fairy Tail just for the fun of mocking Gray after it finish"
"everything is going down with the first master's plan, huh?" said Laxus while his body is getting coated in electricity.
"we can't get through with these two here" said Gajeel before looking at Juvia. "Juvia, you go and give he- I mean him some support. We'll take these two out"
"are you sure? Lyon-sama is one thing, but that Jura-san is.." muttered Juvia as she wasn't sure if the two could win against Jura on their own.
"just go" said Laxus as he had a hard gaze on Jura. "we'll catch up after we deal with these two"
Juvia looks at the two before she nodded and started running pass Jura and Lyon, both Lamia Scale Wizards letting her pass as their attention is to Laxus and Gajeel.
The four mages stood in a stand off before they lunged at each other on the attack.
Everyone at the Fairy Tail stand just looks in bewilderment as Mavis' strategy is slowly falling to pieces.
"this is bad….Laxus and Gajeel are against Jura and Lyon while Juvia with Ikaruga is against those three Sabertooth mages…" said Lisanna with a worried look.
"and Erza is against Kagura" added Levy as she watched Erza faces Kagura in a still sword battle.
"just what the hell is going on here?!" said Jet and Droy in unison.
At the moment of Erza's battle against Kagura, both swordswomen swung their weapons against each other at such a fast pace that their movements just leave blurs for the naked eyes to see.
'she's this strong even with her sword sheathed' thought Erza as she swung her two katanas down at Kagura who blocked with her sheathed katana. The force of the blocked attack caused the ground around them to crack and break.
"is this the best you can give, Titania?" said Kagura with a serious hostile face before she pushes Erza's katanas away and then got into a drawing stance.
"that stance!" Erza gasped as she saw an image of Natsu doing the same drawing stance.
Kagura disappeared and reappeared behind Erza with her sheathed katana at her side as she dashed right through her.
"guh!" grunted Erza as her two katanas' blades cracked before shattering into pieces.
"what power! Kagura's attack broken Erza's swords!" exclaimed Lola as Erza staggered a bit while dropping her broken katanas to the ground, the scarlet knight placing a hand to her waist as it is slowly bleeding.
"she got hit?!" shouted Elfman
"how'd she did that?! Her katana is still sheathed!" exclaimed Macao.
"that stance….didn't that look like Natsu's technique!?" said Wakaba in surprise.
"I guess it's obvious since she trained under him" said Levy with a nervous face as Erza is fighting against someone who had trained under Natsu himself and the man is already fearsome with/ without his katana.
Erza faces Kagura with brand new pairs of katanas in her possession as both just face each other and then lunged at another for another strike, but before they could hit another, a mysterious blue-green blob appeared floating between them by their faces.
A second later, the blob expanded and a pair of two arms came out then grabs Kagura and Erza by their faces before throwing the two away as Minerva came into the fray.
"WHAT!?" shouted Lola, Yajima, and Mato in shock as the crowd is in shock to the Sabertooth mage's appearance.
"can I join in?" asked Minerva to the two swordswomen as she join the duel between the two.
Erza and Kagura both stood up, their hardened glares now on their newly appeared trespasser.
"Minerva came into the fight!" shouted Lola as the Sabertooth fans started cheering. "it became a 3 way battle! A fight between the foremost female wizards of this competition! Who will win?!"
"first master! What is going on?!" said Makarov to Mavis who is wide eyes.
"i-i….i don't know…..i can't make.." said Mavis in pure shock. "all my predictions…..they're falling apart!"
Meanwhile at the Hell Palace, Natsu and the others are walking in a different part of the dungeon area as they are leaving the place after getting direction from the life-threatened Kama who got the first taste of hell by the salmon haired mage.
"is this really the right way? Seems like we're going the same place over and over" said Lucy as she looks around the new area that they were in.
"we are going the right way, Lucy-san" said Wendy as she sniffs the air. "I can smell more air coming from this direction"
"guess we're lucky that we encounter those guys, huh?" said Gray while carrying Arcadios around his shoulder. "and why am I carrying this guy again?"
"because you're a tough guy, and we're frail women" said Mira as this got a tick mark on his forehead.
"what part of you is frail?" said Gray under his breath before he got a knock to the head by the Majin.
"I heard that, stripper boy" said Mira with a deadly glare at the Ice Make Wizard.
"s-sorry" grunted Gray in pain.
"u-um…" muttered Yukino while looking at Natsu who soon glances at her. "I don't want to be rude…but….i would like to say..thank you"
"what for?" asked Natsu in reply.
"w-well….when Lucy-sama and I were still held captive in our cell….she told me of you going to Sabertooth's inn and attacking them for kicking me out….it made me feel a bit of comfort to know that someone cares…" said Yukino with a nervous face as Natsu looks at her then away.
"a guild is all about family, those who fail to keep that family." Said Natsu as his eyes glows red for a second. "that's not a guild at all"
"damn right about that" Lucy nodded in agreement while having a smile to Yukino who looks down a bit embarrassed.
"I'm sorry….for troubling you all" said Yukino.
"you don't have to apologize" said Mira to Yukino while nudging her lightly with her elbow. "in Fairy Tail, we care for everyone who doesn't have a place to go to. Now that I think about it, since you're not in Sabertooth anymore, why don't you join our guild?"
"n-no..i just trouble people…" replied Yukino with a small voice.
"what are you saying? You'll fit right in, Yukino!" said Lucy to Yukino with a smile.
"but I'm…" muttered Yukino before Mira gives her a half hug.
"don't be so depressed or anything! You remind me a lot of Lisanna when she made Haruka and Haruo cry once when they were still toddlers" said Mira while patting Yukino's shoulders a few times.
"Lisan..na-sama?" said Yukino, not knowing who that is.
"she's my Little sister!" replied Mira with a grin as Yukino looks at her before blushing a bit.
"moving on to an important matter" Charla cuts in as she got everyone's attention. "after we get out, what should we do?"
"the first thing to do would be to get the Celestial Spirit Keys back" said Lily while in between her and Kiara, the three small ones walking with the group below. "if I remember, this Eclipse Gate would need all 12 keys, right?"
"and also Lucy-san or Yukino-san, both are Celestial Spirit mages, after all" added Wendy as to operate the Eclipse Gate is with a Celestial Spirit mage and all 12 Zodiac Keys.
"we got the two with us, that means the Eclipse Gate is done for, right?" said Gray as one of the key components in activating the Eclipse Gate is with them.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that" said Natsu with a serious voice as everyone looks at him.
"what do you mean?" asked Lucy.
"when we first encountered the Eclipse Gate, Draco and the others tried to destroy it but something or someone took the Eclipse Gate before they could" said Natsu as he took a glance at Arcadios who looks to be unconscious after succumbing to his wounds. "I suspect that someone is working with the royal family of Fiore to use this Eclipse Gate"
"working with? You mean the King was planning to use the Eclipse Gate to defeat Zeref?" said Gray but Natsu shook his head.
"the King was within the Domus Flau at all times, the one who was working on the Eclipse Gate behind the scenes is this knight, and the Princess who was only present in Mercurius" said Natsu as this made everyone think of the possibility.
"that princess, huh?" said Mira, remembering Hisui who had trapped them in Hell Palace.
"I mean if the princess plans to use Eclipse Gate…." Muttered Lucy while cupping her chin.
"she might rewrite history and change the world as we know it" added Lily as rewriting history can cause a big impact on the present and the future.
"if Zeref is defeated…..my older sister.." muttered Yukino with a hesitant look.
"if anything, we should just get out of here first before stopping this whole Eclipse Gate thing" said Gray while adjusting his hold on Arcadios. "and getting this guy some medical attention"
"yeah, Gray got a point" said Mira as everyone just keeps on walking before they arrived in front of a large stone gate.
"a gate….it's big" said Wendy in seeing the stone gate.
"how are we going to get that thing open?" asked Gray as Mira cracked her knuckles.
"guess I got this part, huh?" said Mira while walking to the stone gate and tried to push it open with both hands. "this thing!"
Everyone watched Mira try to push open the gate when it suddenly pushed backwards in opening.
"it's opening!" said Lily as everyone sees light from the opening gate before they saw a shadow of a figure at the bottom.
"great! Looks like those guys notified the upper levels" said Gray, thinking that it was another soldier sent to stop them from leaving Hell Palace.
"no….this scent" said Natsu while sniffing the air. "she's…."
"she?" said everyone as they all look at the shadow silhouette at the gate who is the cloaked figure, Jellal had encountered a few days ago.
Returning to the GMG, the battle of Erza VS Kagura VS Minerva rages on as the three women stood in silent while facing each other.
"seems that my team is busying themselves with your teammates, Erza" said Minerva with a smirk in referring to Natsu/ Ikaruga against Orga, Sting, and Rogue.
"do not underestimate my friend" said Erza while feeling a bit worried inside her heart for Ikaruga as the pink haired woman is not as strong as she used to be many years ago.
"that is true" added Kagura while closing her eyes for a second and then opening them. "my Teacher isn't someone to be underestimated at any circumstances."
"teacher?" muttered Erza as she heard from Ikaruga that Kagura once trained under Natsu, but she didn't believe it till now.
"No matter." Said Minerva with a prideful smirk "The people have begun to lose faith in Sabertooth over the course of this year's games. It goes without saying that one person's guild is at fault for this offense. Erza…Kagura…I will prove once and for all that Sabertooth is the strongest, by crushing both of you ants under my feet."
"You're quite sure of yourself." Replied Erza to Minerva while having a hard gaze.
"I've grown weary of all this talk." Stated Kagura as her eyes went hostile. "come"
The three women stood in silence again. The entire crowd was silent as one of the most anticipated battles of the games is going to start and it began when a nearby pebble made a crack sound, which caused all three women to dart towards the center of where they were standing.
Erza swung her katanas, Kagura with her sheathed Katana, and Minerva with her right hand that is encased in a glowing energy orb. They clash and caused a powerful wind to blow out and made the ground around them shatter and break into large pieces.
The power of their attack's collision caused them to get blown back, only to lunged at each other in a close combat frenzy and this made the crowds cheered like crazy for the three.
Minerva drags her feets back before she pointed the index and middle finger of right hand at the palm of her left hand, opened her finger of the said right hand into a v.
"I Ragudo!" chanted Minerva as two glowing energy orbs formed around Kagura and Erza, engulfing them and hovers in the air.
"Neer Wieg Mion….Derus Elcantias!" chanted Minerva while moving her glowing orb hands around.
"That's! Yakuma 18 Battle Gods magic!?" exclaimed Mavis in hearing the incantation.
"Yagdo! Rigora!" exclaimed Minerva as she swung both hands to her side and a huge god-like man appeared above the three women, intricate designs on his body and grin on his lips. Erza, Minerva, and Kagura were then enveloped in a bright light that shot into the sky above. The structure the three women were standing on was nearly destroyed.
The light could be seen from the stadium as it was so bright it blocked the screens. The sensation of the explosion could be felt by the other participants who paused momentarily in feeling the explosion.
Minerva stood in her place while having an amused smirk as the dust of the explosion slowly settled down and revealed both Erza and Kagura who had survived against Minerva's powerful attack but at the cost of their clothes being shredded.
"WHAT?! THEY'RE OK!" exclaimed Lola as he and the other judges got their hats and hair blown off to see the result of such a powerful attack.
"what the hell are those three?!" "they're so strong!" "they're like monsters, but they're beautiful!" the crowds chattered around
"their magic balanced out each other" commented Ren from the side lines as Hibiki nodded in agreement
"That seems to be the case." Said Hibiki while having a small smile. "for now…that is"
The three women faced each other once again as their battle is still raging on.
"I didn't predict that you two are so tought" said Minerva in a smug tone as Erza and Kagura spoke no words. "seems I have to reorganize my plans a bit, otherwise this fight will never end."
A large green orb appeared behind Minerva as this one contains someone who Erza and Kagura both know very well.
"Millianna!" Erza and Kagura exclaimed in shock while Millianna moans in pain inside the green orb, seeming to have been tortured
"This is the kitten I have captured," said Minerva with a smirk.
Some of the Mermaid Heel fans gasp in horror and shock to see Millianna's state as this was beyond cruel from the Sabertooth mage.
"s-so cruel! Millianna!" Happy exclaimed in shock to see his friend looking to be in pain.
"that Minerva is such a cruel woman!" said Simon in anger to see his long time friend in such state.
"so dirty!" exclaimed Arana in anger.
"Millianna…" gasp Beth in worry for Millianna's condition.
"this is.." said Risley, having no more words to describe just how horrible Minerva is.
"As you can see, the poor child is suffering terribly. The space that I have placed her in is stealing away her magic little by little." Said Minerva while chuckling. "don't worry, she's not a hostage for the both of you to surrender at all, I told you that I was making a change to my strategy, didn't i?"
Erza and Kagura had their faces turned into rage and anger at Minerva who smirks.
"yes, That's the look I have been wanting to see." Said Minerva with a chuckle.
At Mercurius, Darton looks in shock to Hisui who looks to Domus Flau.
"i-if that is the truth….this whole scenario….we have to stop the GMG at once!" said Darton with a bewildered face.
"we can't" stated Hisui. "I myself am dubious of that person's words"
"b-but even if it's the truth or not, the people of this country and the entire world as we know it are in danger…" retorted Darton.
"that person knows the future, and the result of the GMG" said Hisui with a firm face.
"eh?" said Darton with a questioning look.
"I heard that the guild who will win the GMG will have an unbelievable outcome" stated Hisui.
"an unbelievable outcome" repeated Darton.
"due to the outcome being special, it's impossible to predict it..if what that person said turns out to be the truth, then I'm going to believe in that person's words" said Hisui while clenching her grasps on the window rails.
"are you saying that the fate of this country will depend upon the outcome of the GMG?!" exclaimed Darton in shock to hear if the predicted future will depend on a single small outcome.
"it is that special, I still can't believe such an outcome" replied Hisui.
"so…if this predicted outcome is how that person suggested to you, princess…" said Darton as Hisui nodded.
"it would also mean that the future would be as that person predicted" stated Hisui as she looks to the sky. "if the prediction comes true…I will open the Eclipse Gate"
Within the entrance gateway of the Hell Palace, Natsu and the others look at the cloaked figure who started to tear up.
"who is she?" said Lily.
"this scent…It can't be…" said Wendy with a shocked face.
"Lucy.." muttered Natsu as the cloaked figure took off the hood and revealed herself as Lucy herself.
"m-me!?" exclaimed Lucy in shock to see another her.
That's a wrap!
Bye bye
