Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima does. This story was made for fun, and not for cash. (How unfortunate.)
Chapter 25: Evolving To Much Darker Levels
Rufus could only look bewildered at the fact that he could see Lucy facing off against Gray on a street while the Lacrima Vision screen in the air had now shifted to this battle, the master of Memory-Make Magic standing on the highest rooftop in Crocus to be a scouting attacker for Team Sabertooth, since he had remembered how the members of Team Sabertooth went in five separate directions to cover more ground. If Gray could do it, he would be taking out one of the main people in Sabertooth's strategy. Based on his memory and calculations, Rufus honestly did not even see Lucy as a good match-up against Gray. It wasn't because of the fact that she used a spell book, but the current color of the book made Rufus seem worried.
Water Magic was great as a defensive type of magic, but water could easily be frozen by ice. On top of that, Lucy had let her teammates know that the book only let her use one type of magic at a time. Rufus knew very well that the rules of logic made fire be very effective against ice, and using Water Magic in a situation like this would only be asking for trouble. He did not want to see what would happen, having predicted the possible results of a fight like this, and Rufus simply used his Memory-Make Magic to stay focused on Marina while Gray was distracted with Lucy. Was the outcome truly clear, or could Lucy really give Rufus quite a shock?
The ice mage looked a bit curious while going into a combat stance, wondering what would come out of Lucy's blue book, and Gray kept his guard up while he could hear Chapati announce that a new fight had started between Lucy Heartfilia and Gray Fullbuster. The black-haired male narrowed his dark blue eyes at her, not wanting to go easy on her because he had wanted to be on good terms with the blonde mage, and Gray decided to start things off with one of his favorite moves. He simply fired five large ice shards from his hands, and they headed straight towards Lucy.
However, she had confidence in her brown eyes while proceeding to evade all of Gray's attacks. Lucy thought about using the book right off the bat, but she smiled confidently while having a little plan. She pulled out the golden key of Aquarius from her brown pouch, opening the Gate of the Water Bearer, and the blue-haired spirit was summoned. Despite now being here, she looked utterly miffed at the fact that Lucy had requested her presence in a place where there was no water around for her to use. Really, why summon Aquarius on a street of bakery stores?
It was true that there was no water in the Bakery District, since most of the chefs had been relying on magic to make food look and taste good, but Lucy was smart. She knew that using the blue spell book's Water Magic in a combination with the powers of Aquarius would get the job done, and the blonde girl proceeded to use the Aqua Ball spell in a way to retaliate against Gray for trying to get a few early strikes at her. Lucy knew that the first spell took a few moments to work, but she also knew that its effects were really nothing to laugh about. She used the first spell of Water Magic, only to discover something interesting. It had really taken her by surprise, since the spell book began to glow with azure blue lights shining from the next page of Water Magic, and it seemed like the book was telling her to use a new version of this attack. (It's similar to the Pokemon games, such as the fact that Hydro Cannon is an upgraded version of Water Gun.)
When Lucy used Aqua Ball, she looked surprised to see that her attack had changed. It was no longer a simple ball of blue water that would pop like a water balloon, but it was a blue ball of water with rings of water spinning around it. It was almost like her attack had evolved, became something new, and Lucy was surprised to see it propel itself from her hand to attack Gray. He jumped out of the way of the attack, grinning a bit when he saw the ball of water simply pop when it hit a bookcase behind him, and Gray laughed a bit. However, he had no idea that this ninth spell would possibly make him cry.
"Is that really the best that you can do? Come on, Lucy. Even Natsu can aim better than that, unless you're trying to fake me out." Gray asked and told her in a calm manner, smiling at the fact that her aim was supposedly off.
She responded nicely while a small smile formed on her lips, noticing something interesting going on behind Gray, "If I were you, I wouldn't celebrate just yet. Let's just say that water has its ways of sneaking up on you, Gray, and it's always good for spells to have a few little tricks."
Lucy pointed to the wall behind Gray, and he looked shocked to see that all of the water on the wall and the door of a bakery shop had begun to stretch outward while detaching itself from whatever it had come into contact with. The Aqua Ball spell divided itself into five Aqua Balls, and they all came towards Gray at high speeds. He dodged each of them, jumping around to try and get out of their way, and Lucy could also control the path of all her projectiles with her left index finger. Judging by how the Aqua Balls were bouncing off of whatever they touched, tilting like crazy while they kept gaining speed, this ninth spell would have to be known as Aqua Pinball.
She accidentally bent her left index finger gently, causing five large blue blasts of Water Magic to transpire around Gray, and the blonde mage screamed in pure shock at this move's power. He took notice of her being distracted right now, and Gray ran towards Lucy while he prepared to end this with Ice-Make: Ice Bringer. He made two swords of ice appear in his hands, ready to slash at Lucy in a cross-pattern, and he looked totally ready to win this. However, Gray suddenly found himself having to stop in his tracks when he found the ground to be a bit slippery. He turned his head to see that Lucy's five blasts of Water Magic had made most of the pavement wet, which was perfect for to now create twenty Aqua Pinballs.
Gray kept running towards her while she had to take the time to create them, and he ended up stabbing Lucy in her stomach with one of his swords. She gasped in shock while some blood poured from her stomach, obviously having her guard down, but this close proximity between the two fighters caused Lucy to have an idea. She wouldn't use the powers of Aquarius just yet, but Lucy would use the evolved forms of her basic spells. Judging by how Aqua Ball had an upgraded version, it was quite possible that the other spells had some cool evolved forms as well.
She used the tenth spell, Aqua Spongy Shuriken, and this spell allowed Lucy to jump high into the air while ten small bubbles of water were now on her fingers. They grew larger while taking in more water from the puddles that had been leftover from the blue blasts, and the bubbles reshaped themselves into blue shuriken. Gray looked puzzled by what she had done next, thinking that she would be aiming at him, but Lucy threw her ten projectiles at the twenty Aqua Pinballs that she had conjured up! They had all been hit by the ten shuriken many times, and each shuriken had doubled in size with every time that an Aqua Pinball or its drops of water were struck. This had been a really nifty spell, especially with even the smallest drops of water being absorbed, and this process repeated itself for a few minutes to take in all of the water.
When it was over, Gray found himself looking shocked at the size of the ten shuriken that were all once small enough for him to evade. They had all now grown to a monstrous size, towering over the ice mage while they floated up into the sky, and Gray could presume that ten huge blasts were coming. They would probably obliterate the entire city when they detonated, so he did the only logical thing. Gray used his Ice-Make Magic to try and freeze the large projectiles in large coatings of cold ice but it was too late. Lucy had smiled like she had honed in on something, and simply made a hissing sound with her mouth to command the water to increase its temperature to levels that could break the ice.
Lucy told Aquarius in a confident manner while smirking as her plan now came to fruition, seeing the ice begin to melt rapidly as the hot water began to come down in massive waves from above, "Aquarius, absorb all of those waves into your urn! Take in every last drop, if you can!"
The spirit of water shouted fiercely while angrily looking at Gray, "Anyone who tries to freeze such a vast majority of water will be slammed down by the tidal waves of my fury! Prepare to experience your briny defeat, ice mage!"
Aquarius absorbed all of the enormous waves of water into her urn, having no trouble taking in such a high amount of water, and a blue aura began to surround the body of the water spirit. She smirked a bit while definitely feeling the enormous chain power of Lucy's Water Magic, and the Celestial Spirit also took notice of her owner's blue book beginning to shine in accordance with the aura. Lucy began to glare at Gray while focusing on her emotions, building them all up into one huge shot to give some more power to her twelfth spell. (I know that I skipped the eleventh spell, but it is merely for a finishing move.)
She unleashed Super Scalding Shot, and this was the evolved form of the spell that was fired as a scalding and spiraling blue beam of water from her mouth. Instead of just being a beam of hot water, however, it was now a large vortex of hot water that could possibly rival the power of Shelly's advanced spells. Gray looked surprised to see so much steam surrounding the attack, implying that he would literally be in hot water soon, but the ice mage looked even more surprised to see that Lucy fired the spell at the urn being held by Aquarius. The hot water was easily absorbed into the urn, and the blue aura surrounding the body of Aquarius began to distend. Gray had to wonder what Lucy was up to, since her attention was now away from him.
Lucy had remembered the time that she had first fought against Shelly, most of her attacks being negated while Shelly's attacks made her feel so much pain, and the blonde girl narrowed her cocoa brown eyes while taking a page from her rival's book. Aquarius had already absorbed two powerful spells that were merged together, glad to have a third move enter her urn, and things were about to get hectic. Using the chain power for one spell was pretty dangerous, but using so much chain power for three spells? What kind of explosive idea had Lucy come up with? She could feel that something amazing was happening inside of the urn, and the power inside of it was going to help her win this match.
By this point, Gray was looking pretty impatient. He had wanted to fight Marina for the chance to expose Team Aqua Kyogre as the cheaters that they were, since they really had been bunch of jerks during the Grand Magic Games, but Lucy had to come along and ruin that for him. The ice mage simply used his magic to create a large arm out of ice, and he lunged the massive closed fist at Lucy. This attack would not only hit her very hard, but it would also freeze her. This attack was known as Ice-Make: Frozen Fist, by the way. Lucy looked shocked at the enormous size of this attack, but she absolutely could not let her confidence waver now.
When Gray's Frozen Fist came mere inches away from Lucy and Aquarius, the blonde mage now became fierce while she told her Celestial Spirit to unleash all of her water at full power. Aquarius did as instructed, and she nearly became pushed backwards when she unleashed a large spiraling blue beam of scalding hot water. It was at least twenty times larger than Scalding Shot, obviously affected by the chain power of the other spells, and Lucy could definitely feel the intense heat from this evolved attack. It was hot enough to even make Marina supposedly melt, since she had just wanted to see who would win, but this melting teal-haired woman had actually been a Water Clone that transformed into Juvia while obeying orders from the real Marina. Really, was that girl thinking three or four steps ahead?
It smashed right through Gray's Frozen Fist attack, the scalding water having enough power to break down while also melting it down easily because of the chain power increasing the temperature of the heat, and Gray looked pretty scared when he noticed how this spell also had increased greatly in speed. He tried to run away from it, but Lucy's spell was way too fast. It had all of its power focused into one point, and Gray could feel the boiling hot heat of the attack getting closer to him. Would Lucy be the one to beat now, instead of Marina?
As the black-haired male was running away, Lucy jumped high into the air and used the eleventh spell known as Sapphire Shell Slam. This spell made three puddles of water solidify to take the forms of three small blue Koopa shells, and each one had a large blue aura surrounding it. The aura was sent into Lucy's Super Scalding Shot to strengthen its attack power even further while the blue Koopa shells were kicked lightly by Lucy for them to all start homing in on Gray. Unlike their weaker forms, however, the shells grew with distance. They grew to being half the size of Super Scalding Shot, and the first two shells had exploded in miniature light blue blasts when Gray threw ice shards at them. They had left behind tons of light blue smoke, though, making it impossible for him to tell where the third one would come from.
He could only scream in terror while Lucy's more major move was mere millimeters away from his face, knowing that a winner had clearly been decided. As all of that hot water had pretty much torn through the steam, the male with dark blue eyes could only gasp in shock as Lucy's final shell was going to hit him straight in the groin. It would've been better for Natsu to take a hard shell to his delicate nuts, but let's just say that Lucy had something more painful in mind for that cheating jerk with a streak of cheating on women who really liked him.
Lucy quickly sent Aquarius back into the Celestial Spirit World, not wanting her to be hit by the result of this attack, and it was a good thing that she had quick thinking. The result of what she could now Explosive Scalding Shot, hence the name, had created quite a massive blast of blue energy to fill the skies. This attack destroyed the remaining pieces of Gray's Frozen Fist, and some of his ice shards had landed on the blue spell book. The street had also become heavily damaged, pieces of the pavement rising from the ground while the nearby buildings were destroyed, and the remaining puddles of water had exploded while creating blue smoke to destroy the debris.
The blonde mage from Sabertooth stood across from a barely conscious and heavily damaged Gray, who had been hurt from directly taking the full power of that final attack, and the explosions had certainly gotten the attention of the other competitors who were walking around Crocus. Lucy smiled a bit at the fact that she had really become stronger, and she was happy to have won a battle against Gray. This victory caused Team Sabertooth to gain five points, a crucial amount of points that had given them a score of 120. However, even though Lucy knew that she was now the winner of the battle, there was still something that she needed to find out.
Lucy asked Gray in a calm manner while she smiled a bit, squatting down to be beside him as he looked straight at her, "Tell me something, Gray. When I was a part of the Fairy Tail guild, did you ever know that Natsu was cheating on me with Lisanna? If you did know, then were you ignoring me like how almost everyone else had been doing?"
He replied in a kind manner, smiling a bit as he was losing consciousness, "I had heard about it, but I didn't think there was much to really care about because of how stupid that flaming idiot can be. I thought that he'd tell you on his own, or even let it slip from his dumb mouth, but I guess that didn't happen. Erza probably didn't tell you, but we're both really sorry for not being there for you when friends were what you needed the most. If Fairy Tail doesn't win, then please take down those guys from Aqua Kyogre. Marina played Natsu for a fool, and that woman you allied with Erza is one of the most notorious villains in Fiore."
As the clone of Lucy ensured Gray that she would do her best while turning into a puddle of water that was going back to the real Lucy, Gray looked frustrated at the fact that Marina had pretty much trolled him by running away. Now that he knew she was a master of disguise, the ice mage could only frown while knowing that Natsu would never fight the real deal. He probably would be spared by her and Shelly, but the other fairies might not be so lucky. As the wind blew past him, Gray looked calm while not even knowing that another clone of his friend was about to go aerial against his rival.
In a grassy park...
Lyon and Chelia were facing off against another one of Lucy's clones in one of the grassy fields of the city of Crocus, just like how Gray had been doing. This clone wore a green midriff shirt, a green miniskirt, and some green high heels. She also had a green spell book with her, which clearly meant that she possessed Wind Magic. She looked pretty confident about winning this battle, thinking that she would not exactly have to push too hard for a decent win, but Lucy's clone still knew that it was better to be safe and sorry. After all, based on the type match-ups, could wind possibly defeat ice?
She decided to start off this battle with the first spell of Wind Magic, and it was known as Viridian Tornado. As Lucy had recited this spell, the green book began to shine brightly with light emanating from the pages for the section of Wind Magic. The ninth spell had now been written signaling for her to use it, and it was known as Giga Green Tornado. This move caused eight miniature green tornadoes of wind to float around in a circle while they surrounded the body of the blonde mage. These tornadoes grew larger with the high amount of wind in the area, and Lucy made them all head in eight different directions to be in different corners while forming the shape of an octagon.
Lucy smiled happily at the sight of her tornadoes causing large green blasts of energy to occur when they were all in place, and eight large wind currents headed straight for their master. Not only could these wind currents help Lucy refill her stamina, but they heavily pierced through anything in their way by having the winds slice through all of the objects that were in the way of getting to Lucy. When the winds reached her, they could also form a green sphere of air around the brown-eyed girl to repel almost any attack that would be coming her way. Well, wasn't she certainly learning from Shelly?
Lyon and Chelia both managed to evade Lucy's attacks, taking note of the large green blasts that had transpired before the deadly winds had been created, and Lyon had heard about Gray getting defeated a few moments earlier. He was going to show Lucy the power of a real ice mage, and Lyon was determined to not lose. It was true that spells of Wind Magic would not really damage each other that much, if Lucy were to only be fighting against Chelia right now, but Lyon knew that he had the type advantage because of the fact that ice could always defeat wind. (I know this isn't Pokemon, but just go along with his logic.)
He used his Ice-Make Magic to send a few ice eagles towards Lucy, but she simply let her green sphere of air protect her while his projectiles bounced back at him. Lyon quickly moved out of the way, not wanting to be hit by his own attack, and this opened a way for Lucy to use the tenth spell of Wind Magic. It was known as Aerial Rending Blade, and this spell made brown-eyed girl exhale a deep breath of air while before making a green aura engulf her right hand. Lucy slashed at the air with that hand, creating an invisible wave of air, and this wave grew with distance. It was powerful enough to slice through some giant ice apes that Lyon had created to shield himself, and the air wave had suddenly made a massive blast of green energy occur when Lucy had closed her right hand. The aftermath had made eight waves of air spread out, before converging together over the crater where the snow apes once stood while the winds were explosively hitting Lyon with tremendous force.
Lyon looked baffled at the fact that one of his best attacks had been pierced through so easily, as he saw his icy creations shatter while they fell apart to become melted ice of what they once were, and he did not want to lose in the survival tournament like last year. He still doubted his teamwork with Chelia, but what else could he do? They truly did not have much cohesion in their duo, especially when it was proven last year by the fact that Chelia was distracted by the final attack that was being created by Gray and Juvia, but could they possibly win against a sole enemy?
"I have to admit, she's just as good as the rumors make her out to be." Lyon told Chelia in a calm manner, maintaining his smirk of coolness while knowing that their blonde opponent would eventually run out of magical power.
The pink-haired girl responded while looking confident as well, feeling that they really could win this, "You're right, Lyon. Even though she absorbed my black winds, I really doubt that she can use anything more than Wind Magic. As long as I eat her spells like she ate mine, we can both keep fighting for a long time."
Lucy's eleventh move had been known as Carnival Sky Winds, the spell sounding really weird and comical to Lyon, but there was nothing funny about Lucy narrowing her cocoa brown eyes while she began to look down at the ground. She unleashed a spiraling vortex of green winds from her mouth, letting it be aimed down at the ground, and the blonde girl made the vortex take in air for it to grow much larger. She used its massive amount of energy to propel herself high into the air, safe from any attacks that were on the ground, but Lucy was not entirely invulnerable from taking damage.
Chelia leaped up into the air while having a confident smirk on her face, before using Sky God's Bellow to hit Lucy right in the abdomen, but let's just say that giving force to an aerial user of Wind Magic was a really bad idea. Lucy certainly take Chelia's attack directly, but she used the force of it to send her flying up above the clouds. She couldn't change direction in midair, but she was able to use her final spell to finish this match while her potential energy was at its apex right now. She would definitely make something come down, as she put simple physics into this, but Lucy would not be the object crashing down.
As Lyon wasted no time using his Ice-Make Magic to make ten large serpents that would freeze Lucy when they bit her, before one of them ate her, the blonde mage smiled a bit while her green spell book glowed once more. She activated the twelfth spell known as Cloudy Bomb Cannon, and this move would certainly make physics quite interesting with the help of Wind Magic. Twelve clouds in the sky fused together to form one large cloud, and that cloud began to turn emerald green before it released a large gust of wind that sucked up its targets! All ten of the large ice serpents went into the cloud, before it imploded to make a spherical emerald green blast of energy transpire in the sky. The side effect of this spell had made meteor-shaped balls of air come down from the sky, and they gained tons of power and speed on their way down to the ground.
When the projectiles hit the ground, massive green blasts of Wind Magic had transpired! They were heavily damaging the park, striking every single part of it, and many huge craters were being made in the earth while rocks were rising into the air. One of the bombs had struck the spot where Lyon had been standing, making him get caught in the blast, and many bombs had struck Chelia while she fell down to the ground. As the bombs kept coming down, their tremendous force making the two mages from Lamia Scale be defeated, Lucy's clone for Wind Magic knew that her work was done here. She vanished into the wind, knowing that Team Sabertooth now had ten more points.
In a few moments, the emerald green bombs had stopped falling down from the sky while the large cloud had vanished. The smoke cleared up to reveal that Lyon was now badly damaged like Gray, not even able to move his head upward, and the male with white hair lost consciousness while seeing that Chelia was heavily wounded from taking such a vicious attack. She was also unresponsive, meaning that two people from Lamia Scale were now out of the game, and let's just say that the smog from this attack would lead right in to another fight that was about to begin somewhere else.
15 minutes later...
While a Lacrima Vision screen had appeared up in the air again, now showing Lucy's epic use of physics that helped her win against Lyon and Chelia, Mira and Lisanna were now walking down a street that had many merchant shops on it. They were all selling different fruits that were native to the country of Hoenn, a tropical country that was far south of Fiore, and Lisanna was eating a Liechi Berry that had fallen off an unoccupied stand. Eating food off of the ground could be seen as gross, but it wasn't like anyone in Fairy Tail forgot about the five-second rule.
The fruit surely was sweet, a great contrast from the sour way that the white-haired girl would act towards the guy who was now her ex-boyfriend, and Lisanna just wanted to give Natsu a proper beating for how he had been cheating on her with Marina. She had never thought that he would betray her in such a filthy way, giving pleasure to a girl that had been Fairy Tail's most recent rookie, and Lisanna would demand to know when it all started. Really, there was a lot of irony in her wanting to know when Natsu was going behind her back.
It's not that Lisanna did not have feelings, since she had every right to feel pretty bad about being thrown out like a piece of garbage, but was this not a familiar situation? It was pretty much karma for the blue-eyed girl, mainly because she started this whole story after last year's Grand Magic Games had ended, and she truly had no right coming in between Lucy's love for Natsu. They had been a pretty happy couple, until she had gotten in the way of their love and filled Natsu's heart with her gentle feelings of love. Payback was like a metal boomerang covered in spikes, and it certainly struck Lisanna right in the butt.
Speaking of being struck, it really seemed like Lisanna's days of bad karma were now getting started. As she and Mira were walking down the street, both looking calm on a street where no one else would possibly be, a pulsating wave of energy quickly reached the girls while it resulted in a large purple blast of energy being created! Mira looked utterly shocked while she was sent flying into the air with Lisanna, neither of the girls thinking that anyone would really be trying to attack any of the members from Fairy Tail's secondary team, and they both had to wonder if those rotten punks from Team Aqua Kyogre were now trying to make trouble around them.
Lisanna quickly went into her Animal Soul: Harpy Take-Over to grab Mira by the straps of her pink dress, only to see that the rocks that had been lifted into the air oddly had a purple aura surrounding them while they were frozen in midair, and the rocks began to detonate into large purple blasts of Darkness Magic! Mira screamed in pain from the explosive attacks, since they had been set off to fast for her to use any of the Satan Soul forms that she could transform into, and Lisanna also became wounded by the powerful blasts. An intense amount of gravity sent the duo falling down to the street at a very fast rate, crashing into the ground, but who was the one attacking them?
As a large cloud of purple smoke engulfed Mira and Lisanna, a certain female voice told them in a calm tone, "Well, if it isn't my ex-friends from the guild of Fairy Tail. I saw Natsu's little film that was shown to almost everyone in the city last night, and it's really no surprise that he'd stoop so low. However, it was interesting to see that he threw away one affair for another affair. Just like last time, even though I don't really care about it, the selfish bitch is blamed for making the stupid idiot cheat while the girl with the poor judgement has to wallow in sadness and look for a way out of the trashy mess. She never even saw it coming, so that should ring a few bells for you."
Upon hearing her voice, Lisanna gasped in shock while knowing that it clearly belonged to Lucy. As the smoke began to fade away, no longer obscuring the blonde girl from the view of the Strauss sisters, Lucy's presence had also taken Mira by surprise. She did not expect to ever be targeted in such a brutal way by the girl with cocoa brown eyes, nor did she ever think that Lucy could ever give such a cold speech of hate towards Lisanna. Lucy had every right to be glad that Natsu had cheated on her, and the ninth spell of Darkness Magic known as Fantôme Impulsion had really shown how this revenge against Lisanna was long overdue.
The white-haired mage could only reply in an ashamed manner, really wanting to give Lucy a very decent apology, "Natsu and I were going to tell you about how we were in love, Lucy, but we knew that you would freak out about it. Natsu and I became closer, falling in love with each other, and I'm sorry that he no longer cared about you. It's all our fault that you had to go through hell with no friends by your side, even having people pretty much betray you, and we never would've left the doors to the Fairy Tail guild open if you were going to see us kissing. I know that you're bitter and angry towards me, but I'm in hell as well because Natsu cheated on me to be with Marina. She stole him from me."
Before Lisanna could think of anymore words to say, Lucy shut her mouth by angrily telling her that she was nothing more than a hypocrite for saying that Marina stole Natsu from her. Lisanna had actually made Natsu cheat on Lucy, making the blonde mage have possible thoughts of suicide, and no one had ever tried to help her out. She told Lisanna to not even try apologizing to her, since she made moves towards Natsu when he was with Lucy, and Lisanna actually had people to lift her heart up when the rest of her was feeling down. Lucy had nobody to help her because of Natsu and Lisanna telling the other guild members to leave Lucy blind about any outside trouble that would infect her relationship with Natsu, so she told Lisanna to not even act like a victim in romance when she assisted Natsu in being a stabber at one point.
This was another reason for Lucy to side with Shelly from Aqua Kyogre, since they both had a common set of foes, but even siding with the darkness wasn't enough to satisfy Lucy's dark desire for revenge. She used the tenth spell of Darkness Magic, and it was known as Hexing Ritual. This spell made six purple flames surround Mirajane in the six corners of a hexagon while she tried to crawl away when she thought that this was the time to run away with Lisanna, but the six flames quickly converged in on the white-haired woman to cover her in fire! It was not doing damage to her skin like normal fire would, but these flames prevented Mira from using any magic for six hours. She stood up quickly to take off her pink dress, stripping down to an orange bikini that showed off most of her cleavage, and Mira felt utterly exhausted while falling back down to the ground.
Her magical power had been reduced to zero, thanks to those flames, and Lisanna could only cower in fear while Lucy had a sadistic smirk on her face. She was about to use the next spell, but the brown-eyed mage pulled out the Celestial Spirit Key for summoning Aries. She called out the pink-haired spirit onto the field, hearing her apologize for not being able to be of much use for offense in this situation, but Lucy did not need her nice spirit to attack Lisanna. She read the eleventh spell while the purple book in her left hand began to glow once more, and this move was known as Darkness Luster.
It caused Lucy's body to be engulfed in a violet aura, since this was the evolved version of Dark Fireworks, and this spell caused Lucy to shoot out a purple beam from her left hand. The beam went straight up into the air, before bursting into seven smaller beams, and they were all homing in on Lisanna. She used some of her remaining strength to go into her Animal Soul: Tigress Take-Over, gaining the speed to dodge the attacks at the last second, and Lisanna had a smile of relief on her face while she looked at the massive purple blast that possibly could've killed her.
However, dodging one attack did not mean that Lisanna was safe. She made her claws slice the air to see through the smoke, even as it slowly faded away, and Lucy had now distanced herself from the white-haired mage. She was not planning to run away, based on how that smirk on her face still remained, and Lucy decided to end this conflict with Lisanna. It would not end on a note of peace, however, and the twelfth spell of Darkness Magic would leave Lisanna screaming for Lucy to show some mercy. It was known as Dark Spirit's Shadow Claw.
This spell caused Lucy to raise her left hand into the air again, making it resemble a claw, and she slammed her left hand down on the ground to produce a jet of purple flames that headed straight for Lisanna. The blue-eyed girl thought that the flames would be like the ones from Lucy's tenth spell, since they did not hurt Mira, and she would be glad to lose a battle by having all of her magical power reduced to zero. However, Lucy was not going to let her finishing move go down in such an uncool way. With distance, the flames would grow in size while also increasing in speed. When the first flame in the line made contact with Natsu's most recent ex, an extremely massive purple blast of Darkness Magic had transpired! Aries had shielded Lucy with a large pink wall of wool, though, so she was okay.
It was powerful enough to obliterate the merchant shops, as well as the buildings around them, and hearing another huge blast made some of the remaining competitors wonder about who was acting like a total psycho in this event. The pavement was now totally broken up, even the rubble of the buildings getting torn down by the power of the blast, and Lucy inhaled all of the smoke because it did have the side effect of poisoning whoever would be foolish enough to breathe it in. She would not be poisoned by breathing in her magic, so she was safe from any harm.
Now that Lisanna and Mira were both knocked out, as well as being unconscious from the amount of power that had been slammed down on them, Lucy had definitely won this match. She had gained ten more points for Team Sabertooth, bringing them to a total of 140 points in this tournament. Now that this clone's job was done, she simply smirked while looking down at her purple spaghetti shirt with a black miniskirt to match. She also wore some purple high heels to match, and this clone vanished into a puff of white smoke to make her job come to end while Aries was sent back to the Celestial Spirit World.
Meanwhile, near the library...
Sting and Lector had finally made it to the area outside the library, the same place where Lucy and Shelly had taken down the mighty Erza Scarlet, and the white dragon slayer could see his girlfriend up ahead. She was sternly staring down Shelly while seeing all of the destruction that her clones had created, not seeming too pleased by the fact that she looked like a psycho maniac, and it was quite possible that the dark power still needed to be adjusted to its own section in the spell book. It had merged with the other types of magic, possibly for only temporary power-ups in a sadistic manner, and Lucy had only been following her rival's suggestions on which types of magic to let out into solo missions right now.
Of course, even if Lucy had sent out all three clones of herself at the same time, the spell book would only allow one clone to use its respective type of magic until its battle was done or if the clone was taken down. After all, it would be unfair for Lucy to be godly like Erza Scarlet when she requipped into that illogical Nakagami Armor. Just because she was winning in fights right now, that did not mean Lucy was super powerful. She had only been taking out the weak opponents right now, and the lower number of inferior mages meant that a higher level of difficulty could be reached.
As he could guess that Shelly had noticed him, turning around to face the white dragon slayer and his cat, Sting could only give her a pretty stern look about what she had done. He did not approve of Shelly giving dark power to Lucy, seeing that it had pretty malicious effects on the blonde girl and her clones, and Sting also refused to have his lovely girlfriend be in the guild of Aqua Kyogre. Plus, he had really wanted to put Shelly in her place for how she had tried to kiss him when they first crossed paths. Sting knew that Shelly and her guild members were pretty shady, so what harm could there possibly be in breaking an alliance?
Not wanting the tanned woman to try and force Lucy into joining a dark guild, Sting ran towards Shelly with the intent to attack her. He was going to try and end her in one fell swoop with White Dragon's Holy Nova, only to be interrupted by Chapati giving the announcement of Mira and Lisanna being taken down by Lucy. The Lacrima Vision screen was not put up into the sky, possibly because Lucy's clone was no longer at the scene of the fight, and her victory was good news for Shelly. With the fairies being taken out so easily, they would not really be able to stand in the way of Sabertooth winning.
When Sting was about to hit her with his large attack, Shelly simply dodged to the left before she proceeded to pull him into a warm embrace. She exhaled a soft breath of air on to his left cheek, making it feel warmer, and the black-haired woman softly whispered some words of seduction into Sting's left ear. She told him how it would be fun if they could bathe alone in the hot spring when this was all over, pushing her breasts up against his chest, and Shelly gently moved her left hand around to Sting's abs for her to feel how hard they were. He still had no trust in this alliance, not even a kiss being able to make him trust Shelly, and Lucy wanted to beat the crap out of her right now.
"Tell me, my sweet Sting. Why is it that you have no trust in a lovely woman like me? Your little Lucy has carried you so far, even having my help for your guild to win battles while she has gotten new magic, yet what flaw do I have that makes you look past my brains, brawn, and beauty? Do you want to surrender like a little puppy, since you did that last year, or do you love Lucy enough for us to maintain our alliance? After everyone else is out, I could just take the book and kill her if you want to see the dismantling of our alliance. Wouldn't a kiss seem better for you, from either her or me?" Shelly asked and explained in a curious manner, moving her left hand up to his neck to gently caress it while she smirked seductively.
Sting explained to her in a calm manner as he narrowed his blue eyes, leaving her embrace while he cared more for Lucy, "I don't trust you, Shelly, and it's because you're an infamous thief. You're a dark mage on the Top 10 list of criminals in Fiore, you tried to make my sweet girlfriend join your guild, and I hate how you try to kiss me when you clearly know that Lucy is the love of my life. She's like the beautiful pink cherry blossoms on a tree when they smell so sweet while looking nice, but you only have beauty while that farting habit of yours is making me wonder if large and spicy bean burritos are the only food in Aqua Kyogre!"
As Sting walked away from Shelly, not even wanting to hear how she would react to response, the white dragon slayer was suddenly about to slip on a puddle of water that had been on the ground. He was caught by Lucy before anything bad could happen, but Shelly deviously told Sting that he could not save the blonde girl from what she desired. Not only did she want love, which she had, but Lucy also wanted revenge on Fairy Tail. She wanted to destroy the people who were nothing more than fake friends, and Shelly also told Lucy that no amount of white light could save her from the dark and true feelings that would eventually control her. Lucy looked down in a shocked manner while Shelly laughed evilly, and tears fell from the blonde girl's eyes while Lucy truly knew that she was becoming evil like Shelly.
A Lacrima Vision screen in the air showed Rogue defeating Toby and Yuka from Team Lamia Scale, bringing Team Sabertooth up to a score of 150 points, but Lucy didn't care about that right now. She felt unhappy with the fact that Shelly's dark magic had changed the nature of her spells, making them seem much darker with the intent to kill, and Lucy never wanted the conflict with Natsu or Lisanna to reach that level. As the book released another aura of power, the blonde mage blushed a bit as she suddenly let out a large fart. Sting chuckled in a happy manner from hearing Lucy's trumpet, and Lucy was now reminded that Sting was the one who toughened her up in the first place. He had been acting comical for her while she was so intense, and now it was time for Lucy to be good while thinking like a smart thief to strengthen their relationship. After all, for a girl to take out some powerful rivals, it took the yin and the yang for the power to truly be fired up.
How was Chapter 25? Did you like it? Sting seems to be pretty worried about Lucy trusting Shelly, but let's just say that he's about to see that the dark magic cannot fuse with everything. There will also be more StiCy, as the elements show their lighter sides. Anyway, will Natsu encounter Marina? What happens when Lucy and Cana meet again? Does Laxus get involved in this story, too? Will Lucy and Shelly finally get their big showdown? Standby for the update, and please leave reviews!