A/N Another chapter, another day. Wish I'd get more people who like the story, but unfortunately they don't. oh well, I enjoy writing oo much to quit, anyways. Here is the newest chapter.
Chapter 4: FairyTail's Struggle to The top, part I
After the excitement of the original members returning, things died down in the guild. Gildarts took his role as guild master, finally staying home for once. Konohoma had disappeared on a s class mission that required him to hunt a group of monsters terrorizing a continent. Team Natsu had been recuperating by training with some of the newer members. Even Romeo's tam seemed to be busy, preparing for something that they haven't done at all since it started.
"I'm sure we'll win, not only do we have the old members, but we have gotten tons stronger as well. It's only natural that the guild that I graced with my presence would win." Oen announce, wiping large amounts of sweat and dirt from his forehead. His team had been training in the forest, trying to strengthen their magical presence and even create new spells.
"Oen, if I wasn't so tired I'd knock your block off." A very tire Josephine panted, her hands on her knees and her hair dripping sweat. She stood up and let out a large breath, guzzling the bottle of water she had with her.
Romeo kept quiet as he concentrated still, his teammates had taken a break, but he couldn't afford to. He had heard stories of the other guilds, especially Sabertooth, the home of the twin dragons.
"Anyways, let's go see what Gray's team is fairing against Kinase, Krews, and Takeshi." Oen offered, his eyes barely closed through exhaustion, romeo sighed and agreed.
The trio set off to find the two groups, which didn't take long because of the loud explosions occurring often. Once they caught up to gray's and takeshi's group, they hollered out a greeting and waved. Lucy looked back and motioned them over.
"Who's fighting?" Oen asked as they met up with the two groups
"Erza and Kinase, it's a really good one might I add, erza has her work cut out if she wants to beat kinase.' Takeshis answered, his hands combing through his long, shaggy hair.
"Kinase has this in the bag, from what I see, hee hasn't even brought lione into the fight." Josephine commented. Lucy, Gray, and Happy looked at her confused.
"Who's Lione?" Gray asked the young tanned mage.
"Oh he hasn't showed you him yet, well I don't like being a spoiler so just watch." Josephine chuckled. Team Natsu sweat dropped at her comment and turned their attention back to the fight
"Take This!" Erza shouted as she charged with blinding speed at the beast slayer with blinding speed. Kiase jumped out of the way, grabbing onto the requip mages shoulder as he flipped and tossed her back, landing on his feet.
Erza flipped in the air and skidded to a stop, her body glowed as she activated her magic. "Flame princes armor!" she called out, requipping into a black dress-like plated armor covered in flaming decals, her hair no pushed back behind a headband with red horns on it, her sword now turning into a black handle red tipped lance. She squared her body and pointed the lance at her opponent.
Kinase cracked his knuckles and joints. He removed his mud brown cloak he constantly wore, revealing a flame red leather vest unzipped, a black mesh shirt stretched across his muscled body. His black combat boots overlapped his maroon tight leather pants, but his most distinguishable feature was the countless scars and claw marks covering his body.
"He's getting serious now.' romeo commented quietly, the rest of his team nodded in agreement.
"I hope Erza's ready for this." Oen announced, his usual playful eyes now looked on with a serious glint and the ocean hued irises.
Kinase swept his right foot behind him, causing him to turn sideways. His left arm stretched out halfway, leaving a 115 degree angle between his fist and his shoulder. His right hand was kept folded up near his face.
The two mage stared each other down a moment, the tension becoming so thick, Oen made the motion of using a knife to cut it, which rewarded him with a smack to the head by Josephine
Kinase was the first to move, a magic circle formed on his right hand as he kneeled to slam it down, yelling
"Fire Best's Forest!" Large pillars of fire spewed out of the ground, growing up to ninety feet high, branching out as if they were trees. After a few second, a forest the consisted of flames surrounded the group in a ten mile radius.
Erza gasped at the size of the forest, then left her face fade back to eing calm. She tensed her body and charged. Her speed faster now, thanks the the boosters on her feet. She closed he gap between the two mages in second, piercing her lance through his body, only to have it burst into flames and die away.
She felt a sharp pain as what felt like a foot smashed into her back, causing her to crash into the ground. She quickly recuperated and looked around to notice five kinases perched in different branches, a sixth stepped out from behind one of the flaming pillars, his arms crossed as he leaned on it.
"Now the hunt begins." he announced, his voice cutting through erza like a dagger of fear, piercing her soul and causing her to shiver. "Lione."
"There's the name again, who is Lione?" Lucy asked, Oen just pointed across the field, showing Lucy's answer rather than telling her.
Out of the flaming forest came a flaming red lion, slinking out in the open like he just woke up, The lion shook his fur, causing tongues of flames to spew out of his mane. Lucy blinked a few times the, joined by the rest of her team, yelled
"WHAAAAAT!"
"Allow me to explain." Josephine told them, her eyes closed. "Kinase is the wielder of a lost magic called beast slayer, though the magic isn't unknown in most parts, it's known as a lost art because it can't be tossed. Beast slayers are chosen from birth by the spirit of their beast nature, kinase, for example, had the flaming lion as his beast nature, so he was chosen by the spirit best of the lion. With his flaming attitude and raging power. Kinase was able to harness the power of fire to be his element. It's really fascinating. Dad wrote a book on them when he ran across an iron beast slayer during one of his missions back when I was still young. I read it after he found me and brought me home." Lucy and the others looked at her in awe as she explained. They turned their attention back to the match
"Now, Fire Beasts Stampede!" Kinase yelled, magic circles forming in the air above his shoulders and head. Large beams of fire explode out of the magic circle, all headed to Erza. She jumped out the way, but was blasted with one as it curved up, following her. She felt the wind leaving her as more pillars hit. She thrust her lance out to absorb the fire , which dulled the hit, but still left faint burn marks in her armor as she landed back on the ground.
"I must say, you are one powerful wizard. Fairytail is lucky to have such a strong member.' She commented, her piercing eyes staring at the duo on the ground. A Kinase clone appeared behind her nd took a swipe at her, but she was ready. She ducked and spun, sticking her foot out and tripping he clone. As the clone fell , she pierce it with her lance, causing it to explode and disappear.
"Now, let's procedd.' she said, turning her body sideways and pointing the lance at kinase.
A/N And I'm going to leave it at that, I'll post again if I can get two new reviews, I did say I was still going to write, but what's the use of posting if it isn't going to be read. I'd be better of just writing it for my own benefit