Chapter 21
'What is she thinking?' That thought ran rampant in Laxus mind. He's been hell-bent on knowing what that blondie was thinking. Was she angry? Angry about what? The waking in the three in the morning? Or the whip? Or both? Unsettling was what can describe Lucy's sudden glares. They were now fighting the C-Class monsters, nasty red, alien-looking creatures, by the way.
"FLAME SLASH! LIGHTNING CYCLOTRON!" Erza was holding two different weapons in her hands. One released flames from the blade and one was a spear that created blue lightning as she rotated it. Both attack connected.
"ICE MAKE: ICE GEYSER!" Gray put both of his hands in the ground and there erupted a single ice tower that impaled several of the monsters.
"FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" Large quantity of flames burst from Natsu's mouth, incinerating the remaining of the red monsters.
"KYAAANNN! Gray-sama is so awesome defeating 100 of the C-Class monsters! And you're great too, Erza-san, Natsu-san." Juvia started off with much delight but when the sentence finally ended with the names of Erza and Natsu, it came off in a monotone.
"What's with tha lame comment?! I also defeated 100 and Erza too!" Natsu shouted, pissed off at Juvia's version of commentary.
"It's only natural since Gray-sama is much more amazing than everyone!" Juvia smiled, clearly not affected by Natsu's temper. "But, wait, Love Rival didn't even move a finger. Lazy, are we? She taunted. The B-Class monsters started to appear. They were blue in color and stand on two feet. Their eyes started to glow.
"Lazy, huh?" Lucy muttered to herself. "GEMINI!" The key floating behind her glowed gold and in a flash, there appeared two Spirits. "Transform into me." She ordered and The Twins obliged willingly. Gemi and Mini didn't even tease their master. They just stayed silent or they might be silenced like Aquarius.
'Poor mermaid, she can't even talk when she returned to the Celestial Spirit World.' Both Spirits thought as they finally completed their copying Magic. They joined their master in chanting.
"Survey the Heavens, Open the Heavens…
All the stars, far and wide…
Show thy appearance…
With such shine."
Light soon gathered around Lucy and Gemini and took the form of glowing orbs resembling planets. The whole area dimmed and stars can be visibly seen twinkling around.
"Oh, Tetrabiblos…
I am the ruler of stars…
Aspect become complete…
Open thy malevolent gate…
Oh, 88 Stars of the heaven…"
"SHINE! URANO METRIA!" Both finished the final word of the chant and opened their eyes. The orbs glowed brighter and hit all of the one-hundred fifty B-Class monsters with a tremendous attack, defeating it all at once. "Close." The other Lucy disappeared in a flicker.
"T-That's-s impossible…" Juvia was stunned. She never expected this kind of power when Lucy's in a bad mood. The wedding preparations must have taken its toll on her sanity. And just like that, Juvia Lockser vowed not to mess around Lucy Heartfilia anymore.
"Bunny Girl's really angry now." Gajeel said out of the blue to tease the blond man beside him. Laxus haven't said any word since a while ago. Well, with a girlfriend like that, who wouldn't cower in fear especially if you're the reason why she's in that bloodthirsty state.
"I'm not afraid. Who said I'm afraid?" Laxus smiled at them uncharacteristically.
'Worrying must have taken its toll on his sanity.' Gajeel, Mirajane and Jellal thought as they sighed at the same time. He shouldn't hide his fear since…well, it's obvious. Unless Laxus has a weird medical condition, the shaking of his hands will always come from his fear of Lucy. Whatever Lucy has done to him when they were travelling together must have been traumatizing.
'Poor Laxus.' Mirajane waved her hands towards Wendy to signal her that Laxus might need her help later.
"What's with that?" Wendy asked Charle just as she dropped her arms after waving at Mirajane.
"Beats me." Charle answered. Ever since her introduction to Fairy Tail in the second season of the anime, she was the silent type but silence comes with a reason, the knowledge of the future. She's been observing Lucy and her team mates' course of action until now. Since, Lucy and Erza finally made up, the future that she has in her prophetic dreams might finally be avoided. And for that, she was thankful for the events that have transpired. No one will have to die.
"You're smiling a lot lately, Charle." Wendy smiled.
"Let's just watch those idiots make fools out of themselves."
"Yosh! Luce's catching up with me." Natsu jumped in enthusiasm. Now he knew who he would challenge next. And this time, he won't lose to Lucy. She was just lucky that she won against hind last S-Class trials. "Luce, I challenge you to duel me after this." He pointed a finger towards the blonde.
"Uh, Natsu, I don't think you should do that." Gray appeared beside him to whisper, pointing at Lucy's bad mood.
"And why's that?" The pink-haired idiot furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "Wait, you want to challenge her first, you Ice Bastard!" He clashed heads with the raven-haired exhibitionist.
"Enough!" Erza spoke with authority.
"Aye!"
"Let's go, everyone!" Lucy finally spoke. The A-Class monsters started to appear. Big, red and masked like an oni, they stood with strength emanating from their large bodies. They began to surround the four but the team was smart and took on a strategic position. They pressed their back against each other, watching the four corners. This will be the start of the hard round.
"Here it comes!" A large fist came down at them in full force. Using Telekinesis, Erza put both shields over them to guard their position. Another pair lunged at them from a different direction but Erza was quick to react. She spilt the two shields in separate and have the other protect them from the other side.
"Everyone, close your eyes and hold your breath! Gray, freeze the ground when I give you the signal! Aries! Scorpio!" Two keys glowed in the floating circle of keys behind Lucy's back and in a flash of golden light, two different Spirits appeared.
"WOOL BOMB" Aries conjured a massive amount of pink wool and sent it towards Scorpio.
"SAND BUSTER!" Scorpio crouched down on all fours, mixed his element with Aries and released a large tornado on the ground.
"With wool and sand comes SAND-WOOL SCREEN! Particles of sand are suspended mid-air, obscuring the monsters' vision and pink gaseous substance was floating with it, making it hard to breathe. The monsters began to wander around, knocking themselves and their fellow to the ground as their senses were being confused by the substance. "Now, Gray!"
"ICE MAKE: FLOOR!" Gray, with closed eyes, slammed his palms on the ground, creating a layer of ice that froze the floor and trapped the monsters in place.
"TAURUS!" Lucy called Taurus without closing the other Spirit's Gates. "Aries, Scorpio, gather your elements and send it towards Taurus!"
"Sumimasen!" Controlling the suspended wool in the air, Aries collected the substance and formed it into a sphere. It was one of the trainings she has undergone with Lucy-sama in Earthland but whenever she wasn't summoned, she would train on her own in the Celestial Spirit World to be of use to her master.
"We are! SAND REABSORB" Scorpio reabsorbed the sand particles in his tail and mixed it with the other sand inside his Magic.
"Go!" Both Spirits threw their respective elements towards The Golden Bull.
"WOOL SPHERE!" A large pink ball flew in great speed.
"SAND TWISTER!" Two tornados of sand followed the pink ball in the air, covering and making a ring round it like a ringed planet, except there were two instead of one. Taurus caught it using his labrys and kept it swirling.
"Open your eyes, everyone!" Lucy called out to the people beside her. They quickly obliged and each prepared for their attacks. Erza took the front, Natsu right, Gray left and Lucy back.
"BLUMENBLATT!" Erza flew towards her part of monsters, multiplying the swords from the Heaven's Wheel Armor. She charged at her targets and made quick slicing motions.
"CRIMSON LOTUS: FIRE DRAGON'S FIST!" Activating his Fire Body Spell once again, Natsu charged at the frozen monsters with ignited fists, hitting then with continuous barrage of punches enhanced with flames that produced powerful explosions each strike.
"ICE MAKE: CRESENT BLADES!" Barrages of large crescent-shaped ice blades flew towards the monsters, slicing them in halves.
"Okay, Taurus, we don't have a name for this attack yet, so we'll just have to improvise." Lucy started. "ALDEBARAN…"
"…SPHERE…" Taurus followed, jumping into the air.
"LABRYS!" Lucy said the final word as Taurus brought down his axe into the ground. The resulting impact caused the pink wool sphere to enlarge on the ground and the sand twister ring to release themselves from the sphere to create tornadoes that hit the remaining A-Class monsters and sent sands all over the place.
"AMAZING!" Juvia exclaimed as the spectators cheered loudly. "Gray-sama is so amazing! Juvia loves you Gray-sama! Please marry, Juvia! Kyaaa!"
The sandstorm finally cleared and there standing still, with their backs pressed against each other was the four. The Spirits returned to their world.
"FAIRY TAIL! FAIRY TAIL! FAIRY TAIL!" The audience chanted, giving the four a standing ovation, clapping, whistling and cheering their hearts out for their idols.
