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Lucy POV
"So I can have this place for free?"
"Sure, it's the least I can do for you," the landlord said.
We were all outside of an apartment complex that we wanted to rent.
"Why for free," Levy asked.
"You kids did help save the town so it's a small favor to you."
"Thank you," we all said as he walked off.
"He's nicer than my old landlord," I said.
"Hey pipsqueaks," we heard and saw Gajeel walk over, "Revan wants everyone back at the guild hall."
"Alright," we all said and followed him back.
We left the town behind us and looked on at the newly rebuilt Star Legion guild hall. The main stone walls had been torn down and now it was rebuilt like a castle, but it was still built into the mountain. We entered and saw the changes made. They added in more wooden tables and the battle damage was gone.
"Aw, nice of you to join us," Revan said from the second floor, resting on the railing like he was earlier, "Take a seat, I have an announcement to make."
We all went and sat down at one of the new wooden tables, and then we listened up.
"My fellow Star Legion mages, earlier I discovered more of the fortress, following it I discovered a labyrinth within the mountain."
"So," I heard Lily shout.
"So, I had he great idea of beginning the S-Class exam," he said and jumped down, using his jet magic on the metal plating under his boots and on his back.
When he landed he extended his arm out in the direction of the far wall. A luminous blue magic circle appeared on the palm of his hand as the stairway down to the treasury began to shift, some stairs moving down while the rest created an even platform. A bridge extended from the far wall and connected to make one large stone bridge from the guild hall to the far wall.
"Within the labyrinth is a circular stairwell in the center that leads t the top of the mountain, find it and ascend it to receive your rank of S-Class," he explained, "First three teams will be marked S-Class."
Immediately, people jumped up and ran to find their teams. I was spun and pushed around until most of the guild was waiting at the bridge for Revan's signal to begin. I saw Levy and Gajeel team up like they did at Tenrou Island, but Wendy was looking around for a teammate.
"Hey Wendy."
"Yeah," she asked.
"Want to be teammates?"
"Sure," she said with a smile.
"Okay child," Carla said, "Be careful, I'll be with Revan."
With that she flew off with her wings. I looked over at Juvia who seemed lost, but a guy in a blue cloak walked over to her.
"Um, hello?"
"Hello," she greeted, using the stoic tone she used when we first met and kidnapped me.
"Do you want to b-be teammates? I mean, if you don't I'll just go ask someone else."
"I don't trust men in cloaks."
He sighed in defeat and lifted his hood to reveal flat turquoise hair and sea green eyes. He wore a white undershirt and blue jeans with a blue converse.
"Dylan Wade," he introduced and I saw Juvia's face heat up.
"Ju-Juvi- Juvia Lockser," she stuttered, turning bright red, "and I-I'd love to be on your t-team."
"Okay," he shyly said and lifted his hood back on, "I also like to wear this cloak for personal reasons."
"Okay," she said and they walked to the mass of teams.
We walked over too and soon the entire guild was teamed up.
"Okay, rules are simple, no killing, no cheating, every team for themselves, and look out for my little surprises," he said with glee.
"That doesn't sound good," I said to Wendy who just nodded at me.
"BEGIN," Revan shouted and used the same luminous blue magic circle to open the secret passage at the other end of the bridge.
"Wha- AH," we screamed as the guild rushed forward.
We were dragged along with the crowd, across the bridge and towards the labyrinth. Soon we came to the bridge where dozens of teams were pushed off. Before they could hit the gold and treasure below however, they were magically teleported via Revan's new power.
"LUCY!"
I looked over and saw Wendy be pushed off, then I felt myself start falling. I quickly took out a celestial spirit key and summoned one of my celestial spirits.
"Open, gate of the lion, Loke!"
The magic circle appeared and Loke jumped out, grabbing me and then Wendy.
"Hey princess," he greeted, "Need a lift?"
"Yeah," I said, blushing.
He planted his feet on a stone pillar we landed on and quickly jumped off of it, sending us back onto the bridge. He let go of us right before he hit the bridge and he lit his fingers with celestial spirit energy. He punched the guys in the area we were heading for and they were all sent over the edge. Before we could hit the ground he grabbed us and set us down.
"Thanks."
"You're welcome princess," he said, "Remember, our love will always prevail!"
"Shut up," I said, turning red while Wendy giggled.
Suddenly, I heard the roar of footsteps and saw the rest of the guild charging at us.
"Come on," I shouted and grabbed Wendy, then started dragging her as we ran into the labyrinth.
I looked back to see Loke slowly disappearing back into the spirit world before the crowd stomped over the area he was at a moment before. We soon came to a crossroad and turned right, then left and all over again.
"Um, I think we're lost," I said as we looked around.
We were at another cross road with three other choices besides the fourth that we came from.
"Wait, if the staircase goes all the way to the surface, then I should be able to smell the fresh air outside, right?"
"Um, I don't think that'll be necessary," I said and pointed to a giant stone, spiral staircase leading to the surface where a large beam of sun light shone from.
The labyrinth was a giant stone dome, the roof nonexistent except for the dome itself. Lanterns lit the paths we walked and traps were laid out at some places. Like earlier I was almost caught in a water trap, but Wendy smelled the moisture before I could get caught and pulled me back before it sprayed out a gush of water.
"Come on," I said and we walked towards it, or at least I think we did.
"Wait," Wendy said as we rounded a corner, "Look."
We looked ahead to see Ajax and Throran arguing.
"I think we should head that way," Ajax argued, pointing at a path that led directly towards the staircase, but it ended at a corner.
"Knowing Revan it'll probably take us to the outskirts of the dome, we should go that way," Throran stated and pointed at a different path.
"I don't think so."
"What's the worst that could happen?"
"We run into some traps, get disqualified from serious injuries, find ourselves at the outskirts of the dome, oh wait, we could run into Lily and Naomi!"
"So Lily and Naomi teamed up," I murmured.
"We need a plan," Throran sighed.
"How about we bring the plan to you!"
Suddenly, a luminous blue inferno shot at them and they jumped out of the way before it hit them. It headed straight for us and Wendy immediately acted.
"Wind Dragon Roar!"
She fired and the two dragon roars collided in a giant explosion.
"Well looky here," we heard and the smoke cleared to show Lily and Naomi.
"Hey," I nervously greeted and Lily smirked.
"Sorry Lucy, but I really want to be an S-Class wizard."
Lily shot another God Dragon Roar and Naomi used her energy magic.
"God Dragon Roar!"
"Energy Matter Sight!"
While Lily blew an inferno of luminous blue flames, Naomi shot twin energy beams of red from her eyes. We dodged just as the two attacks neared us and as we caught ourselves, we watched the two attacks hit Ajax and Throran.
"Ow," they wheezed and disappeared from the dome.
"Guess they're out," I said.
"Hey," we heard and saw Gajeel and Levy enter the "arena."
"Hey guys," Levy greeted.
"Hi," Lily said, "So who wants to lose first?"
"The only one who's losing is you," Gajeel stated and used his dragon roar.
"Iron Dragon Roar!"
"God Dragon Roar!"
Their dragon roars collided to make an epic explosion of white and blue light. I coughed as I inhaled some smoke and desperately looked around for Wendy. I saw the familiar blue hair and grabbed the little girl before dragging her away from the battle.
"That was intense," I said as we caught our breath.
"Hey, why can't we just fly over there," she asked.
"I don't know, it seems to easy."
"See ya Losers," we heard and saw two guild members use some kind of flying magic to fly up, but they were suddenly electrocuted and teleported out of the dome.
"That's why," I stated and Wendy mouthed an "o".
"Hey," we heard and an Iron Dragon Roar ripped through the stone walls next to us.
Wendy grabbed me and pulled me out of the way before it hit me. We coughed and she used her wind magic to clear the dust and smoke out of the air. When it cleared, it showed Gajeel and Levy.
"Hey, I can break through walls," Gajeel stated and turned to the wall facing the staircase.
"Gajeel, WAIT," Levy shouted, but he ignored her and shot another dragon roar.
It struck it, but it didn't destroy the stone wall. Instead, it sent out a luminous blue shockwave pulse across the wall and shot back at him. His eyes widened and he was hit with his own attack. He flew into a wall and was buried under a pile of rubble.
"Guys," I said as I watched a glimmer move on the stairs.
"Juvia and Dylan," Wendy said as we watched them disappear as they made it to the top.
"We have our first winners," Revan's voice boomed through out the dome, "Juvia Lockser and Dylan Wade, the sky barrier is now lifted."
The air above the labyrinth lit up a luminous blue for a moment before disappearing.
"Wendy," I said and she grabbed me before using her Wind Dragon Roar to propel us towards the stairs.
"GET BACK HERE," I heard Gajeel yell in anger and I stuck out my tongue at him.
We landed soon, at the base of the spiral staircase where the guild was fighting amongst itself.
"Let's get up there," I said and we snuck through the crowd of teams fighting, and then made our way up the stone, spiral staircase.
We ran up it, trying not to trip as we did.
"Hey, bunny girl," we heard and saw Gajeel and Levy run up to us, "Thought you could leave us that easy?"
"Maybe," we said.
Levy drew the word Iron and he ate it, engulfing it.
"Oh no," I said as he finished quickly and smiled at us.
Suddenly, we saw a blur of luminous blue and watched as Lily who was surrounded by an outline of a dragon made of luminous blue fire flew up, with a scared Naomi clinging onto her.
"See ya later," she laughed as they flew up to the top.
Soon Revan's voice boomed again.
"Lily Smaug and Naomi Sharps are now S-Class wizards, next team is the last team to claim the rank of S-Class," he proclaimed, "Object shielding is now off."
Suddenly, the spiral staircase glowed a luminous blue and faded.
"I guess that means I can break this now," Gajeel said with a smile and used his Iron Dragon Club to attack us.
We dodged, but his attack broke through the stairwell.
"Oh no," we all said as the stone stairs began to crack and shake.
Small pebbles and dust rained from the upper level above us, but that didn't stop Gajeel.
"I'm not getting deprived of my S-Class rank," he shouted and used his dragon roar.
"Iron Dragon Roar!"
He fired and we dodged again, but this time it obliterated the section of the stairs we were at. The stairs finally collapsed and began to break. We started falling and screaming.
"LEVY," Gajeel shouted and grabbed her while I grabbed Wendy.
"What do I do," I thought as the stairs started to crumble, but then an idea came to mind, "I really hope she doesn't kill me."
I pulled out the celestial key belonging to my only hope and possible death.
"Open, gate of the water bearer, Aquarius!"
The canteen I held my drinking water began to shake violently until it unclipped from my belt and fell, but then it exploded in midair as a torrent of new water gushed out of it.
"HOW DARE YOU," Aquarius bellowed, her eyes glowing a harsh blue.
She swung her jug that released a torrent of water, propelling us up while also drowning us. I attempted to hold my breath, but I couldn't and started choking on the water, but suddenly it disappeared. I coughed up what water I had swallowed and spilled it onto the grass. Wait, grass? I looked around to find myself on top of the mountain where Juvia, Dylan, Lily, and Naomi looked at me in shock.
"You little," I heard and saw Aquarius slowly wading over to me, using the puddles on the ground to advance towards my direction.
Suddenly, a black leather cloth appeared in front of me.
"Now, now," Revan said, "Nearly drowning her seems to be punishment enough."
"Fine," she huffed, "but if you summon me from your drinking water ever again-."
She made a gesture of slitting my throat. I shook nervously as she disappeared back to the celestial spirit world.
I looked over and saw Gajeel holding Levy close to his chest while Wendy was on the ground with Carla trying to help her cough up the water she swallowed.
"Okay," Revan stated, "We have our winners, Gajeel Redfox and Levy McGarden!"
People cheered and I looked at them confused. Gajeel let go of Levy who got up quickly, blushing crimson and Gajeel was the same shade of red.
"What," I asked and Revan knelt down to me.
"They got up here first, good luck next time kid."
"I'm going to dry up," I said and looked around, "Um, how do we get down?"
Several Hours Later
After finding our way down on a secret staircase up here that Revan found, we headed back to the apartment. We went to our separate rooms and dried off, taking fresh showers and drying ourselves, then getting new clothes. We walked back to the guild to see everyone moaning in pain and holding up ice packs or caressing bandaged wounds.
"Hey, where's Revan," I asked and Naomi pointed up to the second floor.
We walked up the stone steps to see him at his throne, writing on a stone desk.
"Hey Revan," I said and he looked up from his paperwork.
"Hello," he said and swiped his hand over the desk.
A luminous blue magic circle appeared on his hand as he swiped it over his desk and it disappeared into the floor as stone panels covered it up.
"How did you do that," Wendy asked.
"Simple, using my Energy Matter magic I can control the fortress because the descendants of Flame can control this place."
"So you can control this whole place," I asked and he nodded, then swiped his hand through the air, making the desk come back up.
"That's impressive," Gajeel said.
"So what were you looking at," I asked, eyeing the paper on his desk.
"Awe yes, these," he said and flipped them around for us to read, "I'm getting reports of a dark guild going around Fiore causing havoc."
"So they want us to stop them?"
"They want everyone," he said, "This'll be like the Oracion Seis all over again."
"Don't remind me," I replied, remembering how hard it was to beat them, however I did get Aries and Gemini from Angel.
"So what is this dark guild," Levy asked, reading it.
"Their called Darkseid, the e and i next to each other between s and d," he explained, "They've been hitting museums and research centers, stealing ancient artifacts of unknown magical abilities."
"Are they bad," Wendy asked.
"No, they can't harm anything or at least we assume they can't, but what ever Darkseid is after, they're doing it well."
"Should we be worried?"
"Not until they near our area of operations, then we can start bashing heads," he said, "Now how about you go get a job off of the request board?"
"Sure," I said and we left, but I looked back discretely as he continued to stare at the reports.
3rd Person POV
"Where are they," a Fiore soldier asked as he rushed into a lobby filled with Fiore soldiers.
"They're outside," one of the soldiers answered and all of the sudden the door banged.
"They're trying to get in," one yelled.
"Take positions, let's show them the power of the Fiore army!"
The archers went up to behind the railing of the second floor while the rest hid behind cover on the main floor. The banging got louder and louder until it stopped and an eerie silence filled the room.
"Are they gon- BOOM!"
The door exploded and wood chips flew everywhere as smoke began to pour into the room. Suddenly, a woman stepped out the smoke and Fiore knight charged. She swatted away his sword and put her hand on his face.
"That will suffice," she said, "Ghost Magic, Revival!"
Suddenly, the ground slightly shook and a faint blue ghost rose from the ground.
"Tim," the knight gasped and the ghost of a dead Fiore knight charged and began to attack.
She began extracting more memories from the Fiore soldiers and reviving those who they knew that had passed. The archers were getting lucky as they shot the ghosts back to the afterlife, but all of the sudden, a man walked into the room, bearing a nothing but his fists.
He smirked and flew up, defying gravity and he flew into the second floor. He smashed through it, grabbing an archer by the throat, then throwing him into another. He flew around, pounding in archers, or grabbing them and throwing them around. Suddenly, he grabbed the last and threw him into the air before shouting a new spell.
"Energy Matter, Sight!"
He shout out twin beams of red energy from his eyes and sent the poor Fiore archer into the ceiling. He slowly descended back to the ground, but a surviving Fiore knight got up and grabbed a weapon.
"Die Dark Mage," a Fiore knight shouted and charged at him with a spear, but from the smoke there were two glowing red eyes.
Suddenly, a voice shouted out a spell.
"Energy Matter, Omega Effect!"
Then, two beams of red energy shot out from the hidden man's eyes and zig zagged around before striking the Fiore knight, incinerating him in an instant. (Think of Darkseid's Omega Beams from DC and yes I did name the dark guild after Darkseid)
"Watch yourself Zod," the man said in an electronic voice as he stepped out of the smoke.
He wore a mask over his face with a cloak over his body. (Think of Bane's mask, but it doesn't have the mouth feature, just a breathing unit) He wore an armored vest over a dark blue, sleeveless shirt and black slacks with combat boots. He shaggy raven black hair that was held down by the mask's straps which partially covered his face. He had luminous blue eyes and scars across his bare arms.
The woman wore a dark purple tank top with black shorts and purple and black stockings along with combat boots as well. She had long raven black hair with purple highlights and dark blue eyes.
"Yes sir," the man apologized.
"Selina, Zod, secure the Lacrima Crystal," the man ordered.
"Yes sir," she said and walked towards a display case with a luminous blue Lacrima Crystal within.
They approached it and Zod broke the glass. Selina took it out and presented it to the man.
"Good, now we only require the final piece of the map," he said and walked off, Selina and Zod following him.
Done
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