Demon Lacrima

Chapter 12: Naruto VS Erza

Arc: Tournament of Mages

by DeathGodSlayer

Erza confidently walked into the tournament ring, the sound of the cheering audience deafening her from all else. The atmosphere was warming and longed for a good show. She looked straight ahead, her opponent had already arrived and stood waiting for her.

He held a rather relaxed stance for someone about to fight, shifting his weight to one leg and placing a hand on his hip. His face, framed with spiky blonde hair was set in a bored expression, even his ocean blue eyes displayed a lack of interest in the situation. He was dressed in a sleeveless open torso black shirt, with nothing underneath covering his bare chest, along with this he wore black pants that were tucked into his skin tight boots that exposed his toes at the end. A dark grey cloth was hanging around his waist, being held up by a black rope. On his wrists were bandages, going up to almost the elbows. The blond was muscular, yet lean. The same as most young male mages.

"I want to apologise beforehand," Erza spoke first, grasping the blond's attention. "For you defeat that is. As an S-Class Mage of Fairy Tail, I can't afford to lose in the first round."

A small smirk grew across the blond's face. "We'll see who loses this fight." Naruto replied, almost glowing with confidence, something Erza was not accustomed to against her opponents, usually men and women cowered before her.

A large bell rang, signalling for the fight to begin. Erza immediately targeted Naruto, a bright light formed around her body. "Requip: Black Wing Armour!" She called out ominously, as the light faded it revealed her normal armour had been replaced with a black with silver trim armour, sporting bat-like wings. The armour kept most of her limbs covered while her abdomen was exposed. The crowd roared in excitement at the Armour's appearance, chanting Erza's name in unison.

Erza's body hovered into the air, flying across the ring towards Naruto, swiping downwards with the large Bastard Sword in her hands. The sword cutting through the air made an audible sound.

And it was followed by the clanging of the blade on the ground below. Naruto had side stepped the attack easily, almost lazily. The crowd gasped in shock together. Even Erza went a little wide eyed, before her eyes narrowed, continuing her assault.

She brought the sword back up, slashing horizontally this time, aiming at Naruto's abdomen, he dodged backwards, she followed up with a quick twirl in the air, bring the sword back down diagonally. Again, Naruto ducked around it.

Erza roared in anger, landing on her feet before swiping sideways again. Naruto ducked underneath the blade, and with one crouched spin brought his leg around the back of Erza's, tripping her up and causing her to land hard on her back.

As Erza groaned at the small pain she noticed that everything had gone silent, she looked around at the crowd, astonishment was written across their faces.

The silence was broken by the sound of a chuckle, which grew into full laughter, it was a mocking laugh. She turned to the source, her blond opponent. Whose head was pulled back with laughter.

Each second of his laughter insulted her, she shot back up, flying towards the blond again, the sword pulled back ready to slash again. She swiped it high, aiming for his head, Naruto bent backwards, his laughter still continued, ducking under the blade once again.

His body shot back up, his forehead pressing against hers, his face still held a maniacal smile, coupled with his eyes set wide. "What good is a sword if you can't hit your target?"

Erza's eyes widened with enlightenment, she jumped backwards, clearing a safe distance between the two. "So that's it. Your a Speed Mage." Naruto's laughter only grew louder at her suggestion, causing Erza's brow to furrow in annoyance. "No matter, I too have a way of speeding myself up. Requip: Flight Armour!" The light enveloped Erza's body again, revealing a new armour consisting of a leopard-patterned chest-plate and shoulder guard, and a cloth from her waist down. There are also a pair of leopard ears on her head, and a bushy tail.

Her speed increased tremendously, moving towards Naruto with agility, yet still he continued to dodge and laugh. The almost dance like moves continued, with Erza leading, hacking and slashing at Naruto who dodge them all effortlessly in succession. Erza not even coming close to nicking him with the tip of the blade at sometimes.

'He hasn't done anything yet, not a single attack. My plan was to attack quickly and clear a difference before he could use his monstrous strength Mira warned me about. But he hasn't made any attempt to attack, and I am beginning to tire!' Erza inwardly cursed, she had begun to pant lightly. Even with her boost of speed she could keep up with him.

"Your deduction was false by the way." Erza's eyes snapped open, staring at the blond who was smiling back confidently. "I'm not a Speed Mage. Here as thanks for entertaining me somewhat, I'll let you see my magic." Naruto grinned, a black light enveloped his fists. Glowing ominously. "Chaos: Eclipse Fists!" Naruto suddenly dashed right in front of her, delivering a powerful punch to her exposed abdomen, before following with a right hook straight to her cheek, it knocked Erza off her feet, she flew through the air, but landed back on her feet gracefully.

"So you're a light mage." Erza smirked victoriously. "I have an armour to deal with that, it reduces the effect of light spells by 50%. Requip: Opaque Armour!" Again the light surrounded her body. This time she revealed to be heavily armoured, her armour covering the entire front of her body in black and grey armour, with golden outlines around each piece of metal, even her head was covered by a helm, leaving her red hair unseen by anyone, with a dark tinted screen at the front covering her face from view. In both her hands were two shields almost entirely grey in colour. Shaped like an upside-down heart with one circular section taken out of each side. The shield also had two more large spikes at the bottom; one protruding from each of the bumps on the heart. The border of the shields were silver while its face was grey. "Can your light penetrate this armour?" Her voice did not sound muffled by the massive armour.

Naruto chuckled quietly, extending his palms towards the red haired girl. "Chaos: Dark Lighthouse!" He called loudly, a beam of the black light that surrounded his hands shot from his palms, firing towards the armoured girl. The beam of light connected powerfully with the armour, and within seconds had destroyed the part it was connecting to hitting Erza inside it and blasting her away again, forcing her back into the floor.

Erza requipped her usual armour, showing injury and pain on her face, as well as confusion. "Do you have an armour that can defend against the combination of Light and Darkness, the foundation of the universe? That is Chaos." Naruto spoke before Erza could ask anything.

Using her regular sword, she used it as support to bring herself up, never had she taken so much injury against two attacks. It was unbelievable, if it wasn't happening, if she didn't see this magic in front of her. She wouldn't believe in it's existence.

"I'm bored of this fight, so I think I'll spice it up a little." Naruto grinned sadistically at the red haired. "Let's talk, find out about each other. Erza Scarlet, who is most important to you? And who has dealt the biggest blow to your heart?"

Erza looked at the blond mage with utter confusion. "What on earth are you talking about?" She asked with annoyance, her words panting out heavily. Such stupid questions to ask, such a stupid time to bring them up.

"It's okay, you don't have to say anything. I'll let them do the talking." Naruto smiled, slapping his palms together. "Chaos Summoning: Dökkálfr and Ljósálfr!" Naruto slammed his palms into the ground, create a plume of smoke, with a complete black light and complete white light appeared, clashing against each other, the light blinded Erza, who looked away to avoid being further blinded.

"It's been a long time, Erza... I see you joined my old guild, I'm glad..." Erza's eyes widened in horror at the voice, she looked through the smoke, seeing an old man with cracked, weathered skin. Long white hair and a full beard to match, with two long eyebrows. The old man was shirtless, but had a pair of tattered shorts covering his legs. A faint white light emanated around his body, causing a faint glow.

"R-R-Rob!" Erza looked at the old man in shock, a tear falling down her face. "H-How is this possible?"

"It doesn't matter how. I'm able to see you again, my how you have grown, and your now strong I bet?" Rob looked at her lovingly, like a grandfather. A proud smile set on his ragged face.

"Yes, little Erza has grown up, away from all the pain and sorrow..." Rob's eyes widened significantly, a small dribble of blood fell from his mouth. Erza screamed loudly as Rob looked down, a child's fist was punched through Rob's stomach, an eerie shadowy glow radiated around the fist, the shadows moving like small flames.

Rob looked to Erza one more time, a smile forming on his shocked face. He began fading into nothing once again. At that moment Erza's body froze, not a single muscle in her body obeyed her mind and will's commands. To rush over and save Rob from whatever danger he was in. Unlike ;last time she wasn't weak and helpless, she had grown strong. Yet in the presence of that voice she couldn't help herself, her body froze up, tears began pouring from her eyes.

As Rob's body faded away a smaller form stood behind him. A young boy with blue hair and menacing eyes, a long red tattoo running down his right eye. Dressed in similar rags to Rob, he had a dirty white tank top far too big for him and green shorts.

"Look at little Erza Scarlet, so big and strong now. So happy that she doesn't have to deal with any of us anymore." The boy spoke with a sadistic grin on his face.

"J-Jellal..."

"Then perhaps I should remind you." The boy, Jellal, suddenly rushed at Erza, his eyes and grin widening to a psychopathic degree. "OF EVERYTHING YOU LEFT BEHIND!"

As Jellal neared he too faded away, just like Rob. Erza's body had completely shut down, she only looked at where the boy was in front of her, tears, pouring down her face. Had she focused on the seen behind her she would have seen Naruto charging another technique.

"This technique needs some time to charge, so I use Chaos Summoning: Dökkálfr and Ljósálfr to halt the movements of my opponent whilst I prepare. I am disappointed actually, hearing the praise and gossip about you around this tournament. I expected more than just a silly Requip." Naruto's hands hand pressed together, the black light of Chaos emanating from every part of his body, shrouding himself in a black light.

His hands and arms opened wide as his eyes did, staring at the scarlet haired girl maniacally. "Chaos: Twilight Impact!" The blonds hands flew back together, with the thunderous clap the lights beamed from his body, shining into the air, the large beam of light split into smaller beams which surround Erza from every direction, crashing into her motionless body. All that could be seen of the attack was the shining dark light and the scream of agony emitted by Erza.

As the light faded an battered and bruised Erza was revealed, who promptly fell straight to the floor in a heap to the crowd's silence. 'A knock out so quickly?' Naruto's eyebrow rose as he quirked curiously. 'Most likely due to the emotional state she was in couple with her lowered defences. She probably would have put up a better fight if she knew more about my abilities before the match started...'

Naruto turned from the sight of the unconscious red head. Heading to the entrance from which he arrived in the ring, he received no applause or cheer as he left the ring. The crowd staring at him only in a stunned silence.

"Winner by knock out, Naruto Namikaze of Ozaru!"

Winner by knock out, Naruto Namikaze of Ozaru

The TV screen in Fairy Tail's tent lit up, revealing the outcome of the match and calling the next match's contestants to make their way towards the tournament stadium.

The Mages of Fairy Tail only looked in utter horror as the outcome was revealed to them. "WHAT?" Natsu screeched at the screen. "ERZA LOST, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! SOMEONE CHECK OUTSIDE TO MAKE SURE THE SKY ISN'T FALLING!"

"Shut up, Natsu!" Gray shouted loudly at the pink haired boy, obviously shocked at the result of Erza's match, but not in hysterics as Natsu was.

'So, that Naruto managed to defeat Erza after all...' Mirajane bit her thumb in thought, settling into her chair. She remembered her past experience with the blonde mage. 'Yet that super-strength of his shouldn't have been enough to defeat Erza, I wonder what magic he possesses as well. They'll be frightening to come across...'

"Just how powerful are the other mages entering this tournament?" Jet wondered fearfully for his own health, the fight between Erza and her opponent hadn't taken long, it couldn't have lasted longer than 30 minutes, if Erza, one of Fairy Tail's strongest couldn't last long in the tournament, just how would he fair in it?

"Damn, all of you shut up!" Everyone turned to Laxus, who appeared angered at their reactions, not the outcome of the match, he glared at all of them collectively. "Erza loses and suddenly your all questioning the strength of Fairy Tail? When did Erza become the face of Fairy Tail? Well let me tell you something, against the rest of us S-Class Mages; me, Gildarts, Mistgun, even Mirajane, Erza is pathetic. Don't count Fairy Tail out just because 'Titania' fell." Laxus said the nickname in a mocking tone, before exiting the tent, leaving to somewhere away from the other members of Fairy Tail.

"I have to agree with Laxus..." Everyone turned in surprise to Loke, who was leaning against the tent wall. "Although he didn't put it in the best structure of words, Laxus has a point. The strength of Erza does not equal the strength of Fairy Tail, we are all stronger and weaker than Erza in our own ways. We can't throw in the towel simply because Erza has lost."

It changed the mood of the tent's atmosphere. Loke's natural leadership shone once again, everyone smiled at his words. Even the panicked Natsu had calmed to an ecstatic aura, clenching his knuckles in anticipation.

"And my next fight is against the guy who defeated Erza. If I've done my maths right." Natsu grinned eagerly, he had already passed into the next round. "Now I'm all fired up thanks to Loke, and this guy is gotta be strong to defeat Erza. I can't wait for my fight against him!"

"Kaleidoscope!" Sue raised her arms towards her black and white haired, motionless opponent, the boy from Ozaru had yet to make a single move in the match, her attacks kept bouncing off of him even better than her Mirror Magic.

A cage of mirrors surrounded the boy, ensnaring him with reflections of himself, yet suddenly as if a chest inhaling and exhaling, the mirrors moved towards him at the centre, bending inwards before being expelled outwards, shattering them in a array of fragments, the light reflecting off the tiny particles of glass all around the boy in a glittering display.

Sue's eyes widened in surprise before narrowing, a confident smirk across her face. "You know there's seven years bad luck to those who break a mirror, the amount you've broken in this one match, you've probably been cursed for an eternity."

"Yet it is your luck which has run out." Midnight replied in a bored tone. "From the moment you entered this tournament you were destined to face me, your bad luck began long before mine did." Midnight lazily lifted his hand towards the green haired girl. "Spiral Pain!"

Midnight manipulated the air around Sue to shred her in an inescapable vortex of pain. As they attack let up Sue dropped to the floor, struggling to recover back to her feet. "It's time to put my new technique into action." Midnight smirked sadistically, waving his hand through the air, suddenly Sue's clothes began to twist and constrict, tightening to an unimaginable level. Sue screamed out in agony as she lost feeling in her limbs, lacking oxygen entire her body, her very clothes cutting into her flesh.

Sue dropped to the floor in an unconscious heap, lying helplessly until medics arrived to take her away, Midnight received no applause, and he didn't look for it. "Winner by knock out, Midnight of Ozaru!" Midnight was already leaving as the announcement of his victory was heard, members of the crowd began applauding. The crowd were favouritists, only acknowledging the names they had heard of, expecting immediate victory from them.

Yet as he left a smirk grew on Midnight's face, a smirk of success. 'The technique worked perfectly, now only to wait for my chance to use it against him.' Midnight's eyes widened in anger as he remembered the brown haired Weight mage, Kaito. Who humiliated and degraded him, Midnight now held an almost permanent grudge against him. One that would be satisfied until the sweet sound of Kaito's screams of suffering and pain and agony filled his ears. 'You will experience this delectable pain soon enough...'

"I have to say Roshi, you've got yourself quite the batch of mages." Goldmine grinned towards the elderly red haired mage, who was looking down towards the ring below from the Guild Master's booth. Looking down at the match just finished. The match went in favour of Quatro Cerberus' Iwazaru Kashikoi, defeating Blue Pegasus' Violet Starshine with a range of water spells.

"Yes, Ozaru has managed to go through the entire West Bracket without losing a single competitor." Bob added, looking across to Roshi.

"Yes, Erza's defeat against Naruto was perhaps the most surprising, for some strange reason I expected more from Fairy Tail's Titania." Jose commented with a sly, mocking smile on his face.

"But the East Bracket has only just begun, we'll see if Ozaru's luck runs through both brackets." White Snake's Guild Master Orochimaru chuckled darkly, it was one of the rare times he had actually spoken throughout the entire first round.

"I wonder Roshi, if you would be considering putting up any of your mages for the Guild Mage Trade-Off this year..." Goldmine spoke with a slight twitch of hope in his voice, hoping to be able to acquire one of these mages.

"I haven't really thought about it..." Roshi replied quietly in confusion, he knew what they were. The Guild Mage Trade-Off happened once every five years. It was similar to drafting, Guilds would put up mages who wanted to travel or who had become bored of the scene in their current guild and had the possibility to be traded to another guild with a mage of a similar predicament. They were quite popular really, the atmosphere and prospect of gaining new comrades and friends was always enjoyable. Roshi was confused because he had literally not thought about putting any of his mages up.

"Well here comes the end of your luck, Roshi!" Makarov laughed loudly, looking towards the two mages entering the ring. Ozaru's Cross Biancina and his own Mirajane. "I may have lost Erza, but your Cross will definitely have a troubling time against my S-Class Mirajane."

"Let's get this match over with quickly okay?" Cross gave the sweetest smile to his opponent, Fairy Tail's S-Class Mage Mirajane, who was staring back in anger at him.

"Let me guess, your the 'surprise' mage in Ozaru, right? People will look at your appearance and immediately think your weak and useless, then you'll pull out some massive superpower magic?" Mira looked at the effeminate boy with a knowing, victorious smirk.

"Well I am a S-Class Mage like yourself." Cross' smile faded, looking at his opponent with a harder expression. "Shall we begin." He pointed a finger towards the white haired girl. "Electric Water Shot!"

A torrent of water, wrapped and filled with electricity shot from his finger, moving at a quick speed. Mira dodged the attack easily enough, but looked in surprise at the light white-blue haired boy. "My magic is Seidhr Magic: Element Possession. I can channel all the elements of the earth into my body and use them for my disposal, even elements that you wouldn't actually think are elements of nature I can use. My degree of mastery is so great I can even combine any type of element with another, although I'll admit it's easier two combine elements that naturally go together, such as water and electricity." Cross explained briefly.

'Seidhr Magic! Just like Nab and Bixlow! But Element Possession, I didn't even know it existed. I can't afford to hold back, if this guy is in the same guild as Naruto, who defeated Erza so easily I best not act cocky and underestimate him!' Mira's brow furrowed quickly, a light surrounding her body quickly. "Take Over: Satan Soul!" Mira screamed morphing into her demonic winged form.

"Satan Soul? I'm not impressed, there was once a time when demon's frightened and enraged me, but I have long since mastered my emotions." Even his voice held an unimpressed tone to it. He held his index finger up again, pointing towards the white haired demon girl. "Explosive Power Shot!" His fingers quickly tightened into a fist, a line of fiery explosions launched from his fist, igniting and exploding in a direct line towards Mira.

Yet Mira dodged with her heightened speed easily, gliding through the air to evade the next lines of explosions Cross fired at her. She soon found and opening, charging in to deliver a powerful uppercut to the boy, knocking him well of his feet and into the air.

Cross crashed down onto the ground below him, looking up to see Mira smirking cockily in the air, as if she had already one the match. "Very well, I best not play around either." Cross mumbled quietly as he stood up. Meeting Mira in the eye. "I don't use this spell for any old opponent, so understand that I acknowledge your strength. But its over, no demon could ever defeat me."

A familiar light to Mira surrounded Cross, knowing all to well what he was going to perform. "A Take Over! That's not possible!" Mira screeched in fury as the light grew brighter and whiter than she could have ever imagined.

"Take Over: Supreme Archangel Metatron!" The light faded in a fabulous flash of light. Leaving Cross transformed body in the ring. Armour and replaced his skin, covering his arms and legs, with a steel battle skirt covering his midsection with a basic crown symbol on the front, his midsection was free of armour, but looked like a glowing white-blue fire instead of his body and organs. His face had been covered by a smooth shaped mask, not having openings for his mouth or eyes and his hair had grown significantly, being pushed back by the mask. Small fragments of lights had solidified behind him, making spears of light hover weightlessly behind their master.

Cross' masked face looked upwards to the flying demon girl, who looked at his form in shock. "Now," His voice echoed through the mask, it had retained Cross' soft speaking pitch, yet had gained an air of control and command in it's tone. "It is time for our true battle to begin."

A/N: Hey there! DGS here, saying thanks for waiting for the new chapter, I know the last one wasn't everyone's cup of tea with all the introductions and descriptions and whatnot, but it's all out of the way and we can safely move ahead.

Anywho this chapter, I really enjoyed all three fights to be honest, people were worried I was gonna kill off Erza, well I didn't, I just broke her down on an emotional and mental level, very enjoyable, and Naruto's magic is becoming more and more developed, which is good. Arc of Void will return soon, I promise, round the back end of the Fall of Ozaru Arc. I've always wondered why erza is considered the best when all she can do is change armour and swords, as Naruto said. "What good is a weapon if you can't hit your target?"

Midnight and Sue, Midnight develops his clothes restriction technique out of spite after seeing Kaito do it with his weight magic. I didn't want Midnight to be just instantly be a psychotic masochist. I want him to turn into that, just as Naruto will turn to relish destruction, which will be seen at the end of the Tournament of Mages Arc, he will do it for the wrong reasons that's all I will say.

Cross VS Midnight, mainly a homage to one of the most fantistic things in Manga history, Satan VS Metatron in 666 Satan. Amazing experience to read that, seriously if you haven't read 666 Satan go read it.

Anything else?... Oh yeah, Fairy Tail 245 SUCKED! Laxus could have easily taken Hades, but for some bullshit reason he let himself get hit and transferred his magic to Natsu, why Natsu? Erza was there, Gray was there, Happy was there. Jesus Christ that chapter was terrible, all that hype from Laxus returning and he goes down in a single chapter. And since when can Natsu eat Lightning! "Thank you for the meal?" Yes, thank you for shoving bullshit in front of my eyes...

Anyways, on a lighter note, I am starting a NarutoXAvatar: The Last Airbender Crossover fic. I flicked through whats available and found its all pretty much dimension jumping, I'm not a fan of that, I would rather work a character into the universe's storyline of the othe rmanga which I've done. And the Legend of Korra spinn-off has answered some of my all important questions, such as the possibility of Interracial bending families. Which is good, so if your a fan of Naruto and if your a fan of Avatar: the Last Airbender, and if you're a fan of reading then be on the look out for The Four Nations: The Secret Airbender, coming soon to the computer screen directly in front of you!

Anyways next chapter, the second round will be commencing probably next chapter and an evil plot will be underway, three guesses who's plotting what? And as I said last chapter, a confirmed death, still won't say who, but the death happens in the later stages of the tournament.

D.G.S