Demon Lacrima
Chapter 13: The First Round Ends
Arc: Tournament of Mages
by DeathGodSlayer
A light white aura enveloped the body of the transformed Cross, his face covered by a helm of pure white silver. His longer hair now fluttering without gravity in the air.
Mira herself snarled in fury at the display of his technique. 'This guy!... He was destined to be my opponent!' She thought angrily, before letting out a massive war cry, filling and silencing the battle ring.
"Darkness Stream!" Mira cried out. From a black magic seal shadowy hands sprung outwards, flying towards the motionless Cross, who seemed prepared to just accept the full brunt of the attack.
"Divine Intervention!" Cross' angelic voice called out calmly just before Mira's shadowy attack struck. The dark hands appeared to just bounced off an invisible wall, glistening and glittering as it was struck each time. It acted like an egg protecting the precious embryo from harm, defending him from all sides.
Mira snarled as her attack failed, cancelling her shadowy attack. "Evil Spark!" Mira growled in frustration as she lunged forwards at a quickened pace, her wings carrying her body but an inch off the ground, her hands charged with electricity she jabbed at Cross.
But his hand moved at a super speed, hitting her upper forearm and pushing it away with force, causing her entire body to shift to the left and forced away from himself. "Your evil will do you no good here..." Cross' soft echoing voice spoke out again calmly.
"YEAH! WELL TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE!" Mira screamed in fury, hurling herself high into the air with her wings. In her hands and orb of darkness expanded as she hovered of Cross. "Soul Extinction!" She screamed as she threw the orb downwards, Cross looked upwards in surprised as the orb expanded, revealing it's true form, a large beam that enveloped the entire battle square. The crowd screamed in terror as the attack neared dangerously close to themselves, covering their eyes from the bright display of light and debris.
Mira grinned cockily in victory as the spell began to fade, the attack hit directly onto Cross, and Soul Extinction was one of her strongest attacks. There was no way he would walk away from it easily.
"Impressive..." Her eyes widened as Cross' smooth voice beckoned was again. Looking down in horror, she found few scratches from her attack on his body, his head had moved to stare at her, yet his helmet blocked her from locking eyes with him. "But as I said before, your evil will do you no good here. I cannot be harmed by the darkness..."
Cross exhaled loudly, his head fell backwards to gaze up at the sky, his arms went wide at the sides of his body, his hands reaching out as if ready to catch something. His body went into a completely unusual stance, as if he was going to fall backwards, yet he remained firmly planted on the ground.
"For every second, of every minute," Balls of light began to sprout of Cross' body, a white fire flowing around each one. These tiny balls of light expanded several times in size as they distanced from his body. Until they were they were almost twice the size of Mira's head, they sprouted in every direction, seeming to stop at random points all over the arena. "of every hour," Cross continued, the speed the orbs were created increased significantly. "of every day, God's eyes are watching over me..." Orbs of fiery light shot of Cross' body like bullets, soon there wasn't a space in sight where Mira could move to without hitting one of them. Thousands, upon thousands of orbs surrounded her. Was there any hope of escape?
"365'000 Burning Eyes... peer through the darkness... and vanquish the malicious shadow of the Devil..." Cross called out ominously, his hands slapped together suddenly. His fingers entangled across each other save for the Index fingers, which remained upright and together, pointing towards Mirajane in the sky.
Within that moment, Mira lost all hope in her eyes. What could she accept other than defeat as the hundreds of thousands of orbs launched themselves at her. She closed her eyes and sigh as she embraced the impact of this unavoidable attack.
The crowd watched in awed silenced as the attack struck like fireworks, each orb exploding upon contact with Mira, lights flashed rapidly as the number of orbs striking her changed with each millisecond. And just like that, within seconds it was over. The many orbs had caused their damage on the battered Mirajane, now devoid of her demon transformation. The spell appeared as if it would caused total obliteration, yet despite heavily wounded, Mirajane showed no signs of loss of limb or life.
Her unconscious body began to plummet through the air to the ground below. It would have painful to see her body collide with the ground had the angelic form of Cross not intervened, catching her in his arms, before returning back to his own usual form, his eyes looked down with regret at the white haired girl. "I'm sorry, I do not usually use 365'000 Burning Eyes it is my last resort spell. I'm sorry you had to experience it's ferocity."
"Winner by knock out, Cross Biancina of Ozaru!" The announcer shouted loudly, fist pumping the air. The crowd soon followed with a variety of screams and applause for the boy.
Medics began to run over to Cross still holding the unconscious girl in his arms. "I shall help you carry her to the infirmary." Cross smiled at the medic, already beginning to walk out of the battle square without waiting for a response. "Come, we should evacuate and let the next match commence."
The crowd murmured to themselves as the unknown mage walked onto the Battle Square, he must have been a incredibly new member to Phantom Lord because none of them had heard of a Sasuke Uchiha before, it only left them with questions. How strong could he be if Master Jose has already put so much faith in him?
However no matter what in this fight Jose would lose one of his Phantom Mages, it was Sasuke against Sol, both members of Phantom Lord. A rather unfair fight considering there was 63 contestants to pick from and they received a member from their own guild.
Sasuke's eyes narrowed at his green haired opponent, his mind flickering back to a conversation he had with Jose moments before this fight began.
-Flashback-Break-
"Sasuke." Jose stopped the raven haired teen from making his way to the Battle Square, the boy, now with a sword equipped on his back at his waist turning around in silence, looking annoyed that Jose had stopped him. "I do not know you, however I know Sol's strength. He could go far in this tournament if given the chance. I have done you the favour of allowing you to enter this tournament, your reasons are your own and I will not pry, but Sol is worth more to me than you, and you owe me. Do you understand?" Jose's eyebrow rose with a grin, hinting at the raven haired boy to take a dive in his fight against Sol.
"I understand." Sasuke nodded in returning, before turning back around, heading towards the battle square once again.
He raised his hand lazily as he left, waving over his shoulder as the distance between himself and Jose grew. "Let Sol win if I feel like it."
-Flashback-Break-End-
With the signal to begin, Sol began an attack. "Roche Concerto!" He laughed out victoriously as he launched a barrage of rocks at his raven haired opponent.
Sasuke stood still as the attack neared, slowly reaching for the sword sheathed across the back of his waist. "Wind Aura..." He muttered quickly but quietly. In moments his sword had been drawn out, around it there was an extension on the black coloured blade, a cloak of wind had surrounded the sword, increasing the size and length of the blade.
Sasuke's eyes locked onto the rocks basting their way towards him. As each on neared him, he moved towards it and cut through them easily, moving so fast he was able to cut each rock into quarters before moving onto the next one.
The crowd could only stare impressed as the mystery boy dance fluidly with his sword, the metal slicing easily through thick earth.
Sol stuttered in slight fear as he watched his attacks be cut out so easily by the boy, before composing himself. "Non, non, non. Perhaps I should finish this in one move, oui?" The green haired man played with his small moustache, twirling the hair between his fingers. Suddenly a magic seal popped out in front of him. "Platre Sonata!" Out of the seal came a massive earth fist, hurling towards Sasuke.
Yet as the attack neared, Sasuke merely jumped over the large fist, driving his sword through it and cutting it in two.
As soon as he landed he was ensnared by Sol, whose unnatural elastic body had coiled around him like a snake, binding him in place. "Non, non. Who may have dodged my strongest attack, but can you escape this?" Sol snickered victoriously as he felt Sasuke try to escape from the entanglement.
Sasuke suddenly stopped moving, the sword gripped in his hand once again, touching Sol barely on the wasting, nicking him with the smallest of cuts with the wind blade. "Thunder Aura!" The sword suddenly changed, the wind was replaced with racing sparks of electricity running down the blade. The electricity enter Sol through the little cut on his waist. His elastic body freed Sasuke as he leapt away in pain, trying to free himself from the electric shock surging through his body.
Sasuke jumped after him, catching up to him quickly. Slashing across the green haired man's body with his electric sword. Each cut send sparks of electricity to course through Sol's body.
Once his attack stopped, Sol's body slumped to the ground stiff, his body paralysed and making him like stone, only small twitches of his body and moans of pain indicated he was still alive. Sasuke stared down at the earth mage blankly, before sheathing his sword once again.
"Pathetic..." Was all he said as he was named the victor of the match and walked quickly out of the battle square.
'What the hell is this!...' Gray cursed in his mind as his body skidded across the floor. He looked back up to his armoured opponent and gritted his teeth. He had started this fight on top, being able to pummel his opponent, even though he was encased in that armour, the guy just couldn't keep up with his speed. 'This Kaito... what stunt is he pulling that's making his attacks stronger, yet slowing mine down?'
"This battle is really fun, we should do it again sometime!" Kaito spoke happily behind his iron helmet. Before clenching his fists and shifting into a battle stance.
Gray grunted as he stood back up, yet was smiling nonetheless. "Yeah, it is. You got some neat tricks up your sleeve, but it's time for me to go on the attack!" Gray shouted the last few words as he jumped into the air, smashing his left fist down sideways on his right palm, swinging his arms over his head. "Ice Make: Hammer!" In his hands grew an enormous hammer made entirely of ice, he wielded it over his head, ready to bring it down on the armoured Ozaru mage.
'It takes longer to change the weight when its bigger, but luckily I have already touched his ice, I can change it's weight no matter when he creates it.' Kaito thought with a smirk, waving his hand towards the hammer.
Gray's eyes widened as his forward momentum stopped, the weight of the hammer just suddenly increased massively, he could budge it any further as it crashed into the ground with a thunderous thud. 'He's a weight mage!' Gray thought with the revelation, things had finally clicked together.
Gray noticed how Kaito suddenly began to move at a frightening speed for someone encased in full body iron armour. 'He's using his weight magic to make his armour lighter and allow him to run at his usual speed!'
'Shit!' Gray cursed as Kaito neared, letting go of his hammer he quickly smashed his hands together again. "Ice Make: Cocoon!" Gray cried out, as ice spiralled out of his body, leaving a thorny dome surrounding his body.
The defensive spell didn't deter Kaito from his charge, he continued running forwards, cocking his fist back. "Giant's Punch!" He shouted as his armoured fist drove into the ice, shattering a large chuck of it with his.
Kaito grinned at the result, he continued his assault on the Ice wall between him and his target. Altering the weight of his fist moments before he struck to increase his strength and power of each attack. Within seconds he had battered his way through the ice, Gray's defence had become his downfall. It left him with nowhere to evade to. Kaito's fist connected with Gray's body. The impact destroying the ice behind the dark haired ice mage and shattering him out of his Icy cocoon.
Kaito followed up with a series of punches, each with the weight of his fists altered. He launched Gray up into the air quickly. Before squatting down, ready to jump. "Sky Soaring Leap!" Kaito shouted as he leaped into the air, he quickly flew over Gray with a lighter weight of his armour causing him to float upwards.
Once he was over Gray he positioned his knees above the Ice mage's abdomen, "Boulder Knee Drop!" He called as he dramatically increased the weight of the armour once again. They plummeted down together, Kaito force Gray to crash under his increased weight into the ground. The impact caused a massive crater into the battle square, and seemed to cause massive damage to Gray, it looked like he wasn't going to move fore a while.
"This has been fun." Kaito smile as he deactivated his Iron Shell spell, looking down at the Ice Mage. "He isn't going to be moving for a while. Call the match please." He turned to the announcer with a small smile.
The Announcer gulped, the ferocity of their fight had been intense, years of serving as an announcer had given him a sixth sense of sorts, he could immediately tell who was going to win a fight, but this one, even he would have to had taken a guess. "Winner by knock-out, Kaito Yuria of Ozaru!"
"And now comes the final match of the first round! These two contestants have waiting a long time to compete, but finally their chance has come to shine! So please welcome to the Battle Square! Druz Rakshasas of Quatro Cerberus and Eaon Westwater of Lamia Scale!" The announcer called with a particularly loud scream, even for him.
The two competitors entered the ring confidently. Druz marched in like a soldier up for inspection, awaiting the order to begin.
"And begin!" The announcer shouted to the impatient cheers of the crowd, as if 31 previous fights were not enough to sate their appetite for entertainment.
The blond Druz turned quickly to his opponent, his golden eyes locking onto Eaon's features. "I apologize, but anticipation for this tournament has got me excited. I don't think I will be able to hold back."
"Never will I!" Eaon grinned back confidently. "They don't call me Eaon the Reckoning for nothing you know!"
Druz said nothing in return to Eaon's cocky comment, he only stood motionless, waiting for an attack.
"Get ready, cause my magic is outta this world!" Eaon shouting as his arm glowed a deep brown. "Golem Buster!" He screamed as he pushed his fist forward, a rocket of earth blasted from his arm aiming towards Druz.
Druz on the other hand still stood unmoving, focused entirely on Eaon standing behind his attack. A small smile suddenly graced his respectful and noble features.
And the crowd gasped in awed unison. Suddenly, Eaon and Druz had switched places, Druz stood behind the attack and Eaon stood in it's way. His Golem Buster spell hit Eaon right in the face, launching him backwards into a wall.
"Eaon the Reckoning, you are correct. Your magic is indeed powerful to knock yourself out, however you have never come up against my Switch." Druz spoke respectfully, give a small courteous bow to the unconscious Eaon and then to the judge, before turning to Goldmine in the stands, bowing once more to him.
The audience only watched Druz leave the battle square in a stunned silence. "Would you believe that folks!" The announcer suddenly broke the silence. "Druz Rakshasas performs the quickest knock-out of the first round! Under 6 seconds! Please stay put for the announcements for the second round which will begin shortly!"
The audience cheered loudly at the prospect of the second round beginning, yet up in the Guild Master's booth the stunned silence remained.
"Goldmine, was that Spatial Manipulation that your Druz performed?" Makarov asked in a silent shock, his eyes slowly shifting towards the grinning Goldmine. "I had always known that Druz and Mistgun shared a rivalry of sorts across our guilds. But this is unbelievable, time and spatial manipulation magics were supposed to have been forgotten and become extinct."
Goldmine only chuckled at Makarov's comments. "Druz..." He spoke out with his light chuckle. "He's always been one of my best."
"And thus concludes the first two days of the tournament! Ending round one with an awe-inspiring bang!" The announcer screamed to the crowd, his response was cheers of applause and admiration.
"The Second Round will kick off tomorrow morning! Be sure to be nice and rested to watch these titans clash for the ultimate prize!" The announcer called out again to the cheer of the crowd.
'This ultimate prize... what is it?' Naruto asked curiously, standing in the battle square with the other 31 contestants, they were arranged in lines corresponding to their guild. It was obvious which guilds were the underdogs and top contenders.
"As of tomorrow, contestants will now be able to watch the other fights. Study and learn your possible opponents, you may just come up against them in the final!" The announcer yelled into his Lacrima powered microphone again. "And now a brief run down of the contestants left! Titan Nose with only one Mage remaining; Indigo Starseeker! White Snake with four mages remaining; Kimimaro Kaguya, Sakon, Jirobo and Tayuya! Surprisingly, also with just four mages left, Fairy Tail! With Laxus Dreyar, Natsu Dragneel, Loki and Elfman remaining! Fairy Tail's biggest rivals, Phantom Lord have the advantage now, with five mages remaining, could this be the year Phantom Lord finally defeats Fairy Tail! Well with Gajeel Redfox, Lyn, Bozo, Juvia Lockser and Sasuke Uchiha remaining it just might be! Lamia Scale has but three contestants left; Joey De Graff, Barain Geaso and Yuka Suzuki, but Lamia Scale's rivals, Blue Pegasus and Quatro Cerberus also just have but three contests remaining! Shuichi Konjou, Fayne Lelni and Hibiki Laytis from Blue Pegasus and Kikazaru Kashikoi, Mizaru Kashikoi and Druz Rakshasas from Quatro Cerberus! But, the most shocking display so far, newcomers Ozaru have ALL EIGHT CONTESTANTS STILL REMAINING! Let's hear it for Ozaru!; Alaric Kaizer, Jio Freed, Cross Biancina, Naruto Namikaze, Midnight, Ponzu Lilith, Spika Futomomotarou and Kaito Yuria!" The announcer finished, cheers changing volume and pitch depend on the name of the guild and mage being called, Fairy Tail still receiving the largest amount of applause, Ozaru wasn't far behind.
Naruto noticed how his name caused massive noise from the crowd, including a few squeals of delight, he could hear members of the crowd speak about him in awe, how he had defeated Erza so easily and no one now stood in his way. 'Am I... the fan favourite?'
"I will go over the scheduled fights for round 2! Please pay attention to the board!" The announcer called, pointing to the large screen above the battle square, everyone's heads turned in anticipation to the screen, the results were fixed, but perhaps people forgot who they would be fighting.
(Phantom Lord) Lyn
VS
(Ozaru) Alaric Kaizer
(Ozaru) Jio Freed
VS
(Quatro Cerberus) Kikazaru Kashikoi
(Quatro Cerberus) Mizaru Kashikoi
VS
(Titan Nose) Indigo Starseeker
(Fairy Tail) Loki
VS
(Fairy Tail) Elfman
(Fairy Tail) Natsu Dragneel
VS
(Ozaru) Naruto Namikaze
(Blue Pegasus) Shuichi Konjou
VS
(Lamia Scale) Joey De Graff
(White Snake) Sakon
VS
(Phantom Lord) Bozo
(Ozaru) Midnight
VS
(Blue Pegasus) Fayne Lelni
(Phantom Lord) Gajeel Redfox
VS
(Lamia Scale) Barain Geaso
(Quatro Cerberus) Iwazaru Kashikoi
VS
(Ozaru) Cross Biancina
(Ozaru) Ponzu Lilith
VS
(Ozaru) Spika Futomomotarou
(White Snake) Jirobo
VS
(Phantom Lord) Sasuke Uchiha
(Ozaru) Kaito Yuria
VS
(Blue Pegasus) Hibiki Laytis
(Phantom Lord) Juvia Lockser
VS
(White Snake) Kimimaro Kaguya
(Lamia Scale) Yuka Suzuki
VS
(Fairy Tail) Laxus Dreyar
(White Snake) Tayuya
VS
(Quatro Cerberus) Druz Rakshasas
Naruto looked over to the small line that was the mages left in Fairy Tail, his eyes locked onto the back of the head of the rosy haired boy. The one that was to be his opponent. 'Natsu Dragneel?... Let's have a little sneak peek and see what I'm up against, shall we?' Naruto gave off a small, almost undetectable smirk as his eyes locked onto the rosy haired mage, as if a radar went off from his eyes. 'Scan!' His eyes widened for a moment, flashing wide open before returning to a cocky narrowed look.
'Only magic; Fire Dragon Slayer.
Pros: Gives the ability to create and produce fire from any part of the body. Allows the nullification of all known Fire Magic spells to the user. Allows the user to eat fire in order to replenish his own energy.
Cons: Can not manipulate Fire, can only create it on his own body.'
Naruto smirked as Scan finished it's analysis of the Fairy Tail mage. 'It most the most important con...' Naruto smirked amusingly to himself. 'It's in the hands of an idiot...'
Naruto stared at the Fire Dragon Slayer one final time, his brow lowering as he glowering confidently at him. 'Come little Fire Dragon Slayer. Time to fight someone who has dealt with the God of Fire...'
A/N: Hey there! DGS here saying thanks for being so patient, you see, I had lost a little faith in Fairy Tail, after the incredibly short fight with Hades, yet despite how he is now, all valuing life and what not, Zeref has actually restored my faith in Fairy Tail. He INTENTIONALLY killed someone, one of the few times someone has actually done that in the manga, if not the only. (Rob and Simon sacrificed themselves)
Well the first round comes to an end, was that to everyone's liking. I'd like to thank Crossovernaru and Windraider for Sasuke's Magic, Crossovernaru's hasn't been seen yet but he's too credit, and Windraider created the Blade Aura Magic, so props to him.
Side plots and plotlines will begin over the next two chapters so be on the look out. I've put pictures of some of the tournament OC's on my profile if you'd like to take a look at them.
I've made a poll of who out of Ozaru would you like to see survive, you have three choices in total but you don't have to use all three, similarly, three members might not survive, maybe only one or two shall. However, one person on that list will Definately die, see if you can figure out who it is.
Well that's about all for now, I'm gonna try update The Namikage and The Four Nations again. I'm also trying to persuade Rinne-Kami to not leave FanFiction so please bare with me for Chapter 14. Thank you.
D.G.S