Hey guys, don't know how many readers I lost from not updating in a while but I plan to get you all back. I'm not used to writing battle scenes but tell me whether you like them or not ok?

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Previously..

"You lost your little buddy, so there goes you light." Leah laughs, only to stop short when a voice that wasn't Lucy's cut through her own.

"Actually she has me." The voice belonged to none other than Navera, who stepped out into the light, her palm suddenly holding two spheres of burning suns, pointed directly at Leah.

"If that lion's golden light did that much to your shadows, let's see what the sun will do to you" Navera grins before joining Lucy in the fight against The Assassin.

Normal Pov

"Sun Magic; Beam!" Navera shouts, her hands brought together as the two burning suns combine into one before launching a thick beam straight at Leah, who took a large wave of shadows and slammed it into the beam, throwing the sun ray into a tree, roasting it.

"What?!" Navera yells confused.

Leah only laughed. "Silly girl, you think I would be ranked six if I couldn't handle the light? Pah! Pathetic." She sneered before lifting herself on a wave of darkness and banked left, throwing Lucy off her feet by creating hands from the tree's branches.

"Shit!" Lucy cursed as she fell flat on her face, her shadow growled inside of her feeling humiliated. "I won't be tossed aside so easily!" Lucy yelled flipping herself back on her feet before pulling out her gun once again and aimed, before shooting a dozen green bullets at Leah.

"Shadow Magic; Shield!" Leah shouted, a blanket wrapping around her, causing Lucy's bullets to reflect back at her like it had with Leo. But the bullets never hit Lucy, instead she swung her rifle like a bat and hit her own bullets right back. Leah not expecting this had already lowered her shield but as she was about to bring it back a second beam of light headed straight for her.

"Shadow Magic; Riot!" A rain of shadow rain fired from Leah's palms and headed straight for Lucy and Navera.

Lucy met every rain with an atom of her dark energy bullets, unseen to the human eye but were there as the rain pellets were obliviated by Lucy's unseen bullets.

"Sun Magic; Comet!" Navera shouts, the rain seeming to slow as it heads toward Navera, "Sun Magic; Dawnstar!" A long stainless steel sword with a sun carved into the center of the blade caught seemingly in brilliant golden flames, rays of the sun, as the blade gleams red of it's burning heat. Bringing her sword up the rays stretch out in full size of Navera, and with every black pellet of rain hit, was quickly broken down into powder by the rays before catching aflame, disappearing into the wind.

"Shadow Magic; -" Leah was cut off as shadow Lucy's tail snagged Leah's leg and yanked it behind her causing Leah to fall unto her stomach. Red claws appear out of Lucy's feet, as she brings her foot up ready to stomp it down Leah's back. But Leah rolled away wrapping herself in shadows before becoming one and jumped upwards, disappearing into the trees.

Seconds passed without movement, but Navera kept her suns ready in her palms for a surprised attack and Lucy kept her senses up.

Suddenly a shadow dagger pierced straight through Lucy's chest causing Navera to scream in fear and a taunting laugh echoed through the area.

"Foolish Heartifilia, I am not known as the Assassin for nothing." Leah's voice laughed, her voice surrounding the area. But Lucy wasn't killed, instead Shadow Lucy pulled the blade free from her chest before biting it, and slowly ate it, causing anime sweat drops to Navera and Leah.

"Don't you know you can't kill a shadow? Surely a shadow user would know that?" Shadow Lucy taunted.

Leah growled, making it seemingly sound of low thunder echo through the forest.

Shadow Lucy grinned a toothy grin. "You use the shadows to you advantage. Navera, I'm sure you know what to do about this.. advantage." She smiles deviously, and Navera taking the hint brought her hands into a large halo around her, before slamming her palms to the ground and shouting "Sun Magic; SHIFT!"

The land began to burn into the ground beneath everyone's feet, but spared Navera and Lucy's feet from harm. Leah was still safe from the ground being hidden into the trees but when the sun seemed to appear right above them, it's light blinding the entire area, and the rays blasting down hitting the ground in loud rumbles as though an earthquake had appeared.

None of the mages could see what was happening, not even Navera herself, however once the light had cleared Lucy stood with her shadow retreated in her mind, Navera was panting slightly, and Leah was on her knees on the treeless clearing.

The entire terrain had been wiped clean, leaving a hundred acres clear of everything, it was as though the entire area of their battle field had become a dry desert. "NNNNOOOO!" Leah screeched, standing up on her feet again, fury blazing in her eyes.

"Shadow Magic; Shadow Hound!" Leah screamed, using her shadow and duplicated it with her magic, as it slowly built up, lifting Leah up into the air standing on it's back. Seconds later a huge 50ft black fur-less hound stood, black wisps making up it's entire bodies in long strands. Grey eyes like Leah's stared down at Lucy and Navera, seeing them as easy prey now.

The hound let out a howl that screeched through the air making everyone in the forest hold their ears if only to block out the noise. The howl seemed to never end, only grey louder, making Navera fall to her knees and making Lucy's eyes return to their green and red.

Navera crawled to Lucy once she found herself on her stomach on the ground, with Lucy now on her knees. "Lucy, I need you to distract her for me. I know a way to defeat her, and quickly." Navera told Lucy, who nodded in understanding.

Navera pretended to lose consciousness allowing her eyes to shut and her head to hit the ground, making her look defeated. Lucy could see this and internally smirked.

Lucy removed her hands from her ears, ignoring the screeching howl as best as she could, even when her ears began to bleed, before slowly forcing her legs to extend, allowing her to be at her feet.

Staring up straight into Leah's eyes, completely ignoring the beast she stands on, she whispered "Black Surf."

Black wisps appeared around Lucy before slowly moving beneath her feet and formed into a black surf board, seeming to just float in mid-air. "You could never defeat me, Leah Cross!" Lucy's voice thunders loudly enough to reach the heavens above.

"Forward!" Leah commands, her beast leapt at Lucy, it's giant claws sweeping to the very spot Lucy once was, but was now behind the beast and Leah, with her hands crossed in front of her chest. Her eyes were gleaming in their multi-color lights. Leah screeched, throwing her hands towards Lucy, using the shadow hound's 'fur' wisps as her shadows and shot a dozen shadow daggers towards Lucy, who in return merely did a few dives in the air on her surf board avoiding them with her enhanced speed.

"Shadow Magic: Chains!" Leah commanded, and black chains appeared from seemingly thin air by Lucy's wrists, immediately wrapping around them before Lucy could try and escape. Leah brought her hand toward herself, bringing Lucy towards her. Bringing her hound so it was facing Lucy she smirked up at Lucy who glowered upon at her.

"I'll admit your strong. But no one can defeat the Leviathans, especially not a fairy." Leah said, a sword appearing in both her hands. "Let's see how long it takes for you to break." Leah whispers, summoning a shadow to wrap around Lucy's head, sealing over her mouth to block out noise.

If Leah expected to see fear in Lucy's eyes she got none, even as their eyes never left one another's.

Lucy's red and black eyes stared emotionlessly at Leah, even when the blade pierced into her arm, even when the assassin carved symbols into Lucy's arms. Leah made a cut for every seen skin, her arms, her face, shoulders, feet, but never once did Lucy move, never show a sign of pain.

Leah pulled her blade back, her tongue flicking across the blood that lay upon the blade. "Mm, your blood taste like no other's I've tasted."

"Cfhmal." Lucy muffled aloud.

Leah smirked and allowed the shadow rug against Lucy's mouth to disappear, mirth glistening in Leah's eyes as she stared into Lucy's emotionless one's.

Bringing a hand to her ear, Leah smirked tauntingly, "Sorry what was that?" she asked tentavelty.

Lucy allowed a devil's smirk to grace her lips, allowing her wounds to heal in front of Leah, as though they were never there. Leah could only stare in shock, dropping the blade in her hands before it dissipated into nothing.

"I said, cannibal." Lucy spoke, her voice amused. Lucy's eyes revealed victory in them.

"What's with that look in your eyes?" Leah snapped.

Lucy merely lifted her eyes slightly upward, and Leah following her eyes slowly turning around, only for her hound to let out a yelp as a flaming hellhound 100ft tall landed on top of both Leah and Lucy. The hound erupted into black flames, before dying into ashes, the huge hellhound covered in the sun's burning rays struck Leah and Lucy to the ground, it's claws embedding into only Leah though, tearing up her insides.

Leah let out a shriek of pain, while Lucy quickly made her surf board beneath her feet and dashed away from the burning hound and an equally burning hellhound. Lucy landing next to Navera, her surf board disappearing and Lucy landing swiftly on her feet smirked at Navera and said, "That was pretty legit Navera, pretty legit."

One of the nine went down burning, now there was eight to go.

And while Navera and Lucy were spared from defeat, who would not?

The battle against the Leviathan has only just begun..