Notice: I am extremely exhausted right now, sore too, and I want nothing more than to lie down and sleep. Unfortunately for me and fortunate for you I can't do that because I have to get back on my sleep schedule. I'm on like my 5th cup of instant coffee right now since the maker is broken :(
Anyways I believe the reason I've been having slow writes on this story for the last few chapters is because I've been worried I would forget what I've thought for the story. Don't worry though, I've written it all down so I should be back on top speed now.
Updates will be once or twice a week because I'm really busy at this time of year, and there should be little to no hesitation from here on out for hopefully the next dozen or so chapters :)
Notice(2): It is rather hard typing this out. Every time I get an idea my annoying older (childish) brother screams the F-bomb as high as he can. I swear if I go deaf because of him in my 20s, I'll beat him to a pulp. I dislike American "football" It's what he get's for cheering on the Cowboys. Previous Americans are a bit stupid from history, I mean soccer should be called football since it makes more sense. Football should be called something else, but hey, what can we do?
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R.I.P.
Gray Fullbuster
Jack Hollow
Lisanna Strauss
Erza Scarlet
Kagura Mikazuchi
Wendy Marvell
Alice Wonder
Millianna
Hikari Kurai
Navera Narashta
Natsu Dragneel
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R.I.H.
Kaius Damien
Crash Furi
Fayt Landis
Paranoia Lectra
Leah Cross
Judas Deamon
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or the music below
"How do we fight if we can't look at them?" Marine asked.
"You can look at them, just anywhere except their eyes." Nelliel answered her.
"This really is going to be difficult isn't it?" Marine asked, already knowing the answer.
However before her teammates could reply a different voice beat them to it.
Rae materialized right in front of Marine, looking right into her eyes while smirking. "More than you could ever realizzzze, you sssssssssee?!" Rae grabbed Marine's throat in a hold before leaping into the air, disappearing into the trees.
"MARINE!"
Rae leapt to the highest trees, standing 60 feet to the ground with Marine in her grasp. Marine's face was slowly turning blue, her hands clawing at Rae's but her grip was to tight.
Rae's hand slowly withdrew a dagger from her hip, appearing as though the blade once belonged to a Sabertooth, or a very large snake.
Without hesitation she plunged it into Marine's chest, the end going out the other side.
She frowned seeing no reaction or even a trace of blood from the blow, looking up she was met with Marine's gin. "Oh, by the way. I can make my water become water. Just a heads-up there Rae." She said before throwing a water punch at Rae, sending her back seven feet when it came in contact with her chest.
Marine heard Rae hiss before the Leviathan strikes at her again, but was blocked by Marine's now drawn bow. "Not happening snake-whore!" Marine shouts, before kicking Rae back with a sharp water blow to the stomach.
"Water Nebula!" Two columns of water formed and began to rotate around each other and form a helix before going in a forward attack just barely missing Rae. The helix explodes into a tree, water raining down from the leaves and oak of the tree while the tree that was hit had a large hole through the center of it.
"It take more than that to take me down, girl!" Rae yells, her fingers forming a hand sign before her golden eye glows. "Snake Eye: Awake!" Beneath Rae's eye patch a purple light glows, and when Rae tore it off it revealed a completely black eye, the pupil slitted black while white vertexes swirled around inside the iris.
Marine felt fear grown inside her at the mere sight of the unhuman eye. Not that her other was very human either, but this was almost demonic feeling.
Slowly Rae's body began to transform, purple scales covering over her skin, her hair becoming longer and messier. Her spine bended and stretched to become more flexible while her voice sharpened and pointed as though her head had shaped to be a snake.
She hissed at Rae before running at Marine, who barely had enough time to lift her bow to block the attack from the speed of her blow, but even then the force was strong enough to knock her off her feet and fall from the tree.
After about 20 feet of falling Marine forms water ropes and swings them around a trees branch keeping her from falling to her death any longer.
Huffing out a breath she pulls herself up on the branch and notches back an arrow, keeping a steady eye out for the snake-girl.
"Water Arrows." Marine whispers, turning her wooden arrows into water, but still keeping it's shape and color.
Golden and Black eyes flash through her vision causing her to let the arrow lose, watching it soar through the air and disappear through the trees.
A screech echoes through the forest a moment later, before silence.
Marine realizes what she just did and curses, "Fuck." Before feeling something drip unto her check four or five times. Looking up she was met with the sight of a decaying body.
So Marine did what almost anyone else would do in her situation, she screamed.
Back with the others in the Snake Nest after Marine was taken...
"MARINE!" Niel shouted again, searching for where she may have gone. "Marine, damnit! Answer me!" Niel shouted again, his eyes in the trees.
"Niel!" Nelliel's shout right next to his ear made him jump and glare at her. "We have to find her!" He shouted at her. "No, we can't. Wherever Rae had taken her it is clear she didn't want to be followed, covering her tracks completely," Nelliel tells him. When he was about to ague Mira stepped in as well.
"She's right, we still have an enemy to defeat here as well."
Niel looked down. "Fine." He grounded out, before stepping away.
However before Niel could even react the silver cobra appeared above him, taking its tail and wrapping it around his torso before literally throwing him backwards, seven feet away.
"Shit!" Niel curses picking himself up, before putting his right hand on a tree and his left on the ground before calling, "Matter-Make; Tigers! Animate!" Wooden and earth-made tigers formed from the ground and the tree before color was added to them and they became real, rushing at the silver cobra roaring.
Unbelievably skilled the snake dodges every claw, every jaw of the attacking tigers. Wrapping it's tail around each one and crushing them to dust or using it's venom from every bite to kill the beasts.
A whistle sounds amongst all the ruckus that no one pays attention too, but one creature did hear it and soon revealed itself to Nelliel. It was her bat, that she had brought in when they were introducing themselves before. The said bat landed on her arm before glowing grey transforming into a black hilted, shinning silver blade.
Gripping it with her right hand she rushes forward with determination to split the cobra in half, but at every swing the snake managed to dodge just at the last second.
"Block it from all angles so it can't dodge!" Mira shouts over to them, while trying to hit the snake with Demon Blasts. Slowly but surely they were able to corner the snake from all sides. Neil at the tail while Mira had the right side and Nelliel had the front and left.
"Now!" Mira shouted, dark energy forming into a ball in front of her.
Nelliel raised her blade high for a finishing blow while Niel created an executioner's axe in his hands made of a boulder.
Together as Nelliel and Niel literally threw their weapons at the snake as to not get caught into Mira's Soul Extinction when she let the beam of destruction toward the snake.
When Mira's attack hit all three were pushed backwards from the sheer force of the attack. By the time they were back on their feet all that was left of where the snake once stood was destroyed land and their two swords embedded into the tree far away from it.
Niel sighed in relief while Mira and Nelliel relaxed.
Their victory was short lived however when the next thing Niel knew there was a huge fang sticking out of his chest. In shock he could only stare as his own blood dripped from the fang. Last thing he heard was chuckling before his vision went black and he fell forward, falling into the endless depths.
Rae smirked at her red fang that was now coated in the boy's blood. Mira and Nelliel stared horrified at her and the death of their teammate who was only just alive mere seconds ago cheering for their victory.
Rae flicked the blood from the blade causing blood rain to sprinkle on the ground before sheathing it, her smirk still present before slowly turning to a grin.
"Didn't anyone tell you to never turn your back on your enemy?" Rae tells them, rather than asks. She fully grinned seeing their confused but still scared expressions.
"'Cause it take more than that to kill me." A voice sounded behind the dup causing them to turn around seeing Kuchiku behind them.
"When did she get here?" Both Mira and Nelliel thought together.
"You turned your back on your enemy again, shame, but I won't let you go this time." Rae says behind them, and immediately charges from behind with her silver and fang blades raised for attack.
Mira just barely blocked both attacks made by Rae in time and engaged in battle together in a sword vs claw fight. Mira too close to use a long range shot which was basically all her spells.
Nelliel however was not so much on time to see Kuchiku slam a foot into her gut sending her skidding back but still on her feet.
"Oh right, you don't recognize me in this form.. I'm the cobra you thought you defeated." Kuchiku tells her, throwing a fist at a surprised Nelliel who just barely blocks it.
Mira however got lucky, landing a hard kick to Rae's side sending her flying back, slamming into the back of a tree.
"Darkness Stream!" Mira shouts, multiple tendrils of darkness lashing out from her palm and enveloping Rae's form, before exploding.
Mira slowly approached Rae's wounded form that was smirking up at her despite her serious wounds.
"Why do you smile?" Mira asked her, only to watch Rae's eyes lift to hers holding mischief and amusement.
"Because you really think I'm so easy to defeat, when in truth I'm not really here." Rae tells her confusing her immensely, however before Mira could ask Rae's body exploded revealing a mass of snakes that quickly slithered away out of sight.
Realization hit Mira like a hammer, Rae wasn't there with them at all, the entire time she was fighting a fake. A copy or Rae.
This also meant that she was wide open.
Mira barely dodged an enormous wave of poison. The rest she could only breathe in but immediately after she felt like something was stabbing her from the inside causing her to stumble forward, now at the mercy of Kuchiku, who stood over her while Nelliel tried to unhinge herself from the sword that has her pinned to the ground, only able to watch as Kuchiku approaches Nelliel.
"I knew I was right about you, immune to poison. That's why Rae and I created this poison, so that even those immune off all others would not be able to fight this poison off." Kuchiku told her, enjoying Mira's fearful expression.
"That's right, you're going to die here, and like Rae said, by Nightfall."
With Marine and Rae...
Marine felt something smooth and sharp slide against her neck, and then all she felt was pain. Her vision dyed red and the decaying body in front of her began to blur through her eyes before fading out from existence.
Marine found herself laying on her back on a branch, her throat filling in what she could only guess blood.
"Damn, illusion." Marine choked out, before turning on her side to vomit a stomach full of blood out of her throat.
A laugh sounded in front of her, and soon enough Rae was standing over her, a long silver blade held in her right hand while the fang was gripped tightly in her left. Her two unhuman eyes staring down at her.
"You're strong, just not strong enough against me." Rae told her before lifting the blade up, right above her chest.
"So long, little mermaid." She told her before bringing the blade down and piercing it though her chest and through her heart.
Marine's body writhes beneath the blade, darkness shadowing her eyes while she blindly grasps the blade with her bloody hands before they fall to the ground next to her where blood pours around her.
Rae slides her blade out of the girl before kicking her body off the branch, watching for a moment as she falls before turning around, sheathing her blade behind her back and jumping down from the tree to find her next opponent.
Marine watched through her closing eyes as she fell, watching colors of the forest blur before her as she fell.
"Damnit, I wasn't strong enough." She growls at herself. Looking to the side she sees Rae's blurring figure leap down from the trees.
Marine was almost dead, she should've already been dead but her will was forcing out her last strength.
"Just one last time.." Marine whispers, throwing her hands out and closing her eyes, focusing on the water around her. In the air, the earth, the rivers, the trees and the plants. Everything but the water in her own body.
Water slowly flows away from their host, the trees dying, the plants slumping and falling, clouds disappearing from the sky, river lowering a foot as their water is called to Marine.
4o feet until impact.
A huge ball of water appeared before Marine, above her. She glanced to her right seeing Rae once more, and with her last strength and power she gasps out, "Water Absorption; Tsunami!"
The huge mass of spiraling water turned and expanded into a wall before rushing forward like a tsunami at Rae who only had time to look back before the humongous wave hit her full force and she was sent flying the rest of the way to the ground.
Marine's sight finally clouded into darkness and she felt herself falling into an endless tunnel. Her soul dies out from her body leaving her body just a corps as it continues to fall.
25 feet until impact.
Marine's body catches into a nest of vines, wrapping around her arms and her neck. Breaking it from an already dead body, and holding her still instead of becoming road kill splat on the ground.
She was still dead though.
Her soul already gone from a painful death..
Her death however was not indeed in vain.
Alright, I decided to end it there. This battle is taking longer than I expected but guess what readers? We're almost to the final fight! Against Leviathan Skull that is, not of the entire story of course :3
See you readers next chapter!
Oh, but one more thing -
Me: Snow white has been mad at me for a while :P
Lyon: Hey! Do I look like a princess to you?
Me: *looks at nails* Do you really want me to answer that?
Lyon: *Grumbles to himself*
Me: Ok, the readers are a bit lost
Lyon: Of course they are, you left me out!
Me: I did not
Lyon: Yeah you did! I heard you say it!
Me: Fine, so what? At least I put you in at the last minute
Lyon: ...
Me: You know if you continue to annoy me I'll write yourself falling off Lys and dying an ugly death
Lyon: ... Satan!
Me: Yea, yea, I get that all the time
Lyon: I wonder why? (sarcasm)
Me: You just signed your death certificate
Lyon: Noooooooo! I take it back I don't want to fall off a dragon!
Lys: Ugh hem, you know I'm up to the decision right?
Lyon: Ha!
Lys: I wasn't referring to her, Lyon...
Lyon: Oh... crap