I'm finally going to reveal White Valkyrie's relations to Sabertooth. I hope you all enjoy!
July 1, X791
Olga Nanagear of Sabertooth and Sora Aokaze of White Valkyrie took their positions in the arena and stared each other down, waiting for the referees to give the signal to start the fight.
"The lack of surprise for the selection of these two guilds is completely understandable." Chapati said to the audience. "But since some of our contestants aren't aware of it, I'll just give you all a quick refresher. White Valkyrie's Guild Master and her sister were initially members of Sabertooth until last year's games. They must have left afterward to form their own guild."
In White Valkyrie's section of the stands, Sylvia looked toward the commentators with slight sadness on her face.
"If they only knew why…" Syvlia mumbled to herself.
In Sabertooth's section of the stands, several members were talking with each other.
"Okay, the over-under is 10 seconds!" Kyo said. "Anyone dare wanna take the over?"
"I'll take the over."
Kyo began writing down the bet number. "This man just lost 500 J. Kyrin, you want in on this?"
"No. Thanks." Kyrin replied coldly.
Kyo turned to take other bets, but Kyrin then tapped his shoulder.
"1,000 on over." Kyrin said.
"I knew you were a betting man!" Kyo said. "Just to clarify, those taking the under, Olga needs to win under 10 seconds! If he goes over, you lose!"
Olga looked at Sora with a smug grin on his face as he readied for battle.
"Heh, you don't look so tough." Olga said.
"Don't you dare underestimate me!" Sora shouted.
With the ring of the gong, Olga decided to make quick work of Sora with one of his most powerful attacks.
"I'll make this quick." Olga said.
A bolt of black lightning struck Sora, resulting in an explosion of black electricity engulfing him. Everyone looked in awe and shock at the sheer power of Olga's attack as a large cloud of dust completely enveloped the arena.
Kyo held a pocket watch. "Seven seconds! The unders got it!"
Kyo began collecting the money from those who declared over and patted Kyrin on the shoulder.
"Maybe next time, buddy." Kyo said as he was about to collect Kyrin's cash.
Kyrin tapped Kyo's hand away and pointed to the arena. "It's not over yet."
"Wow, looks like Olga made quick work of him!" Chapati said. "And the victory goes to-"
Suddenly, a spear of light zipped right past Olga's face and pierced the wall behind him. As the dust settled, it was revealed that Sora was still standing and his appearance had completely changed. Six golden wings were sprouting from his back and his clothes were replaced by pure white armor.
"I told you not to underestimate me." Sora's voice was also different, sounding like he and another deeper voice was speaking at the same time.
Spiral looked from the stands in surprise at what he was seeing.
"What kind of magic is that?" Spiral gasped.
"It's not like any kind of Light Magic I've read about." Hikari said.
In the stands where Fairy Tail Team B was waiting, they all watched the fight intently.
"It's Take Over Magic." Mirajane said.
"How can you tell?" Juvia asked.
"Because his magic is a sibling to mine." Mirajane answered. "Angel Soul. Much like how I can borrow the powers of demons, that boy can do the same with angels."
"Bet you can't wait to fight him, eh?" Gajeel asked.
"Not really." Mirajane replied with a smile. "I'd completely crush him."
The fact that Mirajane said that with such an innocent-looking smile on her face made the rest of them feel a bit uneasy around her, except for Jellal who was keeping to himself.
Sylvia, Kara and the rest of White Valkyrie looked on from the stands.
"Seraphim. That's the only Take Over that Sora has access to right now." Kara said. "Hopefully it's enough to defeat Olga."
"We've trained Sora well." Sylvia said. "Have faith in him. Even if he fails he'll be stronger for it."
Sora leered at Olga, who was surprised to see him withstand his attack without much damage at all.
"That attack actually hurt." Sora said. "Most attacks don't have much of an effect on me. Maybe it's because of your God Slayer Magic."
"So you figured it out…" Olga grinned. "Yeah, I'm the Lightning God Slayer. But I'm just surprised you managed to withstand my attack."
"Well it's the last hit you're going to get in." Sora said.
Sora summoned forth a hundred spears of light behind him that were aiming directly at Olga.
"Heavenly Battalion!"
With a swift motion of his hand, Sora sent the spears shooting past him and at Olga. Olga tried to blow them away with black lightning, but some of them managed to hit Olga and pierced through his body. Even though they weren't leaving wounds, they still hurt him like hell. After Sora's assault had let up, Olga held his palms close and charged an orb of black lightning in it.
"120mm Black Lightning Cannon!"
From the charged orb shot out a powerful blast of black lightning. Sora shielded himself with his six wings and they blocked the blast, although he was still under a lot of strain from the attack.
"Come on, Sora!" Bryant shouted from the stands. "Put some more muscle into it!"
"He's blocking, not attacking." Leah said.
"He can push the attack away, can't he?" Bryant responded.
"Has anyone else noticed that Olga isn't wearing a shirt?" Momo asked. "Showing off those large, sweaty muscles… Spiral's still cuter, though."
"You're such a pervert, Momo." Leah said as she leered to the side.
*This isn't good.* Sora thought. *His attacks are doing a lot more damage than I thought they would. I need to buy myself some time.*
With a burst of his wings, he deflected the attack right back at Olga and sent him crashing into the wall of the arena. Sora's right hand started to give off a golden glow and he slammed his palm against his chest.
"Heavenly Blessing!"
Sora's entire angelic body started to glow gold and his wounds and bruises slowly started to heal.
"Self-healing?" Olga raised his eyebrow.
"He can heal himself?" Hikari gasped. "I thought healing was a Lost Magic."
"It is." Blaise said as she walked up to them. "Angel Soul IS a Lost Magic, just like Sakura's Dragon Slayer Magic."
"If it's a Lost Magic, how did he learn it?" Spiral asked.
"I don't know." Blaise said before looking at Sora. "But I'm sure he does."
"Wait, Master Blaise." Spiral said. "If he can heal himself, does that mean he has the advantage?"
"Not necessarily." Blaise answered. "Using those healing spells must require a large amount of magic power. What really matters is if that boy can win before he runs out of magic energy."
Sora was panting, but he tried his best not to let Olga notice.
*Damn!* Sora thought. *As I am now, I can only use Heavenly Blessing once a day. I better end this as quickly as I can.*
Sora created a sword of light in his hand and charged at Olga. He was about to stab downward, but Olga jumped out of the way and dodged the attack, making Sora stab the ground instead. He let go of the light sword and formed another one in his hand before swinging at Olga again. After a few swings, Sora threw out another downward stab at Olga, but he dodged it again and the sword was stabbed into the ground. Sora created another sword of light and continued attacking Olga with it. Since Sora was attacking him so fast, Olga didn't have much time to counterattack. Sora figured out that Olga's powerful attacks had a major drawback; they took a little time to charge before he could unleash them, so Sora used his speedier attacks to his advantage by not giving Olga any opportunities to charge up an attack. After he had stabbed three more light swords into the ground, Sora flew up into the sky and looked down at the light swords embedded in the ground with Olga right in the middle of them.
"This ends now!" Sora said.
The light swords were connected by a beam which from above formed a pentagonal shape and a bright golden light began to shine from the pentagon.
"Heavenly Retribution!"
Suddenly, a large stream of light fell from the sky and struck the pentagon head on with Olga still inside it.
"GYYAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Olga screamed in pain.
The light was so bright that everyone in Domus Flau had to shield their eyes and couldn't make out anything that was happening at the moment. As the light and the attack faded, Sora slowly fell to the ground as his angelic form started to disappear and his body began to revert back to its normal state. Upon finally landing on the ground, Sora's body had finally returned to normal and he fell to his knees, panting heavily from exhaustion.
"That was some attack, kid."
Sora's eyes widened in shock upon hearing that voice and he looked up to see that Olga was still standing, though badly damaged from his attack.
"But… that was my strongest attack…" Sora muttered.
"Your Guild Master should've warned you how strong Sabertooth is." Olga said. "I'll admit that you're good, but you're still no match for our guild."
A bolt of black lightning suddenly struck Sora, resulting in an electrical explosion that completely engulfed him. Unlike last time, Sora was lying face-down in the dirt with a lot of bruises and burns covering his body.
"And it's over!" Chapati shouted into the microphone. "That was one hell of a fight, but in the end the winner comes as no surprise! Olga Nanagear of Sabertooth! That gives Sabertooth a total of 20 points on the first day! Incredible!"
"Wow! That took way longer than I thought." Kyo said.
"I think I'm owed 1,000 J." Kyrin said.
"Alright, hold your horses." Kyo said. "I just need to change the math… Geez…"
Sora felt like he could barely get up as Sylvia and Kara came up to him.
"I'm sorry I lost." Sora said. "I failed you, Master Sylvia, Lady Kara…"
"That doesn't matter." Sylvia said.
Kara helped Sora up and carried him by her shoulders. "Do you think we care whether or not you lose?"
"Victories are important for morale, but losses are just as important." Sylvia said. "Learning from our mistakes and losses is the first step to becoming a stronger wizard."
"If only SOME people could understand that." Kara glared over at Sabertooth once again before carrying Sora out of the arena. "You don't look so good, Sora. Allow me to take you to the infirmary."
Olga turned around and walked toward his guild.
"You're just gonna leave after a match just like that, Olga?" Sting asked.
"… I'll go sing a song." Olga turned around again and walked toward Mato.
"That's not what I meant!" Sting shouted.
Olga took the microphone away from Mato and started singing into it.
We're the best, we're the best, Number One! We're the unstoppable Sabertooth!
Although the audience was applauding Olga's singing, some other people didn't find it that entertaining.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Spiral screamed as he was rolling on the ground. "IT'S SO TERRIBLE! MY EEEEEEEEEAAAAARRRS!"
After Olga's 'performance', the next fight was about to begin between Fairy Tail Team B's Mystogan and Lamia Scale's Jura. While the fight seemed to be fairly even at first, things changed when Mystogan started to have strange fits of a burning mouth and laughing until he collapsed onto the ground. It left everyone speechless, including Jura.
After the fight between Mystogan and Jura, Meredy was outside the city by a river trying to drink up as much water as she could.
"Hot, hot!" Meredy exclaimed.
"Are you okay, Meredy?" Foster asked as he came up behind her.
"My tongue's just on fire, thanks for asking." Meredy answered.
"This should help."
Meredy turned to Foster to see him holding out a bottle of ice cold water.
"Thanks, Foster!" Meredy happily took the water. "You're so sweet!"
"You're sweet, too."
"Ohhh…"
Foster gave Meredy a peck on the cheek. "I probably shouldn't be alone with you for long, or Ultear will start to get suspicious."
"OkAy!" Meredy spoke while guzzling down the bottle of water.
A/N: Sorry that took a little longer than intended! I just got an XBoxOne and also Dragon Age: Inquisition and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. Even though I'm on spring break right now, I might not work on this because I have a paper to write and my parents want me to limit my time with the games, anime and FF so I'm more alert. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy!