Chapter 23: What a Waste
A/N: The week of battles begins! There will only be fights so be ready for some action! BUT BE WARNED! SOME GUILD MEMBER WILL DIE! I'll put the over under at three and let you guys guess if it's over or under. So without further ado…
Natsu: Oi, when's my fight?! Today?
No, not today. Now leave.
Lucy: And what about me?
No! It's Gōsuto today now both of you leave or else!
Both: Or else what?
I'll write your lemon right now and post that instead! (Both blush as red as Erza's hair and leave before I do it) Ha, idiots. The lemon is gonna happen after the fights no matter what. They're just delaying the inevitable. So now Enjoy! Chapter 23!
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(Erza POV)
We finish hearing the plan and look to see the walls receding, 'Huh? Oh so it's time to go? Well I'm ready now.' I look to my group of Jellal and Wendy and we nod at each other before heading off. "Remember don't stray from the plan too much or else! Good luck everyone!" Mavis says as all the fighters run to exit the church and immediately find the arena. It was huge and probably took out a couple of buildings since it was built quite literally ten feet from the church. I look at the arena and five entrances, and see the names above each one: Gōsuto, Madre, Padre, Lucy, and Natsu. My eyes linger on Lucy's as I watch Cana, Gildarts, Juvia, and Gray run in there, I wanted my revenge on her but that would either have to wait or simply be left unfulfilled.
I feel Jellal's hand on my shoulder and he says, "Come on. The faster we finish him, the faster we can get to Lucy, and the faster you get your revenge." I looked at him and nodded, turning to the door that said 'Gōsuto' on it, and run with Jellal to it.
"Wendy come on, let's go! Remember the plan!" She nods and follows us, and I begin to get ready for the battle, 'Remember you and Jellal are the actual fighters, Wendy is our support so we can't let her get hurt. We must ensure she is able to heal everyone who gets hurt. OK! I'm ready for this!' I stop preparing myself mentally as I look at the room we just entered and curse to myself. 'Crap! This field has a bunch of things that are creating shadows in it, this is right to his advantage.' "Jellal destroy the trees! We can't let him have too many shadows! Wendy help him!" I requip into my Adamantine armor and yell out, "COME AND FIGHT ME! Where are you…" I look around and don't see him anywhere and begin to wonder if he is even in here, and if this whole thing wasn't some sort of ruse.
That thought is immediately erased as suddenly I see him pop out of nowhere right in front of me, his fist hitting my face causing me to fly back and hit Jellal who was destroying trees behind me. "OOOF! Wha… Erza! Did he already start fighting? Where is he?" He asked as he helped me up and I looked around and couldn't see him anywhere. "His magic is already annoying me, hey where's Wendy?"
I look at him in shock and say, "I thought she was with you!" We look at each other concerned before looking feverishly for her. I spot her, not too far away blowing up some trees and not in any harm, and I call to her, "WENDY! Come here! We shouldn't split up like that, it will make it easier for him to pick us off."
She then runs over and as she arrives, Gōsuto appears and looks at us, before saying, "So decided to stick together, huh? Well that makes this easier, and oh. What do we have here, the little bluenette! Remember me? Probably not, since you never saw my face but I remember you! I nailed you to the tree, remember me now? KEKEKEKE!" He starts cackling as I look to Wendy and see her reaction was just what he wanted.
She began to tremble at the memory and looks at herself before she falls to her knees before curling up into a ball and crying, the memory still fresh in her mind and the signs of a now obvious PTSD showing themselves. "WENDY! IT'S OK! WE WON'T LET HIM HURT YOU! NOW GET UP, PLEASE! WE NEED YOUR HELP!" All I got was more sobs and a cackle from Gōsuto.
"Please, like you helped her last time? HA! We had her for a full week and you didn't even come close to finding her! And now you promise that you'll stop me from hurting her? Pathetic, empty promises as usual. Sign of weakness if you ask me. Now let us dance." He taunted at us and was quickly upon us, and landed in between Jellal and me. I barely have enough time to bring up my forearm to stop his kick, but Jellal isn't fast enough to stop his uppercut as it connects with his jaw, sending him up in the air. He doesn't go very far as Gōsuto grabs his ankle and spins him around once before throwing him at me, my only option being to catch him. As I catch him Gōsuto charges in and punches me in the face sending me falling backwards. I catch myself and quickly retreat with Jellal who was now standing again.
"Damn, he's fast, I'll have to start using some serious magic pretty soon. Erza I need you get up close and personal so I can launch my attack with some range, can you do that and hold him at bay?" Jellal asks me as he begins to look around for him.
"Yeah of course, how long do you need?" I ask as I look around and see him charging, "Never mind, just back up and get ready!" I requip into my Flight armor, and charge at him with even more speed than he could believe, and I begin slashing at him. He has to continuously dodge and I feel myself gaining ground on him, I begin to attack as fast as possible and finally land a hit on him. I grazed his shoulder and jumps back but is in no obvious pain, and he simply smirks at me before he charges at me instead.
However before he reaches me, Jellal yells, "Heavenly Blast!" he pulls his arm back and point his index finger and middle finger at Gōsuto and a sphere of heavenly magic goes and attacks him.
Gōsuto simply stands upright before yelling, "Shadow Sphere!" A ball of shadows form around him, the source being the shadows around him and then he disappears as the magic just hits the ground.
"Damn! Where did he go?" Jellal says as comes up next to me. "What was that anyways, where did he get the shadow from?"
"From the stuff around him, he used their shadows and created the sphere." As I was finishing, Gōsuto suddenly popped out of nowhere and grabbed me by the elbow and threw me into Jellal.
"Shadow Beam!" He yelled as he put his hand right in my face, but in my current armor, it increasing my speed to the max, I was able to push his hand away and send the blast up to the ceiling. I use his awkward position to land a clean hit on his gut, hitting and slicing righting above his navel. The cut isn't deep however as he was able to move a little bit out of the way. Then Jellal comes flying at him with a hand coated in his heavenly magic and moves to punch him in the face. He snorts at this and catches the punch with his hand and the magic in Jellal's hand simply disappears. He then uses the fact that he still has Jellal's hand and lifts him high above his head and throws him down into the ground, literally into the ground as a crater appears from the impact.
"Jellal! Are you ok?" I ask as I jump into the crater.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine. Man we need to destroy the stuff that can make a shadow completely!" He said as I nod, that was the source of his magic so that really needed to be taken care of. "Erza I have a spell that could do it, but I'm going to need time to perform it, buy me a couple minutes, OK?"
"Yes, you do what needs to be done, I'll handle him for now." I reply as nods and jumps high into and begins to form a seal I know to be his True Heavenly Body Magic: Sema spell. I look around and find Gōsuto already in my face and he lands a clean blow to my jaw, sending me flying towards the end of the crater. He beats me there however and catches me and spins me and sends me flying upward. I requip into my Black Wing armor and stop myself, then I fly down at him and surprise him with the aerial attack as he can only block my sword by using his forearm to stop mine before my sword can slash down at him.
He pushes me back and jumps back himself and yells, "Shadow Chaser!" He then sends a shadow after me and I can't move fast enough as it catches me and throws me at the ground, and like before he is there to catch me. This time however I expect it and send my sword right where he is and he is forced to dodge and move backward, barely avoiding the sword, as I requip another sword. I chase after him, picking up the first sword and swinging both of them at him now, my swords chasing after the other. I land a clean hit to his other shoulder and one to his forearm, before trying to finish the combo with an x-cut to his stomach. However he steps inside of my swords, his palm facing my chest, and says coldly, "Shadow Beam." His attack hits me head on and might have killed me in regular armor, but I had requiped into my Giant's armor and it absorbed the damage and only managed to push me back.
"It's ready, move Erza!" Jellal yells as he then comes down as we both take cover in the crater, my giant's armor shielding us as his attack comes down and destroys everything in the room that is not human.
As soon as the attack ends, we get up and look around and see nothing standing anymore, everything now obliterated, we look for Gōsuto and don't see him. "Did-did you kill him?" I ask hesitantly.
"I don't think I put THAT much power behind it, but who knows?" He says as I relax a bit and being to process what was happening.
"WAIT! If he's not here then that means, we won! We did it Jellal!" I say as I hug him and start looking for Wendy so we leave.
I hear a amused voice and looked to see who was the voice, and I see it's owner, it's Gōsuto, saying, "You didn't win shit yet. I haven't used my full power yet. Surprised? KEKEKEKEKE!" He said and we just looked at him dumbfounded, not only was he still very much alive but he was barely even tired yet. "Here let me show you what full power is like. Shadow, Limit Release!" He yelled as his body color grew darker, and his eyes turned fully black, he looked extremely creepy and did not look human anymore. He looked more like a demon.
(POV Change to Gōsuto)
"Surprised?" I ask and then laugh evilly.
"Get ready! He can't use anymore shadows, he wont be able to disappear on us anymore!" The man said.
I laughed maniacally and then did just that, disappear. These idiots don't know shit about my magic.
(Back to Erza)
"WHAT! BUT YOU DESTROYED THE STUFF CREATING THE SHADOWS!" I looked around frantically and that's when I see it, the shadows are STILL ON THE GROUND! "Fuck! Look the shadows are still here, they didn't go away when we destroyed them!"
"Shit, this is bad!" Jellal said.
"Yes, yes it is bad… for you at least." Gōsuto said as he appeared between us and grabbed us by the throat, his grip stronger than a steel vice grip and cutting of our breathing. "You see my magic is called THE ABYSS. I can control the shadows and become a shadow demon is necessary, once I use a shadow it doesn't leave unless I say so, and I use a them to help create a second dimension, a dimension that I control by myself and only myself. The only thing in there is me, and that's where I can also send magic into if I use my hand to do it. But that's enough about me, and don't worry, even if you used your Nakagami armor it wouldn't have mattered, my magic can't be stopped. They tried already. KEKEKE!" His laugh was the last thing we heard before he bashed our heads together, and added to the lack of air, we black out. Losing our battle and letting the others down.
(POV Change to Gōsuto)
I look at the two mages and shake my head, turning and seeing the third one still curled up in a ball and not moving, "Tch. What a waste of my time. An utter waste really. I only went at full power for thirty seconds and they both folded like paper. How weak and sad." I sigh and turn to leave the field utterly disappointed and shaking my head. The Titania of Fairy Tail and it's resident, former council member were no match for the Ghost Demon.
(POV Change to Mavis)
I watch as the scoreboard, that was lowered, for us to see how it went lit up. The point going to the Ronin, with Gōsuto underneath the word winner. "WHAT?! Erza lost already? That only took fifteen minutes! This isn't part of the plan!" I yelled as my heart sank, with Erza gone the plan was already in shambles.
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A/N: Score is now Ronin 1 – Fairy Tail 0. What a battle though! It was a little one sided but hey what did you expect, he can control a shadow dimension and is part demon! Hope you liked the explanation of his powers, I know I had fun making it up! Sorry to everyone who wanted to see Erza and Lucy have a rematch but there was no way she would have won, she's still way too weak compared to Lucy. Well Tomorrow will be Madre's battle and all these battles are taking place simultaneously so they do not know what is happening elsewhere. I hope you guys liked it and PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! ADIOS!