Ultear watched through her time ark as Zancrow fell unconscious in front of Wendy and Cynthia; leaving her with a confused expression etched onto her features as she furrowed her brows. "Now…that's not right…"
"Did somethin' happen?" Horoki asked, taking a puff of his cigarette after speaking, and blowing out some smoke after.
"It appears Zancrow has fallen…" Ultear replied to Horoki, keeping her eyes fixated on the two female dragon slayers that defeated him.
"Eh? The Flame God Slayer is down already?" Veronica asked. "How lame…it hasn't even been that long!"
"Who took 'em out?" Bryon asked.
"Two dragon slayers. Sky and Omega Fire it seems…" Ultear replied, unfamiliar with Cynthia in the slightest.
"Ohoho…" A smirk crossed Byron's face. "Looks like you know who is back in business…"
"So, she and the sky dragon slayer felled Zancrow?" Jikan asked.
"He fell unconscious, meaning the girls got lucky," Ultear replied as she used her hand to brush some of her hair behind her shoulder. "It doesn't appear to matter however…those two girls are rather damaged, and the one who consumed his flames don't seem to be doing too well."
"So, will you be joining the fray now, Mlikovich?" Jikan asked curiously.
"It's not my business," Ultear replied. "I am not one of the 7 Kin." Ultear then showed off the Silent Sanctum mark on her backside. "But, if a few more fall, I'll go out to humor some people…"
"Yeesh, why is this one apart of the guild again, Master Jikan?" Byron asked.
"You will see, in time…" Jikan replied.
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Selene and Aira appeared in the middle of White Eclipse after the Shadow Travel, both bruised and heavily battered; though Aira was in a much worse condition with blood pouring from every open wound in her body. "H-Help…" Selene cried out weakly, though she didn't need to as nearly everyone in the guild flooded to their location.
"W-What happened to you two!?" Nami gasped as she looked over towards the two, but then her face turned pale. "B-Blood…" Nami gagged slightly, but she couldn't hold it in anymore and she rushed for the bathroom and started to vomit in the toilet.
"W-We ran into one of those 7 Kin guys…" Selene groaned slightly as Kuro and Zain (the doctor of White Eclispe) lifted Aira slowly, and immediately carried her over to the infirmary for immediate treatment.
"Are they really that dangerous…!?" Zain asked with widened eyes as he supported Selene up.
"He used my attack against me…and hit Aira with it…I'm sorry, Aira…" Selene winced.
"Save your strength…." Taya said with a slight frown.
"I'm starting to think we may have underestimated them…" Michio said quietly.
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Takeru found that he was unable to keep up with Yomazu even with two shadow katanas in his hand. Yomazu's swordsmanship was excellent; that of a master in fact. Takeru had multiple gashes on his body from taking slashes, while Yomazu only had a few. "Shadow Dragon's Hide!" Takeru created a coat of shadows to protect him, similar to Gajeel's iron scales. This only caused Yomazu to smirk, however.
"Your protection won't do anything against my sword!" Yomazu said confidently as he gripped his sword, rushing towards Takeru. "Dark Sword: Narukami!" Yomazu shouted as he slashed at Takeru multiple times, going past him as he the final slash that followed created a dark wave, cutting through Takeru's defensive hide with ease, and damaging the shadow dragon slayer after. Though Takeru bit his lip to keep from crying out in pain, the damage was more than obvious.
"Takeru!" Waiston shouted, his eyes wide from the attack.
"I don't think he can hear you!" Yomazu said with a large grin as he created a large kanji sign in front of him. The sign unleashed powerful, deafening sound that drowned out all other sound in the area, making it difficult for Waiston or Takeru to hear anything else.
"D-Dammit!" Waiston covered his hands over his ears as the sound started to shake the ruins of the destroyed town.
"You're sitting ducks now-peron!" Kawazu shouted as he jumped into the air once again, upchucking a storm of eggs that rained down on Waiston and Takeru, causing them to shout out, but the noise was drowned by the kanji sign.
Though the sound was making it nearly impossible for Takeru and Waiston to move, Takeru looked up to Waiston with the "I have an idea," look. Waiston nodded, willing to do anything to get out of this situation. Takeru sank into the shadows, providing relief from the deafening noise overhead, but Takeru's leave only made Kawazu and Yomazu laugh.
"He left him-peron!" Kawazu laughed mockingly.
"Secret Dragon Slayer Art! Hailstorm!" A large blue magic seal appeared in the sky, releasing large spheres of hail which rained down on Yomazu and Kawazu.
"Egg Wall!" Kawazu started as he took a deep breath; but his deep breath turned into a gasp as one arm appeared from the shadows underneath him and Yomazu, cutting off the kanji creating the noise.
"W-What the!?" Yomazo looked down, only to see Takeru's hands sticking from the shadows. Though it was too late for either to do anything as the hail storm slammed onto them, creating a miniature explosion of ice once finished. When the smoke from the explosion cleared, Yomazu and Kawazu were in KO.
"S-Shit…" Takeru appeared from the shadows, coughing up small traces of blood. "Those two were stronger than I thought they were going to be…"
"We still beat them though…!" Waiston said with a grin. "Though I dunno how much longer I'll be able to go…"
"Let's…let's return back home…and see what's going on there…"
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"Are you sure it was okay to leave Kagura alone back there…?" Lucy asked as she, Natsu, Happy, Lily, and Gajeel ran off from the area in which Kagura and Bluenote were doing battle.
"We have more important things to worry about right now," Gajeel replied.
"Besides, she's strong enough to compete with Erza, so she can handle him!" Natsu nodded.
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"Show me…if you can fly…" Bluenote said while crossing his arms. Kagura gripped her sheathed blade and made the initial charge, lunging forward towards Bluenote.
Bluenote wanted to test Kagura, so he formed a dark magic purple over her, increasing the gravity around her person, forcing her into the ground. "Is that all you can do?"
"…If you think this will stop me, then you're going to have a hard time defeating me…" Kagura replied as a magic circle appeared under her, causing the gravity to decrease, now fighting for balance with Bluenote's power, but Kagura was able to stand afterwards, something that made Bluenote smirk. This confirmed his suspicions.
"Oh yes…you can fly alright…" Bluenote said with a grin.
"Strong Form…" Kagura was clearly in no mood for simple small talk, and she showed it by adapting a stabbing stance, rushing in towards Bluenote while decreasing the gravity around her person, thus increasing her speed. Kagrua raised her sheathed blade, Archenemy, and swung it down towards Bluenote.
Bluenote was clearly surprised by it, but luckily for him his reflexes were fast enough to react to the incoming Kagura, so he jumped to the side just as Kagura swung her blade. Kagura's blade hit the ground, but it easily destroyed the earth that took the impact, creating a large crater upon impact, which only caused Bluenote to grin. "Impressive!" Kagura said not a word, but she easily managed to shift her momentum and charged towards Bluenote once again, aiming another powerful blow with her sheathed blade. Bluenote held his hand out as a purple magic seal appeared, and a powerful push of gravity shot out form the magic circle, catching Kagura off guard, which in turn sent her rolling across the ground for a few seconds before she caught herself. Kagura looked up just in time to see Bluenote coming towards her with a fist pulled back.
Kagura let out a small grunt of surprise but she brought her blade up as a weak form of defense, but Bluenote easily broke through it and sent the Mermaid sliding back across the ground once more, but she stopped herself eventually. "He's is powerful…" Kagura thought to herself.
"I know you can fly," Bluenote said to Kagura with a grin plastered over his face. "You could fly even higher if you actually used that blade of yours."
Kagura looked to Bluenote with a stern expression, shaking her head slightly as she gripped her sheathed blade once more. "My blade is not for the likes of you."
"Then I guess you're out of luck," Bluenote replied. "The potential to fly so high…yet you prefer to fall…" As Bluenote said fall, a magic circle appeared over Kagura, increasing the gravity around her intensely, bringing the Mermaid to her knees as the ground cratered and cracked under her.
"I haven't…relied on luck since the moment I was born…" Kagura replied, standing up slowly without the use of her own gravity, which caught Bluenote off guard, but his grin actually widened. Kagura then sprinted forward towards Bluenote with her sword held in a stabbing position, then swung it towards Bluenote, landing a direct hit, the power sending Bluenote skidding back across the ground, thought she didn't end her assault there; Kagura then switched to her slashing form, landing multiple slashes on Bluenote that were all strong enough to cut through Erza's Adamantine Armor, though considering Bluenote was on a level above Erza, the slashes weren't as damaging to him.
"Excellent…" Bluenote grinned before using his own gravity on his arms to increase the power of his punches, though it didn't weight him down in the slightest. He charged towards Kagura and began to swing heavy gravity infused punches at Kagura's upper body and midsection. Kagura was quick on her feet, so she was able to avoid most of Bluenote's punches but swaying her body from side to side, but he then threw her for a loop when he went for a head butt, causing Kagura to stumble back, and while she was off guard Bluenote landed a gravity infused punch to her sternum, sending her rolling back across the ground once again, but she caught herself. "Come now, Mermaid. Will you fall short? Or will you fly?"
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"What are the stats so far, Magnus?" Daryan asked while tapping his foot.
"Well…so far, five mages from Fairy Tail have fallen, two White Eclipse mages have fallen, one mage from Twilight Zone has fallen, and I can say that Kagura of Mermaid Heel is having a difficult time against Bluenote Stinger." Magnus replied.
"What about the other guilds?" Alex asked.
"It appears Quatro Cerberus' Blues has gone down protecting Twilight Zone's Melanie Hasani from Rusty Rose. Sabertooth, Lamia Scale, and Blue Pegasus have yet to run into any Grimoire Heart members." Magnus nodded.
"Your power of prediction is something else…" Daryan said. "But anyway, I think it's time I went out now."
"You're going out?" Gaia asked.
"Well, someone's gotta step in before things get too outta hand, and besides, it'll be great in getting this guild recognized," Daryan nodded.
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"L-Look over here!" Skye pointed Kairi in the direction of Juvia and Gray's unconscious bodies.
"What happened to them…!?" Kairi asked as she rushed over to the two.
"They were not strong enough to defeat me; this is the fate of the weak," Azuma replied as he walked from a tree nearby.
"W-What the…!?" Skye was taken aback by Azuma's sudden appearance, but a serious expression crossed her face after.
"I'm guessing this one is one of the 7 kin…" Kairi said as she narrowed her eyes at Azuma, who stood calmly.
"I wonder…are you two strong enough to take me on…?" Azuma asked, pondering the thought. "Are you two stronger than Titania seven years ago?"
"We're from White Eclipse!" Skye said in a cheerful, yet serious tone. "We're strong enough to take on anyone!"
"White Eclispe…?" Azuma asked, unfamiliar with the guild in the slightest, but he decided he would pay a visit to the guild later if things went as planned for him. "I see…well then, don't just stand there. Show me your power, and I'll show you mine."