Ultear gazed into her time ark for a few seconds before she stood up, a serious expression on her face. The woman's sudden rise caused the other members around to look at her with a somewhat puzzled expression on their faces. "Whoa, what's up with you?" Horoki asked as he took a drink from the bottle of alcohol he was holding.

"Azuma has gone down," Ultear replied.

"Azuma? The mighty Tree mage?" Veronica replied while filing her nails indifferently.

"Who managed to take him down?" Byron asked.

"An assassin," Ultear replied once again.

"HA!" Byron laughed, unable to hold it in. "A simple assassin knocked off the mighty tree mage?!"

"I don't see the laughing matter, Byron," Ultear replied in a more serious tone, causing the requip mage to stop laughing. "That girl knew what she was doing. Azuma fell to a deadly poison; he's most likely dead."

"So that's two down…" Aloysius said.

"And it's about time I decided to get involved," Ultear's face gained a slight smirk as her time arc started to float around her waist.

"Oh, so you're finally gettin' off yer lazy ass, huh?" Byron asked.

Ultear immediately cut her eyes towards Byron, looking towards the male in annoyance and sort disgust; though Byron returned the look with a simple smirk. Jikan stepped forward in between the two mages. "Both of you calm down," Jikan demanded. "Now, Ultear, you're going out, correct?"

"That is correct," Ultear nodded.

"Hm, be careful not to fall to any mages," Jikan replied. "You are important to our operations later."

"Yes, I understand, Master," Ultear nodded before walking out of Silent Sanctum.

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Cynthia's eyes popped open, and she looked around, realizing she was in an unfamiliar infirmary. Though this thought quickly ridded itself from her mind as her stomach started to hurt, causing Cynthia to groan loudly. "UGGGGH…"

"She's awake…" Flynn, who was wrapped in bandages, along with the other people in the infirmary, said.

"Cynthia…!" Wendy let out a quick sigh of relief.

"Wendy! Ugh…Where are we?" Cynthia asked, looking around the room.

"This is the Twilight Zone infirmary," Flynn replied. The infirmary held several other people as well, three being Blues, Kuro Chi, and Melanie. Kuro and Melanie were wrapped in bandages, but Blues was on a bed, a large bandage over his eye, and he was unconscious.

"What happened here…?" Wendy asked as she looked at the other three people within the infirmary.

"Grimoire Heart's what happened," Kuro replied while looking over at Blues, a saddened look on his face.

"I-I'm sorry…" Melanie looked towards the floor; she couldn't bear to look Kuro in the eye or even look at Blues in his current state, feeling guilty over what happened.

"What happened?" Evanee walked in, folding her arms as she looked at her safe, but injured members. "And I can see some of our guests are awake."

"Grimoire Heart happened," Kuro replied to Evanee.

{Flash back}

"Alright, Kuro, you ready to finish this?" Blues asked with an excited grin as they stared down Rustyrose, who was busy fixing his glasses with two of his fingers.

The snow haired water god slayer nodded with a slight grin. Though he and Blues were both moderately damaged, they proved themselves more than a match for the Arc of Embodiment mage. "Dragon God duo gonna whip that ass!" Kuro shouted.

"Go Blues! Go Kuro!" Melanie shouted cheerfully from the sidelines; though her cheering caught the attention of Rustyrose, and he suddenly knew how he was going to win this battle.

"Hm, you two are more durable than most trash, but that is what you all are in the end, Trash," Rustyrose said as a sadistic grin started to form over his face.

"We haven't even gotten serious yet!" Blues replied as a blue aura started to form around his body. "Blue Drive…"

"Interesting…your imagination has truly led you to believe you can defeat the likes of me!" Rustyrose snickered before snapping his fingers, enveloping Melanie in a wave of ghost like enemies, which wrapped around and constricted her. "Ghost of Brittia!"

"Let's take him out!" Kuro shouted.

"Belcusas the Thunderclap, rid the world of these two!" Rustyrose snapped his fingers again, creating an enormous, heavily armored physically powerful creature in front of Blues and Kuro. Normally this would be no problem to the Dragon God duo, but with Melanie constricted, they had to work faster than normal.

"Easy!" Blues shouted as he got into a running position; but then the unthinkable happened. Rustyrose transformed his right arm into a claw-like sword, and extended it over towards the immobilized Melanie. "Melanie…!" Everything went in slow motion at this moment for Blues; using his Blue Drive, he ran over to Melanie, tackling her out of the ghost; though this didn't come without consequence. Rustyrose managed to land a slash on Blue's left eye, knocking him out immediately.

"B-BLUES!" Kuro's eyes widened, but before he could do anything else Belcusas used its immense strength to knock him away.

{End flashback}

"I-It's all my fault…" Melanie said.

"It's not your fault," Kuro said reassuringly.

"Ugggh…" Cynthia groaned slightly. "My stomach still hurts…"

"You've been groaning for the last few hours," Evanee replied in a slightly irritated tone. She placed her hands on her hips, staring over at Cynthia. "Now isn't the time to be complaining from simple stomach pains."

"It's not simple!" Cynthia replied before groaning once again. "Wendy and I beat Zancrow, though for the last hit I still had some magic went I ate that stupid god fire…and my stomach's been killing me ever since…"

"I have an idea!" Tsami said as she hopped into the infirmary, seemingly out of nowhere along with Rylo.

"…How long have you been out there?" Evanee asked while raising a brow, though she quickly decided that it was unimportant. "What's your idea?"

"Well, judging by her problem, if she expels that magic, it shouldn't hurt anymore, right?" Tsami said with a slightly enthusiastic nod.

"It's worth a shot," Rylo replied.

"I guess I could try…" Cynthia nodded slowly, hopping off the bed before heading outside.

"So, while she does that, what are we gonna do about Grimoire Heart?" Rylo asked, crossing his arms.

"You aren't doing anything," Evanee replied as she turned her back, starting to walk out the door.

"W-what?" Rylo was a bit surprised by the Evanee's immediate decline of his entering the battle.

Though Evanee was usually somewhat cold and distant towards her guild mates, she cared deeply for them, and to see them hurt bothered her just as it would a normal person. "There aren't that many left; I'll handle them," Evanee said as she walked outside, though she stopped when she saw Cynthia's cheeks and her stomach puffed out considerably. "What the…?"

"Roar…of the Omega Fire Dragon!" Cynthia tilted her head up, unleashing a massive torrent of red flames into the sky, depleting herself of magic power, though the force of the roar shook the southern mountain which Twilight Zone rested, causing the other members to run outside to see what the cause was, only to stand in shock when they saw the power came from Cynthia.

"Whoa!" Rylo's top hat nearly flew off from the wind the roar picked up, but he quickly placed his hands on his head to keep it from flying.

"What kind of power…" Taranis said quietly, clearly impressed by Cynthia's strength.

"That's not even her full strength…" Wendy said with a sort of pride, yet a sort of guilt at the same time. Though she said this quietly, so no one really heard what she said. Cynthia finally stopped her roar, letting out a sigh of relief as she held her stomach, grinning.

"It worked!" Cynthia nodded, then grinned cheekily as she ran over to Tasmi and hugged the seaweed-green haired mage tightly, bouncing up and down. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"You're welcome!" Tsami shouted as her eyes started to spin. Cynthia released the hug, then nodded towards Wendy.

"Let's head back home…I'm sure the others can handle the rest," Cynthia said.

"Hai…" Wendy nodded, then turned to Evanee, but realized the stone dragon slayer already left, causing a small frown to appear on Wendy's face. "O-Oh…I wanted to thank her…"

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At an open plain, Sting, Rogue, Luke, and Heather faced off against Rustyrose, though they weren't having an easy time. Rustyrose managed to deflect most of, if not all, the group's attacks with his golden shield, which was indeed capable of deflecting any attack. Rustyrose still had damage from his earlier fight with the two water dragon slayers and the water god slayer, but the damage was nothing compared to the damage he inflicted on the group. "What's the matter, running out of steam?"

"This guy is REALLY annoying…" Luke panted, glaring up at the embodiment mage.

"You can say that again…" Sting replied. Both he and Rouge were in their respective drives, White and Shadow, yet Rustyrose managed to keep up with them.

"If I could get a hit with my poison…" Heather started, forming a magenta colored magic seal in front of her as she held her hands out. "Poison Dragon's Scales." After Heather spoke, she unleashed a storm of scales that rushed towards Rustyrose.

"My, my…you seem to forget quite easily…" Rustyrose said as he pushed up his glasses once more, this time an evil shine twinkling from them for a split second. "The ultimate shield that can push anything back!" Rustyrose replied as his left arm turned into a golden shield.

"White Dragon's Roar!"

"Shadow Dragon's Roar!" Sting and Rouge unleashed their respective roars, merging them with Heather's scales to create a hurricane of white and shadow with poisonous scales circling around it.

"Roar…!" Luke started as the unison raid flew by him. "Of the Lightning Ice Dragon!" Luke threw his head forward, unleashing a funnel of ice and electricity, merging it with the unison raid.

"Ha!" Rustyrose let out a laugh as the unison raid struck his shield. To his surprise, he slid back across the ground a few inches, but the unison raid dispersed before it did any damage.

"Dammit!" Sting growled.

"This is really annoying me…" Luke ignited his fist in fire and lightning, following up with a reckless charge towards Rustyrose.

"And now I present you," Rustyrose started as his right arm turned into the Jet Black Sword he used on Blues. "The ultimate sword which can cut through anything!"

"Luke, don't!" Heather shouted.

But it was too late. Before Luke could swing his fist, Rustyrose raised his hand, and then brought it down on Luke's head, creating a small crater on impact; Luke was down. "Haha!" Rustyrose let out a victorious laugh as he took a few steps forward towards the trio.

"Great, the copy cat is down…" Sting said in an irritated tone.

"What now…?" Rogue asked.

"I'll tell you what," Rustyrose said as his sadistic grin appeared on his face. "I'll dispose of you as I do all trash…" Rustyrose snapped his fingers, causing the ground to shake violently under Sting, Rogue, and Heather's feet. "Tower of Dingir!" Just then, a massive tower rose from the ground, catching the lower bodies of Sting, Rogue, and Heather, dragging them up as the tower reached a good mile into the sky.

"S-Shit!" Sting place his hands on the tower in attempt to free himself, but he found that it was to no avail.

"And now for the grand finale explosion!" Rustyrose shouted as his sadistic grin widened considerably.

"IRON FIST!"

"What…?" Rustyrose turned around, only for his eyes to widen.

"OF THE LIGHTNING FLAME DRAGON!" Luke slammed his fist into Rustyrose's jaw, sending Rustyrose tumbling away, and his tower to vanish. The three trapped in the tower fell to the ground, but managed to stick the rough landing; just barely, however. "Oh!" Luke grinned. "You have NO idea how satisfying it is to land a hit on this bastard!"

"I thought you were down!" Rustyrose said in slight annoyance.

"Psh, you have a big imagination if you think that was enough to keep me down, amgio" Luke said with a smirk.

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"Iron Dragon's Sword!" Gajeel swung his arm down towards Kain, but the big male dodged, causing Gajeel not only to miss, but to create a crack in the ground from the impact.

"Talons!" As soon as Kain jumped to avoid Gajeel's attack, Natsu ran forward, aiming his flaming foot towards Kain.

"Self-strengthen, ice!" Kain's held his hand out with Mr. Cursey in his hand, his body temperature lowered considerably as Natsu's attack landed. Though the flames were canceled out by the ice, meaning the kick did next to nothing in terms of damage.

"Gate of the Goat, I open thee! Capricorn!" Lucy held her key out as a golden shimmer appeared from the tip of it. Seconds later, a magic circle appeared and the well-dressed goat spirit, Capricorn appeared.

"I well do my best to help, Lucy-sama," Capricorn said with a bow, then rushed over towards Kain in attempt to assist Natsy and Gajeel in the close combat.

"W-What!? Aren't you!?" Kain started, surprised by Capricorn's appearance in the battle.

"I am not Zoldy!" Capricorn shouted as he landed an elbow to Kain's nose, then a high kick to his face, causing the large male to stumble back. "I am Lucy-sama's humble spirit, Capricorn!"

"He landed hits!" Happy cheered.

"The appearance of an old member must've taken him off guard," Lily replied.

Natsu jumped into the air, forming to orbs of fire in his hands; he then merged these two spheres together, creating a large ball of fire twice the size. "Dazzling Blaze of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu then hurled the sphere towards Kain.

Dadasu Turn!" With his strength increase, Kain kicked the incoming sphere, though it wasn't towards Natsu; as Kain knew the attack wouldn't work too well on him. Instead, he kicked it towards Gajeel, catching the Iron slayer off guard for a few seconds.

"Dammit…!" Gajeel covered up, his iron scales appearing just in time as the Dazzling Blaze struck him, lowering the damage he took.

Kain then turned towards Capricorn, landing a palm strike at the goat's chest, sending him hurtling back a few yards, obviously heavily injured just from the one attack. "C-Capircorn!" Lucy shouted, forcing a gate closure. "Go back, you need to rest!" Kain, with his surprising speed, managed to appear in front of Lucy, causing the celestial blonde to let out a shriek of surprise, which quickly turned into a shout of pain as Kain slammed a powerful palm into her stomach, sending her tumbling away.

"Lucy!" Natsu turned quickly, allowing a red magic circle to form underneath his feet, eventually engulfing his entire body in flames; he then lunged towards Kain. "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!"

"Hmph…!" Kain raised his palm as Natsu came forward, and brought it down on Natsu's head, slamming the Salamander into the ground with a yelp of pain escaping Natsu's lips; a small crater formed after the impact.

Gajeel then extended his arm, morphing it into an iron pole as it raced towards Kain, but the male shifted his body to the side, avoiding it with ease; he then grabbed the pole, and then lifted Gajeel up, slamming him into the ground after. Gajeel retracted his arm as quickly as he could and groaned slightly. "Dammit…what's with this guy…for being so bulky he's fuckin' hard to hit…"

"You look like you could use some help…" Daryan said as he walked onto the battle field.

"Who are you…?" Natsu asked as he groaned, looking over towards Daryan.

"Daryan Skeletalus, S Class mage of Cosmic Star," Daryan replied. "Now, allow me to show you how a TRUE dragon slayer does things."

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"So, the flame head's dead, eh?" Maggie asked.

"He lost to children," Ruika replied, shaking her head. "I suppose the Omega Fire Dragon is stronger than a Flame God."

"After all that boasting too," Kiora shook her head, chuckling slightly. "Not like it matters to me…he was loud and annoying. "

"Sora liked him!" Sora said cheerfully.

"I also think that the tree hugger is dead…" Ruika started. "Although it's hard to tell, but I think he's most likely dead. That girl is special," Ruika said in reference to Skye. "That's a natural born killer if I've ever seen one….which makes me wonder why she's even in White Eclipse to begin with…" She mumbled that last part as her curiosity started to get the better of her.

"He's dead? Weak…" Maggie just rolled her eyes.

"It's a mystery how…" Kiora sighed somewhat. After a few minutes, the castle began to shake from an unknown pressure of magical energy, and all three girls stood up.

"Bloody hell…?" Maggie asked as she looked around.

"What's going on?" Ruika asked, almost as if she was expecting an answer. Tobias then walked into the room, but before he had the chance to speak, Kiora already went down his throat.

"Tobias, what the hell did you do now!?" Kiora shouted.

"I didn't do anything!" Tobias shouted. "But, I do recommend you come down to the room where we revived Zancrow and Azuma."

"Don't tell us what to do," Kiora replied, slamming Tobias' face into the wall with an innocent grin. "Come, let's go." The girls walked downstairs, and the magical energy they felt was amazing, almost too much to be human.

"Is that Dait…?" Maggie asked quietly.

"Close," Daityas said with a slight smirk. "But far too human, don't you think…Hades?"

And standing next to Daityas was the leader of the infamous Grimoire Heart himself; his arms crossed as with a calm expression on his face. "I've heard what's been happening from your guildmaster…" Hades started slowly, almost as if he forgot what it was like to live after seven long years. "Grimoire Heart has returned, and now two of them are down…Well…now I believe it's about time I had my revenge on Makarov and his brood…"