The first match between the two guilds in this tournament was Luke Cloud after Lisanna Strauss; after a hard fought battle, the winner of the match was Luke Cloud, putting White Eclipse in the lead 13 to 12. Now, the tournament continues as the next match begins…
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"Lisanna, you did great…" Mirajane spoke softly as she set Lisanna down on a mat to rest on.
"Tch…" Natsu growled lowly, clearly upset that Lisanna lost, but was proud because she tried her absolute best, so he couldn't complain.
"What's the matter, Salamander?" Reve said from afar, waving his hand to catch Natsu's attention. "Feeling the pressure of being number two?"
"You…!" Natsu was about to charge right at Reve, but Erza and Lucy held the hot headed Fire Dragon back. "We're just getting started!" Natsu shouted.
"I think you mean you're just getting finished," Takeru responded, smirking slightly.
"THAT WAS SO COOOOOOL!" A voice said as a male with pointy blonde hair ran into the middle of the field.
"Who's this guy…?" Zain raised an eybrow.
"I'm Jason, the reporter from Sorcerer's Weekly! I caught wind that Fairy Tail and White Eclipse were competing from number one right here so I HAD to come and see myself! This is so COOOL!" Jason looked at the board, seeing that Fairy Tail was already down by one. "Fairy Tail is losing too?"
"We're just getting STARTED!" Natsu roared.
"Starting to get bodied," Cygnus replied with a sly smirk on his face.
"Don't let them get to you, Natsu…" Lucy said quietly. "No matter how badly you wanna punch them…" Lucy quickly glanced over at Luke, who was receiving treatment from Aira.
"Lisanna preformed marvelously," Markarov nodded with his eyes closed.
"We'll be sure to kick their butts for you, Lisanna!" Levy said with a grin.
"A-Arigato…" Lisanna responded with a small smile as she laid back.
"Show them Fairy Tail's power, guys!" Cana shouted with a smile and a beer in hand.
"We intend to!" Gray said, giving a thumbs up. "Let's go! Next match!"
"Heh, that's what I like to see," A smirk formed on Markarov's lips as the roulette for the next match began. The next match was Kuro Crane vs. Levy McGarden.
"M-Me?" Levy blinked, shaking her head as she hopped into the middle of the field, stretching to prepare herself.
"Round two!? I can't wait to report this, it's gonna be so COOOL!" Jason said with the excitement he was unable to hold in.
"Oh, it's my turn!" Kuro cheerfully walked into the center of the field, grinning at Levy. "Let's have a good fight, okay!?"
Levy blinked at Kuro's cheerfulness, but she gave a nod and a smile before nodding. "Okay!"
"Ladies first!" Kuro said, putting himself in a defensive position.
Levy took out her pen, quickly writing the word "Cannon" in the air, the words morphing together, causing large cannon ready to fire to appear in front of her. "Solid Script: Cannon!" The cannon immediately fired off a large cannon ball at Kuro before vanishing into thin air.
"Whoa!" Kuro rolled hard to the right, avoiding the cannon as it exploded on the ground. "That was close…" Kuro then placed his hands together, a red magic circle appearing. "Fire Make: Tornado!" A flaming tornado shot out from the magic circle as it raced towards Levy, leaving a trail of burnt grass behind it.
"Fire Make…?" Gray blinked, never having heard of this kind of molding magic before.
"Whoa? Fire Make? COOOL!" Jason didn't hesitate to write this all down in his note pad.
"Wah!" Levy took her pen, writing out the word water, "Solid Script: Water!" The words raced towards the flaming tornado, dousing it quickly as steam appeared. Levy wasn't counting on one thing…the fact Kuro was behind his tornado, red magic circles appearing around his fist.
"Fire Make: Knuckles!" Kuro pulled his arm back as red flames surrounded his fist. When he reached Levy, he threw his fist forward, striking the script mage in the cheek, the force of the impact sending her stumbling back with a burn mark on her cheek.
"Ah…" Levy placed a hand on her cheek, wincing from the pain. "This isn't going to be easy…Solid Script: Iron!" Levy wrote the letters once again, but this time it seemed as though nothing was happening.
"Huh?" Kuro shrugged, and then put himself in a running position…when the word "Iron" fell on him in Iron characters, slamming him into the ground.
"Woo, nice one, Levy-chan!" Lucy cheered, waving an arm around. Kuro slid out from under the IRON that fell on him, shaking his head from the impact.
"C'mon, Kuro!" Jack cheered from the sidelines, holding a bottle of beer in his hands, his cheeks already tinted pink from the alcohol.
"That hurt…" Kuro mumbled under his breath as he saw Levy starting to write once again. He was attempting to get his bearings after a disorienting blow like that.
"Solid Script: Hole!" Levy sent these words forward. Kuro was still dizzy, so he was attempting to stand up. He didn't have the chance, as the hole Levy created caused him to fall in. Half of his body was stuck and he was attempting to pry himself out.
"Atta girl!" Gajeel cheered.
"Gah...?!" Kuro's senses returned to him. He was attempting to wiggle free, but this only gave Levy more time to write and she pointed up at the sky while doing so.
"Solid Script: Lightning!" The bookworm wrote the world lightning three times! Each word flew into the air before dropping back down towards Kuro. Three bolts of lightning struck the stuck Kuro, causing him to cry out each time! One was a direct hit, two, and then...
"Fire Make: Destruction Field!" Kuro slammed his hands onto the ground, an explosion of fire pushing him upwards and outwards! He finally escaped her trap, rolling along the ground while panting heavily. He managed to avoid the third bolt of lightning this way, but he definitely felt the sting from the first two.
"Solid Script: Fire!" Levy sent the flaming words in Kuro's direction, confident the attack would do some form of damage.
Kuro placed his hands together once again, smirking this time. "Fire Make: Jar!" A flaming jar appeared in front of Kuro, the fire levy conjured flying right into the jar's opening. This wasn't all though, Kuro absorbed the fire through his body, his muscles starting to bulk up slightly as his stats were now increased from the fire. "You can't fight fire with fire with me!" Kuro exclaimed confidently.
"It's over." Reve said with a smirk. Levy's one mistake cost her the match, as far as Reve was concerned.
"W-What!?" Levy gasped; surprised that Kuro practically absorbed the fire.
"Just the boost I needed. My turn!" Kuro grinned as he formed another red magic circle, pulling his arm back as a javelin appeared in his hands. "Fire Make: Javelin!" Kuro threw his arm forward, sending the javelin hurtling towards Levy.
"Look out, shrimp…!" Gajeel shouted.
Levy wrote a few words in the air quickly, iron plates forming on her arms and legs, increasing her defensive as she crossed her arms, taking the full force of the speeding javelin and still flew back due to Kuro's power boost, hitting the ground on her back. "Oof!"
"Get up, Levy-san!" Wendy urged the script mage to stand up, which she did slowly, panting just a little.
"I won't lose…I have to win for Fairy Tail!" Levy shook her head, removing her faint dizziness and she began to write once again, "Solid Script: Sandstorm!" The word sandstorm appeared in sandy letter above Levy before launching at forward at Kuro at an alarming velocity.
The Fire Make mage was anything but worried; in fact he smirked as he clapped his hands together again, another red magic circle appearing. "Fire Make: Hermes!" Small wings of fire appeared on Kuro's shoes, giving the mage a drastic speed boost as he rushed out of the way of the sand storm, pulling his arms back as another red circle appeared. "Fire Make: Hammer!" A flaming hammer appeared in Kuro's hands, and he swung it at the unprepared Levy, his power boost adding more power to it as Levy's iron defenses crumbled, and the script mage fell on her back on the ground. Kuro then raised the hammer as he leapt into the air, swinging it down on Levy for the finishing blow.
"Levy-chan!" Lucy's eyes widened as the hammer made contact, a miniature smoke cloud appearing. When the dust cleared, Levy was in clear KO.
"Levy McGarden of Fairy Tail can no longer continue…" Master Calium said aloud.
"Whoa...That fight was SO COOOL!" Jason threw his arms into the air excitedly.
"Levy…" Cynthia frowned; she was unaware of how strong (excluding Reve and Sidney) the mages in White Eclipse really were. This was going to be tough, no doubt.
"Nice job, Kuro!" Waiston high fived the Fire Make wizard as he came back to the sides.
"Two down, eleven to go, this'll be easy, right?" Reve said to the full team of White Eclipse.
"No doubt," Cygnus replied, smirking.
"We're just warming up," Takeru said with a smug grin.
"You did great, Levy-san…" Wendy said as she healed the script mage.
"Thanks…" Levy frowned at the fact she lost, but she felt confident the others would turn things around soon.
"These mages are powerful…" Gildarts thought to himself, keeping his eyes on Sidney. "Especially him…"
"There have been two matches, so we'll take a break for about an hour, and we'll regroup here." Markarov nodded to both teams, who then decided to go off on their own for the hour they had.
"They're so strong…" Cynthia said to Wendy.
"We can win though! Fairy Tail is number one…!" Wendy said with a reassuring grin. "I'm sure you'll win your match!"
"You too, Wendy!" Cynthia nodded with a smile plastered over her face as she and Wendy went into the nearby town to eat.
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"Why did you drag me along AGAIN?" Maggie asked Aiden as they watched Cynthia and Wendy vanish into town.
"Simple…" Aiden replied. "Cynthia's fights; if my calculations are correct, then things will be ready soon…"
"And what the bloody hell does that have to do with me!?" Maggie asked once again, this time in a more annoyed tone. "Don't get comfortable just because I'm going along with your plan."
"Distraction; if the Council shows up again, I doubt those White Eclipse people will help Cynthia," Aiden replied, nodding slowly. "Besides, it's not like you have anything better to do, right?"
"You…" Maggie started, and then stopped for several reasons. She sucked in a deep breath and decided to just go along with this. She had her orders, but Aiden was a fool if he believed she was following his. "Whatever…"
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Sabertooth; the former strongest guild in Fiore before Fairy Tail took victory in the Grand Magic Games. Inside this guild, a slim, yet muscular toned young man of average height with blond hair which is kept in spikey strands jutting outwards in every direction, and a smaller, frontal tuft of hair barely hanging on his forehead, and a red Exceed were watching the bout between Fairy Tail and White Eclipse on a lacrima screen for the true title of the strongest guild in Fiore. "Hey, Rouge!" The male shouted, "Come see this!" A male with black hair walked inside the room, along with a green Exceed in a pink frog suit.
"What is it, Sting?" Rouge asked, wondering why he was called in. Rouge was a slim young man of average height with unkept black hair that nearly reaches down to his shoulders, along with a few strands pointing upwards on top of his head, his hair brushed over to the right side, covering his right eye.
"Look at this!" Sting pointed to the current score board between Fairy Tail and White Eclipse. Fairy Tail 11 White Eclipse 13 "Natsu-san and Fairy Tail are fighting for number one against White Eclipse…"
"Not interested…" Rouge replied as he started to turn around, not even bothering to look at the screen.
"Gajeel's in it too," Sting said.
The mention of Gajeel caused Rouge to turn around slowly. "What do you want to do then…?"
"We're gonna cheer on Fairy Tail, of course!" Sting replied with a smirk.