"Hm…I remember that Titania doing something like…" Kiora raised her arms over her head, creating multitude swords above her head, all of them pointed towards Selene and Aira. "This," Kiora smirked, throwing her arms forward as she sent the multitude of swords flying towards Selene and Aira.

"Watch out!" Aira tackled Selene to the side, evading all but one sword. One lucky sword slashed Aira's back, creating a large cut. "Ugh…" Aira panted, placing a hand on her back, feeling blood leak from the cut on her back. "Ah!"

"Be careful, Aira…" Selene replied, nodding to Aira as thanks for tackling her out of the way. Selene then puffed her cheeks out, a vortex of diamonds forming around her mouth. "Diamond Dragon's Roar!" Selene threw her head forward, unleashing a tornado of sharp, tiny diamonds towards Kiora.

"You really don't learn, do you?" Kiora held her arm out, using her imagination to create the unbreakable shield, and held it in front of her. The diamonds made contact with the shield, but the attack dispersed a few seconds after it hit the shield; Kiora then allowed her shield to fade, smirking over at the two females.

"Sonic Boom!" A magic circle appeared in front of Aira, quickly releasing a powerful burst of air towards Kiora.

"Whoa!" Kiora twisted her upper body, allowing the burst of air to fly right past her body. Kiora then smirked, clapping her hands together as a black magic circle appeared over the two girls. "Shadow Make: Heavy Rain," The magic circle then released a heavy rain of shadows onto the girls, causing them to cry out in pain. "Oh, I love to hear the screams of pain in the afternoon…" Eventually the circle faded, and the two girls struggled to get up.

"Ugh…she's strong…" Selene stood up slowly, allowing her diamonds to cover her entire body, significantly increasing her defensive.

"No kidding…" Aira winced, holding her side. She casted the same magic circle she did before, using it to boost her stats to the limit. "We have to win though…!"

"Right…!" Selene nodded running forward with Aira right behind her.

"You two are stubborn. That's okay, it'll make your deaths that much more enjoyable…" Kiora smirked, "I am the ruler of two. The power of twins resides within me. Repent on thyself and drown in thy blood…" After Kiora spoke this incantation, her arms turned into razor sharps blades, causing the eyes of Selene and Aira to widen from surprise. Without a word, Kiora ran forward, swinging her bladed arms at the two.

Selene and Aira swiftly evaded Kiora's incoming blade strikes, though it was a lot harder to do so than they were making it look. Selene molded her arms into diamond swords, and met Kiora's blades with her own, the two entering a deadlock. The two eventually slid back a few feet from each other, bringing their arms to their sides. Aira jumped into the air, a green magic circle appearing in front of her. "Wind Blade!" Aira shot out several high speed small winds that raced towards Kiora.

"Shadow Make: Shield," Kiora's arms returned to normal as a shadow shield appeared in front of her, blocking Aira's attack successfully, but the wall did crack just a little bit. "Hm…" Kiora placed her fist into her palm, causing a magic circle to appear. "Shadow Make: Shadow Dragon," From the magic circle, a large dragon made from shadows appeared, giving off a loud, earth rumbling, glass shattering roar.

"She's got everything…doesn't she…?" Selene stared up at the dragon in amazement before realizing that now really wasn't the time to be impressed by her opponent's magic. The dragon opened its mouth, forming an orange flame from deep within its throat.

"It's about to roar!" Aira shouted.

"Not on my watch!" Selene placed her hands on the ground, causing a grey magic circle to appear. "Diamond wall!" A large wall of diamond shot up in front of Selene and Aira just as the shadow dragon unleashed its fiery breath, hitting the diamond wall, cracking it, but the wall otherwise stayed firm. The dragon then vanished after its use. "Aira!"

"Right!" Aira pointed her index finger up, causing a black orb to appear over it. The orb grew in size before vanishing, and a magic circle appeared under Kiora's feet. "Black Hurricane!" The magic circle then released a black tornado that engulfed Kiora, the black winds inside lashing out at the embodiment mage. "I got her!" Aira's attack lasted for several minutes before Kiora began to spin around, her arms morphed into blades once more, cutting through the air Aira created, forcing the spell to disperse. "W-What!?"

Kiora panted slightly, Aira's attack inflicting damage on her, but she wasn't going to allow herself to show any sign of fatigue to her opponents. Instead, she smirked slightly, snapping her fingers. After Kiora snapped her fingers, a large serpent descended from the heavens. "Ourubouros the Cosmic Serpent!"

"What the hell is that thing!?" Selene looked up at the giant serpent, which opened its mouth.

"That doesn't look good…" Aira took a step back from the serpent.

"Destroy them…" Kiora pointed her finger forward, and the serpent complied, gathering light energy into its mouth.

"Light magic!?" Aira's eyes widened. Once the serpent gathered an adequate amount of light energy in its mouth, it released a powerful, earth shattering light beam down towards the two girls.

"MOVE!" Selene shouted as she tackled Aira out of the way, the light beam utterly obliterating the ground it touched. "That's a problem…"

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"EYAH!" Natsu spun around, aiming a sharp roundhouse to Cobra's side, but Cobra jumped back onto another floating platform, allowing Natsu to nearly break the one he was standing. "Hold still dammit!" Natsu planted his feet firmly on the ground, and then lunged at Cobra once again, flames surrounding him as he jumped head first, aiming for Cobra's stomach. "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" Cobra gathered the sound of Natsu's "EYAH" into his hands, but he didn't do anything with it yet. Upon seeing the fire dragon aiming himself towards him, Cobra jumped to the side, onto yet another floating platform, allowing Natsu to ram headfirst into the wall, leaving him stuck there. "I-I'm stuck!"

Wendy was now on a platform above Cobra, watching as Natsu rammed into the wall. Though she winced from seeing Natsu hit the wall, she found herself in an ample position to attack. She jumped off the platform and aimed her leg up as blue wind surrounded her leg, which she immediately aimed at Cobra. "Sky Dragon's Crushing Fang!"

"Hear this…" Cobra didn't even turn as Wendy approached him, he just stuck his palm out in her direction, letting the sound he gathered from Natsu explode on Wendy, sending her flying back onto another platform.

"U-Ugh…" Wendy landed on her stomach, closing on eye as her vision went blurry. "I won't…give up…as long as Cynthia needs my help…"

"I can tell from your thoughts you don't think of her as what she really is…a weapon…" Cobra replied, tilting his head to look over at Wendy.

"T-That's because she's not a weapon…" Wendy replied, placing her hands on the platform as she pushed herself up slowly. "She's a person…"

"I can hear her thoughts from here," Cobra replied. "You two are not thinking the same thing." Wendy's eyes widened somewhat, wondering what could lead Cynthia to believe she wasn't a person. "I'll answer for you," Cobra said after hearing Wendy's thoughts. "She doesn't believe she is a person because of what's happening right now. Her father's actions and words have pretty much taken away whatever humanity she thought she had. And because of this, she sees herself as a weapon. Which is fine by me…I don't care if she's a person or not, my job is to rid this world of her, and that's exactly what I'm going to do."

"YOU WILL NOT!" Wendy stood up, but she found herself blasted away by a Sound Wall from Cobra gathering the words she just shouted and using them against her. Wendy landed on her back on another platform, but she stood up again, spreading her arms out. "Arms, Armor, Vernir!" A bright glow appeared around Natsu and Wendy's bodies, upping their stats.

Natsu pulled his head out of the wall, smirking slightly at the power up. "Let's go!" Natsu pounded his fist together, creating an orange magic circle. Natsu then puffed his cheeks out, gathering a vortex of fire around his mouth. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu threw his head forward, unleashing the funnel of fire towards Cobra, its speed and power raised drastically due to Wendy's stat increase on him.

"Tch…" Cobra jumped back as soon as Natsu fired off the attack, already knowing what he was going to do. In the same second, Cobra turned just in time to block Wendy's incoming wind enhanced punch, grunting softly due to the force of it. The two jumped back onto platforms facing one another. Cobra spread his hands out, creating a poisonous mist that slowly started to fill the area, basically telling the two wizards that one, he was starting to get annoyed, and two, it was time for him to start getting serious. Two magic circles appeared by Cobra's hands, immediately firing off poisonous scales towards the two dragon slayers.

"Look out, Natsu-san!" Wendy shouted, using the effects of Vernir to her advantage as she evaded the toxic scales flying in her direction.

"I'm fine!" Natsu replied, evading the toxic scales Cobra was firing off. Cobra continued to fire off toxic scales at the two flying wizards, a bit agitated that they were faster than he normally expected them to be. But he smirked, the two wizards made a mistake. They passed each other, and in that second, Cobra bombarded the two with poisonous scales, a small explosion occurring as the two dragon slayers hit a platform with smoke trailing behind them as they fell.

"Ugh…" Wendy winced slightly, lifting her head, noting that her vision was currently blurred after the impact. "N-Not done…Cynthia needs me…" Wendy groaned, feeling the burning sensation of the poisonous scales all over her body. But she ignored the pain, standing up slowly along with Natsu.

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Cynthia looked up at the lacrima screen, watching all of them carefully. Unfortunately for Cynthia, she couldn't see Natsu and Wendy vs. Cobra, because the room the three were fighting in was the only one without a lacrima screen, so she shifted her attention over to Aira and Selene vs. Kiora, noticing the two white Eclipse mages having trouble. "Selene…Aira…" Cynthia mumbled under her breath, afraid that Aiden would hear her and make her feel even worse about herself.

"Hm…" Aiden was ready to fire the Omega Fire Cannon once again, but he was too interested in the current fights visible on the lacrima screens to fire the cannon. "Interesting…"

"Hn…" Cynthia scanned the other lacrima screens, her eyes stopping when she saw Luke and Lucy vs. Tobias. "Lucy…Luke…" She muttered quietly, remembering that she was constantly telling the two they would make an amazing team if they stopped pretending to hate each other. This was the moment of truth…could they defeat Tobias together?"

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Luke placed his fist into his palm, a chilling wind surrounding his legs. "Ice Make: Lance!" Instead of the normal cyan magic circle appearing, a blue and yellow magic circle appeared as crystalized ice lances coated in electricity flew towards Tobias.

"Tch, Fireball," A red magic circle appeared in front of Tobias, firing off multiple fire balls at the lances. Surprisingly (to Tobias) the lances clashed with the fireballs, causing miniature explosions. Tobias was expecting the lances to be simply overpowered by the fireballs. This just meant Tobias was underestimating Luke, something he would stop doing now.

Lucy pulled out a key, the tip of it giving off a bright golden shine, "Gate of the Lion, I open thee! Loke!" A magic seal appeared from the tip of the key, and Loke appeared, fixing his suit.

"Hello, Lucy," Luke smirked, and then turned his attention over to Tobias and Luke. "Which one should I go after this time?"

"We're going for the one that isn't Luke…for now," Lucy muttered that last part under her breath, the pulled out her whip, giving Loke a confident smirk.

"Understood…" Loke nodded, giving Lucy a smirk before rubbing his wrist and activating his Regulus ring.

"You're a stubborn one!" Luke said as he threw a kick to Tobias' face, but Tobias interrupted the kick halfway, blocking it with his forearm.

"You're one to speak!" Tobias used this close range to pull his arm back, throwing a straight jab at Luke's face, causing him to stumble back. Tobias then swung his leg at Luke's side, but he was interrupted mid-kick by Loke slugging him across the face from the side, causing Tobias to stumble back about ten steps before regaining his balance. "What the…?"

"Oh, long time no see…" Luke said to Loke, rubbing his face.

"Yeah…" Loke replied to Luke, eying Tobias carefully.

"Heh…three on one…You legal mages will do anything to win, hm?" Tobias asked with a smirk.

"That's not it at all!" Lucy protested.

"You could've fooled me…" Tobias snapped his fingers, causing a green magic circle to appear under Loke and Luke. "Tractor Beam…" The magic circle proceeded to lift Loke and Luke into the air, damaging them on the way up.

"G-Gah! I can't move…!" Luke attempted to break free from the Tractor Beam's grasps, but he was unable to do so, and neither was Loke.

"L-Loke!" Lucy turned her attention to Tobias, pulling her whip back and throwing it forward at him, aiming to wrap it around the male's neck. However, Lucy's plan failed as Tobias jumped to the side, causing the whip to miss. "G-Gah!"

A few seconds passed before the Tractor Beam faded, leaving Loke and Luke to fall onto the ground with a loud "Thud" "Ugh…" Luke groaned, rubbing his head. "Damn…what ELSE can this guy do…"

"Ivy Rush!" Tobias snapped his fingers, causing vines to wrap around Lucy's body, constricting her movement.

"Lucy!" Loke scrambled to his feet, running towards Lucy.

"Too late…" Tobias snapped his fingers once again, causing the vines around Lucy to let out sharp thorns, puncturing multiple parts of Lucy's body, causing her eyes to go wide from the multiple holes; one on her side, her left arm, her right leg, and just below her neck, just far enough from her windpipe to keep her from suffocating. The vines vanished and Lucy fell to her knees, blood dripping from all the wounds.

"Lucy!" Loke slid in, picking up Lucy so she wouldn't put any more strain on her body, carrying her bridal style.

"Too slow, spirit!" Tobias grinned as a clear magic circle appeared. "Blade Rush!" A purple sword shot out from the magic circle towards Loke. Loke luckily dodged the blade but another one came out from the magic circle, and he was in no position to avoid it.

"Mirror wall!" Luke snapped his fingers, causing several grey magic circles to appear in front of Loke, which eventually turned into mirrors, reflecting the blade back to Tobias.

"What?" Tobias jumped to the side, his own blade cutting his side as it passed him. "You..."

"Heh…" Luke smirked as the mirrors faded.

"Lucy, are you okay?" Loke asked, gently setting Lucy down, who stood up, wobbling slightly.

"I'm…I'm fine, Loke…Thank you…" Lucy nodded slowly, wincing slightly from the pain of her injuries. Luke covered for them, which felt awkward, but she couldn't not thank him for it. "Thanks..."

"Hm…Let's see how you handle this…" Tobias' body gave off a neon green light.

"W-What now?" Luke asked, looking over at Tobias.

"My special ability…Over limit, state two…this allows me to chain link multiple spells in rapid succession…I don't think you'll be surviving this…" Tobias said with a devilish smirk.

"You wanna bet!?" Luke grinned. "Bring it on!"

"Heh…Thunder Blade…" Tobias snapped his fingers, causing a purple magic circle to appear in the sky above Loke, Luke, and Lucy.

"Lucy, watch out!" Loke cried out, pushing Lucy out of the way as a giant blade of thunder dropped from the ground near Loke, unleashing a massive discharge of electricity. "AAAHHH!" The thunder blade eventually faded, and Loke fell to the ground, panting heavily.

"L-Loke!" Lucy's eyes widened as she lay on her side. "Go back…" Lucy forced a gate closure on Loke, sending him back to the spirit world.

"Shit…That's not good at all…" Luke groaned, looking over at Tobias.

"I wonder how well you can swim…" Tobias smirked.

"S-SHIT…" Luke's face went pale; if it wasn't obvious, he couldn't swim, and therefore hated bodies of water.

"W-What's he gonna do…!?" Lucy gripped her arm, looking over at Tobias, then at Luke, remembering that he couldn't swim. "Uh-oh…"

"Tidal Wave…" Tobias snapped his fingers, causing a large blue magic seal to appear on the ground. Within seconds, the room flooded over with water spinning violently in a clockwise direction.

"WAAAH!" Luke flailed his arms around while the water swept him around, unable to do anything because he was unable to swim.

"AAH!" Lucy let out a squeal from the damaging water, and then got an idea. "Gate of the Water Bearer, I open thee! Aquarius!" Lucy pulled out a key, and jabbed it into the water; a few seconds passed and Aquarius appeared, an unamused look on her face as she floated in the spiraling water.

"Did you really just summon me in THIS kind of water…?" Aquarius said to Lucy.

"CAN YOU NOT BE ANGRY AT ME FOR ONE SECOND AND ATTACK HIM!" Lucy flailed her arms around, pointing over to Tobias.

She didn't take kindly to the orders that were being barked her way. "WHATEVER!" Aquarius pulled out her jar, taking control of the water Tobias conjured up.

"W-What the hell!?" Tobias's eyes widened as Aquarius brought all of the water into her jar.

"RAH!" Aquarius swung her jar, unleashing all the water back out, though she was mostly aiming for Lucy and Tobias; Luke just happened to get caught in the cross fire as the tidal wave subsided, Lucy laying on top of Luke and Tobias on the other side of the room, coughing. "Now don't call me again for a week," Aquarius said, fading back into the spirit world.

"W-What was that…?" Tobias groaned, the green aura around his body vanishing.

"Ugh…your damn spirit got me too!" Luke shouted at Lucy, who was lying flat on top of him. "...Will you get off me?"

"I can't control that one's attitude!" Lucy replied, instantly hopping off of Luke, who stood up after. "If you weren't here, maybe you wouldn't have gotten attacked!"

"Now listen here…! If I wasn't here, you'd be dead!" Luke shouted back turning his back to Lucy. "You know what, since you don't want me here so badly, I'll leave this battle to you," Luke then started to walk off, taking the exit behind Tobias.

"FINE!" Lucy shouted, looking over at Tobias. "Wait…" She then realized how much of a bad spot she just put herself in. "Tch…I can do this on my own…"

That was quite a show he watched. Tobias watched Luke leave, then turned back to Lucy. "Can you really?" Tobias smirked, snapping his fingers once more as an orange magic circle appeared. "Fireball," Several fire balls shot out from the magic circle towards Lucy.

"Ah!" Lucy dove out of the way of the fire balls, panting heavily as her injuries from the Ivy Rush started to sting through her body. "Alright…" Lucy took a deep breath, slowly falling into a trance-like state as a holy light flowed around her. She began her incantation for her most powerful attack. The area around Tobias started to darken as planets began to surround him.

"What the…?" Tobias raised a brow as the planets started to surround him, but he wasn't worried. "Magic Guard…" A blue light enveloped Tobias' body, now ready to withstand whatever Lucy was going to throw at him. "Too late, doll face," Tobias said with a smirk.

Luke ran behind Tobias, gripping his arms tightly in a full nelson hold, immediately cutting off his Magic Guard. "YOU THOUGHT!" Luke smirked, and then nodded over to Lucy. "LUCY, NOW!"

Lucy had a sly grin on her lips. For some reason, she knew Luke was going to come back. As much as they got on each other's nerves...leaving each other high and dry like that? It wasn't who they were.

"RELEASE ME!" Tobais was trying to squirm out of Luke's grip, but he was unable to free himself!

"Not on your life!" Luke said. Tobias was struggling hard, but Luke wasn't allowing him to break free that easily. Luke even let some electricity discharge from his body, shocking Tobias to keep him from moving. Tobias tried to counter with Magic Guard, but since it only worked on magic, Luke simply baited him by stopping his attack off and on. Tobias was trapped in a loop he had no hope of escaping. The area started to darken slowly. A golden light was emanating from Lucy, and multiple planets were beginning to form around her as well.

"Survey the heavens, open the heavens!

All the stars, far and wide, show my thy appearance.

With such shine.

Oh Tetrabiblos.

I am the ruler of the stars.

Open thy malevolent gate.

Oh 88 Stars of heaven...

SHINE!

URANO METRIA!"

The planets around Tobias and Luke started to glow a blinding light before detonating, around the two, bathing the area in a blinding light as a large explosion consumed the area. Luke was taking a massive risk being in the blast zone, but Lucy had enough mastery over this spell to the point where she could focus it solely on Tobias. Whatever noise Tobias may have made during the explosions were all drowned out by the violent rumbling in the area. Lucy panted heavily from magic depletion, but she grinned when she saw Tobias on the ground. "I…no…we did it…" Lucy stood up, hunching over.

"Whew..." Luke saw that was a close one. But Tobias was finally down. "That was a close one...damn...I'm wiped..." He could hardly move. But relaxing was not going to be on their agenda today...

A few minutes of silence passed before a blue and green magic circle appeared under Tobias, giving off a holy light under him. This caught Luke and Lucy's attention and they stared as Tobias was still showing signs of consciousness. "Hehehe…You thought…" Tobias stood up slowly, his injuries gone as he healed himself. He didn't heal all of his injuries, but he did undo most of the damage the two of them dealt to him. It was more than enough for him to stand up tall.

Lucy's eyes widened, fear now taking over her body. "W-WHAT!?"

"You were close…I'll give you that…" Tobias held his hand out, his sword appearing in his hand once again. "But not close enough!" Tobias ran towards Lucy, holding his sword out as he went to impale the sword through her.

Lucy couldn't say a word, she just stood there with widened eyes, and weak knees as Tobias came through. Her jaw dropped as the blade rushed towards her stomach. "NOO!" Lucy closed her eyes, accepting her fate…but nothing happened…she opened her eyes, widening them quickly as saw that the blade ran through the person standing protectively in front of her. Luke Cloud.