Reve swayed his body to the left, narrowly avoiding the incoming time ark, he then lurched forward quickly, aiming two pistols at Ultear, opening fire without hesitation. "You'll hav eto do better than that, Ultear!" Reve shouted.
"I don't think my full power is worth a worm like you…" Ultear replied as a wall of time arks appeared in front of her, effectively shielding her from the onslaught of bullets, though the arks did shatter.
"Oh, you think you're so good, don't you?" Reve smirked slightly as he ran forward, jumping up as he requiped a sawn off shotgun, immediately firing a spread shot of bullets down at Ultear.
"Flash Forward…" Ultear held her sphere forward, allowing multiple copies of it to form before shooting towards Reve. A few of the orbs shattered due to the spread shot, but the rest raced towards Reve.
"What the!?" Though Reve's eyes were excellent in situations like this, his current position was awkward, and awful; stuck in the air. "Shit…!" Reve pointed his pistol forward, and along with his shotgun, he fired off as many rounds as he could to the incoming spheres, managing to knock off a small amount of orbs, but the rest slammed into him; though Reve wasn't one for letting out any indication of pain, so he bit his tongue to prevent a yelp of pain escape his lips as he hit the ground on his back.
"Reve!" Zalen shouted. Zalen wanted to step in, but Reve seemed pretty determined about this.
"That almost hurt," Reve said with a smirk, hopping up as he stared at Ultear, who had her arc floating around her body.
"I can make it hurt if you so wish," Ultear replied, a smirk appearing on her lips as she flung her orb into the air, watching as it multiplied into more spheres, which then raced down towards Reve in beams of light. "Luminous Minutes."
"Heh, that all?" Reve watched the orbs come in carefully, and with his shot gun, he aimed compressed shots, shooting down multiple orbs before they even reached him; much to Ultear's annoyance. Though, the last few spheres managed to cut through Reve's counter attack, but he simple rolled out of the way, allowing the orbs to hit the ground, causing miniature craters a few feet deep. "You're not gonna beat me with that orb alone, and considering that's all you can do, you're outta luck, aren't ya?" Reve smirked, switching his pistol for another shotgun, and a concealed jacket appeared on him, holding two more shot guns if he felt the need to use them.
"I'm still getting back into the swing of things," Ultear replied as the orbs Reve failed to destroy circled around her; five in total. "Flash Forward." Ultear allowed the orbs to float above her before multiplying once again. She then compressed the "futures" of these orbs, then sent them hurtling towards Reve.
"You just don't learn…fine with me!" Reve held his shot guns forward, clicking the trigger as he released a constant flow of magical bullets to match the orbs, but there were too many orbs for Reve to really shoot down, so he knew he had to dodge, and that's just what he did, by rolling hard to the left. But, with this dodge, came an opportunity, as he had a clear shot at Ultear. "Heh, bang…" Reve aimed one of his shotguns forward, and with a simple click of the trigger, fired off a Burst Shot, a compressed bullet.
"Tch…!" Ultear reversed the time on her orb, fixing it, using it just in time for defense as the Burst Shot shattered the bullet.
"Bang," Reve said once again, firing yet another Burst Shot just as Ultear fixed her orb.
Ultear let out a small gasp as she noticed the second bullet coming. She had no time to fix her ark, so she had to dodge. She rolled to the side, but the bullet grazed her shoulder, leaving a noticeable mark as blood started to trail down her shoulder and down her arm. "You…"
"I'm an amazing shot," Reve said with his smirk. "That's what you were going to say, right?"
Ultear's confident expression vanished at Reve's skill, but mostly his arrogance, and the fact he was somewhat able to back it up so far, but Ultear now decided that the warm up was over for her. "Infinite Sphere…" Ultear created only one copy of her orb this time around, and then sent it hurtling at Reve's stomach; too fast for him to react too.
"D-Dammit…" Reve let out a small grunt of pain as the orb hit his stomach, winding him along with hunching him over slightly. He looked up, only to see multiple copies of Ultear's orb now surrounding him. The black haired gunslinger had no time to react to the onslaught of spheres now slamming into him; so it created a large dust cloud.
"Reve…!" Zalen's eyes widened slightly.
As the smoke cloud cleared, Reve was still standing. In fact, he was in a heavily defensive S.W.A.T armor now, having to ditch his jacket for defense. "Heh, you should know an attack like that won't take me down so easily, Zalen," Reve grinned, pointing his shotgun forward once again. "Spread Shot!" Reve clicked the trigger, sending a spread of shotgun bullets towards Ultear.
"Go back to where you came from…" Ultear said as Reve's bullets stopped, then flew back into his gun, just as he clicked the trigger for another shot.
The bullets that went back inside the gun collided with the bullets Reve was ready to fire, causing the shotgun to swell up in size. "That's not good…" Reve said quietly as the shotgun exploded in his hands, resulting in him to dropping it faster than a bad habit. "Think you're clever, huh?" Reve's now free hand gave off a heavenly glow as an assault rifle appeared, and he then started opening fire on Ultear with said gun, unleashing a seemingly endless stream of bullets.
"Your constant talking is annoying me…" Ultear said with an obvious irritation in her voice. She once again created a wall of spheres to protect herself from the onslaught, only this time she sent those all forward as a distraction as she sprinted forward towards Reve, deciding that long range combat was getting stale.
Reve used his active eyes, shooting the orbs coming towards him just fast enough so they wouldn't strike him, though he was slightly surprised by Ultear's sudden charge, just barely managing to evade a punch she threw to his face. "That's how you wanna play right now? Works with me!" Reve threw his guns a few feet behind him, allowing them to touch the ground as he engaged Ultear in close combat. Ultear swung her fist at Reve's jaw, but he took a step back, narrowly avoiding it. He then threw his own fist towards Ultear, but she blocked it with her arm, and landed a knee on Reve's gut, causing the gunslinger to bend over slightly. Ultear then landed yet another punch on Reve's jaw, causing him to stumble back slightly.
"Is something wrong?" Ultear asked in a mocking tone as she continued her offensive assault.
"Not at all…" Reve took one step back, his foot landing on his shotgun; just like he planned. He clicked the trigger as he did so, quickly channeling his magic energy into the shotgun, firing off a Burst Shot from the shotgun, sending the bullet right into Ultear's gut, but it wasn't enough to run through her body, since Reve had to act quick enough to get the attack to work.
Ultear let out a quiet hiss of pain, as the bullet nearly ran through her body, but she fought through the pain as she held her hand out, gathering an intense amount of magical energy into her palm, creating a magical sword, much to Reve and Zalen's surprise. "I'll skewer you!" Ultear shouted as she swung her sword toward Reve in somewhat of a rage, but at the same time her strikes were very well coordinated.
"Is that a sword…!?" Reve wasn't aware that Ultear could use more than just her time ark, so the first slash nearly landed across his chest, but he swayed to the left just in time for it to graze his body, creating a cut, but nothing too serious. Reve continued on the defensive, swaying his body from left to right as Ultear continued to slash; his eyes allowing him to see the slashes coming in slow motion…until Ultear caught him off guard with a quick knee to his chin, then landed a slash across his chest, but nothing deep thanks to his SWAT armor. "Dammit…" Reve growled slightly as he rolled back, picking his guns up as he did so, switching his shotgun for another assault rifle, now firing blindly at Ultear due to the current situation.
"Tch…!" Ultear held her sword diagonally, using it to block most of the shots Reve fired. Some shots, however, grazed her arms, legs, and sides. After Reve stopped firing, Ultear put her guard down; but it was a trap. As soon as she did so, Reve fired a bullet into her leg, causing her to yelp out in pain as she fell to a knee. Reve then rushed it, landing a moderately powered roundhouse to her head, sending the time ark mage rolling across the ground before coming to a stop on her back, though she didn't have much time to move as Reve stood above her, his arm extended as he pointed his assault rifle to her head.
"Too easy…" Reve said as he clicked the trigger. Though, right before he clicked the trigger, Ultear moved quickly, wrapping her legs around Reve's leg, and flipped him over onto his back. "Gah!"
Ultear hopped up, now using her time ark once again as she created multiple copies of her orb floating above Reve. "Luminous Minutes!" The orbs then traveled towards Reve as light beams.
Though Reve was slightly dazed from Ultear's surprise counter, he snapped into focus quick enough to aim his assault rifles at the incoming orbs, spraying bullets in hopes of taking out the arks of time. It was a mostly successful plan, though three arks managed to slip through and strike Reve, causing an explosion, which wore down his SWAT armor significantly, its defensive properties practically vanished. "This song and dance is getting quite old, don't you think?" Reve slowly stood up as he stared down Ultear, who was just a few feet away from him. "How about we try something new now?"
"If you wish…" Ultear smirked, and then placed her fist into the palm of her hand as a chilling wind surrounded her body. "Ice Make…" She mumbled quietly.
"That pose…!" Zalen started.
"You've gotta be joking!" Reve started as he held up his assault rifles, but he was all but early.
With a smirk at her opponent's surprise, she then shouted, "Rosen Krone!" and created giant roses and spiked branches made from a light purple ice that struck Reve directly, sending him tumbling across the ground for a few seconds before hopping up.
"You're just full of surprises lately, aren't ya?" Reve then took aim with Ultear in his sights, and opened fired, sending a stream of bullets towards Ultear.
"Ice Make: Dahlias!" Ultear held her hands out a giant Dahila flower made of ice protected her from the onslaught of bullets, which caused Reve to become slightly annoyed.
"A shield too? What else do you have!?" Reve asked the rhetorical question, not expecting the answer Ultear was about to give.
"Ice Make: Bloon!" The shield dispersed and from its remains came several blocks of ice, all of which blooming outward towards Reve.
"Dammit I wasn't serious…" Reve held his assault rifles out once more; unleashing bullets on the blooms, destroying them before they got close, but then Ultear sent her orb just as Reve thought he was in the clear. The orb slammed against Reve's face, sending him stumbling to the side a little bit. "Hold still…" Reve said irritated as the orb played hit and run with Reve. Every time Reve turned the orb struck him, and fled quickly, not giving Reve any time to react to its next hit. This continued for a few minutes before Ultear grew tired of this game, sending the orb into Reve's stomach once more. "Infinite Sphere."
It turns out, Reve actually caught the sphere in his hands just before it struck him, and he threw the sphere to the side as Ultear created its copies. "You know, you aren't the only one who can do that," Reve said with a smirk as he held his arms out, creating a multitude of guns around the orbs and Ultear. "Devil's Wheel!" The guns fired immediately, most colliding with the orbs Ultear created, and a few with Ultear herself. It was clear the bullets struck her as she let out a yelp of pain, though some of her orbs managed to escape the Devil's Wheel and strike Reve, sending him skidding back across the ground, now about a yard away from the time mage.
"I'm growing tired of you…" Ultear said calmly with her orb floating around her once more.
"Oh?" Reve placed his hands together, a heavenly light appearing in the empty space. When the light faded, he was shown holding his six chambered magnum. "How about we end this then?"
"With that tiny gun?" Ultear asked, almost mockingly.
"You know what they say…the smaller the gun, the bigger then bang," Reve then clicked the trigger, sending a bullet about half the size of the battle field towards Ultear, which obviously caught her off guard, as she wasn't expecting such a large blast to come out of such a tiny gun. "One…"
"What the…!?" Ultear held her orb with both hands, allowing the orb to take the bullet. Ultear held her ground for about ten seconds, then the orb shatter, but Ultear was unharmed.
"What the hell!?" Reve was obviously surprised; he didn't expect Ultear's orb to be so defensive. "I still got five more, Milkovich!" Reve took aim once again, clicking the trigger as he sent another large bullet racing towards Ultear.
Ultear sprinted forward; it seemed like a stupid thing to do since her sword was in the opposite direction in which she was running, but she had a purpose. A tiny magic circle appeared as she reversed the time of Reve's bullet, sending it back towards Reve, aiming to destroy his magnum with that very bullet. "I wonder how you'll take this!" Ultear shouted as a sadistic grin appeared on her face.
"Shit…!" Reve wasn't one to fall for the same trick twice, so he let his magnum fade into the Spirit World quickly, resolving the problem of Ultear attempting to destroy it. But the real problem was that the bullet was still approaching, and he had little time to dodge such a blast, but he tried away. Reve was still knocked away by the explosive power of his own shot, tumbling across the ground with a bruised and somewhat bleeding body, but he smirked as his magnum appeared in his hand once again. "Heh…I didn't know I was that strong…that was two…so here's three!" Reve clicked the trigger once again, smirking as Ultear continued her charge.
"You don't seem to learn, do you?" Ultear attempted the same trick once again, but something was different about this shot. When she looked, she noticed it. Reve held his magnum just behind his bleeding arm when he shot; catching some of his bblood to mix with the bullet, meaning it was out of Ultear's jurisdiction to reverse its time. The bullet collided with Ultear, causing a large explosion, which resulted in her tumbling back across the ground with a torn outfit, a heavily bruised and bleeding body, yet she slowly stood up, almost falling over as she did so.
"Still won't stay down…?" Reve grit his teeth slightly, knowing he only had three shots before he ran out of magic, but he also knew that Ultear was at the end of her rope, and it would only take one more shot. "Time to make this count…" Reve jumped into the air, allowing himself to descend slightly before clicking the trigger, sending the fourth bullet towards Ultear.
"It's a shame those last shots will go to waste…" Ultear shouted as she held her orb out once again, allowing it to absorb the full power of the magnum shot before shattering into pieces yet again.
Reve really started to get annoyed now, with only two shots left, and Ultear's way of protecting herself, how was he gonna end this?! Then it hit him. "Heh…" Reve fired the fifth shot, feeling the magic draining from his body as he only had one left.
"You don't learn…" Instead of using her arc, Ultear shifted her body weight to the side, completely avoiding the shot with little effort; but it's what happened next that surprised her. Reve ran behind his bullet, and his magnum was now pointed at Ultear's face; point blank range.
"Bang…" Reve clicked the trigger just as Ultear shifted her body, only half of it caught in the powerful blast, the resulting explosion sending her back into a tree, her entire left side bleeding and limp. Reve, too, was caught in the explosion, but he didn't have it as bad as Ultear, since she was the victim, but he flew back into a tree as well, sitting there with no magical energy. "Heh…"
Ultear stood up slowly, quickly realizing she couldn't feel half of her body. She then looked at Reve, suddenly remembering Zalen was watching the fight, proving her chances of winning the fight were severely low in her current condition. She then remembered Jikan's words, which left only one option for her. With the largest scowl humanly possible, she decided to retreat, so she wouldn't have to face Jikan's anger, though losing would provide some form of punishment.
"Reve!" Zalen ran over to Reve, looking over to where Ultear ran off. "She's getting away…"
"Let her go…" Reve said with a smirk. "She's not a problem anymore, and she knew she couldn't win."
"So…does that mean…?" Zalen started.
"That's right; I beat Ultear Milkovich…" Reve gave a victorious laugh, but stopped due to the pain shooting through his body, causing him to wince. He didn't want to admit it, but had Ultear done things a bit differently, that battle might've been hers. "I think we're done here…let's go back home…"
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Hades barged into the Fairy Tail guild; his appearance caused the faces of everyone inside to pale from fear, but Markarov, Laxus, and Erza stood with a surprised stare, which quickly turned into a glare. "What are you doing here?" Makarov asked in a borderline evil tone.
"Your brood defeated me due to a series of coincidences; those same coincidences won't happen twice," Hades replied with a sinister look.