Luke back flipped, just barely catching himself after, looking towards Tobias with an annoyed expression. "Geez, you're one annoying person, you know that?"
"You have no idea…" Lucy mumbled.
"What was that?" Luke asked, blinking a few times.
"Nothing!" Lucy replied, pulling out yet another golden key. "Gate of the Ram, I open thee! Aries!" As Lucy shouted this, Aries appeared, though she wasn't in her normally nervous stature; she was standing more so emotionlessly.
"Aries?" Luke blinked a few times. "What's she gonna do here?"
"Wool Bomb!" Aries shouted, throwing her hands forward as a pink cloud of wool appeared, separating Luke and Lucy.
'GAH!" Luke shouted as the wool separated him and Loke from Lucy and Tobias. "What's the big idea?!"
"Ugh, finally…he talks too much…" Lucy groaned before turning to Tobias, her hands on her hips in an annoyed fashion. "AND YOU!"
"What the hell are you yelling at me for!?" Tobias groaned. "He's the one we should be taking out!"
"Stop attacking me you dipshit," Lucy replied, rubbing her temples in aggravation. "Hanging out with the Fairies almost every day is driving me insane, and the last thing I need is some fuck up like you to ruin things…"
"Ouch…" Tobias sighed, feeling the literal sting from Lucy's words. "Alright, so what's the plan? How long do you plan on staying undercover? And when can we kill the real Lucy? She's becoming an annoyance with her request for food and water and to stop the pain…so annoying…"
"She dies as soon as I can get Leo and the rest of her keys under my complete control," Lucy replied. "Now then, to deal with this copycat…"
"Babies!" Bickslow shouted from above, his babies in Line Formation, shooting off green energy that shot through the wool and at Tobias, causing him and Lucy to jump away from each other. "Hyahaha!" Bickslow laughed, landing on a nearby rooftop with a grin, his arms crossed.
Lucy started to speak, but she realized her talk with Tobias caused her real voice to come out, so she quickly cleared her throat before speaking again. "Bickslow?"
"Laxus figured you might need some help, so he sent the Rajinshu to deal with these babies!" Bickslow replied.
"This is becoming a bit too crowded for my liking…" Tobias sighed before turning around. "You Fairies better not count this as a victory. Too many of you is just a headache…" With that, Tobias ran off, obviously not liking the odds.
"HA! Baby can't handle us!" Bickslow grinned victoriously.
"I'm not a freaking Fairy…" Luke sighed. "At least I didn't come out of this match with a hole in my stomach…so that's a plus…"
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Heather's body was still under the control of Kain's Mr. Cursey, much to her and Cygnus' annoyance. Every time Cygnus attempted to get around Heather, Kain would use Mr. Cursey to bend Heather's body in a way it probably shouldn't be, easily halting Cygnus' movements. "Fuck this guy…" Cygnus groaned in aggravation.
"Stop standing there and get me out of this already!" Heather shouted in anger.
"Stop swinging and I will!" Cygnus replied. "Alright, let's try this!" Cygnus pointed his hands forward, a gold magic circle appearing before him. From the circle, golden waves of gravity shot out, weighing Heather's body down to the point where she fell to her knees. "Got it!" Cygnus grinned, running forward, jumping over Heather, but he didn't even make the jump as Kain moved Mr. Cursey's foot up, causing Heather's heel to slam into Cygnus' face, resulting in the gravity god tumbling across the floor. "Dammit!"
"As long as I have Mr. Cursey, I won't be defeated!" Kain smirked. "And then maybe this lovely blonde and I can go on that date."
"I never agreed to anything you've said or done!" Heather yelled.
"This is an issue…" Cygnus thought to himself. "How can I get to dough boy over there if I can't even get past her?"
"Now, it's time for the finishing blow!" Kain grinned as he held Mr. Cursey up, causing Heather's body to go up into the air as well.
"I don't like this…" Cygnus started as he prepared himself.
"Speak for yourself!" Heather attempted to flail, but her efforts were in vain.
"I hope you've said your goodbyes!" Kain shouted, throwing his hand down…though nothing happened. "Huh!?" Kain looked down, noticing that Mr. Cursey wasn't even in his hands anymore. "W-What!?"
"I got it!" Happy grinned, holding the doll in his hands.
"Salamander's pet…?" Cygnus blinked a few times.
"That's great, now put me down!" Heather shouted at Happy, but the blue cat was already enjoying himself too much having the doll hit itself in the head a few times, which caused Heather to do so, though this only resulted in a snickering Exceed and a seething poison dragon slayer. "PUT ME DOWN!"
"I forgot how fun this was…" Happy continued to play with the doll, completely ignoring Heather at this point.
"Give it back!" Kain shouted as he rushed forward with his palm extended.
"WAH!" Happy's eyes widened as he snapped back into the situation. He attempted to fly away, but Kain palmed the poor exceed quite powerfully, sending Happy flying away, dropping the doll as a result, and of course, Heather's movements mimicked the doll's, much to her displeasure.
Kain reached out the grab the doll, but Cygnus beat him to it by a fraction of a second, sliding to a halt after. "Hah, too slow, dough boy!" Cygnus shouted, waving the doll around, funnily enough, activating Heather's motion sickness.
"Someone…stop this…" Heather groaned as her face went pale from all the movement.
"…Idea…" Cygnus grinned, allowing gravity and black, god-like poison to cover his fist, and he covered the doll, which in turned covered Heather's body.
"W-What are you doing?!" Heather asked, beginning to question Cygnus' motives, because she could barely handle his god poison.
"Don't worry, you SHOULD be fine…" Cygnus started.
"Should…?" Heather blinked a few times.
"Alright, here we go!" Cygnus started to pull his arm back, but that's when he noticed an incoming Kain. "Shit…!" Cygnus looked around quickly, noticing a dazed Happy flying back into the scene. "Hey, furball! Go long!" Cygnus shouted, throwing the doll (and Heather) towards Happy.
"Huh?" Happy shook his head, grabbing the doll. "Oh!" Happt's body gave a faint, neon green glow as he flew forward at Max Speed.
Cygnus jumped back just as Kain aimed a palm, avoiding it with a smirk. "Heh! Now, I'd like you to meet my new secret art: Gravity God's Poisoned Missile! Let it rip, furball!"
"Aye, sir!" Happy exclaimed, giving a flip, then hurled the doll down, but it was Heather who had the most momentum, the gravity around her body increasing the power of the resulting impact tenfold. Heather slammed into Kain's body, sending the large male flying off into the distance, defeated.
"Got him!" Cygnus grinned as Heather hit the ground. "Ohp…"
Heather stood up slowly, first grabbing the doll, and ripped her hair from it. She then allowed poison to coat her hand, corroding the doll into nothing after a few seconds, a deep glare of hatred on her face. "I hate dolls…and when we get back, I'm going to give you hell…"
"…What did I do!?" Cygnus shouted in defense.
"She liiiiiiiiiikes him…' Happy purred to himself with a childish grin, though Heather immediately slammed her fist on the top of the Exceed's head, knocking him out cold.
"Be quiet, cretin…" Heather said while letting out a sigh of annoyance.
"Yo!" Luke shouted as he ran over to the two. "How'd it go!"
"Horribly…" Heather replied, dusting herself off.
"Why is that thing here?" Luke asked while pointing to Happy.
"I'd rather not talk about what just occurred here," Heather stated, shooting a glare towards Cygnus.
"Well…we can't just leave him here…" Luke coughed. "Then again I don't really like talking cats…"
"There he is!" Carla shouted from above, flying down with Pantherlily. "What happened to him?!" Carla asked the three White Eclipse mages.
"He got hit," Cygnus replied. "He should be fine though…I think…"
"You think?" Lily said while raising a brow.
"I didn't think that was possible for him after taking that hit from Gildarts a while ago…" Carla couldn't resist saying the comment, snickering to herself.
Cygnus gave an "ene" sort of look to Carla, black poison coating his right arm. "You wanna fucking tussle?"
"I think that's enough for now…!" Luke gave a nervous laugh, attempting to break the tension between Cygnus and the two Exceeds.
"Don't touch Carla!" Wendy shouted as she and Cynthia ran around the corner, both panting heavily from the distance they had to run.
"Tell her to stop cracking jokes from over half a year ago and I will!" Cygnus replied.
"This is why I don't like talking cats…" Luke sighed.
"We don't like you either," Carla replied, crossing her arms with a huff.
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Wind jumped back, just narrowly avoiding an Iron Dragon's Hard Fist from Gajeel, skidding across the roof top. "This is taking too much time…" Wind mumbled to herself; the masked female brought her arm back, and threw if forward, sending a blade of black wind to Gajeel, Selene, and Aira.
"This one is tenacious; I'll give her that…" Aira stated as she and the two Dragon Slayers jumped to the side, watching as the blade of black wind sliced through several buildings with ease. "And…strong…"
Gajeel rolled his neck, a smirk forming on his lips. "Doesn't matter how strong this one thinks they are…Nothin' is a match for Black Steel."
"Hn…" Wind thought to herself for a second before extending her arms, moving them in a clockwise motion. This action brought forth a black magic circle which spun in the same direction as her arms. Seconds later, the magic circle unleashed a spiraling black hurricane towards the trio, utterly destroying the rooftop, anything under it, and anything just in the general pathway.
"Whoa…!" Aira's eyes widened at the incoming hurricane; she prepared herself by forming a black sphere on her finger tip, and pointed it forward, unleashing a hurricane of her own towards the black one.
"Roar!" Gajeel started as his cheeks began to inflate. "Of the Iron Dragon!" Gajeel threw his head forward, a green magic circle appearing before him as he unleashed a gray vortex of iron towards the tornado.
"Diamond Dragon's Roar!" Selene exclaimed, throwing her head forward as Gajeel did; only she unleashed shrapnel of diamonds. The three attacks clashed with the black hurricane, entering a short stalemate. The stalemate only lasted for a few seconds as Wind's attack powered through the other three, slamming into Aira, Gajeel, and Selene, knocking them away, and off the rooftops for that matter.
"D-Dammit…" Gajeel groaned slightly, though the damaged he took was lessened due to his iron scales.
"I've wasted too much time here messing around with you three…" Wind said as she looked down at the three wizards.
"Oi! Who the hell do you think you are to talk to us that way?!" Gajeel roared as he stood up, glaring towards Wind.
Wind remained slightly for a moment…was it hesitation in some form? "It doesn't matter…" Wind eventually replied, turning around, and running off after.
"Hey, get back here!" Gajeel shouted, immediately jumping on what he could of the ruined rooftops…but Wind was gone.
"Who is that girl…" Selene asked while rubbing her head.
"I don't know…" Aira replied. "But I feel like I've met her somewhere…but that can't be right…?"
"I have the same feeling…" Selene responded. "I'm sure I've seen her before…"
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Natsu rolled across the rocky landscape on his back, but he quickly sprang up, canceling out his momentum, glaring at Byron, who was smirking at him. "Tch…"
"What's wrong, Salamander?" Byron asked with a grin as he did a few practice swings with his Gravity Hammer. "Can't handle it?"
"I'm fired up, you bastard!" Natsu roared, lunging forward once again as flames roared around his body. Natsu threw a fiery haymaker to Byron's jaw, but Byron bent back, just narrowly avoiding it. A heavenly glow appeared in Byron's hands as his Gravity Hammer switched for his shield. Natsu threw a flaming kick at Byron's midsection, but Byron blocked with his Absorption Shield, which immediately sent the force back at Natsu, causing him to slide back with an annoyed expression. Suddenly, lightning started to erupt from Natsu's body as he entered Lightning Flame Mode. With this sudden boost in power, he charged forward once again, jumping as he threw an upside down flaming kick towards Byron.
"That won't work!" Byron yelled, a grin on his face as he now had the mighty Salamander at his best. Byron threw up his shield, blocking Natsu's kick with ease, though he didn't let the force push Natsu back yet. Natsu jumped back instead, and Byron pulled his shield down…a big mistake as a lightning bolt followed up, shocking Byron quite literally. "Gah!" Byron shook of the impact, but as he did this, Natsu landed a lighting and fire infused haymaker on Byron's jaw, causing Bryon to fly back some, but the requip mage caught himself. "Alright, that's how you wanna play?!" Byron allowed his shield to vanish, now replacing it with his power gloves and boots again.
Natsu formed a ball of electricity in one hand, and a ball of fire in the other, jumping into the air as he merged these two spheres over his head into a large sphere of fire and lightning. "Dazzling Blaze of the Lightning Flame Dragon!" Natsu yelled, hurling the sphere towards Byron.
"Let's party…" Bryon grinned, placing his arms out as he caught the sphere, though he slid back from the power. Byron was just about ready to deflect the sphere when it exploded on him, sending him rolling across the ground. Byron quickly hopped up, but only to see that Natsu was now continuing on the offensive. Natsu threw a quick uppercut to Byron's chin, but Byron countered by slamming his fist on Natsu's head, creating a small crater once Natsu landed. Natsu didn't stay down for even a second, hopping back up, smashing his foot into Byron's face, causing Byron to stumble back.
As Byron stumbled back, Natsu allowed fire and lightning to flare and surge around his body, lunging forward headfirst towards the Silent Sanctum Mage. "Lighting Flame Sword Horn!" Right after Natsu screamed this, he slammed into Byron's gut headfirst, causing Byron to tumble across the ground. "Now for the finish…Secret Dragon Slayer Art: Crimson Lotus; Exploding Lightning Blade!" Natsu sent the spiraling vortex of fire and lightning forward, engulfing Byron in it completely; the only thing Byron let out was a scream and the area filled with smoke. "Heh…" Natsu grinned, but he peered into the smoke just in case to see if he won. Just then…at that moment…a knife flew out from the smoke, striking Natsu directly in the chest, causing his eyes to widen. His body automatically took a few steps back, and the knife faded after, but the wound seemed pretty bad.
"Something wrong…?" Byron asked as he walked out of the smoke in a large armor. "My Rune Armor protected me from that last attack quite nicely…" Upon seeing Natsu's shocked expression from the attack, Byron grinned. "Oh, something wrong?" Byron walked over to Natsu, and grabbed him by his scarf, walking over to the cliff. "Tsk, and this is all Salamander can do? How shocking…" Byron threw Natsu off by his scarf, but the scarf came off, and Natsu's body fell into the abyss below, while Byron kept the scarf. "And down goes the Salamander…"
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Blake stood triumphantly over the fallen Juvia, and the nearly fallen Reve and Erza, but they were both struggling to stand. "Still moving, are we?" Blake asked with a sigh, shaking his head. "Stubborn bunch, aren't you?" Blake allowed his arms to cover in holy white light, a sadistic grin on his face. "Let's see how long it takes until you two fall then…starting with you, Titania!" Blake threw his arm forward, but a speeding figure blocked it with their forearm. "Eh?" The figure was none other than Satan Soul; Mirajane. "Demon?" Mirajane threw a quick punch to Blake's face, but Blake brought his own arm up, blocking the hit. He then countered with a swift kick to Mirajane's side, and of course, that connected, causing Mirajane to stumble back in that direction.
"You're outnumbered," Evergreen said as she descended down next to Mirajane.
"Am I?" Blake sighed, looking around. "Hm…I suppose I can't afford to humor you few any longer than I already have…"
"That sucks for you…" Reve panted heavily, keeping his head down to hide the smirk on his face.
"And why's that…?" Blake asked, keeping a watchful eye on his surroundings.
"Because…I still have six left…" Reve replied, immediately using his Quick Draw technique to pull out his magnum, and "click" he sent a bullet forward, taking up about an eighth of the total size of the town.
"What!?" Blake's eyes widened at the sudden bullet, and he crossed his arms, taking the full force of the bullet. The bullet eventually exploded on him, creating a large cloud of smoke.
Mirajane and Evergreen, not willing to take any chances, also unleashed their attacks into the cloud of smoke. Mirajane sent a cosmic-like beam from her hands into the smoke, while Evergreen used his Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun, to send multiple projectiles into the smoke, thus increasing the cloud farther. "Did we get him…" Evergreed asked as she peered into the smoke.
"Not quite…" Blake said from the building just above them.
"How did he move so fast..?" Mirajane asked while glaring at the White God.
"Teleportation…I thought it would be obvious…" Blake chuckled, snorting once while doing so. "That...just ignore that…" Blake then coughed, turning his back to the four wizards. "Perhaps another day…" And with that, he teleported away.
"Tch…" Reve rolled his eyes as he stood up slowly, dusting himself off, barely managing to keep his balance. "Annoying…"
"You're one to talk…" Evergreen replied while fanning herself.
"You wanna go?" Reve replied as he pointed his magnum out to Evergreen, but he was struggling to even aim straight due to his injuries.
"That wouldn't be a good idea, Reve…" Aira said as she, Gajeel, and Selene approached the few.
"Damn…is Juvia alright…?" Gajeel asked as she knelt down beside the passed out water mage.
"She took a hard hit, but she'll be alright…" Erza replied.
"Now we just have to look for the others and hope they're safe…right?" Aira asked.
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Bluenote flew back, but he eventually caught himself, landing on the ground while sliding back. Bluenote then pointed his arm forward, causing a purple magic seal to appear. The magic seal unleashed sudden burst of gravity that attempted to push Sidney away, but the ghost mage held his ground, staying silent the entire time. "You can fly alright…" Bluenote said with a grin.
"You're not bad…" Sidney replied. "But I have to end this…" Sidney clapped his hands together, creating four pillars. Two of light, and two of darkness. "Eclipse Tower…" The towers converged on Bluenote, erupting into a tower of light and darkness that shook the nearby area. When the tower faded, Bluenote was seen on the ground, KO'ed. "But…you're not good enough…" Sidney began to walk towards Bluenote, however that's when the flying Kain crashed into his body, and the resulting collision just ended in both Kain and Bluenote flying off into the distance comically. "…Well then…"
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Evanee was on a knee, panting heavily. She was pretty damaged, while Daityas was more or less fresh. He wasn't even in his Demon Drive mode, though he was tempted to use it just to screw with Evanee. "Hm…not nearly impressive as I thought…" Daityas said with a demonic smirk. "I suppose I can't expect much from a human with a shitty dragon for a parent."
Evanee attempted to ignore the demon's words, but she couldn't, it just brought up anger in her. She allowed stones to cover her fist again as she tried to attack Daityas. She threw a hard punch to his face, but Daityas blocked it with ease by bringing up his forearm. Evanee tried a knee, but Daityas blocked it with his own. As Evanee attempted to jump back, a tail composed of Hell fire appeared on Daityas' back, and he swung it at Evanee, catching her side as she jumped back. The flames of Hell ripped through her clothing and severely burnt her skin. Evanee couldn't help but let out a yelp of pain (And it took a lot for one of those to escape her lips mind you) and rolled across the flat land for a few seconds before coming to a stop, feeling the severe burn on her side. "Ugh…"
"Is this all you have to offer?" Daityas asked while crossing his arms, tapping his foot impatiently. "I'm beginning to question your strength, along with those in that shitty guild of yours…"
Evanee stood up slowly, attempting to ignore the pain her side as she glared at the demon before her, her fists clenched in anger. "You…" Evanee dashed forward once again, markings appearing on her body as she entered Dragon Force, having just about enough of Daityas. She threw a stone infused haymaker to Daityas' face but he blocked once again. The difference this time was that he slid back a little bit, and he "winced" to make it seem like the attack had some effect on him, but Evanee barely felt her arm connect. Evanee continued her assault however, throwing her free fist at Daityas' stomach but Daityas caught this one, a grin on his face as flames began to appear around his mouth, causing Evanee's eyes to widen. Evanee quickly puffed her cheeks out, unleashing a Stone Dragon's Roar just as Daityas released his Hell Fire Demon's Screech. Since the two attacks went off so close to each other, an explosion blew them both away. Daityas was naturally stronger, so he wasn't affected by it as much as Evanee was. Daityas slid across the ground on his feet, a few marks around his body, but other than that he was fine. Evanee on the other hand rolled across the ground yet again, but she did her best to spring up, not wanting to give Daityas too much time for a counter attack.
"Well, this was fun, but you're putting me behind…" Daityas said while dusting off his suit. "I'll show you something nice before you die, however…" Daityas then grinned as markings began to appear around his body, which also began to turn a different color; Daityas was now in his Demon Drive. Daityas inhaled, red flames surrounding his mouth as he prepared yet another Hell Fire Demon's Screech, and without warning, Daityas threw his head forward, unleashing a blazing red vortex of Hell Fire, burning through the ground it touched.
Evanee was prepared for anything Daityas had…but once he went into his Demon Drive transformation, Evanee showed slight hesitation. Someone as powerful as Daityas got even stronger? Her eyes widened slightly at the power increase she felt from Daityas, causing her to take a step back, but that was the only step she could take as the Hell Fire hurtled towards her.
"GET DOWN!" A voice shouted, speeding in, and powerful shoved Evanee to the ground, allowing the Hell's flames to pass her, and burn everything else in its path.
"Who…?" Evanee started…but she then picked up an all too familiar scent, causing her eyes to widen for a second before narrowing, now looking up to see who pushed her.
"Geez, Ev…" Gaia said while extending her hand to the downed dragon slayer. "You need to pay more attention to your surroundings…I won't always be here to save your behind, you know…"