"Ho ho ho…" King chuckled, outwardly impressed by the performance of the former captives, though his inner anger was also starting to show as he slammed a fist into the nearby table. "HO HO HO…Two generators left? I suppose I should be calling for evacuation now…the fail safe will be activating once the last one is destroyed…" He then gave a smile, an angry yet devious smile. "Actually…that wouldn't sound so bad…they don't know the consequences of what will happen…and I've sucked enough magic from them for the time being…" Sitting back in his chair, the master of Dealer began to chuckle as though he already one. "It appears my trump cards are full proof…"
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Daigo urged Aira and Takeru to make the first move, and Takeru was the first one to move. "I can let loose, finally…" Takeru grinned as he dashed forward, his magic power exploding as he entered his Shadow Drive, his body now moving erratically like a shadow to throw Daigo off.
"Shadow Dragon slayer, hm?" Daigo raised a brow, remaining calm as the erratic slayer charged towards him. "No matter…with my rebirth, I've gained a new magic…" Daigo whipped his hands forward, sending chain forward, latching onto Takeru's chest. "Chain magic!" Daigo whipped Takeru around before slamming him into a wall.
"Tak!" Aira shouted as Takeru hit the wall. She then decided it was time to get involved herself. She ran forward, raising a hand in preparation for a spell.
"Not so fast!" Daigo exclaimed as he used his free hand to whip another chain, latching onto Aira's raised wrist. He then pulled on the chain, causing Aira to yelp and face plant on the ground.
Takeru struggled to escape the grip of the chain on him; it was tight, probably not coming off. He then got an idea; he formed his shadow katana in his hands and severed the chain, now freeing himself from it. "Perfect." Takeru then charged forward, jumping into the air with his blade aimed towards Daigo.
Daigo now went to tug the chain on Takeru, but he was a little caught off guard when he realized there was nothing to pull; he turned, only to see Takeru running at him. He dropped the severed chain and formed a new one, wrapping it around Takeru's shadow katana, tugging the creation away from him. "Here!" He then swung the chain latched onto Aira, swinging her into Takeru. The two White Eclipse mages collided with a "thud" in midair and hit the ground on their backs, both groaning from the impact.
"Those chains…" Aira groaned before standing back up, shaking the impact off. She pointed her hands forward, creating a green magic seal before her. "Sonic Boom!" The magic seal then unleashed multiple bursts of wind towards the chain mage.
"Not a chance!" Daigo said while spinning a chain around, diverting the bursts of wind off to the walls nearby. Daigo then threw his chains forward once again, latching them onto Aira and Takeru, swinging them around like ragdolls at this point. This caused Takeru's motion sickness to take effect, despite his efforts to fight it.
"They're not doing so hot…" Lisanna watched as Daigo flung the two White Eclipse mages around.
"We need to help them…!" Melanie gave a firm nod.
"I agree!" Lisanna nodded as well before a magic seal appeared over her body, now entering her Animal Soul: Tigress, complete with a two piece, claws, a tail, cat ears, and whiskers. She used her speed to pounce on Daigo, scratching furiously at his face with her "Let them go!"
"Grah!" Daigo flailed in a somewhat comical fashion as Lisanna pounced on him, immediately dropping his chains as he tried to get the youngest Strauss off of him. "Get off of me you disgusting feline!" Using his strength, Daigo managed to push Lisanna away, only to receive a face full of Melanie's water infused fist. He stood firm for a few seconds before wincing. "Ow…"
"Now's our chance!" Aira exclaimed as she ran forward, the wind surrounding her feet. "Hurricane Dance!" Once she got close enough to Daigo, she elegantly twirled around, creating a miniature hurricane around her person which quickly expanded to cover the entire room, spinning Daigo around before hurling him off elsewhere in the area.
Daigo groaned, standing up after shaking off the hit. "Ouch…"
"GET DUNKED!" Takeru exclaimed as he suddenly appeared before Daigo, his right arm raised high (while covered in shadows). He then slammed his fist on Daigo's skull, causing the ground under the two to shatter from the sheer force. Daigo stumbled back, completely dazed from the attack. Takeru took this time to puff his cheeks out, his head leaning back. "Roar…Of the Shadow Dragon!" Takeru threw his head forward, unleashing a funnel of shadows towards the disorientated Daigo. The roar landed directly, causing a shadowy explosion.
"Did it work?" Aira peered into the smoke, using her wind magic to kill any chance of Daigo using it for a surprise attack. When the smoke cleared, Daigo was seen on the ground, defeated.
"W-Well done…" Daigo gave a nod of respect before his body vanished once again.
"Tch, just a stupid warmup…" Takeru grunted before he went over and grabbed his Shadow Katana, hurling it towards the generator. It exploded after about three seconds, and the card's energy began to falter as it was now running on two generators instead of 6.
"Let's go find the others!" Aira nodded.
"We're right behind you!" Lisanna said.
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Joker and Evanee stood across from each other, the area they were in shaking due to the magical pressure of the two just being in the same room. The shaking increase steadily as their magic rose, it seemed as though they were trying to intimidate the other into backing down, but it didn't seem as though either of them would take the bait. "Evanee…" Joker started while keeping a cool, stoic look on his features. "The Ace of Twilight Zone…I've seen your strength in action."
"Is that so…?" Evanee replied in a calm tone, though on the inside she was just waiting for the chance to rip Joker's head off for earlier.
"This is a monster eat monster world…wizard kill wizard – too – if you will…That is how I see Earthland." Joker said while crossing his arms. "You managed to get a dragon, although weak, to yield to you…That in itself is impressive…"
"I didn't know you were going to compliment me," Evanee said while rolling her eyes.
"I'm not. That was when you were a Dragon Slayer, but because you were foolish and let your guard down, you're now less than that…a magic you still don't have complete understanding of." Joker said, though it wasn't a snapping tone, more of a ridiculing one. "In my philosophy, you don't have a place in this world…yet. However, it is not your time to do battle…" Joker then turned around, pointing to his left. "If you're looking for a generator, there is one down that corridor."
"I don't need your giveaways." Evanee snapped at Joker, but he just continued to walk off, ignoring her. "Tch…" Evanee turned, walking down the corridor Joker told her to go down since she didn't have much else to do, and to her surprise, it was not a trap. Joker told the truth, the fifth generator was up and running, much harder than before since it was one of the only two left. She brought her hands up, gathering a decent amount of magic energy before firing towards the generator (Constellational Stream); she wasn't using much power, but since she was an ace the generator really stood no chance and exploded. The card shook violently as another blackout occurred. There was only one generator left.
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Natsu ran forward towards Diamond Ice as fire and lightning covered his fist. When he got close, he swung it, aiming for her nose. "Iron Fist of the Lightning Flame Dragon!" Diamond swayed to the side, just narrowly avoiding the dual elemental fist Natsu threw. Though, some of her hair was singed. To retaliate, diamonds covered her left leg, which she swung at Natsu's side, causing him to stagger back, and out of the way.
"Ice Make!" Gray started as an ice bow appeared in his arms, along with three arrows pulled back at the ready. "Super Freeze Arrow!" Gray released his grip on the string, sending three frozen arrows hurtling towards Diamond at the speed of light (presumably).
"Hehe…" Diamond didn't react like most would at the sight of the three arrows. Instead, a slow smirk crept onto her face as she held her hand out. "That's some nice ice you have there, Fullbuster…" As Diamond spoke, the ice arrows merged together now morphing into a razor sharp ice blade, which slowly entered Diamond's hands. "Not too shabby a feel either…"
"E-EH?!" Gray's eyes widened in surprise from seeing his ice manipulated like that.
"She controlled his ice…?" Carla raised a brow in confusion.
"Ice manipulation, lovelies…" Diamond cooed while giving a few practice swings to her new ice blade, grinning with satisfaction. "Not too bad…" While Diamond was distracted, Natsu came in from her left with a lightning flame roundhouse, but she blocked the hit with her ice blade, sliding to the side a few feet. "Don't you know it's rude to rush an unprepared lady?!"
"I don't give a damn!" Natsu replied as he continued to go on his offensive momentum, swinging another roundhouse to Diamond's sternum, but he missed because Diamond was rather agile. Diamond swung her blade at Natsu's chest, but the Salamander swayed to the side, avoiding the hit. Before Diamond could pull the blade back, Natsu caught the unsharpened edge with his underarm, keeping a firm grip on it.
"H-Hey!" Diamond grunted, trying to pull her blade away from Natsu. "Let go!"
"Heh…" Natsu merely grinned for a moment before fire and lightning coated his forehead, which he smashed into Diamond's, the impact sending Diamond skidding across the ground on her back.
"G-Gah…" Diamond shook her head slowly as she stood up, noticing the trail of blood running from her forehead; this caused her to get angry. "How dare you…!?"
Natsu ignored Diamond; in fact, his cheeks were beginning to puff out, fire and lightning surrounding his mouth. "Roar…!" Natsu threw his head forward, unleashing a massive funnel of fire and lightning towards Diamond. "Of the Lightning Flame Dragon!"
"I've had enough of you!" Diamond shouted as she placed her hands forward, creating a cyan magic seal decorated with as snowflake in the center. "Blizzard!" From the magic seal, a harsh blizzard shot out, clashing with the Lightning Flame Roar. The stalemate only lasted for a few seconds until Natsu's roar was completely frozen over, and shattered into beautiful sparkles.
"She froze his entire roar…!?" Happy's jaw dropped.
"What is this woman…?" Lily asked while gritting his teeth.
"Ice Make!" Gray held his arms apart this time, a large ice cannon manifesting over his shoulder. "Ice Cannon!" Gray clicked the trigger to said cannon, unleashing a powerful blast of ice that hurtled towards Diamond. The recoil of the shot sent Gray sliding back a foot or so.
"Hmph!" Diamond scoffed, bringing her hands up. The ice shot traveling towards her was reduced into nothing but a small cube of ice that traveled harmlessly into Diamond's mouth. She chewed on the ice for a second with a content smile before swallowing it. "Pretty cold…"
"She's just messing with us…" Gray let out a low growl, absolutely disliking the fact he was being toyed with like this.
Diamond then planted her hand on the ground, and in an instant, a geyser of sharpened diamonds jutted out. Natsu was able to avoid it at the last second, but Gray, however, wasn't so lucky and was blown off to the side from the impact. "Diamond Geyser!"
"Lightning Flame Dragon's Sword Horn!" Natsu roared as lightning and flames covered his body once more, lunging towards Diamond.
"Heheh…" Diamond held her hand out, creating a large hammer which she gripped with both hands. "Break Hammer!" She pulled the hammer back, swinging it just as Natsu got in range. The result was an explosive shockwave, blowing both her, Natsu, and Gray back. However, Natsu and Gray came out worse than she did. "Gwah…!" Diamond grunted before standing up straight. "You two are really annoying me…But, it's not like I don't care for dragging this battle out…it doesn't look like Juvia has that much time left…"
"Damn..." Gray cursed. That last impact got him good and he was starting to feel it.
"We WILL beat you…" Natsu said while panting. It didn't help that he was pretty exhausted from the battle with Queen Tia prior to this one. While Diamond wasn't as strong as Tia, her defensiveness was making it hard for them to make any leeway. Natsu didn't plan on losing, but without a plan...
"Oh yeah?" Diamond smirked slightly as she pointed a hand forward, creating to large ice blocks. These ice blocks merged into a giant ice cleaver that floated above her. "See if you can break this one then…" Diamond threw her hands down, sending the cleaver towards Natsu and Gray.
"Look out!" Carla shouted as her paws gripped the cage bars. Before the cleaver could strike, a chainsaw-like sword cut through it with ease. The ice cleaver shattered into small pieces and a small explosion occurred, the smoke cloud covering the room. "H-Huh…?"
"WHO?!" Diamond shouted, a vein appearing on her forehead.
"Gieheh…" The signature laugh echoed throughout the room.
"Gieheh…" The same laugh…but this one was feminine.
"That laugh…" Lily's eyes and ears immediately perked up.
"You just can't stay out of trouble, can you, Salamander…?" Said Gajeel and he and Selene walked from the smoke cloud.
"You two can sit back and rest. We'll handle this." Said Selene as she gave a glare towards Diamond, her fangs showing.
Lily couldn't help but smirk widely at the sight of the two slayers. "Gajeel…! Selene!"