Seems Drake is the most likely candidate for victory. Anyway, let's get into it!
Enjoy!
Nashi was surprised that she hadn't lit the entire forest on fire yet with how much she'd been missing lately. She tried to hit Elise with another fireball, but she blocked it and it missed wildly. Nashi jumped in time to avoid a tree that fell as a result of Elise's wild aiming, but this only brought her to Drake, who swiped at her with his poisonous claws. She managed to avoid it for the most part, but she felt a section of her left arm go numb where the claw had made contact. Pushing him away with a kick, Nashi blasted at him with fire, and watched him maneuver through the air to avoid it. He landed in time to dodge Elise's preemptive strike at him, and kicked her away. Elise landed next to Nashi and cast her a look.
"Drake's the biggest problem right now." She told her, grinning. "Truce?" Nashi grinned back.
"Truce." Drake chuckled. Looking back at him, he had his scaly arms crossed and was grinning.
"I find it cute you two think you're enough to take me down." He told them. "You, what, think because you have a more powerful background you're enough to take me?"
"Maybe so." Nashi replied. "Question is, do you think you're good enough to handle the two of us?"
"Guess we'll find out." Drake replied, gesturing for them to come at him.
They obliged.
Lucy watched as the transmitter was temporarily blinded by explosions every now and then.
"Mavis." Levy whispered as Drake drove his elbow into Elise's back and sent her to the ground. "They're really not going easy on each other."
"Of course they aren't." Gajeel replied. "These aren't your regular mages. We're talking about three Dragon Slayers who all want the same thing. Going easy on each other would be insulting."
"Still." Lucy said, flinching as Nashi got a scaly fist to the face from Drake. "Thy're best friends, and they're acting like mortal enemies."
"They're passionate about it." Gray replied as Drake fended off assaults from both girls. "Can't help but admire that." Lucy smiled at his words.
"True enough." She replied.
Drake was handling them both, Nashi couldn't believe it. It was still like he wasn't even trying, and if they did somehow manage to get past the poison, he threw up sound walls to halt them and send them back where they wouldn't go deaf.
"Damn it." Nashi hissed as Drake stayed stationary.
"I knew he was good." Elise replied. "But I really underestimated him."
"We haven't even moved him." Nashi replied, making Drake chuckle.
"You guys seem to have forgotten." he told them, smirking. "I can hear everything you want to do before you do it. You can't beat me with an attack pattern like that." That was when Nashi realized it.
She'd been fighting by Drake's side a long time. That was how he knew what to do, it had nothing to do with sound magic. Sure that helped him, but he'd fought with her enough to know what she did and when she did it. Elise too. He knew them, simple as that.
Of course, that was a two-sided sword.
"You think we can't hit you?" Nashi asked. "You aren't perfect, Drake."
"Not saying I am." he replied. "Come on Nashi, I won't even fight back. Try to hit me." Nashi nodded and ran towards him, making sure all she thought about was punching him in the face with her right hand. She raised it, preparing to attack. Drake was already tensing to duck to the left.
His mistake was not listening to everything. Drake's sound magic had a glaring weakness, as his ears twitched when he was listening intently. When Nashi noticed the small motions made by his ears stopped, her attack pattern changed.
She used the momentum from the running to bring up her left fist and uppercut Drake in the face. The Poison Dragon flew through the air and hit the Tenrou tree, groaning in pain as he stood.
"Alright, you got me." he replied, grinning. "I just won't stop listening."
Damn it.
Elise and Nashi attacked again, but Drake kept his word by not ceasing to listen. Every move was flawlessly dodged and the girls hit each other in the face more than once as a result. Drake's foot connected with her face and she flew back, aiming a roar for him. However Elise chose this moment to swing with her sword, and Drake motioned so she was in Nashi's path. The Iron Dragon was hit with the torrent of flame and, as a matter of fact, hit Drake as she flew through the air, leaving both in a heap.
"Damn it Nashi, watch it!" Elise shouted, thrusting a club into Nashi's stomach.
"If you stopped getting in my way it wouldn't be a problem!" Nashi shouted back, grabbing the club and swinging Elise into Drake.
"Get off me Elise!" Drake shouted angrily, punching her in the back of the head and forcing her away from him. Elise replied by grabbing the fist he'd used to punch her and squeezing. Nashi heard a crack and Drake grimaced. "oh, so now we're breaking bones?" Drake drove his free fist into Elise's ribs, and another crack was heard and Elise faltered, clutching her ribs as Drake massaged his broken wrist.
"We have to end this before we kill each other." Nashi said.
"Agreed." Drake hissed, poison gathered around his left fist, the not broken one. "Wouldn't you, Elise?" Iron formed around Elise's arms.
"I suppose." She replied. The three moved at each other at once, attacking whatever body got in their way. Nashi hit Elise, Drake hit Nashi, Elise hit Drake, it was a never ending cycle. Nashi felt her body reaching it's limit as well, which caused her to slow considerably. Drake grabbed her by the scarf and threw her into Elise, who pushed her away, the three of them once again forming a triangle. They all gasped for air and waited for someone to make the next move, no one doing so as they waited for someone else to do it.
"Shit." Elise grasped at her ribs. "I think I'm almost done."
"Allow me to show you the door then." Drake said, taking a stance Nashi didn't recognize. "Dragon Slayer Secret Art!: Toxic Viper Strike!" Nashi watched in amazement as the poison formed around Drake, a rough outline of a snake, and it arced it's head as it shot towards Elise, much like a viper going in for the kill.
"Dragon Slayer Secret Art!" Elise shouted back, her arm glowing. "Karma Demon: iron God Sword!" Elise brought the huge blade up and brought it down at Drake's attack.
Needless to say, Nashi felt left out.
"Dragon Slayer Secret Art!" She shouted, hands glowing red. "Crimson Lotus Exploding Flame Edge!" She aimed the circular attack right for where the poison and iron where going to meet, and it rushed to meet both other elements.
BOOM!
Everyone in the guildhall flinched as the three secret arts flew at each other, blinding the transmission lacrima for at least ten seconds, after a while, it finally started to fade.
"Who's still standing?!" Damien shouted. After a while, figures could be seen through the smoke.
They were all still standing.
Elise looked like shit, with some bits of her clothes still burning.
Drake had shards if iron sticking out of his now normal looking arms.
Nashi had received a brutal hit from both iron and poison, as she had been stabbed multiple places and some areas of her skin glowed blue and green.
"They're all still standing!" Damien shouted to the shocked crowd. "All three Dragons still stand! What a show of strength! Of just how badly they all want this!" Lucy could do nothing but stare at the three of them in awe, wondering how they'd taken so much abuse. truly a testament to their strength.
"I don't believe it." Levy said, sounding equally in awe. "They all took a combined explosion of three secret arts and are still standing."
"They're tough, that's for sure." Gajeel agreed.
"I think at this point they all..." Lucy started, but Damien made a shocked sound.
"What?! WHAT?!" Lucy shot her eyes back over to the screen, just in time to see it.
All three Dragon Slayers hit the ground at the same time, not moving.
Damien made a face as he observed the job board, Ultear and Simon next to him.
"You guys see anything?" He asked, getting a shake of the head from both.
"None of this seems good." Ultear said, shaking her head sadly.
"Hold up!" Simon sad, grabbing a flyer. "This one looks good. Some monsters terrorizing a town."
"Basic, I like it." Damien agreed, walking towards the counter where his mother stood, awaiting them. "Hey Mom, we're doing this one." he said, thrusting the flyer at her. She smiled.
"Have fun sweetheart." She said. Damien nodded and turned to walk away with the others, and got an idea.
"Don't you guys think we're missing something?" Damien asked, the other two getting mischievous grins on their faces. All three of them walked up to the people in question, grinning. "Hey guys, you want to come?"
"Fuck off Damien." the three Dragon Slayers said at once, glaring at him as he laughed. After all three of them had collapsed at the end of the final exam, Damien's father didn't know who had fallen first, and the replay couldn't give a certain answer. So, instead of choosing one over the others, he just picked all of them.
Needless to say, none of them were very happy all of them made it.
"Why are you guys so upset?" Simon asked with a grin. "You're S-Class!"
"Because we're all wrapped up like an ancient mummy?" Elise asked. Damien had forgotten to mention the three had banged each other up so bad practically their whole bodies except their faces were covered in gauze. That didn't improve their mood whatsoever, sadly.
"Besides." Drake said, shifting awkwardly, "This is all Nashi's fault." Nashi looked over at him with an exasperated look on her face.
"My fault?" She demanded. "Who's the idiot who decided it was secret art time?!"
"Yeah Drake!" Elise shouted from Nashi's other side.
"Who decided to launch some fire into the middle of that?!" Drake shouted back. "That's what caused such a huge explosion!"
"Yeah Nashi!" Elise shouted. Nashi glared at the iron slayer angrily.
"You're the one who lost her temper at the smallest things!"
"I always do that!"
"And it's what caused that!"
"Oh yeah?!"
"Yeah!"
"Get over here you...!" Damien watched weakly as the three began rolling around on the floor and yelling at each other angrily, ranging from blame to insults to whatever else they could use as ammo.
"Maybe we should just go."Ultear said, backing away from the three slowly. Damien followed suit, not wanting to stay around when one of them destroyed something.
"Just a day at Fairy Tail..." he muttered as he heard explosions from the guild.
Zeus watched the water below his window churn violently, but this was not his concern. He was waiting for someone to show, as he needed to talk to them.
"Master Zeus." Zeus turned to find the man in question kneeling before him, and he nodded in acknowledgement.
"You made it." He drawled. "Excellent, I have a task for you."
"Which is?"
"You are to take your old guildmates to a small town west of Era. You know your task there." The man chuckled darkly.
"It's time? Finally?"
"Yes." Zeus replied. "Make sure you fire it correctly, You don;t want to know what'll happen if you miss that accursed guildhall."
"Yes, Master Zeus." The man stood and prepared, to leave, Zeus watching him.
"Apocalypse." Zeus called out, causing the man to stop. "Do not betray me." Apocalypse straightened his back and nodded, but he did not look at Zeus.
"Wouldn't dream of it." Apocalypse replied. "Don't worry, Magnolia is toast, as long as I can fire it correctly."
"Good. I'll be seeing you then." Zeus watched the man leave, and excuse himself as a woman with black hair entered. "Athena, what can I do for you?"
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Master Zeus." Athena said, bowing. "But I've run simulations based on...that mans tasks."
"And?" Zeus asked, watching the water once more. "What have you discovered?"
"There is only a 23% chance, factoring in as many variables as possible, that Apocalypse will succeed in his mission. More than likely, he will be defeated or will mess up during the firing sequence."
"And?" Zeus asked, watching Athena carefully. The strategic woman had long since learned to hide her surprise at his words, but he knew he shocked her.
"Well...I'm just saying maybe this isn't the smartest course of action."
"It is, trust me." Zeus replied. He didn't say anymore, and Athena saw herself out. He sighed as the doors to the room slammed shut.
"All in due time Athena. All in due time."
Sorry about the fight, I just wanted to end it. Also, Apocalypse is on the move! Your question is:
What do you think Apocalypse is doing?
I hope you enjoyed, leave a review! Let's try and get ten!