Daily updates for all! I'm on March Break as of now, so let's get this arc done and over with! Not that I don't like it, I love it, but it's time the GMG reaches it's conclusion!
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"What a spectacular day so far!" Ross shouted. "And it isn't even over yet! What do you think, your majesty?" Hisui hummed in thought at his question.
"Today sure has been one twist after the other. It all basically comes down to Fairy Tail and Sabertooth now, with a few other competitors still in the mix. With so many amazing fights going on, it's so difficult to pick one to watch over the others. Although I am curious where Nashi Dragneel has disappeared too. She was fighting Blake before, but I looked away for a single moment and she disappeared and Blake was climbing out of debris. Looking away was clearly a mistake."
Azzie, too, wondered where Nashi had gone too. The girl had been on the receiving end of a beating before she looked over to focus on Drake's fight, and she disappeared. Although once Drake survived Jupiter's Fury and Ultear unleashed Arc of Time, she'd almost forgotten about her.
"Where do you think she went?" Katsuchi asked. "Did she just try to escape her beating?"
"I don't think so." Tetsu responded. "That doesn't seem like something she would do."
"She was pretty hurt." Azzie said. "I wouldn't blame her for running away to try and regain her composure." Katsuchi shrugged.
"Still...Running?" Azzie watched Simon and Nami going at each other, both receiving vicious blows. She wasn't entirely sure what to think about Nashi's fight. The audio from the lacrima vision was downright horrid, so if Blake had said something to her to make her scared, no matter how unlikely that was, they wouldn't have a clue.
An explosion caught Azzie's attention, and she turned to look at the lacrima vision displaying the battle between Terra and Bella. Speaking of that battle, Azzie felt rather scared even looking in Bella's direction. Knowing that the girl was a Demon Lord reminded Azzie of a certain someone she usually opted not to think about, but she could only think bout him as Bella threw Terra this way and that.
"She's terrifying." Katsuchi muttered under his breath. "Not as bad as Taisho, but..." Tetsu nodded.
"Yeah. The ability to seduce any man she wants? That's so unfair." Azzie laughed offhandedly at this. She, apparently as oppose to her friends, remembered Bella using said magic to make the majority of men in the crowd lose their shit. Although from what she could tell that had been unintentional, as it wore off once she started to focus more on Damien. It was still a pretty powerful magic, to be honest.
And then, of course, there was Elise and Keita.
Azzie knew nothing about what had happened, but from what she could tell Keita had messed up severely. Elise was no longer herself, and he was fighting against her as such. She could only imagine what was going on.
Although...Why does my stomach refuse to stop turning?
Terra smiled as the pillars exploded against Bella, knowing that she'd landed a pretty decent hit. The demon was strong she'd admit, but that didn't mean that wasn't going to sting. Raising more pillars, Terra launched them with all her might at Bella, who flew around a few, before she was forced to swing and break one as it got a bit too close to her face for comfort. Terra jumped back as the demon got close, looking for an opening.
If I'm going to land my attack, she needs to sit still...But how can I make her do that?
Terra gave it some thought, and she finally came up with something. Landing and waiting, she watched as Bella landed a fair distance away from her, smirking.
"Your toothpicks don't really hurt that much, Terra." Bella taunted, but Terra ignored her. "Is that really all the strategy you've come up with?" Terra shook her head.
"Not at all. I know what I have to do, and in due time I'll do it as well." Bella rolled her eyes and prepared to fly forward.
"Whatever you say." The demon launched towards Terra, who had no time to raise any earth defense, and defended herself with her bare arms. The strikes pained her incredibly, but she held her own as Bella backed up and prepared to do it again. Terra raised walls of earth in the girls way and twisted them to prevent Bella's advance as best she could, which did give Terra some space.
Terra needed to do it now, or she wouldn't have any strength left to fight Damien when he inevitably showed himself again.
Once Bella landed, Terra brought her hands together and concentrated. Before Bella could reacted, the earth around her morphed and reached out swiftly, encasing her in stone. She struggled against it, and Terra could see the stone cracking, so she reinforced it quickly. Bella smirked, even though she was trapped.
"What are you trying to do, Terra honey?" She asked. "It'll only take me a minute or two to break out of this casing." Terra smirked.
"Unfortunately for you, Bella, a minute or two is about a minute and a half too long." Bella raised an eyebrow at this, but winced as Terra spent a few more seconds reinforcing the casing she was in. The last thing Terra needed was Bella freeing herself and escaping the blast vicinity which would leave Terra in a very awkward position. Once she was done with that, she smiled. Show time.
Terra brought her hands together, and closed her eyes.
"What the hell are you doing, Terra?" Bella asked from her case, but Terra ignored her and concentrated as hard as she could. Soon enough, the earth itself began to rumble. Terra couldn't see what Bella was doing, obviously because her eyes were closed, but she could only assume the girl was still trying to escape.
A low hum escaped Terra's mouth as the rumbling intensified. She heard her casing begin to crack as Bella used all the strength she had in an attempt to escape her prison.
"Terra!" She shouted angrily, but Terra ignored her. "Whatever the hell you're going to do, stop it!"
Tch yeah, okay. I'll do that.
The rumbling reached near earthquake levels, and Terra could feel the magic beneath Bella reach a fever pitch.
It was time.
Terra opened her eyes, and glared directly into Bella's.
"RUMBLING .T FUJI!"
The magic erupted beneath Bella, immediately causing her to become lost in the very center of the explosion. The magic soared upwards and high into the sky, creating a hole in any cloud in went through.
The explosion must have gone on for a good twenty seconds as pure magic continued to assault the targeted area. Soon enough tough, it slowly started to die away, giving Terra a look at the ground she had decimated.
"Did I...?" Terra watched the area closely, but she didn't see Bella anywhere. had she been eradicated? No, that couldn't be possible. Bella wasn't even weak to the magic, in fact she resisted it. Even tough it had been powerful, there was no way she could've...
A hand erupted out of a pile of debris outside the hole creating by the eruption. Terra watched in disbelief as Bella, clothes tattered, body covered in wounds, and panting.
"Nice...try..." She hissed. "But it wasn't...Enough." Bella slowly started to walk forward, and Terra was frozen in place, both by fear and because she was exhausted. Hadn't Xisplate said that attack would've been enough?! But clearly Bella still stood!
"That isn't possible..." Terra hissed in between shaky breaths. Bella laughed.
"If you know Damien...How did you think it'd work on me? It wasn't even Holy magic, for God's sake..." Bella laughed weakly, and coughed up something black. Was that supposed to be blood? Bella got closer, and Terra tried to raise some pillars to defend herself, but she couldn't find the strength.
And Bella kept getting closer.
Terra closed her eyes, waiting for the inevitable attack from the girl.
She heard a strange hissing noise, and opened her eyes.
Bella was back in her human form, looking just as battered as before. The girl let out a few labored pants before she slowly collapsed to the ground, and didn't make any other movements.
"H-Huh?" Terra asked in confusion.
That's it for Bella Realight! Even though she revealed a devastating Demon form, Terra Neekis was able to overcome her! But where has Damien Dreyar fled too?!"
Terra could hear the crowd cheering for her after Ross announced Bella's defeat, but she still didn't understand. Bella, granted fine was a long shot term, hadn't looked ready to collapse before her demon form retreated.
Well, I'm not surprised that happened." Terra looked over to find Xisplate standing there. "She was exhausted."
"I guess...What happened?"
"No matter which Lord we're talking about, it takes an incredible amount of power to keep a takeover active." Xisplate replied. "Bella had been tapping into it all day even prior to finding Damien and then you. Couple that with holding the takeover and taking a Rumbling Mt. Fuji..."
"The poor girl was ready to collapse, and she did" A different voice said. Terra and Xisplate looked over to find a woman with striking red hair, a beautiful figure, and wearing a tight black dress, which conveniently matched Xisplate's suit.
"Who...?" Terra asked. the woman laughed.
"I'd figure you'd recognize me after the fight." She said, giving an over dramatic bow. "Meridia the Succubus, at your service." Terra felt tense at this, but the Demon Lord laughed.
"I must say watching you beat Bella was interesting. Granted she was fighting another woman so I wouldn't get to big on yourself. She's only extremely effective against men."
"I could tell." Terra replied. Meridia smiled.
"Tense?" She asked.
"Well the last Lord I met tried to kill me, so..."
"Ah yes, Akirelys the Puppetmaster. Heard about that. bad business, that. But his wizard worked for The Olympians so I can't say I feel any remorse for him. Ah well, Akirelys will find another some other time. I hope you and I get to meet again, Terra. You're quite the interesting woman."
"How so?"
"Even though Xisplate told you what to do, no woman has ever successfully weakened Bella's hold on someone. So congrats." Terra was't sure whether or not she was supposed to be honored, but Meridia faded nonetheless. Xisplate sighed.
"She's not that bad, trust me."
"I think the fact that her wizard isn't a crazy person helps." Xisplate shrugged, and the two went silent.
"Well, get what little rest you can, Terra. Now that Bella's been defeated, the magic will have worn off of Damien. He'll return soon enough." The demon faded, and Terra fell backwards, staring at the sky.
"Great, two demons in one day...What did I do to deserve this?"
Keita dodged another volley of iron lances and sank into the ground, flying towards Elise. He came out of the ground and punched in the midsection, feeling his fist resound off of the iron armor adorning her skin. He didn't let up and went for another punch, which forced her back even more. This just made her cackle.
"You talk like you've got spirit, but where's the power behind the blows?!" She asked. "That barely even tickles!" Keita growled and landed a little ways away from her. Honestly he couldn't tell if Elise was messing with him or not. The punch obviously resounded off her scales, but it wasn't Dragon-God armor, and he hit pretty hard. She might have been lying to make him feel weak.
Or was she even able to feel pain?
He didn't know, but he really had no way of finding out without going all in on her. He was trying his hardest to just get close and adsorb the shadows back, but she kept him at bay. It was getting frustrating.
Elise sped towards him with both arms in the shape of clubs, ready to swing at him. He ducked under neath them and hit her with an uppercut right in the jaw, sending her into the air.
"Shadow Dragon Roar!" The torrent of darkness left his mouth and hit Elise dead on, forcing her back into a window of a building. Keita watched as she freed herself and rushed at him again, this time with a sword and a club. He made himself into a shadow as the sword swiped through his midsection, and grabbed her by the club, swinging her over his head and into the ground. Growling, she stood and tried to attack him again, but he let it fade through him easily. Letting her expend some of her energy doing this for a bit, he punched her as she grew a bit tired and left him an opening. As she stood, she wailed angrily.
"This is bullshit!" She hissed. "Why do you make it so hard to hit you?!"
"Because I need to defeat you." Keita replied. "All there is too it." Elise cackled.
"Like you did the other day? Your fucking pathetic, Keita." Keita tried to ignore her, but her cackling was almost as annoying as she was. Not to mention she kept doing it. "I honestly don't know where you get the idea that you can beat me."
"Maybe because you collapsed after our battle the other day..."
"Irrelevant! I still won! And you didn't! History has a tendency to repeat itself, Keita! And I'll prove it to you! I'll...!"
"The speed and strength in which Keita used to attack Elise send her flying backwards amidst a flurry of rubble and the shards of her scales.
Keita cracked his neck as scales formed up and down his body, his magic power growing. If he had to use Dragon Force to end this, he would.
Whether or not he was trying to free this girl...
...He still wanted her to learn to shut her mouth.
Simon landed hard after Nami's strike send him rolling. He got to his feet and surged to the left as she went after him again, trying to get some distance between them so that he could try and formulate some kind of plan. He knew what he was doing.
But he wanted to give the impression that he didn't.
Requipping into his Fire Emperor Armor, Simon used the fiery blade to send waves of heat towards the girl, all of which veered off course, leaving Simon open to Nami attacking him. Switching to his Flight Armor and speeding away, Simon made it to his next position on the battlefield, and smirked.
Almost done...
Both he and Nami were visibly exhausted, which was both good and bad. Nami laughed.
"This is amazing." She said. "I've never been thrown around like this."
"Thanks, I think." Simon answered. Nami lowered her sword slightly, and took a deep breath.
"I'm really glad you decided to show me how powerful you 're keeping the promise you made to me."
"As best I can, yes." Simon replied. Nami looked up with a small smile on her face.
"However, it's time I showed you the same." Simon raised an eyebrow curiously, and raised his rapier to defend himself.
Until he was pushed downwards into the earth by gravity. Flinching, he looked over at Nami, who was watching him.
"I want to beat you." She said. "I want to be the one who beats Simon Scarlet. And with this..." Nami twirled her blade and stabbed it into the earth. White magic flowed down from her arms into the blade, and it began to glow. The earth began to shake as well.
What is this?!
Simon couldn't move. Nami was keeping him down with other forms of her magic. Whatever this spell was, he knew for a fact he didn't want to be on the receiving end of it.
"What are you doing?" he asked weakly, and Nami chuckled.
"Using the spell that got me second in the MPF." She replied. "Graviton Strike." Simon's eyes widened in surprise. That score had gotten her near the one Jura had gotten years ago as the fifth Wizard Saint! he couldn't get hit by it or he was toast!
Nonetheless, Simon smiled as the earth rumbled even more.
"Well, got luck getting yourself stuck there." he said, making Nami raise an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" Simon moved is body as best he could under the force of gravity trying to stop him, and brought his hands together.
Seven spots on the ground around Nami began to glow. She looked around in surprise.
"When did you have the time to do that!" She shouted in surprise. Simon laughed.
"While we threw each other all over the place." He replied, his hands in the formation for the strongest spell he had. Nami looked all over the magic circles, before she laughed.
"So an attack from below and an attack from the heavens. Which one of us will remain conscious I wonder?" Simon grinned.
"I guess we'll fine out." he replied. The ground beneath him began to open up, and Nami's eyes glowed white.
"GRAVITON STRIKE!"
"GRAND CHARIOT!"
The ground opened up and pure magic shot out of it with Simon in the center of it, while at the same time the stars above shot down thousands of arcs of light on top of Nami.
BOOM!
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