Standings:
Cosmic Star: 66 Gaia active.
White Eclipse: 61 Reve, Luke, and Takeru active.
Fairy Tail: 58 Laxus, Erza, Natsu, and Juvia active.
Twilight Zone: 53 Evanee, and Rylo active.
Quatro Cerberus: 30 Blues active
Mermaid Heel: 17 No members active
Sabertooth: 10 No members active
Lamia Scale: 9 Chelia active.
"Only twelve people left…" Skye said quietly as she looked at the score board.
"A fourth of those are ours…" Sdiney said while adjusting his scarf.
"And a third of those is ours," Makarov said with a sly grin.
"And a sixth of that is two of my most reliable mages," Calestis chimed in.
"Don't forget about Blues, now," Goldmine started.
"You're forgetting about Gaia, she's the strongest Earth mage in Earthland, and she's taken no damage at all thus far," Karma said with a smirk, it was a weaker than usual smirk, but still a smirk.
"There's still the issue of Chelia, too…" Mavis said while eying Laxus and Chelia carefully, almost worried for Laxus, but she knew Laxus would be able to handle it.
"Chelia…" Wendy mumbled to herself as she held Carla in her arms. "What happened to you…"
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Laxus aimed an electric punch towards Chelia, but the out of control sky god slayer dodged the punch, now rotating her torso in a clockwise motion. "Black Sky God's Dance…" Chelia said in a monotonous tone, sending spirals of black wind upwards, shooting Laxus into the air.
"S-Shit…" Laxus grumbled under his breath, already feeling his body starting to give out from the Earth's End trap earlier, but he used his to his advantage; Laxus flipped, pointing his hands forward, shooting multiple electrical spheres at Chelia.
"W-What…?" Chelia glanced at the incoming bullets, but she didn't seem too fazed after thinking about it; she spun around in a counterclockwise motion, creating a force of black wind that expanded outward, deflecting the incoming bullets. "Not as hard as I thought…"
Using this as a perfect distraction, Laxus morphed his body into a lightning bolt, now appearing behind Chelia with a charged bolt of lightning raised over his head. "Raging Bolt!" Laxus then hurled the bolt forward, leaving Chelia little to no time, and boom. The Raging Bolt exploded on contact, and the Black Sky God was KO'ed, pushing Fairy Tail's score to 59.
"And down goes Chelia…" Siegrain nodded. "She fought well."
"Oh piss…" Diana sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. "I didn't expect that to play out that way at all…great…"
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Natsu and Blues threw their fist at each other, a large shockwave booming throughout the city from collision. Blues jumped back, forming a sphere of water in one hand, and a sphere of light in the other, raising them to create a blinding sphere of water and light over his head. "Bomb of the White Water Dragon!" Blues then hurled the explosive holy water in Natsu's direction.
"Two can play at that game…" Natsu shouted, forming a sphere of fire and electricity above his head. "Dazzling Blaze of the Lightning Flame Dragon!" Natsu then hurled his attack at Blues' the two exploding immediately on contact, creating a cloud of smoke that only lingered for a few seconds. When the smoke cleared, the two dragon slayers went at it again; Natsu threw a flaming right hook at Blues' face, but the white water dragon ducked, using his momentum to throw a kick to Natsu's side, which landed, but Natsu caught Blues' leg after, a smirk appearing on his face. "Heh…" Natsu then allowed a surge of lightning to flow from his body, watching as it trailed onto Blues, who had a weakness to lightning so he let out a strangled groan of pain until he managed to pry himself away from Natsu, panting heavily.
"I hate lightning…" Blues groaned slightly, shaking off the lightning as a few stray sparks still danced around his body. In the next second, Natsu slammed his lightning and fire infused fist into Blues' face, KO'ing the dragon slayer on impact, sending Blues rolling across the ground. Fairy Tail's score now 60.
"Heh, maybe next time, Blues," Natsu said with a smirk, though he didn't get much time to relax as a Shadow Dragon's Roar came in his direction, which Natsu barely avoided. He turned, spotting Takeru pop up from the shadows in his White Shadow form. "Takeru…"
"It's been a long time coming, Salamander…" Takeru said with a grin.
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"Water Slicer!" Juvia shouted as she threw her hand forward, sending water strong enough to cut through steel at Luke.
"Not so fast…" Luke said to himself as he rolled out of the way, avoiding the Water Slicer with time to spare; he then rushed at Juvia, but he didn't throw any punches at her; he learned in his previous fight not to do that with Juvia. He instead stopped just before her, popping his jaw open as he unleashed a Lightning Dragon's Roar on Juvia, the fact it was lightning made it worse for the water mage as she let out a cry of pain, sparks dancing around her body as she stumbled back from the heavy hit.
"Juvia won't lose…" Juvia then allowed her arm to turn into a water whip; her Water Cane attack for that matter, aiming to slam her arm into Luke's side, but the agile copycat front flipped, pointing his hands forward with a smirk. "Nice try, Juvia, but this time I win!" Luke then fired off a large thunder bolt from his hands, striking Juvia once again, another scream escaping her lips, falling to the ground after, sparks just around her body as she laid there, motionless, bumping White Eclipse's score to 62.
"Luke!" Reve shouted as he continually jumped back, firing off beams of magic from his shot guns at Erza and Rylo. "Assist Tak!"
"Got it!" Luke nodded, rushing off to find Takeru.
"Yeesh, three's a crowd, haven't you heard?!" Reve shouted as he aimed multiple shots at Erzand and Rylo, but they both managed to dodge the bullets, much to Reve's annoyance. "Damn, I can't have a one on one with Titania for the life of me, huh?" As Reve spoke, Erza came in with a slash to his side, though it seemingly did nothing, probably because it looked as though Reve dodged it. "You missed…" Reve said with a smirk as Erza landed a few feet away from him.
"Try this on for size…" Rylo said as he turned to Erza, taking off his top hat, and aimed it at Erza, shooting a funnel of electricity; but before the electricity struck Erza, it funneled off into a different direction. "What!?" Rylo turned, spotting none other than Laxus Dreyar eating the lightning, a yellow magic seal appearing under his person as he did so.
"I'll take care of him," Laxus said over to Erza, then sped off, slamming his electric fist into Rylo's jaw, sending Rylo flying away, and Laxus went after his prey now.
"Finally…" Reve smirked, a heavenly glow appearing in his hands as he dropped his shotguns and pointed his infamous six chambered at Erza. "Here we are once again…six shots…"
Standings:
Cosmic Star: 66 Gaia active.
White Eclipse: 62 Reve, Luke, and Takeru active.
Fairy Tail: 60: Laxus, Erza, and Natsu active.
Twilight Zone: 53: Evanee and Rylo active.
Quatro Cerberus: 30
Mermaid Heel: 17
Sabertooth: 10
Lamia Scale: 9
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Gaia threw a stone infused fist at Evanee, but Evanee swayed to the left, dodging the hit with ease. Evanee then put all of her brute force into a punch, landing on Gaia's jawline, though it came off a little stronger than a normal punch would, and Gaia just took a step back. "Hm…" Gaia merely shrugged, allowing magic circles to appear on her arms, legs, and her back. Her arms turned into draconic arms, legs, and wings sprouted from her back. "Ah…much better…" Gaia gave a content sigh as her wings began to lift herself off the ground.
"What the…?" Evanee raised a brow at the sight, now feeling at a slight disadvantage, but she didn't let Gaia become aware of this.
"Dear…you're fighting a dragon…if you really want me to go all out…I'd end up ripping you limb from limb…"
"She's already enjoying herself too much…" Alex mumbled.
"Hush, Gaia is winning," Karma said, waving a dismissive hand to Alex.
With her wings out, Gaia flew around Evanee in a clockwise motion; her speed unfathomable to Evanee as she constantly looked around, noting that Flynn wasn't quite this fast. "Just what I needed…" Evanee groaned, and began to focus on Gaia's movements, but before she could really do that, Gaia slashed Evanee from all sides with her enlarged claws, causing hisses of pain to escape Evanee as gashes appeared on her body. "Dammit…hold still…" Evanee growled, though she was interrupted by another slash, causing a faint cry of pain to escape Evanee's lips now.
"Something wrong, Ev?" Gaia asked with a taunting tone, her eyes starting to turn into an oval, dragon-like shape.
"She's losing control…" Alex nearly shouted, but she was shushed by Karma.
"I said…" Evanee started while raising a stone covered fist. "Hold still!" Evanee then slammed her fist into the ground, creating a large stalagmite in Gaia's path; the earth dragon literally crashed into the stalagmite, but she flipped, the talons on her feet allowing her to slide across the ground with minimal distance.
"Ouch…" Gaia said while shaking off the impact. "That almost left a mark…"
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Laxus slid back from a powerful break dance-like kick from Rylo, but he stood tall nonetheless, feeling more or less recharged from eating the lightning earlier. "You're a magician, right…? Well, let me show you a magic trick…" Laxus said as his body began to bulk up, his pupils vanishing as he entered Dragon Force.
"I don't think I like this trick…" Rylo said as he watched Laxus transform, but he didn't let it faze him; the magician created a card to appear behind him, the 8 of spades. This caused the ground to shake, which activated Laxus' motion sickness, but to Rylo's surprise, Laxus seemed unaffected, but in reality, the dragon slayer was just playing it off really well, enough to intimidate Rylo. "Don't tell me he's used to it…"
Laxus then rushed in, his stats improved overall, and swung his lightning infused leg into Rylo's side, causing the magician to fly in that direction, but he quickly caught himself, though it didn't stop him from hitting the side of a frozen building with his back, grunting somewhat after. "I'm done playing around," Laxus said as he cracked his knuckles, a loud popping sound occurring after.
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Takeru and Luke rushed Natsu, both throwing a plethora of punches at Salamander, but he had somewhat of an easy time dodging the strikes, but there was a problem. He was the most damaged out of the three, Luke having a little less damage than he did, and Takeru had the least damage, meaning he was going to have to focus his attacks on Takeru than Luke, or the other way around. Luke jumped back, just as Takeru swing a light and shadow infused roundhouse to Natsu's side, but managed to dodge it by jumping back, allowing Takeru to hit the air. Luke came in once again with an electric fist, aiming it at Natsu's head, but Natsu ducked this as well, and palmed Luke's face, the force sending the copy mage sliding back. "Damn…he's still kicking pretty good…" Luke said while panting.
"I'm still good…minus that trap earlier…" Takeru said while rolling his shoulders.
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Erza and Reve stood across from each other, about several yards apart. Reve pointed his magnum at Erza. "This time…" Reve started as he prepared to click the trigger. "I won't miss." Reve then clicked the trigger, sending the large bullet of raw magic forward, literally destroying the ice that remained on the ground and the ground itself, leaving a dirt trail.
Erza remained calm, she gripped the sword in her hand and dashed forward, raising it high above her head, and when she swung it down, she cleaved through the first bullet, continuing her trek towards Reve. "One…"
"Come on, Erza, Natsu, and Laxus! You can do it!" Cynthia shouted.
Reve's stare turned into a glare; Erza was counting again, and that's what got to him. "We're not doing this again, Erza! You ARE going down!" Reve shouted as he took aim at Erza, firing yet another bullet at Titania. "Two…"
Erza jumped to the side, avoiding bullet number two completely, much to Reve's annoyance. "Two…"
Reve realized there was too much distance between the two, and even though Erza was coming closer, he had to as well. Reve sprinted forward, taking aim at Erza a third time. "Three!" Reve clicked the trigger once again, sending the bullet hurtling towards Erza.
Erza jumped forward, slashing her sword once again at the third bullet, but this time, she had a little trouble with this one, though she eventually managed to slice through it, raising her sword again as she prepared to slash another. "Three…"
"You won't make it to six!" Reve yelled, clicking the trigger as he aimed at Erza's feet, the bullet ripping through the ground. "FOUR!"
"You won't make it to five!" Erza replied, bringing her sword up, and she brought it down…but the bullet sank lower than she thought, and it made contact with her legs, a loud scream of pain escaping Erza's lips as the explosion sent her flying back, rolling across the ground.
"E-Erza!" The members of Fairy Tail shouted.
Erza's legs now had a searing sensation of pain running through them, the material around her legs blown off from the impact. Erza found it difficult to stand, but she slowly did so anyway, using her sword for support. The problem was that Reve began to close the distance even while Erza was getting up which caused pained and annoyed groan to escape her lips. "D-Dammit…"
"What's wrong, Titania? Did you finally realize who's stronger?" Reve smirked as the distance began to close.
"I-I'm not…finished yet…" Erza said as she brought herself to her feet, nearly losing her balance, but she held strong. Erza gripped her sword, crouching down, putting pressure on her legs that didn't need to be there, and sprinted forward, her sword now glowing red from the magic energy she was releasing. "I won't lose…!"
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Gaia swung her arm at Evanee, and though Evanee was able to block it, the sheer force of it sent Evanee flying back a few feet, but she caught herself, panting heavily. "What's it gonna take to keep you down, Ev? I'm honestly running out of patience here…"
"I'm not going down," Evanee replied, allowing her arm to turn into a sort of stone blade; Evanee then sprinted forward, jumping with the blade raised high over her head, now attempting to cleave through Gaia, but there was a problem…before Evanee could reach Gaia, Gaia clasped her hands on Evanee's sides, now holding the stone dragon between her claws, starting to add pressure. "G-Gah…"
"Yes! Even though the others may be down, there's still Gaia!" Karma shouted. "Crush her!"
"G-Gaia, no, stop!" Alex pleaded.
"Evanee…!" Tsami and Melanie shouted.
Gaia's grip on Evanee only increased; Evanee would've been fine, but the pressure was too much for her to even release a roar of any kind, weak or strong, she couldn't. Evanee clenched her eyes shut, trying to free herself from the crushing grip, but to no avail. "A-Agh…"
"Just give up, Ev! Before it gets ugly for you!" Gaia replied, a sadistic smirk appearing on her face as she continued the excruciating crushing grip.
"You must be crazy…if you think I'll give up to you, Gaia…" Evanee said while her body began to tremble, stone-like scales appearing around her face, arms, and legs as she entered Dragon Force, attempting to power out of Gaia's grip.
"W-What!? Stay…down…!" Gaia said, feeling her grip beginning to loosen somewhat, but she held strong, keeping her grip tight.
"Evanee…!"
"She's not gonna make it…" Sidney said aloud.
Rylo and Laxus stood a few feet away from each other, both panting, but Rylo was more damaged than Laxus was. Laxus reared his arm back electricity sparking around it, conserving magic by dashing towards Rylo. Rylo turned his head, noticing Evanee was in trouble, and he didn't even think about himself at this point; Rylo took off his top hat, pointing it towards Gaia. "Take her down, Evanee…" Rylo said as he unleashed a funnel of fire from his top hat, and at that moment, Laxus slammed his lightning infused fist into Rylo's face, knocking the mage out once contact was made, Fairy Tail's score going up to 61.
The funnel of fire slammed into Gaia, distracting her long enough for her grip on Evanee to loosen enough for her to escape. Gaia turned around, noticing that Laxus just defeated Rylo, and Gaia just rolled her eyes. "Tch…Magician…" Gaia turned around to face Evanee, though when she did, her eyes widened as a circle of stalagmites were now around her. "W-What!?"
"Earth Tower…" Evanee said with a smirk on her face; a large stalagmite appeared from the earth, trapping Gaia inside, reaching about a mile in the sky before causing a deafening explosion. When the explosion cleared, the stalagmite was gone, and Gaia was in her human form, panting heavily while gripping her arm. "She's still standing…"
"Impressive…" Gaia said with a half-smile, walking off after. "I…yield."
"SHE WHAT?!" Karma gasped.
"Nod bad, Ev…not bad…" Caelestis said with an approving smile.
Laxus attempted a blindsided punch to the back of Evanee's head, but with Evanee's heightened senses, she turned just in time, blocking the punch from Laxus, and brought her own fist into Laxus' face, the force of it KO'ing the lightning dragon slayer as he flew into the ground. "Not bad…"
"L-Laxus!" Makarov's jaw dropped. And with that, Twilight Zone's score went up 6 points. 53 to 59.
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"FIVE!" Reve clicked the trigger for the second to last time, sending the bullet hurtling towards Erza, utterly destroying the ground it traveled.
"Five…" Erza said in a serious tone, swinging her blade vertically this time, cleaving through the bullet with ease this time as she and Reve were now feet apart from each other.
"Reve!" White Eclipse shouted.
Erza jumped forward, swinging her blade down on Reve's chest, creating a deep gash, but before she could finish the job, Reve fired his final bullet, the impact shooting Erza across the city until she hit the ground roughly, KO'ed. "H-Heh…Six…" Reve smirked…but to his surprise, White Eclipse's score went up to 68. Before Reve could continue, he felt a searing pain in his side, his eyes widened as he realized what it was; the slash from earlier Erza landed on him. "S-Shit…" Reve started to fall over, but as he did, a stray brown magic circle appeared under his body; the Earth's End meant for Rylo earlier now activated, blowing the gunslinger away, KO'ed as Cosmic Star's points went up to 71, now holding that position.
Standings:
Comsic Star: 71
White Eclipse: 68 Luke and Takeru active.
Twilight Zone: 59: Evanee active
Fairy Tail: 60 Natsu active
Quatro Cerberus: 30
Mermaid Heel: 17
Sabertooth: 10
Lamia Scale: 9
"Only four people remain!" Chapati exclaimed.
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Natsu could feel himself winding down; he used too much magic during his fights with Daryan and Blues to keep up Luke and Takeru. Natsu started to rush at the two mages again, but he then stopped, changing directions almost immediately as he made a sprint for Evanee, lighting and flames covering his body; he knew if he could take Evanee out Fairy Tail would still come out on top. "Lightning Flame Sword Horn!"
"Eh?" Evanee turned, noticing the incoming Natsu, though she was a bit too slow to react, so Natsu slammed into her gut, pushing her back a few feet. Evanee did cough up some blood as a result, but she quickly raised her fist, bringing it down on Natsu's back, the sheer force of it creating a crater, and Natsu lay on the ground, KO'ed.
N-NATSU!" Lucy and Happy shouted.
"Ah man…we still got one left…" Luke panted, but he was ready to keep fighting. "If we can take her out, we win…"
"Not a chance," Evanee replied as she merely looked up, creating several brown magic circles above Luke and Takeru.
"What's she looking at…" Takeru looked up, a second too late as the large rocks landed on both he and Luke, KO'ing the pair as they took too much damage from their fight with Natsu.
"AND IT'S OVER!" Chapati yelled.
"I knew he couldn't do it…" Diana sighed. "Luke, Luke, Luke…a disappointment as always, I see…My poor son…"
Final Standings:
Cosmic star: 71
White Eclipse: 68
Twilight Zone: 62
Fairy Tail: 60
Quatro Cerberus: 30
Mermaid Heel: 17
Sabertooth: 10
Lamia Scale: 9
"AH HA!" Karma grinned, pointing to the score board. "Look at that! 71 points! WE WIN!"
"Actually…" Siegrain started as he stood up. "I've been watching the progress Cosmic Star has been making over the last few days…and I've found some interesting things…" Siegrain then pointed to the lacrima screen which pointed to the various activities Cosmic Star did. "Day one, Risley Law is injured from a mysterious assailant, thus taking her out of the Games. Day two, Cynthia Rose vs. Alex from your own guild. Cynthia suffered a similar injury, and Alex seemed to have the advantage, but it didn't work out so well, did it? Shall I continue?"
A sweat drop appeared on Karma's face as Siegrain went on, shaking his head after. "N-NO…that's quite alright…You really don't have to…"
"Too bad," Siegrain replied. "Before day four started, a group of skeletons appeared and attacked all the contestants, and even the guild masters, and on day four, just after Cosmic Star won, gaining a ten point advantage over everyone else, the same thing happened. So, this leads me to one and only one conclusion. Cosmic Star is a band of cheaters, and therefore, they are disqualified from the Games!"
Final Standings:
White Eclipse: 68
Twilight Zone: 62
Fairy Tail: 60
Quatro Cerberus: 30
Mermaid Heel: 17
Sabertooth: 10
Lamia Scale: 9
"W-wait…" Cygnus' eyes widened at the final score.
"WE WON!" Aira screamed out in delight.
"Third place…" Mavis was shocked, sighing heavily after.
"Second place…!" Tsami said, but she was still happy nonetheless. "You won, Evanee!" Tsami shouted, rushing over to the dragon slayer and tackled hugged her. "I knew you would!"
"T-Tch…" Karma glared at everyone around, but his body then vanished in a mist. "Evanee…you will pay for this."
"PAY UP!" Tobias shouted, grinning widely as everyone groaned from having to pass their money to him.
"How did Fairy Tail lose this year!?" Ruika groaned loudly.
"Who's the idiot who placed their bets on Lamia Scale?" Kiora asked while rolling her eyes.
"They weren't going to win..." Byron sighed, shaking his head at all the money he lost.
"Oh...don't worry...I suppose we can give them a constellation prize for trying," Daityas said as a smirk crawled onto his face. "It'll be a blast, isn't that right?" Daityas looked over his shoulder to the figure standing behind him, leaning against the wall.
"Kuhaha...of course it will..." The figure said with a smirk growing onto their features.
