Rylo quietly made his way through the unusually quiet streets, the silence keeping him on edge as he was well aware someone could literally come from any direction with an ambush. Just in case, Rylo used his Thief magic to blend in with the surroundings around him, now hidden from the naked, untrained eye. "Hm..." Rylo thought to himself as he continued to look around...and his eyes eventually settled on a bank, which happened to be empty due to the competition.
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Takeru ran to what he thought was the center of the city, taking a deep breath after. Takeru made sure to tour the city of Crocus during the last few days, which allowed him to set up Shadow Transport locations, allowing him to move swiftly from one location to the next with little magic usage. "Perfect..." Takeru nodded to himself; in the next second, a Venus Fly trap sprouted from the ground, catching the dragon slayer within its jaws. "W-What the?!" Takeru easily freed himself by for it a shadow katana in his hands and cutting through, but the second he stepped out, Rocker landed a kick to Takeru's jawline, causing the dragon slayer to stumble back, but he caught himself. "A pair of puppies...?" A grin grew on Takeru's face. "Perfect, I can use the warmup..."
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"Love isn't always strength..." Were the words that were actually going through Chelia's mind as she carefully traversed the city, staying on her toes in case someone wanted to attack her. "Is what she said really true...will I get stronger if I..." Before Chelia could finish her sentence, a bullet whizzed by her head, barely missing as it struck the brick wall beside her, her eyes widening. "G-Gah...!" Chelia quickly dove into an alleyway, figuring she'd be safe from fire. "Where is he...?!"
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"Heh…" Reve smirked to himself despite his miss. From his location, he had a good eye on practically every fighter in the city, and he planned on shooting at every fighter at least one. "Hm…Perhaps I should help Luke out a bit…" Reve thought to himself as he scanned the area. "But first, the little girl has to go…" Reve moved his scope around slowly, taking note of all the Lamia Scale members present. "Jura…Lyon…Yuka…Chelia…Wait a second…one of them's missing…" Reve narrowed his eyes as he scoped the area out, unaware that behind him was the missing member; Toby Horhorta, who had his paralyzing claws extended as he snuck behind the gunslinger.
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"Oh…I just can't wait to see the little sky god slayer in action…" Diana said with an actual sing song, cheery voice, taking away from the seriousness of her character for the others present.
"What are you interested in that little girl for?" Kiora asked while crossing her arms.
"Oh…Well, you see…she was having a little bit of trouble last night…so I decided to give her a little "help…"" Diana replied.
"Oh boy…this should be fun to watch…" Maggie said while turning her attention back to the fight.
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"Nekosoku Tube!" Milliana shouted as a pink magic seal appeared before her, shooting out her signature magic sealing tube towards Shadowlore.
"Heh, gotta try harder than that, kitten…" Shadowlore replied as a smirk appeared on his face. He easily avoided the incoming magic restraining tube by leaping to the side, running up the nearest building, just avoiding the tube as it would have constricted around him. "My turn!" Shadowlore replied as he back flipped off the building he was running from, his hand turning into a wolf claw as he now lunged towards the cat mage, his arm extended as he aimed a powerful slash.
"Nyheh…" Milliana also smirked despite the fact her attack missed; as Shadowlore slashed, she easily used her cat-like reflexes and body to evade the slash, much to the mage's surprise. Milliana then reacted by aiming a swift knee to Shadowlore's stomach, causing the mage to take a few steps back after the hit.
"H-Heh…strong…I like that…" Shadowlore kept his smirk as he regained his composure. "I wonder…"
Milliana then dropped her gloves to the ground, exposing her hands, but more importantly, her sharp "claws". "Scratch attack!" The mage shouted, lunging towards Shadowlore at a speed faster than he could really react to, landing to powerful scratch attacks on his face. Milliana then appeared behind Shadowlore in a crouched position, a smirk on her face.
"G-GAH!" Shadowlore held his face, groaning loudly from the scratches.
"And it looks like Milliana is giving Cosmic Star's Shadowlore a bit of trouble!" Chapati said while chuckling.
"Get your head in the game, wolf-man!" Hiruka shouted.
"Yes, stop messing around, Shadowlore!" Karma shouted, shaking his wrinkly old fist in annoyance, basically waving it around in the air.
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"Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu roared as he threw his flame covered fist towards Daryan, but the S dragon slayer easily blocked the hit by bringing up his forearm. Natsu growled lowly at this, and jumped back, right as he did, Gajeel extended his arm into an iron club, now rushing towards Daryan.
"Heh, not too shabby…" Dayran replied as he swayed his body to the side, just avoiding the iron pole, now much to Gajeel's annoyance. "My turn!" Dayran grinned as he extended his pointer finger forward; in the next second the bone on his finger sharpened and extended towards Gajeel.
"What the hell!?" Gajeel was surprised, and a little creeped out by this, but he didn't let it deter him from the battle. The iron slayer swayed away from the incoming bone, now breaking into a full sprint as his iron scales covered his arm. "Iron Dragon's Hard Fist!" Gajeel then jumped forward, using his momentum to his advantage as he threw his iron coated arm towards Daryan.
"Heh!" Dayran grinned, once again swaying his body to the side, but it was a more of a condescending action as Gajeel's fist just barely grazed Daryan's cheek, now pissing of the iron slayer even more, but before Gajeel could react, Daryan swung his leg at Gajeel's abdomen, causing him to fly into a nearby building. "Don't tell me this is all ya really got?"
"Not even!" Natsu smirked as he yelled, now coming down from above with his feet flaring, aiming a violent axe kick to Daryan's head.
"Whoa!" Daryan was a little surprised by this, but he reacted easily, jumping out of the way to let Natsu hit the ground, the foot of the fire dragon slayer shattering the concrete with ease.
"I'm not done yet!" Natsu roared as flames now appeared around his body, and he now lunged forward head first towards Daryan. "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" With his increase in speed, Natsu felt confident that he would finally be able to land on hit on Daryan, but he was dead wrong; Daryan quickly conjured up a bone several feet in length, and just when Natsu got in reach, swung the bone upward swiftly, striking Natsu in the chin, killing all of his momentum, and sent him flying back, landing on his back on the ground with a thud. "D-Dammit…"
"Come on, Natsu!" Lucy and Happy shouted in unison.
"You can do it, Gajeel!" Pantherlily and Levy also shouted, cheering on the iron dragon slayer as loud as they could.
"Daryan's got this in the bag!" Hiruka replied with a confident tone, crossing his arms with a cocky expression painted all over his face.
Gajeel sprinted out of the building he was kicked into, appearing to Daryan's right with his cheeks puffed out. "Roar of the Iron Dragon!" Gajeel shouted, opening his cheeks as he unleashed a gray vortex towards Daryan.
"Oh, not so fast, metal man!" Daryan replied, turning to his right immediately, almost as if he knew Gajeel was there before he even said anything, spinning his bone around to deflect and disperse the roar before it even connected. "Heh…Is that all your dragons were really able to teach ya?"
"It seems as though Daryan is keeping up with both Natsu and Gajeel rather easily…" Yajima said, keeping an eye on that fight more than anything else.
"I'm curious to see if they will be able to defeat such an opponent…" Siegrain said while placing his elbows on the table. "I heard Daryan defeated Kagura with a single blow on Day one, and nothing is really stopping him from doing that to Natsu and Gajeel, now is it?"
"This guy is pissing me off…" Natsu said over to Gajeel as the two stood side by side.
"How should we deal with him…?" Gajeel asked, using the back of his hand to wipe his mouth.
"LIKE THIS!" Natsu yelled as flames covered his feet, boosting his speed as he charged recklessly at Daryan.
"I like that idea…" Gajeel smirked as his iron scales began to cover his body, giving him both an offensive and defensive boost, and he sprinted right behind Natsu.
"Alright, let's go…" Daryan grinned, rolling his next as he kept a firm grip on the weapon in his hands.
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In a large clearing, Jura and Taranis were facing off, lightning surging around Taranis' body. "Iron Rock Fist!" Jura shouted, causing a large fist composed of rock and iron to appear from the ground and shoot towards Taranis.
"Hm…" Taranis thought to himself as the incoming fist hurtled towards him. With quick thinking, Taranis front flipped, now running on the lengthy arm of the fist, lightning now surging around his hand as he lunged towards Jura. When he was close enough, he hopped off the wall, and with lightning speed, aimed his hand towards Jura.
"Iron Rock Wall!" Jura shouted once again, pointing two of his fingers up as a defensive wall appeared in front of him, but Taranis was able to destroy such a defense with his already incoming attack. The problem for the demon slayer now was that he had no attack ready, which left him more or less defenseless, and that wasn't a good thing for Taranis as Jura threw an open palm strike to Taranis' face, the sheer power behind it sending Taranis through the second floor for a five story building. "Hm…That could've ended badly…" Jura said to himself, knowing that Taranis wasn't out yet. As Jura took a step forward, he felt a sudden spike in magic energy behind him, which caused him to form another Iron Rock Wall behind him, and just in the nick of time, as a black ice bullet struck the wall, easily freezing it over before it became so frail it shattered. "Yakuza is around here…" Jura's eyes narrowed as he tried to focus on Yakuza's magic energy, but it was an effort that was in vain as he couldn't. "Two snipers now…"
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"I GOT YOU ON!" Toby shouted, revealing himself prematurely as Reve jumped at the voice, rolling just in time to avoid Toby's claw.
"What the hell!?" Reve panted, clearly surprised. "Damn, I knew I should've been keeping an eye on you…" Reve now knew his position was compromised due to the screaming dog, so he had to made dealing with Toby quick or risk getting blindsided. Reve quickly requiped a tazer, and stuck it to Toby's chest, sending high voltage electricity through the dog's body.
"AOGHAOGN ON ON ON ON ONNNNN!1!111!1!1!" Were Toby's last words before the shock eventually caused him to begin to drop to the ground, twitching madly, but still conscious. Just before Toby hit the ground, a black ice bullet whizzed past Reve's head and struck Toby in the chest, blowing the dog mage back into the wall, now in KO. "What the hell…!?" Reve turned around, his precision eyes becoming his best friend as he avoided a bullet aimed for his head, watching as it impacted the wall, shattering it completely. Cosmic Star's score went from 64 to 65 with the defeat of Toby. "Bastard stole my shot…Now I gotta bolt…" Reve groaned, but quickly left the building, leaving a magic circle in the place he was sniping from.
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Several portals appeared in front of Alexander, all of them unleashing large chunks of rocks, sending them all in Bacchus' direction, though the drunk was relatively unfazed by this. "You call this wild…?" Bacchus grinned now, gathering magic energy in his palms as he ran forward, throwing palm strikes at the boulders, shattering them into harmless pieces of rock as he sprinted for Alexander. "Try this!" Bacchus swung his palm at Alexander, but before it connected, Flynn sped in with a harsh knee to Bacchus' side, causing the drunk to stumble back. "Eh…Fast one…?" Bacchus thought to himself as he got a quick glance at the blur that was Flynn.
"We got this!" Flynn said as he ran in place, ready for another attack. "Mach 3 won't fail, let's go!" Flynn crouched down into a running position, ready to blast off. "3, 2, 1-!"
"You two think you're pretty wild to hang with me?" Bacchus' smirk turned into a grin as he raised his right leg, slamming it onto the ground, causing a massive shockwave that blew Alexander and Flynn away before they could react.
"Gah...!" Alexander cried out, but as he flew back, he got an idea. He formed a portal behind him, which he flew into due to his momentum, hiding him from side.
"Heh, I hope that's not all ya got?" Bacchus asked as he looked around; he saw Flynn slowly getting up, but he didn't see a trace of Alexander. "Eh…where'd the other one go…?" Bacchus asked as he started to turn around, his drunken reflexes activating as he narrowly avoided an incoming blindside attempt from Alexander by swaying his body backwards, throwing his palm to Alexander's chin in a uppercut-like motion after, sending the war god rolling across the ground.
"Ugh…this drunk has moves…" Flynn said as he stood up, rubbing his head. "That's annoying…"
"That's Bacchus for ya," Jack said with a sly grin.
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Luke swung a fire infused fist towards Magnus, but the mage easily dodged the hit while Luke was in mid swing, countering with a punch to Luke's jaw, causing the copycat to stumble back. "Ugh…damn, you're annoying…" Luke groaned while rubbing his jaw.
"I could take you out like I did Chelia, but I prefer not to." Magnus said as a toying grin appeared on his face. "I like to…mess around with those who think they can beat me…"
"Think you're all that, huh?" Luke glared at Magnus as he placed his fist into his palm, immediately throwing them down. "Ice Make: Impact!" A blue magic seal appeared over Magnus, releasing a spiked ice hammer to slam down on him, but Magnus easily rolled out of the way once the circle formed…onto a yellow magic circle. "Got'cha!"
"Lightning rod…." Magnus whispered, a heavenly glow appearing on the ground as a sword made purely of iron stabbed itself into the ground, causing the incoming electricity to divert into the ground.
"What the hell…" Luke growled, angered that Magnus was able to react so fast.
"I told you…I already know how this is going to play out, Cloud…" Magnus replied as he stood up, dusting himself off.
"What are you, another Cobra…?" Luke asked while raising a brow, sliding into an offensive stance once again.
"You could say…" Magnus replied.
"Come on, Luke…" Heather whispered to herself as she watched the copy mage struggle to deal with Magnus.
"That guy HAS to have a weakness…" Cygnus said, pounding his fist onto the nearby railing. "Nobody is invincible…"
"HAH!" Karma chuckled, though his laugh turned into a violent coughing fit. "Excuse me…" Karma cleared his throat after before turning to the White Eclipse mages. "You don't know who you're up against. Magnus is grade A material, a mage who knows everything before it even occurs! A genius! My genius!"
"Well, you clearly don't know who Magnus is messing with!" Selene shouted, sticking up for her best friend.
"I hope you didn't look at Luke and expect him to be an easy opponent," Zalen said while fixing his glasses. "White Eclispe mages aren't built that way."
"We'll see about that," Karma replied. "Magnus wasn't built with a weakness; none of my mages were. So good luck to you and anyone else who thinks they have a chance against them!"
"Is it true?" Romeo asked while leaning over the railing slightly. "Does that guy really not have a weakness…"
"He has a weakness," Mavis replied, her eyes glued onto Luke and Magnus' battle. "He has one…and he's going to reveal it whether he knows it or not…"
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A shockwave shook the city slightly, the power coming from no other than the Twin Dragons and the Dragon God Duo. Sting and Rogue were in sync as always, but so were their opponents, Blues and Kuro, providing a rather intense battle. Rogue landed a Shadow Dragon's Slash on Kuro, sending the water god slayer back, but Blues jumped in right after, aiming a water infused kick to Rogue while he was in a position he couldn't react, but Sting came in, using his forearm to block the attack, much to Blues' surprise. "Too fast for ya?" Sting asked with a smirk as his cheeks began to inflate. "Roar…"
"Water God's Beam!" Kuro shouted, and a beam of black water struck both Sting and Rogue, forcing them away from Blues as the rolled around the ground before hopping up.
Right as the Beam struck the Twin Dragons, Blues placed his hands on the ground as a blue magic circle appeared under Sting and Rogue, the diameter of the circle about 25 feet, immediately pulsating. "Water Dragon's Geyser!" As Blues shouted this, the magic circle unleashed an uproar of scalding hot water upon the Twin Dragons, but they refused to let out any signs of pain.
"It looks the Dragon God Duo and the Twin Dragons are engaged in heated combat!" Chapati shouted.
"This is a little dangerous for Sabertooth, however," Yajima said as he added onto the commentary. "Though I could be mistaken, I do believe that Sting is Sabertooth's leader, and if he gets knocked out, that's five points for whoever does the job."
While in the scalding hot water, Sting took up, cupping his hands to his waist, a bright sphere forming. "White Dragon's…Holy Ray!" Sting then threw his hands forward, unleashing multiple rays of light from the cover of the water to the Dragon God Duo.
"Watch out…!" Blues shouted, but it was too late to react to the attack. The rays slammed into both Blues and Kuro, sending them back a few feet; as this happened, the geyser faded, and Rogue made his move, dashing forward with his arm pulled back, engulfing it in shadows. "Shadow Dragons…"
Blues immediately sprang up from the Holy Ray, allowing water to cover his fist in attempt to intercept Rogue. "Water Dragon's…" The collision of the two attacks caused another shockwave to form, shaking that area of the city. Blues and Rogue slid back, now beside their respective partners. "How about we kick this up a notch, eh…?" Blues said as he let his arms drop to his sides, an aqua blue aura appearing around his body, his hair spiking up somewhat as he entered his Blue Drive state.
"I agree…" Kuro grinned, a magic seal appearing underneath his feet as he allowed some more of his magic energy to release.
"If that's what you want…" Sting grinned as a white aura appeared around his body, his blonde hair also spiking up, entering his White Drive state.
"Then it's what you shall receive…" Rogue continued, his hair spiking up as well, but his eyes turned red, and a black aura appeared around his body which turned into a shadowy-like state, entering his Shadow Drive.
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A large scale explosion occurred from the part of the city Evanee and Laxus were fighting in, somehow the two were too caught up in their fight to notice that Gaia was nearby, watching. Laxus covered his fist in electricity, throwing a potent haymaker to Evanee's jaw, but the stone dragon slayer brought up her arm just in time, blocking the heavy hit with ease, but she slid back a few feet from Laxus' brute force. Evanee then covered her free hand in stones, slamming it into Laxus' abdomen, causing Laxus to stagger back a few steps. "Tough girl, eh?" Laxus asked as he quickly regained his composure.
"Perhaps," Evanee replied, looking around for a split second, though she kept her senses on Laxus. "Where is that damn dragon…" Evanee thought to herself before turning to full attention to Laxus.
"I don't know who you're looking for, but they can wait. I'll take them down after I take you down," Laxus replied, and before Evanee could make a statement, the dragon slayer morphed into a bolt of lightning, now appearing behind Evanee with his hands interlocked. "Jaw of the Lightning Dragon!"
"Wha…!?" Evanee was fast enough to turn around, but that was more or less a mistake as Laxus slammed his fists down on the top of Evanee's head, the force sending her into the ground, a small crater forming from impact.
"That…had to hurt…" Caelestis said while rubbing the top of his head.
"Come on, Evanee-senpai, you can beat him!" Melanie shouted.
"Yeah! Show him who's the stronger dragon slayer, Evanee-chwan!" Tsami yelled, louder than Melanie at that.
Evanee stood up slowly, feeling a little dizzy from the attack size her head was struck, but she more or less had a good grip on what Laxus could do at this point. "Hmph…" A magic seal appeared on the ground, liquefying the ground, which Evanee then wrapped around Laxus, much to the dragon slayer's surprise.
"W-What the…!?" Laxus attempted to shock the ground around him, but he found that it wasn't as effective as he would've liked. Before Laxus could do anything else, Evanee had the ground slam Laxus into a building, destroying most of it.
"Laxus…!" Makarov himself was slightly surprised at Evanee's power, but his surprised look turned into that of confidence when Laxus powered through the building with nothing more than a few marks.
"Hm…both are strong…but they aren't strong enough to slay a dragon…" Gaia thought to herself as she continued watching Evanee vs. Laxus.
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"Ice Dragon's Roar!" Waiston shouted, shooting out a vortex of cold air towards Juvia.
"Water Slicer!" Juvia shouted herself, sending a wave of water to match Waiston's roar, but to her surprise, the attacks were relatively even for a few seconds, but eventually Waiston's roar froze her water, which shattered. "What…?"
"Heh…" Waiston smirked, using his thumb to wipe his lips. "Gray may have beaten me once, but that doesn't change the fact his ice is nothing compared to the ice of a dragon."
"Juvia will make Waiston pay for hurting Gray-sama…" Juvia said as she clenched her fist, glaring at the ice dragon mage before her.
"Go right ahead and try! And if we're going by that, I suppose you could say I have to get you back for beating Luke that one time…" Waiston's smirk grew as he beckoned Juvia to come at him.