"So, Scarlet's up first, hm…?" Knightwalker took immediate interest in Erza's battle, but not too much interest in her opponent yet. "Lovely, I get to see how she's been holding up after all this time~."
"Yes, yes…this was an excellent idea…" Hyde nodded to himself, crossing his arms after. "Let's see what these two are capable of…"
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"Oh, ho! Titania's up first!" The hooded male figured rubbed his hands together in excitement, throwing some sort of generic brand snack in his mouth. "This is bound to be a good fight! …Or an extremely quick one knowing her record…"
"We'll see…" The female replied with a nod.
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"What's up with that getup?" Jack asked his elder sibling as he glanced at Erza in her Lightning Empress armor.
"She's a requip mage, just like you and I, Jack," Tia began. "But, she has many more armors than we do. 100 to 1, literally. But, I'm assuming that this Blues is a water mage, so lightning is very effective against water mages…"
"Oh, yeah…Lightning is your biggest weakness. You can't even move after it hits you for a good while…" Jack replied.
"Exactly…She's going for the quick finish it seems…" Tia gave a nod, keeping her eyes more on Blues than Erza to see how he was going to react to the lightning that would soon strike down on him.
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Erza and Blues stood across from each other, Erza in her Lightning Empress Armor, and Blues in his Blue Drive. The warm up was nonexistent, the fight was about to begin. "You ready Titania?" Blues asked with a smirk.
Erza gave a nod, sliding into a stance with her spear held forward. "I'm ready, Blues."
"Then let's get started!" With that exclamation, the water dragon slayer rushed forward towards Erza at an incredible speed, almost appearing as a blur.
"You'll have to be faster than that!" Erza exclaimed as she swung her spear forward, unleashing a bolt of lightning towards Blues as he rushed forward, but to her surprise, Blues' speed didn't screw him over, he shifted his body to the side a few inches, just narrowly avoiding the bolt of lightning.
"Like that!?" Blues replied while dense water formed around his fist. "Water Dragon's Punch!" The water dragon's fist flew towards Erza, but she easily avoiding the attack by jumping over Blues and propelling herself high into the air, leaving Blues a bit surprised at her jumping prowess. "Eh!?"
Erza flipped, now pointing her spear towards Blues, a magic seal forming on the tip of her armored spear. "Lightning Cyclotron!" From the magic seal, a plethora of blue lightning bolts shot out, now hurtling towards Blues.
"Tch…" Blues quickly placed his fist into his palm, a ring of water appearing around his feet. "Water Make: Harpoons!" The dragon slayer thrusts his arms forward, creating a blue magic seal with a rain drop in the center, unleashing his own barrage of dense watery harpoons to clash with Erza's Lightning Cyclotron. Blues' power was impressive, as he managed to negate the attack completely. "Heh…Lightning doesn't work on me like that, Titan…" Before Blues could finish, he noticed Erza now coming down with her spear raised above her head, lightning violently dancing around the tip. "GAH!" With the quickness, Blues rolled out of the way, leaving Erza's spear to impact the street, causing a small lightning explosion that caused a crater. "That was close…"
"He's fast…" Erza thought to herself as she looked towards Blues, standing up and gipping her spear with both hands. Lightning once again surged through the spear, but this time she swung it, sending a horizontal beam of lightning towards Blues, covering a wide radius.
Though Blues was fast, he had no choice but to cross his arms, taking the full force of the lightning. He grit his teeth as the slash pushed him back across the street, his heels creating small crevasses in the street to show this. The lightning did tingle him more than it would a normal mage, but he pushed through the pain and uncrossed his arms, causing the slash to disperse after. "My turn!" Water surrounded the dragon slayer's body, a vortex of it forming around his mouth. "Roar!" Blues then threw his head forward, unleashing a large beam of extremely dense water towards Erza that uprooted the street as it traveled. "Of the Water Dragon!"
This was the opening she was waiting for. Erza brought her spear back, and when the roar was close, jabbed it into the roar, stopping it from hitting her. The force of the roar was strong enough to send her sliding back, but she knew she had this match in the bag now. The tip of the spear gathered a large abundance of lightning, and merely discharged it back into the roar, causing the lightning to travel towards Blues now. To make sure that Blues wouldn't be able to escape, she also diverted some of the lightning to the ground, sending a shockwave towards Blues so no matter what he did lightning would strike him. "It's over!"
"She's got this now!" Lucy shouted with a grin.
"Score one for Fairy Tail!" Cynthia clapped her hands together as the lightning almost made it towards Blues.
"Heheh…" A slow smirk appeared on Bacchus' lips at Fairy Tail's excitement; he knew they were all in for a big surprise.
As the lightning neared Blues, he didn't seem to panic. He kept a calm expression, not even bothering to cut off his roar just yet. It seemed as though he was cornered….but then a large smirk appeared on his open lips. He raised his water covered arm into the air just as the lightning struck. It hurt for the first few seconds, but then the lightning all traveled through Blues' water covered arm before discharging into the air, leaving him unharmed after. "Heh…"
Erza's eyes widened as she witnessed Blues use his own water as a conductor to negate her lightning; she never expected a water mage to do such a thing. "H-He diverted it…?" She thought to herself as she stared at Blues.
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"What!?" Cynthia's arms flailed around as Blues left the attack relatively unharmed.
"He rendered the lightning useless…by using his weakness…" Laxus commented while crossing his arms, obviously somewhat impressed by Blues' action.
"You got this now Blues!" Bacchus exclaimed. "That lightning ain't shit now!"
"Come on Erza, that's just a setback!" Natsu hollered at the lacrima screen.
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Tia's eyes widened at Blues' Lightning Nullification, she hadn't expected a move such as this. "He…Nullified the lightning with his own water…If he can do that…then perhaps I can…"
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Erza remained unnerved in the long run. It was just a setback. She pulled her spear back and jabbed it into the ground. "Impressive, Blues…" Erza said while giving a nod.
"Thank you, thank you…" Blues said with a bow and a grin. He prepared to move, but the felt the ground beginning to tremble, activating his motion sickness. "Urgh…" Blues' face turned pale and he fell to his knees, groaning. "W-What the…?"
"But there's always a way to counter…" Erza continued as a magic seal appeared below Blues who was unable to move due to the sickness. "Lightning Tower!"
"Oh piss…." Blues groaned for a second before a tower of lightning consumed him. He let out a yelp of pain while the tower struck. When the tower faded he was on his hands and knees, panting heavily while sparks appeared around him every few seconds. "D-Damn…"
"Blues, get up!" Kuro shouted, trying to warn his partner about the incoming Titania.
"Eh…" Blues looked up, eyes widening as Erza was coming down towards him, lightning spearhead first. He rolled out of the way just barely, and Erza's lightning coated spear slammed into the ground. "I got'cha!" Blues opened his mouth, unleashing a high pressurized stream of boiling hot water from his mouth, consuming Erza as it blew her backwards.
"Erza…" Jellal narrowed his eyes after Erza was struck.
As Erza was pushed back by the powerful stream of water, a heavenly light appeared around her body as she requipped into her Sea Empress Armor, cutting the damage she took by half. Before Blues could finish the attack, she dispersed it herself with her own sword. There were a few burn marks on her body from the scalding hot water, but she ignored the pain from them.
"Oh, that armor…" Blues scoffed as he stood up shakily. "It helps with water attacks, but it's not going to do you much good in the end, heheh…"
"Is that so?" Erza merely inquired as she prepared herself to attack.
"Damn right!" Blues clapped his hands together, creating a blue magic seal under Erza's feet. "Water Dragon's Geyser!"
Erza gasped at how quickly the magic seal appeared. She didn't have time to dodge it, so she took the full force of the scalding hot water that erupted from the ground. She held in any noises of pain during this. After the attack began to come to a halt, she got an idea. "K-Kanso…" Another glow appeared around her body, though it was concealed by the geyser. Erza's requip into her Flight armor beat the geyser to dispersing, so she used her speed to dash off, leaving her location a mystery.
As the geyser vanished, Blues, and the rest of the spectators had a large question mark over their head. "Where'd she go…?" Blues narrowed his eyes as he tried to sniff around for her, is guard up. Erza sped behind Blues, causing him to whip around to see what was behind him. He just missed her, but he knew she was around somewhere. "Tch…trying to use speed against me, huh…?"
"Sonic Thrust!"
"Huh?" Blues turned, hearing Erza's voice behind him. A fatal mistake as Erza sped by him at just at the moment Erza used her momentum to thrust her sword (in a nonfatal fashion) towards Blues, sonic waves emitting from the blade due to her speed. The force of the attack was so powerful that it sent the blue dragon flying back into the nearest building, causing it to collapse on top of him after.
Erza walked over to the debris from the fallen building and began to remove them. Blues was in KO, and Erza merely smiled at the fact that he put up a good fight. "Excellent job, Blues…" Erza bent down and hoisted Blues over her shoulder, and made her way back to Black Phoenix.
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"She won and only took a hit…" Knightwalker tapped her chin. "Her opponent was no slouch…I think I'll wait before giving my final reading on her…"
"It's far too early for that," Hyde replied as he levitated a few feet off the ground, crossing his legs. "But, Titania did an exceptional job, as always. I just hope she gets an opponent who pushes her to her limit…that's the power I want to see…"
"Well if you want I could always go down there and reunited myself with her~" Knight cooed somewhat, a sly, yet dark smirk appearing on her face.
"Now isn't the time for games, Knightwalker…you will have your fun with Scarlet, later, I assure you…" Hyde chuckled after he spoke.
"Mhm…Sure…" Knightwalker merely sighed towards Hyde.
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"Not a bad show by Scarlet at all!" The hooded male clapped his hands a few times. "Came out of that with only a few burn marks. I'm impressed, but I'm sure that wasn't even a warm up for her…"
"I doubt it was…" The female replied. "It was a nice fight to start things off though…I can't wait to see how the other fights are going to be…"
"Neither can I…I hope they're all just as good, if not better than the first one." With a nod, the hooded male threw yet another generic brand snack into his mouth, chewing on it happily and rather loudly.
"E-Etto…you really need to work on your consumption of snacks…" The female replied with a visible sweat drop appearing on her forehead.
"What? These are healthier than the last ones!" The male replied with a somewhat whiny and confused tone, chewing loudly once again on them.
"T-that's not what I…never mind…" The female let out a defeated sigh before looking back at the lacrima screen in front of them.
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"Peh, that was a lame battle! We didn't even get to see any real action…!" Jack complained and complained.
"Hush, Jack…this tournament should only get better in terms of action, which means we shouldn't have any problems scouting…" Tia replied.
"Scouting is boring if nothing good happens!" Jack responded with a groan, letting out the heaviest sigh possible after. "That was only the first fight; I expect the rest to be better…"
Tia stopped listening to Jack as she became lost in her own thoughts. "Lightning Nullification…perhaps…"
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"And with that, Fairy Tail's Erza Scarlet will advance into the second round!" Ola wrote into the air, getting a cheer from the Fairy Tail crowd seconds after.
"Nice job, Erza!" Lucy said while patting her scarlet haired friend on the back.
"Excellent work, Erza…" Jellal said while nodding.
"Ah, don't sweat it, we'll still win this!" Bacchus said, giving a nod of encouragement to his other team members. "Wild!"
"FOUR!" The other 3 members exclaimed.
"Did you sense any of that darkness?" Erza asked Jellal while bringing him over to the side.
"No…" Jellal replied while shaking his head. "But it's close…"
"Now, onto our second match!" Ola wrote, gesturing once again to the Lacrima screen overhead. "Black Phoenix's Leon Shi vs. Sabertooth's Sting Eucliffe; following that, Fairy Tail's Gajeel Redfox vs. Black Pheonix's Tristan Gareth, followed by Lamia Scale's Raven vs. Fairy Tail's Cynthia Rose, and the match after that is White Eclipse's Kuro Crane vs. Fairy Tail's Gray Fullbuster."
"We got a lotta action coming up, it seems…" Gray chuckled a bit as he stared down Kuro. They fought almost a year ago during the Fairy Tail vs. White Eclipse tournament. Gray barely pulled off the victory back then, but now he was certain he would win no problem.
"Gray-sama will beat him again!" Juvia exclaimed with her hands at her cheeks, hearts literally flowing from her body.
"You got it, Kuro. He just got lucky last time." Reve said while patting the fire make mage on the back.
"My match is up next? Excellent! I'm ready to take down this Leon guy!" Sting grinned, crouching down to highfive Lector.
"You can do it, Sting-kun!" Lector exclaimed happily.
"Good luck, Sting!" Yukino said with an encouraging nod.
"Gieheh…I get the ace, eh…?" Gajeel grinned over to Tristan, who merely gave a nod as a response.
"You can kick his butt!" Cynthia said with a nod before glancing at her opponent. "Who is this Raven, though…"