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Michael struck too fast for Nashi to have time to react. The exhaustion from her full on assault earlier left her open to her opponent. He swung at her with a fist coated with white magic, and it drove Nashi back a little bit, even as she attempted to block it. Michael hit her again and again, each fist driving her backwards before finally, he brought his hands together.

"Holy Spears of the White Dragon!" He shouted, the arcs of light soaring towards Nashi. Just like the day before, there were far to many for Nashi to block them all, and she took the brunt of the spell and rolled away from him.

I need to get some breathing room, or I'm done for...

Nashi ducked underneath Michael as he came at her again, and tried to roar at him to keep him a fair distance away.

Michael had other ideas. He turned and swept Nashi off her feet, making the flame shoot high into the air away from Michael, making it so he was unharmed. He grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and threw her into the wall, creating a crater. Nashi had no time to recover from the attack before he was on her again, throwing her every which way.

Elise tried once again to swipe at Keita, but the Shadow Dragon disappeared into the shadows, and she growled.

"Come out and fight me!" She demanded, looking around for where he decided to pop out next. She felt a presence behind her, so she turned and shot a club there.

It simply phased through Keita's midsection, and he slashed her away from him. He came at her relentlessly, her attacks doing nothing to him while he continued to wail on her. Sliding backwards and waiting for the shadow to come at her again, Elise had some time to think. If Keita was going to go at her like this, she really didn't have a way to attack him back. How could she even attack a shadow anyway?

"This is so cheap..." Elise hissed and Keita melted into the ground again.

"Cheap?" His voice asked, a dark sound that came from all around her. "I hardly think using my own skills on my own free will is cheap. If anything I'm playing fair." Elise snorted.

"Yea, whatever." She turned and tried to club him again, but once again it phased through his midsection without causing him any harm.

"Shadow Dragon Claw!" Keita shouted, sending Elise flying backwards. She collided with another body, and judging from the feminine yelp, it was Nashi.

"You holding up?" She asked the pinkette. Nashi let out a long breath.

"I suppose." She replied. "You?"

"...We need a new strategy." Elise said as the boys circled them. "Cause the Dual Secret Art didn't exactly get the job done."

"I really only have one idea, but..." Elise made a face as Nashi trailed off, and then she realized what her partner meant.

"That's a risky plan, Nashi." She replied. "And not the type of risk we should be making just yet. If anything we'd be digging ourselves a bigger hole if they can still hold up."

"I know, but keep it in mind, would you?" Elise nodded. "Okay, let's get these guys!"

Nashi sprung at Michael, ready to deliver a blow of fire. He met her fist with his, creating a shockwave that sent small bits of debris flying. The two traded blows for a bit, and Michael chuckled.

"Those punches feel a little less painful than before." He taunted, making Nashi grit her teeth. "Having trouble, Nashi?"

"Nah, I'm just getting warmed up pal!" She replied. She tried to uppercut him, but he caught her fist easily, as if it meant nothing to him at all.

"Really?" He asked, getting closer to her. "Cause from where I'm standing you're having a bit of difficulty."

"I've survived tougher."

"Oh yeah?" Nashi glowered. In that moment, when Michael met her gaze, he felt a raw truth radiate from her.

"You couldn't even imagine." She replied. The casual small talk had no prepared Michael for Nashi erupting in flames, burning him as he had a grip on her. He backed up far enough to get a good look at her.

Despite the wounds he'd inflicted on her, she stood tall. If anything, he could tell the Secret Art only left her temporarily breathless. She was good to go. Michael grinned.

"Good, I was worried what you showed me yesterday was all you had in you!"

Keita dodged another of Elise's clubs, grabbed her by the arm, and slammed her into the ground. The girl tried to kip up, but Keita was ready and punched her in the stomach, sending her flying backwards, holding her gut in pain.

"I'm having trouble figuring you out." Keita said. "I tell you you cannot hit me, so you keep trying? There is so little reason to you I don't know what to say." Elise rolled her eyes.

"Yeah yeah, what else can I do?" Elise asked. "It ain't like sunlight stops you or anything." She rushed him and he caught her fist, locking them in close quarters. Keita reared his free arm back to hit her, but she caught it. Their eyes met.

And Keita's head throbbed.

He winced and looked away from her. She'd seen her darkness again. What was it?

"Don't look away Keita, or I may get you!" Elise shouting was all the warning Keita needed, and Elise punched another hole in his shadowy frame. "Oh god damn it!"

"Word of advice, don't announce your attack next time." He said, driving a shadow ball into her face at point blank range.

"Jeez, those guys sure turned the tide." Kinana said as both of the girls continued to lose ground.

"Nashi and Elise made the mistake of going all out immediately." Erza surmised. "I have no doubt they both feel winded, even if only a little."

"They'll be fine." Gajeel said, sounding a bit irritated. "Michael and Keita don't stand a chance if the girls get serious."

"Before wasn't serious?" Gray asked. "Seemed like it too me." Natsu crossed his arms.

"If it was serious and Michael and Keita got through it, they'd have lost already." He answered. "Give them some time to regain their footing, then they'll be fine."

Nashi and Elise made contact with each other once again, nearly falling on top of each other.

"Sp, any grand ideas?" Elise asked as the boys closed in on them. Elise felt Nashi shake her head.

"No..." She replied. "He's one of the best fighters I've gone up against... I don't know how to handle him." Elise nodded in understanding. Despite the trash she talked, she'd never fought a pair so on par with herself or Nashi.

"Keita." Michael spoke up. "You know what to do." Keita phased into the earth below and disappeared. Michael charged in and Elise turned her attention to him, Keita having gone somewhere else. She couldn't hurt him anyway. Michael may have been good, but with both girls going after him he faltered slightly and got hit a few times. Elise smirked as he tried to punch her and she stopped him. She grabbed him by the collar of his coat and threw him into the air.

"Nashi!" She shouted. Te girl released a roar exactly on cue, which hit Michael directly and sent him flying into the air above them.

"Finally got him!" Nashi shouted happily.

A laugh reached them.

"Big mistake, Nashi!" Michael shouted. "Look below you!"

Nashi made a face and did so.

A shadow was beneath them. Her eyes widened.

"Shit!" She shouted. "Elise, Keita's...!"

"Dragon Slayer Secret Art!" Both girls were forced to cover their eyes as a bright light from above began to shine down on them. Similar to the light above, a vortex of shadows formed beneath them.

They were trapped between the light and the dark.

"HOLY NOVA!"

"SHADOW ECLIPSE!" Michael shot down like a bullet and the ground opened up, revealing a maw of darkness.

They both connected at the same time, the resulting explosion rocking the stadium.

"Oh my God! Michael and Keita unleash a devastating combo from above and below! How are Nashi and Elise faring after a blow like that?!"

"Oh no..." Ultear aid slowly, the smoke still billowing around viciously. "That doesn't look good."

"It really doesn't..." Simon replied. "The girls don't have a end all defense, so that might have hurt..." Drake wouldn't lie, sweat was making it's way down his forehead. The girls were good, very good.

But were they better?

Keita came out of the ground, waiting for the smoke to fade. His attack had not required direct contact with the girls, so he was allowed to back up a bit.

"Michael?" he called through the smoke. "Are you there? Did we get them?" He got no response, but he heard something shift in the smoke.

Michael flew out of the smoke and landed on his face, rolling in the dirt and debris around the arena before coming to a stop near Keita's feet.

"M-Michael?" he asked weakly.

"Absolutely Pathetic." Keita's blood ran cold. He looked up as the smoke faded, revealing the fate of the two girls.

Nashi and Elise, clothes ripped and tattered, bodies visibly wounded, stood tall. Nashi opened her eyes, and the fire that burned there made Keita want to cower.

"You talk down our attack, but your own can't even finish us off when we don't block it?" She asked.

Keita was in disbelief. They had escaped the wrath of the girls attack, but they had got right through theirs and could still stand? It wasn't possible.

"Those two..." Keita whispered as Michael stood. The blonde spat blood out on the ground and grinned.

"Worthy opponents." he agreed. The girls shot towards them.

And they responded in kind.

Sting watched as Nashi delivered a resounding blow to his sons incredibly thick skull and smiled. The girls had gotten through both Secret Arts, and didn't even hide behind anything.

"They're amazing" Yukino whispered, barely audible below Ally telling her brother he needed to try harder. "Those two..." Rogue chuckled and nodded as Michael and Keita were thrown left and right.

"They're amazing all right." he said. "The way they move, the way they fight..."

"That type of movement is only possible from people who have fought in a situation where loss means death." Sting finished. "Michael and Keita are good, even on par, but they don't have the same style to their attacks."

"Come on Onii-chan!" Ally shouted angrily. "Your girlfriend is beating you up!"

Michael didn't understand. Through all the pain and the magic, Nashi and Elise were not only still moving, but besting them. And now, Michael was feeling the effects of magical fatigue. He hadn't been expecting Holy Nova and Shadow Eclipse to finish them, but for them to still be a force to be reckoned with? He was elated this was going so differently then he had envisioned. He laughed and threw Nashi back, before rushing at her.

"Impressive!" he shouted. "Is this the effects of your tougher situations?" She too laughed and struck him back as they traded blows.

"You haven't seen anything yet!" She replied, ducking underneath her Michael's fist and knocking the air from his lungs. She grabbed him and threw him up and over her, right into the dirt.

Keita stood just in time to avoid a sword strike from Elise, backing up as fast as possible.

Which wasn't fast enough.

Elise struck him in the face with a club, sending him flying backwards and into the ground. She picked him up and drove a club into his stomach. Her arm extended and Keita was thrown high into the air.

"Iron Dragon Roar!" Keita only had time to brace as the shards cut into his arms and face. He had no time to properly time a landing, so he melted into the shadows to do so. He came out and materialized just in time to get hit by Michael, who flew into him and they both rolled away from the girls. Michael laughed as they got on all fours.

"They're amazing." He whispered.

"Agreed." Keita answered. "But I think it's time we ended this, or we won't be able to move in the morning." Michael laughed.

"Fair enough, fair enough." Both of them stood, and Michael put his hands behind his head. "You girls really are something, you know that?" Nashi grinned.

"Can't say you're anything short of a prodigy either." She answered. "Both of you, really." Keita nodded, as did Elise. Michael lowered his arms back to his sides.

"However, there is one thing you aren't capable of." Michael threw his coat to the side, and Keita his cloak. This left both of them in the ripped rags of their shirts. "Much like you Nashi got your Fathers amazing fire, and Elise your Fathers iron, we inherited the Light and Darkness."

Michael's smirk grew dark in nature.

"However, we inherited just a bit more than you."

"What does that mean?" Elise demanded. Michael chuckled darkly.

"I'll show you!"

Michael and Keita erupted in their respective elements.

"What is this?" Ultear asked, covering her eyes from Michael's light. "The magical pressure is incredible!"

"Whatever it is, it's incredible!" Damien agreed. Looking over, Ultear found their Poison Dragon with a shocked look on his face.

"This pressure..." Drake whispered. "...I haven't felt it since Edolas...With the Dorma Anim..."

Sting smiled as his son and Keita's magical pressure grew.

"Now the fight can really start!" Orga said with a laugh. Sting nodded.

"Yes it can. The only two Dragon Slayers in the fourth generation to inherit the ability from birth..."

Nashi could barely stay on her feet from all the pressure. Whatever the two of them were doing, it was incredible.

The glow faded, which allowed Nashi to look back at their opponents. Her eyes widened and her breath hitched in her throat.

They both looked tattooed with white and black. Their hair was standing up, and power was leaking from their frame.

Upon closer inspection, there was also white scales lining the sides of Michael's face. Nashi gasped.

"Dragon Force?!"

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