Almost done with this arc! Excited to end it and jump into our next adventure!
Terra stared at Xisplate for a moment, trying to figure out how serious he was.
"Huh?"She asked for clarification. "I-I'm sorry, my hearing must be terrible. I could've sworn I heard you say..."
"That he needs to become sexually attracted to another woman? Exactly what I said." Xisplate finished. Terra blinked a few times, sweat dripping down her forehead.
"Again, my hearing must be..."
"Terra you can try and say you misheard until the sun sets, but the facts remain. You must seduce Damien yourself." Terra looked down at the ground, her stomach churning violently.
"I...I..."
"What?" Xisplate demanded. "Surely it can't be that hard."
"Well..." Terra rubbed the back of her head. "I mean...I..."
"Speak up Terra, I need you to voice your concerns if we're getting through this.
"I've never...done anything...like that." Xisplate tilted his head to the side at this.
"Like what?" He asked. "Seduced a man?"
"Yes! I'm not a slut like Bella!"
"Promiscuous!"
"Besides," Terra said after Bella's outburst, "I don't have the first clue about how to do something like that!" Xisplate sighed.
"it's simple." he said. "Attraction is based off of the instinctual urge to mate, yes? So you must make yourself seem as irresistible as humanely possible. You may even have to make it better than that, seeing as your competing against a demon."
"...I am not the least bit surprised if Damien can't stand you." She said weakly. "This plan is insane."
"If you want a chance to go at Damien seriously, Bella needs to get out of your way. And too do that, you need Damien out of her control. And too do that, you need to shut up, show some skin, and seduce him. Okay?" Terra stared down at the ground, weighing her options. One on hand, she could totally disregard what Xisplate was saying, but it would make her life ten times harder. Why of all things was it seduction? She couldn't do that!
"I...I'm not sure I'm even good looking enough..."
"Oh my God, are you one of those girls who fish for compliments or something?"
"No, Bella fits that more. But look at her, and then me. It's not exactly a contest."
"Bella's takeover makes her attractive. It's Meridia's trait. It's not all magic. Granted as far as I know, her mom is pretty hot too."
"Exactly! I'm not like that! At all..."
"And?" Xisplate jabbed a thumb towards Damien. "All it takes to seduce most men is too look sexy enough. If you lose enough of those clothes and talk all seductive, it'd be more than enough."
"Do you really think that lowly of Damien?"
"Yes." They exchanged looks for a moment before Terra sighed. She really didn't have a choice in the matter.
"Okay, okay...What do I do?"
"Lose the shirt and we'll see what happens." Terra grimaced, but complied. She slowly reached down and grabbed the hem of her shirt. Her face flushed. This was so stupid...
"Well, here goes nothing..." She said, slowly lifting the shirt off.
"Do it slower, it's probably sexier." Xisplate said.
"How perverted are you?!" Terra shouted angrily, more blood rushing to her face. Xisplate just shrugged.
"Trying to solve the problem at hand is all." he replied. Taking her shirt off and discarding it, This left Terra in nothing but her bra. She felt completely humiliated, but that wasn't the most important problem at hand. She looked over at Damien carefully, and she found that the man had averted his gaze.
"Damien?" She asked shyly. Damien just closed his eyes.
"Put your shirt back on." he hissed. "It's unbecoming."
Coming from the guy who was agreeing to have sex with Bella only a few minutes ago...
"I..." Terra stuttered. "I, uh..." Bella rolled her eyes.
"Put it on, Terry." Bella called, smirking. Terra narrowed her gaze at the girl for calling her a boys name. It was clearly a jab at her figure.
"What's the matter?" Terra called out, placing a hand on her hip. "Jealous?"
"As if. What's to be jealous of?" She then looked at Damien. "Get her out of her, honey. She's in my way." Damien didn't respond right away, and Bella blinked in confusion. "Damien? Sweetheart what's wrong?"
"...She's distracting." Damien muttered, still refusing to look.
"It's working" Xisplate said. "Lose more clothing!"
"Like what?"
"You're wearing pants aren't you?" Terra slowly looked down at her pants, and then back up at the demon.
"Uh...No thanks I'm good."
"Terra for God sake..."
"You can't be serious!"
"Do you honestly think that you only without a shirt somehow contests that?!" Terra slowly looked over at Bella, who was also in practically nothing but her underwear."
"But she's a..."
"Neekis..." Bella hissed.
"...Yeah. You know." Xisplate rolled his eyes.
"I get it. You're shy. But this isn't about whether or not Damien's the first guy to see you in your underwear." Terra took a deep breath and looked back over at Damien and Bella. Her looking made Damien avert his eyes, but Bella watched her closely, eyes glowing bright blue. Even in her demon form with black horns growing out of her head, the girl was drop dead gorgeous. It wasn't fair. Why did Terra of all people get caught up in this situation? Why couldn't it have been Winter? Or Reyna? Ultear? Anyone!
"...Okay. I'll do it."
"There's the spirit." Terra reached down and slowly undid the belt buckle on her pants. Damien's eyes widened.
"W-What are you...?"
"Nothing." Terra answered in a low tone, her pants dropping to her ground. Bella's eyes widened.
"Wait..." She said, then growled. "I see what your game is! Your trying to reverse the seduction! Don't listen to her Damien, she's ugly anyway!" Damien shook his head and then nodded.
"Of course, I'll get her out of our way." Terra crossed her arms under her chest and leaned heavily on her left leg, smirking.
"Aw come on Damien, don't be that way." She purred, or at least tried too. "You know Bell'a just using you, right?"
"...Uh, maybe?" Damien asked weakly. Bella narrowed her eyes at Terra, who just smirked back. Bella took her turn to smile.
"You want to play that game, Neekis?" She demanded, walking forward and her wings folded up to rest on her back. "We can plan that game." She had reached Damien, and wrapped her arms around the his neck and placed her mouth next to his ear. She started whispering, and Damien's eyes went wide and then he blushed.
"Seriously?" He asked weakly.
"Mm hm." Bella replied.
"...I'll do whatever it takes." he replied. Bella giggled and traced her finger across his chest.
"Go get 'em, tiger." She said. Damien started to advance, and Xisplate clicked his teeth and looked to his left.
"That is disgusting, Meridia...No I don't care what her favorite position is..."
"A little help?!" Terra hissed. "Who're you even talking to?!"
"No one." Xisplate answered. "Not important. You need to step your game up, Terra. She's doing better than you."
"Well she is a..." Terra stopped herself when a blast of shadow came past her head. She turned to find Damien being the caster, and the man lowered his gaze.
"No, she isn't." He hissed. "You are."
"You've got to be kidding me, Damien." She muttered.
"Step it up, Terra." Xisplate said. "He's not stopping his advance."
"This is disgusting to watch." Vantros said. "Mortal men are so weak minded."
"Oh don't be so high string Vantros!" Meridia said, laughing as she twirled a stand of red hair around her index finger. "This is hilarious to watch!"
"You did always like fucking around with mortal men, so I don't blame you." Vantros replied as Terra practically wrapped herself around Damien and started whispering to him. "Or was it fucking them in general? I don't recall." Meridia shrugged.
"Say whatever you think, I'm having fun with this." Xisplate turned and faced the female Demon Lord.
"I didn't know you'd chosen your takeover wizard in a legal guild, Meridia." He said. "Most of the twelve Chosen Ones ended being a sociopath." Meridia shrugged.
"Eh, Bella's always been gorgeous." She said. "Since the day she was born. I really didn't have much of a choice."
"it's a nice change of pace." Xisplate said. "usually it's a fight to the death." Meridia hummed in agreement.
"Hm. Did you know what happened to Akirelys takeover wizard? Shuichi." Xisplate lowered his head.
"He's joined the dead, hasn't he?" He asked weakly. Vantros lowered his head.
"Ten of the Twelve remain chained to their wizard." He said. "While Taisho and Shuichi have joined the afterlife."
"Indeed." Meridia agreed. "Let us hope it doesn't dip down farther." Xisplate shook his head weakly as both girls started arguing over Damien.
"It probably will. We have a habit of running into them."
BOOM!
Simon landed as his explosion of light landed on top of Nami. He raised his blade in preparation for the inevitable reappearance of the girl. And reappear she did, bursting through the smoke, presumably using gravity to alter her own and fly faster, Their blades connected, and they continued their sword fight. Nami backed up and tried to swing at his legs, but Simon flew away from her using Meteor and slashed at her back, but she quickly flipped her sword over her head and it met Simon's. Even in such an awkward position, Nami's strength kept him at bay. She pushed, which caused Simon to lose his balance slightly, and allowed her to turn and slash at him, which he parried. They went back and forth, no one getting a strike in for a long time until they both swung at the same time, causing a shockwave to shoot up and throw debris everywhere. Nami laughed and got in Simon's face.
"You sure are something else." She said. Simon smirked.
"Likewise." he said. "I've never met someone who was on on par with me." Simon felt his shoulders weighing down, and he backed up using Meteor. Just as he got out of that area and away from Nami, gravity created a crater where he'd been standing. Nami clicked her teeth and twirling her blade around.
"You sensed that." She said. "How?" Simon massaged his left arm, which was now sore from all the swordplay.
"Gravity weighed down on me for a brief moment before the increase would've crushed me." he said. "Pretty easy to detect." Nami's eyes brows went up slightly, and she smiled.
"This is more than I had anticipated." She said. "Pandemonium was impressive in and of itself, but holding your own against me when you're already wounded...You really are a Scarlet."
"Thanks, I seem to get that a lot." he replied. Nami pointed her sword at him, and her body glowed with white magic.
"I'm not going to go out that easily." She said. "You're going to have to earn these five points."
"Even though you won't get any closer to winning if you earn five, I'm still not going to let you." Simon quickly looked over at the scoreboard. Rina had been taken out, which was good. One less Tiger to worry about in the long run. But he was still faced with a monumental problem.
"Don't get distracted, Simon!" He turned just in time to have to block a slash from Nami, who had run in to close the jab as he looked away. "Not in your best interest, let me tell you." The two pushed at each other as hard as they could, but neither one gave. Until Nami started to move her wrist. Simon paid it little mind, but once Nami reached a certain angle with her blade, she rapidly torques it.
Simon's blade was no longer touching hers, but she wasn't done. Nami twisted her blade around Simon's and the force caused Simon to lose his grip on it. The blade slid across the ground and stopped a fair distance away. Another second later, Gravity crushed the tempered steel into dust.
"Fun fact, Simon." Nami said. "Gravity is one of the strongest natural forces on Earth. Make it bend for you, and it's even more powerful. Care to contest it?"
"Maybe it is." Simon said. "But that doesn't change how strong you are. Eventually your magic will run out, and Gravity becomes it's own master again. I think I'll help it with that process!"
"Bring it on!"
Another icicle barrage exploded against the general area where Kyoko had been standing, and Ultear waited for the outcome of the blow. Soon enough she could see Kyoko, who was on one knee trying to stand.
"This magic..." She hissed. "What is it?"
"Arc of Time." Ultear answered. "With it, I can alter the flow of time. technically speaking that one icicle has attacked a few hundred times, just from different places in time. Sometimes from the left, or the right, above, or below. It's all in an infinite amount of futures that haven't happened, so I tap into them all."
"Seriously? That's overpowered."
"You're lucky it doesn't work on humans, or else it would be." Kyoko got to her feet and chuckled as she brought her fingers up to her head.
"I guess our magic is kind of the same. You use magic drawn from different futures, and I draw on magic I've seen in the past. What to figure out which one is more powerful?" Ultear grinned as the girl summoned up another red magic circle.
"I already know my answer." Anther few of the magic circles appeared, and Kyoko aimed her hand forward.
"Shadow-Lightning Stream! White-Fire Nova! Poison-Iron Wrath!" All three attacks burst from their circles and roared towards Ultear, who stayed where she was, smiling.
"Ice Make: Shield!" The shield spawned in Ultear's hands once more, and she raised it to defend herself, and it glowed white. All three attacks struck it at once, and Ultear did her best to keep her footing. She started to slide, but she pushed back as hard as she could in an attempt to stay grounded, but she still slid backwards. Finally the attacks died away, which gave Ultear a moment to breath.
Then she started laughing.
"Sixty-eight." She said, Kyoko making a confused sound. "You've attacked me like that sixty-eight times since the battle began."
"What the hell? Have you been counting?"
"In a sense." Ultear replied, standing up straight. "But only for a sole reason." Ultear outstretched her arms, white magic circles forming there. A magic circle spawned behind Ultear's head.
And another. And another. and another. Soon enough, sixty-eight white magic circles were forming a square around Kyoko and Ultear.
"What is this?!" Kyoko asked as the last of the circles spawned in. Ultear laughed.
"Every time you attacked me, I blocked it with my shield. But I enchanted the shield with Arc of Time. Each time you attacks struck it, they redirected into another timeline." Ultear grinned. "One where they bend to my will." Kyoko's eyes widened.
"Wait a minute. Are you saying that...?"
"All of these magic circles are about to launch every single attack you've used on me." The circles started to glow. "A certain man taught me that this one works pretty damn well."
"Y-You can't be serious."
"I am. Are you ready, Kyoko? Because here they come!" Ultear clapped her hands together.
Every circle started to glow. White. Black, yellow, red, purple, all different colors from all the types of magic Kyoko had used on Ultear while she'd been running away.
"Arc of Time! Redirected Offensive!"
The attacks formed in the circles, and they all started to launch at once, all aimed at Kyoko.
And launch they did.
BOOM!
Ultear stopped after roughly half of the attacks had been fired, waiting to see the results of what she'd done. Sure enough, as the smoke cleared, Kyoko was lying there in the center of the crater she'd been pounded into. Ultear wiped her brow in relief.
"Thank God it's over." She said. "I thought..."
A horrible noise grated on Ultear's ears.
"Gah! W-What the hell is that horrible noise?!" she screeched. Turning around, Ultear could see the problem. The remaining magic circles were turning from white to dark red. The trend continued all the way through every circle. They started to smoke and crackle wildly, and Ultear's eyes widened at this.
"I-I don't understand..."
BOOM!
"Oh my God! Ultear was able to take out Kyoko and earn Fairy Tail another point, but what happened to Ultear's magic?!" Ross shouted.
The cloaked man perked up as his spine tingled He looked over towards the huge explosion near the center of the city.
"I feel a disparity in the flow of time." He spoke to himself, watching the area closely. "Something went wrong." He kept watching, before slowly returning his gaze to the knife he was twirling in his fingers. "It must have been nothing..."
...
But if that was the case, why have I been feeling it the entire time I've been in Crocus?
Now I know what you're all thinking. Fallen Angel Codester, why are you rushing through these fights? Well, I'm really not. Drake and Ultear ha the least important or epic fight plan, so I just ended it as quickly as possible. Ultear's has some very important plot behind it as I'm sure some of you had guessed, but that remains a secret for now.
Anyway, i hope you enjoyed, leave a review! Let's try and get five!