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章節 184: Vs Trinity Raven; Part 1

Earth Land,  Ishgar, Kingdom of Caelum, Unnamed Island.

 

September, x784.

 

While Alfonzo and Ultear led the four wizards who had originally attacked them to their own living spaces to collect their belongings, Elicia, Cana, and Erza made their way towards the top of the tower. Though they ran into only a few people with the ability to fight, none of them were strong enough to pose as little more than an annoyance. They did, however, run into more than a few people who were tasked with cleaning the tower along their way. And like the good legal wizards they were, they advised them all to leave before this tower was brought crashing down.

 

Needless to say, the people took their advice graciously. As soon as they were told that the tower would be destroyed, most of them ran to gather their belongings. Then, they legged it to the boats that were docked on the island. There were only a few of these people who ran to Jellal and the members of Trinity Raven to report on the intruders whereabouts.

 

Because of these tips, Cana was the first to run into a member of Trinity Raven.

 

"It took you long enough to get here, Girl." Vidaldus said with a guitar in the shape of a blue axe strapped on his back as Cana entered an empty hall. "But now that you're here, I'll be sending you straight to hell!"

 

As Vidaldus spoke the last part, he raised the index and pinky fingers of his left hand and started headbanging wildly. Meanwhile, Cana all but ignored the man in front of her and looked around the hall.

 

"So, are we gonna fight?" Cana asked, not even looking in Vidaldus' direction. "Or are you going to threaten me with death until I get bored and fall asleep?"

 

"If that's what you want." Vidaldus replied. "I'll send you to hell immediately. [Hair Whip]!"

 

With that, Vidaldus' long flowing hair grew quickly. Then, he whipped his head towards Cana, causing his hair to fly towards her at high speed. Luckily, Cana was more than agile enough to escape the attack unharmed. With surprisingly graceful movements, Cana dodged around all the incoming attacks without even using her magic.

 

"Damn it!" Vidaldus shouted. "Stay still."

 

"Yeah, no." Cana replied as she reached into her card pouches. "[Card Magic: Icicle]"

 

Drawing several cards, Cana pointed them towards Vidaldus. Then, after injecting her magic power into them, half a dozen icicles materialized around her and flew towards Vidaldus at high speed.

 

*Crash!* x 6

 

In response, Vidaldus whipped his hair around again, crushing all the incoming icicles with ease.

 

"Hahaha!" Vidaldus laughed loudly after destroying Cana's attacks. "If that's all you can do, I'll be sending you to hell sooner than I thought."

 

"You talk too much." Cana replied as she drew another two handfuls of cards. "[Card Magic: Summoned Lightning]."

 

With Cana's chant, she released a few bolts of green lightning from the cards in her right hand. Expecting to take advantage of the fact that Vidaldus' hair should now be wet because of the ice dust that was created when the icicles were destroyed.

 

Unfortunately, Vidaldus, an experienced wizard, could see that tactic coming from a mile away. So, he easily dodged the incoming attack.

 

"Not a bad tactic." Vidaldus said appreciatively. "If my hair were like any other person's hair. But since my hair can absorb all water that it comes in contact with, you wouldn't have had anything to conduct your lightning. Not that I would have let it hit me in the first place."

 

"Tch!" Cana clicked her tongue in response as she readied herself to continue the fight.

 

A moment later, Cana's instincts warned her of danger. Then, she leapt away from the spot where she was standing.

 

Looking back, she could see hair spiraling up where her legs used to be. Looking further, she saw that the hair that tried to trap her was coming from behind her, after wrapping around the room from behind Vidaldus.

 

"So, you can do more than just whip your hair around like a crazy rock star, huh?" Cana mocked as she landed. "But you'll have to do better than that."

 

"You're better than I thought." Vidaldus said, licking his lips suggestively. "Instead of sending you to hell, I'll keep you for myself."

 

"Eww… No thank you." Cana replied with a disgusted expression on her face.

 

"Unfortunately, you don't' have any say in the matter." Vidaldus replied, pulling his guitar from his back. "Now, let's rock! [Rock of Succubus]!"

 

With that, Vidaldus injected his magic power into the guitar and began strumming it furiously. At the same time, a soundwave was launched from the guitar, spreading in all directions.

 

Though Cana was fast, there was no way to dodge an omnidirectional attack that filled the entire room they were in. Immediately covering her ears after the soundwave reached her, Cana could feel something trying to control her.

 

'He uses some kind of mind control with is music.' Cana thought to herself. 'It's a good thing I have more magic power than him. By a lot. Otherwise, this could have gotten dangerous. Still, this shitty music is too loud.'

 

Quickly reaching into her card pouches, Cana threw the cards in her right hand towards Vidaldus, Using [Random Throwing] she aimed for the guitar's strings.

 

Vidaldus, surprised that Cana could still retaliate, dodged the incoming projectiles quickly. However, as soon as he landed in his new spot, the strings on his guitar snapped, causing him to look down in disbelief.

 

"How?" Vidaldus asked in a disbelieving tone.

 

"Wouldn't you like to know." Cana said, relieved that the horrible sound was finally gone.

 

At the same time, if one were to look closely, they would notice that Cana was holding the combination of cards necessary for her [Wind Edge] spell.

 

'Good thing that Lici made me train that spell until I could make the wind blades completely invisible.' Cana thought to herself as she discarded the cards in her hand and pulled out another combination from her pouch. 'Still, I've never had the chance to use the tactic where I hid the invisible wind blades in a flurry of visible ones. That would be so cool.'

 

As her thoughts continued, Cana's actions did not slow down in the slightest. Throwing a combination of cards at Vidaldus that landed around him, she cast another spell.

 

"[Card Magic: Thunderbolt's Fate].' Cana chanted.

 

Feeling the magic power stirring around him, Vidaldus finally got out of his daze. Though, his eyes were now clouded with anger. Like any musician, damaging his instrument was a sure-fire way to gain his ire.

 

*Boom!*

 

Unfortunately, he was too slow to react to the lightning bolt that fell from above. As a result, he was covered in a flash.

 

"Argh~~~~~~~~~!" Vidaldus screamed in pain.

 

At the same time, the impact of the lightning bolt caused a dust cloud to be kicked up around Vidaldus.

 

"*Sigh* Hitting people with that spell never gets old." Cana said, drawing another combination of cards to be cautious.

 

In the next instant, a wave of hair, with the ends being burned flew out of the dust cloud towards Cana.

 

"[Card Magic: Explosion]." Cana chanted as she threw the cards in her hand forward.

 

Instead of falling to the floor, the cards arranged themselves in front of Cana before releasing a torrent of fire in a conical shape, engulfing not only the incoming wave of hair, but also its source. Namely, Vidaldus.

 

"Argh~~~~~~!" Vidaldus screamed in pain once again. "You damn bitch! You're ruining my beautiful locks!"

 

The torrent of flames persisted for a little more than ten seconds before the cards fell to the floor.

 

Looking at the destruction her spell caused, Cana could see the floor and the ceiling of the hall, as well as the wall opposite to her current position were deeply burned.

 

Then, halfway between Cana's current position and the wall, the burned corpse of a man lay. Though, if one were to look closely, you would see that Vidaldus was nearly out of the range of Cana's [Explosion] spell.

 

"He was better at using his magic power than I thought." Cana said as she approached the corpse, to make sure it was truly dead. "If I hadn't started compressing my magic power like Fonzie taught me, he probably would have survived. Still, I don't regret killing him. He tried to brainwash me and take my love away from Fonzie. For that, he deserved to die."

 

After making sure that Vidaldus was dead, Cana continued on her way, throwing random combinations of cards every so often to destroy anything she came across.

 

Around the same time, Elicia, who had been swinging her threads around while vibrating them at high speed to shred anything she came across on her trek up the tower, ran into another member of Trinity Raven, the owl headed Fukuro.

 

"*Sigh* Why does it feel like I always run into the weirdos?" Elicia said in a resigned tone when she saw Fukuro blocking her path.

 

"You have come to the end of your road, evildoer." Fukuro said in a self-righteous tone. "Now, I will put an end to you in the name of justice."

 

"Says the dark wizard." Elicia replied dryly. "I remember reading a report about you. Fukuro of the Dark Guild, Death's Head Caucus' Trinity Raven team."

 

"Haha! So, my reputation precedes me." Fukuro said in a proud tone.

 

"Yeah, Me and Fonzie accepted the quest to subjugate your guild… Oh, I'm sorry old guild earlier this year." Elicia said with a nod. "So, we gathered all the information about your guild that we could find. And we came across your profiles during that research. But we were so disappointed when you nor your teammates were at the guild hall when we put the whole guild down in, like, three hours."

 

"You did what?" Fukuro asked, anger clearly in his tone. "Is that why we haven't received any instructions from the guild master for the last few months."

 

"probably." Elicia replied with a shrug.

 

"I will make you pay for your evil deeds! Hoo!" Fukuro shouted as the rocket back on his back ignited its thrusters. "[Jet Ho Ho Hou]."

 

A moment later, Fukuro shot forward towards Elicia. In response, Elicia simply side stepped the sudden attack. As Fukuro shot past, she wrapped a number of her threads around his ankles. Then, with all her might, she started spinning in place.

 

Realizing that he had lost control of his direction, Fukuro cut the power to his rocket backs. Then, he pointed his right fist towards Elicia, who was still spinning him around by her threads.

 

"[Justice Ho Ho Hou]." Fukuro chanted as a beam of compressed magic power was shot towards Elicia.

 

In response, Elicia quickly leapt over the incoming attack. Unfortunately, without the ground, she was unable to continue her rotation with the same amount of force. So, on her way back to the ground, she swung her arms over her head then whipped them back downward.

 

As a result of Elicia's actions, Fukuro was whipped upward and quickly whipped towards the ground, disorienting him slightly. Still, he was aware enough to activate his jet packs once again before he slammed into the floor.

 

"[Thread Magic: Thread Entanglement]." Elicia chanted after realizing that her usual tactics may not work against this opponent.

 

With Elicia's chant, the threads that were wrapped  around Fukuro's ankles started climbing up his legs, intending to bind his entire body and clog the nozzles of his rocket pack at the same time.

 

Noticing Elicia's plan, Fukuro, in an attempt to keep his rocket pack in a useable state, detached it from his back. Then, with his magic power, he ignited them once again and sent them flying at Elicia.

 

In hindsight, Fukuro realized that was a bad idea.

 

Originally, Fukuro thought that Elicia would release him in order to deal with the incoming rocket pack. Unfortunately, As soon as the rocket pack was no longer strapped to his back, he saw Elicia grinning at him.

 

Using the wrapped up Fukuro as a flail, Elicia struck the rocket pack over and over until it was no longer in working condition. As a result, Fukuro, from being repeatedly slammed into the rocket pack, and all the surfaces of the room when Elicia missed, lost consciousness halfway to the rocket pack's destruction. And by the time it was completely destroyed, half of Fukuro's skull had caved in.

 

Seeing the state her opponent was in once she was done, Elicia had to hold back the urge to vomit. However, that was simply because of the gore factor. She actually felt no remorse at taking the life of another… human? Or whatever Fukuro was.

 

Tossing his body out of one of the tower's windows, so that she would no longer have to see it, Elicia left the room and rested for a short time to get her nausea under control before continuing her trek to the top of the tower.


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章節 185: Vs. Trinity Raven; Part 2

Earth Land, Ishgar, Kingdom of Caelum, Unnamed Island.

 

September, x784.

 

While Elicia and Cana were happily destroying everything they came across while climbing the tower, Erza was in a daze as she climbed.

 

Though she defeated the dark wizards who attacked her and advised the members of the cleaning staff to escape when she ran across them, it was clear to anyone who saw her that her mind was somewhere else. The most obvious indicator of this fact was that Erza had yet to cause any serious damage to the tower.

 

Eventually, just before she reached the top floor, Erza came across a rather wide bridge.

 

Standing in the middle of the bridge was the last member of Trinity Raven, Ikaruga. Looking absolutely serene, it was clear that Ikaruga was waiting for anyone who might reach this high up on the tower.

 

"Erza Scarlet, I assume." Ikaruga said, pulling Erza out of her daze.

 

"I am." Erza replied as she tightened her grip on her sword. "And who are you?"

 

"My name is Ikaruga." Ikaruga replied, bowing her head slightly as she introduced herself.

 

"A dark wizard from Death Head Caucus, huh?" Erza said, looking over Ikaruga's posture. "You're a member of Trinity Raven, are you not?"

 

"Indeed I am." Ikaruga replied. "And I am here to bring you to Master Jellal."

 

"I see." Erza replied with a nod. "Then lead the way."

 

"Very well." Ikaruga said with a nod. "Then, I would ask you to leave your weapons here. Naturally, that includes all of your stored weapons, as well."

 

Hearing that, Erza frowned slightly. Other than that, however, she showed no other reaction to Ikaruga's request.

 

"And why would I do that?" Erza asked. "As a swordswoman yourself, you know what it means to ask me to disarm, do you not."

 

"I do." Ikaruga replied with a quick nod. "But I must insist."

 

"And if I refuse?" Erza asked, lowering her stance.

 

"Then, I will have to ask once again… with force." Ikaruga replied as she placed her hand on the hilt of her long bladed katana. "[Yasha's Empty Flash]."

 

With her spell chanted, Ikaruga unsheathed her blade and swung faster than most average A-Class wizards would be able to follow with their eyes. Naturally, Erza did not fall into that category. So, it came as a surprise that Ikaruga swung her sword from such a long distance.

 

A moment later, however, she was made painfully aware of the reason behind Ikaruga's actions when her sword and armor were cut into small pieces and she was sent flying back to the side of the bridge she came from.

 

'What was that?' Erza asked herself as she picked herself up from the floor. 'She doesn't need to make contact with an object to cut it?'

 

Storing that bit of information in her mind, Erza started walking towards Ikaruga once again. As she moved forward, she was covered in the yellow light of her [Requip Magic]. When she reappeared, she was donning her [Black Wing Armor], one of her armor sets that augmented her speed the most.

 

As soon as her new armor had been equipped, Erza spread her armor's wings and flew forward at break neck speed. Then, once she was in range, she slashed horizontally at Ikaruga's torso.

 

Reacting quickly, Ikaruga pulled her sword from her back and placed the end of the sheath on the bridge. Then, she partially unsheathed the blade to defend against Erza's slash.

 

Unfortunately, Ikaruga had not factored Erza's supernatural strength into her calculations, resulting in her being sent flying just as Erza had before.

 

Although she was sent flying, Ikaruga manage to land on her feet after flying to the other end of the bridge.

 

"You're much stronger than I expected." Ikaruga said with a smile in a tone that clearly praised Erza. "But it will take much more than just strength to defeat me."

 

With that, Ikaruga vanished from where she stood in a burst of speed.

 

In response, Erza turned to her left and raised her sword horizontally.

 

*Clang!*

 

"It would seem your reaction speed is impressive as well." Ikaruga said, praising Erza once again while their blades were pressed against one another. "but how long will that last?"

 

Once again, Ikaruga vanished. A moment later, she appeared behind Erza with her blade swinging down at Erza's unprotected back. In response, Erza made a quarter turn to her right while using the momentum of her turn to swing her sword at Ikaruga's flank.

 

Completing her slash, Ikaruga's sword cut into the bridge before she stepped back by half a step to avoid Erza's slash before twisting her wrist and slashing upward at Erza once again.

 

*Clang!*

 

Erza, on the other hand, used the momentum from her previous slash to reposition her blade between herself and Ikaruga's sword.

 

*Cling!* *Clang!* *Cling!* *Ting!*

 

From there, the two continued their high speed clash with the sound of colliding weapons echoing across the bridge.

 

During one of their clashes, Ikaruga, though she was unable to land a proper sword strike, took advantage of the fact that Erza's defense had been slightly over extended, landed a kick on Erza's abdomen and pushed them both apart slightly.

 

Before Erza could react and shorten the distance once again, Ikaruga quickly sheathed her sword and unsheathed it once again.

 

"[Garuda Flame]." Ikaruga chanted as she once again slashed at high speed from a range that her blade would never reach.

 

This time, instead of a simple invisible slash, a compressed blade of [Fire Magic] was fired from Ikaruga's blade.

 

Reacting quickly, Erza was once again covered in the light of her [Requip Magic]. This time, donning her [Flame Empress Armor], she was able to get her sword, which was covered in flames of its own between herself and the incoming flame slash.

 

To Erza's surprise, however, her sword was knocked away before her armor was struck.

 

Unlike last time, Erza's armor did not shatter due to Ikaruga's attack. However, there was a deep gash left on the sword she held in her hands. Still, she was sent flying backward, just not as far.

 

Meanwhile, Ikaruga's eyes widened slightly after seeing that her attack could neither completely destroy the weapon nor the armor. In fact, this was the first time that one of her [Sword Magic] spells did not destroy her opponent's weapon and armor.

 

"That is quite the impressive set of weapon and armor." Ikaruga remarked, once again praising Erza.

 

"Yes, my fiancé is quite the magic item crafter." Erza said with a gentle smile while caressing her armor. "Unfortunately, he warned me that the weapon would not be as durable as the armor due to insufficient materials. *Sigh* I knew I should have gone out to get more sooner."

 

"Still, the chances of you defeating me with that armor is close to nil." Ikaruga said, radiating confidence and pride in her skills.

 

"I would have to agree." Erza replied with a nod.

 

A moment later, Erza was engulfed in the light of her magic for the third time. This time, however, she was not wearing a traditional suit of armor when she reappeared. Instead she was wearing a cloth outfit consisting of a white sarashi wrapped around her chest, a red hakama with golden flame patterns at the bottom held up by a white string, and a green hairband that ties her hair into a high ponytail.

 

In her hands, Erza held a pair of katanas with golden hilts and she wore no shoes on her feet, her quiet footsteps barely sounding out as she began walking towards Ikaruga.

 

Meanwhile, after seeing Erza's new attire, Ikaruga's expression changed from her perpetually calm state for the first time.

 

"Discarding your armor?" Ikaruga asked with a hint of anger in her tone. "Are you mocking me?"

 

"Not at all." Erza replied with a slight shake of her head as she continued approaching. "But having better defense will grant me no advantage against you. Although my [Flame Empress Armor] survived your attack, I can tell that it would only take a few more like it before it was destroyed. And I'd rather not have to ask Alfonzo to forge another set for me from scratch."

 

"No matter how you put it, it sounds as though you are mocking me." Ikaruga said in response. "Thinking that you can defeat me with no defensive ability is the height of mockery."

 

"*Sigh* No matter what I say, you will see it as mockery." Erza said, her expression turning resolute. "We are swordswomen, let our swords determine if my words are mockery or not."

 

With that, Erza increased the speed of her steps before beginning to jog a moment later. Then, after a few more steps, Erza was running before she was sprinting at her top speed a few steps later.

 

In this armor, or outfit, Erza foregoes all defense. Instead, all of her magic power is focused on offense. However, there is a caveat to this. If her heart is not clear, meaning if she doubts herself at all, then she will not be able to bring out her maximum offensive power.

 

'I will not be stopped here.' Erza thought to herself as she ran towards Ikaruga who was preparing to unsheathe her sword once again. 'I will find out what happened to Jellal and why he changed so much. And I will stop whatever it is that he's planning to do with this tower.'

 

As her thoughts raced, Erza channeled her magic power into the katanas in her hands.

 

As she drew near, Erza crossed the swords in front of her chest. Before she could reach her striking range, however, Ikaruga unsheathed her sword.

 

"[Yasha's Empty Flash]." Ikaruga chanted as she attacked.

 

In response to the incoming attack, Erza swung the sword in her left hand, intercepting the invisible slash. Then, without slowing down, she slashed the sword in her right only a split second later before she dashed past Ikaruga.

 

A moment later, Erza stopped her dash and both women stood in their post attack postures.

 

*Shatter!*

 

Erza's left katana shattered and she fell to one knee, supporting herself with her right katana.

 

"Ever since I heard that my guild was destroyed by the Steel Threads team of your guild, I knew that I would have to face Fairy Tail someday." Ikaruga said without turning around. "I never told Vidaldus and Fukuro about it though. Those two would have abandoned our current job to seek revenge. And I couldn't have that. Trinity Raven does not fail requests. However, I too desired revenge. So, I pushed myself to my absolute limits in training. Doing so, I far surpassed my previous standard. And yet… I still---"

 

*Shatter!*

 

*Splash!*

 

Before Ikaruga could finish, her sword shattered and blood sprayed from a long gash on her torso that reached from her left shoulder to her right hip. Then, she fell face first to the bridge, her own blood pool beneath her.

 

"*Sigh* As an assassin, I always knew this day would come." Ikaruga muttered as she closed her eyes. "Not only did I fail my first job… But I'm going to lose my life… as well…"

 

Hearing that, Erza used the sword in her right hand to prop herself up as she once again stood to her feet.

 

"For what it's worth, you were the most skilled sword wielder I've ever crossed swords with." Erza said without turning around.

 

Hearing Erza's praise, Ikaruga smiled as she lost consciousness, expecting that she would never wake up again.

 

Meanwhile, Erza began climbing the set of stairs Ikaruga was guarding. However, just as she put her foot on the first step, she stumbled before catching herself and regaining her balance quickly.

 

"I had to use more magic power than expected to cut through that last attack." Erza said while slowly climbing the last set of stairs. "Otherwise, she would have cut me apart along with my sword."

 

Meanwhile, in the tower's throne room, Jellal was still  sitting on his throne.

 

"It would seem that they all lost." Jellal muttered to himself after feeling Ikaruga's magic power quickly diminishing. "Still, you did exactly what I expected of you. So, please allow me to thank you for your service."

 

With that said, Jellal smiled slightly under his hood.

 

"Now, Erza, it's time for our long awaited reunion." Jellal continued. "You have no idea how much I look forward to seeing you again. Especially since all the preparations are almost complete."

 

After that, Jellal looked out the window of his throne room towards the eastern horizon. There, he could see the sun just starting to rise and shine its light on the ocean surface.

 

"Now, let the dawn of a new era begin." Jellal said as he turned his attention back to the doors of the throne room where he could hear the sound of faint footsteps approaching.


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