Fallen Celestial (Fairy Tail fanfic)

Fallen Celestial Part 18

Levy swam with confidence as she maneuvered herself to where Mato indicated was her starting point in the giant water ball that was serving as the arena for the Naval Battle. The moment that Erza had asked who would take part in today's game forward Levy had been the first to volunteer. While the others told her that she had no reason to feel bad about her loss on the first day she couldn't help but feel slightly guilty for how little damage she had been able to inflict on her opponent that day and she couldn't help but want to make up for it today.

The other competitors continued to jump into the massive ball of water, each taking their assigned positions with Juvia directly across from Levy and the competitor from Sabertooth, Minerva, at the top of the water ball looking condescendingly down at the others.

However, neither her fellow guildmate nor the mage from the strongest guild in Fiore drew Levy's attention. At the bottom of the water ball was the competitor from Fallen Celestial, a girl around Levy's age who was introduced as Celestias by Chapati. Celestias turned out to be the strange cloaked member of their team and even in the water she still wore her black cloak, something that Levy couldn't imagine was very easy to swim with. The girl was wearing a black two piece swimsuit that showed off the girl's curvy body, earning the strange girl more than a few cat calls from the stands.

The calls however stopped when people noticed the horrible scar on the girl's stomach. Levy herself couldn't help but grimace when she saw the almost angry lines across her stomach right above her belly button. Levy couldn't help but wonder what had happened to the girl to give her such a horrible wound. Celestias herself seemed uninterested in the mages who surrounded her and simply stared off into the distance apparently lost in thought.

"Are we all ready for the start of the games?" Chapati questioned, receiving a roar from the crowd. "Well then, let today's game the Naval Battle begin!" he shouted with the ring of the gong.

Almost instantly Levy was struck by Juvia's water cyclone but managed to keep herself from falling out with a water word spell of her own, pushing her back closer to the center. She could see out of her peripheral that Jenny had eliminated the mage from Quatro Cerberus and that the others had started to attach each other with only Minerva and Celestias holding back from attacking, both simply swimming in place.

"Juvia thinks it is about time for me to eliminate you all from this game using my new attack gained from my second origin!" Juvia shouted as she gathered a large quantity of magic into her hand. "May the wings of love reach you! Darling Gray Love!" she shouted as she created an immense current that swept across the water ball.

While fighting off the embarrassment she felt for Gray and Juvia for having such a ridiculous sounding attack name, Levy barely managed to keep herself in the arena through a combination of a water spell, wind spell, and a wall spell. Which barely kept her in the orb and in the game. When the current finally dissipated, only four mages remained in the field. Herself, Juvia, Minerva, and Celestias.

"Hoh? You fairies are not quite as weak as I thought." Minerva condescendingly mocked as she stared down from the spot she had started from. "But Sabertooth will not lose to the weakest guild and some no name competitors." And in the next moment a strange magic began to gather in her palms. "And when a tiger eats, it always starts with its strongest foe!" she shouted as she pointed her palm at Celestias, causing the water around the mage to explode in a cloud of bubbles.

"What a strange attack? Is Competitor Celestias out of this competition as well?" Chapati asked as the bubbles continued to explode around Celestias as Minerva unleashed another attack.

Levy almost felt sorry for the Fallen Celestial competitor, as she told that it was her that healed her wounds after the first day. However her concern appeared to be misplaced, as the bubbles dissipated to reveal Celestias still in the same place as she had been before with a thin bubble of black magic surrounding her.