A Railgun In Fairy Tail, Book 6: Apocalypse

The Coming Plague Revealed

"ZAAAAMMMM!!!!" yellow lightning blasted all over the canyon as two mages continued their vicious battle. Argentumias sat on a rocky outcropping in the distance as he watched Noiress and Laxus fight it out with vicious purpose.

"Seven Bladed Dance!!" Noiress swung her seven blades in a flurry of strikes too fast to catch with the naked eye as Laxus continued to jump back, his body surrounded in a powerful yellow electric aura.

"Come on!" said Laxus with a grin. "Surely you can do better then that! I thought it took Erza, Kagura, and Kanzaki together to beat you."

"Oh I assure you.." said Noiress with a malicious smile. "You haven't even begun to see anything yet..Falcon Strike!!"

All seven swords moved in a single stabbing strike as Laxus shot a lightning bolt from his fist. The blades drilled through the lightning like it was nothing and stabbed Laxus in the gut. Laxus leapt back, droplets of blood flying from his body.

"I have to say.." said Laxus. "You're pretty quick on your feet. But this fight won't go anywhere for you if all you can rely on is fancy footwork."

"You're quite right." said Noiress. "That's why I'm the one weilding these swords and not some daft idiot. Dance of The Iron Maiden!!"

Noiress threw her swords into the air and they shot at Laxus like bullets, turning and twisting in mid air to follow him like guided missles as he dodged the blades with increasing difficulty.

'From what I hear, you were barely able to defeat Gore Beastwalker." said Noiress. "But I'm on a whole different class then he is.."

Laxus instantly turned into a lightning bolt and shot between the guided blades till he was right behind Noiress. He materialized and kicked Noiress straight in the back, causing her to shoot into the side of the canyon in an explosion of electric power.

The dust blasted back as Noiress swiped it back with one arm, her body radiating intense magic power. she held out her multiple shadowy arms as well as her own and caught her blades in mid air as she dashed at Laxus in a burst of nearly unreadable speed.

"Don't be shy!" said Noiress gleefully as she hacked and slashed at Laxus's dodging figure. "Hit me with some more of that!"

"Hmph.." said Laxus as he continued to dodge Noiress. "Typical Hydra Head..interested in nothing but fighting."

Laxus engulfed a fist in lightning and punched Noiress straight in the side of the jaw...but this time, instead of being blasted back, Noiress powered through the blow and slashed some cuts onto Laxus's side.

Laxus pummeled and punched at Noiress, but for some reason, her speed and endurance seemed to have increased, and she dodged and powered through all of Laxus's blows, giving him some bleeding cuts as well.

Laxus engulfed himself in lightning and flew backwards, landing about 25 meters from Noiress. "Dang...what just happened?"

"Here's a little ability I didn't display during the Grand Magic Games." Said Noiress. "You see, the legendary hydra Eclipse who dwells within my blades likes to draw power from that of my enemies...so while your power ebs away, I get that much stronger. I didn't use this ability when I fought your little Erza because I thought toying with her would be fun...now I see underestimating you flapping fairies is not an option, I will use all my power to destroy you."

Laxus took the long black coat he wore and threw it off into the wind as his body crackled with energy. "You're welcome to try...can't gaurantee you'll succeed though."

Noiress smiled. "Oh this is going to be fun..."

In a blitz of flashes, Noiress dashed and jumped around Laxus, dealing a deadly graceful dance of attacks, further injuring him as he attempted to fend Noiress off with a series of powerful blows.