"CLASSH!!" The sound of steel meeting steel rippled through the air as Birdway's wand turned into a sword and blocked a stab from Erza Knightwalker's spear.
"My my.." said Birdway. "You're an impatient one."
"If you're anything like Leivess.." Knightwalker snarled. "Then you're dangerous...and you're the first who has to be killed."
Birdway smiled slyly again and pushed Knightwalker's spear back with her sword while at the same time releasing a slicing wind which blasted Knightwalker back several meters.
"Erza..I hope you can deal with your little copy over here." said Birdway turning to look at Erza Scarlet. "I think I'm going to go have some fun with Edolas Kanzaki over there." (Leivinia Birdway and Kaori Kanzaki have an intense ongoing rivalry with each other. At one point in the Index series, when the two were forced to work together, when they came upon the main enemy of the arch, they became so ticked off with each other, they started to fight each other. The enemy asked if they were going to fight or not, and the twosome responded by saying they would get to him later.)
Erza launched herself at her look alike while requiping suddenly into her flame empress armor. She lashed out her sword, letting a wave of fire drive Knightwalker back. She stopped next to Mikoto and knealt down next to her.
"Mikoto! Are you alright!?"
"Sure.." said Mikoto. "Just some broken ribs...again. Why is it everytime I break something, it starts out with the ribs?"
Erza grinned. "You've fought with worse injuries."
"True." said Mikoto taking Erza's hand and standing next to her, her electric wings re constituting itself themselves on her back.
"So you both plan to fight me together." said Edo-Erza. "Fine..I'll accept that challenge.."
Is she crazy!? Thought Mikoto. She has to know that she and Erza are pretty evenly matched. And not that I like to brag or anything...but add me, the strongest Dragon Slayer in Fairy Tail, and you pretty much have Edo-Erza outmatched...What's she playing at?
Erza seemed to think the same thing. "Are you sure you want to do that...surely you must have already seen how powerful Mikoto is..."
"Oh..I know.." said Knightwalker with a smile. "In fact.. I have somebody who has a thorough handle on how to take on that power.
Knightwalker pressed a small black earpiece on her ear.
"Somebody's been watching us the whole time.." said Mikoto. "Who!?"
Back in the control tower, Mikaris watched the battle scene from a medium sized screen and spoke into a microphone earpiece. "Her battle style is based on catching her oponent off gaurd with a powerful defense then responding with a quick offense...you'll need to find a way to disable the defensive capability of those wings.."
Knightwalker changed to her velocity spear and sped forward, swinging the bladed tip in a fast arch at Mikoto. But Erza instantly requipped to her Soaring Armor and sped in front, blocking the spear with incredible skill.
Knightwalker smiled however, and her spear instantly change into the Gravity Spear which she pointed just past Erza's shoulder. Two massive black gravity spheres smashed straight into both of Mikoto's wings and weighted them to the ground without dissapating.
"Wh-What!?" Mikoto said in shock as she tried to shift her wings from the powerful weights.
MIKOTO!" Erza turned to help her friend, but was immediately cut off by Knightwalker who sent several bullet like thrusts at the Earthlander.
Erza gritted her teeth and leapt back as Knightwalker suddenly sent a thrust in Mikoto's direction, just as Mikoto was preparing for a Roar attack.
"ACK!" Mikoto coughed up some more blood as the spear pierced a bit of her side. "No way....someone is watching us...analyzing us..."
"Quite right.." said Knightwalker. "You aren't much without those wings to protect you, are you?"
"Wham!!" Erza kicked her Edolas counterpart in the side and sent her sprawling. "You underestimate her too much." Erza requipped into her Heaven's Wheel Armor and sent several flashing slashes into the spheres, dissipating them.
Knightwalker jumped to her feet and smiled. "I think you overestimate her.."
Erza thrust her sword forward as several swords appeared levitating out of mid air and shot at Knightwalker like bullets. Knightwalker pointed her sword at Erza preparing to send out another gravity sphere, But suddenly Mikoto appeared behind her, her wings sparking with incredible power.
"Duck, she's going to try taking you with a close range hand based attack." said Mikaris in Knightwalker's earpiece.
Knightwalker moved her head to the side as Mikoto's lightning engulfed fist passed her cheek narrowly.. She then grabbed Mikoto's arm and threw her straight into Erza. Both of them tumbled into the grass as Knightwalker changed her spear so that the point looked like a cannon-like structure. A massive purple beam of light shot at the twosome.
"Darn it!" Mikoto got up just in time and closed her wings over both her and Erza, blocking the beam of light.
"You've got her on the long range defensive now.." said Mikaris in Knightwalker's earpiece. "She'll attempt to counter with another long range attack..likely Roar of The Thunder Dragon. You'll have to get in quickly..."
Knightwalker reswitched back to her Velocity Spear and got in close just as Mikoto opened up her wings with her cheeks puffed up.
Knightwalker kicked Mikoto in the jaw and caused her Roar of The Thunder Dragon to shoot up into the air and blast the clouds in the sky apart.
Knightwalker moved her spear inward, preparing to skewer Mikoto, but stopped short, her brow sweating.
Mikoto looked at Edo-Erza in confusion. What was her deal?
Erza requipped into her Purgatory Armor and swung her massive black sword outwards, causing Knightwalker to leap back.
"She hesitated.." said Erza. "Strange.
"That's not the first time either.." said Mikoto. "She almost killed me earlier, but couldn't because of something to do with the enemy looking like 'her', whatever that meant...wait a second.."
Mikoto's eyes widened. "You don't think..Erza..didn't you say she changed after you first battled her...learned to love life and all that?"
"Yes..."
"Well what if...she does care for somebody now...and that somebody is..?"
"Your Edolas counterpart.." said Erza. "That would make perfect sense. I notice she has avoided looking at your face the entire time we've fought...Question is..how can that help us?"
"Well for one thing, you said she avoided looking at my face right?" said Mikoto. "Well let's give her as much face time as she can get! Think you can give me some cover?"
Erza grinned and requipped into her Lightning Empress armor. "I can do that..."
Mikoto dashed at Erza Knightwalker as Erza Scarlet began shooting a massive barrage of lightning from her powerful lance.
Knightwalker sidestepped and swiped at the electric blows, as Mikoto dashed closer.
"This is odd." said Mikaris in Knightwalker's earpiece. "This isn't a normal battle pattern for her...keep on your guard, there's no telling what she might be trying."
"In any case, a frontal attack is a foolish move" said Knightwalker. "Especially if one is attacking from the front."
Knightwalker made to stab Mikoto with her spear, but Mikoto suddenly grabbed Knightwalker's arm and pulled her self close so her face was only 2 inches away from Knightwalker's.
Edo-Erza stared into Mikoto's eyes and froze up. "No..your eyes...they're the same as..."
Erza Knightwalker didn't finish her sentence, because at that moment Mikoto attacked. "CRUSHING FANG OF THE THUNDER DRAGON!!"
Mikoto's lightning engulfed hands hit Erza Knightwalker with tremendous force, smashing her into the ground and creating a powerful shockwave in the process.
As Erza Knightwalker lay unconscious in the rubble, Erza Scarlet walked up next to Mikoto. "Well done...it looks like we've claimed victory.."
"Really?" said Mikoto. "Then why do I feel so bad about it..?"
Meanwhile, Gray, Natsu, Lucy and Birdway were still fighting Edo-Kanzaki. Lucy had already summoned her celestial spirit Taurus.
"MOOOOO!!!" Taurus shouted as he swung his massive axe at Kanzaki. A blow that would have shattered boulders was suddenly stopped by one of Kanzaki's blades. Kanzaki sliced her swords in quick flashes, and Taurus's axe was immediately sliced into pieces.
"Moo? My goodness!" said Taurus. "To have my axe destroyed by such a beautiful woman.."
"SLASH!!" Kanzaki sliced Taurus to into a golden vapor.
"That's the last time I use a perverted cow man to fight a girl.." Lucy muttered.
"ROAR OF THE FIRE DRAGON!!"
"ICE MAKE: ICE IMPACT!!"
Kanzaki easily flitted out of the way as a massive drill-like hammer made of ice and a geyser of fire blasted into the area.
As Gray and Natsu continued to battle it out, Lucy turned to look at Birdway and her subordinate Mark Space heatedly.
"HEY! Are you two going to help us or just sit there!?" Lucy yelled
Birdway sighed and fiddled with her sword lazily. "I'm not doing nothing...I'm observing..you'll find that this is pretty useful when defeating a strong enemy."
Mark Space just shrugged. "I just do what she tells me.."
"But I thought you had some sort of rivalry with Kanzaki!" said Lucy.
"I have a rivalry with Kaori Kanzaki of Earthland." Corrected Birdway. "This enemy is different"
"Even so, how's just sitting and watching supposed to help!?" Shouted Lucy.
"You're about to find out.." said Birdway. "Gray! If you would be so kind as to make a giant dome of ice over our battle field?"
Gray raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, sure.."
Immediately, a crystal like ice dome surrounded the area. Kanzaki looked up. "If you mean to trap me then it will take a whole lot more then ice.."
"Trap?" said Birdway. "Oh don't be ridiculous." Birdway waved her sword, and it turned into a tea cup. "I was thinking of making the most thorough offense I could... I believe all this ice is made of water?"
Birdway fiddled her tea cup a little and immediately the ice inner surface of the dome liquified and hundreds upon hundreds of liquid projectiles colided with Kanzaki at once.
Kanzaki tore away from the spear like barrage of projectiles with blood streaming down one of her pant legs.
"What was that!?"
Kanzaki's eyes widened when suddenly Mark Space appeared in front of her. Mark Space held out a card in front of Kanzaki who immediately fell to the ground, gasping. "What..! My magic! It's dissapeared!"
Mark Space showed the card he was holding to Kanzaki. "This is Four of Swords. Usually it symbolizes Flight and Banishment, allowing one to dissapear temporarily to avoid foes. However, after a bit of practice, I was able to change the effect by purposely misinterpreting it to mean that I could temporarily banish something of the opponent's. In this case I chose the use of your magic. Don't worry, the effect only lasts for about 2 hours...of course by then, we'll be long gone."
"Whoah." said Gray. "Not bad."
"AWWWWW!!" said Natsu. "But I wanted to fight some more!!"
"See?" said Birdway. "That's how waiting and observing provides for those who are patient...though of course I would have been a little more direct with the Kanzaki I know."
"Why's that?" asked Lucy.
"Well I really just don't like her.." said Birdway with a little twitch in her left eye. "Anyways..since this play seems to be over for now...I think it's best we made our exit."
Birdway took out what looked like a smoke grenade and threw it. A burst of smoke later...and Fairy Tail had dissapeared...leaving an unconscious Erza Knightwalker, and an angry 'The Slicer' Kanzaki.
about 30 miles away from the School districts, near what appears to be a warehouse district for storing deffective weapons
"Enough...can't keep running...need to rest." Mikoto leaned on the wall of one of the ware houses panting.
"Oh come now." said Birdway. "I thought you were the best at the track events in the Daihaseisai."
"She has several broken ribs and possibly some fractured leg bones." said Erza. "It's a wonder she hasn't collapsed yet."
"Hold on Mikoto." said Wendy. "I'll heal you quickly."
"But shouldn't you heal your wounds first?" said Mikoto. "Don't overexert yourself!"
"That's what I keep telling her." said Charle. "But she never seems to listen to me.."
"I'm fine.." said Wendy. "Besides, I can't heal my own wounds...others, on the other hand... I am perfectly capable of healing a few broken bones without putting myself to sleep...I think."
Wendy put her hands on Mikoto's abdomen and a glowing light started to eminate from them.
"Man.." said Gray. "I can't believe they discovered us so quickly after we got those disguises."
"Indeed." said Erza. "Not only did whoever find us manage to do so quickly, but she was able to guide my Edolas counterpart in battle so efficiently after only watching Mikoto fight for a bout 10 minutes."
"That was Mikaris Misaka of the 7 divine Generals." said Birdway. "She is well known for being extremely able in a combative situation, especially since her observation skills and IQ are both quite high."
"Me did this!? I mean my Edolas self did that?!" said Mikoto. "Jeez, this place really is geared for war. I'm no battle strategist." (In truth, team Natsu all consider Mikoto one of the smartest people in the guild.)
"Well we don't have time to consider the enemy right now.." said Birdway. "Erza and I have just returned from some investigating...and we've discovered something quite informational..."
"This city's flight path is currently heading towards a refueling station at the Edolas equivilant of Mt. Fuji." said Erza. "Unlike it's Earthland version, Edo-Fuji is called Mt. Kurairyu. It has some nasty legends associated with it. However, the legend that was most noticable was the legend of the two gates.."
"Two gates!?" said Mikoto.
"That's right." said Birdway. "Apparently there is supposed to be one key that can open one gate, while closing another. The gate that can be closed is said to lead to the afterlife. It is also known as the first Senkaimon...whether that means there are others like it, I don't know. However I do know a little more about the second gate. This gate is locked, and can be opened by the key. It is said that beyond that gate is held a kind of map that shows the locations of the Three Trials of the Dragons which is needed to obtain something of great ancient value."
"What exactly?" asked Mikoto.
"The three gates." said Birdway. "That's all the information that I have. If we want to know more..I suggest we search the mountain after the city docks."
"Three gates huh?" said Natsu looking serious. "Mikoto, this sounds like that dream you had after that whole Fulmen event.."
"EH!?" said Mikoto. "You actually remembered that?"
"Hey! I remember stuff!" said Natsu. "...Most of the time..I think...what were we talking about again?"
"Anyways." said Erza. "It seems pretty clear that we whatever answers we seek might be found when we reach Mt. Kurairyu.."
"So how long do we have until the mountain is reached?" Asked Mikoto.
"About 24 hours..." said Birdway. "Get ready, because it looks like we have a lot of time to run from our hunters and cause mass mayhem before we go mountain climbing."
"Mass Mayhem!?" said Natsu. "That's my kind of thing! HAHAHAHA!!"
"Oh dear...this is usually when I start imagining Master writing more appology letters.." Mikoto muttered.1
A Railgun In Fairy Tail Trivia. Part 4.
1. According to an analysis done by Jason for Sorcer Weekly during the last Grand Magic Games. Mikoto's stats are
Attack Power: 5/5
Defense Power: 5/5
Speed: 4/5
Intelligence: 5/5
Tsundere Power: 7/54
Note that this is from Jason's point of view, so not all the stats may be accurate. Mikoto's high defense was analyzed as such due to the main defensive capability of her wings.
2. After learning about Kuroko's perverted tendencies, Nicole has sometimes taken to sleeping under Mikoto's bed without her knowing. Whenever Kuroko has attempted one of her strange antics on Mikoto during the night, Nicole would use her Ghost Dragon Slayer powers to create a frightening apparition to scare Kuroko off. Kuroko knows Nicole is behind this..but she's actually too scared of Nicole to do anything about it. Mikoto knows nothing about Nicole's 'security' and will probably never find out thanks to Nicole's prodigious stealth skills.
3.Twilight Prankster can jump between dimensions much like his Earthland counterpart Night Reveler. While his magic is quite similar to his Earthland self in that he can create masterful illusions, and magic of extremely random and crazy nature. Twilight Prankster does not posses the ability to bring back the dead. He does however, have much skill in the medical and scientific arts, having discovered the cures for many diseases. He even once possesed the cure for cancer. However, the vial that contained the only formula along with the notes was lost during one of Edo-Hydra Head's raids against King Faust. Twilight Prankster doesn't remember the formula any more, and is working in secret to try and regain his research on the subject. While both him and his Earthland self possess a sadistic side when it comes to humor..Twilight Prankster actually sets limits for himself so he doesn't go out of control.
4. Imouto Misaka, aka MISAKA 1032, has met Natsu before. While she believes Natsu to be weird and loud, she has a secret desire to touch his hair and see what makes it pink. Natsu says Imouto is like a robot version of Mikoto, only cuter and more commando looking because of the guns she uses as well as the goggles she always carries. When Natsu first saw Imouto, he thought she was Mikoto until he ran into three more MISAKA Sisters who were right around the corner.
5. Our world, including Academy City, now hire Wizard Guilds as often as Fiore does. After the Rainbow Gate was open for around 3 weeks, the United Nations decided that having something as useful as magic guilds for hire, would be a good thing...especially since the guilds weren't officially affiliated with any country of this world, and therefore would less likely be used for terrorism or war (Though the risk is still out there.) During a warning of a possible assasination attempt on the U.S. President, Sabertooth's Sting, Rogue, and Orga were hired to secretly become bodygaurds till the situation passed.
6. Jason once did an interview with Last Order when Accelerator refused to do the interview himself. Accelerator was the cover for the magazine while Last Order was posted as the source. Due to the antisocial tendencies of Accelerator, he tends to go off somewhere whenever the Sorcerer comes by Magnolia Town.
7. Mikoto is considered one of the three toughest women in Fairy Tail, the other two being Mirajane and Erza.