User blog comment:Water Dragon Slayer/DREAM BATTLE CHRONICLES: FIRST MATCH!/@comment-7418318-20130911103333

I know this is waaaaaaaayyy past the deadline, but after those ideas had been flying around my mind for month' I finally had to put it to paper (metaphorically speaking.... "put it to harddrive" doesn't sound so good ^^). Anyway here's my Lucy vs. Minerva Dream Battle and apart from a short piece of backgound fluff I wrote for my custom-made WH40K Eldar Craftworld it's also my first self-written story ever.

Lucy and Wendy followed Flare as she led the way to the eternal flame. Suddenly the world went completely dark for a moment.

When she was able to see again Lucy found herself in an unfamiliar landscape. It was a clearing at the edge of a forest. A clearing with green grass swaying in the wind and a forest of green and brown trees. A meadow and forest not frozen over!

Lucy: "Wendy! Flare!" No answer.

Lucy: "What is going on. This can't be the village of the sun anymore, so where am I and how did I get here."

unknown female: "Well, well! If it isn't the helpless little princes Lucy Heartphilia. So nice to run into you like this." followed by some cruel sounding laughter.

Lucy turned into the direction of the sound, but the female figure was standing in the shadow of a big tree, so Lucy couldn't make out who it was.

unknown female: "Why the confused expression? Have you never been teleported before?"

As the female continued to mock and laugh at Lucy she advanced through the shadows. Lucy felt fear crawl down hear spine. She knew that cruel, mocking voice.

Finally the figure arrived in the light and Lucy's worst fear was realized. Before her stood no other than Minerva.

Minerva: "Thanks to that incompetent half-demon dimwit Doriarte I was cheated out of my fun with Erza. I was so furious, but just who do you think I ran into on my way back to the guild? Isn't it a delicious twist of fate?"

Lucy: "You brought me here! Why? Wh... What do you want?"

Minerva: "Well, to have some fun of course" Minerva said light hearted, before switching to an icy voice "though I doubt you'll find it very enjoyable."

With this she launched a small sphere of dark energy at Lucy, knocking her on the ground.

Remembering their last confrontation Lucy quickly grabbed her keys and whip in the hopes that Minerva might not be able to teleport them away if she was holding them tight.

Minerva: "Oh please.... as if I had any need to take those toys from you. Against me they are just as useless as you are. Though I wonder: The way you're grabbing all of the keys in your fist right now, how will you be able to summon any individual spirits?"

Lucy: "Like this! Scorpio! Aries!"

Suddenly a hole appeared beneath Minerva, swallowing her from sight. Scorpio immediately followed up by filling the hole with his sand.

A few meter away Minerva materialized, spitting out sand: "Not bad little girl, you caught me by surprise there, but it won't happen again."

Both spirits were enveloped by a dark sphere and with expressions of pain disappeared again. Minerva followed up with another sphere shot in Lucy's direction. Lucy almost managed to dodge it, but it still graced her right shoulder, making her spin around and lose her grip on her Fleuve d'étoiles. When Lucy's bleeding hand reached the spot where the whip had fallen, it was no longer there.

Minerva: "Are you looking for this?" There in Minerva's hand it was. With a small gesture form her other hand the whip disappeared. "It's not like it would have done you any good anyway... I think I'll keep it as a souvenir so I can always remember the fun the two of us had together... or me at any rate."

"At least I know for sure now that she can only teleport my keys away if I drop them" though Lucy. "I must make sure not to drop them, or I'm done for."

As Minerva readied another dark sphere Lucy she summoned Aries. A pink wool-wall appeared in a ring around Lucy and she quickly took a step to the side. As she expected Minerva's shot went cleanly through the wall, but at least her visibility was blocked.

Minerva was getting furious. Again the little annoyance had managed to catch her off guard and make the shot miss. As she was mulling over her frustration a hole opened up in the wall. She could clearly make out Aries and also a bit of Lucy. Minerva didn't know what would happen if she was hit by that pink cloud-like thing the Celestial Spirit sent flying toward her, but it didn't matter.

"I'll just switch with the incompetent little bitch. That way she'll get hit by that stuff wile I gut her little ram." Minerva thought.

As planed she switched with Lucy and had the satisfaction of seeing Lucy hit by her own attack. As she prepared to take down Aries a powerful kick hit her in the back.

As looked up from the ground she saw a goat-like spirit with sunglasses tower over her. Before she could really comprehend what was going on, the pink wall snapped closed around her, stopping her from moving and suffocating her. Despite the dire situation a sense of peace and comfort started to spread through her, making it hard to concentrate on getting out of there.

"It worked! I'm saved!" Lucy shouted out happily. Minerva really thought the hole in the wool-wall was only opened up so Aries could shoot at her and that it was just coincidence or incompetence that it gave her a clear line of sight to Lucy. And Minerva did exactly as Lucy hoped she would. Not knowing that wool-shot wouldn't have caused damage anyway Minerva had switched with Lucy so Lucy would be hit and she herself would end up right next to Aries to finish the spirit off. What she didn't see or expect was that Lucy anticipated this and summoned Capricorn to hit Minerva the moment she teleported in.

As Lucy was still giddy about her "victory" a massive shockwave knocked her to the ground.

Dizzy from the sudden hit Lucy looked around for Aries and Capricorn, but they were gone. Before her stood a very angry Minerva.

Minerva: "A nice little trick, but don't think for a moment I'd go down this easy. I just intended to play with you for a bit and leave you alive but broken, somewhere you're friends would easily find you, but now you really pissed me off. Time to die little bitch!"

Lucy quickly got up and tried to summon more spirits. "Leo, Saggi..." in the middle of the word she felt a terrible pain in her stomach.

Minerva had concentrated her energy into a tight beam that had hit Lucy's midriff and punched cleanly through.

As Loke materialized next to Lucy, the Celestial Spirit Mage collapsed, coughing up blood and bleeding badly from her stomach wound.

Loke let out a scream of pure horror as he saw his love lie there in a spreading pool of her own blood.

He let lose another scream, this time one of pure rage. Golden flames billowed up all over his body, growing in intensity making it painful to look at him until his body just a bright silhouette.

And this silhouette started to change shape. As this took place the drawn out scream also changed pitch until it sounded like the roar of a lion.

When the brightness faded enough to see again without being blinded, Minerva couldn't quite make sense of the scene.

Before her stood a lion, seemingly made out of white and golden flames.

With supernaturally fast movement Leo the Lion charged Minerva and jumped at her face. She just had time to get up her left arm in an attempt to ward the beast off. Leo bit into her arm, spin Minerva around and threw her a short distance, ripping skin and muscles.

As he went in for another attack Minerva managed to teleport away. As she prepared an attack the lion opened his maw and a beam of light shot at her. Just like her attack again Lucy, this beam pierced right through Minerva.

Shocked and paralyzed by the pain for a moment it gave Loke the an opening.

He charged in and jumped and caught Minerva's neck in his jaw. No matter how much she struggled, Loke didn't let go. Quickly her struggling grew faint, turned into small twitches and finally ceased altogether.

After the dark mage hadn't moved for a while he finally let go. He left the dead body behind and as he ran back in Lucy's direction he reverted back to his humanoid form.

To his surprise and relieve Virgo was sitting next to Lucy. While Loke had fought with Minerva, the reliable maiden had come through the veil under her own power and bandaged Lucy's wound.

Virgo: "Her wound is serious. The bandages alone won't save her life."

Loke: "But they will buy us time. We have to find Wendy as fast as possible."

After carefully picking Lucy up, the two spirits made their way in the direction of the village of the sun in search of Wendy.

Lucy: "I saw it all... Thank you, all of you. I love all of you spirits...." With those words she faded into unconsciousness while the spirits made hast to get her to the Sky Sorceress.