(http://moe.animecharactersdatabase.com/uploads/chars/5688-1132988491.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Gregory</span><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Shadow Crow headquarters<br/><strong>VS:</strong>Luca<br/><br/>Luca proved his resourcefulness as he made a barrier between himself and the two clones of shadow that were moving on his flanks. While he didn't completely dispel the shadows, he did confine them to a position where they wouldn't be able to reach him while the real Gregory continued his dive. When Luca went to attack him with a demonically empowered fist, he blocked it with his sword, the force from the punch pushing the grey haired swordsman back into the darkness while he waited for the flames to subdue again. Since it only lasted a couple of seconds, he was able to quickly continue his attack again as he came and attacked him head on. This time, however, he wouldn't bring up his shadows until Luca was forced into the darkness, meaning that Luca would have to watch his step even more then before, since he couldn't see where Gregory was going to use his shadow power, everywhere was a danger zone.<br/><br/>In actuality, Gregory was trying to bait out that same flame trick that Luca had just used, he had a pretty solid plan for how he was going to counter it and prevent it from being a problem again. He was the only one that was allowed to control the light in this room, since light manipulation and control over the shadows on the part of Luca was the one genuine, crippling weakness that would ensure victory for the Fairy Tail mage. In many ways, this was just as much a battle of wits as it was a crossing of swords.<br/><br/>Still, Gregory wasn't using his magic as directly or efficiently as before, meaning that Luca was on to something with that last move of his.<br/><br/>...............................................................................................<br/><br/>(http://fireden.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/marie1.jpg.jpeg)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Emilia</span><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Shadow Crow headquarters<br/><strong>VS:</strong>Lyuk<br/><br/>Okay so perhaps 'sacrifice' was a bit of an over-dramatization on Emilia's part, though she had always had a bit of a flare for the dramatic. Lyuk wasn't so much 'sacrificing' his hands as much as he was sacrificing the use of them for the rest of the mission, or at least until he got some healing from some kind of source, lord only knows where he'd find a place to get himself healed in a place like this. Either way, as he slammed the sword against the rune barrier that kept him off of the central stage, he'd see the barrier groan and cry in pain before a crack appeared in the middle of it. It would take more then one attack to break the rune barrier, and he'd need to be extremely diligent to continue dodging the magic bullets that were still roaring in his direction. However, assuming that he was able to keep up the consistency of his dodging and evasion, the barrier would go down on his second strike.<br/><br/>When the barrier shattered, Lyuk would be able to enjoy a brief respite from the deathly aching that had been forced into his mind by her hellish song, as she went quiet and looked up at him. "You... You... You broke through. You did it." her hand started to shake, and she gripped the mic even harder as her soft voice rang through the entire room thanks to the amps coming through clear. "No... No... No no no no no no NO!!!!" Emilia let out an anguished cry, a massive tornado of pink bullets erupting from beneath her feet and consuming most of the stage as she screamed into the mic. "The world must change! It can't stay! I won't let it!!!"<br/><br/>The tornado of magical energy was growing larger, threatening to consume the entire room if Lyuk didn't find some way to make it subside. Of course, going through that storm of magical power with nothing but brute force was basically suicide.<br/>...................................................................................................<br/><br/>(http://i.imgur.com/Blj66.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Gaius 'Red' Eigenfilter</span><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Shadow Crow headquarters<br/><strong>VS:</strong>Alice<br/><br/><em>"... That it?"</em><br/><br/>That was the only thought going through Gaius' head when he saw the motionless blonde laying on the ground, dropping after only a single magic attack. He had heard stories about the tenacity and strength of the Fairy Tail mages, and he was looking forward to finally seeing what one had with his own two eyes, especially after Alice talked such a big game on the way into the room and before the fight began. However, he was quickly becoming sorely disappointed, as he became progressively more confident in the fact that the poor girl was down for the count. Thankfully, he was proven wrong when she forced herself back up and gave him another little speech about some other world that the Fairy Tail of the old days had managed to come across, a world without magic. "I heard about that story, about how they're actually living just fine even without magic. Doesn't really assist your argument that much, my little fairy."<br/><br/>His eyes widened in surprise when he saw her suddenly attack, and he suddenly stuck his hand out in front of his chest as he shouted out quickly upon realizing what was happening. "Command: Defend!" With a snap of his fingers, three more of those ghostly phantasms appeared in front of Gaius, body blocking the bullets before they started to glow eerily, while Gaius looked towards Alice with a concerned look in his eye. Since he had summoned illusions to take the hit for him, at least it meant that Alice was firing on the real Gaius right now, since he'd probably have been happy to let the bullets phase through any fake that he would have set up. He snapped his fingers again quickly afterwords, staring Alice down as he did so. "Command: Retaliation!" Upon his order, the glowing phantasms all started to fuse together as one, a phantasm that would suddenly flash with a blinding light of magical power as it brought a huge rocket launcher up to it's shoulder. "Thanks for the magical energy. Here, have it back!" Gaius flung his arm straight out to his left, and his clone fired back a huge round of magical power from the rocket launcher towards Alice's feet before vanishing.<br/><br/>He wasn't done playing yet. Although he could have easily gone for the knockout with an attack of that magnitude, he wanted to drag this out for a little bit longer before finally wrapping things up. This fight was as good as over anyway, the poor blonde could barely stand, no reason to actually trying at this point.