EVENT: Rising Tides |Fujisama|

As the collective of mages and warriors arrived and the song began to fade, a heavy and over whelming power would begin to rise. At first it would be nothing more than a tickle, a slight teasing at the edge of the senses. But as the wizards gather waited and watched the tickle would turn to an itch, the itch to a burn, the burn into a thundering presence. Across the city they would feel it, the coming of something powerful indeed. Out in the bay sailors and fishermen on their boats would turn to each other in confusion and fear, quickly moving to turn their boats back towards shore. Citizens across the city, beings who normally felt no magic, felt this coming presence. Wizards, both high and low, would likely stop and turn towards the sea as the massive amount of magic rushed towards them. Something on an entirely new scale from them was coming, and fast.

Out in the sea all was calm. The wind did not blow, the sea did not stir. Not even a seagull could be seen upon the water. Then came the disturbance. It started as a ripple, a fast moving rush in the water, small and insignificant, but constant. Oh but it grew, widening at first, spanning an ever growing amount of surface. But then it grew upwards as it neared the land, and those on shore would begin to see it, though it was still far out. A mass of black under the water, moving at an impossible speed, the mound of black growing rapidly out of the water. As it grew features would become prominent upon it. A slope down. Ridges. Fins. Eyes. A creature had come to Hargeon, and as it neared the shore it only grew, taller and taller, broader and broader, bigger than anything that had ever before come to Fiore. The citizenry would stand in awe, dumbfounded. The fishermen and sailors would stop their work and stare in horror as this thing rushed towards them. And as it neared and grew, so to would its magical presence, dwarfing that of even the mighty gods of Ishval who had gathered. A neck now appeared, with already over a hundred feet of head. Shoulders rose from the water, hundreds of feet across of shining, black shell. Arms and tentacles next. A shining black skin, plates of shell, ridges of spines and fins. It plowed into the bay like a storm, its sheer size sending mighty waves crashing out to topple boats and swamp the docks. It rose from the water once in the bay, towering well above any gathered. The cities mightiest arcs and tallest towers seemed as but toys to this behemoth, and yet it continued to rise. Water cascaded from it like great waterfalls, and massive, hundred foot wide tentacles began writhing in the water.

Finally would it stop rising, towering above all, well over a mile, nearly two miles. The sky seemed to darken and not a sound could be heard at the arrival of such a being. Then it spoke. A voice more felt than heard, which echoed from the city and shook the towers, a mighty and booming voice, like that of a god.

"Rejoice! Children of men! Your new deity has come, to claim your sacrifice." said the voice, a voice which would boom and echo in the very minds of those gathered. As it spoke the creature would raise its arms slowly, clouds beginning to swirl in the sky and sea beginning to recede as the monster did so. "By your end shall my glory be remembered. Humanity has sat for too long upon the food chain. This day shall it fall from its lofty perch!" The beast bellowed menacingly, as even more of the sea would draw back, forming into a swell around the beast and spiraling around its body, rising up like a mighty wave and shield. "Let the world shake and the cries of the children be heard! I am your god! And this day I declare as the beginning of the apocalypse!" he would bellow once more before the water which had been swirling around him would stop swirling and suddenly rush forward, towards the city.

Sailors and fishermen who had escaped the arrival of the titan were swept away as the wave crashed forward. The docks were shattered. Stone buildings and towers crumbled as the wave smashed into it and water raced down the streets and alley ways, a hundred feet tall and with the force of a gods will behind it. Citizens were smashed aside in droves and entire buildings were swept away. No doubt the panic would have set in by now, but what good would flight and panic do now?

Gargalrax had come. His will would be done.


(Gargalrax for reference)

Spoiler:

Well, at least that song had stopped. It wasn't exactly unpleasant: in fact it had been rather nice, even though it had also sounded rather ominous. It was like a song which warned you that something bad was going to happen, but you couldn't really do anything about it, and you might as well admire the beauty of your doom as it came to you. However Akeya wasn't really fond of things which tried to affect her mind. The fact that the song was that enchanting mostly put her on guard, wondering where it was coming from and the best way to deal with it. There were several sources of extremely high magic power in Hargeon Town at the moment. If the song came from one of those the chances of her being able to take them out quickly were slim, so the fact that the song disappeared without her having to deal with it personally was something of a relief. However, that didn't remove the fact that she was here for more serious matters than just a particularly nice if foreboding song. The Magic Council had summoned as many mages as possible here because something was approaching Hargeon Town from the ocean, and it was doing so fast. She could wonder about that song after that was dealt with.

It was at that point that the magic presence, and the threat, began to arrive, which immediately put all thoughts about that song out of Akeya's head.

She was pretty good at sensing magic. Like everybody in her village she had begun practising magic at a young age, and it had quickly turned out that magic sensory was something of a talent of hers. Not feeling like wasting an opportunity her parents had enthusiastically supported her developing that skill further: taking something you were good at and refining it was never a bad idea, unless there was another aspect of yourself that just needed the attention more. And so Akeya had trained, refined, and practised, until eventually she could accurately tell the location of a magic source at twice the range other mages of her level could. She was also better at discerning between types of magic, and what they might be used for.

But this time that was backfiring on her. This...thing...that was rising out of the water didn't require any special senses to notice. No magic sensory was needed, no talent in detection. Its presence was unmistakable, undeniable. It was too big, too powerful, to overwhelming for anybody to even make an attempt at saying they didn't notice it. Its physical size was immense, but that was still nothing compared to the magical presence: that smashed down upon Hargeon Town like the fist of a large and particularly angry god. It must be terrifying for the civilians, who didn't possess any magic, to suddenly be exposed to so much magic power that their minds were brutally forced to acknowledge it. It wouldn't be surprising if quite a lot of them would shoot into a panic, going hysterical at the sudden and irrevocable feeling of helplessness before the threat posed by this gargantuan named Gargalrax. That would only make the evacuation of the people even harder, their minds too scrambled for them to cooperate as the only thing left for them was to panic, scream, try their best to get away from that monster that loomed over the town like a human might loom over an anthill. Or they could go catatonic, unable to cope and their minds completely shutting down. That magic power, so far beyond human understanding that even H-Ranks, who already were beyond what your average mortal could comprehend, felt like nothing more than gnats in comparison, was a weapon in its own right. It didn't need to be used for anything, it didn't need to be directed, it just needed to exist. If it existed, and was present, it could already cause entire armies to become incapacitated as they could do nothing but either flee or kneel before that power.

And Akeya had it even worse than most. That magic sensory that she had carefully been refining and sharpening, becoming better and better so she could become stronger and stronger... It was an overload. She couldn't block it out, all her mental barriers were getting smashed to pieces as her entire being was filled by the sheer amount of magic power possessed by that thing. She had been flying high up in the air, high enough that if anybody saw her she would most likely be confused for a bird. Which was a good thing right now, since it meant that she wouldn't get obliterated by that tidal wave that crashed into the town far below her as she went through the process of feeling herself get ripped apart from the inside. Curling up into a ball, clutching at the sides of her head with both hands, Akeya closed her eyes as she tried her best to regain her sanity and her sense of self. At least her instincts, after the initial shock, were enough to keep her flying up in the air so she wouldn't fall to her death while she dealt with this imminent crisis. In her mind she was trying to retreat, rebuilt her mental defences, block out that ocean of magic power that threatened to drown her, that was already drowning her and she was trying to get back to the surface so she could breathe.

This struggle lasted for a while, the half dragon hovering high up in the air, most likely high enough that nobody even noticed that she was there. The people down below were too busy dealing with the fact that a tidal wave was falling down on the town, and Gargalrax was such a ridiculously huge entity that he couldn't possible actually identify one small insignificant spec floating there in the air, especially since even with her high altitude he still towered far above her. She had been flying high, high enough that if it wasn't for her eyes being particularly sharp she could never have made out any details of Hargeon Town. She was fortunate that the wings and tail that granted her flight had been accompanied by what humans would call hawk eyes. Of course, those kind of eyes were shared by almost anything which could fly but preyed on creatures living on the ground. Including dragons. But as high as she had been flying, Gargalrax was still higher. If Akeya wasn't busy dealing with the overload her magic sensory was constantly giving her she would have wondered how such a large creature could exist as a living being. She would have formed the theory that Gargalrax wasn't an actual living being, but more a magical entity given a physical form so it could interact with the physical world. She would have listened to its speech, and conceded that at least his mere size and magic power gave him some claim to the title of god (not that it would have impressed her. So far as Akeya was concerned, dragons bowed to no god). Unfortunately the magic overload was her top priority right now.

Eventually she managed to regain a semblence of coherency, feeling like her head was pounding as her eyes were blurry. Shaking her head (and immediately regretting her decision as it only made the headache worse) she blinked several times, her eyes slowly returning to their usual clarity and sharpness. Looking up at Gargalrax she felt the urge to gape, and forbade herself doing so. She refused to be intimidated by sheer size. She would acknowledge that this was a serious threat, something which she would have to go all out against, together with the other mages, just to deal with it, but she would never allow herself to show fear or submission. That was what prey did, and even if her head was still pounding, even if she could still feel that ocean of magic power smashing against her mental barriers, trying to once again overwhelm her, even if she had no idea how to start with this guy (with that size any of her attacks most likely would only harm its outer skin, not because of lack of firepower but just because they weren't large enough to do anything else) she would not let herself be turned into mere prey. Even this giant creature was not invincible. It might look hopeless at first, but as long as it existed it had a weakness. Perfection didn't exist, and neither did true invincibility.

However, before she could deal with that giant thing she should first focus on something a bit more easily tackled. Looking down below she saw what she had been missing because she was busy feeling her mind being wiped out, and trying to prevent it. A massive tidal wave had slammed into the town, utterly destroying at least one third and more likely a full half of it, the side which had been facing the sea. With that amount of water falling down not even solid stone buildings could have stood a chance. Water was quite the deadly forced if used right, and one way to use it right was just to use so much of it that rather than a liquid it was better to describe it as a solid mass which could change shape. For anybody who hadn't been able to get out of the way in time (and that must have been quite a lot of people: Akeya knew that the Magic Council would have tried to evacuate as many citizens as possible, but it was unlikely they had gotten everybody, and there had also been mages down there) it must have felt as if they had a mountain fall down upon them, with about the same results. It wouldn't be surprising if some victims had turned into nothing but a bloody red mark on the ground. Buildings were gone, people had been crushed like ants, and even now that the initial collision was over with the water would still flood the town, causing more buildings to crash, sweeping up debris, smashing into and drowning people, undermining everything where possible... Honestly if the only goal that the giant tentacle monster had was to ruin Hargeon Town he could have thrown down that tidal wave and called it a day. If it disappeared this instant the humans would still be busy for months, if not years, just to rebuild and recover from the damage dealt by just one tidal wave.

Well, that wasn't something Akeya could do a lot about. Her ability set wasn't based on either protecting, evacuating or rebuilding. She would leave that to the people who actually had proficiency and experience with those matters. For her part, she noticed that some strange creatures had arrived after the water mountain: from the beach strange grey-white creatures were moving towards Hargeon Town, splitting up into groups and from the looks of it searching for prey. They were large, although mostly in length. Akeya (slowly becoming more and more used to the pressure of Gargalrax's mere presence, although her head still hurt like a bitch) began to descend, getting a better view of the creatures. She had never encountered them before, but she had heard descriptions of them, and seen drawings. They were like sharks, large sharks, except they had four strong legs, ending in webbed and clawed paws. So...land-sharks? A strange idea, although Akeya had heard jokes before regarding how the only thing scarier than a shark was a shark who could walk on land. It seemed the ocean itself agreed, as it was supplying these monsters as proof. There was most likely a reason they were arriving now, related to that giant tentacle monster (Akeya winced, slowing down as she placed a clawed hand against her head. The pounding was quite persistent). However for now the task at hand looked relatively easy: get rid of those monsters before they began eating people. Well, too many. She could count over a dozen of the sharks, and the chances of being able to take them all out before they ate anybody at all were low enough that only a true optimist would consider them feasible. Akeya, as a pessimist, was busy trying to prioritize, although it was going rather slowly thanks to her head and the struggle to not be overwhelmed once again. She could tell that the giant thing that was calling itself a god was going to be a real problem, and not just an annoying one.

Which group of sharks should she take out first, what was the right sequence, or should she try to figure out what was causing the sharks to arrive right this moment and see if she could put a stop to it? She was still descending, now flying low enough that if somebody looked up they might actually notice her as something bigger and more important than just a bird.

Something was wrong. Something was horribly, horribly wrong. Every one of Yuzuki's senses had begun to scream a while ago, wailing about this horrible, horrible presence that nearly caused the semi-fey to turn to her primal instincts and turn tail to run. Hair standing up on the back of her neck, Yuzuki crouched deep in the shadows, her eyes wide, and fear evident all over her terrified face. Now, Yuzuki wasn't exactly known for being scared, or careful. For someone like her, a trickster, she was reckless, she was irresponsible, and often did things that were quite stupid. However, her natural instincts were also extremely powerful a part of her, for she couldn't have possibly survived all her thirty-two years of life without these instincts. And they were telling her to flee. Don't fight, don't freeze, flight was the only choice here, according to her instincts.

And then it was there. The source of all that horribleness, towering over Hargeon. It didn't exactly look like it was just there to say hello, you know. In fact, it basically announced that it was about to take over the world and kill all of humanity. Now, that wasn't exactly a great thing to say to a town full of humanity, and from experience, Yuzuki knew that there would be plenty of fighting, freezing, and flighting, stuff she'd seen enough of. Not that Yuzuki didn't agree wholeheartedly with some of the stuff that sea monster guy said. Humans were stupid, full of themselves, and liars. Yuzuki hated humans. Still, the destruction of the human race would be somewhat problematic, since there would always be someone who didn't want even a half-human in their perfect human-less world, and out she'd go again. She'd probably never fit anywhere.

Just as the monster was speaking, Yuzuki was already planning her escape. Say the worst happened, and humans were completely destroyed. Then where would she go? No fey realm for her, of course, she'd been kicked out a few years ago. Yuzuki had heard of some other planets and worlds, apparently the guild Sleeping Forest could access them. Maybe she'd go off, join them, and disappear to a new planet. A nicer one. Where evil sea monsters didn't try to cause apocalypses. Then, the wave came. A towering wall of water loomed over Hargeon, loomed over her head. It was horrible, frightening, and for a moment, Yuzuki thought, "This is it. I'm gonna die." However, a second later Yuzuki was still alive, still breathing, and jumping at an astonishing speed away from the wave. The semi-fey's adrenaline had kicked in, and it was like her body moved of its own accord. She would be exhausted later, but for now all she could do was run.

Shark-men ran by. Shark-men. Yuzuki paid no notice, slashing through them with her spear, her only purpose to preserve her life. Yes, Yuzuki Faerydae was a coward, she was selfish, she couldn't care less for saving the town. She was doing the one thing she was best at: Running away.

Apollo made his way towards the roofs when the waves came crashing in for multiple reason, the first reason was due to the crashing waves and stuff flying around him and everyone else. The second reason was less obvious. with all the people running hand all the panic he might as well be invisible to everyone so he didn't want to fight threw crowds of people to help them. The third and final reason so he could get a better vantage point of the overall situation. Apollo looked out to the sea as the waves crash he saw a figure standing there. he couldn't make much out but he did see him raise his hand and shark things started to walk on land. "How is that...oh no." he said seeing the panicking people running every which way they could. He then saw the shark things spreading out to attack people and divide there forces up along with that people were running everywhere they could to get away and out. He had two options save the people and get them to safety or simply go straight for the figure acting as there leader. Apollo shook his head. He wasn't the only magic in this city and he wasn't much of a fighter so he decided to help the people get out but how.

As Apollo looked to the streets it was sheer chaos down there. Everyone was running and trying to to escape the shark beasts that have entered land Apollo knew straight off the bat that he could help people if he had to be everywhere at once, all this would do is make him tired and ware himself out then the sharks would get him for sure and the people would be in a more dangerous situation then before. Apollo scan the streets then looked at the street below. It was wide and looked to be the main street of the town. If he could gather the people here then maybe just maybe he could get them all out and out of the town to safety. On that note he would be able to focus down the sharks more condensing them closer so any nearby allies or himself didn't have to go so far apart to try to fight them. But how was he going to get everyone attention.

"Getting every ones attention was now the hard part of this equation and rallying them all to one place was going to be even harder. It wasn't as if he could call to people no one would listen to him in the state things were in now. Then Apollo got stumbled upon a great idea. He could make a symbol with his shields leading people here. It was surly get everyone attention he then started darting his eyes around looking around quickly. shark men were going to or already were attacking the people. Apollo sighed feeling a little useless as a fairy tail ace but he knew what he to do so it was time to get started. Using his his free forming shields technique he would spell out the words "evacuation this way" and have them pointing towards main street in an orange golden color to attract people.

As Apollo did this he could already tell that people were heading towards the area and consolidated towards main street. Apollo sighed looking at all the people and pulling his gun Checkmate out readying it promoting himself to a rook preparing for the worst. "Everyone remain calm and proceed to the edge of town follow the main road it will be the safest please pass the word!" he called hoping people listened to him. As people consolidated towards the main street of town he looked around thinking. The only true down fall to this plan was if the sharks came they were now trapped but he would have to trust the other nearby mages to help. Apollo then made another shield jumping on helping the people hovering over the people. anyone flying could see him. he was calling and pointing which way to go running above people watching out for shark men or any other threats. After a while he saw everyone helping each other escape telling everyone were to go. once they were mostly out he could make a safe zone but for now..he had to get more people out. "Fairy Tail....no everyone stay safe..." he would mutter as he then start to watch for sharks while guiding people out from the air making barriers to get them out.

Akryn, for his part, was absolutely floored by the arrival of Gargalrax. All his life he had known powerful beings, from his own father, an absolute monster in terms of magic and strength, to a dragon who had trained him, even his own guild masters who he respected so much. He had felt power before, but all of them paled in comparison to the being calling himself a god. Akryn couldn't even begin to dispute that claim either, as its mere arrival sent a massive tidal wave crashing into the city. To the credit of the Wizards gathered Akryn saw a massive, magical wall rise to try and stop the wave, halting it from traveling to far inland, and he witnessed several wizards launch an assault on the beast itself. But against something like that, with a presence like that, how could they hope to win?

As the half djinn contemplated this however, something new would steal his attention. A scream. Akryn turned his head towards the noise and his one eye widened in surprise, as he witnessed a young woman using a broom to ward off two.... Sharks with legs. Akryn could not believe his eyes for a moment, and for just a second he considered whether this being really was a god, creating and unleashing abominations such as this! Akryn forced himself to shake those thoughts away however as his instincts kicked in. He was needed right now, his combat skills most notably. He was second to few in melee combat, especially against monsters, and it was time he proved it.

With a mighty bellow Akryn hoisted his massive, thousand pound sword and threw it, end over end, at his target, the first shark, the one closest to the woman and her children. He counted on the blade at least diverting the monster as he rushed in, a massive fist rushing in to punch to second shark in the side of the head, with enough force to snap the bones of most animals. Akryn quickly placed himself between the beasts and the civilians, drawing both of his normal sized swords and holding them before him in a defensive posture. "Go!" He shouted to the woman behind him. "Take as many as you can and flee! This day the Wizards of Fiore shall hold this behemoth at bay." He said with a smirk, as the sounds of battle began erupting all over the city. This entity might be a god, with its own private army of shark things. But the Wizards of Fiore were not to be underestimated, deity or not.

Zack stood silently the last notes of his guitar echoing away into nothingness, overpowered by the huge, monstrous creature that had come forth to attack the town. Despite the others in town, despite the shark's on legs, his gaze was purely on that creature. His eyes were steely and without seeming to pass through the space inbetween his sword was suddenly from his sheath and in his hand. With an almost lazy effort he fell forwards and then suddenly kicked off the building heading like a missile towards the huge creature. His body began to rotate quickly forming him into some kind of drill. Then as if out of nowhere his speed suddenly accelerated as he was surrounded in an aura of light. His target was to hit the creature dead on through centre of its head. It was a big target and he was moving incredibly fast. It would be hard for him to miss.

This was an opening move for him in most battles. He would gauge the defensive capabilities of the large enemy or take them out in one fell swoop. The creature was powerful. In terms of raw magic power it probably outclassed him and in terms of physicality it definitely did. However, would it be be fast enough or tanky enough to dodge or take this blow? He kind of hoped it would be able to survive. That would mean he had a fun fight ahead. Then again the last time he'd tried this in seriousness he'd been stopped by a mage that outclassed him. That could happen again here and that would mean he had one more opponent who could at least hold their own. Fighting two of them would be to much for him of course, even with the tricks he had up his sleeve. One of which he planned to use now.

With one of his hands he pulled out a small sphere of light and hurled it before reassuming his grip on the blade. It was hurled town towards the chest of the creature and as it flew, even faster than he was going due to being thrown with force by someone already moving very fast, it grew and formed a figure clad in armor with a spear in hand. It was a double strike. Blocking one of them was possible and indeed very likely, but properly blocking both of them? That did not seem likely at all. Then again he'd been proven wrong when he faced the Priory. Maybe he'd be proven wrong this time.

Magic:

Fuji casually watched as the airship as a woman slipped from it on a gryphon like thing. He couldn't tell what she was wearing, but it was obvious someone else was on board that ship. 'If there is someone still up there, then I guess they're to weak on their own to fight against the sharks, but I do know those ships are a major pain in my fin...' He thought to himself as his hand rose up into the air. A source of magic filled the air. It wasn't one as strong as the monsters, but nearly there. The air in the direct area began to feel thick as Fuji began to pull on the oxygen and hydrogen in the air. He forced it together, forcing the skies to begin to weep as the shark forced it to rain, heavily.

He was going to force the ship down by dropping a mass of water atop of it, but causing it to rain was good for now as someone who's magic actually was noticeable over the small foodlings seemed to have appeared and begun flying towards the beast. "I can't let that happen now. It's too early for the big guy to get any more fun. Lets 'distract' this one. " He said with a deep chuckle as the air around the flying sissy boy thickened even more so than the sky had before, this time nearly instantly creating a sphere of water around him prior to him tossing the ball of light. The water roared wildly around the sissy boy as he would've been stuck within the sphere.As his attention snapped away, leaving the sissy boy inside of the quickly filling sphere to his own fate.

He eyed the female and male that had approached him as his head fell off to the side. "I smell like fish? I had expected something like my breath smelling like fish or perhaps smelling of the ocean itself. Thanks for the comment about my hair. I'm rather proud myself of it. So enjoying the weather?" He said as he slipped his hands into the pockets of his jacket, casually waiting for the Sissy boy slip through.

On the side with the Sharks, many of them that hadn't been dealt with began to turn areas of the section that was left to him into a blood bath. Entries and blood flew everywhere with places where sharks weren't dealt with.

With Yuzuki
The walking shark that she had previously sliced at singled in on her after it took a graze to its scales. It's head lurked off to the side before it launched itself at her. It's mouth opened wide as it prepared to eat her. The second one that moved with the other moved off to flank her side if the first fails to do so.

With Akryn
The shark had actually heard the air being cut around the sword as it flew towards it. Instead of just being a normal shark, it lunged forward, taking the broom into his mouth and the lady's hands into its jaws and clamped down before running to avoid the monstrous sword, dragging the woman with him. The other shark watched as the arm came down in which in return the shark jumped onto it and off to follow the other. Both tails in the process wagged like dogs.

Back with Fujisame, he wondered why it seemed many people seem to think there were shark-men running around. Was it too hard to separate dog like traits from humans? Would he lose brain cells if he ate any of these people?

And removing him from the sky would be a plausible feat, had rain be a real problem for the S.S. Myrmidon (AKA George). Rain was just a minor inconvenience when navigating for most people since the sky was darker. But not for Nao, see as he was pretty good at navigating through any kind of light thanks to his heritage of miraculous eye powers. He could even use them to split an animal into two separate beings. But at least a little bit of light rain wasn’t going to cause too much, other than make the ship look dirty due to how dirty the rain could be.

It did puzzle Nao, as he was pretty sure the sky was pretty clear despite some darkness. Maybe the rain would slow him down to rescuing people, but he knew that it wouldn’t stop him at all. He would just have to keep on moving forward with the plan, and he would keep on trying to use the ship as a rescue ship. If anything, it would look like Nao was beginning to retreat from the scene.

Though Ana did call out to him over some kind of comms. He didn’t realise that she even had communication devices, but at least Nao’s Prism Lenses had all sorts of cool gadgets. A HUD, multiple apps, and even video games that you use your eyes and augmented reality. But he would just listen to her talk about getting George out of here. Indeed he would keep the ship away from that giant creature, but they had to rescue people one-way or another. Maybe it would be best for him to rescue the mages at Lamia Scale first. Seeing as they could potentially help out he would begin to move over there.

”George we’re going to go over to Lamia Scale and begin resucing people near there. We’ll go a long way around and use this chance to grab other people along the way. We’ll use… Your grabbers! We’ll grab as many people as we can. Though if you see any sharks trying to get on your grabbers just shake them off, or flatten them against the buildings.” The AI took a moment to process it.

“Question,” the ship stated. “Grabbers are primarily for support situations not for offence.” Nao would try and think of a logical fallacy to get around the ships questioning.

”Saving people is the support situation. We’re just putting the sharks down hard before going to save more people okay?” To which the ship would give its compliance before heading over towards Lamia Scale.

Nao would keep piloting the ship, and watching the waters from the deck, as he would then order the ship to go lower, and begin picking people up with its massive grabbers. The grabbers would essentially fish (hah) people out of the water, and feed them into the cargo bay. There they would be safe from the dangers in the water. Each person saved was less space he could have for Lamia Scale mages but he didn’t mind too much.

The ship would keep flying a little slowly, looking for people to save despite the harsh rain. A little bit of rain wasn’t going to stop Nao from saving lots of people with George. And George was completely under Nao’s control… Whatever mad and almost deliberately dangerous plans he had. He had figured that a lot of people had gotten into the Lamia Scale building, but that wasn’t going to save anyone if they didn’t win.

Meanwhile Ana was riding on Charlie 1, Charlie 2 was out searching for people to rescue. A shark-dog creature was chasing a couple that was being washed down. The griffon would have to think quickly to fight off the beast, before realising that it could do spells. This was a great idea to at least stop the shark-dog.

Charlie 2 would fly in, and use Griffon Gale on the shark-dog to create a sharknadog. If it would be affected by the tornado, then Charlie would use the time to get the couple onto its back, but if not then it would just grab the two with its claws and fly away from the scene. Hopefully it would return to the flying transport ship and put the two down into the cargo bay. That would at least be two saved out of the… thousands that could potentially live in this town…

WC: 738
HP: 100%
MP: 100%
Status: I'm helping! ... I think.
Spells: Beast Clone: 2/4 posts duration
Griffon Gale: 1/3 posts cooldown

She had managed to survive being overwhelmed by that sheer magic power from the godlike entity that had appeared, even if it had threatened to rip her mind apart and make her forgot who she was. Her refined magic sensory had backfired, and nearly killed her. However fighting it off and regaining her sense of self hadn't been easy, and even now the mere presence of that monster was making things harder for her. She had reformed her personal defences, but the magic presence of that thing was still there, covering the land for miles like an ocean. It even felt like she was swimming through a sea, a malicious sea that would drown her given the chance. She could make her way through, and keep herself from succumbing again, but it took effort, and if it lasted for too long she might even run out of energy. And if that happened, she would once again be overwhelmed, and this time she wouldn't be able to fight it off again...

Akeya blinked when it began to rain, although it wasn't really the rain that drew her attention. What was more important was that with the rain came something that she could use. Darkness. The day had been bright up until now, but with the arrival of that sea titan, combined with this sudden rain, the day was now overcast. Which meant that as a Shadow Dragon Slayer she suddenly had access to nearly unlimited amounts of shadows to eat. The half dragon wasn't sure who had caused it to suddenly rain, or if it was just coincidence, but she was glad nonetheless. She had been fearing that fighting off that humongous magical presence would slowly drain all her energy. However if she was surrounded by the shadows of the clouds above it was another matter entirely. Suddenly a lot more confident and less worried the half dragon opened her mouth slightly, inhaling and in the process drawing in some of the shadows. Like this she began to mix the darkness created by the rain clouds with the air that she breathed, constantly replenishing her energy and feeling herself return to her normal strength. Akeya despised the idea of being lucky, since it meant that you weren't capable of dealing with an issue by your own strength, but in this case she would just accept the fact that she was saved and be glad. Afterwards she could start training to be better at resisting such a powerful magic presence.

However even now the titan's presence was still causing trouble. Akeya had nearly been erased mentally, and after that had to rely on breathing in the shadows to keep her energy from slowly decreasing, but now there was another issue, one that she was pretty sure wouldn't go away until that monster up there finally was defeated or left the area: the ocean of magic was still there, and it was hindering her ability to sense anything else of a magical nature. She could still vaguely sense things, especially the stronger sources (although compared to the magic power of that thing that was threatening Hargeon Town, even the strongest of the mages here felt like insects), but it was difficult. She would have to assume that she couldn't use her magic sensory properly here and rely on her other senses instead.

Luckily she could at least still recognize a magic presence if it was familiar to her. All those mages she didn't really know where mostly lost in the magic power of that monster, but Akeya redirected her flight when she noticed the magic presence she might know best out of all. Akryn was somewhere down there, which meant she could regroup together with him and figure out what they should do next. She could also sense Zack, but he should be fine on his own. Well, she wasn't sure whether anybody was safe as long as the godlike entity was there, but he had better chances of surviving on his own than Akryn. And it's not like she could save Zack from anything that could corner him. Akeya might be proud of her skills, but she had to acknowledge that Zack was still vastly superior to her, if only because he had so much more magic power at his disposal (Akeya had some difficulties with the concept of somebody being more skilled than herself. More raw strength, sure, but more skill?). Akryn on the other hand was a good fighter, but Akeya could still help him out, especially since she could do the more sneaky and roundabout stuff that he wasn't as good at, since he focused on being a strong fighter.

Approaching Akryn's location Akeya noticed that he was dealing with two of those landsharks. One of them was dragging a woman away by holding her hands in between its powerful jaws. The other was attempting to drag Akryn away as well, having bitten down on the arm Akryn most likely had thrown at it. Close nearby she could see that ridiculously heavy sword of his. It had made a pretty big hole in the wall of a nearby building. Not too surprising. If you could throw that thing hard enough to have it fly for more than a couple of feet it had already enough momentum that your average wall would most likely be torn through like paper. Akryn was in his djinn form, which meant that the shark shouldn't be too much of a problem. Better to take the other one out, since that one was dragging away a civilian. Granted, Akeya didn't really care about that woman's life, but one of the downsides of being a legal mage was that her lack of caring wasn't allowed to keep her from saving innocents.

Swooping down low until she was only a couple of yards above the rooftops Akeya focused on the landshark dragging the woman. Better to keep a distance for now. Raising one scaled hand she pointed at the strange creature with a clawed finger, then made a couple of swift motions, ending with her pointing at the landshark's shadow instead.

As the landshark tried to run away with its prize it would suddenly have to deal with the fact that its own shadow was attacking it. More specifically, two dozen small but very dense black orbs were launched from its own shadow, all moving as fast as crossbow bolts as they made a very determined attempt to drill a hole in its underbelly. Akeya had made them all focus on the same spot (the middle of the body, below the head.), seeing how she didn't know how tough these creatures were. With some luck she had guessed right about where the landshark's heart was located, in which case her Shadow Dragon's Scales should be able to pierce its scales and drill a hole right through the landshark, destroying the heart in the process.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Yuzuki's senses were spinning, and every inch of her body had been taken over by this almost feral sense of fear. The gaping jaws of the shark loomed before her, and with a powerful flap of the wings that weren't completely there,  the semi-fey was high above the ground, with only a scratch across her leg from the shark whose teeth had grazed it. Once in the air, she knew with a sinking feeling that the momentum her wings had briefly given her wouldn't last for much longer, and soon she'd go tumbling back down to those hungry walking shark-creatures down there. Yuzuki may have many years of fighting experience, but magic-wise, she was doomed.

With a somersault sort of twirl, Yuzuki managed to avert her landing onto a bit of roof thas was still intact, and quickly dabbed up some salt water into her wound. It wasn't really the best solution, but it should keep away bacteria for now. Clenching her teeth as the burn of the salt coursed through the small wound, Yuzuki let her vision zoom in on the two sharks below. How would she deal with them? Now that she was out of harm's way for now, her mind had slowed down enough for her to analyze the situation. Obviously, her weak magic wouldn't do much against these sharks, so she's have to rely on strategy and dirty tricks. Just the way she liked it.

Now that the fear was gone, a slow, mischievous grin crept across the semi-fey's face, and her eyes began to roam around their bodies, looking for possible weak points. The creature's seemed to mainly consist of impenetrable scales that Katsuki couldn't pierce, but there was usually always one part on any organism's body that was sensitive to wounding: the eyes. Surely those couldn't be covered in powerful armor too? The gills were possibilities as well, if she could get her spear underneath them, she may be able to cause some damage. She knew that she would need something to strengthen her attacks just in case, so she held out an arm, and slowly, silvery threads of moonlight crept out from under her sleeve. The strands wove themselves in an intricate pattern around Katsuki and herself, then tightened around her, and disappeared. Claws of Moonfire had been activated.

Somersaulting off the roof, wings spread to cushion her fall, Yuzuki brought Katsuki around in nunchuck form to slash a circle around her, which she hoped would fend the sharks away for a second or two. Then, her powerful senses directed her to grasp the very end of Katsuki, causing the chains and rods to shoot into a spear form, and butt the back end towards one sharks eye, silver strands of light shooting behind but all the way. After that, she would flash the spear blade up towards the other shark's gills, using her senses to calculate exactly where they would be. She should have been able to dig the tip underneath the gills unless the shark was fast enough to dodge.

Stats and Stuff:

By Now Apollo had assigned people to help direct people out of the city through the main street as he provided over watch and directed people as well. He could hear magic going off in the distance...fighting had begun and this would decide the fate of Hargeon. He looked at his gun and then looked up sadly. He then spun the cylinder of his gun "Promotion to knight" he said to himself as the rush of magical energy flowed through his body. He had to get the people out of the city but they were all still gathering and while the great majority of people were heading there they were still coming which wasn't good since he couldn't protect them all. For now all he could do was protect anyone he could and he knew the large mass of people leaving the city would attract the sharks so he had to get ready to fight. As the rain poured he wasn't sure what to do, he was a defensive mage he isn't a fighter like his comrades though he knew a fight was coming his way and he would have to be ready after all that is why he was a wizard of Fairy Tail after all. He was a wizard to help people so that is what he was going to do.

Apollo was scared if he had to be honest about it. So much was happening around him...so much chaos...so many lives being lost all in the span of minutes. When he looked around hearing the screams of men women and children it mortified him beyond belief and scared him. He didn't think he would ever be thrusted into this and he wasn't even in the thick of the fighting he was simply getting citizens out of the city. He then looked down at the people all helping each other and could tell how scared they were....the feeling of hopelessness was there and doubt as well. He had to stay strong for there sakes, he and the other wizards here had to be the morale beacon that they needed in this hour of need.

Apollo then focused on the task at hand again, He started helping people eventuate the city calmly showing his presence so they would be calmer. Though as he was helping he heard a scream within the crowd. He quickly looked up then at the people. "Move faster we can take a rest when we are at the city's edge!" He then started to run towards the scream. Did the sharks already catch up to him and the group he was leading..how were they so organized in this assault and how did they get here in the first place. He didn't know what was going on but he did know that if he didn't act now he would have more issues on his hand then if he didn't. As he got to the scene he saw a mother running from the sharks with her daughter...they were getting closer to them by the second and he knew they wouldn't make it if he didn't intervene.

As the sharks got close to them he started to run towards them trying to meet them and get closer but then the daughter tripped and fell to her feet and the mother dived on top of her to try to protect her, As the shark-men dived at them there mouths open Apollo knew they were both doomed at that point if he didn't act then. "Mirror wall!" he would call out as a twenty four foot wall appeared behind them. As they clashed into the wall a split second passed as then the shock wave from there attacks was sent back at them as they were shot back growling in pain. Then Apollo fired two rounds from Checkmate into them. They were taken down and the couple was saved. Apollo quickly ran to them checking if they were ok then looked pointing to the main street, "Get to the main street and evacuate and help others evacuate." He said pointing. without a word she nodded and ran to the streets with out another word. Apollo sighed that was to close of a call for him and he knew more close calls like that were going to happen the night was only beginning after all.

Apollo then took to the sky's by running on his shield. He saw the evacuation going more smoothly and people were guiding each other. Apollo nodded running back to the group so he could be on stand by if anyone was attacked or if more of the sharks caught up to them, He was an ace of Fairy Tail he wasn't able to do much but he could save lives and that was enough for him. "Everyone keep moving we will be in a safe zone soon enough please be strong till then help each other so we can see tomorrow!" he would call. He wasn't good at speeches but he wanted the people to rally to the cause of the evacuation. Apollo saw the people he assigned to guide people assigning other people to help and staying behind to direct people who were leaving and spreading his message around. Apollo nodded knowing he could focus on the security of the evacuation as he saw more people coming his work was just starting and he was more ready then ever.

Spell Info & Evacuation Status:

Akryn was more than a little stunned that, not only had his attacks missed, but then the damn thing would jump and flip over him! Akryn watched as the damn thing ran off with its friend, their tails wagging like dogs. They didn't make it far though before something rather....peculiar would begin happening. The shadows of one of the sharks would begin to revolt it seemed, attacking the beasty directly. Akryn smiled a bit as he recalled his giant sword to him, the massive thing leaping through the air back to his hand as if it had a will of its own. "Damn Akeya, late to the party as ever! But just as accurate as ever as well I see." Akryn said before extending his hand out towards the two sharks, his golden sword drawing itself from its sheathe to hover in the air, before he would flick his hand into the air, sending the blade soaring high into the sky. Once there Akryn would snap his fingers, causing the blade to splinter off into three hundred kunai, hovering in the air and aiming down, before Akryn would then flick his hand downwards, sending the kunai showering down on the two sharks, covering a large area in golden, electrified rain. "Glory Fall. Yeah, that's what I think I will call that move." he said, hoping he might have mssed the woman, but not counting on her survival anyway.

Akryn would begin walking to where thee two sharks had been, looking around for his team mate. "Looks like we got more going on then just some giant freak claiming to be god. Wanna go find the cause of these freaks and put em down?" he would ask her with a big smirk.

At this point however the entire game would change, as Kateri attacked. The barrage she unleashed struck the gargantuan in the chest and continued pounding, pouring on more and more damage, until the stream of rounds punched out the back of the beasts chest, leaving an absolutely gaping hole in its body from this one attack. Gargalrax seemed to freeze up, its tentacles freezing and loosening their grasp, allowing the armored nun and the civillains to escape its grasp. The spirit hawk would cut through several tentacles unstopped, and every attack would strike the beast for its maximum effect as the monster stood there, seemingly stunned by what had just happened. Blood poured from the wound, flooding the very sea with black, loose tentacles falling from the wound like loosened parasites.

The tentacles began withdrawing from the shore, all across the city pulling back into the water, as Gargalrax began falling backwards, toppling like the mightiest of oaks. The beasts fall could be seen all across the city, and for a time it would seem almost too quiet, too calm, as even the giants magical signature had ceased to exist. Another massive wave of water began rushing towards the city as the beast fell, its sheer size displacing millions, if not billions, of gallons of water in a monsterous wave. But that was it. All other attacks by the monster ended.

As his momentum was stopped Zack felt intense pain shoot through his body. Not because of the bubble itself. No, due to the rapid loss of acceleration. Going from probably over 100mph to 0mph in an instant was quite painful even for someone was powerful as Zack. His arm stopped in mid throw and he paused looking at the bubble. Once more his initial attack had been stopped. He was honestly quite surprised that the bubble had been enough to stop him. He flicked the surface curiously. It was quite dense. The water pressure was also pretty high. Quite an impressive spell. He was about to break free from it when suddenly a huge barrage hit the creature blasting a hole through its chest. It began to topple and as it did tons of water was displaced. A tidal wave was coming toward Hargeon. Zack did not hesitate and rapidly span slicing the bubble in half before diving down towards the shore. The tidal wave was huge. He doubted any mage would of been able to conjur such a wave by themselves. The question was whether all of them together would be enough to stop it. Otherwise this wave might engulf Hargeon and much of the surrounding area.

He took a deep breath and activated his full takeover. His form was now over 8ft tall and heavily armored. He rasied his arms above his head and energy began to coalesce and focus forming a huge 150ft sphere of pure magical energy. He rose up into the air wielding the sphere and hurled it at the wave. When it hit it would explode with a 150m explosion. With luck it would blast away the water and at least make a gap which could save some of the area. He wouldn't be able to save it all solo though. No mage would be able to do that.

Magic:

Both Charlies would arrive at the same time with their passengers on tow. That would mean the ship now had about eight passengers on board not including the griffins and the current pilot. That was eight more saved instead of becoming shark bait for the oceans. But there work was never going to be done, and they were going to quickly move to the guild headquarters to make sure there were survivors there. And if they met any competition then he would just have to drop the one. But that would only be in the most dire of straits.

Nao would walk from the deck to the cargo bay to greet the new passengers that had been kept in there. He would arrive with blankets for all of them, along with life jackets just in case. He wasn’t sure how the ship was going to fair in all this weather, and just in case they didn’t fair so well then he wanted to make sure they were saved.

It was obvious they all seemed distressed, distraught and disappointed that their saviour was this one mage on a ship that looked as safe as being on top of any of the buildings in Hargeon town. But he would try and assure them that they would be safe.

”Look I’m going to tell you now that we’re safe on this airship. We’re going to keep picking people up while we make our way to the Lamia Scale guild. At that point we’ll make our way further inland to a safer location. There is food and water on the ship as well as toilets and safe places to rest. I know you’ve all had a terrifying time but-“

Nao paused. Something seemed odd that all the screams outside stopped. He would use this time to send his griffins out to grab some people from below, while the graspers would continue to try and grab people it could. The AI was good enough to keep itself alive during all this time, but it just needed some human control to keep it on task.

The Ocular Mage would run to the end of the cargo bay and look out to see that the giant creature had began to topple over. The sea was blackened by its blood pouring into the ocean from all the wounds it had. The world had gone quiet for all those few seconds, before its form fell into the ocean and forced the sea towards the town once more.

Meanwhile the two Charlies would work together in saving groups of people being chased by these shark-dog hybrids. This time the main Charlie would use his air cutter attack to cut the limbs and tail of the shark. A cruel fate to leave the shark thing in, but it was necessary to save another four people.

By the time the two griffins had returned with the people; the grasper had saved another 4. This was just before the giant waves would wash over the whole town. But at least he had a vantage point to see what he could see.

Looking around this area he could see Ana in one of her chaser suits. He would remember that information to potentially copy the spell. In the sky he noticed a man with a… shield of some sort? At the beach he spotted someone he had only met once at an event with the Infinity Hydra gala. Though the event seemed to have slipped his mind for the most of it, he recognised the short and young faced boy. Near him seemed to be some other people and they were just talking constantly despite you know… there being an invasion on this town? Why were they just talking?!

He would keep spying on the people, before trying to contact Ana. He wasn’t sure if she had radio in her suit but he would try his best with his prism lenses.

”Ana so far we have 16 passengers saved on the ship. I’m currently heading over towards Lamia Scale to see if there are any mages that are straggling behind in the rescue mission. How are you holding up?” Despite what anyone was thinking, the amount of mages out here in the town was quite extraordinary. He was recognising a few from all the times he had been to other events but this was the first time he was able to see them in action.


WC: 741
HP: 100%
MP: 100%
Status: Still trying to save people.
Spells: Beast Clone: 3/4 posts duration
Griffon Gale: 2/3 posts cooldown
Air cutter: 1/3 posts cooldown