[EVENT] Fairy Festival Battle Broadcast/Judge Booth [Judges/Commentator Only]

Little Arcadia:

After announcing each of the upcoming battles, Arcadia raced  down the street for the judges booth. She had dropped all magic around her, no longer needing it for her part in the Festival. The perfectly visible  and currently littlest of slayers rushed up the stairs into the booth two or three at a time. She had time, but she still had a little last minute preparation to do.

Arcadia smiled and waved to  three judges probably already waiting for her. She waved to  friends and family,”Hey, big sister! Master Sorano!”, and bowed to Samira, “Good meet you, Ms. Samira! I'll just be a minute.”

The littlest slayer was glad to find the pillows she hard arranged to brought to the booth were waiting for her. She stacked the two cushioned on her chair, and slipped her iLac from its pocket her dress. She tapped her iLac to the broadcast lacrima, syncing it with an app she opened.  It would allow her to remotely control the broadcast stream being sent from the various camera lacrima around town to the viewing lacrima set up in the booth and along  the streets of Magnolia. Jumbo viewing lacrima were available at the various arenas for the judges to illustrate any judgment through replay if it became necessary.

Once her iLac was synced with the broadcast lacrima stream, she climbed up to her elevated seat on her pillows.. They made it so  she could see over  the the desk the microphone lacrima were set on.  She waved over to the wizard saints settled next to her, ”Uh..if I could get you all to say something into your mic lacrimas, one at  time. I need to test and set the levels, and then we'll be good to go.”

When the levels were set, Arcadia tapped through her iLac, starting up the stream to broadcast out over the lacrima-net.  The pale blonde slayer  held up  one opened hand, and slowly and silently counted down from five with her fingers. When only her forefinger was held up, she swing it in an arc, and tapped the button her app to bring everything live. ”Welcome to the Fairy Festival Fairy Ring! As announced by yours truly, Arcadia Fairchilde, just after the parade, we'll be having four exciting battles featuring four Fairy Tail mages facing off four volunteer mages.”

Arcadia tapped the controls on her iLac screen to set the viewing screens to a four-way split screen of each of  the contestants faces in the sky created by the lingering fireworks. ”Once again matches we will be featuring are Rina Everglades vs. Mia Liu, Althea Eventide vs. Kumi, Aven Alverson vs. Leona Jarnefeldt and Mura Kensho vs. Johann von Weiss. I gotta apologize to Johann “Mahdude” von Weiss for getting his name wrong earlier down on the parade stand. It is not Van Weiss.”

She brought up various pictures of toys of all the battle participants, ”You may have seen the faces of our super awesome contestants on toys and souvenirs at various sponders' booths and vandors around the Festival. Be sure to pick up your favorite so you can root for them in style! A late addition to our collection is one more Aven figure! Seen here.”

Aven Figurine:

Arcadia tapped the screens to  along the streets were each assigned a different arena. In the broadcast/judges booth, a bank of viewing boxes  were unaffected by the the broad cast stream. They provided raw feed for the judges to watch each match.  She continued, ”Joining me today is our All-Saint Judges's Panel!  Saint of Humilty -  Samira Nassar! Saint of Tranquility – Sorano Granon! And  Saint of Purity – Nessa Cordelia Lux! They'll be offering the insights as well as making any judgments should any rules violations come up or clarifications be necessary. And in case both contestants are still standing at the end of a match's time limit they will confer and decide the winner!”

The little slayer flipped through the various matches as the action began to pick up in each one. ”In Arena Atlantis, it looks like things are well underway. I've personally seen both Aven and Leona in action on separate occasions. They're both amazing and powerful wizards. They appear quite evenly matched, a real tactical showdown so far. Though I think Leona may have her hands full if Aven manages many more of those Seeker's Crcles. And Aven could likewise find his carefully laid plans  thwarted now that Leona has brought some of her big guns.”

Arcadia switched her focus,, setting up a slow motion replay ”Are you serious?! Did you folks see that light show out at Arena Avalon!? Let's that again! Johann  nearly turning the whole arena crispy with against vortex of black flame! And Mura with one big slice of Nope!, putting out the flames! Would you expect any less from the Battle of the Saints! True one of them is a God of Ishar, but Battle of the Saint and God is not as catchy!”

Her faerie green gaze shifted focus on the screens again, ”And in Arena Lemuria, it looks likes we're off to a blistering start. Thea is not wasting any time, and already getting up close and personal! And the mysterious Kumi! Did she just teleport or is she really just that fast?! Let's see in replay.” Arcadia tapped her iLac, putting the blurred dash in ultra slow repeat. ”Look at that, even ins slow-mo replay, you can't really tell!”

Shifting her gaze to one more time, ”And it looks like we're just under way in Arena Mu! This should be one tense match u. Flame Demon Slayer vs Heavenly God Slayer! This Battle of Fairies should  some real fun to watch unfold!

Having summed up the action so far best as she could, Arcadia smiled and glanced over to  Sorano, Nessa and Samira, “What do you all think? What can we look forward to in the battles today?  Anything that stands out to you so far? Feel free to use the power of the replay to illustrate your points.”

It certainly was to be a strange day for Samira, or that was what she thought originally once it had started. Being selected as a judge for competitive wizard duels was not something she ever considered happening to her. She wasn't exactly competitive and not really one to partake in duels of her own. Perhaps that was the reasoning, or maybe there was a mistake in the paperwork and the Fairy Tail guild was just rolling with it since it was too late to call the real judge. Whichever the case, Samira made sure to be at the judge's booth area before the fights began. She had taken her seat, as had her fellow Saints and judges. Sorano she had technically met. Sort of. Did a mysterious party where they didn't really interact really count as meeting? Not that Samira really wanted to acknowledge anything about that event ever happened. So, that was a no as far as she was concerned. As for Nessa, even though she may had been the newest Saint, her name and image was well known from her status of Rising Star. Samira was a Wizard Saint currently, true, but never was she a Rising Star. It had become an interest and habit of hers to keep up to date with all of the newest names that appeared on that list because of that fact.

Samira had greeted the small child with a friendly smile, one that quickly faded into a confused expression and a few blinks when it seemed apparent that she was not just some random child but the announcer and commentator. Or, that was what the summoner had concluded by the set up activities the little girl was doing. "Oh..." Well that was a thing. Her attention went back to the other two Saints. Nessa had introduced herself and greeted her, which Samira nodded and put on that same small smile she had a moment ago. "Nice to meet you, Nessa. I am Samira." Sorano seemed to be the quiet type given that she didn't really say much to the others that greeted her. Well, that was awkward. Was she always like that? Rather than a vocal greeting Samira just stuck with giving a nod her way to acknowledge her presence... and that was all. The fear and awkwardness of being ignored was not something that she wanted to experience at that particular moment. Honestly she was a bit uncomfortable around them all just as much as others seemed to be uncomfortable around her. Granted, she could fix the issue of her magic presence and the way it made people feel if they would just tell her about it! The woman genuinely thought that her magical signature was still the same as when she first became a mage. As for people fixing why she was uncomfortable that was just impossible. It was just a natural feeling that came with being around two other saints, being a judge for a dueling competition, having it live for all to see and hear, and being an obvious 'one of these things is not like the other' piece. She stood out, but not because of some higher power status people thought she had. More so because she was not a Fairy Tail mage, or even in another Independent guild like most of the dueling competitors.

There was very little room for small talk after the introductions. Before she could ask anything that would resemble her version of small talk, she and the other judges were instructed to give their mics a test run. Samira looked at the mic and gave it a tap. "This is a test." She then looked at the others doing their own mic tests to confirm that she even did it right. If there was one thing few knew about her, it was that she wasn't a genius at working such devices. It was a miracle she could make use of her iLac's basic functions. After that, the broadcast went into full swing with Arcadia starting it off like a pro. All Samira could do was sit back and remain quiet throughout it while trying to process everything that was going on, on the lacrima screens. Thankfully her mind was spirit free and she was allowed to concentrate properly with the silence. The unfortunate aspect of that was she couldn't grasp every quick detail like she would have if they were all helping her by relaying the information they noticed. Oh well. She would just have to make do with her own set of eyes.

Some of the duelers Samira recognized by their positions and status, others she did not. That didn't mean that they wouldn't be skilled or put on a decent fight though, and as the battles started and went on that proved to be very true. It eventually came time that Samira had to stop fully watching the fights and actually make comments like she was supposed to be doing. Right. Super important judge comments away! Her gaze settled on one of the arenas, Lemuria was its name from what she had heard of before. The contestants there being a mage with fox-like qualities that resembled many Samira had met in the past. The other being former Rising Star Althea Eventide. Thus far it looked as if the latter was not afraid of getting up close and personal to get an attack advantage in, and the former liked her distance. An interesting combination, but that didn't mean Kumi lacked any close quarter spells of her own or that Althea didn't have some long distance spells hidden away if she couldn't get close up again. "I believe the two in the Lemuria arena are just getting warmed up. Their battle may look basic now, but if this Kumi is like all the other mages of her kind then I fully expect her to have some interesting tricks to make a proper comeback for that first strike made against her. I anticipate in seeing how this fight develops, and how Althea manages."

Next up for her focus was Arena Mu. One of Fairy Tail's Aces was competing there as was another Fairy Tail member. Huh, that was interesting all on its own. Not because they were both slayers but because they were both Fairy Tail members. Samira had thought based on the other match ups that it was supposed to be Fairy Tail versus a member of another guild. Was this Rina Everglades so powerful and spectacular that the only one that would take her on was the one called Mia Liu? Was she just as amazing? Was there some sort of rivalry? Was there some hidden backstory drama that could only be settled if those two fought in a duel to determine who was the strongest? What was the story behind this?! Eh, really Samira was probably just overthinking it and so chose to not bring it up. Just in case there were other reasons for it that were much less interesting.

Samira noticed Rina with the spear and waiting for her opponent to make the first move. Mia had summoned a sort of fire-based pony, likely a creature that would aid in her power if Samira had to guess by the fact it remained there instead of attacking on its own after having been summoned like her own would have. A fire beam attack was sent towards the Heavenly slayer where it made impact, thus the first hit credit was placed on Mia's corner. That would not end there though. Rina took the fight a few notches forward in difficulty. Clones had been conjured and from that would come the strategy of confusion as more spells and abilities were used. "It would seem Rina is already raising the difficulty of the match. I wonder if Mia has a tactic that will help her overcome it. She is going to need to think quickly if she has hope for any chance of winning."

The fight of the Saints came next. There... wasn't much to say about that really. It was a battle between two Saints! What were people expecting other than a good show of impressive power and counters?! Honestly. Samira recalled Nessa's comment about insurance and thought it was pretty amusing. A battle between Saints usually required a bit more than insurance. Wasn't there some joke somewhere that a battle between two Saints could cause a cataclysm? Well, a good thing that was either not true, or the two were not pushed to their absolute limits just yet. Actually, that was kind of concerning and brought a frown to the summoner's face. "I am not certain on the competitive levels of these two, however, thus far they are both proving their power behind their Saint status. There are times when competition can bring out even more power and determination. I only hope things do not get too out of hand should they get lost in their battle and forget the rest of us are even here." Things seemed a bit bad for Mura at that moment. Johann seemed to be as much as he started when it came to his energy and vitality, while it was apparent Mura was the opposite. Still, Samira did not count him out just yet. There may yet be some other abilities that had not been used just yet. Although, the same could be said for his opponent. An impressive battle that made her glad she never participated in such fights. Watching was more entertaining.

The last fight was between a Fairy Tail mage known as Aven Alveron and the most recent guild mistress of Silver Wolf, Leona Jarnefeldt. Samira had known the original founder of the magic research guild and so she had high expectations for Leona. She was sure Leona would be able to prove her power and represent the guild well. As for Aven, Samira did not recall the name, but seeing as all the other Fairy Tail competitors were skilled she did not doubt that he lacked any himself. It must have been why a guild master was his opponent. From what Samira could tell during her previous looks over the fight, skilled may had been an understatement. It was getting to the point Samira was worried that Leona wouldn't be able to make much of a comeback if she waited too long to pull out her own big moves. Then the battle took a turn she did not expect. Something went wrong with Aven's magic circles once Leona tried out a plan that she may have hoped would stop some of their power. Leona was in trouble if she didn't have a very good defensive plan, it was obvious. Yet, rather than be struck with the dangerous number of powerful missiles everything just stopped and dissipated before there was a magical backlash that sent Aven on his back and depleted what must have been a great amount of magical energy from him, if not nearly all of it. The winner at that point was obvious. One mage was still standing and the other could not continue.

Sorano had asked for additional opinions on the event that happened with the match. "Indeed. The battle took a strange turn I did not foresee. Unless Leona had a spell capable of protecting her against those attacks then I believe the match would have gone to Aven. From how the circles reacted and then vanished he either stopped them himself or he ran out of magic energy to control them. I am not familiar with his type of magic to be sure. However, this is not a competition that allows for what ifs or for theories. We have one mage still capable of fighting and one that cannot and has even surrendered the fight. The match is over in my opinion, and we have a clear winner. That is not to say Aven did not do impressively well by my standards. I foresee him being a tough opponent for any Wizard Saint one day, but first comes learning from this experience and mastering his magic so that whatever transpired here today does not repeat itself."

Edit: 3-20-20
WC: 2031
1500 for C Rank Freeform
500 for D Rank Freeform

Watching Aven's  magic circles go haywire and come so close to possibly smoking Leona before her very eyes, it was all she could do to not cry out. As commentator she was going her best  to not let any bias shine through. After fight alongside the Silver Wolf Guildmaster back on Celestial Sanctum against those so-called 'Terrors of Eternal Night'. So part of her wanted Leona to do well, and yet she couldn't bring herself to cheer against her own teammate. She had her fingers crossed for a draw or a really close fight that Aven won by decision.

She felt great relief when all those missiles disappeared just before impact. yet she had to keep herself from yelling out again watching Aven fall over. Ever so briefly, she wanted to rush out there herself to make sure he was alright. She had a job to do though, and  besides having people on hand to look after that sort of thing, Leona was already helping him up. Her heart still pounding at that finish, she sat listened to the judges each add their on take. Her sparkling faerie green gaze keeping an active eye on the screens to keep track of the action in the other arenas.

When it seemed the judges had each finished with their thoughts, she started in again. "Woah! Woah! Woah!  My heart is still pounding from what we saw out there in Arena Atlantis! So close to real tragedy narrowly averted by the Gentleman of Fairy Tail, Aven. And it does a heart good to see such fierce competitors come together like that after an all-out  match. Samira, you  are calling it in favor of Leona. Are we going to make that official? Because it does look like we do have our first winner. Guildmaster of Silver Wolf! LEEEEEEEOOOONNNAAAA!!!"

"The action goes on in all the other arenas and it looks like things are heating up in Arena Mu! All those Rinas and I havta agree what a beautiful display their magic ma- Ooh HOhOho!" Arcadia putting the putting an overhead glimpse of Rina and her clones creating the petals shooting toward Mia followed by the rings of fire racing out to meet them on slow motion replay. "I was not trying to make a pun before, but look at that! Mia really is warming things up there now! The Battle of Fairies still looks pretty even!"

Flipping the stream next to the action in Arena Lemuria, "Things are moving right along in Lemuria! A real back and forth exchange. It looks like Kumi and Thea are getting feel for each other's style. Hits that were landing when they started are coming up short. OH my a wave out of nowhere! It doesn't look like Kumi will be able to dodge that! Aaaand she gives right back to Thea! Or Ooh! Looks like Thea could only pick which blast of spirit energy to take. But it looks like there a little rain in the forecast folks!"

Arcadia taps her iLac one more time to switch the stream to Arena Avalon, "And as could be expected of a Battle of Saints, a furious spectacle continues in Arena Avalon! It's any wonder the protective spells shielding the spectators can withstand that much punishment! It looks like Johann "Mahdude" von Weiss has a slight advantage, but don't count Mura Kensho out! Just look at these highlights so far."

She picked out a few key highlight's to show the high powered back and forth. "It seems every time Mura  would look to claim the advantage, the God of Strength bounces right back, looking as if he was just starting the fight... Are! You! Serious!   Ohh! Just when you thought Mura almost out of juice and maybe done for the next time 'Mahdude' stru- Mura hits "Mahdude" hard in the soul! I'd say Mura almost, ALMOST turned the tables for good! But one thing is for certain about 'Mahdude' Almost is not good enough... Aand did 'Mahdude' just heal his opponent and himself? I see the Saints want to give the people the show they paid for!"

Arcadia flipped back a split screen of the three remaining battles and checked the time on her iLac, "How are we looking at for time, Judge Saints?"

As time was called in each remaining match, Arcadia  would tap a couple controls on the iLac app she had synced up with the whole viewing/camera lacrima system. A separate horn would sound in each arena. The matches had not been started with exact simultaneous precision, so each match's time was a few seconds to maybe a minute off one another. She let each of the judges get their last words, of any, in on each match before she would begin to wrap up the broadcast.

Arcadia chimed in, "That's all folks! Time has been called all matches, and winners declared! We'll recap, but first let's all hear it for all of today's competitors! Win or lose every one of them gave us all the thrills and drama we could have dared hope for!” She called up at least two highlights from each of the fights, all played in slow motion, slowly dissolving from highlight to the next with stock orchestral music to play up the awesome displayed.  ”So lets all give one last rousing ovation! And remember you can still buy merch of the winners and all your favorites at a vendor booth near you!”

On all the screens, Arcadia called up a title card that shone sparkling animation of the Fairy Tail logo against gradient background of blue. And one at a time, the four portraits of each battle winner was called up to fill a quadrant of the screen as she recapped each already announced winner. ”In Arena Atlantis, in perhaps the match with the most heart pounding ending of all, once again the winner is, LEONA JARNEFELDT! In Arena Avalon, our Battle of Saints proved to be one high-powered, miracle-that-the-arena-is-still-standing draw! Co-winners, JOHANN “MAHDUDE” VON WEISS AND MURA KENSHO! In Arena Lemuria, in a real back and forth battle our winner was able to turn the tide! Our winner is ALTHEA EVENTIDE! In Arena Mu, in a beautiful but deadly ballet our winner is MIA LIU!”

Tapping the screen of her iLac app, she called up  a graphic screen that read 'CONGRATULATIONS!” in fancy font rendered in metallic gold, then all the screens went back to the simple screen of the Fairy Tail logo.  ”Congratulations to all our winners! And all our participants! Don't forget to stick around! Our Fairy Festival concludes with the beautiful cherry blossom viewing! Come see the awesome spectacle by yourself or make it extra special and see it with a friend or that special someone! All drinks are half off at the Fairy Tail guild hall through the end of the festival! This is Arcadia Fairchilde signing off. Love, Luck and Lollipops!”