S-Class Trials 3

With Erza

Erza was seen beaten from the bruises and tears in her clothes. Makarov seemed less damaged than the girl.

"Why do you fight, Erza," asked Makarov, as he walked towards the downed mage.

"What do you mean by why master," she asked confused.

"What is the reason you want to be powerful, to be S-class. What do you achieve by becoming one?" asked Makarov and he lifted the downed girl.

"I want to protect my guildmates, master. You know where I came from. I don't want anything like that to happen to any one of them. I want to protect them with my life if it comes to that" she said with determination and tears falling from her left eye.

"I see. Then, I can't let you...fail. You passed, my dear. Congratulations" he said and Erza hugged the poor old man against her armour and squeezed the life out of him. They felt high magic levels from the cave beside him.

"What a pressure" whispered Erza at the level of power and strength in the magic. They felt like 2 monsters duking out their lifelong battle.

"I think Gildarts is taking his fight with Naruto seriously," said Makarov.

"Master, is I may, do they have any connection before Naruto joined the Guild," asked the redhead curiously.

"Yes. Apparently, the young blonde had fought our Ace 2 years ago and managed to push him to 35% before he lost consciousness" he said and Erza gasped. Someone pushing Gildarts to 35% and at the age of 13 was unheard of.

"It is true, and Gildarts promised to fight him at full strength if Naruto became strong enough on that day. The blonde vowed to defeat Gildarts in battle. I think both of them took this as their perfect opportunity to duke it out" he said with a smile. No matter the result, he can't hold back the blonde boy from becoming S-class. He saw how he operates in person and knew his goals from his secret S-class unofficial mission. He smiled and walked to the camp area to watch the 2 of them fight.

With Naruto

Both of them continued their impromptu duel, with their bodies covered in their respective magics.

"Well, Naruto, I think it is time to kick it up a notch," said Gildarts and the close nodded. Both their magics flared and the cave started to crumble as it couldn't take the monstrous magic for long.

They are increasing their magical output again. A shake went through the cave and instead of a thin layer of magic, Gildarts was surrounded by a thick layer of white magic. Naruto's Light changed into another state.

"Light Armour" called out the blonde and they continued to fight with their bodies as blurs and clashed forming shockwaves around the cave which started to cave in. All the pieces of rock which touched either of them with either be crushed or evaporated.

A sword formed in Naruto's hand made of light and staff formed in Gildarts hand. They started to fight with their respective weapons. All the viewers has their eyes widened in shock. The magic levels are insane and they steadily increased as the fight continued forward.

Gildarts output reached 70% and Naruto's Light armour couldn't stand the power anymore and started to crack. Gildarts gave a smile at Naruto.

"Seems like it's durability is at it's peak, Naruto. 70%" he said and Naruto gave him a toothy smile. Gildarts saw an orange colour magic form in Naruto's hand and widened his eyes. He can still remember his sore muscles after he got hit by that attack last time and if he deduced correctly, it was made of wind. But this time he can feel it.

This thing is made of the brats light magic. 'What is he thinking using a technique like that in a cave, that will cause a cave in' thought the orange-haired man and prepared himself for impact.

Naruto smirked at seeing the determined and realised looks on Gildarts face. "You deduced it, huh. Well, get ready" is the only response the blonde gave.

"Light Style: Rasenshuriken" he bellowed and threw the orange spinning ball into Gildarts direction. He wanted to name it something other than Rasenshuriken, but the sound of Rasenshuriken ringed better to him than Hikarishuriken or Lightsphere. So he settled with it for all his attacks developed from Rasengan.

The silent ball of destruction reached Gildarts in no time. Gildarts made a hasty barrier to run back and braced himself from impact and it came. The small compressed ball expanded in a bright show of light and started to shatter everything it touched into millions of pieces and evaporate it. Its light was unbearable that the Ace of Fairy Tail has to close his eyes to protect his vision.

At the last moment of its expansion, he jumped 20 meters back and hid behind a large rock. The resulting explosion shook the cave and tore it apart. Now in the scattered remains of what was once a cave stood the 2 opponents.

"Damn. That attack could destroy an entire village if more magic is used" said Gildarts. A clapping sound was heard and ge turned to see Naruto clapping with a smile on his face.

"Well, you have managed to escape it alive, Old Man," said the blonde boy, mockingly. And so they continued their fight for some time. Gildarts managed to get a few blows on the blonde while Naruto hit Gildarts a few times. It came to a standstill again.

"It looks like our fight going nowhere," said Gildarts.

"I think you are forgetting something, Gildarts," said Naruto and Gildarts widened his eyes as Ethereal orangish-red flames surrounded Naruto.

"Susanoo"

"Shit," he said as he was blasted away because of the pressure released from the ethereal construct. Instead of just skeletal structure he remembered last time, it had some veins like things going through it, forming a muscle like structure on the warrior. It has 2 hands instead of just 1 and both of them had swords made up of similar reddish-orange flames. Gildarts stood there in awe for a second, before coming back to senses.

"Ok, kid. You have grown strong" he admitted and increased his power to 75% as he knew 70% is not going to cut it. The fight continued.

Gildarts tried to punch the kid and his warrior, but the defences are stronger than he remembered. It didn't damage him though. Naruto used his swords to create slashes orangish white energy slashes, sending them in the way of the man which he promptly dodged.

With Others

As all the remaining participants were seen lounging around the camp area and watching the fight in interest. The fight between Gildarts and Naruto was more interesting than they ever thought it would be. The new blonde had proved himself worthy of being in this Sacred Land with them.

Soon, the tables turned and Gildats was on the defensive. The people seeing the fight were flabbergasted. Makarov, Erza, Mira, who just reached the camp sight with some help from Cana and Macao and Wakaba had their mouths open at the display of power and the blonde boy pushing Gildarts like this.

They didn't expect what happened next. A Reddish-orange ethereal warrior came out of nowhere and started attacking Gildarts. The man seemed to have prior knowledge of this though. It didn't help things for Gildarts.

"Oh my God" gasped Erza.

"That won't do this battle justice," said Macao.

"Ya. What kind of monsters did you allow to our Guild, Master?" asked Wakaba. Mystogan, who made it and settled in a hidden spot wherever he it is hiding, was looking at the blonde curiously. Mira was the most shocked among all of them. She pushed Naruto around as if she can beat him in a fight. Seeing this made her realise something. 'He didn't even reply to me when I am rough with him' she thought.

During all her taunting and goading, the blonde boy didn't reply to anything. He just continued his conversation or walked off to do his job. She felt this urge to apologise to him as soon as possible. 'All this time, he can beat me and yet he didn't' is the only question running through the white-haired girls mind.

Makarov was looking at the fight with interest. 'It is a good thing Laxus left after he defeated Macao. I don't think he can take this well' thought the Old master. His Grandson left saying he had something important to do after his match than fooling around with a group of idiots.

'If they continue like this, it might cause problems' he thought evaluating the damage this one fight could cause to the wildlife around. This is the second task and Erza had passed already. If Gildarts passes Naruto, then there will be 2 new S-class mages for Fairy Tail this year.

Naruto will become the youngest Fairy Tail mage as he is younger than Erza to participate in these trails. And if he passed, he will be the youngest S-class mage in history. According to his file, the blonde was born on October, X765. While the redhead was born in June of the same year. 'Well, it seems I have no choice' he thought, agreeing that both mages had impressed him enough to get the Title S-class. The only thing left is for Gildarts to officially acknowledge Naruto as such.