The Clipper squawked as Juvia rammed it with her watery shoulder and sent it rolling across the street. Juvia stood upon the hood of the car and called into the startled family. "Get out of here! Juvia will handle this!"
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The rain woman looked up with gritted teeth as three more Clippers hissed in her direction, leaping into the air and sweeping down into the street towards her. Juvia leapt off the car and spun around in the air, generating a current of water that blasted all three of them upwards and away, cawing in disgust at their soaking feathers. Two more were snapping at each two people cowering behind a bench on the pavement, but Juvia held up her hands and cried, "WATER LOCK!" forming a sphere of water around them which reduced them to frenziedly beating their wings and spewing bubbles in an attempt to escape.
A loud screech caused Juvia to whirl around in time to see another Clipper descend on her with beak agape but she merely stood there and let the giant bird bite down on her head. The beak passed straight through it, splashing a fair amount of water across the pavement and causing screams from onlookers as it seemed like Juvia's head had been bitten in half… but then stunned silence ensued as Juvia's water body reformed itself until it looked as though she'd never been struck at all.
"Drip, drip, drop," Juvia smiled, uttering a phrase she had not used for quite a long time before she suddenly spotted what looked like a large ford across the road ahead of her. The Water Mage smiled as she dashed towards it and raised her hands up into the air. The ford rose up with them, geysering into the air and several jets peeling away to blast at the squawking, angry birds and push them back anytime any within Juvia's sight made to dive towards the street.
A couple of streets away, Lisanna was having to fight a little more hand to claw. As she ran along, she initially relied solely on her Take Over's effect on the birds, taking control of their bodies and making them cease their attack and fly off, but she quickly came upon a knot of them that she knew she couldn't control at once. And several of these birds had managed to back a group of cows up against a wall. A brave bull had stepped up to defend the females and was swinging his horns at the attackers, but with so many coming from all sides and scratching at him, he was quickly being overwhelmed.
Lisanna glared - no matter what she couldn't watch innocent animals suffer. Leaping over the top of a car she morphed her arms into wings and whooshed down the street, ignoring the cries of shock from the onlookers before she switched again into her giant purple rabbit form in mid-air, colliding with several of the and sending them flying away with a full body slam to fall in feathered heaps in the street. Two more swerved out of the way and converged on her, only for her to kick backwards with her big bunny feet and bullseye them both in the chest, sending them flopping to the ground with the wind knocked out of them.
Quickly reverting back to human form she used her magic to calm the nervous bull and send him and the cows on their way, running for cover. But screams alerted her to more Clippers dive-bombing three men who looked like they'd been drinking but were now heavily sober, lying in the middle of the street with their arms over their faces, trying to defend themselves from slashing beaks and claws. Lisanna ran to help, noticing a couple of horses nearby and taking control of them. The horses immediately charged the birds and leapt over the stunned men, smashing the birds aside and rearing up on their hind legs to beat at the startled birds.
Lisanna dashed over and commanded the birds to fly away, before helping the men to their feet and crying, "Get on the horses and get out of here! Go now!" The men didn't need telling twice and the suddenly calm horses allowed them on before galloping off down the road. But Lisanna's attention was taken again by another piercing scream and she saw one Clipper had managed to grab a young girl, possibly around Wendy's age, and haul her into the air. Lisanna shifted into her Cat form and dashed over on all fours, scooting up the trunk of a tree to land on the back of the Clipper, scrambling over to slash at its shoulders with her claws.
The Clipper screeched and dropped the girl, and Lisanna vaulted off its back the moment it did to seize the girl in her arms in mid-air and land smoothly on her feet, tail poised. She hurried over to the nearest door and ushered the girl through it quickly before she could get nabbed again.
And a short distance away, Gray was in the thick of things, crouched behind a shield of Ice that he'd made as he helped an elderly man with a slightly bloodied leg to his feet and allowed him to hobble over to the door of a house, which Gray kicked in - not caring who the house belonged to - and helped the man inside. "Stay here," he said as the man slumped down the wall, before placing his hands on his leg and applying a thin layer of frost to it. "Sorry that's cold but it'll help to staunch the bleeding," he promised before he ran back out the door again in time to see two women running with handbags over their heads as four Clippers swarmed behind them tearing at the bags.
"ICE MAKE: LANCE!" Gray cried and fired off a volley of long icy spears from his hands that sliced through the air right between the women and the Clippers, forcing the birds to pull up with angry screeches. Gray thundered over, dodging a lamppost and roaring, "ICE MAKE: PRISON!" Instantly a large cage formed around the four birds and dropped to the floor, taking them down with it and trapping them inside, screeching as they attempted to savage the icy bars without success, allowing Gray to leave them to it.
"HELP! HEEELP!" a voice drew his attention up into the air and he blanched when he saw a man clinging to the steeple of a church while a Clipper tried to pull him away by his coat. How he'd got up there but Gray acted quickly and bellowed, "ICE MAKE: CATAPULT!" Instantly a solid ice catapult was formed in the street with himself standing in the sling and a moment later it fired, flinging him upwards through the air towards the top of the church. Forming ice around his fist he punched the bird with it and knocked it for a loop, seizing the man in about the same moment and pulling him free of the steeple. The two of them fell until Gray created an icy slide for them that extended across the street instead of ending abruptly once it reached the ground, allowing them to slip right to the doors of a convenience store, which the man promptly ran into.
"No need for thanks," Gray muttered before he turned around to see another three Clippers flying around what appeared to be a children's playground. Several kids were screaming as they crouched under the climbing apparatus as the Clippers tried to get at them while distressed mothers tried to run to the rescue only to be driven back by more birds diving out of the sky. Gray hurried to assist and leapt over the fence into the playground, yelling, "ICE MAKE: KNUCKLE!" and generating several fists of ice out of the ground which pounded into the birds and knocked them up and away.
"Get out of here, kids!" Gray yelled, and the children quickly obeyed, running to their mothers, except for one little boy that remained rooted to the spot in fear. Gray cursed as he saw more birds coming in for another pass so he ran forward and seized the child in his arms, running with him towards the others, when suddenly a Clipper swept out of nowhere and made a lunge for them both. Gray immediately twisted his body to put it between the bird and the child, yelling as the bird's talons ripped long gouges in his back. But he whirled around with gritted teeth and pummelled the bird aside with a blast of ice before running on anyway and delivering the boy into the arms of his crying mother.
"Thank you! Thank you!" the mother cried, holding the child close, but staring at Gray as if he was some alien life-form, which was quite understandable considering what she'd just seen Gray do. "Who… who are you?"
Gray grunted as he formed a layer of ice over his back to cover his wound before grinning and pounding the mark on his chest.
"We're Fairy Tail."
But the sounds of more birds screeching, plumes of water shooting out over the rooftops nearby and mewling yowls that were probably Lisanna all reminded Gray that the fight was not over yet. So he leapt over the fence again and back into the fray.
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