A little while before Asahu and Mitsuki arrived there, Natsu and Yami were in big trouble since they were in a place full of beasts as they began whispering to themselves.
"Yami, what should we do? Everywhere is filled with beasts and it feels like they noticed us"
"Huh, is that even a question? We fight of course, there is no place for us to run so the only thing we can do is fight"
"But I can't fight all this beast without my weapons, I know you think I'm strong but we need to be able to kill this things quickly if we want to survive"
"You have a point but we don't have any weap..." Yami said as he then remembered when Damian gave him something to give Natsu.
"Wait, we do have weapons!" Yami said after recalling Mister Damian opening up a chest full of weapons as Natsu became confused, "What are you talking about?"
"Mr Damian gave me this, I forgot about it but here you go. He said I should give it to you, sorry I forgot" Yami said as he handed Natsu the new upgraded rope and two blades.
"Did he really..."
"Yeah he did, although he said we have to pass the exams since he's taking a lot of risk by helping us"
Natsu smiled as he said, "I'll thank him later myself. Thanks to him, we can kill all this beasts and pass this exam" as he then gave Yami one of the blades and said, "You'll need something to kill them so take. But can you buy me a little time to program this rope, it wouldn't take long"
Yami was shocked but after a while he said, "Sure, you can count on that" as he took the blade and thought, "I guess it's not yet time to use my weapon"
As Yami was about to head out, Natsu began reprogramming the rope which made it to glow as all the beast became aware of their exact location, since light was radiating only from there.
They were different kinds of beast heading towards them. They saw some tigers, gorillas, bears, armadillos, leopards, serpents, foxes, Rino's, birds, bulls, and so on.
"Shit, we're doomed, I didn't know his rope was going to glow, but it's still in our favor. Thanks to the light, I'm able to see them a little, plus, we won't have to go find any of them, they would all come towards us" Yami thought as he spined the blade and dashed towards them to fight.
Yami used his powers and jumped over them as he ran on the ceiling and launched himself towards a bird stabbing its head.
He immediately jumped off and began cutting some beast which made the beasts scream in pains.
Yami tried holding them back but as the was fighting, one of the gorilla's punched him, making him crash land as he slid and stood up.
Yami then realized that he put himself in a bad position since he was surrounded, as some still continued moving, heading toward Natsu.
"Things didn't go exactly as planned, I thought they would all focus on me, but I guess I was wrong. What now, how am I going to protect Natsu while fighting this beast?" Yami thought as he moved around, dodging there attacks while trying to cause damage to them.
Yami tried heading towards Natsu but the beast made it impossible for him, since they focused on killing him.
As Yami was fighting, the place suddenly became dark as he thought, "I guess he's done, but there's a problem, how're we going to see them? I can only sense their magic but it's still hard to fight since some can conceal it"
While Yami was thinking, a tiger moved in and almost killed him which made him jump back as he became really cautious of his environment.
Natsu was finally done enchanting his rope so he tied it on his waist making it to connect to his body.
Natsu could hear the beast coming but he couldn't see them which made him wonder what was going on and what he should do.
Since Natsu was confused he made the rope take him to the ceiling as he shouted Yami's name.
"What does he think he's doing shouting my name like that? Wait does he have a plan" Yami thought as all the beasts stopped to know what was happening.
Yami ran and jumped on top a tiger, it tried shacking him of but Yami held it firmly and shouted, "What the hell Natsu, what do you think you're doing?"
"I can't see and it's hard to fight them in the dark!"
"What do you want me to do?"
"I don't know! I thought you would know any magic word to activate the lights or something"
"You must be kidding me, how the hell do you expect me to know that?"
"I don't know, you guys are the one who knows how to use magic equipments! I've tried different things like lights, light up, and so on but nothing worked"
"Huhhh!!! Okay fine, let's try... Illuminate" Yami said as a bright seal appeared which made the place to brighten up a little.
"It worked! Yami you're a genius!" Natsu said as Yami was in shock and thought, "Wow, I can't believe that worked, guess luck was on my side"
Yami saw a fox heading towards him so he jumped away and smiled.
"Now that I can see them, even though they hide their energy, I would still be able to fight them" Yami thought in excitement as he began hearing screams from his back.
Yami saw the way Natsu was fighting as he flew around and cut the beasts in different parts of their bodies.
Yami became shocked with the way he fought as Natsu then spoke in a sad tone, "Damnit, I'm now missing the first blades, at least those ones would cut through them in an instant. 'Sigh' This is gonna take a while"
"Wow, Natsu is really cool, I guess I have to up my games" Yami thought as they both began killing the beasts.
With lots of slashes, punches, screams and so on, Natsu and Yami had a bloody fight with the beast to the point they were fully soaked with blood.
"I'm starting to get a hang of this Yami" Natsu said as he cut a leopard in the face and then controlled the rope as he moved around it making its blood to spill out.
"Yeah, they aren't that hard to beat once you know where to hit" Yami said as he punched a gorilla at its stomach, making it to fly and crash into a wall as its body fell.
Yami noticed a bird coming towards him and turned really fast as he swinged the knife with a lot of force which made the bird's blood to splash as it crashed into the ground.
A cheater headed towards Yami but he wasn't able to react in time, luckily Natsu cut it's body in time which made it to die as its body to crash land on the ground and slide towards Yami.
"Thanks!" Yami said as Natsu replied with a smile, "It's nothing!"
Yami then saw an armadillo heading towards Natsu so he moved really fast and stabbed it, which made it to open up as it split into two and died.
Natsu thought Yami was about to attack him and shifted as he then realized what happened and thanked him.
"Come on Natsu, I'm sure you would do the same for me, let's leave the pleasantries and finish this off quickly"
"Yeah, you have a point" Natsu said as they both began fighting while moving forward as they killed all the beast that other contestants were meant to fight.
Most of the contestants were happy as a seal only appeared without any beast coming out but this began troubling them since it felt like they were going the wrong way.
"Hey guys, I know we didn't see any beast when we entered here but doesn't it bother you that we might be going the wrong way" Chiyo said as Koda and Laila looked confused.
"I mean, we're normally meant to fight beasts when we enter into the boss room but nothing showed up except from that seal, doesn't it consign the both of you" Chiyo continued as Laila replied, "Well you have a point but let's not think about it. If we were really meant to fight the beast, isn't the other door meant to stay closed until we defeated the boss"
"That's true, but..." Chiyo said as Laila replied, "But nothing. Don't stress over it, besides, we don't have the man power to fight those things. The both of you are already exhausted and my magic energy is really low. It's better we stay safe, now that we've been giving that option"
Koda and Chiyo understood what she was saying, so they continued moving while still trying to stay safe.
Asahu on the other hand was unhappy with Mitsuki decision. Since all the contestants were trying to safe their strength and time, they all decided to continue moving, although they all entered at different times which helped Natsu as the seals light up the place for them.
"Come on Mitsuki, let's go into that thing and fight" Asahu said in frustration.
"I've told you a million times, no. The door opened which means, it's not necessary to fight or go into that"
"But..."
"But nothing, if you want to go you can go, but I'm going to focus on passing this exam with the time we have."
Asahu was really frustrated but decided to follow her since he knew there would be consequences if he didn't.
After a while, Natsu and Yami where done with the beast as they both breathed heavily.
"We've finally defeated all the beast in here"Yami said as Natsu replied, "Yeah but that took a lot of time, we barely have an hour remaining to finish our exams"
"Yeah and something tells me we entered the wrong hidden passage"
"Why do you say that?"
"I mean, look at the amount of beast we fought, doesn't it feel like this was were all the beasts where"
"Well you have a point, the light seals appeared at random, so it's possible that those were the contestants activating the traps to summon it"
"Yeah, plus knowing the examiners, I'm sure they'll create a room where someone would fight really powerful beasts"
"You have a point, that might explain the strange markings on few of them and the difference in powers"
"Yeah, the ones with strange makings were really hard to beat, plus the power difference between the rest were pretty high"
"That's true but that doesn't really matter, we defeated them at least. Right now our main focus should be finding another secret passage that would get us to the finish point before time runs out" Natsu said as they were walking down the place.
They both began finding a hidden door, after a while of search, they finally found one on the wall as they opened it and went in.