Haruto watched as Mirajane encased herself in magic and soon her appearance changed. Her eyes became darker and her eyelashes grew larger with a dark, thin marking in a light zigzag-style crossing her right eye vertically; similar markings are present above her right breast and on both of her bare thighs. Her hair became wilder, jutting upwards and curlier, her ears enlarging, extending backwards, and gaining pointed edges. Her lips were covered in dark lipstick and her teeth became sharper. Her forearms and hands changed as well, becoming covered in scales and each sprouting a fin-like protrusion on its outer side. She also grew a large, stocky tail seemingly made of metal plates or scales and getting smaller and smaller near its end. Her attire changed along with her physical appearance, her usual skimpy gothic attire replaced with another skimpy one-piece suit. The suit revealed her arms and legs and the front was open and as well as the back, the suit exposed most of her belly and wide cleavage. The lighter colored edges had spikes along with the necktie around her neck. Her shoulders were tied in thin belts protruding from her one-piece suit, and her feet are covered in matched, high-heeled thigh-high boots, which were decorated by lighter motifs on their upper parts, taking on the shapes of jagged blades jutting downwards on the front of her legs, and on the lower parts, in correspondence to ankles and feet. And finally a pair of gauntlets were donned when she transformed into this new form.
Mirajane smirked, showing off her sharp teeth as she flexed a bit and got ready for the upcoming fight. Haruto had a smile on his face as well, it wasn't like her arrogant smile no, it was one out of pure joy. He had been waiting for a dance and now here was his opportunity. Haruto got into a loose stance as he held his Gunbai in his left hand and beckoned her forward with his right hand. Mirajane sped forward as she flew towards the redhead, her clawed hands brought into a fist. Haruto had already had his eyes locked on her, smirking at her movements, Haruto brought his Gunbai in front of him and allowed her to attack. Mirajane's fist connected with his war fan and her eyes widened in shock as she did not do any damage to the fan that seemed to be made of wood and paper. Haruto smiled as he swung the fan and sent Mirajane backwards.
Mirajane growled in annoyance as she quickly recovered and took to the skies, she looked down to see a still smiling Haruto. "Evil Explosion!" Bringing her hands together, and formed a sphere of black magic and shot it towards the blond. Haruto noted that her voice seemed more demonic, and waited for the sphere of magic to come. He knew it was condensed so the explosion was very powerful, but he had faith in his weapon. The sphere shot towards him, as it got in range, he brought his Gunbai in front of him once more as the sphere was in reach. "Uchiha Reflection!" The sphere made contact with his fan and it was sent away as a large pillar of black magic was released when the sphere blew up. Haruto looked at the girl and was impressed by her strength and shot forward into the sky. Mirajane shook herself out of her shock when she saw Haruto speeding towards her.
Forming one hand sign, he used his favorite technique. "Fire Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame!" Haruto announced as he took in a breath and blew out a massive fireball that spread into a wide range. The massive wave of fire shot towards Mirajane as she too was shocked by the massive wave of fire heading towards her. She had never seen such mastery of fire magic that the user could spew out such flames before in her life. Seeing no water in sight, she needed to avoid the flames, quickly flying high into the air, she noticed the flames were still heading towards her. "Soul Extinction!" Mirajane shouted as she gathered energy from the surrounding area between her hands, which the energy took on the form of a massive globe of black magic. The globe fired a massive ray of black energy and shot into the flames. The beam of energy penetrated the fire and headed towards the airborne Haruto who looked at it in slight surprise before bringing his Gunbai before him once more. The blast pushed him downwards as he fell and once his body and the earth made contact, dust kicked in.
Mirajane avoided the flames and levitated in the air looking at the dust wondering about the results. Haruto who was in the dust, merely chuckled and stood up from his crouched position and gave a swing of his fan and a gust of wind blew out and spread the dust out and he was now visible to Mirajane once more. Mirajane gave the redhead a frustrated look as she prepared herself once more for the fight ahead. The redhead was toying with her, all he was doing was playing defensive with that annoying fan of his and he was hardly trying with his counter attacks.
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Makarov was observing the fights with the viewing lacrima, he was focused on the match between the redhead and 'The Demon'. Haruto showed promise, when he had defeated Laxus, but he knew his grandson was holding back, but so was Haruto. Though he did not know the full extent of the redhead strength, he could easily say that he would be one of the most powerful mages Fairy Tail would produce. The redhead's reserves were astounding for one of his age, not even he had that much magic when he was sixteen. Not only that, he was also well adept in the art of Hand to Hand combat and also a very powerful fire mage from what he had observed from one of his attacks.
Makarov decided the fight was over, Mira was strong yes, but she could not hope to match Haruto with her strength at that level. Haruto outclassed her, knowing the result of the fight, the elderly Master began walking out of the rest area and heading to the area where he had announced the fight. He would be needed.