(Yukino POV) 

I looked at the armored man that stood before us and I knew this must have been the Leader of the Zodiac, Leo the Lion. 

"Hey Princess, I hope you don't mind us dropping in." he announced with a smile on his face, a claymore resting against his shoulder, its golden blade gleaming in the light of the meter shower that was created during his arrival. 

"I'm not going to complain," Lucy told them, then as the swirls on her skin started to shine with the starlight, she lifted a tube that held the Fleuve d'étoiles into the sky, Erza mirroring her with her sword, they pointed to battlefield signaling our turn to start the battle. 

Time Skip

It was here to tell how long had passed since the battle started, it could have just been thirty minutes but it felt like hours had passed. The addition of the celestial spirits really helped to balance out the enemy numbers, as the dragons had turned into their human forms to make themselves a smaller target for that scale piecing weapon that has yet to make an appearance. This meant that while the dragons were strong, they were easier to overwhelm as they couldn't just send the enemy flying with their human forms like they could with their large dragon bodies. The large ship that came with the celestial spirits was floating on the Eridanus, the river constellation that flowed through gate which to spirits had come from. While the celestial spirits did help even out the forces, Ivan Dreyar's army seemed to be infinite, which kind of made sense as Fairy Tail had no shortage of enemies amongst the dark guild community. 

For example, I was currently fighting a member of the Blue Skeleton guild, who if I remember was a guild that descended from the members of the Blue Skull Guild, which was a dark guild that was stationed in Magnolia before the creation of Fairy Tail. It had been forced to disband by the first Master and the other founding members of Fairy Tail, and its creation was similar to how Geoffrey, another member of Blue Skull, had created Phantom Lord. Needless to say, there was a lot of bad blood between the dark guild and Fairy Tail. The mage I was fighting had used some sort of size changing magic, because the sword he was using keep changing shape making it hard to dodge because if he would thrush with a thin blade but would change the width of the blade midway through and if you didn't move far enough away you would still be cut even if you had dodged before. I was so focused on trying not to let the mage hit me that when I heard someone attacking me from behind, I didn't have time to dodge them. The swordsman had just attacked, he made a mistake by thrusting forward too much when he made his attack that when I had dodged, I was able to knock him out cold with a kick to the face. I turned to face my other attacker to try and minimize the damage when I heard them scream in pain. I looked over to see a long sword, a shamshir if I am correct, protruding from his arm. In his arm was a dagger that was probably infused with poison magic or something similar. 

"That wasssn't very nice, you can't approach a woman when their back turned, there isss no telling what they will do to you," I heard a female voice, I looked over to the source and saw a woman with purple hair and a dark purple snake body. Her eyes were glowing a red glow that had dyed her own eyes the same color. She turned to look at me and then her eyes had started to dim revealing purple pupil-less eyes, then she smiled revealing long canines. I was then able to see the black patterning that was on her hair and on her tail, and this gave me an idea who she was. 

"Ophiuchus?" I asked and her smile only grew. 

"Correct, Yukino, now I feel the need to tell you to back away from that man, Rasalhague was from the mossst powerful ssstar in my constellation so it has very powerful venom in it and I don't want you to be hurt by it." At the word 'venom' I quickly headed over to the snake woman and watched as the man started to convulse in pain as the aforementioned venom started to burn his blood vessels and cause blood to turn the inside of his skin purple and then blood started to come from his eyes and mouth before he stopped moving and died. I had spent some time learning some medical procedures so that I could administer first aid and that was the best way to describe what had happened before me. I now understood what she meant by powerful venom, I had seen some pretty dangerous snake bites and even some dangerous spider bites in my time at Fairy Tail and I had never seen such a reaction from something that was produced by a living animal, I almost wish that I could have looked away from the purple mass of hemorrhaging that was created by the blade. Ophiuchus slithered over to the shamshir, Rasalhague, and pulled it from the corpse and with a strong slash in the air all of the blood on the blade had slid off. 

"If you are injured let me know, while I am a ssssnake, you find that the line between poisssonsss and medicine is very thin, so I am a great doctor if I need to be, there are also ssssome of the Ssssagitta that are medicssss assss well." She told me; she didn't really look at me when she said this. 

"Thank you, Ophiuchus," I told her, "You can look over my wounds but I have only received minor cuts." She turned to look at me, she wore a relieved smile on her face, and she gave my wounds a quick once over, as we were still in the middle of battle. She pulled bandages from her bag, they didn't look like ordinary bandages as they had a snake pattern on them, she pulled the end of the bandage which had a snake head.

"Go, Python," she said, and I watched as the snake head had come to life and quickly wrap itself around the worst of the wounds, before cutting itself from the rest of the bandage and tying itself. I looked at the bandage roll, and a new snake head had appeared where the other had ended, and the roll itself didn't look like it had been depleted. The snake bearer had then dug into the bag and pulled out what looked like medicine, 'Shouldn't she have placed that one before the bandages,' I thought as she then opened the container. "Strike, Dendroaspis," she said, missing the usual hiss in her voice, and just like with the bandages, the medicine came to life and took the form of a snake that then quickly slithered to the bandages and then it took its fangs and bit into the bandages soaking it in the medicine. Ophiuchus then packed up all of the medical equipment and then gave me the go ahead. 

"Thanks again," I told her.

"You are my massster, this is the leasssst I could do thank you for how well you have treated me sssso far, and it hassss been a while ssssince I have ussssed Barnard on ssssomething that wasn't a celessstial ssspirit, I usually have to leave it in the Celesstial Ssspirit Realm when I am called upon," she told me, then she went charging back into the battlefield, and I turned to do the same. 

(Horologium POV)

I was fighting off two mages using Hora and Minutus when I looked over and saw Plue, the dog, was running over to Lucy to defend her from someone trying to attack her from the back when the little pup started to erupt into a comet of light and I knew this was the moment the little pup was waiting for. I turned to face my next opponent, Plue didn't need my help for this. I was going getting ready to head over to my next opponent when a howl sounded from behind me, I turned around to see a giant poodle wolf mix. 

"That's not a poodle," I thought out loud, I was expecting a giant poodle, not this beast of a dog that honestly looked more wolf than poodle. 

"I really should have given up on any semblance of normality when Capricorn grew a tail and Crux stopped being a cross," I told myself, as I decided to accept this new reality for now and stow away my spiral thoughts for another time. 

"Congratulations on growing up to be a Canis Major, Plue," I shouted and after hearing a howl in reply, I pulled out my pocket watched and looked at my surroundings, 'Do the conditions match?' I thought, 'Yes' I took Minutus and marked two X's into the ground. I opened the pocket watch and checked the time, it was 9:16, I took the watch and threw it into the air and used Hora and Minutus to mirror the clock, and right as the watch was in the center, I activated the spell. "Tempus Null" I chanted and time froze. I let go of my two rapiers and they stayed frozen in place like a clock. I had 4 minutes and 5 seconds, a grand total of 365 seconds to do this, I had to pick out my targets. I can only directly affect twelve people max, so six to save, six to kill. I ran over to the ice mage who was shirtless, I saw an arrow pointed his way and I redirected the arrow to go back to it's the one who shot it, the ice mage was saved and the archer dies. 335 seconds left to go, five to save, five to kill. The beast soul user was going to be stabbed in the back, I moved him millimeters out of the way so that he could barely miss being stabbed. 275 seconds left, four to save, five to kill. I saw two dark mages about to stab me in the back from my marked position, I took out a small dagger, it was nothing special, it didn't even have a name. I sliced the throats of the two mages, and then removed their daggers and aimed them to the ground. 260 seconds left, four to save, three to kill. I looked to see that someone was aiming a missile like attack on the Argo Navis, I couldn't interfere, too many people would be affected, I would have to handle that after the spell. I looked over to see the small blue haired woman about to be stabbed. I looked at Gajeel who was near her, he didn't seem to be fighting anyone, I moved his head to be facing the short girl, and I moved the attacker back a bit, I will count Gajeel as one of the saved. 180 seconds left, two to save and 2 to kill, I was running out of time. I took two of the arrows that were flying in the sky and pointed them at two dark mages that were about to attack some of the Leo Minors. 80 seconds left, I ran over to my rapiers and stood behind the X's that I had marked. I grabbed the two rapiers and waited for time to run out and the changes to come into effect. 

3...2...1... Now! 

The arrow that was aimed at the ice mage, instead went into the throat of the archer who shot it. the beast soul user was able to narrowly escape being stabbed in the back, and while the attacker didn't die, they will defiantly have a major concussion from the return attack that the beast soul user gave him while screaming that the attacker, who was a woman, should have been and man and fought him head on. The two dark mages behind me fell to the ground, blood leaking from their throats. Gajeel had charged to the blue hair solid script mage, and used his claws to injure the attacker enough that they had to retreat. The two arrows that I had chosen flew through the air and while they didn't hit anything vital, they did stop the two from attacking the Leo Minors. 

I turned my attention to the attempt to attack the Argo Navis, I ran over to the mage and used Minutus, my longer blade, to stab the man in the neck. I then poured magic power into Hora, causing it to glow, then I used it to slice into magic circle, disrupting the spell. Hora doubles as a tool to write celestial runes so I was basically doing the equivalent of drawing a line through the hidden runes of the magic circle. 

The spell that I had used to seemingly freeze time, was a complex spell that had conditions that are needed to accomplish the spell and a certain stance needed to activate it. Unlike what many of the other constellations say I am not stopping time. I am giving myself a small window of time that will allow me to change current events. If I was stopping time then it wouldn't matter how long I had or even the number of people I saved so I didn't stop time. I merely made minor changes to the current events. 

I went over and used magic to call my pocket watch back into my hand, it will be a while before I can use it again. I readied to attack once again when a loud roar erupted through the battlefield. I turned around to see the source and I couldn't believe my eyes. 

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Yeah, I am going to leave it on a cliffhanger, you can thank me later. Don't worry I will have the next chapter out as soon as I can. 

Some more facts and trivia, don't worry this won't be nearly as long as the last one. 

Dendroaspis - It is the genus of snakes where the mamba come from, they are some of the fastest snakes in the world. Snakes from this family are usually green, with the exception of the black mamba which ranges from black, grey, and brown. 

I wanted all of Ophiuchus medical equipment to turn into and be named after something related to snakes as Ophiuchus is the Snake Bearer constellation and not the snake constellation. I kind of imagine in this story that image that like how Cancer still has his weapons but as decoration, Ophiuchus keep Barnard, her medical kit, so that she could quickly treat major wounds on her fellow celestial spirit, because one day in the Celestial Spirit Realm is three months in Earthland, and while the celestial spirits are immortal and heal fast, I don't think their natural healing abilities are fast enough to recover from a major wound in less than a day, so Ophiuchus can use the medicine in Barnard to supercharge a celestial spirit's natural healing abilities so that the celestial mage that they are contracted to don't have to wait three or more months for their celestial spirits, especially those that are used for combat, to be in top condition. 

Well now that I have said my piece, I can't wait to see you again next time. 

I don't own Fairy Tail

- DestinyFerrum