Racer glared at the man across from him, Laxus Dreyar stood there with a confident smirk on his face. "So you're Racer huh? And here I thought you'd be intimidating, not a racecar reject."

Racer pulled out his dagger and rushed at the lightning mage who just vanished just before he hit leaving behind his jacket. "I heard you were as fast as lightning but seems that was just exaggeration." Laxus said from the other side of clearing. Racer snarled first the ice mage stopped him then this man outpaces him. That was it regardless of the consequences he was dying.

"Accel world level 3!" Racer shouted before his regular magical circle turn red. Racer dashed off at three times his previous speed. "How's this for fast as lightning?" he asked slashing wildly at Laxus who was admittedly having trouble keeping up.

"Watch it!" Laxus growled when the Speedster managed to cut. "Lightning Dragon's Iron Fist!" He punched the mage in the stomach with enough force to knock him through several trees.

"Accel world level 8!" Racer cried out bursting out from under the pile of trees, this time actual sparks dancing around his body. Dashing at laxus he started to lay into him landing cut after cut mostly minor injuries that could be ignored but they were slowly building up.

"Lightning Dragon's Roar!" Hitting Racer's right arm it came out of the spell a mangled mess not something that heal easily. "Lightning Dragon's Hammer!" Laxus brought his arm down on the mage slamming him into the dirt. "Pathetic." Laxus muttered turning around to leave. He came here because he heard Fairy Tail was around and there were a couple of dark guilds in the area knowing his former guild luck he knew there was a one hundred percent chance of them getting involved, plus he got a gift for Harry's birthday and wanted to give to them in hopes they would give it to him. Figures they would run into one of the leading guilds of the Balam Alliance.

"Don't you walk away from me!" Racer growled crawling out the hole Laxus he put him in. "I'm the fastest man in the world."

"Well second fastest, but not bad." Laxus said reminding of how he had just outpaced the mage.

Racer just let out a roar of rage. "Accel world level 50!" the magic circle he used turned black and for a moment nothing seemed to happen before Laxus found himself hit with the force of train.

"Not so fast now are you?" Racer asked his voice becoming distorted by his own magic as he appeared in front of Laxus. He vanished once again before slashing Laxus across the chest six different times in an instant. "How does it feel to slower than me?"

"You got lucky." Laxus grunted his chest bleeding as he got into a fighting stance. "Care to try your luck again?"

Racer did not say a word he just dashed forward. But Laxus leaned back at the last second and it soon became a dance as Racer attack and Laxus dodged more often than though Racer would land a hit. Finally Laxus made a mistake and Racer stabbed him in the stomach. "Gotcha!" Racer cried in victory.

But Laxus just smirked, grabbing Racer's arm and holding on to it. "No I got you!" He held up his other arm and lightning started to take form. Seeing the lightning take shape Racer tried to escape succeeding just as as Laxus finished the spell. "Heavenly Halberd of the Lightning Dragon!" Racer ran as fast as he could away but he only managed to make it a few dozen feet before he collapsed to the ground coughing blood his spell finally taking it's toll. As the lightning came down on him he closed his eyes and recited his prayer. "To be the fastest" and for a moment he was.

Laxus collapsed to the ground and slowly crawled his way over to his jacket which he left on the ground tearing it up he turned it onto a makeshift set of bandages. "Damn I really like that jacket too. He layed on his back and looked up to the night sky. Suddenly the night was ignited by a giant pillar of light. Laxus decided to stay away from that he was arrogant not suicidal. "But if I were a betting man…" He sighed, "That probably where Natsu and the others are. Dead center of all the crazy shit." he pulled himself to his feet, "I better go help." he started to trudge to the giant pillar of light, all the way mentally complaining about how he was better off as a moral less asshole.

"Iron Dragon's Iron Club!" Gajeel fist shot out like a rocket Hoteye only having moment to dodge. As soon as Gajeel had showed up the tables had turned against him almost immediately, Jura no longer had to worry about defending and attacking instead he all he had to do was counter any magic Hoteye tried to use and let Gajeel do the attacking. "Come on I thought you were supposed to be a big bad member of the Oracion Seis where is all that power you guys were always bragging about?"

"I am a member of the Oracion seis and you will-" he was cut off by a blast of light slamming down on him. When the light cleared Jura could sense the change in his magic it was as if it had been inverted. That the small seed of light that still existed in him had been switched with the sea of darkness that had control of his soul.

"What the hell just happened?" Gajeel asked staring at him any half-wit could sense the change in magic from him.

"I honestly have no Idea." Jura admitted just as confused as him.

"I'll tell you what happened," Hoteye said his voice much more light hearted than before. "I have felt the power of Love! Oh YEAH!" both of them stared at him for a moment not sure of how to react.

"I.. have no idea how to react to this." Jura admitted, he considered this was an act and while he would remain on guard, if it was an act he may as well take advantage of it to find their base. "But if you have truly changed, " Jura said turning his attention to Hoteye. "Then take us to your base."

"Of course maybe I can show my former allies the power of love!"

Gajeel just rolled his eyes annoyed that his fight was cut short and followed the overly cheerful mage. "Like him better when he was evil." Gajeel muttered at least then he could have hit him. Jura chuckled having overheard the dragon slayers grumblings.

Cobra woke up on his back and his everything hurting he tried to get up only to collapse back onto his back. Man that kid really did a number on him using his own magic against him, he'll admit he did not see that one coming. He looked to his left and saw the jacket of his opponent. "Hey kid you awake?"

"Don't call me kid I have a name." Harry answered in too much pain to move and hit Cobra like he wanted.

"Yeah yeah." Cobra said dismissively. "Anyway were you telling the truth before about not knowing how you can talk to snakes?"

"Why would I lie about that?" Harry asked before frowning. "And why do you care anyway?"

"I care because I want to be able to speak to snakes as well." he growled.

"Than yeah I don't know, I've always been able to speak to them. It sound normal to me it does not sound like a different language when I hear it."

"Dammit!" Cobra roared despite his pain. "My prayer was so close!"

"Prayer?"

Cobra let out a scoff of annoyance. "Yeah all of us have a prayer it is our greatest wish," Now that he had at least part of his prayer fulfilled he realized that Brain was just leading them on he did not care whether or not their wishes were fulfilled or completed so long as they were useful to him. As a matter of fact how was a magical weapon that turned light into dark supposed to help them fulfill their greatest wish. He guessed it was true what they said a desperate fool will buy anything. "I should have realized it was a sham, Brain just told us ever it took to keep us in line."

"Then help us." Harry told after a moment of thinking.

"And why should I do that?" Cobra asked just because he did not trust Brain did not mean he would abandon his fellow freed slaves they had been through too much together to just betray them like that.

"I can speak to snakes as long as you're near me you can understand your snake."

Cobra opened his mouth to respond only to close it, he was right his wish was right in front of him, could the others really blame for taking a chance to have his prayer fulfilled when they would do the same.

Wendy woke after only an hour of rest the blast of magical energy that was caused by Nirvana's awakening pushing her back into the waking world. "Carla." Wendy called out still sleepy. "What time is it?" she asked Yawning wondering when Granny Mei would come in and wake her up for her daily chores.

"Time for you to get up child!" Carla answered with worry in her voice she knew the side effects of overuse of her magic but she needed to get up and leave there was no telling when Brain would come back and she did not want to be around when he did.

"Carla whaz goin on?" Wendy yawned her words slurred by her drowsiness.

Carla sighed, "Don't you remember child the Oracion Seis! Nirvana! Jellal?" At the mention of Nirvana and Jellal, Wendy shot awake.

"What happened to Jellal?" She asked looking around hoping to see her childhood savior.

"Well guessing by the giant pillar of light in the sky," Carla said causing Wendy to notice how bright it was out despite it being almost midnight. She turned around and saw the giant pillar covered in magical circles that was Nirvana. "I think he must have found Nirvana."

Tears welled up in Wendy's eyes. "No he wouldn't!" She cried in denial. "Jellal would never help people like that, h-h-h-he attacked Brain and Racer remember!" she trying to point out how he refused to help them in the beginning.

"Child," Carla began in a stern voice before letting out a sigh and taking on a gentler tone. " Wendy, he killed the magic council and tried to bring back Zeref, he may have just not wanted to share the power with them." Seeing Wendy still crying she decided to try a different approach. "Whether or not Jellal was involved is irrelevant what I do know is that Nirvana is free and we have to help stop it." Suddenly the magical circles that appeared around Nirvana started to shatter and the ground started to shake. Though subtle at first it it quickly increased to the point where the cave they had just left collapsed in on itself.

Realizing that Nirvana was free did snap Wendy out of her depression for now at least. Soon the shaking got so bad Wendy had trouble keeping her footing and from the ground rose a massive structure that dwarfed anything Wendy had ever seen before it was even bigger than the town she grew up in and it was still growing. The rumbling got closer and closer till the ground tore itself apart and a giant pillar hurled them into the air wendy went flying for a few moments before Carla swooped in and caught her.

Carla just drifted in the air for a few moments taking in the enormous size of Nirvana she was hundreds of feet away from it and she could not even see half of it. This was Nirvana! It looked more like a city than a weapon. She was shaken out of her thoughts by Wendy calling her name. "What was that?"

Wendy pointed down to one of the mobile legs. "Look there's Harry, could you take me down to him." Carla sighed but obliged her partner's request.

"Harry are you okay?" Wendy asked as she ran up to him. Kneeling down next to him her hands glowed green with healing magic. She knew it wasn't the best idea to heal him while she was in this condition but they needed to stop Nirvana and he had a better chance than she did.

Harry sighed in relief as he felt the healing magic wash over him. But just as quickly as it came it vanished Wendy was low enough on power and if she pushed herself any further she would be out of commission for weeks. She used just enough energy to allow him to move about on his own hopefully, given how low she was on power, he could recover on his own. "Thanks Wendy." he said climbing to his feet. He turned around and faced Cobra, something that made Wendy nearly panic as she had not seen him before and he was a member of the Oracion Seis. "So what do you say will you help us?"

Cobra did not move his eyes still closed making impossible for Wendy to tell if he had heard him. Finally he opened his eyes with a sigh. "Yeah I'll help take down Brain." his tone then turn stone cold. "But only Brain! I won't help you with the others there not my problem." Harry frowned but supposed that was the best he was going to get.

"Deal." To his surprise Cobra got off his back and stood up looking fairly well considering not half an hour ago he looked like he had been through hell. "Wait could you done that at anytime?!" that made his victory so much less awesome also the whole could have killed him at any moment but mainly making his victory not as cool.

Cobra smirked, "Did you forget? I'm the Poison Dragon Slayer" Wendy's eyes widened at the mention of his being a dragon slayer but remained quiet despite her desire to ask about his dragon. "and I happen to have a giant magical very venomous snake for a partner." that explained it dragon slayers did heal by consuming their element it was much like battlefield medical treatment it worked but only for so long. Cobra started to walk forward jumping onto the back of Cubelios one was curled up a few feet away. "Let's go aren't you people supposed to be in a hurry?" he asked as Cubelios spread her wings and took flight. Carla sighed and summoned back her wings and picked Wendy up.

Harry tried to take to the air on his own but he was still too tired and would have fallen to the forest floor if it was not for Rai coming and catching him. "Gotcha buddy!" Harry sent a grateful smile over to his partner it had been years since he had needed Rai to help him fly, but they quickly fell back into the old habits.

On the legs of Nirvana Midnight laid down unconscious but as the midnight came closer and closer he woke and felt his powers increasing. He smirked he would show those fairies he was not to underestimated.