Almost a year since i posted, but only almost! i can't promise if it's going to become a faster update from now on but i have written two more chapter so that's something
Chapter 11: A new enemy awakens
"So if there isn't a pilot seat or control panel where we can stop this thing what are we going to do?" Happy asked raising his hand to get noticed by the others, natsu looked down at his friend holding his hands at his sides and said.
"Destroy it of course" as if it was already obvious. Lucy sighed "yeah leave it to us to demolish a city alright"
Gray looked over the city around them "How do you plan on breaking something this huge?" The walking city took a giant step breaking the trees beneath it's feet. Jura wondered if they could just ask brain to get the answer to their problem which carla said that they wouldn't get that easy of an answer from him.
"Maybe jellal would know…." Wendy mumbled to herself, but as she said that she remembered natsu's reaction on seeing jellal. She didn't want to be trouble to him even more than she'd already been. When lucy asked what she said she it was nothing and explained that she maybe been onto something and wanted to check it out. That way she could find jellal without natsu knowing.
"You know a way to stop this thing! Do you want hel…." Natsu exclaimed brightly but wendy cut him off and said she didn't need any a bit hasty and then ran down the tower. Natsu brought out his hand after her calling her name before she disappeared out of sight.
"What's with her?" he thought scratching the back of his head. A voice filled his head, he didn't know who the voice belonged to but listened to what he said. The voice belonging to someone called richard explained how to destroy the city.
"So, it moves using body link magic…" Gray said after hearing that the way to stop this thing from moving is to fight a guy named midnight. The voice continued to talk and told them where their enemy was located and that he was powerful.
"powerful, huh? I'm getting fired up! Let's go!" Natsu said brightly starting to run down the stairs of the tower with his comrades right behind him. While he ran down the stairs he remembered that wendy had gone down before them and he asked the others if wendy would have walked into this midnight when she walked away. Jura explained to him that midnight was located in the basement and wendy had probably not walked into him. For that Natsu felt revealed, he don't know her power of capability only that she can healing magic and she meating midnight could mean trouble. They reached the bottom of the stairs reaching a giant stone door with carvings on, he ran up to the door dragging them open. A bright light shone through the opening. "It's a trap" jura yelled close after that a explosion erupted from within the room. The doors threw away from their positions and natsu and the others blew backwards by the force. Silence followed after with small cracks and sounds of small stoned falling to the floor, natsu opened his eyes staring over the room before him.
"Is everyone alive?" he heard gray ask from his left with an answer from happy, a small aye.
"What happened, we were caught in that explosion and…" before lucy could finish her sentence she bumped her head in the ceiling?
"Were buried?" Natsu punched the ceiling till he broke through it. When he poke his head out in the open he saw jura standing before him with his back turned and arm stretched out breathing heavily and a wall of stone was created before him. He stared at him in shock feeling when gray,happy and lucy climbing out beside him.
"Jura!"
"Old man!"
"He protected us…"
The wall of stone disappeared revealing a giant hole, jura slightly turned his head towards them. "Stay well, young ones…i'm glad you're all safe" He said before collapsing to the floor.
Wendy and carla had just took off from the tower and were now flying over the city searching for jellal. A while after a bang was heard over the city, carla stopped flying and turned around and they saw the lower half of the tower explode. Wendy stared at it in shock
"was it a trap? Carla we need to go and help them what if they're hurt or worse…."
"There's nothing we can do" she answered and continued flying with a stern look on her face.
"I can heal them" wendy still kept on. Carla explained in a calm but threatening tone that she can't use her magic so carelessly all the time and that they're probably fine with jura being there, the fairy tail members seems pretty strong as well. Wendy glanced back with an uncertain look but agreed to what carla said, they need to save their guild by finding jellal. She just hoped natsu and the others were okay. She felt how they sank in height, carla felt tired and couldn't fly much longer and they decided to continue by foot.
"You have a good sense of smell after all" carla said letting wendy go softly on the ground before herself landing on the ground. Wendy looked on the ground
"but that jellal smells a little different than the one i know"
"Anyway, let's search for jellal he might be able to stop this thing" carla said standing up. They started moving forward again, running through the demolished city.
Gray, happy and lucy sat around juras unconscious body trying to get some response from him but in vain. They didn't know anything else to do but to hope he would survive. Natsu stood looking down at him clenching his fist in anger and gritting his teeth. A voice was heard around them, who spoke by breathing out his words in a heavy voice.
"What a joke" it breathed out "Brain used up all the rest of his power and could only get rid of one of you" They all stood looking over the surroundings searching for the owner of the voice.
"Who is it!?" gray yelled out. Happy spotted something over them and pointed where it were yelling for the other to look. Turning around towards where happy was pointing they saw green light coming from the eye sockets and mouth of a skull. It sunk to the ground in front of them.
"Perhaps i will clean up the rest of you fools" All of them stood in silence staring at it not saying anything until Happy cried out.
"The skull is talking"
"You talk too even though you're a cat" Lucy said back to him. The skull levitated upwards laughing like a maniac for no reason probably for something he said but they didn't listen. Gray realised something as he stared up at it yelling out that that's the staff brain had. It continued laughing so natsu grabbed it by the end of the staff and hit his head on the ground.
"Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey now" stopping it from laughing, he turned the skull around so it was facing him and told it to stop the city ending the sentence with calling it a rotten stick.
"What do you mean by rotten! Stick i'll accept, but what do you mean rotten!" It yelled back up to his face angry. "I am the seventh member of oracion seis, i have awakened to…" before he could end his sentence natsu took the end of the stick again and hit the head to the ground again. Hearing it say seventh member both Lucy and Happy became confused by it because all know it's always been six members. It came to an extent that even happy gave a lecture about them. Coming to the conclusion that it clearly doesn't make sense.
"Wait are we dropping the talking stick thing?" Gray asked after hearing their discussion. Happy just shrugged his shoulders and told them that it was so ridiculous that he didn't know where to start. The seventh member of oracion seis slipped out of Natsu's hand and floated out of his reach towards the hole that was created out of the explosion.
"Soon i'll be able to see the guild of those fools...i must clean up the trash without delay"
"You mean caitshelter?" Lucy asked making the staff turn around.
"Exactly! We will begin our destruction by crushing them! They have the power to seal Nirvana once again that is why we must destroy them" Natsu felt anger erupt from within him, he needs to stop this thing to save caitshelter he promised her after all. He engulfed his fists in flames and sprinted towards it, he punched but missed to then be getting struck by it falling to the ground.
"Natsu damn it!" Gray started his ice magic but before he could attack the staff head butted him in the stomach making them fly. Natsu grabbed the end of the staff stopping them from going any further.
"Great going, Natsu! Now beat the crap out of it" Gray cheered him on as he stood up again but as he said that he got knocked in the head by it. Natsu had lost control of it and now it was attacking both of them. Because of that both Natsu and Gray lost their focus on it and instead started a fight between each other. While fighting the staff had his attention on lucy after that time Gray and Natsu had stopped fighting and were now attacking it together. But got knocked down once again.
"Damn brats" The ball sphere in the skulls mouth started to shine and electricity broke through striking both Natsu and Gray.
"What's wrong? Is all you got your youth? Youth alone isn't going to beat me!" suddenly it realised something staring into nothing.
"Now what?" Natsu asked looking at up at it.
"Incredible….all the six..all the six members defeated" It uttered in shock after the sphere fell out it's mouth to the ground making it break. Hearing that Natsu felt happy about the situation meaning they were closer to saving wendy's guild now, unfortuately he didn't get so many chances in kicking butt. The staff mumbled further and mentioning in his mumbling about a He and Bad.
"He?" Lucy asked
"There's more? Don't tell me that it's the eighth now" Happy said. The staff ignored them looking the other way shaking of fear. With a hand in his pocket Gray asked.
"What are you talking about?"
"Brain…" It mumbled again. Natsu put his hands behind his head and walked a bit closer to it and said
"If you're talking about him, jura beat him"
"no...Brain has another personality there are a back face, codenamed Zero who loves nothing but destruction" The group was shocked of what they heard there were another one to beat now and it didn't sound good.
"Loves destruction?" Lucy said holding her hand over her chest
"Zero?"
"With his overwhelming evil magic he sealed that existence away with six keys"
"And those are the oracion seis" Gray finished making it clear. The staff explained that when the oracion seis are defeated the keys unlock and the personality of zero will be reborn again. Natsu knew that another enemy means a more narrow way to save caitshelter but he couldn't stop himself from feeling excited because zero like a strong opponent and fun to fight. The wall blew up beside them and in walked.
"Welcome back master zero!" exclaimed the staff falling to the ground in front of the man. The two members talked and it was visible that it was a long time ago that the two met each other in those conditions.
"I'll handle the rest, stand back, klodoa" The staff called klodoa stepped aside without a second thought and in front of them stood this Zero. He took of his shirt and used magic to change it to something else and stared at them with his red tired eyes. They could feel his hostile attitude and tremendous magic power.
"You little brats….you sure made a mess out of my guild, and as it's master, i will make you pay for that" HIs magic power increased making the ground shake.
"Gettin' fired up,Natsu?" Gray asked staring at their opponent quite excited himself. Natsu smiled and said that this was nothing he'd felt before. Then Zero stopped channeling magic out of his body and looked at jura who still laid on the ground unconscious.
"I'll start by erasing this baldy who hurt this body!" He said before firing magic out of his hand towards jura. Gray stepped in front and made a ice wall stopping his attack.
"You're gonna attack someone who can't even move?" He screamed at him fighting back his continuing attack. His magic started to break through the ice wall getting closer of breaking through till the wall exploded making both Jura and Gray fly away by the force.
"Old man"
"Gray"
"Whether he can move or not isn't much of a difference as long as it has form, it's just as fun to destroy!" Zero said holding his hands behind his back looking down on them. Natsu jumped up in the air with his fist in flames and dived towards him with a punch, Zero brought up a shield stopping him without much effort even though the power made the ground beneath get destroyed. He walked toward natsu poking him in the chest with it index finger making him fly into the ceiling knocking him unconscious.
