Getting a grip on the coursework stuff and even managed to replenish my chapter stockpile. It was all good, and then I saw SOPA. We've got to stop it. There is also something similar alongside it called TPP. I thought it would be worth letting you all know but didn't want to release an AN without a chapter with it. That is just annoying when that happens.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail or Bleach. Shame, it would be great if I did

Protector Of The Fairies

And Let Hope Reignite For All

Brain stumbled through the trees, rushing away from the cave that had been his base. He couldn't afford to stay there anymore. It had provided suitable cover at the time but the Light Mages were regrouping to some degree, and now Jellal had turned against him.

He could understand Jellal stealing the girl. She was extremely valuable after all. He wasn't concerned about losing her too much, but what would Jellal do next? If he left then it wasn't that bad, but if Jellal didn't leave then there would be problems. That man knew where Nirvana was after all.

Could Jellal be after Nirvana for himself? If that was the case then there would be conflict. Nirvana belonged to him, not Jellal. He refused to give it up to anyone.

Scenarios ran though his mind, questioning events one after the other. Brain knew he was arrogant, it was something of a fact to him, but he was never stupid. That was for lesser minds. Angel, Hoteye, and now Racer. Three down, and three left. If they all fell, there was still a chance. There was still that man after all, but it wouldn't be a good idea to rely on him.

At the very least, those still standing were the strongest. Cobra wouldn't lose to just anyone, and he was sure that Cobra would at least take down the opponent with him if they were strong enough to beat him. As for Midnight, well let's just say that he believed that you would have to be a fool to fight him. Even he recognised that Midnight rivalled himself in strength.

There was no point panicking. He had a plan. Some things had changed from the original plan but they had always been variables in the first place. The main requirements had been cleared and only one thing was left.

A hand lifted up slightly and a small screen appeared in front of him, little light being emitted from it so he couldn't be detected. He smirked as he saw the attempts the other Archive User had been taking to break through his shielding before typing a few commands, setting the Mage back to his original start position. Another button quickly activated a communication link, allowing him to access where Cobra was.

"I hear you," said Cobra. The man always was listening to everything, and Brain knew it. It was hard to hide things from the Dragon Slayer after all.

"Have you found it?"

"I heard the Jellal thing didn't work out."

"Cobra!"

"Hey, I'm just saying. If he has the girl, do you want me to do that thing for you?"

Brain thought for a moment, realising what Cobra was referring to. "No, I still believe that things will play out in our favour. Do you not remember what that man said? He has been right so far. I feel like we should trust his words a bit longer for now."

Cobra sighed. "Can we even trust the man? I read his thoughts for a second before he realised and then nothing. I don't know how but he stopped me from hearing anything else."

"I did warn you that he was dangerous. Just be thankful that he was there to help us. As for trust, well you have to take some things with a grain of salt. So far everything has played out okay for us but we still have to be cautious. That man could also be after Nirvana and just lacked an opportunity to get it."

"It's too late if that's the case." Brain could practically see Cobra smirking from his words. "I found it."

Brain's eyes widened before speaking urgently. "WHERE? Where is it? Did anyone follow you? Are you-"

"Relax already. I'm there now. And there isn't anyone-"

Brain looked at the Archive screen in confusion. "Cobra?"

"Sorry, I was wrong. There is someone getting closer. I think I'm being tracked by that Shinigami that turned up after Ichigo did."

"Deal with him."

Another pause happened while Brain waited for Cobra to finally speak. "It may be troublesome to fight where I am right now. This guy is angry, that's for sure, but he could easily get the advantage in such an enclosed area."

"Where are you? I'll come to you now."

"No need," said Cobra confidently. "I've got a present for you. Look up at the sky."

Brain looked up, confused at what Cobra meant. And then he smiled as a pillar of black light shot out from the ground. "Nirvana…" Brain chuckled. "You shouldn't have."

Protector Of The Fairies

"They aren't there," said Hibiki suddenly, Jura glancing up at the blonde haired Mage.

"Who isn't?"

"Oración Seis. Erza says she found where they were and where Wendy should have been. No one is there."

Jura frowned. "That is indeed troubling. Why would they leave their base undefended or even abandoned? I can understand that it is only a temporary one but it should have still been necessary to some degree."

"I agree. Something has made them leave, and Erza can't work out if it is good or bad."

A quick glance at Ichigo and Natsu brought up Jura's next question. "What about Wendy?"

Hibiki shook his head sadly, Jura realising the answer from that simple answer. "No sign of her. There was a coffin of some kind but too big for her."

"You don't think…"

"No," said Hibiki, hearing the sign of relief that escaped Jura's lips. "Why kill her and then have to carry her body around as dead weight? No if she was dead then she would have been left there. Her value is in her skill after all and killing her takes away all her value to them."

Jura stood up, grabbing his staff from beside him. "Locate her again. I'm heading out."

"Already on it." Jura heard the sound of tapping before it suddenly stopped abruptly.

"What's wrong?"

"We aren't alone."

A golden light shot down to the ground beside them, Jura not waiting to take any chances. They knew no one with Magic like that which meant this had to be an enemy. His fist extended towards the intruder and the earth around him obeyed, spears of earth bursting out of the ground and propelling towards the intruder.

"WAIT!"

The spears stopped mere millimetres away from the intruder, Jura's eyes wide from who he would have almost killed. He recognised that voice.

Light vanished from the intruder, revealing the person they had believed to be one to actually be two. Wendy was one of them, and he was glad she had called out to them when she had done. A second late and... It would have been horrific. He definitely didn't want the death of such a sweet innocent girl on his conscience.

The other person was another matter. He recognised that face. Blue hair, a red tattoo around the right eye, there was no doubt. The man who had caused the Tower of Heaven incident and had been the cause of the previous Magic Council disbanding, a previous member of that same Council and a Wizard Saint on top of that, and the greatest enemy of the new Magic Council that currently existed. Jellal Fernandes.

The man certainly looked the same he had done when he had last seen him. Except there were some differences from what he could see and sense. The immense power the man had still was there, if weakened from something but that looked only temporary, but the arrogance the man had was gone.

He remembered how Jellal had acted, back when he had been known to all of them as Siegrain. How they could have been fooled so long was hard to believe but the man had been a good actor, pretending he had been Jellal's brother. And in reality he had been nothing more than an extremely powerful Thought Projection.

But even as Siegrain, the man had always had an arrogant aura around him, something that had subtly been saying that he was stronger and he both knew it and wanted to mock you because of it. But right now, that aura was gone. If anything he felt nothing from Jellal, as if the man wasn't sure of how he was suppose to be. Not even confusion.

Well that wasn't entirely true. The man looked fairly awkward at the stares he was getting from him and Hibiki, and seemed to also be slightly afraid of the spears extremely close to him.

Was this really Jellal? The man seemed so different. What the hell was up with him?

Before he could decide to do anything about the man, Wendy stepped forward, her arms spread out in front of herself in defiance. From her position it looked she was defending Jellal, but why? Why was she trying to protect this monster?

"Please wait," Wendy begged, taking a step forward towards them. She reached back and grabbed hold of Jellal's hand, slowly dragging him forward. Jura resisted the urge to attack with the earth, despite knowing that he would never get a better opportunity. He slowly let the earth collapse back down to the ground when Jellal cleared the last of the spears, conserving his Magic for if a fight broke out.

"Wendy," he said slowly, the girl looking at him in worry. "Would you explain to me what you are doing with that man?"

"Um… Oración Seis… They found him and… Well I couldn't just leave him as he was. He was hurt and… I couldn't stop myself. I wasn't sure of myself."

"Why would you heal this man?"

Wendy looked away. "I originally thought he was someone else."

"I see." Jura took a step forward. "I assume you know who he truly is now?"

Wendy shook her head. "I thought he was my Jellal, but I got the wrong person. That or he doesn't remember me, but I'm pretty sure I found the wrong person."

"Then step away from him. That man is a wanted criminal, and as such cannot be trusted."

A look of horror appeared on Wendy's face but she wasn't the only one to show that expression. Jellal's eyes went wide and he stepped forward cautiously.

"What do you mean?"

Jura glanced at Jellal in anger. "Don't pretend to not know what I am talking about. Do you honestly expect me to believe that you don't remember the atrocities you commit, the lives you ruined?"

Jellal stepped back, slowly raising a hand to look at in shock. He remembered the feeling he had felt before when he had fought Racer. He had been prepared to kill the man on instinct. The idea of pity had never crossed his mind till Wendy had stopped him. Was this what he was? Was he really just a monster?

"We can trust him." Everyone snapped towards Hibiki, Jura the most confused of the lot.

"Hold on," he said, raising a hand for emphasis. "You can't be serious here. What makes you believe a man like this can be trusted?"

Hibiki gestured behind him. "I've contacted Sensei. He says we can trust him for now if he really brought Wendy here. I've also been watching him react to you. From his body language, I'd say he truly doesn't know anything." Hibiki turned his attention towards Wendy. "What condition was he in when you found him?"

"Um…" Wendy fidgeted under the stares slightly. "Brain said he had been bathed in Eternano, and he did have a lot of poisoning from it. He was kind of lucky that he hadn't absorbed much of it so I managed to bring him out of a coma."

"There's our answer," said Hibiki happily. "Maybe Jellal is a criminal, but right now this man can't be classified as the same Jellal. Eternano can cause extreme effects in large concentrations of exposure, meaning that there is a good chance that he had lost his memories. It certainly explains how he is acting compared to old reports on him."

Jura stepped forward till he was practically touching Jellal. He just stared at the man, Jellal fidgeting like Wendy had been. It felt like Jura was peering into the man's very soul, judging whether he was worthy or not.

Eventually, Jura backed off, nodding as if he had gotten an answer he had wanted. "Very well then. I don't like this, but I can work with you for now if you aren't the same man as before. At least till the situation with Oración Seis is over. At that point we'll work out just exactly what to do with you. Is this agreeable to you?"

Jellal nodded, a small smile on his face. "Thank you. I promise you that I don't mean you any harm."

"I'll be the judge of that." Jura turned his attention back to Wendy before crouching next to her. "I know you must have been scared somewhat, being captured and held hostage, and I wish I could offer you time to recover from that but I can't. If you met with Ichiya then he would have told you why you were sent straight to us." Jura's head dropped slightly, forming a light bow. "Please help them. Natsu and Ichigo."

Wendy looked around awkwardly, the bow she was receiving unnerving her. She wasn't use to this, especially not from such a respected and powerful individual.

So she did what she did best in stressful situations. She looked for something to occupy her mind, in this case quickly rushing to Natsu. Kneeling beside the Dragon Slayer, she got to work, her Magic springing to life.

She ignored the impressed stares she could feel behind her as she worked, a faint light blue aura appearing around her hands. She had heard Brain mutter to his guild about how rare Healing Magic at her level was when he thought she wasn't listening. It hadn't been that much of a surprise to her, especially since her mother, Grandeeney, had always explained the importance of learning the healing aspects of her Magic. She had said it was special and that it would come to help her later on.

And her Healing Spells were special. Healing herself was impossible but she could manipulate the air around to heal others, whether it was fixing injuries, removing fatigue, or even doing something simple like she was doing now like removing poison.

Well maybe she was oversimplifying it when she described it as being simple but it really was to her. The only tricky part came from the drain Healing Magic had on her. She hadn't had many people to treat before, and as such had always practiced on minor injuries on animals. Healing a normal person however required more Magic, and right now she didn't have the greatest reserves to heal person after person without a break. Healing Jellal had already taken a massive chunk out of her reserves due to the man's death like state, and it really was good that she only had to remove poison here.

The people around her waited patiently, not daring to interrupt her. It was kind of nerve racking, the silence overbearing. It had been different with Jellal as she had completely lost herself in her job, but something like poison meant that she just had to wait as her Magic expelled it. It didn't require too much focus, even if it did feel more difficult that usual, and hence the silence felt more awkward than it should have been. Was the poison so bad that it was making her use more Magic than usual? It felt like she was losing her grip on it to some degree, but some poisons truly did strange things.

Finally, as the last bit of poison left Natsu's system, the Magic around her vanished. She slowly stood up, swaying slightly from the sudden drain she felt from the Spell. "I've healed him."

"Really?" Jura and Hibiki crowded round her in shock, Hibiki quickly running a few scans to confirm her words. A massive smile appeared on his face as everything saw confirmed what Wendy had said. "That's incredible. You're amazing Wendy."

"Indeed Wendy. Such a feat is truly incredible."

She ignored the praise, walking over to where she was Ichigo. And then she stopped. She could feel it, she could see it, the very think that made her unique and let her heal people so effectively was actually distracting her here, stopping her from approaching properly.

It was hard for her to describe. She wanted to step forward but she couldn't move. Jura looked at her in confused and stepped towards her.

"Wendy?"

"You need me to heal him?"

"Yes." Jura frowned before remembering the words Brain had said when he had taken Wendy. He may have barely arrived at the time but he still heard the words spoken. Brain had said that he wondered if Wendy would actually heal Ichigo, and that she had been afraid of him. He prayed to everything he could think of that Brain was wrong. But he could see it in her eyes, the same thing he was sure Brain had seen. "You're afraid of him aren't you?"

Wendy took a step back from Ichigo, ripped her eyes away from him as if she couldn't bear to watch him any longer. "Yes."

"I see." Before anyone could stop him, Jura collapsed down to the ground, swallowing all pride he had to kneel before the small girl. His head was touched the ground and his staff was abandoned next to him. Hibiki had to restrain a gasp from seeing Jura lowering himself to such a position. This wasn't simply asking for a favour. Jura was practically begging before Wendy.

"Please," Jura begged. "I know you say you're afraid, but you are his only hope. I'll do anything you want so long as it exists within my power to do so. So please, heal him. Else it won't be the poison that will kill him."

"It'll be Magic," muttered Wendy, not aware that she shouldn't know that. She frowned as she suddenly noticed the shocked faces around her, Jura raising his head slightly from shock because of her words.

"You know?"

"Um… Yes."

"But you hadn't examined him yet."

Wendy looked away awkwardly. "I did."

"What are you talking about?" asked Hibiki curiously. He had no idea what Magic the girl used apart from that it caused her to be known as the Sky Sorceress. Did she have some way to determine injuries and ailments from a distance? Brain did say that she could see and hear the very movements of the air so perhaps that played a role in it.

"I… I can see things. They help tell me the state of someone."

Jura slowly rose to his feet, his eyebrows raised. His eyes though were dead serious. "You see things?"

"Hold on Jura," said Hibiki, moving next to the man. He lowered his voice before whispering, "Have some tact here. You can't say that out right. It may be a manifestation of her mind or something to represent what she senses from the air."

"I can hear you," muttered Wendy, both men looked embarrassed at her hearing them. "And they are real." Hibiki looked at her, not sure exactly what to say but opened his mouth anyway.

"Wendy-"

"THEY ARE REAL!"

Wendy's hands shot up to cover her mouth, embarrassed from her outburst. "I'm sorry. It's just… Well my mother said it's natural for someone like me to see them. She said it wasn't normal for most… That they wouldn't understand very well."

Hibiki looked at Jura for help but stopped before he could open his mouth again. The eyes Jura had right now… Did Jura really believe in what Wendy was saying? If anything Jura didn't seem too shocked at this.

"You use Sky Magic don't you?"

Wendy nodded awkwardly, looking up at Jura as confidently as she could. "I'm the Sky Dragon Slayer."

And then both Mages' jaws dropped. A Dragon Slayer? This little girl was a Dragon Slayer?

"I know what you're thinking," she muttered dejectedly. "I'm not very strong am I? I'm only good at Support and Healing Magic, and I can barely use any Offensive Magic. I'm not really what people expect like Natsu is or this Gajeel I've heard of is."

"Don't say that," said Jura as he tried to comfort her. "I'm sure you are strong yourself, just in other ways. That Healing Magic of yours isn't anything to laugh at." His expression turned serious once more as he looked at her. "So what is it that you see. What makes Sky Magic so special?"

"Um… My mother, Grandeeney, she's a Dragon by the way… She explained to me that Sky Magic was different from the other Magic that involved use of the air."

"Wind, Air and Sky," said Hibiki helpfully. "Those are the three main recorded types of Magic that involve air, though Wind has always said to be the most deadly of the three."

"I suppose it is," muttered Wendy softly. "She said that Wind Dragon Slayer Magic was the best of the three for combat. The wind is sharper and faster, and those who used it were extremely deadly due to the cutting power behind their attacks."

"While Air Magic would be perhaps a type of Effect Magic?" asked Hibiki. "I know that Ren uses it that way."

"Yes. It's better suited to cast effects within areas and allow the greatest freedom of movement by travelling through the air."

Wendy took a small breath before continuing. "Sky Dragon Slayer Magic is, and has always been, different from all other Dragon Slayer Magic. I think it applies to all other Sky Magic as well as it was meant to be something unique. Grandeeney said something about a blessing that happened to the Magic long ago, sometime at the start of all Magic."

Wendy slowly raised her head, looking up at the sky. "All Sky Magic users see the world differently. We see a flow in the world unlike any other. I think the Master said once that we were perhaps seen as Shamans because of this as we could act as a bridge between humans and the very Magic around us."

Jura looked intrigued at this piece of information while Hibiki struggled to take it in. "So let me get this straight," started Hibiki. "Are you saying that you basically can see the particles of Eternano in the air, even when they aren't visible? How is that possible?"

"I knew you wouldn't believe me," said Wendy with a pout. "Only the Master did when I told him. The Jellal I knew before I met the Master didn't know what to make of what I was talking about."

"No," said Jura, raising a hand to stop Hibiki from saying anything. "I believe you. Please, continue."

Wendy looked at the two in case she was simply being made of fun of before continue. "I don't see all of it because there would be too much to see. I see where the Eternano gathers, streams of Magic flying around us and flying into the sky, joining a never ending flow of Magic."

Wendy smiled widely as she looked back up, her eyes glancing around as she watched things they couldn't see. "Did you know that's where we all go when we die? Grandeeney told me that. She said that everything is born and that everything dies, and when it does it all goes to the same place. An endless flow of Magic that sails around the world. It's why people say Magic is alive. Because it is, or at least to some degree it is. It can even show emotions in the way it acts. If something bad happened somewhere, it would swirl around angrily, while it floats about happily around areas of peace."

"And this is how you can see the state of someone."

Wendy nodded. "Yep. Magic surrounds everyone to some degree, even those with only a tiny spark of Magic. I don't know exactly how to describe it but Magic tells me what's wrong. I think my Magic acts as a translator of sorts since the more Grandeeney taught me, the easier it came to understand Magic."

"I see." Jura sighed in relief. "That helps explain a lot. I thought you were afraid of Ichigo because of something he did, but I'm glad to see it was only because he had such a large volume of Magic. I'm sure that must have been surprising for you."

"No," said Wendy honestly. "The amount didn't bother me."

Jura looked at her in disbelief. She simply responded to it with an "I was raised by a Dragon" comment. And, thinking about it, that did answer it. A Dragon was a creature with massive reserves of Magic, something no normal human could ever equal. Ichigo had a lot of Magic, no one could deny that, but a Dragon would still have more. They were simply creatures of Magic in that sense.

"But if it wasn't Ichigo's Magical Power that scared you then what was it? Was it the nature of it or something like that?"

Wendy shook her head. "I can't tell what kind of nature a Magic has, only possible effects it has on things when in use."

Jura frowned. He was honestly confused now. "Then why are you afraid of him?"

Wendy fidgeted where she was standing. "He's strange. I'm not the terrified afraid, but more the confused afraid. I haven't seen anything like I have around him."

A gear seemed to click in his mind before he asked the question that had plagued his mind since Wendy had spoken about seeing things. "What is happening with the Magic around Ichigo?"

Wendy looked up at Jura in surprise. "You know what's happening?"

"No, but I've come across a Sky Magic user before. At the time, I believed his talk to be nothing but nonsense, but now before me is a second Sky Magic user describing the same things as he did. So what is happening to the Magic around Ichigo?"

Wendy struggled with words for a moment. "Around everyone… There's this protection I could say, or maybe a small shield? It's the same for everyone I've ever seen except for some rare exceptions. Always the same. Magic flows slightly different, I'll admit that, but there is always a normal pattern to it. The best way to describe it is that it is there. Nothing more and nothing less. And for those rare exceptions, well one didn't even have that protection at the normal level it should have been at and the other had it in a way I'm not exactly sure how to describe. Those two were my Jellal and the Master of Cait Shelter."

Wendy finally turned her gaze back to Ichigo. Now that he knew she wasn't properly afraid, Jura watched her expression closely. There were still traces of fear but he could see other emotions. Confusion, perhaps at what she was seeing, and fascination, something that confused him completely when put with the fear.

"I've never seen Magic react like this to someone," Wendy muttered. "He's drawing Magic into his body, using it to help heal himself. I can see this all with ease. But what shocks me so much is how willingly Magic is doing this. It was like this when I first met him but on a much lower level, merely following him around closely. The things I get from it when around him… I said how Magic has emotions but I always saw mostly indifference when around people. But around him, it's like it loves him. Why else would so much Magic be gathering to him so readily?"

Wendy leaned down next to Ichigo and brought a hand up to one of the cracks, ignoring Hibiki's warning to be careful. "It's all gathering, even though not all of it is being absorbed. It's like its saying 'Choose me. I'll help him' or 'I'm here. Tell me what you need'. It's both frightening to see someone Magic treats this way and wonderful as I've never seen Magic act this way."

Wendy suddenly dropped her shoulders and made sure Jura and Hibiki couldn't see her face properly as her smile dropped. "He knew I was scared of him, but not why. And he was so nice to me anyway. I didn't deserve it with the way I was treating him, and he probably saw me watching him. I just couldn't help it. I didn't know what to say. I wanted to speak to Grandeeney about it but she's gone. And Carla doesn't understand what I see very well."

Resolve suddenly shown in Wendy's eyes as she brought up her hands, Magic gathering around them once more. "But I won't let it stop me. That man, Brain, he said that I wouldn't heal Ichigo because I'm scared of him. But I'm not that kind of person. And I can't let someone who Magic seems to love so much die because I was slightly afraid of him. I would never be able to call myself a healer if I did such a thing. I'll save him."

Before she could do anything, an arm shot up and wrapped around her, pulling her in against Ichigo's chest. Wendy blushed from the sudden hug as a hand landed on her head.

"So you didn't hate me," said Ichigo softly. "Good to know you are alright. I messed up back then when I tried to get you back. Sorry."

"That's impossible," said Jura before shooting a glare at Hibiki. The Mage nodded, acknowledging what Jura wanted. He rushed over to Ichigo, his Archive Magic rapidly scanning Ichigo despite Ichigo's waving at the annoying screens.

The moment they finished, Hibiki glanced at them, completely in shock. Wendy answered the question they all knew the answer to. "The poison's gone."

"Poison?" Ichigo released Wendy as he slowly stood up. "I was poisoned?"

"Yes…" Jura blinked a few times, still trying to process what he was seeing. "But how is this possible? Even with the Magic you were gathering towards you, your Instant Regeneration was only slowly making progress. How did that suddenly change?"

Wendy's eyes widened. "When I was healing Natsu! I thought it was more difficult that it should have been. And it did drain me quite a bit too. More than I expected at least. That was you. You were drawing in my Healing Magic and having it purge the poison from your body."

"And the cracks are decreasing their draw of Magic," said Hibiki as he glanced at an Archive screen. "It looks like things are turning out okay."

"Hold up," said Ichigo, a hand raised. "What do you mean that I was drawing in Magic?"

All pairs of eyes turned to look at him. Jura frowned and asked the question on everyone's mind. "Are you saying that you aren't aware of that ability?"

"What ability?"

"You… You really don't know do you."

Wendy glanced between the two in confusion. "But… Then if Ichigo doesn't have the ability to draw in Magic, how was he doing so?"

"Did you hear her explanation?" Ichigo glanced from Wendy to Jura before nodding.

"Somewhat. I heard stuff about Magic acting strangely."

"I'll explain the rest to you later then. Long story short, Magic seems to like you for some reason and likely was trying to help you by forcing its way into your skin. That's the most likely reasoning behind what happened here."

Hibiki and Wendy frowned at Jura, both realising something was off with what Jura was saying. It seemed Ichigo didn't notice however and just accepted the answer, the two resolving to speak about it later with Jura. For some reason the man didn't want to say everything right now and was using some of Wendy's words as an excuse for what had been happening. It helped Ichigo hadn't heard all of the conversation, but for them it was strange. Hibiki knew that Jura seemed to be holding back on something and Wendy knew that wasn't how Magic would work. She was what could be considered an expert on its behaviour after all.

Before anyone could say anything else, a massive amount of Magic exploded from the ground in the distance. Despite their distance, they could see the sight clearly. A massive pillar of black light.

Protector Of The Fairies

Ichiya stared across at the sky ahead of them, carefully managing the controls of Christina. Ren and Eve had taken refuge in the weapons areas for the time being which meant he was left alone with Carla and Happy. This meant he could let some of his worries be shown without worrying about putting on a brave face for his disciples.

"Do you think I made the right decision?"

Carla glanced up at her from her position on one of the tables nearby before shrugging as best as she could. "I honestly don't know. Wendy can be fairly naïve sometimes and will put too much faith in people. She's too trusting and that is both good and bad. If anything she's too innocent. That's exactly how I want her to stay though."

"So she could have read Jellal wrong then?"

"Is this Jellal truly that bad? Wendy spoke of a Jellal when she was younger but I don't know if they are the same Jellal."

"He's evil," supplied Happy. "He was meant to Erza and tried to kill her. Natsu beat him up though but he still did a lot of bad things to people."

"I see." Carla sighed. "I'll say trust Wendy here. She knows that he isn't her Jellal which means she was aware this man could be somewhat different, yet she still trusts him to some degree to help her. I don't know why and I won't pretend to know either but perhaps she found something in him that makes him trustworthy."

Carla glanced downwards, shaking her head slightly. "I'm afraid for Wendy but I see no logical reason to have brought her to Christina in the first place if he wanted something from her. He had nothing to gain and a lot to lose. He could be worth taking a chance on right now, even if he has done a lot of bad stuff."

"Still," said Happy. "How can we trust him after everything he did?"

Carla froze before speaking slowly. "Perhaps… Perhaps he didn't plan to do it all. Sometimes people need to do stuff because they were raised that way… Or perhaps an order existed commanding them to do such things. For all we know he could have been fighting some unseen command and is now trying to go down his own path."

Ichiya frowned at her explanation, sensing something wrong with it. He went to open his mouth but he paused before any words could come out. He had no right to pry, especially with the expression that cat was making.

"Okay," Ichiya finally said. "I'll bear what you said in mind. Sometimes people can change. However if he truly did such a thing to my Erza… Well maybe she shouldn't know he is with us right now."

Happy startled. "You… You want to keep a secret… From Erza? Are you crazy? She'll kill us!"

"It's for her own good," muttered Ichiya. "Keeping secrets from our allies isn't right, but we need to think of a bigger picture here. It would be foolish to deny Jellal's strength if he can offer it to us. Even if Ichigo and Natsu recover quickly enough, how strong will they currently be? Natsu might be in the better condition while Ichigo may be almost drained because of his Magic's efforts at keeping him alive. Jura is one of the strongest of us left and we do have Shinji out there too, but I don't want to take any chances. We've already almost lost people. I don't want anyone here to die."

Carla nodded at hearing Ichiya's words. "Then you did make the right decision. We'll either win or lose, and we were, in my opinion, losing. Adding Jellal to the mix will either do nothing or have helped us get a chance to win."

"Um…" Happy caught their attention as he stared out of the glass of the cockpit. "What's that?"

Carla and Ichiya looked forward, just in time to see the rest of the light burst from the ground, forming a pillar of black light in the distance. Ichiya sighed in resignation before slowly speaking.

"That is Nirvana."

Protector Of The Fairies

So I think we are at the official half point place for this arc. Nirvana has been released, but this time with Cobra's work. How does he know how to do that however? And three members of Oración Seis have been dealt with and three still remain, not including Zero. There's still more to go, but I'm slowly getting close to writing the arc's end. I've dealt with almost every fight now and all the events around them mostly.

So what did people think? The reason Wendy was afraid of Ichigo has been revealed, and I'm sure many of you have theories on why Magic reacts this way to him. And Jura seems to have heard of a similar thing from a different Sky Magic user. It was my way of giving Sky Dragon Slayer Magic a uniqueness to it, and I'm sure you all guessed why Wendy's Jellal looked different to normal people.

Nirvana is unsealed however, and the effects of that will ripple out in the next chapter as we see the actions that take place. It isn't fully operational yet but time is limited here.

Now quickly, onto Manga stuff. Bleach finally had Kenpachi appear, though it is a shame we didn't get to see more of Yachiru. Oh well, we get Kenpachi so I guess it is okay. As for Fairy Tail, I knew it would be Hades. I kind of want to see Natsu get absorbed however just to see if there would be anything that the Demon would sense that linked Natsu to Zeref.

Anyway, till the next time. I've been Takei. Thanks for reading.