The final chapter to the Oracion Seis Arc is finally here, I hope everybody had a happy New Years. This is the longest chapter I've ever written any might be the longest this story will ever have, with over 9000 words, it was a pain the neck to write. I was planning on releasing this chapter originally after New Years but then I just couldn't stop writing it, it took the whole week to write and I don't regret doing it. I was really excited to write the fight with Zero, I don't think anybody will be disappointed with it. I tried to the scene at the end as best as I could to my ability. I won't keep you long so one last thing as I said last chapter I WON'T be doing the Edolas arc, now enjoy the chapter.
Hollow Zangetsu Tensa Zangetsu Regular
Chapter 51 Goodbyes
With Erza and Jellal
Erza used requip to change into the Robe of Yuen, it was a purple revealing kimono, a short sleeveless tunic decorated by many flower motifs. It revealed Erza's cleavage, and had open sides exposing her chest a little. It was held closed by a large, dark obi which had a thin red rope tied around it and sporting a wide closing ribbon on the back. Erza's forearms were wrapped in white bandages and she had light purple leggings that went up to mid-thigh. Erza was holding a bladed staff in her right hand as long as her body.
"Come on Erza let's see your true power. Your attack won't reach me though." Midnight said with a smirk than Erza shot forward and stopped in front of Midnight slashing at him with the staff only fro it to be 'reflected' from him. "You moved fast but you still couldn't break my reflector." Midnight said still smirking.
Erza smirked a little after slashing him and jumped back. Midnight was confused by this than he released too late as Jellal slammed into his back sending towards Erza who brought her hand up and slammed her palm on Midnight's chest sending him flying backwards. Midnight slammed into one of the ancient homes and looked at Erza with a look of surprise.
"Your magic has two weak points. Firstly, you can reflect magic and weapons but it doesn't work on human bodies. If it were possible it would've been faster to aim for Jellal's and my body instead of our clothes." Erza said standing her ground as Midnight started walking towards her and Jellal. Midnight chuckled a bit and put one hand up and Erza and Jellal's clothes started to strangle them, Jellal struggling to breath but Erza was standing as if nothing was happening.
"All that maybe true but I could choke you to death if I really wanted to." Midnight said stopping a good distance in front of them. Erza was still breathing and standing strong. Jellal wasn't sure what Erza had planned but she had to hurry as his vision was starting to fade. "The second weak point is this." Erza said as the swords she used with her Heaven's Wheel Armor fell from the sky and landed on Midnight cutting him from different angles and freeing them from their own clothes.
"Earlier when you were fighting Jellal I noticed that all of Jellal's physical attacks landed while all of his magic attacks were reflected. And while you were twisting my armor you jumped out of the way of Jellal's magic attack instead of reflecting it. Meaning that you can only use your magic on one area at a time, around your opponent or around you." Erza said as she ripped through the distorted robes around herself.
Jellal was breathing heavily for air as his clothes let go of him. 'She figured all that out in the short time that we've been fighting him she's incredible.' Jellal said to himself as he stared at Erza while finally being able to breath properly. "And on top of all that the Robe of Yuen is an elastic armor, your magic won't work on it." Erza said smirking.
"Shit, I was almost there. If you died earlier You wouldn't have to experience this fear." Midnight said his magic energy started to increase than his body tuned pure black. "At midnight my powers are at their peak." Midnight said as he started to grow in size and his muscles started to bulge outwards. "HAHAHAHAHAHA" Midnight started laughing as his form now resembled a demon.
"I don't care what happens now." Midnight said as he charged an energy attack in his hand than slammed his hand into the ground creating an explosion. The blast blow the two away than tentacles came out of his hands and impaled Jellal and Erza. "Don't go and die on me yet. The fun's just getting started." Midnight said as he started impaling them even more.
Midnight started laughing than he was slashed across the chest. 'What just happened? My body was pierced through along with Erza.' Jellal thought as he put his hand to where he felt the tentacle stab him. "My illusions didn't work?" Midnight said as he fell to his knees. "Too bad for you that Illusions don't work on me." Erza said as she had her right eye open.
"Impossible... I was suppose to be the strongest... even more than father... a mage undefeated by... anyone." Midnight said as he held his hands in the air. "If you find people's suffering something to laugh at. Then you're still a long way off from the top." Midnight fell to the ground with his hands. "If you don't want to lose to anyone than you first must know you're own weaknesses first. And always have kindness." Erza said turning around to look at him.
Jellal looked at Erza with astonishment on his face. 'This... is Erza's... power?' Jellal thought to himself as Erza turned around and started walking towards him. Before either of the two could say anything a huge amount of pressure hit them like trucks. Erza smiled. Jellal was trying to stand but found it a little hard but managed to do it.
Erza looked at Jellal with surprise. 'He's able to stand with this much pressure hitting him. How'd he get so strong?' Erza thought to herself as she saw the familiar black shihakusho with the multiple X's all over and jet black sword in hand. "Ichigo are you all right?" Erza asked him as stood in front of the two.
"I'm alright, it seems I was little late to join the party. Anyway have you seen Natsu or the others?" Ichigo asked Erza. "No I haven't seen anyone for a while, I've been with Jellal." Erza said making Ichigo turn his head to look at Jellal who was now walking towards him. Ichigo didn't make a move. 'Something's different about him now, he's not like when Natsu and me ran into him at the cave.' Ichigo thought to himself.
"Ichigo I don't sense any murderous intent coming from him." Tensa told Ichigo. 'That maybe true but something's off about him.' Ichigo said to Tensa while he was still staring at Jellal. "Don't worry Ichigo Jellal doesn't pose a threat at the moment, he seems to have lost his memory." Erza said shocking Ichigo who looked back at her.
"He lost his memory? Are you serious?" Ichigo asked Erza confused more than anything. "When I found him he didn't even know who I was till I told him." Erza said with her eyes closed once again feeling bad about the mean things she said to him.
"So you're Ichigo? Orange hair and black sword. The way you look makes images pop in my head that I can't make out." Jellal said as he grabbed his head in pain for a moment. Ichigo looked at him in surprise than put on his usual scowl on his face. 'Could it be possible that he actually forgot everything?' Ichigo questioned himself.
Ichigo was going to say something when he heard something. "Jellal!" Wendy said as she was running up to them. "Erza and Ichigo are with him as well." Carla said as she followed behind Wendy. "Wendy you're alright, thank goodness." Erza said smiling. "Who are you?" Jellal asked Wendy who's expression changed to disappointment.
"His memories are a little hazy at the moment so he doesn't remember any of us." Ichigo said as he walked over to Wendy and put his free hand on her head. Wendy looked up and saw Ichigo change of wardrobe. "Ichigo what happened to your clothes and your sword?" Wendy asked confused by it. Ichigo looked confused for a second and realized what she was talking about when he saw Tensa Zangetsu in his hand.
"Oh yeah I forgot that I activated my bankai earlier." Ichigo said as he stood straight up. "Bankai? what's that?" Wendy asked him as was trying to find an easy way to explain it for her to understand. "A bankai is the next stage of my power." Ichigo said patting Wendy's head. "That's good and all but does Jellal remember how to stop Nirvana?!" Carla said with panic in her voice.
"The self destruct array will be useless at this point. I don't know what else to do I'm sorry." Jellal said with his head looking down. "THEN WHAT"S GOING TO HAPPEN TO OUR GUILD?!" Carla yelled at the top of her lungs. Than the ground started to shake a little. "What going on?" Ichigo said out loud.
"Nirvana's going to fire at Cait Shelter, we have to stop it somehow." Carla said more panicked than before. "Fire on Cait Shelter?" Ichigo said as he flash stepped into the air and looked ahead of Nirvana and saw Cait Shelter. "I gotta find a way to stop it from taking out that guild." Ichigo said as he sensed the huge amount of magic energy gathering at the front of Nirvana.
"I guess I've got no choice but use IT for now. Damn, I didn't think I was going to use it this soon." Ichigo said as he looked down and yelled. "Hey I've got an idea on how to stop this thing for the time being but you guys have to find a way to stop it." Ichigo said as he flash stepped away. "You heard him we have to find a way to stop Nirvana permanently." Erza said looking at everyone.
"I think I can help with that." A voice said from within Erza's, Wendy's and Jellal's head. "Hibiki? You okay!" Erza said looking around. "Yeah but just barely we're on our way there at the moment. I've found some information on how to stop Nirvana." Everyone who was connected with Hibiki's archive was shocked to hear it. Then everyone felt a huge amount of pressure stronger than before hit them all.
"This pressure it's Ichigo's but it's more intense than before what could he be doing?" Erza said looking in the direction of Cait Shelter and saw Ichigo's black and red spirit energy swirling around what she presumed was him. 'What is doing?' Erza thought to herself.
With Ichigo seconds before
Ichigo reappeared about a mile away from Nirvana and was standing in midair looking at Nirvana's cannon gathering energy. "I guess even with my bankai the power that thing is gathering is much more than anything I can make like this. I guess I have to use it now, like I am now I won't be able to stop that blast." Ichigo said with a nervous smirk on his face.
"Hey King you have nothing to worry about as long as you can pull this off the guild below us won't get hurt and you won't die from that cannon at the front." Zangetsu told Ichigo who wasn't too trilled at dying...again. "You sure know how to cheer me up don't you." Ichigo said in a mocking tone. "Let's get this over with." Ichigo said as he put his free hand on his face gathering spirit energy.
Ichigo's spiritual pressure skyrocketed and his spirit energy started to swirl around him like a vortex. Ichigo still had his hand on his face than he swiped down and his spiritual pressure was more intense and skyrocketed even more. Than Ichigo sealed his spiritual pressure as best he could. When he did he was visible again.
There wasn't much of a physical change to Ichigo beside the white hollow mask on his face. It was different than his last one. Ichigo was now wearing the full mask he had when he fully hollowified fighting that Vasto Lorde. Nirvana's cannon was almost ready to fire from what Ichigo could sense. "Here goes nothing I just hope it doesn't explode in my face like the first time I did it." Ichigo said as he started charging a red orb in between his horns.
Nirvana fired it's cannon at it's target, Cait Shelter with Ichigo standing between Nirvana and it. "Cero" Was all Ichigo said as the attack was released and clashed with Nirvana's own attack. The two beam attacks were struggling for dominance for a bit. "Damn it I should've charged it a bit before releasing it." Ichigo said to himself.
Ichigo kept putting more power into the cero. 'Damn it I need more power for this to work. Zangetsu how about a helping hand?' Ichigo asked his hollow zanpakuto spirit. "No can do King if I gave you more power with the mask you have on at the moment your body couldn't handle the power. You know unless you fully hollowify to use my power." Zangetsu told Ichigo knowing he wouldn't fully hollowify.
'Damn I guess I'll make do with what I got.' Ichigo mentally said to himself and Zangetsu. "Hey Ichigo you need some help?" Hibiki said through his archive. Ichigo was shocked but didn't let up against Nirvana. "Hibiki? So you're okay?" Ichigo said back to Hibiki. "Is something wrong with your voice Ichigo?" Hibiki asked.
"I'll explain later right now what can you do to help?" Ichigo asked "I'm within Christina at the moment and we only have enough power for one bomb to give that opening, o be ready." Hibiki said. After a moment, Ichigo could sense that Nirvana must've been hit with the bomb as Nirvana's attack let up a bit and Ichigo gave it one more push and his cero broke through.
Hibiki's POV
Christina had hit one of Nirvana's legs knocking it off balance and giving Ichigo the opening he needed to stop Nirvana. What he wasn't expecting was for Ichigo's attack to tear right through Nirvana like butter. Hibiki stared as parts of Nirvana was blowing up, and thanks to his archive the explosions weren't happening anywhere near the others as they were heading for the lacrimas.
"What was that?" Wendy asked through Hibiki's archive. "That must've been Ichigo, he said he'd try to stop Nirvana." Erza said joining in. "You won't believe it but Ichigo's attack, whatever it was, tore through Nirvana like it was made of paper." Hibiki said. "Really? I had heard he was powerful but I didn't think he was this powerful, Maaan." Ichiya said from his position.
"Indeed, Ichigo's strength isn't something to laugh at." Erza said from her position. "How utterly futile." Said a voice that some of them recognized. "Who's this?" Leon said while he was using his magic as a wing for Christina. "My name is Zero, I'm the master of the Oracion Seis." Zero said. "Master of Oracion Seis?" Ren said trying to keep Christina a float.
"Firstly allow me to congratulate you, I never would've dreamed that there was someone else that could use archive magic like Brain." Zero said. "I definitely didn't think that there was anyone powerful enough to blow a hole through Nirvana like it did." Zero was saying with a smile on his face from the excitement of fighting someone powerful.
"Now hear me mages of the light! I will hereby proceed to destroy everything!" Zero said but before he could leave the mental communications another voice joined in. "Sorry pal but we can't let you do that." Everyone was shocked to hear it was Natsu. "You see it's our mission to stop you and Nirvana so we can't let that happen." Everyone was more shocked to hear this voice.
"Ichigo? Is that really you?" Lucy asked. "Yea it's me, I'll explain later but right now I need you guys to get off of Nirvana." Ichigo said shocking everyone. "Oh? What is it that you plan to get everyone off of Nirvana?" Zero said wondering what he had in mind. "I've got something in mind that'll put a stop to this little plan of yours." Ichigo with determination.
Zero started laughing"If you truly think that you can stop me than go ahead and try whatever feeble attempts you have in mind" Zero said as he left the communication. "Hibiki send me the locations of everyone on Nirvana." Ichigo said as Hibiki sent the information to Ichigo via archive. "What do you plan to do Ichigo?" Lucy asked him.
"What I have in mind requires everyone off of Nirvana for me to put this into action." Ichigo told everyone that was connected through archive. "Stay where you are I'll be there to take you all off of Nirvana." Ichigo told everyone and knew they understood when they all told him okay. "I'm all out of magic so the rest is up to you Ichigo." Hibiki said as communication ended.
With Ichigo
Ichigo received the locations of everyone on Nirvana. 'Time to put this to the test, I hope it works.' Ichigo thought to himself as he started to pour power into his feet. 'Zangetsu I'm gonna need the combined speed of Flash Step, Sonido, and Hirenkyaku to be able to pull this off.' Ichigo mentally told his spirits than felt the surge of power cursing through him. "Let's go" Ichigo said as he disappeared without a trace.
Ichigo was going at high speeds moving through Nirvana to get to everyone.. Ichigo followed the mental map Hibiki sent him and grabbed everyone one-by-one and placed them just a good distance away from Nirvana before any of them could tell they were moved. He even grabbed the Oracion Seis members scattered around besides Zero. It took him a good ten minuets to get everyone off Nirvana.
When he was done he stood in the middle of the group he had taken out and even the ones on Christina when he sensed them nearby. "Ichigo what is it that you're planning? Why did you take all of us out of Nirvana?" Gray asked him as he walked up to him. Ichigo was panting pretty hard and the echo the mask added gave everyone chills.
Ichigo turned his head giving everyone a good view of his hollow mask. "Ichigo are you..." Lucy was saying before she was interrupted by the man in question. "In control? Yeah I am, and I had an idea that required all of you off of Nirvana." Ichigo said as he planted Tensa Zangetsu into the ground to support himself.
The Fairy Tail group ran up to him to catch him but he put his arm out to stop them. "I need you guys to take everyone back to Cait Shelter. I can't have any of you guys around when I do this." Ichigo said as he forced himself back up and disappeared. "Well you heard him let's take everyone back to Cait Shelter." Erza said a she summoned some rope.
"What's that for Erza?" Lucy asked her eyeing the rope. "It's for the Oracion Seis so they can't escape." Erza said as she started walking up to the Oracion Seis members. Jellal looked in the direction that Nirvana was standing still. "Hey Jellal come on and help us move everybody." Wendy said looking at him with a look of worry.
Nirvana
Ichigo was standing in the air panting heavily. "Hey King you should take off the mask for a bit, it's putting too much of a strain on your body, even more so now that you've used Sonido, Flash Step, and Hirenkyaku." Zangetsu said with a hint of worry in his voice. "Ichigo the strain on your body at the moment is more than you can take, if you keep wearing the mask you won't be able to even stand if you keep this up." Tensa told Ichigo.
"I don't care I have to do this, Zero will use Nirvana to throw the world into Chaos." Ichigo said as he was able to calm down his breathing. "Ichigo what you have in mind could put more of a strain to your body it could possibly kill you." Tensa warned Ichigo. "I DON'T CARE RIGHT NOW DAMN IT" Ichigo said as he started charging a cero in his horns twice as big as his body.
"Cero" Ichigo said as he released it on Nirvana and poured whatever remaining power he had into the cero. The cero tore into Nirvana and he kept dragging the attack across Nirvana trying to get every inch of the place blowing it up until he was done. When Ichigo was finished, Nirvana was nothing more than flaming rubble.
Ichigo put his hand on his face and had the mask turn into reishi. "Damn that mask, Zangetsu why couldn't you have given me my old mask?" Ichigo said before he feel backwards and towards the ground. Before Ichigo could even hit the ground he was caught by Jellal who was using Meteor to help him fly across the sky to catch him.
"Jellal what are you doing here?" Ichigo asked weakly as the strain from wearing the mask hit him hard. Jellal landed on the ground and laid Ichigo down on a tree trunk. "I remember." Were the only words that came out of Jellal's mouth as he looked at Ichigo with sadness. "I remember who you are and Erza but it's still too hazy to remember everything else." Jellal said.
Jellal was going to say something else when they heard a noise coming from the behind them. Ichigo tired to get up but the strain was too much and he couldn't move. Jellal got into a fighting stance and watched as the noise was getting closer. "Stop right there whoever you are."Jellal said as his fist started to glow yellow.
The noise got closer and closer than Natsu popped up from out of the bushes. "Natsu?!" The two said shocked in unison. "What are you doing here?" Ichigo asked him. Natsu got a good look at Jellal than anger was clear on his face."JELLAL!" Natsu said as he darted across the field and punched Jellal in the face knocking him back a little.
"Natsu what are you doing? Jellal's not a threat." Ichigo said as he tried once again to stand up. "I thought I smelled him earlier when you took everyone off the Nirvana, I found it even weirder when I saw Wendy talking to him before he bolted into the forest." Natsu said grabbing Jellal but the collar of his shirt. "Plus I won't forgive this guy for making Erza cry." Natsu said before he hit Jellal in the gut.
Jellal fell to his knees. Natsu brought up his hand and lit it on fire and was about to bring it down when a voice was heard coming from behind a couple of trees. "If you two want to fight each other go somewhere else." Everyone looked in the direction of where the voice came from with shock and terror in their eyes.
They saw Zero standing in front of him with torn and burned clothes. He was missing his right boot, his mid thigh and below was exposed on his left leg showing some burn marks and blood. There was a hole in his pants that exposed his mid thigh to just below his knee showing some bruises and blood. His right arm was exposed and covered in burns and blood, his shirt only covered from his left shoulder to his right hip exposing his bloody chest. His left sleeve only covered his forearm which was covered in burn marks.
"H-how are you..." Ichigo was saying with fear in his voice. "Am I alive? It would seem that arrancar girl really did make me twice as strong." Zero said as he started to smile. "I believe her name was Erika." Zero said looking straight at Ichigo.
Ichigo was shocked to hear that the arrancar he was fighting earlier were helping the Oracion Seis. 'If he was given the power boost from them than Natsu and Jellal won't stand a chance against him as they are now.' Ichigo thought to himself as he remembered Antonio in their fight. 'I got to do something to help them win.' Ichigo thought to himself as he stared at Zero.
"Ichigo Kurosaki, you're much stronger than I expected. I would've never thought that someone such as yourself could even destroy Nirvana with the amount of power you've shown. I'm impressed." Zero said as he brought up his left hand an pointed at him with two fingers at him. "Dark Capriccio" Zero said as a beam of green energy and what looked like fire spiraling around it was heading for Ichigo.
Ichigo wasn't expecting what happened next, Natsu and Jellal were standing in front of him blocking the attack with their hands which were enhanced by their magic. Natsu had his left hand covered in flames and Jellal had his right hand covered by a golden aura. The two more power into their attack and pushed back Zero's attack.
Zero was shocked and impressed by their actions. "Stopping a spell made to pierce by attacking head on with brute force, very interesting." Zero said as not letting his insane smile falter. Natsu's and Jellal's hands were covered in blood after stopping the attack. Ichigo looked on amazed at the fact that Natsu didn't try to stop Jellal from helping him.
Jellal looked at Natsu and saw that Natsu's hand was much bloodier than his own. 'Natsu's low on magic power, it must've taken everything he had to stop that attack.' Jellal thought to himself than had an idea. Before Jellal could go forward with his Idea Zero started to laugh. "HAHAHAHA, it doesn't matter what you do, you won't be able to defeat me." Zero said as he fired another Dark Capriccio at Natsu.
Jellal jumped in front of Natsu and took the hit for him. Ichigo looked at the act in surprise, 'Jellal you just want to help don't you? You'll even risk your life just to prove that you're not like the Jellal we fought at the tower of heaven.' Ichigo thought to himself as Jellal fell to one knee.
Natsu looked at Jellal and remembered the moment when Simon jumped in front of Erza to save her from Jellal. "Natsu I don't want your forgiveness, but I do want you to accept my power in this fight." Jellal said as he was trying to stand up. "I will help you in this fight because I believe in you." Jellal said as he turned to look at Natsu and brought up his bloody right hand and a golden flame appeared in his palm.
"I believe in the man who Erza believes in." Jellal said with a smirk on his face. Natsu stared at him than brought up his right hand and shook Jellal's hand causing the golden flame to spread onto Natsu,completely covering his body. Natsu started to eat the flames like till it was completely gone. Ichigo saw that some of Natsu's minor injuries started to heal pretty quickly.
"So even Natsu has a form of regeneration when he eats flames." Ichigo said to himself in a quiet voice so nobody heard him. Zero smiled even more as he looked at Natsu. "You do know that by eating Jellal's Flame of Rebuke you are now his fellow sinner." Zero said as his smile turned into a smirk. Natsu looked at Zero with a scowl.
"The mages of Fairy Tail are use to sin." Natsu said as he got into a fighting stance, Jellal following soon after. "What is truly a sin is..." Natsu said as he bent down as if to get ready to sprint and lit his body on fire. Jellal activated Meteor and the two shot forward. "Is to avert your eyes away, and to stop trusting in other people!" Natsu said as he punched Zero in the gut and Jellal punched him in the face.
Zero was sent flying backwards from the two punches. Zero fired two Dark Capriccio at the two mages. Natsu wasn't worried as he knocked the one heading for him into the one that was heading for Jellal canceling the attack. And everyone noticed Natsu's flames change color from red to gold and scales started to appear on his cheeks and forearms.
Zero had a very worried expression on his face. Jellal and Ichigo both had a smirk on their faces. The three of them all had the same thing going through their head, Dragon Force. Natsu looked at himself in curiosity. "This power feels like the time I ate etherion. I feel like my power doubled or even tripled." Natsu felt like great and than he made his golden flames increase in size and made the shape of a dragon.
"A dragon made of flames, why am I not surprised." Ichigo said out loud with a bead of sweat going down his forehead. Zero's worried expression faded and was replaced by a smirk. "Dragon Force, a Dragon Slayer's most powerful form. Said to make them as strong as a dragon themselves." Zero said as stared at Natsu with amusement.
"We can win with this kind of power on our side." Jellal said staring at Zero. "Let's test this power of yours, dragon slayer." Zero said as h jumped into the air and fire two more Dark Capriccio. Natsu and Jellal jumped out of the way. Zero smiled, "Don't think that's all I can with this spell." Zero said as the two beams turned around and were heading back to their targets.
Jellal activated Meteor and started zipping around but the beam was still following him. Natsu put his hands up and grabbed the beam in his hands. "AAAAAAAHHHH" Natsu screamed as he slammed the beam to the ground jumped into the air. The beam attack shot out of the ground and headed straight for him.
Natsu breathed in and brought his head backwards. Than shot his head forward released the attack. "Fire Dragon's Roar" The breath attack collided with the beam and exploded canceling it out. Jellal shot past Natsu and grabbed Natsu's arm before he touched the ground. "What are you doing Jellal?" Natsu asked him than looked behind Jellal and saw the beam following.
"I still can't remember how to use any of my stronger attacks at the moment." Jellal said and Natsu was realized what that meant and smiled. "Throw me at it." Natsu told Jellal who was confused but trusted the pink haired man. Jellal turned in midair and used the momentum to throw Natsu at the attack. Natsu lit his body on fire. "Fire Dragon Sword Horn" Natsu said as he head butted the attack over powering it.
Zero was shocked Natsu pulled it off and failed to realize that Jellal was heading in his direction. Jellal used the speed and momentum from Meteor and punched Zero in the gut. Zero reacted before Jellal could try anything else and kneed him in the chin. Jellal flipped backward and put one hand on the ground and spun himself kicking Zero in the face repeatedly.
Jumped back to avoid Jellal's next set of kicks. Than looked back and saw Natsu with his hands on fire. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist" Natsu said as he brought his fist forward aiming for Zero's head only for Zero to grab his face and slam the back of his head to the ground. "Dark Gravity" Zero said as Natsu's body started forming a crater around his body.
"What the hell?" Natsu said as he was being pushed further and further into the ground. The Gravity stopped pulling Natsu into the ground when Jellal kicked Zero in neck hard enough to knock him back a good distance. Natsu jumped out of the crater with both his fist covered by the golden flames. Zero brought his hands up and aimed them at Natsu and Jellal.
"Dark Delete." Zero said as several spheres of green energy started to shoot out of his hands. Natsu ran to the side to avoid the green orbs and Jellal used Meteor to dodge them. The two mages were dodging and moving forward at the same time towards Zero. When the two were close enough they jumped into the air.
Zero smiled and fired Dark Capriccio from his right hand. Only this time Zero used it as a whip and grabbed Natsu's leg than threw him into Jellal. "I told you before that I can use Dark Capriccio in more ways than one." Zero said as he summoned another Whip version of Dark Capriccio and used each one to grab Natsu and Jellal by their feet.
Zero started swinging the two into nearby trees breaking them in half from the force. Ichigo watched from the tree trunk he was laying on which was at the edge of the battlefield. "I gotta help them out somehow, I'm useless if I just stay where I am." Ichigo said out loud to himself. He tried to stand up but the strain on his body was still to much for him to handle.
"Ichigo you don't have to worry about helping them." Tensa told Ichigo snapping him out of his thoughts. "King I think you should pay more attention to this fight." Zangetsu said making Ichigo look back at the fight taking place. Natsu covered his body in flames and the heat coming off him was intense. Ichigo looked closer and saw that he was burning through the whip.
Ichigo than looked at Jellal and saw him place his hands on the whip and started gathering energy in his hands. Than Jellal released the gathered energy and blow up the whip holding his legs and Natsu burned completely through the one holding his legs. The two fell tot he ground and recovered quickly. The two shot forward from both sides of Zero.
Zero brought up his hands up and shot some green orbs out of his hands. The two mages kept going straight at Zero, Jellal brought up one of his arms and started countering the green orbs with some of his own golden version. Natsu was covered by the intense golden flames burning the green orbs on contact.
When the two were close enough Jellal activated meteor and kneed Zero in the mouth. Natsu closed the gap and elbowed Zero in the face. Jellal kept Meteor activated and kicked Zero behind his right knee dropping Zero to one knee, than uppercut Zero in the chin than brought his elbow down on Zero's neck than tried to kick Zero in the gut but Zero caught his foot and threw him back.
Zero stood up only to be greeted to a golden flaming fist. Natsu punched Zero hard enough to lift him off the ground by several feet. Natsu got into a stance and lit both his hands on fire. "Dragon Slayer's Secret Art - Crimson Lotus:Fire Dragon's Fist" Natsu said as he started hitting Zero with a barrage of flaming punches. Ichigo and Jellal watched as Natsu's barrage of punches were increasing in speed to the point that Natsu's fist were leaving afterimages.
"See King, they don't need your help. They're doing fine on their own. Let's just sit back and watch as the fire breather finishes this fight." Zangetsu told Ichigo as Natsu delivered one final flaming punch knocking Zero a couple meters away to the ground. Natsu looked at Zero panting a little. Jellal smiled at their apparent victory.
Jellal started walking towards, "It would seem that we've defeated the-" Jellal didn't get to finish his sentence as he was hit by one of Zero's Dark Capriccio in the stomach sending him flying towards a tree. Ichigo looked at Zero as he started walking towards Natsu, more beaten and bloody than before the fight started. "Even after all that he's still standing?" Ichigo said in shock not believing what he's seeing.
"It was fun fighting you dragon slayer, you put up more of a fight than I expected you to. Same goes for Jellal seeing that he was able to fight on even grounds with me. Now I'll show you my most powerful spell." Zero said as he got into a stance and moved his hands clockwise with darkness magic gathering in his hands.
Than what happened afterwards was something Natsu, Ichigo, or Jellal were expecting. Zero released the magic he was gathering and a wave of darkness started to surround him as if waiting for him to command it to move. Ichigo looked at the darkness and noticed what looked like trapped souls and tortured faces in the darkness.
"What kind of attack is this?!" Jellal asked seeing the same thing as Ichigo. "I don't care what kind of attack he's using I'm going to beat him with in one attack." Natsu said as he lit his hands on fire once more getting into his stance. "Dragon Slayer's Secret Art - Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade." Natsu said as he released the attack toward Zero who only smiled.
"Genesis Zero" Zero said as he moved one hand forward and the darkness moved forward in a wave of what appeared to be hundreds if not thousands of souls moving forward. Zero's attack and Natsu's attack hit head on but nobody expected Zero's attack to shallow Natsu's attack and kept heading for Natsu as if his attack wasn't launched.
Zero's attack moved over Natsu as if he was hit by a wave on the beach, swallowing him up. "Genesis Zero, an attack that swallows it's target soul and erases them from existence." Zero said as he looked at Jellal than at Ichigo with a smile on his face. Ichigo looked in the spot where Natsu was previously standing in shock than saw something and smirk.
Zero was confused by this and turned around and saw the phantom souls that made up his attack and saw Natsu burning them out of existence with his golden flames. "How can this be?!" Zero looked surprised and worried at the same time. Every saw Natsu burning his way through the wave of phantoms. The phantoms looked as if they were trying to suck in back into the darkness but they would end up getting burned away.
Zero noticed this and was even more worried now. "He's golden flames..." Zero was saying as Natsu let out a loud roar and his flames became more intense. "Are burning through my magic!" Zero said while Natsu was still roaring. In Zero's eyes he saw a giant red dragon standing behind Natsu. 'To defeat a dragon you must be a mage that has the same strength as the dragon." Zero was thinking to himself.
Natsu shot forward and punched Zero in the face with so much power it destroyed the ground below them. 'This is a real dragon slayer.' Zero thought to himself as he was sent flying in the air by Natsu's punch. "You showed me your strongest attack. Now it's time I show you my strongest attack." Natsu said as he bent down covering his body in flames.
"Hidden Fire Form - Crimson Lotus: Phoenix Blade" Natsu said as a fire spun around him than latched onto him and he launched himself towards Zero. Natsu headbutt Zero in the gut than his flames propelled them into the sky leaving a trail of fire. Natsu flames than increased in size and covered Zero's body, than after that the flames condensed and looked like the spearhead and some of the flames came off and started spiraling around the spearhead.
The attack kept going through some of the forest till it stopped. Ichigo and Jellal had a look of amazement on their faces as they saw the damage it made to the surroundings as it pierced through the forest. Anything in it's path was destroyed and turned to ash from the intense heat. Jellal wake over to Ichigo to help him stand up.
Ichigo's bankai faded away to reveal his exposed upper body and what remained of his shihakusho from before he went into bankai against Antonio. Jellal was surprised by Ichigo change of wardrobe but remember what he told Wendy about bankai. "Hey King the strain on you body should bearable now that you've rested." Zangetsu told Ichigo.
Ichigo and Jellal both started walking toward Natsu who was laying down next to a tree watching an unconscious Zero. "Hey Natsu you okay?" Ichigo asked him seeing that Natsu was low on magic energy. "Yeah I'm fine I just gotta rest for a bit." Natsu said smiling and standing back up slowly. "What should we do with him?" Jellal asked looking at the unconscious form of Zero.
"Let's leave him for the magic council to find. In his state I doubt he'd be much trouble for them at the moment." Ichigo said turning around and sensing around to find Cait Shelter. "Let go meet up with the others." Ichigo said walking in the direction he sensed them.
Outside Cait Shelter moments later
Ichigo, Natsu, and Jellal made it just outside of Cait Shelter at the edge of the forest surrounding it. When they arrived the other members of the Oracion Seis were all tied up, except for Hoteye who was helping Erza watch after them. The only ones that were there were Wendy, Carla, Lucy, Happy, Gray, Erza, Ichiya, and Jura. Ichigo could sense that everyone else were all resting back at Cait Shelter.
"Ichigo!" Wendy said as she ran up to him and hugged him. "You did it, you destroyed Nirvana." Wendy said. "I did promise that I wouldn't let anything happen to you didn't I? Ichigo said as he patted Wendy's head. "It seems that you destroyed Nirvana and defeated the master of the Oracion Seis our mission here is finished." Jura said as he walked up to Ichigo.
"Actually I just destroyed Nirvana. After that I could do much and had to rest. Natsu and Jellal were the ones that fought and defeated Zero." Ichigo said pointing a thumb at the two behind him. "Jellal helped defeat Zero?" Erza said looking at Jellal in shock. "Wait that's Jellal?!" Lucy said in a worried tone and pointing at Jellal.
"Yeah that's Jellal-" Ichigo didn't even get to finish his sentence as Gray interrupted him. "Isn't this the guy who destroyed the Magic Council from within and nearly killed us during the whole thing with the Tower of Heaven?" Gray asked no one in particular. Ichigo cleared his throat getting everyone's attention. "As I was going to say, That's Jellal but he has no memory of anything at the moment." Ichigo said getting rid of the tension in the air.
"But that doesn't mean jack, he still did so many terrible things." Gray said as he walked up to Jellal but was stopped by Natsu. "Gray we can trust him. Jellal may not remember what he did but he does want to make up for everything he's done." Erza said walking up to Gray. Erza looked at Jellal and had a small smile on her face.
"I want to thank you for your help Jellal." Erza said to him. Jellal looked away and replied, "Erza there's no need to thank me." Jellal said as he turned around. Everybody else left the two alone. Erza walked around him looked at him. "What do you want to do now?" Erza asked him and Jellal looked away again. "I don't know what I want to do but I'm afraid my memories will return." Jellal told Erza who grabbed his shoulder and turned him around.
"I'm here for you." Erza said shocking Jellal with those four words. "Even if you do remember, the current you won't disappear." Erza told Jellal who smiled at the comment. "Hey Erza, Jellal you guys might want to look at this." Ichigo yelled from the other side of the clearing. The two walked over and saw everyone standing looking at something.
"What is it Ichigo?" Erza asked him. Ichigo didn't say anything but swung down Zangetsu in front of him. Erza was expecting nothing to happen but than Ichigo's giant meat cleaver was stopped but an invisible wall and runes popped up. "Runes?! What are those doing here?" Erza said walking up to the runes. "Someone put these here to trap us." Jura said.
"There will be no more violence. So refrain from moving for a while." A voice said making everyone to look for where it came from. The source came from a man standing outside the runes with several people dressed in garish uniforms and holding metal staffs. They all had the symbol of the Magic Council on them. The man who talked was dressed differently.
The man in charge was average height, had long black hair that was tied up on the back of his head, two bangs that framed his face, several strands of hair that covered his forehead. He had purple eyes and wore circular glasses. His uniform was long blue jacket with pink edges and strapped cuffs over a high collar shirt bearing the Council's symbol on his chest. He had white pants, white gloves, a simple belt, and a white cape that was held close by a gem decorated buckle and some shoes with a serpentine pattern.
"Who the hell are you?" Gray asked the man who looked at everyone. "I am the head of the newly reformed Magic Council's 4th Custody Enforcement Unit. I am Lahar." The man said with authority in voice. "A newly reformed council?!" Gray said with a look of surprise. "When did that happen?" Lucy asked looking a little worried.
"We were reborn to enforce laws and justice. We will not forgive any form of misconduct." Lahar said to the group of people standing within the runes. "We didn't do anything wrong!" Happy yelled out trying to defend everyone. "Only purpose here is to arrest the members of Oracion Seis." Lahar said than saw that all the members were tied besides Hoteye.
"It seems that you were able to gather all the members of the Oracion Seis. We'll be taking them if you don't mind." Lahar said walking up to the runes. Ichigo, Gray, Natsu, and Erza grabbed each of the tied members and handed them over. Hoteye started walking forward only to get stopped by Jura. "Richard you don't have to do this." Jura said to Hoteye.
"My good side may have awoken but my sins won't disappear because of that. I have to make things right in order to start over." Hoteye told Jura who understood what he meant. "In that case I'll search for your younger brother in your place." Jura told Richard. "REALLY!?" Richard said in a happy tone. "What is your brother's name?" Jura asked him.
"It's Wally Buchanan." Richard told him. "Wally! I know that man." Erza said walking up to the two. Richard and Jura had a look of surprise on their faces. "He's a friend. He's doing well, last I heard he was travelling across the continent." Erza said and Richard started to tear up. "Even though I just turned to the light, it seems to have bestowed me with a miracle, thank you." Richard said bowing down to Erza.
Richard stood and walked through the runes and let himself get taken into custody. "I feel bad for the guy." Lucy said with a sad tone. "It can't be helped." Gray said then getting an "Aye" from Happy. "The Oracion Seis wasn't our only goal here." Lahar said getting everyone's attention. Ichigo knew where Lahar was going with this.
"Infiltration the Council and causing it's destruction. Firing the Etherion, there's one more among you." Lahar said pointing at Jellal. "Jellal Fernandes come with us, if you resist we have permission to eliminate you." Lahar said getting everyone's attention. "Wait a minute you can't do that." Natsu said as he ran up to the runes pushing against it.
"This man is dangerous, he will never be allowed to walk fee in this world ever again." Lahar said shocking everyone and earning a glare from Ichigo. "Hold on Jellal doesn't remember anything, you can't take him away." Wendy said running up to the runes but couldn't pass through. Jellal was handcuffed and was being taken away.
"It's okay I won't resist. They can take me." Jellal said looking back at Wendy. "I never did manage to remember any of you in the end, I'm sorry for any trouble I made for you in the past." Jellal told everyone than looked at Erza with a smile on his face. "Erza thank you for everything." Jellal said as he turned around and walked towards the carriage.
Ichigo and Natsu both looked at Erza who was clinching her hands and shaking. "This must be hard on Ms. Scarlet. Seeing her old friend return from the darkness only to be taken away because of that same darkness." Old Man Zangetsu said. "I think fire breather over there's going to do something stupid." Zangetsu told Ichigo.
"He's not going anywhere!" Natsu said as he lit his hands on fire. Natsu started punching the runes. Lahar looked back at Natsu "You won't be able to break through those runes." Lahar said as Natsu kept at it. Ichigo looked at than noticed that every punch that Natsu landed on the runes increased in power. "Isn't he suppose to be near zero in power because if that Zero guy?" Zangetsu said as Natsu punched started to crack the runes.
Ichigo watched Natsu than noticed something in Natsu's eyes, the irises were jade green. Than Natsu punched the runes one more time and broke through it. "You were saying glasses?" Natsu said with a smirk. Ichigo looked at Natsu's eyes and they were brown again. 'What the hell did I just see?' Ichigo asked himself.
"That kid's pretty interesting, what do you think takes for it to do that?" Zangetsu asked interested. 'Now's not the time.' Ichigo said as Natsu was fighting to get Jellal back. Ichigo wasn't sure to joined in or not. Ichigo didn't like Jellal but since the guy couldn't remember anything and was helping out with the mission, Ichigo found himself respecting this new Jellal. Ichigo watched as Natsu was tearing through like butter.
"He's one of us and we're taking him back with us!" Natsu yelled as he was going through the soldiers since they weren't much in power, even weaken Natsu was still stronger than one of the Council's units. "Restrain that man." Lahar said making the remaining soldiers charge at him. Gray jumped in taking out some of the soldiers.
"Go for it Natsu." Gray said as he was holding off some of the cannon fodder. "Gray!" Happy said surprised at his actions. "Nobody's going to stop Natsu now!" Gray said taking down some more. "And it pisses me off that this guy helped out with this mission and they don't show even a shred of gratitude!" Gray said knocking back some more.
"It is unjust to arrest a good man." Jura said joining in. "Come with us Jellal! You can't be taken away from Erza! You've got to stay by her side! For Erza's sake come with us!" Natsu said knocking out several more soldiers. "We're all with you! You're one of us Jellal!" Natsu said as everyone but Ichigo and Erza were taking out more and more of the soldiers.
"Arrest them all! They're guilty of obstruction of officers in the line of duty and assisting in escaping a prisoner!" Lahar said forcing Ichigo to make up his mind on what he's going to do. Ichigo released enough Spiritual Pressure to make everyone stop fighting and pay attention to him. "That's enough, stop this!" Erza said as Ichigo resealed his spiritual pressure.
"I apologize for the commotion. I will take full responsibility. You may..." Erza stopped to take a breath. "Take Jellal away." Jellal smiled from where he was standing than stopped and turned around to look at Erza. "Of course, how could I forget? The color of your hair. Farewell...Erza Scarlet." Was all Jellal said as he turned back and walked into the carriage.
"Farewell Jellal" Erza said as the Containment unit left with the members of the Oracion Seis and Jellal. Everyone looked down in shame and disappointment. Ichigo watched as Erza walked away into the forest. Ichigo stabbed Zangetsu into the ground and scowled.
AN: That's the chapter, I hope you really liked it cause like I said before it was a pain the neck to write, literally. I now that some of you guys have some questions about certain things in the chapter.
One thing I know is a big question well be about Ichigo's mask. I gave Ichigo's mask a downside because I have reason. In the canon of the bleach series when Ichigo first got his mask he's body was being strain by wearing the mask. Proof is when he first used it against one arm Grimmjow, after the mask broke Ichigo was too weak to do anything for a while and needed to be saved. Another example is when he used it in his fight against that ex espada that ended after he put on the mask, when he took it off it still put a small strain on his body. When he fought Ulquiorra the first time when it broke he was exhausted from attacking with it on. Even kid Nel noticed that was harming him and talked about it with Orihime when he fought Grimmjow for the last time. My point is the more he wore it the less the strain was and the more bearable it was to use it, same goes for this mask as well. The strain the this mask puts on Ichigo is more intense because the mask taps more into his hollow powers drawing more power, power that Ichigo's body isn't use to. Remember in this story fully hollowified Ichigo has the same power he had back in Hell Verse. More well be explained about this in the future.
Another question well probably be why didn't I put Ichigo in the fight with Zero. I did that because one reason is in the the previous paragraph and the second is because I wanted Jellal to do something more than give Natsu the power to go into Dragon Force. I didn't give Jellal his more powerful attacks other than melee because Jellal still has memory loss and plus we got to see what he could do, somewhat, in this fight. I was going to give Jellal some of his magic spells but most of them were pretty powerful and I didn't know how to get the weaker ones to work in this.
Anyway that's all for this chapter, what do you think well happen in the next chapter? What's going to happen when Nel meets Ichigo back at Fairy Tail? What will happen now that there's a new Council? And what do they think of Ichigo and Grimmjow? Keep reading and supporting the story to find out.
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