A/N- I am mentally fried, y'all. I went to bed at 2 am after posting chapter 23, then woke up at 6am to work on homework until 6pm (now as I'm writing this). I have written three essays today, and I still have two more to write this week, along with working 40 hours this week at work. Some of you may be thinking, "Why are you writing more, after doing all that school work and getting 4 hours of sleep?" My answer, I don't know. I just have the urge to write. And I really want to get back to writing a chapter a week. So, to make up for the last few weeks, I'm getting two chapters out this week.

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Chapter 24

"Holy crap," Tawna shouts as the rocks collide with Brain's body, knocking him against a large bolder. The dust clears to reveal a long ditch where Brain once stood leading back to where the leader of the Oracion Seis lays against the rock.

"Stand up and fight!" Jura's voice booms, "Once you explain why you're targeting the Cait Shelter Guild, then I'll let you rest." The wizard saint glares to his opponent.

"Woah," Gray says, "I guess baldy isn't messing around."

"No, he looks pretty serious," Lucy stammers.

"He's PO'ed," Tawna adds standing between the two teens. The ground shakes once again as Nirvana takes another step towards the direction of Wendy's guild.

"Answer me," Jura snaps to Brain, "Why are you targeting Cait Shelter, there are plenty other guilds that are closer to this location. To go so far out of your way, I makes me suspect a specific intention." Brain says nothing as he stands. He raised his skull staff above his head and a pinwheel of dark green magic begins to spiral.

"That is to be of no worry to you," Brain glares as the magic energy builds, "by the time I reach Cait shelter, you will be nothing but a fading memory," Brain smirks pointing the staff to Jura. The large green cloud of dark magic barrels it way to the bald wizard. Not moving, Jura places his hands together.

"Iron Rock Wall!" He shouts. Three separate slabs of stone rise from the ground blocking the dark attack.

"Holy," Gray says amazed as he hands Tawna a piece of ice.

"That move was amazing," Lucy says, "And maybe a little scary."

"That was so cool!" Tawna grins munching on her ice as she watches the fight play out. Jura swiftly jumps to the top of the slabs of rock to once again look at Brain.

"It is pointless for you to continue attacking me," Jura glares, "I demand an answer to my question, Brain" His opponent once again aims the skull staff at him.

"Why do my motive concern you," Brains snaps as he sends another attack flying Jura's way. Jura's magic energy builds once more, creating another rock wall.

"I told you, your attacks are pointless," Jura states as he blocks the attack.

"Are they now," brain smirks evilly then disappears. He appears in multiple locations until he find himself behind Jura, "got you," He smirks.

"He's over there!" Lucy shouts.

"He's right behind you!" Gray yells.

"Attacking from behind is low, even for the enemy!" Tawna shouts scowling as Jura turns.

"Dark Capriccio!" Brain shoots a beam of dark magic spiraling to Jura. The Wizard Saint manipulates one of his rock wall and bends it in front of his body.

"He's bending the rock," Tawna says in awe. The dark magic continues to drill against the rock wall as Brain begins to speak once more.

"Your defenses are useless," Brain shouts, "Dark Capriccio can make it through anything that gets in it's way. That rock will be ineffective as paper." The dark magic shatters the rock. Jura dodges and jumps back down to the ground, even with the enemy.

"That rock wall was like iron," Lucy says surprised to see it shatter.

"I don't know if I'm more impressed about Brain breaking it, or Jura being able to dodge it." Gray says amazed.

"Jura isn't even breaking a sweat," Tawna says, "It's like this is nothing to him."

"You may need to re-think your claim," Jura states.

"that's true," Brain sneers, "If running is your choice of defense." He pauses for a moment, "So, Wizard Saint, is that how you plan to continue?" His magic energy begins to build once more within the staff, "Dark Capriccio!"

"Iron rock Wall!" The attack collides once more with Jura's wall, drilling furiously through it.

"Do you really think this rock will hold," Brain laughs, "It seems like you are out of ideas!" The dark magic breaks through one layer of rock, "It seems like you are just delaying the inedible. No matter how many iron rocks you put up, my attack will reach you." Brain sneers.

"Another foolish claim," Jura states. He kneels to the ground with a gold magic circle appearing at his feet. From behind, a rock bends and wraps in front of him. Somehow deflecting Brain's attack up to the sky.

"What!" Gray, Lucy, and Tawna shout in shock.

"What just happened?" Tawna asks, "How did he do that?"

"I don't know," Gray answers, "He deflected it somehow."

"Looks like I'm gonna have to try another maneuver," Brain glares, "Dark Capriccio Scream!"

"Iron Rock Wall Supreme!" A line of rock walls stand back to back as Brain's attack collides, breaking through them one by one.

"That's not gonna hold!" Tawna shouts.

"You gotta get out of there, Jura!" Lucy shouts as Capriccio breaks through the last wall. The rubble from the last wall begins to glow, and Jura expels the debris forward crashing into Brain. Knocking the enemy unbalanced, his attack glides past Jura. The Wizard Saint then manipulates the rocks and buried Brain beneath them.

"He trapped him!" Gray shouts.

"That's so cool!" Tawna says with her eyes sparking, watching the magic that is being performed right before her. Rings of magic energy flow out from Jura, heading to the pile of rocks.

"Supreme King Rock Crush!" Jura claps his hands and crushes the rock that are around Brain. Brain's body flies up, then falls back down to the ground with small rocks falling around him.

"That was awesome," Happy says.

"Yeah, he took the rocks from Brain's previous attacks and made another weapon out of it." Tawna states.

"He did it," Gray cheers, as Jura's magic energy begins to fade back to normal, "He defeated the leader of the Oracion Seis!"

"It's over, we won!" Lucy shouts picking up Tawna and hugging her. The tree run over to where Brain his laying and Jura approaches from the other side.

"You still never answered me," Jura states, "Why are you targeting Cait Shelter?"

"Umm, Jura," Lucy says when no response is heard from Brain, "Do you think we can stop this thing now?"

"Please," Natsu gurgles covering his mouth, "Like right now."

"You poor thing," Tawna says as she kneels down rubbing her brother's back.

"No," Brain breathes, "I never imagined I'd fall like this. Losing a battle against a light guild. Please hear my words Midnight, you're our last remaining hope. Don't let the six prayers disappear, they are our only hope at keeping him at bay." Brain says before passing out and one of his tattoos fading away.

"Keeping who at bay?" Jura questions.

"Did one of those black lines just disappear?" Gray asks looking closer to Brain's face.

"I think one of those lines disappeared earlier too, after Natsu's fight with Cobra." Tawna says.

"HEY!" Wendy's voice interrupts the groups conversation as her and Carla run up.

"It's Wendy," Lucy says looking up.

"Just as I expected," Carla states, "Only those hooligans would cause this big of ruckus."

"CARLA!" Happy cheers happily, but collapse due to exhaustion and Cobra's poison.

"Happy, don't strain yourself," Tawna says looking over to the blue cat.

"We're in trouble," Wendy says coming to a stop in front of Gray and Lucy, "I think this thing is headin to my guild for some reason.

"Don't worry," Gray states looking down to Brain.

"Huh?" Wendy looks surprised to see Brain passed out.

"Jura took care of him, and Natsu and Katawna took care of his buddy the snake charmer, over there." He says pointing to Cobra.

"It was mostly Natsu," Tawna smiles patting Natsu on the back, "I just help a little bit."

"Wow," Wendy smiles.

"From what we can gather," Lucy smiles, "This Brain guy was the one who was controlling Nirvana. Hopefully this thing will stop soon."

"This still doesn't sit well with me," Carla huffs, "Did you ever find out why he was targeting our guild hall?"

"Nope," Gray shrugs, "He wouldn't answer."

"I still have some concerns, but at least the worst is over" Jura states and Natsu moans once more.

"Please don't hurl," Tawna scrunches her nose.

"I still don't understand why you aren't sick," Natsu gurgles.

"Wendy put a spell on me," Tawna smiles.

"Yeah," Wendy smiles, "He has motion sickness too, doesn't he?"

"Oh yeah," Gray sighs.

"I can put Troia on him as well." Wendy says running over to Natsu.

"You may want to get some poison out of his and Happy's system as well. They took some pretty bad hits from Cobra." Tawna states, "There's quite a bit in their blood. I can feel it."

"I can help them," Wendy smiles as he begins to get rid of the poison from Happy and Natsu's bodies.

"Wow," Happy smiles sitting up, "I'm feeling better already."

"I'm not," Natsu squeaks, "I don't think my stomach wants to be inside me anymore."

"Here," Wendy smiles as a magic circle appears above his head. A few seconds pasted and Natsu bolts up.

"Wow!" He cheers jumping to his feet, "I feel great!" He bounces up and down.

"Yay!" Tawna cheers, "You're better!" She grins jumping onto his back.

"You're a lifesaver Wendy," Natsu grins thanking the young Dragon Slayer, "I don't even feel like I'm riding on anything!" Natsu grins running in more circles.

"Isn't it great," Tawna laughs from his back.

"Hey Lucy!" Natsu grabs her shoulders, "Summon one of your spirits so I can fight them!"

"Now is not the time Natsu!" Lucy snaps. Tawna slides of Natsu's back and looks between the two.

"What's with the matching outfits?" She asks glancing at Natsu's and Lucy's matching blue clothes.

"Uggg, blame Virgo!" Lucy shouts making the two siblings giggle.

"We should head up to the tower," Jura states stepping forward.

"He's right," Gray agrees, "This thing still hasn't stopped, there has to be something up there to stop it." The group nods and begin their run to the tower in the center of the abandoned city. Standing at the base of it they all look up.

"There was something up there earlier," Natsu states.

"Yeah, it looked like a control panel." Happy adds.

"Let's get up there and see if we can bring Nirvana to a halt." Jura nods.

"Here," Happy says picking up the Wizard Saint, "Carla and I will take turns flying you guys up there."

"Don't volunteer me for things, Tom Cat." Carla scowls, "But I guess that is the quickest way up there." She reluctantly agrees. Happy first takes Jura, and Carla take Gray and Lucy. Coming back down Happy meets Tawna and Natsu and Carla meets Wendy.

"You ready?" Happy smiles as Carla grabs Wendy and flies up.

"Yup," Natsu smiles and picks up Tawna, "Ready, Bugs?"

"No," she mumbles playing with her broken strap of her overalls, "I've had enough of flying for one day."

"You'll be fine," Natsu laughs, "You did well standing on that roof earlier."

"Just because I did well doesn't mean I didn't like it." Tawna grumbles as Happy begins to raise the siblings to top of the tower. Landing on the tower, Tawna make sure to stand as far as she can get from the edge as she can.

"I don't understand," Gray states when they are all present, "I would have thought that once we beat Brain, this thing would have stopped."

"Yeah, and the control panel that was up here is gone." Happy says looking around.

"There has to be another way to stop this thing," Tawna adds standing in the center of the roof.

"Isn't this where Hoteye, I mean Richard, said Brain was controlling Nirvana." Lucy says, "Was he lying?"

"No," Jura states, "I believe him to be a man of his word."

"Well," Carla says walking forward, "Maybe we should rephrase the question. The one who was controlling it is down, but the thing is still moving. Maybe we should be wondering why it is still moving."

"You don't think he put it on auto pilot or something?" Gray asks.

"If that's the case," Tawna starts, "It could be programed to fire at a certain point too."

"My poor guild," Wendy begins to cry. Natsu walks up and places a hand on her shoulder.

"Don't worry," Ne states, we'll find a way to stop it."

"Yeah, we're not gonna let it hurt your friends." Tawna adds.

"So if there isn't a pilot seat or a control panel, how are we going to destroy this thing?" Happy asks.

"We're gonna destroy it, of course." Natsu answers simply.

"Leave it to us to demolish a city," Lucy sighs.

"I hate to sound pessimistic, but" Gray says looking down to the large city below, "that's a pretty tall order."

"Gray's right," Tawna adds, "I know we're good at destroying stuff, but I don't think we could demolish this whole thing in time."

"Before that," Jura starts, "We should see if Brain knows how to Nirvana."

"I doubt that brute would share that information with us," Carla says.

"Yeah, and you knocked him out cold," Tawna says glancing up to Jura, "He may not even wake up until Nirvana gets to Cait Shelter." Tawna Glances over to Wendy, who seems to be deep in thought of something.

"Hey," Gray says gaining the blunette's attention, "Think of something that could help us?"

"Oh, umm." Wendy stutters, "Maybe, I'll let you know when I find it." She says and runs through the door behind the group.

"Wendy?" Tawna yells after her.

"Where do you think you're going Child?" Carla snaps as she follows the girl through the door.

"She sure is determined," Lucy says looking at the door.

"My friend, can you hear me?" A voice echoes through their ears, "It is I, the Wizard known as Hoteye."

"Please tell me you guys hear that two," Lucy shivers.

"I heard it," Natsu says.

"Me too." Tawna adds looking up to the dark sky.

"Did you defeat Midnight, Richard?" Jura asks looking up.

"I tried my best," Richard says sadly, "My magic just wasn't strong enough. Now, listen to me, you guys much work together to bring Midnight down for good. If you defeat him, Nirvana's power source will be rendered dry, and it will stop it's destructive path."

"So we can stop Nirvana without destroying the whole thing?" Gray asks.

"He is directly below you, just outside the royal thrown." Richard's voice states, "His power is not to be underestimated. Please be cautious my friends."

"The same to you Richard," Jura nods.

"What are we waiting for?" Lucy state determined.

"Let's stop this thing." Tawna smirks.

"Sweet, "Gray grins, "This thing just got a whole lot easier."

"I'm all fired up now!" Natsu boasts, "We're coming for you sleepy head."

"He is the only one of the six prayers still left on the battle field." Richard adds, "Every ounce of my trust and confidence belongs to you, my friends. Defeat Midnight, and stop Nirvana for once and for all. Oh yeah!"

"Come on," Tawna smirks, "Let's go!" She says running through the same door Wendy did moment before.

"Let's go kick his snoring butt!" Natsu cheers running close behind his sister. The group darts down the stairs, straight to a large door.

"That has to be it," Gray shouts.

"Aye ya!" Not shouts kicking the door, "Come on, open!" He shouts tugging on the handles. The doors begin to open and a bright light glows from within. The force of the magic power forces the doors open.

"EVERYONE GET DOWN!" Jura shouts as a powerful explosion starts to go off.

"Tawna!" Natsu dives and covers her body with his own as the magic bomb goes off. The Fairy Tail members are thrown in different directions, getting covered in debris. As the smoke clears Natsu pushes himself up off of Tawna. "Is everyone okay?" He asks.

"Uggg," Everyone moans.

"What was that?" Tawna asks pushing herself up slightly.

"I don't understand," Lucy groans, "We're in Fairy Tail and we fell for that trap so easily… Ow" Lucy mumbles as her hits her head on rocks above trying to sit up.

"We are also stupid enough to get buried alive," Gray states looking to the rock dome above them.

"Wait," Tawna says looking around, "Where's Jura?" The Fairy Tail wizards all look at each other and Natsu begins to punch through the rock above creating holes. Each of the wizards pop out of the top of the rock dome and look at their surroundings.

"Oh no!" Tawna gasps, seeing Jura standing in front of where the blast came from, breathing heavily.

"No!" Gray shouts.

"Jura!" Lucy gasps covering her mouth.

"He risked his life to protect up." Tawna says. Any magic energy that hung in air faded around the Wizards Saint.

"Pops, hang in there!" Natsu shouted. Jura slightly turned his head to look at the four wizards.

"The strength you four have," Jura breathes, "Your guild is a luck one. It brings me great relief to know you are still alive." He breathes as he falls back losing consciousness.

"Pops, no!" Gray yells.

"Please don't die!" Lucy begs.

"Jura!" Natsu and Tawna shout as his body hits the floor. Team Fairy Tails scrambles to his side.

"His magic energy is low," Tawna says as they come closer.

"He doesn't look too good," Lucy says worried.

"Just hold in there Pops, we'll get help," Gray says.

"Pathetic," A deep voice echoes through the air, "Brain used the last of his magic energy to set his trap, and only one of you fell from it."

"Who are you!" Gray demands standing.

"Where's it coming from?" Tawna scowls looking around.

"Over there!" Happy points pointing behind the group. Through the smoke, eyes begin glowing.

"He was a disgrace to the six demons," The voice growls as the smoke begins to clear they come to see where the voice is really coming from.

"It-its.." Tawna stutters taking a step back, "Brain's staff." The skull staff floats closer to the wizards.

"But our goal is not out of reach," The staff states, "As long as Midnight still stands, we shall be victorious."

"I don't understand," Lucy shutters as the Staff comes closer.

"Since Midnight is busy," The staff growls, "there is nothing keeping me from disposing of you five myself."

A/N- Wow! Two chapters in two days. Hopefully I can write again this weekend, or next week. Like I said, I want to try to get back into posting every week or two. I love you all! Please review and follow. You have any questions, don't be afraid to ask!