AN: Screw this arc. Its going to be my worst written chapter and I officially don't care. I can't write this arc anymore so its just gonna have to end. Bad guys lose, good guys win, skip my shitty writing for how because I don't know what the fuck to do with this many characters anymore. I'm sorry I just cannot. This arc needed to END so we could move on with our lives.
*author bows deeply in apology* Can someone tell me where I threw Natsu during the Lucy vs. Angel battle? because I read through what I wrote and I seem to have forgotten that he, Hibiki and Wendy were with her when that battle started. I seem to have lost three of my characters simply because I don't know what the hell they were doing while Lucy was kicking ass.
Also… has it really been 2 years? Wow… what the hell have I been doing with my life…. Here's another update because I do love this story.
Chapter twenty nine
Two mages raced through the forest as the sun began to set. Scarlet red hair fluttered in the wind as the blue haired man casually blasted a member of a dark guild into unconsciousness as he ran towards a destination only he could see.
Erza and Siegrain moved through forest as quickly as they could while fighting against any enemies they could find. Then again, none of these cannon fodder members would be able to do anything against them even if they weren't in a hurry.
The two mages were able to send out any random attack that would leave their ranks devastated as they moved forward towards their goal. They needed to get Nirvana before anyone could find and activate it.
"We may have to allow it to be found."
Erza frowned in the direction of her boyfriend, "I thought our whole plan was about not letting it be found. Why would we take the risk?"
Siegrain sighed, "You and everyone else seem to really seem to over-estimate what the council actually knows. The council allowed it to be sealed this long because they didn't know how to destroy it. They also didn't know what it did. We already know that Natsu can destroy it."
Erza stared at him. "Why wouldn't they research it? You can't seriously be telling me that the magic council found a magic weapon from 400 years ago and just left it here in the forest. They had to have run some tests or do something with it."
Siegrain huffed, "You forget what the magic council is always complaining about - Money. Researching ancient magic comes with many risks to the researches, mages and the surrounding areas. Research always burns funds which the council simply doesn't have."
Erza rolled her eyes and Siegrain tried to hide his grin. Lucy was rubbing off on her even though she tried to keep up her strict image, Erza was slowly letting herself be less responsible and enjoy herself more. He decided not to call her out on it and make her seem self-conscious.
Instead he cleared his throat and carried on talking, like he never stopped, "They're too busy dealing with the active threats like dark guilds and the damage caused by the legal guilds. They're too busy cleaning up the messes we make now to worry about the ones of the past. Once it was discovered and they knew that it was dangerous, they threw it in a hole and tried to forget about it."
Erza narrowed her eyes, "They tried to forget about a dangerous weapon that they left alone, in the middle of the woods with no one even guarding it? The council is supposed to protect the country. Leaving behind magic weapons that they don't understand doesn't seem very safe to me."
Siegrain shook his head because while he didn't agree with every decision the council made, this was one decision that he did understand. He tried to explain it to her, "When it was first discovered they did some research. Mostly it was like scavenger hunting. Anything that could be taken away safely – was. There isn't much known however most of the council believes that this weapon is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. They were unable to figure out what the weapon actually did which meant that they had no idea if it would happen again."
"So they just decided to seal it away before it could hurt anyone?"
Siegrain nodded his head, "Why tempt fate? What if their interfering turned it on and what if it happened again? No one knew how many people would end up dead if they messed with a weapon that they didn't understand. When they decided to deal it away no one knew it was here or what did or anything really."
"They sealed it away and pretended like they never found it. Did they honestly believe that the weapon would be safe forever?"
Siegrain chuckled, "Probably not forever but hopefully long enough that they would have had more answers. Magic is always evolving. They probably hoped that by the time someone found it again they would have a way to destroy it or maybe even know what it actually did. They did some research into it or Brain wouldn't have known how to work it."
Erza sighed as he continued talking, "Before this mess, no one played with magic they didn't understand and no one got hurt because of it. Now that dark guilds know about it however things have changed. We can't afford to just leave it lying around anymore."
"Even if we managed to take them down now, we can no longer guarantee that someone else won't come along and try to use its power for themselves. Too many people know about it." Siegrain said, seeing that he had managed to convince her that they may need to destroy Nirvana.
Both Natsu and Lucy had given everyone on their team, who knew about the time travel, a brief run-down on how this mission had gone. They had been attacked, Erza had been poisoned and everyone else had been mildly injured (which happened again.)
Wendy had been kidnapped and had been unable to heal anyone (also happened again) which forced their team to split up and search for her.
Once everyone split up, both of them were unsure of how the fights had been won. They knew it happened but they didn't know how each battle had been won. They could only speak about what they had been present for and witnessed on their own.
Eventually Nirvana had been unsealed and Natsu and the others had managed to destroy it. He knew that there were giant lacrima which powered the weapon that needed to be destroyed. Natsu had beaten Brain, while the others destroyed the lacrima powering the weapon, ending the threat.
They knew how to do it but Brain wouldn't just let them destroy his precious weapon. That meant that they had to stop each member from Oracion Seis and then they needed to destroy Nirvana itself.
He snapped out of his thoughts and noticed that Erza had been quiet for a while now. She had that look on her face that she got whenever she was thinking about something seriously. He wasn't sure what exactly was running through her mind but he hoped that at the very least she did come to see his point.
Siegrain spoke again breaking her out of her own thoughts, "If we allow for it to be found, the remaining members of Oracion Seis will come to us. Our allies will come to defend it as well. We can launch a final attack. We both already know that Natsu and the others managed to destroy the weapon the last time."
Erza looked at the giant tree covered in chains in front of them, "Do you really want to take the risk? We already know that nothing has gone exactly as they remember it. I do agree that its possible. We could destroy it once more however what if we're wrong? Nirvana may have been destroyed but we still have no idea what the weapon actually does or how the people here died."
Siegrain took his girlfriends hand and kissed her knuckles. He did it partly because he wanted to thank her for listening to him. He knew his idea probably made her worry about everything that could go wrong but she listened to him and she did see his point even if she didn't agree with him completely.
"That's why I asked instead of acting on my own. It's one plan, that could work however we may have to ask for Natsu and Lucy to voice their opinions since they are the only ones who actually know what the weapon will do once its turned on. I just don't like how spread out our forces are and the lack of communication." He continued to explain his thoughts to her even though he knew that she understood by now.
Erza flushed from the kiss and mumbled, "Oracion seis have more experience working as a team. We lost miserably when they were altogether however now they're working alone. You have to admit that separating them has its own benefits."
"I do agree however due to the lack of communication on our side we're still at a disadvantage. Oracion Seis may be powerful together but that doesn't mean they're easy to beat alone. Our team is a mixed bag of talent. We aren't used to working together and Brain must be communicating with his team. While we're here we are cut off from any new information. We currently have no idea how many members of Oracion Seis we still have to fight."
Erza hummed, "They are more prepared for this."
Siegrain nodded his head, "The two of us, standing here is a beacon. We both might as well be wearing a sign around our necks that says 'Nirvana is here' and its too late to change that. I don't think we're going to avoid the location being found."
Erza frowned, "The only way to destroy it would be to unseal it. I do see your point. We can't just leave it here once everyone has been captured. Now that the secret is out we can't just hope and pray that no one finds a way to use this weapon even if we manage to complete our mission."
"Which brings us back to the plan that neither one of us wants to carry out. We may not have much of a choice. We may have to let Brain unseal it so that we can destroy it. If this does happen again there is no certainty that Natsu or Lucy will be able to defend this place again. We may win against Oracion Seis but if Nirvana remains sealed then we leave behind a weapon that can be used against us later." said Siegrain.
Cobra on the other hand stared at the giant tree. Siegrain did not earn the title of wizard saint for nothing. He couldn't get close enough to listen to either one of their thoughts without Siegrain noticing his presence.
He may not be afraid of a rematch against either one of them but he needed to know where they were going more than he needed to fight them. Unlike some of the members in his guild he was able to follow orders and his mission was to find Nirvana.
He watched them for long enough. Neither one of them were leaving and the giant tree with chains on it was pretty much a dead giveaway. This had to be the place where Nirvana was being hidden. He contacted Brain and let him know that he had found the weapon.
By the time Cobra contacted him about Nirvana. Brain had already sent Midnight to deal with Erza. He had already planned to stop by himself and with Nirvana found his plans could finally begin moving forward. The fact that it was those two guarding the weapon was just icing on the cake.
He frowned as he thought about Midnight being forced to awaken to take part in this fight. These good little soldiers should not have been strong enough to take out Angel and Racer. Midnight should not have had to get involved in this mess at all.
Jellal had no twin brother of that he was certain. When he first heard that Hades little pet had found a pawn he had no idea what to think. He knew all about the ridiculous tower however he did not see the reason why the little she-devil would be interested in a little brat from there.
The fact that she had gone so far as to tricking him into believing that he could hear the voice of the ghost of Zeref and then overloaded his mind with dark magic had blown his mind. He always knew that those that followed Hades weren't all that sane but Ultear had been in a league of her own.
The scariest part about her was that she wasn't insane just jealous and angry. That woman – there were a number of screws loose in her and he didn't want to touch any part of her projects with a ten foot pole. Brain did have some sort of self-preservation and he wanted nothing to do with that lot.
Then he met Ultear's little murder project and that kid had his head rocked on every level. He was even a little bit impressed by the level of psychopathy that Ultear had created in him. The kid craved power, fully believed that he was hearing some voice and his magic potential was off the charts.
You could say a lot about Ultear but you couldn't say the woman didn't have an eye for talent and the ability to create drama.
Ultear had been leading the poor kid around by the nose and the poor fool actually believed that he was the one calling the shots. He still wasn't sure why exactly Ultear wanted to blow up the Council but then again it was by far one of her tamest plots and who doesn't want to kill the council sometimes?
Honestly her plan was just so dramatic and over the top. Then again, she had been a teenager at the time and he had been uninterested in her plots. Hades personal pet had been given far more freedom than she deserved.
He had hoped to get rid of the girl and never see the boy. At the time he doubted how much potential her pawn would have and assumed that the toy would soon be killed for some reason or the other.
Ultear rarely kept her pawns alive in her plots. He didn't want to teach some kid only for him to die a couple months down the line. In the end, Brain had only agreed to meet the brat because he owed Hades a favor at the time however meeting the boy was something else entirely.
The little she-devil had certainly done a number on the kids mind and his potential had been astonishing. Brain had ended up teaching the blue-haired little pawn a lot of dangerous, destructive magic and he had taken to it like a fish to water.
There had been a time when he had been curious to see what type of monster the boy would become. Ultear had taken him for a reason which meant that eventually he would use all that destructive magic on something or someone. He had been almost eager to see what chaos he would unleash.
Then just before their final plans could be put into place Jellal disappeared and a couple months later he reappeared in an official guild of all things with a twin brother. The brat that was going around carrying his sticks and using summoning magic was probably his counterpart from the other world.
The time Brain spent in the magic council had opened him up to many secrets that the rest of the world did not know. The mage calling himself Jellal Fernandes was from a different world that meant that Siegrain Fernandes would be the Jellal of this world.
Siegrain would technically be his old student and Brain wanted to know what had happened to him.
He was sure that Ultear had the blue haired man completely under her control until he just disappeared off the face of the planet. Their experiments in the Tower of Heaven had been destroyed as well. Ultear had gone back to check to see where she had gone wrong.
She had also destroyed an island near their little tower project in her rage but she had tried to go back and see where she had gone wrong. It was very rarely that Ultear managed to mess up a mission. It didn't matter whether Hades had issued this request or not. She had a plan and there were very slim chances of any of her plans failing.
The little princess had been simmering in her rage for months until Hades recalled her from the field. He doubted that she would be allowed out for a very long time until she calmed down some. Whatever Hades was planning wouldn't be jeopardized by her tantrums, no matter how favored she was.
Brain smirked at the thought of what she would do the Fairy Tail guild once Hades let her off her leash. They were somehow responsible for her pawning running off and she would make them suffer for interfering in her plans.
The longer she was locked under Hades thumb, the worse it would be for the guild. He would have been curious to see what she came up with if he wasn't so uninterested in getting caught up in her insanity.
Some things just weren't the risk.
Siegrain had been one of their more powerful pawns and Brain wanted to know how he had managed to turn on them so quickly. While Brain and Hades would never be best friends they did run in the same circles. If there was something or someone threatening them then he needed to know and he needed to know how much that information would be worth to the others.
Midnight would be more than enough for the rest of the Alliance however he had a personal vendetta against Siegrain. Brain had hoped to pry the answers out of the exceed but since he had lost that opportunity he was forced to abandon his plans and get his answers directly from the source.
He frowned as he stared in the direction of the forest. Racer had fallen, Angel was defeated however Cobra, Midnight, and Hot-eye were still at peak fighting strength. Angel had always been on the weaker side of the pillars. Her magic was good for retrieving information, planting spies and torture. However she just didn't have as much raw power as the others. Her combat abilities had always been weak.
Racer on the other hand was a surprise. He wasn't sure how the fool had managed to get himself defeated by a bunch of maggots that reported to the council but he had felt Racer fall. He had believed Angels chances of success on her own would have been 50/50 but Racer was just plain embarrassing.
Once he was done with his old student he would have to find someone to replace the fool. However once he got his hands on Nirvana he wouldn't have to worry about replacing the pillars anymore. It would be easy enough to throw the world into chaos once he had control of Nirvana.
As Brain set out towards Nirvana he felt the ground tremble and he knew that Cobra had acted without permission. He had specifically told Cobra to hold his position until he arrived and he managed to start a fight instead.
There was giant pillar of light that covered the entire forest and while it was bright it still held a menacing air towards it. Someone had unleashed Nirvana.
Cobra had not in fact acted without permission. He had been caught by the pink haired dragon slayer. Cobra still was unsure of how Natsu had managed to follow him while he followed Erza and Siegrain. It shouldn't have been possible but then again his wife had defeated Angel.
If he had known that Lucy would beat Angel then Natsu would have taken off towards another target. A dragon slayer is a better tracker. He went looking for another enemy while his wife handled Angel. It made sense but then again it also sort of didn't.
How could someone be so sure that they would win? Natsu had taken off, somehow not caring that his wife could lose. Angel would have killed her but he still left her somehow knowing that she wouldn't lose the fight. What type of blind faith was that?
Cobra didn't know how Natsu had managed to evade his senses for this long unless he had been waiting here from the beginning.
During their fight, they managed to break the lock on Nirvana. It was more of an accident than being on purpose but the giant pillar of light that came from the ground interrupted their fight. Natsu froze as the beam went up and Erza finally got the chance to talk to him without that godforsaken snake trying to poison her – again.
"What did you do?" she cried out and Natsu tried not to wince from her screaming in his ear.
"Lucy handled Angel. I was just getting in her way and I knew that Cobra would be the one to find Nirvana so I followed him. I hoped I could take him out before he contacted Brain but I don't think I made it in time."
Erza did not know what to say to any of that. She and Siegrain had believed that Natsu would want to destroy Nirvana but he tried to stop it from being found. It seemed like luck truly was not on their side. Nirvana had been found which meant that the only thing they could do now was destroy it.
Erza paused for a moment as she stared at him thinking to herself, 'Time may have been manipulated but the future wasn't so easily changed. Even though so many of them had so much information on how this had played out in another life, they couldn't stop Nirvana from being found. Some things were just meant to be.'
Once the pillar of light shot up into the sky everyone in the forest knew that something had happened. It wasn't possible that the mission failed completely but now they were once more working with almost no information and a new set of variables. This mission was a shit-show that showed exactly how well members of different guilds could work together.
They couldn't.
Gray - who had gone looking for Lyon after he threw himself off the cliff because of the bomb that Racer had strapped to chest for some reason was now dealing with a crazy Sherry. He blamed the weird light in the sky for Sherry. And Natsu.
Somehow this was his fault.
Everything that had gone wrong or crazy in his life was due to Natsu.
The man that had time traveled from like a decade into the future decided to screw with him just for shits and giggles. Gray just knew that somehow this insanity was partially his fault. He had to have known something and he chose not to tell him.
There was no way that the pink haired bastard didn't know that a crazier pink haired mage had chased him through the woods using freaking wooden puppets. Gray hated puppets. They always creeped him out from the time they were kids.
He blamed Bickslow. The asshole used to terrorize him with his creepy puppets and he never managed to completely kick the fear. He did manage to hide his fear from the others but there was a reason he kept such a healthy distance between him and the other mage. His creepy puppets still freaked him out.
When Lyon had called out for Sherry to join in the battle, the reason why he had managed to end up encased in Lyons ice was due to her magic. She had attacked using a wood doll and for a split second he had been freaked out. The large, hollow wooden eyes and creepy mouth did not help.
Gray fucking hated her magic and he hated her creepy ass wooden dolls.
He hated the weird light that made her go crazy.
He hated every fucking choice in his life that led him to this moment.
When he got home he was going to seriously take stock of his life because this shit – he did not sign up for this shit.
He was half-naked (losing his shirt and pants sometime during the fight before) and being chased through the woods, by a tree puppet, by someone he couldn't fight back against.
How was this fair? Why did he have to get the girl that was a member of their alliance? He couldn't just kick her ass and leave her in the evil infested forest. What the fuck was he supposed to tell Lyon?
Because Gray was going to find Lyon. Even if he had to dig three feet into the ground and pull his ass out of whatever hole he fell into. He would find Lyon and they would be having words once he did.
However getting back to his main point - This had to be Natsu's fault somehow. For a guy that supposedly came back from the future he really didn't have much information on the stuff that related to him.
For one – Why the fuck was Racer running around with a bomb strapped to his chest? Like where was the logic in that decision? What if it went off during the fight? What if it got him killed? Who walks around with a bomb strapped to their chest like its normal?
Then again that moron was a member of a dark guild and asking them to use common sense really didn't work out. He was not surprised that the moron decided to blow himself up in an attempt to defeat them. He was surprised that Lyon decided to throw himself off the cliff to save him.
Gray still wasn't sure why Lyon decided to do that. He would ask once he found Lyon and there was no way in hell that he was going to just let that insanely stupid decision go but Sherry was currently chasing him through the forest with her puppets.
He was pretty sure that she was ranting and raving about this all being his fault somehow and he really didn't have the time to fight her. He also really didn't have the time to try and convince her that this wasn't his fault. With her level of rage he actually wondered if there was something going on with Sherry and Lyon.
Should he ask Lyon about Sherry when he found him? If the answer was yes then he really doubted that Lyon would be impressed if he knocked her out and left her in the forest even though he really wanted too. Searching for Lyon really wasn't working out while Sherry tried her best to kill him.
Why was it always him that they targeted? Why not Natsu or Siegrain or literally anyone else? The last time they did the whole big mission thing he got eaten. Now he was being chased by someone he couldn't just lying around as an icicle.
For a split second his mind wandered over to Juvia. If the blue haired woman had been here she would have probably knocked Sherry out by now, consequences be damned. However that would have come with its own set of headaches because then they wouldn't have been able to just leave her stuck in the forest all by herself. She could be killed.
He would have ended up trying to explain to Juvia that they couldn't leave Sherry lying alone in the forest and he highly doubted that the blue haired mage would be impressed with him. She had been managing her jealousy towards girls that spoke to him better but he still wasn't exactly sure how she would react to him actively showing concern over another woman.
He didn't want to purposely upset her and then his thoughts came to a halt.
'What the fuck am I thinking about? Why am I even worrying about her feelings when I'm running for my life?'
It was in that moment that he finally muttered a curse and realized that he was in deeper than he thought and once again Natsu was right. This was going to be another problem. One that he would have to shelve and maybe talk to Lucy about it some other time but right now this was just another thing that he was going to blame on Natsu.
Gray jumped as the tree puppet destroyed the trees to his left forcing him to jump out of the way of the broken branches. This also snapped him out of his thoughts and back into the real world and the reality of the situation that he was currently dealing with. However he still couldn't help but call out, "Good thing Lyon wasn't in that direction or you would have crushed him."
Sherry's response was a shriek of rage so loud that he was pretty sure everyone else in the forest probably heard her as well. Her attacks intensified and Gray was forced to duck or lose his head to one of her puppets wooden arms.
Gray created a shield that shattered on impact. He used the force of the blow to send him flying through the air as he created a battering ram. He used it to knock the wood doll backwards and away from him. His battering ram managed to pierce through the wooden doll finally destroying it. The blast from the puppet sent Sherry flying towards a tree, stunning her.
He took the breather and used it to stare at the light in the sky. That was probably Nirvana. Whatever the light did turned Sherry crazy which meant that Natsu was probably in the middle of the mess. He glanced at Sherry and noticed that she was getting ready to create another puppet.
He cursed again and took off running towards the light, looking for Lyon and leading Sherry to the others. Whatever the hell was going to happen next would happen by the light so he ran towards it. Hopefully someone there would have a plan and know how to turn Sherry back to normal.
Meanwhile Jura had been fighting against Hot-eye. The money obsessed member of Oracion Seis was actually quiet powerful. He still wasn't sure what the reason for the mages strange appearance had been but he was able to hold his own against Jura. Their magical abilities had actually cancelled each other out for a while, leaving them at a stalemate.
As far as Jura could tell Hot-Eye was only interested in Nirvana for money. He was uninterested in who would get hurt via the weapon or what would happen once it was in Brain's possession. However just because he seemed uninterested did not mean that he didn't know. Jura wondered for a moment if Hot-Eye would be willing to sell the information on Brain and Nirvana to him if he had the means to offer such a price.
At least those were his thoughts before the light in the sky appeared. There was a moment when Hot-Eye almost seemed to be in pain and Jura couldn't just ignore the fact that they may need help. Just because they were enemies didn't mean that he could just watch the other man die in front of him for no known reason.
On the other hand Hot-Eye was a powerful mage who could take care of himself. The pillar of light was probably something relating to Nirvana and while he wanted to bring him in, he couldn't ignore the possibility of Nirvana being found by his enemies.
His mission was to prevent Nirvana from falling into the enemies hands. Hot-Eye, while being a powerful and valuable member of Oracion Seis doesn't change the fact that he was not the leader of the guild, nor did he seem to know much about the plan.
"I wonder when I became so obsessed with money that I became such a heartless person."
Jura frowned as he stared at Hot-Eye who seemed to be crying about being a better person, something about love and how he just wanted money to find his younger brother. He needed money to find his brother who had been kidnapped a long time ago. The search needed funds and there was no easier way to make money than to steal it.
"Those with money always come out on top and I dedicated my prayer to him. I wonder if he could see me now would he be proud of who I've become?"
Jura had no idea what this guy was talking about. He had no idea what the hell this mage had been going on about since they first started fighting but he seemed to be having some sort of change of heart. He did not know why, in his heart he suspected that it had something to do with Nirvana or the light in the sky but right now he had a chance of turning one of the enemy into his ally.
"I don't believe that those with money will always come out on top. I have met many rich people, all of whom have lost something whether it was a person, object or time itself but all the money in the world never made them happy. The only way to get what you want is to plant your feet firmly in the ground, stand up and fight for it. The one with the strongest conviction will always be the winner."
Jura braced himself for an attack when Hot-Eye suddenly moved and wrapped his arms around him. It took him a second to realize that the man was hugging him and expressing his wish to show his guildmates the beauty of love or something. He still wasn't sure but this way he managed to go check out the weird light and he got to keep an eye on Hot-Eye so he won. He guessed.
This was by far the strangest mission he had ever taken.
Lucy stared at the light, realized that Natsu wasn't anywhere near her and sighed.
"Hibiki, you stay here and try to gather as many people as you can. Check on the injured as well. Wendy and I are going to check out the light."
"Are you sure it's a good idea to spilt up?" he asked her and Lucy just nodded her head. She was determined and made up her mind on how the rest of this insanity was going to play out.
"That light is Nirvana. Erza and Siegrain may need help or healing since its been unsealed. Whoever is able to fight or not currently in the middle of a battle will head towards it. Anyone else is for you to either find or contact using telepathy. Once you've managed to locate everyone you can try to contact me or Wendy or Natsu so you can be updated on the situation with Nirvana."
Hibiki nodded his head, "I wish I could argue with your logic but I can't. Anyone that is able to fight or not currently fighting will head towards the pillar. Both allies and enemies will go there and try to take Nirvana for themselves. We need to do a head count."
Lucy nodded her head, "Once you've found, gathered and healed up everyone you can then you contact us. You'll get an update from us and then you get to be our backup. We may need an extraction or just plain back up to help take down whatever is happening."
Hibiki agreed with her plan as rough as it was for now and immediately started trying to contact his guild mates or really anyone that wasn't in Fairy Tail that had come on this mission with them. He suspected that all Fairy Tail mages were heading towards the beam and while he was sure that they would be able to take down any members of Oracion Seis that they managed to find they couldn't ignore the fact that Nirvana had been unsealed.
While Fairy Tail dealt with Oracion Seis, the rest of them would have to come up with a plan to deal with Nirvana because he highly doubted that Lucy had a plan to deal with the weapon even if she knew what it did. And there was no way that she didn't at least suspect what Nirvana did.