Hey all! It's time for Chapter 15!
I went over the chapter a few times trying to decide the order of which to put a few of the scenes, but finally with a few tune ups, came up with this as you see! :D
Pls let me know how it came out! I know a couple might seem short and rushed, but I figured this little arc was a little behind lol, so gimme that juicy feedbacK! XD
Enjoy my lovelies! UwU
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL OR ANY REAL WORLD REFERENCES IN THIS STORY!
Key for story(More will be added IF needed):
BOLD - anger, attacks, surprise
Italic - thoughts, dreams, stressing a word, sass, other end(s) of a phone call, singing and song titles, and The Prophecy
The Rise of Nirvana
Gray ran through the forest in the direction Lyon and Sherry were. Or at least he hoped they were. If he had to turn back around and search the entire mountain range for them, he was going to pummel that pink haired friend of his into the ground. He'd been running for a while now and still saw no sign of his foster brother or the pink haired woman with him. Thankfully, he hadn't run into any of the Oracion Seis either. If he was honest with himself, he didn't think he'd be able to take one of them down on his own. Though he was significantly stronger than when they first faced the Oracion Seis, he doubted it was enough of a difference.
As he burst into a clearing, he found just the two mages he was looking for: Lyon Vastia and Sherry Blendy. Throughout his time away, Lyon had earned the name, Sub-Zero Emperor, and rightly so. He'd continued developing his Ice-Make Magic after training with Ur and becoming one of the strongest ice mages in the world.
In the wizarding world, there were many powerful wizards, but there were a chosen few that were selected to become Wizard Saints, which were said to be the most powerful of them all. Currently, there were eight, with Jura seated at the bottom. In the short time Zeref had made artificial wizards and mages, Makarov had come to one of them. During the time of being principal for the school, he'd been absent for sometimes a month at a time, assisting the council in its attempts to stop Zeref. And from what Gray recalled, one of them was expelled after starting a fight with the man they called Gramps. It wasn't as large as the one they were facing right now, but if he'd succeeded, the damage done might have been irreversible. However, being a powerful wizard himself, Jura felt as though he was no match for Makarov in terms of strength or magic power. And Lyon was striving to become one of them.
Gray stared at his foster brother, who simply returned the gaze to him in kind. He noticed Sherry looking between them nervously, afraid they might start fighting at any moment. Before Gray could say anything, Lyon took the words out of his mouth.
"Relax, Sherry. We aren't going to duke it out," he said, turning back to Gray. "You're here to help search I presume?"
Gray nodded. "Yeah."
"What about your pink headed friend?"
"He went ahead." Gray answered, his eyes never leaving Lyon's. "He suggested I do so while he checked something out."
"Interesting…" Lyon hummed. "And just what might we need help with?"
"What do you think?" Gray shot back. "Now, lets get mo-"
In a flash, his legs were kicked out from underneath him, and the same happened to Lyon and Sherry. In between them stood none other than Racer, the speedy mage who had given him troubles when he first fought them.
"Once again, you're too slow." he remarked as he disappeared from sight, showing up behind Lyon and landing a kick to his side. But to his surprise, Lyon was ready for it. With quick thinking, he grabbed Racer's leg and used his other hand to perform a spell, but one Gray didn't expect.
"Ice-Make: Snow Tiger!" he yelled, as he pointed his other hand at Racer. His hand gave off an icy blue glow, and then a large tiger formed from ice and snow went right through Racer's body. Lyon smirked as his opponent was sent flying towards a tree. But of course, things weren't going to go exactly as he wanted. Racer vanished before hitting the tree and successfully landing a hit on Lyon's side.
Sherry, seeing Lyon in trouble, began her assault. "Doll-Attack: Rock Doll!" Suddenly, the ground morphed into stones, forming a large stone golem. One which Sherry was in complete control of. She ordered it to attack their speedy foe, and it swung it's large arms at Racer, who easily dodged it while yawning and leaning up against the tree. Sherry simply smirked and used another one of her spells. "Doll-Attack: Wood Doll!"
Before Racer could move, the tree he was leaning on morphed into a wooden creature and wrapped its branches. He struggled to move, giving Gray his chance. He gathered up his courage and put his fist in his other hand's palm, dropping them to his side.
"Ice-Make: Lance!" He yelled as he thrusted his hands forward. Multiple lances of ice growing from his hands, shooting towards his target. Just as it looked as though he'd land his attack, Racer disappeared in a flash. Gray cursed and glanced at Lyon. The white haired man nodded, getting the hidden message.
They both yelled in unison as they took their poses, "Ice-Make: Rampart!"
Racer smacked into a large wall of ice, one that encircled them completely. He frowned at their attempt, turning towards them Gray could see the annoyance written on his face as he disappeared again.
"Jeez, this guy doesn't slow down!" Gray sighed, aiming his next attack. Racer appeared and Gray launched another volley of lances. He'd yet to use his Demon Slayer Magic, but he didn't want to use it unless he had to. Lately he'd felt uneasy using it, like it was putting some type of strain on his soul. It was an understatement to say he worried, but he decided to put that to the side to finish this fight and save those around him.
Racer stopped in front of them. "Tch. You're starting to bug me." He said through gritted teeth. He raised his hand high and smirked. "Since you're so slow, I'll help you a little!" he swiped his hand down. "Dead Grand Prix!" The three mages suddenly heard the rumble of engines. They looked around, trying to find the source until strange looking motorcycles crashed through their barrier.
"Get ready for a motor show from hell!" he laughed as he hopped on a red one. Most of the others circled the three mages. Gray, bringing one to a stand still, hopped on. When he attempted to start it, he couldn't figure out how to start it. Then he saw a little wrist clamp with a tube going into the bike. He put two and two together quickly and clamped it to his right wrist. It lit up the dashboard and hummed to life once more.
Gray smirked and revved the engine, charging at the speedster. There seemed to be no weapons so he debated on how to attack Racer from his bike as they crashed through the ice barrier and sped off into the forest. He couldn't tell what Racer was thinking with this race as he began to gain on the speedster. He kept following him as they wound around trees and ended up back within the barrier. Lyon hopped on the back of his bike as he passed, causing it to wobble.
"Dude!" he growled. "The hell are you doing!?"
"You drive, I'll attack." Lyon said plainly as he corrected himself on the back. "It's the easiest way to take him down."
Gray sighed, nodded, and revved the engine, and gaining a little ground as Sherry's calls faded behind them.
"She's gonna be pissed, you know?" Gray smirked.
"I'll take her out to dinner or something when we get through this." Lyon said.
Gray chuckled. "Me too?" causing Lyon to roll his eyes.
"Very funny."
"I'm serious though," Gray said. "I'm starving."
"Just drive."
With Lucy….
Fighting a wizard wasn't as easy as she'd originally thought. Lucy had gotten a few licks in, but despite her efforts, she was getting wrecked. Angel seemed only like a pretty figure, but she had a bite that didn't match the bark. Her blows felt like they were shattering the blondes bones.
Leo and Aries didn't seem to be faring well either. They traded blows, both attempting to beat the other, but with regret and sadness hidden behind their determined faces. Lucy was pained even more by knowing they were forced to fight, let alone see them going at it.
She was beginning to lose her strength, but she knew what she was fighting for, so she pushed onward. She threw a punch at the woman, only to miss and get thrown into the river. She shuddered in the cold water.
Angel smirked, about to smash the blonde's head underwater to drown her, but she was smacked by a familiar pink headed fire mage.
Lucy looked up in surprise to find Natsu, along with Hibiki and an unconscious Wendy joining her.
Natsu extended his hand to her with a smile. "Need a hand, Luce?"
She nodded and gladly took it. "Thanks." she said smiling.
Angel hissed upon their interference and pulled out a silver key. She slashed it downwards and shouted, "Open, gate of the Chisel! Caelum!"
A little robotic orb hovered and hummed upon appearing. Natsu growled and charged it, narrowly escaping a blast of turquoise light. Though unfortunately, he hit a tree. As it broke and fell over, he got pulled down with it. Floating on it, he tried to stand, but to his and everyone's surprise, he puked.
"Natsu!" Lucy cried. "What's wrong with you?"
"Herrg!" he replied, avoiding releasing more of his previous meal. "Vehicleeee!" he groaned.
"That's not even a vehicle!"
"That's gotta suck with that motion sickness." Hibki cringed.
Angel smirked. "Although that was unintentional, I'm rather glad things worked out this way!"
Lucy growled in annoyance. Hibiki, deciding to step in, launched his own attack. He splashed Angel, causing her to look away, then he tripped her. Caelum responded in blasting him with a beam of energy, sending him flying into a large rock nearby. Then, it turned when Angel commanded it to do the unthinkable: it fired upon both Leo and Aries. The gaping holes that went straight through their bodies cause them to collapse. The blonde stared in horror as they began to dissipate into sparkling dust. She crawled over to them, but stopped when Leo held his hand up.
"L-Lucy, it's alright." he said.
She shook her head violently, tears in her eyes. "No it's not!" she cried. "You were just shot through your chest!"
"We'll be back." he said, smiling softly. "We're just returning to our gates to rest. Sure it hurts like hell, b-but we'll be fine."
"I don't care! You're hurt! I can't just let that go!"
Before he could say another word, Leo and Aries fully disappeared. Wiping her tears away, Lucy managed to pick herself up, looking at her other fallen friends, and began charging over and over again at Angel, getting knocked down every single time. The blonde began coughing up blood. The light bluenette sighed. "Just give up blondie," she remarked. "You're not going to be able to win."
"I h-have to." she muttered, wiping the blood off her mouth. "For Leo, Aries, Natsu, Wendy, and everyone else." she said shakely standing again. "I can't give up."
Angel knocked her down once more, and summoned the Gemini twins who transformed into Lucy once more. "Caelum, sword form." she said. The little robotic ball glowed and turned into a blade form of its former self. She ordered Gemini to wield Caelum, though something was different. From what Lucy could see, Gemini Lucy looked torn. She raised the blade upon hearing the command from Angel, but didn't swing it. Instead, to Lucy's surprise, she began crying.
"No." Gemini Lucy said, "I will not kill her. For all these years, we've never met a wizard who's cried and fought with such passion and meaning behind their words and actions. We won't, we refuse!" With that, both the Gemini version of Lucy, and Caelum, disappeared.
"You can't disobey me!" Angel exclaimed. "Come back!"
Suddenly, Hibkik came up behind Lucy and grabbed her head. She shuddered at the motion until he whispered tiredly into her ear, "Prepare yourself, Lucy. I'm going to teach you an extremely powerful spell to finish her off. We can't waste time."
Before she could answer, a surge went throughout her body, causing her to tense up. She felt the instructions being downloaded into her brain, mostly due to his archive magic. A surge of power flowed within her as she began chanting the incantation showing up in her head.
"Survey the Heavens, Open the Heavens… All the stars, far and wide… Show me thy appearance...With such shine. Oh Tetrabiblos… I am the ruler of the stars… Aspect to become complete… Open thy malevolent gate. Oh 88 Stars of the heavens…"
As she chanted, a hole in the darkened sky appeared, revealing all eighty-eight of the constellations in the sky. The stars shining brightly and the power of the spell becoming evident. Lucy's eyes glowed when she opened them as she spoke the final words.
"Shine! Urano Metria!"
It was over in an instant. The astral beams rained down upon Angel, her screams rippling throughout the night. When the dust cleared, a giant crater now sat in the earth, water filling it from the river and carrying Angel's body with it. Though she wasn't dead, she was no longer able to move. She lay in the water as it pulled her as if destiny was putting her in her rightful place. She groaned a few words as she washed away with the current.
"My prayer…. To fade into the sky…. Like an angel…."
As they watched her float away, Lucy and Hibiki collapsed from exhaustion. Meanwhile, somewhere in the forest, Brain felt one of the tattoos on his face vanishing. "It seems as though one of the Six Demons has fallen." he muttered to himself as he gulped and continued on his way.
With Erza….
With every step she took, the scarlet warrior appreciated Wendy's efforts so much more. She'd hated being left behind and watching her friends risk their lives without her being able to do something about it. She also wanted to put what Wendy and Natsu described to the test. She followed her gut as she ran through the trees, until a large black column of light appeared in the distance. Worried, she picked up the pace, running towards the light until she came to a large crater. Inside the crater stood a large tree within that column of black light, and standing before it was none other than Jellal conversing with someone. It was Cobra, staring confounded at the boy she'd called a friend. She didn't engage due to her own confusion at first, but decided to join in.
Cobra ignored her. "How the hell did you come across Nirvana!?" he exclaimed.
Jellal gazed at the newcomer, his eyes widening slightly. He spoke to her, ignoring Cobra's initial question. "I… I know you." he said.
"Jellal, it's me Erza!" she cried.
He gripped his head as if he was trying to remember something. "I-it hurts!" he groaned. "I see you people, and yet I don't know who you are to me! Why can't I remember!?"
"You work for Brain!" Cobra growled. "You work for the Oracion Seis! Remember the jobs Brain had you do when you were younger."
"Jobs?" Erza questioned, not understanding. "What is he talkin-"
When she looked at him, realization was written across his face. He'd come upon something. And by the looks of it, whatever it was wasn't good. Tears welled in his eyes. "N-no way! I-I can't have done these things!"
"Indeed you did, Jellal." another voice said from behind them.
When they turned to see who had joined them, it was of course the leader of the Oracion Seis: Brain. He was smirking as if he'd just won a prize of some sort. Jellal stared in confusion, sadness and anger. "Y-you made me do these things! Didn't you!?" he cried. "You made me want to!"
"Indeed, I did. But you yourself chose to complete those tasks."
"I-I did." Jellal murmured as he looked towards the ground. "Those people I murdered…"
Upon that last word, Erza's heart broke. She couldn't bear hearing him say that. Jellal, the one she'd known to be kind, responsible, and reliable; had killed innocent people? It was unthinkable and yet, he'd done it. She couldn't even speak.
Suddenly, the boy's face hardened. He stared angrily at Brain. "Although I don't remember much, I remember two things: one being that I was to guide you to Nirvana…"
"Yes, and you've done well, Je-" Brain was cut off.
"And two," Jellal continued, touching the tree's trunk, and a purple design started forming on it, as well as his chest. "My morals. My true wish, no matter what happened is to destroy Nirvana."
Brain's face melted to that of terror. "H-how!?"
"I remember now how you taught me magic when I was in that trance you forced upon me," he replied. "You taught me magic when you realized that I had a natural capability for it, teaching me many of your spells, including the one I'm using right now: Square of Self-Destruction! And to assure it's destroyed, I'll take myself down with it!"
Alarm spread over Erza's face when she realized Jellal was planning to destroy Nirvana by killing himself too.
"Jellal! Are you insane!?" she cried.
He looked at her, sadness and regret on his face. "I've killed innocent people, Erza. This is what I deserve."
She couldn't take it anymore. The girl walked up to him and slapped him, surprising him and the other two in their company.
"Do you really think that killing yourself is the answer!? That it will cover for those sins!?" He stared at her as she spoke. "You have friends to live for, friends who care about you! I will not allow you to escape from your sin!"
He frowned. "I knew you'd hate me. Who wouldn't"
"You misunderstand me." she remarked, tears welling in her eyes. "A wise wizard once said: 'We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.'" she said.
He looked at her before chuckling. "Did you seriously quote Harry Potter right now?"
She nodded. "I think it applies at this moment." Staring into each other's eyes, she took his hands. "If you are carrying a burden," she said, "allow me to take part of it."
"Who said that?"
"I did, stupid." she said as the distance between them closed. Their eyes closed and lips crashing together as they held each other close. A million things were rushing to their heads as they separated, smiles upon their lips.
"Adorable, but ridiculous." Brain remarked, swatting Erza away with his staff. She cried out in pain as she hit the wall of the crater. Jellal angrily charged the man who only touched his chest with his staff, causing the Square of Self-Destruction to evaporate from his body, and from the tree. His eyes widened as he was smashed into the ground.
Brain smirked. "Yes, I indeed taught you the spell, but did you really think I wouldn't know how to dispel it as well? In fact, I'm the one who developed that spell when I was still with the Magic Council!"
The two attempted to get up, though Cobra pinned them both to the ground. Brain walked up to the tree and spread his arms in delight. "Now! Let the rise of Nirvana begin!"
Earlier with Jura….
Jura kept marching through the forest, setting his sights on finding Nirvana Immediately. Being one of the Wizard Saints, he felt it his personal duty to assure the ancient magic was destroyed. Though he had yet to figure out how. According to what the Magi Council had told them, there was almost nothing on it, other than it's danger level, frustrating him beyond belief. It didn't make sense on why no one recorded anything in regards to its purpose, or even what type of magic it was.
He sighed. "I just hope we can stop the Oracion Seis before they can use it."
"Well, that's going to cost you." said a voice, causing Jura to whip his head to his left. There stood Hoteye, the large man with the long orange hair. His face was rather strange where it held more geometrical forms with sharp angles. He donned a loose black shirt, with small dark diamonds on the wrists, and a large white collar over his shoulders. His brown pants went down to about halfway up his ankle, with the rest covered by white socks, and he wore brown loafers. He had a brown beaded necklace around his neck, and held a book with his left hand to his chest, making him look like some sort of preacher or missionary
"How so?" Jura asked, pointing to fingers upwards and holding his hand in front of his face.
"Nothing is ever free, no?" Hoteye replied. "That's why it pays to have money! Exactly!"
Jura stared in confusion."What?"
"Without money, no one can have happiness," the man sighed. "so you must keep earning money to buy that happiness, right?"
"I think you're mistaken in your philosophies." Jura said, pointing his fingers at his opponent. Two pillars of rock soared towards Hoteye, only to be turned to liquid at the flick of orange haired man's wrist.
"It seems as though we are evenly matched, Mr. Wizard Saint." Hoteye smirked.
Jura smirked back. "I think you're mistaken."
"You are correct! Since I have a greater love for money, I will prevail! Oh yeah!" Hoteye shouted, sending multiple tentacles of liquid stone at the bald wizard who stopped them with his columns of stone.
Hoteye smiled. "Impressive indeed-"
He was cut off when a tall column of black light shot into the sky. The two earth wizards gazed upon it, one with a face of fear, and the other with awe and wonder. Hoteye raised his hands in jubilation. "Alas, your efforts are for naught! Finally, Nirvana awakens in its first stage! Soon, we'll become rich beyond measure!"
Now with this turn of events, Jura was caught in a deadlock between defeating his opponent, or running to investigate Nirvana. But he was caught off guard when Hoteye began screaming in pain. He howled and thrashed about, his screams getting louder by the second. Jura prepared to fight, though he didn't know if it would help.
Then he stopped screaming, facing away from Jura, turning back to him with a strange face of… happiness?
"No money is needed, only love! Oh yeah!" he said with a cheerful face. Jura's jaw nearly hit the ground. He was confused beyond belief.
"Huh!?"
And much more to his surprise, Hoteye embraced him in a large bear hug. The bald wizard was in complete shock. "W-what's going on!?"
"Why dear me! You don't know about Nirvana's effects, do you?"
"No, I don't," Jura said as Hoteye put him down. With a cheerful grin, Hoteye began to explain.
"First off, you may call me Richard. Richard Buchanan." he said cheerfully. "You see, Nirvana was created in a time of war by a neutral tribe called the Nirvits. They were tired of war constantly ravaging the world, so they developed Nirvana to quell the negative emotions and turn them to positive. At first it was a success and the Nirvits built their home atop it, but it had horrible effects on them which they did not foresee. Nirvana did not only turn negative emotions to positive emotions, but it did the opposite as well, oh yeah! The Nirvits killed each other savagely until all but their chief remained. Horrified by it, he sealed away Nirvana, never to be used again, and the knowledge of it had faded into history. The only catch is how emotions are driven by. If they are of good intentions, the person will revert to the light or be left alone if they already are on that side of the coin so to speak."
"And the other side of the coin?" Jura asked worriedly.
Richard frowned. "If driven by evil and dark intentions, the people affected will be turned from light to dark if caught in the gap between the two, making them do horrible things like how the Nirvits met their end."
Jura shuddered. "If that power was used on the rest of the world…"
Richard nodded, his face holding a grave expression. "It could very well be the end of civilization as we know it. I want to help you, Jura, to stop my former comrades from completing this terrible goal."
Jura smiled. "Well, it's good to have you on board, Richard." he said as they shook hands.
"Yes! Now we shall stop them with the power of love! Oh yeah!"
Lol, I think I should do this now. Didn't want spoilers of any kind.:
I don't own Harry Potter either. Just felt that fit well :P
So... what'd you all think? Feel like I need to redo it? Lemme know in some way shape or form :3 I'll get back to you asap. Thanks for reading! :D
STAY SAFE OUT THERE! BE ALERT, NOT ANXIOUS!
With luv,
WritingHobbyist2020
Song(s) in this chapter:
- None this chapter :P
New character's and their ages in this chapter:
- None this Chapter :P
AS ALWAYS, FEEL FREE TO LEAVE A REVIEW OR A QUESTION IN EITHER THE REVIEW SECTION OR IN A PM, AND THANKS FOR READING! :D
