Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks
Kanji's POV
We got back to the guild and filled everyone in. Gramps got called into some meeting with the Wizard Saints. We still had no clue why Lucy's dad had the clock in the first place. We decided that our first priority would be to find the Oracion Seis. Freed, Ever and Bickslow showed back up so we had some of the bigger players back in the game. Freed mentioned hearing a rumor about two men who sounded like Erigor and Racer destroying a nearby church.
"The attacks on the churches have stepped up these last few days." Freed said.
"There's still no motive." Erza said.
We hung around the guild for a while trying to formulate a plan.
"What are you doing out of bed?" I heard Wakaba ask.
Kinana was up and about despite having an attack the other day.
"Get back in bed." I told her.
"Do you need something?" Lucy asked.
She didn't answer.
Her eyes…something's wrong.
The purple haired woman started rambling and carving something into the wall.
"What are you doing?" I asked "Answer me!"
"The pain will only end when the world itself ends." She said.
"What?"
She just sat there carving symbols into the wall. She was freaking me out. I stepped up and put my fingers on her temples.
I need to focus; a slight misfire could cause brain damage. I won't let him hurt you again.
"Knock Out Spark!" I let off a small shock that made the girl pass out "Take her back to bed."
Even though she was asleep Kinana kept mumbling about pieces to the puzzle.
"What does all this stuff mean?" Max asked.
Levy and Freed were able to read the mumbo jumbo on the wall and translate it for us. We busted out the Encyclopedia to learn more about Will Nevil, the man mentioned in Kinana's carving. But everything she wrote wasn't listed in the books.
"I say we go out there and beat this Devil guy to a pulp." Natsu said.
"It's Nevil, leave the thinking to the adults." I told him.
"You calling me a kid?!" He shouted getting in my face.
"You wanna go pinky?!"
"Knock it off!" Erza yelled.
"Keep it down I'm trying to sleep." Cana said.
"You've been asleep all day." Kage told her.
"Can't seem to wake up, well you guys wanna find the Oracion Seis?" she asked.
"You're fortune telling." Erza said.
"Yep, I'll divine the best groups and where to go." She nodded.
We laid out a map and Cana got her cards ready.
"I'll divine where the Oracion Seis will appear and who's going to fight them."
Cana focused and threw her cards at the map.
"Alright I'll announce the groups." Macao said picking up the cards.
"Gray and Freed."
"Erza, Evergreen, and Max."
Erza and Ever were all set to settle their score, with poor Max stuck in the middle.
"Next Gajeel, Juvia, and Kanji."
"Alright." I said.
"Freed switch with me!" Juvia begged.
"Bickslow, Wendy, and Kage."
"Interesting." "We'll be a great team!"
"Happy, Carla, Scruff, and Lily."
"And Finally, Natsu, Elfman, Lucy and Michelle"
"One of you switch with Gray this instant!" Juvia yelled at Gajeel and me.
"No Cana's always spot on." I told her "We can't switch."
Sometime Later
"Cana's dead wrong." I told them.
"Wadda ya' mean?" Gajeel said.
"Why pair me with the two of you?" I said.
"Are you insinuating Juvia is a bad partner?"
"Not at all." I told them "But think about it, I use Lightning Magic, Gajeel uses Iron Magic and Juvia you use Water Magic."
"I get it." Gajeel said "We're more likely to attract your attacks then the enemy. I still doubt you'd get hit but it is possible"
"Exactly."
We kept walking till we came to the church.
"Guess we were too late." Gajeel said.
The building had become an inferno. We went to get a closer look and found Hughes on the ground, and then some weird monster thing walked out.
"This doesn't make any sense." She coughed.
The monster talked with telepathy "You're not supposed to question the archbishop's orders."
"He's telepathic."
"They're not with the Oracion Sies." Juvia said "They're with the Legion."
I looked up and saw that creature kicking the downed woman.
I blasted him back "It's not nice to hit your friends."
"I spy filthy guild wizards."
"You work for Zentopia." Gajeel said.
The monster said that they were supposed to follow orders in order to gain a reward. He kicked Hughes towards us and I caught the girl before she hit the ground. I laid her down and looked back at the man.
"You wanna fight?"
"Sinner!"
A magic circle appeared on my arm and then exploded.
"AHH!"
I grabbed my arm
What was that?!
"He's dangerous be careful." Juvia said.
"I'll show you dangerous!" Gajeel said jumping in and swinging a club at the man.
"You have a lot of magic." The same thing that happened to my arm happened to Gajeel and Juvia.
"Your ruptures are so pretty!"
"What is he doing?!"
"It's Rupture Magic." Hughes said "I super powerful. It expands internal magic power and makes it explode. We don't stand a chance."
The man blew us up again.
"I ain't dead yet!" I said getting up only to explode again.
"Ugh…"
"This guy." I asked Hughes "He's Gutman right?"
"Yes."
"Hold this." I said throwing my coat at her before charging forward "I'm gonna fry you!"
"Rupture!"
"Lightning Body!" I shifted into energy and avoided the attack "Lightning Dragon Talon!" I kicked the man back
"Iron Dragon Club!" Gajeel jumped in and pushed the man back more "We gotta buy Juvia some time."
"Demolition Fist!" I punched the man back.
"Rupture!" We both got blasted around.
"Iron Dragon Lance!"
"Laser Eyes!"
Our attacks connected but we were still ruptured.
"I'm just getting started!"
We both exploded again
"AGH!"
"Just give up you can't beat him." Hughes yelled.
"Fairy Tail wizards don't give up."
"There ain't no stopping us." Gajeel told him "Right Juvia."
"Thank you for holding him off."
Juvia appeared from below and trapped the man him in a bubble
"Go ahead blow your way out."
I get it.
When he tried to blast his way out he only damaged himself.
"Now!"
"Raging Bolt!"
"Iron God Sword!"
We attacked Gutman and finally finished him off.
"Our timing could use work." Gajeel said.
"Had Gray been my partner it would have worked perfectly." Juvia huffed.
"Oh really?" I said taking my coat back from Mary.
"That was incredible." She said with a huge blush "You're really handsome."
"I'm engaged."
"Well that sucks." She grumbled "The good ones are always taken.
Kage's POV
"Can this mountain be less steep?" Bickslow mumbled.
"How you doing Wendy?" I asked.
"I'm good."
"Let's get to the other side of the pass."
As we walked between the mountains storm clouds gathered.
It can't be…
"They say mountain weather is unpredictable." Bickslow joked
We then got hit by a jet of water.
"What the?!" I shook myself dry.
"What was the weather yesterday?"
"It's Grim Reaper." Wendy yelped.
"Master Erigor."
"I know no Erigor." He said.
"Your memory was never this bad." I told him.
"I might not remember but I do know what's coming next! Cloud Bursts From Above!"
A gust came down and tried to blow us away.
"A Tornado Rips Through the Air!"
Bickslow and I put up a wall to block the wind.
"I can create weather patterns that defy the very laws of nature. I'll destroy all you flies."
"What did you call me?" Bickslow spat.
"Still using that same name." I added.
"Don't worry I'll support you." Wendy said casting her magic.
I moved forward once she had finished.
"Shadow Knuckle!"
"Gusts from Below!"
The wind was so strong it blew us all away.
"Are you nothing but talk?" he asked.
"A Violent Thunderstorm From Above!" Erigor sent a black cloud charged with lightning at us.
"I can stop it." Wendy said stepping in front of us "Sky Dragon Roar!"
Wendy managed to stop the black cloud from progressing.
"I don't get it he's nothing like he used to be." I said "Why doesn't he remember me at all?"
"It's like he has no soul." Bickslow said "He's like a husk."
"Lightning From Behind You."
"Shadow Wall!" I just barely blocked the attack with a wall.
"Point Blank Baryon Formation!" Bickslow let off a blast but Erigor dodged it.
"He avoided it."
"He can fly!" I warned.
"I can, seems I had forgotten. Can you tell me who you are again?" The Reaper asked.
"Seriously?"
"Have you gone senile?" I asked
Erigor let out another wind blast that Wendy blocked with her own gust attack.
"Move!" Bickslow moved the two of us away as a bunch of cows fell from the sky.
"Umm what?!"
"I'm so sorry." Wendy said.
"That's enough!" I yelled having my shadow punch at Erigor "What happened to you?! You were never this dumb. You remembered everything, you remembered me!"
"Who are you again?"
"Snake Shadow!"
"Lightning From Above!"
The lightning blasted the snake away.
"Master Erigor wake up!" I said punching at him "What would the others say if they saw you like this. A man who doesn't even remember what happened five minutes ago! We looked up to you, we went with you when you tried to attack the guild masters, and we suffered along with you. Where's that man?! Where's my friend?!"
"Who are you talking about?"
"RAH! Shadow Twister!" I spun in the air and sliced at Erigor with my shadow.
"A Twister From Below!"
I got blown back and had to reorient myself.
"Wendy run while you can." I heard Bickslow tell the girl.
"Listen to the man and go." Erigor told her "Or join in their suffering."
I blocked his lightning blast with a wall. Even then a twister came from behind and hit Wendy, but she got up and went right back to helping Bickslow.
"If you ran you might save yourself. Why help him?" Erigor asked.
"I'll never abandon a friend." Wendy told him seriously.
He let off another wind blast.
"Dammit Wendy just go! Sometime you gotta leave your friends behind!" Bickslow told her.
"No I'm not moving, just let me help you!"
"Hngh…who was that?" Erigor mumbled "What did you do?!"
"You got to him…" I said surprised "You broke though."
"GO AWAY! GET OUT!" Eridor started swatting at the air around him like he was being stung by bees.
"What's happening to him?" Wendy asked.
"His mind is turning on him." Bickslow said "His memories are fighting back."
"Come on!" I yelled "You can do it. Remember!"
"Shut up! I can't hear myself think!"
"You can do it Master Erigor! It's me Kageyama, you remember me right?"
"No Stop!"
"Something keeps pushing the memories back." Bickslow said "he's trying but something is stopping him. It's tearing him apart from the inside."
"Wendy." I said looking at the girl "Your healing magic started this…please help him."
"You wanna help the guy who's trying to kill us?" Bickslow said shocked.
"No, I want to help my friend." I told him.
"DIE!"
"Sky Dragon Healing Roar!" Wendy blew through Erigor's attack and the air covered him.
Please work.
When Wendy stopped some black light came out of Erigor.
"Oh no! I only wanted to help." I little girl said
"He'll be fine." Bickslow said "Whatever was clouding his mind is gone now. Good job Wendy."
"Thank you, Wendy." I said hugging the girl "This means a lot."
I got up and walked over to the man.
"Wake up!"
"Don't be so rough." Wendy yelped.
"He may be my friend but he's also the enemy. What's their plan? Tell me! What do they want with the Infinity Clock?"
He pushed me off "Uhh…I don't know everything's a blur. I don't even remember what I was doing?"
"Can you remember anything anymore?"
"I remember a horrible nightmare. It was like some came into my dream, after that just darkness."
"Then you became Grim Reaper." I said.
"Sounds like someone cast a spell on his dreams to control him." Wendy spoke.
"Manipulating brainwaves slowly to go unnoticed." Bickslow said.
"If only I knew the cost when I gave up my memories. I gained powerful magic but it wasn't worth it. Everything was gone in an instant. There's nothing more agonizing that not being able to remember anything. I was lost…till I heard a voice calling for me. I have no intentions of helping you but I am grateful."
"No problem sir." I said looking at the man "I'm always there for a friend."
"Cana! Before she picked the teams she kept saying how tired she was." Bickslow said.
"She has been sleeping a lot." Wendy said.
"That explains it." I said "We got tricked again! The teams were made to play to the Oracion Sies strengths."
"We have to get back and tell the others." Wendy said.
"Right behind you." Bickslow said chasing her.
I got up and started to walk away.
"Kageyama."
"Yes sir?"
"I was pretty surprised to find out that you joined Fairy Tail. A few years ago I heard you had all been killed…I'm glad you're still alive."
I smirked at the man "It's good to have you back sir."
"Are you…happy?" he asked as I turned to leave.
"Yes sir. I've made a ton of friends, and been on adventures you can't even imagine. I even met a girl."
"I may not like the guild you joined, but I'm happy you're happy."
"Thank you sir. I hope to see you again."
The sky rumbled and I looked up.
"What is that?!" some huge mechanical fish was swimming though the sky.
"It's the true form of the Infinity Clock. AH!"
"What?"
"I remembered something. There's a girl in Fairy Tail named Lucy right?" Erigor said.
"Yeah what about her."
"If she's your friend you need to hurry, she's in danger. They're going to try and take her to the castle. Don't let her go. They need a celestial wizard to work the clock for them."
"Thank you." I said running off.
I caught up to Wendy and Bickslow.
"Call Warren now Lucy's in danger!"
Wendy pulled out the card.
"I'm busy what is it?" the man said.
"Call Natsu's team." I said "Lucy's in danger."
"We know." Warren said "Elfman said that they already took her and Natsu. Michelle was a fake."
"Well come back to the guild and regroup." Bickslow said
"We'll see you soon Warren."
AN
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