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As the remainder of the Oracion Seis looked out at the dead cityscape which was spread out below them angel let out a sigh.
"Wow what a dump." She commented on the ugly scenery of ruined buildings, some of which looked like they were built from mud due to effects of time wearing them away.
"Well, what did you expect?" Cobra asked, "This place has been rotting away for four hundred years."
"I'm used to better accommodations than this," Angel replied a disgusted expression on her face.
"At long last Nirvana is on my grasp." Brain said cutting into their conversation. "From this seat of power, I can move this city to anywhere I chose."
"Then where are we going?" Hoteye asked.
"To Era to pay a visit to the Magic Council, but first we'll stop off at a certain guild hall." Brain said with a dark smirk on his face.
"So starting off with a-huh?" Cobra paused and perked up.
"What is it?" Angel asked.
"The Light guilds are finishing off those scrubs down below," Cobra told him. "Sounds like they plan to split off and head up here along with that wizard saint, the weakling will handle those on the ground."
"I see, well, in any case, the lesser guilds I have scattered a great number throughout the city have recalled Erigor to lead them, they should buy us enough time to destroy anyone who may know how to destroy Nirvana." Brain chuckled. "Even so, none of those reincarnates below has a Noble Phantasm capable of destroying Nirvana."
"Noble Phantasm?" Angel looked at Brain questioningly.
"Yes, our allies in Grimoire Heart have shared a bounty of information on the reincarnates and the nature of their powers. I will share with you the information I have on our current enemies."
"Would'a been nice to know this secret information before Jellal pounded us into the ground." Cobra snarked, only to be met with Brains staff slamming into his stomach hard, causing him to double over in pain.
"Well Cobra, the problem with that is that 'some' of you can't keep your mouths shut." Brain spoke looking at him intently. "You might have risked our advantage, and now it is saved for when we need it. Now be silent and listen closely to what I have to say."
Cobra nodded and fell to his knees when Brain removed his staff from his gut and began breathing heavily.
"But first." Brain spread out his arms. "Nirvana begin your march now! Transform my darkness into light!" At this command many strange magic circles began to appear, they multiplied until they formed a ring around the royal throne section of Nirvana. Then a larger screen appeared before Brain, it was like archive magic but far older in design.
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"Man there's no end to these guys," Natsu complained as he punched a dark wizard away with a flaming fist. "Plus that asshole Erigor ran away!"
"Ah quit complaining," Gray yelled freezing a few more. "We need to get up to Nirvana and stop that thing!"
"Lyon. Gray, you and the others handle things here." Jura ordered "Erza, Lahar, Wendy, Natsu and Myself shall go up to Nirvana and stop the Oracion Seis.
"On it," Gray confirmed.
"Roger." Lyon nodded.
"Alright, let's go." Erza said as she got close to Jura, Along with Wendy, Natsu, Carla, Happy and Lahar."
Jura clapped his hands together and magic circle briefly appeared near them before a large stone hand emerged from the ground beneath them and began lifting the five up into the air, rising higher and higher. Even after ten seconds of ascending they were barely halfway up one of Nirvana's huge legs when suddenly the city began moving. Its immense leg pulling itself out of the ground and moving forward cause the ground as well the wizards on the makeshift elevator to lose their balance and fall over.
"Damn it, it's started moving." Lahar cursed, as Nirvana began to cover more and more ground with each step of its legs.
"Hang on, the landing will be rough!" Jura declared a magic circle appearing around his hands.
The stone hand suddenly rose up far faster than it had been, it got faster and faster, causing Natsu to become motion sick, before finally flinging the five humans and two cats into the air. They were briefly together in the air above Nirvana before falling separately into the ruined city.
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Jellal had run and jumped as fast as he could before finally reach the edge of the ruined moving city. Now he had taken to carefully searching the buildings to find the antidote. He had to be careful as the buildings nearer the edge were more worn than those closer to the centre and a single mistake could cause one of them to collapse and potentially destroy the antidote.
"Finally." Jellal sighed as he opened a door and found a vial of light purple liquid sitting on a pedestal. "I've got it, now I just have to get back and-"
A loud crash caused Jellal to quickly run outside just as the building he was in collapsed, unable to withstand the shock of the nearby crash.
"That was close, the antidote is still intact," Jellal said with a sigh as he realised his prize was undamaged. "But what on earth was that?"
The smoke and dirt kicked up by the impact cleared away and upon seeing the figure revealed old instincts kicked in causing him to bow.
"My King, you're here." Jellal greeted Erza who looked at him.
"Jellal, don't bow I'm not a King anymore," Erza stated as she looked around, her invisible sword at the ready.
"No matter what happened or will happen, you will always be my king," Jellal vowed as he stopped bowing.
"Why did you help the Seis find Nirvana?" Erza demanded with a disappointed tone that stung Jellal.
"They had a hostage, she's a Squire of the Kingdom who volunteered to help escort me to prison." Jellal explained unapologetically "They used a magic poison on her, I'd never get her to proper treatment in time."
"And you still won't!" A voice yelled causing Jellal and Erza to move as a reddish cloud impacted the ground where they had been standing.
Standing atop Cubellios who now had wings and was flying, was Cobra whose right arm was now claw-like and covered in purple scales.
"He's a dragon slayer." Jellal explained to Erza "A second generation Poison Dragon Slayer to be precise."
"Second generation, like Laxus?"
"You see 'your highness' I had a dragon lacrima implanted into my body making me far more powerful than that first generation idiot with the flames," Cobra told her with a smug smirk. "Oh, by the way, I thought I'd save you a trip, Sir Lancelot." Cobra pointed down just behind him.
Jellal looked in the direction he was pointing and saw Cosmos lying against a building. Before realising what Cobra had just said.
"I'll fight him-"
"No, you won't" Cobra interrupted. "You take a hike, I'm only interested your Ex-Knight, King Arthur, if you try to help well I might lose control and the poison will flood her brain all at once."
"How do you who we are?" Jellal asked.
"Our pals in Grimoire Heart were all too happy to supply information on all the reincarnates in the Fairy Tail guild." Cobra replied, "Now buzz off your majesty, Lancelot and I need to have a little talk."
"Go, this won't take long." Jellal stated, "Brain is at the top of that tower, he can't use any other magic while piloting Nirvana, so take him out and this will be over."
"Alright, I'll see you soon," Erza said before jumping onto a rooftop and heading for the central tower.
"You have a good relationship with her, considering you betrayed her and slaughtered her knights just to get to her wife." Cobra said tauntingly.
Jellal growled but kept his temper under control, summoning Arondight and readying for battle, he placed the antidote away for safe keeping.
"Don't expect this to go like last time, I have an ace up my sleeve now." Cobra grinned cockily.
"Ace or not, if you know as much about me as you think you do then you know that Arondight has special powers against dragons so second generation or no this sword is going to hurt you far more than it normally would."
"Just try it, Poison Dragon Blade!" Cobra formed a sword out of the poison he wielded and leapt at Jellal clashing with him.
"Big mistake Erik, this fight won't last long if you aren't as good with a blade as are you are at running your mouth."
They separated backed off staring down each other.
"Don't think I'll fall for that whistling trick twice."
"You don't have much of a choice."
"We'll see about that!" Cobra growled as he clenched his fists and began trembling.
Jellal was to guard as he felt Cobra's magic energy rising and then…it spiked and began to change. He felt a familiar magic energy mix with Cobra's own which caused it wildly fluctuate, Erik's veins and arteries became visible with a blue light flowing through them, up his arm and across his face.
When the transformation was complete Jellal quickly went on the defensive as Cobra resumed his attack, but now he was faster, and his attacks were much stronger.
'He's as fast and strong as a reincarnate' Jellal thought as he stayed on the defensive blocking attack after attack 'That magic energy felt like Ultear's but what exactly did she do to Erik?'
"Like it?" Erik asked confidently "It's a gift from our pals at Grimoire Heart, you see the magic energy of you reincarnates is really potent when given to a wizard, it amplifies our power hundreds of times, I can easily match you now! Hell, I bet I could take on the Whole Damn WORLD!"
As the fight intensified nearby Cosmos moved her arm and place her hand into some moss nearby. Unseen to Jellal and Cobra the arm Cosmos used, had veins visible with red magic energy flowing through them. The moss glowed in response to the magic power she put into it and elsewhere on Nirvana a larger section of moss began to react.
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When Jura landed on Nirvana separated from the others he expected to run into one of the Oracion Seis but not this quickly. Now before him was Hoteye, but something was strange, he hadn't attacked yet nor did his stance seem to be an aggressive one.
"Jura Neekis, please we must hurry if we are to stop Nirvana," Hoteye said to him urgently.
"Stop it, but this is what you wanted isn't it?" Jura inquired suspiciously ready for a sneak attack.
"Originally yes, I was going along with Brain's plans, I figured that with Nirvana we could the threat of it to extort heaps of money from countries and cities," Hoteye explained sadly.
"What could you possibly want all that money for?" Jura asked, "You've killed entire armies for it, so explain yourself."
"When I was very young I was caught in a slave raid and taken to the Tower of Heaven, away from the farm where we lived. I knew that even when I left the Tower I knew that I would need vast amounts of money in order to find him. However, Nirvana has since opened my eyes."
"Nirvana opened your eyes?"
"Yes, you may have noticed a large pillar with smaller pillars of black light around it?" Hoteye reminded him "That was Nirvana's first stage and it wildly releases its magic flipping the personalities of those who are teetering on the edge between darkness and light to the opposite of how they normally act. Which is what happened to me, I came to realise that the world Brain intends to create with Nirvana is not the one I wish for my brother to live in. So I will stop Brain and Nirvana, even if it means I may never see my brother again."
"I see, very well, then I accept your aid." Jura said after a few moments of thought "But I will be keeping a close eye on you."
"I understand." Hoteye nodded in agreement before pointing to a large tower that was visible from anywhere in the ruined city. "We must go to the royal throne up there that is where-AGH!"
Hoteye was cut off as a huge plant vine suddenly appeared and wrapped itself firmly around his throat and lifted him into the air. Hoteye's cries became louder as more vines appeared just a bit smaller and wrapped themselves around his limbs.
"I'll help you!" Jura ran towards Hoteye but paused briefly as the largest vine began glowing blue, it looked water was within it flowing away from its captive. Hoteye tried to struggle but the vines held tightly like they were made of steel.
"Is it draining his magic power?" Jura wondered before getting ready to aid his ally.
"No don't!" Hoteye suddenly yelled painfully "Don't waste your time on me, Its sucking away the special magic power that was given to me as an ace in the hole….Reincarnates magic power, when infused to a wizard, can amplify their abilities many times over, not just magic power, but speed and strength just to name a few…..All of the Oracion Seis have marks which contain this power and mine is being drained away."
"If I leave, you could be drained to death by whoever is doing this!" Jura objected.
"And if you delay many more people will suffer." Hoteye countered "Brain can't use any other magic while piloting Nirvana….if you strike quickly and strongly you can knock him out before he even has a chance to release his power…..listen, I am more than ready….to pay for my sins. Just don't let Brain win!"
"I will come back for you, I swear it," Jura vowed, before running off to the Throne to confront Brain.
As he watched Jura go, Hoteye felt himself growing weaker and weaker, darkness began encroaching upon his vision.
'My brother, my prayer was to look upon your face, just one more….time' Hoteye thought before he finally lost consciousness.
Eventually, the larger vine went dim before they all allowed their captive to fall to the ground. When this happened the vines, all began to wither away and die, far faster than was natural, within seconds there was no evidence they had been there at all, save for Hoteye who was now lying face down upon the ground unmoving.
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After finally landing on Nirvana, Shirou had receded, returning control of Wendy's body back to her, to give her a rest. Thankfully Carla had been able to land nearby and fly to them, they were close to the edge of Nirvana far away from the others.
"Carla do you know where the others are?" Wendy asked.
"We were scattered everywhere, I can sense a few fights going on already," Carla replied
"Hey, it's that brat!" Wendy and Carla turned around to see Naked Mummy and few other dark wizards had found them. Including their leaders Zato and Gato.
"Speaking of which," Carla mumbled.
"This is the one who beat you beat idiots up?" Zato asked with a sigh.
"Yeah, boss she's the one!" A wizard who Wendy and Shirou recognised as the leader of the robbery at the Love and Lucky Merchant guild which they stopped.
"Normally I'd say nothing personal, but since you humiliated our guild and got us in trouble with Oracion Seis, it really is," Zato stated as the other wizards prepared their magic cracked their knuckles. "Beating you up will not only restore our reputation but also get the Seis to forgive us."
"Yeah, and we'll get the big reward they're offering too." Gato said before repeating himself "And we'll get the big reward they're offering too."
"Reward?" Wendy repeated the word curiously.
"Yeah, the Seis are offering a big reward to whoever beats up one of you morons and brings you to 'em," Zato explained with a smirk. "Too bad that chump Erigor encountered that pink haired kid and the guy with no clothes, a kid like you will be easy pickings, that reward is as good as ours."
"It won't be as easy as you think," Wendy told them dropping into a stance.
"What are you waiting for an invitation? GET HER!" Zato commanded.
At least fifteen wizards responded and all leapt at Wendy, Carla wasn't worried, however, barely smirking as the child easily sent the first wave flying away. They were quickly followed up by another wave however, Carla saw the tactic. The Leaders were using their guildmates as throwaways to wear Wendy down then beat her themselves.
As Carla watched the 'fight' something caught her eye causing her to turn around. It was a mountain that they were passing. Normally seeing a mountain wasn't that big a deal, but this one had a unique shape that she remembered. So the cat wandered closer to the edge and quickly realised by the landscape which direction they were headed in.
"Wendy!" Carla yelled whipping around to look at the girl whom she surprised with her shout.
"Carla, what is it?" Wendy asked wondering why her friend would shout like that, as she punched away and couple more wizards.
"Hurry up and finish this quickly!" Carla commanded her desperately. "Nirvana is headed for Cait Shelter, If we don't stop it, our guild will be destroyed!"
Recognising the urgency of the situation, Wendy suddenly took in a deep breath, aiming to end the fight quickly. Her cheeks puffed up resembling those of chipmunk.
"Sky Dragons ROAR!" She unleashed the vortex of air from her mouth.
Zato and Gato could only scream as they and their guild were annihilated when the attack impacted knocking them all out.
"We have to hurry!" Carla urged her.
"Right," Wendy replied as both began running deeper into Nirvana, hoping to find some way of stopping it.
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When he landed on Nirvana the first thing Lahar did was conceal himself. As the Heroic Spirit who took up the mantle of Robin Hood, his speciality lay in sticking to the shadows. Creating Ambushes, traps, poisoning meals, amongst other cowardly methods, were all acceptable to defeat the enemy.
The folks of this place were pretty happy under their king, so there was no tyrannical regime to topple. No, their peaceful lives were being disrupted by evil assholes like the Oracion Seis. Helping the authorities wasn't his usual thing, but it was fine. The Magic Council were idiots at worst, but certainly not evil. If they did start abusing their authority, however, they could expect an arrow in the back. Rune Knight or No.
Lahar suddenly leapt to the side, just as a bolt of magic energy zoomed by and impacted, destroying the building behind him and reducing it to rubble.
"Damn, I spent too much time spacing out." Lahar grumbled as he began running, dodging and weaving between buildings as more shots rained down, quickly destroying his cover forcing him to stay on the move.
It didn't take too long for him to figure out where the shots were coming from. So with his trusty Yew bow in hand, he fired returned fire. Only to hear a metallic ping, a quick glance revealed that it was Caelum the Celestial Spirit of the Chisel in cannon form firing at him from the distance.
'So where is-' Lahar's thoughts were cut off as another beam, coming from in front of him this time made him quickly jump back, he had no time to stop however as he was forced to keep moving in order to dodge Caelum's shot from its vantage point as well.
In front of him was Angel, her left arm extended towards him with a hole in the centre of the palm, clearly a magic energy weapon of some sort. He also noted her appearance different, her veins and arteries were visible and had a blue energy running throughout them, all across her body. Her magic energy signature was unstable and fluctuating, something was very wrong here.
"Sorano Agria" Lahar spoke Angel's true name causing her to stop giggling and flinch before the smirk quickly returned. "Your life was ruined by Zeref worshippers, they murdered your parents and enslaved you to build the Tower of Heaven. Yet when you are freed, you work with people who have the exact same agenda, it doesn't make sense."
"The Oracion Seis has nothing to do with Zeref!" Angel yelled angrily, firing on the Rune Knight once again.
Caelum also took this as its signal and resumed firing on Lahar. Know that he knew the Celestial Spirit was there Lahar had little difficulty dodging its shots, but Angels were more difficult, she was much more accurate, her shots far faster and deadlier than any normal wizard should be alone.
"But your partners in the Balam Alliance are," Lahar argued firing back at Angel, meeting her shots with his own, causing them to detonate in mid-air. "Grimoire heart were the ones who controlled Jellal at the Tower of Heaven, they kept you enslaved there, and even now they are working to try and bring Zeref back!"
"Shut up, SHUT UP, JUST SHUT THE HELL UP!" Angel screamed furiously.
Lahar kept his guard up, Angel had stopped firing but that didn't last long. In front of her was a large energy orb larger than Angel and dwarfing even some of the houses nearby. A small grin crossed Lahar's lips.
'She's traded speed for destructive power, which is exactly what I needed her to do.' Lahar braced himself and prepared to put his plan into action. Unflinching even as Angel fired the orb at him.
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Gray was getting tired, he and Natsu had landed together along with Happy, but were surrounded by tonnes of Dark Wizards, they were all pretty weak, but they had numbers and he was starting to get tired.
"You getting….tired popsicle?" Natsu panted, hovering in the air via Happy to avoid the motion sickness which came with being aboard Nirvana.
"Not….on your life…ya fiery freak," Gray replied freezing another Wizard, as Natsu punched away someone else.
"Man, they just keep getting back up…..haven't they got the…..message by now?" Natsu complained as he punched away yet another attacker.
Then, everything went silent.
"Looks like you spoke….too soon," Gray stated catching his breath. "Guess that's all of them."
He surveyed the battle zone, there had to be at least fifty of these morons that they had knocked unconscious. However, the fight had been strange, as some of them had gotten back up and kept coming. But now finally it seemed they were all down for the count.
"That you did flies." Gray and Natsu looked up to see Erigor floating in the air grinning down at them.
"Erigor," Gray growled at the enemy he recognised from Oshibana.
"Who?"
"He's the guy you beat up on the train tracks Natsu." Happy reminded the dense Dragon Slayer.
"Oh yeah, the guy who ran away like a coward the first chance he got," Natsu said tapping his hand with his fist. "You want me to kick your ass again?"
"It won't be as easy this time, I'm different than I was before." Erigor chuckled
"He looks weird, doesn't he?" Happy commented.
Gray was inclined to agree, Erigors, veins and arteries were visible all across his body and through them flowed a light blue energy.
"Grimoire Heart's reincarnate gave me power boost, one that's more than enough to crush the two of you." Erigor cackled
"he looks really gross." Happy commented suddenly.
"I know right, I swear they're moving all over him," Natsu whispered not so quietly to Happy.
"THEY ARE NOT MOVING!" Erigor bellowed summoning his wind magic for combat. "I WILL TEAR YOU APART LIZARD BOY!"
"Oh yeah, bring in on ya windbag!" Natsu taunted challengingly as he ignited a fist
Gray let out a sigh and prepared his ice-make magic as Erigor and Natsu collided.
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A pair of fingers were on Lucy's forehead, she sat on her Vimana, ignoring the battle that the others were taking part in. She had more important things to worry about than some moving pile of rubble.
'My Lady, we've found an item that matches what you were looking for.' Kageyama reported to her through telepathy.
'Down to the detail, I hope?' Lucy asked with a tone that indicated no room for failure.
'Yes Ma'am, according to the research it matches what you wanted, a Divine Construct.'
'Details, Kageyama'
'It's a sword, called The Second Hand of Time' Kageyama began his explanation clearly reading the details of a written report. 'It's a blade forged by some old Blacksmith Deity, and wielded by the God of Time Chronos, who was worshipped by the people of Mildian.'
'Mildian, the ruined city?'
'Yes but there's problem.'
'Explain'
'The fact that the ruins are located in Alvarez is the least of it.' Kageyama continued 'The cavern where the sword is enshrined is located deep beneath the ruins, and its heavily magically protected, there are all sorts of traps and protections, most of them lethal. Our 'guide' says she could take them down but alone it could take a long time, years perhaps.'
'I don't have that much patience.'
'She can speed up the process but, the traps and protections are old and powerful, she requires the aid of someone with a magic resistance of the B-Rank at the least in order to remove them in a timely manner.'
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'How convenient, I'll be acquiring the services of a reincarnate with just such a skill.' Lucy chuckled her mood becoming better 'Ready the expedition, and inform her that I'll have such a person in about a month or two'
'I'll begin immediately'
'Kageyama.' Lucy could feel her subordinate freeze up at her saying his name 'That Divine Construct is central to my plans, inform the expedition that if it falls into the hands of anyone but me, then their suffering will know no end, am I clear?'
'Crystal Milady' Kageyama replied nervously before closing the channel.
Now alone with her thoughts, Lucy suddenly heard a loud crash and looked up in annoyance to see a city walking in her direction six large stone legs.
"Hmph, can't those fools even destroy one walking pile of rubble without me to hold their hand?" She grumbled before looking down to her left a short distance away at the Cait Shelter Guildhall. "It figure's they'd get smart and try to target the last of the Nirvits. Hmmm….No I'll wait a bit longer, in the mean time let's see them resist this."
Lucy breathed in and then out, before flaring her magical power like a great golden beacon. There was no way anyone with any sense would be able to miss it.
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Makarov Dreyar sighed to himself. He was currently in his office trying to catch up the paperwork the council kept sending him. He had the impression that some of it was sent out of pure spite.
It had been about a week since the Fantasia Parade and a week since he'd expelled Laxus. Having to do that to his grandson, and his closest blood relative (Ivan didn't count, not anymore) had deeply wounded his heart. It caused him to remember his grandson's words from years ago when he'd expelled Ivan, his own son.
"Ok so he's made a few stupid mistakes but, he's still your own flesh and blood, he's still your son!"
To say he had absolutely no regrets would be a lie. He wished, there was some way he could bring his relatives back together into Fairy Tail, but Ivan had gone down a path of no return and had done so with no regrets at all and Laxus had nearly killed his guildmates in a bid to become the Master.
Upholding the Fairy Tail way was difficult, and he had to make many sacrifices to keep Fairy Tail together, but in the end, he had made them. No matter how much it hurt to do so….
'AAAGHHH!" A scream from the guild hall snapped him back to reality. Makarov quickly ran into the main hall to see what the commotion was about only to be met with a disturbingly familiar sight.
Everyone who had been enjoying themselves only moments before were now stone statues. At first, he thought Evergreen was up to her old tricks again, but he quickly saw that she too was solid stone.
"Master Makarov Dreyar, do you like what I've done with the place?" A sultry voice from the stage asked.
Moving carefully through the rows of statues he spotted the culprit, wearing a tattered black cloak which failed to conceal her long purple hair. She pulled down her hood, revealing the same woman who had brutalised Gajeel and dumped him in the middle of the parade.
Recalling what Erza had told him of the woman he quickly averted his eyes to avoid meeting her gaze.
"Flare Corona" Makarov recalled the woman's name easily. "What does Ivan want now?"
"Oh don't be like that, I think the place is much better now that it's nice and quiet," Flare smirked taking a seat on the edge of the stage. "No one to interrupt us. I thought it was almost too good to be true when you sent your strongest protectors away on a mission, you practically invited me to come and pay a visit."
"Why are you here?!" Makarov demanded more forcefully this time.
"Ah very well, Master Ivan wishes for me to acquire the Lumen Histoire, so if you'd be so kind as to show it to me I'll take it and be on my way, I'll even turn all your 'children' back to normal on my way out."
"How does Ivan know about-" Makarov was interrupted as Flare suddenly lashed out with her leg and smashed one of the statues, destroying the upper half and leaving only the waist down, but instead of dust and rubble, Makarov was drenched with a great deal of fresh blood, causing him to freeze up.
"That was just one of those townsfolk who like to hang out here." Flare said inspecting her nails "The next one will actually be one of your children, so I suggest that you think very carefully about your answer and whether keeping Lumen Histoire a secret is worth their lives."