Chapter6: Akira vs Brain

"Ether Dragon Palm!" Akira rammed a pure spiral sphere of swirling energy into the deranged man's chest, sending him flying and crashing into a building.

"I don't think Red's playing around anymore."

"Yeah... she looks pretty serious to me." Lucy agreed nervously.

Once Brain was sent flying his grip on Natsu and Yuki was lost but that didn't stop the dragon slayer duo from being motion sick.

"Such power..." Brain exhaled, getting up and once again pointing his staff at Akira. Green light swirling and heading towards her, "Dark Bravado!" the attack heads straight for her.

Akira stands firm and fearless, simply putting her hand out, "Absorb!" a mint green magic circle appears before her, Brain's attack seeming to disappear within it.

"Your attacks are pointless and you still need to give me an answer Brain!" Akira demanded again.

"Hmph, why do my reasons concern you?" he asked rhetorically as he fired off another Dark Rondo.

"Absorb!" Once again the mint circle appeared seeming to swallow up his attack. "I told you your attacks are pointless!"

"Oh are they now?" he mocked her, disappearing and reappearing a few meters behind her.

"Behind you!" Lucy yelled.

"Dark Capricio!"

"Absorb!"

"Your magic is pointless! My Dark Capricio pierces anything it touches! Your arm will be ripped to shreds." the man smirked.

The redhead absorbed the whole attack, "You should rethink that claim of yours..."

"If your defense is simply standing there I think I'll be fine." Again Dark Capricio and again Akira absorbed it, but this time using both hands. "You're only delaying the inevitable!"

Suddenly she jumped, a spiraling energy ball that looked like Brain's dark magic. She hit him with it in his chest, ramming him to the ground, "Ether Dragon Return Palm!"

While Akira kept Brain at bay Wendy got to using Troia in order to temporarily rid Natsu and Yuki of their motion sickness. When they quit groaning like little babies they heard the fighting going on even if it was rather one sided. Yuki watched Akira make Brain look foolish and wondered if she could stop him in time, not realizing what they really needed to do to stop Nirvana.

After Akira's attack there was a cloud of dust. As soon as it dissipated it was clear that Akira had defeated the man known as Brain. The man muttered something about keeping someone else at bay then passing out. The redhead clenched her fists, not getting any answers as to why he was targeting Cait Shelter. She was glad, though, that things had finally started to look good, but the thought was short lived as they found out that there weren't any controls in the throne room like Richard had predicted.

Yuki walked up to Akira and apologized for hitting her, then giving her a concerned glance, "Did you find out how to stop this damn thing? Brain's taken out but this thing is still moving."

She looked down, kind of ashamed that they didn't. As the others started to talk about ways to try and stop the thing Wendy gasped as she realized something, or rather someone that might be able to help. "What's the matter Wendy? Figure something out?"

"Well, I don't know actually, but it's our best option right now, so I'll do my best to find him..." Wendy said as she ran off.

"It took forever to find you again I'm coming with you!" Akira yelled, chasing after her.

Yuki watched as Wendy and Akira ran off to get whoever it was Wendy had in mind. In the meantime he'd talked to Natsu and they both agreed they should do something other than just stand there so the two dragon slayers, Gray, and Lucy looked for a way to get inside the moving city's core.

Little did they know…Brain had planted the idea in their heads as a trap. As they opened the door to what they thought was the core room, a flash of light came at them.

Elsewhere; Akira, Wendy, and Carla were running, Akira following the girl. "We're going to find Jellal aren't we?"

Wendy nodded, then Akira stopped running, "What's the matter?" the preteen asked.

The redhead simply pulled her into a hug as her wings came out once again, "You know, I have just enough magic left to help with that." She smiled.

Wendy smiled back widely at her, reassuring the girl and they continued their search, reaching him and Erza after they had defeated the one called Midnight.

After the flash of light happened everyone covered their eyes, unable to see what the cause of it was but figured it must've been a trap set up by Brain.

Yuki's group seemed to be buried under rubble, but when Natsu broke through the top they all found Jura standing there, protecting them from the blast. He fell to the ground, "It brings me great relief to know you are all still alive." The wizard saint said, collapsing on the ground. The man didn't respond at all to any calls or attempts to wake him up.

Then the skull staff Brain kept with him appeared, taking and floating around as its own being. It began laughing for a while and Natsu started whack it on the ground to get it to shut up. Not too long after, following confusion for the meaning of the name of the Oracíon Seís, the skull on a stick started to freak out about their true leader, a man named Zero showing up.

"You scum...You've done an admirable job in destroying my guild." Zero started, "but as its master, I am bound by obligation to take my revenge." he put out his hand, using his Dark magic to attack Gray and Jura.

Yuki took the initiative and leaped in front of the attack, quickly using his Ice Dragon's Roar to nullify the attack. "Natsu, you, Gray and Lucy deal with him, I'll keep watch over Jura." he called out then picked up Jura and carried him back outside to safety.

Though the other weren't as lucky to escape the man. Just a few moments later, but unknown to Yuki, Zero knocked the three unconscious.

"I hope Akira and Wendy return with whoever Wendy was talking about." At that moment Kuro returned to Yuki with Happy and told him what had happened the fairy trio. He growled and thought about charging in there and fighting himself but he didn't want to be reckless nor did he want to leave Jura alone while he was unconscious. 'Hurry up Akira, Wendy. We need to stop this thing soon before it reaches its destination...'

A rumble started deep within the stone beast, and a light shown at the western end of it, Nirvana was about to fire.