Chapter 7: Countdown

Akira was walking alone, Wendy and Carla had flown ahead. She sat down against a building, contemplating, "How am I supposed to tell them something like...that?" Then she noticed the light, she ran towards it stopping at the cliff just above it, as she looked up she realized they were just across the river from Cait Shelter. "No..."

"I can't do this alone… Akira, Wendy, where are you?" Yuki muttered, taking to the sky with Kuro to see why Nirvana seemed to have stopped. Once they were high enough he could see Cait Shelter in the distance. "No...Kuro down now. I'm going to take on that bastard alone and stop this thing. I'm not waiting for red and blue any longer." he saysas Kuro sets him down,running back inside he left Jura to Happy and Kuro.

Akira jumped in front of what looked to be the cannon, her wings coming out as she readied a large magic circle to absorb the energy from it. As it started to fire, there was a loud boom and it began to lean, the cannon blast just barely missing Akira by a few inches and Cait Shelter. She looked up and there was Blue Pegasus' Magic Bomber Christina. "They fixed it!"

Yuki stopped when he felt the bombing begin but that didn't stop him from going back to Natsu and the others. When he reached where he last left them he saw that they were still out and the one that did it was standing before them. "You're going to pay for this!" he yelled then charged at him recklessly.

He smirked standing still and letting him right at him, then disappearing at the last second, revealing a pillar in his place.

"Hello? Hello, can anyone hear me?" A young man's voice popped into the allies' heads.

"So you pretty boys managed to get that thing flying again huh?" Akira chuckled, landing by Wendy, Jellal, and Erza. "Hey girls nice to hear you're alive and well."

"Woah! How'd you get it flying again?" Wendy asked curiously.

"With lots of hard work," Hibiki replied, explaining that those three and the other two from Lamia Scale were all working together to keep her afloat in the sky. He then went on to explain how to destroy Nirvana, saying that they basically needed to destroy the lacrima controlling the energy in the leg-like pipes. He then uploaded a map into everyone's head using his Archive magic, along with a timer to just before Nirvana will be able to fire again so they had time to get to a lacrima and attack simultaneously.

Akira glanced at the group she was with, "But we only have four here..."

Wendy tugged on her dress, "I-I can't do it..."

"Ok three! C'mon, there's got to be someone else conscious here!" She yelled, "Anybody!? Yuki c'mon!" she hoped he would hear her through the telepathic link provided by Hibiki.

Yuki heard and listened to the conversation, finally chiming in when it mattered. "Yeah yea, I'm here. Stop yelling. Erza's comrades and Jura are out like lights. Some strange man took out the fairies when I tried to get Jura to safety. I'm by them right now but I can't get them to wake up." he explained. "I'll try to wake them again but there's still the threat of this mystery guy here." he adds then chimes out and attempts to wake the fallen fairies once more.

Zero interrupted their telepathic link, saying he was waiting at one of the lacrima they had to destroy. Then forcibly cut the link to him, injuring Hibiki a bit.

Lucy wakes as Yuki helps her up, "We're...here..." She panted, obviously still exhausted, "We may be beaten but we're not broken. We want another shot at that Zero jerk! Right boys?" she smiled as Natsu and Grey got up.

Yuki looked over and saw that they were getting up and sighed. "Good, I hope you guys heard everything because we need to move fast. Nirvana reached its destination and it's going to fire again if we don't hurry. That strange guy you fought is in one of the other rooms so whoever gets there is going to be in for a fight." he says then without wasting any more time he lets them decide what to do, darting off in one random direction

Natsu immediately decided he would go to lacrima 1, which everyone figured that Natsu went to because he could smell Zero there. Grey went to 2, Lucy and Happy to 3, Akira to 4, Erza to 5, and lastly, Jellal to 6th.

Akira managed to get to hers pretty quickly, then realizing that all the flying she did today, even though in short bursts, had taken a toll on her own ether supply. She looked at her fist, clenching it before looking up at the lacrima. Exhaling she said, "I can do this no problem, just have to rest a bit..." she started to meditate, Only 10 minutes left...

Yuki was waiting at the fourth lacrima since he didn't expect the others to make it in time until he heard footsteps. He stopped to see who it was that making their way here only to see that it was Akira. Yuki raised an eyebrow and simplemindedly asked, "What're you doing here? Did everyone else get to their lacrima?"

She gasped, surprised that he was there too. "U-uhm, I don't know honestly but we picked numbers...?"

"I don't remember anyone picking numbers. Anyway, I hope whoever's dealing with that strange guy does it quickly so we can stop this thing already." he says then folds his arms impatiently.

"That's cause you jumped the gun again, damn it Yuki why do you have to do that?" she groaned.

Yuki looked at her then rolled his eyes. "What was I gonna do then? Watch over an unconscious body. Real fun."

"You still could've at least stayed in link with us until it was said to go." she groaned, "Well whatever, I guess it doesn't matter now... 5 minutes till." she sighed looking at the ice for brains, "So who's gonna destroy it?"

"My link was cut you redheaded ass. I didn't cut it myself ya know..." he says then folds his arms and look off to the side. "I guess we can destroy something together this one time..." he states then looks at the lacrima.

Akira crossed her arms, "If you need my help just say so. And...Fine, but only cause this will save our guild."

"Fine. You're always a killjoy when it comes to destroying things anyway." he says then waits as patiently as possible for the next couple of minutes.

"Hey! You know very well I have to watch what I destroy!" she pouted, then getting ready as the timer went into the last minute, cracking her knuckles. "Ready Yuki?"

Yuki lets out a frosty breath and nods. "I'm ready." he replied then takes a deep breath.

Akira's right hand started to glow as she brought about her signature move. "Ether..." She started to run at the lacrima, jumping directly into Yuki's line of fire to use that as a boost at the crystal.

"Ice Dragon Roar!" he says, blowing his ice breath at Akira to thrust her forward into the thrust her arm at the lacrima, going right through it as Yuki's Roar shredded the rest of the crystal to pieces. After a moment Nirvana began to rumble and start to fall apart.

Yuki grabbed Akira and ran out with her in his arms, putting her down once they were outside. "Looks like Cait Shelter is safe now."

She sighed in relief, "Finally..." she hugged Yuki tightly, jumping excitedly, "We did it!"

"That we did but now what will we do?" he asks just before the others showed up to regroup and head out and speak to the leader of Cait Shelter.

Before they could walk more than a few feet, they would encounter an invisible wall made of runes. The magic council's Laharl and his army had shown up to take both "Hot-Eye" Richard and Jellal Fernandez into custody. Fairy Tail decided to fight for Jellal's freedom since he helped with their mission in destroying both the Oracíon Seís and Nirvana. But Erza stopped them, so that Fairy Tail wouldn't get in even more trouble with the council. Then they were let go. And even though the village was relatively close by it was still about a few hour's walk and they were all exhausted, so they decided to simply set up camp for the night.

When the sun was completely in the sky, the beautiful crimson it was this particular morning,they started walking back to Cait Shelter. Aki and Wendy tended to everyone's wounds and gave them some fresh clean clothes. The whole guild came out to see everyone off. "Thank you everyone for saving our humble village nabura..." the chief said.