Chapter Thirty-three
"The hell is the Light Alliance?" It was the first thing Laxus had said since the discussion to go home had started.
Freid looked back at Laxus from me at the question and cleared his throat, "The Light Alliance was an alliance between several of the guilds to take down the Oracion Seis back when you were excommunicated. Other than that, none of us really know what happened or really even who else was there, other than the guild names. Only one team from Fairy Tail went and that was Lucy's team."
Laxus looked expectantly at me. I gave a small sigh. I had forgotten that he wasn't there for any of that.
"The Light Alliance, as Freid said was between several guilds. Well... actually, only four. With only a few people from each guild. Many of those people participated in the GMG, actually. It was between Lamia Scale, who sent Lyon, Jura, and Sherry; Blue Pegasus, they sent Ichiya, Hibiki, Ren, and Eve; Fairy Tail, who sent my team; and, finally, Cait Shelter, who only sent one little girl and her cat." I watched as Laxus' eyes, along with everyone else's, widened and each pair flickered to Wendy and Charle.
"Damn," I heard Bixlow whisper from beside me, "I knew she went, because it was right after you guys returned that she joined our guild, but I didn't realize she went alone with just Charle." Bixlow's words seemed to convey everyone's surprise as they all turned to look at me again, waiting for me to continue.
I begin to tell them of the first and, so far, only mission of the Light Alliance. Everything that I knew, anyways. I tell them everything from the first meeting, Wendy getting kidnapped, Erza getting poisoned, my fight against Angel with Hibiki, Nirvana activating, Hibiki almost being overtaken by Nirvana's spell, but then fighting against it and showing me Urano Metria, my gaining of three celestial spirit keys, Hoteye's temporary part in the alliance, the Nirvit tribe, Jura's defeat of Brain, Brain reawakening as Zero, revealing that the other members sealed him away, Natsu, Gray and I being utterly defeated by Zero, Hibiki speaking to us about the way to immobilize Nirvana, all of us getting back up to fight, the fall of Nirvana, the rest of us finding out Jellal is still alive, Hoteye, Jellal and the rest of the Oracion Seis being arrested. I hadn't realized so much happened, and this was just everything that happened on my end.
"After their arrest, we all went to Cait Shelter. There we discover that everyone that Wendy grew up with were illusions of the Nirvit Tribe, and not the descendants like we had thought. Roubaul, the leader, reveals that he was the one who created Nirvana 400 years before and created the village his people lived in. The darkness that Nirvana removed went to the Nirvit tribe and caused them to kill everyone there, Roubaul escaped and died later. He carried on as a spirit, sealing away Nirvana, swearing to watch over it until someone could destroy it, completely alone. That is, until Wendy was brought there, by who they thought was Jellal, but we found out later was actually Mystogan, him asking Roubaul to take care of her, creating the Cait Shelter guild, and its people, just for her." I felt my throat tighten as the tears from before came back.
Clearing my throat to force it open, I continued, "Roubaul, Cait Shelter, and all of the people then began disappearing, Roubaul saying that Nirvana is gone so they can leave, along with Wendy no longer needing them since she had found real people to be with. It was a little while later that Erza invited her back to Fairy Tail with us." I lifted my head when I heard a tell tale sniffle, I had been so wrapped up in my memories during my story that I hadn't realized the others came over and listened in. Several people's eyes glistened with held back tears, but I was looking for one certain girl and her cat.
I noticed Levy awake, mostly healed, and gave her a relieved smile, which she returned. After a second longer of scanning the people who had gathered I saw Wendy and Charle, tears pouring down their faces. Charle trying to hold them in as much as possible, and Wendy attempting to hide her face behind her bangs. I leaned forward onto my hands and knees, and lifted one arm towards Wendy.
"Wendy, Charle," I whispered. They both reluctantly looked at me, I gave them a gentle smile, and that was it. They both could no longer hold back their tears. While it happened almost eight years ago to the rest of the world, it was barely six months ago to me and these girls. If I still got teary eyed after only knowing the Nirvits for a few minutes, then these two can sure as hell cry as much as they want after having been raised by them.
Wendy lifted Charle in one arm and put her other hand in mine. Bixlow moved away as I sat back, pulling Wendy towards me and I let her and Charle rest and cry on me, Wendy's face in my shoulder, her arms wrapped around my waist, as well as holding Charle. Charle held both me and Wendy as far as her small arms would allow, I couldn't even bring myself to care that her claws were digging into my side. I heard the shuffling of clothing and feet as I assume everyone else was leaving to a separate part of the room to give us at least a little privacy.
"I'm sorry." I say softly as I run my fingers through Wendy's hair and stroke Charle's head. "I didn't want to bring up such painful memories for you two." I felt two very small nods as they continued to cry.
By the time that Lahar and Doranbolt came back into the room, Wendy and Charle had worn themselves out completely, and had fallen asleep against me.
"'Bout damn time you got back. How long were ya plannin' on keepin' us here, dammit?" Over past months, I'd come to realize that Laxus drops random letters from his words more often when he's annoyed, frustrated or uncomfortable. When he's completely relaxed or focused, though, he speaks very articulately. This rarely happens when he's out of his home or outside a battle zone. "What'ver. We've decided that we're goin' back to Fairy Tail."
"I can't permit that." Lahar spoke with a glare.
"Too damn bad." Laxus growled out, "We came of our choice, now we choose to leave. Our reason for being here is gone, and since we've done nothing wrong, you can't keep us here."
"Until we know who those people were you aren't leaving. You're better off here."
"Ya, better off where some of your soldiers died before the fight even started, and one of our own could have been killed. Those bastards got close enough to destroy your building and no one even noticed. There ain't no way we're better off here where y'can't even protect yourselves, let alone protect who those guys are after." Laxus snarled in return.
Lahar pressed a hand to his forehead and let out a defeated groan. "Fine. But if you won't stay here then I'm sending Doranbolt with you." Laxus growled low. "Just as surveillance. He won't get in the way of whatever you're going to do. And neither will we. He'll report to us just for us to keep track of what happens."
"Fine." Laxus said before coming to pick Wendy up off me. I quickly place Charle on top of Wendy once Laxus had her settled in his arms. "Everyone, go get your stuff. We're leaving now."
Hello, my Muses. So I got a few reviews asking what the Light Alliance was, so I figured I'd give a short chapter about it... Which got a little longer than I meant it to. But, yay, finally two chapters in one month, barely, I meant to upload this a week ago, and finally going back to Magnolia.
So, as usual, please review anything that comes to mind, send me as much inspiration as possible, and I'll be back soon.