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Chapter 13: The Sky Sorceress' Doubt

Wendy, Charles and Brain headed separate ways from Natsu. Wendy was worried about Natsu.

"Will Natsu-san be ok?"

*Flashback*

The group was running to the location where Jellal was last heard. In order to reach Jellal as soon as possible, Natsu who realized that he could not keep up with them, suggested to Wendy to move on without him.

"Finding Teacher is our top priority. Don't worry about me; I will catch up to you. Besides, I can still fight by spitting fire, if not; I have the Sealed Flame Blade with me and I'm a disciple of a Wizard Saint remember?" Natsu flashed Wendy a huge grin urging her to move on. Wendy was really reluctant to leave Natsu alone considering his current condition. He would not last very long if he was to encounter enemies on the way.

"Let's not waste time, you two. " Charles who was worried about Wendy came along with them. "Wendy got into trouble thanks to you. It's still ok to leave without permission but to think Wendy collaborated with you to break the jail. This is unbelievable!" Charles complained. She want to get it done and over with. To find Jellal so that Wendy could clear her name.

*End Flashback*

Wendy, Charles and Brain reached a dark cave where he had contacted his real guild "Oracions Sei" to meet up with him.

As the guild name suggested, including Brain, they had six members onboard. The very first one to greet Brain was Racer, the supposedly fastest man in the guild who was said he might be on par with Tsuna in terms of speed.

"As expected, you really managed to get out of the jail. I almost thought you are done for this time." Cobra remarked while patting his huge purple pet snake.

"I already dispatched the trespassers around this area." Angel, the celestial mage of Oracion Seis reported. "I sure hope that woman take the kid and leave the area. That kid is too weak."

"The Magic Council is going to fire that thing soon." Hot Eye, a mage who had a body of geometrical forms with sharp angles updated the guild.

Brain nodded. His primary concern was the location of that thing. "What about him?"

Racer brought out a coffin in response. "Here it is. He was not the right vessel you mentioned. This was a trap. They are only interested in cloning him." He released the seal of the coffin revealing Jellal who was unconscious and chained up.

"Jellal!" Wendy's eyes widened at the sight of Jellal who had been missing appearing in front of her eyes.

"I thought so. Now we need to heal him. I have something to ask him. " Brain said.

Brain had his reason for helping them which he had only mentioned to "Tsuna" once as he respected Tsuna who reminded him the existence of love between human and defeated him with that.

Brain used to be a part of a dark guild who had been experimenting with dark magic. He joined them to earn a living. He was in charge of experimenting and studying dark magic.

His youngest son who was a capable mage himself had become a sacrifice to an experiment which failed. He had opposed to the idea of having his son as an experiment subject to obtain the use of a lost magic but a colleague had betrayed him and ended up sacrificing his son. Brain had tried to seek help from the Magic Council but it proved to be pointless. Brain fell in despair when he heard of his son's death. Because of this, he understood how sinister the human could be. His other personality, Zero was awakened during this period and he began his quest for revenge.

Brain was aware that he was blinded with hatred when he drained Natsu of his magic power and even went to the extent of using Organic Link Magic on him because he had learnt that he would be cruel to himself if he was to show mercy to his enemy. Who would show his son mercy? He wanted the Magic Council and the light guild to reap what they had sown to suffer what he had went through.

Brain did not expect that "Tsuna" who he had narrated his story to was actually his twin brother Natsu whom he had imprisoned and tortured during his time in Kingdom Empire. He was still unable to distinguish between the twin brothers.

Brain would not ask for Natsu's forgiveness for what he had done to him physically and mentally.

This time, he used his archive magic to contact the guild his elder son had formed, Oracion Seis. He was also a member of the guild and this was the guild he most trusted. His son, Midnight had received words that he was being tricked and he led his guild to this area for investigation, and that was where they found Jellal who was ambushed and badly injured.

"I didn't think that you are still thinking of avenging your younger son to be leading the Wizard Saint to this restricted area. You are lucky that we happened to be around when we found him who was already half-dead. The Magic Council is firing Etherion on this area anytime. What shall we do? We need to retreat if we want to get out of here alive." Racer added.

Wendy was overwhelmed by the vulnerable sight of Jellal. This was the work by an unknown dark guild? Even Jellal who was a level of a Wizard Saint was not their match? Brain walked to her to check with Wendy on Jellal's condition. "How was he? Can you heal him? I need him to tell me what he had found out."

Wendy recalled her meeting with Jellal when she was younger. He had saved her when she got lost in the wood. They had spent some time together while Jellal looked for direction to take her home.

Years later, Jellal went to the Magic School and he became a Wizard Saint. Wendy was not bad either. She did not take long to pass her S Class exam becoming the youngest S Class mage in existence. She reunited with Jellal when she joined the Magic Council and because of Natsu's condition, they were able to keep in contact more often.

Speaking of Natsu, there was something she did not understand. She did not understand why Natsu was unable to fully recover despite her effort in treating him. This might not be related to Zero and Brain as she hoped. They could not reverse the effect. Natsu's body was no longer able to accept magic power. That was just one part of it. The other was related to Natsu's health. His health had deteriorated due to all the stress he had been enduring during this period but there was something which was preventing her healing magic to work on him but she was not able to point out what it was.

She decided that she would ask Brain about it after making sure that Natsu was not around to hear her. Brain might know something about it. It would not be nice if Natsu had heard this conversation. That was why she always had a closed door meeting with Jellal when they were discussing about Natsu and his condition.

"Sure, after this I will like to check with you on something."

"Deal." Brain replied.

Wendy lost her consciousness as soon as she healed Jellal. Due to the severity of his injuries, she spent too much magic power on healing him. Jellal had regained his consciousness. He glared at Brain blankly and seemed to recall something and Jellal took him by surprise by attacking him before taking off. He had something he needed to do.

Meanwhile, Erza did not see Lucy and Happy at the meeting point and she ran off. Erza was worried. She had no time to waste. She needed to find Jellal and take him with her before firing of Etherion.