Oracion Seis Appears
"I'm all fired up!" Natsu said.
"You already said that," Gray said.
"Natsu, can you put me down now?" Lucy asked. The group, with Natsu in the lead, had set out to begin their mission. They were now all heading towards the forest, and Natsu was carrying Lucy in his arms.
"No way!" Natsu answered, "If these Oracion Seis guys are so dangerous, I ain't letting you out of my sight!"
"I'll be fine!" Lucy protested, "I'll stay close to you!"
"I'm willing to carry her!" Hibiki called up, which was a mistake, as Natsu spat a ball of fire past him.
"Don't you guy's take a hint?" Gray asked, "You're lucky Natsu decided to miss!"
"Keep up Wendy!" Carla said.
"I'm trying!" Wendy responded.
"I'm keeping up too!" Happy said.
"Where's Jura?" Sherry asked.
"I thought he was right behind us," Lyon said.
Up at the front, a shadow fell over Natsu, as he looked up, and stopped. As a result of this, Gray ran into him from behind, sending the two men falling to the ground, with Natsu landing on Lucy.
"Will you watch where you're going on?" Natsu snapped at Gray.
"Will you not stop so suddenly?" Gray countered.
"Will you both get off of me?" Lucy asked.
Everyone looked up, and saw a massive airship of some kind, with large wings, and a carving of a horse at the bow. You didn't need to be a genius to tell what is was, and who it belonged to.
"So that's it?" Erza said, with an impressed smile.
"Indeed!" Eve said, "That's the great assault ship, Christina!"
"Wow!" Wendy said, "Its so big!"
"I've got admit that's something," Sherry said with a raised eyebrow.
"But 'Christina'?" Gray asked as he got back up, "Couldn't think of a catchier name?"
"Not looking for your approval," Ren countered.
"Natsu, can you get off me?" Lucy asked. Natsu was still lying on top of her.
"Come on," Natsu said with a grin, "You didn't…" He was abruptly silenced by a Lucy kick to the groin. As Natsu rolled off her in agony, Lucy rose to her feet.
"Sorry, but not in public, lover boy," she said, bending down for him, tussling his hair affectionately. She then got back up straight, and looked up at the airship.
"Well, now that its here, what are we…" She didn't get a chance, when there was a sudden explosion Christina was going down, much to everyone's horror.
"Oh my god!" Wendy cried.
"Christina's been brought down!" Hibiki said.
"How…," Lyon began. From the dust, emerged six figures.
"Someone's coming!" Gray said. Wendy let out a yelp, as she dove behind a rock, much to Carla's displeasure. The dust faded away, revealing the people they had brought Christina in to destroy.
The Oracion Seis stood strong before the group, as they faced down the guild alliance. The light guild members tried to hold their ground, but chances were that most of them were quite intimidated. One of the people that wasn't, was Natsu, whose pain had vanished, and was quickly as Lucy's side, an arm wrapped around her shoulder.
"So, a few bugs have crawled up?" the guy at the lead, who had been identified as Brain, said.
"Light mages are disgustingly predictable, and as such, you're more than easy to incapacitate," the woman, Angel, sneered, "That Wizard Saint and that creep are already such."
"What?!" Lyon said.
"They beat Icihya!" Ren said. If the situation had been different, Lucy would've made a comment how they knew "creep" referred to Ichiya, but this was clearly not the right time.
"I can hear them trembling," the man with the giant snake, Cobra, sneered, "Its more than audible at this point."
"We like to work quickly," the man with the mohawk, Racer, remarked, "But you're slowing us down."
"Money makes a person stronger, yes?" the big guy, Hoteye, mentioned, "So with that in mind…"
"Will you spare us this for once?" Angel asked.
"So I guess that's Midnight?" Lucy asked, "Why is asleep?" Natsu tightened his hold on Lucy instinctively.
"So they acted first?" Erza said, narrowing her eyes, "We didn't think quick enough!" She shot a glance at Natsu, expecting him to charge headlong into battle, but instead, he was staying close to Lucy. That girl may have been the best thing that happened to him, she thought.
"Well, dispatching them is easy enough," Brain said, "Racer, if you will?" In an instant, Racer jetted over to them. Gray and Lyon were the first to move, but they were (understandably) outpaced, as Racer spun around.
"Motor!" Both of the Ice Mages were knocked away.
"Gray!" two Lucy's cried. There was a silence as the Lucy's looked at each other, as their boyfriend stared.
"Two Lucys?" Natsu asked, cocking his head. However, Lucy B quickly lashed out her whip, knocking both of them away.
"That was simple," Angel sneered. The Blue Pegasi and Sherry charged the group, but Hoteye just smiled, and raised his fingers to his eyes.
"With money, nothing else is needed!" Hotter cackled. The ground then swirled up like water, swooping the group away.
"Taste my blades!" Erza said, as she re-quipped into her Bluemblat Armor, and launched several at Cobra, who easily dodged.
"Lucy!" Natsu cried.
"I'm okay!" Lucy said.
"Damn it!" Natsu said, glaring at the group as his chest lit up, and het let loose his fire breath at the dark mage nearest to him, who turned out to be Midnight. However, the fire curved away from Midnight, not a spark touching the sleeping man.
"I'd advise against waking Midnight, it ain't pleasant," Racer said as he materialized behind Natsu, and knocked him away.
"Natsu!" Gray said, as he jumped to help. Gemini then popped up next to him, and they quickly copied, and froze him. None of the other mages were faring particularly well either, as the Oracion Seis members quickly overwhelmed them. Wendy, meanwhile, hid behind her rock, as she struggled, and failed, to overcome her fears. One of the few mages still standing was Erza, who did battle with Cobra.
"Take this!" Erza said, lashing her sword at Cobra, who again managed to dodge no problem, as if he knew here attacks were coming, and exactly what they were. Meanwhile, Racer shot up to Erza, and she had to dodge his attack, after re-quipping into her speed armor.
"So that's Erza Scarlet?" Brain noted with a grin, "I presume you've seen her?"
"Indeed I have," Hoteye answered. Erza still did battle against Cobra and Racer, and as Erza maneuvered out of Racer's quick attack, her attention drifted away from Cobra. In that brief period of distraction, the snake coiled around Cobra struck out, and sank its fangs into her arm.
"Atta a girl, Cubelios," Cobra said with a grin. ERza let out a gasp of pain. The bite itself didn't hurt especially, but there was something else about the bite, something she could feel.
"Her poison won't kill you immediately," Cobra explained cruelly, "Much to the contrary, it will linger, for quite a while I may add." Erza fell to her knees, as the poison began to take its effect. The guild alliance members all lay on the ground now, completely and utterly defeated.
"This was so pathetic I can't even laugh," Brain grumbled, "Weaklings like this, dark or light, don't deserve to exist." He then held up his hand, as dark magic swirled around him.
"Just disappear!" he said.
"This power…," Sherry said.
"What kind of magic is this?" Hibiki asked. Meanwhile, Natsu's fire began to build up around him, but no one was paying attention.
"Dark Rondo!" As the dark magic began to come down, but that was when Brain saw Wendy.
"You!" he said in surprise, as Wendy looked in terror from behind her rock.
"Eh?" The other Oracion Seis guild members looked on in surprise.
"The hell is that?" Cobra asked.
"Do you know her, Brain?" Racer inquired.
"That's the Sky Dragon," Brain noted, his eyes narrowing, as he smiled, "This may bring us some good after all." With that, he held out his staff, which formed a dark hand, and snatched Wendy up.
"Wendy!" Carla cried.
"I'll be taking her now!" Brain said, as the hand retracted back towards him. But just as it was about to reach him, there was a flash of fire, as the hand was severed, much to everyone's surprise.
"Who dares…," Brain growled.
"He managed to overpower Brian's magic?" Angel asked in surprise. When the dust cleared, it showed the figure of Natsu standing there.
"I promised Igneel I'd protect her," Natsu muttered. He was carrying Wendy safe under his arm, and his Eye of the Fire Dragon glowing bright.
"And I can never break a promise to Igneel!" The Oracion Seis were more than surprised that Natsu had managed to repel them, but were even more surprised, when the Dragon Slayer's chest flare dup, and an enormous stream of fire was released that, far greater than they had anticipated. Brain managed to held up his staff, and brought it up to defend. He scowled.
"Damn, when did this guy get so tough?" Cobra said, glaring, and instinctively putting his arm around his snake, Cubelios. Brain scowled.
"No matter," he said, "I'll be taking that girl one way or another." He then spun his staff through his hands, and thrust it into the air.
"Take this!" The dark magic shot upwards before raining down towards them. Natsu got ready to try and form a fire shield, but as it turned out, he wouldn't need too.
"Iron Rock Wall!" Several rock pillars shot out, blocking the attack.
"Jura!" Sherry cried in happiness.
"Damn," Gray said, looking over Jura's handiwork, "That was more than sight." The dust faded, and showed that the Oracion Seis had disappeared.
"Where'd they go?" Natsu said angrily.
"Typical dark mage cowards," Ren growled, "They ran away!" Natsu let out a breath.
"You okay?" he asked Wendy. Wendy just stared up in awe at the man who had saved her, his fiery eye still pulsing, before nodding. Natsu let out a sigh of relief, before setting her back on the ground.
"Wendy!" Carla said, as she flew over, and hugged the Sky Dragon Slayer, "Thank goodness you're safe!"
"You have Natsu to thank for that," Wendy said with a smile.
"And don't forget his sidekick!" Happy said, as he jumped onto Natsu's shoulder. Lucy let out a gasp as she tried to stand up.
"Lucy!" Natsu said, running over to her, "Are you okay?"
"I've been better," Lucy said, before smiling and continuing, "But I've been worse." Natsu smiled, as he pressed his forehead against her own, his Dragon's Eye fading away.
"Good thing you're okay, Jura!" Lyon said.
"Actually I'm not," Jura responded, gesturing to his still bleeding wound, "I would be underneath a different kind of earth if not for Ichiya."
"Men!" Ichiya mused, as he floated up, "Those cowards took one look at us and darted away!" That sounded proud, but he was more than a little beat up himself.
"And now.." He unplugged one of his vials, a scent sliding out of it.
"Smell my wonderful parfume!" he said, "And be healed!" Everyone sniffed it and sure enough…
"The pain's going away," Sherry said.
"This is quite nice," Lucy said.
"Speak for yourself," Natsu said, as his sensitive nose couldn't take it as well as the others could.
"This is our fault," Jura said, "We should've expected a lot more than what we did."
"What do we do now?" Eve asked.
"I think I know," Carla said, glancing over. Everyone follow her look, and saw Erza leaning against the tree, grabbing her envenomated arm.
"How can my parfume not be affecting her?" Ichiya asked dramatically.
"It is quite a mystery, Lord!" the Trimen said.
"She's been poisoned!" Happy said obviously, "Don't you have any antidotes?"
"Yes, but none of them probably strong enough to cure venom of that calibre," Ichiya answered, no longer posing, apparently recognizing the seriousness of the situation.
"Lucy!" Erza called.
"Yes?" the blonde answered, as she trotted up. Her answer was Erza ripping her belt off, causing her skirt to fall to the ground. The Trimen all turned red, but Lucy was quickly put behind Natsu.
"I can't leave the fight this early! Someone!" Erza said, as she tired the belt around her arm, "Take off my arm!" She then tossed a sword in front of the group to illustrate her point.
"You mean…," Happy began.
"What do you think she means?" Carla said. There was a silence, before everyone gasped in shock at that request, save for one guy.
"I don't think anyone in Fairy Tail has the guts to do this, Wendy's too young, and Blue Pegasus is too squeamish, so I'll do it," Lyon said as he picked up the sword, and approached Erza.
"Lyon!" Gray yelled.
"We can't let her die," Lyon said, as he held up the sword.
"But…," Lucy began.
"How naive are you?" Sherry scolded.
"Don't you talk like you know us!" Lucy responded.
"This is going way to far!" Eve protested.
"Surely you're against this!" Ren said to Jura.
"If this didn't come from Ms. Erza herself, I'd be the first to protest," Jura answered. With that, Lyon prepared to bring down the sword, but as it did, it was caught by Natsu. He then lit up his fire, and melted the sword down.
"Her arm is more important than her life, for her?" Lyon asked coldly.
"There's always another way," Natsu responded, "Its a code my guild lives by." At that moment, Erza collapsed to the ground, barely conscious, if at all.
"Erza!" Lucy and Happy cried together.
"What do we do?" Eve asked, "If the poison continues…"
"I have a proposition," Carla said. All eyes turned to the cat, who was now standing next to Wendy, who was staring at the ground. Carla looked up at Wendy.
"Wendy, you can save her," she said.
"She can?" Natsu asked.
"Yes she can," Carla clarified, as Wendy remained silent, "Part of Sky Dragon Slayer magic, is its ability to heal."
"But that's my job!" Ichiya piped up.
"Well then, consider yourself thoroughly outclassed." Everyone stared at Wendy.
"I… I don't know," she said slowly, "Most of my healing is for small injuries, not bad poisonings like this."
"You've got to!" Gray said, "You've got to save Erza!" Wendy whimpered slightly at that.
"Way to not put pressure on her," Lucy scolded. Natsu walked up Wendy, and fell to one knee, and put his hand on her head. Wendy looked up in surprise. The Fire Dragon smiled at her.
"Never sell yourself short," he said, "You were sent here, weren't you? That means you're good, right?" Wendy just looked up at Natsu's smile. She couldn't explain it, but there was something about that smile. It felt so, assuring, as if Natsu had all the answers she needed. A smile crept on her face.
"Okay, I'll do it!" she said.
"Better do it fast!" Jura said, "I can't guarantee how long Ms. Erza will still be here." With that, Wendy hurried over, and began her work.
"Can I have my belt back now?"
(somewhere in the forest)
In the lair of the Oracion Seis, the members were assembled to discuss their next action.
"Well, I'd say that was more or less a success," Angel commented.
"Far from it," Brain answered, "They're all still alive, and we failed to capture Wendy."
"So?" Racer asked, "What's so important about her?"
"Is she worth something?" Hoteye asked.
"In a sense," Brain answered.
"How much?!"
"Not in that sense," Cobra said. Brain scowled, as he clenched his fist.
"I seriously thought we had struck gold there," he said, "Now we're going to have to use our original method."
"Come on, who was she?" Cobra demanded. Brain turned to face his warriors.
"She had the means by which to accomplish one of the most important pieces of our mission," he explained. Everyone knew what that meant.
"Isn't that what the Ut Resugart was for?" Angel asked.
"That ritual is slower, and less efficient," Brain said, "And I would have preferred using the canon fodder to slow our enemies advance, instead of for sacrifices. But that damn…" Dark magic flared around him, as everyone took a step back. Brain took a breath, as he calmed himself.
"It doesn't matter at this point," he said, "We'll have to continue with the original plan." He then looked towards a large coffin that stood before him.
"Once we resurrect Jellal, everything will come together."
Note: I figured one way to deviate from canon was for Wendy to not be captured by Oracion Seis. It may not be much, but hey, its a start. I could still use some additional ideas on how to differ from canon, and it has to be more than just changing who fights who.
With "I See Fire in the Sky" having completed its first arc, I intend to work more on this story, as well as EOTBD. Be sure to review, and check out "I See Fire in the Sky".