AN: So here is the next chapter and we find ourselves drawing to the close of the Oración Seis arc. Things are moving at a pace and Percy's impact can already been seen as the character act differently, due to his presence changing the way things went in canon. His impact will have both good and bad effects when compared with canon, but remember Percy has been in the Fairy Tail world for a while.
For the most part I like how this story is going, it is moving forwards without getting to bogged down in specific and unnecessary events, which is something I think is a problem for a lot of Fairy Tail crossovers, which is why a lot don't get passed a few chapters before they are stopped. Hopefully this one will be completed.
I already have a number of arcs both canon and unique new ones planned out. As well as the pairings selected, one which I think has been done before, but which has never progressed beyond a couple of chapters before the story was abandoned. I've decided to be a pain in the arse and keep the pairings to myself, as I want to keep people guessing, I also want to see whether anyone will be able to guess. If anyone does guess though I will tell them if they want me to.
But anyway here is the next chapter and I hope you all enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or Percy Jackson.
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(Last Time)
Jogging through the forest, Natsu was soon drawn to a stop as he saw a pillar of black and white power explode into the sky.
The pink haired dragon slayer's mouth opened in surprise, he was able to quickly come to the conclusion that Nirvana had been unsealed and even he knew that this was bad.
Looking behind him at Nirvana and then back at the pillar of light, Natsu quickly made a decision. There was only so much he could do down here, and with the lacrima shield now surrounding Christina he likely couldn't board the ship. No, Natsu was sure he would be better if he go and stop Nirvana.
With that in mind he began to run in the direction of Nirvana.
He barely made it a hundred metres though, before he was stopped as the ground in front of him exploded. Looking up Natsu quickly found the source of the attack.
A blue haired man was standing fifteen or so metres away, a black coat around his shoulder and a distinctive red tattoo around his right eye. The man currently had an ugly expression on his face as he glared hatefully at Natsu, and his hands were currently glowing a golden colour as he prepared another attack.
"Jellal!" Natsu snarled, his anger bubbling to the surface as he saw the man who had hurt his friend Erza, a man who had tried to kill him, Gray, Lucy, Happy, Erza and Juvia. A man Natsu could quite frankly say he truly hated.
A hateful expression quickly crossed Natsu's face as his hands lit up with fire, all thoughts of Nirvana disappeared as he instead had one thing in mind, he was going to kill this man. Jellal mirrored these same thoughts as he stood opposite Natsu.
In the background the baleful light from Nirvana could be seen as its magic took its toll on its first victims.
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Chapter 6
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(With Jura, Ichiya, Lucy, Sherry and Hibiki in the Woodsea Forest)
"Come on my dear comrades, we must make haste!" Ichiya the Ace of Blue Pegasus said as he led the group consisting of Jura, Lucy, Hibiki and Sherry through the Woodsea Forest.
After having revived Jura, the group had quickly set off for the rendezvous area. Circumstances however had quickly changed when they had seen a massive pillar of ominous feeling, black and white magic explode into the sky, something they assumed signaled the unsealing of Nirvana. After all what else could such a massive influx of power mean, especially when they knew that the powerful Dark Guild, Oración Seis, was after Nirvana.
What followed next though was all the more surprising and terrifying for the watching wizards, as a massive city had soon risen up from the ground, uprooting the earth and the surrounding woodland as it rose into the air. Four massive spider-like legs could now be seen lifting up the remains of a once mighty city. The legs were made of some kind of flexible stone-like substance, which was strong enough to support the giant structure yet flexible enough to move. With its arrival on the battlefield, its blatant presence made it, at least in their minds, the new rendezvous spot for the members of the Alliance to meet at.
Running through the dense forest, not a single member of the group really knew what to say, as they were too focused on the imposing sight of Nirvana and on the colossal and malicious magical energy they could feel emanating off of it. Already a number of the mages could feel the insidious magic affecting their minds, drawing on their negative thoughts and memories, trying to manipulate them. Luckily though each of the Light Wizards were strong enough and self assured enough to resist the latent effects of what they assumed was Nirvana's magic.
The group had quickly created a formation as they rushed through the undergrowth, with Ichiya at the front, Sherry and Lucy at his sides. Hibiki running behind them, the slender man currently trying to use his 'Telepathy Magic' to contact the others, so he could find out their locations and hopefully gather them all together once again. The powerful and implacable Jura brought up the lead, acting as the rear defense in case they were ambushed by any Dark Wizards that might be lurking within the forest. Already they had come across a few small groups roaming the forest, against the might of Jura though; they had not really stood a chance.
"Hibiki how goes contacting the others?" Jura asked, as he looked down at the Blue Pegasus wizard in front of him.
"It's not easy, I have been unable to contact Ren and Eve, and so I am instead trying to contact Lyon and Perseus. There is a lot of interference though; the sheer amount of magic coming off Nirvana is interfering. Plus actually finding the wizards I want to contact is not easy, the members of my Guild are usually easy to contact as I have had regular interaction with their minds before. The others though…." Hibiki replied, his tone showing his frustration with his lack of success. Despite that however, another part of him was growing very worried that he could still not contact Ren or Eve. The fact he couldn't meant they were either out of range, which was unlikely; they were unconscious, which was possible or they were dead….
"Just keep trying" Jura said his gaze now fixed on the monstrous construct that was Nirvana, the large city having begun moving very slowly through the forest, destroying anything that got in its path as it forged its way through the forest.
Hibiki nodded his head in agreement before following the others through the forest; already they were making swift progress. As such it didn't take them long to cut through the forest and reach one of Nirvana's legs, but before they could do anything more that stare at the sheer size of the spider-like leg, they suddenly found their path cut off by the appearance of yet another Dark Guild at Oración Seis's disposal.
Turning around as they heard the rustle of leaves, the group quickly found themselves surrounded by dozens of grunts. The group was entirely surrounded as more than thirty Dark Wizards were looking down on them from where they were standing in the trees, all of the wizards hollering out challenges and sending out mocking insults to the Light Wizards.
Jura gritted his teeth in annoyance before he raised his hands, drawing on his magic as he prepared to unleash hell on these nuisances. The ground around him began to shake as the large man began to use his 'Earth Magic'.
"Hibiki keep trying to contact the others. Ichiya, Lucy and Sherry will you assist me in deal with this rabble?" Jura asked as the ground at his feet started trembling more violently.
Ichiya struck a dramatic pose as he pulled out two vials of his patented magical parfum from the bandoleer he wore around his waist.
Lucy grabbed Virgo's Celestial Gate key, a confident look on her face as she shouted. "Open… Gate of the Maiden, Virgo!"
With a flash of golden light a slender and beautiful pink haired woman appeared, the slim woman was dressed in a lolita maid's outfit and had two metal manacles clasped around her wrists, a few feet of chain extending from each one.
"Ready to fight Princess!" Virgo said emotionlessly, a bland look in her blue eyes as she scanned the leering and sneering Dark Wizards around her.
"Doll Magic: Wood Golem!" Sherry shouted as she manipulated the trees around her, creating a nine foot tall, wooden golem, with a snarling face and four arms, each of which ended in razor sharp wooden claws.
Seeing this, the surrounding Dark Wizards were somewhat taken aback, but their surprise only lasted a few moments before they remembered they had the numbers advantage.
"Come on lads let's kill 'em!" The leader of this group of Dark Wizards said as he leapt off his tree branch, a purple magical circle appearing in front of him as he did so.
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(With Gray and Lyon on the Christina)
"Ice Make: Hammer!" Gray shouted as he created a massive hammer of ice above his head, which he then used to smash aside the last remaining member of the Broken Nose Guild, sending the flailing Dark Wizard over the side of the airship, a shrill scream leaving his lips as he passed through the lacrima shield and then through the canopy of the forest below.
"Come on Gray, I think that is the last of them!" Lyon said tiredly as he looked around at all the groaning and moaning bodies around him, a trickle of blood running down the side of his face from a head wound that he had received during the fight.
They had ended up fighting close to forty Dark Wizards, as more and more Dark Wizards had joined the fray, drawn in by the sounds of fighting. Lyon guessed from the sheer number they had defeated that they had probably fought almost all the Dark Wizards on Christina, at the same time.
"Yeah I hear you." Gray replied with as he clasped one of his hands on his side, covering up a nasty cut deep to his side, freezing the wound to stop himself from bleeding out. "We need to catch up with those idiots Ren and Eve."
Lyon nodded at that, following Gray's lead as he froze the bloody wound on his head, stopping the blood from running down his face and inhibiting his vision. It was a temporary fix at best, but until they could get to either Wendy or Perseus so they could be healed, they would have to make do. "From the sounds of it they have not stopped the Jupiter Cannon from charging up."
Gray scowled at that, he had seen a Jupiter Cannon before, the Phantom Lord Guild had used one when they attacked the Fairy Tail Guild a few months ago. They had attacked in the hopes of kidnapping and ransoming off Lucy to her stupidly wealthy father. Phantom Lord had naturally been defeated and had since been disbanded by the Magical Council, but the fact remains that it only took ten minutes for a normal Jupiter Cannon to be charged up when Phantom Lord attacked Fairy Tail.
Christina's Jupiter Cannon had started charging nearly half an hour ago, the weapon should be fully charged up by now; in fact it probably was and was just waiting to be fired. This led Gray to the conclusion that one of the possible reasons it hadn't been fired was that most of the crew had been defeated by Lyon and himself. That or the order hadn't been given for the cannon to be fired.
"That might be a good thing, as we may need to us it to destroy that massive moving city. Because I am going to take a wild guess, and say that thing is Nirvana and if it's here that means Oración Seis have unsealed it and taken control." Gray replied as he looked over at the massive city that had pulled its self from the ground only minutes before, it had been the emergence of that object that had acted as a distraction that allowed Lyon and Gray to overwhelm the last few Dark Wizards they had been fighting.
Pushing aside those thoughts for now, Gray instead scowled in the direction Eve and Ren had gone, if they hadn't disabled the cannon and most of the crew had been fighting Lyon and himself, what were those two playing at.
"Come on; let's find those Blue Pegasus clowns first." Gray said as he began to jog towards the front of the Christina, Lyon following closely behind him. "We can deal with Nirvana later."
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(With Angel on the Christina)
Angel looked curiously at the two prone bodies in front of her. Walking forwards, she easily avoided stepping in the large puddle of blood that was coming from the two, as she instead used her white, high heeled shoe to flip the two young men over.
Ren, the tall handsome, dark skinned man, was dead. The magical blasts Caelum had fired, had struck the man in the throat, through his right lung and through his stomach. Each blast had pierced his body leaving three, deep four inch wide wounds. With the placement of the wounds Ren had never stood a chance.
Letting lose a sigh at the waste of a strong handsome wizard, Angel instead turned her attention to the younger boy, Eve. Eve was a short and petit young man, a few years younger than Ren, with short blonde hair and aquamarine blue eyes. He wasn't exactly Angel's type, but she would admit she could see why some women might be charmed by him.
Giving the boy a cursory glance, Angel could see he was still alive, Caelum's magical blasts had struck him in the shoulder, the thigh and had grazed his chest. His wounds were still quite serious but he would probably live, as long as he didn't lose too much blood. Currently he was unconscious, his skin pale as he lost more and more of his life blood.
Letting out a sigh of resignation, Angel pulled out another golden key, this one showing the symbol of the ram on it.
"Open… Gate of the Ram!" Angel said as she swiped her key through the air.
With a flash of golden light, Aries appeared next to her, a nervous expression on her face as she let out an "Eep" and tried to avoid standing in the expanding pool of blood.
"You called Mistress?" Aries said shakily a she looked over at Angel.
Aries was a slender Celestial Spirit, with shoulder length, curly pink hair, and small, curved, golden horns that protruded from the sides of her head. For a powerful spirit the girl had a surprisingly nervous and unconfident demeanor, which confused and irritated Angel to no end. The girl was an ancient and powerful Celestial Spirit, why on Earthland would she act so weak and meek.
"Use an underpowered 'Cotton Bomb' to staunch the boy's bleeding." Angel said as she gestured at Eve. She maybe a Dark Wizard but she was not a monster, she didn't just kill for the sake of it, and if she could save a life she would. As long as her doing so wouldn't come back to bite her in her perfectly shaped arse.
"O-ok," Aries said a she raised her hands in front of her and conjured a pink cotton-like substance, covering Eve's wounds with it as she did so. The pink cotton-like substance, hardened as it touched Eve's wounds, soaking up the blood and blocking anymore from flowing out. It wouldn't heal him, but it would keep him alive.
Angel may be a Dark Wizard but she doesn't thrive on killing others, it was the reason she didn't kill Jura or Ichiya. But nor was she against it if it coincided with her goals. She was distinctly grey and morally ambiguous in that regard.
Looking away from the boy, Angel was instead distracted by the thunder of feet on metal. It appeared someone else was coming, was it her remaining crew, or was it more Light Wizards. The sounds of fighting had ended a few minutes ago, around the same time Nirvana been unsealed, a sight which had captured Angel's attention for a time as she felt the insidious magic trying to mess with her mind.
It turned out it was Gray and Lyon, the two Light Guild Wizards who both specialized in using 'Ice Make Magic' how exciting….
Pausing as they saw Angel confidently standing in front of them, one hand on her hip as the other still held Aries's key. Angel waited for the two to speak; she could already see their eyes moving to the two prone bodies of the Blue Pegasus members. One of which was dead, with the other being incapacitated.
"What the hell have you done?!" Gray shouted, his fury getting the best of him as he slammed his right fist on the palm of his left hand, ignoring the twinge of pain in his side as he instead prepared a spell.
Before he could go through with it however, he was stopped by Lyon. The Lamia Scale wizard was looking from Ren and Eve's bodies to Angel, his eyes narrowed as he realised who she was.
"Be careful Gray, this woman is Angel, one of the members of Oración Seis. You remember how powerful they were when we fought them before; she is one of them, an S-Class wizard in her own right." Lyon said cautious, beginning preparations for his own spell as he looked from Angel to Aries. "It also looks like she is a Celestial Wizard, like your Guild mate Lucy."
Gray's eyes widened at that, recognizing her from picture Hibiki had shown them of the Oración Seis members. This meant that Lyon was right to be cautious, Gray could still remembering how outclassed he had felt fighting Cobra, just as he remembered how he could have died had it not been for Perseus healing him. They had rushed into that fight and had found themselves getting overwhelmed, this time he wouldn't make the same mistake.
"Open… Gate of the Twins, Gemini!" Angel said as she used her opponent's caution to her advantage, switching out Aries's key for Gem and Mini's key.
Both small spirits appeared on the other side of Angel to Aries and Caelum, the two of them jumping up and down with glee before they used their magic to take on the form of Gray, copying not only his body, but his memories and magic too. The Gray mimicry then slammed his closed fist on his palm before shouting. "Ice Make: Lance!"
A large lance of ice exploded from the icy blue magical circle in front of him as it exploded towards Lyon.
Aries then sent her own full powered attacked at Gray, fast moving spikes of harden pink cotton-like magic exploded from her hands, the projectiles all spiraling through the air as they hurtled towards Gray.
"Sorry…" Aries said nervously as she unleashed her attack.
Angel once again rolled her eyes in irritation at how meek the spirit was acting.
"What the hell!" Gray shouted as he used his own 'Ice Make Magic' to create, a rose shaped shield that protected both him and Lyon from the oncoming ice lance and pink spikes. "Why does that thing look like me?!"
"I don't know but it can use you magic too!" Lyon shouted in reply as he created a flock of eagles, all of which were made out of animated ice and all of which he sent flying at Angel.
"Caelum" Angel said as she glanced at the floating sphere like spirit next to her.
Caelum beeped a few times before it once again took the form of a magical cannon.
"Rapid fire" Angel said, as Caelum beeped in response before it unleashed dozens of small magical blasts which destroyed Lyon's ice constructs, shattered Gray's beleaguered shield and bombarded both Lyon and Gray, forcing them to throw up another shield. Only for that shield to get shattered as Gemini still in the form of Gray, with access to his memories and magic, used its own 'Ice Make Magic' to shatter their collective shield, leaving the duo open to attacks from Aries and Caelum.
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(With Percy, Erza and Wendy in the Woodsea Forest)
"Where are we going Percy?" Erza said as she noticed that their group was not heading in the direction of the rendezvous area, instead they were heading for the hulking construct that could only be Nirvana.
"We are going to meet up with the others, I think they saw Nirvana and decided to head for it." Percy said as he led the way to where he could sense the others. He was still using the water in the air to boost his senses, and could feel a large group of people fighting in the direction he was headed. This meant unless there was some kind of mutiny it was very likely that those involved in the fighting were their allies and one of the numerous Dark Guild's in the forest that were beholden to Oración Seis.
"I suppose it makes sense." Erza said with a nod as she looked up at the imposing moving city that was Nirvana. "They would no doubt assume everyone would head for Nirvana to try and stop it."
"So what are we going to do when we meet up with the others?" Wendy asked as she ran alongside Percy and Erza, her blue hair streaming behind her as she resolutely kept pace with the other two, both Happy and Carla flying along behind her. Any shame she had been feeling had now been washed away by anger and the resolve to fix her mistake. It was after all because of her that Jellal had been revived, which had allowed Brain to get the location of Nirvana from the now conscious and fully functioning Former Wizard Saint.
"First things first we are going to need to destroy Nirvana, that or we will need to track down and incapacitate Brain." Percy said as he closed in on where the fighting he had sensed was just wrapping up.
"What about the others though?" Erza asked a frown on her face.
"Well hopefully everyone has finished their objectives, if they haven't well we will have to plan accordingly." Percy replied his coat flapping behind him as he left the tree line, only to come across a scene of chaos.
Large pillars of earth were protruding from the ground all over the place; there were also large craters and holes that dotted the landscape. A roaring construct of wood could be seen standing above a half dozen or so unconscious and bleeding Dark Wizards. Even more battered looking Dark Wizards could be seen littered all over the area, most of them groaning in pain.
Standing in the midst of all of this, looking completely unharmed was Jura, Ichiya, Lucy, Sherry and Hibiki.
Ignoring the chaos for now Percy approached the group a grin on his face as he clasped hands with Jura. "You finally managed to catch up then?"
"Yes" Jura replied with a nod of his bald head. "I apologize for my absence; Ichiya and myself were individually ambushed by Angel from Oración Seis. It appears her magic is even more devious than her fellows."
"Well no matter you are here now and just in time by the looks of it." Percy said as he gave Ichiya and the others a nod before he looked up at the towering monstrosity that was Nirvana.
"Do you know what the situation is?" Ichiya said. "Or how the fight to retake Christina is going?"
Percy shrugged at that. "I am not sure, though I think for now we have more pressing issues. As for the current situation, Midnight, Cobra, Hoteye and Racer have all been defeated. This leaves Angel and Brain as the last remaining members of Oración Seis. Since we last saw Angel on the Christina, I think it is very likely that she is still on it, that or she has been defeated. As for Brain I can only assume he is controlling Nirvana."
"A mixed bag then" Jura said with a frown.
"There is also another issue," Erza said as she took a step forward, with Wendy following behind her, gaining the attention of the others.
"Wendy!" Lucy said with a smile, a smile that the young dragon slayer returned as she saw how happy the others looked to see her. "I am so glad they got you back, are you ok?"
"Yeah, I am ok." Wendy replied with a gentle smile, looking around at the rest of the group as she did so.
"I am glad you are safe Wendy." Jura said as he gave the girl a solemn nod, before he turned to look at Erza. "You spoke of another issue Erza?"
"Yes," Erza said as she gritted her teeth, her eyes flashing with anger as she did so. "Jellal Fernandez is here, and he is working with Oración Seis."
There was a sharp intake of breath from Lucy as she heard that, she had been there when Erza had returned to the Tower of Heaven, she had seen how cruel and callous the man was, just as she had seen how powerful he was, easily fighting Natsu and Erza at the same time, he had been a Wizard Saint for a reason after all.
Jura also frowned darkly at that, as a Wizard Saint, he was familiar with Jellal, who himself had been a former member of the Wizard Saints. "That is concerning, do we know of his whereabouts, is he on Nirvana with Brain?"
"No I doubt it," Percy said as he looked up at Nirvana, glancing at the others he saw the looks of confusion on their faces. "I doubt Brain would trust Jellal enough to be alone with him on Nirvana. It is more likely that Jellal was sent to aid Angel."
"I take it that is a guess." Ichiya said a thoughtful look on his face.
"Absolutely, I am just going off what I have heard of Brain and what I know of Jellal. Jellal doesn't seem the type to follow someone else, nor has he proven himself exactly trustworthy. As for Brain, he does not seem like the type to share power or to trust anyone." Percy replied with a shrug.
"A fair analysis" Jura said with a nod, agreeing with Percy's assessment as it fit with what he knew of both men, "Now I believe we should come up with a strategy to deal with Nirvana and finish off Oración Seis."
"You're right." Percy spoke up as he looked at all the Alliance wizards present, thinking up the best way to approach these new circumstances. "Ichiya, I think you should aid Natsu and the others in retaking the Christina, take Lucy, Hibiki, Sherry and Wendy with you. As soon as you have succeeded you should lead them back here and assist in the destruction of Nirvana."
"A fair plan, but what of Nirvana and Brain?" Ichiya replied a thoughtful look on his face as he and the others looked to Percy, as the most experienced among them, for answers.
"Jura and myself will infiltrate Nirvana and deal with Brain, as Brain is controlling Nirvana once he is defeated we should be able to gain control ourselves and destroy it." Percy said as he looked over to Jura, the large Wizard Saint gave Percy a nod. "As for Erza…"
"I will go after Jellal." Erza interrupted, the look on her face daring anyone to challenge her on this.
"He is a Former Wizard Saint; it will likely be dangerous if you go after him alone." Percy said a frown on his face as he met Erza's steely gaze.
"Then I will take Lucy with me." Erza replied bluntly.
"Wait what?" Lucy shouted out, looking at Erza in shock.
"I don't think…" Percy began, quite conflicted on what he should do here. He knew Erza needed closure, and had a very good reason as to why she should be the one to take Jellal down. However he also knew she held a lot of hate and anger in her, all of it directed at Jellal. It was the kind of anger that could cause her to make a mistake and get herself hurt.
"I can do it Perseus." Erza said her voice firm as she stared into Percy's eyes, trying to convey her feelings on this to him. "Please… trust me."
Percy scowled at that, before he nodded. If Erza was anything like him then she would do it whether he told her to or not. "Fine, but don't make me regret it."
Erza nodded at that, a tight smile on her face.
"But take Lucy with you, and make sure to retreat if either of you are in any danger." Percy tacked on his face stern.
"And yet again… WHAT!?" Lucy said looking from Percy to Erza as they spoke about her like she wasn't there. It was crazy how similar these two were, though considering Perseus had been Erza's mentor, maybe it wasn't so surprising.
Turning to the blonde, Percy gave her a kind smile. "Please go with her, Erza will need your help if she is to fight Jellal, and knowing Makarov like I do, I know he wouldn't have sent you on this mission if you weren't a strong and capable mage.",
Lucy flushed red at that, purposefully looking away from Percy's sinfully green eyes, a bit embarrassed by his confidence and trust in her. "Y-yeah sure, whatever…"
"Good." Jura spoke up loudly, looking around at the others. "Then we are agreed."
"Right" the others chorused.
Ichiya turned and led Sherry, Wendy and Hibiki in the direction of where the Christina was last seen.
Erza and Lucy both turned and ran into the forest, the two of them searching for any trace of where Jellal was.
Percy and Jura meanwhile turned to face Nirvana. With a shout, Jura slammed his hands on the earth, raising a pillar of earth beneath both of their feet as he lifted them into the sky and up onto Nirvana. Both the God of Fairies and Iron Rock Jura were more than prepared to deal with Brain, the leader of the Oración Seis.
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(With Natsu and Jellal in the Woodsea Forest)
"Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!" Natsu shouted his body cloaked in fire as he attacked Jellal, all thoughts of Nirvana and his mission to eradicate the Oración Seis were forgotten as he instead focused on pulverizing the man in front of him.
Jellal sneered in response as he leapt into the air, his body cloaked in golden energy as he used his "Meteor" spell to rapidly fly up into the air, over the explosion of fire beneath him.
"I remember you Natsu Dragneel…. You and I have fought before haven't we, at the Tower of Heaven… yes I remember…"Jellal said as he stared the pink haired dragon slayer down, his mind was a complete mess as he felt excruciating pain lancing through his head, the pain coming alongside glimpses of his past memories and the raging feelings of anger, hatred and resentment he held within him.
"Yeah and I take it you remember how it turned out then don't you!?" Natsu shouted in response, only seeing red as his temper flared to new levels of anger at seeing this man still alive. This man had caused so much pain and misery in his life, especially to those closest to Natsu.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu roared as he leapt towards the hovering Jellal, his fist blazing with fiery magic, his teeth gritted and his eyes flashing in the light of his own flames.
Jellal's eyes widened as he saw Natsu coming, before he could do anything to defend himself though, he felt Natsu's blow strike the side of his face, sending him flying backwards as the fist exploded with fire. Tumbling to the floor, Jellal pushed himself to his feet, blinking in surprise as he felt the burnt, blackened and broken skin on his face.
Natsu once again roared in fury and let his fire burn hotter than he had ever let it burn before, as he dashed towards the blue haired man, quickly landing a series of fire enhanced kicks and punches on him. Jellal's eyes narrowed as he used his arms to defend himself, feeling the heat of the flames scorch him as he did so, coating himself in his potent magic he also lunged forward, his glowing golden fists almost blurring as he counterattacked. Jellal's skills in close combat however paled in comparison to Natsu's; clasping his hands together the dragon slayer brought them down on Jellal's back like a hammer.
The blue haired man's body slammed roughly into the ground, he didn't stay there long though, as he soon leapt to his feet, protected as he was by the golden cloak of magic that surrounded him, it was his Celestial Cloak', a defense magic that was based off of his 'Heavenly Body Magic'.
Natsu continued to press his advantage, refusing to allow Jellal the chance to prepare himself or recover as he lashed out at him again, landed a flaming kick into Jellal's side as he did so, "Fire Dragon's Claw!"
Jellal, although blocking the worst of the attack, was still knocked back a few steps.
Puffing up his cheeks, Natsu then blasted out a pillar of fire which quickly engulfed the blue haired man, "Fire Dragon's Roar!"
Natsu not wasting a moment threw his arms out to his side and created an intense source of fire around his hands. This fire started extending into large pillars as Natsu brought his flaming hands together to attack, "Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame-"
"Meteor." Came Jellal's shout as he once again cast the 'Heavenly Body Magic' based spell.
The dragon slayer wasn't given a chance to finish his spell as Jellal came barreling forward through the gathering torrent of flames and dispersed them with the air pressure of his movement. Natsu's eyes widened in shock, all his previous anger wiped away by surprise as he felt Jellal's glowing, golden fist slam into his sternum.
A spray of blood left Natsu's mouth, even as his eyes watered with pain.
Natsu's body was sent flying backwards by the momentum of Jellal's attack, his body bouncing off the ground like a rag doll before Jellal disappeared in a flash of golden light and appeared again landing a fast and brutal kick into Natsu's side, this blow caused an audible cracking sound as two of the fire dragon slayer's ribs broke.
Pushing aside the pain from his injuries, Natsu spun on the ground, fire streaming from his feet, creating a wall of flame that stopped Jellal from immediately continuing his assault. Using the momentum of his spin, Natsu quickly made it to his feet, a dribble of blood leave his mouth as he panted heavily, his dark eyes fixed on the insane figure of Jellal as the wall of fire dispersed.
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(With Brain at the King's Summit)
With its awakening now fully completed, Nirvana had emerged from the spire of light and revealed its true form to the world. Its four large spider-like legs held a giant city with hundreds houses all of which surrounded one massive tower in the centre of the construct. The very apex of the weapon was called the King's Summit and where a proud king once resided now stood Brain. The Dark Wizard and the Leader of Oración Seis looking on with delight as Nirvana began to move, the now powerful weapon completely under his control as he synched with it from his position on the King's Summit.
After all his years of planning and searching he had done it, he had gained control of Nirvana, an incredibly powerful, potent and dangerous magical weapon, one that had been sealed away by its own creators, the Nirvit people many hundreds of years ago.
"Finally! The ultimate weapon that will destroy the light is mine!" Brain triumphantly laughed, uncaring that he was the only one around. It may be cliché for monologue to himself, but Brain was gleefully happy and couldn't give a fuck.
His arms were both stretched out to his sides as he laughed out loud in maniacal joy, his skull-headed staff still held tightly in his right hand. Four of the members of Oración Seis may have already fallen, but their sacrifices would not be in vain. They had led him to unsealing and gaining control of this mighty weapon. All he needed now was to destroy the pesky Light Wizards who were trying to stop him and he could begin the task of using Nirvana's magic to twist and control the minds of Fiore's populace.
Narrowing his eyes as he looked ahead, Brain could see the Magical Bomber, Christina, hovering a hundreds metres or so in front of Nirvana as it slowly began to make its way out of the forest, its movements controlled by Brain from where he stood on the King's Summit.
Raising his hand to his head, Brain placed two fingers against his temple as he began to use his 'Telepathy Magic' to contact Angel, who he knew was still in control of the Christina.
"Angel." Brain said his dark eyes fixed on the hovering form of Christina. "Angel, answer me!"
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(With Angel on the Christina)
Angel let out a sigh of irritation as Gemini, still in the form of Gray Fullbuster, created a large cannon made of ice and sent another projectile of ice at the beleaguered Light Wizards.
Lyon let out a tired shout as he lunged forward, tackling Gray out of the way.
Both of the ice wizards were exhausted; they were both covered in cuts and bruises, and Gray was nursing a severely broken wrist, an injury he had received when he had thrown up his a quick shield to protect himself from one of Caelum attacks. The shield had shattered and the attack had struck him, fortunately though the magical blast had expended so much energy breaking through the ice shield that it had only broken Gray's wrist when it had struck him, as oppose to lancing through his body, like what had happened to Ren and Eve.
Lyon was a little worse off, having taken a sword of ice through the stomach, courtesy of Gemini, it was a worthy sacrifice though as it had allowed Gray the opportunity to send an ice arrow at Aries, delivering enough damage to the Celestial Spirit that it had been forced to return to the Celestial Spirit World to recover.
This had left Angel with just Caelum and Gemini, both wizards had no doubt that she could summon another spirit to assist her but thus far she hadn't. This had allowed them to survive the remainder of their fight. Scoring a few glancing hits on Gemini, but not enough to quite put the spirit out of action.
There was of course a reason why Angel hadn't summoned another spirit to assist her, not that Gray and Lyon knew this. It was also the same reason why a single bead of sweat was rolling down her face, despite the woman having not taken a single hit so far. Angel was running low on magic; she had enough to keep both Caelum and Gemini on the mortal plane for another hour or so, more than long enough for her to finish these two ice wizards. She could also sustain at least one Celestial Spirit indefinitely, even with her reserves drained like they were. However she wasn't able to summon a third Celestial Spirit, as that would put too much of a strain on her remaining magic, she doubted she would be able to sustain it for more than ten minutes before she would have to stop.
This was irritating to Angel, these two ice wizards were far more tenacious than she had expected, especially considering they had been injured and tired when the fight had begun. Both Lyon and Gray had good team work; this was something she had not expected considering how much they argued. They also were both very skilled with using 'Ice Make Magic'; both of these wizards were easily A-Class in terms of power and skill.
"Caelum rapid fire!" Angel said as she gestured for Caelum to fire, its gun barrels glowing as it unleashed a barrage of piercing magical attacks at the two ice wizards. "Gemini, destroy any defenses they try to create."
"Mini mini!" Gemini replied childishly, as the somewhat bruised and battered Celestial Spirit, slammed its closed fist on its palm, creating an icy blue magical circle as it did so.
"Come on Lyon!" Gray shouted as he grabbed the silver haired man by the arm and dragged him with him.
"Ice Make: Iced Wall!" Lyon shouted as he tiredly drew on his magic again, creating a thick wall of ice in front of him and Gray, even as his fellow ice wizard tried ot drag him out of the way.
The wall of ice didn't last long as Gemini shouted out its spell. "Ice Make: Hammer!"
A large hammer of ice broke Lyon's hastily constructed wall, removing any defense the two ice wizards had as Caelum fired its magical blasts.
Letting out a shout Lyon shoved Gray out of the way, taking a magical blast through the shoulder for his trouble. Letting out a shout of agony, Lyon felt his clavicle break, and his shoulder shatter.
"Lyon!" Gray shouted as he used his one uninjured hand to create a flimsy shield of ice; the construct was nowhere near as stable as it would have been if it had been created with two hands. But it was the best Gray could do; he had already been quite tired when he started this fight, both him and Lyon having been fighting a large group of Dark Wizards earlier, at the moment he was running on fumes.
The ice shield blocked two magical blasts, but the next three broke through. Luckily two of them missed both Lyon and Gray, the blasts instead striking the metal floor of the deck. One of them did however hit its target, the blast grazing Gray's arm, leaving a two inch deep wound that cut to the bone, already the wound had begun bleeding profusely.
"Angel!"
Angel scowled a she felt Brain trying to contact her.
"Angel, answer me!"
"What do you want?!" Angel snapped in reply, ignoring the fight for now as she instead glared at where Nirvana was making its ponderous way through the forest.
"The other four have all fallen, only you and I remain." Brain said, the tone of his voice showing that he was displeased with the way Angel had answered him. "I have taken control of Nirvana but there are still Light Wizards in the forest, I have no doubt they will try and stop me. I want you to use Christina and kill anyone you can find, I don't care if it costs you your own life, just make sure none of them get in my way!"
Angel's expression became even darker as she heard that, the other four were either dead or incapacitated and the arrogant bastard wanted her to sacrifice herself for him! Turning back around and looking at the two struggling ice wizards, Angel's eyes widened as she saw how Gray was standing protectively over Lyon, already creating a flimsy shield as he protected his friend. The boy could have run whilst she was distracted, but he didn't, instead he willingly stayed so he could protect his friend…
Would Angel do that for anyone in Oración Seis…? No she wouldn't even think of it. Would anyone in Oración Seis do that for her…? The very thought was laughable. Angel had wasted most of her life in the service of other people, first she had been a slave in the Tower of Heaven and then she had been one of Brain's minions, whether she wanted to or not. How much of her life had she wasted, and what for?
"Angel! Angel!" Brian shouted the irritation in his tone growing as she ignored him.
"Go fuck yourself Brain!" Angel replied, dismissing Gemini as she did so.
"What did you just say?!" Brain shouted in her mind.
"I told you to go fuck yourself!" Angel replied as she removed her own Guild symbol, the symbol of the Oración Seis that had been on her left hip for nearly a decade breaking apart into magical particles as she did what she should have done years ago. Cutting off Brain's telepathic link to her, Angel instead looked over at the battered and broken Gray and Lyon, her eyes trailing over their injuries as she did so.
"I have left Oración Seis and as such no longer need to fight you. Both your injuries as well as Eve's are nonfatal, Ren however is unfortunately dead." Angel said, as she met the eyes of the two surprised looking men, with her decision made she saw no point in stick around, especially as she knew Brain's vengeance would be brutal if he was victorious. "I cannot take back what I have done, nor would I want to, you all attacked me and I acted in self defense. However I will say this, the Jupiter Cannon is charged up, and Brain is the only member of Oración Seis left, kill him and your mission is complete."
"W-why?" Gray said in confusion. "Why are you helping us? You're our enemy? You're a murderer!?"
Angel however merely shrugged in response, "You chose to make me your enemy, not the other way around, just as you and your friends chose to attack me. I was merely defending myself."
Gray opened his mouth to retort, but before he could Angel grabbed a hold of Caelum, the floating metal sphere, glowing as its gun barrel disappeared, only to be replaced by two large metal wings that protruded from the spherical spirit.
"Good luck." Angel said with a curt nod, cutting off Gray's response as Caelum lifted into the air, pulling Angel with it as it pulled her over the side of the airship and gradually descended into the forest below.
"What the fuck just happened?!" Gray said loudly as he looked to a confused looking Lyon for a reply.
The silver haired man groaned in response as he felt the pain from his wounds lancing through his body. This fight had been hard on him, but it had also been an experience, one that he was more than prepared to learn from.
"I don't know, but don't complain about it!" Lyon replied raspily. "We have retaken the Christina, our objective is complete."
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(With Brain on the King's Summit)
Brain's face contorted in rage as he heard what Angel said, his anger only growing as he felt one of the black seals on his skin disappearing, signaling that Angel had deliberately broken her link to him. He had honestly believed that none of the Oración Seis members would be brave enough, or stupid enough to leave. It appeared he had been mistake.
Angel's decision was an annoyance, it certainly made the task of eradicating the remaining Light Wizards that much harder, even with Nirvana and the few remaining Dark Guilds that were still in the Woodsea Forest at his disposal. This was why Brain gave himself a mental note to track down Angel after he dealt with the nuisances, and when he did he would make her suffer for her betrayal before he killed her.
Brain's vengeful thoughts were soon cut off however, as he felt two powerful magic users approaching, somehow the pests had already boarded the mobile city without his knowledge. Widening his eyes in surprise, Brain's grip on his staff tightened even as a sneer crossed his face. It appeared that two of the Alliances number had saved him the time of tracking them down.
Turning around to face the two who were approaching him, Brain grit his teeth in irritation as he saw that the two consisted of the Wizard Saint, Jura Neekis, and the God of Fairies, Perseus. Maybe this would be harder than he thought.
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AN: So I wonder how many people saw that coming. I always thought that Celestial Magic in canon Fairy Tail was very underrated, as to were the Celestial Spirits. In my mind they are powerful summons, ageless beings of great power. However more often than not they are just made out to be a joke or are just ignored for the most part. There were some parts of canon where they got a bit of props, Yukino's fight, Eclipse Spirit Arc etc. but I don't think they got as much attention as the different slayer magics which seemed to become the main focus.
I also think that Angel of the Oración Seis was a very undervalued and under used character. Especially as she was supposed to be an S-Class mage, but didn't really measure up to Cobra, Hoteye or the others. Which is way I decided to make her character my own, I did do it for a reason though, and that reason will become known later on. I also have to say that one of the reason I like Fairy Tail so much is because of the villains in it, more often than not you can emphasize with the bad guys. I mean all of the members of the Oración Seis except Brain have quite moving back stories. Though of course they became the bad guys you can see how they came to be like they were, which means although you can hate them you can also like them.
But other than that we have events coming to a close, we have the Jellal issue, the Brain confrontation and the Christina debacle. All of which will be covered as the arc ends next chapter hopefully.
Will see you all next time, and I hope you all review and leave a comment. Any suggestions or advice is appreciated.
See you all next time.
Seagate.