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"They're gone!" everyone – including Harry – exclaimed.

"Where did they go?" Lucy asked.

"They must have gone back to their base," said Jura.

Harry sighed at this. They still don't know where the Oracion Seis' base is. "Anyway," Harry started, "thanks for the save, Jura. What happened back there after we left? I wasn't paying attention to what was being said earlier," he admitted.

"When Ichiya went to the bathroom he was ambushed. The one we were making plans with was Angel's celestial spirit Gemini, who was taking on his form. They took me out for a little bit, but when I came to, I helped the real Ichiya and we made our way here just in time to save you all," explained Jura.

Harry nodded his thanks, and then look around at all his teammates. "We need to recover before we go after them," he said.

"Not to worry!" exclaimed Ichiya. "I have the perfect perfume for this." He pulled out a small bottle from his pocket and pulled the cork out of the lip. "Healing Perfume," he cast, but Harry doesn't think words are really needed, before blowing the fumes around everyone. Harry was a bit surprised it worked. He felt better, even though he hardly got injured.

He looked around at everyone, seeing that they are all recovering. Well, all but one, that is. Harry saw that Erza is clutching her poisoned arm still while gritting her teeth in pain. He realized that the poison is not getting better.

"Ichiya, I don't think it's working," said Harry. "Erza is still poisoned."

"Well then, I'll just have to give her more of my healing perfume!" said Ichiya. He strolled closer to her and blew more of the fumes from the bottle in her face and arm; however, it still did nothing to stop the poison from spreading. "I don't understand. My healing perfume can heal just about everything, including poison."

For some reason, Harry couldn't help but think about goat stomachs. He can hear Snape's voice saying that you can find a bezoar within one, and that this stone-like object can cure most poisons. That's great to know, but he doesn't see any goats and he doubts that there are any close by.

"I guess we don't have a choice," said Erza in pain. She sits down, steals Lucy's belt which made her skirt fall off, and that made all the men from Blue Pegasus have nose-bleeds. Harry quickly cast the bat-boogie hex at all of them. They started screaming as their noses had bats made of their own boogers come out. Harry decided to be somewhat nice by informing them that the hex will last for about a minute. This resulted in the men running around like headless chickens.

Harry returned his focus back to Erza, who used Lucy's belt to tie around her arm to slow down the poison. She equipped a sword and stabbed it into the ground, and then grabbed some cloth to bite down on. Harry knew what she was going to say before she did, even though he didn't want to believe it.

"Cut my arm off," she demanded, confirming Harry's suspicion.

Everyone freezes in place, even those who are still having bat boogies coming out of their faces, when they heard Erza's order. They immediately protested loudly, saying if she is crazy or something, or why they would even do that.

"We don't have a choice!" said Erza. "I'll only slow you down in this condition."

"Just give us more time, Erza!" Harry shouted, more anxious than he meant to sound. "If you lose an arm, then that's it! You won't be able to fight with just one arm."

Everyone agreed with him, but someone seemed to have understood Erza's train of thought. "I'll do it." Harry, Gray, Lucy, Natsu, and everyone else in their alliance turned to see who spoke. Lyon walks over to the sword that Erza had stabbed into the ground and pulls it out. "I'll make this quick," he said.

"What do you think you're doing, Lyon?!" Gray demanded loudly and angrily.

Lyon ignored him in favor of lifting the sword high above his head. He swings it down, but another sword – this one with rubies imbedded into the hilt and guard – stops Erza's blade in its track. "Expelliarmus!" Harry casted the disarming charm after blocking Lyon from cutting Erza's arm clean off. The sword is yanked out of the ice mage's hands and into Harry's. He stabbed the sword back into the ground, but this time deeper so no one besides Jura and Erza can remove it.

Gray grabbed hold of Lyon and pulled him away from both Erza and Harry. Harry thought that a smart move, because he wanted to see how Lyon liked it if someone tried to cut his arm off. Harry shook his head to clear it. Why is he having violent thoughts?

Gray and Lyon are shouting at each other and Natsu shortly joins in. Harry understands that they are angry, he is too, but they need to find a way to cure the poison before it kills Erza. Just as he is about to shout at the three mages, a voice from above beats him to it.

"That is enough! You're all acting like children." Harry saw that it was Carla that spoke. He – at that very moment – realizes that she is the same breed of cat as Happy. He had wondered about that. "Now, let's all come down. There is no need to be cutting anyone's arms off."

"You have wings?!" Natsu exclaimed in shock.

"Of course I do!" Carla said like Natsu was an idiot. "Well, then again, I guess you wouldn't really have known that."

"I kind of guess…" Harry muttered.

"No, it's not that…" Natsu said. "It is just…you're like Happy."

"What did you say?! How dare you compare me to the fish-loving hair-ball!?" Everyone just stared at her like she is the devil. Carla cleared her throat. "Anyway, this magic is called Aera, but that is not important right now," Carla continues. "We need to rescue Wendy. She can cure Erza of her poison with her magic."

"She can do that?" Lucy questioned hopefully.

Carla nods, "Yes, after all she is a Sky Dragon Slayer."

"She's a Dragon Slayer?!" Natsu called out in shock, not realizing that he just said what everyone else is thinking.

"I knew she had old magic, but I didn't think that was it," said Harry in awe. He couldn't imagine that little girl doing things like Natsu and Gajeel. Then he just remembered that her magic is more for healing and support.

"Yes," Carla answered Natsu, "but we don't have time to talk about this. We need to find Wendy so she can heal your friend."

"Fawkes' tears should also help," Harry pointed out. "If they can cure me of basilisk venom, then they could cure the venom in Erza's arm."

"Hey, that's a good point!" Natsu said excitedly. "We can get Fawkes to heal her real quick, and then look for Wendy."

"Where is he anyway?" Gray asked Harry.

"That's the problem…" Harry saw everyone turn to look at him when he hesitated. "Fawkes was kidnapped in my place along with Wendy and Happy," he told them.

"They kidnapped Happy too?!" Natsu shouted angrily.

"I thought you knew that, but yes, they took Happy as well; however, they grabbed him by mistake. He was trying to help Wendy, but he was pulled in too."

"I'll just have to sniff them out then," Natsu said in a low growl.

"Harry, would you be able to find them by talking to Fawkes?" Lucy asked.

"How would he talk to a bird that is nowhere near here?" Lyon asked, sounding like he believed that Lucy's question was stupid.

"I should be able to, unless Fawkes doesn't know where he is. He could come looking for me, but if he doesn't know this area too well, then he'll have to fly to get back to me. He needs to know a place well to be able to teleport there," explained Harry.

"Can you try then?" Gray asked in hopes of getting Erza cured as quickly as possible.

Harry nodded his head, and then closed his eyes to concentrate. {Fawkes, are you there?} He waited a few minutes, but he didn't get any reply. {Fawkes?} he called out louder, but still nothing. With a sigh of defeat, he opened his green eyes and looked to his allies. "I can't get a hold of him."

"Why can't you get a hold of him?" Jura asked.

"He must be unconscious. That is the only way to stop our connection from working," replied Harry.

Jura nodded in understanding. "Alright then, I believe everyone here knows what to do?" he asked.

"Yes, we have a new goal," Hibiki said.

"To rescue Wendy and Fawkes," said Eve.

"To save Erza," Gray said, sounding just as determined at the others.

"And Happy!" Lucy added, wanting to make sure none of them – besides Natsu – don't forget about that blue furball.

Natsu punched his fists together. "Alright, I'm all fired up. Let's go!" He threw his fist into the air along with everyone else.

"YEAH!"

TBC

I'm glad I was able to write this chapter without having to look at the manga much. I need to do that more often.

PS. I need to get back to writing longer chapters. I think I can make the next one longer.

Voldy: Yes you do. I need you to write longer chapters, because then I can come back quicker.

Enj/Dark: That's your only reason? -_-

Harry: *scuffs* Of course it is.

Zeref: You seem to believe that you are the most important one here.

Voldy: That's because I am. *sneers at them*

Natsu: No you're not. *grins*

Voldy: I'm more of a god than any of you!

Zeref: Really…? You're sure about that? I'm pretty sure that Enjali is more of a goddess here than you are.

Voldy: She is nothing more than a muggle who likes to see herself more a dragon and play god.

Enj/Dark: *snaps my fingers* You were saying? I'll have you know that I would rather be anything – besides a monkey – than human. Humans are such boring, yet interesting creatures, but also cruel.

Voldy: WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?! D=

Zeref&Harry: *laughing their heads off* She turned you into a skeleton! XD

Natsu: Well, he is afraid of death, so this is what I came up with a few chapters back. You like it? ;)

Harry: I love it! :')

Enj/Dark: Zeff, it's your turn.

Zeref: Please review! :3

Voldy: Turn me back now! DX