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When your hearts beats with the heat of the sun for each other, that is love. This Fairy Tail redo is a story of two people connected by a fire unquenched by any power in the world. Their bond will take change the fate of Fiore and all of Ishgar.

Chapter 28: Nirvana Awaken

It wasn't exactly a peaceful walk through the forest to get to Nirvanna. First off, Adrian, Natsu, Lucy, and Hibiki went full sprint into the forest without a care to stop and check. Happy and Carla flew close by, the latter carrying the unconscious form of Wendy. The deeper in the Woodsea they traveled, the more dark mages they encountered but most of which were immediately dealt with extreme prejudice by Adrian himself. He was like a shimmer in the wind. One moment he would be there and then disappeared the moment his hand touched the hilt of the Ten Commandments. None of the dark mages or even Hibiki could even see Adrian as he moved cutting through their ranks in a flash. The more Natsu watched the young boy take them out the more he wanted to fight this guy. Lucy was just taken back of how strong such a young boy could be. There was so much mystery surrounding Adrian from his strength despite his age to his very scent that didn't exactly match that of a human at all. Not once did Adrian slow down or make a face to the horde of enemies before him.

"Aww, c'mon man, leave some for the rest of us?" Natsu whined. The entire time they were constantly being ambushed while sprinting through the forest, not once did Adrian give him even the chance to jump into action before taking care of the problem. Worse off was that Lucy would tug on his ear if he threw away all caution and tried to get in Adrian's way.

"I will pull this ear off if you don't behave!" Lucy threatened. Natsu wanted to argue but when he looked back the son of Igneel only saw the mirage of a bloodthirsty demonic version of his mate complete with red-black horns and red eyes. Nothing, not Erza, not Gildarts, can compare to the fear Lucy put into the Dragon Slayer. As they say, hell hath no fury than a man's wife.

"Hai." Squeaked Natsu.

"On our six and nine!" Warned Adrian, whipping his sword to the side. "Form 4: Hunter."

The Ten Commandments buster sword glowed in light to signal its transformation. Through the dimming light the blade slimmed down to a single-edged silver blade, and the grip changed color to a dark grey with a trigger that connected to a muzzle along the blunt edge of the blade. Adrian tightened his grip on the new blade and the grip glowed with yellow as it absorbed his magic. His eyes locked to the side to wait for the dark mages to jump from their ambushing spot. A cry of maniacal laughter followed the dark mages jumping from the trees. This made them wide open for Adrian to swing his blade in a wide arc in their direction holding down on the trigger that unleashed magical artillery shells. At the end of the swing, the dark mages collapsed to the ground from being bombarded with explosive firepower.

Natsu grinned wildly finally getting a chance to let his fires out. He took a deep inhale of air to fuel the fires in his lungs. The gurgle of raging flames escaped Natsu's lips and when he was about to demolish the thugs behind them...

"Ice-Make: Cannon."

"Sky Demon's Rage."

"Ice-Make: Eagle."

An avalanche, a gust of pink wind, and a flock of ice eagles decimated the forces that were in front of Natsu, followed by the appearance of the students of Ur, Siri of the Bloody Winds, and Sherria. He was so much in shock that Gray was able to get a shot in that the flames that he originally wanted to let out in a roar fell lazily like a waterfall from his mouth. He wasn't let long in his depression before Lucy tug on his ear again when they had the chance to move again.

"Glad you could make it." Adrian greeted when Lyon picked up the pace next to the Inquisitor, with Gray and Siri covering their rear.

"You look better than before since being skewered." Lyon noted, blasting away mages to side with a flock of eagles.

"Look, there are all together!" Shouted a dark mage at the front where most of them congregated as a last line of defense. "Let's take them all out with everything we've got. Brain will sure to award us with their heads."

The mages in turn shouted in agreement and multiple magic circles flashed to life in different colors, ready to bombard the light mages with all that they were worth.

"Vine Whip."

"Aura Burst."

"Forward Misery."

"Fire Fang."

"Inferno Incantation."

"Black Panther Volt."

Those were some of the spells that joined the mix of dark, fire, lightning, and even plant magic that towered over the light mages like a tsunami. The mages stood their ground without fear, but it was Adrian who took the charge instead.

"Form 6: Contrador."

The Hunter blade shrank down even smaller and lost the gun till the blade was only as long as Adrian's arm. This new sword had a single-edged blade curving toward the point, with the blunt edge was colored green decorated with several hollow holes, and a one-handed hilt colored a dull gold complete with a semi-circle guard.

Adrian stood in an unsheathing stance; his blade was hidden under his shoulder while his dark eyes remained sharp. The tsunami of magic was upon him and in one second would engulf the Inquisitor. He had to time it right, but the great was easy to produce for Adrian even under a second, and he swiped his blade so fast it created an arc of light before the opposing magic followed by a chant.

"Full Counter."

The magical barrage was sent right back with double the power. The casters were obliterated bu their own magic obliterating them in an instant. Adrian took a moment to glance at his surroundings before relaxing his stance and sheathing his weapon on his back in its default form. This gave the rest of light mages a moment of relief now with all of the lower dark mages finally dealt with.

"Let's continue on for a while then we can rest before the finale." Adrian said.

Eventually the light mages decided to rest till nightfall and took a spot at the top of a plateau overlooking the pillar of black light not too far away. This was where Wendy found herself waking up to, more precisely to be staring back at the face of her crush. Adrian's dark eyes shown warmth that made her heart skip, and his rusty-red hair glowed in the golden light of dusk. In seconds, Wendy's whole body radiated heat and went scarlet to contrast her deep blue hair. It didn't help that not only was Adrian close, he was also wearing just his muscle shirt that hugged his body to leave nothing out for Wendy's eyes to trail over. If she were any older and into puberty, she would probably be drooling.

Adrian, in his ignorance, quirked a confused eyebrow seeing Wendy's once pale complexion redden. He put a hand on top of her forehead to check for a fever but that only made Wendy shoot steam out of her ears on contact. It was only extreme joy of the fact Adrian was okay that kept the Sky Dragon Slayer from fainting.

"You're not running fever now, are you?" Asked Adrian, generally confused since slayers rarely, if not impossibly, get diseases.

Wendy felt just the inclination of a tick mark at the ignorance of men, a notion that annoyed all females whether they knew it or not. Seconds felt like minutes with Wendy unable to form a response out of her mouth except a few squeaks. She settled on acting rather than telling, and Adrian was stunned for a moment as he registered a new weight on his chest with slim arms wrapping tightly around him in a hug.

"You're alright." Cried Wendy, drying tears into his chest. "I thought - I thought I lost you, that you were gone forever. I-I didn't know w-what to d-do. I-It was my fault that you got hurt... Adrian... my fault... my fault..."

Adrian was so confused what to do. He never was the type of person for these situations, more specifically on those crying and using your own clothes as a towel. Any word he could say could potentially make Wendy feel worse, so Adrian settled picking her up and laying themselves on a wall facing the setting sun. Wendy hugged onto Adrian's right arm as leaned back, and her muffled sniffles gradually calmed down. She lifted her watery brown eyes to meet Adrian's dark orbs filled with so much warmth it was like being next to the sun.

"Feeling better Wendy now you got that out of your system?" Adrian said.

Wendy responded with a nod and a sad smile. She reluctantly let go of her hold on Adrian's arm and hugged her knees to her chest, her head half buried behind her legs. Her smile dropped to a depressed frown as her eyes stared at the sunset.

"I-I shouldn't have joined the alliance." Whimpered Wendy in misery.

Adrian's posture straightened in shock. "What do you mean?"

"It's all my fault!" Exclaimed Wendy in both sadness and outrage. "I-I am a coward! I mean, look at me! Do I look like a Dragon Slayer to you!? All I do is get in the way while you all get hurt for my sake!"

"Wendy, calm-"

"I did nothing!" Wendy continued to rant, the winds picking up from the instability of her emotions and her eyes turning a frightening ebony. "All I did was nothing when Brain h-had almost killed you. I almost killed you because I was so stupid and cowardly and weak and useless! I am a disgrace to the title of Dragon Slayer, and all I'm good at is watching people close to me die right in front of me."

"WENDY!" Shouted Adrian, gripping tightly onto Wendy's shoulders.

The effect was instant as Wendy's eyes returned to normal and the winds calmed down. Her shoulders slumped in depression, but Adrian was not having none of that and held Wendy's chin before she looked away in shame.

"Wendy, look at me." Adrian said softly, and Wendy obeyed. "You're not useless. What happened just happened Wendy, so there's no use in fretting over it. But let me just say without you, Lucy wouldn't be with us. If she were to die, we would already lose from heartbreak. And that thinking that you're weak and only get in the way, I don't think so. I saw you at the first battle today casting your enchantments. It may not seem much but you had practically turned the tide of battle right there and then, and honestly that kinda scares me if we were on opposing sides."

Wendy's eyes looked down in thought digesting Adrian's words as they came. She went back to her previous position this time resting her chin on her knees.

"I don't know what to do, Adrian." Wendy said, staring at her palms. "When I saw you sacrifice yourself again, I just couldn't take it. I felt angry, so angry that I felt sick thinking about it. Like I was going to fall in an endless pit. If I lose you after Grandeeney and Jellal, I think something else will come out.

Adrian's eyes widened. 'Could it be that power?'

Adrian abandoned those thoughts, more concerned with helping Wendy cope. He slid closer to the Sky Dragon Slayer, making Wendy straighten her posture from a deep blush.

"Jellal Fernandez." Adrian brought up. "It seems you two have quite a bit of history between you two. I'll ignore the fact that he's a wanted criminal since the guys seems important to you. What can you tell me about him?"

"I don't want to believe that Jellal could ever be a criminal, not after what he did for me." Wendy said as she smiled. "Not long after my mother, Grandeeney, disappeared, he was that found me wondering aimlessly. He said he was alone too and invited me on his adventure for a while. We didn't know where we were going but I didn't really care."

The more he heard about Wendy's time with Jellal, the more Adrian was starting to like the guy. Even if Jellal has been twisted over the years, he can safely say that the Jellal in the past isn't the same as the one right now. After all, the years in a human's life can change them, for better or for worse.

"Suddenly," Wendy continued with a solemn look, "he started acting strange. Jellal was doing something, something very dangerous that he didn't allow me come with him no matter how much how begged him to. So he left me at the Cait Shelter guild, and that makes the second person close to disappear from my life. I wonder, do you think he remembers me?"

Adrian had a thoughtful expression glancing to the horizon before answering. "I don't think it matters really if Jellal is the same or even remembers you, Wendy. The most important thing in my opinion was that he was someone willing to take care of you when no one else could. No matter what you see or whatever happens, always the Jellal he was before rather than the now."

"Thank you, Adrian." Mumbled Wendy.

The horizon turned to a dark bronze as the sun slept below the sky. Wendy leaned her head on Adrian's shoulder, making the boy tense in surprise. Unlike most kids his age, Adrian never had the luxury of a 'normal' childhood. Ever since his mother died before his eyes and he first unleashed his magic the prodigy of Ishgar trained relentlessly to never experience that again. This is what led him to move up the ranks of the Magic Council despite his age. In some years he would become the youngest member of the Magic Council and the Wizard Saints since Siegrain, or Jellal as he was revealed to be. Unfortunately, this left Adrian completely ignorant of much more deeper social interactions. Sure he has friends but right now he had no freaking idea what to do with Wendy being so close to him. So far just staying still and letting the Sky Dragon Slayer do what she pleased was working for now.

The moment was ruined when the whole Woodsea shook violently and the black light intensified. The ground broke apart like an eggshell. A giant mechanical arm aged by the fangs of time broke from the earth. The plateau collapsed followed by Wendy screaming when the ground ceased to be at beneath her feet.

Her cries were cut off when Adrian jumped down and wrapped an arm under her waist. His free left arm withdrew the Ten Commandments pouring his magic into the blade to make it glow.

"Form 5: Stormbreaker."

The buster swird shrank in form while the handle lengthened. In a flash of light Adrian held a dark wood handle with a black iron pommel. Unlike the previous forms, the newly shown commandment turned the blade into a grey steel axe lined in blue frost at the edge and a head of a shining hammer shimmering with electricity.

Adrian took a firm hold of the axe-hammer and lunged it forward. Instantly their fall reversed into flight. Stormbreaker, the commandment of the axe-hammer, was once the most versatile of the Ten Commandments from its control over ice and lightning, but the more precious ability of Stormbreaker was to be able to take flight to the skies with a simple thrust of the weapon. Noticing that she wasn't falling anymore, Wendy gripped onto Adrian like a lifeline, and yet again making her blush in embarrassment of being so close.

But the blush in cheeks flushed away to pale dread when they locked eyes on the massive war machine on six legs with the main body carrying an entire landmass of the Woodsea. It was a city in fact of the ancient civilization that lived here long ago. The black light receded into the tall tower jutting out like a horn. When one leg lifted and took a step it was enough to create an earthquake.

Adrian was visibly tense by just the sheer scale of the true form of Nirvana. The mass itself would topple cities by stepping through them. Not just magic guilds, but the whole continent would fall to the war machine. And if his hunch was right, the giant hole at the side of the main body wasn't there for show.

'If that thing can actually fire, the blast would be as devastating as Etherion!' Thought Adrian in alarm.

Letting out an annoyed grunt Adrian increased the speed of their flight towards the 'mouth' of Nirvana. His eyes darted for his allies and hoped to his father that they weren't dead. His prayers were answered in a very... bizarre way.

In the form of the roar of the son of Igneel. Adrian's eyes stared at the literal dust cloud that was Natsu leading the charge up one of the legs followed closely by Lucy, Happy, Gray, Siri, Lyon, and Sherria. The sheer willpower and spirit from Natsu made Adrian pause in admiration of the prince of Fire Dragons. It was like fear was some stranger to him, a sentiment shared by his guild mates from Fairy Tail and infectious to those around them.

"We've got to help them." Wendy declared with a bit more steel in her voice.

Adrian couldn't help but smile at Wendy's lifted spirits. She knew the odds seemed impossible, yet her peers were willing to endure the pain for victory. A sigh escaped his lips, regretting having doubts of the growing dread of Nirvana. In the end, Fairy Tail never surrenders.

Lightning flashed off the hammer of Stormbreaker as Adrian rallied to the call of Salamander. Strangely, Adrian usual calm composure was buckling from the rush of his beating heart of the coming battle. It wasn't in fear or excitement, but rather an almost alien feeling the Inquisitor felt as though electricity charged his veins. The only way Adrian could put it was that he was fired up. And the best thing was there was no Carla to piss him off.

Speaking of said cat that was trying to catch up to them but failing. Her outrage was music to Adrian's ears.

With the Fairy Tail mages running the leg, their progress was impeded when the leg started moving. Gray was forced to witness their strongest fighters crumble to the ground with Natsu holding in his stomach and the Demon Slayers writhing in pain. For Siri, she was getting off on it.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Exclaimed Gray.

"I'm sorry *hurk* can't help it." Whimpered Natsu. "This thing keeps moving from one place to another."

"Don't think of it as a vehicle." Suggested Gray.

"Easy for you to say." Lucy growled through gritted teeth, paralyzed by her cramps.

"Dammit!" Cursed Gray. "C'mon Lyon let's finish this - what the fuck!?"

Glancing to his childhood friend, Gray dropped his jaw when he saw Lyon clutching his head in agony. Veins bulged painfully on his forehead the more Nirvana moved. Sherria was trying her best to help the God Slayer's migraine but whimpered when she was nothing but useless.

"Sorry Gray," Lyon panted, "but it seems God Slayers like myself can't stand vehicles either. Damn, this is the worst fucking headache."

"You too Lyon!?" Exclaimed Gray, clutching his hair in frustration. "What is it with you slayers and vehicles?"

'On second thought, why am I not suffering from vehicle motion?' Thought Gray. 'This all so damn troublesome. At least I'm glad I'm the only Demon Slayer here who doesn't have cramps. I hope not."

Natsu tried to push through the motion sickness and made it a few more steps only to slide off the mechanical arm. Happy soared down to catch his partner as the Dragon Slayer cried in his descent. At the same time, his eyes gritted his teeth in a bit of fury. He is a Dragon Slayer; he shouldn't be brought down from something like this. Dragon magic was flowing through his veins. The very world was his calling, not his weakness. Natsu Dragneel, son of Igneel, wouldn't fall like this, not when the sky is his very domain.

Natsu's power raged came to his call. Scales of crimson donned his neck, arms, brows, and cheeks replaced his human flesh. Red flames swirled around him till it concentrated on his back to form a pair of draconic wings and a tail of pure flame. Instincts guided Natsu to stretch out the magically manifested limbs to unfold and lifted him to the sky.

It was Happy's turn to retreat as Natsu suddenly rose high into the air like a rocket. The others simply stared in awe at the dragon in human form thriving in its domain in the sky. Slitted onyx eyes locked on to the top of the tower where his enemies awaited their destruction by a dragon's wrath.


Chapter finished. Sorry it took a while. As of now, I officially have a job to work for the summer on some days of the week, so it is understandable that my schedule isn't as open as it should.

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