Next week I'm taking a break. I need to plan out Harry VS Midnight before going any farther, because I also need to know how I'm going to have them meet. With that in mind, I might have to take longer of a break… I don't know, I guess I'll cross that road when I get to it, because not only do I have to do that, I also have to finish a late animation, and I'm participating in a contest; the deadline is Halloween. I have a busy month! :D
Anyway, please enjoy the chapter.

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Harry shifted again in Cubellios' coils to try and find a more comfortable position, but he got a hiss of warning from the giant, purple snake. Harry hissed back annoyed, making Cobra raise an eyebrow at the two of them questioningly.

"Do you have any idea how uncomfortable it is be to sitting of a hard ground behind a boulder with a giant snake wrapped tightly around you whole body?" Harry said through clenched teeth with a burning hot glare aimed at the red-haired Oracion Seis member.

Cobra just grinned at him mockingly, which made Harry scoff and turn away. He has no desire to be dealing with him anymore. However, since Harry turned away, he missed Cobra turning toward the opening of the cave. ((AN: Is it a cave?))

Harry looked up at Fawkes, who is on a small ledge on the boulder they are hiding behind with his head tilted to the side as if he's listening for something. Harry asked what he was doing.

{I think I hear someone coming this way,} said Fawkes, sighing right after. {I really hate that I can't just feel for a life force for when I wish to know if someone is coming up from behind, but no…I have to rely on my hearing.}

Before Harry to reply to Fawkes' complaint, he felt Cobra grab hold of him and pull him farther into the shadows of the boulder, so that whoever is coming they will not be seen. Harry tried to protest, but Cobra covered his month his with hand. Harry, knowing that he's not going to get out of either of Cubellios' coils or removing Cobra's hand, sighed in defeat and waited to see who is coming in.

He only had to wait for a minute for a woman with scarlet red hair and armor covering her upper body to appear into their line of sight. Harry's eyes widen in shock, but also relief. He's glad to see that Erza is okay and has recovered well due to Fawkes' treatment, but he is shocked, because he wasn't expecting to see her here. The only reason Harry can think of for why she is here is because Natsu must have told Lucy about Jellal being alive and wondering around not realizing that Erza may have been awake.

Harry watched as Erza ran right passed their hiding spot, not taking any notice to them at all. It was like she was tunnel vision with only Jellal at the end. She stopped a few meters away from Jellal in case he decides to attack. To Harry relief, Jellal didn't attack; he just turned around to face her.

"Why are you here Jellal?" demanded Erza.

Jellal was silent for a moment, but started speaking, "I don't know…Erza…"

{So I was wrong…?} said Fawkes with his head tilted to the side. Neither the phoenix nor Harry noticed that Cobra is just as confused as they are, but he's not happy with Erza appearing here.

"How did she survive Cubellios' poison?" Harry heard Cobra mutter.

"Fawkes' tears can heal just about anything," he said before turning back to listen to the back and forth between Jellal and Erza.

"Erza… That is the only word I can remember…" Jellal starts to become distressed. His hands grab hold of his head in an attempt to recover more memories, but nothing was happing. "Can you tell me who I am? Do you know who I am?" he asked Erza desperately.

{So I was right…} mutter Fawkes.

Harry ignored his familiar as his eyes widen and fill up with sympathy. He understands the panic Jellal must be feeling at this point in time. It is a terrifying thing to not remember what anything is or where you are, or who you were as a person. You start asking yourself, how did I lose my memories? Do I have enemies, and if I do who are they? Am I the bad guy or good guy? You're mind just goes wild with questions, and when they go unanswered you start to panic and break down.

Jellal has it easier since Erza is there to fill him in on just what is going on and who he is. Harry didn't have that until Fawkes showed up, but the phoenix didn't know him as well as Erza does with Jellal.

{You're right, Harry. I wasn't in your life until I met you when you were twelve years old, and even then we only saw each other very few times,} Fawkes said gently. {The most I knew of you was through Albus. He was your headmaster at Hogwarts.} As Albus was mentioned, Harry saw a flash of an old man with sparkling blue eyes and long beard appeared in his head. The old man was sitting in the middle of a long table that held more people, but Harry couldn't see any of their faces except for Severus Snape's.

"Please, if you know who I am, then do you know who Erza is?" Harry heard Jellal's voice pierce through his thoughts when he started speaking again. He looked up and waited for Erza to answer, he couldn't see her face, but he feels that something isn't all right with her.

"You would be right, snake speaker." Harry twisted his head to face Cobra who is smirking once again. "I can smell tears coming from her. She seems to be sad that Jellal doesn't remember her."

Harry glared at him. How can anyone be so insensitive? Erza and Jellal were once close, so it made sense that she would be sadden by him not remembering her. Not only would that upset her, but so would the fact that Jellal doesn't remember what he put her and their friends through back at the tower.

"She was there?" Cobra whispered/shouted in shock. Harry turned to face him again, not knowing when he looked away in the first place. "She was at the Tower of Heaven?"

Harry raises an eyebrow at this question. "Yeah, why is that making you anxious?"

Cobra didn't say anything, but Cubellios did, ~Everyone in Oracion Seis – besides the leader – where once slaves at the tower.~

"Quiet Cubellios! He didn't have a right to know that!" Cobra hiss, but it was not like how a snake does it. Harry questioned how he knew what Cubellios said, but then remembered that through his mind Cobra can hear the hissing become translated into English.

Harry decided to be silent. What was there to say? That he was sorry that Cobra lost a good chunk of his life in that horrible place? He doubted that Cobra would want his pity.

Turning back, Harry listens to what Erza is telling Jellal. "I am Erza," she said. "You are Jellal. You trapped my childhood friends in a tower that was built to bring back the black wizard Zeref and forced those same children to slave in finishing the tower that you yourself was forced to build. You changed from a child who wished freedom to someone who believed that there is no freedom unless Zeref was back.

"When you changed you kicked me out and threatened our friends' lives if I were to ever return, but then one day you forced my return. You had our friends kidnap me and drag me back to the tower, not bothering to tell them the real reason for it. You wanted me back as a sacrifice so Zeref can return.

"While you held me captive, my friends from Fairy Tail followed. When they got there, you played with them like they were toys. You even captured one of them named Harry so you could give him to the newly revived Zeref as a pet." Erza's glare became cold at this point. "That to me is even more monstrous than anything you have put me through," she finished listing everything she knew about what he did at the tower.

"I did all that…?" Jellal questioned softly in disbelief.

Erza, however, was not done. "During my time away from the tower, you split yourself into two so you could infiltrate the Magic Council. While there, you tormented me every time I showed up there, but the real reason you were there was so you could find more information and use one of the Council's weapons to power up the tower. Once you had everything in place, you had one of your followers destroy the Council hall with everyone still inside…"

Harry watched Jellal's face the whole time Erza was talking. His expression went from disbelief to that of pure horror and guilt. He didn't want to believe that he had done any of those things, but Harry can understand why he would accept it as nothing but the truth. After all, the whole time Erza spoke it was in such a cold tone that anyone can feel the hard, icy reality from within.

Everyone but Natsu is awake. When Wendy awoke, Lucy asked her how she was feeling. The sky dragon slayer told her that she was sad for what she did still, but after talking about why she helped Jellal, Lucy told her that she has nothing to be ashamed of.

After the two were done talking, Lucy looked down at the three golden keys she got off of Angel. She took them for two reasons, one of them being that Hibiki didn't want Angel to have his former lover's keys, and the other reason was because Lucy would never be able to forgive herself if she left the keys with someone who was willing to hurt the spirits they summon.

While she was looking down at the keys she remembered that her clothes are wet. 'I can't believe I forgot to bring my bag with me when we left base.' As soon as this thought passed, one of her spirits, Virgo, appeared from the ground making everyone yell out with fright.

The loud noise of everyone shouting woke Natsu, and he shot up like he was getting ready to fight. When he didn't see anyone he became confused.

"Sorry for startling you, Mistress," said Virgo. Natsu looked down, now understanding what made everyone scream like there was a giant hoard of flesh eating beetles raining down on them. "I noticed that your clothes are wet, so I brought some from the spirit world." Out of nowhere, Lucy and Natsu had dry, clean clothes in their arms. "If that will be all, Mistress?"

"Oh wow, thanks Virgo! Yes, this will do," said Lucy.

Natsu grinned, "Yeah, thanks, even thought I could have dried my clothes with my fire."

"Does that mean Mistress will punish me?" Virgo asked hopefully.

"Uh…no… You may return now," said Lucy slowly.

Virgo bowed with her right arm just blow her chest. "As you wish." In a flash of gold light, she was gone.

Natsu, not caring in the slightest, starts to change his clothes right then and there, making Lucy and Carla yell at him that there is a child present. Lucy told Wendy to look away, which snapped the blue-haired young girl out of her embarrassed shock and quickly turned around with her face buried in her hands to hide the raging apple red blush that has painted her cheeks.

Lucy, being more modest, went behind a tree to change. Once she was done she came back and saw that Natsu has already sat back down in wait for her.

"I think we should go and find Erza and Harry," said Lucy. The others nodded their heads in agreement. They stand up, but just as they straightened, Sherry comes out from behind some trees.

"Oh, Hello Sherry," Wendy greeted, but then frowned when she didn't get a reply and saw a creepy, dark look in the woman's eyes.

"Sherry?" Lucy asked softly and slowly, also not getting a reply.

"Something is not right," said Natsu with a hint of a growl in his voice.

A few heartbeats of silence passed when Sherry finally said something. "Lyon is dead… I must avenge him. I must kill Gray…"

Everyone's eyes widened at this. "Darn, she's been turned by Nirvana!" Hibiki said quietly enough for only them to hear.

They got ready for another fight, allowing Sherry to have the first move. She sends an attack doll at them, making them disperse. Just as they were about to attack from all angles, Gray comes out of nowhere and tackles the pink-haired woman to the ground. This made Sherry go into a bloodlust rage, swinging her arms and legs wildly in an attempt to beat Gray till he is black and blue, and more preferably, dead.

Gray tries to keep her pinned, but she is getting some lucky hits in. Not long after Gray appeared, Lyon walks toward them while dragging an unconscious Racer behind him.

"What are you two doing?" he asked Gray and Sherry.

The sound of Lyon's voice made Sherry freeze in her attacks. She slowly looks over to see her love standing alive and well in front of her. "You're alive…but how…? I thought you were killed in that explosion," she asked while lying down on the ground with a relieved smile on his lips. As she lies there in wait of an answer, something comes out of her and flies away.

"What the…?!" said Natsu.

"I thought she was possessed," said Gray.

"So it's like Nirvana possesses people. So that's how it truly turns someone," said Hibiki.

"To answer your question, Sherry: I don't die that easily. I'm not like these guys," Lyon said while pointing his eyes at Natsu.

"What was that?!" the fire dragon slayer shouted angrily.

Lucy noticed that Wendy was looking up at where the black light that left Sherry went. She looked up too, but the light was gone. "The black light turned white…" she heard Wendy say to Carla.

"You can let go of him now, Cubellios," Harry heard Cobra say. He feels the giant snake uncoil from his form and back toward her master. Harry relaxes a little, but kept his guard up. Fawkes hopes back onto his shoulder and the two follow Cobra out of their hiding spot and made their way over to Erza and Jellal.

"I understand you lost your memory. No wonder I couldn't read your mind," said Cobra, drawing the attention of both Erza and Jellal to him.

Jellal looked shocked to see him, and Erza's face twisted in fury. "Cobra!" She then notices Harry behind the Oracion Seis member. "Harry…what are you doing here with him?"

Harry shrugs. "I'm sure Natsu told Lucy that he told me to follow Jellal, right? I did and I didn't really notice this guy following me until we were far away from any possible help. When we hid behind the boulder over there, Cobra snuck up behind us and he had me pinned so I couldn't destroy Nirvana," he explained. Erza nodded in understanding, remembering that yes, Natsu did say something about that.

Cobra ignored Harry in favor of asking Jellal some questions. "How did you get here, and why did you unseal Nirvana?" Harry heard apprehension in his voice. Harry figured that Cobra fears that Jellal wanted the power of Nirvana all to himself, but Harry thinks that the man has other plans.

Jellal looked reluctant, but answered the question anyway. "I heard a voice in my dreams. It was telling me to get Nirvana. I faintly remembered the magic and whereabouts, but that was enough. This is a dangerous piece of magic. I can't hand it over to anybody else," he said firmly while opening his eyes that were filled with sadness, acceptance, and resolve. "That's why I unsealed it – so I can completely destroy it."

TBC

So, what do you guys think of this chapter? I hope it's good. I tried to make all explanations good, but they may not be as great as the original. Anyway, I'm taking that break. I really need one from all the writing, again… When I'm done trying to come up with a plan for Harry VS Midnight I'll get back to this. Maybe I'll come back sooner, but I need to make sure the plan is finished before their fight is suppose to take place, but like I said up top, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. I'm up for suggestions if you have any.

Natsu: Aw man…I didn't get the chance to fight yet. :(

Zeref: I'm sure she will add in your fight with Cobra…right?

Enj/Dark: I would have to copy most of the fight with my own touch added, but sure, I can do that for your brother, Zeff.

Harry: With my powers and Midnight's you're going to have a grand time thinking of something.

Enj/Dark: Well, it does help that Erza will be fighting with you. You're mostly the backup for either fight really, or will Erza be the backup…?

Natsu: You should give Harry his own big fight, so Erza's backup.

Voldy: I agree.

Zeref: You do? :/

Voldy: Well, I'll get to see someone playing with Potter's mind if he's the main opponent.

Harry: Of course that's his reason. -_-

Natsu: Zeff…

Zeref: Please review! :3