Nashi wished she could wake up already. She'd been unconscious for about a week at that point.,and she was certain she'd already lost her mind. She often found herself talking to no one in particular, arguing with the wall, and, most often of all, spacing out and drooling. Nashi groaned as she flung herself back, trying to hurt herself. She'd learned early on that she couldn't hurt herself in her own head, so she made it a point to try, if for nothing more than to entertain herself.
"Nashi..." Nashi turned to the transparent part of the wall, which she assumed was her eyelid, and saw her mother crying. It would've teared Nashi up if she wasn't completely out of ways to cry, mainly because her mother often called out to her in the infirmary.
"Hey, Mom," Nashi replied, although she knew she wasn't heard. "How are you doing?"
"...Just wake up, sweetie, we all miss you..."
"Yeah, I miss me too"
"...Wendy and Chelia have done all they can, it's up to you..."
"I know that, but I can't." Her mother sniffled, and Nashi groaned. She knew she was upset her mother was upset, but she couldn't bring herself to cry. "You should hit me on the head Mom, maybe that'll wake me up"
"Are you trying, sweetie?"
"What do you think?"
"Your friends have gone to Phantom Dove" Nashi's felt her eyes widen. What? "Laxus took some of us and others from other guilds, and went to fight them. I only hope everyone is okay..."
"Yeah, me too" Nashi agreed. "But I would've liked to go with them." Nashi next rude comment was interrupted by a figure entering the infirmary.
"Nashi!" Nashi felt surprised to hear that. Elise ran into the infirmary and watched her friend with worry. Elise turned to Nashi's mother. "How is she?" She asked.
"Alright, I guess." Nashi's mother replied. "She's still in a coma though." Elise sighed.
"I can't believe those idiots went by themselves..." She growled. "Why didn't they take me?" Nashi was happy she wasn't the only one confused. Her mother seemed confused as well.
"Yeah," Her mother agreed unsteadily, "They should've waited for you, I think" As Nashi was about to question the last 3 weeks of her life, Levy walked in behind her daughter.
"Elise" She spoke. "Why don't you go and get something to eat? I need to speak to Lucy, alone" Elise nodded, gave Nashi one more worried glance,before she left. Levy sighed.
"Took her to see Doranbolt, huh?" Her mother asked, watching Levy carefully. Levy nodded.
"Drake said I should," She said unsteadily. "I don't know why I listened, but that look he gave me..." Levy shivered. "I've never been more swayed to do something in my life, not even when Gajeel proposed." Nashi wasn't sure if that was supposed to be a joke or not. Her mother sighed.
"I know. Elise was the worst off. She was so..." Her mother trailed off. Levy nodded silently, before they both turned back to face Nashi.
"How is she?" Levy asked.
"Better," Her mother replied. "Chelia and Wendy did all they could, they say it's just until she wakes up from the trauma." Levy nodded, and patted Nashi's mother on the back.
"I can begin to understand what your going through." Levy said. "Elise may have been traumatized, but at least she wasn't almost dead." There was no response. Nashi could understand that. "I hope the others are okay" Nashi's mother chuckled.
"We're talking Fairy Tail," Her mother replied, which made Levy chuckle. "I doubt they were strategic at all."
Nashi agreed.
Gray growled as he climbed out of the wall and watched Lennix with careful eyes. Juvia appeared beside him.
"Ultear-sama warned Juvia about Impact magic," She told him. "We can't get close to him, which means he can hit us." Gray nodded.
"Impact is a very dangerous magic," He agreed. "It's damage output is insane. He need to distract him." Juvia nodded. "How do we do that?"
"Juvia doesn't know" She replied. "Perhaps we can talk to him?" Gray doubted it. Lennix chuckled.
"You two are all the entertainment I need." He replied. "Very interesting people"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Gray demanded. Lennix observed him for a minute.
"Father," He listed. "Often irritated by the clingy mother of the child. Daughter, I suppose? You usually play second fiddle to the bigger hero, someone more powerful. How close was that?" Gray knew he was shocked. Everything Lennix had said was on the mark. Lennix turned to Juvia. "Mother," He said. "Often overprotective even if said daughter can handle herself. Speaks in third person." Juvia gasped.
"How are you doing that?" Gray demanded. Lennix smiled.
"I observe." He replied. "I'm often told I'm great at parties."
"Juvia is sure you are" Juvia mumbled. Gray didn't know if his observant opponent had caught it, but he saw Juvia clench her fists. Lennix stayed immobile.
"Ice Make: Lance!" Gray shouted. The lances flew straight towards Lennix, but his palm grew white, and the lances shattered as soon as he touched them. Gray growled. How the hell were they supposed to get this guy if he could just deflect everything?
Mami was getting sick and tired of hitting her friends. She growled in frustration as her parfum powered fist connected with Ken's face. She apologized profusely and turned, trying to find Ramin amid the mist. This was ridiculous. His magic just made it next to impossible to hit anything but her own friends. She flipped her hair out of her eyes.
"Meeehhhnnn," She hissed. "The parfum of irritation. How do we hit him?" Ken shrugged, rubbing his cheek where Mami had punched him.
"I can't find any hints as to where he is," Eve growled. "How are we supposed to beat him?"
"Meeehhhnnn" Mami's father agreed. "Our enemy uses the parfum of confusion. He intends to let us beat each other." Ramin laughed, but Mami couldn't pinpoint a location in the mist.
"Anything on mist magic, Hibiki?" Ren asked. Hibiki shrugged.
"Depends if you wanted useful information" He replied. "It's mainly misdirection magic, barely any offensive ability"
"So we gotta find him, then," Akio concluded, launching a blizzard to his left. Ramin appeared to Mami's left, appearing only long enough to kick her in the side, sending her too the ground.
"Ah, I'm going to kill him!" Mami shouted angrily, temporarily breaking her usual parfum and men talk, actually sounding like a normal girl. "Just how the hell do we beat him?!"
"Meeehhhnnn!" Her father shouted. "The parfum of attack formation #32!"
"You really like to try don't you?" Ramin demanded. "Just give it up, your wasting your, and my, time" Mami wanted nothing more than to slug Ramin in the face, but she would look pretty stupid trying to punch the mist. attack formation #32 failed, as Ren landed on his face and Eve's shirt was pulled up over his face. Mami rubbed her face in irritation. The moisture from the mist was getting to her. Ramin's face appeared next to her. He was a rather unattractive man with white hair, not even close to Damien.
"I'm going to kill you" Mami hissed, which didn't garner a response. She attacked, missed, and her face connected with the wall of the chamber. Growling and grabbing her now bloody nose, she whipped around and nearly punted Taro in the face, as he had missed his attack as well and landed on the ground. "Akio!" She shouted. "Can't you, like, freeze him or something?" Akio shook his head.
"I wouldn't be able to get the proper amount of air flow, thanks to the mist itself" Mami face palmed as she pushed Taro in front of Eve. "Oh, right" The two of them ,combined with their fathers, began the attack. Snow began whipping around the chamber, which turned in below freezing temperature. The air flow circulated it around the chamber as well, and Mami was fully aware that her friends were watching with drool coming out of their mouths as her hair an clothes whipped around her violently. She knew she looked extremely attractive. As all the mist began to crystallize, Ramin pooped out of it, landing gracefully.
"You know" He said. "If you wanted to see me , you could've asked."
"We did" Ken grumbled. Mami took the opportunity to take the first attack. Her fist met his open palm, and the two began to grapple.
"You know" Ramin said with a grin that gave Mami the shivers. Or may be that was the room being covered in snow. "You don't have to hang around with such dorks" Mami snickered.
"Dorks, huh?" Mami asked. "Their bigger meeehhhnnn then you will ever be." Before he could retort, Mami grabbed him and threw him behind her.
"Blizzard!"
"Air sphere!"
"Data blast!" Ramin collapsed in between the younger and older groups, unconscious.
"That was surprisingly easily." Hibiki grumbled.
"Meeehhhnnn" Mami's father agreed. "He had the parfum of lackluster strength. Perhaps he was the weakest."
"I feel like he completely relied on the misdirection of the mist." Ken pointed out. "He wasn't prepared to actually take damage."
Drake perked up at the triumphant cry about men and parfum he heard from the white door.
"Blue Pegasus won." He said flatly. Laxus nodded and Damien chuckled.
"Let me guess what you heard" He said. Something about men?" Drake nodded, which made Damien laugh. "Sounds like Ichiya."
"Any news on the others?" Simon asked him. Drake focused.
"Natsu and Gajeel haven't found Apocalypse yet." He said. "Meredy and Sorano finished checking the grounds for anything. Juvia and Gray haven't beaten Lennix. Erza, Sherry and Lyon should be making contact..." The building shook from an explosion. "Just then"
"Let us hope they are all okay" Jura said. "I'm worried about the master."
"Why, Jura-san?" Winter asked. "We've got two wizard saints and Damien. Not to mention Erza and two pissed daddy dragons. I don't see what the problem is."
"That's exactly why I'm worried." Jura replied. "For him not to appear and stop us before his whole guild is eradicated... isn't right" Drake could see the logic in that. The master must've been a cocky old asshole for him not to try and stop this already.
"Maybe he has a plan" Ultear pointed out. She'd been sitting quietly next to Drake since they'd returned. "I mean, surely he doesn't intend to wing it."
"That makes sense." Master Laxus said. "But, there still isn't much to worry about." Another explosion racked the building.
"That'll leave a mark, Lyon" Drake remarked, earning a silence among the group.
Erza wished she could check on Lyon, but she couldn't see a damn thing. She knew he'd crashed and burned somewhere near her, but the darkness amde it too hard to see.
"Lyon!" Sherry called out. "Are you okay?" Lyon grumbled.
"Fine" He muttered. "Just pissed off" Erza swung her sword where she heard Quintus walking, but growled when she missed.
"That makes two of us" She replied. Quintus sighed.
"You can't hit what you can't see." He said flatly. "You might as well surrender and let me kill you" Sherry yelped out as she got struck by a claw of darkness. Erza blocked a similar attack and swung at the appendage, dissolving it.
"Judging by the strength of our group" Erza told the darkness in front of her. "Half of you have already fallen." Quintus chuckled.
"Eoin was cocky, and Ramin was weak." He replied. "Angel was a traitorous bitch, so she doesn't count. You have yet to take down a member of the six that actually knows what their doing."
"What about your master?" Erza demanded.
"Master Jose will appear when he needs too" Quintus replied. "For now, he has faith." Jose. Erza knew the name. She rolled through her years of memories, trying to place a face to the name, but she couldn't find anything. She'd dwell on it later. "Besides, as long as one of the six stands, he needn't appear." Erza swung at the voice, but missed again. Lyon's snow tiger prowled around, looking agitated it could see nothing it could maul immediately. Sherry stood next to her rock puppet, the one she formed from the destroyed walls they'd been thrown through. Erza waited patiently for an attack, but none came.
"What's wrong?" Lyon asked. "Scared"
"Oh you, ice wizard? No.'' Quintus replied. "I was just listening to what the master was telling me. Apparently, and it isn't from me, but even if you defeat all of the six, you won't defeat him. He might not even show up."
"Why's that?" Sherry demanded, taking the words right from Erza's mouth. Quintus laughed.
"Let's just say he's got a surprise in store for you, that's all"
Erza didn't like the sound of that.
Sorry for not updating. I was in a bit of a rut, but I'm clawing myself out. Leave a review!