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In the Tartaros dungeons, things weren't going well for the prisoners.

"Nnnnngh!" Lisanna gritted her teeth and used all her strength in an effort to break the cuffs around Natsu's wrists with her feet.

Natsu strained as hard as he could, "Keep going, Lisanna!"

"Don't you dare turn around!" Lisanna demanded, "I'm..I'm in such an embarrassing position..."

Sora was wisely looking the other way. If he were to so much as glance at the girl behind him, she would kill him for sure. 

"If we can just break these cuffs..." Natsu growled.

Lisanna felt her energy give and gasped in defeat, "It's no good...I can't break them. It doesn't seem like they can be broken with the strength of a normal human..."

"I'll try next, then," Natsu decided.

"I TOLD YOU NOT TO TURN AROUND!" Lisanna shrieked.

Sora heard footsteps and coming closer and looked up, "Hmm?"

A blanket was suddenly dropped into the cell. Sora realized Silver had delivered the cloth and threw himself towards the bars, "Hey!"

Silver chuckled as he stood in front of the cell, "I'm afraid I can't let you escape, but I also can't allow the little princess here to stay like that much longer. It must be quite embarrassing."

Lisanna used her teeth to cover herself with the blanket and muttered quietly, "Th-thank you..."

"You," Silver pointed at the Salamander and murmured, "What's your name?"

"Natsu Dragneel," he growled, "Otherwise known as the guy who's gonna lay you flat on your ass when I get out of here!"

Silver smirked, "Quite the fiery one, aren't you? We'll see what happens. I'll see the lot of you later, then."

"Who are you?!" Sora demanded, "Hold on! Get back here!"

But Silver just held up his hand and waved back as he walked away. Sora glared after him.

Lisanna blinked, "Is something wrong?"

"That guy..." the Solar Dragon frowned, "His stench is just like Gray's..."

"Yeah, I know." Natsu nodded.

As Silver walked away, he glanced back at the cell from the corner of his eye. There was a dark, steady expression on his face.

'Natsu...of all people...'

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In the Tartaros control center, Franmalth and the ex-Chairman were tracking down Jellal.

"Ex-Chairman, you will find Jellal soon, no?" asked the demon.

"Quiet!" Crawford chastised, "I'm trying to concentrate. My Super Archive's Real Time Link...is in the middle of searching through the continent's mages. I'll find Jellal in no time."

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Kyouka was torturing Erza again for information.

"Do it," ordered Kyouka.

Yakdoriga wrapped its tentacles around Erza's wrists and ankles, then electrocuted her. Erza screamed in agony.

"Stop, Yakdoriga," Kyouka said, watching Erza gasp for breath on the ground. She looked down on the woman condescendingly, "Where is Jellal?"

"...M-Mira....." Erza glared up at the demon, "Return...my friend..."

Kyouka was not amused.

"Let's double your sensitivity to pain yet again...Now, continue, Yakdoriga," was the only order the other demon needed to pick Erza up from the ground and shock her again with sadistic enthusiasm.

And Erza's shrieks and screams filled the hallway.

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Jellal was growing exhausted. He was covered in wounds from his battle, but Oracion Seis was also growing weaker.

"You'll free us?" demanded Midnight, "What can you possibly do?"

"I can defeat you," Jellal declared, "Where you stand, all of you...I shall defeat you!"

Suddenly, Brain's body rose up from the ground- only it was no longer Brain.

"You're the one who is going to die, Jellal!" cackled Zero, firing a stream of dark energy at the weakened man.

Angel looked alarmed, "Zero?!"

"When did the seal...!" Racer gasped.

"This bastard..." Cobra snarled, "You survived my attack?!"

Catching its target off-guard, the Dark Capriccio spell pierced Jellal clean through his chest.

"Jellal!" Meredy shrieked.

Zero sneered as Jellal collapsed. The blue-haired man gasped for breath, "Impossible..."

Midnight smirked.

Meredy rushed towards her fallen friend, "Jellal!"

"G-get back..." Jellal croaked, "Run..."

Meredy shook her head, "I can't just leave you like this!"

"M- Meredy...run..." gasped the wounded leader.

Zero suddenly lunged and struck Jellal again with such force that the entire area he lay on was vaporized. The dark mage cackled in evil delight. Meredy stared in horrified disbelief.

"THAT'S JUST THE ICING ON THE CAKE! HAHAHAHAHA!"

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"Ex-Chairman?" prompted Franmalth, "Did you do it? Did you find Jellal?"

Crawford grinned, "It seems I've done much more than just find him..."

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Meredy was frozen in shock, staring at the crater created by Zero's attack. The dark mage hovered over where Jellal's body had once been with a satisfied sneer. All that remained was a boot, torn to shreds and ruined.

"Jellal...ahh..." Meredy gasped, horrified.

The members of Oracion Seis looked shocked themselves, all except Midnight, who smirked a bit.

"There isn't even a trace left..." Angel muttered.

Zero cackled in mad delight, "Ahahahahaha!"

Suddenly, Zero shattered.

In the area that had been destroyed, pieces of the landscape started to break and crumble like broken glass, falling apart and dissolving into thin air. As they vanished, Jellal appeared- standing and very much alive.

Midnight's eyes widened in astonishment, "Wh-?!"

"You were just..." Meredy whispered, "You were just killed! How...!?"

Instead of Jellal dead, Brain's corpse was still lying on the ground where it had fallen. There was no sign of Zero or the immense power he manipulated.

"My Nightmare..." Midnight was stunned, "My Nightmare was shattered?! But how did you..."

His gaze rested on Jellal's face, and it was there that he found the answer. The blue-haired man's eyes were swollen shut, bleeding and destroyed.

The reality of what had happened sent a shock through Midnight the likes of which he'd never experienced.

"You crushed your own eyes!" he gasped.

Cobra's jaw fell open, "Are you kidding me?!"

"That's impossible!" Racer shouted.

Suddenly, seven rays of light surrounded the dark mages, all emanating from golden magic circles.

Angel recoiled in alarm, "This is a three-dimensional seal formation!"

"When did he..." Cobra froze, "While he was in the Nightmare?! He cast a spell like this under Midnight's influence?!"

"The seven stars shall pass your sentence!" the blind Jellal declared, "Grand Chariot!"

All seven magic circles flashed, then the rays of light generated a titanic explosion. The Oracion Seis members shrieked in pain, taking severe damage from every direction.

"Curse...you...!" Midnight growled, feeling his body growing weaker.

Jellal wasn't done, however. He flicked forward his middle and index fingers on both hands, leaning forward instinctively. In one smooth motion, his right hand slashed out one hundred and eighty degrees behind him, aligning both arms into a straight line.

The magic pressure in the air intensified to the point that the atmosphere trembled. A massive funnel formed in the sky and created a crackling sphere of holy energy.

Midnight saw the spell forming and blanched, "True Heavenly Body Magic?!"

"Star Crush!" bellowed Jellal.

At his command, the sphere of energy dropped out of the sky like a golden meteor and crashed into the dark guild, obliterating everything in its path. The force of the impact sent out a shockwave the likes of which the other mages had never experienced.

Meredy braced herself against the furious roar of energy. Nearby, Hoteye did the same. When the dust cleared and the thrum of magic ceased, they stared at the result.

Midnight, Cobra, Angel, and Racer all lay on the ground, broken and defeated. Jellal was gasping for breath and heavily wounded, but he was without a doubt the victor.

Hoteye shook in fearful respect, "What terrifying magic..."

"It's...our loss..." Midnight rasped on the ground, unable to move. He was the only defeated member capable of speaking, "Kill us..."

"I have no intention of doing so," Jellal replied.

Angel glanced at him from the corner of her eyes, "Will you...take us back to jail?"

"No," Jellal shook his head, "The Independent Guild Crime Sorciere...join us."

His request sent a shock through the defeated dark mages. This was the last thing they expected to hear.

"What?" Angel gasped.

"Your prayers will definitely be heard..." Jellal told them, "That I promise you. But...for that sake, what should we do now? We should be fighting the same enemy...revoke the names you carried in Oracion Seis and become my partners..."

Blind as he was, Jellal used his sensory ability to find the defeated mages, "Richard...Sorano...Sawyer...Erik..."

He found Midnight and grabbed the man by the collar, pulling him up so they were face to face, "Macbeth...together, we must defeat Zeref!"

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"So you did find Jellal?!" Franmalth demanded urgently.

Crawford chuckled, "No...something much better has happened! I've completed the transfer of the key! Thanks to my Super Archive's Power!"

Franmalth stared at him uncomprehendingly.

"That is," the old man explained, "Jellal's key has become mine!"

"Yours?"

"Yes! And utilizing the same principle, we can transfer the key to some random person. If we kill them, the seal will be opened."

"And who would this random person be?" asked Franmalth.

"Who cares!" Crawford muttered, "One of the captured Fairies should do just fine!"

The demon was curious about something, "Wait a minute, ex-Chairman. Do you mean to tell me that you have just become the last key?"

His curiosity only annoyed the old man, "I've been saying that this whole time! That this method even exists is all thanks to my Super Archive's power! With this, the seal on Face is released! The world is ours!"

Franmalth grinned as he quietly sensed someone walking to the control center, "It's almost difficult to believe such a method even exists. To transfer such a securely hidden asset..."

"That's what the power and authority of the ex-Chairman can do," said Crawford arrogantly.

"Is it now?" sneered the demon.

Quiet footfalls had been approaching the old man from behind, and now their owner made her presence known. With a contemptuous flick, Kyouka lengthened one of her claws and stabbed Crawford clean through the chest from behind.

"So, it's safe to say the seal is now broken," smirked Kyouka.

Crawford gasped in pain and collapsed, dead at the demon's feet.

Not a moment later, Cube suddenly began to tremble immensely, as though an earthquake was going through the flying construct.

"Oh, my, my," Franmalth chuckled.

Kyouka raised her head in satisfaction, "Even Cube is reacting. That must mean the seal on Face has been released."

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In the dungeons, the tremors reached the trapped Fairy Tail mages.

"Wh-what's happening?" Lisanna gasped.

Natsu glanced around in alarm, "It's shaking like crazy..."

Sora gritted his teeth, "Did something happen?"

Without warning, the force of the quakes suddenly increased, hurling the mages all over the cell.

"OW!" Sora howled as his head was slammed against the bars.

Natsu was thrown face-first into the floor, but he glanced at the young woman close by as her back crashed against the wall, "Lisanna! Are you okay?!"

Lisanna's thoughts were not on her own well-being however. She was much more worried for her siblings.

'Mira...Elfman...please be safe!'

She suddenly heard a clang and looked at the bars, eyes widening with a gasp, "Natsu! Look!"

Natsu glanced at her, but upon looking at the barely covered girl, Lisanna shrieked in embarrassment, "Not at me, dummy! The bars! Look at the bars!"

Pinned agains the bars of their cell was a short blade.

Natsu grinned, "A sword!"

"Nice eye, Lisanna!" Sora exclaimed, "We can use that to cut these chains!"

"Hold on a moment!" the Salamander shouted, "I'll get it!"

Pushing himself into a forward lunge with his feet, Natsu opened his mouth and managed to force his head through the bars enough to bite down on the handle of the weapon. With a strong yank, he had pulled it into the cell.

"Yes! You got it, Natsu!" Lisanna cheered.

Natsu twisted his head back as far as he could and strained his arms into a painful position, but it was just enough to press the blade against the cuffs. Upon contact, the steel suddenly swelled with heat and cut through the Seal Stone like a hot knife through butter.

Standing up with a roar of triumph, Natsu cut off the cuffs and broke them with his own inhuman strength, "I'M FREE!"

As happy as they were to see him loose, the other two prisoners now had a complete look at the naked, pink-haired Dragon Slayer.

Lisanna quickly averted her gaze, blushing immensely after seeing Natsu so fully exposed, "N-Natsu, cover up!"

"Put some damn clothes on!" Sora yowled, "No one wants to see you standing like that naked as a jaybird!"

Ah- my bad!" Natsu apologized, tearing a piece of the cloth off and tying it around himself. Now clothed and with the Igneo blade in his free hand, the Salamander used both weapons to slice through the cuffs of both Lisanna and Sting at once.

Lisanna immediately used her Take Over: Tiger to cover her body. She sighed in relief, "Thank goodness...I was so embarrassed..."

Sora stretched before he was enveloped in golden light. After it died down, he was wearing an opened red jacket with yellow designs, black pants held up by a blue belt, and wore black boots  that ended a bit below the knees. "I gotta think Virgo for this."

"Hey! Check on the prisoners!"

Natsu bared his fangs in a nasty grin, "We might be able to fix that!"

A few moments later, a poor, unsuspecting guard ran to the front of the cell. He was, unwisely, alone. With no idea what happened next, the guard was slammed from the inside of the cell by a burning fist straight into the cell opposite them.

Natsu stalked up to the unconscious peon with a smirk, "You really have terrible luck. Sorry, but I can't just run around naked and shit. It might freak some people out."

He stripped the guard of his trousers and threw the clothing on quickly (Tartaros outfit). Now covered, all three mages faced each other.

"We have to find Mira and the others!" Lisanna said.

"Yeah," Sora nodded, "As well as avoid being seen in here! There's still that Ice Devil Slayer guy...if he finds us, we'll probably get caught again."

Natsu took the lead as they ran out of the dungeons, "Then lets hurry up and find them! Time to rip Tartaros a new one!"

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Cube was still shaking wildly, so much so that Kyouka and Franmalth had to scramble to keep their balance.

The female demon cursed, "This is quite the reaction."

Franmalth managed to get to his computation systems and studied the readings they were getting, "There's no mistaking it! The seal on Face has been broken!"

"What are the coordinates?!" demanded Kyouka, "Activate it immediately!"

"About that....It's rather far from the emergence point we expected," Franmalth muttered as he regained his balance, "Oh! The vibrations have stopped! But more importantly, it seems it cannot be activated from here."

"What do you mean?"

Franmalth flitted through a few of the Archive screens and reported, "Remote control access is impossible. Face can only be activated manually. Well, the former chairman could have activated it remotely, but...gehehe..."

Kyouka sighed in irritation, "It appears I've acted rather hastily...It cannot be helped. Send someone to see to it. I do hope those Fairy Tail peasants don't stick their noses where they don't belong. The last thing we need more of today is unexpected guests."

"Do not worry about such things, my lady," murmured the quiet voice of Seilah as the demoness entered the control room, "It is only a matter of time. Before long, the end to the fairy's story shall be spun."

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In the very center of Cube, a small female demon was skipping through a massive room filled with tubes. Each tube contained a shady dark liquid, giving the chamber an unwelcoming atmosphere. However, the demon girl was rather cheery.

"Fa, fa, fafa!" she sang, "What should I do? What if they're born because of the vibrations just now? What should I do~"

She stopped and did an intense fist pump, "Worry is unnecessary! They've totally already been reborn!"

A tall, dark-skinned man with blonde hair approached her. As human as he looked, certain attributes like black marks along his hands and long claws for nails gave away his true identity as a demon. He inspected the Tartaros brand on his left arm with careful eyes, "So this is my body, is it..."

"That's right, Tempesta!" the girl chirped as she ogled him, "I, the great Lamy, made you look like a hunk! You're so hot now!"

"Tempesta..." mused the demon, "So that's my name. My appearance, on the other hand, is unimportant..."

"What this?" growled another male voice, "Tempesta's getting all the attention? That's pretty unfair, ain't it?"

That was Jackal. The cat-like demon had been reborn as well, with a longer, thicker tail and gloves covering his arms as well as a black scarf. His torso was now bare, exposing the Tartaros brand on the right side of his chest.

Lamy nuzzled up to him, "But Jackal, you've always been so cute!"

"Fucking gross," he snarled, "Get off me."

"Jackal...?" Tempesta frowned.

The other demon bared his fangs, "Oi, oi, don't you remember me, Tempesta?"

"He doesn't," Lamy sniffled in sadness, "Every time Tempesta is revived, he loses is memories. It's probably a side effect of the Magical Barrier Particles. Such a pity..."

Jackal, on the other hand, had all of his memories- especially those of his recent defeat.

"That Dragon Slayer bastard...I'm gonna fuck him up so bad he's gonna wish his momma had kept her legs closed..." Jackal spat in loathing.

"You're angry face is so cute!" Lamy sighed dreamily, "I might get pregnant..."

"Screw you!" the other demon snapped in annoyance.

Tempesta pointed in another direction, "And who is that?"

"Hm?" Jackal arched an eyebrow at the newcomer, "Who the hell are you?"

The one who approached them was Minerva Orlando, but one now transformed into a demon. A black, eyepatch-like mark covered her right eye and trailed down her torso to her left leg. She wore several bands to cover her chest and waist under a long black cloak. Dark, claw-like gloves covered her hands and two decorative horns sprouted from her head.

She looked herself over with a gauging expression, testing the strength in her fist, "So this is what it means to be a demon...my power is...overflowing..."

"She's some human Lady Kyouka recruited or something," Lamy muttered dismissively, "Minerva's her name, I think. I don't care about women, though."

Jackal on the other hand, grinned, "A new comrade, eh?"

"Minerva..." Tempesta grunted slowly, committing the name and face to his new memory.

The new demoness smirked at them, approving the high levels of power she sensed from the two male demons.

Lamy approached another test tube, the only one currently occupied, "Anyway, I suppose I could modify this one a bit. This is that chick Seilah captured...Mira or something, wasn't it?"

Mirajane was suspended naked in the tube, being injected with the dark liquid encasing her body. The young woman was unconscious and being kept in stasis.

"Look at this bitch, with her pretty face," Lamy sneered, "I'm gonna fuck it up so bad, a caterpillar will look hotter than you."

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Elfman was sitting in front of the ether light lacrima, watching in despair as it charged up power. Just a minute more and the deed would be done.

"Elfman?"

He froze as the door behind him opened, revealing Cana to have entered the room, "Something's really off about you...huh?"

She blinked at the source of the charging hum in the room, "What's that? That lacrima..."

Elfman lunged at her, "Get back!"

The huge man caught Cana off guard, throwing her to the ground and pinning her down despite her protests. He grabbed for her mouth in a desperate effort to silence her cries.

"Don't get in my way! Don't you dare get in my way!" he demanded.

Behind him, the ether light lacrima was almost done charging its power.

Cana realized in horror what it was, "A bomb?!"

"Be destroyed..." Elfman muttered, "Be cast into oblivion...Fairy Tail..."

No matter what she did, Cana could not shake him off. He was simply too strong.

'Shit, he's being possessed! Someone in Tartaros is using him to destroy the guild! At this rate, everyone is gonna get killed!'

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Not a room away, Levy's eyes widened in shock, "I've pinpointed the enemy's location!"

"Great work, Levy!" Lucy exclaimed.

"Where are they?!" demanded Makarov.

"They're directly above us!" Levy reported. At the shock in her guild's eyes, she explained further, "When Happy and Lucas escaped, they were close by our border with Bosco. Judging from their speed and direction of travel, they're above Magnolia right now!"

Gajeel bared his fangs, "So they came to us?"

"Let's go save our friends!" Gray shouted.

"YEAH!"

The air suddenly pulsed with energy and an immense glow filled the guild.

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Sure enough, just as Levy calculated, Cube was hovering in the clouds over Magnolia. In the command center of Tartaros, Seilah, Kyouka, and Franmalth were watching the cameras from Undercube to witness the destruction of Fairy Tail.

Seilah smirked.

A moment later, the Fairy Tail guild exploded violently, reduced to nothing but rubble. The demons watched the results of the ether light lacrima's detonation in silence for a short time.

"It's as you can see, Lady Kyouka," Seilah murmured triumphantly.

"Well done, Seilah," Kyouka praised.

Franmalth cackled, "Gehehehe! How much do those lost lives cost? How much?!"

Kyouka turned away with a satisfied smile, "If we were just going to eradicate the entire lot like that, I guess there was no need to bring Cube all the way out here. With this, we can continue to unify our efforts in executing our Face Operation. The time is nigh. At the hands of the White Legacy birthed by human suspicions, humanity itself shall meet their demise. Face will steal all magic ability and usher in the age of demons."

"All in the name of the world Zeref dreamt of."

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