A/N: I took the liberty of deleting an entire scene in this chapter, because we all know how it turned out in the anime. Plus it was just a bother to rewrite the scene with minor details. Fixed grammar and other details.

As soon as the assault team landed on one of the legs, Natsu immediately doubled over, already out of commission.

"These are octopus legs! You're okay riding animals, right? Think of it like that!" Lucy yelled, not wanting anyone to be useless during this mission.

"Shall I knock him out?" Erza offered, already walking to Natsu with a raised fist, quite eager to punch him in the guts for wearing matching outfits. Plus she enjoyed punching Natsu.

"Maybe Happy should fly him." Lucy immediately cut in. She knew what Erza was thinking, and it would be in everyone's best interest to have Natsu in full health

"Aye!" Happy agreed, already carrying his green faced companion.

Erza made a grunted noise, saddened that she couldn't hit Natsu. "Well then...We need a new plan."

Natsu made a gurgling noise as the mages began to think on what to do. "Maybe we can have Happy and Natsu go ahead of us and try to stop this thing." Gray thought.

"Yeah, that would be a good idea. I wouldn't want to handle your sickness." Erza glared at the green-faced Natsu with disgust. The pink haired boy didn't respond, as he was too busy trying not to vomit.

"Then it's all set. We'll all meet at the top. Happy, take Natsu and go!" Lucy ordered, looking at Happy.

"Aye, Sir!" Happy then flew to the top with Natsu.

After they disappeared, Erza turned back to the mages. "Alright. We'll keep moving and stay together." Then she turned to Jericho with a murderous look, "But stay away from Lucy."

"U-Um...." Wendy spoke up.

The mages turned to her when Wendy had apprehension and fear in her voice.

"My guild is right in this thing's path." Wendy said as she looked past at the horizon, the path that nirvana is taking. She double checked that her guild was in fact beyond the horizon. Carla gasped as she realized it too.

Lucy looked at the horizon, not seeing anything yet. But taking her word for it, she knelt down next to Wendy. "Don't worry. We'll stop this thing before it destroys your guild. After all, we're in this together."

Wendy had tears in her eyes, trying her hardest not to cry. "Thanks..."

Lucy stood back up. "We should keep moving."

The mages made great effort and found themselves in an unusual environment when they had reached the top. Knowing what Nirvana was, they were expecting something much more sinister or dangerous. Not an old ruin.

"So, where are we?" Gray commented with a questioned look.

"It definitely looks like a city of some sort." Lucy observed, seeing buildings with windows and doors, definitely a city.

"I agree." Erza said as she looked around. A ghost town for sure.

"What kind of magic is this, anyway? Some ruins with crazy gigantic spider legs?" Gray sarcastically spouted.

Erza turned to Jericho, "You were the one that unleashed it. What do you know about it?"

"Jericho undid the seal?" Lucy turned to Jellal with a surprised tone.

"Nirvana used to be a city, from what I researched." Jericho shrugged.

"Exactly, yes!" A voice boomed, a familiar voice that made the mages tensed as they turned to the source of the voice.

"This is the fantastic city of nirvana." Hoteye explained.

Erza immediately summoned a sword in her hand and stared at Hoteye, wary of his movements. How did she not sense him?

"Seeing you here as well gives me confidence!" Jura smiled, standing next to Hoteye, as if they were best friends now. Did something happen?

"Jura!" Carla exclaimed.

"Why is a member of the Oracion Seis here?" Lucy cried as she hid behind Erza. Did Jura go to the dark side? No. He seemed like his usual self.

"Worry not. He has become our ally." Jura reassured.

"Huh?"

"Love, throughout the world! Yes..." Hoteye rambled, spinning around like a ballerina. This almost reminded Erza of Ichiya. God. Please don't let there be two Ichiyas. The girl basically threw up in her mouth just thinking about that.

"Didn't this case keep spouting 'money, money'?" Lucy whispered to Gray, Wendy and Erza, who all nodded at the same time.

"...Males." That was all Carla could say, she was just too speechless to come up with an insult.

"Can the old dud use magic to make people see the light?" Gray sweatdropped, and Erza only nodded in confusion.

"Well, this and that had happened..." Jura had tried to say, not sure exactly how to explain it.

"Oh yeah, Sherry and Erza flipped out, too..." Gray paled, remembering that he was almost killed by an angry Erza.

Erza hit Gray in the back of his head. "I had a reason. Don't give me another one." Erza warned with a deadly look.

Lucy had to get in between Erza and Gray to stop any possible fights from escalating.

"This is the ancient capital in which once lived the ancient Nirvit people." Hoteye began.

"Nirvit?"

"Correct. It was around 400 years ago. Many wars were happening around the world, see. The Nirvit maintained their neutrality, and lamented the state of the world. So they created a magic that would restore balance to the world. Yes..." Hoteye explained.

"You don't mean that magic..." Wendy said, trailed off in fear.

"Yes. An ultra-magic that swaps light and darkness. That magic was given the name of the Kingdom of Peace, Nirvana. Yes...So this walking city is Nirvana itself."

"So ironic. It has the name that signifies peace, and yet is being used for evil." Gray muttered.

"It would've been good magic, if they hadn't originally used turning light into darkness as one of its elements. Nothing can be done now. The ancients likely never considered it so far ahead." Lucy said.

"Their thoughts are pure, their actions were pure. But they created the most dangerous magic." Erza said, seeing the irony of it all. How unfortunate.

"Strong magic has strong secondary effects." Jura added.

"In any case, we are in trouble now that it is moving. We must stop it without any further delay. Yes..." Hoteye cut in with a ballerina bow.

"Well, duh!" Gray sarcastically replied.

Then all the sudden, the city started to light up, as if on cue.

"That's Brain. Yes...He is probably moving this city from atop the King's Summit. While he is doing that, Brain cannot use any other magic. It is our chance to strike! Yes..." Hoteye observed, watching as the city began to be illuminated one by one.

"If he's moving it, then why is he heading straight to Wendy's guild?" Lucy asked.

"That I do not know." Hoteye replied in defeat.

"Yes." Another voice ringed, alerting the mages.

The mages turned to see another one of the Oracion Seis members, the one that always sleeps.

"Only I understand what Father is thinking." Midnight said, looking down on the mages. Midnight then jumped down to their level. "Hoteye...You betrayed my father?"

"No, I did not." Hoteye replied. "I simply realized that Brain is wrong."

"What? You say my father is wrong?" Midnight glared.

"People's hearts are not meant to be twisted around by magic. Even those with weak hearts, we can rise to become strong." Hoteye said, looking at Midnight with a serious look.

Midnight only glared at him before attacking them with his magic with a devastating force that did not let the mages react in time.

When the dust settled, the mages, minus Hoteye, were in a pit. Lucy on top of Jericho. Wendy was on top of Erza, and Gray was pinned down by Jura, and Carla was on Jura's head.

"What just happened?" Gray gasped from the sudden fall.

"Hoteye-dono caused the ground to collapse!" Jura explained as he got off of Gray. "He saved us!"

Erza gently pushed Wendy off Wendy and helped her stand up. She looked around to see Lucy was okay, only to find that Lucy was on top of Jericho, causing the girl to snap.

She ran to them and grabbed Lucy and tugged her away from Jericho. "I swear to Mavis, if you touched her, I'll-"

Lucy puts her hand on Erza's shoulder, interrupting her in the process. "It's fine Erza. I'm not hurt, and it wasn't his fault.

Erza turned to Lucy before turning back to Jericho. "Don't do it next time."

"Sure whatever." Jericho muttered as he dusted off his clothes.

"You brute. Stop threatening everyone!" Carla nagged, looking at Erza disapprovingly.

Erza ignored the cat and looked around to see if everyone was okay.

"You all should go to the King's Summit!" Hoteye called out. "Leave Midnight to me."

"Oracion Seis are going to crush each other?" Gray said, climbing out of the pit.

"This is really quite the development." Lucy muttered, but hey, one less enemy to fight.

"We should be glad that we have one of the Oracion Seis on our side." Erza added.

"Now, hurry and go!" Hoteye said as he fought Midnight. "And also..." Hoteye turned to face the mages, "My real name is Richard, Yes!" He said with a smile.

Erza took Lucy's hand and left to go where the King's Summit was. Jura soon followed with Wendy and Carla, as well as Jericho who tagged along.

Lucy had destroyed the lacrima with what left of her remaining magic she had, then everything went black, and she felt very claustrophobic. Then she realized that she was inside a familiar box. Though she didn't have enough magic to even summon her spirit, Lucy was relieved that Horologium came to her rescue. Just in a nick of time.

She pushed the door open and stepped out, and spotted her girlfriend, Gray, and the most disgusting man with gigantic ugly muscles...just who is he?

The blonde was instantly embraced by the armored mage. "You made it."

"Yeah." Lucy smiled as she turned to her spirit. "Thank you."

"No problem, missus. Now I must go." Horologium then disappeared in a puff of golden smoke.

"Did everyone else make it?" Lucy asked, turning to Erza.

Erza pulled back from the hug and held Lucy's hand, as to not let her go. I'm sure everyone else is alright.

"Seems like we all made it." Jericho suddenly appeared from the shadows.

"Sadly you did too." Erza mumbled, stepping in front of Lucy, acting as a shield.

The ground then trembled beneath them, and Hoteye gushed through the ground, with Natsu unconscious in his arms. Like sleeping beauty.

"Everyone! Are you okay!" Another voice chimed as Wendy ran into the clearing, with both Carla and Jura not too far behind.

"The he-cat, as well" Carla added with a mutter.

"Wendy! Glad to see that you made it!" Lucy smiled.

"We succeeded. We beat Oracion Seis. And we managed to save Wendy's guild as well." Erza smiled, glad that they achieved this difficult mission.

Wendy began to sniff, tears forming. "Thank you."

"It's because we all have the willpower, right?" Gray grinned.

"All of us?" Wendy looked at the other mages who were looking at her with a smile.

"You have the willpower too, Wendy." Lucy added.

"Men!" Ichiya added for no apparent reason.

"All in all, everyone is safe. No one died, and we successfully completed our mission." Erza concluded.

"Yes, mission completed." Jericho said. "I sense another party arriving, so I must go. Hopefully this is the last time we meet."

"Hopefully we'll never see you ever again." Erza scowled.

Jericho didn't stay another second for anyone to say anything to him, and disappeared into thin air.

"Why did you need to be so hostile towards him? It was proven that he really is Jellal's brother." Lucy said, looking at Erza.

Erza sighed and turned to her girlfriend. "Even so, he still has the face of the man that almost killed you."

Lucy couldn't really say anything to that.

Just as Jericho mentioned, a party arrived and surrounded the mages. However, these men claimed to be part of the Reformed Magic Council.

They arrested Hoteye, who complied and allowed himself to be arrested.

This was probably the longest mission Erza had ever been on. And it was torture, She almost lost her girlfriend, and met the face of the one person she loathes more than anything. She needed a vacation after everything that happened.