Chapter 10

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Luna could hardly breathe. The rocks seemed to get heavier and heavier by the second as if gravity wanted to kill her. She coughed making a dark substance splatter onto the rock.

Her head was throbbing and her arm was killing her! A faint sound entered her mind making her jolt. "Please respond!" That's odd, she thought. That was Hibiki's voice. It was fuzzy and faint but she could still make out what he was saying.

She tried moving but her body ached all over. All she could do was stay still and hope that the others would hurry and up and wake. Besides, it's not like she's going anywhere anyway.

"Christina was taken down..." Erza's voice rang in her head. Bits and pieces of her sentence disappearing.

"Lyon created a makeshift replacement for the broken wings with his magic and we got airborne through the combine power of Sherry's Doll Magic and Ren's Air Magic," explained Hibiki. "The attack just now was thanks to Eve's snow magic."

His voice was fading and her consciousness disappearing. "The Christina!!" She could hear Wendy's voice yell in her head.

"Listen to this!!" Hibiki yelled with urgent in his voice. "It took a while, I finally managed to find the information we need in my archive. The way to stop Nirvana!"

Luna's eyes widened as she winced. Her shoulder was bleeding badly.

"As you've seen, Nirvana has six leg-like structures. Those legs are actually valves drawing magic from the Earth. The lacrima crystals are responsible for controlling the absorption process and are positioned around the top of the six legs."

"If you can destroy all six of those crystals at the same time, all of Nirvana's functions will be halted. You can't destroy them one at a time! If you do, the other crystals will repair the damage area."

His voice started to blur and scratch. She could only hear some muffled yelling and talking. Something suddenly clicked in her head. "20 minutes..." She mumbled under her breath. The connection ended there. Silence quickly invaded her head.

The rocks that were squishing her, started to move out of the way giving her some light. She knew she reeked of the metallic scent but Kat didn't seem to care. She angrily pushed all the rocks out with tears in her eyes. "Fucking idiot..." She cried.

Lucy sighed in relief whilst Natsu and Gray lowered their tensed shoulders. All of them seemed to be covered in sweat and had mixed emotions from sad to being worried. Even Happy who was breathing heavily seemed to look determined and not happy.

The tigress mumbled some more cursing words and with the help of Lucy, put her on her back. "Sheesh!" Luna yelled. "Don't be a worry wart! We still have work to do don't we?" She grinned. Hibiki's voice popped back in her head.

"Can you hear us? Please answer if you can!"

At the sound of that, the six of them out their heads up and yelled at the top of their lungs, "Hell yeah we can!!" Well, Lucy and Happy yelled that without the 'Hell yeah' part whilst Kat decided to roar.

"We can hear you." Natsu panted as blood trickled down his face.

"Destroy...all six lacrima....at the same time." They still couldn't catch their breaths even after being conscious.

Lucy laid her weight onto the rock. "Lucky one gets to punch that Zero guy in the face in too, right?"

"Besides," said Luna. "We haven't shown them how scary just yet the Allied Forces could be."

"Eighteen minutes left...we've go tot hurry...we have to protect Carla's and Wendy's guild!" Happy's determined voice rang through all their heads.

"This connection won't last much longer... I've transmitted a map into all of your heads... Each of the lacrima is marked with a number, pick before the connection breaks."

Almost immediately, Natsu picked 1 before Luna could. She knew what he was doing. Gray took two while Lucy took 3 with Happy and Ichiya getting 4.

"I guess I'll go with Erza. Do you mind?" Luna asked as she sat up.

"That's fine."

"Then I'll-" A male's voice said but was seem to cut off by Erza.

"You'll get number six." Her voice stern and commanding as always. Luna wondered of she's been like this ever since she was forced to leave.

"Wait. Erza! You're okay! But who's that guy?" Natsu started asking questions but the connection broke off there.

"Hibiki really was at his limit..." Lucy mumbled with a worried tone in her voice.

"At any rate, it looks like we have six people!" Happy yelled as he raised his blue paw up in a fist. "Let's go!! Whoever runs into Zero will have to take him out! Everyone has their own stations to attend to so you can't expect back up! C'mon!!"

"Yeah!!"

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"Are we there yet?" Luna groaned as she enjoyed not having motion sickness while it lasted. She knew it's going to fade away eventually.

Kat mumbled some cuss words but was still happy that Luna was in one piece. She didn't know what she would do without her. But she didn't say that aloud. She was sure that Luna had already known.

"Fairy Tail sounds like a fun guild ya know?"

Kat snickered. "They're like us in some way. So I'm pretty sure Sir Yuroshi won't approve."

"'Sir'?"

"Finally!!" The two were lost for a few minutes but finally found the clearing where Erza stood patiently in her Black Wing armor. "10 minutes left!"

Erza stood tall and firm with her sword ready while patiently waiting for the time to come to an end. She smiled towards Luna and walked up to her. "I don't believe we've introduced each other probably. I'm Erza Scarlet."

Luna forced a smile and shook her hand with her working arm. "Long time no see."

"Indeed. I was worried." Erza's shoulders relaxed as she smiled warmly and hugged her. Tears at the corner of her eyes. "I prayed every night and day that you would be okay. And I see that your recklessness is enough to rival Natsu's."

Kat awkwardly coughed. "Five more minutes."

In those 5 minutes, they exchanged the short version of their lives each having 2 minutes to explain. "What happened to the Simon and Jellal?"

That question struck Erza like her own sword. "S-Simon died." She told what happened at the Tower of Heaven destruction that took place recently to Jellal's memory loss.

Luna was stunned until Kat snapped her out of her trance. "30 more seconds..."

Erza stood up and held her sword with both hands. "Ready?"

Luna nodded, waiting for the exact time to ring in her head. "3...2..."

At the same time, the two destroyed the Lacrima with Luna using thunder and Erza with a physical attack.

It exploded into pieces, showering them with tiny shattered glass. She hoped that everyone destroyed it at the same time. The three anxiously waited for the Lacrima to form back but it never did. After a second full of explosions and yells, Kat and Luna cheered while Erza smiled.

The wall suddenly gave out and fell. "Nirvana's collapsing!" Kat yelled. Luna quickly held onto Kat as she and Erza ran outside. They dodged and moved as the walls gave away.

At one point, a huge rock blocked Kat and Luna's way out. "Luna! Kat!" Erza yelled for the other side.

"Don't worry!" We'll find another way out!" Before Erza could reply, Kat ran to an opening that lead to a cliff-like leg of Nirvana's.

"Kat! Just carry me in your exceed form!" Luna yelled.

"Why-" She looked at Luna and saw why. Purple lines formed under her eyes as she turned into a darker shade of green by the second. "LUNA!! DON'T VOMIT ON ME!!"

"That's....what....you....care about!? Get us off!!!" Kat frowned and jumped and quickly turned onto her exceed form and held onto her waist. But she somehow instead landed in Luna's arms who was still trying to not throw up. "Kat!!!"

"Ehehehe... Whoops..." The two yelled in synchronization as they plummeted down Nirvana's leg. Luna has some sort of sense of déjà vu.

As they fell, they could see some tiny figures move around. Luna was sure they were ants but at a height like this, it could be anything.

When the view got closer, Luna wasn't sure if it was good or not. She could see Erza and the others talking and some even yelling but couldn't make out what they were saying from all the screaming.

"KAAAATT!!!" She screamed.

"WHAAAAAAT!!"

"INCOMING!!" They both hugged each other and screamed at the top of their lungs.

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Natsu had just arrived along with Jellal with the help of Hoteye. He scratched his head as he heard a distant yell. "Oi! What's that sound?" He looked up and his eyes widened.

The impact isn't what killed him, but what did was when Kat just suddenly turned into her tiger form, squishing him and Luna under her.

"Ow..." Luna groaned as she tried pushing the cat off.

"Are you guys okay?!" Lucy ran over along with Wendy.

Kat turned back into her exceed form and snickered. "Sorry."

Luna puffed her cheeks. "It's not an apology when you snicker." She helped Natsu up.

"I can heal your wounds!" Wendy started using her magic on Luna who had forgotten about her broken arm and bloody shoulder.

"Thanks!" She smiled and hit Kat upside the head. She hissed and scratched her.

"Why you little-"

"Done!" Wendy pulled away and wiped her forehead.

"You shouldn't use your magic too much, child." Carla scolded as she walked up to Kat.

The two studied each other with such intense that. Luna could feel it in the air around them. Finally, Kat was the one to smile. It took Carla by surprise especially when she hugged her. Luna and Wendy stared with wide-eyes. "Another female exceed!"

"What's gotten into you...? Is Carla breathing?" Luna rushed over and grabbed Kat's ear. "Baka... C'mon, the old man said we have to go back as soon as possible."

"Sorry!" Carla was stunned but immediately went back to herself again.

Before she could say something, Happy spoke up. "The important thing is that we're all safe."

"Everyone did an excellent job." Jura put a hand on Hoteye (aka 'Richard')'s shoulder.

"This marks the end of our operation! Men!!" Even though his fingers kinda looked normal, it still creeped Luna out when he out up a peace sign.

She flexed her not-so broken arm, waiting for the pain. Only a little but not enough that she couldn't manage. She grinned. "Wow! I owe you a lot Wendy! What do you need me to do! I need to repay you for the motion sickness thing too." The thought of that turned her green.

"It makes you sick just thinking about it?" Carla raised a brow. Natsu on the other hand still laid on the ground with Happy next to him.

"Y-You don't need to do that-" Wendy started.

Both Kat and Luna bowed down. "Let us repay you!"

Carla freaked out. "What're you two doing!!"

Lucy laughed as she remembered when Natsu and her first met. It was similar to this alright. She pushed the thought away as fast as she thought of it.

"Who's that guy?" Gray nodded towards Jellal.

He looked down at the dirt, his face saddening by the minute. Erza spoke up, "He's Jellal." She let the thought sink in. "But he's not the Jellal we once knew."

"He lost his memories," piped up Wendy. Luna and Kat were talking to Carla and Natsu but Carla quickly lost interest and continued talked to Kat instead. Natsu and Luna compared how they destroyed things and about each other's guilds.

Luna caught sight of Jellal walking towards Erza. She excused herself from the conversation and walked towards the two lovebirds... er, she meant allies.

"Jellal!" He looked at her with a somewhat confused yet worried expression.

His expression pained even more catching Erza's attention. "Are you okay?"

He nodded. "A memory?" After a second or two, he looked up at Luna. "Luna?" Erza's eyes widened.

"Yeah! Do you remember me?"

He shook his head. "I just remember the name like Erza's." She frowned.

"That's okay, Luna. He'll remember eventually." Erza reassured.

Luna took a step up and hugged him. "You have no idea how much I worried about you two! If you remember it or not, you'll always be my nakama."

He tensed at first but eventually hugged her back. Erza smiled.

"MEEEEEEN!!" The obnoxious sound of Ichiya's voice ruined the moment. He crossed his legs with sweat building up his head. "I need to go!!" To her, he looked like an uglier version of Gray with his 'problem' or 'habit' attempting to be a mime. He was pretty good at it.

"What is it old man!"

"What're these letters on the ground?"

"Could it be Freed's magic?"

"No," said Erza. She seemed to be alarmed, nothing like her normal self when they met in the morning. "It's too complicated to be Freed's. One thing I do know is that this person isn't an amateur rune Mage."

Luna could hear footsteps approaching them at a rapid pace, almost marching.

"Let me out!" Ichiya begged. More beads of sweat trickling down his already ugly face.

"There will be no more violence so refrain from moving for a short while. I am the head of the newly formed council's 4th custody enforcement unit. My name is Lahar."

His white cape flew back and forth and his black hair was in some sort of bun. He adjusted his glasses as more and more Rune Knights surrounded them.

Luna and Kat shuddered and cowered in fear, surprising Lucy and some other. "THE MAGIC COUNCIL!!!??" They attempted to hide behind Natsu and Gray whom were also shaking.

"We were born in order to enforce laws and justice. We will not forgive any form of misconduct."

"None of us have done anything wrong!" Happy spoke up.

"What he said!" The two yelled along with Natsu.

"There is one among you. Our purpose is to arrests the Oracion Seis. The one that is code named Hoteye, please come forward."

All eyes looked at him. "Wa-Wait!!" Jura yelled.

"It's all right, Jura." He out his hand on his shoulder. "My good nature may have awoken but the sins from my past have not disappeared. In order to start over, I must make things right."

"If that's the case, I'll search for your younger brother in your place."

"Really!?"

"Tell what his name is."

"His name is Wally."

"Wally!?" Erza spoke up. "I know that man. He's doing well, traveling across the continent."

Richard started getting teary as he covered his eyes and fell to his knees. "Even though I'm one who recently turned to the light, it already bestowed up me such a wonderful miracle? Thank you! Thank you!!!"

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