Maiden of the Sky

The alliance was recovering from Brain's last attack, as they were saved at the last minute by Jura's intervention.
Ren was slowly getting up. "They totally got us…"
"They are too powerful." Eve stated. "We couldn't even touch them."
"Hey, you think we don't all know that. Last thing we need is a recap on that humiliating battle." Toph said shakily getting to her feet.
"Oración Seis… what kind of monsters are we dealing with?" Hibiki asked with a worried expression.
"There were only six of them and they easily overpowered us." Zuko added.
"They're even more powerful than the data we collected on them suggested!"
Sherry remembered how Christina was shot out of the sky. "And our plan to use Christina is…"
"Yeah, somehow they saw it coming," Zuko said.
"Yes… That woman who can peer into your heart said so," Jura confirmed. "She said that they knew everything about our plans."
"W-what about the people that were on board?" Lucy asked.
"You don't have to worry about that," Hibiki said, making everyone turn to the Trimens.
"Christina was heading to its destination by remote control," Eve explained.
"After we found their base, we were supposed to board it, however…"
"Ah I see, thank goodness." Lucy sighed.
Lyon and Toph looked towards Jura who was staring out into the distance. "I'm also glad you remained safe, Jura."
"And you saved our lives… I knew I was right about you," Toph said punching Jura in the arm.
"No… it was a fearsome close call…" the wizard saint replied.
"Those wounds?" Lyon figured, noticing the wounds that were present on Jura's body.
"A fearsome power it was…" while he was talking, Ichiya was standing in front of the pair with some wounds and tears in his white jacket, but he was posing with yellow sparkles around him. "I have numbed the pain, for now, thanks to Ichiya's painkiller parfum."
"Damn you, Oración Seis… How dare you run as we arrive! We must have scared them off!" Ichiya said.
"You're all beat up, you know!" Gray comically yelled.
"Plus, they could have easily finished us off and they nearly did!" Zuko reminded.
"In that case…" Ichiya pulled out a vial with a cork closing it. "Everyone take a whiff of my painkiller parfum." He popped the cork off and immediately a green colored scent filled the air, causing everyone in the vicinity the smell it.
"Ah… what a nice smell." Sherry complimented.
"Yeah, my pain is going away." Lucy said.
"Ah yeah! I feel like a whole new person!" Toph said after taking a long breath.
Suddenly the three girls kept hearing 'Men!' in the background and Ichiya was posing while the parfum was leaving the vial.
Lucy sweat dropped. "I just wish he would cut out the posing part, though…"
"I assume that's part of his thing." Toph said. "…Just like it's your thing to be a crybaby all the time."
The blonde put her hands on her hips. "Even now, you still find time to make fun of me?"
"Oh, course." Toph said with a smirk.
"Are you two really friends?" Sherry asked. "It seems like you two are constantly at each other's throats."
"Funnily enough we are friends, Lucy's alright. Sure she's a coward and always cries about her rent money… but she's alright."
"I'll take what I can get…" Lucy figuring that that would be the best compliment she would get from Toph for a long while.
They all heard panting before they saw Aang running to them from the nearby forest.
"Twinkle toes? Where were you?" Toph inquired.
"Let's just say there were complications… but it looks like it will be harder to beat the Oración Seis than we originally thought." He noticed a smell in the air and it was oddly rejuvenating. "Hey, what's that smell?"
Ichiya quickly slid in front of him with the vial letting out the refreshing fumes. "It's my Painkiller Parfum, men!" He posed yet again and Aang wasn't sure how to respond.
"Well, I can feel my wounds getting better… Thanks."
Natsu started to get up. "Damn those bastards… How dare they kidnap Wendy, Happy, and Katara!?" He started to run off. "Where are you? Where did you run off to?!"
Toph pinched the bridge of her nose. "Not this again."
"Natsu, where are you going?" Lucy asked.
Suddenly as Natsu was running, he felt a very tight tug on his scarf. His vision was now aimed at the blue sky after he fell to his back. The white cat was in the air, angelic wings outstretched with her paws pulling on Natsu's scarf. "Sheesh… Try calming down a little."
As for everyone else they were confused as this was the first time they saw Carla with her wings.
"Wings?" Sherry questioned.
"Wow!" Eve gasped.
"Soooo do all cats fly now?" Sokka asked.
"This is the magic called Aera." Carla explained. "Well, I suppose it's only natural to be surprised the first time you see it."
Toph had her arms folded and gave Carla a blank look. "Oh get off your high horse, Happy can do the same thing. In fact, I think you're trying to copy him."
Carla had a red anger tick on her forehead and glared at Toph from the air. "Say what!?"
"Now who's the one that's surprised?" Lucy said chiming in.
"Anyway…" Carla continued. "I'm worried about Wendy but these aren't people we can beat by randomly coming at them, right?"
Jura took a step forward. "Carla is correct. Our enemy is stronger than anticipated."
Aang meanwhile was distracted by his own thoughts. "The Oración Seis tried to kill the others, but not me. Why is that? Angel didn't give me an answer… so what are they planning exactly?"
"Okay, so what do we do?" Toph asked. "Cause sitting here talking about it isn't going to do anything!"
"Calm down, you. Besides, there is another matter we must attend to…" Carla pointed her paw to Erza. She was leaning on a tree, still in her Flight Armor. She was clutching her right arm that had poison swirling around inside it.
Zuko, Lucy, and Gray approached her. 
"Hang in there, Erza." Lucy said.
"This was from Cobra's snake I'll bet." Zuko surmised. "This isn't good, the poison is spreading around her arm."
Aang had an idea. "Wait, that Painkiller stuff, can't you use it on her?"
Ichiya complied before posing again. "Yes, for my honey… Painkiller parfum! Augment Aroma!" the green colored scent was blowing past Erza. But Erza was still trembling in pain.
"Wait… Will a painkiller help with poison?" Lucy questioned.
Hibiki folded his arms and grinned. "Our Ichiya's parfum works not just with pain, but can cure poison as well."
"Well, that's oddly specific…" Sokka noted.
Erza was still clutching her poisoned wound and when Zuko took a closer look at it, he would see the poison slowly starting to spread. "I'm no expert, but it looks like it's not working." Aang noted before Erza screamed due to the poison spreading throughout her arm.
Zuko looked back to Ichiya. "Stop, you're making it worse!" He quickly took action and slapped the vial out of Ichiya's hands.
"What do we do now?" Gray asked.
"L-Lucy…" Erza said. "I'm sorry… I'm borrowing your belt!" Erza yanked Lucy's belt off from her skirt, causing it to fall revealing her… unmentionables. The trimens saw this and hearts filled their eyes.
"EYES OFF!" Lucy kicked the three of them in her fury while she held up her skirt. Everyone saw Erza tying the belt around her upper arm where the poison was starting to spread to. "What are you doing, Erza?"
"Sorry… I can't fight like this." She yanked the arm fabric off with her mouth and a sword was stabbed into the dirt. "Cut it off!"
This shocks everyone, especially since Erza quickly figured that amputation was the best solution.
"HAVE YOU LOST IT!?" Toph asked.
"DON'T BE A FOOL!" Gray exclaimed.
"No way Erza, this is crazy! Even for you!" Zuko yelled.
Aang's eyes grew as he looked at Erza. "No way… Erza can't think that this is the solution… there just has to be another way!"
Erza though looked desperate. "Please… Someone…"
The person to answer to Erza's insane request was Lyon as he grabbed the sword while it glistened in the sunlight. "Understood. I will do it," He answered.
Sherry showed concerned and Gray quickly stood in front of Lyon. "Lyon, don't!"
"Do it!" Erza said while her words were still muffled by the fabric she was biting on.
"You better not even think about it!" Zuko warned.
"Hey, Ice Prince. Think about this for a second!" Toph said.
"No, you think about this; we need her now more than ever." Lyon said.
"Sheesh are all Lamia Scale this dumb!?"
"Honestly! You Fairies are such weakling!" Sherry exclaimed. "At this rate, Erza will die, you know!"
Lucy angrily marched to Sherry. "And just what do you know!?"
"This is also… Lyon's love…"
"NO IT'S NOT!" Toph and Lucy angrily exclaimed.
"If you're going to do it, hurry!" Erza said. "Soon the poison will spread through my entire body."
"Lyon, you better not…" Gray continued.
Hibiki made himself heard. "No! We cannot allow you to harm the body of a lady!"
"There must be another way!" Eve started to run towards them but Jura stopped him.
"This is Erza's own will!" He argued.
"Here I go!" Lyon exclaimed. Zuko had enough and as Lyon raised the sword to slice off Erza's arm, a hand reached out and stopped him from swinging it.
"Unless you want to lose that hand, drop the sword Vastia." Ryu threatened. To further emphasize the point, he left a burn mark on Lyon's right wrist.
Sherry angrily marched to him. "How dare you hurt Lyon!?" Sherry exclaimed. "Your weakness is killing her."
"Tell me, would you want Lyon to slice your arm off if the two of you were in the same position." Ryu countered.
"I-I…" Sherry remained silent I mean, there was no way she would want to have her arm accurately cut off from her person.
"I knew you hadn't changed. We shouldn't have trusted you from the start." Gray growled.
Lyon chuckled. 
"Ha, you think I'm untrustworthy." He looked to Aang. "If you shouldn't trust anyone, it's him!"
"Wait, me!?"
"So tell us, Avatar. What is this 'Fire Nation' the Oración Seis mentioned? And why did that one guy say you're from another world? And I think we'd all like to know about your magic, the rumors say you can use four different magics as well as Ice Make magic and Fire Dragon Slayer magic. Something like that should be impossible."
"I agree…" Hibiki said.
"Not you too, Hibiki." Lucy said.
"There has been no record of anyone being able to use four different magics at will. Aang here is the first case I've ever seen of that."
"How can some little kid have such power?" Sherry said with a condescending tone.
"Hey, Aang is our friend. And we're not gonna let you bad mouth him." Natsu said with a more serious tone.
Toph stood beside him. "Yeah, Aang's untrustworthy. Let's trust the opinion of a person who wanted to fight a demon, a girl who is just as nuts as her magic, and a couple of pervs. Yeah, Aang's clearly the bad guy here." She said with a sarcastic voice.
"You've got quite a big mouth little girl!" Sherry in a low tone.
"Yeah, well what are you going to do about it?"
"I'll show you!" A magenta and white magic seal appeared in front of Sherry but she abruptly stopped when she and everybody else saw Erza collapse to the ground as she fell into unconsciousness.
"Erza!" Lucy and Zuko exclaimed. The two of them were at her sides.
"This is bad… as this rate; the poison will spread throughout her body!" Eve worriedly said.
Carla who was on her feet said: "Wendy could save her." Everyone turned their attention to her. "This is not the time to be fighting among ourselves. We'll work together, and save Wendy!" She calmly said.
Sokka made a fake cough. "And…"
"And the water girl and male cat I suppose."
"Suppose…?" Aang repeated while he folded his arms.
"Wendy?" Toph asked. "Okay, just tell us how that pygmy princess can save Erza?"
"She has magic that can cure poisons, and not just that. She can cure fevers, stop pains, and heal injuries." She explained while her eyes were closed.
"She can do all of that? Impressive." Zuko noted.
Ichiya's forehead suddenly turned blue. "My… Why do I feel like my identity is suddenly weakened?"
"Because with a healer like that, we don't need you… go home." Toph jokingly said and Ichiya flinched while saying 'men'.
Sherry though noted something. "But I thought Healing Magic was a Lost Magic. Wasn't it lost to the ages or something?"
"Wait, does it have something to do with the Maiden of the Sky thing?" Lucy asked. 
"That girl is a Dragon Slayer, just like me." Ryu answered.
Even more so for Natsu and Aang. 
"A Dragon Slayer?" Natsu said.
"Maybe that explains the familiar vibes I was getting from her, this whole time. Wendy was a Dragon Slayer?" Aang said.
Sokka though was still processing this. In his mind he pictured a big dragon and poorly drawn figures of Natsu, Gajeel, Laxus and Wendy. They each had an equals sign pointing to the dragon, but Wendy's equals sign was crossed out. Sokka tried to hold in his laughter but he started lightly laughing.
"I don't see the humor in what I just said!" Carla said, glaring at Sokka.
"Sorry, it's just… Her… a Dragon Slayer? I've met five of them and they are terrifying, but she looks like she wouldn't hurt a fly. Now you're telling me that she has magic that can kill dragons?" he chuckled to himself. "I'm sorry, not buying it!"
Carla was getting mad. 
"Listen here you-" Toph placed her palm on Carla's head to get her attention.
"Let me handle this. Yo Sokka, as unbelievable it might sound. She's telling the truth." Sokka immediately stopped laughing.
"So… she's actually…"
"The details can wait until later." Carla announced to everyone. "Actually, I won't tell you more anyway. Right now, we need Wendy. And although I don't know why, then seem to need her as well."
"Which means…" Lyon said.
"…there's only one thing to do." Hibiki finished.
"We have to save Wendy!" Eve said.
"For Erza's sake."Zuko said.
"And Happy and Katara too." Lucy said.
"So, it looks like we finally agree on something." Toph grinned.
"Alright! Let's go!" Natsu yelled throwing his fist into the air.
Everyone else in the alliance threw their fists up as well and yelled.
"While you do that. I'm going to find out all I can about Cait Shelter." Ash declared before walking off. He was going to get as much information about Cait Shelter that he could.
Once this concluded Aang walked over to Lyon, Sherry, and the Trimens. "Hey, uh listen. About that stuff the Oración Seis said, I can't say now, but when all this is over. I'll explain everything."
"You better, Avatar." Lyon said with a suspicious tone.
Sokka wraps his arm around Aang's shoulder. "Hey, don't worry. We'll get those guys back, so let's rescue Katara and your girlfriend."
Aang became red and shook his head. "Sokka… I told you I don't…"
"It's okay to deny it at first, believe me, I get it…"
"He's not going to give up, is he?"
----Deep within the woodsea there was a small island that was surrounded by six waterfalls and three streams. There was a path of stepping stones to a cave that was by one of the waterfalls. Inside the cave, there was a room that had candles and skulls. Wendy, Katara, and Happy are thrown into the room.
Katara glared at him. "Hey, what's the big deal!?"
"Yeah, why did you kidnap us!?" Happy asked.
Suddenly Brain grabbed Happy by the face and started to squeeze him.
"No! Stop it!" Wendy pleaded. Brain heartlessly threw happy to the floor. Swirls replaced his eyes as he lay down on his stomach. "Happy, are you okay?"
Happy gave Wendy a confident smile. "Yeah, I'm fine. And don't worry. We'll get out of here!"
Katara looked at the two before she turned to Brain and the rest of the Oración Seis who were watching them. "Okay, this ends now!" Katara tried bending water from her water skins but… "Hey, what happened to-?"
"…Looking for these?" Cobra was holding her water skins and he revealed that he emptied them. "Don't bother struggling, there's no water in here for you to bend. And don't even think about using your sweat, I'd see it coming a mile away." Cobra said while grinning.
"Ugh, he's right. I can't do anything right now!" She thought. Katara looked back to Wendy who was hugging Happy. She walked to the pair and she knelled down and patted Wendy's head. "Don't worry about anything Wendy, I promise I'll keep you safe."
"Brain, why did we take these two girls?" Racer asked.
"Why does everyone forget me!?" Happy cried while flailing his paws.
"What do they have to do with Nirvana?" Cobra added.
"It doesn't look like they will be of much use to us." Angel said.
Hoteye who was next to the sleeping Midnight gave a solution. "Maybe we can hold them for a ransom, oh yeah!?" He excitedly said while he planted his bottom fist into his palm.
"Is money all you think about?" Cobra asked walking to him.
"As long as you have money, you can even buy love!" He was covered by a small yellow aura.
"Is that so?" Cobra sighed.
Brain began to explain his reasoning. "Katara, the waterbender. She is rather close to the Avatar, she could serve as a bargaining chip should we happen to find him again."
"Hmpf." Angel folded her arms in an attempted scoff. "What's so special about her? Sure she's cute for a little kid but she's quite weak and doesn't deserve to be by the side of someone as powerful as him."
"Little kid!?" Katara angrily said under her breath.
"As for Wendy, she can use Sky Magic. In other words, Healing Magic!"
Racer repeated the last part of Brain's words.
"So, a lost magic, huh?" Angel said.
"An ancient magic that was thought to be forgotten…" Cobra elaborated.
Hoteye grinned after hearing this. "Ooh! This smells like money to me!"
Cobra laughed and walked closer. "Ha, this little girl?" However, after Cobra looked into Wendy's eyes that were showing a mix of fear and anger he realized what Brain wanted to do. "Impossible!"
"Exactly." Brain rejoiced while lifting his left arm to his side. "We will resurrect him!"
All the members, sans Midnight, had eager, evil smiles on their faces.
"Resurrect who?!" Happy demanded.
"I don't know who exactly you're trying to raise from the dead, but I won't let any of you near her!" Katara said standing in front of her.
"I-I don't really know… But I'm not going to help bad people!" Wendy exclaimed finally gaining the courage to talk to the Oración Seis.
"Oh, once you know who. You will indeed." Wendy started glaring at Brain's confident face. "You will resurrect him for us." He turned a side gaze to Racer. "Racer, bring him here."
"That's a long ways. It'll take even me an hour." He replied.
"No matter."
"I see." Cobra started. "If we resurrect him, Nirvana is as good as found."
"Cobra, Hoteye, Angel… Continue to search for Nirvana." Brain commanded.
"But if we resurrect him, that won't be necessary." Angel pointed out.
"HEY! I asked you a question! Who are you trying to revive?" Happy angrily demanded.
Brain, choosing to ignore Happy continued to talk to the others. "And just in case… Midnight and I will remain here."
"It doesn't look like Mid's going to do anything, though…" Racer said as their attention turned to his sleeping body.
Cobra was seen rubbing the underside of Cubelios's jaw. "Aw well, guess we're off then…"
Brain needed to give one more order, though. "One more thing…" The seriousness of his voice rose. "Should you spot the Avatar, do not engage him. Only watch over him, and should he happen to spot you, engage him in combat together, not single-handedly. And he is not to be harmed in any way."
Angel made a fake innocent expression with two hearts floating above her. "Oh, I wouldn't do anything to hurt such a precious thing." Katara glared at Angel after she made that comment, even forcing a growl from the waterbender.
"I don't know why you even bother with him," Cobra said voicing his opinion. "Sure that kid can take punishment, but he's just one kid."
Brain shakes his head and adds a slight chuckle to his voice. "Do not take him so lightly. Avatar Aang is not to be trifled with. Mastery of Fire, Earth, Water, and Air; in addition, he had already learned two magics one of them just happens to be Dragon Slayer Magic, all in just a short amount of time and who knows how far his power will grow. The power to move mountains, tame oceans, soar the skies and even control the fires of hell itself. He may be the most powerful being we have ever encountered, which is why if you spot him, you will hold without engaging. Am I clear?"
Cobra closed his eyes, almost as if he disregarded what Brain said, but he heard every word. 
"Crystal." He replied.
Katara had her fists clenched. "How do you know all of this?!"
"Yeah!" Happy exclaimed. "We only kept this information within our guild, the magical council doesn't even know!"
Wendy was confused by what was going on, she knew Aang was strong but not as strong as the Oración Seis were making him out to be. "What are you two talking about?"
"I'll explain later, Wendy." Katara replied.
"Sorry, but that's our little secret." Angel said while she grinned.
"So, this Nirvana, is it a weapon? And if so, you're going to use it to kill Aang, aren't you?"
Racer scoffed at her conclusion. "Kill him? Who do you take us for, the Fire Nation?"
"Indeed," Angel added. "Do not mention us in the same breath as those idiots. They see his power and want to kill him for it; such shortsightedness."
"They should have at least sought to use his power for money, oh yeah!" Hoteye said.
"Uh, the Fire Nation had plenty of money…" Katara said.
"If we are leaving, let's have a race," Angel suggested. "The first one of us to find Nirvana…"
"Gets 1 million jewel! Oh yeah!" Hoteye interrupted excited by the prospect of getting money.
"A million? That's a lot…" Angel muttered while shifting her eyes to the money-loving wizard.
"I still don't get it, though." Cobra said. "We just had the Avatar a bit ago, so why didn't we just take him with us?"
"As I said before Cobra, do not underestimate him. We lack the proper means to contain him, it would be too soon. We cannot afford to capture him till we have unearthed Nirvana." Brain explained.
"Uh… What kind of magic is Nirvana?" Wendy asked looking at Brain.
Brain surprisingly gave her an answer that foreshadowed their plan. "Magic that switches Darkness for Light."
Cobra, Angel, and Hoteye began to leave.
"Light and Darkness?" Wendy muttered.
"I don't understand at all," Happy said.
"We're off," Angel announced, she turned around and looked at Katara. "I promise I won't hurt Aangy too bad." She said with a smirk and winked to Katara.
"Aangy!?" Katara growled. "Damn her!" she thought and Angel was doing her best to frustrate the Waterbender, and it was working.
----Meanwhile, the alliance had split up into groups to search for Wendy, Katara and Happy.
Natsu, Aang, Carla, and Gray were in one group. Lyon, Sherry, Toph, and Jura grouped together and running in a different direction. And finally, Sokka, Ren and Eve were together and they were supposed to be with Ichiya.
"Wait, guys, I can't see Ichiya," Eve said.
"I thought he was right behind us… never mind, he's a powerful wizard, right? I'm sure he'll catch up." Sokka said.
Meanwhile, Ichiya was all by himself in an isolated part of the forest. "Ren, Eve, Sokka!" He yelled out while posing. "Where are you? Men!" his echoed voice brought the attention of some figures that were lurking about in the forest.
…
Staying behind with Erza were Zuko, Lucy, and Hibiki. Lucy's spirit, Plue was standing by Erza along with Lucy and Zuko.
The poison on Erza's arm was getting worse causing the sleeping Erza to wince in pain. 
"Everyone please hurry," Lucy said.
"We just have to hope they can find Wendy in time," Zuko said.
"Fretting about it won't help. But there is something we can do." Hibiki said.
"What might that be?" Zuko asked.
Hibiki summoned his monitor and keyboard that was part of his archive magic. As he typed, multiple screens started popping up. "Those heading there, and those that remain… We're sort of a makeshift alliance, but unless we can function as a team, we can't beat them."
"Jura called that magic of yours Archive, right?" Lucy asked.
"Yes. I can track everyone's movements like this. You're not going to go, Lucy?"
"I can't leave Erza behind, right? And besides, I'm the least useful in a fight."
"You shouldn't take Toph insults to heart," Zuko said.
Lucy slightly jumped back. "I-I don't listen to her!" she exclaimed before folding her arms. "That little brat can get hurt for all I care."
"Yeah, I'm sure you really think that." Zuko sarcastically said.
Hibiki continued to talk to Lucy while he typed. "You're too modest, Lucy. I've heard the rumors. Like how you beat nineteen 3-meter tall gorillas…" Hibiki imagines Lucy with red eyes punching a goran. "And during the battle with Phantom, you knocked out Master Jose barehanded!" he then imagined Lucy furiously kicking Master Jose. "Or when you fought 1000 guild members alone at Acalypha." He went on to visualize Lucy standing over the defeated bodies of the guild members she beat with an expression that made her look like she was laughing.
Zuko looked to Lucy. "That didn't all happen, did it?"
Lucy had black lines for eyes as she tried to figure out where these 'legends' arose from. "Not really, no. My legend grows ever more ridiculous." She looks to Zuko and notices the look of concern that he had for Erza. "You really seem to care about Erza, don't you?"
"Yeah." Zuko honestly replied. "She's like the older sister I never had."
Lucy smiled after hearing this. "Well, you two are a lot alike. And hey, don't let what Lyon said bother you; you're not weak at all. I don't care what your father, sister or anyone says. You're one of the strongest guys I know."
Zuko turned to Lucy to give her an honest smile. "Thanks Lucy, that means a lot."
"You care enough about Erza to stand up to Lyon. I admire that." Hibiki said.
"Thanks, this magic of yours, though. How will it be able to help us other than knowing everyone's location?" Zuko asked.
"My magic allows me to tell everyone where our current location is. Even if we save Wendy, Katara, and Happy, there's no point unless they can return here."
"Sounds like you know what you're doing."
Hibiki looked to the pair. "I'm just practicing what Ichiya taught me."
----Aang, Natsu, Gray and Carla were still together as they searched through the forest. Carla was flying to keep up with the three. "You say Wendy's a Sky Dragon Slayer, what do you mean by that?" Aang asked.
"You know how Dragon Slayer Magic works right? Well her element is air and wind." Carla explained.
"I get it, so she's like an Airbender."
"What are you talking about?"
"Uh… I'll explain later."
"So does that mean she eats air, right?" Natsu asked
"Correct."
"Does the air taste good?"
"I have no idea."
"How is that different from breathing oxygen?" Gray muttered with sweatdrops forming on the back of his head.
"She volunteered for this mission because she thought she might get to meet the two of you." Carla said referring to both Aang and Natsu.
"Wait, really?" Aang asked.
"Yes, she heard the rumors of someone using four magics and Dragon Slayer magic. She wanted to confirm this. She also heard of a Dragon Slayer in Magnolia, she wanted to ask the both of you a question."
"What could she want to ask us?" Natsu wondered.
The four passed a large waterfall. "She says that the dragon that taught her Dragon Slayer Magic disappeared 7 years ago. So she thinks that you two might know where the dragon is."
"What's the name of the Dragon?" Natsu asked.
"She said it was the Sky Dragon. Grandeeney if I recall… She disappeared on the seventh day of the seventh month in the seventh year."
"Grandeeney…" Aang repeated. "Sorry, I've never heard of it. But I do know that the Dragons disappeared seven years ago. Toph told me about Gajeel's dragon, Metallicana also disappeared around that time."
"Yeah, so did Igneel." Natsu said.
"Three dragons vanish on the same day? No way that's a coincidence."
Natsu looked to be thinking. "Sky Dragon… Seven years ago…" he was so deep in thought that he didn't realize a low tree arch was coming near them. His head rammed right into it and he fell to his back. The hit to his skull seemed to inspire an idea from Natsu. "That's it! What about Laxus?"
"Laxus is an artificial Dragon Slayer, remember?" Aang reminded.
"Wh-What is this!?" Carla fearfully yelled. She brought their attention to the forest ahead of them. It was filled with dark shadows and there was a black haze that was all around it, blocking some sunlight from shining through.
"The trees are black?" Gray said.
"This ain't right!" Natsu said moving forward.
"No… I feel something odd. What is causing this?" Aang began to feel minute vibrations in the earth and the air currents behind him changed. These signs told him one thing. "Guys, we're not alone." The four looked back to see several figures approaching them.
"Zatou, they said it's 'cause of Nirvana, right?" A built monkey faced person said.
A dark skinned figure with big, sharp ears with yellow teeth, sunglasses, and an Afro replied with: "It's just that terrible a magic!" He took a step forward revealing himself in a white, tight fitting suit with the monkey-faced person was in a brown poncho-like robe with thick shoulder armor. "The earth itself is dying, Gatou."
Yes, appearing behind them was Gatou and Zatou from the guild Naked Mummy. Soon actual primate looking people who were wearing Naked Mummy branded jackets were jumping down from the trees, appearing from all over.
"H-Hey…" Carla worriedly said. "We're surrounded!"
"It's 'cause of Nirvana, right?" Gatou repeated.
"You just said that, Gatou!"
"Oh did I?"
Aang growled in frustration. "We have no time for this!"
Natsu, on the other hand, was getting excited. "It's monkeys! We got two monkeys here, whoa!" Natsu said while actually moving around like a stereotypical monkey.
The small bald man who was kicked by Lucy appeared and noticed their guild marks. "Ahh! Those guys are from Fairy Tail! It was their fault!" he raged while purple smoke was puffing from his bald head.
"Friends of the woman who messed up our plans in Acalypha, huh?" Gatou said.
Natsu got excited after seeing both Gatou and Zatou because of their primate-like attributes. "Ooh look another monkey!"
"We're Naked Mummy, and we work of Oración Seis!" Gatou said.
Zatou moved in front of his brother and his fist that had gold rings on every finger was covered in a magenta energy. "Let's play!"
"Naked Mummy?" Aang repeated.
"One of the Dark Guilds…" Gray remembered. "Lucy told us she fought with them earlier, remember?"
"We've been had!" Carla said in an annoyed tone. "I thought we were only up against six people!"
Gray made mist form from his hand. "These guys'll be perfect…"
Natsu still wasn't taking the situation seriously as he continued to act like a monkey.
"What are you people saying…? We have to hurry and break through to escape!" Carla exclaimed.
"Even if we did, they wouldn't let us get far." Aang said.
"Besides, they came all this way to greet us…" Gray said. "We'll force 'em to tell us where their base is!"
Natsu was moving his arm in a circular motion while his fist was on fire. "Let's do this Monkeys!"
Aang had his eyes closed as he looked to be concentrating. "Katara, Wendy, Happy. Wait for us, we're coming!"
"These brats are makin' fun of us!" Zatou said as he sounded insulted.
"We're Naked Mummy, and we work for Ora-" Gatou was interrupted when a powerful blast of wind shot him back and the large figure crashed into a tree which was nearly forced from its roots.
"Brother!" Zatou exclaimed.
"I heard you the first time!" Aang said with a serious glare. "Listen, we're only after the Oración Seis! Tell us where their base is and we can all go our separate ways."
"You're going to pay for that you little brat!" Zatou said and the rest of the monkey began preparing to fight while making monkey sounds and screeching in a pattern that is meant to intimidate their foes but the Avatar was far from scared.
"Fine, but you asked for this!"
Carla looked at the scene with concern. "What is with these Fairy Tail members? Do they really think they can win against such numbers?"
"Carla…" Aang said getting her attention. "We can't have them reporting back to the Oración Seis, so we are going to fight. Stick close to me, but don't worry. This won't take long…"
…
Meanwhile, Sokka, Eve and Ren were surrounded by wizards that look like they're wearing school uniforms and they were holding melee weapons.
"These guys are the Dark Guild, Black Unicorn." Ren said.
"Hmm, guess that would explain the horrible haircuts." Sokka said looking at the unicorn points that all the members had in their hair.
"Why are they here?" Eve asked.
"They are probably controlled by the Oración Seis." Sokka guessed
"Damn handsome men!" A woman with long brown hair with a sharp point said.
"Bring it on!" A dark-skinned figure said while holding a pipe.
Sokka pulled out his sword and it began absorbing light. "Consider it brought!"
…
"You guys are a little lost aren't ya?" Lyon, Toph, Jura and Sherry were surrounded by guild members who wore red hoods and held wooden staffs. "You should know that this won't end well for you idiots!" Toph exclaimed.
"These people are Red Hood, a Dark guild." Jura said.
"Were they hiding this entire time?" Lyon asked.
"I can't believe they ambushed us like this." Sherry said
"That's the wizard saint, Jura." One of the members said.
"Defeating him would make an excellent trophy."
…
Meanwhile, Ichiya was up against a dark guild all by himself. They all gave him dirty looks and cornered him to a rock. "Men! Wait… I got separated and now I'm all alone… So… I'm definitely not anyone suspicious…" He said trying to get attention away from him; he did all this while he posed.
----Back in the cave, that served as the Oración Seis's base. The sounds of clanging chains were heard. "Seriously…" Racer dropped a huge purple and gold coffin that was shaped similar to a 'T'. "This took longer than I thought. I couldn't get any speed with something this heavy."
Brain took a step forward while he maintained his smirk. "Don't be so hard on yourself. No one is faster than you."
"T-that's…" Wendy started.
"A coffin…" Happy finished.
"Yes, but the question is who's inside? That's what we need to worry about."
Brain walked in front of the three. "Wendy… You're going to heal this man for me."
Wendy though wasn't quick to bend to Brain's will. "I-I will do no such thing!"
"Yeah, that's right!"
"You won't make her do anything! I won't allow it!" Katara defiantly said.
Brain's smirk only widened. "Oh, you will heal him. You must."
Several of the locks on the coffin broke apart and the chains were pulled to the roof. Holes were being made in the purple doors of the coffin as they slowly started to reveal who was inside. The person inside had cracks on his body that were glowing a bright teal color. The fog from the coffin began to clear and the person that was chained to the coffin had short blue hair with a very familiar red marking on the right side of his face.
Both Wendy and Katara gasped.
"This is Jellal. He had at one time infiltrated the Council." Brain said.
Happy started to fearfully step back. "No… No!"
"In other words… He's someone who knows where Nirvana is."
Katara had a terrified expression on her face. "J-Jellal!? But… I…I thought… I thought he was… dead!" she stuttered. She flashed back to seeing the Tower of Heaven disappear in front of them before it exploded. "I was there! There's no way he could have survived!"
Brain looked to Katara. "Your friend, the Avatar survived didn't he?"
"Jellal…" Wendy said to herself instantly getting the attention of her companions.
"YOU KNOW HIM!?" they both exclaimed.
"He was bathed in Ethernano and became like this… But he is not actually dead, you see." He gave a glance to Wendy with a confident smirk. "You are the only one who can return him to the way he was. This man saved your life, didn't he?"
Wendy looked conflicted while Happy and Katara gasped. 
"He's lying right?" Katara asked looking at Wendy but she wasn't able to respond as her eyes couldn't leave Jellal's figure. "Answer me, Wendy!"
----Natsu, Aang, and Gray were standing back to back while the numerous members of Naked Mummy were surrounding them. Zatou had a confident smile while his much taller brother recovered from Aang's earlier attack and was stood beside him with a couple of scratches on him. "Let's get them, real quick-like, Gatou!"
"Yes, we'll show them just how terrifying Naked Mummy can be." Gatou said.
"Get 'em you lugs!"
The grunts of the guild began to attack; they were either unarmed or holding bats or magical rifles. And they started to move towards the four that were surrounded.
Natsu and Gray had confident looks while Aang looked serious and Carla looked scared. "Heh, we sure got an earful of their brain-dead brother banter…" Natsu said.
"Whatever, they seem pretty stupid to me." Gray said.
"What are you people waiting for!?" Carla exclaimed. "Do something!?"
"Stay close to me, Carla!" Aang exclaimed. Following Aang's instructions she held onto his back similar to how Happy would hold onto Natsu.
All the members started shooting their rifles but Aang made a tall, thin circular barrier from the ground that deflected the beams from hitting them. Once they were blocked both Natsu and Gray punched the opposite ends of the wall with their fists that were powered up by their magic causing pellets of earth to pelt the Naked Mummy grunts like bullets.
Once the onslaught was done, Natsu was heading towards a group of them with his right hand engulfed in flames. He punches the ground forcing an explosion that blows many of the Naked Mummy grunts away. One of them tried a sneak attack on Natsu, but his face was grabbed by Gray and his face became frozen as he was tossed to other Naked Mummy grunts leaving a large trail of ice in his wake
More of them were appearing from tree branches and tried to get the drop on the two. Aang slid to Natsu and Gray and took a deep breath through his mouth and blew a colossal gust of wind upwards, blowing away the Naked Mummy grunts back into the air and some were blown away into other parts of the forest miles away.
Natsu punched the ground causing another explosion, which blew many of them away. Gray powered up an Ice attack and made a large ice geyser that shot many of the enemies away.
The bald man from the Acalypha robbery was stepping back as he held his magic rifle. "Damn you!" He was behind Natsu. "Get a load of my magic shotgun!" but a ball of fire knocked the shotgun out of his hands. "Ahh, ow!" he looked to see Aang in his Fire bending stance. "You Monster!" Aang tightened his stance and swing his arms which made a line of earth speed to the bald man before a sharp pillar shot out of the ground and sent him into the air. "MONSTER!" He screamed in a high pitched voice before he disappeared into the sky.
The two brothers stood side by side. "They aren't half bad, Zatou."
"Shall we take 'em on together, Gatou?"
"They aren't half bad, Za-"
"You already said that."
"Oh, I did?"
----At the Oración Seis base, Wendy was looking at Jellal who was held by chains inside the coffin. "Why is… Jellal here?" She asked.
"Are you sure that's Jellal?" Happy asked.
"Yes, I'm positive that him alright!" Katara said with an angry tone.
"Wait, you both know Jellal too?" Wendy inquired.
"Know him?" Happy started. "That guy tried to kill Erza and everyone else! And infiltrated the council to fire Etherion."
"That guy is bad news." Katara added.
Wendy's bangs started to cover her eyes. "Yes, I heard about that…"
"So he's still alive? How!?" Katara exclaimed.
"This man is a ghost, haunted by ghosts…" Brain said. "A wretched idealist." He saw Wendy's somber expression. "But you owe him your life."
"She doesn't owe anyone anything, especially to scum like him, right Wendy." Katara was surprised when she didn't answer. "Wendy, what's going on?"
"Now, hurry and resurrect this man."
"Don't!" Happy yelled. "Whatever he says, do not resurrect this man!"
Wendy started to slightly shiver as she was conflicted on whether to resurrect Jellal or not. "Wendy, I don't get it? Why would you even consider reviving him?" Katara asked.
Brain shot his staff to Katara and she was bound in green energy and was being dragged towards Brain. "Hey, what are you… Let me go!"
"If you don't revive him, she will be the one to die." He calmly said. He had a knife in his free hand and was about to stab her.
"DON'T!" Wendy cried. Brain stopped his knife short of Katara's abdomen. The small girl fell to her knees. "Please… don't…" She said as she started to sniffle.
Brain shot the ground next to Wendy, scaring her. "Cure him. It should be simple for you."
"Wendy… don't do it!" Katara said. "If Jellal is brought back, who knows what will happen if he finds Nirvana."
"Even so… I was saved by him…" Wendy replied. Her fists were clenched on the floor and tears started to fall on them. "He was dear to me…" Wendy started to get up. "I heard rumors of all the bad things he did, but I don't believe them."
"What are you saying?" Happy asked. "We were right there when-"
"Jellal would never do things like that!" she screamed. "Please… give me time to think…"
"Wendy, you have to believe me. This Jellal is different from the one you once knew. He's pure evil!" Katara said.
"YOU DON'T KNOW HIM!" Wendy cried.
Brain smiled and accepted Wendy's request. "Fine, I'll give you time. But don't take too long…" He dropped Katara to the ground.
Wendy with tears in her eyes looked up at Jellal's weak figure.
Happy was shivering. "Natsu… This is real bad… Hurry up and get here!" Happy thought.
----Natsu, Gray, and Aang were heavily panting as they have completely decimated the Naked Mummy guild, the bodies of their enemies were around them, and even the two brothers were beaten up.
"You've got to be kidding me…" Zatou weakly said. "Naked Mummy was beaten by just three wizards?"
"You've got to be kidding me… Naked Mummy was beaten by just-"
"You said that already, Gatou…"
The three were still panting. "What was with these guys? They weren't small fry at all!" Natsu said.
"Wow, they actually had some fight in 'em." Gray said as he was now just wearing a white and blue shirt as he had taken off his jacket.
"They are a dark guild; it wasn't going to be that easy." Aang said.
"You idiots just took on an entire guild!" Carla exclaimed while she hovered into the air with her wings. "What in the world were you people thinking?"
Natsu angrily grabbed Zatou by the collar of his white suit. "Okay, blabber-ape! Where is your base!?"
"I ain't tellin' you, stupid!" Natsu got so mad and headbutted him so hard that he fell unconscious. Smoke was rising from the part of his forehead that Natsu headbutted.
"Okay, big-ape! Tell us where your base is!?" Natsu exclaimed.
"You guys are crazy, you know that." Carla said to Aang.
Aang slightly chuckled. "Believe it or not, this is normal for us…"
"I can honestly believe that."
"Guests, the rest is up to you…" Gatou said before Natsu dropped him.
"What?"
"Guests?" Gray asked.
Aang quickly sensed something, he shot a gust of wind behind Gray, and it was revealed that he saved Gray from being impaled by four stiletto blades. "Ping! I know it's you! So what don't you come out!?" The Avatar demanded.
A giggle was heard from around the forest but she was nowhere to be seen.
Footsteps were heard on a tree branch above them. "Hey there, flame-brain, small brat! Long time no see," Natsu, Gray and Aang look up to see Erigor standing on the branch, but he was dressed in a black and olive jacket with white pants and black boots. He wore a navy blue shirt underneath the jacket. "I really owe you for what you did to me way back when… You damn flies!" he said with a confident grin.
Ping and Kobu stood to Erigor's sides.
"It's you again?!" Natsu exclaimed.
"Ping, Erigor!" Aang growled.
"Hey, ya, you breezy bastard! Long time indeed!" Natsu cheerfully said waving to Erigor. "How's it hangin'?"
Erigor turned while Kobu sweat dropped and Ping had puffs of smoke puffing from the top of her head.
"We ain't got that kinda relationship, bub!" Erigor replied.
Natsu looked at Ping. "Oh, I think I've seen you before… how's it hanging Peach?" Aang stifled a laugh as Natsu got her name wrong.
"THAT'S NOT MY NAME!" She shouted.
"So it's you again, last we met you fought with Phantom Lord?" Gray said looking at Kobu.
"Things will be different Gray Fullbuster, this time I won't have an incompetent, lovesick freak getting in my way." Kobu said with a dark look on his face.
Natsu finally remembered when he beat Erigor. "Oh yeah, I beat you that one time, then the other time I and Aang sent you packing!"
Erigor hovered above the ground while Ping and Kobu jumped to the floor beside him. "After the destruction of Eisenwald, I wandered as a free agent through the guilds associated with Oración Seis… Waiting for this day… The day I get revenge on you, flies! The day the Death God is born once again!"
"Hey, get in line!" Ping exclaimed. "If anyone wants vengeance on Fairy Tail, it's me. The constant humiliation of losing to you idiots, losing to the world… I cannot let it go on. I will end the Avatar's life, even if I have to lose my own life in the process because if we fail, the prosperity of the Fire Nation has a greater chance of falling." Ping pointed at them. "Don't you see? It is my responsibility to see you put down and I can't afford to fail!"
"So a three on three… at least now we get to fight on fair terms…" Kobu said.
Carla was standing by a tree, viewing the confrontation with a sweat drop seen on the back of her head. "Y-You people are going to fight more? You're more than just crazy!"
…
At the same time, the Black Unicorn guild was charging to Sokka, Eve and Ren with theirs. Ren struck first. "Air Magic, Aerial!" a bright blue and white magic circle was made in front of his two pointed fingers. After he cast this, many of the members who charged at them felt a lot of discomfort from lack of breathing to ringing ears. Ren made a transparent hemispherical barrier around some of the members. "I lowered the oxygen content in the air around you. You should no longer be able to stand."
Soon others surrounded Eve.
"What's with this guy?"
"He's got such a cute face."
"Let's play with 'em!"
Eve smirked and turned to them. "Trying to make me angry?" they all leaped into the air to jump him, but a sudden snowstorm appeared. "Snow Magic: Whiteout!" Ren outstretched his right hand and a cyan blue seal appeared in front of it, this was the source of the sudden snow storm. "I'll steal your visibility and freeze your body!" the snow storm cleared and the members were close to buried in deep snow. "Still want to play?"
"S-S-S-S-S-Strong…" one of the Black Unicorn grunts said while shivering.
Sokka was blocking hits from many members that were holding melee weapons such as swords, pipes, and wooden staffs. After blocking a pipe from hitting him, he quickly disarmed the holder and slashed past him, forcing the grunt to collapse.
"You're dead!" a female grunt screamed and because Sokka heard this he reached into his robe and took out a stink bomb, dropped it and kicked it back with his heel to the speeding girl. It exploded and it made a wall of nauseous fumes that made many of the grunts charging to Sokka faint. Sokka saw a large guild member speeding towards him, he took out his boomerang and threw it, it predictably missed but it sliced off the unicorn cut that the huge, buff student had.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" but suddenly he heard something speeding to his left side. He turned, only for the Boomerang to hit him in the forehead.
"Never fails!" Sokka saw more of them leaping towards him. Sokka quickly came up with an idea. "Okay sword, don't fail me now!" he raised the sword above him and it was absorbing the sunlight, the black iron shone bright yellow and Sokka speared the sword into the ground causing a hemispherical explosion of light that spread and took out the remaining Black Unicorn members, leaving Sokka untouched.
"We… give up…" one member muttered.
"Magic Light sword! I love you!" Sokka gleefully exclaimed.
…
The Red Hood guild was standing around Toph, Jura, Lyon and Sherry and they all seemed to be writing on big notepads for some reason.
"Damn you, Lamia Scale!"
"We'll show them!"
"Uh, can someone tell me what they are doing?" Toph asked.
"Pict Magic." Jura said.
"Wait, like that Reedus guy?"
"Unison Pict!" magic circles appeared in front of their sketch pads and suddenly pink goblins roughly the same size as Happy surrounded them. Some of them were carrying actual axes with what looked like a little effort.
"G-Goblins?!" Jura questioned.
"Ooh, they're so cute!" Sherry cooed.
"So what is this it!? I bet even Wendy could fight these things!" Toph said.
Jura though was quick to warn them. "Don't let your guard down!" he warned. As if they were waiting for Jura to warn everyone. The goblins started rolling towards them and were crashing into them over and over.
Lyon was the first to attack, he made an icy wind attack the ones around him. "Sherry, Toph kick their butts!"
Toph made a large, wide rock pillar shoot out of the ground, hitting many of the goblins. "Don't have to tell me twice!"
"Wood Doll!" Sherry made a tree come alive and it attacked many of the goblins.
Once their attacks ended many of the goblins were crying and rubbing their wounds. Jura was holding one of the goblins upsides down by its tail.
"I feel bad now." Sherry said.
"I told you not to let your guard down." Jura replied.
Meanwhile, the members of the Red Hood Guild were swiftly drawing on their sketch pads again. "Yes, this is perfect…"
"While they are distracted by our cute little goblins…"
"Unison Pict!" they all chanted and what they drew this time was a green winged monster with scales and red spines on its back, there was a collar around its neck and a long tail on its lower back.
"A wyvern!" Lyon gasped.
"A what?" Toph yelled.
"They can even make something like that?" Sherry questioned.
"That is some skillful sketching!" Jura said.
"Now's not the time to be complimenting them." Toph said.
The three Red Hooded members pointed their pens forward. "Go, wyvern!"
"Crush the official guild!"
The four were running while the wyvern was chasing them. Funnily enough, there were some goblins that were running away with them. Two were holding on to Jura and Sherry was carrying two of them. One was on top of Toph's head.
"This is quite annoying!" Jura said.
"You're telling me!" Toph said, agreeing.
Jura quickly turned around. "Rockiron Spikes!" sharp earth spikes shot up from the ground trapping the wyvern. "Lyon, Toph, Sherry!"
"Right!" the three of them yelled in unison.
"Ice Make: Snow Tiger!" a snow tiger made of ice roared and crashed into the wyvern.
"Doll Make: Rock Doll!" Sherry's rock doll appeared and it punched the huge, scaly beast in the face.
The wyvern was slightly dazed and Toph cracked her knuckles before her usual smirk appeared. "Head's up!" Toph shot three earth pillars at the wyvern, pushing it with enough force to make it fly uncontrollably back to the six Red Hood guild members.
"Oh no!"
"Our wyvern!"
"Look out!"
It crashed into them and once this happened the wyvern disappeared into a puff of smoke and the goblins disappeared as well.
"Well done, Toph. I'll take it from here." Jura said.
"Whatever you say, big man."
Jura walked to the downed members who were still conscious but dazed after their wyvern hit them. Jura had a dark look on his face. "Even though they may not be real, I cannot admire those that use living things so thoughtlessly…" a huge dust explosion could be seen from far outside the forest coupled with screams of terror.
…
A large blast of wind could be seen that was almost cutting a section of the forest in two. Natsu, Gray, Aang and Carla were caught in the wind.
"Impressive…" Gray complimented. "Those monkeys were nothing compared to him!"
"I'm fired up, leave him to me!"
"No!" they both saw Aang was in a bright blue air hemisphere that was blocking Erigor's gray wind from affecting him. "I can handle Erigor!" He made a flat slab of Earth shoot him up to where Erigor was waiting.
Erigor's smirked grew. "Bring it!" Aang made a sphere of air and blasted it at Erigor which he easily blocked. "I've been looking forward to a rematch, elemental wizard!"
"Don't think it will be like the last time. I'm not holding back!" Aang declared.
Ping immediately unsheathed a sword in her right hand. "Oh no you don't; he's mine!" she leaped into the air but was surprised when Natsu appeared in front of her. She took a fiery fist to the face which sent her shooting down to the ground, but she landed on her feet. She touched her bruise with her free hand and smirked. Natsu landed in front of her on the floor.
"Sorry sister; you gotta go through me first!"
Ping unsheathed her second sword with her free hand. "The famous Salamander, Natsu the Dragon Slayer." Ping smirked. "You may not be the Avatar, but killing one of Fairy Tail's strongest is the next best thing."
Natsu gave her a serious glare. "Yeah? Well, you'll never know."
Ping's blades shone bright red. "Over confident scum! I'll knock you down a peg! Chaos Slash!" she launched off the ground and flew to Natsu.
Natsu charged to her. "Fire Dragon: Iron Fist!" His fist connected with Ping's blades managing to block her attack.
"Jeez, the fighting never stops does it?" Carla said looking to Gray.
"So… there are two talking cats?" Kobu observed. "An interesting note, however. It's about time we started our dual, Gray."
"Don't be thinking you can suddenly beat me?" Gray said with his right hand covered in mist. "Though I have to ask, what's a Waterbender doing helping the Fire Nation?"
"I have my own reasons, not that I'd ever tell you or anything. Enough stalling, time to fight!" from the two water skins on his back he formed two water whips on his arms and swung them to Gray who jumped over them. Carla narrowly ducked under it.
"Don't underestimate me, I've gotten stronger too you know! Ice-Make: Lance!" he shot ice lances at Kobu, but the Waterbender made them shatter before they stabbed him and there were droplets of water that were around him, Gray and Carla. Gray was shocked and Carla was equally stunned as she watched the floating droplets of water.
"Listen up Gray, the only reason you beat me was because you had another waterbender by your side. Things are obviously different now." The droplets froze into ice pellets and they pelted both Gray and Carla. "I can turn your pathetic ice into water, which I can then control. You can't beat me by yourself, Gray!" Kobu said maintaining a serious look.
"Crap!" Gray said while getting up from the attack.
"What kind of water magic does this person use?" Carla thought.
Kobu charged to Gray with six water tentacles stretching from his back. Gray got into his usual stance and bent his legs. "I ain't losing to a heartless person like you! Carla, you might want to find a place to hide for now." Carla ran behind a tree, complying with Gray's request.
Meanwhile, Aang and Erigor were floating in the air, Aang was floating using Air scooters at the bottom of his feet. "Alright Kid, let's see how strong you are without Salamander to back you up! Storm Bringer!" Erigor outstretched his left arm forward and made a tornado of sharp blades engulf Aang. "Haha, this is going to be easy!" suddenly the tornado had blue wind blasts shooting from inside it and it was starting to dissipate. Aang was inside his air sphere and he controlled the wind currents in the tornado instantly shutting it down.
"You think so huh!?" Aang exclaimed. His air sphere disappeared and he launched towards Erigor. They both collided and Erigor smirked. "Looks like you've gotten better, kid. But you're still not good enough!" He formed a bright purple magic circle in front of him and shot a huge blast of wind that shot Aang across the sky.
While Aang flew back he managed to jump out of the wind blast and he saw Erigor flying towards him. Aang took a deep breath while he closed his eyes and when he was focused he opened his eyes again. He shot a highly compressed blast of air that hit Erigor at the same speed that he was flying towards Aang this made him fly through the air in the same manner that Aang did and he recovered and saw Aang moving towards the ground.
"Are you trying to run away you brat!?" he then saw a flurry of rocks being launched into the sky and he was easily avoiding them. "Don't toy with me, you think you can take my revenge so lightly!" He crossed his two pointing fingers and stretched his arms forward, forming his bright purple wind seal in front of him. "Emera Baram!" he shot a powerful burst of wind from his finger with slammed into the ground Aang was standing on. Carla was caught in the wind blast but managed to hang on. "How do you like that destructive power? I haven't been playing around either. I've been training to build up my magic power to get revenge on you flies ever since! Wind and Air are unparalleled and are the true forces of destruction and death."
When the dust cleared Aang was in a spinning air hemisphere and looked to have taken little damage from that attack. "You are wrong!" Carla gasped when she saw Aang survive the attack. "Air is an element that is meant to be used for peace and freedom, not death and destruction like you said."
"Huh?"
"Air is an element that should never be used to constitute revenge until you realize that. You'll never beat me!" Aang dissipated his air sphere and gave a serious look to Erigor.
"You're right… This isn't about Eisenwald or Oración Seis anymore… As I am a single wizard, I will defeat you!"
"Then prove it!" Aang exclaimed.
Meanwhile Gray was still dodging Kobu's attacks. He narrowly dodged a storm of icicle spears that were thrown at them. "Man, this guy doesn't stop!" He saw the whips on Kobu's arms sharpen and the tips became frozen. He shot the water blade with the ice tip towards Gray. "Ice Make: Battle Axe!" Gray created a curved projection of ice and he shot it towards Kobu's water-ice sword and it sliced through it. Kobu jumped out of the way to avoid getting sliced by the ice ax.
"Not a bad move Gray, but… you've got ways to go before you can match my skill." As he said this a trail of water crept under Gray's feet. He emptied the water in his water skins to make six water tentacles that were attached to his back. He made them stretch to Gray and when the ice mage tried to jump out of the way, Gray found his feet were frozen to the ground.
"Oh, Crap!" he could see the water tentacles racing to him. "Ice Make: Shield!" He made a large, flower petal patterned shield. The ends of the water tentacles turned to fists and Kobu made them punch endlessly against the shield before is cracked and shattered. All this happened within a matter of seconds and it wasn't long before the water fists pounded the trapped Gray and he flew back to a tree with bruises on his chest.
The water fists moved back into Kobu's water skins and he started to walk closer to him and asked the question: "Had enough, Gray Fullbuster?"
Gray clenched his fists and he threw his shirt off and angrily glared at Kobu. "Not even close! Come at me!"
Cutting to the fight between Natsu and Ping, the Dragon Slayer is avoiding sword swipes from Ping. Knowing she wouldn't get anywhere, she jumped back. "Well, well it seems I will have to stop holding back." A purplish black magic circle appeared under Ping's feet and four of her purple see-through phantom blades appeared. "I'm going to send you to Hell, Natsu!" she charged to Natsu with her blades following her.
Natsu had his own attack planned. "Fire Dragon Wing Slash!" His arms became covered in flames and he swung them to the charging Ping, but she stopped moving and the four blades formed a makeshift shield around her, blocking the flames from engulfing her.
The blades then forced the fire whips apart and Ping flew to Natsu. "You're wide open!" She slashed past Natsu in quick succession and he screamed as a line wound was made with Ping's sword. "Alright, Dragon Slayer, what happened to all that talk about me not killing you? Your bark is no bigger than your bite, all you wizards are the same!"
"Is that all you got?" Natsu asked as he turned around to face Ping.
"What?"
"I said is that all you got, this wound ain't nothing!" Natsu exclaimed.
"Hmph, I guess your pain threshold is higher than I thought, no matter, though. Your death will soon be at hand."
"Why are you doing this?" Natsu asked. "Why do you fight?"
"Do I have to remind you? The Avatar is the one person who can destroy our perfect society; I'm here to destroy that person, by any means necessary."
"You didn't answer my question…"
"Huh?"
"The Fire Nation want Aang killed, I want to know why you are doing this, Ping. What is your reason to fight!?"
"I just told you! I do this because it is the will of Phoenix King Ozai that I fight, I am nothing but his humble servant and I will serve him, and right now he wants the Avatar killed; it's as simple as that."
"You…" Natsu began. "Your reason is so… so…"
"So… what?"
"STUPID!" He punched Ping with a fiery fist and she slid on her sandals.
The girl slowly rose to her feet and she was starting to shake in anger and rage. "What did you just say?" Ping angrily asked.
Natsu engulfed himself in flames. "Your reason is stupid! You only fight because some lazy old man tells you to! You act like a damn puppet!"
Ping flashed back to when Chun said something similar. "You're sick… you're a person, not a puppet!" Those words replayed back to her in her mind.
"Tell me, Ping, what do you get out of this? Fighting just because someone told you to sounds like a crappy deal to me." Ping didn't respond. "You're being used, and you know it! Ozai treats you like a weapon, and when you get rusty, he'll throw you away!" Ping's yellow pupils shrunk at what Natsu just said. "Is that what you are? Is that all you see yourself as?"
"…shut up…" Ping muttered.
"Free yourself from the Fire Nation, Ping!"
"SHUT YOUR GODDAMM MOUTH!" Ping cursed as her magical energy increased drastically; she started screaming as her power rose. The band keeping her hair in a ponytail snapped making her long hair wave in the wind. Her pupils became purple and they started glowing purple as well. Her hands and feet were turning black like a virus was spreading through her body. The black markings ended at her elbows and her knees. Her screaming ended, she was panting, and Natsu could see purple, toxic-like breath leaving her mouth. "YOU DARE THINK YOU CAN TALK DOWN TO ME!? I'LL KILL YOU!" The veins that were pumping blood through her arms could be clearly seen. Worryingly, there was a purple fluid that was being pumped.
"That magic is hurting you! Your body can't take it!" Natsu warned.
"Shut up! This pain is nothing… compared to failing the Fire Nation!"
"What is it with this magic? I know I've felt it before." Natsu thought.
Ping's blades shone a deep red color. "DIE! NATSU DRAGNEEL!" She charged to Natsu with all her might, her fury only enhanced by the words Natsu said to her. She needed to shut him up… permanently...