Race of the Dead

Natsu, Aang, Happy, and Katara were taking Wendy and Carla back to Erza. While Aang led them back, Katara had a concerning question on her mind. "So… what are we going to do about Jellal?"
"I don't know…" Aang said in a slightly frustrated tone. "How did he even get here? This makes no sense."
Happy though felt he had to point something out "You and Katara are from another world apparently if anything… that itself makes no sense."
"I wonder if Ping and Kobu had anything to do with that?" the avatar wondered aloud. This sudden revelation caught both Katara and Happy by surprise.
"Wait! Those two are here!?" Katara exclaimed.
"Yeah, but don't worry we sure kicked their asses," Natsu said. "And when I find Jellal, I'm gonna teach him a lesson!"
"You think Ping and Kobu might have told the Oración Seis about us?"
"No, it wasn't them. They didn't know that the Oración Seis knew about everything in the first place. Ping told me this while we fought."
"Wait… so if they didn't. Who did?" Happy asked.
"That has to wait," Natsu reminded. "We need to get back to Erza, quickly!"
----Around the same time, a colossal, mountainous shaped line of ice cut a section of the large forest in two. Gray and Sokka were confronting Racer of the Oración Seis. Racer's face continued to have a calm expression, though what he said indicated anything else but the former. "You've stopped me twice now. At this rate, my name will mean dirt."
"Is that so?" Gray inquired as he re-placed his white and blue shirt on him.
Racer suddenly appeared behind the pair. "If I felt like it, it wouldn't be any trouble to catch up with those brats…"
Sokka was the first to express his shock at Racer's speed. "How did you…!?"
Racer suddenly was disappearing and re-appearing around Sokka and Gray. The pair were turning their heads trying to keep up. "…But I won't feel satisfied until you're history." He appeared behind Sokka and moved his face past his shoulders. "I'll have plenty of time to catch up afterward…"
"I don't think so, buddy!" Gray placed his fist on his left palm before he threw both his hands into the ground. This made small icicles shot out of the ground, Gray made the icicles follow Racer but he was too fast. As Racer zipped from Gray's feeble attack, he found himself behind the ice mage while upside down, floating in the air. He drove his foot into Gray stomach, shooting him into the sky.
He disappeared again as a beam of light missed him.
"You don't even have any real power…" Racer said while he stood next to Sokka. He disappeared again as Sokka swung his sword to his direction. "You're just cannon fodder!" Sokka was sent flying across the ground; he wasn't even able to see Racer swipe his leg to his midsection.
Gray slid on his feet and tried to find Racer, who was zipping around both him and Sokka, mocking them as he kept spouting out how slow they were compared to him. "Damn it! I can't follow him with my eyes!" Racer was behind Gray again, but Sokka was able to notice it.
"Look out!" he exclaimed. Sokka tossed his boomerang to Racer, but he was able to catch it with ease. Gray made a large circumference of sharp ice, shoot from the ground but Racer jumped back and then started to run on the ice and struck Gray with Sokka's boomerang. Gray shot out of the ice and into a tree. Sokka tried to shoot Racer with a light beam from his sword, but it was proving to be close to impossible to land a hit on Racer.
Gray slowly got up and Sokka was walking slowly towards him. "Even if you used up your magic power making this ice wall, I hope you don't expect me to go easy on you." Racer said.
Gray leaned against the tree and glared at the blonde speedster. "Say that again, jerk!"
"Come at me as fast as you can!" he calmly taunted with a smirk. Racer threw his right arm into the air.
"Dead Grand Prix! Start your engines!"
The sound of engines and revving could be heard in the background, a line of bright yellow lights appeared from deeper in the forest. "Oh man, what now?" Sokka cried.
"What kind of noise is this?" Gray asked. Speeding through the forest towards Gray and Sokka were an army of unmanned, green, magical motorcycles. "Magic Motorcycles!" Gray exclaimed.
Both he and Sokka were doing their best to dodge the machines that were torpedoing to them. "WHAT THE HELL KIND OF MAGIC IS THIS!?" Sokka cried. He fell to the ground and one of them was speeding towards him. He cowardly threw his sword forward, unintentionally impaling the bike, making it explode. The parts of the bike rained around the duo. "I meant to do that!" Sokka said getting up.
Racer was on a red motorcycle. He rode towards the two with the headlights beaming.
"The motor show from hell!" he slid his bike to the side and used it to tackle both Gray and Sokka. "Now dance."
The bikes were surrounding Gray and Sokka while they recovered from Racer's attack. "I don't get it, what's he trying to do here?"
Gray shot a glare to Racer. "You expect me to ride one of these things!?"
"These are machines made to match my own speed. Slowpokes can't handle 'em." Racer rode away from the two.
Gray had an amused expression as his face formed a grin. "Well, this just got interesting!"
"Oh, I don't like that face you're making…" Sokka said. Before long Gray was riding one of the bikes while Sokka held onto to him. "This is so not a good idea!"
"All right!" Gray happily exclaimed. "This bucking bronco is mine!"
Racer looked back with an amused smile. "Oh look at them go."
"This isn't fair!" Sokka whined while he comically flailed his arms. "I wanted to drive!"
"They wouldn't go anywhere, idiot! The SE plug wouldn't work with you because you have no magic!"
Sokka pouted. "Way to rub salt in the wound…"
"Anyway, I have to focus on not using all my magical power with this thing… Sokka, use your sword to shoot racer, I'll focus on following him."
"Got it!"
"Here we go!" Gray exclaimed.
"Sounds like fun!" Racer said.
"We're both gonna die, aren't we!?" Sokka cried as Gray's motorcycle was closing up on Racer's.
"You two are challenging me to a race?"
"I never agreed to this!" Sokka pointed out.
"You bet pal!" Gray replied. "There ain't no rules, so you'd better be prepared!" Gray turned his head.
"Now Sokka!"
Gray slightly slowed down to allow Sokka to stand on the rear of the bike and charge the light magic in his sword. Sokka slashed the air, sending a spinning light arc to Racer's bike, which missed but only slightly. The beam exploded on the ground.
"No rules huh?" Racer said to himself. "I like the sound of that."
"Oh come on, why do I keep missing!" Sokka continued to blast beams of light to Racer but they kept missing and all the while, trails of explosions were being made thanks to Sokka's accuracy… or lack of it.
Both bikes raced out of the dust and were out of the forest, both were racing on rocky terrain and they were speeding side-by-side. Sokka slashed the air again and missed as Racer increased his speed to avoid the blast but mockingly moved slowed down to stay parallel to Gray and Sokka's bike.
"That's it?" Racer mocked. "Of course I wouldn't expect anything else from the someone who lost to the idiots like the Fire Nation!"
"Oh shut up, we've beaten them before." Sokka rebutted.
"You still don't get it, do you?" You may be a big shot where you're from, fighting weakling benders and crap, but now you're playing with the big kids." He said with a smirk. "And you're way out of your league."
"Damn you!" Sokka charged up all the energy he could. "I'll make sure this hits you!" Sokka shot a bigger beam of bright yellow light which caused a large explosion, kicking endless amounts of dust into the air. Both bikes were intact and seen falling off a cliff as they sped through the dust.
"You're still too slow!"
"You think anyone can aim like this!" Sokka comically countered.
Both bikes started speeding down a rocky hill with Racer still in the lead. "Do you really have the speed to pass me?" Racer stretched his left arm back and a cyan magic circle appeared out of his hand. "High Side Rush!" Car tires were hovering in the air and were speeding to Gray and Sokka's bike.
"Oh crap!" Gray slid his bike to the side while Sokka was slashing past the tires that were on a collision course with them.
"I'm so over this!" Sokka angrily exclaimed.
"Not bad." Racer complimented. "But the Dead Grand Prix has just gotten started!" Both bikes sped into a tunnel that was made from tree bark. Racer slid his bike to the left and his tires screeched as they stopped spinning due to the sliding. "There! Try getting past this!" the doors slid off the rear of his bike to reveal six red glowing holes that each shot red energy beams to the pair. Both Gray and Sokka's eyes grew as the beams created an explosion that destroyed the wooden tunnel.
Gray and Sokka, as well as their bike, were relatively unharmed from the attack. Gray slowed them to a stop. "Damn it, this is nuts!" he said as tree bark shrapnel was blowing through the air.
"Hey, he's over there!" Sokka pointed to Racer who also stopped. The pair were back in the forest.
"What's the matter hot stuff?" laser ports were seen on the front of Racer's bike, as well as a line of ports that flagged the front tire.
"What are you waiting for?! DRIVE!" Sokka yelled.
Gray rode the bike as fast as he could while Racer was chasing them. Red beams were exploding around the pair's green bike. "I can't lose… For Erza's sake!" Gray thought.
…
After leaving Jura and Toph, both Lyon and Sherry were in a shallow, rocky ditch. They heard explosions, close to their location. "I wonder what made that explosion we heard just now," Sherry asked.
"A newcomer…?" Lyon guessed. "…no." on top of a tree trunk that acted as a bridge above the ditch, Racer sped through it allowing Lyon and Sherry to get a glimpse of him.
"Lyon-sama! That's…"
"Oración Seis!" Lyon finished.
Sliding in at the bottom of the ditch was Gray and Sokka on their bike. "Lyon!" Gray exclaimed.
"Gray?"
"You two?" Sokka questioned.
"Perfect timing! Get on!" Gray exclaimed.
"Whoa, hold on a minute! This thing can barely hold the two of us!"
"What are you on about?" Lyon asked.
"Just get on already!" Gray requested.
Lyon decided to jump onto the bike and stood in between Gray and Sokka leaving the non-bender to hold onto the very back of the bike. "Lyon-sama?" Sherry questioned.
"Don't worry! Stay here on standby!" Lyon told Sherry.
The three rose off leaving the woman, slightly confused. "Standby? What another choice to I have…?"
…
Out on a clear field, the race continued with Gray, Lyon, and Sokka chasing after Racer. "Okay you two, where's Wendy?" Lyon asked.
"Don't worry, Natsu and Aang saved her," Gray replied.
"I see. Impressive."
Sokka looked forward. "Yeah, but we somehow need to stop him."
Gray nodded. "Sokka, Lyon can you get him? I can't use magic well while I'm drivin' this thing. Sokka's been a poor shot and he needs the help."
"Oh just shut up!"
"Is that so?" Lyon said looking to Sokka. "Your sword can shoot beams correct?"
"Yeah, but why do you ask?"
"Good, when I say so, you shoot."
"What!? You heard Gray, I've tried that and I missed every time!"
"Don't aim at him! Aim at the ground in front of him, while he's in the air, I'll take care of him."
Sokka nodded as he looked forward. "Got it, so say the word and I'll fire."
Lyon chuckled. "Well, you just watch real carefully. I'll show you both how creating magic is done!"
Gray glanced back with an annoyed expression. "Put your money where your mouth is!"
"Here I go." Lyon placed the bottom of his right fist onto his left palm. Gray noticed that Lyon was using two hands when he was casting his creation magic, as opposed to when he was using one when the two last fought on Galuna Island.
"Lyon… You're using two hands?" Gray asked.
Lyon slightly smirked in response. "It's how Ur taught us, right?" Sokka's sword absorbed light. "Now!"
Sokka fired a large beam of light that forced Racer to look back. The beam, however, exploded in front of the bike forcing it to take off into the air and Lyon could finish him off. "Ice Make: Eagle!" Lyon shot eagles made of ice towards Racer's machine that was in the air. It exploded, and the remains of the bike fell to the ground with a black cloud of smoke in the air above them.
"You get him?" Gray asked.
"No… There's no reaction." Lyon answered.
Racer quickly appeared above the trio. "No more playing around." He drove his left foot the through the bike, instantly destroying it, sending the three away from each other.
As Gray and Lyon were flying from the wreckage they countered with their own magic.
"Ice Make:…"
"…Ape!" An ape made of ice appeared behind Racer but he avoided the attack of the moving ice sculpture.
"…Hammer!" Gray summoned an ice hammer that slammed into the ground as Racer appeared, but he quickly disappeared from the attack.
Sokka who was watching Racer's moments was charging to the predicted area where he would appear and he got it right. He swung his blade but narrowly missed, although tiny strands of his blonde hair had fallen to the ground.
"Those are some fast attacks you've got there. Fast is good." Racer said while appearing and re-appearing. He drove a kick to Lyon. "But you're not there yet!" A threw a quick punch to Gray and he ended the onslaught by throwing Sokka to the pair of them. "You just can't catch up to my speed." Racer disappeared.
"I can't hit him!" Gray complained.
"Focus you two." Lyon caught glimpses of Racer appearing and disappearing. "If you concentrate, you can follow anyone."
Gray smirked. "I understand!" Both Ice mages threw their top part of their outfits off. "Let's do this, Lyon!"
"Fire on my mark, and don't hold back!" Lyon said.
Sokka eyes were white circles. "Okay, I'm not stripping!"
Racer as the same time was thinking about the two of the mages taking their clothes, just leaving their pants. "Why did they strip? And damn, that was fast!" Lyon's Lamia Scale guild mark was on the right side of his chest.
Sherry who caught up with them was standing behind a tree, turning her gaze towards Lyon in particular. "Why did he take off his clothes? Is that also… love?"
The three stand close together and see spots of dust that Racer was kicking up as he ran across the ground.
Lyon kept track of Racer's moments. "Now! 50 meters in front!" He exclaimed
"I see you!" both Gray and Sokka exclaimed. Gray slammed both his hands together, charging his ice magic. Sokka tossed his boomerang that veered to the left of Racer and up into the sky
"Ice Geyser!" Gray slammed his hands onto the ground, forcing jagged mountains of ice to grow from the ground. Racer was climbing the ice by jumping from jagged ice blocks.
Lyon had him in his sights. "Snow Dragon!" Lyon had his hands together before summoning a colossal dragon made of ice. Though Racer also seemed to avoid it as well as he skipped around in the air. Sokka was on top of the ice dragon, jumped off, and looked to be on target to strike Racer. Racer disappeared and Sokka felt a foot being driven into his back. He crashed into the ground close to Gray and Lyon.
"Damn it!" Gray cursed.
"He's sped up even faster!" Lyon noticed.
"Geez, how are we going to beat him."
Racer shot past the three of them at similar speeds to a bullet. "What's the matter? I'm over here!"
As Sokka was struck his eyes grew as he realized that the white birds in the air were shooting through the sky at unusually fast speeds. Their wings were also flapping rapidly. Sokka landed on his back. "Do birds fly that fast in this world? Wait…unless…"
Racer stopped a fair distance in front of him and a smirk was on his face. "Ha! You'll never hit me with those attacks. Not in your entire life…"
Sherry was getting worried while she watched the battle. "He's strong… are the Oración Seis really this strong?"
Racer still with a smirk plastered on his face, knew he needed end this quickly. "Now, I need to get around to finishing you off, and retrieving that girl." He heard slight chuckling and he saw Sokka slowly rising to his feet. "Huh? What's so funny? Have you finally accepted your defeat, you water tribe trash?"
Sokka smirked. "Oh, you're going to be trash… when we're done taking you out!"
Racer could appreciate the slight pun and he chuckled to himself. "Oh really? Well, why don't you prove it?"
Sokka looked to Lyon and Gray and started to talk in a muttered voice. "Listen, you two; I think I figured out how we're going beat this guy!"
----While the allied forces were fighting against the Oración Seis, bells were going off in Magnolia. Outside of Fairy Tail, Elfman was carrying a huge block of hay towards Appa. After setting it down in front of the bison, Appa licked the very built mage in a show of gratitude.
"It's no problem Appa. You're a real man!"
A large drop of sweat dropped down Appa's head before he could start to eat the hay.
Inside the guild, Mira was at the bar. She was giving food pellets to Momo who sniffed it before forcing it from her hand and started to chew at the food pellet. "Oh Momo you're so cute!" she gushed. She stroked his head, causing the lemur to purr in delight.
Makarov was sitting on the bar on the bar. "Where are they?" he said.
"Don't worry Master; I'm sure they will be back soon," Mira said.
Iroh was sitting at the bar with a wooden cup of steaming hot tea in his hands. "The information you requested them to locate will take some time. I suggest being patient." Iroh said.
The doors opened, and walking in were Mai, Ty Lee, and Suki. Mai was holding a rolled up piece of paper.
"We're back!" Ty Lee announced in a sing-song voice.
The three girls walked up to Makarov. "We got the information you wanted," Mai said handing the paper to Makarov.
"And as you requested, we didn't read it," Suki added.
"Geez, whatever this is. The magical council wasn't very happy to share this information with us. And that bureaucrat we had to deal with was probably more annoying than Natsu."
"I had to keep her from using her knives." Ty Lee stated.
"Luckily I convinced him to hand it over to us. Once I explained the situation with the Oración Seis. They hesitantly gave us this." Suki said
"After Mai gave them the 'Erza Stare'!" Ty Lee said
"So what does it say; Master?" Suki asked.
"It's possible that Brain was once part of the Bureau of Magic."
"The Bureau of Magic?" Mira asked. After hearing this, she let Momo fall to the ground allowing him to freely run around the guild. "Then what's his true identity?"
"That's still under investigation."
"Please don't tell me that's all the letter said," Mai said. "A trip to the magic council wasn't fun!"
"No, it also talks about the R-System, or in other words, the Tower of Heaven." Makarov calmly said.
"The Tower of Heaven?" Suki repeated. "I remember that Katara and Sokka told Ty Lee and me about that place."
"Just hearing about that Jellal guy gave me the creeps…" Ty Lee said with a comic shiver.
"I heard about it from Zuko," Mai revealed. "He told me that some 'nutcase named Jellal' tried to resurrect some kind of evil messiah."
"…All that seems to have something to do with it." Makarov said. "I've got reports indicating that…"
"…There's a connection to Jellal…" Mira finished. "That's what you mean, right?"
"Yes," Makarov answered. "But I don't know…" Makarov took a swig of beer from a large wooden mug.
"What's Brain trying to accomplish with magic? I fear that it may put our world…" he looked to Mai, Ty Lee, and Suki. "Maybe even your world in danger."
"It will be okay," Mira said.
"She right you know…" Iroh added. "You sent out Natsu and Aang's teams, I'm confident they'll stop Brain's plans."
"We all know that they will do all that they can to stop him and the Oración Seis."
"Especially my Natsu!" Ty Lee gushed with hearts floating above her, a sweatdrop falling from Mai's head.
"We should have faith that they can stop Brain," Suki said.
Makarov huffed. "I suppose so."
"It would be nice if they don't destroy things any more than necessary, though…" Mira said with her trademark smile.
"That's what you're worried about?!" Makarov asked with a shocked expression, his face also showing signs of stress. "These kids are gonna drive me to an early grave."
"May I suggest some tea calm the nerves?" Iroh offered.
----At the same time, sounds of hitting were heard from around the forests of Magnolia. Chun and Hen could be seen sparring with each other. Both fighters were sweating profusely. "Excellent Chun." Hen complimented and he blocked a kick from the younger girl. "You're getting better!" Chun smiled and tried to punch Hen, but her fist missed and the Earthbender smirked. "But you're not a good as me…" he punched her in the face. The impact sent Chun to the ground.
"Ow! That hurt!" Hen outstretched his hand to help Chun to her feet.
"Sorry… but you kinda asked me to toughen you up."
"Yeah… that I did…"
"Hey, may I ask why?"
"Well you and I both know our bending isn't enough, so I want to be able to become stronger physically.
It's not much but it may come in handy. It beats relying solely on my bending."
"Well, I can agree." Chun gave a sigh. "I know that sigh, what's worrying you this time?"
"It's just that… The Oración Seis are a dark guild, and Ping and Kobu are throwing themselves right into that… I just hope they know what they are doing."
Hen blew a raspberry with his tongue. "Whatever… Look on the bright side. We can finally get a break from those two killjoys."
Chun giggled in response. "Thanks, Hen… but you're right. I… we definitely needed this."
"Please, I couldn't give a damn whether Ping or Kobu is around. I still do whatever I want. Ping can't fight Fairy Tail by herself, no matter how much she brags and Kobu is just… Kobu. He doesn't give a rat's ass about anything."
"Let's not forget you are a happy-go-lucky psychopath." Chun teased.
"I won't deny that." Hen happily said.
"And I'm… heh… I'm just… a weak little girl who can do nothing right. A girl who is scared of everything…"
Hen walked to her and firmly placed his hands on her shoulder. "Chun, don't say that about yourself, you're not like the rest of the blind Fire Nation who do nothing but fight for a leader who does nothing that lies to them. At least you can see through all the bull crap."
Chun smiled. "How do you do that?"
"What do you mean?"
"Even in the bleakest situation, you always find a way to put a smile on my face. Makes me wish I met you under different circumstances."
"Ha, me too… but know this Chun." He said with his voice becoming serious. "I'll always be by your side, as long as you'll have me."
Chun's cheeks turned red and she smiled. "Whoa… thanks, Hen. I've n-never had anyone be this friendly to me."
"Well, it's about time. You deserve better than what you're getting in the Fire Nation." Chun leaped onto Hen and engulfed him in a hug.
"Thank you Hen. I'm glad I can call you my friend…"
"And I'm glad that I've met a firebender who won't roast me for talking bad about the Fire Nation." He chuckled as he hugged her back.
They separated and Hen looked determinately at Chun. "Alright, enough with the angsty stuff, You good for a second round?"
Chun slowly got into a fighting stance and smirked at Hen. "I'm ready, don't hold back!"
Hen smirked back. "Wouldn't have it any other way…"
----Back to the battle, Sherry watched as Sokka was whispering a plan into Gray and Lyon's ears.
Racer watched this. "Having a strategy session? How pointless."
Sokka finished whispering the plan into their ears. 
"Forget it…" Lyon said.
"W-what!?" Sokka and Gray exclaimed. A bright blue seal appeared under Gray and he was engulfed in a small tower of ice.
"It's like I said, I don't need you anymore." The ice tower continued to grow.
"Hey, Lyon... Damn you!" Gray yelled from within the ice tower as it continued to grow up into the sky.
"What about the plan!?" Sokka exclaimed.
Lyon laughed. "Ha, your plan. As I would let a powerless weakling like you tell me what to do."
Both Sherry and Racer looked up at the very high ice tower. "Lyon-sama, what are you doing!?"
"I knew you would do something like this you crazy bastard!" Sokka charged to Lyon with his sword, but
Lyon punched Sokka in the gut, making him drop his sword. "Just be lucky I'm letting you help me, just stay the hell out of my way."
"God damn it!" Gray cursed. "Let me go, Lyon! Don't give me this crap!"
Lyon laughed. "Just stay up there and watch Gray!"
Racer looked to Lyon. "Turning on your friends? That's harsh, man…" Racer said. "The weakling I can understand, but the other one was adequate."
"Don't get me wrong." Lyon started. "He's not my friend. We just happened to have the same teacher.
Gray growled under his breath "Why you…"
Shery ran onto the scene. "But Lyon-sama…"
"No complaints. Lamia Scale will be bagging this one!" he looked to his new battling partner. "Let's go, Sherry…"
"Uh, sure…" Sherry hesitantly said.
"That overconfidence isn't going to help your chances!" Racer said with his arms folded. "Well, your chances were zero to begin with anyway…"
"Yap-yap-yap little doggie." Lyon teased.
Racer disappeared again with a wide smirk. Sherry quickly initiated an attack. "Doll Attack: Rock Doll!"
Sherry called as a white and magenta magic circle appeared behind her back-stretched hand. A large golem made or earth rose from the ground and attacked Racer, but the blonde mage jumped back off of its chest and disappeared again. He dodged a punch in the process.
"Nice power, but is lacks speed!" he started to pound the rock doll with relentless attacks while repeating the word 'slow'.
"I can't see him." Sherry cried. "In that case… Wood Doll!" she summoned a large tree golem from the ground.
Racer continued to disappear in the air. "You can't catch me with magic like that!" He continued to dodge the attacks from the Wood Doll.
"Then how about this, I wonder?" Sherry said. She had a bunch of branches trap Racer while he was in the air.
"Oh Crap…" Racer said. "…Psych." He said before he disappeared, tricking Sherry for just that short moment.
"He slipped out?" Sherry fearfully exclaimed. She was kicked up into the air.
"You're too slow!"
An ice shaped snow tiger raged past the two of them, as it attempted to strike Racer. The speedster jumped off the ice figure and disappeared again. He reappeared in the air and disappeared as bright yellow spinning energy arcs were speeding towards him.
"You're still too slow!" Racer said. He was then floating close to the ice tower. He saw Lyon running away.
"What are you, slow in the head?"
Sokka followed him. "Hey don't leave me!"
Racer pursued Lyon across the field. "Oh, that's rich! You're the one that's slow in the head!" Lyon slid back on his feet, and Sokka did the same while he stood beside Lyon.
"Your weak point is the weakness of your attacks!" Lyon said charging another ice attack. No matter how fast you are, you can't seal the deal! Ice Make: Hedgehog!" long, sharp crystals of ice grew all over Lyon's back. Racer stopped as his feet screeched like car tires. "Close in on me, and you're shish-kebab…" Lyon turned around and Sokka shot a light beam at the ice and it looked like it absorbed the blast and all the long ice crystals on Lyon's back were shining brightly.
"How about Ice Make: Light Hedgehog!" The ice spikes fired beams of light in every direction which forced Racer to back away and avoid all of the light beams. Lyon jumped up into the air.
"What will you do now? Come at me with that speed you're so proud of!"
Sokka meanwhile ran on the ground below Lyon. "Ha, now look who's too slow!?"
"Such a fool you are." Racer said as a cyan magic circle appeared below his feet. "Gear Change… Red Zone!" the magic circle turned red for a split second. He took off, faster than a bullet. Lyon and Soka were shocked at the dramatic change of his speed.
He threw a kick to Lyon, instantly shattering his ice spikes, showing his increased strength. He forced Lyon to the ground. Sokka was behind him, but an elbow was thrust into his stomach before Racer drove his closed fists into Sokka's back.
"Now that was my top speed!" Racer said. He lifted Sokka and kicked him across the field to Lyon. "You think I'd be serious at first against weaker opponents like you? Really?"
He saw Lyon carrying Sokka as he sprinted in retreat. The sword was back in its sheath. "I'm not done yet!"
"Hey now…" Racer said appearing by Lyon. He kicked Lyon up into the air, forcing Sokka to wake up. Sokka landed on his feet and charged a beam from his sword.
"Back off!" Sokka warned.
"Please…" He threw a fist to Sokka, sending him rolling down the same hill that Lyon was running down.
Racer kicked Lyon on his back.
Sherry got up from Racer's last attack and she looked to see both Sokka and Lyon getting thrashed by Racer's blindingly fast attacks.
"L-Lyon-sama." Sherry said.
Both of them continued running down the hill and they were continuing to take the constant beating by Racer.
"What happened to that momentum you had at first?" Racer asked. He punched Sokka across the face, his pain filled voice echoing across the forest.
Lyon was on the ground, he got up and helped Sokka to his feet. "Come on, just a bit further…" Lyon said.
"Why'd ya have to piss him off?!"
Both were running away from Racer. "Well, the two of you are pretty damn tenacious…"
Sherry saw that they were getting out of her line of depth. "H-how far are they going to go?"
Lyon and Sokka were heading to the edge of a cliff. "Keep going! I'll slow him down!" Lyon yelled. Sokka continued to run while Lyon slid backward. "Ice Make: Eagle!" she shot a flurry of ice eagles that were speeding to Racer.
Racer was easily dodging the ice projectiles. "Don't you understand that you can't hit me?" the eagles hit the ground and made small ice shards as the hit. He leaped up to rapidly beat Lyon while in the air.
"Hey, what's wrong? You think you can stop me with that, huh?" Lyon landed on a large tree root.
Racer turned to Sokka who was breathing heavily while close to the edge of the cliff. "Oh I actually forgot about you!" he zipped to Sokka and brought his elbow onto his stomach, forcing Sokka to drop his sword. "Hmm, nice sword… I think I'll keep it!" He grabbed Sokka's sword before disappearing. Sokka got up and looked around and he too soon got battered from all over by Racer. Sokka could only keep one eye open as he slowly stood but Racer quickly slashed Sokka across his chest with the sword. A scream filled with pain echoed as Sokka fell to his back and Racer kneeled over him. Sokka's hair was loose and his chest was exposed as the sword sliced through his clothes and made a minor cut across his chest. Racer had Sokka's sword close to his neck.
"I gotta admit, for a guy who has little-to-no power, you can sure take some punishment." Racer said. "And I give you props for lasting this long. You would have been fine if you just stuck with those Fire-Nation-losers, but I'm on a completely different level, I'm one of the Oración Seis."
Lyon weakly sat up and noticed the speed of the birds as they were moving at a much normal speed.
"Six Generals, Six Prayers, Six Pillars that will never crumble… Only death awaits those who rock the pillars, anyone who threatens to cut us down must pay the price for their disrespect. And if it's any consolation, you won't have to worry about the Fire Nation too much longer. Once we have Nirvana, and the Avatar, we'll wipe that pathetic country off the face of the Earth."
Sokka glared at Racer. "What… do you… sick bastards want… with Aang?" Sokka forced out.
"As I said, it won't be any of your concern. You won't be around to see it anyway." He raised the sword from his neck and prepared to strike him down. "Say goodbye kid."
Sokka smirked while Lyon chuckled from behind. "You say that you're fast, but that's a lie…" Lyon said. "Sokka figured it out. When he saw the birds flying by so fast, he figured out how your magic really works."
Racer gulped, fearing that they figured him out. Sokka grinned at Racer; he caught the gulp from the wizard. "Your magic doesn't increase your speed. It lowers the speed of everyone around you! You slow down their sense of time in a certain area. In other words pointy nose, you slow us down instead of speeding yourself up. And since the magic only affects a certain area, when someone sees you from outside of your range…" Sokka didn't need to finish as Racer had gotten the point. The top of the huge ice tower shattered and Gray was standing on top as he formed a glowing ice bow. "Your speed is essentially useless!" Gray had a view of the entire area, including the cliff that the three were standing on.
Racer took it all in and dropped the sword. "T-that's why you had me get so far away from him?" Lyon got up and prepared an attack as his hands were glowing. "But at that range… There's no way he'll hit!"
Sokka exclaimed a battle cry, he impaled his sword into Racer's right arm, and the blade was glowing brightly. "Hey, let me tell you something. I really didn't think much at all about this guild, I didn't give them the credit they deserve. So let me tell you a lesson that I learned the hard way: Do NOT underestimate Fairy Tail!" the sword shone brighter as the area around them was brightly shining bright yellow. Racer struggled to pull it out from his upper right arm. "There's no way he'll miss. Not with how bright the light from my sword is. And not with how bright the light of a Fairy Tail member is!"
Gray saw the bright light that Sokka's sword produced. "Nice job, Sokka…" Gray thought all he needed to do was finish it off. "Super Freeze Arrow!" he pulled back on the ice bow a bright arrow was being aimed at the light. Once Gray let go, the force of the blast made a bright blue magical seal.
Racer covered his glasses with his working left arm. "It's fast!" Racer yelled as the lenses of his sunglasses shattered. A sudden flashback had replayed through his mind.
A young boy with prison gauntlets on his wrists was sprinting to a cliff. "My prayer…To be faster than anyone… To be faster…" the boy was revealed to be a much younger Racer and he was sprinting from a winged monster that was chasing him.
The arrow had hit its target and produced an ultra-bright light from the impact.
…
Gray and Sherry meet up with Sokka and Lyon at the Cliff side. Racer was down on the ground; Lyon had pulled out Sokka's sword and was wiping the blood stains with the torn bits of Sokka's outfit he found on the ground.
Gray looked down to Sokka who was still on his back. "Hey Sokka, you alright?" Gray asked offering a hand to help him up.
Sokka breathed a sigh of relief. "Yeah, I'm fine. Guy was close to killing me so…"
"Great plan, Sokka." Gray complimented. "We've still got five of these guys to go. And one more thing… Stop with all the bad jokes…" Sokka chuckled at that comment.
Lyon gave Sokka his sword back. "Here, your plan was pretty good," Lyon said. "I can at least see your usefulness in Fairy Tail, even if you have no magic to wield."
Sherry sighed. "Honestly… I actually thought you three were fighting back there…"
"All part of the plan." Sokka boasted.
Gray offered to help Lyon to his feet. "Can you stand?"
He looked away in response. "Don't make fun of me." Sherry giggled at his response. However, they failed to notice the Racer was slowly getting up.
"IT'S NOT OVER!" He said with an insane holler. The four looked at him in horror as he opened his jacket.
"I swear in the name if Oración Seis if I go down in defeat, I'll take all of you with me!" He revealed a device that was strapped to his chest with five lights mimicking the corners of a pentagon and one bright red light in the center.
"What the hell is that!?" Sokka screamed while Gray was keeping him on his feet.
"Explosive Lacrima…" Sherry said as she held Lyon up.
Gray was seething with rage. "You bastard… Are you planning on…"
"One man, one kill!" Racer exclaimed.
Gray charged at attack. "Why you!" He fell to the ground and Racer was running towards them. "Crap…Why do I have to run out of magic power now?"
As Racer was getting closer he was cackling maniacally. However, Lyon speared into him, instantly reversing Racer's momentum.
"Lyon!" Gray yelled.
"Lyon-sama!" Sherry cried.
"What… the…" Sokka said with an astounded expression.
Both Racer and Lyon were over the edge of the cliff with nothing but the steep fall to the ground below them. Lyon tightly held onto Racer as they both were plunging to the ground below.
"Sheesh…" Lyon thought. "The things I do for you, younger pupil…" his eyes closed while they both fell.
A loud and tremendous explosion of white energy blew across a huge part of the area. Gray, Sokka, and Sherry looked down in horror at the explosion. "Oh, crap…" Sokka said while Gray and Sherry had little words to say.
…
Natsu, Aang, and Katara heard the noise as they were carrying the unconscious Wendy and Carla. Happy was barely conscious. They stopped moving and turned back. 
"That doesn't sound good." Katara said.
"I know…" Aang replied as he looked down.
"But we have to keep moving." Natsu reminded. "Erza's life hangs in the balance." Both benders nodded and Aang continued to lead the way, with Natsu and Katara following.
…
"LYON!" Sherry's wailing screamed could be heard from more than a mile away, she as well as Gray and Sokka were horrified at what just happened. "LYON-SAMA!"
Sokka punched the ground in anger. "Dammit! DAMMIT!"
Gray's fists tensed up as his emotions were boiling over as well. "LYON!"
…
As the explosion rang around the entirety of the forest, the scattered members of the Oracion Seis surprisingly were smiling at this outcome, as if they could sense that something big was about to happen and it would be a huge shift in their favor.
As this was happening Jellal could be seen walking through with a permanent scowl, his present motives unknown.
----Kobu was walking through the forest while he let Ping lean on him as she was still very much injured from her battle with Natsu. The pair heard the sound of an explosion that was ringing around the Woodsea.
"Hey, you here that?" Kobu asked.
"Does it look like I care? The only thing that matters is taking down the Avatar, we cannot return to our world without achieving that!"
"You're in no shape to even stand, how do you think you can take on the Avatar right now? No, we need to get the hell out of here. If the Oracion Seis are as strong as I think they are, then we're going to get caught up in something big if we don't leave."
"A weapon…"
"What…?"
"That's what that idiot Natsu said to me. That I'm just a weapon to Phoenix King Ozai, a tool to be thrown away… Do you think that is that true?"
Kobu gave a curious look to Ping. Did Natsu's words really actually have an effect on her? He imagined she was more headstrong than that. Maybe she was going soft? Either way, he already knew his answer, but he didn't want to tell Ping about it. "I have a feeling you're not going to like my answer."
She scoffed and turned away from Kobu. "I can't believe I let him get to me. How could I be so weak? I'm just lucky no one from the Fire Nation could see my humiliating moment of weakness."
"Yeah, well to be honest. I really couldn't care less. You want pity? I'm sure Chun would be willing to gve you the time and place."
"Don't compare me to that crybaby!" She weakly said albeit with a venomous tone.
"I'm not comparing anyone, you're both Fire Nation so you're all the same to me." He coldly replied.
"We just need to get out of here so we can plan our next attack."
"Fool, the Avatar is somewhere in these woods. We should stay and hunt him down!"
Ping's headstrong nature returned which caused Kobu to roll his eyes after hearing her suggestion.
"I'm not going to let you die just yet, no not till the Avatar does go down, but we're not ready to do that right now. So until then, learn to keep your priorities straight! If you really want to make the Fire Nation proud, then don't just mindlessly throw your life away before completing your mission."
Ping shot an angry glare at Kobu, it seemed as though everyone was just talking down to her, and she didn't like it, not one bit. "You're lucky I'm not in a position to end your pathetic life…"
"Oh, I'm so scared." Kobu sarcastically jabbed. "Just shut up already, carrying you is one thing, but I'm not prepared to carry you out of her while listening to how important you and the Fire Nation are. Tell them to someone who cares, but not to me."
A long silence followed after Kobu's words, his coldness particularly intrigued Ping. She is sure that Chun would care about her well-being; Hen is unpredictable so he'd probably kill her or just laugh at her, one of the two. But Kobu, in particular, was who she was most curious about. She pondered as to what reason he would want the Avatar killed. She never pictured people from either of the Water Tribes to be cold blooded. Plus if anything he'd want to help the Avatar. She would ask why he is helping them, but at the moment he wasn't in any mood to talk, especially to her.
Ping though was angry, at the Avatar for eluding them and at herself for losing him, and this wasn't the first time this happened. Her best chance was when she could have taken him when Aang was on that mission with Lucy, but even then she failed and at that time Aang hadn't used his magic and Lucy was helpless. Her anger was building and a weak dark aura was surrounding her. But it soon faded as she remembered Natsu's words.
"Why do you fight…? You're being used and you know it…! Free yourself from the Fire Nation, Ping!"
"Why…? Is this what I want… has our great leader been using me! Am I nothing but a sword that has become rusty…? Why am I feeling like this!?"
----Inside the Oración Seis secret base, Brain clutched his head as one of the black stripes on his face had disappeared. "Racer is… gone?" Brain said in a shiver while beads of sweat were going down his face. His expression showed horror. "One corner of the six generals has broken!" A skull ornament fell to the floor, as Brain was onto his knees. "I underestimated our enemy!" He got up and turned to the sleeping figure near a corner of the cave. "I never thought I would have to wake him up…" he forced the butt of his staff to the ground. "Midnight!" He said with a stern tone.
A groan was heard from the sleeping figure and he sat up straight and awoke from his long slumber.
"Awake?" Brain asked. Another groan was heard from Midnight. "Get rid of every last one of them."
Midnight stood and looked at Brain with a serious expression. "Yes… father…"
----Gray, Sokka, and Sherry stood at the point where Lyon had jumped off the edge and the explosion engulfed him.
Sherry had tears falling from her eyes, while she tried to piece together what had just happened. "Is-is Lyon-sama… really…"
Gray glared at the cliff's edge. "No, there's no way that guy's dead!" Gray made an icicle ramp that stretched down the cliff. "Come on! Let's search for him!"
Gray was the first to slide down. Sokka was about to but he noticed that Sherry still hadn't moved at all.
"Hey! Didn't you hear him?"
"Why… why did Lyon-sama have to…" she pictured his face before she took on a more dark expression.
"Who is to blame?" she thought. She looked to Sokka who was trying to get her attention. "HIM!" She flashed back to when Sokka proposed his plan. "If it wasn't for his plan, Lyon-sama wouldn't have… It-it's the fault of the… weakling!" She watched as Sokka slid down the ice slide. "Lyon-sama… I promise… he will pay!"
----Meanwhile, Jura and Toph were in another section of the forest. Toph turned to look behind her and Jura gave a slow nod to her. Toph nodded back and got in an Earthbending stance.
"Alright, we both know you're following us. So why don't you make this easier on yourself and come out!?" The young earthbender said.
As soon as she said that, they both noticed the ground moving as it was standing and about to close in on them. Soon after, the sound of a coin flip was heard.
"I expected someone from the Ten Wizard Saints to sense me, but you managed to sense me as well, little girl. Oh yes, I am impressed."
"Really, well let's see how you like this!" Toph made thick walls rise from the ground to stop the mud that was raging at them. Jura then held up two fingers and shot a multitude of earth pillars from the walls to the figure.
Hoteye held up two fingers of his own before an orange-yellow forcefield surrounded him, instantly stopping the momentum of the pillars. A brief moment later they shifted into mud and were discarded as they slithered away from him. Hoteye had a confident smile on his face, Toph gained a smirk and Jura's expression was one that showed seriousness.
This brief respite allowed Hoteye to exchange words with Jura and Toph. "My magic softens the earth. Your magic hardens the earth." He took a look at Toph. "And you, your earthbending allows you to control the earth but you cannot control soft earth, oh yeah!" no words left the mouths of Jura or Toph, allowing Hoteye to ask. "So then, which one is stronger, oh yeah?"
"Naturally, it is not the one with the strongest magic who is superior," Jura replied. "But it is the one with the stronger ideals!"
Hoteye showed an amused expression. "Not true! The winner, since the beginning of time… is the one with the most money, oh yeah!" the sound of a coin dropping was heard again and Toph shot a serious glare at Hoteye.
"If you think money is everything, then you're an even bigger fool than I thought." Toph started.
"Huh?"
"You can have all the money in the world… but that's not real power… I come from a family that had oodles of money, but that means crap to me! If money is all that drives you…" Toph cracked her knuckles and her neck. "I'll be glad to teach you a lesson in what really matters!"
"Money is all that matters, oh yeah!" Hoteye said.
"We'll see how good your money is when I pound you into the ground!"
----Back with Zuko, Lucy, Hibiki and the poisoned Erza, there was an eerie silence around them. Soon they heard the bushes close by rustle around them. Lucy was the first to notice and she looked to the shaking bushes, Zuko shot up and he got in a stance and prepared to blast a fireball to incinerate the potential intruder. Hibiki glared at the bush.
Shooting out of the bush was a figure that was balancing on a ball of air with his feet, in his hands was an unconscious white cat. This forced a shriek from Lucy. "Sorry, we're late!" Aang said as he stopped moving.
Natsu popped out of the bushes soon after. "We're here!" he happily announced.
"Natsu, Aang! You made it!" Lucy cheered.
Katara ran out of the bushes. "Honestly, you two really left me behind…?" Both Natsu and Aang chuckled while Katara had her hands on her hips. "Sometimes I wonder if you two really aren't just children in older bodies."
They all surrounded Erza. "While we're here, how did you guys get a map to appear in my head… it kind of felt weird…?" Aang said.
"That doesn't matter!" Zuko said with a rushed tone that had an angry tone to it. "Hurry up and wake up Wendy, Erza's running out of time!"
Natsu placed her and Happy on the ground and he began shaking the blue haired girl in an attempt to wake her up. "Hey! Wake up, Wendy! You have to save Erza!"
Lucy with a comical panicked expression watched Natsu try to wake her up. "C-calm down, Natsu!"
"Well, that brings back memories…" Aang chuckled as he flashed back to when Natsu first woke him up when he crashed into Earthland.
Wendy started to stir into consciousness and once her brown eyes opened, she screamed and shuffled away from Natsu. "I'M SORRY!" She cried as she held her head, in her mind she thought that they would be mad about her healing Jellal, but that was something they would deal with later.
Aang slowly approached her and he fell to his knees in front of her. "That doesn't matter right now… we really need your help right now." Wendy calmed down and looked to Aang's eyes. "Erza has been poisoned and you're the only one who can save her."
"Poison?" Wendy echoed. She turned to Erza and saw the poison continuing to spread through the upper, right side of her body.
Carla was slowly starting to wake up as Hibiki also tried to convince Wendy to heal Erza. "We need Erza's strength to fight the Oracion Seis."
Zuko in an uncharacteristic manner knelt in front of Wendy and bowed in front of her. "Please… Erza is in so much pain right now, and… I don't know what to do if I lost her… so, please… help her. I'm begging you."
Wendy thinking about the situation, became serious and held her fists to her side as she made her decision. "O-of course! Yes, I'll do it!"
Aang and Natsu were happy while Zuko looked very relieved.
"Thank goodness…" Happy said while he was lying on the ground in a relaxed manner. Carla was less than impressed as she was fully standing up.
"How long are you going to be splayed out like that? It's unbecoming…"
"Aye…" Happy cried in a happy, whining voice.
Wendy walked over to Erza and knelt in front of her body. She outstretched her hands towards Erza and a soothing sky blue light was shining from her palms. "I can't believe Jellal would do such a horrible thing to Erza…" the light continued to shine brightly and the sickly purple colour was disappearing from Erza's body, indicating that the poison was being expelled from her body. "I can't believe it…"
----Jellal meanwhile was walking in a very peculiar area of the forest. The area was coloured in a bright indigo light, and the path was lined with boulders that had vines curling around them. Hiding behind a boulder was Cobra and his snake Cubelios. He had been following Jellal for a while and was hiding behind a boulder.
"Hmm… I can't hear this guy's thoughts. That's annoying because if I could, I wouldn't have to follow him like this. Huh, he stopped?"
As Cobra's thoughts indicated, Jellal stopped in front of a blinding, bright indigo light. Looking at the surrounding area, there were a couple of chains that were stretching from a very thick tree which looked to be the source of the indigo light
"Where the hell is this?" Cobra asked only then noticing the area he was in. "There's a place like this in the Woodsea?" he continued to eye the ominous tree. "Could it be like Brain said? Could this be where Nirvana…" Jellal touched the tree with a palm and the tree responded by producing a bright light that engulfed Jellal.
Energy was expanding from the tree and Cobra had a sickening smile on his face. An explosive mushroom cloud was seen from the area as a dark indigo beam shot into the sky with a bright white trail following it.
After seeing this, Cobra was filled with jubilation. "Finally! This is it! Our future!"
----Wendy had finally finished healing Erza as the rest of the group surrounded her. "Finished. All the poison is gone from Erza's body." She tiredly said.
"And…?" Natsu, Aang, Happy, Lucy and Katara were worried that they were too late as Erza didn't move when Wendy announced the healing was done.
Erza's eyebrow moved for a moment and that was all the confirmation that the four needed. 
"IT WORKED!" They exclaimed.
"Aang hi-five!" Natsu said as they both clapped their palms against each other.
"Oh, thank goodness!" Lucy happily cried. She and Katara hugged each other.
Happy strolled over to Carla who wasn't part of the celebrations. 
"Carla!" Happy called out as he stretched out his paw.
The white cat's eyes were closed as she was still annoyed by Happy's antics. "Fine, just this once." She reluctantly lifted up her paw with no change to her annoyed expression as Happy hi-pawed her with an elated: "Aye!" leaving his mouth.
Zuko lets out a huge sigh of relief, though he sees Lucy standing by him. "What?" he asked.
Lucy held out her hand, telling Zuko exactly what she wanted from him. A wide smile plastered her face. "Come on Zuko, you too."
Zuko to her surprise, gave her a smile that showed his amusement. So he responded by giving Lucy her hi-five.
"Hey, Wendy…" Aang outstretched his hand and Wendy gave him a hi-five as well she was nervous but very happy at the same time. She needed to tell them that Erza wouldn't be up to her feet immediately which slightly increased her nerves, but she was happy too because she actually got acknowledged by the one and only Elemental Wizard, even though he looked as old as she was.
"Though, she might not wake up for a little while." She nervously said. "But she'll be back to normal."
"That's okay, the poison is gone and we know she's alive. That's all we could have asked for. You did great Wendy, I'm glad you were able to join us."
His kind words flustered the Sky Dragon Slayer and she slightly shuffled away from him because she felt embarrassed. "I-I…I-It was… wasn't really m-much..." she stuttered.
"Hey, why are you standing so far away?" Wendy shrieked as she noticed how far she had actually moved away from Aang. This only made her entire face turn red.
Hibiki took notice of Erza's increasing health. "Wow… her complexion is already getting better…. So this is Sky Magic?" Hikibi was less than an inch away from Erza face as he was gazing at her sleeping figure.
Katara was comically holding Zuko back as he was shaking his fist at him. "Hey, watch it, buddy!"
"If I may have a word." Carla was standing in front of Erza's sleeping body with her eyes closed and her paws folded underneath her sleeves. "Please refrain from using Wendy's Sky Magic anymore. As you can see, it uses up a lot of Wendy's magic power.
"Don't worry about me!" Wendy cried. "Besides… it's because of me that…"
Hibiki walked to her. "After Erza wakes up, we'll launch a counterattack."
Lucy for once got excited about a fight. 
"Yeah! We'll K.O. those Oracion Seis!" She said.
"Aye!" Happy exclaimed with a serious expression. "We ain't gonna let 'em have Nirvana!"
"Uh guys… what is that?" Katara though noticed a bright light that was quickly approaching them.
As the light from the tree was shooting into the air, dark wisps that acted like tendrils shot up into the air and they were swirling around the light pillar that was shooting into the sky.
"A pillar of dark light…?" Wendy muttered as the two cats stood behind her.
Carla had a suspicion of what that light could be. "Could that be…"
"What is that!?" Zuko exclaimed.
"That could be… Nirvana!" Hibiki said.
They watched as the pillar shot up into the air as the black whips were surrounding it. The Oracion Seis's weapon was finally activated, but what are the effects and what will happen as the weapon continued to spew energy all over the Woodsea?