Bab 52: Regroup
"Titania was it?" Brain said as he raised his arm up in the air while holding his staff. Erza stood up by herself facing the other four members of the Oracion Seis as one of them was fast asleep on a floating carpet. Around her, Natsu, Lyon, Sherry, Hibiki, Ren, and Eve were on the ground and unable to get up.
"You've exceeded my expectations-" Brain stopped talking as he felt one of the tattoos on his face vanish. With his other hand, he grasped his face in disbelief. The other members of the Oracion Seis looked at him in surprise. Erza stared at Brain with a puzzled expression.
'One of the markings on his face disappeared…' Erza thought to herself.
"Cobra lost?!" Racer shouted in disbelief.
'So it was that kid…' Angel thought. She remembered that Gemini was shaken up by transforming into him and couldn't even hold a complete transformation.
"It appears so. But that does not matter. After we wipe out this trash, I will personally deal with the one who defeated Cobra." Brain said. He regained his composure and removed his hand from his face as he began gathering a sinister energy from around him into his staff.
However, before he cast his spell, he noticed a young blue haired girl, peeking out from behind a rock. He instantly cancelled his spell, as he stared at her in surprise.
"Wendy! The Sky Sorceress. To think I would actually find her here. If we have her then we can revive him! Racer! Angel! Hoteye! Step back!' Brain ordered the three.
The three were surprised at Brain's sudden outburst but heeded his orders and retreated back behind him. Brain began releasing his magic, preparing to cast a strong spell as he channeled it through his staff.
Erza noticed that Brain's magic was increasing and looked back towards the other members who were on the ground.
"Get ready! He's preparing something!" Erza warned.
"Dark Gravity!"
The group felt an enormous weight on their backs as they sunk to the ground. Pain encompassed their bodies as they felt themselves being crushed, with the ground around them also sinking down as it was compressed by the massive gravity increase. Erza grit her teeth as she tried to stay standing on shaky legs.
"This...This is Gravity Magic! It's so powerful!" Ren grunted as he struggled to get up. Eve and Hibiki were also planted into the ground, unable to get up.
"AGGHHH!!" Natsu yelled as he shakily tried to push himself up from the ground. He managed to push himself up only for his arms to give way as the intensity of the gravity grew.
Brain looked over the group and saw that Erza was the only one able to keep herself from falling. However, she was unable to move forward from her spot.
"Racer, Grab the blue haired girl behind that rock. NOW!!" Brain shouted as he began casting another spell.
Erza was surprised at Brain's comment but quickly turned her head, noticing Wendy spectating them. 'So that's why they backed off.' Erza tried moving towards Wendy, however the gravity kept pushing her down as she attempted to move towards Wendy.
"WENDY RUN!" Erza shouted at Wendy.
"Eh?" Wendy questioned, unable to move as she was stricken with fear. She felt something tugging at her dress. A white cat, with feminine eyes and a stature similar to Happy was tugging at her to get her to move.
"Carla…" Wendy murmured.
"Wendy we have to go now!" Carla shouted.
Suddenly, Racer appeared behind Wendy. He delivered a swift chop to the back of her neck, knocking her out as he caught her and dashed back towards Brain before anyone else could react. Brain smirked as Racer returned to his side, holding an unconscious Wendy. He pointed his staff at Wendy, causing her to glow as she seemingly was sucked into another space.
"Now, all of you...Begone! Dark Rondo!" Brain yelled. The gravity that was keeping them from moving stopped as multiple dark beams of magic were emitted from Brain's staff and launched towards the group of mages who were still unable to move.
"Iron Rock Wall!"
Before the beams were able to hit, large formations of Earth jutted out from the ground around them. The group found themselves covered by a large earth formation over their heads. The beams hit the formation, causing the formation to shake as smaller bits of rocks fell from the formation.
"Jura!" Sherry exclaimed with a smile of relief on her face.
"Thank you for saving us." Hibiki said as he slowly struggled to stand back up.
"Glad you're here, Mister Jura." Lyon commented as he walked towards him. Upon getting closer, he noticed a bandage wrapped around his torso with traces of blood. "What happened?"
"That Angel woman got the better of me. But thanks to Ichiya's Pain Relieving Parfum, I am able to stand up now." Jura said, pointing towards Ichiya who had arrived with him and was standing behind him.
"Speaking of Angel, Meliodas showed up and chased her away. However, it appears he is not here with you all."
"I haven't seen him since we first arrived at the meeting hall." Erza said as she approached them. "But I remember Brain mentioning one of their members was missing due to dealing with someone else."
"Well well well. Looks like I'm a bit late aren't I." A voice said from behind them.
Everyone in the group immediately turned around and saw a young blond boy standing there grinning at them. Mounted over his shoulders was the body of Cobra and in his other hand dragging behind him, was a large purple snake that he held by the tail.
"That's...Cobra?!" Jura said, surprised.
"What is that massive snake?!" Happy exclaimed.
"Yeah, I ran into him on the ship." Meliodas replied. He explained how he followed Angel on to Christina and he ran into Cobra, after which the ship had blown up. The Fairy Tail members weren't surprised that Meliodas handled the situation, as well as Lyon and Sherria who had also witnessed Meliodas's strength previously. However, the Blue Pegasus members were in awe. Even with a numerical advantage they still struggled against just three of the Oracion Seis members while Meliodas had defeated one of them by himself. And based on his appearance, it didn't look like he took any damage.
Ichiya took a sniff at Meliodas before thinking to himself. 'That unique parfum again…'
Meliodas placed Cobra on the ground, and using his requip, summoned rope to tie him up. Meliodas began carrying rope ever since the Schneider incident. Meliodas took out a second rope which he used to tie a large purple snake to a tree. As Meliodas finished tying them up, he noticed Natsu angrily approaching Cobra.
"Okay you Oracion Seis jackass tell me where Wendy is!" Natsu yelled. He grabbed Cobra by the collar and began shaking him vigorously. A pool of blood began forming under Cobra, prompting Natsu to stop.
"Natsu, calm down." Erza said. "If we can wake him up, we can interrogate him and figure out what the Oracion Seis are up to."
The others nodded in agreement and reluctantly backed away from Cobra.
"Allow me, my honey." Ichiya whispered into Erza's ear, to her disgust. Ichiya approached Cobra and reached into his suit pocket, pulling out a perfume bottle. He popped open the bottle and held it up to Cobra's nose.
The aroma slowly wafted over Cobra as his body jolted. His eyes immediately opened wide as he tried to jump up, only to be stopped by his restraints as he fell to the ground in pain, as his wound that was inflicted by Meliodas earlier had opened back up.
Cobra looked back up and around him at all of the people who were staring at him. He remembered that he fell unconscious from blood loss. He looked at Meliodas with some apprehension in his eyes. He was still reeling over Meliodas' attack.
"Cobra was it?" Jura said interrupting Cobra's thoughts as he bent down to look him in the eyes. "What is the Oracion Seis planning?"
"Where the hell is Wendy!" Natsu added in angrily. The group surrounded Cobra, preparing to interrogate him.
"Hmph. I have no reason to tell you. Torture me all you like, you won't get anything out of me." Cobra responded.
"We'll see about that." Erza said coldly as her body began to glow, requipping her Heaven's Wheel Armor. She glared at Cobra and began to summon dozens of swords behind her, floating in the air around them and pointing towards Cobra.
"This is your last chance."
Cobra remained silent as he looked back at Erza. A small smile formed on his face.
"I can hear it. Do it. Kill me. You won't." Cobra sneered. Erza clenched her fists and raised her arm up.
"Wait." Meliodas interjected. Erza looked back at Meliodas and saw him walking towards the large purple snake.
"You said this snake's name was Cubellios right?" Meliodas asked, patting Cubelios on the head. It was still unconscious. Cobra remained silent but the smirk on his face vanished and he became serious.
"You know, after all this fighting. I think we just need a good meal before we go after the Oracion Seis." Meliodas commented as he ran his hand down the scales from Cubelios's head.
"Meliodas this isn't the time for-" Erza stopped talking as she realized what Meliodas was doing while the other members remained silent as they spectated.
"It's been a while since I've made "snake simmered in ale." Hmm...Hmm...But what ale should I use." Meliodas said. Cobra grit his teeth and a bead of sweat began to run down his face. Meliodas slowly pulled out his sword and raised it out in front of him.
'This bastard...I can hear it... He's serious about eating Cubellios.' Cobra glared at Meliodas as Meliodas put Mel Force up to Cubellios.
"That's enough!" Cobra shouted. "I'll tell you what I know. Just let Cubelios go."
Meliodas turned around and smiled at Cobra. He cut Cubelios free of her restraints. Cubelios dropped to the ground and immediately woke up. Cubellios glanced at Cobra briefly before slithering away.
"So that's Meliodas... I must add this to my archive." Hibiki commented.
"Well done Meliodas." Erza complimented. Her Heaven's Wheel armor began to glow as she changed back into her default Heart Kreuz armor.
"Darn. I was looking forward to some snake simmered in ale..." Meliodas mused.
"Cobra. What is the Oracion Seis planning." Jura asked as he approached Cobra. Cobra remained silent for several moments before finally answering.
"We are going to find Nirvana." Cobra replied.
"Nirvana?!" Jura's eyes widened.
"What's Nirvana?" Natsu asked.
"Allow me to explain it." Hibiki said. "Nirvana is a legendary magical item that can turn light into darkness and darkness into light. In doing so, it changes the alignments of those it affects."
"You plan on throwing everything into chaos?!" Erza exclaimed. Cobra smiled but immediately fell to his side as he closed his eyes as a pool of blood began to form underneath him.
"Damn...he's unconscious." Lyon commented. "You must have really done him in Meliodas."
"Mennn...He sustained heavy damage. I won't be able to awaken him without aggravating his injuries further." Ichiya replied.
"And we still don't know where Wendy is!" Natsu exclaimed.
"This is bad. If Brain took Wendy, then he must need her for something to do with Nirvana...but what?" Carla questioned.
"Wendy?" Meliodas asked.
"You weren't there, but she's the delegate from Cait Shelter." Erza answered. "She came here with Carla." Erza pointed towards the white cat who was talking earlier.
"I have just the plan for this." Hibiki said as everyone looked at him. A large interface with multiple screens appeared in the air in front of him.
"We will split up into several groups. One group will be tasked with finding Wendy. The others will be searching for Nirvana and securing it before the Oracion Seis get to it. I will transfer this information into your heads now."
"Transfer information?" Meliodas asked. 'How does he transfer information?'
Hibiki smiled as he replied.
"It's thanks to my magic, Archive. It allows me to convert information into magical data and store it for access later. I am also able to transfer this information directly to others."
Meliodas felt a sudden jolt of information enter his head. Just like that, he knew that he was assigned to find Wendy along with Erza, Natsu, Happy, and Carla. Meliodas looked curiously at Hibiki and his magic. 'I wonder if he stores anything about spatial magic in there…'
The mages looked at each other and nodded, all in agreement with the terms of their mission. They gathered together in a circle, putting their right hands out.
"LET'S GO!"
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