(Song: FT OP5 Egao No Mahou by Magic of Smiles)

Ai mo yume mo kimi to naraba

Majikaru ni kawaru

Saa egao no mahou wo kakeyou

Mondai darake no

Pawafuru na sekai ni

Chotto akogareteta

Tomatta jikan

Ugokihajimetanda

Kimi ni deatte kara

Doushite umarete ikiteru no ka?

Muzukashii kotae wa iranai yo

Waraou nakou sunao de ii

Shinpuru na kimochi

Ichiban daiji

Kanashii yoru ni nagasu namida

Tsuyosa ni kaeru

Aaa egao no mahou wo kakeru yo

Everyone was still staring in disbelief of the fact that Cait Shelter sent a mere child as a representative. What were they thinking? This was a serious mission to take down one of the most powerful Dark Guilds that's part of the Balam Alliance! And they sent...a child?!

Lucy meanwhile was just happy to see Wendy again as she was engaging with the little girl, happily talking to her. The two of them seem to be in their own little world as they talked, ignoring everyone else as they caught up with each other.

"She is not handsome." Ichiya commented from below Erza's foot.

"Nor is she a man, why should it matter?" Erza questioned.

"Wendy..." Ren stared at her.

"Marvell us." Eve said.

"Cute." Hibiki smiled.

Natsu was still staring at the little girl, wondering where in the world had he seen her from? It must be from somewhere, but where?

"I really am happy to see you again, Lucy-san." Wendy smiled.

"Me, too. How have you been since we last met?" Lucy asked.

"Really good!" Wendy beamed cutely.

Hearts surrounded Lucy as she couldn't hold back anymore and hugged the little girl rubbing against her cheek, "You are just so adorable~"

Wendy giggled, "Lucy-san, that tickles!"

Gray sweat-dropped, "What's going on over there?"

"Girls will always remain a mystery." Lyon simply said.

Jura stared at their interaction before dismissing it, "Since all guilds are present we can begin."

"He's not even fazed by this?!" Gray exclaimed.

"Obviously not." Lyon said dryly.

"What in the world is Cait Shelter thinking? Sending a little girl on this kind of mission? They must really be hurting for members if they sent her here on her own." Sherry said rudely.

"She isn't alone." a haughty female voice said, "You shouldn't jump to conclusions, you gaudy trollop."

Everyone stared at the new addition. It was a white female cat wearing what appeared to be a yellow rob, with a pink bow on her neck and tail. Lucy noticed she was the same as Happy.

"What is this?" Gray stared at the white cat.

"A cat?" Lyon questioned.

"Whoa, she's just like Happy." Natsu stated the obvious.

Sherry looked away, embarrassed, "What a stupid cat, I'm not gaudy." She mumbled.

"Then maybe you should think about your outfit choices." Lucy added sting to the already open wound.

"Ah!" Sherry said as she was in the corner with a dark cloud hovering above her head.

"She's quite brutal." Lyon observed.

"Yep." Gray had to agree with him on that one.

Wendy turned to the white cat, "Oh, Carla! You followed me here?"

"Of course I did, you are far too young to be traveling on your own without company, child." Carla stated as a simple fact.

Lucy smiled, "Looks like you have a very capable guardian, Wendy."

Carla huffed, "Indeed, I am."

"Pretty kitty." The Trimens said.

"You three will be breaking serious laws if you flirt with Carla." Lucy said to them.

Happy instantly fell in love once Carla's eyes landed on him, "Oh, wow!"

Not impressed at all, Carla turned her nose up at him, only succeeding in making him like her more. He then went over by Lucy and grabbed her boot.

"Lucy I'll give you my fish if you tell her I haven't been neutered yet." Happy desperately said to her.

Lucy wasn't sure how to respond to that, so she didn't say anything.

"Sorry, I'm probably not what you expected," Wendy said suddenly, "I know I'm much smaller and younger than most of you, and I may not be much of a fighter but I can use all kinds of support magic. So please..." she bowed her head, "Let me join the group I'd be so embarrassed if you sent me home!"

Everyone went silent as she made her declaration.

"You'll never gain their respect if you can't show confidence, child." Carla scolded.

"I'm sorry, Carla." Wendy apologized.

"I swear you'll drive me to catnip." Carla sighed.

"I can't help it!" Wendy flustered.

Lucy smiled at the girl, "Wendy we would never send a fellow mage home just because they're different from the rest of us. Your support magic will be very useful to us, so don't worry."

Wendy gave her a hopeful look, "Really?"

"Really, and besides having you here will be far better than a certain individual from Lamia Scale." Lucy said it with a smile, but her words were still sharp.

"That's a shot at me, isn't it?!" Sherry yelled from the back.

Lucy ignored her, "We would all love to have you here," she turned to the group with a sharp smile, "Wouldn't we?"

Gray and Natsu shivered, "We would!"

"See?" Lucy gave the girl a smile.

Wendy beamed right back, "Thank you, Lucy-san!" She hugged the blond, who was absolutely enjoying it and hugged her right back.

God this girl is adorable!

Erza stepped forward, "Lucy's right, we were simply caught off guard, rest assured no offense was meant. We would be glad to have you on board, Wendy."

Wendy looked over at Erza, "Oh, wow! You're Erza, right? I can't believe its really you!"

Carla eyed Erza, "You're not quite the monster I pictured."

Happy then intervened, "Surely you've heard of Happy the Catmander? Brace yourself cause he's right here."

Carla once again turned her nose up at him.

"She loves me! This must be destiny!" Happy swooned.

'You're wrong, Happy.' Lucy thought.

"That girl's gonna be gorgeous when she grows up." Ren commented.

"Doesn't look like Hibiki wants to wait." Eve said as Hibiki was already by Wendy.

"Will you please come with me, lovely lady?" Hibiki said with a flirtatious tone.

"Um..." Wendy said nervously.

Lucy grabbed Hibiki by the back of his head with a smile, "I do hope you're not trying to flirt with someone who is very clearly much younger than you, are you?"

Hibiki shivered in place as he moved away from Wendy, "Of course not! I would never!"

"See to you it that you don't." Lucy warned him as she moved Wendy close to her.

Carla sneered at him, "Utterly disgusting. Wendy, stay very close to me and Lucy, understand?"

"Yes." Wendy nodded.

Ichiya was eyeing the girl with interest, "You sensed to," he said this to Jura, "That girl's parfume is quite unique. She is no ordinary child."

Jura hummed in agreement, "I sensed that about her right away, the magic she possesses is somehow different from her own. It would seem Lady Erza and Lady Lucy have sensed it as well."

Ichiya looked over at the two females and Erza was indeed looking right at Wendy, while Lucy was keeping the girl close to her, but also sensed Wendy's magic.

"Impressive..." Ichiya said.

Natsu was still trying to figure out where in the world he'd heard the girl's name before, "Its so weird. I feel like I've heard that little girl's name before, but I don't know where."

"Yeah?" Gray said.

Natsu closed his eyes in deep thought with a grumble.

"Give it a rest, it hurts just watching you." Gray said.

"Hey, can you remember her for me?" Natsu stupidly asked.

"Say what?!" Gray exclaimed.

Natsu looked back over at Wendy who was still being held by Lucy. Wendy sensed a pair of eyes on her and saw it was Natsu, she gave him a smile in return.

The pink haired dragon slayer looked at Gray, "So, you got anything yet?"

Gray gave him an exasperated look, "Working on it."

"Its unladylike to smile at strange men, Wendy." Carla chided the girl.

Wendy blushed, "But, I was just being friendly!" She protested nervously.

"You don't have to worry about Natsu, Carla. He may have his moments, but he's a very good person." Lucy assured the white cat.

Carla looked like she didn't believe it but otherwise said nothing.

A light appeared below Ichiya as he did a pose, "Okay, now that all of the involved parties are present, I think its about time to get the mission briefing underway."

"You gonna brief us while dancing like that?" Gray said dryly.

Ichiya ignored the comment and continued, "Our first order of business is determining the location of the Oración Seis." Everyone was silent as they waited for him to continue, "Right after I make a letter of the alphabet." He said, scampering away.

Gray looked disgusted, "Great, if he's making a letter 'poop' I'm out of here."

Lucy had covered Wendy's ears when the man said that, "Saying that with a child present in the room, how inappropriate."

They waited for a few minutes before Ichiya came waltzing back in. Lucy blinked as she noticed something was slightly off about him after he came back from the bathroom. It almost felt familiar to her, too. Whatever this feeling was she thought it'd be best to watch observe him for a while.

"Much better, now please pay close attention." Ichiya started again, "To the north lies the Worth Woodsea, where the ancients once sealed a powerful force. A magic...called Nirvana!"

"Those poses are gettin' really old." Gray said.

"Nirvana..." Lucy said.

"Never heard of it before." Lyon said.

Sherry looked to Jura, "Do you know what it is?"

"No, I do not." Jura regretfully said.

Happy approached Carla with a fish in hand, "This conversations boring, huh? Wanna naw on my mackerel?"

Carla looked away with a scoff, "Heavens no."

"We don't know much about this magic other than its name." Ren chimed in, "And that it is destructive in nature."

"And that the Oración Seis wants it badly." Eve added.

"Destruction magic?" Natsu questioned.

"That's what its starting to sound like." Lucy didn't like this. It feels like there was something more to this mission than they first realized.

Wendy gulped.

"We assume that's why they traveled to the Worth Woodsea," Hibiki explained, "They're desperate to get their hands on such powerful magic."

Ichiya looked serious, "To prevent that from happening..."

"We must destroy the Oración Seis!" Ichiya, along with the Trimens declared as they posed.

Lucy was starting to get irritated, "That posing is really starting to irritate me."

"I think they're starting to grow on me." Gray said sarcastically.

Ren got back to being serious, "We may have the advantage in numbers, but remember—"

"We cannot underestimate them—" Eve warned.

"They're incredibly strong, we may well be in over our heads." With a snap of his fingers, a screen popped up next to Hibiki before he began typing.

Jura recognized the magic immediately, "That's Archive."

"Don't believe I've seen it in use before." Lyon observed with interest.

"And it does what exactly?" Sherry said, not sounding very impressed.

Three mini screens appeared before them. All three had pictures of three different people on them, "Storing information, such as these photographs of our enemy. Don't ask how we got 'em."

"First up is the snake wizard," Hibiki started off with the photo in the middle. The photo was of a slim man of average height with dark tan skin and spiky, upward-styled maroon hair; aside from a tuft covering his forehead and two bangs framing his face and purple slit-pupil eyes. He's noted to have snake-like features, with slanted eyes similar to Natsu's, a rather flat nose, and prominent canine teeth. He also sports a simple circular earring on his ears. His outfit consists of an elaborate whitish coat with purple inner lining and cuffs intricately decorated by silver-colored motifs, and many studs lined up the chest, the high collar and the sleeves, which have armbands seemingly made of metal around them above his elbows. Below it, he wears a dark shirt, and he also sports a pair of crimson leather pants held up by a studded belt, with more similar belts circling diagonally the upper parts of his legs, and simple brown shoes, "Cobra."

"Beady eyes, and a mischievous smirk. Looks like trouble to me." Natsu said, sounding hypocritical.

"Talk about the pot calling the kettle black." Gray and Lyon said in unison, the only thing the two of them can agree on.

Hibiki got to the other photo on the right. The person in the picture is a very tall, long-faced man with blond and black hair; the blonde, central part of his hair being styled in a long, spiky mohawk and the black portion being very close-shaven. He possesses similarly blond, extremely long eyebrows jutting outwards, a long, hooked and prominent nose, and a reduced Glasgow smile; he wears a rather large, reinforced chin guard which is covered in small, rectangular holes on the edges, that extend upwards to his green-tinted sunglasses. His outfit consists of a red and white racing suit. The jacket, which is predominantly red in color, with white parts on top of the shoulders and on the sleeves, is emblazoned with many writings and logos: in the center of its chest are the name and symbol of Sawyer's guild, with a small winged boot-like object reading "S1" drawn over it, on the left; below the "Oración Seis" writing, the left side of the jacket's abdomen is adorned by the writing "Balam Alliance", which has a square-shaped draw containing a hand performing a V sign below it; the right side sports the writing "Grimore Heart", and below it, an oval containing the writing "Tartaros" can be seen. The back of the jacket also bears the Oración Seis' name and symbol; such symbol is also emblazoned on the right part of the jacket's high collar, held closed by a large button, with "Oración Seis" written on the side. Each white sleeve bears a large red stripe going down from the jacket's shoulders; while the right one is blank, the left one bears the writing "Now loading" on it. The suit's pants are white in color and quite loose, held up by a belt circling Sawyer's waist, which in itself closed by a large button similar to the one on his jacket's collar, with red pockets below the waist and flat knee pads covering his knees and the subsequent area below. His outfit is completed by a pair of white gloves with red fingers, each bearing the Oración Seis' symbol in a square on the back of the hand, and by dark running shoes. Under his jacket, Sawyer wears a simple, light-colored A-shirt.

"Next is a wizard who, from judging from his name likely uses Speed Magic," Hibiki continued, "Meet Racer."

Gray frowned, "I don't know what it is, but I don't like the looks of this guy."

"I don't either." Lyon agreed.

Hibiki got to the next photo on the left. The tallest member of Oración Seis, he is a large and imposing man whose appearance is peculiar in the fact that he looks both quite feminine and, most curiously, has a body consisting of geometrical forms with sharp angles, not possessing rounded parts. He has long, wavy and flowing orange hair reaching down below his shoulders, bright blue eyes with long eyelashes, a prominent, flat nose and full, red feminine lips. His large forehead tops his eyes directly, due to the seeming lack of eyebrows. His massive torso and arms look even more massive if compared to his head, relatively small in comparison, and to his thin legs.

Richard's outfit consists of a loose black shirt, with light sleeves adorned by a series of dark merged rhombuses, a large, white collar closed on the front going down to cover his shoulders and a sash tied around his waist, visible under it, and simple light pants tucked inside light boots, with the parts circling his calves being reminiscent of leg warmers. Circling Richard's neck is a large necklace made of brown beads, which has a pendant hanging from it, this taking the shape of an eye flanked by two small, wing-like protrusions. Richard is almost always shown carrying around a book in his right hand, whose light cover bears, inside a rectangular part with angles curving inwards, a large, dark letter "J".

"Then there's a wizard who's willing to wipe out an entire military unit...if the price is right. Hoteye of the Heavenly Eyes." Hibiki said.

"The guy kills for money?" Sherry sounded appalled by the fact that someone would even do such a thing.

"Turns my stomach." Jura frowned.

Hibiki got to the next photo. It was of a young woman of relatively small stature with pale skin, brown eyes and short silvery hair, with bangs covering her forehead. Her attire is evocative of the conventional image of an angel: she wears a short dress made up of white feathers with two feathery wings that hang from her back. The dress splits just above her navel and reveals much of her cleavage, becoming more reminiscent of a vest. The deep, revealing v-cut is lined by a row of long feathers on either side, thus continuing up her torso and wrapping around her shoulders to form a sort of collar; two wing-like tattoos can be found on her collarbone and her skirt is also partially split down the middle. Sorano wears a dark-blue ribbon around her head with four bows hanging from it, two on each side, that cover her ears. Her hair is cut in a short bob, with two tresses reaching over her hair ribbon to frame her face; a piece of hair at the top curls into a halo that rises conspicuously from her head. Sorano also wears long, dark blue gloves that cover her arms passed her elbows and knee-length, dark blue stockings with light blue, feathered boots.

"She's gorgeous, but just as vicious. This is Angel." Hibiki introduced.

Lucy's eyes narrowed as she stared at the photo, "She's trouble."

Natsu and Gray shivered.

Hibiki then got to the next photo. It was of a very lean, slightly effeminate young man with short spiky black hair on the top, and longer, straight white hair on the bottom; he has long strands of white hair framing either side of his face, with the right strand, in particular, being adorned by five maroon beads. He wears a black leather vest with white fur trimming, a white armlet around his right bicep, and a black choker around his neck. He also wears a pair of yellow pants with black designs on them and burgundy boots; there are spiked bracelets on his wrists and skull earrings in his ears. Macbeth's lower eyelashes are very prominent, and he wears dark eyeliner and plum-colored lipstick.

"The next member is such a mystery, all we know is his name. Midnight."

Erza observed the photo, "That's an odd name, does it correlate to his power?"

Hibiki then got to the last photo. It showed a man with neat silver hair that reaches his shoulders, dark eyes and dark skin. He has unique markings on his face that take the shape of straight black lines, He is slightly taller and more muscular than most people. He was holding a skull staff with something in its mouth.

"Finally, the commander of Oración Seis. Brain," Hibiki looked at them all, "There you have it, alone they can wipe out entire guilds, together they're unstoppable." The images were gone as he continued to address them, "We have twelve to their six, but that's our only advantage."

"Only advantage is right, we know nothing about their abilities, which means while he may have strength in numbers they still have the advantage over us because we know nothing about what sort of magic they wield." In Lucy's mind, both sides have the advantage over the other, and in the end that advantage could go to either side.

Wendy was slightly shivering, "I'm starting to get scared..."

Lucy placed a hand on her head, "You'll be fine, don't worry we'll be here with you."

The little girl still looked a little terrified, but smiled back.

"Do not be frightened my friends," Ichiya said to them, "There is more to our operation than mortal combat. Perhaps we can find the enemy's stronghold?"

"Stronghold?" Natsu raised a brow at that.

"Yeah you heard the man. We've looked everywhere, but had no luck." Ren said.

"Here's the deal," Eve said as another screen appeared, "They've gotta have a temporary base in the Worth Woodsea."

"And once we've located it, out plan is to gather the Oración Seis inside." Ichiya said.

"How do we do that?" Gray questioned.

"We beat 'em up and drag their butts there!" Natsu declared like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Its not as simple as you make it sound, Natsu." Lucy said.

Erza placed a finger to her chin in thought, "What's the next part of the plan?"

Ichiya lifted up his finger, gesturing for them to look up, as they did they saw what looked to be a ship in the sky, flying above their heads.

"We'll give them a one way ticket to oblivion!" Ichiya declared, "Courtesy of Christina, the majestic pride of the Blue Pegasus Guild."

Lyon and Sherry couldn't believe their eyes when they saw it.

"I've heard about the magic bomber, but I thought it was just a myth." Sherry said.

"The fact that it would even be needed at all proves just how dangerous these guys from Oración Seis really are." Lucy commented.

"That's exactly the type of enemy we face," Jura said in agreement, "Remember, under no circumstance should you even engage the enemy in solo combat. Our best bet is to separate them, then devote two wizards to each fight."

Everyone nodded. The old divide and concur strategy.

Wendy stayed near Lucy as everyone got ready.

Natsu's fist caught on fire as he punched it into his palm with a grin, "Let's go, I'm all fired up!"

"Huh, wait, Natsu—" Lucy's call was too late as Natsu destroyed the door and began running outside, not even knowing where Oración Seis is.

"Time to hunt some demons! Ready or not, here I come!" Natsu said with a grin as he ran at full speed to who knows where.

"Natsu, wait!" Lucy tried calling him back, but he was already gone, "There he goes..."

"Always acting without a thought in his head." Erza sighed.

"I wish he wouldn't do this so often." Lucy sounded tired as she said this.

"What do you guys wanna bet he didn't even hear the plan." Gray betted on him not hearing it.

"I'll bet five fish he didn't." Happy added his bet.

Ren rubbed his head as he looked on the distance where Natsu ran off to, "Overkill much?"

"Yeah, no kidding." Eve agreed.

Hibiki's shoulder's slumped, "Just great, and we're gonna have to fix it."

"Enough gawking," Erza said to them, "Move."

"Guess we're playing catch up with that dork." Gray sounded irritated with the fact that they now had to go after Natsu.

Lyon smiled, "Their energy is as infectious as I remember. Ready, Sherry?" He asked as he ran after them.

"Yeah!" Sherry enthusiastically said as she was right behind him.

"Wait, stay together!" Jura said to them.

The Trimens were already running after the others, "So we're hunting demons." Ren said.

"Mm-hm." Eve said.

"And an Angel, too." Hibiki smiled.

Wendy stood still as a statue, shaking in place, "Um..."

"Pull yourself together, child." Carla said to her as she pulled Wendy forward and started running on her own stubby legs, "You'll be the death of me."

"I'm sorry, Carla!" Wendy apologized.

Jura walked outside and watched everyone leave, "I'm too old for this." He said with a sigh.

"Men." Ichiya appeared behind the tall man.

Jura turned to him, "In any case the operation is now underway, we should join the others quickly."

Ichiya did a pose, "Slow your role, shiny dome. I've heard that you're one of the Ten Wizard Saints, won't this statement be true?"

"Indeed I am." Jura politely confirmed.

"Its quite a privilege to fight along side someone as skilled as Master Makarov." Ichiya complimented.

Jura held up his hand in protest, "I wouldn't go that far. Though I am honored to bare the title, it is given to whomever the Council deems worthy. Equaling myself with Makarov is the same as amounting myself to the heavens to the earth. I'm sure you can guess which applies to me."

"I see..." Ichiya had a bottle in his hand, "That might be the best news I've heard all day." Uncorking the bottle, "If you were as powerful as that it would make my job far more difficult."

Jura felt strange all of a sudden, then pain, "What is that smell?!" He covered his nose to try and lessen the pain, but it didn't seem to work.

"This particular parfume causes an opponent to lose their will to fight." Ichiya explained as his back was facing Jura, who was down on his knees.

Jura coughed as he tried to catch is breath, "Ichiya...what have you done...?"

Just as Ichiya was about to open another bottle of perfume he was suddenly sent flying away from Jura and crashed into a tree. The perfume lost is effect, but Jura couldn't stand up just yet, as he looked up he saw his savior was Lucy.

"Lady Lucy..."

Lucy kept her eyes forward on the fake Ichiya, "I knew there was something wrong with Ichiya when he came back from his trip to the bathroom. I sensed something was different about him, his mannerisms might have been on point, but you can't change someone's magic signature."

Jura listened as she began to explain why she sensed something was off about Ichiya when no one else noticed.

"His change in magic signature was the first sign, but when I didn't smell any perfume on him that was another sign that this person wasn't the real Ichiya." Lucy explained.

Jura's eyes widened in realization. That's right! How could he be such a fool and not notice? He also smelled perfume on Ichiya when the man went near him to discuss about that girl Wendy's magic power. Such a small detail that went unnoticed by him and everyone, yet Lucy paid very close attention to.

"Another thing," Lucy kept going as the fake Ichiya stood up and looked at her, "Your magic felt very familiar to me. I didn't understand why at first, but after a while it started coming to me," her eyes narrowed at the fake Ichiya, "It feels the same as a Celestial Spirit."

Jura's eyes widened, as did the fake Ichiya's, "You're a Celestial Wizard?!"

"I am, so who are you?" Lucy asked.

Instead of answering the fake Ichiya glowed bright as two little blue aliens appeared before heading off somewhere. Probably to warn their master that they've been found out.

Lucy watched them leave for a little while before finally turning to Jura, "Are you okay?"

"Not entirely, but I'm glad for your timely intervention. You have my thanks Lady Lucy." Jura sincerely said to her.

Lucy waved off his praise, "There's no need. Right now though we should go after the others. I get the feeling that they're about to run into a trap set up by Oración Seis."

"I agree, but first we must find out what happened to Ichiya." Jura grunted as he was finally able to stand.

Lucy looked inside the building, "He said he was going to the bathroom before the fake came took his place..." not wasting any time, she ran inside the building, followed by Jura who walked instead of ran. There tied up and gagged was the real Ichiya. Lucy unwrapped his mouth first before getting to his ropes.

"Men, you have my thanks Miss Lucy~" Ichiya thanked.

"No time for thanks, we need to get to the others. There's a chance they might be running into an ambush." Lucy said.

"She's right, we must get to them quickly." Jura insisted.

"But at our speed we won't be able to catch up to them quick enough." Ichiya said regrettably.

Lucy had a thought then smiled, "We just might."

Jura raised a brow at her, "Do you have something in mind?"

"Yep." Lucy went back outside, followed by two confused males, "Wakusei Mahō: Chikyū Fōmu (Planetary Magic: Earth Form)!" Changing into her Earth Form she sat down on the ground lotus style and started chanting:

"Come forth and walk the Earth,

Side by side,

Man and Creation,

Chikyū Ningyō (Earth Doll)!"

A green magic circle appears below the three. Beginning to form was a giant doll made of the Earth that looked exactly like Lucy, surrounded by vines and stood tall. Opening its chest, it brought the three of them inside, with Lucy sitting down in the middle, while the other two were standing on either side of her in complete awe.

"This is...simply breathtaking..." Ichiya couldn't help but say.

"Indeed," Jura agreed with him, "Such an amazing use of Earth Magic, very impressive."

Lucy sighed as she brought her palms together as well as her fingers, "I really need to concentrate for this part. I'm going to move it to where the others are." The two men felt the doll rumble as they felt it move like a normal human being.

"At the rate we're going we should be able to make it to the others." Ichiya said.

"That's good, let's hope we're not too late." Jura hoped.

~FAIRYTAIL~

Unfortunately the Allied Forces did run into the members of Oración Seis, and proceeded to get the literal crap beaten out of them. They were still holding on though, even though the pain they were feeling was starting to get to them a little. Erza was in one of her many armors, which she dubbed: Hishō no Yoroi (Flight Armor). Featuring very few armored parts, this armor is more like a fancy attire bearing reminiscence to a cheetah. Its breastplate takes the form of a very revealing, armored cheetah-patterned top, with some bare armor protruding from the upper part of it, in correspondence to Erza's breasts, and some fur lining the lower edges, exposing her stomach and some cleavage. There's no waistguard, with the armor instead sporting a pair of revealing black shorts, with a belt holding a cloth hanging over Erza's left leg attached to them; the arms are covered by dark armbands reaching up just below Erza's shoulders, with Erza's left arm being protected by cheetah-patterned armor, consisting of a single pauldron and a wide arm guard. Her legs are covered in similar stockings reaching up to her thighs, with armored, asymmetric high-heeled boots over them: yet again, the left leg is the more armored one, with the boot reaching up to the knee, which is protected by a cheetah-patterned knee guard; the right leg, on the other hand, is covered by a boot only reaching up to part of Erza's calf. The outfit is completed by a large collar around Erza's neck and by a tail hanging from the back of her shorts, both made of bushy fur, plus a pair of large cheetah's ears adorning both sides of Erza's head.

She was able to keep up with Racer, much to his surprise but it didn't last long. Eventually she was bitten on the arm and the poison was showing its effects, but she still remained standing, as did some of the others. Wendy was hiding behind some rocks in fear.

"Damn...they got the drop on us first." Gray cursed.

"Yeah, and we're down three members." Lyon had noticed Lucy, Jura, and Ichiya weren't here.

"Where the hell are they?" Gray wondered.

Brain was staring at them, "Impressive to still be standing for as long as you have...however." He stopped as his eyes landed on Wendy who was still hiding, "The Sky Sorceress..."

Wendy flinched as his eyes landed on her.

Brain uses his magic on Wendy, capturing her, along with Happy who was trying to save her.

"Wendy!" Carla cried out in horror.

Natsu glared at the man, "You..."

Without saying a word Brain used his magic to finish them off, only for his attack to be blocked by a giant hand. Everyone looked up and saw it was a giant humanoid earth doll that looked like a certain someone they all know very well.

Erza stared up at the giant earth figure, "Is that..."

"It looks like Lucy!" Natsu exclaimed.

Sherry immediately freaked out and started praying, "I pray to whatever deity is out there that this giant monster doesn't bury me deep within the earth!"

Lyon sweat-dropped, "What in the world did Lucy do to her?"

"I have no idea, and I don't wanna know." Gray shuddered a little.

The green vines on the earth doll started moving before wrapping around the Allied Forces and dragging them inside the the doll through the chest. After that was done, it began to attack the members of Oración Seis. Slamming its giant fist down on all of them without hesitation. Meanwhile inside the earth doll the Allied Forces saw that both Jura and Ichiya were safe.

"Boss!" The Trimens all cried out in relief.

"At ease boys, for I am safe thanks to Miss Lucy." Ichiya said as he did a pose.

"Are you alright, Jura?" Lyon asked the man, clearly worried about him.

"I am doing fine as well," Jura smiled at Lyon and Sherry, "Lady Lucy saved me just in time."

Hibiki looked at the girl in question, "Speaking of which, I've never seen Earth Magic be used like this."

"That's because Lucy uses Planetary Magic," Erza informed him, still in pain from the poison, "It allows her to use the power of different planets, Mars, Venus, Earth, you name it. Each planet has their own element, for example take her Earth Form that uses Earth Magic."

Hibiki brought up his Archive, "Its not in the database, meaning it must be Lost or Ancient Magic."

"Talk about impressive." Ren complimented.

"I'll say." Eve agreed.

Lucy was looking through the eyes of the doll and saw the members of Oración Seis were gone.

"They got away..." Lucy struggled to say as she was trying to keep this doll maintained.

"Damn." Gray cursed again.

"No choice then, we're gonna have to regroup and heal ourselves. Miss Lucy, can you take us some place where we can recover for a while?" Hibiki asked.

Lucy took a deep breath, "I can..." concentrating once more to move the giant doll, it walked away into the forest.

They group will heal themselves up first before thinking of another strategy, and going to save Wendy as well as Happy. While they were taken off guard, that doesn't mean they've lost the fight just yet. The next time those guys come after them they'll be ready.

Next Time: Allied Forces vs. Oración Seis!