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Dealana's heterochromatic eyes fluttered open to meet Wendy's concerned ones. For a moment, Dealana felt a lot better...before the motion sickness kicked in.

"I'm gonna puke," was all Dealana could say before groaning.

"You too?" Wendy asked and prepared to cast her Troia spell again before Dealana stopped her.

"No need to waste your magic, Wendy, just help me sit up a bit?" Complying, Wendy helped the Storm Dragon Slayer sit up. Dealana looked around, noticing they were now at the King's Summit. She was a little out of it still, unsure of what happened. She also took note of the nearby edge and a plan formed in her mind in case they told her she shouldn't use her magic just yet.

"Dealana, you feeling better?" Gray asked while Natsu ran around excitedly, no longer motion sick.

"Yeah, I feel fine other than motion sickness. What happened?" she asked.

"You were low on magic power," Wendy admitted causing confusion to spread across Dealana's face.

"But I barely used any after I regained most of it. The only spell I used was my clouds and those don't take much magical energy." She shook her head.

"Well," Lucy began, bringing Dealana's gaze over to the busty blonde. "When Happy fell off the cloud, he wasn't poisoned anymore. Wendy said your cloud must have had a healing effect to it and that was what sapped your magic energy."

"Weird...I feel fine now," Dealana shrugged.

"Yeah, but don't use any magic for a bit, okay?" Gray told her. Dealana nodded, knowing very well that she wouldn't listen. While the others went back trying to figure out a way to stop Nirvana, Dealana lay back down on the ground suffering from her lack of balance.

While everyone took their attention off of her, Dealana began to roll over to the very edge of the King's Summit before Gray finally looked over and saw her. "Dealana!" he called in alarm before Dealana smirked at him, rolling herself over the edge and summoning a cloud to land on.

She floated back up before they reached the edge and met Lucy, Gray and Wendy's freaked out expressions. Though, Gray's was mostly annoyed, not that she could blame him.

"It's better this way, I told you I feel fine and we don't need to waste any more of Wendy's sky magic."

"You still need to listen!" Gray shot back. When Dealana didn't let up he used the trump card. "When this is all over, Erza's gonna hear about that little stunt."

"Uh oh, Dealana's in trouble now!"

"You wouldn't," Dealana narrowed her eyes at the ice-mage.

"You think so?" Gray told her. Behind them, Lucy and Wendy were growing nervous until Dealana flopped back with another groan.

"I'm dead!" she exclaimed while Gray only sighed shaking his head at her stubborn nature.

"Just don't scare us like that, okay?"

"No promises..."

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"We've gotta figure out how to stop this thing. And obviously there isn't anything up here that'll help us do that." Gray said as the group was now focused on the task at hand. Dealana floated on her cloud next to a downcast Wendy.

"We'll find a way to save your guild, Wendy, I promise." She said softly. Wendy gave Dealana a brave smile, but they both knew the Sky Dragon Slayer had many doubts.

"I don't get it," Lucy wondered. "I thought this was where Hoteye, I-I mean Richard said Brain was controlling it. Was he lying?"

"No, I believe him to be a man of his word," Jura told her as Carla strode forward. The white cat looked like a pebble in comparison to the Wizard Saint, but nonetheless she spoke with equal confidence.

"There is a much more pertinent question at hand, or should I say a different way the question 'how to stop it?' should be phrased." She began. "There are no visible controls, the royal throne is empty, and the one piloting it has been defeated. So, perhaps instead we should ask why is it still functioning the same as it was before?"

"Do you think he put it on auto-pilot?" Gray asked with a worried expression. "If that's the case, this place could be programmed to fire too."

"Not helping, Gray," Dealana hissed at him trying to comfort a shaking Wendy. The blunette had tears in her eyes as she stifled her quiet sobs. "Our poor guild...is in trouble."

"Don't worry," Natsu told her. "We'll find a way to save them, we won't let this thing hurt your friends. I owe it to you. I'll stop it. I promise."

"We promise," Dealana corrected him with a determined smirk.

➵

The Allied Forces that remained on the King's Summit were facing quite a dilemma. Nirvana hadn't stopped even after Brain was defeated. The monstrous weaponized city was also heading straight for Cait Shelter, a fact that only brought a lot of anxiety and stress upon poor Wendy.

"So if their isn't a pilot seat or control panel where we can stop this thing, what are we going to do?" Happy questioned raising his paw.

"Destroy is of course," Natsu replied not missing a beat.

Lucy sweat-dropped, "Leave it to us to demolish a city, right?"

"Not to sound pessimistic, but that's a pretty tall order," Gray remarked.

"Not even Natsu and I could destroy Nirvana in time," Dealana shook her head, trying to think of other options while also doing her best to comfort Wendy.

"Before that," Jura spoke up, "We should see if Brain knows how to stop Nirvana."

"I doubt that brute would share such information with us," Carla told the Wizard Saint.

"If he won't tell us, maybe Jellal will know," Wendy mumbled to herself, though Dealana floating on a cloud next to her, caught it clearly. Thinking more, Wendy suddenly gasped, catching the attention of the others.

"Everything okay?" Lucy asked her while Gray inquired, "Think of something that could help?"

"Well, I'm not quite sure, but it might be the best option we have, so I'll do my best to find it," Wendy sheepishly explained before turning on her heel to run off in search of Jellal. Carla was quick to follow, calling after the Sky Dragon Slayer. Dealana sighed before looking to Gray and Lucy.

"I'll go after them," she decided. "There's still the possibility that Midnight could've won and is out and about." Before Gray could counter, Dealana floated after Wendy and Carla. Not too long after Dealana managed to catch up with them, a loud explosion came from near the throne. Dealana whirled around with a wide-eyed and worried expression, "Oh no!"

At this point, she could go back and make sure they were alright or she could continue with Wendy and Carla. In the end, Dealana put her faith in her friends. The Storm Dragon Slayer continued on in the second search for Jellal while silently praying her friends would be okay.

Unfortunately for Carla, she couldn't hold her Aera Magic for long after they began the search for Jellal. Dealana hovered on her cloud next to them as she and Wendy would be relying on their sense of smell in order to track him down. While Dealana could go ahead on her own to locate Jellal, she couldn't exactly leave Wendy behind. The need to keep her safe was just as strong as it had been before.

"Wendy, I have an idea that could make this go quicker," Dealana finally said after a few minutes. The girl knew that she wasn't at full magic power, but nonetheless extended her cloud to fit the two Cait Shelter delegates. "Hop on, you two."

"You really are as reckless as the others, wasting your magic energy," Carla chided.

Dealana merely gave her a look. "The way I see it, the thing wasting my magic energy is the two who are gonna let the space on my cloud go empty. Do you want to find Jellal and save your guild, or not?"

"Right!" Wendy nodded before hopping on the cloud. Carla, though not keen on Dealana's joined Wendy before they took off into the air for a better vantage point. They didn't realize that Nirvana was much closer to firing than they thought.

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"I smell strawberries," Dealana informed Wendy and Carla as they hovered through the streets. The trio turned a corner where the unmistakable redhair of Erza Scarlet shown brightly.

"Is that Erza?" Carla wondered.

"We found you!" Wendy exclaimed happily. Erza stood and looked at the two girls and cat. Dealana seemed a little worse for wear since she's last seen the Dragon Slayer, but a wave of relief washed over Erza, seeing the sky-blunette alright after they'd been separated.

"Look who's here, I was worried about you." Erza greeted the girls and Carla. "You all okay?"

"Erza!" Dealana grinned before she looked to Jellal, giving in with a sigh, "And I guess you too." Looking back to Erza, Dealana gave her a thumbs up. "We're all good aside from Nirvana nearly at Cait Shelter."

Meanwhile, Wendy had turned to Jellal with a small smile. "It's good to see you," Dealana cursed inwardly as she had forgotten to let Wendy know before hand about his memory loss.

"Do I know you?" Jellal genuinely wondered. At Wendy's saddened expression Dealana spoke up.

"Wendy, don't take it personally. I meant to tell you before, but Jellal...the ethernano wiped out his memory. I'm sorry for not letting you know sooner." Erza's eyes widened for a split second hearing a genuine apology leave Dealana's mouth but regained her composure. Dealana had come a long way without a lot of people realizing it, Erza was a little upset she had missed some of it.

"Your name is Wendy Marvell? I'm sorry but, I don't know you," Jellal told the girl sadly.

"You've lost your memory!?" Carla exclaimed. "If that's the case then you've forgotten how to stop Nirvana, haven't you?"

Jellal stiffened. "No! I tried!" he paused a for a moment before continuing, "I failed. My Self-Destruction Magic Circle didn't work. There's nothing more I can do now. I'm sorry."

"What'll we do?" Wendy asked softly.

"You can't give up that easily!" Carla shouted. "Our guild is in danger of being destroyed at any moment! Don't turn your back on our comrades, there must be something else we can do!" But at that moment, Nirvana shook with an ominous groan.

"What the hell?" Dealana questioned no one in particular before she caught sight of the distant swirling power. "No..." it was all too similar to that of the Jupiter Cannon, only much, much worse. The group consisting of Erza, Jellal, Dealana, Wendy and Carla rushed to a nearby edge only to see Cait Shelter in the distance. They were going to be too late.

"No, it can't be," Erza uttered in horror.

"That's Cait Shelter!" Wendy exclaimed.

"What's going on? So much light and magic power!" Erza remarked. "He's going to fire Nirvana!" she realized.

"No...the guild..." Carla whimpered as Wendy sniffled, tears pooling in her eyes.

"Please no!" Wendy screamed loudly, but Nirvana fired.

Just as the magic beam was to hit the Cait Shelter guild hall, a different blast of magic power came from the sky and knocked Nirvana off balance enough to save the Cait Shelter guild hall. Another rain of magic attacks came down upon different spots of the walking city causing more imbalance.

Wendy stumbled and nearly fell until Dealana grabbed hold of her wrist, Erza having grabbed Dealana's. "What happened?" Jellal asked what everyone wanted to know.

A shadow crossed overhead and everyone gazed upwards at a spirit-lifting sight. The Magic Bomber: Christina flew over head, a little banged up, but nevertheless a lifesaver.

"Aw, yeah! It's Christina!" Dealana exclaimed with an excited grin.

Jellal, unaware of anything regarding the floating ship spoke up. "Is it an ally?"

"Do you read me? Someone? Anyone, respond!" Dealana heard the familiar voice of Hibiki, only she scrunched her nose up hearing it inside her head. "Please let me know that you're okay."

"I know that voice," Erza realized. "It's Hibiki!"

"Erza, Wendy and Dealana," Hibiki greeted. "Good to know you're alive and well."

"I can't believe it. I never expected to see the Magic Bomber fly again." Erza smiled.

"Nor did I," Carla agreed. "Certainly not after we watched the Oración Seis shoot it down."

"How'd you get her flying again?" Wendy wondered.

"Hard work, and lots of it," Hibiki told them. "For a group of wizards who barely know each other, we're pretty good at working together to get the job done. Christina lost one of her wings when she was shot down, so Lyon's using his Ice-Make Magic to replace it."

Dealana looked up to notice that Christina's second wing was, in fact, made of a mint-colored ice.

"You'll see on the bow, Sherry's combining her Marionette Magic with Ren's Air Magic to keep the damaged hull in tact." Hibiki continued. "Our attack on Nirvana was thanks to Eve's Snow Magic."

"Thank you so much," Carla told them.

"I used it to..." Dealana could hear the exhaustion in Eve's voice as he spoke through Hibiki's link. "fuse a couple of Christina's...magic bombs together. When fired...they did very little damage to Nirvana...even though, they're so powerful... that took...the last of...my magic energy." He admitted weakly.

"We owe you one," Erza told them with a smile.

"Because of you," Wendy began. "my guild is safe. Thank you."

"I'm sure you can tell, that everyone here is running low on magic energy right now," Hibiki then started. "I'm afraid we can't attack from the ship anymore. Power's too low, just flying this far was hard enough. Don't worry, we're gonna be fine." he assured them. "Listen up, there's one last thing. A little bit of good news. I've finally found what I've been looking for in the Archive; I know how to stop Nirvana!" Hibiki revealed.

"Please tell us!" Erza told him.

"You know the six appendages we thought were legs? Well, they aren't, they're pipes." Hibiki explained. "Apparently, they suck magic energy out of the earth, which then is used to power Nirvana. At the base of each leg is a lacrima that controls the supply of magic energy. From what I understand, if all six lacrima are destroyed simultaneously, it'll wreak havoc on Nirvana's control system therefore forcing it to shut down.They must be destroyed at once, or the other five will simply repair the damaged one."

"Simultaneously destroy six lacrima?" Erza exclaimed. "How do we do that?"

"If I could, I'd maintain telepathy to time out the strike." Hibiki replied. "Try this. I'll give each of you guys a synced timer." Dealana perked up seeing loading bars appear above each of their heads. "I'm uploading it to you now, but listen guys, it has to be precise."

"When the magic completed loading, Dealana and Wendy both noted at the same time, "Twenty minutes?"

"That's when Nirvana will be fully charged and ready to fire again." Hibiki explained.

"We'll have to destroy all six," Erza remarked, while Jellal finished her statement by saying, "At once."

"Destroying a bunch of dangerous lacrima, huh? That sounds awfully familiar..." Dealana muttered to herself.

"If anyone can do it, it's you guys. I have faith in you."

A dark voice infiltrated their telepathy communication. Dealana's eyes widened hearing it and she felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.

"Who are you?" Erza demanded.

"Brain," Dealana snarled.

"How was he able to hijack my telepathy?" Hibiki questioned.

Zero introduced himself before continuing his monologue. He shouted. Zero laughed before saying,

"Natsu...Gray... Lucy... Happy..." Dealana realized as the sensation of tears forming barely registered in her.

"What'd they ever do to you?" Wendy questioned worriedly.

Zero asked.

Erza was shaking in anger as she caught her own fist. (A/N: I can never figure out how to describe when people do that. Send help please!) Dealana felt rather numb. Zero was the type of jerk to ensure his opponent's death, which meant Natsu and the others... Dealana couldn't think about it. She had already lost Lisanna, she didn't want to lose Gray, Natsu, Lucy and Happy too. If they were dead, Dealana was certain she would lose control.

"Though it seems impossible, we can destroy all six at once," Jellal told them, his amnesia allowing him to think rationally at a time like this. "We must split up and attack individually, and hope that we all strike at the same time." He turned to the others, Erza having calmed down quite a bit. "Each wizard has a one in six chance of running into Zero."

"Excuse me, I think you're forgetting something, like basic math!" Carla interjected immediately, waving her paws. "We don't have six wizards with enough magic power to go through with your plan!"

Wendy gasped in horror. "But that means...oh no! I can't fight," She turned to Jellal, Erza and Dealana, "I'm sorry! I can't help you!"

"We can't do it on our own," Erza looked to Jellal before asking Hibiki, "Is there anyone else strong enough to help us?"

"I'm right here!" Dealana pouted, waving her arms.

"Including Dealana that makes three," Hibiki informed them. "Who else? Oh, no, hey, I'm almost out of magic energy. We gotta hurry! You guys..."

"We need three more people, there's got to be someone else! Can anyone help?" Erza inquired. Up in the air, Christina began to descend faster than a normal landing should.

"What's happening?" Wendy asked concerned.

"Christina's losing altitude!" Carla realized. Dealana watched with wide eyes as Christina's ice wing shattered. Not long after, bits and pieces of the hull broke off and were now falling towards Nirvana.

"Gray...get up!" they heard Lyon say through the telepathy. "You must...think of Ur. Don't let her down. You must keep fighting. Don't let these guys get the best of you."