Oración Seis arc

The Oración Seis Arc is the ninth story arc of the Fairy Tail series.

The Strongest Guilds Assemble
After helping Lucy get her rent working as waiters for 8-Island, Team Natsu meets up with the Magic Council's former 6th seat Shitou Yajima, the owner of the restaurant. They learn of the dissolution of the old Council. and that new dangers are to come.

Meanwhile, former Council member Ultear Milkovich, revealed to be a member of the Dark Guild Grimoire Heart, informs her master Hades of the Oración Seis and their movements, with Hades resolving to let them do for know. The Fairy Tail members learn of the powerful association of Dark Guilds Balam Alliance and their plans of destroying a major portion of it, the one under the Oración Seis' control, through an alliance with other legal Guilds. Elsewhere, the six members of the Dark Guild are shown watching the effects of something they refer to as "Nirvana" on the land itself.

Team Natsu heads out to meet fellow Mages from the Guilds Blue Pegasus, Lamina Scale, and Cait Shelter, in order to create e team to stop Oración Seis in their tracks. Upon arrival at the meeting place The Trimens of Blue Pegasus, Hibiki Laytis, Eve Thylm and Ren Akatsuki, quickly show off their so called "handsomeness" and treat Erza and Lucy like hosts. When their leader Ichiya Wanderlei Kotobuki, an old acquaintance of Erza, tries to get close to her, she kicks him away, and he subsequently gets his head frozen in ice by the arrival of Lyon Bastia. Lucy meets Sherry Blendi again and the two seem to continue their rivalry, along with Gray and Lyon, with all of them being soon stopped by Lamina Scale's ace and top member, as well as one of the Ten Wizard Saints, Jura Nekis. The peculiar group wait for the final member, the one from Cait Shelter, to show up, and is surprised to receive a little girl named Wendy Marvell and her cat companion Charle. Happy develops a crush on Charle, and Natsu tries to remember where he heard the name Wendy.

With all the Guild members assembled, they learn of the Oración Seis searching for a powerful Magic called Nirvana, and a little about each of its six members. Before a true plan can be set up, and with the only known thing being that Blue Pegasus' airship Christina will grant them support, most of the alliance runs out, searching for their enemy. With only Ichiya and Jura left behind, Jura gets stabbed with a knife by Ichiya, who is actually revealed to be Gemini, one of Oración Seis' Angel's Celestial Spirits, with the real Ichiya having been beaten up badly. Angel had infiltrated their meeting, and as a result, now knows about their planned ambush.

The Good and the Bad: Light Team vs. Oración Seis
With ten of the twelve members of Light Team still searching for the Oración Seis, the airship Christina which they were planning to use in their battle arrives overhead but is suddenly blown up. The surprised Light Team is then greeted by the Oración Seis themselves, who made the first move. Happy, Wendy and Charle hide, while everyone else tries to fight back. However, they are rapidly and effortlessly defeated by the six Mages from the Dark Guild, with everyone lying on the ground, and Erza having been poisoned during his brief scuffle with Cobra. Oración Seis's leader Brain then readies to finish the defeated opponents off with his Dark Rondo, but is overly surprised in noticing a hiding Wendy.

Brain proceeds to kidnap Wendy with his Darkness Magic, recognizing her as the "Sky Sorcerer". Happy mistakenly gets carried away with her, while Brain, leaving with his Guild, readies to finish off the downed Team Light. However, they are saved by Jura's sudden appearance, with the Wizard Saint having arrived with Ichiya.

Icihiya proceeds to use his Healing Perfume to heal everyone's injuries, but is surprised to learn that his Magic can't stop the poison that Erza is infected with. Erza then asks someone to chop off her poisoned arm, which Lyon tries to do and almost did, but Gray stopped him. In the midst of the argument Charle calms everyone down by saying Wendy can save her without the need for unnecessary sacrifices, since she is the Dragon Slayer employing healing magic, Sky Dragon Slayer Magic, much to everyone's dismay. Realizing that they need Wendy's help, everyone agrees that their new mission is to find and rescue Wendy and Happy from the Oración Seis.

The Enemy of My Enemy
At an abandoned city which acts as Oración Seis' base, Brain tells everyone that Wendy possesses healing Magic and that they can use her abilities to heal him, much to their dismay, and with Cobra commenting that with him they'd rapidly find Nirvana. Brain tells Racer to go fetch him, and for Cobra, Angel, and Hoteye to search for Nirvana. He also says that even if Wendy doesn't want to help them, she will when she finds out who she is healing, and that Nirvana is a Magic which make light and darkness switch places.

Meanwhile, everyone splits up to try and find Wendy and Happy. Lucy remains with the downed Erza and Hibiki. Natsu, Gray and Charle are searching for their friends, Natsu asks about Wendy's Dragon Slayer powers, and learns that Wendy volunteered for the mission just to meet him, and that the dragon Grandeeney, who taught and raised Wendy, disappeared about 7 years ago, just like Natsu's Igneel and Gajeel's Metalicana. They are subsequently attacked by the Dark Guild Naked Mummy, which they ready to fight. Elsewhere, the other groups of Light Team run across other Dark Guilds subject to Oración Seis.

Meanwhile, Racer returns to the headquarters carrying a large, cross-shaped coffin, and the person in it is revealed to be a Jellal Fernandes, seemingly in a comatose state due to Etherion's effect, and whom is said by Brain to know the location of Nirvana. Happy and Wendy are both surprised to see him still alive. Outside, Natsu and Gray are briefly shown fighting Naked Mummy. Back inside, Happy tries to convince Wendy not to save him due to what he did to Erza, but Wendy, further terrified by Brain hitting Jellal with a dagger, says that she loved him and owes him a great debt, she is then given 5 minutes by Brain to make up her mind. Meanwhile, Natsu and Gray are shown having defeated Naked Mummy, and trying to extort its top members the location of Oración Seis' base. The other members of Light Team obtained victory as well, with the exception of Ichiya, who was captured. Natsu, Gray and Charle have reached Oración Seis' base, and the former's screams prompts Racer, on Brain's order, to go outside and assault them. Gray engages him in combat while Natsu and Charle reach the cave their friends are in... Just to see Jellal well and alive, a crying Wendy having healed him. Natsu rushes against him, but Jellal rapidly takes him out with a spell, unexpectedly doing the same with Brain, and then leaving. The group leaves the place to go and heal Erza, with Charle carrying an unconscious Wendy, and Brain, thinking that Jellal wants to keep Nirvana all for himself, orders Cobra, from a far place, to follow him.

The confrontation between Gray and Racer continues, and, as Charle and Happy carry Natsu and Wendy away, they are spotted by Racer, who rushes towards them and knocks them out the air. Natsu catches all of his unconscious friends and runs. Just as Racer is about to catch up to them, Gray prevents him from cotinuing the chase with Ice-Make: Rampart. Natsu makes a run for it, and Gray continues his battle. Elsewhere, Jellal is shown having knocked unconscious and robbed of his clothes a Naked Mummy member, and, as he leaves wearing his clothes, he whispers Erza's name to himself.

Unbelievable Speed? Gray and Lyon vs. Racer
As Natsu runs away carrying his unconscious friends, he's contacted by Hibiki through the use of his Archive Magic, with which he sends Natsu a map to find them. He then explains the mechanics of his Magic to Lucy, who, glad to know Wendy's safe, swears she'll protect Erza until the little healer arrives. Meanwhile, Racer renounces to chase after Natsu, stating that he wants to kill Gray, who stopped him in his tracks twice. After displaying his astonishing speed, he uses Dead Grand Prix to summon forth many armed motorbikes, on which he and Gray start a chase, exchanging blows. The two run across Lyon and Sherry, and the former joins the fight on Gray's motorbike, destroying Racer's with Ice-Make: Eagle. Racer responds by destroying their motorbike and, then start dodging all of their Ice-Make spells, expressing surprise when the two remove their shirts, true to their strange habit. Avoided all of their attacks, he hits them, and states he'll finish them off. However, Lyon tells Gray he has found Racer's weakness.

Gray and Lyon confab a bit, and then Gray is suddenly and unexpectedly blocked in a very high pillar of ice by Lyon, who states he dosn't need him, and that the glory this time belongs to Lamia Scale. He and Sherry then ready to fight Racer, but the girl is rapidly taken out by Racer. Before he can be struck too, Lyon uses Ice-Make: Hedgehog to cover himself in ice spikes, stating that Racer won't be able to hit him, and claiming that his fatal weakness is his low offensive capability while trying to lead him away. However, Racer breaks through Lyon's ice and rapidly hits him several times. He then draws a knife and points it at Lyon's throat, stating that, with his speed, all that he needs to finish opponents off his that knife, with which he can cut their throat open. He adds that, despite his young overconfidence being ok, Racer is an Oración Seis, the wrong opponent to pick a fight. However, Lyon's reveals to have truly find Racer's weakness: his Magic doesn't enhance his movement speed tremendously, but instead slows down the perception of time for everyone in a given area aside from himself, making it seem like he moves at unholy speeds. Racer's Slowing Magic, however, affects only a certain area, and this allows the ones outside of it to see him moving normally. In that moment, Gray is shown breaking free of the ice pillar with a bow in his hands, capable of seeing Racer clearly from such distance. As Racer realizes that everything was part of the two's plan, Gray shoots his arrow. Remembering his pray to be faster than anyone, Racer is defeated by the ice attack.

Gray, Lyon and Sherry gather, commenting on the victory, Racer, however, unwilling to accept his defeat, raises on his legs and reveals an explosive lacrima device strapped to his chest, charging forth to take Gray's live alongside his own. However, Lyon pushes Gray aside and tackles Racer, with the two of them falling off the cliff while the lacrima explodes, seemingly taking the lives of them both, much to Gray's and Sherry's dismay. Natsu hears the explosion, and so does Brain, incredulous that the Light Team managed to take the life of an Oración Seis. Angered, he wakes Midnight up and orders him to eliminate all of their opponents. Midnight states he will.

Gray, alarmed, forms ice stairs to go examinate the site of the explosion and search for Lyon, whom he's sure can't be dead. Meanwhile, Sherry starts to act strangely, wondering who is to blame for her belove one's apparent death...

The Magic of Light and Darkness
Jura is shown fighting Hoteye, who assaults him by surprise, their Earth Magic, respectively making the ground hard and making it soft, clashing as Hoteye wonders which one is stronger. Jura replies that the one who has stronger conviction will always prevail no matter the quality of Magic, with Hoteye answering that the ones always on top are the rich. Meanwhile, Natsu reached Lucy and Hibiki, and, having been awakened from her state of unconsciousness alongside Happy and Charle, Wendy goes on to heal Erza from the poison, at the same time wondering wheter Jellal really did Erza the terrible things they told her.

Meanwhile, Jellal is shown walking in a strange place, with Cobra following him without him realizing. The Oración Seis' member wonders why he can't hear his thoughts. Jellal is then shown having stopped before a large tree, with chains protruding from it. Much to Cobra's enthusiasm, Jellal destroys the tree, and a pillar of light is released from it. Elsewhere, Wendy finishes healing Erza, much to her comrades' happiness. However, such joy is interrupted by the sudden appearance of the light column from the ground, not too far from them: back to where Jella is, Cobra rejoices, as from the beam of light, which is seemingly starting to gather darkness from the surrounding area, a tower peeps out: Nirvana.

Everyone in the vicinity, both Team Light and Oración Seis, realizes that, and Midnight is seen congratulating an incredulous Brain, stating that now he'll kill all of their enemies before Midnight falls. Realizing that Jellal must be where Nirvana is, Natsu rushes in that direction, willing to stop him so that Erza doesn't have to meet him again, but the girl concerned seems to overhear, slowly opening her eyes.

Everyone is shocked to see Nirvana appear, with the powerful Magic making communication via Archive between Hibiki, Eve and Ren difficult. While Gray searches for Lyon, Sherry stays still, silently blaming him for Lyon's supposed death, as her expression turns more and more evil. As Hoteye, having witnessed Nirvana and laughed happily, rejoicing in it, starts acting strange and screaming desperately as if he were in pain, Jura stares alarmed at him. Hibiki tells Lucy they should go after Natsu, but the group notices Erza has disappeared. Wendy starts crying, stating that the whole matter is her fault, for she was the one healing Jellal, and Hibiki unexpectedly attacks her with a spell, much to the others' dismay. Elsewhere, Natsu rapidly gets rid of Racer' personal Guild, Harpuia, which was blocking his path, stating that he won't let Jellal near Erza. Lucy's group is then shown running in the same direction as Natsu, with Hibiki, carrying an unconscious Wendy on his shoulders, claiming that he had to do that. He tells the others that he knows what Nirvana is, but didn't tell everyone back at the meeting since it might have brought doubt about his loyalties. Nirvana is a spell that makes people switch between light and dark, and what they just saw is the first stage that makes people who waver between good and bad switch places, which is why he knocked out Wendy when she was having doubts. This is shown when Sherry, who is traumatized by Lyon's supposed death, readies a Wood Doll and uses it to attack and knock out Gray. Similarly, Hoteye, after his seeming previous crisis from before, is shown turning good, stating that he wanted money simply because his goal is to find his long-lost brother. He hugs a surprised Jura, stating they should put an end to his evil comrades' plan of using Nirvana and teach them what wonderful thing love is.

Elsewhere, Eve, seemingly separated from Ren, falls prey to Midnight, and is easily defeated by him, lamenting the fact that his Magic can't hit the Oración Seis' member. Midnight readies to finish him off. With Lucy's group running towards the pillar of light, Happy brings up the fact that, if the alignment-changing ability of Nirvana is true, then those belonging to the Dark Guilds will switch to good. Hibiki says that's a possibility, but claims that, if Nirvana were to activate its second stage, then it could be used to target specific people such as a Guild, and its members would go on a killing spree, much to Lucy's dismay. Hibiki claims they have to stop Nirvana, or the legal Guilds in the wordl will be destroyed, as Natsu continues running towards the light.

The Unforgivable Celestial Spirit Mage: Lucy vs. Angel
As Natsu continues running, he spots Gray, seemingly lying unconscious in a river. He rushes toward him, but is lured onto a raft, and almost got killed by him before being saved by Lucy and the gang, with Sagittarius shooting an arrow to stop Gray. They at first thought that Gray had turned evil due to Nirvana, but realize that he is an impostor as he starts listing data about them. The impostor then poses as Lucy and lifts her shirt, up which makes the guys happy, and trouble Lucy. She later tells Sagittarius to shoot Hibiki, and when Lucy forces closed Sagittarius' gate and tells Charle to take Wendy somewhere safe, the fake Lucy re-summons Sagittarius to shoot Charle and Wendy out of the sky. Before she does, Angel shows up, revealing herself as a Celestial Spirit Mage, and the impostor is revealed to be Gemini, the same Celestial Spirit who attacked Jura and Ichiya.

Realizing that everyone else is incapacitated, Lucy has no choice but to fight Angel herself. She summons Aquarius to fight, but Angel responds by summoning Scorpio, Aquarius's boyfriend, and neither choose to fight. She then scolds Lucy for not knowing the relations between Spirits. Lucy resorts to using her trump card Loke, but this time Angel summons Aries, a dear friend of Loke. This greatly shocks Loke, Lucy and Hibiki. Angel proceeds to veal that she was the one who killed Hibiki's former lover, as well as Loke and Aries' former master, Karen Lilica, and took Aries from her. This has Hibiki almost succumb to Nirvana, but he seemingly manages to stifle. Lucy tries to dismiss Loke instead of having him fight Aries, but Loke refuses, since they were summoned by different people and have to fight for their masters' sake. Loke quickly gains the upper hand since Aries isn't a combat Spirit, so Angel summons Caelum and ruthlessly shoots through Aries just to hurt Loke, revealing that she can summon two Spirits at a time. This greatly shocks Lucy since she mistreated her Spirits so badly, Loke and Aries are forced to go back to the Celestial Spirit Realm to heal, but not before Aries being glad that Loke found a good master and Loke apologizing to that very same master.

Lucy then summons Taurus, but Angel re-summons Gemini who poses as Lucy, distracting the charging Spirit, and uses Caeleum to take out Taurus. In an act of desperation, Lucy asks Angel to release Aries from her contract, since she deserves happiness together with Loke. Angel agrees but only if Lucy surrenders her life, something to which she doesn't object. Angel orders Gemini to kill her, but Gemini manages to feel Lucy's love for Celestial Spirits and cries, saying she can't kill her, greatly angering Angel and promting her to close Gemini's gate. Hibiki suddenly appears and grabs Lucy's neck from behind, promting both her and Angel to believe that he has fallen prey to Nirvana. However, he's revealed to be in his normal state, and he tells Lucy that he is going to transfer a high-level spell into her head through his Archive. Lucy is shown entering some sort of trance and reciting an incantation, as Angel angrily charges towards her wielding Caelum. Angel angrily charges towards Lucy wielding Caelum, but the girl enters a trance and recites an incantation, casting the Uranometria spell against Angel and defeating her. Lucy is shown waking up from the trance seconds after, oblivious of what just happened.

Lucy notes the presence of her companions, and then rushes toward Natsu. However, Angel suddenly rises from the water and tries one final attack to take down Lucy with Caelum, but fails. She then faints as she remembers her prayer of fading into the sky like an angel. Although her attack failed, she did make the raft Natsu was on sail down a waterfall, with Lucy having boarded it too to protect her friend, and the two fall over together.

Elsewhere, Brain is incredulous that Angel has been defeated too. He states he won't let the deaths of his comrades to go to waste, and that he'll crush the light. However, in the river, Angel is shown floating, alive and claiming she's not dead.

Memories
Erza is shown running in the woods, while reminiscing the time spent with Jellal and wondering what he's doing in such a place. Elsewhere, Hoteye explains Nirvana's mechanics to Jura, stating that all he wanted was to find his brother, and for that he needed money: that's why he committed such evil deeds. He then goes one to comedically compare Jura's head to the potatoes he used to eat with his brother, much to the other's dismay. Ren is shown to be rapidly defeated by midnight as well, with the Oración Seis wondering wheter there aren't stronger opponents around. Charle has brought Wendy in a safe place, and the girl proceeds to tell her the story of her encounter with Jellal: they happily travelled together for a month after Wendy was strangely left behind by Grandeeney, but one day Jellal pronounced the mysterious word "Anima", which prompted him to leave Wendy at Cait Shelter, stating that travelling further with him would have been too dangerous. As she states that she still believes Jellal to be kind despite all of his seeming bad actions and she wonders wheter he still remembers about her, Erza is shown arriving at Nirvana's location... Where Jellal is.

The two meet, much to the still hidden Cobra's dismay, and Erza is surprised to learn that Jellal has lost all his memory except for the her name, something which reveals to Cobra why he couldn't read his memory. Jellal asks her if she know something about his identity and about this "Erza", something which fills her eyes with tears. She then proceeds to tell him that she is Erza, and lists everything he did in the past, Something which makes Jellal deeply sad, since he can't believe what he has done.

In the meantime, Lucy wakes up to find her wounds treated and her body clad in a different outfit. It is revealed that Natsu also got a new outfit by Virgo, who passed through her own gate since Lucy was out of Magic power. Later Sherry appears and tries to attack them with her Doll Play Magic, but she is tackled from behind by Gray. She finally reverts back to herself when Lyon appears alive and well, having survived the explosion, much to everyone's relief. Wendy are Charle are surprised by the fact that Nirvana's black light turned white, and Happy is shown dragging Hibiki out of the river, hoping everyone is alright.

Back at Nirvana, Cobra reveals himself and asks Jellal how did he manage to discover the Magic's location and why he unsealed it, to which he responds that was the doing of a voice in his dreams, which made him remember the Magic's whereabouts. He then proceeds to reveal that he unsealed it to destroy it, having already casted a Self-Destruction Spell on Nirvana. Cobra tries desperately to obtain the spell's deactivation codes, but to no effect. Jellal then reveals to have casted the spell on himself as well, being willing to die to make amend for his sins and to free Erza of his burden, taking her sadness away with him. Erza, however, rushes towards him with tears in her eyes, calling his name.

As Erza, bent over Jellal, cries for him not to die, as he should remember everything he has done and make up for it living, Brain appears, and, by no means alarmed by Jella's spell on Nirvana, reminds him that he's, in fact, the one who taught Jellal the spell in the first place, before rapidly nullifying it, much to Cobra's joy. Nirvana's second stage is finally activated, and the Magic reveals its form as a gigantic building moving on six, large spider-like legs. Erza and Jellal manage to cling on the structure, and the former, despite Jellal's depression for not having stopped the Magic manages to convince him to deactivate the suicidal spell, showing him her comrades, who are clinging on Nirvana's legs too, ready to confront Oración Seis and stop Nirvana. She says they'll never give up, being connected through hope, and spurs Jellal to live on and see the future with his own eyes.

Battle in the Sky: Natsu vs. Cobra
Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Erza, Jellal, Wendy, Charle, Jura, Hoteye and Ichiya are shown to have clinged to Nirvana's legs. Natsu starts suffering from motion sickness and falls, but is saved by Happy's sudden appearance. While the others climb the legs, Natsu and Happy fly to the structure's top in order to access it immediately. Inside, Brain shows Cobra the city of the ancient lying in Nirvana, and then takes control of the building and readies to move it towards a certain Guild. However, Natsu suddenly appears, and Brain orders Cobra to take care of him.

Cobra and his snake companion Cuberos hit Natsu and Happy several times, with the reptile being revealed to possess wings, which allow him and his master to fly. Meanwhile, Wendy and Charle find out, much to their shock, that the direction Nirvana is heading to is that of their Guild Cait Shelter. Natsu attempts to attack Cobra, but find it impossible to hit him due to Cobra hearing all of his thoughts. Meanwhile, Gray and Lucy meet up with Jura and Hoteye. Having been reassured that Hoteye isn't bad anymore, they listen to his story about the Nirvit, the neutral tribe which, in order to obtain peace, created Nirvana 400 years ago. As they discuss, Midnight suddenly appears. Hoteye, revealing that his true name is Richard, tells his newly-found friends to leave and find Brain, as he readies to fight Midnight. Meanwhile, Natsu continues his aerial battle with Cobra, and only manages to land blows on him when he stops thinking while he attacks. Having found a worthy opponent, Cobra transforms his arms into dragon's claws, revealing himself as the Poison Dragon Slayer, much to Natsu and Happy's dismay.

Having landed some blows on Natsu with his claws, Cobra has Cuberious produce a poisonous mist from his mouth. Having consumed it, he proceeds to use Poison Dragon's Roar on Natsu and Happy, poisoning both Natsu and Happy. Cobra then goes on to make a distinction between "Old style" and "New style" Dragon Slayers: Natsu belongs to the first category, having learnt his Magic from a dragon, and Cobra to the second, having implanted dragon lacrima inside his body to gain Dragon Slayer's powers, much like Laxus Dreyar. He proceeds to declare "New style" Dragon Slayers as the "true" ones due to dragons being exctint, despite Natsu angrily stating that Igneel is alive. The two continue to fight, and Natsu, with both he and Happy severely weakened by Cobra's poison, asks his friend to let him go. Cobra hears his thoughts and finds out Natsu wants to use his Fire Dragon's Roar. Having jumped and grabbed his head before he can do so, however, he readies to smash him on the ground tens of meters below them. As they fall, however, Natsu roars out extremely loud like a true dragon, something which it's heard throughout Nirvana. With his superhuman hearing, the roar acts as a powerful attack against Cobra, who falls to the ground alone, seemingly defeated, much to Brain's dismay.

Natsu and Happy, exhausted, fall to the ground as well, with Natsu' motion sickness appearing. However, Cobra, again on his feet, appears before them, and readies to finish Natsu off. Before he can do so, however, he's shot in the back by Brain. Cobra hears Brain's thoughts, with Oración Seis' leader thinking that, if they can't defeat such an average Guild, his underlings are nothing more than trash. Remembering his prayer to hear the voice of his friend Cuberos, Cobra falls unconscious to the ground. Natsu angrily reprimands Brain for doing such a thing to a comrade, but Brain shrugs it off, stating that he has taken an interest in Natsu and that he'll make him his first puppet through the use of Nirvana.

Meanwhile, Hoteye is shown to have seemingly defeated Midnight. Brain's "son", believing that if he loses his "father" will abandon him, tries to run for it, but Hoteye uses a combination of his Heaven's Eye and Liquid Ground to spot Midnight and attack him again, stating that Oración Seis will end today.

Sacred Ten against the Balam Alliance: Jura vs. Brain
Gray, Lucy and Jura catch up to Natsu and Happy, with both of them being too exhausted and weakened to put up a fight against Brain, who's dragging Natsu, also afflicted by his motion sickness, away. Oración Seis' leader states he'll make Natsu a subordinate of him using Nirvana, which will soon reach Cait Shelter, something which shocks everyone. Jura asks Brain why he's moving Nirvana towards that Guild, and, when the other doesn't answer and mocks them, he rapidly attacks him with his powerful Earth Magic, much to Brain's dismay. Jura goes on to say that he won't let Brain sleeps until he reveals his goals, while Gray and Lucy watch on in surprise and admiration.

Jura and Brain engage in a brief battle, with Oración Seis' leader attacking the Wizard Saint with his Darkness Magic. Jura, however, uses his signature Iron Rock Wall to parry all of Brain's attacks, and then rapidly proceeds to defeat Brain with Supreme King Rock Crush. Brain wonders how they lost, as thet man promised them that they'd never lose. He then remembers his prayer, for his "son" Midnight not to vanish as well. The others note that the lines of his face are disappearing, as Wendy and Charle manage to reach them.

Meanwhile, Midnight is shown raising on his feet again and rapidly defeating Hoteye, claiming that now he's a Mage better than his father. Hoteye, as he falls, remembers his prayer, to see his brother's face one last time. Brain, still lying on the ground, notes that five "prayers" have already disappeared, and only Midnight is left. Wendy uses her Troia spell to momentarily eliminate Natsu's motion sickness, and the group resolves to stop Nirvana, which, despite Brain's defeat, is still moving on his track towards Cait Shelter due to Midnight's presence.

In Cait Shelter, Master Roubaul is informed of Nirvana headign towards them. He states that theys hould trust their allies still fighting out there, and that, maybe, it's time for them to make amend for their sins. Meanwhile, the ones on Nirvana try thinking of a plan to stop the building from reaching Wendy's Guild, with Wendy herself running away on her own, stating that she might have an idea. Hoteye seemingly communicates telepathically with the group, stating that they'll find Midnight under the throne room, and that stopping him will stop Nirvana. However, this is revealed to be a deception, with the one having sent the telepathic communication being, in fact, Brain. When Natsu, Gray, Lucy and Jura reach the indicated place, they are caught in a huge explosion...

Erza and Jellal are seen hearing the explosion. Seconds after, Midnight appears before them. Jellal tells Erza to say back, as he readies to fight Oración Seis seemingly most powerful member. At the site of the explosion, Natsu, Gray and Lucy are shown to be almost unscathed: Jura protected them with his Iron Rock Wall, taking all the brunt of the explosion on himself. He says he's glad they're safe before falling unconscious, with the three running up to him. Elsewhere, Wendy and Charle are shown searching for Jellal... That very same Jellal who's shown falling to the ground, rapidly defeated offscren by Midnight, much to Erza's dismay, who's left alone to face him.

The Upholder of Justice and The Demon's Son: Erza vs. Midnight
Erza realies that Jellal's defeat is due to him having used up a lot of Magic power with the Self-Destruction Spell. She attacks Midnight with a pair of slashes, but finds it impossible to hit him, with the swords' direction changing as she strikes. Midnight then proceeds to Magically strangle Erza with her own armor, which tightens, immobilizing and disarming her. She manages to break free of it, and requips her Heaven's Wheel Armor. Midnight then proceeds to explain the nature of his Magic, Reflector, which has the power to twist and distort anything; distorted attacks can be redirected to the attacker, and distorted light gives birth to illusions. Erza charges forward.

Meanwhile, while tending to Jura's wounds, Natsu, Gray and Lucy are surprised to see Brain's staff, Klodoa, talk and declare itself as the seventh member of Oración Seis. Erza sends many swords flying at Midnight, but he deflects them all, strangle Erza with her amor once again, and dodges another sword thrown at him by her, before striking Erza with Spiral Pain and heavily injuring her. Midnight goes on to explain Jellal why they chose Cait Shelter as the first guild to destroy:.

Midnight continues his mission of eliminating all his father enemies. He eventually runs into Erza and Gerard and prepares to eliminate them both. Jellal tells Erza to stay back, while he fights Midnight, but loses due to being weakened by the self destruction spell he cast on himself.

Erza then step in and tries to attack Midnight, but learns that her sword doesn't reach him and went around him. Midnight then twists her armor hoping to choke her to death but she manages to remove it in time. Erza then enters her Heavens Wheel Armor hoping to overwhelm Midnight, with numbers but still doesn't work and almost gets chocked to death again, but then notices something when she throws a sword, but this time he chose to dodge it instead of it going around him. Thinking that he won, Midnight invites Jellal to become one of the Oracion Seis, but then Erza enters a new armor and says that she won't let that happen.

As Midnight and Erza continue their battle, Erza this time starts to gain the upper hand and tells Midnight about his magics two weakness. First, while his magic can distort anything, it doesn't work on humans. Second, when he distorts Erza's armor, he leaves himself open for an attack, which he gets overwhelmed by Erza's swords raining down on him. She also reveals that her armor, The Robe of Yuen, is an elastic armor so it doesn't affect her and adds a 3rd weakness.

Midnight then activates an illusion, where he turns into a giant monster and stabs both her and Jellal, but still fails since Erza's artificial eye lets her to see through his illusion. Midnight loses and remembers his prayer of falling asleep in a quiet place.

A New Enemy, A New Power
Natsu and his gang head to the throne room, while Wendy flies off to where Gerard is. When Natsu and his gang open the door, they spring a trap. The group managed to get away unharmed, but Jura got injured badly. Shortly after Brain's staff, Klondoa meets them. He explains to them that Nirvana was sealed away a long time ago by the Nirvit Tribe. The Nirvit tribe then left a guild to watch over Nirvana, and that guild was Cait Shelter, which is why the Brain planned to destroy it. He then enters a battle with Natsu and his friends, but then senses that all six of the Oracion Seis are now defeated meaning he will now show up.

Brain starts smiling and the lines on his face disappear. He then shows up where Natsu and his team are and changes his outfit and introduces himself as Zero. He then attacks them, and demonstrates his powers by easily breaking through Gray's Ice Shield and defeating Natsu with one hand. Then then knocks out Lucy, Happy, Gray, and Natsu then decides to resume his goal of destroying Cait Shelter, instead of finishing them off. He later crushes Klondoa and just as he fired Nirvana, Christina managed to shoot one of Nirvana's legs and miss the target.

Wendy and Charle manage to find Gerard and Erza, but Gerard doesn't remember Wendy. They later receive a transmission from Hibiki letting them know that they stopped Nirvana from firing at Cat Shelter, but they need their help in destroying it. He explains that at each of its six legs there is a chamber that houses a lacryma crystal which powers Nirvana. They need to destroy all six lacryma crystals at the same time and they can stop Nirvana, but that they only have 15 min till the next firing. Shortly after Zero, intercepts their message and lets them know that he will be waiting at one of the lacrimas to defend it. This poses a problem since they don't have 6 mages to take on all six crystals, and even if they did, they are all worn out to fight Zero who is at full strength. However, thanks to everyone's encouragement, Natsu, Gray, Lucy, and Happy regain consciousness and now set out to destroy the crystals. Before Hibiki's transmission times out he sends them a map and asks them to select a target. Natsu chooses 1, Gray chooses 2, Lucy chooses 3, Ichiya chooses 4, Erza chooses 5, and Gerard chooses 6.

Later at lacrima 1 Natsu finds Zero and gets ready to fight him and Gerard remembers Natsu's name and goes to his location. Since Wendy can't use her healing magic to heal Natsu, Gerard decides to do it himself while giving his target to Wendy and giving her inspiration to destroy it. Gerard arrives at Natsu's location saying he has his memories back and shoot fire at Natsu so he can heal. Despite hostilities due to the past Natsu at first refused to accept Gerards help, but when he defends Natsu from a blast by Zero, he gains Natsu's trust. He then gives him a golden flame telling him that he has confidence he can defeat Zero. Natsu accepts and eats the flame and then starts to grow dragon scales and activate his Dragon Force.

Natsu and Zero then continue their battle and are roughly even matched despite Natsu, not being able to fully control the Dragon Force. Meanwhile at Lacryma 3 Lucy arrives at the crystal but tells Happy, that she is out of magic power so she can't destroy the crystal, but even so she still wants to help Wendy. Later Gemini shows up and transforms into Lucy saying they will carry out her goal. As the time of firing draws near everyone else gets ready to destroy their crystals, while Natsu and Zero prepare to use their strongest spells. Zero at first seemed to gain the upper hand but Natsu then spouts golden flames and manages to defeat his spell and show him his powers as a true Dragon Slayer. Natsu then uses a new attack and manages to send Zero crashing into the crystal to destroy it, just as everybody else was destroying theirs leaving Zero defeated and saving Cat Shelter.

Final Goodbyes
Following the destruction of the lacryma crystals, Nirvana starts to fall apart and everyone tries to make it outside. Wendy and Charle and are saved by Jura. Natsu and Jellal were saved by Hoteye. While outside the gang meet Gerard for the first time and are surprised that he lost his memory, but since he helped them they consider him a friend. During a private conversation, Erza and Gerard reconcile and Erza tries to tell him something, but the army arrives and traps them in a barrier. They explain that the council is now restored and that they are here to capture certain people.

The army starts with Hoteye, of the Oracion Seis, for his past sins despite him being turned good by Nirvana. Jura tried to speak against them, but Hoteye decides to be arrested since he can never be rid of his sins even if he turned good. Before he gets taken away, Jura tell him that he will continue the search for his younger brother, and asks for his name. Hoteye says his name is Wally Buchanen and Erza instantly tells them that she knows him and that he is alive and well, traveling across the continent with his good friends. This makes Hoteye burst in tears, and realize that there is hope for those who believe in the light, and he is taken into custody with no regrets or worries.

Later the army tells them, that they are after another person even more dangerous that the Oracion Seis, Gerard. For his crime of infiltrating the council, firing the Antlion, and destroying the council he is arrested. Wendy tries to convince the army to change their mind but he refuses and says that he will either receive execution or life imprisonment. Erza looks on helplessly as her best friend is about to be taken away from her permanently just after reuniting. As Gerard was about to be taken away and the barrier lifted, Natsu instantly attacks the soldiers saying he won't allow Gerard to be taken away since he is now their ally and for the sake of Erza's happiness. Just as the rest of the gang followed Natsu and attacked, nearly getting arrested as a result, after making difficult decision Erza and tells them to stop and that they can take Gerard away. Before being taken into custody, Gerard manages to remember one final thing, Erza's scarlet hair. Following Hoteye and Gerard's arrest, the gang feels sad and leaves Erza alone. Erza then remembers back to her slavery days, and how she and her friends introduced their names. She tells them that her name is just Erza, this made everyone feel pity for her, but then Gerard notices Erza's scarlet hair and decides that her last name can be Scarlet. Erza instantly likes it and now has a full name, but then she bursts into massive tears and cried so much that she didn't notice the sunset which also happened to be scarlet red.

Arriving at Caitshelter, everyone gets new clothes to restore their torn up ones. They meet up with the people of cat shelter, and try to celebrate but then notice that the Guild master Roubaul is upset. Roubaul then explains that they are not the descendants of the Nirvit, they are the Nirvit tribe itself. He explains that 400 years ago he created Nirvana to stop wars and founded a village on the machine itself, which enjoyed a time of prosperity. However the darkness that they removed found its way to the Nirvit tribe and made the people kill everyone in cold blood, with only Roubaul managing to escape. He then seals away Nirvana since he can't destroy it himself, and settled in an abandoned town to watch over the machine until someone could destroy it. He swore and remained in solitude for some time, until Mystogan carrying an unconscious Wendy, arrived and asked him to watch over her. Wendy then woke up and asked where she was, since Mystogan told her that he was going to take her to a guild. Roubaul, not wanting Wendy to feel sad, said that this place was a guild, and used his magic to turn the wrecked town into a guild and create illusionary people. Now that the burden of Nirvana is destroyed, the guild members start to disappear and Roubaul tells Wendy that she longer has to deal with having fake friends and that she can now move on and that she now has true friends. Not wanting her friends and master to leave her Wendy tries to run to Roubaul, but he disappears before she can reach him and she can only look on helplessly. Luckily, Erza tells her that she knows its hard to have someone close disappear, and invites her back with them to Fairy Tail.

Trivia

 * There were some background materials that wasn't included in this arc:
 * Except for Brain/Zero, all of the members in the Oracion Seis were once slave children for the Tower of Paradise.
 * Brain and Midnight are not blood-related
 * Hoteye and Wally were separated at the time when Brain selected Hoteye to be a member of the Oracion Seis
 * All of the other members considers Brain to be their father.