Lost, Then Found (Fairy Tail FanFic. OC Insert)

Chapter 22 - Nirvana Rises! There Will Always be Shadows!...

After their little conversation, they noticed a change in the beam of light where Nirvana sprouted from. "Is it just me, or..." Axel uttered. "No. The black pillar has turned white!" Carla said. "What do you suppose is happening?" Wendy asked. "It might have powered up...." Axel uttered before humming in thought.

"All right. Let's get a move on," Axel said as he put away his sleeping bag and put his backpack back on. "Yeah..." Wendy said. Before they could even take a step, the pillar of light began to glow brightly behind them. "What the?!-" Axel exclaimed.

"Carla! Axel! Look!" Wendy exclaimed. "No! It can't be!" At that moment, the ground below began to shake violently, making Axel grunt and Wendy and Carla shriek. The grounds ahead began to crack as large leg-like pillars rose from out of the ground. Eventually, the ground they stood on began to crumble.

Wendy had been separated from Axel and Carla, where Axel acted quickly by grabbing her arm and going airborne with Carla in hand. "I've been telling you before! I can fly!-" Carla shouted. "Yeah, yeah! You're like Happy! But guess what?! It's nothing new to me!" Axel shouted over the loud sounds of the cracking ground.

Axel quickly put Wendy on his back, handing Carla to Wendy. "We gotta get going now before we're turned into pancakes from the debris!" Axel exclaimed. "Yeah!" Wendy exclaimed. Axel then burst upward, enveloped in a pink hue.

Once high enough away from the falling debris, Axel slowed to a halt, floating in place. "Look at that, Carla! Axel!" Wendy said, pointing ahead. "What is that?" Carla asked. "Looks like... a palace?..." Axel uttered, squinting as dust was blocking their view of whatever emerged from the ground.

"Is this... Nirvana?!" Wendy asked in shock. "Oh... yeah, your answer's much cooler..." Axel quipped, "In all seriousness... that looks like a lot of ground to cover!" Carla huffed, "Let's get closer. Hurry it up, you insane male!" She shouted. "I know, I know! Geez... Happy 2.0, you don't have to be in such a rush.

"What did you just call me?!-" Carla exclaimed, only to be interrupted by the burst of wind as Axel shot back down and forward towards Nirvana. Axel laughed as he felt the wind blow against him, "I know we're in the middle of a threat and all, but doesn't this feel great?!" Axel asked with a grin. "Yes!" Wendy laughed a bit. "No!!!" Carla shrieked.

"Huh? Oh! Look there! I think that's Natsu and the others!" Axel said, spotting a cloud of dust down on one of Nirvana's legs. "Axel! Let's go there too!" Wendy said. "Yeah! That was the plan!" Axel said as he burst forward. However, after a moment of being immobile, Nirvana suddenly began to move.

"Uh oh... It's moving... and Natsu is on it..." Axel uttered. "That's a problem because?" Carla asked. "Well... from a technical standpoint, Nirvana is a vehicle... and as you saw before, Natsu was on a raft in the river. A simple, but sturdy vehicle..." Axel said, "In other words... Natsu gets sick when he's on a vehicle..."

"Honestly! Fairy Tail wizards are crazy!" Carla exclaimed. "You're telling me..." Axel uttered. "I AM! YOU'RE THE CRAZIEST OF THE BUNCH!!!" Carla shouted into his ear. "... Fair argument..." Axel muttered. "Um... I think someone fell..." Wendy said. Axel looked down at the leg.

"Eh?! Natsu fell!!!" Axel shouted. "What?!" Wendy and Carla exclaimed. "That fool!" Carla shouted. "Happy! Where's Happy!" Axel exclaimed, "Huh? There he is!" Axel laughed hysterically, "Yes! Let's go, Happy!" He celebrated. "That male cat was pretty fast!" Carla said in surprise.

"Yeah! Such is the great, fish-loving cat, Happy!" Axel said with a grin. "That is the worst title I've ever heard," Carla huffed. "Eh, it's the best I could come up with..." Axel admitted, "Hm?" Suddenly, a large circle of lights flashed around Nirvana before a glyph in the shape of a throne appeared in the center at the very top.