Return to Magnolia

"Natsu… Aang?" Near the shores of the sea, Erza opens her eyes to see that she was carried by both Aang and Natsu. They both looked back at her with smiles. "What happened…?" Erza thought. "They… saved me? They both managed to find me inside the vortex of magical power? Incredible."
Appa, who had the rest of the crew on his back, landed in the shallow water and allowed everyone to get off and meet with Natsu, Erza and Aang. "We're the same." Natsu said after he and Aang let Erza down of their shoulders. "We're all the same." He repeated, about to break down into tears.
Aang placed his hand on Natsu's shoulder. "What he means is: You said that you couldn't have lived without Fairy Tail. A world without your friends is unthinkable… Well the truth is that Fairy Tail can't live without you." The whole group was getting closer to them; they all had smiles on their faces. "I don't think… no! I know that Fairy Tail would never be the same without you. And so Natsu and I made our choice, we weren't going to let you die, you were going to come back to Fairy Tail no matter what."
Erza had tears streaming down her left eye. Ryu then dropped down to his knees. 
"Never do something like that again. You hear me, Scarlet." He demanded. "I'm not losing any more of my friends." 
"Okay, I promise." Erza pulled both Natsu and Aang into a hug.
"Thank you Natsu, Aang." "That's right. You don't die for your friends. You live for your friends. Because that's how you create a happy future!"
Everyone got into a group hug and soon Appa landed in front of them. They all let go and the big bison licked Erza, this surprised her so much that if forced her back to the water.
----Three days following that night. Natsu was asleep and was snoring very loudly on a bed. Inside the room were Erza, Aang, Gray, Toph, Katara, Lucy, Happy, Sokka and Zuko. Erza, Natsu and Aang were covered in bandages.
"Is he going to be okay?" Sokka asked.
"He slept for three days straight." Lucy commented.
"That's what the freak gets for eating Etherion." Gray said.
Natsu suddenly rose up from his slumber and sat up. 
"What'd you just say, Gray!?" He yelled.
"He's awake!" Happy said flying over to him.
"Does that mean, Flamebrain could hear us the entire time?" Toph asked.
"I will agree with Gray on this one, he is some sort of freak." Sokka said folding his arms.
"You too Sokka!?" Natsu yelled. Suddenly he collapsed to his back and fell to sleep again.
"He's asleep!" Happy yelled.
Gray had a vein show in his head. 
"If you don't have it in you to pick a fight, don't get up!" He shouted.
Lucy and Katara giggled. "I really caused everyone a lot of trouble this time, didn't I?" Erza said while smiling.
"Come on, how many times have you said that already?" Lucy said giving a smile to Erza.
"For those of you counting, that makes eleven times." Sokka stated. He now got a glare from both Lucy and Katara.
"No one asked you!" The waterbender hissed.
"What'd I say?"
"Let it go Sokka, this is one fight you can't win." Aang said as he was standing behind Sokka.
"Speaking of which, what happened to her?" Erza asked looking at Gray.
"Oh, you mean Juvia?"
"Yeah, now that you mention it, I've been wondering where she has been?" Katara added.
"She's headed back already." Gray began. "She said something about wanting to join Fairy Tail as soon as possible or something…"
Erza looked down after Gray told her. "I see…"
Katara saw Aang looking out of the window. She got up to meet him and Lucy took note of what was happening. "Aang, are you okay?"
"I don't know to be honest…" He replied. "I mean Natsu and I beat Jellal, but I lost myself and went into the Avatar State again."
"What triggered it?"
Aang flashed back to when Simon protected Erza from Jellal's lethal spell. "Simon. He protected Natsu, Erza and I from a spell that could have killed us, but in doing so he lost his life. Erza was devastated and Jellal…" Aang began to clench his right fist. "...All he did was laugh… as if Simon's life was meaningless. I was filled with so much hate and rage towards Jellal that my entire mind was focused on beating him." Aang flashed back to the fight. "He was powerful, a lot more powerful than Ozai. But if I killed Jellal. I would be no better than him." Katara brought Aang into a hug.
"It may have been anger, but deep down, I know that all you wanted to do was to protect Erza. You and Natsu brought her back and all of you were in one piece. Back there I was so scared that you were going to die, I'm just happy that you're alive Aang." She ended the hug and had her hands on his shoulders.
"I know that you don't like it when I get angered into the Avatar State. That's why I promise, I will find a way to control it before it gets out of hand."
Erza and Lucy looked to the both of them. "Control the Avatar State?" Lucy thought. She flashed back to Galuna Island where Aang was telling her about Chakras and the Avatar State. "…if I let go of Katara sooner, then maybe…" Lucy remembered Aang's words from that day. "Don't tell me… If Aang wants to control the Avatar State, he has to let go of Katara? That is his final Chakra… But… It's not fair…"
----Down at the beach; Sho, Millianna and Wally were apologizing to Erza.
"I apologize." Wally said.
"Sorry, Er-chan." Millianna apologized.
"No. It was I who was not able to do anything for you for nine years." Erza began. "I am truly sorry."
"It's not your fault, Sister!" Sho said.
"If I had done something sooner, then Simon might have…"
Wally quickly interjected. "Simon was a true man. He wanted to protect you, he always-"
"Wally!" Millianna interrupted to keep Erza from knowing how Simon felt.
"I know about his feelings well. As well as the feelings of those left behind. But we must continue on, for the future that Simon left for us." Sho, Millianna and Wally smiled at Erza words. "If you have no other place to go, you can come to Fairy Tail." She offered.
"Huh! Us?" Millianna exclaimed. As the three were shocked.
"It might be different from the 'freedom' you sought, but…"
Wally and Millianna looked at each other excitedly. "Salamander did say something like that."
"That it was one super spiffy guild!" Millianna cheered.
"And I'd like to stay together with you all." Sho had a faint smile. "Come now, let's go back. I have to properly introduce you to Aang and the others." Erza began walking back with them.
A she suddenly heard a voice "You've gotten strong, Erza." She turned around, looked at the beach behind her, but saw nothing.
"Jellal!" She said with surprise. "It… couldn't be…"
"Yo Blockhead!" they all heard. They looked to see Toph in a fighting stance looking at them. "Remember what you did to me at the casino?" Toph made an earth pillar that sped to Wally which forced him into the air and into a palm tree.
"Wally!" Millianna screamed.
"There! Now we're even." The Earthbender said with a grin as he fell to the sand.
----Sunset fell at the Akane Resort. In that time, Erza had talked to Lucy and Katara in private and shared with them that it might have been Jellal who kept the tower from exploding. This was because he was freed from Zeref's possession, so he may have returned to the kind Jellal he was before. He fused with Etherion in Erza's place and directed the magical power up into the sky.
A banquet dinner was arranged and of course everyone was messing around, Gray and Sokka were stuffing food into Sho's mouth. Aang was demonstrating his control of the four elements on the table which impressed almost everyone.
Millianna was cuddling up to Zuko as he leaned by the wall. "Nya! You know, I think you're very cute."
Zuko sighed. "Millianna, let me stop you right there. I already have a girlfriend, and I can be pretty sure she will kill you… and me if I cheated on her." He said scratching his head.
Millianna folded her arms and puffed her cheeks. "You like Er-chan don't you?" in a frustrated voice.
"Huh?" it took a moment for Zuko to fully process what she said, when it sunk in he had a shocked expression on his face. "Me… and Erza… no, no, no. You misunderstand. I actually do have a girlfriend, and it's not Erza."
"Wait… you told me you dumped her…" Sokka began. Zuko facepalmed now that Sokka had to ruin everything. "Besides you and Erza would perfect for each other…" Sokka now began to draw comparisons while Happy flew past the scene. "You both are angry by nature, both good with swords, though Erza would always beat you... Did I mention you were both angry?"
"Right, and Erza would totally run from you in a fight." Zuko sarcastically said.
"Hey! I beat Natsu!"
"…By throwing a stink bomb into his nose? I wouldn't call that beating him."
"He's right." Happy said.
"Who asked you?!" Sokka yelled
"Hey! Don't yell at kitty-cats!" Millianna scolded, yelling at Sokka.
Happy was looking at Zuko and had his paws over his mouth to contain his laughter. "I don't like that look you're giving me." the Firebender stated
"You liiiike Erza." He flew up. "Erza!" he yelled but he stopped flying when he realized his tail was on fire. "AHH! Somebody help me! Gray! Katara!" the distressed cat yelled.
"Nya! How, could you do that!?" Millianna said glaring at Zuko.
"He was annoying me. Anyway, I've got more important things to worry about than girl troubles." Zuko walked away from the room to be by himself.
"Was it something I said?" Millianna asked.
"No, I'm pretty sure it was something Happy said." Sokka said.
Meanwhile Lucy grabbed a chair and sat next to Katara while she was eating. "Hey, Katara."
"What's up?"
"Something has been on my mind for a while, back when we fought that guy in the tower."
"That guy with the guitar and the water sucking wig, don't remind me. So what about it?" She asked.
"Something has been bothering me since that fight. You said that you almost lost Sokka and Aang in a similar fight and you said you weren't going to resort to doing something to Juvia. What was that something?" Katara dropped her fork on the table. "Katara?" The water tribe girl looked like she had seen a ghost, but she quickly calmed down.
"I'll tell you Lucy, but I promise you, you won't like it. Remember when I told you that my waterbending is at its peak when a Full Moon is in the sky?" Lucy nodded. Katara put her fingers to her forehead. "I can't even believe I was thinking of doing that to her." Katara said with a pained expression.
"Doing what?"
"Bloodbending." As soon as the words left her mouth Lucy felt the emotion of regret and sadness from Katara's voice.
"Bloodbending?"
"It is a dark waterbending technique that is exactly how it sounds. It involves controlling the blood of a living being, this makes it possible for a waterbender to control the water existing in their victim's blood. A waterbender who knows how to use this technique can control anyone against their will. It makes me sick just to think about it. This can only be performed under a full moon. Even so, Juvia was already in enough pain, I couldn't do that to her or anyone… but one time after I learned it, I let my anger get the better of me and I used it on someone."
Lucy's eyes grew wide. "W-where did you learn this technique?" she asked fear was evident in her voice.
"From a Waterbender by the name of Hama, she's a waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe just like me, and she was captured and imprisoned in a Fire Nation raid. I had to use the technique on her, otherwise she would have used Bloodbending to kill Aang with Sokka's sword. To this day, I'm not proud of it." Katara said looking down.
"You had to save your friends, don't feel too bad about it." Lucy said trying to cheer her up.
"I hope I never have to use that technique ever again." A tear fell down her left cheek. "Sorry, I suddenly lost my appetite." Katara got up and began to leave the room.
"Katara…"
"Leave her." She heard as Toph was leaning on a wall with her arms folded. "Don't worry about her, when she had to use Bloodbending to beat that old hag, she was all kinds of emotional afterwards. But you shouldn't worry about her, she's a strong girl, just give her some time."
"Bloodbending… how scary." Lucy was now lost in her thoughts. "So Katara could do that this whole time? I just hope she will be okay."
…
Later that night Lucy was writing down in her journal, Katara later walked into the room. "Oh you're back, I'm sorry for bringing up what we talked about… I didn't know."
"It's alright, I can't blame you, you were curious is all. It's just it all came back in one go and I just needed some time to myself."
Erza suddenly burst through the door. "Lucy!"
"Huh?! What is it?"
"Have you seen Sho and the others."
"Not since we've eaten." Katara answered.
"I see." Erza said.
"Wait, you think they left without telling anyone?" Erza had her hands to her hips. "What happened?"
"Tell Natsu, Zuko, Aang and Gray to prepare 'fireworks'."
"What?"
"You'll understand soon enough." Ryu told them after stepping to the room. 
…
Sho, Wally and Millianna were preparing a boat to take it out to sea.
"Do you really thing we can make it, in the outside world?" Wally asked.
"We have to! We can't bother Sister anymore." Sho answered.
"Hey!" 
"Everyone!" They all heard. They saw Erza looking at them.
"Sister!"
"Ryu." 
Erza walks closer to them along with Ryu.
"We were raised in the tower our entire lives." Sho began. "There's a lot we don't understand, that we're uncertain of… But we want to see the outside world for ourselves. We don't want to live relying on others any longer. We've had enough of living for others." Sho smiled to Erza. "From now on, we'll live for ourselves. We want to find our own destiny. That is our freedom!" the three gave confident looks at Erza.
"If you can keep that strong assurance, you can accomplish anything. It reassures me." Erza requips into her Ceremonial Armor. She held a double sided lance with a flag of Fairy Tail on the top side of the lance. "However! There are three conditions for anyone who leaves Fairy Tail! Listen well."
"Leave?" Wally said. "But we never even joined…"
"Don't ask. Just go along with it." Ryu interrupted.
He then took a seat on a large rock.
"One: You must never reveal sensitive information about Fairy Tail to others for as long as you live! Two: You must not have unauthorized contact with past clients or profit personally from them! Three: Even if we walk different paths, one must always live on as strong as you are able! You must never treat your own life as something insignificant!" Soon tears were falling from all of their eyes. "You must never forget the friends you love for as long as you live! Begin the Fairy Tail farewell ceremony!"
Natsu, Aang, Gray, Zuko and Lucy showed up right as Erza said that.
Natsu shot fireballs out of his mouth that exploded into fireworks. Aang and Zuko shot huge streams of fire into the air, while Gray made a ball of ice that exploded in the sky. Lucy made yellow circles with her magic and a faint glow shot into the sky before it exploded into fireworks.
As the fireworks lit up the sky. Sho, Wally and Millianna's boat began drifting off the sea and they waved to Erza.
"I wish I could stay with you forever. But if that ends up holding you back, then I wish to bless you on your new found voyage." She looks to them on the boat and sees them crying as the fireworks lit up the skies.
'See ya around guys.' Ryu thought, staring up at the fireworks. 'Good luck with your new lives.'
----Hours later, Zuko was just looking at the beach from his room. He heard his door open as soon as it did he turned around and quickly got into a fighting stance. "Oh Erza It's only you."
Erza took a deep breath before she began to talk. "Zuko, I need to talk with you."
"I'm sure it can wait till morning. You've been through a lot, you need your rest."
"I appreciate your concern, but this is really important." Zuko closed his eyes and gave one nod, which told Erza she could stay. "I didn't tell my full story to all of you."
"You mean your history with Jellal?"
"No, this was after I was exiled from the tower."
"Okay, go on."
"I was found by a woman who was also an exile. She took care of and looked after me. She was even the one who helped me find Fairy Tail. She also has two children, a son and a daughter, but she was separated from them. She would speak about them a lot, she loved them dearly and she fears she left them in the wrong hands. This woman saved my life."
"She sounds like an amazing woman." Zuko replied.
Erza nodded. "Yes, you of all people would know that."
The firebender quickly shook his head in confusion. "W-what do you mean by that?"
"I also learned her name. Her name was Ursa…" Zuko's eyes grew and gave Erza a look of shock and surprise. "It was your mother."
"E-Erza you…" Zuko placed his palm in his hair. "M-my mother is alive?!"
"Last time I saw her, yes."
Zuko was now walking back and forth on the balcony with his hands in his head. "So she's been alive this whole time. When you learnt our names you knew about me right away. I've been worried about her for so long why didn't you say anything!?"
Erza put her right hand on Zuko's shoulder and looked at him. "I'm sorry I never told you this right away. But right now, I don't know where your mother is, or if she is even alive." Zuko's slightly grew. "I also know that you have unresolved issues with your sister, Azula. But if she shows herself and attacks Fairy Tail, we will deal with her, but I promised that I will take care of both of you and I intend to do that." Zuko was tightly gripping onto the railing of balcony, he had no idea what to say to her after hearing all this. Erza saw a tear falling from Zuko's eye. "Zuko."
He let go of the railing and was shocked when Erza pulled him into a hug. "Erza?"
"If you need me for anything at all, even just for someone to talk to; I'll be there, I promise."
Zuko hugged her back after a few more seconds. "Thank you, Erza."
----When the group arrived back in Magnolia, they were walking to the direction of their guild.
Aang quickly remembered something. "Aah! We told Sho and the others about our bending. Wont they tell the council?"
Erza patted Aang on his head. "There's nothing to worry about, I told them everything. They won't breath a word of bending to anyone."
Aang gave a sigh of relief
When they began to see Fairy Tail, they all had huge eyes at the look of their newly rebuilt guild.
"They actually did it?" Erza started.
"It is rebuilt now?" Lucy asked.
"Were we really gone for that long?" Katara wondered.
They saw the rebuilt Fairy Tail guild in its entire splendor. "This is our new Fairy Tail guild." Gray said.
"It's amazing." Aang said.
Sokka had his fingers on his chin. "Eh, this place has nothing on the Earth King's palace." Sokka bluntly said which earned him a smack on the back of his head from his sister. "Ow! What? What did I say?"
"Oh nothing." Katara replied.
"See, I didn't do anything this time!"
Gray chuckled. "Heh, you're just as dumb as Natsu."
"WHAT'D YOU SAY GRAY?!" Natsu and Sokka exclaimed glaring at Gray with flames behind them.
They saw an outside café. "So they have an outdoor café now? Talk about classy." Toph commented.
They all saw a vendor that read 'Fairy Tail Goods Shop'. Max was managing the vendor. "We even have a Goods shop, now?" Lucy commented. Max was a light skinned male with short olive brown hair, he was wearing a buttoned blue shirt that was rolled up by the sleeves. His goods shop had many merchandise with the Fairy Tail emblem on them, like T-shirts and towels.
"How popular is Fairy Tail, exactly?" Zuko asked.
Happy flew over to Max. "Look, you're a salesman now, Max!" the blue cat exclaimed. "And, wait. How long has it been?"
"I've been out studying business on Master's orders."
"Max Aloze!?" Lucy exclaimed like a fan girl. "You've been in the Weekly Sorcerer!"
"Since we've met, glad to be of service." He replied while smiling. "I've heard quite a lot about you, Lucy." Lucy was now worried.
"I don't even want to know what he has heard about me." Lucy said sinking to the ground.
"Hey, I do!" Sokka yelled which made Katara smack him on the head again. 
"Oh knock it off!" He screamed.
"Hey, so what are you selling?" Happy excitedly asked.
"T-shirts, wrist bands, mugs, towels." These items were seen and there were Happy and Momo towels. There were also Lacrima with the Fairy Tail emblem on them. "And the most popular is…"
"A figure of Lucy!" Happy finished while holding a smaller figurine of the blonde mage.
"Don't go making something like that without my permission!" Lucy wailed with a sweatdrop.
"And the clothes are all cast off." Max said as the clothes of the Lucy figurine came off revealing Lucy's bikini swimsuit which made Lucy scream.
Toph was chuckling while Natsu, Zuko and Gray looked slightly annoyed.
Sokka ran over to Max. 
"Got any figures of me?" Sokka asked.
"And you are?" Max asked.
"Uh, Sokka? You've probably heard of me?"
A question mark floated over Max's head before disappearing. "No." he saw Aang in the background. "Hey you're Aang, the Elemental Wizard?"
Aang sweat dropped.
"Y-yea, that's me. I take it you've heard of me too?" He asked while walking to the stand.
"Would you like a complementary Aang figurine?" He asked showing a figure of Aang.
"Uh, n-no thanks maybe later." Aang said with a sweat drop.
"Ah come on!" Sokka yelled in obvious jealousy. "He gets one but I don't!?"
…
The inside of the guild was huge with stairs going down to the main room which had many tables with seats, and a huge stage was seen.
"How beautiful!" Happy, Lucy and Katara happily said.
"Well I will say it seems bigger." Toph commented.
"Yes, this is wonderful." Erza said.
In the background, Natsu looked unimpressed as his arms were folded and his mouth was in his scarf.
"What's the matter Natsu?" Gray asked.
"Yeah, you've looked glum since we got here." Aang added.
"It's different from how it was." Natsu commented.
Levy waved to Lucy. "Lu-chan, welcome back!"
"Levy-chan!" Lucy greeted.
"Great, huh? In the back of the drinking hall is a pool!" Levy said.
A vision of many of the Fairy Tail members were in a pool
"Sounds neat." Katara said.
"Why is there a pool?" Lucy asked while sweat dropping.
"You know I can't swim, for obvious reasons right?" Toph said with folded arms.
"It's totally different." Natsu muttered.
"There is a game parlor in the guild now?" Both Macao and Wakaba greeted them while Reedus looked like to be playing a magical version of snooker.
"This place has everything." Lucy commented.
"It's different." Natsu said.
Toph groaned. "Ugh, knock it off Flame brain, you're starting to annoy me now."
"It's different." He repeated Toph simply sweat dropped.
"The biggest change is the second floor. Anyone can go up there now." Levy explained as they saw Elfman greeting them from the second floor, this new information got gasps from Lucy and Aang.
"I don't get it." Zuko said.
"Well the rule used to be you have to be an S-class wizard to go onto the second floor." Lucy said.
"Of course you still have to be with an S-class wizard to go on an S-class quest." Levy said.
"You've returned, you bunch of fools?" Makarov said, walking to them in his orange jester outfit.
"Master?" Erza said.
"We've got a new member, ain't she a cutey?" Makarov asked.
Gray turned to see Juvia, she was in a new outfit. "Juvia is glad to be of service." The water mage said.
Gray chuckled. "So you've really joined huh?"
"You helped us a lot at Akane." Erza said happy that Juvia joined up with them.
"It is all thanks to you. Juvia will work hard!" she cheerfully said.
"Glad to have you." Lucy said.
Juvia gave a dark glare at Lucy with a menacing Dark energy surrounding her. "Love rival!"
"Actually… I'm not…" Lucy began nevertheless Juvia continued the glare.
"Who are you again?" Sokka asked.
"She's not just the only one." Makarov said. "I believe they are friends of yours." Makarov said looking at Zuko.
"Friends?" Zuko asked.
Zuko hears a very familiar voice. "Personally I use the term 'friend' loosely." The whole of Team Avatar looked behind Juvia to see two girls behind them.
One of them was light skinned with a small eye shape, with Tawny Gold emotionless eyes. She had raven black hair with highlights making it look shiny in appearance, her long bangs went down the sides of her face, finally her hair was also tied in two buns that were on the sides of her head. She was wearing a black sleeveless robe that was like a thin coat with red kimono like sleeves on her arms her shoulders were left exposed. She was wearing brown finger-less gloves on her hands, the girl was wearing dark red pants, she had grey flats with bandage like socks which tied the pants to her legs. She had what looked like a permanent scowl on her face.
The other girl was slightly shorter and had bigger grey eyes in comparison to her friend. She had brown hair that had two bangs that were shorter, but thicker and went down her sides as well, her hair was brown and tied in a very long, braided ponytail that were tied with pink ribbons. She wore a pink Chinese like dress with yellow flowing lines that resembled fire there was a however a cut out that separated the dress into a shirt and a short skirt the cut out showed her midriff, she had black medium long leggings with red flats. In contrast to her angry looking friend she had a wide smile. Her Fairy Tail stamp wasn't covered by her clothing and showed on her left leg in a pink colour.
"Mai, Ty Lee?" Zuko gasped.
"Well isn't this awkward?" Mai said in her stoic voice.
"Hi everyone!" Ty Lee cheered.
Aang, Katara, Toph and Sokka got into fighting stances. 
"Don't trust these two they're Fire Nation!" Sokka yelled.
"What!" Gray, Erza and Natsu said.
Mai had three knives in between her fingers. "Whoa!" Ty Lee yelled. "We're on the same side here!" she said as Team Avatar minus Zuko stared down the both of them while Mai stared down all of them.
"Give us a good reason to believe you!" Katara demanded with a long blob of water floating above her.
"Stop you guys!" they heard. Sokka dropped his sword. Everyone turned to the side to see another girl who wore a green kimono with black metallic armor over the kimono on her torso, wrists, and shoulders as well as armor that resembled a short dress and broke into four pieces. She had a green belt tied around her stomach. The girl had a katana blade that was tied with the green belt. A gold headdress was tied to the top of her head. Her physical features included, short brown hair, and blue eyes. "They're both with me."
Sokka's eyes locked onto the girl. "SUKI!" he ran over to her and embraced her in a hug.
"Well, someone is happy to see you. Can't imagine how that feels." Mai said folding her arms.
"What's wrong with her?" Lucy whispered referring to Mai gloomy personality.
When Katara let her guard down, Ty Lee walked up to her. "See? Suki came here with us…" she took a look at Natsu and a smile formed on her face. "Who's the guy with the pink hair and that scarf? He's kinda cute."
Katara had a surprised expression along with a sweatdrop. "You're being so casual with me. Well he's Natsu, though he's not normally like this."
"It's different." The dragon slayer muttered.
Sokka and Suki let go of each other. "I'm glad to see you too Sokka." Suki said.
"Wait before we do anything else…" Sokka confidently glared at Team Natsu. "Everyone, this is my girlfriend, Suki." he said almost in a bragging manner.
Gray and Happy looked surprised while Natsu maintained his irritated expression. Gray smirked later on. "That's your girlfriend? She's too cute to be hanging out with you."
"Oh drop dead!"
"'Too cute' nice to know, thanks." Suki thanked.
"Don't encourage him!" Sokka yelled.
Suddenly Juvia was behind Suki giving her an ominous look. "So… you want to steal Gray-sama too? Huh, Love Rival!?"
"B-but I already have…"
"Don't bother fighting it Suki." Toph said. "She'll scare any girl that even looks at Gray, that or she will just glare at Lucy."
"It's true…" Lucy muttered in defeat.
"Okay… so we haven't been formally introduced. Sokka who are your new friends?" Suki asked.
"The ice jerk is Gray." Sokka began as he began pointing at the other members of Team Natsu. "He's Natsu, she's Erza and she's Lucy."
"You forgot me you jerk!" Happy exclaimed as he accusingly pointed his paw at Sokka.
"Did that cat just talk?" Ty Lee asked, almost freaking out.
"We were warped to another world Ty Lee; at this stage nothing surprises me. Though what does is seeing you guys here." She said referring to Team Avatar.
"So what happened?" Sokka began. "Last time we saw you guys, you were trying to stop us from escaping the Boiling Rock where the Fire Nation kept my dad."
Mai closed her eyes. "I'll tell you what happened. Azula happened."
Natsu and Gray suddenly paid attention at the mention of Azula's name. Erza had a more concerned look.
"Azula?" Erza asked. "If you don't mind, could you tell us more?"
"Well, I would prefer not to talk about past events with a couple of strangers, but sure why not, since I'm being nice."
"This is her being nice?" Lucy whispered to Aang.
"I heard that Blondie!" Mai said causing Lucy to flinch and the blonde mage was scared off by those eyes that could make Erza look tame. "Now as I was saying, We were supposed to stop those guys and my jerky boyfriend; Zuko, from escaping."
"Y-you two were dating!?" Lucy asked in disbelief.
"You liiike him." Happy said to Mai, what the carefree cat didn't expect was a response, and he got that in the form of a knife landing in front of him scaring the hell out of Happy.
"Got anything else to say?"
"N-no! Ma'am!" Happy replied while hiding behind Natsu.
"But instead of stopping Zuko, I tried to let him get away. Azula saw this and she didn't like it, so she did what all good friends do; punish me with lighting." Everyone except for Ty Lee, Suki, Sokka, Zuko and Natsu were surprised. "So before Azula could get to the business of killing me. Ty Lee here, chi-blocked her at the last minute, after that we were arrested for treason."
Suki walked to the group with Sokka. "So what's your story?" Gray asked Suki.
"Yeah, what happened after we all split?" Sokka asked.
"Well, I was the only one of the Kyoshi Warriors taken to the Boiling Rock prison, the others were in another prison somewhere in the Fire Nation. When I found out where they were, I decided to break them out, but I wasn't alone I had help from the remaining members of the White Lotus. When we found the girls, Mai and Ty Lee were imprisoned with them. When we got out, the White Lotus decided to cover our escape. We passed through the forest and got back to the beaches where a ship was waiting for us, but before we could board it… Azula showed up…
----(Flashback Begins)
Mai, Ty Lee and the Kyoshi Warriors in each of their regular clothing were passing through shrubs and bushes to end up on a beach where they all saw a ship with the Earth Kingdom insignia on it.
"There! That's our way out!" Suki yelled.
"I don't get it, this seems way to easy… sure the White Lotus are covering us, but I expected more from the Fire Nation." Mai said. As if fate had responded to Mai's words, a huge fire ball landed in front of their path."
"They found us!?" Ty Lee yelled.
"Of course they found us!" Mai yelled, quickly making sure she had her knives in between her fingers. "I can bet that she can't be too far!"
"Right you are Mai!" they heard. Soon they were surrounded by Fire Nation tanks. A komodo rhino walked to the scene. A teenage girl disembarked from the rhino, her body was covered in Fire Nation armor, she was light skinned and had raven black hair that was tied in a top knot with the Fire Lord's headpiece behind it, she had two short bangs going down the sides of her face.
"This is funny; I wouldn't have expected you to come in person. Are soldiers in short supply these days?" Mai asked.
"Is that anyway to talk to your Fire Lord?" the girl asked with a smirk. She looked to the Kyoshi Warriors. "I see you're parading around with the Avatar's Fan girls. You know I single handedly beat you before, what's to stop me from doing the same thing, now that you have nowhere to go." When Azula said this the captain of the Earth Kingdom ship was thrown off the ship and was tied up. "Do yourselves a favor and give yourselves up. Mai, Ty Lee. It's not too late you know, we can still go back to the Fire Nation together." She held her hand out.
Mai threw her knife to the girl's cheek which grazed across it causing a cut that drew blood. "If you think I'm going to go back with you Azula? You must be crazier than I thought! You have everything you want right? What do you need us for? Now you just stand there and think our 'friendship' still means something? Let's not forget you almost shot me with your lightning." The other Firebenders prepared to blast them with their fire but Azula held her hand up signaling them to hold their attacks. "If you want to take me back to the Fire Nation that you rule, you're going to have to kill me first!"
Azula folded her arms. "And, what say you, Ty Lee?" She stood next to Mai while giving a slight glare to Azula. "Fine, then the both of you can just die!" Azula shot a bolt of lightning to the two which caused an explosion where the two stood. When the smoke cleared, Mai and Ty Lee were still standing, bracing themselves. Suki was in front of them with her shield extended, revealing that she blocked the lightning strike.
"No need to thank me." Suki said fully getting to her feet.
"I wasn't going to." Mai said in her stoic tone.
"Thanks, that means a lot." Ty Lee thanked.
One of the Fire Nation soldiers looked to Azula. "Fire Lord Azula should we attack now?"
"No, I will handle them myself." The Firebenders backed off, and the tanks moved away from the girls. Azula analyzed her opponents. Five Kyoshi Warriors which she beat before, a knife girl and a Chi-blocker. That makes seven against one; she liked those odds, especially when they were all Non-benders. "Who of you is brave enough to fight me one on one?!"
"We're not that stupid Azula!" Suki spat.
"We'll you can't blame a girl for trying." The Firebender shot flames from her fists and put them behind her, propelling herself to the girls. Three of the Kyoshi warriors threw their fans to Azula which she effortlessly avoided. She jumped high, flipping several times before landing on the ground which caused a wave of blue flames to speed to the girls. The Kyoshi warriors put up their shields to stop the flames from getting to them, when the flames were gone; four knives sped to Azula, which she quickly avoided. When she counted the girls in her mind, she noticed one of them was missing. Ty Lee. Azula heard fast moving footsteps behind her she jumped back avoiding her jabs Azula was throwing flame arcs to Ty Lee but she was easily avoiding them. Azula ducked after avoiding a jab to her shoulder, she tripped the smaller girl to the ground, she stood over her with blue flames in her hand. "It was nice knowing you." Before anything else could happen a knife was thrown through Azula's top knot in her hair causing her medium long hair to fall. Her Fire Lord headdress fell to the sand. This distracted Azula enough for Ty Lee to get up and kick Azula in the chest. The Fire Lord had murder in her eyes, she made a huge fire cyclone surround her which made Ty Lee back away from her.
Ty Lee joined Mai and Suki. "Thanks for saving me Mai."
"We're even, okay." She said still not showing any emotion.
Ty Lee noticed the rest of the Kyoshi warriors were gone. "Huh? Where did the girls go?"
"There was a boat on the other side of the island that they can take. The three of us can take Azula on."
"Right!" Ty Lee confidently nodded.
"Well it will be satisfying to knock the Fire Lord down to size." Mai said.
They all heard laughing. When the girls turned, they saw Azula holding the boat captain by his neck with her left arm, her right fingers had blue flames shooting from them. "You think you're so confident, don't you? Here's how this is going to go. You're going to surrender or the old man goes to the Spirit World!"
"You're bluffing!" Suki calling Azula's bluff.
"Besides you always lie, what makes this time any different." Mai added.
Ty Lee looked at Azula's eyes, she could see that they were different from before, normally she would bluff a situation like this… but not now, something was wrong and Ty Lee could see it. 
"No! She's going to do it! I know her bluffs and this isn't one of them!" Ty Lee said.
"You sure?" Suki asked Ty Lee replied with a nod. "Fine. Mai?"
"You win this time Azula." Mai said as she threw the knives she had into the sand.
"Good answer, and you were right Ty Lee, I wasn't bluffing you're going to have to make a choice. You or him." She said with a smirk.
"What?" Azula pushed the old man away from her before charging lightning in her two fingers. Her two fingers were aimed at the old man. "NO!" Ty Lee screamed. She quickly put herself between Azula and the man when the lighting discharged from her fingers.
"Ty Lee! NO!" Mai yelled.
A yellow glint in the sky was seen, suddenly a huge beam of light hit the ground and made a huge burst that forced away all the Fire Nation soldiers and Azula away from the three girls. Ty Lee was unharmed as the yellow light was over her, Mai and Suki. The old man was outside the light and he looked confused.
"Get out of here!" Suki yelled the man ran from the beach.
"Hey, guys. Take a look at this." On the sand they were standing on a huge yellow magic seal that was seen with spinning symbols. "What's going on?"
"I don't know, but it only looks to be affecting us." Suki quickly figured out.
Azula who was blown back by the light hitting the ground looked to them. "What are you waiting for you fools!? Attack!" huge fire streams and blasts were seen flying towards them. The fire projectiles strangely didn't come close to the girls. The light that surrounded them was acting as a barrier.
"Maybe this is a good thing…" Ty Lee figured. Suddenly they began to feel light and watched their feet float off the ground. "What's happening!?"
"Hey!" Mai said getting Suki's attention while they were floating up to the sky. "This ever happen to you?!"
"Nope! This is new."
Azula watched as the three girls were floating in the huge beam of light getting as it was stretching into the night sky. 
…
Suki's eyes flickered, and they slowly opened. She observed her surroundings, they appeared to resemble a forest, but this looked nothing like the forest she's been to in the Earth Kingdom. 
"You're finally awake." She heard. Suki saw Mai leaning on a tree. "Before you ask, I don't know what happened either."
She saw Ty Lee was still asleep beside her. "Well you two made it here safely, what about Azula and the Fire Nation, what of the other Kyoshi Warriors."
"I hate repeating myself."
"Any idea of where we are?"
"No area of the Fire Nation that I'm aware of. I can be pretty sure that we are quite far from where we were."
"What makes you say that?"
"Follow me." Suki lifted Ty Lee on her back and followed Mai. She led her to a knocked out huge anthropomorphic creature with green fur, and hearts on its arms, it had a pointy head with a tail, its ears were pointed like an elf. Suki cringed at the sight of it. "Sickening isn't it? When it was awake, it was hitting on me. So I had to teach it a lesson, but more to the point, have you ever seen anything like that before?" Suki shook her head. 
"That light brought us here. Do you think it was done on purpose?"
"Maybe, it was done right after Ty Lee was going to take a lightning strike for that old man, so that tells me that we were brought here intentionally ."
"So it looks like we have to find out why." 
(Flashback End)
----Suki continued with her story. "After that we found Magnolia and eventually Fairy Tail."
"After looking at their clothing, I figured they were from your world." Levy said. "So Master offered them a place in Fairy Tail."
"Azula sounds scary." Happy said.
"Yes, be afraid, be very afraid." Mai said.
"What do you think she is doing now?" Erza asked.
"Probably making a machine that will get to her and the Fire Nation to Earthland by absorbing the energy of puppies and children's laughter." Sokka joked.
Gray pinched the bridge of his nose. "See, this is why people don't take you seriously."
Makarov cleared his throat to get the other's attention. "We also have one more member. Come on, say hi to everyone." Makarov said.
"One more." Ash said in surprise, before looking to the side. 
"You." He growled in frustration, getting into a fighting stance. "Why's this guy here after everything he did to us?!"
Gajeel, the Dragon Slayer who destroyed their guild was glaring at them, his black Fairy Tail mark on his left shoulder.
"So it looks like he's back." Toph said.
"Gajeel!" Natsu yelled while he, Gray, Katara and Toph got into fighting positions.
"Why is he…"
"Wait! Juvia recommended him!" the water mage revealed getting in front of them.
"I'm sorry, you did what!?" Katara yelled.
Erza had an angry look on her face. "Juvia is one thing, but he's the very person who destroyed the guild!"
"You're telling me you just let him in!? You trying to get us killed?!" Zuko angrily said.
Gajeel simply looked away.
"Now, now…" Makarov began. "They say yesterday's enemies are tomorrow's friends, yes?"
"What's next? Azula becomes part of Fairy Tail?"
"I get the whole keep your enemies closer deal, but I'm pretty sure this isn't what anyone had in mind." Toph said.
"Y-yeah." Levy said. "I-I d-don't mind a-at all."
"Yeah, I'll believe you when you're not hiding behind the tables."
Natsu slammed his fist on Gajeel's table. "You've got to be kidding me! You expect me to go on jobs with this guy?"
"Don't worry." Gajeel began, glaring back at Natsu. "I'm not sharing my work."
"Cold as steel!" Natsu yelled in response to Gajeel.
"I just want jobs, that's all." He said standing up while keeping eye contact with his fellow Dragon Slayer. "I can't believe I ended up here in the most annoying guild of all."
"Say that again!"
Juvia began to explain Gajeel's case though it looked like she was nervous as sweat was flying off her. 
"Poor Gajeel was always all alone and Juvia couldn't leave him like that, so… It's not that kind of relationship though, really!" She quickly said looking at Gray.
"Hope is wasted on the hopeless." Toph said referring to Juvia.
Makarov began to talk. "It is the role of we elders to guide youth from the wrong path to the right one. Deep down, I'm sure he is good… or so I'd like to believe." He made sure to say the last part softly.
"If that is your decision Master, then we will accept it. But I think it is best to watch him carefully for now." Erza said.
"As you wish."
Natsu and Gajeel were glaring at each other while growling at one another like mad dogs. They both hear footsteps coming towards them. They both see Aang walking to them. The airbender has a faint smile and extends his hand to Gajeel prompting a hand shake which shocked everyone.
"Huh? Put your hand down, I ain't shaking it." Gajeel coldly said.
Aang put his hand down but continued to look at Gajeel. "Sorry, just trying to be nice."
"Hey, it's not like I want to be your buddy or anything."
"That's kinda rude."
"Look kid, the only reason I'm here is to get work. I hate this stupid guild and everyone in it, but times are tough so I had no choice but to join.
Aang gave a sigh he knew that Gajeel wasn't going to co-opearate. "Fine, whatever you say but-"
Gajeel waved his hand. "Yeah, yeah; I'll keep your little secret."
Natsu was walking away with his arms folded. "I just don't feel at home here anymore…"
Suddenly the lights went out in the entire guild. Mira, wearing a yellow dress appeared on the stage while holding a guitar. Aang was the first to see. "Hey Mira. We just got back."
"Welcome back." She said, smiling. "I will sing a song to commemorate the return of Aang and Natsu's teams." She strummed on her guitar and soon the entire guild began cheering.
While Mira was singing her song all the members of Team Natsu and Team Avatar were smiling… all except Natsu as he lay down on the table looking annoyed. The song from Mira was so beautiful that is even caused Mai to smile, not a huge one, but big enough for Ty Lee standing next to her to notice. Though all this Makarov was thinking about how everyone in Fairy Tail was growing up and thought it could be time for him to retire.
When her song ended everyone cheered. "Great! Who's next?" Macao asked.
Toph gained a smirk on her face. "Oh trust me, this will be hilarious."
A spotlight on the stage appeared; the figure appearing on stage shocked everyone. Gajeel was on stage wearing a white suit with a matching hat, sharp shades were over his eyes. He held a heavy metallic guitar with very large chains going down the back. "I wrote this song myself." He said. "Its called 'Best Friend' I hope you like it."
Many of the guild members were throwing their food at the stage. "I hope you choke!"
"And why are you dolled up in a suit?"
"Boo!" Sokka yelled.
"Uh Sokka, you weren't there when we fought Phantom." Aang said.
"Yeah, but I just want to be a part of the crowd." He looked to Mai. "Hey hand me one of your knives to throw."
"How about I thrown them at you instead." She asked not changing her facial sour facial expression. "It would alleviate the boredom."
Sokka sank to the table. "Okay, no knives I get it."
To say Gajeel's singing was horrible would be an understatement, his singing was so bad that most of the guild members were paralyzed with the terror that their ears were being subjected to… well almost all of them.
"Go for it Gajeel!" Juvia yelled.
"Woo! Show that guitar who's boss Metalhead!" Toph cheered. Max, Wakaba and Macao cheered with her.
"Toph! Who's side are you on!?" Katara said.
"Hey, guy's down on his luck." Katara was slightly shocked when Toph showed sympathy for the Iron Dragon Slayer. "What? I'm not going to kick a man when he's down."
"I've never heard a song this crappy before!" Natsu yelled covering his ears.
"We're in agreement!" Aang yelled.
Gajeel's guitar was thrown at both of them which caused them to fall to the ground. Natsu quickly got up and glared at Gajeel. "You wanna go!?"
"Shooby do bop!" Gajeel screamed as he and Natsu's legs connected in the air as they began their fight. A dust cloud was made as they fought.
"What do you think you're doing!?"
"I'm shooby doo bopping, you jerk!"
Ty Lee was about to spring into action. "Okay, I'm going to stop this!" but before she could. Toph held her arm. "Probably not a good idea, you see a chain reaction is about to begin."
True to Toph's prediction a beer mug hit Natsu in the face during his fight. "Hey! Who threw that!" He looked to Gray and Erza.
"Natsu, you idiot! You're goin' overboard!" Gray yelled. However in standing up he made the deadly mistake of bumping Erza forcing her strawberry cake to fall to the floor.
"M-my s-strawberry c-cake…" Erza stuttered while she shivered. A foot stepped on it. It belonged to Elfman.
"Listen up all of you! Real men don't make such a damn racket!" He yelled.
"SILENCE!" Suddenly he was kicked in the face by none other than Erza who requipped into her regular armor
Fireballs and Iron pillars were destroying the guild furniture.
"Somebody stop them!" Macao yelled pointing at the dust cloud that Natsu and Gajeel were making.
"I'll cool them off!" Katara threw all of the water she had in her water skin to try and stop the fight, but she missed them and instead her water bullet flew into Cana making her drop her barrel full of beer, it shattered as soon as it hit the ground. Fairy Tail's resident heavy drinker glared at the water bender. "Oops… sorry."
"You brat! You want me to take more money from you! It's bad enough I can never drink in peace, but you have to ruin my drinking as well." She held a card in her hand that made a red glow. She threw it to Katara but a huge gust of air blew it away to hit another group of guys and it exploded on them.
"Sorry, but that's not going to happen!" Aang said glaring at Cana.
"He's become one of them…" Katara whined with a sweatdrop.
The group of guys that the card exploded on got mad and ran to Aang.
"The Avatar attacked us!"
"He thinks he's so big, we'll show him."
"That's my cue!" suddenly Ty Lee ran over and threw many jabs at the men, she was punching them so fast that her arms couldn't be seen. The entire group of men fell. 
"No need to thank me." She said with a giggle.
"What kind of magic was that?" One of the men said with drool coming from his mouth as he now couldn't move.
Erza was on the war path as she lifted a table.
Lucy, Happy and Mai were hiding behind the bar.
Makarov was bawling like a baby because he would end up having to pay for all these damages.
Natsu saw all the fighting going on and smiled. "Now this is more like Fairy Tail!" he was hit with an Iron Pillar on his cheek.
After Gajeel smirked a rock pillar impacted him sending him flying across the room. "I'm all fired up Metalhead!" Toph yelled.
"That's my line!" Natsu yelled in an annoyed manner.
As per usual, the fighting in the Fairy Tail guild continues.
----Hours later at the South Gate park Gajeel was called to the park by Droy, Jet, Ash, Katara and Toph with Levy hiding behind a tree.
"What's the deal with calling me out here? I was thinking about going out on a job." Gajeel said.
"Sorry, but we have other plans." Toph said cracking her knuckles.
"We owe you some payback!" Ash yelled.
"A job?" Jet started.
"You're the one who destroyed the guild!" Droy added. "You've got no right to a job!"
"You may be able to fool Master Makarov, but not us." Katara yelled. "And especially not me!"
"You guys sure are petty." Gajeel said.
"Excuse me!?" Katara yelled.
"Stop it you guys… I don't hold any grudges at all…" Levy nervously said.
"You can't seriously forgive him, after what he did do you!?" Katara yelled. "Well I'm just going to say what we all feel. You can't be trusted!"
"This is how we…" Jet began.
"Settle the score…" Droy finished.
Gajeel smirked before looking at Toph. "So what's your excuse, twerp?"
"I did say I would want payback if I ever say you again, remember?" Toph replied while cracking her knuckles with a smirk.
"I like ya kid, you got spunk."
"Well I'm the first person in the guild you like, that's progress but… you still gotta go down!"
"You won't be feeling confident for long!" Jet yelled as he sped to Gajeel in a very quick motion and kneed him in the chest.
Drop threw four seeds into the ground. "Secret Seeds!" the seed quickly grew into vines with fists at the end of them. "Knuckle Plant!" the plants began to punch Gajeel all over his body.
"Falcon Heaven's Soar!" Jet yelled he threw a very swift kick to Gajeel sending his across the floor making his scratch the grass in the park.
"Okay guys…" Toph began with a smirk. "Thanks for softening him up for us!" Toph stepped hard on the ground which made an explosion of earth force Gajeel into the air. One he began to fall he felt a lasso of water wrap around his waist. Katara had all the water she had covering her right arm and used it like a rope. She slammed Gajeel into the floor of the park creating a crater.
"What are you playing at?" Droy asked as Gajeel had already looked beaten with many bruises on his body.
Toph quickly realized something. "He's holding back… but why?"
"What kind of bullying is this?" They all heard.
"Stay out of matters that don't concern you, Laxus." Ash demanded. He had no reason to get involved in the situation.
Ignoring him, Laxus walked closer to Gajeel. "So gramps let someone who busted up our guild join us?" Laxus now had an expression of pure anger. "That's exactly why people look down on us! You little piece of…" Gajeel grunted. "On the road back to town, I heard things in bars here and there that really pissed me off. 'Fairy Tail ain't anything special…'? 'Those guys are already through…'?" His headphones sparked electricity and a colossal lightning strike of whitish yellow lightning struck Gajeel, the lightning burst was so powerful that it covered his entire body. Gajeel gave out a very loud scream.
Katara's eyes grew when she saw how powerful his lighting was. Compared to Azula, she can't even hold a candle to him.
"It's your fault!" Laxus yelled as he punched the ground making a wave of electricity speed to Gajeel. This formed a wheel of lighting which forced Gajeel to slam into a tree in a huge explosion. The Iron Dragon slayer already looked defeated.
"Hey! Lightning Rod! I think he gets the point! Knock it off would ya!?" Toph angrily said to Laxus.
"Stop, Laxus! That's going too far!" Jet yelled.
"I knew Laxus was crazy strong, but this is so one sided." Droy said.
Laxus began to walk to Gajeel. "Hey, guys now would be the perfect time to tell you that Gajeel was holding back." Toph said. "I know Gajeel when he is serious."
"So this whole time he… but why?" Katara asked.
Levy had her hands over her mouth, as this was still in awe of Laxus' power. "Because her wanted us to recognize him as an ally. He just took it, without defending himself!"
Gajeel was slowly getting up but Laxus began to step on his head continuously with electric sparks ejecting from his boot with each step. "I'll teach you what happens to anybody who takes on Fairy Tail!"
Katara clenched her right fist. "No, this is wrong. Even Gajeel… doesn't deserve this!" she ran over to where the beating was taking place. Before Laxus could finish Gajeel with a punch he felt his arm behind held back and saw Katara holding it back. "Stop Laxus! This has gone far enough!"
"You… dare… touch… me… YOU WEAKLING!" He used that arm to smack Katara's entire body to a tree. The impact was so rough that some drops of blood ejected from Katara's mouth.
"You're gonna regret doing that." Ash declared as he ran forward with a light covered fist, before punching Laxus in the face.
Toph had both her fists clenched and her bangs were hiding her eyes. "Funny, I was going to say the same thing about you! Only without the messiah part."
Levy, Jet and Droy look completely shocked at what Toph is saying to Laxus. 
"What was that!?" Laxus asked in an angry tone.
"You heard me, you damn coward!" This began to infuriate Laxus. "The only reason you didn't help against Phantom was because you were scared!" Levy, Jet and Droy were shocked at how Toph was talking to Laxus. "Yeah! That's right! I said it! You said that we were bullying Gajeel earlier, but we wanted to teach him a lesson and you took it too far! He's not even fighting back yet you still decide to beat the ever living crap out of him. If anything, you're the weakling!" Laxus' eyes grew wide at those words. "If you're willing to kick a man when he's down then that makes you the weakling!" Levy, Jet, Droy and now Katara who had her eyes open were surprised that Toph was telling Laxus off like this but she wasn't done. She pointed to Laxus. "If anyone doesn't belong in this guild, it's you!"
Laxus' headphones were sparking. "SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH! YOU LITTLE BRAT!" Laxus forces a colossal lightning storm on Toph which engulfed her in the same manner as Gajeel. Toph gave a very loud, pain induced scream, once the storm ended Levy ran over to Toph to see if the was okay. She was covered in bruises, just like Gajeel, but Toph's words stung Laxus and he shot a huge thunder bolt to Levy and Toph. Gajeel's eyes widened.
The thunderbolt hit but Levy and Toph were protected. Smoke filled the area and Gajeel stood in front of both girls with his arm transformed into a metal pillar to redirect the lighting to him, this made the impact point of where the thunderbolt hit glow like a burning metal.
"Gajeel!" Levy said, surpised.
"Metalhead?" Toph said in a more confused tone.
Katara saw what happened and this was a surprise to her. "He protected them?"
Gajeel was shivering but he managed to stand tall. "You satisfied? I have work to do." The Iron Dragon slayed walked away from the scene.
"Uh…" Levy began trying to talk to Gajeel.
"Leave me alone." He said walking away from them.
Laxus walked out of the park as well.
Levy looked down at Toph. "Toph? You okay?"
Toph sat up but looked like she was in pain. "Yeah, I'll be fine." Jet and Droy help Katara over to them. "You alright Katara?" Toph asked with a voice that had worry.
Katara smiled at Toph. "Yeah, I'm alright. Also don't tell Aang or Sokka about this, I don't want them freaking out." Toph and Levy nodded in response. They all look to Laxus walking out of the park. "But something tells me it's not Gajeel we should be keeping an eye on."
"I second that." Ash nodded. "I have no idea what Laxus intends to do, but I'm going to stop it."
He began planning a counter to whatever Laxus was scheming. 
…
Laxus was walking in Magnolia. "Idiocy, this isn't the Fairy Tail I have in mind." He very tightly clenched his fists showing his veins. "I can't take this any longer! Fairy Tail will be mine!" He angrily thought as he now intended to take Fairy Tail and make it his.