The Fighting Festival

Just outside of Lucy's apartment, Natsu was climbing the window to get to Lucy's floor. Happy was flying beside him. "You think Lucy is home, Happy?" he asked.
"Last time I saw her she was talking to Katara and Ty Lee, so we should be safe." Happy replied.
As he was about to climb into the open window, Aang saw him as he happened to be walking through the same street. "Hey! Natsu, what are you doing?" Aang asked slightly tilting his head.
"I'm trying to get into Lucy's room." The Dragon Slayer replied.
"Yeah…" A sweat drop appeared on the side of Aang's head. "I believe there is something called a knocking. You should try it sometime."
Suddenly Natsu's stomach was grumbling and he looked sick for some reason. 
"What gives Natsu, you're not on transportation." Happy said.
"I feel sick…" Natsu let go of the ledge and was falling to the ground.
"Natsu!" Aang blew to the area Natsu would land to make an air spout so he wouldn't slam into the ground. "You don't look too good, we better take you home." Aang tried to lift Natsu on his back and found that he was quite heavy, but the Avatar managed to carry the sick Dragon Slayer from the scene with Happy flying beside them.
----Later; Lucy, Katara and Plue had entered their apartment at close to night time, the three of them were looking around while being cautious of their surrounding expecting something like an ambush. When it looked to be safe, both girls sighed next to each other while Plue stood there shivering.
"No one's here." Lucy said in relief. "And why do I come home always feeling tense?"
"Well, Phantom Lord, That whole business with Jellal… not to mention that Natsu almost always breaks into this place." Katara said.
"Yeah. I have been through a lot."
"I'll get started on dinner."
"Great. I'll take a bath then." Lucy headed to the bathroom while Plue followed her. The blonde mage was in the tub while her body and hair was wrapped in a towels. "Ahh. It's like I'm back from the dead." Lucy attempting a comedic conversation began to talk to herself. "Who are you calling 'dead', you?!" she was quickly embarrassed by her actions. "Comedy isn't funny when you are doing both parts." She saw Plue in the water, he now looked deflated, his long nose was hanging. "Wow, you actually do wilt if you get soaked in hot water. She began playing with Plue's deflated body. "How cute." She laughed.
After taking her bath, she and Katara ate dinner afterwards. Later Lucy was catching up on her writing while in the background Katara was practicing some waterbending techniques. After the three of them brushed their teeth together, both were proceeding to bed. Katara lied down on Lucy's couch with a blanket over her.
"Goodnight, Lucy."
"Goodnight." Lucy replied now climbing into bed but she felt a lump from underneath her covers, she jumped back off the bed and saw an arm sticking out from underneath the covers to the side of the bed. "Something isn't right here." She pulled on the arm and falling out of the bed was the annoyed figure of Toph Beifong who was now upside down on her head. "KYAAAAAA!"
"Hey, Blondie! Some of us are trying to sleep here!" Toph said getting up, but she noticed Lucy's enraged face. "What? I thought you would be used to people breaking in here by now!
Lucy replied to Toph's statement in anger. "One: I am not! Two: This is my house! Three: This is my bed!"
"Shh. You'll wake the neighbors…" Toph said with a smirk.
"GET OUT!"
Toph lied back onto Lucy's bed with her face looking up at her ceiling. "Nope, not happening."
Katara walked to the bed. "Toph! This isn't right. You need to leave!"
Toph sighed. "Alright fine… oh right." Toph jumped off the bed and onto her feet. "I almost forgot the reason I came here." Toph took a rolled up flyer from underneath Lucy's bed. "Twinkle Toes heard you guys needed money for rent, so he asked me to give this to you."
"What is it?" Lucy asked.
"Well… it feels like a sheet of paper..." Toph said while waving her right hand in front of her face "...but I guess he was referring to what's ON the sheet of paper." Both girls sweat dropped and looked at the poster. Katara took the poster and began to read it. "I just had a crazy idea. We should have a tournament to see who the strongest in the guild is." Toph said with excitement.
"Hey, I'm against ranking ourselves against our friends." Lucy said.
"Only because you'd lose!"
"Hey! I would not!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Guys this is a poster for the Magnolia harvest festival." Katara said.
"Wait, Aang said it was going to help us with our rent how does this…" Lucy's eyes darted to the bottom right of the poster. "'Miss Fairy Tail Contest!?'" Lucy exclaimed.
"Check it out, the prize for the winner is 500,000 jewel!"
"500,000! That's seven months' worth of rent! And it's perfect for me!"
"Oh yeah… Now I remember why Twinkle Toes told me to give it to you." Toph had her finger on her chin as if she was remembering something. "Oh and Mira, Cana and Ty Lee are participating so… good luck, you're gonna need it.
Lucy now contemplated her thoughts. "Mira… She used to do photo spreads for the Weekly Sorcerer…" she imagined Mira in her swimsuits that she modeled for the Weekly Sorcerer. "But… I'm younger! So with my fresh new charm…" "I CAN DO THIS! I'm gonna win this thing! Oh, yeah!" Lucy exclaimed with excitement.
"Interesting…" Toph began to say. "So you're against ranking your friends… unless money is involved huh?"
Suddenly Lucy appeared with a chocolate bar in her hand. "Toph? Would you like some chocolate?
"Bribing me? Scandalous." Toph said as she took the chocolate bar and began eating it.
"Hey, Katara. You should compete too… then we will have a better chance at winning!"
"Uh… I don't know Luce, I'm mean look who I'm up against…"
"C'mon, don't think like that. You're beautiful, Katara." Katara blushed at Lucy's kind words. Lucy then whispered in her ear. "Plus, you want to look good for Aang… don't you?" steam puffed out of Katara's ears and her entire face turned red.
"LET'S WIN THIS THING!" Katara exclaimed.
"Great, the only thing more annoying than one Lucy is two Lucys." Toph muttered.
----Inside Natsu and Happy's house. Both Aang and Happy were watching Natsu, he was sweating but his condition didn't look too serious.
"Happy, will he be okay?" Aang asked.
"Yeah, this is just a side effect from when he ate Etherion." Aang flashed back to his and Natsu's battle with Jellal.
"Oh yeah. I remember you told me about that." Aang looked at Happy with a questioned face.
"Aye, he also got this way when he tried to eat Laxus' lightning." Aang remembers when he redirected a lightning attack from Laxus.
"Laxus…? That guy? But why would Natsu do that?"
"Natsu would always challenge Laxus in the past. Although he was wiped out instantly, of course." Aang begins to think. "Huh, is something wrong Aang?"
"I'm surprised that it didn't work." Happy gave a confusing face to Aang. "Well it's just, he ate Etherion which was infused with other elements and yet he got a huge power boost from it. So if he can somehow absorb other elements, I thought maybe Lightning wouldn't be so hard. Plus it was always my understanding that fire is sort of like lightning."
"What make you say that?"
"Firebenders in our world have the ability to generate lightning."
"Really?!" Happy said surprised by this revelation. "Can Zuko use lightning?"
Aang shook his head. "But I know he knows how to redirect lightning, and he taught that to me."
"Is that how you were able to shoot Laxus' lightning back at him?" Happy asked. Aang nodded to Happy's question.
"But, Zuko's uncle, Iroh can use lightning."
"Can you use lightning?"
"Well, that's a silly question, but no I can't. Why do you ask?"
"Aren't you technically a Firebender?" Happy asked. Aang thought about what Happy said and looked at his right hand. "You make a good point there, I wonder if I could pull something like that off… however…" he had a quick flashback to when Azula shot lightning at his back while he was in the Avatar State. "It's a not a power I would like. If lightning hits you in the right place, you could die from it. It's a power made to kill if you ask me."
"Do you know of any other Firebenders that can use lightning?"
"Just three, but all of them are against us right now."
"Is Ozai one of them?" Aang nodded.
"But there is also that girl who is part of the group hunting me, and Azula."
"Azula?" Happy remembered Mai, Ty Lee and Suki talking about Azula. He even remembered Mai's words. "Yes, be afraid, be very afraid." Happy began shivering. "Is she as bad as Mai says she is."
"Still not convinced?" Aang turned around and lifted the back of his shirt to show Happy his burned scar on his back. "You remember this scar? Azula did this to me."
"I'm sure you can beat Azula now!" Happy cheerfully said. "You can use Magic now!"
Aang quickly thought about what Happy said. "Hmm, you really think so?"
"Aye! You're a Fairy Tail wizard now! I'm sure Natsu can also take her down!"
"Natsu?" "Then again, he did help me defeat Jellal, and he was even scarier and more powerful than Azula." "You know what? I'm sure he can, despite how scary Azula is."
"Erza can also be pretty scary." Happy reminded.
Aang sweat dropped. "Yeah, don't remind me." He replied with a sigh.
"Mira also used to be scary back in the day. Back then she was called 'Demon' ."
"Mira was what!?" Aang exclaimed. With Mira being so sweet his mind couldn't process the fact that she could be as scary and fierce as Erza. His mind pictured Mira and Azula with an equals sign between them, but a line quickly slashed through the equals sign and a buzzer went off in his head. "She-Devil? Sorry. I just can't see it."
"Maybe we should have a tournament to determine who the strongest in Fairy Tail is." The blue cat suggested.
"It sounds… like an interesting idea… but knowing our destructive streak, we'd probably destroy the whole of Magnolia before we can have a winner."
"Aye!" Happy happily agreed. He noticed Aang taking an interest in Natsu's scarf.
"I have another question. Why does Natsu always carry this scarf around?"
"That scarf was from Igneel, so he always wears it."
"Oh, well I can see why it must be so important to him." He saw Natsu's condition get slightly better. "I would call Katara to see if she can heal Natsu, but I'm sure he'll be fine by morning. We should get some sleep."
"Aye!" The lights turned off in the house, as Aang and Happy now retired for the night.
----Mai and Ty Lee meanwhile were walking back to their accommodations that they had at Fairy Hills. 
"Isn't this guild fun, Mai?" Ty Lee asked
"Sure… if you like flying beer mugs and relentless fighting. Then yeah, this guild is a blast." Mai sarcastically said.
"You're taking this whole situation surprisingly well."
"Something or someone brought us here, I would say it is way too much of a coincidence that we ended up where Zuko and The Avatar had disappeared to all this time."
"Do you think Azula will follow us here?"
"I talked with Levy. Apparently there are four people from our world looking to kill the Avatar. If they can't get the job done, you can bet Azula will personally come here to finish the job, and most likely bring the biggest army she can."
"I wonder… will we ever find a way back?" Ty Lee said looking down.
"It would be better for us if we stayed here for a while, there is no doubt that we would be hunted down as fugitives, enemies of the Fire Nation."
"So we're going to stay here and help the Avatar?"
"Back at the boiling rock, I made my decision to help Zuko, and then you got swept along with me when you attacked Azula."
"Well… I just couldn't let Azula just…"
"I know…" Mai smiled at her friend. "Also, thanks for that. I wouldn't be here if you didn't do what you did back there."
The energetic acrobat jumped on Mai to engulf her in a hug. "Well we can be traitors of the Fire Nation together!" she cheered.
"Mai!" they both heard. The girls saw Zuko and it looked like he was running to find them. "I'm glad I found you."
"Zuko? What are you doing here?" Mai asked. "Actually it doesn't matter, Ty Lee and I were going to… Huh…?" Mai sees a yellow dotted figure of Ty Lee where she used to be. "Great!"
"Mai, we need to talk."
"If you are going to tell me that you left me another break-up letter telling me you left to come to this world. I won't be amused."
"Mai, I had to leave to-"
"Save it…You don't need to explain yourself twice, looks like we're both traitors to the Fire Nation. It's great to see you're safe though."
"Also, why did you help us back there at the Boiling Rock?" He asked.
"Maybe because despite you being an absolute jerk and everything, I wouldn't like seeing you dead."
"So that means you forgive me?"
"Does this answer your question?" Mai walked up to Zuko and planted her lips on his. Zuko's eyes grew wide but he finally kissed her back. Soon Mai ended the kiss. She had her palms on his chest. "So yeah, we're good." Mai then shot a threatening glare at Zuko. "But don't ever. Break up with me. Again!" they both hugged.
From behind a wall Ty Lee looked at the two and pumped her fist. 
"Yes!" She whispered.
----Meanwhile in the town of Shirotsume, inside the building of a Dark Guild by the name of Ghoul Spirit, they were being attacked.
Inside the building which looked like a guild hall a person was thrown back by someone while the rest of the onlookers view the situation.
Three figures appeared from the shadows. On the left, a tall figure was wearing a long sleeved body suit on the top half of his body it was black with white vertical stripes with images of skulls on his shoulders, his eyes were covered by a visor that old knights would use, he had green arm bandages. He had dark blue pants that were covered by a light blue skirt that split four ways, they each had a black 'x' on them.
The middle figure wore a red coat with light pink accents, a black belt was on his torso, he had a rapier on the left side of his body with a Fairy Tail emblem on it. A green Fairy Tail insignia was seen on his left hand. He had long green hair with two spikes protruding from his sides. He was light skinned in complexion and had a beauty mark under his left eye.
On the far right, a woman with light skin and light brown hair that was tied with a band that had a purple rose. She stood with a fan in front of her lower face. She wore clear glasses that covered her eyes. She was wearing a short green dress with dark green accents, long green gloves covered her hands to her forarms, and she had dark, sea green stockings. She also appeared to have pinkish white wings on her back.
The guild members began charging to the three intruders.
"Honestly, what does a guild like yours, that sneaks among the shadows, think they are doing making fun of an official guild…?" the woman in green asked. She lowered her glasses to reveal her eyes and in doing so, the two men speeding to them were frozen in place. Soon they were turned to stone.
"Get 'em!" A member of Ghoul Spirit yelled. Everyone now proceeded to jump the three intruders.
The tall figure had a grin on his face. "Go get them, babies!" He yelled, suddenly five totem stumps with different faces appeared behind the tall figure and they sped to the oncoming Dark Guild members. Each of the totems was blasting green energy beams at the members. Once he saw the carnage they were producing, he began laughing.
"That's enough, Bickslow." The source of the voice came from the green haired figure in the red coat.
"Huh, that's it?" Bickslow asked looking at the green haired figure.
"How dare they form a guild as weak as they are?" the green haired figure said as all the members of the guild were now on the floor, defeated.
"My babies ain't had enough fun yet." Bickslow said.
"More! More!" the 'babies' chanted.
"Then I've got something perfect for you…" He moved some hair from blue eyes revealing his green Fairy Tail emblem on his right hand.
The woman who had her face covered with her fan was next to respond. "Oh, you mean what Laxus was talking about?" she revealed a Fairy Tail insignia on her chest just above her right breast.
"Oh yeah! I've been waiting for this moment forever! So have my babies!" he outstretched his tongue revealing a black Fairy Tail insignia on it.
"Just three of them, wiped us all out!" One of the beaten members of Ghoul Spirit said.
Another member recognized the three. "That's Fairy Tail's Thunder God Tribe… Laxus' personal guard!"
…
Meanwhile in an unknown location Laxus was sitting on a rock with a wicked smile on his face. "My Thunder God Tribe has returned. Finally, my moment has come." He looked at an over view of Magnolia at night. "Time for the Fairies to destroy each other." He stood and grew a very positive smirk. "Old man, your time is over!"
...
The next day, Magnolia has begun decorating the entire city for the Harvest Festival. Makarov, Mira and Sokka were out shopping for supplies. "The whole city is focused on the Harvest Festival."
"Everyone said they're busy preparing for the Fantasia." Mira said.
"Yeah, though I am hoping at some point that someone will fill me in on what actually happens during this festival." Sokka said with a slight tone of annoyance.
"In good time, Sokka." Makarov replied.
"Though it'd be nice if Laxus would participate." Mira said.
"Enough about him." Makarov said wanting to end the subject about Laxus.
"Oh I remember that jerk! Can't someone in the guild just put him in his place?"
"He's an S-Class wizard, Sokka. There are very few I can think of who can beat him. I'd advise you to stay away from him." Makarov warned.
"I heard from Levy that he's returned to town."
"He what?" Makarov now looked genuinely concerned.
"Master?" Mira said trying to get his attention.
"You alright down there?" Sokka asked.
"He had to come back now, of all times…"
"I wouldn't worry!" Sokka confidently said. "If he tries anything. Aang and Natsu can easily kick his butt." And Sokka began making sound effects that represented a huge blast and a roar. Unsurprisingly enough, this did nothing to lower Makarov's concerns.
…
On the day of the festival, bells were chiming all around the city. Aang, Natsu and Happy were outside by some food stalls. Aang was helping Natsu walk and Momo was flying next to Happy.
"The Festival has begun!" Happy exclaimed happily.
"C'mon Natsu, easy does it." Aang said trying to keep him on his feet
"It's time to chow down! Must… eat… must eat everything in sight." Natsu said despite his condition
Aang sweat dropped. 
"Let's Eat!" Happy yelled.
"I'd go easy if I were you." Aang said. They saw Zuko, Mai and Ty Lee in front of them. "Hey Zuko."
"What's wrong with him?" Mai asked pointing at Natsu.
"Oh he's a little under the weather, but he'll get over it."
"He ate something he was not supposed to." Happy said.
"So where are you three going?" Aang asked.
"Well Mai and I were going to the Miss Fairy Tail Contest." Ty Lee said. "Zuko was coming to watch."
"Hey, I'm not going to compete in that!" Mai said.
"You're not! Why not?" Ty Lee whined.
"It's not my style."
"That's too bad." Zuko said. "It would be nice to see you in a swimsuit." He said with a smirk.
Mai was amused by this and smirked back at her boyfriend. "Down boy." She said while a slight laugh.
Happy flew above them. "Mai liiiikes-" before Happy could finish his sentence a knife was thrown his way and it impaled a wall of one of the stalls.
"What was that, cat!?" Mai angrily asked with a red aura surrounding her.
"NOTHING!" Happy screamed as hid behind Aang.
"C'mon Mai, it will be fun."
"Doesn't matter how many times you beg me Ty Lee. I'm not doing it."
Ty Lee now had a smirk. "Okay, if that's how you want to be." She quickly jabbed Mai by her ribs and her legs now felt shaky.
"I-I can't move my legs!"
"That's the idea." Ty Lee began to drag Mai to the guild. "Your aura is as grey as ever and I'm going to change that! Don't wait up for us!"
"Hey! I said no!"
Once they were out of view Happy flew by Zuko. "What was that about?"
"It's just Ty Lee being… Ty Lee." Zuko casually said.
Behind them Gray, Lucy, Katara and Juvia were watching them. 
"He still doesn't seem alright." Lucy said as she was wearing a pink jacket over her outfit. Katara wore a white Eskimo jacket over hers.
"Is he okay?" Juvia asked.
"Not really, maybe I can help him." Katara suggested.
"Nah, just leave him be…" Gray said.
"You never change do you." They all heard. The four looked behind them to see Warren. He was dressed in a brown and maroon jacket with white and black pants, he had fair skin with dark hair with some highlights in it as well. "I made it back for the Harvest Festival, somehow."
"You take on too many jobs at once, man!" Gray said.
"Wow!" Lucy said astounded.
"I'm the new recruit, Juvia." Juvia said introducing myself.
Katara also chimed in. "I'm also quite new to the guild I'm Katara."
"Oh, I've heard about both of you."
"Warren Rocco. He has telepathic abilities." Gray explained.
"Nice to meet you." Warren said.
"It's nice to meet you too." Juvia said.
"Likewise." Katara said.
"But… there are so many people."
"People have come from all over to see Fantasia." Warren explained.
"I want to see it too!" Lucy excitedly said.
"Uh, Lucy. We're kind of in it, remember?" Katara reminded.
"Oh yeah! That reminds me, the Miss Fairy Tail Contest is starting soon." She grabbed Katara's arm and began dragging her away very swiftly. 
"My rent!" She yelled while the screams of Katara were now getting softer as Lucy got further away.
A light blue aura was now surrounding Juvia as she had an angry face. "Juvia cannot allow herself to lose to Lucy-san."
Gray looked confused and looked to the water mage. 
"You're going to participate too?" He asked.
"Hey, Mira." Ash called out to the barmaid.
"Yes." She came over to his direction. Ash presented a job he took off the request board.
"Can you sign this?" He asked.
"You're not staying for the Miss Fairy Tail contest?" She inquired, surprised.
"No, to be completely honest it doesn't interest me." Mira nodded in understanding as she filled out the request.
"Thanks." Ash took the signed request and headed out the doors. 
Once alone, the Light Dragon Slayer thought to himself. 
'Besides, I get the feeling something will go wrong.'
Little did anyone realize, his concerns would soon be verified.
From a distance away, Chun was carrying a brown bag that was full of food while Hen was next to her and he had his hands resting behind his head. 
"I honestly don't get what the big deal is." The Earthbender said. "This parade will probably bore me to death."
"Well I for one am curious about it." Chun replied. "I mean, everyone is excited for a reason. Plus, Ping did give us some downtime, so why don't we check it out?"
"What… like for real? If there was a fighting tournament for this then sign me up, but it seems to sappy and cheerful for my taste."
Chun groaned. "You're exactly like Ping, only more destructive and annoying."
"Guilty as charged. By the way… something has been on my mind. How exactly did you and Ping get back from that whole Tower of Heaven business?"
Chun began to explain what had happened to them.
(Flashback Begins)
Chun and Ping's boat was moving back and fourth among the raging waves. 
"What the hell is going on up there!?" Ping yelled.
"Jellal must be planning something big!" Chun said. Another explosion on the tower was seen, their boat was now completely engulfed by the waves. Both girls were now treading water.
"Let's swim away from this mess!" Ping exclaimed. Both girls tried to swim away but a huge wave had caught them. This knocked both girls unconscious.
…
Ping's eyes slowly awakened and she saw that she and Chun somehow got back to shore. Chun was still asleep but she shook her awake.
"N-no five more minutes…" Chun muttered in her sleep.
"WAKE UP!" Ping yelled. This gave Chun a shock, forcing her to wake up and take a deep breath.
"…Huh? Hey, Ping… what happened… I thought we…"
"Yes, so did I, I remember sinking into the sea, then I wake on the shore, and seeing you next to me… but look." Chun looked out to sea and saw the Tower of Heaven was nowhere to be seen.
"Impossible, what happened to Jellal's tower!?" Chun asked as it just disappeared.
"Don't know, but I'm not willing to stick around to find out. We have to get out of here."
"Okay…" 
Ping punched the sand in anger. "This is hopeless! As much as I want to crush Fairy Tail, they have more numbers than we do, we can't possible hope to beat them and the Avatar... not on our own."
"So what do we do?" Chun asked looking disheartened after hearing Ping say all this. 
"I'll think of something… but as of right now. I say we take a break from all this fighting for now… I need time to get the hang of these Magical powers I've been given. I'll do that then you and the others can do whatever you want, I'm not bothered either way. Let's get back to the others quickly.
Chun nodded and followed her partner.
(Flashback Ends)
"…So that is what happened. Jellal betrayed us." Chun finished explaining.
"Well Ping can't get mad at us for messing up at Phantom. There is only one way we can beat Fairy Tail… we have to get stronger!" He exclaimed with excitement.
Chun lowered her eyelids when looking at Hen and folded her arms. "Well you're still dense. What about Kobu, how's he been doing?"
"He's been reading up on Magic and gathering facts about Fairy Tail."
"And what did he find out?"
"He said that they were unbeatable, with just the four of us at least. I of course didn't believe him, and he said something about watching out for a powerful blonde wizard."
Within Chun's mind she flashed back to Lucy, both times when she was protected by Aang and also when she stood in front of Juvia's attack to summon Aquarius. "He's not talking about Lucy is he?" Hun shrugged his shoulders.
"It doesn't matter to me; they're all the same to me: Just wizards who should be squashed."
"How typical." Chun said and a sweat drop appeared on the side of her head. "Hey, has Kobu said anything about why he joined up with us in the first place. I mean I'm Fire Nation so it goes without saying, you're just crazy, Ping is crazy about the Fire Nation, but Kobu is Water Tribe, what reason could he have to want to have the Avatar killed?"
"If I remember Kobu's family was kidnapped by the Fire Nation or something like that…"
"But that's not what Ping told me… when I asked her he said he had more personal reasons, and I know something else."
"Oh yeah… and what is that?"
"I heard Kobu talking to Ping last night, I couldn't hear the entire conversation, but he said he wanted to avenge his family… what could that mean?"
"Why don't you ask him yourself? I really don't know… He rented a place somewhere in the city, it's where he goes to do his research. I can take you there, but that's all I'm going to do."
"Alright…"
"Hey… why the sudden concern about us…?"
"Well we are a team right? I would also like us to be friends."
"Friends huh? Yeah sure, why not… I'm okay with anything as long as we get to kick butt. Now let's go find him already." Chun placed the back of food into her duffel bag before they both began to find Kobu.
...
Inside the Fairy Tail guild hall, it was packed with a flood of people. "The battle of the beauties begins! Let's start the Miss Fairy Tail Contest!" Max was on stage but now he was wearing a purple suit with a huge red bow below the collar. "I am Max, the sand wizard, and I will be your host!" While many people were cheering. Aang, Gray, Natsu, Sokka, Zuko, Happy and Elfman were sitting at a table, Momo was resting on Aang's shoulder. Natsu was eating bread while Sokka was eating steak. Elfman had his arms folded.
"You three don't care about this stuff, right?" Gray asked.
"Hey, I'm hungry!" Sokka said.
"I'm a man!" Elfman gruffly said.
"Where is Toph?" Happy asked.
"She lost a bet to me in an eating contest, now she has to compete in the Miss Fairy Tail contest." Elfman replied.
"Why would Toph agree to that?" Aang asked.
"Maybe she was feeling confident?" Sokka suggested
"It must be embarrassing for her." Happy said.
"Weell not really, Toph is blind, remember…?" Aang said to Happy.
Max now introduced the first contestant. "Entry number one! The exotic beauty with a bottomless pit for a stomach, Cana Alberona." She was dressed in her regular outfit. The crowd began cheering for her. "Now perform for the crowd, your magic!" Cana lifted a deck of her card before they began to spin and dance around her body. "The cards are hiding Cana's body…" The cards made a huge flash and Cana was now seen in her orange and green bikini swimsuit. "She changed into a swimsuit!"
"I'll take that beer money, thanks." Cana said with a giggle and winked to the crowd.
Lucy and Katara looked from behind the curtains. "A swimsuit? No fair!"
"Its official, we've lost." Katara said.
Erza in her armor looked as well. "I see… That's a good idea."
"You're participating too, Erza?"
"When I hear there is a contest nearby, I can't help but get motivated."
"My rent is slipping away." Lucy said with tears falling from her face.
"Looks like you didn't come prepared." They heard. The four looked to see Mai behind them wearing a maroon bikini swimsuit but a red fabric was covering her lower half.
"You too Mai!?" Katara said in shock.
"Blame Ty Lee for this."
"Hello!" Ty Lee arrived in her usual outfit.
"Don't forget about me." Suki said as she appeared as well in an outfit similar to her Fire Nation disguise but only was more green and dark green.
"How can this get any worse?" Lucy said in despair.
"Yo!" Toph appeared in her regular outfit.
"There is no way I'm losing to you!" Lucy yelled while pointing at Toph.
"Riiiight." Toph casually said.
Max now introduced the next contestant. "Entry number two: She might be new but her skills are S-class. Rain or shine, this woman will steal your heart! Juvia Lockser!"
"May these feelings reach you, Gray-sama!" Juvia softly said to herself. Juvia turns most of her body to water which makes a huge wave. What is seen next is Juvia in a blue and light blue polka dotted swimsuit. "Gray-sama! Did you see!"
Lucy was fuming back stage. "Another one going for sex appeal!?" she angrily said. Erza who was still there nodded.
"At least I'm sure there's a pattern." Katara added.
"Entry Number three:" Max announced. "Everyone's favorite poster girl of the guild…" Max then clenched his fist in excitement. "Her beauty is known throughout the land! Mirajane!" The crowd were specifically exited to see Mira on stage as she happily waved back to the crowd. "Now appeal to the audience!"
"My specialty is transformation magic, so I'll transform!" When Mira put her hands over her head, the crowd was getting excited. However what happened next was a huge shock as she now had the face of Happy replacing her head. "Head-only Happy! Aye!" she said in Happy's voice. Once this happened many of the crowd were very shocked so see this. Many of those with hearts in their eyes were broken. She changed her face again. "Head-only Gajeel!" Gajeel in the background performed a spit take. She did one more change and now had Momo's head. "Head-only Momo!" While Happy and Sokka were laughing at their table, Elfman looked shocked, Aang looked quite disturbed while Gray smirked and Natsu kept eating.
"You're the only ones happy about this." Gray said to Happy and Sokka.
"Oh man that was great!" Sokka said as he was laughing and pointing.
From backstage Lucy was elated. "The crowd favorite just shot herself in the foot!" Lucy said while giggling evilly.
"We split the rent remember, Lucy? We don't really need to win y'know." Katara said while sweatdropping at Lucy's actions.
"Entry Number Four: She needs no explanation… Titania!" Max exclaimed.
"That's my cue!" Erza exclaimed. She jumped from backstage and frontflipped to land on the stage.
"Erza Scarlet!"
When Lucy and Katara heard the cheering the realized how popular Erza was. "She's so popular."
"Well she is Fairy Tail's strongest woman." Katara reminded.
Erza on stage began to speak. "I will show you a very special requip." Erza was now surrounded in a storm of purple smoke. When her new outfit appeared it was a black short dress that had long sleeves, she wore black legging and was wearing a white blouse underneath it, her hair was tied in a ponytail with a black bow and it was in a pony tail, her bangs in the front of her face stretched down to her chest.
"G-Goth!" Lucy yelled.
"Wow I don't think I've ever seen Erza dress like that." Katara said
"Yeah, yeah perfect, but unless you're going to narrate for the visually impaired. Can you stop yelling." Toph said looking at Lucy.
In the crowd Macao looked slightly disturbed. "That's a new look for her."
"Entry Number Five!" Toph's now realized it was her going next.
"Welp looks like its me." Toph walked onto the stage with a smirk.
"Break a leg, Toph." Katara said.
"She may be small but has a big attitude and has no fear! Toph Beifong!" Toph appeared on stage and cracked her knucles.
"Let's get this over with!" she made flat slabs of Earth shoot from the ground backstage and magnetized them to her. Before the audience saw the flat slabs flatten her, she outstretched her arms and punched them to pieces. To end her performance she made a huge rock protrusion come out of the stage, she ran to it, before headbutting it shattered the earth protrusion to pieces. Toph only had a minor scratch on her head and gave out a smile while showing the victory sign. The crowd cheered and people were commenting on how cool she was. "Thank you! I'm also available on weekends and for parties!" Toph walked off the stage.
"Well… she showed how strong she was." Katara said.
"That's it, we're not going to make rent this month." Lucy said with endless tears falling from her eyes.
"Entry Number Six! The little Fairy with cutes and Intelligence… Levy McGarden!"
"Levy!" Droy and Jet cheered from the crowd.
"Solid Script!" Levy chanted and made four word appear around her. 'Snow' which was made of white snow. 'METAL' which was made of metal with bolts in the 'E' and a nut formed the 'T'. 'BUTTERFLY' which had several butterflies around the word and had blue and yellow butterfly patterns within the words, and 'FLOWER' which was in green but was surrounded by vines and flowers.
Jet and Droy chanted her name with hearts in their eyes.
"Entry Number Seven! The sexy sniper Bisca Mulan!" Bisca was dressed in a purple bikini and had coins with hearts in them in between her right fingers.
She threw them up above the stage. "Requip!" she exclaimed, her magical sniper rifle appeared, she pointed up at the coins she just threw. "The Gunner!" she shot a beam right through the four coins perfectly. She caught them in her hand. Alzack looked at her with hearts in his eyes while muttering how cute she was.
"Entry Number Eight! She's new to the guild, but don't let her appearance fool you, her water magic is simply spectacular! Katara!"
As Max said her name she was on stage, five large urns of water shot up into the air and formed a huge water whip that fell on top of her and made a wave of water that quickly evaporated into steam. When the steam cleared Katara was in a different outfit, she had a blue and white long sleeved shirt that showed her midriff, but it was off her right shoulder and arm altogether, she had a dark blue skirt with black leggings stretching halfway down her legs, and her feet were covered with blue flats. Her hair was let loose and she wore the necklace that Aang made for her out of Sokka's fishing line.
Katara made more water from the urns spin around her, making a whirlpool under her making her rise from the ground. Three water blobs shoot to the ceiling, before turning to ice, they shatter making sparkling ice crystals appear all over the room. Katara made the whirlpool gently let her to the ground and stretched her arms out in a pose with a smile.
Aang who saw all of had his mouth agape, was blushing and his heart rate rose. "That… was… wow…" he said to himself clearly flustered.
"Yeah I guess it was pretty awesome." Sokka said, but he noticed Aang had the same impression from a few seconds ago. "Hey, Earth to Aang!" he waved his hand in front of his face but it was ineffective. The Airbender looked like he was in a trance.
"He Liiiikes her!" Happy teased.
Lucy saw Katara's performance from backstage "Wow! She was awesome, everyone is doing their best."
Max now continued with the contest. "Entry number nine: Our guild's super rookie!"
"That's me!"
"This upcoming star will sparkle with the guidance of Celestial Spirit! Lucy Heart-"
"AHH! Don't say my last name!" Lucy yelled while flailing her arms up and down as she appeared in front of Max. When the crowd began commenting on how cute she was, she gave a smile and waved to them. "If they find out who my dad is, they'll never award me the 500,000!" Lucy was seen to be wearing a blue cheerleader outfit with the Fairy Tail emblem in gold on the left side of her chest, she also had red, yellow striped wristbands with white knee high socks with a single horizontal blue line going across the top part of her socks.
"Now, appeal to the audience!"
"Uh, I'm going to do a cheer dance routine with my Spirits." Lucy pulled out her pink pom-poms and the crowd got excited, that was until…
"Entry number ten:-" a woman's voice said.
Lucy began dancing on the stage. "Hey! I'm not done appealing yet!"
"If you want a Fairy, then you want me. If you want beauty, then you want me. Yes, I am all you want!" the woman now appeared on stage and was wearing a green dress, she had a fan covering the lower part of her face. "The winner is me! Evergreen!" She exclaimed. "Okay! The idiotic contest is now over!" Lucy screamed comically on the stage.
Back at the table Gray and Elfman looked concerned. 
"Evergreen?" Gray said.
"She's back!" Elfman said.
"Who is that?" Sokka said. "Hey Aang, what do you think… Aang." He looked to see Aang was still in his love daze, so Sokka shook him out of it, literally. "What. Is. With. You?!" Sokka yelled while shaking him. Aang snapped out of it.
"Huh? Did I miss anything… Oh look its Lucy's turn… and some woman I don't know yet." Aang said while rubbing his eyes.
"No, something is wrong. I can feel it." Zuko said unfolding his arms.
Makarov had a terrified look on his face.
"Hey, don't get in my way!" Lucy said to Evergreen. "My rent is counting on this, you know!"
Gray had to intervene. "Lucy! Don't look into her eyes!"
Lucy was confused by this statement as Evergreen lifted her glasses and looked to Lucy. "What's with this kid?" her eyes had a multicolored glow Lucy looked into them and in no longer than a second, she was turned to stone.
Gray, Makarov, Aang and Max were shocked by this. The crowd began to wonder what was happening, as they weren't expecting Lucy to be turned to stone.
"This is bad." Max muttered. "Everyone, quickly escape!" He yelled to the audience. Once they got the message they ran as fast as their legs would take them in a huge panic.
Once all of the spectators escaped. Grey, Elfman, Aang, Sokka, Zuko, Happy and Makarov approached the stage.
"What's going on!? Who are you!?" Zuko angrily asked.
"What are you doing, Evergreen?" Makarov yelled. "Do you plan on ruining the festival!?"
Evergreen chuckled at this. "You need some entertainment for a festival, yes?" the rear curtains opened revealing all the girls in the contest were turned to stone just like Lucy.
"Sister!" Elfman yelled.
"Even Erza!" Happy added.
"Katara!" Sokka and Aang yelled. The Avatar was clenching his fist.
Zuko saw Mai turned to stone and he glared at Evergreen. "Alright! I want answers now!"
"Oho." Evergreen laughed. "I had no idea that one of the new guys would be this handsome." Evergreen said to Zuko which just made Zuko respond with a growl.
"You fool!" Makarov said. "Return them to normal at once!" After he said this a ball of lightning appear, a bolt from that ball struck the stage causing a white flash.
Out of the flash. Laxus with an evil smirk looked at them. "Hey you Fairy Fails. The festival's just getting started!"
"Laxus?" Makarov said.
"You again!?" Aang angrily said.
Sokka pecked Gray's shoulder. 
"Hey, who's that guy?" Sokka asked pointing to a pillar elsewhere in the room.
"Freed?" Gray said in shock. He looked to the opposite side. "Bickslow?"
"The Thunder God Tribe…" Macao nervously said.
"Laxus' personal guard!" Wakaba finished.
"Ready to play old man?" Laxus asked.
"Jeez, didn't we already just deal with an evil psychopath!?" Sokka asked referring to their adventure in the Tower of Heaven
"Enough of this foolishness! Return them to normal at once!" Makarov yelled.
"…Or else!" Aang finished already now in a fighting stance.
"'Or else'?" Laxus smirked after Aang's comment. "You really have no idea who you are dealing with do you, messiah brat!? I wonder how many will be left to be in the Fantasia?" A ball of lightning appeared above Lucy.
"Don't!" Makarov said.
"Lucy!" Aang worriedly yelled but the lightning strike just misses.
Laxus puts his arm around Lucy's stone figure. "These women are my hostages. If you break the rules, I'll shatter them, one by one."
"You act is really wearing on me! If this is your idea of a joke, I'm not laughing!" Zuko said.
"This isn't funny, Laxus!" Makarov yelled.
"I'm serious."
Freed jumped onto the stage. "Let's just see who the strongest is in Fairy Tail." He said.
"Time for fun!" Bickslow said after he jumped on the stage.
"The rules are simple. The last one standing is the winner!" Everyone aside from Laxus' Thunder God Tribe we're angrily looking at the stage. "Battle of Fairy Tail!"
A punch was heard. They all saw Natsu getting up after punching the table. "I like it! Simple! I'm getting fired up!"
"I like that eager spirit of yours." Laxus complimented.
"Natsu!" Makarov started.
"It's a festival, Gramps. Let's do this!"
"Don't you remember when you got beat by Laxus before?" Warren reminded.
"I was just a kid."
"It was last year!" he said with an annoyed face.
"I was a kid last year!" Natsu said with a smirk as he ran to Laxus.
Laxus remained confident as Natsu was speeding to him. "But I hate that you have no sense of flair. So cool down." Without even moving, Laxus struck Natsu with a lightning bolt.
"Natsu!" Gray yelled, while Warren facepalmed at Natsu's futile attempt.
"See what I said!" Warren said.
"What a Man…"
Natsu fell to the ground with a knocked out 'happy' expression on his face.
"Aww, and he just recovered." Happy said flying to Natsu's smoking body.
"That's enough! Whatever you're planning! I'm putting a stop to it!" Aang yelled.
"So that's the Avatar hmm?" Evergreen began. "He seems a little scrawny for the savior of another world."
Freed looked to Aang. "I've been curious to see just how strong the master of the elements is, now's the time to find out."
"What do you say kid? In the mood for some fun?" Bickslow said.
"Fun! Fun!" Bickslow's babies repeated.
Aang looked to Laxus who kept his evil smirk. Aang began running to Laxus while performing a battle cry.
"Aang wait!" Gray warned. Aang spun in the air forcing a wind burst to hit Laxus with a kick but Laxus moved out of the way in a huge bolt of thunder.
When Aang was on the stage he couldn't see Laxus anymore. "Too slow brat!" he appeared in front of Aang and kicked him back off the stage. After Aang hit the ground he saw a bolt of Laxus' thunder speeding to him, he did not flinch and aimed his right pointing fingers at the thunderbolt, he managed to redirect his energy but he shot it through the ceiling. Aang was panting though after he redirected thunderbolt that crashed through the ceiling and into the sky.
"You lack the power, Avatar." Laxus mocked.
"If you want these girls returned to normal, you must defeat us!" Evergreen said.
"There are 4 of us, and around 100 of you, right?" Bickslow added
"100 on 4!" Bickslow's babies chanted.
"You have three hours. After that, they just turn to dust, I'm afraid." Evergreen continued.
Laxus continued the explanation "The field of battle is the entirety of Magnolia. When you find us, the battle begins."
"Laxus!" Makarov angrily said. "Stop this foolishness!" he yelled. The guild master, clearly having enough of this now grew using his Titan magic.
"Now, now. I told you to cool off. Its entertainment for the festival, see?" Laxus said. The entire stage was covered in a blinding yellow glow. "Battle of Fairy Tail…Begin!" the Thunder God Tribe disappeared from the stage.
Sokka punched his palm into his empty left hand. "That creep is gonna get it for turning my sister to stone."
"So what?" Zuko began. "Are we just playing tag with these guys all over Magnolia. They could be anywhere, how are we supposed to find them?"
"Damn it!" Elfman yelled. "We have to save my sister and the others!"
Most of the males now were speeding out of the guild to find Laxus. Alzack followed them after looking at Bisca's stone figure, and he promised to save her.
"That fool!" Makarov yelled. "I'll… I'll stop you!"
Sokka tapped Aang's shoulder. "Aang we have to go! If we don't Katara will-"
"I know. I can't say if Laxus is serious, but he's taking this way too far. Let's get him!" Aang yelled as now he Makarov and Sokka were speeding to the exit. Suddenly Makarov and Aang ran into an invisible force that kept them from leaving the guild.
"Gramps!" Gray yelled.
"Aang?" Sokka exclaimed.
"An invisible wall?" Makarov said.
"He's right! I can't get through!" Aang said with an annoyed tone.
"Don't be silly!" Gray said.
"It's just your imaginations." Sokka said.
Both Sokka and Gray tried to pull and Aang and Makarov through the 'invisible wall' but they were making no progress.
"What's going on?" Gray asked, struggling to pull his guild master from through the wall.
"What kind of science is this?! An invisible wall, makes no sense!" Sokka yelled, after he gave up trying to pull Aang through he looked up. "Hey, what's that up there?" Sokka asked looking up. This got Gray's attention.
"What's this? There are characters floating in the air…"
"Uh… I can't read that…" Sokka said.
"Freed's Runes." Makarov said.
"Runes?"
"A type of barrier, anyone who steps in its boundary is bound by the rules." Makarov explained. "If you don't obey them, you can't get out." As he said this, a huge dark purple magic circle surrounded the guild. "Establishment Magic."
"What's written?" Gray asked.
" 'Those older than 80 or stone statues may not pass.' " Makarov read.
"Hold on a minute! You're thirteen. How does this rule effect you!?" Sokka asked looking at Aang.
"Well actually… I was frozen in ice for a hundred years. So… technically, that would make me 113." Aang explained while sheepishly rubbing his hand behind his head.
"Oh… I forgot."
"A magic where the guy who sets the rules wins?" Gray asked.
"It takes a long time to write the runes. It is not suited for a sudden battle, but when it comes to setting traps, there's nothing better."
"Well can't you destroy it?" Sokka asked "I mean you are the guild master and all!"
"The rune's rules are absolute!"
"So we're trapped here?!" Aang realized.
"Man they planned for everything." Gray turned around. "So I guess we'll have to handle it ourselves."
"Gray…" Makarov said concerned
He looked back into the guild. "Zuko, you coming?"
"No." he responded. "I'm going to stay here, stop Laxus in case he tried to hurt the girls."
"You're going to need some help with that, I'm staying too." Sokka said.
"Fine, I'll go by myself. I don't care if he's your grandson or whatever, I ain't holdin' back." He said with a dark tone. "I'll get Laxus."
Makarov turned around before thinking to himself. "Is there anyone who could beat Laxus?" he looked to Erza's stone statue figure. "Erza might be able to… but in her condition…"
"Man, how are we going to get out of this one?" Aang asked himself, he noticed Makarov look to his left after walking back inside from the exit.
"Who's there?" Makarov asked. Reedus flinched and retreated to hid behind the pillar. "Reedus?"
"You didn't leave with the others?" Aang asked.
"I-I'm scared of Laxus…" he said.
"Fine, fine. Instead, I'd like you to pay a visit to Porlyusica in the East Forest. She might have some potion that'll cure petrification."
"Oui." Reedus said.
Natsu's nose flickered and he quickly got up and screamed. "You're awake." Happy said with his smile.
"Huh?" Natsu began to look around. "Where's Laxus. And wait, everyone's gone!"
Aang walked to him. "Oh well I guess you weren't awake for that part."
"Well if Aang and I are trapped here? Then maybe if Natsu really got serious, then perhaps…" Makarov thought.
Natsu, Aang and Happy walked to Makarov. "Gramps, where did everyone go?" The Dragon Slayer asked.
"Should I really count on his latent ability?" "Natsu! The festival has started! Laxus is somewhere within Magnolia! Get out there and beat 'im!" He yelled while pointing to the exit.
"Alright!" Natsu yelled in jubilation. 
"Just you wait, Laxus!" He yelled in huge excitement but he slammed into the invisible wall and red colored runes appeared around the spot where he hit. Happy, Reedus, Sokka, Zuko, Aang, Happy and Makarov were shocked. "Why?"
Sokka quickly had a thought. "Hold on. If that Freed guy could set Rune traps anywhere he wants…?" He planted his fist on his palm. "He could set them all over the city."
Elsewhere in town Alzack met up with Jet and Droy, after he was told to calm down by the both of them, Runes appeared on both of their sides, trapping them in that huge spot. When they read the Runes it said 'Only the strongest wizard is allowed to exit these runes.' Once they realized that Freed wanted them to fight each other. Alzack decided to defeat Jet and Droy if it would bring him closer to saving Bisca.
Back at the guild. Natsu was trying to escape from the runes. "Natsu! Are you over 80 years old!?" Makarov in a panicked face asked. Happy was just flying around him.
"As if!"
Aang walked to them. "Hold on! I can Earthbend us out."
Sokka had a stupefied expression. "You're only thinking of this NOW!?"
Aang made a hole in the ground. "Let's go!" he jumped into the hole but a huge impact sound was heard. "Nope… that's not going to work…" Aang said weakly crawling out of the hole.
The purple runes above them now added new symbols. "Huh? 'Current status report'?" Makarov said. "'Jet vs. Droy vs. Alzack?'" he read. "What is this!?"
"This doesn't make sense! Why are they fighting against each other?"
…
Meanwhile Alzack was pushed back in his fight. He saw Jet moving quickly as if he was appearing and reappearing in midair. "Falcon Heaven's Soar!" he yelled. Jet kicked the ground Alzack was standing on but he missed as the gunner jumped into the air.
Behind him Droy had prepared his attack. "Knuckle Plant!" vines spread up to Alzack who was still in the air after avoiding Jet's attack. He dodged all of the Knuckle Plant fists that were heading towards him.
Alzack now decided to attack. With the two magic handguns he wielded, he began his counterattack. "Guns Magic!" an orange energy looked to be charging from inside the guns. "Tornado Shot!" orange beams of energy shot from the handguns where they shot right through Jet and Droy, instantly defeating them.
…
At the guild, a new line of Runes appeared only this time it read. "'Winner: Alzack. Jet and Droy: Out of action.'" Makarov read.
"What!" Natsu and Aang exclaimed.
Meanwhile Laxus is at an unknown location. "I wonder how long you can stand to see the Fairires destroying each other, old man…"
----Inside an apartment somewhere else in Magnolia, Chun and Hen arrived outside Kobu's apartment. They stood in the wooden hallway in front of his door. "Hey, I agreed that I would just take you here." Hen said folding his arms looking annoyed.
"Hey, we're friends now. If I need you to come with me for something, then you're obliged to come with me."
"I knew I should have stayed behind to annoy Ping." The Earthbender muttered.
"Why don't you two come in?" They heard from inside. "If you're going to make a racket, then I don't want you disturbing the others." They both walked into the room and saw an unfurnished room with a closed window. The only furniture was a desk with a lamp and a chair. Kobu was sitting on that chair sifting through what looked like files of various guilds and there were issues of the Weekly Sorcerer on the side of his desk. "So what brings you two here?"
"Well, just wanted to see how you were doing I guess?" Chun said.
"A firebender concerned for my well-being? What's next, Ping starts wearing flowers in her hair?"
"Hey! Some of us aren't evil!"
"Right, keep telling yourself that. So what made you travel all the way here?"
"What made you come with us to hunt the Avatar? I want the real reason. I can't imagine why you would want to have the Avatar killed?"
Kobu sighed. "Alright… If we're really dead set on taking down one of the most powerful guilds in Fiore, well we should all make sure we're honest with each other, right? It happened when the Fire Nation were trying to invade the Northern Water Tribe. My family tried to escape, it was after Zhao killed the Moon Spirit. We were on a boat that was sailing past the Fire Navy ships, they left us alone because they had bigger fish to fry… no pun intended…" he said in a dull voice. "Then some huge spirit monster that looked like a Koi fish showed up and made this huge wave that engulfed the Fire Navy ships… unfortunately we were also in its path... the wave engulfed us and I fell unconscious… when I woke up hours later, I was found by others from my tribe, but they couldn't find my family… not my father, mother, even my little brother… They were wiped out… " Kobu clenched his fist. "…By the Avatar…" he growled the final part of his sentence.
"Oh Kobu…" Chun began. "I'm sorry to hear that…" She began to walk to him in his chair but he shot a glare at her.
"I don't need your pity… besides… don't forget it was your nation that invaded in the first place our home in the first place!" Chun backed away and looked down in shame. "If the Avatar hadn't come to the Northern Water Tribe, the Fire Nation wouldn't have come when they did. He brought the Fire Nation to our front door. He's going to pay, and the guild that is protecting him will also pay."
"Great!" Hen said excitedly. "Now that we're all on the same page, let's go there and kick their asses!"
"I don't think I need to remind you of how 'successful' we were in defeating them the last time. It was just the four of us, we lost. And the guild didn't even have their heavy hitters. We're not ready to start an all our war with Fairy Tail, we all have to get stronger first."
"Is that why you have stacks of the Weekly Sorcerer on the table?" Chun asked.
"These magazines surprisingly have many info on all the guilds that currently exist in this region... along with the obvious fan-service." He said showing them a double page picture of Mirajane in a bikini.
"Whoa, that is hot…" Hen said with hearts in his eyes.
Chun smacked him on the back of his head. "Focus, will you?!"
"I also managed to gather up documents relating to Fairy Tail from the Magic Council."
"H-how did you manage to sneak in there?" Chun asked.
"Well your friend Siegrain let me take them after you two became allies with him."
"So… what have you found?" Hen asked.
"Our biggest problem is Natsu and Erza. Natsu can eat fire which makes him a Firebender's worst nightmare, and Erza is apparently super strong, but Fairy Tail also have other S-class wizards that I'm sure could easily wipe the floor with us. The only way I can see us beating them is with overwhelming force… something which we don't have, and even then it will be a challenge?"
"Why don't we just team up with another guild to take them down?"
"Teaming up with Phantom Lord yielded no results, and Chun and Ping had Siegrain or Jellal… whatever, stab you in the back. But we can worry about that later, right now we all have to get stronger." They all heard an explosion in the distance. That was caused by Jet, Droy and Alzack's earlier battle.
"What was that?" Chun asked.
"Not good. That's what that was." Kobu began packing all of his necessary supplies into a duffel bag. "Recently some members of Fairy Tail had been massacring guilds that have made fun of them, but it wasn't the usual suspects… These Fairy Tail wizards call themselves the Thunder God Tribe."
"How did you find all this out?"
"I have been following their trail of destruction… anyway there are four of them, but I don't know who they are really. All I know is, it won't be too long before they come to take us out for attacking Fairy Tail before."
"C'mon, we can handle them." Hen said.
Kobu sighed at Hen's ignorance. "Fine, you can stay here and die, I'm leaving town to get stronger, I'll come back for when we stage our attack on Fairy Tail, but until then, it's going to be just the three of you."
The three walked out of the building and into the street. Chun placed her palm on Kobu's shoulder before he left them. "I know I can't stop you from doing what you have to do, just be careful out there okay."
Kobu scoffed at her display of affection. "I don't need you being all buddy-buddy with me. The only reason I'm here, is for revenge. I'm not here to make friends… Especially with a Firebender!" Kobu began walking from the two in a cold manner with Chun looking slightly saddened by his comment.
"Well, he's not going to be friends with us… so what now?" Hen asked.
Chun put her fingers to her chin. "I don't know, but we can't just stand here…" Chun began to think about Kobu's predicament. "This must be really hard on him... He already knows the pain of losing someone... Losing everything... That's something I don't want to go through..." Chun now knew that she couldn't afford to restrain herself from hurting the Avatar and Fairy Tail anymore, or else she may fall into a similar despair. "Even though it is wrong... I have to do what needs to be done... I just hope my brother can understand..." Her thoughts were interrupted by a stomach growl, more specifically this came from Hen's stomach.
"Man I'm hungry…" he said clutching his stomach.
"Okay… let's get something to eat then." "But... The Thunder God Tribe… they don't sound like the type of people who would be in Fairy Tail…"
As the two were walking through town, Freed was watching them.
"So they are part of those fighters who came here for the Avatar… They think they can just make light of Fairy Tail…? They will pay for their ignorance." After those thoughts Freed began to walk in the other direction.