Chillin' out with the crew in the school yard,
Findin' trouble, never lookin' too hard.
Well back at class, they never taught us this,
Some things you gotta learn, hit or miss.

Tough times, hard climbs,
We'll take 'em on together.
Right now, let's go!

Fairy Tail Duel

Game on, get your game on,
Come on ya better play your cards right.
Game on, get your game on,
We'll make the grade and win this fight.
We'll make the grade somehow.
Yeah!

Fairy Tail Duel

Game on, get your game on,
Come on ya better play your cards right.
Come on and get your game on!

"He's escaped."

"Get him!" Out in the middle of the woods was a hidden lab. Someone was in there and he was trying to escape. The people that worked there was trying to prevent that from happening. He smashed through a window and ran off into the woods. A man with black hair and glasses in a suit saw him run off.

"He can run, but he can't hide."

…

Natsu

"Yeah!" Natsu screamed. "I'm ready for some action. Who wants to duel? Who wants to duel?" He called out. He along with Lucy, Wendy, Gray, and Erza were out in the middle of the woods.

"Calm down or the bears are going to think you're challenging them." Gray said.

"Leave him alone. He's just excited for the Grand Duel Tournament." Erza said. "The tournament between duel guilds that will decide who is the best of the best."

"Yeah and there's no way we can lose. After all, I saved the entire city from the power of the Underworld Lords." Natsu boast.

"We get it, Natsu." Lucy said as she was annoyed with him saying that. "It happened over six months ago. You don't need to keep reminding everyone about it. You also didn't do it alone you know." It really has been that long since Natsu and his friends have been given the marks of the Rainbow Dragon: Quataru and saved the world from the darkness that controlled people like Dr. Precht and Jellal.

"Remember why we came out here. We came out here to do some training for the tournament since it's less than a month away." Erza said. "We need to be prepared for we will have some fierce competition."

"Erza might be right, Natsu." Wendy said. "Though I am just glad this tournament will be for the fun of it." Everyone agreed to that after the chaos they've been through.

"The best way is to do some dueling. So who wants to duel?" Natsu said. Before anyone could answer that, they all heard something move around through the bushes. "What's that?"

"It's probably just a rabbit or something." Gray said, but they all got scared when something large jumped out and saw it was a guy wearing a robotic suit.

"Cool! It's a robot!" Natsu said.

"Don't be a moron. It's a guy wearing a robotic suit." Gray said.

"Get…away. I….have to….get….away." He said as he was taking deep breaths. All of them were confused as to what he was talking about.

"There he is."

"We have him now." They all heard other voices coming their way and the mysterious man grew furious. He charged right through Natsu and his friends and knocked them all down as he kept running.

"Rude!" Lucy called out. All of them got up and saw three other men going after him.

"What's going on?" Natsu asked.

"Hang on. Where's Wendy?" Erza asked. All of them looked and noticed Wendy was gone.

"Help!" Wendy called out and they all heard her and knew where she was now. The stranger took Wendy hostage as he held her under his arm. "Let me go."

"Be quiet." The stranger said. He kept running through the woods until he came to the edge of a cliff and held Wendy over it.

"Lendl!" Both of them looked back and saw the scientist from before with two other guys ready to take him captive.

"Back off or I drop the girl." Lendl said as he held Wendy over the edge.

"Don't be stupid, Lendl." The scientist said.

"Hey!" Natsu called out as they all were able to catch up to the rest of them. "What's going on?"

"Who are you kids?"

"We're from Fairy Tail and that happens to be our friend he's got." Natsu said.

"You're from a dueling guild?!" Lendl said as he was starting to get angry. "You're with them, aren't you? I'm not going back. Do you hear me? I'm not going back to that place."

"What is he talking about?" Gray said.

"Lendl is referring to our research lab where we're working on creating the ultimate duelists. He's one of our research subjects." That was a surprising fact to Natsu and the others.

"Professor, it's suppose to be classified."

"Oh right. Never mind." The professor said as he acted like it was nothing.

"Hang on." Natsu said as he ran out ahead of them. "That guy duels? This is the perfect. I was looking for a duel. Lendl, how about a duel?"

"A duel?" Lendl said.

"Yeah. If I win, you let our friend go." Natsu said.

"Fine." Lendl said as he pulled Wendy away from the edge. "If I win, you all just leave me alone."

"I don't even know what's going on. So that's fine." Natsu said as he activated his duel disk. Lendl held out his arm and a duel disk was connected to his robotic suit.

"I have a shot. Ready tranquilizer." One of the goons said as he took aim with one.

"Wait." The professor said and held it down. "This might actually be good for our research." Both of them faced each other and ready to begin their match.

"Duel!" Both said and they started out with 4000LP.

"I'll start." Natsu said as he drew his first card and looked at his options. "I summon Fire Dragon Winger in defense mode." A man in red dragon designed clothing rose and had wings made of fire and had 1000def points. "I end my turn."

"My turn!" Lendl said as he drew his card. "I activate my Enemy Approach spell card. This spell allows me to summon a high level monster when you have a monster and I don't. I summon Tank Driver-EM8." A large and high-tech tank came out and had 2000atk points. "Next, I use his special ability. By sending one card to the graveyard, I can destroy one card and you take 300 points of damage. So I'll send Twister to the grave and destroy your Winger." He discarded the card and the tank fired a blast and Winger was destroyed. Natsu was knocked down and his life points dropped to 3700. "With him gone, my tank can attack you directly. Go, Elimination Destruction." The tank unleashed another powerful blast and Natsu got hit hard with his life points dropping to 1700.

"Natsu!" Lucy called out.

"That guy knows what he's doing." Gray said.

"This might not be easy as Natsu thought and he didn't say what happens to Wendy if he loses." Erza said.

"I'll end my turn." Lendl said.

"Natsu, be careful." Wendy said.

"I'll be fine. My move!" Natsu said as he drew his next card. "I summon Fire Dragon Iron Fist to the field." Another martial artist with flames around his fists came up with 1600atk points. "Then, I equip him with Brilliant Flame. This spell gives him an additional 800atk points." His fighter grew stronger with his attack points becoming 2400. "Now attack that tank with Burning Destroyer." His fighter jumped up and slammed his fist down on the tank and destroyed it with Lendl losing life points dropping to 3600. "Next, I'm activating Burst Fist. This spell deals double the damage you just took." A bunch of flaming fists shot out and Lendl got hit by them with his life points going down to 2800. Even after it stopped, Lendl screamed in agony. "Dude, calm down."

"Oh right. I'm not in that lab." Lendl said.

"What was that about?" Lucy asked.

"He's just reacting to his treatments. During each one of his duel scenarios, he would get shocked if he lost even a single life point." The professor said.

"Sir."

"Oh! Never mind." The professor said.

"Shocked? What kind of people are these guys?" Gray said.

"It's your move." Natsu said.

"Here I go." Lendl said as he went. "I remove Tank Driver-EM8 from play. Doing so will allow me to summon Tank Driver-NI8!" A much larger and more powerful tank was formed and it had 2800atk points. "Next, I use its powerful ability. I send every card in my hand to the graveyard and every card on your field is destroyed. You also take 500 points of damage for every card.

"Say what?!" Davis said. Lendl discarded everything and the tank unleashed a powerful energy blast and everything on Natsu's field was destroyed with his life points dropping to 700. "You're lucky I can't attack after using that ability."

"I don't think that matters." Erza said. "He can just discard the card he draws to destroy everything again and if he forces Natsu to summon a monster in attack mode, he can destroy it. A few more rounds and Natsu is finished."

"That's right and I'm free. I won't let you take me back." Lendl said.

"I don't even know what you're talking about." Natsu said.

"That research place is torture." Lendl said. "They want to create the ultimate duelist and the stuff they do there is inhuman. I can't go back there! I can't take it anymore! If you're a dueling guild, you people are just as bad as they are." That last part confused all of them.

"Look, I get that you must be scared, but I don't have a clue as to what is going on. I just want our friend back." Natsu said. "So I'm ending this." He drew his next card and saw his little buddy. "Nice. I'm summoning my little buddy, Happy Flying Cat." A blue cat with wings came out with 300atk points.

"What good is a cat going to do?" Lendl said.

"There's his special ability for one. He can attack you directly." Natsu said. "Max Speed." Happy flew right at Lendl and slammed against him with his life points dropping to 2500. "Now I can activate my spell card: Exceed Wings. Since my little buddy dealt some damage, this spell destroys every monster on your field and you take damage equal to their attack points."

"What?! That means….I lose." Lendl said. Happy's wings grew in size and enclosed around the tank and caused it to explode with all of Lendl's life points dropping to zero as well as to his knees.

"That's that. Now let our friend go." Natsu said. Lendl stayed down and allowed Wendy to run to the others. They were all glad she's safe.

"Now for you, Lendl." The professor said as the three of them were ready to take him.

"No! No! I don't want to go back!" Lendl said as he was terrified.

"Hold it." Natsu said as he stood protecting him. "He doesn't want to go with you. You're not taking him."

"You do and we'll alert the news about all this." Gray said.

"And your secret project won't be so secret." Lucy said.

"That's enough." The professor said. His two goons moved past Natsu and were taking Lendl by force.

"Stop it!" Natsu said.

"You think you can threaten me? Your just children. Who's going to believe you?" The professor said and it seemed like there was nothing they could do.

"They will with proof." All of them looked to the woods and saw Mirajane with Lisanna coming out.

"Mira and Lisanna? What are you two doing here?" Erza said.

"We were passing by when we saw what was going on." Mirajane said.

"We filmed everything and already sent copies to our brother and some others and told them to hold it until we say so." Lisanna said. "So I suggest you people let that guy go unless you want the press at your door." Now the professor was trapped and they had no choice, but to release Lendl.

"Oh thank you! Thank you so much!" Lendl said as he was finally free.

…..

The Guildhall

When Lendl was finally free, they got rid of all that robotic equipment, gave him some clothes, and treated him to some food. Everyone was informed about what happened with him and were being hospitable

"Thank you so much." Lendl said as he kept eating.

"You sound like you've been through a lot." Makarov said.

"You have no idea." Lendl said. "The people who ran that facility were inhuman for how they treated me. They wanted to create the ultimate duelist and did horrible experiments to create one. One that never loses or takes damage. I thought all guilds were bad, but after what you all did for me, I know better."

"Lendl, why did you think that?" Natsu asked.

"Because a duel guild was the one that funded that lab for the experiments. They controlled everything." Lendl said and that was a surprising fact to everyone.

"What guild?" Erza asked.

"I don't know, but I do remember their emblem. It was shaped similar to an S." Lendl said.

"Hang on." Makarov said as he pulled out a book. "This contains the names of all the dueling guilds. Find the symbol and point us to it." Lendl opened the book and flipped through it until he found what he was looking for. "There. That's the one."

"Are you serious? That's the emblem of Sabertooth." Makarov said.

"Sabertooth? That's the number one dueling guild in the country." Erza said. "Why would they do something like this?"

"I don't know, but they won't be allowed to do this." Makarov said. "They'll be competing in the Grand Duel Tournament to uphold their spot. We have to be ready because I sense danger is on the horizon."