The group got back to Magnolia, and found the city in the middle of doing the Gildarts shift. Natsu jumped for joy and ran towards Fairy Tail. Gray made an ice floor and came after him. The problem was that he froze everyone else's feet along with the floor. Erza let out a roar, cracked the ice and ran after Gray, who proceeded to skate much faster, eventually overtaking Natsu. Gray zoomed towards Fairy Tail but couldn't stop in time and went crashing through the third wall in three days.
"Aargh! Gildarts arrived early?!" The guild was not quite sure who had crashed through the wall, and knowing Gildarts' absent-mindedness, it could've been him.
"No... But do you have any food?" Gray asked, before making an ice pack for himself.
"Sure we do! But first, who are you? You look familiar somehow, and so does your magic." Mira said, her signature smile on her face. Mira knew she had seen that magic somewhere before. It looked almost exactly like Gray's. He had been splashed by a sex changing potion and also a transportation one, so it could potentially be him, but if it was, where were the others?
"Well, that's a long story..." Gray was about to start telling Mira and the others about what happened when Erza and Gildarts came into the building, Erza through Gray's hole in the wall and Gildarts through his own ready made one.
"What is it with people crashing through walls today? Oh Gildarts you're back! And you are?" Mira skipped between the subjects very quickly.
"Again, long story," Gray didn't want to explain until Natsu and Lucy came, it would make it so much easier.
"HOW DARE YOU FREEZE MY FEET TO THE FLOOR! AND I'M NOT FORGIVING YOU FOR EATING MY STRAWBERRY CAKE EITHER!" Erza was furious and Gray backed away, hands stretched out in front of him.
"Oy, whoever you are, your clothes?" Cana had noticed first. "What the? I had my hands nowhere near me!" Gray had done an infamous instant strip, and while keeping his hands at arm's length away from himself. He was, again standing in a bra but at least this time he had kept his trousers on. The perverts in the guild groaned in delight, and Cana... Well, Cana was drunk, but she noticed Gray's Fairy Tail mark and told Mira. Gildarts spotted a small pink thing running towards Fairy Tail very quickly.
"Hey you! Stripper girl! Where did you get that mark? That's our guild mark you know!" Gray was about to explain when Natsu came through his own hole in the wall.
"Gildarts! Fight me!"
"Whoa there kid! You sound just like Natsu! Who the hell are you?"
"I'm Na..." But Natsu was cut off by Gray, who was still waiting for Lucy to arrive.
"She's part of the long story as well."
"What the hell was that for ice princess?!"
"Guys? Me and Jellal are still stuck in Ice Princess' ice!" Lucy called from about 500 metres down the road.
"Jellal?" The entire guild roared. Everyone knew what he had done to Erza, and all wanted to destroy him for it.
"Sorry Luce! Jellal if I let you free they'll all come after you so is it ok if I leave you there?" Gray called. Natsu melted the ice around Lucy's legs but left Jellal stuck in the ice.
"Flame bastard!" Jellal shouted down the road. He was tired of being polite to Natsu so called him by one of Gray's signature insults. Lucy hobbled up to Fairy Tail as her legs weren't quite unfrozen.
"Why is it only me having bad experiences with ice and fire?" Lucy grumbled loudly. Gray winced as he was shot daggers by her and everyone he had frozen over the last week.
"Anyway, is everyone here that is in your 'long story', ice wizard?" Mira wanted desperately to know who these idiots were, why they were with Jellal, and if they knew anything about the missing guild members.
"Well... If you count Jellal out there, yeah we do. This whole stupid thing started the day when we got soaked by those two potions..." and Gray recounted the whole thing, with numerous inputs by the others.
"And that's what happened," Gray finished, before being rugby tackled by Juvia.
"Gray-sama is hot, even as a girl!" Juvia squealed.
"Juvia?!" Gray was being suffocated, but thankfully Mira pulled Juvia away from him. Natsu spent about a minute laughing at Gray, but was cut short by Lisanna jumping on him. Mira had to drag Lisanna off Natsu, Gray laughing at him. Once everyone had stopped jumping on the new arrivals, Natsu unfroze Jellal, and Mira set to work finding another potion for the gang.
Just as she had found one, however, Happy came flying through a window, shouting," Dark guild approaching! Dark guild approaching!"