Thunder roared over the empty wasteland that used to be Magnolia. Natsu, Aang, Azula, Wendy, and Happy were all still reeling from what Carla had told them.
"Edolas?" Aang asked.
"Yes, Edolas. Just like your original world, it is separate from this one." Carla had turned away from the group. "And unfortunately, magic is disappearing from there."
"Magic is disappearing?" Wendy repeated.
Carla nodded as she still refused to face them. "I don't know about your world, Aang. But in Edolas, magic is finite. With continued use, it will eventually disappear from the world."
"Seeing as how your world relies heavily on magic, I can see why that would be a problem," Azula said. "But what does that have to do with an entire city being wiped off the face of the planet?"
"To preserve the magic power that's dried up, the king of Edolas developed a spell to absorb magic power from another world – this world," she explained. "That was the super-subspace spell... Anima... That hole you saw open in the sky."
"A spell that absorbs magic from another world?" Aang said.
"Anima? Is that what that was?" Wendy asked with a determined look on her face. She remembered Jellal or Mystogan rather, had mentioned something about the Anima when they traveled together. And she suspected it has something to do with him leaving her all those years ago.
"Carla... what more can you tell us about this?" Aang asked.
Still not looking at them, she went deeper into the purpose of the spell. "When the project began six years ago, they deployed Animas throughout our world, but they were unable to achieve the results they hoped for. Someone had been going around, closing the Animas."
Carla then thought to herself. "I had my doubts when Wendy told me about Jellal – no, Mystogan... but it must've been him after all."
"Right... but if this mystery person was going around stopping this. What was different this time?" Azula asked.
"Jellal... you tried to stop this... didn't you." Wendy thought to herself while she held her hand by her heart.
Carla continued and answered Azula's question. "The Anima this time was too large. With no one able to stop it, it absorbed the guild."
"Why'd it absorb Fairy Tail?" Natsu asked with a serious tone.
"Think you dolt." Azula mocked. "Anima's purpose is to absorb magic. And what do you think would be the biggest source of magic in the area?"
"She's right," Wendy said. "There are lots of powerful wizards in Fairy Tail! That's why it was targeted?!"
"Yes... that's right." Carla replied.
Aang clenched one of his fists. "How could they?"
"Man, they're some seriously selfish bastards!" Natsu said. "GIVE EVERYONE BACK YOU JERKS!" he looked at the vortex that sucked everyone and everything away, and it kept releasing arcs of thunder.
Azula smirked at Natsu."I think you have to be a little louder, I doubt the people in Edolas heard you the first time!" Natsu gave a glare at her.
Happy continued to look down in sheer sadness. "A-and it's our fault, Carla? Yours and mine?"
"In an indirect sense, yes," she answered. "We were given a different mission by the Edolas kingdom and sent into this world - Earth Land."
Natsu angrily glared at Carla while Wendy couldn't believe it. "That can't be! You hatched from an egg in this world!" Wendy stated.
"Happy too! I found him in an egg!" Natsu angrily said.
Azula was taken aback after hearing what Wendy and Natsu just said. "W-wait! Hatched!? From an egg!? Ok, cats come from eggs in this world. Learn something new every day I guess."
"Yes," Carla confirmed as she finally turned to them. "Just so it's clear, I've never been to Edolas myself." the others were slightly surprised by this. "As Wendy stated, I was born and raised in this world. But we were imprinted with the knowledge of Edolas and our mission. So we should've known about it all from the moment we were born." she paused before pointing an accusatory paw at Happy. "Yet... Why don't you know about it!?" she yelled.
"I swear the stupidity is contagious," Azula muttered. "Listen, white cat. If he has no memory of his mission or Edolas for that matter, then how can he know why he forgot?" everyone looked to Azula. "Obviously he wasn't imprinted with your knowledge, so he was just ignorant to... everything I suppose. He probably didn't even think he had anything worth remembering..." they were all silent as Natsu, Wendy, and Aang were staring at Azula. "What?"
"You just... defended Happy..." Aang said.
Realizing that she did, she stepped back in shock and she looked down in shame. "I stood up for a pathetic cat...what kind of Fire Lord have I become...?" she muttered as a large bead of sweat fell on the side of her face.
Though Happy still looked sad. "I... I don't know..." he said.
Carla turned away. "Anyway, as for our current situation. As we're from Edolas, we're to blame for what's happened."
"You keep talking about this mission," Aang said. "Maybe you could tell us what it is?" he requested.
"I... can't tell you."
Azula folded her arms. "Like hell you cant! After all, you said it was your fault, and since the blue cat's mind can't be relied upon. I believe you owe us that much!"
Though Aang was quick to bite back. "If anyone owes anyone anything. I'd say it's you," he said giving Azula a serious look.
"Please, tell us, Carla." Happy sadly said. "I want to know who I am."
"I-I said I can't tell you!" she closed her eyes and refused to look at anyway as she further turned her back to them. "Remember it on your own!"
Natsu took a breath. He returned to his upbeat expression as he punched his fist into his hand. "Now that all that's settle, whaddya say we head to this Edolas place?"
Azula walked to Natsu. "I never thought I'd say this, but that's the best idea I've heard all day. And it came from you," she said with a smirk. "But we should pay this Edolas King a visit and air our grievances." she looked forward with her old sinister smirk.
"Nothing is settled at all!" Carla comically said in front of both of them. "You don't understand any of this, do you?"
"What is left to understand?" Azula asked, looking down at Carla. "We're not the ones with all the answers here!"
They all suddenly heard a stomach growl from Happy. Aang, Wendy, and Natsu chuckled while Azula let out a defeated sigh.
"Natsu..." Happy said. "I'm worried and hungry..."
Natsu chuckled. "That just shows you're doing ok."
"Maybe we'll find you some fish to eat," Aang suggested. "That will cheer you up."
Wendy looked to Carla whose back was still facing her. Azula only eyed Carla with more suspicion.
Natsu looked up to the vortex that continued to swirl above them. "Everyone's in Edolas, right?"
"Assuming they are alive, I would think so," Azula said.
"Then we hafta go help 'em."
Aang looked down at Carla. "Do you think they are still alive?"
"Maybe... I think. But I don't know if they can be saved." Carla eyed the dirt below them. "I'm not even sure if we can return from Edolas if we go..."
"That's cowardly talk to me... The Avatar and I have been stuck in a world different from ours, so there is nothing new here." Azula stated. "Plus, I don't know about you, but I'd rather not walk around aimlessly in this silent hell, thank you."
"And without our pals, there's nothing left in this world to keep me here." Natsu confidently said. "All accept Igneel anyway."
Aang joined Natsu and looked up at the vortex. "You all already know my answer. I won't stop till we bring everyone back."
Wendy looked on with a serious expression. "Same here."
"But... can we really save them?" Happy asked.
Natsu looked down at his friend and grinned at him. "We won't know unless we try, won't we?"
"Natsu..."
Carla looked far into the distance. "I am a Fairy Tail member of sorts... plus I feel guilty that my homeland was responsible for this... I'm not against taking you there... But I need you to promise me some things."
Azula wasn't having any of it. "We don't have to promise you sh-" Azula was chopped in the back of the head by Aang, preventing her from finishing. "You get that hit for free, Avatar."
"Alright, Carla. What are your terms?" Aang asked.
The white cat put her hands on her hips. "By returning to Edolas, I will be abandoning my mission. I can't afford to be spotted by a member of the kingdom on the other side. So we'll need to be in disguise."
"Even me?!" Natsu excitedly asked.
"Especially you," Azula said. "But I suppose it makes sense since we won't be bashing in through the front door."
"Carla, are you sure about this?" Wendy asked.
"Yes, I've already made up my mind." she then pointed to Happy. "And Male cat: you're not to pry into details about our mission." Her paws fell to her hips as she continued. "Thirdly, I don't know anything about Edolas, aside from the information I was given. I can't act as our navigator."
"This plan already reeks of failure," Azula said in a defeated tone.
"And finally..." she then looked at Natsu, Wendy, Azula, and Aang. "Should I or the male cat do anything to betray you... kill us without hesitation."
Happy was shocked at what Carla suggested but Azula took this information the best out of all of them. "It goes without saying..." she said instantly agreeing to Carla's final demand.
Aang scratched the back of his head. "Sorry, Carla... but I have a hard stance against killing people. I won't do it." he defiantly said.
There was a long silence between all of them before Happy's grumbling stomach broke the tension. "I would never-"
"Your stomach is annoying!" Carla angrily said. A bright pink magic circle appeared on Carla's back and it made her wings appear. She hovered into the air and looked at all of them. "Male cat. Hold on to Natsu."
"We're going to fly?" Wendy asked.
"Our wings are meant to be our way of returning to Edolas," she explained. She looked at Aang. "You can fly with your airbending, right?"
"Yeah..."
Azula then looked at Carla. "Since you seem to be calling the shots now, how do I fly up there?"
"Wait, aren't we leaving you?" Natsu asked.
Azula jumped back in shock. "Guh!"
"Then Aang will fly you up there," Carla said.
"How humiliating..." Azula muttered.
Natsu looked down at Happy and he gave him a 'thumbs up' "Well Happy, time to go back to your home."
Happy who still looked sad and distant worked up enough nerve to put on a serious face. "Aye!" he pointed he paw skyward letting everyone know he was on board with their plan.
…
They were about to fly up to the swirling vortex in the sky. "If you drop me, you're dead!" Azula said as Aang stood behind her. Aang rolled his eyes as his response.
"Hey!" she saw Natsu calling out to her as Happy held onto him. "You better remember that I'm keeping an eye on you!"
"Please, it's not me you should be keeping an eye on," she said darting her eyes towards Carla who held onto Wendy's back.
Carla and Wendy led the way While Natsu and Happy followed. Aang created an air sphere that surrounded both himself and Azula. After walking in front of her she looked back. "Hold on." she swallowed her pride and held onto Aang's waist as he flew the both of them up and towards the black hole in the sky.
As they got closer to the black hole, they felt huge wind resistance pushing back down on them. "Aang, Male Cat, fly as best as you can!" Carla called.
"Right!"
"Aye, Sir!" the three of them released a sonic boom as they flew closer and closer to the black hole.
"We can get to Edolas by going through the Anima's vestiges," Carla yelled.
"What?" Natsu asked.
"We're going in through the back door, dumb ass!" Azula yelled.
The wind was pushing down much harder on them. "You need to release all your magic!" Carla instructed. "Otherwise you'll never make it!" Happy flew as fast as he could exhausting all his magic."
Aang and Azula were lagging. The Avatar closed his eyes, concentrated and his tattoos began to glow bright white. His eyes were covered in a bluish-white glow as the air sphere started cutting through the air, and it resembled the shape of a bullet. Aang's eyes returned to normal but his tattoos continued to glow.
As they flew higher and higher, they were passing arcs of lightning that were threatening to shoot them down.
"NOW!" Carla, Happy, and Aang flew faster and looked to have gotten absorbed by the large streaks of thunder. As they got closer to their destination, electric shockwaves were spreading from the source of the Anima.
It wasn't long before all six of them were deep inside the Anima. They were in a bright tunnel of flashing lights that was almost blinding. They couldn't believe what they were seeing. The bright flashes continued to grow in intensity the closer they got to the end. There was a four-pointed star made of rainbow light that they closed in on. Focusing on that, they made one final push, and the star completely engulfed them in its warm light.
"So... bright..." When Natsu opened his eyes, he was met with a fantastic sight in front of him. Floating islands made up most of the pale green sky that surrounded them. Behind the sky, they could see what looked like different planets and moons that were far beyond the reach of anyone.
Many of the floating islands had waterfalls and purple trees. Natsu, Wendy, Aang, and Happy were intrigued by the marvelous world in front of them. Even Azula and Carla had no words as she took a look at her surroundings.
"This is Edolas..." Carla said in awe after seeing her world for the first time.
"My roots..." Happy muttered to himself.
"This place... it feels like I'm in a fever dream," Azula said.
"I never imagined Edolas would look like this..." Aang said, still taking in his surroundings, he was still keeping his air sphere stable.
"So This is your home, Happy!" Natsu said.
"This is Edolas..." Happy looked to many of the floating islands as he still couldn't believe that this was his real home.
They saw weird blue creatures flying alongside them, purple dots peppered their wings. "And it has all the weird creatures too," Azula said. "So... this vastly different from what I'm used to..."
"You're right Azula... even the trees and plants here are colored differently," Aang said.
Natsu gasped as he pointed out another amazing attraction. "Look over there, Happy!" they were met with a river that was floating in the sky and it moved up and down. They even saw, fish with wings swimming in it. "There's a river in the sky! How's it doing that?"
"I don't know. But I feel like I want to find out. We should go swimming in it later!" Aang said.
"Come now you two," Carla said. "I understand how you feel, but we're not here for sightseeing."
Wendy giggled. "Y-yes... you're right..."
"Hehe, sorry Carla." Aang apologized.
Suddenly the wings of Happy and Carla disappeared. Which left just Aang and Azula in the sky as the rest of their party fell.
"KYYYYAAA!" they screamed as they fell towards a field of pink and yellow spores.
"Oh my gosh!" Aang said with panic.
"What the hell?" Azula asked, feeling the same shock that Aang did.
They both flew down and watched the spores breaking each of their falls until they were close to the ground. But they were on one large spore.
Aang and Azula landed on the spore and Aang rushed over to the four. "Are you guys alright?"
"Our wings suddenly disappeared..." Happy said.
Natsu's head up to his torso was buried in the spore, so all that could be seen was his struggling legs. "I think we're fine," Wendy said. "But... what's going on?"
"It's like I told you -" Carla said with her arms folded. "Magic can't be used freely here."
"Oh, you're right. I feel kind of strange." Wendy said.
Aang had the same feeling going through him as well. "Now that you mention it, I have had a strange feeling since we got here."
"Well I don't feel anything... also... are we not going to do anything about... that...?" Azula gestured to Natsu's struggling legs. But he pushed himself out and he still had his determined demeanor. "All right! Now let's go find everyone!"
…
They started to aimlessly walk through the very purple forest. "Nice plan, genius," Azula said, glaring at Natsu. "Where do we even start looking for them? If I recall there might he several floating islands we need to cover!"
"Leave it to me! I'll just smell for 'em!" Natsu said.
"He does have a good nose," Aang said.
Though as soon as Natsu sniffed the air he couldn't make out anything. "No good. So many new smells here that I can't tell what's what."
Wendy put her finger in her mouth and flinched. "You're right... the air tastes different here."
"Does that mean fire will taste different too?" Natsu asked.
"Don't ask me," Carla said.
"I'm still hungry." Happy said in his upbeat tone.
"You're going to complain? You're a cat, go hunt for a bug or something?" Azula said.
"I don't hunt."
"Of course you don't..."
"We should have packed lunches huh," Wendy said.
"Lunches... yes, I'll remember that the next time just in case an entire city disappears," Azula said with an air of sarcasm.
"She's right," Carla said. "You're way to carefree."
"Someone agreeing with Azula... we have to be in a different world." Aang joked.
Everyone aside from Azula and Carla took part in the laughter.
…
They continued on their rather aimless walk. "So, where are we walking to anyway?" Wendy asked.
"Beats me. I figure we oughta walk somewhere at least." Natsu replied.
"That's no solution at all." Happy said.
"For once, I'll agree with the blue cat. We can't just walk around aimlessly otherwise we'll get nowhere fast." Azula said.
"It's not like there's any better choice," Carla said.
When the sound of a stomach grumble was heard, Carla immediately glared at Happy. "Hey, you!"
"Sorry, that was me," Natsu said.
"Hey... is it just me or is it quiet around here?" Aang questioned. "Like other than the wildlife, we haven't seen anybody around here."
"I figure it's better this way," Azula said. "The white cat said we're not supposed to be noticed, right?"
"That's right. We have to disguise ourselves." Carla said.
"But how do we go about that?" Wendy asked.
"Aye, there is nothing but trees here." Happy said.
An idea popped into Natsu's head for their disguise problem.
...
A moment later they were all dressed in foliage, leaves, and flowers that were un-neatly tied together with rope.
Natsu chuckled as his disguise covered him. Wendy and Aang let out nervous laughs. Happy's expression couldn't be seen through his disguise. Carla was annoyed and Azula looked like she was trying to calm her fury.
"On what world do you call these disguises!?" Azula angrily asked as the group proceeded in their disguises. "How hard on your head were you dropped as a child?!"
"They are just costumes!" Happy said.
"What's the big deal?" Natsu asked. "All that matters is that we don't get spotted, so don't sweat it."
"There are at least ten ideas that are better than this!" Azula said.
"Then name them," Aang said, but when Azula didn't respond, he chuckled.
"Shut your mouth!"
"It's poor in terms of fashion sense," Carla said while she tried to put on a smile through her annoyed expression. "But it was a good idea."
"It was?" Happy and Azula questioned.
Happy started to sweat and become uncomfortable. "It's hot, I'm sweating from inside the leaves," he complained.
"What a weakling. Just put up with it!" Carla said with an exasperated sigh.
"A-aye..."
They continued walking and they were met with the same river from before that curved and bent in the sky. Aang gasped as he saw it in front of them. "Hey! Its that river from before."
"Oh yeah!" Happy said. "I forgot I was hungry!"
"Knock it off!" Carla exclaimed.
"I bet there's yummy fish in that river..." Happy started to salivate under his disguise.
Azula though pointed to what looked like a person who sat at the edge of a ledge and was fishing. "Maybe you should ask him if he's caught any."
"Huh?" Natsu gasped.
"It seems to be an Edolas native," Carla said.
"What a relief! He looks like us!" Wendy said as the blue-haired, old fisherman yawned.
"Great, let's question him," Azula said as she marched forward but Aang held her back.
"Hehe, better let me handle this. You're a bit... intimidating."
"Aye, Azula will scare him off, then I won't get any of his fish." Happy added.
Azula sighed. "Fine, go do your thing Avatar..." But they all noticed Natsu left. "Oh no..." Azula muttered. "Please don't tell me that dolt-"
The man was minding his own business until he heard: "Yo!" he turned around and he got a huge fright when he saw Natsu in his thick leaf disguise. The lighting angle made him look like a monster with bright yellow eyes. "Mind if we talk?" the man cowered as Natsu began to talk to him. "I'm lookin' for people from a guild called Fairy Tail. You seen em anywhere."
"Guh!" the man quickly ran off while screaming as loud as he could.
"Wait!" Natsu called out. "What's his deal? I just wanted to ask him a question..." He was punched in the head by Azula. "Ow! What was that for?"
"You colossal dumb ass! You just waltzed up to him in a stupid outfit and asked him about 'Fairy Tail' a thing which he probably never even heard on. You damn near gave the bastard a heart attack!" Azula ranted.
Natsu glared back at Azula, his eyes were still glowing their monstrous yellow. "How are we supposed to find 'em then?!" he angrily asked as steam puffed out of his nose.
"Well..." Wendy said.
"This is bad," Carla said. "If that man reports to the kingdom about us..."
"Then these costumes are pointless." Happy flatly said.
"You know, I can find that man, and silence him before he tells a soul," Azula said.
"Absolutely not!" Aang and Carla said in unison.
Azula sighed. "Fine, but don't complain later. I offered my expertise."
...
They continued on their aimless path forward across a long bridge over a river that was made of dark tree branches and vines. "In any case, we need to hurry and find the others," Carla said.
"It's finally cooled off!" Happy gleefully said as he felt less hot in his costume. "I just wish that guy had left his fishing rod behind..."
"Hey... did I do something wrong?" Natsu asked, still unaware of what the potential consequences of his previous actions would be.
"How much time do you have?" Azula said. "I can write a list."
"N-never mind that," Wendy said trying to quell the tension between Natsu and Azula. Her ears twitched and she looked forward. "Huh, did anyone else just hear that?" she asked.
"Oh! Another fishing guy!?" Natsu excitedly asked.
"Hopefully not..." Aang chuckled.
"All right! This time for sure!" he wanted to rush forward but Azula grabbed him by the ear.
"Honestly, don't you ever learn!?"
Inside the river, something rose to the surface. Is was an orange aquatic creature with blemishes and blue eyes. Seeing this creature excited Happy. "Oh! A fish! Look!" he pointed down to it with his paw.
"Oh, I see it. Let's catch it and chow down-" but the fish rose its head above the water and it made a tremendous splash. They saw that the fish was colossal compared to them as it let out a menacing roar. It took the shape of a large orange slug-like creature.
"SO BIG!?" they all yelled.
"W-what is that?!" Aang asked.
"Who cares!?" Happy excitedly said. "It's a huge fish!"
"Looks tough!" Natsu said as he prepared to fight the colossal fish. "I'm fired up!"
Azula looked at Natsu with wide white eyes. "You idiot, we don't have time for this!"
"Don't worry, princess. All I need is three minutes!" Natsu leaped up off the bridge to throw a punch to the fish. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" his fist landed on the fish, but strangely, no flames were generated. The fish then slapped Natsu into the water after his feeble attack.
"Natsu!" Everyone else except Azula yelled in worry.
He emerged from the water with a large bump on his head. "Huh? I can't make fire..." Natsu said as he was still recovering from the slap the fish gave him.
"I told you!" Carla angrily yelled while she comically leaped up to get his attention. "You can't use magic freely in Edolas!"
Natsu recovered. "Huh, then that means we must..."
"RUN FOR IT!" they all yelled as they sprinted as fast as they could to get away from the fish that was chasing them. Their disguises had fallen off as they ran in a panic.
Natsu and Wendy were holding onto Happy and Carla. Happy who just freely hung onto Natsu while smiling and Carla looked very annoyed at their situation. Aang and Azula led them.
Remarkably, the giant fish-slug was still chasing them as they were back in the forest. "It's still chasing us!?" Wendy yelled.
"Things are going to get tough if we can't use magic!" Natsu comically yelled as he ran in fear.
"NO, YOU THINK!?" Azula angrily yelled.
"But don't you think all this will be causing a commotion, even though a forest!" Wendy asked.
"I think we should focus on not getting eaten first!" Aang said.
Unfortunately for them, they ran to a cliff-face with a long drop, cornering them while the raging monster got closer to them. "A Dead-end!?" Aang and Wendy exclaimed.
Happy was being relentlessly shaken by Natsu. "Happy! Please Fly!"
"We can't use magic remember!" Happy comically reminded.
"THAT'S IT!" Azula yelled as her arms had electric arcs surrounding them. "I've only been here for at least two hours, and this world is already PISSING ME OFF!" she fired a hot bolt of lightning to the giant fish monster. The entire body of the fish was shining bright blue due to the electricity and it then slid towards them, covered in scorch marks. When the monster's fin twitched, Azula angrily threw a fist forward and covered the whole thing in blue fire. The entire fish was dark gold after her flames burned it. Azula panted while standing in front of the others. They all looked at her with wide, white eyes. "I was not going to get humiliated by a fish!" she yelled.
"Wow... Azula is scary." Wendy and Happy said.
Azula walked towards them. "Let's figure this out right now! None of you can use magic right now?"
Wendy shook her head and Carla folded her arms. "You saw what happened to mine and the male cat's wings."
Azula turned to Aang. "What about you, Avatar?"
Aang leaped onto an air scooter and shot flames off the cliff. "My bending is still good..." he then closed his eyes and tried to focus. "Huh... that's strange... I can't go into the Avatar state."
Azula sighed. "Right... so we have two cats that are about as useful as house pets, two dragon slayers that can't use their magic. Which means the only ones useful in a fight would be me and the Avatar. On top of that, we have no idea where we are going and we could get jumped at any minute by giant fish monsters!?" Azula walked to the rock ledge. "I wonder if a fall from this height would kill me?"
"NO Azula!" Wendy fearfully yelled as she grabbed her wrist.
Azula was silent before slowly took her hand back. "I-I wasn't serious..."
"Listen up!" Carla said. Her arms were folded and she closed her eyes. "We shouldn't cause any more commotions! We're not even in disguises now, Natsu!"
Natsu was shocked that Carla was accusing Natsu of their recent mishap. "Huh? You're seriously blaming me for this!?" he said in disbelieve.
"Not entirely, but for the most part, yes!" she continued as they looked at two floating rivers and other floating islands in the distance. "If people from the kingdom find out about us, there's no telling what they'll do! In which case, forget about saving the others- We'd have our skins to worry about."
Natsu apologetically sat on the ground. "I don't get it, but I guess I'm to blame?"
"How do you not get it!?" Carla said with an angry growl while a rage tick was pulsing on the back of her head.
Azula pinched the bridge of her temple before looking to Aang. "I will literally do anything you ask of me if you allow me to throw this idiot off this cliff!"
"Nope," Aang replied.
"Aren't you both going a bit far," Wendy said to both Azula and Carla. "Natsu didn't mean any harm."
Carla's eyes shone bright yellow in her rage. "IT'D BE EVEN WORSE IF HE HAD MEANT HARM!" her voice echoed across the forest, all they heard afterward was Happy's stomach.
"Can I eat the giant fish?" he asked.
"NO!" both Azula and Carla said.
…
Minutes later, they found themselves in another forest. Wendy took point while holding an annoyed Carla. Natsu and Happy were behind them, while Azula was behind Natsu and Happy. Aang took the rear so he could keep watch over Azula.
"Ugh... you should have let me have that fish..." Happy said as his stomach grumbled.
"As annoying as your grumbling stomach is, I'd rather we not get caught by the kingdom just so you and Natsu can stuff your faces," Azula said.
"Besides." Natsu started. "I tasted a bit of it. It was really gross," he said, sticking his tongue out in disgust.
It wasn't long before they discovered more Edolas locals. They were on a branch of a large tree and they had large packs on their backs and were dressed in robe-like clothing with jeweled headdresses covering the tops of their heads. The old woman and the younger male nervously looked at the group.
"We've been seen again." Carla flatly said.
"Wh-What should we do?" Happy asked.
"Knock them out and take their stuff." Azula casually said making the locals gulp in fear.
"Azula!" Aang yelled.
"What, we could use their clothing for disguises, and I'm sure they have some useful items on their person."
Happy walked forward and raised his paw. "Hi! We're travelers. We've gotten lost."
"P-please forgive us!" Both Edolas locals dropped to their knees.
Azula chuckled as she thought they were bowing to her. "Huh, now we're getting somewhere," she said walking to the front of the group.
"Oh, great Exceeds! Please, spare our lives!" the male begged.
"Exceeds?" Azula asked. "Is that a weird term they use around here?"
"Who could they be talking about?" Natsu asked.
Carla slightly darted her eyes away from the cowering humans, something which Azula noticed.
"Hey!" Natsu walked forward.
Happy got scared as he was afraid of what he would say. "WAIT! Natsu!"
"No point trying to avoid 'em now, right?" he turned back to them. "Hey! I wanna ask you something! Our friends are here in Edolas-" they both watched Happy taking a step forward and they both cowered in fear as they held onto each other.
"SPARE US!" they yelled as they ran.
"What the heck?" Natsu asked with a sweatdrop going down the side of his face.
…
They continued walking along, but they were still wondering what could have scared those people so much.
"They looked terrified..." Aang said. "You think Azula's threat got to them?"
"HUH?!" she exclaimed. "They were clearly scared of 'Exceeds' whatever the heck those are. Maybe that's what they think we are? No... that can't be it."
"What makes you say that?" Wendy asked.
"I've seen fear like that before... the same kind of fear peasants have when people of royalty are in front of them. I've watched people cower at my father's feet enough times to know."
"Wait... you think Exceeds are royalty here?" Aang asked.
"It could be possible," Azula said. "But why would they mistake us for what they are scared of?"
"But..." Wendy interjected. "Those people seemed to be afraid of Happy and Carla..."
"See, it wasn't my fault!" Natsu said trying to shake blame off himself.
"No one blamed you this time." Aang pointed out.
"Did I look that scary?" Happy asked.
"Like you were going to eat em'!" Natsu joked.
Azula folded her arms. "You have to be the lowest of the low to be afraid of these two, especially him." she pointed at Happy while his stomach growled again.
"Carla?" Aang called. "What do you make of this?"
Carla was already deep in thought. "I'm not sure yet..."
Azula was about to say something, but she decided to keep it to herself. Natsu then stepped on a soft, mushy mushroom. It wasn't long before spores of different colors grew around them. "Huh!"
"Not again!" Azula cried.
"I've got a bad feeling about this..." suddenly a large mushroom spore shot out of the ground with an audible *boing*. Since they were all standing on that mushroom, they were shot straight up into the sky.
But it wasn't the end because as they fell back down to earth, they bounced on another mushroom that shot them up again, keeping them airborne. They continued to bounce on mushroom after mushroom until they fell back into a deep forest and fell through the room of a house made out of a large pumpkin.
"We fell again..." Wendy said.
"Sheesh..." Carla said.
Most of them got up and dusted themselves off but Azula decided to remain seated. "It's official, I hate Edolas. I should have just stayed in silent hell."
"What is this place?" Natsu asked.
"Some storage room it looks like," Aang said.
"Hmm... I'm not sure how useful it will be." Carla said. "But let's borrow some clothes here so we can disguise ourselves."
Natsu started looking through the boxes. "Oh! There's a lot of neat clothes here!"
Though Wendy looked nervous as she held the shirt she wanted to change into. "Natsu, don't look this way."
"Relax," Azula said as she was taking off her Fire Nation armor. "He's too stupid to be pervy."
"Check this out!" Happy said as he wore a cape with a mask made of metal that exposed his mouth and ears.
Carla was dressed in a pink shoulder-less top with purple baggy pants. There was a blue, beaded necklace around her neck and gold bangles on her upper arms. She had rags over her forehead "Well, I suppose this'll do."
Happy slid over to the white cat with hearts surrounding him. "So cute! You look good in anything, Carla!" She turned away from him, still loathing the attention he gave her.
"You should just give it up, cat. She's just not into you." Azula as she adjusted the fingerless gloves on her hands. She wore a dark brown, high collared vest with a long-sleeved shirt underneath, underneath that was a black skirt with brown boots. She had a left shoulder-pad with green feathers on it. Her hair was tied in a long ponytail.
Aang had a dark green, sleeveless top with a thick dark blue belt below it. His pants were rolled up, dark green baggy pants, as for his feet, he had brown shoes that went up to his ankles.
Wendy was in a two buttoned, long-sleeved red shirt with white accents that had black outlines. Her sleeves were black with a white stripe going around them. There was a yellow bow tied around her collar. Below that was a dark skirt with a white stripe going across the hem, most of her legs were covered in navy blue socks. Her loose hair was tied in two long pigtails that were held by large red hair clips.
Natsu was dressed in a blue robe with a reddish-brown hood covering his head and brown pants, his scarf was still tied around his neck. He was gazing out of the window and looked completely shocked.
"Natsu, Did something happen?" Wendy asked.
"I swear to Agni. If it is another monster-" Azula started.
"You won't believe this." he started in a low tone before he pointed out who grabbed his attention. "It's Fairy Tail!"
"WHAT!?" they all yelled.
They noticed the Fairy Tail symbol, imprinted on a branch that was close to what Natsu pointed at.
"No way, they set up that quickly?" Aang asked.
Natsu and Wendy had already taken off towards the Fairy Tail building. "Oh well, let's go see the idiots," Azula said as she leaped out of the pumpkin house while Aang followed her.
"It looks different," Natsu said. "But it's Fairy Tail! No doubt about it!"
"Slow down!" Carla yelled. "Honestly." she followed them while Happy ran behind her.
"Oof, my disguise is heavy..." Happy said.
They arrived at the base of what looked like a large tree. There were doors and above them were written 'Fairy Tail'. They looked up to see a Fairy Tail flag that was tied to vines that spiraled around the green tree.
"So... they took refuge in a tree...?" Azula questioned.
"We did just walk out of a giant pumpkin." Aang pointed out.
"Fair enough."
…
After walking in they were surprised to see that many of the guild members were there, sitting and chatting it up like everything was normal.
"Everyone's alright!" Natsu said as spits of tears fell from his eyes.
"We found them without much trouble," Wendy said.
"Um... define 'trouble'," Azula said. "I seem to recall going through quite an annoying hell to get here." Azula started to look around. "I know I haven't been with you people long, but doesn't something seem off to you?"
"Huh?" Happy started to observe everyone. "The guild sure seems different, huh?"
"You're right," Aang said. "I think something is off."
Natsu quickly dismissed their concerns. "Don't worry about the details!"
"No, I agree with Azula and Aang. Something is off." Carla said.
"Hey, that's the request board!" Happy pointed it out and it was bordered by green vines and red mushrooms.
They were all under a table to avoid detection. "Hey, why do we hafta sneak around anyways?" Natsu asked.
"Look closely," Carla said. "Aang, I don't see any of your friends anywhere."
"Hey... you're right. If Toph were here, she could have seen us coming." Aang noted.
"And those that we do recognize are dressed differently," Azula said.
Natsu and Wendy gasped as they started to notice. They noticed Juvia talking to Max. She was dressed in a white buttoned shirt with a red tie that was tied up to show her stomach. She had white gloves, a blue skirt, and a little blue hat that hung off the right side of her head. She had stocking and heels covering her legs. Also, she had the old hairstyle that she had while she was with Phantom Lord. "Juvia is going on a job now," she told Max.
"W-wait... my dear Juvia-chan!" they all gasped when they saw Gray dressed in many layers of clothing that included a black and red scarf, white jacket, blue and orange shirts, and thick black gloves were covering his hands. "I-I'd love to go with you... If that's okay..." he nervously said while scratching the back of his head.
Juvia looked unusually annoyed. "You're stifling! How many layers of clothes do you got on?"
"W-What!?" Aang and Natsu gasped in shock.
"Give me a call when you're dressed lighter," Juvia said before leaving him.
"I-I get cold easily!" He cried.
Warren and Max were in front of the table that the group was hiding under. They all couldn't hide their shock from what they were seeing. "Ol' Gray is too clingy," Warren said while dressed in a blue suit with a red tie and white shirt, while Max looked laid back and had a pink buttoned shirt covering him.
"Men in love are always full of devotion," Max replied.
"WHAT THE H-?!" Azula covered Natsu's mouth before his screaming could alert everyone.
"Shh!"
They saw both Jet and Droy who both had outfits that exposed their toned stomachs. They were looking down at Elfman whose hair was shorter, and neater. He was in a pink tank top with white jeans, and he had a scar going down one side of his face. He looked like he was about to cry. "You're pathetic, Elfman." Jet said.
"You screwed up another job!" Droy said while fixing his dark sunglasses.
"Oh look," Max said. "Jet and Droy – candidates for our guild's strongest members are giving Elfman another talking to."
"Hehe, a job is a job," Warren said.
Turning to another table, they saw Macao wearing a coat and glasses, and Wakaba with a simple robe-like shirt, but there was a stitched button on it that had a yellow strike through a cigarette. "Ms. Cana?" Macao started. "Won't you join us for a drink?"
"Yes, please come sit with us," Wakaba said.
The woman they tried to get a drink with had sparkles around her, was dressed neatly in a frilly, clean white outfit while a cream sun-hat covered her head, there was a pink rose adornment on the hat.
"How many times must I say it?" she gently told the older men. "I am afraid I am not fond of alcohol."
"HEH!?" Natsu gasped.
"I think I really am in a fever dream," Azula muttered.
"Well believe it, this is happening," Carla said.
They turned back to Jet and Droy berating Elfman. "Then again... I'm glad those two aren't weak anymore. It's about time someone started calling out the weaknesses in this guild."
"I-I'm sorry." Elfman cried.
"Quit apologizin'!" Jet angrily said.
"And quit cryin' all the time!" Droy added.
They turned to see Gray declaring his love for Juvia, while a much, much skinnier Reedus with a blue dress shirt yelled at him and told him to stop stifling.
Natsu and Aang were completely shocked at what they were seeing. Wendy looked less shocked and Azula's eyes were closed in disbelief.
"Wh-What's going on here?!" Happy asked.
"I... I have no idea... did the Anima do something to them?" Aang questioned.
"Has everyone gone crazy?!" Natsu said.
Azula was slapping herself in the face. "Wake up! Wake up!"
However, they were discovered as someone dressed in a full-body black outfit in black boots, with a skull hair tie, bent down to see who was under the table. "Hey, who the hell are you?" she demanded in a serious tone. And from the side ponytail blonde hair that she had, there was no mistaking who she looked like.
Suddenly the whole guild went quiet.
"No way!" Natsu fearfully gasped.
"It can't be!" Wendy said.
"L-Lucy!?" Aang exclaimed.
Lucy looked to be glaring right at them while Jet, Droy, and Juvia joined her. "What do you think you're doin', hiding and sneaking around here?! Huh!?"
"SERIOUSLY!?" Happy and Natsu screamed.
"Just... what is going on here!?" Carla silently asked.
Azula sighed. "Time to get to the bottom of this." she got out from under the table and gave Lucy a similar glare that she gave them.
"Azula... wait!?" Wendy warned.
"Your new, arguably, the better look isn't fooling anyone. At least of all, me." Azula was suddenly punched in the stomach by Lucy's right hand and then fell to her knees and started coughing. "W-when the hell did you grow a set!?" she said clutching her stomach.
Lucy then approached the others who had scurried out from under the table. She approached Natsu and examined him. She still had that angered look on her face. "Natsu?" He gulped in fear of what she would to him after seeing what she did to Azula.
The others were all silent as they waited for what Lucy would do next. But after seeing the pink hair, she leaped onto him and hugged him. "Oh it's only you, Natsu!" she happily screamed. The others were wondering if that really was Natsu mostly because of his outfit. "Natsu..." Lucy started in a sad and worried tone. "Where were you all this time? You have me worried... you jerk!"
There was a brief silence before Natsu got her attention. "Lucy..."
In less than a second, Lucy was sat, cross-legged on Natsu's shoulders and she was drilling her fists into Natsu's head. "Here's your punishment!"
"There it is!" Warren excitedly yelled.
"The Grind Crush, one of Lucy's '48 Torture Techniques'!" Max explained while Natsu was screaming in agony.
"HUH!?" Happy exclaimed in shock.
"NATSU!" Wendy comically yelled.
"Something is very wrong here!" Aang said.
"No... Lucy is always like that." Cana said to Aang. "She always teased Natsu like that."
Aang scratched the back of his head nervously. "Cana... are you sure you're alright?"
Happy noticed Elfman crying to himself while Jet and Droy glared at him. "And he barely seems like Elfman!"
"HEY, QUIT YER' BLUBBERIN'!" Jet and Droy yelled, scaring both Elfman and Happy.
"I'm sorry!" Elfman apologized.
"What is happening, here?!" Happy asked while shivering.
"I'm just glad you're all right," Gray said as he looked at Natsu before he turned to Juvia. "Right, my adorable Juvia?"
"Shut up." Juvia lowly said only glancing in Gray's direction.
"Carla... did the Anima do this to them?" Aang asked while the white cat had her arms folded. "It's like everyone is the exact opposite."
"Natsu!" they saw Mirajane at the bar who was wearing a dark pink dress that exposed her cleavage and stomach. She was waving in their direction, particularly to Natsu. "Welcome back!" she gleefully said.
"Um... almost everything," Aang remarked while a drop of sweat fell down the side of his face.
"Kind of a letdown, in a way." Happy said.
Suddenly a black blur had sped toward Lucy and was punched her in the gut. She arched forward and coughed as Azula backed her fist away. "Don't ever even think about touching me again! Because if you do, I'll remind you of the true coward you really are!"
Lucy slowly got up and she had a furious expression on her face. Everyone in the guild was shocked at what just happened, many were even scared. "Huh!? Who the hell do you think you are!?" she snarled in a low tone.
"I should be asking that question, peasant! Or this the trip here knock even more screws loose!?"
They both had rage tick on their heads. "What!? I'll kill you!" Lucy said getting close to Azula's face.
"I'd like to see you try!" Yellow and blue friction sparks were crackling between the two girls as they only got angrier at each other.
Aang quickly got in between them, lightly pushing them away from each other. "Okay, let's just calm down alright. We don't need to start a fight here, right Lucy?"
Lucy raised an eyebrow while she looked down at Aang. Her face still had an angry expression. "Who's the brat?"
"Brat!?" Aang exclaimed while his eyes turned white.
"By the way." Macao started as he looked at Wendy, Happy, and Carla. "Who's the girl and the cats?"
"Cats?" Wakaba questioned.
Both men nervously looked at each other when they had only just noticed that there were cats in the building.
"CATS!?" the entire guild screamed in panic.
"What's this mean?" Jet asked.
"Why did they bring Exceeds here!" Droy questioned while preparing for battle.
Grey only let out a panicked squeal while Juvia was also preparing to fight. "Exceeds, here!?"
The three stood nervously as the eyes of the entire guild was on them. "Wh-What's the big deal?" Happy asked.
Both Azula and Lucy had their fingers grasped while they were pushing each other back. "What the hell's goin' on here?" she asked turning away from Azula.
"Oh let me guess, cats scare you too? And what the hell is an Exceed?" Azula said.
Aang managed to separate them by pushing them apart. Carla only looked more nervous while trying to keep her composure. Happy took off his metal helmet soon after. "So hot in there..." he said with a sigh. His cat face was fully exposed.
"You do look like them," Mira said bending down to Happy's size while keeping her smile. "You guys look like Exceeds," she said after she got Happy's attention. Though Wakaba and Macao were quick to correct her.
"Uhh, I think it's more than 'looks like'..." both men said.
"I think they are them." Gray nervously said.
"Big sis is right!" Elfman said. He calmly stood straight. "They only look like Exceeds."
"Maybe." Juvia agreed.
"I dunno..." Max skeptically said.
"They look like real cats to me," Warren said.
"Hey!" Carla glared at Happy. "Put it back on!
"But it's so stuffy with it on..."
"Just put up with it!"
…
Elsewhere in a similar-looking forest, a lone figure was on top of a tree and he let out a single grunt. He wasn't very tall and had a silver skull mask covering his face. The rest of his body was covered by a dark cloak. "Hmm...?" He took a deep breath and looked across the tree-tops of the forest he was currently in. He didn't say a single word and only leaped down from the tree.
…
Back with the guild, Lucy was glaring right at Natsu. "Lucy is scary..." Both Aang and Wendy muttered. They were all at a table and Lucy was looking to interrogate Natsu.
"Out with it! You had me worried! Where were you and what were you up to?!" she asked.
Azula folded her arms. "Seriously, what did you do to piss her off? She's like a completely different person."
"I-It's hard to say," Natsu said.
"Natsu. You really need to explain it to her." Happy said.
"Hmm." Natsu folded his arms as he tried to figure out what he wanted to say. "What was it called again?"
"Huh?!" Lucy got annoyed and within a second she was driving her elbow into Natsu's face. "You're as irritating as ever!"
"GAAAAH!" Natsu screamed.
"There it is!" Warren excitedly yelled.
"This time it's the Elbow Grind Crush!" Max said, naming another one of Lucy's torture techniques.
"You just added Elbow to it." Happy stated.
"Natsu!" Aang wanted to help but Azula was quick to hold him back. "What are you doing?!"
"Hold it Avatar, let her blow off some steam, seeing Natsu tormented like this is very cathartic."
"You're unbelievable," Aang said while a large drop of sweat fell down his face. "But this is strange. Firstly, everything has basically turned opposite-" He pointed to Gray who was trying to talk to Juvia again.
"Say, my cute Juvia! You said you were going out on a job, right?" Gray asked. "I'd love to go with you.
She darted her blue eyes towards him. "I told you to stay away from me. You're stifling me. Juvia can handle herself." Gray was sweating nervously. "You'd be no help at all."
"Gray is never this nervous... and that... fully clothed" Aang said. "And Juvia... well she'd jump at the opportunity to spend time with him."
"Well, I don't notice many differences," Azula said. "I don't know you, people, too well, and Mira is the same as always. But Elfman is... surprisingly un-manly, Cana... doesn't drink. And Lucy magically grew a spine."
They saw Gray try once again. "Juvia-chan. Pretty please?"
Juvia hit her limit as a rage tick appeared on her head and she kicked Gray right in the face with her heels which sent him flying across the guild. He bounced around like a ball since he was layered in so much clothing.
"HELP!" he yelled as he bounced across the guild.
"So pathetic!" Azula said, they suddenly heard screaming and the sounds of bones being crushed.
"AHHH!" Natsu screamed as Lucy her body contorted around Natsu while she managed to stand on foot. She used her arms and one leg to stretched Natsu's back
"Technique #35! The 'Man, That's Cruel' Hold!" Lucy yelled with a smirk as Natsu yelled in agony. She transitioned by sitting on his back and pulling his legs backward while arching her back. "Technique #28! The 'Please Stop' Lock!" Natsu was tapping out as he continued screaming.
"That's Enough Lucy!" Aang said, giving a slight glare to her.
"Huh?! You want some of this, kid?" Suddenly Aang was on the ground and Lucy threw her legs over his chest. She pulled on his left as she pushed her weight to the ground. Aang was also comically tapping out as soon as she applied the hold. "Technique #31 The 'Please Don't Rip My Arm Off' Hold!"
Aang was comically screaming in pain as Azula, Wendy, Carla, and Happy watched. Happy and Wendy with absolute fear, Carla was indifferent and Azula smiled. "Lucy, has become scary hasn't she?" Wendy said.
"Aye..." Happy said.
"I hope she keeps a note of those," Azula said. "Those techniques would have proven useful against Natsu in my battle."
"You scare me sometimes, Azula," Wendy said while an awkward smile.
"Sometimes...?" Azula questioned. "You don't know who I am do you?"
"Hey! Where are you two hiding!?" Lucy yelled as she was excited to execute her 'Techniques' on both of them.
Aang ran over to what looked like a complicated machine, that had a multitude of levers and pedals. "Huh... what is this?"
"You there!" he turned and saw Levy looking very different from normal. She had a brown top that exposed her upper chest and stomach and had a short skirt of the same color. She brown sleeves with gold bangles and light brown boots. "Step away from there!" she angrily said. "I am doing delicate maintenance on that, and I don't need you wrecking it!" she angrily said. "And I can barely concentrate with you guys kickin' up a ruckus!"
"HA! I found ya' Brat!" Lucy yelled while speeding over to the Avatar.
Aang cowered but Levy angrily stepped up to Lucy while brandishing a wrench. "SHUT UP, LUCY!" she yelled. They both butted their heads together. "I'm doing maintenance here, you brawny gorilla woman!" Levy angrily said.
"Then do it already, you gangly mechanic!" Lucy growled in response.
"Um... I'm beyond confused here." Aang said as his eyes turned to white circles.
"Now, now... calm down will ya?" Macao nervously said, trying to calm both girls.
"The work you do is very important Levy," Wakaba said.
They put distance between themselves and Levy smirked at Lucy in victory. "Ugh. Just hurry up." an annoyed Lucy said.
"I'm glad you see it my way." Levy triumphantly said.
Wendy, Azula, and Carla were still by the table observing the guild. "Huh? I don't see Erza or Zuko anywhere..." Wendy stated.
"Yes... well apart from Erza, the rest of the Avatar's friends aren't here... that... concerns me." Azula said. "Whatever the hell is going on, I don't like it one bit."
"Hey, Natsu." the three heard Happy and Natsu under the table. "What do you think Erza is like here?"
"The opposite of her normal self, obviously," Natsu said.
"Why are you idiots hiding under there?!" Azula asked. "And to answer your question, wouldn't Erza's opposite be a coward?" Azula asked. "I imagine she would be like..."
...
She imagined herself and Erza on the battlefield, though Erza was shakily holding out her sword at Azula. "You don't have a chance in this fight, Erza! Now surrender Fairy Tail over to me right now!"
Erza got to her knees and bowed in front of Azula. "Y-you're right, I couldn't p-possibly match your strength!" she stuttered while there were tears in her eyes. "F-Fairy Tail... is all yours..."
Azula laughed. "Glad you know your place, peasant!"
...
"...Or something like that!" Azula finished. Happy gave an annoyed look to her. "What?"
"No version of Erza would bow down to you." He said.
"All right wise guy, why don't you tell me what Erza's opposite would be like."
"Aye!"
…
Happy imagined Erza was facing off against a dragon-like creature. Happy was smugly standing behind her. "Sir Happy! Allow me to handle this!" Erza firmly said.
"Sure! It's all yours!" Happy replied.
Erza turned to face Happy while tears hung off her eyes. "Sir Happy! I shall protect you, without fail!"
Happy was suddenly on a lawn chair with an umbrella. On a small table was a fish and a cocktail. "Oh, that's reassuring! Now go, Erza, my servant!"
"Yes, sir!"
…
"Or something like that!" Happy gleefully said.
"Uhh, I think your Erza is way worse!" Azula said. "Erza already protects the weak, but serving them is far from a possibility. Even for the opposite of her."
Wendy was deep in thought for a second before she spoke. "Wait, I think she'll be like this!"
…
Erza was in an apron with a cooking hat. She was holding a yellow bowl while mixing, cake mix inside it. Erza was surrounded by a multitude of strawberry cakes. "I worked hard to bake this for you, Wendy!" Erza happily said. "Please, eat up!"
"Thank you very much, Erza!" Wendy happily said.
"Don't eat too much and get cavities!"
…
"...Or something like that!" Wendy finished.
"Are you kidding me?!" Azula and Happy yelled with wide white eyes.
"You poor, poor girl. Too innocent for your own good." Azula said.
Lucy suddenly kicked the table that Natsu was hiding underneath. "Found ya, Natsu!" she firmly grabbed his arm and he tried to escape. "Ready for more of my techniques?" she asked as she looked like she was winding up a punch.
"Hey, quit it!" Natsu said with a serious tone. "I don't care who you are; if you don't knock it off-"
"Huh?!" Lucy's face suddenly changed to her being serious. "Wanna fight, huh? Sounds good to me!" She elbowed Natsu in the nose and he flew back as drops of blood flew from it. She then kicked him in the head and he fell to the ground. There were two bumps on his head.
Lucy was suddenly sitting on him. "Lucy's super strong too!" Wendy fearfully said.
"Hmm, I wonder what her diet plan is?" Azula asked with a curious face.
"You lack guts, ya know that?" Lucy said.
Aang let out a sigh. "This has to stop. Would you please get off my friend?"
"You tellin' me what to do, brat!?"
"I have no idea what's happening here, but I think I should point out the obvious, you're not our Lucy."
"Huh?! I'll teach you to talk back to me like that!" she threw a punch but Aang immediately avoided it. "What? Stay still you!" she threw a kick but this was futile as well as Aang jumped back. He smirked as Lucy sprinted to him. Her eyes shone with yellow rage. "STOP MOVIN'" he was avoiding her strikes and backflipped onto a table. Lucy leaped to him and tried to grab him but she missed as Aang leaped up onto one of the windows.
"Are you done yet?"
Lucy let out a pant. "You're pretty fast on your feet, eh Twinkle Toes?"
"Wow... you're definitely not our Lucy."
"I can't believe one kid is standing up to Lucy," Cana said as she sat by Warren and Max.
"Eh, sometimes rare stuff happens around here," Max said.
"That kid's going to have a short life," Warren said.
"Hey!" Lucy pointed up at him. "Since Natsu won't talk! What were you guys doing, and what were you up to?! Huh?!"
"Well, I'm not so sure how to explain this. I hardly know what's going on myself." Aang replied.
Lucy immediately lifted Natsu by his scarf. "The kid has more guts than you, Natsu. You should be ashamed. Now tell me what you were doing out there! Huh?!"
Natsu weakly turned to Azula. "Help..."
"Oh, no way, I'm enjoying this too much," Azula replied while winking at him.
"You heartless monster!" he cried.
"I mean... you're not wrong about that," she said while she shrugged her shoulders.
"Are you harassing Natsu again, Lucy?" they heard. The voice belonged to someone who had short white hair. "You should know better!" she said with an air of seriousness in her voice.
Natsu gasped in shock while his pupils shrunk. The woman along with her short hair had blue eyes, wore a purplish-blue top that strapped around her neck. She had white gloves on her hands and a white skirt that covered three-quarters of her legs, and she wore dark blue heels. "Ugh. Fine." Lucy begrudgingly let go of Natsu's scarf.
Natsu stared at her and so did both Aang and Happy as they both recognized her despite the different attire. "N-N-No way..." Happy muttered in sheer disbelief.
Aang leaped down next to him. "I-Is this happening?" Aang asked.
Elfman and Mira though were not surprised by her arrival. "Oh, you're back!" Elfman said.
"Welcome back... Lisanna." Mira welcomed.
"I'm back, Mira, Elfman." Lisanna greeted.
Natsu remained stunned as he could do nothing but stare at her. Lisanna, his childhood friend who supposedly had died, two years ago. He had no idea what to think of her being alive and standing, right in front of him. Tears were developing in his eyes as he thought back to when Lisanna first approached him on a rainy day, he told her about Igneel and she expressed how excited she would be to meet a dragon one day. He thought back to when she told him she wanted to be married to him one day. He even remembered the day they visited Elfman's parakeet's grave – the one that Elfman made for it, she said that she hoped Natsu would be the one to make her grave when she would pass. Thinking back, he remembered her cheery face when he last saw her alive and remembered the heartbreak the rest of the guild went through, particularly Mirajane and Elfman. He did manage to fulfill what she wanted and he made her grave in front of the hut they spent raising the egg Happy was inside. He said that she always liked the sunsets, that way she could view them as much as she wanted.
Aang jumped down to Natsu. "Hey, Natsu... Happy?" Natsu snapped out of it and looked to Aang.
"Y-yeah?"
"Are you guys ok?" Lisanna noticed that they were staring at her.
Natsu thought back to when Lisanna asked that if she were to disappear again, would Natsu find her. And it appeared as though Natsu did find her.
"I found you..."
"Eh?!" she stepped back after looking like she was just creeped out.
Natsu and Happy with teary eyes leaped towards her. "LISANNA!"
"HEY, YOU!" But they didn't get close as Lucy delivered a hard kick to their jaws which sent them flying.
"What is going on? I've never seen Natsu go from, very sad to normal that fast. And who is that girl?" Azula asked gesturing to Lisanna. "I've never seen her before."
"She's Lisanna. She died on a job two years ago, so to see her standing there alive... it must have brought some feelings to the surface." Aang said.
"Huh? Did they date each other or something?" Azula asked.
"Definitely an or something for that," Aang answered. "But why is Lisanna here and alive? It doesn't make sense at all... I wish there was some explanation for this."
Lucy held Natsu by the scarf and he still had tears going down his face. "When did you turn into that sort of creep?! Huh?!"
"But... Lisanna's alive and standing right there!" Natsu cried.
"What crap are you talking about?" Lucy asked, though what Natsu said had given Lisanna something to think about.
"Just sit!" Gray sat Natsu down by a table. "Let's chat for old time's sake. We're pals, y' know." He said putting his arms over him.
"Take your clothes off, Gray..." Natsu said while crying, begging for any sort of normalcy to come back.
"You guys are so close," Lucy said. "Always so touchy-feely..."
"You and Levy fight too much," Gray replied.
Happy was still staring at her, which got Wendy and Carla's attention. "H-How is Lisanna here?" he cried.
"Mira's sister. I thought she was dead..." Wendy said.
"This means they haven't been turned into their opposites," Carla said.
"How sure can you be?" Azula asked.
"Well..." Aang started to think. "Opposite personalities doesn't explain why Lisanna is here. But how can we know for sure?"
"Take a look," Carla said. "Mira hasn't changed one bit, as you can see."
"But she could easily be an outlier," Azula said.
"I thought that might have been the case... but." she pointed her paw to the bar. "That clinched it for me!"
They all looked at where Carla pointed and they all gasped when the saw an older girl that wore a blue top with sky blue bow white pants. But the shocking part was that she suspiciously looked like Wendy – only older and with a bigger... bust. She had a much more laid back look to her.
Warren pointed this out to the older girl "Is it me, or does that girl look like you, Wendy?"
"Does she?" she asked.
"You give off the same sorta vibe," Max said.
"Me!?" Wendy yelled as she blushed while self-consciously looking at her chest.
"O-okay so there are two Wendys and one is more... shapely than the other..." Azula said while Wendy gasped at the 'shapely' comment. "I think I'm ready to wake up now."
"Things aren't 'opposite'. They're different."
Azula quickly picked up on what Carla was saying. "Are you saying?"
"Yes... these people aren't the guild members we're searching for," she said. "They're different people."
"Different how?" Aang asked.
"They've been denizens of Edolas from the very start," Carla said.
"Y-you mean they are versions of our friends that lived in, Edolas?" Aang asked.
"Exactly," Carla said.
Aang started to note the sheer differences in the guild members. How much more tomboyish Lucy is, how less manly Elfman is, how Levy is a mechanic and not a reader, how much more nervous Gray is. "Wow... that's freaky."
"Edolas has its own culture and history. So it's possible for it to have a Fairy Tail of its own." Carla said.
"But... if that is true... if this place is a mirror world, then where are the others?" Aang asked. "Katara, Toph, Sokka, Zuko? The others aren't here."
"Remember what world you're from?" Azula rhetorically asked. "You and I aren't originally from their world. For our parallel selves to show up here, they would have had to have been sucked up from the parallel version of our world. And I'd like to bet that the chances of that happening are very slim."
Aang scratched his head. "I suppose you're right."
"But... that means... this is a Fairy Tail that's always existed in Edolas?!" Wendy said.
"But..." Natsu was still trying to take all this in while Edo-Lucy had his arm in a lock. "Then where are the guild members we know?!"
"Hey, what's all this jibber-jabber?" Edo-Lucy asked.
"I don't know!" Carla replied. "That's why we're here; to go find them!"
"Great, so that means we're essentially right back where we started," Azula said.
Carla grabbed Happy's paw. "And staying here will be problematic! Let's go!" she was dragging Happy towards the exit.
"Carla! Where are you going?!" Wendy asked.
"The royal capital!" Carla replied. "I'm sure we'll find clues there about what happened to our guild!"
But suddenly, Edolas Nab stepped in front of them and had a serious announcement to make. "THEY ARE COMING!" he yelled. "The Fairy Hunter and the Red Reaper's Coming!"
Every single guild member feared for their lives after the announcement was made. Carla and Happy continued to make their way to the door. Edo-Lucy noticed them trying to sneak out. "You cats! Where are you going?! It's dangerous outside!"
"Damnit! They found us already!?" Edo-Warren said.
"Fairy Hunter?" Natsu questioned.
"Red Reaper?" Aang asked.
"They are people from the kingdom," Edo-Cana said. "They are after us yet again..."
"This is bad!" Edo-Wakaba and Macao said.
"The kingdom..." Azula asked looking to Carla. "You think they caught onto us already?"
"I don't know, but they are the ones who sent us to Earth Land."
"The last world we were in?" Azula asked. "Alright since you suddenly know so much, who are the Red Reaper and Fairy Hunter these weaklings are so scared of?"
Happy looked forward with disbelief as this was something he couldn't contemplate.
"Nab!" Edo-Lucy yelled. "Shut the doors." once the doors were closed and locked, she turned to Levy. "Levy, get that machine of yours running! We're getting' out of here!"
Edo-Levy was near her machine and she was fiddling with the buttons, dials, and levers. "Preparing reactor ignition! Coordinates entered. Error correction in five, four, three, two, one." Five dots appeared on the radar that Edo-Levy was looking at.
"Marker set. Rerouting magic power to shock absorbers!"
"HEY!" Edo-Lucy yelled to Edo-Levy. "Hurry up with the teleportation magic circle!"
"Dammit, Lucy! That's what I'm doing!" Levy yelled.
"You're taking too long! Those two monsters are gonna be here!"
Debris from the guild was starting to defy gravity as they hovered upwards. Everyone in Edolas Fairy Tail was hoping that they weren't too late.
"I know that!" she yelled back.
"Quit talkin' and do it already!" Edo Jet and Droy said.
The debris around the guild itself was starting to float. "Output at 40% for teleport criticality!" Edo-Levy said. She continued to read the rising percentages while most of the guild members were panicking.
One of the exceptions was Juvia where she was next to a shivering Gray. "Stop, shivering, you're pathetic."
"Fairy Hunter..." Azula muttered. "Red Reaper... they sound less like goons from the kingdom and more like bounty hunters, but for all of them to be this scared... They must mean serious business."
"Aye..." Happy sadly agreed.
"Hurry it up, Levy!" Edo-Droy yelled. "Quit dawdlin'!"
"Shut up!" Edo-Levy yelled back as her grip tightened on the levers. She continued to read the percentage outputs and she saw a timer appear. "We have two minutes before teleportation."
Wendy suddenly looked to the front door, she could smell the air that she had a bad feeling about. "The air... something is coming..." she muttered to herself.
The doors of the guild were suddenly burst open by a tremendous gust of wind that nearly floored everyone. Behind it was the same figure who was exploring the forest. Any facial expression he had was covered by his mask and his body features were hidden by his dark cloak. He pointed his finger to Edo-Levy's machine before a long stream of electricity was generated by his appendage. A blast of lightning sped towards her, Lucy, Droy, Jet, and the machine itself.
"NO!" Aang shot a blast of air behind him which allowed him to put his body between the lightning strike, and the machine. The bolt was caught with two of his fingers, as he let the energy pass through his arms. He threw his other arm forward, redirecting the lightning strike. The lightning bolt crashed onto the ground below the mysterious figure, sending him flying from the guild doors. Aang made two rock walls rise from the ground and manipulated them to close the doors, he then made another earth wall to barricade the closed doors. "Is that machine ready yet?!" he asked with a serious face looking back at Edo-Levy.
"He... sent the Red Reaper flyin'?" Edo-Elfman fearfully said and he looked at Aang who remained in a fighting stance.
"Who is he?" Edo-Lisanna thought to herself.
"W-was he from the kingdom!?" Happy fearfully asked.
"Most likely," Carla replied.
"But... why would the kingdom come after Fairy Tail?" Wendy asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" she turned to her Edolas counterpart, despite the tension, Edolas Wendy still had her calm, cool demeanor. "The king ordered all magic guilds to be abolished. And now there's only one left in the world... this one." she revealed.
"Wait... this means? Guilds are illegal in Edolas?" Aang asked.
"That is about the gist of it," Edo-Wendy replied. "In short, we are a Dark Guild."
Wendy's eyes shrunk when her counterpart referred to themselves as a dark guild. Edo-Levy smirked with excitement as she eyed her machine. "All right! We have criticality! Activating shock absorbers!" she started to step on the pedals of her machine and was pulling several of the levers on her sides. "Teleportation magic circle... deploy!"
Everyone began to float off the ground as if gravity had suddenly become non-existent. "Now what!?" Natsu yelled.
"M-My body...!" Carla cried as she floated as well.
"We're floating!?" Happy fearfully cried.
Edo-Lucy was pushed against one of the walls. "Grab on to something, guys!" she yelled.
Azula hung onto one of the stray tree-branches but out of the window she saw a large dark monster with wings, she could swear she saw a familiar red-haired figure standing on top of it. "No... that can't possibly be..."
"Commence Teleport!" Edo-Levy yelled as the guild tree began to disappear.
Edo-Elfman held tightly onto his sisters. "Big sis! Lisanna! Hold onto me tight!"
Natsu then noticed that the entire building was shaking. "It's moving... it's moving!" his cheeks suddenly puffed as his motion sickness was triggered.
"AAAHH! Not again!" Happy yelled after seeing Natsu get sick.
There was a roar as the monster was closing in on the guild. Everything inside the guild suddenly went white and the entire tree was glowing white. Suddenly the tree un-rooted itself from the ground and it looked like it fell underground before it teleported into thin air.
The monster crashed into the ground, creating a massive dust cloud. When it cleared there was a large hole in the ground where the guild used to stand. The figure on top of the monster grunted. "They teleported?" she said to herself.
The figure from before had walked to the hole and looked down. The person calling himself the Red Reaper turned then away from it.
"It's not like you to be so slow." the Fairy Hunter said. "How could you let them escape so easily? It isn't like you."
The Red Reaper turned to the Fairy Hunter and her large beast. "I had them," he replied, his voice was deep and echo-y due to the mask he wore over his face. "But..." he thought back to seeing Aang redirect his lightning back at him. "Someone caught me off guard..." he replied.
"I see... in any case Teleportation uses up a lot of magic, so they can't do it too many more times. Those pesky flies will find themselves backed into a corner," she said.
The Reaper started to look around. "And where is the weirdo?"
"Sugarboy is running late," she replied, which only garnered a nod from the Red Reaper.
He then looked to the black scorch mark. The area where the lightning struck. "How interesting..." The Red Reaper thought as he couldn't get Aang's attack out of his mind. He was very intrigued despite Fairy Tail escaping. They watched as the embers were rising out from the hole that was made from the teleportation magic.
"Anyway, let's wait for him, we will get them eventually." the red-haired woman said as she looked down the hole while holding her pincer bladed lance. "I am not called the Fairy Hunter for nothing," she said as she was revealed to have the same face as Erza Scarlet. "After all, everything is going according to the King's plan."
Got this done in a week. I'm proud of myself lol. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this. I'll see you in the next update.