Welcome back, guys. I don't have much to say here, so I hope you enjoy this update.


Within the dark underground hallways, the Edolas Guards along with their leader, Erza Knightwalker were watching the new arrivals that were standing in front of them. Zuko stood in front of the main group, as he faced Knightwalker, while Erza, Gray, Katara, Sokka, and Hen stood by ready to strike.

The guards were shocked, particularly at the arrival of someone that looked exactly like their leader. Knightwalker eyed the group with a shrunken pupil. However, they quickly figured out that they were from Earth Land.

"Where are our friends?" Gray asked in a serious tone, as his fist was on his palm.

"And you better not give us the run-around." Hen said. "I'm very miffed about being turned into crystal." the guards were shivering slightly. "Not going to answer? Bad move!"

Gray and Hen placed their palms on the ground and sharp blades of ice and stone jutted out from the ground, sending many guards flying.

Above them, Erza Knightwalker had leaped to the ceiling and shot herself back down to strike both Gray and Hen. But Erza Scarlet suddenly appeared in front of Gray and Hen and blocked the spear with her sword.

"Holy crap!" Hen exclaimed as his eyes grew wide. As Knightwalker had hit the ground, a blob of water struck Knightwalker and threw her to the wall.

Katara was about to walk to continue her attack but Erza Scarlet had moved her sword in front of her to stop her from moving. "Huh? Erza?"

"Leave her to me," she said as both Erzas faced each other off.

"No way... Erza versus Erza?!" Lucy exclaimed.

"AHHH!" the others turned to the direction of the screaming. "When I get out of here, you guys are going to be burnt charcoal!"

"That sounded like Natsu!" Chun said.

"And he isn't far!" Happy exclaimed.

Both Erzas clashed blades again and they threw fiery glares at each other. "Zuko! Take the others and go on ahead!" Erza said.

"You sure you don't want help?" Hen asked, he watched both Erzas clashing their blades and tremendous energy was expanded from the both of them while they both were screaming. His eyes turned to small black dots and a large drop of sweat fell down his face. "Uh... haha never mind..."

Gray helped Lucy up to her feet. "But... how did you guys get here?" she asked.

"The details can wait! Let's go!" he replied.

"Wait!" They heard Azula yell and Lucy suddenly had caught her keys that Azula threw to her. "Don't ever say I didn't do anything for you."

"But how did-"

"I swiped them back from Evil Erza while we fought."

Lucy gave Azula a smile. "Thanks, Azula."

"Don't look too much into it! Even though you and your magic annoy me... I'd rather not have you die on us." Azula said while not facing her and she was hiding an embarrassed blush.

"Wait... is Azula being nice?" Sokka asked as he turned to Chun. "What did this place do to her?"

"It's been a weird couple of days," she replied with a shrug.

"Uh, guys!" Zuko yelled. "We should get going!"

Both Erzas blades had slid down each other and generated sparks as they pulled them back. There were single scars on their faces that had come from their attacks.

Knightwalker glared at her counterpart. "To think that I'd be stopped by myself..."

"Indeed, it does feel odd," Erza replied.

"I am Erza Knightwalker, captain of Edolas' 2nd Magic Warfare Unit."

"I am Erza Scarlet, a Fairy Tail wizard."

Knightwalker raised her spear. "Let's see what the Earth Land me is made of." the tip of her clawed spear shone bright yellow and it transformed where it has a traditional spear tip. Erza's eyes had widened slightly as she watched her counterpart charging to her while electric sparks covered her. "Silfarion!" she raced past her as Erza blocked the attack with her sword. But right after she blocked the attack, she saw Knightwalker disappear from her sight.

She then found herself blocking more strikes from Knightwalker and saw that her body was cloaked in light. "She's fast!" Erza said to herself. She saw Knightwalker flying towards her, the bright light and electricity still surrounding her. "In that case..." A gold light surrounded Erza and she requipped into her Flight Armor. Right after she transformed, she was matching speed with Knightwalker.

Their blades clashed as both of them were trying to strike each other over and over. Almost having the exact same idea of where to strike, the guards were having a hard time keeping up with the battle as they could only see sparks flying, but not the two combatants in front of them. After they met and separated for the fourth time, Knightwalker was annoyed she couldn't put her down. "Her speed increased the moment her armor changed?!" After she dodged a fast slash from Erza, her spear tip transformed again. This time it was blue in color and it was shaped like a curved jagged arrow, the tip shone bright blue soon after. "Mel Force!" the spear sent a blast of wind that sent Erza flying through the nearby wall.

Erza had crashed into a solid wall into the other room. Knightwalker saw her chance and a gold light surrounded her spear tip as it was transforming again. It took on a jagged look it was black with red edges. She leaped up and lifted her weapon over her head.

"Requip magic?" Erza said to herself. "No, it looks she's altering her weapon's form!"

"Explosion!" Knightwalker swung her spear and an incredible mass of fire magic had crashed down onto Erza, creating a tremendous explosion that decimated the wall Erza was leaning against.

Through the smoke, Erza had raised her ruby red sword as she was revealed to have changed into her Fire Empress Armor in order to better tank the attack.

"Her armor changed form again..." Knightwalker muttered, slightly shocked that her counterpart survived the explosion. "Your magic can change your armor and sword simultaneously, I see."

The two Erzas looked to be standing on a bridge on the outsides of the palace, a large stone sculpture of King Faust was in the background. "And it looks like you can change only your weapon's shape." Erza Scarlet replied.

Knightwalker smirked. "The form my spear takes can increase my own battle strength."

"So even if the principle is different, it's effectively the same as my 'The Knight', huh..."

Knightwalker had swung her spear in front of her. "This is but a taste of the true power of the magical spear, the 'Ten Commandments'!"

Erza had her blade in front of her, mirroring the stance of Knightwalker. "Come!"


The rest of the group continued running through the hall without Erza. "Wait, you mean that lacrima in the plaza?" Lucy asked as the others had told her how they got to Edolas.

"Yes, apparently, that Lacrima had me, Gray, Erza, Katara, Sokka, and Hen," Zuko said.

"Wow, really?"

"But how'd you turn back to normal?" Azula asked. "I thought only the King knew how to reverse the crystallization."

Gray stopped running, forcing everyone else to. "Gajeel and Toph showed up."


-1 Hour Earlier-

After their near-simultaneous attack on the lacrima, it was shining bright, and Gajeel and Toph could only stand by and watch what might happen. Gajeel was surprised but Toph still didn't know what was going on.

The light faded and immediately she could feel six figures on the ground in front of her, them being Zuko, Erza, Gray, Katara, Sokka, and Hen.

"No way, it's only them?" Gajeel asked.

Toph walked to his side. "Whoa... so the lacrima didn't kill them." smoke was surrounding their bodies.

"Hey, do you think they are-"

"Nope." Toph interrupted him, they're breathing for sure. "Alright, you lazy buts! Get up!"

Suddenly the six of them slowly got up, almost as if they were in a trance. Their eyes opened and they were met with Gajeel and Toph looking at them and saw their entirely new surroundings.

"Whoa!" Sokka exclaimed. "What happened? Where are we?"

"We can talk later! Let's scram!" Gajeel said.

The guards had surrounded them and charged to attack. Gray prepared to use his ice magic but was shocked to find his magic wasn't working. He shockingly looked at his hands as his fear shot up.

"My magic doesn't work!" Gray exclaimed.

"What!?" Erza gasped.

"Kind of a side-effect of this place," Toph said with a relaxed tone as Gajeel was eating a chunk of iron. They both stood back to back, Gajeel unleashed his Iron Dragon's Roar while Toph had made a ground wave that bulldozed the guards in front of her.

...

They all managed to escape and were standing by an empty alley. "Wait, if magic doesn't work here. What about bending?" Hen lifted a small slab of earth from the ground and turned it to lava. "All good here, and you water girl?"

Katara had made a blob of water float out of a nearby bucket. "I can still move water."

Zuko looked at Gajeel. "But how come you were able to use magic?"

Gajeel had shown them a bottle of what looked like red breath mints. "First, take one of these."

"What are those?" Gray asked.

"First, explain to us in detail everything that happened?" Erza sternly asked.

Toph shrugged her shoulders. "Uh... it's kind of a lot..."

"You all were turned into a Lacrima." they all heard, as they saw heard someone sounding exactly like Gajeel approaching them.

"Oh, there you are," Gajeel said with a smirk.

"Gihi!" he giggled. "I'd expect no less from the Earth Land me." he tipped his hat upwards revealing he had the identical face as Gajeel, just without the metal rivets on his face.

Soon everyone else was shocked. "TWO GAJEELS?!"

Both Gajeels had put their hands over their shoulders. "I'm the Gajeel of this world, you see."

"And man, he's been a big help," Toph said, punching Edo-Gajeel and he rubbed his arm while smiling. "I'm not sure how far Gajeel and I would have gotten without him."

Gajeel smiled and scratched the back of his head. "He's got a dependable-lookin' face, dont'cha think?"

"Never mind that!" Erza said with a serious tone. "What do you mean we had been turned into a lacrima?!"

"And what do you mean you're the Gajeel of this world?" Katara asked.

Both Gajeels had given Erza a questionable look. "'Never mind that'?"

"In other words," Gray said. "Who cares about your faces?"

They both had looked down in shame. "I've got to be dreaming." Hen said. "Quick, one of you punch me in the-" Gajeel had thrown a punch to Hen's face and the boy was sent to his backside and he was covering his nose which had a red bruise on it, the others accept Toph was surprised at what just happened. "OW! What did you do that for?!"

"Heh, you literally asked for it, brat Gihi!"

Edo-Gajeel cleared his throat. "Fine, let me explain. All the Fairy Tail wizards were turned into a lacrima. For their magic. We thought that's what the lacrima in the town plaza was..."

"But it looks like it only housed you guys," Toph said folding her arms in disappointment.

"But if it was that big with just you guys... then just how big will the main piece be then?!" Gajeel complained.

"The lacrima did have a cut surface if I remember correctly," Edo-Gajeel said. "Now that I think about it, part of it must've been cut off from the rest."

"Ok, but what about where we are?" Katara asked.

"We're in Edolas, Sugar Queen," Toph replied. "Another world it looks like, only this one is a parallel to the world we came from - Earth Land."

Hen scratched his head. "Uh, you lost me..."

Sokka snapped his fingers "I think I get it. We've been turned into a lacrima and transported to a different world, right? And this world is named Edolas, the opposite of Earth Land, where we just came from."

"That's right," Edo-Gajeel said. "Only here, Magic is severely limited, which is why you can't use it here."

"But why are there two of you?" Katara asked.

"Edolas and Earth Land inhabitants have their own extra-dimensional counterparts. That's why there is an Earth Land version of me."

"Whoa!" Hen gasped. "You're telling me, somewhere in this weird upside-down world. There could be another version of me!"

Toph punched Hen on the head. "We're not originally from Earth Land remember? We won't have any doubles here!"

Gray sighed. "I still have a lot of questions, but what are those?" he pointed to the bottle Gajeel held.

"They're called 'X-Balls' They're apparently pills that let you use magic in this world." both Erza and Gray took one of the pills. "We can talk more after you've taken them."

"'Apparently'?" Erza asked, eyeing the pill suspiciously.

"Mystogan gave 'em to me," Gajeel said.

"Mystogan did?!" Erza gasped.

"Um... who is he again?" Hen scratched his head.


Happy then spoke up after Zuko had finished catching them up. "Gajeel's a Dragon Slayer too, so the Anima didn't work on him?" he scratched the back of his head. "I forgot that for a moment..."

Azula glared at him. "How could you forget something that crucially important?!" she pinched the bridge of her nose. "I swear this guild is full of idiots!"

"But, if Gajeel got left behind? Why was Toph with him?" Lucy asked.

Azula had a theory. "Remember when the white cat said that I might have absorbed dragon slayer magic in my fight with Natsu? The same thing might have happened with her if those two butt heads all the time."

A drop of sweat fell down Lucy's face. "Oh yeah... they butt heads a lot."

"And then Mystogan sent Gajeel and Toph here," Zuko said.

Gray though noticed something odd and he gasped. "Huh? Lisanna!?"

She gasped to herself when Gray was looking at her. "Oh no, she's this world's Lisanna," Lucy said. "She actually helped us get this far."

Edo-Lisanna had sadly looked away slightly after Lucy had told Gray about her situation. This didn't go unnoticed by Azula who just hummed to herself.

"Wait, but why didn't Toph and Gajeel come here to help us?" Chun asked.

"Because they are going to find the lacrima that has everyone in it and free them from it!" Gray said as he clenched his fist.

Zuko then spoke up. "Only thing is, they can't find it."

Happy immediately raised his paw. "I know where their Lacrima is!"

"Woah, seriously?!" Gray gasped.

"Aye! Where are they?"

"Last time we checked, Gajeel and Toph were rampaging through town trying to find it," Katara said.

Toph and Gajeel stood close together as all the Edolas guards in the city had surrounded them. "Hey, can you see the Lacrima in the city?" Gajeel asked.

"Nope, which means we have to make these pathetic losers tell us."

"Gihi!" Gajeel laughed. "Hey, brat. Are you interested in a competition?"

Toph smirked at his offer. "I'm listening..."

Sokka looked down at Happy. "Happy, you've got to take Gajeel and Toph to the Lacrima."

Happy sprout his wings. "Got it, I'll find em' and we'll change everyone back!" he started to fly off.

"Hold on!" Lucy yelled. "Are you gonna be okay, Happy?!"

Carla walked forward and watched him leave. "Don't worry, he'll be fine."

"We're all caught up!" Zuko said. "Now we just have to find Natsu, Wendy, and Aang quickly!"

...

The group had rushed through the underground halls of the west tower. At the end of the long hall, they all saw a long door ahead of them.

"Look, a door! Do you think they are inside?" Lucy asked.

"Only one way to find out!" Hen yelled. "Step aside!" he stomped hard and made a line of rocky pillars explode through the door. After it was thrown off its hinges, they all saw Natsu, Wendy, and Aang lying unconscious.

"Natsu!"

"Wendy!"

"Aang!"

Katara got down to her knees and held Aang, while Lucy held Natsu and Zuko held Wendy with Carla at his side.

"No are they-?"

"Wendy!" Carla cried. "Please wake up!"

"Aang... please!" Katara said as she looked to be on the verge of tears.

"Both Aang and Wendy..." Gray said. He turned to Lucy. "What about Natsu?"

"No... he's not waking up either." Lucy replied sounding panicked.

Azula stood back next to Edo-Lisanna and she clenched her fist. "Damnit! Were we too late?"

Carla had kneeled next to Wendy and was crying. "I...I'm so so sorry Wendy!" she cried.

Zuko then saw their chests were rising and falling, but only slightly. "No, they aren't dead... but from what we heard. They may have been drained completely of their magic." Zuko took out the bottle of 'X-Balls'. "Hopefully these will help."

"Hey... those look familiar," Chun said.

"Gajeel and Toph gave 'em to us. Didn't Mystogan give any to Lucy?" Gray said.

Lucy thought back. "Now that you mention it," she remembered that Mystogan had tossed a pill in her mouth right before he sent her and Chun to Edolas. "Mystogan did throw something in my mouth."

"They're pills that let us use magic in this world!" Gray said.

"Really?" Lucy asked.

Azula chuckled. "You didn't really believe you could use magic because you were the strongest of all of us, did you?"

Lucy nervously laughed. "Hehe, maybe a little."

Zuko immediately put the pill in Natsu's mouth, and right after it was swallowed, he started coughing.

"N-Natsu? Are you ok?" Lucy worriedly asked.

"He's alive, just give it a moment." Azula dryly said.

They all watched as Natsu had angrily punched the ground and flames covered his right hand. "W-we have to stop 'em..." he weakly said.

"Huh?"

"Stop who?"

Natsu angrily shot flames out of his mouth, shocking everyone, particularly Lucy, Zuko and, Azula since they were closest to him and their eyes turned white.

The next moment, Natsu ran right out of the room and out into the hallway.

"Natsu?!" Lucy yelled.

"Hey, you!" Gray exclaimed.

Azula pinched the bridge of her nose. "I guess one of us will need to go and get that idiot."

They heard Aang coughing after Katara had put the pill in his mouth, his eyes opened and soon they were engulfed in a blinding white light, the light covered his tattoos as well. His eyes slowly opened and were met with the faces of his friends.

"Aang...?" Katara asked as she watched Aang sitting up. The white glow that took over him had quickly faded.

After sitting up, he held his head. "We... we need to-" They all heard Wendy coughing which made Zuko, Gray, and Lucy run to her. Carla was right at her side.

"Wendy!?" Carla screamed in concern. She watched as the Dragon Slayer's eyes slowly opened.

"Everyone...?"

Carla had reached and grabbed Wendy's hand. "Pull yourself together, Wendy!"

"The guild... everyone is in danger..." Wendy muttered while she was struggling to keep her eyes open.

In the Royal Castle, Byro was walking up to his King who simply stood in the empty room with his staff. His sick laugh echoed across the room. He clasped his hands together. "I apologize for the wait, Your Majesty. The extraction was a success, for the time being."

"Well done." the Faust replied with his ever-present angry face.

"Dragons' magic power truly is spectacular. With this power, weaponizing 'it' will be a simple task."

"Hey!" They both looked up to see Zong on an upper floor. He leaped down to meet Byro and Faust.

"Zong! What are you doing here?!" Faust asked.

"My apologies, King," Zong said as he bowed. "But about this war with the Exceeds-?" The King's glare hardened at Zong. "Hey, don't give me that! I'm just concerned about the prisoners. What if they are still around?"

"Then I will leave them to you to eliminate them. We cannot let anyone stop us! Take whoever you wish with you and end them."

Zong bowed down to a knee. "Death and destruction is my purpose, consider it done, my king," he said with a smirk.

Still, in the depths of the west tower, Wendy was still recovering as she got to her knees. "Calm down, Wendy. What are you trying to say?" Chun asked.

"The royal army... It's planning to destroy Extalia..."

"We know," Azula said. "Their lousy king wouldn't shut up about it."

"But it's worse!" Everyone turned to her as she was shivering to herself. "They will destroy Extalia... by crashing the giant lacrima into it!"

Everyone could only give Wendy a shocked look. "Wait... you mean they?"

Zuko fully stood up. "They plan to use our friends as a bomb!" he clenched his fists in anger.

Aang leaned against a wall. "The king wants to use the lacrima and the Exceed's magic at the same time. By destroying them at the same time to fuse them together. That's how they will get the everlasting magic that they want."

Lucy then looked to be thinking about something. "Wait... you have seen all the floating islands, right?"

"Yeah... what's up with that by the way?" Hen asked.

"Those islands are kept up by Extalia's magic," she revealed. "It said in a book that the world's magic power is kept in balance."

"And our lacrimized friends are on one of those islands?" Gray asked.

"Very close in fact," Carla said.

"Sooo... what does that mean?" Hen asked.

"Extalia and the lacrima are floating in the skies above the royal city, where we are now."

"And they want to use our dragon slayer magic to speed it up and crash right into it." Wendy sadly said.

"And when that happens, the explosion of magic will fuse and make everlasting magic for Edolas," Aang added.

"But... if that happens..." Lucy started with a gasp. "All the guild members..."

"Will be as good as dead," Azula said. "This king thought everything through, he takes out two of his problems at once. Those pathetic Exceeds, and he can give his kingdom magic that lasts forever. Not a bad plan if you think about it."

"How can you say that!?" Lucy yelled at Azula. "Those are our friends!"

"Your friends." Azula reminded. "I'm only saying his plan is at least efficient. But I'm on your side in this. Whether you believe it or not is of little concern to you. I'm in this to get back at Edolas, and if stopping their plan is the best way to do that. So be it!"

Right after Azula spoke, they heard footsteps coming towards them. "Someone's coming!" Sokka said.

"The enemy?" Lucy asked.

"We're ready for them!" Hen said getting in a stiff stance.

"AHHHHH!" they saw Natsu running towards them with a terrified expression, his pupils had shrunken and he was sweating all over his body.

"NATSU?!" Gray and Chun yelled in comic shock.

"There were two Erzas!" he yelled. "What the heck!? What was that!? What was it?!" he imagined the both of them hissing and yelling at each other furiously as they crossed their blades. "A showdown between two monsters?! Is this world done for?!"

Natsu was punched in the head and was brought out of his fearful fit. "Snap out of it!" Azula said as she pulled her fist back off of Natsu's head. "We've seen doubles all over this place and two Erza's scare you?"

"You wanna go out there and see for yourself?!" Natsu yelled as he headbutted Azula.

"No, because I'm not dumb enough to get mixed up in that. Unlike you who charges in without a plan!" orange and blue friction sparks had sparked between them.

After they growled at each other they both turned away from each other and folded their arms.

Hen eyed the interaction and he whispered in Chun's ear. Her cheeks instantly reddened. "W-what are you crazy!? There is no way!"

"Hey, it's just a thought. Those two are always butting heads you know."

"Hen... you're literally playing with fire right now," she said as a bead of sweat fell down her face.

Natsu saw Gray giving him a serious look. "Whoa, it's Gray!" he exclaimed while pointing at him. He was surprised he was only wearing a pair of black jeans. Lucy stood in between them looking a bit annoyed.

"You won't shut up or calm down. Man, you're annoying." Gray replied.

Aang and Wendy had eyed Gray with drops of sweat falling down their sides. "Yep, that's our Gray all right." they both said in unison.

"WHAT?!" Natsu yelled in shock.

"You really didn't notice the rest of us did you?" Sokka asked. "Well we're here, so is Erza, Gajeel, and Toph.

"And where is Happy?"

"He left to stop the lacrima," Lucy said.

"Oh, was it you guys who saved us?" Natsu asked. "I see you're okay too, Lucy."

"You only now noticed me?" she said as she was annoyed with him too.

"Oh wait!" Aang said. "Thanks for helping us out!" he said.

Wendy panicked and comically flailed her arms. "Oh no, I forgot the most important part! Thank you very much!" Wendy eyes Carla who looked like she was deep in thought, and was looking at the ground. "And you came to save us too, Carla! Thank you!" she suddenly lifted Carla and hugged her. Carla's expression barely changed, but really appreciated the gesture none the less. She also noticed Azula folding her arms. "Oh, thank you too, Azula! You helped out too, right?"

"Don't get used to it. Natsu pisses me off, The Avatar is... the Avatar. So I guess saving you was worth it."

Wendy bowed to her. "Thank you, Azula!"

"D-don't mention it."

Natsu folded his arms and looked at Gray. "Whatever. Just put on some clothes, Gray."

Gray only just noticed he was shirtless. "Huh!? When did that happen!?"

"You were like that from the start," Katara said.

After Gray had found and put a jacket over his topless half, Natsu then clenched his fists. "All right! Now that we're all here! Let's go!"

"Wait!" Aang said. "I think we have to catch everyone up on our other issue."

"What are you talking about?" Zuko asked.

"You know how there is Edolas version of our friends. There is another version of me." Aang revealed.

The newer arrivals to Edolas were shocked at what he said.

"A-another you?" Katara asked.

"But how?" Sokka questioned.

"I won't go into specifics, but he's my opposite from our world."

"Sooo, that would make him 'pure evil' right?" Hen asked.

"You don't even know," Aang said. "The Avatar in his world is made to cause death and destruction, and he wants to bring that here?"

Edo-Lisanna stepped forward. "His name is Zong, he is responsible for most of the magical guilds being eradicated. Fairy Tail is the only one left because of him."

"Ok, so we just stop him when we find him," Sokka said.

"But, he has his own plan!" Wendy said. "He wants to absorb the magic from the Lacrima and make himself more powerful. He wants to use all that power to destroy all life in Edolas."

"And that's not all," Aang said. "Once he's done here, he'll go through the Anima and destroy Earth Land, and who knows what he'll do after that."

"Well, we kind of know about him," Chun said.

"He couldn't wait to tell us," Azula added.

Zuko, Katara, Sokka, and Gray were shocked at the information they just learned but someone else was excited.

Hen had clenched his fists and he smirked which got Chun's attention and she gave him a deathly worried look. "What?"

"Hen, I know that look. If you're thinking about fighting that monster, don't! He already took down Azula in two hits!"

Needless to say, everyone else who wasn't there when Zong beat Azula had gasped.

"He even beat you?" Zuko asked Azula for confirmation, she only replied with a nod.

"So... he's that powerful," Katara muttered. "As if we didn't have enough to deal with."

Natsu on the other hand punched his fist into his palm. "That bastard ain't getting away with this!" flames covered his right fist. Our magic is back! I say we hunt down Zong and put him six feet under!"

Sokka smiled. "I'm not worried, Natsu did beat Aang when he went crazy remember? So I'm sure this 'Zong' will be no problem."

Hen's mouth was agape. "Natsu and Aang fought? How come I miss all the good stuff!?" he cried.

"We have superior numbers, as powerful as he is. He can't beat all of us." Zuko said.

"So are we going to do this?" Sokka asked.

"As if you hav'ta ask!" Natsu exclaimed. "These Edolas chumps will pay for messing with Fairy Tail!"

"Wait!" Natsu was about to run off and he quickly stopped himself.

"Now what!?" Natsu cried.

They all saw Edo-Lisanna step forward, she looked nervous about something, but she clenched her hand. "I'd like to have an X-Ball too."

"Wait... but I thought people from Edolas couldn't use magic without items," Lucy said.

"I-I'm not from Edolas..." she said.

The room went silent, most were trying to figure out what she meant, but some already had a feeling of what would come next. "But..." Carla started. "If you're not from Edolas... then... Are you from Earth Land?"

She didn't respond immediately as everyone's eyes were on her. She only gave a small nod. Gray, Aang, and particularly Natsu had gasped to themselves.

"Wait... so you're the Lisanna that died two years ago?" Lucy asked. Lisanna only replied with another nod.

"I knew there was something about you," Azula said.

"What?" Lisanna asked.

"The way you were so intent on helping us when the rest of your 'guild' were willing to let us march into oblivion. But for one reason or another, you stuck with us, not even better-Lucy could do that. Now I see why."

"You met this world's Lucy?" Katara asked.

"Yes, and believe me, she's way better than what we have to deal with."

"Hey, you!" Lucy angrily yelled.

Lisanna looked down. "I'm sorry for waiting so long to tell you all, but... I had no idea what to say to any of you."

Natsu seemed to stare at her for a while. "Lisanna..." He muttered to himself before his mind started to wander. He thought about the last time he saw her smiling face and remembered the grave he had made for her. And the promise he made to her, that he promised to find her should she disappear, it took two years but it looks like he finally did. He slowly walked to her and he gently placed his hand on her shoulder.

"N-Natsu?" Lisanna nervously yelped.

A smirk appeared on his lips and he let out a laugh. "It's good to have ya back!" he said, though a single tear had fallen down the left side of his face. "Happy's gonna freak out! Haha!"

"Is he crying?" Lucy and Azula asked in unison.

Before Lisanna could say anything else, she saw Natsu turn to Zuko. "You heard her, Zuko. Give her one of those things." He nodded and put one of the pills on her hand. Lisanna took a deep breath and she swallowed and she could feel her magic returning to her after being absent for two years.

"So, are we all ready?" Aang asked.

Lucy clenched her fist as she nodded. "Let's go!" she, Gray, Katara, and Hen were leading the way.

Natsu though tried to stop them. "WAIT! There are two monsters there!" he pointed to another hall. "We should go this way!"

"C-can we really leave Erza all alone?"

They all imagined two demonic Erzas brawling each other while screaming at each other. "Do you really want to get in the way of a battle between two Erzas?" Zuko asked.

Lucy chuckled. "Hehe, no way!"

Wendy on the other hand looked deep in thought while her fists were clenched. "Carla... We should head to Extalia."

Carla was taken aback. "Wh-what!?"

Wendy turned back to her. "We need to tell them about the royal army's attack and evacuate everyone!"

"But why?! We have our own friends to save!"

"I know, but I have faith in Aang, Natsu, and the others. But we don't know what other weapons the royal army might have! We have to go back and warn them because its something we can do!"

Carla quickly shook her head in defiance. "No! I don't want to go back! I don't care what happens to the Exceeds!"

Wendy had knelt down to Carla's size. "This isn't about being human or Exceed. I learned from Aang that all life is sacred, even the Exceeds. We can't just leave them." When thinking about the Exceeds, Carla only felt pain and anger, however, there were two Exceeds that she wouldn't want getting caught up in this. She thought back to the other Fallen duo of Lucky and Marl who had given both her and Happy shelter before they flew down to rescue their friends. If there were any Exceeds worth saving, it would be them. "You won't be alone, you know," Wendy said. Carla looked at her friend in the eyes. "I'll always be there with you." she let out a cute smile. Carla didn't want to go back to Extalia, but if this was something Wendy wanted, then she at least owed it to her after everything that happened.

"All right." Carla agreed.

"I'm coming with!" they saw Chun looking at both of them with a confident expression. "We have no idea what will happen once we get up there, I'd at least like to back you up should something go wrong."

Wendy smiled at her. "Thank you, Chun."

"Anytime." Chun watched Wendy and Carla run the other direction, she was about to join them when a hand landed on her shoulder. "H-huh? Azula?"

"Make sure those felines don't land a claw on her!" Azula said in a serious tone.

"You mean Wendy?"

"She means well, but she's naive. And I don't trust the White cat to keep her safe. So that's why."

"Are you asking me to? Or telling me to?" Chun asked.

"Tch!" Azula turned away. "All I want if for Wendy to not get hurt. Is that too much to ask?"

"So you're asking! Gotcha!" Chun said winking at her. Azula groaned as Chun had managed to force that out of her. "But just so you know, I'm not doing it just because you asked. Wendy's one of my best friends so I'd protect her regardless. But it's good to know you care about someone other than yourself."

"You're starting to push my buttons..."

Chun took off to go after Wendy, and Azula only looked forward and awkwardly held her arm. She ran off in the other direction once she realized she was falling behind.


Outside, in the empty streets of the Royal City, Edolas guards were being flung all over the place. Gajeel had fired a pillar into three of the guards in front of him. "Haha, that's fifteen!" Gajeel bragged. "Where are you at, brat?"

Toph had six guards surrounding her, and made bricks over into the air and fly at the stomach's of the guards, causing them to reel forward in pain. "Goin' up!" she spun her right foot and stomped with her left which made six long pillars shoot the guards skywards. "That makes twenty!"

Gajeel had eyed her with large white eyes. "WHAT?! HOW?!"

"Not my fault you're too slow."

"TOPH! GAJEEL!"

They both stopped and noticed Happy flying towards them. "Happy?" Toph questioned.

Gajeel looked up. "Cat, you're all right!" he said, smirking to the Exceed.

"I'll take the both of you to the lacrima all the others were turned into!" he said hovering in front of them.

"Really? Great, I've been getting bored down here!" Toph said.

Suddenly Happy lifted them both into the air. "Hey! Lemme go!" Gajeel demanded.

"H-hey! Not comfortable like this! You sure you can lift both of us!" Toph angrily asked.

Happy ignored their protests and was flying in the direction of the Lacrima. "Say, how did you both turn the lacrima back to normal?"

"Gihi!" Gajeel chuckled and he held his fist up. "I shattered it with Dragon Slayer magic!"

"He has the magic, then all I have to do is shatter it!" Toph said. "I weaken it with my bending, then Gajeel gives it one big shot with his magic!"

"Huh? That actually works!" Happy asked.

"We already did it once! You doubting us, cat?!" Toph asked with an annoyed tone.

"Mystogan told us to!" Gajeel said. "Do you got a problem with that!"

"Wait, is Mystogan here?" Happy asked.

"Hell if I know!" Gajeel angrily replied.

Happy dropped them on the island with the lacrima. "Whoa, this must be a big lacrima," Toph said after she felt the crystal through the ground, moments after landing on the sky island.

"It's even bigger than I imagined." Happy said. "Toph... can you really bend something this big?"

"I don't think I've moved Earth this big before."

Gajeel confidently smiled. "What's the matter, brat. You not up for it?"

Falling for Gajeel's goading, Toph placed both her hands on the lacrima. "All right Metalhead! Let's do this one time because once we break this thing, I'm gonna kick you off this island!"

"Gihi! We'll see! You better find me some good iron to eat when we're done here!"

"You guys can do it!" Happy exclaimed.

Something hard suddenly slammed into the ground around them, forcing all three of them to scatter.

"What the hell!?" Gajeel yelled.

"Who's the wise guy!?" Toph angrily exclaimed.

They saw that their assailant sprouted his wings and hovered above them. He held a colossal sword with both his hands, that same sword was used to attack them earlier. "I am Captain of the Royal army's 1st Magic Warfare Unit... Pantherlily." he remained there as the dust from his first attack cleared. "This lacrima is the most important site in this operation." he flew down towards them. "I won't let you take it!"

"He has wings, does that mean he's an Exceed?!" Happy questioned.

"So he can fly? That's going to be a big problem!" Toph exclaimed.

Gajeel's arm was glowing. "Stay back. Let me handle this!" he shot his arm forwards and up at Pantherlily. "Iron Dragon Sword!" he stretched his jagged sword right up at the diving Pantherlily.

"He avoided it, and the eyes of Pantherlily's sword shone red. "Bustermarm!" the sword grew longer and he swung it down at Gajeel who wasn't prepared for it.

"GET BACK!" Toph made the ground below them, move the three of them closer to the lacrima, and Pantherlily's sword had cleanly sliced a chunk of the island.

Happy was eyeing the Exceed with white eyes. "What is that crazy huge sword...?!"

"Hey! How did you know where he was?" Gajeel asked.

"I may be blind, and can only sense him on the ground, but I can faintly hear the wind blowing off his wings. So that helps me tell where he is in the sky!"

Right after this. Pantherlily had landed on the ground of the island. "So you're blind?"

"Yeah, what of it!?" Toph angrily asked.

"If that is the case, then I wish for us to fight on equal footing," he said as the knight visor of his helmet fell over his eyes. "Make no mistake, I am just as formidable in the air and on the ground."

Toph glared at him. "Metalhead, let's not waste any time. We gotta take this guy out and fast!"

Gajeel only nodded as a response while Pantherlily stared down the both of them.


At the castle, the rest of the group continued to run through the halls. "How far do you think we are from finding that Zong guy?" Hen asked.

Natsu's nose started to sniff the air. "No worries, I found his scent!"

"But... wouldn't it be identical to Aang's?" Sokka asked.

"It almost is. But I can tell the difference."

"Hold it!" Sokka stopped running and the rest of the group followed suit. "Considering everything we know about this guy. Do you think its wise to go in without a plan?"

"But we can just crush him with numbers right?" Hen asked.

Sokka eyed Lisanna. "Lisanna, you were there when he took out all the guilds right? Do you think we stand a chance against him?"

She sadly looked down. "I don't know..." she admitted. "I've never seen strength like that before, Zong may be stronger than Big sis Mira back home."

Sokka sighed. "And it doesn't help we're against the clock too."

"What else can we do Sokka?" Aang asked. "All of us taking him down is the best plan we have right now. Plus, I can still use magic. And I doubt Zong can, if he did he would have bragged that he could. That's another advantage we have."

"He's right," Zuko said. "We don't really have the time to figure out a strategy."

"On a side note, this place is weird!" Hen said. "Like how the buildings are shaped and the layout of this castle. The inside seems much bigger than the outside."

Lucy let out a sigh. "I know right. I wouldn't be surprised if there was an amusement park in the castle too."


Lucy's statement turned out to be more prophetic than they thought, as they were all looking right at an amusement park, that was somehow inside the castle.

"THERE IS ONE!" Aang, Natsu, Gray, and Hen exclaimed with their eyes going large.

"What do you me- WHA-!?"Lucy exclaimed.

The amusement park was filled with buildings that lit up, brightly colored signs. An imitation volcano, along with a Ferris-wheel and a roller-coaster.

"There really is an amusement park!?"

Azula glanced at Lucy with an annoyed expression. "Somehow... I blame you."

"M-ME!?"

Hen looked around. "You guys think the king is okay in the head, by putting all this here?"

"You're right," Azula said. "Then again this man was crazy enough to start a war with 'feared gods'. So maybe something is up with him?"

Sokka glanced at them. "Coming from you two, that says a lot." Sokka chuckled and both Azula and Hen slightly glared at him. "I'd think you three would get along great!"

They walked through the silent amusement park and Aang was cautiously looking around.

Suddenly they could hear carnival music around them, and to their left, the horse carousel was moving and Sugarboy was on one of the rides. "Such fun!" he was laughing to himself and the group wordlessly watched him.

"Is every inhabitant of this world out of their damn minds?" Azula asked.

"Haha." Sugarboy laughed. "This is truly enjoyable..."

They then saw a swinging boat ride that nearly ran over them. They all managed to take cover and saw Hughes standing on top of it. "This awesomely fun magic power... is about to vanish from this world..." they all stood together as Hughes continued talking. "Do you know how that makes us feel?"

"Mmhmm. We will obtain everlasting magic power." Sugarboy said with a smirk. "No matter what it takes."

Hen smirked. "Oh yeah... you and what army!?"

Aang's eyes grew wide and his pupils were starting to shake.

"Aang are you ok?" Katara asked.

"Zong... he's here." he said in a low tone as he could feel his presence. "He's hiding around here somewhere..."

"Who's hiding?"

They all gasped when they saw Zong sitting on a chair made from rock that he made. He looked to be very comfortable as his fist was resting on his cheek. His feet were propped up on a pedestal.

"What took you so long? I've been waiting for about ten minutes. You do not want to keep me waiting when my thirst for blood starts to get me going."

Natsu and Aang were glaring right through Zong, though the likes of Katara, Gray, Sokka, Hen, and Zuko were shocked at how much he sounded and looked like Aang. "N-no... That's Zong!?" Katara thought. Lucy and Lisanna on the other hand were trying their best to hide their fear.

"Heh, some new faces I see." he looked around. "I can't put my finger on it, but something is different about you? Oh, you must have gotten your magic back, right?"

"Yeah!" Natsu angrily replied. "Now we're going to kick your ass, Fake-Aang!"

He let his legs off the pedestal and let them sway. "Awesome! But isn't someone missing...?" he snapped his finger and he sat up straight when the thought came to him. "Oh I know." he leaped off his chair and landed on the ground. "Where's that cute little Wendy, I was looking forward to ripping off her fingers and listening to her screams."

Zuko immediately got in a fighting stance and glared at Zong. "You'll never get near her you creep!" Aang and Natsu were also furious at his statement, the others were still recovering from their shock.

"Whoa... chill! Man, you Earth Landers take everything so seriously." Zong casually said. He looked at his allies. "So; Hughes, Sugarboy. Ready to have some fun?"

Sugarboy got off his ride and walked next to Zong. "Oh yes!"

Hughes had flipped off of his ride and landed next to Zong and Sugarboy. "Yeah, you have no idea how desperate we are. This is all to protect the magic we have, and we won't let anyone get in our way!"

Lucy raised her voice to speak to Hughes and Sugarboy. "You two! Don't trust him!"

"Huh?" Hughes asked. "What are you on about?"

"It's Zong! He's going to betray you and the king! He wants to absorb all the magic for himself and he planned to kill everyone in Edolas, human, and Exceed!"

"You must be crazy," Sugarboy said with a confident smirk.

"Yeah!" Hughes agreed. "There is no way Zong would betray us, he's too cool for that!"

Zong's eyes were hidden as he looked down, but he then looked up at them with a smirk and he started to slow-clap. "Bravo! You figured it out... but it's not fair since I told some of you." Both Hughes and Sugarboy were shocked at their eyes turned white. He shrugged as he took a step forward. "Yep. I mean, do you know how easy it was to trick that old fossil? All I had to do was shoot some lightning here, bend some air there, and bing-bang-boom, I'm his right hand." he chuckled and had his hands on his hips. "Man, these guys are real idiots, aren't they? Though these two aren't as bad as the dumb girl who runs all the time, Coco is her name if I remember. It took every fiber in my being not to kill these losers, but the Exceed's out of the bag now – Huh... see what I did there?"

Both of Zong allies were still trying to recover from what Zong had just said. Hughes was the first to let out any reaction. "W-Wait... What?!"

Zong then threw a single blast of air at Hughes which threw him back to his boat, and Zong kicked an explosion of fire that sent Sugarboy crashing back into the horse carousel. He dusted his hands as he turned to the heroes. "Boy, I wanted to do that for a long while! I'm not much of a team player, I'm more a solo-act.

The Dark Avatar hovered in the air and a sphere of air surrounded him, the ground below him broke up as large clumps of rock orbited around the air sphere. He dragged long clumps of water from some of the other amusement park rides which made a ring around his body inside the air sphere. Finally, he roared as an eruption of fire shot out of his mouth and it spread wide before it shrunk into a ring that orbited the air-sphere, opposite the large rocks.

Everyone was stunned at the power Zong was showing, but what horrified Aang was that he didn't even seem to require the Avatar State to manipulate the elements in that manner.

Zong had let out a wild smirk as he eyed his adversaries below. "Well then... let's get this party started, shall we?"