Author's Note 1: I don't own anything except my OCs and original magic. Also, sorry about the longer update schedule. But I really want to get this story on TV Tropes so I've been fixing some of the grammatical errors in the earlier chapters.

Chapter 6: Alyssa VS Erza

Eisenwald's failed attempt to assassinate the guild masters with Lullaby ended up being big news. It made all the papers and it seemed like everybody was talking about it. Before joining Fairy Tail, I never would've imagined I'd be part of such a big event. It feels awesome, but I'm not gonna let it go to my head.

It still makes my heart skip a beat when I think about everything we went through. Kageyama gave himself up to authorities and Makarov put in a good word for him, so he might be out in a few months if he behaves. They even caught most of Eisenwald, so that's reassuring at least. Scary thing is, they still haven't able to track down Erigor. I'm worried he might show up at Fairy Tail looking for revenge.

But I'll be okay, cause I'm with Team Morningstar. Alyssa, Zeke, Natsu and Happy all have my back no matter what. Not mention Gray and Erza, who are still trying to come up with a name for their team. Fairy Tail is awesome, and my fellow members are really great people. So don't worry Mom, I'm doing fine.

P.S. Please don't tell Dad any of this, kay?

Lucy sighed as she sealed the letter in an envelope. It had been three days since the battle with Eisenwald and Lullaby and she was looking forward to a relaxing day. As she stretched, she heard a knock at the door and walked towards it. She opened it and saw Zeke and his dad.

"Morning, Lucy." Zeke greeted with a smile. Lyle whistled as he looked the apartment.

"Not a bad place for 70,000 Jewel a month."

"Oh, hey Zeke. Mr. Hudson." Lucy greeted back. "What are you guys doing here?"

"We came to remind about the fight." Zeke stated, confusing Lucy.

"What fight?"

"Don't remember what happened before we left for Onibas a few days ago?" The archer asked. The celestial wizard thought for a second before remembering Alyssa challenging Erza to a fight when they got back.

"They're seriously going through with that?!"

"Yup. In fact, the fight's gonna start in about twenty minutes." Lyle said as he looked at his watch. "Should be pretty exciting."

A few minutes later, the three of them walked towards the back on the guild were most of Fairy Tail had crowded in a circle. Lucy looked at the center and saw Alyssa and Erza standing in the middle as several spectators cheered their names.

"Look like we made it." Zeke stated.

"Oh, hey guys." Mirajane said as she noticed the three new arrivals.

"About time." A shirtless Gray stated.

"If those two value their manhood, they better fight with their all." Elfman proclaimed.

"Um, Erza and Alyssa aren't men." Lyle replied with a sweat drop.

"But you gotta admit they're both manly." Macao replied. Suddenly, he smelt something burning before noticing the bottom of his coat was on fire. "Real mature, Natsu." The purple flare wizard said as he put out the flame.

"Then don't say my girlfriend's manly." The group turned and saw Natsu and Happy decked out in cheer uniforms (which they borrowed from Jet and Droy) while Natsu carried a flag with a chibi version of Alyssa's face and the word 'Victory!' in bright red. Happy on the other hand was carrying a tambourine.

"Don't you guys think you're going a bit overboard?" Zeke asked.

"Nope." The salmon-haired wizard replied as he started waving the flag in the air. "Kick her ass, Alyssa!"

"Aye!" Happy replied as he played his instrument. The orange-haired woman turned and smiled at her boyfriend and his cat cheering her one as she was putting on a pair of purple metal arm guards.

"So much for the strongest team in Fairy Tail." Lucy sighed.

"What are you talking about?" Gray asked.

"You, Natsu, Alyssa, Zeke and Erza ya dummy." The blonde replied. "You're the five strongest wizards in the guild."

"Ya right. What idiot fed ya that line?" The ice wizard asked, causing Mirajane to tear up. "Oh, you're not an idiot, Mira."

"Smooth move, Gray." Zeke said.

"I'll hand it to Natsu and Gray, they're tough little dudes. But neither of them are even close to being the strongest. There are guys in Fairy Tail stronger than both of them combined." Elfman stated before he pointed to himself. "Like this guy!"

"But Erza and Alyssa are in top three for the strongest woman in the guild." Levy stated.

"As far as guys go, it's a tough call, but I'd put my money on Laxus, Mystogan or Lyle." Jet said, surprising Lucy as she turned towards the older man.

"You're one of the strongest?"

The bespectacled man rubbed his head in embarrassment.

"All I meant was that the five of them work well together and they have the best team chemistry in all of Fairy Tail." Mirajane said with overly dramatic tears.

"If you were just talking about Me, Natsu and Alyssa, then you'd be right. But throwing Gray and Erza in mix screws up our entire team dynamic." Zeke stated. "Lucy however meshes much better with the team."

"Aw, thanks." The aforementioned blonde replied.

"Gotta say, I'm pretty synched to see how this fight turns out." Elfman said.

"It's a bit of a close call, but I'm putting my money on Erza." Gray said before turning towards Elfman. "By the way, me and her are putting a team together. Want to join?"

The manly man thought for a bit before smirking. "Sounds like fun! Count me in."

"Great. Now we just need one more member." The ice wizard said.

"Why don't you ask Cana?" Mirajane asked with a certain smile. "I'm sure she'll have no problem working with you."

Gray raised his eyebrow as he turned to where Cana was. The heavy drinker was in charge of taking bets for the fight and she was currently bending forward to take Romeo's bet. While the younger man wasn't paying attention, the Ice Wizard's face reddened at the sight of her bikini-clad cleavage. "Sure, I guess." Gray said as Mira giggled.

"It's been quite a while since we've squared off like this." Erza said as she stared down her taller opponent. "Though I hope you don't mind me asking about those arm guards."

"Just some extra safety measures." Alyssa replied as she made the last adjustment. "Wouldn't want to punch one of your swords and cut myself."

"So you've learned." The redhead smiled as she summoned her winged hilt sword. "Don't expect me to go easy on you."

Alyssa got into a fighting stance, giving a smirk of her own. "Wouldn't be much fun if you did."

"Go Alyssa! GO!" Natsu and Happy cheered as the two woman stared each other down. The tension building up.

"Round 1 starts!" Makarov said, signalling the beginning of the fight as Alyssa blasted and started throwing super-speed punches at Erza, the armored woman parrying with her swords as the clanging of the sword and the arm guards echoed through the air. When Erza swung down, Alyssa blocked the strike and smirked.

"Gotcha!" She stated, kneeing the redhead in face.

"And first blood goes to Alyssa." Wakaba commented.

Erza quickly recovered as her armor started to glow. "Requip: Heaven's Wheel!" The light faded to reveal her Valkyrian armor and she took off, her many swords spinning in a clock formation behind her. "Dance, my swords!" Erza chanted as she swung, causing the wheel of swords to spiral towards Alyssa. However, the orange-haired woman had a counter for this.

"Speed Queen: Tornado!" Spinning at such high speeds caused a tornado to appear on the battlefield. The spiraling swords were sucking into the torrent of wind. Inside the tornado, Alyssa grabbed the swords as she spun and tossed them back at Erza, causing the flying woman to evaded and block her own swords as they were fired back at her. Using the last of the tornado's strength, Alyssa shot herself towards Erza and the two unleashed their respective attacks.

"Spiral Swords!"

"Speed Queen: Hundred-Strike Punch!"

Sparks flew through the air as superfast punches and flying swords countered each other.

"Woah!" Lucy said, astonished by the ferocity of the battle.

"Now this is a fight." Elfman commented as Natsu and Happy continued their cheering.

The two opposing wizards landed on the ground as Erza requipped to her Black Wing armor. 'Looks like it's time try out a new trick.' Alyssa thought to herself as her arms started rapidly vibrating. She raised her arms over her head.

"Speed Queen..." However, a loud gong-like noise stopped the fight and drew everyone's attention to an anthropomorphic frog creature in elaborate clothing.

"This fight is over!" The frog said in a womanly voice, not paying attention to Happy and Natsu booing her. "May I have you're attention please? I have come here on behalf of the Magic Council."

"No way!" Levy said in surprise.

"Seriously?!" Jet exclaimed.

"Why would the council send her here?" Droy asked.

"Am I the only who noticed she's a frog?!" Lucy asked.

"Believe it not, I've seen weirder stuff than this." Zeke replied.

"As a result of the Eisenwald incident, a member of your guild has been charged with elevens counts of criminal property damage." The frog lady stated. "Erza Scarlet, you are under arrest!"

"WHAAAAT?!" The guild exclaimed. Erza looked at the frog woman in shock before requiping her back to her base armor and holding out her arms.

"Very well." She said solemnly. "I'll come along peacefully." She stated as a pair of magic-blocking handcuffs were placed on her.

"Hold up!" The redhead and the frog turned and saw Lyle walking towards them. "I assume there's going to trial, right?"

"Yes, that is correct." The frog lady replied.

"In that case..." The bearded man said he raised his glasses, giving them a glaring effect. "I will act as Ms. Scarlet's legal defense!"

The crowd of wizards started chatting amongst themselves as Macao and Wakaba shared a look and grinned.

And then...

It had been two hours since Erza, Lyle and the frog lady had left for the Fiore branch of the Magic Council and for most, the tension in the air was still high. For others though...

"Got any eights?" Zeke asked.

"Go fish. Mmmmm, fish." Happy replied with drool coming down his mouth as Zeke pulled another card from the deck. Alyssa was laying her head on the bar counter, pouting as Natsu patted her on the shoulder.

"Hey, you were still awesome today!" The dragon-slayer said as he tried to cheer his girlfriend up.

"I still wanted to finish the fight."

"Aren't you guys worried about Erza?" Lucy asked, surprised by her teammate's nonchalant attitude.

"Normally, we would be. But my dad knows the Council's laws inside and out." Zeke replied.

"If anyone can get Erza off the hook, it's Lyle." Wakaba stated.

"I just don't get it." Elfman said. "We've destroyed plenty of stuff in the past and they've never made a big deal out of it."

"I know. It doesn't make any sense." Laki replied.

"You think they got some kind of ulterior motive?" Natsu asked.

"Whatever the case, all we can do now is wait and see what happens." Makarov said with a grim expression. While the old master did have faith in Lyle to get Erza off the hook, he couldn't help but feel like trouble was brewing.

Meanwhile, Erza was being escorted to the courtroom by the frog lady. However, the two stopped when they saw a man about Erza's age with short blue hair, a strange tattoo on the right side of his face, black eyes and a white outfit.

"Siegrain." Erza said in shock as the frog woman kneeled.

"It's been quite a while, Erza." The blue-haired man said as he noticed Erza tensing up. "Please relax. I'm only here in spirit. I'm sending this projection from Era. In fact, all the wrinkled faces in that courtroom are projections as well. We didn't think it necessary to be here for such a trivial matter."

"I see. So you're the one who's behind this farce? You make me sick." The redhead said with a scowl.

"Let's be civil." The projection said as he approached her. "I've always been a staunched defender of Fairy Tail. But the elders are worried that the blame for Clover's destruction will into their laps. And the only way to avoid that is to place the blame on someone else entirely. You're their scapegoat."

"Enough!" The armored woman yelled.

"Just a friendly warning. In fact, it's another matter all together what I wish to discuss with you." The projection said as it placed its hand on Erza's chin, leaned in and whispered. "Don't let a word slip about you know what. For both of our sakes."

He ignored Erza's glare as he walked back. "I must join my colleagues on the council. I'll see you shortly on the other side." And with that, the projection vanished.

"Oh wow." The frog woman said. "You know from very important people."

"He's evil." Erza replied under her breath.

"Well that was ominous." A piece of the wall said before it changed into a humanoid shape and then back into Lyle, who was holding a glowing lacrima. "You know, it's people like him that make the common man hate politicians."

"And still don't see why you decided to hide." The redhead said.

"Call it a hunch, but I wanted to see what kind of argument I would need to bring up." He then held up the lacrima. "But it looks like this case is already in the bag."

A few minutes later, Erza and Lyle were standing before the judge and the Magic Council.

"This courtroom will now come to order." A frog person said. "Before us is the defendant Erza Scarlet. Please take the stand, Ms. Scarlet."

The redheaded woman did just that as she walked forward and faced the Magic Council, Siegrain watching with a bemused expression.

"Erza Scarlet, you stand before the council accused for the destruction caused during the Eisenwald incident." The judge stated. "These charges include the extensive damage to Oshibana station, the collapse of the Ryushika Gorge bridge and the complete destruction of the Clover Conference Hall. We understand that you have a legal defense with Mr. Hudson and we allow to make your case."

"Thank you your honor." Lyle said as he took the stand. "Now, I can go into an argument about how all the collateral damage was purely accidental. I can say how the lives of the guild masters outweighed the integrity of their meeting hall. But that's all things I would do for a real trial, not this nonsensical farce."

The council members started talked with each other. "What do mean by farce?"

"Well, I have evidence that this trial is nonsensical right here." Lyle said as he pulled out the lacrima from earlier. "If it pleases the court, I would like to present my evidence."

"You may." Lyle smirked as he held out the lacrima which shot out projections of Erza, Siegrain and the frog lady. The projections started to speak exactly like the real people had spoken to each other earlier.

'A recording lacrima?! But he wasn't even in the room.' Siegrain thought to himself before remembering what Lyle's magic was. 'Very clever, Mr. Hudson.'

And then...

"Hear hear!" Wakaba said as the three friends tapped their beer glasses together. It was a few hours later and Lyle & Erza had returned to the guild hall. "I told these kids you'd get her off the hook."

"I didn't even have to bring out the handbook for this." Lyle gloated. "After I showed them the recording and pointed out that Ms. Scarlet was never read their rights, the whole trial pretty much folded in on itself."

"Ya, most of didn't even notice that." Macao said as the rest of the guild was celebrating Erza not going to jail. But then again, they didn't need that much of a excuse to throw a party.

"So, you want to continue our fight, tin can?" Alyssa asked the redhead as she ate a strawberry cheesecake.

"Perhaps another time. Right now, I'm not in the mood." Erza replied, making the taller woman pout in disappointment.

"Well then, I guess the only thing to do make our team official." Gray said as he, Elfman and Cana sat in the same table as Erza. "I've got a few names for our team." The ice wizard said as he pulled out a rolled up piece of paper. "Snow Storm."

"Nope." The other three replied.

"Avalanche."

"Nope."

"Tundra Blast."

"Nope."

"Blizzard Wizards."

"Okay first off, that name is incredible stupid." Elfman stated. "Two, are all these names some kind of play on Ice or cold stuff?"

"Um, no." Gray said as he quickly crossed off 97% percent of the names on his list.

"I can't believe all that worrying was for nothing." Lucy said as she laid her head on a table.

"Told you not to worry." Zeke replied as he was drawing up some blue prints. Lucy looked at the blue prints in confusion, which the brunette archer noticed. "Just some ideas for an improved bow."

"You can do that later!" Natsu yelled as he held up a jug of fire whiskey. "Come on! Let's party!"

"Aye!" Happy replied as the guild continued to have a good time.

"Now this is much better." Mirajane said with a smile as she watched her guild mates partying it up. However, she heard the master groan and saw that he having trouble keeping his eyes open. "Are you okay, Master?"

"Ya, I'm just feeling...a bit...tired." Makarov said as his voice started to waiver. Mira suddenly felt very tired and fell to the floor. "He's here."

All around the guild, everyone started falling asleep left and right. "Oh come on dude, don't be a di..." Zeke said before he passed out on the table.

As the majority of the guild aside from Lyle and Makarov were soundly asleep, a man in several robes that concealed everything aside his black eyes and a sheathed sword on his back. He went to the job request board and pulled a poster from it. He approached groggy Makarov and placed the poster in front of him.

"I shall return."

"Wait, Mystogan. Lift the sleeping spell before you go." The shorter man grunted.

"He's right." The covered man turned and saw Lyle struggling to stay awake. "You can't keep doing this."

Mystogan just turned and started walking away. "5...4...3...2...1." He counted down as he existed the guild hall. As soon as he left, the sleep spell wore off and everyone started waking up.

"Aw man. Was Mystogan here?" Jet asked.

"What a jerk." Droy said.

"Who's Mystogan?" Lucy asked.

"He's a contender for Fairy Tail's strongest wizard." Elfman answered.

"But over the years, he gotten so anti-social that he casts a sleeping spell whenever he enters the guild." Alyssa stated with a bit of gloom in her voice. "Lyle and the Master are the only ones who have seen Mystogan in the past four years."

"That's not true." A voice from the second floor said, drawing everyone's attention. The man who said that was a spiky blonde-haired man in his mid-twenties with a lightning shaped tattoo on the right side of his face, a buttoned up shirt, pants, spiked headphones and a fur jacket draped over his shoulders. "I saw him."

"Laxus?" Erza asked.

"Well this is rare." Elfman stated.

"So that's Laxus." Lucy stated, remembering the name of one of Fairy Tail's strongest wizards.

"Mystogan's just a little shy." The blonde man said. "You should all respect his privacy. Not it concerns any of you weaklings."

"He's our friend, so of course this concerns us!" Natsu yelled up at the older man. "If you weren't affected by the sleeping spell, why haven't you tried to snap him out of his loner attitude crap?"

"You should be careful with your tongue, Natsu." Laxus said with a menacing grin. "Or do you want a repeat of our last fight? What was it, two minutes you lasted against me before you passed out?"

"Why don't come down here and fight me?! See if that happens again!" Natsu growled as he ignited his fists.

"You come up to me, little man." The feral-looking man taunted. The pink-haired growled some more and was about to charge until Alyssa put her hand on his shoulder.

"Just keep this in mind." Laxus said as he addressed the guild. "The strongest wizard in Fairy Tail isn't some chick in armor, a guy in a hood, or a couple past their prime. If you want to know who the strongest on here is, you're looking right at him!"

"That's enough out of you, Laxus!" Makarov yelled at his grandson.

"Tell me something, Laxus." Zeke said as he walked past his and started walking up the stairs to the second floor. "How comfortable is your head when it's shoved so far up your ass?"

"Ah, Zeke. Still overcompensating with your mouth, I see." Laxus replied with his shit-eating grin.

"And you're still acting you own the place, Thunder Crotch." Zeke retorted back.

"Considering I'm next guild master, I technically do."

"And what makes you think you'll ever be Guild Master?" The brunette archer said with a glare.

"Well let's take a look at my competition." The blonde man said. "A womanizer who isn't here half the time, a woman who spends more time with the Royal Knights than her family, an old man who's already past his prime, an anti-social numnuts who hasn't spoken to anyone but the geezer in years, a redhead with severe anger issues." He stood up, showing his large figure as he continued to mock his guild mates. "And then there's you. The weakest S-Class wizard in the guild who only became an S-Class because Mommy put in a good word for you."

"That's a damn lie and you know it!" Zeke yelled as he started channeling his magic.

"So what are you gonna do about it, Momma's boy?" Laxus smirked as lightning started appearing out his hand.

"That's enough, you two!" Lyle shouted. Hearing his dad's voice got Zeke out of his rage and made his magic disappear.

"That's right. Know your place." The blonde man taunted. "After all, I've taken on three S-Class missions this month. The only one you took ended in disaster."

Zeke scowled at the taller man before turning away and walking towards the S-Class job board. He looked at the three and pulled one from the board. "Master, I'd like a word in private." The archer stated. The old guild master looked with a concerned expression and jumped off the counter, the two of them headed for his office as the rest of the guild looked on in concern.

A few minutes later, Zeke and Makarov walked out, the archer having a determined look on his face. He held out a poster with the S-Class marking and a picture of an island. "Natsu, Alyssa, Happy, Lucy! Pack your bags! Team Morningstar is going on our first S-Class quest to Galuna Island!"

Everyone in the guild was shocked, except for Laxus, who just keep his arrogant smirk. "Better start planing the funeral arrangements."

"Oh yeah! We're ready for the big time!" Natsu cheered. Alyssa looked with surprise before slamming her fist on her palm.

"Finally! I've been waiting for this!" The speed queen said with a smirk.

"I got get my fishing gear ready!" Happy stated as he ran off.

"Wait? What? Who?" Lucy asked in confusion. "What the hell's an S-Class?"

Lyle looked at his son with concern and saw the expression on his son's face. His mind went to an image of his wife with the same expression. 'He really does take after you, Amelia.'

Meanwhile...

In the hall of the Tortoise Shell guild, all of the wizards laid uncounsicous as several men & woman in pirate attire searched through the building. The floors, tables, bar and walls had been tore up from the earlier battle as a young man was walking through the wreckage, a modified saber sheathed on his left waist and a modified flintlock in his right holster. With outfit consisted of an elaborate red pirate coat that contrasted sharpy with his short dark blue hair and right brown eye. The other one being covered by a black eye patch.

"Pathetic." The one-eyed man stated as walked past some downed wizards. "I know Tortoise Shell isn't a top-tier guild, but I expected a better fight than this."

"Captain!" The young man looked up and saw an orange and black-stripped anthropomorphic male tiger that was standing on his hind legs. He wore a pair on black pants and his had a few scars on his face. "I found something you might be interested in." The tiger jumped from the second floor and landed in front of the young pirate. The tiger then handed the blue-haired man a piece of paper.

"Galuna Island? Why would that interest me, Hu?"

"Look at the reward. And I'm not talking about the 7,000,000 jewels." The one-eyed man looked down at the reward offered and smiled.

"Excellent work, old friend." The Captain said as he pulled out a red key from his coat. The key had a claw as the teeth and a claw-slashing symbol on end of it. "Tell the others I said hi."

"Sure thing." The tiger said with a grin as he vanished in stream of light, the Captain put away the key.

"Alright guys! Collect our fee and ready the ship!" The young pirate said with a mischievous glint in his eye. "We're headed for Galuna!"

"Aye-aye, Captain!" The men and women replied, ready to follow their young leader.

To be continued...

Author's Note 2: Okay, I'll freely admit that the stuff with the trial was not my best work, but then again I'm not a lawyer. Also, if you need a reference for the Captain's look, just search up Captain Marvelous from Kaizou Sentai Gokaiger. And if his hair and eye color seem familiar, don't spoil it for anyone who hasn't guessed it.

And before anyone says anything, yes the Mystogan in this story is not Edolas Jellal. And his magic is different if the sword wasn't a dead giveaway.

And I'll be honest, I'm mostly neutral with the canon Galuna Island arc. I don't hate it or love it. Though that also might come from the fact Gray isn't even part of my top 10 Fairy Tail characters list. No, this doesn't mean I hate Gray.

(We see chibi versions of Natsu and Zeke in front of the request board.)

Natsu: You know, Laxus seems become a bigger jerk everytime we see him.

Zeke: Preaching to the choir here, Natsu. They really should do personality screenings before they give someone an S-Class rank.

Natsu: But then Erza would probably glare her way past it.

Zeke: That's true. But we're gonna show everyone that Team Morningstar really is the strongest team in Fairy Tail!

Natsu: Damn Right!

Zeke: Next time: The Curse of Galuna Island! I'll blast any enemy to pieces!

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