Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or Fate Stay Night, any resemblance to any other Fairy Tail or Fate Stay Night fan fiction is coincidental and plagiarism is not intended. No flames please, constructive criticism only.

AN: I'm gonna be honest, I don't like this chapter at all. But I feel like I owe you guys something for sticking with me. This whole chapter is more of an experiment now, a test to see how confidently I can alter canon without thinking I've completely mangled the Fairy Tail storyline.

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When Freed's enchantments had started trapping the remaining wizards of Fairy Tail, it hadn't taken long for the rowdy guild members to start attacking one another. When the battles had started the runic barrier blocking to doorway had displayed, the Battle of Fairy Tail, status report with Alzack defeat Jet and Droy.

"Max versus Warren the winner is Warren. Vijeeter versus Nab the winner is Nab. Laki defeats four others. Macao versus Wakaba in progress."

"Foolish children what do they think they're doing?!"

"They really don't have any choice but to fight each other. Those enchantments are hidden all over town so they're impossible to avoid." Happy pointed out "It's just like Laxus said, the Battle of Fairy Tail."

"But why?! It doesn't make sense!"

"Natsu.."

"I wanna fight too!"

"Is that all?!"

"Let me out! Man, you suck! Go away invisible wall!" Natsu griped pressing his face up against the barrier again.

"Why do you want to fight your friends?!" Makarov yelled smacking him over the head.

"Cause it's a tournament to see who's the strongest!"

"This is not a tournament! It's nothing but a trap. Laxus is playing you like a bunch of pawns. If we can't beat the Thunder Legion in time the girls are going to be smashed to pieces. I know that everyone's trying to keep that from happening but they're going about it in the wrong way. If we keep fighting amongst ourselves then the girls are as good as finished, we can't let Laxus win."

"Come on Gramps you don't seriously think he'd hurt them do you? I know he can be a real pain sometimes but he's still one of us. This is obviously a bluff."

"You think so?"

"There's a fighting festival going on out there! Why do I have to be stuck in this dump?!"

"It beats me I can go through just fine."

"Does this mean I'm over eighty and no one ever told me?! Because I'd know if I was a stone statue right?!"

"And here I thought we knew each other Natsu."

'You still think of Laxus as part of the guild?' Makarov thought to himself 'Even after all this you don't believe he'd harm his fellow members.'

"Time remaining two hours and eighteen minutes. Participants remaining Forty-two" Happy read out as the status report updated itself.

"That can't be all that's left," Makarov said with astonishment. "That means more than half the guild has been wiped out in less than an hour."

"Interesting, isn't it?" Natsu Happy and Makarov all turned around and glared as Laxus appeared before them.

"Laxus."

"Where'd you come from?!" Natsu demanded

"It's a thought projection." Happy pointed out.

"Ah Natsu what are you still doing holed up in this dump?" Laxus asked, "Are you scared?"

"I'm not scared I'm stuck!"

"What do you want?" Makarov asked finally.

"I'm here to make a generous offer old man. Surrender now and give me what I want, and this all ends, the weaklings can stop fighting and you can even enjoy one last Harvest Festival before everything changes." Laxus chuckled.

"What are you demanding?" Makarov glared at his grandson.

"Simple really, I want you to make an announcement over the guild's loudspeaker. I want the whole town to hear that you're relinquishing the guild over to me!" The blond man sneered at his grandfather who looked ready to snap a retort but Laxus did not let him. "Now before you say anything just know that I'll only be making this offer of surrender once if you refuse I'll be upping the ante and by the time this is over you'll be begging me to let you surrender."

"You'll have to do better than this to scare me Laxus. The answer is no, I cannot entrust Fairy Tail to you, you have neither the heart nor the conviction needed to lead this guild."

"Fine if that's your answer then keep an eye on the status report, FYI my guest has restless but as a retirement present for you, I've persuaded her to not use her Heroic Spirit powers or Noble Phantasm against anyone but Scarlet or Heartfillia. Don't say I never do anything for you old man. Oh and one last thing she says you'll recognise her wizard name, and that it alone will be enough to make you regret this decision." With that Laxus thought projection faded away leaving the two wizards and one cat alone.

"The hell does he mean by that?" Natsu asked.

Makarov, however, remained silent and kept watching the status report, he couldn't help but feel nervous at the ominous feeling welling up in his gut.

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Several battles were going on across Magnolia, Max was fighting Warren. Macao was fighting Wakaba, Gray and Elfman were still roaming around having not gotten caught in any of Freed's enchantments, yet, Vijeeter Ecor was fighting Nab Lasaro on a rooftop, although the dancing man was confident it was clear that Nab was going to win, meanwhile Laki was fighting four other girls who had not taken kindly to her new hairstyle.

"Attention assorted losers!" Everyone paused as they heard Laxus via Telepathy. "I've got an announcement to make."

"Laxus," Alzack growled the name stopping his running down the street.

"What does he want?" Macao wondered as both he and Wakaba stopped fighting to listen.

"You see my guest has gotten a bit restless, so as a gracious host I've decided on an event to make this fighting festival more interesting. Observe the buttons in front of you."

Indeed, everyone looked in surprise as in front of everyone that was still conscious were a pair of buttons, one blue with word Accept and a red one with the word Reject.

"Ok here's how this works; my guest is set up in an enchantment barrier on a pretty large square of Magnolia that's been set up to keep non-guild members away so no need to worry about civilians getting caught up in this. She wants to fight and is accepting all challengers, as an incentive if she's defeated then Evergreen will release the hostages immediately."

"Is he serious?" Alzack asked aloud.

"You better believe I am Alzack." Laxus stated with a smug tone. "It gets better, everyone who presses that accept button will be teleported to the enchantment barrier where you'll be able to work together. For those of you with Natsu level, brain power let me spell it out, you won't have to fight each other you can team up to defeat my guest. Even better I'm extending this offer to Natsu and even Gajeel who's currently cowering behind the bar in the guild-hall stuffing his face."

"I am not cowering!" Gajeel yelled popping up from under the bar, a piece of chewed metal in his mouth.

"Ha, I knew you were a chicken Gajeel, stay here and stuff your face like a coward. I'm gonna fight and win this tournament. I'll beat down whoever this is and save the girls in a flash. I'm all fired up!" Without a second thought, Natsu instantly pressed the accept button and vanished in a flash of light.

"Hey, get back here Salamander we're not through yet!" Gajeel yelled also pressing the accept button to follow the fire dragon slayer.

Their names suddenly appeared on the status report before Makarov on the left side.

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Suddenly Natsu found himself in a town square, sure enough just as Laxus had said the civilians were nowhere in sight and opposite was a woman with strangely familiar red hair and staff standing opposite him.

"Ah yeah, I don't even need the others I'mma knock you out with one punch!" Natsu yelled charging her only to suddenly freeze in place. "What, hey what's going on?"

The woman simply wagging her finger admonishingly at him before pointing to some words floating the air.

Combatants may not begin battle until all participants have either accepted or rejected the offer.

"What no fair I don't need those guys come on let's fight!"

"Here you are!" Gajeel yelled suddenly teleporting in and raising his fist to hit Natsu. "I have a bone to pick with you Salamander!" Only to freeze up as he too fell victim to the rules of the enchantment. "Hey what gives?"

"It's the rules." Natsu snorted "We can't fight until everyone's here."

"Fine, I'll settle this when everyone's here I don't care-huh?" Gajeel was interrupted by the sound of the woman tapping her staff on the ground. "Whaddya want?"

The woman gave a small smile and pointed to a new rule that was most certainly not there a second ago.

Any Fairy Tail members who fight each other within this barrier shall be teleported to the bottom of the ocean.

"Hey that's not fair you can't just make up rules like that!" Natsu yelled angrily.

"We will settle this Salamander, mark my words," Gajeel vowed.

"Fine with me, I'll kick your ass later." Natsu agreed.

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"Alright, so Natsu and Gajeel not much surprise there, any other takers or do you guys wanna keep brawling it out with each other?"

"The hell with this let's save our girls!" Elfman bellowed his sentiment echoed through the telepathy by the others.

It really didn't take long at all. Within seconds the two dragon Slayers were joined by just about everyone else who al appeared in a flash of light within seconds of pressing the accept button.

But while everyone else was enthusiastically joining in, Gray Fullbuster found himself frozen in contemplation of an uneasy feeling that had settled in his stomach.

'Something about this feels wrong.' Gray thought to himself as his finger hovered between the two options presented to him. 'Laxus is just letting us gang on one person so we can save the girls? No this is too easy, even the Thunder Legion would have trouble if they took us all on with Natsu and Gajeel. If this was gonna be so easy then why go to all this trouble of setting up these traps around town? Why do all that just to let us take the easy path…the easy path.'

Gray pondered, the last time he had been presented with the 'easy path' Ur had paid the price for his selfishness and arrogance.

"I learnt that there is no easy path, I'm not gonna fall this twice," Gray said with a steely resolve as he pushed the reject button. Which caused both options to simply vanish from sight.

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"Hey Salamander doesn't this lady smell familiar to you?" Gajeel asked glaring at their opponent who was playing with a strand of her own scarlet red hair.

"Yeah, now that you mention it, she kinda does but I can't quite place it," Natsu answered agreeing with the other dragon slayer

"Alright looks like the results are all in," Laxus stated through telepathy. "Forty combatants in total, I expected a rejection from Reedus, but you Gray? What's the matter is something wrong?"

"Ah, I don't need that stripper." Natsu yelled obnoxiously "I can't take this lady down all by myself."

"Natsu use your brain for once," Gray yelled through the telepathic link. "She's obviously dangerous."

"Ah come on man you're just scared, besides she just wrote a rule saying no can leave so she's trapped in here with us." Natsu told him,

Indeed added to the list of rules was;

Combatants may not leave the fighting area until the battle has a clear victor.

"You morons, she isn't trapped in there with you, you're all trapped in there with her!" Gray yelled trying to impress the urgency on everyone. "Don't you see tha-"

Gray's voice cut out as the woman tapped her staff on the ground, another rule had been added.

Until the conclusion of the battle all outside interference including communications are forbidden.

"I've got a sinking feeling all of a sudden," Vijeeter commented, nervously something about the smile on this woman's lips unnerved.

"Man up!" Elfman bellowed "All we have to do is beat her and we get the girls back!" This got cheers from the crowd of wizards.

Let it never be said that Fairy Tail was difficult to rile up.

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Back at the guild hall, Makarov was stuck watching the board update itself.

"Hey old man." Makarov looked to see a thought projection of Laxus appear next to him. "The match is about to start, watch the board, you'll soon see why you'll wish you'd given mastership of the guild over to me."

Natsu Dragneel, Gajeel Redfox, Alzack Connell, Vijeeter Ecor, Nab Lasaro, Warren Rocko, Max Alors, Macao Conbolt, Wakaba Mine, Laki Olietta, Mickey Chickentiger, Wan Chanzi, Joey Fullborn, Elfman Strauss & and various other Fairy Tail wizards Vs Irene Belserion

The name that appeared on the status board made the old wizards blood run cold and his eyes widen, sweat born from fear began sliding down his face.

"No, no, no, no Laxus how…!" Makarov whipped around to face his grandson who merely laughed at him.

"I hit the jackpot alright didn't I?" Laxus told him smugly "Irene Belserion, one of the twelve Shields of Emperor Spriggan, essentially the Alvarez counterparts of the Wizard Saints of Ishgar. Back home she's known as the Scarlet Despair, the strongest woman on that continent. The fact that she's a reincarnate is a major bonus for me."

"Laxus please, stop this!" Makarov pleaded.

"I can't, really, this was her idea, she doesn't really seem like the order taking type, but here." The screen suddenly appeared on the status board, showing the crowd of wizards led by Natsu and Gajeel standing opposite a single red haired woman wielding a staff. "You'll get to watch your kids as they're taken apart piece by painful piece. Oh and don't try pinning this on me, it's not my fault you were lax with disciplining these hot headed idiots maybe if you were hard on them as you were on me you'd get fewer complaints from the Council and maybe they'd have used their brains before pressing that accept button."

Makarov glared at his grandsons thought projection as it vanished from view, but could not say anything, technically he was correct. Those kids hot-headedness had gotten the better of them and now….it may have killed them. All the man could do now was pray for a miracle.

Unnoticed the elderly guild master cracks had begun forming over the right eye of the Erza statue. With each second that passed the cracks slowly but surely spread further.

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"Fire Dragons Wing Attack" "Iron Dragons Club!"

Fire and Iron both struck kicking up smoke upon their impact.

"Yeah, I got her." Natsu pumped his fist in celebration only for Gajeel to ram his forehead against the fire dragon slayers own.

"What are you talking about Salamander I clearly got her," Gajeel argued angrily.

"Don't try and hog my glory," Natsu growled pushing back against Gajeel.

"Actually, neither of you struck me." The feminine voice interrupted their feud causing them both to look and see, the scarlet haired woman completely unharmed. Her clothes were unruffled, not a single hair was out of place and she had no burn marks on her body. Her head was tilted slightly to the side, Gajeel's Club extending past her ear. "Ah, how rude of me, I forgot to introduce myself, the I was born with in this life is Irene Belserion." She introduced herself giving a polite bow. "And I will be the one…." She placed single hand onto Gajeel still extended club and squeezed, as she did so the iron club crumpled beneath her grip causing the dragon slayer to cry out in pain as if his arm was being crushed. "….who destroys you all today."

With that it was like she was tossing aside a toy, as she used Gajeel himself as weapon, smashing him into Natsu before tossing both into an open corner store where they landed inside with a loud crash.

"How sad, but I think they were the strongest amongst if the expressions on your faces are anything to go by," Irene commented looking over the remaining Fairy Tail wizards.

Usually, a statement like this would immediately receive a defiant reply from any or all Fairy Tail wizards present. But this time any such shouts died long before they even reached the lips of the wizards who would have yelled them at her.

They were afraid, this woman permeated a dangerous aura, one so terrifying that it left them unable to move or speak, at this, their adversary just sighed and shook her head.

"Come now, I've not even used my powers yet and here you all are quaking in your boots." The Scarlet haired woman stated, "You will all be destroyed, but there's got be someone amongst you brave enough to volunteer to be first?" She was met with a fearful silence, none of the Fairy Tail Wizards moving. "Really? Not even amongst the men?" Her gaze crossed Macao and Wakaba who merely gulped causing her to roll her eyes. "It was the stare, right? The intimidation was so great your brains have stalled, the fear trapping you between fight or flight." She let out a disappointed sigh "And I so tried to hold back all the way I could, I supposed I'll just have to pick someone at random then."

The group of wizards found themselves all cringing as her finger swayed back forth, is made circles before finally coming to halt.

As soon as this had all begun Laki Olietta had a bad feeling, like the others she too had been paralysed by her fear of the woman before them. But never had she been so fearful as when that finger had landed on her. She barely noticed herself falling onto her haunches. Barely noticed the tears suddenly falling from her eyes.

She did notice the woman began slowly walking towards her. Her footsteps to Laki sounded like the booming footsteps of some massive giant rather than an ordinary woman. To Laki, it seemed strange that these booming footsteps did not shake all of Magnolia to its foundations.

Then she stopped, her feet inches away from Laki's own. The girl could help but look up at the woman, tears born of total terror now completely clouding her vision.

"Try not to think of yourself unlucky, but lucky." Irene said cheerfully "After all your destruction will be the swiftest and as such…" the expression on her face seemed to darken"…you won't have to witness what I do to the rest of them before their destruction."

The woman began reaching down at Laki with a single hand, briefly, she thought she could hear the master calling out to her.

'I'm scared, someone anyone please save me! I don't want to die!' Laki thought closing her tear-filled eyes so she wouldn't see her own demise coming.

However, today was not end for this young wizard, as her prayer was answered in the form of a flaming fist impacting Irene's face accompanied by what sounded like the roar of a dragon.

"Fire Dragons Iron Fist!" Natsu bellowed this time the force of his blow was enough that it caused Irene to slide back a few inches. "Lady don't you dare try and hurt them when you aren't even done with me yet."

"N-natsu." Laki hiccupped his name as Nab helped her to her feet.

"Ah, flames of emotion." Irene stated as if having a revelation

"Iron Dragons Swo-" Gajeel attempted to strike the woman from behind only to be swatted away with the back of her hand as if he were a fly, sending him crashing into the wall of another store.

"That's one of Igneels tricks." Irene continued as if there had been no interruption at all, meeting Natsu's glare with an even look. "Flames of such intensity that they melt away the fears of his allies while also reigniting their courage."

"You know Igneel?" Natsu asked as he leapt back and landed on his feet.

"Of course, I knew him." Irene replied simply.

"Hey Warren can't tell us her weakness?" Max asked the telepath.

"Well, I don't know I can't really tell…" Warren replied stuttering, his two fingers resting against temple trying to use his telepathy.

"What do you mean you can't tell?" Max demanded angrily "You could read me like a book earlier.

"I can't see anything, my telepathy is definitely working but I can read her thoughts or anything else, it's like my magic is just bouncing off her."

"Of course, that would be too easy." Wakaba commented.

"So where is he? Tell me." Natsu demanded igniting his fist as a threat.

"How about an offer, instead." Irene said "If you go over there and tear the Iron Dragon Slayers heart from his chest and present it to me I'll answer all of your questions about Igneel to the best of my ability. Including exactly where to find him. Well how about it? This is what you want right? To be reunited with Ignee-"

Irene inched backwards avoiding a flaming swipe from Natsu.

"How rude, should take that as a no then?" Irene asked.

"Never, I'll do something like that!" Natsu yelled furiously, flames swirling around him in response to his anger. "If I were to sacrifice a comrade just for an easy way to find Igneel and get all the answers, I'd never be able to face him. Not knowing that I'd killed one of my friend to do it, I won't kill anyone for that, not even a jerk like Gajeel! So I'll just have to beat the answers out of you!"

"Beat them out of me." Irene giggled as if she'd been told a funny joke "Can you honestly not tell? Your skill and power and mine are world apart, you're four hundred years too early to even think of trying to close that gap by yourself."

"He's not by himself." Macao told her, purple flames around his own fists.

"Right, we're gonna take you down together." Alzack vowed readying his guns.

"Useless." Irene shook her head with a sigh. "Do none of you understand that the more you resist the more you'll suffer?"

"That doesn't matter to us, we won't just roll over and die, that's not the Fairy Tail way." Laki yelled wiping her tears away.

"That's right we're all real men!" Elfman bellow tacking on his beast form.

"He may have given you all your courage back, but I assure you, your hopes remain as empty as they did before." Irene told them simply, not even flinching as all of them charged her at once different Magic all ready to attack.

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Makarov remained on edge as he watched the proceedings through the screen provided by the status screen. He'd been fearful for the lives of his kids as soon as that woman's name had appeared on the board. The told man hadn't been able to resist yelling out for Laki when it looked like she might be meeting her end far sooner than she should have too, but fortunately Natsu had intervened and saved her at the last second.

"You damn crazy bunch of kids." Makarov commented as he saw them all rallying to go down fighting. Their spirits reinvigorated by Natsu.

Before the old man could once again curse his own powerlessness, he heard a loud cracking. Turning to the source he saw Erza's statue with cracks up and down it, for a moment he feared she was going to be destroyed, but then he saw something odd, there was some sort of blue energy leaking from the cracks, expanding and spreading them all over until, a loud boom and the stone statue exploded spraying dust pieces of stone everywhere.

"Master Makarov." The familiar voice made the old man's chest swell with hope.

"Erza." He gasped out her name in relief.

The status report, updated itself, the number of active combatants increasing from forty-two to forty-four.

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Far away from the commotion, a man clad in pitch black armour began treading into Magnolia. An aura which completely concealed any chance of discerning who he was, shrouded him as he crossed through the runic barrier around the town.

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AN 2: And that was the chapter, I know it wasn't very good. Ok so I had another idea, a semi-cross over between Fairy Tail and Hyperdimension Neptunia. Specifically, Lucy being born with the ability to transform into Plutia's HDD form Iris Heart. It's been turning over in my how the FT world would react to her. If you don't know who Iris Heart is just look her up, she's always been one of my favourite Neptunia characters. Maybe later I'd give a few other Wizards the ability to take on the HDD forms of other Neptunia Goddesses. Anyway give me your thoughts on the idea guys.

If you're worried about going off and writing this right away don't, I have way too much on my plate as it is. Maybe when I've got less like when Approaching Disaster is finished now I seem to have regained motivation for that.