Episode 5: The Phantom Lord

It has been a few days since Soron agreed to join Fairy Tail, and as he didn't really want to stick around at the guild hall he agreed to go on a job with Natsu, Grey, Happy, and Lucy. It was definitely easier than when he had to deal with that insane guy back at that village. However, now that the job was over… he was honestly a bit bored. Not only by the fact the job was done, but Natsu was also talking. Like Erza, Soron finds Natsu extremely annoying. Natsu was wearing his usual get-up, Lucy was wearing a pink shirt along with a black skirt, Grey was also wearing his usual attire. Soron was also in his usual attire, but this time he had a white Fairy Tail emblem on the left shoulder of his jacket. Lucy's "pet" which was a quivering snowman thing she calls Ploo or something like that was currently in her arms.

"Hahaha!" Natsu laughed happily, "Was that an awesome job or what!"

Natsu was currently walking with his arms crossed behind his head.

"Well, the client sure seemed to think so," Happy replied from where he was flying nearby.

"Face it," Grey said smugly, "you guys are just lucky that I decided to come along."

Grey walked next to Natsu with his hands in his pockets.

"We're lucky that you begged to come with us?" Natsu asked, "how do you figure?"

"Because you're about as helpful as Soron's four armed monkey takeover," Grey replied.

"You better watch your mouth or I'll cook you into ice cream!" Natsu said angrily as he and Grey bashed heads together.

"That doesn't make any sense!" Grey said just as angrily.

Suddenly, Soron was in between them and pushing them apart as he was tired of their pointless clashing… that always occurs near as he can tell.

"That's enough morons," Soron said trying to hold in his irritation, "now get dressed Grey."

At that Grey jumped in shock as he looked down at the fact that he was only in his boxer shorts and the bandages wrapping his chest and arm.

"Oh come on!" Grey exclaimed, "why does this keep happening?"

Soron was sincerely hoping someone would change the topic and he was grateful that someone did indeed change. Said someone was Lucy Heartfilia.

"Hey," Lucy said attracting their attention, "sorry to interrupt your conversation, but…"

"What's up?" Natsu asked.

"When I took this job," Lucy said as she held up the job request, "I was originally thinking it'd be more of a solo mission, ya know? So, why'd you all have to come along?"

"Ah come on," Natsu asked, "isn't it obvious?"

"No," Lucy said, "I don't think so."

At that, Natsu gave one of his cocky grins and game her a thumbs up.

"We're Fairy Tail's strongest team," Natsu said, "so we gotta stick together?"

"Aye sir!" Happy said popping up from behind Grey's shoulder who was dressed once more.

"And don't you forget it," Grey put in.

"Then why isn't Erza here?" Lucy asked raising an eyebrow.

"She said something about some sort of anarchist activity somewhere," Natsu shrugged, "and that was yesterday. She took the two newcomers. Shuzy and Igrao with her."

"What about you?" Lucy asked as she looked at Soron. Soron wasn't a part of any team, because he still wanted to maintain his "lone wolf" personality as he wasn't ready to be in a team again.

"I didn't want to stay at the guild," Soron shrugged, "too noisy there."

Though it wasn't much of a difference with Natsu here Soron thought as he looked away to watch a bird fly by. A second later, they resumed their trek back to the guild.

"Well," Lucy said smiling, "you're welcome to join our team any time. Who knows, with you we might become the mega-team or something."

"Maybe someday," Soron said looking back at her, "but not today."

"What could've happened to make you prefer to be a solo act?" Lucy asked noticing the look in his eyes.

For a split second, Soron flashed back to the war. He saw an orange laser and heard insane laughter. However, he quickly jerked himself back to the present. He had no desire to live through those days again. He wanted to forget all about them and move on, because he really had no choice in the matter. It wasn't as if he could return home even if he knew how to do so. When Soron didn't reply, Lucy frowned concerned. However, she knew that there was no way to force him to talk… and he kinda scares her if she's honest. He reminds her a little bit of Erza personality-wise, and he managed to render Natsu unconscious without needing to use his powers just like Erza can. Suddenly, she heard some whispering and looked up to see civilians whispering to each other and looking at them in… sympathy? She couldn't be sure if it was sympathy though. It looked a little bit like fear as well.

"I have a bad feeling about this," Soron said.

"Why?" Natsu asked oblivious.

"Look at the way they're staring at us," Soron replied, "something is very wrong."

They then noticed something really bad in the corner of their eyes and turned to look causing them to widen their eyes as they stopped suddenly.

"What?" Natsu asked confused, "why does the guild look so bizarre?"

The next second later, a golden flash blinded everyone in the street including them. They looked to see what caused it and saw a humanoid blue cat with a mask-like face and the golden Megatrix symbol on the chest. Without a word, Fasttrack blurred off towards the guild hall leaving them behind.

A few minutes later…

Soron was back to his normal appearance and standing with his fists clenched in anger as he stared at the wreckage that was once the guild. While he didn't care about the guild as much as Natsu and the others, he did care a bit about the members. Especially, because they welcomed him with open arms and treated him like one of their own from the first day they met. The more he looked at it, the angrier he got. He didn't even notice as Natsu, Grey, and Lucy arrived behind him.

"Our guild," Natsu said angrily, "someone did this to our guild!"

"Who would have the nerve to do this to Fairy Tail?" Lucy asked a little bit scared at the possibility of a guild being crazy enough to declare war on the strongest guild ever.

"It was phantom," said a feminine voice from behind them. The voice sounded a bit shaky as well. They all turned to see Mirajane standing there.

"Are you serious?" Grey asked calmly. Natsu on the other hand was barely containing his rage as he looked over his shoulder at Mirajane.

"You mean Phantom did this?!" Natsu growled.

"We couldn't do anything to stop them," Mirajane sobbed with tears streaming down her face, "They got us good."

Whoever these phantom people are… Soron thought darkly to himself, I'm going to kill them all for what they've done.

Inside the wreckage…

Mirajane was leading Natsu, Happy, Lucy, Grey, and Soron down the stairs into the basement where the guild members were currently nursing their broken spirits. It is mostly a storage area, but right now storage doesn't matter. Mirajane led them all through the basement towards Makarov… who was drunk off his balls and wearing his usual get-up.

"Yo!" Makarov said drunkenly as he held up a hand, "what's up… and who cast the replication spell?"

"Nobody cast the replication spell," Mirajane sighed, "you're just drunk."

"That would explain it," Makarov said a little bit soberly.

"Why the heck are you all just sitting around down here?!" Natsu yelled angrily.

"How'd it go Lucy?" Makarov asked ignoring Natsu, "You finish the job like a good girl?"

"Yeah," Lucy said, "I guess so."

"Master," Grey said, "do you understand what the situation means?"

"The guild hall is completely destroyed!" Natsu said.

"There's no need to get yourselves worked up," Makarov said, "It's not like it's the end of the world or anything."

Makarov then decided to take another gulp of his beer.

"What?" Grey asked.

"Hmph," Makarov explained, "just goes to show how cowardly those dunderheads at the phantom lord guild really are. They struck when no one was here, is that anything worth bragging about."

"Well," Lucy said trying to lighten the mood, "that's a relief."

"It's just the start," Soron said darkly all of a sudden.

"What are you talking about?" Mirajane asked.

"First, the empty base gets attacked," Soron said, "next the members will be left either beat up to unconsciousness or dead in front of the building to leave a message."

"That's a little specific," Lucy said nervously.

"Oh," Makarov said dismissing the notion, "We shouldn't trouble ourselves with what might or might not happen. Instead we should focus on the present. Besides, they don't have the courage to face us head on. Forget about them."

Suddenly, Natsu smashed his right fist into a crate making a whole and sending debris flying.

"Ain't gonna happen gramps!" Natsu shouted angrily, "we can't let them trash our place and get away with it!"

"We're not talking about this any longer," Makarov stated with finality, "We'll handle job requests down here until the upstairs is repaired."

"We shouldn't be worrying about jobs-" began Natsu.

"Natsu!" Makarov shouted, "That's enough out of you!"

Suddenly, he stretched his right arm and slapped Lucy's left ass cheek much to her displeasure. Mirajane was also displeased.

"And you spanked me because…" Lucy said trailing off.

"Hands to yourself master," Mirajane said with a displeased expression. At that, Makarov return his arm back to normal before laughing sheepishly for a few seconds. He then jumped down off the table and ran off.

"Where you going old man?" Natsu called.

"Oh, keep your dress on," Makarov called back, "I gotta take a leak."

Natsu's anger finally ebbed enough for him to just stare down at the floor with a calm expression.

"I don't understand why he's being like this," Natsu said.

"I do," Soron said, "at least a little bit. He's just as pissed about this as you, but I'm guessing there's some law preventing guilds from fighting each other?"

"That's correct," Mirajane nodded.

"It's not fair!" Natsu shouted, "those phantom creeps started it!"

"I know," Mirajane sympathized, "but that doesn't matter."

"Hell with this," Soron said as he turned around, "I'm not going to just stick my head in the sand and pretend like this didn't happen."

"You're a member of the guild now though," Mirajane said trying to stop him, "you have to follow the rules."

At that, Soron ripped his fairy tail emblem off his jacket and threw it down behind him.

"Should we try and stop him?" Lucy asked.

"You can't stop him," Elfman said suddenly from behind Lucy startling her, "He's a real man. In order to protect the guild, he decided to leave it."

"That's not it," said Makarov from on top Elfman's head startling all of them even Elfman, "at least not entirely. If you looked into his eyes… you would've seen fear. He's seen this happen before, and while he won't admit it… he's afraid of losing more people he cares about."

Later, at night…

Lucy was now walking home with her snowman creature next to her. Lucy was also dragging a suitcase behind her as she led them home. She was on a street that sat next to a canal that ran through the city. Lucy was currently thinking of the damage done by those phantom lord asshats and what Soron was going to do.

"Well," Lucy sighed, "this is a pretty big mess we're in now. Isn't it Ploo?"

"Huh?" Ploo replied in the only language he knew.

"Watch out blondie!" called a man as he waved on a boat going the opposite way down the canal, "you're about a step away from swimming!"

"I had no idea that Phantom Lord and Fairy Tail had such rivalry between them," Lucy said not even hearing the guy.

"Honestly," Lucy continued while Ploo made random noises and waved his arms about, "I thought about joining them before I met Natsu. They have a reputation that's just as crazy as Fairy Tail's."

She then paused for a second as she thought about her past experiences.

"But I love our guild," Lucy continued as they got close to her place, "and I don't regret my decision at all."

"Fairy Tail's kinda like my family," Lucy finished as she opened her door.

As soon as she opened the door, her eyes bulged. Sitting at her dinner table eating a large fresh fish was Happy, Grey, and Natsu. The latter two had cooked theirs though. Happy was on the top of the table while Natsu and Grey were on opposite ends of the table. The only person missing was Erza, but that's because she was busy on her own mission. Grey wore a white button down shirt and black pants while Natsu wore his usual attire.

"Nice place you have here," Grey said.

"YOU CAME IN WITHOUT ASKING FIRST!" Lucy screamed as she threw her suitcase at Natsu making Grey snicker, "WHY ARE YOU HERE?!"

Meanwhile, with Soron…

Soron had just reached the perimeter of Magnolia when he heard the familiar jingle of Makarov's hat. He looked to his right where he saw Makarov sitting on a crate next to a building.

"Shouldn't you be dreaming about naked women about now, ya perv?" Soron asked a bit ruder than intended.

"I have plenty time for that," Makarov said, "right now I came to see if I could talk you out of your stupid course of action."

Soron just stood there silent as he didn't really have a reply for that, and Makarov seemed to think the same so he immediately began speaking again.

"I know you're enraged at the phantom lord guild," Makarov said, "but i also know you're afraid."

"I'm not afraid of them," Soron said.

"Not of them," Makarov agreed, "but for the guild. You fear that if you don't act now, the guild members will get hurt. You may act like you don't care about anyone, but you do care about them. You want to protect them as much as I."

"Then why don't you take the fight to them?" Soron asked grumpily.

"There are rules in place," Makarov said, "and I know you understand that. Mirajane told me you did."

"I didn't mean the guild," Soron said, "I mean you personally."

"I'm just too old to take on an entire guild myself," Makarov said, "and the master of that guild is at least my equal in power. Like me, he's a member of the 10 Wizard Saints. If I defeated his guild members, I wouldn't have the energy to spare to fight him."

"Then it's a good thing I'm going," Soron said, "I defeated the strongest opponent my world has ever seen, and I did so on my own without help."

"Maybe," Makarov said, "but the threats of this world are far more dangerous than the ones of yours, aren't they?"

Soron just stood there clenching his fists as he knew Makarov was right. He won't stand a chance on his own.

"Trust in me," Makarov said, "and I promise you that should they attack our any of Fairy Tail… we will go to war against them."

Instead of answering, soron looked up and stared at the moon for a few seconds. He then looked down at Makarov and nodded once. At that, Makarov placed the emblem back on his jacket's shoulder where it was previously before leading them back to the guild.

"Found a place to stay yet?" Makarov asked.

"Not really," Soron said.

"Then you can stay at the guild till you situate yourself," Makarov said, "you can play guard duty alongside me, Mirajane, and Elfman."

"Sounds fun," Soron said sarcastically, "I can't wait."

Suddenly, Soron felt like something was off. He stopped walking looked around narrowing his eyes.

"Something wrong?" Makarov asked.

"You head back to the guild," soron said, "I'll catch up with you."

"Hmm," Makarov said when he heard the uncertainty in Soron's voice.

"Okay then," Makarov said, "but be careful."

Soron immediately ran to the nearest building and climbed it to get himself onto the roof. Now that he was at a higher vantage point he looked around, but didn't see anything. However, he did feel something. It felt like it was… right behind him.

He leaped to the left in order to dodge the attack. As soon as he rolled to his feet, he spun around and saw a woman with long blue hair that curled at the ends wearing a blue outfit. The outfit looked a little bit like it was russian. It also had a yellow flower which clashed with the rest of the appearance.

"What are you supposed to be?" Soron asked with a raised eyebrow, "a russian noble?"

"Drip drip drop. I don't know what a russian is," the woman said, "nor am I noble."

"You took that a bit literal," Soron said raising his eyebrow higher, "just who the hell are you?"

"Juvia is known by some as the rain woman," the woman replied, "and Juvia shall show you drip drop."

"You do know that talking about yourself in 3rd person-" Soron began before he had to dodge as water whipped at him. He followed the water whip back to Juvia and saw that she was made of water.

"So," Soron said as he hovered his hand over his megatrix, "you don't want to chat? You know, like normal people?"

Juvia's response was to fire arrows made out of water at him. He had to spin to the side in order to avoid them.

"Guess not," Soron sighed as he turned the dial on his megatrix, "since you're made of water…"

"It looks like I have to bring the heat!" Soron finished as he slapped his hand on the dial. A blinding golden flash emitted forcing Juvia to cover her eyes, and when it ebbed in soron's place was a creature that looked like it was made out of diamonds.

"Diamondhead?!" Soron exclaimed, "I was going for Heatblast you stupid watch!"

"You are made out of Diamonds…" Juvia said as hearts appeared in her eyes, "Juvia loves diamonds!"

"Uh oh…" Diamondhead said as water had suddenly surrounded him in order to pin his arms to his sides.

"Juvia is in love!" Juvia cried out as she leapt at him, "Juvia wants you inside her!"

"Lady!" Diamondhead said as he jumped out of the way, "I do not want to be inside you!"

"Then Juvia will turn you into a necklace if you don't want to make Juvia sexually pleased," juvia said as she formed a pickaxe made of water.

"I didn't mean it like that lady!" Diamondhead exclaimed as he wrenched his arms free from the liquid bindings, "I mean that I don't want you to stuff me inside you… that sounded better in my head."

"Oh…" Juvia said calming down, "Juvia doesn't want to absorb you. Juvia wants to have sexual activities with a diamond shaft."

"Sorry," diamondhead said, "but I'm currently not in the mood to be paired up with anybody in any way. I'm sure there's a mister right out there for you, but that isn't me."

"Juvia understands," Juvia said sadly, "and now you've made Juvia sad. Juvia shall go back to her guild to inform of your abilities."

Before soron could do anything, Juvia melted into water and gushed away down into a sewer drain down at street level.

"That was the weirdest…" said Diamondhead before he turned back to normal.

"Encounter I've ever had," Soron finished.

Meanwhile, at the Phantom Lord guild…

Unlike at the Fairy Tail guild, the main hall of Phantom Lord was a dark and gloomy looking place. It was also much more reminiscent of a castle's dining hall than anything else. Tabled were aligned everywhere, torches mounted on walls. The reason for the darkness is the fact that the windows weren't letting in light due to it being night outside. Only source of light were the lit torches. Sitting alone at a table was a well-muscled young man with long spiky-like black hair with earings on his face evenly spread out. He wore a black sleeveless tunic that had studded edges, a pair of beige pants, and studded boots. On his left shoulder was what could've been armor and it was shaped like a wing that was pointed upwards. This man was Gajeel Redfox. The Iron Dragon Slayer. Gajeel was currently eating to restore his magic as an unknown person walked up behind him.

"So Gajeel," said a figure wearing a black cloak that had a white outline, "I heard you made a mess out of the fairy tail guild hall."

"Oh man," the man continued as he turned around revealing his face and the rest of his outfit that consisted of a dark blue outfit with white edges, "I wish I could've seen the looks on their faces."

Gajeel had been trying to ignore the guy so he wasn't entirely sure what the he was saying, but Gajeel had had enough of the guy's constant prattling. In irritation he chomped down on the iron he was eating and allowed the rest to fall down. He then growled as he turned a bit and proceeded to turn his arm into a black iron pillar. Said pillar extended at the guy sending him flying back. Everyone else saw the commotion and laughed at it, because they too found the guy irritating.

"How many times do I have to tell yeh?" Gajeel growled as his arm returned to a normal fist, "I don't like to be bothered while I'm eating!"

"And besides," Gajeel continued now standing up, "Those Fairy Tail clowns can't challenge us. We're way more powerful than they could ever hope to be."

The rest of the guild only nodded their heads in agreement, but suddenly a voice spoke up from above them on the second floor indoor balcony.

"The die has been cast," said a man attracting their attention.

The man wore what looked like a cliche witch hat alongside a strangely designed outfit complete with what looked like robes. However, if you were as far as they were you'd only see a form shrouded in darkness. This man is the same man Makarov warned Soron about. His name is Jose.

"I compliment your excellent work Gajeel," Jose finished.

"I didn't think were hard enough on them," Gajeel said, "so I decided to leave them a little something extra. A present. One that's sure to get the Fairy Tailer's panties in a knot."

"Very good my boy," Jose grinned, "be sure to take extra care that no harm comes to our bounty if you please."

Gajeel grinned wickedly in response.

The next day, in Magnolia…

Soron had woken up in a chair outside of the guild and was sore as soon as he got up. When he opened his eyes, he saw that it was day finally. As there was nothing to do right then, he decided to go down into town to see if there's anything to eat. He does have some money that he acquired the day before and a few days prior, but he gave most of it to Makarov for the repairs that has to be done for the guild. He has only enough for a breakfast meal, and that means he's either going to have to go on a job today. Either solo or in a team, but it didn't matter as the end goal was to get paid.

He passed trolley after trolley after trolley that were filled with random items. Some had wooden figures based off of the Fairy Tail members, some had cabbage, and some had some sort of wine. None of those things appealed to him, so he decided to ignore them. Eventually, he arrived at the local restaurant which served a variety of foods. Most of them he had never heard of and was a little hesitant to try out. However, one food was familiar and even tasted like he remembered. It was an omelet. Unlike in his reality, these omelets are big enough to last days should one store them correctly. Which is perfect, because he's been able to store them in the guild refrigerator for whenever he stays over there.

Before Soron could enter the building he heard the sound of voices coming from not too far away. As curiosity struck him, he headed over to where the noises came from. It came from the Southgate Park, and when he saw the reason for the noise he stopped dead in his tracks. Hanging on the trunk of a tree were three guild members. One of them was named Levy, but the other two he couldn't remember the names of. He didn't even notice as Lucy in her white t-shirt and tight pink shorts, Natsu in his usual attire, and Grey in the same attire as last night at Lucy's arrived next to him.

"Oh my god!" gasped a familiar voice from next to him. He didn't look at who owned the voice, but he recognized the voice. It was Lucy. Hearing her reaction to the sight, he immediately returned to his leader persona temporarily.

"We're from the same guild," Soron said with authority as he led the way through the crowd, "let us through."

When they got closer, they saw how badly damaged the three were. Above all, they saw who was responsible due to a symbol painted on Levy's stomach. Phantom Lord was the culprit. Soron was doing everything he can to not go Rath right then and there, and Natsu was in the same boat. Unlike Natsu, Soron kept a poker face even though his fists were clenching hard enough to go white. Natsu's teeth were gritted, face contorted in rage, and fists probably close to combusting right there.

"Levy!" Lucy said almost crying.

"Jet," Grey said taking a step forward, "Droy…"

"Phantom Lord did this," Natsu snarled barely restraining himself from punching anything.

The four Fairy Tailers were so focused on the scene in front of them, they didn't even notice that Makarov was walking up from behind them. Makarov was now wearing black pants and a white coat with the Ten Wizard Saints logo on the back of it. He also had a staff with a strange circle-like design at the top.

"I can take our headquarters being reduced to rubble," Makarov said angrily, "but I will NOT let harm come to my children without…"

"Taking revenge!" Makarov finished as he shattered his staff's shaft with one hand.

That made Lucy jump as she had never seen Makarov this angry before. Not even when Natsu tried going up into the second floor to fight Laxus, but that was before Soron appeared.

"We have no choice but to go to war!" Makarov stated enraged as golden energy enveloped him causing a wind.

Later, at Magnolia Hospital…

Droy, Jet, and Levy were now laying down unconscious in three separate hospital beds in the same room. They had been cut down from the tree and moved to the hospital where the doctors and nurses immediately tended to them ending in covering them up in bandages. Lucy was sitting by the window watching over them in concern for her friends.

"Droy," Lucy said saddened by what happened to them, "Jet, and Levy."

"Phantom Lord is heartless," Lucy said as she looked behind her out the window, "How could they do this?"

She then spaced out as she flashed back to her interactions with the three. She didn't even notice as someone walked into the room.

"They make it," said a familiar voice attracting her attention. Lucy looked up and saw Soron leaning on the wall next to the doorway.

"How can you be sure?" Lucy asked worried.

"They're Fairy Tail," Soron said simply, "and Fairy Tail members are survivors… or so I've gathered."

"What Phantom Lord has done is unforgivable," Lucy said with tears preparing to leak out.

"They're gonna pay," Lucy finished right before closing her eyes allowing the tears to flow down her cheeks.

"I promise you that Phantom Lord will NOT get away with this," Soron said as he stood up straight clenching his fists, "I'll see to it personally."

Later, in Oak Town…

Oak Town is located in the Northeastern sector of the Fiore Kingdom, and is home to the Phantom Lord guild. The guild itself was castle-like in appearance and towered above all other buildings in Oak Town. The Phantom douchebags were currently drinking, eating, and laughing in the mess hall.

The main topic of the guild was how Gajeel single handedly defeated three members of the Fairy Tail guild right before hanging them on a tree in the middle of Magnolia for all to see. Juvia fighting the one of newest Fairy Tailers in order to determine what he could do was also a topic, but not nearly as exciting as what Gajeel did. Three guys were currently walking towards the main door.

"We can't let them have all the fun," said one guy.

"Yeah," said another, "we need to try picking off a couple of fairy wings ourselves."

The third guy laughed in agreement. Just before they reached the door, it exploded inward sending the three flying backward. They crashed into the sign labeled "Phantom Lord" before falling down with burns on them. The guild members that watched them looked back to the door, and when the dust settled they could see a pink haired wizard with an angry expression with the rest of the Fairy Tail members except for Lucy behind him.

"Fairy Tail has come calling!" Makarov shouted angrily at the Phantom fuckfaces.

At that, some of the Phantom Lord members leapt at Natsu who greeted them with fiery attacks sending them back.

"Alright!" Natsu roared, "who wants to play with fire?!"

The rest of the Phantom Lord members charged, while Soron walked up raising his megatrix.

"You have attacked three members of my guild," Soron said angrily as he turned the dial, "and now I'm going to let you feel my…"

Soron then slapped down on the dial causing a golden light to envelop him, and when the light had vanished a bipedal tiger without a tail and with a single claw coming out of each forearm was standing in his place. It had a golden megatrix symbol and golden eyes.

"RATH!" Soron yelled.

"LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING PHANTOM LORD!" Rath yelled as he pointed at them, "YOU ATTACKED MY GUILD-MATES, AND NOW RATH IS GOING TO TURN YOU INTO MASHED POTATOES!"

Rath then leapt at them delivering punches, kicks, headbutts, and doing the occasional piledrives. The rest of the Fairy Tailers followed suit and charged the incoming phantom lord members. Elfmen tossed some of them while Macao fired black fire at them. Wakabe used his smoke magic, and so on and so forth.

Rath was in the middle of getting swarmed and he was having the time of his life.

"LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING PHANTOM LORD!" Rath yelled as he grabbed a guy that leapt at him from on top of the upstairs indoor balcony, "RATH IS GOING TO TEACH YOU NOT TO MESS WITH FAIRY TAIL!"

He then proceeded to use the guy as a bat by swinging him into phantom lord members and knocking them away. However, while he was using the guy as a bat on a sole member that was holding up a shield spell another few members snuck up on Rath and stabbed into him. While Rath has very durable skin, he hasn't really faced blades of this reality before so he had no way to know that they could hurt him.

Rath howled in pain letting go of the guy causing him to fly off into Makarov who had grown into his giant form.

"LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING PHANTOM LORD!" Rath howled as he pulled the knives out of his back, "YOU STAB RATH, AND RATH IS GOING TO MAKE YOU REGRET IT!"

Rath then slapped his chest and another golden light enveloped him. As soon as the light ebbed, a being that looked to be made of magma and had light flickering off of him stood in his place. He had golden eyes and a golden megatrix symbol on his chest like the last one.

"Heatblast!" Soron yelled before he smirked at the two phantom lord members that had stabbed him.

"You made a bad mistake," Heatblast said in a voice that sounds like it could belong to wolverine, "You got close to the fire, and that means you're going to fry!"

Heatblast then thrust his arms forward sending out beams of fire into his opponents burning them and knocking them to the ground.

"AND YOU WOULD DARE TO HURT THIS MONSTER'S CHILDREN!" shouted a monstrous voice belonging to Makarov attracting their attention, "WERE YOU REALLY FOOLISH ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THE COUNCIL'S LAWS WOULD PROTECT YOU FROM MY RAGE!"

All of the Phantom Lord members paused as they looked at Makarov. Even Heatblast paused and looked a little bit unnerved at the sight. Of course, one couldn't really tell as his face is all magma.

"He's pretty strong," one PL member said nervously.

"His members are strong too," another said just as nervous.

"Especially that takeover wizard over there,"said a third with a glance at Heatblast.

"I didn't know Fairy Tail was like this!" exclaimed another.

Heatblast created finger guns and fired bolts of heat at anyone that got near him. While, they didn't knock the PL members down they did stall them. Heatblast could easily take them down, but he was just in the mood to screw with them.

"JOSE!" Makarov bellowed as he glanced around, "SHOW YOURSELF!"

Suddenly, something crashed through the roof attracting their attention. It was Erza Scarlet. She had returned. She was wearing her armor that allows her to fly extremely fast. Alongside her were Shuzy, and Igrao.

"You attacked my guild!" Erza yelled angrily, "and for that you will pay!"

"Re-quip!" Erza yelled to transform into her flame empress armor. It was primarily dark red, but it had orange and black parts too. The first ones were shaped like wings while the second ones resembled dragon wings. Her hair was now tied into long pigtails, and in her right hand she held a long red flaming sword.

"Now," Erza said as she slashed at the closest PL member, "Tell me where Gajeel and the element 4 are!"

Above them, a man with spiky black hair stood on one of the wooden rafters as he watched the fight happening on the ground. Gajeel was smirking because he was shocked that the Fairy Tailers were putting up quite a fight. Also, as he watched Heatblast grab a guy from behind that was trying to rape Cana he saw that the guy immediately caught fire. He now no longer condemned Juvia from running away before the battle was done. This guy was a problem… though not as much as Makarov.

"Ah," Gajeel said, "the legend herself. Titania Erza, "I guess Laxus, Mystogan are too busy to play, or do they not care?"

"Either way," Gajeel continued, "Master Jose knew exactly how this was going to go down."

He then paused as he continued watching the fight.

"Looks like they're pretty good fighters," Gajeel smirked, "for a bunch of scumbags."

Back at Magnolia…

Lucy was now walking down an alley alone grumbling to herself about the fact she was left behind.

"I can't believe everyone just took off without me," Lucy grumbled, "but, Levy and the boys need someone to look after them. So, I guess it's up to me."

Suddenly, it began to rain with startled her. She didn't have a raincoat on, and she was carrying groceries that involved bread. She then looked up at the sky and held her hand palm-upwards.

"It's raining while the sun's still out?" Lucy said confused she then looked back down and saw a woman wearing blue. The same woman that Soron encountered the previous night.

"Who are you?" Lucy asked.

"Drip drip drop," juvia replied, "Juvia is the rain woman. It's always with me."

That unnerved Lucy.

"And what sort of woman are you pray tell?" Juvia asked as she reached Lucy.

"I'm just the regular kind?" Lucy said confused.

"Drip drip drop," juvia said as she passed Lucy.

"What's with wall the drip dropping?" Lucy asked confused.

Instead of answering, Juvia pulled out an umbrella and opened it.

"Pleasure to meet you," Juvia said without looking back, "I'll be going now."

"Well, take the rain with ya!" Lucy demanded in irritation.

Back at the Phantom Lord guild hall…

The PL members decided that they had to end it quickly if any of them were to survive, so the pyromancers fired flame at ath the Fairy Tailers. However, what happened next was a shock to them as they had never seen it before. Natsu and Heatblast both intercepted the attack and let themselves get hit by it. While Heatblast just stood there, Natsu sucked the flames into his mouth.

"Oh yeah," Natsu grinned, "Now I've got a fire in my belly!"

"No way!" exclaimed one guy, "He ate fire!"

"You don't think he's one of those?" another asked.

"I'm gonna blow you away!" Natsu yelled.

"Fire Dragon…" Natsu yelled as he placed his hands over his mouth like a trumpeter would, "roooaaaar!"

"Ice make: Lance!" Grey yelled before sending out a wave of ice taking several out.

One that accidentally headed towards Shuzy was immediately gobbled up by here shocking them as well.

"Ice Dragon…" Shuzy yelled as she placed her hands over her mouth like a trumpeter would, "rooooaaaar!"

"Re-quip!" Igrao yelled causing his standard sword to change into a double bladed sword. He then spun the blade around like a staff deflecting attacks and commencing his own attacks. He moved as fast and fluidly as Darth Maul in the Phantom Menace.

Eventually, Soron, Igrao, and Shuzy were back to back taking down foes left, right, and center.

"So," Heatblast asked as he hurled a fireball at a group's feet exploding them into the air, "how'd you get into Fairy Tail?"

"It's a long story," Igrao replied as he re-quipped to dual swords one with flames crackling along the blade and the other with an icey aura.

"What about you?" shuzy asked before she punched with a fist surrounded by an icey aura.

"Same," Heatblast replied as he blasted a beam of energy, "but we can talk once this whole ordeal is over… if I haven't gone on a job by then."

Igrao and Shuzy looked at each other once before nodding in agreement.

"Agreed," they said in unison.

Heatblast looked around and saw that more were coming, and so he decided he best change again. He slapped the megatrix symbol on his chest a second time that day, and once again golden light enveloped him. Once it ebbed, one could see a man that looked just like the version of The Blur from smallville season nine, but instead of a white s-symbol he had the golden megatrix symbol.

"Krypto-man!" Soron yelled.

"It's time for this battle to end," Soron said before he blurred forward taking down any guys nearby. To him, everything was happening in slow motion while he moved normally. He pushed one guy, punched another, swept the legs of a third, and slapped others as he ran past. The guys he took out either went flying into walls, hit the floor hard, or knocked into each other like dominos. Krypto-man blurred around taking out random guys, and even knocked down guys on the stairs that Makarov was walking up.

"Erza!" Makarov yelled to the redhead clumped with Macao, Wakabe and others without looking behind himself, "I leave the rabble to you and Soron!"

"Yes sir!" Erza replied.

Makarov had seen Erza's theatrical entrance, and that's why he knew she was there.

"Jose must be lurking on the top floor," Makrov said to himself as he walked with his fists clenched, "when I find him, there'll be hell to pay."

"Please be careful," Erza said from the main floor.

Gajeel sneered as he saw Makarov bash down the door that led further into the PL guild's castle.

"Now that the bossman's out of the way," Gajeel smirked, "It's time I through myself into the mix."

He then jumped off of the beam and towards the fight below.

If it seams like Erza, Igrao, and shuzy were just dropped into this at random... well i originally wanted to do this episode w/o using Erza and I had completely forgotten about Igrao and Shuzy till i looked over episode 4 which i did a couple of edits for it to make more sense. I'll do a flashback chapter at some point. probably between this canon arc and the next canon arc. now, concerning Juvia. when i introduced her in this story, i'll admit that i didn't do her personality justice because i forgot how emotionless she was before meeting Grey. Anywho, her obsessing over Diamondhead... i only did that because as far as i know girls love diamonds. the getting screwed by a diamond dick... i'll admit that's out of character. however, the whole dialogue they're having full of accidental innuendos on diamondhead's part... makes the scene funny so i decided to keep it. in anycase, i have no idea how else it should go down.