Two days or so after we had arrived back at the guild the strongest team returned. They were able to tell us what happened to Sho, Millianna and Wally. Apparently they had gone out travelling the world as they knew so little about it after being locked up in the tower for all those years... That was when I realized that it was around that time of year - Fantasia! The fantasia parade is a parade witch ts participated in by members of the Fairy Tail guild after the Magnolia Harvest Festival. I've never been in the parade myself, but everyone else on my team has. This year they've insisted that we all go on a float together. I don't really want to, but I can't let my friends and teammates down!

Finally the day of the parade arrived. There were lots of other events on around town to do with the harvest festival as well as Fairy Tail. I remember that I was checking out these events with Bluebell, Lokni and Altair. Lokni's clothing choices were slightly different to usual. I guessed he was bored of his old style. He was now wearing a crimson jacket with a light grey collar and cuffs. Also, on the right shoulder sleeve of the jacket was the Fairy Tail emblem also in light grey. Underneath his jacket was a black, close fitting, turtle neck top. He was also wearing a pair of dark blue jeans as well as a pair of brown leather shoes. "Are you gonna buy anything from the stores?" Lokni asked be. I shook my head. Altair tapped Lokni's shoulder and pointed behind me. I looked behind me to see Miriza and Melody running (and flying) our way. "It's Baka," Lokni said. Miriza seemed to be wearing her dark blue dress again as well as her white ribbon and necklace. I guessed that this new style change was permanent just like Lokni's. "You guy's need to come to the guild hall!" Melody exclaimed.

"Lilias is in the Miss Fairy Tail contest! As her teammates we need to be there to cheer her on!" Miriza carried on, "Xavier, Viper and Candy are already there!" With that, Miriza turned around and headed back the way she had came.

"Come on," Melody sighed, "You can't be late... Think about what the others would be like of that happened..." Melody turned and flew after Miriza. The rest of us followed.

"It's not like I'm going just because Miriza asked or anything," Lokni spoke as we ran. I sighed. He could really be in denial at times...

We soon arrived at the guild hall. The others were there waiting for us. "Why aren't you two entering?" Xavier asked me and Miriza.

"It's too embarrassing," I said.

"I agree with Faya," Miriza sighed.

"I would have thought that you would have entered," Melody smiled towards Miriza.

"Why?" Miriza asked back.

"Because of the times you've been on jobs destroying dark guilds with Blue Pegasus - It seems like the sort of thing that guild would do!"

"That has nothing to do with anything," Miriza said immediately looking away, "Besides, you were there as well you know..." Just at that moment, the show began to start. Max seemed like he was the announcer for the show. First up was Cana. She ended up using her card magic to... change into a swimsuit? What was this contest! I knew it was a beauty contest but I wan't expecting this at all! In truth I've never actually watched the contest before, so I didn't really know what was coming up... I guess I was just surprised.

Next up was Juvia! She used her body wade of water to... change into a swimsuit. Again? I had a feeling this was going to very repetitive... Next up was Mirajane. She used her transformation magic to do a Happy impression... Followed by a Gajeel impression... Now things were finally getting exiting! Next up was Erza. I heard Miriza cheer loudly for her. They were good friends after all. Erza ended up requipping into a dress. I'd never had thought I'd see her wear anything like that... Next up was Levy! I couldn't help but cheer extra loud for her. She was one of my closest friends and I'd known her ever since we were all young! I heard Jet and Droy cheering from the front at an extremely high volume. I think they both have a little bit of an obsession problem... Levy used her solid script magic to create words such as: 'Snow', 'metal', 'butterfly' and 'flower'. Next up was Bisca. She tossed 4 coins up into the air and used her requip guns magic to shoot a hole through the center of all of them with just one shot!

Next up was Lilias. She was up onstage wearing her new dress along with a pair of dark red shoes and dark violet tights. It was so dark that it almost looked black. She was also wearing the earrings from the village near mount Hakobe. Somehow I had a feeling that this was going to be her new outfit or something... I was glad that Xavier hadn't changed his clothing yet. But then I realized that he was wearing the jacket from the village... Well, at least the cats hadn't changed! I noticed that I hadn't seen Candy in a while. I wondered where she could have got to... Lilias ended up using her earth dragon slayer magic to create a bunch of beautiful flowers. I could tell that she'd thought about the colours of the flowers she was going to use as they complimented her perfectly. "Now it's time for our quick dance!" she exclaimed. Dance? What did she mean by that? Just then, Candy appeared on stage as Lilias summoned Sakura. Then they danced. The dance was rather short, but when it was over our team applauded and cheered as loud as we could.

Finally, It was Lucy. She was dressed up in a cheerleaders costume. She said that she and her celestial spirits were going to do a cheer. But before she could start, a female wizard dressed in green appeared on stage. It was Evergreen, a member of the Thunder Legion. Lilias had mentioned going on a few jobs with them before when our team had broken up. But she had stopped going on them a couple of years ago or something like that I think. I suspected there was some sort of falling out between them. The Thunder Legion didn't really show their faces too often at the guild. That's why I was surprised to see Evergreen now...

That's when all the chaos started acting up. First of all, Lucy was turned to stone. It was also revealed that all the other girls who had entered the contest were also now turned to stone. Then Laxus and the rest of the Thunder Legion appeared. As soon as that happened I knew what happened next couldn't be good at all... Laxus then stated that everyone in the guild would be playing a game to find out who the strongest wizard would be. The petrified girls would remains hostages so that nobody would break the rules of the game. The rules I managed to pick up were that we weren't allowed to leave Magnolia and people over 80 and stone statues weren't allowed to leave the guild hall due to Freed's enchantments. Natsu ended up getting a little too exited and was knocked down by Laxus. After that it was stated that the Thunder Legion had to be defeated in 3 hours or the girls turned to stone would have to meet their demise... And with that, the Thunder Legion disappeared and everyone ran out of the guild hall and into the streets of Magnolia...