We were the last ones to exit the guild hall. "We should go help the others fight the Thunder Legion," Xavier said. Lokni nodded. "We need to get Lilias back safe and sound." After Lilias's performance Candy had gone back to the crowd instead of going backstage. "I just want Lilias back!" She cried. Melody sighed.

"Stay here with the master Candy OK?" Melody said. Candy nodded. With that we all ran towards the exit. The next thing I knew I had slammed straight into an invisible wall. After I had fallen back I looked up to notice that Xavier and the cats (aside from Candy) had made it out. Meanwhile, Me, Lokni and Miriza were now all on the ground. "Makes sense..." I muttered, "We are all chronologically over 80..." I heard Makarov talking to Reedus. He had told him to go to the east forest so that he could find Porlyusica to see if she had anything that would cure petrification. He was able to pass through the barrier with ease. When I looked back I noticed that Xavier and the cats were already gone.

Just at that moment Natsu sprang up and tried to get through the barrier... with no luck. I didn't think that he would be over 80... And he didn't look like a stone statue to me. Also, there couldn't have been a rule stopping dragon slayers as Xavier had gotten out fine... Just then we looked up at the runes blocking the exit. The first battle was then recorded up on the runes: Alzack vs Jet vs Droy. "Why are they fighting each other?" Lokni asked. The winner is Alzack.

"I don't understand what's going on here... I don't think I like it..." Lokni muttered.

"It must be Freed's enchantments," Miriza answered. I nodded.

"He must have set them all up around town before the game began," I sighed. If Freed had really covered the whole town with enchantments, who knows what could happen.


Xavier's POV

I ran through the streets of Magnolia trying to find any sign of the Thunder Legion. No luck. I sighed. "This whole game is stupid," I muttered, "What's the point of playing? Why would Laxus want to do this?"

"No idea," Viper answered, "Maybe he just wants to kill some people?" I laughed. I had never really understood what the others had against Viper. Sure, he could be a bit scary or creepy at times - but that was just him. Personally, I found him rather funny. Did that mean I had some sort of sick sense of humor? I didn't really care. People can think whatever they want about me. I'm not bothered. I had seen Reedus leave the guild hall. I thought I'd keep an eye on him. I'd heard everything Master had told him about going to see Porlyusica. I was worried about him OK? He could easily get hurt by another guild member or a member of the Thunder Legion. Plus there was that rule about leaving Magnolia. We weren't allowed to do that.

As soon as Reedus tried to escape Magnolia, Freed was there. I told the cats to get out of here. They needed to help all the others think of a strategy. I couldn't allow them to get hurt. Especially Melody for the reason that Fairy Tail needed her expertise in battle strategy. This was the battle of Fairy Tail after all... I watched Reedus in his one sided fight against Freed. I didn't go to back him up. Reedus had broke the rules by trying to get out of Magnolia. It may seem cold of me, but the right thing to do right now was to watch. When Reedus was defeated I was able to follow Freed. He soon spotted me though. With that we ended up fighting. "Is there any reason as to why you've been following me?" Freed asked.

"Why the hell should I tell a traitor like you?" I growled. With that I lunged at him with an ice dragon iron fist. He easily dodged. I came lunging towards him again. He dodged again. This was starting to annoy me. "ICE DRAGON ROAR!" He dodged that attack at well. This was now just getting irritating... I tried another ice dragon iron first. He was also able to dodge. I didn't consider how he wasn't attacking back - I should have though. Suddenly, I found myself caught up in one of his rune barriers. "This barrier stops the wizard inside from using any of their magic," Freed murmured. I'd just have to finish him off with hand to hand combat. "I'll end this with one hit," Freed muttered, "Dark Écriture..."


Faya's POV

Laxus had just vanished after Gray had been defeated by Bickslow. What would we do now. There was always Xavier right. I looked up at the runes to see the results of the next fight. Freed vs Xavier. The winner is Xavier. Great. That idiot got himself defeated. Sadly though, I didn't believe that Xavier would had lost so easily. Freed must have used one of his enchantment barriers...

Suddenly, I noticed a figure eating at the back of the bar... It was Gajeel! Eating... iron? Well he was an iron dragons layer. I shouldn't have found it so strange... After we had spotted him - it was decided that Gajeel was going to go after Laxus. But just as he was about to walk through the guild hall entrance... He slammed straight into the runes barrier! What was going on!? Natsu and Gajeel should have been able to get through just fine! There definitely wasn't a rule against dragon slayers, otherwise Xavier wouldn't have been able to go through the barrier. The only way was for them to be stone statues or older than 80... They certainly weren't stone statues. Maybe they were older than 80 and there was something they weren't telling us... Or, more likely being idiots, they had just forgotten. Yeah, that must have been it. Anyway, now I had to spend time with the two of them arguing... That was not my idea of fun...

Just then I noticed the amount of members left. Only Gajeel, Natsu, Lokni, Miriza and myself remained. The runes didn't seem to be counting cats ad Happy was right here with us. Additionally, Makarov wasn't being counted either... Sadly, Natsu had an idea. He decided that it would be a good idea to depetrify Erza... With his fire magic... Sometimes I worried about his stupidity. There was no way this could end well. Erza wasn't covered in stone, but was stone. Therefore, it couldn't be melted away without melting her away... Sadly, We couldn't stop him. Unexpectedly, a crack appeared on her face. We all started to freak out. Luckily though, Erza was then freed from the stone prison. She seemed to notice the heat Natsu had applied and ended up punching Natsu. I was glad that she had known it was him and not me. I did not fancy getting punched today... She then stated that it was most likely her right eye that weakened the affects of the spell. Apparently she had lost her real right eye in the tower of heaven. It had been replaced by Porlyusica with a magical one. Luckily now Erza was able to join the fight. Quickly followed by another. It could be no one other than Mystogan...


Author's note

3 chapters in one day! I've been trying to get as much done before I go camping. Anyway, I changed it to Xavier's point of view in the middle of the chapter so that we could have a little bit more action. I'll probably but in more POV changed in the future if that's the only way the story can move forwards. If a chapter ends with a different POV to Faya you can assume that the next chapter will start in the POV of the person it changed to. But I may end up forgetting that in the future...