The Harvest Festival has arrived and everyone was having fun. Balloons, laughs, and everyone was having so much fun. A large crowd was gathering around Fairy Tail's guildhall. All came to see the talent show the children were taking part in it.
"Welcome, ladies and gentleman. I'm your host, Renji Abarai. I'll be hosting this talent show for the youngsters. I know some of you must be disappointed that we're not find our Miss Fairy Tail, but we're still in for a good show." Everyone cheered and laughed.
"I'm a little surprised Renji is hosting this." Rukia said.
"He actually offered." Uryu said.
"This should be a good show." Ichigo said.
"Restart Battle for Fairy Tail"
A bunch of kids that were ten or under competed on a stage showing their talents and some could use magic.
"Isn't it a little unfair to those who can't use magic to go against those who can?" Orihime said.
"It's not about who can do what." Erza said as she took a stand next to Ichigo and the others. "It's about who can bring the better performance. Style and enthusiasm help as well, but the whole point is just to have a good time and so far everyone is."
"So let's just kick back and enjoy the show. For once, we have nothing to worry about." Ichigo said.
"Next, we have everyone's favorite little blonde dragon….Igneel Dragneel!" Renji announced and Igneel came on the stage.
"Good luck, Igneel." Natsu cheered.
"Dad, saying that is bad luck when you perform on a stage." Lilly said.
"You're going to do great, honey." Lucy cheered.
"Break a leg." Nagato said.
"Here I go." Igneel said as he took deep breaths and shot out puffs of fire. Then he pointed straight up and breathed fire like a fountain and everyone clapped and cheered for him.
"Wow! That might be tough to beat. So who is next?" Renji asked.
"That would be me." Everyone looked up and saw a strange man float down from the ceiling and landed on the stage. That man was Muramasa.
"What's going on?" Rukia said.
"I don't think this is part of the show." Chad said. Muramasa looked out to the crowd and spotted Ichigo. He also looked up to a higher level and saw Grimmjow.
"What is the meaning of this? Who are you?" Erza said with a demanding to know tone.
"Igneel, I think you and the rest of the kids better get off the stage." Renji said. Igneel understood and all the kids tried to run for it, but both sides were blocked off.
"End of the line, kids." Lin said as he cut off one side.
"I'm afraid we can't have you leave yet." Chester said as he blocked off the other side.
"I am not going to ask again. I demand you tell me who you people are." Erza said.
"A pleasure to meet you. My name is Muramasa and my colleges and I have come a long way to meet all of Fairy Tail. We came to bring your guild to its knees." Everyone thought that was strange to say.
"You've picked a lousy time for that." Erza said. "Besides, none of us are going to fight you without a reason."
"I had a feeling you say something like that." Muramasa said. Muramasa turned to the children and held his hand to them.
"What is he doing?" Ichigo said. Muramasa unleashed some sort of airwave that surrounded all the children and all of them began to just disappear.
"Igneel!" Natsu shouted.
"What did this freak do to the kids?" Ichigo said as everyone was going to panic.
"If you want the children back, you'll have to participate in our little game." Muramasa said.
"Better idea." Nagato said as he charged right at him. He jumped up with a flaming fist. "I kick your butt now and you give back my brother with everyone else."
"Sit down!" Dortoro came down from the ceiling and kicked Nagato back to the floor with him landing on the stage. "This is going to be fun." Takameer came down as well.
"You Fairy Tail guys did something like this during the year X784 at this time of the year." Takameer said.
"Not by choice. I demand you release the children at once. We won't play your games." Erza said.
"You better if you want to see those children again." Chester said.
"Let us explain how it works." Lin said. "Muramasa is the only one who can bring those children back. Defeating him is the only way to get them back."
"Of course, you're going to need get through the four of us first." Dortoro said.
"You have an unlimited amount of time." Chester said.
"This is madness. What reason do you have for doing this?" Erza said.
"That's my business." Muramasa said. "Let's get started. Come and find us." Muramasa unleashed the same strange airwave and the five of them vanished.
"What do we do?" Orihime said.
"Don't worry, Daddy s is coming Igneel!" Natsu shouted. Natsu ran out the door and soon everyone in the guild ran out.
"Hurry. We must find those scoundrels." Erza said. She ran out the door, but she hit an invisible wall.
"Erza?!" Ichigo said as his team stayed behind. Erza banged at the invisible wall and saw runes all around.
"It's an enchantment. I can't get out. One of them must use the same magic as Freed." Erza said. "Forget about me. Go and stop that madman." All of them agreed and ran out, but Ichigo hit the wall as well.
"What the hell?" Ichigo said as he tried to push through, but he couldn't get through just like Erza. "I don't get it. Why can't I get out?"
"Look up." Rukia said as they saw writing in thin air.
"It says that the master and all spirit slayers are forbidden from leaving." Erza said.
"But how could he have known I was a spirit slayer?" Ichigo said.
"There must be some way we can get you guys out." Renji said.
"Wait, what's that number?" Orihime said. They all saw the number one-hundred up there and Erza had a feeling she knew what was going on.
"Oh no. Don't tell me they're recreating the Battle for Fairy Tail." Erza said.
"Battle for Fairy Tail? What's that?" Orihime said.
"There's no time to explain. The children take top priority." Erza said. "Find the one who cast this enchantment so we can get out. Then, go find Muramasa. Be careful, they're might be more of these enchantments that will force you to fight each other. Go before any serious damage is done,"
Very well." Uryu said and all of them ran out into the city.
"Orihime, wait." Erza said and Orihime stayed behind. Erza pulled out a pencil and a piece of paper and began to write something down. "I need you to go get Levy. She should be at home since Gajeel is sick. Here's her address." She handed Orihime the paper and she took it. "Freed is away so she might be the only who can get us out of here. You need to bring her here."
"I'm on it." Orihime said and ran off.
"Good idea sending Orihime. She isn't a fighter so those guys would clobber her." Ichigo said.
"All we can do now is hope for the best."
"Wait, did the number change?" Ichigo said. Erza looked up and saw the number going down as well as the victor on who beat who.
"No. The madness has already begun." Erza said.
…
Magnolia
Enchantments were set all around Magnolia. When at least two members of Fairy Tail have stepped into one, they're force to fight each other. This was Muramasa's plan to destroyed Fairy Tail with its own strength. Even Natsu got involved and beat down a couple easily.
"Natsu, how could you just attack our friends?" Lucy said.
"I hate this as much as you do, but I'll do whatever it takes to save Igneel." Natsu said. "I'm really sorry guys. I enjoy a good fight, but not like this. This is different than from when Laxus hosted it. We were going to find the strongest in our guild, but these guys took kids hostage for this."
"That wasn't the reason back then. Laxus tried to take the guild by force." Lucy said. "Not important right now. We better keep moving, but be careful so we don't end up fighting each other."
"Right." Natsu said and the both of them kept moving.
…..
Nagato
Nagato was not going to stop running until he found those guys and practically destroy them until they return Igneel. He kept running through town until he spotted Lin.
"There you are!" Nagato said and Lin noticed him.
"I'm surprise you found me so easily." Lin said.
"You better give me back my brother right now." Nagato said as he brought a fiery fist, but Lin dodged it and got behind him somehow. "How did he do that?"
"You're too slow." Lin said. The next thing Nagato knew, he was getting attacked from all sides of him.
'Is he using some sort of Speed Magic?' Nagato thought. He was getting pummeled and thrown right into a building. He couldn't defend himself and was knocked out.
"You guys will have to move faster than that." Lin said.
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Toshiro
"Rangiku, this way." Toshiro said as he and Rangiku were on the track of one of Muramasa's servants. "I think I saw one go down the alley."
"I'm right behind you." Rangiku said as they both went down one, but ended up trapped in another enchantment.
"What is this?" Rangiku said, but she sounded so loud.
"Now I have you." Both of them looked up and saw Takameer. "Chester set up special areas to set up our needs."
"This one must increase volume. Everything is so loud." Toshiro said.
"That's right. Listen!" Takameer screamed and played his guitar. The noise was so loud and Toshiro and Rangiku couldn't block it. Their brains felt like rattles. "Rock Sound!" Takameer used Sound Magic and played a strong guitar solo that blasted both of them and took them down.
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Muramasa
Muramasa hid in Kardia Cathedral, a famous mark in Magnolia. He waited for all the fighting to settle as runes displayed the same as the guildhall.
"Everything is going just as you said it would." Chester said.
"Excellent. Fairy Tail's strength is what will be its downfall." Muramasa said. "This is the only the beginning. Once we're done with Fairy Tail, we'll move onto the next and the next until all guilds are destroyed."
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Orihime
Orihime was hurrying over to the Levy and Gajeel's home so Levy can lift the enchantment.
"This is the place." Orihime said and she saw the door was open. "Levy!" Orihime called out, but no would answer. "Levy, we need your help." She looked around, but it was strange there wasn't a sound or anything. She went into the next room, but saw Levy and Gajeel were down. "Levy!" She ran to Levy's side and she looked hurt. "What happened?" Levy slowly opened her eyes.
"Behind you." Levy whispered.
"Did you really think we wouldn't know some of the guild's most famous?" Orihime looked behind her and saw Dontoro.
"You did this?" Orihime said and she was a little scared.
"Defeating the man was easy since he isn't at full strength and defeating the woman was almost child's play." Dontoro said. "You're next."
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The Guild
Erza and Ichigo had no choice, but to stay and read the results. The number kept dropping and the both of them hated this.
"Nagato vs. Lin. Winner: Lin. Toshiro vs. Rangiku vs. Takmeer. Winner: Takameer." Erza read.
"This is nuts. There's no way these guys can actually bring us down." Ichigo said.
"Don't be so sure. We're dealing with a cunning and devious group." Erza said. The next results appeared and Ichigo couldn't believe this as it felt like he had a hole in his stomach.
"Orihime vs. Dontoro. Winner: Dontoro?" Ichigo read and he became furious. "She's not even a fighter. That's it. Let me out of here! Muramasa!"
…
Ichigo: Fairy Tail is one of the best places ever. It's where people form bonds and act like they are members of a family.
Orihime: I know. I can't imagine why anyone would want to cause trouble.
Ichigo: In fact, feelings go deeper here than you think. Take Natsu and Lucy for example.
Orihime: I love it. Romance actually blooms here.
Ichigo: Next time: Heart of Fairy
Ichigo: I know a certain redhead that would like that with a certain ice wizard.
