The three guilds have formed an alliance, but before they could even act, Ten Rave makes their appearance. Erza, Harribel, and Shunsui at the moment are trapped. As it stands now, Ten Rave is standing against everyone else.

"So these weaklings are our enemies?" Master said.

"They're just gathering together for us to tear apart." Fissure said.

"I'm afraid your masters aren't here to protect you." Cat said.

"We've kept them preoccupied while we take care of the rest of you." Void said.

"We don't need them to hold our hands." Ichigo said as he was ready to fight. The battle between the alliance and Ten Rave is about to begin.

"Hairpins"

Shade stepped out front with him looking different. Though, he hasn't changed and he's looking to have some payback from his last fight with Ichigo.

"Ichigo, it's been a long time." Shade said.

"Korodo." Ichigo acknowledge.

"I go by Shade now."

"I'll call you whatever the hell I want." Ichigo said.

"Things have changed since we last met and the only thing that kept me going was having revenge on you." Shade said. "I'm a lot stronger than before. You want to see?"

"Sure." Ichigo said and the two charged right at each other. "I'll just beat you like last time." Both of them had their fists collide and they had their magic push the other back and Ichigo could feel a difference. "He really is a lot stronger."

"He's not your only opponent." Ray said as he just appeared right behind Ichigo.

"How did he…." Ichigo didn't get the chance to ask that question with Ray hitting him in the back of the head.

"I'm all fired up. Time to start fighting." Natsu said.

"I'm with you." Chad said as the two of them went to attack together, but Fissure acted faster. He held up his hand and rupture magic circles appeared all over both of them.

"Time to go boom." Fissure said and detonated all of them and caused Natsu and Chad to be in tremendous pain.

"Ice-Make: Lance!"

"Ice Dragon's Hail!" Toshiro and Rukia combined their power and attacked Jewel, but she smirked. Some sort of shield came up and blocked their attacks. "What is that?"

"It looks like crystal." Rukia said.

"Ice? How fragile." Jewel said. She shot out shards of crystal and hit both of them.

"Follow my lead." Shinji said as Rose and Kensei ran with him. Ray was covered in some sort of light and was moving incredibly fast as he knocked Kensei in the back. Then, he appeared by Rose and gave him a powerful spin kick. "Are you alright?"

"Don't look away." Ray appeared in front of Shinji and punched him multiple times with incredible speed.

'How is he moving so fast?' Shinji wondered with all three of them were knocked down. Uryu pulled out one of his bows and was forming an arrow.

"Data Blast!" Nanao said and both of them attack Blade. However, Blade form swords made from magic. He thrusted his hand forward and they slashed against the both of them.

"You guys have nothing against us." Blade said.

"I'll take Void." Shuhei said.

"I'm right with you." Izuru said as the two of them went to attack together. Void jumped in the air and landed down between the two of them. He held up both his hands and blasted the two of them with some form of his Nullification Magic.

"This is almost too easy." Void said. Hachi had a shield made of magic and was blocking Shade's shadow attacks. Muramasa jumped up and came down to strike at him, but Shade moved out of the way.

"He's strong." Hachi complained.

"Pick up the pace, Shade." Cat said as she appeared behind Hachi and used her nails like claws to slice him down. Nel and Renji teamed up against her, but she was able to move away from both of them.

"I'm trying." Shade said as he unleashed more of his shadows. Orihime formed her shield and was able to defend Muramasa.

"Are you alright?" Orihime asked.

"Yes." Muramasa said.

"Don't forget me." Tarantula said as he came up on his giant spider. Muramasa jumped to him to intercept him. Tarantula positioned himself to stand on a hand and kick him, but Muramasa was able to block it. "You might as well just give up." While all of them were fighting, Dusk and Master held back and just watched.

"Their dropping like flies. This is hardly worth the time." Dusk said.

"Don't want you to feel worth out." Ichigo said. He used his howl attack and it looked like he hit both of them, but it turned out they had no effect.

"The Night Spirit Slayer." Dusk said as he seemed interested.

"How did they block that?" Ichigo said.

"Careful." Ray said as he appeared and attacked Ichigo with incredible speed. "You don't want to get on their bad side." He kept attacking until Ichigo was knocked out. Nel kept trying to attack Cat, but she was so agile and it seemed like she sensed the attacks coming. In fact, she sensed Renji about to attack.

"Lash Slash!" Renji shot out the elastic metal but Cat jumped out of the way and Nel got hit instead. Renji didn't get the chance to regret that as Cat cut him down. Muramasa and Orihime were the only ones left standing. Tarantula decided to put an end to this.

"It's time Arna." Tarantula said and the spider launched poison spikes.

"Orihime, look out!" Muramasa said as he pushed her out of the way, but one of the spikes hit him in the shoulder and he was taken out.

"Muramasa!" Orihime shouted in concern.

"This isn't the time to be worrying about others." Shade said as he and Tarantula attacked, but Orihime used her shield to block the both of them. While the fight was going on, Master saw how Orihime's powers worked and he was astounded. He also saw something he wanted.

"Someone grab that girl." Master ordered.

"I've got it." Tarantula said as he jumped in the air. He used magic and shot out a spider thread and it wrapped around Orihime.

"Orihime!" Rukia said.

"Let her go." Ichigo said. Tarantula tossed her to Master and he held onto her with one hand.

"Interesting." Master said. Orihime was scared and felt like she couldn't move. "I'll take these." He reached for her hair and took out her hairpins.

"Give those back." Orihime pleaded, but she was ignored as she was tossed to the ground. Everyone in the alliance was beaten down by the destructive power of Ten Rave.

"What's so special about those hairpins?" Jewel asked.

"You'll see soon enough. I have of no use for any of them. Obliterate all of them." Master said.

"I've got this." Fissure said. He had magic circles appear all around all of them and was ready to deal the finishing blow. However, he saw some kind of wind attack come his way and got hit by it and freed everyone from the magic circles. "Who did that?!" All of them looked ahead and saw the three masters arrived with Shunsui holding two swords.

"Shade, I thought you had them trapped." Ray said.

"How did you break free from my prison?" Shade said.

"Shadow Magic is easy to break for me." Shunsui said. That put a damper on Shade since that means his old plan would have been a failure.

"It doesn't matter. We're done here." Master said.

"I've got this." Ray said as he held out his hand and shot out blasts of light.

"Requip!" Erza said and changed into armor with a giant shield and blocked all the attacks. When everything as settled, Ten Rave was already gone.

"Is everyone alright?" Harribel said as they all tried to get back up.

"Yeah, but they're a lot stronger than we all thought." Nanao said.

"We shouldn't be surprised. We're dealing with people who control part of the Balam Alliance." Rose said.

"At least we all manage to make it out of this fight alive." Hachi said.

"Everyone, Muramasa is still down!" Orihime called out. Everyone gathered around as he was still in agony. They all saw a purple mark on his right shoulder and it was slowly spreading. "Muramasa got hit by that spider's poison while he was protecting me."

"He did?" Renji said as he was beginning to think he was wrong about him.

"Orihime, this is where you come in." Chad said.

"I'm on it." Orihime said as she held out her hands, but something wasn't right. She felt no magic, nothing was happening, and she didn't understand. "What? Nothing's happening?"

"Why isn't it working?" Ichigo said.

"I don't know. This has never happened before." Orihime said as she was starting to panic.

"Is there a problem?" Shuhei said.

"My magic isn't working, but I don't understand why." Orihime said.

"It's alright. I have this." Hachi said as he helped Muramasa sit up against a tree.

"What are you doing?" Izuru said.

"He's going to heal him." Shinji said.

"Hachi uses Barrier Magic and he's found a way to use it for medical purposes." Harribel and that was a surprise to those who didn't know.

"I'm going to need something for him to bite down on." Hachi said.

"Here." Shuhei said. He used Requip to bring out two rods with scythe blades on each side and was connected by a chain. He had it wrap around the tree and Muramasa bit down on the chain. Hachi removed Muramasa's top to expose his shoulder. Hachi formed a small orange container.

"Try to hold on. This is going to be painful." Hachi warned. He pressed down on the shoulder and formed a few small spikes on the bottom. The pain was harsh and Muramasa groaned and bit hard on the chain as he tried to fight through the pain.

"Hang in there." Izuru said.

"This better work. We're going to need him." Toshiro said. Luckily, it was. The venom from the spider was starting to leave Muramasa's body and enter the container. Hachi kept it up for a couple more minutes until he saw it stopped flowing.

"That should do it." Hachi said as he pulled away and put the container down. Muramasa spat out the chain and was breathing hard. "How are you feeling?"

"Much better. Thank you." Muramasa said.

"I don't understand why my magic isn't working." Orihime said. Some put some thought into it, but Uryu might have figured it out.

"Wait. For whatever reason, Ten Rave took Orihime's hairpins." Uryu said. "I noticed whenever Orihime uses her magic, her hairpins react. What if Orihime's magic is a type of Holder Magic. Maybe she needs her hairpins just like I need my bows for Archery Magic."

"That makes sense." Erza said. Orihime never knew that and now she was beginning to feel helpless. "Either way, we still have a mission to accomplish. We have to find Ten Rave and defeat them."

"Orihime, are you alright?" Ichigo asked.

"I can't use my magic. Those hairpins mean everything to me and now they're gone." Orihime said. "I should just go. I'm no help to anyone now."

"No way. You're still a part of this team." Ichigo said. "We're going to get them back while we find Ten Rave and bring them down."

"Ichigo is right. There's probably some other way you can help us." Natsu said. "You're one of us. If those hairpins mean so much to you, we'll get them back."

"Ten Rave hasn't won yet. We'll stop them." Erza said. "Let's split up into teams of two. If we fight in a two on one battle, then that should at least have us be on equal grounds with a member. Are you with me?!"

"Yeah!" All of them cheered as they raised their fists as a team.

…

Fairy Tail

Back at the guild, Levy was looking through some old documents. She use to work for the council as well and she was able to keep in touch with what's going on.

"Oh no!" Levy said.

"What's wrong?" Lucy asked as she and Gray came up to her.

"I've been using a communication lacrima to keep in touch with Erza and she's told me that Ten Rave is after a weapon known as the D.E.C." Levy said. "That weapon was sealed away, but look at this." She showed one of the documents and it had drawing at the bottom.

"A couple flowers?" Gray questioned.

"Those look like Orihime's hairpins." Lucy said.

"That's because they are." Levy said. "Orihime probably wasn't aware of this herself. I think we played right into the enemy's hands by sending her. Those hairpins are the keys to unlocking the seal that conceals the weapon." No one had any idea of that. It is unclear how Ten Rave knows this, but now the three guilds have to find Ten Rave before they can break the seal and give Ten Rave control over the D.E.C.

….

Ichigo: What is with people? Revenge is one thing but if that's all you ever think about, you'll never grow as a person.

Orihime: I guess people just can't move on.

Ichigo: What bugs me even more is when people steal something that is precious to another person.

Orihime: They better hope they don't run into you.

Ichigo: Next Time: Uncover the Seal

Ichigo: You can say that again. People like that better watch out.