Grand Magic Games arc

The  is the thirteenth story arc of the Fairy Tail series. The arc details the events during the X791 Grand Magic Games.

Two New Dragon Slayers: The Strongest Guild
In an unknown region, two men are talking to each other about the return of the missing Fairy Tail members, however, the one named Rogue isn't interested.

At Era, the Magic Council member Org is speaking with Lahar and Doranbolt. Lahar assumes Doranbolt is relieved that the Fairy Tail members have been found alive, but Doranbolt thinks to himself that he had already forgotten about them. Org goes on about a new guild called Sabertooth and about Tartaros and the remnants of Grimoire Heart. Org expresses his uneasiness about the silence of the Magic world over the past seven years and claims he feels that it is about to break soon. When Doranbolt ask if its due to Fairy Tail, Org laughs it off.

Two weeks pass and the news of the missing members return spreads. The guild becomes much more lively as a result. While talking with Romeo, Natsu and co. learn about a new Mage Guild called Sabertooth and how it rose to prominence after their disappearance when the guild master recruited five members. Also during this time, Fairy Tail has fallen to last place, being considered the weakest guild in Fiore. While everyone expresses embarrassment at being last, Natsu is excited as it a chance for Fairy Tail to climb the ranks again. Cana comes by and asks about her father, to which Erza replies that he went with Marakov back to the old guild building.

At the old guild location, Makarov leads Gildarts down a secret passage which none of the members have known about. They eventually reach a chamber with two large doors. Makarov opens them and shows Gildarts the guild's greatest secret, Lumen Histoire. As Gildarts looks on shocked, Makarov tells him it's the true nature of Fairy Tail before telling him he is to be the next guild master.

Back in the unknown area, the two men continue talking, mentioning that one of them was a apprentice of Gajeel's. Rogue tells his partner Sting Eucliffe not to cling to the past. A soldier attacks them with a bow and arrow, but Sting manages to catch it and eats it before sending a Dragon Roar the soldier's way. It barely misses him and blasts a hole in the ruins behind him. The soldier gets scared and runs off. Sting calling him scum for leaving his wounded members behind and mentions he was part of a Dark Guild. It is then revealed that they are a Dragon Slayer duo, Sting the White Dragon and Rogue the Shadow Dragon. Soon two Exceeds meet them, Lector and Frosh, citing they were doing reconnaissance. The four head off with Sting acknowledging his will to fight Natsu, but Rogue insists that he's not interested.

The New Master and the Familiar Smell
In an open field, Natsu is battling against Max but is having a difficult time competing. Max states that everyone has been practicing for the past seven years while dodging and blocking Natsu's various assaults, until Natsu activates the Lightning Flame Dragon Mode and uses Lightning Flame Dragon's Roar to devastate the field, missing Max by inches. Though Natsu claims it's not as strong as it used to be, Max ends the battle, admitting that he could've been killed. After Natsu collapses, Wendy compliments Max's improved strength while Carla wonders why the guild didn't fight Twilight Ogre with their strength, with Max stating that it wouldn't have solved anything since they still owed Twilight Ogre money.

Gray comments that aside from monstrously powerful members like Gildarts and Laxus, the rest of Tenrou Team is not strong enough in this new world. Lucy agrees, seeing how much trouble Natsu had against Max. Happy wonders if there is a way to raise Magical Power by a great deal quickly.The team visits Porlyusica who immediately tells them to go home, though they, aside from Wendy, ask if she has anything that can help them. She angrily states she doesn't and quickly chases them away with her broom.

Back at the guild, Makarov states that he is retiring and the new guild master will be Gildarts Clive, though he is shocked to find Mirajane in Gildarts place holding a note. In his letter, Gildarts states that he is not suitable for the position of 5th guild master of Fairy Tail but as his first order of business, he allows Laxus to return to the guild and subsequently nominates Makarov Dreyar to be the 6th guild master of Fairy Tail. He then states that he is going traveling again and apologizes to Cana for leaving like this and that she can stare at his card if she wishes, though she states that she doesn't need to. He states that when he returns, he hopes Fairy Tail will be #1 again and that it is their job to make it so. Makarov angrily claims that he will never retire again. When the guild comments on how hard it will be to be #1 since Sabertooth is now #1 and Lamia Scale and Blue Pegasus are also stronger, Romeo claims there is a way.

Elsewhere, Natsu and the team have finally escaped Porlyusica when they notice Wendy crying. Natsu gets angry at the old lady for scaring the child but Wendy states she isn't upset because of Porlyusica's anger, but because her voice and scent are similar to Grandeeney, the dragon that raised her.

The others question Wendy's statement that Porlyusica is like Grandeeney, but Wendy once again repeats that they have the same scent and voice. Gray comments that it was strange that Grandeeney could possibly transform into a human, Lucy adding that Porlyusica's relationship with the other Masters went back before, when the Dragon Slayers were still being trained; thus, she couldn't be two people at once. However, Wendy notes aloud that she had a different attitude and tone than Grandeeney, also adding that Grandeeney was a really gentle dragon.

Suddenly, Porlyusica grumpily states from behind them that she was sorry for not being "gentle", shocking Gray and Lucy, who didn't hear her approach. Porlyusica states that she has nothing to hide from them, and that she was indeed a real human through and through. Natsu expresses his confusion that a human would hate humans. Porlyusica states that she didn't know anything about the Dragons, remorselessly apologizing, but reveals that she is the "Grandeeney" of Edolas, as she got lost and stranded in Earth Land years ago. Porlyusica reveals that she had many chances to go back to Edolas, but that she decided to stay in Earth Land, as she liked it. She, however, states to Wendy that Grandeeney has talked to her through her heart with Magic, and that she had compiled a stack of papers with notes that contained information on Sky Dragon Slayer Magic, which would help Wendy get stronger; Milky Way and Shattering Light: Sky Drill, two secret Dragon Slayer Magics left to her by Grandeeney. Porlyusica cautions Wendy, stating that if not practiced carefully, her body could be destroyed. Wendy bows happily and thanks Porlyusica, also uttering Grandeeney's name. Porlyusica, while walking away, smiles.

Back at the Fairy Tail Guild, Macao and Romeo are arguing about the participation of the Fairy Tail in something. Most of the guild members disapprove, but Romeo goes on to reveal that the Grand Magic Games were created in the last seven years and that the winner would be considered the strongest guild in Fiore as well as getting a 30,000,000 prize. This motivates the missing Fairy Tail members as they are invigorated, excitedly planning to prepare for the battle. Natsu asks Romeo when it was occurring, the latter replying that it will be held in three months. With this statement, all the missing members are fired up even more. The grown-up Fairy Tail Mages, however, dissuade them, telling them that they have come in last place every time they have entered. The missing core members then shout out that they were going to aim for the number one guild spot in Fiore; they shout that they are Team Fairy Tail!

The Training Begins: Unexpected Help
Having decided that they will compete in the upcoming Grand Magic Games, the returning members of Fairy Tail decide to use their remaining time to train in order make up for being absent during the last seven years. The members of Team Natsu, Juvia, Wendy, Carla and Team Shadow Gear go to the beach to train. However, the group gets distracted with miscellaneous activities, much to Jet and Droy's dismay. While playing in the water, Lucy and Levy begin to talk about the other returning members who all went to a different training site. As Lucy teases Levy about her wanting to go with Gajeel on his special training, Jet and Droy watch the two and decide to let them relax for a while.

That afternoon, the group splits up to train. Lucy summons Capricorn in order to help her remedy her weakness, the lack of Magic during critical moments. Lucy seems to be doing well at first, doing what her Celestial Spirit instructs her to do, but soon collapses out of exhaustion. While Lucy regains her breath, Capricorn tells her that her mother also underwent the same training she is doing in order to improve her Magic. When she is able to talk, Lucy begins to talk to Capricorn about the The One Magic, the source of all Magics, the thing that Hades was longing to get. Lucy tells Capricorn that, after hearing her mother talk about it, she thinks that all Magic originated from Love. Capricorn smiles at Lucy, happy with her explanation.

Throughout the beach, the other members are training. Gray, Juvia and Erza are practicing their Magic by themselves, Levy is helping Wendy read the notes given to her by Porlyusica while Happy encourages Natsu as he sprints through the beach with two big tires tied to his waist.

That night, the girls decide to bathe at the hot spring, unaware that the guys are trying to peep at them. As the group relaxes, Lucy points to the stars and the group begins to wonder what the other members were doing, wondering if they were looking at the sky just like them. Lucy then decides that she will put more effort into training. Suddenly, Erza summons her swords and attacks the gate to the hot spring, sensing someone suspicious. Outside the hot spring, the guys sit together, injured and regretting the fact that they dare peep at the girls.

During Day Two of training, the Mages notice how much their Magical Power has increased just in such a short time. They predict they may be able to stand a chance if they can keep their training up for the three months. Just then Virgo appears and tells Lucy the Celestial Spirit World may be in danger of being destroyed and her spirits need Natsu and co. to help. Lucy then reminds Virgo that humans cannot enter the Celestial Spirit World. Virgo reveals they can if they wear Celestial Spirit clothing. She then immediately teleports Team Natsu, along with Wendy, Carla, and Levy.

When they arrive, the Celestial Spirit King is there waiting for them. After letting Lucy worry for a bit, all of her spirits pop out and surprise her and congratulate her for making it back from Tenrou Island. This leaves all the Earth Land Mages dumbfounded. Lucy's Spirits explain how they had to make Lucy come here since she couldn't summon all her spirits. Everybody then parties. After several shenanigans, the party ends. Lucy says goodbye to all her spirits. As Virgo gets ready to send everyone back she informs everyone time operates different in the Celestial Spirit World, and that one day in it would equal three months in[Earth Land. She then sends them back with this unfortunate information. All the members return to the training sight with Jet and Droy waiting for them. All the Mages collapse on the beach, having gained no power in the three months, and with only five days before the Grand Magic Games.

Meanwhile in Lamia Scale, the guild master Ooba Babasaama is scolding the members about always coming into second place and commands Lyon and Jura Neekis to participate in the games. At Blue Pegasus, Ichiya is talking with Bob about the Jura's participation in the games and they plan to put in their aces as well. With Sabertooth, Lector and Frosch tell Sting and Rogue about Natsu's participation in the games. While Sting is excited to hear it, Rogue remains indifferent. And finally at the Raven Tail guild, Ivan Dreyar gathers his members, swearing to crush Fairy Tail.

Meanwhile back at the beach, Team Natsu is still moping over the loss of their three month training time. Levy comments they'll have to let some other Fairy Tail members compete though Erza suggest they just train harder for the next five days. Before settling upon a decision, a bird flies in and lands on Erza's head. They find that it has a note attached to its foot telling them to go to the suspension bring deep in the West Woods.

Skeptical but curious, the group head that way and find the suspension bridge broken, however it suddenly repairs itself. Gray no doubt recognizes the Magic but the other are still wary. They press on until they come across three cloaked figures waiting for them. They pull back their hoods to reveal Jellal, Meredy and Ultear, much to the group's shock. Jellal greets them, especially Erza, and asks if they've known about his jailbreak yet. Erza confirms that it was the news that Alzack and Bisca wanted to tell her. Jellal admits he didn't plan it and Ultear takes blame, saying Meredy and she were the ones responsible, though Meredy claims Ultear did most of the work.

Juvia notices that Meredy seems to smile alot more and is glad to see she alright. However the others are still weary as they are former Grimore Heart members. Ultear doesn't blame them from their skepticism, as she acknowledges her sins of the past and wishes to rectify them, hence why she broke out Jellal to make amends for manipulating him. Erza asks Jellal about his memory which he comments he remembers everything now as his memory came back six years ago, including his actions at the Tower of Paradise (Ultear however also takes blame for this as well). Jellal comments he was given the death sentence until his jailbreak. When Wendy ask if he has a reason to live, he answers that he created an independent guild called Crime Sorcière, a guild that isn't legal but is not a dark one either. Their goal is to destroy Dark Guilds, especially any under Zeref. When asked by Gray why they just don't become official, they answer that Jellal's a fugitive and Ultear and Meredy are ex-Grimoire Hearts members.

The three then get down to business of why they summoned the group there. As they're not official they can't enter the games, however they feel a dark energy resonating from the tournament grounds similar to Zeref. They wish for the group to investigate in hopes of getting a lead on him. In exchange, Ultear offers them an increase in their Magical Power, explaining that a Wizard's Magic acts like containers within their bodies. After repeated use, it empties out over time and the Eternano in the world's atmosphere refills their Magical Power after a while. However, Ultear reveals there's a potential secondary container that lies dormant in each and every Wizard. What she wishes to do is to activates this container to give them a boost in Magical Power, though she warns that the process will be painful. The group however are more then happy to receive the help and start celebrating. That is, all except Erza, who stares sternly at Jellal.

Ultear starts the process on Natsu who indeed is in terrible pain during the procedure, much to the others fear as they watch. Jet and Droy leave upon witnessing it, citing it doesn't concern them. Carla realizes that Erza gone to which Happy states that she went somewhere with Jellal. On the beach of the area, the two talk with Jellal stating that he remembers killing Simon and the whole events surrounding Nirvana. When asked if she should treat him like before, Jellal answers he won't mind but knows she's still wary and understands, even offering his life in exchange for Simon's. Though Erza counters that Simon wouldn't want that. She then ask if creating Crime Sorcière was part of his atonement. Jellal states he's not even sure as he still feels lost and doesn't even know why he's doing it. When he follows that he would probably be better off dead, Erza slaps him.

She yells at him for speaking such nonsense, citing that to live is true strength. When he still doubts, Ezra starts to grab him by the scruff of his clothes but trips, sending the two tumbling down a sand bank. They land with Jellal on top of her. After a moment of awkwardness, Jellal states that she's right though she comments that she always tries to live her life by throwing herself headfirst through everything. She then states that she was scared she would never be able to see him again, and begins to cry. The two lean in and share an intimate moment, but Jellal suddenly pulls away, stating he has a fiancee. The two apologize to each other awkwardly before Erza asks if said fiancee is important to him. Jellal answers yes, to which Erza states he must live for her sake.

Some time later, the rest of the team have taken the procedure and are enduring it inside a small hut, save for Erza, who seems to have come out of it no worse then usual. Crime Sorcière heads off, stating they can't be in one place too long but that they'll be watching and cheering for Fairy Tail from the shadows and that if Team Natsu find anything to send word via carrier pigeon. With that they say their good-byes and head off. The trio stop a cave for the night and hope the best for Fairy Tail though Meredy asks Jellal why he lied to Erza about having a fiancee. Jellal refers to the rules of the guild and states that he can't love someone who walks in the light and is at peace that Erza's happy. Ultear and Meredy chide him for not coming up with a better way to tell Erza this. Back at the hut, Erza reveals she knew Jellal was lying but is happy he hasn't changed and that the team now have a chance. Though Happy sours the mood by drawing a broken heart in the sand, earning him a kick into the atmosphere.

Let The Preliminaries Begin!
A few days later in the capital of Fiore, Crocus, Team Natsu are sitting in the middle of the city complaining about the after effects of Ultear's upgrade spell, while Erza stands beside them, scolding the group on their embarrassing behavior. Lucy wonders why Erza isn't in pain like them as well. Gray suggests that she probably already had her Second Origin to begin with.

Makarov, Bisca, Alzack, Asuka, Jet, Droy and Levy find the group. Makarov announces that they are going to show everyone the power of Fairy Tail. People around the city start laughing and mocking them, talking about how weak Fairy Tail has become. Natsu gets angered and tries to go fight them, but Erza tells him to let it go. Makarov says that whoever wants to laugh, can laugh. Makarov tells everyone to aim for number one so that they can face Mavis again someday.

Lucy recalls how only five members of the guild were selected to enter the tournament and that the Makarov chose Erza, Gray, Natsu, Wendy and Lucy. Wendy and Lucy were surprised that the Makarov chose them, since they thought that Laxus or Gajeel would be more suited for the position, but Makarov tells them that the others haven't returned yet. He then whispers to himself that he wished he could have gone with Laxus, Gildarts or Mirajane. The group then goes over some of the rules of the tournament and the possible events. Levy says that she has brought her Gale-Force Reading Glasses and has already read the book. She then tells everyone the most important rules, which include the Guild Master not being able to participate, only members of the guild being able to participate, each event being a secret until the competition, and the rule that all members must be in their sleeping quarters at 12:00.

Lucy, Natsu and Happy then run off to explore Crocus. Erza goes to their sleeping quarters, Honey Bone Lodge, and inspects the place for anything suspicious. Juvia meets up with Gray and asks him if he wants to go eat alone with her. Gray surprisingly says yes, but Lyon interrupts them and tries to take Juvia away. Gray and Lyon begin arguing and Lyon forcefully makes a bet with Gray that if Fairy Tail loses the tournament, Juvia has to join Lamia Scale, but if Lamia Scale loses, Lyon will give Juvia back. Wendy and Carla visit the Fiore's King's Castle, Mercurius. While they talk, a mysterious imp-like creature looks down on them from the balcony, smiling.

Natsu, Lucy and Happy notice a fight going on in the middle of a street and realize it's the two Dragon Slayers from Sabertooth, Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney. The two Dragon Slayers recognize Natsu, while Frosch and Lector surprise Happy by being Exceed. The two Exceed team up and start verbally bullying Happy. Rogue and Sting make fun of Natsu, saying that he's the Dragon Slayer that couldn't actually defeat a dragon. The Sabertooth Mages brag that they probably could've defeated Acnologia, though Lucy steps in and says that they've never seen Acnologia and don't know its strength. Sting and Rogue brush the comment off and say that they're a different type of Dragon Slayer. Lector explains about First and Second Generation Dragon Slayers, then announces that the Sabertooth Dragon Slayers are Third Generation, meaning they have lacrima embedded in their bodies and were taught by dragons. Natsu asks if their Dragons disappeared in X777 also, but the two say no and reveal that in order to be True Dragon Slayers, they killed their dragon parents. Elsewhere, Erza sits alone in Honey Bone Lodge, angry the rest of the group is late.

When Team Natsu finally returns to Honey Bone Lodge, Erza scolds them for being late. Natsu can only think about his encounter with Rogue and Sting, and remembers their words that if the main event of the tournament is a battle, they will show Natsu the true power of a Dragon Slayer. Erza then asks where Wendy and Carla are. Everybody begins to worry about Wendy and what she might be doing, stating that she is too young to be out so late. They consider going out to look for her, but remember the rule about having to be in their lodge by midnight. As midnight is not far off, they worry about being able to find Wendy and return back in time. Before they can reach a decision, Elfman and Lisanna show up, having returned from their training in the mountains.

The clock finally hits midnight. The announcer for the tournament, taking the appearance of a giant pumpkin-man, greets all the guilds as he floats above the city. He declares that a Preliminary Event will begin to reduce to total number of guilds participating from one-hundred and thirteen to eight. Lucy immediately notes that there is no way one-hundred thirteen guilds exist within Fiore. Erza also questions the setup of the tournament, and questions if the ones they should be looking for are the event organizers themselves. The whole city then starts changing as the announcer describes the event. The goal of the preliminary round is to get all 5 participating group members to Domus Flau. Any type of Magic may be used and there are no real rules for this round. Only the first eight guilds to reach Domus Flau will pass. The whole city then changes into a huge maze ball that floats in the sky. The announcer declares that the "Sky Labyrinth" event has begun.

Erza quickly points out that Fairy Tail only has four participating members currently present, as Wendy is missing. Elfman volunteers to temporarily fill in, and grabs Team Natsu. As they run into the labyrinth, Erza calls out for Lisanna and Happy to search for Wendy, but not to get into any trouble.

Once inside the maze, with the help of Lucy's spirit, Pyxis, an encounter with a vindictive Teebo and other members of Team Twilight Ogre, various rotations and turns of the Labyrinth and an array of close calls, the team then realizes that if they steal other teams maps, they can piece together the maze. After defeating several guilds, Fairy Tail successfully reaches the end, where the announcer congratulates them. Lucy asks if they were in first place, but to the Mages surprise, the announcer tells them they barely managed to get eighth.

Elsewhere in the city, Lisanna and Happy find Wendy's bag laying in the streets.

Eight Teams, One Winner: A Chance for Fairy Tail to Rise Again?
The Grand Magic Games begins at long last with great celebration and fanfare as the massive crowd cheers for the Mages. In their preparation room, Team Natsu and Elfman are contemplating their uniforms, the latter realizing that Wendy's clothes will not fit him, with Natsu commenting that they're actually perfect for him and that Elfman has buffed up recently. In the infirmary, Wendy and Carla lay in their beds, with Porlyusica, who has apparently come to cheer for Fairy Tail, stating that their current state is due to a large loss of Magical Energy. All Wendy is able to recall is a black creature. She tearfully apologizes for what has happened and asks Elfman to compete in her place. Porlyusica states that the tournament goes on for seven days and that she can get Wendy healed within that time.

Outside, former member of the Magic Council Yajima has joined Chapati Lola as commentator of the games. As the preliminary eighth place winners, Team Fairy Tail, arrive at the arena, they are booed by the crowd for their past poor performances during the time the Tenrou Team was missing. However, the Master and the remaining members of the Guild are there and cheer for the team, along with a surprising guest. Mavis Vermilion joins in the cheering for Fairy Tail, stating that she was bored on Tenrou Island and that only those with the Fairy Tail crest can see her.

The seventh place team, Quatro Cerberus, arrive on the field followed shortly by the all-female guild; sixth place Mermaid Heel. Fifth place in the preliminaries was taken by Blue Pegasus' Trimens and one new member in a bunny suit. Fourth place in the preliminaries was taken by Lamia Scale, their guild master angry for their seeming inability to place higher. Among the team members is Sherry's cousin, Chelia. Lyon reminds Gray about their bet regarding Juvia, though Gray angrily claims that no bet was made but also that Fairy Tail will not lose regardless.

The next team is the surprisingly newly legitimate guild; preliminary third place Raven Tail, shocking Makarov who believed that they were still a Dark Guild, though this is clarified that they are now recognized by the Council as an official guild. Master Ivan nevertheless states to his father that he has been waiting for such an opportunity. It is revealed that the creature which attacked Wendy and Carla was sent by Raven Tail as well, angering the Fairy Tail team.

With two more guilds are set to arrive the crowd becomes confused as they believed Sabertooth and Lamia Scale to be the two highest ranking Guilds. They assume that Sabertooth is one of the remaining teams, but are unsure as to the other. Erza wonders if this unknown team have anything to do with the dark energy Jellal mentioned.

The second team is revealed, shocking the crowd as it is Team Fairy Tail B, consisting of Laxus, Mirajane, Gajeel, Juvia and Mystogan. Team Fairy Tail A are shocked at both Mystogan's appearance and the fact that they believed they were the only Fairy Tail team present. After the crowd expresses shock about the fact that two teams from the same guild arrived, it is explain that each guild can send atleast two teams to participate, which Lucy notes accounts for the large number of teams in the preliminaries. The commentators talk over whether this gives Fairy Tail an unfair advantage, as they have twice as many participants as the other Guilds. However a conclusion is reached that the fact that Fairy Tail managed to get two Teams into the finals has earned them such a privilege. Natsu angrily states to the B team that even if they're from the same guild, he won't hold back if they have to fight, which Gajeel agrees to. It is soon revealed that the mysterious individual is not Mystogan, but Jellal, disguised as his Edolas counterpart. Erza asks him how he managed to get a position on a Fairy Tail team, with him replying that the Master allowed him to come once Jellal told him of his concerns. Erza wonders if this is really alright, as he is not a true member of Fairy Tail, but Jellal replies that for all their purposes he and Mystogan are pretty much the same person. Mavis then realizes that Jellal isn't actually a member of the guild, but she allows him to compete as his soul is similar to that of Fairy Tail. Makarov tells her that Jellal is quite strong, having once been among the Ten Wizard Saints.

While Ivan looks on from above at Gajeel, Erza and Jellal discuss the mysterious source of Magic. Although Raven Tail has been acting odd, they don't seem to be the source as the Magic has existed previously in the games, while Raven Tail is making their debut this year. Soon after, the first place team of the preliminaries, Team Sabertooth, arrives. Sting and Natsu immediately share words while Rogue and Gajeel notice one another as well.

The programs of the tournament is announced, with the first round being 'hidden' and followed by a battle. As per the rules, the first place team in a game will earn 10 points following a 2 point deduction for every additionally lower spot. Each team may choose one member to compete, but in the battles, the sponsors will have a right to choose fighting pairs by various factors, like fan votes. In battles, the losing team earns 0 points with the winner earning 10, and 5 each in the case of a draw.

The first game is announced to start and each team must choose one member to participate; from Team Mermaid Heel, Beth is selected while Yaeger represents Team Quatro Cerberus. Nullpuding from Raven Tail goes while Team Blue Pegasus sends Eve. From Sabertooth, Rufus offers to go while Lyon chooses to represent Lamia Scale, causing Gray to step up for Team Fairy Tail A and subsequently Juvia for the Team Fairy Tail B, with Gajeel telling her he won't forgive her if she intentionally loses.

Day 1's Defeat Will Lead to Tomorrow's Victory!
As the Grand Magic Games finally begin, Meredy and Ultear are looking down on the arena from above. Meredy knows that even though they warned Fairy Tail about the mysterious Magic, Jellal went to the games anyway, making their meeting with Fairy Tail was pointless. Ultear disagrees, saying that, for Erza and Jellal, it was anything but.

Gray steps up as the eight representatives are called out, with his teammates telling him not to lose to Sabertooth, Raven Tail or Team Fairy Tail B. When asked, Yajima states that his favorite for the game is Rufus of Sabertooth, but that he also likes Gray. Jenny states that she supports her guild member, Eve. Juvia tells Gray that she does not plan to lose to him with Gray returning the statement. Lyon states that he will do anything... for Juvia. Nullpuding of Team Raven Tail states that with two members, the Fairy Tail Guild has an advantage, to which the Pumpkin Man says that it is a rarity for such a thing to happen. Rufus states that such a thing could even prove disadvantageous and that he is not worried, with Quatro Cerberus and Mermaid Heel agreeing.

Soon, the field opens and separates all the contestants in a large field resembling a city. The rules are that each member must find their opponents and hit them, but nobody knows where the others are. Whoever launches an attack first gains one point and the one who is hit loses one point, thus the game becomes 'hide and seek'. To make matters harder, numerous clones of each contestant will walk around the city to confuse everyone. Attacking a clone will result in a one point deduction. The game starts immediately after.

Juvia quickly loses one point due to her hugging a clone of Gray being seen as an 'attack', angering her teammates who realize she is likely disadvantaged at the game. As Gray walks down the street, he hears a sound and turns to see Nullpuding of Raven Tail, who he immediately attacks. Unfortunately another Nullpuding shows up and states that it was a clone Gray attacked and the Ice-Make Mage loses one point. Gray realizes that Nullpuding used his clone as a decoy and realizes he could do the same. Later as he walks down the road, his name is called out, distracting him and leaving him open to be attacked by the real Nullpuding, giving Team Fairy Tail A a score of -2 and Raven Tail a score of +1.

With twenty-seven minutes remaining in the game, Yajima suggests that one of several methods for finding one's opponents is sensing their Magical Energy, while Jenny suggests that her guild mate, Eve, will find a more creative way. Meanwhile, it seems that Raven Tail only wants to attack Fairy Tail as Nullpuding repeatedly goes after Gray. While Lucy looks on at the game and at the Raven Tail members on the side, the female Mage of the guild, Flare Corona, looks back, seemingly calling her out until her guild mate tells her to stop. Makarov also laments on how Ivan's guild is purposely going after only Gray and Happy tries to encourage him.

As Gray walks the streets, he narrowly dodges an attack from Beth, who is then attacked by Yaeger of Team Quatro Cerberus, who is then subsequently attacked by Lyon. As Lyon prepares to attack Gray, Juvia jumps down from above and kicks Lyon (who was distracted by the sight of her underwear) in the head. She states that she promised the Master that she would not lose, even to Gray himself. As part of agreeing to be Fairy Tail's B team, the members of the winning team are allowed to make the members of the losing team do whatever they want for a day, shocking Gray, who heard of no such rule that the Master applied to their team. Natsu and the rest of the team agree to the terms as they also have an idea of what to do if they win. Whilst Juvia and Gray are talking, Nullpuding shows up again and attacks them both, adding an additional 2 points to his score.

Suddenly, snow starts falling and Jenny and the rest of Team Blue Pegasus figure out that it's Eve's doing. His plan is that, since the real Mages will shiver in the cold, he will identify them through their breath which will become visible due to cold temperatures. Using this idea, he lands hits on Mermaid Heel, Quatro Cerberus and Raven Tail. However, Lyon claiming the cold has no such effect on him soon finds Eve and they begin a fight as the rest of the Mages battle one another elsewhere.

However, Rufus of Team Sabertooth hasn't moved at all. He hasn't attacked anyone, nor has he been found. He claims that the game is too easy for him and states that he remembers exactly where everyone is and has been as he unleashes his Memory-Make Magic, shocking others, who realize he is using Molding Magic. Using this spell, he lands a direct hit on every Mage in the game other than Nullpuding, who barely dodges and jumps to attack. However, he attacks a "memory" of Rufus as the real one attacks him, sending him back down. Everyone expresses amazement at Rufus's Magical skill and Sabertooth's power.

Soon, the game ends with Sabertooth in the lead, followed by Raven Tail, Lamia Scale, Blue Pegasus, Mermaid Heel, Quatro Cerberus, Fairy Tail 'B' and Fairy Tail 'A' in last place. The audience ridicules the Fairy Tail Guild for their poor performance, angering Natsu, who has to be calmed down by Erza and Elfman and told not to do anything. Gray apologizes for his performance, but Lucy says it's only the first round. He walks off in disappointment, swearing to get back at Raven Tail and Sabertooth. Next up are the battle segments and all teams are scheduled to fight one another as a Mage is called up from each guild. First up is Lucy from Fairy Tail's 'A' team and Flare from Raven Tail.

The first fight of the first day of the tournament is about to begin, a battle between Team Fairy Tail A's Lucy and Team Raven Tail's Flare. Although in last place, Lucy gains the chance to earn 10 points, and tie with Team Sabertooth. Before the battle begins, Lucy expresses her anger with Raven Tail for attacking Wendy and only going after Gray in the first event, resolving to win her battle for them and the rest of Fairy Tail. In the stands, Mavis wonders what Raven Tail's objective is, with Makarov stating that it's to embarress Fairy Tail, but Mavis feels that's too simple a goal for them. The battle between Lucy and Flare will last for 30 minutes and if anyone is knocked out within that time, they lose. If the time limit is reached, a draw will be declared.

Lucy commences the battle by summoning Taurus to attack Flare. As Flare dodges Taurus' axe, Lucy summons Scorpio, who activates his Sand Buster. Taurus uses a suction ability to control the sand and attack Flare with Sandstorm Axe Aldebaran, while everyone comments on Lucy's improved skill. As Flare is amazed at how the "blondie" is attacking her, she uses her Hair Shower - Wolf Fang, causing her hair to take the form of a wolf. However, Lucy summons Cancer, who promptly cuts the hair and renders the attack useless. Angered, Flare directs her hair underground and grabs Lucy's legs, immobilizing her before Flare knocks her to the ground. She states that she can control her hair as she wishes, slamming Lucy down. Lucy retaliates by utilizing Fleuve d'étoiles, sending both girls flying away from one another.

Flare is shocked that her hair has sustained this level of damage. She sends her hair underground once again and Lucy looks around while Flare points to where the rest of the Fairy Tail Guild is, watching in the stands. Lucy sees Flare's hair rise up behind Asuka, but before she can say anything she is quickly silenced and thrown to the ground, with Flare threatening her that if she disobeys and says anything, something bad may happen.

Meanwhile, up in the stands, the Knight Squadron Chief Arcadios is commenting on the battle and that the "matured fruit" is ripening, such that it may be completed this year. He tells his Lord Zeref that he should just sit back and wait.

With Asuka as her hostage, Flare forces Lucy to not use Magic, move or say anything at all, lest something unfortunate happens. Lucy reacts angrily at Flare's cowardice for taking a hostage but is quickly tossed around by her hair, causing the entire audience to wonder how the tables had turned so fast, as both participants were even a few moments ago. Remembering the pain inflicted on Wendy and the humiliation Gray endured, Lucy attempts to give up the fight by surrendering, but is silenced by Flare, who states she will not allow her to do so and continues to hurt her.

She raises Lucy into the air and decides to brand the mark of Raven Tail over her Fairy Tail mark, despite Lucy's attempts to stop her. Elsewhere, Natsu has disappeared as Erza and Elfman wonder where he has gone. Natsu runs through the crowd, noting his sense of hearing and that something was definitely off. Near the Fairy Tail crowd, he finds Flare's hair and snaps it, saving Asuka and allowing Lucy to fight back against her opponent by calling out Gemini.

The Celestial Spirit transforms into Lucy to activate a Magic that they had practiced together. Gemini's transformation skills catch everyone's attention, with Levy noting that it can only transform into someone with a similar level of Magic Power to itself. The Celestial Spirit Mage and her spirit then pool their energies together to form a spell that Hibiki of Blue Pegasus recognizes instantly: Urano Metria!

However, before it is cast, the power dissipates, leaving Lucy extremely weakened. Flare realizes that her teammate assisted her from the sidelines, as does Mavis, who notes that such a thing is against the rules. When Lucy collapses, Flare is declared the victor as the rest of Fairy Tail display their shocked and angry looks on their faces due to being cheated. Flare enjoys her victory and the crowd jeers Fairy Tail once again. As Lucy is crying on the ground, upset at her disappointment, Natsu shows up and tells her to save the tears for their victory, as he offers her a hand. Lucy then goes to take a shower so she can weep in solitude.

The matches continue with the second being Ren Akatsuki from Blue Pegasus faces Arania Web from Mermaid Heel, which Ren won. The next battle was between War Cry from Quatro Cerberus and Orga Nanagear from Sabertooth, with War Cry being defeated before being able to use his Magic. The final battle of the day was between "Mystogan" from Team Fairy Tail B and Jura Neekis of Lamia Scale.

The crowd cheers wildly for Jura as he and Jellal make their way to the centre of the arena, showing Jura's high level of popularity. Makarov notices that Mavis seems tense, but tells her that Jellal was once a member of the Ten Wizard Saints just like Jura, so their skills should be evenly matched. However, Mavis points out that she needs to use the restroom, surprising everyone, since she's a spirit.

The battle begins with Jura using his Earth Magic, but Jellal is able to dodge it and set up Sacred Song around Jura. Jura comes out unharmed and sends an attack at Jellal. He reflects it, though Jura does the same, hitting his opponent. Jellal, deciding he cannot defeat Jura whilst only using Mystogan's Magic, starts using his true Magic, utilizing the spell Meteor, which Jura takes a notice to. With this speed, Jellal hits Jura, and sets up Grand Chariot as well. Jura defends with Rock Mountain. Jura finally catches on and understands that he is actually fighting Jellal in disguise, though he keeps it to himself. Being pushed this far, Jellal disregards his disguise, and begins to use Sema, which will immediately expose him.

Ultear and Meredy, watching from afar, stop Jellal from revealing himself by using Meredy's Sensory Link. Ultear force-feeds Meredy hot peppers and tickles her, which Jellal feels on the arena, making him fall down. Jura gets the victory, and Fairy Tail loses. The crowd boos Fairy Tail again, and Jura is confused about his victory, though his guildmaster is still happy. Most all of, Fairy Tail is discouraged, especially Mavis. Meanwhile, Carla wakes up after having being knocked out, and has a terrible premonition.

After their humiliating defeat, the members of Fairy Tail regroup, but are still hopeful that they will be able to make a comeback and start partying. During the party, numerous members become aware that Lucy and Gray are not present. Concerned, Juvia forms a scenario in her head with Lucy seducing Gray. However, this proves to be false as the two appear behind her. With everyone except for Wendy and Carla (who were unable to go due to their injuries) present, Makarov faces his guild members and encourages them, telling them that they are the Guild that doesn't know the meaning of giving up. The party then commences, causing the bystanders outside to comment that they're noisy even though they lost.

Elsewhere, in the castle of Mercurius, Arcadios is having a talk with Fiore's King, asking him if he has any request concerning the second day fights. The king tells him that he wants to see Sting and Rogue fight, but thinks that they should leave the best for last. He then tells Arcadios to have Bacchus battle 'the one that transforms' from Fairy Tail. The king then dismisses Arcadios who quietly leaves, saying to himself that soon something will be complete.

Meanwhile, Cana is approached by a man who challenges her to a drinking contest, despite Macao and Wakaba's warnings. However, the man proves himself to be capable of defeating Cana in the contest, making it her first loss. The man then turns to leave, taking Cana's bra as a prize. Macao and Wakaba try to stop him from disgracing their guild mate, but the man easily and effortlessly dodges their attack, grabs their heads and smacks them into the floor. Erza then arrives and realizes that the guy is Bacchus, the Quatro Cerberus S-Class Mage. Bacchus then leaves after telling them that he will be replacing War Cry as one of his guild's representatives. As Bacchus leaves, Erza tells her team mates that they had fought multiple times in the past and no one has yet won, surprising them. Meanwhile, Carla is explaining her vision to Porlyusica. According to her, she saw fragments, which included a white knight, a Magic array and Mercurius crumbling, with Lucy singing something inside the city.

Day 2's Challenges: Let the Race Begin
As the second days challenge begins, it is revealed to be an event called Chariot, in which the representative of each team races to the finish on top of moving wagons. As we join the race, we see Kurohebi from Team Raven Tail far ahead in the lead, with the Ichiya in 2nd place, Yuka in 3rd, Risley in 4th and Bacchus in 5th.

However, while this group was near the finish line, Sting, Gajeel and Natsu were still near the starting line at 6th, 7th and 8th place respectively, with all three Dragon Slayers suffering from severe motion sickness, surprising nearly all the Fairy Tail members speechless. Yuka, Risley and Ichiya started to cast their magic with hopes of winning the race, but a seemingly-intoxicated Bacchus, noticing that his competition was getting fired up, decides to take things seriously and promptly destroys his own wagon. This causes the ones further ahead to jump and nearly dislodging the other racers. He then uses this opportunity to run on ahead, passing everyone and taking 1st place. He is promptly followed by Kurohebi, with Risley coming in 3rd, Yuka in 4th and Ichiya 5th.

This leaves the Dragon Slayers pathetically competing for 6th and 7th place. It is then revealed that all Dragon Slayers of a certain level seem to share the weakness of motion sickness. Despite this, Natsu and Gajeel persistently push on forward. Sting proceeds to question the Fairy Tail wizards on why they were trying so hard, when the Fairy Tail of the past never really cared about such things. Natsu then gives an impassioned speech, stating that they were doing this for their guild who had patiently waited for them. His speech touches the Fairy Tail members in the audience, and the spectators causing them to openly cry. With that the two Fairy Tail Dragon Slayers pushes forward, with Natsu earning 6th place (and obtaining the first 2 points for his team) and Gajeel in 7th. Sting drops out, earning himself 8th place and his team 0 points, showing disdain towards Natsu's explanation.

The Second Day's Battles: Lets Get Ready to Gamble!!!
Next comes the battle round, but Natsu seems to be immobilized due to the traumatic race he was just in. After Lucy carries him in and inquires about his, Wendy's and Carla's health and learning that they will be alright, she leaves to join her team. Porlyusica asks Carla why she didn't tell Lucy of her Premonition, which the Exceed replies saying that she refuses to believe that it actually was one, and that it must have been a dream instead. Lucy joins her team, and seeing that Raven Tail's Kurohebi was fighting Lamia Scale's Toby, prompts her to glance over at Team Raven Tail, and see's that Flare is covered in bruises. Flare also see's Lucy looking at them and acts antagonistic towards her, but her face is then grabbed by a team-mate who threatens to beat her up some more if she continues to disgrace them.

The first match commences with Kurohebi receiving the upper-hand of the battle, with his Mimicry Magic. Toby praises Kurohebi's strength and his name, with Kurohebi stating that it wasn't his real name. This comically angers Toby, which prompts him to request that if he were to win, Kurohebi is to tell him his real name, while if Kurohebi wins, Toby will tell him his "super secret". Toby is promptly defeated, revealing his secret was that he couldn't find his other sock, which was actually hanging around his neck, stunning the audience. Kurohebi points out Toby's sock, causing Toby to cry in happiness. The Raven Tail representative then holds out his hand. Toby reaches out for it, but Kurohebi grabs the sock instead and tears it, much to the amusement of his team-mates, stating that the more precious something is to someone, the more he wants to destroy it.

The second match then begins, with Bacchus coming out for Quatro Cerberus. At this point the king arrives and meets with Arcadios, eager to see the match between Bacchus and Erza. However, due to the kings vagueness, Arcadios arranged Fairy Tails battle representative to be Elfman Strauss, mistaking him for "the one that transforms". With everyone, including Elfman, doubting Fairy Tails victory, he proceeds to enter the battle field. However, Bacchus decides to make things interesting by asking for his opponents sisters if Team Quatro Cerberus were to win, infuriating Elfman.

Meanwhile, at the infirmary, Natsu wakes up to see Wendy, Carla and Porlyusica were missing, and the scent of someone unfamiliar in the air. Seeing that his friends were missing, Natsu searches for them, to see that they were unconscious and being carried away by four unknown people. One of the group broke off in an attempt to stall Natsu, but was quickly defeated. Seeing that the Dragon Slayer isn't slowing down, they confer among themselves, debating whether they should drop their hostages and run for it, but still taking Wendy, since the "request" was for the "young girl". Hearing this, Natsu catches up and fights them.

Meanwhile, down at the arena, the battle has already started, with Elfman being thoroughly hammered. He uses his magic to transform into a new, faster form, hoping to make contact, but they are easily dodged by Bacchus, who at the same time, counter-attacks. At this point, Erza reveals that Bacchus's strength isn't his Magic (which simply focuses Magical energy into the palm of his hands) but his mastery over the martial arts. He apparently created a new, more powerful style by improving the Hanging Chop Fist (which makes use of Palm Strikes) into the Drunken Hanging Chop Fist. Furthermore, since Bacchus hasn't taken a drop of alcohol since the fight started, he has even fought at full strength yet.

After Elfman is struck down again, Chapati Lola reveals that he is also the replacement referee, since Mato has the day off. Elfman struggles up again and states the term for his wager, saying that if he wins, Quatro Cerberus is to be renamed Quatro Puppy for the rest of the tournament shocking the rest of Team Quatro Cerberus. Bacchus accepts, and deciding to take things seriously, takes a swig from his gourd. Elfman transforms again as Bacchus advances, and in an instant, the Drunken Falcon lands seven blows. However he then notices that his hands were damaged. Seeing this, he turns around to see Elfman's new transformation is covered in spiked scales, making him virtually untouchable for hand-to-hand combatants. With this, Elfman challenges Bacchus's palms with his own body to see who will break first.

Bacchus accepts the challenge and attacks the Lizardman, while Elfman merely endures. They then both fall to their knees in exhaustion. Bacchus then stands, and after acknowledging the Fairy Tails representatives strength, collapses giving Team Fairy Tail A their first victory. Meanwhile at the top of the stadium, the kidnappers have been captured, and kidnapped were awake. The kidnappers were taken into custody, but not before claiming that Raven Tail was the one who requested them to do so. However Porlyusica, Wendy and Carla believe that they weren't even the intended target, and that it was actually supposed to be Lucy. This is proven to be correct as Arcadios met the one who imprisoned the kidnappers, telling them they got the wrong target with the one they were actually after was the Celestial Spirit Mage. After Arcadios approved that Raven Tail was made the scapegoat, he said that he'll use the discord between Raven Tail and Fairy Tail to capture Lucy, all for Zeref's Eclipse Plan.

Later it is shown that the damage Elfman received during his battle against Bacchus was enough to incapacitate him, leaving Wendy to take his place. To make sure that it doesn't happen again, the Thunder God Tribe (minus Laxus Dreyar) volunteer to guard the infirmary so that kidnapping and sabotage won't occur again in the future. The others leave after teasing Elfman and Evergreen a little, and contemplate why Raven Tail was after them like this, and especially after Lucy. They decide to put this off and instead chose to cheer for Mirajane Strauss of Team Fairy Tail B who was up against Jenny Realight, the reserve member of Team Blue Pegasus.

However, due to a special rule, this "battle" turned out to be a swimsuit contests, with the commentators acting as judges and the participants using Transformation to change their clothing, much to the the delight of the males in the audience. As the "match" continues, the commentators decide to end it with their next costume, Jenny then decides to wager that whomever loses is to take part in a nude photo shoot for Sorcerer Magazine, which Mira agrees too.

Jenny, thinking that she's won, since she knows that the judges prefer would prefer the younger Mirajane to herself, transforms into her Battle Form. However Mirajane also decides to take the battle seriously, using Take Over to change into Satan Soul: Sitri, ending the battle in a single hit and earning her team 10 points. Meanwhile, elsewhere, Fiore's Minister of Defense, Datong confronts Arcadios and inquires why he's after a Celestial Spirit Mage prematurely, to which Arcadios reveals that the "Plan" has already reached its final stage that he would be willing to sacrifice Lucy for the sake of the "Eclipse".

With Mirajane entering her teams corner, the last battle of the day taking place between Team Sabertooth's Yukino Aguria and Team Mermaid Heel's Kagura Mikazuchi then commences. After Yukino promises her team-mates that she will win, she enters the battlefield and introduces herself to her opponent. She then inquires if, like in the previous matches they could make a wager, in which she surprises nearly everyone by choosing to wager their lives. Kagura agrees and the battle commences with Yukino using Celestial Spirit Magic to summon Pisces. The giant fish attack Kagura who manages to dodge. Yukino then summons Libra which uses Gravity Change to increase Kagura's weight, and impede her movements, however Kagura also uses Gravity Change herself to escape.

This forces Yukino to use the 13th Key, Ophiuchus. However Kagura uses her sword Archenemy to slice up the giant snake length-wise, and then, without even drawing her blade, she defeats Yukino. This earns 10 points for Team Mermaid Heel and, according to their bet, puts Yukino's life in Kagura's hands. This upset shocks everybody, especially the members of Team Sabertooth. However Arcadios is seen trembling with excitement at the revelation of a second Celestial Spirit Mage in the games.

Night Falls: An Old Friend Appears and a Challenge to the Strongest
With the days events having ended, Erza Scarlet meets up with Jellal Fernandes to discuss the fact that they have yet to feel the curious Magical energy that he has felt at the previous games. After Jellal explains his theories, he decides to investigate further and leaves. Erza walks back to join her team for the after-games celebration, however the hooded girl from Team Mermaid Heel catches up with Erza and reveals herself to be Millianna, Erza's old friend from the Tower of Heaven. They hug each other at this happy reunion.

Meanwhile, at the lodgings of Sabertooth in Crocus, the Crocus Gardens, Sabertooth's guild master, Jiemma, gathers his subordinates and preaches about strength. After letting Sting Eucliffe go with a warning about his failure, he turns his attention to Yukino Aguria and starts to express his anger at not only her loss at Kagura's hands, but the fact that she wagered her life and lost. She is then ordered to strip and to erase her guild stamp. She then bows deeply towards Jiemma and thanks him for everything to which he responds for her to get out of his sight. After the meeting Rogue Cheney is seen contemplating whether this is really a guild, to which Sting replies that Yukino "disappeared" because she was weak and that was the way of Sabertooth. As Sting walks away, Frosch wonders if it to will disappear since it wasn't strong, to which Rogue replies by saying he won't abandon it.

Later, the members of Team Fairy Tail A, with Happy and Carla, minus Gray and Erza are head to Honey Bone after finishing dinner. Then Wendy and Natsu spot someone standing outside their lodging, which turns out to be Yukino. Elsewhere, Erza is sitting with Millianna in a park, when they start talking about Kagura. Millianna starts explaining about the sword Archenemy and how both she and Kagura were geared towards having revenge upon Jellal, which troubles Erza.

Back at Honey Bone, Natsu's group has headed inside and talk with Yukino who offers the Libra and Pisces keys, telling the group she was planning to give them to Lucy after the games, but as she now out of them she wishes to hand them over now. She also mentions she wasn't part of the "Strongest 5" of Sabertooth, merely filling in for someone named Minerva who was away on a job. And that once Lucy has the 12 Golden Key, the "Gateway That Changes The World" will be opened. When Lucy question, Yukino cites its an old legend she not sure of herself and that the number of Mages have been dropping recently (also mentioning something called The Zentopia incident), so she wishes for Lucy to have the keys.

Lucy, surprisingly, politely refuses saying that she didn't want to cut the spirits bonds to Yukino. Yukino understands and hopes they'll meet again. As Lucy, Carla and Wendy prepare to wash up, they ask Lucy why she didn't take the keys, who again said that she didn't want to cut the bonds between Spirit and Mage. Natsu and Happy chase after the leaving Yukino to apologize for their rude behavior since she was a rival of theirs and automatically assumed she was a bad person. Yukino suddenly breaks down much to their confusion saying that no one has ever so nice before. She explain to the two of her ex-communication from Sabertooth after managing to get in last year and that she now has no where to go. Upon hearing that, Natsu instantly gets upset saying no guild should ever treat their members that way.

Meanwhile, Erza is worried over what Millianna told her when Gray finds her. The two talk with Gray mentioning his dilemma with Juvia and Lyon, Erza suggesting he should make things clear with Juvia before the two decide to head back. At the Mercurius, Arcadios notes that the 12 keys have gathered and that his eclipse plan will activate soon. At Crocus Garden, a blast suddenly hits the building. Sting and Lector are woken up as Rouge and Frosh come to their room telling the two there's an intruder.

As they make their way down the hall, a room in front of them explodes and they see Natsu beating up their guildmates, demanding to know where their guildmaster is. Jiemma appears asking what Natsu wants, Natsu chides him for kicking out Yukino and asks Jiemma if he loses, will he be kicked out too?

The members are shocked that Natsu would even attempt attacking their guild by himself. Jiemma is unfazed by Natsu's challenge and sends one of his members, Dobengal, to fight him. Natsu easily knocks Dobengal asides with little effort. Sting offers to fight Natsu next, but Jiemma decides to take on Natsu after all. Natsu continues going on the offense against Jiemma, whom is defending himself, until he casts Lightning Flame Dragon's Firing Hammer. The attack blows out a section of the upper floor of the building. But when the smoke clears, a woman is standing between Natsu and Jiemma having somehow kept the attack from hitting the latter.

Jiemma reveals that the girl is Minerva who calls Jiemma her father. She chides Natsu for his recklessness and, while confident that Jiemma may have won the battle, stopped the fight for the sake of maintaining appearances as beating Natsu outside the games would tarnish Sabertooth's image. She agrees to overlook the incident if Natsu backs down. For added insurance, she suddenly makes Happy appear in her arms using her magic, warning Natsu that something could happen to him if he were to continue. Realizing this, Natsu complies and calls off his attack. However, as he picks up Happy and makes to leave, he makes the declaration that Fairy Tail won't lose to Sabertooth and warns the guild to treat their members with more respect before he heads off. Rouge considers Natsu's words, noting that such bonds don't exist in their guild. Sting however seems excited that Natsu proved to be much stronger then he thought.

Day 3: Unprecedented! Unstoppable! Unbelievable! This is Fairy Tail!
Day three of the games arrives and we find Yukino walking the streets. As she does, she overhears some of the patron's talk about Natsu's attack on Sabertooth (though no one said any names), Yukino can't help but smile. Meanwhile at the colosieum, the games continue with Lahar the day's guest judge. In the crowd is also is Doranbolt who Lahar brought along as he knew he's still feeling guilty over the Tenrou Island incident. The third game is called Pandemonium and the teams all pick their team members. Erza Scarlet goes out for Team Fairy Tail A, while Cana Alberona volunteers for Team Fairy Tail B much to her team-mates surprise when they notice that 'Mystogan' is gone. Cana however states that its likely he doesn't wish to participate with a Magic Council official around.

With Erza competing, Millianna decides to join on behalf of Team Mermaid Heel. Obra is selected for Team Raven Tail with the masked member warning him not to do anything unnecessary since they're in front of a Magic Council member. Hibiki Lates goes for Team Blue Pegasus, Orga Nanagear for Team Sabertooth, Jura Neekis for Team Lamia Scale and Nobarly for Team Quatro Puppy. Mato returns (claiming he had the day off for day two) and shows the competitors the event, Pandemonium; a giant building where monsters live. He explains that the monsters inside are classed from D to S. However the D classes are quite formidable, which he shows via lacrima vision of a monster smashing a statue. Mato claims the battle power goes up for higher class monsters, and an S-class can even rival that of a Ten Wizard Saints. The rules of the game are simple, each competitor will go in one by one and fight a number of monsters for points. They can select how many monster thanks to the Challenge Right but are warned that what monsters they get will be randomized. When ask what happens when they lose, the judge states that their previous victories will still be counted but the current round will be null and voided. The game will go on until all 100 monsters are defeated or everyone's magical power runs out.

The group draw lots with Erza getting number one while Cana gets eight (which she sees as lucky). However, Erza states she's the lucky one, claiming it's not even a game anymore. She challenges to fight all 100 monsters much to the shock of the entire stadium. The judge tries to dissuade her but she goes in anyway. Levy McGarden narrates that she'll never forget that day as the whole audience watched as Erza took on all 100 monsters and managed to best them despite being heavily wounded. As the last beast falls, Erza stands tall raising her sword in victory.

With Erza defeating all the monsters, she earns 10 points for Team Fairy Tail A. With that being the case, the crowd and the judges are still recovering from the shock of it. Erza's team mates then come down to the arena and personally congratulate her, with almost all the remaining participants making a comment on her actions and the guild members in the audience cheering her victory. However, since she won Pandemonium single-handidly, the remaining participants are to take part in an event called MPF, in which the competitors are to attack a Magic Power Finder, which will record and display the level of Magic used, with the positions based in order of power. The competitors then continue in the order of the lots they took previously. Since Millianna drew 2, she went up first, attacking with Nekousoku Tube, gaining a score of 365. Mostly everyone was unsure of how high a ranking it was, but according to Lahar, its a high number, enough to get a position as Squad Captain in the Rune Knights. Next went Nobarly who got a low score of 124. Then Hibiki went out, though since power isn't his strong point, he got an even lower score of 95. Obra went up next, unleashing the little black imp, but the score was the lowest yet, at 4. When Flare in their teams corner yells at Obra why he wasn't serious, Alexei tells her to be quiet, and that his magic isn't something he should use in public. Nullpuding also commented that it takes quite a bit to make Obra serious.

Next out was Orga, who shot his Black Lightning at the device to get 3825 points. However, this score was trumped by Jura who, after asking id it was okay for him to be serious, used a move worth 8544 points, which shocked most people. Last was Cana, who, until now, has been fooling around in the background, drinking and flirting with Hibiki. After removing her long sleeve coat, she reveals a familiar tatoo on her right forearm. Makarov was shocked, and when he asked Mavis if she gave it to her, the spirit admitted that she did so, so that Cana could win the event. Cana then used Fairy Glitter on the device, breaking it and at same time, getting the highest score of 9999, and the 8 points that come with second place. The move shocks virtually everyone, even the other participants, except the members of her guild who cheered at her success. She then proudly declares that this is Fairy Tail. Meanwhile, Team Raven Tail has somehow managed to get their hands on the matchups for the battle portions, and Alexei states it's time for them to carry out their true mission.

The games soon move into the battle portions starting with Millianna, of Team Mermaid Heel, battling Semmes, a member of Team Quatro Puppy. She easily wins by tying him up with her Nekousoku Tube. Erza, Natsu and Lucy comment on her strength with the latter two remembering how tough she was during the Tower of Heaven incident. In the second round, Eve Tearm of Team Blue Pegasus, was up against Rufus Lohr. As they fight, the judges talk about Eve's career where we discover he was actually on the council back then as a Rune Knight, the same as Lahar, before leaving and joining Blue Pegasus. Eve tries his best with his attack, White Fang, but Rufus counters with his Memory-Make magic and easily defeats him. From the stands, Gray watches this, proclaiming that he'll defeat Rufus.

The rest of the Trimens are also disappointed that Eve lost but Ichiya claims they still have a secret weapon with the bunny suited member, the identity of whom not even Ren and Hibiki were told of. The third match soon starts with Laxus Dreyar, from Team Fairy Tail B against Team Raven Tail's Alexei. As they take the field, Fairy Tail has set up lookouts across the coliseum to make sure Raven Tail doesn't pull anything again. Even Yajima is helping with the watch, warning Lahar to stop the fight if anything seems suspicious. Mavis compliments Makarov for doing so, saying it is the ultimate form of the guild she had wished for.

The battle starts with Alexei surprisingly trouncing Laxus much to the shock of the Fairy Tail guild. However, unbeknownst to them, the whole fight is an illusion. The real Laxus and Alexei hadn't even traded blows yet. Laxus demands to know what's going on with Alexei stating he created an illusion so they could talk in private. Laxus isn't amused and prepares to take him on. The rest of the Raven Tail members suddenly show up flanking their leader. Alexei then unmasks himself to reveal that he's Ivan Dreyar, the guild master, though Laxus had long since discovered this due to his underhanded methods.

After greeting his son, he asks for the location of something called Lumen Histoire, thinking that Marakov, who does know about it and likely won't tell him, told his grandson. Laxus however is ignorant of such an artifact and states that even if he did know, he wouldn't tell him. Laxus claims he'll take them all on while Ivan and the rest of Raven Tail likewise prepare to attack, with Ivan claiming they're the anti-Fairy guild.

Laxus informs his father that Makarov already has detailed information on Raven Tail, and Ivan correctly guesses that Gajeel Redfox was a double agent. Laxus goes on to say that his grandfather never made a move to stop Raven Tail, partly because they haven't tried to harm Fairy Tail, partly because there has been no leak in the sensitive information that Ivan knew, and partly because the old man wished to believe in his son. Angered, Ivan unleashed his Shikigami Magic on Laxus, demanding that his son tells him where Lumen Historie is, since he searched everywhere for it and couldn't find it. Ivan then tells Obra to use his anti-Fairy Tail Magic on Laxus, but the Lightning Dragon Slayer attacked him first, for the sake of Wendy and Charla. Laxus is then simultaneously assulted by Nullpuding and Flare to no avail, as Laxus easily dodges the attack and proceeds to attack Nullpuding for Gray's sake, and shoots a Lightning Dragon's Roar at Flare for Lucy's. Kurohebi tries to attack from behind, but is easily beaten. Ivan is shocked at Laxus's strength, and when his son turns his attention to him, Ivan tries to stop him by saying that they're family. Laxus proudly states that Fairy Tail is his family, and that he will destroy any enemy of the guild. He then punches his father, at the same time breaking the illusion, and revealing to the stadium the aftermath of the true battle, shocking and confusing nearly everyone.

Fairy Tail cheers at Laxus's victory, though Gray and Natsu were slightly annoyed that they didn't get to beat Raven Tail, Lucy was concerned for Flare while Makarov and Mavis looked displeased. As Laxus walks of the field, Ivan admits his defeat, but warns Laxus about Lumen Historie, the dark side of Fairy Tail. Team Raven Tail is taken into custody, though Obra's 'black imp' escapes, and the audience is told that the guild has been disqualified with Raven Tail's 'participation rights' having been revoked for the next 3 years. The next match is then announced, between Wendy Marvell for Team Fairy Tail A and Chelia Blendy for Team Lamia Scale. As both girls enter the arena, they trip, causing the crowd to laugh. Then they greet each other. However Mavis feels something strange about Chelia's power. In the mean time, Crime Sorcière suddenly detected what feels like Zeref's Magic.

The battle soon begins with Wendy going on the offensive against Chelia, to which Chelia dodges and uses Sky God's Boreas on Wendy to the shock of the other participants, revealing that she has a similar magic to Wendy. As the Fairy Tail members start to realize this, the Sky Dragon Slayer uses Sky Dragon's Roar, with the young God Slayer countering with Sky God's Bellow resulting in a tremendous clash. However when the dust settles, Chelia is perfectly fine while Wendy has taken some damage. Those watching soon realize that Chelia's magic is a Sky God Slayer.

Chelia asks if Wendy is okay which Wendy confirms and asks to resume. Chelia obliges and attacks Wendy, but Wendy gains her resolve and sucks in air, Chelia doing likewise. Wendy unleashes the Secret Dragon Slayer Technique Shattering Light: Sky Drill which seems to finally seems to knock out Chelia. However as Mato begins to declare Wendy the winner. Chelia suddenly gets to her feet with all of her wounds healed to the shock of Wendy and the audience save Lyon who comments that Chelia's Sky God Slayer allows her to heal all injuries.

As Doranbolt watches from the stands, Jellal passes him much to Doranbolt's shock that Mystogan is in the competition. Meanwhile Jellal looks on at the fight and thinks the magic he feels is coming from Chelia. Making him worried that Wendy is in danger.

Wendy struggles to stand while Jellal thinks to himself whether Chelia has something to do with Zeref. Unknown to him, Doranbolt, during research as a mole in Fairy Tail, looked up their records and found out Mystogan isn't suppose to be in the guild. Back at the fight, Wendy is having trouble standing having used up much of her power in the last attack. Chelia offers to let her surrender but Wendy refuses, stating she's fighting for her guild. Seeing that she won't back down, Chelia prepares her strongest attack: Sky God's Secret Arts Heavenly Gathering of Clouds. Just as it looks to hit, the attack suddenly veers off just barely missing Wendy. Its then that the Fairy Tail mages realize that Wendy used her magic to enhance Chelia's physical strength.

They conclude that while Chelia's magic heals her injuries, it won't regain her stamina while Wendy's does the opposite. Thus Chelia missing was due to over-momentum, as she was no longer fatigued before unleashing her spell, something Wendy knew and purposely used on Chelia. Both girls get into a hand to hand fight with both on even ground and neither letting up. Eventually, the time runs out and the match ends in a tie, giving both teams five points.

As those in the stand compliment Wendy's strength. Chelia heals Wendy and offers her friendship which Wendy accepts. With that, the third day of the games ends. Jellal realizes that Chelia isn't connected with Zeref as he feels the evil magic moving. He chases it through the crowds, managing to locate it. But before he can reach the person in question, Doranbolt gets in his way, stopping him and demanding Jellal reveal who he is. If that wasn't bad enough, Lahar accompanied by knights comes up from behind, trapping Jellal in between two of the Magic Council members.

What the End of Day 3 Gives!
Though Jellal tries to quickly and politely excuse himself in order to pursue the mysterious Magic source, Doranbolt is impatient, and knocks his mask off, revealing 'Mystogan's' face, and surprising the Magic Council members with his identity. Just as it seems like Jellal's identity was revealed, Yajima appears and tries to convince the Magic Council members that Jellal was actually his Edolas counterpart. Seeing as an ex-Magic Council elder was vouching for 'Mystogan', they let the Mage go, with Jellal claiming that if he see's the 'real Jellal', he will tell them. As he walks away, Jellal telepathically thanks Yajima, but the old man tells the ex-Ten Saint mage to run away and not to cause Makarov anymore trouble. Jellal agrees to do just that as soon as he accomplishes his objective. However, as they walk away, Lahar pulls Doranbolt aside and voices his suspicion that 'Mystogan' is the real Jellal. As the fugitive walks out of the stadium, he finds that the source of the evil Magic has managed to get away and wonders about how it was similar to Zeref's and who it is.

However, during Jellal's transaction with the Magic Council members, his face was seen by Kagura, who collapsed (most likely due to trauma) at the sight of him. The other Team Mermaid Heel members, concerned for her health, start calling for a doctor. As Milliana also looks for a doctor, she too sees Jellal, and nearly attacks him in her rage, before, Kagura holds her back. After claiming to be fine, she gets up and walks away, all the while thinking how the target for her revenge was in hiding. Milliana takes one look back and wonders why Fairy Tail was hiding him and how Erza could allow it.

Elsewhwere, Makarov and Laxus were sitting together near a fountain as the Lightning Dragon Slayer enquires about the Lumen Historie and how Ivan stated that it was 'Fairy Tail's darkness', though his grandfather seems hesitant to. However, Mavis then comes forth and claims that it was the opposite. Asking Laxus to understand that it secret that only the Guild master can know about, the young man says he won't ask any more if it is not something suspicious. The former and current Guild master then contemplate and conclude that Ivan must have learnt about it from Purehito. This saddens the spirit and causes her to start crying, though Mavis stubbornly states otherwise, causing Makarov to panic and telling his grandson to cheer her up, but Laxus believes that he is out of his depth.

Meanwhile, at Bar Sun, the rest of the Guild celebrates day 3's success with Lucy marvelling at Erza's recovery, while Mirajane and Lisanna compare it to their own brother and state how pathetic he is. At the infirmary Elfman wakes up sneezing to find Evergreen sleeping at his bedside, causing him to panic slightly, when she starts sleep taking a little. He then blushes as he appreciates her presence as a woman. Back at the bar Wendy is slightly depressead that she was unable to win, but Carla, Pantherlily and Levy encourage her. Natsu then starts a game of wine barrel surfing, which Gray, Erza and Lisanna also join in while the rest of the Guild cheer, laugh and enjoy themselves. In the meantime, at Crocus Gardens, Sting tells Lector how he believes that he will be fighting Natsu tomorrow and how he was looking forward to it. Elsewhere, Yukino apologises for dropping in unannounced while saluting to an unseen sergeant.

As the party at Bar Sun winds down, Levy reveals that there is a water park near by called Ryuuzetsu Land, and invites everyone to go with her, which they accept, though Lucy asks if it is alright to do so without informing Makarov (which Erza confirms in the positive), as a mysterious figure wonders outside the building. They guild eventually goes to Ryuuzetsu Land and changes into swimming garb, and while the others admire the park, the Take Over sisters marvel at how quickly Erza has recovered. The group starts splitting up, with Natsu finding and riding a small train on water (and promptly falling sick) and the Exceeds along with Gajeel and Levy go to find the aquarium. Cana is revealed to have not brought her swimming clothes, and instead came in her lingerie, while the Take Over sisters feel sorry for Elfman who they left in the infirmary. Little did they know, that Elfman arrived at the park earlier with Evergreen, and both were in hiding so as to avoid a misunderstanding. As they start to argue amongst themselves, they are spotted by Freed and Bickslow. Juvia then invites Gray to go with her on the "Love Slider", and when he refuses, Lyon suddenly appears and accepts in his stead. Chelia then finds Wendy and they decide to play together, which Warren seems to find enticing, while Max tries to draw his attention to the fact that the members of Team Quatro Puppy were also at the pool. Just then, Jenny appears, and snatches Mirajane's top, as revenge for the battle the day before, who in turn responds by pulling down Jenny's bikini bottoms. As Erza and Lucy were lying down, they were starting to get annoyed by the Trimens who were fawning over them, and makes Erza scold the younger ones, and promptly ignores Ichiya (much to his distress).

Lucy then notices Mavis in the pool, since Makarov and Laxus brought her there to cheer her up, while Erza see's Jellal, who claims to have followed the suspicious source of magic to the park. The Exceeds group then finds the aquarium, which turns out to be a cardboard cut out, as the girls laugh at the guys who were standing behind it. The Fairy Tail members mingle with the members of the other guilds, generally having a good time, until Flare reveals her presence to Lucy. As the the Celestial Spirit Mage nervously backs away from the Raven Tail member, Flare states that since they only broke the games rules, not the law, that they were not detained. Flare then hesitantly apologized to Lucy, before walking away, while Lucy in turn smiles at her. Meanwhile, Ichiya and Natsu start running, with Ichiya slipping and in the process tripping Natus, sending him flying. As Ichiya spins out ofcontrol, he is then launched at Erza. Jellal quickly pushes her down in order to save her, but grabs her breasts by accident, and quickly pulls his hands back and apologizes. Elsewhere, Natsu is sent flying into Gray and Lyon, who are pushed down the "Love Slider" together (with Juvia mistakenly believing this to be 'boys love') an promptly sarts freezing the pool water, and anyone in it. In response to this, Natsu launches a Fire Dragon Slayer attack that destroy's the park (the damage being seen all the way from Crocus Gardens), and knocking virtually everyone out. Natsu was then beaten up by Laxus in order to make him take responsibility, while Makarov and Mavis cry after learning that they were going to be billed with the damage, and Lucy just holds together her tattered bikini, claiming that she knew this was going to happen.

Unchaperoned! Unchanged! Uncontrollable! This is Gildarts!
As Gildarts continues his journeys in faraway lands, while the rest of the guild participates in the Grand Magic Games, he stumbles on to a pretty young woman being attacked by strange humanoid monsters, while taking a break. Instantly enamored with her, he gallantly appears between the creatures and the woman and scares them away. After they ran away, he turns towards the women, and is shocked to see her running away from him as well. However, he shrugs this off and continues his journey, eventually reaching a small village which seems to be in bad shape. He then meets the girl he saved earlier who apologizes for running away (and also possibly thanks him), before introducing Gildarts to their chief, who thanks the Mage as well, though Gildarts tries to remain humble. They then sit down, andthe villagers explain why their homes are in such a sorry state, while weeping in misery, to which Gildarts responds that he will take care of it.

He then travels to a cave in a nearby mountain that houses the source of the villages problem, a giant monster. The S- Class Mage fights and defeats it, bringing the beasts horn to the village as proof. The villagers then celebrate with Gildarts as thanks for his aid, with even the pretty young woman expressing her interest in him, whispering something in his ear and then running off, blushing (which the older man seems to enjoy). His attention is then diverted to a Lacrima Vision, displaying the Grand Magic Games third day event, just as Erza wins it. He then watches in pride as his daughter participates in the following event, and starts making a nuisance of himself as he excitedly boasts about her. After using Fairy Glitter to win the event, Gildarts starts running around in excitement and pride, making a fool of himself (and dissapointing his hosts), until he trips, and accidentally uses Crash to destroy the village, even worse than the monster. The villagers were horrified and shocked at what he did, then unanimously kicked him out, but Gildarts just gets up and grins and sets of on his travels in full vigor.

Day 4: A Battle at "Sea", the Merger of Fairies, and the Rampage of Dragons!
Day 4 of the Grand Magic Games begin with the event, Naval Battle, in which a participant of each team is to enter a large water sphere, and try to push the other players out. With that being said, when two participants are left in the sphere, a five minute timer will start, and whoever is knocked out within the time limit automatically gets last place. After Labian is introduced as day 4's guest judge, the teams then send out their representatives, with Lucy for Fairy Tail A, Juvia for Fairy Tail B, Chelia for Lamia Scale, Jenny for Blue Pegasus, Risley for Mermaid Heel, Minerva for Sabertooth and Rocker for Quatro Puppy. The game begins and Lucy starts of by summoning Aquarius. However, Juvia manages to counter Aquarius's attack with Water Cyclone. Using the confusion from the collision of the attack, Jenny manages to kick Rocker out of the sphere, eliminating Quatro Puppy. Chelia then tries to attacks Risley but the Mermaid Heel member manages to avoid it. Aquarius then disappears on Lucy claiming that she had to get back to her date, giving Juvia the opportunity to propel the Celestial Spirit Mage out.

However, Lucy manages to summon Virgo and Aries just in time to stop her from falling out of the sphere. Juvia then unleashes a powerful attack which expels all the remaining players from the sphere, except for Lucy (her Celestial Spirits managing to anchor her within the sphere) and Minerva (who easily defended with her Magic). Juvia then glances at Gray to see what he thought of the attack she named in his honor, to be shocked to find that he was clearly apalled. She is then confused to suddenly find herself outside the sphere, due to Minerva's power. With only two remaining, the five minute timer starts, and with that, Minerva attacks, first with a heat attack to Lucy's right, and the a weighted attack from above. Lucy tries to counter but finds her keys were no longer at her hips, but in her opponents hands. With that, Lucy has little choice but to endure Minerva's attacks and try to stop herself from falling from the sphere. Lucy then states outloud her resolve for the sake of Fairy Tail, but this seems to infuriate Minerva, who, while unleashing a devastating attack on the defenseless Mage, announces that Sabertooth was the strongest. Just as it seems like Lucy was about to fall out of the water sphere, she suddenly ends up right infront of Minerva. The Sabertooth Mage then continues to attack Fairy Tail Mage, torturing Lucy to the point where she can't even move. The match is ended by Mato, with the triumphant Minerva holding the unmoving Lucy like a trophy, outside of the water sphere, by the Celestial Spirit Mages throat.

Natsu and Gray rush to Lucy's aid as Minvera carelessly drops her. They just barely manages to catch her before she hits the ground. The medical team is called out though Wendy declares she'll give her medical attention first, with Chelia and Jenny helping out. Natsu glares as Minerva as she comes out of the sphere who tells him he should be glad as she kept Lucy within the sphere to avoid the five minute rule, calling Lucy trash in the process. Natsu nearly goes to attack her but Sting, Rufus and Orga suddenly appear in between them, while Erza likewise holds Natsu and Gray back as both teams come to a tense stand off. Erza tells the Sabertooth members she doesn't care if they're the strongest or the number one guild in Fiore. Declaring they've made a major mistake of intentionally making enemies of Fairy Tail.

Lucy is taken the medical ward where she is healed and patched up thanks to the efforts of Wendy, Chelia and Porlyusica. Team B likewise comes into the room to see how she's doing. Lucy awakens briefly, apologizing for losing again though the members comfort her in that she received eight points for her efforts. She asks for her keys which Happy gives to her before she falls back asleep. Makarov then enters the room to deliver some news. Due to the disqualification of Team Raven Tail, the games committee can't pair up the fighters of the battle portions due to the odd number of teams, thus Fairy Tail must merge into one team for the rest of the competition.

When asked about the points both teams received, it was decided that only Team A points would be used which means Fairy Tail is in a tie for third place with Mermaid Heel and Lamia Scale. Gray then says that with only the Tag Battle coming up, there seems to be little point, but Porlyusica explains that after a day's break, the last day will have a game where all five members compete at once, so the new team needs to be chosen carefully. Natsu declares his intention of avenging Lucy.

After some time, the match ups for the tag battle are brought up with Blue Pegasus vs Quatro Puppy, Lamia Scale vs Mermaid Heel and Fairy Tail against Sabertooth. Fairy Tail reorganizes their teammates and step out onto the field for the battle portions, with the new members being Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, Erza and Laxus. In contrast to their status of the first day's event where they were booed. The audience now fully supports the guild and cheer for the new Team Fairy Tail. As Fairy Tail and Sabertooth stare either other down. Natsu states he's getting fired up. Meanwhile watching this in the balcony above, Arcadios and Datong realize that Lucy isn't on the team. Arcadios declares he has a new plan for claiming her and promises it won't go like the "last time" before going to prepare for the eclipse plan. Datong however starts having second thoughts.

After Arcadios leaves, Datong thinks to himself that once upon a time, the Grand Magic Games once went by another name. He goes over to a mural on the wall depicting a Dragon fighting a Mage, before mentioning that the games were once called The Dragon King Festival, which was a banquet of Dragons, humans and demons.

The first Tag Battle starts with Team Blue Pegasus's Ichiya and the mysterious rabbit costumed man, against Team Quatro Puppy's Bacchus and Rocker. As the battle starts, Ichiya tells the rabbit costumed person to reveal himself, much to everyone's anticipation, as not even the other participants of Blue Pegasus knew his identity. When the mask comes off, it is revealed to be the Exceed from Extalia and Ichiya's Edolas counterpart, Nichiya, stunning everybody (and causing Erza to faint from trauma). As the two Blue Pegasus participants start reminiscing about their first meeting, Bacchus charges forward, landing a devastating hit on Nichiya. When Ren asks from the sidelines if the cat even knew how to fight, Ichiya reveals that he was under the impression that, since they shared the same face, they shared the same combat ability. However he was proven wrong when the Exceed was knocked out in the single hit. With that the battle becomes 2 on 1, and, as Ichiya is knocked around by his opponents, he laments on how he dragged a weak person like Nichiya into this. With that, Ichiya 'dedicates' a Power Perfume to Nichiya, bulks up, and defeats Quatro Puppy in one hit (causing quite a bit of the audience to be shocked and traumatised). With Blue Pegasus's victory decided for the first battle, next comes the battle between Team Lamia Scale and Team Mermaid Heel.

Lyon and Yuka fought Kagura and Millianna to a standstill, ending with a draw as time ran out. As the participants walked back to their respective corners, the Team Lamia Scale particpants noted that Kagura didn't fight at full power, while Kagura comments that Lyon has lots of potential, and that if this were a battle to the death, Millianna would have died. With that Chapati Lola excitedly announces the last Tag Battle of the day between Team Fairy Tail's Natsu and Gajeel against Team Sabertooth's Sting and Rogue Cheney. As the battle is about to start, Igneel observes, seeing if the pupils that Vicelogia and Skyadrum raised have really surpassed Dragons, or if it was just an empty dream, and comments that with the Dragon King Festival approaching, it will soon be time for them to take action. As the four Dragon Slayers stare each other down, Chapati announces the start of the third and final Tag Battle of the day.

The Tag Battle starts, with most of the Fairy Tail members silently (and loudly) supporting their own Dragon Slayers, while Jiemma is confident in Sabertooth's own victory. However as soon as the gong rings, when the Twin Dragons of Sabertooth planned on initiating the attack, they find themselves face-to-face with their respective mentors, and then being promptly knocked back. Sting is the first to recover and counters with a White Dragon's Roar aimed at his opponents, both of whom managed to effectively dodge it. Rogue then goes after Gajeel with a Shadow Dragon's Slash, but Gajeel defends with an Iron Dragon's Sword and then knocks the Shadow Dragon Slayer back. Natsu quickly grabs Rogue by the face and charges at the White Dragon Slayer, before causing damage to both with Fire Dragon's Wing Attack. Frosch, Lector, Chapati Lola and the audience are stunned to see Sabertooth's Dragon Slayers being pushed back.

When Natsu questions whether they really managed to defeat their Dragon parents with this level of power, Sting claims that they did and that they'll now show them the power to defeat Dragons. With that, Sting and Rogue activate White Drive and Shadow Drive respectively, and finally go on the offensive. Sting lands a solid blow on the Fire Dragon Slayer while Rogue suddenly appears infront of the Iron Dragon Slayer and kicks him. Gajeel tries to counter with a chop, but finds that his opponent is now intangible, and instead gets punched. With their Magic Amplification Technique in play, the Sabertooth Dragon Slayers suddenly start pushing the Fairy Tail fighters back with a barrage of hits. When Sting declares his ambition to surpass Natsu, he restricts Natsu with a White Dragon's Claw, and then plans to finish Salamander off. However just as he attacks, Natsu barely dodges and counters with his own punch, revealing that he managed to burn of the restricting stigmata before Sting's blow connected. Meanwhile with Gajeel, Rogue keeps attacking the Iron Dragon Slayer from behind, while turning into shadows when Gajeel attempts to hit back. But Gajeel manages to counter by grabbing the Shadow Dragon behind him when he turned solid to attack the Iron Dragon, and then elbows Rogue in his chin. Sting is impressed and decides to use his strongest attack, Holy Nova, but is shocked (along with his teammates in their corner) when Natsu blocks it with one hand. As Chapati (and the audience) watches with growing surprise and confusion as Rogue and Sting are once again being pushed back, he asks Yajima what is going on, to which the ex-Magic Council member stated that the Twin Dragons are simply outmatched. As the Sabertooth Dragon Slayers struggle to get up, they then surprise their opponents (as well as Jellal and the Fairy Tail Guild Masters) by activating Dragon Force by themselves.

Sting then tells his tag partner to stand back, as he could defeat both the Fairy Tail mages by himself, causing Gajeel to think they are being underestimated, though Natsu gets the feeling that Sting is strong. The White Dragon then charges at the Salamander who just barely manages to block it, though he was still pushed back. Gajeel then attacks with an elongated kick at the head, which Sting ducks, and then responds with a blast of power. Natsu then charges at the White Dragon with a flame-fuelled punch, which Sting catches, responding with a kick in the stomach, that knocks the breath out of Natsu. The Sabertooth Mage then threw the Salamander at the Black Steel, jumps up and fires a White Dragon's Holy Breath down at them, and at the same time, destroying the battle field and sending the participants plummeting into a mine below ground, and shocking the Fairy Tail Mages in the audience with the difference in power from before and after. As they fell, the Lacrima-vision came on, in time to see Natsu managing to get footing on a piece of rubble to perform a Fire Dragon's Sword Horn on Sting, which Gajeel immediately follows up with a close ranged Iron Dragon's Roar. However, Sting easily stood back up after the Fairy Tail's Mages assault and hit them both with Holy Ray.

Natsu stumbles, but gets back up in time to block a punch from Sting. As the White Dragon continues his relentless assault on Salamander and Black Steel, the Fairy Tail Mages in the audience begins to feel worry at the one sided fight againt their Guild's own Dragon Slayers. As the White Dragon continues to fight, he thinks back to the time when he was younger, and was comforting Lector who was being bullied for sticking up for him, for claiming that Sting has defeated a Dragon. Sting then promises Lector that, since there were no longer any Dragon's, he will instead beat Natsu infront of an audience and prove that the Exceed was right. As Sting stands triumphant over the unmoving bodies of Natsu and Gajeel, he silently asks if Lector saw this, while the Fairy Tail Mages despair that they may have lost. As the Twin Dragons of Sabertooth cancel their Dragon Force, believing that they were the victors, Chapati questions if the battle ends like this. However, they were proven wrong when Natsu and Gajeel suddenly got back up and shook of the damage, revealing that they took Sting's attacks so as to study his habits, which the Sabertooth Mage didn't seem to believe. As Natsu and Gajeel got into an argument over Sting's habits, the Fire Dragon Slayer then pushed the Iron Dragon Slayer into an old mining cart, and sent it rolling, effectively incapacitating the Black Steel with his own motion-sickness. Natsu then invites the Twin Dragons to both attack him, as payback for underestimating him earlier, much to the Sabertooth Mages shock. Meanwhile Gajeel promises his revenge on Natsu for doing this to him, while being sick.

At this point, a dark-robed figure started to cry, and Crime Sorcière suddenly noticed the suspicious magic, which Jellal instantly pursues. In the mines, Sting is insulted by Natsu's taunt, and when Rogue said he was only interested in Gajeel, the Salamander said that the Shadow Dragon then merely needs to defeat him, and then go after the Iron Dragon Slayer. In response to this, Sting re-enters his Dragon Force, and attacks, claiming to have killed Weisslogia with this power, to which Natsu responds saying that he will use his own power to fight for his friends, and punches right back. Rogue then enters Dragon Force and attacks with a Shadow Dragon's Roar, which Natsu overwhelms with his own Fire Dragon's Roar. The three Dragon Slayers then clash in hand-to hand combat with Natsu seemingly having the advantage, while the Fairy Tail, Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale Mages look on expectantly, while the Sabertooth Mages observe with disbelief and disappointment. As Lector cries in the audience, he reminices of when he first met Sting. The Twin Dragon's then use the Unison Raid attack, Holy Shadow Dragon's Flash Fang (much to Makarov's shock) which Natsu counters with the Dragon Slayer Ultimate Technique: Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade. In the ensuing explosion, everyone watches anxiously, and as the smoke clears, the Twin Dragons collapse, silently acknowledging Natsu's strength. With this it is Team Fairy Tail's win, and with the 10 points, comes the position of first place in the games.

The Unexpected Aftermath: Revelations to the Coming Tragedy
As Fairy Tail celebrates their victory, Chapati explains that tomorrow would be a break, and the fifth day of the games begin the day after, beong a survival game involving all the team members. Bob, Ooba and Goldmine then shifts their focus on to Fairy Tail, with Makarov encouraging them to do so, while members from each of the other teams express their desire to battle a member from Fairy Tail. While the Exceeds of Sabertooth are upset, the members of Team Sabertooth seem to be excited, though Jiemma's rage was so obvious, the audience around him ran away in fear. As Natsu happily tells his opponents that he wishes to fight them again, Rogue thinks about how much he overestimated himself, especially if Gajeel is as strong as the Salamander. Meanwhile, the cart carrying Gajeel has finally stopped, and as the Iron Dragon Slayer heaves, he promises to kill Natsu for this. As he looks around he is then shocked to stumble upon a Dragon's Graveyard. With the day ending, Jellal closes in on the mysterious person, while at Mercurius, Yukino gazes at the stadium, and marvels at the fact that Natsu defeated her former team-mates, as a soldier nearby wonders how she feels about it. As they get to talking, it is shown that Yukino knows of, and is willing to participate in the Eclipse Plan, and is under the impression that it is a plan to save the whole world. Just then, Carla has another vision of Mercurius collapsing, and after denying that anything is wrong when Wendy asks, Team Shadow Gear then enters the infirmary to celebrate the victory, and briefly wonders about Gajeel. As Levy narrates this, a scene (apparently of the future) is shown of a devastated battle field and a heavily scarred Levy weeping as she writes down about how they lost to fate, how the people she loved have died and that she couldn't put it into words. Jellal then finally corners the suspicious person, and after revealing his own identity, asked that the cloaked figure to reveals theirs. As the person turns, Jellal realizes that she is a woman, and when she shows herself, the independent mage is shocked speechless.

Having fonud the source of the Magic and questioned the girl, Jellal returns to the rest of Crime Sorcière and informs them of what he has learnt, which seems to shock them, revealing his knowledge about the Eclipse Plan and the Dragon King Festival. With Day 4 having ended, the spectators all gather around the score boards, praising Fairy Tail and debating who the overall winner of the games would be. Meanwhile, at Crocus Gardens, Sting and Rogue stood in front of Jiemma, and when asked about the "disgrace" they displayed, Rogue simply admits Natsu's strength simply exceeds their own, which enrages their guild master. Thinking that they were showing weakness, Jiemma angrily demands that they remove their Guild marks for doing so, while at the same time knocking the younger Mages of their feet with a burst of Magic and starts beating them. However, Lector tries to support the Dragon Slayers, but when Jiemma fails to recognize who the cat is, the Exceed reveals his own Guild mark. This infuriates the Guild master even further, believing that he was an eyesore, and vaporizes him with a blast of Magic, much to the shock of the rest of the Guild. Rogue then protectively covers Frosch, thinking that Jiemma was going to attack his Exceed next, though the Masters attention was instead diverted to Sting who started crying and yelling in grief. Just as Jiemma was about to scold the White Dragon further, Sting unleashes a devastating attack on the Master in his anger, that pierces straight through him, much to the entire Guilds shock except for Minerva, who actually seems pleased.

Elsewhere, under the Domus Flau, the Fairy Tail Dragon Slayers and Exceeds, along with Gray and Lucy are lead through the tunnels by Gajeel. He then shows them the Dragon Graveyard he found earlier, much to everyone elses surprise. As the discuss what this could mean, they contemplate whether their own Dragon Slayers Dragons were amongst the corpses, though this was instantly disregarded, as the bones were far older than the 14 years that the Dragons disappeared in. Wendy then brings up the Sky Dragon Slayer move: Milky Way, which she learned from Porlyusica, a move that allows them to listen to the voices of the spirits of Dragons. Wendy decides to use the move to listen to the Dragons voices that slumber in this graveyard, to find out what happened, and also about their own Dragon mentors. In the meantime, somewhere else in Crocus, the mysterious girl with the suspicious magic found a private place to write something down. However she is found by a guard who says that the area she was in was off limits, forcing her to run away. However, she has dropped the notebook she was writing in, which the guard picks up to see something written about an "Eclipse Plan" and "Dragon King Festival" that was taking place on July 7th.

Wendy manages to use Milky Way and searches the graveyard for any Dragon spirits. She manages to find one named Zirconis, the Emerald Dragon. Initially he's rather antagonistic to the group and bullies them a bit, but eventually explains the story behind the Dragons. About 400 years ago, the Dragons were the dominant species of the world and considered humans to be nothing but fodder for them. However, one Dragon sympathized with the humans, and wished to live in peace with them. He managed to convince a few fellow Dragons of his ideology but many opposed the idea. These clashing opinions eventually lead to a civil war between the Dragons (Zirconis revealing he was on the opposing side). The war however reached a stalemate until the Dragons pro-human side taught humans Dragon Slayer Magic so they could fight beside them.

The plan worked and the anti-human side was on the verge of defeat. However the humans soon also turned on the Dragons who were helping them. But the worst was yet to come when one particular individual continued to kill Dragons and bathe in their blood. So much so that he became a Dragon himself and used his powers to near kill all the Dragons that makes up the graveyard and becoming the king of Dragons of which the Grand Magic Games are based around. This Dragon, was revealed to be Acnologia much to the shock of the group. After revealing this, Zirconis suddenly disappears. Wendy explains that there were no more lingering thoughts in the area and surmises he may have ascended. The group mull over the information given, Natsu, Wendy and Gajeel especially worried if their Magic will make them into Dragons too. A voice however rebuffs this claim, explaining that Acnologia had help with his creation from Zeref and his book of spells. The group turn to the voice to find it belongs to Arcadios arriving into the graveyard, followed by Yukino (much to Lucy's surprise). He finishes his explanation that killing Zeref will be the first step in stopping Acnologia, though Carla was shaken to see that he was the knight from her vision.

Arcadios introduces himself and reveals Yukino's Sergeant rank to the group much to their confusion. He goes on to explain that they needed a Celestial Mage for their plan, hence why Yukino joined along. Natsu demands he explain himself, Arcadios complies and leads them to the castle, Mercurius. As they make their way through he admits he was the one who attempted have Lucy kidnapped earlier (though does apologize for it) and that the games were used to collect magic from the stadium every year. When the group rebuff him for it, he mentions the plan needed a large amount of Magic to work. Soon the group comes across a large door and very ancient looking door. Arcadios explains the Eclipse plan, in which the twelve gold keys of the zodiac are needed and on the seventh of July, when the eclipse passes over, to unlock the door and allow the user to travel 400 years into the past. What they hope to achieve is to go back in time and stop Zeref before he gained immortallity. With Zeref gone, Acnologia will cease to be as well. The group are astonished, the Dragon Slayers even moreso when they realize that its execution date falls on the same day their Dragon mentors disappeared.

However just as Arcadios and Yukino ask for Lucy assistance in the plan, the royal guard suddenly show up and surround the group. The minister of defense, Datong, appears leading them. Displeased that Arcadios told outsiders of the project, Datong reveals that he won't let him go through with the plan as its too dangerous to change history. He then has Yukino and Arcadios arrested on treason, ordering Lucy be taken in as well. Natsu instantly goes to protect her but as soon as he tries to use his Magic, the door saps it away and he instantly falls unconscious. The remaining Faires and he are thrown out of the castle. However Datong tells them the king has taken a liking to the group. So if they manage to win the final game, they can gain audience with him and request to save Lucy.

Day 6: The Final Game, A Risky Plan, A Tough Battle On All Sides
Natsu's group return to their fellow members and reveal what happened at the castle. The group mull over their options (save Natsu who has to be tied down to prevent him from running off). They know that fighting against the kingdom would be a bad move on their part, but they can't trust that Lucy will be released if they win. Gajeel also brings up why they weren't arrested as well which the group surmises that they'll probably be used as witnesses to the door plan and that the kingdom will reveal the truth sooner or later. Just as Natsu breaks free from his bond, Marakov stops him saying he knows how he fells but they need to act wisely considering their enemy this time.

Back at the castle in the dungeon, Lucy and Yukino are put in the same cell. They talk with Lucy mentioning her wariness on if the Eclipse plan should be activated. Yukino explains her reasons for wanting to go through with it, she has an older sister named Sorano who was very kind to her, she would always defend Yukino whenever she made her parent angry with her clumsiness. However one day followers of Zeref attacked her home. Her parents were killed and Sorano was abducted with Yukino barely managing to escape with her life. Thus she hopes to use the plan to in order to save her sister. Though she knows there's a high chance history won't chance the way they want it too, making Lucy wonder if its even possible to change the past.

The sixth day comes and Chapati Lola announces the final event of the Games, the Grand Magic Tournament, while at the same time introducing the guest judge, Mato. The teams are called out one by one onto the field. When Sabertooth is called we see that Sting is still with the group despite what happened earlier, however he's clearly still saddened by the loss of Lector but vows he won't lose. Finally Fairy Tail is called out but much to the surprise of everyone, Natsu isn't with the group, rather Juvia has taken his place. Marakov reveals that this was part of his plan, one portion of their team will battle in the tournament normally while another team will try to rescue Lucy. As everyone's focus is on the game, no one will have their eyes on the castle. He silently wishes the rescue team luck as Natsu, Wendy, Mirajane and the Exceeds make their way to the castle.

The rescue team hear the game beginning from afar which Natsu remarks is a good time to make their move and the group proceed to come up with a plan. Happy suggests wearing disguises but said costumes are too obvious and outlandish. Mirajane however states she already came up with a plan of her own. As they go to put it together, Wendy wishes the tournament group good luck. Back at the games, the rules of the final event, the Grand Magic Tournament, are laid out. The teams will go into the city and battle around it, gaining points for each downed member. Five points if they managed to take down the leader though the teams aren't told who the team leaders are. The teams all meet in the city and discuss strategies with Team Fairy Tail vowing to do their best, both to save Lucy and redeem their guild. Soon the game is started and the teams make their way through the city, save Team Fairy Tail who oddly haven't moved from their starting spot much to everyone's confusion, including their own members.

The game goes on with each member of Team Quatro Puppy taken down quite easily. Beth and Arania get knocked out by the Trimens. Yuka and Toby are beaten by Kagura but notices that Sting, who had just beaten Bacchus, fled from her just as he was about to fight the former two. We see that this is because Minerva ordered her group to avoid fighting Jura and Kagura. Sabertooth retakes the lead much to Marakov's panic as his team still hasn't done anything. Mavis finally tells him that this is her plan as she had been memorizing all of the opponents during the whole tournament and formulated a strategy to help them, thus why they hadn't moved yet. She then orders "Fairy Tail Star Strategy" to commence and Team Fairy Tail finally go on the move.

Back at the castle, a guard brings in Natsu and Wendy tied up, telling another that they had tried to sneak in and save Lucy. They're ordered to be taken to the prison cell but when out of sight we find that the guard that "captured" them is really Mirajane who had disguised herself to allow the group to sneak in. Meanwhile, another guard goes to the princess, Hisui E. Fiore, and tells her that its a good opportunity. She agrees and commences with something called the "Eclipse 2" plan.

Trivia

 * The result of the kiss between Erza and Jellal is meant to be ambiguous.