Erza Scarlet

For Erza's Edolas counterpart, see Erza Knightwalker.

Erza Scarlet is an S-Class Mage of Fairy Tail who is famous for her usage of Requip Magic. She is also a member of Team Natsu, as well as one of the main female protagonists of the series.

Appearance
Erza is a young woman who has long scarlet hair and brown eyes. She has an artificial right eye made by Porlyusica (replacing the one she lost as a child). She has a slender figure that Lucy describes as amazing and, like most females in the series, she has large breasts. Her most common attire consist of custom-made armor by Heart Kreuz smiths, a blue skirt, and black boots. Her Fairy Tail stamp is blue and located on the middle of her left upper arm. Erza specializes in requip magic, and uses it to requip not only armor, but different outfits as well, allowing her to change her attire at any given time.

Personality
Erza is a very strict person, often criticizing the bad behavior and habits of the other guild members, causing most of them to apologize, fearing that they might invoke her wrath. She is also very impatient disliking people who don't answer her questions quickly enough. This, coupled with her own tragic childhood, caused many of her guildmates to avoid her due to her social awkwardness. However, she has a great sense of justice and pride in being a member of Fairy Tail.

Natsu describes her as "strong, mean and scary"; Lucy says that she's "cool and beautiful, warm and full of passion". Jellal, when he had lost his memories, remembering nothing but the name "Erza", said her name was "full of kindness, brightness and warmth". Makarov called Erza the "Female Knight who doesn't know how to hold back".

Erza described herself as someone who was always crying, since she wasn't able to protect those dear to her. Several examples are when Rob tried to shield her from destruction, and when Jellal was captured because he saved her and was brainwashed by "Zeref". Also, Erza has stated that she feels uncomfortable and insecure when not wearing armor. However, when Erza encounters Ikaruga, she overcomes her fear behind and battles her without her armor.

Despite her reserved personality and mostly dressing in her conservative Heart Kreuz armor, Erza has shown to have very little modesty or inhibitions. Many of her armors are skimpy, revealing and feminine, and when out of armor she has an affinity for sexy and revealing clothing. Such examples are the sleek evening gown she wore at the casino during the Tower of Heaven arc, and when Team Natsu was working at former council member Shitou Yajima's restaurant, where they worked as waiters. Though Lucy was embarrassed about wearing the skimpy maid outfit, Erza showed no discomfort, taking orders with seductive poses, and after the job was over, she did not take the uniform off, leading Happy to state that she liked it. During the guild war with Phantom Lord, Erza felt no shame or fear at racing out to see the moving guild hall in nothing but a towel. Finally, Erza seems to have no problem with men (or at least her male guildmates) seeing her naked. She felt no discomfort stating her desire to shower with Natsu and Gray or the fact that she used to shower with them when they were younger. When they were at the hotspring, when she learned that the boys may have been peeping on her and the other girls, she wanted to invite them to bath with them much Wendys shock and Lucys strong objection. This side of her personality shows that her former dependance on her armor was purely psychological, and not out of any issue of modesty.

History
Early in her childhood, Erza was enslaved by a black magic cult and forced to build the Tower of Heaven, a structure developed for the purpose of resurrecting the dark mage Zeref. She was imprisoned together with several other slaves, most of them children; among these children were Jellal Fernandes, Shô, Simon, Wally Buchanan, and Millianna. While they were asking each other for their names, she said her name was just "Erza," so Jellal decided to give her the surname "Scarlet" after her scarlet hair so they would never forget it. Despite the harsh conditions of her enslavement and labor, Erza became close friends with the other children. She also formed a strong bond with Rob, an elderly mage from the Fairy Tail guild, who taught her about magic and his guild.

One day in X776, Shô came up with a plan for the eleven-year-old Erza and all their friends to escape from the tower. They were unfortunately caught by the guards, who decided to send the escape's mastermind to the tower's disciplinary chamber while the rest would be deprived of food for three days (which, according to the guards, was a far more lenient punishment). Seeing how fearful Shô was, Erza prepared to take the blame herself, but Jellal announced himself as the mastermind instead. However, the guards reasoned that Erza was the one responsible and sent her to the disciplinary chamber, where she was tortured to the brink of death and lost her right eye. Jellal rescued her, but was captured soon after. Finally fed up with their torment, Erza staged a revolt against their captors so they could escape and save Jellal.

The revolt appeared to be successful at its inception until the tower's mages arrived to repress the slaves, causing most of the other slaves to retreat. During the attack, Erza watched in horror as her friend Simon's lower jaw was blasted off by a magical attack, while Rob sacrificed himself to defend Erza from another mage's attack. In her rage, Erza's latent magical power was activated for the first time, and she used it to turn all of the weapons and tools around her against the guards, finishing the revolt.

As the other slaves boarded ships meant to ensure their freedom, she reunited with Jellal, but discovered that he had changed; the kind and compassionate boy she knew him to be was suddenly twisted and violent, using magic to slaughter the defenseless guards around them. Jellal had been possessed by what he claimed to be the spirit of Zeref, and decided that the only way for them to attain true freedom was to complete the Tower of Heaven and revive Zeref. Erza refused to help him, prompting Jellal to cast her out of the tower by herself, only letting her live because she helped take care of all the guards who would have opposed him. Before letting her escape, Jellal told Erza to keep the Tower of Heaven a secret from the government, as well as to never return to the tower, threatening to destroy the tower and kill everyone in it, including their friends, if she disobeyed.

After washing up on the shores of Fiore, Erza made her way to and joined the Fairy Tail guild. She habitually began to wear armor and acted distant from the other members, still traumatized by Jellal's betrayal. After Gray, who tried picking fights with the reclusive Erza, saw her crying by herself and questioned why, she began to open up to her guildmates more. Around this time, Fairy Tail's master Makarov brought Erza to see Porlyusica, who gave her an artificial eye to replace the one she lost. With her eye healed Erza shed tears of joy, which only came out of her real, left eye, though Erza didn't mind as she said she had already shed half of her tears.

As the years passed, Erza became more and more strict until she could be called the guild's disciplinarian. She took responsibility for breaking up fights between Gray and Natsu. At the same time, however, she was driven to constantly fight and bicker with fellow member Mirajane, which eventually ended after Mirajane greatly mellowed out in the wake of her younger sister Lisanna's apparent death in X782. In the year X780, Erza passed Fairy Tail's annually held S-Class Wizard Promotion Trial, becoming the youngest member of the guild to do so at fifteen years of age.

Lullaby arc
While returning home from a mission to slay a colossal horned monster (bringing its horn, decorated and given to her by the locals, as a souvenir), Erza stops at a pub where she overhears a group of mages discussing a sealed magic called "Lullaby," with one of the members, Kageyama, claiming he will be able to break the seal. She doesn't give them much thought until she hears Kageyama mention Erigor, the "Death God" and ace of the dark guild Eisenwald. Too late to act against them in time, she decides to enlist Natsu and Gray to help her fight Eisenwald and discover what the Lullaby is, as well as what they intend to do with the spell.

She returns to the guild with the intention of discussing the matter with Makarov, only to learn that he is away at a meeting with the other guild masters in the country. After ritualistically berating her guildmates for their poor conduct, she tells Natsu and Gray to accompany her on her mission, shocking the entire guild with the idea that she has just formed the strongest team in the history of Fairy Tail. They are joined by Lucy, the guild's newest recruit, who is requested by Mirajane to keep Natsu and Gray from bickering behind Erza's back. Before setting out the next day, Natsu challenges Erza to fight him after they return, which she accepts.

Erza discusses her mission with Lucy and Gray of her mission on the train ride to Onibas; Natsu, however, is left in the dark since Erza knocks him unconscious to ease his motion sickness. They are so caught up with their discussion that they accidentally leave Natsu on the train, prompting Erza to temporarily stop the train via its emergency stop signal and chase after him on a borrowed Magic Four-Wheeled Car. Upon retrieving Natsu, he says that he briefly fought with Kageyama, who had escaped, prompting Erza to berate him for not stopping him and paying attention to their discussion (ignoring that she had knocked him out during the discussion in the first place). Natsu further explains that the mage was holding a skull-shaped flute, which Lucy recognizes as the Lullaby, a mass-murder curse that kills anyone who listens to its music.

Desperate to stop Erigor from playing the Lullaby, Erza and the others rush for the nearby town of Oshibana, where they find Eisenwald waiting for them inside the local train station. Before escaping with the Lullaby, Erigor claims to use the Lullaby to kill everyone in the city. Erza sends Natsu and Gray to chase after him while she fights against the members of Eisenwald, easily taking them all out at once. Having used up much of her magic power in the fight and on the Magic Four-Wheeled Car, she goes outside to evacuate the citizens gathered around the station. However, Erigor reappears and casts a Wind Wall around the station, trapping Erza inside.

She interrogates the defeated Eisenwald members in the station and realizes that Eisenwald's true target is Clover, where Makarov and the other guild masters have gathered. Remembering Kageyama's power to dispel magic, she and Gray find Kageyama after he is defeated by Natsu and demand that he lift the Wind Wall magic, but he is stabbed in the back by fellow Eisenwald member Karacka to keep him quiet. Fortunately, Lucy acquires the Gatekey for the celestial spirit Virgo from Happy, allowing the team to burrow beneath the Wind Wall and escape; before doing so, Natsu brings Kageyama, not wanting him to die.

Natsu sets out to fight Erigor while Erza and the others chase after him on another Magic Four-Wheeler with Kageyama in tow. By the time they catch up, they find that Natsu has successfully defeated Erigor. However, Kageyama steals the Lullaby and hijacks the vehicle, setting off for Clover to kill the guild masters himself. Erza and the others chase after him, but by the time they find him at the masters' meeting hall, they witness Makarov persuading Kageyama to stop his plan. Suddenly, the Lullaby comes to life and unveils a demon that was sealed inside the flute. Together with Natsu and Gray, Erza battles and destroys the demon, reverting the Lullaby into an ordinary flute, but destroying the entire meeting hall in the process.

Shortly after returning to the guild, Erza keeps her promise to fight Natsu, holding their battle in front of the Fairy Tail guildhall. Before the match can be concluded, however, a messenger appears and arrests Erza on behalf of the Magic Council for the damages caused during their battle against Eisenwald. As she is escorted to her trial, she encounters a thought projection of Jellal, now a member of the Council under the name "Siegrain," who reveals that the council is using her as a scapegoat to display their authority. "Siegrain" once again reminds Erza to keep the Tower of Heaven a secret from the council before leaving to oversee the trial. During the trial, Natsu barges into the courtroom while dressed as Erza and tries to pass himself off as her in an attempt to save her, not realizing that the trial is a formality and she wouldn't be punished. As a result, the two are imprisoned together for the night. Although angry that Natsu's rampage had ruined her chance to return home for the day, she warmly admits that his gesture did make her happy.

Galuna Island arc
After Natsu, Lucy and Gray go to Galuna Island, Erza goes after them to stop them and return them to Fairy Tail. She is sent after them because they went on an S-Class mission, which was too much for the three (plus Happy) to handle. Erza arrives and saves Lucy from Sherry Blendy and detains Lucy and Happy for their crimes against the guild. She shows her stern side as she states to Gray that she doesn't care what happens on the island. However, much to her and Lucy's surprise, Gray berates her honor and sense of justice, which she doesn't take too kindly to. She puts a sword to his throat, telling him that he wouldn't be able to break the rules without getting punished. Surprisingly, Gray slices his hand on her sword, telling her this is the path he chooses and she that can kill him if she wants.

Shocked that someone actually stood up to her, Erza has a slight change of heart and decides to punish them after they finish the mission. She tries to stop the revival ritual of Deliora, but doesn't make it in time; however, Deliora is found to have already died.

She is the one who figures out the secret of the villagers, and uses the Giant's Armor to throw the Evil Crushing Spear to the moon with the help of a very motivated Natsu. With this, they destroy a layer created by the Moon Drip, revealing that all the villagers were originally monsters who are able to turn to humans and not the other way around. She then leads the team off the island, reminding them that despite finishing the mission (and refusing payment except for a Celestial Spirit key), they are all going to get punished.

Phantom Lord arc
Erza and the others return from Galuna Island, only to find that the guild had been attacked by Phantom Lord. After the assault of Fairy Tail on Phantom Lord, and the sucker punch defeat of Makarov by Aria, Erza takes the role of leader of the guild alongside Mirajane and Cana Alberona, while feeling responsible for what had happened to the master. When the walking guild of Phantom Lord attacks Fairy Tail with its Magical Convergent Cannon - Jupiter, she stops the first shot with her Adamantine Armor, but loses consciousness and doesn't take part in the first couple of battles against the Element 4.

Later, she easily defeats Aria, the last of the group, when Natsu was being beaten by him. As she collapses, she implores Natsu to protect Lucy and the guild as his power is far greater than her own, and he can beat both Jose Porla and Gajeel Redfox. After she rests a minute, she fights with Jose, the master of Phantom Lord, alongside Gray and Elfman, but they are soundly defeated.

After Natsu beats Gajeel, she reminds Jose that he lost the war because he didn't calculate Natsu's destructiveness into his plans. A flashback is then seen as Natsu remembers his past about Fairy Tail and how he was taught vocabulary by Erza. Erza then berates Jose's reasons for attacking Fairy Tail, and reveals the truth about Lucy to him. She is then easily defeated by him, not before earning some praise, and is saved by a recovered Makarov who finally finishes Jose with Fairy Law. As she helps to rebuild the guild, it appears that after Gray's rebating of her, she lightens up and declares to the guild that Team Natsu is official, earning the most powerful team a round of applause.

Loke arc
Erza is sent to help a theater in trouble; it is here she reveals her love for the theater and the dramatic arts. She signs the others up in a play to help the owner recover from his tragedy, wherein most of his actors and actresses had quit. Erza spends a long time and effort practicing for her role as the prince. During the play, it is revealed she also gets stage fright and forgets most of her lines when it comes to performing her part, to which, in some moments, she improvizes to fill up sentences in her dialogue. It is also seen that she gets too deep into her character, as she cuts Lucy's clothes up on stage. It is also seen that Erza was helping her fellow guild members in finding Loke when he was found to be missing from the guild.

Tower of Heaven arc
Erza is one of the members invited by Loke to go with her to an expensive resort. At the beach, Erza has a quick flashback of her slave life at the Tower of Heaven. When she wakes up from the daydream, she requips her basic armour, but after Lucy tells her to come with them to the casino, she requips a dress.

While at the casino, Lucy and Erza are playing cards when one of Erza's childhood friends, Shô, steps in to rotate the dealer position. Instead of tossing regular cards, however, he throws down cards that spells DEATH in front of Erza, to which she becomes shocked seeing him again after so long. He remarks that it's been a while and Erza asks him if he is safe. Suddenly, the casino lights turn off due to Simon's Magic, then come back on with Shô behind Erza, telling her that he can use Magic as well by trapping the people in the casino inside his cards.

Another friend of Erza, Millianna, appears from behind Lucy and ties her up using her Magic ropes. Erza angrily states that Lucy is her friend and demands Millianna to let Lucy go. Feeling insulted, Shô tells Erza that they were her friends too once, until she betrayed them. Wally Buchanan steps in, reminding Shô to calm down and tells Erza that she grew beautifully after a long time, despite her barely remembering his face. Simon then appears as Lucy questions Erza as to who the people are and why they are calling her sister, but she tells Lucy they are just old friends. The group tells Erza that they are here to take her back home with Wally pointing his gun at Lucy, in case she refuses. Erza, pleading for Wally to stop, ends up with a shot in the back with Wally's Reanimation Magic, with Wally using a tranquilizer shot. Before their departure, Wally gives Millianna a sleeping Happy as a gift, and tells her to tie Erza up. Shô, excited, reveals that Erza will be returning to the Tower of Heaven, where Jellal is waiting.

Erza later wakes up in a ship on the way to the tower, attempting to free herself from Millianna's ropes. Shô then appears, commenting that it is pointless to try. Erza asks if she can put her armor on because she does not feel secure without it. Shô then cries and yells at her for betraying Jellal. Erza then has another short flashback, revealing her imprisonment with Jellal and the rest of her old friends.

Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Juvia Lockser sail to the Tower of Heaven in hopes of finding Erza and Happy. As Erza arrives at the Tower, she is thrown in a prison. Shô tells her she will stay there until the "ceremony" starts tomorrow. He then tells her that she will be the sacrifice for "Paradise". Erza tells Shô not to use the R-System to resurrect the dark Mage, Zeref, because of the consequences it will bring to the Magic World. Shô then says that Jellal is reviving him to bring them to "Paradise", and that they will rule with him. Erza then brings Shô to his knees by kicking him in the face, and requips her basic armor to search for Jellal.

Erza fights her way through some guards, asking where Jellal is, and eventually comes across Natsu and gang. Although she is surprised to see them, she tells them to go back and that this is her problem to deal with. Natsu refuses, one reason being because Millianna has Happy. Erza apologizes, saying that she would lose this fight no matter what. Erza tells them about the Tower of Heaven, otherwise known as the R-System. After she finishes telling about her past, she says that she is ready to fight.

Back in the present, Erza tells Gray, Lucy, and Juvia, that she is destined to fight Jellal. Meanwhile, Jellal's thought projection, Siegrain, is gathering votes at the Magic Council to destroy the Tower of Heaven with the Etherion. Back at the Tower, Erza tells the others that Zeref was the strongest Dark Mage ever. He created horrible and destructive monsters. Lucy points out that the Lullaby was one of Zeref's monsters. Erza also thinks that Deliora was one, too. Lucy then asks why Erza is considered a traitor to her old friends. Erza doesn't know why, but suspects Jellal made something up. Shô then appears, hearing what actually happened eight years ago and cannot believe that Jellal was tricking them all this time. Shô says that eight years ago, Jellal told him that Erza had planted bombs in their ships and that if Jellal hadn't noticed, everyone would have died. Jellal then made everyone get back to work on the tower, claiming that it was a sign that the tower must continue to be built. Erza tells Shô she never did that. Simon then appears, revealing he knew all along that Jellal was lying. They all decide to work together to stop Jellal.

Everybody follows Simon in an attempt to look for Natsu and stop Erza's other friends from attacking. The company learns that they can't escape, because they need to defeat Jellal and the assassination Death's Head Caucus Guild's Trinity Raven before Jellal activates the tower that will cause the Council to release the Etherion, which would destroy the tower and them along with it. After hearing what will happen, Shô traps Erza in one of his cards and runs off with her. They have a limited amount of time to defeat Trinity Raven before the Etherion is released and everyone manages to defeat two members of the Trinity Raven. Erza and Shô run into the third member, Ikaruga. Shô throws cards at her, but she cuts them all up. Ikaruga claims that she can slice anything, even separate dimensions like Shô's cards. Somehow, without her sword touching Shô, he gets slashed across the chest twice. Erza falls out of Shô's hand and demands to be let out.

Ikaruga swings her sword again. She protects the blow and tells Shô that she isn't safe in his card. After a few more slices, Erza breaks out because when the slashes went into the card, there was a slight opening that she used to get out of the card. All of a sudden, Erza's armor is cut into pieces, showing that she didn't dodge all of Ikaruga's attacks successfully. She then requips her Heaven's Wheel Armor. The two girls attack each other head on. Erza uses Circle Sword. Her circle of swords comes toward the enemy, but she simply cuts them up and then destroys Erza's armor again. Ikaruga then uses Garuda Flame, and Erza quickly requips her Flame Empress Armor to defend herself. She slams into a wall and charges towards Ikaruga. Her armor again shatters. She is persuaded to use her strongest armor. She requips her Purgatory Armor, and claims that nobody had seen it and lived. Ikaruga quickly slices past Erza, shattering the armor. She gets up and requips a sarashi (long, winding strip of cloth, usually thick cotton, wrapped tightly around the midriff up to the chest) with a flame patterned bottom hakama.

Erza explains there is nothing special about her armor. All her life she had locked her heart away in her suit of armor, and that had made her weak and afraid. Now that she wears none, she believes she can defeat Ikaruga. The two ladies charge towards each other, their swords clashing for the final time. Erza's arm gets slashed twice, and her enemy tells her that she has lost. However, Ikaruga realizes she got slashed too. Blood comes out of her heavy wound and she falls to the ground, most likely dead. Her last words tell Shô that there are 15 minutes until the Etherion hits the tower. Erza tells Shô to get everybody else out the tower, claiming that she will fight Jellal and end this.

Erza makes it to the part of the tower where Jellal is. Jellal claims the game is over, and Erza asks if playing with people's lives are fun. Erza claims that she will free her friends. She thinks Jellal is bluffing about the Etherion falling, but he claims that he is not and that either way, she will be a sacrifice for Zeref. Jellal announces there are 7 minutes until the Etherion strikes. He attacks Erza with Shade Magic. She dodges all of them and cuts them up. Jellal then attacks her again, making her fly out the side of the tower. She manages to get back up by jumping on the crumbling rocks. As she swings her sword, she asks why Jellal is damaging his tower so carelessly. Jellal doesn't seem to care, but Erza does, because Shô and her friends spent years making it. He uses his Shade Magic again, hitting Erza.

She manages to break out of it, slices Jellal, and holds him down on the ground. She then tells Jellal he failed at completing the R-System because the tower has no Magic to resurrect. There needs to be 2.7 billion Edeas in order for the tower to activate. Trying to make her give up, he explains how his body was possessed by Zeref and how he is nothing more than a doll doing his bidding.

He claims it was all over before it had even begun and that nobody could save him. He says he knew he could not finish the R-System, but Zeref would not stop him. He asks Erza to strike him down. She refuses and hugs Jellal as the Etherion hits the tower, completely destroying the outer structure of the tower. Surprised that she is alive after the blast, she looks around and notices there are crystals everywhere and that the structure is an absorption crystal. Jellal explains that the council's Etherion provided the tower with 2.7 billion Edeas, enough to bring Zeref back. Just then, Siegrain shows up and reveals that he and Jellal are the same person, and that he became a council member just to cast the Etherion down on the tower. They both reveal that they are the same person and that Siegrain was just a psychic projection. Now that the two have morphed back together, Jellal’s full Magical power returns. He pushes Erza to the ground.

Just then a serpent binding spell stops Erza from moving. It was put on her when she hugged him. Before forcing her into the R-System crystal in order to be sacrificed, he claims that he loved her. Natsu then arrives just in time to pull Erza out. Natsu telld her that they need to go back to work, otherwise they won't have enough money to pay Lucy's rent on time.

Erza tells him that she can't move, which he took advantage of as he comically tickles her. Erza tells Natsu to leave and not fight Jellal, because she is afraid of the consequences that will happen to him. She begs him to do so. Natsu tells Erza that he doesn't get her at all. He then punches her, causing her to faint while mentioning he'll win this fight. Enraged from what had happened, Natsu flares up like never before and goes to fight Jellal. Erza then wakes up to Natsu being blasted by Jellal's meteor attacks.

Natsu starts destroying the tower so the resurrection cannot occur. Jellal prepares another attack on Natsu, but Erza gets in front, hoping that he won't attack her. He still prepares to launch it, claiming that it does not matter who the sacrifice is, now that there is so much damage. He launches his attack. Opening her eyes, Erza sees that Simon is in front of her and that he used his body as a shield to protect her. He falls to the ground and Erza runs towards him. He confesses his love for Erza, and then dies. Erza screams in anguish and Natsu continues his battle with Jellal. By eating the Etherion, Natsu manages to defeat Jellal, but the Etherion has already been activated. Sadly, the Tower of Heaven has too much damage to it and is going to let loose all the Magic, which will make everything explode, including Gray, Lucy, and the others outside the tower.

Back in the tower, Erza carries Natsu on her back. She shortly realizes that she needs to be the sacrifice to control the Magic energy and stop the explosion. She then puts her body half-way in the crystal, only for Natsu to wake up and ask her what she is doing. She tells him what she is doing and that she cannot live without Fairy Tail, and cannot imagine a world without her friends. If she dies saving everybody, then she has no regrets; she then offers her body to the R-System so that she can control it. She blanks out completely.

Erza wakes up in a dress, wondering where she is. Everything is white around her. The scene turns to her funeral. Erza realizes that she is dead and that nobody is happy. She is a permanent part of the Magic Council, but nobody seems to care and is just crying. Natsu doesn't believe Erza is dead and refuses to accept it. As everybody cries, Erza realizes that she made a mistake. She says she did this to give them a better future and closes her eyes.

She then wakes up, realizing it was a dream. All of her friends run towards her, and Natsu carries her towards them. He lays her in the water, to which Erza is amazed that he was able to not only find, but also take her out the vortex alive. Natsu stated that they, and everybody in Fairy Tail feel the same way, especially her friends. Natsu in tears tells Erza not to do something like that ever again. Erza promises him to do so, and she comes to the realization that she doesn't need to die for her friends, but to live for them, because that is that only way to bring the best future. For the first time since 8 years ago, she cries tears of joy, out of both eyes.

Wally, Millianna and Shô apologize to Erza, saying they didn't want to hurt her. Erza suggests they come to Fairy Tail. She then hears Jellal say she has become strong. She turns around and sees nobody, denying to herself that she heard anything. However, Erza leaves with the impression that Jellal had spoken to her. While they are celebrating their reunion, Erza mentions her belief that once "Zeref"'s spirit left Jellal's body, it was Jellal who directed the Etherion into the sky, preventing all of them from falling into destruction and losing his life in the process.

Later, Lucy asks where Shô and the others went. Erza dashes out to go look for them. She then realizes that her former comrades decided to leave Erza’s side, saying that they have caused her too much pain for her. Erza then prepares for them the official Fairy Tail’s Farewell Ceremony. After a few promises, she recites the Rules when leaving Fairy Tail, and cries goodbye to them, hoping to see them again someday. After that, Natsu, Lucy, Gray and Erza throw a farewell bash, wishing Shô, Milliana, and Wally well as they depart, finally free and living their own lives.

Fighting Festival arc
Erza comes back to the Guild to see it rebuilt and in great condition; but her happiness is interrupted when she finds that Gajeel Redfox had joined Fairy Tail. She voices her concerns with Makarov, but as he gives her his confidence, she petitions to have Gajeel watched.

Later, when a reporter from Sorcerer Magazine comes to Fairy Tail to interview the members, she wears a modified version of her Heart Kreuz Armor. She surprises everyone when she expresses her desire to be interviewed, but after she is done, she goes to Heart Kreuz to voice her concerns about her new armor.

During the festival, Erza competes for the title of "Miss Fairy Tail", requiping into a beautiful dress that Lucy recognizes as Goth Loli style in front of everyone, and states that victory is hers. However, she is turned to stone, along with all the other Miss Fairy Tail contestants by Evergreen.

Natsu and Gajeel try to turn her back to normal with Natsu's flame, thinking that it would release her from the stone. She does get revived, because her artificial eye halves the effect of Evergreen's Magic, and she promptly beats the two of them. She soon realizes that even Mystogan has arrived to fight Laxus Dreyar, in order to help save the guild.

She then goes to town to find Laxus, but encounters Evergreen instead. She threatens Evergreen to release the other girls, but Evergreen is more interested in claiming the title of "Titania" for herself instead. After fighting her for some time, Erza pins her against a wall, Evergreen reveals to her she'll kill the girls if Erza doesn't strip to degrade herself. Erza counters that by requiping into her "Heaven's Wheel Armor" and threatens to kill Evergreen herself if she doesn't revive the girls, and thus, Evergreen concedes and the girls are released.

After her fight with Evergreen, both Erza and Natsu find Laxus and Mystogan already fighting in the Cathedral, and she has a shock when she witnesses the true face of Mystogan, which is exactly like Jellal's face. Not knowing it wasn't Jellal, her eyes begin to shed tears and she becomes emotionally unstable for a moment. She recovers from the surprise though and prepares to attack Laxus with her Lightning Empress Armor, but later decides to trust Natsu to stop Laxus, and goes to destroy the Thunder Palace instead to protect everyone in Magnolia. With the help of Warren Rocko, she communicates with all her comrades, and they help her to destroy the Hall of Thunder's lacrimas. In the end, she manages to take out 200 lacrimas, which are the majority of them.

As the festival continues after the whole incident, Erza is seen performing with her swords during the Fantasia Parade while Mystogan watches her.

Oración Seis arc
Erza begins to try and find out about Mystogan; however, she realizes Makarov knows nothing about him. Stumped, Erza wonders about Mystogan's relationship to Jellal, and why they both have the same exact face.

Later, Erza and her team begin to go on a mission to hunt a Mage hunter, but she becomes surprised when she hears Lucy went off to Acalypha and took out the Naked Mummy Guild by herself. Later, after Team Natsu discusses the Balam Alliance with Mirajane and a few other members of Fairy Tail, Makarov reveals that an alliance of guilds has been made in order to take down one of the Dark Guilds part of the Balam Alliance, Oración Seis, and that Fairy Tail is a part of it. Erza, along with Natsu, Gray, Happy and Lucy are chosen as Fairy Tail's representatives. They meet up with the Blue Pegasus Guild delegates, The Trimens that are none other than, Hibiki Laytis, Eve Thylm, Ren Akatsuki, and (much to the girls' chagrin) are met with the delegates' effeminacy, though to Erza's horror, Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki is also along. They also meet the delegates of Lamia Scale Guild: Jura Neekis, Lyon Bastia and Sherry Blendi, as well as the delegates of Caitshelter Guild: Wendy Marvell and Carla. As all the delegates get together, Erza follows Natsu and Gray as they run to find the Oración Seis.

As the Oración Seis finds them, Erza battles Cobra in a new armor. However, she is bitten by his snake and she suffers from the extreme poison. As Lucy gives Erza her belt to strap on her arm, she begs for someone to cut her poisoned arm off. Lyon steps forward to do this, but this is denied by her fellow Fairy Tail members and an argument erupts. However, Carla explains to them that Wendy, who was kidnapped by Brain, can help her, as her Magic allows her to heal the injured. As the others leave to rescue Wendy, Lucy and Hibiki Laytis stay behind to take care of her. After Natsu arrives with Wendy, she treats Erza and removes the poison. When the others notice the pillar of black light in the sky, Natsu says Jellal is there and rushes forward. In the ensuing confusion, Erza slips away, intending to head towards the pillar, too.

Because the others are impeded in fights against the Oración Seis, Erza manages to reach Jellal first, although she is unsure of how to act towards him. To her surprise, she discovers that he has become amnesiac, and is only able to remember her name. As Erza explains who he is and what he did to his comrades, Jellal breaks down in tears upon learning what kind of person he is. Suddenly, Cobra appears and attempts to take Nirvana, but Jellal reveals that he put a Self-Destruction Spell around Nirvana to destroy it. However, he also put the spell on himself so he could end his life, and free Erza from the pain he has caused to her and her comrades.

She doesn't take this too kindly and runs up to him, grabs him and demands that he cancel the spell and live. Moments later, Brain appears, revealing that he taught Jellal the Self-Destruction Spell which he created himself, and easily cancels it, before activating the second stage of Nirvana. Erza and Jellal are caught in Nirvana's skywards eruption, Erza barely hanging onto an edge with one hand and Jellal in the other. She pulls them up, saying that he should live on to see the future as Fairy Tail members do with their connection of "hope". However, she takes time out of her speech to question Lucy, alongside Gray, why she and Natsu are wearing matching clothes.

Later, Midnight appears before her and quickly defeats Jellal, revealing his Reflector Magic to her. She tries her best to fight him, but all her attacks are reflected and her armor becomes reflected to confine her. As Midnight tortures Jellal with the truth of his deeds, Erza reassures Jellal that she believes that there is still goodness in him, and requips to a new armor, readying herself for round two against Midnight. She slashes at Midnight, but her attack gets reflected. She then punches him, sending him flying. She claims he has two weaknesses. She reveals that he can't reflect the human body and he starts to strangle her with her armor.

She then says that his second weakness is that he can't reflect objects in more than one area. He looks above and sees that she had sent multiple swords flying down at him, which pins him to the ground. Also, Erza's armor is an elastic robe, and she is able to overcome his twisting power. Midnight says that at midnight, his refracting gets to his peak as he transforms into a giant monster. He creates a giant explosion and stabs Jellal and Erza.

He is then successfully slashed and defeated by Erza as she reveals his transformation was all just an illusion. Afterwards, she manages to get into contact with the others through Hibiki's telepathy, only to learn that Nirvana is controlled by six different Lacrima Crystals.

After their discussion and planning, Hibiki implants a map to guide them towards the location of each lacrima crystal. Erza says she will handle Lacrima number 5. When Jellal is about to say he'll destroy the 6th Lacrima, she immediately interrupts, saying "You will handle Lacrima number 6" without indicating a name. She whispers to him that Natsu still doesn't know his relation towards the mission and might mistake him as an enemy. When Erza finishes, Natsu answers that he seemed to have heard a familiar voice, which is actually Jellal, but no one seems to reply.

She is then seen standing in front of the fifth Lacrima, waiting for the appointed time to arrive and destroy it. After Natsu's victory over Zero, the rest of the Mages including Erza manage to destroy all six Lacrima Crystals and Nirvana collapses. Everyone is seen rejoicing as they are reunited. Erza says that she will support Jellal and he doesn´t need to care about his memories. At this moment, they stare at each other and she then says "I...", only for the New Magic Council to interrupt and arrest Hoteye and Jellal for their past criminal acts.

As Jellal willingly gives himself up to the council, Rahal warns him that this will probably be the last time he ever sees them again, for he will either be given the death sentence or life imprisonment. Suddenly, an angered Natsu starts to fight against the council, trying to bring Jellal back for Erza's sake, and states that Jellal is already "one of us". This causes every other Mage to fight for Jellal as well, except for Erza, who could only tremble in anger and watch the chaos. The council is then ordered to capture everyone else, but Erza decides to stop the commotion once and for all, and lets the Council take Jellal away. Jellal looks back at her in relief, but not before he mentions her scarlet hair, which implies that he remembers the time he chose her last name, Scarlet.

They say their final farewells and as Jellal is taken away, everyone looks on sadly. Erza is later shown alone, crying from both eyes, for the loss of her friend as she remembers when she and Jellal were together as kids. As he leaves, he remembers her last name, "Scarlet", which he picked when they were young. Afterwards, a flashback is then seen with a scenario back at the Tower of Heaven, with Jellal introducing himself with his full name. Wally, an old friend who is now cross-country travelling, said that his name was too long and that it'll be easy to forget. In return, Jellal said that his name, "Wally Buchanan", is hard to remember, too. Wally then asks for Erza's full name and she replied "I am Erza. Just plain Erza." Jellal then said that's kind of sad, and suddenly came to notice her hair. Surprised, Erza turned and demanded to know what he was doing. Jellal stated that her hair was beautifully scarlet, and suddenly decided to name her "Erza Scarlet", with Wally opposing, saying that he shouldn't go naming people just like that. The flashback ends with Jellal saying "Scarlet. It's the color of your hair. That way, I'll never forget it!" She is then seen crying for the loss of her friend as the sky shines in a beautiful scarlet color. Lucy mentions that the beauty of the dawn's sunrise is the likes of which she had never seen before. It is like Erza's hair, warm and passionate. She then says that if only Erza would lift her face, a beautiful sky would spread out upon her.

Back at Cait Shelter, Lucy and Sherry wear clothes given by the guild members, who offer some to Erza. All she could say to reply is "Ah, that sounds nice." She is then seen comforting Wendy, as Cait Shelter is revealed to be just a mere illusion, and invites her back to Fairy Tail.

Edolas arc
After Gildarts Clive tells Natsu he has something to tell him, Erza urges Natsu and Lucy not to take on the Hundred Year quest that Gildarts had recently failed. Later, Erza comments on Bisca Mulan and Alzack Connell getting along well. Erza tells them to treasure these memories so they will not regret them later. Marakov then calls Erza over, telling her that about his choice to pass the Hundred Year Quest to another guild. She agrees with Makarov's decision. Later, the Anima sucks up Fairy Tail into Edolas, including Erza. However, Gajeel releases her and Gray from the lacrima with Mystogan's help. Mystogan then sends them to Edolas with X-Balls that allow Earth Land people to use Magic freely in Edolas.

When Erza Knightwalker is about to kill Happy, Erza and Gray bash some of the Edolas Guards and show up, ready to attack, and declare Erza Knightwalker to be an enemy of Fairy Tail. Seeing that her counterpart is about to strike Gray, Erza quickly blocks her counterpart's spear with her sword, and the clash of their weapons causes a huge aftershock. Realizing that her group could not proceed any further than they already have with Knightwalker hot on their tails, Scarlet orders her friends to carry on without her. After Gray, Lucy, Carla and Happy leave to find Natsu and Wendy, the two Erzas begin to battle, with both being evenly matched. Scarlet attacks with her arsenal of weapons and armor, while Knightwalker parries with her Magical shape-shifting spear, "The Ten Commandments". Erza then comments on how their Magic is similar, before preparing for another round. The two continue fighting as their scenery changes to a small unstable bridge with bricks falling from above.

Erza Knightwalker is then seen meeting up with Natsu and Gray (after their fights with Hughes and Sugarboy) and captures them. She defeats the both of them and drags them to the Dragon Cannon control room, commenting on how she can see eternal Magic coming. She then orders Gray to active the cannon aiming towards the island, with the threat that she would kill Natsu if he did not comply. Right at the crucial moment, however, Erza Knightwalker suddenly shouts at Natsu to fight, before quickly holding her sword at Faust's throat, revealing herself to be Erza Scarlet, and the entire plan to be a ruse. She then tells the soldiers to move the coordinates to fire at the Lacrima, or she would kill the king. However, the real Erza Knightwalker vaults over the wall of the control room and frees Faust. Erza is then seen smirking at her Edolas counterpart while the Legion flies off. She then helps everyone to push back the Lacrima Island, enough for Mystogan to send the giant Lacrima back to Earth Land. She witnesses her counterpart shoot Pantherlily, who declares the battle is not over yet. When Dorma Anim shows up, Natsu tells her that he, along with Gajeel and Wendy, would take care of Faust, while she and her group should protect the Exceeds. However, as they try to catch up, Knightwalker ambushes the Legion that they were on. While Lucy, Gray, and Coco fall, Erza merely chains on to another Legion and defeats a couple of Legion squad members herself. As she requips to the Heaven's Wheel armor, the both of them declare that there is only room for one Erza, and the other one must perish.

The second round starts off with Erza unleashing a new attack called Trinity Sword with her Heaven's Wheel Armor, but Knightwalker negates her attack with an orb of gravity (Gravity Core), before splitting her spear into two and attacking Erza with both a fire and ice attack (Blue Crimson). Erza manages to dodge, and requips into her Morning Star Armor. She then fires off an energy blast towards Knightwalker, but her counterpart simply seals it off (Runesave) before managing to score a hit with Silfarion. However, as she is about to round off the fight, Erza exhibits the ability to wield swords with her feet, catching Knightwalker off guard. Erza then comments on how they're both evenly matched, but then Knightwalker decides at that moment to use her trump card, Ravelt. Erza then requips into the Fairy Armor, her strongest armor. As the two Erza's clash, they create an explosion large enough to shatter the entire island, and in the process, Erza's armor is destroyed along with Knightwalker's spear.

However, even though they both have already run out of Magic, they have a fist fight, while debating about whether it is wrong to extort Magic from Extalia. Erza finally manages to knock some sense into Knightwalker, telling her that they can still survive without Magic, and that it can be overcome. She then tells Knightwalker that they are the same, and as Erza herself has the same evil qualities and weaknesses in Knightwalker, Knightwalker herself has the same compassionate heart as Erza. The falling island then crashes into the ground, and both Erzas no longer have the strength to move. Knightwalker then admits defeat, but Erza denies this, saying that there is no such thing, seeing as they're the same person.

With the two Erza's peace made, Anima begins to take Scarlet back to Earth Land. The two Erzas bid one final farewell. After returning to Earth Land, she is surprised to see the Exceeds have arrived in Earth Land, and after hearing about their story, no one has grudge against them. Before saying farewell to the Exceeds, Nichiya hits on Erza, which freaks her out.

However, when the Exceeds leave, Erza, along with Gray and Natsu, are surprised when Pantherlily drags out the captured Lisanna from Edolas and wonders why is she on Earth Land. However, Lisanna reveals that she was never dead and she is the Earth Land Lisanna. Erza, alongside Natsu and the others, helps Lisanna to return to her siblings.

Tenrou Island arc
Back at Fairy Tail, everybody is acting hyper again. Pantherlily is surprised at how noisy everyone is, and finds it hard to believe that they all have Magical power inside them. Erza explains that's how Mages are in Earthland. She also points out that the Magic isn't important, but the hearts and the people who wield it. Pantherlily tells Erza that it's comforting to see a familiar face like hers, even though she's not the Erza he knew. Later, she is seen practicing her swordsmanship abilities with Pantherlily; they stop when Pantherlily returns to his chibi form. She is seen alongside Makarov, announcing the S-Class Wizard Promotion Trial. It is shown that it was her that didn't let Gajeel participate in the event, feeling it was too early for him.

After the rules are explained, it is revealed that Erza will be participating along with Mirajane and Gildarts. Their main role in the trial is to attempt to hinder the selected teams in some way. After the participants get to Tenrou Island, Makarov tells them there will be eight paths, and of them, seven will result in battles. She waits in path D, and battles both Juvia and Lisanna in a temple ruins of some sort with the Sea King Armor. Despite a valiant fight, Erza easily manages to defeat them. After the first part of the exam is over, she, along with Juvia, Lisanna, and Mirajane, are all seen at the resting camp on the island. While she is cooking, Mirajane breaks to Erza the news that Elfman and Evergreen were getting "married". She starts questioning how and when did it all happen. She then asks of Freed and Bickslow's whereabouts, and learns that they went back to the guild with Gildarts. She also questions why Mest and Wendy weren't at the base, which sends her and Juvia out to look for them.

Later, Erza is seen with Juvia, and the both find an injured Levy McGarden. Erza, with Juvia and Levy, goes to help Gajeel as he had already finished his long battle against Kawazu and Yomazu and won, albeit not without suffering some critical injuries himself. Then, while they are checking up Gajeel's condition, Yomazu announces that The Seven Kin of Purgatory is coming, the aces of Grimoire Heart.

Erza immediately announces that the exam is now on hold, and sends a warning flare signal to the rest of the guild members present on Tenrou Island, loudly declaring that everyone in the guild must enter in a battle formation for a 'code red'-level emergency. Erza requips into her Heartz Kreuz armor.

Erza tells Levy and Juvia that she's going to search for Wendy and Mest, because she thinks they got lost wandering the grounds. She then goes over to Yomazu and asks what their goals are. He refuses to talk, until Erza hits him on the head. He then reveals they are here for the Black Mage, Zeref. He tells them Zeref lived 400 years ago, and has since been in a "slumbering" state. Erza finds that impossible, and asks if he's trying to start some disorder. Yomazu simply tells her The Seven Kin of Purgatory are coming, and she shouldn't underestimate them. When the Grimoire Heart guild arrives on the island, members surround Juvia and Erza, and they prepare to fight them. They easily defeat all the members in their immediate vicinity, but are then confronted by Meredy. Erza warns Juvia not to underestimate her just because she is a kid, saying that she could sense a strange Magic from the girl.

Before they battle, Meredy tells them what Grimoire Heart plans to do with Zeref: to have him rule a world where non-Magic users cannot survive. In her battle with Juvia against Meredy, Meredy attacks them with an attack called Maguilty Sodom, which creates Magic swords that are sent flying towards her and Juvia. The attack manages to pierce Juvia's water body, which causes Erza to question what type of Magic it is. Meredy simply states that to eliminate the enemy is her mission.

As the battle between the three continues, Meredy begins to assault Juvia and states that she will be "13th place". Erza then tells Juvia to step down because she will take care of her, and Meredy replies that Erza will be "4th place". When questioned by Erza as to what her rankings mean, Meredy replies that those are the rankings she decided to kill them in. Meredy then utilizes Maguilty Sodom and attacks Juvia again. Erza then asks why she is after Juvia, and Meredy replies "13 is just trash. I'll take care of her quickly." Meredy then goes on and continues to explain her rankings, and says Gray Fullbuster is first since he killed Ultear's mother. This sparks both Juvia's and Erza's attention. Meredy then tries to use Maguilty Sodom against Erza, but Juvia uses her water to surround and knock all of her blades away. Juvia then says she can't forgive Meredy and with a disturbed look on her face, asks Meredy whose life she was going to take. Erza, with a nervous look, remarks that Juvia should calm down.

Juvia proceeds to attack Meredy with astonishing strength. This shocks Erza, who notices that Juvia's fighting is nothing like how she was during the exams. She finally understands that Juvia's true powers come out when she fights for a loved one. Juvia tells Erza that she will handle Meredy and that Erza needs to go find Wendy and Gray. Erza requips down to her swimsuit and leaves as Juvia defends her from Meredy's attack.

As Erza runs around looking for her guildmates, Azuma emerges upside down from a tree and calls out to her. He tells her that he took care of "that little girl", referring to Wendy. Later, she feels Bluenote using his Magic. She begins her fight with Azuma and is seen with her Flame Empress Armor, which negates Azuma's explosion attacks. After requipping a few more armors, she and Azuma battle for a while longer. Azuma comments that he and Erza are the same: they both fight to pursue the strong opponents. Erza, however, replies that she only needed the strength to protect her comrades.

Azuma then states that they are out of time. He activates his Lost Magic and uproots Tenrou Island's tree, which has the ability to protect and give strength to every Fairy Tail member.

Azuma then tells Erza that her friends' lives are on the line, and to show him if she had enough power to protect them. Erza asks Azuma why she's the only not affected by his daMage to the Tenrou Tree, and he says he wants to fight her when she's serious. Erza says she will defeat him no matter what if he'll return the guild's Magical power; he promises he will do this, remarking that he doesn't like these tactics. Erza starts her attack by using the Heaven Wheel's Armor and "Blumenblatt", which is easily blocked by Azuma, who then proceeds to use "Pholium and Laum Seekers" to attack Erza.

Erza then switches to her Flight Armor, which allows her to land a hit, but on her second attempt, Azuma defends himself, captures Erza, and uses Tower Burst to severely injure Erza. After this, Erza starts to contemplate Azuma's power, remarking on how he's damaged both her Fairy and Purgatory Armor. She decides that she needs to put all her Magical power into one attack without using any power for defense, so she requips to just a sarashi and a single sword. She goes all out using the Crimson Cherry technique, but Azuma is easily able to ensnare Erza before she gets to him, anf uses the Terra Chrymal to defeat Erza. Jellal says her name back in prison as he no longer senses her presence. While Erza is unconscious, she hears Jellal's voice telling her not to lose, and she wakes up, telling herself it's just her imagination and that she needs to focus on Azuma. She attacks him, forcing him on the defense for a bit, but once again, he bind her arms and legs. She then remembers when Jellal gave her her last name back when they were younger. Azuma hits her with another Terra Chrymal, feeling that this is it for her. She then hears Natsu's voice asking her if she was going to give up, and has other visions of her friends in the guild. This gives her the resolve to get back up. She apologizes to them, mentioning that she wasn't protecting everyone but instead, she was the one being protected. As she comes toward Azuma, he is surprised that he has lost control of the Tenrou Island Magic and that it now protects Erza. He thinks to himself that their true strength is not in the individual but the sum of them, and calls them an amazing guild. Erza lands a finishing blow, defeating Azuma.

After defeating Azuma Erza falls to the ground, battle worn, and notices Azuma's body was transforming into a tree. He states that it is a side effect of overusing his Lost Magic. He then tells her that, as promised, he would return everyone's Magic Power to them. She then asks him if he knew a man name Jellal. Azuma states that he does and explains that Jellal is a sad man whose become obsessed with the idea that Zeref ghost exist and that he lost all sense of reason. He then asks Erza did she know him, and she doesn't respond. He then apologizes and states that it was Ultear's plan, and that she did it to get the Magic Council to take their eyes off of Grimoire Heart. He then goes on to explain that Ultear is a truly frightening person. Erza then asks him why they are after Zeref so much, and Azuma states that it is to get closer to the very first Magic in the world, the source of all Magic. Erza then asks what would happen if they found the source and Azuma simply smiles and states that Jellal dreamed of Paradise. Azuma tries to explain further but is completely transformed into trees. Erza attempts to rush towards him but collapses due to fatigue.

Later Erza was seen trying to stand up again. After standing up,Erza helped Gray who almost collapsed and asks him if he's okay. Gray states that it seems that he always needs to be saved by somebody. Erza replies that she's the same, too. Natsu's group arrives, overhears the words said, and with a big grin, Natsu tells them that he is the same too. The reunited Team Natsu, along with Wendy, Carla and Pantherlily, prepares for the final battle against Hades.

Hades tells the group to fight him when ready and returns to his ship.Natsu tells the Exceeds to search for the ship's power source and destroy it in order to prevent it from taking off. After Wendy casts Troia on Natsu as a precautionary measure, Gray uses his Ice Make: Stairs to climb the ship while the Exceeds flies off to find the power source. As the group climbs the stairs, Erza reminds the group that Hades is a powerful Mage and that to use their full power from the start. Everyone agrees and Team Natsu head off to the ship

Natsu start of the battle by sending a fire ball into Hade,but Hade stops his attack with his hand,but is surprised to see Erza and Gray appear right in front of him. Erza, Erza, in her Black Wing Armor, attacks with her Moon Glimpse while Gray attacks with his Ice-Make: Cold Excalibur. Lucy then summons Taurus who attacks Hades while Wendy casts Arms Spell X Armor X Vernier to enhance their attack power, defensive power and speed. With Wendy's support, Erza and Gray continue to attack Hades but miss. With a summoned chain, Hades snags Erza and slams her into Gray.Natsu see it as an opening attack Hade but Hade recover from the attack and attack Natsu with his chain.but Erza cut the chain freeing Natsu, Gray uses his Ice-Make: Hammer to shot Natsu towards Hades. Wendy attacks with her Sky Dragon's Roar and Lucy summons Scorpio who attacks with his Sand Buster. The two attacks combine into a Unison Raid,and surrounds Natsu, boosting his Magic then Natsu attack Hade.

Hades goes flying into a wall and seem the group is victorious. But Hades soon arecovers barely affected, telling the group they made a true mistake in making him their opponent. He then asks if their done with their "warm up" much to the group's shock. Hades then shouts which affects Wendy who suddenly disappears. Leaving only her clothing behind.But it's revealed that Horologium saved her at the last second by forcing his gate open, commenting that since the danger was higher then normal he came out to help,Horologuim's time is spent so he releases a newly clothed Wendy and tells the group to be careful before disappearing.

Everyone prepares to attack again. Hade comments on "Makarov's kids",which made Natsu to ask him if he knew their master,Hade confirm it that he was the second master,a disbelieving Natsu charges,but Hade attack him,before attack Wendy and Gray,then uses his chain on Erza and Lucy ramming them into each other before blowing them up,Natsu tried to help the rest but Hade shoot him in the leg,while shooting Gray and Wendy as well.As Team Natsu lay defeated ,Hade start to belittle Makarov,but Natsu defend Makarov, Hade brutally beat up Natsu,while Erza and the others watch in horror,and yelling at Hade to stop.when Hade was about to finish Natsu off. When the light subsides, Laxus is standing in front of Hades. Having overheard Natsu's last remark about being the old man rival,he attacked Hades.

After Laxus fails at beating Hades, and gives his Magical power to Natsu, Erza remarks how the situation was similiar to when Natsu ate the Etherion. After Natsu attacks Hades with his Lighting Flame attacks, Erza is shocked to see Hades is still okay. Hades then removes his eye patch and shows the group the "Abyss of Magic", which transforms Hades and increases his Magical power drastically Hades tells the group none of them are worthy enough to walk the path of Magic, or to live in the Ultimate Magic World. After displaying his Living Magic spells, Erza starts to shake in fear. Natsu then tells the group to use that fear to become stronger. Erza understands and helps launch Natsu at Hades, even though none of them have Magical power left. Natsu and Hades's final collision ends with the ship exploding. Natsu prevails punching Hades in the face. Hades doesn't know how he lost, until he feels that his heart had been destroyed somewhere on the ship. He reveals his heart was the only thing that let him use all his Magic. Wendy shows Erza, Gray, and Lucy that the Tenrou tree is back up, which was thanks to Ultear's Arc of Time. After Lucy, Gray and Wendy attack Hades, Erza uses Pentagram Sword on him. Laxus then attacks, and then Natsu, which finally defeats Hades. After the battle, Erza and the others head back to the camp to rest.

Their rest, however, is cut short when Acnologia arrives and attacks the guild members. Erza watches as Makarov holds the beast off and tells his guild members that his final order is for them to escape. She heeds his order and she attempts to flee Tenrou Island. However, she, along with the rest of Fairy Tail, comes back and attempts to fight Acnologia. When Acnologia flies into the air and prepares to use some sort of Dragon Breath, the entire guild grabs hands and gives all their Magic Power to Freed in an attempt to negate the attack. They fail and Tenrou Island is destroyed, and they are never found.

X791 arc
Erza along with the rest of the others are rescued by Bisca, Alzack, Jet, Droy, Max, Warren and the Trimens from Blue Pegasus. She watches as Mavis Vermilion reveals that she was the one who saved them and then disappears. She returns to the Fairy Tail Guild and, along with Natsu, Gajeel, and Gray, defeats the members of Twilight Ogre who were threatening Romeo and is later welcomed back by Romeo.

Erza joins their welcome back party, and is surprised to hear the Bisca and Alzack have gotten married and have a child. Erza is later confronted by the couple again in Magnolia Town, and they reveal startling information about Jellal to Erza. Later, Erza, along with Mirajane, accompanies Makarov to the Twilight Ogre Guild to pay them back, though it wasn't for money. She dons her Purgatory Armor and she, along with Makarov and Mirajane, proceed to fight the entire guild.

Two weeks after her return from Tenrou Island, with a new armor, she tells Cana that her father, Gildarts, and Makarov have gone to the old guild building.

Erza with other members of Fairy Tail go to the beach to train for the Grand Magic Games. However, instead they start having fun and decide to just relax for the first day. Later on the day, Erza trains with her sword by cutting the water. Later at night, she and other girls that had come with her are taking a bath, while the boys peep on them. She then throws knives at the place where she sensed someone, but then says that maybe the boys should join them in the bath shocking Wendy and earning a strong objection from Lucy.

On the second day of training, Erza and co. are interrupted by Virgo who tells everyone the Celestial Spirit World is in great danger and they need everyone's help. After Virgo dresses them in Celestial Spirit clothes, they are sent to the Spirit World, where they find out there is no trouble, but all of Lucy's spirits had planned a party for everyone's return. After a day of celebrating, Virgo informs the gang that time runs different in the Spirit World than Earth Land, thus they have lost almost the whole three months of training in the one day.

Once they realize this, Erza and the others become depressed about their predicament until Erza recommends that they embark on a 5-Day Crash Training from Hell. As she speaks, a pigeon lands on her head with a note tied to its leg that tells Erza and the others to come to the Suspension Bridge in the West Woods. They head out to the broken bridge, which fixes itself before them, and after they cross it they meet Jellal, Ultear, and Meredy. After a brief reunion, Ultear decides to increase everyone in Fairy Tail's power by activating their "Second Origin" with her Arc of Time. Everyone celebrates more after hearing this, but Erza stares at Jellal intently, apparently worried about something.

Erza and Jellal go off to talk privately, she asks him if he remembers all he has done, and he confirms. He tells her he's prepared to die if she wants to seek revenge for him killing their friend, Simon, however she says she won't because Simon wouldn't have wanted that. She goes on to say that him being in Crime Sorcière is enough to redeem his sins. When he says that he thinks death is the only way to truly redeem his sins, Erza slaps him. She then gives him words of encouragement, by telling him that being alive is a sign of strength, when he says that maybe she's right, she pulls on his collar and the two fall off the cliff they were sitting on into a very large flower of some sort, and Jellal lands on top of her. While on top of her, Erza tells Jellal she doesn't think they should see each other anymore. Then she begins to cry and as she thinks back on the times they shared together the two kiss. However, Jellal pushes her away and tells her that he can't because he has a fiancee. When Jellal, Ultear, and Meredy take their leave Erza sees them off. She later, smiles and remarks to her self that Jellal's a clumsy liar, referring to the fact that she knew that he didn't have a fiancee. Happy draws a heart in the sand with a stick and begins to laugh at her and she kicks him and sends him flying.

Later, Erza along with Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Wendy, Happy, and Carla, arrive in Crocus. After a brief meeting with the rest of the Guild members that arrived, Erza goes to the room provided for them, while the others explore the town. While there, she inspects there room to see if something is amiss.

Later, when Natsu, Gray, Lucy, and Happy return to the Honeybee Hotel, Erza scolds them for their lateness, but it is interrupted when Lisanna and Elfman walk in, and they begin to greet each other. The meeting is interrupted, however, when it is announced that the preliminary for the Grand Magic Games is about to begin. They are informed that in order to be in the games, they must be one of 8 teams to go through the Sky Labyrinth, and make it to the arena, Domas Flau, first, and that all of their team must make it there. Erza and the others are worried because Wendy is nowhere to be seen, but Elfman decides to take her place so they set off, and Erza informs Lisanna Strauss and Happy to search for Wendy. Eventually, by defeating other guilds and taking their maps of the Sky Labyrinth, they arrive at Domas Flau, but they are informed that they are the last of the eight teams to make it.

Magic and Abilities
Requip: The Knight (換装 別名 ザ・ナイト Kansō Betsumei Za Naito): Erza's signature form of Magic. Over which she possesses great mastery. It is a type of Magic that allows her to swap weapons, armor and clothes at will. Her particular form of Requip is called The Knight. She is noted for her ability to requip extremely fast and is the only sword Mage known to be capable of requipping weapons and armor while fighting, something which made her well known throughout the Kingdom of Fiore and Magnolia Town, earning her the epithet "Titania".

Sword Magic (剣の魔法 Ken no Mahō): As the name implies, this is a type of Magic which revolves around the use of swords. Erza is capable of performing different Magical attacks through the use of specific armors of hers, which can make her deadlier in melee or, when combined with her Telekinesis, allow her to target opponents which are out of her physical range.

Telekinesis (テレキネシス Terekineshisu): Erza's first use of Magic as a child was to levitate discarded weapons from the ground and launch them at her enemies, something which she did inadvertenly, due to the shock caused by Rob's death. Erza's most common use of Telekinesis comes with her Sword Magic, in which she can perform different attacks by controlling her swords remotely.

Master Swordsmanship Specialist: Erza's skills in swordsmanship are of the highest caliber. Her offensive capabilities mainly come from her swordsplay, which enables her to effectively utilize the weapons that her Requip provides. She is even capable of employing her swords effectively using her feet, by wielding their hilts between her hallux and second toe. Her swordsmanship is enough for her to slash through Aria's presumably intangible airspaces, and to deflect hundreds of needles which were shot at her by Evergreen with relative ease. In addition, her sword slashes possess so much force behind them that they are able to slice through metal using only the air pressure from the swings.

Keen Intellect: Erza has proven herself to be clever and to possess a thorough knowledge of the Magic world: she was able to figure out why the people of Galuna Island were changing into demons (or thought they were) after only a brief period on the island, and could work out the mechanics behind Midnight’s Reflector Magic after being struck by it only few times, something which even got her praise from Jellal Fernandes.

Expert Hand to Hand Combatant: Despite favoring the use of her various weapons, Erza has proven herself to be a skilled hand-to-hand combatant. She was able to knock Shô unconscious with a single kick while she was bound to a wall. She was also able to engage Erza Knightwalker in an unarmed fight after all of their weapons were shattered in their previous battle, attacking her counterpart with powerful punches and performing throws and takedowns to push her away. She is even able to mix hand to hand combat with her swordsmanship while in battle.

Enhanced Strength: In stark contrast with her slim and womanly figure, Erza possesses a large amount of physical strength, having been repeatedly shown capable of lifting and dragging around objects many times her own size and weight, most prominently due to her habit of carrying around vast amounts of luggage. She was also able to send Midnight flying against a wall, several meters away from both of them, with a flick of her wrist. In addition, her sword slashes possess so much force behind them that they are able to slice through metal using only the air pressure from the swings.

Immense Endurance: Erza has been shown to possess a vast amount of physical endurance. After using up all of her Magic power during her fight with Azuma by focusing it all in a single slash, she was still able to join the battle against Hades, requipping different armors and performing combo attacks with her teammates.

Immense Durability: Erza has also proved herself to have a vast amount of physical durability: with the aid of her Adamantine Armor, she was able to take the brunt of the Magical Convergent Cannon - Jupiter on herself, and then go on to defeat Aria, an S-Class Mage, and fight Jose Porla, the Phantom Lord Guild Master and a former member of the Ten Wizard Saints, after a brief amount of time. While clad in her Heaven's Wheel Armor, she was capable of taking on the counter effect of 200 Lacrima orbs from Laxus’ Thunder Palace even though the effect of one of the orbs is enough to endanger someone's life. and she was also able to survive the highly-damaging Terra Chrymal twice, and still manage to continue to fight and defeat Azuma. When Ultear Milkovich used her Arc of Time to open up Erza's "Second Origin", Erza showed no signs of being bothered at all, unlike her teammates, including Gray Fullbuster, Natsu Dragneel, and Juvia Lockser, who couldn't walk and writhed around on the floor in pain.

Immense Reflexes: Erza possesses tremendous reflexes, agility and speed. Despite her being severely battle worn, she was able to dodge a blast from Jose Porla while balancing herself on one hand. She was also able to skillfully and acrobatically dodge a barrage of Darkness Magic Spells from Jellal Fernandes, and when he knocked her through the walls of the Tower of Heaven she launched herself off of a few small falling rocks back into the Tower with ease. When Evergreen shot a few arrows at her as a surprise attack, she easily dodged the arrows with a side jump.

Immense Magic Power: As an S-Class Mage of the Fairy Tail Guild, Erza has a tremendous amount of Magic Power. Throughout many battles Erza was able to requip powerful armors in rapid succession without showing signs of fatigue. She was also able to requip her Heaven's Wheel Armor and over 200 swords after requipping her Lightning Empress Armor without running out of Magic Power. When exerted, her Magic Power is red in color.

Equipment
Erza owns over 100 different types of armor, and well over 200 different weapons. Below are a list of those known.

Heart Kreuz Armor(ハートクロス 鎧, Hāto Kurosu no Yoroi): Made by the popular fashion brand Heart Kreuz specifically for her, this is Erza's casual armor, which she is mostly seen wearing. This armor sports a breastplate now composed of a single piece of metal, decorated by curved lines and by a deformed version of Heart Kreuz's mark, with the cross' right arm extending to the right part of Erza's chest, and the added mark of Fairy Tail located under the cross itself, which is now lacking the brand's name.

Heaven's Wheel Armor (天輪の鎧 Tenrin no Yoroi): Plated armor covers her chest, with a large metal flower over it, and she wears a large billowing skirt that has metal plating in the upper area. Her stomach and neck are uncovered, and she has large metal wings that appear to be made of individual blades, as well as a wing-like headpiece


 * Flight: While wearing this armor, Erza seemingly gains the ability to fly for short distances.


 * Sword Requipping: Erza is able to summon a large amount of swords (roughly more than 200), and launch weapons at her opponent(s) in a variety of differrent ways. The armor is meant to be used for facing multiple opponents.


 * Blumenblatt (天輪・繚乱の剣 Tenrin: Ryōran no Ken, lit. Heavens Wheel: Profusion of Swords): Erza will requip a mass amount of swords, and then charge at her opponent and slice him or her with two of her swords. Then she will fly past her enemy and send the swords she requipped into the enemy at the same time.


 * Circle Sword (天輪・丸連ソード, Tenrin: Sākururen Sōdo): Erza requips swords and has them circle around her by utilizing the commnad, "Dance, My Blades". The swords then begin spinning rapidly around Erza and she sends them flying towards her opponent(s) in a disc formation at first and upon impact the swords seperate and fly in different directions dealing great damage.


 * Trinity Shot (三位弾, Saimitama): While in her Heavens Wheel Armor, Erza slashes the opponent in a delta formation.


 * Pentagram Sword (五芒星の剣 ペンタグラムソード, Pentaguramu Sōdo):While using the Heaven's Wheel Armor, the user slashes the swords in the shape of a pentagram to attack the target.

Black Wing Armor (黒羽の鎧 Kureha no Yoroi): This armor is black with silver trimming that has silver crosses is several places. It has a revealing silver-edged breastplate and plates flanking her hips that reach down to her waistguard. The waistguard leaves the front of Erza’s body exposed, with her groin being covered by a dark indument. She has large plates guarding her legs. She has two wings that have black metal "arms" acting as the wings' leading structure, but the parts used to fly are composed of a membrane-like material. Erza's hair is tied in a ponytail.


 * Flight: This armor seems to grant Erza the ability to fly around for short distances.
 * Increased Offense: This armor increases Erza's offensive capabilities, and she uses it in conjunction with any number of weapons to deal her enemy great damage.
 * Moon Glimpse (黒羽・月閃, Kureha : Gessen): Erza rushes past her target, slashing them in a cross pattern. This spell was first used in her battle against Hades.

Flame Empress Armor (炎帝の鎧 Entei no Yoroi): This armor is dark red predominantly, but also sports orange and black parts, with the first ones being shaped like flames and the second resembling dragon’s limbs. It’s basically made up of three different parts: the revealing breastplate with dragon like wings attached to it, the orange gauntlets and the dragon claw shaped greaves. Erza’s hair is tied into a pair of high, long pigtails.
 * Flame Resistance: This armor lowers the destructive power of flame attacks by 50%, and it is strong enough to protect Erza against the effects of Ikaruga's Garuda Flame.
 * Fire Magic: This armor grants Erza the ability to shoot fire.
 * Flame Slash: While in the Flame Empress Armor, Erza collects flames around the sword and then attacks attacks the target.

The Giant's Armor (巨人の鎧 Kyojin no Yoroi): This is a large, furry, golden colored armor with that sports a large cross on the breastplate. The armor is completed by a headgear with the appearance of a pair of large metal ears. The armor works great in combination with the Evil Crushing Spear, a long and elaborated polearm sporting a cross just like the one on the armor.
 * Enhanced Strength: This armor increases Erza's strength in the form of her throwing power. It was first used when Erza threw her spear at the "moon" above Galuna Island.

Adamantine Armor (金剛の鎧 Kongō no Yoroi): The Adamantine Armor is a large, blue and navy colored armor. The breastplate is composed of different plates joined together, with four, prominent tube-like ornaments on the front, right above her breasts, below the high armored collar. The shoulder pads are very large and sport prominent plates shaped like spikes, protruding from a far darker part which composes the base of the structure. The armor is completed by a helmet which covers the top and the sides of Erza’s face, leaving the back part of her head exposed, and sporting prominent spikes jutting outwards.
 * Immense Defense: This armor is the ultimate, high-level defensive stance. While wearing it, Erza is able to withstand the Magic beam fired by the Phantom Lord's Jupiter Cannon, despite her receiving injuries and the armor breaking in the process.
 * Magic Barrier: The armor features two shields on the arms, which can be brought together to generate a large Magical barrier.
 * Flight: While wearing this armor, Erza gains the ability to fly for short distances.

Purgatory Armor (煉獄の鎧 Rengoku no Yoroi): The Purgatory is a black armor that is covered in spikes. When using this armor, Erza’s hair becomes styled in very prominent spikes pointing outwards in every direction, with her right eye being covered by it and a devilish shadow obscuring the upper part of her face. This is one of Erza's most powerful armors, before her fight with Ikaruga she claimed that ''"None had seen the armor and lived to tell the tale." ''Its true power is not seen, however, as it was destroyed almost instantly by Ikaruga.

Lightning Empress Armor (雷帝の鎧 Raitei no Yoroi): This armor is golden and light bluish in color.The breastplate is decorated by golden trimmings, and has thin plates going up to surround Erza’s neck. When using this armor, Erza’s head gets adorned by a band with two ribbons on it, and her hair gets styled in a long braid. Also, the armor’s weapon is a long spear, with a very large blade and a decorated circle resembling a shield attaching it to the shaft, which is adorned by a large ribbon.
 * Lighting Resistance: This is an armor that lowers the attack damage of all lightning attacks aimed at the wearer. It was enough to withstand an attack by Laxus Dreyar, a skilled user of Lightning Magic, without Erza receiving any injuries herself.
 * Lightning Magic: This armor grants Erza the ability to attack her foes with lightning.
 * Lightning Beam: Erza fires a blue beam of lightning towards her opponent from the tip of the armor’s spear.
 * Multiple Lightning Beams: Similar to Lightning Beam, but with several attacks being fired at the same time from the Magic Seal formed on the spear’s tip.

Flight Armor (飛翔の鎧 Hishō no Yoroi): This armor has features very few armored parts. It is cheetah printed, and the outfit has a large collar around Erza’s neck and a tail hanging from the back of her shorts, both made of bushy fur, plus a pair of large cheetah’s ears adorning both sides of Erza’s head. When wearing this armor, Erza is equipped with a pair of short swords with elaborate handguards similar to a rapier's, shaped like rose's thorns.
 * Immense Speed: This armor increases Erza's speed dramatically, to the point where she could match Erza Knightwalker's speed while the latter was using Silfarion. She was also able to keep up with Racer despite being under the effects of his Slowing Magic.

Robe of Yūen (悠遠の衣 Yūen no Koromo): This armor is like a purple, revealing kimono. It consists of a short sleeveless tunic decorated by many flower motifs, with a revealing cleavage and revealing opening on the sides, exposing much of Erza’s chest, held closed by both a large, dark obi, which has a thin red rope tied around it and sports a wide closing ribbon on the back, and by a lighter, smaller white belt, which are both wrapped around a pink, flower-patterned cloth circling Erza’s waist on the back and the sides.
 * Elastic Properties: This armor is elasticated, something which prevented Midnight’s Reflector Magic from securely binging Erza or strangling her using it.

Morning Star Armor (明星の鎧 Myōjō no Yoroi): This armor, which seems to be mainly composed of a leather-like material, sports many feather-shaped decorations, including the short cape, the pauldrons protruding from under it, and the cloth circling Erza’s waist, held up by a simple belt on the front. She dons a one piece suit revealing her legs, whose upper part is covered by fishnet leggings, and with high-heeled armored greaves with large knee guards covering her calves. Her arms are heavily armored as well. In this outfit, Erza’s hair is styled in tangled buns on top of her head, and she’s armed with a pair of simple swords with cross-shaped handguards, getting larger near the edges, and blades which seem to lack the standard cutting edges.
 * Photon Slicer (光子の剣 Kōshi no Ken): By pointing the twin swords towards her opponent, Erza is capable of releasing a large blast from them.

Armadura Fairy (妖精の鎧 Yōsei no Yoroi): The strongest armor as declared by her counterpart Erza Knightwalker. This armor has the name of her guild to symbolize her pride of being a member of Fairy Tail. It’s a pink armor with a simple breastplate joined to the collar. The armor has many wing shaped decorations. The armor’s weapons of choice are a pair of identical swords, sporting large and decorated handguards reminiscent each of a pair of wings, and with the blades protruding near the hilts to house additional decorative motifs.
 * Fairy Piercing Sword: Erza charges her swords with energy and hits the target with a powerful lunge. This attack was strong enough to break Knightwalker's strongest spear, Ravelt, shattering an entire island in the process. (Unnamed)

Sea Empress Armor (海王の鎧 Kaiō no Yoroi): This armor is green in color with bluish parts. The breastplate, which barely covers Erza’s breast, leaving her belly and her back visible, somehow resembles seaweed, and has some thin chains hanging from it over Erza’s exposed parts, with a pair siding her breasts and another the belly; a fifth chain is visible around her neck, which is guarded by the large collar. The armor is completed by a headgear, with a large metal part covering her forehead, bearing a whirl-shaped wave on it, and large fin-shaped protrusions siding her head. The armor comes equipped with a long sword which seems to be made of crystal, with many small crystals jutting out in every direction from the handguard.
 * Water Resistance: According to Lisanna, this armor nullifies water attacks. It has been shown to be able to withstand Juvia's water attacks.
 * Water Magic: This armor allows Erza to charge her sword with water and release powerful whirlpools aganist her opponent.
 * Water Slash: While in the Sea Empress Armor, the user charges the blade of the sword with water and then attacks the target with water.

Seduction Armor (誘惑の鎧 Yūwaku no Yoroi): Erza’s most revealing armor, which is more like an extremely daring maid outfit. It’s composed of a long light apron, tied behind Erza’s neck and back, worn over her bare chest, and thus revealing much of her breasts’ sides, paired with dark panties, exposing much of her buttocks, and long stockings, reaching up to the middle parts of her thighs. There are no shoes, and Erza’s head is adorned by a maid hat. The only visible armored parts are the gauntlets, which extend up to the middle parts of Erza’s biceps, where ribbons are tied around her arms, and sport heart-shaped elbow guards. The armor comes equipped with a simple sword which bears a writing on the blade, this being "Come on", plus an unseen word starting with "b". The armor's effects, if any, are unknown.

Farewell Fairy Tail Armor: It's breastplate is fairly plain, with the waistguard attached to it being similar to the one in Erza’s second Heart Kreuz Armor, composed of simply two hanging plates, paired with a ruffled cloth sprouting from under it over some chainmail; all of which surmount a long skirt, reaching down to Erza’s knees and covering the rather featureless greaves. The gauntlets, covering the entirety of her arms, are similarly unadorned, with only her pauldrons, composed of overlapping plates, having some decorations over the upper plates, taking the form of wings. On the other hand, the long spear which comes with the armor sports intricate decorations on the shaft and the massive head, together with a flag bearing Fairy Tail’s symbol, plus what looks like a laurel wreath, tied to it by two slim ribbons. The anime design of this armor differs from the manga. Erza was seen donning this armor in order to bid farewell to her friends from the Tower of Heaven before their departure.

Artificial Eye: While enslaved as a child to build the Tower of Heaven, Erza lost her right eye during punishment for an escape attempt. After she joined Fairy Tail, Makarov took her to see Porlyusica, who created an artificial eye for her. Due to the eye's artificial nature Erza couldn't cry out of it and it is unaffected by magic. Erza could look into Evergreen's eyes with the artificial eye without being affected. It could also see that Midnight was creating an illusion. According to Erza, Magic that affects the eyes doesn't work on her. After experience intensely happy emotions Erza breaks down in tears, and gains the ability to cry out of this eye.

Relationships
Due to Erza's personality, her relationships with others in the guild were very rocky at first. Initially, she did not speak much to anyone when she first joined Fairy Tail. However, as time progressed, she unknowingly began to open herself up more; revealing the scared girl she really was as a child. Still, her stern nature makes only her closest friends able to believe this.

Appearances in Other Media
Erza appears as a playable character in the first Fairy Tail Video Game, Fairy Tail Portable Guild, and its sequel, Fairy Tail Portable Guild 2. In both games, she is unlocked through quests. Erza also makes a cameo appearance in the game, Sunday VS Magazine: Shuuketsu! Choujou Daikessen!, along with Happy, Gray and Makarov.

Trivia

 * In the original version, Mashima gave her a more "wild" look. She had a spear, instead of sword, and accompanying her, an unnamed bird. Mashima said he had wanted to create a female character whom Natsu could be afraid of.
 * Currently, Erza is the most popular girl in the series.
 * During a Q&A in volume 9, a reader asked who the lead female character in Fairy Tail is. Erza immediately considered herself as such, but Hiro Mashima said people can draw their own conclusions.
 * In the omake Welcome to Fairy Hills, Levy reveals to Lucy that Erza likes to read novels that are a bit inappropriate or racy.
 * During a reporter's interview, Erza said her favorite foods are cheesecake and soufflé.
 * While the popular belief is that Erza's suitcases are filled with backup armors and weapons, they are actually filled with food and ingredients.
 * She was named after Mashima's short story character "Eru". Incidentally, the short story's name is "Fairy Tale".
 * Her surname "Scarlet" was given by Jellal for the color of her hair when they were still young, back in the Tower of Heaven.
 * Her nickname "Titania" is the "Queen of Fairies" in William Shakespeare's literary work, "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
 * Although her name is officially spelled "Erza", Mashima has also occasionally used "Elsa" (chapter 22) and "Elza" (chapters 100, 129).
 * In the manga, Erza updates her Heart Kreuz Armor after the Tower of Heaven arc, but in the anime, she wears the updated design from the beginning.
 * Erza is the winner of the Miss Fairy Tail Contest, a reader poll and story event that took place during the Fighting Festival arc.
 * The word "Armadura" from her armor Armadura Fairy means "armor" in Spanish and Portuguese.
 * Erza ranked fourth in Meredy's Most Important Persons to Kill list.

Quotes

 * (To Fairy Tail members) "I've heard you've been causing trouble again. Even if Master forgives you, I won't."
 * (To Jose Porla) "My companions make my heart strong. If I'm fighting for those I love, I care not what happens to this body."
 * (To Shô) "If I don't wear my armor, I won't feel secure."
 * (To her Tower of Heaven friends) "Those painful memories are what can help us make it to tomorrow and what makes us stronger. That goes for everyone - every single human being has that power within them. Walk tall, and I, too, will keep walking tall, ever onwards. As long you not forget this day, we will meet again."
 * (To herself) "We don't die for our friends, we live for our friends"
 * (To Jellal Fernandes) "I won't allow it! I won't allow you to die like this! You've committed crimes! You must remember everything! Don't think you can be at ease without knowing anything! Don't expect to be forgiven by the people who you've hurt! Live and struggle!"
 * (To Jellal Fernandes) "We will not give up. Our hopes are already connected. Live and grab the future in front of you, Jellal"
 * (To Midnight) "As long as you laugh at people's suffering, your goal will always out of reach. If you never want to be defeated, you must first learn your own weakness, and always be kind"
 * (To Jellal Fernandes) ''"I wonder for how long... How long will I be able to remain anchored at this harbor known as battle?"
 * (To the Edolas military soldier)"We won't forgive those who lay a hand on a Fairy Tail member!"
 * (To Erza Knightwalker) "You've wounded Fairy Tail too deeply to be Erza. There's no need for two Erzas. This fight will continue! Until one us has been erased!"
 * (To Erza Knightwalker)"For your accursed 'Eternity' how many sacrifices have been made in your 'now'! Oppress & steal, coerce & steal! Hate others, destroy others! People should love more! They stand up for the people they care, they pick up sword for those who shed tears, can't you hear this world screaming of agony, Knightwalker?!"
 * (To her counterpart Erza Knightwalker)"We're alive aren't we? Right now!? Even though we don't have any magic left, we're alive!!!! Look at us! We ran out of magic a long time ago! Even so, people won't just die! Instead they overcome all their weaknesses and fear; they have strength in them! That's what it means to be alive!
 * (To Erza Knightwalker)"Listen, Erza!! You've got the same evil and weakness in you that I have, so you must also have the same heart, which is capable of loving others! Listen for the voices of all living things with all your heart! They’re calling out with their true voices! You are not alone!
 * (To Pantherlily)"But what's important isn't the Magic, it's the heart of the wielder who uses it."
 * (To Azuma ) "All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world."
 * (To herself) "It's not that I was protecting everyone.....I was the one always being protected."