This ain't right, Gramps! Why'd you throw out Laxus?!" Natsu continues to complain about the Laxus incident. "He's part of our family, you know?! Fightin's just part of being a family, right?!"
"Enough of this, Natsu!" Erza ordered.
"I wanna fight him again!" Natsu argued, furious with the Master who doesn't seem to respond. "Next time I'll be strong enough to win against him face to face!"
"I said enough!" Erza grabs Natsu's shoulder. "Think about the Master's feelings! Do you think he expelled Laxus because he wanted to?!"
"But..." Natsu muttered.
"It's because it turned out Laxus was a Dragon Slayer." Happy stated.
"No... He is not a Dragon Slayer." Master Makarov finally spoke. The Master explains the truth about Laxus' Magic Power.
"We were all really surprised when we heard that. According to the Master, Laxus was frail when he was a child, so Laxus' father, Master Ivan, embedded a lacrima that lets you use Dragon Slayer Magic in his body." Most of the guild mates were surprised when they heard this.
"Dragon Slayer Magic lacrima? Things like that exist?" Happy asked. Lucy looks at Natsu with a disappointed expression.
"Master said that he'd take responsibility for his grandson's actions and step down from being the master. Everyone tried to convince him to stay, but..."
Past...
"Don't make Laxus' punishment any worse, please." Freed's appearance changed a lot when he cut his hair shorter. He persuades the Master to stay. "If Laxus found out that you quit, Master..." The Master thinks about it for a moment.
"With a haircut signifying his repentance, and an air of the past, it was Freed that managed to talk him out of it."
Present...
"Speaking of Freed, he and the other Raijin Tribe finally opened up a little bit to everyone, I think."
"Go ahead and use me as your model, I don't mind! Don't go thinking anything strange now. I don't mean nude..." Evergreen does multiple poses.
"O-Oui..." Reedus sweat dropped.
"Like this? Or how do you like this?" Evergreen continues to pose. "Hurry up and start painting."
Bickslow approaches Lucy with Happy and his dolls behind him. "Are you and Loke going out?"
"Are you? Are you? Are you?" Bickslow's dolls repeat after him.
"He lllllikes you..." Happy teased.
"Ugh..." Lucy groaned.
"He lllllikes you!" Bickslow taunted. "He likes you! He likes you!" His dolls repeated after Bickslow, chanting every word.
Lucy sighs out loud. "And, as usual, I'm mixed up with a bunch of weirdos." The Raijin Tribe smile at her. "Ever since the Harvest Festival, I saw Erza being alone a lot."
Past...
"Master, who exactly is he?" Erza asked.
"To think he'd have the same face as someone you know... Sorry. I don't really know much about him." Master Makarov replied. "He's quite the tight lipped one, he is."
Present...
Erza remembers about the many faces of Jellal. "Jellal..."
"So, things went like that for about a week... But I had another big problem left!"
The results of the Miss Fairy Tail contest were posted on the request board. Erza won the contest while Lucy came in second and Juvia in third.
"Rent: Denied!" Lucy screamed while crying a waterfall.
"How about working?" Natsu suggested.
"Well, that'd be nice and all..." Lucy sobs with her head in her arms resting on the table. "What'll I do?"
Cana sits down next to Lucy while drinking her booze. "I wish I had a boyfriend..."
"What's with you all of a sudden?" Lucy asked.
"Men... It's men!" Cana replied. "Go without a boyfriend for a while and I start gettin' the itch, you know?" Lucy's entire face turns bright red. "What're all embarrassed for?"
"I-I'm not..." Lucy looks away from her with her heart beating rapidly.
"How many guys have you gone out with?" Cana asked, teasing her.
"Maybe like... three?" Lucy replied, sweating nervously.
"Yep, a total lie." Cana said. "Haven't you ever wanted a boyfriend?"
"Sure, a little..." Lucy sighed. "But honestly, I don't really know..."
"You're so dang cute! Listen up, everyone! Lucy's never had a boyfriend!" Cana yelled as Lucy freaks out. She turns to Lucy with a serious face. "Worry not. My cards have spoken. Today you will have a fateful encounter."
"A fateful encounter?!" Lucy repeated. She sees Erza running past her wearing a fancy purple dress and her hair tied up. "Erza, what's with the dress?!"
"Next is make up! I can't stay like this!" Erza answers her question as she runs off.
Gajeel in a white suit with his guitar slides across. "Shooby doo bop!"
"That's odd. The Harvest Festival is already over, so..." Lucy muttered.
Mira approaches them. "Didn't you know? A reporter for Weekly Sorcerer is coming to do an interview here."
Lucy fan girls a bit. "What?! The Sorce is coming?!"
"He said he was writing a special feature on Fairy Tail!" Mira added.
"Interview... Special Feature... Reporter... Fateful encounter?" Lucy's heart beats fast. "Oh my god! A magazine reporter is coming... My cuteness will knock him right out." Lucy-san... Please, allow me to photograph your cute smile... "Finally, I'll be in a photo spread! And that reporter is my fateful encounter!" Lucy-san, I want to continue this interview... forever. "And what's more... If I can get a fee from doing the interview, I might be able to pay my rent! This is like killing two birds with one stone! Totally..." She snickers to herself. "I can do this! I can totally do this!"
"Natsu, Lucy's broke." Happy said.
"Maybe she ate something that went bad." Natsu said.
"Or maybe she's snapped under the pressure of having to pay her rent." Aira reminded them.
"I can't stay like this!" Lucy runs out of the guild.
Lucy, in the meantime, goes home and summons Cancer to give her a new hairstyle, but is not happy with it, so she runs to buy a styling magazine.
At the book store, she meets a guy who turns out to be a traveling writer, who asks her to show him around. Lucy at first declines his offer because she thinks he is her fateful encounter and then leaves. Behind her, a mysterious girl appears.
"Oh, welcome back, Erza!" Lucy returns to the guild. "Shoot! I forgot to go buy the magazine... And came here instead of going back home..."
"Oh! Titania!" A man approaches the guild. He has a camera and a pink shirt. "Holy... In the flesh! Cooool! Cool! Cool! It's Erza herself, right here before me! Coool! Cool..."
"Who's this high-strung weirdo?" Lucy asked.
"That's Mr. Jason, from the Weekly Sorcerer." Mira replied.
"Isn't this just the way I usually am? And after all I went and got all dressed up..." Erza requiped back into her usual armor.
"No problem! I want to capture you as you are naturally!" Jason exclaimed. "Cooool... Cool! Cool!"
"My fated person? Probably not..." Lucy mutters to herself. "Anyway, no way I'm going to let my chance at getting a photo spread slip by!" She gets closer to Jason.
"Very cute!" Jason takes a ton of photos of Erza.
Lucy acts flirtatious and cute, trying to get Jason's attention. "My name is Lucy! Erza there is my friend, see!"
Jason completely ignores her. "Would you answer a few questions?!"
"I don't mind." Erza replied.
"Ignored!" Lucy shrieked.
"How many different requips are there you can do?!" Jason asked.
"Over 100." Erza replied.
"Cooool!" Jason said. "Which one is your favorite?!"
"Maybe the bunny girl?" Erza replied.
"Bunny?!" Jason blushes.
"Those ears are really cute." Erza said.
"Coooooool!" Jason gets more excited. "What're your favorite foods?"
"I can't do without cheesecake or souffle." Erza replied.
"I knew it! Nobody knows who the heck I am!" Lucy get irritated. Happy tries not to laugh at her. "I don't wanna hear you laughing about it!" She snapped.
Jason appears next to Happy. "Happy! Why are you blue?!"
"Because I am a cat!" Happy simply replied.
"I suck!" Lucy falls down. Jason looks at Lucy's direction. He stares at her for a while. "Dang... he's totally not my type. What'll I do if he's my fateful encounter?"
"It's Gray! Gray is here, in the flesh!" Jason dashes past Lucy to where Gray and Juvia are sitting.
"Is that the reporter?" Gray asked.
"He's that magazine reporter." Juvia replied.
"Could it be... Are you... Juvia?! Cooool!" Jason writes everything down on his notepad. "So, Gray. Why do you strip?"
Gray jumps on the table with no pants on. "I do not!"
"Gray. Pants." Aira reminds him as he screams in shock.
"It's kind of hot in here... I might have to strip down myself..." Lucy fans herself with her tank top almost falling off. Jason completely ignores her.
Natsu screams in anger, breaking tables everywhere. "So you're that reporter?!"
"Natsu! Natsu, the Salamander! You're the one I wanted to meet most of all! Cool!" Jason fan girls uncontrollably.
"Take it down a notch!" Lucy commented.
"Hey, hey! You're always writin' nasty things about me!" Natsu yelled.
"Yes!" Jason shakes his head.
"Like about the stuff I destroyed, or the stuff I destroyed, or the stuff I destroyed...!" Natsu yells louder.
"Cool! Cool! Cool!" Jason just keeps saying the same thing over and over. "Whoa! It's really you! This is radical, to the max!" Natsu looks at him with a serious face. Jason puts his hand out, nervously trembling. "Can I shake your hand?"
"Shut up!" Natsu punches Jason instead.
"Cooool!" Jason rolls on the floor. "Whoa, he's just too cool... Truly a hero! I've never seen such a cool handshake before!"
"What a pro." Happy commented.
"Elfman, what is being a man to you? And his answer... "Being a Man!" Jason said. "So coool!"
"Team Shadow Gear, is it true you're in a love triangle?" Jason asked. "And their answer... "No comment." Dang, this rocks!"
Jason rushes over to another table where Aira is sitting with Satsuki and Cana. "Tsunami! It's Aira!"
"Who are you?" Aira asked, not interested in the reporter.
"Aira, is it true that you and Satsuki are dating?" Jason asked.
"We're not dating!" Aira shouted.
"Tch. Like I'll ever want to date Tsunami..." Satsuki muttered, blushing a little bit.
Jason turns to Cana, asking more questions. "Cana, do a photo shoot this time, okay?!"
"Whatever! Have a seat and drink up!" Cana invites him to drink with her. "I don't care how desperate I am, this ain't happening."
"Master, what are your aspirations for the guild?!" Jason asked.
Master Makarov nervously shakes. "Um... To be devoted every day in our hearts to love and justice!"
"I smell a lie!" Lucy pointed out.
"The Raijin Tribe has been dissolved?!" Jason asked. In the background, Lucy tries to catch his attention.
"No." Freed replied.
"No way in hell!" Bickslow sticks his tongue out.
"We'll work hard to make up for Laxus!" Evergreen poses.
"You've had a makeover!" Jason approaches Laki.
"I'm aiming to win the next Miss Fairy Tail contest!" Laki winks at Jason.
"I haven't heard from you two in a while!" Jason takes photos of Macao and Wakaba.
"Well, you haven't grown!" Wakaba said.
"Go easy on us, got it?" Macao added.
"Of course!" Jason takes countless photos of them.
"Hey, hey!" Lucy breaks down into tears. "He's not paying attention to me at all!" She thinks of an idea that might work. "I have no other choice... It's embarrassing, but it's my only option!" She appears on stage in a bunny outfit. "Attention, everyone! I'm a cute lil bunny!" A few people look at the stage.
Gajeel pushes her out of the way, taking over the stage. "I'll be the one to sing! Shooby doo bop!"
"Gajeel?!" Everyone screams in shock.
"Not you again?!" Jet and Droy scream together.
"He's here! Black Steel Gajeel! Coooool!" Jason yelled.
Gajeel plays the harmonica and then his guitar. "In this world, where you look like a fool for doin' what's right... You always looked like a fool, you know?" He plays a note on the guitar. "In other words, it's right to be a fool. So, partner... Can you hear me? This is a song from my soul..."
"It's like lightning up my spine that never stops!" Jason yelled.
"Shut up, Gajeel!" Natsu punches Gajeel off the stage.
"Why, you..." Gajeel growled.
"Enough with your singin' your crappy songs! I got busniess with him!" Natsu gets attacked by Gajeel's iron pillar.
"I haven't sung anything yet! Let me sing, you bastard Salamander!" Gajeel shouted.
"Take this, you!" Natsu and Gajeel start to fight again in the middle of the guild.
"Come on, you two... We're in the middle of an interview!" Mira yelled.
"It's a super battle between two Dragon Slayers unfolding before my very eyes! The photo spread for this issue is gonna be a detailed analysis of it, definitely!" Jason takes pictures of Natsu and Gajeel fighting. "Cool... Cool... Please, look this way! That's it!" As Jason gets closer, Natsu and Gajeel punch him at the same time. "A hands on report... Hands on... Cool..."
"What a pro." Happy commented.
A young girl with long dark blue hair and brown eyes is carrying a few presents in her hand, walking around town.
Lucy leaves the guild, encountering the young writer from before: she agrees to take him on a tour of the city.
Later on...
Lucy is sitting at a table with her head resting in her hands, thinking about the day she spent with the novel guy. "What're you making such a freaky face for?" Natsu asked.
"Scary." Happy muttered.
"It's the same face I always have!" Lucy commented.
"Let's go on a job!" Natsu grins at her.
"We have to get to the client's house by tomorrow morning, so we'll take a night train." Happy stated.
"Right now?" Lucy asked. "I can't."
"Huh? But you're always complaining you don't have any money." Natsu stated.
"I can't today. Because..." Lucy remembers about the guy asking her to eat dinner with him. "I have a date!"
Natsu and Happy walk away with a gloomy and disappointed expression. "Oh..."
"Hey! You don't have to be that depressed!" Lucy said. "What's with them?"
"After Mr. Jason left, they were all excited about going on a job with you, Lucy." Mira stated while polishing drinking glasses.
"Huh? Why?" Lucy asked.
"They said they found a job that'd be perfect for you, although it's not much." Mira replied. Lucy looks at the clock, thinking whether she should go to the date or take the job with Natsu and Happy.
Lucy seems sad. The guy waits for Lucy at the restaurant, and Natsu and Happy are on the train. She is shown walking, minutes before her date, into an unknown direction. Then it is revealed that Lucy got on the train with Natsu and Happy, much to their surprise.
"I'm glad I came. In the end, what's most important to me are my friends at Fairy Tail. I guess he wasn't my fated person after all..."
Aira and Satsuki are seen riding the train in another compartment, along with Cain. "I didn't ask for you to come with me on this job, you know. Gajeel was just busy doing something else." Satsuki said.
"Don't feel special. You should be thankful that I'm helping out." Aira stated.
"What is the job about anyway?" Cain asked.
"We have to retrieve this artifact that was stolen by Forest Vulcans. The reward is 10,000 Jewel." Satsuki replied.
The girl from before is shown walking in the train. Aira looks at her, examining the girl.
"Something wrong, Aira?" Cain asked, looking at his partner worriedly.
Aira watched as the girl disappeared. "It's nothing. Just thought I sensed something odd." He responded.
"Just as my cards foretold... Today you will have a fateful encounter..."
It is raining in Magnolia. Under the falling rain, Juvia approaches a mysterious shop where she asks for a way for him to notice her. The shopkeeper gives her a potion, and assures her that for 60,000 Jewel, the one she likes will give her passionate gazes. Initally apprehensive over the price, Juvia is eventually convinced upon hearing the claim that it is completely effective.
Meanwhile, back at the guild...
"Nothing to do!" Lucy complained, resting her head on the bar table.
"Why don't you go on a job?" Mira suggested.
"Well, Natsu said he wanted to rest for a little while." Lucy replied.
"Couldn't you go by yourself, or with some other people?" Mira asked.
"But I have the responsibilty to him since we're on the same team." Lucy said.
"You guys get along well. Like you're a couple!" Mira teased.
"We are not!" Lucy disagreed.
"But Natsu might really love you, Lucy." Mira said. Lucy turns around to see Natsu, who is dancing the Plue dance, along with Happy and Plue.
"Even if that's the case, I think I'll pass." Lucy's embarrass to see Natsu.
"I think you two would be a good match, though." Mira teases her more with hearts around her.
"Hey, Natsu! We'd better go on a job soon, or else..." Aira's already annoyed with Natsu.
"Did you use too much fire to turn your brain into charcoal, Natsu?!" Erza asked.
"Hey, give it a rest! You gotta take a day off once in a while, right?" Natsu continues to dance as the guild mates around him laugh. "Isn't that right, Happy?"
"Aye! Refresh!" Happy replied.
"And to refresh, you do this!" Natsu and Happy wave their arms like birds. Erza and Aira twitch their eyebrows, wanting to kill Natsu.
"Yeah, I don't think so." Lucy said.
"I think you two would be a good match, though." Mira commented.
Juvia's hiding behind a pillar, stalking Gray. "Gray-sama... May your passionate gaze only be aimed at Juvia!" She thinks about Gray being fabulous. "Ah, this is so nerve-wracking!" Her hand is too shaky. "Even Juvia's hands are shaking! No!"
"I think you two would be a good couple, though." Mira continues to tease Lucy.
"Not a chance." Lucy refused.
Lucy returns home to find Natsu in her room. For some reason, she thinks about the word "love". Lucy blushes madly, causing Natsu to look at her weird. Lucy demands Natsu to leave which he does so. Lucy wonders why she feels this way.
The Next Day...
"Nothing to do..." Lucy relaxes at a table reading a book.
"Hey there!" Natsu comes and puts a hand over her shoulder. "You feelin' better?!"
Lucy's entire face goes red. She pulls herself away from him. "Get off! Stop being all over me like that!" She leaves the guild with a red face.
"Hey, Lucy..." Natsu calls out for her.
"This is bad. This is real bad. I'm totally self conscious..." Lucy leaves the guild.
"Natsu! That's about enough! How long are you planning on playing around?!" Aira orders him to stop slouching.
"What's that?! You wanna go, buddy?!" Natsu asked, preparing his fist.
"There they go again..." Gray said, sighing.
"Fight!" Happy yelled, ringing the bell. Natsu and Aira start fighting each other as Gray, Happy, and Cain watch them.
Juvia watches Gray from behind the pillar. "Gray-sama... Yesterday, Juvia was too nervous, she couldn't... But today, Juvia has made up her mind!" She holds the potion in her hand. She remembers the words of the shopkeeper, who said Gray should ingest just a little of the potion. "Gray-sama... This passion bringing within, growing stronger and stronger as long as you are out of reach... Love... The closer Juvia gets, the more impatient she feels!" She remembers about herself stalking Gray while he went on his jobs. "But today, that will all be over. Starting today, Juvia and Gray-sama will be together as one, as lovers! Oh, my!"
Natsu stops the fight, remembering something. "Oh, right! I don't have time for this!"
"What's that suppose to mean?!" Aira asked.
Meanwhile, the guys from the guild are speculating that Natsu likes someone in the guild.
"Natsu! Where the hell do you think you're going?!" Aira wants to continue his fight.
"Take a break, Aira. You'll break the guild if you take it to the next level." Gray said.
"What?!" Aira shouted.
Juvia opens the potion. "Now, Gray-sama... Your passionate gaze!" Purple bubbles come out and Juvia blows them into Gray's direction.
"That bastard... Wait, Natsu!" Aira runs after Natsu.
"I'm going home for the day." Gray leaves the table which means the potion misses him. The bubbles going into Master Makarov's nose, making him sneeze.
"Look at Juvia!" She blows bubbles at him, but it misses again. Instead, it goes in Macao, Wakaba, Freed, Bickslow, Evergreen, and Levy. Juvia does it again, passing Gray and going into Erza, Aira, Satsuki, Mira, Elfman, Cana, Jet, and Droy. "Stop moving, Gray-sama! At this rate, everyone is going to be looking at Juvia passionately! No one needs that!" Juvia calls out for Gray, acting like a baseball pitcher. "Gray-sama!" She blows once more and goes into Gray's mouth while he was yawning. "I did it!"
After a moment, Gray blushes looking at Juvia's direction. "What is this feeling?"
"Finally... Finally..." Juvia gazes at Gray. "Ah! Gray-sama's... passionate gaze..." Gray walks past Juvia to Happy. Happy turns to look at Gray.
"You're always... You're always flying as you damn well please in the sky!" Gray angrily shouts at Happy.
"What?!" Happy drops the fish.
"I'm strong, but I can't fly! You're weak, but you can fly! So in the end, we're even! Happy!" Gray points at him. "You are my rival!"
"What are you talking about, Gray?" Warren asked.
"I challenge you, Happy!" Gray shouted.
"Natsu, I'm scared! Gray's acting all freaky!" Happy looks for Natsu. "Where's Natsu?!"
"N-No... Where's the passionate gaze?!" Juvia's confused about the potion's effect.
Macao punches Wakaba, but he catches the fist. "Wakaba, how much you make last month?" Macao asked.
"A lot more than you, I bet!" Wakaba grinned.
"There's no way I could lose to you!" Macao shouted.
"You, especially, I won't lose to!" Wakaba shouted back.
"What are we to each other, again?" Macao asked with his head against Wakaba's forehead.
"Rivals, of course! That's how it should be!" Wakaba replied. They evilly chuckle at each other.
"Drink alcohol, but don't be drowned by it! You listening, alcohol!" Master Makarov yells at a barrel. "I ain't gonna lose to the likes of you! It is you that is my fated rival!"
"What do you mean, your rival is alcohol, Master?" Max asked.
"Alcohol isn't a person. It can't be your rival." Warren sweat dropped.
"I won't be drowned! I won't be drowned by you! We battle!" Master Makarov pours alcohol in his mouth.
"You, pillar over there!" Erza points to a random pillar. "Why must you always obstruct my path?! All I ever wished for was to pass through here, unhindered, and yet, why?! Why must you challenge me so?! Do you intend to make me your rival?!"
"Uh, being rivals with a pillar is... That's not happening." Max sweat dropped.
"Alcohol is one thing, but a pillar is right out there." Warren commented.
"Well, maybe if it pilloried her..." Happy added.
"I'll just let that sit there." Max said.
"Erza! Let's fight like we used to back in the day! I'm not gonna lose, no way!" Mira asks for a battle with Erza. "Because you are my lifelong rival, Erza!"
Aira and Satsuki clashed their heads together. "You're always annoying me, Tsunami!"
"Oh, yeah? What are you going to do about it, dirt eater?" Aira insulted, smirking.
"Let's fight!" Satsuki challenged, her fist turned into rocks.
"Bring it on, rival!" Aira accepted the challenge, his fist was covered in water.
"And I thought Aira and Satsuki were getting along." Max commented.
"Just be glad that Natsu is not here." Warren added.
"Hey, what's going on?! Where are you, Natsu?!" Happy flies around the guild.
"I challenge you, Happy!" Gray then wants him and Happy to have a flying contest. It turns out the shopkeeper swindled the money out of Juvia as he doesn't actually know the effect of the potion he sold her because he just mixed random forbidden ingredients in it and after selling the potion, he fled town.
Lucy is taking a bath. She thinks of the date she has that night, but, even though she loves Natsu as a comrade, she decides to turn him down. Then, Lucy gets herself in a monologue, where she decides on and then criticizes every outfit choice she makes. She imagines a scene in which she and Natsu have babies, and the babies look like Happy. Back in reality, she scolds herself for thinking that.
"Master! Let's have a drinking contest! I always wanted to challenge you!" Cana points at the Master.
"You are not my rival! My rival is alcohol itself!" Master Makarov replied.
"I won't lose!" Cana pours the alcohol in her mouth.
"Three against three. Don't go thinking that because we're equal in number, we're equal in ability." Freed declared with Bickslow and Evergreen next to him.
"When you talk about teams of three in Fairy Tail, it always means us!" Levy and Jet and Droy face off against the Raijin Tribe. "Let's battle!"
"Is there no real Man here?!" Elfman shouted. "If there's a rival for me, show yourself! I am saddened! I am violently saddened!"
"Ah, so he thinks he has no rival." Max thinks to himself.
"Where does he get that self-confidence from?" Warren asked.
Macao and Wakaba are comparing their monthly earnings.
"We Raijin Tribe versus you Shadow Gear!" Freed and his team do a weird pose. "We'll decide who is the best three-person team in Fairy Tail!"
Levy and her team do a pose as well. "Don't be surprised when you see our skills!"
"Damn you..." Freed muttered as Levy yells.
"They're having a posing competition?" Max and Warren thought.
"Not yet!" Master Makarov and Cana are pouring alcohol in their mouths.
"Earth Dragon's Roar!" Satsuki shouted as she let out her breath attack.
"Water Dragon's Roar!" Aira yelled, counter attacking her attack.
"Please, stop! You'll destroy the whole guild!" Max pleaded.
"Where is a Man?!" Elfman shouted.
Lucy's outside of her apartment, looking at herself in the river's reflection. The sailors compliment that she looks cute for her date. Lucy thinks about herself and Natsu's relationship, blushing more. She thinks that she'll be with him forever.
"Requip! Heaven's Wheel Armor!" Erza attacks the pillars with her swords.
"Erza, stop this!" Max ordered.
"We just rebuilt the place! Don't go destroying it!" Warren said.
"Silence!" Erza demanded. "This pillar is constantly standing in my way! It especially makes me angry when I wish to go further inside without delay! It's impossible to go further in without going around it! It is this pillar that is always standing in my way, in other words, my rival!"
"Yeah, but you just have to go around it a little..." Max said.
"I know you like to take things straight on, but sheesh..." Warren commented.
"Erza tends to not look where she's going." Happy said.
Mira punches them away. "Erza, fight me! Your rival is right here!"
"I'm facing down my lifelong rival right now!" Erza refused.
"Uh, it's just a pillar." Max commented.
"I can't believe this!" Mira gets irritated. "Satan Soul!"
"Stop it, already!" Max and Warren yelled.
"Requip! Purgatory Armor!" Erza yelled. Max and Warren beg her to stop.
"Wildcat... Punch!" Mira punches both Max and Warren away.
"Where's a real Man?!" Elfman transforms into a beast.
"Punch!" Mira punches him as well. Erza is attacking the pillar countless times as Max and Warren give up.
Outside, Happy is still dealing with Gray.
In the evening, Lucy arrives at the old tree and meets with Natsu. She feels embarrassed up until the point when Natsu reveals that he called her because he needed to dig a hole to find an album of embarrassing photos of all the guild members, and the girl he was referring to was in fact Virgo because he needs her to dig up the album. Lucy is shocked by this revelation, and slaps him, as she calls herself a total idiot.
The Next Day...
Erza finds her swords stabbed into the pillar. "What in the world happened?" Everybody turned back to normal.
"Thank goodness..." Max and Warren cry a waterfall together.
Gray is sleeping in the water, when Juvia materializes and apologizes to him. She cries and Gray wakes up, but in the heat of the moment, she makes him drink the whole potion. Gray has his strength back, and this time, he declares the horizon as his rival.
A Few Days Later...
Lucy still complains as she rests her head on the table. "Nothing to do..."
"Hey, Lucy." Mira approaches Lucy. "I was just thinking... Don't you think Aira loves you, Lucy?"
"Please, just leave me alone!" Lucy begged.
Juvia is consulting another potion master, who tells her that "a potion that creates feelings" is impossible to mix, and Gray finds himself on Galuna Island. The chief believes that Gray is afficted by the moon's curse.