"Beeeeeeerrrr…" Cana groaned, drinking an entire barrel filled with beer. She wiped her mouth. "Ah, that's better. I hate being sober…"

Erza blinked. This was a quick change from the zombie woman who had been stumbling around the room a few seconds earlier. Maybe "sober" to Cana was what "drunk" was to most people?

…That actually seemed pretty likely.

As the redhead sheathed her sword, Laki said, "So what are we going to do about the guild building, since we now have fifty-three dollars and eighty cents altogether in our budget? And what are we supposed to do about those three in jail?"

"I could easily send Leo back to his world if I could use my keys." Lucy glared at Erza. "In other words, if my arms weren't broken!"

Jelall walked in. "I don't know about the jail problem… but the guild is back."

Everyone stood up from shock.

"What do you mean the guild is back?! We haven't paid anyone, and even if we did, it couldn't possibly –" Freed began.

Jelall placed a finger over Freed's mouth. "Shh your face, woman."

"I'm not a woman!"

"Shh!" Jelall whispered, glancing around the room furtively. "Nobody needs to know that."

"So you say the guild was repaired?" Cana asked, hiccupping. "Let me see this."

"Certainly."

Everybody stood there, just gaping at the building before them. It was exactly like the old Fairy Tail guild, not one brick out of place. Even the bright orange flag bearing the guild's logo was back, exactly the same way it had been, with every wrinkle in the same position.

"How did he…" Evergreen began.

"Who cares?" Mavis leapt toward the doors. "Our home is back! Let's go!"

As everyone rushed inside the "new" guild, Jelall turned around just in time to see a pale hand giving him the thumbs-up, followed by a flash of dark purple hair disappearing behind the building.

"Even the request board is the same!" Lucy squealed.

"Wow! I remember this dust!" Bickslow examined the floorboards. "Every speck is in the same place!"

"My alcohol!" Cana cried. "All the alcohol is back!"

"Strange, I thought we drank it all at the New Year's party…" Macao mumbled.

Jelall sobbed. "Not one of them thanked me…"

"Aww, it's OK, Jelly Baby." Erza patted him on the back.

"Now we just need to get those three out of jail," Laki sighed.

"Oh, I know how we can do that!" Mavis began to jump up and down.

"How?" Almost everyone asked in unison.

Mavis smiled. "With Lucy's keys, a can of dog food and Wakaba's cigar."

The plan went something like this:

First, a small team made up of Mavis, Jet, and Wakaba would sneak into the police station. Jet was holding Lucy's keys in one hand. Mavis had the dog food she had mentioned earlier. Wakaba had a cigar. Then there was the procedure.

While Wakaba created a thick smokescreen using his cigar and smoke magic, causing the guards to stumble around blindly, Jet would sneak up to the nail in the wall which the prison keys were hanging from and steal them. He would replace them with Lucy's celestial spirit keys, which had been painted to look exactly like the real keys, much to the spirits' annoyance.

After Mavis used the dog food to lure the guard dogs away, Jet would break into the prison itself and unlock the doors of their friends' cells using the keys he had stolen. Then he would somehow manage to carry all three of them at once and make a run for it while the other two created a diversion. Then Mavis and Wakaba would escape the police themselves.

This plan was surprisingly successful. It wasn't until Jet was running away with Mirajane over one shoulder, Alzack over the other, and Leo on his back that they encountered the guard.

"Halt!" the guard shouted. Jet attempted to run past him, but crashed into the wall and almost dropped the three escapees.

"Watch where you're going!" Mira snapped, gently rubbing her broken behind, which had been smashed into the wall.

"What do you think you're doing?" another guard asked, stepping through the door of the cell block. "You can't just run off with those!"

"Stop referring to us as if we're objects!" Leo snapped.

"I'll handle this," Mavis said. "You guys just stand back. I'll use my Fairy Glitter to knock them out cold."

Wakaba laughed. "Fairy glitter? Isn't that the stuff they put on little girls' Halloween costumes?"

"I said stand back," Mavis answered darkly. Pale in the face, Jet placed a hand on Wakaba's shoulder and dragged him as far away from Mavis as possible.

And Mavis unleashed the Fairy Glitter.

Actually, a more fitting name for it would be Fairy Nuke.

Ten minutes later, the team and the escapees returned to the guild, looking badly burnt but uninjured.

"What happened?" Lisanna asked them.

The other five pointed to Mavis. "She happened," they said in unison.

"Sure, blame it on the blonde!" Mavis sobbed.

"So she used the Fairy Nuke – I mean, uh, Fairy Glitter?" Cana asked.

The rescue team nodded.

As the six of them headed off to remove the ashes which covered them from head to toe, Jelall approached Erza. "Hey Erza, I almost forgot. You said you wanted to talk to your boyfriend once he was out of my stomach, right?"

"Yes, I did," Erza replied. "Thank you, Jelly Baby!" She took the cake which Jelall was holding out to her and placed it carefully on the table, before sitting down in the chair in front of it. "So, uh, Cake… We've been dating for a while now…" There was a pause. "…Yeah, me too. So I was wondering…" She pushed the chair back and got down on one knee. "W…. Will you marry me, Cake?"

There was another pause, slightly longer this time.

Then Erza stood up, squealing at the top of her lungs. "Yes?! Really? Woot! Woot!" She pumped her fist in the air. "OK, we get married in five days! Don't be late! Wendy, Lucy, you two are bridesmaids! Jelly Baby, you're the best man!"

"Five days?" Wendy asked. "Isn't that a little… you know… soon?"

"Nah, it's plenty of time," Erza answered, placing the engagement ring on top of the cake.

"So who's gonna bake the wedding cake?" Natsu asked.

Erza gasped in horror. "Natsu! Why would there be a wedding cake?! My beloved strawberry cake might fall in love with her, and that would be disastrous!"

Gray nodded, pouncing on the opportunity to insult Natsu. "Yeah, Natsu. Don't suggest stupid things like that, you nincompoop."

Natsu deflated.

Mirajane appeared overhead, on the second floor's balcony which overlooked the guild hall. A microphone stood before her. She tapped on the microphone and waited for everyone's attention. "Ahem, everyone… Now that I'm back from jail, I have an important announcement to make. The Fairy Tail guild is being asked to make a video on a very serious, heavy topic... the abuse of ostriches. Let's take a look at Bobby Joe, the ostrich the Magic Council has loaned us especially for this video." An ostrich with a bright pink afro walked forward obediently. "As you can see, Bobby Joe has several scars, and yet he was completely unharmed when he got here."

Several gasps, murmurs, and sounds of sympathy ran through the guild hall.

"This can only mean one thing…" Mira narrowed her eyes as she scanned the crowd. "Somebody in this room has physically abused Bobby Joe since he arrived here! You may step forward now and avoid being punished! Unless you are Natsu!"

"I'll bet it was Vijeeter!" Max cried. "He hates ostriches!"

Vijeeter huffed. "You're just blaming me because you're jealous of my majestic dance moves! It was clearly Warren!"

"Me?! It was Bisca!" Warren squeaked.

"Ha, as if!" Bisca glared at Warren. "I'd never hurt an ostrich! Blame Laki!"

"How could you blame me, one of your closest friends?!" Laki gasped. "It wasn't me, it was obviously Alzack!"

"What?! No!" Alzack glared at her. "It was Cana. Look at her! Guilt is written all over that face!"

"It was mah beer!" Cana slurred. Everyone looked at her as if she had three heads. Actually, it was closer to twenty heads and three eyes on each, but never mind.

"Haha, yes! T'was I!" the beer cackled.

Mirajane glared at the offending drink. "Go sit in the corner!" she snapped. "And consider yourself out of the guild! Nobody in here hurts an ostrich and gets away with it!"

Everyone made a mental note to never hurt an ostrich again unless they were trying to get kicked out of Fairy Tail.

"Alright!" Mira stood up, smiling, as soon as the beer was in the time-out corner. "Let's start making this video!"