Chapter 22: Grand battle

The group arrived at a level of the place that looked a lot like an area "here we are, allow me to introduce Hughes and Sugarboy along with myself and Patherlily we make up the 4 captains of the Edolas royal army and apologies but one of our comrades Patherlily couldn't help but already a match with your other friend" they then looked over to see Gajeel with another giant exceed they presumed was Patherlily "you start without us man" Natsu said "I wasn't waiting for you salamander, and second bonus I got a cat too" he said pointing at Patherlily "yes I would like to see the world were the prince has lived and the friends he made their and you Gajeel are a fine warrior I would like to work beside while there" then the Edolas Erza turned to him "so your leaving us Patherlily" he nodded "very well then this will also be a farewell, right then we will begin the first match when his majesty arrives".

The king arrived with Mystogan "I see everyone is rearing to go let's start this" the king said "going straight for a battle I'm starting to like this guy" Natsu said "well then I guess we'll go first" Erza said while gesturing to her Edolas counter-part, as the both started to walk towards the ring "I don't know how I feel about this" said Lucy "yeah it's either going to be awesome or scary as" said Natsu as he and the others sat outside the ring to watch their fight.

(due note they're not going all out like in the series as their stakes are much lower as such Erza won't use her fairy armour and break it along with her Edolas versions spear)

"Let's keep this simple, wouldn't want to cause to much damage" Edolas Erza said "fair enough" Erza said, they then started to charge at each other, their blades colliding both testing their brute strength "so we are evenly matched" Edo Erza said "yes I thought we would be even in this, the only way this battle will end is if one of us makes a mistake or gets lucky" with this they both backed off and began circling each other "yes a battle like this is a rare thing but there is another option to end this battle when we both can't go on" the Edolas Erza said before the both went back at it, in a furry of strikes between the two as they both seemed even the battle went on in a dance of blade on blade, neither one getting an advantage over the other without leaving an opening for their opponent to strike, however as the battle went on both using no magic and just their skills they both realised this battle would go on for a while.

1 hour later (during which time Happy and Carla returned to the group)

Both Erza's were still even in their battle, but to everyone watching it became clear that they were tiering. "how long do you think they can keep going" Natsu said "not long another few minutes at most, Erza's fighting someone with the same amount of skill as her, I can't tell if it's awesome or terrifying" Grey said giving the tactical aspect of the battle before Lucy said "grey your cloths" "when did that happen I haven't even moved that much since the fighting started".

Back in the ring the Edolas version of Erza got distracted by the antics in the stands, at this point Erza quirky used the distraction to give a powerful strike sending the spear flying out of her counter parts hands "it's over" she declared "indeed it is I was distracted for a second, though not usually a problem, because I was fighting you it was a mistake to think it shouldn't mater" with that they both walked back to the group.

The next fights between Grey vs Sugar boy and Natsu vs Hughes were less interesting then the two Erza's going head to head so they were talking amongst themselves, "in retrospective it's better to go home after this" Mystogan said "why" asked Wendy "remember that thing I told you about this world absorbing an amount of magic power from you, but it didn't affect your magic power" he said and she nodded as he continued "what I left out was where that magic normally is use, and that is healing, the magic being drained is the magic your body produces to heal any injury to put it bluntly anything that could kill a normal person will kill you while you're in Edolas" to this Wendy just surged 'sure I've heard I could come back from a few things but I can't actually imagine what it would be like to lose an arm' to this Erza had something to say "you're not usually this talkative Mystogan what's with you" he answered her plainly "while Guildarts does know a few things I am fairy tail's lead vampire expert and so I feel it is my duty, but don't worry about I'll shut up once we get back" 'I'm sorry to do this to you Erza it must be hard for you to be around me' at this they looked over to see that the matches had finished it seemed that the unfamiliarity with the fairy tail wizards ability to magic in such a way lead to Edolas captains losing their fights.

With the matches over the king escorted the group over to the balcony of the castle "okay then here these are jumpers (a small circular device with one button) the devices that will allow you to open your own anima to travel between Earthland and Edolas at will they do however require you to be outside when in use" with that said everyone said their goodbyes "goodbye father while I do have work to do I can at least promise to see you the next time Wendy comes to visit" Mystogan said "I must bid farewell to myself as well as you Patherlily I do hope you enjoy your time over there and remember to come back and once in a while" the Edolas Erza said to her old time friend, when they were just about to go when Wendy said one last thing "what about this worlds fairy tail" the king smiled "I sent an order this morning as of today magical guilds are no longer banned in Edolas and fairy tail is a fully legal guild so don't worry it all turned out for the best" with that the all activated their jumper and were sent back to outside Earthland fairy tail "the old guy was super nice" Natsu said "yeah he kinda reminds me of master" Lucy said with that all of them stopped and paused "let's go inside already it's starting to rain" Erza said as the rest followed

(Meanwhile back at Edolas fairy tail)

The guild was having a party about being made legal again, what was out of the ordinary was two new clients at the door "where looking to hire a wizard for a long term job" one said his parts of his face covered the only discernible feature being a scar near his eye "where looking for a wizard by the name Wendy".

AN (That's the end of this chapter sorry about the lack of exiting battle, over a week of trying to figure out what layout to use and I still can't figure it out, I can and will do better in future for now though that's the End of the Edolas arc and I'm taking a short break to fix up some of the starting chapters like fixing grammar and adding things so I didn't want to do that without finishing the Edolas arc, one thing I do want to say is that Wendy will meet her parents in future chapters and they are characters from the show, that's why I introduced the blood surrogate element because if I didn't another character would have to be a vampire)