Placing the token in the cube, Crystal held it tightly, blinking away the last of her tears while walking in a random direction. She sighed to herself and thought back over what happened the previous few months. Concentrating on what Jason taught her about spells, she remembered a few of them but that was most likely what the spellbooks he gave her were referring to. Looking down at the ground as she walked, Crystal didn’t notice that she nearly bumped into someone until a couple of hands were placed on her shoulders.

“Derrick? Where have you been for the past few months?” A familiar voice asked, causing Crystal to look up at her old name.

“In the Everfree, training with Jason and Freya, who just left. Why? Has something come up?” Crystal asked, looking at Levy worriedly. She still had the same clothes from when she was in the Crystal Empire. A sun yellow dress, with white trim on the bottom hem.

“You’re not Derrick.” Levy said in surprise as she beheld Crystal’s face and voice.

“I am. I just had a gender swap and my name is Crystal now. Is something the matter?” Crystal repeated, looking at Levy intently.

“Not really. I just thought you stuck around in the Crystal Empire after Gajeel attacked. I tried to calm him down after the fight but he already was so we both went back to the guild. Where’s your vest?” Levy said, and after looking at the red shirt, looked back up to Crystal.

“My vest? Shit, I must have left it back at the castle. I’ll go grab it later.” Crystal said, looking at the Everfree, then back to Levy, gently taking her hands off her shoulders. “There has to be another reason why you stopped me. What is it?”

“Oh! Right. Since you’re here, why don’t I introduce you to the guild?” Levy asked, clasping her hands behind her back, smiling as she swayed from side to side.

“Seeing new faces will do me some good.” Crystal said in way of answering. “Why don’t you show me the way?”

“Sure!” Levy said in a chipper manner, turning around and leading the girl towards the Fairy Tail guild. Crystal nodded and scratched her head, giving a small sigh as she followed.

“The name suits you.” Levy said with a smile, glancing back at her before bringing her gaze back to the front so she wouldn’t hit anyone.

In a distant corner of Canterlot, in a dark alleyway where there were only a few shops that sold suspicious magic items, a hooded figure walked through it, finding the shop he was looking for.

“Ice-Make: Diamond Cage!” The figure shouted, throwing one of his hands out to encase the poor salesman in a block of ice, watching in smug satisfaction as the trapped stallion looked at him in horror.

“Why? Why are you doing this?” The salesperson asked, fear making his voice waver while, looking at the hooded figure. The figure didn’t answer. He only swept passed and grabbed an amulet encased in a domed glass display case from behind the counter. Not wishing to hear another word from him, the figure punched the salesperson, knocking him out cold.

Leaving the shop, he made ice form around the lock, intentionally sealing the occupant inside, grinning maliciously all the while. Looking at the amulet in his hand properly, he smashed the glass and tossed it to another individual, who watched the entire ordeal take place.

“This what you wanted?” He asked, folding his arms after taking his hood off, revealing grey hair the same shade as his partner.

“Oh yes. Trixie is pleased you did well.” Trixie answered, walking out of the shadows, revealing that she was wearing black leggings, a purple, star-studded skirt as well as a light pink, low-cut shirt with a blue crescent moon and wand in the middle. She walked up to him, trailing her fingers across his arm.

“Now for us to take our revenge. Trixie for Twilight, you for Gray, Lyon.” Trixie said, giving him a manic grin as she placed the amulet around her neck. Feeling power surge through her, Lyon saw the blue unicorn’s eyes light up red as well as her horn give off a faint red shine as her body accepted this new power.

“Perfect.”

“Here we are!” Levy announced, giving the large, three storey building a few blocks down from Twilight’s library a grand gesture.

“I do not know how I missed this the first time I walked through the town.” Crystal said, her mouth hanging open as she looked at the building. “It’s freaking huge!”

“I’m actually surprised you didn’t stop by, considering you have the mark.” Levy said, lifting up Crystal’s right sleeve to show what she was talking about. Crystal glanced at it before Levy put the sleeve back down.

“I was busy with other stuff. But since we’re here, we may as well go in.” Crystal said, rubbing her eyes and flashing Levy a smile. She smiled back and led the way inside, ducking casually as she opened the door and a chair came flying out, shattering against the stairs that lead up to the entrance.

“The hell was that?” Crystal asked, looking at the splintered remains before moving her head to peek around the side of the door. Her eyes widened and she immediately ducked as a fully naked body came flying past, bouncing along the stairs and coming to a stop, only for him to immediately get up and rush back inside, howling in fury. “Levy? I think they’re all mad.” She said with a blank expression.

“That’s one way of putting it. Quick! While nothing’s flying past!” Levy said and immediately grabbed Crystal’s hand as they both ran inside. They both quickly went to the side where no-one was fighting and made their way to the bar at the back. Looking around in amazement, Crystal mentally gave a whoop of joy as she watched the bar brawl.

“I finally get to see the guild!” Crystal was unable to contain her excitement, placing her storage cube in one of her pockets.

“Yeah? Oh right, you said you were from a different world. If the fighting gets too out of hand though, the master will step in but that hasn’t happened for a few weeks, oddly enough.” Levy informed her, leaning against the wall near the bar.

“Maybe they haven’t been that bad.” Crystal suggested, sitting down on a stool at the bar near Levy. “Is Gajeel here? I want to see his reaction if he remembers what I looked like.” She added with a smile, taking a look around the room again. Her eyes stopped roving when she spotted the half-naked guy from earlier. “He doesn’t look that banged up actually.” Crystal commented, pointing to him.

“They never do, not unless they fight seriously at any rate. Grey! Your clothes!” A voice answered from behind Crystal, making her spin around to find a white-haired woman wearing a dark pink dress. Hearing a shout of indignation, she twirled back around on the bar stool to find Gray stomping away from the fight to hopefully find his clothes.

“You’re Mirajane …” Crystal breathed, swivelling back to face her.

“That’s me! Don’t wear it out.” Mirajane responded with a light-hearted smile. Humming to herself, she busied herself behind the bar and idly commented, “You’re new. Where did Levy find you?”

“Crystal Empire. It was during my last job there. I haven’t seen hi-her for the last few months actually.” Levy answered, correcting herself during that slip up. If Mirajane noticed, then she didn’t comment about it. Rather, she cleaned a few glasses and rested her upper body against the counter, looking at Crystal.

“What’s your name?” Mirajane asked.

“Crystal.” Crystal replied, jumping a bit at the sudden attention.

“Fitting name. Why have you come to Fairy Tail?”

“Levy wanted me to after I showed her this.” Crystal replied, turning to the left while lifting up the right sleeve of her shirt, revealing a red Fairy Tail mark on her bicep.

“Where did you get that?” Mirajane asked suspiciously, touching the mark to see if it was real.

“Back home. It was meant to be a temporary tattoo but when I got sent here, it was somehow made real and permanent, along with the magic that goes with it.” Crystal answered, brushing the fingers off and lowering the sleeve.

“Magic? What kind of magic?” A third voice popped up, making Crystal turn her head towards it. The voice belonged to an eighteen year old girl with dark-brown wavy hair,wearing the top half of a blue bikini and short red pants that came halfway up her knees.

Before Crystal could answer, a group of screams came from outside the guild, causing the fighting inside to almost immediately stop. She hopped off the stool, running towards sound while she noticed someone else do the same. Shouldering open one of the double doors, she quickly stepped down, hearing footsteps behind her as she did. Leaving it open, Crystal stepped onto the ground and took off, hopefully leading them to where she heard the screams.

“Oi! Slow down!” A male voice called out from behind her. Crystal skidded to a stop, turning to find Gray catching up to her.

“Was I really going that fast? And where are your clothes?” Crystal answered, raising an eyebrow at Gray’s state of dress. Glancing down at himself, he growled at himself and glared at her.

“There’s no time for that!”

“No time for what? Undressing? You appear to have it down to an art.” Crystal commented.

“It’s a habit.” Gray answered, brushing past her roughly and stalking off to the screams.

“Yeah, I know.” Crystal grumbled, rubbing her arm as she went after him.

When they both arrived, they found that most of the ponies in the marketplace had been iced over, including most of the ground. Other than that, Twilight was casting spells at another blue Unicorn, while a third person cast ice spells at random intervals, which is where the ice seemed especially thick underfoot..

“Lyon.” Gray cursed under his breath, running out to meet the ice mage.

“Oh hell.” Crystal muttered, ducking under a misfired spell from the blue Unicorn. “Okay, fine. Magic, highly unpredictable. Ice magic, a lot more predictable.” Crystal mumbled, weighing up the options of either helping Twilight or Gray. Running to the latter, she skidded on the slick ground, managing to bowl over Lyon in the process, falling onto him in a tangle of limbs.

“Seriously?” Gray asked incredulously.

“I did not intend for that to happen.” Crystal groaned, untangling herself and standing up, trying to find purchase on the ice.

“I’ll make sure it won’t happen again, intentionally or not.” Lyon answered, standing up and dusting himself off before throwing a single hand out, shouting “Ice-Make: Eagle!” at the same time.

“I am not having this.” Crystal said and raising her arms up, created a crystal shield between herself and the eagles. She forgot that the eagles flew past every obstacle in their way, hitting their target dead on. Observing the eagles fly either over or around the shield, Crystal covered herself in flames and added a thick layer of black crystal to herself, hoping that would be enough to stop the attack. It wasn’t. Most of them burned up but the last one Lyon had fired managed to catch her in the chest, causing her flames to go out as well as a massive crack in her armor forming where the living ice sculpture hit.

“Ice-Make: Shield!” Gray shouted, banging a fist into his open palm and quickly lowering himself, spread both arms wide open, barely managing to block Lyon’s ice sword in time.

“When will you learn that I’m better than you!” Lyon snarled, jumping over the shield as he prepared for another attack.

“The Great and Powerful Trixie can see you’re running out of power, Twilight Sparkle.” Trixie grinned, sending a powerful bolt of red energy towards her. Twilight tried to counter it but found that it missed her completely, instead, it went over her head and towards one of the trapped citizens. The bolt hit, causing the unfortunate to age rapidly into the ripe old age of ninety.

“An age spell? When did you learn how to cast an age spell?” Twilight asked, her mouth hanging open as she tried to breathe to get some energy back.

Not bothering to answer, Trixie smirked and levitated Twilight towards her. “I win.” Trixie said softly, teleporting Twilight out of Ponyville and deep into the Everfree.

“I did not see that coming.” Crystal commented watching Twilight vanish. She then turned her attention back to her own fight, firing off a stream of flames towards Lyon. He dodged under them, getting up close so he could rapidly punch her. He was stopped by Gray slamming an ice hammer into his back, making him fall flat on his face, effectively cracking the ice.

Feeling heat come closer, Crystal turned and inhaled, swallowing the flames while looking Trixie with a grin. “Got anymore where they came from?” She asked, moving closer to her, knowing that Gray will be able to handle Lyon.

“Uum.” Trixie blinked, not even sure how to respond to that.

“You will pay for that!” Lyon shouted, standing up and covering one of his hands in ice. Once he finished, it ended up looking like a wolf’s head. Satisfied with it, he charged Gray, sending multiple punches his way, the magic in the wolf causing him to punch faster and harder than normal. Gray grunted with each punch, ineffectively protecting himself from each punch by moving his arms to where he thought they would be, only for them to appear in another place entirely.

“You know, single-hand-use is unbalanced.” Gray tittered, managing to jump back and up to a nearby roof, getting away from the flurry.

“You going to do something or do I have to burn you to make you talk?” Crystal asked, threatening Trixie by lighting her palm on fire.

“I … uhh, no?” Trixie asked hopefully, slowly backing away from the pyromaniac.

“Too bad. I don’t like the fact you teleported Twilight anyway.” Crystal said with a shrug, pointing her finger at Trixie’s arm, sending a small stream of flames towards it. They made contact, making Trixie scream as she desperately tried to put the burn out. “It’s just a burn. Seriously, you can barely see it.” Crystal said nonchalantly. She walked closer and grabbed Trixie where she got burned, and gripped hard. “You going to make me disappear too or are you admitting defeat?”

Lyon growled, jumping up to Gray, only to find a double-handed ice battle axe come towards him. Not being able to do anything in time to stop it, he let it hit him, sending him crashing back down to earth.

Gray crouched on the side of the building, smirking at him. “I told you using one hand unbalances the ice magic.” Gray said, looking to see if Lyon would retaliate. He did but it was with a giant ice dragon. Eyes opening wide, he managed to dodge the first strike, the dragon making part of the roof collapse in on itself. Still falling through the air, the dragon turned around and crashed into him, sending him flying across the marketplace and into an apple stall, making it collapse around him as the dragon turned around to attack once more.

Seeing this, Crystal dropped the still stunned Trixie onto her feet and ran up to the dragon, breathing fire onto it to see if it would melt. It didn’t. Instead, Lyon directed it to attack Crystal, grinning maliciously.

Seeing it switch targets immediately, Crystal stopped her breathing and covered herself in a thick layer of crystal, most of it being concentrated around her stomach. Crisscrossing her arms in an x formation, she tried to see if that would stop it. It still managed to get through her defenses and plowed into her, sending her skidding across the ice and crashing into Trixie, bowling her over.

Trixie fell and tried to break her fall by throwing her hands out but was saved from the horror of her arms breaking by Lyon catching her. He looked at her with a smile and placed her back on her feet before turning to face down Gray, who had just gotten out of the wreckage of the apple stall.

Gray jumped down, panting as he wiped his mouth and breathed out cold air, looking at Lyon with tired eyes. “Ur would be disappointed you were doing this.” He said simply, walking slowly towards Lyon, getting ready to unleash another spell.

“Ur? Disappointed? Are you kidding? I’ve surpassed Ur! She should be proud of what I’ve done!” Lyon said maniacally, throwing his arms wide as he cackled.

“Proud? You think our master would be proud?” Gray asked, pouring more into his ice spell, getting enraged at what Lyon was saying.

“Oh, most definitely.” Lyon answered, smirking and laughing darkly as he gathered ice in his dominant hand. Spinning around, he then threw his hand out, making an ice serpent appear and fly straight towards Gray.

Gray threw both his arms out, creating a massive ice shield that the serpent rammed against repeatedly. Panting at feeling the last dregs of his magic, Gray ran out from behind the shield and formed an ice cannon, aiming it directly at Lyon. Pulling the ice string, it fired an iceball and barreled into him, making Lyon cough in pain as specks of blood flew out his mouth.

Dissolving the crystal around herself, Crystal hesitantly got up, ears ringing as she tried to figure out if the fighting had ended or not. Turning slowly on the spot, she found that Lyon and Gray were just about to have a final confrontation while Trixie stood blankly, looking at her partner weirdly. Giving a sigh, Crystal walked up to her and placed a hand on Trixie’s shoulder.

Trixie tensed up and slowly turned her head to look at Crystal guiltily. “Trixie hopes you are not going to burn her again.” Trixie said, glancing at the burn still on her arm.

“I won’t, I just want you to do one thing for me. Otherwise I will make your shoulder hurt like hell.” Crystal said, tightening her grip ever so slightly.

“What?”

“Bring Twilight back.” Crystal said simply.

“Of course. Trixie is surprised Twilight Sparkle hasn’t made her way back yet already though.” Trixie answered, immediately teleporting Twilight out of the Everfree.

“Thanks for bringing me back.” Twilight gasped, placing a hand on her forehead as she looked at both of Trixie’s and Crystal’s faces. Trixie looked apologetic while Crystal looked relieved.

“At least you’re back.” Crystal said, taking her hand off of Trixie’s shoulder. Trixie winced when she did, immediately feeling a slight burn on her shoulder.

An explosion of ice caused a mini blizzard to form, temporarily obscuring the marketplace from view. At the epicentre was Gray and Lyon, locked in an evenly matched melee fight.

“Give up! It’s over!” Gray panted, trying to get Lyon to stop.

“I won’t! Not until I’ve finally defeated you!” Lyon panted, putting just as much strength as Gray was into this final showdown.

“Well then you’re going to have to wait a while longer.” Gray said, headbutting Lyon hard. Lyon’s head jerked back, taking his body with him as hell backwards into unconsciousness. “That took a lot longer than I thought it would,” Gray frowned, stepping over Lyon before leaning down near his head. “You really need to learn when I’m just not worth it and that you should probably try and find some new goal in life or something like that.” He told him and stood up, trying to disperse the ice crystals as he walked to where he last saw the newcomer.

“Will you be fine now, Trixie?” Twilight asked her, having talked through a little bit of what drove Trixie to do this in the first place.

“Trixie is sure. She just wants to make sure Lyon is okay.” Trixie said, gesturing to where she last saw him. Taking the amulet off from around her neck, Trixie shuddered as the extra power left her, transferring back into the amulet.

“He’s fine.” Gray said, shrugging with his hands in his pockets, walking up to the trio.

“You still haven’t put any clothes on.” Crystal muttered under her breath, looking at Twilight pointedly. “What were you doing in the Everfree to not actually have you come back here?” Crystal asked her, watching out of the corner of her eye, Trixie slowly walk up to Lyon.

“Where Trixie sent me was a flowery meadow, in the middle of the Everfree. I actually managed to study it and the surrounding area before Trixie brought me back.” Twilight explained, eyeing Crystal with a slightly suspicious look as she saw her tense at the mention of the meadow.

“We’ll talk about the meadow tomorrow, in private.” Crystal said quickly, noticing Gray cock his head at that as well as Twilight’s suspicious look.

“I don’t even want to know what you two are talking about but, you.” Gray said, scratching the back of his head with one hand and pointing at Crystal with the other. “What’s your name and why were you in the guild building?” Gray asked.

“My name is Crystal. I was there because Levy invited me.” Crystal answered simply, covering her mouth as she yawned softly.

“Levy? You the one she wouldn’t stop talking about from the Crystal Empire?” Gray asked, eyes blinking rapidly.

“I suppose so. What did she say?”

“Only that you helped her out with a couple of things on her job.” Gray said, shrugging. “No big deal. But, you should come back with me anyway. The Master will want to hear about you.” Gray said, giving Crystal a smile. “Levy also let it slip that you were from another world. It’ll be interesting to hear about this.”

“Fine, you got me convinced.” Crystal said, raising her arms up in mock surrender. “What about all the snow and ice here though?”

“It’ll melt overnight.” Gray said flippantly, leading Crystal back to the guild.

Twilight merely raised an eyebrow at Crystal’s odd behaviour with the meadow but gave a look over to Trixie and Lyon when a red flash appeared and disappeared in their direction.

“Augh! I forgot to get the amulet off of her! I just hope Trixie doesn’t get into any more trouble later on down the line.” Twilight said in worry and frustration. While thinking about her home, she teleported there to do some light reading by taking out the thickest book she could find in her library. She then closed it with a loud thud and looked out the window to where she knew the marketplace would be, thinking about all the damage their fight had done. “That’s going to be a lot of paperwork Princess Celestia will send my way.” Twilight said with a groan, rubbing her temples to soothe her nerves.

Author's Notes:

More info on the spells:
Fairy Tail
Ice-Make: Diamond Cage - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ice-Make:_Diamond_Cage
Ice-Make: Eagle - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ice-Make:_Eagle
Ice-Make: Shield - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ice-Make:_Shield
Ice-Make: Sword - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ice-Make:_Sword
Ice-Make: Hammer - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ice-Make:_Hammer
Ice-Make: Wolf - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ice-Make:_Wolf
Ice-Make: Battle Axe - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ice-Make:_Battle_Axe
Ice-Make: Snow Dragon - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ice-Make:_Snow_Dragon
Fire Dragon's Roar - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_Dragon%27s_Roar
Ice-Make: Water Serpent - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ice-Make:_Water_Serpent
Ice-Make: Ice Cannon - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ice-Make:_Ice_Cannon