Down below in the infirmary, the other guild members that weren't watching in the stadium were down there to recover or to give their injured allies some company. Even though they couldn't see anything, they could hear the noises coming from above, so they got a pretty good idea on what's happening.
"Sounds like they're about to get started out there." said Wendy Marvell, Fairy Tail's other and fourth Dragon Slayer that uses the Sky variant. She was sitting next to her teammate, Lucy Heartfilia, a Celestial Spirit mage that can summon spirits based on the Twelve Zodiac signs and other constellations to aid her in battle. She was recovering from her wounds that were inflicted on her by one of Sabertooth's strongest and cruelest wizards: Minerva Orland. Wendy was by her bedside with her exceed partner, a white cat named Carla in her lap.
"I'm sure Natsu's gonna win, I have faith in him." Lucy spoke, a warm smile on her face accompanied by a blush on her cheeks.
Up in the arena, Chapati was wrapping up the announcements, wanting to start the battle as soon as possible.
"This is it ladies and gentlemen, the Dragon Slayers are on the battlefield. Now the only question is, who will be triumphant? The Fairies or the Tigers?"
"You face a formidable foe, you'll need to give it everything you've got." warned Makarov Dreyar, Laxus's grandfather, and the 6th and current guild master of Fairy Tail.
Sabertooth's own guild master, Jiemma Orland, Minerva's father, just looked ahead, not saying a word.
'All these years, I've dreamed of fighting Natsu, and now, I finally get the chance.' thought Sting excitedly as he and his partner continued staring down intently at their opponents.
"Everyone's dying to find out who's gonna win this round, no pressure, remember you've got thirty minutes, LET THE MATCH BEGI-" Mato, the pumpkin-headed mascot and referee of the Grand Magic Games was interrupted when he felt a burning, glowing sensation behind him. He turned about and was shocked to see what was happening.
A large flash of bluish white light started to enveloped Gajeel's comrade. Natsu looked down, confused and shocked. The glow was starting to spread all over his body.
"Wha? What is this? What are you up to?!" Natsu demanded, glaring at his blonde haired opponent.
"This isn't me, I swear!" Sting said, defending himself, just as stunned as everyone present.
The crowd could only stare in awe as the event continued to unfold in front of their eyes.
"What the?"
"Huh?"
"Where did that come from?"
"Is this part of the match?" murmured the crowd.
The guilds were in a similar state. As for Fairy Tail, they were wondering what was happening to their guildmate.
"What is this, a trick? That blond haired punk was eager to start the match before it even began." Makarov said, looking down at the field with narrowed eyes.
He turned to his right to see that Mavis Vermillion, the first master of Fairy Tail who was literally with them in spirit, had a calculating look on her face, catching him attention.
"What is it, First Master?" Makarov asked, concerned.
"I don't know what it is exactly, but this isn't Sting's magic." She answered. "This is something else entirely."
Makarov couldn't believe what he was hearing, until he felt it too and realized that the light covering his son was from somewhere, something else entirely.
"Well, I might say what is going on down there?" questioned the announcer, Chapati Lola.
"I can't tell, but it seems a bright light has appeared out of nowhere and is on Fairy Tail's Natsu Dragneel's body. Is this Sabertooth's Sting's doing?' said Yajima, a member of the Magic Council, and a fellow judge.
Standing on top of the colosseum walls we see a dopplganger of the 19 year old mage known as The Devil who is standing alongside Jellal Fernandes, an ex-member of the Wizard Saints, a group of the most powerful wizards in Fiore consisting of ten members, now a fugitive, was stunned at the sight he was seeing. He didn't know what to make of this and couldn't tell where the energy was coming from.
"Finally the day I've been dreading for has come at last. I've been stranded in this world for 19 years. I've become far more powerful then I could have ever have imagined, I have seen so many wonderful things, have made new comrades and have had amazing teachers made friendships stronger then any I had in the walls and have gained a brother all but in name. Found friends who wouldn't betray me even if I were to do the Rumbling. I found love with 2 girls who tolerate the other for my sake who are even more beautiful then Mikasa and even my wife Historia. I have finally achieved the freedom I crave for living in a world free from the power of the Titan besides myself. However my people need me to save them but more importantly my wife and my unborn child must be protected and I won't stop moving until all my enemies have been killed. However I need to deal with immediate issue as I'm incredibly famous as the #1 Wizard Saint both my name and appearance is widely known."
"Things are about to get complicated really fast aren't they Natsu Dragneel as it seems that the day has come are fated dual is about to begin Natsu Dragneel." Eren sighed to himself.
"Eren whart are you talking about do you know what's going on?" Jellal asked him
"No" Eren responds mechcanilcally
Jellal has known eren for seven years however even after all that time he is still unable to tell when Eren is lying as he is just that good. Knowing that this is merly a doppelganger who he's talking to theirs nothing he could do to make his brown haired friend say more
"Ok"
I sincerely hope you have noting to do with this Eren. Even though you are my closest friend I will not allow you to harm Natsu even if we have to fight. Jellal thought to himself.
"Ultear, have you picked up anything?" Jellal asked his comrade.
Ultear Milkovich was sitting on top of one of the stadium's statues with her partner and foster daughter, Meredy. Both were members of the late dark guild, Grimoire Heart, but defected when the guild was defeated.
Together with Jellal they created the independent guild known as Crime Sorciere, a couple of years after it's creation she would meet her boyfriend Eren Yeager when looking into an tip about Zeref who would later go on to join them.
Their mission is to eradicate the remaining dark guilds in the world and to destroy Zeref , the most powerful and darkest wizard ever to existed, as a way to make up for their own misdeeds as dark wizards. However unknown to her is that Eren is Zeref Dragnel Blood Brother and an undercover agent for the empire who infiltrated Fiore under Zeref instructions to search for the Fairy Heart as it's his only way of returning home.
"I can't seem to recognize this power, it doesn't seem to be magic of any kind." Ultear answered, confused as to what this strange phenomenon could be.
"Will Natsu be alright?" asked Meredy.
"I don't know, this light is of an unknown origin, and as far as I can tell, he can't burn it off."
He looked over at Natsu and saw that he was unable to use his flames to get rid of the substance off him. Or, the more accurate description would be that he can't activate his magic." Jellal concluded.
"Still, we need to be on the lookout, we don't know where this power is coming from and if the user has ill intentions, as well as searching for the origin of the strange magic that is similar to Zeref." ordered Ultear.
"Eren your unusually quiet is something wrong I know you recently joined Fairy Tail to find a way home are you worried for Natsu."
"No" he says robotically
Upsetting Jellal despite not getting along with Natsu at first the blue-haired leader still wanted Natsu to alright, as he knows what kind of person he is and he wants him to be ok.
"My time here is about to come to an end here. I will be returning to my home after today."
All of them were shocked by his announcement and while sad their were happy for him. Especially Ultear as she always wanted to visit Eren's homeland and meet his family. Despite all off the time they've spent together he's never said provided any information about it and was always so mysterious. Meredy was excited as well as she wants to visit Erens family and find out more about him as he only briefly mentioned that he had 2 siblings and only provided the name for his sister Mikasa Akerman who was also adopted like her. Jellal has always been curios about Eren homeland as well as Eren was one of his closest friends and it wouldn't kill them to take a vacation.
"Alone"
"How long will you be gone Eren" Jellal asked before the other's could respond.
"Forever"
Hearing this causes a chain reaction of outrage
"What!" Jellal ask's utterly shocked
"Why" Meredy in a sad voice with tears beginning to form on her eyes
However one with the most extreme reaction was none other then his Girlfriend Ultear.
"Wait what do you mean your leaving Forever? Why so suddenly and out of the blue? Why are you abandoning me! If this is a joke it's not funny Eren!"
All she's met with is Silenece
"Answer me you son of a bitch! I know you can hear me through your doppelganger! Don't you dare ignore me!" She screams out loudly in utter rage as her magic power begins to spike.
Jellal was instantly worried that Ultear would blow their cover and was preparing to intervene only to see the girl he views as his sister collapse down onto the grounds with both her knees as tears begin to form from her eyes threatening to spill out.
"Do I really mean so little too you?"
Again she is met only with silence
This silence crushes her and she's no longer able to control her emotions Which causes her to start completely crying promoting Meredy to hug her as tears poured out of her eyes.
Jellal patience has finally snapped seeing his sister breakdown causes him to grab the doppelganger by its shirt and lift it up.
"What the Hell Eren! You piece of shit! How dare you do this! Ultear loves you more than anything how could you do this to her"
Again only silence
His anger increasing causes him to throw the dopplganger on to the ground and begin to brutally punch it's face over and over again.
"Ultear meet down in the arena alone in 10 minutes I'll be waiting for you in the storage rooms to talk."
After saying this his doppleganger begins to disappear.