Fairy Tail (guild)

Fairy Tail is a guild that features in Fairy Tail.

History

The Fairy Tail guild.

Fairy Tail (Japanese: 妖精の尻尾フェアリーテイル, Hepburn: Fearī Teiru) was the name of a magical guild that existed in the world of Earthland. It was founded by a group of treasurers that had travelled to the town of Magnolia to recover the Tenrou Orb that was in possession of the Blue Skull dark magic guild. With Magnolia freed from the wizards, the team of treasure hunters debated on the future of their group as Vermillion considered returning to her home on Tenrou Island. Whilst having a meal with the grateful town folk, she came to hear their worries about an uncertain future now that Blue Skull were defeated. It was then that Mavis decided that she would form a guild of her own that would be based in the town and supported by its inhabitants. As a result, Mavis Vermilion became the first guild master of the newly created Fairy Tail guild that counted Precht Gaebolg, Warrod Sequen and Yuri Dreyar who were her companions. It was formally established as a guild X686 where its headquarters was in Magnolia whilst Tenrou Island was considered sacred ground. In that year, the guild participated in the First Trade Wars where Mavis displayed exceptional strategic skill in leading the allied forces to victory despite holding only a few soldiers leading to her gaining the epithet of the Fairy Tactician. At the request of Mavis, leadership of the guild fell to Precht Gaebolg who was made the second guild master of Fairy Tail. Vermilion was noted to had died sometime afterwards and upon her death she was buried on her home of Tenrou Island. He led the group until he began to secretly practice dark magic causing him to pass the position of leadership to Makarov Dreyar.

Fairy Tail had existed for at least several decades but has only grown to its current prominence and strength in the last few years. In this growth, it began to rival another large guild, Phantom Lord, and they began to be seen as symbols of the country. Trouble brewed for Fairy Tail when they accepted a Celestial Spirit Mage, young Lucy Heartphilia, who was the heir to the wealthy inheritance from Heartphilia family. Unbeknownst to any members of the Guild, Lucy had actually ran away after mistreatment from her father which forced him to hire Phantom Lord to bring her back. Jose Porla, Master of Phantom, decided to go about this by ordering his strongest Mage, the Iron Dragon Slayer Gajeel Redfox, to destroy Fairy Tail's Guild Hall and attack their members. Gajeel left the Guild in shambles and pinned up Levy McGarden, Jet, and Droy against a tree in the middle of the town with painted tattoos of the Phantom Lord Guild mark on their bodies. Makarov was willing to let the destruction of the Guild Hal go due to the treaty stating no Guilds should fight each other, but seeing his children beaten and displayed like this was the last straw. He organized Fairy Tail's mages and led an attack on Phantom's Guild, however was defeated when Aria of the Elemental 4 used an ability to steal all of Makarov's magical power. With Makarov recuperating and Fairy Tail licking their wounds, they were unexpected when the entire Phantom Lord Guild, now transformed into a spider-like walking mechanism, started it's way across the lake towards their Guild Hall. They prepared their Magical Cannon, Jupiter, to fire at the remains of the Guild Hall to take out the entirety of Fairy Tail in one fell swoop, but were stopped by the efforts of Erza Scarlet. This act saw Erza out for the fight, and with their fighting power now even lower than before with the absence of their other S-class Mages, Jose offered a truce if they only handed over Lucy.

All of her guildmates vehemently denied where they stated that they would never give up one of their own to an enemy. Angered by their refusal, Jose sent in ghouls he manifested to attack the members of the Guild to buy time for Jupiter to recharge. As Fairy Tail members then start fighting against the Shades Jose has just summoned, Natsu, with Happy’s help, readies to enter Phantom Lord’s headquarters and deactivate Jupiter. Lucy, who would like to fight as well, is put to sleep by Mirajane and is entrusted to Reedus, who carries her to the Guild’s secret hideout. Mirajane, though, having taken on Lucy’s appearance, readies to act as a decoy. Meanwhile, as Natsu is unable to destroy Jupiter from the outside, Happy advises him to rather attack from the inside, with the former agreeing to do so, entering the cannon itself. This leads the two of them to the chamber containing a large Lacrima that is likely empowering the weapon. However, as he tries to destroy it, he runs into Totomaru, a member of the Element 4, who displays the ability to control all the fire in the area, even Natsu's. Just as Natsu is then starting to gain the upper hand, Jose decides to use his strongest weapon, turning his guild's building into a gigantic, robotic Mage, the Super Mage Giant Phantom MK II, which gives Natsu motion sickness due to the building starting to move. As Totomaru takes advantage of this and tries to finish Natsu off with his Rainbow Fire, he ends up being frozen in a block of ice by Gray and then thrown up in the sky by Elfman, with two Mages having arrived to help Natsu. However, a bigger threat than the Jupiter cannon draws near as the Super Mage Giant Phantom MK II starts casting the Abyss Break. Thus, the members who infiltrated the robot search around for a way to stop it. Mirajane, still donning Lucy’s appearance, is shocked to hear that Elfman is among them, being worried for him. To end the suffering of her guildmates, she subsequently shows herself to Jose, claiming to be Lucy, willing to surrender and turn herself in. Jose, however, easily sees through her deception and captures her. As Mirajane is caught by the robot’s gigantic hand, Jose claims that he would crush her for trying to deceive him. Inside the robot, Elfman and Sol confronted each other whilst the rest of the Fairy Tail's members continued to battle. Natsu then ran into Element 4's top member, Aria, and the two were ready to fight.

Meanwhile, Gray reaches the outside where it was inexplicably raining which was when he met another member of the Element 4 called Juvia Locksear whose magic allowed her to control water. Gray warned her that despite being a woman that he would not go easy on her which led to Juvia responding with a blush as she tried to walk away stating she was lost greatly surprising the ice wizard. Juvia then starts to grow more and more fond of him at an impressive rate and, when Gray approaches her to ask her to stop the robotic Mage, she decides that she must make Gray hers. Subsequently, she surrounds Gray with her Water Lock, accidentally opening the wound he got from Lyon Vastia. As a panicking Juvia tries to release him, Gray frees himself by freezing the water, something which strikes Juvia. Gray, now shirtless, attacks her with Ice-Make: Lance, but is surprised to see that Juvia's body is made of water and capable of reforming. Briefly after, Juvia proceeds to say that he should hand Lucy over, but the latter replies that he won't give up, no matter what, something which makes Juvia mad, prompting her to start seeing Lucy as a love rival, stating that she'll never forgive her and, much to Gray's dismay, this makes Juvia's water attacks boiling. In this state, Juvia moves around fast enough to prevent Gray from casting freely as she even manages to melt his Ice-Make: Shield. With no other choice left, Gray decides to freeze Juvia's own water regardless, something at which he succeeds, but accidentally ends up grabbing her breast in the process, which prompts him to release her from the ice. As this last act strikes her, Juvia calms down and says that she can protect him better than Lucy and even tries to confess her love for him. But before she can say anything else, Gray comments that the continuous rain falling on them is depressing. This reminds her of her sad past, when she was always refused and avoided by others because of the rain which has been always surrounding her. Flared up once again, Juvia continues to attack Gray while trying to convince herself that she did not need love. Gray, however, stated that he would never lose to the likes of Phantom Lord, freezes her water again, additionally freezing the rain itself in the process, ultimately defeating her with Ice-Make: Ice Geyser. With her defeat, the sky clears, allowing Juvia to see it for the first time, which makes her cry in joy as she states that it's beautiful. Gray then jokingly asks if she wants to continue the battle, but this only makes Juvia faint in a comedic way. With this, the third member of Element 4 was defeated, slowing down the Abyss Break even more.

As the Fairy Tail members protecting the guild comment that Abyss Break's cast has gotten once again slower, Mirajane and Elfman reach Gray and inform him that defeating the Element 4 will stop the robot Mage. At the same time, Natsu was having difficulty fighting Aria and gets badly beaten by the invisible attacks created by the latter's Airspace Magic. Just as Natsu is then about to have his Magic drained by Aria's Metsu like Makarov, Erza arrives just in time to save him and take over the fight. With both of them before him, Aria resorts to use his full power and takes off his blindfold, with Gray, Elfman and Mirajane discussing about it at that very same time, essentially marveling about Aria's power with the blindfold removed. Now with no more limits on himself, Aria activates his strongest spell, Zero, claimed to be the 'Airspace of death'. Aria's easiness to take away human lives enrages Erza, who charges through his spell and slices through it before re-equipping her Heaven's Wheel Armor and defeating him with Blumenblatt. After his defeat, she defiantly claims that there is no way that Makarov could have lost to him. With all of the Element 4 defeated, Abyss Break is stopped and the gigantic robot Mage collapses, much to Fairy Tail’s enthusiasm. Erza falls to the ground out of exhaustion, with Natsu rushing to her side. Jose, though, is enraged by the fact that all of the Element 4 are defeated. As he asks for Gajeel’s whereabouts, his Guild’s ace appears before him, carrying a beaten Lucy, whom he took away from Fairy Tail’s hideout after defeating Reedus, as discovered by Loke. A pleased Jose then announces through the loudspeaker that Phantom Lord has succeeded in recapturing Lucy, forcing the girl to scream in pain as a proof before stating that there’s nothing left to do but to eliminate them all. He thus grants a huge boost in power to his Shades, which start overwhelming the exhausted Fairy Tail members. Having entrusted the prisoner Lucy to Gajeel, Jose readies to personally take care of those who invaded their Guild. Inside Phantom Lord's collapsed robot, a downed Erza tells Natsu to save Lucy and the guild and encourages him to use the hidden power inside of him. Spurred, Natsu then rushes to the rescue. Elsewhere, in Porlyusica’s house, Makarov is finally awakening, much to the healer’s dismay. Meanwhile, Gray, Elfman, and Mirajane manage to find a worn out Erza and are glad to see her okay, but then Jose himself arrives and prepares to finish them off. He quickly takes out Gray, Elfman and Mirajane before proceeding to fight Erza, acknowledging her strength.

Meanwhile, Gajeel is spending his time throwing knives at Lucy, who is bound to a wall, nearly hitting her a couple of times, much to his comrades' dismay and concern. Lucy then starts lecturing Gajeel, defiantly stating that, if something were to happen to her, her comrades would avenge her and make Phantom Lord cower in fear. This prompts Gajeel to throw one more knife at her, this time bound to hit her. However, Natsu suddenly shows up, covered in flames, breaking through the wall, saving Lucy and subsequently proceeding to attack Gajeel. Two of them then start battling while Happy sets Lucy free of her restraints. Gajeel rapidly gains the upper hand due to his Iron Dragon's Scales, which drastically increase both his offense and defense. Having exchanged many blows, Natsu's Fire Dragon's Roar and Gajeel's Iron Dragon's Roar then clash. Natsu is injured by Gajeel's metal scraps, but, as his opponent mocks him, a cut is shown opening on his iron forehead as well, showing that Natsu did manage to hurt him. The two then ready to fight seriously. As the battle below rages on, with Fairy Tail slowly being overpowered by Jose's Shades and the building receiving heavy damage, Natsu and Gajeel appear to be evenly matched, but then Gajeel eats some of the metal floor to replenish his stamina and strength before starting to overwhelm Natsu. Lucy, in a desperate effort to get Natsu some fire to consume, summons the only key she has after her kidnapping, Sagittarius, but she's told that he can't produce fire. Gajeel then slammed Natsu across the wall, throwing him on the ruined hall's edge, where the later sees Fairy Tail's building collapse. This makes Natsu reminisce his first days in Fairy Tail, when he got to meet all of his guildmates for the first time and started enjoying his stay. Now on his feet again, Natsu only continues to receive a brutal beating from Gajeel. Just as the Iron Dragon Slayer is then about to finish Natsu off, Happy says that Natsu could defeat Gajeel if he'd eat some fire to replenish his strength. This makes Sagittarius realize why Lucy asked him if he could produce fire and then states that, while he could not make fire himself, he can help generate some. Standing behind his words, Sagittarius shoots a machine with his arrow and manages to make flames for Natsu. The latter then rapidly consumes the flames to heal up, thanking Lucy for her help. Gajeel then charges towards him, but Natsu, now being able to fight back, overwhelms him. Having struck him numerous times, he uses Crimson Lotus: Fire Dragon's Fist to finish Gajeel off and destroy Phantom Lord's building even further As the building they were in collapsed, Lucy and Happy escape through the use of Happy's Aera, with Natsu stating that he would reach them later due to currently being too exhausted to move.

At that time, Erza continues her battle with Jose, but was unable to lay a hand on him, getting easily overwhelmed and then captured by his Darkness Magic. The latter then states that he left Makarov alive just to have him die in total despair later, after his guild is destroyed and his "children" are dead, after which he proceeds to tell Erza the reason behind the attack on Fairy Tail and Lucy's kidnapping. He says that, back when guilds were being set up, Phantom Lord was at the top and recognized all over the country, but then Fairy Tail appeared and started to grow, until its name and members were eventually recognized as equal to them. He then says that Lucy's father gave them a job to retrieve his daughter, but he plans to have her family surrender all of their fortune to him before returning Lucy to him. Erza laughs and says that Lucy is a dear comrade to them, and that his plan will never succeed. Just as Jose is then about to crush Erza, she gets saved in the nick of time by the appearance of the newly revived Makarov. Fairy Tail's Guild Master then readies to confront his old rival. Back at Porlyusica's place, though, the old healer looks on angrily, saying that Makarov rushed in like a fool and can get killed. Just then, she notices Mystogan sitting quietly not far from her, who asks her for apples. She then realizes that the reason Makarov managed to heal so quickly was because the mysterious S-Class Mage gathered his scattered Magic Power. She proceeds to lecture him for not joining the battle and helping out his comrades, but then the wind starts blowing and scatters numerous flags with Phantom's emblem on them around. Porlyusica realizes Mystogan did more than enough by taking out all of Phantom's subdivisions single-handedly, and, after that, the two remain still, discussing the situation enigmatically. Back at Phantom's ruins, Makarov orders everyone to get away since a fierce battle is about to start, which, in fact, subsequently makes the sky and earth tremble as the two Wizard Saints clash. Lucy and Happy, who come to Natsu's aid, wonder what's going on and Natsu instantly realizes it's Makarov's doing. Both Guild Masters manage to injure the other, but then Makarov tells Jose to back down before he counts to three. He then grows larger and starts the countdown, generating light in his hands, but Jose refuses to bow and insults his opponent. With the three seconds passed, Makarov activates his Fairy Law, prompting a gigantic aura of light to appear on the Phantom Lord's building.[37] The light takes out all of Jose's Shades without doing damage to any of the Fairy Tail members. Jose is defeated by the attack, looking like a complete opposite of himself. Just as the victorious Makarov is then leaving, Aria shows up behind him, hoping to deprive Makarov of his Magic again, but, this time, Fairy Tail's Guild Master notices and defeats Aria with only one punch. He then leaves, telling Aria to take his Master away with him and disappear before he changes his mind about not informing the Magic Council.

When the core members of Fairy Tail disappeared for 7 years, the guild fell into near bankruptcy and could no longer afford to keep Fairy Tail's first building so it went into foreclosure. After they left it, they moved into a small tavern at the edge of the town and made it their base of operations.

In X791, in an effort to rise among the guilds, the members of Fairy Tail decided to participate in that years Grand Magic Games. To ensure a victory, Grandmaster Makarov Dreyar had two teams dispatched for the games with the first not being aware of the second. Both teams managed to pass through the preliminary rounds allowing them to compete in the games.

Whilst observing, Master Mavis kept an eye on the tactics of the various combatants in the game and made calculations on a strategy to defeat them. She shared her findings with the guild members participating so that they had a plan in place for the final round of the Grand Magic Games. This led to her being responsible for Operation Fairy Star with her calculations proving accurate and securing key victories in the games for the guild.

at the 8-Island Restaurant, Fried, Bickslow and Yajima read the newspaper and learn about the attack on the Magic Council and the arising death toll. As the Fairy Tail Mages work alongside Evergreen, they wonder where Laxus is, having gone out on an errand. Suddenly, a hooded figure appears in the door and, in an instant, destroys the establishment. Fried, Bickslow and Evergreen are all easily knocked aside by the intruder and he attempts to kill Yajima, however Laxus intervenes and takes over the fight. Shedding his disguise, the man reveals himself as Tempester, one of the Nine Demon Gates. However, despite his attempts, Laxus is ultimately able to overpower and defeat him. Forced into a corner, Tempester sacrifices one of his lives and unleashes Magical Barrier Particles, particles which create Magic deficiency, illness and can spread quickly. As Yajima, Evergreen and Bickslow collapse from this powerful poison, Laxus begins inhaling the particles, able to do so due to his Dragon Slayer lungs. Though Fried tells him to stop, Laxus is determined not to let anyone die as he tells Fried to get everyone home. In the guild, the affected Mages are treated by Porlyusica, who reiterates their highly serious condition. Fried tells Makarov that Laxus is responsible for saving the town, but Makarov recalls that the particles still spread and resulted in both a quarantine and over one hundred deaths. Not knowing this, Fried asks if the town is alright, to which Makarov answers in the affirmative, relieving him. As the other Mages in the guild are saddened by these recent events, Natsu is furious and angrily declares that now is the time to go to war.

In the wake of the Tartaros attack, the guild hall remained ruined and Grandmaster Makarov had all knowledge of the Lumen Histoire removed from the minds of the people. Makarov then decided that the end of an era had come and that guild members needed to spread their wings if they wanted to grow as people. Thus, he decided not to re-build the guild hall and instead decided to disband Fairy Tail for reasons he did not declare to the guild members. Instead, he told them to start new lives and forget about Fairy Tail whereupon he disappeared from public life. As a result, the guild members scattered where they attempted to start new lives though many of them came to struggle and miss their former guild. In the year that followed, Lucy Heartfilia began writing for Sorcerer Weekly and also using her time to track her comrades down. She eventually came upon Natsu who declared that he wanted to reform the Fairy Tail guild with the two looking to gather others. Eventually, she sent letters to all the members that she had located and asked them to convene at the guild's former home town of Magnolia in order to rebuild Fairy Tail. To comply with the Magic Council's rules, the guild nominated Erza Scarlet to the position of guild master whereupon Mest informed her Fairy Tail's greatest secret which was the Lumen Histore. He also informed her that Master Makarov had disbanded the guild in an attempt to protect them from the militaristic might of the Alvarez Empire. Makarov had departed to negotiate with the empire on the Western Continent but had been missing for sometime leading to Scarlet and her closest comrades staging a rescue mission. They managed to recover Makarov with the aid of their comrades whereupon Makarov resumed position as the guild master where he revealed that the Black Wizard Zeref was leader of the Alvarez Empire who intended to wage war against Ishgar. Despite this threat, Fairy Tail rallied under their master and prepared to battle the empire.

Overview

As a magical guild, all members of Fairy Tail primarily consisted of individuals skilled in the magic arts. This meant that they had the ability to use magic power and specialised in various magical skills. Similar to other Guilds, Fairy Tail was headed by a Guild Master with this position being passed between member to member. At the request of its founder, the guild's prime attribute was the idea of friendship and that all its members were to treat the other as family who supported one another.

One of the sub-groups within the guild was the Thunder God Tribe that consisted of three members who served Laxus Dreyar.

Wizards that held potential and power went through the S-Class Mage Promotion Trial. It was held every year where the Master selected the most prominent members to participate in the event to promote the wizard to an S-Class Mage.

Every year, the guild conducted the Fantasia parade during the time of the Harvest Festival whereby Fairy Tail wizards displayed their magic in fantastic performances. This was done to the benefit of the whole population in their home town. As a result, both guild members and the civilian population of the town looked forward to the coming of the Fantasia festival.

Serious breaches of the rules of the guild meant expulsion from their ranks.

It maintained a dormitory for its female members with this being known as Fairy Hills. (フェアリー ヒルズ, Fearī Hiruzu)

Outside their guild house, a sacred area of the group was Tenrou Island (天狼島 Tenrō, Jima) that was isolated from the rest of the world. It had the Great Tenrou Tree that bestowed its mystical blessing on all members of the Fairy Tail guild. The island was the resting site of the first master of the guild and it was because of this that the area was used for Fairy Tail's trials to promote its members up their ranks.

The greatest secret of the guild was the Lumen Histoire (光の神話ルーメン・イストワール Rūmen Isutowāru) that was powerful magic that was also known as the Fairy Heart (妖精の心臓フェアリーハート Fearī Hāto). Such was its importance that only guild masters were meant to know of its existence and location.

Members

• Mavis Vermilion : Such was her skills in strategy and tactician that she came to be known as the Fairy Tactician.
• Precht Gaebolg :
• Gildarts Clive :
• Mystogan :
• Erza Scarlet :
• Laxus Dreyar :
• Natsu Dragneel :
• Lucy Heartfilia :
• Gray Fullbuster :
• Juvia Lockser :
• Gajeel Redfox :
• Panther Lily :
• Wendy Marvell :
• Ivan Dreyar :
• Evergreen :
• Laki Olietta :
• Cana Alberona :

Notes

• Fairy Tail was created by Hiro Mashima and featured heavily in the setting of the Fairy Tail universe.

In other media

Television

• In Fairy Tail, the Fairy Tail guild appeared in the setting of the anime television series adaptation.

Appearances

• Fairy Tail:

External Links

• Fairy Tail Wiki Entry
• Comicvine Entry

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