The members of Fairy Tail celebrate Magnolia's annual harvest festival, which includes a beauty contest in which Lucy, Erza and other female Fairy Tail members participate. The festival is interrupted by Laxus and his personal bodyguards, the Raijin Tribe, who turn the contest participants into stone and force the other members into joining a battle royale where they must defeat one another to save the girls. To ensure Makarov doesn't interfere, they create a runic barrier around the guildhall which prevents people over 80 years of age from leaving, which somehow affects Natsu as well.