{THIRD PERSON POV}
The curtain goes up. Mira is laying near the center of the stage, looking every bit like a sleeping real-life princess. There's a commotion backstage as the strongest members of the guild try to convince the prince to wear his outfit.

Lisanna and Elfman flank her, like bodyguards so she doesn't try to flee. They were also voted to be her step-sisters, so both are wearing dresses.

"I'm a Man sister!" Elfman seems to enjoy in flexing for the crowd. Both Evergreen, standing just offstage, and Lisanna facepalm when he bursts a seam. The costume is much too small for him.

Mira finally sits up and blinks. She stares at the audience in the audience stairs back at her. She looks down at her dress, which is actually double layered. The top layer is made of a burnable paper that is designed to look old and beaten up.

"Oh no." Mira says.

"Once upon a time," a slightly maniacal voice cackles across the stage from sound lacrima in the ceiling, stirring up the audience, "in small town possibly far away, there was a beautiful girl who was tormented everyday by her step-siblings and stepmother."

"Is that Lucy-chan?"

"Why is she the narrator now?"

"Uh, Lucy?" Lisanna sweat drops. "Your bloodlust is leaking. Just a tad bit."

Elfman whispers something in his baby sister's ear. She grins then nods. Elfman proceeds to pick up and hold Mira off the ground while Lisanna tickles her sides relentlessly.

"Ahahaha! Stop!" Mira laughs, tears streaming down her face as her siblings continue to torment her. "I can't breathe! Ahahahahahahaha!"

"One day, her stepmother brought news that the prince of the land was holding a ball to search for a bride."

"Why did everyone vote me to be the mother?" Levy mutters under her breath as she trots onto the stage. She clear her throat. "Girls, guess what!"

"What?" All three Strauss siblings respond.

"Not you Cinderella." Levy shoos Mira back. "Lisanna, Elf...woman, the prince sent invitations to all the single ladies in the land, inviting them to a royal ball! We must get you two prepared right away so you make a good first impression!"

"Why can't I go?" Mira asks, settling into character.

"Because you weren't invited." Levy responds haughtily, turning up her nose.

"I thought you said all the single ladies of the land were invited." Mira retorts.

"Don't talk back to me, young lady!" Levy looks indignant at the accusation.

"Despite being told off by her stepmother, Cinderella was determined to go to the ball. Soon, the night of the ball came..."

"Stepmother, please let me go to the ball! I made a gown and everything!" Mira says.

"I can't let you go looking like that!" Levy refutes.

"Like wha—" Before Mira can finish her sentence, Nab, Max, Wakaba, Romeo, and several other Fairy Tail guild members have snuck on stage with a massive cooler. They dump the contents onto Mira's head. Her mouth drops open. "Is this oil?!"

"They dare to dump oil on Mira-chan?"

"They must have a death wish."

"Run!" Everybody shouts and bolts simultaneously, leaving Mira alone onstage, still dripping oil.

"When all hope seemed lost, Cinderella's fairy godmother descended."

Natsu descends on wires held by Happy, wearing the same dragon costume. Stuffing falls out in places where the fabric is torn. "Yo!"

"Natsu! I told you, no dragon!"

Natsu sticks his tongue out at the sound booth where Lucy is. "And I told you, yes dragon! Anyway Mira, it looks like you need a foot!"

"A hand. She needs a hand, Natsu."

"I think I need a foot." Mira chimes in.

"You need fire!" Natsu exclaims excitedly, puffing up his cheeks. He blows the stream of fire out of his mouth, engulfing Mira in flames.

Mira is unharmed because she's Mira, but the combination of oil and paper burns away quite easily. The goal is to reveal the pretty blue dress underneath. Unfortunately, the oil is dripping onto the floor, which is made of wood. Wood burns.

"Kya!" Mira shrieks as she falls through the floor.

"That was so cute."

Now there are two holes straight through the stage floor to the backrooms beneath. The entire stage shudders ominously.

"That was not cute."

"With the help of her fairy god-dragon, Cinderella made it to the ball, where she met and wooed the prince."

Juvia and Gray lead the rest of the Fairy Tail guild onstage in a line, to act as a human curtain so Mira can't see who the prince is right away.

Elfman helps his sister out of the pit. Mira brushes the dust off her blue dress and looks up. The curtain of humans dramatically walks away to reveal Laxus in a prince costume. There are conspicuous braces on his arms and legs that look like magic seal stone.

Laxus blinks three times fast, three times slow, then three times fast again. His hands are just out of view, behind his back.

Freed casually leans over and snips the ziptie that is out of sight of the audience before leaving, so Laxus can move his arms again.

"The prince and Cinderella slow danced to an entire song."

"Shoo-be-doo-bop!" Gajeel sings, waltzing to almost the middle of the stage with his guitar, wearing a white suit and hat that isn't a costume. "Be-doo-be-doo-be-doo-ba-day! Yeah!"

"Dance, you two. Arms around each other. Tighter. I hope you feel even a sliver of the mortification you've inflicted." Lucy cackles evilly, drunk on power.

Mira and Laxus awkwardly begin to sway back and forth to Gajeel's tune, her arms around his neck and his around her waist.

"The clock struck midnight and—"

"—JAILBREAK!" Mira screams, breaking the magic seal stone blocking Laxus's power.

He picks her up and dissolves into lightning, shooting out of the building. Not out of one of the two holes in the side, but by creating a third hole in the center of the ceiling. Plaster rains down.

"Let's get 'em!" Natsu cheers.

"Aye sir!" Happy tries to fly the dragon costume up, but the cords snap and Natsu falls onto the stage with a huge thump. The building shutters from the abuse. No one else in the guild moves.

"Fight Mira and Laxus together? Good luck with that." Gray shakes his head, terrified. Everyone else nods, sharing the sentiment.

"The prince and Cinderella eloped together, and they lived happily ever after!"

The curtains try to close, but Laxus destroyed the curtain rod so they close halfway and then sorta hang there crooked and limply.

Everyone in the guild waves and bows.

"Wooooo!"

"I can't believe it's over."

"Encore! Encore!"