It was..terrible, when Makarov ended the guild. All the guild members forced to find somewhere else. Natsu had left the day before the big announcement, and returned to an empty guild a year later from his training journey. And from there, he was insistent on gathering up the lost members of the guild, and putting it back together!

By this time, he'd dragged together so many people, including Laxus. Natsu was confident that Laxus would be a great leader of the rebuilt Fairytail guild, only, they needed you, another S class wizard from the old fairytail guild.

You grew up with Laxus, you were close, and he missed you terribly.

Natsu's 'brilliant' plan was for a few fairytail members to join this little competition for wizards, hosted by your new guild, of which you would be participating in. Natsu's brilliant idea was showing off that Fairytail was back, and somehow get you to join with them along the way, which was supposed to be Laxus' job. Convince you to join the new fairytail guild.