User blog:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 377 & 378: Imperial Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon & With Friends, Always, Review.

Two chapters this week!!! Awesome. :3 Let's start with number one, shall we?

The chapter begins where we left off last week with Wendy activating Dragon Force. And can I say she looks even more epic in color? :3 To match this epic appearance, her abilities are epic as well. Wendy moves behind Ezel so fast that he actually think she vanishes, and she delivers a hell of a blow to him and is too fast for him to retaliate. That's our wendy. ^__^ Anyhow, she needs to finish the match quickly so she uses Sky Drill on Ezel, but he slices the wind. Cool. :3 And even cooler than that is his "Slash Attack Mode." But it proves pointless since Wendy draws up a lot of wind and obliterates both Ezel and Face.... but the countdown keeps going... and thus, we go into the next chapter!

Natsu, Lucy, and the others notice that the island is shaking and Franmalth says it is reacting to Face. Meanwhile, Keith and Gray are facing off and Gray isn't getting anywhere with him. Elsewhere, Mirajane is still being held off by Sayla's... wait for it... books. -___- Shame on you, Mashima. Shame! And while they are battling, creepy ass Laki sneaks up behind Lisanna and claims she's her opponent. Meanwhile (getting sick of this word, yet?) Erza and Kyouka are still fighting and Erza apparently likes fighting in her tattered, completely useless Non-Armor Armor instead of actual Armor. >_> Meanwhile, Carla is using her powers of Prophecy to find a way to stop Face, and she does but it would kill Wendy and Carla since they are too close to it. So they decide to die there together. Awwwww how sweet. :3 We all know they aren't going to die, though, so it kinda takes a little bit from the moment. >_> Anyhow, they press it and Face goes BOOM!!!! But Wendy and Carla are saved by... by... by... '''DORANBOLT!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!! I LOVE YOU MASHIMA!!!!!!'''

Overall, the first chapter was a bit anti-climactic because Mashima, despite how much I lurvvvvvv him (still happy from seeing Doranbolt ^__^), isn't the greatest fight writer in my opinion. But, I loved the emotion in the second chapter with Wendy and Carla. As I said, it was dampened a little because we knew they would survive, but it was still good. It's a little underwhelming that FACE is gone already, but I think we all know by now that it isn't the main focus of the arc, which makes me curious to find out what is.