User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 431 & 432: My sword is... & Brair in Love, Review./@comment-83.253.247.186-20150429103908/@comment-9595671-20150429115734

Yeah, Lucy's leveled up big time. Lucy still has Aquarius' key so I assume that maybe she might but I'm not sure, and ironically most Fairy Tail fans I talk don't even realize that was the Auqarius Star dress and thought they'd never see it.

Agreed, if I've seen most time skips the usual case is to show the characters have gotten stronger against an enemy that seems powerful but by the time they face the next threat its more evened out. As much as most fans might not like it, if you can't show they've got stronger than its just like the time skip never even happened in the first place.

Yeah, I wondered the same thing. I'm starting to wonder if the reason that the First Generation couldn't use it before is because their Dragons were limiting the power from coming out as it seems Dragon Force is what makes you become a Dragon and they wanted the antibodies to fully develop so they would stay human.

I bet this is why Sting and Rogue's Dragon Force wasn't that strong as well, while the Lacrimas helped push the power out it was still being suppressed by Weisslogia and Skiadrum. So Natsu's comment about their DF being half-baked was kinda true at the time, the one question we still have to ask though is if you need to transform into DF once to use it and only Gajeel fits that bill since the 2nd Gen seems to not have Dragon Force at all.