User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 543: Hearts Connected/@comment-24489996-20170708033617/@comment-7418318-20170708070747

Acnologia didn't save Sonya. She was mortally wounded and would have died if not for a happenstance I'm not going to mention due to spoilers. For his part Acnologia seemed to be convinced that Sonya was already dead.