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Sexy Juvia cover is sexy. So Natsu confronts Arlock and the two have a stare down. Natsu tells him that he has no chance and to give up but Arlock says Natsu is young and doesn't understand despair. Arlock fires a blast at Natsu but Natsu deflects and one sho- Hold on a second, Natsu didn't one shot him yet. May the story continue! So Arlock creates a barrier spell that pushes Natsu back and puts him on the defensive as he dodges Arlock's attacks. However, Natsu quickly breaks the barrier though and bam! One shots Arlock! Yayyyy! But, Arlock, having planned to be beaten, reveals he burned off his own face as a sacrifice and summons Ikutsu-tsunagi or however you spell that damn name. Everyone then looks to the sky as the giant is summoned forth. Its foot steps down, crushing and killing all those beneath it. Natsu tells him to call it off but Arlock says everyone of his men was willing to die as this was the plan all along. The souls of those who die believing in Zeref will summon forth Zeref according to him. Hearing this however, greatly angers Natsu. As the war god descends, everyone is thrown into a panic, but Natsu resolves to stop it.

Hooray! One shot! Everything we wanted! Such a great chapter. Natsu is so OP now that he can take out anything in one hit. Amazing chapter.

With the War God now out in full force, he swings his sword forth, splitting the ground in 2. Natsu, being Natsu though, takes the opportunity to climb the sword and get on the deity. Arlock however, says it is pointless and calls to the other members of Avatar, telling them they must die for Zeref. Natsu then starts his typical nakama speech and bla bla bla Arlock doesnt agree, bla bla bla you all know the routine by now. But then! Natsu gets on the War God's head and...ONE SHOTS HIM! YAY!

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OMG ONE SHOT! YESSS! Couldn't be better.

The War God now defeated, the members of Avatar are shocked. Jerome, Mary and Briar are all in tears, so surprised over what has transpired. With Natsu victorious, the rest of Avatar tries to run away, but Gajeel arrives to arrest them all. Everyone is shocked to see Gajeel and Gray explains he became a member of the Council. Lucy then sees Levy and the two happily reunite. Natsu then sees Gajeel, but thinking there is no way that Gajeel would ever join the Council, Natsu says it is a guy who looks like Gajeel, pissing Gajeel off. Gajeel says he was approached by Warrod to join the council and took him up on the offer. Flash to Warrod and he says he was just joking. Gajeel then attempts to arrest all his former guild mates for felonious reasons before Erza knocks him over the head, wondering who the guy who looks like Gajeel is. Pantherlily then explains that that is actually Gajeel. Shocking Natsu and Erza. The group then rejoices in the fact that they have beaten Avatar. Meanwhile, above them, Sting and Rogue arrive to find they are too late. Lector then notices that Frosch is missing. Below, Frosch has joined the other Exceed when Gray notices him. Natsu, seeing this, is sent into shock that Rogue broke his promise to keep Frosch away from Gray. However, Gray simply picks Frosch up and hugs him, commenting it is quite nice.

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So there was some nice character development and seeing Juvia mad at Frosch kind of made me laugh, but there were no one shots, so boring ass chapter.

Many years ago, a young Zeref is studying at the Mildia magic academy. He shocks the elders when he writes a paper studying the origins of life and death and is told that such research is taboo. Zeref awakens from his dream and begins to talk of his past. He had a brother once, but his brother died when he was only a few years old. Unable to cope, Zeref began researching life and death. Zeref invents many things during his time at the academy to bring back his brother, including Eclipse and the R-System, but is always told that such research is taboo. He is eventually expelled but Zeref is then cursed and kills everyone at the academy on accident. He explains that his curse is a contradiction. The more he valued life, the more things died. As such he needed to disregard life. With his curse came immortality though and he began to research the creation of demons powerful enough to kill him. Through all his creations though, not a one was powerful enough to kill him. As a final project, he created Etherious Natsu Dragneel. Using his brother's body, he succeeded at everything he had wanted, reviving his brother and creating a demon powerful enough to kill him. Zeref then reveals his full name, Zeref Dragneel, Natsu's brother. Back in the present, Zeref states there are stories left for another time but he has to go meet someone else. Traveling up a mountainside, Zeref meets with Acnologia who is revealed to be able to revert to human form. Zeref states he will make Acnologia fight at full power as they confrontation approaches.

So putting my sarcasm aside for a moment, I liked this chapter quite a bit for the history of things, but it really undercuts Zeref as a villain. In fact, I wouldn't even call Zeref a villain anymore. The only reason he wants to destroy everything is because if he didnt say that, he would kill everyone. He is a good guy, which means FT doesn't really have an overarching villain.

I'm just going to analyze this chapter rather than summarize because the summary is everyone meets up in Magnolia and they reunite and FT is reborn. So first off, no one shots, boo! What is this, a serious manga? Anyway, I am glad to see everyone back but before Avatar came in, I was really liking the premise of journeying around Fiore and finding all the important players in FT and seeing what they have been up to. This chapter did away with that and just immediately put everyone back together, which I didn't really like at all. So now the question is who becomes guild master of the new FT. Its hard to imagine FT without Makarov as the guild master but its going to come down to the three S-Class mages and right away, we can rule Erza out. She is a main character and Mashima would never leave her in the dust to be a side character as the new guild master. So that leaves Erza and Laxus. Laxus is the most obvious choice, as it was Makarov's wish for him to inherit the guild one day, but I think a lot of people are discrediting Mira. I have seen people say she is too nice or doesn't have the mentality of a guild master, but she was kind of the second in charge to Makarov. She was clearly more than just a member of the guild and Makarov seemed to rely on her at times. So yeah, probs Laxus, but it could be Mira.

Anyway, thats all for this month hoes. Only 1 person wished me a happy birthday last month e_e which leads me to believe none of you bitches read this article so I am going to test it. If you read the article, say armadillio in a comment. If you didn't, I cant make you do anything cause you know, you didnt read what I would be telling you to do.... So yeah!