Template:The Earth Land Chronicles/January 2014

 ''Welcome to the latest issue of The Earth Land Chronicles. This article will a relatively sarcastic overview of things in the Fairy Tail series, which will probably be presented in chronological order. This could include main villains, Dragon Slayers, Celestial Spirits, probably in the order they were revealed. Our first series will be the story arcs of Fairy Tail, with an arc being done each month. So let's continue with the Key of the Starry Sky arc.'' 

Well, the 2nd day of the Grand Magic Games have come to and end and Mashima decided to make Carrot happy by throwing in a JellalxErza scene of the two of them talking under a bridge about recent events and even noting at the end that they're now able to have a normal conversation. One can only guess how much fangasm was experienced that day. Contextually about events, nothing is said other than that they need to inspect closer and all such stuff since the mysterious Magic of previous years hasn't been sensed. After parting with Jellal and while on her way back to her friends, Erza is then met by a familiar face.

Elsewhere, Lucy, Natsu and Wendy and their cats whom I'm not gonna name head back to their lodge and find Yukino there. Unbeknownst to them, she's been excommunicated from Sabertooth for her loss against Kagura and now seeks a meeting with Lucy.She wishes to offer her gold keys to Lucy, cause apparently the one loss means that she has to give up her most prized possessions to someone who she has only just met. Anyways, Lucy declines in one of the best character-defining moments of Fairy Tail, a far cry from the girl we met at first who would use her body to earn a discount on a silver key. Can you imagine what she'd have done for a golden key back then? Yeah, so moving on from the sex, Yukino takes her leave.



I said we were moving off the sex!

Anyways, Natsu, who'd been hostile towards Yukino at first, runs after her to apologize and this simple act by a simpleton causes her to break down and cry and pretty much spill her guts on everything that's happened to her. If you have only seen the manga version, I recommend watching the anime's version. It's actually one of the few cases where I think it did something to improve on the original. Anyways, hearing the story of how Yukino was forced to strip naked and kicked out due to her loss angers Natsu and causes him to go ballistic. That night, he invades Sabertooth's lodging to challenge Master Jiemma and kick him out of his own guild after beating him, cause that's only fair.

Quickly kicking the ass of a Kakashi-rip-off called Dobengal, Natsu proceeds to fight Jiemma in front of the entire guild, only to have his technique blocked by Minerva, one of Sabertooth's 5 strongest and Jiemma's daughter. So apparently, she came back to the guild, found Happy outside and decided to use his ass as a hostage and got back into the building. Naturally, Natsu has to let it go lest Happy get his head ripped-off. Man, that sounds entertaining. Ergo, he returns to the lodge, having left and impression and telling Sabertooth they'll settle things in the Grand Magic Games.

Meanwhile, the mysterious hooded figure of Mermaid Heel is really Erza's old neko friend Millianna. Wally and Sho are elsewhere but she joined a women-only guild and as we later find out, it's because of Kagura. See, Kagura's unsheathed sword is called Archenemy and it was forged to kill Erza's beloved Jellal for reason we won't find out until later on. Millianna claims to hate Jellal too and thinks Erza does as well, but her face shows quite another expression. While thinking on this elsewhere after parting with her for the night, Erza talks to Gray who mentions Juvia and Erza pretty much has to tell him what fans have known for ages and what he's putting off: Juvia wants him! But we'll get some progress on that front later.

The next day is the 3rd day of the Grand Magic Games and the name of the game is Pandemonium. Having just recently watched Kaze no Stigma at this point that year, I initially remembered that show's Pandemonium and to be honest, this wasn't even all that far off. Erza takes this game for her team, making Millianna do it for her own. We've got Jura going for his team, pretty boy Hibiki for his, Cana for Fairy Tail B since "Mystogan" can't be seen since the guest judge of the day is Lahar. For Raven Tail, we've got Mr. Penguin and for Sabertooth is the world's worst singer other than myself Orga Nanagear. Oh, and some skinny dude for Quatro Puppy. Like anyone cares about them >_>

Sooo, the game is Pandemonium and you've gotta fight some monsters for points. Numbered 1 through 8, the fighters have to fight various monsters ranked D through S-Class. There's a hundred in total and you get to fight whatever number you want. Taking the challenge for herself, Erza decides to fight all 100 monsters alone, leaving none for anybody else. In the manga, we merely see a few shots of the fight here and there coupled with Levy's commentary whereas the anime expands this tremendously, showing Era Requipping multiple armors and combining them to combat the hordes of creatures. In the end, she defeats each and every beast, even the S-Class beast which was supposed to trouble even a Wizard Saint. With this victory, Fairy Tail Team A secures 10 points and the admiration of the entire crowd.

So, since there's no more monster left for anyone else to fight, the organizers decide to bring out the MPF, a device to measure Magic Power and settle things. Continuing in the order they were supposed to go in, Millianna is first up and strikes I nearly wrote "strokes"XD the device for a score of 365 which we learn from Lahar isn't too shabby. Nobarly from the Puppy team gets a "wild" 124. Damn, man. Hibiki from Blue Pegasus gets just a 95 while Anyways, Obra sends  his little creature to attack the machine and the physical impact scores just a 4. Now though, it's time for the big guns to come in with Orga, who shoots with his black lightning and scores a 3825, making pretty much everyone's jaw drop, aside from Laxus, who's more eager than ever to fight this guy. However, even his score pales in comparison to Jura's, since he got a score of 8544. Makarov thinks there's no way they can win but Mavis has her own secret plan that's been put into motion. Approaching the M.P.F., Cana activates the Fairy Glitter which Mavis had lent her. With that, Cana vaporizes the thing and scores a 9999, giving her 8 points for her team. If only the anime had properly rendered the scene as epicly as the manga had.

In the manga, we find out that Gildarts, who's currently on a new journey, happens by a town and sees Cana's victory on their Lacrima vision. Happy as he is, his clumsy nature shows as he comically destroys the entire village he had just saved a short while ago. Poor dude.

But now that the events of the GMG's 3rd day are over, we get to move onto the meaty parts: the fights! The first fight is Millianna vs. Semmes, which the cat girl wins quite easily with her bondage tube. The next fight is Eve vs. Rufus. Eve puts up a fair fight at first but eventually Rufus just overcomes him cause he's just too much for the pretty-boy to handle. But now that that's over, we get to see one of the most badass characters fight. It's Laxus vs. Alexei but it begins with a shock to everyone, including us readers, as Laxus initially appears to be getting his ass kicked. However, it's really just an illusion. The real dudes haven't moved and as it turns out, Alexei is really Ivan Dreyar. Joined by Kurohebi, Flare, Nullpudding and Obra, he decides to go after Laxus to obtain that which he wants: Lumen Histoire. He claims to have searched everywhere, including the guild building, though clearly he was too much of a dumbass to actually succeed even though it'd have been right under his nose in that case.

Anyways, one would expect Laxus to have trouble with at least a few members of Raven Tail. I mean, as strong as he is, even he couldn't take out all of them at once, right? Well, apparently we were wrong cause he can. Blitzing Obra, the dude takes him out and then proceeds to annihilate the other three subordinates before turning on dear old daddy himself. Yeah, and what does he do? He tries to give him a paper cut. -_- No, seriously, his only offensive Magic appears to be the use of paper which just scratches Laxus, who them proceeds to knock him across the arena, but not before Ivan decides to beg for his safety and Laxus of all people pulls a line about Fairy Tail being his family. Man. This is what he's turned out to be. Ah well though, at least Raven Tail gets arrested for breaking tournament rules, but not before Obras creature, later revealed to be Obra himself, escapes. Ivan also gets arrested but not before telling Laxus that Lumen Histoire is Fairy Tail's darkness. Though we have yet to see any damn evidence of that and it looked pretty darn bright to me.

But, next up is Wendy vs. Chelia and all of a sudden, people are looking at the latter funny. No, it's not cause she tripped and proved herself as clumsy as Wendy. Orga senses something and Jellal runs to the Domus Flau sensing it as well. We've guessed it through this battle and Orga's reaction that Chelia is a God Slayer and Mashima confirms this soon after and even plays a good red herring by making us think she's the source of the mysterious Dark Magic. The battle is long and honestly one of the GMG's best, with Wendy holding her own for the most part and really showing us how she grew from the shy kid she used to be to someone who is a strong and confident individual, even if her shy nature shows up from time to time. Hell, whose doesn't? The battle ultimately ends in a draw and Chelia, despite being strong, is known not to be the source of the Dark Magic. The real source is someone whose silhouette strongly resembles Sasuke from Naruto and Jellal begins chasing them before being cornered by Doranbolt.

Identity exposed, the bypassing Kagura begins her morning sickness, angry at seeing Jellal who impregnated her against her's and Mega's wishes. Though she gets over this sickness about as fast as she got it. As Jellal's about to be arrested till Yajima shows up and bullshits a lie about him being the real Mystogan, yet Lahar knows he's lying. Somehow. Though, he lets him go but also lets the Dark Magic carrier go as well.

Elsewhere, Makarov and Laxus talk about Ivan and contrary to what Ivan said, Mavis tells them Lumen Histoire is Fairy Tail's light, which frankly makes more sense. When they realize Hades must've told Ivan about it in the first place, Mavis begins crying over having chosen him as her successor, causing Makarov to tell Laxus to comfort her. Of course, this is too big a hurdle for him, so they take her to the one place that can cheer her up: Ryuzetsu Land!

Yes, on the night of the third day of the GMG, the Fairy Tail Mages go to the popular resort to show off their latest swimwear! Man, isn't that exciting? The events there are typical of a beach-episode. Wendy and Chelia play in the water and get watched from afar by pervs. Gray ends up having to compete for Juvia with Lyon. Erza's constantly hit on by the Trimens and Ichiya. Elfman and Evergreen showed up together and constantly bicker like they're married, unaware that Freed and Bickslow are watching from afar. Jellal just happens to be there cause he was tracking down that mysterious Magic which supposedly decided to take time off from being evil to go play in the water. In the OVA, Gajeel, Levy and the Exceed get eaten by a huge fish and escape by unknown but suggestively creepy means. Lucy gets found by Flare, whom she somehow forgives after getting an apology. Cana plays around with Quatro Puppy, despite previously hating Bacchus for taking her bikini top. Natsu's antics mess up the place though, even moreso in the OVA when everyone gets knocked onto the love slider, even those of the same gender. In the end, the area is frozen over by the Ice Mages and broken apart by Natsu, who breaks the resort as a result. As such, the bill gets sent, as usual, to Fairy Tail. Oh, and Lucy lost her bikini top in all the commotion. Big surprise there, eh?

So, the 3rd day of the GMG came with some surprises, some disappointments and an ass-ton of fanservice. Of course, in Fairy Tail, we can't expect much else, can we? At least it was fun to watch though.

But, that's the end of this edition of the ELC and for this portion of the Grand Magic Games arc! Fairy Tail has finally kicked ass and taken some names. Can they keep this up? To see, join us next month as we continue to look at Fairy Tail's largest arc (to date).

Till then!




 * Best Quote of this part of the Arc:
 * "The fact that I'm standing here now means I'm also prepared to fight on behalf of my Guild. I don't need your pity. Until I've fallen and become unable to move any longer, please come at me with all your strength!" - Wendy Marvell to Chelia Blendy in Chapter 289


 * Best Magic of this part of the Arc:
 * Sky God Slayer Magic


 * Best Moment of this part of the Arc:
 * Erza wins Pandemonium.


 * Best Chapter of this part of the Arc:
 * Chapter 298 - Chronologically, it's a part of the 3rd day.


 * Best Episode of this part of the Arc:
 * Episode 165/OVA 5 - Eh, I couldn't really decide, even if OVAs aren't episodes.