User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 398: The Final Duels, Review./@comment-25111584-20140903065859

Hmmm, does anybody else get this ominous feeling that Natsu and Erza are going to lose somebody close to them? Lucy lost Aquarius, Gray lost, well ... relost? ... Silver. Now it's Natsu and Lucy's turn.

For Natsu, there's no candidate, those close to him are all from FT and they are also close to everybody else, this has to be somebody exclusively dear to him. So E.N.D. might actually have some relation (by realtion, I don't mean family, just some connection, could be family) to Natsu.

For Erza ... again, only one person exclusively dear to her. By the way, I'm only counting dear to Team Natsu, nobody else. So, yup, you guessed it, Meredy doesn't count. And you know who I think is gonna die in this arc ...