User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 519: Show Me Your Smile, Review/@comment-5303512-20170127181144/@comment-1776824-20170128075617

The power of feelings didn't tell Laxus to stop hurting his friends. Fairy Law doesn't work on people the caster views as non-enemies. Laxus could hate someone but if they weren't his enemy, then it wouldn't work either. Natsu also gave up because he was scared. Fear made him stone cause he definitely wanted to stop. Gildarts was on a whole other level than Natsu. There isn't a way he could've won even with friendship powers.