Template:The Earth Land Chronicles/May 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 Grand Magic Games arc.'' 

Welcome back to The Earth Land Chronicles, people!

Hey people, hope you've had a good month. It's been hectic for me with the excessive travel between work and home but you guys know I try not to leave you hanging unless it's off a cliff. Lol, never mind, I wouldn't do that either. Probably.

Anyways, when we last left off, the Garou Knights were beaten by Natsu and co. and forced to give them the location of Abyss Palace's exit. After walking for a while, the group comes across a door which Magically opens and reveals the hooded figure who's been stalking them for the last 30 chapters or so and who should it be but Lucy. Well, not really Lucy, but rather, the Lucy of the future. Anyways, Mashima knows that he needs to create suspense here, so what he does is have her collapse despite having appeared perfectly fine before. Oh well. Back to the Grand Magic Games.

So, in the games, Juvia is found by Chelia, just as Mavis predicted. Since she sees Juvia as Lyon's beloved and thus her rival, Chelia attacks her while the other Fairy Tail members doubt Juvia's ability to win if Chelia can heal herself. Elsewhere, Erza expects to fight Minerva but winds up fighting Kagura instead, with her failed prediction causing Mavis to cry when suddenly Minerva shows up and joins the battle between the three strongest women in the tournament. The battle is a hell of a see-saw with none of the girls gaining a clear advantage over the others. Even Minerva's Yagdo Rigora can't bring down Kagura and Erza so she resorts to dirty tactics. Having previously captured Millianna, Minerva brings her forth and an angry Kagura charges her but Minerva uses her Magic to switch places with Erza, almost causing the two to attack each other. Of course, that's her plan, so she leaves and tells the girls to fight amongst themselves.

Can I just ask what the heck it is with Minerva and taking hold of cats? First Lector now Millianna. Jeez I'm glad she's only in Fairy Tail or I'd knock her ass down if she were to even so much as contemplate harming Neko. Grr...

Simultaneously, Darton confronts Hisui and reveals he knows she sent Fairy Tail down to the abyss to retrieve Arcadios. She replies that someone from the future told her one team will win the games in an unexpected result and if that happens, she's gonna open the Eclipse Gate cause someone told her to. Why? Well, we'll get back to that.

Back at the games, Laxus comes across Orga who introduces himself as the Lightning God Slayer so we can finally confirm what we suspected like 30 chapters ago. Elsewhere, Erza and Kagura are fighting but despite Erza's best attempts, Kagura overwhelms her at every turn, with even her best armors cracking from Kagura's attacks and unable to help her actually beat her opponent. Bringing the talk back to Jellal, cause y'know he's gonna be involved in most of Erza's business, Kagura reveals that he killed her brother Simon. Simple and it works but Idk, I guess we were hoping for a little something...spicier. Anyways, Erza takes the blame for his death and Kagura goes nuts, unsheathing her sword and destroying a couple city blocks as a result. However, Erza blocks her move and after a quick nakama speech, knocks her down after Requipping to her boob-binding non-armor armor.

It's soon after we find out in a brand new, ass-pull backstory that Erza and Kagura lived in the same village but Erza saved Kagura from being kidnapped and was kidnapped herself in turn like Simon was. Hearing all this, Kagura breaks down but all is not well as Kagura returns and stabs Kagura, taking the points for herself and now set to face a heavily-injured Erza.

Elsewhere, Laxus continues fighting Orga, till Jura shows up and asks to join. Juvia's fight with Chelia is interrupted by the arrival of Gray and Lyon. Gajeel's been fighting Rogue and pretty much been kicking his ass.

As far as these fights go, Gajeel soon winds up on the ropes as a weird shadow possesses Rogue, giving him a ridiculous amount of strength that helps him turn the tables on Gajeel and damn near kill him (prompting a GaLe-esque scene) until Gajeel takes a page from Natsu's book and eats his shadows, entering Iron Shadow Dragon Mode and taking back the lead. With a powerful explosion, Gajeel takes out Rogue, forcing the shadow to run like a little bitch. Gotta admit, this was one of the better fights, but I am amused at how I liked Gajeel's dual element mode more than Natsu's, probably cause Gajeel usually wins without that kind of stuff.

Meanwhile, Future Lucy wakes up and reveals her story the group, as Hisui reveals to Darton, that 10,000 Dragons will attack Fiore.

Back with Orga and Laxus' interrupted fight, Orga is taken out instantly by Jura but just when it seems like Laxus was as well, he makes his comeback and starts trading evenly with Jura. Oh, and Laxus borrows Natsu's line to continue. Alright, really, what's up with everyone taking a cue from Natsu when the dude's not even there? Is he that influential? Hell, these are two people who pretty much look down on him. Gah, nothing I can do though, sadly. But soon after, Laxus lands a powerful blow on Jura, ending the battle by knocking him out and winning five points for his team.

Over at Gray and Juvia's fight, it's pretty much going in Lyon and Chelia's favor for several chapters and all Gray can say is "Their teamwork is weak. We can beat them" for about half the fight even though all scenes up to that point are of the Lamia Scale Mages countering everything Gray and Juvia try. But since Gray and Juvia are from Fairy Tail, they naturally will win pretty much everything cause that's how Hiro Mashima writes his story. Soon after, Gray and Juvia work together and Chelia's in too much of a daze to do anything about it and this allows her and Lyon to be taken out simultaneously.

Meanwhile, Future Lucy is assured by Natsu and co. that they will protect the future. However, while they make their escape from the castle, they find that Arcadios and Yukino are missing, so Mirajane leaves to find the latter just as a battle begins. The battle is solely fought against fodder but soon, the Garou Knights make their return and put more pressure on the Fairy Tail gang.

Back at the games, Erza is having a tough time against Minerva due to her injuries from her fight with Kagura, but Minerva doesn't care. Kagura and the recently-brought Millianna can only watch as Erza gets tossed around like a Ragdo-doll (pun intended) without a chance to fight back. That is, until, she activates her Nakagami Armor, one which is said to break the laws of Magic and hasn't been worn before cause it takes up too much Magic Power despite the Mages we've seen in the series who trounce Erza in terms of strength. But, sadly for Minerva, Erza can wear it and uses it to crush Minerva swiftly, taking her out of the battle soon after. With that, only one enemy remains for Fairy Tail to crush: Sting.

However, that soon comes to a grinding halt as Sting is confronted by the 5 Fairy Tail Mages and despite each of them being battered and beaten, he does not fight. What does he do? He surrenders. Yes, he decides that he doesn't want to win, even though it was the only way Minerva would release Lector, and gives up. This gives Fairy Tail more points and actually propels them to the title of "victors". Yes, with this, Fairy Tail has won the Grand Magic Games. But good news for Sting, Lector ended up escaping Minerva's Magic and is brought to him by Millianna, reuniting the two friends. How corny. With Fairy Tail's victory, Hisui goes to ready Eclipse.

Back at the palace, the Garou Knights and Fiore armymen are engulfed in shadows which we soon learn belong to the one who warned Hisui about the Dragons: Rogue of the future. He states that the Dragons took over cause Lucy closed the gate and didn't allow the future to fight back and tells them that if she lives, the future dies and tries to kill her. However, his attack instead hits Future Lucy, who jumped in the way. As she dies, she states that she never did any such thing like close the gate and everyone cries at the first death in Fairy Tail in ages. With that, Natsu takes the battle to Future Rogue while the others escape...

But surprisingly, even Natsu has no chance against Future Rogue, even with Lightning Flame Dragon Mode and Future Rogue has a move of his own: White Shadow Dragon Mode which he got by killing the Sting of the future. With this, Rogue mows down Natsu until the battle is interrupted by Ultear and Meredy, who drive him away even though he should be more than capable of wrecking both of them simultaneously.

Outside, the group escapes and finds Hisui and Arcadios, who left to confront her, together and readying Eclipse. While the Mages in town are told of the scenario by the King, who was Mato all along, Lucy learns from Crux that Eclipse truly is dangerous and is proven right as we learn Future Rogue wanted the Dragons to attack, and they were coming via Eclipse and its time portal. As the Dragons walk through, Lucy attempts to close it but even with support, is unable to do so. Is this the end?

Well, things have certainly taken a drastic turn haven't they? The Dragons are coming, Future Rogue was lying, Future Lucy is dead, and Natsu got his ass kicked. Sounds great so far, right? Anyways, that's the end of this edition of ELC! Join us next month as we continue to look at Fairy Tail's largest arc (to date).

Till then!




 * Best Magic of this part of the Arc:
 * Iron Shadow Dragon Mode - Not a Magic per se, but good enough for me.


 * Best Moment of this part of the Arc:
 * Kagura's super-slash.


 * Best Chapter of this part of the Arc:
 * Chapter 313


 * Best Episode of this part of the Arc:
 * Episode 185