User blog comment:Imhungry4444/Chapter 248 Review/@comment-3087258-20110827111941

FAIRY TAIL 248 Epilogue HADES: Ha, just kidding.
 * Hades Stands Up, once again unscathed.*
 * Hades then teleports Natsu to the corn fields never to be seen again.*

That was a travesty. Actually, it wasn't; It seems to be the norm for enemies to be defeated in such a way in Fairy Tail.

Hades is in a new class of ignorance for trusting his source of power and youth to some peons. Granted, Pantherlily is no weak-link, but had even one of the guards been on the level of the any of the 7 Kin, then Hades probably wouldn't have been defeated by such malarky. He fits into the cliche of an all power enemy, with a group of super powerful warriors, getting too cocky, and not caring about the one weakness that will cripple him. However, I will take solace in my mind, by claiming this victory to be won by Happy, Charle, and Lily, not by Natsu. Kinda figured the 7 kin would lose their powers that stemmed from Hades (and potentially his heart), but I was proved wrong just a couple pages later when Ultear fixed the tree.

Also, hello everyone :) Please don't feel that I just made an account in anger to discuss this chapter; I have had a wikia account for a while and just recently rediscovered my password, so I figured I hit up the blog. Really been digging this Anime and then the Manga all summer, but this ending was a bit of a buzz kill right before I go back to school. Also, good work to anyone who has ever edited positively towards this wikia. It's one of the most coherent I have come browsed through.

Anywho, hardly a review good sir, but I believe a rant is the most acceptable facet for this issue. And in some weird way, it perfectly summarizes the chapter. Take care.