Edolas arc

The Edolas arc is the tenth story arc of the Fairy Tail series.

New Member, New Friends
Fairy Tail returns home to their guild with Wendy and Charle. Natsu enjoys a short time of sick free transport and Lucy thinks back to all that happened after learning the truth about Cait Shelter. The light team members all head back to their guilds on good terms, and Lucy meets up with Gemini, Scorpio, and Aries who tells her of Angel's arrest and their voided contracts. They ask to form a contract with Lucy, and she is surprised to receive 3 of the 12 ecliptic keys at once. She also shows her kindness to the spirits, which is no surprise for Gemini, confusion for being called a person for Scorpio, and happiness for Aries for finding a nice owner, free of mistreatment, and being able to be with Leo.

As they arrive at Fairy Tail, Wendy and Charle are instantly welcomed by everyone. Everyone is glad that Team Natsu managed to arrive back safely and for taking out 1/3 of the dark guild alliance. They learn of Wendy being the Sky Dragon Slayer and the master then throws a welcome party for Wendy and Charle. Wendy instantly takes a liking to the guild but Charle is somewhat disturbed by the guilds immaturity. Mystogan then looks down from the second floor and is surprised to see Wendy arriving at Fairy Tail before disappearing.

A few days later the town and the Guild learn of Gildarts return. Most of the new members don't know whats going on but learn that Gildarts is the strongest mage of Fairy Tail and that he has just returned from a 100- year mission after 3 years. Following the announcement of Gildart's return, the town immediately sets up the town to be separated for a path straight to Fairy Tail, that won't be destroyed by Gildarts.

When Gildarts arrives at the guild, he is suprised to see how much the building and some of his friends changed. Natsu then without hesitation charges toward him for a fight but gets beaten with just one throw. He later talks with Makarov about the mission, and says that he couldn't finish it, greatly shocking everyone since even the top mage of Fairy Tail couldn't handle the 100 year mission. He later leaves for his home, but tells Natsu to come over since he has something to tell him before destroying a wall and leaving.

Happy and Natsu head toward Gildart's home, and the first thing he asks is about his relationship with Lisanna. Natsu then tells him that she died 2 years ago, and proceed to leave, but Gildarts tells him about meeting a Black Dragon and how that dragon forced him to quit the 100 year mission. Natsu then runs away since he now wonders how his dad, Igneel is and where he could be.

The Crisis
Gajeel leaves to search for a cat companion much like the ones Natsu and Wendy has but ends up exhausted and empty handed. Back at the guild, Happy tries to give Charle a present but she turns away and gives him a cold shoulder. When Happy asked to be friends, she refuses and tells him that he can't protect Natsu the way he is now nor does he know who he really is. Shortly after it starts raining, and after Wendy finds Charle they are greeted by Mystogan who takes off his mask and reveals who he really is. At first they mistake him for Jellal who should have been arrested, but then he mentions that he only took the name of Jellal since he didn't know a thing about this world, this made Wendy realize that this was the Jellal she met 7 years ago and Charle think if he is talking about her homeland. Before they can receive an answer, Mystogan tells them to leave with him since he can't stop Anima anymore. Following the heavy rain, they learn that Fairy Tail and all of the town will disappear, but Wendy refuses to abandon her friends and tries to run back to warn everyone.

Back at Fairy Tail, everyone continues their lifestyle inside due to the rain, but Mirajane and Elfman are getting ready to head out to the church since its close to the anniversary of Lisanna's death. Wendy still tries to run back to the guild, and then notices a hole opening in the sky. She manages to make it to the guild but is too late, and the whole town gets sucked up. Just as she was about to lose hope, Natsu suddenly bursts out from the wreckage. Charle then flies to where they are and start telling her about a burden she has been carrying ever since she was born in the Earthland realm. She reveals that Happy and herself are from a different world, and that the phenomenon that just occurred, was because of a problem that their homeland, Edolas is experiencing. The magic of Edolas is starting to disappear, so they created anima to transfer magic from the Earthland realm to Edolas. Also she and Happy were sent to Earthland for some kind of a mission.

She reveals that Happy and her were sent by the King to carry some sort of mission but chose to abandon it, Happy forgot about it, but still feels burdened. Despite the dangers they may face Natsu and Wendy are still determined to go save everyone. Charle at first didn't want to go through with it but decided to after making a few conditions, which includes killing her and Happy if she does anything that could betray them. After making their decision Happy and Charle use their wings to fly through the remains of Anima and head straight through to Edolas and try to save everyone.

The World On the Other Side: Enter Edolas
Flying through Anima, everyone arrives at Edolas and are amazed that a parallel world existed. Shortly after Happy and Charle's wings disappear and they fall in a storage building. After finding some disguises, Natsu spots Fairy Tail outside the window and runs towards it. However Charle stops them and when they see everyone they see them all acting weird. Shortly after Lucy spots them and confuse Natsu for their friend. After a short visit Charle realizes that the people here are not their friends, and that they are the inhabitants of Edolas. Realizing that their friends must be at the royale city, they prepare to leave but then someone bursts in and tells them that the fairy hunter has located them. Shortly after the royal army arrives, Fairy Tail manages to teleport away to another location. Here Team Natsu learn that magic is outlawed, Fairy Tail is being treated as a Dark Guild, and that the Fairy Hunter is none other than Erza.

Clearing up the misunderstanding, Natsu reveals that they are from the Earthland realm and that they are setting out to save their friends. Everyone still deems it suicidal so they refuse to help them, so they decide to head out by themselves. Along the way they bump into a giant frog, and try to fight it but realize that none of them can use their magic in Edolas. Luckily, they are saved by Lucy, who decides to give them directions and help them a little.

Arriving at the town of Luen, Lucy takes them to a black market to buy magic items that they can use in Edolas to fight against the royal army. Shortly after they purchase the items, the royale army locates them and Natsu instantly tries his new weapon, which produces a giant blade made from flames. His effort was made useless thanks to the shields that the army used, and for overusing his already limited weapon with 1 use. Just then, Wendy accidentally uses her magic item, which summons a giant twister and sent them flying some distance way which let them escape from the army. While hiding out in a building, they hear the army and thought that they have been found, but are surprised to see the earthland Lucy. They immediately rush to help her, but are surprised that Lucy can still use her own celestial magic and manages to summon Scorpio and Aries to fight the army. While hiding out in a forest they learn that Lucy used Horologium to hide out against the Anima and that Mystogan was the one who sent her to Edolas. They try to formulate a new plan and Edolucy realizes that they might be able to change this world.

While hiding out at Sikka, Edo-Lucy decides to abandon them and head back to the guild so she can persuade the other guild members to help them. The next morning while wondering around they spot an airship belonging to the royale army. They decide to try and hijack it so they can make it to the royal capital faster. However when Lucy, tries to summon Leo, Virgo appears instead and their plans hit major problems. Suddenly a magic 4 wheeler appears and manages to save everyone, and they learn that the Driver is none other than Natsu's counterpart. When they stop they are surprised to learn that Edo-Natsu has driven them all the way to the Royale Capital, as well as his split personality of a confident driver to a shy boy who is afraid of Lucy. When they enter the city, they are surprised to see that magic isn't outlawed in this town, but are shocked when they see a giant lacryma, they claim to be given to them by god and are outraged by the kings arrogant nature and greed.

Knowing that their friends are trapped inside a lacryma crystal, they try to find a way to release them and realize that the king might know a way to undo the spell. Also Charle, starts having visions about the kingdom and some secret routes they can use, so they decide to infiltrate the mansion and have Gemini take on the king's form and his memories to they can find the answer their looking for. However when they carry out their plan, and enter the secret tunnel they get ambushed and captured by the army led by Edoerza. Just when Happy and Charle try to get them to stop, they immediately bow down, call them Exceed, and thank them for their successful capture, greatly shocking them since they thought their mission had something to do with the earthland realm.

Truth of the 6 Year Mission
With Natsu and Wendy captured they try to get some answers but only learn that Lucy will get executed, and that the exceed carried out their mission perfectly. Happy and Charle then wake up in a room and meet up with other exceed much like them who congratulate them. Shortly after they learn that Queen Shaggote, was the one who sent them to Earthland when they were still in their eggs, to kill the dragon slayers. However, they don't understand why they completed their mission since they didn't carry out their mission at all. However, the captain of the exceed tells them that the queen decided to change their mission at the last minute to capturing the dragon slayers. However they had no way to reach them, and tell them about the change, so when Charle and Happy brought Natsu and Wendy to Edolas, they unintentionally carried out their mission.

Charle then breaks down because she thought for sure that she was abandoning the mission by helping them rescue their friends, but instead led them to a trap, doing what she didn't want to, and failing to protect Wendy. She then cries since she fells everything she did, she was just being manipulated and that everything that happened was a lie that they built up in their heads. However Happy stands up for Charle, by saying that they aren't their puppets, they are mages of Fairy Tail. They then decide to escape, and try to save their friends on their own, being labeled as fallen in the process. After a short chase through the town they hid in a wagon but then it rolls down a hill. When they wake up they find themselves in a field and then locate a giant lacryma, even bigger than the one they saw before, and realize their location as well as where their friends are trapped at. Shortly after a farmer shows up and then the army catches up to them, but instead of turning Happy and Charle over to the army, he tells them to hide out in his house. There the farmer and his wife treat Happy and Charle with hospitality and they learn that the reason they saved them was because they are banished from the kingdom and therefore don't listen to their laws. Happy still decides to rescue their friends and tries to think of the next course of action, but Charle is still filled with guilt and feels that there is nothing she can do. However the female exceed tells her to listen to her heart, and that it doesn't matter if she is a human or an exceed, they are all the same. After Charle regains her senses, she and Happy decide to head out towards the royal capital and help save their friends. They jump of the edge of Extalia and then realize that the reason they couldn't fly before was because their minds were troubled, but now there is nothing to worry about and their wings sprout again. As they are leaving the farmer and his wife comment on Happy, and reveal that they are actually his parents and that they are proud of what he has become, as well as having a cute girlfriend.

Battle Royale
Back at the Royal Capital, the army captains and Faust learn that the humans of Earthland can store magic inside their bodies just like the exceed and they plan to extract it from Lucy. However Faust then says, that Queen Shagotte has made an announcement for Lucy's execution.

As a barefoot Lucy reminisces between the Exceed Queen and the humans, Erza Knightwalker walks in and is mistaken for Erza Scarlet. At first she tries to ask her for help but then she get dragged out of her cell and onto a ledge where she is about to be pushed off. She later learns that this Erza is the one from Edolas and that unlike their Erza, she is an enemy who enjoys killing Fairy Tail mages. Just as she gets pushed off, Happy and Charle manage to arrive and catch her. Later Charle, tries to get some info as to where Natsu and Wendy are by pretending to be Queen Shaggote's daughter. She manages to find out their location but failed to get Erza to release them, since the other captains arrived and told Erza that they are the fallens. As they try to retreat Captain Nichiya and an army of exceed arrive and try to catch them. They then realize that the exceed have them cornered in the air and that the army are waiting for them on the ground. Just then the king notices the army of exceed arrive and decides to initiate Code ETD, which resulted in the Exceed getting turned into a giant lacrima crystal. This gives Happy and Charle an opportunity to escape and they manage to get inside the tower where Natsu and Wendy are. As they run down to stairs to where they are they get attacked by Erza Knightwalker and her army, and realize that the army is already draining the dragon slayer magic out of their friends, which is their life force and could kill them. Despite Charle demanding they return Wendy, Erza ignores her and prepares to kill her, but Happy defends her and says to kill him first. Just as she was about to do so an explosion occurs behind the army and Earthland Erza and Gray appear to join the fight, being able to use their magic.

While Erza holds of her counterpart, Gray and the others head towards where the dragon slayer are. They then learn that Gajeel is also in Edolas and is doing battle with the army, and that the lacrima they saw in the courtyard was actually just Gray and Erza. The dragon slayer magic that the army wants can be used for many different purposes, one of which can be used to release people from the lacrima. Realizing that since Gajeel released Gray and Erza, then he should be able to do the same with the others, so Happy flies towards Gajeel and takes him to where Lacryma is located. When they finally arrive at the room where Natsu and Wendy are they find out that they are too late, but then Gray pulls out a bottle of pills to feed Natsu and Wendy. They soon regain conscientiousness, and learn that the reason Gray and Erza were able to use magic despite being in Edolas is because the pills they got from Mystogan lets them use their magic, Lucy then recalls being fed the same pill by Mystogan when she got sent to Edolas. The moment Natsu regains wakes up, he charges out of the room and Wendy tells them that the army plans to use the dragon slayer magic to smash the giant lacrima into Extalia and create eternal magic.

Team Natsu then decide to find the King and stop him, while Wendy and Charle head to Extaila to try and warn everyone. Happy then manages to locate Gajeel and flies him to the lacrima but just as he was about to smash the crystal Pantherlily arrives using his aera and carrying a giant sword to stop him. As Natsu and his gang continue searching they come across an amusement park with Sugarboy and Hughes waiting to engage them. Gray fights against Sugarboy while Natsu fights against Sugarboy, but despite being able to use their magic they still find themselves having a hard time against the captains magical items. Natsu soon gets taken out because Hughes can control everything in the park and puts him on a magical roller coaster. Gray gets stuck in the ground but manages to escape and tries to attack Sugarboy, but his attacks all turn into water due to Sugarboy using his item to soften his attacks. Lucy then manages to release Natsu from the roller coaster and they land inside a lake. Hughes than says that magic is truly wonderful and that it can't be allowed to disappear, and to make sure that it doesn't they need to make sacrifices even if they are humans or exceed. Lucy and Natsu immediacy get angry and Lucy summons Aquarius using the lake, but soon learns that Aquarius is unable to control the water thanks to Hughes and they get washed into a haunted house.

The king and Byro discuss their plans of using the dragon chain cannon to ram the lacrima into Extaila, and Byro hand over the key to the cannon to Faust. Just then Coco arrives and tries to tell the king to delay his plans since Lily is fighting near the lacrima, but he refuses and says that one death makes no difference. Coco in shock, steals the key and runs away but the king and Byro try to stop her by attacking her legs, but she still continues running away.

Back at the haunted house, Natsu and Lucy wake up and Lucy finds herself in a machine which switches her clothes. Natsu then decides to use the machine, in hopes that Hughes will get distracted by Lucy in a sexy outfit, but it fails miserably. While Natsu continues fighting Hughes and his army of monster Mannequins, Lucy runs outside and bumps into Coco. Not long after Byro shows up and demands for the key, which Lucy mistakes for her celestial spirit keys, and decides to defend Coco from Byro. As they start fighting Lucy summons Taurus to fight against Byro but learns that Byro's magic involves throwing liquid with varying effects, which takes out Taurus in an instant. She then summons Virgo who manages to trap Byro in a pithole for a while, until he takes a liquid which transforms him into a giant humanoid octopus. Realizing that Lucy is using a lot of magic to summon the zodiac spirits, Leo decides to give her a celestial whip to battle against Byro. Lucy uses the whip to tie up Byro's tentacle and sends him crashing into a wall just as Natsu managed to punch Hughes through the wall on the opposite side, knocking them both out. Realizing that Natsu and Lucy are trustworthy, Coco decides to hand them the key and asking them to stop the kings plan, but before they grab the key Sugarboy arrives and snatches it away. Soon Gray arrives on a motorcycle and tries to chase Sugarboy. After a short chase he manages to catch up and learns that the key is what they need to activate the cannon, Gray then use his Ice Make: Floor and make Sugarboy crash into a wall. Later he grabs the key and encases it in ice, since the royal army needs the key Sugarboy can't use his magic on the ice, for fear of destroying the key. While Gray continues freezing the key, it starts to crack and Sugarboy tries to get Gray to stop since they need to key to use the cannon, which can help save their friends. Gray however refuses to listen and shatters the key, later finishing Sugarboy off. As he walks away Sugarboy mocks him saying they have lost all chance of rescuing their friends, but Gray just laughs and says he can make a replica with his ice.

When Natsu catches up he is a little surprised to see the key destroyed, but then learns that Gray can create a replica and that they can use it to turn everyone back to normal. Shortly after, Erza Knightwalker (actually Erza Scarlet in disguise) shows up and captures them. Natsu is later seen seemingly unconscious and tied up, being taken by Erza past a gate to where the cannon is. After Erza tells Gray to create a duplicate of the key, secretly they were trying to hit the lacrima with the cannon, but when the plan fails (because of Gray not knowing how to use the cannon), Erza tells Natsu to move, knocking out some of the soldiers and they take the king as hostage and ordering the soldiers to change the target of the cannon to the lacrima itself, until Erza Knightwalker appeared from above and attacked Erza, releasing the king and returning the cannon to it's original target, when firing the cannon, Lucy arrives with Coco on a Region to take everyone to Extalia and stop the lacrima

When the strength of the mages was not enough, the entire population of Extalia, including the queen, to the surprise of many, went to help and suddenly the lacrima disappeared, leaving some smoke and the mage Mystogan there, who explains that thanks to them he was able to find an Anima large enough to send the Lacrima back to Earthland and return everyone to normal. He then reveals himself as the Prince of Edolas, that Pantherlily once saved many years back, but suddenly Pantherlily is attacked by Erza Knightwalker, who was going to attack the Exceeds with a group of soldiers on Regions. When Mystogan tries to stop Erza Knightwalker, the king appears inside an enormous dragon-like machine called Dorma Anim, which nullifies all external magic attacks. The king orders the soldiers to capture the Exceeds and then shoots a magic beam from the Dorma, but Mystogan uses the Triple Magic Rune: Mirrored Water to deflect the attack back to it, but it doesn't have any effect. Dorma Anim shoots again and takes Mystogan down. When the king is about to attack again, the Dorma Anim is suddenly beaten 3 times revealing Natsu, Wendy and Gajeel who decided to take on the king, leaving the rest to deal with the soldiers.

After surrendering the battle to Natsu, Wendy, and Gajeel, Mystogan reveals he lost on purpose to save Pantherlily, and he recruits Pantherlily's help for "one last job". After reaching the room where Anima is produced, he reveals his plan to open a reverse Anima in order to send all of the magic in Edolas to Earth Land, leaving Pantherlily shocked.

At the battle, Wendy casts 2 spells on Natsu and Gajeel while they fight with the Dorma Anim, one making them faster and another to make them stronger, the king then fires some tracking missiles after Wendy but Natsu intercepts and destroys them. When the king is about to shoot again, Gajeel hits the missiles before launch, but gets hit by the tail of the Dorma. A group of missiles is fired again, but these ones explode before Natsu can hit them. The king gets surprised when Natsu eats the fire of the explosions while Gajeel starts eating the tail of the Dorma. Suddenly the Dorma changes color as well as gain an increase in power as the king states that he is going to "Drain all the fighting spirits". The new form of the Dorma Anim grants it a huge increase in power, turning the tide in the king's favor. Gajeel decides to try some different tactics, revealing they hadn't been using full power because they didn't know what could happen. All three of them attacked at once with their respective roars, but it had almost no effect. The king proclaims victory, saying that although they have infinite magic, once it runs out it takes awhile to recharge. Natsu gets up saying then he'll use tomorrow's magic. Gajeel gets up and pins the Dorma Anim's leg down to the ground telling Natsu to attack and that he was the only one who could do it. Natsu tells Wendy to aim a roar at him to boost his speed and succeeds in tearing through the Dorma Anim.

The Hero and Villain of our New World
In the Anima control room, Mystogan carries out his plan, leaving the people of Edolas in distress. He tells Pantherlily that there has to be a villain and a hero and he is the villain. Mystogan tells Pantherlily to kill him, becoming the hero and "the king of the new world"

Pantherlily refuses to kill him arguing that Mystogan should do it and his strong will, that led him to put his life on the line for Edolas, is exactly what they need. He tells Mystogan that if he destroyed the world then he should take responsibility by leading the world instead of dying. When Mystogan tells him that won't quell the chaos, Pantherlily offers to be the villain instead. Mystogan is amadant that Pantherlily should have a happy life and he won't allow him to die because he saved him. Pantherlily says he wants to say the same right back to him. Pantherlily states that no matter which one dies, all it will bring is sorrow.

They are interrupted by someone who tells them 3 people, who turn out to be Natsu, Wendy and Gajeel, are wreaking havoc.

Seeing the islands falling along with a tip from Nadi about Mystogan and Pantherlily's conversation, Natsu decide to dressed up and declared himself as the Great Demon-Lord Dragneel. Showing with his servants and a tied up Faust on the Royal Capital, he declared that he was the one responsible for taking Magic away from Edolas. He commanded his servants to destroy the streets of Royal Capital. Mystogan showed up, saying that there's no reason to fight anymore with the king defeated, but Natsu didn't listen and revealed Mystogan's lineage towards the masses. The Great Demon-Lord then taunts Mystogan to either fight him or he will destroy the whole city. Nadi reveals that after finding out about Mystogan and Pantherlily's argument, they decided to be the villain and take the fall. He then says to get ready "for what we're gonna do."

Since the Anima was taking away the magic from Mystogan's magic items, he and Natsu resorted to hand to hand combat. In the midst of their battle, Natsu started reciting the Fairy Tail Farwell ceremony, though he forgets the second rule so Mystogan recited that one himself. After he finished the recitation he collapsed to make it look like Mystogan had won the match and said he wishes to meet each other again. Shortly after the Anima starts absorbing the people with magic power to send them back to the Earthland realm. Before leaving Gray lifts up the spirits of the Fairy Tail Guild by saying that what makes a guild a guild is not magic power, its the allies who support one another. Then as the Anima starts absorbing the dragon slayers, they pretend to be suffering to further enhance their act and make Mystogan a hero. When they were far enough to not be seen by the people of Edolas, they smile and say good bye to Mystogan one last time. With all the magic power gone, Mystogan raises his staff and tells his people, that he will lead this world and that they will continue living even without magic power.

New Friends arrive, Old Friends Reunite
While the Anima starts taking everyone back to Earthland, everyone says goodbye to the people of the Edolas, and upon returning to Earthland, seems with everything went back to normal much to Team Natsu's surprised that the Exceed, having followed them much to Charle's surprise who requested to send them back, however when the Exceed explain the truth about eliminating them. This mission was later revealed to be a lie, due to the Queen's power she could see the events of the Edolas arc, as such she saw Extaila destroyed. So in order to keep the species alive, she sent 100 eggs to Earthland to protect them, and lied about the mission to kill the Dragon Slayers to the other Exceeds.

After apologizing the Exceed leave on good terms with the humans and swear that they well find the rest of the eggs, while after that Gajeel wonders what happened to Pantherlily, which later he appeared only in a small form, and Pantherlily requested that he join the guild that the Prince once stayed as he had promised. Gajeel couldn't be much happier and hugged him tightly due to the fact that fhe finally got his cat.

Pantherlily stated that he caught a suspicious person,everyone took a major shook especially Natsu when that person is Lisanna, She asks Pantherlily if he is an Exceed, to which he replies by stating his name, and Gajeel angrily asks her if she is picking a fight with his cat.When Lisanna saw Natsu she ran towered him and hugged him,While she hugged Happy,she greeted both Gray and Erza,She notices Lucy and Wendy too, and deduces they must be the real Earth Land versions of their counterparts back in Edolas. Gray then asked if she's Lisanna of Earth Land, to which she replied yes. Everyone was further shocked, and Happy and Natsu happily tried to hug her, but Erza stopped them stated that Lisanna died two years ago. Lisanna then explained the truth to everyone about how Anima absorbed her when Mirajane tried to heal her,after waking up in Edols she found Edolas Fairy Tail,were everyone mistook her for her Edolas counterpart who said to be died after falling form high place, Edo-Elfman and Edo-Mirajane were overjoyed to see their "sister" alive again. Lisanna said she would feel so bad if she told them she wasn't actually the sister they knew so she just pretended all that time.

Lisanna continued that when Natsu and others came to Edols she was shocked to discover that was Natsu and happy that she news she hided behind bars while stating that she can't be found out deciding to stays in Edolas.Natsu asked why didn't she tell the truth when they first met, to which Lisanna said that she couldn't bear the weight of hurting her adopted siblings.However when the Anima sucked the living beings with Magic inside away, she began to glow. Lisanna tried to explain, but Mirajane and Elfman of Edolas revealed that they already knew. Elfman said that they already noticed, but just couldn't say it, and apologized. Mirajane then said that she's like their Lisanna, someone who's really kind, and thus she can't let her real siblings cry anymore. As Lisanna tearfully screamed out their names, Mirajane asked her to give them their regards.

At Chaldea Cathedral, Mirajane and Elfman were about to leave. Suddenly, they were surprised to hear the voice of a girl they knew. Turning around, their eyes widen, and all of them cried as they hugged each other for the first time in two years. While Natsu and the group happily watch, the Takeover siblings reunite.