Template:The Earth Land Chronicles/August 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 Tartarus arc.'' 

Welcome back to The Earth Land Chronicles, people!

Hello there, readers. Now that the Sun Village arc is over, we can now get into a meaty arc of the series. It's one which people have been waiting for ever since their name was first seen way back when and in light of the recent revelations, has been all the more anticipated. Let's take a look at the Tartarus arc.

So, it starts off with the Magic Council discussing none other than Tartarus and the need to eliminate them as fast as possible. Suddenly, who should show up but... Tartarus. It's Jackal of the Nine Demon Gates who's taken out the entire force single-handedly. Killing Lahar, Gran Doma and over one hundred others, only Doranbolt and Org are left, with the latter pinned down and killed as Doranbolt is forced to make a hasty escape.

The word spreads of the action across the nation pretty fast, since Jet runs into Fairy Tail pretty fast to bring them the news, while elsewhere, Doranbolt confronts a jailed Cobra to get information on Tartarus. Of course, the dude is a badass and refuses to budge unless his demands for freedom are met, even when Doranbolt holds a knife to his throat in a rather badass scene. Though, he does reveal one factoid: they're all Demons and E.N.D is the guild master.

Elsewhere, the Thunder God Tribe is working for former councilor Yajima at his restaurant when suddenly Tempesta of the Nine Demon Gates appears. Dispatching the Mages quickly and reveals that Tartarus is after all of the councilors, both past and present. Yajima is nearly killed but who should show up but Laxus with an extremely cheesy line, as has become common in a very unfortunate way. Making quick work of Tempesta, Laxus is more or less victorious until Tempesta kills himself and releases Magic Barrier Particles which infect everyone. Laxus inhales to save everyone it cause, y'know, Dragon Lacrima changes his body into a Dragon Slayer's and whatnot.

The group gets back to the guild in one piece but is near death, and sadly, over a hundred people still died before Laxus took care of the Magic Barrier Particles. So, this calls for a war again! Giving a little speech, Makarov splits everyone into teams and sends them off to protect the remaining former council members, the locations of some of whom they found thanks to Loke and his sexcapades. Yes, that's a word now.

Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, Carla and the blue douchebag show up at the house of former councilor Michello just shortly before Jackal appears and blows the place up. Natsu takes him head-on but even though he beats him down, it seems Jackal's bomb curse gets placed on those who touch him, sending Natsu falling, seemingly beaten for a bit. Neither Lucy nor Wendy can do anything while Michello runs for his life but gets caught anyways. Jackal catches him and some random pregnant girl and forces Lucy to choose between the two of them who will die and who will live but Natsu arrives and "chooses him" before she has to actually make the choice. I'm willing to bet the chick was lying. But hey, who cares since we never see her again?

So, Natsu now has a trick to eat Jackal's explosions before they happen and this helps him fight the dude. And as Jackal's on the ropes, he turns into his Etherious form. Now, I admit, the Etherious form looks pretty badass. If only he actually were and didn't just get his ass tossed around. At the end of the fight, Natsu calls on Laxus' power and with Lightning Flame Dragon Mode, is able to take out the dude. However, he has an ace: he can make himself a bomb that's strong enough to annihilate everyone. Just as it seems hopeless, Happy carries him off into the sky where he explodes. So does that mean Happy is dead? Sadly NO. He's just got singed fur. Yes, simple building-level explosions were enough to kill 119 people at the Magic Council Headquarters and yet this one, clearly big enough to annihilate a town, is taken by a cat who somehow does not die and whose only visible injuries are singed fur. The lack of logic here is astounding.

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Happy has been established as a weak character, so him tanking a nkue makes no sense whatever. Oh god that was a load of crap. And to make it worse, the whole thing felt like a joke after all was said and done. Fuck you, Chapter 362.

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So, we do have to get on with this. Now, we find out that the council had a weapon called Face which is basically an E.M.P which annihilates Magic and would thus allow Tartarus to freely use their curses as they wish with nobody to stop them. Three former councilors are linked to it and only the Former Chairman knows where they are, prompting Erza and Mirajane to go find him.

Now things admittedly do start to look up to an extent as we all know Erza and Mirajane can get things done if they really mean it. As they meet the former chairman, Crawford Seam, they hear him say he doesn't know about Face's location or really anything for that matter. Suddenly, they suspect an incoming attack and the two girls head off into battle take care of the invaders. And damn do they look good doing it.

Meanwhile, Cobra had his desire granted and the rest o his guild is now free. Brain, however, is quickly killed by Cobra, who didn't want him around and somehow, daddy's boy Midnight didn't seem to mind. However, what makes this scene all the better is the appearance of Jellal and Meredy, who struck some kind of deal with Doranbolt, it'd seem, to deal with the Oracion Seis.

So, can Fiore be saved? Can this arc be saved? This arc started off amazing, but then it quickly went into the crappiest territory possible only to slightly rise up thanks to the Oracion Seis. Only time will tell how it will end but till it does, we'll be there for the ride. That's all for this month, people. Join me next month as we tackle Sins and Sinners.




 * Best Magic/Curse of this part of the Arc:
 * Bomb Curse.


 * Best Moment of this part of the Arc:
 * Jackal blows up the Magic Council.


 * Best Chapter of this part of the Arc:
 * Chapter 356


 * Best Episode of this part of the Arc:
 * Not animated yet.