Episode 29

My Resolve! (Atashi no Ketsui (あたしの決意) is is the 29th episode of the Fairy Tail anime. It first aired on May 10, 2010.

Synopsis
The wear is over, but Lucy seems oddly not overjoyed. Natsu asks Gajeel where he learned his Dragon Slayer magic, and he responds it was Metalicana, the Iron Dragon, who taught him. He then discloses that Metalicana left one day, and Natsu figures out the right time. Gajeel is hopeful that Natsu knows his whereabouts, but in fact, Igneel the dragon who raised Natsu, also left the same day. They wonder why all those sevens, but have no answer. The two bicker and conclude they have to fight again one day.

The guild is in ruins, but everyone is confident they can rebuild it. Lucy keeps feeling culpable, but Makarov’s words of Love make her cry. Makarov thinks of the punishment from the council and he cries too, but for very different reasons.

One week from the war, the guild is slowly rebuilding. The rune Knights came and investigated, and found Fairy Tail “almost” innocent and Phantom Lord guilty. Lucy is telling these things to her mother in a letter, and wonders if it was really his father’s doing. She fears her father might do it again, a thought she cannot bear.

The work is going on slowly, and everyone is having fun at it. Juvia has stayed behind, and made Gray a lunch box, which gets eaten by Erza and Natsu. Loke then comes with Lucy’s keys, and wants Gray or Natsu to give them to her. He is shown to have an antipathy for celestial Wizards, or rather, a fear of.

The guys go to Lucy’s home, but do not find her there. Erza finds a note, while Happy finds the letters she wrote to her mom. They haven’t been sent. Erza then reads the note, which says she went home. Everyone wonders why (loudly).

In the train, Lucy remembers an experience she had with her father. She made him a rice ball, but he threw it on the ground and screamed at her. It was her birthday.

When Lucy comes home, every servant is happy to see her. They genuinely love her, but one of the girls comes and gets her. She is expected by her father in his rooms. She dresses up like she would when she lived there, and goes to confront her father.

When she meets him, she tells him that she is sorry she is sorry she left without a word. Her father thinks of this as her return, and begins to tell her of his plans to marry her to some rich boy. All he thinks is business, so Lucy is forced to cut him short. She states she went there to make things known to him. She will search for her own happiness hew way, and also threatens him not to go near Fairy Tail again, or he will be considered an enemy. She confesses she doesn’t want dresses, or fortunes, or anything. She renounces her identity as Lucky Lucy Heartfilia, and proclaims that her new family knows her as just Lucy. She tells her father wit will be hard to leave the house she lived with her mother, and also her friends (the servants), but she states that if her mom were sill alive, she would want her to do what she feels it’s right. She leaves, and stops by her mother’s memorial before leaving. Oddly enough, Layla Heartfilia died the same year all the dragons left, but Lucy doesn’t know this. On her way out, the group catches up with her, with everyone glad to see her (Happy and Natsu were actually crying).Erza compliments on the village, but Lucy says it is her family’s garden, up until a nearby mountain. This sends everyone into a state of sycophancy, and Lucy, talking to her mother in heaven says that Fairy Tail is already a part of her, and doesn’t think she can live without them. Together, Fairy Tail’s Strongest Team returns home…