User blog comment:B j/The Lost Fairies/@comment-251220-20111003163337

I have a suspicion they did die or are frozen in time by the Fairy/Mavis, and Romeo, the new Fairy Tail and the "Fairy" must obtain the Arc of Time spoken of by Hades, when they do so they will attempt to go back and undo what happened on the day of Tenrou Island's destruction and bring back the lost gang from death or their temporal displacement, its either that or the Fairy preserved them until the future when a big event is about to go down that may reveal the arc of time, thus allowing them to use it and return to their own era exactly 1 or 1/2 a year after their disappearance.