Template:The Earth Land Chronicles/March 2012

 ''Welcome to the first issue of The Earth Land Chronicles! This article will be the discussion of related things in the Fairy Tail series, which will be presented in chronological order. This could include main villains, Dragon Slayers, Celestial Spirits, all in the order they were revealed. Our first series will be the story arcs of Fairy Tail, with an arc being done each month (though once in a while two). So lets begin with the first story arc; The Macao Arc. '' 

The Macao arc is the first story arc of Fairy Tail. This includes the introduction chapter to the series, as well as Natsu and Lucy's attempt to save their guildmate, Macao Conbolt. Let's start from the beginning of our heroes journey though!

The series begins with the introduction of two important characters. Nope, not Natsu and Lucy, but Jellal Fernandes and Ultear Milkovich. Now usually the first few pages should show the direction a series is going, but not even close here! Jellal and Ultear throughout the series eventually just become transition characters. Jellal is the main villain for an arc (and is overall useless after), and Ultear blends in with the dozens of henchmen of a big baddie in the Tenrou Island arc (though with much more personality!).

Anyways we soon meet Natsu and Happy. Natsu gets a respectable and memorable entrance, with him being on a train, on the verge of fainting. I must give Mashima credit here for establishing Natsu well. He already seems like a goofy, fun kid. Then we meet Natsu's sex muffin sidekick, Lucy, who tries to seduce some old guy just so she can get a discount on a key. First impression... she likes to take "easy street". Hmmm... this manga might get interesting!

So eventually these two weirdos meet after Natsu saves Lucy from some other creep. We find out Natsu eats alooott of food. Sadly, the fact can't be ignored that this characteristic seems to be very similar to some other popular manga character! What's his name again?

So the two part ways and Lucy goes off alone and flips through a magazine to look at half-naked girls, wishing she could be one of them. Our creep from earlier shows up and invites her to his crib later. Jeez! Boy is Mashima stressing how loose this girl is (though she hasn't even kissed anyone STILL). So obviously this sketch-ball set Lucy up, but she goes anyways, and finds things suspicious. It's revealed she was set up to be captured and become a slave. I must say I was surprised when I read this. Already we're implementing slavery into this world. Again, Mashima gets credit for giving us a good ground to the world he plans on creating (even though slavery is just about never mentioned again).

Our main male lead main male lead soon swoops in though and kicks a bunch of butt. Hooray! The creep is defeated. I must say, the action was pretty cool this time around and this battle is a base for just about all the rest of them. There's no pattern or anything, just a non-stop barrage of awesome attacks! So we now know we're not getting a Naruto approach, nor a Bleach approach (thank god! We'd still be on Galuna Island!), but more of a Dragon Ball/One Piece type of thing.

So our two heroes make a run for it when the Magic Council comes, and Lucy follows Natsu to Fairy Tail! We quickly meet the whole guild, which is full of a bunch of whack jobs. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on them, as throughout the series they really get their own places in the story.

So later on Natsu and Lucy go on their first task to rescue Macao. They are successful (as usual, which you will soon find out), and bring the old man home. This part of the arc was clearly just not as exciting. There was good comedy. Happy is hilarious. But the aspects in the introduction don't drag on, as this is where Natsu's annoying and cocky aspect starts, and that's the main cripple of the secound part.

Overall though, the first arc is a success! It's not the most interesting, but Mashima overall did a great job in establishing the mood, and also shows that these characters are completely crazy! Well, next time is the Daybreak arc. Until next month!

 Best Quote of the Arc: "You want to join Fairy Tail right? Then come with me!"