User blog:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 335 : RIP Ultear



This chapter is  in memory of  Ultear  !

Yep Hiro Mashima really made a  dark  follow up to the extremely  dark ending to last weeks  Fairy Tail  and   while  we  all saw Gray's  revival coming a mile away given he's  as vital to the plot as  Sasuke is within Naruto, Uryu is within Bleach, Coco is within Toriko  or  Zoro is within One Piece,  we can honestly  say that the way  Gray was  revived was something not even we  expected.

Once again, Mashima gives us yet another middle  finger regarding the cover of this weeks Fairy Tail by showing a nearly  naked  Ultear only  being covered by a crystal ball. Damn you Mashima for killing her  off  !Hopefully she comes back as a ghost like Mavis,  just hopefully not  like a Loli ghost like her( Seriously why does  Mavis look so young when she's older than Makarov and Hades combined  ?)

We start off with  Jerza  which  causes  us to  sequel in  fangasm  as we  see  Erza  and Jellal with each other with Jellal carrying an injured Erza to safety. I have mixed  feelings about this one to be honest. While i appreciate  Erza and Jellal being together and  i  definitely  love how they're bonding  more,  i don't  like seeing Erza so powerless. As you can tell, i'm a very  big fan of  her and it's been  quite disappointing to see her  not kick enough ass lately. Then again after fighting Kagura who can destroy small cities with a sword swing and that bitch Mirevana, i can see  why she's  not at 100%. Still if Erza  doesn't  get back to 100%, i'm going to start crying sexism , LOL!

Also where the hell Kagura went   ? She was just shown last weeks chapter  ! Damn you Mashima, show us more Kagura !I don't give two  fucks about  Jet and Dory, Macco and his son or even Bacchus ( who lost badassery points for losing to Ichiya ),give us more  Kagura  damn it  ! I don't care if   those guys  died  *looks at the next panels *

Oh shit, i take that back !

Damn, this chapter got  dark fast and i haven't even  left the first page. Hell right after the Jerza  fanservice, we  see Bacchus being brutally stabbed by one of the fodder dragons. Wait just how exactly are these even fodder dragons at this point again ? They shot holes straight through Gray even though durability wise, he's on par with Natsu, especially  that time were they fought Naked Mummy  in Oracion Seis and Natsu effortlessly tanked a magic shotgun with no damage and yet these dragons  did more damage to Gray than even Ultear PTS. Now they easily stabbed through Bacchus, the same guy who was on par with Erza. Are these dragons glass canons   ? They seem to have more than enough power to dish out damage as seen in this picture  but given Jellal easily defeated them as well as several lesser mages, they can't seem to take it. Still what did Bacchus do to deserve such a brutal  death  ? Seriously Mashima,  why did  you have to kill him off ?

We then cut to Dory's offscreen death which i still didn't care much about and for all we know, he could've died of a heart attack given how obese he's become within the timeskip. We then cut to a death i do care about and that's Macco's as he's brutally eaten and mutilated by several dragons which is a pretty awful way to die ! I actually  felt sad  seeing Maaco die to protect his son Romeo.



However i'm disappointed at the same time of how underutilized Romeo is, when is he going to pull a Konohamaru and start kicking some ass or  even a Coby ? I like the kid, i don't want to see him wasted when he has potential to kick ass. Also on another note, when is Mashima going to give Kinana or Lisanna a chance to shine  ? Mashima went through all the trouble to think of these two girls and yet we've seen nothing from them despite both having alot of badass potential and a fairy sizeable fanbase. I don't want to see Lisanna become another Hinata for fucksake,also  where's  Elfman and Cana    ? More importantly where the hell is Gildarts ?

Also where did Cheila  disappear too  ? Lyon is actually showing concern for  Cheila  so  that's  some points for the LyonxCheila  fanbase right there  but that's easily offset by the recurring  dark tone that  Gray was shot  dead ! Yeah this isn't a fakeout  like chapter  315 where we  thought  Erza received  a  fatal injury only to be  revealed to be a minor cut on her shoulder, nope Gray  is  dead for  real (at least for the moment ). Damn,  Mashima  actually did kill off Gray  or  at least  showcased his  death. Yeah he's really not fucking around this time around is he  ?

Well maybe a little bit given we still know the outcome  however it's  still nothing we excepted. Ultear goes  into  reflection onto her life similar to how  Vegeta  did when he was also planning to commit suicide for the greater  good against Majin Buu. Like  Vegeta, Ultear  was once a  ruthless woman who only cared for herself  and  ruined  countless lives, including  Meredy  and Jellal's and it was within her battle with Gray  where  she  saw the  error of her  ways and  Gray sparring her allowed her to  carry on to  form the neutral guild Crime Sorciere  to repent for all her past sins  but  she  then comes to a revelation that she's still the same  ruthless  witch who kills people easily.

We then cut to a flashback of Ultear somewhere between her mid teens to late teens.



( Why can't Wendy look like this in the timeskip ?)

Anyways we then  get  our inevitable  flashback in which  Ultear while  researching ancient  magic comes across the spell known as  Last Ages. Hades forbade her from using this magic  knowing Ultear  wanted to do everything in her power to  bring back time and start over however it comes at a steep price of the users  lifespan for it steals all of their lifespan within the process of the spell.

However given the grim situation within the past,  Ultear  uses it   knowing she has no place within this world anymore and this is the last thing she can  do as a Mage before passing away. She then cast Last Ages  and  then engulfs the entire planet with her magic however in the process,  her body starts to break down and  it  gets  very  graphic !



The veins on Ultear's body begin to bulge, and a large amount of her Magic Power surrounds her body, ascending into the sky. A bright flash then occurs, signalling the rewinding of time. Upon the spell's completion, Ultear's body becomes horribly burnt.

Words can't describe  how  epic this  moment was ! I was expecting Ultear to pull a Lady Chiyo and only heal Gray at the expense of her  life  but  she basically saved  thousands of people  reversing time while  upgrading the potential of the Fairy Tailverse  within regards to destructive capacity potential. In order to shift back time realistically, you would need to not only stop the earth's gravitational energy in it's tracks but completely reverse it's  rotation. The energy needed to stop  the rotation of the Earth's  axis and shift back time even by a minute is more monstrous than anything seen within HST ! In short you would need 57.3 zettatons  of TNT, the Gravitational Binding Energy of  Earth. In context,  this is approximately 530 million times the destructive  yield of Juubi's Bjuudamas. To put it in context, to stop the planet in it's tracks, you would need the force of 2. 865 quadrillion Hiroshima bombs. That would be the of giving every human being on the planet 164 Tsar Bombas. If that's not a  great  example of how  that much  destructive energy wasn't harvested into controlling the flow of time, even by a minute,i  don't know what is and it's of  no  surprise that this technique would be fatal to the user because  THEY'RE STOPPING AN ENTIRE PLANET ! That's some Superman shit right there.

Seriously this is pretty much a homage to the scene where Superman turned back time itself by  shifting the Earth's  rotation field in Superman : The Movie (1978)  where  Superman  pretty much reversed time by flying so  fast that  he  pretty much moved the entire earth's rotation field  by a minute before all the tragedies  happened to not only save  Lois Lane  but  countless people from a dam break. Yeah see  why Ultear needed to  die   ? If she survived, she would be more haxxed than any planetary based character, hell she can pretty much kill Aizen and Juubi if this very same power had no limits and was converted to destructive force. Thank goodness Gekko Moriah or Kabuto don't exist in Fairy Tail, lord knows what would happen if an undead Ultear  under zombification or Edo Tensei would do with those two controlling her, LOL !

While i highly  doubt we're going to see planet busting villains in Fairy Tail ( Not only would that be stupid  given there's only one planet with life in Fairy Tail but  drastically too far out there, even for this series ), this definitely  speaks  volumes for the  potential threat of  people like Zeref and Acnologia and  they're potential  given Zeref is more haxed and is immortal not to mention said to  drag the world into darkness, at this point it might as well be literal  given Ultear stopped time around the entire world  so Zeref and Acnologia being on par with Naruto's Ten Tails or Bleach's Soul King is becoming more plausible by each week.

Despite Ultear attempting to turn back time by an hour, she only  changed it by  a minute. Ultear depressed  from her  failure  to turn back time  collapses  presumably dead  from already releasing an monstrously  high amount of magic to stop the planets movements. The real tragedy here is that she will probably not be credited and acknowledged by the public for making that big difference in the final outcome and i  honestly  don't want her  dying thinking her sacrifice was for nothing, i hope  Gray comes by next chapter with Meredy so they can have final closure with Ultear and final words before she finally kicks the bucket because it would be a bit too mean spirited to kill her off without her saving goodbye to Gray  or her thinking she died for nothing but given this series can  rival My Little Pony and One Piece in Namaka Power,  i'm pretty sure this closure is going to happen.

As expected, everything shifted back into the timeframe of what happened last chapter with Gray  protecting Juvia and Meredy from the dragons lasers ( again Gray forgets  Juvia is intangible   ) and Juvia enjoying Gray's embrace of her ass ( Damn you  Gray, you lucky bastard ! ) however  Gray then has an image and foresight of his impending death due to the time lag and is able to  react and prevent his death from happening  and it seems everyone had the same  pre cog ability given to them by Ultear. Guess planetary time warping now comes with free pre cog ! XD.



As expected, the aforementioned slayed characters all remember dying  but all take steps to avoid  death and Gray seems to  realize that this must be Ultear's doing and hopefully we get one tearful goodbye before she  dies.



However it seems within a turn of events, Ultear didn't just save lives  but drastically shifted events  of this  arc for  now everyone carries over the experiences of the past  which is most evident when Gajeel  found the weakness with the Dragon he was  fighting.



And because of  Ultear,  thousands were potentially saved   but make no mistake. The darker tone of this arc has already been set with the previous chapter and the killing off of several characters within this chapter and just because Gray, Bacchus, Dory and  Macco were lucky to survive, that  doesn't  make them immune to death or anyone else. As evident with Ultear's death, there's going to be more characters  dying from time to  time  and with the increasing seriousness of this series within the final act, it's  likely going to have more characters  dying epic  deaths like Ultear.

It's actually legitimately sad to see Ultear  die for Ultear is a character who  actually  grew with me. Originally, i hated the bitch for being the one solely responsible for the way Jellal ended up  however  during Tenrou Island, we  learn more of her human side and   she  started to show more of her humanity ( And her  fine ass  )

It was later revealed that Ultear is not truly evil, but rather, the victim of an unfortunate history. After thinking her mother abandoned her, she found herself under the tutelage of Hades, and through it learned the Magic of the Arc of Time. From it she was led to believe that once she reaches the Ultimate Magic World, she would be able to complete the Arc of Time, and with it, be able to go back in time to relive and change her past.

So past the  cold ,manipulative, ruthless and ambitious which was  a woman with good intentions who was trying to  escape a tragic ,dark life and was willing to pay any price in other to  gain something that she lost.

Now on her  final  road to redemption, she  takes her own life to  save  the  4  notable  people killed off  by the  small dragons and the possibly  hundreds to thousands of people killed by  fodder dragons as well as actual dragons and  possibly saved millions  by giving the Dragon Slayers and  fighters  enough knowledge to avoid the mistakes they made and find the enemy weakness and  deliver  crucial blows to the dragons and  changed the future  for the better.

There have been some complaints regarding this chapter.Some have complained about the Last Ages going against the established " can't affect humans " rule in the pre timeskip, ignoring the fact  Ultear has already affected humans with her time magic when it came to the Second Origin training and really in the span of 7 years where Max of all people nearly  defeats  Natsu prior to Second Origin, i  fail to see how Ultear can't get stronger herself.

Overall this chapter was epic and really went a direction i wasn't expecting. The only real  disappointment was  no  rampage by Juvia  but given Ultear's mind blowing  feat and the fact that she died an epic death and  i'm actually sad for her death, this chapter did it's job well.

Overall : S +( Because A+ is too low for this chapter )



''' In memory of Ultear Milkovich

Presumably 761 X- July 7, 791 X'''