User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 465: 400 Years, Review and Commentary/@comment-7418318-20151208023259

There are several things I don't get and several that just don't make any sense about this origin story...


 * If Zeref had a working Eclipse Gate, why did he send a dead-and-revived Natsu into the future, instead of going back to the past to prevent his brother and parents from being killed?
 * Why did the Dragons bother with entering the bodies of their foster children "to survive" only to travel through time to a point with enough Ethernano to sustain them? Or did Zeref just leave the part about preventing Acnologia-like transformations out of his story?
 * Why was Layla involved in the opening? Both F-Rogue and F-Lucy came through the Eclipse Gate without help from the other side, so Anna should have been able to do it without help from Layla.
 * Did Anna's family really pass the knowledge of the Eclipse Gate down to their descendants for 400 years until Layla somehow knew it was time?
 * Why did Layla die? F-Rogue and F-Lucy both used the gate alone without being killed by it, so why did using the gate together with Anna kill Layla?

While the chapter was good, I'm still not very happy with the time-travel route.

I wonder if the Eclipse Gate that Anna and Layla used is still around. Maybe we will see our mains sent to the past.