Template:The Earth Land Chronicles/July 2014

 ''Welcome to the latest issue of The Earth Land Chronicles. This article will a relatively sarcastic overview of things in the Fairy Tail series, which will probably be presented in chronological order. This could include main villains, Dragon Slayers, Celestial Spirits, probably in the order they were revealed. Our first series will be the story arcs of Fairy Tail, with an arc being done each month. So let's continue with the Grand Magic Games arc.'' 

Welcome back to The Earth Land Chronicles, people!

Hello there, my amazing readers and...Rai. Whatever. With the Grand Magic Games over, we've now got a smaller scale to work with since there're no more cases of 80+ character appearing in one arc. Join me as we take a trip to the Village of the Sun.

It's been a while since Fairy Tail won the Grand Magic Games and became famous once again. Since this happened, the guild building is back and better than ever and even comes with a brand new bath house. Naturally, we need to see some boobs and ass due to this, with soap covering all that we aren't allowed to see, and so we do for several pages. We even get some hints about Cana being bisexual. What does happen here though, which happens to be plot related, is that Flare of Raven Tail snuck in. That guild no longer exists for whatever reason, but now she has nowhere to go. Yet she doesn't wanna join Fairy Tail. Thanks for wasting our time ( ._.)/

Anyways, Lucy returns home and finds Erza and Wendy there, who just finished (poorly) acting out Rave Master in a play and wanna find Natsu and Gray. As it turns out, they've been in a forest for 3 days. Their job was to take out this gigantic Umnei and though they finished that, they've been fighting for three days, even punching Erza when she tries to get in between them. Obviously, that doesn't go too well. Returning to the guild, it seems that they do have a job now as a request from Warrod Sequen, one of the Four Gods of Ishgar.

Meeting this dude, who happens to be one of the founders of Fairy Tail, they learn of a village that was protected by an ever-burning eternal flame but has now been frozen over. It seems both Gray and Natsu are needed for this, for whatever reason, and so they are gonna go with Erza, Lucy, Wendy and the two cats, cause the women need to provide some fanservice. Also, Warrod can create a tree that stretches 2000km which takes them to the village yet he says he has no battle capability. My ass.

So, arriving at the village, they learn that it is a village of giants and is indeed completely frozen. However, a group of Treasure Hunters whose names are stupid and unimportant have a vial of "liquid moon drip" which they plan to use to unfreeze the village and steal the eternal flame. Erza remains to investigate while the others chase the treasure hunters to steal their moon drip. As it turns out, they won the "Grand Treasure Hunting Games"...yes, I made a long face at that as well.

While they're not pushovers, the Mages don't exactly need to go all out and basically steal the moon drip and begin a game of hot-potato to keep it away from the treasure hunters, and it all goes well until Carla gets the idea to throw the moon drop to stupid Happy who, like every kid in school who was useless at sports, misses the target completely with a big smile on his face, and drops the ball, and in this case the moon drip. Yeah, fuck you, Happy.

Anyways, it seems that the amount in the vial wasn't enough to unfreeze the whole village but from the part that was unfrozen, Natsu can hear voices coming from the ground and chases after them and no, it was not Minerva teleporting sound underground. But yes, Minerva is nearby and she has joined a dark guild called Succubus Eye and is there with Doriate, who turned Erza into a kid and does the same to Natsu, who got separated while chasing the voices he heard in his head. Hmm. Yeah, I can say it a lot, but it still sounds weird.

So, Lucy and Wendy have to fight the treasure hunters together since Gray disappeared to some place but when they're nearly taken down, who should appear but Flare, who jokingly claims to have been stalking Lucy. Yeah...she crossed 2000km in this short-ass length of time. But hey, it seems she's from the Sun Village and was raised by the giants before she ran away. So the three girls take down the treasure hunters together. Who'd have guessed? Anyone who isn't a complete noob.

Moving on, Natsu has been found by Minerva's partner Doriate and turned into a child, preventing him from fighting him effectively and forcing him to tuck tail and run like hell. Soon after, Gray also meets Doriate and is turned into a kid. Upon seeing Doriate's demonic mouth, he begins getting flashbacks of the dentist he visited. Alright, not really. They're flashbacks about Deliora. They basically make him piss his pants (yeah, I'm surprised too that he was still wearing any) until he gets a vision of Ultear telling him to be strong, which makes him fight back.

This is actually a decent fight in a way since Gray doesn't have to really pull any bullshit at first. He just uses his child-like mind to creatively put down Doriate, but sadly, yes, he is that weak. Anyways, this pisses him off enough to turn everyone back to normal from afar and himself into a full demon (no InuYasha reference intended) only to just as quickly turn everyone back in to kids, even those who weren't kids like Lucy and co. Thankfully for him, but not for us though, Gray is able to put down Doriate by utilizing the village's ice in his own attack, which is effective against him (yet he was walking barefoot?). Quickly though, the dude is eaten by some monster just as he is about to tell Gray about "the gates to the netherworld opening".

So, Gray runs like hell and soon runs into Natsu, who's met up with Lucy and co. who were brought to the frozen Eternal Flame by Flare. Natsu takes over the fight with the bird while Gray works to unfreeze the flame, which he does but seemingly causes it to disappear. However, Wendy says it still exists and thanks to Natsu going Dragon Ball Z on the bird, he is able to reignite the flame and via Wendy's Milky Way, we learn that the Eternal Flame is none other than Natsu's uncle Atlas Flame.

Oh, and while all this is happening, Erza's been fighting Minerva, who claims to have found a way around her Armor of Nakagami, but there's zero development there, so screw it.

Anyways, Atlas has lost his memory cause he was frozen by an Ice Devil Slayer but has the strength now to unfreeze the village, which he does. The village is saved and Atlas warns Natsu about E.N.D, the strongest of Zeref's demons and the one whom Igneel failed to kill. Then he disappears forever.

Here's what you need to know about Chapter 354, where Flare returns home:

Here's what you need to know about Chapter 355, the end of this arc.

Rather disappointing end to this arc. Anyways people, that is all for this month. Thank you very much for reading. We will return next month for a look at the net arc: the Tartarus arc. Till then~




 * Best Magic of this part of the Arc:
 * The Law of Retrogression.


 * Best Moment of this part of the Arc:
 * Atlas Flame unfreezes the village.


 * Best Chapter of this part of the Arc:
 * Chapter 343


 * Best Episode of this part of the Arc:
 * Not animated yet.