User blog comment:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 337 : R.I.P Fairy Tail/@comment-77.195.192.128-20130630083736

I really don't understand such a hatred for this arc. If you read carefully again this arc, you will see it's not an arc about the Dragon King Festival or other things, it's the arc about the Eclipse gate, and the two questions asked by Mashila to his readers : is it possible to change the past ? what will happen if someone want to change the past, and the means to do it ?

At the beginning of this arc, Lucy is despressed by the death of her father and the 7 years of void, she thinks she is the weakest especially during the GMG, when all other guilds and even her teammates are stronger, she hasn't strenghtened. She met Arcadios and Yukino who want to return in past to kill Zeref, and Yukino want to give her her keys, but she know now what would happen if she would have said yes to the two characters, Lucy began to go towards the darkness, but now she began to hope again.

the other point of this arc is the weakness of humans, Sabertooth and the other guilds think they were strong, especially Sabertooth who destroyed Lucy, but now they all understood that they are weak, and when they will learn that Lucy is the one who closed the gate, and found the solution, this will be a rehabilitation for her, she may be weak, but at the difference of Sabertooth, she has a heart, and she is the closest of the one magic, remember what Zeref said to Hades.

The third point Mashima showed us is the Dragon slayer magic, its creation, why there are dragon slayer in a time when the dragons don't exist, but also the weakness and the problems linked to this magic, by doing this Mashima showed that Natsu is trong, but he can't do things alone.

This arc was a new beginning for the manga, Mashima showed us that the weakest can be the strongest one and the contrary, by doing this, he say to his readers : "Lucy isn't a simple celestial spirit mage".