User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 302: The Eclipse Plan, Review and Commentary/@comment-5170433-20121004222335

Here's my theory this week: Okay a couple chapters back Jellal said they had been trapped in an inescapable faith. And remember when Ultear said there are infinite futures and pasts. What if everytime the gang comes back to the past they always lose to Zeref and Acnologia and the same outcome happens the war happens in the future. Because they kept coming back to the past due to the infinite futures and pasts the gate was overused and causes a disruption in order of the universe and timeline a which affected the gang's age except for Erza and Gray because they had to keep updated about the changes that will happen because of The DS going back in time and Lucy because she was the one sacrificed everytime and the one that died everytime.

The mystery woman's role in this is to prevent the plan because their estimation was wrong and the same thing will happen again. The mystery woman is actually future Lucy(you don't say.)

Change topic: because of the continuous time traveling something happens which causes Shagotte to receive a premonition of the upcoming war. She contacts Carla and changes the timeline and that's how the Hooded Lucy survived the sacrifice. Now how did she come back to the past? Mavis had a plan but it required the war to happen in order for the plan to work.

The wars occurs and Zeref spreads his power over the Earth and causes all types magic to evolve. Including Ultear's magic, so now she can time travel she sent Lucy to the past to change everything. Mavis' plan required Yukino to be the sacrifice so Lucy can go back in time as well. Why Lucy and not Erza? Because we all now Lucy's gonna discover she has some secret power so strong it makes Zeref look like an ant. I mean it happens everytime.

As for the chapter 7/10. And thank you Smiley-chan for telling me how to separate the text into paragraphs.