Template:The Earth Land Chronicles/February 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!

So, we're now at the 4th day of the Grand Magic Games and we're gonna kick it off with the event of the day: Naval Battle!

As you can guess, the event involves water and in Fairy Tail, that which involves water is Mashima's favorite? Why? Because it allows him to show off his admittedly exceptional ability to draw bikinis, boobs and butts. The name of the game is "Rip-off Final Fantasy X but keep the ball out of it so as to avoid copyright matters." Yes, this event is closely based on BlitzBall of the aforementioned game, or more specifically the spherical appearance and the physical portion of the game. However, what Final Fantasy didn't have, Fairy Tail does: girls in bikinis. Our contestants are Jenny, Chelia, Risley, Juvia and Lucy. There is also Sabertooth's mistress, Minerva Orlando and there's Rocker from Quatro Puppy, but nobody cares about him. So, the goal of this game is to knock your opponents out of the sphere and be the last one swimming. Can't be too hard, right?

One may think that due to Aquarius and their own abilities, Lucy and Juvia, respectively, would have the advantage. Initially, it is these two who are pitted against each other by their own choice, and they appear pretty even. Jenny takes the chances to knock Rocker out of the sphere and the other girls soon get their own little contests going. Eventually, Aquarius decides to be her usual self and ditch Lucy for a date even though she swore to Lucy's mom that she'd be there for her. I swear, the Celestial Spirit King needs to give that fish a spanking. Though I guess she'd be used to it from Scorpio. Anyways, Juvia takes the opportunity to take out Jenny, Chelia and Risley, leaving only herself Lucy, saved by Aries and her sexy guard Virgo and Minerva. Of course, this is reduced by 1 as well, as Minerva takes Juvia out when she's distracted by her usual "Gray-sama" nonsense. With only Lucy and Minerva left, the timer goes down and if either loses in 10 minutes, they get 0 points. With her keys stolen, Lucy can do nothing but get horribly battered by Minerva for 10 minutes while Sabertooth laughs and her teammates seethe. Eventually the match is stopped, Lucy's friends go to save her and Raven jerks off over Minerva's sadism.

Thankfully, Lucy is saved and she's earned her team some points, but she's gonna be in the infirmary for a while as Sabertooth gets on Fairy Tail's nerves in the worst possible way. It's now that we are told that due to Raven Tail's disqualification, Fairy Tail's 2 teams have to be combined into one. Not during the event of the day but during the battle of the day for no reason other than to make good on the promise of beating Sabertooth. The new team is Natsu, Gray, Erza, Gajeel and Laxus. And as I am sure we all agree, the 14th opening's rendition of their entrance is far better than the anime's.



The first battle of the day is Blue Pegasus vs. Quatro Puppy. Ichiya and the bunny against Bacchus and Rocker. Now, as we all have been wondering, we get to see the bunny's real identity and who should it be but Ichiya's Edolas counterpart Nichiya. He's convinced that being his counterpart, he can fight but as it turns out, he's weak as balls and gets knocked out almost immediately. Ichiya gets battered a bit too but ultimately, it's his feelings for this person he has barely known for that long that convince him to defeat Bacchus and Rocker with one punch. Yeah, that's right. One punch to down a Mage who was supposedly as strong as Erza was.

The next battle is probably the one that made our Kagura-fanboy admin cry the most. Kagura and Millianna team up against Lyon and Yuka but after 30 mins, the battle ends in a draw. Surely an intense battle? Well, frankly, we don't know! The manga decided to skip it entirely. The anime does something by actually showing it but doesn't really do anything more impressive than showing Millianna running around in her bondage outfit chasing an ice-make mouse. Yes, that is about as impressive as it gets. Oh well.

Now, it's time for the main battle that we've been leading up to for about 40 chapters. It's Natsu and Gajeel vs. Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney of Team Sabertooth. The battle starts off with a bit of a surprise as Sting and Rogue don't appear to be all that they were cracked up to be as Natsu and Gajeel utterly dominate them, much to the surprise of the games' audience and the readers. Even the activation of their drive forms means pretty much nothing cause Natsu and Gajeel shake off their attacks like mosquito bites. All readers at this point pretty much predicted where this was heading, cause we now knew as much as we needed to about Mashima's inability to effectively use the hype he builds, which he admittedly does well.

So, with the drive forms ineffective, the next step is one we haven't seen in almost 150 chapters: Dragon Force. Sting even goes as far as to say that he'll beat Natsu and Gajeel alone and for a while, we can even see him dominate the two of them in battle, blasting their attacks back and hitting them square and hard with his own. Meanwhile, Rogue is just watching from the top of the crater Sting made while he was pounding on Natsu and Gajeel.

Thus, one would be lead to think that the Twin Dragons of Sabertooth were in fact all that they were cracked up to be. That they really did beat Dragons and are the keys to why Sabertooth was the top guild for so many years. Yup. That's what you ''would' think. Rather, you shouldn't cause Natsu and Gajeel are able to shrug off this beating with ease and what's even more amazing, they claim that they now know all of Sting's attack patterns and mannerisms.

In return for underestimating them, Natsu tells Sting that he will take on him and Rogue alone, and in order to do so, gets rid of Gajeel by pushing him into a mining cart which just happens to be nearby, thus giving him motion sickness as he rolls away and Natsu prepares to fight alone. Thus, this battle which had been hyped up for many, many chapters turns into a typical Natsu brawl with nakama being talked about and ultimately Sting and Rogue's Unison Raid being overpowered by Natsu single-handedly without even the use of the Lightning Flame Dragon Mode.

And, just like that, Natsu wins the battle. Sting and Rogue are beaten, much to everyone's surprise and Team Fairy Tail wins 10 points. Sabertooth's master Jiemma ain't happy, but Fairy Tail sure is. Now, every other guild wants a piece of them. Meanwhile in the underground, Gajeel comes across something rather peculiar. A graveyard full of Dragon bones! What could this mean!? Elsewhere, Jellal confronts the mysterious hooded figure and is shocked to see their face. Who are they?

So, the 4th day of the GMG came and went pretty much as we expected it. Natsu went and kicked Sting and Rogue's asses with ease, even without Gajeel and stopped the "legendary" or whatever spell known as Unison Raid with just one of his normal attacks that we've seen before. Total disappointment. But at least the next day of the Grand Magic Games looks more promising. Sadly, this is where the anime ended its run, but we now know that it'll be coming back in April 2014. What could possibly go wrong, eh?

But, that's the end of this edition of ELC! That's all for this portion of the Grand Magic Games arc! Fairy Tail has finally hit the top of the leader board. Can they keep this up? To see, join us next month as we continue to look at Fairy Tail's largest arc (to date).

Till then!




 * Best Quote of this part of the Arc:
 * "There is a wall that can't be destroyed with just power. However, there is a type of power that can destroy that wall. The Power of Feelings." - Mavis in Chapter 296


 * Best Magic of this part of the Arc:
 * Dragon Slayer Magic - Pretty much nothing else to see.


 * Best Moment of this part of the Arc:
 * Team Fairy Tail heads out into the stadium.


 * Best Chapter of this part of the Arc:
 * Chapter 291


 * Best Episode of this part of the Arc:
 * Episode 171