User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 537: The Power of Life, Review/@comment-7418318-20170531062019

Theory Time on the upcoming chapters.

I've been thinking on how it might go down in the likely event that Acnologia didn't quite die yet and somehow escapes (or escaped) the grasp of the Ravines of Time.

We all know that it would be pretty much impossible for anyone who's not a Dragon to even hurt, much less beat, Acnologia the way he was prior to touching the time-pocket, so how could the protagonists deal with him, without too much bullshit?

I've come up with some ways that sound not too bad to me, but first let's lay down an important known fact: In his Dragon form Acnologia is still missing the left arm that Igneel tore off and yet in his Human form Acnologia does have all his limbs in place, so we know that at least physical wounds do not carry over from one form into the other, which brings me to my theories. First how can Acnologia escape:


 * 1) He's so powerful or has some special dimension-hopping magic that allows him to escape.
 * 2) He didn't get sucked in. Anna explained that only the things that touch the ravines of time get sucked in, so I think it might be possible that between his Dragon Form hitting the ravines and him getting fully sucked in, he transformed into his Human form. Since the Human form is much smaller, that was enough to break the connection with the ravines and he subsequently dropped down into the water below, but with the flash of Christina being sucked in, this wasn't noticed by the onlookers.

For the "what comes next" it doesn't really matter which scenario was the correct one, though I hope it's #2 rather than #1, since that would be rather lame. It's a big enough stretch that the magic-eating Acnologia was affected by Universe One in the first place, but maybe it happened too fast for him to eat it... but if he had dimension-hopping abilities or is unaffected by an actual force of nature (sort of), it would only make matters worse. Anyway, moving on...

During the contact with the Ravines of Time he at the very least started to get sucked in. This contorted his Dragon form to a degree where he is completely crippled while in it, so he's forced to remain in his Human form. But in his Human form, he doesn't have Dragon Scales protecting his body, which makes him at the very least vulnerable to physical attacks by Humans.

This would open up a way to have a team-battle against him with the FT mages (or whoever) having an actual and not too bullshitty means to win. It would also allow for the final Dragon Slayers vs. Acnologia fight that so many people seem to crave for.

Additionally losing his Dragon form that way might also have disrupted his ability to eat magic and leave him only highly resistant, but no longer immune to magic attacks. Or alternatively he might be vulnerable to specific kinds of magic, though this would probably have also applied to his prime condition if this turns out true. Space-time magic would be a prime candidate since that would retroactively explain how he was affected by Universe One... though that would mean that it would fall to the Celestial Spirit Mages, rather than the Dragon Slayers, to deal with Acnologia... unless Lucy can do Star Dresses on other people and not just herself.

Hmm... that could be potentially awesome in it's own right, to have Lucy clad the main cast into Star Dresses (or suits for the males). Maybe Loke/Natsu, Capricorn/Gray, Aries/Wendy, Taurus/Erza and Sagitarius for Lucy.