Chapter 212

Iron Soul is the two hundred and twentieth chapter of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail.

Full Summary
As Levy runs away from Gajeels fight against Kawazu and Yomazu she wonders why they are attacking and is determined to tell the other members. She trips on a root and blacks out for a little. She opens her eyes to Juvia and Erza and begins to tell them. Meanwhile, Gajeel continues battling his enemies but is overwhelmed by Yomazu's Oreint Solid Script and Kawazu's Egg Magic. Determined, Gajeel mangaes to slash Kawazu with his Iron Dragon Sword, but it leave an openeing and he is pierced through his arm. With overwhelming determination, Gajeel still manages to grab the sword that is through his arm and screams that he refuses to lose. He has a short flashback to when Phantom Lord was just destroyed.

Sometime after,Makarov found Gajeel. Gajeel was eating iron on top of what was left of his former guild, when Makarov comes and tells him Juvia had joined Fairy Tail, much to Gajeel's displeasure. Makarov then tells him to join as well. Gajeel hesitates, telling Makarov that he was responsible for the destruction of Fairy Tail as well as the wounds of some of the members. Makarov agrees that Gajeel was indeed guilty, and that he won't forgive him easily (causing Gajeel to shiver under the presumption that Makarov came to exact vengeance upon him), but says that it would be harder to forgive himself if he were to leave a young man in the darkness. He stretches out his hand, to which Gajeel takes.

This memory causes Gajeel to not give up even more and he shatters Yomazu's blade by bending his arm and finishes him off with Karma Demon: Iron God Sword. With Kawazu and Yomazu defeated, Gajeel shortly collapes afterwards. Erza and Juvia find him shortly afterwards. Yomazu stares into the sky as he sees the Grimoire Heart Airship come towards Tenrou Island. Erza immediately sends a flare in the air, putting the S-Class Trial on hold.