Template:The Earth Land Chronicles/April 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!

Sorry about last month not having an issue. I was out of it due to personal reasons as well as starting my new job. However, now I'm back and we're now at the final day of the Grand Magic Games! It's been a long road but there's still a lot more, but before we get to the events, we've gotta get into what lead up to them!

However, the biggest piece of real life news is that - yes - the anime is back! The series has returned in color with a new studio attached to the project. Whether or not it's for the better is a matter of heavy debate, but it's here nonetheless.

As to the actual plot, we start off with an anime scene of a bleak future where Dragons rule and Lucy is seemingly the only one left. Except she's not! Natsu is still there and tells her it'll all be alright as he heads into the fight to battle the beasts.

Back in the present, Fairy Tail's Mages are in a bar and fighting as usual until Gajeel shows up and tells them he wants to show them something! Taking Wendy, Natsu, Lucy, Gray and the 3 Exceed them to the Dragon Graveyard he found thanks to Natsu shoving him into a cart, the group sees all the Dragon skeletons. However, Wendy realizes that Grandine's spell Milky Way can help her communicate with one of their dead souls and learn what happened. Using this spell, she calls forth the soul of the perverted Jade Dragon Zirconis, who explains the truth.

Finding out that Dragons once ruled the world till humans exterminated them and that Acnologia is the Dragon King, killed all the Dragons they see and was once human, the Mages are stunned. As Zirconis' soul leaves, Arcadios and Yukino, having somehow found the place with seemingly nobody telling them and coming to the exact location of the Fairy Tail Mages, tell everyone that they have a plan to beat Zeref and invite them to Mercurius Castle.

Meanwhile, at Sabertooth's lodge, Master Jiemma is pissed with Sting and Rogue for losing to Natsu and decides to beat the crap out of them for it. However, it seems Lector has changed since the beginning and defends them. Having forgotten that he let the Exceed into the guild, Jiemma seemingly exterminates him, leaving Sting in despair and anger, enough to cause him to rise up against Jiemma and deliver a powerful shot, piercing his body and shocking everyone, aside from Minerva really, who is glad, if anything.

Over at the castle, Arcadios reveals that he orchestrated the failed kidnapping on the 2nd day of the games and apologizes, stating he needed Lucy since she was a Celestial Spirit Mage. Showing the Mages his Eclipse Project, one designed to travel back in time to kill Zeref before he was powerful and immortal, he doesn't get to do much else before Darton and his forces arrest him, Yukino and Lucy, saying that messing with time is too dangerous. Natsu's attempt to stop them is useless as being near the gate sucks out his Magic. With Lucy arrested the Fairy Tail Mages are told only one thing after being ejected: They can have an audience with the king to let her go if they win the Grand Magic Games.

Of course, when they reveal this to their guildmates, nobody is really happy and they decide that they can't directly attack the kingdom, but they won't lie down and let themselves take it either. Constructing a plan, Natsu, Wendy, Mirajane and the Exceed go to the castle to break Lucy out while Juvia joins Team Fairy Tail to participate in the games as a cover for the operation. Now with two teams on the go for one common goal, will Fairy Tail be able to accomplish?

Arriving at the castle in disguise, the group locates the dungeon and breaks out Lucy and Yukino, but while the former is changing clothes, cause that's currently the most important thing rather than getting out while wearing whatever she currently had on, the group falls through a trap floor. Yes, the Exceed, who can fly, fall through the trap floor. Yes, they don't try and save anyone. They really wanted to push this group further down, didn't they? But anyways, the group comes across a battered and beaten Arcadios down there in what's called Abyss Palace, where Princess Hisui E. Fiore, the best drawn character in the new anime, condemns them to death.

Meanwhile at the games, the "Grand Magic Game" is the name of the game where they run around the city to attack one another and score points, earning 5 if they take out a team later and earning 1 for anyone else. So naturally, the other teams get in on fast but shockingly, Fairy Tail's team doesn't. They even stand completely still. How lucky are they that they didn't get attacked by anyone while doing this? However, they do eventually get moving as it is revealed that Mavis Vermilion planned everything and they now know how to fight their opponents.

Rufus of Sabertooth is the first to make his move but thanks to Mavis, everyone knows how to evade his attack, or block in Laxus's case. Taking out various Mages like Jenny, Hibiki Lates, Ren and such, Fairy Tail's team soon becomes a formidable force with seemingly only Jura posing a real threat as Mavis can't find a way to deal with him. Eventually, the battles culminate in Gray finding Rufus in a library, seeking to beat him in a 1-vs-1.

The battle isn't easy in the least for Gray, since Rufus has a monstrously OP Magic that in the hands of someone more capable than him would be pretty much unstoppable. Mixing Magic, forgetting Magic, Rufus can do it all and give himself power or put his opponent at a disadvantage. It's only when Gray goes too fast that the weakness is realized: Rufus can't memorize things that he can't comprehend and mass speed is massively incomprehensible. Using this, Gray's able to turn the tide of the battle on Rufus, taking him out in the end and earning a point for his team. I gotta admit, seeing him take Rufus' hat and put it on was rather sexy.

Pondering Rufus's loss, Minerva recalls that her father survived Sting's assault and we learn that she saved Lector but won't give him back to Sting until he wins the game by using the power Natsu used: Nakama Power. So now, it looks like while Team Fairy Tail is in a good position, the rescue team is in anything but. The find Arcadios battered and beaten but are attacked by the Garou Knights, one of whom happened to rip-off the design of my darling. GRR. Anyways, the battle is short and results in everyone being separated. Mirajane with Kamika, Wendy with Cosmos, Natsu with Kama, Pantherlily with Neppa and Lucy, Yukino and Happy with Uosuke.

The knights do present trouble at first, as Natsu is put on the ropes, Pantherlily can't deal with the acid attacks of Neppa, Kamika's poison seemingly hurts Mirajane and Cosmos seems to put Wendy to an eternal sleep. However, none of them are having as hard a time as Lucy and Yukino, who don't have their keys and thus no way to fight Uosuke, whom Arcadios says disintegrates even the bones of his opponents. Right off the bat, he opens a zone of lava that nearly melts the girls as they're about to fall in, only to be saved by Arcadios, who seemingly dies. However, we all know that in Fairy Tail, few people die (at least, at this point) and so Arcadios is really alive, saved by Horologium. Loke arrives as well with the girls' keys, allowing them to go on the offensive.

Yukino's spirit Pisces has an alternate form, one that takes the form of mother and son but is supposedly weak to water....yeah, a fish that's weak to water...what the hell? Anyways, Lucy summons Aquarius who manages to take out Uosuke with help while Natsu overcomes Kama, Pantherlily takes out Neppa, Mirajane, a Demon, enjoys Kamika's poison and Wendy is able to get through the eternal sleep thanks to her spells. One by one, the Garou Knights are defeated and all the Mages send them flying and landing in (in what is a lovely coincidence) the same place. Natsu here threatens to kill them if they don't reveal how to get out of the Abyss Palace.

Well, that was an interesting start to this first day. The teams have had varying degrees of success but we dunno how long this'll last and what more is waiting for them. Alright, we do know, but still. Anyways, that's the end of this edition of ELC! I know it all happens over the course of one day, but it's so damn big I need to split it up across a few issues. To see how it goes, join us next month as we continue to look at Fairy Tail's largest arc (to date).

Till then!




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


 * Best Moment of this part of the Arc:
 * Arcadios saves the girls from the lava. Even if he survives himself.


 * Best Chapter of this part of the Arc:
 * Chapter 304


 * Best Episode of this part of the Arc:
 * Episode 178