User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 210: Guild Deck vs. Celestial Spirit Deck, Review/@comment-4489126-20141129182757/@comment-7418318-20141202094623

She could win this without fighting. We've already seen Loke having small flashes of memories about her, so maybe that'll be the way this fight against Virgo will be resolved.

Though I'd prefer if Lucy got close to defeat (maybe even death, but this time without a failed attempt at humour please -_- ), had a few memory flashes of the good times she had with her Spirits and then goes "I won't let you all die!" before starting to finally fight back seriously.

In other words something similar (though not as dark) as Eren went though in the Attack on Titan Manga (and only the Manga. The Anime screwed that scene over royally).