User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 336: In Order to Live Today to the Fullest, Review and Commentary/@comment-77.195.192.216-20130622091133

My thesis is the following : Lucy, since her return from Tenrou island, suffer a lot : death of her father, and so on. when she began to train seriously, she spoke about the one magic with Capricorn, and a day latter the spirits called her and tricked her, wasting 3 months, that was on purpose. The Spirit King knew about the Eclipse gate, i'm sure of that, something related to the Zodiac keys, especially something from the book of Zeref and using time can't be hidden to spirits ( remember Hotlogium in the Edolas arc ). Yukino appear with the two last remaining Zodiac keys, gave more power to Lucy in order to close the gate ( why Lucy was the only one shown speaking to the 12 Zodiac before sealing Eclipse ? ), and will probably die soon, or at least her contracts will be cancelled, or she will do it ( as Layla did ). as I already wrote the first part of the story ( called grand magic games arc ) is closed now. in this half Lucy didn't shine, as she didn't shine in the GMG themselves, with Natsu and the other mages, and the other dragon slayers hurt badly or at least tired, Acnologia, or an other foe can win easily ( remember what Jellal said : "maybe there are 3 or 4 people who passed through the gate" ), so I think a new foe will appear. Lucy will get the two last remaining keys, and as Yukino said the gateway that change the world will open, but this gateway isn't Eclipse, as she was part of sabertooth, maybe she spoke to Rogue about this legend, and this is why Rogue thought it was Eclipse.