User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 426: Black Heart, Review and Commentary/@comment-25111584-20150401185614/@comment-24.90.189.198-20150406011601

Apologies, i read this on my phone and completely missed there was a link to an image in your original post. Though now i would say that Mashima's explanation doesn't really make that much sense. They are bbasically in timeline 2 until they stop Froschs death or defeat Acnologia.

i hate time travel stories, they almost aways make zero sense.