Episode 44

Thunder Palace is the 44th episode of the Fairy Tail anime. It first Aired on august 30, 2010.

Synopsis
Throughout Magnolia, Erza is fighting Evergreen. No one seems to gain the upper hand, since Evergreen cannot petrify Erza because of the artificial eye, and Erza cannot reach Evergreen, who keeps flying away. Evergreen continues her attack, and since Erza is always able to evade them, she doubles the number of needles. At this point Erza is scratched by some of them, and she requips again, and is shown to be able to handle a sword with even her feet. Evergreen is flabbergasted by this, and is soon driven into a corner. Erza demands for the hostages to be freed, but evergreen announces that her stone eyes have another power, Remote Control. She is thus able to turn them to dust from where she stands. Erza then requps once more into her Heaven’s Wheel Armor, and calmly shows Evergreen that if her friends are indeed turned into dust, she will purity their souls with her life. Evergreen is terrified, and Erza punches her unconscious, showing everyone she was bluffing. With this, everyone is returned to normal.

Everyone learns of Erza victory over evergreen; Makarov learns of this and is delighted, and Laxus learns of this, and is bewildered. Fried appears behind him, and tells Laxus that evergreens defeat was not unpredictable, as for Erza to be defeated, Bixlow or himself should have been the opponent. Laxus then asks him why he has returned, to which Fried replies that the game is over, since there are no hostages. Laxus retaliates by shooting a thunder in his direction, and by saying that the game is not over, but if he wants to leave, he should do so, as he is not needed in his Fairy Tail.

The scene then changes to the Contest hall, where the girls are being briefed on what happened. Everyone agrees to punish Laxus, but Natsu thinks that a battle to determine who is the strongest in Fairy Tail indeed needed. While they are talking, some of Fried’s runes fly ion to make the shape of a skull. The skull, which is a way for Laxus to communicate, informs them of the construction of a Thunder Hall, which is a grand number of Thunder Lacrymas positioned over Magnolia, which will go off in the one hour and ten minutes. When the Master learns of this, he suffers a heart attack, and Mira runs to get his medicines. Outside, the villagers also notice the Lacrymas, but o not understand the gravity of the situation. Bisca then decides to shoot them off, but once a Lacryma is destroyed, due to a body Link Magic, all the following magical power if channeled into the destroyer. The girls leave, and Natsu, Gajeel and Levy are left inside. Due to the nature of her magic, Levy is confident that she might be able to break the runes, and elsewhere, Fried looks intimidated and absolutely against Laxus’s ways, but concords with his decision and leaves. He decides to follow him even to the pits of hell, while Laxus boasts that he will take out Erza and Mystogan.

Concurrently, Erza is tricked by Evergreen into entering a public bath to look for Laxus. All she finds are men taking a shower…

Meanwhile, Lucy and Happy are attacked by Bixlow. Lucy is able to summon Sagittarius, the archer, who takes out all of Bixlow’s babies, but he just creates others with his Seidhr magic. He steals her keys, and then proceeds to shot her with a massive beam of light, but she is saved by none other than Loke, who seems to be able to cross the gate regardless of her will. Bixlow admits that he felt Loke was a Spirit, and Loke says that everyone who threatens Lucy will be his target. He wants Lucy to get back, but she whips out her whip, and states that she doesn’t use spirits as shields; she fights alongside them. With their new battle strategy, Loke calls for Regulus to give him power, and the battle commences.