User blog comment:Yuri Rozu/Fairy Tail Chapter 499 Gray and Juvia/@comment-26537859-20160902080915/@comment-7418318-20160902081612

GaLe wasn't going anywhere in a hurry until the "nearly dying" kickstarted it into overdrive and finally made Gajeel realize and confess his feelings, thus paving the way for a proper romantic relationship in the future rather than an eternal will-they-won't-they, so was it really a bad thing for them?

Unless Juvia stays dead, which no one believes anyway, the same will apply to that pairing too.

And Mavis and Zeref... that ship has been stuck in the polar ice ever since Zeref proclaimed he wants to wipe out mankind. Having Irene extract Fairy Heart doesn't change anything about that. You can't stop what isn't moving in the first place.