Previously on Fairy Tail the dragon slayers connected with the Jade Dragon (Zirconis) and found out about the Dragon King festival and how dragon slayers came into existence and Acnologia’s previous state before becoming the most powerful dragon/dragon king. Arcadios and Yukino met them in the graveyard to talk of the Eclipse Project and so it continues…
For the Eclipse project to work, a Celestial Spirit Wizard is needed for the Eclipse gate to be opened because the 12 keys are essential to activating the gate. The plan is to use the Celestial Spirit boundary line and the power of a Celestial Spirit Wizard (Lucy) to travel 400 years back in time to murder Zeref and kill Acnologia. After that piece of information came the 20-second epic gasp period and more questions about the credibility of this plan. During a solar eclipse, on July 7th (the day that the dragons disappeared), the gate will be activated – if Lucy actually agrees to this plan.
Darton, the Minister of Defense, isn’t in agreement with the Eclipse Project because the present would change if the past does; and I’m on his side. Arcadios, Yukino and Lucy (she’s always getting caught up in the mess) were locked away, Natsu and the others got off on the grounds that the King favored them and would want to see them participate again in the Daimatou Enbu.
Natsu, being the hot head that he is, was about to use his magic to save his girl Lucy but the gate sucked up his magic power, leaving him in Wendy’s care. Back at the guild, Makarov was told of what happened, everyone started to speculate as to why Lucy was taken and why the others were let off but that is self-explanatory really. But Makarov already has a plan on what to do to try and save Lucy.
One interesting thing came up during the scene with Lucy and Yukino sharing a prison cell. I always thought Yukino had a striking resemblance to Angel from Oracion Seis and while she was sharing with Lucy what had happened in the past, I’m now convinced that Angel is her sister. Yukino wants the Eclipse Project to work because if Zeref hadn’t existed, Solano (Angel) wouldn’t have been taken into the Oracion Seis group. But, even if Angel hadn’t been taken away maybe something else could have happened to cause her to stray from home. I hope they’re reunited though.
The last day of the Daimatou Enbu is here and the team has been changed. Juvia is taking the place of Natsu, when Lyon yelled her name I couldn’t stop laughing. Sting feels some level of ease about that switch but this team is just as powerful without Natsu. We’ve got Titania, Fulbuster and my sweet honey Laxus~ <3…Gajeel you’re alright.
Meanwhile Mirajane, Natsu, Wendy and the cat squad are going to try to save Lucy. I don’t think they’ll fail and that’s the episode. Next week we’re gonna get some action from my favorite wizards. I kinda wish Mirajane was participating in the games; god I love her powers.
On another note though, even if the Eclipse project worked, the problem of Acnologia would still exist, because Zeref had nothing to do with him. It seems that Arcadios believes that Zeref created the dragon. I was wondering why no one told him this while they were talking in the graveyard but Darton interrupted the conversation. Also if Zeref was destroyed then Fairy Tail wouldn’t be as great as it is because Deliora wouldn’t have been created and Ur wouldn’t have sacrificed herself to save Grey, which was one life changing event that led Grey to Fairy Tail. Paradise tower wouldn’t have been created, which had led to Erza finding her strength and amazing power that then brought her to Fairy Tail.
Because of Zeref, in spite of all the sorrow and chaos he caused, a lot of great things happened as a result. And even if he didn’t exist, there would still be another great evil because that is just the way life is. I fee a bit partial to Zeref. During the Tenroujima arc, I developed a liking for his conflicted character. No one knows it but Zeref wants to be destroyed, he’s just waiting for Natsu to become strong enough to defeat him. I wonder if that means Natsu can actually defeat Acnologia as well when he gets strong enough…