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- Cornered by Ajeel, the Fairy Tail wizards are rescued by the arrival of Laxus on Blue Pegasus's airship, the Christina. They return to Ishgal and reinstate Makarov as their master. Makarov and Mavis explain to the guild that Zeref's target, Lumen Histoire, is a wellspring of infinite magic energy known as Fairy Heart. In a flashback, a young Mavis encounters Zeref and becomes cursed with the same immortality and life-stealing powers as the dark wizard. The two fall in love over their mutual sympathy for each other, but Zeref sends Mavis into a state between life and death because his curse kills those he cherishes, yet cannot kill an immortal. Mavis's state of being produces Fairy Heart, which Zeref intends to use against Acnologia. Back in the present, Fairy Tail prepares for Alvarez's assault. The wizards manage to hold off the empire's first strike headed by Ajeel, but despair when they discover their enemy's forces are approaching them in all directions. (en)
- Jellal and the rest of Fairy Tail's allies defeat Neinhart and his creations, liberating Hargeon. In northern Fiore, Gajeel and his team assist Saber Tooth and Blue Pegasus, who have been wiped out by Bloodman, one of the Spriggan 12. Gajeel and Levy fight Bloodman, who wields the same powers as the demons of Tartaros, and defeat him when Gajeel achieves Dragon Force. Mortally injured, Bloodman drags Gajeel into the underworld. East of Magnolia, Brandish brings Natsu, Lucy, and Happy to negotiate a ceasefire with August, a wizard regarded as the mightiest man of the Spriggan 12. Mest follows, distrustful of Brandish, and alters her memories to make her kill August instead. August responds by nearly annihilating the group in a display of immense magic power, but Natsu helps them survive. Meanwhile, Acnologia is directly confronted by Irene Belserion, August's female counterpart among the twelve. Unable to best Acnologia, Irene casts the forbidden spell Universe One, which condenses the country's size and scatters everyone to random locations, including Acnologia. The spell also inadvertently saves Gajeel, who encounters a projection of Zera, Mavis's late childhood friend, after Cana Alberona releases Mavis from her stasis. Zera telepathically contacts Fairy Tail's members and directs them to their guildhall, where Mavis comes face-to-face with Zeref. (en)
- Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Erza launch an assault on Avatar and defeat the cult's elites with Wendy, Carla and Juvia's assistance. The cult's priest Alok summons the war god Ikusa-Tsunagi to sacrifice his own followers for Zeref, but Natsu uses the immense strength he has gained from his training to destroy the deity. Gajeel, Panther Lily, and Levy arrive as officers of the Magic Council to arrest Avatar's remaining members. In a flashback, a young Zeref resurrects his dead infant brother Natsu, whose body is used to create E.N.D. to kill Zeref and end his immortality curse inflicted by the god Ankhselam. Back in the present, Zeref issues a challenge to Acnologia. Later, Lucy's friends reunite her with the rest of Fairy Tail at the remains of their guildhall. When Erza is instated as guild master in Makarov's absence to officiate Fairy Tail's revival, Doranbalt—discovered to be a formerly amnesiac member of Fairy Tail named Mest Gryder—appears at the guild with word of Makarov's whereabouts. (en)
- Wendy and Sherria team up against DiMaria Yesta, a member of the Spriggan 12 who uses her time-stopping ability to attack the girls. While time is frozen, a magical projection of Ultear Milkovich manifests and unfreezes the girls. After DiMaria reveals herself to be possessing a deity, Sherria amplifies her god-slaying magic with Ultear's Third Origin spell to defeat DiMaria, permanently losing her own magic power as a result. In Magnolia, Spriggan 12 assassin Jacob Lessio infiltrates Fairy Tail's guildhall and, capable of seeing Mavis's spirit, attacks her. Natsu recovers and helps Lucy defeat Jacob to release their trapped allies. In Hargeon, Erza, Kagura, and Jellal join forces against another of the twelve, Neinhart, who pits Fairy Tail and their allies against constructs of their deceased loved ones and enemies. Erza dispatches her revived opponents to her exhaustion, while Kagura overcomes her vendetta against Jellal to save him from drowning. (en)
- Erza defeats Ajeel after overcoming his sandstorm magic. Brandish fights Lucy out of resentment towards her late mother, Layla, but she contracts a pollen allergy in Ajeel's sandstorm. Meanwhile, the guild's defensive barrier is breached by Spriggan 12 member Wall Eehto, a mechanical wizard that exploits their weaknesses. The Raijin Tribe defeats Wall with the aid of Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki, only to discover their opponent to be a puppet remotely controlled by the real Wall, who fires upon the guild from afar. Ichiya blocks Wall's attack with the Christina and broadcasts a message beckoning the other guilds in Fiore to help Fairy Tail. Natsu moves in for a solo attack on Zeref, using the last vestiges of Igneel's power within himself to fight him. (en)
- Erza, struggling with a severe injury received from Irene, musters enough strength to obliterate Irene's meteor spell. Irene hesitates to kill Erza as she remembers her decision to spare her daughter's life as an infant. Stricken with grief, Irene commits suicide with Erza's sword. Meanwhile, a comatose Natsu learns from a metaphysical encounter with Igneel that two magical seeds—the tumor-like "demon seed" that triggered his demonic transformation, and a similar "dragon seed" that induces dragonification—have endangered his life. Urged to choose one seed to destroy, Natsu instead asserts his identity as a human and destroys both seeds. Natsu recovers shortly before Irene's spell on Fiore disappears, restoring the country's geography. Natsu and Lucy return to their guildhall, where Gray attempts to freeze Zeref using an enhanced version of Iced Shell that erases all memory of its caster's existence. Natsu stops Gray, reaffirming their friendship, and duels Zeref again. Larcade intervenes to help Zeref, but Zeref ruthlessly denounces his "son" as a demon of his creation and kills him. August acknowledges himself as Zeref and Mavis's true biological son as he battles Gildarts. August prepares to annihilate his adversaries with a suicidal spell, but halts his attack upon seeing Mavis and perishes. Mavis then delivers the book of E.N.D. to Lucy and Gray, disclosing it as part of her plan to defeat Zeref. (en)
- Returning to the battlefield, Acnologia resumes his hunt for the dragon slayers and demonstrates his ability to devour any magic. Wendy and her companions are rescued by Blue Pegasus and Anna Heartfilia, Lucy's ancestor and the dragon slayers' childhood teacher. Anna details a plan to imprison Acnologia within an inescapable space between time, created as a result of using Eclipse to transport herself and the dragon slayers to the present era. However, they find that the space has been closed off by Zeref, who intends to combine its power with Fairy Heart to open Neo Eclipse, a portal to a new timeline where he may prevent Acnologia's rise to power, which would also destroy the present timeline. Mavis gets close to Zeref, allowing him to absorb Fairy Heart from her. Elsewhere, Lucy, Gray, and Happy reason that they must edit the book of E.N.D. to make Natsu human, thus ensuring that his survival is independent of Zeref. Lucy proceeds to do so at the risk of being overtaken by the demonic entity within the book, enabling Natsu to fight and defeat Zeref. With the space reopened during Natsu's battle, Ichiya and Anna ram Acnologia into it with the Christina, seemingly vanquishing him. (en)
- Brandish returns Natsu's shrunken tumor to its original size and battles Lucy in a bluff attempt at retaining her loyalty to Alvarez. DiMaria, declaring Brandish to be a traitor, wounds her and kidnaps Natsu and Lucy. As DiMaria threatens to torture Lucy, Natsu's tumor triggers his Etherious instincts, sending him on a violent rampage towards Zeref that leaves DiMaria traumatized. Gray, blinded by vengeance towards E.N.D., impedes Natsu in a duel to the death. Meanwhile, Invel's defeat allows Mavis to escape the guild undetected. Irene amplifies her footsoldiers' strength to decimate Fairy Tail, forcing Makarov to eliminate them by casting Fairy Law from his remaining lifespan. Erza, mournful over Makarov's death, follows Natsu and Gray and stops their fighting as Lucy and Juvia reveal themselves to be safe. As Irene fights Erza and Wendy, Fairy Tail and their allies are beset by Larcade Dragneel, Zeref's son and one of the Spriggan 12, who defeats Kagura with little effort. (en)
- Kyôka merges with Face's control mechanism to hasten the bombs detonation. Although Erza defeats her after an arduous battle, the detonation process begins. During events concurrent with Erza and Kyôka's battle, Makarov Dreyar hesitates to use Lumen Histoire, revealed to be Mavis Vermillion's body preserved in crystal. Meanwhile, Natsu battles Mard Geer over E.N.D.'s book, reluctantly accepting Sting, Rogue, and Gray's help to fight him. Mard Geer summons Saber Tooth's former master Ziemma to kill them and assumes his true, demonic form as Mard Geer Tartaros. Sting and Rogue defeat Ziemma while Gray partially turns himself into a demon to protect Natsu from Mard Geer's ultimate curse designed to kill Zeref, and then defeats the demon while Natsu distracts him. With Face near detonation, the dragons Grandeeney, Metalicana, Weisslogia, and Skiadram appear and destroy all of the bombs positioned across Fiore, finally thwarting Tartaros's plans. (en)
- Wendy declines Natsu's invitation to revive Fairy Tail, wishing to keep her friend Sherria Blendy company in the absence of her cousin, Sherry. After Natsu helps Lamia Scale thwart an attack by rival guild Orochi's Fin, led by former Grimoire Heart commander Blue Note Stinger, Sherria convinces Wendy to rejoin her old friends. Next, the group visits an abandoned village where Gray and Juvia have been living together until Gray's disappearance. Remembering Future Rogue's warning that Gray will kill Frosch, Natsu discovers that Gray has joined Avatar, a cult of Zeref's worshipers, in search of E.N.D.'s book. After diverting Rogue from the cult to protect Frosch, Natsu, Lucy, and Happy reach Avatar's base to find that Gray has seemingly been corrupted by his demon slayer magic. When the three are captured and overpowered by Avatar's elites, Gray rescues them and reveals he and Erza have been spying on the cult together. (en)
- Sting defeats Larcade with assistance from Rogue and Kagura. Erza and Wendy battle Irene, who reveals herself as Erza's mother and divulges her history to them. In a flashback four centuries past, Irene rules a kingdom where humans and dragons coexist in harmony. When war erupts between her kingdom and dragons that devour humans, she uses her powers of enchantment to develop dragon-slaying magic for humans, unintentionally bringing about the near extinction of the dragon race. Later, her use of this magic gradually turns her into a dragon while she is pregnant with Erza. Fleeing into the wilderness after escaping her husband's attempts at executing her, Irene magically forestalls Erza's birth for centuries until she encounters Zeref, who gives her a fabricated human form. However, she cannot adjust to her new body and is driven mad with agony, deciding and failing to enchant herself onto her unborn child's body. Back in the present, Irene momentarily succeeds at taking over Wendy's body, but Wendy does the same with Irene and uses her power to undo the enchantment. Enraged, Irene uses her dragon form conjure a meteor to strike the kingdom in a final effort to kill Erza. (en)
- After Natsu incapacitates Zeref, Mavis is able to lift their shared curse by accepting her own love for him, which kills them both; Mavis also resurrects Makarov in the process. Lucy successfully rewrites the book before it vanishes with Zeref, saving Natsu's life. Meanwhile, Acnologia consumes the magic of the space between time and escapes, releasing Ichiya and Anna as well. While the dragon begins destroying Earth-land in an instinctive state, Natsu and the other dragon slayers are transported into the space by Acnologia's disembodied human spirit to maintain his immense power. Lucy decides to seal Acnologia's body away within Fairy Sphere, luring him to a port where she prepares to cast the spell. Bolstered by the magic of every wizard on the continent via Merudy's sensory link, Lucy successfully immobilizes Acnologia's body and spirit, allowing Natsu to kill him using the dragon slayers' combined power, which frees the dragon slayers from the space. One year later, Lucy's friends attend an award ceremony for a novel she has published about her adventures, where they also witness an encounter between two strangers who resemble Mavis and Zeref. Afterwards, Natsu, Lucy, and their friends embark on a "century quest", a guild mission that has never been completed in over one hundred years. (en)
- Wendy Marvell and her friends discover that Face consists of several thousand other bombs situated across Fiore. Erza Scarlet duels Minerva Orland, who has been transformed into a demon of Tartaros, but both stop after realizing the pointlessness of their fighting. Following a note sent by Erza earlier, Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney arrive and rescue the two from Mard Geer. Meanwhile, Gray Fullbuster is drawn into a private confrontation with Silver, whom he recognizes as his father previously killed by the demon Deliora. The demon slayer says that he is actually Deliora possessing Silver's corpse, enraging Gray. After gravely injuring him, Gray realizes that Silver really is his undead father and refuses to kill him. Unable to cope with his existence, Silver telepathically requests Juvia Lockser to mercifully kill him by destroying Keyes, the necromancer demon controlling him. Juvia reluctantly complies, preventing Keyes from using Crawford's body to remotely detonate Face. Before fading away, Silver bestows his demon-slaying powers onto Gray, who vows to destroy E.N.D. (en)
- Igneel tells Natsu to retrieve E.N.D.'s book as he continues to fight Acnologia. Zeref appears and kills Mard Geer for his failure, and then leaves with the book. Natsu runs to help Igneel, only to watch helplessly as Acnologia kills the fire dragon and leaves. Afterward, the other dragons reveal they have lost their souls to Acnologia and sealed themselves within the dragon slayers to prolong their own lives. Unable to seal themselves back, the dragons ascend to continue watching over mankind from a higher plane of existence, while Natsu vows to defeat Acnologia and avenge Igneel. As the Fairy Tail members recover from the battle over the next week, Natsu and Happy embark on a journey to train in preparation for their battle with Acnologia; shortly afterward, Makarov announces Fairy Tail's imminent dissolution, and the guild members go their separate ways. One year later, Natsu and Happy reunite with Lucy Heartfilia at the Grand Magic Games. Upon discovering Fairy Tail's fate, the two set out with Lucy to reorganize the guild. They first visit the Lamia Scale guild, which Wendy and Carla have joined. (en)
- Fairy Tail learns from Mest that Makarov has traveled to negotiate peace with the Alvarez Empire, a military nation that dwarfs Ishgal. Having not heard back from Makarov since Fairy Tail's dissolution, Natsu and his friends organize a rescue team and head towards the empire. They are impeded by Brandish μ, one of Emperor Spriggan's elite Spriggan 12 bodyguard unit that rival the power of Ishgal's strongest Wizard Saint, God Serena, who has defected to join the twelve. Fairy Tail manages to reach the empire aboard a submarine captained by Crime Sorcière member Sorano Agria . Meanwhile, Spriggan returns after a long absence and is revealed to be Zeref, who divulges with Makarov his desire to claim Lumen Histoire. Zeref prepares to kill Makarov, but Mest uses his teleportation powers to save the master. Fairy Tail then flees with Makarov from Ajeel Raml, another of the Spriggan 12. (en)
- Demon Gate member Torafuzar floods the entire area with poisonous water to kill all the Fairy Tail wizards at once. Gajeel Redfox struggles to fight Torafuzar underwater, but Levy McGarden uses her magic to provide air, allowing him to refurbish his iron body into steel in the carbon-rich water and cut through the demon's defenses. Gray returns and freezes Tempester with his new demon slayer magic, providing a blood sample for Porlyusica to make an antidote for Laxus Dreyar and the Raijin Trie. Guided by Franmalth, Erza and Minerva reach Tartaros's control room to find Seilah using the last of her power to activate Face's countdown with Crawford Theme's corpse. As Erza duels Kyôka, Acnologia appears and prepares to obliterate both guilds. Suddenly, Igneel emerges from Natsu Dragneel's body to battle Acnologia, revealing that he has been sealed within the dragon slayer all along. Igneel tells Natsu to retrieve E.N.D.'s book from Mard Geer, to which Natsu agrees in exchange for an explanation for his father's disappearance. (en)
- Zeref reveals himself to Natsu as his brother, informing him of his true identity as E.N.D. and the dragon slayers' role in a 400-year-old plan enacted by himself, Igneel, and the Heartfilia family to eradicate Acnologia. Natsu ignores these revelations and moves to kill Zeref, but Happy stops him once Zeref reveals that his and Natsu's lives are intertwined. At the guild, an imprisoned Brandish tries killing Lucy again to avenge her mother Grammi, who was apparently murdered by Layla over Aquarius's key, destroyed by Lucy the previous year. Aquarius, however, returns with her key restored and reveals that Zoldio killed Grammi, vindicating Layla. Happy returns to the guild with an unconscious Natsu, who is diagnosed with a tumor from overexerting his magic against Zeref. Having reconciled with Lucy, Brandish uses her mass-altering magic to shrink the tumor to a non-lethal size. East of Magnolia, God Serena advances towards Fairy Tail after overwhelming his former fellow Wizard Saints with his dragon slayer magic, only to be slain by Acnologia, who intends to kill the surviving dragon slayers. In Hargeon, Erza leads a team of wizards to assist Lamia Scale and Mermaid Heel in defending the city from Alvarez's forces, with Laxus destroying Wall. (en)
- Zeref orders his remaining forces to assemble at the hilltop where Fairy Tail's guildhall now stands. Fairy Tail's members advance through Alvarez's army, assisted by the return of Gildarts Clive, who defeats a replica of God Serena conjured by Neinhart. Brandish takes Natsu, Lucy, and Happy away from the battle, intent on keeping them out of the war. Natsu, however, demonstrates his conviction by defeating an empowered Neinhart. Meanwhile, Gray duels Zeref's chief of staff, Invel Yura, who seeks to use him to remove Natsu as an obstacle to Zeref's plans. He brainwashes Gray and Juvia into fighting each other, intending for Gray to kill her and succumb to his demonic corruption so as to bring about his full potential. Instead, Juvia seemingly stabs herself to death and tranfuses her blood to Gray when he does the same. Grief-stricken, Gray retains his sense of judgment and defeats Invel, unaware as Wendy and Carla arrive in time to nurse Juvia back to life. However, Invel compels Gray to fight Natsu anyway by revealing Natsu's true identity as E.N.D. to him. (en)
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