Fairy Tail 101

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Fairy Tail
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Puzzle What word do you think should go in the following sentence? (The real answer is a secret~!♡)
"Oh, Lucy... you're so ****!"
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Chapter 101: The Red Land In A Frenzy
[side text: With the fighting over, it's time for a little R&R for the Fairies! Let's all hope that this peace can go on forever, not just for a brief instant!!]
Gray: ...Is this guy really okay?
Lucy: Yeah, seriously... he has been sleeping for three days straight now...
Happy: Natsu!! Lucy's wearing a maid outfit and she's singing and dancing for everyone!
Lucy: ...I'd just be pissed off if that managed to wake him up...

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Natsu: Whoo~
Lucy: NO GRINNING IN YOUR SLEEP!!!
Erza: Oh, just let him rest a little longer. // Not that it could have been helped under the circumstances, but that must have been his equivalent of eating poison.
Gray: Oh yeah, he ate the Aetherion, right? This guy gets more and more like a monster every day...
Erza: Honestly...
Flashback!Natsu: Don't you ever do a thing like that again!!!
Erza: ...Are you really one to talk...? // I caused so much trouble to all of you in this incident... / I really... just don't know what I can say... / [aside]ahh...[/aside]
Lucy: Oh, c'mon... how many times have you gotta say that?
Erza: !

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Erza: Come to think of it... what happened to that Element Four girl?
Gray: Lluvia? Oh, she's headed back already. / She said she wanted to join Fairy Tail as soon as possible, so she ran off to find the ol' Master.
Erza: I see... I hear she's helped us out a lot, so I would have liked to be there to back her up, but...
Lucy: Yeah, that girl sure has a lot of get-up-and-go in her... / ...Wait, WHAT are you doing?!!!
Happy: Aye?
Gray: Say, Erza... shouldn't you be getting some sleep as well?
Erza: Mm... / I wouldn't say I've taken enough damage to worry about. // Although to be fair, my body theoretically should have been broken down at the structural level within that Aetherion vortex...
Gray: Broken down... at the... it really was a miracle you made it out of there, huh...

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Erza: (To tell the truth... I still don't really understand what happened in there. // But right now... I'm just happy to be alive...)
Gray: Well, I guess that's just like you, though, Erza. Not like that dumbass who goes around eating poison and dropping half-dead.
Natsu: WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!!!! GRAAAAAY!!!!
Happy: HE WOKE UP~!!!
Gray: I said "Man, you sure have a healthy diet!", dummy~! // Come to think of it, you ended up as food for that Fukurou punk, too, didn't'cha! / So are you the eater or the eaten, huh? Make your mind up, you food-cycle-dumbass!
Natsu: Nnnnnghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!!!

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Natsu: ...ghaaaaahhhh...
Happy: HE'S ASLEEP~~~!!!
Gray: If you don't have the energy to fight, then don't wake up!!!
Lucy: Ahahahahah!
Erza: [aside]eheh...[/aside]
Everyone: [aside]hahahahahahah[/aside]

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Igneel: What is your business here?

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Igneel: Grandine.
Grandine: It has been a while.
Igneel: But for you to be here... I have forbidden all interference. // Leave this place immediately, Grandine.
Grandine: Well, I just happened to sense you nearby. // That child... he truly does take everything to excess.

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Grandine: Like someone else, perhaps? / [aside]heheh...[/aside]
Igneel: ............
Grandine: It looks like he managed to get lucky this time... // But that won't keep happening forever. // He may die, you know.
[TN: Just in case by some miniscule chance they're not talking about Natsu, I should probably mention that no gender has actually been given to the "child" they're talking about ~_~ I should probably also mention that Grandine sounds like a woman.]
Igneel: Leave. Now.
Grandine: I daresay that child too will meet with Wendy someday... // Perhaps a more friendly relationship could be established this time.
Igneel: LEAVE THIS PLACE!!!! // DO NOT INTERFERE WITH THE HUMANS!!!!

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Igneel: DO YOU MEAN TO ANGER THE ONE AND ONLY IGNEEL?!!!!!

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Grandine: You're right, of course... worry as we might, there is nothing that we can do. // All that is left for us is to believe in the humans' own power... // And Zeref...... // Well, let us leave that for the moment.
Igneel: Grrrrrrrrr...
Grandine: I look forward to the day we meet at the Dragon King Feast. // Igneel.

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Worly: Uh... so, yeah... I'm real sorry, Erza.
Miriana: I'm sorry, Er-chan...
Erza: Oh, no... I'm the one who didn't manage to do anything for eight whole years... / I should apologise to you.
Shou: Yeah, but you were being threatened by Gérard... / You had to stay away from us, to protect us from him!
Erza: I can't just fall back on excuses like that at this point... / If I had only managed to do something sooner, then Shimon...

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Worly: Shimon was a true man!! I mean... I mean, c'mon... He always wanted to protect you... that guy, he...
Miriana: Worly...!!!
Erza: I know exactly how he felt... // I understand how all of you who I left behind must have felt, now... // But we have no choice but to keep on moving forward. // Into the future that Shimon left for us.
Shou: Yeah...
Miriana: It's really sad, and all... // ...but Shimon will always be here, with all of us.
Worly: I've gotta believe that, or I just couldn't go on... dammitall... // I mean, what was all of it for...?!

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Erza: We must turn the past into the future and walk onwards. // And the step we take today will be the step that takes us on to tomorrow.
Worly: "The step we take today"...
Miriana: What are we all going to do from now on...?
Erza: If you have nowhere to go, you can all just come to Fairy Tail. // I'm sure everyone will welcome you with open arms.
Shou: !!
Worly: Fairy Tail?!!
Miriana: Myaa?! // Us, go there?!!

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[side text: Mashima's Ramblings: Man, that DMC anime is just crazy. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at an anime before. And I've actually met the guy who made the original thing, you know~~!]
Erza: It may not be the same as the freedom that you guys were searching for all this time... // ...but freedom is one thing you can definitely find at Fairy Tail. I think you'd like it there.
Worly: You know, Salamander was saying exactly the same thing!!!
Miriana: It's the most upbeat Guild in the world~!!
Erza: Besides, I'd love to be able to stay with you guys forever. // Now, then... let's head back. / I've got to introduce all of you properly to Natsu.
Worly: You can introduce me as the World's Dandiest Man.
Miriana: I want to be friends with Happy-chan~!
Gérard'sVoice: You've become strong, Erza...

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Erza: !! // (Gérard?!! // ...No, I guess that's impossible...)

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Lucy: (I was the only one Erza quietly told about what went through her mind at that moment. // How she thought that maybe, just maybe, the one who stopped the tower from destroying them both was Gérard. // I'm sure at that moment, Gérard was freed from the control of Zeref's ghost, and returned to his old, kind self. // And so he fused with the Aetherion in Erza's place, and guided the magic up into the sky. // And that's why Erza's body was never broken down in the first place. // If I think of it like that, everything does seem to fit together pretty nicely. / After all, how could Natsu have found Erza and brought her back if she'd been broken down at a structural level?)

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Lucy: (But if Gérard really did turn back to his old self right there, at the end... // ...I kind of feel sorry for him. / He was just another victim of Zeref's ghost, after all.)
Erza: Lucy!!!
Lucy: !!
Erza: Have you seen Shou and the others?
Lucy: No, I haven't...
Erza: They were supposed to be staying at the same hotel as us, but I can't find them anywhere...
Lucy: Even after we said we should all check out together tomorrow and head to the Guild together...?
Plue: Pooon~

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Lucy: D... Don't tell me they all just ran off without saying anything?!
Erza: I see...
Lucy: We've got to go after them!!! What could have happened?! // There's no reason for you to be apart any more!!!
Erza: Tell Natsu and Gray to get some "fireworks" ready.
Lucy: Huh...? Wait...!!! // What?! Fireworks?!!
[insert text: Sounds kinda deep! What "resolution" lies concealed within Erza's heart?!]
[bottom text: To be continued in Chapter 102: "Walk Tall"]