# 288 - To the God-Forsaken Land
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**[00:01] ---**
You hideous... demon!
**[00:06] ---**
Close. The name "Spriggan"
actually means "hideous fairy."
**[00:14] ---**
--Gramps!
--Master!
**[00:15] ---**
Gramps!
**[00:17] ---**
K-Kiddos...
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Zeref...! Zeref was there!
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Zeref!
**[00:29] ---**
So, you're here...
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...Natsu.
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No matter how far, far away we are
**[00:39] ---**
you just need to keep on believing
**[00:42] ---**
So, please, stop crying, look up...
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...and let's move forward together
**[01:04] ---**
Why do you look down
**[01:06] ---**
and stare at the tears you've shed?
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Even if today is a bust
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we can always walk forward with faith in tomorrow
**[01:18] ---**
Having someone who can reach out to me
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and someone I can laugh with
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gives me a new strength
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that can change the world as we know it
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No matter how far, far away we are
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you just need to keep on believing
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everything is for you for you
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The morning sun has driven the night away
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I won't be afraid or hesitate anymore
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I'm going to turn my dream into reality
**[01:54] ---**
So, please, stop crying, look up...
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...and let's move forward together
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Zeref is here, on this continent?!
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I had no idea either...
**[02:12] ---**
The man known as Emperor Spriggan
is actually Zeref, in the flesh.
**[02:18] ---**
--Spriggan...
--...is Zeref?!
**[02:25] ---**
If you guys are here...
**[02:28] ---**
...I take it Mest has
filled you in on the situation?
**[02:33] ---**
Yes.
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I'm just so glad you're all right.
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I was too naïve.
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They never had any intention
of negotiating from the start.
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I even tarnished our guild's history
before journeying west...
**[02:53] ---**
But it was all for nothing!
I've never felt such regret!
**[03:00] ---**
It wasn't for nothing.
This past year helped us all grow.
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And that's how we were
able to get back together.
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I believe anything you do for
another's sake is always meaningful.
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Because that's what you taught us.
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Let's go home, Gramps...
**[03:39] ---**
To Fairy Tail!
**[03:48] ---**
Yes.
**[03:55] ---**
"To the God-Forsaken Land"
**[04:01] ---**
So...
**[04:02] ---**
We have lots of catching up to do,
but let's get out of here first.
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Yeah.
**[04:07] ---**
Who is this person?
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I used too many Direct Lines in a row.
**[04:13] ---**
I only have enough power
to teleport us one more time.
**[04:18] ---**
I'd like to use that last
teleport to reach Sorano's ship.
**[04:23] ---**
So we need to head back until
we're within range of her ship.
**[04:27] ---**
Aww, leaving so soon, Makarov?
We just became friends, too...
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Did you get your farewell gift?
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'Cause you're about to end up in the ground.
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Ajeel!
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Impossible! How did he find us?!
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Sand!
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Sand is nice. It tells me everything.
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This guy's got as much power
as that girl on Caracol Island...
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Nice...
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Stop!
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Don't fight him! He's too powerful! Run!
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But...!
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You heard our master! Retreat!
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--Damn!
--Everyone, retreat!
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We have a magic-mobile ready and waiting!
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Now! Get in!
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A car...!
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I'll drive!
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SE plug, connected!
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Here we go!
**[05:42] ---**
So those are Makarov's soldiers...
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Huh.
**[05:46] ---**
Nice...
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--Hit it, Erza!
--I know!
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--He's coming!
--Huh?
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What is that?!
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Sand?! It's a sand monster!
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Drat!
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No good! It's gaining on us!
**[06:19] ---**
Lucy! Let's attack back!
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Yeah!
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Oops! Sorry!
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Stop! He's too powerful for us!
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We won't know for sure unless we try.
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Star Dress...
**[06:47] ---**
...Sagittarius Form!
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What is this magic power coming from Gray?!
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And... Lucy, too?!
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They're nothing like they were a year ago!
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Ice Make...
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Oh? Gonna fight, are ya?
**[07:04] ---**
...Silver.
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The entire area instantly froze!
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Incredible!
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Nice one!
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The sand turned into creatures!
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We're on it!
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Star Shot!
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Nice! Nice!
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He vanished!
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Below! He merged with the sand!
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Antlion Pit!
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Oh, no!
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Damn!
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Nice! You guys look so clumsy and pathetic!
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Hurry! Out of the car!
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Curses! The magic-mobile...!
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Happy! Hang on!
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There's sand in my mouth!
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The sand...!
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It's grabbing onto us!
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I can't move!
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How many people has it killed?
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How many cities has it swallowed?
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This Antlion Trap is the doorway to doom.
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No one has ever escaped it.
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Here's one last tidbit before you die!
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We've exterminated so many wizards
like you that I've lost count!
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We're on a totally different
level than you maggots!
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Ishgar has been forsaken by the gods!
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But it'll fall under
Alvarez's control soon enough!
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Sucks to be you guys!
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Nice! That look on your faces is nice!
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Forsaken by the gods, huh?
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Not a problem!
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'Cause Fairy Tail is still around!
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He evaporated the sand--?!
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It's been years since I took
a nice punch like that!
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Nice! Bring on more!
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Freeze!
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Dry.
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What?!
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The sand is wrapping around us!
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Oh, no! This sand...!
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Curse you!
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Whoops!
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I won't let you take my kiddos from me!
**[10:01] ---**
Stop, Gramps! We can fight!
**[10:04] ---**
Natsu... Please don't yell...
**[10:07] ---**
Oh? You think you can
protect 'em all like that?
**[10:11] ---**
You don't understand
the power of the Spriggan 12 at all!
**[10:18] ---**
My sands of death will swallow you whole.
**[10:25] ---**
Mest! Teleport us!
**[10:27] ---**
Where to?!
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Gramps!
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I will keep you safe, if it's the last thing I do!
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I swear it!
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This is the end!
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This sandstorm strips the moisture
out of everything it touches!
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--Gramps!
--Master!
**[10:49] ---**
Gramps!
**[10:50] ---**
Please! Run!
**[10:52] ---**
One fairy mummy, coming up.
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Laxus!
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Laxus!
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He disintegrated that sandstorm
with one attack?!
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The guy's as flashy as ever.
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Awesome!
**[11:35] ---**
You're gotten much older, old man...
**[11:39] ---**
We're in enemy territory! We gotta pull back!
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Hop on! Although it's technically his ship!
**[11:45] ---**
Gajeel?
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I smell Levy and Lily, too.
**[11:49] ---**
Wait, but that's a ship!
How are you and Laxus not sick?!
**[11:53] ---**
Gray, my love! I'm here, too!
**[11:56] ---**
L-Let me say something, too!
**[11:59] ---**
Stop, Big Brother Elf.
**[12:01] ---**
This ship's been customized
so Dragon Slayers can ride on it!
**[12:07] ---**
Oh? Have you gotten a little bigger, Wendy?
**[12:10] ---**
She's gone from a girl to a lady.
**[12:12] ---**
Everyone's grown this past year.
**[12:15] ---**
Umm... I haven't changed much, actually.
**[12:19] ---**
Mest! I assume you're down there!
Teleport onto the ship!
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Got it!
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You're not running away!
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Running?
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We're just going home.
We don't wanna miss supper.
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Whoa...
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Are those guys for real?
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Was that barrier your doing?
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It is painful to lose a comrade, Ajeel.
**[13:03] ---**
You're suggesting that attack
would've killed me?
**[13:07] ---**
You must be getting senile, August.
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It begins, Natsu.
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You guys made it out okay!
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Nice work!
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Master rescue mission, complete!
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What are you guys doing here?
**[13:37] ---**
We hatched our own plan
to rescue Master, too.
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And Laxus was one part of it.
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How dare you run off without us!
**[13:45] ---**
It was a covert operation.
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This ship is awesome!
I don't feel sick one bit!
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Anyway, let's fight, Laxus!
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You're annoying.
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Everyone...
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Fairy Tail is the finest family
I could ever ask for!
**[14:18] ---**
Here's to Fairy Tail's official return!
**[14:22] ---**
Cheers!
**[14:23] ---**
Welcome back, Master!
**[14:25] ---**
Wait. If Erza is our master, then he's, uhh...
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Mr. Makarov, I guess?
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That doesn't sound right somehow.
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Call him "Master." I'm stepping down.
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Little Asca! I'm back!
**[14:42] ---**
Does this make him our eighth master?
**[14:44] ---**
So this is his third time?
How many times has he revived?!
**[14:49] ---**
Uhh, he never died in the first place...
**[14:51] ---**
At this point, I'm staying
as guild master till I die.
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Now that's manly!
**[14:56] ---**
We've heard you say that before.
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Booze! Bring on the booze!
**[15:04] ---**
Let's drink!
**[15:05] ---**
I'm still surprised you guys
joined Blue Pegasus.
**[15:09] ---**
Entertaining customers isn't a bad job at all.
**[15:12] ---**
But I feel much more at home in shabby pubs.
**[15:15] ---**
Did Laxus, umm...
do any "hospitality" work, too?
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Once in a while. And was it ever hilarious!
**[15:26] ---**
Just mind your own business.
**[15:28] ---**
Say, did you manage to contact Sorano?
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Yeah. She was really fuming, too.
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Then there was a temple
that could go through the ocean
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and then there were lots of fishies there!
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They looked so yummy!
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Huh. So vehicles affect you, too, now?
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--Yes...
--Don't sweat it!
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I've always been that way!
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Uhh... Is that supposed
to comfort her somehow?
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--You pickin' a fight?!
--Bring it on!
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How did that conversation turn into a fight?!
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I can't ride in horse carriages anymore...
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Is that that big of a deal for you?
**[16:06] ---**
Gray, my love! Please give me
your "hospitality," too!
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What are you talking about?!
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Fairy Tail's the best!
**[16:14] ---**
Are Star Mangoes not available
in this kingdom?
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I've never heard of 'em.
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Do they taste manly?
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Yuck, that sounds gross.
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Sheesh! The place is so noisy!
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Still, it looks like things
are finally back to normal.
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Yeah.
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Our master has finally returned to Fairy Tail.
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As have Laxus and the Thunder Legion.
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We learned that the Alvarez Empire
on the western continent
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is home to wizards more powerful
than we ever imagined.
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We also discovered that
the black wizard Zeref
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rules over Alvarez under
the name "Emperor Spriggan."
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And now he's about to spring
into action to take the Lumen Histoire,
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which is actually our first master's body,
beneath our guildhall.
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A war is about to erupt,
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and it'll probably be the most
grueling fight we've ever faced.
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I don't want to lose anyone.
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I want to win like always...
**[17:22] ---**
...so we can keep laughing
and smiling like this forever.
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At the time, that was my one and only wish.
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Everyone... I'm sorry.
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I won't make excuses.
I took your home away from you.
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I'm truly sorry.
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Mest explained everything!
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You did it to protect us, right?
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It's no big deal at all.
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Yeah! We have our guild back now anyway!
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Wipe that grumpy look off your face!
You'll ruin my booze!
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What's more, my plan was all for nothing.
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Alvarez is going to invade.
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They're a vast superpower,
and they'll be coming straight for us.
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So what?!
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We've fought for our guild before.
Time after time.
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We've fought for what's important to us,
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no matter how tough our enemies were.
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That determination has always
made us stronger.
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It's not that I'm not scared.
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It's more like I have a heavy burden
I dunno how to let go of.
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But I know I can count on everyone.
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What I am afraid of
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is never having fun times like this anymore.
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We have to fight, so we can all laugh
and smile together again.
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We have to make a stand!
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Not to win, but to live!
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That's what our fight is for!
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Looks like everyone's made up their mind.
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So have I.
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Listen up!
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We're going to make them
regret messing with our family!
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Let's take 'em down!
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I'm all fired up!
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Let's win this thing!
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Goes without saying!
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This is one fight we can't lose.
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Our enemy is Zeref!
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E.N.D...
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We'll be just fine!
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I'm gonna fight, too!
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I will protect the guild this time. I swear it!
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And I'd like to show off
the results of my year of training.
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Huh?! You did training, Mira?!
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Yeah, she's way, way stronger now! So am I!
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Man, I love this guild!
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Before the battle begins,
there's something I must tell you all.
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It's about the Lumen Histoire,
formally known as the "Fairy Heart."
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Perhaps I should do the explaining, Sixth--
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Err, Eighth Master.
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First Master?!
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Is this a projection of her?! Or is it...
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Everyone...
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Fairy Heart has always been
our guild's most confidential secret,
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because it holds something that
the world must never learn of.
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However, it's also important
you know why Zeref wants it...
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...and about my own sin.
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First Master...
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It's all right.
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The time has come
to reveal everything, that's all.
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This is a tale of a cursed boy
and a cursed girl,
**[21:42] ---**
and a tale of the primordial
magic they sought.
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Until you fall asleep, until you give that smile
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You are beautiful to me more than anything
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Under the same sky,
we look up at the same stars
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May the dream we shared come true now
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There's no doubt we can achieve
the future we wished for
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as our harmonies connect
and stretch endlessly along this path
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Over a century ago,
a girl living in a turbulent world
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crossed paths with a young black wizard.
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The ever-turning gears of fate
offered chance glimpses of hope,
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but they also produced a tragic contradiction.
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Next Episode: "Mavis and Zeref."
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"Mavis and Zeref"
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This is a story of the
primordial essence of magic.