324 - When the Fire Dies

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    This spell we're under
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    is the real deal, I'm watching closely
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    Oh, I wonder if we can change
    this shattered world
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    Let's keep on journeying and
    picking up the pieces, every last one
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    Oh, if we can reach beyond
    the shattered tears
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    You think other people are
    impossible to understand
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    I'm gonna take away that sad notion
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    Let's begin
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    I just can't let it go
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    because it's just too sad
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    Your words, more than anyone else's
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    Your answers, more than anything else
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    are what I want to know
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    I want to keep shaking them up
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    Even if now isn't the time
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    My words, more than anyone else's
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    My answers, more than anything else
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    are what I want to give
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    So hear them and know
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    I want to see the same things as you
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    "When the Fire Dies"
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    I can't move at all...
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    Have I lost?
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    Natsu is really something...
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    But he's also naïve.
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    I'll always come back to life.
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    In just a few minutes, I'll be fully healed.
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    Zeref...
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    You've put my friends through
    so much pain and agony.
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    I can never forgive you for that.
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    As Fairy Tail's first guild master...
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    As one who has always valued
    tightly-knit bonds over blood...
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    ...I want to rid this world
    of you right this instant.
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    Having you kill me wouldn't be so bad.
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    But... I'm...
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    It's okay. You can rest in peace now.
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    If... only I could...
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    If...
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    If only I'd had more faith in you then...
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    What are you talking about?
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    You loved me with all of your heart.
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    And, because of that, your
    Curse of Contradiction took my life.
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    Yet, my curse, which was
    assumedly the same as yours...
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    ...couldn't take your life.
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    Deep down...
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    ...in some part of my heart,
    I must not have had full faith in you.
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    My love wasn't strong enough.
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    You needn't blame yourself.
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    No one has ever felt love for me, anyway.
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    I realized that it wasn't love you felt for me...
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    ...but compassion.
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    That's not true!
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    I felt conflicted, not compassion!
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    I learned to use magic thanks to you.
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    I was able to save Magnolia thanks to you!
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    It was thanks to you...
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    ...that Fairy Tail was born!
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    I deeply admired you.
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    But...
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    You were also a bringer of death...
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    ...and forced this fate upon me.
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    You hurt my friends...
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    ...you used me...
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    ...and you tried to destroy Fairy Tail.
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    I hated you so much... but I loved you, too.
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    Because I was the only other one
    who knew your loneliness...
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    The only other one who understood it!
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    That conflict makes it impossible to
    think straight... Impossible to calculate right!
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    The more I love you, the more I can kill you!
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    The more I care for you
    from the bottom of my heart...
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    ...the more I'm able to kill you!
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    That was the key to my plan, but...
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    Mavis...
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    ...in truth...
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    ...I don't really want you to die!
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    I want us to be together, forever!
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    The more love you give someone...
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    ...the more of their life
    the Curse of Contradiction takes.
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    Now I see...
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    The answer all along... was to be loved.
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    Thank you, Mavis...
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    I'm sorry...
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    Don't die!
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    I hate you! I hate you!
    I hate everything about you!
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    You destroyed the guildhall!
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    You hurt my friends!
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    You... killed Makarov...
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    Die! Die! Die! Die!
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    I don't love you one bit!
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    Just die!
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    I never want to see your face ever again!
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    I don't love you! I don't love you!
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    You're our guild's mortal enemy!
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    Our world's mortal enemy!
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    So, please...
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    ...just...
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    ...die.
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    Please don't die...
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    I... feel truly happy.
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    Thanks to you... I think...
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    ...I can finally rest...
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    I wish we could've talked more...
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    I wish I could've made up with Natsu, too...
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    Take me with you...
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    ...Zeref.
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    You need to live.
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    Do you really feel that way,
    from the bottom of your heart?
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    Oh, no... This means
    the curse will take you, too...
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    Let's go together, Zeref.
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    Mavis...
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    It's so nice and warm...
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    Of course it is.
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    This is the heart of Fairy Tail, after all.
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    Ah...
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    So this is what death is like...
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    This is the power that
    surpasses immortality itself...
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    The power of love...
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    The essence of magic.
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    What was that?
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    Is... the battle over...?
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    I... had a dream...
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    --Master!
    --You're alive!
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    Old man...
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    Such an odd dream, it was...
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    A warm life force flowed through me...
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    And I saw a barefooted girl smiling joyfully
    with a boy dressed in black...
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    --The book!
    --What happened?!
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    The writing is going back into the book.
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    I've done all that I can.
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    I wrote all of our memories into it.
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    Natsu...
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    The Natsu that we know...
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    ...isn't some demon.
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    Lucy!
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    You messed with a demon's book.
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    I knew it'd be risky, but...
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    Now it's my turn.
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    I'll use my demon-slaying powers
    to clear it out of you.
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    Lucy...
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    Are you okay?
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    Thank you, Gray!
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    The patterns on your body are gone...
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    Look!
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    The book is disappearing.
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    Does that mean...?!
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    We beat Zeref.
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    When this book disappears... Natsu will, too.
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    Yo!
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    Natsu...?
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    Natsu!
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    Natsu...!
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    Yep!
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    It's over!
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    Yeah.
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    Nice work, Natsu!
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    Natsu!
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    Whoa, gross! You're getting
    snot all over me, Happy!
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    No, it's emotion juice!
    There's nothing gross about that!
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    No, it's gross!
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    Natsu...
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    So, um...
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    I think the First Master passed away.
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    Huh?
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    First Master...
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    But something tells me
    we shouldn't feel so glum.
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    I don't know how to explain it,
    but I feel like this was what she wanted.
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    Ah.
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    So...
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    ...let's go back to
    our guildhall with a smile!
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    Aye!
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    Yeah!
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    Mm!
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    I... survived?
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    It seems so.
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    But why? I was--
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    Because you still have
    something you need to do.
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    Something I need to do...
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    You need to live.
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    For Ichiya and Anna, too.
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    You need to make the most of your life.
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    My life...
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    Huh?
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    A portable communication lacrima?
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    I forgot all about it.
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    Warren?
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    Whew! It still works!
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    I dropped this thing during all the fighting,
    but I finally found it again!
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    What's your situation, Erza?!
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    I'm with Jellal, Wendy,
    and members of Blue Pegasus.
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    Gah! I can barely hear
    you through all this noise!
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    Listen! I'll get right to the point!
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    We've sealed Acnologia inside a time rift!
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    Huh? Sealed? In a rift?
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    Two had to make
    the ultimate sacrifice, though.
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    Huh? What?! Say again--
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    We got cut off...
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    Well, we'll have plenty of time
    to talk later anyway.
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    What has happened to Natsu? To Zeref?
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    We need to return to Magnolia.
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    Did she say they sealed Acnologia away?
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    I gotta tell the others!
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    Huh? Acnologia?!
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    Yeah! They sealed him away or something.
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    Does this mean the fighting really is over?!
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    For real?!
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    Man! I was hoping for one last fight
    so I could thrash him myself!
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    Get real. You're all busted up.
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    Say what?! You want a piece of me, Gray?!
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    Shut it, Hothead!
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    Urgh. You seriously need some rest, man.
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    What?
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    Gray...
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    Oww! That hurts!
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    Oops. My bad.
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    What's the big idea, Droopy Eyes?!
    I oughta scorch ya!
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    See, you are all busted up,
    Porcupine Hair! Go sit on an icicle!
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    Thank goodness! They're back to normal!
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    Aye!
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    Let's head back to the guild already!
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    Yeah!
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    Your right hand is really hurt.
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    Yeah, I got a little too fired up.
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    But I can just have Wendy heal me up later!
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    There's the guildhall.
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    It brings back so many memories,
    even though we were just there.
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    It's finally over.
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    I can't wait to relax at home.
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    I have books I need to finish reading,
    and some manuscripts I have to finish writing!
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    As for me...
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    I need to thank Juvia properly.
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    I'd love to go on another
    adventure once things calm down!
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    Sounds good to me!
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    Count me in, too!
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    It'll be an adventure to
    track down Aquarius's key.
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    Aye!
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    I love fish!
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    She's only a half-fish creature, you know!
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    You mean mermaid.
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    That reminds me...
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    You said there was something you wanted
    to do once the fighting was over.
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    Aye!
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    Should we announce it, Natsu?
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    Natsu?
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    Wha...?
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    Natsu... Where are you?
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    Come on. This isn't funny!
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    Why--?
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    I rewrote it and everything...
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    So why?!
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    Natsu?! Where are you?!
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    This can't be happening...!
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    Natsu!
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    At the top of this hill,
    you can look down at the city
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    I'm sure the person you want to see
    is doing the same
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    I still remember what you said that day
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    "I'm fighting for someone."
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    You even have wounds that will never heal
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    So you lament that
    we'll never understand each other
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    and put on such a sad smile
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    I'll take you to a place where you can fly
    as far and as long as you want
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    So don't let go of me
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    If we can accept everything
    and reach that place
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    then I just know we'll be unbeatable
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    The battle should be over,
    and peace should reign,
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    but these "shoulds" fall apart with a bang.
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    Just as Natsu suddenly
    disappears from Lucy's group,
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    an ominous crack opens in the sky.
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    This fissure, a shrieking amassment
    of negative emotions,
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    threatens to destroy the world entirely.
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    Next Episode: "World Destruction."
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    "World Destruction"
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    The countdown to the world's end begins.
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