Fairy Tail chapter 242 – End of age?

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First of all i want to say that i agree with SSJ, Mashima puts too much screen time in the lightning so big chance Laxus is near. This chapter we can put into 2 parts. 1 is juvia chasing meredy with zeref and the other is Natsu and co going to kick some ass (or the opposite).

let’s start discussing team natsu first. I think it was a good idea to let fried stay behind for the inscriptions but i think bixlow should be at least on the offensive team. well i understand Mashima he wants the original team come back together + wendy and 2 kitties. However Gray and Erza are injured, Wendy lacks magic power from healing the others and lilly is afraid of lightning. this makes them half as powerfull as they could be. But like Lisanna said when Natsu is close to those he trusts he becomes more powerful so they might just be there for Natsu to power up.

Now to the other part of the chapter. Juvia is still following meredy. Zancrow the fire god slayer takes Zeref from Meredy and blasts her and Juvia away. This is actually saved them since Zeref wakes up again and instantly kills Zancrow. But before he dies Zancrow explains just what kind of sadist Ultear was. Ultear has destroyed Meredy’s village and will restore it with her arc of time if she helps her. However it seems Meredy didn’t know about that. Zeref questions himself why he came to this age, he’s no one’s enemy and no one’s ally however if the ages change he might awaken agian. My guess this age is over after this battle and zeref awakens in the end kicking the asses of all the fairy tail members. Mest the council member or whatever he was called noticed the name of the spell Zeref used to kill Zancrow. He seems familiar with the name i wonder what connection he has to it.