07x176 - King of the Dragons

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Everyone...

Natsu...

Sorry I'm late, Lucy.

Bastard...

Hey, morons. Quit bein' cocky!

I'm a Fairy Tail wizard, Natsu Dragneel!

A Dragon Slayer!

What was that, jackass?! Say it once more!

Jeez. I said you're too frickin' noisy, Natsu.

You're stifling me!

Wanna make somethin' of it?!

You wanna make somethin' of it?!

Go for it, Natsu!

As always, they've got more energy than they know what to do with.

Right, Wendy?

One's a wizard who controls fire and the other's a wizard who controls ice, so...

Well, I suppose we can't expect them to just get along. It's even deeper than that.

Gray-sama! Even when you're fighting, your boldness is wonderful!

Are you... entirely okay?

Alright, that's enough!

Any more, and you'll destroy another pub!

Lucy!

Well, the Grand Magic Games is taking a break tomorrow,

so why not let them blow off a little steam?

Mira-san, that's not the point...

Master! Is it okay to let them go at it?!

I'll tell 'em off. Natsu!

If you're gonna do it, go all in! Show me the fire of a Dragon Slayer!

Hey!

That's right! When the wielder of Dragon Slayer Magic cries! That's a Man!

Right...

Stop, I said!

You don't gotta tell me that! I'm gonna make you cry, Gray!

Shut up! You're the one who's gonna cry, Natsu!

Thank you for the food!

Uh-oh!

That's terrible! How can you treat me like this?!

Sorry 'bout that!

But stay outta the way!

What the heck?! I'm a Fairy Tail wizard too!

I have a bad feeling about this...

I'll heal you.

Forget me. Get my fish back the way it was...

Pathetic...

Strange, isn't it? A gentle girl like that who uses Healing Magic

is also a Dragon Slayer who uses Dragon Slayer Magic.

Yep. And those guys were raised by dragons...

Ow!

Would you stop it?!

E-Erza!

Morons. We're right in the middle of the Grand Magic Games,

to decide the strongest wizard guild,

and the final game is right before us.

We made a great comeback, from last place to this,

but none of the other guilds here are pushovers.

At a time like this, when we need to be focusing our energies, you jackasses...

...smooshed my cake!

Sit up straight. I'll have your heads!

Don't run away, you bastards!

Gajeel!

Yeesh. I finally made it, for cryin' out loud.

Where have you been?

That's right! You blew off the match!

Hey, I wouldn't...

Look...

Because of your idiocy during the match, I fell underneath the coliseum!

Is that right?

You forgot about that?

That must've been rough.

Like you had nothin' to do with it!

Forget about it. More importantly, come with me, Salamander.

There's somethin' I wanna show you.

The Dragon King!

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Fairy Tail is doin' great!

I bet they'll win it!

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Nah, no way!

Maybe Saber's lost its edge?

I saw it!

Nah. I highly doubt Sabertooth will let it end like this.

Sting... Rogue... What the hell was that?

Hey, you two are Dragon Slayers.

You sh**t your mouths off about how strong you are on a regular basis, don't you?

But you were disgracefully beaten up, and by a fellow Dragon Slayer no less.

Are you listening to me?!

I have no words. We were completely defeated.

Natsu overwhelmed us without using his flames cloaked in lightning.

Your strength far exceeds what I had imagined...

...Natsu Dragneel!

Are those the words of a wizard from Sabertooth, the strongest guild?!

Who told you to go out there and look like a pair of pathetic fools?

Who told you to fail?

You sullied the name of the strongest guild!

Sting-kun!

Rogue-kun!

You bastards aren't fit to be members of Sabertooth!

Wipe it out! Wipe out the crest of our guild!

My guild doesn't need weaklings! It doesn't need losers!

Okay, okay, Master, but Sting-kun and Rogue-kun did their best.

This time he lost, but I'm proud of Sting-kun.

Lector...

I think that people can also get stronger by experiencing failure.

Sting-kun learned a lot in this battle.

So I think you should...

Who are you?

C-Come on, Master...

After all, I've got the Saber crest right here, proving... I'm a...

Why would the likes of a cat bear the proud crest of Sabertooth?

Begone!

Sting-kun!

Lector!

Lector is... gone...

Frosch!

This is an eyesore.

I suppose it's what I get for letting cats bear the crest of my guild.

Keep it down, Sting.

What did you do?!

What the hell did you do?!

Silence! Bawling over a stupid cat!

This is good.

Halt.

I'll reveal my identity, so you reveal yours.

A woman?

It can't be!

What?! Is that true?

There's no way I can believe that...

While we've been laboring under a grave misconception,

an irresistible fate has locked us inside.

Eclipse, the portal that can change the world...

And the festival of the Dragon King.

What exactly is down here, Gajeel-san?

Just be quiet and follow me.

Why only us?

Does it have something to do with Dragon Slayers?

Probably.

Although we do have spectators...

There's some guy named "Spector" here?

After all, I'm curious.

This is it.

What is it?!

What the hell is that?!

Animal... bones?

Dragon bones...

It's a dragon graveyard.

Are all of these dragon bones?

There are so many!

This place confirms the existence of dragons.

What's it for?

Hell if I know.

What's goin' on here?

All of these dragons...

I wonder if something happened here.

Maybe Igneel is here, too...

Happy!

Sorry!

That's okay. He's not here.

Our dragons disappeared years ago.

The remains at rest here are much more ancient.

Milky Way...

What's wrong, Wendy?

Milky Way!

It's one of the Secret Dragon Slayer spells that Poluchka-san taught me.

"Listen to the voices of the dragon souls that continue to the heavenly river."

I thought it was a kind of attacking magic,

but maybe this is what it referred to.

Milky Way may be magic that lets me hear the voices of dragon souls.

What?

Then...

If I can hear the voices of these sleeping dragons,

maybe we can find out what happened here.

And learn what happened to our own dragons that disappeared.

Hey, you! This area is restricted!

Wait!

What is this? Awful handwriting...

July th... Eclipse Project?

Festival of the Dragon King? What is this?

I was right.

I thought it was an attacking form of magic, so these characters are different.

Magic runes?

What are you doing, Wendy?

Weren't you listening?

She said it's called Milky Way.

That'll do it. Everyone, please back up a bit.

Wandering dragon souls, I would receive your voices.

Milky Way!

It's beautiful!

Stars!

The bones!

Are you okay, Wendy?!

I'm looking for the dragon souls.

The wandering residual thoughts here are so ancient and tiny...

I found one!

Is that a soul?!

Wendy!

It looks like she's concentrating.

That's...

Seeing that shocked look on human faces never gets old.

My name is Zirconis, but I'm also known as the Jade Dragon.

The spell you used to summon my soul belonged to Grandine, the Sky Dragon, yes?

Where are you? Hm?

Cute!

This little Dragon Slayer summoned me?

Hey! Get away from Wendy!

Forget it! I'm going to eat this girl.

Bastard!

I'm kidding, of course, you stupid species.

Look! What can an astral body do?

This guy...

What's up with this playful man?

He's not a man. He's a dragon.

A dragon's soul, anyway...

I am Zirconis, otherwise known as the Jade Dragon...

You already told us that!

What happened here?

There are a lot of dragon remains here.

We summoned your soul so we could learn the truth.

I have nothing to say to humans. Go away!

I'm a cat!

Okay, then. It happened over years ago.

Your absolute rules are pretty loose.

Dragons were once the rulers of this world.

We thrived, flying through the air, racing across the land, and swimming in the sea.

Everything in this world belonged to us.

Humans were no more than our prey.

But there was a foolish dragon who objected to our reign.

That one spouted nonsense about building a world in which we could coexist with humans.

Eventually, between the dragons who agreed and those who disagreed, a w*r began.

I fought as one who disagreed.

You disagreed... Then...

I have no fondness for humans. That is, unless we're talking about food.

You're talking to food?!

Hey! I don't like when it talks back either!

So what happened with the w*r?

It heated up.

The battles between dragon and dragon tore up vast areas of land.

Eventually, the dragons who were for coexistence devised a stupid strategy.

They involved humans in the w*r

by giving them Dragon Slayer Magic, which could destroy dragons.

And that's the origin of Dragon Slayers?

Dragon Slayers had tremendous power.

Victory for the dragons who chose to coexist with humans was imminent.

However, they had made one miscalculation.

The Dragon Slayers, who had been given too much power,

k*lled even the dragons who wished to live peacefully with them.

And there was one man among the humans who bathed in the blood of too many dragons.

I fear to even say that name.

He continued to destroy dragons and bathe in their blood.

Presently, his skin turned to scales, his teeth to fangs...

He transformed into a dragon himself.

A human... became a dragon?

That's what Dragon Slayer Magic leads to.

The dragons resting in peace here were all m*rder*d by that man.

Though human, he became the Dragon King.

The Dragon King initiated another w*r.

That was the Festival of the Dragon King.

The king's name was Acnologia.

A dragon with pitch-black wings unlike any other dragon...

Acnologia!

Fairy Tail's holy ground, Tenroujima Island.

We fought against that dragon on the island, but were no match for him. We were helpless.

He was originally a human?!

Ridiculous!

He slaughtered most of the dragons.

That was years ago.

You people did this...

Hey!

He vanished.

You didn't tell us everything!

Wendy!

That's it. All of the souls in this place have gone.

In Eastern terms, I suppose it would be called "entering Nirvana."

That was a hell of a history lesson.

The scale's too big for me!

If you use too much Dragon Slayer Magic,

you turn into a real dragon?!

That would be bad!

What should we do?!

That's impossible.

Who are you?!

I overheard everything.

Our research is in accord with historical fact.

You people know about Zeref's Demons, don't you?

Deliora!

Acnologia is similar to that.

We believe that Zeref turned a Dragon Slayer into Acnologia.

Zeref did it?!

In other words, destroying Zeref, the root of all evil,

will be the first step in the subjugation of Acnologia.

Who are you?!

Destroy Zeref?!

You're Yukino!

I saw it in a prophecy... A white knight...

A castle being destroyed... and Lucy singing!

Sorry I'm late, Lucy.

Bastard...

Hey, morons. Quit bein' cocky!

I'm a Fairy Tail wizard, Natsu Dragneel!

I'm a Dragon Slayer!

Brilliant Flame of the Fire Dragon! Roar!

Crushing Fang of the Fire Dragon!

Natsu!

It's impossible!

Not hardly! I'm still goin' strong!

Natsu!

I ain't givin' up, no matter what...

I ain't gonna run away... or go back...

This ain't over!

Natsu!

Happy, that dragon made some impact, huh?

I'm just happy that it was a ghost. Otherwise, we would've been eaten.

By the way, who were those self-important people?

Natsu, I think they're actually important people, not self-important.

Important or not, anybody who messes with my friends is gonna pay!

Next time: Project Eclipse!

Hurt my comrade and I'll kick your ass!

Get 'em, Natsu!