06x156 - Sky Labyrinth

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Let the Grand Magic Games'
preliminary Sky Labyrinth round begin!

A race? Then we better get moving.

Yeah!

Wait!

What's the problem?

The rules state all five
members must reach the goal.

But Wendy is still gone.

Oh! You're right!

Wendy!

What are we gonna do now?!

Wendy might not be here, but a man is!

tanjun da kedo junsui na yatsu

sono me ni wa itsumo utsutte itan da

taisetsu na mono ashita no koto

hontou no tsuyosa ga nani ka tte koto

kimi no koto o omoi dashite
chippoke na jibun ga okashiku natta

nani mo ka mo houri dashite
mirakuru misete yaru

mae ni mae ni motto mae ni zenryoku de kakero

zettai kou da to omotta toki ga unmei sa

sei ippai no koe de motte
souru motte butsukatte ike yo

sankousho o nirande tatte nan mo nannee sa

Roster change!

Huh?!

He's insanely strong!

Big Brother Elf!

Got no choice! We don't have
time to wait around for Wendy!

We're counting on you, Elfman!

Leave it to me!

Lisanna! Happy!

Aye!

Yes, Erza?!

Look for Wendy and Charle!

Let's just hope they haven't
run into any trouble...

Right! I'll ask around and
see what I can find out!

Good luck, you guys!

Manly!

--Look! That leads into the labyrinth!
--Nope, it leads to the title of #1 in Fiore!

Let's go, Team Fairy Tail!

--Yeah!
--Right!

Sky Labyrinth.

Once more, here are the rules
of this preliminary round.

113 teams in all are participating
in this year's Grand Magic Games.

The preliminary round is meant
to narrow this number down

to only eight teams for the main competition.

The rules are simple.

Each team is to head to the
Sky Labyrinth from its inn.

The first eight teams to reach
Domus Flau, the tournament's coliseum,

will qualify and be allowed to
participate in the main events.

Additionally, participants are free
to use magic within the labyrinth,

with no restrictions whatsoever.

However...

The Grand Magic Games' planning
committee is not responsible

for any loss of life that
may occur in the labyrinth!

So it's a three-dimensional maze on the inside?

Gah! I suck at stuff like this!

Pull yourself together!

If we don't finish in the top 8,

we can kiss our chance at
being Fiore's best goodbye.

You're right!

We gotta get through this so
we can kick Sabertooth's butt!

Let's reach the goal before they do.

Real men get 1st place in preliminaries!

Our general goal is to head east.
The coliseum was in that direction.

I got just the thing!

Open, Gate of the Compass!

Pyxis!

We need your help, Pyxis!
Show us which way is east!

East is thataway!

Sorry, Lucy.

I already brought a compass.

Thanks for your help, Pyxis.

East, here we come!

A real man charges straight ahead!

Still...

I doubt we can go straight east,
given the layout of this place.

Is it me, or has the ground turned upside-down?

You're not affected by this?

Nope. Don't feel sick at all,
for whatever reason.

Allow me to explain!

Special magic has been
cast on the Sky Labyrinth

so that participants with motion sickness,
fear of heights, and the like

can compete on equal terms
in the preliminary round!

I see.

So it's like Troia magic?

Does this mean there are wizards besides
Natsu who get sick on vehicles too?

That'd be pathetic if there are.

Hey, I heard that!

Let's just continue eastward!

--All right!
--Yeah!

What the heck?!

I'm gonna get dizzy just lookin' at it!

I can't even tell what's up or down...

No matter!

Let's go!

Real men race forward without hesitation!

But how long is this thing?!

Don't worry about that!
The goal's at the end of it!

Wha...?!

Get a grip!

What's goin' on here?!

This is a labyrinth, all right.

Come to think of it, he did say
they're not responsible if anyone dies...

Meaning that if we fall off here,
we'll plummet headfirst into Crocus?

So we gotta choose our path carefully, huh?

We'll never reach the goal looking downward!

We need to focus eastward!

Hmm. It might be prudent to
take notes as we move along.

Notes?

The path we've taken from our starting point,

what locations we've passed...

Progress will be difficult unless
we know precisely where we are.

Yeah, we can't afford to waste any time!

I get it. We're gonna map stuff out, huh?

You wanna take notes of this?

There's no telling where anything is here!

What about you, Natsu? Can't you
smell the goal or anything else?

I can't smell much of anything.

It must be because of the
magic cast on this labyrinth...

The conditions are the same for every team.

Let's just keep moving!

Huh?! Big Sister Wendy's gone?!

Gone... as in missing?!

Charle's gone, too!

But don't the rules require five members?

How can they pass the preliminary round?

Big Brother Elf filled in as
a last-minute replacement.

Elfman's in the prelims?!

Seriously?!

I could've been in the preliminaries
too if I'd been there then!

Uhh...

In any case, we need to get searching!

You two tell the others.

If we split into a few teams and
keep Warren updated constantly...

Even so, this city is huge.

Got it.

I just hope they haven't run into any trouble.

Let's return to the others for now.

I'm worried, but we need to search effectively.

Yeah.

East is that way.

This maze is hard to map out...

Yeah, nothing really stands out from the rest.

Hey. Erza.

Yes. I heard it, too.

You're the one who said it was this way!

Don't blame it on me!

Whatever. All I know is we passed here before.

Right?! That's what I'm saying!

Let's just get moving!
We're running out of time!

Come to think of it...

A bunch of other guilds are
running around here, too.

Oh, man. You gotta be kidding me.

--Those ugly mugs...
--Fairy Tail?!

This has to be a joke!

It's them!

This is Twilight Ogre, the guild
that had been harassing Fairy Tail

when Natsu and friends returned
from Tenrou Island after seven years.

Natsu's group returned the favor by
dishing out serious punishment, but...

I see your guild's as shoddy as ever.

Lame!

Surprised to see you in the tournament.

That's our line. You're the
eternally-last-place guild.

Fairy Tail's different this year!

Yeah? How do you figure?

Wait, hold on! We're going to fight right here?!

Ha! We are free to use magic,
without restriction!

You're goin' down right here and now!

These guys just never learn.

I'm fired up!

--We're seriously gonna fight?!
--The fewer the rivals, the better.

Well, yeah, but still...

Never thought we'd get to lock horns so soon!

--Pulverize 'em!
--It's payback time!

Our focus is on...

...taking down Sabertooth!

And being #1 in Fiore!

Wha...?!

Get out of our way!

What's happening?!

Oh, man! Oh, man!

What is this?!

The ground's moving! No, actually...!

The labyrinth itself is rotating!

What?!

The labyrinth itself is rotating!

R-Rotating?!

Nobody said anything about this!

What's happening to it?!

Oh, man! This isn't good!

Look, Lisanna!

Oh, no! They're falling!

Getting knocked off of it
means disqualification, right?

I hope Natsu will be okay...

--It's rotating on its Z-axis!
--Move to its sides, everyone!

Uhh, we're already falling here!

Gah! If only Happy were here!

Happy might not be here...

...but a real man is!

N-Nice catch...

Thanks, Elfman!

It was no problem.

You guys okay?!

--Yeah!
--Yes!

It's stopped.

Man, whatever this thing is, it's insane.

It's designed to narrow over
100 teams down to only 8.

This is to be expected.

So that eliminated a good number of teams, huh?

Huh? What's this?

--Is it a map?!
--It appears to be...

Talk about lucky!

We can combine it with our own
notes to make an even better map!

--Hey, you! That's...!
--Yours?

G-Give it back!

I refuse.

You're out.

Aha. So that's what this
preliminary round is all about.

You all have a scary look in your eyes!

The preliminary round
has finally turned serious!

A great many teams are about to be
eliminated now, one after the other!

There's only one thing to do now!

Steal everyone else's maps!

This isn't a race! It's a battle!

It's a manly map w*r!

Battles are our area of expertise!

--I'm taking this.
--By all means!

All right! That makes six!

Hmm... I got no idea how to read this map.

Actually, isn't this sort of
thing Lucy's specialty?

All right!

Let's gather every map we can
and have Lucy figure it all out!

Huh? Me?

--We're counting on you.
--O-Okay...

--Give us...
--...your maps!

I got three teams' maps!

I've taken seven teams'!

--So sorry.
--You're horrible...

It's gonna move again!

Grab on to something!

It stopped!

All right! Back to fighting we go!

Max! Any luck?!

Nope. No info at all. It is pretty late out.

Yeah...

Where the heck did you go, Wendy?

We need to hurry and find her

so Natsu and the rest can
focus on the preliminary round.

Any luck, Warren?

No leads whatsoever.

We've pretty much scoured all of Crocus now,

and I seriously doubt she's at Domus Flau.

All that's left is the royal palace now!

Oh, now that you mention it...

What is it?

I think Charle said she and Wendy
were gonna go on a sightseeing tour...

Then...

Could they be at the palace?!

--Let's go check!
--Right!

Hmm...

The labyrinth keeps rotating,
so I felt it'd be a waste of time

to keep trying to head east from its surface.

So that's why we came into
the center of it instead?

I thought it'd be easy to find
east from the center, but...

Little did we know the center
housed such a peaceful landscape.

Although it happens to be upside-down.

And, to our vexation,

there no longer is an east or a west.

Even our compass has gotten dizzy.

There's no telling which way to go now!

But we cannot afford to stop, either!

I've been waiting for this moment!

What's gotten into you?

Has your brain gotten all mixed-up, too?

Nope!

Open, Gate of the Compass!

Pyxis!

Isn't that the one from before?

It's scared for some reason.

I guess Erza's compass traumatized it...

I'm to blame?!

Pyxis! This is your time to shine!

Her compass is completely useless!

Observe. It's spinning around.

See?! So we need your help!

I apologize for earlier. Will you assist us?

--Talk about simpleminded.
--Dealing with Erza, it has to be.

Did you say something?

No! Nothing at all!

East is that way!

But that way is "up"!

You sure about this?!

I'm sure!

Celestial spirits are way stronger
than regular old compasses!

How are we supposed to get up there?!

Isn't it obvious?

With this.

That's how?!

There are birds...

This sure is peaceful...

We've come too far and fallen too much

to get knocked out of
the preliminary round now.

This is no time to be relaxing.
We're still in the middle of a race.

Hurry! Let's take 1st place
in the preliminary round!

--Yeah!
--Manly!

What is this?! Now there's an ocean?!

How long does this keep going?!

Calm down and look closely!

That sky is fake. It's been painted on.

Which means...

...this path actually leads somewhere...

...and that somewhere is the goal!

All right! It's time for one final sprint!

Yeah!

This is the king of Fiore's castle...

The luminaria palace, Mercurius.

This is my first time seeing it!

Mine, too...

Hey, you!

What are you doing here at this hour?!

Sorry. We're looking for some of our
guild members who've gone missing.

They're supposed to participate in the
Grand Magic Games' preliminary round.

We searched all over Crocus,
so this is the only place left.

Huh?!

Hey.

Let's let 'em in.

R-Right.

His Majesty is eagerly looking
forward to the Grand Magic Games.

You may go as far as the castle courtyard.

We can go in?!

What?! Are you guys serious?!

Something up?

Happy and Lisanna just entered the royal palace!

Wha...?! I've never even gotten to go inside!

I'm surprised they let us in.

Well, the garden area has been
opened up as a sightseeing spot.

We should split up here.

All right! If anything happens, let Warren know!

Aye, Sir!

Got it! We're on our way to the Mercurius, too!

Let's just hope they're all right.

Trouble before the games even begin...

This doesn't bode well at all.

Elfman Strauss.

Erza Scarlet.

Gray Fullbuster.

Lucy Heartfilia.

Natsu Dragneel.

Congratulations to you all!
You've cleared the preliminary round!

All right!

It's only natural. We did
everything nice and smoothly.

Did we come in 1st place?!

No. 8th place.

You just barely qualified.

Huh?

What?!

The eight teams have been determined!

The Grand Magic Games' preliminary
Sky Labyrinth round is now over!

What happened with Natsu's team?!

Which guilds are moving on to the tournament?!

Which guilds will participate
in the main events?

You'll just have to wait until
the opening ceremony to find out!

Come on, you can tell us! You killjoy!

Oh, it sounds like the
preliminary round has ended.

Happy! Is something the matter?

L-Look...

Oh, no! It can't be!

It's... Wendy's bag.

Where's Charle? Where's Wendy?

Calm down! Let's search the area!

G-Good thinking.

--Let's go!
--Aye!

What?! You found them?!

Are they all right?!

Actually, they're both unconscious!

Send someone right away, Warren!

Charle! It's me! Say something!

They don't seem to be hurt,
but something's strange.

I barely sense any magic power from Wendy...

Charle, too! What should we do?!

--She's awake!
--Wendy! What happened?!

N-No...!

Wendy! It's me, Lisanna!
Do you recognize me?!

I'm here, too!

Happy...

Ms. Lisanna...?

What... happened to me?

What in the world happened to you?

Actually...

With Elfman filling in for Wendy,
Natsu's team have barely managed

to clear the preliminary round
of the Grand Magic Games.

At last, the Grand Magic
Games are now set to begin.

Natsu's team is bent on defeating
Sabertooth and becoming Fiore's #1 guild.

What battles wait in store for them?

tada ureshikute naite iru no

tada kanashikute naite iru no

sou sunao ni ikiru tte konna ni mo

jibun de irareru

kaze ni nosete sasayaku

"anata wa anata no mama de iin da" to

ari no mama no sugata de ite

sorezore no shiawase o dakishime

aruite iru no

sora no iro ga kawaru tabi ni

kokoro ga furueru oto ga naru

kimi ga kureta mono

You came in last in the Grand
Magic Games' preliminary round.

--It's some kind of mistake!
--You came in last.

Shut up! All that matters is
that we cleared the prelims!

Now I gotta b*at everyone from
1st place to 7th place all together!

All together?

There's 5 people per team, and 8 teams, right?

That means I gotta b*at, uhh, 40 people!

Next Episode: New Guild.

I'm impressed you got the math right,
but that means you'd have to fight yourself.

39 people, then!

But that includes your teammates-- Whatever.