Lucy Fullbuster - (Jellal love story)

Chapter 83

With Jackal being shocked to see Natsu eat his explosion, the latter proceeds by lunging at the former to attack. As Jackal tries to use his Curse once more, Natsu ends up eating the explosion again. Shocked to see a mere human be so powerful, Jackal turns into a monstrous form. By attacking Natsu this time, he manages to push the latter away with the use of his powers. As he destroys a building, Natsu rushes to stop him but ends up being overpowered by the former in his new form. Jackal then reveals that he's a Demon, with Natsu coming to a conclusion that all the members of Tartaros are in fact Demons. As Jackal is then about to deal a powerful blow to Natsu, the latter punches the former instead, infuriated after hearing about the Demon's attitude towards humans. As Natsu then tells him that humans fight for each other, he grabs Jackal and ends up throwing him away. Shortly after, Natsu uses Lightning Fire Dragon's Firing Hammer and pushes him out of sight, ultimately defeating him. However, Jackal manages to use his powers on Natsu, making him fall down due to exhaustion just as Carla and Happy arrive to tell the group about the successful evacuation. With the last bits of his powers, Jackal then proceeds detonating himself in order to kill the Mages. As he starts laughing when he sees his plan go through, Happy suddenly grabs him and flies high into the air, desiring to save his fellow comrades. As Jackal blows up, everyone starts to think that Happy died for them until they are proven wrong as the latter manages to escape the explosion, ending up being slightly injured instead. Even so, Lucy had a bad feeling about another thing that really bother her.

Meanwhile, Gray and Juvia are on their way to Hogg until the animal they're riding suddenly stops, as if being afraid of something. The two then inform Makarov that they arrived too late as Hogg is dead and the town is in ruins. Now checking Gajeel's group, Makarov finds out that Belno was killed as well. Concurrently, though, Lisanna and Elfman find Yuri to be dead as well. As Elfman then tells Lisanna to prepare the Communications Lacrima, Yuri suddenly gets up, just to break the Lacrima before falling down again, greatly shocking the two. As a mysterious female voice is then heard talking about how Macro doesn't work well with the dead, she turns out to be Seilah. Then two immediately prepare to fight, but Elfman suddenly grabs Lisanna's neck and subsequently starts suffocating her without his own will, being under the influence of Seilah's Curse. As Elfman commands the Demon to stop, she refuses to do so, having no mercy.

In the meantime, Lucy reports to the guild, informing everyone that Michello is safe and that Jackal is defeated. As Makarov wonders if they got any information from him, Michello reveals the existence of Face, it being the Magic Council's weapon. He then proceeds by revealing that the Council has many weapons, one of which is Etherion, which requires the permission of nine current Council members as well as activation codes from ten senior members. Such fact explains Tartaros' motives, with one of them being to neutralize Etherion. As Makarov then wonders about what Face can do, Michello reveals that it is capable of negating Magic across the whole continent, bringing great misfortune to all the Mages but not to the Demons, who utilize Curse instead. As an enraged Natsu desires to know Face's location, Michello tells him that he doesn't know but reveals that Organic Link Magic is used on 3 Magic Council members to seal it away, with ex-chairman being the only one knowing who those people are. Fairy Tail Mages then start a research on the ex-chairman's address, with Erza and Mirajane being the ones to go after him in the end. Lucy was still bother of anything when she think of Layla.

'Mom, where are you? I need to see you.' - Lucy