Erza floats above what looks like her funeral, as everyone is crying and Makarov is delivering a speech on her death. The Ten Wizard Saints come and say they have decided to award one of the 2 open seats of the Ten Wizard Saints to Erza in perpetuity. Natsu comes and screams that Erza is not dead, kicking flowers off of her tomb when everyone subdues him. Erza realizes that this is not what she wanted; she wanted to sacrifice herself to make everyone happy, not to see them all sad. It turns out to be a vision, and as Erza wakes up on the beach, Natsu holds her in the water and everyone who was on the boat runs towards them, happy to see them safe. Erza invites her old friends—Sho, Milliana, and Wally—to join Fairy Tail. When they get home, Fairy Tail has been rebuilt, with a lot of new additions. Juvia has joined the guild as well, and she brought Gajeel with her. Gajeel claims to join the guild only to do jobs. Everyone is upset about having Gajeel on the guild but Marakov calms them saying it was his decision. Gajeel is later confronted by Jet and Droy who want revenge on what he has done to the guild. Levy tries hard to stop them. Laxus then arrives and beats him too. They then realize that Gajeel isn’t fighting back to show his sincerity, even protecting Levy from a bolt of lightning from Laxus. Gajeel then walks off, now injured, saying he has work to do.

Natsu fights Jellal. Natsu is hardly able to scratch Jellal, having regained his true magical powers. So, deciding to just try and destroy the tower itself, he angers Jellal. Thus he launches the ultimate Heavenly Body Magic, Altairis, deciding to destroy Erza and Natsu together, not minding anymore about the destruction of the Tower. As the attack launched, Simon defended the two and died. Natsu decides to eat some of the lacrima, thinking to absorb the power of Etherion. He unleashes his true Dragon Slayer powers and continues to fight Jellal, but the Etherion, containing elements other than fire, backfired on him. But Natsu managed, and defeated Jellal. As Natsu faints, the unstable power of Etherion started to leak out of the lacrima and it will cause a huge explosion. Erza decides to fuse with the liquified lacrima to save her friends. The Etherion shot out to the sky.

The time has finally arrived for the Magic Council to fire Etherion, their ultimate cross dimensional destruction magic, upon the Tower of Heaven. Is this the end for Erza and Natsu?

After Vidaldus Taka’s defeat, the only one left to pose a threat is Ikaruga of Trinity Raven. Erza is ready, but Ikaruga’s sword is strong enough to break her powerful armor! With Etherion counting down, Erza will have to beat this powerful foe before it is too late.

Gray rushes to find Erza, but instead comes across a foe with familiar abilities. At the same time Juvia, now under Vidaldus’ control, begins to attack Lucy. Can Lucy turn the tide in this battle?