Recaps

Makarov kept Bluenote occupied while the battlefield remained in the Rakshasa Evil Spirits' favor. Eleven and Laxus were transported to the enemy guild's rear camp, where its master tried to recruit them.

• Makarov controlled his fight with Bluenote and gradually led him away from the battlefield.
• The fighters resumed battling after realizing Makarov and Bluenote's clash was not changing the course of the war.
• Eleven and Laxus crossed the battlefield, reflected on their weakness, and resolved to get stronger.
• A sudden spatial distortion transported Eleven and Laxus to the Rakshasa Evil Spirits' main camp.
• The guild master of the Rakshasa Evil Spirits welcomed Eleven and Laxus and invited them to join his guild.

Laxus and Eleven confronted the Rakshasa Evil Spirits guild master, whose Golden Throne protected him from direct attacks. After Eleven and Laxus left the guild’s leaders blinded and distracted, Jupiter fired its Magic Converging Cannon and destroyed them.

• Laxus refused the guild master's offer to join Rakshasa Evil Spirits and accepted his challenge by attacking the Golden Throne.
• Laxus's punches failed to break the throne's barrier, so he used Electric Light to blind the guild master and the gathered high-ranking members.
• Eleven mocked Rakshasa Evil Spirits while pretending to prepare a devastating attack, then told Laxus to leave before reinforcements arrived.
• Eleven and Laxus slipped away as the guild master continued boasting about the throne's defenses.
• Jupiter appeared overhead and fired its Magic Converging Cannon, killing Rakshasa Evil Spirits' high-ranking members in a single blast.

Grimoire Heart’s sudden arrival routed the Magic Council and devastated the Rakshasa Evil Spirits, while Brain revealed a pact forming the Balam Alliance. The Rakshasa Evil Spirits’ master fled to his castle, only to be captured by strange figures working with the dark guilds.

• Grimoire Heart’s Jupiter blast destroyed much of the battlefield, forcing the Magic Council commander to order a retreat.
• Makarov stopped fighting Bluenote, who returned to the airship after attacking him with Super Gravity Sphere.
• Brain declared the Rakshasa Evil Spirits defeated, but their master survived inside his Golden Throne and teleported away.
• Brain dismissed the Rakshasa Evil Spirits’ escape because Bluenote had revealed their headquarters’ location.
• Strange figures captured the Rakshasa Evil Spirits’ master at his castle and demanded the locations of his treasure vaults.
• Brain announced that Oración Seis, Grimoire Heart, and Tartaros had formed the Balam Alliance to protect dark guilds.

Brain announced the formation of the Balam Alliance, while Makarov reunited with Eleven and found Cubellios protecting the unconscious Cobra. Makarov recognized Cubellios as a transformed human and offered to restore her, and she agreed to go with him as Cobra was carried along.

• Brain declared that the Oración Seis, Grimoire Heart, and Tartaros were forming the Balam Alliance, while the Magic Council's forces retreated to report the news.
• Eleven found Makarov, who scolded him for getting involved with dark guilds; Laxus had already slipped away to avoid being reprimanded.
• Eleven recognized Cubellios beside the unconscious Cobra and realized he had knocked Cobra out.
• Makarov told Cubellios that she was human and offered to restore her original form, and she agreed to go with him if Cobra came too.
• Cobra woke, saw Cubellios nuzzling Eleven, and fainted again as she carried him away.
• Brain noticed that Cobra's face marking had vanished and assumed Cobra had died in the battle.

Erik woke up in Fairy Tail's infirmary after being knocked unconscious and discovered that Cubellios had been transformed into a girl and lost her memory. As Eleven, Makarov, Erik, and the confused Cubellios crowded around her, Erik realized he was in the Fairy Tail guild and wondered why Elizabeth was there.

• Erik remembered how Brain had turned him into Cobra and how Elizabeth's strength and freedom had drawn him in before someone knocked him unconscious.
• Erik woke in a hospital bed, and Elizabeth told the girl beside him that she was now a girl.
• Erik saw the purple-haired girl and felt his heart skip a beat, then insisted on introducing himself as Erik rather than Cobra.
• The girl said she could not remember anything, and Eleven revealed that she was Cubellios.
• Eleven and Erik shoved each other while crowding around Cubellios, until Makarov struck them both and silenced the room.
• Erik recognized that he was in Fairy Tail and wondered why Elizabeth was there.

Makarov offered Kinana a place at Fairy Tail while promising to find someone to treat her memory loss and curse. He then decided to recruit Erik, who was unwillingly carried off by Eleven for a guild tour as Kinana watched with a smile.

• Makarov asked Kinana about her memories, then offered her a place at Fairy Tail while he sought treatment for her.
• Erik rushed to Kinana and tried to take her away, but she instinctively clasped his hand.
• Eleven bound Erik and asked Makarov what to do with him, since Erik knew Eleven's real identity and served Brain.
• Makarov invited Erik to join Fairy Tail, then pretended Erik's muffled protests meant he accepted.
• Eleven led the bound Erik away for a guild tour while Kinana watched them and smiled.

Eleven brought Erik to Fairy Tail and presented him as a new member, while Erik secretly celebrated his apparent freedom from Brain and denied that he intended to join. At the guild, Erik’s claim that dragons were extinct enraged Natsu, who charged him with flaming fists.

• Eleven told Erik his name was Eleven, then carried him into Fairy Tail’s guild hall.
• Erik discovered Brain’s connection magic had vanished and decided to escape Fairy Tail and begin a free life under a new name.
• Eleven announced Erik as a new guild member, and the guild drowned out Erik’s protests with cheers and alcohol.
• Gray tried to greet Erik, but Erik’s disdain provoked Gray into a fighting stance.
• Eleven warned Gray that Erik was a powerful Poison Dragon Slayer, drawing the guild’s attention and prompting Natsu to question Erik about dragons.
• Erik claimed dragons had died out and mocked Natsu, who insisted Igneel was alive and charged at him with flaming fists.

Erik rejected Fairy Tail and provoked Erza and Mira into attacking him. After they defeated him, Erza stamped the guild mark on his cheek and declared him their companion.

• Gray and Natsu both attacked Erik, but Erza knocked them out and apologized for their behavior.
• Mira invited Erik to join her faction, but he brushed her hand away and refused to get along with the guild.
• Erza tried to welcome Erik and apply his guild mark, but he slapped the stamp away and insisted he was not joining Fairy Tail.
• Erik challenged Erza and Mira to fight, so Eleven told them to take the battle outside.
• Erza and Mira transformed and overwhelmed Erik with wide-area attacks, then Erza stamped the Fairy Tail mark onto his cheek.

Erik woke in Fairy Tail’s infirmary and planned to escape after discovering Erza had marked his face with the guild emblem. When he realized Kinana had forgotten their past but still wanted him beside her, he chose to stay with her in Fairy Tail.

• Erik woke in the infirmary, decided to flee Fairy Tail, and vowed to take revenge on the guild someday.
• Erik found the Fairy Tail emblem on his cheek, smashed the mirror, and remembered that Kinana was his former companion Cubellios.
• Erik decided Kinana would be safer in Fairy Tail and turned to leave without her.
• Kinana stopped Erik and asked him to stay with her and start over, promising she would remain by his side.
• Erik accepted Kinana’s comfort, and Makarov and Eleven quietly left after seeing that he would stay in Fairy Tail.

Erik watched Fairy Tail from a secluded corner as Eleven, Mira, and Erza endured Makarov’s shrinking punishment and the guild’s requests. When Makarov was knocked unconscious and the spell ended, the three returned to normal and took revenge on the guild, leaving Erik amused by the noise.

• Erik observed Fairy Tail’s rowdy guild hall while keeping his distance from its members.
• Makarov’s punishment shrank Eleven, Mira, and Erza, who were made to serve the guild; they fed Happy and Natsu challenged them.
• Natsu defeated the shrunken Erza and bullied Eleven, while Mira escaped by asking Lisanna to pick her up.
• The guild members took turns ordering the three around, and Natsu and Gray sparked another brawl that Makarov drunkenly encouraged.
• A flying stool struck Makarov and knocked him unconscious, dispelling the shrinking magic; Eleven, Mira, and Erza then retaliated against the guild.
• Erik watched the ensuing chaos from his corner and remarked that Fairy Tail was a noisy guild.

Eleven read the Magic Council’s account of the dark guild war and discovered that he and Laxus had been named in wanted notices. He laughed at Laxus’s description as his attendant, then agreed with Erza that Elizabeth was dangerous and smacked Natsu for dismissing the threat.

• Eleven read the Magic Council’s report about the dark guild war and found his own wanted notice, though its blurry picture reassured him that he would be hard to identify.
• Eleven recalled Brain’s broken promise to reveal Jellal’s whereabouts and learned that Brain had once directed the Magic Council’s Magic Development Bureau, which had since been destroyed.
• Eleven laughed at Laxus’s notice, which identified him as Elizabeth’s attendant and left his gender uncertain, and showed it to Natsu and Happy.
• Erza warned that Elizabeth was dangerous and had reportedly defeated Rakshasa Evil Spirits’ senior members in one move.
• Natsu boasted that he could defeat Elizabeth with one punch, so Eleven slapped him and told him to respect the strong.

Eleven accepted an S-class job to return a golden key to the Heartfilia Family, while teasing Erik and reassuring Kinana that he would look after him. The client revealed that the key opened the Gate of Cancer, one of the Twelve Gates of the Zodiac.

• Eleven watched Erik awkwardly choose a job, and Kinana stopped him from taking a bunny-girl request.
• Kinana registered Eleven’s S-class job and asked him to look after Erik, while Eleven joked that everyone in the guild was an idiot except him.
• Eleven traveled to the client’s house to take on a job transporting a treasure to the Heartfilia Family.
• The client gave Eleven a silk-lined box containing a golden key and explained that it opened the Gate of Cancer.

Eleven accepted Layla Heartfilia’s Cancer key job and set off for the Heartfilia Family’s territory, but his magical navigator led him deep into the mountains. There, three members of the treasure hunter guild Sylph Labyrinth confronted him and demanded the key.

• Eleven learned from Layla Heartfilia’s former maid that the golden Cancer key was one of three keys entrusted to servants after Layla’s death, and that she had hired him to protect it from treasure hunters.
• The maid gave Eleven a black outfit for traveling at night, and Eleven escaped after demonstrating that he could turn invisible.
• Eleven followed a magical navigator through the night, only to discover at daybreak that it had led him into the mountains instead of the Heartfilia Family’s territory.
• Three treasure hunters confronted Eleven, identified themselves as members of Sylph Labyrinth, and demanded the golden key.

Eleven blasted the treasure hunters Hughes and Lala out of his way, then searched the forest for the Heartfilia mansion and found a crying blonde girl. After she mistook him for a pervert and summoned Aquarius for help, Eleven was left facing the spirit.

• Eleven confronted Hughes, Lala, and Drake after they admitted they targeted treasure in transit.
• Lala blocked Eleven’s first Telekinesis Impact with his hand-shaped weapon, but Eleven’s stronger attack sent Lala and Hughes flying through the forest.
• Drake took aim from a concealed position but found that his teammates had disappeared.
• Eleven searched the forest with Spiritual Power and discovered a crying blonde girl beside a stream.
• The girl screamed that Eleven was a pervert, fell into the stream, and summoned Aquarius with a golden key.

Eleven met a blonde girl who summoned Aquarius, and his black stealth suit led Aquarius to mistake him for a pervert. After Aquarius swept the treasure hunters away with a huge wave, Eleven forgave her when the girl apologized on her behalf.

• Eleven discovered that the blonde girl had summoned Aquarius with a gold Celestial Spirit Key.
• Aquarius and the girl mistook Eleven for a pervert because of his skintight black suit.
• The treasure hunter trio found Eleven and attacked him, but Aquarius unleashed a huge wave that swept them away.
• Aquarius returned to the Celestial Spirit World after warning the girl not to interrupt her dates again.
• The girl thanked Eleven and apologized for Aquarius, and Eleven told her he forgave Aquarius.

Eleven met Lucy Heartfilia, brought her home with the Cancer Celestial Spirit Key, and comforted her when she cried over her forgotten birthday. After delivering the key to Jude Heartfilia, he encountered a woman mourning at Layla’s grave, who recognized him as “Lord Eleven” before leaving amused.

• Eleven met Lucy Heartfilia, learned she belonged to the Heartfilia Family, and agreed to take her home with the Cancer Celestial Spirit Key for her father.
• On the way to the mansion, Lucy told Eleven that Jude had forgotten her birthday and that she missed her late mother, Layla.
• Eleven comforted Lucy and gave her a Fairy Tail key case as a birthday present.
• Eleven delivered the Cancer key to Jude Heartfilia and left the mansion at dusk.
• In the family graveyard, Eleven met a blond woman mourning at Layla’s tomb, and she recognized him as Lord Eleven before departing with a smile.

Eleven received a strange request by name from Cait Shelter, which revived the guild’s fears of a plot like the one that had nearly killed him and Erza four years earlier. As the guild tried to understand the request, Kinana revealed that Makarov had been confined by the Magic Council after fighting Phantom Lord’s master.

• Eleven returned to the guild and found Erza scolding Erik for beating up a client and abandoning the job.
• Eleven tried to mediate, but Erza punched him after he advised Erik to finish the job before collecting the reward.
• Kinana announced that a request had arrived specifically for Eleven, and the guild’s older members reacted with alarm because of a similar request four years earlier.
• Eleven and Erza noticed that the request from Cait Shelter was vague and repeatedly called him “Lord Eleven,” prompting him to wonder if it was connected to the woman he had met at the Heartfilia Family cemetery.
• Eleven asked where Makarov was, and Kinana explained that the Magic Council had confined him after he fought Jose at a routine meeting.

After learning that Makarov’s arrest was only a show, Eleven accepted a personal request that he suspected might concern his parents and planned to visit Cait Shelter the next day. When he returned home, he found Erza and several other guild members had invaded his house and were making themselves at home.

• Kinana explained that the Magic Council did not intend to keep Makarov imprisoned, calming the guild members.
• Eleven accepted the personal request and declined Erza, Gray, and Cana’s offers to accompany him.
• Eleven rested by the river and wondered whether his parents had returned, then decided to visit Cait Shelter the next day.
• Eleven sensed activity inside his house and found Gray, Lisanna, Cana, Mira, Elfman, Natsu, Happy, Levy, Jet, and Droy there.
• Eleven saw Erza eating his red bean pudding and let her keep it.

Eleven tried to keep his dangerous personal request to himself, but his friends insisted on helping. He agreed to bring Erik, then faced Erza and Mira’s anger after excluding everyone else.

• Erza and Mira explained that they had gathered to discuss Eleven’s personal request and offer help.
• Eleven thanked the group but refused to let anyone join him, citing Fairy Tail’s rules and his S-class status.
• Natsu attacked Eleven in protest, and the others urged Eleven to accept their help, with Cana warning that the job held serious danger.
• Eleven compromised by agreeing to take some companions, but said several members were not strong enough and ruled out Natsu.
• Eleven chose Erik as his companion, prompting Erza to summon a sword and Mira to transform into her demon form.

Eleven chose Erik to accompany him to Cait Shelter, explaining that Erik’s hearing and poison made him a better support mage than Erza or Mira. Erza, Mira, Natsu, Gray, and Happy secretly planned to go there too, while Erik joined Eleven after hearing the praise; on the train, Eleven began plotting strange poison tests for him.

• Eleven convinced Erza and Mira that Erik’s tracking and support abilities made him the best choice for the job.
• After the others left, Natsu, Gray, Erza, Mira, and Happy agreed to go to Cait Shelter and meet Eleven there.
• Erik, who had overheard Eleven’s praise the night before, stayed at the guild and agreed to accompany him.
• Eleven and Erik boarded a train, where Erik became motion-sick but kept up his aloof act.
• Eleven wondered whether Erik could eat poison gas and decided he would test strange substances on him later.

Eleven and Erik traveled toward Cait Shelter, where they were joined by Natsu, Happy, Mira, Erza, and Gray after Eleven scolded them for running ahead to help him. The group reached the village and was welcomed by its elderly leader, who studied them with a look of reminiscence.

• Erik kept his distance from Eleven as they walked toward Cait Shelter and joked that Eleven's companions did not listen to him.
• Eleven found Natsu, Happy, Mira, Erza, and Gray asleep by the roadside after they had run through the night to reach Cait Shelter ahead of him.
• Eleven scolded the group for recklessly going ahead, punched Erza when she asked him to punish her, and then let everyone continue with him.
• Erik reflected on the bonds between the Fairy Tail companions and wondered what kind of guild could inspire such loyalty.
• Eleven, Erik, and the others reached Cait Shelter, where the village's elderly leader welcomed them and looked over the group with a faint, reminiscent smile.

Eleven and the Fairy Tail guildmates visited Cait Shelter and discovered its members were Thought Projections with physical bodies. They met Wendy and Carla, whose first encounter with Happy began awkwardly and cutely.

• Eleven examined Rob and the Cait Shelter members with Spiritual Power, realized they were Thought Projections, and apologized for touching Rob's head.
• Eleven introduced himself and his companions as Fairy Tail members, and Rob welcomed them into the tribe's tent for food.
• Rob called Wendy to help welcome the visitors, but Wendy tripped and fell as she entered.
• A white winged cat named Carla came in, and the Fairy Tail members mistook her for a white version of Happy.
• Happy tried to befriend Carla, who turned away from him, while Wendy told Carla to be polite and called Happy a cute blue Carla.

At a celebration, Guild Master Rob asked Eleven to take Wendy to Fairy Tail because a dark guild was targeting her for her Sky Dragon Slayer Magic. Wendy ran away in tears, and Erik revealed that she had already been captured.

• Happy flirted with Carla while Wendy served the guild members at the party.
• Rob asked Eleven to take Wendy to live at Fairy Tail, and Wendy ran out of the tent when she heard the decision.
• Rob explained that a dark guild sought Wendy’s rare healing magic, Sky Dragon Slayer Magic, and admitted he could not protect her.
• Eleven accepted Rob’s request to take Wendy to Fairy Tail.
• Erik announced that Wendy had already been captured, and the others reacted in shock.

Eleven and the others pursued the kidnappers to rescue Wendy, but the giant carrying her shattered Eleven’s Telekinesis Shield and sent him flying. Mira recognized the giant as a demon and transformed, while the remaining enemies charged toward Natsu and Gray.

• Eleven used his Spiritual Power to locate Wendy being carried away by four strangers, then rushed after her with Erza, Mira, Natsu, Gray, and Happy.
• Eleven, Erza, and Mira raced ahead while Happy caught up and joined them; Erik stayed behind as Rob asked him to look after Wendy.
• Eleven warned Erza and Mira that the kidnappers had split up, and the group continued toward the tall man carrying Wendy while Carla hurried after them.
• Eleven lunged to grab Wendy, but the giant’s punch shattered his Telekinesis Shield and struck his chest, sending him crashing into the bushes.
• Mira sensed that the giant was a demon and activated Satan Soul Take Over, while the other three mages continued toward Natsu and Gray.

Natsu and Gray lost their way in the woods and were attacked by two enemies with Monkey Magic and Steel-Make. Gray battled the armored steel mage, but his attacks failed to break the man’s armor, and a steel spike pierced him.

• Natsu and Gray wandered through the woods, bickering after losing track of Eleven and the others.
• A monkeylike man mocked Natsu with a banana peel trap, then fled when Natsu attacked him.
• Gray dodged a steel hammer and faced an armored man using Steel-Make.
• Gray’s ice spears shattered against the man’s steel swords, and Gray froze a wound to stop his bleeding.
• Gray fired an Ice-Make cannon and attacked with a scythe, but the shield deflected the blast and the scythe broke against the armor.
• The armored man used Steel-Make—Ground Spike to pierce Gray.