Chapter Summaries

Erza questioned Jet, Droy, and Levy before welcoming the three childhood friends into the guild. Eleven later discovered that Levy could read the ancient text he was studying and realized she could help with his research into souls.

• Erza questioned Jet, Droy, and Levy about their names, magic, and reasons for joining the guild.
• Levy apologized for Jet and Droy and asked Erza to forgive them, so Erza welcomed all three as companions.
• Eleven continued studying an ancient book about souls while the guild celebrated the new members.
• Levy approached Eleven, apologized for interrupting, and introduced herself as someone who loved reading.
• Levy explained that she could read the book’s cuneiform writing, and Eleven realized she could translate it for him.

Eleven recruited Levy McGarden to translate an ancient book, and she eagerly accepted because it meant she could read it. Jet and Droy claimed the job for Team Shadow Gear, leaving Eleven frustrated as the translation work began.

• Levy introduced herself, Jet, and Droy as Team Shadow Gear, and Eleven asked her to help him read an ancient book.
• Levy demonstrated her Solid Script magic by making flowers bloom from the word she wrote.
• Levy translated the ancient text so intently that Eleven grew sleepy and fell behind.
• Eleven offered Shadow Gear a paid job translating the book, and Levy eagerly accepted because she could read it.
• Jet and Droy declared that Team Shadow Gear had accepted the job, while Eleven privately resented their behavior.

Eleven took a mining job to collect spherulite and used the Soul Interference technique he had learned from ancient books to disrupt the magical beasts guarding the deposit. The beasts turned on one another, leaving Eleven hidden nearby as their fight began.

• Eleven decided to take more jobs to earn money, support himself, and prepare for the guild’s S-Class selection exam and Macao’s new baby.
• Eleven chose a request to collect three thumb-sized pieces of spherulite from a small mine guarded by magical beasts.
• Eleven watched the beasts from concealment and used Soul Interference to disrupt their senses of smell and magic.
• The beasts lost the pleasure of the spherulite’s scent, became confused, and started fighting one another.
• Eleven stayed hidden, surprised that the beasts had begun brawling instead of leaving.

Eleven mined a rich Spherulite vein with the help of Bora and his guildmates, but a dark vortex drained the ore from his baskets. He spotted Jellal directing the vortex and charged after him in fury.

• After the magical beasts left, Eleven collected the exposed Spherulite and spent two weeks mining the vein.
• Bora of the Red Sky and his guildmates arrived to claim the mine, but Eleven forced them to mine for him without pay.
• Eleven set off with two baskets of ore, noticing dark clouds and crows as he hurried back to sell his haul.
• A dark vortex began absorbing magic power, and Eleven's Telekinesis protected him while the Spherulite in his baskets vanished.
• Eleven detected a masked, blue-haired figure with golden eyes directing the vortex and recognized him as Jellal.
• Eleven shouted that Jellal should prepare to die.

Eleven mistook Jellal for the person who stole his Spherulite and attacked him while Jellal tried to shut down the Anima. Eleven probed the Anima with Telekinesis, causing it to explode and disperse, and his Spherulite was gone.

• Jellal struggled to control the Anima as it absorbed an enormous amount of magic.
• Eleven burst through the forest and attacked Jellal, demanding that he return the Spherulite he believed Jellal had stolen.
• Jellal tried to explain that he was not the Jellal Eleven knew, but Eleven used the Vomiting Technique to interrupt him.
• Jellal told Eleven that the Anima needed to be shut down, and Eleven realized it was the cloud that had absorbed his Spherulite.
• Eleven thrust his Telekinesis into the Anima, causing the cloud to explode and vanish along with the Spherulite.

Eleven learned that Jellal came from Edolas to stop Anima from draining Earth Land of its magic and lives. After searching Jellal’s memories and discovering he was a prince devoted to protecting others, Eleven agreed to hear his request for help.

• Eleven questioned Jellal about Anima and threatened to search his memories when Jellal hesitated to explain.
• Jellal explained that Anima sent magic and living beings from Earth Land to the magic-poor world of Edolas, and revealed that he was from Edolas.
• Eleven searched Jellal’s memories, saw glimpses of Edolas, and learned that Jellal was a prince who had turned against his homeland to stop Anima.
• Eleven lowered Jellal from the tree and, after recognizing his courage, listened as Jellal asked him to help find and close the Anima appearing in Earth Land.

Eleven refused Jellal’s request to help close Anima, but agreed to take him back to the Fairy Tail guild after Jellal promised not to involve its members. Their journey home dragged on for two months as Jellal repeatedly chased Anima, leaving Eleven exasperated just as they finally reached Magnolia.

• Eleven refused to help Jellal close Anima because he wanted to return to Fairy Tail and pursue guild achievements.
• Jellal asked Eleven to take him to the guild, secretly hoping to persuade him to help, but Eleven read his thoughts and warned him against involving the guild or trying to brainwash him.
• Eleven agreed to take Jellal home and threatened to repeatedly use his vomiting spell if Jellal tried to manipulate him.
• Over the next two months, Jellal repeatedly chased Anima, and Eleven followed him and used Telekinesis to destroy them, delaying their journey to Magnolia.
• When Jellal sensed another Anima near Magnolia, Eleven shook off his hand and headed for the city, but Jellal casually said the Anima had disappeared and walked along beside him.

Makarov approved Jellal’s application to join Fairy Tail after seeing his exceptional skill at building magic circles with staffs. As Eleven showed Jellal the guild, Jellal began to feel connected to the people of this world, but encountering Erza brought back memories of his former palace guard.

• Makarov watched Jellal build complex magic circles and approved his application to join the guild.
• Jellal asked to keep his identity secret, but Makarov started a welcome party anyway.
• Eleven took Jellal away from the party and explained the guild’s rules and jobs.
• Jellal reflected on how joining Fairy Tail connected him to the people he had saved in this world.
• Erza greeted Eleven while practicing sword swings, and Jellal recognized her as the royal palace guard from Edolas.

Erza mistook Jellal for her world's Jellal and attacked him in a frenzy, forcing Eleven to restrain her while Jellal calmed her with sleep magic. Jellal adopted the name Mystogan and left, while Eleven altered Erza's memories before deciding to investigate the cause of her rage.

• Eleven admitted his mission had failed, and Erza dismissed him as insufficiently trained.
• When Jellal introduced himself, Erza recognized him as the Jellal she blamed for destroying the guild and attacked him with Purgatory Armor.
• Eleven intervened and restrained Erza, discovering that her body was breaking down under the armor's power.
• Jellal used Five-Layered Magic Circle: Honorable Kagura to put Erza to sleep, then chose to live as Mystogan and departed.
• Eleven erased Erza's memory of meeting Jellal, implanted a false memory about Mystogan, and decided to examine her memories for the cause of her outburst.

Erza's peaceful childhood in Rosemary Village ended when dark mages raided the village and captured her. Imprisoned while forced to labor on the R-System, she became a source of hope for the other children and met Jellal, who gave her the name Erza Scarlet.

• Erza grew up loved by the villagers of Rosemary Village and spent her days with Kagura and Simon.
• Dark mages attacked Rosemary Village, and Erza hid Kagura before drawing the attackers away and being captured.
• Erza was forced to work on the R-System and encouraged Millianna, Simon, Wally Buchanan, and Sho to endure their imprisonment.
• Erza listened to stories about magic from Rob, a former Fairy Tail mage, and dreamed of becoming a mage.
• Jellal Fernandes introduced himself and named her Erza Scarlet after her scarlet hair, and Erza was pleased by the name.

Erza and her friends tried to escape the tower, but the mages caught them and took Erza for torture. After Jellal rescued her and she returned to the cell, Erza transformed her fear into resolve and called the prisoners to rebel.

• Jellal encouraged Erza to follow the others through the escape tunnel, but the mages discovered them.
• Jellal claimed responsibility for the escape plan, but the thin mage ordered Erza taken away instead.
• The dark mages tortured Erza and gouged out one of her eyes for refusing their preaching.
• Jellal broke into the torture chamber and freed Erza, but magic soldiers surrounded them and the mages threatened to punish him in her place.
• After Erza was thrown back into the cell, the overseers beat Sho and Grandpa Rob, and Erza blasted open the cell door with a shovel.
• Erza urged everyone to take up weapons and fight for their freedom, declaring a rebellion.

Erza led the laborers’ rebellion, but Grandpa Rob sacrificed himself to save her and his death awakened her magic. After Erza freed Jellal, he revealed his plan to revive Zeref, attacked her, and forced her to leave the island; she later headed for Fairy Tail.

• Erza led the laborers to liberate seven areas and urged them to attack the heavily defended central area to rescue Jellal.
• The magic soldier corps attacked the rebels, and Grandpa Rob spent his remaining magic to protect Erza before crumbling into dust.
• Erza awakened her magic, defeated the dark mages, and freed Jellal from the dark room.
• Jellal declared that he would take over the Tower of Heaven and revive Zeref, then attacked Erza when she tried to stop him.
• Jellal forced Erza to leave the island and threatened her companions if she revealed the tower; after waking on an unfamiliar beach, Erza set out for Fairy Tail.

Eleven reflected on Erza’s memories and encountered her eager for a rematch, but Natsu’s frantic search for his supposedly stolen dragon egg soon plunged the guild into another brawl. Cana explained that Natsu had found a huge egg and believed it was a dragon egg.

• Eleven decided he would deal with Jellal when they next met, while keeping Erza’s painful memories intact and softening the emotions attached to them.
• Erza challenged Eleven to another fight, and he laughed at her determination to avenge her earlier defeat.
• Natsu stormed into the guild demanding to know who had stolen his egg and asked Eleven whether he had taken it.
• Mira teased Natsu, and Erza tried to intervene, but the dispute turned into a brawl involving Erza, Mira, Natsu, and Gray.
• Eleven asked Laxus what was happening, but Laxus brushed him off and walked away.
• Cana told Eleven that Natsu had found a huge egg and seemed to think it was a dragon egg.

Natsu brought a strange egg to the guild, and Eleven accidentally triggered it to hatch while secretly checking for an embryo. The egg produced a winged blue kitten named Happy, leaving the guild delighted by the new arrival.

• Eleven doubted Natsu's claim that his egg was a dragon egg, while Lisanna scolded Eleven for being mean.
• Cana remembered that Elfman had wanted the egg, and Elfman returned carrying it, explaining that he had taken it home to keep it warm.
• Eleven secretly touched the egg with his Spiritual Power, causing cracks to appear before it began shaking and hatching.
• A bright blue light burst from the egg, revealing a tiny blue kitten with white wings that landed on Natsu's head and said, "Aye."
• The guild admired the creature's cuteness and named him Happy.

Eleven suspected Happy came from Edolas, but Lisanna jokingly called Happy her and Natsu’s child, sparking a misunderstanding and a duel challenge. Eleven forgot his anger when he picked up Happy and became absorbed in cuddling him.

• Eleven recognized Happy as resembling the flying cats from Mystogan’s memories and asked Natsu where Happy’s egg came from.
• Natsu said the egg had fallen onto his head in the northern forest, while Lisanna claimed Happy was her and Natsu’s child.
• Eleven angrily challenged Natsu to a duel, and Natsu agreed despite not understanding the argument.
• Eleven picked up Happy to set him aside, then started cuddling him and placed him on his head instead.
• Natsu tried to take Happy back, but Eleven knocked him to the floor, and Happy happily stayed with Eleven.
• Lisanna smiled at Mira and told her to do her best, leaving Mira confused.

Eleven and the Fairy Tail guild welcomed Happy, who hatched from an egg, and rushed to find him fish when he became hungry. After Macao's baby was born, the guild celebrated both new lives, leaving Eleven struck by how unlike a kitten a newborn human looked.

• Eleven returned Happy to Natsu, and the guild gathered around to teach the talking kitten their names.
• When Happy grew hungry, Lisanna and Erza tried to feed him, but Cana calmed everyone and asked what he wanted; Happy asked for fish.
• The guild rushed to catch fish from the lake, leaving Macao alone when he arrived to announce his son had been born.
• The guild returned with fish, remembered Macao's new baby, and held a grilled-fish party that soon turned into a celebration for Romeo Conbolt.
• Macao brought newborn Romeo to the guild, where Eleven saw a human baby up close and found him less cute than Happy.

In the months before the S-Class Promotion Trial, Eleven grew impatient for Makarov to announce the participants. Mystogan returned and put the guild to sleep, but the commotion of Gildarts returning to Magnolia interrupted their reunion and signaled that the exam was near.

• Eleven watched the guild members train harder in hopes of being chosen for the S-Class Promotion Trial and complained that Makarov had not announced the participants.
• Laxus returned, and Eleven teased him before trying to convince him that Makarov had invented the trial as a trick to motivate the guild.
• A wave of Sleep Magic knocked out the guild members, while Eleven and Makarov remained awake.
• Mystogan entered to report his mission, and Eleven confronted him for putting everyone to sleep so no one would see him.
• Magnolia's bell rang and the city entered Gildarts Mode, prompting Makarov to welcome Gildarts's return and Eleven to anticipate the exam.
• Mystogan left after telling Eleven they would discuss the trial another time, then ended the Sleep Magic as the guild members woke.

Makarov announced the four participants in Fairy Tail’s S-Class Mage Promotion Exam and chose the dangerous Grand Canyon of Terror as the venue. Three days later, Eleven said goodbye to Maria and joined the others as the exam began.

• Makarov announced that the exam would take place in the Grand Canyon of Terror and named Laxus Dreyar, Macao Conbolt, Wakaba Mine, and Eleven Brain as the participants.
• Makarov said that only one mage would be promoted and gave the participants three days to prepare.
• Eleven and Laxus exchanged challenges, each declaring that he would win the exam.
• Three days later, Eleven reassured Maria before leaving the orphanage for the exam.
• Eleven arrived at the guild, where Makarov and Gildarts were waiting with the participants, and Makarov declared the exam underway.

Makarov began the S-Class Exam in the Grand Canyon of Terror, where the participants had to steal Sensing Magic Crystals while avoiding Gildarts. After being teleported into the canyon, Eleven located the other participants and proposed they team up against Gildarts.

• Makarov explained that the four participants had to collect at least three Sensing Magic Crystals within twenty-four hours, while Gildarts would hunt them and destroy any crystals he took.
• Makarov warned that the exam would end with no one advancing if Gildarts eliminated two participants, then teleported everyone to separate locations.
• Gildarts entered the canyon to hunt for crystals, and Eleven found himself in a mushroom forest.
• Eleven used his Spiritual Power to locate the other participants and considered how to approach them without giving away his position.
• Eleven connected the four participants through Telepathy and asked if they wanted to team up against Gildarts.

Eleven proposed that the four exam candidates team up to ambush Gildarts, believing it was their best chance to pass the S-class exam. After Macao and Wakaba agreed and Eleven pressured Laxus into joining, the temporary team followed Eleven toward Gildarts.

• Eleven presented his plan to attack Gildarts together, but Macao and Wakaba initially debated whether it could work.
• Macao argued that Makarov intended the candidates to preserve their bonds and cooperate against Gildarts, and Wakaba reluctantly accepted his reasoning.
• Eleven provoked Laxus to consider the consequences of refusing to join, and Laxus agreed to team up while threatening Eleven afterward.
• Eleven declared the four-man team formed and began leading them toward Gildarts.