Chapter Summaries

Eleven stumbled upon Cobra attacking the Rakshasa Evil Spirits and defeated him after Cobra mistook him for Elizabeth. The chapter ended with Eleven asking the unconscious, twitching Cobra where he could find Jellal.

• The Rakshasa Evil Spirits mages begged Eleven to avenge them, while Cobra pulled himself free and mistook Eleven for Elizabeth.
• Cobra attacked Eleven with Poison Dragon's Roar, killing several Rakshasa Evil Spirits mages caught in the poisonous mist.
• Cobra used Poison Dragon's Spiral Jaw, but Eleven caught him with Telekinesis and slammed him into the floor.
• Eleven knocked out the surviving Rakshasa Evil Spirits mages and remembered Cobra as the youth who had once stood behind Brain petting a snake.
• Eleven called Cobra "Snake Petter" and asked where Jellal was.

Eleven confronted Cobra and interrupted his secret communication with Brain while demanding Jellal’s location. Brain refused to reveal where Jellal was and instead tried to recruit Eleven, who rejected the offer.

• Eleven questioned Cobra about Jellal and called him “Snake Petter,” while Cobra wondered why he could not hear Eleven’s thoughts.
• Cobra secretly contacted Brain through a communication Magic Crystal, but Eleven joined their channel and introduced himself as Elizabeth.
• Eleven demanded that Brain tell him where Jellal was, then threatened to kill Cobra when Brain refused.
• Brain dismissed the threat, saying Cobra’s defeat meant Eleven could do what he wanted with him.
• Brain asked Eleven to join his guild and claimed Rakshasa Evil Spirits was about to fall, but Eleven refused and demanded that Brain stop wasting time.

Eleven agreed to help Brain reclaim a train station seized by Rakshasa Evil Spirits, while Laxus led a mercenary force to capture another station. After freeing its passengers, Laxus met Evergreen, who said she was traveling to Fairy Tail to see fairies.

• Brain offered Eleven a deal to help reclaim his train station, and Eleven agreed despite recognizing Brain's manipulative approach.
• Laxus used his lightning magic to clear a path through the enemy forces while Freed and their mercenary allies followed.
• Laxus's forces captured the station, and he released the detained passengers with threats.
• A young passenger confronted Laxus over the seized train and demanded compensation.
• Laxus learned the passenger was Evergreen, who was traveling to Fairy Tail to see fairies.

Eleven joined Cobra’s gathered forces and launched their attack, while the Magic Council prepared to intervene in the dark guild war. Cobra mistakenly believed Eleven was a Rakshasa Evil Spirits mage and was unsettled by his apparent eagerness to attack his own guild.

• Bluenote agreed to wipe out the Rakshasa Evil Spirits guild at its master’s request.
• Brain contacted Magic Council Chairman Crawford, who ordered the magic army mobilized and summoned the major guild masters to suppress the dark guilds.
• Eleven befriended Cobra’s python, Cubellios, through Telepathy while Cobra grew jealous and suspicious.
• Eleven ordered the assembled dark mages to attack, and they charged out despite Cobra’s objections.
• Cobra challenged Eleven about attacking his supposed guild, and Eleven’s eager reply convinced Cobra that he was cold-blooded.

Laxus and his companions were caught in a dark-guild battle at the train station, and Laxus went to face the powerful attackers. While Freed finished a magic formula, Evergreen and Bickslow held off the invading mages with their eye magic.

• A dark mage begged Laxus to help when an enemy guild attacked the station, and Laxus agreed to investigate after hearing that two strong opponents had arrived.
• Laxus turned into lightning and sped toward the explosion, while Freed began inscribing a magic formula and Bickslow stayed with Evergreen.
• Enemy mages broke into the room, and Bickslow sent his five puppets to fight them while Freed continued working.
• Evergreen used Petrifying Eye to turn several attackers to stone, then Bickslow used Figure Eyes to control other mages and make them attack their former companions.
• Evergreen and Bickslow held the enemies back as Freed calmly finished the formula.

Eleven, disguised as Elizabeth, rampaged through a dark-guild battle until Laxus recognized his Telekinesis Shield and confronted him. Eleven hid his Fairy Tail identity from Cobra and Laxus, but Laxus became furious when he heard about Eleven’s S-class quest and attacked him at the station.

• Eleven rampaged through the battlefield, striking both sides while Cobra followed him in fear.
• Laxus arrived and attacked Eleven, recognizing his Telekinesis Shield before Eleven silenced Cobra and knocked him unconscious.
• Eleven took Laxus into the station lobby and explained that he had been pulled into the battle by an S-class quest.
• Eleven urged Laxus to leave and keep his identity hidden, but Laxus took offense at the mention of the quest and used Dragon Slayer Secret Art: Narukami.
• The battle left Sigma Train Station razed to the ground.

Laxus and Eleven accidentally attacked the Magic Council's army, triggering a looming battle between the forces around Sigma Grand Station. Eleven disguised their involvement by pretending to be the dark guild leader Elizabeth and gave Laxus the name Lalako as he struggled to invent an identity.

• The Magic Council's army confronted Brain and the Rakshasa Evil Spirits while Laxus and Eleven fought above the ruined station.
• When Council mages attacked them, Laxus and Eleven retaliated, knocking down soldiers and realizing they had struck the Magic Council.
• The dark guild mages rallied behind Eleven, and the rival guild armies prepared to attack as the standoff erupted into chaos.
• Eleven claimed to be Elizabeth, urged Laxus to invent a cover identity, and explained through Telepathy that they needed to mislead the Council before escaping.
• When Laxus stumbled over his name, Eleven mockingly called him Lalako and asked what he was embarrassed about.

Makarov recognized Eleven and Laxus fighting in disguise and tried to pretend he had no connection to them. When Bluenote Stinger’s overwhelming gravity magic sent the pair crashing down, Makarov rushed to help, while the other guild masters praised him as a selfless hero.

• Laxus lost his temper after Eleven called him Lalako and the Magic Council members mocked the name, then charged toward them until Eleven stopped him.
• Makarov arrived with the guild masters and recognized Eleven and Laxus fighting in the air, but awkwardly denied knowing them.
• Bob and the other guild masters helped Makarov cover up his connection to the disguised wizards, though their knowing looks made his denial suspicious.
• Bluenote Stinger appeared and unleashed crushing gravity magic that forced Eleven and Laxus toward the ground.
• Makarov rushed to help the two wizards, and his friends praised him as a selfless guild master in front of the younger masters.

Eleven and Laxus were trapped under Bluenote’s immense gravity, but their bickering gave Eleven the resolve to raise a Telekinesis Barrier and resist the pressure. The chapter ended with Laxus activating Lightning Armor and charging Bluenote with a Lightning Strike Fist.

• Bluenote crushed Eleven and Laxus with gravity, leaving both unable to move.
• Eleven checked on Laxus through Telepathy, and the two argued about who should stay behind and who was stronger.
• Bluenote increased the gravity after the pair ignored him, but Eleven raised a Telekinesis Barrier and pushed himself upright to shield them.
• Eleven’s defiant look provoked Laxus, who activated Lightning Armor and rushed at Bluenote with a Lightning Strike Fist.

Eleven and Laxus were nearly killed by Bluenote’s gravity magic until Makarov arrived and rescued them. After they fled, Makarov faced Bluenote alone, though he privately looked for a way to avoid the fight.

• Laxus struck Bluenote, but Bluenote was unharmed and Eleven joined Laxus in attacking him.
• Bluenote crushed Eleven’s Telekinesis spear and trapped both youths in overwhelming gravity.
• Makarov arrived in giant form and struck Bluenote, breaking the gravity’s hold and freeing Eleven and Laxus.
• Makarov ordered the two to leave through their Telepathy channel, and they ran from the battlefield.
• Makarov confronted Bluenote, whose magic power clashed with his as the sky darkened and the earth trembled.

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.