Recaps

Ywen trained the Strauss siblings and helped Fairy Tail’s mages grow through the S-Class Examination and Zero’s attacks. Layla opened the Eclipse Gate, sending the five children into X777, and Ywen intercepted Anna after she left to find them.

• Ywen helped Erik reunite with Kinana, arranged for Sorano to study Celestial Spirit Magic under Layla, and returned to Fairy Tail.
• Erza defeated Laxus in a guild fight, and Mirajane asked Ywen to train her so she could qualify as an S-Class Mage.
• Ywen trained Mirajane, Elfman, and Lisanna in the Six Powers and Take Over Magic, while Erza prepared for the examination as an examiner.
• Erza defeated Mirajane in the S-Class Examination, Reis defeated Laxus, and Gildarts fought Kurnugi before Ywen took them to a deserted island.
• Ywen set Erza, Laxus, and Mirajane to train by fighting Zero, and they grew stronger before taking an S-Class request that left Carles’s docks and tavern burning.
• Layla and Grammi brought the thirteen Celestial Spirit keys to the Fiore palace, where Ywen helped Layla open the Eclipse Gate at midnight.
• Igneel and the other presences sent five children through the ceiling, and Anna emerged from the gate and learned they had arrived in X777.
• Anna asked the group to keep their arrival secret and left to find the children, while Ywen intercepted her in the mountains.

Ywen trained Natsu, strengthened Fairy Tail’s position on the Magic Council, and helped Ultear reunite with her mother and join the guild. After learning Precht had sent Ultear to investigate Fairy Tail, Ywen arranged to keep her cover intact and agreed to bring Erza and Mirajane when he confronted Precht.

• Ywen learned that Zeref and Acnologia were still alive, then trained beneath a waterfall and combined Swordsmanship and Six Powers into Martial Arts.
• Ywen agreed to train Natsu, who endured months of harsh exercises and grew stronger while seeking to find Igneel.
• Makarov held the S-Class Mage Examination as a guild-wide battle, and Mirajane defeated Cana and Kagura to win.
• Ywen persuaded Warrod to return to public life by warning him about Alvarez and Precht, and Warrod joined the Magic Council.
• Precht sent Ultear to infiltrate Fairy Tail and investigate Ywen, but Ultear reunited with her mother Ul and joined the guild.
• Ywen told Ultear he knew about her mission and instructed her to keep her cover while reporting truthfully to Precht.
• Erza and Mirajane overheard Ywen and Ultear in the forest, then asked to join Ywen when he went after Precht, and Ywen agreed.

Ywen helped Mystogan return to Edolas and stopped Faust’s attempt to use Anima to seize Earth-land’s magic, then brought Mystogan, Natsu, and Kurnugi to Elentir to negotiate with Selene. The arc ended with Ywen using Kurnugi and the threat of Igneel’s power as leverage while Selene confronted her son.

• Natsu found a strange egg, and Ywen used Accelerated Growth to hatch it into a winged blue kitten that Natsu named Happy.
• Mystogan joined Fairy Tail and told Ywen that Edolas was running out of magic and that King Faust planned to steal it from Earth-land through Anima.
• Ywen and Mystogan secured the Celestial Spirit King’s permission to travel between worlds, and Ywen entered Edolas, where he met its Fairy Tail Guild Master, Wisdom.
• Ywen confronted Faust in the capital, destroyed the Super Dragon Knight, and helped Wisdom and Mystogan stop Anima after Faust’s attempt to restart it threatened Earth-land.
• Ywen returned to Earth-land with Mystogan and Lisanna, who reunited with Mirajane and Elfman, then persuaded Natsu and Kurnugi to join a mission to find Kurnugi’s mother.
• Ywen, Mystogan, Natsu, and Kurnugi reached Elentir, where they learned its Face was creating dangerous excess magic and fought their way toward Selene at Mount Night.
• Ywen negotiated with Selene by invoking the power of Igneel and claiming Kurnugi as his student, while Kurnugi begged for help as Selene demanded that he call her Mother.

Ywen secured Selene’s help against hostile Dragon Gods and returned to Fairy Tail, where a guild masters’ gathering exposed his power and provoked a plot against his guild. He then took Dragon’s Tear and began awakening its stored power in dragon form.

• Ywen fought Selene in Elentir, but Aileen arrived and battled her for three days before the two agreed to leave Ywen alone and let Edolas draw magic from Elentir.
• Ywen agreed to a new Hundred-Year Mission to eliminate Dragon Gods hostile toward humanity, then left Kurnugi with Selene and returned to Fairy Tail with the others.
• Selene joined Fairy Tail, where she and Aileen tied for first place in the 24-Hour Endurance Race while Ywen placed third.
• At the guild masters’ gathering, Ywen defeated Jose Porla and Aria, then Ul returned with them frozen in ice and identified Ywen as the legendary Starfall.
• Jose and the other guild masters plotted to pressure the Magic Council against Fairy Tail, but Warrod revealed he had belonged to Fairy Tail since its founding and confronted them.
• Ywen asked Old Toma for Dragon’s Tear, took it from its military guardian, and transformed into a colossal Azure Dragon to awaken its stored power.