User blog:Ash9876/Fairy Tail 389 - In Which There Is A Hint (Twin Dragons vs Dark King)

'Ello everyone. It's Ashy here! Today I'll be doing the review since your favorite Aha isn't up to the plate due to numerous issues. I hope you enjoy my reviews just as much as everyone else's!

"It has to be my biggest pet peeve...when lowly humans try to use Dragon Slayer Magic."

- Mard Geer.

"Funny, my biggest pet peeve...is when assholes try to hurt our friends."

- Sting Eucliffe

"Your face, your voice...I know them all too well...but they belonged to someone else. Just who the fuck are you?"

- Gray Fullbuster.



So, let's get going with today's review shall we?

Unlike the other chapters, there is no immediate change in scenery, which I'm honestly thankful for. We are here witnessing Sting and Rogue's bold declaration regarding saving Minerva, when suddenly Erza asks a good question: how did they reach there? Behind the scenes, it appears Erza took the initiative and sent a letter (you'd think they'd have them sent by owls, eh?) to Sabertooth. However, according to Frosch? And now, ladies and gentlemen, we know that the real reason for Frosch's death was insulting Erza's terrible writing! Let's kill off Erza and help prevent a worldwide calamity, shall we?

So it appears, quite clearly, that Erza doesn't particularly know how to write. Not surprising considering her overall growth - rather ironic if you think she tried to force Natsu to learn. In any case! Sting offers, in a somewhat princely way, to Minerva that they should return to the Guild together. And to sarcastically interrupt this tearful reunion is our favorite Demon King, Mard Geer. He makes, yet another, bold declaration regarding magic ending very soon. While Erza is left evidently oblivious, we can see that the number of Faces have grown from 2000, to a mind walloping 3000! Tell me when they reach over 9000, we'll contact the Dragon Ball Z services!

In this crisis that Erza is now faced with, Minerva proclaims her confidence by saying that remote activation is impossible due to the previous - annoying - chairman having died. Yet, in a twist of fate, Tartarus conveniently has a necromancer! And guess who it is? Our beloved skeleton, Keith! And thus, Sting requests Erza to deal with Face while Rogue and Sting charge into battle like the heroes they are! Natsu: Look, Gajeel! It's the two of us version two!

So we immediately proceed with Mard Geer's evident arrogance as he flawlessly evades a punch from Sting, before Rogue climbs over a small obstacle with his shadows and attempts to blindside him. Alas, he is blocked by the power of books! (I'm being serious here). Erza, demonstrating her concern for them, is subsequently retorted by the ever-so-confident Sting that she must have confused him for Natsu. Seems like someone got a dose of attitude over losing. Behind the scenes, Frosch eagerly (and adorably) waves his hands to fight, while Lecter, like the good friend he is, drags him along to safety. The Demon King smiled! Nobody can resist the power of the cute cats!

But alas, we revert to a slightly more serious atmosphere with Mard effortlessly blowing away both Sting and Rogue. At the very least, Mard is cut out as he's meant to be: a real threat. Moving on, we have Sting's quick reaction time and he's FIRIN' HIS LAZAH (White Dragon's Roar), but Mard deflects it with one finger. Now that's what I call classy! And using the same strategy, Rogue attempts to blindside him with the Shadow Dragon's Slash, before being thrown away without any concern whatsoever. And then, using some strange hand seals, Mard Geer shows us that he is, indeed, the Demon Shakespeare. After all: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Yes, that's a rose. And the Demon King has a strange fondness for plants; who knew? Nonetheless, from the rampant destruction of that single spell, we have both Sting and Rogue harmlessly standing up. Mard, in another bout of his sarcasm, comments on his "pet peeve" being humans using Dragon Slayer Magic. On the topic of this, never trust mangapanda. They phrase magic as "Magic," and trust me...I was not pleased. And then, we have our trustworthy Sting, whose best retort would have to be: One does not simply hurt my comrades.

Apologies for the bad humor. Thereafter, we see that Gray and Silver are in a land far, far away. Silver appears to be contextualizing the situation for Gray; who knew villains were so nice? Gray, in all his vulgarity, comments on how stupid the council is and then proceeds to ask Silver about his intentions. Silver, hellbent on breaking Gray's ice, shows quite a bit of disappointment when Gray says he won't crack easily. Then, in another bout of arrogance, Silver laments at the boredom that he'll face "just killing him" when Gray, after revealing that he does know quite a bit about Silver, states that his face and voice belonged to someone else: I don't know who you are. But now that I've found you, I'll kill you. *Trollface*

And so, the chapter ends with Gray being the most pissed off I've ever seen him in the series. And once again we see Hiro ends on one of those moments where, he could either surprise us and give us a legitimate, intriguing relationship between Gray and Silver, or stuff it up like most things he's been doing lately.

Score
I enjoyed the art this time. The scenery was well done, and I had to admit some of the expressions, especially Gray's, were very well pulled off by Hiro this time around, so 10/10 for that. In the story, we progressed a little bit, and were given a bit of exposition here and there, so a pretty well scoring 5/10. The fight was actually rather well choreographed, despite being rather short, so I'd give it a 6/10. Overall, it was a Good chapter.

We won't be gone for long! Fairy Tail 390 - A Boy's Tale shall return next week! Thanks, everyone! And I do hope you could tolerate my awful sense of humor. :P