User blog:LastationLover5000/Speculation Time With Ahatake (Fairy Tail 297)

Welcome to the Speculation Corner This makes it justifiable!

Welcome, welcome, welcome to a new feature, Speculation Time With Ahatake. This feature won't be a regular production, and will be "aired" only when Persona or Ash so the blogs, since they don't include a minor speculation section. While I know most of you put speculation in the blog comments, I'll take what you put as well as my own for this little section.

Let's start with a few minor ones before I get into the meat and potatoes of the blog. Again, you veggies will have to stomach it.

A few simples:
 * Kagura will fight Erza.
 * Why: It's a match many fans of craving for, Hiro is setting it up quietly, even if it's not in the tournament, she'll fight in defence of Jellal.


 * Lyon will fight Gray
 * Why: It's a rematch everyone wants I'm sure, and now we have this ship-combat with these two, both hankering at Juvia. (Gray did say "Don't take what's mine!" so yeah)


 * Rufus has memorized Fire, Steel, Light, and Dark Dragon Slayer Magic, and will be using them at a later date.
 * Why: Well, aside from the fact that he's been watching the entire damn fight, he outright stated "I've completely memorized it.", which, while it could be the fight, stands to reason he memorized all the magic used as well.


 * Quatro Puppy's entire guild power is dependent on their name.
 * Why: Rule of Funny.

Before I get into the main beef of the article, isn't this just cute in it's own way? "OH GOD! IT'S LIKE THE PAIN OF ONE THOUSAND KNIVES SHEARING MY FACE!" Erza's like their cool big sister. Didn't she do that in an earlier arc? YAY FOR BRINGING IT BACK. Anyway, now...-sighs- Shit is about to get terribly real and I need my shades for this. Oh yeah. We're doing this.

In this chapter, ''Shit. Got. Real.'' Remember the trolling Natsu gave to Gajeel about two chapters ago? Yeah, that was not just something hilariously infuriating, he managed to turn it into something epic. Who remembers the Lion King? Anyone? Best Disney Movie ever? ....I'll give you five seconds to wrack your brains. Alright, that done? Now, who remembers the Elephant Graveya-I mean, the watering hole? Think of this like a young child. Think of this as it's more badass grandfather who doesn't take shit from your punk ass.

Now, I'm not much for smart speculation, but, my dear friends, I do think we're seeing just what happened to many of the Dragons from fourteen years ago. While one of the given explanations seems to be they all just went into hidinh like Igneel in preparation for something to do with the Dragon King or what not, where on any planet will you hide a shitload of dragons? While I don't think all of the bodies here are from fourteen years ago (I'm not sure if fourteen years is enough for the sheer level of decay we've seen on some of these bodies), but some of the "fresher" bodies could easily be the more recent kills of dragons that were either killed, probably by Usopp and his crew, random, unimportant characters, or simply died of some other causes. If Usopp and his crew weren't involved, I think that the graveyard being located under the tournament arena actually is just a coincidence. However, more like a "guided" coincidence. Such a plethora of dead bodies, especially those of dragons, could possibly leave residual magical power, and this, even unconsciously, could attract mages, or those who use magic. Perhaps the feel of magic from the underground graveyard would have made the mages feel like the particular area was more suitable for a tournament of mages. That is less speculation and more Wild Mass Guessing. Another guessing, which is literally spitballing because I just thought it up literally a second ago, is that the magical energy Jellal and co. have been sensing that is so like Zeref's is because Zeref has been around here at some point way in the past, and he killed those dragons. That is literally just me bullshitting. Ash himself had a rather interesting theory:

"Well, I think you're forgetting Dragon Slayers. Dragon Slayers in the past must have been rather different to the ones in the present. From what I can tell, Dragon Slayer was probably an art actually created by the humans to combat dragons within this tournament, by mimicking the dragon's own magic and essentially changing their physiology to match theirs. You see, I think Dragon Slayers, over time, become Dragons if they stay alive long enough. Furthermore, don't dragons have the power to kill fellow Dragons? I mean, it would be obvious, no? And as to why the grave is down there...well, you tell me? After all, it WAS a tournament for several hundred years, perhaps there is a new arena that is built over the top of the old one every century or two in order to hide corpses, and stuff."

- Ash

This would support my "mass murder" theory, but it would have to have taken place at some point in the past. However, to be a coincidence, it would have to be literally one fuck of a coincidence for a tournament of EVIL to be built over a Dragon Graveyard. I think it's highly more likely that these corpses were gathered by Usopp for some particularly reason, and that his plan has been going on since the dragons "disappeared". I daresay he offed their asses.

Moving right along. Ok. Hiro. You. Are. Killing. Us. Let's segway right into the next part now. We got hit by two bombshells in this chapter.

What's going on!? WHAT'S GOUNG ON!? SOMEONE FUCKING TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!!!!!

I'm just going to drop it own you now.
 * People are dying. Lucy and Gajeel are prime suggestions for who died. Judging by how beaten up she is, and scared, it seems no one powerful enough is alive to help anyone. Natsu is probably dead as well. Salamander is fucking DEAD. Possibly Erza as well. Maybe even Gray. People are dead, I cannot stress that enough.  **Gajeel probably died protecting Levi. Totally.
 * Usopp's plan backfired. It backfired fucking horribly. While the intentions may be to save the world, the end result is going to backfire in the most horrible way. Why else would Carla be getting terrible visions if it wasn't going to backfire? Why else is Levi NARRATING FROM A POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD!
 * The person under the hood is not Zeref. Before I get some "no-shits", I just had to point it out. But it's someone Gajeel would recognize. The question is who? Future Lucy? Future Wendy? Future Kagura? Future Erza? Layla Heartfilia? The woman who died in the same fucking year the dragons all vanished?

Well, honestly,shit is getting real and we all are left looking like "Dammit Hiro, what the fuck are you doing!?" Did I mention we won't find out about the hood for about two-three weeks? Fucking TROLL. Anyway, you can see why this won't be a regular feature. A long spiel on speculation when I can just condense it into a chapter review. To all those unaware, I refer to Arcadios as "Usopp". And Ash just gave me a new theory. I hate to add it here where it's so...out of place now, but meh:

"The Eclipse Plan is possibly a form of magic that employs Zeref's magical power along with that of a Celestial Spirit Mage in order to bring the Dragons back into the Dragon King Tournament, whilst empowering specific individuals with the magic of Zeref in order to combat these dragons. This could be one of the reasons for the corpses. And this woman...could be a victim of this plan..."

- Ash

Ash, you're nefarious. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this. In the coming two weeks, Ash and Per will be in charge of the chapters, since they have nothing to do with the events at hand. This feature will probably be implented next week or the week after, it all depends on how I'm feeling. I hope you all enjoyed this ^^