User blog comment:Mangetsu20/Where Winning Isn't Default (FT - 455)/@comment-26689944-20151010002047/@comment-4326112-20151010223324

Sorrow, I know the feelz. The amount of times Lucy is put in danger makes any distressful situation ERZA is in, legitimate or not, far outstrips them all. I do hope Lucy is able to have a personal fight with Brandish, if only that I haven't seen Lucy have a legitimate versus battle since her battle with Angel of Oracion Seis. Since this is the Last Arc (considering its about the titular characters, Zeref and Mavis, I'm assuming it is from a storywriting perspective) we most likely won't get a chance to see her show off again so I'm REALLY hoping for it, otherwise I may loathe Hiro more than I already do -.-

Jellal saving Erza seems like the most logical conclusion. If it isn't Natsu or Makarov saving her, it's Jellal (which I find ironic given the prior saved her from Jellal himself back when he was full-on evil!) and I'd like to see how his expanded Crime Sorciere handles themselves against a large magic military. Again, this is just me hoping.

Laxus is most likely going to combat the new guy who finger flicked the barrier ("I almost broke a sweat back there,") and he may end up pwning some of the Fairy Tail Wizards who are coming to fight him. Either that, or Elfman's big sister will show off her new found power-ups via "No Show, Only Tell," method that Hiro LOVES to use. Cause showing someone training is too much trouble for him >.>

Gildarts will either appear at the least expected time to fight God Serena (I honestly do not know anyone else who could possibly fight him given his legendary status) or he'll face the Old Man!Stick that Makarov says has the potential to be "more dangerous than Zeref,". I'm inclined to agree if only that Old Man!Stick managed to deflect a localized nuke blast of Lightning with no visible effort on his part.

Yeah, the whole plot of "Makarov is in peril" kind of fixed itself. With literally NO hinderance on the heroes' part, they were able to spend only 2-3 chapters in the country getting in without encountering any resistance or barriers of any kind and just LEAVING without anyone following. I mean, there's lax security and then there's just LAZY WRITING. WTF Hiro?! I'm hoping that Makarov can fight seriously again for one last time and actually put up a good fight without being nerfed like he was in the 7 Dragons Arc or the Tartarus Arc.