QUOTE (qrdel @ Oct 09 2011, 03:59 AM) To be honest I think Hades misconcepted the entire procedure. Much like any other main villain so far, he tried to obtain Zeref for his deeds. Instead, by igniting the whole battle he brought about the thing that might've actually wiped off the Dragons 7 years earlier. Mind that all of the real DS we know mentioned that their Dragons vanished in thin air just like that. Tenrou Island incident anyone?
Here, also another idea comes to my mind.
Zeref says, that in the war which happened 400 years before now, he learned the value of human life. He had also perpetually been mentioning Natsu's name throughout the arc on different occasions and spacing off every now and then. Correct me if I'm wrong, but am I the only one thinking that, perhaps unintentionally, we've been hinted that Natsu might be an reincarnation of a Dragon Slayer from that time, or even the Dragon Slayer himself (maybe partially asleep, like Zeref)? It would make perfect sense, since we know so little about his past before Igneel and Natsu definitely shows the biggest growth and adaptation of all the DS we could see.
The rest of the story with the aspect to Zeref being somehow connected to him might be a bit biased now, but I do believe it could've been something like Natsu having huge influence on Zeref's ideology at that time.
And just IF we acnowledge the fact, that maybe Acnowlogia did not vaporise the island, but instead transported it 'somewhere' we could explain further explain the reasoning why would Zeref recognise Natsu (the latter could've been hit with the same thingy as Tenrou Island and remained in stagnation for 400 years).
I know it's far fetched, but at least some of it does have a deal of good background in the recent events.
Except that we know that Dragons are Alive. we saw Grandine be a total bitch to Igneel after all and it seems more like they are either planning something or waiting for something to happen.
Also I doubt its ackny who transported them. Its most likely Mavis(the girl we saw just before dragon blasted the shit out of the place). Acknologia most likely just blasted the water while Mavis moved the island, Lost style.
(for a note, Mavis is actually a female name, so its a given that the first master is/was a female)
QUOTE (Killer_Ossi @ Oct 09 2011, 03:02 AM)Damn this is worse than disbanding. How could the guild get like that? Sure its seven years ago but still.
Most likely council is watching very closely.
EVEN if the current FT had any sort of power to stand up against them, with no Makarov to stand as reputation-shield for them, Council most likely would take chance to wipe them out completely.
Also, what interests me:
Something is truly wrong with the world now - Twilight OGre set up its HQ in a friggin cathedral - something council we knew would never allow. They also talked about "in this new age", which implies that something changed, but what?
Obviously since we have no old member in contact, nu-FT has no capability to do an explanation(to whom would they explain?) but once we meet at least one FT member, we most likely will learn more about the world.
Frankly I hope time travel is not involved in the transportation of the island. The best course of action would be focus this arc on romeo and the rest of side characters we saw trying to find the island and finding it either empty or only with few members. Cue collect members arc.