How many episodes in 1 season: 48 episodes
Natsu Dragneel, along with his cat named Happy, has traveled to the town of Hargeon in search of a wizard named Salamander. Here he runs into a young woman named Lucy Heartfilia, a Celestial Wizard, who is determined to join the famous Fairy Tail Guild.
Natsu, Happy, and Lucy go in search of a missing Fairy Tail wizard in the mountains from which he never returned. Can they find their fellow Fairy Tail wizard before it's too late?
Natsu and Happy team up with Lucy and they accept a job that has a strange and seemingly simple request... enter a mansion owned by Duke Everlue and burn a certain book. Is this job really as easy as it seems?
Lucy, Natsu and Happy retrieve the book from the mansion, but Lucy cannot bring herself to destroy the book that they have taken the assignment to destroy. What is in the book to prevent her from wanting it destroyed?
Natsu and Lucy start looking for a new job to take, but just then Erza, the strongest female member in all of Fairy Tail, returns. She's so powerful all the other people in Fairy Tail are scared stiff, and she immediately asks Natsu and Gray to come help her on a mission. Lucy tags along to keep the two of them from fighting, and on the train Erza tells the story of how she learned of the evil plans of Eisenwald, a Dark Guild, and how she intends on stopping them. But can the four of them really take on an entire guild by themselves?
Natsu, Erza, Lucy, Happy, and Gray follow the Eisenwald Guild to try and stop them from using the Lullaby, a flute that when played will drain the life out of anyone that hears it. They find them but are lured into a trap set by none other than the Eisenwald leader, Erigor. Can they escape the trap and stop him before he completes his fiendish plan?
Natsu, Erza, Gray, Lucy and Happy are trapped in the railroad station by an impenetrable wind barrier created by Erigon. Can they find a way to escape and stop him before he can carry out his plan to destroy the Guild Masters?
Natsu caught up to Erigor after breaking through the magic wind wall, but Natsu's flames aren't able to dent Erigor's perfectly controlled wind! Happy figures out wind's weakness, however, and Natsu uses his Dragon Slayer magic to stage a sudden comeback! After Lucy and the others arrive, everything would seem to be safe, but Kage suddenly takes back the flute and heads towards the Guild Masters! It's just one setback after another; can they ever truly stop the lullaby?
Natsu and the others get lost in the depths of Clover Canyon, a great natural labyrinth, on the way back from stopping the dark guild Eisenwald's evil schemes. They stumble upon a suspicious looking village, but don't care as long as they find something to eat! Food comes first! Moving houses, galloping chairs, whatever! As long as they're edible! But this village holds a secret truth...
What a battle! Natsu vs. Erza!! The flames of a Dragon Slayer vs. the armored Fairy Queen! Fairy Tail is expecting fireworks; this guild settles things with their fists! Natsu's all fired up and doesn't give an inch to Erza, but just then... A messenger shows up from the council talking about illegal actions during the Eisenwald incident, and he has an arrest warrant for Erza?!
S class quests... Requests so dangerous only wizards that the master gives permission to go on them. And yet, Natsu, Lucy and Happy go off on one of these S class quests on their own without permission! They head out to "Galuna, the cursed island", and it turns out the people there are turning into demons from the evil spell of the moon! They learn that there is only one way to undo the curse, and that's to destroy the moon itself! But how in the world are they going to complete a request to "destroy the moon-
Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Happy uncover a plot to release a demon that wrecked havoc years ago and was only stopped by Gray's former teacher who sacrificed herself to seal away the beast. They meet up with the wizards responsible and a fight breaks out between Gray and a masked wizard who turns out to be Lyon, a person from Gray's past. Meanwhile, Erza makes her way to the island.
In order to protect the village, Natsu faces off against a new foe, Yuka, who is confident that Natsu will lose to him. Lucy also faces off against a wizard that seems to have her at a big disadvantage...
Erza has arrived on Galuna Island and her only reason to be there is to return everyone to Fairy Tail for punishment, but Gray refuses to leave and is determined to finish his fight with Lyon.
Gray flashes back to when he first met his teacher and how she changed his life.
Gray is about to use the Iced Shell magic on Lyon to permanently imprison him in ice like Deliora and Natsu must face off against a mysterious foe that uses Lost Magic. Gray considers sacrificing himself to stop Lyon while Natsu battles a mysterious new foe.
The demon, Deliora, has been released! Natsu, Erza, Gray, and Lucy try to stop the demon but it turns out there is no need. Erza, Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Happy's then turn their attention to helping the villagers.
Erza recruits Natsu to help her "destroy the moon" as Lucy and Gray look on with disbelief with the rest of the villagers. Afterward Erza reminds Lucy, Natsu, Gray, and Happy of their impending punishment!
Natsu finds a strange looking request on the job board and when he says the words on the paper, he, Lucy, Erza, Gray, Happy, and Loke all switch bodies.
This episode takes us back to when Happy and Natsu first met and when Lisanna was still apart of the gang.
Fairy Tail is attacked by Phantom Lord and at first it is just their building, but when some of the Fairy Tail members are brutally attacked, Makarov declares war. While Fairy Tail attacks Phantom Lord's Gajeel waits for Makarov to leave to fight.
Gajeel starts fighting and ends up in a fight with Natsu. Makarov fights with Phantom Lord Wizard, Jose, and being cathed in one of the Element 4 Magic. He loses his magic power and Fairy Tail army leaves the Phantom Lord. Lucy is rescued from the Phantom Lord guild by Natsu.
Fairy Tail cures its wounds, whilst Phantom Lord appears in Magnolia. Erza is defeated by one of the most powerful magic force - the magic cannon Jupiter. Jose wants to get back Lucy, but Fairy Tail's guys aren't going to just her over. Magnolia has 15 minutes before Jupiter will fire second time. Natsu rushes into the big cannon of Phantom Lord.
Natsu, Gray, and Elfman have infiltrated Phantom Lord's headquarters. Although Natsu manages to destroy Jupiter and the lookout somehow, Phantom has yet another trump card! Incredibly, the guild itself transforms into the magical giant Phantom Mk II, and starts casting the forbidden magic Abyss Break trying to wipe out the entire guild at once. With no time to spare,Monsieur Sol a member of the Element 4 appears before Elfman!
Elfman crushes Sol of the Land, one of the Element 4! Afterwards, the Phantom Mk II seems to slow down for some reason. That's because the giant moves using the power of the Element 4. If all of the Element 4 are defeated, they can stop Abyss Break! There are only two left! Natsu faces off against Aria of the Heavens and Gray faces off against Juvia of the Deep! There's almost no time left until Abyss Break is finished casting!
Natsu battles against the strongest member of the Element 4, Aria. Just when things are looking grim, Erza shows up. Aria gets serious and unleashes his full power by taking off his blindfold. Meanwhile Loke goes to rescue Lucy from Gajeel who has started attacking her for fun. Erza makes short work of Aria, but Jose shows up, whose evil magic is more than a match for Erza in her weakened state.
Makarov regains his powers and goes to aid in the fight against Phantom. He and Jose face off in a high-level magic battle.
The fighting ends, with the help of Fairy Law; after the battle between Natsu and Gajeel, they find they may have more in common than they realized. Will this bring the two enemies closer? Lucy returns to the guild to apologize, and decides to return home to her father. Natsu, Erza, Happy and Grey find her note and follow her. Dressed in fancy clothes and having endless servants as her disposal... will Lucy decide to stay and never return to Fairy Tail again?
There seems to be a problem with the Master. Is his age finally catching up to him?
Loki has been acting weird, especially around Lucy. He broke up with all his girlfriends and seems to be dying. Lucy then figures it out, the star that cannot return to the heavens. Loki is stuck on Earth?
Continuing from the previous cliffhanger, Loki is found out to be celestial spirit. He's trapped on earth because he unintentionally huged his contract holder, a grand rule for celestial spirits. Lucy tried to save him, but will it work? The appearance of the Spirit King then brings more trouble!
While on vacation at the Kingdom's best resort, Erza seems to be haunted by glimpses from her past. Erza and Happy are abducted and taken into the Tower of Heaven, to Jellal. Will Natsu and the gang be able to save them? What is the Tower of Heaven and what does it have to do with Erza's past?
It is the start of a big battle where Erza's past starts to unfold and the darkness of the tower of heaven and the R-system are revealed.
This episode takes back to "why" Erza gained her mage shugs and what happened to Jellal in the past
This episode is basically a follow on of what happens in the rebellion and the revolt against Jellal, being that two of his 'comrades' betray him to Erza. Three new enemies appear. Lucy and Juvia seems to find themselves tied up with a very loud enemy, while Natsu on the other hand is fighting with a really "fowl" enemy; who will win this game?
The revolt continues; the three enemies prove to be excellent fighters. Lucy is forced to fight Juvia of the Deep and Natsu is eaten. The battle looks grim for team Fairy Tail. We also get to take a peak on Gray's and Erza's relationship with each other when Erza first arrived at Fairy Tail. Meanwhile, Erza is still trapped at Sho's card. Who will come out on top of this twisted game?
Convinced by Siegrain's arguments the magic council prepare to fire the lethal weapon Etherion on the Tower of Heaven. Meanwhile, having beaten the leader of the assassin group Trinity Raven, Erza advances to face Jellal alone.
We will now find what is Jellal's plans and the real tower of heaven looks like. Natsu began to confront Jellal, only finding himself overpowered.Natsu starts beating up Jellal, but it was only for Jellal to see his power. Jellal uses a spell to cause him to have incredible speed and then uses another spell with the power of falling meteors.Natsu takes it,then gets up weakly reminding Jellal that the new Tower of Heaven has started to break.Natsu punches the ground and it cracks.
Natsu fights Jellal. Natsu is hardly able to scratch Jellal, having regained his true magical powers. So, deciding to just try and destroy the tower itself, he angers Jellal. Thus he launches the ultimate Heavenly Body Magic, Altairis, deciding to destroy Erza and Natsu together, not minding anymore about the destruction of the Tower. As the attack launched, Simon defended the two and died. Natsu decides to eat some of the lacrima, thinking to absorb the power of Etherion. He unleashes his true Dragon Slayer powers and continues to fight Jellal, but the Etherion, containing elements other than fire, backfired on him. But Natsu managed, and defeated Jellal. As Natsu faints, the unstable power of Etherion started to leak out of the lacrima and it will cause a huge explosion. Erza decides to fuse with the liquified lacrima to save her friends. The Etherion shot out to the sky.
Erza is in the sky floating above what looks like her funeral, as everyone is crying and Makarov is saying some words on her behalf. The 10 Wizard saints come and say they have decided to award one of the 2 open titles of one of the 10 Wizard Saints to Erza on her behalf. Natsu comes and screams that Erza is not dead, kicking flowers off of her tomb when everyone subdues him. Erza realizes that this is not what she wanted, she wanted to sacrifice herself to make everyone happy, not to see them all sad. All of a sudden she's on the beach, Natsu holding her in the water with everyone running towards them, happy to see them safe. They go with Sho and the others to invite them to join Fairy Tail, but they end up going their own way. When they get home, Fairy Tail has been rebuilt, with a lot of new additions. Juvia has joined the guild as well, and she brought Gajeel with her. Everyone is upset but Marakov calms them saying it was his decision. Later Gajeel is called out by 2 fairy tail members to the tree where he had attacked them back during the Phantom Lord ordeal to fight. He sits there and takes it without fighting back, when Laxus comes, furious that he is in the guild, and because of what people are now saying about the guild. He bets Gajeel to a pulp when the other fairy tail members realize that he is not fighting back since he wants to accepted. Laxus shoots a bolt of lightning at the girl and Gajeel jumps in front of it taking the hit. Gajeel then walks off, now injured, saying he has work to do.
Short on money, Lucy decides to compete in the Miss Fairy Contest to win the 500 000 jewel prize, in spite of stiff competition including Mirajane and Cana. However, the contest goes awry when Laxus arrives with his 3 bodyguards, the Raijinsh?. Evergreen turns the all the contestants into stone as hostage for Laxus's challenge: the Battle of Fairy Tail. To save the contestants, the entire guild must find Laxus and Raijinsh? within three hours and defeat them. However, Fried has set up runes all over Magnolia Town creating traps with specified rules, including one that prevents people over 80 from passing has been set up around the guildhouse.
The Battle of Fairy Tail moves into high gear, and Fairy Tail members are falling left and right, forced to fight each other to save their friends. With the weakest out of the way, the Raijinsh? themselves start to join in. Back at the guildhouse, Makarov, Natsu, and Gajeel are trapped. Frustrated, Natsu serendipidously frees Erza from her stone form allowing her to join the fray. To everyone's amazement, the reclusive Mystogan returns to even the odds.
Erza defeats Evergreen, freeing everyone under the stone spell. Since Laxus has lost his hostages, he takes the whole city hostage with Thunder Palace: lightning lacrimas in the sky that will rain down bolts of lightning and have been enchanted with Body Link Magic, which deals equal damage to the one who attacks it. While Fried is sent to finish off the remaining members of Fairy Tail, Laxus declares he will deal with Erza and Mystogan. Meanwhile, Levy words to dispel the runes around the guildhouse as Lucy and Happy encounter Bixlow. Despite her best efforts, Lucy is overwhelmed and her keys stolen until Loke arrives by his own will to save her and continue the battle.
Lucy and Loke defeat Bixlow while Cana and Juvia are forced to fight one another because of Fried's runes. Juvia, wishing to be accepted by the guild sacrifices herself by hitting a lightning lacrima, hurting herself for Cana. As Cana fights and loses to Freed, Elfman and Mirajane find them. When Elfman fights and loses to Fried, Mirajane unleashes her power, Satan Soul Take Over, and defeats Fried.
With all of the Raijinshu defeated, only Laxus remains. Mystogan arrives and holds his own against Laxus, but Erza and Natsu's arrival distracts him, allowing Laxus to attack and reveal Mystogan's face is the same as Jellal's. Mystogan reveals he's not Jellal but he heard of him before departing and leaving Natsu and Erza to finish the fight. Erza, too stunned by the revelation of Mystogan's identity, is ineffective against Laxus and leaves Natsu to fight him while she disables the Thunder Palace.
With Erza's magical power is running out, the remaining members of Fairy Tail step in to help disable the Thunder Palace, but are rendered unconscious by the effect of the Body Link Magic afterward. Natsu is overwhelmed by Laxus until Gajeel arrives to even the odds. Laxus reveals that he is also actually a Dragon Slayer and casts the Fairy Law spell. When Levy appears and tells Laxus that Makarov is dying, Laxus responds that his chances of being the Master has increased.
After casting Fairy Law, Laxus notices that nobody has been huged, as he in fact, never thought of any of Fairy Tail as enemies, much to his surprise. Laxus and Natsu finally clash one last time and with help of Gajeel, Natsu is able to defeat Laxus. Fantasia is postponed for 1 day, and an injured Laxus goes to Fairy Tail to have a talk with Makarov, in where he's expelled but remain in good terms. Fantasia is then hosted, just as Makarov and the rest of guild, give a sign to Laxus which was something he came up to Makarov when Laxus was a child.
