Lucy my L-O-V-E! Will you bear my children?
Chapters: N/A, Episodes: 128-150
Short Summary
A filler arc that takes place after the Seven Years Arc. A mysterious girl name Michelle suddenly comes looking for Lucy, delivering a clock key as her inheritance from her father. However a militia like church is likewise after the key and the clock pieces of which it unlocks. Forcing the Fairy Tail members to search for the pieces before they do and try to stop their plan.Main Summary
Key of the Starry Sky Arc has the following tropes:
- Arc Villain/Big Bad: Ultimately Midnight or "Brain II" as he now calls himself.
- Audience? What Audience?: When Lisanna casually mentions she decided to wear a bikini and transform into a mermaid because she's been Out of Focus and wanted to give "the people" some Fanservice, Elfman looks deeply confused about what she means.
- Back from the Dead: Klodoa, who was crushed by Zero in the Oracion Seis Arc.
- Bittersweet Ending: Oracion Seis is stopped and the Infinity Clock is destroyed. But Michelle/Imitatia is reverted back into a doll. Cobra has to leave Kinana again for jail after briefly reuniting with her, though they're both still happy to have seen each other again. And the Legion Corp, while making peace and apologizing to Fairy Tail for their actions, have to set out and find the clock pieces once more which will likely take their lifetimes to locate. The beginning of the Grand Magic Games arc also reveals that Fairy Tail's actions in this arc have likewise not won them over with the public.
- Blob Monster: Sugarboy's power which summons blob monster that sap one's strength.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Lisanna's stated reason for her bikini-clad mermaid form:"I haven't been seen much lately, so I thought I'd appeal to the people, you know?"
- The Bus Came Back: Erigor of Eisenwald is back as a member of the newly-formed Oracion Seis.
- Church of Happyology: The Zentopia Church
- Continuity Nod: Midnight uses the same spell on Natsu that Zero did back in the Oracian Seis Arc which would've been the end for him as Natsu didn't have the Flame of Rebuke to burn out of it that time. However thanks to Lucy using the power of the Infinity Clock and turning it against Midnight, Natsu is able to break free.
- Gotta Collect Them All: The clock parts.
- A Day in the Limelight: Several minor members of Fairy Tail get a chance to shine a bit more in this arc, most notably Romeo (part of the main team even!), Laki (who gets a Back-to-Back Badass moment with Gildarts of all people), Warren (who's instrumental in keeping everybody in contact near the end), and Max (who actually gets a chance to fight alongside Erza at one point).
- Designated Girl Fight: Mirajane VS Mary Hughes. But this trope is averted for the rest of the arc.
- Disney Villain Death: Midnight is defeated by being knocked into a rock wall by Natsu which crumbles and sends him falling into an abyss. Subverted though as Midnight survives and reappears in the story later with the rest of the Oracion Seis in the Tartaros Arc.
- Distaff Counterpart: Mary Hughes to her Edolas counterpart, and Dan who fills in for Erza Knightwalker.
- Doom Doors: Heard in episode 134, when Juvia shifts the floating magic blocks into place.
- Foregone Conclusion: Fairy Tail won't be recognized as the strongest guild until the Grand Magic Games arc.
- Fusion Dance:
- Mary does this in the climax of her fight against the Strauss siblings by stealing and later merging with Mirajane's Satan Soul form. It doesn't help her against Mirajane's Satan Soul: Halphas.
- Happens to Lucy herself due to being fused with the Infinity Clock/Castle as part of Midnight's plan to summon and control it. While the heroes are unable to prevent her merger with the Doomsday Device, Lucy is able to break through Midnight's control and use its power to help defeat him before using it to seal the Infinity Castle away again and free herself.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: During the final fight between Gildarts and Byro, both combatants decide to disperse with using their magic (which they shown they're unable to do any meaningful damage to each other with) and fight hand-to-hand, with Byro boasting he's been trained to defeat fifty men at once. Byro's confidence swiftly starts turning into disbelief as Gildarts not just holds his own, but overpowers him while expressing enjoyment of a good punch-up and demanding Byro keep pace, with a winded Byro by the end admitting to himself he just can't keep up.
- Heel–Face Turn:
- Earthland Coco. In fact, it's pretty similar to her Edolas counterpart as she both befriends Lucy and switch sides after questioning her group's motives.
- Likewise Imitatia near the end of the arc after realizing the Infinity Clock was erase Lucy's existence when it absorbs her.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Midnight aka Brain II is beaten when he realizes at the last moment that the Oración Seis's seals were likewise preventing Lucy from taking over the clock. With the rest of the members beaten (including Imitaia by his own hand no less) Lucy was able to take control of the Infinity Clock and turn it against him while saving Natsu from Midnight's ultimate attack. Which allowed Natsu to beat him in a more even fight.
- Luck-Based Search Technique: Done twice in episode 136. Flinging Dan Straight against the wall triggers the mechanism that reveals the clock piece. The very next scene has Cana and Carla try and escape the Jiggle Butt Gang's, er, "attack" and accidentally knock over a bookcase with a secret passage behind it.
- Mêlée à Trois: Between Fairy Tail, the Legion Corps, and later Oración Seis, though the former two eventually team up against the latter.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: The Legion Crops go through this in the second half of the arc when the Zenotopia's Arch-Bishop gives them orders to attack fellow churches for no particular reason. It's later found out the Zenotopia church second in command, Lapointe, was a puppet controlled by the Oración Seis's who was brainwashing the Arch-Bishop for their plans and in turn, using the Legion members as pawns.
- Never Say "Die": In heavily-accented English, Bisca quips "One shot, one ''down''".
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Fairy Tail manage to collect all the clock parts. But in doing so they gather them all in one place for the Oración Seis to take from them later and activate the doomsday device. They also find out later that they were just supposed to protect the clock part Lucy's father sent, not collect the pieces.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Mary Hughes when Mirajane switches to her Satan Soul: Halphas form and trashes her completely despite having taken control of Mirajane's first Satan Soul form.
- Lucy when she re-read the Starry Sky book and realizes she was just supposed to protect the clock piece given to her, not collect the parts.
- Gildarts and Laki when they find a comatose woman in one of the Zenotopia churches and find out her name is Michelle Lobster, coming to the realization the "Michelle" traveling with Lucy is fake.
- Imitatia when Midnight reveals the Infinity Clock will absorb Lucy and cause everyone, her included, to forget her existence which is the opposite of what Imitatia wanted.
- Midnight when he realizes that the Oración Seis's seals were the only things keeping Lucy in check as she's merged with the Infinity Clock. With all the members now beaten, the seal is too weak and she can use the clock's power against him.
- Only Six Faces: Good luck figuring out anime-original character Katja isn't just a slightly Off-Model Kinana from her cryptic, context-free introduction!
- Orphaned Etymology: In the Crunchyroll sub, Lucy and her companions shout out phrases related to "open sesame" to open a crypt door, indirectly referencing Ali Baba, and then somebody shouts out Sesame Street, a television program which couldn't possibly exist in the television-free Earthland.
- People Puppets: Mary Hughes power, which, unlike her Edolas counterpart, can actually control people.
- Pet the Dog: After Cobra and Kinana reunite, Lahar and Doranbolt show up to cart Cobra away. Kinana is ready to fight to protect Cobra, but Cobra hearing their thoughts about having to lock her up too if she's an accomplice to the Oracion Seis leads him to give himself up willingly and deny any involvement with her. Of course, Kinana realizes this is a moment of Cruel to Be Kind and tearfully lets him go, but both still happy and satisfied they did indeed find each other again.
- Poor Communication Kills:
- If the Zentopia church had bothered to tell Fairy Tail what the clock pieces were for in the first place rather then attacking them, none of this would've happened.
- Likewise the case with Michelle/Imitatia who could've prevented the whole arc from happening if she had just simply told Lucy who she really was when they first met instead of blindly following Brain II.
- Unexpected Inheritance: The clock hand Lucy's father leaves to her.
- Walking the Earth: The ultimate fate of the Legion Corps after everything concludes. They once more go to search for the clock pieces but as the pieces no longer have magical power, it'll be more difficult to find them and likely will take them their lifetime to locate all of them.
- Wham Episode: Gildarts and Laki manage to infiltrate one of the Zentopia's churches and defeat the inhuman church members inside. However, as they go further inside they find a woman in a comatose state being kept alive by a magical machine. Reading her charts they find that she's Michelle Lobster. The following episode reveals that the Michelle who was traveling with Lucy's group is indeed a spy, the true sixth member of the Oración Seis, who calls herself Imitatia later revealed to be a doll of Lucy's that Midnight brought to life.
- The Worf Effect: Fairy Tail gets hit hard by this in their first fights against Legion, with Gildarts getting stalemated by Byro and Mirajane just getting taken out before she can do anything. However the rematches end decisively in Fairy Tail's favor, once they get their act together.
- Worf Had the Flu: Erza and Gray were missing from the initial fight, due to being on a mission along with Juvia.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Lucy screams this when she realizes after getting her mind back that she's fully merged with the Infinity Castle and it's practically her "body" now.
