many references to Groove Adventure rave.

I also like the fact that the successive work to Groove Adventure Rave has a character named from a season.

wimpiest..evil..demon..ever

they beat that thing way too easily

also, worst..evil..plan..ever

how was that thing supposed to destroy the mage council? it probably would have got it's ass kicked by the townspeople at the trainstation

Seems the mage council is both upset with and forced to admit the power of Fairy Tail. I'm not sure exactly what the council's true motives are (my Japanese is limited) but it seems they have an ulterier motive for blaming the prior incident on Erza.

Bonus issue was nice too. :D

Well those storyline traces I mentioned above didn't take that long to dissapear, instead the introduction of two new strong Fairy Tail members, and the start of a new mission. A short summary:

Natsu and Elsa (yeah that's her official name) are back in the guild headquarters, and Natsu asks Elsa to finish the fight they began. Elsa is tired but promptly agrees by knocking Natsu out in one blow. Suddenly everyone falls asleep except the leader. It's Mistgun (?? - hey I don't claim to be a katakana expert). Because of his ability to make everyone around him sleepy nobody ever sees his face when he comes for missions, except for the leader. No, there is one more who has seen his face, a voice from the 2nd floor claims to have seen it. The voice is that of Luxus (Rakusasu in katakana, but I'm fairly sure it's luxus...). He's on the 2nd floor because he is one of the five persons in the guild that are qualified enough to take the S class quests that are published there. The others are the leader, Mistgun, Elsa and one more unknown person.

To prove himself, Natsu's attempting an S class mission, because he's awaiting Lucy in her house :D with a quest Happy's stolen from the 2nd floor. Because it's their first S class mission, he took the one with the lowest pay, a cursed island of some sort. Lucy is adamant about not coming with them, until she notices that part of the reward is a gold key. Her greedyness gets the better of her.

Back at headquarters people find out what Natsu & co are up to, and Gray is sent to bring them back. He catches up to them at Harujion, the port city from chapter 1 where they are looking for a ship to take them to the island Garuna (again, could be Galna etc). Natsu knocks him out, and because he's afraid Elsa will come after them next if Gray comes back emptyhanded, they tie him up and take him along. :heh: There's a dramatic tone to the last few pages of chapter 25, so lets hope this quest brings about a more substantial storyline.

the boatman shows the group his cursed arm and they are shocked. later he points to the island ahead and gets lost. happy searches for the man but he is nowhere to be found. suddenly a storm breaks out and when they come to themselves they find themselves on the island. since they are on the island iceman agrees to join to the mission. after a little search they reach the town that asked for help. the city is protected by high wooden walls and after they believe that the group is from the guild ( a slight fanservice:) )townspeople let mages in. the chief of the town explains that they are under a curse and their body parts are monster like. the village is famous for its moon and since it turned into purple every night the moon rises they turn into monsters. first they dont believe but after they witness the transformation they are out of words. and the s rank mission for them is to destroy the moon :D