FT100YQ Episode 17

Strength to Live is the 17th episode of the Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest anime.
The battle against Metro continues as it takes most the members of Fairy Tail, Lucy, Gray, and Juvia included. During the battle, Juvia is captured by Metro. After being asked what she means to him, Gray declares that she is his strength to live. Gray and Juvia combine with a Unison Raid to destroy Metro. Meanwhile Brandish, who is spectating the destruction upon Aldoron, offers to increase the size of Gajeel to compete against the Wood Dragon God.
==Summary==
===Short: Brandish On The Town===
===Main Story===
At the Right Hand Town, the Fairy Tail continue their fight against the wood golems. Lucy manages to take one down with her Aquarius x Scorpio Star Dress, but collapses after using too much Magic Power. They plead for Gray and Juvia to beat Metro quickly as more golems keep coming. 
The ice and water Mages face off against the God Seed, who proclaims that he is Aldoron's power and that it will crush all. The golem crushes Juvia, but it proves ineffective due to her water body. Juvia tries to attack, but Metro absorbs her into his body. Gray demands he release her, dodging the God Seed's Water Ray in the process. He tries to attack, but falters, not wanting to risk hurting Juvia. Metro commands the golem to punch Gray while asking what this woman means to him and if she is his strength. Gray states that she is his strength to live, making the God Seed threaten to make her vanish. Suddenly, Juvia starts boiling and hurting Metro, completely enamored by Gray's proclamation.
Gray tries to get Juvia to calm down, afraid of what Metro could do while she is like this. However, he gets an idea and asks to borrow the water Mage's body, which she joyously allows. He freezes her body, managing to get her out of the God Seed's body, and uses her to form a hammer to attack their enemy. With their opponent disoriented, they perform a Unison Raid, creating an Ice Wave, and defeat him. With Metro gone, the wood golems start to disappear. Aldoron gives out another bellow as another God Seed has fallen. Gray asks Juvia if she is fine and apologizes for using her body. She does not mind and tries to get Gray to repeat what he called her earlier. Gray reminds her that their friends are in trouble, but does tell her that he is glad she is safe before they regroup with the others.
Now having a moment to just talk, the other Fairy Tail mages question why they are here. Brandish plainly informs them that they are on top of a Dragon, having visited Drasil to try the Aldoron Parfait. She asks if they could handle this, offering her help to make someone bigger to beat Aldoron, reminding them that she is called the "Nation Destroyer". Though, it cannot just be anyone as their enemy is a Dragon, making everyone look at Gajeel. Meanwhile, at the Left Hand Town, having assessed his opponent in a fight, Gears raises his Magic Power. Gear-shaped magic circles appear Jellal on his body as the God Seed deems the Mage unnecessary.
Jellal questions what these are, which Gears explains that they are gears that rob him of his thoughts. The Mage feels that his movements are sluggish and is unable to react to his opponent's attacks. He tries to use Meteor to counter this Slowing Magic, but instead of actually using it, only an image of him using the spell appears. Gears states that he has forgotten how to use Magic and punches him. Jellal wonders what to do as his mind is not working. His vision of his opponent changes into Erza, and Gears asks if she is who he saw as his gears come loose as he throws another punch. Elsewhere, Erza wakes up and tries to stand, having sensed Jellal's Magic. Laxus tells her that her boyfriend is not that weak, embarrassing her as she denies this. 
Back to the fight, Jellal is bombarded with attacks from his enemy, his consciousness starts fading and he thinks he is going to be killed by Erza. He dejectedly notes how fair this is, since he has been nothing but a problem for her. A voice tells him to stop festering on this, saying that his goal now is to live. The voice is revealed to be Ultear, who tells him that his body and thoughts have been stopped by Magic. With time standing still, they are in a time-distorted world. The Time Mage notes that this has happened once before and that she can only exist in a place like this. She reminds him of what Erza has done for him, telling him to live for her sake and that this is his new path. Before Ultear disappears completely, she encourages him to break through Gears' Magic. Time starts moving again and Jellal realizes that "guilt" is the foundation to this magic. He creates a Thought Projection of his Siegrain persona who carries his sins, and in the process, transfers the Magic circles onto him. He finishes off the God Seed with Grand Chariot. He states that his gears have finally overlapped with Erza's and tells him to stay out of their way.
God Seed Aldoron senses Gears's defeat, questioning if humans have grown so strong these past few centuries. Natsu asks if he is a Dragon who hates humans, but the God Seed answers that he has no feelings towards nutrients. He explains that he had towns built across his body and absorbed the life force of the humans living on him, doing so for generations revived him. Though now he no longer needs them as with his power, he will consume the other Dragon Gods, planning to start with Ignia's brother. Natsu claims that only Zeref is his brother as he and the God Seed prepare for battle.
==Characters in Order of Appearance==
==Battles & Events==
*Natsu Dragneel vs. Aldoron (God Seed)
*Gray Fullbuster & Juvia Lockser vs. Metro (concluded)
*Jellal Fernandes vs. Gears (concluded)
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*Swordsmanship
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*Water Power Absorption (ウォーター パワー吸収 Wōtā Pawā Kyūshū)
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==Manga & Anime Differences==
*In the anime, Brandish's ice cream tower does not have a bite taken out of the uppermost scoop.
*A close-up of the Aldoron Parfait is added.
*When Brandish is eating the parfait, her Alvarez mark is visible on her right thigh, creating an inconsistency in the anime.
*The anime shows Fairy Tail's counterattack against the golems prior in more detail.
*Lucy's Star Dress Mix Aquarius x Scorpio Form transformation has the following differences in the anime:
** Lucy's glove does not disappear when the symbol appears on the back of her left hand.
** Close-ups of the dress's armor are shown in place of Lucy's nude body.
** When Lucy's transformation completes, she does not have two rings of sandy water floating around her.
*Aqua Stream in the anime has streams of water and sand crisscrossing instead of one thick stream of sand and water side-by-side.
*Chunks of the wood goldem breaking off after it is hit with Aqua Stream are not shown in the anime.
*In the anime, Water Nebula hits Metro before he absorbs it.
*The anime adds a scene of Gray putting some distance between himself and Metro after Juvia gets absorbed.
*Gray dodging Water Ray is extended in the anime.
*Gray's Ice Make: Lance avoids Metro by going to his sides, then upward in the anime, while in the manga, the lances move in multiple directions away from Metro, including downwards. Additionally, the anime shows the lances hitting and damaging the scenery.
*In the anime, Metro is shown acknowledging Gray calling Juvia his strength to live before Juvia's eyes become hearts.
*The anime keeps the blood on Gray's face when he is shown surprised by Juvia boiling, fixing a possible error from the manga.
*When Juvia moves her head from side to side, her mouth stays open in the anime while it is initally closed in the manga.
*When Juvia is frozen, her hat remains dark in the manga, while in the anime, it is fully frozen.
*In the anime, Juvia Hammer only has her face, while in the manga, it has her hands, hat, and hair on it.
*The anime also shows the wood golem being hit by Ice Wave instead of only Metro.
*In the anime, the wood golems disappear almost instantaneously after glowing instead of fading while diffusing as in the manga.
*Brandish is seen taking another bite out of her parfait as she says that she emphasizes the fact that the enemy is a dragon in the anime. Additionally, more members of Fairy Tail are seen turning towards Gajeel than in the manga.
*A location title card is added when the scene changes to Jellal's fight.
*In the anime, Gears's hand glows after he mimics a gear's motion.
*The gears are floating just above Jellal's clothes in the anime instead of overlaid on top of them as in the manga.
*In the anime, the image of Erza appears from a fog instead of transforming from Gears.
*No trails of magic are seen around Ultear's body when she appears in the anime.
*When Ultear tells Jellal to think of what Erza has done for him, her mouth does not move in the anime. Furthermore, only one image of Erza is seen instead of the multiple flashback images shown in the manga.
*The casting of Grand Chariot is shown in more detail in the anime.
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