FAIRY TAIL THE MOVIE: PRIESTESS PHEONIX

Title : Fairy Tail the Movie Priestess Pheonix

Language : Japanese

Release Date : August 18, 2012

Directed By : Masaya Fujimori

Distributed By : Shochiku

Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess (Japanese: 劇場版フェアリーテイル鳳凰の巫女 Hepburn: Gekijōban Fearī Teiru: Hōō no Miko) is a 2012 Japanese animated fantasy action film based on the shōnen manga and anime series Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima. It was directed by Masaya Fujimori, and its screenplay was written by anime staff writer Masashi Sogo, while Mashima was involved as the film's story planner and character designer. Tetsuya Kakihara, Aya Hirano, Rie Kugimiya, Yuichi Nakamura, Sayaka Ōhara, Satomi Satō, and Yui Horie reprise their character roles from the anime series. The film also features Aya Endō as the titular priestess Éclair, and Mika Kanai as her birdlike companion Momon. The film was released in Japan on August 18, 2012, and on Blu-ray and DVD in North America on December 10, 2013.

Plot

Éclair (エクレア Ekurea), a priestess from Fire Village, escapes its destruction at the hands of an invading army with one of her village's two mystical Phoenix Stone halves, but is rendered unconscious. Several years later, Lucy Heartfilia finds Éclair and her birdlike companion Momon (モモン) collapsed on the streets of Magnolia while returning home from a mission. Lucy brings the two to Fairy Tail's guildhall to recover and introduces them to her friends Natsu Dragneel, Happy, Gray Fullbuster, Erza Scarlet, Wendy Marvell, and Carla. Hearing a premonition from Carla, Éclair heads to the monster-filled Boundary Forest. She reluctantly accepts Lucy and her friends' offer to accompany her, expressing a deep resentment for wizards and magic.

Suffering from post-traumatic amnesia, Éclair remembers that she must bring her Phoenix Stone half to a wizard named Kalard (カラード Karādo) living in Boundary Forest. Along the way, the group evade assault from Chase (チェイス Cheisu), a wizard from the Carbuncle guild hired by Duke Cream (クリーム Kurīmu), the vain ruler of the neighboring country of Veronica, to capture Éclair. The group eventually reach the remains of Kalard's house to discover him dead. Through a holographic message, Kalard reveals himself to be Éclair's father and tells her of a spell he created to dispel the stone's cursed magic. After Lucy sympathizes with her over her own father Jude's death, Éclair requests Fairy Tail to fulfill her father's last wish.

After the group returns to Magnolia, the Fairy Tail guildhall is destroyed by Carbuncle's leader Dist (ディスト Disuto) and his subordinates – Chase, Cannon (キャノン Kyanon), and Coordinator (コーディネーター Kōdinētā) – who kidnap Éclair. Fairy Tail's master Makarov Dreyar and guildmates Gajeel Redfox and Panther Lily arrive with news that Cream plans to combine Éclair's stone with the other half in his possession to summon a phoenix that will grant him immortality. Lucy's team goes to Veronica along with Gajeel, Lily, and Juvia Lockser to rescue Éclair, defeating Dist's henchmen there.

Combining the two stones, Cream attempts to burn Eclair as a sacrifice. Momon frees Éclair and is immolated. As Cream summons the phoenix, Dist throws him aside to attain immortality for himself. The "phoenix" appears in the form of a giant, non-avian monster and begins destroying everything around itself as Dist climbs on its back to obtain its immortality-granting blood. Natsu follows Dist and knocks him off the phoenix, but the monster continues to rampage and begins absorbing the wizards' magic for a final, cataclysmic attack.

With her memories now restored, Éclair realizes that she is immortal, having lived for 400 years after drinking the phoenix's blood to survive the destruction of her village, which is now Veronica. Makarov and the rest of Fairy Tail arrive with an arrow created by Kalard and taken from the Magic Council to destroy the Phoenix Stone. However, Makarov explains that doing so would kill Éclair along with the phoenix. To Lucy's dismay, Éclair accepts her fate as Natsu and Erza use the arrow to destroy the stone inside the phoenix's eye. Éclair's body disappears with the phoenix, and her spirit reunites with Momon's as they ascend to the sky. In the aftermath, the people of Veronica rebuild their home, Carbuncle's members are captured, the Fairy Tail wizards repair their guildhall, and Lucy smiles as she spots a young Éclair's spirit among the townsfolk.