Fairy Tail 161 begins with another day with their first challenge of Chariot. Natsu, Gajeel and even Sting put themselves forward for the challenge, unfortunately the Dragon Slayers  couldn’t do much because of their motion sickness. We then see a lot of Bacchus as he visits Erza, as well as wins the Chariot challenge gaining 10 points for his team.

Fairy Tail 161 begins with Cana drinking as much as she fancies. Everyone is also somehow celebrating at the fact that they will do better the next day. Natsu is up for tomorrow, even Gajeel wants to partake in the next days challenge. Levy notices that Gray and Lucy aren’t there. Juvia thinks of a romantic moment between both Lucy and Gray, when they appear telling Juvia that she’s got a lively imagination.

Makarov puts his drink telling all the brats that they’ll have to do better from yesterday and beat everyone in the next day. We’re at the kingdom where Arcadios is talking to the King, he requests for a match between the shape shifter from Fairy Tail and Bacchus. Natsu just beat Max from a game they were just playing.

We notice a man come in to ask Cana if she wants to have a drinking match. Everyone tells the man that it’s a bad choice that he’s making because she can drink the most from Fairy Tail. After the drinking match, we see that Bacchus has completely won, he takes Cana’s bra as his price. Wakaba and Macao confront him when he dodges one of their attacks.

Using his drunk style, he face slams both Wakaba and Macao, this is the point where Erza shows up. Bacchus quickly notices Erza, he says hello, Erza just tells him that his mouth stinks of all the drinking. Erza mentions that Bacchus isn’t participating in the Grand Magic Games, however at this point. Bacchus corrects her telling her that because of War Cry, he had to step in as the reserve member. He leaves at this point.

Porlyusica asks Carla what she saw from her premonition, Carla mentions that they were fragments which included a white knight, large magic circle, a broken castle and inside it was Lucy. The next begins with the challenge, Chariot! It runs from a long distance away, challengers must run through the Chariot to the goal, the ones who fall are disqualified.

We notice that Natsu, Gajeel and even Sting are the bottom three, while other members are way above them. This is caused by their Motion sickness, it seems like even Third Generation Dragon Slayers have this. They all keep on going as quickly as they can.

Black Snake, Ichiya, Yuka, Risley and Bacchus are all going strong. Yuka tries his tricks but Ichiya and Risley counter attack them. At this point, Bacchus notices that everyone else is trying hard to win. So he gives it more effort and just destroys all the chariot around him pushing everyone back. He then runs as fast as he can which gets him to the finish line first, even passing Black Snake.

Next is Black Snake, then Risley, Yuka and then Ichiya. At the back, Gajeel, Sting and Natsu are still going. At this point, Sting asks why they’re trying so hard at this point, while before they didn’t care about anything, they just went in their own pace. Natsu replies with a fantastically emotional speech which makes everyone cry.

He mentions that he’s doing all this for all his family and friends in Fairy Tail. They’ve been waiting for such a long time, keeping Fairy Tail alive, as they wait for them to return, they’ve been very sad but always had hope that they would be back, so all their efforts now are for them!

Fairy Tail team A finally get their first points, Gajeel also get their second point. Everyone around them start to reconsider that Fairy Tail are very powerful as well as care for each other. Sting mentions that he doesn’t care about any of them. Everyone notices that Sabertooth have been made second.

Lucy is watching over Natsu in the sick bay, she asks if he’s okay, Porlyusica mentions that he’s only got motion sickness, she then asks about Wendy, Porlyusica replies with that she’s been coming along well and is getting better and better. Lucy leaves the sick bay, Porlyusica asks Carla if she’s not going to say anything.

The battle part starts with Black Snake and Toby. The match starts, Toby goes for the hit but keep missing, we then find out that Black Snake can use and mimic all kinds of magic which allows him to copy, he uses and mimics Max’s allowing him to attack Toby. They keep on fighting until Fairy Tail 161 ends.

A great chapter in which an emotional speech from Natsu was seen, plus a great match between two great members have started, hopefully we get to see other members fight. Can’t wait for next week’s Fairy Tail 162, titled “Elfman vs Bacchus”, when we see Elfman go up against Bacchus, now that’s going to be a great match!