Fairy Tail 181 gets really interesting as members of Fairy Tail are facing the Executioners have been split apart in order to which they have to fight their own against their own opponents. Natsu faces the leader of the Executioners while Lucy and the others are trapped by Uosuke whereby they’re faced with terrible lava beneath them, Arcadios risks his life in order to help save the lives of Lucy and Yukino. 

Fairy Tail 181 begins as Wendy is within a large flower whereby she is trapped. She is unable to move or do anything, Cosmos mentions that she will die and become a flower. Natsu tries to fight but he’s trapped by Cosmos’ magic. Neppa also fights Lily to which they begin their fight while Mirajane goes to help, she does so by showing her amazing power.

She rescues Wendy and helps her own. She has enabled her Satan Soul to help everyone out. Kamika launches purple paper to which it freezes everyone in place to which it disallows for any movement. Cosmos brings her large flower out to which it begins to suck everyone in, as they can’t move they can’t do more.

Wendy helps everyone out by removing the seal and allowing movement. Natsu then proposes for them to completely destroy the plant itself. In doing so, they’re all scattered into different places of the Hell Palace. Hisui hears about how the Executioners have shown up, while her true plan is to help Arcadios.

We see Natsu get up to which he’s faced by Kama, he mentions that he won’t be going anywhere anytime soon, however Natsu realises that he must defeat him. Wendy keeps on looking when she meets Cosmos. Lily faces Neppa, while Lucy and the others remaining are faced by Uosuke. Mirajane is faced by Kamika.

Lucy and Yukino can’t seem to use any magic as they don’t have their keys. Lucy and Yukino mention that they’ll fight and defeat him when Arcadios mentions that he’s dangerous and that he leaves nothing but ashes when fighting his opponents.

We see the fight by Natsu and Kama whereby Natsu is told to try and remember the moments where he did bad things. We see Makarov where he remembers all the apology letters. Asuka then calls Mavis small to which she mentions that she’s the oldest person there. Everyone seems to be following the plan, Millianna finds a cat while Minerva approaches her.

Kama asks for Natsu to get ready, when he releases his weapons, we can see that he seems to be heading to cut Natsu in the neck while Natsu dodges. Neppa keeps on attacking Lily telling him that he will lose no matter what. Lily hides and tries to attack by surprise.

Mirajane seems to have been easily beat by Kamika as she mentions, Mirajane keeps on doing her thing mentioning that she could do better than this. Cosmos keeps on attacking Wendy, they introduce each other to which Cosmos releases a number of great trees to which it grows dried plums, however Cosmos mentions that they’re not dried plums, and mention that these are ten times more sour and begins to try to force feed her.

Uosuke gets serious to which the ground begins to split and lava begins to pierce through allowing for the rocks to separate from each other. Yukino and Lucy are about to fall into the lava, while both Carla and Happy are restrained. We see Arcadios give up his life to save both of them as he walks on Lava with all his power and might. Fairy Tail 181 ends here.

A great episode with a lot of build up for next week’s awesome episode. Can’t wait to see who wins between these matches and what happens to Arcadios, hopefully we can see Fairy Tail win during next week’s Fairy Tail 182, titled “Burning Ground”, when we continue with the story.