

During the Grand magic games, they were not able to actually defeat all the
dragons that came out of Eclipse gate. The dragons as well as future Rouge and
Lucy just disappeared and went back to their own timeline when the Eclipse
gate was destroyed.

But as Zeref stated, Natsu and the other dragon slayers are from the past and
traveled to current timeline using the same Eclipse gate.

So why didn't they disappear as well when the Eclipse gate was destroyed?

Possible plothole??


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Why didn't the Dragon slayers disappear when the eclipse gate was destroyed?


**First** (and more importantly): According to the Wikia page of the Eclipse
Gate (sorry, I couldn't find the actual chapter where the princess actually
explains this):

> Many years later, after a different Eclipse Gate is constructed, following
> the conclusion of the fourth day of the X791 Grand Magic Games, Arcadios and
> Yukino bring Lucy, Natsu and their friends before the gate while attempting
> to persuade Lucy to help with the Eclipse Project.

So this is not the same Eclipse Gate that was constructed by Zeref and used by
Anna and Layla to bring the dragon slayers into the present, therefore
destroying it can't have an effect on whether the dragon slayers are present
in the current timeline or not.

**Second** : Evil Rogue and his dragons disappeared, because the gate that he
used in the _future_ to come back to the present was destroyed in the
_present_ , therefore he won't be able to use it to come back to the present,
therefore he wouldn't be able to bring the dragons from the past. This same
logic doesn't apply for time travel which brings people to the future: no
matter what you do with the time travelling device _after_ they arrived, they
will be still there as there is no need for the time travelling device to keep
them there.

(Other than this, yes, time travel in most of the stories sucks and is usually
full of plot holes. Fairy Tail is no different, there are lots of open
questions. With Eclipse destroyed why didn't we go back to the original
timeline with 10000 dragons destroying everything? Or why did the city
remained destroyed after the dragons disappeared? Well, at least we didn't get
a "Back To The Future"-like "timelines slowly change, there's still time to
save your parents' marriage" plot hole.)


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They also would have had to have built the gate 400 years in the past to bring
the dragons so the whole idea is full of holes like a lot of Fairy Tail.
Although it's a good show they just constantly contradict previously stated
facts


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The gate was destroyed and got rid of future rogue and future lucy because
they came from the future which didnt happen yet. And since it didnt happen
they disappeared along with anything They changed like the dragons crossing
the gate. It didnt make the dragon slayers disappear bevabecauseuse they
crossed the gate a long ass time ago and it didnt have anything to do with
future rogue or lucy. So anything before the grand magic games and before that
would still be there.


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It's possible we didn't see the future with the 10000 dragons because Fro
didn't die. Think of it, if Fro died, that means that Rough will kill Sting.
That leads us to the war vs Zeref. Maybe Natsu didn't win since Sting was
dead, so Rough probably did some stupid thing (that didn't lead to the manga
place).

Because of that, maybe Zeref lost to Acnologia after he defeated Natsu and
Acnologia controlled the world, or Natsu defeated Zeref but lost to Acnologia
because Sting wasn't there, and Rough probably fought Acnologia and all the
other dragon slayer.

Well maybe this thing is my theory but it sounds like something that would
happen.


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