I just saw a post that said that “if Fairy Tail was really about the Power of Friendship then FACE should have been defeated by all the guilds working together and not by the dragons” and that’s just wrong.
Having FACE defeated by the dragons still upholds the power of friendship/family message becuase the reason the dragons stopped FACE was becuase they loved their Dragon Slayers and cared about humanity as a whole, so they wanted to save everyone from losing their magic.
So, essentially, the Power of Friendship summoned the dragons; it wasn’t the dragons replacing the Power of Friendship.


















