Changes Made From The Original Manga:

1. Natsu nearly killed Gray and their fight if it hadn't been for Lucy and Juvia stopping them.

2. Master Makarov died after using Fairy Law.

3. Instead of being able to choose his path of becoming E.N.D Zeref forced Natsu's demon transformation during the final altercation.

4. Natsu remembered everything from his past his time he spent with Zeref and their parents meeting Igneel and being taught Dragon Slayer magic and his death

5. Natsu tried to kill Zeref after he told him what happened to Makarov and mocked him for being a foolish old man

6. Acnologia was killed by Anna Heartfilia and Ichiya when he was pushed into the void.

Fairy Tail 545: A New Journey Begins

It's been 3 weeks since Zeref's defeat, he was put in a prison, and Natsu had finally calmed down after Master Makarov's death.

He wanted to kill Zeref, but Lucy knew he'd never forgive himself, Zeref was his brother after all.

After Zeref's transformation had disappeared Mavis discovered his curse of contradiction had disappeared making everyone relieved.

Natsu then went up to his room and waited for him to wake up, and waited, and waited, and waited.

Lucy made him food a brought it up to him every day at the same time on the dot without even meaning too, she just knew how much Natsu ate and what times he prefers to eat.

Finally Zeref woke up after having a dream about the past he sits up straight and looks around to see Natsu "Agh, Natsu? What happened why do I feel like a hose fell on me? Where are we?" Zeref asks.

Natsu sighs "We're in the newly rebuilt Fairy Tail Guild Hall we're in the medical wing"

Zeref sighs and smiles "I see."

Natsu looks confused at his attitude so he asks "Zeref what's the last thing you remember?"

Zeref struggles to remember "I had brought you back to life and sent you away to the future but I still had things to do in the past so I went to return to school when…" he suddenly remembers everything at once "AGH! NO! it can't be! I didn't! I wouldn't! What have I done!?"

Natsu sighs "I was afraid this was going to happen you put your body through a lot of stress in that fight"

Zeref backs away falling off the bed "No stay back! I don't want to hurt you my curse of contradiction could activate at any moment!"

Natsu grabs Zeref and embraces him finally truly understanding him he didn't want to be evil it's just his whole life had forced him to become that way or else he'd kill everyone he cared about so he couldn't care about anyone "Zeref! Calm down you… you don't need to worry"

Zeref stops for a moment both confused and scared "Of course I need to worry I could end up killing you!"

Natsu laughs "Right, you need to listen closely the transformation you underwent did something now you no longer have the curse of contradiction your free to love, to care, to truly exist. We can finally be a family again."

Zeref looks down and senses that curse is nowhere "your right I don't feel it in my body I can usually sense it even if it's not active but. Wait a family after everything I've done! How can you forgive me so easily?"

Mavis walks in "Well my love it's quite simple you were forced to do those terrible things because of what your experiences forced you to believe the only way and to finally kill Acnologia could you have handled it better? Yes, do we fault you for trying to save everyone? No"

Zeref looks both shocked and happy to see Mavis so he embraces her.

Natsu turns to leave but Zeref stops him "Natsu wait! I… your Master died because of me"

Natsu shakes his head. "because of Acnologia, I'll be down stairs when you're ready and you've got one of two choices to make keep doing what you've always done wonder the world never staying in once place isolated or become a member of Fairy Tail and let your new life begin."

Natsu left only just realising how hungry he was, he was glad Lucy had helped feed him while he was waiting for Zeref to wake up, he had always liked Lucy she was a good friend but lately he'd felt something more.

He had no idea what this feeling was he just knew he had to ask someone about it "Gildarts might know" he said aloud to himself

"Know what?" Lucy asked popping up behind him out of nowhere startling Natsu

"Ah! Nothing it's nothing important" Natsu says

Lucy frowns looking at Natsu very closely making him nervous jokingly she backs off and giggles "Okay if you say so! So how's Zeref doing?"

The whole Guild grows quiet you could feel the tension not everyone was happy with the decision to let him live but after reviewing the evidence Queen Hishui decided that he did what he thought was best to defeat Acnologia and Gildarts even agreed with the death of Makarov and nearly losing Cana he decided to become more serious and not running away from his problems

Natsu nods "Good, he's awake now 1st is in there catching up with him now"

Lucy sighs in relief "That's good to hear"

Natsu nods "Um… I got something to talk to Gildarts about but we'll catch up later okay."

Lucy smiles and Nods "Of course" she smiles as Natsu walks away

Natsu sits next to Gildarts "you know there are plenty here who will turn on you now don't you Natsu?" Gildarts asks looking serious

"Your brother killed hundreds of people in his life time with all those demons he created including our master not to mention your dormant Demon side that if triggered could destroy the entire world"

Natsu nods "I know, but he's my brother as angry as I am at him I remember everything, from us watching Dad's Gladiator matches, to us going fishing to… to his face as I died in his arms, I can't just abandon him"

Gildarts nods "I understand…" he goes back into his silly mode slapping him on the back "But oh, well! Who knows maybe everyone will be happy about him joining if he chooses!" he laughs as Cana sticks a beer bottle in his mouth shutting him up

Natsu laughs "Hey, Gildarts you know a lot about girl's right?"

Gildarts chuckles "Oh, boy do I ever! What would you like to know about?"

Natsu sighs "Well it's strange I've known Lucy for ages but recently I've had this strange feeling whenever I see or think about her."

Gildarts getting intrigued looks at him "Oh… tell me more!"

Natsu sighs as he goes to continue his conversation with Gildarts

Lucy sits at the bar in the far corner as Mirajane pours her a glass of mild alcohol "I didn't order this." Lucy states looking at it questioningly.

Mirajane smiles at her saying "you looked like you could use a pick me up"

Lucy frowns "Is it that obvious!"

Mirajane smiles "only to your best friend, so what's up"

Lucy "I've just been thinking about Natsu a lot lately after all he's been worried about his brother it's only normal for his friends to worry about him right?!"

Mirajane smiles "I see, yes that's normal, but what isn't normal is a friend cooking him meals every day so he doesn't starve"

Lucy ruffles her hair "What's happening to me!? Whenever I see him, my heart starts racing"

Natsu says "Whenever I see her she's like a bright ray of sunshine that fills me up"

Lucy says "He's saved me more times than I can count"

Natsu says "she does more for me than anyone more than I probably deserve"

Lucy says "When I think back to his fight with gray and how I'm the one that started his awakening to becoming E.N.D. I can't help but feel a tight pain in my chest"

Natsu says "when I think back to when I thought she had died it feels almost like a rope is tied around my heart and it's squeezing me so hard"

Lucy says "I don't know what it is about him, but whenever I cry he's always there for me and I don't know I feel…"

Natsu "when I see her cry I want to punch the person who made her cry I dunno I feel."

Both say in their separate conversations "I feel so confused"

Gildarts thinking really hard "I'm sorry that's new one for me, that's never happened to me as long as I've known a woman except maybe with Cana's mother but apart from that and it was so long ago I don't remember what caused it"

Cana lets out a big sigh "Natsu when did this start it?"

Natsu thinks for a moment then remembers "it was a little after my one year of training and I saw Lucy again I'm not sure exactly when though"

Cana nods in understanding "Tell me what happened when you two first met."

Natsu shrugs "no idea what this has to do with what this strange feeling is but okay. There was this fake Salamander who was using charm rings to make girls fall in love with him I saw a big crowd thought it must be Igneel then interrupted his spell on Lucy and she took me out for lunch to repay me, still feel weird about it though I mean I wasn't even trying to help her."

Canna giggles "Natsu did you happen to knock any other girl out of the love spell?"

Natsu shakes his head "no. why does it matter?"

Canna smiles "because the only reason she could have possibly been brought out of her trance is if her soul-mate was there."

Natsu sighs "please just tell me what's going on?"

Canna smiles slyly at Natsu "Natsu it all those feelings you've been feeling for Lucy they can only mean one thing you are in love with her!"

Natsu shocked finally realises she's right "Wait in love! Well that would explain a few things."

Canna smiles "like what?"

Natsu nervously laughs "Well like the burning urge to punch every guy that looks at Lucy especially Loki when he flirts with her, I mean who does he think he is, I bet Lucy wouldn't think he was so great if he was just a normal guy instead of a Spirit."

Canna giggles at Natsu being jealous "Welcome to the world of being in love"

Over with Mirajane and Lucy Mirajane smiles at Lucy and says "Are you sure you have no idea why you're feeling this way, not even an idea…"

Lucy takes a skull of the drink "No, why! Oh, wait you don't mean!"

Mirajane nods "I do, you like him, and not in the small little crush kind of way, you like him in the I want to spend the rest of my life with you kind of way"

Lucy waves her off "Pft! That's crazy, you're crazy Mirajane, or am I crazy I'd have to be for falling in love with that clueless idiot!"

Mirajane smiles at Lucy not saying anything Lucy looks back at her glaring "Oh, shut up!" she takes another swig of the alcohol and starts hiccupping. "Now look at what you made me do, I'm not a very experienced drinker and you gave me an entire cup of booze!"

Mirajane ignores her and asks "So, how long do you think you've been into him huh?"

Lucy mumbles "Since after Phantom Lord"

Mirajane couldn't understand what she said so she asks again "Sorry?"

Lucy repeats more audible "Since Phantom Lord's Attack!"

Mirajane nods "So a few years now, huh?"

Lucy nods "yeah"

Mirajane whispers to Lucy "Why don't you go tell him how you feel then"

Lucy looks at her like she just asked if the sky was green and the grass was blue "you're kidding right? He's one of the most clueless guys around the only thing he loves more than food is fighting, I doubt he even knows I exist"

Glidarts says to Natsu "take my advice kid, tell her how you feel"

Natsu looks at Gildarts horrified "Are you insane! She loves looking pretty and Celestial Spirits we're friends but she probably doesn't know I exist if you know what I mean"

Canna sighs "boys I tell ya doesn't matter how they're raised or what type of magic they use, they're always the same, they're all idiots! If you don't tell her how you feel you'll never know how she feels!"

Mirajane says to Lucy in her usual sweet caring voice "But Lucy if you don't tell him how you feel how will you ever know how he feels?"

Both in their individual conversations stand up at the same time and Lucy say to Mirajane the same thing Natsu says to Gildarts and Canna "You're right I'm gonna go tell him/her how I feel"

Natsu and Lucy walk over to each other and shout speaking over each other "Can we talk I have something I need to tell you!" they both look at each other and smile

Up on the second floor balcony they are having trouble starting the conversation until finally Lucy says "Natsu?"

Natsu nods "yeah, Lucy"

Lucy sighs "This isn't easy for me to say, I've known you for a while so I care about you I have for a long time but you need to know something I have no idea if you feel the same way, I just know if I don't tell you I'll regret for the rest of my life"

Natsu doesn't say anything but he nods acknowledging the strength it's taking Lucy to confess to him. "Natsu the truth is, I've been in love with you since you saved me from Phantom Lord. You go all out for a girl like that and she's bound to fall for you"

Natsu smiles "that's a relief"

Lucy looks at Natsu confused "It is?"

Natsu nod "yeah, you see the truth is I have no idea when I fell for you but I first noticed a little after we reunited Fairy Tail and when I thought you were dead, I had nothing left to live for it felt like a hole had been ripped straight through my heart, I love you Lucy I don't know what would happen if I ever lost you."

Lucy smiles at Natsu and Natsu smiles at Lucy and they both kiss everyone watch smiles as Happy sitting on a table watches smiles and says "They like each other"

Everyone laughs when suddenly they feel intense magical pressure and two people walk in through the front door.

The first was a young girl about the same age as Natsu and Lucy in fact you'd think she was Lucy if not for the pink cherry blossom hair.

The second person to walk through the door was a guy a little taller than the girl he had dark black hair and looked just like Gajeel except shorter hair and no piercings but with the same eyes as Levy.

They also had Fairy Tail Guild Marks even though no one had seen them before.

Gildarts walked up to them and says "I'm sorry but you know it's illegal to wear a guild mark without being affiliated with them."

The girl embraces Gildarts being overly familiar with him "Uncle Gildarts! I'm so happy to see you again!"

The boy just groans and says while grabbing the girl off "You know we went back in time to before we were even born so there's no way they'd remember us right Nashi?!"

Nashi thinks then giggles "Oh, right sorry Gale!"

Gildarts looks questioningly at them "Who are you!?" He booms at them making everyone listen even more intently

Nashi smiles "Allow me to introduce myself I'm Nashi, Nashi Dragneel"

Gildarts raises an eyebrow "Who are your parents?"

Nashi sighs finding it weird he hasn't figured it out already "seriously?!" she sighs "fine, my parents are Natsu Dragneel and Lucy Heartfilia I think I'm born in the next three to two years"

The entire guild laughs Gale steps forward and says "I'm Gale, Gale Redfox-McGarden my parents are Gajeel Redfox and Levy McGarden"

Natsu walks over and sniffs both of them Nashi trying to hold back her excitement "Hey the smell like a combination of me Lucy, Levy and Gajeel but also a little like the Eclipse" he says with a little confusion.

Nashi can't hold back she jumps at Natsu hugging him "Daddy! I'm sorry I know you don't know who I am but…" she starts crying into him "I've missed you so much!"

Lucy looks at them not knowing what to say so she just watches in amazement as her future daughter embraces her apparent future husband.

Gale looks shocked and scared "Crap! It's Nashi's Mum!"

Gale hides behind Gildarts as quickly as he can then he looks up to see Levy standing behind Gajeel who's sniffing him "yep he's not wrong so you came from the future huh?"

Gale looks at his Dad and looks away "Tsk, why should I tell you anything?"

Gajeel getting ticked off "Why you little…!"

Gajeel is shocked when he feels Gale hugging him "You Bastard!" Gale shouted "Why! Why weren't you there! You could have saved her or at least tried!"

Gajeel not sure what to do "Then…" Levy holds Gale' hand "So you're my future son are you?" she touches her tummy and looks at Gale "I can't wait to meet you."

The guild suddenly grew quiet a group of kids claiming to be the future children of their Dragon Slayers but why would they be here and what could drive them to such extremes.