Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail

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Natsu of Fairy Tail was-

Ah, screw the formal language. He was basically running around constantly looking upward, following the future bastard that was currently controlling the seven dragons that walked through Eclipse. Said future bastard was being flown above the city by Motherglare, who could have been easily dubbed "The Adamantium Dragon" for how thick its skin was. Natsu was getting annoyed; on one hand, he didn't have enough magic power to fly up there by blasting flames through his feet, but on the other hand, running around was getting him nowhere. Plus, he would really like to avoid running into too many more walls...

Suddenly, amidst all the dust, rubble, and other scents, he picked up a familiar one, causing him to jerk his head back towards the ground in front of him. "Gah!" Instinctively, he turned towards the scent just before he hit the half-standing wall of what appeared to have once been a jail (seeing as there were metal bars and bricks everywhere). He ran until he came to a bit of a clearing in the rubble as a nearby clock tower chimed the hour in the distance, and he froze at what he saw. Not out of shock, but confusion.

In front of him, he saw familiar hair and heard a familiar voice.

"If this will set things right, then so be it!" Her hands were surrounded in rainbow magic.

He suddenly remembered her name. "Ultear, what are you doing?!"

He made it just in time. The spell simply broke alongside Ultear's concentration on channeling magic.

"Natsu? What are you doing here?" she asked. She seemed worried to him, but he put this aside in his head.

"Trying to find a way to get back up to that flying bastard!" he answered bluntly, showing his frustration. His expression softening, he then asked, "What about you?"

Ultear hesitated for a moment. On one hand, she kind of figured he would disagree strongly with her casting the spell she was preparing to cast moments earlier. On the other hand, she would never forgive herself for her many sins if she didn't at least try her best to help save the world. After that moment of deliberation, however, she remembered he would definitely interfere if she cast the spell whether she told him about it or not.

"I... I tried killing present Rogue." Seeing he was waiting for the rest, she continued, "But I was able to stop myself. Then I walked around a bit, and..." She started tearing up. "Natsu, I haven't changed at all. Before, I used to kill innocent human beings without a second thought, thinking that nothing I did would matter in the end, fooled by the idea of the Grand Magic World. I saw the error of my ways, and I founded Crime Sorciere, but... I still tried to kill an innocent man... again..." Here, Ultear finally lost her control and started to sob. Not melodramatically so, but they could still be heard. Natsu walked over to her, standing in front of her.

"Is that all?" Natsu asked stoically.

"Yes... that's the basic gist of it. I was just about to rewind time with Last Ages." Ultear was now in control of her tears and sobbing.

"'Last Ages'?" Natsu asked.

"Yeah. It's a spell that rewinds time at the expense of the caster's time. In essence, the caster dies in exchange for turning back time," Ultear explained.

"What?" Natsu asked, half angry, half worried. This rather shocked Ultear, given that she thought he would completely freak out. The silence that followed shocked her further. She had never seen him so pensive before. Finally, he spoke.

"Why?"

His voice was stoic and bordering angry. She thought he was understanding her reasoning, a new feat. She didn't even hear the voice in her head saying that Natsu wouldn't do that. This probably took the cake for shocking her. She expected him not to care about the reason why she was using a fatal spell.

"Why would you take your own life?! I never understood that!" His voice was full-blown indignant now.

Ultear fell back into depression. 'No... I suppose he wouldn't understand... my pain... my reasons... my motivation...' She was sure she was sad he wasn't trying to understand.

"Natsu... I'm thankful to Gray for giving me a second chance... But I must set things right..." (here, rainbow magic enveloped her hands again) "...to atone for my sins!"

"NOOOO!" Natsu ordered.

Just as Ultear's hands were about to hit the ground themselves, a hand pushed each one from above onto the ground. Ultear looked up to see Natsu, and yet... it wasn't Natsu. His eyes were no longer slits, but rather dark circles, charcoal pupils that looked like the abyss had sex with a black hole somehow, and they had a baby somehow, too. He was calmer than before. She looked down to see that the magic hadn't disappeared yet, even though her concentration had been broken. She mentally gasped. 'He's... he's controlling the spell! What is he doing?!'

"Arc of Time: Total Rewind... X770!" That voice wasn't Natsu's entirely. There was another voice mixed in there. However, Ultear was just shocked she heard him utter the words to an Arc of Time spell she couldn't find with all her years of research and learning.

"What did you do?!"

The magic energy floating around them suddenly exploded in a flash of light and all people around could see the pillar. Before they were completely enveloped in it, Ultear heard the same double voice that came from Natsu.

It said, "Meet Natsu... in Fairy Tail... Ultear Milkovich... Change history."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

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Yo! Yeah, I was reading a few 'time travel' fics where someone (usually Natsu anyway) travels back in time so they can redo their life. I was thinking of making this when I read the good ones (some examples are 'Time is the Path to Strength' by Repiece or 'Last Ages' by dude932) and I think this chapter turned out pretty well, despite being short. Anyway, reviews are welcome. See ya next time!