Chapter 1

AN : Hi there ! So, this is my first Fairy Tail fanfiction :) I'm doing here an alternative version of the end of GMG arc, with as main event the dragon battle (it means an alternative present and future). I'm going to use lots of canon quotes from the manga but I also want to explore the future especially Lucy's, Levy's and Yukino's. This is the story of how Lucy and Yukino, instead of Lucy alone, managed to go back in time and try to save the future. The main pairings for this story are Natsu/Lucy and Sting/Yukino but you will also have Rogue/Kagura, Lyon/Meredy, Mirajane/Laxus, Gajeel/Levy, Gray/Juvia, Erza/Jellal because it's gonna be a long story. Even if you don't like one of these pairings, you could read this story because you won't have only Lucy's and Yukino's POV and I'm going to make lots of friendship scenes, most importantly, shipping is not the main thing here (although it has an important place) : saving the future is, and how they are trying to do too. I'm going to take time to develop the story like I want, and consider and two futures after the dragons' invasion (the first one with future !Lucy and future !Levy and the second one with Acnologia ruling the world, where future !Rogue is).

Protect the future by ElenaDeSevilla

Prologue : Write another story

Lucy's woke up with a feeling of pain crossing her entiere body. She had blood and dirt all over her and tears were still streaming on her cheeks but she made it. They made it. At this moment, she felt a feeling she thought she would never feel again : hope. Opening her eyes, she looked next to her and saw Yukino in the same state as her.

"Yukino, wake up. Please !", she burbled in a croaky voice.

"Lucy-sama...", she bagan. Astonished, Yukino stared at her eyes wide open. "We... We're Alive ?!"

"We made it, Yukino ! We went back in time", she answered. "We still have a chance to... to change our future, to prevent all these horrible events and -"

She didn't continue her sentence though. They stood up and looked around : the street was empty. Yukino pointed out the sky with her finger : the moon was glowing. Before going somewhere else, Lucy summoned Virgo to change their dirty clothes.

"Open ! Gate of the Virgin." "Virgo !"

"You called me, Princess. What can I do for you ?" she asked.

"Can you change both of our clothes please ? We must not be seen for now."

"As you wish, Princess", she said while changing their clothes. They were now wearing both full-body hooded cloaks hiding them, with outfit from the celestial spirit world.

"Thank you, Virgo", said Lucy before she spirit left.

Opening the Eclipse Gate was a desperate last act to try to live on, so they didn't think much of a plan, meaning they have to save the future without knowing how. It was 4th July since merely 2 hours, according to Horlogium, so 3 days before the arrival of the 10 000 dragons and they were both alone. Yukino opened her eyes, as if she remembered something.

"We have to find Jellal-sama and tell him !"

"But how-" and then she remembered. At the moment, she didn't know why his last words to them were this or why he gave her his necklace, still around her neck but now... "So he knew", she said with a shadow of a smile on her face. Even though themselves were not sure at all about going back to the past, he knew they would succeed.

"Do you know where is it, Yukino ?"

"It's almost at the exit of Crocus, near of the ruins of an old construction."

"Let's go !"

The wind was as fast as a train, but they kept walking through the city they even walked pass Bar Sun. Lucy began to cry but rapidly turned her head and began to walk away, thanks to Yukino's support who had placed a hand on her shoulder. They finally reached the place where Jellal was. They were standing here, waiting for him to show up with his fellows. No need to look out for them, they were behind thm, ready to fight.

"We'll show you who we are. Show me your faces too." said Jellal, still dressed up as Mystogan.

He looked at the uncovered parts by the capes and questioned bewildered "Women ?"

The two women in question turned "It's us", both said removing their hoods.

"No way ! How could you two be here ?" he stated, eyes wide open by seeing the two Celestial Spirit mages. That's impossible, this magic, thought Jellal.

"We...We're from the future. In 3 days, 10 000 dragons will return and we'll lost to destiny. We have to prevent these events", anwsered future-Lucy.

"What you just said is just non sense...How could you even come from the future, if all of this is true ?", asked Jellal perplexed by this story.

Lucy seemed to clean into the marrow of the young man's thoughts and showed his necklace around her neck. Speechless, he watched his own necklace in her possession and automatically touch his neck. His necklace was still with him.

"We knew you would say that. You knew it yourself. That's why you gave it to me."

"But...How ? I would never take it away from me except-" By seeing the young women' faces, it will happen. He's gonna die.

Jellal felt his strengh running out. At this rate, he would die in a few three months of intense battle against something they couldn't even beat were hell but he carried on for Erza, for everyone's sake. With his sigh blurred and his numb body, he was slowly falling, when Lucy and Yukino arrived to catch him.

"Jellal-sama...Jellal-sama, can you hear us ?" shouted Yukino, panicked at the sight of so much blood.

He nooded with his head and said, spitting blood "Wh-Where is Erza ?"

"She's w-with Gray, they're battling against two of them."

"You know, I still remember the ti-the time where I watched the sky and the moutains on the edge of Crous, it wasn't a long time ago, in fact." Feeling Lucy's and Yukino's tears falling on his cheeks, he smiled at them, with all expression of pain gone.

Lucy, as well as Yukino, didn't know why he was saying that but let him talk. "If only...We knew, back at the Daimatou Enbu. Maybe-"

"But we can't rewrite history, can we ?", continued Lucy sadly. They all knew it was his last moments, since the bleeding was too important and no healer was here.

"Take my necklace."

"Wha- but why ?"

Jellal reached Lucy's hand and gave her his necklace "I trust you two to...to write another story."

"If we could, we would do it in a heart-beat, Jellal-sama."

"Pro-Just promise me and I could die in peace."

"What do you mean ? Please Jellal, don't die, you have to hold on for Erza, for us !" Lucy cried.

"Erza...I wanted to see her for one last time."

The sound of footsteps mixed with sounds of desperate cries were heard "Jellal !". Erza, followed by Gray, arrived just at the moment where Jellal said his last sentence: "Erza...You were my redemption."

Mouth open, Erza let out a scream of pure pain and agony echoing in the air before rushing over his corps. She stayed like this for a while until Gray put gently a hand on her shoulder to tell her to untie her arms from Jellal.

After minutes of intense reflexion, he concluded they were telling the truth, no lies beneath their words. "Tell us more. How...did I die ?", although unsure to want to know.

"We can't tell it outloud, Jellal-sama. It's too horrible for us", affirmed Yukino with a dead serious face.

It must be really terrible... Maybe it's better if I don't know, thought the young man. But he wanted at least to know who managed to survive. The flash of a red-haired girl went across his mind. "Did Er- someone else survive ?"

Lucy couldn't stand Crime Sorciere's horrified looks and neither did Yukino. All the bad memories had emerged and hit them. "I let Levy-chan alone because...I had no choice"

Meredy, who didn't talk during all this time as well as Ultear, was becoming desperate because of this dreadful future. But future-Lucy's last sentence particularly stricked her "Alone ? You mean...Everyone died except the two of you and her ?"

No words needed: the receding looks were more than enough. "We need you to help us."

"But how ?"

"We didn't come with a plan. Using Eclipse was a desperate act. But maybe we could prevent some events like I said, I wrote them down in my diary. Here." She showed all the battles and deaths written in a rush on pages full of drops of tears and the day of it. Wendy, Sherry, Gajeel, Erza, Gray, Lyon, Sting, Juvia, Kagura... So many names, all familiar to them. They didn't know what was more horrible: seeing their beloved ones names or their own. Ultear cut out the heavy silence: "No... Impossible".

Yukino and Lucy knew why she said that while Jellal and Meredy were lost "Ultear, we're so sorry. It did save us for a moment but...It wasn't enough."

Meredy, panicked by this statement shouted "What is it Ul, what did you do ?"

Ultear didn't dare to speak immediatly because of her state of shock. "It seems like... I used a magic to steal time but it didn't much help much."

"Gray told us you save him that time. Somehow, he knew it."

So it wasn't entierely vain, she did save Gray, at least for this time. The man who gave her a chance to live her life as a person. Cutting her thoughts, Lucy affirmed "We can save Gray. Meredy, you were there with Lyon and Juvia. You save him and maybe all of them". With resoulteness, Meredy nodded.

"Jellal, you'll be the one who saves Erza. You'll have to find her" at the sound of the requiped mage's name, Jellal turned his head. "She was isolated during the beginning of the battle but she told us you saved her."

"One of the thing that rushed our loss was the fact that we didn't have enough healers because they perished. All our magic strengh were gone during a whole day sometimes. Maybe you could do something to help it."

After hours and hours of discussion, Lucy and Yukino finally left the members of Crime Sorciere. That was a start, but they didn't really know what to do next. All they wanted to to was writing another story.

Still watching them leaving, the three mages wondered if they could erase the future which was drawn up to all of them. Fear overbeared because of this gruesome future they didn't even imagine a few hours ago, but a hint of hope represented by Yukino and Lucy was there, with the determination to help them as much as they could.

AN : So this is the end of my first chapter, which was an introduction, a prologue but I feel like it is important for the purpose of my story. It's the beginning of the explanation of why and how Yukino and Lucy went back at this moment, in the past, that's why the flashback (or rather flashforward) of Jellal's was really important, and as you could guess, Yukino and Lucy cared about Jellal, after all, these months of battle together created bonds, you'll see. I'll "introduce" pairs in the next chapter. Don't be shy, comment this chapter, I won't bite :)