Natsu loved fire. He loved it. It's warm glow, the way it took no definite form and swirled around freely. It gave life as much as it destroyed it. It gave warmth as much as it brought destruction. It was so beautiful in his eyes. But right now, Natsu hated fire. He hated it. He hated the gigantic inferno of flames that covered the destroyed houses and buildings of his home city, no, his whole country. When the second wave of the Alverez armies arrived, it was clear they were simply playing around the first time. They showed no mercy, destroying everything in their path. It took only a day for every wizard guild and city in Fiore to fall. Natsu hated the fire around him, that surrounded him, Zeref, Mavis and the Fairy Heart. They were all in a massive crater of what used to be the guild hall, of which countless bodies could be counted. Natsu couldn't bring up his eyes to look at the charred bodies of his comrades, his family. Cana, Gray, Erza, Laxus, Gildarts, Mirajane, Lisanna, Elfman, Lucy, Wendy, Gajeel, Carla, all of them. He couldn't take his eyes off the unmoving lump of blue fur in front of his knees. His eyes were wide-open, bloodshot and dead, but his body was worse. He sported countless puncture wounds, slashes visible everywhere on his body. A very large cut could be seen starting from his right shoulder to his left hip. He was completely covered in blood, one would think that he was already dead. Mavis was no different; she was covered from head to toe in scratches, bruises and burns alike. She stood in front of Natsu and the Fairy Heart, which was covered in cracks and chunks of it had already fallen off.
"Zeref…" Mavis growled with a sinister tone. Zeref was untouched, completely fine with no injury. "I'm surprised, Mavis. Your 'Nakama' has managed to beat all twelve of my body guards. Too bad they weren't able to fight against my entire army. Although, I am impressed." He said with his soft smile. Ugh. That disgusting smile. How could he smile at such a time like this? When they were surrounded by destruction and death? Mavis clenched her small fists. "You can't fight me Mavis. Your spirit is already damaged enough. All I have to do is deal one final blow and the Fairy Heart will be unsealed." Mavis flinched. He was right. It took all of her willpower to not shatter there and then. Her only hope was Natsu, who was kneeling in front of the dead body of Happy. "Natsu!" she called. "Natsu! We can't let Zeref get the Fairy Heart!" He didn't answer. He didn't hear her, all Natsu could hear was the screams of his friends as they died. He couldn't protect them. He was too weak. It wasn't fair! He trained a whole year to get stronger, but it wasn't enough! He wasn't strong enough- Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted by an inhuman screech. The loud noise trembled the ground and made debris fall down into the crater. "You hear it Mavis? The scream of Acnologia. He's come to destroy what's left of this continent. All I need is the Fairy Heart and I can kill you and Natsu before he arrives. You'll die before you can witness the nightmare of the Chaos Dragon." Zeref entreated.
'Damn, what do I do?' Mavis bit her lip. "Natsu! Get up!" No answer. It didn't matter. Even if Natsu could get up, he'd be exhausted of all his power and magic. They were the last two standing in all of Fiore. They were alone, they lost. Suddenly, Mavis's eyes snapped open. She remembered that Spriggan 12 member that could control time. That gave her an idea. The Fairy Heart had an unlimited supply of magic, if she could use it to perform 'Fairy Reverse' could she send Natsu back…? "Natsu! I have an idea!" No answer. "The Fairy Heart, we can use it to reverse time! We could try again-" "Hm, that's a good idea." Zeref interrupted. "Perhaps if Natsu went back in time, he'd be strong enough to kill me. Time travel requires a gargantuan amount of magic power but the Fairy Heart could produce that." Natsu slowly looked up 'What are they talking about…? Haven't we lost already? Just let me die…..' He thought. "However, I've come too far to let you do that. Sorry Mavis, but you've had your chance." Zeref said as he raised his hand. All of a sudden, Mavis shattered. Like glass being dropped from a high building onto concrete, she shattered. The Fairy heart began to glow powerfully before shattering as well. Zeref smirked triumphantly before looking over at Natsu to finish his little brother off. His eyes widened when he saw Natsu evaporate. "No...No! She couldn't have! How did I not notice..Dammit, she activated 'Fairy Reverse'..." Zeref boomed in a demonic voice before evaporating as well, along with the rest of the landscape.
Natsu couldn't see anything but white. He looked around and couldn't see his friends anywhere. "W-Where..?" He stopped when he noticed that all of his wounds were gone. "Am I dead? Happy? Lucy? Guys! I'm here!" He called out. His words echoed around the white space, giving him no answer. He fell to his knees before sobbing. "Guys..Please...I'm sorry.." He choked out. "Natsu." A gentle voice called. He looked before seeing the first master of Fairy Tail, Mavis. "Where is everyone…?" He asked in a raspy voice, tears still flowing down his face. "Right now, they don't exist. The war hasn't happened yet." Natsu stared at her questioningly. "I used the power of the Fairy Heart to reverse time. It should take you back perhaps back to before a little bit before the first time you died." Natsu tried to say something but no words came out. "Natsu, this is a second chance. Together we could try to change what happened and defeat Zeref and save Fairy Tail." She continued. "From what Zeref explained, after he resurrects you, your memories will be erased before he brings you to Igneel. You'll have approximately seventeen biological years to train before the war of Alverez starts." Mavis stopped for a moment before looking at Natsu seriously "Natsu, you must be careful not to make any changes in this new timeline. Doing so can result in changes that may prevent you from meeting some of your friends and may even result in even worse scenarios such as them dying or becoming evil. There will most likely be some natural changes such as maybe a few people being different genders or personalities, but as long as you play this right, we can keep everything the same." "Wait...I can save them? I can see everyone again..?" Natsu tried to ask but it came out as a croak. "Yes Natsu, I'll be counting on you. You will resurrected in five minutes. You won't remember what happened before until probably after you lose Igneel and your personality might even change to a child's but you will keep your memories once you remember them."." Natsu stood up, wiping away his tears and clenching his fists he said "I'll do it. I'll save everyone.". Mavis smiled at him before returning to her previous serious expression "Natsu, you must become stronger. I've gone through alot of trouble so you can keep your current magic power in your youngers body. You must become stronger from there. I wish you luck, Nat-" Natsu never heard the last part as everything went dark.
When the Fairy Heart was activated, it created a ripple in time. A tremor, a tremble. Mavis managed to keep the ripple to nothing more than a simple earth tremor, but this changes something very large. A great change. (hoho here we go.)
*Somewhere, hidden from civilization*
In a dark laboratory deep underground, on a counter is a large flat bottomed vial filled with clear, viscous fluid labelled 'Tube Fluid Humor' and next to it is a smaller vial with purplish pink liquid labelled 'Female Etherious Humor', dangerously looming over it with it's contents threatening to drop. Out of nowhere, a powerful earth tremor shakes the earth, causing some of the pink fluid to drop into the 'Tube Fluid Humor'.
*Natsu*
Natsu looked around and saw nothing. He could feel his memories fade away, and he tried to analyze what was about to happen before he forgot everything. Everyone died, but Mavis was able to give him a second chance. He needs to use this second life to relive his former timeline but in the meantime get stronger. When he's strong enough, he must slay Acnologia and Zeref. Easy enough, this time he'd protect his friends! I'm all fired up!
Wooooaahhhahhwooooo amateur writer coming throoooooooo
In all honestly, I don't think anyone is going to read this, but I'm just writing this fanfic because I couldn't find many others that intrigued me. English isn't my first language so be prepared for grammar mistakes and not so good vocabulary. This is just a pilot episode and really just me trying to figure out how to publish chapters. I have fast fingers on a keyboard so I think I might be able to write one chapter every week unless i die.
Anywho, im a cow and an idiot one at that so dont expect much. Ok actually try to expect much because i kinda am pretty serious about this story. Uh
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