Prologue.
Screams filled the night as explosions went off in all directions. Magnolia was under attack. Not only that, but everyone had been cut off and Magnolia isolated from any and all help. The only hope they had for survival were the two guilds that were held there. However, only one of those guilds was trying to save the people of the town as well as themselves. That guild was Fairy Tail. The other guild, The Twilight Ogres, was just out for themselves, going so far as to purposely place others into the line of fire.
A grown up Natsu and Lucy were fighting together along with two teens. One blonde boy who was using celestial magic and a pink haired girl using dragon slayer magic. The teens took one side whilst the adults took the other. The reason for this team was because they were family. The boy, Lucian, was Lucy and Natsu's only son, and the girl, Summer, was their only daughter. They were twins, Lucian being older by an hour. Lucian, who took after Lucy in looks, also took after her in name. Both names mean light. Summer, taking after Natsu in looks, taking the meaning of his name, summer.
"Mum! Look out!" Lucian called out noticing an oncoming demon. None of them were free to help, and the warning wasn't enough.
When Lucy spun around at the sound of her son's panicked voice, she didn't even have time to flick her wrist and whip the demon before she was sent flying with an agonized scream.
"Lucy!" Natsu yelled, blasting three demons at once. "Watch your sister!" He called over his shoulder to Lucian as he ran over to Lucy's fallen body.
In another part of Magnolia, Juvia, Gray and their daughter, JJ were stood together fighter as a team. Being fully surrounded and low on magic energy, their survival chances lowered dramatically. As JJ was ripped away from her parents, they called out in fear for her.
"JJ!" Juvia started running for her trapped daughter, when an ice track appeared. Juvia jumped onto the track and skated twice as fast to her daughter as Gray passed out from exhaustion and over use of magical energy. Leaving him vulnerable to the demons advances.
Erza was fighting alongside her daughter, Crimson, and the three adult siblings, Mirajane, Elfman and Lisanna. Due to Mirajane's Devil's Soul transformation, the demon were weakened, and then confused upon Elfman's Demon Takeover form. This allowed them the upper hand in the fight.
As another hoard of demons attacked, Erza and Crimson joined hands, pointing one interlocked pair forward, towards the attack, and the other interlocked pair facing up. They combined their attacks to form a Towering Wall of Swords, cutting down the entirety of their opponents.
Gajeel was protecting Levy along with their son Lyson. Levy was concocting the ingredients needed to banish the demons for another day, at sunrise. It was the only way to have any rest. The spell would take all of her magical energy, just like it had every night for the past month of war.
The demons had been unleashed on Magnolia due to the rising of Acnologia once again. The destruction of his roar cracked open the veil to the underworld, releasing demons onto the town.
"Levy!" Gajeel called out, attracting her attention.
"The sun's coming up, mum!" Lyson finished.
Levy stood up and started reciting the spell. The chanting couldn't be heard over the screams of pain and fear, nor over the sounds of the explosions and magic crossfire. A gold circle appeared around Levy's form. The magic circle grew larger until the whole of Magnolia was covered. The fighters of Magnolia having grown used to this, felt their hope surge, giving them a boost of fighting energy.
The circle lit up brighter before the light shot off like a bullet into the sky from all over. Once the light had died down, the demons had disappeared and would not be seen again until night fall at the earliest.
The members of Fairy Tail were in the guild. They were stood in a circle around the newest members of their family to fall. The night of fighting which just occurred had cost them another two members. Lucy and Gray were laid on floor in the middle of the guild hall. They were laid next to each other, but by their sides their families knelt. Natsu was folded over Lucy's chest, crying into her top which was clenched into his tight fists. Lucian was in a similar position over her stomach. Summer knelt by Lucy's head, her hands were clenching her knees tightly, head lowered so that her pink hair fell in front of her face. All that could be seen were her lips, which were being bitten fiercely in an attempt to stop the sobs from bubbling out. Tears were rolling down her cheeks despite her wishes.
Juvia had her head laid on Gray's chest looking down his torso to her daughter, who was clutching around her father's waist sobbing in anguish. Juvia reached an arm out over her daughter, pulling her close and resting their foreheads together. They both closed their eyes as another wave of tears flooded out.
The other Fairy Tail survivors of the past month, which was greatly reduced from its former glory, stood in a circle with tears pooling down their faces. Erza held Crimson to her armoured chest, and Levy clung to her boys. Romeo stood the three siblings. Having already lost his father, Macao, and his surrogate aunt and uncle, Bisca and Alzack, they had tried to help him with his loses as much as they could.
Suddenly, a roar of pure unadulterated anguish ripped through the guild hall. The roar of emotional pain came from Natsu. He was now looking towards the ceiling, crying out loudly. This had a domino effect of causing Summer to start sobbing loudly, covering her face with her hands and Lucian to collapse onto his mother, clinging tightly and begging her to wake up. Juvia and JJ shook harder and most of the women collapsed onto the floor through anguish and the men to all feel even greater sadness and the lumps in their throats to increase tenfold.
"Why!?" Natsu screamed.
Weeks went on and more members were lost. Acnologia was destroyed by the five teens. Four of the members of Team Natsu and the other Levy and Gajeel's son. However, the damage hadn't been healed leading to the severe loss of life and family. The same group of teens were called onto the second floor of the guild by Levy. She had found a way to stop the veil from being damaged by sending them back in time.
"You wouldn't be going back to the day it was first torn. That wouldn't leave you enough time. So I'm going to send you back to when Acnologia first came out." He explained to the younger members.
"Unfortunately, if we do this, it will change everything." Levy stressed the last word.
"What do you mean by 'everything'?" Lyson questioned his mother as the others watched on in barely concealed despair.
"I'd be sending you guys back to before the Fairy Sphere were formed. You would appear on Tenroujima Island when me and the others were supposed to be taking the S-class exam." She explained.
Lucian spoke up then. "Wouldn't that mean that you guys wouldn't be in a frozen state for seven years? We might not even be born if we stop Acnologia then!" He exclaimed.
"You'd still be alive. But you'd be stuck in that time if you aren't born. You'd carry on growing with us. However, if you are still born, you'd fade and come back into the year of the age you are now. You're memories would be replaced, and you'd never remember this had happened."
The teens all nodded their understanding. They were willing to go through with it. This way, their friends and family would be saved as well.
"I'll give you some time to calm down and get a control of your emotions. This way you'll be able to yourselves a much as possible when I send you back."
"When we go back," Summer started. "What do we tell them? You? Them/you?" She questioned, confusing herself slightly.
Levy chuckled. "You choose. Just don't say too much. And don't reveal who both parents are. It'd be best if you stayed closer to, and admitted you are theirs, to the one you look most like. So Summer, you'd tell Natsu whilst Lucian told Lucy. Get it?"
They all nodded affirmative. Their faces began to cloud over with determination.
