Previously:

Natsu and Happy woke up from their travel. They landed on a place filled with volcanoes. If a normal human were to even take a step in that place, they would either burn or die in heat stroke. Natsu groaned in pain and rubbed his head. Happy had passed out from their travel so Natsu grabbed him and carried him in his arms. But the moment he turned around to tour the place his eyes dilated and his mouth fell open. His heart started to beat faster as the image of the long lost father he was looking for years was now standing right before him.

"Igneel…"

"I-Igneel…" Natsu repeated as he could not shake the feeling of pure happiness as it overcame him. "Happy look, it's Igneel!" he shook the cat to wake him.

The blue cat woke up with a serious headache. He looked around the place with half closed eyes, the reason why he really couldn't see well where he actually was right now. But when he turned his attention to the golden eyes that shone in the huge crack in the middle of a volcano, his eyes grew wide open. His headache disappeared and flew out of Natsu's arms and hid behind his back. "W-who is that?" he shivered.

"Haven't you been listening Happy? That's Igneel!"

"That's Igneel? I never imagined him to be so scary…"

"Well he is a dragon after all. I guess dragons have that intimidating look to other people, but not to me." He happily said.

Happy had finally turned around and examined the place. They were standing on dry rocks and behind them was a river of lava. The place had volcanoes all over the place, causing the river of lava to flow. Despite that, Natsu and Happy were perfectly fine. They weren't suffering from heat stroke, or suffocation or other fire and heat related sickness.

"Igneel! It's me Natsu! Remember?" the dragon slayer called as he waved his arms in excitement.

The golden eyes grew larger the moment Natsu shouted his name. The earth rumbled, the lava rose and the volcano in front of them split into half. With the perfect timing, Happy was able to grab Natsu from behind and lifted him in the air to dodge the boulders and lava that went straight to the direction where they were previously standing. It went on like that for a few minutes. It was as if the earth unleashed something it was hiding. Finally, when the chaos had ended and the earth stood still, Happy put Natsu back down on a small portion of dry earth. The place where they stood now seemed like an island but instead of water flowing around the dry earth, boiling lava surrounded them. The two then coughed up from the smoke they inhaled. Steam was everywhere and the smell of something burning surrounded the two. The golden eyes have now disappeared into the steam and Natsu wondered where Igneel had gone.

"Igneel?"

Just then the pair of golden eyes appeared into the steam right in front of them. The steam slowly spread out and a huge shadow appeared. It had a spiky figure. Its wings spread out and its tail moved. Its head moved to the direction of the two and its breath came out of its nose and it made the steam look cold.

"Natsu you say?" it said.

"Yup! It's me." He said as he put his fists into flames to show him that he was the young boy whom he taught dragon slayer magic years ago.

"Those flames…you are my boy. Natsu. Natsu Dragneel. And an exceed…here in my domain? Hm…so the great ancestor of aerial magic is protecting him. I see…" Igneel said to himself as if he'd already realized the situation. "This is all that witch's doing. I'm sure of it." By the time he had finished talking and thinking to himself, the steam was finally gone and his true form was revealed to Natsu once again. Natsu looked at him with a big smile on his face. Igneel had looked the same after all these years. His red scaly reptilian body, his magnificent wings that spread so wide, his claws and fangs that were sharp enough to rip anything they slashed through, and of course his golden gleaming eyes. Yup. This was Igneel alright. Natsu can't be mistaken. He looked just as majestic as before.

Happy on the other hand found the great Igneel very scary. For one, he was incredibly huge in size. He had that scary look on his face while his fangs and claws didn't help Happy to relax.

"Relax Happy. Igneel won't hurt us." Natsu reassured.

"It doesn't seem that way to me."

"Igneel! It's been a long time! You don't know how much I've wanted to see you!"

"Fool!" the dragon roared, making the earth rumble and lava boil harder.

The dragon slayer moved back a bit, surprised at what the dragon had said to him. "You fool! You just have destroyed the flow of time. What were you thinking?!"

"I don't know what you're talking about Igneel. All I wanted was to see you again."

"And that was the cause of all the problems!" he yelled, unknowingly hurting the boy's feelings. "You shouldn't have made a wish to that dimensional witch. Do you even know what price you just paid?"

Natsu kept silent for a moment trying to think what price he gave to Yuuko just to see Igneel. Then he remembered that he didn't bother knowing due to his excitement. Now he felt ashamed and stupid. Whatever the price was, it was bad and he was to blame for it. "I…I don't know exactly. I told her that…that I'd pay her later since I really didn't have anything to offer her at that moment."

Igneel gave out a furious sigh. He tried to calm himself down and tried not to burn the dragon slayer and the exceed with his lava. "My boy, the price you just paid is your own time."

"My own time?"

"Let me explain it to you." He said as he lied down on the ground with his head straight up. "That dimensional witch, Yuuko, is known for her powers to grant any wishes that one desires for a price…but her prices are never to be taken lightly, but then again it also depends on your wish."

Natsu listened closely though he couldn't understand what the dragon was saying.

"You were destined to see me Natsu, but at a different time. That's why I kept waiting. If I were to appear before you at the wrong moment, it would destroy the time's balance and things would not go the way they are right now. And because you have wished to see me at the wrong time, you destroyed the time's balance. Now nothing is the same, especially in that guild of yours." Igneel explained but once he noticed the confused look on the dragon slayer's face, he growled. "Try to understand Natsu! It's all very simple! What you paid to that witch was your own time! The people you have met after I disappeared on the year X777 have forgotten about you…no. Because of what you have done, they had never met you. It was as if you had never existed. And it goes the same for the exceed."

"W-what?!" the two exclaimed at the same time.

"Look what you've done Natsu! If you didn't forget "that thing" then we wouldn't have met the dimensional witch and we wouldn't have made that wish!" Happy accused as he panicked along with the fire dragon slayer.

"Gaah! Stop accusing me! You were there too remember? You could've reminded me!" Natsu talked back. "Aggh! This is bad! What about the guild now? What about the master? Erza? Gray? Lucy?!"

The dragon shook its head, answering all of Natsu's questions.

"N-no way…" Natsu said as he felt his knees grow weaker, making him sit on the dry land. "N-no way…t-they can't…"

"Everyone is…" Happy said with a shaky voice as he tried to stop his tears.

"Worry not my boy. Some of your friends are physically fine, though I must admit some are not. Still, there is still a way for you to fix this."

"There is?" the two said once again in unison.

The dragon nodded. "You must find a feather."

"A feather?" the two asked in unison.

"Yes. But this feather is no ordinary feather. It poses a strange yet very powerful magic. It belongs to princess who belongs to another dimension who has forgotten every memory she has. Obtain that feather and use its power to undo the wish you did. But take note, after you've obtained the feather and used it powers, you must give it only to a group of five travelers, a magician, a samurai, a princess and a young boy who wields a sword of fire. Then there's a small white creature as well."

"And where do I find this "magic" feather?"

"To a place where all the commotion and chaos is. The feather attracts people and sometimes demons who seek power. You must find it before it falls into the wrongs hands and take away your only opportunity to undo your mistake. Also, there's another thing you need to do."

"What?"

"You must make at least one of your guild members remember you before the next full moon. That person's memories will serve as a trigger to use the feather's power. But once the full moon is positioned in the center of the sky, your wish shall become permanent and all of your efforts will go to waste."

"The next full moon? But that's only 3 days from now!" Happy said.

"Well that doesn't give us that much time at all!" Natsu shouted.

"If you hadn't made that wish then none of this wouldn't have happen!" Igneel scolded.

Natsu looked down in shame. If he hadn't been an idiot and listened to what Yuuko's price was, then his friends wouldn't be in danger right now. "I'm sorry." He said. "I only wanted to see you again Igneel." He then suddenly gave a weak laugh. "I'm an idiot as Gray said. I lost something important again. And to think that I had finally learned my lesson…Why did you leave? Why did all the dragons leave on the year X777?"

Igneel paused for a while as if thinking if he was going to answer Natsu's question. "In time Natsu…you shall find out. For now, you must retrieve your friends. I'll be the one to send you back to the past. You'll be back to the time 7 years before you and your friends disappeared. Then if you succeed in your quest, you'll be brought back to the time right before you met the dimensional witch, and everything will be back to normal and you won't remember anything that happened after making a wish to the witch."

"That means…" Happy muttered. "we won't remember meeting the witch or you."

The dragon nodded in response. "Yes, well you are going to undo your wish so once that happens, it'll be as if none of this ever happened."

Natsu looked down. He was a bit disappointed that even though he brings his friends back and succeeds in his quest, his memories about meeting Igneel in this time will be lost. He didn't even have enough time to ask him all the questions he had on his head. He didn't have enough time to ask him if he was doing well or what he had been doing all these years. He was disappointed that even though Igneel was right in front of him right now, he couldn't have that "catching up" time (as other people would call it) with him. But he shook his head and balled his fists. His friends were in danger and it was all his fault so now he must do a way to save them. He trusted Igneel when he said they'll meet again in another time (but then again, when did he not trust him?). So for now, saving his friends is his top priority.

"Yosh! Let's do this!" Natsu said in determination. "Igneel!" he called as he gave a smile, raised his fists and looked straight in the dragon's eyes. "I'll succeed in this quest and bring my friends back. I won't fail because…I am the son of Igneel, the fire dragon."

"My my, that Natsu is quite troublesome is he not?" a voice echoed as a ball of light floated around the fire dragon's domain. "I guess he takes it from you. Like father, like son as the humans would say."

"What are you doing here Grandine? If you came here to insult the boy, then he's no longer here. I brought him back to the place where he can undo his mistake."

"No reason really. I was just surprised when I sensed that a human and an exceed were able to enter into a dragon's domain without dying."

The fire dragon sat silently and ignored the sky dragon's statement.

"That boy of yours…he's something extraordinary alright."

"Shouldn't you be more concerned about your human, Grandine?"

"Wendy? She's alright…for now. She's still in the "so-called" guild of hers, Cait Shelter, with the other exceed. But…if your boy doesn't succeed in his quest, time will catch up to her and she and the exceed will be annihilated once Nirvana's activated."

"He won't fail." The fire dragon said in reassurance. "After all…he is my son."

Yet again another late chapter hahaha XDD

Yeah so the real fun starts in the next chapter...or so I hope I can make it good enough XDD

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