Fallowing the Past Ch. 6 Oracion Seis 2.0

We are going through a tunnel of rainbow light (A/N kind of like the tunnel at the beginning of Doctor Who but colorful not just blue). We are all floating along but at lightning speed, except it feels more like we are walking down the street. The lights tell us another story though. Everything is flashy. We see images flash by of different points in time. They zip past us at a speed that would give you whiplash if you tried to look at them for too long. But since we dragon slayers were the last in the gate, we are seeing our lives from the GMG's (my guess is it starts there because that was when we broke it).

I see images of when Gajeel and I went up against Rogue and Sting at the GMG's and I pushed Gajeel into the canal thing. I see when we went up against Michelle AKA Imitatia and I was fighting Dan Straight. He turned me small for a few minutes. I see me fighting Hades and Laxus gave me his lightening, which I ate creating a new power. Tenrou flashed by showing the Island and time period we just left.

Not only fights went across the colors. Every adventure my team went on within the last thirteen years went by. And other stuff like Every time I broke into Luce's house for food or to sleep over. When I walked beside her as she walked on the edge of the canal, knowing she won't fall but still being careful, ready to catch her. Every fight Gray and I had, ending with Erza stepping in and knocking us out for a bit, Wendy worrying to the side. Every time I started a fight in the guild causing the whole place to join in, destroying the guild to Masters chagrin. The thought of Master made sad.

I wonder if the others are seeing the same thing? A few more fights I see flying around me. The last being when we went up against Oracion Seis. We stopped suddenly in a bright sapphire blue light.

I felt sick. I couldn't open my eyes or even move. My head felt like it was going to explode. I put my hands on the dewy grass and sat up groaning. That was a bad idea, I turned sideways and puked. I tried to look around but everything I saw was fuzzy. After a minute, I could see again and saw that everyone was the same way, some puking and some laying as still as stone. I then looked at where we were. We were in a forest with vines hanging from the trees. I could hear a river about a mile away. On the right, I saw a tree root that was big and arched enough that you could walk right under it. This place seemed familiar but I couldn't place it.

"What year do you guys think we're in now?" Lily asked also looking around.

"Yeah, and what the hell was that back there?" Gajeel huffs. "I saw everything I did from our fight with you guys-" He points to the old Oracion Seis team, "to the GMG's."

I nodded. "I did too. Not your past but mine from the last thirteen years. Did anyone else?" The other dragon slayers nod or replied affirmatively. I look at the non-dragon slayers. Everyone is looking confused, Lucy states, "There was only colors swirling around me then a bright blue light, that's it." Everyone else agrees.

"That's where we are, the place we fought the Oracion Seis." Happy said flying lopsided to my side, still kind of looking sick.

"Oh yah! I remember where we are now!" I cried.

"We were around the bend there, maybe our past selves are there now." Midnight states.

"Where do you think Acnologia landed? If he landed in this time, do you think he landed close by? Is the gate even like the Lacrima? With the Lacrima we landed by our past selves and in the same time period. Who to say he even landed in this time period? And this might be where we fought but who's to say it is the same day and time as the day we're thinking of?" Levy asked looking around trying to find something to determine answers to all these questions running around in her head.

"Good questions, don't know though. Nothin' 'round here, that I can tell, will lead to answers except heading into town." Gray states, leaning slightly back with hands on the ground and sitting cross-legged.

"Yeah, yeah! That's a great idea!" Milianna shouts jumping up and down. "If we really are in X784, then we could go to the movies and see the Lacrima film The Cat Returns, I've always wanted to see that with all my friends!"

"Sorry Mili, I don't think we have time to go see a movie, we need to find Acnologia to stop him from hurting our Nakama" Erza apologized. "We can try to get the movie theaters to play it again when we get home."

Milianna, who was sadly looking down, looked excitedly at Erza again. "You mean it Erzy?! You really mean it?"

"Yes Mili, we can all go to the movie theaters after this war." Erza nodded. Milianna ran to Erza and threw her arms around her, shrieking and repeating thank you over and over again.

Jallal watched, chuckling. Memories of their childhood flooded his mind. He wouldn't want to redo their childhood, and he was sure they didn't either, but he was gratful that it happened. If it didn't then he wouldn't have such an amazing family. Mili and Erza didn't change and he hoped Sho and Wally was the same; and safe and happy like they are.

"Alright already, let's get going. Are we all feeling better at least? Come on, let's just go find out those answers to those questions before Acnologia gets too far ahead of us." Laxus huffed pulling on Mirajane's wrist toward town. I started to follow but realized no one else was following.

"Oi, what's wrong? why is no one else coming?" I asked. Laxus stopped walking hearing that but still held Mira's wrist.

"We should stay and figure out what our next plan is." Lucy says. "We don't know when in X784 we are, and we don't know where our past selves are, and that could be dangerous if we run into them."

"But we can't figure out what to do if we don't go somewhere! We can figure out when and where we are, by finding a town, which is that way." Laxus backfires pointing in the direction he was heading before; not realizing his hand was in Mira's hand, whose face was beet red. Hehe serves her right for always shipping all of us, eye for an eye as they say.

"Enough," Erza says. "We will stay for a bit and see what happens. I believe Acnologia is nearby but I do not know for sure. So, we will wait a while and then go into town for the night to rest. If Acnologia wants to leave we will hear about it and if we don't hear anything then he is not in this time period."

"Fine." Laxus growls walking to a nearby tree, pulling Mira with him.

I looked at Lucy and she meets my eyes. I shrug and we head out to help make camp.

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"Natsu slow down already! We're in town you don't need to run like a maniac." Lucy calls to me.

I'm not paying attention. I am running up to every one of my favorite food places that I haven't seen since they were destroyed. "Oi! Luce, I'm starved let's go eat at one of these places!" I jumped from one foot to the other pointing at the line of food stores behind me. "Yeah! I want fish!" Happy called out, copying what I'm doing.

"Fine, maybe we can find some answers in there by talking to people." Luce sighs and entwines our arms before walking into one with a classy dancing meat on top.

We sat down at a corner booth overlooking the place. Luce ordered a salad, I ordered everything on the menu and Happy ordered a ton of fish. This made Luce throw her head on the table groaning. I laughed and put my head close to hers. "Gheesh Luce, you look dead." I commented. "No, but my wallet is." She shot back.

We talked till we got our food. Before the waitress left we asked her about what day it is and if there was anything strange going on in Fiore the past few weeks. The waitress shook her head and left.

"Hey Natsu," I whipped my head up from the food I was shoveling into my mouth. "Yeah," I tried to say through the food.

She stared at me with her head sideways and a thoughtful expression on her face that made my heart squeeze.

"Do you ever think of the future? Like, where you find yourself in a few years? Who is around you in your life, will they be there in a few years too? Will you be there or will a war destroy you? Almost every year now we find ourselves in some battle, in some big war, or something happens, like on Tenrou, which then puts you out of commission for maybe years. I don't want any of this. I am still willing to fight to protect my Nakama but all I want is to have a normal peaceful life, taking on missions and spending my life with you Natsu. That's all I want."

She sighs and leans back in her seat. Her eyes are sad now and I want to change that. My heart leapt in my chest when she said she wanted to spend her life with me. I want to take her in my arms and bring her home back to our time and live a life of peace with her like she said. But we first must stop Acnologia and then find a way to get home. But before all of that we have to wait for something to happen.

I smile turning to Happy and whispering in his ear. He yells "Aye sir" and darts away to go find Carla, but not before shoveling a ton of fish in his mouth and bag. Luce looks at me with a raised eyebrow. "What's going on Natsu? Why did you send Happy away?" I give her my signature grin, "Hey Luce, want to go on a date with me?"

Rewritten: 8/22/17