Ohiya! I think this makes up for my short chapter that I had posted! I hope you like it! Also for those who are waiting for the MiraxNatsu, you might have to wait at the very end for them to get together. Please leave a review and favorite! Farewell and Enjoy!

-Let there be midnight

ME NO OWN FAIRY TAIL!

The Past

Natsu stared fearfully at Akihiro, not knowing what the child meant by his words. Before Natsu could utter a response to the child, his world was distorted with colors until they smoothed out to show a room that looked to be inside a castle for there was a throne on the other side of the room. Natsu looked around in confusion, not understanding what was happening until the doors behind him opened with a slam.

An exact replica of him walked in. On his head was a golden crown with a single red ruby on the front that looked to have fire swarming on the inside. The clothing the replica of Natsu wore looked to be outdated by a long run.

Behind Natsu's copy was a girl who looked to be fifteen. She had long red hair that ended just above the waist and bright ruby eyes. Her dress was a light blue and was long enough to sweep the floor just barely.

"Milord!" the girl said in surprise as she rushed after Natsu's copy, with panic. "What're we going to do?" Natsu stood there watching silently as the other him stopped just before the throne.

"Calm down Nelly." the other Natsu said, trying to reassure the girl. "Panicking won't do this kingdom no good."

"But Milord! Zeref has almost destroyed the whole southern part of Gileo! Gileo is not that far from Tetsu! He could reach Tetsu in about two weeks if we don't do anything!" Nelly fretted as she watched the pink haired male sit down on his throne with a troubled look.

"Gileo… Tetsu?" Natsu questioned himself as he watched the pair with scrunched up eyes.

"I know that Nelly, but we can't rush things. If Zeref plans to destroy the whole of Gileo, he has to travel northward, away from Tetsu. But we aren't to judge what his plans are to be." The replica Natsu said calmly, a finger tapping his cheek as he thought.

Nelly stood there quietly, biting her lip as she thought what her king just said.

"We can't just wait here for Zeref to come and attack." she said, her voice low with trouble. Natsu came out of his thoughts and smiled lightly down at the girl.

"We won't wait. We can have some of the experienced Dragon Slayers patrol the boarder of Tetsu and Gileo and have around five to six dragons fly the skies around Gileo to figure out Zeref's next line of attack." Nelly shuffled her feet, looking down at the ground with uncertainty.

"And what if that doesn't work out Milord? What will we do then?" The Natsu replica's smile faltered only for a second or two before it was plastered back on his face.

"Then we set up an army here fully of dragons and Dragon Slayers waiting for him." He stood up with a flourish, looking out of the window near his throne. "I'll never let Zeref take Tetsu even if it kills me." Natsu said with a tint of sadness in his voice. The pink haired king walked past Nelly to the doors of his throne room, only to be stopped.

"Milord," Nelly asked softly without turning around. Natsu looked over his shoulder slightly as she went on. "Is-is it true that you and… well, you and Zeref were—are brothers?" Silence followed the question as Natsu looked down at his feet, his face void of any emotion.

"Nelly, tell Sir Shiro, Yukio, Cedric, and Shimmea to patrol the boarder to Gileo and Kurio, Melith, Aumia, Pherno, and Deci to fly the skies and find were Zeref plans to go next." Nelly spun around to stare at her king in shock, mouth and eyes wide open as he walked forward, hand hovering just above the door knob. "And Nelly," he added.

"Yes Milord?" she asked in a shaky voice.

"… Please don't ask unnecessary questions ever again unless needed." She looked down in shame as the doors closed shut behind the pink haired king, tears in her eyes.

"Yes Milord." she said quietly to no one in the empty room.

"That was you." said Akihiro. Natsu jumped and spun around, coming face to face with the pink haired child. Akihiro had a grin on his face as he looked behind Natsu and towards Nelly who seemed rooted to the spot, unable to move.

"I—I… that couldn't of been me though," Natsu replied in a shaky voice. Akihiro raised an eyebrow as his eyes twinkled in merriment.

"How would you know? You lost your memories. That was the you around four hundred years ago when the dark mage Zeref terrorized the lands." the boy replied.

"If that was four hundred years ago… then why am I still alive? Shouldn't I be dead?" Natsu asked in confusion, his eyebrows furrowed as he tried to wrap his mind around this. Akihiro bit his lip playfully, looking at Natsu.

"When Zeref was sealed by you, your powers started to weaken and you soon began to grow older over the centuries. But you knew about the dangers of the future ahead. The awakening of Zeref, darkness consuming the earth, genocide of thousands of innocent lives in just one day. You knew that you were the only one to stop all of that from happening, or at least put an end to it." Akihiro paused, his smile fading and his face becoming darker. "You knew of the horrid prophecy that foretold what you must do and you did nothing to stop it. No matter how much you friends begged you not to go along with it because they didn't want you to die. They didn't know the outcome and neither did you, but you still went along.

"Then one day Deliora, one of Zeref's demons, was somehow set free from the confinements you had enforced him in three hundred years before. Deliora was once again destroying towns and cities and killing innocent lives and you would have none of that. So you set after him, wanting to destroy him once and for all. But you didn't have a chance. An Ice-Make wielder sacrificed her life sealing up Deliora in her own ice. After that happened you wanted to make sure to find any other demon that had gotten loose, so you used the last of your magic to de-age yourself into a small child, with that, your power went back to that age too. All but your memories had changed. You remembered your goal. But with you in that weak state, you and your beloved training master Igneel disappeared from the kingdom.

"On the year X777, July 7th, your beloved training master Igneel disappeared and a year later you found a guild and thought it better to finish your goals there while finding your master all the same." Akihiro looked down sadly, brushing a strand of pink hair away from his eyes.

"What happened to the kingdom after Igneel and I left?" Natsu asked, his head hurting slightly from all the new information he had just been given. A look of deep sorrow came over Akihiro's face.

"Without you as their ruler, they had no one to lead and the kingdom soon died off." The child's line of sight went to Nelly who finally started to leave the room. "Nelly, who was your faithful servant till you left, knew where you were and kept it a secret from everyone. She kept all your secrets and never told anyone till… till the day she was slain by people who wanted to know where you were." Akihiro shook his head. "I have something else to show you."

And once again, Natsu's world shifted and morphed until he stood in a small meadow. Before him looked to be yet again him, only he looked different. He looked to be thirteen this time. He wasn't wearing a crown or any fancy clothing like he last saw him, but a simple brown tunic and trousers with black boots that looked like they needed to be thrown out. In front of him stood a boy who looked to be eighteen-years-old. He had black hair and red eyes, and wore large black and white robes.

"Zeref-nii, I can't let you do this!" the younger Natsu shouted. Zeref smiled down at him, eyes glinting in malicious.

"Oh but dear Natsu, you can." he replied. Natsu curled his hands in fist, lips drawn up in a feral snarl, showing canines.

"Father would have your head!" he growled in anger. Zeref's smile widened at that.

"But father is dead, dear brother."

"All thanks to you! You killed your own father and mother! Now you're running away like the coward you are! And even worse! You're leaving me alone to run the kingdom! I'm thirteen, Zeref-nii! I don't know how! You were the one to have all the training since you were next in line!" Natsu took a breath to calm himself down. "But the thing is, I don't want you running father's kingdom! You trained in magic that has been forbidden by our laws for it turns the heart and soul black with evil and wrong doing, and to add on to the bad things you have done, you killed hundreds of innocent people including father, mother, and uncle! I can't believe you Zeref-nii!" he shouted in anger. Zeref didn't respond as he looked down at his younger brother, now with a frown.

"Natsu," Zeref said softly, catching the pink haired prince's attention. "you shouldn't be calling me "Zeref-nii"," Natsu's eyes widened, only to narrow.

"Why?"

"Cause, you are not my brother." Zeref said harshly. Natsu took a step back, eyes wide as saucers as he let the information sink in.

"Why are you showing me this?" the real Natsu asked Akihiro. Akihiro never looked away from the two brothers, his face emotionless.

"This is where you lost your happiness. You always looked up to your older brother, tried following in his footsteps, but he betrayed you and renounced you from being his brother. It tore you up inside, just like it would've done if your heart was ripped out of your body." he replied. "You never told anyone and you acted normally after this as you tried your best to run the kingdom, but you never felt the same inside afterwards. You had no family left. You mother and father were slain right in front of you, followed by your beloved uncle and all the people in the kingdom that Zeref killed that same day."

"Aki—" Natsu was cut off as Akihiro interrupted him as he looked up.

"My name isn't Akihiro." he told Natsu.

"Then what is it?"

"Natsumi, I am the past you. I know your whole past like the back of my hand. Not a moment of it had and can slip past me." Natsumi said. Natsu looked down, unable to talk anymore. "I must go; someone else is to meet you. Farewell, Natsu." Natsu looked up, only to see Natsumi gone and he was once more surrounded by his world of black.

Natsu turned around, only to be met by black and no Natsumi. He froze when he heard a familiar voice come from behind him.

"Greetings Natsu. I'm Salamander, I am the present and future you." he spun around only to be met face to face by himself.