I wrote this when I read the final chapter and I have been trying to post it since Saturday but I've been having trouble with it. So anyway, it's a few days late but here you go! Enjoy!

Also, it's incredibly short so I'll try to post another one as soon as possible. Sorry in advance.

*WARNING: There are spoilers in the following one shot.

It's been a year since Fairy Tail defeated Achnologia and things have finally gotten back to normal. Everyone's gotten their lives back on track, people are finally moving on. This includes two very unexpected yet familiar faces...

They were enjoying themselves. Tonight, exactly a year after winning the greatest war Magnolia has ever seen, the Fairy Tail members were unwinding and celebrating Lucy's new award. After everything they've been through, they were finally celebrating something happy, something they could all be proud of. It was a great change of pace. They were happy. Everyone was happy. It was...nice. Relaxing. And they saw it.

The familiar head of blonde hair bobbing through the crowd. They hadn't seen her since that fateful day in the guild hall, the day of Zeref's defeat. They thought she was gone. Dead even, finally at peace. But it seems that was not the case anymore. "First?!" They all screamed in unison. Well, scream probably isn't the best word. It's more like: 'They all gasped in unison, shocked at the sight before them. But I'm sure you get the point. They hadn't seen her in a year but there she was, in all her glory. A black dress clung to her small frame as she wandered through the crowd. Mavis Vermillion still looked the same, she still looked real. Yet the members of Fairy Tail still stared on in disbelief. Then another surpirse reared it's head and threw them off course once more.

"Exuce me, you dropped this." A black haired figure handed her a piece of cloth she'd seemingly dropped. When she turned to speak to him, they all saw his face and felt the shock once again making itself known. Zeref was here as well. But he seemed to not be the same person they knew. He didn't seem to be the same person who was defeated at the hands of his little brother and greatest demon. No. He seemed...normal. It was as if he wasn't once the world's darkest wizard, but was really an amateur writer like he said. The fact that neither of them seemed to know who the other was or had no idea about their links to Fairy Tail seemed to solidify one thing: they looked like Mavis and Zeref, but they weren't. They were completely different people.

"I'm Arleos."

"I'm Mio."

Yeah. Completely different people. But they seemed happy, and Fairy Tail were determined to keep it that way. If they were allowed to be happy, then surely those two could be as well. So what if they didn't remember their part in the war? Maybe it was better that way. But one thing seemed certain, they would always find each other. This was the universe's way of giving them both a second chance at the life they never got to live.

A second chance at life.

A smile graced the lips of every Fairy Tail mage, almost like they were all giving their blessing to them. It was their final goodbye to their first master and once greatest rival. The happiness radiating from all of them was their way of saying 'Good luck in the future'.

Whatever that future had instore for any of them, they knew they had eachother to rely on. Because Fairy Tail was family. They were rough and maybe a bit unstable at times. They'd had their ups and downs, their fights and battles, wars that nearlly ended in devestation. They'd all witnessed death at some point, Hell they'd all nearlly died at some point! But they were here now, happy and living their lives together with the people they cared about. All of them shared the same tragedies, they'd laughed, they'd cried, but they came out ok at the end of it. And if Zeref and Mavis had shown them anything, it was that now was the time to move on and live their life again. Now was the time to start a new adventure.

Together.