Prologue: Time Travel

Chapter 0: Time Travel

Rain fell from the sky with pure fury as the wind ruffled the trees like feathers. Trampling roared throughout the forest as cries of despair could be heard everywhere.

"He's still in bad shape!"

"He may die of a hemorrhage, find him at once!"

"Come back here, you brat!"

Hundreds of sleeves were desperately searching for a certain person among the woods, the shouting went on and on as they searched with torches.

In another part of the forest, a person was running with madness in his eyes. Blood was pouring down his cheek, he felt pain all over his body and could barely stand. His bones begged him to stop, but his mind denied it.

Bandaged in every part of his body, his feet could not take it anymore and he fell to the floor like a bag of potatoes. In desperation, he crawled as best he could while the mud washed all over him, but there came a moment where... his body stopped moving.

Frustration hit him so hard that tears began to flow from his jade eyes like waterfalls.

There was Natsu Dragneel, one of the most powerful mages in all of Fiore and the Fairy Tail guild, lying on the floor like trash.

"I have to get back to my friends!" he internally shouted loudly as he tried his last effort to move, but still, he accomplished nothing. "It's a lie, it can't be true!"

He remained silent as he let the tears let fall from his eyes. His fist was surrounded by blood from all the force exerted on his point.

He felt useless, weak and... pathetic with himself.

"Did you finally get it?"

A voice spoke mysteriously almost emotionless, it had only a tone of pity in it. Flying down from the sky, hir crimson red robe swished along with his blonde hair as he watched him pitifully.

Natsu refused to look up, knowing the voice, he just bit his lip with rage wrapped in his blood as he tried to move again.

"This isn't Fiore anymore, that world... it ceased to exist a long time ago..."

These words killed him, his lungs begged for breath from the shock of her words he denied hearing.

Biting his lip, he opened his mouth.

"...How many...?"

The mysterious being raised his eyebrow curious at the murmur of pink hair.

"How many years...has it been...?" Natsu dropped his bombshell still trying to assimilate what he refused to accept.

The man levitating in the sky foiled his brow as he scratched his chin in deep thought.

With a sigh, he glared at him before dropping the bomb.

"A few thousand years for sure..."

This devastated Natsu again, though now, a lifeless laugh and emotions passed through his throat.

His mind cut off as the memory of all his companions came back to his mind like a flashback. Though now the tears didn't come.

"You were a hero without a doubt," the man spoke with a smile, "you sacrificed yourself to save everyone and keep this world alive."

After he finished, the man slowly pulled something out of his red coat and showed himself to Natsu.

Natsu felt a flash of light and looked up to see what it was. His eyes widened like saucers as he saw what the man had.

"Luce..." Natsu whispered painfully. In front of him was one of Lucy's keys, his lifelong companion, only it was rusty and old.

"This is an heirloom of our Kingdom... one of our founder's keys... I think you deserve it more than anyone else."

The man descends to stand in front of Natsu. Natsu looked up at him from the floor in shock trying to take in what he was seeing.

"I know it's not much... but I want to at least help you save all the lives that were born because of your efforts."

Natsu just looked down before smiling happily.

They had survived.

He couldn't get that out of his mind.

His efforts were not in vain to stop that Acnologia monster.

He slowly stood up with all his injuries surprising the man.

"My name is... Natsu, Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail..."

The man blinked in surprise before smiling. "So that's the name of the legend salamander..." the man smiled and shook his head before offering him a hand to keep him from falling. "My name is Julius, you can consider me a modern wizard."

Natsu snorted in pain as his muscles wept. "Modern wizard? I need you to tell me about everything that happened."

"You gave like time travel, so need to read a couple of books too." Julius replied.

"R-Read?!"

"Yeah, apparently you're not one for reading, are you?" Julius laughed to the sky with pure happiness. "So, so, so, what's your magic?!" Julius asked with elation and looked at him with stars out of his eyes before realizing he had fainted.

He just smiled.

"Natsu, huh?"

In the Kingdom of Spade, one of the many kingdoms that existed, snow worshipped this kingdom with none. Wrapped in pure white, freezing rain falls furiously. At a certain location, a black-robed person saw a letter resting in his hand.

"The Eye of the Midnight Sun?"

This person asked with laughter before burning the paper with his magic. A fang was born as he grinned with elation as the black robe swung furiously before flying off detached from his body.

A scarf of scales covered his neck as a reddish black garment covered him.

"Natch will be upset if I leave to help you, Julius..."