Important: So it turns out that I don't have as much free time as I thought I did. And I can't get chapters out at a faat enough pace that I'd like to. Would anyone be willing to help me write this story to its completion?

A little fun fact is that I had already started working on this chapter a couple of days before the release of the final chapter of the prequel. I just couldn't wait to get started on this new story. So, please forgive me for releasing this a couple of days after the completion of the previous story.

I do want to mention that from this point onward, we'll diverge from the main Fairy Tail timeline that we followed in the prequel. Everything from this point onwards will be different from how Hiro Mashima presented the original Fairy Tail Story.

As the name of this chapter implies, this first arc is entitled "Fallout". This is meant to represent the world in the aftermath of Tiamat's arrival. I'll explain what the name of each subsequent arc means as we reach those points in time. This will likely be the shortest of the story arcs that I have planned, the next couple of arcs should be longer, chapter wise than this will be.

My next upload will be the third Chapter to Legends Reborn, expect Dark Fairies after that. This will probably be my upload schedule for the time being. Scarlet: Dreams of the Throne, followed by Legends, and then Dark fairies.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail, I only own MY OCs

Ladies and Gentlemen, enjoy the first chapter to Scarlet: Dreams of the Throne.

There is great value in the time spent in one's own company, but a lifetime of total isolation is a fate no one should endure.

~Makarov

Magnolia, it is a city within the kingdom of Fiore. Home to the mage guild known to everyone in Fiore as Fairy Tail. It is a rowdy guild, known to find any reason to have a celebration and party. Be it as simple as a new member joining their ranks or a member coming back from a dangerous quest. Today happened to be no exception to this, the Oración Seis had been defeated. Team Natsu was due home any minute now. If this wasn't cause enough for celebration, what was?

(Fairy Tail)

The remnants of Team Natsu walked through the doors of the Fairy Tail guild. They were met with cheers and congratulations, but their expressions showed the complete opposite. Instead of the smiles and cheerful "We're back!", the Fairies just walked into the guild with their heads held low. Makarov immediately noticed this and ordered a halt to the celebrations. Asking that they explain what happened.

Hesitantly, Natsu decided to speak first for the team. "The initial plan which we had agreed upon was to defeat the Oración Seis by attacking them from the sky." He started, his voice was shaky and each word felt more painful than the last. "The Oración Seis somehow found out about it and shot the Christina down."

Gray would take over next, having easily noticed the distress that was growing within Natsu. "To accomplish that, we planned on getting all of the Oración Seis cornered in one area. They ambushed us right after it went down." Wendy didn't want to hear what came next; she didn't want to have to listen to Gray retelling her betrayal. But Gray continued anyway. It was a story that needed to be told. Fairy Tail had to know what exactly happened.

"During the ambush, Scarlet went up against" Gray paused, he didn't want to speak her name anymore. Not after what happened. But he forced himself to say it anyway.

"Erza".

Everyone in the guild noticed his hesitation to mention Titania's name. Having taken the time, the guild master Makarov asked them to stop, wanting instead to know why Erza didn't return to the guild with them.

"It's best if we explain everything first Master." Gray responded, "You wouldn't believe us otherwise." The way they spoke, the way they acted. It was obvious that something terrible had happened. Something that shook the mages to their very core. It was something that Makarov wanted to find out. But he also had to respect the emotions of Team Natsu. It was a delicate tightrope, that he had to walk.

"I don't know exactly how, but something must have happened," Lucy spoke up next. "Towards the end of the fight, Wendy, the new member with us, attacked Natsu out of nowhere." Most of the guild was taken aback in shock, Wendy hid into herself more than she already was. Regret and embarrassment consuming her thoughts and emotions. She knew exactly why she attacked him. At that moment, she thought that he was an enemy. Someone that she had to beat.

After that revelation, most of the guild attempted to question them further. Wanting to know why Wendy would have betrayed them. Makarov tried to stop them, but the guild didn't hear him. They were simply too engrossed in trying to figure out what happened.

Hearing all of this made the sky dragon slayer question her decision. Was Fairy Tail the place she should be? Would they trust her not to betray them? Would they accept her based on what she had done? Wendy didn't want to think about it right now. It still hurts too much to think about what the future had in store for her.

"We think that it had something to do with Scarlet's magic," Natsu spoke up next. "During that fight, I heard Erza say something about not using a particular type of magic again." This only spurred the guild to question them even further than they already were, all while ignoring the fact that Team Natsu was growing more uncomfortable by the minute.

Makarov was taken aback; he only knew of the Requip and that Erza possessed. When did she have access to a magic that she never wanted to wield? This was another thing that he would have to explore.

For the next couple of hours, Team Natsu and Wendy would explain just how downhill the battle against the Oración Seis went. How the dark guild captured Erza and Wendy was nowhere to be seen. All while being questioned about particular events by members of the guild. Leading up to the penultimate point in the fight, the betrayal of Erza Scarlet. But that was something they didn't want to tell them yet. That point in time still hurt all those who witnessed it. Until they could come to terms with what happened, that information would not be revealed.

"After we had dealt with some of the members of the Oración Seis. Erza..." Another hesitation, Natsu was almost close to his breaking point. "She came back to us with a warning." Natsu's voice dropped to below a whisper. Gajeel and Wendy were the only ones who could hear him with a degree of clarity. But they refused to comment on it out of respect for his privacy. Natsu didn't want to talk about this, he was getting restless. As was the rest of the members who came back with him.

Eventually, he broke. Natsu couldn't hold the pent-up emotions back anymore. He ran out of the guild. Happy, Gray and Lucy quickly following him. Wendy would walk out of the guild soon after. There was simply too much on her mind for her to be in the guild at the current moment. She needed someplace to go and clear her mind. Someplace where she could go and plan her next actions carefully.

(Lisanna's Grave)

There was only one place around magnolia where Natsu always could be found if he wasn't at his home or the guild. This was the one place where he could go and clear his mind after a stressful day. And what had just happened with the Oración Seis could be considered extremely stressful. It was the grave he built for the friend he had lost about two years ago, Lisanna Strauss.

"Remember what I told you about how I felt about Erza?" He would ask, hoping that she was able to listen to him. "Well, I tried to make a move after the Tower of Heaven Fiasco. She didn't give me a hard answer, just told me to wait while she thought about it." It was easier to talk about what happened while he was away from the guild. It was a place where no one could see him cry. He was meant to be the strength of the guild, its heart. Nobody is supposed to see the heart as broken like he was.

"It's pathetic isn't it Lisanna? Here I am swooning over a girl who probably would be better off with someone closer to her in age. Maybe someone like Jellal, I know those two had a history together. She's supposed to be with me though, my instincts keep telling me that." He would put his hand on the gravestone, closing his eyes as he did so. "But all of that changed a couple of days ago. During our fight with the Oración Seis. Just when we were about to declare victory, the unthinkable happened." his voice choked up. Even here it hurt to speak about what happened.

"Speaking of happy, he's just as hurt as we are. Seeing Erza side with Eren and that woman, Irene. It hurt the two of us far more than we can ever put to words."

"It hurt all of us Natsu, you're not the only one who felt that pain." He could hear a voice come in from the Greenline. Familiar voices of those from his team, Gray and Lucy.

"I couldn't believe it myself when it happened. I thought Erza would have stayed with us until the end." Lucy spoke up next, the new arrivals would take a seat around both him and the exceed, all staring at the headstone.

"What do I do?" Natsu would ask his teammates. "Erza meant everything to me. Now that she's betrayed us, I don't know what to do anymore."

Gray would speak up next. "You two were always close I'll say that much. The best advice I can give is to keep trying to get through to her. The Erza we know has to be in there somewhere, she just has to." Lucy nodded her head in agreement. Over the past couple of months, she could see just how close Natsu and Erza were to each other. How much they relied on each other for both emotional and moral support. The two of them needed each other, far more than either of them realized.

"That's what I initially thought, my instinct was telling me that what we saw wasn't real. But what if she isn't?" Natsu replied, "What if the Erza we knew was fake, and this new Erza we saw is the real one?" Both mages didn't know how to respond. There wasn't a response to his question. He had brought up a point that neither of them had thought up previously.

What if this is Erza's true personality?

(Fairy Tail)

Back at Fairy Tail, the mages who were left behind were shocked and confused as to why Team Natsu just up and ran out of the guild. It wasn't like any of them to run without some sort of explanation why. Some of the younger mages, Mirajane, and Elfman, in particular, wanted to look for them. They wanted to try to figure out if the three of them were alright or not. But Makarov denied every request. It was clear to him that the recent events had taken its toll on them, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. It would be a while before they would be willing to tell them exactly what happened, and why Erza wasn't with them. All the guild could do for Team Natsu now was to provide as much emotional support as they could.

In his office, Makarov could only think about what he had just learned. Gray had mentioned that Erza had another encounter with Scarlet. He was afraid that their encounter might have had something to do with Erza not returning but he could make any conclusions. There were still too many unknowns to consider.

He was looking over the most recent issue of sorcerer's weekly. It reported that Crocus had recently been attacked. Those who survived recalled the sound of some sort of Dragon-like creature, as well as three figures attacking and killing anyone who resisted them. While there weren't any pictures of those who committed the attack, the biggest thing that stuck out was the fact they used a type of magic that unknown to anyone who was able to catch a glimpse of it. One of the eyewitnesses mentioned that a black sphere would form on one of the mage's hands. Then the Rune Knights fighting them would drop dead. This wasn't good at all. With Crocus burnt to the ground, what was to stop those three from attacking other cities with that creature and causing more destruction?

Mirajane would pop in now and then to see how he was doing. Her concern evident after what happened with Team Natsu. Each time he would send her away, claiming he was fine. But in reality, his mind was working overtime. Trying to make sense of the information he had just been presented. Team Natsu's inability to fully explain what happened at Worth Woodsea, the magazine claiming that Crocus has fallen. He was trying to process too much information at once. Any more information and his mind might overload from sheer exhaustion.

This was not how everything was supposed to turn out, the guild was supposed to be in a celebration. Not be in worry over a few of their members. What went wrong? Did it have to do with the cracking sky that recently occurred? There were simply too many questions he simply could not find answers to.

(Lisanna's Grave)

"What do we do now?" Natsu tried to ask his companions, but like him. They couldn't think of a possible solution. They didn't even know exactly who they were going to fight against. Sure, they saw what she looked like, and that she was the supposed "Creator" of the universe. But that only gave a brief description of what she was capable of.

"I don't know, but the biggest thing is making sure that those five can't cause any more harm than they already have." Gray tried to be motivational, the mood was too sour for him to take. So, he tried to do what Fairy Tail always does and find hope amid despair.

"But how do we do it though? Their power far surpasses anything we could hope to achieve." Lucy spoke up next, while she understood what Gray was trying to do, someone needed to bring him back to reality. Living in a world of hopes and dreams will only take you but so far. Sooner or later the dreams will end and the individual returns to reality. It is simply the way of the world, nothing more and nothing less.

"We have to think of something, there has to be a way we can win." Gray was still trying to rally his friends. But still, it was for naught. Natsu was too in despair and Lucy was still grounded in reality to even think about finding a way out of this darkness.

"There's no point Gray, you didn't see what I saw. Erza was happier than I ever saw her at that moment. She fully embraced this "Ideal world" which they kept speaking of." Natsu finally spoke up, taking sides with Lucy in the argument. "Her smile was pure and genuine, something I'm sure all of us had longed for her to have for as long as we've known her." Natsu got up and started to leave.

"I'm all for trying to bring Erza back to us, to me. But we can't do anything before we don't even know where to begin." he would then walk back to his makeshift house. Natsu knew he wasn't going to get much sleep tonight. Even on the train ride back, his experience with Erza still haunted his dreams.

(Unknown location)

Construction was underway. Structures that were destroyed were being rebuilt. While still retaining the modern feel, the style was completely different. What used to be structures of varying degrees of color were now just a sun-dried tan. And on one of the palace's many balconies, a familiar red-headed girl watched the setting sun. The sun which was the symbol for so many aspects of life that brought her ever closer to where she wanted to be. But with the sunset, it was time for the other one to take command for the time being. She would say one last thing before returning to her room.

"Natsu, why didn't you stay by my side? Didn't you promise me that you would?"

The first chapter has come to its end, the sequel has now officially begun. If you noticed this chapter began immediately where Scarlet: Legends of Creation ended off. Oh, if you're wondering what happened to Jellal. I've got something special planned for him. So, don't discount him out of the story just yet. Many adventures lie in store for all of us, I hope you join me as we explore what exactly will happen to Earthland.

If it wasn't made clear in the chapter, each character will have their internal battles they'll have to fight in addition to the physical ones. Do they side with humanity against this new threat? or will they bring about the Change that Tiamat wants to see?

I hope you all have a wonderful day and I'll see you in the next chapter!