Alright, I've finished this arc and I'm actually pretty proud of it, well, most of it. The next arc will be the filler arc as promised. Enjoy!
7 years later, x791
No One's P.O.V.
It was seven years since the Tenrou Island. Romeo Conbolt stares out at the sea. He's now thirteen years old. Bisca and Alzack are now married as well.
"Our job is done and we should probably head back to the guild" they told Romeo. They didn't want Macao to worry about his son. Bisca went up to Romeo and tried to comfort him.
"Romeo, i know that you're still upset about Tenrou, but it's been seven years now-" Alzack stops her, mid sentence and shakes his head. At the Fairy Tail Guild, now a small tavern, Macao, the new Guild Master, is angry Romeo hasn't come home yet.
"Where the hell could that boy be? Its been hours." Macao scoffs. Wakaba, now Macao's adviser, tells him to calm down.
"Calm down, he's old enough now that he can handle himself." He smokes. This ends in the two arguing. Max Alors, Warren Rocko and Nab Lasaro, complain about the lack of jobs, as their guild is so small. Meanwhile, Laki Olietta makes fun of Droy, who is now fat.
"You should probably lose the weight or you wont be able to go on jobs anymore." Laki laughed. Jet also insults Droy, and tells him even Reedus has trimmed down. Reedus points out he was slim in the first place, anyways.
"Yeah dude, levy would even tell you-"
"Levy's gone! She's never coming back!" Droy yells. Jet freezes at this and everybody becomes silent. Just then, members of Twilight Ogre come into the guild. Macao groaned and stood up and went in front of everybody still alive in his guild.
"Time for our monthly payment old man." One ofothe members state, smirking at the nervous tension.
"Fairy Tail is no longer the strongest guild in Magnolia, Twilight Ogre had helped us keep our tavern after we've started to fade out." Wakaba reminds him.
"We told you that we didnt have it. We'll get yourymoney by next week." Macao told them.
"Yeah, we told the boss, but he didn't like that too well. He wants the full amount now."
"We don't have it-" one of them kicked Macao in the face. Just when everyone is about to fight, Macao yells at them not to. The Twilight Ogre Mages all leave after trashing the guild, and warn Macao they will be back next month.
"You better have our money." The guild was trashed and laki started to pick up the chairs that weren't smashed to they leave, everyone notices a painting of Makarov that had fallen out of Reedus' sketchbook. They look through all the other pictures of the guild seven years ago. Everyone reminisces on that day, and how Acnologia destroyed Tenrou Island, and left a strange emptiness in the Eternano Waters. Macao gets up and starts crying.
"Romeo has never smiled ever since that day." Droy starts to eat out of stress, tears streaming down his face as he thinks about Levy. Jet slams his head on a table and openly weeps in front of everyone. Reedus picked up his drawings and looks through them, tears gathering in his own eyes.
Just then, Blue Pegasus arrives on Christina. Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki, and The Trimens come to the ground, and after patronizing Laki, they reveal they have detected something in the Eternano Waters.
"Meaning?" Laki asked.
"Tenrou Island still exists." Ichiya states. Based on the information received from Blue Pegasus, the guild forms a search party (consisting of Bisca, Alzack, Max, Warren, Jet, and Droy) and sets out to the Eternano Waters in an attempt to locate their missing members.
"Oh mavis, it's so hot." Droy whines. Jet laughs at his antics.
"I'm just happy, we'll see levy again." Droy nods rapidly at his words and smiles wistfully at memories of levy.
"I wouldn't get your hopes too high, Azlack and I have searched these waters for any surviors and we've found nothing. I don't get it, we've also seen what Tenrou Island was, nothing. I don't know how blue Pegasus even found traces of them." Bisca mutters. Azlack rubs circles on her back in a loving manner.
Upon arrival, the guild does not see any sign of Tenrou Island still existing. While Jet and Droy remained positive that they'll get to see Levy again, most of the members feel that they still shouldn't get their hopes up. At that moment, the despondent group notices a girl standing on the surface of the ocean.
As the girl lifted her hands, the waters began to rage behind her and Tenrou Island emerges from the ocean, encased in a bubble-like barrier with the Fairy Tail insignia on it. She then begins heading towards the resurfaced island with the search party chasing behind.
"Come on guys, I think she's leading us to the others." Shortly upon arriving on the island, the party finds an unconscious Natsu Dragneel buried beneath some dirt and debris.
...
Back at the Fairy Tail guild, Macao asks Romeo if it was a good idea for him not to join the search party.
Romeo replies "Even if Tenrou Island was found, there is no knowing if everyone survived, seven years have gone by without any word from them." Just then, Thibault and his group of Twilight Ogre members barge in again.
"Hey losers, look like you guys have gotten even smaller. Pathetic." They bittle them.
"Our payment is due next week. like we've said." Wakaba tells them.
" We were acting on the orders of our Master, who again feels that it is a problem if payments are not made on schedule." Having heard Thibault's remarks, as well as feeling upset at his guild's cowardice, Romeo prepares to fight back, demonstrating his new ability to conjure fire.
However, his attempt proves to be futile as Thibault easily extinguishes his fire by simply blowing it out. Annoyed by Romeo's resistance, Thibault raises his kanabÅ and prepares to strike. Just as Thibault's attack is about to land, he is sent flying by a kick from a silhouette. As everyone looks in surprise, the remaining members of Twilight Ogre having already been knocked out by several other unseen characters. With a familiar smile, it is revealed that all the missing S-Class Mage Promotion Trial candidates have returned to the guild.
"Our guild has gotten so much smaller, huh?" Makarov states with a smile.
"Everyone still looks young and has not aged a single day since their disappearance." Nab and Laki say, astonished. They had tears in their eyes as they said so. Without a doubt, everyone was overjoyed with tears that the guild is finally reunited.
"How did you guys come back?" Nab asks.
"We were all buried under dirt when we woke up. I guess we only survived because the first master had used fairy spear so that we didn't die. It took seven years to regenerate the island though." Lucy stated. She looked around and gazed at Erza.
"S-so you two are married?" Erza asked Bisca and Azlack. They looked at each other and smiled.
"Yup it was around six years ago. I proposed." Bisca pointed to herself. "We also have a little girl, Asuka" Erza grabbed Bisca's hands and had fresh tears streaming down her face which seemed so comical.
"I'm so so sorry I couldn't be there for your special day."
"Don't worry about it." Bisca laughed, nervous. Lucy gazed around the room and sneered.
"Well I'm glad some of you were loyal to your guild." Everyone from the guild, the ones who lived through the seven years smiled at this.
"No matter how unpopular our guild is, we'll never give it up" Laki giggled. Everyone from Tenrou Island realized the state of their guild and looked around.
"Yeah, what happened to the guild anyway." Natsu asked.
"We couldn't pay for such a big guild so we had to downgrade a bit. After the strongest people were supposedly dead, no one gave us job request and so guild mates switched to other guilds which left the rest if us." Wakaba explained. The Tenrou Island crew were silent before they heard natsu laughed.
"I guess we'll just have to crawl back up to the top, huh?" Everyone smiled at him.
"Yeah!"
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"What happened?!" Lucy yelled as she stood in the middle of their house. It was covered in nothing but dust and spider webs.
"What? Oh. Lucy, what do you think would happen after seven years?" Marie put her tiny paws on her waist. Lucy went into a cabinet under the sink and pulled out a duster. She pulled up her sleeves and put her hair up.
"Time to clean up the warehouse." She tossed a duster to Marie and they got to work. It took around an hour before they were done. they wiped the sweat off their brows and Lucy sat in her hammock. She put her face in her hands.
"What's wrong?" Lucy rubbed her face, a headache starting to form.
"Thinking about visiting Jude, he may not have been much of a father to me, but I can't help but care for the old man. Remember when I went to save him at the merchant guild, but he ended up not even being there in the first place. He made it right after I defeated naked mummy." She chuckled.
"Yeah, I remember. Do you really want to see him though?" Lucy looked up to the ceiling in thought. She sighed.
"Yeah, I guess. Want to go get natsu and happy?" Marie nodded and the ran to the guild to grab matsu and happy. Once they got there they saw happy and natsu sitting on a rickety bench. They had their heads slammed on a table, pouting.
"There aren't any good jobs around anymore." Natsu slammed his hand on the table, breaking it.
"No need to break anymore things, natsu." Macao chuckled. He gazed towards makarov.
"So are you the master again?" He asked makarov. He just shrugged.
"I'm not sure, I think it's my time to give up my place. I have someone in mind though." Makarov eyes followed gildarts as he hugged Cana tightly. Romeo was still hung up on the fact that natsu was back, tears still welled in his eyes at the thought.
"Still can't believe gildarts is cana's dad." Bisca's eyes widened, looking at the pair.
"I know right?" Azlack said.
"Natsu!" Lucy ran up to natsu, pulling his arm to get him up. He did, but she had to pull his dead weight. "Come on, man. We gotta go to Acolifa (I don't know how to spell it), need to visit Jude." Natsu gave her a weird look, which made her roll her eyes. "My human dad."
"Why do I need to go?" He asked. She slightly flushed and let his arm go.
"I don't know...just felt right asking." He stood there, his own face heating up as she looked away from him. He sighed and smiled a tiny bit.
"Let's go." She immediately perked up and grabbed him and Happy's tail.
"Let's go Marie!" They ran out the guild doors in a very big hurry, with everyone watching as they did so.
"Do cute, its such a surprise they haven't gotten together yet." Kinana smiled, wiping a glass down. Mira giggled as did lisanna.
"It is a surprise since edolas natsu and Lucy had so much romantic tension, it would suffocate anything within a mile radius." Lisanna said. Mira drooled at the her imagination.
"I could only imagine."
Im finished. Next chapter will be in Natsu's P.O.V. and their journey to Acolifa. I'll also tie the loose ends up that were from the seven year gap.