Natsu faces against Future Rogue as the man had killed Future Lucy.
"raaah!" Natsu roared out as he and Rogue exchanged magic imbued fists against each other, the clash between their attacks caused a magic shockwave to explode around them.
"you'll burn away that fate!? Do no jest!" exclaimed Future Rogue as he and Natsu pushes their attack against each other.
"I'll make sure to burn it away!" Natsu roared out before the magic clash between the two breaks out and both skids away from another.
"Lucy is fated to close the door, and I will make sure that she is killed before it happens!" said Future Rogue as black aura rises around his body.
"Gray, you get everyone away from here. Kiara, the celestial gem!" said Natsu while sending a hard glare at Future Rogue. "I'll keep this mad man away and make sure he's eliminated."
"like I will let her escape!" exclaimed Future Rogue as he disappeared and a shadow zooms pass Natsu and straight towards Lucy, but an ice wall formed in front and blocks it. "What!?"
"let's go, Lucy!" said Gray while holding Lucy's hand and made a getaway from the area.
"but! Natsu!" exclaimed Lucy while running with Wendy and the others following behind.
"he's got this! That Rogue is after you! We got to get you away from here!" exclaimed Charla to Lucy.
"such an annoyance!" said Future Rogue while coming out of the shadow and faces Natsu who cuts his arm with Chitetsu and draws out his blood that gets sucks into the cursed katana's blade. The salmon haired mage slowly transforming into his demonic form. "I knew that you would get in my way, Natsu Daimou. History never changes for the likes of you."
"I'll make sure that history changes" said Natsu as his eyes turns dark while his face is covered in the demonic bone mask. "no matter what"
"that's impossible" said Future Rogue before he dashes towards Natsu who did the same as both clashed their magic element against each other one more. "for you will die here!"
"let's see if you can!" Natsu roared out as his flames collides with Future Rogue's shadows before both exploded.
Meanwhile at another area of Mercurius' corridors. Mira is running around as she is looking for Yukino.
"Yukino! Yukino!" Mira hollered out to the white haired Celestial Spirit mage as she looks around everywhere.
"Mirajane-sama?" Yukino's voice replied to the Majin's hollering as Mira turns to find the white haired teenager sitting a few feet away while hugging her legs to her chest.
"there you are! I went everywhere to find you!" said Mira with a relieved smile as she quickly went to Yukino. "come on! Let's get out of here!"
"I'm sorry…I can't" replied Yukino.
"what? why not?" asked Mira with a confused face.
"if I come with you….you and everyone else will be haunted with misfortune." Said Yukino while tearing up. "because of me…..everyone I know always gets bad luck when around me. that's why….i…"
"what are you saying?" said Mira as she patted Yukino's head while having a comforting smile. "everyone in this world has a reason to be existing in every place and every time. As small as it can be, I'm sure that you have a reason to be here"
"Mirajane-sama…" muttered Yukino as Mira smiles to her before giving her comforting hug.
"it's alright, no matter what, none of us are going to have bad luck with you" said Mira before looking at Yukino with a grin. "Fairy Tail never relies so much on luck anyway!"
Yukino looks at Mira before she whimpered in tears and cried a bit.
"come on, no crying" said Mira as she petted Yukino's head.
"yes….i'm so sorry…I'm sorry" Yukino cried out as Mira comforted her as much as she needed.
At front of the Mercurius palace, the Eclipse Gate's preparation is nearly finished as the gate will soon be opening.
"it is time to prepare the Eclipse Cannon against the Dragon Attack! Eclipse Gate, Unlock!" stated Hisui as the 12 locks on the Eclipse Gate started to open one by one.
'The gate will finally be opened' thought Darton as everyone watched the locks on the gate slowly opens.
'the warning from the other future person…will the future really be saved?' thought Arcadios with a sceptic look.
"what are the Dragon raid's condition?" said Hisui to some soldiers.
"no signs of dragons on the west side!" "the same from the east!" replied to soldiers in reporting to her.
"the people's evacuation?" asked Hisui as in the moment, many of Crocus' Civilians are evacuating form the city.
"the soldiers are leading them out, but we might need another hour to completely evacuate the city!" another soldier reported as Hisui nodded before looking at the Eclipse Gate.
"I hope we can hit them all in one shot," stated Hisui with a serious gaze. "it might take years to full recharge this amount of magic power."
While the preparation of the Eclipse Cannon is underway, at a nearby bush are Lucy and the others who had escaped Mercurius.
"and I thought things couldn't get worse?" said Charla as everyone peeks at the Eclipse Gate preparation.
"should we stop the gate and close it or let it open for it to fire the cannon?" asked Gray to Lucy who shakes her head.
"I don't know, but if the future me said that she didn't close it, then I won't" said Lucy before frowning to remember her future self who had passed away just moments ago.
"but should we even let it be open? Remember Draco and the other's warning? Using the Eclipse Gate is like a taboo" said Lily, reminding everyone of the 8 Lingyue Celestial spirits warning.
"it's either facing their wrath or facing the destruction of ten thousand dragons" said Charla to Lily. "which one do you pick?"
"the latter, I suppose" replied Lily.
"there is no need to hide" said Arcadios as he looks to the bush on where the group is hiding at. "come on out"
Everyone was surprised of the knight's statement as they all decided to confront each other.
"if you're thinking of getting us into that dungeon again, you got another thing coming!" said Gray as he got in front of the group.
"wait, things have changed" stated Darton to the group.
"Fairy Tail.." said Hisui in seeing the group as everyone faces another. "I'm sorry for my actions in placing you all in Hell Palace, and my apologies to put my actions against the Emperor of Lingyue. But with the matter of states right now, I will give you my official apologies later."
"Charla…she's the princess!" said Wendy, a bit excited to meet the royal princess of Fiore.
"not the time, Wendy. Not the time" said Charla with a sigh.
"also, congratulations to winning the GMG" said Hisui with a smile as this got everyone to smile.
"Erza and the others did it!" said Gray with a grin as everyone else nodded.
"just a minute" said Lucy while getting near Hisui and the others. "why are you opening the gate so soon? The dragons aren't even here yet."
"they know?" asked Hisui to Arcadios who nodded before the knight turns his attention to the group.
"where is your future self? And Salamander?" asked Arcadios to the group.
"she's…." said Lucy before frowning.
"she was killed by another person who came from the future" said Lily as everyone was a bit hesitant to state what had happened. "and Natsu is currently facing the man."
"what?" said Arcadios as he with Hisui looks surprised.
"he said that the Eclipse Cannon couldn't fire because of me getting in the way!" added Lucy.
"you mean he tried to kill you?" said Arcadios.
"will you get in the way?" asked Hisui while being a bit hostile.
"no!" said Lucy while shaking her head. "I just want to know why you're opening the gate when the dragons aren't even here yet!"
"the Eclipse Cannon needs time to prepare" explained Hisui while looking at the gate. "if we wait for them to come and then prepare it, we won't make it in time"
"will this weapon really defeat ten thousand dragons?" said Lily as Hisui frowns a bit.
"I can't say for sure that it will defeat them all, but the king is preparing for the worst-case scenario" stated Hisui.
At the Ri in Crystal located in Crocus Town; Central Square, the location of where all mages that participated in the GMG are all gathered around. The King of Fiore; Toma. E . Fiore has gathered them all for coming of the ten thousand Dragons raid.
"t-ten thousand dragons!?" said Makarov in shock to hear the news.
"if there's ten thousand dragons like that Acnologia comes…" muttered Evergreen with a bit of a frightened face.
"that one is a special case, I think" said Lisanna, Acnologia being different from any ordinary dragon.
"ten thousand dragons are coming…this might be a bad time to drink" said Cana while holding a barrel in her arms.
"since when it's not a bad time for you to drink?" asked Elfman with a sweatdrop to the card mage.
"at the castle, they are currently preparing for the Eclipse Cannon. The weapon that will wipe out the dragons" said Toma before he frowns. "but we fear that the Eclipse Cannon might not be able to wipe them all out in an instant, there might be a few or even a hundred of them that survive the blast" Toma then bowed as he bowed to every mage present in the field. "magic guilds. Please help us in this dire time! I…this kingdom is need of your strength to defeat the dragons! Please help save this country!"
In response to his plead, everyone cheered as they were going to help.
"yeah!" "leave it to us!" "we won't let some monsters kill us!" "this country that developed together with magic is our country!" everyone roared out as Toma felt in tears to hear their voices.
"we want to help, but our teammates that were captured by the army.." said Erza to one soldier nearby.
"they are fine! we were told that they had joined with the princess at Mercurius!" replied the soldier.
"gihee! That means we can go full on!" said Gajeel with a grin as Levy nodded in agreement.
"dragons…" muttered Sting.
"it's time for us to shine, huh?" said Rogue.
"do your best, Sting-kun!" cheered Lector.
"fro thinks so too!" added Frosch with a happy smile.
"by the way, have you seen milady?" asked Rufus to Orga who shrugs his shoulders.
"dunno" replied Orga.
"all the guilds joining forces together to face a single crisis…what a spectacular feat" said Jura with a smirk.
"it'd be best if you rest, Kagura-han" said Ikaruga to Kagura who is standing up with the help of Millianna and Risley.
"no, I shall fight" said Kagura while grunting a bit. "teacher would done the same if he was in my situation."
"yes" said Ikaruga with an agreeing smile.
"you should go and evacuate too" said Laxus to Ikaruga. "better with the twins and your baby. Who knows what they might do without you being there"
"gratitude for your concern, but it is fine" replied Ikaruga as far away from the kingdom are Kinana and some guild members who are evacuating the civilians to safety. "Kinana-han will take care of them. And I'm sure I am more of help on the field"
"please, come this way!" exclaimed Kinana to some civilians who are leaving the kingdom for safety. Kinana turns as she looks at Haruka and Haruo, both are looking at the city while looking worried. "come on you two, we need to go"
"but what about Mama and the others?" asked Haruka while she carries Ikki who is strapped on her back.
"yeah. Shouldn't we help?" said Haruo.
"they'll be fine" said Kinana while patting their heads. "they're strong, and we can help by protecting the civilians, ok?"
The twins look at Kinana before they nodded and the four soon joined the civilians in evacuating.
Returning back to the town square Ikaruga smiles as she knows her children will be safe and sound with the evacuating civilians before she hears a parrot squalling sound coming from above.
Ikaruga and Erza, Laxus, Kagura, and Juvia who were all nearby looks up as a yellow parrot bird flies down before it exploded into pink smoke and revealed Kiara.
"Kiara?" said Erza in surprise as Kiara falls and landed on Laxus' head.
"if you're here, that means Natsu and the others got Lucy back, right?" said Laxus while looking at Kiara who nodded before she jumped straight to Ikaruga and got inside her kimono.
Everyone looks a bit deadpanned to what the Pop Fox is doing inside Ikaruga's kimono as a minute later Kiara pops out of Ikaruga's chest with the golden celestial gem in her mouth.
"the Celestial gem?" said Juvia before Kiara jumps out and exploded into pink smoke as the Pop Fox transforms into a jaguar cheetah and then makes a bolting run for Mercurius.
"why did she took that gem?" asked Kagura with a confused face.
"that gem belongs to Natsu-san…does that mean something is going on?" asked Juvia as Erza furrowed her eyebrows while Ikaruga looks a bit worried that something might happen to her husband.
Within Mercurius, Natsu battle against Future Rogue rages on as both were intending to kill each other.
Natsu got on all four in his demonic form as he charged up energy to his two horns before firing a powerful red beam straight at Future Rogue who deflected it with a shadow coated arm.
"I felt your presence before…your presence is lurking with evil intention" said Natsu while glaring at Future Rogue who smirks. "tell me what you are truly here for!"
"I told you before, didn't i?" replied Future Rogue while chuckling. "I came back to kill Lucy who will stop the activation of the Eclipse Gate"
Natsu growls before he dashes straight against Future Rogue and swung Chitetsu down, but the future man blocks with both arms that are coated in black shadows.
"you're lying!" roared Natsu as he pushes Chitetsu with full force and caused the ground below Future Rogue's legs to break and shatter. "you're trying to destroy the future! No…you're trying to taint it!"
"hehehehe, you are a man of unpredictable fate, Natsu Daimou" said Future Rogue as his dark aura rises before his hair stands up and revealed his shaded right side that is covered in shadows. "I should've erased you the moment I arrived in this time!"
Natsu looks at Future Rogue in surprise as he jumps away and sees the man's magic power rising.
"you…that form…" said Natsu as he growls.
"that is right" said Future Rogue as he lifted both his hands that are glowing white and black respectively. "White Shadow Dragon Mode. The power of both light and darkness"
Natsu growls as his body ignites in flames before he made a bolt straight towards Future Rogue who slammed both his glowing hands together in forming a white black swirling energy sphere that he throws at the demonic man and caused a powerful explosion.
At Mercurius, the Eclipse Gate's all 12 locks have been unlocked as the gate is slowly opening.
"the gate….is opening" muttered Lucy in seeing the gate's opening.
"I can feel so much magic power from it" said Charla in amazement.
"with this much magic power….the dragons won't even survive against the Eclipse Cannon" added Lily.
"with this…..Future Lucy's future will be re-written" said Wendy with a smile before she saw Lucy slowly walking towards the Eclipse Gate. "Lucy-san?"
"no…you can't" muttered Lucy with wide eyes. "the gate must not be opened….it must be closed now!"
That's a wrap!
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