Fairy Tail 546: The Tragic Future

XXX The Fairy Tail Guild Hall XXX

Nashi let go off Natsu leaving him thoroughly confused as soon as she saw Lucy she started crying she couldn't stop herself from hugging her mother "Mum!" falling into her crying uncontrollably

Natsu walked over to her Lucy couldn't help but believe this girl she felt the same feeling a mother gets when she sees her children hurt Natsu had the feeling that every father got when he sees his daughter crying.

Gale had been embraced by his own family.

Natsu asked Nashi "Why are you here what made you come to the past?"

Nashi wiped her eyes "Right, it's the God of death after Uncle Zeref was freed from the curse the God of Death was furious he invaded the earth killing humans, wizards and animals alike not even Zeref sacrificing himself up to the God stopped him, I watched as, my brother, my boyfriend and everyone I ever cared about died in front of me."

Gale nods "my mum was always risking her life, until one of the Ankhseram's minions claimed her life. Dad he… he got so angry he got reckless and was killed too. Natsu and Lucy took care of me after that, they decided we needed to come back and prepare for the invasion, and so we have"

Nashi shows Lucy all 12 Golden Zodiac Keys Lucy touches them and senses the energy coming from them "You, truly are my daughter." She said with tears streaming down her face.

Natsu punches his fist into a wall "Why! Why is it always us!?" everyone looks at Natsu "First killed me and my parents leaving Zeref all alone, then cursed Zeref for trying to bring his family back, now that he's finally free from Ankhseram he's going to kill everyone and everything! It's just not fair!"

Zeref is being led down the stairs having heard everything "you're right, but now we know he's coming so we can train, get stronger and be ready for him"

Everyone looks at Zeref some uneasy others relieved he's on their side this time and Natsu happy "Zeref your up!"

Nashi looks at him curious "Uncle… Zeref?" Natsu looks at Nashi you mean you've never met him?"

Nashi shakes her head "like I said he tried to sacrifice himself to Ankhseram thinking it would be enough to satisfy him… he was wrong it only made him hunger for death even more" suddenly Nashi collapses in Lucy's arms

Gale rushes over to her and sighs "I swear if it wasn't for me you'd never eat! Here." He clicks his fingers and a solid script magic of fire appears Nashi eats it and burps shaking the entire guild

Lucy laughs, "she certainly got your appetite Natsu"

Natsu laughs and nods "yeah, wait does that mean you know Dragon Slayer magic too?" Nashi nods "yeah you and mum taught us both your magic and she gave us all four of the golden gates each."

Lucy looks sad "What about Yukino?" Nashi smiles "She gave her keys to you for a baby shower present.

Lucy smiles "I see, that's a relief"

Gale clicks his fingers again and metal lands on the ground and he starts eating "this taste like garbage but whatever. Metal is metal as they say"

Gajeel laughs and passes him some top quality metal "here take some of this"

Gale looks cautiously at it then takes a bite and it sends shivers of deliciousness down his spine "Mmm! This tastes just like Mum's metal!" he looks up "Wait a minute, did you make this Mum?"

Levy nods "now since you don't have a place to go, you'll be staying with me and Gajeel"

Gale looks at Gajeel expecting him to protest but he just sighs "Alright, guess there's no helping it"

Lucy smiles and cups Nashi's cheeks "you'll be staying with me too"

Nashi smiles then looks at Natsu "What about Dad?"

Lucy sighs "he spends most nights at my place anyway." An image of Her, Nashi, Natsu, & Happy all trying to sleep in the same house together pops into her head.

Lucy sighs and states "I'm gonna need a bigger house"

Gildarts gathers Natsu, Lucy, Nashi, Gajeel, Levy, and Gale into a group hug "This maybe depressing seeing as we now know a larger enemy is on it's way, even worse than Zeref or Acnologia but we have two new members in the Guild!"

Nashi sees Gray and Juvia smiling smugly she averts her eyes quickly making Gray and Juvia very curious.

XXX A Few Days Later XXX

Natsu had completely destroyed his house and with a little help from everyone he and Gajeel had rebuilt it larger than ever.

Gajeel had made another house just as large on the other side of the River for his family,

Nashi smiles widely "Wow I can't believe it! It's so small!"

Natsu, and Gajeel look at her confused "What are you talking about!?" Natsu asks

Nashi smiles "last time I saw this house it was 10x bigger same with Gajeel's"

Gale laughs "yeah it's almost like we're watching the start of our lives isn't it?"

Nashi nods "yeah! It sure is…" she frowns fiddling with her engagement ring Lucy realises what it is and is shocked "Your getting married to who!?"

Nashi wipes tears out of her eyes "It doesn't matter anymore, I don't know why I still have this thing he's never coming back I just…"

Lucy realises what must have happened to him "Oh, I'm so sorry I didn't think!" she embraces her future daughter "It's okay sweetie we're going to change the future and he's going to be okay!"

Gale sighs "It's not that simple"

Lucy looks up in confusion "What do you mean?"

Gale even if we manage to save this timeline ours will still be nearly completely destroyed it's like every time you choose to go left there's an alternate reality where you chose to go right and another one where you went forward and back and so on and so forth"

Lucy realising what he means "So wait coming back here did nothing to save your future?"

Nashi nods "My, beautiful, stupid fiancé is never coming back!"

Natsu frowns "maybe talking about it will make you feel better?"

Nashi nods "maybe but it'll make you go ballistic I mean you nearly went on a demon rampage when you found out who I was dating."

Lucy waves it off as an over exaggeration "Oh, it can't be that bad."

They look up to see Gray walking towards them "Wow, you guys really went all out rebuilding Natsu's house huh? Well I guess it's Natsu and Lucy's House now. Either way if I didn't know any better I'd say it was another guild." He laughs

Nashi avoids looking at Gray annoying him "Okay did I do something to you in the future that makes you hate me or something?!"

Nashi looks surprised "Hate you, no of course not it's just…" she shakes her head "I can't…"

Gale lets out an annoyed sigh "Princess you need to stop beating yourself up over what happened! Storm chose to save you it's not your fault!"

Nashi looks angry at him "It is my fault! If he'd never fallen in love with me if I'd never let myself fall for him he wouldn't have…! You don't understand!"

Gale gets angry too "I don't understand!? I don't understand!? Rosemary died in my arms carrying my child and you think I don't understand!? I love her and I always will but if I keep blaming myself for it she'll never forgive me!"

Nashi turns from him in a huff Natsu looks back and forth thoroughly confused "uhh… Who's Storm and Rosemary?"

Nashi realising she said everything around Natsu and everyone "Ohh… Rosemary was Gale's wife."

Gale nods "and Storm was her Fiancé. Rosemary was Erza and Jellal's daughter"

Lucy smiles "I so knew it was going to happen, but who was Storm?"

Nashi shakes her head fiercely Gale nods his head "sorry princess but they need to know the whole story. My parents helped me get through it so maybe yours can help you too."

Nashi gets a fierce look in her eyes "Don't you dare Gale Redfox!"

Gale looks at Gray then to Natsu and Lucy and says "Storm Fullbuster was Gray, and Juvia's son they also had a twin son and daughter called Rin and Sylvia Mirajane and Laxus had a Daughter called Nova and Jellal and Erza had a son called Reiki and a Daughter called Rosemary"

Lucy smiles "We certainly had a big family"

Gale nods "yeah we did and it was great over the years we trained and honed our magical power joined Fairy Tail Storm even became an S-Class before Nashi and because of a bet they made she kissed him and that's how they fell in love but in 20 Years from now when we're all 12-18 Ankhseram's forces invade killing millions it only took three days for Ankhseram to destroy every magic guild in the world and only a year to take over it completely…"

Lucy interrupts him "hang on I thought you said that Ankhseram invaded in a year or so?"

Gale nods "right and Zeref sacrificing spared everyone for those extra years we thought it was over we weren't happy what it took but thought it was over but it wasn't. After the year we had gathered enough forces to strike back or so we thought and it was massacre Storm's little brother and sister were killed instantly but at least they were together Rosemary was underground trying to stay safe but she was anything but by the time we retreated it was too late she had been killed, killing our child too. Then there was me, I had gotten so angry I didn't care weather I died or not, note this was after my mum and dad had died too so now I had no one. I challenged Ankhseram to a fight one on one but he cheated not that he needed to but Nashi and Storm stepped in saving my ass but then one of his minions was about to kill Nashi…"

Nashi crying in a corner Gale sighs sadly "and Storm used his body as a shield telling her…"

Nashi speaks up "telling me that he loved me and even though it was never official he always felt like I was a wife to him and that he hoped I felt he was a husband. I didn't really care if it was official or not it's just a piece of paper and all"

Natsu looks sad "so in three years if Zeref doesn't sacrifice himself the entire world could end sooner than it did in your time"

Nashi shrugs "Time travel isn't an exact science and things change when people travel through time I mean this conversation never happened in our time because we didn't come back to warn you in our time"

Everyone nods and Gray hugs Nashi and looks at her before saying "Don't blame yourself I may not have met my son yet but I can tell that he loved you and I know that when I thought I lost Juvia I couldn't think straight I tried to kill Natsu but he ended up nearly killing me."

Natsu coughs a little embarrassed "Well to be fair I had thought I'd just seen Lucy die and was full of anger rage and E.N.D was activating inside of me."

They both nod Gale nods "yeah you sure are scary when you transform."

Natsu looks confused "Wait you've seen me transform?"

Gale nods "yeah it's how you died you transformed to fight Ankhseram and he killed you, not to mention all those times when me and Nashi and Storm were younger whenever a kid would pick on Nashi you'd transform scaring the heck out of them, we found it quite funny knowing you'd never actually kill them."

Lucy realising what this means "Wait you mean he gains control over E.N.D?"

Zeref walks out of the house "Of course now that I am no longer cursed his programming will have been deleted and he's in full control whenever he transforms or at least that's what I'd like to think but it will still be a little tricky transforming back and forth"

Natsu smiles "alright guys, we know a stronger enemy than Acnologia is on the way we know none of us have the power to defeat this enemy as we are now, so what are we going to do?"

Everyone smiles "Train like never before!"

Natsu smiles and nods "Damn straight. But for now I'm hungry let's have some lunch everyone nods and starts heading towards Town

They have a new goal in sight but will three years be enough time to get ready for Ankhseram and how many of them will survive and what will happen to Natsu and Lucy with a new enemy forcing them to put a hold on their relationship.