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The Fairy Tail mages in the guild hall jumped slightly when the doors slammed open with extreme force.

"We're back!" a voice shouted, causing more than a few to freeze in place before slowly turning towards the doorway.

Kinana, who was fixing a hole in the wall from one of the more recent brawls, slowly slid down the wall onto the floor as she recognized her old friends, including the man who broke her curse and the lovely Mirajane, who took her on as a student to teach her Take Over.

It was silent for a long moment as the Tenrou group waited for a reaction, and everyone else tried to get through their shock as their minds registered that none of the group had aged.

That didn't last long, though.

"LEVY!" two voiced cried in unison, lunging towards the group and tackling their teammate (who was now so much younger than them, geez, did that make them pedophiles?) in a hug.

Jet and Droy's words seemed to open the floodgates, and suddenly everyone who had known the group was coming forwards, tears in their eyes and smiles on their faces, as they reunited with their long lost family members.


It wasn't long until the Tenrou group asked what they believed to be the most important question of all.

After all, they had no guarantee that Zeref hadn't lied to them.

"D-did Lucy get back alright?" Lisanna asked, wide eyed and nervous.

Her expression was shared by the rest of the Tenrou group, to some extent. Predictably, Team Natsu's reactions to the words were more intense than the others'.

"She got here fine." Macao assured the poor girl. "Dropped right from the ceiling. She needed some medical attention, but she told us that was from before."

"Then where is she?" Natsu asked anxiously, Happy hovering over his shoulder. Neither of them would be able to relax until they saw her for themselves.

"She's on a mission with her brother." Wakaba called out.

Instantly, Team Natsu grew confused.

"Brother?" they echoed.

Surely the blonde Celestial Spirit mage would have mentioned—

"Oh, not by blood." Kinana explained, shaking her head. "They've just become pretty close throughout the years. She helped with his issues, he helped with hers…they consider each other family."

"Who?" Gray asked with a slight frown. Had he been replaced?

The purple-haired girl was about to answer, when the doors opened again, albeit much more gently.

"Hey, every—" the voice cut off immediately, and everyone turned towards the entrance.

The Tenrou group gasped at the blonde beauty that they had just been talking about, who was staring at them in shock.

The person right next to her only made a few of them even more shocked and confused.

"Jellal!" Erza said, eyes watering slightly as she brought a hand up to her mouth.

The blunette stared back at his childhood friend. "Erza…"


"Wow Lucy, you haven't aged a day!" Natsu said with a grin.

Lucy sighed, still catching her breath from when the life was almost squeezed out of her with her old friends' hugs.

"No, it's subtle, but it's there." Mirajane commented, loosely tugging on a strand of blonde hair. "You grew your hair out a bit."

"And you're a bit taller." Levy pointed out ruefully. Meanwhile, she was the shortest in their group.

The blonde really hadn't changed very much. Her hair was a bit wavier, and she didn't hold it up anymore. She was about two inches taller, too.

Of course, her outfit had changed.

Instead of her short skirt and revealing top, she wore a cream-colored skirt that reached just below her knees, with a matching short-sleeved blouse. She wore a beautiful gold corset-like top, and paired with the shirt, it was much less revealing that her original outfit. She had exchanged her black stockings and boots for white heeled boots with gold buckles, wore a gold pair of earrings similar to her old ones, and she had a gold heart locket around her neck.

The most noticeable change, however, was her lack of whip and pouch for her keys.

"You really haven't changed much." Meredy mused, leaning on the table next to where Juvia was sitting. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were the Arc of Time mage, not Ultear."

The woman in question pouted playfully at her adopted daughter, but didn't comment.

"So…how did you two join?" Gray asked, feeling glad that he'd be able to get to know Ur's daughter, and of course the younger girl (now older than him) she considered family. Juvia seemed to really like her, too.

"Ah, well that's kind of a long story." Ultear muttered with a sigh, taking a sip of her drink. "Meredy and I were wandering around after Tenrou disappeared, and we heard that Lucy was petitioning for Jellal to be freed due to mistreatment by the guards, and the fact that he was innocent of course. Since it was my fault he was there in the first place, I offered to help."

"So, long story short, Jellal was freed. He was legally in my custody for a few years, but that was only on paper. Of course, one of the requirements was that he stayed in the same building as me, and since my apartment was too small, we had to move." She said thoughtfully. "That's okay, though. I like my new place. I bought it, so I don't have to deal with rent. Jellal moved out a few years ago, too."

"Better you than me!" Ultear laughed. Lucy stuck her tongue out at her.


"Erza…" Jellal said, happiness and wonder showing in his eyes. They had separated themselves from the group for a private moment after Erza had talked with her old friends for a bit.

They scarlet-haired beauty's eyes watered as she saw his guild mark, the same color that he had named her after. She huffed out a laugh, and hugged him as he held her just as tightly.


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