Author's Note: Yea, it took awhile for me to get back to this. I mean, new school (Finally in Senior High, hooray for me!), new manga, not to mention homework. Still, if I take too long to update from now on, please remind me, cuz chances are, I forgot. So here it is, the long awaited third chapter. read, review, Rejoice!

Chapter 3:
A Night with the Fullbusters

After about two hours of fighting, everything simmered down. Lucy sat on the barstool, amazed. 'Age doesn't seem to slow these guys down, huh' she thought to herself. In any case, she was glad that Fairy Tail didn't change too much, that it was still a warm family. But Lucy became worried as she realized something strange. Where was the future version of herself? They didn't say that anything bad happened to her, but she wasn't around and they didn't even mention her in the story. Strange.

As she sat there dazed, she didn't realize when Gray and Erza approached her. She was snapped out of her trance when Erza placed her heavy hand on Lucy's shoulder and said, "It's getting late, shall we head out."

Surprised, she shot out of her chair and awkwardly stammered, "Is that so… oh right, look at the time! Guess it is time to go, so let's go…!" ending with an awkward and slightly unsettling laugh.

"…Right." Gray replied suspiciously.

Without another word, Gray and Erza led Lucy downstairs. As they walked through the crowd of NG fairies, the fairies gave Gray and Erza a simultaneous salutation. "Thank you for the work, Master Erza, Mr. Fullbuster. See you tomorrow." With a nod of the head, the two gestured a good bye to their younger generation.

The large doors were pushed open and they ascended the staircase Lucy came down with the other Erza in the beginning. The eerie feeling that flight of stairs gave off sent chills up Lucy's spine. Gray activated the magic seal on the concrete exit and again the walls collapsed. When everyone was off the staircase, the wall rebuilt itself, just like before.

Gray and Erza walked nonchalantly onto the sidewalk of the main road, while Lucy on the other hand, was staggering, barely able to move her legs, out of fear that one of Zeref's henchmen could be watching.

"You don't have to be so tense you know. You look more suspicious walking like that." Erza noted.

"She looks like a robot with those stiff movements. Like she hadn't been oiled for years." Gray commented.

"Well excuse me for being scared, but I'd rather not die under these circumstances." Lucy argued.

Gray and Erza looked at Lucy for a second, realizing the awkward position that she was put into. Erza reassured, "No matter what happens, we'll make sure you get out of this and back to your own time, alive."

The streets were empty and very few people occupied the sidewalks. Only gangsters, drunkards, and prostitutes were out this kind of time, and I guess, Fairy Tail wizards too. The whole scene was pretty sad. Even Lucy could feel a small wave of depression surrounding her. Is this really what the future will be like? Is this all Magnolia will be reduced to? It was surprising and unacceptable to Lucy, but for the others she met there, this was daily life.

They came to a sudden stop in front of a house, nothing out of the ordinary. It just seemed like your typical house from the outside. A gate, a white paint job with blue trimming, nothing to set it apart from anywhere else.

"This is it. Home sweet home." Gray said, a slight bit of sarcasm in his voice.

Lucy was in a weird sense relieved. Somehow, she was trying to picture the perfect home for Erza and Gray and somehow, she was stuck between a metal fortress and an ever-frozen igloo. In any case, both would be cold, and pretty uncomfortable for her to live, so it was nice to see it was normal.

By the time she snapped back into reality, Gray and Erza were already in the doorway, just about ready to go inside. She ran inside and they closed the door behind her. The place was normal on the inside as well, your regular old living room.

Suddenly, they heard scurrying footsteps make their way upstairs. They chased the sound to reveal the other, younger Gray and Erza, trying to escape out a window. Erza and Gray, grabbed their younger counter parts. Erza sternly stated, "You two aren't getting away that easy."

They fought to get away, but soon, New Generation (NG) Erza's eyes locked with Lucy's for a second. He gave her a confusing glare that she didn't understand. In a second, Lucy's eyes were averted to the Erza she grew up with, as she spoke, "Lucy, you can take a bath now if you want. It would probably be the best way for you to settle your mind."

Lucy responded with a nod as she exited the room before she could even hear the directions to the bathroom. Oh well, the house was not that big, if she checked all the rooms, she'd eventually find it.

Lucy's head was shrouded with questions that just confused her even more. Where was her future self, why did NG Erza glare at her so strangely. She opened the first door she saw on instinct, that incidently turned out to be the bathroom. She closed the door behind her and looked around for moment before she realized, the bathroom was bigger than the living room! The bathtub looked big enough for ten people to fit in. These guys were really serious when it came to their bathroom! And even better, the tub was filled with steaming hot water, good for cleansing the skin. Lucy felt like the luckiest girl in the world at that moment.

Lucy was excited just looking at it, she couldn't wait to just dive into the pool sized bathtub before her. She threw off her clothes and immersed herself in the water. She felt as though she could sit in there for hours just staring into space. She was too happy to think about all those depressing thoughts.

After about an hour of just soaking in the tub, Lucy came out the water. She looked at herself in the bathroom mirror, posed, and giggled to herself. "Guess I was worrying over nothing." She whispered to herself. She grabbed two towels and wrapped them around herself. One wrapped around her body while the other was wrapped around her hair.

She walked down the hallway in search of Erza, her Erza, but forgot where the room was. While she was cluelessly wondering around, she ended crossing paths with NG Erza, and he didn't seem too happy. Again, he gave her a confusing glare, which made the situation a little awkward. She attempted conversation in hope to lighten the mood.

"Umm… so…"

"Be quiet."

So much for that plan. But he did something strange at that moment. He grabbed her hand and guided her down the hallway at a fast walking pace. Struggling to keep up, Lucy held the falling towel over her body as she was dragged down the hallway and into a large empty room.

He closed the door and locked it, still keeping a tight grip on Lucy's wrist. When he was sure the door was locked, he let go of her hand and sat down in a chair. The only chair in this room where its only pieces of furniture were that chair, and a drawer with a mirror on top.

"Geez, what is going on with you? You've been acting weird around me since I met you." Lucy said, rubbing the sore area on her wrist from his insanely tight grip.

Looking at him sit there, he did remind her a lot of Erza, there was no denying he was Erza's son. They didn't have to tell Lucy that for her to put two and two together. He looked exactly like her except maybe he had little more visible muscle and was slightly taller. He didn't wear full armor like Erza did, but he wore a steel gauntlet on his left arm and wore a jacket over it. If Lucy hadn't looked closer, she never would have realized, it looked like just another piece of his body. Somehow though, he did give off that sense of masculinity, despite looking so much like his mother.

He carried four swords. One on either of his two sides and two on his back. It was obvious from when he fought those guys that attacked Lucy, he was an excellent swordsman.

"Hey…" he said interrupting Lucy's train of thought.

"What?" Lucy answered with a slight bit of harshness.

"Why are you acting like that? Why are denying being Layla, did you lose your memory or something?" he asked.

There it was, that name again. Why did he keep calling her that? She had to find out. "Why do you keep calling me Layla, I told you I'm Lucy."

He slammed his hands on the drawer in anger and yelled, "Stop lying to me." Suddenly he calmed down and said in a slightly depressing manner, "If you aren't Layla, then where is she?"

"Who is Layla?" Lucy asked curiously.

He looked at her for a few seconds before answering, "If you really are who they say you are then… she's your future daughter. And I'm her useless knight who was supposed to protect her but couldn't."

"My future daughter? With who?"

"Master Dragoneel, you two are married you know."

"My who!… With him… what type of sick messed up time is this!" she was at a lost for words. She was getting all worked up, and it didn't hit her until she said it, that this wasn't the time to be discussing that. "You said, you were her knight… and that you couldn't protect her. Were you two… like… dating or something."

He looked at her with a flustered expression, a light blush lining his cheeks. He argued, "Don't be ridiculous! Layla and I, that's a joke. She's just the one that gave me my nickname 'Titan's Blade'… There's nothing between us."

Lucy found it a bit funny that he was trying to deny the obvious fact that he liked her. She pointed out, "You said you were her knight, didn't you."

"I misspoke, I meant I was a knight, I accidentally said her knight…" He started rubbing his head as if he getting irritated before he yelled out, "Oh just shut up."

Lucy found it way too funny, she couldn't hold back the laughter. "Sorry, sorry, so what about this nickname business? 'Titan's Blade', right."

"There's actually a interesting story behind that."

-Fairy Tail Flashback- (About two years ago)

"Ehh, what are complainingcomplaining about now, Erza." NG Gray drawled.

It was just another day in the New Generation Fairy Tail's guild, NG Erza was just complaining to Layla and his fraternal twin, Gray again.

"I just think its about time. I mean people only recognize us as the children of 'The Great Titania', or 'S-class wizard, Master Gray's ' sons. We need to make a name for ourselves." Erza argued.

"And you think the best way to do that is to have nicknames?" Gray questioned.

"It would be really cool if you guys got nicknames like your mom. You'd have to be really strong and really impress people for that to happen." Layla added. She looked like her mother, and acted like her, too.

"See Gray, Layla agrees with me."

"Then you two have fun, but don't include me." He got up and walked away.

Before he got out of ear-shot, Layla warned, "Put on some clothes before you go outside."

She laughed at the sight of a flustered Gray, scuffling around looking for his clothes.

The day ended with no particularly interesting events, and so NG Erza and Gray walked home together. The only thing on Erza's mind was how he was going to make a name for himself. What insane task could he pull of so that everyone would start calling him great? He thought long and hard all the way home and he even dreamed about it.

-The Next Day-

"Where's your brother, Gray?" Layla asked questionably looking around the room for NG Erza.

"How should I know, he said he had a job to do and then he went ahead of me, I hadn't seen him since." Gray said uncaringly.

"Geez, I hope he isn't being reckless again.", she sighed.

Just then, Master Dragoneel ran downstairs in a panic. "Where's Erza?"

"Which Erza?" NG Gray asked jokingly.

Natsu gripped him by his collar, fire swirling around his arms, as he sternly spoke, "I'm not kidding, where is your brother? He stole a SS-rank job sheet from upstairs."

"Erza that idiot, he was that serious." Gray said under his breath.

Natsu loosened his grip and let Gray go as he asked again, "Do you have any idea where your brother is?"

"Sorry, he didn't say."

Suddenly the entrance to the guild swung open and NG Erza fell in, wounded and barely able to catch his breath. He was struggling to breathe as he held a series of open gash wounds that lined his torso, allowing the slashes across his left arm to bleed freely.

His brother, Natsu, and Layla ran to his aid. Natsu and Gray carried him upstairs while Layla followed closely behind. Upstairs, they patched him up in the guild clinic and wrapped his wounds with bandages. Natsu had retrieved the job sheet from in his pocket and returned it to the job posts, while Gray returned downstairs.

Layla stayed by Erza's bedside, sitting down in a nearby chair, making sure he was okay. After about thirty minutes of remaining unconscious, his eyelids twitched slightly and Layla noticed. She stood up and stared into his face, and again his eyelids twitched. She held up her hand and slapped across his face, knocking him out of the bed.

He shot up quickly and yelled, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

She argued back, "What the hell is wrong with you! Pretending to be unconscious while everyone was worried about you."

"How did you know?"

"Because you're an idiot! Unconscious people don't twitch!"

"Look, I know that when I get up, Master Dragoneel, Master Dreyer, and especially my mom and dad are going to try to kill me. Besides, don't pretend like you weren't worried too. I mean you stayed in here all that time."

"I wasn't worried about you, I just had to make sure that when you got up you didn't break anything. You are a reckless idiot after all."

"Say what you like but I knew you were worried about me.", he smiled.

"Whatever.", she pouted. Erza laughed a bit, and made her a bit embarrassed.

"Titan's Blade." She said softly.

"Excuse me." he said, asking for her to repeat.

"Titan's Blade, its what I'm gonna call you." she explained.

"I thought you said I had to impress people to get a nickname like my mom's."

"Trust me, you impressed a lot of people today by showing off how stupid you really are."

"I don't think that counts." he sighed.

"How about this then, you actually came back alive from a SS-rank job. Even if you didn't complete what the job said, coming back alive was an accomplishment in itself."

He couldn't believe his ears, it sounded like… like a compliment. "Fine then, I guess I'll accept it. At least its something right." he said coolly.

They looked at each other and smiled.

-Fairy Tail Flashback Ends-

"Eventually the nickname caught on with everyone else, and I made a name for myself." He said awkwardly scratching the back of his head.

"So you attempted a mission you weren't in a high enough class for, where does that sound familiar?" she said, remembering how Natsu did something strangely similar in the past and somehow got her involved.

Omake: Here comes another omake!

Continuation from the end:

"Do you…" NG Erza started, awkwardly twiddling his finger. Lucy looked at him a bit curious to see what he was going to ask. He continued, "You mind if I like… hug you…"

Lucy was a bit shocked by this odd request and quickly yelled, "Why would you ask something like that?"

"If you thought it was so strange, you could have just said no." he said with a slight sadness in his eyes.

Fearing that she hurt his feelings she stuttered, "That's not what I meant… I mean… oh just do it then!" She gave in.

Almost as quickly as she said it, he shot up from his seat and hugged her. He tucked his head on her shoulder as he whispered in her ear "You fell for it, didn't you… my sad eyes."

She pushed him away as he laughed at her embarrassed face. She stomped and yelled, "Geez you're just a pervert!"

He looked at her and his eyes grew wide. He reached out and said, "The towel…" When she stomped down the towel around her loosened and began to fall. He reached out in an attempt to grab it before it fell off, but accidentally knocked into Lucy's foot. They both lost their balance and fell. Lucy fell flat on the floor while Erza stopped himself by putting his hands out forward and landing on all fours. The towel landed on Lucy, only covering her lower half.

Before they could move, they heard a key turn the lock on the doorknob. They both looked forward as Erza yelled out, "Dad."

Gray stood in the doorway and looked at them for a few seconds before slowly closing the door and saying, "Sorry for interrupting."

"I'll have to explain the situation to dad since I know he had a misunderstanding. Who knows what he'll tell mom and Master Dragoneel." Erza sobbed.

Lucy sighed and then angrily kicked Erza yelling "Get off of me already!"

Author's Note: I had some serious trouble when it came to the whole family thing. Maybe I shouldn't have named them after their parents, but anyway too late now. Anyway, I'll try and update quicker this time. Don't forget to review!