Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters; they belong to the one and only Hiro Mashima.

I do own the OCs that appear through the story, Nova Scarlet, Kaki Dragneel and the idea for the fic.

Knowing it from the beginning.

(A I.-.-.I Kuroyagi I.-.-.I original fan-fiction story.)

Chapter 7: Blend the Future Finale – The end of the beginning.

Danger close! Three more foreigners come to the town to eradicate our mages! Who are those talking in the darkness?

"You'll go to the year X790, to find Natsu and stop the plan that if my calculations are right, is already in motion… If you succeed, we may be able to change the way in which things occurred and have a better outcome… Good luck, both of you…" Explained calmly a deep and low voice to two figures standing in the middle of an intricate magic seal, the thing glowing after both figures nodded and swallowing them in a vortex of light before the taller figure that bid them farewell turned around to leave the place; another voice sounding in the shadows when he was about to grab a door-knob to exit the room.

"Aren't you tired after using such magic?" The tall figure turned its head towards the direction of the voice, grunting at it before shaking lightly in where he stood. "Seems like you are…"

"But that doesn't mean that I need your help… Especially your help…" The voice snorted, footsteps giving away the fact that it was moving around.

"Aw, don't be so mean, besides," The footsteps came to a stop, the last step coming from behind the other individual. "That would be my line, don't you think?"

"I don't, but I do think that if you don't move away, something bad is going to happen…" The footsteps were heard again, this time backing away until the sound of its voice seemed to come from its original position.

"What if they fail or die? How will you explain this to the others?" The taller man just snickered before turning the knob and opening the door, the light that came from outside showed the tall figure with a confident smile on his face with a stubble around his mouth and along his jawline.

"Please, this is our best wizard of which we're talking about; she will not fail…" Stepping outside the dark room, his last words made the other voice snicker in response. "Besides, he went with her, together, I know they will make it…"

"If you say so, Master…" The voice said mockingly when the door was closed.

(Magnolia Town; Fairy Tail guild.)

"Why should we go?" Asked a calm voice to the white haired woman that was standing behind the bar of the guild, she just smiled nervously with no possible answer to the person with whom she was talking. "Mirajane."

"Master said that Lahar with the rune knights is going to that town to arrest Natsu, he told us to keep it quiet from him but he didn't say anything about not doing something to prevent it." The person at the other side of the crystal ball grunted before talking again.

"You want us to go against the council? Why don't you go then?" Mira scowled at the words, her voice sounding more serious with every word.

"Because I am two days away from that town; and you are just a few kilometers away, please Freed, just this once." The man thought about it for a minute before nodding, earning a smile from the woman. "Thanks guys!"

"Don't worry Mira; we will make sure that Natsu gets out of there safe." Freed said reassuringly to her before cutting the transmission. Though, the words weren't enough to prevent the previously known demon from frowning in worry; only one thing running through her mind before walking to attend the orders of the mages that were on the guild.

"I hope Natsu tell us what's happening…"

(Brammingmont; Town's market.)

"You two have been strangely quiet since you came back with that woman, is everything alright?" Lucy asked dubiously to the two mages sitting away from each other, both of them keeping quiet in reply and turning to look in opposite directions of each other; the blond sweatdopped at their reaction before shrugging the business for later and walking to tend to the ice mage's wounds with Virgo on toe. "Whatever; don't tell me…"

"Natsu! Fuck dammit! Untie me! We need to talk!" Screamed Literio while glaring daggers at the Salamander. Natsu just scowled at him before faking a surprised expression.

"Uh? How do you know my name?" Literio's right eye twitched at those words, before screaming again in anger.

"You piece of…! Why did you call for Pierre and Hyde! ?" All of the present turned to look at the enemy Dragon-slayer in surprise before turning their faces to Natsu, who just continued to play dumb.

"Pier and Haid? Who are those?" Literio growled in annoyance before Asis took her turn to convince the pink-haired boy.

"Natsu! Stop pretending that you don't know us, this is serious!" Natsu clenched his teeth at their actions before returning to his dumb playing, Asis sighed before turning to face the other mages with seriousness; understanding that the fire dragon-slayer wasn't going to listen to reason. "He's our leader and we were tasked with… ugh!"

If Natsu pretended to keep his façade a little longer, this wasn't exactly the best way to do it; he punched Asis on the stomach and successfully knocked her out much to everyone's surprised. Literio growled at him again before restraining some of his anger to talk seriously with his leader. "Natsu, that's enough, you know that they suspect of you; why try to keep it hidden longer than it should?"

"Shut up!" Natsu bellowed threatening at him, fierce eyes warning the blonde that he was losing his patience. "I swear that if you say just one more word…!"

"What? You're going to kill me? Go on, that will only prove that their suspicions were right…" The pink-haired was quickly engulfed in flames, much to everyone's shock, Literio swallowed hardly before matching his glare with Natsu's. "Do it dammit! Later tell Asa and the others that you screwed up our chances of victory for a stupid reason!"

"You… I always knew that you were going to be just trouble! I'll grant your wish!" But then, when the Salamander's fist was going to hit the man square on the head, he heard her, her voice stopping him completely, extinguishing his flames and anger; making the man realize that he talked too much with the annoying dragon-slayer.

"So, what Master said was right, you were contacting with someone through Dream Control." Erza said while walking to stand behind Natsu, him not wanting to turn around to face her or his friends, he heard Gray moving to stand up from his position on the floor and walking weakly towards him; his eyes hidden from view until he was standing at Natsu's side.

"Natsu, what's going on?" He moved a hand to rest it on the fire mage's shoulder, making him look over his shoulder at him. Gray's eyes gave away the betrayed feeling that all of the wizards from Fairy Tail in there were sharing, though it quickly changed when the ice mage saw his old-friend with a troubled expression, like debating a matter of life or death.

"Gray… Lucy… Erza… I…" He looked ahead again, clenching his fist tightly before shrugging the ice mage's hand from his shoulder and walking a few steps away; kneeling down to untie Asis and Literio before standing up again and turning to face the people he held dearest in the entire world. "I…"

Natsu stopped, he and the others looked up in shock, a huge pressure was felt over the place, the clouds started to move around a single spot that was at the other side of the city and the wind picked up its pace; then it stopped, something came crashing down from the sky through the single spot that the clouds were surrounding, leaving a white tail in its way until it hit the ground with such force that the earth shook and the buildings that had been hit during the past battle or those with old foundations collapsed.

*Crash!*

"What was that! ?" Lucy said in shock, watching a cloud of smoke rising from where the thing crashed, Gray looked in the same direction before turning back to Natsu and Literio; both guys looking at the smoke with a frown on their faces, a growl coming from the blonde while the pink-haired narrowed his eyes.

"Another dragon-slayer, it must be them…" Literio said before kneeling down to shake Asis awake. Natsu just gave two steps forward in that direction and later muttered something under his breath, a whirlwind of fire engulfing and swallowing him before the surprised eyes of his friends.

"Natsu!" Erza, Gray and Lucy screamed, looking how their friend disappeared inside the whirlwind, only to meet with air and Literio's bored expression; he grunted at them before wrapping Asis's arm over his shoulder. Wrapping his arm across her back, he began dragging the unconscious mage out of the battle zone and towards a safe place.

"I'll meet with you in a minute, meanwhile, stop that idiot…" He said seriously, his and Asis' body turning to a lightning that moved fast towards the forest. Gray was going to freeze him to the ground but he was still recovering his magic from the previous fight and he felt that he was about to need every little bit of it, he scowled in annoyance and turned to look at the women; both of them too shocked to even react at the escape of the two foreigners or even notice him calling their attention.

"Shit! Erza, Lucy! We need to follow Natsu and stop him, now!" He screamed to both of them before starting to run in the direction of the smoke, Lucy following behind after spatting out of her shock and Erza just moving in auto-pilot, her mind going through all that happened since the pink-haired returned and frowning at the possible answer to all that; what Asis said before being knocked out helping to came to such a conclusion.

Natsu is the one behind all the things that were happening in Fiore concerning the outsiders.

And meanwhile, with the aforementioned wizard, the whirlwind appeared in front of the crash site, his eyes narrowed, his senses in high alert and ready for anything; knowing the ones that were going to come to finish the job, he knew that they wouldn't hesitate to attack him all-out to keep playing his façade in the already discovered plan. Though, when the smoke was cleared and the site became visible, his eyes widened in shock… he couldn't believe what he was seeing. "Erza?"

Of course, the woman looked like the Titania of Fairy Tail that he recently left behind with the rest of his friends, but something felt different about her, her appearance, her presence and her aura… her smell too. Long scarlet hair tied down behind her and brown narrowed eyes. Wearing an armor that seemed to be made by Heart Kreuz with the mark of the guild over the same position at the left side of the chest, but the armor had noticeable differences in contrast with Erza's; this one covered her arms completely and most of her neck; unlike that one which the woman he knows usually wears, she wore a black skirt, and steel boots that seemed to go along with the armor.

Though, what call most of his attention was the scarf that was detailed with white scales that she was wearing around her neck, looking down to see his own, he gasped in surprise; it was the exact same.

He was beyond shock at noticing how similar they were and how something inside him told him that he already knew this girl, but he shook his head, spatting out of the initial shock and turning to look at the guy beside her. The boy looked like an inversed version of himself. A black longer waistcoat with blue trimmings over his chest with a white t-shirt underneath, short blue trousers that went down to his knees and a wide blue wristband on his right wrist and sandals.

Natsu felt his eyes reaching the limits, the boy was wearing a scarf that looked exactly like the one the girl and him had around their necks. 'What the hell is going on! ?'

"Hahaha! Told you he would mistake you with her!" The boy standing at the side of 'Erza' said while laughing hard, the woman only clenched his teeth in annoyance and with her eyes closed she hit the guy hard on the head; making him crash head-first strongly against the ground.

"Shut up!" The girl then opened her eyes again and fixed her stare at the shocked dragon-slayer, walking calmly towards him until she was in front of him; Natsu only looked at her with shocked eyes and his mouth slightly opened, not fully believing what he was seeing. She frowned at his reaction before shaking her head disapprovingly and changing her expression to a happy one. "I'm…"

"Natsu!" And it was then that the others arrived, stopping dry on their feet at seen what was in front of his friend. Gray opening his eyes in shock at seen the woman in front of Natsu along with Erza and Lucy, the second not fully believing what her eyes saw, that woman in front of the pink-haired wizard looked exactly like her.

"Good, seems like everyone's here with you." The woman said after looking at the others and nodding, turning to look at Natsu again before speaking with a smile on her face. "I'm Nova Scarlet and the guy over there is Kaki Dragneel, we've come to help you… Father…"

"Scarlet…?" Erza asked shocked before the confused shouts of her partners overwhelmed every sound nearby.

"Father…! ?"

Natsu's eyes were on the verge of coming out of their sockets… he gave two shaky steps behind, looked at the woman in front of him and later turning to look at the original Erza a few meters away behind him. Nova Scarlet? Kaki Dragneel? Help him? Father! ?

"I… You… I need to…" He was about to fell to his knees when the woman called Nova moved fast and pulled him by his scarf, embracing him with a happy smile and tears falling from her eyes while hugging the shocked man tightly around her arms. The boy called Kaki stood up from his spot on the ground and walked calmly to the congregation, his arms crossed and a cheeky smile on his face at witnessing the reunion.

"I'm glad that you're still alive…"

"!"

To be continued

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