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, Mary Fullbuster, Garret Justine, Relio Connell and the idea for the fic.

Knowing it from the beginning.

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

Chapter 8: 'The past gloats, the present staggers, the future cries' – Asa's Foretelling.

(In Natsu's unconscious mind.)

The arrival of the children struck hard on Natsu and the others, but what did Nova meant with "I'm glad that you're alive."?

"How is this possible? You never told me that something like this was going to happen!" Natsu screamed frantically to the strange man that was known by him as Asa 'The Farseer' while he took hurried steps heading here and there, expecting an answer. The dark purple haired man only looked at the ground with serious narrowed eyes, not a single answer coming to ease the fire dragon-slayer that was his leader or ease his own anxiety. "Answer me Asa!"

"I have no answers for this, Natsu, this turn of events shocked me as much as they shocked you." The man said before walking around in circles, his mind going through all that has transpire since the arrival of Natsu to Magnolia, everything went as he foresaw it but this… this was certainly something that he didn't expected to happen. "Makarov retired and gave the position of Master to Gildartz Clive, most of your friends are now S-class wizards, the Council believes that you're the cause behind our attacks and thus sent a group of rune knights out to Brammingmont to capture you and the others, the Raijin Tribe is heading there to support you without fully knowing what's going on and Pierre, Fran and Hyde are going to support Asis and Literio… I don't understand what happened, what triggered the time and space to make this happen is a mystery even to me…"

"Then think of something! Or use your magic and tell me if something from the future has change!" Natsu got close to the man and stopped him from walking when he stretched out a hand to grab him from the shoulder, shaking him violently as to make a point. Asa frown at the move but nodded, understanding that the poor man was just startled as him but wasn't able to face the situation as he did.

"Release me…" Doing what the man asked, Natsu released him and back away a few feet. The man closed his eyes and sat on the floor on a meditative position, a white magic seal appearing under his body and enclosing him in a prison of light before the unsurprised eyes of the pink haired wizard. Several scenes started to appear in Asa's mind but as he always did, he focused only on those regarding the plan and his close friends; he stopped the running of scenes…

The time he advanced into the future was that of one month.

'Natsu! You idiot! Why are you so stubborn? Why don't you let us help you! ?' He saw from above how Natsu and his collaborators argued with the Fairy Tail guild members, both sides glaring at each other fiercely while the pink haired leader stood his ground before the Master of the guild, Gildartz Clive.

'I don't want Fairy Tail and my friends to get involved in something that is concern of us, Dragon-Slayers, stop making this difficult old man; I won't allow any of you to help us!' Natsu screamed to the shocked faces of those he considered family, a hand engulfed in blue flames going to burn the spot on his shoulder in which his guild mark was, erasing it before heading out of the building with his people on toe that wore equally shocked expressions than that of the Fairies. 'There! You have no reason to help us now!'

The scene changed to another one, this was from a year and a half from the previous one; everything looked different.

'I'll do this myself; I want Nova to have her mother at her side…' He heard and saw Natsu say this while standing at the top of a mountain of rubble, black flames surrounding every building around him; his head looking over his shoulder to give a caring smile to a figure that he couldn't see quite well.

'Then I'll go with you; I want to make sure that our daughter has her father with her too…' The figure said as it stood up and walked at Natsu's side, the man staring lovingly at the figure at his side before both nodded and jumped down the mountain of rubble, running towards the city burning with black flames.

The scene changed again; three years into the future.

'Everything is lost; they've taken down Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale… We're the only ones left and without Gildartz or most of our S-class friends… We don't stand a chance…' An old looking man with dark blue slicked back hair said while hiding his face from view, a few tears escaping his covered face and his legs surrendered to the grim situation that was looming over him and the people standing before him. Everyone was quiet, no one talked, everyone silently agreed to his words.

'Macao… what should we do with Nova and the other kids?' A woman with long bright lavender hair said, in her arms resting a small girl with red scarlet hair and behind her legs standing three kids, a black haired girl, a green haired boy and a white haired boy. The man looked at her for a moment, switching his stare in between her and the kids until he came up with an idea.

'Take them into hiding, you, Jet, Reedus and the other mages that want to avoid the next assault… Romeo…' The named boy gave a firm step forward, nodding to say that he already knew what his father wanted. 'You'll lead them, take them to safety; I'm counting with you my son…'

The scene changed yet again, to show the last thing that Asa needed to see to understand what was about to happen; eighteen years into the future.

'It has been seventeen years since the death of your father and mother, Nova, and nothing has changed… Not even with the constant efforts of you and Kaki, the Black Legion continues to control everything, our city; Carsilon… our last bastion of hope is sure to be exterminate from the face of the earth in a few months to come and now that everything looks grim… I have come up with a way to change our luck…' A middle aged looking man; with straight long dark hair, said to the red headed knight and the new fire dragon-slayer that were walking alongside him through a dark corridor.

He stopped before a heavy looking door that had a sign hanging on top that read 'Supplies' in it and turned to face the two wizards that came with him. 'Time travel is a forbidden spell that was stolen from Zeref centuries ago and that the old Council had in its archives, thanks to Mary, Garret and Relio we've been able to recover it…'

'You mean to makes us use that spell and travel to stop what happened?' Nova said more than asked as she crossed her arms and looked at the old man with doubtful eyes, her worries being voice out quickly. 'What if something goes wrong?'

'Yeah, what if we fail to avoid brother's death?' Kaki asked along his partner's question to the man, earning an affirmative nodded from him.

'Your questions will be answer, right now…' He motioned for the two young mages to follow him inside the room, opening the door with just raising a hand and nearing it to the lock. A quick flash of white light came from in between the both things and the door opened, the old man walked quickly inside and held the doorknob with a hand until he saw that both mages entered the dark room, closing the door behind him, he put a hand behind both back and pushed them inside. 'I have faith that you two won't fail, that you'll find your way out of any troubles that you might find and that you'll be able to stop what's about to happen… Now, step right there and wait.'

Before any of the two could ask why, a huge magic seal appeared under their feet, making them look in surprise at the old man standing outside of it. Nova was the first to try and ask what was happening but she was cut short with just a hand raised by the man. 'Master Romeo…'

'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…' The man explained calmly with a deep and low voice to the two wizards standing in the middle of the intricate magic seal, the thing glowing after both figures nodded doubtfully and swallowing them in a vortex of light before the taller figure that bid them farewell turned around to leave the place.

The spell was supposed to end right there and then, but the scene changed again, showing Asa a dark room with a lone person standing in front of him; the person looked up at him and started to cackle darkly, surprising the man with how he was able to see him when it was certain that no one could during the casting of the spell.

'What do we have here? Kekeke…' The lone person that appeared as a pure white nearly formless being asked him amusedly, walking around Asa with his hands behind him. 'Someone trying to see what's going to happen when he shouldn't… Please, be so kind of not spoiling my great future…'

'Your great future? Who are you?' The foreteller asked, constantly turning as to not leave his back exposed to the formless white being. The thing only cackled again, stopping on his tracks and raising a hand midway with a finger moving in a 'no' motion.

'I'm the one asking questions here, my nosy friend, who are you and why are you trying to see into the future?' There was no way for Asa to answer that question, he wasn't going to sell out his motives without knowing who this person was and what he wanted… though, the white being shook his head in mock amusement before pointing a finger at him and shooting something red at him.

Asa looked down in shock, he wasn't even able to dodge it and the thing hit him square in the chest, making the touched area glow before his mouth started to move on its own much to his surprise. 'I'm called Asa "The Farseer" Dilya, and I wanted to know why, when and where would Natsu die in the future.'

The white figure cackled again before stepping close to Asa and shrugging his glare with a tilted head. 'Thanks for letting me know, it seems that my plan needs to be hurry up a little… One more thing though, where's that brat called Natsu and the rest of the Dragon-Slayers?'

'They're in Fiore.' The thing nodded in acknowledgment and started to walk away, raising a hand in sign of good bye before disappearing from sight...

The scene stopped and Asa opened his eyes, finding himself back on the dark surroundings that the dream control spell offered to him and his friends, the stare that Natsu had over him making him turn his gaze at the man with tired eyes before falling back first against the dark floor.

"Asa!" The pink haired screamed as he neared the man and dropped on his knees at his left side, he saw the man doing the spell several times before but it never happened something like this after doing it; something went wrong, Asa was sweating uncontrollably, his breathing was labored and his eyes dilated. "Asa, stay with me! Tell me, what happened! ? What did you saw! ?"

"Natsu… you… this is… him…" And he fell unconscious, unable to tell the man what he saw or at least warned him about what happened. He was at a loss of words; his friend did what he always did and ended up like this. He punched the dark floor in anger and impotence, what could he do? What should he do?

"Natsu-san? What's wrong?" Called a soft weak voice behind him, looking over his shoulder, he found a frail looking guy, long light blue hair tied down in a ponytail that rested over his left shoulder, black onyx eyes; dressed with a long black robe over a white Mao shirt and trousers of the same color that reached to his ankles before closing tightly over them.

"Hyde! Good… I mean, what are you doing here? What happened to Pierre and Fran?" The man only shook his head in disapproval before coming to kneel at Asa's right side.

"We sensed the magic pressure over the city when we were entering and since we didn't know what was going on, Fran teleported to see the situation, he told us what he saw and that you were lying unconscious in the arms of a red head with armor clothing… is that woman the one you call Erza Scarlet?' Natsu shook his head before realizing that while he was here, the others were expecting him to wake up. "Before you go, can you explain why Asa is like this?"

"I don't know! I wanted to know why that boy and girl were in Brammingmont and I asked him to see into the future if anything changed… When he was done, he looked at me tiredly before ending up like you're seeing him…" Hyde nodded, looking at the motionless man with some concern and running a hand over his forehead to check his state. After a minute, he turned to Natsu with another nod.

"He'll make it, but just as a precaution, I'll stay here to take care of him until he wakes up… Natsu-san, please go back, maybe you can get some answers from those kids, Pierre and Fran won't move into town until I wake up." Natsu nodded doubtfully, his eyes landing worriedly at the man on the ground before standing up and walking away to the darkness.

"Do your best…"

Hyde sighed at the comment before turning his head to check Asa's body, raising his hands over the guy's torso and reciting something under his breath, but then, Asa's eyes opened and he started to shake uncontrollably, much to the man shock and surprise. "Asa-san! Calm down!"

He calmed down indeed, but his eyes were white and his body became stiff while muttering something in a low whisper. Hyde, being cautiously curious, got his head near the man's mouth and listened to what he was saying.

"The past gloats because it cannot be change; the present staggers because is always changing… and the future cries… because so much change confuses him and he doesn't know what to do…" After saying that like ten times, he fell back unconscious. Hyde retired his head from its position close to the man's head and returned to his healing magic, a troubled expression over his features… what did he meant by that? Was it even Asa the one that was talking?

"Such sinister words… You saw something terrible, right Asa?"

To be continued

Well, some explanation to things I left hanging in the air... And a new twist to the story... Or is it that the plot deepens?

That's for you to figure it out.

Review if you like the chapter, otherwise, the white thing will come and haunt you in your dreams!

Saludos!