A/N: Well I got a couple things to say.
1. I know some of you out there hate me for making this Fic into a Love Triangle; well I say "Screw you Haters!" BUT, since I'm such a nice guy, I already got an idea for pure NaZa. I'm not posting it anytime soon because I don't want to get sidetracked from this story, but look forward to it.
2. When I checked back on previous chapters, I realized I made some really weird errors in terms of grammar. To be honest, I make these stories over phone, and you all know how it's easy to mess up on touchscreen. So just bear with the mistakes.
3. I make statements that apparently happened in the "past" without explaining how or what exactly occurred. (Such as Natsu becoming the Ace.)That's just my style of writing, I'll always explain things in later chapters, just to keep the suspense and mystery (if they're not the same thing).
4. I'm putting Bonds of a Dragon and a Demon on hiatus (if that means 'pause'), sorry. I just figured this, now NaZaMi, story makes up for it. Besides, like I said before, I don't want to get sidetracked.
Here's your story...
Chapter 11: Unexpected Visitors
-Time Skip one day after the Loke arc-
Natsu sighed as he was being pulled from both sides by the two most beautiful women in Fiore if not the world.
The three were currently in the guild hall, yelling names at the other and about who should have Natsu. It was around noon and the fact that the other guild members did not question the two rivals' actions was unsurprising. They were already told of the 'Relationship between them.'Natsu was glad it had gone well. The guild was very accepting, aside from a minor situation that had occurred.
-Yesterday around Four-
"YOU'RE WHAT?!" The entire guild yelled in shock at a Trio of mages.
"You heard me, Me and Natsu are going out." Mira stated proudly with a smirk.
"No, ME and Natsu are going out!" Erza growled at her.
"We're all going out!" Natsu said all fed up with their arguing.
Everyone just stared at them with their mouths wide open. Panic just arose.
"How did this happen!?"
"It's the end of the world!" Seriously, they were being over dramatic.
"Natsu! It's not manly to go out with a man's older sister without his permission!" A furious Elfman yelled at Natsu as he changed his arm to a beast's arm. He ran towards Natsu, preparing to strike him but was stopped by Mirajane's hand.
Elfman's resolve to beat up Natsu came to an instant stop. Mirajane just gave him the most deadliest glare she could ever pull. "Touch him, and I'll make sure you'll never be able to say anything about being a man ever again. Understand me?" She threatened as Elfman looked like he was about to cry.
"H-hai N-nee-san!" He shouted in fear.
"Well done Mirajane, I couldn't have said it any better myself." Erza said hand-in-hand with Natsu.
Mira smirked. "Anything to protect MY man." She went up to Natsu and gave him a quick peck on the lips, resulting in his light blush.
"Lucky bastard! He got the two most beautiful women in the guild!" Macao and Wakaba cried anime style.
"Mira-nee... I didn't know you..." Lisanna quietly said as she looked both shocked and possibly heartbroken.
While she hated to steal Natsu from under her, Mira knew it was Lisanna's own fault for not making any moves, but she felt quite offended.
"You what? You can't believe I actually liked him? I'm quite offended to think that you thought that I couldn't be like any other girl." Mira said a little hurt and everyone winced as they realized how they've always thought about her.
After apologizing to her older sister, Lisanna wished her a happy relationship. She then forced Natsu to promise her that he will protect Mirajane, he determinedly agreed of course.
-Back to the present-
"Back off Tin-can! He's mine!" An angry Mira roared.
"No he's mine! Plus I already had him before you so hah!" Erza countered.
"First isn't always best! And in this case, I'm a lot stronger than you, therefore I'm better!" She declared proudly.
"You're not stronger than me! You're no where near my level!"
"OH YEAH?!"
"YEAH!" They growled at each other with their heads butted against the other.
"Come on, stop fighting you two. Let's go relax in the forest or something." Natsu insisted.
Their fighting stopped and they nodded towards him. Taking their hands and finger locking with his own, Natsu led them both out of the guild heading towards the nearby forest.
"Man, I can't believe it, but I envy Natsu right now." Macao stated as he watched the three leave whom had happy smiles on their faces.
"Yeah I hear ya!" Wakaba laughed.
"I'm glad, our Natsu is growing up." Makarov said as he downed another mug of beer.
-In the forest-
"The air feels nice out here huh?" Asked Natsu.
"Yea." Both Erza and Mira responded. It was times like these that the two rivals would not quarrel. They simply enjoyed the peace and warmth that would surround them. Mainly because Natsu radiated this warmth.
"Let's lay down for a bit okay?" Erza said softly. Not waiting for an answer, she gently pulled down Natsu onto the grassy ground with Mira doing the same.
"The sky looks so lovely with you at my side Natsu." Mira amazingly said. Ever since the three had started their new relationship, Mira had started growing soft for Natsu. It reminded him of the Mira in the future of the original timeline, but he knew, he knew that same Mira was inside her somewhere.
Erza and Mirajane cuddled into Natsu as he wrapped his arms under and then around them tight. Nothing could ruin this moment...
-An hour later-
The love trio returned to guild sharing a loving smile.
"Natsu!" Yelled a familiar voice. They all looked ahead to see Lisanna in front of the gates waving at them.
"Lisanna? What is it?" Mirajane asked confused.
"There are some weird people here, and they said they were looking for you!" She said hurriedly.
"Weird people? Weird how?" Natsu asked.
"Well after you guys left, two cloaked people showed up. When we demanded that they reveal themselves, they simply denied us and said that they would only remove their cloaks if they met with you."
"That's really weird. I wonder what they want with me?"
"Let's go in and find out." Erza told them, they nodded in seriousness and headed in.
Natsu was the first to ask. "I heard there were some people who wanted to see me."
Lisanna pointed towards two hooded figures atop the stools at the bar. One on the left was a lot shorter than the other and seemed to be nervous. The other was a lot bigger and broader. (What does this mean again? I'm too lazy to look it up). They were staring him with emotionless shadowed eyes. Natsu quickly took notice of red eyes that were hidden beneath shadows that their hoods provided.
He sniffed the air quickly, he stood their shocked as he realized who these smells belonged. It can't be them. Did they somehow remember?
"You two..." Natsu didn't finish he sentence.
"Hello Salamander." An all too cool voice spoke.
"Hey Natsu-san." Said a much more childish and feminine voice.
As they lowered back their hoods, the entire guild were shocked to see the faces of the two mysterious figures. The smaller one, was a young girl no more than 13 years old. She had long blue hair and had a very friendly expression. The larger one had long wild black hair and many metal piercings on his face where his eyebrows should have been and at the sides of his nose, even some on his chin.
"Aah! It's black steel Gajeel!" A member yelled abruptly.
"He's responsible for damaging the guild and hurting Jet, Droy and Levy!"
"You mean Gajeel Redfox?! How could we just let him in here?!"
"And who's the girl with him?!"
"Everyone silence!" Erza commanded at the top of her voice, snapping Natsu from his shocked state.
"HAI!" They all yelled in unison.
"Uh um, I'm Wendy Marvel." Wendy responded shyly, she knew them well of course, but it all felt like the first time she joined when she realized they were in the past again.
Looking back at Gajeel, Erza made a serious expression. "Why are you here?" Something about Wendy made Erza almost trust her, so she didn't pay much attention to her.
"Calm yourself down Titania. We only want to speak to Salamander privately. We're not here to cause trouble." Gajeel answered.
"And what makes you think we'll just-!" Mira started.
"It's okay you guys. Really, I promise. I'll go talk with them and I'll come right back, that's all." Natsu assured them with a carefree smile.
"Are you sure Natsu?" Erza asked.
"Yeah don't worry." He looked back at Wendy and Gajeel. "We go a long way back."
The three dragonslayers left the guild hall. The rest of the guild watched Gajeel as they were unsure if they could trust him or not.
Once they were at a considerable distance away from Fairy Tail, the trio looked at each other in silence.
"So uh, do you guys remember?"
Wendy giggled a little bit before responding. "Of course we do Natsu-san. We wouldn't be here right now if we didn't."
"Yeah I guess so, but hold on. If you remember, how come you're showing up now and not years ago?" Natsu poised the question that was in his mind.
"Well I figured I would let time pass like it happened before, since I thought it was only me who remembered." Gajeel explained. "But then something happened that never occurred before."
"What happened? What was it?"
"That's why we're here." Wendy began. "I too had the same thing happen to me. Gajeel looked all over for me a few days ago. When he found me, he asked me if the same thing happened to me. Once I confirmed it, Gajeel suspected it had something to do with dragonslayers, so we decided to alter history a little bit and ask you. On our way back we found a younger version of Sting. We asked him about it and he only said we were crazy and told us to leave him alone." Gajeel scoffed at that, he was still pretty annoyed with Sting's incredibly rude response.
"Well don't keep me in suspense! What is IT?!" Natsu said almost freaking out.
"Salamander, did you have a weird dream or vision before Phantom attacked with the robot giant?" Gajeel asked seriously.
"Weird dream? Yeah I did, it almost seemed familiar. I heard screaming and a city was on fire. Then I saw this really freaky dragon, and then my dream ended." Natsu recalled that horrible dream.
"So you had it too." Wendy said sullenly. "When I asked Gajeel when he had that vision, he told me it was a several days ago, the same time you and I had it."
Natsu was shocked at what he was hearing, they had the same scary dream as him. What did this all mean?
"Wait, did you also hear those weird voices? After I defeated Jose in my Thunder-Flame Dragon mode, I fell unconscious like every other time I use it." Natsu told them of what he heard during his recovery, surprising the two other slayers.
"What? We didn't hear any of that. The vision's all we saw Natsu." Wendy said worriedly.
"This is all really weird. Nothing like this has ever happened before." Natsu said thinking about it before he clutched his head. "Aagh! It hurts just thinking about it!"
"Salamander, considering how the three of us still have our high magic powers as in the future, do you know why we do?" Gajeel said curiously.
"Well we were fighting with Zeref and many of you died-" He was painfully recalling the vision of his dead comrades. "-against Zeref. In the end it was only me and Erza. He...killed her and before he was about to kill me, Ultear showed up and told me I could get a lot stronger if she reversed time and let only me remember."
"Only you? That's obviously not what happened. Well with that aside, tell me. What's up with you, Mirajane and Titania? I noticed how close they were to you. And that demon, she seems different from what I remember." Gajeel asked.
"Oh, heheh, well you see, things have gone differently than they should have. About a week ago or so, me and Erza started 'Going out' ,as she calls it, in secret. Since a couple days ago, Mira asked me out not knowing about us. Long story short she challenged Erza on who would be the better girlfriend or whatever. As for Mira, I stopped something from happening that completely changed her." Natsu told them sheepishly scratching the back of his head.
"Heh, you do like getting into bad situations don't you salamander?" Gajeel smirked as Natsu sheepishly grinned.
"Well what now?" Natsu asked them.
"Well we were hoping to join the guild a lot sooner than normal." Wendy said shyly.
"Why not? Heck we're already screwing up time so who cares?" He said laughing. "Come on let's go!"
"Hai!" Wendy said excitedly.
"Yeah." Said Gajeel.
It was obvious only they had the strange occurings, but they knew they would help each other figure this whole thing out. However, none of them could shake the feeling that something dangerous was coming, (not as in they're being watched, but as in the future) but they believed they would pull through.
