Previously:
"That boy of yours…he's something extraordinary alright."
"Shouldn't you be more concerned about your human, Grandine?"
"Wendy? She's alright…for now. She's still in the "so-called" guild of hers, Cait Shelter, with the other exceed. But…if your boy doesn't succeed in his quest, time will catch up to her and she and the exceed will be annihilated once Nirvana's activated."
"He won't fail." The fire dragon said in reassurance. "After all…he is my son."
"Dinner is ready Yuuko-san." Watanuki called as he placed the bowl of sukiyaki on the table.
"Dinner's ready! Dinner's ready!" Maru and Moro repeated as they happily danced together around the table.
Watanuki then grabbed the last bottle of sake away from Mokona as it tried to finish it off before dinner even began. "That's enough sake for you. Try to leave some so that there'll be more after dinner." Watanuki scolded.
"Aww! But it tastes so good." Mokona complained.
The young lad didn't respond as he was used to the creature's attitude and instead asked a question. "What's taking Yuuko-san so long? Normally she'd be here drinking all the sake with you."
"I don't think she heard you. She's outside, looking at the moon."
"What would she be doing there? When it comes to the word food, or anything synonymous to that, her sense of hearing is almost as keen as yours Mokona." Watanuki said as he walked away and decided to go to Yuuko while Mokona grabbed the bottle of sake which Watanuki hid. He opened the sliding door and found Yuuko, sitting on the hallway, watching the moon as the cherry blossoms danced with the wind.
"Yuuko-san?" he called once again, this time with curiosity in his tone.
"Ah Watanuki. I didn't hear you." Yuuko said as she finally noticed the young lad. She was sitting on the hallway's floor and beside her were two bottles of sake and a cup.
"Dinner's ready."
"Ah yes. Thank you. I shall be there in a moment." She responded. Watanuki thought there was something odd about Yuuko. Normally she'd be really excited about dinner but it seems like she was thinking of something, or something was bothering her.
"Yuuko-san is something the matter?" he asked as he approached her and sat next to her.
Yuuko only smiled and looked at the moon. She watched as one of the cherry blossoms' petals fell into her pond. Finally she spoke. "That young lad we met yesterday, you remember him right?"
"You mean Natsu and that flying cat Happy?"
"Yes."
"What about them? Is something bad going to happen?"
It took her a while before Yuuko can answer Watanuki's question. She knew what Natsu and Happy are going to do but she didn't know what would the outcome would be. But whatever the outcome will be, she was certain that it will be complicated. She stared once more at the moon and made circular movements with her cup. "You know…fundamentally, to be happy you have to bear the burden of an equal amount of misery. To get something good, you have to put up with something bad…"
"Is this about Natsu and Happy's wish? What about Lucy-chan? Is she fine?" Watanuki worriedly asked.
Yuuko did not respond and only took another sip of sake from her cup making Watanuki nervous. "Only Natsu and Happy knows…The two of them…they changed her life, no, they changed everyone at guild's lives. The one thing that can change a person's destiny is meeting another…" she seriously said and stopped making circular movements with her cup. Suddenly she formed a smile and decided to change the subject. "It's best if we don't worry about it, 'cause for now…we must eat dinner~!" She happily said as she finished her sake and decided to get more from the bottle.
"You'll spoil your appetite even before dinner starts. Drink this later after dinner." He said as he took the bottle away from Yuuko.
"Pfft! Kill joy." She muttered as entered the room.
"I heard that." He replied but then paused for a while before entering the room. He stared at the moon. He thought about the poor fate Natsu and Happy's going to encounter soon. With Yuuko's silence earlier, he knew that something bad was going to happen soon. "I hope everything goes well for the two of you…Natsu, Happy."
"Watanuki! Hurry up the food's getting cold!" Yuuko called.
"Hurry up Watanuki!" Mokona repeated.
"The food's cold! The food's cold!" Maru and Moro repeated as well.
"Alright alright! Sheesh!" he replied with a tone of annoyance and laughter at the same time in his voice as he entered the room.
The pink haired young lad ran through the streets of Magnolia as fast as he could along with a flying blue cat. He didn't have any time to waste. He needed to go back to guild as soon as possible. When Igneel brought him and Happy back to Magnolia, the two of them rushed as soon as possible to the old guild. They were both worried about their guild mates' state since the two of them made their wish, all of their friends never actually met them. So basically some might be fine, some might be permanently injured or worse…some might be de—no Natsu didn't want to think about that. He shook his head as he thought about the worst thing that could happen.
Finally, what seemed like hours, they reached the guild. The guild looked like the same as it was right before Phantom Lord attacked them and destroyed their guild.
"Everyone!" Natsu shouted as he kicked the doors open.
Everyone at the guild stopped at what they were doing and turned their attention to the young lad and the exceed. Natsu saw some familiar faces in the guild as he scanned the place. Macao, Wakaba, and Cana were in their usual table at the guild drinking. Nab was still standing in front of the job board trying to pick out the perfect job for him. Levy, Jet and Droy were in their table as well, talking. Bisca and Alzack were also together and Elfman was also there rambling about being a man. Reedus, Laki, Max and Mirajane were in the guild as well. He could name all of his guild mates in an hour but he couldn't help notice that a lot of his guild mates back in his own time were missing.
He stood there in front of the doors, speechless. Normally everyone would be so noisy when he comes to the guild but now everyone was still and everyone was just staring at him. So he decided to approach and ask his guild mates if they remember him and Happy
"Mira! Mira!" he shouted as he ran towards the young white haired woman. "Do you remember me? It's me Natsu! Fairy Tail's dragon slayer!" he asked as he held her arms.
"Oh my…" she replied as Natsu's grip on her arms tightened. "I-I don't think I remember you…" she said with a worried tone in her voice.
"Get away from my sister you bastard!" Elfman shouted as he tried to punch Natsu. Lucky for him he was able to dodge it.
"Elfman! Don't you remember me? Natsu! Natsu Dragneel! Your guild mate!"
"I don't remember anyone named Natsu and I don't have any guild mate who tries to harass my sister! Real men don't harass women!" he replied and attacked Natsu once more.
"Natsu!" Happy shouted as he watched Elfman and Natsu fight.
"Natsu?" Alzack said. "Guild mate he says…"
"I don't remember any Natsu here." Bisca replied.
"I think he's a fraud." Jet told his teammates.
"Maybe he just wants to join Fairy Tail." Droy concluded.
"Then why doesn't he just join in? He doesn't have to beat Elfman and harass Mirajane." Levy said.
"I am not harassing Mira and I am a member of this guild!" he shouted as he paused from fighting Elfman. To Elfman's advantage, he took the opportunity and sent Natsu flying across the guild, crashing down on one of the guild's pillars.
"Natsu!" Happy worriedly shouted as he flew to Natsu's side.
"Tch! That bastard got lucky." Natsu said as he wiped the blood off of his mouth.
"What is that?" Laki pointed at Happy.
"I think it's…a cat?" Macao replied.
"It is a cat…and it's flying!" Wakaba said in surprise.
"I think I might have drunk too much booze…I'm seeing a cat with wings…" Cana said as she finally put down her barrel of booze.
"I don't think so. I can see it too." Nab said.
"What is this commotion about?" an old man suddenly said as he came down from the stairs of the second floor of the guild.
"Master!" Mirajane said.
"Who is this boy Mirajane?"
"I have no idea. He just suddenly came here and asked us if we remember him."
"Don't you remember me Gramps?! It's me Natsu!" he tried asking again.
"Natsu?" the old man tried to think hard, trying to remember if he ever met a guy named Natsu. "hmmm…well I…don't. Nope. Don't remember any Natsu." He said.
"Natsu, what are you doing?" Happy whispered. "Of course he doesn't remember us. None of them remember us."
"Well I might at least try to make him remember. That's part of our quest remember?"
"Well, Natsu." The old man said, interrupting Natsu and Happy's talk. "Why don't we take this matter to my office and talk about it. By the way I'm Ma-"
"Makarov Dreyar. Fairy tail's guild master."
"Right. Well we are a pretty known guild so I think it's only natural for one to know my name." Makarov replied. "Come to my office and let's discuss this."
"So you're saying that you came from the future and that the price for the wish you made is your past?" Makarov said as he tried to understand what Natsu explained.
"Aye! That's exactly what happened." Happy replied.
"I see…this is situation is pretty difficult, I must say."
"Hey Gramps! Where are the others? Did the others go on a mission? Where's Erza? Gray? Lucy?"
The moment Makarov heard Erza's name, he suddenly became serious and his grip on the bottle of his booze tightened. "I have never heard of this Lucy before nor have I seen her. Gray is currently out to find and track down his childhood friend. And Erza…Erza…"
"Erza is…?"
"She's…she's dead."
I'm glad I was able to make this chapter very quickly XDD
Hope you enjoyed it :)
Thanks for reading :))
