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Hiro Mashima owns Fairytail
Boom! Booom! A flash of lightning.
He looked around.. his eyes widened at the scene.. there were Raven Tail mages… and a halfnaked Natsu… Gray.. Gajeel… fighting them off. He was amazed at how different they looked… they looked older.. stronger.. taller.. and they looked as if they were angry enough to kill.. their magical pressure was extraordinary. He wondered if he could even beat them with his current level..
The older three mages saw Laxus arrive.. but they didn't look over at him. They were too pissed off at the Raven Tail mages in front of them.. the ones that dared to attack their guild.. the ones that dared to take Lucy away from them..
"JUST HAND OVER THE GIRL AND LACRIMA!" one of the raven tail mages yelled as he attacked Gray.
Gray let out his hand and caught the mages hand, causing the man's eyes to widen.
Gray smirked…then death glared at the man… he let loose a surge of magic through his hand.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!" the man screamed.. his arm froze.. and the entire half of his body was covered in ice.
Natsu bashed the mages faces with his fire-lit fists.. Gajeel punched them with his iron fists.. both were swift and fast.
Laxus stared in shock at the fight.. his eyes roamed between Gray.. Natsu.. Gajeel.. then to the waterfall behind them.. and despite the fight ensuing in front of him.. he felt it.. he felt a spark of his own magic coming from behind the waterfall.
Then it clicked. He ran to the pool and dove in.. and to his intuition.. he saw a black tunnel.. he swam inside.
"Cmon! Come back!" Gajeel yelled at Lucy.. he was pumping her chest… he paused.
He dipped down and took her lips. He blew in air.. and released.
He looked towards the dull eyed Laxus.. he was trembling…
"HEY! FOCUS!" Gajeel snapped at Laxus.. Laxus came back to reality.. he put his bloody hand over her heart and gave her a shock. Her body jerked.
Again Gajeel took over Lucy's chest with his own bloody hands and began pumping.
"Cmon.. you're stronger than this.. come back.. BREATHE LUCY BREATHE!"
Laxus stared at his hands… his left hand drenched in her blood.. all the way past his wrist.. he had to reach the area between her lungs.. the lacrima was safely placed there..
He heard running.. and smelled the approaching figure.. his eyes widened…
"No…"
Lily looked over towards the approaching figure.. his body was sparking with lightning.. bringing in much needed light into the cave..
The figure froze a few feet from them. Horror…
"What…." The younger Laxus saw himself.. hands bloody.. with Lucy's blood.. it was such a strong smell... and Lucy herself.. her stomach bloody.. and stapled together.. Gajeel pumping at her chest.. not for one second taking his eyes away from her.. Lily watching him stare at them.. with tears running down his face.. and behind them all… was Metallicana with his dragon eyes staring him down.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" Laxus stepped back and fell.. he tried to crawl back from the nightmare he had found himself in.. "WHAT… HAVE I DONE!"
The horror he found himself in.. made him think back to the time when he had found Lucy back in Magnolia.
"you should be the one running from me.."
He knew Lucy had meant something behind it.. but how was he to know that it would lead to this!
"I… had no choice…." The older Laxus said… "I… had to put it in her.. IT WAS THE ONLY WAY!"
"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US! HOW!? HOW ARE WE ANY BETTER… BETTER THAN HIM! AND ONLY WAY?! SHE'LL DIE BECAUSE OF YOU… BECAUSE OF MEE!" the younger Laxus yelled in despair… tears running down his face.. the older crying as well.. his bloody fists clenched.
"What are you talking about… the future me… said you'll be able to save her if you put it in her.. why… is Laxus saying she'll die?!" Gajeel said as he pumped away..
The older Laxus put his hand over Lucy's chest and Gajeel stopped pumping. He gave another shock and her body jerked. Gajeel resumed his pumping.
"ANSWER ME!" Gajeel roared.
"Just because you put the lacrima in her.. doesn't mean her body will accept it." the dragon spoke.
Gajeel froze… "What?" he said in disbelief.
"KEEP PUMPING GAJEEL!" Lily said in panic. Gajeel resumed his pumping.. and kissed Lucy once again to breathe air into her lungs.
The younger Laxus watched Gajeel.. his emotions haywire.. his worst nightmare..
"If that girl wakes up.. she'll experience pain like never before.. this is only the beginning of what she has to overcome." Metallicana said grimly.
"Her body.. will feel like it is being ripped to shreds.." the younger Laxus spoke.. his head lowered, hiding his eyes.. "She'll feel like her insides are burning inside out.. her eyes won't see.. her ears will ring and feel like bursting from the tiniest of sounds… "
Gajeel was frowning in horror.. Lucy was still unresponsive.. her eyes closed.. bloody handprints on her face and in her beautiful blonde hair..
"She will survive.." the older Laxus said clenching his jaw.
The younger looked towards the older.. the older back at the younger now.
"And you will do whatever it takes so that she does..." the older Laxus spoke in a commanding voice. "You don't want to live in a future where she doesn't exist.." he said softly..
He put his hand over Lucy's chest once more.. He looked towards her face. Gajeel stopped pumping and removed his.
"No more playing around princess.. it's time for you to get up… Wake up Lucy!" he yelled at her face and gave her a shock.
GASPP!
Lucy's chest rose and her eyes shuttered open..
"Lucy!" Lily shouted.
Gajeel watched her shocked and relieved..
The older Laxus smiled warmly.. "I knew you'd come back.."
Lucy was gasping and clenching her fists.. she shut her eyes and put her head as far back as she could.. tears ran down the side of her face..
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Metallicana roared at the loud screaming.. and drew back further into the tunnel.. his tail covering his head to block his ears.
Shivers went down their spine.. the younger Laxus ran over next to the older.. the older put Lucy's clenched hand in the youngers.. Lucy gripped on and Laxus back.
Gajeel grabbed Lucy's other hand and she gripped onto Gajeel's.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Lucy continued to scream and sob. Her body was trembling so hard.
The younger Laxus looked up towards the older.. the older smiled gently towards the younger.
"Give her a chance.. and she'll give you one too…" the older said softly. "she's got Natsu and Gray beside her.. but I've given you something no one else can take from us." The older said… and all of a sudden.. his body began to light up.. light particles began to fly into the air from his body.
"What.. do you mean?" the younger said.
Gajeel clenched his fists.. somehow… what the older Laxus had said really dug into him in a bad way.
Running footsteps were heard… Gajeel looked over and found his older self.. the older Gajeel's body was lit up as well.
"Tch… And so have I" the older Gajeel walking over and sitting next to the younger.
"Gajeel…." The older glared. "Where's Natsu and Gray?"
"What.. am I their babysitter? Salamander is dealing with himself… Stripper is somewhere.. oiy!" Gajeel said to his younger self.
"You better not give up either. Lucy is a lot stronger than you think. And just admit that you do like her. Get over it and do something about it. You better not just sit there and let lightning stick, flametard, and stripper get her."
"What?!" the younger Gajeel looked at his older self like he was insane.
Lily just gaped at the older Gajeel. Both Laxus' were wide-eyed and frowning..
"GAJEEL!" the older Laxus' entire body lit up and he vanished.
"Gihi…" the older Gajeel looked down at Lucy.. who had stopped screaming now and was just cringing.. and gasping… he brought his face down and kissed her forehead..
"Bye Lucy… you'll always be my bunnygirl." His body lit up and he vanished as well.
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Gajeel, Laxus, and Lily were frozen.. Lily looked between Gajeel and Laxus.. their faces showing utter shock that shifted to confusion.. their eyes met.. and after a painstaking awkward silence… Lily saw a slight glint in both their eyes..
Meanwhile.. Lucy was having the battle for her life. Her gasping.. her whimpering.. her screaming.. her sobbing.. was the only noise heard throughout the cave. And Metallicana was watching her intently.
Natsu's body was beginning to light up.. he looked at his hands and saw the light particles rise into the air..
Rustle rustle rustle..
He looked towards the direction of the sound and smiled… bangs covering his eyes.. And as he expected.. someone jumped out through the trees like a fireball and landed right in front of him.
The fire subsided.. and who remained.. was his younger self.
"Where's Luce.." the younger said.
"She's inside.."
"Why… didn't you tell me? Why didn't she tell me? Why!" the younger said clenching his fists.
"I couldn't… Time paradox or something like that… and for Luce… It wasn't because she didn't trust you.. it's because she loved you." The older said brushing his fingers through his pink hair.
The younger Natsu's eyes widened.
"Yea.. Luce loves us.. actually.. she's loved us for a while.. but.. I think she's given up on us." The older said in a soft voice..
The younger looked up at the older with a frown.. his eyes wide with shock. Love?!
"We were just.. too busy to notice…"
"We… I…" Natsu was lost for words.
The younger Natsu's eyes widened..
"Do you love Lucy? Or do you love Lisanna?"
The younger Natsu flinched..
"I was engaged to Lisanna.. we could have had a wonderful family together.. I'm sure she would have been a great mother.. she did help us raise Happy and all.. but I didn't realize that Luce was sick… until it was too late.."
The younger Natsu gulped.. he dreaded what he was about to hear..
"I saw Lucy die a second and final time in front of me."
The younger Natsu stared at the ground in shock.. he was engaged to Lisanna in the future? Well that… I guess he was fulfilling his promise.. but Lucy… he looked back up at the older Natsu and was shocked to find himself crying..
"I.. buried her with my own hands… and Igneel.. you know she was the one who led me to him.. I didn't even know it was her who planted the clues until after she died.." Natsu's tears were falling down his chin. The younger Natsu was crying now too.
"She's our Luce.." the older Natsu said smiling gently.. his body lit up brighter and he vanished.
Natsu stood frozen for a few minutes.. trying to access all the information he had gotten from his future self.. all this time.. all that time he had spent with her.. and he had not seen… suddenly he dashed into the pool and swam behind the waterfall to see if there was an opening.. nothing.. he dove in the water and found the tunnel.. he swam inside.
In a different portion of the forest…
Gray was sitting up against a tree.. he had calculated that his younger self would arrive soon.. and hopefully as soon as possible.. he was watching the light particles rise from his arms…
Rustle Rustle..
"HURRY JUVIA!" Gray yelled.
"YES GRAY-SAMA!" Juvia yelled.
The two ran through the trees and were shocked to find another Gray.
"Yo~" the older Gray said.
"TWO GRAY-SAMAS!" Juvia said with hearts in her eyes.. and she fainted.
"Ha… I remember those days.." the older Gray said rubbing his head.
"Where is Lucy?" Gray said seriously.
"She's at the waterfall straight from here. She has the lacrima now.. I'm assuming Laxus already put it in her." the older Gray said getting up. "I don't have a lot of time so I'll make it short"
The younger Gray watched himself carefully.. it was good to see himself look more mature and taller.
"Lucy is fair game."
"What?" the younger Gray said with wide-eyes.
"She isn't Natsu's and from what I know so far.. at least in this version of time.. her feelings for Natsu are not as strong now.. all this time.. we were staying away from her because we thought she was Natsu's.. but he gets engaged to Lisanna anways.. "
"WHAT?!" the younger Gray was shocked.
"Just let me talk. I'm only telling you this because I've given us a chance. In this version of time.. everything has been changed.. not only do you have Natsu to worry about.. but you have Gajeel and Laxus.. I've seen the way my Gajeel and Laxus are with her.. and I know.. they have feelings for her. Meaning, so do yours."
The younger Gray was completely shocked. "WHAT?! No way.. Gajeel and Laxus haven't even given her a glance."
"Either way… if you believe me or not.. just keep it in mind.. and Lucy isn't as immune to us as we thought.. I mean.. I did take her on her first date. The next move is yours.." The older Gray said winking at the younger. "Good luck" and with a bright flash.. he disappeared.
The younger Gray.. stood in utter shock… Lucy…. He had taken her on her first date?! WHAT?!
He really needed to find her now…. Was she okay?.. he was about to run off when he realized the unconscious Juvia was on the ground.. He looked towards Lucy's direction.. and back at Juvia…
"Juvia.. Lucy…" Gray thought to himself.. he picked up Juvia and began to ran towards Lucy…
These girls were going to kill him.