Hello everyone. I have return once again with another chapter for you all to either enjoy or despise.

Also, I would like to say, holy cow! This story managed to have over 100,000 words. I didn't think I would write this much to be honest. But here we are. I guess it's thanks to you guys for liking this story. So thank you all! I mean, I know that's not much compared to most people, but to me that's a lot, so once again, thank you.

To let you all know, we're going to take it a bit slow now, so don't expect another large battle to happen immediately. I figure it would be nice for our heroes to take a needed break as they try to find Azazel, Uriel, and Ariel. Also I want to get in moments between Natsu and the girls that he hasn't officially gotten together yet, so there's that.

Anyway, enjoy, or not, I don't care you all have your opinions.

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Chapter Forty Nine: Recovering

"Would you like another refill?" Garad asked his mother Cana, who was currently sitting at one of the tables in the building they were all in.

Since everyone was still trying to rest or help out the citizens, some of them were trying to help the rest out. Garad helped out by making his special kinds of beers for people. One would argue why drinking alcohol would be a good idea to relax and rest, but Garad didn't care. In his eyes, alcohol can help with any problem. It helped him and his mother out at least.

Cana looked up from her thoughts to see her future son with a large barrel in hand. She couldn't help but smile to see him attempting to help cheer her and the others up.

"Yes, thank you." Cana replied back to the dark brown haired male, who smiled as he poured her another drink.

At another table, Daron was sitting in deep thought about what happened recently. He was angry to be honest. They stopped the Legion from activating all of the Faces around the continent to destroy it. But despite that, they still lost people they cared about. Lisanna looked to see her future son sitting alone in thought, so the youngest Strauss siblings went over to him.

"Daron?" She spoke up, getting the future son of Natsu and Lisanna to look up to see his mother.

"Oh, hey mother." Daron replied back with a soft smile, though it was hard to tell due to his helmet he always wore.

"How are you feeling?" Lisanna asked him as she took a seat next to him. The white haired woman knew that everyone wasn't feeling the best at the moment despite them ending up victorious.

"…Alright I guess." He answered her as he looked at the table in front of him. Lisanna couldn't help but frown a little. She didn't like how everyone was like this, sad and angered by what happened. It was even worse to see Daron like this since he was her son after all. Well, son from the future, but still.

"Daron, it's going to be okay." Lisanna assured him, hoping that she would be able to cheer her future son up. Daron turned his head to look at his mother.

"Will it?" He questioned, as a look of anger took hold on his face as he turned back to look at the table once more, "It's always like this. No matter what we do, no matter if we win, someone we care about still dies!" Daron slammed his fists onto the table as he got angrier, "No matter the sacrifices we commit, it always seems it's never enough! People that we care about are still taken away from us by those monsters! No matter how much stronger we become, it's never enough!" He finished his rant as he tried to take in deep breaths to help calm himself down.

Lisanna could see how frustrated and angry he was. Not at anyone though, if anything he looked angry at himself. A trait he got from Natsu, always thinking the burden is his to bear alone. The white haired woman put her hand on Daron's shoulder, getting him to look at the woman that will give birth to him one day.

"Look, I may not fully understand what you and the others have gone through back in your time, but you shouldn't put the blame on yourselves," Lisanna started to say as she went on, "The world may seem cruel to take those we care about in the blink of an eye, but that doesn't mean we should give up. No matter how hard things seem to get, we must keep going forward. If we give in, then all those sacrifices, all who threw away their lives, would be for nothing. I know you don't want that, neither do I. But for their sake, we must continue onward to the future." Lisanna finished telling him. She hoped that would cheer him up at least somewhat.

Daron looked at his mother before a small smile formed on his face. She was right like usual. He shouldn't start to doubt himself now, not with everything still at risk.

"You're right. Thank you mother." Daron thanked her, which got her to smile as she pulled him into a hug, catching him by surprised before he returned the gesture.

Currently with one of the others, Tiron was currently looking at a map of Fiore at another table. To the green haired male, he figured focusing on where for them all to go next would help keep his mind off of what happened recently. It was a bit much for him to handle to tell the truth. He and his brothers and sisters have gone through a lot back in their own time, but it was still stressful when loosing someone they cared about or seeing someone they care hurt in any way.

"Tiron?" The future son of Natsu and Hisui looked up to see his mother Hisui approaching him with a look of concern, "Are you okay?" She asked him in worry. The princess of Fiore noticed her future son looking troubled about something.

"I'm fine mom, don't worry." Tiron answered her with a smile. However Hisui didn't look convinced by his words as she sat down next to him at the table.

"You don't sound convince yourself." Hisui pointed out. Tiron simply sighed, of course his mother would notice. She was his mom after all.

"Just the recent events are just getting to me," He admitted to her, getting her to be concern, "It's hard to stay strong when we loose people we care about, as well as seeing everyone else get hurt because of it. I know that we need to stay strong, but everyday it gets harder and harder to hold on," He then turned to look at Hisui," I just don't know what to do really."

Hisui couldn't help but frown a little by his words. She knows how he feels at the moment, feeling powerless to do anything as everyone else suffers. This was what she felt during the Grand Magic Games when the dragons from the past attacked. Everyone else did the battling and saving, and what could she do? Nothing.

"Tiron," She started to say, getting her future son's full attention, "I get what you mean, trying to stay strong for everyone while everything seems to catch up to you. But you're not alone in this. Things may seem hard right now, but everyone else is here to help you. You're not alone in this. No matter how things get or how worked up you may get, know that everyone is here by your side to help." She told him. Hisui hoped that helped lifted her future son's spirits up, as she wasn't that good at comforting people in all honesty.

Tiron simply stared at the woman who will one day bring him into the world, before he smiled and chuckled slightly.

"You're right mom. You always seem to know what to say." He told her with a smile that reminded her of Natsu's smiles. She herself couldn't help but smiled in returned, glad that her and Natsu's future son was feeling better now.

At another table, Marcel and Rose were currently sitting at a table looking around the rest of the room. They saw how everyone seemed to still be downed from what happened. While some of them, like their mothers and father were getting better, most of their siblings, their other mothers, and the citizens of Era were still feeling down or frightened by what happened recently.

"Everyone still seems down." Marcel pointed out as he ate his flaming steak that Mira was kind enough to make for him.

"Well duh, they had to face against the Legion forces and had most of their homes destroyed." Rose responded back to her brother, knowing that he was talking about the citizens that lived here in Era.

"I don't like it!" Marcel admitted. While he didn't really like people to be honest, he still didn't like seeing anyone feeling down and scared, "There has to be a way to cheer them all up somehow."

"Maybe we can show off our magic for cool tricks?" Rose suggested. If there was one thing she learned, people like seeing tricks with magic. Though for some reason when she did stuff like that people got scared and fled. It wasn't because her magic tricks she tried involved giant plants that can eat people, no it TOTALLY wasn't that.

To this day she never learned why people were afraid when she wanted to show off her magic. Marcel sweat drop from his sister's confusion as she thought about that. It was known people don't tend to enjoy magic that can make plants that can eat people.

"No, I don't think that will cut it," Marcel stated, getting the pink haired woman to be sad by that, "Anything else you can think of in that empty skull of yours."

"Hey!" Rose exclaimed back in annoyance by her brother's words. Choosing to ignore that he said that, she went back into thinking position, "Hm… what can we do to cheer everyone up?" The future daughter of Natsu and Cosmos wondered as she continued to think.

Marcel also entered into a thinking position as he tried to help his sister come up a way to help lift everyone's mood up. The two of them remained in this position for a few minutes before the future son of Natsu and Kamika then came up with an idea.

"I got it!" Marcel exclaimed happily as he turned to Rose, who wondered what he just came up with, "What is one thing that everyone likes?" He asked her, seeing if Rose would catch.

"Uh… plants?" She guessed to the black haired male.

"No, not plants." Marcel responded back to her.

"Dancing?' She guessed again.

"No, well yes, but that's not the one I meant." He replied back to the pink haired woman.

"Trees?'

"No."

"Flowers?"

"No."

"Food?"

"Not the one I meant."

"Killing Legion demons?"

"Also not the one I'm talking about."

"…Tacos?"

Marcel only face-palmed by her sister's guesses.

"Music! I'm talking about music!" Marcel shouted at her, getting her to FINALLY understand what he was going for now.

"Oooooh I get it! We can play a song to lighten the mood and lift everyone's spirits up!" Rose exclaimed happily, liking the idea, "We can play a country so-"

"Heck no!" Marcel responded, they weren't going to play that. He wanted to cheer people up, not make them want to kill themselves.

"Aw… we better not play anything metal!" Rose warned him. Rock was okay, but not metal.

"Okay fine, we won't do that either." The black haired future son of Natsu and Kamika agreed with his sister, if only to get her to shut up about her wanting to play a country song.

"But what will we use? I don't think there are any instruments here in the building we can use." Rose pointed out. After all, this place was an infirmary not a studio.

"I'm sure there a place in Era that has instruments," Marcel answered her with a smile, "…Let's just hope that none of them were destroyed due to the fighting."

Rose agreed with her brother there.

Here you all go. So what did you all think? Good? Bad? Want me to punch myself repeatedly in the face? Let me know.

See you all next time, whenever that will be.

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Five keys to open our way. Five torches to light our path.