As the rustling gets closer they get ready. The rustling stops. Then all around, there are Beedrill everywhere. Lucy and Serena get scared. The Beedrill just stay where they are. Then they all charge at once. "RUN!" Ash screams and the first two to run are Serena and Lucy. Everyone is running down the road and the Beedrill much like last time keep catching up to them. "Why are we running? We can take them" Natsu says as he runs by Ash. "If you want to fight go ahead but don't stay in one place to long or they'll swarm you." Ash explains. "Then let's do a hit and run." Gray suggests. Ash and Natsu nod. Clemont gets his pokéball out. Lucy and Serena are too far ahead to listen. "Bonnie, tell Serena and Lucy that we got things but keep running." Clemont explains to his little sister. She nods as she sprints ahead.
"Okay, now!" Ash says. Natsu stops, and sprints toward the Beedrill. Natsu starts shooting fireballs at them. Ash and Clemont call out their pokémon. "Pikachu, use thunderbolt!" "Chespin, use pin missile!" Gray makes a Bow and shoots arrows at them. A few of them go down but more and more keep coming. "Natsu! Use your roar!" Ash says. "I can't! I need to eat more fire!" Ash groans as 3 Beedrill target Pikachu. "Use iron tail!" Pikachu uses iron tail on the 3 beedrill. One sneaks up on Pikachu and hits him. Pikachu faints from the surprise attack. 8 Beedrill target Gray and 4 hit him with their stingers. Clemont's Chespin is still doing fine but is hit with a poison sting. Natsu sees all of his friends get taken down. 3 beedrill are about to come at him until they are hit with sword barrage. The ones that attacked Gray see it and find the person who did it but are hit with a beam of light. The rest of them scatter. Everyone looks up to see who saved them. Standing near them, are Lucy, Bonnie, Serena, Loke, and a young Erza. "Erza!" Gray and Natsu say in unison.
"Thanks Loke" Lucy says. "Anytime Lucy" Loke says as he disappears. Erza walks up to Gray and Natsu and helps them up and sarcastically says "You guys couldn't handle a bunch of bees?" "Shut up." Natsu says. "Hey thanks for saving us." Clemont says as Chespin goes back into his pokéball. "Yeah thanks. Pikachu you okay buddy?" Ash says. "Erza, how did you find us?" Natsu asks "Well when I woke up, I was in the middle of the forest. I walked around and notice these weird animal hybrid things. I ignored most of them until I saw a huge bear thing. I beat it but afterwards, I noticed something. I was turned into a younger me. I freaked out for a little bit until I saw a fire go up into the air and then some of it get frozen. So I assumed that was you guys. Then, I saw Lucy and these 2 running from something. Lucy told me everything and then, well, you know the rest." Erza says.
"Thank you, Erza" Ash says. Erza looks at Ash and asks "Who are you?" "I'm Ash Ketchum. Natsu told me about you." "Nice to meet you Ash. So I guess this means every one of us turned younger." Erza responds. Lucy, Gray, Natsu nods their heads. Erza makes a fist and punches a nearby tree. "Well there is nothing we can do about it now. Maybe the master knows a way to get us back to normal. One good thing though is that we still have our magic and it hasn't decreased in any way." Ash and his friends stare in awe as the tree Erza punched falls down. "Wow Erza! You're really strong." Serena says. "Thank you, Serena." "Anyway I'm Clemont. I'm assuming that you've been introduced to Serena and my sister" "Yep, on my way here we stopped and introduced each other before we saw an explosion of magic." "So if this is Erza, where is every one of your friends?" Clemont asks. "Don't know. Maybe we can get a better view from…"
A voice that can only be heard in Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Lucy's head can be heard. "Can anyone hear me? Hello." "WARREN!" Erza says out loud. "You know where he is." Ash says. "No he has telepathy so we can hear him in our minds." Lucy explains. "Interesting." Clemont says. "Warren can you hear us." Erza says. "Everyone, I can hear you. I'll try to connect all of us but it will be hard for me." "No need. We have a couple of people here that could help us. See if you can get your telepathy on them. However, they have no magical energy." Erza says. Ash and his friends' just watch the Fairy Tail crew talk to themselves. "Telepathy, huh. Wish we could use that." Ash says. "What's telepathy?" Bonnie asks. "The ability to talk with someone only using your mind." her brother explains. "Cool! I'm with Ash, I wish we could have telepathy." "Hello? Am I connected?" "Who just said that?" Ash says as he and his friends look around. "Ash! I think Warren just used his telepathy on you guys. Your hear a voice, yeah." Natsy says to him. "Yeah but…" "Yes! It worked!" the voice says. "This is Warren's telepathy?" Ash asks. "It should be but just to be sure, Warren, repeat after me. Fairy tail is the best guild in the world." Natsu says. Warren repeats what Natsu says and Ash and his friends hear it. "Did you guys hear what I just said in your minds by another voice?" Natsu asks. They all nod. "All right Warren they're connected to you." Gray says. "Okay. We all need a place to meet up do you guys know anywhere we can meet?" Warren asks Ash and his friends. "I think we are near a town, let me look." Serena says. She pulls out her travel guide and looks at the map. "Yeah there is a town south of here but people aren't in the same area. How are we supposed to show everyone where to go?"
"Don't know." Warren says. Ash then gets an idea. "Can't we just get the exceeds to show everyone the way or make a beacon." He says to Warren. "That might work but we need to know where you guys are then know where the town is located specifically." Everyone thinks for a little bit then Gray comes up with an idea. "What if we make steam engine here use his fire to mark our location?" "Or we use frozen popsicle stick to make a tower of ice." Natsu retorts back. "Why not both? Make a fire crystal in the air so people can follow it. Natsu won't have to keep using all of his magical energy, and with the fire on the inside, we won't have to worry about it melting since it was taking intense heat to begin with." Ash says. (Please don't question this logic.) "That's genius! Good thinking Ash." Clemont says. "That's how I found you guys so maybe the others will too" Erza says. "Happy, can you carry Natsu in the air so he can make some fire?" "Aye sir!" Happy grows his wings, and carries Natsu in the sky "Natsu! Make the biggest fire ball you can!" Ash screams. Natsu nods. He makes both of his hands into fists. He puts both of them together, and then shoots a big fireball. "NOW!" Erza says. Gray makes a freezing Ball of ice and freezes Natsu's fireball in midair.
"Very good. Warren can you see it?" Erza asks. "Yeah I can. Can everyone else see it?" After a few moments of silence Warren tells everyone "They can all see it. Now we just have to wait for everyone to meet." "Okay Warren, Thanks for everything, We'll see you soon." Erza says. Happy and Natsu come down. "Thanks for everything guys. We owe you big time." Natsu says. "No problem. It was our pleasure." Ash says. "Yeah it was really nice to meet all of you." Serena says. "Hope your friends find you soon" Clemont says. "We'll see you around" Ash says as he and his friend's wave good-bye. Natsu puts his hand on Ash's shoulder. "Where are you guys going?" He asks. "We're continuing our adventure. We're going to the town, spending the night there, then keep moving forward." Ash replies. "You helped us out, the least our friends can do is meet you guys." "That's okay, we were just helping out some new friends" Clemont says. "Come on brother, I want to meet all of these guys!" Bonnie exclaims. Ash thinks about it for a minute and finally says "Okay we'll stay with you guys for a while." "You'll love our guild mates" Lucy says "They are very…charming in their own way." Erza says. "Well I can't wait to meet them" Ash says.
They all start getting to know each other more and have fun just messing around. Bonnie plays with Dedenne and Happy. Clemont talks about his inventions, and how they all end up blowing up. Ash talks about all the gym battles he won, while Natsu talks about all the battles he won. Serena and Lucy seem to click with each other very well. The sun is nearly setting before anyone shows up. For dinner, they all had fried rice except Natsu, he had some barbeque that they all were about to have until he ate some of it. After dinner Serena made some cookies that everyone really enjoyed, especially Erza. After Dinner they hear some more rustling. They get ready in case its more Beedrill. A man about the size of Bonnie with white hair and Mustache comes out of the bushes. "Master!" Erza and Lucy say together. "Gramps!" Natsu and Gray say in unison. "Hey little ones, I'm so glad to see you." The short man said. "So this is your guy's master." Ash says. Everyone nods. "Did you see anyone else on your way here?" Gray asks. "I only found these people." Makarov says. He whistles and the entire guild comes out of the forest. Natsu, Gray, Lucy, and Erza look around, smile, and almost break into tears. "We're so glad you guys are okay" Natsu says. "We'd liked to introduce you guys to the people who helped us out. Meet Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie" Erza says. "Hey, I'm Ash, and this is Pikachu, it's nice to meet all of you." "I'm Serena." "Clemont, great to see that all of you" "And I'm Bonnie, and this is Dedenne." "It's real nice to meet all of you, thank you for helping us out." Makarov says. Everybody figured out that the vortex turned them younger but they didn't care.
Everyone meets Ash and his friends and get to know them. "So what are these things?" Levy asks Ash about Pikachu. "We met a bunch of different creatures around here." Ash explains about pokemon to everyone who was listening. "What type of Pokémon is your Pikachu" Laxus says while poking it. Pikachu doesn't like it. "He's an electric type. Don't poke him!" Pikachu got fed up and electrocuted Laxus. Laxus isn't fazed by it but is surprised by the power of it. "Sorry. Pikachu doesn't like being poked a lot." Ash explains. "It's okay, I'm an electric dragon slayer. I don't eat lightning like Natsu or Gajeel but it powers me up. Your Pikachu is really strong." Laxus says. "Thanks but that's not pikachu's full power, that's just his 'don't poke me' shock" Ash says Laxus smiles at the comment. "Wow." Serena was talking with Lucy and Levy about books. Bonnie was hanging out with Romeo and Wendy. After a while, Ash left the group and went to the forest. He went to the bathroom and just sat up in a tree for a while, thinking.
"Hey! Why're you up there? You should be celebrating with us." A voice says. Ash looks down and sees Natsu with Happy. "Hey guys. I'll be down in a second, give me a minute." "No need." Happy sprouts his wings and takes Natsu up in the nearby branch. "Thanks Happy. Can you give us a minute" Happy nods and fly's off to the celebration. "You okay Ash?" Natsu asks. "Yeah just, thinking." Ash responds. "I may have only met you just today but I can tell something's bugging you" Ash sighs and looks at the sunset. "This world may be so much different now that your guys' universe has connected with ours. I'm wondering if I can handle that change." Natsu puts his hand on Ash's shoulder. "Don't worry about it. Join us after you're done thinking. I'm sure everything will be fine." Natsu gets off the branch and continues to the party.
Ash stays in the tree a little longer thinking about the future. "Can I really adapt to Magic powers? As cool as they may be, we have to deal with mages popping up everywhere, and hope Pokemon won't be affected by this. People will freak out if they found out that magic is in this world as a tool now, instead of a little myth." "Ash?" Ash snaps back into reality. He looks down and sees Serena standing near the tree. "Hey Serena" He jumps down and lands. "You okay?" She asks. "I don't know." He responds. "You can tell me anything. What's going on?" Ash looks at Serena with a serious look on his face. "I don't know if I can handle the fact that 2 universes are now one." Ash looks at the ground. "I don't know how other people will react. How will pokemon react?" Before Ash goes any further Seena grabs his arm. "Ash, don't look to deep into this. That's Clemont's job. You can handle this change. We aren't fazed by it, so why should you? Everyone in the Fairy Tail guild could've gone insane that, not only they are in another universe, but they were turned into younger versions of themselves. But they didn't. And you've handled far worse than this. You know what you always say; never give up until the end." Ash smiles when Serena is done talking. He almost starts to cry. "Thanks, Serena. Lets go to the celebration." Serena smiles and blushes a little as they walk to the party.
When they get back, everyone is partying hard. Cana is somehow drunk. Probably because of the whiskey she keeps around with her. Natsu and Gray are fighting again. Then the whole guild starts fighting. "Should we do something?" Clemont asks Erza. "No let them be…" Some hits her in the back of the head and her face goes into her plate of cookies. She lifts her face and anger is showing. A lotof anger. "THAT'S IT!" She gets up and joins the fight. The only ones not in the fight are Lucy, Levy, Makarov, Mirajane, Lisanna, Ash, Bonnie, Serena, and Clemont. Ash is about to go in to stop the fight but Lucy puts her hand on his shoulder. "Relax. Let them beat the crap out of each other." "But…" "It's okay. This late at night, and when they all get knocked out, they'll be down until morning." Mira explains. Ash nods and gets one last drink of tea then says "I'm going to bed guys. I'll see you later." Everyone who isn't fighting nods their heads and follows him to their tents. The master just sleeps on the rock he is sitting on.
Bonnie is already asleep when they reach their tents. "Looks like we all have to split into groups. Clemont and I can sleep under the stars. You girls okay with sharing a tent?" Ash asks. They all nod their heads. After brushing their teeth and getting in their Pj's, everyone almost instantly falls asleep after they lay down.
Find out what happens in the next Chapter.
A/N Hey guys hope you enjoyed this long chapter. Let me know if you want me to make more longer chapters.