A/N: Kaira finally reveals to Jellal about Siegrain's death and who kills him!
Episode 198.
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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: GOLDEN GRASSLAND
Lucy was standing in front of the portal. "We'll just have to slam into it with all our magical power." She claimed.
"Right." Yukino agreed.
All of the Zodiac Keys flew into the air once more, creating a circle and shining a gold light. Lucy and Yukino joined hands and had their eyes closed.
"Open..."
"...the 12 Gates!"
"Zodiac!" Lucy and Yukino shouted together as the Zodiacs appeared once more.
"Everyone, please!" Lucy pleaded.
The Celestial Spirits charged forward towards the portal as a bright golden light was shown. When it dispersed, the portal still stood.
"I don't believe it! We didn't even make a dent!" Lucy stated.
"It's made of Magnanium alloy, which is highly resistant to Magic. It won't be easy to destroy." Arcadios informed.
"Even so..." Lucy trailed off.
Meanwhile, Kaira had met up with Jellal and Erza. Luckily, Siegrain was nowhere in sight.
"Uncle Jellal..."
Jellal and Erza both look up, noticing the pink-haired woman.
"You're... Kaira, right?" Jellal asked.
"Yes. I'm the daughter of Siegrain and Meredy. Which makes me your niece." Kaira replied. "I don't have a lot of time, Lucy-san is working on destroying the portal as we speak, so you need to listen to me carefully."
This quickly grabs both Jellal and Erza's attention.
Atlas Flame was on the ground before taking flight and slamming himself into Mother Glare as Natsu hopped on its back.
Levy was running through the town. "Gajeel!" She exclaimed to herself.
"Go back to your own..." Natsu presses his foot on Future Rogue's stomach. "...time period!"
Natsu struck Future Rogue with a flaming kick, making him stumble back.
"I have no intention of going back." Future Rogue claimed.
"Then what'll happen to the current Rogue?!" Natsu asked.
"Eventually, I'll become one with myself." Future Rogue answered as he turned into a shadow. "Like two overlapping shadows..."
"So you wanna steal Rogue's future, too?" Natsu questioned.
"There is no future! Not as long as Acnologia exists!" Future Rogue surrounded Natsu, who glanced around. "That's why I came here, to create the future!"
Future Rogue struck Natsu with holy light as he fell down from Mother Glare, but he quickly hung on. Future Rogue soon appeared as he chuckled darkly. Natsu climbed back up on top of Mother Glare as he coughed, making Future Rogue laugh.
"Where's Frosch?" Natsu asked suddenly.
"Dead." Future Rogue answered.
"He's alive. And I bet he's terrified right now... because of you..."
Lector had a stick in his hand as Frosch covered his eyes. "It'll be okay! I'm here with you!" Lector reassured.
"He'll die... about a year from now."
"You can't protect him?"
"I couldn't protect him."
"He's alive right now!" Natsu argued.
"I don't care. I'm not the same man who kept a cat as a sidekick." Future Rogue said.
Natsu charged forward. "You..."
"Someone who has never known despair wouldn't understand." Future Rogue activated his Magic. "I finally obtained hope, and I won't let the insanity of a desperate man interfere!"
Natsu easily moved through the attack. "Your hope..." He leaped over the attack. "...means turning the past into despair?!"
"Not everyone can be equally happy! Grow up, Natsu Dragneel!" Future Rogue shouted.
"Even if you're right, everyone has the right to choose the future! We're headin' for the future that we chose! Not the one you chose!" Natsu claimed.
"Natsu!" Atlas Flame called out.
"We don't have to know what tomorrow holds!" Natsu continued, joining with Atlas Flame's hellfire and slamming into Future Rogue. "That's why we can live for everything we're worth today!"
A huge sphere made of flames appeared.
"I have to confess something... I was going to kill you because I was angry with the way my Dad died. But I overheard what Anna-chan was saying to you. And what my Dad said." Kaira started to say. "And then... I finally understood why my Dad sacrificed his life in the future to save yours. I'm still going to make sure that doesn't happen, but in a different way."
"Siegrain... dies?" Erza asked, thinking back to the 'dream' that they had of Siegrain dying by the mini dragons. The look on Jellal's face told her he was thinking the same thing.
"Yes." Kaira responded. "One year from now, actually. There was a huge war with another continent going on... All of the guilds and wizards were fighting to defend Fiore. My Dad was powerless to defend himself."
Kaira recalls the argument between Jellal and Siegrain, it was also the last conversation the two of them had.
"Are you stupid?!" Jellal shouted in anger, causing Kagura and Erza to tense up. "Why the hell would you sacrifice your Magic to save me?"
"Because I didn't want you to die! Damn it, Jellal. Look at me!" Siegrain shot back. "I nearly got killed twice - the second time I actually did die - and you did everything back then to make sure that I didn't. You're allowed to be selfish, but I can't?"
"That's not what I'm saying-"
"Sure as hell sounds like it." Siegrain scoffed. "I'm tired, Nii-san. I don't want to fight anymore."
Kaira frowned at the memory. "He sacrificed his Magic to save you, as well. So technically, he saved you twice. The second time, due to not having Magic, he ended up dying." She continued.
Jellal glanced down, not liking what he was hearing. "Jellal..." Erza mumbled.
The Celestial Spirits tried once more to attack the portal. "I've reached... my limit!" Lucy exclaimed as she and Yukino had their hands clasped together.
A large golden sphere soon shined brightly before it dispersed again. And still, the portal stood. Lucy collapsed to her knees.
"How can the portal be that strong?" Lucy asked herself.
"It hasn't mooved an inch..." Taurus stated.
An orange glow soon got everyone's attention. "Huh?" Yukino said in confusion.
Happy looked up to see a large flame sphere heading in their direction. "Get back! Everyone, get away from the portal!" He warned as everyone did so.
The flame sphere soon crashed, making Lucy get thrown back as Happy, Carla, and Lily ducked. When the smoke cleared up, it was revealed that the Eclipse portal was destroyed as Future Rogue was knocked out.
"The portal is broken!" Happy cheered.
"Natsu!" Lucy exclaimed as Natsu breathed heavily.
"I don't believe it... A door made of Magnanium, destroyed..." Arcadios commented.
"What will happen now?" Hisui asked.
"We believe the portal in the future can't be used." Yukino replied.
"In other words, Rogue can't come back to this time period." Lily elaborated.
"History will return to normal." Carla added.
Mother Glare soon began to have a golden glow. "The dragon's body..." Happy noticed.
"It's glowing!" Lucy said.
Atlas Flame's body was glowing as well. "Are we going back to our own time?" He wondered.
All of the other dragons bodies were glowing as well.
"Running away with your tail between your legs?" Cobra taunted. "No..."
Zirconis's body glowed. "What is this?!"
"The dragon..." Laxus started to say.
"It's disappearing?!" Wendy finished.
"Humans did this?! Lowly humans did this?!" Zirconis exclaimed.
Hisui walked forward. "I'm sorry."
"It's still dangerous!" Wendy warned.
"Princess!" Arcadios called out.
"Hey!" Laxus said.
Hisui stopped in front of Zirconis. "I'm the one who constructed the time portal. I disrupted the natural flow of your time stream. You, who live 400 years in the past... and we, who live in the present... have no real reason to fight. I perverted nature."
"Who are you, wench?" Zirconis asked.
"Hisui E. Fiore."
"Hisui?"
"That's right. Hisui, or jade, the same color as your body." Hisui stated.
"The same, you say?" Zirconis quoted.
"The same." Hisui smiled.
"Stare..."
"Jade Dragon..." Hisui said.
"Jade Dragon... I kind of like the way that sounds. Wait a second! Dammit! I fell for it! I'm..." Zirconis's sentence was cut off as he disappeared completely into a ball of light as did Mother Glare.
The mini dragons vanished as well as the remaining dragons.
"Did we do it?" Sting asked.
"It looks like we won." Lector said.
"Fro thinks so, too."
"I won't forget you, Natsu... Dragneel..." Atlas Flame spoke before he vanished.
"Thanks, Uncle." Natsu thanked him.
"They're gone!" Lucy said in relief.
The rest of the little dragons disappeared. "The little ones are disappearing!" Max informed.
"Did we beat 'em?!" Warren asked.
"I don't know how, but it's over!" Macao cheered.
"It was Natsu-nii. I bet it was Natsu-nii!" Romeo claimed.
"The dragon vanished..." Gajeel muttered as Levy rushed up to him.
"You did it, Gajeel!" Levy cheered.
"Yeah. But..." Gajeel trailed off.
"This isn't satisfying." Cobra commented.
"None of the Dragon Slayers... were able to take down a dragon." Mavis muttered as she was levitating over Crocus.
"Pathetic, huh?" Sting questioned.
"Makes me sick of hearing the term 'Dragon Slayer.'" Rogue replied.
"It just goes to show how strong dragons are. And Acnologia is probably stronger than them."
"Yeah, well, forget him for now."
"Agreed. It doesn't feel like we won, but for now, the battle is over."
"We won." Sting and Rogue looked at each other. "We protected our comrades."
Sting grinned in response as Rogue returned it.
Kaira's body soon began glowing, getting Jellal and Erza's attention. "Your body..." Erza trailed off.
"The portal has been destroyed... I'm going back to my own time." Kaira explained.
"Kaira... Tell me who did it." Jellal spoke sternly. "Who kills my brother in the future?"
Kaira speaks a single name, causing both Jellal and Erza's eyes to widen.
"Him?!" Erza thought.
"...will be the one who kills him. Please... protect my Dad." Kaira said.
"I will." Jellal promised.
Kaira smiles. "Thank you..." She thanked him before vanishing completely.
Future Rogue's body was also glowing. "The Rogue I know ain't gonna become you." Natsu claimed.
"The shadows... The shadows try to consume me... They follow me around, wherever I go... and the day I lose Frosch is the day the shadows and I became one." Future Rogue said.
"Frosch ain't gonna die."
"A year from now. Be sure to tell me... to protect Frosch in one year." Future Rogue says a name, making Natsu's eyes widen. "...is going to kill Frosch."
With that, Future Rogue vanished, leaving Natsu to contemplate the information he heard.
In the palace hallways, Future Lucy's body glowed as well before it vanished.
She soon work up, being met with blue sky. She sat up, seeing she was in a golden grassfield.
"Where am I?" She asked herself.
Lucy looks at her hand to see her Fairy Tail mark was on her hand, making her sigh in relief.
She begins walking through the field, looking around.
"Hey! Lucy!"
Lucy turned around at the sound of someone familiar calling her name.
"Get over here!"
"We're all here!"
Lucy teared up as Natsu rushed forward and grinned, holding out his hand.
"Come on, the adventure continues!" He exclaimed.
Tears fell from Lucy's face. "Okay!"
She takes Natsu's hand as they rushed towards their guildmates who were waiting for them.
In the present, the memo pad in Lucy's hand also glowed before vanishing, tears falling down her face as she touched her cheek with her fingertips.
"Tears..." She mumbled.
Lucy rushed forward towards Natsu, hugging him from behind and surprising him. Natsu looks up at the palace.
"What's wrong, Lucy?" He asked as the moon finally became normal.
"Nothing. Just a feeling... Thank you." She replied.
A/N: And that's a wrap on the Eclipse Arc!
Which battle do you guys think Siegrain sacrificed his Magic in that Kaira was referring to?
Thanks for reading!
~ Kaleb.
