In distant space, a human-like man with a white wrap around his head, and a light-red shirt stood in the depths of space, the rest of his body from the waist down, phasing into a ghastly form as if he was some sort of phantom. He was rubbing his chin and looking down at three unusual figures in front of him.
In front of the colossal man was a golden yellow plane and these three figures stood on this yellow illuminated plane. The platform was transparent but appeared to be solid, and the three figures stood on it with no problem at all.
"Fine. You've made your point, just wait till I've wrapped up the Alvarez arc and then you may start your birthday bash," The colossal man said before disappearing into golden sparkles that soon dispersed throughout the space they were in.
"Yes!" A mini version of Natsu Dragneel thrust his arms above him.
This Natsu was Chibi in size, had pink hair, and wore the sleeveless jacket that Natsu normally sported along with white baggy pants, and slippers but his proportions were rather… odd. He had thin arms that ended at big round nubs that seemed to be his hands, and no noticeable toes, just round feet. As for his expression, his eyes were a simple black line that were slanted-tilts that helped express his permanent, giant white grin.
"How you managed to persuade Hiro-san is beyond me. Anyone could tell that this is the stupidest idea you've ever had," A mini version of Gray Fullbuster turned to the pink-haired figure.
This Gray was also Chibi in size and had no different shapes from the original Gray Fullbuster except for being a mini version of him. He did not have the noticeable Fairy Tail guild mark on his chest and seemed to just have a black snowflake on his small chest. This was accompanied by black shorts and no footwear.
"Not as bad as that Dragonization pitch," A mini version of Lucy Heartfilia turned to Chibi Gray with a gentle smile on her face. She was also Chibi in size and looked no different than the original counterpart from the main world.
"Stupid, maybe. Except it ended up BEING canon in the end," Chibi Gray's shoulders fell as he let out a dreadful sigh.
"Come on, it was pretty cool seeing it on the big screen!" Natzu grinned earnestly, throwing his arms up with a triumphant cheer, "Besides, all of this is for my big birthday bash!"
"What do you plan on doing for that, Natzu?" Chibi Lucy asked.
"Hee Hee," Natzu grinned from ear to ear, he elevated from the illuminated platform, and once Chibi Gray and Lucy followed suit, the platform disappeared. The three drifted through the starry abyss as Natzu continued to snicker and roll around aimlessly in space.
"Are you going to tell us or what?" Chibi Lucy raised her brow in anticipation.
"I plan to do a lot!" Natzu continued grinning, he made a click with his hand and the three immediately appeared in an archives room - a library of sorts.
Each shelf was riddled with books that had different variants of the Fairy Tail Guild mark on it, the shelves were patterned with bright white stars and midnight-coloured backgrounds, they almost looked liquid-like instead of solid and still.
The three floated past these shelves and ended up in the middle of the room where a Chibi version of Erza Scarlet sat with a typewriter in front of her. She looked no different to the original Erza Scarlet, except she was wearing a white shirt tucked into a blue skirt and appeared to have no footwear. She looked completely knackered yet dedicated to her work; her hair sticking out here and there, black shadows under her eyes, and her legs swinging back and forth under the table, showing how excited she was with her writing.
The table she was on was a Grand roundtable that was completely pitch black in the middle with golden outlines on the side of it, the table had nothing holding it up and remained levitating.
As Natzu, Chibi Gray, and Chibi Lucy approached the table, Chibi Erza glanced up from her typewriter, "Is it time for the birthday bash?"
"Almost! Just need to send out the invites," Natzu floated by her excitedly, "Are you done writing that 'Dragon Guard' timeline?"
Chibi Erza hummed excitedly, "I finished that a century ago, I am now just completing the 'Fairy Tail Mafia' timeline,"
"Another one?" Chibi Lucy raised a brow as she stood beside Chibi Gray.
Chibi Gray thrust his hands in his shorts and shot Chibi Erza a quick glare, "Is it another Natsu x Lucy thing-"
"It is EXACTLY that." Chibi Erza pointed up with a giant grin on her face.
"Why do I have a feeling that it will be oddly, and stupidly ridiculous?" Chibi Lucy sighed.
"What are you saying? Erza makes the BEST stories, we wouldn't have all these timelines if it wasn't for her," Natzu turned around to the shelves behind him, opening his arms wide at the bustling books that sat on their shelves. He turned back to Chibi Gray & Lucy, "And what timelines have you two made?"
"Eh, 'Demon Lord Fullbuster'," Chibi Gray shrugged his shoulders.
"And I made 'The Boss Lady's Bodyguard', remember?" Chibi Lucy pointed at her chest as Natzu just grinned at the two of them.
"Two timelines versus the thousands that Erza has made," Natzu grinned, "Seems pretty lazy to me,"
"Ugh, you know how hard it is to write a damn timeline, right? Don't start comparing us, we have other duties to perform too, like I've got to put timelines on hold or discontinue them because Miss CUPCAKE over there just ain't 'feeling it' anymore," Chibi Gray retorted.
"Perfection is key, Gray. That's how we get the best outcomes," Chibi Erza said smugly, shooting Gray an innocent wide-eyed smile with sparkles emanating off of her, which made the black-haired Chibi grumble.
"And I have to monitor out-of-verse activities, so I just haven't had the time to create any timelines," Chibi Lucy added.
Natzu's grin remained permanent and still before he spoke up once more, "Ehh, seems like a bunch of excuses to me,"
He made his way to the table and rested his rounded hand on the glass that immediately came to life! The books on the shelves around them moved from their resting places and darted into the giant black table, instead of bouncing off of it, they were consumed by this dark abyss until there were no more books on the shelves.
Silence filled the area, the four remained still until Natzu took his hand off the table and Chibi Lucy raised her arms, almost immediately, a giant white Fairy Tail Logo appeared amidst the abyss and a whirlwind blew out of it along with numerous flashing stars that began to appear above the logo, rings upon rings of galaxies and universes sprung up around them as they casually began to waltz the area and the Fairy Tail logo expanded to accompany this rather large Table.
A subtle white noise filled the area, as each of them walked around the space, each world around them had the Fairy Tail mark on it, each differing from the original one they knew all too well - whether it was a different colour or a slightly different shape of the logo entirely.
The four of them appeared before the one that they knew all too well, the one created by their creator.
The MAIN Fairy Tail World - Its Earthland silently rotated on its axis as usual as they surrounded it with slight awe.
Chibi Lucy hummed happily as she glanced down at the world in front of her, "To think that this is where it all began, and if Hiro-san gave up on it like the others..."
Chibi Erza glanced over at the other worlds behind them, "Then there'd be no Fairy Tail Universe, or... Fairy Tail for that matter,"
"Heehee! Time to get this party started," Natzu grinned eagerly as he clasped his hands together, and a small plushie of himself grew between his soft hands and he held it up.
"What the heck is that supposed to be?" Chibi Gray stared up at the weird-looking plush.
"The Invitations - we will plant these in every world." Natzu brought it over and held it out to them, "Now, Lucy and Gray, place your hand on it. I'm going to take a teensie-wincee bit of your power for this,"
"Why?" The two of them said in unison but did not hesitate to place their hands on the odd-looking plush.
"I need it to start my birthday bash, trust me on this.," Natzu chuckled.
A golden and blueish glow warped around their hands before it disappeared just as it had come. Natzu held it back up again, "Great! Lucy! Help me place this in every world,"
"It's your party, why am I doing it?" Chibi Lucy sighed heavily as Chibi Gray & Erza grinned beside her.
"Hee Hee!" Natzu grinned earnestly.
A year after the Alvarez War in the main Fairy Tail World...
"Delivery for Mr Natsu Dragneel!" A mage with a dark purple overcoat appeared from thin air near the guild doors.
"HOLY-!" Nab jumped at the appearance of the mage and fell onto his back.
The guild members of Fairy Tail were used to it at this point, a teleportation sorcerer appears with the mail and then disappears here and there - Nothing new.
Romeo turned around on the wooden stool and stood up to receive his role model's mail. But he halted once he saw the "supposed mail" was a cart of random books and equipment.
Romeo approached the man and the cart, "Uhh, are you sure this is for my big bro?"
"It's a delivery for Mr Dragneel, yes. Please make sure he receives it," The mage in purple repeated, and without any further details, the mage disappeared into thin air, leaving a glittering spark behind, detailing his departure.
Nab sat up and rubbed his head, "Man, I'll never get used to that guy,"
Mira approached the cart that the Delivery Mage left behind and tapped the side of her cheek, "I wonder what all of these are for,"
"Looks like old magic tools... very old ones," Romeo rested his hands on the rusted tools, some looking very peculiar in form, and some looking bland in general.
"Romeo, don't go digging into things you don't know," Macao appeared behind Romeo along with Wakaba and Cana in tow.
"If it's Natsu's stuff then just leave it for him to come back to," Cana rested a fist on her hip with a jug of booze occupying her other hand.
"I don't know, it looks quite fishy," Wakaba commented as he took out a book and flicked through it. The pages appeared blank at first but once the smoke from his cigar touched the pages, many random characters appeared on the page, their characters were nothing he had ever seen before.
This startled Wakaba who ended up dropping the book.
"Getting butter fingers, old man?" Cana grinned as Wakaba sighed and bent down to pick up the book once more.
Romeo dug deeper into the cart, most of what he encountered were old, rusty, and somewhat broken souvenirs that could go for a good price at a Sorcerer's Antique place until he came across a weird item deep within the cart.
He pulled it out of the pile of tools, leaving the other disregarded tools to clatter against the wooden boards beneath his shoes. He wiped the dust off of the tool and blew away the dusty contents.
This tool… wasn't a tool at all.
It was a plushie of Natsu's face, but with a harmless yet creepy grin on it while the eyes remained as slits.
"What the heck is that supposed to be?" Macao approached Romeo and gently took the plushie out of his son's hands to take a look at.
"It's a plushie," Mira said happily.
"Is Natsu playing tricks on us or something?" Macao sighed as he threw it above his head a little, just for Romeo to catch it.
"You're giving him way too much credit, where would Natsu be able to find the time to make that thing, much less be able to make it at all," Cana snickered before taking another swig at her booze.
"Looks pretty cool, nonetheless-" Romeo said before the mystical item in his hand began to glow, taking all the members in the guild by complete surprise.
"Romeo!" Macao called out before he too, along with Cana, Wakaba, Mira and the rest of the guild were engulfed in a giant white light that expanded past the guild.
It was too fast.
Too sudden.
The white light surprised those who walked past it before they were also consumed by the light, and soon, Magnolia was completely overrun by a giant booming light. Almost as if on cue, other booms of lights appeared across Earthland, expanding past the landmasses that they appeared on and taking everything in the bright illumination.
No one saw it coming.
No one could escape.
Somewhere in Earthland…
"Happy! Map!" Natsu exclaimed as he ran ahead of the team.
"Aye!" The blue Exceed happily cheered as he pulled the map out of Lucy's backpack.
The Celestial mage was talking to the Sky Dragon Slayer, the two chatting away about the new adventure they were about to embark on.
"That idiot... Don't run off too far," The Ice Mage grunted as he walked beside Erza who effortlessly dragged the massive wagon behind her.
"What's this, Gray? Acting like you're his father now?" Erza teased as she chuckled at Natsu and Happy's childish antics.
"Pfft, I'm just making it known. The last thing we need is this idiot dragging us into another one of his dumb acts, like always," Gray tutted, his memory being filled to the brim with the many times that Natsu got them into twisted situations.
Before starting the legendary 100 Years Quest, he wants to AT LEAST get some rest in before they begin whatever the hell Gildarts couldn't finish.
"We'll head to one of these taverns first for some food," Natsu pointed at the map as Happy hovered beside his head, also taking a gander at the crumpled, brownish paper.
"Aye! I would really like some fishies in my tummy," Happy rubbed his furry belly.
Natsu closed the map and stuffed it into his backpack, "Then it's settled! To a restaurant!"
"Did you two just decide something for all of us again?" Carla placed her hands on her hips and raised a brow at the two - Happy specifically.
"Sorry, but we were starving~" Natsu rubbed his belly.
"We could rest our feet a bit," Erza chimed in.
Gray hummed, his hands in his coat pocket as, "You're all tired already, I can keep going-."
GRUUWLLL.
Gray grunted as he rested his hand over his stomach, "I mean... I could get something to eat too-."
Suddenly, a large crackle was heard in the skies, a booming groan followed suit, it was much similar to…
"Acnologia!" Natsu and Wendy said in unison, their Dragon hearing picking up the sound before the others.
"What?" Gray said as he covered his ears from the large booming sound.
The two Dragon Slayers stopped in their tracks, their eyes shifting up to the sky, searching for the large Dragon, or any Dragon for that matter.
They knew that they had slain Acnologia, but natural fear of something that has died still keeps one on edge. They'd be fools to not at least stay vigilant.
For a moment, all there was, was the gentle breeze before a giant white light boomed and expanded in an area not too far from them, the sudden explosion sent a massive gust of wind at the mages who flew back wildly into the air as they were able to get a view on what was happening to their world.
"What's going on?!" Gray yelled aloud as Erza readied her blade. Lucy rested her hand on her keys as Natsu ignited his fists. They all looked at the giant balls of light that were filling up their world and covering everything.
Erza and Gray landed first, perfectly skidding across the ground as they immediately stood up to remain vigilant. Lucy and Wendy landed next, falling flat on their stomachs and letting out a small groan as the Exceeds landed softly on top of them.
Natsu landed harshly against the dusty ground, his feet perfectly straight as a small crater erupted below him. His scarf wandered in the breeze as he glanced up at the colossal bright lights.
"What's going on...?" He murmured to himself.
Suddenly, the sounds of bodies hitting the ground alerted Lucy, Wendy, Natsu, Happy, and Carla.
Erza and Gray lay lifeless on the ground as a figure stood before them, wearing a long white gown with one side being held up by their right shoulder and his upper left torso remaining exposed, a red sash tightly wrapped around his waist, and black boots that poked out from beneath his gown, his hair was…
Pink.
His eyes were...
Onyx.
A grin was present, and as sharp as ever as he stared down at the others.
"Hello…" The figure spoke then disappeared, reappearing behind Lucy and Wendy who he tried to touch but the two jumped away and skidded towards Natsu, "Hmm, quick."
Happy and Carla floated above the group who were astonished by the figure in front of them.
"N-Natsu!" Happy called out. The so-called other Natsu stood in place, smiling at the group, his intentions unknown, but his smile was definitely not with good intentions.
"Something feels weird about his magic power..." Natsu thought before he spoke out, "HEY! Are you behind all of this?"
Surprisingly, the figure spoke, but not without adding a very smug tone to his response, "Hmm, maybe,"
Almost on cue, Wendy got into a stance, along with Lucy taking on her Star Dress: Leo Form.
"We don't know what that light is about, so we should get to the skies as quickly as possible," Lucy spoke up as she glanced back at the white light that was fast approaching them, "Happy, Carla, you two focus on getting Erza and Gray,"
"Let's take down this jerk," Natsu punched his palm with a small blaze of fire erupting between his fist and palm.
"Aye Sir!" Lucy and Wendy exclaimed as the group split up, with Lucy running to the left side and Wendy running to the right side.
They circled the figure whose eyes followed Wendy then darted to Lucy, as he did so, Natsu wasted no time rushing towards him, throwing his fist back to aim at the figure - with quick succession, Lucy and Wendy also lunged at the figure and threw a kick that the figure easily...
Blocked.
The figure had both his arms and a knee raised.
His knee to block Natsu's fist, and his arms to block both Wendy and Lucy's kicks. First, Lucy backed off of the figure and then Wendy who went back for another kick that the figure had to block again with the same arm, which made Natsu jump back and hit him with an iron fist this time.
"FIRE DRAGON! IRON FIST!" Natsu roared, landing a powerful punch at the figure, a gust of wind blew from the figure's back as a small dent in the ground crackled and puffed up at them with small waves of dust. The figure had used his left arm to block but was still knocked back by the impact, his body being flung back into the air before crashing against the ground and bouncing off it once more.
Natsu landed perfectly and sprinted forward to catch up with him and Wendy got back to her feet and followed suit.
In the meantime, Happy and Carla flew over them towards Gray and Erza to aid them and see if they could wake up, but once they got to them and tried to shake them awake, the two mages wouldn't budge.
"No time for nap time, you guys! Wake up!" Happy shook Gray's shoulder faster than before.
"They aren't getting up, we will just have to carry them," Carla said before sprouting out her wings and lifting Erza off the ground.
"Mhmm," Happy sprouted out his wings also.
The figure purposely fell back and forth until he was close to where the Exceeds were so that he could intercept them too. He skidded on his hands and feet and pushed himself off during this momentum so that he could add to it without much delay.
Happy glanced up at the figure and squealed at the figure who was racing quickly towards them.
The figure raised his right hand back and a black cloud with purple flowing flames appeared in his hand before he was caught around the neck by a black noose. His momentum was easily halted as he glanced back at Lucy who had now taken on her Star Dress: Taurus Form, her whip was strongly holding him down at this point.
"Nice one, Luce," Natsu grinned as he jumped up with Wendy, back to back, the two shifted a leg forward; Natsu using his right, and Wendy using her left, flames and wind enveloped them both with Wendy's wind expanding the flames that surrounded them like a falling meteor.
"FIRE & SKY DRAGON: TWIN CLAW!" The two shouted together as they rained down on the figure, thrusting their feet to his face and crashing down into the ground, causing a giant pillar of flames and dust to spring around them and the surrounding area.
The two Dragon Slayers jumped out of the dust cloud and landed together, staring at the pillar of dusty clouds.
Lucy returned her whip to her side whilst Natsu sighed aloud and glanced back at the massive clouds of light behind them that were quickly approaching, "We need to get in the air now,"
Happy and Carla were already ascending into the sky with Gray and Erza in hand. Happy cheerfully smiled at the three below,"Ready when you guys are,"
Carla lightly huffed, "Quickly, before we get caught in that light-"
Just then, from the dust cloud below them, the figure sprung up and caught Carla by her tail, and instantly, her eyes went blank and she fell from the sky, letting go of Erza and landing face forward.
"!" Natsu, Lucy, and Wendy were alerted the minute the figure appeared.
"Carla!" Happy shouted out and the figure reached out for the Blue Exceed who darted left and tried to go higher.
But the figure also caught him by the tail and proceeded to swing him around before letting go, thus smashing both Gray and Happy to the ground near the three.
"I only need one of you," The figure landed on the ground, facing the three mages once more. The colossal balls of light boomed once more behind him, getting closer, and closer as he smiled at them.
The figure slammed his fists into the ground and immediately, black and purple pillars of flames rose around him and began to erupt around the three mages who were somewhat blocked from one another.
Lucy looked around for a moment from within her small cavern of space before a hand reached out of the pillar of flames and tried to grab at her but she ducked quickly and kicked at the arm with a 'Lucy Kick', then the figure appeared from within the pillar and emerged out of it with a very creepy grin, the edge of his lips etched into his dimples and his eyes crumpled into thin gaps, his white teeth as sharp as a Dragons.
"I like you," He said before pinching at her cheek and before she could reluctantly pull him off, she had already collapsed, with her eyes going blank.
Meanwhile, Wendy was already on her way to escaping as she sent a whirlwind of air that pushed the flame pillars away and created a tornado of flailing flames, that rose above her, but she wasn't aware of the rushing figure who lunged at her, and palmed her face to the ground, instantly sending her into a slumber like the others.
The figure stood up slowly and gently glanced at Natsu who was not impressed in the slightest.
"I'm fired up now," Natsu ran at the figure, lunging his fist back and throwing it at the figure in a quick fashion, he landed the blow with the figure's face going sideways as Natsu's fist collided with his face, the skin of the figure's face surrounded Natsu's fist as it vibrated and sent the figure across the ground.
The figure came to a complete stop, the ground torn up as Natsu ran at him once more, "FIRE DRAGON…"
"Not yet." The figure spoke as he clasped his hands together.
Just there, a giant pillar of light surrounded the two, whilst the rest of Earthland had blotches of white light forming around, in the sky, on the ground, and much more.
Natsu was frozen within the air, and within the pillar of light with the mysterious figure. The two began to levitate with Natsu staring helplessly at the figure, his teeth gritted with absolute anger rising in his belly.
Natsu uttered, "Who are you?"
The figure smiled at him, "It's obvious, ain't it? I'm Natsu Dragneel,"
The two began to dissipate within the thin light, their bodies crumbling away as Natsu gritted his teeth in complete disbelief, he looked down at where his friends lay motionless as the blotches of light got closer to their bodies.
"Erza! Gray! Wake up!?" He shouted.
"Happy! Carla! Wendy!" But no matter how loud he shouted, their bodies remained still and the blotches of light rapidly approached them.
"LUCY!" Natsu roared aloud but even the Celestial Mage remained motionless.
His whole body crumbled, and his eyes were the last to crumble away with the light.
And in turn, the entirety of Earthland soon becomes enveloped in a bright.
White.
Light.
-TO BE CONTINUED-