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Weak...He's weak. We're strong. Finish him!

Nashi's grip on her head tightened as the voice's words echoed. It had been a few hours since Nashi had declined in Luke's request to continue fighting, but her brother respected her wishes to stop. Nashi had no idea what had happened. One minute, she recalled activating Holy White Fire Dragon Mode, and the next she was stumbling backwards as her father called out to her in panic. The only thing she did recall in between those events was the voice speaking to her.

Nashi had no doubt in her mind that the voice was her own. It may have been deeper and angrier than hers, but it was hers. So why did she feel so uneasy? None of it made any sense to Nashi at all, and she hated it.

"She's been sitting in the corner for a while." Ultear commented as they all watched Nashi sitting in the corner of the guild with her head in her hands. "Do you think she's okay?"

"Something happened." Simon said. "She's being incredibly despondent, which isn't her style at all." Drake kept his eyes on Nashi for a moment, a rock in his stomach. During the fight, Nashi had started to grow...strange. Her attacks had grown more vicious and full of raw power, more than usual. At first Drake thought nothing of it, but then it happened.

His blood had run cold when he saw Nashi's eyes.

They had been empty, soulless. As he watched her advance on her brother, it seemed as if she'd no longer cared for anything other than destroying Luke.

The same look she'd had in her eyes during the Silverridge incident.

"I got him." Drake closed his eyes as the memories of the event flew through his mind. Nashi, surviving a point blank Etherion explosion, had said those words and then collapsed. But the feeling of his blood going cold and the soulless glare of the beast Nashi had been in that moment...was eerily similar to now.

"Someone should go and see if she's okay." Simon continued. "She's not looking so hot." Drake stood without even thinking, making them look at him.

"I'll talk to her." he said, turning on his heel and making for Nashi. As he approached her, he saw her head move up and bit and see his approach, and she lifted her head fully to look at him.

"Hey." She said, sounding upset. Drake nodded.

"Hey." He said, sitting down next to her. Drake looked other out of the corner of his eyes and examined her as she stared down at the floor. Her eyes had returned to normal, and she seemed perfectly okay physically. She turned and caught him staring, but he held her gaze instead of looking away.

"What is it?" She asked. Drake kept an eye on her as he sighed.

"Are you okay?" He asked. Nashi watched him closely before she shrugged and looked back at the floor.

"I don't know." She said. "I mean, I'm fine. But..."

"But...?" Drake asked, hoping she'd continue. Eventually she looked back at him and met his gaze.

"I...Heard a voice." She explained. "My...My own voice."

"That's quite normal, Nashi."

"Not..." Drake's attempt at a joke seemed to frustrate her more than anything else. "Not my my voice, you idiot. It was deeper and angrier. It...It told me that Luke was weak and that we... We were strong."

We.

As in more then just Nashi.

Drake was unsure as to what he was supposed to say to soothe her worries. He himself felt worried for her, which was abnormal, but hearing a voice saying such things wasn't a good sign.

"Well, then what?"

"Nothing." Nashi answered. "It stopped talking and my memories draw a blank until my Dad yelled at me." Nashi met Drake's gaze again, looking frightened. "What the hell is happening?"

"I...I don't know, Nashi. I really don't." Nashi looked crestfallen at his answer, which made him feel bad. "Is this the first time it's happened? Do you regularly hear it?"

"No, this was the first time" She replied. "But I can't fathom why it happened."

Neither could he.

"I got him."

Drake shook his head and tried to forget about that. He had no explanation for why Nashi had experienced what she had, and he hoped she never did again for more than just her own sake.

"Hey, look at the bright side." He said. "You had Luke pinned in the corner." This caused a smile to crease Nashi's face.

"I guess so..." She said.

"Kid looked about done. Hell, who cares what the voice said if they were right?" Nashi snorted at this, making Drake smile. "So don't worry about it. We'll get some answers soon enough. Until then, ease up. I hate seeing you look so down."

"Yeah yeah..." Nashi said, sitting up a bit. "You're right. I'm dwelling on this a bit too much."

"Exactly." Drake said, before he put on a concerned face. "Like whether or not we'll have to sleep at our parents house. Cause somehow i doubt our dorms are still ours, twenty years behind on rent." This made Nashi laugh. It was a single laugh, but it eased the tension in their conversation.

"You have a point." She said, standing up. "Last thing I want is that. God forbid."

"Me either." He stood as well, and Nashi sighed.

"No biggie...Right?"

"Absolutely." He agreed. Nashi smiled at him.

"...Thanks." She said. "For cheering me up."

"I'm used to it." Nashi punched him in the shoulder, making him feign injury.

"Anyway, what were you guys talking about over there?" She asked. Drake shrugged.

"Nothing much." He answered. "Just sitting around." Drake neglected to say they'd been talking about her. No reason to remind her already. Nashi nodded.

"Alright, well, let's find something to do. I'm done sulking."

"Good."

"You want another punch?"

"If you hit like the first punch, sure."

Natsu watched Nashi and Drake walk back over to Ultear and Simon, his eyes glued to his daughter. He kept a very close eye on her since the fight had ended, which was good seeing as he was downright terrified he'd been too late. But so far, all seemed normal.

"Natsu." Natsu hard Lucy speak his name from across the table, but he neglected to look at her right away. "Natsu." Again he heard her, but did not acknowledge it. "Natsu!" Natsu finally turned his head slightly to regard his wife carefully. The look on her face was apprehensive at best. "Please talk to me." She said. "Tell me what's happening." Natsu stared at her for a moment before he returned his eyes to Nashi as she talked to the others.

"...She nearly turned." he said. "During the fight. I...I felt it happen. That's why I collapsed. The last time I collapsed like that was when she was at Silverridge." Lucy did not respond to him immediately, and Natsu sighed. "I feared this was a possibility."

"What's a possibility?" Natsu turned back to her.

"Nashi isn't powerful enough to control the beast inside." He told her. "If combat gets to heated..." Natsu forced out a laugh. "I guess you could say the beast gets fired up."

"Is it a separate entity?" Lucy asked, also watching Nashi now. Natsu looked back at his daughter, not answering. Truthfully Natsu had no idea if the beast Nashi had was a separate entity or not. Because she was half human it was entirely possible that his genes, the ones tainted with Etherious, had formed a separate identity within his daughter. One that vied for control of the body.

Or, it wasn't. Due to the nature of Etherious, Natsu wasn't sure what Nashi's form was like. Seeing as it had only been truly released once, and the man who had been on the receiving end no longer lived, he had no idea of knowing.

"I just pray she gets more powerful." Natsu whispered. "The longer she goes in this state, the less control she's going to have over that thing in combat."

"Jut combat?"

"Don't know. Remember the Games years ago? It protected her from harm when she fought Michael and Blake, replenished her magic. If it continues, it'll get to the point where it'll seize control from her whenever it feels justified in doing so."

"Mom, Dad." Natsu's attention was divided as he turned to find Luke walking up to them.

"Hi Luke." Lucy greeted warmly, Natsu merely grunting. "What is it?" Luke rubbed the back of his head and sighed.

"What happened out there?" He asked. "Calling out to Nashi like that...I'm just confused." Natsu slowly looked over at Lucy, who merely returned his look.

Luke was not Etherious.

Natsu was confident he could say that truthfully. Luke, unlike Nashi, had not been conceived before Natsu sealed away his own powers. Because of this, Natsu was certain there was no way the Etherious gene had been passed to him.

"That being said, it was still the families, the guilds, biggest secret. Natsu wasn't sure speaking a word would be good until it was absolutely needed. Much like Lumen Histiore, knowing of Natsu's power and subsequently Nashi's was currently not priority.

"Not sure what you mean." Natsu said finally. "Just wanted to tell you guys that you needed to restart. So not fair you started a sibling brawl without me there." Natsu wasn't sure his bluff had worked at first, but he sighed internally when Luke laughed.

"So true." he said. "Sorry pops, I was just to excited to wait. Plus you know how Mom gets during shopping trips."

"Boy do I ever..." Natsu muttered, earning himself a glare from Lucy. Lucy then turned to Luke.

"Anyways sweetheart, why don't you go and talk with your sister? I'm sure you still have a lot of catching up to do." Luke nodded slowly, thinking about it.

"I suppose you're right." He said. "I'll go ask them if they want to go hang out or whatever." Natsu watched Luke wander over to Nashi and the others. A conversation started, which was interrupted as Kaida and Luke's other friends joined them. After another few minutes, the group of ten left the guild, laughing about something.

"So." Lucy said. "What do we do?" Natsu watched as his daughter smiled at Luke, before he looked down at the ground, clenching his hands together.

"I...I don't know."

Nashi sighed as she leaned back on the bench, the others all around her. They'd spend the remainder of the day hanging out around the city with Luke, Kaida and their friends, just trying to have fun. And overall, it was pretty fun.

"It's getting dark." Ultear noted, as they watched the sun staring to set in the distance. "We going to sleep outside again tonight guys?"

"Don't see a point." Cody answered. "Go to the guild hall."

"Better than out here." Simon agreed. Kaida looked over at Drake.

"You're going to go home, right?" She asked, making Drake shrug.

"I suppose I can." He said. "The couch sure as hell looks comfy." This made everyone chuckle. Lilly yawned.

"I'm going on home." She said. "Mom wanted me home for something, so I got to go."

"I'll go with you!" Jason shouted.

"No, I will!" Nashi watched with a pained expression as the twins fought over Lilly. It had been happening all afternoon and showed no signs of stopping. Lilly just stood there smiling before she turned on her hell and left. The twins soon realized she'd started to walk away, and clambered after her.

"Does that always happen?" Ultear asked. Kaida sighed.

"You have no idea." She replied.

"They reek of desperation regardless." Drake said. "It's sad really." Simon snorted.

"Right." he said. "Because the guy who has women throw themselves at him gets to talk about desperation." Drake rolled his eyes as the group collectively chuckled. Cody then started to walk away.

"I've got stuff to do as well. I'll see you all later."

"Bye." Luke said, waving to him. Kaida stood as well.

"I'm going." She said. "I've got to get some stuff ready for Drake to sleep on the couch."

"Just give him your bed, Kaida." Luke said. "Oh, my mistake. Your coffin standing in the corner of your dark torture chamber is what I meant to say" Kaida glared venomously at Luke.

"At least I'd keep my torture chamber organized, Luke." She shot back. "Your apartment is so unorganized you could have the One Magic hiding under a pair of pants and never know it."

"At least my room looks like a human being lives there, you clean freak."

"Guys, enough." Nashi said. "This is nothing to bicker about."

"You know," Kaida said. "It's sad Luke. Your sister is such an amazing person. Which genes did she get that you didn't?"

"Hm, yeah. Your brother seems like a pretty chill guy, whereas you're a fickle bitch."

"Guys." Drake said. "That's enough." Kaida shrugged and turned to walk off, leaving Luke looked pretty pissed off.

"That girl, I swear." He said. "Anyways, now what are we going to do?" Nashi shrugged.

"If everyone's preparing for bed, I should go and see if Mom and Dad will let me stay with them." She said. "I don't want to sleep on concrete again." Luke nodded before he smiled widely.

"No need! You can stay with me!" Nashi perked up at this and stared at her brother.

"For real?" She asked. Luke nodded.

"I've got a spare room you can have, if you want. What do you say?" Nashi didn't have to give it much thought before she smiled.

"Okay, sounds great!"

"Awesome!" Luke then slowly started to back up. "And uh...Despite what I say, Kaida's right...My place is a mess. So..." Nashi chuckled and waved him off.

"You've got forty-five minutes." She said. He nodded quickly and took off to clean his apartment, leaving Nashi with her friends from the past.

"Well," Simon said. "That was an eventful evening."

"Yeah." Ultear agreed. "They're pretty cool, all things considered."

"You think the twins hit on Lilly as much as Kaida and Luke fight?" Drake asked, making Nashi laugh.

"Nothing can top that." Nashi said. "They started an argument over ice cream that turned into a screaming fight." The group started to move through the city, discussing their night in deeper detail. As they reached the main street, however, Nashi saw two familiar faces moving towards them.

"Uh..." She said, catching the men's attention, and their eyes widened. "Katsuchi? Tetsu?" The names caught their attention, and Katsuchi broke into a grin.

"Holy shit!" he said. "The reports were right! You guys did show up at the Games!"

"Wish we could've been there." Tetsu said as they walked up to them. "Would've been quite the sight."

"It was." Simon said. "What are you guys doing here?" Katsuchi frowned quizzically.

"Were you not told?" Both men flashed their shoulders, and Nashi smiled when she saw the Fairy Tail insignia emblazoned there.

"You guys joined the guild?" She asked. "That's awesome! What about Azzie?" Both men's smiles turned into frowns.

Silence came over everyone, and Nashi made a face.

"What?" She asked. "What's the matter?" Katsuchi sighed.

"Well..."

The group was sitting around the park near the huge Sola tree, silence clinging to them like a blanket.

"Azzie's dead. Kronos ordered her killed and...They followed through."

Nashi reran those words through her head a few more times, getting more sad every time she did. Azzie was dead. Kronos had done it.

"...This sucks." Ultear said. "She's gone."

"Yep." Drake replied hollowly from the corner of the park. He'd placed himself there a while ago. Nashi didn't want to disturb him.

"Well, what can we really do about it?" Simon asked. "It happened ten years ago." Nashi didn't know what to say. She really didn't.

"I'll tell you what we can do."

Nashi had not heard that voice for a few days. Looking up, Nashi saw Damien walking down the steps of the park, hanging his head so that his bangs obscured his eyes.

"Damien?" Ultear asked. "Where wee you? You've been gone for days now."

"I know." He said. "I'm sorry I got...distracted." He sounded so hollow, yet determined. "So, you guys want to know what we're going to do?"

"Enlighten us." Nashi said. Damien looked up a bit, his determined look growing even more apparent.

"We're going to go home." He said. "To our own time, when he disappeared twenty years ago." The silence that followed was full of uncertainty, and Nashi knew full well why. Damien's proposal was all good, but the problem was how.

"Damien." Ultear said. "I told you already. There's no science to this time jumping crap. It's all random."

"So?" Damien said. " We must get there at some point, right?"

"That's not the point."

"That is the point!" Damien shouted, startling them. "That's the whole point! Why shouldn't we try?"

"Spending the rest of our lives time jumping?" Simon asked. "No thanks."

"It can't possibly take that long." He replied. "We'll get there eventually if Ul keeps changing how much she tries to magnify Nashi's power."

"I mean sure, but..." Ultear said. "This is a big if, Damien."

"...Can't you guys sense it?" He asked weakly. "All the pain and suffering us disappearing caused? our families? Our friends? All of them? Or am I the only one that saw it?"

"We all saw it." Nashi defended. "So?" At this, Nashi saw it.

In his right hand, Damien was clutching a piece of paper. She had no idea what was on it or why he had it, but his grip on it was rather tight.

"All of this." Damien said. "The pain...The sorrow...Azzie...Elise's hunt for Kronos and the pain it caused her and others...We can reset all of it if we go back. We change history for the better if we do this! Is that not worth the effort?!"

"Of course it is, but..." Drake shrugged. "It's all at random Damien, what if we go to far backwards and mess up one of our births or something? Like really..."

"...Nashi." Damien said, making her look up. "You could be there for Luke when he's born. You could be the big sister you were supposed to be. Drake, same goes for you and Kaida." Both Nashi and Drake looked down at this. "Ultear, you could prevent your mother from so much pain. And we all know everyone suffers when Juvia's sad. Simon, same goes for you. How do you think Jellal and Erza felt these past twenty years?" Both of them too looked down. Damien sighed.

"And me...My mom already lost her daughter, and then her son for so long. I will not force my mother to have those memories. If I can rewrite that, I'll go to hell and back to do it. Who else?"

Silence greeted Damien's question.

Until Simon stood.

"Let's do this." He said. "We're going to change things." After a few more seconds, Drake and Nashi stood.

"We got this." Drake said, smirking. "We've done near impossible things before."

"We'll do fine." Nashi agreed. "Lady Luck seems to like us." The four who had stood looked over at Ultear, who still stared at the ground. After another few seconds, she sighed and stood.

"I feel bad for forcing everyone to sit through twenty years of my mother being sad." She said, getting laughs. "So yeah, fuck it." Ultear grinned. I'll never say this again guys, but let's change history."

Jellal watched Macbeth work on the airship's Super Archive, as he had been for the last few days nonstop. They'd inputted practically millions of variable into the calculations, and they still had not gotten the results they sought.

"What time did they disappear again?" Macbeth asked.

"Must have been around five o'clock." Jellal replied. "Bring it back a few seconds though." Macbeth worked silently, and Jellal watched the calculations work tirelessly. They'd been at it for so long, he just wanted this to work. If it could, they could effectively.

BEEP BEEP!

"Jellal..." Macbeth said, backing up. "We...We did it." Jellal ran his eyes over the calculations, triple checked it, and then smiled.

"Erigor!" He shouted. "Make way for Fairy Tail. We've done it.

"On it." Erigor said from the airships control dashboard. Jellal looked back at the calculations and smiled.

"We did it. If Ultear magnifies Nashi's power by that variable...They'll return to the time they disappeared, with only a few seconds having passed."

Nashi yawned as the sun hit her in the face. She'd gone to bed in Luke's apartment the night before after agreeing to try and travel back to their own time period. Her back was killing her.

Must have been the bed.

Getting up, Nashi made for where Luke had told her the bathroom was. Once she was done making herself look presentable, she'd sit Luke down and tell him they were leaving. It was for the best.

Finding the bathroom and finding it closed, Nashi knocked on it.

"Out in a sec." Luke called, so Nashi decided to wait. She played with her fingers until the door opened, revealing Luke dressed for the day. He smiled at her. Mornin' sis..."

His smile turned into a look of shock.

"What?" Nashi asked, confused at his look. Then again, her voice sounded weird too. Was she sick?

"...Nashi?"

"Yeah?"

"Please look in the mirror and tell me nothing's wrong." Nashi walked past him into the bathroom and looked at the mirror confused.

Nashi's well developed young adult features stared back at her.

Her scream must have woken the entire neighborhood.

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