Karna walked through the castle as he met each person on the way. Many of them seemed haggard and tired but perked up the moment they found out Karna was alright. Karna could have sworn Natsu was crying but Natsu just turned his head away when asked about it.
Gajeel seemed to have let out a breath of relief the moment he realised Karna was here. Though he only nodded from a distance as he saw him appear with the guild members.
As he began walking, he came across Ur.
"Damn, you're alive kid" she said as she suddenly began moving in another direction.
"Where are you running off to now" Karna asked seeing the suddenness in which Ur was running away.
"The others and Ultear and hunting the entire army because you went missing. I'm going to call them back" She said as she suddenly created an ice hummingbird double the size of Elfman and flew out through a window.
'Her ice magic increased. I never saw her create something that can fly before' Karna thought as he began to walk towards the laboratory where the others told him that Cana will be. He knew out of all of them, she will be worried the most.
The shifting of dimensions had cut off the connections between both of their tattoos. And because of this world's dwindling Ethernano, their tattoos were still not able to connect while they are in this world even if they recover the magic within their bodies. So he was sure Cana would have been the most worried of them all. He still remembered their last conversation in which she stated that she was worried about Karna's suicidal moves at every problem that they had faced in their life.
And he didn't even have any need to reach the laboratory as he saw the caramel skinned brunet running towards him. He can see the exhaustion in her eyes as well as the hope in them as well.
There was no stopping as she jumped in his arms and began hugging him tightly. Sensing her emotions, he hugged her back just as tightly if not more. Even though it has only been a few days, for a moment both of them felt as if they were meeting each other after a long time.
"Where were you?" she asked while not relaxing her hold.
"Back home actually, Incursio had dragonslayer properties. Plus since I was in a coma, Mystogan was not able to find me moving through the dense fog now covering Magnolia" Karna replied as he slowly patted her back to calm her down. He was able to feel that her heartbeats were even more elevated than normal. Plus he was also able to feel that her weight had reduced by a lot. Clear cut signs of hunger and malnutrition.
"When was the last time you ate something?" Karna asked. And a sudden growl was the reply he got for the question. Karna laughed slightly as he was able to feel Cana heat up in embarrassment at the sound.
"Come on, I haven't eaten anything for something lets cook something up" Karna said as he moving towards the direction where he can smell the food.
Within an hour, Cana managed to eat a sizable portion of the food Karna was able to find and fell asleep on his lap while tightly holding onto his hand.
While eating, Cana had only talked to him normally by mentioning all the things that happened in this world. She never came close to the tense situations that they were supposed to talk about right now.
'She seems to be trying her best to postpone the intense discussions and have a bit of normalcy for now, but it also feels like she is getting used to the fact about me ending up in situations where my life is being brought closer to death again and again' Black lines formed as Karna thought like this 'No idea whether I should be happy or sad about this. Lets just put it in the back of my mind and think about it in the future'
He decided but paused himself as he realised something.
'Thinking about it now, how many things have I actually put away to deal with in the future' Karna thought as he looked into his mind palace. It did not take him long to find the answer. Though the answer was not something that he had expected to see. He sighed as he looked at the long list of things he had put away to complete later.
He felt like kicking the past versions of himself for getting him so much work and at the same time felt like ignoring it and pushing it on to the future version of him.
"Damn it" he muttered in his mind as he began categorising each of the tasks he still has to complete. Even though they were not system issued one's, they were required to be completed if he wanted a chance at beating the original timeline of this world.
Karna looked at the immediate things he had to complete right now.
"The S class trials will beginning in a few weeks, so I need to be prepared to be stranded in the island for seven years. Even though the spell I got as a reward will help the people who are trapped in the island, I need to be prepared for those who are left behind in the guild when we leave.
Even though it might not have looked like it, Fairy Tail still had many strong wizards who would not have allowed the guild to be in the same situation it had reached in the cannon when the main members had disappeared in the Tenrou island. So the only reason for most of the guild members to disappear was to make the other guilds and organisations who had bad blood with the guild to think that there is nothing left in the guild.
And since the guild is even more prosperous than cannon with a lot more enemies, the chances of it being even more intense is very high" Karna's expression hardened as he realised what would happen.
A/N- I'm back ,hope you like it.