It was a dream.
A dream from a long, long time ago.
"Noel...l..."
The soft calling of his name gave Noel a strangely familiar feeling.
A person with black hair stood in front of him, gently stroking his head and looking into his eyes.
For some reason, Noel felt like he had seen this person before, yet at the same time, it was as if he had never met them.
"Noel, you must remember..." The person smiled and spoke, but their words were unclear.
Noel strained to see their mouth moving, but he could only make out the motion of them speaking.
"What do you mean?" Noel found himself speaking out, unable to control it.
"You'll understand later. For now, just remember this sentence," the person smiled, but that smile seemed tinged with bitterness.
"Ha..." Startled awake from the dream, Noel panted lightly, his body drenched in sweat.
However, he didn't seem to care about that and instead, gazed vacantly, lost in thoughts about everything that had just happened in the dream.
(Who... are they? Do I know them?)
..............
In the Fairy Tail guild's warehouse.
The strongest team of Fairy Tail was busy organizing the books piled high in the warehouse.
However, after over an hour of work, everyone's patience was gradually wearing thin.
"Seriously, why do I have to do this too?" Lucy complained while arranging books on the shelf ladder.
"It's dangerous to move around like that," Happy remarked.
"By the way, I can see your underwear pretty clearly," Gray said, his face turning slightly red.
"Don't look!!" Lucy quickly tugged at her skirt, realizing she had exposed herself, and shouted angrily below.
"Well, what else can we do? We broke so many houses," Erza sighed while holding a pile of books.
"If anything, cleaning up the warehouse is too easy for us."
"It's clearly you guys who caused the damage!" Lucy retorted.
"Well, I don't actually mind this kind of punishment," Noel said with a smile.
For someone who enjoyed reading books, organizing them was an everyday task, and he had already gotten used to it.
"Natsu, what's wrong with you?" Noel asked, noticing that Natsu had been zoning out.
"I feel like something's missing..." Natsu muttered in confusion.
"Natsu, it's your scarf, right?" Happy was the first to notice that something was different about Natsu.
The scarf that Natsu always wore was nowhere to be seen.
"That's it!!!" Natsu scratched his head and muttered, "I must have left it upstairs. I've been out of it since this morning."
Lucy turned her gaze towards Natsu, but by accident, she saw a noticeable scar on his neck.
Seeing this, Lucy couldn't help but make a curious sound, "I've been wondering for a while, what's that scar on Natsu's neck?"
"Come to think of it, I don't know either," Gray added.
"I don't know either, what about you, Noel?" Erza asked, looking at Noel.
Noel shrugged, indicating that he didn't know either.
"Natsu, is it something you can't talk about?" Happy asked in confusion.
Natsu's face changed in an instant.
He crouched in the corner, hugging his head, trembling all over, as if recalling some terrifying memory.
"I don't want to remember it..."
"Natsu is scared???!!" Seeing this, Happy was so shocked he nearly popped his eyes out.
"They were demons... I've never seen such terrifying beings," Natsu muttered, trembling.
"What?"
"Someone who could scare Natsu like that?"
"What's going on?" Lucy murmured, and in her excitement, she lost her balance and fell from the ladder with a few books in her hands.
"Lucy, be careful!"
Seeing the accident, everyone rushed over to catch Lucy, but due to a lack of coordination, they all collided with each other.
At that moment, a book that had fallen with Lucy dropped to the ground and opened, emitting a blinding light.
"What?"
"A book...?"
"It's glowing?"
As the shocked exclamations echoed, a purple beam of light shot up into the sky, enveloping the group.
................
"What exactly is happening?"
When the light dissipated, everyone stood there, dazed, looking at their surroundings, voicing their confusion.
"This... this is... outside??"
"It's not just that, look over there," Noel spoke up.
The others followed Noel's gaze, and what they saw before them was the Fairy Tail guild, looking just like it did before it was destroyed by the Phantom Lord!
"The guild has turned back to how it was before??" Natsu exclaimed.
"What's going on?"
"Could it be because of this book?" Erza muttered, looking at the book in her hand.
"Someone's coming out, we should hide," Lucy suddenly noticed three figures slowly walking out of the Fairy Tail guild's doors.
The group hurriedly hid behind a pile of goods nearby.
After the three figures emerged, everyone froze.
Because those three figures were none other than the younger versions of Erza, Natsu, and Gray!
"Are you two teaming up today?" the young Erza said to the similarly young Gray and Natsu.
"I can do it by myself!"
"That's what I was going to say!"
"I'm definitely going to...!" "Defeat Erza!!"
The two little ones shouted in unison and rushed toward the young Erza.
Erza sneered and, with just a few moves, knocked the two kids down to the ground, their eyes rolling back in defeat.
The others watching from the side couldn't help but feel somewhat embarrassed.
"What is going on? The younger versions of Erza, Natsu, and Gray?" Lucy muttered as she placed her hand on her hip.
"Could we have... gone back to the past?" Happy said in a daze.
"!!!!!!!"
"Back in time? How is that possible? Could this really be the past? What should we do... I need to gather my thoughts," Lucy said, frustrated as she held her forehead.
"What did you do to the young me, Erza?!" At this moment, seeing the two kids, Gray and Natsu, completely defeated by the younger Erza, both turned to her in unison and accused her.
"Have they already gotten used to it?" Lucy remarked sarcastically as she watched the scene unfold.
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