The Last Fairy's Flight A/N

My second Fairy Tail oneshot story featuring Lucy. You can find it here, if you haven't read it.

I really loved working on this story. Not only did it contain awesoome Lucy but it involves (or at least hints at) my favourite topic- Time Travel.

It actually reminded me of the first fanfiction story I'd uploaded on FFnet- a time travel thing with Minato. I removed that story before I completed it because I realized that I had plot issues that I couldn't work out.

Anyway, back to the Fairy Tail Story.

Stats
Starting wordcount: 10,609
Final wordcount: 9,598

Lucy: Like I've probably mentioned in previous posts, I really like her as a character. And I see so many lost opportunities for her to be even more awesome in the manga- opportunities which I can't help but want to explore.
Future!Lucy's arc was something I was very curious about. The manga hints at how things were after the dragons came. But I wanted more. And so instead of Lucy travelling back a few days after the Grand Magic games, I decided to make Lucy travel back after seven years of hard work and suffering on her part (seven being FT's go to number).

Lucy holding her own against Rouge/dragons: After seven years of surviving and watching everyong she knows die, I definitely think Lucy would grow strong. Not strong enough to defeat Rouge, but strong enough to withstand their attacks for a while before she escaped.
It's not too far of a stretch because manga-Lucy has grown stronger in the short time since she joined the guild. So seven years or constant battle to survive would definitely make her strong.

Rouge: My headcanon for this story is that Rouge had a choice early on- he could have either helped Lucy fight the dragons or he could join Zeref. Tainted by his shadows, he chose Zeref. He learnt how to control dragons and decided to cleanse the world of people who didn't have magic/didn't follow Zeref. He's responsible for killing most of the mages that Lucy knew- both from Fairy Tail and other guilds who had been helping her.
Since Zeref's demons would have wanted to destroy all of humanity and human magic (according to the manga), he dealt with them when Zeref went back to sleep.
The last time he and Lucy met/fought face-to-face, Zeref was there. The battle was terrible. Any mages there with Lucy died. Only Dornabolt survived with horrible burns. Even Lucy got a fatal injury. And all her zodiacs had been trapped on Earthland by Zeref.  So the Celetial King intervened, came to Earthland and got terribly injured when he saved them all. His injuries left him unable to leave the Celestial Realm. And Zeref re-entered his sleep.

Celestial Spirits: It's hard for me to pick one as a favourite. They're all interesting and work well with Lucy. And it wasn't too hard to imagine how they'd be after seven years with Lucy- stronger than ever, overprotective of their owner and ready go the extra mile for her.

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P.S. Can you guess how many more stories I have with Lucy as the main character?