Axel, Irene, and Jellal raced to the place told by Erik. The games continued in the arena. Axel called Cana to check and she told him about the matches. They were exactly the same as those that happened in the canon. Soon the three of them reached the place and entered the room and find out a tied Lucy and Erik standing by the side.
Jellal: What is this??!!!
Axel: Calm down... this isn't our Lucy. I called Cana and Lucy was by her side. Let's wait for her to wake up.
Irene: She is not a celestial spirit or someone using transformation Magic, she is the real deal.
Jellal: That only leaves one thing... she is from a different timeline.
Axel: Yes... for now let's wait for her to wake up.
All of them nodded and Axel sent Erik to bring some beer. All of them sat in chairs and patiently waited for Lucy to wake up. Erik came back with a few bottles of beer and shut the door. The shutting of the door woke up Lucy and she tries to get out of the bounds.
Erik: Don't struggle I have sealed your Magic Power... there is no way you can get out.
Lucy looks at everyone in the room.
Lucy: So you ran away from prison, Cobra???
Erik: I never went to prison, I joined Fairy Tail.
Lucy: What...????!!!! Jellal why are you helping him and who are you two??
Jellal shows Lucy her Guild mark, Axel and Irene also do the same.
Jellal: All of us here are Fairy Tail members. I saw another unknown person in the arena so the past has changed.
Axel: Where are you from? Meaning from which timeline?
(A/N: I am going to refer Future Lucy as F.Lucy)
F.Lucy: I am from your future but it seems like it is a completely different timeline. At first, I came here I went to verify if everything was the same or not but I saw Ultear fight Minerva instead of me which shocked me more. Erza was also not on the team. In my timeline Jellal, Ultear, Meredy formed a team called Crime Sorciere. But this is all different... I messed up.
Axel: Future is not fixed, small things can change the whole future, I think you came from a parallel timeline or a timeline where everything is messed up.
F.Lucy: Everything is messed up in our timeline... you are right about that.
Jellal: So what happened?? Why did you come back??
F.Lucy: Hisui E. Fiore opened the Eclipse Gate so that we can travel to past and stop Zeref from gaining immortality so that Acnologia is never born. Acnologia is the biggest threat the world is facing.
Irene: Acnologia is dead in our timeline... if they still want to change the past that means they want to kill Zeref.
F.Lucy: What...??!! Acnologia's dead?? Then why is he alive in our timeline??
Axel: Because both of our timelines have ruptured. Due to the presence of Eclipse Gate, the timeline was separated making two different worlds and two different timelines. This will create a time paradox,.
F.Lucy: You cannot let this gate open... if the gates open then thousands of Dragons will appear in this place destroying everything and killing everyone.
Irene: Axel is there any way to fix this paradox??
Axel: We need to destroy this Eclipse Gate. The Gate is used to travel between timelines meaning it is a common point between all the timelines. If we destroy the Gate then the common point is destroyed and every timeline goes its own way fixing everything merging with each other. The gate is the only thing which is keeping the timelines separate.
Jellal: I think Axel is right.
F.Lucy: Uhmm... sorry I don't know the two of you.
Axel: Oh...sorry, My name is Axel Summers, 2nd ranked God of Ishgar.
Irene: My name is Irene Belserion, I am Erza'a mother.
F.Lucy didn't know what to think of this, she did the only thing which was possible for her at that time, she fainted.
Erik: You guys broke her...!!
Axel: This is going to be a long day...
After sometime Lucy woke up and everything was explained to her by Axel and Irene while Jellal went to gather his team and Erik has fallen asleep due to boredom. It took a couple of hours to tell her everything that has happened in their timeline. To hear all these she was really happy that her guildmates didn't have to suffer in this timeline.
Axel: Let's call Erza here... I don't think presenting her in front of other guild members would end nicely.
Irene: I agree.
After that Axel handed his Erza card to Irene and she made the call. It was already dark when Irene called Erza. Erza was in their room waiting for Axel and Irene to come. After a few minutes, Erza showed up with some food. Erza entered the room and was shocked to see Lucy here.
Erza: How...?? I just saw you with Natsu.
Axel: Sit down... we will explain it to you.
After that Erza sat down and took a beer bottle from the table and started listening to what Axel, Irene, and F.Lucy.
Erza: I think it is too late to at least stop now because we don't even know who we are going against.
F.Lucy: What... you said you all are so strong... why aren't you helping??
Irene: Erza is right... we don't know the location of the gate and no matter what we do currently we can't go against the Royal Family.
Axel: No matter how strong we are... even we force people to follow us with our strength. Then they will revolt one or another day and that will be the same for the long run.
Erza: So it comes to that, we cant attack them until their plan backfires on them.
F.Lucy understood what they were saying and her head dropped down and tears started to fall.
Axel: Don't worry we won't let this world to end...
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A/N: No matter what you say this Dragon King festival happened because of idiocy and naivety of Hisui. All those people died because of her, the world almost ended because of her and what does she say...?? Sorry. I don't like Hisui honestly... so I will tell first hand that she will be punished severely in this fanfic and don't worry it won't be crippling or anything bloody... at least not this time.