Alright, now this is the most heart-breaking part for me.....I reached the end of my story...well, you guys did as well....Congratulations!!! I hope you'll enjoy this last chapter. I also hope this story was able to satisfy all of you and reached your expectations. Please do share your thoughts about this story and leave some words that can make me feel appreciated at least..well at least I'm hoping for it. Thanks again guys!!!

REMINDER: Okay for this last chapter, please watch the attached video when you're at the part when Natsu is about to see the memories in his last touch with the pocket watch okay? Credits belong to the creator of the video: Skyler Okami-sama. Please subscribe if you want to unveil more treasures in his page. I dedicate this last chapter to him as well. Thanks so much for permitting me and letting me use your video in this story of mine!

♥LucyAshleyHeartfilia♥

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Natsu gapped himself a little to get a better view of Nashi. He balled his fist and slammed it into the left part of his chest hard. "I'll never forget you", he grinned.

"I won't forget you too. I love you, Papa", Nashi cried hard.

"You'll be a great wizard someday. I'm sure of it", Natsu ruffled her hair.

Nashi smiled as she heard it. Nashi's smile brought nostalgia to Natsu.

"Un!", Nashi nodded. "Thanks for the adventure, Papa", she said and kissed his cheek. Natsu smiled at her and hugged her tight one last time.

"I should be the one thanking you", Natsu said. Nashi shook her head and shed a tear.

"You are amazing, Papa. I'm blessed having you as my Dad", Nashi tightened her hold on his back.

"I can't wait to meet you again", Natsu whispered. "I'll have to wait for a lot of years though, but, it's worth the wait"

Nashi smiled and completely separated from him. Nashi ran back to where Future Natsu and Future Lucy are and hugged both her parents with a smile.

Natsu saw Naru and Ryuu at the far corner.

"Let's all meet again. In this time, for sure, we'll be able to test each other's strengths", Natsu mocked. "Grow strong!", he told Naru and Ryuu. Naru grinned and gave him a thumb up, like the familiar signal Natsu and Lucy always give each other when they're together.

"Sure, Dad. Make sure you won't get distracted by anyone else!", Naru teased back. Ryuu just smiled at him.

Having one last look at his future, he stepped back completely into the portal. The portal closed with his future family's smile on their faces.

When everything turned white as what it should be, he looked forward to search for his missing partner.

At the far off space, he can see a vision of Lucy standing at the broken pieces of a machine.

"LUCY!!!!", Natsu shouted out. Catching a sight of her gave Natsu relief he never thought of having.

"LUCY!!!!!", he shouted again, getting a clearer view of her.

Lucy seemed to hear Natsu's voice. When onyx met hazel orbs, they both smiled.

"You're late", Lucy wiped her tears away.

"Sorry, I made a little detour in the future", Natsu grinned. He reached her and scratched his head a little.

"You seem to be very happy. Did something good happened?", Lucy asked as if nothing happened.

"Sort of. I met many old people", Natsu replied with a chuckle. "You look like you had a terrible day", he pointed to the broken gears.

"I did better", Lucy straightened out her hair a little. "What's that?", Lucy saw the pocket watch in Natsu's hands.

"This.....will give us the ticket back to our time", Natsu said, giving her a better look.

"Are you sure? What if we end up in a different time?", Lucy asked.

"Well, I'd rather have that adventure as long as I'm with you", Natsu grinned.

"Idiot. Why don't you go by yourself?", Lucy teased.

"You should know any better right? It's always more fun when we're together", Natsu said.

Lucy blushed a little at his statement.

"Let's go?", Natsu asked as he take her hand.

"Un!", Lucy nodded. She overlapped her hands over his and the pocket watch glowed once again. Natsu held her by the waist as they both vanished.

In Natsu's mind, he can see his future family's smiling faces in his house in the woods. His adventure in the future will be forever etched in both his heart and memory; and he won't tell a single soul about it. Not even to the woman he's holding close to right now.

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X793 Fairy Tail....

"AHHHHHH!!!!", all Fairy Tail members groaned when a blinding light appeared at the center of the room they are all in.

A portal opened as Natsu and Lucy walked out of it.

"Natsu! Lucy!", all their friends literally jumped to them.

"Please tell me we're back at the right point of time", Lucy groaned.

"Lucy!!! Lu-chan!!!", Levy, Cana and Happy are crying hard on her.

"Its good you two were able to return", Erza smiled at her.

"Yeah", Lucy smiled as well.

"Natsu! Great to have you back!", Elfman and the other guys helped him stand.

"Both of you...", Master Makarov's aura is menacing. Everyone stopped from their emotional states and stood back leaving the two to suffer whatever Master Makarov is about to do.

"M-Master..", the two choked out. Everyone is tensed looking at their Master as he step closer to the two at the center.

Lucy shut her eyes tight and Natsu did the same. They heard Master Makarov stopped just a step away from their position.

They felt a light pat on their heads and when they opened their eyes, they saw Master Makarov's eyes shedding tears of joy for them.

"I am so happy both of you returned safely", Master Makarov said.

"We're sorry Master, we really did it this time huh?", Natsu asked guiltily.

"That doesn't even describe it", Master Makarov smiled.

Natsu grinned widely at him.

"Grandpa, I think it's time we celebrate their return", Laxus smiled at them.

"Of course. Let's party until we drop tonight! Ready all the booze!", Master makarov announced. Everyone cheered with that announcement.

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"Natsu, you really saw everyone in the future?", Macao and some of the guys bombarded him with questions that same night as they were partying.

"Yeah and man all of you are so old!", Natsu grinned at the thought.

"Idiot, of course we would!", Macao angrily snapped.

"Ah, Romeo looks so manly there! I bet you're stronger than me in that future. Man, I missed the chance having to fight with you", Natsu commented to Romeo. He looked so happy hearing that.

"So, do you know who's going to be with who?', Wakaba intrigued.

"Hmmm?", Natsu remembers well who from his friends will end up with but he doesn't want anyone to know because that might change the future.

"Well, practically, everyone stayed the same", Natsu said.

"What? How boring!", Macao commented.

"Nope I don't think so", Natsu grinned.

"How sly", Gray said.

"What was that?!", Natsu snapped.

"Oh, we're doing it now?", Gray stood up and mocked him for a fight.

"Put some clothes on first you idiot stripper!", Natsu angrily scowled.

"What? When did it....", Gray was still surprised at how fast his clothes can disappear.

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"Lu-chan....", Levy and the other girls cornered Lucy.

"What is it?", Lucy was somehow nervous at the look on their faces.

"Say, you came from the future right?", Cana slyly smirked at her.

"So?", Lucy gulped a little.

"So, we like to know. Did you perhaps had a peek at who we're going to be married to?", Mirajane smiled.

"Eh?", Lucy looked at them with fright.

"Umm, do we really have to ask that?", Wendy asked.

"Well we do want to know!", Lisanna said.

"As long as Juvia ends up with Gray-sama, Juvia will be very happy", Juvia smiled picturing her future with Gray.

"Well, sorry girls", Lucy looked at them sadly. "Truth is, I wasn't able to see anyone but my older self in the future. I acted as a mediator for us to be able to go back", Lucy told them the whole story.

"Ahhh, that's too bad", Levy said.

"How about you ask Natsu? I'm sure he has more answers to give you", Lucy said.

"Well, that idiot said we're just the same", Cana drank more alcohol on her cup.

"Then that means we'll stay like this for nineteen more years?", Lucy laughed at the thought. "But, really?", she thought.

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"Yo!", Natsu greeted when he stepped closer to where Lucy is. Currently, Lucy is at the guild's veranda, looking at the stars.

"It's good we actually returned, right?", Lucy smiled at the sky.

"Yeah. It was hell of an experience", Natsu said.

"You look happy though", Lucy said.

Silence filled between them for the whole three minutes.

"Say, Natsu....", Lucy started. Natsu looked at her with curiosity. "Are you serious when you said that everyone of us stayed the same in the future?", Lucy asked, looking at him seriously.

Natsu averted his gaze and looked at the sky.

"I wouldn't say nothing has changed", Natsu's tone was more serious now. "But, at least all of us are still friends"

"I see", Lucy looked back at the stars. Natsu turned to look at her once more.

"Lu....", Natsu's eyes widened when he saw Lucy's eyes begin to water and tears streamed down her face.

"I see.....", Lucy tried to stop it by wiping but more tears just fell.

"Lucy....", Natsu stepped closer to her but stopped.

"I'm glad. At least, I know that everyone will....everyone will stay friends in the future", Lucy looked at him with a sincere smile. "I love Fairy Tail with all my heart. I don't want us to separate"

"We won't. I promise", Natsu smiled back at her. "Stop crying now, weirdo!"

"I'm not a weirdo!", Lucy scolded.

"Come on, you should probably be tired. I'll walk you home", Natsu offered.

"Heh? Walk huh? I think you just want to steal my bed again", Lucy teased.

"Nope", Natsu grinned. "Not today"

Lucy was taken aback by that.

Natsu walked Lucy home with Happy just as he promised and headed back to their home in the woods. Lucy just shrugged the thought off and headed to bed. However, Natsu's still awake as he looked over their collection of souvenirs from missions they did together. Happy is already fast asleep in his hammock.

Beside Lucy's costumes, Natsu placed another souvenir at the nearby table. The pocket watch he acquired from their adventure in the future. One last time, he opened it and watched the hands move in his palms. As he did, he had a flashback of memories but the memories he see is pinpointed to only one particular date: The time when Lucy was captured for the eclipse gate.

Seeing those memories again, he cried. He gripped the pocket watch tightly. That's when he was revealed to a new sort of feeling inside of him. The pocket watch just unveiled not only his memories of that time, but Lucy's too. He can feel the pain in Lucy's heart at that time.

The kind of future that Future Lucy had tried so hard to protect - her future where Natsu's still in it. The future where everyone is still there with them, and the adventures they'll still have together.

"I understand now", Natsu mumbled as his tears continued to flow. "The reason why we were taken to the future, was because we both yearned for it", he remembered the talk he had with Lucy that night. The reason she cried. It was because she probably saw those memories too. "We probably wanted to see...what kind of future we'll have after we fought with Rogue that time. We were able...to protect the future after all"

"I will keep my promise. I swear I'll protect the future. Together, I'll make sure to make it happen", he smiled. The memories they shared together that unveiled a new chapter of their lives; with that pocket watch, they saw their infinite possibilities. Endlessly.