Disclaimer: Fairy Tail and all associated characters, creatures, magics and locations are owned by Hiro Mashima. Translations of the characters' speeches are partially based off of the Mangastream scantilation of the Fairy Tail Manga.

Epilogue - Upon Golden Plains

They said there would be bright, warm light and a tunnel.

They said you would meet with all the friends and family that died before you.

They were wrong.

Lucy Heartfilia could only see a black void. A blackness so pristine it made you forget what light even looked like. A place of loneliness. A place devoid of any feeling or sense.

She didn't know how long she was in this dark place, but eventually she began to feel... something.

It felt as if her body was pulled in multiple directions at once. It felt... just like when she had travelled back to the past!

With a jolt the sensation faded and Lucy could once again feel.

She felt ground beneath her back. She felt grass under her fingers. Something was warmly caressing her face.

She snapped her eyes open and immediately shut them again. It was too bright.

After a while she began to open her eyes again, slowly this time.

She was in a meadow of some kind. The warm feeling on her face were sunrays.

Lucy pushed herself up into a sitting position, mumbling "Where... am I?" Before her, golden fields extended as far as the eye could see, fading into a beautiful blue sky at the horizon.

She stood up and almost fell down again. Something was off with her balance. Was her right side somehow... heavier? Something seemed to pull at the stump of her right arm.

As she looked down on her body, she noticed for the first time that she was no longer wearing the simple cloth and cloak she had taken from Kamika's room. She was back in the cloth she had changed into when her friends freed Yukino and her from their cell. But they weren't torn half to shreds and soaked in blood like the last time she saw them. They were clean and whole.

She couldn't make sense of it, but decided that this little mystery could wait till later. Her balance was more important.

So she looked to her right side and found the additional weight.

Her arm was back! Not just the stump that ended at the elbow she had been expecting, but her complete arm down to the fingertips. And her pink Fairy Tail guild mark!

In those few days of constant wandering she had gotten so used to the uneven balance of her maimed body that she now had trouble getting used to the symmetry once again. Who'd ever think that such little weight could make so big a difference.

While she still marvelled at the miracle, wondered about her surroundings and fought to find the equilibrium of her restored body, a voice called out to her from behind.

"Hey Lucy!"

His... voice? Could it really be...

Something gripped her heart and made it hard to breathe as she slowly turned her head to face the source of the call.

And there he was.

Before her stood her friend, her love... her life.

Natsu!

Not like he was when she last saw him, bruised, bloodied and with a gaping hole in his side, but without so much as a single scratch or speck of dirt visible anywhere on him, as he happily smiled at her.

"Get over here already!"

Next to him Happy, with an expression that matched the Exceed's name, added "Everyone is waiting!" while jumping up and down in delight.

Behind the pair all of Fairy Tail stood and cheered her on. All except her best friend. The little blue haired bookworm was nowhere to be seen.

So Levy didn't die. Please be save my friend and live a happy and fulfilled life before you meet us here.

As she kept drinking in the image of her new family she froze. Are those... mama and papa? In among the Fairy Tail wizards stood Layla and Jude Heartfilia.

"Now... Let's continue on our adventure!" Natsu exclaimed as he took her hand and began to guide her toward the group.

"Yeah." Tears of pure bliss started to roll down Lucy's cheeks as the two lovers ran, hand in hand, toward her two families, now standing united.

I'm home!

Explanation: In the manga, Lucy only goes to the "Golden Plains" after the Eclipse Gate is destroyed, rather than right upon her death. The "black void" is my way of skipping over the time between her death and her passing over. Maybe she was blocked off from her own timeline as long as the Eclipse Gate remained intact.

Afterwords: And so my first FanFiction story end with Future Lucy finally finding happiness in the afterlife after suffering so horribly ever since the Dragons invaded her timeline.

Considering the sad tone of the story, I guess it'd be wrong to say that I hoped you had fun. I certainly enjoyed writing the story and hope I was also able to entertain you with it.