Okay were back to this story guys been a while so I'm just gonna say how things are gonna go for this story whenever it gets updated, as soon as I finish this arc and the Tenrou arc I will not be doing the key to the starry sky arc cause its anime original, I hate it and it was so irrelevant to the main storyline. I'll be using more time skips or jumps in particular arcs to get to the major points in arc while still connecting them and of course I'll still elaborate on the relationship between Natsu and Lisanna. Anyway let's get on with the story.

Darkness that was all he could, there was no light at the end of this tunnel and that's all it was, a tunnel of never ending darkness. He could feel himself drifting through the black void unable to set himself free, he was alone here and it reminded him of a scarier time in his life, then he heard it, that of so familiar voice albeit it a bit more childish, asking him that same question from long ago.

Flashback 6 years ago

"Hey if I ever disappeared again would you come find me?" a young Lisanna Strauss asked an equally young Natsu Dragneel as the two walked through a foggy forest with their 'surrogate son' Happy flying next to them and a slightly younger Gildarts Clive walking behind them observing their interactions.

"Well yeah of course I would, why would I?" Natsu answered but he was confused as to why she would ask such a pointless question, "No reason it's just in case" "Oi you ain't planning to disappear again are you?" Natsu asked in a slightly annoyed tone causing the youngest Strauss to giggle at his antics. "Of course not silly, I couldn't leave you and Happy to fend for yourselves who'd look after you?" she asked while still trying to contain her laughter.

"I'll have you know that I can look after myself all the best and I'm sure Happy wouldn't be too much bother all he does is eat fish" Natsu replied while trying not to sound offended which he failed at and obviously did. Gildarts could only watch with an amused expression on his face, "those two really are something else" was all the crash mage could think to himself before he noticed they were nearing the edge of the forest.

"Hey let's make a promise" Lisanna suddenly spoke up getting everyone's attention although they all knew what she said was directed at Natsu, "A promise to do what?" he asked in a clueless manner, "If either of us goes missing the other will do whatever they can to find them" Lisanna said with a warm smile making the pinkette turn away to hide the equally pink hue on his cheeks. "Yeah sure it's a promise" Natsu replied but had a confused look on his face when he saw Lisanna's hand with only her pinkie finger outstretched. "It's a pinkie promise the best kind of promise; it means that you'll do everything you can to keep your promise" the white haired girl spoke up pocking up on Natsu's confusion.

Flashback end

At this Natsu found himself returned to the dark void he found himself in to begin with he could feel his body shaking from the memory he had just witnessed, that day was a mixture of emotion for him, happiness, sadness, anger and mostly fear at losing her but the dragonslayer had little time to reflect on this as he soon found himself inside another memory.

3 years later

The guild had never been so deadly silent whenever he walked into it, at 15 years old now never once had the guild been like this thick with such a depressing atmosphere. As he got closer the main group in the guild who seemed to be gathered around someone for some reason they parted way for Happy and the slayer and what he saw froze him to his very core, Elfman and Mirajane battered, bruised, bandaged and crying uncontrollably but there was no Lisanna.

When the two Strauss' looked up to see Natsu their already heartbroken faces only became more so, "Natsu I'm so sorry…Lisanna…didn't make it" Mira managed to weep out through her tears making the pinkette's blood run cold. He didn't just hear that right, there's no way Lisanna could be dead was all Natsu could say in his mind before making a break for it and running out of the guild so fast no-one could say anything to stop him.

The dragonslayer could only run and run cursing this world endlessly, he didn't stop running until he came to the hut he and Lisanna built all that time ago when they hatched Happy together. Crumbling to his knees the weight of things finally settled. "I'm sorry, I promised I'd find you if you ever went missing but I don't think I'll be able to find you this time, please why did you have to go somewhere where I can't follow" Natsu said in a trembling voice as he broke down releasing that this time he wouldn't be able to find her.

Flashback end

That day was the most painful in Natsu's entire existence, even more so than the disappearance of his father Gandora. He could still feel that pain in his heart as he watched the memory replay over and over again in his head. However, now he had a chance to change all that, he had found her and he will bring her back and he will save everyone from the guild. Summoning any magic that he could the dragonslayer attempted to burn the darkness that surrounded him away in an effort to escape this void that he was trapped in.

Meanwhile in the real world everyone had grown extremely worried since Natsu wasn't waking up and even Wendy's healing magic was doing nothing, but their worry only increase when Natsu's entire body became engulfed in blue flames that had a white lining to them. "What the hell is going on with him?!" Gray shouted trying while shielding Wendy and Lucy.

Whatever was happening it looked like the dragonslayer was in pain, although he remained in a sort of unconscious state he began rolling over until his stomach was flat on the ground and then started clawing at the ground his fingers scorching and digging deeper into the rock. "We've got to stop him or he'll end up melting the whole room!" Lucy called out in panic taking a step back and it was at this moment Wendy thought she could make out the faint pattern of scales on Natsu's forearms and under his eyes but in just in the moment she thought she could see them in a moment they were gone. And the pink haired dragonslayer's eyes shot open, the flames dispersed and he was breathing heavily.

"Natsu are you okay?" said pinkette turned to the source of the voice of concern only to see Wendy bright as a fiddle apart from the look of worry on her face. It took him a second to register what was said and could only nod in response for now before pushing himself up. He was a bit confused and disorientated but after a few seconds he seemed to have regained his composure.

The dragonslayer then focused his attention on Gray, "Where the hell did you come from?" Natsu asked bluntly making the group sweat drop but also making them realise "Yep he's okay". Gray then explained everything he knew about the situation and how Gajeel had helped free him from the Lacrima crystal in the city square.

"Wait Gajeel is here?" Natsu asked in surprise but when he thought about it for it seemed like only the cats and dragonslayer and for some reason Lucy were unaffected by the anima, so it made sense that Gajeel wasn't affected either. Gray nodded at this and explained that they needed to hurry as Gajeel had gotten some information on the whereabouts of the lacrima crystal containing the other guild members was and what the Kingdom plan to do with it.

"Happy go find and help Gajeel" Natsu told his feline partner upon hearing what Gray had said, "Okay but what about you what are you gonna do?" the blue feline inquired only receiving a feral grin that promised pain, "I'm gonna do some hunting" was all Natsu said before he took off like a rocket in search of a specific target. "Ready or not old man here I come"

With Gajeel

Out in the palace courtyard Gajeel was taking care of wave after wave of soldiers that seemed to have no end, "Gajeel!" said black haired man turned around to the source of the shout only to find himself being picked up and carried up into the air "Oi cat what do you think you're doing!" the iron dragonslayer growled out as Happy albeit with some struggle began rising higher and higher into the air.

"Gray said you know where the other Lacrima is so Natsu sent me take you there faster" Happy answered the spikey black haired slayer who gave a huff in response. "Well then we need to go up there" he then said as he pointed to a fairly large island up above them, "Woah that thing's a lacrima!?" Happy spat out in shock as he got closer and closer "How the hell are we gonna get everyone out of that thing?" the feline then asked as the duo landed on the floating island right in front of the enormous Lacrima crystal.

"Gihee…The same way I got Scarlet and the stripper out of the other crystal, I use my dragonslayer magic to smash it" Gajeel said with a smirk as he turned his right arm into a chain blade sword. However, before he could get near the Lacrima a large sword almost 20 feet in length cleaved the part of the floating island he was standing on clean off from the main part. Luckily Happy was there to catch him "Man your almost as heavy as Lucy, what the hell was that?" Happy said in a pained voice as he was struggling to deal with the iron dragonslayer's weight.

"I dare you to say that again you blue furball!" Gajeel growled before focusing his attention to the source of the slash. "In the name of his majesty king Faust I refuse to let you interfere with our plans" a giant black six-foot-tall cat-man-thing wearing armour growled out as he held a sword in his hands that was easily almost four times the height of himself. "Woah now that's a cat!" Gajeel grinned confusing the feline as he cracked his knuckles.

"Hey cat what's your name?" Gajeel shouted while pointing towards the black cat, "Pantherlily, why do you care?" the now identified Pantherlily asked as he readied his blade, "I just want to know the name of 'my' cat…." " Huh?" was the response Pantherlily and Happy gave in unison. "When I beat you and set my guild mates free, I'm taking you back to Fairy Tail where you're gonna be my cat" Gajeel shouted out before he charged he stared jumping up the giant Lacrima and then off it to reach Pantherlily the two connecting swords with line another.

Back with Natsu

"What the hell, Franks scared!?" A man with purple hair and a white highlight shouted out in shock, this was Hughes one of the royal armies leading division captains. However, his shock soon turned to fear once he saw what it was that Frank was scared of. "You people are despicable; how can you talk about the loss of life so casually!" the silhouette of a man within burning blue flames outlined in frosty white shouted in rage giving him the image of a monster which was only further emphasised by the two glowing red eyes that contrasted with the colour of the flames.

"M-monster" was all Hughes was capable of stuttering out while trying to inches away from the approaching flame coated monster, "Monster, oh I'll show you a monster!" Natsu shouted out before taking a deep breath "Azure Dragon's RRROOOAAAARRR!" a torrent of blue flames barrelled their way towards himself and his small army of animatronic monsters. Although the animatronic army took the brunt of the blow and absorbed most of the damage, the technology they were crafted from wasn't designed to take such brutal punishment and ultimately gave wave resulting in Hughes being blaster out of whatever building they were situated in along with the multiple flaming limbs of his puppets before it made contact with some weird giant octopus-creature-thing who was currently in fight with Virgo and Lucy.

"What the hell was that!?" the creature suddenly spoke now seeing the flames that were quickly burning down the building in the centre of the park, this was all before a deep angry voice resounded from within the building "YOU!" a silhouette slowly made its way through the blue flames surprising the creature who just so happened to be Byro, his transformation a result of some one of his crazy concoctions.

While Lucy was aware of who the silhouette belonged to it didn't stop her from feeling a sense of fear about the way he was currently acing, "I'm gonna make you pay for what you did to Wendy!" the voice roared out before a shockwave dispersed the flames surrounding the figure. What it revealed didn't alleviate any fear that either Byro or Lucy might have been feeling in fact the sight of Natsu pissed off no furious expression sent shivers up their spines which soon turned to sweating as the temperature began to increase.

Sensing the danger in not taking the pinkette out immediately Byro picked up the largest chunk of rubble he could see and with one of his newly grown tentacles threw it at the dragonslayer who simply watched as it got closer and closer before lighting his fist aflame and smashing it into the rubble causing it to shatter. Natsu then began stalking towards Byro each step causing the ground to sizzle beneath his feet.

In a desperate attempt to squash him Byro began flailing his tentacles about to try and finish this before it could start but he was unaware of just how fast the dragonslayer was and just went he thought he had succeeded he felt a heat behind him prompting him to turn around albeit slowly. "TOO SLOW!" the pinkette shouted as he had gathered a large amount of fire behind him before slamming his fist forward into Byro's face, the force of which sent him crashing into the ground beneath breaking it in the process as well as severely burning him.

Satisfied with what he had done to the unmoving Byro Natsu began walking away, he didn't say a word he just walked away, he didn't know where he was going but he knew he needed to get to Faust. "If I can take the King hostage then I can use him to convince someone to turn everyone back and send us home!" with his plan clear in mind Natsu set out to put it into motion leaving a very confused Lucy behind who didn't know what to do.

On the one hand there was the option of following Natsu and most likely getting caught up in a destructive rampage seeing as he was clearly not in a good mood, and then on the other hand there was the option of trying going after Gray who was currently trying to steal back the key for the dragon chain canon that Cocoa stole which then got stolen back by Sugar boy one of the division captains.

"Miss Lucy" Lucy turned around to see Cocoa who she completely forgot was still there but she decided to act like she hadn't forgot. "What is it Cocoa?" Lucy asked with a smile as she helped the light brown teenager up onto her feet. "If you follow me I can take you to the island where your friends are" Cocoa said while hissing in pain before looking down at the balls of her feet which were covered in burn marks.

This information caused the celestial spirit mage's eyes to widen in shock, "Let's go I think Gajeel is there right now and if what that creepy old dude was saying was true then that Extalia place is getting nearer and nearer to the point where they'll be able to use the dragon chain canon" Lucy said before helping Cocoa along to the Legion training grounds.

Back with the Edolas Fairytail

Currently all the members of the Edolas Fairy Tail guild were gathered around the bar and the main topic was whether or not they were gonna help their Earthland counterparts save their guilds mates, some of the members were in favour of leaving the affairs to the Earthland mages and that in the outcome they lost Edolas would start regaining magic and then there were the other half who were quite opposed to this notion of thinking seeing as how the Kingdom as it is now with minimal magic supplies is dangerous enough to fight against but if their magic stocks were to completely refill then it may as well be like signing a death warrant to face or even try and escape from them.

"Look I'm as scared as you guys but we can't leave the Earthlanders alone to fight our war, our counterparts, mine Natsu's and Wendy's counterparts are out there fighting for us and you guys are just gonna leave them to fend off the entire royal army, I don't know who you think you are but Fairy Tail no matter what time, world, place or dimension it's from is still Fairy Tail and that means they're family, now's who's with me" Lucy Ashley shouted out as she stood atop one of the guild tables expecting to get a roar of cheers of approval instead she got nothing.

However, one member was done contemplating what to do and she knew it wouldn't matter if she had to go alone she couldn't stop herself from doing what felt right and right now that helping Natsu, so without any more hesitation she took the orange ball in her hand and threw it in her mouth before swallowing it. There it was that foreign familiar sensation of the cold running through her veins, but not in the way that she felt dread it was a comforting cold that she could only ever associate with her magic.

Everyone in the guild looked at the short white haired teenager in shock as an aura of cold radiated off of her, "I know you all know that I'm not your Lisanna but I'll ask this of you once, as my family will you help me save those I care about!" Lisanna's voice was at a level of seriousness that none had heard within the guild before. Before anyone could answer Lisanna began walking out of the guild towards the door and as she did so she was cloaked in a golden light, "Take-over; Animal Soul-Cheetah!"

When the light dissipated everyone was further shocked when Lisanna was replaced by a cheetah that had a small tuft of white hair on its head like most of her other take-overs. "I don't blame you if you chose not to help" was all Lisanna said before she sprinted off at amazing speeds towards the kingdom capital leaving a rather speechless guild.

"So what do we do?"

Chapter end

Okay there you go hope you enjoy this until the next chapter is updated cause man this took a while to put together, it's a short chapter I know but it was just having to piece everything together. Anyway until next time bye-bye!