Hello, and I'm back with the epilogue of Dark vs Light! Thank you for reading all these chapters!
I'm still not sure if I'm going to write a sequel, but if I do, it's going to be some time before I do that-I may or may not be planning on writing a fanfiction or two between them-or three. I'm still thinking. Just let me know if you want a sequel!
Enjoy this chapter!
I still don't own Fairy Tail, and there are OCs and spoilers.
Natsu sighed as he stepped into Lucy's old apartment. He had decided to pay her rent while she was gone, and even though he had thought about cancelling it before Yukino had told them the truth, he was glad that he hadn't...even though it had been three months since anyone had last seen any of the Celestialites. Sure, they had asked Yukino, but she had simply shrugged and said that seeing as she wasn't a Celestialite herself, she had no idea where they were.
Happy looked up at Natsu. "Natsu…"
"Where could she be?" Natsu asked, tears coming to his eyes as he looked around. Most of her stuff was still there-although Natsu had kinda been living there for the past three months-and he was starting to see why Lucy complained about her rent. Sometimes he had a hard time keeping up with it, and not to mention that she always went on missions with him instead of solo like he often found himself doing, so she wouldn't get as much pay, and there were times when she couldn't go on missions because her spirits were too busy.
"Nobody has any idea," Happy said, breaking through Natsu's thoughts. "But all the Celestialites promised that they'd come to us if they needed help, remember? So she'll be back someday." He started to walk to Lucy's room. "But for now, let's just get some sleep-or some yummy fish to eat!"
Natsu chuckled slightly, then followed Happy up the stairs.
The next day, around noon.
Lucy hummed to herself as she walked along the side of the canal, like she had always used to.
Man, three months, Lucy thought, stopping and looking around. Well, it's to be expected.
The Celestialites had been brought to the Celestial World for one Celestial day, which meant three months in the human world. During that time, Lucy had been reunited with Aquarius, and they had renewed their contract-and Aquarius had teased Lucy about still not having a boyfriend, but she had said that she couldn't wait to see Lucy again-and Lucy had better call her whenever she needed her.
The Celestialites had partied for the rest of the Celestial Day, and the Celestial King had taken away most of their Celestial Gifts, leaving them speed, enhanced healing, enhanced endurance, and their new powers. Now all of them could age again, and they could live their lives without caring about their pasts-the Celestial King took away the scars that some of them had still kept from when they had become Celestialites. Of course, Lucy had no scars, no Celestial Gifts, so the Celestial King had given her speed and some more power, as well as enhanced healing-although they barely compared to the others, but Lucy would still be more powerful than she had been previously. Lucy could feel the extra power, but that didn't really matter right then. Because she was back in Magnolia. Back where she belonged.
Lucy shook her head, and continued to walk, balancing on the edge of the canal.
"Hey-wait a second-is that-?" a familiar voice said as two people rowed down the canal.
Lucy smiled, waving at them. "Hey!"
The two laughed.
"You're gonna fall in one of these days!" one of them called.
Lucy grinned, then swayed slightly, almost trying to tip herself into the canal. The two laughed, then went past.
When the two were no longer in sight, Lucy stepped off the edge of the canal and continued to walk on the regular street, still heading to the same destination.
At Fairy Tail, about ten minutes later…
Natsu was looking at the job request board when the door suddenly opened-of course, though, it opened all the time, so he didn't really notice until Levy screamed. That caught Natsu's attention. He turned to see…
...Levy jumping at a certain Lucy Heartfilia.
The entire guild seemed to stand up and rush over to Lucy-Natsu and Happy being no exception.
"Where've ya been?!"
"You're staying, right?!"
"It's so good to see you again!"
"If you leave again, I'm dragging you back here!"
Lucy laughed. "Don't worry. Actually, I'm wondering if the guild will accept returning members…"
"YES!"
"Sweet," Lucy said with a smile.
Natsu smiled back as the whole guild started shouting all at once, welcoming Lucy back, and Mira renewed her guild mark. The guild started to party, making it feel like Fairy Tail again after so long.
In another town…
"Are you sure about this?" Daisy asked nervously, looking at Damien.
"Lucy said that they changed for the better-trust me, you'll love it here," Damien promised.
"If they're even accepting new members…" Daisy muttered.
"We'll see," Damien said, then the two walked into Blue Pegasus, where there weren't as many people.
The two walked over to the counter that Master Bob was at.
"Um...Sir Bob?" Damien asked.
Bob looked at them. "Why, hello! What rings you to Blue Pegasus?"
"Actually, we were wondering if you're accepting new members?" Damien asked, thinking about his old guild mark, which was covered in bandages, seeing as those scars didn't fade.
"You two interested in joining?" Bob asked.
Damien nodded, and after a few seconds, Daisy reluctantly nodded as well.
"May I ask about those bandages?" Bob asked, pointing at the bandages on Damien's arm.
Damien patted the bandages carefully. "Um...I got really depressed a few years ago...and...Um…"
Bob seemed to understand what Damien was trying to say."OH!"
"I'm better now," Damien said, then smiled at Daisy. "In all honesty, it started when I met Daisy."
"Aw, such a cute couple," Bob said. "So, where would you like your guild marks?"
Damien and Daisy exchanged glances, then looked back at Bob. Daisy held out her right hand, while Damien held out his left.
"Dark blue, please," Daisy said.
"A lighter shade of red-not too light, please," Damien said.
Bob giggled as he stamped the guild marks onto both their hands. "Just about everything about the two of you is matching. I just hope you never break up."
The two looked each other in the eye.
"I've waited two hundred years to find someone who could fill the empty space in my heart," Daisy said softly. "And nobody else has been able to come close."
Damien grinned. "And I'll never leave the girl that saved me that night."
"Pardon?" Bob asked. "Two hundred years?"
Daisy blushed. "M-Metaphorically."
Bob raised an eyebrow. "I see...oh! Names and powers?"
"I'm Damien of Solid Earth of the Dark," Damien said out of instinct, then shook his head. "I-I mean I'm Damien Heartfilia."
Seeing as Damien hadn't actually ever had a last name-his family had abandoned him when he was too young to know it-Lucy had let him use her last name.
"Heartfilia?" Bob echoed. "Have you heard of Lucy Heartfilia? Related, by chance?"
"Cousin," Damien lied.
"I see," Bob said. "Have you seen her recently? Met her? Rumor has it she's been missing for more than half a year now."
"Actually, we saw her this morning," Daisy said. "We parted ways because we wanted to join Blue Pegasus, and she said something about Fairy Tail."
Bob smiled. "I see. And your power?"
"Complete control of the earth," Damien said.
"And the Dark part?" Bob asked, raising an eyebrow.
"It's the name of my old village," Damien lied.
"I see," Bob said. "And you, girly? Did you live there, too?"
Daisy shook her head. "I lived in a different village, but when I was traveling, I came across it and met Damien."
"And your name and power?" Bob asked.
"Daisy Fernandez, and I control the air," Daisy said.
"Fernandez?" Bob asked. "So both of you are related to famous wizards that kinda associate with Fairy Tail."
"Distantly," Daisy said-in reality, she knew that Jellal was the descendant of her older brother-but that's a story for another day.
"I see," Bob said. "Well, welcome to Blue Pegasus!"
At that moment, Hibiki, Ren, Eve, and Ichiya walked into the guild, instantly walking over.
"Who're you?" Ren asked coldly, looking at Daisy and Damien.
"These two lovebirds are our two newest newest members, Daisy and Damien," Bob said.
"Welcome, beautiful," Hibiki said, putting an arm around Daisy, who instantly punched him away.
"Don't touch me," Daisy growled.
"Sheesh, lighten up," Ichiya said.
"Give me some time, troll," Daisy said.
Damien looked at her. "You know, it's alright now. Nothing's gonna happen."
Daisy looked at him. "And I'm the way I am. I tried convincing her that she should give up on them, remember?"
"And we all saw what happened," Damien said with a smile. "But at the same time…" He frowned, looking at Hibiki, who was standing up. "Don't flirt with my girlfriend."
"S-Sorry," Hibiki said, standing up. "That punch had tons of strength behind it, but you seemed to barely have any effort. Like it was natural."
"It's called bench-pressing mountains on a regular basis," Damien said jokingly.
Pause.
"WHAT?!
"I take pride in my strength," Daisy said.
"But mountains?" Eve asked, his face pale.
"Well, yeah," Daisy said. "But that's not the point right now. Just...don't mess with me."
"Got it," the four said.
Daisy found herself smiling just a little. Maybe she would find herself enjoying it here.
With Zane and Kamara
"Woohoo!" Kamara yelled, running through a large empty field.
Zane, who was following her with his hands in his pockets, sighed. "Seriously, Iccy, can you please slow down just a little?" Zane yawned. "I wanna go to sleep."
"We haven't been in the sunlight for centuries, and you just wanna sleep?!" Kamara cried, looking at him. "There are so many sights to see! So many places to explore! I've never seen most of these places by daylight because they haven't been around that long! And so many people to meet and befriend-an entire new world to explore!"
"What happened to the ice queen that disappeared for nights on end?" Zane muttered.
"That was to visit other places," Kamara said. "But I haven't seen them by light!"
Zane groaned. "I'm still beat from the fight-the world can wait a few nights while we rest. Please?"
"But-" Kamara started.
"Hey! What're you doing there?!"
Kamara and Zane turned to see some mages from a guild-but they didn't know what guild they were from.
"Excuse me?" Kamara asked.
"You heard me," one of the mages said. "Nobody should be in these fields!"
"Why?" Kamara asked, looking around. "I came through here all the time."
Zane looked at her. "You did what!?"
"It's not like it's something weird," Kamara told him. "I disappeared all the time."
"This is days away from base!" Zane exclaimed. "We were all supposed to be there by nightfall!"
"I got permission from Azure to come here from time to time," Kamara shrugged.
"TIME TO TIME?!"
"As much as I want to know what this is about, we're going to have to ask you to leave," the shortest of the mages said.
"Why do we have to leave?" Kamara whined.
"Kamara!" Zane hissed.
"Did you say Kamara?" the youngest-the only girl-piped up, suddenly interested.
"That's me," Kamara said.
The mages exchanged glances, then looked back at Kamara.
"As in 'Kamara the Caring'?" the girl asked.
"WHAT?" Zane exclaimed, looking at Kamara. "You're Kamara of Eternal Ice of the Dark!"
"Not anymore," Kamara said happily. "If you hate it, then why don't you leave?"
Zane opened his mouth to reply, then shut it and turned away. "Reasons."
"Then don't question anything you thought you knew about me," Kamara said, then turned back to the mages. "How did you learn about that title?"
"Rumor has it that Kamara the Caring visits these fields often," the first mage said. "So is that you?"
Kamara nodded. "What's your business with me?"
"We need you to come with us somewhere," the girl said.
"What?" Zane asked, looking at them. "Kamara, this sounds suspiciously like a trap."
"You're just being paranoid because you're actually whole again," Kamara said a little smugly.
"That has nothing to do with this," Zane said, but Kamara ignored him.
"So, where do you need me to go?" Kamara asked.
"There's a small village that's been looking for you for three months, and they've finally enlisted the help of our guild, Lamia Scale," the first mage said.
"I see," Kamara said with a smile. "Well, you know me, and this is my friend, Zane."
"Don't tell them my name!" Zane sighed.
"It's only fair if you tell us your names," Kamara said, ignoring Zane.
"I'm Lyon Vastia," the first mage said.
"I'm Sherria Blendy," the girl said. "Nice to meet you!"
"I'm Yuka Suzuki," the shortest mage said.
"I'm Toby Hororta!" the tallest mage said. "And you're coming with us, Komira!"
The other three sighed.
"Her name is Kamara, Toby," Lyon said.
"Isn't that what I said?" Toby asked, scratching his head.
Kamara laughed. "Well, let's get going!" She started to walk. Lamia Scale and Zane exchanged glances, then followed her.
Ten minutes later…
"LADY KAMARA!"
As soon as Kamara walked into a small village, a large group of children jumped at her, hugging her and crying.
"We never thought that we'd see you again!"
"Where were you?! You promised to be here for my birthday party!"
"You're in the daylight! Somebody get her a cloak and a hat!"
"But she isn't burning up!"
"She's not a vampire, dummy!"
"Then why didn't she go into the sunlight before?"
"Why is she in the sunlight now?"
Kamara laughed. "Slow down with the questions! Sorry that I disappeared-I had some unfinished business to take care of, but now I'm done, and I guess that I'll be staying here?"
"YAY!" the children cheered.
Zane groaned, having reached the village just after Kamara. "Please tell me that we aren't really staying here."
All the children looked at him.
"Who's that?" one asked.
Kamara smiled at Zane, a gleam in her eyes. Before Zane could say anything, she turned to the children.
"This is my great friend, Zane the Great," Kamara said.
"Ooh!" the children said.
"Yeah," Kamara agreed.
Zane groaned. "Do not call me that. How'd you even learn about that, anyway?"
Kamara smirked. "I talked to Claire."
"When?!" Zane exclaimed.
"I don't have to tell you," Kamara said teasingly.
"Is he your boyfriend?" one kid asked.
"Blech!" Kamara and Zane exclaimed at the same time, then they both laughed.
"No, we aren't dating," Kamara said. "Although we both have the same origins."
"Is he a god, too?" another kid asked.
Zane gave her a funny look, while Lamia Scale looked shocked.
Kamara laughed, then put a finger to her lips. "Who am I to tell?"
"OOH!" the children all exclaimed.
A woman laughed, walking over. "Miss Kamara, it's so good to see you alive and well."
Kamara smiled, bowing forward. The woman did as well.
"It's great to see you again, Miss Katuzi," Kamara said.
The woman blushed madly. "I-It's Mrs. Lubou' now."
"WHAT?" Kamara gasped. "I had no idea the two of you were even dating, let alone engaged and planning on getting married! Why didn't you tell me?!"
"We didn't know that you would be gone," the woman said shyly. "I'm sorry."
"You're gonna tell me every. Single. Detail." Kamara said.
"I will," the woman promised, then noticed the Lamia Scale mages. "Oh! You're back as well." She took out a pouch of money and gave it to them. "Thank you!" She turned to Kamara. "We were getting so worried that you were never going to come back, so we asked these mages to find you."
"I'm fine," Kamara said. "Although I would like to talk to you about something that happened three months ago."
"I see," the woman said. "Then consider a meeting already being planned."
Kamara smiled.
"Exactly what's going on?" Lyon asked.
Zane shrugged.
The woman looked at them, and Kamara turned to face them, standing next to the woman.
"Miss Kamara here has saved our small village from destruction so many times that it's seemed almost impossible for her to rebound from it, but she still makes sure everyone is safe," the woman said, gesturing grandly at Kamara. "We're in her debt so many times over that nobody has bothered to count. She only comes at night, which is why it's so surprising that she's in the light."
"Oh…" Sherria said. "That's pretty cool, I guess." She looked Kamara up and down. "You don't look like you'd be up for something like that-you're stronger than you look."
"What's that supposed to mean?" one kid asked.
Kamara laughed. "Don't worry-I take that as a compliment."
"You do?" the kid asked, looking at her.
Kamara nodded. "Pretty and strong. I like it. Goes nice with caring."
The kid smiled at her, and Kamara smiled back.
With others…
Almost all the remaining Celestialites found themselves joining guilds, just about all of them grouped with someone else that they had either gotten close to over the past couple of hundred of years or their counterpart from the other organization.
Of course, not all of them did.
Claire took a deep breath, holding her suitcase tightly.
"Are you sure about this?" Ophiuchus in human form-looks similar to Aquarius, but with a torn up dark green dress, black hair, dark green eyes, and a snake tail-asked, looking at Claire with concern in her eyes.
"I'm completely sure," Claire said, taking a deep breath. "I need to be able to face them again." She looked at Ophiuchus. "Please...can you...let him know?"
"Of course," Ophiuchus said. "But there must be some way around this!"
"There likely is, but I need to do this," Claire said, then started to walk. "I'm glad that you've been alright through the centuries, and thank you for seeing me off. Maybe we'll meet again someday." With that, Claire and Ophiuchus disappeared, heading for completely different destinations.
And that's the end of this fanfiction! What did you think?
Thank those that reviewed! And for favoriting this! And for following! And for reading all this no matter how annoying I probably got!
I've decided that I'm doing a semi-kind of sequel, but it won't be Fairy Tail. It's going to be Seven Deadly Sins-if you've seen Seven Deadly Sins, keep a lookout for that fanfiction, although it won't be up for a while. If you've seen Miraculous Ladybug, please read my fanfiction for that, and I'm going to be writing a one-shot! But here I am rambling on about my other fanfictions, when this was the first that I had started!
I'm excited about finishing this, but at the same time, I'm kinda excited to keep writing with the next one. So keep a lookout!
Thank you.
Lunetheart out.
