Present: What happens on Tenrou

A/N:

Back to the present!

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Evangeline sat on the second floor of the guild hall and watched the chaos of the month before S-Class nominations unfold. She remembered when she and Laxus had done the same. She smiled a little at this thought. That didn't mean she didn't hate the trials themselves because they pitted members against each other, but there wasn't really any other way. Well, there was, but it wasn't the Fairy Tail way. She carefully watched Cana, who she knew got pretty upset around this time of year. She would be nominated again this year, no doubt. That would make it the fifth year she was nominated.

Evangeline decided to listen in to Cana's thoughts to see why the younger woman was so upset, and as soon as she started listening, she was shocked. Apparently, Gildarts was Cana's father. Evangeline blinked, not sure what to think about the new information.

Said man sat down next to her and tried to figure out what had made Evangeline short-circuit.

"What's got you all concerned?" he asked her. She shook her head.

"Not my place to tell. I'd rather be divorced the rest of my life than spill this," she said seriously. Now it was Gildarts's turn to short-circuit.

"That personal, eh? I guess I'll figure it out eventually," he sighed. "God, for as much of an ass your husband was, at least he made this rush more entertaining."

"That he did. I remember when he made Freed take a job to take out a dark guild alone because he wanted his main strategist to be S-Class. That didn't end well. Freed ended up unable to compete in the trials because he was so beat up, and Laxus actually felt bad, even though he wouldn't admit it," Evangeline said, remembering the events of three years ago.

"Those were the days," he sighed. "I had two real arms."

"You know, if you didn't take that damn 100 year quest you wouldn't have lost it," Evangeline snorted.

"Yeah, yeah, I was bored," he complained. Evangeline gave him a look.

"I'm just glad I was able to keep you home long enough to go to my wedding. I'm surprised you weren't beating Gray for walking me down the aisle," she said. Gildarts shook his head.

"Wasn't my place. I'd wanted to for a while, but I knew that it was better if Gray did it. After all, he was always there while I couldn't be tied down in any one place for too long," he explained. Evangeline nodded.

"I'm glad you're back for now at least. I'll yell at you to come back when I eventually remarry my idiot," Evangeline said before laughing softly.

"Ah, yeah, don't worry, I'll be there. This time I'll walk you down the aisle. Maybe that's why you divorced, eh? To get two chances to get walked down the aisle?" Gildarts said, poking fun at her. Evangeline pouted.

"Shut up, old man," she complained. He smirked.

"Oh hush, you'll be begging me to come take care of your kids not too far in the future," he teased. Evangeline sent him a death glare, then Gildarts realized she could easily kill him and paled. Seeing his reaction, Evangeline relaxed.

"I'd never trust you with my children. There'd be hundreds of toy soldier sized ones running around after you accidentally use your magic on them. Also, I'd want my babies close to home. I don't want them to become adventure seekers," she said, perfectly calm. Gildarts paused for a moment, then left. He decided he didn't like it when Evangeline talked about children. She laughed as he walked away.

"You know, that's kind of mean, Ev," Mira said as she walked up the stairs.

"Ah, yeah, well, he deserves it," Evangeline said. Mira rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, I heard babies. Babies?" Mira said as she got hearts in her eyes. "I can see it now. First there's going to be a boy that looks just like his daddy, then two girls, then another boy."

"Mira, I'm not having four kids," Evangeline sighed. Mira pouted.

"But you two would make the most beautiful babies," she whined. Evangeline sent a half-hearted glare at the woman.

"Sure, whatever you say. Anyway, that is far off in future as he is currently expelled, remember? No babies shall be made until AT EARLIEST after he's back and we've remarried," Evangeline said as she crossed her arms. She felt Mira get sad at first, then she got super happy.

"That means it will happen then," Mira exclaimed before she shot off down the stairs. Evangeline then realized that her grandfather-in-law was also listening.

"Evangeline, why do you do this to me?" he complained. "He's banished. I banished him and now I don't get great grandbabies until I let him back. How could you make that rule!"

Evangeline sighed. "So, you'd want me to be mostly alone with a baby with him not able to come visit? You and I both know that's not what we want, nor what anyone else would want. So that's why I said what I did. We're still only 23. That's still really young."

"I gave you five years, and those five years are up! I should banish you too!" he said, pointing at her and narrowing his eyes. Evangeline rolled her eyes.

"Go pester Levy and Gajeel instead of me," she sighed. Then, they both laughed.

"Ah, those two, dancing around each other. You are Mira will have to do something about that," he said. Evangeline considered for a moment, but then shook her head.

"I think it'll happen on its own. I think we need to let it happen how it does. It feels like it's important," Evangeline muttered the last part so only he could hear. His eyes hardened.

"Bad things are coming?" he asked. She nodded.

"That's all I can say. I won't risk changing this," she said.

"When did you see it?" he asked, curious as to when she had a vision.

"Last week, so not long ago. I saw this one very clearly and how events needed to play out. It'll be fine," she said, smiling slightly. He nodded, then went back to his office. Evangeline decided that she was going to go on a job of her own.

She picked an S-Class job that was nearby, close enough that she'd be able to teleport there. The job itself was to take out a demon, which for most would be considered difficult, but for someone with a demon inside her, it was super easy. The demon was terrorizing settlements around the base of Mt. Hakobe. She walked down to the first floor with the job.

"Hey Mira, I'm taking this one," Evangeline said as she showed Mira the job. Mira nodded.

"I'll see you back in two days then," Mira said as she waved to her friend, who walked out the door. Mira made sure to put through that Evangeline had taken the job and would be there within a few hours.

Evangeline teleported to the base of Mt. Hakobe and frowned. It was cold. Which she should have expected. She sighed, then walked around to find the person who posted the job. It was the chief of a small village on the south side of the mountain.

"Thank you for arriving so quickly," the chief said. "This demon has been causing problems for a few weeks. We didn't post the job sooner because we didn't know if the stories were true, but one day it came close enough to the village to see. Please help us!"

"Of course. I'll have it dealt with by evening if I can find it," Evangeline said as she smiled to the chief.

"Thank you, Miss?" he asked, not knowing her name.

"Evangeline Dreyar," she said, smiling a bit brighter when she found herself using her married name.

"Ah, yes, I knew I recognized your face. Your wedding was very popular in the paper here, Mrs. Dreyar. Thank you again," he said as Evangeline left to track the demon.

It was a few hours later when she caught onto its negative energy. Then, something interesting happened.

"Yep, that's a lesser demon alright," she heard in her head. It was Aspen. Both of them paused.

"Did you just… Think to me?" Evangeline said in her mind.

"I think I did," Aspen replied.

"Well, that's one more issue fixed, then," Evangeline thought.

"It's weird that it happened now, randomly," Aspen said to her, but neither of them where going to complain. This made training a lot easier.

"So, it's a lesser demon? And a real demon, not one of Zeref's?" Evangeline asked.

"This is a lesser Ice Demon, so it won't be too hard to take out. You could probably beat it with Ice Make, really," Aspen said. Evangeline was confused.

"If it's an Ice Demon, shouldn't it take less damage if any from its own element?" Evangeline asked.

"Yes. It will take less damage. But that just goes to show how weak it is, especially compared to you. Gray might have some trouble, but he'd still win. Now, go kill that thing. It's invaded my territory and I want it gone," Aspen told her, and Evangeline was happy to oblige.

She found it tearing through a forest to get to another settlement when she stopped it.

"Hey, over here you icy bitch!" Evangeline shouted. The demon stopped and turned to her.

"Ice Make: Lance," she cast at the demon. The lanced pierced the demon's flesh, and it screamed.

"Ice Make: Thorns."

"Ice Make: Ice Ray." With that, the demon was dead. Evangeline went closer to the demon and sawed off an icy horn to prove her kill to the village, then sent the demon's body to Hell where it belonged.

She returned to the village late in the evening. The villagers were anxiously waiting for her to return and were quite happy when they saw her walking through the gates with the demon's horn.

"Thank you, Evangeline Dreyar. We are in your debt," the chief said as he gave her the reward.

"I'm glad I was able to help," she said.

"Do you really have a real demon sealed inside of you?" a child asked her. She turned to face the child and nodded.

"I do. She's not scary to anyone unless they do something bad, like this demon. My demon doesn't like it when another demon comes to Earthland. Earthland is her territory," Evangeline explained as simply as she could. The child that asked the question's eyes lit up.

"That's so cool! Thank you, Miss Demon!" the child said before running back to her home.

"Ah, I apologize. The young ones never think before they speak," the chief started to apologize, but Evangeline stopped him.

"I actually like the term, or rather, my demon does. She's started to like humans more now that I'm her host," Evangeline said. "Better than many of my other nicknames by far."

"I have heard rumors that you've been called The Goddess of Fairy Tail. I believe that title suits you much better. Please, rest here for the night. It is late," the chief said. Evangeline agreed, then made her way to the small inn in the settlement and slept for the night. She returned to Magnolia the next morning.

"I wasn't expecting you back for another day still," Mira said as Evangeline took a seat at the bar.

"It was much easier than I expected. Aspen told me it was a weak demon even by demon standards," Evangeline said.

"She can talk to you through the seal now?" Mira blinked. Evangeline nodded.

"We don't know why it suddenly happened, but it might be like my thought magic. Just had to be the right time and the right mindset," Evangeline speculated. Mira nodded. It was most likely true.

"So, when is the announcement?" Evangeline asked.

"Two days. Poor Lucy will probably need someone to take her on a well-paying job before that because she's short on rent money again," Mira said. Evangeline looked over to the blonde woman, then nodded.

"I'll bring her on another S-Class. There was another demon job, and I'm sure Aspen will be able to tell me what strength it is before I even take it," Evangeline said. She went upstairs and pulled a demon hunting job near where Lullaby was destroyed.

"It's a more powerful demon, but it won't be a problem for you. It will be nice to have Lucy along for the support. Sagittarius will be the most helpful spirit for this demon, as it tends to fight close range because it has a magical shield that blocks close contact spells and damage," Aspen explained. Evangeline nodded once then took the job to Mira before grabbing Lucy.

"Lucy, we are going on an S-Class job in Clover. How fast can you be ready to leave?" Evangeline asked the blonde. Lucy sighed in relief.

"Ah, thank you, Evangeline, I'll make my rent… Wait did you say S-Class? I don't know if that's a good idea," Lucy mumbled. Evangeline shook her head and laughed.

"You're coming with me, Lucy. Everything will be fine. Worst case scenario is I let Aspen do all the work!"

"Fine," Lucy sighed. "Virgo has a bag already packed for me. I suppose we are teleporting?"

"You betcha!"

Lucy was amazed at just how powerful Evangeline was. She hadn't seen her fight except the Phantom Lord war, but even then, she wasn't really using her own power. The two females returned to the guild the day of S-Class announcements with their split of the reward in hand.

"Ah, Evangeline, I was worried you wouldn't make it back in time," Master said. Evangeline stared.

"Since when have I missed S-Class announcements? Also, I said I'd be back, so here I am. I didn't want Lucy to miss it, either. It's an experience, that's for sure," Evangeline said.

"I'll be announcing in two hours. I'm assuming you've already pulled the list from my head, though," Master said, winking at her. She laughed and nodded.

"It's a good group this year," was all she said before she made her way over to the bar to talk to Mira.

"Welcome back!' Mira said to her as she placed a glass of water in front of her friend.

"Thanks, Mira," Evangeline replied, then taking a drink from her cup.

"How was the job?" Mira asked her, curious to hear what had happened.

"It was good. Lucy got to see more of me in action, and she also contributed when she needed to and knew when to let me do the fighting. I wouldn't be surprised if she's nominated next year," Evangeline said. Mira nodded. Lucy was intelligent, but her team usually didn't let her fight much. Evangeline let Lucy fight when she wanted to, and Lucy knew when to back off and be support. That would do her well in the S-Class exams in the future.

"I'm glad! I was a bit worried because sometimes she isn't allowed to make her own decisions on when to do things on jobs," Mira said.

"I noticed she was hesitant after I told her that she got to decide when to do things unless I said otherwise, but after a while she got the hang of it. I hope that she gets more of a spine to her before she starts working with her team again. They try and protect her too much," Evangeline said.

"It'll be good for her to go on more solo jobs as well," Mira said. Evangeline nodded in agreement.

"Indeed," Evangeline said. "Think I can get a burger and fries? I didn't eat yet today."

"Of course! I'll get that ready if you can take over the bar?" Evangeline nodded and took over for Mira for a few minutes. Evangeline liked working at the bar and talking to everyone. About twenty minutes later, Evangeline's food was ready, and she eagerly ate. She was hungrier than she had thought when she finished her food and was still hungry. She didn't have enough time to get something else because the announcement was going to start any minute now. She hadn't realized how long she was at the bar and that two hours had already passed.

"Attention brats! It is now time to announce the names of those who are nominated for the S-Class trials this year! There will be 8 participants: Freed Justine, Cana Alberona, Natsu Dragneel, Gray Fullbuster, Levy McGarden, Elfman Strauss, Juvia Lockser, and Mest Gryder. All candidates are allowed to pick a partner for the trial, so long as the partner is not currently an S-Class mage. That means that Evangeline, Erza, Mira, and Gildarts are unavailable to be your partners. You will be facing them in the trials. You have one week before we leave for our sacred island. Good luck to you all," Master announced. Everyone cheered for those that were nominated, although many had hoped for a nomination and didn't get it. They could always work harder next year.

Evangeline watched as Natsu and Happy took off before she could talk to them. Loke appeared on his own power and told Lucy he would have to suspend their contract for the trials, so long as nothing happened. Gray and Loke then also took off. Freed grabbed Bickslow, as expected, but the surprise came when Evergreen told Elfman she would be his partner. Juvia had wanted to team up with Gray, but thankfully Lisanna pulled Juvia away before she could withdraw. Levy was whisked away by Gajeel, which made Evangeline smile. Those two had been dancing around each other for a while. Finally, Mest asked Wendy to be his partner. Evangeline got a funny feeling about him. She didn't remember ever seeing him, and she had a damn good memory.

Over the next few minutes, the only person who hadn't grabbed a partner was Cana, who had disappeared. Evangeline felt bad for Cana. She hoped that this year she would decide to tell Gildarts that he was her father, but she didn't think it would happen. She'd been at the guild for so many years and had seen him so many times, but she never thought she was good enough to be his daughter. Evangeline knew that he would be very happy to learn he did have a kid of his own instead of just his 'fake kids.'

Master then called all S-Class mages into his office.

"The plan is that Mirajane, Erza, and Gildarts will stand in the way of the contestants on three paths, two paths will have contestants fight each other, and finally there will be a quiet path. Phase two will be to find Master Mavis's grave, as usual. Finally, phase three will eliminate the partners, and have contestants fight each other in a bracket. The last person standing will fight Evangeline the next day, depending on how injured everyone is. We might have to wait two days. Does everyone understand?" Master said. Everyone in the room nodded. They were excited to get trials going again. It would be an interesting year.

Evangeline found out through the grape vine that Cana had teamed up with Lucy for the S-Class trials. She was excited to find this out because Lucy might be able to get Cana to tell Gildarts the secret she had been keeping for so many years.

Now, everyone was on the boat. Natsu, as usual, was as sick as a dog. It didn't help that it was extremely hot. Evangeline felt that they were getting close to the island and teleported onto the island near the traditional camp point. From there, she waited. She was surprised that she was waiting a while until Levy and Gajeel showed up. They were the first to arrive.

"Damn quiet path," Gajeel grumbled when Evangeline looked at the pair questioningly. Then, they went off and disappeared to who knows where, most likely to look around the island. Next, Natsu and Happy arrived. This surprised Evangeline because she knew he had gotten Gildarts's path. It's never hard to tell where either of them is fighting because of both mages destructive magic.

Then, Gray and Loke came out, having fought Mest and Wendy. Mest and Wendy came out after and left the area to go explore. Gray and Loke stayed around camp.

The next ones out were Cana and Lucy, followed by Freed and Bickslow. Cana and Lucy had beaten Freed and Bickslow. Although she felt bad for her friends, she was happy that Cana was doing well. Not everyone would pass, and sometimes no one did. That's just how S-Class trials worked. You had to impress Master and the S-Class mages in order to pass.

Erza emerged from her path, having defeated Juvia and Lisanna. Evangeline sighed to this. Erza didn't know the meaning of restraint. Juvia was an S-Class wizard in Phantom Lord, and she would be a good addition to the S-Class group of Fairy Tail members. The last pair that everyone was waiting for was Elfman and Evergreen.

Surprisingly, they passed. They had Mira, and Mira was not someone who was going to go easy, even if Elfman was her brother. If anything, she went harder because she didn't want him to pass too easily and possibly get hurt on a job. She scanned their thoughts and memories to see what had happened, then burst out laughing when she found what she as looking for. Mira passed out when Elfman and evergreen bluffed that they were getting married.

A few minutes later, everyone was gathered at the campsite, with the exception of those that had lost. Freed and Bickslow would return to the mainland with Gildarts, and the rest would stay to cheer on their friends. Master explained phase two, and the remaining contestants were off. Evangeline knew that this was when everything would go south. Grimore Heart was about to show up.

Evangeline had seen the events of the attack and was happy that they won. She knew she had to fight Bluenote Stinger, a gravity mage. It wouldn't be a great match for her in the long run. She couldn't dodge. She didn't have much of a counter except for using lightning to teleport around, but she knew the fight would end in her favor. Gildarts would join in the fight and end it, leaving Evangeline with most of her magic power intact. She saw that Hades was defeated, and that was the end of that. She knew that everyone would get injured, but this was a fight that needed to happen. She didn't dare risk changing what needed to happen. She didn't want anyone to die.

Evangeline made her way to where she knew her fight would take place and waited. She sat on the ground and meditated, letting herself be pulled by Aspen into their shared mindspace.

"Are you ready?" Aspen asked her.

"I am. I know what to expect, and I know how the events will go. This is a curse on me, truthfully. I'd rather not know," Evangeline said.

"Knowledge is power, Evangeline. There will be a time where knowing how the future is will lead you to change it again. You'll know when it is time to use your gift to make a better future. Regardless of if you understand it now, there's a reason why you see versions of the future. Being a mortal, you wouldn't quiet understand. You haven't lived as long as I have," Aspen said, putting a hand on Evangeline's shoulder. Evangeline had nothing to say in response. Aspen was being unusually sagely. She knew something that Evangeline didn't about the future. Something bad.

"Now, go. Your opponent has arrived," Aspen said, tossing Evangeline out of the mindspace.

"So, this is the Demon Evangeline? A bit of a name contradiction, isn't it?" Bluenote said as he approached her.

"I suppose. I've thought of it before, but I let it go. If my title is Demon, then I will embrace it," Evangeline replied, opening her eyes, but not yet moving.

"Curious, your ability to let go. Perhaps if I turn up the gravity, you won't be able to let go of the fact that Fairy Tail is about to be destroyed," Bluenote said as he activated his gravity magic. Evangeline felt the pull of the land on her and took a deep breath.

"I guess that means I can't change your mind. Well, this will give me a chance to let go of my control," Evangeline smirked. She released her magic aura, causing Bluenote to stop his magic.

"I didn't know there was another SS-Class worthy in Fairy Tail aside from Gildarts Clive. I was hoping to be able to fight him today instead, but you will suffice," Bluenote said, sounding a bit… off. Odd. Weird. Evangeline decided that in this instance, it was good that she knew what to do and what would happen.

"I'd thought I was more well known, at least among dark guilds. Oh well, I've been out of commission for a year, so I'll forgive you. Now, shall we?" Evangeline said as she stood up and turned to face her opponent.

"Let's go. It'll be a shame if you don't survive very long," Bluenote said as he activated his magic again.

"Obsidian Spears," Evangeline cast, sending the dark shards at Bluenote. Bluenote dodged by changing gravity on himself before casting his own spell.

"Fall," he said. Evangeline then felt an immense pressure pulling her down. The ground itself looked like it was moving under the force of gravity as well. Evangeline grit her teeth and decided to teleport outside the range of the attack for her next spell.

A storm started to form in the sky above Tenrou Island and sparked with lightning. The lightning turned red as she changed the magic content of the storm to suit her attack.

"Red Lightning Blade," she cast, and a giant beam of red lightning struck down where Bluenote was. Thankfully, she knew that this attack landed and would allow for Gildarts to win the battle. About one hundred meters of forest was blown away from her attack.

"My, I wasn't expecting that. I suppose I should have, given some would call you the Lightning Empress, the reason that the Lightning Empress Armor was created. My, my, I suppose I should make you fly up into your lightning storm," Bluenote said as he changed the gravity force on her to be much lighter. She started floating up, then teleported away. Gildarts had arrived, and from here she wasn't to interfere.

"There's the man I had hoped to fight. The Lightning Empress was decent enough. I haven't a clue where she went. She was flying, but then she fell," Bluenote said, addressing Gildarts.

"So, you fought Evangeline, eh? She's around and she's fine. She knows where she needs to be right now, and decided to leave this fight to me," Gildarts said. "Now, I do have to punish you for invading sacred Fairy Tail grounds, and also hurting my god-daughter. No one gets to do that."

With that, the battle started. Evangeline watched as Gildarts struggled to figure out how to counter gravity magic. A few large hills ended up getting destroyed, and eventually Evangeline was getting worried because he was struggling, but she didn't move.

Gildarts defeated Bluenote with Crushing Evil, Spreading the Truth: Empyrean. Evangeline knew it was time to go back to camp to regroup with everyone else. She emerged from the tree line so that Gildarts would see her. He nodded to her, knowing she did what she saw in her vision. They returned to the camp to find their guildmates beaten and bruised, but not ready to give up. This is when Evangeline realized something was off. Something was different. Master, in her vision, was fine and ready to fight Hades. Now, he was down and out for the count.

Evangeline started shaking. Gildarts looked at her, concerned.

"It's different," she said. "It's different and I don't know why, or how, or what happened." This made everyone freeze.

"I thought only your actions dictated the future?" Levy said, growing worried herself.

"I thought so. I did exactly what I did in my vision, and something is still different. I don't know how this day will end anymore," Evangeline said, falling onto her knees.

"Don't give up, Ev," Natsu's voice echoed through their campsite. She looked up at him, tears in her eyes.

"Don't give up just because something is different. Don't give up on us," Natsu repeated.

"I.. The last time-" she started, but Natsu cut her off again.

"That was then, this is now, Evangeline. Maybe that's what was supposed to happen, and what you saw was supposed to make you change that future. The rest of us won't give up until they are beaten. We are Fairy Tail, Evangeline. We don't let visions of the future and deviations from that future to tell us what tomorrow will bring. We are going to win, Evangeline, and we won't lose anyone along the way. Now, stand up, and get ready to fight. We need you," Natsu said, his magic radiating off of him. Slowly, Evangeline nodded, and got to her feet.

"We fight to make tomorrow possible," she whispered, and Natsu nodded.

"We need to take out Hades. Wendy, Lucy, Gray, Erza, Evangeline, I need you. Will you help me?" Natsu asked the group. One by one, they all nodded. The group then started the trek to Hades. She noticed Gray was quieter than usual, and was injured, and she didn't know what had happened. She hung back to talk to him.

"Gray? What happened?" she asked softly. Gray grimaced.

"Ultear. My master's daughter. She's alive. She was one of the seven kin of purgatory. Ur thought she was dead. Ultear had magic overload as a child, and Ur gave her to a magic institution that said they could help. A while later, they said that Ultear was dead, even though she wasn't. She was used as an experiment. She escaped and found Ur but saw that Lyon and I were with her and she felt replaced. She hated her mother and both me and Lyon. Everything is okay now, though. She fell into the ocean, where her mother's spirit now survives. It's just… a lot to process," Gray told her. Evangeline sent him a sympathetic smile but decided not to comment yet because she knew him. He needed longer to process what happened.

"Who did you fight?" Wendy asked from ahead of her. The small slayer had heard them talking, of course.

"Bluenote Stinger. I could have taken him out, but according to what I saw… I let Gildarts do it. Everything went according to it. But Aspen told me that I shouldn't necessarily listen and believe the visions. That sometimes I need to change them. I need to dig into the visions more after we get home," she said.

"What magic did he use?" Wendy asked again.

"Gravity magic. I thought I'd have a harder time countering, but with my lightning teleport I was able to attack without really any injuries. I've got a few scratches, but I've got most of my magic still. I'm glad I can help you take down Hades," Evangeline said. They saw that an airship was right off of the cliff.

"Get ready, everyone. Let's go," Erza said from the front of the group.

The start of the battle shook Evangeline to her core. Aspen was silent. Wendy was almost destroyed by dark magic. Hades proceeded to attack and beat down every other member that had gone to fight him.

"Ah, Demon Evangeline. I suppose it's time to take you out as well so I can get that demon. I must say, I wasn't expecting you to kill everyone I sent after you. I miscalculated how powerful you'd be with her power," Hades remarked, focusing on her.

"I don't use her for the hunters. That's all me," Evangeline said, her voice dark and dangerous. Her magic shifted from neutral to dark. The dark magic started swirling around her.

"Oh ho, look at this. Looks like this will be a battle of dark against dark," Hades sent her a twisted smile as he readied his magic. Evangeline requipped her magic cancelling sword.

"You've hurt my friends. My family. You've invaded sacred land to desecrate it. You have destroyed the tree that gives this island life. You will pay for my family's pain," Evangeline growled before launching herself at Hades.

Meanwhile, everyone who hadn't seen Evangeline completely serious in battle, so Lucy and Wendy, found themselves very scared.

"It'll be okay," Gray said from where he was laying. The girls looked at him.

"She won't let any harm come to us so long as she's standing," Erza added.

"Even though her magic is dark, she uses it for light," Natsu finished. Wendy and Lucy calmed down.

"Obsidian Binding: Lucifer's Cage," Evangeline cast, attempting to trap Hades in a cage that could drain his magic. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

"Obsidian Seals, eh? I must say, I wasn't expecting that from you," Hades taunted. "Too bad it's not enough." He sent a string of attacks at her.

"Obsidian Dome."

"Do you really think you can win, Evangeline?"

"Evangeline, you can't let him win," Aspen told her. "He'll kill you trying to get me out of you."

"I don't plan on losing," Evangeline said, speaking to both Aspen and Hades. It was time for her strongest spell. She sent a blast of lightning through the ceiling of the ship, then let her magic take over. Red lightning started sparking around her through her dark magic that was still swirling around her. A massive storm formed overhead, and Hades's mask cracked. He was worried.

"Hear me, Oh heralds of the heavens. Grant me the power to rid this place of taint. Let blood run red as your holy lightning. Bend and break the bodies of my enemies. Vanquish them from my earthly plain. Lightning's Heavenly Herald's Purgatory Ray," Evangeline cast, using all her magic in the spell. Her guildmates all over the island felt the blast, and none except Gildarts could stay standing from the immense amount of magic power that came from the attack.

"Holy shit," Gajeel ground out from his place on the ground.

"How does she have so much magic," Levy asked, feeling faint from the magic.

"She's more powerful than me," Gildarts said. He was starting to sweat under her magic pressure. "I'm surprised she wasn't made a Wizard Saint already. She'd beat Makarov in a serious battle any day. This is the most powerful spell she knows. She made it up herself. She has the ability to create her own spells on the spot when she lets her magic take control."

"I'm never pissing her off. Ever," Gajeel sighed.

Back at the ship, the giant bolt struck Hades, or at least, that's what everyone thought. Evangeline collapsed down onto the ground, letting out a breath she had been holding. It was over. But then the debris cloud cleared to show Hades standing unharmed.

"Well, well, I was actually scared. But now you are out of magic and no one else is coming to save you. The Demon Goddess Lilith will be mine!" Hades cackled. He gathered dark magic in his fist and was ready to strike when something smacked him away with a yellow light.

Standing there in front of her was Laxus.

"So, you're the one who took out my gramps. Now you've got the nerve to go after my wife," he growled at Hades. Laxus was royally pissed. "I think you're asking for death."

"So, you're Makarov's grandson, eh? I'll take you down just like I took him out, but I'll make sure to keep you alive so you can watch me take the demon out of that woman," Hades said, readying for another fight.

Evangeline couldn't believe he was there. He was there. He came back. He was there to save her this time. She watched him fight Hades but didn't even have enough magic to use her main, born magic. Unfortunately, he got hit by one of Hades's seals. Natsu was showing signs of getting slightly better, and Laxus gave him the rest of his magic with his lightning.

Evangeline couldn't stand. She hadn't spent all of her magic like this in many, many years. She struggled to try and get up and fight with her friends, but Laxus, who was next to her, grabbed her hand.

"Let them protect you, Ev," he told her. She looked over at him and nodded.

"Just this once," she said as she closed her eyes and smiled.

Finally, Hades was down, but then he activated the Demon's Heart. Evangeline knew they would die if he cast anything. Laxus let go of her hand and nodded to her. The Tenrou tree had revived, and her magic was coming back. She had to get up and fight.

Just before Evangeline made it to her feet, and just before Hades cast a spell, something exploded. Hades's attack didn't work, and he was left confused. Evangeline searched for whatever did it and found out that the three exceeds had managed to destroy the Demon's Heart power core. Evangeline finally stood and faced Hades again. She took a deep breath in and felt magic start to pour into her body. This time, instead of dark magic swirling around her, light magic was.

"Hades. This is over," Evangeline said, her voice sounded ethereal, almost like she was an angel. "You have caused those two were once your comrades to suffer and shall now be judged. I hereby invoke one of the Three Great Magics of Fairy Tail… Fairy Law." A bright white light blinded everyone in the room, and when it cleared, Hades was laying on the ground, defeated. The light magic around Evangeline dissipated and the members of Fairy Tail got up and returned to the campsite.

Team Natsu, Evangeline, and Laxus arrived back at the campsite and everyone was staring at them.

"What the hell kind of magic power do you have," Gajeel said. He was the first to speak. Evangeline burst out laughing.

"Sorry you guys felt that, I kind of forget my own power sometimes. Not that it mattered really… Somehow, he didn't get hit, and that was my strongest attack," Evangeline sighed.

"It hit," Laxus said from beside her. She turned to him with a questioning gaze.

"No, it didn't," she insisted. Laxus shook his head.

"You were exhausted, but I noticed. He would have gone down within a few minutes regardless of if you used Fairy Law or not. For some reason it was damaging him over time through his magic system," Laxus explained. She narrowed her eyes.

"And how did you figure that out?" she asked.

"He was sparking with red lightning," Erza spoke up. "It was constant, but it got much worse whenever he channeled his magic."

"It's not supposed to do that," Evangeline sighed. "It's supposed to be a 100% annihilation spell that can destroy a whole continent." Everyone blinked except for Laxus and Gildarts, both of which snorted at her statement.

"Way to be casual about destroying a continent, Ev," Gildarts said.

"Wait, you used Fairy Law?" Levy asked, pulling everyone back.

"I did. The First granted it to me after Fantasia," Evangeline said, and Laxus tensed slightly beside her. She felt his emotions start to take a negative turn and she gently coaxed the bad feelings away. She tightened her grip on his hand.

"And you didn't think to tell your grandfather-in-law?" Master spoke from behind all of them. She and Laxus both froze.

"Sorry, Gramps. I kinda honestly forgot?" Evangeline said, her voice much higher than normal.

"Forgot about a sacred magic!? I guess now was a good time to remember at least. And you," he said, turning his attention to Laxus. "What are you doing on sacred Fairy Tail grounds when you are still expelled!?"

Evangeline made sure to note the 'still' that he had said.

"I came to pay my respects to the first. I also felt like something was wrong. Then I saw the storm, and here I am," Laxus said.

"Well we don't need help! The problem has been solved, now go," Master crossed his arms and looked away from the two. Everyone laughed and the groups started to separate.

Master walked away and indicated for Evangeline to follow. She knew that the Raijinshu was going to mob Laxus, and she also knew that Cana was finally going to tell Gildarts that he was her father. She had no idea what Gramps wanted to talk about.

"So, the First granted you Fairy Law?" he asked. She nodded.

"I don't know why, though. I thought only the Dreyar bloodline was able to use it," Evangeline said. Makarov nodded.

"With the exception of those the First deems worthy of receiving it. You were deemed worthy by the First. This brings me to my point now. I'd like to pass on the title of Master to you sometime soon," he said. Evangeline froze.

"You… You can't be serious. Me? Be Master of Fairy Tail?" she said. He shook his head.

"Contrary to what you think, you are more than capable of taking care of the guild. You have the heart and the head for it. It wouldn't be right away. I'd likely name Gildarts as Master for as long as he'll stay, then ask that he might pass it to you. I think he might stick around for a while at least this time," he told her. Evangeline sighed.

"I'll do whatever you think is best, but I don't think I'm the right person for the job. It's too early to consider me when there is a much better option," Evangeline protested, and he knew exactly who she was talking about.

"Do you really think he'd be a good Master of the guild?" he asked, skeptical of Laxus still after the shitshow he caused.

"Yes. He's different, Gramps. He's the same person I fell in love with again. He's the person who took care of newborn Romeo with me every day for three months where we didn't sleep. He took care of that baby with me even though he had no reason to. He'll be the same to the guild. He saved me today, Gramps. He saved us all today. Please, give him another chance. He deserves that much," Evangeline said, then left the area and went back to find Laxus.

She found him sitting next to Gildarts. She didn't want to get to close yet because she knew Gildarts needed to talk to Laxus. She made sure she was close enough to hear what was said, though.

"So, not only did you keep a secret from your wife, you then hurt her, then got divorced from her, then decided to make everyone in the guild fight each other, and then got expelled? What a loser," Gildarts said with a stupid grin on his face. Laxus scowled.

"At least I didn't have my kid right under my nose for what, 12 years and then proceed to list of EVERY WOMAN I'd ever slept with in a desperate attempt to figure out who her mother was," Laxus retorted.

"I certainly hope not, one of us being that stupid is enough," Gildarts sighed.

"Aye," Laxus sighed as well. Gildarts turned to his serious mode.

"So, what's your plan now?" Gildarts asked him. "Because I'm not letting you break my god-daughter's heart again. I shouldn't be letting you live, honestly, but unfortunately I think she'd be mad at me for killing you right now."

"I'll stick around Magnolia at least and wait for Gramps to let me back in. He did say 'still expelled' so," Laxus started. Gildarts nodded.

"I'll work on it. Anything else," Gildarts asked.

"Marry her again. I was an idiot. Honestly, she deserves a hell of a lot more than me, but she's too stubborn. I wouldn't be with anyone else. She wouldn't either. Go home, settle down, grow up finally," Laxus said, closing his eyes and thinking about the future might hold. Evangeline absentmindedly felt for the rings around her neck, then noticed that they weren't there. She started to freak out until Laxus pulled them out of his pocket.

"She's probably gunna beat my ass for stealing these, but I had to," Laxus said, holding up the rings.

"Yeap, she's going to freak when she realizes she doesn't have them," Gildarts confirmed, nodding his head.

"Well, I'll be back," Laxus said as he stood and made his way over to Evangeline to pull her away from the group. There were still too many people around.

Evangeline and Laxus settled just a bit away from everyone else. They didn't want to get too far away but wanted some privacy.

"So," Evangeline said, sitting down on the ground below a tree.

"So," Laxus repeated, sitting down next to her.

"How've you been?" Evangeline asked. She looked over to him.

"Not great, but been worse," he said. He looked over at her.

"Same here," she replied. They were silent for a few moments and looked in front of them so they couldn't see each other's faces.

"I hate this," he muttered.

"Me too," Evangeline whispered.

"I hate being strangers. We've never been like this. I don't want us to be like this anymore," he said, his voice cracking.

"I agree," Evangeline said, smiling sadly, tears coming to her eyes.

"I'll never let us get this far again, Ev. I've been dying inside for over a year. I know it's been even worse for you. I don't ever want to be apart from you again as long as I live," he said. Evangeline moved closer to him and rested her head on his shoulder.

"I'd probably send your soul to Hell for a few years if you tried to," she said, letting her tears roll down her face. To anyone else, this conversation might seem… Really weird. But to them, it was exactly what they needed.

"I took your ring so I could ask you again, but you already knew that."

"Mhmm."

"So?"

"So, what? I'm expecting a legitimate proposal like the first time."

"Yeah, well, this is what you get the second time around."

"Well, I think I'll take it."

Everyone else was listening from the trees nearby. They had seen the two try and sneak off. They just wanted to see what happened, and the pervs were hoping for a lot more than they got. However, everyone was happy when they heard the two starting to talk. The whole conversation was so… them. It was right for who they both were: Broken kids who loved each other. Even if they weren't kids anymore.

"Well, I can relax again now," Gildarts said as he turned to leave the group that was stalking.

"Same here. Sis will be happy. Even if I don't like him even more than I used to dislike him," Gray sighed, and followed Gildarts. Slowly, everyone left the two to live in their own little world for a bit. Finally, they rejoined the group, and that's when Laxus noticed Lisanna.

"You're like… Alive?" Laxus said, not really able to say words. Lisanna nodded.

"I never died. Edolas me died. I got sucked into a portal called Anima that sucked me to Edolas, which is like a parallel universe. Mystogan is the Edolas Jellal. He's actually the king now. Anyway, I spent those two years in Edolas. Then, all of Magnolia was sucked up in a huge Anima and Evvie-chan ended up at Fairy Tail there, where she met Edolas you. That was… Interesting. Then a lot of other things happened like the slayers fighting a mechanical dragon and finally Mystogan reversed the Anima and destroyed the machine so we could go home, and now I'm here!" Lisanna said. Laxus blinked.

"Well then," he said.

"You really aren't good with words anymore, are you?" Evangeline teased. He rolled his eyes at her comment, and then Evangeline noticed that Mira was bright red in the face. She went over to her friend to figure out what was wrong.

"Mira? What happened?" Evangeline asked.

"I, uh, I…" Mira couldn't really form a sentence. What was with everyone and not being able to speak?

"Mira. Spit it out."

"Well you and Laxus are together again and you're like, grown up now and trying to settle down in the future and then I got to thinking about the babies, and ohhh the babies," Mira rambled, and Evangeline decided that was a great time to back away slowly. Laxus had moved away from Lisanna after making sure she was actually real, then found Evangeline sneaking away.

"What did Mira do now?" he asked her, looking in the direction of the She-Demon.

"Us being together and getting married again. I presume you understand where her mind went next," Evangeline sighed. Laxus sighed as well.

"Well, I guess that's Mira for you," Laxus said. Evangeline nodded.

"As long as this isn't something that happens more than once a week, it'll be fine," she said.

Suddenly, Evangeline got a really bad feeling of dread. Then they heard the roar. After that, everything happened so fast that Evangeline couldn't really keep up. One moment everything was great, then there was a dragon. THE dragon. The Dragon King, The Black Dragon of the Apocalypse, Acnologia.

She knew Laxus had picked her up and started running for the ship to get out of there, then everything changed, and everyone was running back to fight the dragon. Then, the dragon flew up into the air.

"It's going to roar," Gajeel said.

"Everyone focus your magic to Levy and Freed for their defensive spells. Hold hands, make a circle," someone called out. Evangeline didn't remember who it was.

She was next to Laxus, and he grabbed onto her right hand. She looked down and saw he was wearing his ring, and she smiled slightly. At least they'd die together.

"I love you," she told him, desperate to say it one more time.

"I love you, too," he said. Then the dragon roared.

And everything went black.

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A/N:

Oookay, that's Tenrou. I really tried to power through this chapter to get it up because I'm super inspired for this story right now. Sorry this is a bit shorter than other chapters, but I'm happy with where I put things. There are a few changes to the original story line because Natsu didn't fight Bluenote. Other things might be different, but I'm trying my best to go based off the Fairy Tail wiki. Thanks for reading!