"That was so awesome!" Nashi gushed. "You totally kicked Uncle Gray's butt! He was like 'Ice make this' and you were all 'Fire Dragon that'" She mimicked their moves in illustration. Never in her time was there such fun fights. She and Lyon were the only two that ever really tested their skills against each other, and they both knew better than to fight inside the guild hall under Erza's watchful eyes.

"Uncle Gray's magic is so much faster now, since he used both hands. But he was no match for those flames…I wish I could do fire magic that." Natsu chuckled proudly at his daughter's complements, then turned to look at her confused.

"Why can't you? I thought you were a fire dragon slayer?" He asked, thinking maybe he had gotten the wrong impression from her scent.

"Oh no, I'm a fire dragon slayer. I just have trouble controlling it sometimes." She admitted. "Last time I took a job, I ended up destroying a whole town."

"ha, so what?" Natsu said. She looked up in surprise, having expected him to scold or lecture her like everyone else had. "I've destroyed plenty of towns, no big deal."

"You have?"

"Yeah, actually the first time I met your mom, we ended up getting run out of town. Between my fire and Aquarius waves, we ended up destroying half of Haregon."

"Wait, Mom was part of this?"

Natsu began a full recount of how Lucy and he met as they wandered through the streets of Magnolia. He was surprised by how little Nashi knew of their adventures, and was happy to share his version of events. She soaked up every bit, enthralled by the stories.

As they walked they soon came across a crowd of people by the train station. Natsu spotted a familiar face in the crowd.

"Hey Juvia! What's going on?" He asked after squeezing a path through the crowd for Nashi and himself.

"Juvia doesn't know." The blue haired water mage admitted with a shrug. "The man said someone stopped the train. Juvia thought she heard her beloved Gray's voice, but she does not see him anywhere" her head swiveled around looking for the dark haired ice wizard. Nashi got a suspicious feeling in her gut- a suspicion that was confirmed a minute later when a familiar voice shouted loud enough for them to hear over the crowd.

"Would you stop it! Jeez, and you're supposed to be the smart one!"

"Gray?" Juvia called out, confused. Nashi and Natsu fallowed her as she cut her way to the platform. When they got to the train they saw a tall blue haired boy forcibly trying to restrain a raven haired girl with metal piercings along her face.

"Let me go! Stupid train. I'll teach it to regret making me sick!" She broke free of his hold and animalisticlly pounced on the train's engine. With razor sharp, shark like teeth, the girl growled and took a big bite out of the smoke stack. The nearby conductor looked like he was about to pass out.

"Meta, you can't eat the train." The boy sighed, knowing it was pointless.

Chomp. chomp. "Watch me!" She said with a full mouth.

Nashi ran toward her friends with a big smile on her face as she greeted them.

"Meta! Lyon!"

Meta stopped mid chew to look in the direction her name was being called. Spitting out a large chuck of locomotive, she nimbly hopped down and ran to the other girl.

"Nashi!" She exclaimed excitedly and the two best friends hugged. When they released each other, Nashi automatically turned to Lyon with her arms out stretched. He mirrored her gesture and they were about five inches apart when they realized they were about to hug. Both immediately dropped their arms and awkwardly looked away from each other, blushing madly.

"Flame head." He grumbled.

"Water wimp."

Natsu narrowed his eyes at the boy, suddenly suspicious.

Juvia was peering at Lyon with confusion. "Gray-sama?" she asked, walking up to him and poking him in the head. She initially thought that it was grey with dyed hair, but there were subtle differences.

"Ow!"Lyon stumbled away from his attacker. Suddenly his eyes grew as big as dinner plates as recognized her.

"M-Mom?"

They stared at each other as Juvia processed this. She looked at Lyon, then at Nashi and Natsu, then back to Lyon. Nashi decided they should take pity on the poor woman and decided to tell her the truth.

"Aunt Juvia, we're from the future. He's your son." Lyon gave her a crooked half smile in confirmation.

Again Juvia's eyes darted between Lyon, Nashi and Natsu until something clicked.

"AAHHHHHH!" She screamed at the top of her lungs and jumped on Lyon, wrapping her arms around him. The poor boy looked scared to death.

"What do I do?" He mouthed desperately to them as thick tears fell down Juvia's cheeks and soaked his shirt. She was sobbing so uncontrollably that they could only make out a few of her words including Baby, Little Gray-samma, and I knew it.

Lyon gently patted her on the back, while everyone else on the platform snickered at his pain.

"So if that's Lyon" Natsu said, his lip curling slightly as he said the boy's name. "Then you must be Meta, Gajeel and Levy's kid."

"And you must be Natsu Dragneel" Meta said. "I got say, from the stories my dad tells, I thought you'd be taller." He frowned at that while Nashi put a hand over her mouth to hide a laugh.

"I'm guessing you know who we are because Nashi told you," Meta continued. "But I don't know if that was the best idea. We've obviously been sent to the past, and depending on if you accept Albert's theory of constant time flow or the Steve Hawk proposal of influx and branch universes, we could cause a paradox with irreversible damage."

"Huh?" Natsu said, looking to his daughter for translation.

"She's always doing this" She told him and rolled her eyes. "Meta, like I've told you, you've got to explain it like we're five." The raven haired girl sighed before continuing.

"Basically, we don't know what we're doing, we could mess things up here in the past and change things in the future."

"That's what the book was talking about." Nashi explained "But that's the point! Meta, I want to change the future. I finally met my dad, and now that we've got a second chance, I'm not going to let him die again" Natsu put a hand comfortingly on her shoulder and gave it a reassuring squeeze.

"But what if we accidently mess things up without meaning to? What if we stop ourselves from ever being born? That would be what's called a paradox, and it would be very bad."

"Why, what would happen?" Natsu asked. Meta blushed slightly.

"Well….I don't actually know. But I'm sure it would be really bad!"

Natsu shrugged, "well it's too late for Juvia and I, we already know. But maybe we should keep this secret from the rest of the guild, just in case you're right."

"Oh my god, Meta! Wait till you see them!" Nashi squealed delightedly grabbing her best friend's hand. "everyone looks so young, and everyone's so happy, the guild in this time is so much fun!" She grabbed Meta's hand and dragged her in the direction of the guild. Natsu followed after, a slight frown on his face when he remembered earlier when Nashi had almost had her head taken off by a chair. Even though he'd known her for less than a day, he had never felt protective instincts so strong as he did for Nashi. The very thought of something happening to her made his throat close up.

"Hey, guy's wait up!" Lyon called after them. He waddled after the three dragon slayers, dragging his mother who was still secured tightly around his neck.

A/N: Sorry guy's, short chapter and I probably won't have time to post anything for about a week because of spring break. But I'm not giving up on my stories! Also, I love reviews (I get this warm fuzzy feeling when i get them) so if you have ideas where the story should go or have found a fault somewhere, feel free to let me know!