AN: This is my first ever Fairy Tail fanfic so I'm pretty nervous about posting this. This idea has been bouncing around my mind ever since I took a break from watching "Fairy Tail" and watched "K" and read the manga (that was the prequel for it) before going back to marathoning "Fairy Tail". There was a line from the "K" manga that stuck in my head and continued to pop out whenever I watched "Fairy Tail" (I will use this specific line throughout the fic and it's the first line the fic opens with). Not to mention that the passed two weeks I've been reading Laxus x Lucy fanfics if I'm not watching the anime. So I've decided to try writing one. I apologize before hand if it's horrible -_-;. Even so I have my fingers crossed that you will like it or that it will at least catch your interest.

"This is a story full of happiness."

Small hands boldly clutched the sides of an old, weathered down, black leather bound book that had once seen better days. The beginning white pages have yellowed with age while the white pages at the back still looked fresh and crisp. Bigger and feminine hands gently held onto the book above the small hands. A little boy with blonde hair and honey brown eyes sat on the lap of his mother, who had blonde hair a shade more prominent than his own. But her eyes were the same color as his.

"Is it?" He asked with a hint of shyness, but his eyes echoed with open curiosity.

His mother placed her chin on his head as he leaned back into her. "Hmmm…"

He craned his neck back in order to look up at his mom. "Is this really a story of happiness?"

"I like to think it is." Her lips curved into a smile. "Zack Drefilia fights for happiness."

"His own happiness?"

"No… he fights for the happiness of his nakama… his guild." Her eyes gazing over with a faraway look. "The happiness of his family."

"Like what you and otousan do for Fairy Tail?"

"Yes," She pressed her lips against his temple gracing it with an affectionate kiss. "It's what everyone does in Fairy Tail."

"I wanna do what you and otousan do!" He grinned at her. "I wanna be part of Fairy Tail and fight alongside my nakama!" He let go of the book and turned to face her. His small hands clutched onto her arms. "I'm going to be the next guild master and protect everyone like otousan!"

"Oi Zax!"

The little boy look toward the doorway of his room surprised to see his father standing there with a cocky grin. His figure almost covered the entire doorway. He had the same shade of blond hair as Zax, but his eyes were grey with a distinctive lightning bolt-shaped scar on his right eye. A scar that Zax was always in awe of and wanted one just like it.

"You have a lot of training to do and years of experience to earn if you want to catch up to me, small fry."

Zax hopped off of his mother's lap and his bed to dash at his father. A heartbeat later his world was turned upside down as his father lifted him in the air and flipped him upside down.

"Laxus," His mother called out as his father entered the room. "Be gentle with him."

"When aren't I?" Laxus dropped Zax on the bed and chuckled as the boy bounced twice on the bed before sitting up grinning as if nothing happened. For a moment his son reminded him of a certain flame head.

"Do you really think I can?"

"Sure," He said reaching for the leather bound book his wife held protectively in her hands. "Once I reach jiji's age you'll be at that level."

"Hey!" Zax protested but grew quiet when his mother pulled him into her arms. He looked at her worried before looking at his father to see him flip to the last page and all the playfulness evaporated.

"Lucy." Laxus placed the book on Zax's bed. "Are you going to read it to him?"

"I think it's for the best, don't you?"

Laxus took a seat on the bed before sighing and laying on his back. "If I had it my way I would take the both of you and all of Fairy Tail to a place no one can find us. A place where we would be able to live and not simply survive. Right now Edolas seems like a very idealistic place to live in."

"Edolas?" Zax asked curiously.

"I'm going to let your okaasan explain that one." He smirked at Lucy. "Not only is she good at writing stories but she's good at telling them."

Lucy simply raised an eyebrow at him.

"Come on Lucy, it's only fair. I didn't get to go nor did I have an Edolas counterpart."

"I swear you sound as bad as Gildarts did when he found out." Lucy teased him pinching his cheek.

"Zax…" He heard someone calling to him. "Zax." A warm hand pressed gently against his shoulder while another ran through his hair. "You have to wake up."

"Puu-puun!"

His eyes snapped open as he felt a paw press against his cheek. Sky blue eyes looked down at him and a curtain of pink hair blocked out the world around him. That was until a golden hornlike nose slid through the pinks strands almost poking him.

"Puu…"

Zax grabbed the short, strout white creature that stared at him with bland eyes, but the smile that curved on its lips showed how happy he was to see him awake. "Hey Plue."

"Puu-puun!" He rubbed his cheek against Zax's, his small body trembling.

"I hope you behaved good with Ember." He said looking back at the girl that hovered above him.

"When doesn't he?" She smirked at him. "I was reluctant to wake you." She straightened her posture giving him room to move.

Zax sat up and watched Plue go to his duffel bag and pulled out a big lollipop. "How come?"

"You were smiling in your sleep." She leaned her head against his shoulder. Her pink hair spilled onto his chest and back marking him as hers. "I haven't seen you smile like that in a long time."

"Hmmm…" He thought back to dream and the emotions he felt. He thought of his mother who had been taken from him too soon, whose death had marked the beginning of the end. He thought of his father who fought along side his great grandfather to the bitter end to protect the guild. He thought of Levy, who lost Gajeel and their son Mavicks and Juvia and her daughter Nix who lost Gray. Of Freed and his daughter Lia who lost Mirajane and Evergreen who lost Elfman.

There were less than twenty fairies still left.

Acnologia, the Black Dragon in the Book of Apocalypse had come after them time and time again, and yet they continued to survive. They now only had one chance to make it end.

"Nix did a good job dyeing it." Ember carded her hand though his now dark red hair.

"I don't care how it came out so long as the blond doesn't show anymore." Zax glanced at her. "Are you going to be standing guard outside with Natsu and Erza outside?"

"Yep and dad has Blickslow, Cana, and Gildarts as back up. Sting, and Rogue should be arriving shortly with the rest of the surviving members of Sabertooth. Happy and Carla are our eyes in the sky."

"You'll be careful."

"I'll try my best." Although she believed that being careful was not an option, after all, this would be their last stand.

And that was the closest thing he would get as a promise from her. His hand sought hers and twined their fingers together.

"Zax!"

He looked toward the center of the guild to see Wendy, Levy, Freed, and Lia done with the magic circle they had been working on for the past few hours.

"We're ready." Freed called out to him calmly.

Zax let Ember's hand go as he stood up and grabbed the duffel bag, Plue had been trying to pull toward him, and with his other hand lifted Plue up before placing him on his shoulder. "I'll come back to you." He whispered low enough for her ears only. "I'll find you."

"I'll be waiting for you." Ember whispered to him just as low when she stood up before exiting the guild.

Wendy walked up to him and cupped his cheek. "Even with different color of hair you have Laxus' nose and cheek bones and Lucy's eyes and lips. You truly are their son." She smiled at him gently. "They would have been so proud of you."

"I haven't been doing a good job with keeping this guild alive. I don't see how they would be proud of me. Father said he wanted us to live, but we're not living… we're just surviving."

"Isn't that why you're going into the past? To give us another chance at living."

"We don't know if it will work."

"Have faith Zax." She placed her hand over his eyes. "It will all work out in the end."

He gasped feeling something press into his eyes for moment before the feeling was gone. "What did you—"

"Contacts." She placed a small plastic container in his hands. "It changes the color of your eyes. I'm giving you another pair in case of anything. When you use the eye magic Freed cast on you it will burn through the contacts, so please try to remember to take them off before using it."

"Arigatou Wendy."

She pulled him into a brief hug before shoving him lightly toward Freed's direction. "You must hurry. I can feel his presence, he's coming."

Zax covered the distance between him and the once leader of the Raijinshuu.

"Are you ready?"

He nodded.

"Do you remember what you have to do?"

"Talk to jiji and explain the situation to him. Then find a way to kill Acnologia before it targets Fairy Tail or any of the other guilds."

"Precisely." He placed his hand on Zax's head not caring that the younger man was taller than him. He was now as tall as his father and yet he didn't have the rough exterior like him. The young man standing before him looked more approachable than his father ever had. Freed wondered if perhaps that had to do with Lucy. The thought of Laxus and Lucy filled him with bittersweet nostalgia because they reminded him on simpler times. When the death of a nakama was nonexistent in their guild. When their family had been whole. "Make sure to keep your identity hidden by—"

"By keeping the rune you engraved into my arm powered by magic so the dragon slayers from the past can't identify my scent and the dye is also magically enhance. So long as I have magic the color will remain. If at any moment my magic runs out my hair will turn back to blond and in that case I will have to shave it off."

"Hmmm. I did not think of the shaving it off part. I was thinking more along the lines of you trying to hide it, but it's a very sound plan." He ruffled his hair. "I approve."

"Thank you uncle Freed." Zax smiled at the man who was once best friends with his father and was there for him and his father when his mother died. He had been there for him when his great grandfather and father died and all he wanted was revenge. He calmed him and made him see reason. Zax didn't doubt that if it weren't for Freed being there for him, he would have died long ago. "I won't let you down."

Freed let him go with a heavy heart.

Standing in the middle of the magic circle was Levy. She held a familiar leather bound book. "Lucy would have wanted you to keep this with you." She held out the book to him.

"Why?" He grabbed it with uncertain hands. "It doesn't have an ending."

"That's because the ending hasn't been written."

Her words shook him to the core. They were the same words his mother said to him after reading the last sentence that had been written.

Zack had one last chance to get it right.

"Let the book guide you." Her hands grasped his head and tugged him down.

His heart faltered a beat when she pressed her lips against his temple like his mother had years ago. His throat clogged up and he squeezed his eyes shut when they began to burn. "Aunt Levy." He whispered.

"Have faith in yourself Zax." She whispered to him before giving his temple another kiss and letting go.

He opened his eyes to see Levy's eyes glistening with tears.

"It's time."

Zax nodded and set Plue down as Levy moved to step outside the magic circle.

"Puu-Puun!" Plue waved at him and gave a small hop before wobbling over to the outer circle.

He took out the celestial keys that once belonged to his mother and summoned for Horologium. Zax took a moment to gaze fondly at the tall brown grandfather clock that stood before him. He remembered as a little boy his mother making him climb inside of him when the fighting in Fairy Tail became extremely chaotic and she couldn't get him out in time.

No words had to be said between them for Horologium already knew why he needed him, but that still didn't ease the guilt in his eyes.

"I understand Zax," Horologium told him calmly. "Lucy would have done the same thing. It was an honor to have served you as well as her."

"Zax!" Wendy called out and it was then he felt the hairs on the back of his neck rise. Fear pooled in the pit of his stomach as he felt the presence of Acnologia.

He pushed it back as he closed his eyes and remembered what Capricorn taught him about accessing his power. Zax took a deep breath feeling the air around him, the wood under his feet that pulsed like a heartbeat, the life force of those around him. A gust of wind began to surround him as all the zodiacs opened their gates and stood on the outer circle surrounding him.

Their bodies began to glow as did Horologium's and Plue's.

"When you arrive in the past show us what you know is going to happen!" Loke yelled.

Zax's eyes snapped open to see their bodies becoming white light and in that light he saw a flash of yellow. Otousan's lightning, he thought to himself a moment before there was a loud BOOM!

"My family is Fairy Tail! I will crush my family's enemies!" His father's words echoed in his mind.

Just like his father he wanted to destroy those who would dare hurt his nakama, his family, but first he had to guarantee their safety. He wanted Fairy Tail to live! The pulse under his feet grew stronger. The mark of his guild that was on the back of his right shoulder began to grow warm and pulse with the same beat under his feet. The heart of Fairy Tail! He thought remembering what his grand jiji once said. That the heart of Fairy Tail resided in the guild. Please give me the strength I need to protect my family!

"Open the Gates of Time!" Horologium raised his hands to the sky.

"Zax!"

He looked to the side to see Evergreen holding her right hand up with point finger pointing toward the ceiling and her thumb sticking out to the side forming an L shape. It was the Fairy Tail hand sign, the sign the fairies used to acknowledge one another.

"Remember that you're our nakama!" She yelled. Lisanna, Wendy, Levy, Juvia, Nix, Lia, and Freed were also showing him the sign.

"You're our family!" Lisanna yelled, then followed by Wendy, "Wherever you are we will be watching over you!"

"You will never be alone!" Freed called out him.

This time Zax didn't bother to stop the tears that slid down his face as he showed them the same sign for he knew this would be the last time he would see them. The next time he did they would no longer know him and the memories he shared with them will be nonexistent to them. To them he would be a stranger.

"It'll be okay." He heard a gentle voice say in his mind and looked over Evergreen's shoulder to see the first Master, Mavis standing there. Even as Acnologia roared outside the guild a smile curved on her lips. "After all…" The fear and worry he had been feeling seemed to leave him.

"This is a story of full happiness."

His mother words echoed in his mind and resounded in his heart as Horologium vanished completely into a blazing white light that engulfed him and the entire guild as it shot to the heavens. Acnologia roared as it was blinded by the light.

The year was X813 when time stopped and then just as suddenly began to reverse unraveling the only life Zax Dreyar ever knew.

AN: I'm really hoping the prologue caught your interest. Please be kind and drop a review telling me what you think so far. Should I continue it or drop it?

Before I forget to mention, the cover I'm using for this fic features a fan art of Lucy and Laxus. I found it on google images, but wasn't able to find the name of the person who did it. So if you know please tell me who it is so I can give them proper credit. The background image is of the Fairy Tail guild and the red haired anime character that is featured in the cover is Suoh Mikoto from "K". He's the first person that came to mind when I pictured Lucy and Laxus' son minus the red hair of course. ^^