User blog comment:Woohoot/Future Lucy and future Rogue timelines/@comment-10543621-20130607072013

I understand the idea that Lucy and Rogue going back created a new timeline, my question is really just what ORIGINALLY happened without the interference of the time travelers? Without the time travelers, there would be no reason for the gate to open, and no reason for the 10000 dragons to exist.

So I guess it would make sense that the 'original' timeline involves no extra dragons, and just acnologia taking over the world. However, that's not the story future Rogue says. According to him, the gate still gets opened, but is closed by Lucy, which results in no dragons coming through and Acnologia rulling the world. But how the heck did the gates open if he didn't instigate it in the first place?